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Provide First Aid
Delivery: Inclass – Face to Face
Duration: 1 Day–8 Hours (+ workbook)
Location: APS Bundaberg, on-site at workplace
Provide First Aid–HLTAID011
If you want to feel completely prepared to handle first aid in a variety of scenarios, APS Training Group offers an in-depth first aid course, which includes CPR training.
This comprehensive course is suitable for workers in all industries and anyone in the general public who wants to become proficient in the management of a casualty in emergency situations. It supersedes HLTAID011– Provide First Aid.
This unit teaches the skills and knowledge required to provide a first aid response to a casualty and any community or workplace setting. Participants will learn how to:
- Identify, assess & minimise hazards in a situation that may pose a risk of injury or illness to self or others
- Use available resources & equipment to make the casualty as comfortable as possible
- Provide first aid management in accordance with established first aid principles & Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC) guidelines
Assessment is delivered in the form of short answer and multiple-choice theory questions, performance tasks and simulated practical scenarios utilising a CPR manikin and first aid equipment.
Students who have never completed a first aid course or have not participated in a course for over 4 years will need to complete a workbook (provided alongside a first aid manual) prior to the course and bring it completed to the training session.
Participants must show they are physically capable of performing uninterrupted CPR for at least 2 minutes on an adult CPR manikin placed on the floor.
Classroom delivery for groups
Refresher training or RPL
HLTAID011–Provide First Aid
HLTAID009–Provide Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
First Aid - $125.00
*Group bookings are available Australia wide and can be held at your work premises or at one of our training venues.
1. Respond to an emergency situation
2. Apply appropriate first aid procedures
3. Communicate details of the incident
4. Evaluate the incident & own performance
Participants who demonstrate competency by passing both the theory and practical assessments will receive a nationally recognised Statement of Attainment issued by APS Training Group that is valid for 3 years (renewed every 36 months).
The CPR procedure component (HLTAID009 Provide Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation) is valid for 1 year. Refresher courses are therefore required once every 12 months.
As we are environmentally friendly, all certificates will be emailed
There are no official prerequisites.
Participants should possess adequate reading, writing, numeracy and comprehension skills (level 2) to complete learning and assessment activities.
APS Training Group is a Registered Training Organisation (RTO # 31588) governed by the Australian Skills Quality Authority.
If no dates are visible, please contact our office for further information.
HLTAID011 – Provide First Aid
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George Murray had his views of life, and a way with words. He had a life-long love affair with the English language, though he favored an earlier vintage of it than that which was in use at the time of his death (in 2010). He did NOT favor the idea of a changing language, instead preferring a version he had fixed upon, frozen in time, in the past. He fiercely defended the proper use of English words, all according to the very large dictionary in his brain, while also playing with, bending words, and language to his will, whenever he put pen to paper, or index fingers to the keys of his old typewriter.
This site exists to give the world access to George Murray’s words, the art created by an insightful wordsmith, presented by his children, for your contemplation, appreciation, and inspiration. A student of classic and modern literature and poetry, he melded modern ideas and classic elements of language, with his love of puns and wordplay, to write with a distinct style that was his own.
Most of what’s here are George Murray’s typed and published poems, interspersed with the random quips, notes, and oddities of prose he showered on his loved ones, either thoughtfully typed, or written with perfect penmanship. We imagine he smiled as he nodded towards Ogden Nash and other humorist poets, and tossed in a pun (or two, or three), as he wrote the personal bits to us, amused by his own playful thoughts, and gleefully anticipating our reactions…
All poems and other words of his, on this site, are COPYRIGHT George Murray, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Tokenization has already transformed multiple digital industries. Developers are targeting the real estate industry in ways that have the potential to significantly disrupt current models. This is true across the board from the way government agencies record titles to the ways investors buy and sell fractional shares. In this article, blockchain lawyer Nick Oberheiden answers some questions about the legal issues involved.
How Can Tokenization Disrupt the Real Estate Industry?
Tokenization is disrupting the real estate industry in several significant and intriguing ways. In the U.K. and some European countries, authorities are already collaborating with blockchain companies to test tokenizing titles. We are also seeing tokenization coupled with fractional ownership—which has the potential to change drastically if tokenization reduces entry barriers. From financing and the mortgage application process to conducting title searches and transacting sales, tokenization could alter the entire real estate industry.
What are the Legal Implications of Tokenizing Real Estate Title Documents?
Theoretically, tokenizing real estate title documents may produce an energized process. Government authorities will manage their title records more efficiently, sellers will have an easier time proving ownership, and buyers will verify whether they are receiving a clear title. We probably have a long way to go before these futures transforms into reality. Authorities will want to know that tokenized records are just as secure as paper records. With blockchain’s current fallibility, this is not necessarily the case.
What are the Legal Implications of Tokenizing Real Estate Ownership?
Tokenizing real estate ownership has several remarkable implications. If tokenization streamlines the transaction process and opens investment opportunities to people who cannot afford to buy a property on their own, these are both positive outcomes. That said, the risk that someone’s ownership interest could be digitally hacked or that an error in the blockchain code could eliminate all evidence of an owner’s interest also present very real concerns.
Will Entities that Are Traditionally Slow to Adopt New Technologies (i.e., Government Agencies and Banks) Accept Tokenization in Real Estate?
The novelty of tokenization is one of the technology’s biggest hurdles to widespread adoption. Government agencies and banks will resist adopting, and this will delay tokenization’s disruptive impact. Ultimately, as government agencies and banks continue to grapple with cryptocurrencies, smart contracts and other blockchain-based technologies will likely speed up the acceptance of tokenization.
What are Some Other Challenges Standing in the Way of Tokenizing Real Estate?
Regulation presents another significant hurdle to mass adoption of tokenization. Here, tokenization faces challenges on two fronts. On one side, the lack of regulation will scare off many would-be adopters (including government agencies and banks). On the other, when regulators catch up, the implementation of after-the-fact regulations could create a secondary disruption.
What Happens When There is (Inevitably) a Dispute over a Tokenized Title or Property?
Disputes involving tokenized titles and properties will present unique challenges for parties and their lawyers. It will take time for the law encompassing tokenization to flourish. Early lawsuits will likely serve as test cases for future disagreements. Additionally, while clients currently rely on lawyers to interpret real estate contracts, lawyers will need to rely on software developers to interpret the code of the smart contracts underlying tokenized real estate. This will create a host of unprecedented legal and evidentiary issues, all of which will add to the complexity of resolving tokenized real estate disputes.
Will Buyers and Sellers Still Need Lawyers Once the Real Estate Industry Becomes Tokenized?
This is an interesting question. While many commentators have suggested that law firms, escrow agents and title companies will become unnecessary for closing real estate transactions once tokenization takes hold, I don’t necessarily take the same view. Tokenization will not impact all legal aspects of buying and selling real estate. Buyers and sellers will still need to make sure they are making informed decisions about various aspects such as warranties, waivers, and liability.
As You Noted, Current Blockchain Technologies Aren’t Infallible—What Happens if There is a Hack?
Hacking is perhaps the biggest concern associated with the tokenization of real estate. We have seen investors’ cryptocurrency wallets disappear. There is no reason to think that this will not be a concern for tokenized real estate. Even setting aside the issue of striving to restore investors’ ownership rights (which could entail conducting coordinated law enforcement investigations across the globe), hacks will lead to complex litigation involving multiple parties and a still nascent body of law.
Are There Legal Risks for Companies that Bring Tokenization to the Real Estate Industry?
Yes, companies that bring tokenization to the real estate industry will face many legal risks. To begin, it behooves companies to prioritize cybersecurity. If they engage third-party cybersecurity vendors, they will need to ensure that their indemnification rights are airtight. These companies will face liability risks related to coding errors, faulty updates, and a broad range of other technological issues. Given that these companies’ applications will be used on a broad scale with high-value transactions, overlooking any of these issues could lead to business-threatening litigation.
It Has Been Said that Tokenization Will Globalize Real Estate—Is This True?
Tokenization might globalize real estate. But several challenges persist. Some investors may view buying a fractional share of a property in a foreign country no different from investing in an altcoin (i.e., as a risk they are willing to take). These investors will likely comprise the small minority—at least for now. Additionally, as countries begin to regulate the tokenized industry differently and at different rates, navigating the regulatory landscape on a global scale will present significant challenges. Investors who cannot afford to lose the money they put into tokenized properties will also need to consider whether they are willing to pursue litigation in foreign jurisdictions.
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‘Dragons’ breathe life into ideas to improve patient care in Dorset
A crop of creative ideas put forward by NHS staff have been awarded more than £13,000 to help provide extra support for patients in Dorset.
More than 1,300 people voted for their favourite suggestions submitted in Dorset HealthCare’s annual staff innovation competition, Dragons’ Den, and the top five have now earned a cash injection to make them a reality.
The two winning projects will help to tackle crippling social isolation among older residents and support people with memory problems.
And other proposals given funding will address sleep issues among young people, provide an online singing group for patients with communication difficulties and trial a new treatment for knee arthritis.
Dragons’ Den invites staff from across all of the Trust’s community and mental health services to come up with fresh ideas to improve patient care – using evidence of likely benefits and showing how such projects could be sustained over a long period.
After online voting helped whittled down a shortlist of ten proposals to five, staff pitched to a panel of ‘dragons’ – as on the BBC-TV show – to secure an investment and bring their ideas to fruition.
The winners were:
- Combat Social Isolation of the Elderly (£4,710) – to help address the chronic loneliness felt by many over-65s in Dorset (often worsened by COVID-19 lockdowns), our Community Mental Health (Older People) Team will trial a weekly group to bring people together. Backed by local community groups, the sessions will feature a range of interactive activities to improve people’s sense of wellbeing, forge new friendships and encourage them to learn new skills
- Healthy Body and Brain (£3,548) – our Memory Assessment Service aims to establish a local support group for people with mild cognitive impairment – declining memory and thought processes which affect one in five over-65s. The group will help people manage their condition and reduce the risk of dementia through advice on nutrition and diet, exercise and good quality sleep, relaxation and the importance of social engagement.
However, the panel was so impressed the presentations it agreed to expand the original £10,000 award pot to fund the other projects, too.
The runners-up were:
- PRP injection pilot for knee osteoarthritis (£2,000) – our Dorset Musculoskeletal Service will pilot Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) injections to treat 50 patients suffering significant pain. PRP uses a patient’s own blood cells to help repair diseased or damaged tissue, and could greatly improve a person’s quality of life
- Sleep Tight, Wake Bright (£1,600) – the funding will provide training for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) staff to become ‘sleep champions’. They will promote ‘sleep hygiene’ plans to help youngsters recharge their energy levels, make better decisions and build stronger relationships
- Aphasia Choir (£1,560) – Aphasia is an often life-changing condition caused by an acquired brain injury, which affects a person’s ability to communicate. Our adult Speech and Language Therapy Team has been piloting an online choir, which helps people rebuild their confidence through music therapy. The funding will help put the popular sessions on a long-term footing.
Trust Chair Andy Willis said the ‘dragons’ faced their toughest decisions in five years of running the competition, and ultimately decided to fund all five projects.
“The quality of evidence and the level of thought which went into each presentation was phenomenal,” he explained.
“Innovation is going to have to be at the core of everything we do to support patients over the coming years, so it’s great to see people coming forward with such high-quality ideas.
“I can’t wait to see these projects take shape and make a real difference to people’s lives.”
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Flushing Residents and Business Owners Battle City Over Solar Panels [VIDEO]
The Planning Commission of Flushing Township, Michigan, listened to the concerns of local residents regarding the amount of surface area which solar panels could cover when installed on their residential and/or commercial property. This meeting was held on April 9, 2018 as a follow-up to a previous meeting covering this issue. The major point of concern for most residents was the square footage the solar panels could cover once installed on their residential property.
The current proposal allows each homeowner to utilize not more than 192 square feet of coverage on their lot for ground-mounted solar arrays. It was noted by those in attendance that such a constraint would limit the amount of energy which would be realized and perhaps the proposed height limit of 9 feet may not be practical as well. In addition, environmental concerns, current electrical codes and the aesthetic detraction to the neighboring landscape were also at issue. Several residents spoke during the meeting as did some individuals who work in the industry.
The Township has contracted with the engineering firm of Rowe Professional Services Company based in Flint, Michigan to assist with technical details during this process. Members of the Planning Commission were quite interested and very receptive to the queries and comments of the public and appreciate the necessity to accommodate their wishes.
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Exercise offers a host of benefits for older adults with diabetes, such as better control of blood glucose, weight loss, and improved balance and flexibility.
Choosing an activity you enjoy can help you stick with it. Walking, dancing, and yoga are all good options for older adults with diabetes.
When you have diabetes, you must take extra care to exercise safely. This includes checking your blood sugar before and after activity and drinking plenty of water.
If you're living with diabetes, you may be wondering: Is exercise good for diabetes? The answer is a resounding yes! Regular physical activity offers many benefits for older adults with this chronic health condition.
What are the benefits of exercise for older adults with diabetes?
One important advantage of exercise is that it increases your sensitivity to insulin—a hormone that helps your cells convert blood glucose into energy. Being physically active while managing diabetes can help you:
- Control your blood sugar levels
- Keep your blood pressure in a healthy range
- Think and recall things more clearly
- Lower "bad" (LDL) cholesterol levels
- Lose weight or maintain a healthy weight
- Improve your balance and flexibility
- Sleep better
- Feel less stressed—and happier
- Reduce your risk of falling
One study found that exercise in older adults with diabetes increased the circulation of substances in the body that repair vascular and neuronal damage. This in turn may reduce the risk for heart disease and dementia—two common diabetes complications.1 Another study found that moderate- to high-intensity exercises helped older adults with type 2 diabetes not only control their blood sugar, but also improve their self-esteem, quality of life, and independence.2
What are the best exercises for older adults with diabetes?
A big part of sticking to any exercise regimen is choosing activities you enjoy. While there are many physical activities to choose from, below are six options that are easy, fun, and safe for most older adults.
- Walking: Walking is a simple, tried-and-true fitness staple. You can do it almost anywhere—in your neighborhood, at the track, on the beach, or in the city. Taking a stroll gets your blood flowing and your heart pumping. It also provides a built-in opportunity for sightseeing and socializing with your favorite people.
- Dancing: Got two left feet? Don't let that stop you from getting your groove on. Choreographed dancing stimulates your brain and can even improve memory. If you have limited mobility, chair dancing is a safe, enjoyable alternative.
And dancing just for fun is great, too, whether on your own or with a partner. You'll have a good time while improving your flexibility, easing anxiety, and burning calories.
- Yoga: The ancient practice of yoga aims to enhance strength, balance, and flexibility through gentle, fluid movements and stretches. It promotes mind-body connectedness and helps reduce stress and anxiety. A 2019 study on mice found that building strength can help improve blood glucose levels in people with diabetes and obesity.3 Chair yoga is a practical option for older adults with mobility challenges. The beauty of yoga is that it can be tailored to all age groups and fitness levels.
- Weight training: Resistance exercises and weight training help build lean muscle mass, something that's essential for older adults as well as people with type 2 diabetes. This is because losing muscle makes it more difficult to maintain stable glucose levels. Weight training doesn't necessarily mean lifting big, heavy weights. You can achieve results using machines, small free weights, and resistance bands.
How evidence-based falls prevention programs can improve fitness
There are several proven, evidence-based falls prevention programs designed to improve older adults’ fitness levels while also reducing the risk of falls.
- Tai Chi for Arthritis: This ancient form of exercise, which originates from China, has been shown to benefit many aspects of health. The Tai Chi for Arthritis and Fall Prevention program is especially beneficial for older adults. It features safe, gentle, and effective movements that can help you improve your balance, strength, flexibility, and even your immunity. Tai Chi for Arthritis also relieves stress, promotes relaxation, and gives you the opportunity to enrich your social connections.
- Stay Active & Independent for Life (SAIL): Designed for adults aged 65 and older, this community-based exercise program involves a fitness class that meets three times per week for one hour. You'll perform a mix of aerobic, balance, strength training, and stretching exercises that can be done in a seated or standing position, depending on your needs. SAIL encourages you to integrate movement into your daily life, helping you stay active and self-sufficient for longer.
- Enhance®Fitness (EF): This group exercise and falls prevention program was developed exclusively to support healthy aging. Like SAILS, EF meets three times a week for one hour. In each class, you'll focus on four key areas: low impact cardiovascular exercise, dynamic/static balance work, strength training with weights, and stretching. This is an opportunity to socialize with your peers while improving your balance, functional strength, and stamina.
- Swimming: Whether it's in the ocean, in your neighbor's pool, or at the local community center, swimming is an ideal low-impact activity for older adults with diabetes. It's easy on your joints, making it a good option for those with arthritis. Swimming also burns calories and increases relaxation. If you're swimming in public, always notify the lifeguard on duty that you have diabetes before you get into the water.
- Yardwork: Ok, maybe it's not your favorite pastime. But basic outdoor chores like mowing the lawn, pruning, weeding, and planting provide a healthy dose of exercise while shrinking your to-do list. In fact, just 30-45 minutes of working in the yard can torch up to 150 calories. When outside, be sure to wear sun protection (e.g., hat and sunscreen), take plenty of breaks, and stay hydrated.
If you like to exercise with other people—and make new friends—find your local agency on aging and ask if they can recommend a location that offers any of these activities. Many senior centers offer a wide variety of programs, including those described above.
How many hours of exercise are recommended for people with diabetes?
According to the American Diabetes Association, people with diabetes should aim to get at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise each week. While that may seem like a daunting amount, you can break it up into smaller goals. For example, plan to exercise 30 minutes for 5 days, or 50 minutes three times a week. Try not to go more than 48 hours without exercising—this will help maximize the benefits on your blood glucose.
Always exercise safely. Before you start any exercise regimen, talk to your healthcare provider to make sure it's safe for you to proceed. Other tips for exercising when you have diabetes include:
- Prevent dehydration by drinking plenty of water before, during, and following physical activity.
- Learn how your body responds to activity by checking your blood sugar both before and after a workout.
- Wear identification stating you have diabetes. This will let others know in case of an emergency.
- If it's too cold outside—or too hot—exercise indoors or reschedule your workout.
- Wear cotton socks and well-fitting athletic shoes.
- After exercising, check your feet for cuts, sores, irritations, and other injuries. If they're not healing well within a couple of days, contact your doctor.
When it comes to exercising with diabetes, start small. Choose an easy activity, like walking your dog down the street, and gradually increase your time and intensity. If commitment is your main problem, put exercise on your weekly calendar and treat it like an important appointment (with yourself!). The more activity you engage in, the more habitual it will become—and the better you’ll feel.
Looking to learn more? Browse NCOA’s Diabetes for Older Adults resource library.
1. Physical Activity Improves Cognitive and Vascular Health in Older People with Diabetes, Boston University School of Public Health. Found on the internet at https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2019/physical-activity-improves-cognitive-and-vascular-health-in-older-people-with-diabetes/
2. Diabetes and exercise in the elderly, Medicine and Sports Science (2014). Found on the internet at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25226807/#:~:text=Moderate%2D%20to%20high%2Dintensity%20exercises,days%2Fweek%20for%20resistance%20activities.
3. Short-term strength training reduces gluconeogenesis and NAFLD in obese mice, Journal of Endocrinology (2019). Found on the internet at https://joe.bioscientifica.com/view/journals/joe/241/1/JOE-18-0567.xm | <urn:uuid:67d26ebe-2ec2-4968-be02-3c338607003d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ncoa.org/article/the-6-best-activities-for-older-adults-with-diabetes | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.931616 | 1,884 | 2.421875 | 2 |
What is cartography?
Our definition of cartography describes it as the ‘art, science and technology’ of mapmaking, a definition which illustrates the breadth of the discipline.
The terms ‘mapmaking’, ‘geodata visualisation’ and ‘cartography’ essentially mean the same thing: taking geographical data and transforming it into a map.
Making maps is an exciting and creative profession with a wide range of career possibilities. As new technology continues to evolve, the discipline progresses in tandem, creating new roles in an increasing number of professions. If you love maps, can pore over them for hours and wonder how they are made, then cartography may be the career for you! It is an exciting opportunity to combine design, technology and geography.
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Community and Cultural Capital
At Ankermoor Primary Academy, we continuously review how the education we provide contributes to the life-long experience of all our pupils and their families. We understand how the home, local area and neighbourhood all contribute to the educational experience of each pupil. We have worked extremely hard, and continue to do so, to ensure relationships between our school and community are upheld to a high and positive standard. We develop strong links with outside agencies, community organisers and projects to model respectable and positive relationships. This also supports children’s cultural capital experiences which prepares them to be model citizens as they leave our school and continue to progress into their next steps in education and adulthood in the community and wider world.
Cultural Capital is the accumulation of knowledge, behaviours and skills that a student can draw upon and which demonstrates their cultural awareness, knowledge and competence. It is one of the key ingredients a student will need to be successful at secondary school, in further education and eventually their career and the world of work. At Ankermoor, we take every opportunity possible to enhance the cultural capital of our learners and equip them with the knowledge and experiences needed for society.
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DIN 931 (ISO4014) hexagonal head bolts with shank, also called semi-threaded hexagonal bolts or half threaded hexagonal bolts, according to the thread length. DIN 931 hexagon bolts are often used in conjunction with hex nuts. the tow parts are connected into a whole by threaded connection, which is a detachable connection. the self-locking performance of the fine thread hexagonal bolt is better, and it is mostly used for parts subject to greater impact, vibration or alternating load, can also be used for fine adjustment mechanism.
DIN 931 Product Details
The DIN 931 hexagonal bolt is semi-threaded hexagonal bolts with thread diameters of M6-M56, product grades A and B. Class A: d≤24mm and l≤10d or l≤150mm (according to the smaller value). Grade B: d>24 mm or l>10d or 1>150 mm. (Press the smaller value). Different product grades have different values for the corresponding opposite side s, diagonal e, thickness k and length tolerance.
The general thread diameter specification is M6-M56, and the general carbon steel performance grade is mainly 8.8 and 10.9. When d≤39mm, refer to ISO898-1.
Surface treatment and thread tolerance: DIN933 hexagon bolts are generally metric (coarse) and fine pitch, with mm millimeters as the unit of measurement.
DIN931 coarse thread tolerance is: 6g, the coating is mainly boiled black, electroplating (blue and white zinc, yellow color zinc), non-electrolytic zinc powder coating (GEO). The tolerance matching before coating is mainly 6g/6H, and the tolerance zone matching after galvanizing can be changed to 6h/6G. However, after coating, it is affected by the thickness of the surface coating. When the thread is inspected by the corresponding tolerance, it is also There may be situations where it cannot be matched, and only nuts with matching specifications can be tested.
Regarding the mechanical performance test:
general appearance test and pass-and-limit test are common and necessary tests, and the following test items are carried out according to the actual situation
→ Tensile test: When the specific specifications and length meet the conditions, high-strength carbon steel (8.8, 10.9, 12.9) Carbon steel: 8.8 grade not less than 800MPa/830MPa (greater than m16); 10.9 grade not less than 1000MPa; 12.9 grade not less than 1200MPa.
→Impact test: Carbon steel products can be subjected to impact test when the specifications meet certain conditions.
→Hardness test: Carbon steel products can be tested for surface hardness and core hardness.
→Torsion test: For small-size products, the tensile test cannot be performed, but the torsion test can be performed.
→Wedge load: high-strength carbon steel products can be tested for selective wedge load.
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Wholesale Trade and Services of Wholesalers
Wholesale Trade means buying and selling goods in relatively large quantities or bulk. It is one of the main categories of domestic trade. The traders who are engaged in wholesale trade are called wholesalers. The goods in wholesale trade are not sold to the final consumers directly, but sold to commercial users or other intermediaries.
Wholesalers are one of the important middlemen in the channel of distribution who deal with the goods in large quantities. They buy goods in bulk directly from manufacturers and sell them in small lots to retailers and industrial users. For this, the wholesalers invest a large amount of capital and trade for a low margin of profits on high sales volume.
Services of Wholesalers to Manufacturers
- Link: A wholesaler serves as a useful intermediary or link between the producer and retailers. They purchase goods from manufacturers and sell them to the retailers and collect information regarding the customers’ demands, tastes and preferences, and then provide it to the producers for manufacturing of the goods accordingly.
- Warehouse Facility: Once the manufacturers are done with the production of goods, the wholesaler holds large stocks of the produced goods in their warehouses or godowns. The storage facility provided by the wholesalers diminishes the burden on the manufacturers to store the goods.
- Forecasting of Demand: As wholesaler acts as a link between the retailers and the producers, they collect information from the retailers and industrial users about the demand for goods and pass it to the manufacturers. It allows the firms to predict the market demand for the goods and produce accordingly.
- Publicity of Goods: Many times wholesalers launch an advertising campaign to increase the sale of goods. The manufacturers get the benefit of such publicity. With the publicity done by the wholesalers, the manufacturers have to spend less on advertising.
- Financial Assistance: A wholesaler often makes payments in advance to the manufacturer for the goods purchased by them in bulk quantity. They also help the manufacturers by making payments in cash for the goods purchased, which prevents the producers from blocking their capital in the stocks.
- Risk Bearing: A wholesaler takes the risk of buying goods in bulk and storing them. As they sell the goods in their own name, they face a lot or risks, including spoilage, pilferage, price, economic condition, theft, fire, etc. In this way, the wholesalers reduce the risk of manufacturers to a large extent.
- Facilitate Large Scale Production: The wholesalers sell goods in small quantities to the retailers and purchase goods in bulk from the manufacturers. It allows the manufacturers to produce goods at a large scale. In this way, they can take better advantage of the economies of scale.
- Facilitates Continuity: The wholesalers purchase goods from the producers as and when they are manufactured. It allows the producers to maintain continuity in the production of goods throughout the year.
Services of Wholesaler to Retailers
- Financial Support: Wholesalers provide financial assistance to retailers by selling goods on credit and providing discount facilities. The retailers need not invest large working capital.
- Specialised knowledge to the Retailers: Wholesalers provide advice to retailers regarding quantity, price, and sale of goods. It allows them to purchase goods from the wholesalers accordingly, so that they do not face loss or risk due to changes in any factor affecting the sales or demand of the goods. The wholesalers’ specialization in one line of the product gives a huge benefit to the retailers.
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- Publicity: Wholesalers advertise goods on a large scale to create demand. This increases retailers’ sales of goods without spending money on advertisements.
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Is Delta 8 present in hemp?
Let’s start with the article’s core question. Is Delta 8 THC present in hemp? Yes is the short and easy response. Delta 8 is a compound found in hemp. But let’s dig a little deeper into this.
To begin with, hemp is a cultivar of the cannabis plant. You may have heard “hemp” and “cannabis” thrown around as synonyms for “marijuana.” This isn’t the most true way of describing these plants, though. Marijuana is a different type of cannabis, therefore using the two terms interchangeably isn’t really a good idea. Meanwhile, the term cannabis can be used to refer to these plants in general, but you should refer to them by their real names if you want to discuss one in particular.
The chemical makeup of hemp and marijuana is what distinguishes them. The chemical chemicals known as cannabinoids are abundant in cannabis plants. These molecules can do some really incredible things, which we’ll discuss later, but they also help distinguish marijuana from hemp. D8 THC is one of more than 100 cannabinoids identified in marijuana.
The cannabinoid delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol is abundant in marijuana (Delta 9 THC). Marijuana is distinguished from other Cannabis plants by the amount of Delta 9 THC present in the plant. Hemp, on the other hand, is characterized as having a Delta 9 THC level of less than 0.3 percent. As a result, these two plants are distinguished from one another.
Delta 8 is present in both hemp and marijuana, as previously stated. The quantities of these chemicals don’t appear to differ significantly across the two plant kinds. That being said, if you find a D8 THC product, it was most likely created using hemp rather than marijuana. We’ll get to why in a minute, but first, let’s discuss why you’d utilize Delta 8 in the first place.
What is the function of Delta 8?
So, now that we know where D8 THC comes from, let’s talk about what it does and how it accomplishes it.
Cannabinoids have the ability to perform some pretty amazing things, as we said previously. They can interact with the Endocannabinoid System and have an influence on it (ECS). This is a system made up of cellular receptors that control a variety of processes in the human body. Cannabinoids like Delta 8 are able to have a variety of effects on humans in this way. Here are a few instances of the kind of consequences that could occur.
Gives you a euphoric feeling
One of the key reasons why individuals use cannabis in general is the possibility of experiencing euphoria. You’re more likely to connect this sensation (also known as a high) with Delta 9 THC than D8 THC. There are several reasons for this, the most notable of which is that Delta 9 THC is far more well-known than its counterpart. We briefly mentioned that, despite their similar names, Delta 9 THC and D8 THC are not the same thing. Each one has a double bond that is placed in a slightly different location. When they interact with the ECS, their behavior alters as a result of this.
Pain relief may be possible.
This is a concept that has recently acquired popularity. Cannabis should be legalized because it can help alleviate pain, according to a popular viewpoint. However, what exactly about cannabis that could aid with pain is rarely mentioned. Cannabinoids, which are contained in cannabis plants like hemp, appear to have anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving properties. D8 THC could be included in this group, as studies such as this one have shown that Delta 8 can aid with a variety of pain and inflammation.
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Among the most challenging and contentious issues facing the child welfare system in the United States is the lopsided depiction of ethnic minority children. As it has been observed, the largest proportion of these minorities consists of Afro-American children who enter into the children acre system. With most of these children remaining out-of-home care being reported as being greater than their proportion of the nation’s population, high susceptibility of these children to mistreatment has been observed. According to Mitchell and Barth (2005), racial bias is one of the endemic factors to child welfare agencies in the child-care system in the US. The proportional growth of ethnic minority children over the last decade has grown higher than that of the white children. This rapid increase has necessitated the intervention of humanitarian human rights agencies to reinstate the welfare of these minority children who seem to be at the verge of various mistreatments.
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- Relying on the size requirement, keep in mind that your piece is an anecdote, an expertise, or an occasion – yours of another person’s. It’s only a piece of 1’s life, so spending a lot of time on private background info is a waste. Solely embrace persona traits or background that’s completely important to the story!
- A Objective: Everybody is aware of that educational essay and paper writing will need to have a thesis – that’s what makes every bit of writing a “customized essay” – your distinctive perspective or point-of-view drives all that you just write. It’s straightforward to overlook that a narrative should even have a function (or some extent). Once we research literature, we name these “themes.” In case your narrative doesn’t have some extent, why are you writing it? Generally it helps to ask questions of your self earlier than you even determine on the story to inform. What expertise or occasion modified my beliefs or values? What expertise or occasion modified the course of my life? What expertise or occasion was so humorous or embarrassing that it’ll stay with me ceaselessly? Whenever you reply these questions, you’ve got a function and the subject!
- Be Clear and Concise: You don’t have area to “fiddle” with superfluous phrases or irrelevant info! One of many hardest issues about narrative essay writing is condensing the plot and nonetheless partaking the reader!
- Use “I”: In case your narrative is private (not telling another person’s story), that is the one time in educational writing that the usage of “I” is welcome! However don’t over-do it! There are various methods to inform a narrative with out beginning each paragraph or piece of dialogue with the phrase “I.” And identical to the “I,” you should utilize “my” and “mine” liberally as properly!
- Group: You should arrange the narrative essay simply as you’ll some other essay sort. Growing some sort of graphic organizer will hold you on monitor and centered. Personally, I like the usage of bins and arrows – every a part of the narrative may be positioned in a field and sequentially level to the following plot component.
- Use Energetic Voice: As a lot as attainable, keep away from the passive voice. For those who learn well-liked fiction, you’re going to get this. The primary character “acts;” s/he isn’t “acted upon.”
- Keep away from types of the “to be” verb as a lot as attainable. These are verbs that “inform” however don’t “present.” Instance: “I used to be so unhappy when my canine died.” Substitute with, “I felt the grief properly up from the pit of my abdomen and overtake my very being. With a damaged coronary heart, I succumbed to the sobbing and the overwhelming grief that adopted. I had misplaced my finest good friend.”
- Use Figurative Language: Similes and metaphors are highly effective! They enchantment to the senses of the reader and ought to be used liberally in descriptions. Once more, you have to “present,” not “inform!” | <urn:uuid:51f00d4f-88b8-4742-8f13-5d97200eee83> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://yycnewcentrallibrary.com/what-is-narrative-essay-writing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.948052 | 1,096 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Form Equals Function
Every species has its own set of characteristics which make it beautiful to other members of that species. When those traits are altered, the creature loses its allure. There’s a really great reason for this – reproduction. We are programmed to want good strong mates so that we can produce good strong offspring.
Humans are no exception. Our bodies – our skeletal structure, our hair and skin, etc. – all serve a purpose and that purpose is displayed in its form. Our noses may vary in size and shape slightly, but our nostrils should be sufficient in size to receive ample air with each life-giving breath; the brow and cheek bones should be set high and our jaws broad. Our hair may vary in length, thickness, and color, but it should be strong and full. Our skeletons may be short or tall depending on nationality, but our backs and legs should be straight, not bowed, which is a result of mineral deficiencies and bone growth abnormalities during youth. Our skin may vary in color and thickness, but it should be clear and taut. The hips of a woman should be large enough to comfortably accommodate the passage of a baby, while breasts should be somewhat generous, indicating a healthy surge of sex hormones at puberty.
Each person should differ from one another to some degree, but there are certain variations which imply imbalance and malnutrition. By the nature of self-preservation, we will not find these differences attractive. Now, humans do have a unique ability to overlook physical imperfections, focusing instead on values and actions. While this is a desirable skill since slight imperfections are normal and mostly harmless, we are doing ourselves and our offspring a disservice by ignoring the telltale signs of degeneration and by believing that beauty is nothing more than a superficial preoccupation.
Beauty is Nature’s Design
What makes a face and body beautiful is that it fits the function it is intended to serve. Faces and bodies aren’t built just to be pretty. We perceive faces as beautiful when they are functional and imply robust health. In other words, they suggest that mating with their owner will produce strong, healthy offspring. We are hardwired to recognize beauty for the sake of the survival of the species.
Faces and bodies which exhibit exceptional form can be found in every culture, in all of the most desirable people. The only differences will be in size, color, and texture. But the basics of what makes people beautiful are apparent all over the world.
Our Desire For Beauty
The Pleasure of Perceiving Beautiful Faces
While it is difficult to define beauty exactly, we all have a sense of it. We know a pretty face when we see one and when we see one; we generally enjoy staring at it. The same is true for babies. Researchers have shown that babies will gaze much longer at a highly symmetrical face than they will at a face with average symmetry. Rats, too, have been shown to fix their gaze on pictures with patterns but they lose interest when more chaotic pictures are presented. The reason for this may be that since our brains are themselves highly organized systems they can more easily do the job of perceiving, remembering, and thinking in a highly organized environment (staring endlessly into a mother’s face provides that environment). In this sense not only is it relaxing and comforting to see beautiful faces but it also might facilitate higher cognition.
Not only do we enjoy beautiful faces and bodies, but we also love to accentuate them. The use of ornaments and natural tints to emphasize physical beauty has been practiced in all societies around the world since before recorded history. Ancient sculptures which are debatably symbols of beauty have been recovered dating back as far as the Ice Age. Archaeological evidence from the Murcia province of south-east Spain (Cueva de los Aviones and Cueva Antón) dates the use of pigmented seashells used for jewelry, and lumps of red and yellow pigments used for makeup, as far back as 50,000 years ago.
The Absence of Beauty in Modern Society
The desire for beauty is part of the human condition. We enjoy perceiving it. We go to great lengths to achieve it in ourselves and we seek it out in our mates. Many of the traits that we consider beautiful are themselves outward signs of good health (excluding some strange and rare perceptions of beauty experienced by a mind as unhealthy as its desires). While we may not all understand the specifics intellectually, we still have a sense for what is most functional.
The problem with our interest in and our quest to accentuate beauty arises when health has deteriorated so considerably that such beauty is largely absent. If we lived in a culture where good looks were the norm and not the anomaly, we wouldn’t be so preoccupied with our looks. But here we are, trying to cover up our outward signs of internal degeneration. It is for this reason that our attention hovers so much on makeup, fancy clothes, hair extensions, fake nails, braces, and cosmetic procedures.
It’s Not Just a Matter of Genes
Many believe that our genes are responsible for our looks and that beauty is beyond our control. But I argue that genes not the cause of many traits we consider less attractive. Cellulite, for example, runs in the genes just about as much as eating cereal for breakfast every day runs in the genes. Being overweight is just as “genetic” as drinking low fat milk. That’s not to say that genes don’t play a role but there are controllable causes at play. Just because your mother had it (stretch marks, depression, diabetes), doesn’t mean that you are guaranteed to have it too. It just means that if you make the same poor lifestyle choices, you will probably experience a similar fate.
Why Beauty Matters
Looks are a reflection of our health in the womb, during childhood, and at the present moment. Our looks can be clear indicators (sometimes embarrassingly so!) of what is wrong or was once wrong with our health. Some people, of course, do get lucky and their good genes and good childhood nutrition carry them through to a beautiful adulthood, but without some care, even they probably won’t hang onto it forever. With bad nutrition comes degeneration, whether it starts in the womb or later in life.
The following are traits we generally consider “ugly” because they are indicators of a deeper health issue, disadvantage, or weakness.
- Crooked teeth are indicative of skeletal malformations. While the predisposition can reside in the genes, it is indicative of nutritional deficiency. The mineral deficiencies during the formative years don’t usually stop with the teeth. The same insufficiency can cause a narrow pelvis, which is bad for childbearing women (and hence bad for the survival of our species in general).
- Pimply skin can be a result of zinc deficiencies, digestive problems, or high insulin.
- Male pattern baldness indicates hormonal imbalances, in particular high estrogen and low testosterone – two imbalances in men which are responsible for less masculinity, less virility, less fertility, mood disturbances, and testicular cancer.
- Eyebrows which are thin or absent at the ends indicate low thyroid. Hypothyroidism causes low energy, bad moods, and cognitive problems.
- Female hair loss, fat around the waist, dark hair growth in places where females don’t grow hair, all signal hormonal imbalances. These women usually have trouble conceiving and are depressed.
Sub-par nutrition has turned what may have once been rare defects in human form to common everyday nuisances. The ubiquity of “ugliness” hasn’t changed our opinion of it, however. On the contrary, it has simply inspired a huge aesthetics industry that is designed to hide the signs of physical degeneration.
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Cannot redirect output to printer
If you redirect output directly to the parallel or serial port
and nothing happens or the system displays the
cannot create message:
If you configured your printer correctly
and you still cannot redirect output to it,
the problem is most likely a hardware malfunction.
Recheck the cables and port configuration and
consult your hardware documentation.
Verify that the device file for the port exists in /dev.
Make sure that this file is a device file and not a text file.
For example, use the following command to check lp0:
ls -l /dev/lp0
The output should look similar to this:
crw------- 2 bin bin 6, 0 Jun 13 1993 /dev/lp0
A regular text file does not include the ``c'' character
(for character special file)
at the beginning of the line.
Test the cable connection using a cable from a working device with
the same cabling requirements.
Print a file while the system is running under DOS.
If you can print a file under DOS but not under the UNIX system:
Verify that the port is configured correctly. See
``Port does not respond''.
If the port configuration is correct and you still
cannot redirect output to the port,
try using a different device name.
For example, for a parallel port,
use lp1 instead of lp0.
For a serial port, use tty2a instead of tty1a.
Pay attention to the
unit= message for parallel ports
on the boot screen or use hwconfig
unit=0 corresponds to lp0).
If you still cannot print using a different device name,
your printer may be defective; check the printer documentation.
If you cannot print from DOS, check the printer hardware configuration.
See the documentation provided with your printer.
Port does not respond
Printer does not print
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Aurach - The beautiful alpine village near Kitzbuehel
Position: 5 kms in the South of Kitzbuehel
Size: Inhabitants: 1.203
Height: 800 to 2.000mts above sea level
History: Southerly from Kitzbuehel at the start of the Jochberg valley is the spread out village of Aurach with the Kirchweiler Oberaurach and the tiny village Unteraurach with a small rural communities on the East and South Easterly sides of the mountain.
The name of Aurach in 1280 to 1330 was known as Owirawe. In the Land Registrations Book from 1464 it belonged to the parish of Jochberg. Up to 1833 Aurach belonged to Jochberg, it was then given it’s own political council. The name of Aurach was accepted by the Kitzbuehel Council in 1952. | <urn:uuid:f3ad7f46-2778-44fc-b7b8-17d2a3c47e59> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.auracherhof.at/index.php/region.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.913423 | 197 | 2.203125 | 2 |
There are several different ways to calculate the startup valuation of a business for your investment. Essentially, the valuation of a business determines its worth. As an early-stage investor, the business’s value can help you calculate the worth of potential investments. Before calculating these valuations, you should know that the market forces of the industry and their sector greatly influence the startup business’s value. The balance (or imbalance) between supply and demand; the recency and size of exits; your willingness to strike an investment deal; and the entrepreneur’s need for money all influence the startup value. In this post, you’ll learn several methods to calculate the startup valuation of a business for your potential investment deal.
Market Multiple Method
One way to calculate the valuation of a startup business is to use the market multiple method. In particular, this approach is valuable in venture capitalist investments because it gives an approximate indication of what the market is willing to pay for the company. Basically, the market multiple method values the company against recent acquisitions of similar companies in the market. For instance, if mobile application software firms are selling for five-times sales, you can use a five-times multiple as a basis for valuing your potential mobile apps investment. Because you’re valuing a startup company, you likely have to adjust the multiple down to account for the larger risks entailed. The market multiple approach to calculating a business’s startup value can help you determine a reasonable investment for profitable returns.
The Berkus Method
Another way to calculate the valuation of a startup business for your investment is the Berkus Method. Dave Berkus created this strategy for when you envision the company breaking $20 million in revenue within five years. Importantly, his method assesses five critical aspects of a startup. These include concept, prototype, quality management, connections, and launch plan. Each aspect is given a rating up to $500,000. This makes the maximum valuation $2.5 million. Indeed, this method is a useful way to gauge value. Additionally, it is often utilized for tech startups. Consider using the Berkus Method to calculate the value of your potential startup business investments.
When analyzing your potential investments, you can also use the cost-to-duplicate approach to value a startup business. The cost-to-duplicate approach is one valuation metric new businesses should follow. This involves accounting for all of the costs and expenses associated with the startup and product development stages. Notably, this includes the purchase of its physical assets. Then, these expense calculations are used to determine the startup’s fair market value. However, the cost-to-duplicate approach does not consider the company’s future potential by running projection statements. It also does not take its intangible assets into account. Therefore, it is important to consider the specific startup company before choosing a valuation method. Still, the cost-to-duplicate approach can be practical for your investment when thinking about the startup’s expenses.
Discounted Cash Flow Technique
Moreover, you can utilize the discounted cash flow technique when valuing a startup business for your investment. This can be functionally useful for IT, bio-tech, consumer products, and many other industries. First, you need to estimate the total market for the business’s products and services and its expected growth. Next, forecast the market share acquisition across a specific timeline. Finally, you need to forecast the cash flow. To do this, identify the startup’s fixed costs, variable costs, future working capital, and capital expenditure needs. With these projections, apply a discount rate according to the business’s lifecycle stage. Optimally, these calculations should be based on empirical data and account for risk. This technique can steer investment conversations toward true estimates that drive value.
Potential Exit Value Strategy
Furthermore, the potential exit value strategy can help you estimate your return on an investment in an early-stage company. You can base this value on either recent merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions in the sector or the valuation of similar public companies. Ideally, you should be looking for 10 to 20 times the return on your investment within two to five years for maximum profit. For example, assume an exit valuation of $100 million, and you own 20% of the company at the time of exit. Then, you would earn $20 million on your investment at the exit. If you invested $1 million, you would potentially make 20 times that on the exit. Of course, your valuation should include any purchased commercial real estate, the current inventory turnover and specialized intellectual property. You can use the potential exit value of a startup business to determine the price an investment must command when you exit or sell the company.
There are many different ways to calculate the startup valuation of a business for your investment deal. For example, you can you the market multiple method to give you a fair indication of what the market is willing to pay for the company. Alternatively, you could use the Berkus Method to analyze the critical factors of a business launch. The cost-to-duplicate approach is another valuable method you can use to assess startup costs and expenses. On the other hand, the discounted cash flow technique can help calculate the company’s projected earnings while still accounting for risk. Furthermore, the potential exit value strategy can help you calculate what you would need to invest to see a specific return when you exit a business. Consider these ways to calculate the startup valuation of a business for your potential investments. | <urn:uuid:30d5e528-0b48-41f2-a343-81960d8bfe5f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://businessfirstfamily.com/startup-valuation-of-a-business/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.923152 | 1,143 | 1.570313 | 2 |
You’ve heard of Dry January, but what about Sober September? After a big summer that’s full of opportunities to drink on patios, vacation, and at barbeques, many people feel like they need a reset from all the partying.
You’ll be surprised at the benefits of a single month without alcohol. You may even find you want to extend your sobriety! From improved health to tasty alternatives, there are many reasons to give Sober September a try.
There’s a growing movement of trend-setters rethinking their booze choices. To help out, we’ve compiled some compelling benefits and the best tips to get started.
What is Sober September?
Sober September is when you abstain from alcohol for the month of September in order to decrease your drinking, improve your health, and reevaluate your relationship with alcohol.
More and more people are sober curious, interested in what an alcohol-free lifestyle could mean. The term was first coined by Ruby Warrington in her book of the same name. These individuals are not in recovery, but are interested in the benefits of sobriety just the same.
The history of Sober September has a bit more mystery behind it than Dry January — experts aren’t sure when it started. Worn out by festivities, people have been skipping alcohol around the new year for centuries, but Sober September is a relatively new phenomenon.
Some believe that it may have traveled across the pond. Cancer Research UK, a charity, is often credited with starting the trend that’s caught fire with Dry January participants.
What’s not debatable is that Sober September is a social media phenomenon, gaining popularity across the internet, with young professionals tired after a summer of parties, and among students looking to start their semester off on the right foot.
This period of abstaining gives students considering sobriety a chance to experience a month without alcohol use.
7 Benefits To Not Drinking Alcohol
For Sober September participants, reevaluating their drinking habits can yield surprising benefits that include a shrinking waistline and delicious new non-alcoholic drinks.
Here are the top 7 benefits to not drinking alcohol during your month-long hiatus.
There’s no avoiding the fact that alcohol is a toxin. When you give your body a month to detox, you might be surprised at just how good you feel without the effects of alcohol.
This is partially true since alcohol has seriously negative effects on your sleep. When you skip it for a month, you’ll likely feel more rested.
Some Sober September participants also report feeling less need for caffeine, as well as better performance during workouts.
Resetting What “Normal” Means
Let’s face it: At some point, going out to happy hour after work or having a glass of wine with your friends becomes a habit, not a conscious decision. A month without alcohol can give you the reset you need to reevaluate how, and if, you want to return to drinking.
During 2020, people reported high levels of binge drinking while under pandemic-related stress. That makes now a great time to reset.
Finding New Favorites
Most people have a go-to order at the bar. But when’s the last time you branched out into the world of refreshing non-alcoholic drinks? There are plentiful options, including alcohol-free sparkling wines, innovative mocktails, and delicious non-alcoholic beers.
You may just find your new favorite beverage while you’re participating in Sober September!
There are many reasons why cutting out alcohol helps you lose weight, including reduced caloric intake, less sugar consumption, and more energy for workouts.
Let’s be clear: All bodies are beautiful. However, if you’re looking for ways to manage your weight for personal reasons or for health reasons, Sober September can help.
Overall Health Benefits
In addition to weight loss, you’ll see other positive impacts on your health and well-being. Some of the best aspects of cutting out booze include:
- Better sleep
- Lower cholesterol levels
- Regulated blood sugar
- Improved mental health
- No hangovers the next day or scary blackouts from alcohol abuse
- Lowered levels of inflammation throughout the body
What’s more, 72% of participants did not drink over recommended amounts for at least 6 months following their month of not drinking. Those are some amazing long-term effects.
A Sense Of Accomplishment
There’s nothing like the feeling you get when you take on a challenge and succeed. In the same University of Sussex study, a whopping 82% of participants reported feeling accomplished at the end of their month-long journey.
Who doesn’t love (slash need) a self-confidence boost?
It’s no secret that drinking isn’t a cheap habit.
Participating in Sober September can give back the money you put towards drinking. One survey estimates that millennials spend $300 a month on alcohol purchases.
Even if you switch to tasty non-alcoholic alternatives, odds are that you’ll still save some cash during the month.
Downsides To Sober September
Yes, there are actually a few downsides to this month-long sobriety, though most of them kick in when you go back to drinking after abstaining. We’re all about full disclosure here.
- Sober September only lasts for a month, which may not give you enough time to see some of the long-term benefits of sobriety.
- Any weight loss may come back once you return to your former drinking habits.
- The first week can feel a bit odd if your social life revolves around alcohol (though that may be a good wake-up call).
- Sober September is not for people struggling with alcohol use disorder. Some individuals who live with alcoholism might think one sober month is enough to heal them when they really need to pursue long-term sobriety.
Most of the drawbacks aren’t really due to Sober September, only indirectly. That’s why some people choose to go teetotal after this amazing experience. (Teetotal means completely abstinent from alcohol.)
6 Tips For Sober September Success
Sober September is a chance for new beginnings, but like any other change, mindfulness is key.
Here are some tips to keep you motivated, grateful, and getting the most out of your sobriety if it’s your first time to participate. Welcome!
How do you start sober September? You can start sober September by:
- Finding your reason for a sober month
- Listening to yourself and your needs
- Keeping a list of the positive changes
- Making use of your extra time and money
- Inviting friends to join you in the challenge
- Discovering tasty, healthy alternatives to alcohol
Find Your Reason
Psychologists know that people that have a why behind their behavior are more likely to be successful.
We like to rally behind a cause; what’s yours for Sober September? Better health, more money, less hangovers, or even a more intentional life? Be clear with yourself.
Listen To Yourself
Many times, a break from drinking — whether temporary or permanent — can teach you about yourself.
Practice being mindful about why you want a drink. Are you dehydrated? Avoiding your emotions? Do you need some sleep? This is an opportunity to take great care of yourself.
Keep A List
Once you commit, start writing down all the positive aspects about your month off of drinking.
What beneficial changes are you noticing? Spend your time celebrating what you have in front of you instead of thinking about what you don’t.
Enjoy Your Extra Time
Odds are, you’ve got more time on your hands now — you’re hitting snooze less thanks to great sleep, you’re not spending as many nights out, and you’re not slowed down by hangovers.
What have you been wanting to do that you can use your extra time and cash towards? Be intentional.
Bring A Friend Along
With the compelling results for your health and well-being, who wouldn’t want to be a part of Sober September? Consider inviting some friends to join you in your journey. You’ll gain accountability, motivation, community, and an even stronger bond with your favorite people.
If no one is up for the challenge, perhaps one of your favorite sober stars can motivate you!
Find Delicious Alternatives
You know what they say: a failure to plan is a plan to fail.
Spend the month looking for a delicious tea, mocktail, or non-alcoholic wine that you love to drink. Keep great alternatives around the house for the times when you want a satisfying sip. Need ideas? Keep reading.
Healthier Alternatives To Alcohol
Sobriety doesn’t mean depriving yourself! You can still treat yourself without the alcohol content — your future self will thank you.
- Non-alcoholic wine by Surely. We work with top-tier California winemakers to create a beautiful, flavorful non-alcoholic product that tastes just like the real thing. Plus, with only 25 calories a glass, you can enjoy a sparkling white wine or perfectly balanced rosé while keeping your health benefits intact.
- Mocktails. These days, many restaurants and bars are catering to the sober curious with mocktails on the menu. Staying home? Try your hand at a little mocktail mixology with our roundup of the best recipes.
- Sober bars. You aren’t the only one staying sober! Check out a sober bar in your area, or take a fun fall trip to visit a place full of like-minded people.
Who knows? Maybe you’ll like Sober September so much, you keep it going for Sober October.
- Alcohol and toxicity.
- Alcohol Consumption during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Survey of US Adults.
- The Effects of Alcohol on Quality of Sleep.
- Influence of alcohol intake on risk for increased low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in middle-aged Japanese men.
- The association between levels of alcohol consumption and mental health problems and academic performance among young university students.
- Alcohol and inflammatory responses: Highlights of the 2015 Alcohol and Immunology Research Interest Group (AIRG) meeting.
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Pediatric Therapy Corner: Best LGBT Books for Children
[Source: Mommy Evolution]
If you haven’t already started talking to your children about all different kinds of families, LGBT books for children are a terrific way to start the conversation.
We talk about the fact that some families have two mom while other families have two dads.
These LGBT picture books are a terrific place to start.
I have to admit, I felt pure joy when the Supreme Court announced its decision requiring all states to allow gay couples to marry no matter where they live.
You can find these best LGBT books for children at your local library or purchase through the affiliate links provided for your convenience.
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HTML | ondragleave Event Attribute
The ondragleave attribute works when a draggable element or text selection leaves a valid drop target. It helps in dragging the elements and is entering or leaving a drop target. Drag and drop feature is very popular in HTML 5. Use CSS property when the element is draggable and enter into the drop target.
Supported Tags: It supports all HTML rags.
<element ondragleave = "script">
Attribute Value: The ondragleave event attribute contains single value script which works when ondragleave event called.
Note: Images and links are by default draggable.
Supported Browsers: The browser supported by ondragleave event attributes are listed below:
- Google Chrome 4.0
- Internet Explorer 9.0
- Mozilla Firefox 3.5
- Safari 6.0
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The Internet Services Providers’ Association (ISPA), the voice of the UK internet industry, gives its verdict on the three main political parties’ manifestos.
The UK is one of the most digitally active economies and the digital economy has grown significantly since 2010, all enabled by ISPA member’s continued investments and innovation. It is key that political parties recognise that the UK is fundamentally reliant on the communications sector and parties need an ambitious vision for growth of the communications sector.
- Overall, ISPA welcomes the parties’ recognition of the importance of broadband investment and continued support for superfast rollout. However all parties should be more ambitious and aim for ubiquitous superfast broadband, with targeted investment and incentives for a competitive private sector to continue to innovate and develop their networks.
- Whilst we welcome all main parties’ promises of affordable and widespread access to the Internet, ISPA cautions against commitments to treat broadband as a basic utility if this comes with unnecessary and burdensome regulations.
- As welcome as the broadband commitments are, given the importance of the communications sector, parties should also craft a vision around what this infrastructure could be used for.
Surveillance and communications data
- As expected, the Conservatives intend to introduce new legislation to give the security services more access to communications data with additional safeguards. Labour promise similar; the Liberal Democrats offer a different vision in setting stricter limits on surveillance.
- ISPA welcomes original thinking on Internet policy as seen in the Liberal Democrats Digital Bill of Rights, which puts more limits on surveillance and acknowledges that public confidence in the Internet risks being undermined by excessive obligations and underlines the importance of encryption many online services rely on.
- Whilst law enforcement should have reasonable access to data, this should only be after a rigorous parliamentary debate with input from industry and civil society that strengthens oversight and based on the grounds of proportionality and necessity.
- ISPA supports the principle of limiting underage access to adult content by website owners, however the Conservatives announcements on blocking and age verification leave a number of unanswered questions on implementation.
- The Liberal Democrats make a number of interesting proposals on content, such as safeguarding the freedom of the Internet, though questions remain over implementation. Labour have not set out policies for online content, and we call on them to share their overall vision for the sector.
- The UK is one of Europe’s most digitally-enabled societies and economies, therefore parties should follow a regulatory regime that works and follow policies that respect intermediary liability and support industry to continue to provide innovative services.
Responding to the manifestos, ISPA Secretary General Nicholas Lansman said “The UK internet industry is a success story and all parties need to be more ambitious and recognise the crucial role the internet plays in society and the economy. What industry needs from the next Government is an ambitious, clear and detailed vision for the Internet and communications sector.”
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In the garden of his Venice hotel, Hayao Miyazaki proves quite the celebrity. He signs autographs with a flourish, poses gamely before a barrage of photographers and excuses himself only briefly for a call of nature. "You have been called the god of anime," an Italian journalist shouts at his retreating form. "How does it feel to be a god?" He visibly flinches on his way to the loo.
In the opinion of Pixar's John Lasseter, Miyazaki is "the world's greatest living animator". According to the numbers, he is Japan's most successful film-maker, with his 2001 fable Spirited Away breaking the domestic box-office record set by Titanic. But away from the limelight this white-haired little professor leads a monastic existence (all work, no play, TV or internet). His publicist tells me that this is the first interview he has agreed to in 10 years.
Miyazaki's latest film, Howl's Moving Castle, plays out in a valley kingdom inhabited by wizards, fire demons and undulating shadow monsters in natty straw boaters. It's based on a children's book by Welsh author Diana Wynne Jones; Miyazaki has visited Wales several times and has a deep affection for the place. He was first there in 1984, witnessed the miners' strike at first hand and farmed the whole harrowing experience into his 1986 animation Laputa: Castle in the Sky. "I admired those men," he says, sitting in the sun as the photographers melt away. "I admired the way they battled to save their way of life, just as the coal miners in Japan did. Many people of my generation see the miners as a symbol; a dying breed of fighting men." He shrugs. "Now they are gone."
And here's the thing. Miyazaki, for all his fame and acclaim, could soon be following them. It is his fate to find himself hailed as the greatest practitioner of hand-drawn cell animation (perhaps the greatest there has ever been) at a time when the art form appears to be headed the way of the dodo. He seems curiously Zen about this. "If it is a dying craft we can't do anything about it. Civilisation moves on. Where are all the fresco painters now? Where are the landscape artists? What are they doing now? The world is changing. I have been very fortunate to be able to do the same job for 40 years. That's rare in any era."
This shifting world is something Miyazaki has long been fascinated by. His films feature cute creatures fighting tooth and nail to preserve their communities, and bucolic landscapes under threat of destruction. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds, his 1984 film, depicts a post-apocalyptic enclave menaced by toxic spores and giant insects. Princess Mononoke (1997) concerns the battle between the animals of the forest and the human developers holed up in an industrial stockade.
All drama depends on this kind of conflict. And yet Miyazaki's stance can be bizarrely even-handed. Invariably his hero or heroine is cast in the role of peacemaker, or piggy in the middle, while his supporting players are an unruly bunch. No-Face, the timid, helpful spirit in Spirited Away, blooms into an all-consuming carnivore. The wicked witch in Howl's Moving Castle winds up as a cherished family member, slumbering in her armchair like some dotty old aunt. Most children's storytellers install their characters as fixed symbols of good and evil. Miyazaki makes them bounce around like pinballs.
In 1997 the director signed a distribution deal with Disney. It was to prove a springboard to global renown, paving the way for a dedicated exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art and helping him secure the 2003 Oscar for Spirited Away. Even so, the nature of Miyazaki's films has been tweaked in transit. In Japan his films are blockbusters the whole family can enjoy. In Britain and the US he remains a predominantly adult, art-house phenomenon.
Miyazaki taps a cigarette from a silver case. The Disney deal suits him, he explains, because he has stuck to his guns. His refusal to grant merchandising rights means that there is no chance of any Nausicaa happy meals or Spirited Away video games. Furthermore, Disney wields no creative control. There is a rumour that when Harvey Weinstein was charged with handling the US release of Princess Mononoke, Miyazaki sent him a samurai sword in the post. Attached to the blade was a stark message: "No cuts."
The director chortles. "Actually, my producer did that. Although I did go to New York to meet this man, this Harvey Weinstein, and I was bombarded with this aggressive attack, all these demands for cuts." He smiles. "I defeated him."
Disney releases Miyazaki films in two formats: a subtitled version for the purists and a dubbed extravaganza for the popcorn crowd. Howl's Moving Castle is no exception. It features the voice of Billy Crystal as the obstreperous fire demon and Lauren Bacall as the Witch of the Wastes. This is fine, says Miyazaki, because Bacall is "a fabulous woman" who brought something to the role that home-grown actors couldn't. "All the Japanese female voice actors have voices that are very coquettish and wanting male attention, which was not what we wanted at all."
In any case, he adds, who is to say that a subtitled print is any more authentic? "When you watch the subtitled version you are probably missing just as many things. There is a layer and a nuance you're not going to get. Film crosses so many borders these days. Of course it is going to be distorted."
In the meantime Miyazaki continues to hone his traditional art-works at Ghibli, his Tokyo animation studio. In the past he has been vocal in his criticism of computer-generated imagery, describing it as "thin, shallow, fake". These days he seems to have made his peace with the beast. He admits that he likes Toy Story because it opened the doors to a new breed of animation and even admits to using CGI in his own movies (but never more than 10% of the finished print). "Actually I think CGI has the potential to equal or even surpass what the human hand can do," he says. "But it is far too late for me to try it."
His is a very serene and contented brand of fatalism. He talks about New Orleans, and Hurricane Katrina and insists that the same thing will happen in Tokyo. There are a lot of water-gates in the city, and the river runs past his home. He smiles and taps ash from his cigarette. There are too many people in the world, he says, and too many wrong turns along the way. At the age of 64, he gives the impression that the planet is doomed but he'll soon be leaving it, and not a minute too soon.
"Personally I am very pessimistic," Miyazaki says. "But when, for instance, one of my staff has a baby you can't help but bless them for a good future. Because I can't tell that child, 'Oh, you shouldn't have come into this life.' And yet I know the world is heading in a bad direction. So with those conflicting thoughts in mind, I think about what kind of films I should be making."
Perhaps this is why he tells children's stories. "Well, yes. I believe that children's souls are the inheritors of historical memory from previous generations. It's just that as they grow older and experience the everyday world that memory sinks lower and lower. I feel I need to make a film that reaches down to that level. If I could do that I would die happy."
I ask if he feels he's managed that already and he chuckles and shakes his head. Nor does he feel that film can be employed as a force for good. "Film doesn't have that kind of power," he says, gloomily. "It only exerts its influence when it stirs patriots up against other nations, or taps into aggressive, violent urges."
This is a black diagnosis indeed. But then, inexplicably, Miyazaki's mood lightens. Perhaps it's the sunshine, or the cigarette, or the fact that the interview is almost over. "Of course," he relents, "if, as artists, we try to tap into that soul level - if we say that life is worth living and the world is worth living in - then something good might come of it." He shrugs. "Maybe that's what these films are doing. They are my way of blessing the child"
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Yes, Shih Tzu’s do shed, but because they have hair rather than traditional fur, the Shih Tzu shedding pattern is more like human hair than canine fur!
Typically, dogs are known for
- Shedding significantly year-round and having two “blowout” sheds during spring and fall (like the Husky)
- Shedding much less year-round and going through two “blowout” sheds during spring and fall (like the Labrador.)
The Shih Tzu does not fit neatly into either of these categories, and the reason is all down to that long silky coat.
The Shih Tzu Coat
People often say that the Shih Tzu has hair rather than fur because of the length and appearance of the Shih Tzu coat.
Shih Tzu’s are born with a fluffy coat that more resembles down than fur. The adult coat will begin to grow at four months, and by nine to twelve months, the double-layered adult coat (a thin short undercoat and a longer topcoat) fills out.
When fully grown, the Shih Tzu coat comes down to the floor; however, this coat length is usually limited to the show ring since it is not practical for pets. Traditionally pet cuts keep the hair shorter to prevent matting and to keep the coat cleaner. Maintaining a shorter coat requires grooming every four to six weeks.
Shih Tzu Shedding
Shih Tzu shedding is very similar to how humans shed hair.
There are four stages of hair growth – growing (anagen), transition (catagen), resting (telogen), and shedding (exogen).
During the anagen phase, the hair follicle pushed out the hair – these hairs continue to grow until they fall out or the next haircut. Ninety percent of hair is in the anagen phase. This first phase of hair growth lasts for years.
During the catagen phase, hair growth slows down, and the hair follicles get smaller. The hair itself separates from the base of the hair follicle. Around five percent of hair is in the catagen phase at one time. This phase lasts just over a week.
During the telogen phase, hair no longer grows and remains stagnant. Meanwhile, new strands of hair begin to form in the hair follicles.
During the exogen phase, the separated hair is shed, and the new hair continues to grow from the hair follicle. The exogen phase lasts between two and five months.
Various factors influence the phases of the Shih Tzu hair growth cycle including:
- Regularity of grooming
Genetics plays a role in the hair growth and loss cycle. For example, some genes cause increased hair growth, and other genes can reduce hair growth.
Several health conditions can influence the hair growth and loss cycle – including congenital and hereditary causes, parasitic, bacterial, fungal, and viral causes, and other causes of hair loss.
Congenital and Hereditary Causes of Hair Loss
- Black hair follicle dysplasia
- Cutaneous asthenia
- Cutaneous mucinosis
- Familial vasculopathy
- Canine ichthyosiform dermatoses
- Hereditary congenital follicular parakeratosis
- Zinc deficiency syndromes
- Granulomatous sebaceous adenitis
- Epidermolysis bullosa syndromes
- Familial dermatomyositis
- Familial footpad hyperkeratosis
- Psoriasiform-lichenoid dermatosis
- Nodular dermatofibrosis
- Lethal acrodermatitis
- Zinc-responsive dermatopathy
- Hereditary lupoid dermatosis
Parasitic, Bacterial, Fungal, and Viral Causes of Hair Loss
- Demodex mange
- Sarcoptic mange
Other Causes of Hair Loss
- Topical products – anything that affects the health of dogs’ skin can influence hair follicles and cause hair loss, for example, shampoos that dry the skin or chemical treatments like flea and tick preventative.
If you suspect that your Shih Tzu is losing hair because of an illness, infection, or irritation of the skin, consult your veterinarian. Be sure to write down answers to the questions that your vet will ask:
- When did your dog start losing hair?
- Did anything seem to trigger your dog’s hair loss?
- Has your dog’s diet changed?
- Has your dog shown any other symptoms like scratching or biting at its fur?
- Have you been keeping up to date with monthly preventatives? Which monthly preventative do you use?
- Has your dog been anywhere new or unusual lately?
- Did a tick or any other insect bite your dog recently?
Regularity of Grooming
How regularly a Shih Tzu is groomed also influences how noticeable their shedding is. Regular brushing helps to remove loose and dead hair in the coat. Routine brushing also reduces the amount of hair that dogs shed in the house.
- Weigh down the coat
- Tug on the skin
- Breed bacteria
- Contribute to odor
- Encourage infection
- Encourage parasites
When mats and tangles get out of control, the only solution may be to shave a dog’s full coat.
Mats and tangles in the coat are preventable with daily brushing and regular grooming every four to six weeks.
Like humans, what a dog eats influences their overall health and appearance. For example, when dogs are malnourished and lacking vital nutrients, their coat will become dull and begin to thin. Hair can even start to fall out when nutrition is poor.
How Much Do Shih Tzus Shed?
The hair growth and shedding cycle means that at any point in time, only ten to fifteen percent of hair is actively shedding.
When Do Shih Tzus Shed?
Throughout the year, Shih Tzu’s shed hair in this hair growth and loss cycle.
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Depending on the task you want an external command to perform, it can run on a client computer, i.e. on the computer from which the workflow action is initiated, or on the server computer, i.e. the computer hosting the Automation Server.
Typically, client commands perform interactive tasks that show something to the user who run them. For example, they can return ping replies or open a remote desktop session.
Server commands typically perform non-interactive, background jobs. Background jobs run commands that take long time to be completed. When finished, jobs do not display their results, but save them somewhere, and you can retrieve them when needed.
NOTE: Client commands can be launched only from the Web App, Desktop App, and the Self Service Portal. Server commands can be launched from anywhere.
In order to allow for seamless integration, Alloy Navigator uses Alloy Integration Launcher. This small program must be installed on the computer where the workflow action containing your external command is initiated from. The installation scenario depends on where the action is initiated from:
Web users install the launcher when needed. The Web App and Self Service Portal prompt their users to instal the launcher when they run such an action for the first time.
Desktop users get the launcher installed automatically, along with their desktop applications.
To configure an
In the External Command dialog box, under Run command on, choose where to run the command: on the client or on the server.
Under Run, enter a command or script for the PowerShell to run, just like you would enter it in your Windows PowerShell console. This can be a PowerShell cmdlet, a combination of cmdlets, a script, or any external program.
ABOUT LAUNCHING EXTERNAL PROGRAMS:
In order to launch external programs, PowerShell must know where their executables reside. The best practice is to add paths to their directories to the PATH environment variable. This will help PowerShell find the programs without giving it the full paths. Some standard programs, such as Ping or Remote Desktop, can be run just by typing the name of their executable because their directory path (
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An alternative method is specifying full paths to programs explicitly. If a path contains spaces, enclose the path with double quotation marks ("), and add an ampersand character (&) before the first quotation mark. The ampersand tells PowerShell to treat the string expression in quotes as a command to be executed. Note that the "full path" method requires that the path is the same on all computers from which the
To enter a dynamic parameter, such as the name or IP address of the client computer, click Insert Placeholder and use the Select Placeholder dialog box to insert a placeholder. At runtime, all placeholders will be replaced by the actual data.
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INFO: For additional information, see Microsoft PowerShell documentation at https://docs.microsoft.com/powershell/.
For client commands: If you want the user to review the output information in the PowerShell window, select the Display PowerShell window check box.
For server commands: Specify the timeout period (in minutes) after which the Automation Server will finish inactive background jobs.
TIP: If you want the job to run with no timeout, enter 0 (zero).
Keep the Enable operation check box selected to enable the operation. Otherwise, the operation will be disabled.
NOTE: To run External Command operations, the PowerShell executable file (
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HOW TO REMOVE AND PREVENT LIMESCALE
What is Limescale?
Limescale is a mineral build up, consisting mainly of calcium carbonate, that forms a hard chalky deposit which is attributed to hard water. Hard water refers to water that runs through porous rock, such as limestone or chalk, and picks up minerals such as calcium or magnesium. When hard water is left to stand or evaporate, the dissolved minerals in the water solidify and form limestone.
Limescale color varies depending on the minerals present. Colors can vary from off-white through a range of gray, pink, red, or even brown.
Why should you remove limescale?
Aside from being unsightly and hard to clean, limescale can cause problems in a number of areas in your home. Limescale often builds up inside kettles, hot water boilers, and pipework. Limescale can seriously damage or impair the operation of various plumbing and heating components and shorten the lifespan of water based appliances, resulting in additional costs on repairs or replacement altogether.
Here are additional problems caused by hard water and limescale:
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- Increased heating costs as a result of loss of energy from water heating systems
Additional Health Concerns:
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- Dull and dry hair
- Bacterial growth in drinking water
How to remove and prevent limescale?
Limescale can be stubborn to remove on its own, for best results deal with hard water before it produces limescale. For this reason, we have included some options on how to treat and reduce hard water.
Limescale can be dissolved with a range of mildly acidic products found in your home, such as lemon juice and vinegar. For best results when cleaning fixtures, completely remove all faucets, shower heads, and other fixtures, then soak them in vinegar for about an hour. After the hour, thoroughly scrub each fixture and wipe away limescale.
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Although many laundry detergents contain water softening agents that work by grabbing or ‘chelating’ calcium and magnesium ions in the water which prevent them from being able to form limescale deposits, limescale can still form. For your washing machine, use a non-precipitating softener tablet, this will prevent limescale from blocking your internal workings of your washer machine. It can also improve and help your detergent clean your clothes better. You can also try running vinegar or lemon juice through your washer machine like a detergent. Doing this not only helps by removing limescale, but can help prevent it from forming. This process can also be used in your dishwasher.
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On March 16, 2015, I will host a workshop in Saint Paul, Minnesota that introduces social workers to thinking about ethics and data. As with last year, I decided to make the materials for this workshop open to anyone who wants them.
I believe we do a lot more learning when we create knowledge with other people than when we are told things by a single supposed expert. Further, there isn’t a lot of writing in the arena of big data and ethics in social services. So, I decided to replicate some past experiments and ask participants do some reading and processing on their own toward the beginning of the workshop (we aren’t allowed to provide pre-workshop materials), and then to share their learning with the rest of the group. I think this will be a much better way “in” to some of the concepts in this workshop that might be difficult because much of the language will be new to social workers. So we’ll do a jigsaw. Participants will enter the room and have the sets of articles below available to them to browse. Hopefully I can convince people to choose diversely between these areas. Then we can process these ideas together.
What I wrote last August still rings true:
My hope for the workshop is to invite people into what Ilene Alexander calls being a liminal participant – someone in an in-between state, about to move in one direction or the other into new knowledge and understanding. I think many of us in Social Work and Social Services have learned to be intimidated by technology, [and especially by “data”]. It’s “too much” when there are so many other important issues to consider. Whether we like it or not, it’s moving in ways that we can’t ignore (and shouldn’t have been). For our benefit and that of those we serve, we need to get past our defenses and sense of intimidation. At least to start, to move into a space where learning is possible. I get to do a post-assessment for the workshop. I’m considering whether I can do a pre- and post-assessment that will give me clues toward threshold concepts for learning about [big data in social work]. Knowing these threshold concepts would help plan future workshops.
Without further delay, here’s the list. Several of these resources come from a phenomenal list at Santa Clara University.
- Big Data for Social Innovation (print / web)
- How Can Big Data be Used for Social Good? (print / web)
- Getting Big Data to the Good Guys (print / web)
- Big Data is Our Generation’s Civil Rights Issue and We Don’t Know It (print / web)
- Punished for Being Poor: The Problem with Using Big Data in the Criminal Justice System (print / web)
- So What is Big Data Good for Anyway? (print / web)
- Bigger Better Data and Resilience: What’s the Link? (print / web)
- Is Big Data Spreading Inequality? (web)
- How Big Data Could Undo our Civil Rights Laws? (print / web)
- What’s up with Big Data Ethics? and Big Data Ethics Sound Great, but They Won’t Stop the NSA, or Facebook (print / web)
- Big Data: Are we making a big mistake? (print / web)
- Big data from the bottom up (print / web)
- Big Data’s Impact on Social Services (print / web)
- Injustice In, Injustice Out: Social Privilege in the Creation of Data (print / web)
- Big Data and Its Exclusions (print / web)
- Big Data Sentences Could Undermine Fairness (print / web)
- Are We Rushing to Judgment About the Hidden Power of Algorithms? (print / web)
- Civil Rights Groups Respond to Allegations of Religious Profiling by the NSA and FBI (print / web)
- The Hidden Biases in Big Data (print / web)
- How Big Data is Unfair: Understanding sources of unfairness in data driven decision making (print / web)
- Big Data and the Underground Railroad (print / web)
- The Chilling Implications of Democratizing Big Data (print / web)
What resources do you have to recommend? Any major areas you think should be here?
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Castlegar resident Olga Hallborg has been feeling helpless as she watches from afar as her hometown of Mykolaiv, Ukraine is battered by Russian airstrikes.
That feeling changed somewhat after a crowd gathered in front of Castlegar City Hall on Sunday to show support for Ukrainians suffering under the recent Russian invasion.
“We did something good by gathering and encouraging people to support Ukrainian people through the Canadian Red Cross and other organizations,” said Hallborg, who organized the gathering.
“So I feel less helpless and more empowered through the community support … My heart is filled with appreciation and hope.”
Hallborg has been in contact with friends and family members in Mykolaiv, a city of 500,000 near the Black Sea in southern Ukraine, throughout the invasion.
What she has heard is that the people are in need of food, clothing, shelter and medications as homes and apartment buildings are destroyed, hospitals are treating the wounded and the shelves of grocery stores are emptied.
Photos and video footage from the city show damage to the point that Hallborg says she has a hard time recognizing parts of her hometown. Blown-up tanks, shattered glass and rubble fill the streets.
“They are already in a humanitarian crisis, but things are only going to get worse,” said Hallborg.
She is trying to keep close tabs on those she loves — checking in with as many of them as possible first thing every morning and again at the end of the day.
“Yesterday they were hiding in shelters from missiles,” said Hallborg.
But she said not everyone takes the same precautions.
“Some don’t and they stay in their apartments, hoping for the best.”
When Hallborg connected with one of her friends — a physician — she was making a long walk to work since transportation is unavailable. Rather than hide in a shelter, she is trudging on.
“She feels like she needs to continue to provide people with care. Nobody discontinued COVID there, people are still getting sick, now probably more than ever,” said Hallborg.
Another friend — a teacher — is doing the same. Even though school is not in session, teachers are trying to check on the well being of students and trying to connect them with learning opportunities.
As Hallborg connects with her relatives, what she hears impacts her across the miles.
“If their night was a nightmare, I can not get settled and I am trying to think about what I can do and how I can help.”
And that is partially how she came up with the idea for a local rally and campaign to encourage people to donate to Ukrainians in need.
“On Saturday I was helpless, angry, disoriented and fearful, yet brave. It is a mix of feelings — wishing I was there to help, but at the same time, being relieved that my immediate family and myself are safe here. They are very contradictory feelings that are hard to explain.”
Hallborg said the local support, plus what she has seen across Canada and the world, even including protests in Russia, has touched her heart. Especially touching was the support from those with Russian Doukhobor heritage.
“Many were crying with us and praying for Ukraine,” she said.
Hallborg says there was a lot of emotion at the local gathering.
“I understand the anger against Russia in general, but we shouldn’t be hating Russians — not every Russian person wanted the war. It is a very complex history between Russia and Ukraine.
“I am very angry with [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and his government. I blame money and the desire for power — greediness is what brought about this aggression.”
Hallborg has sent images, messages and news of donations to humanitarian organizations from the rally on to her contacts in Ukraine.
“My friends really appreciated it. I didn’t know if they would care about what happened in some small town across the ocean — but they actually did care.”
One of those friends posted photos of the rally to informational Facebook groups in Mykolaiv.
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When it comes to healthy eating, you typically look for nutritious foods packed with vitamins and minerals. Yet have you ever considered foods that contain water?
There are many fruits and vegetables with a high water content, which can help you stay hydrated. Among its many benefits, drinking enough water helps keep organs functioning, can prevent infections and improve sleep quality!
Why Is Water Important?
Water is essential to overall health and well-being. Water helps regulate body temperature, prevent dehydration, bring nutrients and oxygen to our cells and flush out waste.
It’s recommended to drink at least 8 glasses of water a day, however this amount can vary depending on a person’s height, weight and health.
Signs of Dehydration
- Extreme Thirst
- Dry Mouth
- Dark Urine
Foods High in Water
Drinking enough water every day can be challenging – why not eat it? Here are a few water-rich foods to include in your diet.
This vegetable is made up of about 96 percent of water, the highest of any food. Cucumbers can be added to sandwiches, salads or enjoyed with a side of hummus. They are also filled with Vitamins K and C!
Try: Our Trio Salad served with one scoop of tuna salad, chicken salad and egg salad over a bed of lettuce with roasted red peppers, tomatoes, kalamata olives and cucumbers.
Made up of about 95 percent water, tomatoes can be enjoyed in an omelet, on a sandwich or in pasta sauce! Along with staying hydrated, tomatoes are a great source of Vitamin A, which helps improve immune health.
Try: Add sliced tomato to your Avocado Toast on open-faced multi-grain bread.
Containing about 86 percent water, apples are another great option to include in your diet. This low-calorie fruit is also filled with antioxidants that help prevent heart disease. Whether you are slicing them up for a pie or adding them to a fruit salad, apples can be made into the most delicious treats.
Try: A plate of Apple Pancakes topped with apple compote and sprinkled with cinnamon and powdered sugar.
Similar to cucumbers, lettuce contains about 96 percent water. In addition to its high fiber content, this vegetable can also be very filling. There are many different types of lettuce including butterhead, romaine and iceberg. Top it off with your favorite dressing, vegetables and protein to make a delicious salad.
Try: Our Classic Spinach Salad served with fresh baby spinach, fresh slices mushrooms, crisp bacon, red onions, hard-boiled egg and your choice of dressing.
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Geodesy in mihailovka is necessary not only for the construction of buildings and structures. On any land, regardless of whether it is located in the city or suburbs, sooner or later it is necessary to conduct geodetic surveying. The reasons can be countless, starting from the definition of boundaries of the land leveling and finishing. Our company will conduct survey work in mihailovka of any complexity and for any purpose.
Geodesy is the science that is associated with the measurement of the earth's surface and is an integral part of any construction. Surveying work is divided into two stages: field and office. During the field measurements are carried out on the ground, and cameral implies the preparation of reports, maps, plans, diagrams and drawings based on the data obtained during the field phase. "the Guild of Engineering" - surveying company with years of experience, will conduct the full spectrum of geodetic works in mihailovka. Features:
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There is no question about it, the picture of addiction recovery in America is rapidly changing. Historically, when the general public thought about those who are seeking or found recovery, pictures of people who had hit rock bottom would come to mind. They would conjure up images of bottom of the barrel drunks living on skid row, or addicts doing anything in their power to acquire their next fix. However, the true picture of an addict or alcoholic can be hard to define as science shows us that addiction can touch people from every corner of life and social-economic status has little bearing. What’s more, one’s age, race or gender isn’t indicative of who meets the criteria of addiction.
In the past, the rooms of 12-Step recovery meetings were epitomized by older adults, sharing their stories while the aroma of stale coffee and cigarettes permeated the air. While the majority of people working a program of recovery are indeed beyond the years of young adulthood, addiction recovery is a young person’s program as well. It is not uncommon for one’s abuse of drugs or alcohol to morph into a serious problem in adolescence. Many teenagers and young adults seek help at treatment facilities every day. If you are in recovery yourself, it is somewhat likely that you have met someone who began the journey when they were around the age of 15—managing to acquire over a decade and counting of long term recovery time.
Young Adults In Recovery
All across the United States and in other countries as well, recovery meetings for young people are held every day. A collective effort is afoot, where young people (like their elder peers) practice the principles of recovery in all their affairs—helping each other stay clean and sober—one day at a time. It’s strongly encouraged that younger people create relationships with one another, as it is likely that you will have much more in common with people in the same age group. While there is a lot that young people in recovery can learn from “old timers,” and you would be wise to listen to what they have to share, in the timeless goal of searching for the similarities rather than the differences, connecting with young adults working a program is paramount.
If you are a young adult whose life has become unmanageable due to drugs and alcohol, you may want to consider a treatment center that is designed for your demographic. On top of learning and acquiring the tools necessary for achieving continuous long term sobriety, you will create bonds with other young people who have walked a similar path as you. Such bonds can last decades. You will also be introduced to young people’s meetings, events and conventions that are geared towards creating networks with other young people in recovery.
Young People In Recovery
If you find yourself reading this article and you happen to be a young person working a program, we encourage you to keep reading. It is no secret that the gift of recovery can only be held onto if it is given away freely. Paying it forward. If you have worked the 12-Steps and are sponsoring others, then you know that to be a reality. Only by helping others can we continue to help ourselves. Or perhaps you are reading this and are thinking that you need to step up your service to others. If so, you may want to look into “Young People In Recovery” (YPR), as it may help you stay on the path of abstinence and spiritual betterment.
The mission of YPR is as follows:
Our national leadership team creates and cultivates local community-led chapters through grassroots organizing and training. Chapters support young people in or seeking recovery by empowering them to obtain stable employment, secure suitable housing, and continue and complete their educations. Chapters also advocate on the local and state levels for better accessibility of these services and other effective recovery resources.”
If you would like to locate a chapter or start one in your local area, please click here.
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A group of refugees from diverse countries have set up the Moria Coronavirus Awareness Team (MCAT), which aims to educate their respective communities about the virus and empower them to take control. “MCAT is an empowerment project. It has given refugees a platform to express themselves and exert a certain amount of control over their everyday lives,” said Shirin Tinnesand from Stand By Me Lesvos, a Greek NGO. “The impact has been immense and has enabled refugees to understand how much they are capable of.”
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Despite all the debates over what is or is not socialism, a simple fact remains: socialism is in theory the ownership by the workers of the means of production, and this can occur in degrees. In its absolute form, workers would be shareowners in the businesses for which they work, whether mediated through government or not. In lesser degrees, they could be partial shareowners or shareowners-in-kind, receiving wealth taken from those businesses and mediated through government to be delivered in the form of entitlements, or direct payments or payments-in-kind to citizens. The West right now is about sixty percent capitalist and forty percent socialist, having realized that socialism in its pure form — exemplified by the Soviet Union — will fail consistently, but that socialism-with-capitalism allows the economic engine of the free market to subsidize the socialist welfare state and then use some Keynesian magic to increase the value of currency on the basis of the size of the socialist part of the state. This circular Ponzi scheme allows government to benefit from the free market two ways, first in using it to power socialism, and second in making a profit from debt/currency sales on the basis of the artificial inflation of demand created by Keynesianism, using demand-side economics to power what would otherwise be a supply-side economy. All of this leads up to the big question: Democrats are excited about socialism, but to embrace it directly leads to them giving up their successful “we’re normal Americans but just more compassionate” position and revealing themselves as Utopian revolutionaries in the Communist model. If you want to know why they desire third-world immigration, here it is: normal Americans will recoil, but the third world types simply see such radical stances as bolder, stronger, and more helpful.
We have the basis of a really exciting showdown here. Trump gave Democrats three weeks; they have made exactly zero overtures to compromise, seemingly smug and self-satisfied in what they imagine is a leadership position. A new migrant caravan is coming through and Trump is moving the military into place. If even one migrant carries a weapon, Trump will have his emergency, and at about the time for him to have nearly universal support to declare a need for a permanent barrier without the approval of the legislature.
Slowly, slowly conservatives are learning exactly how toxic unions are. What really got workers better condition was the recognition that doing so produced better output; specifically, anti-Semitic Nazi Henry Ford applied traditionalist principles and demonstrated that better worker treatment led to better results (non-paywall):
His primary motivation for the wage increase, however, was economic. Ford hoped to reduce the company’s high turnover rate and retain its best employees. The increased cost of wages was offset by increased production and decreased training programs and other costs associated with hiring new employees. Furthermore, the wage increase provided Ford employees with enough money to purchase Ford automobiles, which further increased the company’s sales.
However, some business leaders and journalists criticized Ford for what they perceived as social welfare policies; The Wall Street Journal wrote that he brought “biblical or spiritual principles into a field where they do not belong.” In the end, Ford’s business goals were realized and his wage increase had its intended effect: turnover declined sharply, and profits doubled to $60 million from $30 million from 1914 to 1916.
In other words, like slavery, worker abuse existed in a bubble between people beginning a new skill and figuring out how to do it correctly. The union actually reversed the process by not allowing business to get to this point.
Instead, unions took money out of the business, which both raised the costs of industry and passed on those costs to the consumers. In terms of the cost of a product, all of upper management salaries are a tenth of a cent, but labor costs are the biggest input outside of raw materials, and sometimes even exceed those (at a Coca-Cola plant for example). This means that you can pay your CEO $30m and not have a problem, but if your workers cost 150% of what they do in other areas, you are headed for bankruptcy.
Consequently, American business moved offshore or found other ways to avoid hiring permanent American labor. Whole segments of our production were simply given up to the third world, and we set ourselves on the path to globalism on that basis. Unions not only raised employee wages, but threatened the existence of business itself with strikes, and that meant that any place without those disadvantages would simply crush us. That meant that many “company towns” died as the plants went away, whole swathes of careers vanished, and America became a “service economy” instead of a productive one. This all happened from 1945-1985, roughly, because after the interruption of WW2 the unions came back and were more destructive than ever before. Any conservative who defends or tolerates unions is not a conservative, and not very aware of history, either.
As usual, no one is talking about the real story here, which is that thanks to civil rights and affirmative action, if you can both be a minority and be competent, you will make out like a bandit. Barack Obama was our affirmative action president, and he was incompetent but apparently still the best that the field had to offer; Kamala Harris, Mazie Hirono, Sylvester Turner, Kwame Kilpatrick, Maxine Waters, Lee Brown, Cory Booker, John F. Kennedy, John Kasich, Condoleezza Rice, Marco Rubio, Charles Rangel, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Paul Ryan, and Robert Kennedy are all non-whites who were elected under the affirmative action theory that their ethnic background was more important than their competence, to disastrous results. JFK was such as disaster that some allege that the CIA, Sicilian mafia, KGB, and LBJ worked together to blow his jug, which had the unfortunate consequence of putting utterly corrupt prole LBJ into the White House so that he could fully botch the Vietnam War that JFK had only started to botch. LBJ, who may or may not have been Jewish (although he was a legendary friend to Jews), made his career start in part by manipulating minorities despite being wholly insincere in his support of them:
I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
— As quoted in “What a Real President Was Like: To Lyndon Johnson, the Great Society Meant Hope and Dignity”, by Bill Moyers, The Washington Post (13 November 1988).
As long as you are black, and you’re gonna be black till the day you die, no one’s gonna call you by your goddamn name! So no matter what you are called, nigger, you just let it roll off your back like water, and you’ll make it! Just pretend you’re a goddamn piece of furniture!
— Said to his chauffeur, Robert Parker, when Parker said he’d prefer to be referred to by his name rather than “boy,” “nigger” or “chief.” As quoted in Parker, Robert; Rashke, Richard L. (1989). Capitol Hill in Black and White. United States: Penguin Group. p. v. ISBN 0515101893. Retrieved on 6 January 2015.
I’m going to have to bring up the nigger bill again.
— Said to a southern U.S. Senator upon the occasion of the Republicans re-introducing the Civil Right Act of 1957, according to LBJ’s Special Counsel Harry McPherson. As quoted in McPherson, Harry. Interview with Michael L. Gillette. “Transcript, Harry McPherson Oral History Interview VI, 5/16/85, by Michael L. Gillette, LBJLibrary.” 16 May 1985.
Let’s face it. Our ass is in a crack. We’re gonna have to let this nigger bill pass.
— Said to Senator John Stennis (D-MS) during debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1957. As quoted in Caro, Robert A. (2002). The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate, Volume 3. New York: Knopf. p. 954. ISBN 0394528360. Retrieved on 6 January 2015.
Sam, why don’t you all let this nigger bill pass?
— Said to Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn (D-TX) regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1957. As quoted in Dallek, Robert (1991). Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. p. 519. ISBN 0195054350. Retrieved on 5 July 2014.
These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don’t move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there’ll be no way of stopping them, we’ll lose the filibuster and there’ll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It’ll be Reconstruction all over again.
— Said to Senator Richard Russell, Jr. (D-GA) regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1957. As quoted in Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream (1977), by Doris Kearns Goodwin, New York: New American Library, p. 155.
Son, when I appoint a nigger to the court, I want everyone to know he’s a nigger.
— Said to an aide in 1965 regarding the appointment of Thurgood Marshall as associate justice of the Supreme Court. As quoted in Dallek, Robert (1991). Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. p. 519. ISBN 0195054350. Retrieved on 5 July 2014.
I’ll have them niggers voting Democratic for two hundred years.
— Allegedly said to two governors (whose names were not given) regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1964, according to then-Air Force One steward Robert MacMillan. As quoted in Inside the White House (1996), by Ronald Kessler, New York: Simon and Schuster, p. 33.
Affirmative action has been a cash-in for the last century and a half because, much as defending “the poor” was a way to succeed during early class warfare, it allows politicians and others to socially signal allegiance to egalitarianism and engage in moral preening that displays positive symbols about their morality as a method of redirected attention from negative data about them.
African nationalist Osiris Akkebala notes that for white people, black people are merely pawns in class warfare, which enables white people to both maintain control over other ethnic groups through the illusion of assimilation, and demonstrate allegiance to class warfare so that the egalitarian herd supports them:
Stay away from white folks class war with each other and engage in a war of your own for freedom away from America Black Afrikan people…
Unity is what became our motivation and Loving our Blackness became our Strength and with that combination the wall of Segregation came Tumbling Down, but in the process Lucifer was already planning on how to maintain control over our Mind, so the Luciferian Social Planners introduced the arsenic poison Integration, with Assimilation becoming the cause of your insanity…
The Left is perfectly fine with dropping Elizabeth Warren. To them, everything is a means to the end of equality; that requires imposing means-over-ends morality on the rest of us for anything else, however. They can let her go and lose nothing. However, they fear that we might see the flaws of affirmative action that caused her to sign up as a Mongolian immigrant (Amerind) instead of a white girl from the suburbs; she got much farther ahead as an Indian than a Caucasian. If people see how bad affirmative action and civil rights really are, they might demand that those go away, and that would deprive the Left of its favorite weapon against the Right.
For approximately thirty years, there was a “golden age” of pop music, which reveals to us that pop is in fact too simple and therefore too much driven by aesthetics to last very long. The simpler the music, the more it has to use instrumentation, production, performance, and novelty to sell itself. This is why classical music essentially removed all of those things and focused on the difficult task of knitting together melodies into coherent patterns over a long time, which forces the use of harmony, timbre, rhythm, and other techniques not as ends in themselves but as means-to-the-end of producing an intense, complex, nuanced, and enduring musical experience.
When the Left talk about “the rich,” just as when they talk about “the poor,” they are using categorical logic against us. Cause/effect logic is superior: why do people have what they have? It comes down to their genetics and choices. One of the smartest guys I know makes pennies as a schoolteacher, but he goes to sleep every night knowing that he is a hero. I know a lot of smart people who own their own businesses, which is exponentially harder to do than just having a day job. If you want a more competent world, let them take home their money and then give in grants to people like my schoolteacher friend. Support genius, let it thrive, and most of all, reproduce abundantly!
Green = the new blank check. In the 1930s, poverty was the blank check. In the 1960s, civil rights was the blank check. In 1789, inequality and class warfare formed the blank check. The Left relies on rationalization: it decides what it wants, and then goes hunting for an argument to support it, using an “ends-over-means” calculus in order to find any justification, excuse, validation, or rationalization — all reversed cognitive process, not from demand to goal but goal to demand — that can get it what it wants. This alone tells you that you should never trust egalitarians/Leftists or any other individualists. To them, everything is a means-to-the-end of their goal, namely “equality” which means that they can do whatever they want without the rest of us “judging” them for being dangerous mental incompetents.
Europe has always sought an order that can unite it, especially Germany which is its powerhouse. The church destabilized Europe by fighting the aristocrats. Ultimately, Europe suffered most because as it expanded, its different branches fought with one another. Perhaps we would all do better to affirm our Germanic heritage and unite on that basis.
Who leads the enemy? For decades, The New York Times has served as the uniting voice of the Left, lending legitimacy to its ideas with theories about it actually working better. Never mind that they lie; if they read it in the NYT, the good bourgeois burghers of the genteel Left conclude that not only is it true, but the rest of us are idiots for not joining the brigade of people mouthing the same empty tropes in unison. It makes them feel superior to us.
As always, the position that Amerika takes is that we should stop firing people for opinions, including those expressed in behaviors. True, we all want to see the Left get served up its own medicine, but the bigger opportunity here is to set a precedent where no one gets fired for saying the “wrong” things or dressing up in blackface. In fact, perhaps we should do it on a regular basis until our species grows up and gets over the idea that being “offended” by parts of reality is important or even defensible. For example, this nonsense (non-paywall) — obviously designed to distract from the blackface scandal — needs to stop.
If Christianity survives, it will do so by discarding its centralized nature. When you make one interpretation of one book the absolute/universal truth, you lose its metaphorical nature and replace it with a symbolic one, which essentially means “obey good or be seen as evil” which in turn means that you have created a target property, “good,” which every single evil person out there will try to capture. When priests are created by a bureaucratic structure, those who are willing to put up with the nonsense get ahead in that structure, and this filters out those who are more honest and replaces them with those who are so obsessive that they jump through every hoop so that they can get to a place of power so that they can then abuse it. This applies to education, social conformity, and loyalty tests as well. You can only reward those who are competent, which is a “subjective” determination by your best existing people and therefore “not fair” to the grumbling herd. When you try to make a System to regulate that, you end up rewarding the bad and punishing the good, which is why bureaucracy is suicide.
Zero sane people are surprised by this. The third world is impoverished because it fails to unite on producing shared resources, facilities, and institutions; it is this way because it is highly individualistic, or everyone doing whatever they want with no social consequences. That means that anyone who is not that way has died out long ago. Even more, diversity naturally causes ethnic competition and resentment, a war in which rape/crime are inevitable weapons.
For the Left, “education” means “indoctrination.” However, the more that people learn, the more they realize that society needs a center, and our brew of democracy/consumerism/entitlements cannot do this. For that reason, they drift toward “extremes,” which is another way of saying that they affirm the common sense that existed before the Left took over and brainwashed us all into their brand of oblivion.
Ignore the hippie title and look at the reality: decreasing threat response means greater health. Our society does nothing but amp up our threat response in order to force us to do what it needs from us, whether going to boring jobs, voting, or conforming to social norms so that we support the System. It is making us all unwell, and does not care, because it intends to simply replace us with more compliant and less sensitive people.
Socialized medicine means infinite demand on finite resources. This means that someone will have to make choices about who gets what resource. That in turn imposes the high cost of a bureaucracy on what would otherwise be straightforward local services. In the end, socialized medicine means worse care for those who actually need it, and better care for those who are heavily invested in using the system, since they will be motivated to work around the bureaucracy since they interact with it on a regular basis. But it’s all free!
The high cost of Leftist “education”: people have no idea that history repeats, that humanity is basically unchanged, and that Asia has invaded the West multiple times. As a result, they live in the idea bubble of policies, theory, incentives, and the like, and forget the primal motivations that guarantee that history will repeat itself. Until the West is conquered, Asia will always feel like the second best.
Team Trump found a way around the deep state: investigate the investigators when they allow Leftists to get away with blatant crimes. This could in turn be parlayed into “Build my wall, or get investigated and go to jail!”
This study actually affirms the opposite: wealthy gay couples who have lots of time to devote toward the awkward process of producing and raising children have kids who do better on tests, according to a very small sample size. In other words, this effect will quickly reverse if applied outside a highly selective group.
People in the West are slowly re-learning what a “total state” means. Even the private firms are working for the state. In fact, they benefit from a feedback loop with the military where stolen technology and new inventions flow between private industry and the armed forces. This means that whenever Chinese officials are abroad, they are working for the state and its military, which means that they are spies. Even more, Chinese nationals — people born in China or of Chinese descent — will work for the state, since they have the ugly choice of either rejecting their heritage or embracing it and consequently being forced to work against their host nations. As the twenty-first century warms up, it becomes clear that while ideological wars were the theme of the last century, race wars are the coming theme that we will have to wake up and accept despite not wanting to do so.
Diversity does not work, in any form. Every minority group will work against the majority, however that is defined out of the mosaic of identity factors — religion, ethnicity, culture, race, class, profession, politics, and general philosophy of life. It turns out that the Russian speakers up in the Washington state area do not trust government much, nor do they particularly think ahead when it comes to science and medicine, and so the outbreak has occurred among them and not the wealthy white anti-vaxxers that our media loves to satirize. These people may turn out to know more than we think; research shows that exposure to mumps and measles as a child reduces adulthood chance of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Across medicine, the wider theory that early childhood diseases prevent later autoimmune issues is gaining traction, including a recognition that some childhood viruses stay with us for our entire lives and, if we do not learn to fight them, manifest in worse problems later. Perhaps the solution here is to avoid panic and instead recognize these diseases as a natural part of childhood, even if some of the weaker children are culled in the process.
Russia has always feared attacks on its Kola Peninsula, and now finds itself enraged at Norway for building up its submarine fleet in anticipation of Russian aggression. This in turn tells us how the Russians hope to wage the next war: with submarines leading the way for a denial of American re-armament of NATO, much as plays out in the classic Tom Clancy and Larry Bond novel Red Storm Rising.
We analyzed how human activities are impacting the conservation status of megafauna within six classes: mammals, ray‐finned fish, cartilaginous fish, amphibians, birds, and reptiles. We identified a total of 362 extant megafauna species. We found that 70% of megafauna species with sufficient information are decreasing and 59% are threatened with extinction.
Humans are eating the world to extinction. Even if we all live in 500 square foot apartments and eat vegan diets, there are still too many of us for nature to survive. Every human requires space for living, agriculture, education, roads, shopping, parking, storage, government, research, healthcare, and many other uses. The more concrete we put down, the weirder our climate gets in many local areas at the same time, displacing jet streams and disrupting local weather patterns; the Left mistakes this for “climate change,” but really it is simply too much city. Since 55% of us live in cities, this will only get worse, and as our numbers increase, we are hunting anything we can eat to death, which since it cannot be centrally regulated, will only get worse. To end this problem, we would have to end foreign aid and trade with the third world and dismantle our own entitlements programs, which would allow population to reduce itself naturally. The sooner we do this, the more of nature we can save, and we can also stave off our future as living in apartment blocks where the only nature is a park nearby or greenhouses that produce our increasingly disgusting substitute food.
Indian nationalists point out that Gandhi endorsed diversity and therefore was not an advocate for actual Indian nationalism. For some reason, this upsets people, probably because as diversity fails worldwide, the peoples of Earth are turning to hardline nationalism as a way to protect them from domination by other ethnic, cultural, racial, and religious groups.
The pushback against political correctness intensifies, this time at a store that sells collectibles and rightly points out that historical artifacts will include the parts of history that snowflakes dislike. Leftists do not believe this because in their world, nature is bad but humans forcing equality on each other is the only permissible good activity since it will lead to Utopia, and any deviation from this is therefore — in their binary view of the world — the ultimate evil and must be destroyed before it corrupts more souls. Egalitarianism is a mental virus that drives people insane by making them accept the Big Lie that people can be equal, which forces them to then rationalize all other beliefs so that they support the lie, at which point they become outright hostile to reality, depth, nuance, detail, and time.
In politics, people have no skin in the game. They say something, and others like it, so they get ahead; they vote for something, and everyone else votes too, so any single vote has little weight. As a result, they face no consequences from their choices, whether by action or inaction. In the markets, as in warfare, on the other hand, people face extreme consequences. If they bet on the wrong horse, they lose their money; if they choose a mediocre horse, they go nowhere; if they bet on the right horse, they win big and will be expected to do it again. The markets favor America because right now, America is doing smart things: forcing back globalism through trade wars and tariffs, reducing regulations, cutting its third world population and excess labor force, and building infrastructure and industry. This means that its currency is worth more because global traders want more of it. If America wants to win big, it will cut its entitlements state, which means that it will soon have no no debt and its currency will increase proportionately in value, making it the highest-sought investment in the world outside of gold and nuclear weapons. As said here before, all of the economies of the world have made themselves sick with entitlements states, which guarantee not just debt but a steady loss of competence and values as their economies become dependent on government. Whichever nation cuts the entitlements first will rule the next age, and everyone else is going to be destroyed when mutual faith in the debt-entitlements-taxation cycle ends. | <urn:uuid:72621944-4045-4309-a3ad-ae682ef05c10> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.amerika.org/politics/periscope-february-7-2019/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.960477 | 5,624 | 1.726563 | 2 |
We previously wrote about the immigration benefits available to same-sex couples that convert their civil unions to marriages based on the new Illinois law. Under that Illinois law, couples wishing to convert their civil unions must do so by May 31, 2015. On September 12, 2014, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Chicago District Office confirmed in a liaison meeting with the Chicago Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association that such couples can in fact utilize the earlier marriage date (the date of the original civil union) when filing for immigration benefits.
The USCIS also clarified that in instances where the foreign national already obtained a conditional two-year green card, but would now be eligible for a permanent 10-year green card based on the earlier marriage date (the date of the original civil union), that such an individual may request to have the conditions removed from their green card by filing a Form I-751.
As an example: Let’s say a same-sex couple entered into a civil union in Illinois on June 1, 2011, then married in Iowa (where marriage equality has been recognized since 2009) on June 1, 2012, and filed for a green card based on this marriage in July 2013 (after the DOMA was found unconstitutional). In that case, the foreign national spouse would only be eligible for a two-year conditional green card because the marriage that took place in Iowa in 2012 was less than two years old at the time of the green card filing in July 2013. But now, that same couple can convert their Illinois civil union to a marriage and have a valid marriage certificate back-dated to June 1, 2011—the date they entered into a civil union. As a result, their marriage would be considered more than two years old at the time of filing for the green card, making the foreign national eligible to apply for a permanent 10-year green card rather than a two-year conditional green card.
The USCIS now confirms that individuals in this situation may file the I-751 to remove the conditions on their permanent residence without having to wait until the 90-day period prior to the expiration of their conditional two-year green card. The USCIS also reiterated that a fee waiver may be available to such a request if the couple establishes the financial need necessary for all fee waiver requests.
Again, we urge all multinational couples in Illinois, who previously entered into a civil union, to take advantage of the new law and convert their civil union to a marriage by May 31, 2015.
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This time, I want to introduce scissors that I would like to recommend to restoration master and interior handcraft man . Born in Seki City, Gifu Prefecture, the city of cutlery in Japan, this scissors can be cut surprisingly accurately and beautifully, whether it is a thin moist Washi paper, a sliding door with thread, or a cloth. In addition, the world’s first technology “Double Fluorine Coating” keeps all adhesives such as glue, bond and gum tape away. After using it, just wipe it off with a dry cloth. With this outstanding “sharpness” and “non-adhesive”, you can cut more comfortably than ever before, and the sharpness will continue and your work will be improved. I recommend 240 mm for interior handcraft man with various cuts such as cloth, 210 mm for restoration master who handle wet and thin Washi paper, and 170 mm for hobbyists. By all means, I would like you to use this Nevanon once and experience the surprising sharpness. You might think it’s just scissors, but once you use it, you’ll understand its value. Also, this time, our customer made an objective comparison video in Japanese (sorry only in Japanese) because it is a very good product, so I will introduce it together. Please take a look at Youtube! | <urn:uuid:05d6b4b3-ad48-48f0-8653-dfd3e2c1989e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://komatsu-washi.com/en/news/%E3%83%97%E3%83%AD%E7%94%A8-%E3%83%8F%E3%82%B5%E3%83%9F-nevanon%EF%BC%88%E3%83%8D%E3%83%90%E3%83%8E%E3%83%B3%EF%BC%89-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.950937 | 287 | 1.507813 | 2 |
For some, being late is common, for others it’s an accident. But regardless of the reasons time late is high on the list of the most harmful habits both in daily life and in work. Delay can show you in a bad light as an employee, job seeker or friend. Often it’s the cause of unnecessary stress.
The habit of being late stroked root over the years and became second nature. But psychologists say: you can develop punctuality in yourself at any age. It’s a character trait and it can be formed. All you need are willpower and daily control. We have collected some tips that will help you to learn not to be late and form a new habit.
1. Find out the little things that take up your time
First you need to determine the little things that take up your time, distract or worsen the concentration. For some, this is e-mail, for other web surfing, social networks or even office gossip. Sometimes it’s hard to recognize that often you like these things and can’t imagine a day without them. But you need to be stricter towards yourself and understand that these little things steal your time and distance from the goals.
2. Plan your day in the evening
Before going to sleep, remember all the things that you have to do tomorrow. Prioritize them, estimate the time that you need to do all the work and on the road. In order not to forget anything – make a list and put a time frame for each item. For example, “The road to work – 8.30-9.00”, “Answers to business letters – 9.15-10.15”, “Preparation of dinner – 18.40-19.15.” So you will clearly see how real your plan is, and you will be able to control yourself.
3. Don’t do anything extra in the morning
Forget about washing, preparing fancy breakfasts, cleaning and other things that can distract you. If you need to do something before leaving home, wake up earlier. But don’t forget that in the morning time runs faster. Don’t “get stuck in the bathroom,” do everything quickly. And be sure to have breakfast!
4. Accept waiting
If the thought of arriving somewhere ahead of the scheduled time scares you, figure out what can be done at this time. Read a magazine or book, call an old friend, or make a list of plans for the next week. Also you can find a like-minded person, learn and practice managing your time on online Ukrainian dating site. Think about what’s interesting and useful can be done in the period of waiting, and you’ll be motivated to arrive at the destination ahead of time and do it.
5. Get enough sleep
If you sleep less than 8 hours a day, it’s no wonder that in the morning your hand reaches to switch the alarm clock to sleep for at least 10 minutes. These 10 minutes won’t give you more cheerfulness and freshness, but can help you to be late! It’s much wiser to go to bed early. And do it not occasionally, but constantly to accustom your body to a clear schedule.
6. Know the value of time
A punctual person values his time, knows how to rationalize it, respects himself and, consequently, respects other people.
Failure to follow any time frames indicates that a person doesn’t think about the future, perhaps, has problems with self-esteem. He is threatened not only the loss of business reputation and in some cases money, but also spoiled relations with colleagues and friends. After all, few people will want to lose their valuable time on a chronically tardy person.
7. Reward yourself
Another way of motivation is to reward yourself. If you haven’t been late for the whole day, allow yourself something pleasant. For example, eat something delicious or go to the cinema to watch a good movie. The system of rewards can be different for everyone.
8. Feel yourself like an idiot
It’s cruel, but true. At least once sit down and think about how many times you have set people back, derailed important meetings, taken off running over the ice, crept around to your seat in the cinema on the gase of indignant audience. There is nothing good in being late. It’s just disgusting and unworthy of an adult intelligent person, that you, of course, are. Now turn off the computer and leave the house 15 minutes earlier than usual. | <urn:uuid:69fe891f-ed61-47ee-9067-b66eac656cec> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theutopianlife.com/2018/08/30/8-time-management-tips-to-help-you-never-be-late-again/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.942209 | 960 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Chaemyeong Lim, first author of “Inactivating transcription factor OsWRKY5 enhances drought tolerance through abscisic acid signaling pathways”
Current Position: Ph.D. Student in Crop Science and Biotechnology, Seoul National University, South Korea
Master of Science in Crop Science and Biotechnology, Seoul National University, South Korea (2019)
Bachelor of Science in Plant Environmental Science, Hankyong National University, South Korea (2017)
Non-scientific Interests: Playing tennis and watching movie
My interest in plant biology started when I learned about crop cultivation, in which water-deficit conditions retard growth, thus reducing crop productivity. I have always been fascinated by the physiological, cellular, and molecular processes that allow rice plants to survive under poor environmental conditions (drought, salt, heat stress, etc.) in nature. At Seoul National University, I had the opportunity to work with Prof. Nam-Chon Paek to uncover the molecular mechanisms of drought stress in rice. My research has focused on uncovering the role of the transcription factor OsWRKY5 and the mechanisms by which it affects drought tolerance through abscisic acid signaling pathways, with the eventual goal of using this information for crop improvement. Through my research, I have been fortunate to meet and connect with many people who are also interested in plant science. Additionally, I realized that studying plant molecular biology can be relevant, fun, and exciting and then decided to pursue a related Ph.D. | <urn:uuid:9c91bbf5-7521-4614-b113-1e69d872ee27> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://plantae.org/chaemyeong-lim-plant-physiology-first-author/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.928277 | 315 | 1.835938 | 2 |
LANTERN, LIGHT, SNUFF, TORCH
These commands are used to turn on and off a light source on the ground. For instance, you can drop a lantern and
light lanternto have it shed light, then
snuff lanternat sunrise.
>Note: When in an emergency, it is possible to fashion crude torches from a campfire by typing
wear lantern belt>
get torch fire.
|See also:||CAMP, COVER, CREATE LIGHT, FILL|
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The Fed's expected interest rate hike has spurred a cycle of sell-offs in the market.
Stocks that were high performers in the last two years have lost favor with investors who are rotating into safer sectors and assets to protect their investments from declining in value. Others are taking a complete flight from the market.
There is a lot of fear and frothiness in the market as everyone appears to be unsure where to put their money to work.
However, it is in such moments that legendary investor Warren Buffett advises investors to be greedy.
In his words, "Be fearful when others are greedy".
How does one execute this contrarian strategy amidst growing noise and panic in the market?
During periods of market sell-offs, stocks that get hit the hardest are unprofitable companies whose valuations are based on future earnings.
This explains why tech stocks more specifically (Cathie Wood-type stocks) are getting pummeled in the market.
Your best bet is investing in profitable companies with strong fundamentals. Also, such companies usually pay dividends to investors, which can be a source of cash flow for them. The key thing is looking for companies with strong fundamentals and investing in them.
The best time to buy any item is when everybody is selling. This is the time you get the best bargain. However, as human beings, we allow our emotions to take the driver's seat and cloud our judgment. This is why most people sell when others are selling, and buy when others are buying.
The most profitable investors know that the reverse is the case.
One good thing with buying stocks during a sell-off is that before the market comes around pushing the stock into positive territory, you would have made gains from appreciation. For example, you buy a stock that has lost 40% YTD, if the stock rises 20%, your investment has appreciated though the stock is still negative for the year.
This is a follow-up to the last point.
Speculating entails betting on future returns, even though the present evidence suggests otherwise. It is an investing strategy based on promise and hope and not fundamentals.
Though speculation may work in a bull market when there is surplus cash and everyone has a huge risk appetite, it is a futile move in a bear market or market sell-off when investors would be seeking safer assets.
As such, though the majority of investors may be fearful, do not allow your 'greed' to push you into speculating. This is a recipe for loss during a sell-off.
There is no better strategy to use in a market sell-off than dollar-cost averaging.
Since no one can accurately pinpoint a market top or bottom, your best bet is buying a selected stock in installments during price drops. This not only minimizes risks but also reduces the average cost of your investment.
For example, if you have $1000 to invest in a stock, you can divide it into 2 or 5 installments and buy anytime the stock price slides.
Understand that the market comes in cycles.
Every bullish run would climax to a bearish drop. While cycles are sacrosanct in the market, it is up to the investor to know how to position themselves appropriately. Since investing entails sacrificing present capital for future gains, you always have to keep your perspective on the future and not what is happening presently.
As such, the best time to prepare for a bull market is during a bear market. This is the time to load up on shares of stocks that have been on your radar and sit tight until the ship sets sail.
The only way to be greedy when others are fearful is by controlling your emotions.
It takes a lot of willpower to have a contrarian standpoint from the prevailing one. Worse, fear is a much stronger emotion than greed, so it is easy to capitulate and give in when everyone around you is selling.
This is why it is advocated that your investment thesis should be backed by fundamentals, so that in moments of doubt you can refer to your analysis to keep you on track.
Baron Rothschild is credited with the phrase, "Buy when there's blood in the streets, even if the blood is your own."
However, maintaining a contrarian standpoint is not easy when everyone is headed in the same direction as a herd.
However, it is during such periods that the best opportunities in the market are brought to the fore. As such, rather than head for the exit door like everyone else, it is time to turn on your searchlight and look for the best bargain the market has to offer.
August 13, 2022
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Gujarat Cleaner Production Centre, organized a programme on Integration of Research to Industrial Application. The objective of the programme is to motivate students of engineering Graduate/Postgraduate and PhD students from all Engineering Colleges of Gujarat (having Chemical and Environment Department) to focus on practically implementable research project in the field of Environment/Pollution Prevention/Cleaner Production/Cleaner Technology and to implement at industrial level wherever it is feasible.
Dr. K.U. Mistry, Chairman, Gujarat Pollution Control Board, was invited as a Chief Guest while Shri. K.T. Patel. President, FIA, Shri. Hemant Suthar, ACF, Wild life Expert, Forests and Environment Department, Government of Gujarat as guest of honor. Students and Faculties from various engineering colleges of Gujarat were invited including industrialists from Naroda, Odhav, Vatva industrial estates.
The inaugural session started with welcoming of Chief Guest, Guest of Honor & other Dignitaries on the Dias with plant of “TULSI” by Dr. Bharat Jain, Member Secretary, Gujarat Cleaner Production Centre. Dr. Jain also welcomed all the Students, Faculties & Industrialist. Dr. K.U. Mistry requested students to take cleaner production as a research topic in their dissertation research work. Dr. K. U. Mistry, Chairman, GPCB greeted the audience. He briefed the urgent need of industrial research in the field of Pollution prevention/control and also mentioned that student’s research can help industries to solve the environment pollution problems. The programme continued with technical session, the selected best five abstract students made detailed presentation on their research work with their methodology, findings, results and possibilities of implementation. The top five abstracts winners were facilitated by cash prize. The programme concluded with vote of thanks to all the dignitaries, faculties, industries & students by Dr. Bharat Jain, Member Secretary, GCPC. | <urn:uuid:e48a2559-a32e-4c61-8174-2437b68fe03d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gcpcgujarat.org.in/integration-of-research-to-industrial-application-2015-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.945681 | 412 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Between 2009 and 2011, Greece went from being seen as a stable eurozone member to Ground Zero in the Nation Brand Index, the concept of measuring global perceptions of countries across several dimensions such as culture, governance, people, exports, tourism, investment and immigration
The impact of the global financial crisis of 2008, in combination with deplorable state management during the last 35 years, a huge debt, punitive austerity measures, popular anti-austerity protests and the demonisation of the country by European media, was devastating. In particular, the anti-Greece campaign of mainstream European media took on grotesque proportions., seeming to push public opinion to conclude that the only solution to the problem is a Grexit because the whole country is populated by lazy and corrupt people.
A headline in the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf on 19 May 2011 is characteristic: “Kick them out of the eurozone. Our citizens no longer want to pay for these wasteful Greeks.” Germany’s best selling tabloid Bild Zeitung was the champion of the Greek-bashing campaign, constantly referring to irresponsible practices of the past. In February this year the tabloid launched a new hate campaign with front-page headlines urging its readers to say “No” to “more billions to greedy Greeks”. Bild readers were invited to print a huge NEIN, take a selfie with it and e-mail it to the newspaper. It was not the first Bild Greek-bashing campaign and will probably not be the last one.
Media credibility in question
Many European politicians used the Greek crisis to monopolise the debate, changing the subject from job creation and investments to panic-driven austerity. EU member states from the north imposed their doctrine of cuts to countries like Portugal, Spain, Italy and Ireland. Most of all the German government forced other countries to follow policies that weakened their economies and their democracies. When citizens vote for a change of policy, especially those affecting their standard of living, but are told that these matters are determined by the eurozone or that they have no choice, both democracy and belief in the EU suffer. “Swiftboating” (the American term for unfair or unfounded political attacks) Greece became a common practice against the country.
The role of the Greek media – especially private television and radio channels – also contributed to the worsening of the country’s image. It showed a malformed image of Greek society at home and abroad. One could wonder, for example, why so many Greeks voted No at the last referendum, while 99% of mainstream media was in favour of a Yes vote. In Greece, media has traditionally been dominated by a group of business tycoons, with significant investments not only in media and publishing, but in sectors such as shipping, banking, oil, construction and insurance. Media owners have used their power over the 35 last years to wield major political and economic influence through the broadcasting of exaggerated pro-government propaganda and through the promotion of their own interests. Therefore the results of the 6 July 2015 referendum were remarkable for the current government, which has only marginal access to a traditionally hostile mainstream media. The exaggerated propaganda-style news coverage created a boomerang effect. Take for example the coverage of the two rallies for Yes and No on 3 July 2015. Greek media reported about 20,000 participants for Yes and 25,000 participants for No. However, aerial photographs reveal that the No rally was at least five times bigger. Therefore the credibility of mainstream media in Greece is quite low.
"Classic corporate branding is based on a combination of image, cause and effect, expectations and realities. It can successfully be adapted for nation branding as well."
After the rejection of proposals on austerity measures by the creditors of Greece in a referendum on 5 July 2015 the country lost its last credibility. It is crucial in the current situation and after the bailout deal of 13 July 2015 for Athens to find a way to accelerate the economic reconstruction and boost the country’s image.
During the past decade, nation branding has become a popular concept, studied by experts from multidisciplinary areas like communications, political sciences, diplomacy and international relations.
So how to rebuild the image of a state in such a deep crisis? Great brands are mostly built through public relations, not advertising. The role of communications in developing, disseminating and preserving brands is essential. Classic corporate branding is based on a combination of image, cause and effect, expectations and realities. It can successfully be adapted for nation branding as well.
Let’s take a look at two interesting national cases which, though not exactly similar with the Hellenic case, nevertheless give sufficient insight into how nation branding works
In Hong-Kong in 2003, 299 people died from Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). The city was perceived as the center of the global fight against the virus with serious consequences for local business and tourism. While global attention focused on fighting SARS, Hong Kong authorities and the private sector joined forces to prepare the post-crisis phase, promote economic recovery and prepare a post-SARS return to economic growth.
Hong-Kong authorities committed $129 million (€100 million) to a government programme seeking to: (a) promote local and international confidence in Hong-Kong; (b) promote business, tourism and local production; and (c) attract international business. An international communications plan was created to support these three objectives. The plan turned out to be very successful in restoring the confidence of the international community and in promoting economic recovery after the elimination of the virus.
In Iceland in 2010, the eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in April affected economic activities across Europe. The entire world felt the consequences of huge volcanic clouds of black ash. Airspace was closed down in major parts of Europe. Images of the volcanic eruptions together with chaotic queues in international airports could be seen in global media. The eruption was perceived as an international disaster and had major consequences for Iceland’s fragile economy.
A few weeks after the start of the blasts, the Icelandic government and 80 private companies from the tourism sector started a campaign with a budget of €4.5 million. The objectives were: (a) to decrease the negative effects of the volcanic activity on the tourist industry; (b) to maintain the same level of visitors as in 2009; and (c) to enhance Iceland’s image by taking advantage of the global media attention in the wake of the eruption. The successful campaign made use of conventional public relations, advertising and social media. The message that Iceland was open for business was well received and the target of rescuing tourist summer season 2010 was achieved.
A plan for recovery
In both the above cases we can see that strong private-public partnerships were able to raise the right budget, produce excellent communications and save the economy. So how do we re-brand Greece? Nation brands today are based on the economic, pragmatic and emotional value they deliver to their stakeholders.
Here are some suggestions for sustainable nation branding in Greece.
- Find an area of specialisation: Research and data are important. A comprehensive brand audit is needed for the purposes of identifying and understanding: what are the country’s core pillars (culture, heritage, creativity and so on); what is unique to the country; who are the stakeholders; what actions need to be undertaken; how should target segments be identified.
- Make a plan: A long term national approach to communicating Greece throughout the world is vitally important. A nation brand strategy should be developed once the brand audit is completed. The plan has to focus on internal and external stakeholders and should clearly outline how value will be delivered.
- Communication is a joint responsibility: Nation branding should be a collaborative process between government and the main economic sectors, such as agriculture, tourism, the maritime sector and so on. An innovative public-private partnership fairly committed to a purposeful brand, seeking to collaborate, empower and make a meaningful difference in the daily lives of citizens, should lead the way.
- Send out message of unity and recovery: This is a difficult one. Greece needs to show that it is emerging from the crisis. It is fundamental to send out a message that will link images of the past to the future. A clear and sustainable political commitment to act together is one of the cornerstones of achieving success in communicating Greece.
- Be coherent: Ambiguity is costly and easily forgotten. Messages should be carefully thought out and tailored based on the target audiences. It is necessary to make messages clear, concrete, jargon-free and to connect them to specific human needs and expectations.
- Communicate to relevant key stakeholders: A brand implementation is an excellent opportunity to tell the brand story, including the brand positioning and brand values. Information should reach target audiences through their preferred channels and in their own environment. Using conventional and digital communication tools is essential.
- Be innovative and creative: Choose engagement. Generate interest by rallying supporters and enthusiasts of Greece via social media. This can be done by encouraging people and companies to use their networks and sharing interesting material under the umbrella of an ambassador programme.
- Support quality journalism and challenge myths and populism: There is urgent need for a strategy for sustainable and independent media not only in Greece but in the whole European continent. The European Union should support quality journalism and scrutinise and challenge myths and populism. In 2005 the European Commission launched its Plan D for Democracy, Dialogue and Debate as a foundation for discussions on the future of the European Union and the European Commission’s Action Plan for Communication. The purpose of these plans was to foster communication and debate on the activities of the European Union by addressing the need to listen to citizens’ expectations. A similar pan-European communication would be a great help today.
Improving the product
Reputation and image are fundamental for gaining the approval and admiration of stakeholders and the public. The best way to counter the image that “Greeks are crooked people” is to transparently drive out, purge and punish corruption. Transparency is essential to democracy. Increasing trust and credibility and reinforcing goodwill are important factors for reputation and image building; they can also be achieved through nation branding.
"Greece needs to show that it is emerging from the crisis. A clear and sustainable political commitment to act together is one of the cornerstones of achieving success in communicating Greece."
The restoration of the reputation of the country is paramount for economic recovery. The government should be actively involved in rebranding Greece in order to boost foreign direct investment and to support vital sectors of the economy like tourism, agriculture and shipping.
A co-operation between private and public sector on communications would sustain and inspire policy makers to find ways to boost the economy. I believe in Ivy Lee’s mantra, “Accuracy, Authenticity and Interest” as the core of good public relations: Ivy Lee was of course one of the founding fathers of sustainable public relations. What the country needs is an innovative and multidisciplinary approach: a constructive and out-of-the-box strategy allowing for simultaneous actions from different disciplines including communications. We can not wait for the new, improved product. We have to help the product to be improved. • | <urn:uuid:f9e7f629-1b1d-4ec3-9267-98fb27baed79> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.communication-director.com/issues/pleased-meet-you/case-rebranding-greece/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.952333 | 2,300 | 2.390625 | 2 |
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Jerry App’s farm stories open the barn door to understanding life in the country.
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In this paperback edition of a beloved Jerry Apps classic, the rural historian tells stories from his childhood days on a small central Wisconsin dairy farm in the 1930s and 1950s. From a January morning memory of pancakes piled high after chores, to a June day spent learning to ride a pony named Ginger, Jerry moves through the turn of the seasons and teaches gentle lessons about life on the farm. With recipes associated with each month and a new introduction exclusive to this 2nd edition, Living a Country Year celebrates the rhythms of rural life with warmth and humor. | <urn:uuid:dbd53702-f20e-44cd-896a-bc9295a6e0b2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bibliovault.org/BV.book.epl?ISBN=9780870208614 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.948247 | 230 | 1.742188 | 2 |
What Does Boat Insurance Not Cover?
Coverages. All boat insurance policies have exclusions. The excluded items vary from company to company but generally include loss caused by wear and tear, gradual deterioration, weathering, insects, mold, animals and marine life. Some companies include coverage for damage caused by zebra mussels; others do not.
Before purchasing a boat insurance policy, you need to understand what it does not cover. In this article, we will explain what comprehensive coverage, collision coverage, and mold coverage don’t cover. We will also discuss the importance of storing your boat safely and adequately. Keeping your boat in a dry, safe place is essential for protecting your investment. In addition to the abovementioned issues, you should know a few things before purchasing coverage.
Exclusions from boat insurance
Before buying boat insurance, boat owners should understand the policy’s exclusions. Although a policy may seem comprehensive at first, it does not cover many things. Understanding these details will help you fight back against the insurer’s claims. Here are some examples of standard exclusions. You may be surprised by what you didn’t know your policy didn’t cover. The next time you find yourself amid a legal battle, remember that boat insurance has exclusions.
Another common exclusion in boat insurance is the wear-and-tear exclusion. This exclusion applies to boat repairs due to normal wear and tear. Unless the boat is used for commercial purposes, wear-and-tear is not covered under a policy. However, the insurer must prove a connection between damage to a boat and maintenance. Some policies also exclude damage caused by electrolytic or galvanic action.
A significant boat insurance exclusion is mold. While mold is a common nuisance, it can be a costly problem. Insects and animals are also exempt from coverage. Termites, for example, are unlikely to be covered unless they attack the boat’s wooden decks. In addition, marine life, including sharks, mussels, and other animals, is not covered. If you’re unsure of your insurance coverage, talk to a Miami insurance claim lawyer for guidance.
Wear and tear is another common boat insurance exclusion. Boat owners are responsible for maintaining their boats in top condition. Saltwater corrosion isn’t covered by insurance because the owner is responsible for maintenance. It’s common to see boats that have not been adequately maintained. In such cases, it’s essential to clean them routinely. If you don’t follow this rule, the insurance policy may not cover you for repairs due to natural deterioration.
Many homeowners’ policies also exclude coverage for boats. While home insurance covers a small boat on the property, it won’t cover a powerboat. Additionally, home insurance policies don’t offer liability coverage, which is crucial for boat owners. Liability coverage pays for damages to other people and their property. If you’re sued, liability coverage is a must. But make sure your insurance policy covers what you need to.
Exclusions from collision coverage
If you own a powerboat, you may want to check the exclusions from collision coverage on your boat insurance policy. Most policies do not cover damages to boats caused by defective parts. However, you can still get coverage if the engine fails. In such cases, you can choose an extension of your policy’s navigation limits. The exclusions from collision coverage on boat insurance may be included in the policy’s fine print.
Some boat insurance policies exclude certain types of damage caused by animals or insects. Insects, raccoons, termites, barnacles, and mussels are common causes of damage. Additionally, mold loves moist and warm environments, so it is unlikely to be covered. In addition, mold can cause extensive damage to a boat, making it a perfect candidate for collision coverage. If you have any questions, contact a Miami insurance claim attorney today.
Other drivers on your boat insurance policy can also be excluded. Although this may not apply to you, it is essential to check the policy and know whether or not other drivers are covered. Some policies only cover the owner’s boat, while others require the other driver to be named. For this reason, you should always list all drivers. Whether they’re licensed or not is largely up to the insurance company’s discretion.
In addition to collision coverage, you should also check the limits on medical payments. Medical Payments are a critical component of boat insurance coverage since it pays for hospital costs and first aid treatment when you are injured while on your boat. It also covers injuries sustained while on the boat, while boarding or leaving the boat, or while towing behind it. Lastly, ensure you have coverage of medical payments for yourself and any passengers. You may even want to consider per-person coverage instead of accident coverage.
When deciding on collision and comprehensive coverage, consider the actual cash value of your boat and your financial situation. Unless you own a very expensive watercraft, you may not want to spend money on this type of insurance. A low cash value boat may not be worth adding collision coverage and may not even be worth the insurance cost. The same is true if you own a relatively inexpensive boat. Regardless, it is essential to understand the policies’ exclusions and the extent of coverage.
Exclusions from comprehensive coverage
When purchasing insurance for your boat, be sure to check for the exclusions in your policy. These are generally defined as items that are not covered by your policy. You might not notice them at first, but they are essential to understand so you can effectively counter assertions from your insurance company. In addition, thorough knowledge of your policy can help you save money, time, and hassles down the road. To learn more about these exclusions, read on.
A few essential details that you should know about boat insurance policy exclusions include normal wear and tear and gradual deterioration of the boat. Some policies exclude damage caused by animals, insects, mold, and marine life. Some insurance companies will include zebra mussels and other marine creatures in their policy exclusions. This is important because these organisms can ruin your boat or reduce its value. The best thing to do is to check your insurance policy’s exclusions before purchasing a policy.
In addition to the above, the policy covers non-boating equipment, such as fishing equipment, a stereo, and water skis. It also covers transportation costs when you become inoperable and need roadside assistance. Moreover, it also covers your clothing, fishing equipment, and other boating-related items. Comprehensive boat insurance policies protect you from accidents, collisions, and theft. You must carry adequate coverage if you are the only person onboard your boat.
Comprehensive boat insurance policies typically have limits and exclusions. For example, if you plan to use your boat for commercial purposes, your insurance policy will not pay for damages over its limits. However, you can purchase boat insurance riders that extend the limits and navigation. Make sure to check what perils are excluded from your policy before you purchase one. Similarly, a homeowner’s or renter’s policy can cover your watercraft. However, such coverage has low caps and may not protect you against liability.
Whether you use your boat for commercial or recreation, boat insurance coverage is essential. You may need to pay extra for a few exclusions if you want to take full advantage of your coverage. However, the costs associated with boat insurance will outweigh the benefits. Make sure to compare standard coverage inclusions when choosing your policy carefully. For example, some insurance policies cover mold-related loss, while others cover you for other types of damage.
Exclusions from mold coverage
Some types of mold are hazardous and produce chemicals known as mycotoxins that can cause serious health problems in people who are sensitive to them. In addition, exposure to these mycotoxins is also dangerous when inhaled in high concentrations. Typically, mold insurance claims result from two scenarios: an ongoing buildup of moisture or water leakage; or an unexpected flood or leak from a plumbing system or appliance. Water damage often results from failure to properly dry items, leading to a mold problem.
Most property insurance policies contain exclusions for mold contamination. The most common exclusions include long-term leakage and moisture damage and improper maintenance and repairs. Some policies will cover mold contamination, but only to a limited extent. In some states, mold is considered a pollutant, so insurance companies may not cover remediation costs. In such cases, boat owners should check their policies carefully. The best action is to purchase a policy offering comprehensive mold damage coverage.
Even if your boat is maintained correctly, it is possible for a pocket of water caused by a collision to develop into a mold infestation. However, most boat insurance policies do not cover mold-related losses. In such cases, it is essential to consult a Miami insurance claim attorney to ensure that your boat insurance policy fully covers mold damage. Your boat’s insurance policy will likely pay for mold remediation, but it’s best to take precautions against mold before taking it on.
Another vital exclusion in boat insurance is normal wear and tear. For example, a policy that covers deterioration caused by saltwater corrosion is not likely to cover mold damage. In addition, many policies exclude damage caused by animals or insects. In some cases, even marine life is excluded, like mussels and sharks. The exclusions for these damage types vary significantly from policy to policy. Make sure to read the exclusions thoroughly before purchasing a policy. | <urn:uuid:71fffee4-f1fe-4688-a9ed-0917e7acba9f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://webnews21.com/what-does-boat-insurance-not-cover/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.952298 | 1,970 | 1.773438 | 2 |
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How much do Computerses make?
The average total salary for a Computers is $92,500 per year. This is based on data from 14 TurboTax users who reported their occupation as Computers and includes taxable wages, tips, bonuses, and more. Computers salary can vary between $30,500 to $169,500 depending on factors including education, skills, experience, employer & location. | <urn:uuid:cec16387-9368-4a83-bbca-3fd497b9972f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mint.intuit.com/salary/computers/ma | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.972939 | 100 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Infrastructure as Code comes in many flavors, and the Azure Cloud's default deployment templates work with Azure Resource Manager (ARM) to define and deploy infrastructure. Working with the JSON format of ARM can be challenging, but Microsoft has introduced a language processor called Bicep which generates ARM as output. At the same time there are other options, including scripting tools, Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible and others. In this session, we'll compare creating infrastructure using ARM, Terraform and Bicep, and compare pros and cons to each.
You will learn:
- What is Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and why should I care?
- How does ARM, Terraform and Bicep compare?
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is remembered as one of the greatest African-American leaders in American history.
As we officially commemorate his extraordinary life on this holiday that bears his name, we must never forget that he sacrificed his life to the cause of equality for all people.
Dr. King was a pastor, activist, and humanitarian. In 1964 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violence resistance to racial prejudice. And, at 35 years of age, he was the youngest person ever to receive the prestigious award.
This year the 30th Annual St. Petersburg MLK parade will take place starting at 11am. The route begins at 3rd Avenue, S. and MLK, Jr. Street and proceeds north to Central Avenue, east to Bayshore Drive and north to 5th Avenue, N.
Books of Interest
- Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story. A memoir written by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Parting the Waters–America in the King Years 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch
- I Have a Dream (Book and CD) – Amazon.com
- A Call To Conscience – Landmark Speeches by Dr. Martin Luther Kings, Jr./ Kris Shepard, Editor
- As Good as Anybody by Richard Michelson, illustrated by Raul Colón (Age 5-9)
- Martin’s Big Words by Doreen Rappaport, illustrated by Bryan Collier (Age 5-9)
- Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.? by Bonnie Bader, illustrated by Nancy Harrison (Age 8-12).
Must see movie: SELMA. This film chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The epic march from Selma to Montgomery culminated in President Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most significant victories for the civil rights movement. | <urn:uuid:2016f7c3-766d-4353-a72c-b733ad9d22b0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://estelia.com/lifestyles-by-estelia-celebrating-dr-martin-luther-king-jr/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.933296 | 452 | 2.90625 | 3 |
- Nathan Myhrvold created the Snowflake Cam to capture up-close pictures of snowflakes.
- He calls it "the highest resolution snowflake camera in the world."
- He has traveled all over the US to find different types of snowflakes.
- Visit Business Insider SA's homepage for more stories.
For many South Africans, snow is a rare event to be greeted by rushing outside. For those who live with it through long dark winters, though it carries a negative connotation: it's cold, forces people indoors, makes driving difficult, and requires its own wardrobe.
Nathan Myhrvold may be from the northern hemisphere, but he does not see snow like that.
For the former Microsoft chief technology officer and Intellectual Ventures founder, snow is the greatest natural art form. Which is why he drew from his experience founding Modernist Cuisine, a research kitchen and laboratory that creates high-definition photographs of food, to make what he calls the highest resolution snowflake camera in the world.
Up close, each snowflake's unique structure is visible, revealing branches of crystalline arms normally hidden from the naked eye.
Myhrvold spoke with Insider via email about his interest in snowflake photography and how he created his high-resolution camera.
Nathan Myhrvold is the latest in a long line of scientists and photographers to capture high-resolution images of snowflakes.
The first person to shoot snowflakes at the microscopic level was the Vermont farmer Wilson A. Bentley in the 1880s. His detailed photographs changed the way scientists and society viewed the little ice crystals forever.
Since then, numerous other photographers have taken exquisite photos of snowflakes. In 2013, for example, Russian photographer Alexey Kljatov went viral for his images, which were taken at home using inexpensive equipment.
Myhrvold's passion for snowflakes stems back to his childhood.
There are multiple kinds of snowflakes, some more common than others, and each features unique crystal shapes. Which snowflake falls on a given day depends on many factors including location and temperature.
"As I got older, I not only learned why they look the way they do but just how incredibly important snow is to us for survival," Myhrvold told Insider. "Snowflakes are something that we don't think of as food, yet most of us (in North America anyway), spend our whole summer drinking melted snowflakes. The water we drink in the summer is dependent on the snow that falls in the winter."
He started work on the custom-build Snowflake Cam in 2018 and took 18 months to finish it.
The scientist turned photographer is calling his creation the highest resolution snowflake camera in the world. To obtain such microscopic images of the snowflakes, the camera uses a 100-mega pixel Phase One sensor adapted to a microscope objective lens.
The biggest challenge was making sure the snowflakes didn't melt before or while being photographed.
He explained that the microscope has a cooling stage, giving him more time to capture the images without the snowflakes melting.
In addition, he said, "The camera is paired with short-pulse, high-speed LED lights, typically used for industrial purposes, to reduce the heat they put out and increase the speed at which a photographer can capture the image."
He also prevents melting by capturing the snowflakes on a piece of foam he painted black.
Another snowflake photographer, Kenneth Libbrecht, helped him realise he had another problem to overcome: finding the right snowflake.
Myhrvold said the photographs Libbrecht, a professor at California Institute of Technology, released 15 to 20 years ago blew his mind. The two eventually met and Myhrvold learned how Libbrecht built his snowflake microscope, which informed the construction of Myhrvold's own camera.
"I was of course sending him pictures every now and then, and it eventually got to the point where he said, 'You're snowflake limited,'" Myhrvold told Insider. "I said, 'What does that mean?' He said, 'Well you know how to take pictures, you just don't have very good-looking snowflakes yet.' From there it was a matter of finding the right snowflakes to photograph."
To find photogenic snowflakes, Myhrvold has traveled all over North America.
So far, Myhrvold has traveled from his lab and studio located in Bellevue, Washington, to Fairbanks, Alaska; Timmins, Ontario; and Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada.
"Location scouting is very important for field shoots," Myhrvold told Insider. "For these photos, temperature was the main factor for determining location in addition to considering wind, moisture, and humidity."
Myhrvold picked these cold locations because in warmer weather snowflakes tend to clump but in extreme cold, they are more likely to dry out, offering a better chance at a good photograph. He said some of the best snowflakes he's found have been at temperatures around –15 °C
Contrary to popular belief, most snowflakes look alike. Finding ones with exciting patterns can take hours.
Myhrvold said the phrase "no two snowflakes are alike" is not necessarily true. Most snowflakes are not the stellar dendrites he seeks, rather simple hexagonal plates lacking distinct features.
"That can change extremely suddenly, though, and that's when you go from boring plates to seeing something amazing," Myhrvold told Insider. "So you have to quickly mobilize to get the shot."
But finally finding the right subject makes the long, cold hours worth it.
"I never cease to be surprised by the beauty and complexity of snowflakes," Myhrvold told Insider. "A snowstorm can go on for five hours, and if you're out there with a piece of foam core trying to catch snowflakes, what's amazing is that they can change minute by minute, right before your eyes, and there's billions of them."
He hopes his images change the way people see snowflakes, as well as helping them understand their beauty.
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LOS ANGELES (CBS / AP) -- University of Southern California officials say students have been sickened by the gastrointestinal illness norovirus in a number of campus residence halls.
City News Service reports that fewer than 100 students have come down with norovirus in the seven-day period since the illness was first reported.
Campus health officials sent an advisory to students on Oct. 27 reporting an increased number of cases among students living in residence calls. An update sent Monday said the university increased sanitation efforts and have seen a decrease in the illness.
Norovirus is transmitted from contaminated food or water or an infected person. Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, cramps, fever, muscle aches and fatigue. The symptoms generally subside within 48 hours.
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At a Glance
- Over three dozen people died in last week's Kentucky flash flooding.
- That's the nation's deadliest non-tropical flash flood in 45 years.
- Three flash floods claimed over 100 lives in the 1970s.
Last week's Kentucky flood disaster was America's deadliest non-tropical flash flood in 45 years.
At least 37 were killed in eastern Kentucky after 6 to 9 inches of rain fell in just 12 hours last Thursday, triggering record flooding on the North Fork Kentucky River in Jackson and Whitesburg, and damaging flooding in several other towns.
Some homes were swept away by the raging floodwaters, and many more in valleys were flooded.
In the five days that followed, over 1,300 people were rescued, but crews were still pushing to reach those still cut off by mudslides and washed-out roads or bridges, according to the Associated Press.
Most Since 1977
By a flash flood, we're referring to a flood that happens quickly on the order of minutes or hours, with rapid rises in streams, creeks, rivers or urban areas due to torrential rain over a smaller area.
Last September, the remnants of Hurricane Ida triggered massive flash flooding in the Northeast that claimed 49 lives.
However, it's been 45 years since a flash flood that wasn't associated with a tropical storm, hurricane or its remnants was as deadly in the U.S. as this latest Kentucky event.
On the night of July 19, 1977, up to 12 inches of rain in only eight hours lead to an overtopping, then complete failure of the Laurel Run Dam and several other smaller dams, sending a flood wave of 100 million gallons of water down a narrow two-mile-long valley into Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
This giant wall of water claimed 84 lives and inflicted $340 million damage in the town.
That happened 88 years after America's deadliest flash flood, also in Johnstown, prompted the construction of the Laurel Run Dam. The collapse of the South Fork Dam after torrential rain on May 31, 1889, sent an almost 40-foot-high flood wave through the valley, claiming 2,209 lives.
Three other flash floods in the 1970s claimed over 100 lives: Big Thompson Canyon, Colorado, in 1976 (144 deaths); the Black Hills of South Dakota in 1972 (236); and Buffalo Creek, West Virginia (125).
Recent Deadly Flash Floods
There has been a spate of flash floods in recent years that have claimed at least 20 lives, including:
-Waverly, Tennessee (August 2021; 20 killed)
-West Virginia (June 2016; 23 killed)
-Hildale, Zion National Park, Utah (September 2015; 20 killed)
-Albert Pike Recreation Area, Arkansas (June 2010; 20 killed)
-Nashville, Tennessee, and Kentucky (May 2010; 27 killed)
You may notice each of these recent events and those cited earlier from the 1970s all occurred in hilly or mountainous terrain.
Heavy rain falling over hilly terrain accelerates downhill and is channeled into valleys. This can turn normally placid creeks or rivers that may be only a few feet deep into dangerous, rapidly moving torrents sometimes 20 feet deep or more. As this flood wave moves downstream, it can sweep away vehicles, trees, large boulders and even homes.
Now picture this all happening at night, when people may be sleeping and flooding may be harder to recognize, and you can see how these events can be deadly.
How To Stay Safe
Despite the recent deadly flash floods, we haven't seen massive death tolls in the U.S. from these events since the 1970s.
According to a case study by the Association of State Dam Safety Officials, there was nobody on-site monitoring Pennsylvania's Laurel Run Dam on July 19, 1977. No flood warning was issued by the National Weather Service until after the dam had already been breached and the flood wave swept through Johnstown.
Today, a nationwide Doppler radar network not only shows us where it's raining, but can also estimate rain rates and how much has fallen. This allows NWS forecasters to issue flash flood warnings with more lead time, ideally before dangerous flash flooding develops.
Given the ubiquity of smartphones, you can receive NWS-issued weather alerts, such as flash flood warnings, that allow you to take action, even if those warnings are issued in the middle of the night.
We have some useful tips here that can both make you aware of the flash flood threat and keep you safe during an event.
Take flash flooding as seriously as you would a tornado or severe thunderstorm, particularly if you live in a river valley or in hilly terrain. Planning ahead and being aware of the weather can keep you out of danger.
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This is a plant that has been knocked a few pegs down the evolutionary ladder. Ladders have pegs, right?
(In-game plural: globs of chlorophyll paste)
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- The usage text is a reference to the 1992 film The Lawnmower Man, which bore little resemblance to the Stephen King short story of the same name.
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Extra alternatives for engineers and builders to implement declarative system administration options are prone to emerge at WWDC 2022, at the very least, based on MacAdmins.Talking throughout the pre-event podcast, audio system argue that Apple will finally require that each one cell system administration (MDM) suppliers introduce help for declarative administration. May this embrace bringing declarative system administration to the Mac?What’s declarative system administration?Apple first launched declarative system administration final 12 months, largely for 2 causes: to make units extra proactive, and to scale back the affect on MDM servers that deal with massive fleets of units. This could enhance efficiency and scalability.
“By sending declarations to the system and using the standing channel, that system turns into extra autonomous and proactive. And your MDM answer will handle many sides of the system expertise utilizing the MDM protocol,” Apple’s developer notes clarify.
The distinction between normal MDM and declarative may be seen as follows:Normal MDM:When the MDM sends a command to the system, a number of interactions between the server and the system are wanted to implement the change. Alternatively, the MDM system has to ask the system to replace it on any adjustments made on the system finish. The system doesn’t monitor itself for vital adjustments, and won’t proactively contact the MDM system to let it know such adjustments have taken place.Declarative:Gadgets monitor themselves and may notify an MDM system when a change is utilized. They will additionally deploy adjustments extra swiftly with much less interplay between the server and the system. Partially, this autonomy additionally offers the system higher safety when it’s offline, or when the MDM server is unavailable. In impact, insurance policies may be utilized extra swiftly and admins profit from extra correct data regarding units within the fleet. How has Apple constructed its Declarative Gadget Administration system?At WWDC 2021, Apple launched the primary model of its Declarative Gadget Administration protocol. This depends on Declarations, Standing Channel, and Extensibility.What’s a Declaration?A Declaration is mainly a coverage resolution given to the system. That may be for account settings or entry to enterprise companies, however can be utilized at a consumer or system stage. You may ship related privileges to all of your customers, however assign particular people administrator rights from their system(s), for instance. [Also read: WWDC: Is Apple preparing to give iPad a mammoth upgrade?]Declarations can embrace system configuration, belongings (similar to usernames and certificates) and activations — insurance policies which can be utilized to the system. As soon as a tool has pulled all of the declarations obtainable to it from the MDM server, it can start to use any coverage adjustments required to work inside them.What’s Standing Channel?At its easiest, MDM engines use this to ballot units for vital adjustments, similar to requesting a notification if a tool upgrades its iOS model. This will then set off task of further insurance policies to the system related to that newly put in working system.What’s Extensibility?One good instance of what extensibility means within the context of declarative system administration might relate to a tool’s working system being upgraded. The system can let the MDM server know an replace has taken place and the MDM can then assign a brand new coverage that allows a brand new characteristic which may not have been supported earlier than. An MDM may also be capable of establish which units have been upgraded to deploy any options newly obtainable.Builders can watch a WWDC 2021 session on declarative system administration right here. How will Apple improve declarative system administration?We all know Apple has already referred to as declarative system administration the “way forward for system administration,” which means the corporate will proceed to spend money on bettering its current system.It additionally sends a really message to builders that they need to prioritize their help for Apple’s system within the options they supply, or, within the case of purchasers, the MDM programs they select to make use of.Apple’s first iteration supported iOS units, which itself implies the corporate intends on extending this to its different platforms, together with the Mac. Mac integration makes full sense, given Apple Enterprise Necessities and the continued ascendance of Macs within the enterprise — nevertheless it does appear attainable the characteristic will solely be made obtainable to Macs working an M-series Apple Silicon chip.We’ll be watching WWDC22 later at present to search out out whether or not this seems to be the case. Test again right here later for all of the keynote highlights for enterprise IT. Please comply with me on Twitter, or be a part of me within the AppleHolic’s bar & grill and Apple Discussions teams on MeWe.
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Hands-On Training Enhances Student Veterinarians’ Skills
July 21, 2022
The transition from third to fourth year marks a significant milestone for student veterinarians at the University of Guelph’s Ontario Veterinary College (OVC) as they move from lectures and labs into a year of intensive clinical training.
Not only do students hone their clinical and diagnostic skills during this final year of their Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) degree, but also their communication, technical and problem-solving skills.
They begin their clinical year with an eight-week externship where they have an opportunity to practice their skills in a real world setting as part of a veterinary team providing animal care to the public.
Supported by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) through the Veterinary Capacity Program as a part of Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance, students complete the eight-week externship placement in a veterinary practice that works with food animals, as well as companion animals and/or horses.
The Veterinary Capacity Program provides annual funding to OVC to help prepare veterinary graduates with an emphasis on animal agriculture, emergency preparedness, food security and animal-related public health.
Veterinary practitioners who host the students not only provide their expertise and mentorship, they also evaluate the students’ progress in achieving core competencies, ranging from clinical abilities to communication skills, which will be essential during their first months after graduation.
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be sharing a three-part series of blogs from a previous student veterinarian chronicling her externship experience.
Dr. Morganna Turner, OVC DVM 2022, completed her externship in the summer of 2021 at the Paris Veterinary Clinic in Paris, Ontario.
During their fourth and clinical year, student veterinarians choose to focus on a particular ‘stream’ – either small animal, food animal, equine or rural community practice. Morganna chose the rural community practice (mixed) stream, allowing her to work with both small and large animals. She chose the Paris Veterinary Clinic with the aim to gain hands-on clinical experience with all species, to learn more about large animal medicine and experience veterinarians’ integral role in the agriculture industry, and experience how to approach and think through real life medical cases.
First, here’s a little about her journey to veterinary school.
The Journey to Veterinary School
“After my first year of my undergraduate degree, I realized that studying inanimate aspects of nature was not actually something I was passionate about, and I switched my major to biology and environmental science. I became quite interested in wildlife conservation, which brings me to the defining experience that led me to veterinary medicine - a trip to Mexico in the summer after my second year of university. During this trip I worked with wild reptiles, amphibians, four-legged mammals, bats and birds, and many sea creatures, handling them, studying them, and recording data with the purpose of demonstrating the importance of and thus preserving existing conservation areas in the area.
“I greatly enjoyed learning about local wildlife and working with people who were as passionate as I was about the natural world, but I found it very hard to not be able to tangibly help the animals. The nature of the data we were tasked with collecting required that we show the true natural state of the animals, and as a result, we not interfere with the course of nature. After this trip, I realized I wanted to pursue a career that allowed me to help animals and humans in an easily perceptible and meaningful way to me, and this led me back to my childhood dream of becoming a veterinarian.
“I spent the rest of my undergrad eagerly volunteering in veterinary clinics, taking pre-requisite courses I needed, and reflecting on animal experience I’d gained throughout my life. Once I felt ready, I applied to the Ontario Veterinary College in my fourth year of university. Looking back, it is incredible to see how much I grew as a person in veterinary school and how much confidence I developed in myself and in my abilities as a student clinician.”
Watch this space in the next few weeks for a peek inside Morganna’ externship experience.
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density profile, molecules, GCMC simulation
Results for the density profile for Yukawa molecules near a hard wall and an exponential attractive wall are presented for Grand Canonical Monte Carlo (GCMC) simulations, for the singlet hypernetted chain (HNC) integral equation and for a modified version of the Lovett–Mou–Buff–Wertheim (LMBW-1) which uses the exact contact value theorem. The results of the standard singlet HNC are quite poor. If the LMBW equation is modified (but still using the bulk direct correlation function) the results at high temperature become reasonable. However, the results at low temperatures, close to the bulk coexistence curve, are only a partial improvement. The contact value of the density profile is now quite good but the profile has the incorrect oscillatory behavior predicted by the unmodified approximate equation. The GCMC simulation results show a clear effect of drying at low temperatures.
Original Publication Citation
Rivas, Wilmer O., Leo Degreve, Douglas Henderson, and Jacqueline Quintana.""Grand canonical Monte Carlo and modified singlet integral equations for the density profile of a Yukawa fluid near a planar wall." The Journal of Chemical Physics 16 (1997): 816
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Henderson, Douglas; Olivares-Rivas, Wilmer; Degreve, Leo; and Quintana, Jacqueline, "Grand canonical Monte Carlo and modified singlet integral equations for the density profile of a Yukawa fluid near a planar wall" (1997). Faculty Publications. 666.
Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Chemistry and Biochemistry
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Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) is the key species of the Antarctic marine ecosystem and human fishing resources. Essentially, relationships between krill distribution and oceanographic conditions have been an age-old recurrent problem and many papers have been published on the subject since the British Discovery Reports. However, there was no remarkable achievement in particular the entire Antarctic Ocean. To clarify the relationship between krill distribution of krill and oceanographic environment, we have analysed two datasets combined. One is krill fishing records from 1973 to 2008 from the CCAMLR database. Another is accumulated water temperature data of the World Ocean Database. We here focus mean-field (climatologic analysis) in all season. First, we have examined fishing depth. The peak of fishing catches clearly appeared around 50 m and 94% of all krill fishing catches occurred in water shallower than 200 m. Furthermore, horizontal distribution of krill fishing points concentrated in three waters in the east Antarctic Ocean, the Scotia Sea, and north of South Georgia Island. From the above results, we calculated mean temperature from the surface to 200 m (MTEM-200) and compared it with horizontal distribution of fishing. The result indicated the strong correlation between krill fishing locations and MTEM-200 in the entire Antarctic Ocean. Waters that were efficient and stable for fishing were distributed in a narrow range with steep meridional gradients between -1.0 and 1.0 °C. Large fishing catches indicated the remarkable two peaks; -0.5~0.1 oC and 0.5~0.8 oC which located in the Scotia Sea, and north of South Georgia Island, respectively. Similarly, the historical krill distribution based on the Discovery Report’s net sampling coincided with this study results and each of the isopleths of MTEM-200 substantially corresponded with each oceanic front in the Southern Ocean. MTEM-200 can be applied for the further analysis of seasonal and/or annual variability.
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Lionel Richie’s new release, Tuskegee, might come as a surprise to the casual observer, one who believes that the former Commodore, the man who once proclaimed that he couldn’t slow down, who extolled the virtues of being easy, who was once tagged as the black Barry Manilow, has gone country.
Of course, he hasn’t really gone anywhere.
It’s appropriate that the album is named after the 60-something singer’s hometown. Although not specifically a hotbed for country music, Tuskegee is a small, southern, and undeniably historically important town. It’s not just the birthplace of Rosa Parks, African American novelist Nella Larsen, and Richie, it’s also the home of the famed Tuskegee Airman and the shameful Tuskegee syphilis experiment––in which poor, rural black men believed they were receiving treatment for the disease but were instead being studied as the illness slowly eroded their health and dignity.
Richie’s not the first black artist to dabble in country music, and he’s not exactly new to Nashville. In recent years Hootie & The Blowfish vocalist Darius Rucker’s sudden conversion to the art of twang caused journalists to cluck and scratch, and then provide us with a history lesson. Charley Pride and Ray Charles had been down that dusty road before––and, if one listens to Hootie’s blow out debut, 1994’s Cracked Rear View, it’s evident that Rucker always had country in his soul. It wasn’t just in the rich timbre of his voice or the fact that the band had cribbed the album title from a line in the John Hiatt song “Learning How to Love You”, but in the way the guitars jangled, the way the ballad “Let Her Cry” (which has untapped potential as a country hit) walked the fine line between tender and macho, and the way “Only Wanna Be With You” wore a big smile that hid its melancholy.
Country even reared its head on the group’s 1996 follow-up Fairweather Johnson via “Earth Stopped Cold At Dawn”, “She Crawls Away”, and “Fool”. But both albums are mixed bags, at best––the sound of a really good bar band that got lucky. Rucker was no great lyricist, and the band might have had more staying power with a few doctors in the house, but those country tinges were a harbinger of things to come. By 1998 the band had improved, although most of its audience had gone the way of The 1910 Fruitgum Company. Yet “One By One” and “Las Vegas Nights” from Musical Chairs were unapologetic in their affection for dirt road classics. More importantly, they were honest and convincing.
Perhaps because no record company executive could yet imagine Rucker as a country star, he released an ill-fated R&B album, Back to Then in 2002. On it, the singer frequently sounded out of place, as though traveling farther from his roots than he should have. Word of his break into the country market, around the time of his 2008 solo release Learn to Live, seemed either like the set up or punch line to an elaborate but fairly laughless joke, but it wasn’t.
It was actually a brave step, and one that had more than a little commercial payoff. Not only did Rucker reinvent himself artistically, he also found major chart success––again. Three of the tracks reached the top of the country charts. Producer Frank Rogers (Trace Adkins, Brad Paisley) co-wrote a majority of the material, refining some of Rucker’s skills and shaping the record into something that could only be a hit. It was. The single “Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It” became, in 2008, the first Number One single by an African American artist since Charley Pride topped the charts in 1983.
Rucker’s 2010 sophomore release, Charleston, SC 1966 (named after the place and year of his birth), also featured chart topping singles and co-writes with Brad Paisley, Radney Foster, and returning producer Rogers. A third country album is forthcoming and, judging by his turn with Richie on the track “Stuck On You” from Tuskegee, his country career may very well be just beginning.
The same cannot be said for Richie.
He first tasted country chart success in 1980, while still a member of the Commodores, when he wrote and produced “Lady” for Kenny Rodgers. The song quickly became a hit on the country, pop, and adult contemporary charts. Richie also produced Rodgers’ highly successful Share Your Love album in 1981. That pairing was perhaps not much of a surprise, either––Rodgers had made his name with The First Edition, a pop group, and many of his major hits––“Lucille”, “Islands In The Stream”, “We’ve Got Tonight” (which paired him with Sheena Easton)––were country mostly by association.
Conway Twitty had chart success with his version of “Three Times a Lady”, a tune that had been a hit for the Commodores, and was further proof of its author’s broad appeal. Richie tried his luck again with the band Alabama in 1987 on the track “Deep River Woman”, but it didn’t ignite the way others had. In fact, Richie lost his commercial footing in the coming years and his domestic sales sank ever lower while he became nearly invisible to the audiences that had once so enthusiastically embraced him.
After a return to R&B and even stepping into the hip-hop world for 2009’s Just Go, it’s hard to know whether Richie’s just playing musical chameleon or if he intends to turn to country music full stop. The odds on the latter move seem unlikely, if for no other reason than Tuskegee isn’t really a country album––it’s just marketed that way. It’s true that it was recorded in Nashville, that Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts, Blake Shelton and Jason Aldean all appear beside Rucker, Rodgers, Jimmy Buffett, and Willie Nelson, that it shares production qualities with some songs on country radio, and that the packaging makes the artist appear rustic.
But it’s little more than a greatest hits collection with some country artists along for the ride. In the end there’s not much that distinguishes the new recording of “My Love” from the original and especially not the new “Lady” from its predecessor––aside from Rodgers’ voice being wearier than it was more than 30 years ago. To Richie’s credit, none of the 13 tracks is worse than it was in its original form––even Jimmy Buffett fails to embarrass on “All Night Long” and “Dancing On the Ceiling” has aged better than you might expect.
Many of the lyrics are stronger than you might remember, too––at his best, Richie is a lyrical master who avoids obvious rhyme and obvious sentiment, and who constructs melodies that are both surprising and elegant. (Witness “Sail On” and “You Are”.) The real challenge would have been for the album to have been constructed with classic country tunes (“Crazy”, “Walking the Floor Over You”) or unexpected covers––Hootie’s “Let Her Cry”, for instance.
Sadly, Tuskegee––and, by extension all those involved with it––doesn’t reveal anything; it’s predictable even if it highlights the gifts of its creator. It could have been a door opener, allowing for more black artists to enter the genre, instead it just reaffirms that “Endless Love”, “Hello”, and “Stuck On You” were hits for a good reason and that their author really plays it as safe as critics would have you believe.
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Lifeguard of the Year says give Surf a handMonday, 3 December 2012
Hot Water Beach SLSC chairman Gary Hinds.
Photo by: Stephen A'Court.
The 2012 Lifeguard of the Year has seen his fair share of rescues over time and as Surf Life Saving's National Appeal draws closer he is urging Kiwi's to put on their jandals and show their support for Lifeguards.
Hot Water Beach Surf Life Saving Club chairman Gary Hinds has managed to clock up 342 national Lifeguard service hours alongside 142 volunteer patrol hours. He has also clocked up 92 beach education hours working with the local schools and qualified 15 new Lifeguards he recruited from local schools.
Lifeguards like Gary give up their summer to patrol New Zealand's beaches and they need the public's help to keep them there.
Surf Life Saving's National Appeal is on from December 2-8 with National Jandal Day, proudly supported by Principal Sponsor State Insurance, taking place on Friday December 7.
Gary says you don't have to be a Lifeguard to be a lifesaver. "Look out for collectors on the streets on December 7 and you too can help save people's lives." Proceeds raised will go directly towards training Lifeguards, the purchase of essential rescue equipment and extending services to meet the growing needs of our communities.
Just like the beach, Jandal Day is for everyone- so people are encouraged to wear their favourite jandals and be part of the fun. The day is both a celebration and a reminder of the great work Surf Lifeguards do.
The new Jandal Day website includes a range of exciting features and you can donate via your smartphone or simply text 'surf' to 4483 to give. Some of the features include the ability for individuals to create their own supporters' page and lay down a challenge to others to raise funds and set their own targets that links to the Hero Meter- a personalised visual representation of each team or individual's fundraising efforts.
There are lots of other ways to get involved. Look out for collectors on the streets or make a donation:
- Online at www.surflifesaving.org.nz
- Text the word SURF to 4483 to make an instant $3 donation.
- Post your donation to: Surf Life Saving, PO Box 9205, Wellington 6141, Freepost 100280.
- Making a donation at your local State Insurance branch.
- Drop some cash into KFC's in-store and drive through donation buckets.
Purchase jandals from any Quiksilver store.
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Ethics of Environmental Health – Edited by Friedo Zölzer and Gaston Meskens
© 2017 – Routledge
Environmental health encompasses the assessment and control of those environmental factors that can potentially affect human health, such as radiation, toxic chemicals and other hazardous agents. It is often assumed that the assessment part is just a matter of scientific research, and the control part a matter of implementing standards which unambiguously follow from that research. But it is less commonly understood that environmental health also requires addressing questions of an ethical nature.
How can we determine the “acceptable” risk level for the general population or for certain groups? How should we deal with uneven distributions of risks and benefits? How do we communicate about risks with the stakeholders? This multidisciplinary collection brings together a number of leading researchers and scholars in order to generate discussion surrounding these key questions, and to bring the ethical implications of science and technology to the forefront of critical thought.
Providing a broad overview of the Ethics of Environmental Health, its philosophical foundations and practical applications, this book offers a significant contribution to ongoing discussions in sustainable development and will be of interest to scholars and practitioners of Environmental Health, urban studies and healthcare.
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Urheberrecht / Namensnennung: Public domain.
This is the text of the Greek New Testament, edited by Eberhard Nestle, published in 1904 by the British and Foreign Bible Society. This work is in public domain worldwide. Many thanks to Diego Santos, whose work (at this site, https://sites.google.com/site/nestle1904/home) was the source for this text. He has a nice Portuguese Bible project, too, here: https://sites.google.com/site/biblialivre/Home
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Fixer Upper: How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems, by author Jenny Schuetz, is available for purchase.
The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified housing challenges across the country, especially for low- and moderate-income households. Housing prices and rents have risen more than 17% and 10%, respectively, over the past year—reflecting both historically strong demand and restrictions on new supply. Even as the overall economy recovers, upward pressure on housing costs is putting particular stress on renter households, who tend to be younger and lower-income than homeowners, with higher shares of Black and Latino or Hispanic families. Even before the pandemic, more than 10 million renter households were spending over half their income on housing.
In March 2021, Congress passed the American Rescue Plan Act (ARP) to help the U.S. economy recover from the pandemic. A key component, the State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF), contains $350 billion that state and local governments can use to address ongoing challenges, including housing. SLFRF dollars provide more flexibility than most federal programs and can be used for a variety of investments and activities across multiple policy domains. This flexibility has both pros and cons: Local governments may be better able to match funds to needs than under narrowly prescribed programs, but it requires grantees to develop and implement well-targeted plans within a limited timeframe. Specifically, the Treasury Department guidelines require SLFRF dollars to be committed by December 31, 2024, with the remainder spent by December 31, 2026.
To get the most out of this once-in-a-generation opportunity, local governments need to assess their current needs and capacities, then determine the most cost-effective and feasible investments to address those needs. This piece outlines some guidance to help local governments start their planning process for using these funds to address the housing crisis in their own backyards.
Assess local housing needs and establish clear priorities
Even with ARP’s unprecedented scale, local governments will not have enough money to pay for every item on their wish list. Policymakers must be intentional about choosing investments, basing decisions on data whenever possible.
Each locality has different housing needs depending on population composition and current housing stock. Brookings Metro and the Aspen Institute have developed a tool, the Housing Policy Matchmaker, to diagnose local housing needs across several key dimensions: Are there enough homes to meet demand created by population and job growth? How expensive is housing in the community relative to income? Do existing homes have deferred maintenance needs, or require energy efficiency upgrades? The answers to these questions can point local leaders toward the most critical housing needs in their jurisdictions.
Because renter household incomes are typically about half that of homeowner incomes, most communities will find the need for rental support most urgent. Yet some communities, especially in older industrial cities and rural areas, have a substantial number of low-income homeowners. Whether owner-occupied or rented, these homes are prone to various health hazards and are environmentally unfriendly.
To address affordability, assess how the private market is meeting housing needs. Low-income households everywhere struggle with housing costs, but even middle-income households may face affordability challenges in high-cost places with too little market rate supply. Fast-growing communities need to increase their housing stock, while places with declining populations may place a higher priority on upgrading existing homes or addressing high vacancy rates.
Assessing which parts of the community are especially vulnerable to climate change will provide a guide to the locations best suited for housing investment. Funding should not be wasted building (or rebuilding) in places at high risk of recurring floods, fires, or other climate-related hazards. Diagnosing these local needs allows communities to efficiently fund projects that meet their unique housing challenges.
Take inventory of existing housing programs and local partners
Before building a new program from scratch, local governments should take inventory of both existing programs and potential partners. It’s much faster and easier to increase the budget for an existing program than start something new from scratch. Local housing programs that address high-priority needs and have demonstrated good results offer the best opportunity for expansion or replication with SLFRF dollars (see Figure 1). For example, Albuquerque, N.M.’s Rapid Re-Housing Program helps families who have experienced dislocation return to stable housing.
Understanding the gaps in existing local government programs or agencies is also important. Local governments that lack capacity or expertise in a particular type of work, such as property management or development, can seek out local partners with complementary expertise. In Tulsa, Okla., the nonprofit Revitalize T-Town offers housing repairs and weatherization services to low-income homeowners. Such local partners can be helpful resources in creating plans.
Creating new programs from scratch is expensive, often requiring staff hiring or training and establishing systems for administrative support and management. During the onset of the pandemic, many local governments struggled to quickly and effectively set up emergency rental assistance programs funded by the CARES Act. Coordinating with existing programs and partner organizations can reduce the front-end work and allow for more effective knowledge sharing.
Scope out costs for different activities
The housing policy interventions permitted under ARP vary in the cost of helping each additional household. Understanding the relative per-household cost of each activity will help local governments make strategic choices about how much funding to set aside for each activity. In general, new development has higher per-unit costs than acquisition and rehabilitation of existing buildings, and grants to owners of existing buildings for minor maintenance and upkeep is the cheapest. The costs of these activities can vary across places based on factors such as local land values and construction wages.
Table 1 summarizes the types of activities allowed under ARP. Some activities, such as emergency rental assistance or down payment assistance to first-time homebuyers, are structured as one-off grants. Others (e.g., operating supportive housing, locally funded vouchers) require long-term commitments.
Local governments should keep one eye on their long-term budgets as they plan new investments. ARP funds must be spent by the end of 2026—longer than a single budget cycle, but short relative to the life of a subsidized apartment building. Programs with the potential to be financially self-sustaining or that can align with longer-term funding streams offer some advantages.
Leverage other funding sources
ARP funds can stretch even farther when combined with other revenue sources: existing housing programs such as the Community Development Block Grant or Low-Income Housing Tax Credit; coordinated projects with other localities or state governments; or used to leverage private and philanthropic funds. Coordination of ARP funds limits the share of each recipient’s allocation that must be committed to projects and provides an opportunity to increase the scale of their initiatives. Staying informed about state-level housing initiatives also allows local leaders to use their funds in complementary ways.
Along with SLFRF, localities have access to other federal funds through ARP, such as those managed by the Economic Development Administration, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Department of Transportation, and Small Business Administration. The newly passed Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act also adds to the list of funds that can be leveraged to advance local plans. Though these sources are not necessarily targeted toward housing, some programs support complementary goals, such as improving transportation access to low-income communities and broadband expansion.
Ambitious but attainable plans can help reduce housing stress
Rapidly rising housing costs are a significant source of financial stress for millions of Americans, especially low- and moderate-income renters. Communities that lack moderately priced housing to own or rent also risk losing jobs to more affordable communities, especially with the expansion of remote work.
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Aritha Wickramasinghe is the Equality Director at iProbono, a globally focused civil society organization that provides legal aid to marginalized individuals and advocates for social equity. Born in Sri Lanka, Aritha earned a law degree in the United Kingdom and practiced at the London offices of Clifford Chance, a top global law firm. In December 2016, he returned to Sri Lanka and emerged as a leading national voice on LGBTQ issues. In 2015, the Financial Times ranked Aritha No.1 in its annual list of the world’s most influential LGBTQ future business leaders. Recently, he sat down with Alturi to discuss his path towards advocacy, a journey straddling Europe and Asia.
By Phillip Baumgart
How did you initially become involved in activism?
I was passionate about human rights from a young age. Yet, I was primarily focused on child abuse and child rights –– perhaps because I was a child. My activism turned towards LGBTQ issues starting around 2010 when I began working at Clifford Chance in London. Upon joining the firm’s LGBTQ network, I was astonished to find the number of declared LGBTQ lawyers less than 1%. Until that point, I believed that the UK, and particularly London, was an inclusive place where openness about sexual orientation or gender identity would not impede one’s career.
I soon became the chair of the firm’s LGBTQ network –– the youngest person ever to do so. My first order of business was to make the firm a more inclusive place for everyone. After putting various policies and mechanisms into place, we began seeing improvements. The declared number of LGBTQ individuals increased from 1% to 12%, and the LGBTQ Pride Art Exhibition became the firm’s largest client event. Emboldened by our successes, we started discussing what we were doing with other law firms and even our clients.
What are some of the essential lessons you’ve learned through activism?
You can change as many laws as you want, but the problem will not end if mindsets don’t change. Change often happens through education, which was central to my work with Think Equal, where I served as a founding trustee. Think Equal is a global education initiative that empowers change through social-emotional learning for young children, emphasizing ending discrimination.
Tell me about your work with iProBono.
Soon after joining Clifford Chance, I started engaging in pro bono work and pursuing justice-related matters. In 2009, Shireen Irani had started iProBono to match lawyers with a passion for justice with those who could not afford legal services. The timing was opportune, as wide-ranging legal cuts in the UK had blocked access to justice for many. I soon joined iProbono as a volunteer lawyer and began focusing on expanding access to justice for LGBTQ persons and Sri Lankans.
Today, with nearly 80,000 lawyers across 39 countries, iProbono helps deliver millions of dollars worth of free legal assistance. The organization has received numerous awards, including the Financial Times award for Innovative Lawyers and the British Prime Minister’s Big Society Award.
While at Clifford Chance, one of the first major LGBTQ pro bono cases we took up was that of Christie Elan-Cane and “Non-Gendered.” We then started lobbying UK parliamentarians and government ministers for change on LGBTQ issues and challenged the British government to recognize non-gender/non-binary individuals. At the same time, through iProbono, we called upon government officials to push businesses to promote human rights.
All these efforts made an impact and garnered attention from the public. This made me more confident in being vocal on issues I really cared about. Additionally, positive results from my work meant that we were taking the right steps and that I could provide the right kind of leadership to bring those issues to light. I brought this confidence in activism with me when I returned home to Sri Lanka.
What are the most significant challenges facing Sri Lanka’s LGBTQ community?
The biggest challenge remains the de facto criminalization of our lives in the form of Sections 365 and 365A of our Penal Code. These colonial-era laws, similar to those in other former British colonies, criminalize “carnal intercourse against the order of nature” and “gross indecency.” Historically, these laws have punished non-heteronormative sexual activity and gender identity.
In Sri Lanka, I believe there is a common misconception that LGBTQ people –– especially gay men –– are not being prosecuted under 365 and 365A. Many believe, as I once did, that these are somehow benign pieces of legislation. Unfortunately, this is not the case.
iProbono started dealing with cases in which LGBTQ Sri Lankans were being prosecuted for private same-sex relations. Such individuals face arrest, as well as whippings, imprisonment, forced anal and vaginal examinations, and forced sexual health screenings. These draconian laws and barbaric practices bring fears of persecution and silence the voices of many LGBTQ individuals.
Sri Lanka has witnessed significant turnover in government since the civil war ended in 2009. What is the current government’s stance on LGBTQ issues?
There is some justification for optimism. Despite a questionable report card on other areas of human rights, the present government has shown an interest in reforming Sections 365 and 365A than any previous government. The Justice Minister, for example, has unequivocally declared that any form of discrimination against LGBTQ people is unwarranted. He also initiated a project that included the reform of laws affecting sexual and gender minorities.
What can the international community do to support the fight for equality in Sri Lanka?
First, international businesses can do a lot to encourage the Sri Lankan government to change its policies. In doing so, they can also bring in local businesses to participate in the dialogue.
One example of Sri Lanka’s private sector driving change is John Keels Holdings, Sri Lanka’s largest conglomerate, which publicly supports LGBTQ rights and has instituted a range of policies and training regarding equality in the workplace.
To learn more about iProBono or to support its work, visit its website here.
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NEW YORK — In April, more than half of Rikers Island was locked down for quarantine for exposure to the coronavirus.
During the height of the pandemic in the spring, more than 1,400 correction officers caught the virus. Three inmates died.
Now, a member of the city’s Board of Correction fears the same thing is happening again — that COVID-19 is returning to Rikers Island.
Board of Correction Member Dr. Robert Cohen told NY1 new data shows the number of inmates under quarantine in city jails for exposure to COVID-19 are on the rise.
According to the city’s jail oversight board, 46 inmates were in housing units exposed to COVID-19 on November 7. By November 13, that number almost tripled to 132. During the same time period, there were seven new confirmed COVID-19 cases among Department of Correction staff.
Cohen told NY1 he recently visited one jail on Rikers Island and said it "was severely overcrowded.”
"49 men in a 50-bed dorm with half of the beds almost touching each other, none more than three or four feet apart,” Cohen said. "The Department of Correction has thousands of empty beds. There is no reason to overcrowd incarcerated people into dormitories. This is dangerous for them, it's dangerous for the staff, and will be dangerous for all of us.”
He pointed to numbers from the board that echo that fact. As of November 13, 45% of jail dormitories on Rikers were over 75% capacity.
Cohen said given the new rise in COVID-19, the city should work to test all Department of Correction staff on a weekly basis.
In a statement, Department of Correction Press Secretary Jason Kersten said, “The health and safety of those who work and live in our facilities is our primary concern. We want the safest environment for everyone and our housing strategy and mitigation efforts, which we develop in close collaboration with Correctional Health Services, have proven successful over the past eight months.”
The head of correction officers’ union also sent us this statement:
“Over the course of the past several months, we have publicly called for the City of New York to follow the Center for Disease Control’s social distancing guidelines in our jails. For example, as it relates to social distancing for our inmate population, the CDC asserts, ‘Implement social distancing strategies to increase the physical space between incarcerated/detained persons (ideally 6 feet between all individuals, regardless of symptoms), and to minimize mixing of individuals from different housing units.’ To be clear that is not happening at any of our facilities, where in fact, the housing areas are near capacity at all but two of our jails. The city’s proposed jail consolidation plan calls for the closure of the Manhattan Detention Center and the closure of the Otis Bantum Correctional Center, which would transfer over 700 inmates and over 1,600 Correction Officers from those facilities to other facilities which are already operating near capacity. The CDC, the State of New York, and the City of New York have all called for lowering the number of people who can occupy restaurants, schools, gyms etc but the Department of Correction on the other hand is actually increasing the population density of our jails with this reckless and negligent jail consolidation plan, jeopardizing the lives of everyone in our jails.”
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This video tells you how gold and real estate investments have evolved over time.
What do you see when you think of gold and real estate? If you’re like most people, you probably think of a bar of gold, and a nice looking house. Right? Interestingly, gold and real estate have evolved beyond these physical barriers today. To invest in the yellow metal, you may not wear gold jewellery like your grandmother did. But instead, you can invest in digital gold, Gold mutual funds, gold ETFs And even Sovereign Gold Bonds. As for real estate investments, maybe you're too young to buy a piece of land right away - but you don't have to. Instead, you can invest in REITs. Real Estate Investment Trusts - or REITs - are companies that invest in commercial real estate. You can buy shares of REITs and benefit from dividends as well as capital appreciation. Equity investments have also evolved with time. Want to know the details? Check out the next chapter. | <urn:uuid:98c5c474-ad5c-4b7d-9257-7fabde3dbca0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://smartmoney.angelone.in/short-courses-video/gold-and-real-estate-today/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.951153 | 238 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Poland's time-honoured Catholic heritage.
Fewer than one in four Poles are practising Catholics.
Crosses are displayed in the Sejm and Senate
Without any approval for them to be there.
sobieski: Poland is a secular country.
Only in theory.
No, the constitution of Poland says that Poland is a secular country.
homosexual practices were sinful.
A thread about a Radom police officer and you decide to bang on about homosexuals; how many times per hour do you think about men having sex with each other?
pawian: If crosses hang in Polish Parliament
It shouldn't, it's that simple.
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Microsoft has done a great job adding features to the cloud platform over the last year, one of which is Azure MFA (Multi Factor Authentication) which allows a user to login with his/hers username and password and a second option which might be a pin-code or one time pin or something else.
Now just to show how we can use Azure MFA with non-windows services I decided to give it a try with Citrix Netscaler AAA vServer. So here is a overview of how the service looks like.
The Azure MFA requires a local server component which proxies authentication attempts between the client and the authentication server. In my case I use the MFA component as an RADIUS server and then proxies RADiUS connections to the AD domain and adds the two-factor component on top.
The Netscaler AAA vServer can be used to proxy authentication attempts to backend services, such as Exchange, RDweb and such. This is the type that is also used when logging into a Netscaler Gateway session.
Now for the purpose of this demonstration, I setup a load balanced web-service which consist of two web servers. The webservers themselves have no authentication providers, so therefore I needed to create an AAA vServer on the Netscaler which users will be redirected to in order to authenticate to see the web content.
So a simple load balanced services, and then I added a AAA vServer to the service.
Note that the aaa.test.local is an internal service on the Netscaler (Make sure that DNS is in place and a nameserver is added to the Netscaler) In order to create the AAA vServer go into Security –> AAA –> Virtual Servers and choose create new.
There we need to create a new server, and make sure that the domain name is correct and that a trusted certificate is added
Then under Authentication we need to define a authentication server. Now this can be setup to forward authentication attempts to RADIUS, LDAP, LOCAL, SAML and so on. Since we want to use Azure FMA here we can use RADIUS.
Now in my case I created a authentication policy where I used the expression ns_true which means that all users going trough the Netscaler are going to recieve this policy
My authentication policy looks like this. The Authentication server here is the server which is going to get the Azure MFA service installed (I also predefined a secret key) Also important that the time-out here is put to 60 seconds, this is to grant enough time for the authentication to finish.
Remember certificates here are important! if the clients does not trust the certificate you will get a HTTP 500 error messages.
Now after this is done we can start setting up Azure MFA. First off, make sure that you have some sort of DirSync solution in place so that you can bind a local user to a user in Azure AD. If you do not have this, just google DirSync + Azure you’ll get a ton of blogposts on the subject
In my case I didn’t have DirSync setup so I created a new local UPN which resembled the usernames@domains in Azure so that the MFA service managed to bind a local user to a azure user.
Firstly you need an Azure AD domain
Then choose create new multi-factor auth provider
After you have created the provider, mark it and choose Manage. from there you can download the software.
Now download the software and make sure that you have an server which you can install it on. When installing the server components you are asked to enter a username and password for authentication, this user can be generated from the Azure portal
You are also asked to join a group, this is the same group that you created when setting up the multi-factor authenticaiton provider in Azure.
During the installation wizard you are asked to use the quick setup, here you can configure the wizard against RADIUS automatically.
Then you are also asked to enter the IP address of the RADIUS client, this is the Netscaler NSIP.
After you are done here, finish the wizard and start the MFA application. Firstly make sure that the RADIUS client info is correct
Then go into Target. Since we want the MFA server to proxy connections between the RADIUS client and the AD domain, choose Windows Domain as target
Then go into Directory Integration and choose either Active Directory or choose specific LDAP config if you need to use another AD username and password.
Next go into Users, and choose which Users are enabled for two-factor authentication. In my case I only want one. Here I can define what type of two-factor I want to use for my user.
If I choose phone-call with PIN I get a auto generated phonecall where I can enter my pin code directly.
Now I have also added my phone number so the service can reach me with a OTP. So after all this is setup I can try to login to my service.
Login with my username and password and voila! I get this text message on my phone.
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In the coming years, the school buildings Albemarle County’s children step into might look a little different than what students are used to now.
That is if funding for a 10-year, nearly $70 million learning spaces modernization project can be secured. Last week County Executive Tom Foley recommended cutting the project somewhat to help balance next year’s budget.
“This is the central-most essential thing we can do, because it’s not just about using the latest technology to impart knowledge on our students, it’s also an effort to create parity across all schools,” School Board member Eric Strucko said of the effort that would touch all of the division’s schools.
School Board member Pam Moynihan agreed, calling the project “very important.”
“It’s not just upgrading libraries. It goes further, to upgrading classrooms and spaces where kids can work collaboratively,” Moynihan said.
Introduced in August, learning spaces modernization is aimed at equipping Albemarle’s school buildings — which schools officials argue are well-maintained but often out-of-date — with resources that reflect the teaching and learning the division says will best serve students in the 21st century.
For example, the project calls for updating furniture such as desks and chairs and rethinking how natural light is incorporated into classrooms, as well as plans to upgrade the electrical capacity in classrooms and to transform unused space into collaborative space for students to work.
“I would like to see us someday
offer a high school diploma through
virtual learning,” Moynihan said.
But School Board member Steve Koleszar said that while he supports the project, right now the board is “very resource constrained.”
“Maybe we can’t fund it nearly as much as we should, but we still … need a focus so the most critical needs get addressed first,” Koleszar said. “And then, when and if we have more funding available, we can go into the areas that are needed improvements but maybe not as desperately needed.”
In addition to the built environment, the virtual world also is changing how instruction can be delivered in the education landscape. As a result, some School Board members told the division’s Long Range Planning Advisory Committee to think about online learning as it studies the school division.
“[Virtual learning has] to have a presence in high school to prepare students for many of the colleges that they will be walking into,” Strucko said.
Moynihan took the idea one step further.
“I would like to see us someday offer a high school diploma through virtual learning,” Moynihan said. “Any way that we could make different kinds of educational opportunities available, we should look at that.”
The advisory committee also examines capacity levels throughout the division, and in June the body recommended that the schools conduct a comprehensive redistricting study. That idea was tabled by the board, but Thursday’s conversation saw the advisory committee urge the board to reconsider.
“Though you recommended a comprehensive redistricting study,” Koleszar said, “I don’t know if you have very effectively made a great case for it.”
“Obviously, Albemarle High School is over capacity and enrollment is going up rapidly and is becoming a real problem,” Koleszar said. “But other than the need to redistrict Albemarle, why do we need a comprehensive study?”
Koleszar said that one reason the board has backed off the idea of the global study is because while a school might be over capacity on paper, that doesn’t mean it’s impacting instruction.
Ned Gallaway, chairman of the School Board, suggested conducting a study of the division’s capacity issues, but approaching it holistically, rather than with the intent to redistrict certain schools.
Moynihan agreed, noting that the issue of changing which school a child attends can be an emotional one for families.
“The idea is not to rile up people in the community and make them think that we’re going to go out and start moving kids around,” Moynihan said. “But it is something that we really need to look at holistically.”
Strucko said there are some areas of the county where redistricting isn’t needed.
“Red Hill. Why would you tinker with a district that is highly stable with a student enrollment that fits the capacity?” Strucko asked. “To me, that’s what you shoot for.”
“If you don’t call it a redistricting committee, you won’t get the outcry from the community,” said Jon Stokes, a former School Board member and a current member of the Long Range Planning Advisory Committee. “They hear ‘comprehensive redistricting’ and everyone thinks that their child is going to move. But if you just assign this responsibility to us … just to look at it theoretically, I think that’s the way to go.”
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This is a complete Triostar Stromanthe plant propagation and care guide, in this article you’ll find everything you need to care for this stunning and colorful indoor plant.
There are several houseplants that you can have in your home, however, you can only enjoy their company if they are healthy. They can only become healthy if they are properly cared for and this can only occur if you know the requirements to keep them healthy.
Continue to read on to find out all you need to know about one of the most loved house plants; Triostar Stromanthe.
Triostar Stromanthe Plant Background
|Botanical name||Stromanthe Sanguinea|
|Common name||Stromanthe Triostar|
|Sun exposure||Partial sun|
|Origin||Amazon jungle in South America|
|Plant type||Tropical perennial|
|Light||Bright, indirect light|
|Mature size||2 to 3 feet|
This is plant species that is native to the Brazilian rainforest; it is of the family of Marantaceae, also known as the prayer plant family. It is a rhizomatous tropical perennial, the plant’s short stem support leaves that are 6 to 12 inches long. It is a common houseplant and it is known for its colorful, impressive, leaves.
It comes in a variety of colors i.e. pale green, deep pink, maroon, magenta, cream, etc. Triostar is an elegant plant and one of the most grown houseplants. When properly cared for, the plant grows up to two to three feet high and one to two feet across when it is matured.
Similar to the prayer plant, triostar will fold and rise its leaves at night.
Like many other plants, growing triostar stromanthe isn’t hard or stressful; however, it requires specific care to grow to its full potential. The tiring thing about triostar stromanthe is that when they do not have the care they need, it gets really obvious. . Here is everything you need to know about this amazing plant!
The triostar stromanthe comes in varieties and no two plants or two leaves are ever the same.
Triostar Stromanthe Plant Propagation Requirements
Here are the requirements you need to help you plant and grow the Triostar Stromanthe plant.
The choice of light of stromanthe triostar gets plant owners confused. This is because the most colored plant requires full sunlight to brighten its color and lose its color in dim light. However, the case is not the same with stromanthe.
As similar to the prayer plant, this plant does not enjoy full sun, in fact; they tend to lose their color when exposed to bright light. This can be as a result of their origin and how they lived in their natural habitat; the rainforest.
When preparing to grow the triostar stromanthe, it is best to place it by the east-facing window where it will receive bright, indirect light.
The type of soil is very important to most plants, and our dear triostar is not left out. Triostar stromanthe enjoys light, well-drained soil. You can either purchase an organic mix or add some potting soil with some perlite to make it light.
Humidity is very important to triostar’s health. This is also a result of the plant’s origin. You can group the plant with other green plants to make the environment humid. You can also fill a tray with peddles and play and place the plant pot on it.
However, if these methods aren’t enough, you might need to put more effort into creating a humid environment for your plant. You can mist the plant frequently with room temperature water or you get a humidifier in your home.
While some plants do well with deep pots, some enjoy shallow pots. Triostar is one of those plants that grow best in shallow pots or planters.
Too big a pot will increase the stagnant lower region. Regardless of what pot you get, it should have good drainage, as this is equally important. Putting peddles at the bottom of the pot traps moisture beneath the roots and this isn’t healthy.
Triostar Stromanthe Propagation
The process propagation for triostar is different from others. It is not possible to propagate triostar stromanthe from cuttings; however, you can have it propagated via division. It is also best that you do your propagation during spring or summer; this will increase your chances of having a successful propagation.
Get a healthy, mature plant, get it out of its pot, shake off the soil, and carefully look through it to figure out which part is suitable to divide. Make sure there are at least 2 to 3 leaves on it, with care, untangle the root and cut the part out with a clean knife.
Get new pots ready, with good potting soil, plant the new division in the new soil, replant the mature plant in another pot with soil. Water the plant well so that the soil becomes moist.
Place the plant in a place where it can get bright, indirect light. Make sure the soil is moderately watered and not left soggy. New leaves from the plant signify that the plant is growing well.
How To Care For Triostar Stromanthe
Here’s a Triostar stromanthe care guide video and some tips we know you’ll find helpful to make your triostar happy.
I. Light is one of the most important requirements of most plants, however, their requirements differ in the amount each desire. Triostar requires light all through its life and not just at the beginning, however, unlike other colored plants that require full sunlight, the triostar stromanthe require bright, indirect light and this makes it easier to tend to them indoors. You should place them near an east or north-facing window. Exposure to full sun can damage the leaves.
II. Although there are no specific guidelines for watering, you should only water this plant when you notice the topsoil is dry. Triostar thrives in moist and not dry or soggy soil. The best water to use is rainwater, distilled or filtered water. Tap water contains chemicals that can build up in the soil and hinder the plant’s growth.
III. Make use of light, well-draining potting soil, also make use of pots that has drainage holes. Drenching the soil is an effective method of watering the plant; it allows the plant to be thoroughly hydrated. You must water your plant less during winter.
IV. Pruning is important to every plant because it gets out unwanted, dead, and damaged leaves. you should prune with a sharp sterilized blade.
V. Repotting may not be necessary because triostar gets stressed by this and sometimes they may take forever to recover. If it becomes important for you to re-pot, make use of a pot of the same size if you don’t want them to get bigger or you choose one size up a pot.
VI. Triostar stromanthe plants do not get attacked by pests or diseases, however, you might want to watch out for fungal diseases. Humid conditions make the plant becomes likely to get mold and root rot. Aphids are also very likely to affect houseplants, once you notice your plant is suffering from aphids, get them treated immediately. Not just can they destroy your triostar but they can move to other houseplants.
VII. Stromanthe is a moderate feeder, you should give your plant fertilizer once or twice in one month. Be careful not to overfeed them, this is because too much fertilizer can affect their growth.
VIII. Humidity is very important for the triostar stromanthe. Make sure to keep the plant in a high humidity environment, if you cannot make this possible, you should mist your plant regularly. Low humidity can attract pests and diseases.
Triostar, like most houseplants, do well as long as they are given the basic needs; moderate water, good light, good soil, humidity.
Troistar Stromanthe FAQ
Is Stromanthe Toxic?
No, triostar stromanthe and all plants in the Marantaceae family do not contain toxic substances. They are safe around children and pets.
Why Is My Stromanthe Turning Yellow?
There are only two reasons your triostar will turn yellow, and that is overwatering and less exposure to sunlight. To get your plant healthy again, reduce the watering level, make sure you only water when the plant is dry. You should also move your plant to where it will get indirect light.
What Happens When My Plant Is Curling?
The curling of triostar stromanthe is a sign that your plant isn’t doing well. It could be as a result of extreme temperature, overwatering, low watering, low humidity, etc. to get your plant healthy, simply improve the care you give your plant and growing environment.
Are Stromanthe Triostar Easy To Look After?
Stromanthe Triostar isn’t hard to look after, however, they aren’t the easiest either. The most important thing to note in growing this plant is to get the care requirement right and you are good.
Is a Stromanthe Triostar a Calathea?
No, a Stromanthe Triostar is not a Calathea. The stromanthe triostar and Calathea plants are different species of flowering plants belonging to the Marantaceae family. The similarity between them is both plants tend to be swayed easily by a breeze and can fold up their leaves at night. In addition, there is no plant called Calathea triostar or Calathea Tricolor, what exists is a Ctenthanthe tricolor. The stromanthe triostar and Ctenthanthe Tricolor are similar in shape and pattern although they vary in foliage appearance.
Is Stromanthe Ginger?
No, stromanthe is not a ginger. However, there is a species of the stromanthe sanguinea known as the Tricolor Ginger Plant. This species is distinct from other species considering the brilliant reddish-pink along sides the bright white and green prevalent on the foliage appearance. The accentuation this species brings to the environment causes it to be a favorite amongst stromanthe sanguinea enthusiasts.
Why Is My Triostar Dying?
Triostar plants start declining in growth when they are deprived of adequate nutrients such as water, bright light, and appropriate soil. When Triostars are exposed to poor lighting, their leaves start turning yellow. Also, overwatering and underwatering are often responsible for a growth decline in Triostars. When the plant is underwatered, the soil becomes incapable of supplying sufficient nutrients to the roots. In reverse, if overwatered, the soil becomes exposed to root rot which is detrimental to the growth of the plant.
How Big Do Triostar Stromanthe Get?
When the triostar is healthy, it can get as big as 2 to 3 feet in height and 1 to 2 feet (31-61cm)
How Often Should I Water My Triostar?
While there is no specified amount of times you should water your triostar, the soil of your triostar must never get dry or soggy. Either of these conditions is a threat to the survival of your plant. Modify your schedule to adequately cater to the watering needs of your plant. If you discover your plant is overwatered, stay off watering the plant for a while to help the roots recuperate. During winter seasons, reduce watering the plant.
Why My Triostar Is Leaves Turning Brown?
Humidity is as important as water, brown leaves are a sign that your triostar lacks humidity, mist the leaves regularly to help your plant regain its health.
Is Stromanthe Triostar Hard to Grow?
No, stromanthe Triostars are not hard to grow so far all necessities are provided upon propagation. The basic requirements for a stromanthe are the following: bright but indirect light, warm temperature, adequate watering that ensures soil’s plant never gets dry or soggy, drilled pot or containers, and a standard house plant fertilizer to speed up its growth. It is important to note that Stromanthes cannot survive in dry environments. The growth process of this plant is usually impeded when adequate requirements are not provided.
How Do You Make Stromanthe Grow Faster?
Using a standard house plant fertilizer enhances the growth of your stromanthe. A balanced liquid houseplant fertilizer is the most appropriate. The liquid fertilizer has to be diluted to prevent it from being too concentrated for the plant. Going overboard with fertilizing the plants can cause more harm than good. A pinpointer to overfertilization is a change in foliage appearance; the leaves begin to turn yellow.
Do Stromanthe Leaves Fold Up?
Yes, Stromanthe leaves fold up. Stromanthe leaves fold up at night. When they fold up, they give off a praying position. Whenever the leaves fold up, the colored parts especially the reddish and pink areas become unnoticeable. The plants move all day long as they rise at sunset and fall in the sunshine.
How Do You Keep A Stromanthe Triostar Plant Happy?
Keeping your Stromanthes happy does not require a lot of effort. Much of what they require include these: proper lighting, warm temperature, adequate watering, prevent exposure to direct sunlight, good pots, and containers, standard fertilizers, organic soil, pruning to eliminate dead leaves to ensure even spread of nutrients, and to maintain shape.
You enjoy the company of houseplants when they are healthy. Your houseplants only get healthy when they are given the right amount of care. For most houseplants, the right soil, water, temperature, humidity, and food are the basic requirement and the triostar isn’t left out.
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Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was one of the keynote speakers at the recently concluded annual convention of the National Council of Teachers of English.
The “Americanah” author spoke at the 2018 NCTE on Thursday, November 15, at the opening session.
See excerpts of her speech below.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was, as expected, completely captivating.
— Sarah Schiff (@sarahaschiff) November 17, 2018
So many gems of thought from keynote speaker and author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. For example: “There is something wonderful and affirming about reading about your own reality but it is equally affirming to read about people not like you.” #NCTE18 pic.twitter.com/xOi6KcdqrX
— Bob McBride (@McBrideCats97) November 16, 2018
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was amazing! “Life is messy. Sometimes discomfort opens us up to growth.” Yes! We need to get uncomfortable and talk about racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, xenophobia, and all forms of discrimination if we want to make change! @ncte #NCTE18 pic.twitter.com/Q8zwq68NMz
— Kerry & Sara’s NCTEscape (@nctescape) November 16, 2018
General Session with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie who speaks on the importance of diversity in literature and teaching students to value themselves. “Any story done well becomes universal” @ncte pic.twitter.com/pDFvRB2XL6
— Ms. Allen The Teacher (@Ms_Allen_BHS) November 15, 2018
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Agriculture connect the generations in our family. We have been wine growers, dairy farmers, forest owners and obviously apple growers. Fascisms deprived the family of my parental grandfather of their farm in Bolzano, but not of their dedication to cultivation.
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This work and his wife's legacy made it possible that the dream of their own farm became true. In 1959 Anton and Maria Werner became the owners of 3 ha in Salorno - Salurn in the South of South tyrol. Gravensteiner and Jonathan varieties were planted in the drained ground and raised to palmettes.
Changes are often preceded by discussions, which Anton and his son Franz (*1956) had a lot of, before the latter leased a part of the orchard in 1994 and farmed it organically.
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WHY no advertising? A personal explanation by the founder and Editor-in-Chief.
This magazine is UNIQUE! In many ways. No other is like it. No other gives you UNDERSTANDING of today's NEWS — of where it is leading — of what is prophesied biblically for the near future. No other gives you UNDERSTANDING of the world in which you live — of the incredible PARADOX of modern 20th century awesome PROGRESS, but with appalling evils, seemingly unsolvable TROUBLES, universal discontent and unhappiness with violence, wars, human suffering. No other gives UNDERSTANDING of WHY humanity is here on earth — the real meaning and PURPOSE of human life and what really lies ahead for us. Yes, this magazine is PRICELESS — no subscription price — no newsstand price — you can't buy it! WHY? May I give you some very personal experiences from more than 55 years ago? I had been very successful in the advertising profession, in the magazine and newspaper business. I had pioneered in making surveys of public opinion for a national magazine. That was my background before founding The Plain Truth. I had wondered WHY this world is full of discontent, unhappiness and suffering, with unsolvable problems and troubles amid such awesome material advancement. Scientists and educators were saying, "Given sufficient KNOWLEDGE, we will solve all our troubles and eradicate all our evils." Knowledge rapidly increased — but so did troubles and evils. The foundation of the 19th and 20th century escalation of knowledge was the gradual and final acceptance of the theory of evolution. This theory became the basic concept — the eyeglasses through which advancing knowledge was based. The educators and leading minds were saying civilization had now advanced to the point where we could throw away the swaddling clothes of superstition and the crutch of belief in a Creator God. Evolution, advancing knowledge based on it and modern science became the new messiahs that were to deliver suffering humanity from its curses, baffling problems, evils and sufferings. But the discontent, evils and sufferings multiplied. Evolution failed utterly to solve human problems and woes. Modern science advanced until now, finally, it has produced the weapons of mass destruction that threaten to annihilate all human life — to become the Frankenstein monster that could destroy us all! In the autumn of 1926 I was challenged to examine the other concept of origins of matter — of the universe — and of life upon the earth — the existence of the Creator GOD! I entered into an intensive in-depth research of origins, of causes and effects. I disproved the evolutionary hypothesis. I found PROOF of the existence and reality of Almighty God the Creator. I proved conclusively, after intensive night-and-day study, that the Holy Bible is, indeed, the inspired Word of God — literally GOD SPEAKING, revealing spiritual knowledge, history and prophecy (history in advance). And I learned where I, myself, had been WRONG — wrong in what I had been brought up to assume, accept and believe — wrong in attitude — wrong in the way I lived. I learned the TRUTH about Jesus Christ — a truth few, strange as it may seem, really know! I not only accepted Christ — received Christ as Saviour — I GAVE myself and my life to him, to "brainwash" me — that is, wash my mind clean of false beliefs and false knowledge. To instruct me through his Word in TRUTH. He says, in the Bible, that HIS WORD (the Bible) is TRUTH. As he opened my mind to comprehend, he gave me UNDERSTANDING of WHY the world is as it is — of the PURPOSE God is working out here below, and what shall come in the future. Having been many years in the publishing field, I wanted to start a NEW kind of magazine — to make plain and clear and UNDERSTANDABLE this marvelous revelation of spiritual knowledge — of history and prophecy — of life and its MEANING — of world conditions and what God has planned for its future. Since the Bible is God speaking to mankind — since it is the TRUTH — and I wanted to make that truth PLAIN and understandable, I decided (and I'm sure God led me) to call the magazine The Plain Truth. But I had learned that God says, "Buy the truth, and sell it not … " (Prov. 23:23), and God's way of life is GIVING, rather than getting. I knew this magazine must not be sold, but given freely. And yet my magazine experience had shown me that unless people ASK for it — subscribe to it like other magazines — or pick it up by their own free will and decision on a newsstand, it would only be considered cheap and of no value. 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Drug screenings typically don’t test for buspirone. The drug is not on the list of substances that tests usually screen for, and it is not a controlled substance in the United States. However, that doesn’t mean some medical tests won’t detect it.
Can Buspar cause a positive drug test?
Buspirone can cause false positive results with certain medical tests. You may need to stop using the medicine for at least 48 hours before your test. Tell any doctor who treats you that you are using buspirone.
How long does buspirone stay in your system for a drug test?
in the urine within 24 hours, primarily as metabolites; fecal excretion accounted for 18% to 38% of the dose. The average elimination half-life of unchanged buspirone after single doses of 10 mg to 40 mg is about 2 to 3 hours.
Is Buspirone a narcotic?
Although buspirone is not a controlled substance, other medications that may be taken for anxiety are controlled substances. For example, anxiety medications such as alprazolam (Xanax), lorazepam (Ativan), diazepam (Valium), and clonazepam (Klonopin) are controlled substances.
Is Buspirone a benzo?
Is Buspirone a Benzo? Buspirone is not a benzodiazepine, and it is unrelated to barbiturates and other types of anti-anxiety drugs or sedatives. It belongs to a class of drugs known as azapirones, which have both antidepressant and anti-anxiety properties.
What shows up as a benzo on a drug test?
A search of false positive benzodiazepine screenings showed the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) sertraline (Zoloft, others) and the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) oxaprozin (Daypro, others) to be associated with, or possible causes of, these false-positive results.
What class of drug is buspirone?
Buspirone is used to treat anxiety disorders or in the short-term treatment of symptoms of anxiety. Buspirone is in a class of medications called anxiolytics. It works by changing the amounts of certain natural substances in the brain.
Is buspirone similar to Xanax?
Buspirone is an anti-anxiety medication and is not related to Xanax chemically. Xanax is known as a benzodiazepine. Buspirone is no longer available in its brand-name form of BuSpar—it is only available in generic. Xanax is available in both brand and generic.
Can you take Xanax with buspirone?
Interactions between your drugs
Using ALPRAZolam together with busPIRone may increase side effects such as dizziness, drowsiness, confusion, and difficulty concentrating. Some people, especially the elderly, may also experience impairment in thinking, judgment, and motor coordination.
Is Bupropion a controlled substance?
Bupropion is not a controlled substance.
Is 10 mg of buspirone a lot?
Patients prescribed Buspar usually begin with a dose of 7.5 mg, twice a day. Maximum dosage should not exceed 60 mg per day. A quick Google search shows that recreational users suggest taking between 5 – 20 mg at a time. It depends on the person and their tolerance level.
Is bupropion like Xanax?
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Surgical Diseases of the Pancreas. Howard J, Idezuki Y, Ihse I, Prinz R. (Pp 868; illustrated; £115.00.) Williams and Wilkins, 1998. ISBN 0-683-18019-3.
This book is a delight to own. It has already become my first choice for seeking out detailed information about obscure topics in pancreatic disease. The scope is defined by its title, and in a field where there are two three other similar volumes, this book stands ahead of its rivals because it contains in one volume almost everything the pancreatic surgeon will need to know about his specialty. The pages are packed with information although the small font size sometimes makes heavy going.
The production of the book is first class, and the quality of the illustrations, particularly the radiographs and photomicrographs, is excellent. The authors of the chapters are predominantly (by a ratio of 5 to 4) from North America, and the remainder from Europe and Japan. This gives a truly international feel.
The chapters vary from all embracing and heavily referenced (e.g. Causes of Pancreatitis has over 900 references, Pathophysiology and Pancreatitis deals with all the possible complications and covers medical treatment, with nearly 300 references) to chapters closely focused on specific areas covered in a few pages (Tumour Markers, Epidemiology of Cancer).
There is even detailed description of operative technique, rare in a book of this type, but welcome as an insight into how other experienced surgeons have approached difficult problems.
Some of the editing is understandably light handed in a book of this size. There is some variation in style, and it was surprising to see detailed description of multiple factor scoring systems in two consecutive chapters.
The index is not particularly reliable. For example “Neuroendrocrine Tumours” reveals a reference to only seven lines of text, but turning to the contents pages it is clear there are several chapters which deal with this topic.
The publishers should certainly consider presenting this book in CD-ROM format. This edition is extremely up to date, and conversion to electronic format would be worthwhile to enable the computer literate to gain rapid access to the wealth of information contained in its pages. | <urn:uuid:703dcc70-9670-4605-9578-2fbb5394c3ae> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gut.bmj.com/content/44/3/439.5 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.929368 | 534 | 1.90625 | 2 |
Rainbow Moonstone is perhaps the most beautiful and most highly regarded of the Moonstone family of minerals, due to its many special qualities. When you move these stones around often you will see beautiful colors reflected back at you from beneath a pearly veil, including scintillating shades of blue and purple.
Moonstone has been used in Roman and Oriental jewellery for nearly two thousand years. In India the stone has a special significance for lovers, and is a traditional wedding gift there.
This crystal embodies the energy of the Divine Feminine. It aligns us in harmony to our natural rhythms. It is a talisman of the inner journey, and is known to help us strengthen our connection to our intuition.
The Colourful Dot tip: if you are ever feeling overwhelmed, or out of sync with nature, lie down somewhere comfortable and hold a Rainbow Moonstone crystal before your eyes. Notice how its colours dance in the light. Let your mind gently settle. | <urn:uuid:a3340b33-06fd-4293-81e7-51b659041724> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gazelli.com/shop/all/colourful-dot-rainbow-moonstone/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.938856 | 198 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Large Pop Up Systems
Large pop up systems are a great way to build modular exhibition stands on a budget. They are portable and can be reconfigured to use at different events.
What is a pop up system?
Linking pop up systems consist of two or more individual pop up stands that are joined together to create one seamless backwall. Linking (or sometimes referred to as ‘ghost’) panels are used to join two frames together. This creates one large custom shaped backwall.
Let’s have a look at the example below. We can see this L-shaped linked pop up is made from two 4 quad wide frames (one straight and one curved). The birds-eye view of this configuration shows how the linking panel connects both frames together to achieve a seamless L shape backwall.
Benefits of using a linked pop up system
Using the same example shown above, a linked pop up system can be split down to use into its individual pop up stands.
When purchasing a linked pop up system, purchase an additional end panel to complete one stand to use on its own. The linking panel can then be used as the end panel on the other frame. Now, you have two individual pop ups to use in the same or different event – providing ultimate flexibility when it comes to exhibiting.
The frame of a pop up stand is made up of a lattice like structure. When packed down the frames neatly fit into wheeled carry cases – ideal for stress free storage and transportation to multiple events.
Pop up systems provide ultimate flexibility when it comes to exhibiting. L, U and X shape configurations are just a few of many different options that are available.
If you’re looking for one large straight backwall, or a specific shape to fit your stand space, give us a call today and we’ll help you create your own custom pop up system.
Simple assembly of your pop up stand
Like any traditional classic pop up stand, our linked pop up systems are assembled in the same way, with no tools needed. Printed graphic panels are attached to the top of the lattice frame structure and connect to the magnetic bars to create a seamless backdrop.
The only difference with a pop up system is that the space between frames are joined together using extra graphic panels. Like any regular graphic panel, they are attached to the top of the frame, but on either end of two different frames. This acts as a bridge between the frames to create the seamless effect.
Watch our short and easy to follow video for assembling a pop up display stand:
Marler Haley pop up printing
Thanks to our large format printing capabilities, we can print on PVC graphic panels with a high-quality finish. The special UV printing process we use ensures a long lasting and durable display, where your graphics won’t peel or fade over time.
If you don’t have print-ready artwork, our in-house team of artwork experts are available to help create your pop up system graphics. Just send us your logos, images and a brief with what you want on your graphic and we’ll do the rest for a fee, taking the pressure out of creating print ready design.
Why choose Marler Haley pop up systems?
As a trusted supplier of exhibition displays, here’s what you can expect from us:
- 5 year guarantee on pop up frames
- Fast turnaround times
- High quality printed graphic panels
- Dedicated account manager
- All artwork checked by hand for quality before printing
- Replacement graphics available
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Why summer camp? What is it about time spent in the great outdoors, with all your buddies, fun activities and no parents that could be so important? What is it about riding horses and shooting guns, canoeing the river and hiking the hills that impacts young lives so much? It’s no mystery. The answer of course, is the essence of summer camp: Getting into the Great Outdoors and developing important life skills not always found in the school environment.
Summer camp provides opportunities for Success, New Skills, Planning, Cooperation, Problem Solving, Creativity, Leadership and Happiness – important components of the 21 Century Skill Set for success. We do this in an environment free of electronics, especially video games and smart phones. A summer camp experience is an outstanding and secure way for today’s young people to pick up important experiences in self-sufficiency, teamwork, communication and problem solving.
In 2004, Dr. Peter Scales updated his research to reveal Eight Developmental Needs for kids to thrive: support, empowerment, boundaries/expectation, constructive use of time, commitment to learning, positive values, social competency, and positive identity. Summer camp is one of the few institutions which provides all eight.
Childhood has changed since our parents and grandparents grew up. It could be argued it has become more stressful in many ways– filled with screen time, test centric school days and full of pressure to excel. Summer camp provides new opportunities and a great balance to the rigors of urban life. There are no locked doors and alarm system codes to remember. You can play out in the front yard and not worry about drive-bys or pick-ups. Everybody plays and everybody’s important. There are no report cards – not even homework. With plenty to do and area to do it, camp is almost an ideal world.
Kids need summer camp. Kids need to be kids in a healthy environment, with freedom to learn and grow about themselves and their world. And at La Junta, we feel that Boys need a time and place to be Boys. | <urn:uuid:9495486b-2e8c-45c5-9251-de027217d98b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lajunta.com/parents/benefits-of-an-all-boys-camp/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.952681 | 424 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Green Flowers O
DESCRIPTION: Anna Lee wonders whether "God forgot in his creating hours" to create flowers "with petals tinged of green." She finds one. The singer has never seen another.
EARLIEST DATE: 1959 (NFOBlondahl03)
KEYWORDS: flowers religious
Omar Blondahl, "Green Flowers O" (on NFOBlondahl03)
NOTES [101 words]: Blondahl03 has no liner notes confirming that this song was collected in Newfoundland. Barring another report for Newfoundland I do not assume it has been found there. There is no entry for "Green Flowers O" in Newfoundland Songs and Ballads in Print 1842-1974 A Title and First-Line Index by Paul Mercer. - BS
There is a biological reason why flowers aren't green: Most pollinators (bees, hummingbirds, etc.) are programmed to seek non-green colors when looking for nectar. A green flower would attract little attention -- and so the mutation, even if successful in other regards, would likely die out. - RBW
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For weeks, a high-pitched panic about inflation has infused the mainstream media, most absurdly in CNN’s clip of a family struggling to keep up with the price of buying twelve gallons of milk per week (yes, twelve).
Up until recently, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell pushed back against this kind of narrative, arguing that rising prices were a short-term and transitory problem due to supply chain shocks from the pandemic that will eventually return to normal. But now the Fed has shifted course and is preparing to institute policies to “cool off the economy” — a euphemism for shrinking the money supply in order to drive down business investment and thus scale back job growth.
The definition of inflation is simple enough: an increase in the prices of goods and services. If prices rise quickly, and outpace wage growth, this can cause problems for working families — even those who don’t drink twelve gallons of milk per week. But the media narrative about rising inflation has conveniently left out several important points.
First, the prices of some of our biggest expenses — health care, housing, higher education to name a few — have been rising (often explosively so) for decades with little discussion or concern from the punditry. Health care costs are in fact the leading cause of bankruptcy in the country. Global food prices, too, have been rising because of the impact of climate change on crop yields. Easing these kinds of costs — through a nationalized health care system, investment in affordable housing, student debt relief and decarbonization — would go a much longer way toward improving working people’s finances than monetary policies to tighten economic growth.
Second, although it’s true that there has been a noticeable uptick in prices (measured by the annual change on the consumer price index) by 6.8 percent over the last year, this is still not very high by historical standards. The last time the United States experienced a serious inflationary crisis in the 1970s, the rate of inflation regularly hit between 11 and 13 percent. It’s also the case that measures of current price increases are skewed by a few sectors of the economy, most notably the energy sector.
A more useful measure to look at is a comparison of the rise of prices to the state of wages. If prices are going up faster than wages, then our relative purchasing power declines. But if wages keep pace with inflation, or even outpace inflation, then our purchasing power stays the same, or is strengthened. The reverse is also true. Thus, even though inflation rates have remained relatively low for much of the last few decades, wages have grown even less, meaning that purchasing power for working people declined despite low inflation rates.
Today, wages are finally rising. The New York Times recently reported that about 13 percent of workers have not seen pay increases this year and many retirees receive pensions that are constant. But it has been
middle- and high-income earners whose pay gains were least likely to have kept up with inflation. Over the 12 months that ended in September, those in the top quarter of earners experienced 2.7 percent gains in hourly earnings, compared with 4.8 percent for the lowest quarter of earners.
The combination of wage increases and COVID-19 relief checks have put more money in the pockets of the bottom half of earners than they had at the start of the pandemic.
Most importantly, the media spin has left out the elephant in the room. It is business owners who are the ones raising prices. They are currently setting record profits, so do they have to raise prices? The answer to this question ultimately reveals that inflation is a question of class politics — which class gains at whose expense — rather than technical monetary policies.
What Exactly Is Inflation, and Where Does It Come From?
Inflation is an increase in prices, generalized across the economy, i.e., not just the rise of one particular good but goods across wide swaths of the economy.
How does this happen? The classic explanation is that inflation occurs when too many dollars chase too few goods. That is, if demand for goods and services exceeds the world’s capacity to supply those goods and services, this creates an upward pressure on prices. Business owners can get away with charging more from consumers, who essentially bid against each other for limited supply.
Today, the rapid reopening of economies following lockdowns has created heightened demand for goods and services, far outpacing the rate at which supply chains have come online. The free market allows producers of items in short supply to “pick their price,” as anyone looking to buy a used car right now knows.
This can also lead to good old-fashioned price gouging. The oil industry, for instance, curtailed production at the height of the pandemic due to cratering demand for fuel. Now that demand is back up, Bloomberg News reports, “Oil companies are keeping production flat while using profits to reward shareholders.” And although wholesale prices of oil have fallen somewhat, retail gas stations are still selling gas at high prices. “When wholesale prices decline rapidly, it provides a window for retail operators to sell at high prices for a few weeks before lowering prices,” oil storage broker Tank Tiger CEO Ernie Barsamian told Bloomberg. He noted that eventually gas prices will come down, but for now, many refiners and gas stations are enjoying the higher profits.
The other half of the inflationary equation is the role of increased workers’ wages. In a situation like today, where wages have begun to rise, this will feed an increased demand for goods, as working people have more money to spend. At the same time, higher wages also raise the cost of production for employers. If businesses pay higher wages to workers, the argument goes, this cuts into profit margins, leading capitalists to pass on their added costs to consumers.
Most mainstream economists assume that even if an external factor (a spike in oil prices due to geopolitical shifts, or supply chain choke holds due to pandemic lockdowns) triggers the rise in prices, ultimately higher wages are the primary culprit of any sustained inflationary trends. Finally, mainstream economics draws a line between higher wages and low unemployment rates. A tight labor market, where workers are not easily replaced, gives workers more bargaining power to demand higher wages.
This line of argument was first championed by economist Milton Friedman, who stated that a “natural rate of unemployment” exists below which inflation begins to take off. Friedman’s “monetarist” ideas took hold after the inflationary crisis of the 1970s, and ever since have been used as a battering ram against policies in which governments actively promote full employment or better jobs for workers.
In one sense, conservatives have a point. Karl Marx himself similarly argued that capitalism depends on unemployment — a “reserve army of labor” — to keep workers desperate enough to agree to whatever terms of work they can get. Unemployment, in other words, is a means to prevent wages from growing so far that they threaten profitability.
The question that economic pundits conspicuously avoid is: What if instead of raising prices, businesses just made do with smaller profit margins? After all, US corporations are currently making record profits, posting their fattest margins since 1950. Even at John Deere, the site of the highest-profile strike this year, Bloomberg News reports, “workers held out to get a 10% raise, yet the company is still expected to earn even more next year than the record profit it posted [in November].”
Workers don’t set prices, the bosses do. And they do so on the basis of maintaining the greatest possible profit margins. If workers’ wages go up but prices stay the same, this would simply mean that a greater share of profits went to workers rather than capitalists. System-wide, workers’ share of the economic pie (i.e., the “national income”) would increase. Falling unemployment, rising wages and increased social spending does not have to automatically translate into inflation of prices if we allow bosses’ profit margins and their share of the national income to decrease.
Even the dire rates of inflation in the 1970s, in the context of a strong labor movement “hurt capital more than it did workers, while neoliberal repression of workers’ power has kept inflation low from the 1980s onward,” sociologists Ho-fung Hung and Daniel Thompson have argued. The question of inflation is therefore a matter of class conflict over who gains at whose expense.
This is not to say that inflationary pulls aren’t a problem; if prices of common goods rise much faster than wages, or if the spikes in inflation are so high that businesses aren’t able to operate smoothly and fall into bankruptcy, laying off workers, this could have dire consequences. But the cures that are typically on hand are worse than the disease. Thus, in response to the crisis in the 1970s, the US ruling class, led by President Ronald Reagan and Fed chair Paul Volcker (though begun by President Jimmy Carter), was willing to induce a severe recession in order to stop inflation. The ensuing decades of neoliberalism created astronomical levels of class inequality.
But there are other tools to stop inflation, which do so in favor of workers. Price controls have been used in wartime throughout US history, most significantly by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration. As political scientist Todd Tucker recently pointed out, FDR employed 160,000 federal employees in the Office of Price Administration to control prices “on goods from scrap steel to shoes to milk.” Even President Richard Nixon briefly implemented price controls.
Immediate reforms in the form of rent control, expanding Medicare, and allowing the government to negotiate lower drug prices are a good start to such policies, along with capping CEO pay and taxing the rich. Other reforms like investment into public housing and public education also indirectly cap prices.
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Investing in real estate has long been considered to be a safe bet during an economic recession.
However, the coronavirus crisis is unprecedented.
Therefore, before making any decisions, you need to do the same thing you do when taking the first steps into stock investing.
Namely, you need to research the market trends and forecasts to see if they are promising. Moreover, today you also need to check the flow of foreign investments into the US market.
As global money transfers are becoming more easily accessible, overseas investors become a major factor in real estate.
Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on the Real Estate Market
In any economic crisis, the real estate market is contracting.
It’s just the way things are, and the COVID-19 crisis is no exception. However, the current state of the marker shows some significant deviations from how it should behave in a standard recession.
On one hand, in May alone, missed mortgage payments in the US amounted to $4.3 million. The number of sales has also dropped in March when the crisis truly started. Predictions for a 40% loss of office leasing and a reduction in commercial property rent have landlords in a panic.
Should they come true, the impact on the economy will be tremendous. The main reason is that the commercial real estate industry in the US is worth about $17 trillion. It also affects a multitude of economic contributions from construction companies, landscaping, property management and maintenance, etc.
From this perspective, the real estate situation isn’t looking all that good. Also, the expected drop in sales did happen. And the market has yet to recover even to last year’s numbers, let alone improve.
However, improve it does. Despite the US economy heading for a recession compared to the Great Depression, home sales are rising.
Moreover, real estate prices on the housing market show none of the expected drop. They keep growing, albeit at a smaller pace. And while sales are not exactly high, they are also increasing consistently.
Therefore, it has become clear that the COVID-19 crisis is affecting commercial and residential real estate very differently. This is where the best opportunities for investors lie.
How Does International Real Estate Investment Affect the US Market?
To fully understand the exact state and possible progress of the US real estate market today, one must consider the foreign investment as well. In 2019 property sales to foreign buyers amounted to $77.9 billion. That number is already at $74 billion in 2020, and there’s yet almost half a year left to go.
The creation of cheap international money transfers that go through FX companies has changed global real estate investment.
Suddenly, this type of investment became available to small independent investors, as opposed to only big corporations of before. Now, there are still only a few money transfer companies operating in USA. They are mostly the biggest and oldest in the industry as only those can afford to work under the US restrictions. The country has many limitations for forex brokers and these companies are mostly classed as such.
Therefore, now top providers of cheap global money transfers operating in the US are Currencies Direct, OFX, and TransferWise.
But even those are enough to have billions of dollars coming to the US from foreign real estate investors. The main interest is from China and Canada, and it’s definitely not waning in the wake of the coronavirus crisis.
It’s also an important fact to note that this type of investment is focused on residential housing. This is definitely one of the main reasons why it remains reasonably stable while the commercial and hospitality real estate markets are going deep into crisis.
Best Investment Opportunities in the US Real Estate Market Right Now
Residential housing looks like the most promising sector for real estate investors today. Residential housing in the suburbs, in particular, is a good idea. And even as the market is contracted a bit still, this situation won’t last. However, prices aren’t sure to drop anytime soon.
The COVID-19 pandemic has completely changed the way we work. Remote work was a luxury and mostly part of the gig economy prior to it. However, now everyone who can work remotely does so. And they will continue with this trend and might stick to it completely.
People are also highly interested in moving out of heavily-urbanized areas. Therefore, residential housing in the country and suburbs is on the rise.
Finally, you should consider the impact that the pandemic had on construction. The level of demand for housing has always exceeded the level of construction. But with the lockdowns, thousands of developments are delayed if not terminated completely.
All things considered, there are factors that indicate an imminent and big increase in demand for housing. However, as there is no development to meet that big surge in demand, the prices should soar. It’s a stellar opportunity for an investor, especially as prices are still somewhat stable now. They aren’t falling as they usually do during a recession. But this might not happen at all.
Remember that the coronavirus crisis is unique. Therefore, you can’t base your investment strategy on past trends. Instead, you should focus on the changes happening in the world today and build your forecasts based on them.
Bottom Line: Is It a Good Idea Invest in US Real Estate Now?
When you are starting with stock investments, it’s important to not overcomplicate things. It’s the same for real estate investing. It’s true that the world is in turmoil at the moment. And the uncertainty will persist for a while.
In fact, the coronavirus crisis is changing the world and the real estate market irrevocably. However, one thing remains a true constant, humans still need housing. Therefore, the real estate market will remain a reasonable source of income for investors for a while.
Note that due to the mass lockdowns the way people work is changing. Already there is no avoiding a permanent shift in the commercial real estate sector. It’s uncertain whether office space will be in high demand ever again. But residential housing does remain a safe bet. Therefore, if you want to diversify your portfolio to reduce your own risks, houses in the US suburbs seem like a good investment. | <urn:uuid:fda1bf80-e2a5-49a5-bbc9-ff3d1ec91f53> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.clydebankmedia.com/blog/finance/investing/real-estate-investing-pandemic | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.961024 | 1,317 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Apple Attempts to Block 'Nearly Identical' Logo From Trademarking
Apple is opposing the trademarking of a bottled water business's logo since it argues that it can be easily mistaken for its own (via Law Street).
Apple filed a notice of opposition with the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board against Georgette LLC's logo, asserting that its brand will be damaged if the applicant's logo is registered because of dilution and the likelihood of consumer confusion, mistake, or deception.
Georgette's logo depicts a whole apple with the words "I am Arcus" over it, and with two leaves. Apple's logo, on the other hand, has a bite out of its right-hand side, and a single leaf. Apple says that the applicant's logo "features a stylized apple design with a right-angled, detached leaf, rendering it visually similar to Apple's famous Apple Marks."
Consumers encountering Applicant's Mark are likely to associate the mark with Apple. Applicant's Mark features a stylized apple design with a right-angled, detached leaf, rendering it visually similar to Apple’s famous Apple Marks. Indeed, the overall shape of Applicant's apple design is nearly identical to the shape of the Apple Logo
An image enclosed in the filing overlays Georgette's logo with Apple's logo, to reveal that they are even dimensionally similar.
Apple argues that since 1977 it has used its logo, which has gone on to become distinctive and gain a high level of consumer recognition and goodwill.
Applicant's Mark readily calls to mind Apple's famous Apple Logo given the visual similarities, and the Apple Marks are so famous and instantly recognizable that the similarities in Applicant's Mark will overshadow any minor differences and cause the ordinary consumer to believe that Applicant is related to, affiliated with or endorsed by Apple.
Beyond the obvious similarities between Apple's logo and that of Georgette, Apple is also arguing that it sells "goods related to beverages" featuring its logo, including mugs, thermal bottles, and water bottles, such as those available to customers exclusively at the Apple Park Visitor Center. Since Georgette wants to trademark its logo for "purified drinking water; bottled water," Apple believes this is even greater grounds to refuse the application.
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The world is in a state of emergency. What do we do? “If all else fails, pray.” Maybe we wouldn’t be in such a panic if prayer wasn’t a last resort. How did we get to this point? Can we blame God, or should we blame ourselves? Many of us like to do whatever we want with no consequences, but when we get into trouble, we run to God. “Bail us out!” we scream. “How can you do this to us?” we ask. If you blame God for causing this virus to shut down the world, then you don’t understand Him. People caused this, not God.
God lives outside of time and has seen what will happen today and gave us warnings of future events through Scripture. All prophecy was about future events when it was written, but people never seem to think it describes events of the time in which they live.
“That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation” (2 Peter 3:2-4).
Peter knew exactly what the attitude of people in our day and age (“the last days”) would be. He knew Old Testament Scripture and understood that God warned the people who lived prior to the Flood that judgment was coming. They could have changed their minds about sin but ignored the warnings and refused to change. Judgment came and people were destroyed. God has given us rules for our own protection, and when we ignore Him, there must be a judgment in order to save all of humanity. The blame is in our own lack of repentance.
Lately, there’s been a loud call to prayer. Prayer is a very important part of a Christian’s life, but what do we pray for? Is there any examination of our own shortcomings and need to change our ways, or do we want God to answer our prayer despite our sin? The world is in the grips of a judgment. A virus is sweeping the world and shutting down everything from mom and pop stores to major industries. The entire world is affected, and sin is a major factor. When Christians are asked to pray for our nation, how do we pray? “Dear Lord, please make this problem go away.” Do we ever repent of our sin and honor God first rather than expecting Him to jump to answer our request?
Jesus had a lot to say about evil within the heart of a person. “And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: all these evil things come from within, and defile the man” (Mark 7:20-23).
Look up the words He used to understand what Jesus called evil. Then, look inside your own heart and see which of these wicked ways do you partake in, or even condone. We want God to answer our prayers and heal our land, but we don’t want to give up our sin. The morals in America, and the whole world, are comparable to Sodom and Gomorrah. Accepting the sin is as wrong as participating in the sin.
People will live down to any standard the bar is lowered to. Drag queens having story time in libraries is not acceptable. Elementary school children are allowed to dictate what gender they are, despite facts that make it clear which gender they truly are. We murder inconvenient babies in the womb, and call it a woman’s right. Yet, we expect God to answer our prayers. It’s time we repent of the idiocy and sin that permeates this nation.
World judgment has started, and this is just the beginning of sorrows.
“And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these things are the beginning of sorrows” (Matthew 24:4-8).
Don’t think that the things we’re seeing right now are the end-time judgments described in Revelation. We are just seeing a preview of the judgments. As the world becomes infatuated by sin, the judgments become stronger and more frequent. It’s a sin to reject God as the Creator. That’s when the morals of a nation disintegrate and one of the worst judgments follows. That is homosexuality. Is it fair for God to judge us because we reject Him? A human artist will seek judgment against another person who plagiarizes his creation, so why should we question God’s judgment upon evolutionists plagiarizing His handiwork?
“Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened” (Romans 1:21).
Evolution didn’t happen. Our Schools teach this theory (i.e.: idea, fable, folklore) as fact, but God’s truth is forbidden to be mentioned in a classroom. Christians have turned a blind eye and have even bought into this lie.
“For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their woman did change the natural use into that which is against nature: and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet” (Romans 1:26-27).
Homosexuality is a judgment on a nation. We haven’t heeded God’s warnings, and we accept sin as normal. Now we face pestilence, and yet we pray that God will take it away. We don’t repent but expect God to make it all right. Sexual immorality is destroying us. School children are taught about sexual promiscuity, then when a baby is created, it’s murdered. Shame upon parents for allowing this. The filth that comes out of Hollywood is disgusting. Shame upon anyone who watches this “entertainment.” Musicians sing the praises of Satan, killing, and sin of all kinds. Shame upon anyone who listens to this music. The loony left promotes legalizing sin. Shame on anyone who votes for leaders who legalize sin.
Movie idols advocate abortion, homosexuality, and many more degenerate lifestyles, but God tells us to turn from idolatry. We pray for God to remove this disease from our nation but continue to embrace sin. Christians know better, but too many ignore God in favor of following the idolatry of a sin-filled world.
“Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them” (Romans 1:32).
Shame upon any Christian who takes pleasure in sin, then expects God to answer prayer.
When Solomon completed building the first temple, he called for the nation to repent. “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land” (2 Chronicles 7:14).
This was a promise to Israel, but it casts its shadow over our day and age. Christians are called by God’s name. Have we humbled ourselves before the Lord and recognize that He is sovereign in our life? Do we follow His ways, or do we want to make our own wicked ways?
When we want something, we give Him a list of our demands, but we seldom follow His guidance for our way of living. God will forgive any sin, but the repentance must be sincere. Then, brothers and sisters, we can go before the Lord with a clean heart and ask for His forgiveness and to heal our land. Then, we need to stand up for Jesus. We need to speak out and demand that schools go back to teaching truth and morals. We need to refuse to vote for lawmakers who promote sin and evil. We need to turn from our wicked ways, then help others to turn from theirs. We need to reach out to the unbelievers and tell them about the love and forgiveness they are missing.
The shepherds of the flock are failing. Shame upon preachers who preach warm-fuzzy sermons that soothe the ears of the congregation, but don’t encourage a closer walk with Jesus. Why is it more important to be politically correct and keep the tax-exempt status than to preach God’s truth? Instead of making the congregation feel comfortable, God’s truth needs to be declared. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have a sermon spark the congregation to repent of the sins they hold onto, and walk close to Jesus?
“And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance” (Acts 2:3-4).
I would love to see flames dancing on the heads of Christians, igniting the desire for the Holy Spirit to work in us and through us. When that happened on Pentecost, Peter stood up and gave a Holy Spirit- inspired sermon. Many people repented and were saved on that day. Peter’s words spoke truth and brought conviction. Sadly, we’d rather “play church” than be convicted of sin, repent, and live for Christ. Yet, when bad things come along, we pray for God to do something.
This coronavirus is just a small preview of the wrath of God that will come when the seals begin to be opened. Things will continue to get worse, but Christians won’t be on earth to endure God’s wrath.
“…and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come” (1 Thessalonians 1:9b-10).
Have you turned from idols to serve the living and true God? If you haven’t, then how can you pray for His intervention in the coronavirus? If you’ve truly accepted Jesus for salvation, then you will be taken to Heaven prior to the wrath of God. Christians shouldn’t want anyone to be left to face the wrath of God, but everyone must make their own choice. As we sit in our homes, isolated from people, not allowed to gather together, not allowed to stand within 6 feet of another person, not allowed to attend worship services, it’s time do some self-evaluation using Scripture as our standard. First humble yourself before the Lord and repent of your own sin. Only then can you expect that God will listen when you ask Him to remove this virus from our nation and from our world.
So, what do we pray for? I pray that I will see my own sin and repent of anything that comes between me and God. I pray that He will open doors for me to share the Gospel and that the person I share with will humble themselves and turn from their evil ways. Then, I pray that God will have mercy upon this nation.
God bless you all,
Ron and Nathele Graham’s previous commentaries archived at https://www.raptureready.com/featured/graham/graham.html
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The Lightning Lock started life as a bike lock. However, after seeing a gap in the market, Anna Van Den Hout (CEO and communications), Sarah Nieuwland (CFO) and William Clark (marketing & operations) decided trailers were much more in need of protection. And they’re right – according to police.govt.nz – over 60 trailers have been stolen in the Hawke’s Bay area in the last six months (from Jan 1).
The locks are imported, where they’re quality tested and branded with the Lighting Lock’s signature yellow bolt, and magnets are added that ensure the lock sticks securely to the metal frame of the trailer. Operated via Bluetooth via a phone app, the lock can be opened and closed with ease, and without the hassle of keys. If the lock is tampered with, or the cable cut, a piercing alarm will sound, and if the phone is in range, a notification will appear to alert the owner.
The Hastings Christian School students have been supported through their ‘business ownership’ journey through the Young Enterprise scheme – a Lion Foundation programme where enterprising students are mentored by teachers and members of their community’s businesses.
As part of marketing the lock – they went out into the community, getting a story in the paper, and emailing local businesses. And when AMI Hastings Store Manager Darren Kendall received an email, he was more than happy to help.
“I saw this as a really good opportunity to support this activity in the community, with something that really aligns to making our world a safer place.”
Being year 12, the students have another year of school and are looking forward to further developing the Lightning Lock and expanding to include heavier trailers and other configurations.
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repetitive fast radio burst that’s been intriguing astronomers since its discovery may now have a location associated with its origin.
We don’t yet know if it’s from a planet populated with adenoidal men in jeans and white trainers stuffing their faces with bacon sandwiches whilst introducing Hall and Oates songs in a ropey Australian accent.
But you’d have to admit, the chances are good.
Cornell University researchers and a global team of astronomers have uncovered the cosmological source of a sporadically repeating milliseconds-long “fast radio burst.”
Once thinking these bursts had emanated from within the Milky Way galaxy, or from cosmic neighbors, the astronomers now confirm that they are long-distance flashes from across the universe – more than 3 billion light-years away, according to a new report published Jan. 4 in the journal Nature.
“These radio flashes must have enormous amounts of energy to be visible from over 3 billion light-years away,” said lead author Shami Chatterjee, Cornell senior research associate in astronomy. Other Cornell researchers on this paper, “Direct Localization of a Fast Radio Burst and Its Enigmatic Counterpart,” include James Cordes, the George Feldstein Professor of Astronomy; and Robert Wharton, doctoral student in astronomy.
Astronomers appreciate this breakthrough news, Cordes said: “Now we can do real astrophysical analysis on the burst source and the galaxy that harbors it.”
Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, were first seen about 10 years ago. In November 2012, Cornell astronomers using the Arecibo Observatory captured its first FRB – which lasted three one-thousandths of a second. Laura Spitler, discovered it as a postdoctoral researcher sifting through radio telescope data. It was called FRB 121102. Until then, only the Parkes Radio Telescope in New South Wales, Australia, had discovered a handful of previously known FRBs.
Rising just ahead of the winter constellation Orion, FRB 121102 – the one discovered at Arecibo – has a home in the pentagon-shaped constellation Auriga. “There’s a patch of the sky from which we’re getting this signal – and the patch of the sky is arc minutes in diameter. In that patch are hundreds of sources. Lots of stars, lots of galaxies, lots of stuff,” said Chatterjee.
To locate the source of this sporadic flash, astronomers blended detective work with modern telescope technology, while combing through terabytes of data.
The Arecibo radio telescope has a resolution of three arc minutes or about one-tenth of the moon’s diameter, but that is not precise enough to identify uniquely the source. Needing higher resolution to find it, the astronomers sought the help of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, near Socorro, New Mexico, which provided more than 80 hours of observation time. The radio telescope array – a collection of dishes aimed at the cosmos – allows for better than one arc-second resolution.
After 50 fruitless hours of staring, the scientists hit the jackpot. “We caught the fast radio burst in the act,” said Chatterjee.
The astronomers used a full range of telescopes to observe that sliver of sky, including NASA’s Chandra X-ray satellite, Chile’s Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, and the Gemini optical telescope in Mauna Kea, Hawaii. “With the Gemini telescope, this optical blob looks like a faint, faint, faint galaxy – and this faint, fuzzy blob corresponds with, smack onto, the radio source,” Chatterjee said.
Other telescopes around the world helped to plot the light spectrum. “It’s got a detectable signal of very particular colors of hydrogen, oxygen and other elements – but Doppler-shifted,” said Chatterjee, explaining that the shifting wavelengths denote cosmic expansion and provide clues for the source distance.
The next big question is the nature of the source: What powers these bursts and are there other ones that repeat? “We think it may be a magnetar – a newborn neutron star with a huge magnetic field, inside a supernova remnant or a pulsar wind nebula – somehow producing these prodigious pulses,” said Chatterjee. “Or, it may be an active galactic nucleus of a dwarf galaxy. That would be novel. Or, it may be a combination of those two ideas – explaining why what we’re seeing may be somewhat rare.”
Source: Eurekalert/Cornell University
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Concept cars are like double edged swords – their alluring visuals are mostly non-compatible with the practicality of real-time production. Well we would hope Faraday Future’s FFZERO1 supercar goes against trend, simply because of its touted credentials that boast 1,000 horsepower, a 0-60 mph (0-96 km) acceleration in less than three seconds, and a top speed of over 200 mph. All of these ‘figurative’ figures, supposedly powered by a quad core electric powertrain, come after the company had been working under the wraps for more than a year.
The exhilarating features are complemented by the futuristic design model of the concept car. This translates to an encapsulating glass roof that provides a tantalizing glimpse into the carbon-fiber flaunting interior. And beyond just the classy visuals, the FFZERO1 electric supercar will come with a smartphone mount arrayed in the middle of the steering wheel, accompanied by the Halo Safety System that safeguards the driver’s head and neck and provides a special helmet for crucial water and oxygen supply. Moreover, the proximate dashboard is dotted with a biometric data gathering system that ‘keeps an eye’ on the driver’s vitals.
Of course all these aspects still belong in the realm of gimmicks. But on the practical side of affairs, there is one feature that has tickled our fancy. This pertains to what Faraday Future touts as the Variable Platform Architecture (VPA). Envisioned as highly flexible platform, the company plans to use it as the customizable core system around which modular components can be installed, thus resulting in variant models of automobiles (with different numbers of electric powertrains). As Nick Sampson, a senior VP at Faraday, said in an interview with Verge –
We can change the number and power of the drive systems. We can change the physical size and electrical size of the battery packs, so we can get bigger and larger packs and smaller packs both on the electrical size and physical size because of the modularity of how the battery architecture is being done, which is unique compared to anybody else in the industry. The underlying story is all about the platform that’s being built.
This scope of adaptability also translates to the FFZERO1 concept in question. For example, the electric supercar (with a total of four motors) utilizes strings of batteries that can be adjusted – by detaching or adding the rows of batteries. Furthermore, the placement of the motor can also be altered within the ambit of the platform, which in turn would allow the user to choose between a front-wheel, rear-wheel, or an all-wheel drive.
Lastly, as for the commercial side of affairs, there is no doubt that the FFZERO1 concept will give a sweet little PR boost to Faraday’s $1 billion production facility in North Las Vegas, Nevada. But the question of a ‘real car’ still dangles in the air, with the company expecting to furnish a navigable model within a couple of years.
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Best Country To Live In Europe For Families. With the 4th highest gdp of any country worldwide, many expatriates come to switzerland for the high wages. People looking for a comfortable place to live.
Sweden has been considered as one of the best countries for expat families to raise children in / getty images. Here are europe’s best countries for expats to live in best european countries for expats to live in. This is a place where people go if they want to specialize in the art world.
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With The 4Th Highest Gdp Of Any Country Worldwide, Many Expatriates Come To Switzerland For The High Wages.
This is a place where people go if they want to specialize in the art world. These countries are the best when measuring the quality of life,. Romania, bulgaria, and ukraine are some of the cheapest countries to live in eastern europe.
Raising A Family With Kids In Denmark.
Recognized as one of the cities with the best quality of life in europe and one of the lowest crime rates, vienna is a top destination for americans wishing to. On average, you can rent a nice apartment in panama city from $650 and up a month. Canada is one of the world’s most migrant friendly nations.
The Cost Of Living Is Why Panama Is One Of The Best Places For Black Families To Relocate.
Each year, two global surveys, mercer's quality of living survey and the economist intelligence unit (eiu) liveability index, measure metrics such as crime rates, healthcare, infrastructure, quality of water, levels of corruption, culture and education, down to availability of. Best places to live in europe. Portugal has been deemed a secret hot spot for a european retirement.
They Rated 48 Categories Of Life In Their New Home Country.
These are the 318 best places to live in europe, costing on average $3,093/month to live with internet speeds up to 160 mbps and temperatures ranging from 8°c to 33°c 46.762°f to 90.574°f.budapest, lisbon and porto are the best places to live in europe right now that are affordable, have nice weather and fast internet. Great city with friendly people. Known as the land of “poets and thinkers” and with its high standard of life, germany is home to the most.
Their 5 Best Countries To Live In For Expats, Based On Expat Satisfaction, Was:
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Avoiding sugar might seem pretty simple - but not everything with high sugar levels as obvious as a bag of sweets.
Having high levels of sugar in your diet adds to belly fat but also increases your risk of diabetes, The Daily Express reported.
The problem is that it isn’t just eating sweets, cakes and other sugary treats that can cause your blood sugar to spike - other things contain glucose, which is also a form of sugar.
And things which can contain a lot of glucose might even seem healthy.
Diets promoting low carbohydrate and low blood sugar eating, such as the blood sugar diet by Dr Michael Moseley, point out how high blood sugar not only increases your risk of diabetes but also contributes to extra abdominal fat.
That fat around your middle also goes hand-in-hand with fat that sticks to your organs and can cause long-term health problems.
An estimated 13.6 million Britons are at risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to diabetes.org.uk.
For those considered “at risk” for the disease, it’s crucial to embark on lifestyle changes to get blood sugar under control.
High blood sugar levels can ultimately result in permanent damage to the eyes, nerves, kidneys and blood vessels.
Here are five high-sugar foods to avoid:
Fruity yoghurts can often be packed full of sugar, so make sure you check the label carefully.
Generally, plain Greek yoghurt is a better choice as it’s lower in sugar but often higher in protein.
Unfortunately, when fruit is dried, its sugar content becomes more concentrated.
Raisins, for example, can contain four times more carbohydrates than grapes.
Lower-sugar fresh fruits like fresh berries or a small apple are a much better alternative.
Potatoes are quite high in carbohydrates already, but deep frying them in vegetable oil makes them even more unhealthy.
Swap deep-fried chips for a portion of baked sweet potato fries.
Sugary breakfast cereals
Some cereals contain a high sugar and carbohydrate content, as well as providing you with very little protein.
Swap sugary cereals for a protein-based low-carb breakfast, like an omelette, to keep you fuller for longer.
Eating anything containing refined white flour can increase blood sugar levels.
Processed white bread also contains low levels of fibre.
Instead high-fibre wholemeal bread is a better choice.
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Discussion in 'Indoor and Greenhouse Plants' started by Amy Truong, Oct 10, 2021.
i found this plant in one of my potted plants in the greenhouse. Is it a weed?
It's interesting enough to keep around until it flowers, I think. Doesn't look like something I'd associate with being weedy in greenhouse situations.
There is some resemblance to Perilla.
This is what the flowers look like.
Brilliant ID @RonB. Wouldn't it be interesting to know how it showed up in one OP's potted greenhouse plants?
One website I looked at said that "Hairy crabweed is native to Asia; recently introduced and probably spreading in North America.
EDIT: Just came upon this website that says "In North America, Fatoua villosa is (primarily found in anthropogenic habitats, including landscaping and suburban gardens, urban areas, and container nurseries." Hairy Crabweed (Fatoua villosa) - bplant.org
Well, learned something new today!
Yikes! This plant popped up beside my papaya seedling that i grew from harvesting the seeds of a store bought papaya (imported from Hawaii). The soil i used for the papaya seedling is a mix of sea soil and regular store garden soil (Voilà brand). No idea where this crabweed came from. Greenhouse has mainly seedlings that i am trying to grow from self harvested tropical fruit seeds like jackfruits, mangosteens, mangos...,
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The Jewish neighborhood of Veria, or Mparmpouta, is located next to river Tripotamos at the western side of the town. It is said that the Jewish people inhabited this area since the days that Saint Paul preached in Veria. This section of the town was built in a defensive urban design and this is why it is isolated.
The hard tilt of the ground at the riverside insures a natural fortification for the neighborhood and as for the other sides of the region, they secure this feeling of isolation by the way the residences were built. The houses of the neighborhood are next to each other, forming a close triangle with only two openings, the one is the arcade under the houses in Merarchia road, which ends up at the Jewish Synagogue and and the other one stands to the diametrical opposite side of the first one, from the side of the river.
Fifty old houses of Macedonian architecture are preserved until today and some of them have still the Jewish inscriptions. The houses and the Synagogue were renovated in 1977 by the municipality of Veria and Jewish organizations.
The Jewish graveyard is located at the western side of Tripotamos, 500m across Mparmpouta. The Jewish Synagogue, that stands at the northwest side of the district, next to the bank of the river Tripotamos, was renovated in 1850 by a sultanic ukase and the building itself involves architectural particulars by prior synagogues in Thessaloniki.
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