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Isaacson chronicles digital revolution
Published 12:00 am Sunday, October 12, 2014
NEW YORK — Walter Isaacson has a different way of looking at history.
Mention the second half of 1969 and he won’t talk about Woodstock or the moon landing but the development of the microprocessor and the first time separate computers were connected. And the 1990s? Not the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal or “Seinfeld.”
“In the end, the microchip had far more impact,” he says.
The author of best-sellers about Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin, Isaacson has long prided himself on making science and technology accessible to the general public. After books focused on one man’s story, he has taken a broader approach and written what he hopes will become the first major chronology of computers and the Internet: “The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution.”
“The Innovators” includes stories of Jobs, Bill Gates and other familiar names in the field, but it also honors such lesser-known pioneers as the 19th-century mathematician Ada Lovelace, daughter of the Romantic poet Lord Byron and among the first to express the concepts for digital technology. “Poetical science,” she called her work.
The geeks may find this old news, Isaacson says. But others — readers of Isaacson’s previous books — may be open to know more about the people who made their gadgets possible and about the gadgets themselves.
“Because I think the reader might want to know: How does a transistor work? What is a semiconductor? Why do a lot of transistors on a circuit allow it to perform logical tasks?” he says. “And those are beautiful concepts and I want to do them justice while explaining them in terms that an average reader who hasn’t studied technology can enjoy.”
Isaacson, 62 and a resident of Washington, D.C., spoke recently at his pied-a-terre in Manhattan that overlooks Central Park, an Apple store just a short walk away. Wearing slacks and a light blue shirt, he says he had planned the book for more than 20 years, since he was editor of new media for Time magazine. He was also encouraged by Gates and Jobs, both of whom believed the digital revolution was made possible by the intersection of personal computers and the Internet.
“The Innovators” was in the top 10 on Amazon.com upon its Oct. 8 publication, and has already been adapted for a graduate course on entrepreneurship and new media at the University of Southern California.
Isaacson’s new book is a story of how the great advances and best companies are born out of contrasts and competition.
The cover features pictures of Jobs and Gates, but “The Innovators” is a tribute to both individual and team efforts, such as Bell Labs in the 1930s and ‘40s and the groundbreaking online forum The WELL. Isaacson also cites the achievements made possible by cooperation among government, schools and the private sector, including legislation passed in the 1990s that made the Internet available to the general public. (A key sponsor, then-U.S. Sen. Al Gore, did indeed help create the Internet.)
And Isaacson tracks the Utopians who think of the Internet as a public space and believe that knowledge should be shared without ownership and the entrepreneurs who wanted to make money — a dynamic embodied by Apple founders Steve Wozniak and Jobs.
“When Steve Wozniak looked at the specs for the Intel microchip, he realized that he could create a whole new personal computer and he wanted to share it with everybody in the Homebrew Computer Club,” Isaacson said, referring to a gathering of technophiles founded in the mid-1970s in a Menlo Park garage in California. “But his friend Steve Jobs says, ‘Why don’t we go to the garage and make these things ourselves?’
“Thus Apple is born.”
Isaacson also made the Internet part of the writing process. He posted passages online and incorporated responses into the book.
For a future project, Isaacson would like to attempt a hybrid between Wikipedia and a traditional narrative. His idea is to have readers contribute written and visual stories and he would edit them into a bound volume. | <urn:uuid:74aebae4-6963-477a-aa3c-cf578ed5730b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.salisburypost.com/2014/10/12/isaacson-chronicles-digital-revolution/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.956744 | 940 | 2.03125 | 2 |
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An apparatus (10) for use in inflating a vehicle occupant restraint (12) includes a storage chamber (18) containing a mixture of gases which is releasable to inflate the vehicle occupant restraint (12). The mixture of gases includes a combustible fuel gas which, when burning, produces first combustion products which pressurize and supplement the mixture of gases. The apparatus (10) also includes an actuator assembly (16) for igniting the combustible fuel gas. The actuator assembly (16) includes a movable container (104) in which an ignitable material (12...
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Births during the last decade take longer than they did in the early 1960s — 2.6 hours longer for women having their first baby, and a little less than two hours longer for women who have given birth before, a new study finds.
Scientists at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development compared the birth experiences of thousands of women who went into labor without complications from 1959 to 1966 with those of women from 2002 to 2008, and found that women in the latter group labored longer, and were more likely to have had medical interventions, like an epidural or a dose of oxytocin.
But is that intervention the cause of the longer labors — and if it is, are longer labors a negative result? The authors of the study suspect as much, but at least one obstetrician who spoke to Nicholas Bakalar, the Times reporter who wrote an article about the study, suggested that other variables could cause childbirth to take more time. He noted, too, that birth outcomes have improved since the 1960s (and the study authors did find evidence, like higher Apgar scores, that the modern babies were healthier).
Plenty of variables are available to account for the healthier babies as well. Midwives and some other public health experts have long argued that increased medical intervention in the birthing process benefits doctors, not women.
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CircuitPython library for SparkFun Qwiic Single Relay available #CircuitPython @CircuitPython
Another day, another CircuitPython library – this one is for the SparkFun Qwiic Single Relay. GitHub user fourstix has written a new library for a SparkFun breakout board. The setup on the GitHub page is specific to use on the Raspberry Pi and other similar Single Board Computers (SBC).
Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode programming site, learn computer science using the CS Discoveries class on code.org, jump into CircuitPython to learn Python and hardware together, TinyGO, or even use the Arduino IDE. Circuit Playground Express is the newest and best Circuit Playground board, with support for CircuitPython, MakeCode, and Arduino. It has a powerful processor, 10 NeoPixels, mini speaker, InfraRed receive and transmit, two buttons, a switch, 14 alligator clip pads, and lots of sensors: capacitive touch, IR proximity, temperature, light, motion and sound. A whole wide world of electronics and coding is waiting for you, and it fits in the palm of your hand. | <urn:uuid:7978e345-11d7-471f-872e-bae49031985b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/06/20/circuitpython-library-for-sparkfun-qwiic-single-relay-available-circuitpython-circuitpython/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.835056 | 285 | 1.804688 | 2 |
According to Rider Levett Bucknall’s (RLB) 2nd Quarter 2020 International Report, construction markets across the globe have been adversely impacted by COVID-19.
Since March 2020, countries across the globe have been responding to the pandemic by balancing the need to ‘flatten the curve’ with maintaining an appropriate level of economic activity.
“The construction industry and associated supply chains were deemed ‘essential industries’ in some countries/states and have continued to operate, whereas in others, full site shutdowns caused the industry to hibernate” comments RLB Director, Domenic Schiafone.
He adds, “As industries across the globe awaken, our offices across North America, The United Kingdom, North and South Asia, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and The Middle East are seeing a muted pipeline of future projects commencing. In the recent RLB COVID-19 Global Survey (July 2020) over two thirds of respondents are foreseeing a period of at least nine months required for activity to return to normal in their local market”.
Striking a balance between economic and human outcomes
This path to ‘normal’ however is at the present mostly predicted on the achievement of a scientifically based outcome for containing the virus globally. Striking a balance between economic and human outcomes is a challenging exercise and finding an acceptable landing spot based upon health in the population, weighed against the return of economic stability, is the current focus of most governments around the world.
There are more and more examples from around the globe of the effects of reopening economies too early with resulting virus flare-ups and hotspots which are causing ‘off again / on again’ community impacts.
Many nations are facing economic challenges unseen before now. Most countries are seeing significant surges in unemployment and where there have been job support schemes in place, the enormous consequences of ending these schemes is yet to be seen.
Market volatility the leading issue to be faced
Domenic continued, “With construction long been seen as a staple in governments’ range of tools to stimulate economic recovery, there is evidence that this will again be the case. As economies relax the economic, social and workplace constraints that have been implemented, we see market volatility as the leading issue to be faced in all regions with differing effects on project costs.”
“This volatility will be fuelled by the potential flattening of projects out to tender, supply chain movements, longer initial project gestation, site productivity, conservative contractor risk acceptance, and fluctuations in both labour and material availability. Most of our offices have identified a fall in construction escalation during 2020, but in these uncertain times, the only real constant is change itself” he concluded.
It is difficult to speculate on what will happen with the TPI movement after the ban on construction activity was lifted. Before the lockdown, the inflation rate was already low, with equal or even lower tender rates than those received during 2019.
If there is a quick uptake of new work across all sectors (public as well as private), contractors will most likely try to make up losses in earnings of previous years, with the resultant spike in tender prices. That is however unlikely due to the lack of capital for new projects.
The government promised a cash injection for the industry, which is most likely for infrastructure, where the civil engineering industry may profit. The prime lending rate has been cut by 2.50% since the start of the lockdown, which will help the economy in the short term.
COVID-19 is likely to have a long-standing effect on current and future construction projects due to two main factors: disruptions to previously stable supply chains and the limited mobility of labour.
Saudi Arabia has a long history of importing goods for use in construction. Two of the largest importers have been Italy and China, both at the epicentre of the recent pandemic. In addition, the closure of borders has prevented the movement of materials, and more worrying is the potential closure of businesses due to COVID-19.
Q2 2020 in Riyadh has seen a downturn in previously forecast TPI figures, due to two main factors; the ongoing volatility of oil prices and the COVID-19 pandemic. Saudi Arabia’s budget is based primarily on the oil markets (the 2030 Vision plan focuses on diversifying away from this reliance).
There has been a significant downturn in oil prices and global demand in 2020 due to both COVID-19 and the OPEC nation’s oil price dispute.
With the oil price dropping over 40% from Q2 2019, the Saudi Arabian Government is reviewing the 2020 budget for all state-funded construction projects.
The uncertainty in the global economy stemming from the COVID-19 outbreak will deteriorate construction investment in private sectors with shrinking construction activities in the next few quarters, and contractors are expected to become more competitive in submitting tenders.
In the first quarter of 2020, the price of steel and cement in Shanghai fell by 7% and 4% respectively compared with the previous quarter; the price of reinforcement and ready-mixed concrete in Shenzhen fell by 11% and 8% respectively over the same period. TPI of major cities in China were generally in downward trends in the first half of 2020 amid a competitive material supply market.
In Hong Kong and Macau, the downward trend of tender prices will continue, resulting from a slowdown in construction activities with the setback in private construction investment locally, and the rising unemployment rate in the construction industry.
As South Korea has a strong domestic investment base and a rising commercial property market, construction activities may not shrink as significantly as other cities within the region and a mild upward trend is forecast for TPI movement in 2020.
Singapore TPI movement is expected to be negligible for the second quarter of 2020, as tenders are few and far between since the start of the pandemic.
TPI for the second half of the year is projected to see an increment of 2 to 5 per cent due to: (a) an anticipated overhaul of the foreign worker dormitories arrangements and conditions resulting in increased overheads, (b) new work flows, physical distancing measures and housekeeping practices when construction sites re-open and (c) supply chain and plant and equipment disruptions and delays as economies worldwide re-open in varying degrees.
Over the last two to three months in Malaysia, tenders which were supposed to be called have been delayed due to the MCO and CMCO in the prevention of the COVID-19 pandemic. As such, there has been a lack of cost data to verify TPI movements to date. However, we foresee that the TPI will fall due to a scarcity of projects in the market and fierce competition among contractors struggling to stay afloat.
RLB believes that uncertainties in employment and business stability will cause demand for properties to drop drastically, which will invariably affect developers’ confidence to build. Developers are currently adopting a wait-and-see approach on the health of the economy before proceeding with sale launches of buildings.
Unemployment in the United States construction industry is currently at 16.6 per cent, much higher than the national average and up from 6.9 per cent in March of this year. Across America, the COVID-19 outbreak has had differing impacts across the country. As each state differs in classifying what is deemed essential and non-essential work, state and local governments have had mixed responses.
With falling demand across the board predicted, Brisbane is forecasting zero uplift to tender pricing for 2020, Townsville 0.5% and Perth 1.5%. Melbourne is forecasting a drop to 2.0% whereas Sydney remains at 3.5% for 2020.
The current consensus across RLB offices is that the general inputs into construction costs are generating a few opposing factors. The reducing construction volumes are likely to increase competition and reduce margins. However, volatile exchange rates, supply chain reliability and changing work practices, resulting in lower productivity potentially increasing program duration, are all likely to increase costs.
Prior to COVID-19 the forecast TPI was typically around 2-3% which is more in-line with general CPI, but slightly above. The forecast now, post-COVID-19, is varied across the regions.
In Auckland, it is already apparent that the market has reduced margins to secure work in the short term, as several planned projects have either been deferred or mothballed and the forecast TPI movement is now -5% for the 2020 year.
The Wellington market is much smaller than Auckland, and to date there has been lesser immediate impact on the construction market and no impact on TPI, although this is expected to change over the next few months.
Christchurch is forecasting a slight TPI increase of 0.5% for 2020, down from 2%, with reasonable activity still planned, primarily in the health and education sectors.
Given the dual concerns of COVID-19 and Brexit, the industry’s tendering market has had to cope with multiple influences, upward and downward.
Issues of prospective shortages of skilled and unskilled labour forecast for next year, when European workers may be less readily available, have been upstaged by current site closures, where socially distanced working has not been possible.
Where sites are open, productivity has been adversely affected, and materials’ availability called into question, as producers and distributors have likewise been affected by the same constraints faced by the sites.
Looking at the wider business environment, construction clients are themselves struggling to cope with understanding what a post-COVID-19 world looks like, with total orders likely to reduce. Overall, contractors’ estimators must estimate their input costs, while directors have to balance how to apply overheads costs and profit to win work – an unenviable task in a world awash with uncertainty in ways no-one has ever experienced before.
The COVID-19 experience has been widely variable in Europe, with the many countries in the region coping in widely diverging ways. The first effects were seen in Italy, but before long, they had spread to the whole of Europe.
Throughout, the construction industry has experienced shutdowns and re-openings, with the introduction of social-distancing measures. Wherever possible, sites have remained open, as construction is seen to be a major contributor in almost all economies.
All cities, apart from Moscow, are forecasting a drop in overall pricing through 2020 from that forecast at the end of 2019. In relation to tender price movements, there are competing effects in most markets across Europe.
Read the full RLB Global Construction Market Intelligence Report Q2 2020 here.
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The U.S. Senate yesterday approved spending $4.6 billion to settle two lawsuits: one by black farmers who alleged racial discrimination by government lenders and the other by 300,000 American Indians who said they had been cheated out of land royalties dating to 1887.
Passage of the measure, by voice vote, unblocks a legislative logjam that has thwarted payouts, negotiated by the Obama administration, of $1.15 billion to the black farmers and $3.4 billion to the American Indians.
“We are one step closer to ensuring that the black farmers and Native Americans in these suits are fully compensated for past failures of judgment by the government,” U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, said in a statement after the Senate vote. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, a Maryland Democrat, said he hopes to seek a vote after Congress returns from a week-long recess on Nov. 29.
President Barack Obama praised the Senate action and urged the House to move forward with the bill “as they did last year.”
Senate Approves $4.6 Billion for Claims by Black Farmers, American Indians - Bloomberg
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Google Dorking (Google Hacking) – A Form of Passive Recon
Title: Google Dorking
By: Christy Long Kushner
Google Dorking Overview
Google Dorking (Google Hacking) is a form of passive reconnaissance allowing you the White Hat tester to use search strings, operators, Boolean, regular expression (Reg-Ex) to search files, websites to find information that is not readily available with a generic Google search.
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Christy Long Kushner is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and instructs as a consultant through Cyber Synergy Consulting Group. Christy specializes in such areas as risk management, regulatory compliance, security solutions architecture, training, testing and investigating cyber incidences. In the 2019 year, she will serve as the Vice President of the Raleigh Chapter of the Information Systems Security Association and is currently the membership director. She also is the CFO of a simulation and video game design company. Before changing careers, she was an Air Ambulance Medic in the United States Army where she performed critical care treatments to patients. Currently, she helps promote awareness of information security threats in an ever-changing global IT Security economy. | <urn:uuid:754c7c11-a2e4-4713-8cc3-49514478f9c4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://raleigh.issa.org/google-dorking-google-hacking-a-form-of-passive-recon/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.905613 | 417 | 1.75 | 2 |
At the 2018 Bay Area Maker Faire, our project Uncovering the Silicon showed off a number of simple and complex integrated circuits (with rather large feature size) under the microscope. We had a great time helping visitors look at the features and get a glimpse of what’s inside those black box integrated circuit packages. To take this to the next level for this year’s Maker Faire, we decided to try and close the loop; to take one simple integrated circuit and elucidate its workings well enough that visitors to our booth will be able to see every single component of the circuit, understand their function, and relate it to the macroscopic behavior of the chip. For this, we picked what turns out to be a rather obscure chip: the Fairchild μL914, which is a dual 2-input NOR gate. This chip belongs to the resistor–transistor logic (RTL) family.
Here’s what the chip looks like. It’s in a funny old “glob-top” can package with eight leads.
Here’s the pinout; there are two NOR gates in the chip, plus power and ground.
Ken Shirriff built a circuit with the chip to demonstrate its functionality. When we push either of the two buttons for one of the gates, that LED will turn off.
Here’s the schematic diagram, adapted from the original datasheet. If you look at the left side, if either of those inputs goes high, the transistor pulls the output low.
John McMaster decapped a few of the chips and sent us a die photo. He made a video about the process — no small feat. We’ll be bringing one of these bare chips and a microscope (equipped with both eyepieces and a camera) to Maker Faire.
For the macroscopic scale, we approached visualizing this circuit from a couple of angles: the physical structure of the chip, and the electronic structure of the circuit.
Eric Schlaepfer used the die photo to model the structure of the chip in CAD.
Simultaneously, Ken designed a printed circuit board version for use with discrete components that maintained the same structure as the IC.
Working from Eric’s CAD model, we built a single NPN transistor model from layers of colored acrylic. If you lift it up, and look through the transparent middle layers, you can tell that the emitter (red) is embedded into the top of the base (yellow) and does not go all the down way through it. (Transistors like these are planar: The emitter is above the base, and the base is above the collector.)
The top layer of this little model has labels for the collector, emitter and base. It is removable so that the layers of the model can be more easily inspected.
The model of the chip die includes a transparent cover representing the oxide layer, and that supports the metal layer with the wire bond pads on the edges.
One of the reasons that this particular chip is educational to look at is that there are a few unused components on the die. There are two unused transistors: one of them is unconnected, and the other is shorted. There are also several unused resistors (resistors are the dogbone shapes). The unconnected and unused components are easier to see, and provide a visual example that is useful for understanding what the connected components look like under the metal layer.
It is also fun to imagine what other circuits could have been made with different connections.
We glued most of the layers together, but left the top two layers removable so that it is easier to see the internal structure when the top is removed.
(Aside: we left out most of the epitaxial pocket material, because even though we used transparent acrylic to represent it, the layers of the components are much more visible without it present.)
There are cutouts in the oxide layer where the metal layer connects to the circuitry below.
One of the most noticeable things you see when you look at this type of IC under the microscope is the bond wires. We’ve used silver glitter hot glue sticks to represent them.
The glob of melted glue represents where the wire is bonded to the pad.
When you look straight down on the model with its glitter bond wires, it looks very similar to what you’ll see in the microscope.
To round things out for our acrylic model, we made a physical legend to make it easier to identify all of the parts of the model.
Once Ken got his PCBs back from our friends at OSHPark, he built it up with the same example circuit.
The PCBs turned out beautifully, and it’s great to see the familiar discrete packages on the enlarged circuit. Ken has published the PCB design on Github.
We hope to see you at Maker Faire this weekend!
Bonus: Ken laid out some hypothetical alternate metal layers to use the same die to create different chips.
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This week we are talking Tourette Syndrome. Lou talks to Lydia Roberts, mum to Ruari and her twin daughters. Ruari is neurodivergent. He has ADHD and Tourette's Syndrome. Lydia is a brilliant parent advocate and actively works to educate the community about Tourette Syndrome. The episode opens with a sound bit from an ABC Perth radio segment where Lydia and Ruari articulate the world of Tourette. Ruari's words are absolutely imperative listening. He describes his tics, how they feel, when they occur, what it's like for him. It's such a wonderful insight.
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MIRI: Gerakan Anak Sarawak (Gasak) is urging all state cabinet ministers to state their stand whether they are for more mega dams or for alternative energy sources in the state.
Referring to the article ‘S’wak may see end of mega dams’ that was front-paged by The Borneo Post yesterday, Gasak president Abun Sui Anyit said ideally all plans to build mega dams in the state should be scrapped and replaced with alternative energy sources.
“The state should use alternative energy sources as proposed by Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL) director Prof Dr Daniel M Kammen and Green Empowerment Borneo programme manager Gabriel Wynn,” he told a press conference here yesterday.
Kammen, who is Class of 1935 ‘Distinguished Professor of Energy’ at the University of California in Berkeley, Gabriel, Batu Lintang assemblyman See Chee How and Save Sarawak Rivers Network chairman Peter Kallang met Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Adenan Satem at his (Adenan) residence on Saturday. During the one-hour meeting, Kammen gave a briefing on the benefits of using renewable energy such as solar, wind, sustainable biomass and micro-hydro in place of mega hydroelectric dams.
Like the delegation, Abun hoped Adenan would consider Kammen and Green Enpowerment’s proposal seriously, too.
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After outcry, C&O Canal backs off fee proposal
In the face of a public outcry, a proposal to expand entrance fees for the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park to portions of the park that are currently free has been rescinded, according to a news release from the National Park Service.
"At this point, we’re midway through robust public meetings. Having heard concerns over the proposal for new fees, the park has decided to rescind its proposal to expand fee collection," park Superintendent Kevin Brandt said in the Friday release.
“We have seen the great passion we all share for this park displayed over the course of three public meetings and have three more scheduled. At this point, we’re modifying our proposal and will continue public dialogue,” Brandt said.
In January, the park service announced it was considering extending entrance fees to the entire 185-mile-long park. The only area of the park for which fees are currently charged is at Great Falls.
A meeting last week at the C&O Canal Park headquarters near Hagerstown generated a mostly negative response from the more than 150 people in attendance.
County Commissioners Terry Baker, Jeffrey Cline and William Wivell spoke out against the proposal at that meeting. The Washington County Board of Commissioners earlier this week also voted to send a letter opposing the fees to the park service, as well as state and federal legislators.
The county's legislative delegation to the Maryland General Assembly also sent a letter this week to Jon Jarvis, director of the park service.
That letter said that the park is used for walking, hiking and biking and, while it is a tourist attraction, it "will likely have limited use should fees be charged .... This could lead to degradation of a national park as use of the facility declines, and could harm local businesses as tourism to towns located along the canal's path dwindles"
"Attempting to charge users of the park a fee would not only be difficult to enforce, but would become a form of double taxation for those who obey the law and voluntarily pay the new use tax," the letter said.
The letter said that the public has already been taxed to acquire the park and maintain and prepare it over the years. If fees were approved "the case for the park to pay local EMS services would be much stronger."
Wivell had noted at last week's meeting that the park is not charged for fire and ambulance service when there is an emergency on the canal.
At about the same time as the announcement that the fee proposal was being withdrawn, Maryland U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski's office sent out a news release reporting that the Democratic senator was requesting more information from the park service.
“Many of my constituents are upset and angry about the proposed new park-wide fees," the senator wrote. “This park is a part of their everyday lives and community. They have many questions about the proposal, and I request that you address all of them. I also request you extend the comment period for another forty-eight days.”
In a news release following the announcement, Rep. John Delaney said: "I am pleased that the park has announced that they will not impose new parkwide fees. My constituents were very concerned about this change, which in my view was not the right approach."
Delaney's 6th Congressional District includes a large part of the canal.
Some hikes still sought
Brandt had previously said that the park was seeking to expand entrance fees due to budget cuts of more than 10 percent over the past five years.
The loss of more than $1 million in funding had resulted in cuts in park personnel from 93 to 73, as well as a backlog in maintenance, he said.
All of the first $500,000 in revenues collected would have remained in the park, with 80 percent of the money collected above that figure being retained by the park, according to a list of frequently asked questions released recently by the park service.
The park is still proposing to "moderately increase" existing entrance, drive-in campground and pavilion rental fees, the release said.
If approved, those increases would go into effect no sooner than May 1. Camping sites for hikers and bikers would remain free, the release said.
The park's annual pass for Great Falls would increase from $20 per year to $30 a year, while the per vehicle personal vehicle pass of $3 for three days, would go up to $15 for seven days, the release said.
The per person pass, now $3 for three days, would be increased to $7 for seven days, it said.
Despite the announcement that parkwide fees are no longer being considered, the park is going forward with public meetings on the other fee revisions, including one on Monday at 6:30 p.m. in the Hancock Town Hall.
Another meeting will be held in the Storer Ballroom of the Shepherd University Student Center in Shepherdstown, W.Va., at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday. | <urn:uuid:524f7c46-ba42-4b30-850e-6d2a41021e8e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.heraldmailmedia.com/story/news/local/2015/02/06/after-outcry-co-canal-backs-off-fee-proposal/116816958/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.978415 | 1,041 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Wordsworth reminded us in his famous 1802 poem, "My Heart Leaps Up" that it's essential in life for an adult to retain the pure joy of youth. When it comes to a change of roles when you become a parent, these words resonate with you for a long time.
As you transform yourself into a person responsible for your child's development, you should be able to navigate the labyrinth that distinguishes an effective parenting style from an ineffective one. The good news is that there is no best parenting method; however, it doesn't have to mean hit and trial every single time.
Here is a list of ways for you to become an effective parent. These are not commandments but pointers that will help you improve your parenting skills.
Be a good role model yourself.
When a child starts walking or attempts it, it's mostly because they try to imitate the actions of the adults surrounding them. In their vigour towards becoming independent, infants learn things by mimicking the older lot.
To be an effective parent, you should preach and practice the ideals you are trying to teach your children. Being grateful for others' help, helping others in need, constantly engaging in random acts of kindness and acting from a place of forgiveness and consideration are all positive social cues for your children to observe and act upon.
Follow the "show, don't tell" principle in your actions where applicable. Children finding consonance in your words and actions would respond more actively to your suggestions and instructions. Nothing is more valuable than being the good person that your child assumes you to be.
Make rules and be consistent about them.
Children's mental and physical activities start working at an amplified speed as they grow up. They tend to question things more fiercely. This change in their attitudes shouldn't be taken as an act of rebelliousness. It should be treated as a child trying to evolve and become a person with multi-dimensional needs.
As an effective parent, you need to come up with changing rules with the changing age of your child to create an environment of new learning for them. They will make mistakes, and depending on the severity of their actions, consequences should be laid out well in front of them.
Don't make it sharp and curt— this or that. Instead, lead with If…then statements. Make it clear to your child that their wrong actions will accompany felt consequences, like loss of earned privileges. Be consistent in your actions so they can follow a pattern with you vis-a-vis what kind of results their positive or negative actions can lead to.
Rules are essential for establishing do's and don'ts for your child. Your child should be aware of what is well-balanced behaviour. Directing them towards a place of calmness when they are full of rage helps them understand and reign in their emotions.
A child should learn not to react; as with any learning, it will take time and effort from both parties to understand and act on them. It's a long-term process and often involves employing negotiating and bargaining skills.
Since this is a post-internet world, your child will come across things that are entirely new tog you. Make it an inter-learning process and make the rules flexible where it's due.
Keep all your communication channels open.
Children do better when they are active participants in their learning process. If our adult relationships are any reference for how we should work around our kids, it tells us that we respond better to those keen to listen to our side of the story with empathy and non-judgmental air.
Nudging children into opening up to discuss their needs and expectations is an excellent way to forge a healthy relationship. Be careful to determine whether your child has the wavelength for a particular kind of conversation or not. Take it slow and expand the limits once they show signs of reciprocation and proactiveness in having such discussions.
Drop in a letter to your kid and keep the tone varied. Don't always play with the vibe of good behaviour and reasonable reward. Even when they might have done something wrong, drop in words of encouragement and understanding. Tell them that we all learn through mistakes and do better.
Engage in different communication mediums and let your child explore the world of storytelling and conflict resolution as they take an interest in them.
Avoid behaving like your own parents.
We unconsciously act like our own parents when dealing with our children. Don't feel embarrassed about it if you realize it after reading it here. Humans tend to gauge our memory to understand and apply our past experiences to our current needs.
It serves us better if we don't repeat the actions or words that adversely impacted us in our growing-up years. Our parents might have employed tactics that worked well in short durations. As a person with the knowledge and awareness of what shortcuts might do to your child's psychology of making associations, you must constructively arrive at composite solutions.
Spend both quality and quantity time with your kids.
It's not enough for you to drop off your kids at school, provide them with food and clothing, and ensure they have a roof under their heads. All these are basic needs that need to be backed up by spending time with them that is quality oriented.
Prepare a daily time block for your kids and do things that combine your child's core interests and skills that you think your child needs to learn. Kids often act out because they want attention. If you shower your kids with enough time, it will most assuredly make you an effective parent.
Read out to them.
We understand our worlds better when told through stories. There is a reason that animation, comic strips, stage performances, and more are magical and inspire their viewers to do better. Make it a ritual to read your child's stories (either fiction or nonfiction) at bedtime or at a scheduled time.
This helps with your children's imagination power, communication skills, basic grammar and also understanding of the diversity of the world that we live in. Open-mindedness often comes from wholehearted acceptance of things seen-unseen. Make your children enter a world full of possibilities and see them reaching for the stars.
Science also has enough evidence to prove that children who grow up in an environment of listening skills become more empathetic and write in a subtle manner in the future.
Don't hit them.
No matter what the range of their tantrums, don't ever spank your child. Hitting your child will make them more aggressive with you and their peers, and they will likely become bullies to gain control over others.
Be extremely mindful of not using aggression both verbally and physically with your child. If they show aggression, hold them close to themselves or hug them out till they become gentle in their demeanor, and this will make them learn an important lesson when dealing with such aggression themselves.
It's our responsibility to teach our children to always choose the path of peace over violence.
Love them unconditionally.
Don't confuse love with materialism. There is nothing called 'too much love'. Love can constantly be expanded in every relationship. You are loving your child unconditionally through little acts of kindness, being present and letting them fight their own battles.
Unconditional love comes from the idea of wanting to see a person growing up in a nourishing space that comes from an expansive and not scarcity mindset. By loving your child well, you will teach them the values of love and care.
People who are loved thrive well. The point of loving someone is to see them growing up into persons of accountability and immersive love. Love them hard, and don't make them feel they need to give you something back for all the love you shower on them.
Also, wear those god-damn matching t shirts for family when out on a picnic with your children. Flaunt your love, too at times.
Practice self-love and care.
If you, as a parent, feel burned out, please take a break. Don't guilt yourself into thinking you should be there for your child's every living moment. Don't forget you will be able to care for them only when you are mentally, emotionally and physically capable.
Centre your energies towards yourself. Seek help when needed— dial up your family, friends or a child development specialist and seek guidance.
If you can afford it, hire a nanny for your kid, and go out on a date with your current or potential partner. Put on that glamorous outfit and get your flirting game on. When you are secure, you will also provide an environment of learning self-sufficiency for your kid.
Be their safe space.
Finally, be your child's safe space. Your child shouldn't think twice before reaching out to you, and they should be your emergency contact voluntarily. Build a relationship with your kid based on transparency, openness, good humour and immeasurable love.
We all get lost and are misguided at times. And if that's the case with adults, imagine the kind of journey that the little ones are undertaking in making meanings out of the world.
Hold their hands and let them go when needed.
And if a teenage child or a grown up child is reading this please be grateful for the sacrifices made by your parents as well, and always learn to give back the love given by them. | <urn:uuid:c2048455-c6ca-4057-9a07-ba0ef3b4d9a8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hangout-hub.com/blogs/relationships/how-to-be-an-effective-parent | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.962821 | 1,914 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Intersection: Agriculture Commission Candidates; Water On The Moon; Carl Maultsby & Gale Jones Murphy
Trade and agricultural products, water quality and concealed weapon permits are just some of the issues in the race to be Florida’s next agriculture commissioner.
On this episode of Intersection, a special presentation from WLRN and Florida Public Radio: a conversation with the Democrats running to be their party’s nominee for commissioner of agriculture- Roy David Walker, Nikki Fried and Jeffrey Porter.
NASA confirmed something scientists have suspected for some time: there’s water on the moon.
The presence of ice at the lunar poles is a big deal with implications for a potential moon base and exploration of deep space. Companies looking to mine the moon are interested too. But how easy is it going to be to extract that water? Physicist Addie Dove joins us to explain.
Carl Maultsby and Gale Jones Murphy’s music appears in a new African American hymnal, One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism.
Murphy started playing piano at the age of 3 and Maultsby also grew up surrounded by music. They join Intersection for a conversation about sacred- and secular- music.
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A white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, VA, took a deadly turn after a 20-year old man drove a car into a crowd of counter-protesters.
The tragedy unfurled Saturday, several hours after thousands of members of the alt-right descended on the small Virginia city.
Described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as potentially ‘the largest hate-gathering of its kind in decades in the United States,’ local police anticipated a turnout of between 2,000 and 6,000 people. Many of the white supremacists drove or flew into Charlottesville from states across the country, determined to spread their message without being censored by law enforcement.
While nearly a thousand police officers were on hand to deal with potential violence between the rally’s participants and counter-protesters, clashes between the two groups broke out hours before the march was slated to start.
Charlottesville officials quickly moved against ‘Unite the Right,’ ruling the rally an “unlawful assembly.” The governor of Virginia declared a state of emergency as intermittent fights occurred across the town and a State Police helicopter crashed while monitoring the crowd from overhead.
Two hours after protesters were told to disband, a gray Dodge Challenger rammed into a street full of counterprotestors.
Witnesses say they saw the car sitting stationary at the end of an empty road.
The driver, 20-year old Alex Fields, Jr., suddenly accelerated, quickly covering the distance between a set of traffic lights and a large group of peaceful demonstrators.
Nineteen people were injured as Fields plowed into the protesters. The Maumee, OH, native quickly put his Challenger in reverse, trying to mow down more victims before being detained.
Thirty-two year old Heather Heyer, a paralegal from Charlottesville, was killed in the attack.
Heyer was described by her boss, Alfred A. Wilson, as a “strong woman” who would stand up against “any type of discrimination.”
The high-profile and controversial rally – the third hosted by white supremacists in Charlottesville since May – garnered a response from President Donald Trump, who issued a statement after learning about the deaths of Heyer and two Virginia State Police officers.
“We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence, on many sides,” said Trump. “On many sides. It’s been going on for a long time in our country. Not Donald Trump, not Barack Obama. This has been going on for a long, long time.”
We should call evil by its name. My brother didn't give his life fighting Hitler for Nazi ideas to go unchallenged here at home. -OGH
— Senator Hatch Office (@senorrinhatch) August 12, 2017
The commander-in-chief’s comments quickly came under fire by the press.
CNN political analyst Chris Cillizza blasted the president for his unwillingness to condemn the white nationalists who instigated the violence outright.
Cillizza also criticized Donald Trump’s closing remarks, which, rather than reflecting on Charlottesville, boasted of the president’s claimed success in lowering unemployment and bringing back automotive manufacturing.
After speaking at length about how “Foxconn and car companies” were finally returning to American soil, Trump concluded by saying, “So when I watch Charlottesville, to me it’s very, very sad.”
A number of Congressional Republicans, including Sens. Ben Sasse, Jeff Flake, and Marco Rubio, decried the president’s comment on how “many sides” were responsible for the tragedy in Charlottesville.
“This isn’t a time for innuendo or to allow room to be read between the lines,” said Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO). “This is a time to lay blame.
“This president has done an incredible job of naming terrorism around the globe as evil,” he continued. “He said and called it out time and time again. And this president needs to do exactly that today.”
Another of Gardner’s colleagues, Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, joined him in questioning Trump’s strange apportioning of blame.
Both of the senators, despite being Republicans, have been outspoken critics of the White House and Trump administration.
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By JEFF AMY
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — One is a sharp-tongued, self-described “wise guy” originalist, who believes the Constitution means today what it meant when it was first written.
The other is a diplomatic former Harvard Law School dean who believes there must be “flexibility” in interpreting the nation’s governing document.
Although they are often at odds with each other in written opinions, U.S. Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Elena Kagan were full of warm praise for each other Monday, saying that their common ground often overrides their ideological differences on the nation’s high court.
“We have a really collegial court,” Kagan told an audience of about 900 people at a forum organized by the University of Mississippi School of Law. “Sometimes you like people you agree with and sometimes you don’t. Sometimes you like people you disagree with and sometimes you don’t.”
Scalia, as is his style, put a sharper point on it.
“If you can’t disagree on the law without taking it personally, find another day job,” he said. “You shouldn’t be an appellate judge.”
Kagan and Scalia have built a relationship in part around hunting, with Scalia introducing her to guns. Kagan said during a talk at Princeton University in November that she and Scalia would come to Mississippi in December, in part, to hunt ducks.
Though Scalia, who has spoken frequently in Mississippi, sometimes talks about cases, Monday’s event, moderated by law school Associate Dean Jack Nowlin, steered away from questions about particular issues. Both Scalia and Kagan declined to answer a question about what they considered the court’s biggest mistake in recent years.
Kagan, who’s been on the court since 2010, said “my least favorite part is losing.” But she also said writing dissents is “fun,” going on to praise Scalia’s dissent in a 1988 case where every other justice on the court voted to uphold the law permitting independent prosecutors.
Scalia, for his part, said that he hates “good losers.”
“I used to play tennis with a guy who was such a good loser that it was hardly worth beating him,” he said.
Scalia said his least-favorite part of the court was deciding which cases to hear.
“The only mistake you can make is to take a case that you shouldn’t have taken, because you’ve wasted time. If you turn down a case and it’s a really significant issue of federal law on which the courts below are in disagreement, it’ll be back next year.”
Despite the blizzard of written briefs that high profile cases can bring, what lawyers say to them in the courtroom matters.
“It’s rare that oral argument changes my mind. It is frequent that oral argument makes up my mind,” Scalia said, explaining that lawyers who hit their case’s strong points can often confirm his original take on an issue.
Scalia, the longest serving justice with 28 years on the court, said his legacy will be “textualism” — interpreting a text fairly — and originalism — interpreting the Constitution according to the meaning understood when a provision was adopted.
Kagan praised Scalia for the discipline that originalism brings to analysis. And even as her colleague squirmed in his chair, she said she believed that framers left some things open to later interpretation.
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Investing in College Success Yields High Returns
February 27, 2014
From the rag traders of the early 20th century who founded multi-billion dollar media companies to today’s Silicon Valley venture capitalists, California has always been a magnet for smart investors. The state’s culture of innovation and entrepreneurship has made it the world’s 8th largest economy, with a Gross Domestic Product between that of Russia and the United Kingdom. With Los Angeles County facing a major college graduation crisis, these same smart investors are backing the educational future of low-income students. They realize that giving isn’t just good, it’s good for business.
By some estimates, only 12 percent of Los Angeles 9th graders will go on to graduate from college. This is a crisis, not just for the students who will miss out on the benefits of higher education, but for California’s economy as a whole. According to a report released by Public Policy Institute of California, 40 percent of all jobs in California will require a bachelor’s degree by the year 2025. Low college attendance rates mean that there is a projected gap of 2.3 million degree holders to fill those jobs. With a shortage of skilled employees, the leading companies of tomorrow will go elsewhere, and California’s economy will suffer.
So what’s behind the crisis? Since 1980, the average tuition cost at a four year institution has grown by over 530 percent. Even when students can get scholarships, they are often only for a single year, meaning students may get to college but still can’t afford to get their degree.
For many first-generation college students, informational resources and support networks are just as critical as financial support in helping them get to and graduate from college. Some students have financial obligations for their families. Others lack the college know-how or self-esteem to believe that college is even an option. And many students find campus and academic life too rigorous or foreign to continue. But information can make a huge difference. A study from the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research found that low-income, high-achieving students are 53 percent more likely to apply to college when they receive customized information kits outlining the net costs of various colleges and universities.
Investors around the country agree that reversing this crisis is a top priority. The Kresge Foundation recently announced a $1 million commitment to the Los Angeles Scholars Investment Fund, which aims to increase college success for low-income Angelenos by combining multi-year scholarships with college advising and support services such as mentoring and academic training. This joint initiative, established by California Community Foundation and College Access Foundation of California, gives low-income Los Angeles students the best chance of graduating from college. Kresge President and CEO Rip Rapson stated, “As a national funder interested in expanding opportunities in America’s cities, we feel a responsibility to invest in college success for low-income Los Angeles students.”
Solving this crisis has the potential to create an enormous return on investment. Californians who earn a bachelor’s degree average nearly $1 million more in lifetime earnings. If these earnings are spent in Los Angeles County, the benefit is multiplied throughout the community, meaning higher tax revenues, more jobs and more successful businesses. Ultimately, it means a stronger, healthier Los Angeles. To Chet Pipkin, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Belkin International, that’s a winning investment, “We can’t thrive as a city without their contributions,” Pipkin said. “It’s our responsibility as a community to do our part to support them in their path to college completion. Philanthropists, businesses and lovers of L.A. alike have a stake in their future.”
Los Angeles Scholars Investment Fund is a joint initiative of the California Community Foundation and College Access Foundation of California. It is part high-performing mutual fund, part innovation incubator. Now in partnership with the Kresge Foundation and a number of individual investors in Los Angeles, it continues to expand the investment pool of $12 million initially committed by CCF and CAFC.
To learn more and to become an investor of L.A.’s future, go to LASIF.ORG
Christine Oh is the Scholarship Manager at the California Community Foundation, administering all scholarship funds and managing the Los Angeles Scholars Investment Fund.
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Original Founding Church of Scientology
In just five years, Scientology had grown from one foundation to an international organization. With the vital need for worldwide communication lines to coordinate Churches and groups on five continents, L. Ron Hubbard moved the central operations of Scientology from Phoenix to Washington, DC. Arriving in the summer of 1955, he established the Founding Church of Scientology of Washington, DC, at 1812 19th Street NW, in the midst of Embassy Row.
The restored three-story building was the first headquarters for Scientology throughout the Americas. In his second-floor office, L. Ron Hubbard served as the first Executive Director, overseeing the organization of Churches and authoring the administrative articles and policies that continue to form the organizational structure of all Scientology Churches.
It was also from the Founding Church that a first Scientology Distribution Center provided L. Ron Hubbard’s books and lectures to centers world over. And it was in the lecture room at 1812 that L. Ron Hubbard announced Scientology milestones emerging from his research.
Today, in the fully renovated and restored structure are the chronicles of L. Ron Hubbard’s life in Washington, DC—from his probing George Washington University days in the early 1930s through his Original Thesis on Dianetics authored right around the corner in 1948.
Scientologists now visit the facility to learn more about the life of L. Ron Hubbard and his research breakthroughs in Washington, DC. It is also the site of conferences with government and private sector officials to plan and coordinate the use of L. Ron Hubbard’s solutions to illiteracy, immorality, drugs and crime. | <urn:uuid:13b8a7be-4d68-41d8-9c8e-3010b6a2dde5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lronhubbard.org/landmark-sites/dc.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.945808 | 332 | 2.765625 | 3 |
The author of the work
“In the Light of Truth – The Grail Message”
Many people have the wish to learn more about the author of a book. Often this wish is based on the thought of being able to draw conclusions about the respective book from the descriptions of an author’s background, in order to aid the decision to buy or to read the book.
In the work “In the Light of Truth – the Grail Message” Abd-ru-shin makes the statement:
“Every inwardly free man will always assess a matter or a teaching according to what it brings, not according to who brings it. … Gold is gold, whether a prince or a beggar holds it in his hand.”
These words, the accuracy of which is indisputable, illustrate how bound a man of today shows himself if he allows himself to be guided solely by the descriptions of an author’s background.
A book that is called “In the Light of Truth – the Grail Message” and that would like to give clarification about the actual meaning of life as a human being, particularly demands a neutral assessment. After getting to know the statements which the author makes in his work, it is left to the reader now also to classify the author himself in his work.
The illumination of the truth always requires openness and farsightedness on the part of the reader. Many an experience has already taught us human beings that after all more things exist than we can grasp with our eyes and ears, with our concepts of time and space. This includes the experiencing of a suddenly rising presentiment or of the effect of a guidance which crossed our life’s path.
For Abd-ru-shin, the main wish was to give his work, the Grail Message, as a signpost to the humanity opened to it. In the following, individual stages of his life are listed:
Abd-ru-shin was born on 18th April 1875 and received the civil name Oskar Ernst Bernhardt. His birthplace Bischofswerda, located near Dresden in Germany, was the place of his childhood as well as the place of his schooling and professional education. After this he left the loving care of his parents’ house and dedicated himself to the profession he had learnt which was that of a businessman. The commercial activity then enabled him to travel to different countries in Europe as well as in North America. Whilst doing so he began to write down the experiences and impressions of these journeys as well as personal experiences from living together with his fellow men. In this way, he combined his commercial profession with his ever-increasing inclination to express his thoughts as a writer.
In the year 1921, there awoke in Oskar Ernst Bernhardt the consciousness of a former earth-life and of his intended task on earth, which he had to fulfil. The name Abd-ru-shin is also connected with this consciousness. Oskar Ernst Bernhardt therefore ended his business activities in order to be able to devote himself completely to the field of activity as Abd-ru-shin.
Almost two years later – in 1923 – he published the first essays under the name “Abdruschin”, which called humanity to spiritual awakening. Initially, these essays were bound in booklets which bore the title “Gralsblätter” (Grail Leaflets). In the course of 1926, a collection of these essays appeared in book form with the title “In the Light of Truth – the New Grail Message – by Abdruschin”. In later editions, the description “new” was omitted so that all editions after 1931 were called “In the Light of Truth – the Grail Message”. In addition, the spelling of the author’s name changed. From 1937 onwards, the spelling “Abd-ru-shin”, which was the only valid spelling from this time on, was used in publications.
In accompaniment to the publication of the “Gralsblätter” and the “Grail Message” Abd-ru-shin initially also held public lectures, in order to make his thoughts accessible to his fellow men. As a result of the abundance of essays that Abd-ru-shin increasingly felt urged to write, however, he did not give any further public lectures.
Abd-ru-shin’s essays brought about an inner, spiritual openness in his many readers which also became noticeable in many areas of life. In Abd-ru-shin himself the urge became ever stronger to seek the point of anchorage on earth destined for the Message from out of the Grail. Led by an inner guidance, he began to search for this place. As in all things that arise from non-material guidance, here also a corresponding earthly hint was necessary in order to find what was sought. Through a sales notice in which a house in the secluded mountain region of North Tyrol in Austria was offered, Abd-ru-shin recognised the sought-after place in the year 1928.
The essays of Abd-ru-shin which in a clear, objective and intellectually comprehensible way explain the meaning of life, furthermore lead also to a divining of God that until then was unknown to humanity. The basis for this is the recognising and observing of the laws of nature and of creation, which are the perceptible expression of the will of God.
Out of the newly gained recognitions which enrich life and which, in bliss, allow great gratitude to arise, there also forms in the human being the urging desire to honour the Creator in a suitable way and to express this gratitude to him. For this purpose, Abd-ru-shin created the possibility for Hours of Worship and – in an enhanced form – for Grail Festivals.
The Grail Festivals, which for many spiritually opened human beings become a conscious experiencing of divine grace, are still today the great high points in the course of the year of such readers of the Grail Message. Very special for them are also the joint Hours of Worship which take place on Sundays.
Abd-ru-shin’s greatest endeavour with regard to his fellow men was to stimulate them through his essays to a more conscious and freer life. The individual human being was meant to recognise that he alone is responsible for his life and, furthermore, for his entire spiritual existence. Of relevance in this regard is also Abd-ru-shin’s call to distance oneself from all previously existing constraints and restrictions in order consciously to experience one’s own life.
The reference to the fact that no earthly organisation is required between the human being and the Creator was not looked upon kindly by the church leaders and caused considerable enmity towards Abd-ru-shin. In addition, Abd-ru-shin’s encouragement for independent thinking and objective examining, which leads man away from influencing opinions, displeased political rulers. Thus, in 1936, the sale of the work “In the Light of Truth – the Grail Message” was forbidden in National Socialist Germany, and the publishing house that had existed in Munich for the printing of this work had to be closed down.
When in March 1938 Austria was annexed to the German Reich, this brought about the end of what had previously existed for Abd-ru-shin and his work. Abd-ru-shin was arrested by the National Socialists and imprisoned in Innsbruck. The insinuations and accusations that had caused the imprisonment, however, finally turned out not to correspond to the truth, and this led to the release of Abd-ru-shin. The Grail Settlement on Vomperberg which had developed around Abd-ru-shin’s residence, as well as his entire personal possessions and also that of his family were nevertheless confiscated and transferred to the Austrian state. Abd-ru-shin and his family had to leave Austria and were assigned a forced residence in the east of Germany. All remaining residents were also expelled from the Grail Settlement. The dissemination of Abd-ru-shin’s work as well as personal contact with Abd-ru-shin were largely prevented by the coercion of the National Socialist rulers.
Abd-ru-shin’s message from out of the Grail had reached very many readers in different countries and had caused in these readers a change in their everyday lives. Living and experiencing became more conscious which led to a deepened recognising of genuine human values. The stronger perception of spiritual guidance also helped these people to bear the difficult fateful years of the Second World War.
The essays written by Abd-ru-shin between 1923 and 1937 were published in the form of different scripts or books such as “Gralsblätter”, “In the Light of Truth – The Grail Message”, “Resonances to the Grail Message” as well as individual lectures. Experiences with these different publishing possibilities as well as his different experiences with readers of his Grail Message and with humanity in general led Abd-ru-shin to rearrange his essays for a new edition and to adapt them to the experiences he had made.
Therefore, in the years 1939 and 1940, Abd-ru-shin created a printing template for the work “In the Light of Truth – the Grail Message” which alone was to be valid for the future and which until today is disseminated as the “Edition of the Last Hand”. The Grail Message was to reach the readers in three volumes. The first print of this edition, which made the work accessible to readers once more, could only take place in the year 1949.
As Abd-ru-shin, Oskar Ernst Bernhardt had brought humanity the message from out of the Grail. The help which Abd-ru-shin had offered to humanity over and beyond that was not fully recognised by them. In this consciousness, Abd-ru-shin detached himself from his earthly body on 6th December 1941. At that time, the burial of his body took place in the cemetery of his birthplace, in Bischofswerda.
After the end of the war in the year 1945, Abd-ru-shin’s widow, Mrs. Maria Bernhardt, was able to return to the Grail Settlement. The expropriation of the property was lifted and Mrs. Maria Bernhardt became the owner of the Grail Settlement on Vomperberg.
In the summer of 1949, with great effort, it was possible to transfer Abd-ru-shin’s body from Bischofswerda to the Grail Settlement Vomperberg. A tomb in the form of a pyramid was erected, in the crypt of which the earthly body of Abd-ru-shin was reburied.
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The company will start installing broadband this year, and start building in underserved communities next year, with the whole project expected to be complete by the end of 2025. By the end of the project, Kramer said, Cincinnati Bell will serve an estimated 70% of Greene County.
“Internet connectivity is mission-critical to access jobs, educational opportunities, and health-care resources,” said chief operating officer Tom Simpson. “We are excited about this partnership with Greene County, and appreciate the county’s support of digital equity and equal access to high-speed broadband Internet.
The western half of the county is already largely serviced by fiber lines from several different providers, including AT&T, Spectrum and Cincinnati Bell, but such expansion has not yet been seen in eastern parts of Greene County because it’s largely rural.
Allocating ARPA dollars to reach rural communities was a “once in a lifetime opportunity,” commissioner Dick Gould said.
“When it really kicked in with the pandemic, we thought, ‘We have to do something to get better broadband,” Gould said. “Kids are trying to go to school during the pandemic. We’re providing it to the agricultural community. People don’t realize that agriculture uses a huge amount of data. Plus with Wright-Patt and related tech companies, now anyone in the county can remotely work from home.”
The original concept for the expansion was to have a hybrid system of wired and wireless broadband. However, this expansion will run broadband directly into thousands of homes, businesses, schools and hospitals.
“Anywhere you go in Greene County, you will have access to state-of-the-art broadband,” he said. “We’ll have the technology to compete with any county in the nation.”
The download speeds available through this project range from 250 megabits to 1 gigabit per second. Adequate broadband is 25 megabits per second for downloading files and three megabits per second for uploading files, per the Federal Communications Commission.
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The Whole Truth
Adding non-truth to truth is, obviously, lying. The concept presents a clear and undeniable dichotomy. However, what does it mean not to tell the "whole" truth? Can you speak only things that are true and yet fail to speak the truth?
This semester, I'm taking a class that discusses, essentially, the philosophy of science. Tonight, part of our homework assignment involved visiting a website dedicated to informing people of the dangerous, yet pervasive chemical "dihydrogen monoxide." The site lists multiple ways DHMO can cause injury or death, the many common household items it can be found in, and the failure of the government to ban it or otherwise recognize it as a legitimate hazard. The joke is that "dihydrogen monoxide" is a chemical name for H2O, or water. Once you understand this, if you are not disgruntled by being made to feel gullible, you may appreciate the wake-up call the site issues. Although a highly sophisticated joke, it demonstrates how information that is true can be carefully presented in such a way as to support a faulty conclusion. Even research and statistics can be manipulated to mean almost anything (or nothing, if so desired).
With all the hype about "fake news" lately, people are beginning to recognize what the DHMO joke proved twenty years ago: you can't take everything you hear at face value. No matter what network you get your news from or what newspaper you read or follow online, all facts are selected and presented according to the organization's bias. In fact, it is impossible to relate information without bias, whether you are a news anchor or a scientist. Facts have no meaning in themselves; they gain meaning when someone interprets them, but a person can only interpret them according to that person's preconceived ideas, experiences, and beliefs. Two people can look at the same set of facts and reach entirely opposite conclusions.
The facts that seem to divide people most drastically are the ones regarding tragedies. Events like the Las Vegas massacre have no ready explanation. The violence was unprovoked, seemingly random, and devastating. The event was described by the president as "pure evil," and indeed, there is no other way to describe arbitrarily murdering 50 people and injuring 200 more in such a manner.
When you consider that inexplicable acts of violence, unintentional deaths and severe injuries, and countless other tragedies occur regularly all over the world, sometimes as a result of human error or even without explanation, the world begins to look more and more dismal. It's no wonder that in recent times many people have subscribed to absurdism, nihilism, relativism, and other isms that argue there is no real meaning to life. These people have examined the facts and come to a conclusion based on their own reasoning.
However, nihilism comes from a faulty interpretation of reality based on an incomplete knowledge of/acknowledgement of the truth. There is good in this world and ultimately in the spiritual realm beyond. Denying the brokenness of the world will lead to disillusionment and disappointment, but denying the existence of ultimate good and truth (in the midst of and unaffected by the tragedy) leads to an equally unproductive hopelessness.
Tonight, I was taking a much-needed walk. It was late and I had the road to myself, so as I speed-walked and listened to music, I became lost in my thoughts. I thought about some of the wonderful relationships I have with people. I thought about my Dirkette friends and our adventures, including what happens when the one designated driver decides to follow the non-designated driver back home. I thought about two classmates here at school who I've gotten to know in multiple classes this semester and become good friends with. I thought about my dad and how we have so many shared experiences and facets of personality that we've co-programmed ourselves to come up with the same jokes and movie references at the same time.
And as I was thinking about all of this, I had a realization: I really have a good life. There are so many things I have every day that I take for granted. I tend to focus on all the things I don't like. I think if I could only have something (friends, money, my own car and apartment, a job in a different state...), my life would be so much more enjoyable. But I overlook the positive aspects that make up at least 50% (probably more) of my life. I get annoyed with the ways my dad is not like me instead of appreciating how much more he understands me than the average person (speaking as a person who seems to understand almost everyone and be understood by almost no one). I get depressed because of what I can't do instead of getting excited about what I can.
There are physical components that affect emotional stability, but those effects can be limited or even reversed with disciplined, correct thinking. Maybe I tend toward depression and cynicism in part because I don't acknowledge all the good things that exist in my life. I focus my thinking on the negative at the expense of the positive.
Pretending life is "all good" or "all bad" seems juvenile, but it's where we often end up living in practice. We bounce back and forth between denial and despair, all because we will not accept the whole truth. Life is hard. Life is good. Joy and pain coexist. Until we learn to accept the pain as a means to the joy, we will waste our lives striving to capture a pain-free life that does not exist except beyond death, the final earthly pain that for some provides the gateway to joy without boundary and without end.
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Nova Innovation is a leading designer and manufacturer of tidal turbines. We have designed, built, deployed and are currently operating a grid-connected turbine in Scotland. In this project we will conduct a feasibility study into the market potential for our direct-drive tidal turbine design.
One way to reduce the cost and increase the reliability of tidal turbines is to find innovative ways to utilise the benefits of the subsea environment by using seawater to lubricate and cool the turbine drive train. Another is to reduce the number of offshore components by eliminating the gearbox to produce a direct-drive turbine. These steps reduce or eliminate the need for expensive and failure-prone equipment such as high pressure shaft seals, watertight bulkheads and cooling systems. This reduces operational costs and increases device reliability and yield.
No company to date has developed a direct drive tidal turbine that is reliable and economically viable. Our design is innovative in the particular combination of drive train, blade and support structure design, which is optimised to minimise the lifetime cost of the integrated system.
Potential customers are tidal energy project developers seeking to generate predictable, reliable energy from the tides at minimum lifetime cost. The market for tidal power is global, but Europe is taking a lead with potential clients in the UK, France and Ireland. Once proven in Europe the technology can be exported worldwide, with a potential global market of 800 TWh per annum (IEA-OES), or annual electricity sales of over €40 billion.
In Phase 1 we will conduct a feasibility study including a detailed IP review and strategy development, supply chain and market study and risk assessment to reinforce our business plan for exploiting this invention. In Phase 2 we will conduct a full-scale demonstration of the technology in a real-world setting: Nova Innovation’s existing, permitted, in-sea, grid-connected tidal energy site.
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With more than three hundred thousand objects in any typical household in the United States, it’s no wonder that people find it difficult to pack up all of their belongings when they move. And as the average adult in the United States will move a total of twelve times in their lifetime, it is unlikely that they will be able to bring all of their possessions along with them to each new home. However, letting go of your belongings can be incredibly difficult – if not impossible – especially in the case of sentimental items that hold a lot of meaning behind them, items that they don’t want to part with.
For many Americans, public storage units become a viable option for storing the belongings that they are not able to part with but don’t have room for anymore. Public storage units have become immensely popular all throughout the United States for this very reason (as well as a number of others) and there are now more than fifty thousand public storage facilities all across the United States alone – this means that there are five times more self storage facilities in the United States than there are Starbucks locations. And as anyone living in the United States knows, there are a lot of Starbucks locations. This means that one in every tenth person in the United States rents a public storage unit, and nearly ninety percent of public storage units are already occupied. This means that, with only ten percent of all storage units in the United States still available, it is likely that the storage unit industry will continue to grow in the next coming years.
There are many reasons to rent a storage unit in the United States. As mentioned above, many people find that they cannot bring all of their possessions with them when they move. This is the perfect time to rent a storage unit in order to be able to keep your possessions. In fact, moving some of your things to a public storage unit can be done, ideally, as part of the moving process, as more than thirty percent of all storage facilities in the United States offer truck rentals as an option for getting your belongings from point A to point B. These moving services can make moving your possessions to a storage unit all the more easier, helping to remove some of the stress out of the moving process – which is stressful in and of itself.
Public storage units can also be ideal for those who simply have run out of space in their homes. Many people use their garages and attics as primarily a location for storage space, but even that space often runs out. In fact, more than one fourth of all two car garages all throughout the country don’t even have space to park one car in (the whole purpose of the garage in the first place) and more than thirty percent of homes with two car garages only just have the space to park one car out of how many vehicles the family or household may own. Many public storage facilities are also perfect for storing large vehicles such as boats or ATVs during winter months, as they can become damaged or worn if they are left parked outside to faced the elements.
Storage units have proved to be immensely useful in the United States, as many of the people living here are desperately in need of storage space for a number of reasons. From the need for storage after a move to the need to store vehicles like boats and ATVs during winter months, the need for storage is only growing in the United States. | <urn:uuid:7321a5e9-d2c4-45d9-979c-727a89347541> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://imnloyaltydriver.org/watch-movie-online-ralph-breaks-the-internet-2018/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.978019 | 685 | 1.8125 | 2 |
You can get from León to Valencia by train, bus or flight.
To get from León to Valencia on Aug 16 we recommend taking a bus because it’s the best combination of price and speed.
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|Distance||345 miles (557 km)|
|Available travel modes||Bus, flight, ferry or train|
|Ticket price range||$2 - $98|
|Fastest mode||Train • $98 (€90) • 4 h 54 min|
|Popular travel companies||Alsa or Renfe Alvia|
Take a bus, flight, ferry or train to travel 345 miles (557 km) between León and Valencia. The most popular travel companies which serve this trip are Alsa or Renfe Alvia among others. Travelers can even take a direct bus or train from León to Valencia.
There are 4 ways to travel between León and Valencia including taking a bus, flight, ferry or train.
The cheapest way to travel from León to Valencia is by taking a flight with an average price of $2 (€2).
This is compared to other travel options to Valencia:
A flight is $66 (€61) less than a bus for this journey with tickets for a bus from León to Valencia costing on average $68 (€63).
A flight is $96 (€88) less than a train for this route with tickets for a train from León to Valencia costing on average $98 (€90).
The fastest way to get to Valencia from León is by train with an average travel time of 4 h 54 min.
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Authorities in Tibetan-populated regions of western Chinese provinces have launched a new push against possession of photos of exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, traveling to remote areas that had previously escaped police attention, Tibetan sources say.
The campaign, which began at the end of April, has targeted Serthar county in Sichuan’s Kardze (in Chinese, Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, but is also being enforced in other areas of the eastern Tibetan region historically known as Kham, a Tibetan living in Switzerland said.
“Chinese officials have banned the display of Dalai Lama photos in every family home of my native place in Serthar,” former political prisoner Golog Jigme said, citing sources in the county.
“If the Chinese authorities discover the banned photos in any family home, not only will that family be fined, but the land of the village heads will be confiscated,” Jigme said, adding that one Tibetan living in Serthar was recently fined for posting a photo of the Dalai Lama on the popular social media platform WeChat.
The cell phone photo was taken of a portrait of the Dalai Lama kept on the family’s shrine, Jigme said.
Though possession and display of photos of the Dalai Lama, widely reviled by Chinese leaders as a “separatist,” have long been restricted in the Tibet Autonomous Region and in western Chinese provinces, officials are now traveling even to hard-to-reach nomadic areas to enforce the ban, Jigme said.
“Given the difficulty of reaching certain remote areas where there are no motorable roads, Chinese officials have had little influence until now, and the Tibetans have been left to themselves to worship and practice [their religion] as they like.”
“However, beginning at the end of April this year, no parts of Serthar, even nomadic areas with inaccessible roads and little development, have been spared by the Chinese drive to ban the photos of the Dalai Lama,” Jigme said.
Chinese officials from government bureaus monitoring religious practice are also visiting Tibetan schools and warning teachers and students not to keep or display the photos, Jigme said, adding that local Tibetans have also been urged to tell high-ranking Chinese visitors of the “big improvements in their living conditions” owing to government subsidies.
The Dalai Lama, who turned 83 on July 6, 2018, , fled Tibet into exile in India in the midst of a failed 1959 national uprising against Chinese rule, and displays by Tibetans of the Dalai Lama’s photo or public celebrations of his birthday have been harshly punished in the past.
(Reported by Sonam Lhamo for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Dorjee Damdul. Written in English by Richard Finney.)
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A question folks frequently ask when contacting my Firm is an explanation of the difference between a “disciplinary action” or an “adverse action”.
A “Disciplinary Action” is a suspension of 14 days or less, written letter of reprimand, or oral counseling. Aside from truly egregious misconduct, an Agency will usually propose a disciplinary action before taking more serious steps. Disciplinary actions lay the groundwork for Agencies to successfully take an adverse action. In most Agencies, bargaining unit employees can challenge disciplinary actions through their negotiated grievance process or through the Agency’s grievance process. Supervisors and non-bargaining unit employees may challenge disciplinary actions through the Agency’s grievance process (if the Agency actually has one). No disciplinary action is appelable to the MSPB.
Adverse actions are suspensions of 15 days or more, downgrades, demotions, and removals. (Constructive actions – constructive suspension or removal, involuntary resignation or retirement may be adverse actions, but more on that another day). All adverse actions are appealable to the MSPB – so long as the employee has MSPB appeal rights.
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Veterans nursing homes have made significant strides in reducing antipsychotic medication use, a new analysis shows. The decrease, however, may be contributing to the use of more alternative medications.
Providers should fully consider the parallel impact of reducing antipsychotic use before implementation, investigators say.
A University of Michigan research team published findings Wednesday in the American Journal of Psychiatry about antipsychotic use among Veterans Health Administration patients.
Antipsychotic prescribing dropped from 33.7% to 27.5% from fiscal 2009 to 2018. Anxiolytic prescribing also dropped from 33.5% to 27.1% during the same time period.
The findings are in line with data released in March by the American Health Care Association. That group found the number of residents receiving antipsychotic medications declined from 2011 to 2020.
Michigan researchers, however, also found that the prescribing of anti-epileptics, antidepressants and opioids increased significantly. Anti-epileptics prescriptions increased from 26.8% to 43.3% from 2009 to 2018, while prescriptions for antidepressants increased from 56.8% to 63.4% and opioids prescriptions increased from 32.6% to 41.2%.
The overall prescribing of non-antipsychotic psychotropic medications grew from 75.0% to 81.1% from 2009 to 2018, data showed.
“While antipsychotic prescribing decreased in VA nursing homes, this was matched by parallel increases in anti-epileptic, antidepressant, and opioid prescribing,” said Lauren Gerlach, lead author and an assistant professor at Michigan Medicine.
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By Myra Lee Adams Goff The year was 1846, a year after Hermann Seele arrived in Texas. It was the time of year that we, in Texas, understand – July and August. The heat continued to increase and thunder storms made the Guadalupe River rise. A ferry boat at the
By Myra Lee Adams Goff Baron Otfried Hans von Meusebach (later John O. Meusebach) and Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels represented two philosophies and cultures of Germany in the early 1800s. Prince Carl was a feudalistic, aristocratic, ultraconservative wanting no change in the politics of Germany. It was a collection of
By Myra Lee Adams Goff As far as New Braunfels history is concerned, the most important historic place is and always has been the Sophienburg Museum and Archives. This organization is now working on historic designations for the site of the Sophienburg Hill. Here’s a thumbnail history of the place:
By Myra Lee Adams Goff You, no doubt, have heard of Baron John O. Meusebach’s treaty with the Comanche Indians to promote peace between the Comanches and the German settlers. There was one person, Baron Emil Kriewitz, who played an important part in the success of this treaty. Here is
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In the Japanese culture, gardens are considered three-dimensional textbooks of Daoism and Zen Buddhism and the Japanese rock gardens were intended to be intellectual puzzles for the monks who lived next to them to study and solve. The Japanese garden is a miniature and idealized view of nature. Smaller gardens are often designed to incorporate the view of features outside the garden, such as hills, trees or temples, as part of the view. At the heart of the Japanese garden is the principle that a garden is a work of art.
The idea to create a Japanese garden in a reclaimed area or incorporated into a “normal” garden, especially in a city, came from the need to have the opportunity for a relaxed place and to do a relaxing activity.
Being involved in the improvement of a public area can be a good way of making citizens aware of the importance of taking care and maintaining common spaces. The aims of this practice are:
- To restore/save a run-down area and make it accessible to citizens.
- To present and disseminate the ancient Japanese culture of gardening.
- To educate children and adults with the love for nature and for “beauty”.
- To inform about the practice and the historical evolution of the Japanese gardens with a practical approach, to create Japanese gardens on a reduced-scale.
- To create a relaxing place for citizens in an urban context.
Try to use modest materials, the principle of the Japanese garden is the reproduction in scale of nature, so the more natural are the materials, the more Japanese the garden is!
This garden is an arid garden.
For the perimeter:
Be sure that the surface is flat. If not, make it so with a layer of cement. Apply the cement around the perimeter of the garden. Follow the design you have chosen.
For the path going around the garden, you can use sheets of travertine. The height should be about 15 cm.
Under the path of travertine make some holes for the water to flow through, in case of heavy rain.
For the garden:
Rocks and pebbles of every size and dimension.
Clastic sedimentary rocks (used in construction).
Green plants and trees.
Colored plants such as chrysanthemums and azaleas placed in just the right spots.
For the area around the garden:
Dichondra repens – weed grass that doesn’t require periodical cutting and prevents the growing of other weed plants.
- To identify and make accessible and visible a run-down area with water access.
- To delineate the land and to design the garden following a Japanese model (See documents section). Take into account the orography of the soil, the climate (for the choice of vegetables), the supply of the materials (rocks and pebbles) and try to minimize the maintenance.
- To protect the garden and the fence with a light net.
- Arrange around the garden 2 or 3 observation points with benches and chairs.
Citizens can be involved during the creation phase and after they can use the garden to rest and relax.
The citizens can take care of the garden during the activities.
To find the necessary materials (rocks and pebbles) and to bring them on site. The costs of the materials.
The garden needs a lot of upkeep.
Acts of vandalism are possible.
Contact local schools and organize activities with the children: present the concept of a Japanese garden (with photography or other tools), typology and historical evolution.
Give people the opportunity to visit the garden and run practical activities with small-scaled Japanese garden in shoe boxes.
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Empathy is the ability to recognize, understand, and appreciate the way others feel. It is a crucial component in building strong interpersonal relationships. We often hear empathy described as putting yourself in the shoes of the other person. However, to be effective in empathy, we have to move outside ourselves. We need to hear their story, not our story. Showing empathy is more about action than about words. When someone shares difficult information, they are looking for someone to listen. They are being vulnerable and needing validation. Do not try to fix their problem. Show empathy by acknowledging their pain, sharing how you feel after you hear the information, and expressing gratitude that the person opened up.
Choose your words carefully. Use language like:
“That must be so hard for you.”
“I can see how that would be difficult.”
“This must be hard to talk about. Thank you for opening up to me.”
Empathy does not come naturally to most people. It requires practice listening deeply. Building your empathy muscles will strengthen your ability to manage and foster transformative relationships.
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Pat Mater, MSIR, SPHR
Vice President, Robertson Lowstuter, Inc.
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Companies use their conference rooms for many reasons: interviewing, training, meeting with clients, presentations, lectures, or teleconferences. From private discussions to large seminars, meeting rooms are essential to conducting a thriving modern business.
But the acoustics in most buildings are far from perfect. If your company’s meeting rooms aren’t soundproofed, you may run into miscommunication, privacy issues, and distractions.
Whether you’ve recently built a new office, moved into a new location, or realize it’s time to fix a long-standing problem, acoustic treatments and soundproofing can go a long way to improve your office’s sound quality.
Not sure if your Plano, TX business needs acoustic treatments? We share five signs that you may benefit from them below. And to learn more about commercial technology solutions, explore our blog here.
If you’re holding a meeting and your team’s voices are bouncing off the walls, that isn’t “just the way the room is.” Acoustic treatments, like diffusion structures and soft, absorptive materials, can go a long way to scatter and dissolve soundwaves. That will reduce echoes, so your meetings and presentations will sound much more contained.
Fiberglass wall panels, fabric-wrapped foam, soft carpeting, textured walls, and bookshelves are effective ways to combat echo. A professional like Texadia Systems can pinpoint where exactly you need acoustic treatments and how many solutions.
If you conduct video or conference calls, you’ll want to ensure your remote team and clients can properly understand you. Untreated rooms experience sound reflections, which make voices sound distant and hard to decipher. Glass walled rooms are especially difficult to hold calls in and would benefit from acoustic treatments.
In auditoriums and lecture halls, you want your speaker’s voice to be heard loud and clear. Rooms with non-parallel walls and angled ceilings or floors will cause echoes, leaving your audience straining to listen to the presentation. Acoustic panels on the perimeter and ceiling should restore audio to a balanced, clear level.
Can you hear voices through the walls in your office? Do meetings feel broadcasted to the entire floor? If your conference room has thin or glass walls, your staff may feel like they don’t have any privacy—while the rest of the company puts on headphones to block out the noise. Deadening drywall and dampening materials like panels or drapery can help contain noise inside the room. Sound masking is another option, which involves ceiling-mounted speakers that play white noise to muffle voices. Your team can then be as loud as they want without being heard or disturbing others.
Recording training videos, meetings, podcasts, or other media requires a stable audio environment that won’t make voices sound too harsh, distant, or flat. After treating your room for acoustics, your recordings will sound professional and polished, so they’re enjoyable to view and watch.
If your business could benefit from soundproofing and acoustic treatments, look no further than Texadia Systems. We’re the Plano, Texas area’s leading commercial AV integrator. Contact us here to discuss your company’s needs today. We look forward to assisting you!
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Los Penasquitos Canyon Preserve
12115 Black Mountain Rd.
San Diego, California 92129
Local Phone: (858) 538-8066
Los Peñasquitos Canyon Preserve attracts people with its natural beauty and rich natural resources both today and in the past.
Native American history within the Preserve dates back as far as 7,000 years ago. Remains of the prehistoric culture can still be found.
More recently the area was part of the first Mexican land grant in San Diego County.
Los Peñasquitos Canyon and its tributary, Lopez Canyon, are characterized by varied natural resources.
Over 500 plant species, more than 175 types of birds, and great variety of reptiles, amphibians and mammals evidences the rich bio-diversity of the canyon. Many of these species are rare or endangered and are protected within the Preserve.
The scenery of the canyon includes a waterfall cascading through volcanic rock, a streamside forest of giant California live oaks, groves of majestic sycamore trees and more!
Los Peñasquitos (meaning little cliffs) Canyon Preserve lies between Rancho Peñasquitos and Sorrento Hills to the north and Mira Mesa to the south. The trail is approximately 7 miles and offers scenic views, including a waterfall tucked halfway down the trail.
• Dogs must be leashed.
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Little Folks Bilingual Child Development Care Center was established in 1983 to provide quality childcare with an emphasis on a bilingual curriculum. Little Folks has consistently ranked at highest levels within the Texas Rising Star/WorkSource CCS programs and is viewed as an early-learning site dedicated to preparing youth for the academic experience.
Little Folks offers a learning advantage for children of all ages. Our program is designed to teach each age and grade appropriate skills in a fun and lively environment, while introducing them to the Spanish language.
The LFN facility maintains learning centers, interactive areas, and child-play zones that all work in tandem to spark the child’s imagination while rooting the germinating seeds of early education.
Little Folks is reflective of a quality childcare center through our participation in the Texas Rising Star program. Additionally, the Center’s goal is to maintain National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) standards.
Committed to making quality child care accessible, Little Folks participates in a number of programs that provide financial assistance to its client base, working to engage parents in becoming more productive citizens by easing their child care concerns and by fashioning brighter children for tomorrow’s challenges.
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A blog is a page that aggregates blog posts written in an informal or conversational style.
Anatomy of a Blog
Blogs are comprised of two different page types:
- Blog Front Page (blog) - This is the landing page for your blog. It can include optional intro copy and body copy to summarize the blog's purpose or content. The primary feature is a feed of all blog posts, listed in reverse chronological order (most recent posts first), with a summary of each post that includes title, intro copy, main image (if uploaded), and a link to read the full post.
- Blog Post - A blog post is an individual article, story, or news piece on a blog. It can include intro copy, body copy, author information, and an optional main image.
Optional features available on blog front pages and blog posts:
Blog Front Page
Adding a blog to your website
A blog that has only a few posts or hasn't been updated in a long time is often less preferable than having no content at all. Before deciding to add a new blog to your website it is important to consider the following questions:
- How often do you plan to update your department's blog?
- Will you be able to maintain your department's blog over time?
- Is your content best suited for the blog format, i.e. regular, informal updates that are available as a running archive over time? Or is it the kind of information that is better suited to a page?
If you believe you have the content and resources to maintain your blog you can request one for your department website by emailing firstname.lastname@example.org. Include the following information in your request: page name, page type, menu placement. We recommend that you have at least one or two blog posts ready to add before your blog is published.
- Navigate to the blog you want to edit, e.g. oxy.edu/my-department/blog.
- Click the edit button.
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- If you would like to add a main image to your blog, please email the web team.
- When you are done making your changes click save at the bottom of the page.
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- The "linked to blog page" field will be pre-populated with the name of the parent blog for your post.
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Beethoven, Mozart and Bach have had the strongest support for GOAT among composers for a fairly long time – I’m a Beethoven man. But there are others whose music is hugely popular among classical music lovers. Among them, Gustav Mahler and Anton Bruckner have come to hold a special place for legions of fans, especially when it comes to live orchestral performances.
Like that of Bach, Mahler and Bruckner’s reputations did not rise during their lifetimes to anywhere near the level they have occupied for roughly the past half century. Mahler did achieve great acclaim as one of the leading conductors of his era, but strong reaction to his own music took a couple generations to grow significantly.
While I’ve posted on Bruckner already, I’m returning to him here because he is often grouped with Mahler by classical fans. There seems to be some disagreement among scholars as to whether Mahler studied under Bruckner, but he definitely cited the older Bruckner as an influence. Both are known primarily for composing long symphonies for large orchestras with huge brass and, in Mahler’s case, woodwind sections.
For years, Beethoven’s symphonies were considered the measuring stick for young conductors. You can say that about Mahler’s symphonies now; and, to a lesser extent in some cities, also Bruckner’s.
While there is nothing like hearing this music live, it holds up well at home as well. I know those of you who may have seen a link for this post on one of the Facebook classical music groups to which I belong don’t need advice from me on this topic. But perhaps some who are less experienced with these symphonies – or even completely unfamiliar with them – will find the following recommendations of use.
It’s not that long since I’d have provided links to purchase commercial recordings. But there are now so many great recordings and live performances on YouTube, that I will use those links instead.
Symphony No. 1: No conductor did more to popularize Mahler’s music than Leonard Bernstein, who recorded each of his symphonies multiple times, as well as leaving live performances on video. His feel for the first symphony was unmatched in my opinion; perhaps nowhere more so than the Klezmer passages in the third movement. This is his recording with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam. If you’d rather watch Lenny in action, there is another performance of this symphony with him leading the Vienna Philharmonic on YouTube.
Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection”: Bernstein is again my favorite for the second symphony; this time it’s his first recording with the New York Philharmonic from 1963. They performed it again a couple months later following the assassination of President Kennedy. That live performance is also available on YouTube.
Symphony No. 3: Conductor Jascha Horenstein was one of the early and most capable advocates of Mahler’s music. His later recordings of the first and third symphonies with the London Symphony Orchestra are legendary. Here is that recording of the third, which is the longest symphony, not only of Mahler, but in the entire standard classical repertoire.
Symphony No. 4: George Szell, the longtime conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, was not as closely associated with Mahler’s music as were Bernstein and Horenstein. But he did make a justifiably famous recording of the fourth symphony in the late 60s that is frequently cited when the topic of best recording of the piece arises.
Symphony No. 5: The fifth is my favorite Mahler symphony. Each movement touches a different emotion in its own powerful way. Italian conductor Claudio Abbado was one of the best at leading it, having recorded the symphony several times over the years. Here is a live performance with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra.
Symphony No. 6: Lenny returns, this time to lead the Vienna Philharmonic in a powerhouse recording of the sixth symphony. There is another performance with the same forces on video. This one is a live commercial recording.
Symphony No. 7: Claudio Abbado made several recordings of Mahler symphonies with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when he was their Principal Guest Conductor; including this highly regarded one of the seventh.
Symphony No. 8: While Abbado was guest conducting in Chicago, their Music Director was Sir Georg Solti, who also led his fair share of Mahler, including this legendary performance of the eighth symphony.
Das Lied von der Erde (Song of the Earth): This piece could have easily been named by the composer as his ninth symphony. He apparently was afraid to do so in light of several other famous composers having died after completing their ninth, including, most famously, Beethoven. But he held off and wound up dying anyway after finishing his next major work, which he did call his Symphony No. 9. The great maestro, Otto Klemperer, leads it here with the New Philharmonia Orchestra, mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig, and tenor Fritz Wunderlich.
Symphony No. 9: Conductor Bernard Haitink, who I posted on following his passing a few months ago, was a longtime advocate of Mahler’s music. Here he is leading his Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam in the ninth symphony on Christmas Day, 1987.
Bruckner composed two student symphonies, numbered 0 and 00. I’m skipping over those, as well as the first and second symphonies, which aren’t performed nearly as often as numbers 3-9.
Symphony No. 3: The German conductor Eugen Jochum may have spent as much time studying and conducting Bruckner’s symphonies as any of the great maestros. Here he is with the Staatskapelle Dresden from one of his two complete Bruckner symphony cycles on record.
Symphony No. 4: The fourth is one of the most popular and frequently performed Bruckner symphonies. There are two great recordings of it led by Claudio Abbado. Here he is with the Vienna Philharmonic.
Symphony No. 5: The conductor can make a huge difference in these symphonies. Here, Eugen Jochum returns, this time in a live 1986 performance with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, that lasts about 83 minutes. There are others that are in the neighborhood of 70 minutes. I love Jochum’s broad tempos.
Symphony No. 6: Although the sixth is perhaps less popular than 4 and 7-9, it was the first Bruckner symphony that I really came to love. And my single favorite recording of any of the symphonies may be this one of the sixth by Sergiu Celibidache and the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra.
Symphony No. 7: Another of the most popular Bruckner symphonies is the seventh. Like Jochum, Herbert von Karajan made numerous Bruckner recordings over the course of his storied career, including several of the seventh. Here is his final recording, with the Vienna Philharmonic.
Symphony No. 8: The eighth is my own favorite Bruckner symphony and one of my favorite symphonies by any composer. Here, again, is Herbert von Karajan with the Vienna Philharmonic. The performance was given at the St. Florian Monastery in Austria, where Bruckner was a choirboy, then an organist and music teacher.
Symphony No. 9: Bruckner was another composer who never made it to Symphony No. 10. In fact, he had only completed the first three of an assumed four movements for his ninth when he passed away. While there have been fourth movements composed by several composers and performed by various orchestras and conductors, only the three movements that Bruckner finished are usually played. And here they are in a classic recording by Carlo Maria Giulini and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. To me, this is what a Bruckner orchestra should sound like.
I urge anyone who has thought about exploring the music of either or both composers to give some of these performances a shot. I think you’ll find it a rewarding and emotionally satisfying experience.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Calling semiconductors “the creating blocks for the contemporary overall economy,” President Joe Biden on Monday questioned Congress to shift immediately and ship him a bipartisan invoice built to increase the personal computer chips sector and higher-tech study in the United States.
The Senate was at first envisioned to take a vital vote in the evening to advance the laws, but Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., introduced that storms on the East Coastline experienced disrupted journey designs for quite a few senators and that he would be delaying the vote until eventually Tuesday early morning. The bill requirements help from at the very least 60 senators to apparent procedural hurdles and put it on a route to final passage afterwards this 7 days, giving Biden a signature earn on laws his administration says is required to guard countrywide security and help the U.S. superior compete with China.
The invoice delivers about $52 billion in grants and other incentives for the semiconductor sector as nicely as a 25% tax credit rating for individuals firms that create chip plants in the U.S. Supporters say all those incentives are vital to compete with other nations that are also paying billions of bucks to lure suppliers.
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The pandemic has underscored how substantially the United States depends on semiconductor suppliers overseas to offer the chips utilized in automobiles, personal computers, appliances and weapons methods. The Biden administration has been warning lawmakers they need to act prior to leaving for their August recess to guarantee the businesses invest in U.S. fabs in its place of creating the vegetation in other places.
Biden, who is continue to recovering from COVID-19, held a virtual roundtable with customers of his administration and marketplace leaders about the deserves of the invoice. He mentioned that a lack of semiconductors was the most important driver of increasing automobile expenditures, which are a core part of the inflation gripping the state.
Biden stated the U.S. relies on Taiwan for the generation of the most state-of-the-art chips and that China was also commencing to go ahead of the U.S. on the producing of these kinds of chips.
“America invented the semiconductor. It truly is time to carry it property,” Biden mentioned.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo instructed him that chip companies are finalizing expenditure ideas and that revenue provided by the monthly bill will be instrumental in their conclusion.
”We know they will develop, simply because they have to in order to satisfy demand. There is no dilemma about that,” Raimondo instructed Biden. “The dilemma is, wherever will they expand? And we want them, we have to have them to grow listed here in the United States.”
The leaders of Medtronic, a health-related unit maker, as perfectly as Cummins Inc. and protection contractor Lockheed Martin, pitched the president on the will need for the monthly bill as effectively.
“Like other individuals at the desk, we are dealing with a source chain disaster. We are unable to get the factors we need and semiconductors is always at the leading of the record,” mentioned Tom Linebarger, chairman and CEO of Cummins Inc., which can make diesel engines.
Linebarger mentioned the company is now paying brokers as considerably as 10 occasions the common charge to get the computer chips it needs. The federal government’s investments by means of the monthly bill would shift manufactures from “wringing our hands about where by we sit in level of competition with some others to basically going onto the industry and helping U.S. brands compete,” he mentioned.
General, the monthly bill would improve U.S. deficits by about $79 billion in excess of the up coming 10 many years, according to the Congressional Finances Office environment. The invoice also authorizes about $200 billion to progress higher-tech study in the U.S. around the coming ten years. Congress need to approve that funding as component of long term shelling out payments and the CBO did not include things like that exploration dollars in its deficit projection.
Critics have likened the shelling out to “corporate welfare” and have mentioned the funds would be much better invested on other priorities or not at all. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., explained he does not hear from people today about the need to have to assistance the semiconductor business. Voters speak to him about local weather modify, gun security, preserving a woman’s correct to an abortion and boosting Social Protection advantages, to name just a number of.
“Not far too several individuals that I can recall — I have been all over this state — say: ‘Bernie, you go again there and you get the career completed, and you give enormously rewarding businesses, which shell out outrageous compensation deals to their CEOs, billions and billions of bucks in company welfare,’” Sanders stated.
When the Senate has acted, the monthly bill will be taken up in the Dwelling. The window for passing the monthly bill is slim if some progressives sign up for with Sanders and if most Republicans line up in opposition based on fiscal concerns. But Household Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has reported she’s self-assured that it will have sufficient assist to go ahead of lawmakers depart Washington for the August recess.
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Dementia care programme rolled out
A commitment that will “significantly improve” the care of dementia patients has now come into effect.
People with the disease will be cared for by a named support worker who will tailor individual treatment and help families understand it.
It is part of the government`s national dementia strategy with 300 carers working with patients from April. The commitment is based on advice from Alzheimer Scotland who want to improve care standards.
Since November, 14 Alzheimer Scotland dementia nurses have been working in each of the country`s health boards to improve the quality of life for people with the condition, as well as their carers and families, within hospitals.
Up to 86,000 people are estimated to have dementia in Scotland, and the number is expected to double over the next 25 years, according to the government.
Health Secretary Alex Neil said: “From personal experience, I know what it means to have family members with dementia get the dignified care they deserve.”
A current patient who took part in a trial of the care programme said the commitment is “brilliant news”. Henry Rankin, from East Renfrewshire, said he felt isolated when first diagnosed with vascular dementia and struggled to come to terms with the illness.
“It was dreadful, absolutely dreadful,” he said. “There’s no other way to describe it. I didn’t even know what vascular dementia was. I thought it was all over, that I had six months left to live.”
Mr Rankin was then asked to take part in a pilot of the Alzheimer Scotland programme and was cared for by Tracy Gilmour. He said: “I can’t praise Tracy highly enough, she put me at my ease straight away. She reassured me, gave me my confidence back. Getting my diagnosis had knocked the wind right out my sails, but she got me back on track. She spoke to my family too, gave them lots of information and advice.
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Perhaps you've heard something about this proposed one cent tax known as T-SPLOST, which could yield upwards of $8 billion dollars in the metro-Atlanta regional area? Well, it's a hot button issue, and a crowd gathered at Creative Loafing’s Atlantic Station office last night to hash it out. Four stakeholders- representing the Sierra Club, Citizens for Transportation Mobility, The Atlanta Beltline, and the Cobb County Civic Coalition- debated the issue. And guess what? They didn't all agree! But the issue does make for some strange bedfellows- the Sierra Club and people from Cobb County are the team against the tax(?) Creative Loafing staff writer Thomas Wheatley played moderator, but didn’t egg the panelists on as much as the crowd did, which was populated with equal parts suits and skinny jeans.
Sticking points are the highly-politicized projects list and the percentage split between transit and roads (roughly 52%-48%). Critics argue that if T-SPLOST passes, the unlikelihood of further transportation innovations getting funded in the future will be diminished. And they fear funds being tied up in potentially dated projects, which won't reduce traffic congestion. Those advocating for T-SPLOST's passage cite benefits like the further funding for the Beltline project, creation of jobs, and improved infrastructure—“ something to show for your penny,” as Jeff Dickerson put it. In a surprise to no one, several in the contentious audience tried to use their question time as a soapbox for their own opinions. We won’t torture you with that here. But you may want to inform yourself before you vote on July 31. Creative Loafing live tweeted the event and will be covering it in full on their Fresh Loaf blog. Everyone left last night with plenty of unanswered questions, so the virtual floor will be open for Q&A...harness your most alarmist rhetoric and beware the trolls.
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“Is overlubrication or underlubrication a bigger proble […]
“Is overlubrication or underlubrication a bigger problem when it comes to bearing lubrication?”
To answer this question, it first is important to understand that overlubrication and underlubrication can refer to two different things. For instance, it may mean that the volume pumped into a bearing during a greasing event can be too much or too little. It can also mean that regreasing events are occurring too often or maybe not often enough. Determining which issue is a bigger problem can be difficult, but the following information should help you decide what might cause the most damage in your application.
Overgreasing by applying too much grease to a bearing at one time can result in a seal failure and generate heat in the bearing housing. When too much grease is pumped into a bearing cavity, it eventually will become full. If there is no relief port on the housing, the grease will blow through the seals. This can present several issues, since the grease remaining in the housing can leak out. It also provides a path for external contaminants to enter the housing.
In addition, a bearing housing full of grease can generate heat. One of the biggest differences between grease and oil is that grease cannot transfer heat out of the load zone. By putting too much grease in a bearing, you can create heat from fluid friction. Because the heat has nowhere to go, it can begin to degrade the grease by causing too much churning. If you have proper purge points to relieve excess grease, the only problem with greasing too often is that you essentially could be purging good grease out of the bearing.
Undergreasing or not putting enough grease into a bearing housing can be just as detrimental. However, it has almost the exact opposite effect of overgreasing. By not providing enough lubrication for the bearing, heat can be generated from the friction of the moving parts. Also, if there is a void inside the bearing housing, this can allow contamination to enter the load zones, resulting in damage to the rotating parts.
Not greasing often enough generally would be considered a bigger problem. After an extended period of time, the grease may begin to harden due to oxidation. Certainly, there will be excessive component wear because of the lack of lubricant and the presence of possible contaminants. Of course, the best practice would be to avoid both of these conditions. | <urn:uuid:61a9aac0-9af8-4bda-b442-2cfb4265b5fd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.china-lubes.com/news/standard-lubricant-2-2.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.966118 | 500 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Welcome to Edition 2.31 of the Rocket Report! It’s exciting to think that two smallsat launch companies could put rockets into space within the coming weeks—both Astra and Virgin Orbit—and we’ve got updates on both below. Also making the news this week is a SpaceX application to the Federal Communications Commission for a Starship flight.
As always, we welcome reader submissions, and if you don’t want to miss an issue, please subscribe using the box below (the form will not appear on AMP-enabled versions of the site). Each report will include information on small-, medium-, and heavy-lift rockets as well as a quick look ahead at the next three launches on the calendar.
Astra says failure is an option. After operating in stealth mode for a little more than three years, the Alameda, California-based rocket company has revealed its intentions. Among the crowd of would-be small-satellite launch vehicles, Astra stands out for several reasons: it is moving fast, aims to be insanely cheap, and is rigorously following an iterative design process. Perhaps most importantly, the company is willing to fail.
Kind of a boring rocket … In a feature, Ars takes a look at Astra’s plans, which include its first orbital launch attempt within “single digit weeks” from Alaska and more later this year. The company hopes to build the fourth generation of its launch vehicle, Rocket 4.0, later this year and begin commercial operations. “This is not about making the best, most sexy rocket,” co-founder Adam London said. “We want to make the simplest, most manufacturable rocket.” (submitted by dangle and YourManager)
To rideshare or not to rideshare? SpaceX disclosed new details about its small-satellite rideshare efforts on Wednesday as it, and other programs like it by large launch-vehicle operators, put new pricing pressure on small launch-vehicle companies. A new report in SpaceNews discusses SpaceX’s plans and reveals how companies that developed dedicated small-satellite launchers are planning to compete. It’s safe to say this sector of launch is in for a serious shakeout in the coming months.
A bit of an issue … “This is a market that we looked very closely at for many years, and I’m really happy that we can be able to address the small-satellite customers directly,” said Stephanie Bednarek, director of commercial sales at SpaceX, at the SmallSat Symposium. Pricing for payloads starts at $1 million for satellites weighing up to 200 kilograms. The growth in rideshare opportunities on larger launchers creates new competition with the emerging crop of small launch vehicles. “It created a bit of an issue,” said Brad Schneider, chief revenue officer of Firefly Aerospace, of SpaceX’s smallsat rideshare. “It’s put pressure on us to take a look across the spectrum at what the best value is that we can offer our customers.” (submitted by Ken the Bin)
NASA researchers can fly on commercial suborbital vehicles. NASA plans for the first time to allow researchers to fly with their payloads on commercial suborbital vehicles, ending years of debate and deliberation, SpaceNews reports. A new NASA draft solicitation for its “Flight Opportunities” program includes reusable suborbital spacecraft currently being flight-tested by Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic.
Almost there … In the past, payloads could fly on these vehicles but had to be automated. “Human spaceflight participants on these missions is increasingly viable and being demonstrated,” said Jim Reuter, NASA associate administrator for space technology, in a January 29 talk at the 23rd Annual Commercial Space Transportation Conference. (submitted by Ken the Bin)
Virgin Orbit nearing first launch. The Long Beach-based company says it is weeks away from the first orbital launch of its LauncherOne rocket as the company makes plans to move quickly into operations if that flight is successful. “We are positioned at the end of the runway in Mojave. Our rocket is married to our 747,” Dan Hart, chief executive of Virgin Orbit, said at the SmallSat Symposium this week. “We’re going through launch rehearsals.”
Looking ahead to commercial operations … During an interview with SpaceNews after the panel, Hart said that the company was ready to move into operations quickly should that test launch be a success. “If we have a great day, we’re poised to go forward pretty much immediately,” he said. The next LauncherOne rocket is currently “well along” in assembly at the company’s Long Beach, California, factory. We certainly wish them well with the test flight. (submitted by Unrulycow and Ken the Bin)
Skyrora tests its new engines. The Edinburgh-based new space launch company is aiming to become the first UK private company to launch payloads into Earth orbit. TechCrunch reports that the company has successfully tested its new rocket engines in their first stationary ground-firings.
Eco-friendly rocket? … Skyrora’s rocket engines use a kerosene fuel developed from plastic waste, called “Ecosene,” which the startup says makes its launch vehicles greener and more ecologically sound than the competition. The company says it remains on track to launch in 2022. (submitted by Unrulycow and WhiteKnave)
Exolaunch arranges rides for Spire. German launch-services provider Exolaunch announced plans at the SmallSat Symposium to send four Spire Global cubesats into low-inclination orbits on an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle later this year, SpaceNews reports. Through the launch, Spire is seeking to diversify the orbits of its cubesats, which gather weather data in addition to performing maritime and aircraft tracking.
Another data point in the rideshare versus dedicated launch question … “Spire first launched to an equatorial orbit on a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle mission in 2015,” Robert Sproles, Spire director of Ground Stations and Launch, said in a statement. “We are excited to again be launching to a low-inclination orbit, this time through Exolaunch. Exolaunch has been a long-standing consistent launch partner for Spire, and we’re excited to see them expand their portfolio.” (submitted by Ken the Bin)
An underdog enters the Base 11 challenge. This contest offers a $1 million prize to the first student-led, amateur team that launches a rocket above the Kármán Line by December 30, 2021. The University of South Florida doesn’t even have an aerospace program, but that has not stopped its rocketry team from entering the contest, the Tampa Bay Times reports.
Cheering for the Bulls … Jackson Stephenson, president and vice president of the USF Society of Aeronautics and Rocketry, joined the club early in his freshman year. “I wanted to do aerospace engineering,” he said, “but the schools were just too expensive, so I came to USF, and I’ve done my best to kind of create an aerospace program through extracurricular activities.” So far, the club’s Taurus I rocket has reached an altitude of 3.4km, so the students have a ways to go. We’re rooting for them. (submitted by Nomist47)
OneWeb says it’s the biggest buyer of launch. On the eve of Thursday’s launch of 34 satellites from Baikonur, Ars spoke with OneWeb Chief Executive Officer Adrián Steckel about the company’s plans and how it will compete with half a dozen other firms looking at providing Internet from space. This year, OneWeb has plans for 10 launches of 30 to 36 satellites per flight, and that’s only the beginning of its constellation. The company chose to partner with Arianespace and its modified Soyuz launch vehicle for the 2020 launches because, Steckel said, OneWeb needed a provider that could guarantee a high cadence of timely launches with good success.
Looking to other providers in the future … After completing the initial phase of deployment, comprising a network of 648 satellites, OneWeb in 2021 will consider alternative launch vehicles as it continues to expand its network. Eventually it may fly as many as 5,260 satellites. “Right now, we’re the largest buyer of launch in the world,” Steckel said. “In the future, as we look to our next phase of deployment, we’re willing to buy rocket launches from SpaceX, Blue Origin, or whoever.”
SpaceX wins NASA contract for PACE launch. NASA has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for the agency’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission. The total cost for NASA to launch PACE is approximately $80.4 million, which includes the launch service and other mission-related costs, the agency stated.
Important for understanding a changing climate … The PACE mission currently is targeted to launch in December 2022 on a Falcon 9 Full Thrust rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. According to NASA, the PACE mission represents the nation’s next great investment in understanding and protecting our home planet. The mission will provide global ocean color, cloud, and aerosol data that will provide unprecedented insights into oceanographic and atmospheric responses to Earth’s changing climate. (submitted by Ken the Bin)
Starship to make 20km flight no earlier than March. According to a new filing with the Federal Communications Commission, SpaceX has applied to fly its Starship prototype vehicle to a 20km altitude from its Boca Chica site later this year. The application cites a window that opens on March 16 and closes on September 16 for the flight.
A key test … The suborbital test and recovery represents a significant milestone for the Starship project, which has previously flown the stubby Starhopper test vehicle to an altitude of 150 meters. The flight of a full-scale Starship would show that SpaceX is well on its way to orbital status with the large upper stage designed to launch atop a Super Heavy rocket. (submitted by danneely)
SpaceX may set up a Port of Los Angeles Starship build site. One year ago, SpaceX pulled the plug on plans to lease 18 acres in San Pedro, at the Port of Los Angeles, to do Starship construction. At the time, the company planned to do most of this assembly at its site near Boca Chica Beach in South Texas. But now, some of that work appears headed back to Southern California. “I am excited,” said LA City Council’s Joe Buscaino, “by the renewed opportunity for SpaceX to build its next generation of Mars-destined rockets at the Port of Los Angeles.”
Site is closer to home … Port commissioners are expected to weigh issuing a permit during a closed session on Thursday, February 6, which would open the way for SpaceX to build a rocket manufacturing plant on Terminal Island, the Daily Breeze reports. The permit would then go before the board in open session at its February 20 meeting. Our guess is that the company will still do a lot of work in Texas, but it is much easier for engineers at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne to do some of the more sensitive work closer to home. (submitted by Ken the Bin)
Four RL-10 engines delivered to Stennis. One of the four engines that were recently delivered will be used to support the Artemis II mission that will use the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage upper stage, while the other three are slated to support future Artemis missions aboard the Exploration Upper Stage, NASASpaceFlight.com reports. The ICPS, will power the Space Launch System rocket’s upper stage until the Exploration Upper Stage is ready.
All eyes on EUS … The ICPS uses one RL-10 engine, while the more powerful and larger Exploration Upper Stage uses four. This latter stage has been the focus of some controversy, as Blue Origin offered NASA a significantly cheaper upper stage for the SLS rocket, which the agency rejected. Boeing, which has the contract for the Exploration Upper Stage, has meanwhile been vigorously lobbying Congress for more funding to put into its development. (submitted by Ken the Bin)
Next three launches
Feb. 6: Soyuz 2.1b | OneWeb communications satellites | Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan | 21:42 UTC
Feb. 9: Antares | NG-13 ISS Supply mission | Wallops Island, Virginia | 22:39 UTC
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The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition is calling for the United Nation’s International Seabed Authority (ISA) to implement urgent reforms to protect the deep seabed and deep ocean.
The ISA concluded its two-week annual meeting in Kingston, Jamaica on July 22. The ISA elected Michael Lodge, the current deputy, as Secretary-General for four years, to replace Nii Odunton who has served two terms. The ISA is conducting an extensive review of its function and operating procedures as required by article 154 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. At present the pivotal Legal and Technical Commission makes its decisions behind closed doors.
Duncan Currie political and legal advisor for the DSCC, citing Nelson Mandela, said “The environmental community looks forward to the Authority under the leadership of Michael Lodge to use its time wisely and to do the right thing, for the environment, for future generations and for the common heritage of humankind.”
Matthew Gianni co-founder of the DSCC said “The ISA should ensure the transparency and accountability of all bodies, and the protection of the marine environment. Transparency should be the general rule and confidentiality the exception”
During the meeting, DSCC welcomed a new report on the implications of the renewable energy revolution for seabed mining, written by renewable energy expert Sven Teske from Sydney’s Institute for Sustainable Futures. The report finds that future metal demand for renewables can be met without the risks of deep-sea mining, especially if government and industry focus on the opportunities of recycling and circular economy innovation.
Later this week DSCC will publish a new global assessment of actions taken by States and regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs) in light of political commitments to protect the ocean adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA. The assessment feeds into an UNGA meeting to review the implementation of deep-sea fisheries Resolutions since 2006. There are ongoing concerns that the landmark Resolutions – passed ten years ago and hailed as a turning point in marine conservation – are being defied by Governments who are failing to control the destructive impacts of human activities in vulnerable deep sea environments.
For more information, contact:
Matthew Gianni (email@example.com), + 31 646 16 88 99
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How to Photograph Your Artwork
Show our curators how much you value your work by taking the time to photograph it professionally for submission. Often it’s due to poor quality images that make collectors question the quality of output.
Additionally, please keep in mind the following guidelines:
- Photograph your artwork centrally, not at an angle. If possible, use a tripod to photograph the work at eye-level when it’s mounted on a wall.
- Your Master image must be cropped to the edge of the artwork itself, not showing any background wall. Artworks with a larger paper size than image size, should have their master image show the entire paper. If your artwork is pre-framed, you must ensure that your Main Image shows the work in its frame (but showing no background). Any other views of the work can be added as Additional Images.
- Upload a high-pixel image of your work. We recommend files of at least 2000 pixels (either in width or height). A high-pixel image lets our zoom tool show the details of your work and also allows us to blow it up to fullscreen. We shrink the file size to 72dpi for display. Please note that we accept PHG, JPEG and GIF files up to 5mb. We don’t accept other file types like TIFF and PDF.
- For photographers, you can upload the digital photograph in a lower resolution.
Tips from our curators:
To help photograph your artwork, here are our curators’ tips:
- Set up a single, consistent place to photograph your work.
- Make sure it’s well lit, preferably with indirect natural lighting (natural light fluorescent bulbs can also be a good choice). Do not use a flash.
- Avoid deep shadows, tonal inconsistencies and dappling effects.
- A tripod is a must. They can be found relatively cheaply online and many can be fitted with smartphone extension if you do not have access to a DSLR or good quality digital camera.
- Usually, the ‘auto’ settings on cameras is adequate to capture your artwork’s best angles but, to be sure that your camera set up is on point, make sure the focus is correct, set the ISO to 200, and adjust the white balance to make the white objects in your work appear true.
- Ensure that the main image of a work shows nothing but the artwork itself. For secondary images, photograph your work against a background that won’t detract from your work. If in doubt, use a white background - it’s the perfect neutral colour. This goes for sculptural work too - it’s best to keep the background simple and without distractions.
- It’s good practice to take as many secondary photographs as possible. We would recommend taking at least four additional images per artwork. These could be showing a detailed close-up, different angles, or an installation shot (perhaps in a gallery, your studio or installed in an interior). For advice on uploading Additional Images read our FAQ answer.
- Archive your photography. You’ll be thankful you did in years to come.
- Crop your photograph of the artwork to its very edge. In Additional Images you should add further photographs of the piece, especially if it has a large border or frame, so the customer can see it exactly how the work will appear when they receive it. If it’s a shot of a sculpture, make sure you photograph the piece in front of a neutral (preferably white) background and include Additional Images to show each angle.
Framed works or works ready to hang:
- If you’ve framed your artwork, photograph it and crop it to look at how it will be when it’s shipped i.e. with the frame in the shot. Crop the image to the outer edges of the frame. Please make sure that when you list the measurements of the artwork, you include the frame in those dimensions. Please write the dimensions of the piece unframed in the description box.
- Please note: we tend to prefer unframed works because the customer is free to choose their own bespoke frame. It also saves you an investment on the frame and bother when shipping.
Add Additional Images:
- Artworks with additional images are proven to sell more frequently. By including additional images, you can better demonstrate to a potential collector exactly what it is they'll be getting. For more information on how to add these images, click here.
Tommy Clarke's prints are unframed and the images he uploads are cropped beautifully to the edge of the piece itself.
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Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology
TOP PRIORITY FOR IMMEDIATE BROADCAST
Severe Weather Warning
for Damaging Winds
for parts of East Gippsland, North East and West and South Gippsland Forecast Districts.
Issued at 2:05 pm Thursday, 18 August 2022.
Damaging winds occurring over the eastern ranges on Thursday.
Strong north to northwesterly winds ahead of a cold front forecast to cross Victoria during Thursday.
DAMAGING WINDS for the following areas:
East Gippsland, North East and West and South Gippsland
DAMAGING WINDS averaging 65 km/h with peak gusts of around 90 km/h are likely over the eastern ranges during Thursday afternoon and evening.
DAMAGING WIND GUSTS to around 110 km/h are possible over higher elevations above 1500m in the eastern ranges during Thursday afternoon and evening.
Winds are expected to ease below warning thresholds over eastern ranges by late Thursday evening or early Friday morning.
Locations which may be affected include Falls Creek and Mt Hotham.
Tullamarine (Melbourne Airport) recorded a gust of 96 km/h at 11:09pm Wednesday.
Mt Buller recorded a gust of 91 km/h at 10.22am Thursday.
Mt Hotham recorded a gust of 102 km/h at 10.37am Thursday.
Cancellation for the following areas:
The State Emergency Service advises that people should:
* If driving conditions are dangerous, safely pull over away from trees, drains, low-lying areas and floodwater. Avoid travel if possible.
* Stay safe by avoiding dangerous hazards, such as floodwater, mud, debris, damaged roads and fallen trees.
* Be aware - heat, fire or recent storms may make trees unstable and more likely to fall when it's windy or wet.
* Check that loose items, such as outdoor settings, umbrellas and trampolines are safely secured. Move vehicles under cover or away from trees.
* Stay indoors and away from windows.
* If outdoors, move to a safe place indoors. Stay away from trees, drains, gutters, creeks and waterways.
* Stay away from fallen powerlines - always assume they are live.
* Be aware that in fire affected areas, rainfall run-off into waterways may contain debris such as ash, soil, trees and rocks. Heavy rainfall may also increase the potential for landslides and debris across roads.
* Stay informed: Monitor weather warnings, forecasts and river levels at the Bureau of Meteorology website, and warnings through VicEmergency website/app/hotline.
The next Severe Weather Warning will be issued by 5:15 pm AEST Thursday.
Warnings are also available through TV and Radio broadcasts, the Bureau's website at www.bom.gov.au or call 1300 659 210. The Bureau and State Emergency Service would appreciate warnings being broadcast regularly.
Longwarry North (38.0816°S, 145.7784°E, 47m AMSL) Longwarry North,VIC set as my default location ›
7 day forecast
Longwarry North 7 day forecast
Today: Cloudy. Very high chance of showers, most likely late this afternoon and evening. Snow falling above 1500 metres. Damaging winds possible about the ranges. The chance of a thunderstorm in the SW late this afternoon and evening. Winds N/NW 20 to 30 km/h increasing to 35 km/h before tending W/NW 15 to 25 km/h during the day. Daytime maximum temperatures between 12 and 18.
Forecast for Longwarry North (38.0816°S, 145.7784°E, 47m AMSL) Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Summary Minimum 11° 6° 8° 2° 8° 4° 6° Maximum 15° 11° 10° 12° 13° 8° 9° Chance of rain 90% 90% 80% 10% 90% 90% 90% Likely amount 10-20mm 1-5mm 1-5mm < 1mm 10-20mm 1-5mm 1-5mm UV index - - - - - - - Frost risk Nil Nil Nil Moderate Nil Slight Nil 9am 3pm 9am 3pm 9am 3pm 9am 3pm 9am 3pm 9am 3pm 9am 3pm Wind speed 23
Wind direction N NNW NW WNW W SW NNW NW NNW NNW W W NW WNW Relative humidity 65% 68% 88% 59% 93% 66% 76% 55% 64% 64% 88% 65% 89% 84% Dew point 7°C 8°C 6°C 4°C 8°C 4°C 3°C 3°C 5°C 6°C 4°C 2°C 6°C 7°C
Sunrise and sunset times
Sunrise / Sunset for Longwarry North (38.0816°S, 145.7784°E, 47m AMSL) First light Sunrise Sunset Last light Moon rise Moon set Moon phase Last quarter New moon First quarter Full moon 6:30am EST 6:57am EST 5:43pm EST 6:10pm EST 10:21am EST Waning gibbous Last quarter Aug 19 New moon Aug 27 First quarter Sep 04 Full moon Sep 10
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??2014年6月英语六级作文标题：It is unwise to put all eggs in one basket. It is unwise to judge a person by appearance.
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The United States says Iran's plan to breach the limit on its stockpile of enriched uranium, which was set under a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, amounts to "nuclear blackmail" and must be met with "increased international pressure."
White House National Security Council spokesman Garrett Marquis made the comments on June 17 after Iran followed through on its threats to further scale back its compliance with the agreement that curbed Iran's nuclear program in exchange for relief from crippling economic sanctions.
President Hassan Rohani called for urgency in rescuing the accord, which has been on the brink of collapse since the United States backed out of it last year.
The Western European signatories to the pact -- France, Britain, and Germany -- insisted that Tehran stick to its commitments under the deal. Paris urged Iran to be "patient and responsible," while London said it would “look at all options” if Tehran fails to abide by the agreement.
In May, Iran stopped complying with some commitments in response to President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the deal.
Trump has also reimposed sanctions against Tehran that had been eased under the agreement aimed at heading off any pathway to developing a nuclear bomb.
Tehran, which has said its nuclear program was strictly for civilian energy purposes, has complained that European powers have failed to abide by their commitments to mitigate the effects of the U.S. sanctions on its economy.
A spokesman for the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization said on state television on June 17 that the country had quadrupled production of enriched uranium, which is used to make reactor fuel and potentially nuclear weapons, and will exceed the limit on its stockpile set out in the nuclear agreement within the next 10 days.
The accord limits Iran's stock of low-enriched uranium at 300 kilograms of uranium hexafluoride enriched to 3.67 percent, or its equivalent, for 15 years.
"Iran's reserves are every day increasing at a more rapid rate. And if it is important for [the Europeans] to safeguard the accord, they should make their best efforts," said the Iranian spokesman, Behrouz Kamalvandi.”
“As soon as they carry out their commitments, things will naturally go back to their original state," Kamalvandi added.
Speaking later at a meeting with the new French ambassador to Tehran, President Hassan Rohani said France and the other parties to the deal "still have a very limited opportunity to play their historic role for saving the deal," according to a statement on his website.
"There's no doubt that the collapse of the [accord] will not be beneficial for Iran, France, the region, and the world," Rohani added.
In Washington, Marquis said that Iran's uranium enrichment plans “are only possible because the horrible nuclear deal left the their capabilities intact."
Trump "has made it clear that he will never allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons," the White House National Security Council spokesman said, adding: "The regime's nuclear blackmail must be met with increased international pressure."
The U.S. president wants to force Iran to renegotiate the accord, arguing that the terms were not tough enough to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, and agree to curb its ballistic missile program and end its "malign" activities in the Middle East.
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said Iran's announcement "doesn't surprise anybody" and said the international community "should not yield to nuclear extortion."
Macron Urges Patience
Speaking at a news conference in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron said he "regrets" Iran's announcement, adding that France "strongly encourages Iran to maintain a patient and responsible attitude."
Macron reiterated that he favors maintaining the nuclear deal but wants new talks to encompass Iran's ballistic missile activities.
A spokesman for U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May said her government had been "clear about our concern at Iranian plans to reduce compliance" with the nuclear agreement.
"Should Iran cease meeting its nuclear commitments, we would then look at all options available to us," the spokesman said.
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said that it is "incumbent upon Iran to remain committed to its responsibilities."
"Iran cannot just tell the other parties to the deal they must do more, and itself do less than is in this accord," Maas said in Luxembourg.
He also said that "a lot is being threatened -- by the way, from both sides -- and I don't see that as very constructive."
The EU's foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, said the bloc will wait for the next report from the International Atomic Energy Agency on Iran's compliance with the international accord before announcing its response.
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was a staunch opponent of the nuclear pact, called for international sanctions to be reimposed immediately "should Iran deliver on its current threats."
"In any event, Israel will not allow Iran to get nuclear weaponry," Netanyahu warned.
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How the Internet is shifting powers between artists and companies.
[by Kolja Reichert]
“The Pirates’ Good Deeds” (© Kolja Reichert) has originally been published under the title “Die gute Tat der Piraten” in “Der Tagesspiegel” issued on 26.07.2009. Translated into German by Wolfgang Senges. Translation and publication on ContentSphere.de by courtesy of Kolja Reichert.
Please notice: Different to other articles on ContentSphere.de, this translation has been published under an “All rights reserved” licence by Kolja Reichert.
German version/original text: “Der Tagesspiegel” issued on 26.07.2009.
The New York Times’ online archive holds the oldest message in regards to the topic of piracy in music industry. It originates from 13 June 1897, the founding time of music industry. „Canadian Pirates“ mailed counterfeit records across the border and sold them for a tenth of its real price. Newspapers printed lists of songs available – a kind of early Pirate Bay. The industry bewailed a 50% loss in turnover demanding the postal sevice to filter items out. A rather mild measure compared to the three-strikes-out model the media industry longs to achieve for filesharers today.
The politics response to online piracy is not rigorous enough, claimed Dieter Gorny, CEO of Germany’s Body of Music Industry BVMI (Bundesverband der Musikindustrie) when justifying the cancellation of industry’s Popkomm conference. It’s been widely shared disconcertment his statement earned him. Mark Chung of the Body of Independent Labels VUT (Verband Unabhängiger Tonträgerunternehmen) says: „Strong generalisations are helping no one.“
Actually, Internet is not music’s enemy. It merely is the hard copy industry’s enemy. After the wax cylinder, vinyl, tape and CD, music now has been separated from a physical carrier and can be copied endlessly with little effort. Legal downloads in Germany do not yet reach US numbers that account for 39% of the market. However, first quarter revenues in 2009 are up again by 16%. Despite all arguments dealing with illegal downloading, it’s not about a conflict between artists and audience. This is the showcase the industry raucously propels for years. It is their interests that can be brought together in the most wonderful ways online.
Right now, no one is showing off new ratios by more self-confidence than Amanda Palmer, singer with cabaret rock duo Dresden Dolls. If Amanda Palmer wants her audience to mobilise she doesn’t need any PR office and no promoter. It is via Twitter she invites to beach concerts including group picture, and to an impromptu party in a strip bar. A press conference held in an empty department store she turned into a free concert for 350 fans. On a Friday evening in May, a slogan for t-shirts was born during a mass chat. In realtime, Palmer did the print design right on her laptop while a friend of hers set up an online shop. By the end of the night, 200 t-shirts were sold. The next day, another 200. On her blog, the singer drew balance: „Total made on twitter in two hours = $11,000.?Total made from my [..] major-label solo album this year = $0.“ This is how rapture of an artist discovering her very own power looks like – more importantly, she demonstrates the days of artists being guided by managers eventually are long gone.
Fan Becomes Manager
After all, whether it is recording, design, booking, or controlling – today every single task of a label can be dealt with either by the artist himself or it may be outsourced to friends while fans provide for advertising through automatically generated recommendations based upon their profiles at social platforms like last.fm. Fans might even take the investor’s role and advance money needed in production by participating in fundraising platforms. Recently, funds for Patrick Wolf’s fourth studio production have been collected via Bandstocks.com. German band Angelika Express from Cologne funded their latest album via „Angelika Shares“ valued at 50 Euros each. 80% of revenues were supposed to be returned to fans.
Labels hardly advance studio rental and cost of production anyway. It is the finished masters they rather buy. The remaining four majors Sony, Universal, EMI and Warner see their future in licence business with fashion, advertising, movies and games. So called 360° licensing contracts allow for financial participation in every step of business the artist does – which in particular includes revenues from touring. After having parted with Sony in 2008, Bertelsmann now is involved again in today’s vibrant marketing rights business with BMG Rights Management. The lordly seniors’ business: administration of estates.
Therefore, upcoming artists in most cases are left to their own device. Smallest labels are springing up like mushrooms – only to release hardly any more than their founders own music. Berlin manufacturing service Handle With Care is literally flooded with orders – they have specialised in smallest editions of 1.000 copies and below.
Artist Becomes Entrepreneur
A true example of successful online self-marketing is Berlin DJ Alexander Ridha aka Boys Noize who founded Boys Noize Records in 2005. Regularly his remixes pop up at Hype Machine, a website featuring recommendations from several popular music blogs. While other labels keep sending turn down notices Alexander Ridha simply doesn’t have time to do so. Viral marketing and creative work converge into an endless stream of club gigs, studio sessions and MySpace updates. Most prominently, Ridha sells his music on beatport.com, the leading download platform in electronic dancefloor beats. beatport.com proves that online even high prices are paid as long as the quality of sound fits the price.
If you want to address an audience willing to pay you have to be visible in large online stores: iTunes, musicload, and Amazon mp3, the latter urgently pushing onto the German market since April 2009. Getting there, you are facing middlemen like labels and content aggregators. However, you might take the short way with virtual labels like „Artists Without a Label“. A basic standard contract allows for a sales account on iTunes and provides high shares of revenues – exit anytime. It has been the starting point for the Arctic Monkeys, as well as for The Editors and Tina Dico. Germany’s regioactive.de offers an additional service quite similar. Yet, a 65 Euros starting fee did pay off for almost no one – to be heard, just being online is not enough.
Rather Give Away?
DJ Martin Juhls on the other hand received orders from all over the world after releasing his music for free under a Creative Commons licence, similar to those licences commonly used for free software. It allows for any number of copies as long as it is intended for private use only. At Amazon, the best selling MP3 album in 2008 has been „Ghosts“ by Nine Inch Nails – despite being released under CC licence before. In Germany, more artists might choose this way if local collection society GEMA would pave the way for royalties from CC licences – merely one example of overdue political decisions interfering new opportunities.
Claiming the Internet provides for its own regulation has been found to be superstition, same with hoping it could be thoroughly controlled. The fine success stories mostly show how things might work – but unfortunately work most rarely. It is easy for stars to do well in online marketing channels. Question is, how do new acts find their audience? Representing the independent labels, Mark Chung draws a pessimistic picture: „The new ones within those five million artists on MySpace are soon realising there is no one around inclined to invest.“
The good news: Artists can claim a much larger slice of the pie in future. Bad news: It is hard to bake the pie on your own. Andreas Gebhard, CEO „newthinking communications“, sees an increasing demand for consulting and software services. Also, the government is in demand to expand its initiative in music. Pop model country Sweden, demonstrates what infrastructural encouragement can achieve.
Music industry is quick in accusing online piracy for lost sales. A juicy simplification. If a file is copied nothing is lost. Quite the opposite is true: Afterwards you got two. Yet that is not what the old structures in distribution were made for. New ones still are developing. It is nothing less than the quest for a solution how society might compensate its artists in the future what it is all about – and how cultural renewal can be ensured. Christian Höppner, secretary general of German Music Council bewails: „The triad of creatives, performers and listeners is separating. Each is following his own interests instead of searching for a mutual way to go together.“
On the one hand, there is the music industry who would like it best to save old revenues in new media one-on-one – on the other hand, there is a strong community of listeners who doesn’t get why to pay 10 Euro for a data bundle that can be copied endlessly. In between, there are the artists being on their own and lacking any representation without licensees being involved at the same time. A public compensation system like a cultural flatrate might turn out to be an opportunity to initiate a consortium of creators. For the first time, an accurate method of accounting between artist and consumer could be introduced to turn P2P-users into paying customers. Music industry and Conservatives rather would ban pirates from the Internet. Legalisation vs. imposition of sanctions – a next election period’s task.
The DIY Conference
Music corporations are loosing touch with what’s up. Actually, Berlin’s fair now is taking place without their participation: as an open conference organised by participants similar to an online forum. The formation of „all2gethernow“ immediately brings to mind Amanda Palmer’s t-shirt sale: Gorny cancels Popkomm, Internet expert Andreas Gebhard calls music entrepreneur Tim Renner who calls the venue Radialsystem. Together a website is set up, an association is founded, and within a few days only the entire Berlin music scene becomes part of it. There is a serious demand for talks which is clearly confirmed by the programs of Cologne conference c/o Pop and Hamburg’s Reeperbahnfesival.
Ten years ago, first P2P download platform Napster heralded the CD’s end. Meanwhile, the first online pirate is present in European Parliament. Culture Pirates are not the enemy, music journalist Matt Mason argues in his free of charge published ebook „The Pirate’s Dilemma“ They invent new styles, technologies, and business models. Without their innovations today’s culture industry would not be conceivable.
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Online advertising has grown to become a significant driving force of modern economic trends over the years.
Despite the economic impact of the 2020 pandemic, digital advertising spending increased in 2020 and 2021, rather than decreasing compared to the 2019 figure. And it’s predicted to continue rising.
As ad spending grows, the online marketing landscape will be more competitive than ever in 2022. You need to personalize customer experiences to cut through the noise.
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Digital advertising helps persuade targeted customers to take specific actions like making a purchase.
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Online Advertising Examples
Targeted Online Advertising
Targeted advertising is one of the most effective online advertising strategies.
It’s a form of digital display advertising where marketers deliver promotional messages to customers based on their specific traits, interests, and preferences. Advertisers get this info by tracking consumer profiles and online activity.
Examples include: online behavioral targeting, contextual targeting, geographic targeting, and time targeting.
Targeted ads have many advantages, including:
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Depending on your budget, prices are based on the limit you set on an advertising platform. As soon as you reach the limit, the advertising platform stops showing your ads.
That said, here are five ways to up-sell and cross-sell your previous customers using targeted advertising:
- Analyze past buyer metrics to help you understand the true motivation behind their purchases;
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Paid Online Advertising
In online paid advertising, you have to buy ad spots in real time to attract internet traffic. The featured ads appear on specific websites, and marketers or businesses compete for keywords related to their products and services.
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Google Ads is a paid advertising platform under PPC, where you pay per click or per impression on an ad. Ads from the platform can also be seen on YouTube, Blogger, and the Google Display Network.
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- It offers you tools to manage and monitor your accounts.
Facebook Online Advertising
Facebook ads work on a PPC model where you pay the network each time a user clicks an ad.
It enables you to build brand awareness, increase visibility for your ads, and measure clearly defined metrics to create better, more optimized ad campaigns.
The cost of Facebook advertising is determined by a daily or lifetime budget. Daily budget is where your ads run continuously throughout the day, while lifetime budget is where your ads run for a specified period.
The advantages of Facebook advertising include:
- Facebook has over two billion users worldwide, so Facebook Ads can help you reach a wider audience;
- Both B2B and B2C companies can use Facebook Ads to reach their target audiences;
- Facebook Ads allow you to drive referral traffic to your business’s website.
Video advertising refers to promotional content that plays before, during, or after streaming content. Some marketing professionals expand video advertising to include display ads with video content, such as videos that start playing when you put a mouse cursor over them.
Examples include in-stream video ads, out-stream video ads, and bumper ads.
The benefits of video advertising include:
- You can communicate the necessary information quickly to your target audience.
- You’ll gain more social shares and attain a wider customer reach.
- You can educate customers about your offers interestingly and interactively.
YouTube video advertising costs depend on audience targeting, watch time, and campaign objective. On average, YouTube ads cost $0.10 to $0.30 per view.
Local advertising promotes your small business to audiences close to your business location with messages reflecting the local market.
The main benefit of local ads is attracting more local clients. You’ll also be charged less to advertise in a local publication than in a national one.
These lower costs can help you fine-tune your local advertising strategy. If one approach isn’t working, you won’t have spent a lot of cash discovering why.
Amazon Online Advertising
Amazon advertising works in a similar way to Google’s PPC. Sellers only pay when buyers click on ads (regardless of whether or not the item sells).
Amazon sellers have many ad formats and placements to choose from when creating advertising campaigns. They include Amazon-sponsored products, sponsored brands, and product display ads.
Benefits of Amazon advertising include:
- It has the brand-safe, high-quality environment that advertisers want;
- It shortens the sales cycle;
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- It boosts brand awareness;
- You can get valuable insights into changing consumer habits and optimize advertising campaigns to reach a more targeted audience.
Ecommerce Online Advertising
Ecommerce advertising is any form of online advertisement that raises awareness and drives traffic to online stores.
Online ecommerce advertising includes content marketing, influencer marketing, and search engine or social media ads.
An ad campaign that works well for one ecommerce business may not be effective for another. It’s important to test and measure your return on investment (ROI) on each online and offline channel.
Build Your Online Advertising Strategies Today
You’ll need careful planning when designing your online advertising strategy. Do an analysis, integrating various advertising channels to increase audience reach and improve results. Also, calculate your total revenue using a revenue calculator to learn how your products are selling and plan accordingly.
Part of your online advertising strategies should include email marketing. It’s a cheap and effective form of digital advertising and a superb way to boost sales and build customer loyalty.
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It may be surprising to some, but lawyers are terribly inept when it comes to managing their offices and law firms. The problems that poor management creates at a law office-including, but not limited to, organization, environment, relations, and overall work quality-are a major source as to why employees leave. 1 Seeing as law offices as a whole have developed a notorious reputation for high turnover rates in the last decade, management is a serious issue that needs to be addressed.
Looking into what is involved in law office management and what needs to be done with it for an office to be successful requires an in-depth look. This article will serve to provide those who want to improve the management capabilities of their law office, or are interested in becoming a law office manager. It will not be a finite guide with information that is entirely set in stone; things change with time and new information is discovered and made available to those who need it. The main purpose of this article will be to provide the foundation for you, the reader, to build your management abilities on.
Like the manager found in any other business setting, a law office manager's main duty is to oversee the day-to-day of a law office. It's an administrative position that is often responsible for much of the behind the scenes activities that most clients are unaware of. In some cases, the lawyers in the firm are not even fully aware of how much their managerial co-workers do. That lack of awareness might explain, or at least contribute to, why lawyers are poor managers when left to their own devices.
A law office manager will serve multiple roles, often several at a time. They may take on the role of secretary, accountant, librarian, salesperson, public relations specialist, or technician, to name a few. During the hiring process, many may be told to be prepared to take on the role of a paralegal in the office, even though they are not actually one. It wouldn't be surprising to find a law office manager taking on the role of everything but lawyer at a firm.
What Are Their Responsibilities?
The duties and responsibilities that a law office manager will need to do on a daily basis are going to depend on the firm itself. Bigger firms are, obviously, going to result in more responsibilities than smaller firms do. Staff sizes, whether it's in terms of the amount of lawyers or managerial staff at a firm, are also going to affect a law office manager's responsibilities. There may also be other tasks that are not listed in this article that a law office manager may encounter during their day to day.
- Scheduling-Scheduling is usually the biggest task that a law office manager is going to be involved with. Most law offices, when looking for a law office manager, will list schedule management as one of the main and important duties. 2 Each lawyer in the firm is going to have their own schedule, made up of dates for hearings, trials, client meetings, and other appointments. In addition, there are going to be schedules for the office as a whole. Things in the office would easily descend into chaos without out someone actively managing the schedules of the firm. Management, in general, is designed to provide order and a degree of control. Having a law office manager then can ensure that order remains in the office.
- Client interactions-Most of the client interactions a law office manager will have will be in getting the clients set-up at the office and continually coordinating with them throughout their case. When a client enters a law office, the first person they will interact with will often be the manager, who often takes on a secretarial or administrator role. The manager acts as a liaison between clients and lawyers, passing information back and forth, sending reminders and documents. Client interactions, as a result, require many customer service-like skills.
- Financial duties-A law office is still a business and it is going to have many financial responsibilities that need to be addressed on a daily basis. Most of the finances at a law office are going to concern fees related to the court. There are also fees that the clients are required to pay as part of their contract retaining the firm's legal services. There may or may not be an accounting division within the firm, so billing services may fall upon the office manager. Combining the responsibilities related to client interactions and finances, law office managers may also be the ones to send or collect billing information and fees from clients. They may also be the ones to notify a firm's accounting division of services rendered so they can be added to a client's final bill. Most law firms, big and small, have their services set-up as being billable by the hour. 3 Tracking billable time accurately may also fall to the law office manager as a back up, and can prevent issues and disagreements between clients and the firm.
- Paperwork-Filing and organizing paperwork is another major aspect of a law office manager's responsibilities. The organization of all that paperwork, regardless of it remains in hardcopy or is transferred into a digital format, takes a lot of care and attention. Due to a law office manager's administrative position, they are often the one who oversees the organization, creation, and movement of all of the paperwork in the office. It will usually be their responsibility to make sure that the right documents get to the right places and people, and by the time that they need to. The training and certification that law office managers need to have, as discussed below, are often necessary for this part of the job. Errors with legal paperwork can be disastrous and time consuming, so having someone who knows exactly what they are doing is crucial.
- Office organization-The general organization of a law office is primarily decided upon by the law office manager. They may have a basic foundation and input from the lawyers who own the firm, but the bulk of the organization of the firm is theirs. Being able to effectively organize-and keep up with that organization-is essential to the management of a law office. Designing an equally effective organization system is also essential, as it will need to be adjustable for changes and easy for everyone in the office to work with. Law office managers should also be able to work and keep up with their own organization designs, and make the necessary changes for them to do so.
- Training-Law office managers may be considered the most senior-ranking employee in the firm that isn't a lawyer. They may be the ones responsible for supervising other non-lawyer staff during normal operations. Their familiarity with the firm's structure and daily operations may make them perfect for conducting or supervising the training of new employees. Keep in mind that the tasks, duties, and responsibilities of a law office manager can cover basically everything in a law office. Establishing the firm's structure and organization, the daily routine, and procedures are usually a part of managing the office. 4 With that in mind, who better to train staff members who will be integrated into that structure than the person who keeps it running every day?
What Limitations Do They Have?
Just as the lawyers in a law office are human and have their limits, so do law office managers. Some of the limits they have are a result of what they are capable of doing on their own-for example, if they are the only staff member that isn't a lawyer, then they take on the entirety of the workload without being able to divide it. Other limits are based on what they are allowed to do within the confines of the law. The limitations placed on a law office manager can affect their work, and it is necessary to be aware of what those limitations are. Keep in mind that trying to bypass one's limitations is acceptable in certain situations, while it can lead to serious consequences in others.
Within The Office-The limitations present within the law office itself will vary from firm to firm. Some limitations may be a matter of budget, the office's physical size, and the needs of the office. A law office manager should familiarize themselves with the firm's existing structure and organization. In doing so, they will become familiar with the limitations that are already present that may hinder their performance in some way. Setting their own limits-what they are capable of, what they are comfortable with-is also something that a law office manager can determine for within the office.
On A Legal Level-Most legal limitations that a law office manager will have is based on their involvement in a client's case. Every staff member in the office is bound to the same laws and regulations as the lawyers are. They cannot disclose information about a case to those not involved without the permission of the client. They cannot be access certain pieces of information about the client without the correct permissions and access routes. All staff, managerial and otherwise, is also held to a degree of legal accountability. 5 That too can create limitations for a law office manager.
What Qualifications Are Needed?
Very rarely will a managerial position be an entry-level one or not require some form of educational background to qualify. The extent of what requirements a law office manager will need to have will vary to some degree from office to office. Firms that specialize in a specific type of law may require potential managers to have some kind of background or familiarity with that law type.
Education-The educational requirements for law office managers are often either an associate's or bachelor's degree in paralegal studies. 6 Degrees in law office administration or management may also be considered as suitable requirement options. As stated above, some law firms specialize in specific legal niches like corporate, business, or criminal law. Those firms will often seek managers who have degrees or an educational background relevant to those niches. In some cases, a completed degree may not be necessary, so long as the person intends to follow through and complete it within a certain amount of time.
Experience-As with any job, having some level of experience with elements involved in the position is going to be necessary. For a law office manager, there is only so much that can be taught in a classroom setting and experience often fills in the gaps. Most degree programs will require an internship of some sort in order for students to graduate. Experience, from a hiring perspective, acts as a gauge of how well a person is able to apply their classroom knowledge to real world situations that are relevant to their careers. Familiarity with anything involved at a law office-software, finances, customer service, etc.-is also expected.
Additional Certification-When seeking a law office manager, some firms will look for managers who have certifications that are relevant for their firm. It could be for software programs that the firm regularly uses, which be needed over time as the firm goes through updates and changes in its internal structure. Classes on topics relevant to the firm-again, think in terms of legal niches-or for refreshing needed skills.
While it may not be an outright requirement or necessary qualification, continuing education efforts like seeking the next degree level may also be recommended. Some firms may offer some form of incentive employees who continue their education, like paying for some or all of the fees for a degree program. The most common option, in that regard, is a master's degree in law office management rather than paralegal studies. | <urn:uuid:5e293249-d9d6-4367-b597-42537e2a8ffc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.universalclass.com/articles/business/the-abcs-of-law-office-management.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.970846 | 2,302 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Did you know that...
The name Gunnersbury is derived from the Old Scandinavian female name Gunnhildr and the Middle English word “bury” which means manor. The name translates to Gunnhildr’s manor. The majority of the houses in this W4 area date from the pre-war era. Most of them are flats, semi-detached, detached, and terrace houses. The British Standards Institution is an iconic Gunnersbury building. The 18-floors building was IBM UK headquarters between 1966 and 1992. This building is on Chiswick High Road. The local tube station is on the same street.
Gunnersbury station opened in 1869 as Brentford Road. The original station had four platforms. The current name is in use starting with 1871. The Chiswick Curve tracks were removed in 1932. Chiswick Village housing estate was developed on the site. In 1954, the station suffered severe damage from a tornado. Six people were injured and the roof of the station was ripped off. In 1960, the station was remodeled with only two platforms. Several London bus routes serve this station. In 1921, a London General Omnibus Company facility was established near Chiswick High Road. The facility closed in 1989 and the site was redeveloped in 2001 as the Chiswick Business Park which features 12 office buildings. Companies such as Singapore Airlines, Intelsat, CBS News, and Discovery Europe have offices in this West London business park.
In 1983, for the first time in Britain, a land development was stopped for ecological reasons. Gunnersbury Triangle was declared a nature reserve in 1985. This area has birch woodland, wet woodland, and acid grassland. It is a popular place for school trips. Gunnersbury Boys’ School in nearby Brentford takes its name after this area. Notable former pupils include actor Richard O’Sullivan, rugby player Marland Yarde, and guitarist Jamie Kensit. Gunnersbury Park was established as a public park in 1926 after it was bought from the Rothschild family. | <urn:uuid:f1d6a67a-8c9d-4919-9abc-e308a3c7b192> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.missmaid.co.uk/end-of-tenancy-cleaning-gunnersbury-w4/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.979011 | 427 | 2.359375 | 2 |
The World Health Organization (WHO) has suspended the approval process for Russia's Sputnik V COVID vaccine.
A regional WHO official said the manufacturing process of the jab had not met the necessary standards.
Russia first applied for approval from the WHO for their vaccine in February but has not yet received an Emergency Use Listing (EUL).
The WHO says they have delayed approving the jab until a new inspection can be carried out at one of the plants where Sputnik V was manufactured.
Research published in The Lancet medical journal shows that the vaccine has 91.6 per cent efficacy against the coronavirus.
On its official Twitter account, Sputnik also claimed on Wednesday that the jab demonstrated 97.2 per cent efficacy during the vaccination campaign in Belarus.
But both the WHO and European Medicines Agency (EMA) have said that they were still waiting for complete data from the vaccine's manufacturers.
Speaking at a press briefing for the Pan American Health Organization, a regional branch of the WHO, Assistant Director Jarbas Barbosa said Russia’s bid for emergency authorisation had been put on hold.
"While inspecting one of the plants where the vaccine is manufactured, they found that this plant was not in agreement with the new best practices of manufacturing," he said on Wednesday.
"The producer [of the vaccine] needs to take this into account and make the necessary changes and be ready for a new inspection."
"The WHO is waiting for the manufacturer to send news that the plant is up to standard," he added.
The WHO had previously raised concerns about possible cross-contamination and insufficient during an inspection at Sputnik V manufacturing factory in Ufa.
In June, the company managing the plant -- Pharmstandard -- said in a statement that the WHO interim inspection "did not identify any critical issues".
"We invite WHO for another inspection. We remain fully transparent and will continue with the WHO pre-qualification process."
On Wednesday, Barbosa confirmed that Sputnik V must wait for approval until the new inspection can be carried out.
"Any vaccine manufacturer who wants to be approved by WHO has to submit all information about the quality and manufacturing process," Barbosa said.
"They need to prove that sites, where the vaccines are manufactured, are in agreement with best practices".
Gaining approval from the WHO would be a huge success for Russia, and could also facilitate the travel of millions of vaccinated Russian citizens. | <urn:uuid:642bfac9-86a2-4d99-bd87-1dc8db747ecc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://times.ky/who-suspends-sputnik-v-approval-process-over-manufacturing-concerns | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.966537 | 502 | 1.898438 | 2 |
How Creative Input Can Be A Game-Changer In Schools
Creativity thrives in so many different conditions - but nothing brings out the best in impressionable minds like a nurturing environment.
South Auckland’s Aorere College’s approach of embracing the creative process had a huge impact on former student Nirvika Nair.
“Aorere College is so special to me,” she enthuses. “In year 9 - as with many others that age - I struggled a lot with finding who I was. After taking subjects like Drama and Digital Technologies, I was able to find what I really enjoyed.”
So helping to broaden the creative horizons of the next wave of students was an easy decision for Nair. Now finishing her final Bachelor of Communications Studies papers at AUT, she has a desire to pursue a career in editing.
“I really enjoy post production and bringing together different elements to make a cohesive story. I love storytelling, especially when it comes to highlighting my community.”
Nair and her former teacher Muzaffar Ali put their heads together to utilise the Creatives in Schools programme, seizing the opportunity to apply for funding of up to $17,000 per project for their joint project to provide engaging learning experiences for students.
Their concept played to their collective strengths - the creation of Arotahi, a news-style show created by Aorere students on both sides of the camera, telling the stories of their school and their communities.
It’s an extension of the Aorere Film Academy (AFA), which was born nine years ago and has blossomed into a hive of creative activity. AFA is also behind AFA Productions that produced Code-Switch multi-art theatre show, which Nair has co-written alongside Marietta Apulu and Lex Shoemark.
Ali explains “we are very lucky to have AFA, it started off as an extracurricular activity but is now a timetabled class with credits attached and students can gain UE (University Entrance). They are able to do a mixture of Media Studies, Digital Technology and Generic Technology standards depending on their role and interest in the academy.”
The spark for Arotahi came from - of all things - COVID.
Last year’s second wave of Lockdowns put the kaibosh on AFA’s ability to take their successful Code-Switch live production into Auckland’s Q Theatre and to Te Papa. The future of events was up in the air.
After helping create a virtual school prizegiving - when an in-person event was taken off the cards - Ali says “that is when I thought about a webisodes style project, where students could produce online episodes that could be made under the health settings.”
After presenting the concept to Principal Leanne Webb, Ali recruited Nair, who had already been giving her time to AFA. “It’s so great that she was able to be paid for her mentorship this time,” Ali nods.
Nirvika Nair and Muzaffar Ali. Photo: Supplied.
"Nirvika understands what the student experience is like, she is aware of the latest conventions and she resonates well with the students. She has lived and belongs to our community so she just gets it!
“Her knowledge of the industry lifts the game for the students in terms of quality and standards - it’s been invaluable.”
The power of giving back
Having been in the students' shoes herself - Nair knows the importance of empowering them.
“I always believe in young people and the fact that they can be trusted with big ideas,” she states.
Aorere students working on an episode of Arotahi. Photo: Supplied.
“Arotahi allows students to not only take up responsibility and leadership with strict deadlines, but also have an outlet to be as creative as they like. Any ideas the students have, we try to incorporate them in some way while talking about it in a team.
“I really enjoy mentoring and passing on whatever I have learnt, both from university and my time in AFA.
“Aorere has such a diverse student body, not only in background, but also interests, strengths and opportunities. I feel that programmes like these allow the staff and community to realise how amazing the students are if they are given the opportunity.
“It is super cool to hear them be comfortable with taking feedback from others, but also just as important to pat themselves - and each other - on the back after a successful show.”
Aorere College's school hall is transformed into the Arotahi set. Photo: Supplied.
Ali can see the influence Arotahi is making with his students.
“They absolutely enjoy it and it gives them an avenue to express themselves. They are very engaged and have found themselves through the process. I can see them growing creatively, especially under pressure - it helps them think outside the box.
“Knowing that there is a large audience that watches their content makes them come up with new ideas all the time. They push each other, keep up with trends and develop their creativity through this journey.”
Nair has found the whole Creatives in Schools process hugely fulfilling. “It’s a great way for creatives to share what they love and be paid for it.
“No matter the size of the project, I think it will have a big impact on those involved. Not only the students but for the community and most importantly, you as a creative.
“It is really rewarding to see how you can help people to discover things about themselves. A creative process is not simple and can help someone be more confident, have leadership, be a team player and communicate well."
Having fielded interest from the wider community about what they’re doing and how it might be replicated, Ali has simple advice for any educators thinking about applying.
“Do it! It will broaden your students’ horizons and is a great opportunity for professional development as well. You learn a lot from the creative and gain invaluable industry insights.” | <urn:uuid:6b8c66a5-c5a7-4c24-ac93-5d450e763f60> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thebigidea.nz/stories/how-creative-input-can-be-a-game-changer-in-schools | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.971265 | 1,305 | 1.992188 | 2 |
KUCHING: Forty students from SMK Batu Lintang were given a talk entitled, ‘Money Basics to Teenagers’ on Sept 24.
The talk was given by the managing director of Little Tauke Kuching Delia Su who was invited by the English Language Department of SMK Batu Lintang under the Highly Immersive Programme (HIP).
“The talk aimed to empower students to achieve a life of financial independence, philanthropy and gratitude.
“Hence, after the 65-minute interactive workshop, the students were given two weeks to create three money jars, decorating them with the three labels, namely, ‘Save’, ‘Spend’ and ‘Share’.
“The winner of the little competition was Claire Joanne Ong Jia En who won RM100 followed by Tan Nik Hung, and Phang Chuk Mei who won RM80 and RM50 respectively,” Su said.
Ariel Elmer Renggie Michael, a Form 4 student, shared that she had learnt a valuable lesson from the talk.
“The session taught me that money did not come from trees, parents nor banks but from one’s hard work and determination in life,” she said.
Meanwhile, the host and English language teacher Ho Jia Yiing shared that she would ask her students every now and then what they would like to learn during English classes.
“Interestingly, few boys would cheekily respond, ‘How to be rich?’. Hence, I decided to invite a professional speaker to speak on this matter to fulfil our learners’ need and that we could park these activities under HIP Outreach programmes.
“With this, I’m thankful to our excellent Principal Bahtiar Afandi who is ever so supportive in all our English programmes.
“In fact, a school principal acts as an anchor and is responsible to run the HIP as part of the school activities,” she added. | <urn:uuid:850b164f-f42a-4c4b-a47f-86b929a95920> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.newsarawaktribune.com.my/talk-teaches-students-money-basics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.967337 | 419 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Partial Dentures – What Are They?
Partial dentures consist of replacement teeth which are placed on a plastic base. Your dentist can design a partial denture based on your needs.
Unlike full dentures, partial dentures may have a metal framework and a clasp used to connect to your natural teeth. Other connectors may also be used to ensure they look more natural.
Some cases require precision attachments as a way to attach the denture to your natural teeth. Dentures with precision attachments can be more costly than dentures with clasps.
Dental crowns on natural teeth may also be required to improve the fit of partial dentures.
Should you opt for partial dentures or dental bridges?
Your dentist will help you decide which option is better for you. When deciding, the dentist will determine how each can work with your remaining natural teeth.
Both options can fill spaces, prevent shifting of teeth and improve the ability to chew and talk. However, each option functions differently and requires separate regular upkeep.
What to expect when you have partial dentures?
They may feel awkward when you first wear them, that which is normal. After a few days or weeks, you’ll get accustomed to wearing your new partial dentures.
It can also take some time before you get used to inserting or removing them in and out of your mouth. No matter what you decide, follow the instructions of your dentist.
Dentures must fit into place; never bite it down to put it in position as it could only bend the clasps.
To identify those areas that may need adjustment on a partial denture, you may have to wear them all the time during the first few days. Soon after, an adjustment of the partial denture may be needed to make them fit more comfortably.
You must take them out of your mouth before sleeping and place them back in the morning.
During the first few days or weeks, you may need to consume soft foods to adjust to the dentures. You may also need to avoid sticky foods and chewing gum during the adjustment period when your dentures may cause soreness.
Should you use a denture cleaner?
You may use a recommended denture cleaner. Never use toothpaste when cleaning your denture because it’s abrasive to the denture material. Also, do not use any household cleaner to clean your dentures, these products may not only damage your denture but may be potentially toxic if ingested.
Do partial dentures require adjustments?
Yes, they do require some adjustments over time. That’s because as you age, your mouth changes naturally, thereby affecting dentures’ fit.
If your partial denture no longer fits well, your dentist will adjust them because poor fitting dentures could cause sores or infections. You must visit your dentist as soon as possible if your partial dentures become loose.
You may find a do it yourself kit online to repair your partial dentures. Never use it as it may cause more harm than good to your dentures.
Furthermore, never use over the counter glues as they contain chemicals that can harm your body when ingested. Call your dentist as soon as possible if your denture breaks.
Alternatives to Dentures
Dental bridges are viable alternatives to dentures, dental implants are also ideal. Both alternatives are more expensive than partial dentures but they closely resemble your real teeth. Nowadays, more and more patients choose dental implants over partial dentures.
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Alexander Kremer spent his childhood in Repino, a little town not far from Saint-Petersburg. The beauty of charming nature impressed the artist and was shown in his amazing painting.
The artists depicted the earliest spring time, when the nature awakes from winter sleep. The weather is still gray and it’s typical for this northern region. But still, we can see the icy river has already thawed and the ground can be seen under the huge snowdrifts.
The artist masterly used two methods such as realism and impressionism together. For his painting “Early Spring” Kremer used canvas and oil paints. | <urn:uuid:f5685bec-fdd5-48c0-83c7-201c37ddfb03> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pushkin-art.com/product/early-spring-oil-on-canvas-40x60-2012/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.97334 | 131 | 2.75 | 3 |
Vision: To shape renewable energy and energy-efficiency policies in India using technology options to inform policy and solve energy issues.
Our research is focussed on expanding the use of clean energy and shaping India's renewable energy policy. We are also engaged in ensuring increased uptake of rooftop photovoltaic systems through improved mapping and analysis. Our studies aim to integrate high amounts of renewables into the grid; consequently, we are exploring options for grid-infrastructure improvement, smart-grid technologies, and enhancing operational and financial efficiencies of utilities. We are also examining technology scenarios for cleaner fuel and efficient practices in industries, to limit energy consumption without compromising on the quality of services. | <urn:uuid:9cbebeda-93cf-4e9b-b476-72d5c6d20328> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cstep.in/verticals.php?id=891 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.913494 | 134 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Around and about half of student loans are never repaid, meaning that the taxpayer – you and me – picks up the bill. This isn’t a sensible manner of funding the universities but it is the one we’ve got. A justification is offered for this.
First though, some degrees have very much lower repayment rates than others:[perfectpullquote align=”full” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””] Degrees in “creative arts” subjects – which includes Music, Drama, Fine Art and Design Studies – are the most costly to the taxpayer since so few alumni earn enough money to pay back their student loan in full. Of the £9 billion that the government spends on higher education each year, more than £1 billion is on creative arts courses alone, where three-quarters of the total amount dished out in loans is picked up by the taxpayer. Economics degrees are the least costly to the public purse, with each one costing an average of £11,000 to the taxpayer, with just a quarter of the loans written off. [/perfectpullquote]
Undoubtedly if we looked at grievance studies – sociology and moving left from there – we’d find even worse repayment rates.
Which is where part of our problem is. The aim of having students pay the costs of their education was so that students would choose something that it was worth their being educated in. Make them spend their own money – even if borrowed – on themselves and we should gain better decision making. A big break on repayment for bad decisions doesn’t quite do that. We might suggest lowering the repayment limit to the minimum wage to change that.
But here’s the justification on offer:[perfectpullquote align=”full” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]Chris Skidmore, the universities minister, said he believed universities were a good investment for tax payer. Speaking at the Festival of Higher Education at Buckingham University he said: “Ultimately it is good value for money. Look at what international students are willing to pay – far more for their degree in the UK – because they know they are getting world class education.[/perfectpullquote]
Ah, but how many of those foreigners are paying for arts degrees and grievance studies? Whatever the difference is between their choices and those of the indigenes – I’ll bet heavily that it’s substantial – is exactly the misallocation of resources caused by the luvvies and whiners not having to pay the cost of their own educations.
That allocation of students to courses revealed by the foreigners having to carry full freight themselves is exactly what reveals to us what the correct mixture of courses should be. | <urn:uuid:1d6c4d24-b9da-4c3f-833a-d6c6c2ad4a0e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.continentaltelegraph.com/2019/06/but-how-many-foreigners-are-doing-creative-arts-and-grievance-studies/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.96851 | 621 | 1.9375 | 2 |
In a globalised world, money is rapidly becoming borderless. Heightened migration and commercial expansion on an international level have triggered a stark increase in remittance payments being sent, globally. Reports show that the bulk of remittance payments are being directed at developing countries by migrant workers. These payments ranked higher in their contribution to the recipient country’s economy than foreign aid.
In 2018, The World Bank reported that remittance sent to low and middle-income countries reached a record high of $529 billion. Although the Covid-19 pandemic initially triggered a dip in remittance payments being made, trends show that they are, once again, on the rise. While the reliance on remittance is not the all-purpose built solution for emerging economies, remitted payments have drastically increased the GDP of these countries.
What is a Remittance?
When transacting money, we expect that a fraction of that sum will be lost to the central banks or the institutions we are transferring money to. However, the fees incurred from remittance payments are notoriously high, as many will have noticed when trying to take out money from an ATM abroad.
Whether you are a company owner or a migrant worker, fair remittance payments are crucial; not only will that increase the recipient’s fiscal spending power, but it will often serve as an emergency response fund for individuals experiencing a natural disaster or political conflict.
Fair remittance means that money can flow directly from the remitter to the recipient family member or friends, as opposed to foreign aid, which may never reach the parties in need of it.
Types of Remittance
When discussing remittance, there are two types to be aware of:
- Inward Remittance: when funds are sent domestically, from one person to another within the same country.
- Outward Remittance: when funds are sent to a bank account in another country.
Right now, outward remittance is skewed towards exploitative rates. This means that individuals sending money from their host country to the recipient’s face a transaction fee, a loss of value due to the exchange rate, and a fee relative to the speed of the transfer. This can take anywhere from under an hour to more than six days.
Remittance as Industry
Competitors in the remittance industry that can offer high-speed transfers and limits, favourable rates and no hidden fees are starting to have an edge over the renowned market-dominant, Western Union. Notably, the impact of blockchain on the remittance industry is also having a major impact.
The great diaspora remitting payments to their countries of origin are likely fulfilling families or individuals in developing countries who are considered to be underbanked. Moreover, remittance payments can function as an alternative financial solution for often the poorest segments of society.
In 2017, 1.7 billion people were classifiable as ‘unbanked’ in emerging economies. This means that these individuals lack access to banking infrastructure, a mobile phone or the required government-issued ID to open a bank account.
A lack of financial inclusivity is no good for the underbanked individual nor the country’s economic system as a whole. Those who remain under or unbanked, tend to develop a general distrust of banking systems and further, a lack of participation in the country’s economy.
The Importance of Remittance
In certain cases, remittance payments that flow directly to citizens in developing countries can function as business start-up capital. This enables the injection of funds into business infrastructure that will eventually act as a catalyst for employment opportunities, innovation, and stirred competition.
The result of start-up capital is plain to see, from the tech giants dominating Silicon Valley to the dramatic impact of Alibaba on Hangzhou, the domino effect of enterprise transforms the operation of cities. Remitted payments can therefore provide financial leverage for start-ups, paving the way for financial success.
Thankfully, there is a much safer, efficient and transparent alternative to this. System participants are able to send fiat currencies or digital cryptocurrency assets via the Kinesis Monetary system for an extremely low fee, with the transaction executed in seconds. What’s more, the ecosystem offers users the option to purchase physical gold and silver currencies, KAU and KAG, which are backed 1:1 by the respective precious metals. In turbulent times of high-level inflation and economic instability, money parked in precious metals is becoming increasingly more appealing for those in emerging markets.
As for the remittance industry as a whole, the diversification of providers can be a positive aspect for individuals. More competition means that companies will have no choice but to do better in regard to their services, rates, and product offerings. It may be this rivalry that leads, eventually, to fair remittance policies for all. | <urn:uuid:0d89fd77-a4cd-46df-af4d-165ac05254ee> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kinesis.money/de/blog/fintech-shaping-remittance-industry/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.948407 | 996 | 2.90625 | 3 |
If flying is so dangerous right now, why do airline workers have lower overall infection rates than the general population? This is one of many questions being asked, as the world weighs travel restrictions, and the devastating effects covid-19 are having not only on the population, but economies worldwide.
The CDC just released a lengthy report on covid-19 transmission on board long haul flights from the days before masks were made mandatory onboard, and even then, transmission wasn’t nearly as bad as many would think.
But let’s start with the sobering reality. As surmised in the study: the risk of covid-19 transmission on planes is “real”. Also in reality, the risk of covid-19 transmission is real virtually anywhere that isn’t your own personal space, and therefore a trip to a local coffee shop may be a level of risk that’s understandably unacceptable for many.
For many people, travel is a risk too great right now, and there’s zero judgement on that front. People must assess risk as it applies to them, using as much scientific data as possible. Many travelers will be encouraged by the report in the sense that finding a spreader event was noteworthy, rather than “not” finding being of note.
Covid-19 Transmission On Long Haul Flights
The CDC studies examined a variety of flights from February, March and April, during peak covid-19 infection periods, and tested and traced not only passengers on board, but nearly all close contacts prior to, and after the flight.
Notably, the study followed these flights in February, March and April, long before masks were made mandatory or used at all, and before airlines stepped up cleaning measures.
Perhaps crucially, no pre flight covid-19 testing for international travel was in effect at this point either, and could have made all the difference in the worst case results. For symptomatic travelers, access to covid-19 testing was also scarce at the time, and in many cases, full symptoms hadn’t been addressed to the public yet.
The tl:dr story is that a flight had covid-19 spread to other passengers during this time, but others, even ultra long haul flights did not.
On a 15 hour flight from China to Canada, one person was known to be infected with covid-19 during the journey, but is not believed to have infected anyone on board the flight. After testing and tracing, not a single other person is known to have contracted covid-19, though limitations are noted. The CDC report states…
In January 2020, no secondary cases were detected after a 15-hour flight to Canada with a symptomatic person with COVID-19 on board (29), although contact tracing and monitoring were limited (30). Similar results with similar limitations have been reported from flights arriving in France (31,32) and Thailand (33) in January and February.CDC Report
Basically, before masks on board became a thing and airlines started handing out sanitizing kits for your seat and belongings, a variety of flights had infected passengers and after exhaustive research, the best conclusion was that no other flight passengers became infected on the majority of sampled flights.
The study woefully omits any recent data on flights in the following months since health and hygiene measures were introduced on board. A central focus of the CDC study was instead an outlier of spread from a flight in March, during the height of viral intensity in which a passenger knowingly put others at risk, and did.
Of the 5 main flights studied by the CDC, only one had defined covid-19 spread. A sixth flight from Singapore was also examined, where 16 covid-19 infected passengers were on board, but are believed to only have infected one additional person during the trip.
The flight from London to Hanoi in early March saw one passenger infect up to 16 people is believed to be the worst covid-19 spreader event in air travel studied. Those who were infected were almost all within close proximity to the spreader for the flight, which is legitimate reason to add pause, for some.
The passenger, which the CDC believes to be the “Case 1”, did not wear a mask or limit their movements while on board. Somewhat buried in the CDC report, the person was also knowingly symptomatic when they embarked on their travel journey, and ignored all warnings not to travel despite experiencing severe cough, shortness of breath and fever prior to flight.
The person was also in direct contact with someone who had just been in a highly infectious area, which is why country efforts to require covid-19 testing or additional quarantine restrictions for flights embarking from certain departure points adds a vital level of security.
Effectively, the spreader on this flight lied at check in when questioned about any of these symptoms, or their contact with people from high risk areas. In the least surprising news of 2020, people simply can’t be trusted to self isolate or cancel plans, no matter how much we wish it not to be that way.
Country or airline insistence on mandating recent negative covid-19 tests prior to flight could absolutely help in further mitigation of any travel related risks. Both Dubai and Emirates currently require a negative covid-19 test prior to flight, and before entry into the UAE, and after months of tourism has yet to experience a significant spike in cases. In Bahrain, of 713 new cases, 4 were believed to be travel related.
The airline doubled down by offering all passengers up to €150 in covid-19 related coverage, even for destinations beyond where they fly with Emirates for a period of 30 days. Virgin Atlantic and Etihad recently followed, with their own complimentary covid-19 cover for passengers.
But, what about short haul flights?
Short haul flights were recently hypothesized by MIT studies to carry a chance of covid-19 infection of between 1:4400 – 1:7700. The study gained traction with a separate new study suggesting cabin crew and customer facing airline staff in the USA have a .08% instance of covid-19 infection, compared to 2% for the general population.
Rather than being worse off for covid-19 infection, the data puts customer facing airline employees more than a single percentage point less likely to become infected.
Health officials currently recommend at least one fresh mask for every 4 hours of potential exposure, so if you’re taking a 10 hour flight, and have 4 hours of transit and airport time, plan to bring 14 hours worth of masks on board. That’s four masks, by the way. Regular hand washing and sanitizing of surfaces is also crucial.
The CDC report is far from a happy go lucky endorsements for a return to travel. However, the relatively low instance of new infection on flights, even in March before face masks, sanitizing products or mandatory covid-19 testing restrictions were added on board is encouraging. Use widely accepted available data to create your own risk assessment in travel.
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Did you know that excessive anger can lead to everything from the common cold to heart attacks? On today’s WellCast, we’re going to teach you how to healthily process your anger in just three simple steps!
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Writing and journaling is a cathartic, therapeutic experience. I started a journal when I was first diagnosed with Bipolar disorder. It helped me accept the illness, and work through the ups and downs of living with mental illness.
I’m a mental health writer and advocate and often find myself telling people to ‘reach out’ when they’re struggling. I stress how honesty and openness are important, that you can’t move forward without sharing your story with the people closest to you.
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Through the years I’ve had many mental health crises. I’ve been on the brink of ending it all, of no longer wanting to fight, of no longer wanting to exist.
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Star Wars is undeniably one of the greatest Sci-Fi works the world has ever seen. Who could forget the lightsaber-wielding guardians protecting peace and justice across the universe?
Sometimes when someone is very ill, their behavior can be challenging. It’s difficult to understand and to deal with. Often when someone is manic/ hypomanic, they can be very disinhibited. Their behavior could be embarrassing for you.
I’m going to share with you 5 activities that you should consider trying to make your life at home—and post-quarantine—better than ever.
What do these photos say to you? You probably see a happy, smiling young person, enjoying life. The reality is I was ill in each of these photos.
For years I heard voices that were so real, so dynamic and full of energy, It felt like they were my friends. They’d urge me on and gave me an intense confidence boost.
Relationships can be difficult on their own even when the world around the couple presents no additional challenges. However, when one or both partners suffer from mental illness resulting from trauma, it can lead to more complex relationship bonds that may or may not be entirely healthy.
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True fear is a signal to the presence of real danger. Unwarranted fear, we confuse for anxiety, stress, worry, or dread, is based upon our memory.
Post-traumatic stress disorder takes an enormous toll on the individual but often overlooked is the effect it has on loved ones caring for someone with PTSD.
I’ve always been a dreamer. To some, it was my best quality; others would tell me to get my head out of the clouds. I knew my love was out there. | <urn:uuid:a9dd4bf1-8dfb-476b-b774-9180b8d10aaa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.newlifeharmony.com/our-blog/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.962052 | 842 | 1.90625 | 2 |
This guy is Admiral Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth. He's an outstanding example of the kind of extraordinary men who formed the backbone of the Royal Navy during the days of the British Empire. He fought privateers off Newfoundland, captured Java from the Dutch, and in one incident, swam out from shore to the troop carrier Dutton, aground in heavy seas with a line, which resulted in the survival of almost the entire ship's company.
Before this, however, Pellew was commander of the frigate Indefatigable, stationed off Ushant. In 1795, a French invasion fleet with 17 ships of the line and fifteen thousand troops was dispatched to land in Ireland, then a hotbed of revolution, and to march inland, hoping to bring civil war on the island of England. The English blockade fleet, under Admiral Colpoys, was driven by bad weather into the Atlantic Ocean, and only Pellew's frigate remained, despite days of foul weather- the worst Pellew would ever experience during his illustrious career. Without time to alert Colpoys, Pellew devised a plan. Under cover of night, the Indefatigable would infiltrate the French fleet, firing off misleading signal flares and guns, causing disruption and possible ruin for the French.
It was a brilliant success. One battleship, the Seduisant ran aground, while the rest of the fleet was completely scattered. They eventually reassembled, but too late for a successful invasion. As they returned to port, Pellew picked out one damaged French vessel, and despite being rather heavily outgunned, managed to force it aground as well. At the time, Pellew was a promising but still untested officer. After this incident, where his ship single-handedly may have changed the course of world history, he was rapidly promoted and eventually became one of the finest officers that the world's greatest navy ever produced.
Where, you ask, are we going with this? I'll tell you: Matt Greene.
James Mirtle has a nice piece up today about the not-ready-for-primetime Los Angeles Kings. Here is his rendition of the teams depth chart on defense:
Jack Johnson - Matt Greene
Denis Gauthier - Tom Preissing
Peter Harrold - Drew Doughty
That is an ugly group. Looking at it, though, we can say a few things about Matt Greene:
a) He's being thrown into the fire.
b) By the end of the year, we'll know what he's made of.
Greene has shown promise. He plays physically. He sacrifices the body. Among Oilers regulars last season, he had the nicest GAON/60. Of course, he posted that in a prime position, with decent teammates and nobodies on the other end of the ice, and he still got outscored, but he was certainly a low-event, defensively reliable guy in that situation. And he's going to get a chance to be a legitimate, tough-opposition, shut-down defender, because:
a) Doughty is 18.
b) Harrold and Preissing can't do the job.
c) Denis Gauthier spent last season in the AHL, and prior to that got murdered by second-pairing opponents.
Still, while the smart money is on Greene being in way over his head and ending the year a scorched, empty hulk of a defenseman, he could surprise. He's young yet, he seems bright enough, and he certainly has some physical tools to work with. If he's going to break out, it'll be this year.
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The earliest, indeed the very first, dialogue between a Muslim scientist and Hindu thought took place when Albiruni (971-1039) arrived in India in the second decade of the eleventh century in circumstances that were rather ironical. He came as a camp follower of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni (967-1030). Whereas the chief purpose of Sultan Mahmud, the king of Ghazni, was to plunder the immense wealth in the form of gold and money at some of the more famous Hindu temples, the sole aim of Albiruni was to gain from the immense riches of Indian philosophies and the sciences.
That was probably also the time when Indian sciences had, on the whole, no longer anything of theoretical importance to add to their earlier great achievements. The most creative period of science in India was over by a century or two, perhaps. None of the sources Albiruni mentions in his Ta’rikh-ul-Hind was contemporary. | <urn:uuid:01c5c677-21a7-47b7-821e-99e0510cc2fe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.geniuses.club/blog/what-the-iranian-scholar-albiruni-said-about-hindus-echoed-centuries-later-by-vivekananda | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.977448 | 200 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Sarkar and colleagues study the effect of testosterone therapy (TT) in men that were treated with curative intent (radiation therapy or surgery). From a significant cohort(~70,000 men) a group of men undergoing TT was compared to those who did not, and biochemical recurrence was used as an endpoint. The authors recognize the limitation that this an observational type of study, as time on testosterone, and serum testosterone values were not available.
Nevertheless, the fact that TT did not increase biochemical recurrence rate, suggest that testosterone therapy is safe in these selected men with localized prostate cancer after definitive treatment.
Written by: Jack Schalken, PhD, Professor, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Does kindness REALLY make us happy?
In brief. Yes. Experts have been studying the science of kindness for decades and much has been written about the benefits of being kind. Kindness makes us feel good, mentally and physically. Read on...
Aside from the fact that being kind makes you feel good, it’s also really important. Now more than ever, we live in a world where we’re constantly exposed to negative messages via social media and the news... and it’s not always easy to deal with.
Being kind helps to create an overall climate of trust, acceptance and comfort - the perfect antidote to this age of online cruelty and general snarkiness. Here’s why:
It helps to combat the ‘negativity bias’
Although we’ve evolved as a race since our caveman days, our brains haven’t. As a result, we still have an innate ‘negativity bias’ - a defence mechanism which makes us pay more attention to the bad than the good in order to keep us safe.
Back in the day, it was vigilant to keep worrying about the last place we’d seen a sabre-tooth, whereas acknowledging the pretty flowers wasn’t important. Today, the brain works the same way even though we’re almost never in any imminent danger. For example, getting a single mean comment on an Instagram post can make twenty positive ones seem to fade into the abyss.
The good news? Being kind can help, as it gives us something good to focus on and boosts our opinion of ourselves. After all, it’s harder to dislike yourself when you know you’re helping to make the world a better place!
It helps to create a sense of community
Humans are naturally a tribal race. Coming together as a community used to be essential for our survival, but it kept our happiness levels up too. Today, we rely less and less on each other for survival and as a result, communities are diminishing. Where humans used to gather round to share food from the day’s hunt or keep a lookout together for potential predators, today we have 24/7 convenience stores and burglar alarms.
The reasons to communicate with other people face-to-face are dwindling, meaning our social circles are too. Being kind to strangers, acquaintances and friends helps to strengthen bonds and the sense of community, creating a deeper and more meaningful connection than you could ever get through Facebook.
It’s good for your health
In January 2018, a study found that 85% of UK adults are experiencing stress regularly whilst research by the World Health Organisation found that approximately 3 million people in the UK are suffering with anxiety. With numbers so huge, it can be easy to feel somewhat powerless from time to time… but there’s something that each and every person can do to help, even if only a little bit.
When we’re kind, our bodies release oxytocin (a.k.a. ‘the love hormone’) into our bloodstream. This triggers a chemical reaction which dilutes our blood cells and shrinks inflammation in the cardiovascular system, thus reducing blood pressure and the chances of heart disease. But that’s not the only trick up its sleeve. Oxytocin can also help with mental, as well as physical, health by modulating fear and anxiety and producing antidepressant-like effects.
So, being kind is important for your physical and mental wellbeing and overall happiness. And, as most of you probably know, happiness is contagious!
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Edward O. Laumann
Edward O. Laumann served as the eight Provost of the University of Chicago. Laumann was born in Youngstown, Ohio in 1938 and earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University in 1964. He came to the University of Chicago in 1973 by way of the University of Michigan, where he was hired as an Assistant Professor right after graduation. Laumann served as the chair of the Department of Sociology and the Dean of the Social Sciences before being named Provost of the University of Chicago in 1992.
Laumann is known for his pioneering work in social network analysis and the sociology of sexuality. Today he is the Director of NORC's Ogburn-Stouffer Center for the Study of Social Organizations, the Chairman of the NORC Board of Trustees, and is also the George Herbert Mead Distinguished Service Professor. His many honors include membership in Phi Beta Kappa, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, serving on the editorial board of the Law and Social Inquiry journal, and being named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. | <urn:uuid:8abcacde-65ac-4768-819b-575d931c9f42> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://provost.uchicago.edu/directory/edward-o-laumann | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.971601 | 223 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Diego Echeverria’s film skillfully represents the challenges residents of the Southside faced: poverty, drugs, gang violence, crime, abandoned real estate, racial tension, single-parent homes, and inadequate local resources. The complex portrait also celebrates the vitality of this largely Puerto Rican and Dominican community, showing the strength of their culture, their creativity, and their determination to overcome a desperate situation. Beautifully restored for the 30th anniversary premiere at the New York Film Festival, this documentary is an invaluable piece of New York City history.
Jan Bijvoet - Theo
Jan Bijvoet was born in Antwerp in 1966. He has been one of the artistic directors and actors of the Antarctica Theater since 2005. He has also performed in film and television, guest-starring in a number of series. He has starred in the films AD FUNDUM, THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN (Academy® Award nominee), and BORGMAN (Official Selection – Competition, Cannes 2013). In 2007, he was nominated for the Flemish Culture Award of Scenic Arts. Referring to the German explorer who was the inspiration for his character, he reflects that even though Grünberg tried to integrate with the native people, he could not let go of his white spirit. “He had the western way of thinking, and he wanted to carry hundreds of things to study. Love is possession, too. He is also afraid of death. He doesn’t understand why, but it’s because deep down, he is a materialist since his formation, even though he tries to drift away from it.”
Brionne Davis - Evan
Brionne Davis was born in Texas and started acting at a very early age, playing Tom Sawyer. He has starred and taken leading roles in more than 30 independent feature length and short films and television series, including REST STOP: DON’T LOOK BACK (2008), DOROTHY AND THE WITCHES OF OZ (2012), Pandemic (2007), NARCISSIST (2014), SAVAGED (2013), and HOLIDAYS WITH HEATHER (2006). In New York, Brionne starred in the Theatre Row adaptation of Sam Shepard’s “True West.” He has appeared in many theater productions all across the country, including “Wallenburg” at the Soho Playhouse, “A Noble Exile” in Los Angeles and “Nueva York,” a one-man show that he wrote  and produced, inspired by the writings of Tennessee Williams. Davis’ character “Evan” in EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT was inspired by the great botanist and explorer Richard Evans Schultes, and he feels close to him in his love of and search for plants and nature.
Antonio Bolívar Savador - Old Karamakate
Antonio Bolívar Salvador is one of the last survivors of the Ocaina people. He resides near Leticia and has had some previous experiences in filmmaking, but he prefers not to speak about them because he feels that they were disrespectful to his culture. Besides playing one of the main characters, he also served as interpreter for the Tikuna, Cubeo, Huitoto languages and even English, as he became the teacher of the international actors. He represents the best of the Amazonian people: willing to trust foreigners, to transmit their knowledge and thankful to be treated respectfully. That’s the most important aspect of the film to him: “It is a film that shows the Amazon, the lungs of the world, the greater purifying filter and the most valuable of indigenous cultures. That is its greatest achievement.”
Nilbio Torres - Young Karamakate
Nilbio Torres has never set foot in a gym; his amazing physique has been sculpted by the hardships of the jungle and the hard work he’s done since he was little. The 30- year-old has only worked in agriculture and this is his first experience with the cinema. He has a hard time expressing himself in Spanish, as he speaks mostly Cubeo. But he manages to find words to tell what this experience has meant to him. He feels the film is faithful to the story of his ancestors. “What Ciro is doing with this film is an homage to the memory of our elders, in the time before: the way the white men treated the natives, the rubber exploitation. I’ve asked the elders how it was and it is as seen in the film, that’s why we decided to support it. For the elders and myself it is a memory of the ancestors and their knowledge.”
Yauenkü Miguee - Manduca
Yauenkü Miguee was born and raised in Nazareth, a Tikuna community of the Amazon, 26 years ago. He is now a student of physical education in Bogotá and is about to achieve his greatest goal: to become a professional. He defines his participation in the film as a new experience in his life, this time from the field of art and corporal expression, which reinforced his thinking and showed him how to see life from different perspectives. He believes this film should be shared not only with the people of the locations, but all across the country, with all the indigenous peoples in Leticia and the Amazon, with the leaders, in schools and universities. He is the voice of many Manducas, a voice that, far away from the so-called civilization, cries out for a more civilized attitude towards Colombia’s indigenous communities. | <urn:uuid:1475ccdb-8de7-4a14-ac56-b01aa1378af3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lossures.oscilloscope.net/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.9773 | 1,181 | 1.804688 | 2 |
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In 1997, Boys and Girls Country established the College and Career Program (C&C) to continue offering a family for our kids to come home to – beyond high school graduation – as they follow their own, individual paths to adulthood. Since that time, 111 of our kids have graduated from high school, and 26 have graduated from college or a technical program.
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As explained in the DHS alert, the SamSam actors exploit Windows servers to gain persistent access to a victim’s network and infect all reachable hosts. According to earlier reports, this is done by:
- The cyber actors using the JexBoss Exploit Kit to access vulnerable JBoss applications
- The cyber actors using Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to gain persistent access to victims’ networks
After gaining access to a particular network—typically through brute force attacks or stolen login credentials—the SamSam actors escalate privileges for administrator rights, drop malware onto the server, and run an executable file, all without victims’ action or authorization.
Detecting RDP intrusions can be challenging because the malware enters through an approved access point. While many ransomware campaigns rely on a victim completing an action, such as opening an email or visiting a compromised website, RDP allows cyber actors to infect victims with minimal detection.
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On June 8, 1942, with the Second World War at its height, a Nazi officer in civilian uniform entered the Institute of Hygiene in Berlin and was shown into the office of Major Kurt Gerstein. The visitor brought an order from his superior, Adolf Eichmann, of the Reich Security Main Office: Gerstein was to collect a large quantity of a special gas from a secret factory and deliver it to a location in Poland.
The gas was Zyklon B, a variant of hydrocyanic or prussic acid, which released deadly fumes on contact with the air. Its use was not discussed.
Gerstein already knew. Earlier that year he had received a briefing document about the creation of “necessary” buildings in an occupied Poland “for the gassing of the Jews.” Gerstein suspected that Zyklon B was the means by which the mass murder would be accelerated.
But despite his appearance, Gerstein was no ordinary Nazi. He had joined the Waffen SS to expose its crimes. Now, he would not only be a witness to the horror—he was being ordered to ensure the instrument of murder was delivered to its destination.
When resistance failed, he infiltrated the SS.
A tall, slim man with a serious face and dark, penetrating eyes, Kurt Gerstein was 35 when he applied to join the Waffen-SS in September 1940.
A quick glance at his record showed that he had the makings of a perfect recruit. He had been born into a deeply conservative household, and both his parents were enthusiastic Nazis.
But a closer look at his life suggested both the will and courage to rebel. At school he gained a reputation for truancy and insolence, behavior that brought him into conflict with his father. He found comfort in the Bible and, on leaving school to study to become a mining engineer, spent his weekends writing pamphlets for a national Bible circle.
When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Gerstein was angered by Hitler’s plans to create a Nazi-influenced German Protestant church. In February 1935, he stood up in a theater to protest at an “anti-Christian” play and was beaten up by members of the Hitler Youth.
Undeterred, he continued his public criticism of the Hitler regime. He was arrested twice but, after spending several weeks in a concentration camp, he suddenly appeared to be a changed man. Getting a job in a potassium mine, he helped the local Hitler Youth and received a Nazi certificate of good citizenship.
But it was an act. Gerstein had realized that, as the Nazis would destroy anyone they perceived as an enemy, the only way to change the regime was from the inside.
And his desire to expose the regime had been intensified by a new, sickening discovery. While inquiring about the death of a relative, Gerstein discovered the Nazis had started a secret program to euthanize the “mentally afflicted.” Dismissed by his own family for believing British propaganda, Gerstein said: “I intend to know what’s going on!”
On March 15, 1941—six months after he applied—Kurt Gerstein was accepted into the Waffen-SS. Within months, his dedication to his work and his knowledge of engineering and medicine got him noticed by his superiors, and he was transferred to the Institute of Hygiene in Berlin, where chemists worked in strict secrecy on experiments for the Reich. When Gerstein developed methods of tackling an outbreak of typhus in the Wehrmacht, he quickly became the institute’s leading expert on disinfection and sanitation.
To the Nazis, German society could only be truly “disinfected” by the removal of the Jews.
‘We need you to improve the service of our gas chambers.’
The snow was falling in Berlin on the morning of January 20, 1942, when a series of black cars swept through the gates of a luxury villa in Wannsee, a suburb southwest of the city. Some 15 senior officials of the Reich had been invited for a special meeting in this relaxed location, as army orderlies served them drinks.
The meeting had been arranged by Reinhard Heydrich, the chief of the SD, an intelligence agency of the SS. He and his associates had been set a task: to make all the “necessary preparations to organize the complete solution of the Jewish question within the German sphere of influence in Europe.” The meeting would put theory into practice—and put the Holocaust into motion.
A few months later, an underling of Adolf Eichmann arrived in Gerstein’s office to deliver an order: Collect Zyklon B and deliver it to the East.
In early August, Gerstein traveled with a convoy into a forested region of the former Czechoslovakia to pick up the gas containers from a potash plant, before heading into Poland.
Gerstein’s inner turmoil consumed him. At the next stop, he pretended to inspect the cargo and told the others that one of the containers was leaking. They helped him bury it at the side of the road.
It was a victory—but only a small one.
The Zyklon B convoy arrived at the SS barracks in Lublin on August 17, 1942. It was from his base here that local SS police chief, Brigadier-General Odilo Globočnik, was creating a network of death camps at Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka—with the aim, he boasted, of liquidating all Polish Jews. The mass-killing at Belzec had already begun, and the plan was to kill every Jew within a few hours of arrival.
Looking at Gerstein, the “sanitation” expert, Globočnik said: “We need you to improve the service of our gas chambers.”
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‘Take a deep breath. It strengthens the lungs.’
Nestled against the side of a wooded slope, the camp at Belzec consisted of SS barracks, a small railway station and a series of compact buildings. As Gerstein watched, the latest transport of Europe’s Jews chugged to a stop. The camp commandant, Christian Wirth, a senior policeman who had put Hitler’s euthanasia program into such deadly practice, stood there to meet it.
Wirth was anxious, as he had a point to prove: He believed the fumes from the gasoline engine they had attached to the death chambers could kill more efficiently than Zyklon B, and he didn’t want to be shown to be wrong in front of the expert from Berlin.
The first part of the deadly ritual went according to Wirth’s plan: Hundreds of men, women and children were hurried out of the train and propelled by whips and shouts across the rough ground.
A loudspeaker told them that before they could be put to work they would have to take a shower.
The women and girls, taken first, were sent running through a channel between barbed wire to the Bade und Inhalationsräume, the bathing and inhalation rooms, where a fat SS man with a kindly face told them not to worry. “All you have to do is take a deep breath. It strengthens the lungs—a precaution against disease!”
As one woman of about 40 came up the steps, she turned to Gerstein and Wirth, and cursed her murderers. Wirth swung at her with his whip, and she was pushed inside.
The agony of a malfunctioning gas chamber
The death chamber was soon so packed that the SS and their Ukrainian helpers had to use their shoulders to force shut the heavy doors. There were screams, prayers and shouts of anger and hatred, too.
SS sergeant Lorenz Hackenholt now stepped forward. He was in charge of the truck whose exhausts were fed into the chambers to choke the victims. But its engines failed to start. Wirth shouted and cursed in embarrassment, as inside hundreds suffered unimaginable prolonged agony.
Minutes turned into an hour. A stopwatch ticked—part of Gerstein’s instruction to judge the most efficient method for committing industrial-scale murder.
From inside, the cries returned: “Help us! Please help us!”
When the engine finally started, it ran for 32 minutes until all inside were dead.
Later, as the others from the train were murdered, Wirth showed Gerstein the piles of valuables stolen from the victims. As he pocketed two gold coins, he told Gerstein that the problem with the engine had not happened before and he asked him not to propose any changes to Berlin.
Gerstein lied and told him that the consignment of Zyklon B he had brought appeared to be contaminated and would need to be dumped.
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Gerstein tried, unsuccessfully, to alert the Allies.
Returning to Germany alone on a night train to Berlin, Gerstein met a Swedish diplomat named Baron Göran von Otter. In the poor light of the blacked-out train, Gerstein broke down in tears as he described what he had seen. “If you tell the Allies, then they can drop millions of leaflets all over Germany,” Gerstein said, “so that the people will know what is happening, and they’ll rise up against Hitler.”
The Swede made a full report to the neutral Swedish government which, afraid of aggravating its relationship with Hitler, shelved it until after the war ended.
Back in Berlin, Gerstein contacted the Swiss legation there, which was also concerned about antagonizing Hitler, and then the local papal nuncio, who—unknown to Gerstein—believed in “compromise and conciliation” with the Third Reich. The nuncio’s staff had Gerstein removed from the building.
Back in his apartment, Gerstein slumped in a chair. “I’ve lost my last hope,” he said.
At work, Gerstein was pushed further into the horror, trying where he could to divert or sabotage consignments of gas. “The machine has been set in motion, and I can’t stop it,” Gerstein told a friend. “It’s something to have seen it with my own eyes, so that someday I can testify to it.”
How Gerstein was perceived after the war
In 1945, as Nazi Germany collapsed, Kurt Gerstein seized his opportunity to testify. Abandoning his post in Berlin, he drove west and surrendered to French forces. At first, accepted as a genuine anti-Nazi, he wrote a report on what he had seen at the death camps. But when French army intelligence took him to Paris, they told him that he was being investigated as a war criminal. On July 25, 1945, he hanged himself in his cell.
Meanwhile in Poland, investigators were coming to terms with the horror that had been perpetrated in Sobibor, Treblinka and Belzec, where an estimated 1.4 million of Europe’s Jews had been murdered.
In August 1950 Gerstein’s name was put before a de-Nazification court in Germany to assess his reputation. The court accepted that Gerstein diverted and destroyed quantities of Zyklon B in “acts of resistance,” but said his actions were “not sufficiently important or influential to stop this machine.” It ruled Gerstein was not “among the main criminals but has placed him among the ‘tainted.’”
The writer Saul Friedländer, whose parents were murdered by the Nazis, has argued that the court “condemned him, in effect, for the uselessness of his efforts.”
Fifteen years after the judgment, a higher court overturned the guilty verdict.
Greg Lewis is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist. He is co-author, with Gordon Thomas, of Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule.
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Volume 40, Number 5, December I 1997
|Page(s)||521 - 526|
|Section||Condensed matter: structure, thermal and mechanical properties|
|Published online||01 September 2002|
Electrostatics in the self-assembly of macromolecular surfactants
Laboratoire de Dynamique des Fluides Complexes,
4 rue Blaise Pascal, 67070 Strasbourg, France
2 Max-Planck Institut für Polymerforschung, Postfach 3148, D-55021, Mainz, Germany
3 CNRS-Rhône-Poulenc, Complex Fluids Laboratory UMR166, Cranbury NJ 08512-7500, USA
4 Institut Max Von Laue/Paul Langevin, 38000 Grenoble, France
Accepted: 17 October 1997
We report on a small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) study of dilute solutions of neutral and charged polystyrene-polyisoprene (PS-b-PI) diblock copolymers in dimethyl acetamide (DMAc), a polar selective solvent for PS. This is a model macromolecular surfactant system: the low glass temperature of the PI block ensures that thermodynamic equilibrium can be attained; the ionic character of the copolymers is provided by a single sulfonate group at the free chain end of the PI block. The crossover from ionic to non-ionic behaviour is investigated by addition of salt. The results are compared to theoretical predictions for micellization of these model macromolecular systems.
PACS: 61.25.Hq – Macromolecular and polymer solutions; polymer melts; swelling / 61.20.Qg – Structure of associated liquids: electrolytes, molten salts, etc / 83.70.-f – Material form
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A key part of this role is maintaining a history of the wholesale electricity market, which started in October 1996. The industry was self-regulated initially. The Electricity Commission was then established in 2003 and replaced with the Electricity Authority in 2010.
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The Authority was running on an on-premises SQL Server-based data warehouse, which showed its age – it lacked scalability and flexibility. Electricity market participants had already begun modernising their systems, and the Authority needed to upgrade to maintain visibility across data. They struggled to process vast amounts of data and risked not fulfilling their role as an efficient and reliable regulator of the electricity market.
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Every half hour, the Authority refreshes its generation and price history data. Market participants then use this data for analysis and forecasting. Much of the data is republished as the Authority receives more accurate data from market participants, meaning the data sets are both large, and there are multiple versions to be managed. For the Authority, this sits at around 5 Terabytes collected over the past 15 years.
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They have experienced a significantly reduced data processing time - from hours to minutes – thanks to the elasticity and scalability of Azure and Databricks.
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Fridays with Fred: A photographic essay of the college in the teens
A few days after Christmas in 1955, Beloit College Alumni Secretary Jim Gage received a welcome, but unexpected, letter from Harris Dale Hineline, class of 1915:
In my arrival at Beloit College in September, 1911, I had with me a very good camera, which I used to make pictures of Beloit people and places, (and sold many post card copies!). And, I have kept the negatives, with the thought that sometime, I would make prints from them for the College. That time has now come, and I have made 8 x 10 projections prints from about seventy two of those negatives, and bound them up in a reasonable good volume, to go on the Library shelves if you like.
Within a short time, Gage received a sturdy volume covered in heavy cardboard edged with pink cloth. Hineline scrawled its title in black pen: “Beloit in the ‘Teens.” Opening the book, Gage discovered an astonishing collection of photographs illustrating daily life on the Beloit College campus over 40 years earlier.
“The pictures are very superior and are equal to those we are taking today,” he wrote to Hineline. “This was a period in Beloit College history that is not very well documented in our files with pictures and for that reason I am most eager to have this book. For instance, the chapel interiors are priceless as we have no pictures, to my knowledge, showing the interior arrangement of the Chapel before it was made over in 1938.”
The 1915 annual, the Codex, identifies Hineline as “Harry,” but like every other student in those days he also sported a nickname. His fellow students called him “Shrimp.” While at Beloit he sang in the Vesper Choir and served on the Codex board as, naturally enough, a photographer. His portrait (below) reveals a strong face with an intense, bespectacled gaze. Although he left Beloit in early 1914 and received a B.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin, he remained an ardent Beloiter and loyal member of his class. For several years he served as a research chemist for the Eastman Kodak Company and Westinghouse, before spending the majority of his career as a patent solicitor and attorney. All along he remained fascinated by photography, setting up his own darkroom for negatives and prints, and creating homemade books of his best work. He passed away at the age of 83 in 1973.
Hineline documented a Beloit just prior to the exodus of men during World War One, with closer ties to the 19th century than to the Jazz Age. Edward Dwight Eaton was in the last years of his lengthy presidency before giving way to the more progressive style of Melvin Amos Brannon. Hineline’s photographs reflect a gentle period in Beloit College’s history. Its 400 students enjoyed recreation along the Rock River, visiting Big Hill, singing together at Chapel, studying at the Carnegie Library and in their single-sex dormitories, and, just like today, hiking across campus to classes and getting to know favorite professors. “Shrimp” Hineline’s marvelous photographs allow us to bring to life the Beloit of a century ago. We’ll provide a generous, two-part helping.
In late September, 1911, women from the class of 1915 lined up to cheer on their men at the Cane Rush, held annually between freshmen and sophomores at nearby Horace White Park.
In the ensuing melee, the freshmen failed to adequately protect the piles of canes and the sophs won the contest by breaking three canes and cracking a fourth. The Round Table described their too-speedy victory as “a severe disappointment for the blood-thirsty spectators.”
Students of Hineline’s era made their own music, from choirs and glee clubs to a mandolin club and a popular college band. When the football team played at home, the band would lead a boisterous parade from campus to the grandstand at Keep Field, site of today’s Strong Stadium.
The football team prepares for battle in October 1913. Fifth from left in front is star guard George C. Fucik, later a member of Beloit’s Athletic Hall of Honor. The 1915 Codex commented: “Greater athletes than he may have lived, but we doubt it.”
A victory snake dance after a football game in 1912. Such sights were common that year, as the football team lost only one game out of nine, crushing opposing teams by such lopsided scores as 74-0 and 65-0.
George Carpenter Clancy was a popular professor of English and Rhetoric from 1911 to 1945. In January 1912, he and his wife Bernice resided at 717 Emerson Street, without cell phone or television, but with plenty of books and a darling tea set.
Ruth Higley Rau, class of 1915, in the classic, pensive pose of a student absorbed in her work. Perhaps the little stove kept a snack warm. We hope it didn’t set her notebook on fire.
In Hineline’s day, students and others enjoyed boating on the Rock River, even in winter, when he photographed these ice yachts in December 1911.
Hineline captured scenes from the second annual Gymnastic Festival, held at Emerson Hall on May 21-22, 1912. “The most delightful feature of the program,” the Codex explained, “was the Danish, Swedish and German folk dances by the girls in their colored costumes of those countries, with the appropriate national airs as accompaniment…”
“The festival closed with the graceful dance and braiding of the colored ribbons of the May Pole.” – 1915 Codex.
Although phonographs existed, this was an era when people enjoyed singing as a favorite activity. Greek groups sponsored informal sings. Students crowded around dormitory pianos. Students organized sizeable men’s and women’s glee clubs, and Professor James T. Sleeper directed the Associated Choirs, including the Vesper Choir, which sang frequently at Chapel services. Here they gather at the Senior Bench, a gift from the class of 1908. It stands today near the north side of Eaton Chapel.
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This raw data is being processed in real-time by clever methods to create a comprehensive mannequin of the vehicle’s surroundings and devise a technique on how to interact with the environment. But with methods becoming increasingly complex, conventional software development strategies and machine learning methods have reached their limit. Deep Learning and simulations have turn out to be elementary methods in the development of AI-based solutions. Meanwhile, a multitude of expertise companies, car companies, and startups — e.g., Google , Uber, and GM — have invested billions of dollars and made substantial research progress in fully autonomous driving. These companies have collected big quantities of driving data, constructed massive machine studying algorithms, and deployed prototypes and take a look at cars.
In addition, they’re of their early stages and never yet obtainable at scales and speeds required by real-time AV deployments. Their accessibility makes them significantly important for researchers and AV builders looking to enhance methods. Policy discussions may embrace entry to information collected by varied methods and the government’s function in funding open information collections. The diversity of market gamers investing in AV capabilities could be seen within the variety of patent filings associated to AVs by completely different teams of corporations (Figure 3.2).
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The “Google of China” is also making waves in autonomous autos together with its American counterpart. Baidu’s Apollo project is a long-running effort to commercialize self-driving vehicles. For the previous three years the corporate has been developing its Apollo Computing Unit .
Speaking with ZDNet at CES 2019 in Las Vegas, Rivera stated Intel is working with the Israeli government to ensure a safer surroundings for autonomous automobiles by way of Mobileye’s open Responsibility-Sensitive Safety software program model. introduced an settlement with Toyota to set up a three means partnership to develop next-generation automotive semiconductors for linked and autonomous automobiles. The companies aimed to establish the enterprise in April 2020 with a capitalization of fifty million yen ($458,968) and about 500 staff. announced a partnership to create Artificial Intelligence self-driving vehicle systems based mostly on NVIDIA’s computing platform, with a deliberate market introduction in 2021 for Level 3 autonomous features.
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It’s a great honor to talk to you today about the legacy of my hero and my boss, the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who I had the deep privilege and honor to clerk for during the 1997 term. My remarks are going to be pretty simple. I’m going to tell a couple stories. I’m going to read some lengthy quotes from Justice Scalia’s opinions because what better way to remember this man than through his own words? I’m going to provide some comments on why I think Justice Scalia made such a resounding impression on this country that went well beyond his legal principles and the jurisprudential principles for which he stood.
I think my favorite Justice Scalia story involves the law clerks’ one-time attempt when I was clerking to try to improve upon one of Justice Scalia’s dissenting opinions. He had circulated to us a proposed dissent in one of his cases, and it was, as usual, a very fiery Scalia dissent with lots of great rhetoric. He gave it to the clerks to review, and he asked what we thought of it. We said, “Justice, this is a wonderful opinion. But, you know, Justices Kennedy and O’Connor have also dissented, and we think that if you tone it down a little, they’ll probably join it.”
He looked at us, and he said, “That’s a good idea. Let me think about that.”
He went back into his chambers, and he came out a couple of hours later and gave us the new draft, and much to our surprise, he’d in fact jacked up the rhetoric. So we reviewed it again and said, “Justice, I have to tell you, we love this opinion, but if you did tone it down a little bit, we really do think that Justices Kennedy and O’Connor would join.”
He looked at us, and he looked down. He looked at the opinion. He looked up at us again and said, “Sometimes I just got to be me.”
One of the great things about clerking for the Justice was the law clerk reunions, which the current law clerks organize. Each law clerk plays a different role in organizing it. One of them gives a toast to the Justice.
In my mind, the best role that a law clerk always served was reading from what we called “the book.” “The book” was a bound volume of all of the Justice’s opinions from the prior term, and one clerk was responsible for reading select passages from “the book” to the other clerks in order to make sure that all of us knew what the Justice had been up to over the last year. I’m going to give you a couple of samplings from what a reading from that book would sound like because there’s no better way to remember this man than through his words. These are the words through which he will always be remembered.
Justice Scalia in His Own Words
My favorite Justice Scalia opinion was his dissent in United States v. Virginia—the Virginia Military Institute case where the Supreme Court held that single-sex education, a military academy run by the state of Virginia, was unconstitutional. Scalia was the lone dissenter in that case. In his defense, Justice Clarence Thomas was recused because I believe that his son or nephew attended VMI. This is what Justice Scalia wrote:
Much of the Court’s opinion is devoted to deprecating the closed mindedness of our forebears with regard to women’s education, and even with regard to the treatment of women in areas that have nothing to do with education. Closed minded they were—as every age is, including our own, with regard to matters it cannot guess, because it simply does not consider them debatable. The virtue of a democratic system with a First Amendment is that it readily enables the people, over time, to be persuaded that what they took for granted is not so, and to change the laws accordingly. That system is destroyed if the smug assurances of each age are removed from the democratic process and written into the Constitution. So to counterbalance the Court’s criticism of our ancestors, let me say a word in their praise: they left us free to change. The same cannot be said of this most illiberal court.
Another one of my favorites is Evans v. Romer in which the Court struck down Colorado’s law prohibiting special protections for homosexuals. There Justice Scalia, joined then by the Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justice Thomas, again dissented and wrote as follows:
The Court has mistaken a Kulturkampf for a fit of spite. The constitutional amendment before us here is not the manifestation of a “bare…desire to harm” homosexuals but is rather a modest attempt by seemingly tolerant Coloradans to preserve traditional sexual mores against the efforts of a politically powerful minority to revise those mores through the use of the laws.
When the Court takes sides in the culture wars, it tends to be with the knights rather than with the villeins—and more specifically with the Templars, reflecting the views and values of the lawyer class from which the Court’s Members are drawn. How that class feels about homosexuality will be evident to anyone who wishes to interview job applicants at virtually any of the Nation’s law schools. The interviewer may refuse to offer a job because the applicant is a Republican; because he is an adulterer; because he went to the wrong prep school or belongs to the wrong country club; because he eats snails; because he’s a womanizer; because she wears real-animal fur; or even because he hates the Chicago Cubs. But if the interviewer should wish not to be an associate or partner of an applicant because he disapproves of the applicant’s homosexuality, then he will have violated the pledge which the Association of American Law Schools requires all its member schools to exact from job interviewers: “assurance of the employer’s willingness” to hire homosexuals.
The Justice concluded:
Today’s opinion has no foundation in American constitutional law and barely pretends to. The people of Colorado have adopted an entirely reasonable provision which does not even disfavor homosexuals in any substantive sense, but merely denies them preferential treatment. Amendment 2 is designed to prevent piecemeal deterioration of the sexual morality favored by a majority of Coloradans, and is not only an appropriate means to that legitimate end, but a means that Americans have employed before. Striking it down is an act, not of judicial judgment, but of political will. I dissent.
The last quote that I’m going to entertain you with is from his dissent in Morrison v. Olson, which many people regard as the Justice’s greatest dissenting opinion. That’s a case where the Supreme Court upheld the independent counsel law, which vested in an independent prosecutor the authority to exercise the entire power of the executive branch when it came to carrying out a criminal prosecution independent of the President. There again, Justice Scalia was the lone dissenter in an eight-to-one opinion. He wrote:
It is the proud boast of our democracy that we have “a government of laws and not of men.” Many Americans are familiar with that phrase; not many know its derivation. It comes from Part the First, Article XXX of the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780, which reads in full as follows: “In the government of this Commonwealth, the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them: The executive shall never exercise the legislative or judicial powers, or either of them: the judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them: to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men.”
The Framers of the Federal Constitution similarly viewed the principle of separation of powers as the absolutely central guarantee of a just Government…. Without a secure structure of separated powers, our Bill of Rights would be worthless, as are the bills of rights of many nations of the world that have adopted, or even improved upon the mere words of ours.
And he concluded: “That is what this suit is about. Power. The allocation of power among Congress, the President, and the courts in such fashion as to preserve the equilibrium the Constitution sought to establish—so that a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department can effectively be resisted.” Then the next two lines, I think, will go down as some of the greatest in the lexicon of jurisprudential history:
Frequently an issue of this sort will come before the Court clad, so to speak, in sheep’s clothing: the potential of the asserted principle to effect important change in the equilibrium of power is not immediately evident, and must be discerned by a careful and perceptive analysis. But this wolf comes as a wolf.
Defending Our View of the Law
The passages from these three opinions out of Justice Scalia’s hundreds perfectly capture why his passing hit us so hard. They show two things that, combined, are why I believe that Justice Scalia will go down not just as a great jurist, but as one of the great conservative leaders of our time alongside men like Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater.
First, these passages powerfully articulate and defend a judicial philosophy that most of us would agree is the only legitimate one in a democratic republic. But at the end of the day, I don’t think that is what explains Justice Scalia’s greatness, because there are lots of jurists and philosophers who do that. Rather, the second—and in my view more important—point is that in these passages, Justice Scalia powerfully defended a view of the world that is increasingly under attack. Let me take each of these issues separately.
As to his judicial philosophy, Justice Scalia articulated a philosophy grounded in separation of powers that made clear that, ultimately, the only views that mattered in a democratic republic are the views that are enacted into the positive law through our republican form of government. Anything else lacked democratic legitimacy. I think that explains each of Justice Scalia’s great legal contributions to jurisprudence.
Justice Scalia believed in original understanding and textualism not out of a defense of empty formalism. He believed in these principles because they’re the only ones that ensure that all law is enacted by the people through their elected representatives. The Constitution was enacted by the people. The Declaration of Independence and the natural law principles that underlie it were not. That’s why, in the Justice’s view, only the words of the Constitution mattered.
The same is true for statutory text. Justice Scalia’s rejection of legislative history and public policy reflected the reality that legislation is almost always the art of the deal. There is no single, overriding purpose to a statute, but there are often competing and inconsistent purposes to a statute. To say that one specific purpose overrides the others is to break that democratic view. That’s why Justice Scalia believed the only thing that mattered were the words that got enacted, because those words are what capture the deal.
All of this explains why in cases like Morrison v. Olson, Justice Scalia sought so hard to rigorously enforce and defend the Constitution’s structural protections. In the Justice’s view, it was the constitutional structure that protected our liberty. Corruption of that structure was a corruption of the very republican form of government upon which everything else depended. As he said in Morrison, “Without a secure structure of separated powers, our Bill of Rights would be worthless, as are the bills of rights of many nations of the world that have adopted, or even improved upon the mere words of ours.”
So my first point: Justice Scalia’s greatest jurisprudential contribution was, in my view, his commitment to constitutional structure as reflected in the principles of original understanding and textualism. But I don’t think that is what makes Justice Scalia a hero to conservatives as opposed to simply a great jurist. Justice Scalia was not the first jurist devoted to constitutional structure, and I certainly hope that he won’t be the last.
Defending Our View of the World
This is what leads to my second point. The reason we crumbled when Justice Scalia died was not simply because we lost a great jurist. It was because we lost the single best and most articulate defender of our view of the world that most of us in this room have known and may ever know. We live in an era where our views, traditional views, are under constant attack. Our adversaries have not even tried to beat us through the democratic processes, but instead go straight to the courts where they often win not by asserting that our views are legally wrong, but by asserting that they are so fundamentally illegitimate that the Constitution prohibits them. And they now have an increasingly compliant judiciary that agrees with their policy views and is unconstrained by legal principle. This is where Justice Scalia’s contributions and leadership were so critical and why he will so dearly be missed, for in defending his view of the Constitution, Justice Scalia defended our view of the world.
To be sure, the Constitution does not dictate our political and philosophical viewpoint, and Justice Scalia would have been the first one to tell us that, but neither does the Constitution require adherence to 21st century moral values any more than it requires Mr. Herbert Spencer’s social statistics, and for good reason. As Justice Scalia said over and over again, there are reasons why traditional principles have survived for centuries. It wasn’t just dumb luck or a cross-generational multi-cultural conspiracy of white men. At the very least, Justice Scalia reminded us, the Constitution did not prohibit those time-tested principles. In short, just as there might be good reasons to change, there were also good reasons not to change, and the Constitution respected those reasons too.
Justice Scalia, therefore, defended our right to defend tradition, the values upon which this nation was built. Justice Scalia explained this well in Evans v. Romer, where he said, “Amendment 2 is designed to prevent piecemeal deterioration of the sexual majority favored by the majority of Coloradans.” He continued that this was “an appropriate means to a legitimate end.” He defended our right to defend tradition. I think he captured this best with his defense of traditional values in his closing lines of United States v. Virginia, the VMI case, where he wrote the following:
In an odd sort of way, it is precisely VMI’s attachment to such old-fashioned concepts as manly “honor” that has made it, and the system it represents, the target of those who today succeed in abolishing public single-sex education. The record contains a booklet that all first-year VMI students (the so-called “rats”) were required to keep in their possession at all times. Near the end there appears the following period piece entitled “The Code of a Gentleman.”
Then he quotes extensively from the code of the gentleman:
Without a strict observance of the fundamental Code of Honor, no man, no matter how “polished,” can be considered a gentleman. The honor of a gentleman demands the inviolability of his word and the incorruptibility of his principles. He is the descendant of the knight, the crusader; he is the defender of the defenseless and the champion of justice…or he is not a Gentleman.
Does not discuss his family affairs in public or with acquaintances.
Does not speak more than casually about his girl friend.
Does not go to a lady’s house if he is affected by alcohol. He is temperate in the use of alcohol.
Does not lose his temper; nor exhibit anger, fear, hate, embarrassment, ardor or hilarity in public.
Does not hail a lady from a club window.
A gentleman never discusses the merits or demerits of a lady.
Does not mention names exactly as he avoids the mention of what things cost.
Does not borrow money from a friend, except in dire need. Money borrowed is a debt of honor, and must be repaid as promptly as possible. Debts incurred by a deceased parent, brother, sister or grown child, are assumed by honorable men as a debt of honor.
Does not display his wealth, money or possessions.
Does not put his manners on and off, whether in the club or ballroom. He treats people with courtesy, no matter what their social position may be.
Does not slap strangers on the back nor so much as lay a finger on a lady.
Does not “lick the boots of those above” nor “kick the face of those below him on the social ladder.”
Does not take advantage of another’s helplessness or ignorance and assumes that no gentleman will take advantage of him.
A Gentleman respects the reserves of others, but demands that others respect those which are his.
A Gentleman can become what he wills to be.
The Justice closed: “I do not know whether the men of VMI live by this code; perhaps not. But it is powerfully impressive that a public institution of higher education still in existence sought to have them do so. I do not think any of us, women included, will be better off for its destruction.”
Powerful words. Justice Scalia did not just defend our view of the law, though he did that superbly. He defended our view of the world, and he did it better than anyone else. And that, I believe, is why we were broken to the core when we heard the terrible news on that cold February day.
It was my greatest honor to serve this man, so let me close with a short story on how I will always remember him. One of the great things that Justice Scalia always did with his law clerks before he actually cast a vote in a case is, he would bring the law clerks into chambers, and we would have a pretty open debate on how the Justice ought to vote. He at least created the illusion that he took into account what we thought before he cast that vote.
This one particular case involved the statute that was 18 U.S.C. § 922, which prohibits felons from possessing firearms. It was not a particularly important case, but the issue turned on whether this particular felon had violated this statute by being in possession of a firearm. The clerks were debating pretty vigorously back and forth.
As we went on and on, the Justice swiveled around in his chair with his back to us. At one point, one of the clerks that thought the felon hadn’t violated the statute invoked the Second Amendment, in response to which another one of the more liberal clerks declared, “Well, surely, you don’t think the Second Amendment protects felons.” In response to which, the first clerk declared, “When the revolution comes, we’re going to need the felons, too.”
At that point, I looked up at Justice Scalia, and I saw the back of his head, and he was just bouncing up and down, laughing. Justice Scalia had a wonderful face and an expressive face, but when I remember Justice Scalia, I will always remember the back of his head bouncing up and down in laughter.
Thank you for inviting me to participate in this celebration of one of our greatest conservative and American leaders.
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An exit interview is a final interview between an employee and employer prior to the employee leaving the company. It’s a way to explore the reasons why an employee is leaving the company. If you’ve ever left a job for any reason, you’ve probably had one of these.
Exit interviews are an important part of the employment cycle. Typically exit interviews happen in person and there is a written record signed by everyone involved. They provide useful insight into what worked well, what was valued, and ways to improve upon the situation. It allows an open channel for communication between the employer and the employee to exchange feedback and bring closure to the professional relationship. The ultimate goal is to make both parties better.
Exit interviews may be a big deal if you suddenly quit your job, because the employer wants to know why. They may just be part of the routine if you’re a seasonal employee at the end of summer. Before you head into your exit interview, be prepared. Often employers have a series of questions they will ask, such as:
- Why are you leaving?
- How do you feel about this company?
- What could we have done better?
- What does your new employer offer that we don’t?
There are more exit interview questions courtesy of BusinessBalls.com that can help you prepare. Also have a list of questions prepared that will help you.
It’s not a stressful situation, but it is a valuable one. You can learn how to improve and how you performed. Plus you can offer your employer information on how to reduce employee turnover and improve their operations in the future.
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Congenital heart defects are structural problems with the heart and/or major blood vessels which in the U.S. alone affect as many as 1.3 million people . A common form of abnormality is a stenosis or narrowing of the pulmonary arteries. Chronic pulmonary artery stenosis may lead to differential lung growth and reduced cardiac performance. Treatment, however, may result in no significant improvements in flow distribution or pressure because of the properties of the vascular bed downstream of the stenosis.
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Poor Cassandra. Bequeathed the gift of prophecy by the god Apollo, she was cursed with not being able to do anything about knowing the future when she refused his advances. What torment that must have been for her, but the real losers are, of course, the people of the world, who refused to listen to her warnings, and ended up suffering needlessly.
French philosopher Gaston Bachelard drew from the Cassandra myth in 1949 to develop the “Cassandra Complex,” referring “to a belief that things could be known in advance,” according to Wikipedia. Since then, the term has been used in many different contexts, and indeed, today, there are plenty of examples of Cassandra, foreseeing what will be, to no avail since no one listens.
Of course, there’s no way to know for sure when future-sayers are accurate and when they aren’t. Is the world really going to end at the end of this year, according to the Mayan calendar? Should we listen to every doomsayer on the street corner prophesying the end of the world tomorrow, and we had better repent our sins if we want to be exalted? No, of course not.
Some people that have more believability, at least in terms of a scientific, secular viewpoint in the modern world, but even then we tend not to listen to them.
I have to admit my mind was blown last week listening to Tom Stinson and Tom Gillaspy, the state economist and the just-retired state demographer, who gave a talk about the future of Minnesota. It’s not that I haven’t heard some of the concepts before — about how much things are going to change as the baby boomers retire and begin to need unprecedented medical care and how the global economy will affect our very way of life, especially if we don’t invest in education — but these warnings seem to be absent in the current education debates.
Sometimes, we get lost in the specifics and lose sight of the big picture. We divide in factions and fight over the insignificant instead of the huge steps that need to be taken so that we are not all drowned in the flood.
To me Gillaspy and Stinson are examples of modern Cassandras. (You can find their power point here, and my article summarizing it here.) And if we don’t want to end up the next lost civilization, maybe we should listen to them.
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This article was first published in the Spring 2014 issue of Touch
Nearly half of the world’s citizens will be using the internet by 2017, and almost two-thirds of that proportion will be using a mobile device, according to Forrester Research World Online Population Forecast, 2012 to 2017. With the consumerisation of IT, public sector organisations worldwide are starting to consider mobile solutions that meet the needs of both their ever-mobile workforce and empowered citizens. Public sector organisations need a mobile solution that is both flexible and secure, however.
Windows 8 devices and apps reflect these unique needs, providing rugged, flexible, secure, yet cost-effective solutions that benefit both the mobile workforce and citizen. “Another advantage of Windows 8 for the public sector is how seamlessly it bridges between the desktop and other devices,” says Russ Agrusa, ICONICS’ CEO and president. “We want to give our customers a consistent experience when moving to different devices, and by using a Windows 8 app running on a tablet, for example, they don’t have be trained to use it because it has the same look and feel as the applications they are used to – because it’s Microsoft.”
Agrusa adds that there is no compromise with Windows 8. While it is easy to use and offers improved flexibility for mobile workers, it is still a secure, enterprise-grade platform ideal for government, healthcare, education and public safety organisations.
“Of the approximately 210 million government workers worldwide, only about one in six have desk jobs that keep them connected to their city’s IT network. About 175 million government workers –most, if not all, of whom have phones in their pockets –are off the IT grid all day and not receiving employee services,” explains Joel Cherkis, general manager, worldwide government at Microsoft. “By connecting these employees, governments can increase their day-to-day efficiency, deliver the services they need to thrive in their jobs – and help their city thrive as a result.” Cherkis says there are four steps that governments should take when considering their mobile strategies:
1) Ask workers what they need. Your police officers, bus drivers, park rangers and garbage collectors may not have city computers, but I guarantee they have cell phones. So ask what you can do for them to improve productivity and make their jobs better
2) Adopt new technologies and services. The goal is to enable employees to work seamlessly on any device. When you do, you also must manage and govern those devices to protect private data
3) Outfit your office properly. Your office spaces must change to support people who rarely spend time in the office. Enable employees all over your city to work together by equipping your meeting rooms with big screens, webcams and sound systems so they can host Lync or Skype meetings
4) Talk to your peers. Constantly look at what other cities have achieved, like the Ashburton District in New Zealand.
According to Microsoft’s Neil Jordan, general manager of worldwide health, tablet use in healthcare is going through a phase shift. “There was previously a lack of business-ready mobile devices, so the first phase was influenced by the trend of bring your own device, and was isolated to mainly doctors. They would take their own tablets into the hospital, but the IT department would struggle to manage them and integrate them with the overall workflow,” Jordan explains. “You would often find that doctors would use them for reference at a patient’s bedside, but then would have to go back to a PC to connect to the hospital’s system.”
But we’re now entering a second phase. Windows 8 and Windows 8devices enable a clinical-grade environment for any health worker, where not only do applications integrate with the overall workflow, but the devices themselves are designed specifically to meet the unique requirements of the healthcare industry. Key features of the Microsoft Surface Pro 2, for example, include a digital pen, which allows clinicians to make patient notes on the touchscreen, and multiple ID capabilities, which means if three nurses are working three eight-hours shifts, for example, they can all login separately on the same tablet securely. The Surface Pro2 is also certified for cleaning with sanitised cloths, which is essential in clinical environments.
“There are also multiple Windows 8 device sizes and types that are perfect for different uses,” adds Jordan. “For example, a pharmacy worker might prefer to use an eight-inch device like the Dell Venue Pro, which is great for filling in prescriptions and is small enough to fit in a lab coat pocket. While a doctor, on the other hand, might prefer a Surface.”
Windows 8 apps integrate seamlessly with hospital workflows. For example, Avanade’s Home Health app is being used in the home hospitalisation department at Paris Hospitals. It provides remote access from patients’ homes to the information systems used to manage medical records. Apps are also helping to support care beyond the borders of the hospital. MedCase, which was an International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners 2014 European App Cup winner in the B2B CityNext category, connects citizens and doctors in remote/rural areas and ensures a seamless flow of care and cure services and information in the country.
According to Jordan, through the use of Windows 8 and Windows 8 devices, the healthcare industry can achieve three things:
1) A better experience for patients, so that they’re more engaged and the information that is given to them is more personalised and more relevant –which ultimately results in better recovery
2) Higher efficiency and quality of care in and outside of the hospital
3) Increasing clinical adoption of healthcare IT.
Dell top five benefits for care providers:
1) TheVenue8Pro andVenue11Pro feature embedded security (trusted platform module 1.2) and comply with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act standards. TheVenue11Pro also includes an optional fingerprint and smartcard reader for keeping patient data safe
2) The Venue 11 Pro comes with a stylus and offers a peripheral ecosystem where customers have the option of adding a dock, keyboard, and a case with rotating hand strap, meaning healthcare workers have the flexibility to do work from a desk for a traditional PC experience, or as they’re moving from patient to patient both in the hospital or in the community
3) The Venue 8 Pro slides easily into a lab coat, folio or bag so clinicians can have access to information from anywhere they work
4) The Venue 8 Pro and Venue 11 Pro provide over nine hours of battery life to enable a nurse to carry the same tablet during an entire shift, while swappable batteries extend flexibility and reduce total cost of ownership
5) The Venue 8 and Venue 11 Pro include native support for wireless display or Miracast for wireless full-screen sharing during clinical reviews.
“Mobility is on the increase in every sector. Security remains key as more data ‘lives’ in the cloud and improved all-day battery life allows users to be increasingly mobile,” says Mei-ling Wong, marketing manager for ThinkPad Tablets at Lenovo. “Students are frequently moving from class to class, often campus to campus, with little or no access to power outlets. Extended battery life allows them to concentrate on their studies rather than where their next recharge will be.”
Seton Hall University, based in New Jersey in the US, has circulated more than2,000 ThinkPad Helix devices running Windows 8 to all incoming undergraduate students as part of its Mobile Computing Program. “Tablets are becoming increasingly common in the classroom and at work. With the explosion of multi-mode devices, users require a single solution that allows them to adapt to their ever changing study or work environment,” says Wong. ”We create solutions that offer not only ultra-portability and multi-mode versatility, but also the experience of a full PC so that users don’t feel they are having to compromise on productivity.”
“The Lenovo ThinkPad 8 tablet delivers enterprise-class mobile computing with the ability to offer desktop PC-like usage with up to eight hours of battery life,” adds Alysia Baker, Lenovo’s ThinkPad product marketing manager. “We design devices with the end users in mind, which means the ThinkPad8 is the best of both worlds. The device is perfect for at work and at home.”
Dell top five benefits for educators:
1) The Dell Venue 11 Pro is essentially three devices in one. The 10.8-inch device combines the portability of a tablet, the power of an Ultrabook and the convenience of keyboard and docking options
2) Compatible with existing IT environments and software, schools won’t have to reinvest in new infrastructure or software licenses. The Venue11Pro can be shared among many students to maximise the value of the tablet
3) The Dell Venue 11Pro can be used by multiple users and configured with their personal settings, delivering flexibility for budget-conscious schools, and allowing students and teachers to collaborate with one another throughout the day
4) With the Venue 11 Pro, schools can decrease deployment and device management costs by leveraging existing solutions for supporting, managing and protecting their current Windows PCs and laptops
5) The Dell Venue 11 Pro has enhanced productivity features for both students and teachers including a stylus for note taking, a standard-sized USB port and a Micro-SD card reader for easy file transfer and connectivity to existing and common classroom equipment.
“The need for police forces to have access to real-time (or near real-time) information is ever increasing with explosive urban growth. At the same time, austere budget climates continually stretch law enforcement resources, causing police organisations to seek new ways to enable effective police operations on duty,” explains Martin Slijkhuis, public safety and national security industry lead, Microsoft Western Europe. “In addition to supporting their expanding daily responsibilities, large worldwide events will require on-demand intelligence for crowd control, counter-terrorism prevention, and emergency response on the front lines.”
Military, law enforcement and first responders are increasingly turning to mobile devices to access the tools they need for better situational awareness and connectivity in theatre and in the field. Many defence organisations are starting to rollout mobile strategies to meet these needs, including the US Department of Defense, which unveiled its Mobile Device Strategy in 2012 with the intention of maximising the productivity and flexibility of its mobile workforce through better access to mobile devices, wireless infrastructure and mobile applications. The New York Police Department is carrying out a pilot using Windows8 tablets running its Domain Awareness System, to help them collect relevant data wherever they are prior to responding to a 911 call. Similarly, Iceland Police has deployed 70 dockable HP Elite slates running Windows 8 in70 of its police cars. Police officers use the devices to manage the reporting of traffic violations while out in the field. By inputting the data in real time and supporting both person and car identity verification, the time to complete the process is cut by 30 minutes. Iceland police will be increasing the deployment to 400 of its fleet.
“Mobile devices of the future–both commercial-off-the-shelf and ruggedised for special conditions –will enable real-time, intelligence-driven police forces in the 21st century. As mobile policing continues to evolve, this fast, efficient and reliable back-office police work will serve an even more critical role to frontline officers on duty,” concludes Slijkhuis
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Pets and lets: are animals allowed in a flat?
On 30 January 2018, the High Court held that a management company acted reasonably when it refused permission for a dog to be kept in a flat. An injunction was issued which required the dog to be removed from the flat.
The defendant owned a flat, on a long leasehold basis, within a gated development. The lease prohibited the keeping of pets without the written consent of the tenant's management company.
Each lessee on the development was also a member of the tenant's management company. The tenant's management company had a strict "no pets" policy, reflecting the other tenants' wishes. The defendant was aware of the policy prior to purchasing their flat. The defendant requested formal consent to keep a pet, pursuant to the terms of the lease, but was refused. The tenant's management company was willing to consider specific circumstances such as the need for an assistance dog but the defendant was not able to produce any evidence to support a claim of special circumstances.
The High Court held that the management company's policy was not unreasonable or irrational, and that the management company had not adopted an unfair process. The full judgment can be read here.
The question of whether pets are allowed in leasehold development schemes is common in practice. Whether a pet is allowed will depend on the terms of the lease. A tenant, or a proposed purchaser of a flat, ought to ascertain whether the lease contains an absolute prohibition on keeping pets, or alternatively requires prior consent before keeping a pet. The clause might read, "Not to keep any animal or bird on the Property without the prior written consent of the Landlord, which consent may be revoked at any time".
In light of this case, landlords, tenants, management companies and prospective purchasers alike would be well advised to check their leases for similar covenants and regulations, and seek professional advice if clarification is needed.
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Today I am over at Melissa & Doug sharing 3-Steps to Ensure Your Don't Need a Vacation FROM Vacation. One way to ensure your trip is stress free is to involve your children in planning the adventure. A family meeting is the perfect opportunity to empower your children by letting them be involved in vacation decision making.
Don't panic. I am not suggesting you give your child free reign. I recommend following the Love & Logic approach in this scenario; offer your child choices you've already approved.
Below are a three tips to ensure your family meeting
about vacation-planning is successful:
- Do your research first — Attend your family meeting prepared to show your children activities, destinations, and choices that you’ve already reviewed. Come to the meeting with circled activities in brochures and websites already loaded on your computer.
- Avoid using the word “no”— If your child comes up with an alternative activity, try to be positive. Buy yourself time by simply ending your discussion with, “We’ll have to research that option a little more.” If, however, the suggestion clearly isn’t appropriate, let your child know (using as few words as possible) and then ask, “Would you rather do [Option A] or [Option B]?”
- Use yourself as an example — Say things like, “I really was hoping to do [Option X], but it’s a bit too pricey for our budget. So, instead I’m choosing between [Option Y] and [Option Z] for my must-have activity.”
Not sure if these tips will work with your family? Let’s chat. Explain your hesitations below in the comments, and we’ll brainstorm solutions together.
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By Howard Feldman, Synthesis Head of Marketing & People.
Black Friday is what happens when the dangerous mixture of anxiety and excitement are blended in a retail test tube. Although we might think that we know what is going to happen, the result is almost never as predictable as we would like it to be; with the risk that it might all blow up always a possibility. Each year in the build-up to the day, both consumers and suppliers deal with the fact that things can go horribly wrong.
For the consumer it is the fear of overspending, of losing out on a deal or of purchasing the wrong item from the wrong seller. For suppliers it is the fear that there won’t be a return on the considerable marketing budget, that the buyers will go elsewhere or that something will fall over, and will cause considerable reputational damage.
There is hardly a supplier who sleeps easily and who is without concern in the weeks leading up to the day of Black Friday. The attempt this year to spread the event over a few weeks might provide some respite but there is no moving away from the day itself. What has undoubtedly further complicated it further this year is COVID-19, and the very obvious impact that the pandemic has had on consumer behaviour. This is been exacerbated by the limited and contradictory information they might have received in that regard. These factors include:
- The knowledge that most shopping will be moved online to avoid crowds.
- Many potential consumers have lost jobs and might have less disposable income.
- Yet others, who have remained employed have not been able to go on holiday, will have spent little on entertainment, and therefore might have more liquidity in prior years.
What this means is that retailers need to be prepared for all eventualities. According to Senior Cloud and Dev-ops engineer at Synthesis, Jonathan Sidney, there are ways that companies can win at Black Friday. He has used the 2nd Way of DevOps – Fast and continuous feedback – as a guide.
- Black Friday gets chaotic and operations teams risk being overloaded by the amount of data and metrics that monitoring systems can generate. Companied need to Isolate and define which metrics relate directly to customer experience and monitor those more carefully. For example, if customers start complaining about slow response times on certain webpages, the seller needs to be able to isolate what it causing this slow down. It is not good enough to just see that the systems are under stress – knowledge of the cause of that strain and how it affects your end users becomes critical.
- Companies need to already know how the system reacts to unexpected loads. It is advisable to run smoke tests and load tests of each environment. It is especially easy when using Infrastructure as Code and the cloud to scale up development environments to the same level of production. Then, using tools such as Bees with Machine Guns and JMeter to test where the system could face bottlenecks. This will allow scale of services intelligently (as well as pre-emptively fix any possible issues).
- Finally, metrics are only useful when they are actually used. If they are just being used to satisfy some external requirement, then they are not worth anything. Teams need to be able to see the metrics and respond to outages/performance issues based on these metrics. Enable your teams by giving them access to front-end tools such as Grafana and Kibana and let them respond intelligently and scientifically to the Black Friday load.
There are also simple methods that consumers might consider in order to maximise the day:
- Add items to your cart ahead of time in order to not miss out.
- Sign up early for Newsletters in order to become knowledgeable.
- Shop online, not instore to avoid crowds.
- Stay connected via social media as many retailers and e-tailers give away prizes and additional discounts.
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A journey inspired by stories from Turkey exploring the call-up to military service for people who don’t ‘fit the mould’.
- What constitutes ‘fitness’ or ‘suitability’?
- What philosophies or beliefs are seen as valid?
- How are judgements applied?
- How do they impact on society and an individual’s life, choices, freedoms and wellbeing?
A four-channel film followed the stories of four individuals – a doctor, and three subjects under assessment at a military hospital. Their characters and stories emerged through the imposed community of the hospital setting.
COnscription encouraged people across all sections of society to question misconceptions, assumptions and attitudes around the position of the individual within the social system, and what it meant for the two to be at odds, whilst avoiding a judgmental or prescriptive approach.
A series of events and discussion sessions complemented the exhibition in May, aiming to raise awareness about military service and the alienation this creates for some people. They revealed some of the issues which didn’t currently have the same international profile as other human rights questions.
Venue: Old Truman Brewery, 4 Wilkes Street, London, E1 6QF. Click here for Google maps
Dates: Thursday 2nd – Saturday 18th May 2013
Opening times: Tuesday – Sunday, 11am – 6pm / Friday 11am – 8pm
Part of the Whitechapel Gallery’s ‘First Thursdays’ – 2 May 2013
COnscription was the first project in ‘Conscientious Objectors’, a series of collaborative research-based works coming from countries which use conscription and national service.
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Is Gatsby old rich or new rich? Tom and Daisy were highly educated and came from money, while Gatsby got his money from selling illegal alcohol and throwing extravagant parties with the alcohol. He represents new money while Daisy and Tom represent old money.
Did Gatsby grow up rich? Gatsby was born “James Gatz,” the son of poor farmers, in North Dakota. He changed his name to “Jay Gatsby” and learned the manners of the rich on the yacht of Dan Cody, a wealthy man who he saved from a destructive storm and ended up being employed by.
Is Gatsby poor or rich? Jay Gatsby. The title character of The Great Gatsby is a young man, around thirty years old, who rose from an impoverished childhood in rural North Dakota to become fabulously wealthy.
Is Gatsby a millionaire or billionaire? But, while Jay Gatsby was ranked by Forbes in 2010 as number 14 on its list of the richest fictional characters, with an estimated net worth of $1 billion, his spending on lavish parties, expensive cars, and his mansion would likely put someone of his means into debt.
Is Gatsby old rich or new rich? – Related Questions
Is Jay Gatsby born rich?
As the novel progresses, Nick learns that Gatsby was born James Gatz on a farm in North Dakota; working for a millionaire made him dedicate his life to the achievement of wealth. When he met Daisy while training to be an officer in Louisville, he fell in love with her.
Is Gatsby real?
Jay Gatsby (originally named James Gatz) is a fictional character who is the title character of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel The Great Gatsby. Scholars have posited that Gatsby functions as a cipher because of his obscure origins, his unclear religio-ethnic identity and his indeterminate class status.
What is Gatsby’s weakness?
Gatsby’s tragic flaw is his inability to wake up from his dream of the past and accept reality. His obsession with recapturing his past relationship with Daisy compels him to a life of crime and deceit. He becomes a bootlegger, does business with a gangster, and creates a false identity.
Is Gatsby a good person?
Gatsby is considered ‘great’ by the measurement of dreams, his wealth, his larger-than-life personality, the festivities and joviality that, to others in the novel, mark him as a man of high stature and almost god-like in personal proportions.
Does Gatsby money make him happy?
The Great Gatsby shows a great example of money cannot buy happiness and portrays this very well. F. Scott Fitzgerald in the novel, The Great Gatsby, implies that money cannot buy happiness. Gatsby has all the money yet he is not happy when he throws gigantic parties at his house.
What did Gatsby do to get rich?
We are told that Gatsby came up from essentially nothing, and that the first time he met Daisy Buchanan, he was “a penniless young man.” His fortune, we are told, was the result of a bootlegging business – he “bought up a lot of side-street drug-stores here and in Chicago” and sold illegal alcohol over the counter.
Who got Gatsby’s money when he died?
Nick gives no indication that Gatsby leaves anything to him, and it seems unlikely Gatsby would leave the money to Daisy, who is plenty rich already and ultimately chose her husband Tom over Gatsby. It seems most likely that, being his only living relative, Gatsby’s father would inherit his fortune.
Did Daisy actually love Gatsby?
Though Gatsby insisted that Daisy never loved Tom, Daisy admits that she loves both Tom and Gatsby. The party ends with Daisy driving Gatsby out of New York City in Gatsby’s car, while Tom leaves with Nick and Jordan. Tom’s mistress Myrtle Wilson had previously seen Tom driving Gatsby’s yellow car.
What does Mr Gatz reveal about his son?
Gatz also shows Nick a picture of Gatsby’s mansion that his son gave him and mentions that James bought him a home in the Midwest. Mr. Gatz also shows Nick his son’s strict self-improvement schedule written in the back of a book, which reveals James Gatz’s work ethic and dedication.
Why does Gatsby choose not to drink?
Playing the role of the Oxford man is no easy task for Jay Gatsby; if he drinks, the challenge will be even greater. So I guess the answer would be that Gatsby doesn’t want to drink too much because he doesn’t want to be like Cody was when he drank. The book says that Gatsby had had to be Cody’s “jailer” at times.
Is Gatsby a gangster?
He is a mobster who made his money in bootlegging. He is associated with a shady character named Meyer Wolfsheim, who may have been behind the scandal of the fixed 1919 World Series. Gatsby himself says, “I am the son of some wealthy people in the Middle West—all dead now.
Is Gatsby a liar?
Jay Gatsby, the lead character in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book, “The Great Gatsby” lies all the time. He lies about the origin of his wealth, he lies about his love life, he even lies about reading the great books in his library. So, the Big Lie has its history in fiction and in fact.
Is The Great Gatsby a dream or a lie?
Gatsby is both a lie and a dream. He dreams of marrying Daisy and achieving great wealth. But on the other side he is a criminal, a lie, he has changed his name and his history in order to become “Jay Gatsby”. Gatsby sets out to be a new and better man, that is why he changes his name.
Who killed Gatsby?
Jay Gatsby is shot to death in the swimming pool of his mansion by George Wilson, a gas-station owner who believes Gatsby to be the hit-and-run driver who killed his wife, Myrtle.
Why is Gatsby a hero?
In the novel The Great Gatsby, Gatsby is a tragic hero because he displays the fundamental characteristics of modern tragic hero. He is a common man, he contains the characteristics of a tragic flaw, and he eventually has a tragic fall.
Who is the first person narrator in The Great Gatsby he is living next to Gatsby?
Nick Carraway – a Yale University alumnus from the Midwest, a World War I veteran, and a newly arrived resident of West Egg, age 29 (later 30) who serves as the first-person narrator. He is Gatsby’s neighbor and a bond salesman.
Is Gatsby a hero or a villain?
Jay Gatsby. Gatsby is the eponymous hero of the book and is the main focus. However, although Gatsby has some qualities which are typically heroic, other aspects of his character are closer to the typical villain.
Is Gatsby foolish?
Jay Gatsby is a foolish and naive man who believed he could use his wealth and success to get Daisy without consequenses,without issues, just like that. gatsby believes in the green light, that it will show him the way and to go forward with daisy.
Is Gatsby a happy man?
Even though Jay Gatsby didn’t earn his money honestly, he was a very honest man when it came to what he wanted. Even with all the money that he had, he still wasn’t happy. The only thing that could make him happy was to have his one love Daisy.
Is Gatsby happy with his life?
Even though he didnt have all the riches, he was happy and enjoyed his life. He didn’t need money to fuel his happiness. Gatsby wasnt a happy man, heould have everything he wanted except for the girl he loved.
Why was Great Gatsby so rich?
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Writing A Research Report In American Psychological Affiliation (APA) Style Research Methods In Psychology
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What Are the Lumbar Vertebrae and How to Protect Them
As we get older, many of our vital organs and structures begin to weaken, becoming more vulnerable to health risks. One of the most important parts of our body we should strive to protect is our back.
In particular, the lumbar vertebrae go through significant distress as you get older. The lumbar vertebrae consist of five cylinder-shaped bones in the vertebral column of your back. They help to hold up the weight of the body and shape the spine in the lower back.
These vertebrae also provide flexibility and movement to the trunk region of your spine. They help protect the spinal cord and the nerves inside its vertebral canal.
Located between the lumbar vertebrae are discs that help absorb shock when tension is felt in the back. When you exert your back in strenuous activities like heavy exercise, the discs in your lumbar vertebrae begin to shrink and become dry. Eventually, these discs will dissipate, making the bones in your lumbar vertebrae rub against each other and cause pain.
Aging is inevitable. However, your back doesn’t have to suffer as you get older. There are lifestyle changes you can make to prevent yourself from risk. Some conditions in the back are caused by diseases that demand medical intervention. But most back conditions can be avoided just by taking the necessary precautions.
In this informative guide brought to you by all33, we aim to teach you about the lumbar vertebrae and how to protect them. Continue reading to learn more!
Your lower back is responsible for holding up your entire upper body. One part of your body that greatly affects how your lower back performs is the core.
The muscles in your core need to be strong to sufficiently uphold your spine. Though your core is technically not a part of your lower back, the spine calls on all of its surrounding muscles for support. Strengthening the muscles in the trunk of your body is integral to a healthy spine.
The average person does not get much core strengthening from their everyday lives. To really tune up your core, you’ll have to engage in core-building exercises like walking, running, or doing crunches. These exercises help facilitate blood flow to the spine. They also help stretch out your muscles.
You can also try workouts with exercise balls. You can simply sit on the ball for twenty to thirty minutes at a time to practice good posture, or you can use the ball to stretch and work out your core muscles.
Alternatively, you can even try water therapy to strengthen your core. Water therapy allows for a wide range of motion that hits all sides of your core. Particularly, your core is affected by exercises that require you to lift your legs.
If you find it difficult to incorporate exercise into your daily routine, try to start small. Even if it’s for five to ten minutes a day, work on increasing the amount of time you’re active every day. A sedentary lifestyle can lead to a tight, stiff back and can pose risk to your lumbar vertebrae.
Tight muscles are one of the leading culprits of back issues. If the muscles in your back are tight, they will induce additional stress onto the entire rest of the spine, including your joints. The first step in curing an aching back is to stretch out and work on flexibility.
When you keep your spine bent for a long time, the tissue in your discs and ligaments begin to change in structure. This change only lasts for a few minutes, but during this time, the stability and range of movement in your back will be limited. Your joints will also feel tight.
It is nearly impossible to go through life completely avoiding bending your back. However, you should be mindful of how often you are straining your back and eliminate instances where it is unnecessary. You should also make it a priority to take breaks after being positioned that way for long periods of time.
If you can, every half hour, take a break to stand up and walk around for a minute or two. When you re-straighten your back after being bent for a while, your spinal tissues begin to recover and go back its original form.
One part of the body that affects the lumbar vertebrae is the hamstrings. A tight hamstring can put a lot of pressure on your pelvis and lower back. If you feel that your hamstrings may be the reason for your back pain, stretch them out daily. Some hamstring stretches can help with leg pain linked to back issues like sciatica.
In addition to stretching daily, it is also crucial to maintain proper posture when you’re standing and sitting. Your posture greatly impacts the health of your lumbar vertebrae.
When you’re standing, the discs in your lower spine bear the extra weight that strains them. But when sitting, your discs are subject to even more weight. These discs can degenerate over time if constantly overworked.
Most people who work in an office environment find themselves sitting for several hours every day. It’s not healthy to be sitting for that long. But if you have to for the sake of work, you absolutely must sit with correct posture.
If you spend a lot of time sitting, it is wise to invest in a quality ergonomic chair that supports your spine and pelvis when sitting. A good chair should have an adjustable seat, armrest, headrest, and backrest to ensure it fits your body perfectly.
Considering how much time we spend every night sleeping, it is imperative to make sure our backs are supported during that time.
Sleeping on your stomach or side can cause tension to the spine. Without providing a structure for your back to lean on, you are essentially preventing your back from getting its due rest. When in doubt, it is usually best to have some kind of structure supporting your spine.
Even sitting on your back can strain your back, though. To truly give your back the perfect rest at night, keep your knees elevated with a pillow.
In the same vein as an ergonomic chair, you should also invest in a strong mattress that promotes healthy sleeping positions and doesn’t strain the upper back. You want a mattress that is firm enough to hold your back up, but flexible enough to fit the curve of your spine.
Lifting items is another fairly common reason for pain in the lumbar vertebrae. Even simple, everyday activities like bringing in groceries can put strain on your spine.
If you lift weights or if your work requires you to lift heavy objects, you’re especially going to need to learn to lift correctly. Using the proper technique when lifting objects can prevent painful injuries like herniated discs and muscle spasms.
To start, do not twist or bend your back while lifting. You want to keep your back straight and relaxed. Just don’t straighten up your back to the point that it is tense. Tensing up your back while lifting can cause chronic tissue damage and/or pulled muscles.
When lowering your body to lift something, bend your knees instead of your back. As you lift the object, hold it close to your chest as you begin to straighten your spine.
If you’ve followed all of these tips but still are experiencing back pain, it could be due to smoking. Smoking prevents healthy blood flow to the discs in your spine that cushion your vertebrae. As a result, smoking may cause accelerated disc degeneration.
Smoking also lowers the level of calcium absorption in the body, as well as new bone growth. Both of these factors can contribute to osteoporosis.
Protecting Your Lumbar Vertebrae Is Vital
The lumbar vertebrae are some of the largest and heaviest vertebrae in the spine. The only vertebrae bigger is the sacrum. Without these bones in our body, our spines could not be supported.
It is highly advised to start taking care of your back early on in your life so you don’t experience more severe consequences later on. Even if you feel fine now, you should still take the necessary precautions to protect your spine for the future.
A healthy spine will contribute greatly to your overall ability to move and function. Remember, we need our spines to walk, sit, sleep, and essentially do anything that requires movement. That’s why it’s so essential to protect them.
If you’re struggling with lower back pain, our BackStrong chair could be the solution to your problems. Our chairs feature a fully adjustable seat, backrest, headrest, and arms to fit your body flawlessly.
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For the 45th year in a row, seven of the most powerful people in the world will get together for an informal summit that has weathered everything from the Cold War through the global financial crisis to U.S. President Donald Trump’s Twitter feed.
Despite ups and downs, the Group of Seven remains a key forum for tackling issues that cross borders: the economy, trade, financial crises, terrorism, money laundering, climate change and diseases like AIDS and tuberculosis.
Here are key things to know ahead of the summit Saturday through Monday in the resort town of Biarritz in France’s southwestern Basque country.
INFORMAL, WELL-OFF, DEMOCRATIC AND POLITICAL
The G-7 is an informal club of rich democracies that aim to enhance their friendship and synchronize their views. Countries take turns chairing the annual summit, which typically ends with a final statement expressing financial and political commitments. It has no charter, rule book or bureaucracy of its own. The summit’s decisions are only enforceable through peer pressure and leaders’ desire to follow through on their promises, yet that can be significant. The G-7 Research Group at the University of Toronto says that countries complied with 76% of their commitments from last year’s summit in Canada, despite its somewhat ignominious end in a Trump Twitter storm.
The members are: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.
FRIENDS IN A TURBULENT WORLD
The G-7 was originally a response by leaders of Western democracies to the economic shocks and recession of the mid-1970s. Those included the collapse of the post-World War II exchange rate system in which currencies were pegged to the dollar and an oil boycott by Arab countries that led to soaring energy prices and the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing hosted the first one at Rambouillet, outside Paris, in 1975.
The idea was to get past the bureaucracy and slow decision-making that hobbled larger international organizations to achieve a fast, coherent response to trouble.
WHAT THEY DISCUSS
The agenda typically reflects the big issues of the moment: the host sets the agenda while leaders often meet one to one and can discuss anything else.
The global economy was the original focus for the G-7. But it has expanded to tackle security, terrorism, human rights and the environment. Initiatives have included supporting global trade negotiations, agreeing on economic stimulus and avoiding protectionism, figuring out debt relief for poor countries, and setting up a fund to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
As democracies, the G-7 have a unity of purpose and trust hard to duplicate in other forums such as the larger Group of 20 leaders’ summit, which started in 2008 and includes states such as China and Russia presenting different models of politics and economic development that don’t necessarily include free speech or an emphasis on human rights.
“The cooperation among the G-20 is much less routine,” says Henning Riecke, head of the transatlantic relations program at the German Council on Foreign Relations. “The states are more different and there is more friction to be expected. I would not expect the same amount of unity and direction when it comes to influencing world affairs, when it comes to setting norms, when it comes to influencing conflicts.”
John Kirton, director of the G-7 Research Group, says that “if you need a group of democratically committed powers, the G-7 is the only place in the global village to go.”
ARGUMENTS CAN GET HEATED
Trump has shaken up the assumptions of close cooperation, particularly by rejecting the support by the other six for the Paris climate accord. He has also gone his own way by calling for Russia’s readmission to the group and caused a stir after the 2018 summit in Charlevoix, Canada, when he tweeted criticism of host Justin Trudeau and repudiated the final joint statement.
Trump’s approach makes the summit outcomes less predictable, and could narrow the scope for cooperation.
Yet the G-7 has seen conflict before and survived. U.S. President Ronald Reagan and French President Francois Mitterrand clashed in 1982 at Versailles, France, over trade with the Soviet Union and officials from both countries afterward dismissed key parts of the final statement.
While the differences between Trump and the others are real, Kirton said “that tweet (at the Canada summit) actually changed nothing in the real world of the G-7. It’s not as if the American officials stopped working on G-7 stuff.” Additionally, it is Trump’s turn to host the summit next year, and he may wish to earn some goodwill to ensure a summit that burnishes his image ahead of the U.S. presidential election.
WHY IS IT SEVEN?
The initial group was six, with Canada added in 1976. Russia joined in 1998 but was suspended over its occupation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014. The seven members have reached out to outsiders in several ways. One way is including top officials from the European Union as an eighth participant, giving the other EU member countries a voice. This year, France invited India, Chile, South Africa and Australia as important regional democracies, plus four African nations: Burkina Faso, Egypt, Senegal, and Rwanda.
IF AT FIRST YOU DON’T SUCCEED, JUST KEEP TRYING
A two-day summit is too short to find definitive solutions to complex issues. The G-7 puts its collective clout behind projects carried forward by national governments or in other international forums such as the International Monetary Fund or the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
An example would be debt relief for poor countries.
Partial relief was agreed at the 1988 Toronto summit, but the leaders wrestled with the issue until the 2005 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, where they finally settled the matter — after a total of eight summits.
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The biomass refers to the organic materials that develops through the photosynthesis, and in includes the plants, animals and microorganism. Usually we classify the crops, crops waste, wood, wood shavings, dejecta and so on. The biomass is renewable, and the biomass is wide -spread in many areas, and it barely causes any pollution.
The biomass energy is a renewable energy, and it mainly includes the wood energy, and the agriculture waste energy, and so on, and the amount of the biomass energy is huge, but the coefficient of utilization of the biomass energy is less than 3%.
The biomass carbonization technology is a very important technology to make use of the biomass energy. The biomass carbonization process is completed in a oxygen-free condition, and after the process, you can get the biomass charcoal.
The biomass carbonization plant can dispose many kinds of biomass waste, so you can achieve the coconut shell charcoal making, wood carbonization, sewage sludge disposal, sawdust charcoal making and so on through the plant.
The carbonization plant costs less energy because of the special design, and the biomass charcoal is a good material to make use of. The biomass charcoal has a higher carbon content than the common charcoal, and it is easy to store and transport the biomass charcoal. In addition, the biomass charcoal contains less ash and sulphur, so when you burning the biomass charcoal, there will not produce any pollution, so the biomass charcoal is a great alternative fuel.
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FY 2022 PILT payments released to counties, while U.S. House Interior Appropriations bill would fully fund PILT for FY 2023
By Jonathan Shuffield
On June 23, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) announced the distribution of $549.4 million to counties in 2022 through the Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program. A complete list of funding by state and county is available here.
The PILT program provides payments to counties and other local governments to offset losses in tax revenues due to the presence of substantial federal land acreage within their jurisdictions. Because local governments cannot tax the property values or products derived from federal lands, PILT payments are necessary to support essential local government services – those mandated by law – such as education, emergency services, transportation infrastructure, law enforcement and health care. PILT reaches over 1,900 counties in 49 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Since 1977, DOI has invested nearly $10.8 billion through the PILT program in counties across the country. As U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland stated in her announcement, “This program is an important example of the federal government’s commitment to continuing to be a good neighbor to the communities we serve. The nearly $550 million being distributed will help local governments carry out vital services, such as firefighting and police protection, construction of public schools and roads, and search-and-rescue operations.” | <urn:uuid:accfa401-8ff8-48ac-bf50-3fd6f069f691> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://arcounties.org/media/news/fy-2022-pilt-payments-released-to-counties-while-u.s-house-interior-appropriations-bill-would-fully-fund-pilt-for-fy-2023/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.955015 | 326 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Freelancing is more flexible than single jobs. It does require good money management as well as constant sourcing of new clients. There is also a support network. Before you jump into freelancing, here are some things to keep in mind. This article addresses some of the most frequently asked questions about the freelance industry. Continue reading to learn more about freelance work and how it can help your career.
Flexibility is more important than single jobs when you work freelance
Freelancing has many advantages. You don’t have to commit to a job or receive health care benefits. You don’t need to worry about legal issues or computer logins. You don’t need to set up an elaborate organization system. This makes hiring freelancers almost like being a manager. You can instead establish simple procedures that will keep you focused and efficient.
You can set your own hours and work for yourself, rather than working for one company. Instead of being dictated to by your boss, your hours can be set and you can plan your day according to your schedule. 35% of freelancers work less than the average day. This has made freelancing a common practice for many professionals. It doesn’t hurt either that freelancing increases the economy.
Good money management is required.
Although freelance work has many benefits, it is important to be able to manage your finances well. You are responsible for your personal and business finances, as well as retirement savings, if you’re self-employed. Although you might make more as a freelancer than you would like, it is crucial to keep your finances in order by not wasting any money. These are some ways to ensure your finances stay on track.
It is important to keep your personal and business finances separate when you are freelancing. To keep track of your income and expenses, make sure you use accounting software. It will simplify your life and give you historical data that can be used to make business decisions. Private health insurance is something freelancers should look into, although many don’t. Individuals have affordable options and can get subsidies. It’s worth investigating. It may not be necessary to purchase insurance.
This requires constant source of new clients
Freelancers have limited time and must continue to source new clients. You must make every client count, and maximize your portfolio. This is key to being successful. The number of clients that you attract will determine your reputation with other clients. How can you ensure that your pipeline is full of new leads? Here are some tips that will help you remain productive and profitable as an independent contractor.
To succeed as a freelancer, it is important to keep communication lines open with clients. Because freelancers’ income is unpredictable, they need to be ready for the feast-or famine syndrome. They must be proactive in finding new clients and communicate with clients about unforeseen circumstances. Freelancers must be open to receiving feedback and making changes to their work.
It takes a community to be able to fall back
It’s essential to have a support network when you work freelance. People with similar interests and skills can help with project management and brainstorming. You should also seek out support for your emotional needs. Avoiding problems can be counterproductive and it is better to talk about them with someone. Therapy sessions are why people pay. Your community can help you get through feelings of depression.
You’re probably wondering how to maximize your profit margins as a freelancer. Although freelancing jobs aren’t always well-paid, there are many ways to increase your profits. Take into account your financial history, your industry, and how long you have been freelancing. Partnering with a software or content company can result in a higher rate. You can also make more money through personal referrals.
You will look cheap if you price yourself too low. You will not make long-term profits or have a steady client base if you price yourself too low. Jelena suggests that you know your value, so underpricing yourself can result in lower profit and value. You must be willing and able to work for more than what you are currently earning in order to keep freelancing profitable.
Freelancing can present many challenges and you may feel like giving up. You will need to manage your time and balance your budget while managing other tasks such as marketing your business, chasing clients, and managing your time. These tips should help you overcome your challenges and allow you to enjoy the freedom and flexibility that freelancing offers.
Late payment is one of the greatest challenges in freelancing. Late payment is a common problem for freelance journalists. Late payment legislation is considered counterproductive because of the high cost of late payments. Freelancers are not allowed to sign retainer agreements with publishers. However, they can get one to help them pay their bills on time. This is a frustrating time for freelancers as many publishers still are reeling from the collapse of their advertising revenue.
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September 30, 2013
by Kahaliah Richards
Dr. Mirjan, of Mississauga, starts a blog about when (and if) wisdom teeth need to be removed. A simple explanation of the pros and cons.
Many people often ask the question: is wisdom teeth removalnecessary? Well, it might not be necessary if the teeth are healthy, fully grown, biting properly and positioned correctly. Also, they must be reachable when teeth are brushed daily, so they can be cleaned as part of a daily hygiene routine.
Most people today, however, are advised to remove their wisdom teeth, as early extraction will help to eliminate the problems associated with impacted wisdom teeth, the term “impacted” describes a tooth that cannot be fully seen in the mouth because it is covered by soft tissue or bone. This type of tooth may cause problems such as:
By the age of eighteen, the average adult has 32 teeth; 16 teeth on the top and 16 teeth on the bottom. The wisdom teeth, also known as the third molars, are the last teeth at the very back of the mouth. When these teeth align properly and gum tissue is healthy, wisdom teeth do not have to be removed. Unfortunately, this does not always happen.
The average mouth is made to hold only 28 teeth. It can be painful when 32 teeth try to fit in a mouth that holds only 28 teeth. This is why in many cases it is important to remove the wisdom teeth.
When wisdom teeth are prevented from properly erupting within the mouth, then wisdom teeth removal becomes necessary. Erupting wisdom teeth can grow at various angles in the jaw, sometimes even horizontally. They may partially emerge from the gum and even remain trapped (impacted) beneath the gum and bone, completely hidden and trapped within the jaw. Impacted teeth may take many positions in the bone as they attempt to find a pathway that will allow them to erupt successfully.
When a wisdom tooth is partially trapped under the gums, this increases the chance of bacterial infections. Partially erupted wisdom teeth can also impact other teeth causing damage to the surrounding tissue and bone.
As with any surgical procedure, there are some associated risks with the removal of wisdom teeth. Common to all surgical procedures is some pain and post-operative swelling. Application of ice packs for the first 2 days will help prevent these complications. Occasionally, the roots of the wisdom teeth contact are in close proximity to the nerve that supplies the lower jaw. During extraction, the nerve may be disturbed resulting in a numbness of the lower lip, tongue or gum tissue on the affected side. In most cases, this is a temporary situation. Appropriate pain medications may be prescribed to minimize discomfort.
The removal of wisdom teeth is much simpler for younger patients than older patients as roots are not yet fully developed and bone is not as dense. As well, younger patients tend to heal more rapidly. The healing potential is highest prior to the age of thirty. To make the right decision regarding the removal of wisdom teeth, a dentist will first find out its position and health and what is best for every particular case.
Dr. Mirjan, of Mississauga, Ontario, is an experienced dentist in family and cosmetic dentistry. Offering high quality, full service, oral health care serving West Mississauga, East Oakville and Milton. Find contact information at http://www.dralimirjan.com.
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Wooden garage doors or, as they are often called, timber garage doors are available in a wide variety of wood species. There are different types of timber garage door. The type of wood you choose can sometimes pre-determine the type of garage door you have. This Buyers Guide aims to give clear information about the different types of wooden garage doors available, read carefully before ordering to avoid costly mistakes.
Cedar Wooden Garage Doors
Cedar is by far the most common material to make wooden garage doors from, it is a very rich looking timber and is often described as being ‘multi-coloured’. What makes cedar so good for timber garage doors are that it is very lightweight, is highly resistive to rotting and very stable. The disadvantage is that cedar is softness. Manual doors especially can get damaged over time by knocks and scrapes. Cedar is often used as cladding on buildings. A matching garage door can blend in well. Cedar garage doors are available as sectional garage doors, up & over garage doors and side hinged garage doors. View our cedar garage door range
Oak Wooden Garage Doors
Oak is at present a very popular timber to use on the exterior of homes as cladding and as front doors and, as a consequence, is becoming requested more often for wooden garage doors. Oak is a wood which is hard, heavy and expensive. It has the potential to expand and contract more than other timbers making so is not the obvious choice for making timber garage doors. Despite this, oak garage doors are available made either as bespoke up & over garage doors using the Novoferm Magnum OFI door. In our Silvelox range of wooden garage doors oak is available as one of the timber choices. Silvelox garage doors are made up of 75mm thick laminated Multi-ecowood with just the top layer being oak. This construction allows the use of oak with none of the detrimental issues. More about oak garage doors
Idigbo Wooden Garage Doors
Idigbo is similar to oak in appearance and colour but is much lighter in weight and cheaper in cost. This makes idigbo more suitable for making up & over garage doors from than oak. Idigbo wooden garage doors are available as up & over garage doors and side hinged garage doors.
Okoume Wooden Garage Doors
Okoume is an African hardwood and is used as standard for Silvelox garage doors. It is a red/brown colour in appearance and is very hard wearing and knot free. Okoume is also available as an upgrade from northern spruce in the timber Novoferm sectional garage doors.
Softwood Wooden Garage Doors
The term ‘softwood’ is used to cover many species of timber but is generally referring to lower grades of timber. Softwood garage doors usually have a lot of knots. It is important to specify kiln dried softwood. Unlike hardwoods and cedar, softwood rots easily. It is very important to keep on top of the maintenance of softwood garage doors. The advantage that softwood has over all other species of wooden garage doors mentioned on this page is that it cheaper. Softwood timber garage doors are available as sectional garage doors and side hinged garage doors.
Hardwood Wooden Garage Doors
Three of the species mentioned above – oak, okoume and idigbo are all hardwoods but when people use the term ‘hardwood they are usually referring to far eastern red hardwoods such as sapele, iroko or mahogany. All have a similar appearance. None of the far eastern hardwood are used as standard in garage door manufacture. If any of these timbers are specifically required for your timber garage doors then we can make a bespoke garage door using the Novoferm Magnum up and over garage door. More about hardwood garage doors | <urn:uuid:74d45445-58da-434e-861f-b8d0055d2745> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lakesdoors.co.uk/buyers-guides/wooden-garage-doors/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.946275 | 794 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Story, Interpreter of nature:
Nature, color, and mediation are the three keywords in Usha Shukla’s life and abstract painting. Growing up in the colorful Indian culture, Shukla developed a high sensitivity to color. The vibrant colors are rooted in her childhood memories. As a first-generation immigrant, Shukla felt out of place and disoriented after moving to California. She found sanctuary in nature and immersed herself in it, feeling the air and observing the light. Air is an integral natural element and acts as a tool in Shukla’s unique painting technique. Shukla transports her interpretation of nature-- the light and shadows, and her emotions, into multiple layers of colors and shapes on her canvas. In Usha’s world, the color is not still: it is moving, it has temperature, and it has texture. Shukla’s artwork represents a balance between her subconscious landscape and the physical world. Her emotional and meditative paintings invoke a sense of a non-judgmental and peaceful place for the viewer.
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100s –1000s of brands and companies exist belonging to various industries and companies. Today these are manually categorized and grouped under various industry classification schemes like NAICS, SIC, NIC, etc. These schemes are pre-determined and don’t reflect the changing nature of a business or brand.
Can we create a more dynamic categorization basis the journey of a brand/company using a “Code+AI” driven machine?
Here is a demonstration of a ground zero approach towards that. The key is to do it without expecting users providing for keywords or taxonomy in an “unsupervised” machine learning way. We ran the machine on approximately 500 brand names. For each brand, their journey, history, and details are programmatically picked from Wikipedia. Wikipedia is an internet ground truth of facts.
This content is then vectorized. Vectoring means understanding every word in a text document based on the context (surrounding words & sentences) in which they are used. This would result in the journey of a brand being encapsulated into a mathematical vector. It then becomes conducive to grouping. Below is the vector space represented as a network of these brands. (Note: Brand names are not visible here but zoomed out sections are shown later)
Each node is a brand name and the edge represents the degree of intersection between the “journey/ history vectors”. Think of it as what is common in the journeys of two brands. The comparison is done for each of the 500 brands with the other.
Brands with similar history/ content/ journey reside closer. The below figure shows a zoomed out part of the vector space. One can see the machine automatically recognizes automotive brands.
These vectors are then grouped mathematically into numerous categories akin to industry classification. Below figure shows 27 categories
Can we automatically name these categories?
The intersection of journey vector spaces within a category minus the intersection of journey vector spaces across categories will provide unique category level insights. Basically it will tell what factors are common within a cluster but different from others. Below are a few examples generated automatically by the machine.
It categorizes certain brands in line with traditional classification like diaper brands but interestingly provides new insights like Coca-Cola in Category 10 which are drink brands with major global sponsorships. A different way to look at where brands stack up.
The level of categorization can go deeper especially where a bigger mix of brands is found and more insights are needed. Here is an example of the sub-categorization of a specific category that has various kinds of device maker brands.
Apple owns one of the biggest secure mobile consumer networks in the world. With traditional approaches, we would never think about Apple as a brand comparing with Hauwei & Broadcom who play in a similar space.
How is this categorization dynamic?
One can choose different parts of the content to arrive at different categories. For example, only the “History” section of Wikipedia to compare historical journeys versus the “Product” section to categorize based on products. The other way would be to change the content source itself. How are brands categorized from a customer standpoint, for example, would require the content to be customer feedback. Below is a sample mobile phone displayed as a brand network using customer feedback which can be further categorized into groups as illustrated in this article.
The exercise can be repeated frequently to keep the categorizations updated and reflecting any changes in brand perception or company business.
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The Junior Temperament and Character Inventory: Psychometric Properties of Multi-Informant Ratings
Karin Boson, PhD Student of Psychology, Gothenburg University recently published a new article through the American Psychological Association in collaboration with Sven Brändström, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Sören Sigvardsson, Umeå University.
The aims of the study were (a) to establish norms for the Swedish child self-report and caregiver rating versions of the Junior and Temperament Character Inventory (JTCI) among young adolescents, (b) to investigate its psychometric properties, and (c) to investigate congruence between children’s self-reports and caregivers’ ratings of a child’s personality. The sample was a general population of 1,046 children ages 12–14 years and 654 caregivers. The JTCI was found to be reliable on all dimensions except Persistence in the child self-report version. Caregivers rated their own children’s personalities as more mature than did the children themselves. Caregivers especially overestimated their daughters’ selfreported capabilities for self-acceptance and self-efficacy and might have underestimated their daughters’ need for emotional support. This highlights the importance of including the child’s self-report on personality in both research and clinical assessments. The results also support the importance of age- and gender-separated norms.
Are you interested in reading the full article? Contact Karin Boson directly.
EMERGING SCHOLAR SPOTLIGHT
Karin Boson have also met with EARA's section of young researchers and presented her studies on Well-being, Mental Health Problems, and Alcohol Experiences among Young Swedish Adolescents: a General Population Study. To read more click here and scroll down to the month of July. | <urn:uuid:07c9d0f7-ae98-4b10-b2fd-9309086900d6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ju.se/center/lordia/en/news/news/2017-08-16-the-junior-temperament-and-character-inventory-psychometric-properties-of-multi-informant-ratings.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.929576 | 383 | 1.804688 | 2 |
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