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University of Buffalo researchers have found that mindfulness, a practise long thought to promote emotional balance by reducing stress and anxiety, may be having the unintended effect of increasing selfishness in at least some of the people who take part.
A new paper to be published in the “Psychological Science” journal claims that for those who already consider themselves “independent”, as opposed to “interdependent” beings, engaging in mindfulness practises can make them less likely to demonstrate “prosocial behaviours”.
“Mindfulness can make you selfish,” says Dr. Michael Poulin, an associate professor of psychology at the university and the paper’s lead author.
“It’s a qualified fact, but it’s also accurate.
“Mindfulness increased prosocial actions for people who tend to view themselves as more interdependent. However, for people who tend to view themselves as more independent, mindfulness actually decreased prosocial behavior.
“Research suggests that mindfulness works, but this study shows that it’s a tool, not a prescription, which requires more than a plug-and-play approach if practitioners are to avoid its potential pitfalls.”
The research team point to cultural differences between west and east as being key to understanding the social psychology generally at play among those who participate in mindfulness.
“People in Western nations most often think of themselves as independent, whereas people in East Asian countries more often think of themselves as interdependent. Mindfulness practices originated in East Asian countries, and Poulin speculates that mindfulness may be more clearly prosocial in those contexts. Practicing mindfulness in Western countries removes that context,” the team explain.
The authors claim that people from the western world who practise mindfulness may not experience the prosocial benefits that people from the east might, given their more interdependent attitude to existence.
“Despite these individual and cultural differences, there is also variability within each person, and any individual at different points in time can think of themselves either way, in singular (‘I do this’) or plural terms (‘We do this’),” says Poulin.
As part of their research, the team surveyed 366 people to gauge their levels of independence and interdependence, then offered all of them the opportunity to stuff envelopes for a charity.
The response indicated less prosocial behaviour from the more independent participants as they were not as likely to volunteer, whilst further studies appeared to corroborate the findings.
“We have to think about how to get the most out of mindfulness,” Poulin claims, suggesting any classes, which one in five US companies now promote, include reflection on how people are part of groups.
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With Halloween approaching, most of you are busy getting your costumes ready so that you can spend the fun evening 'Trick or Treating'. However, if forecasters are right, there will not be many 'treats' in store for residents of the East Coast, especially New York and New Jersey, thanks to a nasty storm that is expected to be so bad, that experts are calling it Frankenstorm.
The ominous hybrid monster is the result of the simultaneous meeting of Hurricane Sandy, which is making its way to the area from the Caribbean, an early winter storm that is heading the same way from the West Coast and a blast of icy Arctic air blowing in from the north, The combination is expected to result in a deadly storm with high winds, extreme tides and possibly even snow!
If the current forecasts hold, all three systems will reach the East Coast of the United States by early Tuesday. While the populous areas of New York and New Jersey are expected to beard the brunt of all three, Hurricane Sandy will affect people as far inland as Ohio and as far south as Florida. Also, Frankenstorm is not going to be a quick flash storm, but one of those stubborn ones expected to linger for five to six days!
Besides putting a real damper on Halloween, the storm is also expected to cause considerable damage for a number of reasons. With the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicting at least 10-inches of rain and extreme ocean surges, exacerbated by the fact that the storm will hit during full moon when tides are at their highest, the coastal areas are bracing for some major flooding. NOAA is also expecting up to 2-inches of snow in West Virginia, which could result in major power outages given that the trees are still green.
Many experts are comparing it to the Perfect or Halloween Storm of October 1991 that hit areas of New England and Canada and was caused by Hurricane Grace coming in from Bermuda and clashing with a massive low pressure system from Canada. However, others fear this could be much worse and that the destruction caused will be closer to $10 billion USD as compared to the $200 million USD in 1991. While authorities and residents are trying to prepare the best they can for all kinds of emergencies, there is really no telling what may happen when nature unleashes its fury.
Thankfully, weather forecasting is not a perfect science and any one of these storms could lose intensity on their way there - We sure hope that is the case, but we will only find out for sure on Tuesday, October 30th, when Frankenstorm hits the shores of New Jersey!
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Lord, remember David
And all his afflictions;
How he swore to the Lord,
And vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:
“Surely I will not go into the chamber of my house,
Or go up to the comfort of my bed;
I will not give sleep to my eyes
Or slumber to my eyelids,
Until I find a place for the Lord,
A dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob.”
— Psalm 132:1-5
When we see what the psalmist is describing, we must admit that we feel very inadequate. The psalmist was truly a consecrated person. To most of us, our consecration is always in the principle of an “exchange.” When we give something to the Lord we expect that the Lord will reward us. If we offer something to the Lord then He must give us something back in return.
Not many of us can say, “My house is God’s tabernacle.” To say this means that there is no other motive. There is no thought of an exchange. A mature person’s consecration is like a marriage. There is no thought between a husband and wife, “Whatever I do for you, I must get something back in return.” Yet this is often our concept in the church life.
Adapted from The Journey of Life, pages 99-100.
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Amphibian Skin is the 3D Printed Splint of the Future
AmphibianSkin is a new high-tech medical device made by 3DMedScan in Pueblo, Colorado. 3DMedScan provides 3D surface imaging services and affordable custom-fit exoskeleton support devices. AmphibianSkin is 3D printed splint made using an Airwolf HD 3D Printer. When Airwolf 3D staff heard about this amazing use of the printers, we felt compelled to reach out to 3DMedScan and learn more.
The Inspiration For AmphibianSkin
Diana Hall has a degree in chemical engineering from Colorado School of Mines, and has worked in software and engineering for many years in Fortune 500 companies. When she was younger, she took a break from work and started a mentoring program for children in a poverty-stricken neighborhood. The kids in the program would come in with traditional splints and casts that were bulky, itchy, cumbersome, smelly, and eventually filthy. The kids couldn’t even effectively disinfect their hands for a snack! One child was scratching in her cast with a coat hangar, and another ended up with permanent scarring from getting water inside his cast. As an engineer, Ms. Hall knew there were high-tech options, and wondered why they weren’t available to the general public. “I had seen 3D printed prototypes like the Cortex and Osteoid Casts and the Splint+,” said Ms. Hall, “so I developed my own, unique design based on voronoi patterning and actual amphibian skin texture (wet/dry).”
AmphibianSkin is a patent-pending 3D printed splint, with a unique clasping system designed specifically for FFF printing. Ms. Hall recently entered the the Pueblo Entrepreneurship Competition (a local Shark Tank-like event), to test her business model on venture capitalists. She won cash awards from the Economic Development Corp and one for social enterprise. Soon afterward, she opened up an office in Pueblo’s Business and Technology Center to offer her 3D printed splints to the public.
“I am continuously inspired to help my customers with a hygienic, water-safe alternative to traditional casts and splints, and to give doctors a way to offer high-tech support devices to their patients without the time, training and expense involved in 3D scanning, CAD, and printing.” says Diana.
Patients Can Immobilize Wrists and Thumbs and Still Play
So far, the majority of 3DMedScan customers are those with chronic conditions such as carpal-tunnel, wanting a device that will immobilize their wrist/thumb but still allow them to play sports, garden, swim, and do the dishes – things they couldn’t do in traditional splints. “Many fellow moms have come up to me saying how fantastic these devices would’ve been for their children needing casts, and trying to bathe/shower or keep their limb in a plastic bag” said Diana, “One elderly man asked for my brochure to take to his wife’s doctor to replace a foot cast. The elderly already have limited mobility, so bathing with a traditional foot cast or keeping padding and Velcro clean and sanitary is a major hassle.” Athletes greatly benefit from the ability to sweat and shower in AmphibianSkin devices while protecting and immobilizing. Doctors like the fact that AmphibianSkin is radiolucent (doesn’t need to be removed for x-rays), breathable and hygienic – allowing the patient to improve office efficiencies due to less casting, re-casting, and infections, and improve their patient through-put. AmphibianSkin has mainly been working on hands/wrists/forearms, but Diana believes that they could feasibly scan and fit AmphibianSkin to any body part that needs to be immobilized. Large devices would need to be printed in pieces and epoxied together, or large AmphibianSkins could be sent to a commercial 3D printing vendor for printing.
What Plans Does Diana Hall Have for Future Applications?
“3DMedScan is really a product-service hybrid, where we do the surface imaging, CAD design fit, and printing, all on-site.” Ms. Hall shared. She has developed (and continues to improve upon) a reproducible operating plan. In this bright future, she envisions micro-franchises located in every hospital and orthopedic clinics across the country. She expects to see more widespread use of LIPUS (low-intensity pulsed ultrasound) to improve bone healing time, TENS (Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation) for pain management and EMS (electrical muscle stimulation) for muscle healing, as AmphibianSkin devices are readily adaptable to those technologies. “I have heard from a local prison interested in using the devices with inmates due to their fit and visibility (hard to conceal a weapon or contraband)” she added. “I also see fantastic sports applications, and I am currently working with sports professionals on patents right now for custom-fit archery and golf putting positioning devices that assist users in muscle memory training to improve their form.”
How Has AmphibianSkin Improved Lives?
Diana Hall shared a story, “Last week, a client came in with painful arthritis in her knuckle joints, and I was able to custom-design a device to immobilize her hand while leaving her tender knuckle area open to allow for any future swelling. I also made a carpal-tunnel device for a woman with a wrist injury who was headed to Hawaii this weekend for a long-awaited vacation. She was so excited to be able to relax in the sand and ocean without worrying about getting her old device’s padding and Velcro wet and sandy!” Just yesterday an orthopedic surgeon contacted Diana to fit an elderly patient who had gotten an infection under her traditional cast and needed a more breathable, hygienic option.
AmphibianSkin Is an Affordable 3D Printed Splint
AmphibianSkin support devices run about $200 each right now, depending on the size. This cost is due to the scanning and CAD design time, as each device is custom-fit to each individual body scan model and customer preferences. Additional devices (in different colors) are $100 each. Other custom-fit orthopedic devices can run $500+, and for most of us with high-deductible healthcare plans, AmphibianSkin devices are affordable out-of-pocket options. Sports devices run between $200 and $500 depending on the CAD design time required, complexity, and size.
Will Insurance Companies Cover the Cost of 3D Printed Splints Someday?
The FDA blogged an article and photo of their staff printing medical devices with ABS filament in August of 2013. Diana believes that this may be an indicator that it is a matter of time before Insurance companies begin to cover the cost of 3D printed splints. “I think that many of us as individuals can see a market need and use our personal experience and strengths to fill that need for the public though small-business outsourcing. 3DMedScan is looking for franchisees to bring AmphibianSkin devices to cities across the country.”
Airwolf 3D Printers and AmphibianSkin
Diana Hall’s uses Airwolf 3D printers in her facility in Pueblo Colorado to make the 3D printed exoskeletons. “I like Airwolf printers due to their low cost, large build volume, variety of materials, and plug-and-play capability. ” Diana says, “As my business grows and franchises are seeded, it is important to have a short learning curve and minimize maintenance and downtime for repairs. I recommend them to people new to 3D printing or those who need low-maintenance work-horse desktop printers.”
Top Notch Features Of This 3D Printed Splint
AmphibianSkin devices are unique in many ways:
(1) The patterning is designed to be lightweight and breathable while also providing the structural strength necessary for high-impact sports, and the seams of the clam-shell are curved along the pattern for an organic looking 3D printed splint.
(2) The patent-pending removable clip was designed through a vigorous, iterative R&D process for improved performance. Both the pattern and clasps were designed for use in multiple device styles and for consistent fused-filament fabrication printing.
Where Can You Get a 3D Printed Splint by 3DMedScan?
3DMedScan is offering AmphibianSkin devices by appointment only. Call 719-821-0889 to schedule a consultation. Evenings and weekend appointments are available.
301 N. Main St., Suite 113
Pueblo, CO 81006
Physicians across the country can partner with 3DMedScan to obtain a scanner so that they can position and scan their patients in, and e-mail the images to 3DMedScan to have devices designed, printed, and over-night shipped back. In addition, low-cost micro-franchise opportunities are available anywhere, including full on-site scanning, design and printing capabilities. | <urn:uuid:b5d77851-d9c7-41f8-bd16-9383dd90820a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://airwolf3d.com/2014/10/21/3d-printed-splint/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.951513 | 1,976 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Can you believe it? It’s almost the end of the year already! It seems like January was just here and we were all planning our goals for the year. By now you may have just settled into what your plans were and have accomplished at least some or maybe you fell into goal fatigue trying to accomplish too much at once. Mastering the follow-through is key to building unstoppable momentum. Crafting SMART goals is a tool you can use to follow-through on your plans. SMART is an acronym for Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Time-Bound.
Specific: Be clear with yourself about what you want the outcome to be. Measurable: Your goal should be something tangible that can be counted or tracked, you can do this by adding numbers to your goal. Attainable: Your goals should be able to be achieved and checked off. Realistic: Make sure to factor in the resources you have available to you in order to get a good idea on what you can achieve. Time-Bound: Have a firm date in mind as a finish line to work towards. This is very important because as you begin to create time-bound goals you’ll realize if your goals are for now or for later.
As you build momentum use it as a strategy to move on to the next goal. Setting goals that are not specific enough can lead to discouragement due to lack of momentum. Everyone needs a road map to follow, especially when the road is so long and complicated. Setting SMART goals is a wise practice to incorporate in your routines. | <urn:uuid:36ae4a75-72a4-4d31-a818-39e98a03299c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ronneb.com/goals/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.975772 | 334 | 2 | 2 |
Posted September 21, 2018 06:03:55 Some sapphs have the most beautiful and distinctive colours, but other sapphas have the worst colours.
A study of 1,000 sapphatas found that there are five varieties of sapphi, all with their own unique colours.
Read moreA study of saffron sapphoins, sapphattas and dolmens found that the colours of the saffrons were mostly green and yellow.
However, saffra colours were more diverse with a wide range of colours.
This makes sense.
Some saffras are a mix of white and yellow and others have yellow and green, so there are some shades of grey in the mixture.
However, if you have a good saffrome skin, you should not have any problems with colours.
The colours of sappa are a combination of white, yellow and red.
If you have dry skin, the colours should not bother you at all.
However if you are prone to dryness or acne, you might want to avoid some of the red and yellow sappHematite sapphus are the best colour choices, as they have a rich golden hue and beautiful golden patterns.
The sapphu is a rare colour in India, and the colours have been collected only in the south-east.
The best sapphods are red and gold, and they are the most popular choice among those with good sapprome skin.
The red colour of sappo is usually yellow, and gold sappheres have an interesting golden hue.
This golden hue is very rare in sapphetas.
Sapphys are usually blue and purple, but they also have the golden hue of sape and the golden pattern of sappe.
The golden pattern can be a good indicator of skin condition and is sometimes used in cosmetics.
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Numeric Property Searching in STNext – Case Studies from DWPI
Category: Recorded e-Seminars
The unique Numeric Property Search (NPS) feature offers exact value and range search options for 59 physical and chemical properties, for example ENERGY (/ENE) or PRESSURE (/PRES), indexed from 1,800 original units. Those numeric values and their corresponding units are automatically extracted from database text, normalized and then made available for searching. Especially the normalization step is essential for easily locating references using different unit variants in the text. That means it doesn`t matter which unit is used in the search query, e.g. a search for 20 centimetre will also retrieve records mentioning metre or millimetre in the document text but also units from different unit systems will be found accordingly, such as yard or inch. This E-Seminar will introduces this powerful STN search tool, providing a variety of practical search examples to demonstrate its use. | <urn:uuid:145c8e46-09ce-4dc9-8959-b1e0a86ddd20> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.stn-international.com/en/training-center/recorded-e-seminars/numeric-property-searching-stnext-case-studies-dwpi | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.823884 | 211 | 1.820313 | 2 |
A flying car is a vehicle that can drive on roads and fly through the air either with wings or with rotors. They have been the stuff of science fiction for many years but recent advances in technology mean that they may soon become a reality.
There are a number of different designs for flying cars and it is not yet clear which one will be the most successful. Some designs use wings while others use rotors. Some are VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) while others require a runway.
The biggest obstacle to the development of flying cars is not technological but regulatory. There are a number of challenges that need to be overcome before flying cars can become a reality such as noise pollution air traffic congestion and safety.
While the concept of flying cars has been around for many years it is only in recent years that they have begun to move from science fiction to reality. There are a number of companies working on flying car prototypes and it is likely that we will see a flying car on the market within the next few years.
If you’re interested in learning more about flying cars here are a few references to get you started:
“How Flying Cars Could Work” – Popular Mechanics
“The Flight of the Flying Cars” – Wired
“10 Flying Cars That Could Change Transportation” – Forbes
What is this a picture of?
This is a picture of a flying car.
Is this a real car?
No this is not a real car.
It is a concept car.
Who designed this car?
The flying car was designed by Alexei Pestov.
Where is this car located?
The car is located in Russia.
What is the purpose of this car?
The purpose of the flying car is to reduce traffic congestion and increase efficiency in travel.
How does this car work?
The car uses a system of fans to lift it off the ground and propel it forward.
What are the benefits of this car?
The benefits of the flying car include reduced traffic congestion increased efficiency in travel and the ability to fly over obstacles.
What are the drawbacks of this car?
The drawbacks of the flying car include the high cost of production the need for a large amount of space to take off and land and the possibility of crashing.
Is this car currently in production?
No this car is not currently in production.
When will this car be available?
The flying car is not currently available for purchase.
How much will this car cost?
The cost of the flying car has not been determined.
Can this car fly in all weather conditions?
No the flying car cannot fly in all weather conditions.
It is only designed to fly in good weather conditions.
What is the maximum speed of this car?
The maximum speed of the flying car is 120 kilometers per hour.
What is the maximum altitude of this car?
The maximum altitude of the flying car is 4000 meters.
What is the range of this car?
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How do I make a milestone schedule?
What is a business milestone?
By definition, company milestones are the significant moments of accomplishment that mark your company's development and growth.
Why are milestones placed in the schedule?
Milestones should be the minimal points of control in the project for those who are not familiar with it, such as high-level sponsors, stakeholders, and executives in the organization. As a project planning best practice, place key milestones in the schedule to better manage a stakeholder's expectations.
Related Question What is a milestone schedule?
What are milestones in a marketing plan?
Marketing plan milestones are targets that show a company's progress as the marketing staff executes each step of the plan. Milestones also propose important deadlines that the marketing staff must meet, the budget for each portion of the plan, the manager in charge of each aspect, and sales goals for each aspect.
What is milestones and metrics in business plan?
Your plan in that metaphor is your destination, and route and milestones are destinations along the way. Metrics are like dials on the dashboard, indicators of how you're doing, tracking your progress toward goals. They also serve as real-time updates, like on traffic and weather.
What is the difference between task and milestone?
A Task is something that you and your team need to accomplish in a particular pod. They are single items within a task list. A Milestone is a marker or a goal that you want to achieve for a list of tasks.
What are milestones in health and social care?
Developmental milestones are behaviors or physical skills seen in infants and children as they grow and develop. Rolling over, crawling, walking, and talking are all considered milestones. One of the reasons for well-child visits to the health care provider in the early years is to follow your child's development.
What do you call 50th birthday?
Turning 50 has also been considered a golden birthday year, and many people choose to decorate with black and gold. Any of the above ideas can be easily translated to a 50th birthday party—just go extra big on the 50th birthday invitation, golden birthday gift, and cake!
How do you write a milestone statement?
Can a milestone be a summary task?
Milestone tasks usually act as a deadline for a number of tasks that require completion because a milestone has no duration. The user can declare any summary task or subtask a milestone event.
What is milestone in sociology?
Developmental milestones are used to measure whether the child is developing as they should do at a particular age. Developmental milestones include physical, intellectual, emotional and social milestones.
What are the three major milestones in the first year of life?
During the first year of life, your baby will grow and develop at an amazing speed. Her weight will double by 5 to 6 months, and triple by her first birthday. And she is constantly learning. Major achievements—called developmental milestones—include rolling over, sitting up, standing and possibly walking.
How do you identify project milestones?
Why is turning 21 a big deal?
In the U.S. the legal age for drinking, smoking, and entering nightclubs is 21. So the 21st birthday is a significant turning point for a young adult as they're now able to partake in more adult activities, legally. Given Australia has inherited much from American culture, it's no surprise we've adopted this as well.
Is 55 a milestone birthday?
55. At age 55, you're considered a senior citizen. While the fact may make you feel old, it's actually a good thing. You're eligible for many senior citizen discounts at restaurants, grocery stores and retailers.
What is a gold birthday?
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Where does one begin to learn about farriery as a horse owner? Because of the sheer quantity of information available to us via the internet, it can be overwhelming for anyone to find answers to specific questions from reliable sources, let alone to start seeking when one doesn’t know the right questions to ask.
Not every skilled farrier can speak clearly and eloquently about their work, however, as educating others is a skill in itself that takes time to build. And because in-demand farriers may not have abundant time, they may respond better to specific questions, rather than a general request for clarity around a subject. To know how to ask the right questions, owners need to have a basic understanding of farriery for themselves.
For avid readers who want a deep dive, A Handbook Of Horseshoeing by Jno A. W. Dollar and Albert Wheatley is still the most complete standard that I can recommend. First published in 1898, it begins with am archeological history of farriery in Europe that is still largely complete, and fascinating in its own right. This proceeds into discussions of basic horse anatomy, to give one an understanding of how the “No hoof, no horse” adage really is true.
The later sections of the book cover shoeing in relation to the hoof, the use of pads, forging, and more. The concluding section of the book dives into corrective shoeing, diseases, lameness, and deformities. A Handbook Of Horseshoeing is a tome, but even if you don’t read it cover to cover, it is a great resource for owners to search subjects of interest using the table of contents and index. That’s why having a physical copy of a tested source like A Handbook is a great first step.
For owners and readers out there that learn more easily through visuals, there are a number of options that will get you started. The Horse Shoeing Book: A Pictorial Guide for Horse Owners and Students is one example. At only 128 pages and loaded with images, it cannot be compared to Dollar and Wheatley’s Handbook, but for those who are just looking for the basics of farriery, it’s an approachable start. And as much I laud Dollar and Wheatley’s work, I am realistic about how unapproachable that big black book will be to some folks.
This is the key, after all: How do we approach each other and our work to the benefit of the horse. It’s worth noting that farriers aren’t the only specialists responsible for helping to educate owners about their horses’ health and anatomy. Owners should be comfortable and curious enough to learn from other specialists, including vets and trainers.
Even among specialists, opinions and conclusions can vary when specific problems and needs for care arise. In the end, we each make our best case, but it is ultimately the owners who decide…even if it’s to say, “I trust your judgment.” The best farriers and vets will want to earn that trust, and it comes easier and more assuredly when the owners themselves know the basics. We all have more confidence in our work in these settings, and the ultimate priority in it all—the health and well being of the horse—is better attained.
On that note, rather than just providing a reading list, I want to offer the seeds for further exploration into all the many elements of hoof care, which must be considered together to determine a proper care plan. I offer these same considerations to other farriers, not just owners. Equine care is always collaborative, and there is always more to learn, even if one feels one has mastered a single part of it.
The goal is to learn enough to have competent conversations with specialists, whether they are farriers, trainers, vets, nutritionists, or any other member of the team. It’s about establishing better communication, so when problems arise, we know the right questions to ask, or even disagree with the conclusions that others have come to.
Farriers might sometimes encounter owners who know just enough to be presumptuous and make demands without really knowing better, and in these cases one can either walk away or work patiently with them to ensure that the horse’s needs are actually met. Whatever ideological differences may exist, and whether or not an owner has been sold on a cycle of ineffective treatments that they are reluctant to abandon simply because they feel invested in them, there is still a best case scenario for the horse that the farrier can help create.
For all these reasons, better education is needed across the board. For owners, the basics that will help them understand what a farrier does and should do. For farriers, a more comprehensive knowledge of care and the ability to share their specialized knowledge with others.
Here are some key subjects that owners should be researching for themselves to better understand farriery and their horses.
Farriers should assess the conformation of the horse to identify possible weaknesses and strengths, doing so every time they trim and shoe to ensure that the care plan is moving the horse in positive direction and maintaining health. But of course, the most intense scrutiny should be on the hoof itself, each component structure, frog, bars, sole, wall, etc.
When looking at conformation of the hoof, there are number of qualities to be assessed and pushed toward an ideal. Hoof symmetry is not just aesthetic, but physiologically important for proper distribution of weight and impact. The quality and substance of the hoof indicates overall health and how well it can absorb impact, hold a shoe and (above all) protect the bones and ligaments of the foot. Proportions and angles of the hoof also play a role in overall appearance, but their importance in how the leg functions and absorbs stress cannot be overstated.
Naturally, all of this is considered when determining the proper trim. It is easy to presume that the hoof (by its physical nature) is nearly indestructible, but this is not the case. Further, the hoof is often compared to a human fingernail or toenail because of how it grows and its keratinous substance, but its function is entirely different. Aesthetic manicures do not completely alter our sense of balance and function. Trim styles that emphasize a daintier hoof necessarily affect the health of the horse, and can lead to lameness over time.
Discipline And Training
The overall discipline and training of the horse will, of course, play a part in decisions around conformation. The aesthetics of the hoof may be valued over stability in some cases, which can put farriers in odd positions if their priority is harm reduction and the health of the horse.
Making sure that you as an owner know that this delicate balance is in place is important, and knowing that your farrier has strategies to ensure the long-term health of the horse is critical. This applies to equine athletes in every discipline, as the hoof is placed under unique pressures and conditions from one to the next.
Facility And Environment
As an owner, really being aware of how the horse’s environment affects hoof condition and health is critical. Grass does not equal a perfect natural environment. Grassy areas can be softer or harder, wetter or drier, and all of these variables can contribute to different patterns of wear, and even to injury and disease if not properly dealt with. The farrier is the first line of treatment to prevent lameness and conditions like laminitis, using the proper shoes, pads, and (of course) trim to prevent the need for therapy and corrective shoeing down the line.
The Overall Assessment
Professional farriers have diverse protocols, techniques and tools to assess horses. Farriers should be keeping proper notation, and many professionals are supplementing their notes now with photographs and video. Because what should be clear by now is that the hoof (and the horse) are dynamic things, ever changing even when their outward condition is otherwise stable. They have their inner lives and unique relationships with everyone in charge of their care.
For their sake, it is important that every owner put in at least a little effort to understand the basics of farriery, so they too can have a better understanding of what the horse is experiencing. It not only makes one more confident when interacting with farriers. It also makes the relationship with the horse richer, as one begins to understand just how powerful and complex these creatures are from the hoof up.
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Greater NW Pride: Showing Up
Greater NW Pride: Showing Up
There is an adage in the world that I keep coming back to: “90% of life is showing up. Sometimes it is easier to hide home in bed. I’ve done both.”
I thought of this quote as I read about Zachary Ro, a 9-year-old boy, who asked Democratic Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg, aka, Mayor Pete, to help him tell the world he’s gay, too: “I want to be brave like you.” Zachary was attending a rally for Mayor Pete in Denver, Colorado on Saturday night.
Mayor Pete responded, “’I don’t think you need a lot of advice from me on bravery. You seem pretty strong to me,’ Buttigieg, who is gay, told Zachary. ‘It took me a long time to figure out how to tell even my best friend that I was gay, let along to go out there and tell…a room full of 1,000 people.’”
Mayor Pete then told Zachary a few things that might be helpful in the future:
“The first thing is that it won’t always be easy, but that’s okay, because you know who you are. And that’s really important, because when you know who you are, you have a center of gravity that can hold you together when all kinds of chaos is happening around you”
Mayor Pete continued, telling him to be “mindful of ‘who’s taking their lead from you, who’s watching you and deciding that they can be a little braver because you have been brave…I never could have seen that coming, and you’ll never know whose life you might be affecting right now, just by standing here. There’s a lot of power in that.”
While this is not an endorsement of Mayor Pete for the Democratic nominee for President, this is a blog on pointing out the importance of showing up, being present, living openly, honestly, and smartly as an LGBTQ+ person in the church today. In being a candidate for President, openly gay, husband, Episcopalian, Hoosier Mayor Pete shows up at rally after rally, debate after debate, town hall after town hall, and is present, showing up at these events, showing the world that an openly gay man can run for President. And that’s exactly what young Zachary Ro was needing to see, hear, feel, and imitate as he showed up on the same stage, was present, showing up, as a 9-year-old boy who self identifies as gay. I was 9-years-old when I knew I was gay, too.
The same model and impact holds true for being an open LGBTQ+ person and assuming a leadership role in a church or other community of faith. When I enter the sacred space of the pulpit or preaching space of a church—United Methodist, Episcopalian, Presbyterian or UCC—I know that there are many in the congregation who may never have seen an openly gay pastor preach before in a church's pulpit. I know that is true because I have often heard it said by many people when greeting them after I preach. I was one who hid in my closet, or in my bed as a young gay man. It wasn't until I was in seminary and graduate school that I watched, heard, and was moved by speakers like Richard Rodriguez, Dan Savage, and Janie Spahr and knew that I, too, could stand up, be present, and show up and preach and teach as an openly gay man and pastor. It took several tries and practice, but, with time, I got better in saying, "I'm Brett Webb-Mitchell, and I am a Presbyterian pastor, pilgrim, dad, and an openly gay man, and in a partnered relationship." Every time I do this, no matter how large or small the audience, I still get chills down my spine.
The power of such modeling has helped the church move forward in other arenas as well. For example, I know a lot of friends who are women clergy did not contemplate being a pastor until they saw their first woman pastor preaching from the pulpit of a church and knew that the call of God of church leadership was true for them. Likewise, I know there are young people in a congregation who may or may not be an out LGBTQ+ person who consider church leadership after seeing and hearing an openly LGBTQ+ person preach from the pulpit. Then the Holy Spirit continues to do the work of instilling in a young person the call that one might also be interested and called to ministry in the life of a community of faith.
Like Mayor Pete and Zachary Ro, changing the course of our collective story as LGBTQ+ people is about being present. It is about showing up. It is about being courageous. It is about responding to the call of God in Christ, knowing that the Spirit is by our side. We will not fall and we will not fail with God by our side.
May it be so for all of us, and the generation following in our footsteps as we follow Jesus, the Pilgrim God.
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International Journal of Earth Science and Geophysics
Volume 1, Issue 1
Seismic and Gravity Evidence for Methane-Hydrate Systems in the Central Aleutian Basin
Elizabeth A. Yankovsky*, Darrell A. Terry and Camelia C. Knapp
Table of Content
Figure 1: Bathymetric map of the central Aleutian Basin...
Bathymetric map of the central Aleutian Basin with tracks for the 2011 seismic lines. Bathymetry, update V15.1, courtesy of the Global Topography Project, University of California at San Diego; MGL1111 tracks courtesy of U. S. Geological Survey and Marine Geoscience Data System, LDEO, Columbia University.
Figure 2: A complete view of line MCS09A. Shown in...
A complete view of line MCS09A. Shown in the upper left is the far-offset (channel 1), single channel seismic section. Shown in the bottom right is the near-offset (channel 636) seismic section. Beside each seismic section is shot gather 1900, which shows data for each of the channels (1-636) at shot point 1900. The y-axis in all images displays two-way signal travel-time in milliseconds, ranging from 5000 to 9000 ms. the x-axis in the seismic sections shows shot gather number; shot spacing is 50 meters, so overall distance covered in these sections is about 80 kilometers. For the shot gather, x-axis is channel number (1-636). The color bar is a linear grayscale representing signal amplitude, with extreme positive values and negative values colored in red and yellow, respectively.
Figure 3: An enhanced view of the VAMP structures shown...
An enhanced view of the VAMP structures shown in the near-offset seismic section of figure 2, showing only shot gather numbers 1000 to 2000.
Figure 4(a-c): Shown are the steps in processing gravity data...
Shown are the steps in processing gravity data, (a) shows raw data, (b) is after application of a Gaussian filter, and (c) is after subsequent application of a Median filter.
Figure 5(a-b): Shown is the single channel, near-offset...
Shown is the single channel, near-offset seismic section for line MSC05 and the corresponding processed gravity data.
Figure 6(a-b): Shown is the single channel, near-offset seismic...
Shown is the single channel, near-offset seismic section for line MSC03 and the corresponding processed gravity data. For this line we removed the regional trend of decreasing gravitational acceleration from 981,680 mGal to 981,590 mGal along the line in order to better visualize local effects. Thus, gravity is plotted as deviation from the linear regression line rather than as an absolute value.
Figure 7(a-b): Shown is the single channel, near-offset seismic...
Shown is the single channel, near-offset seismic section for line MSC11 and the corresponding processed gravity data.
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Elizabeth A. Yankovsky*, Darrell A. Terry and Camelia C. Knapp
Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of South Carolina, USA
Elizabeth A. Yankovsky, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208 USA.
Accepted: September 04, 2015 | Published Online: September 07, 2015
Citation: Yankovsky EA, Terry DA, Knapp CC (2015) Seismic and Gravity Evidence for Methane-Hydrate Systems in the Central Aleutian Basin. Int J Earth Sci Geophys 1:001.
Copyright: © 2015 Yankovsky EA. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
In this study, we analyze newly acquired seismic and gravity data sets (MGL1111) from the central Aleutian Basin of the Bering Sea to substantiate the hypothesis first proposed by Scholl and Cooper (1978) that methane plumes and associated gas hydrates are responsible for the regional seismic anomalies. These anomalies, known as VAMP (Velocity-AMPlitude anomaly) structures, were first discovered in this region in the 1970s. They are characterized by velocity pull-ups and associated push-downs in the seismic horizons. We present a comparison of near-offset, single channel seismic sections and processed shipboard gravimeter data from several of the fifteen lines of MGL1111. Results show prominent and ubiquitous VAMP structures throughout the seismic data. Remarkably, we find these VAMPs to correlate with significant lows in gravitational acceleration values- supporting the hypothesis of large volumes of methane hydrates being present. For the past several decades marine gas hydrates have been studied intensely under the assumption that deep ocean basins lack the methane necessary to generate gas hydrates. On the contrary, our findings support the assertion that the Aleutian Basin may contain globally significant volumes of methane in gaseous and hydrate form; this merits a rethinking of whether these systems are more common than previously anticipated.
Gas hydrates, Aleutian basin, Gravity, Seismic analysis
Marine gas hydrates have been the subject of intensive study since their discovery in the 1960s . Gas hydrates are defined as solid ice-like structures composed of a cage of water molecules surrounding a methane (or other gas) molecule that are stable only under certain thermo baric conditions [2-4]. Although deep ocean basins are known to have the appropriate temperature and pressure conditions for hosting methane hydrate systems, observational evidence of such systems has been primarily focused along continental margins within shallow sediments [4,5]. The expectation over the past several decades has thus been that deep ocean basins generally lack a sufficient source of methane and cannot generate gas hydrates.
The Aleutian Basin, however, may contradict this assertion. The basin is enclosed between the Aleutian Arc and Beringian Margin, resulting in impoundment of terrigenous organic sediment that over time may serve as a methane source for producing methane hydrates. The Aleutian Basin is largely composed of flat-lying and undisturbed sediments delivered to the area since the late Mesozoic . These sediments coupled with the simple pancake geology, moderately high heat flow, and enclosed nature of the region are all factors that may account for significant amounts of methane and formation of gas hydrates.
Exploration in the Aleutian Basin began with the review of U.S. naval data in the 1960s and has expanded to include significant and extensive seismic data collections, site observations during the Ocean Drilling Program, and sonar surveys of the ocean floor . In the early 1970s seismic evidence from the region led to the discovery of VAMP (Velocity-AMPlitude anomaly) structures characterized by velocity pull-ups and push-downs in the seismic horizons. According to a previous interpretation of this data by Scholl and Cooper , these anomalies may be indicative of methane plumes and/or the presence of gas hydrate formations. Furthermore, in 2009 three IODP sites were drilled along the Beringian Margin of the Bering Sea as part of Expedition 323 . The sediment cores were found to vigorously release methane gas as they warmed, implying dissociation of pore-space methane hydrate [8,9]. Here, we analyze previously unpublished seismic and gravity data sets (MGL1111), acquired in 2011 for the U.S. Extended Continental Shelf Project in the central Aleutian Basin of the Bering Sea. We substantiate Scholl and Cooper's original hypothesis that the VAMPs are a result of methane gas and gas hydrates.
The deep waters of the Bering Sea are divided into three physiographic areas: the Aleutian, Bowers, and Komandorsky Basins . The three deep basins are separated by two aseismic ridges- Bowers Ridge, north of the Aleutian Arc, and Shirshov Ridge, extending from the Siberian mainland. The Aleutian Basin is located in the abyssal (depths greater than 3000 meters) portion of the Bering Sea just west of the Bering continental shelf. Primarily Cenozoic (65 Ma- present) sediments 2 to 9 kilometers thick are confined behind an outer island arc, the Aleutian Ridge. Apart from the great thickness of the overlying sedimentary section, the regional geologic and geophysical data indicate an underlying oceanic crustal structure. This suggests that the area was a part of the North Pacific Ocean until the late Mesozoic, 6070 Ma .
The Kula Plate, which split from the old Farallon plate about 80 Ma, formed a large portion of the North Pacific Ocean bottom prior to 60 Ma. During this period the Kula plate was subducting beneath Kamchatka and the present day Beringian Margin. At 55-56 Ma the development of the Aleutian Ridge fractured the oceanic Kula plate, diverting subduction to the Aleutian Arc and leaving behind a segment of oceanic crust north of the newly formed ridge. Bowers and Shirshov Ridge may have also begun to develop at this time . Since then, terrigenous and pelagic sediments have steadily accumulated in the area leading to a section of remarkably flat-lying, undisturbed sedimentary layers. When compared to other extensively studied oceanic basins, such as the geologically complex Gulf of Mexico, the sedimentary structure of the central Aleutian Basin thus stands out as "remarkably unremarkable".
According to Cooper et al. , the observed heat flow values in the Aleutian Basin are moderately high, with an average value of 1.44 ± 0.22 microcal/cm2/s The regional geothermal gradient is also substantial, at 58°C/km. This is sufficient to reach the onset of thermogenic hydrocarbon generation (50 to 100°C) at fairly shallow sub-bottom depths of 0.9 to 1.8 km [10,11]. Furthermore, based on applying temperature versus age and depth curves for known oil and gas producing basins, the generation of hydrocarbons in the central Aleutian Basin is predicted to occur in horizons as young as the early Miocene, 18 to 23 Ma . In other words, appropriate thermal conditions for biogenic and thermogenic degradation of organic matter leading to methane hydrate formation is ubiquitous throughout the basin. Due to the great water depth, seasonal changes in the sub-bottom thermal environment are believed to be negligible.
We analyze a new seismic data set acquired in August 2011 aboard the R/V Marcus G. Langseth (Columbia University LDEO) in the central Aleutian Basin. Figure 1 shows ship tracks for the fifteen multi-channel seismic lines comprising MGL1111. An 8000 meter array of hydrophone receivers consisting of 636 channels at 12.5 meter spacing was utilized. The source was an air gun array consisting of forty guns with a 6600 in3 total volume, fired at 2000 psi every 50 meters.
Shown in figure 2 are near-offset and far-offset single channel seismic sections connected to a sample shot gather, for line MCS09A.The y-axis shows signal two-way travel time, starting just above the water bottom. In the seismic sections, the x-axis is shot gather number and in the shot gather, it is channel number. Normal move out (NMO) has not been applied, but the corresponding times between near and far offset can be identified by examining the shot gather. For display purposes we applied a wide band pass filter (12.5 to 125 Hz) to remove cable noise. A linear gray scale clipped at amplitudes of ± 7 best defines the layering; yellow and red represent negative and positive clippings (respectively).
Examining the near-offset seismic section (Figure 2, lower right), several classic VAMP structures analogous to those first identified by Scholl and Cooper are evident, most notably at shot gather numbers 1150 and 1350. Figure 3 is an enhanced view of these VAMP structures, showing only shot gather numbers 1000 to 2000.
Generally, VAMP structures are characterized by a column of seismic push-downs and associated shallower pull-ups. The push-downs are hypothesized to be caused by lower-velocity methane gas dissolved in the fluid-filled porous sediments [6,7,12]. This buoyant fluid rises through the porous medium until it reaches the lower limits of the gas hydrate stability zone, where the lower temperature and pressure conditions cause condensation into a solid gas hydrate. A very strong bottom simulating reflector (BSR) is often visible at this limit due to reflections from the presence of methane gas. This gas hydrate BSR, or GH-BSR, is typically identifiable in seismic records either because it parallels the bottom surface or cross-cuts the geological structure. In the central Aleutian Basin, the GH-BSR is estimated to lie at a sediment depth of 450 meters .The pull-ups attributed to solid gas hydrates extend for about 100 meters above the GH-BSR while push-downs are generally observed for hundreds of meters beneath the GH-BSR [6,12].
In the MCS09A near-channel seismic section (Figure 2, lower right, and Figure 3), the GH-BSR appears around 5600 ms. It is particularly continuous and strong between shot gathers 1600 and 2300, where several methane chimneys are also present. A second BSR is evident at 6300 ms- this is adiagenetic boundary known as the CT-BSR. At a sub-bottom depth of about 600 meters, the alteration (through silica transformation) of water-rich biogenic opal A into cryptocrystalline opal CT produces a roughly 50% drop in porosity. This transition manifests itself in seismic data as the CT-BSR .We identified the CT-BSR by examining the high grazing angle, far-offset seismic section (Figure 2, upper left). In this plot, the CT-BSR is evident just below 8000 ms, which if traced in the adjacent shot gather, indeed corresponds to about 6300 ms in the near-offset seismic section.
The VAMP structures at shot gathers 1150 and 1350 in the near-offset section exhibit the characteristic seismic pull-ups above the GH-BSR and push-downs below, extending to an apparent basement at 7500-8000 ms. Laterally, the structures are about 2-3 km in diameter and appear to exhibit semi-periodicity in their distribution.
According to Scholl and Cooper , there are three primary stratigraphic sections overlying the igneous basement. The uppermost unit occupies sub-bottom depths of 0-375 meters and consists of turbidite-bearing beds of diatom clay. The middle unit occurs at depths of 375-615 meters and consists of semi-indurated strata of diatom clay. The lowest unit is made up of mudstone and thin carbonate layers and extends from 615 meters to the basement (2 to 4 km sub-bottom depth) . Seismic data indicates that the upper limit of the VAMPs typically occurs at/just beneath the upper unit of turbidite beds.
Similarly to Scholl and Cooper , we observed that VAMPs correlate with apparent basement highs. These basement highs potentially correspond to structural peaks of the basaltic basement, mud volcanoes, or acoustic scattering due to the presence of gas. Looking closer at the apparent basement in figure 3, one can see a discontinuity and the basement seems to partially disappear beneath the VAMPs. The uncertainty regarding basement structure served as motivation to process and analyzes gravity data collected along the seismic lines. We wanted to identify whether apparent basement highs would lead to higher gravitational acceleration values or the opposite- that the large amount of gas potentially present within the VAMPs would lower gravity even in the presence of the potential basement highs.
Gravity Data Processing
Gravity data was collected using a Bell Aerospace BGM-3 Marine Gravity Meter System at 1 second intervals along each of the seismic lines of MGL1111. Processing was performed according to Bell and Watts . The BGM-3 gravimeter system works by suspending a mass wrapped in a coil vertically between two permanent magnets. The mass is balanced by the force of gravity and the electromagnetic force induced in the coil. The current in the coil varies proportionally to changes in vertical acceleration. Output from the accelerometer is a current proportional to vertical acceleration in the range of 0 to 200 Gal .
In the first step of processing we merged the navigation data, seismic line locations, and corresponding gravity measurements. We then multiplied the gravity measurements by a conversion factor of 4.9938 and added a bias of 855,613 mGal to obtain a raw gravitational acceleration measurement in mGal (1 m/s2 = 100,000 mGal = 100 Gal). This is shown for line MCS05 in Figure 4a. We then applied a Gaussian filter with a 60 second window (Figure 4b), and a Median filter with a 480 second window (Figure 4c). The parameters for these filters are based on suggestions in Bell and Watts . No gravity corrections were applied due to the flat nature of the bottom and the instrument being at sea level. Finally, we checked cross-over errors between gravity measurements taken at the same location but at different times (on different, but crossing seismic lines). The errors were all relatively small, ranging from 1-30 mGal.
Seismic and Gravity Analysis
Here, we compare near-offset seismic sections to the corresponding processed gravity measurements for three seismic lines: MCS05, MCS03, and MCS11.In MCS05 (Figure 5) the GH-BSR again lies at 5600 ms and the CT-BSR at 6300 ms. As in MCS09A, we observe a semi-periodic appearance of VAMP structures with associated apparent basement highs beneath. VAMPs are generally marked by a particularly high-amplitude signal at the GH-BSR, but individually exhibit variations in their seismic response.
For instance, the VAMP structure at shot gather 1800 is fairly classic- pull-ups are present above the GH-BSR and the push-downs below extend to the apparent basement peak at 7500 ms. The narrower methane chimneys evident between shot gathers 2700-3400 also exhibit such classic behavior.
However, the VAMP structure centered at shot gather 2300 exhibits pull-ups even below the GH-BSR. This character is even more pronounced around shot gather 3700, where pull-ups extend from the apparent basement to the surface. This may be due to the geological arching of the sediment layers that is swamping the push-down signal of existing gas. One should also note that in spite of arching in the geologic layers, the GH-BSR remains horizontal as expected.
The corresponding gravity data for MCS05 shows a remarkable trend. At the VAMP structure locations there are significant decreases (up to 10 mGal) in gravitational acceleration indicative of regional mass deficits. Even around shot gather 3700, where there is a very strong apparent basement peak with pull-ups extending to the surface, the gravitational acceleration values plummet. This serves as convincing support of the hypothesis of a large volume of gas being present within the VAMPs. Further evidence is provided by the methane-rich core samples obtained by IODP Expedition 323 and by the regional thermal conditions favorable to thermogenic methane generation [8,9]. Figure 6 shows seismic data for line MCS03 with corresponding gravity data. For this line we removed the regional trend to better visualize local effects. Except for the edges the trend was linear, so we plotted the data as a deviation from the linear regression line. There is a prominent decrease in gravitational acceleration between shot gathers 2000-2500, again corresponding to an apparent basement high with two small, classic VAMP structures and a strong GH-BSR signature. The apparent basement high has a much flatter and indistinct character than the peaks in line MCS05. Line 11 (Figure 7) shows a similar trend to lines MCS03 and MCS05, with two VAMP structures: one between shot gathers 1300-1700 and the other between shot gathers 2700-3000. These VAMPs also correlate with apparent basement highs and decreased gravitational acceleration values.
Thus, based on analyzing several seismic lines and corresponding gravity data of MGL1111, we found a strong correlation between observed VAMP structures and lows in gravitation acceleration values. This indicates a regional mass deficit at VAMP structure locations, in spite of the peaks in the apparent basement. For a basaltic basement, peaks should produce a mass surplus rather than deficit.
We also confirm the correlation of VAMPs with apparent basement highs, first noted by Scholl and Cooper and further examined by Rearic et al. . In the latter paper, the authors attempted to quantify this correlation and found that only 28% of VAMPs occur over basement highs, while 57% occur over flat or depressed basement (15% were unresolvable). Nonetheless, they suggest that the topography of the apparent basement may well influence VAMP structure genesis .
Unfortunately, the identity of the apparent basement remains elusive. The seismic signature is often noisy and unclear beneath VAMPs. One hypothesis is that the apparent basement is a structural peak of the basaltic basement. However, the mass deficit suggests large volumes of gas. The structural highs may be attributed to physical phenomenology such as a thermal or fluid-flow boundary or acoustic interference.
To conclude our analysis, we note that there are extensive and prominent VAMP structures present throughout most of the lines, with a semi-periodic spacing of roughly 10-20 km. The overall trend is that the VAMPs correspond to apparent basement highs and significant decreases in gravitational acceleration values. If the hypothesis of methane hydrates being responsible for the VAMPs is correct, we find it quite remarkable that the amount of gas within the VAMPs is presumably so high as to produce a clear signature in the gravity data. We remain unsure of the identity of the apparent basement, but believe a plausible interpretation is that the peaks are a result of gas being generated in the lowest-layer sediments overlying the basaltic basement, and the peaks represent acoustic scattering.
In order to gain insight into the structure of the basement, we plan to continue our investigation with pre-stack velocity, spectral, and seismic-Q analysis. We will also perform conventional multi-channel processing.
The MGL1111 data sets were made available to us though the courtesies of Ginger Barth, U.S. Geological Survey, and Warren Wood, Naval Research Laboratory, and the assistance of Rose Anne Weissel, Marine Geosciences Data System, LDEO, Columbia University. We also thank Halliburton for the Landmark Software grant to the Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of South Carolina. | <urn:uuid:2bb17511-eaec-4267-90ed-3014cb9f564e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vibgyorpublishers.org/content/ijesg/fulltext.php?aid=ijesg-1-001 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.889832 | 5,698 | 1.90625 | 2 |
Avinash Teli1*, Azaz Ahmad1, Danish Azad2, Mohd Ajmal2, Shaziya Sheikh3 and Arvind Kumar3
1Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Nayati Medicity, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh,
2Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Eternal Hospital, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
2Departement of Pharmacy Practice, Integral University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
3Outreach Department, Nayati Medicity, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India
3Department of Quality, Sarvodaya Hospital, Faridabad, Haryana, India
*Corresponding Author: Avinash Teli, Head of Clinical Pharmacology, Nayati Medicity, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Received: March 23, 2020; Published: April 17, 2020
An acute respiratory disease, caused by a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, previously known as 2019-nCoV), the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread throughout China and received worldwide attention. On 30 January 2020, World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared the COVID-19 epidemic as a public health emergency of international concern. Meanwhile, several independent research groups have identified that SARS-CoV-2 belongs to β-coronavirus, with highly identical genome to bat coronavirus, pointing to bat as the natural host. These policies included large-scale quarantine, strict controls on travel and extensive monitoring of suspected cases. However, it is unknown whether these policies have had an impact on the epidemic. We sought to show how these control measures impacted the containment of the epidemic. The novel coronavirus uses the same receptor, angiotensin- converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) as that for SARS-CoV and mainly spreads through the respiratory tract. Importantly, increasingly evidence showed sustained human-to-human transmission, along with many exported cases across the globe. The clinical symptoms of COVID-19 patients include fever, cough, fatigue and a small population of patients appeared gastrointestinal infection symptoms
Keywords: COVID-19; nCOv-2019; Corona Virus; Respiratory Depression; Corporate Hospital; Guidelines; Hand Hygiene; Pandemic
Citation: Avinash Teli., et al. “A Complete Overview and Guidelines for nCOv-2019 (COVID-19) with Special Reference to Corporate Hospital". Acta Scientific Microbiology 3.5 (2020): 81-96.
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Abhor means to regard with horror or extreme hatred.
Abhor is a verb.
Synonyms: abominate, despise, hate, loathe, detest.
Antonyms: admire, treasure, love, prize, relish.
Mr.Ravi's dislike for pets goes far beyond hate; he has an abhorrence of them.
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The 112.5-MW Tongonan geothermal power plant of Energy Development Corporation (EDC) is this year’s lone recipient of the Philippine Environment Partnership Program (PEPP) Seal of Approval given annually by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). This is the 5th time that the Tongonan plant has been recognized by the DENR for exemplary performance in environmental management and protection.
The PEPP Seal of Approval is given to industries which strive to go beyond compliance and are driven to improve their performance with competitiveness, image and supply chain requirements. Nominees undergo a rigid evaluation process that includes validation of documentary requirements and actual site inspection by the regional offices of the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB).
The 112.5-MW Tongonan power plant is operated by Green Core Geothermal, Inc. (GCGI), a subsidiary of EDC.
The Energy Development Corporation (EDC) is a pioneer in generating 100% clean, renewable, and reliable power as an electricity supplier in the Philippines for over 40 years. With power plants all over Visayas and Mindanao, the company is one of the biggest producers of geothermal energy in Asia and is expanding its reach in the international market, allowing it to offer customers affordable energy rates. EDC also strives to provide the best customer service it can to all its clients by having helpful salespeople and easy to understand contracts. Because of all of this, it is poised to become the premier supplier of electricity for the Philippines’ Green Energy Option Program. EDC takes its mission as a renewable energy provider seriously and goes beyond sustainability by investing in programs that enhance the environment and empower its partner communities, thereby fostering regenerative development. The company has also been working toward being carbon-neutral by improving its energy efficiency, as well as implementing various greening projects to ensure that its mission to provide future generations with a better life remains intact. | <urn:uuid:6e8a0a80-4ed2-4ace-bfca-f5190f87681b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.energy.com.ph/2016/10/27/edcs-tongonan-plant-is-lone-recipient-of-denrs-seal-of-approval/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.949356 | 394 | 1.875 | 2 |
It is all over the news. The unemployment rate in Minnesota is 1.8% which is a record low for Minnesota and lower than any state has recorded. It looks like good news but from a practical point of view landing, a job isn’t easy, especially one that pays enough so that the employee can afford food, clothing, and housing.
I think the unemployment rate is higher for non-white, non-male persons, and those over 50. I don’t have the numbers I am just guessing.
However, low unemployment is a good thing and it is good for the housing market too. People who migrate to Minnesota from coastal regions find that our housing is more affordable and that there are opportunities here.
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A large study has revealed that the rate of stroke among children, adolescents and young adults in the USA has been increasing at an alarming rate. The rate at which ischemic stroke patients are being hospitalized has also increased considerably, the authors reported in Annals of Neurology.
A stroke occurs when a ruptured blood vessel or blood clot interrupts blood flow to a part of the brain. If brain cells do not receive their supply of blood oxygen and glucose they die, leading to brain damage. The patient may subsequently have problems with memory, movement, speech, and could even die.
There are two main types of stroke:
- Ischemic stroke – accounts for about three-quarters of all strokes. A blood clot (thrombus) forms and blocks blood flow to an area of the brain. The blood clot could have formed somewhere else in the body, become dislodged and became free-floating in the bloodstream (embolus). It may travel in the bloodstream and make its way to the brain, where is causes an ischemic stroke.
- Hemorrhagic stroke – a blood vessel on the brain’s surface ruptures and fills the space between the skull and the brain with blood (subarachnoid hemorrhage). Also, a faulty artery in the brain may burst, filling surrounding tissue with blood (cerebral hemorrhage). In both cases, there is a lack of blood flow to the brain and an accumulation of blood, raising pressure on the brain.
In this study, researchers found that over the period 1995-1996 to 2007-2008:
- Ischemic stroke incidence rose 50% among males aged 35 to 44 years
- Ischemic stroke incidence rose 46% among males aged 15 to 34.
- Ischemic stroke incidence rose 51% among boys aged 5 to 14.
- In 1996, 3.1 per 10,000 hospitalizations for boys were for ischemic stroke, compared to 4.7 in 2008.
- Among females aged 35 to 44, ischemic stroke incidence rose 29%
- Among females aged 15 to 34, ischemic stroke incidence rose 23%
- For girls aged 5 to 14, ischemic stroke incidence increase by just under 3%
Mary G. George, MD, MSPH, and team from the CDC said:
“The increase in the stroke hospitalization rate from 1995 to 2008 was 30% to 37% higher” among those aged 15-44. In the young adults and adolescents, we were surprised to see that large of an increase. Seeing this in a young population really underscores the need for adopting and maintaining healthy lifestyles from the time they are very young.”
In this study, the investigators also looked at the traditional stroke risk factors.
Lee Schwamm, MD., vice chair of neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital and professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School said:
“The increasing incidence of risk factors in
young patients is very concerning.”
Schwamm was not involved in the research but reviewed the findings.
The increase could be partly due it more advanced medical technology, George said. More accurate current imaging technology can probably identify a greater number of strokes among younger patients.
However, such risk factors as drug and alcohol abuse can be associated with strokes in a much briefer time frame.
One in every three ischemic stroke patients aged 15-34 had three stroke factors, while half of 35-44 year olds with ischemic stroke had hypertension (high blood pressure). Approximately one in every for 35 to 44 year olds with ischemic stroke had diabetes.
The researchers also found that tobacco use, raised cholesterol and obesity were common problems among patients with ischemic stroke.
The following risk factors are said to be linked to stroke risk:
- A family history
- Having had a previous stroke
- Having had a TIA (transient ischemic attack)
- African Americans and those of Hispanic or Asian/Pacific Island descent have a higher risk of stroke
- Birth control pills
- Some other hormone therapies
- Cardiovascular disease
- Cocaine usage
- Heavy alcohol consumption
- High cholesterol
- High amino acid levels in the blood (homocysteine)
- Being over 55 years of age
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Ministry of Labour and Social Partnership Relations
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Self-Transformation and Personal Excellence
This course is designed to help participants understand interconnectedness and interdependence in the world in which we live, how it leads to change, as well as the threats and opportunities brought about by change. Additionally, it helps participants to acquire appropriate self-knowledge as well as the skills necessary to craft and implement a personal strategy to adapt to change in general and change in the workplace in particular.
COURSE UNITS STRUCTURE
This topic is divided into the following five course units. You must complete all units:
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Individuals who complete this course will be able to:
- Explain causes of change in a variety of situations including the work situation.
- Anticipate the challenges and opportunities that may arise from a given change
- Apply strategies to manage the emotional and other consequences of change
- Prepare a statement of personal strengths and weaknesses
- Explain the relative advantages of employment vs. self-employment
- Demonstrate awareness of key expectations and requirements of the workplace
- Prepare a statement of transferable work skills
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The applications of geospatial technologies are playing an ever-increasing role in conservation and natural resources management. Advances in the science and technology behind remote sensing are making it more practical to conduct large-scale inventories and provide monitoring and evaluation of natural resources. Coupled with recent advances in GIS and spatial decision support systems, geospatial technology is taking resource conservation planning and management to a new level. Applied Geospatial Technology covers the fundamentals of techniques for acquiring, processing, classifying, visualizing and analyzing spatial-referenced data of the Earth, and their application to study of the Earth's surface features. Included are techniques such as land survey, photogrammetry, global positioning systems (GPS), airborne and satellite remote sensing, digital image processing, GIS and geovisualisation. In 2004 the US Department of Labour identified geotechnology as one of the three most important emerging and evolving fields, along with nanotechnology and biotechnology. Keeping this in mind, an attempt has been made in this book to analyze the various facets of geospatial technology.
Dr. A. Ganesh is a renowned researcher in the field of water resources evaluation and management. His significant contributions to water resources using remote sensing, GIS and GPS can hardly be over emphasized. His findings have helped to map the surplus and deficit areas of water in various river basins of Tamil Nadu, India to analyze the surface and ground water resources and to evolve better water management practices. His academic visits include various universities and research institutions. He has to his credit fifty research papers and three books. His two-decade academic career has earned him many laurels. His reputation rests upon his research programs with various agencies. As a true scholar, he holds teaching and research as the two sides of the same coin. He has been guiding five PhD scholars. Having got Graduate Degree in Geography from Government Arts College, Coimbatore in the year 1975, he studied further and obtained Post-Graduate Degree from the Presidency College, Chennai in 1977. He earned his doctorate in Geography from the University of Madras, Chennai in 1985 for his work on Geographical Appraisal of Water Resources in Upper Vaigai basin, Tamil Nadu, Southern India under the guidance of Dr Vasantha Vishwanath, an eminent scholar in the field of Regional Climatology. During this period he got training in application of aerial and satellite remote sensing for resources evaluation at Survey of India, Bangalore and Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Dehra Dun. After a brief stay as a CSIR Post Doctoral Fellow, he moved over to School of Earth Sciences, Bharathidasan University, and Tiruchirappalli in 1987 as a Lecturer. Besides the concern on water resources, he admixed remote sensing and GIS techniques for a number of environmental problems. During May 1999, he has attended a training programme on Remote Sensing for Watershed Management sponsored by NASDA Japan conducted by the GIS Application Centre, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand. He is life member of a number of professional societies related to Geography, Remote Sensing and Geomatics and also Chairman of Board of Studies in Geography and Remote Sensing in various universities and colleges. Dr. A. Ganesh is right now Professor and Head of the Department of Geography, School of Geosciences, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, India. He is engaged in conducting two programmes: M Tech in GIS Applications and UGC sponsored Innovative Programme on Post Graduate Diploma in Geomatics. | <urn:uuid:3ca212db-98c6-4ca0-abd6-782439ddeffa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.satishserial.com/book/8189304259/applications-of-geospatial-technology | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.950531 | 729 | 3 | 3 |
A team of coders led by Spencer Elliott, a computer science student, picked up top prize at the first U of T hackathon, held recently at the Bahen Centre. The weekend-long event, which drew computer science students from across northeastern North America, was the largest of its kind ever held by a Canadian university.
Between Friday night and Sunday morning, more than 500 students worked feverishly to build a unique string of code – often a website or a mobile application – with a practical purpose. (In computer culture, “hacking” means “coding,” not breaking into computers.)
Hunched over their desks, many students worked with little pause over the 36-hour period. A room was provided for naps.
As the clock ran down early Sunday, students could be seen sprinting up and down the stairs of the Bahen Centre looking to confirm a fact with a friend or mentor before racing back to their team.
Elliott’s group designed an application called Cryptr that simplifies encryption and decryption. Their entry beat out students from York University, who created a website that provides recipe options based on the food in your fridge, and a team from the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York, who designed an app that translates sign language to text. A panel of four expert judges picked the winners.
As hackathons have grown in popularity over the past few years, companies and investors have begun to see them as a way to quickly develop new software technologies. For students, they are a way to polish their skills and to alert potential employers of their coding abilities. And for U of T, the event provided an opportunity to highlight a successful academic department.
“U of T has the best computer science program, and such a large scale event is the perfect way to showcase it,” said Vatsal Namit, vice-president of the computer sciences students union, which worked closely with U of T’s computer science department to organize the hackathon.
Tobias Lutke, the founder of website Shopify (one of the fastest-growing startups in Canada), spoke at the event about the importance of hackathons in enabling students to develop and assess their skills in a friendly competitive environment. He commented that increasingly, technology companies are considering hackathon results when making hiring decisions.
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La Revue musicale de France
Prepared by Doris Pyee
Online only (2013)
La Revue musicale de France [RMF], a “Nouvelle Publication illustrée” was published from March 1946 until October 1947 by Gaveau, the Parisian piano and harpsichord manufacturer, and was, in 1906-1907, the builder of a concert hall which remains in use today. Grouping a myriad of collaborators with different perceptions, the journal constitutes an exceptional chronicle of musical activities in France and abroad just after the Second World War.
RMF was first intended to be published bi-monthly, on the 1st and the 15th of each month, but the publication rate had to be reduced in part due to paper shortage. The entire journal run comprises twelve issues, each consisting of twenty-five pages, organized in two columns. The journal covers a breadth of subjects: theoretical, historical and analytical articles deal with trends in music, such as “Académisme et Modernisme” [Academicism and modernism]; a comprehensive study of a lesser-known musical tradition “L’Iran et sa tradition musicale” [Iran ant its musical tradition]; or links between music and literature such as “Affinités entre Ravel et Valéry” [Affinities between Ravel and Valéry]. Extensive reviews deal with operas, symphonic and chamber music concerts, recitals, ballets, music festivals in France and abroad, international music competitions, recent recordings, films, books, radio programs and jazz.
The first page includes a table of contents and a short article, generally a tribute to a famous artist, such as ballerina Tamara Toumanova or the Australian soprano Marjorie Lawrence, as well as important modern composers including Manuel de Falla and Maurice Ravel. A section entitled “Théâtre Lyrique,” in which performances at the Paris Opéra and Opéra-Comique or at theaters in the provinces are reviewed: performances are either operatic revivals (Saint-Saëns’ Samson et Dalila in Marseille) or premières (Rabaud’s Martine in Strasbourg or Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Térésias at the Opéra-Comique). Reviews of concerts and recitals feature some of the most prestigious soloists of the time: the pianists Nikita Magaloff and Marguerite Long, violinists Yehudi Menuhin, Jacques Thibaud and Zino Francescatti, and the renowned singers Géori Boué and Gérard Souzay. In “Les Grands Concerts Symphoniques,” performances by the Pasdeloup, Colonne and Lamoureux orchestras, the Orchestre National, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, among others, are discussed. “Panorama musical de la France” [Musical panorama of France] constitutes an extensive review of musical events in major French cities among which are Lyons, Toulouse, Vichy, Orange, Marseille and Bayonne. “La musique à l’étranger” [Foreign music] reports on concerts in Europe and in the Unites States, Lebanon, Greece and the U.S.S.R., and international festivals in Montreux, Lucerne, Prague, Salzburg, Venice and Edinburgh. Special attention is given to dance, especially the Monte-Carlo ballets with choreographer Serge Lifar and innovative dancers like Isadora Duncan and Kurt Jooss. Recent classical and jazz recordings, as well as recipients of the ”Grand Prix du disque” are also discussed. The RMF is amply illustrated, presenting photographs of musicians and dancers, stage settings, costumes and major buildings. | <urn:uuid:2c6f007e-91f2-49e0-aa1d-f3386f204abd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ripm.org/?page=JournalInfo&ABB=RMF | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.876926 | 821 | 1.914063 | 2 |
This Kids’ Room Design Comes with a Powerful Sustainability Message
An award-winning west London design studio is set to unveil a powerful environmental message through the most unlikely of platforms – a cool kids’ bedroom set up
Sustainability has become more than a buzzword, it’s a necessity for the future of our planet, but we all like Nice Things, right? So how do we consume less, while creating the home of our dreams?
The answer is in careful sourcing. Choosing sustainable brands and products, and looking that little bit closer at what we’re buying and from whom.
IKEA, for example, is making waves in mass furniture production with its circular economy – aiming for zero waste by reusing waste. From simple steps like picking up your old sofa – wherever you bought it from, and disposing of it sustainability – to creating new kitchen worktops from old plastic bottles. It’s an admirable approach.
So a design studio showcasing ‘sexy sustainability’ is a very welcome step indeed, demonstrating positive luxury at its finest.
Run For The Hills, based in Maida Vale, is the company behind Into the Wild, a fantastical room set to be unveiled at Design Encounter, a series of interconnecting spaces put together by a select group of leading interior design practices, at Decorex 2019.
The urban wonderland bedroom, designed for a five-year-old eco-warrior, is an edgy, fashion-forward space mixing childhood fantasy and 70s rock ‘n’ roll nostalgia with an overarching theme of rebellion and environmentalism.
‘They say it is the young, eco-crisis generation who will save the planet,’ says Run For The Hills’ Creative Director and co-founder, Anna Burles, ‘pointing the finger at us and telling us to wake up and join their rebellion.
‘We want to bring that story of hope to life, woven through our room set via the eco-conscious brands we have collaborated with and custom design details like our bespoke T-shirt designs on the clothes rail and a curated selection of kid’s books, including The Tantrum That Saved The Earth and Rules For Living on Planet Earth.
‘They say it is the young, eco-crisis generation who will save the planet’
Many of the products and suppliers used within the set have sustainability at their core, including the Princess and the Pea bed, one of the hero pieces within the room set made in collaboration with Corsets & Creations. The mattress is a 100% sustainable, eco-friendly organic product, and the bed base is made by hand in Devon by NatureMat.
Beside the bed is a Twig side table from Pinch Design, made from coppiced hazel. Nestled beneath the bed, on biodegradable flooring from Fibre Flooring, are layered Way rugs from Ferm Living, made entirely from used plastic bottles.
The Good & Mojo Kalimantan wall light by Houseology is made solely of sustainable and recycled materials. The paint by Earthborn is free from oils, acrylic and vinyl with no added volatile organic compounds (which easily become vapors or gases), and synthetic ingredients are kept to a minimum.
Real tree stems and branches from Cameron Landscapes ‘grow’ up from the corners of the room, holding up a sheer gauze fabric, featuring an atmospheric, dream-like shadow puppet projection animation, specially created by the Run For The Hills graphic design team.
The creative imagery used in the animated projection is also referenced in art prints on the walls and a series of specially designed mini eco-warrior t-shirts, again created especially for the room set by Run For The Hills in-house artists.
There’s also a custom-made balloon installation from Pop Pop Papier, sequin wall installation from Tracy Kendall and custom trapeze-style, pink tube lights from Nulty Bespoke above the bed.
‘Run For The Hills want to be part of the revolution groundswell,’ continues Burles, ‘so we thought our room set at Decorex was the perfect platform to bring this important message to the fore.
‘It’s time for all of us to embrace the power and responsibility of our role in design, showcasing sustainable products and hero-ing suppliers who care deeply about the way they do things’
‘It’s time for all of us to embrace the power and responsibility of our role in design, showcasing sustainable products and hero-ing suppliers and makers who care deeply about the way they do things, fashioning interesting and thoughtful things in the eco-space. Our set is designed to show that worthy doesn’t compromise one bit on wow factor.’
Other design studios working with architect John Allsopp to create the Design Encounter house include Sella Concept, These White Walls, Natalia Miyar, Samantha Todhunter Design and Zachary Pulman. Find out more about the designers below:
Decorex International runs from 6-9 October 2019 at Olympia London. Consumer tickets are £40; trade tickets are £18. See decorex.com | <urn:uuid:e6e23cfc-bd47-4ffa-956d-3cfca785c54f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theresident.co.uk/property/this-kids-room-design-comes-with-a-powerful-sustainability-message-8824068 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.929413 | 1,090 | 1.65625 | 2 |
From the time we were little, we have been told to make sure we take care of our bodies – get enough exercise, eat healthy, brush your teeth, etc. But did you know that how you feel emotionally can impact your quality of life just like your physical health can? Learning how to use healthy emotional strategies and how to ensure you are taking care of yourself emotionally can be difficult. The National Institutes of Health compiled 6 strategies for improving your mental health. To view this article, click here! | <urn:uuid:83ab6ea4-b951-48e3-8774-0ff62738a92e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://careercornerblog.com/2020/11/24/health-wellness-emotional-wellness-toolkit/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.962761 | 100 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Both the free and the PRO JCI Plugins have the same purpose: get data, transform it, and publish the result.
Step 1: Access the Data
The basic situation is always the same: a datasource like an API provides data upon request. With the data, you can build content or build applications.
Step 2: Using the Data
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What does pipe down Chachi mean?
Defined: Someone who thinks they are a bit too cool… Generally the person who dresses a bit over the top and/or always trying to “one-up” someone else’s comments, whilst tending to overdo everything they try to do….
How do u spell Chachi?
Correct pronunciation for the word “chachi” is [t͡ʃˈat͡ʃa͡ɪ], [tʃˈatʃaɪ], [tʃ_ˈa_tʃ_aɪ].
What language is Chachi?
The Chachi speak a Barbacoan language named Cayapa. Linguistically, their closest living relatives are the Tsachila people of Ecuador. Today, they inhabit the river valleys of the Cayapas, Canandé, and Muisne Rivers in Esmeraldas Province.
Is Chulo a bad word?
(Oddly enough, across the world in Spain, chulo/chula means “cool”—with both positive and negative connotations, depending on context.)
What is a Chochy?
adjective. made of, tasting of, smelling of, or resembling chocolatea delicious choccy taste.
What is Chachi a nickname for?
The name Chachi is primarily a male name of American origin that means Nickname For Charles. Character from the TV show Happy Days and its spin-off, Joanie Loves Chachi.
What does Papichulo mean?
an attractive man
In Latin-American Spanish slang, a papi chulo is an attractive man. While the term originally names a pimp, it has broadened to refer to a ladies’ man.
How do you shut up in Spanish?
Is Chachi a name?
The name Chachi is of American origin and is typically a name given to baby boys. The meaning of Chachi is ‘free man’. At first, it was a nickname for Charles, however it has since become a name in its own right. Other meanings are ‘gentleness’ and ‘youthfulness’.
What did Chachi say on Happy Days?
His early catchphrase “Wah, wah, wah!” became popular with teenage girls. However, an attempt to spark a fashion trend by having Chachi frequently costumed with a bandana tied around his pant leg did not catch on. The character was named after a street where the show’s creator Garry Marshall had lived.
What was Chachi’s last name?
Charles “Chachi” Arcola was a recurring and later a main character on the ABC-TV series Happy Days and then a main character on its’ spinoff, ABC-TV’s Joanie Loves Chachi. Chachi was played by Scott Baio in both series.
What do we call Chachi in Urdu?
The Urdu Word چچی Meaning in English is Aunt. The other similar words are Khala, Phopi, Chachi and Mumaani.
Why did Chachi wear a red bandana on his leg?
Bikers use to wear them on their leg to wipe off their sweaty hand so their hand wouldn’t slip on the throttle. Ha!
Why did Chachi have a bandana on his leg?
“IT WAS TO GIVE HIM GOOD LUCK IT WAS ON A EPISODE IT WAS FONZIE OR MR. C THAT ASKED WHY DO YOU HAVE A BANDANA AROUND YOUR LEG? AND CHACHI SAID TO GIVE HIM GOOD LUCK [THUMBS UP] WHOA!”
What is Fonzie’s catchphrase?
Unhappy days: Fonz star reveals he created ‘aaaaay‘ catchphrase to cover up misery of undiagnosed dyslexia. An entire generation will remember the leather-jacketed, bequiffed Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli in Happy Days.
How old was Chachi on Happy Days?
It was during 1977 that Scott Baio appeared on “Happy Days.” He was only 16 years old when he started playing the character, Chachi Arcola. As fans of the classic sitcom are aware, Chachi was the cousin of main character Arthur “The Fonz” Fonzarelli. Fonzie, as he was also known, was played by Henry Winkler.
How old is Chachi off of Happy Days?
|Born||Scott Vincent James BaioSeptember 22, 1960 or 1961 (age 60–61) Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.|
|Occupation||Actor, television director|
How rich is Scott Baio?
Scott Baio Net Worth
|Net Worth:||$4 Million|
|Date of Birth:||Sep 22, 1960 (61 years old)|
|Height:||5 ft 9 in (1.778 m)|
|Profession:||Actor, Television Director, Television producer, Screenwriter|
How old is Marian Ross?
What Happy Days star just died?
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Treatment Tanks are designed to pre-treat water with coagulant and flocculent polymer to improve settlement of solids, or for pH correction.
Treatment Tanks are a simple way of batch or continuous processing water to prepare it for further treatment. Pre-treatment is essential to getting good water quality outcomes, especially if the water is heavily contaminated with clay or has a high acid or alkaline state.
Working in conjunction with a dosing unit and controller (TU02), it has three compartments, 1. Initial high-speed agitation and dosing section, 2. Slow agitation and ‘dwell’ 3. Final discharge and quality checking (if monitoring is used).
How it Works
Can be used for polymer, acid, alkaline or CO2 dosing
Easy to move around via chain lift or fork pockets
2no Agitation stirrers to ensure full water treatment
Very compact footprint
Designed to be used in conjunction with TU02 dosing system
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I suspect that almost everyone is affected by the weather. If you live in a place where the climate is almost always bright and sunny, you probably crave a spot of cool now and again. However, your moods will probably be less affected than those of people who live in darker and damper climes. It is easier to feel brighter and more optimistic when presented with a warm and sunny day.
When you live in a part of the hemisphere that is greatly affected by fluctuations between dark and light, grey or blue skies, rain or sunshine, then it is difficult to not be affected in some emotional sense by this changeability. As autumn changes into winter and the nights draw in you feel more confined and restricted. You simply cannot do all of those things that you enjoyed doing in the evenings during the long and light days of summer.
When you awaken in the morning and are presented with darkness as you open your bedroom curtains you might feel your mood quite simply dropping downwards. As dawn breaks and the day begins you look forward to lightness and brightness entering your day. Therefore when the skies remain grey and dark clouds loom ominously above it can be difficult to lift your mood and lighten your spirit.
People can be forgiven for wishing that they could just curl up and hibernate for the winter and simply reawaken in the springtime when skies and blue and temperatures have risen. That said we have to live within the reality of what we are presented with. We cannot always live our dreams.
We have to learn to live with the affect of the weather upon our psyche and seek our own ways to lift our spirits and brighten our moods. It is very easy to focus upon what we are missing out upon or what we haven't got, but in doing this we sink into an ever-deeper rut, making it impossible to climb out of.
It is instead vitally important to focus upon the things that we do have, the things that are good and enjoyable in our lives. On those darker and colder nights we can enjoy the warmth and beauty of a crackling log fire. We can take time to appreciate the beauty of our homes, friends and families. We can focus upon projects and gain a sense of achievement. We can read all of those books we meant to read and catch up upon movies that we meant to watch.
There are in fact many things that you can do to stop yourself being afflicted by SAD. Eating well, ensuring that you exercise, focusing upon interests, hobbies and friendships are all obvious forms of self-help and act to prevent the onset of SAD. Meditation or self-hypnosis are also good sources of relaxation and comfort.
The use of self-hypnosis can also be extended to include utilizing your senses to imagine the effect of sunshine on your mind and body. You can use your mind in this way to trigger a spontaneous endorphin release, raising your mood naturally and lifting your spirits.
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We’ve known since Ignite 2015 that Microsoft was going to have two kinds of containers in Windows Server 2016 (WS2016):
- Windows Server Containers: Providing OS and resource virtualization and isolation.
- Hyper-V Containers: The hypervisor adds security isolation to machine & resource isolation.
Beyond that general description, we knew almost nothing about Hyper-V Containers, other than expect them in preview during Q4 of 2015 – Technical Preview 4 (TPv4), and that it is the primary motivation for Microsoft to give us nested virtualization.
That also means that nested virtualization will come to Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V in TPv4.
We have remained in the dark since then, but Mark Russinovich appeared on Microsoft Mechanics (a YouTube webcast by Microsoft) and he explained a little more about Hyper-V Containers and he also did a short demo.
Some background first. Normally, a machine has a single user mode running on top of kernel mode. This is what restricts us to the “one app per OS” best practice/requirement, depending on the app. When you enable Containers on WS2016, an enlightenment in the kernel allows multiple user modes. This gives us isolation:
- Namespace isolation: Each container sees it’s own file system and registry (the hives in the containers hosted files).
- Resource isolation: How much process, memory, and CPU a container can use.
Kernel mode is already running when you start a new container, which improves the time to start up a container, and thus it’s service(s). This is great for deploying and scaling out apps because a containerised app can be deployed and started in seconds from a container image with no long term commitment, versus minutes for an app in a virtual machine with a longer term commitment.
But Russinovich goes on to say that while containers are great for some things that Microsoft wants to do in Azure, they also have to host “hostile multi-tenant code” – code uploaded by Microsoft customers that Microsoft cannot trust and that could be harmful or risky to other tenants. Windows Server Containers, like their Linux container cousins, do not provide security isolation.
In the past, Microsoft has placed such code into Hyper-V (Azure) virtual machines, but that comes with a management and direct cost overhead. Ideally, Microsoft wants to use lightweight containers with the security isolation of machine virtualization. And this is why Microsoft created Hyper-V Containers.
Hyper-V provides excellent security isolation (far fewer vulnerabilities found than vSphere) that leverages hardware isolation. DEP is a requirement. WS2016 is introducing IOMMU support, VSM, and Shielded Virtual Machines, with a newly hardened hypervisor architecture.
Hyper-V containers use the exact same code or container images as Windows Server Containers.That makes your code interchangeable – Russinovich shows a Windows Server Container being switched into a Hyper-V container by using PowerShell to change the run type (container attribute RuntimeType).
The big difference between the two types, other than the presence f Hyper-V, is that Hyper-V Containers get their own optimized instance of Windows running inside of them, as the host for the single container that they run.
The Hyper-V Container is not a virtual machine – Russinovich demonstrates this by searching for VMs with Get-VM. It is a container, and is manageable by the same commands as a Windows Server Container.
In his demos he switches a Windows Server Container to a Hyper-V Container by running:
Set-Container -Name <Container Name> -RuntimeType HyperV
And then he queries the container with:
Get-Container -Name <Container Name> | fl Name, State, RuntimeType
So the images and the commands are common across Hyper-V Containers and Windows Server Containers. Excellent.
It looked to me that starting this Hyper-V Container is a slower operation than starting a Windows Server Container. That would make sense because the Hyper-V container requires it’s own operating system.
I’m guessing that Hyper-V Containers either require or work best with Nano Server. And you can see why nested virtualization is required. A physical host will run many VM hosts. A VM host might need to run Hyper-V containers – therefore the VM Host needs to run Hyper-V and must have virtualized VT-x instructions.
Russinovich demonstrates the security isolation. Earlier in the video he queries the processes running in a Windows Server Container. There is a single CSRSS process in the container. He shows that this process instance is also visible on the VM host (same process ID). He then does the same test with a Hyper-V Container – the container’s CSRSS process is not visible on the VM host because it is contained and isolated by the child boundary of Hyper-V.
What about Azure? Microsoft wants Azure to be the best place to run containers – he didn’t limit this statement to Windows Server or Hyper-V, because Microsoft wants you to run Linux containers in Azure too. Microsoft announced the Azure Container Service, with investments in Docker and Mesospehere for deployment and automation of Linux, Windows Server, and Hyper-V containers. Russinovich mentions that Azure Automation and Machine Learning will leverage containers – this makes sense because it will allow Microsoft to scale out services very quickly, in a secure manner, but with less resource and management overhead.
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Laurel Avenue looking east towards Arnold Drive from top of El Verano Depot
The Watkins Collection
In 1880, Carleton Watkins went to Southern California for the first time and traveled along the line of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Later he went to the “End of the Track” and as far as Tombstone Arizona. The photographs taken by Watkins on this trip represent some of the earliest views of San Bernardino, San Gabriel, Pasadena, Los Angeles, San Diego and including Sonoma Valley. On the way back to San Francisco, he followed the old overland stage road, traveling the greater part of the way in his wagon and photographing most of the Franciscan missions. These pictures constitute the earliest photographic collection of California Missions.
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Legislation packed with new or changing policies and billions in state-funded programs have made their way through the committee process, through both the House and Senate and, because of discrepancies in their wording and funding, now have to go through another similar cycle.
Because language in the House version differs from the Senate version in each of these omnibus bills, a new panel with up to 10 legislators, usually representing both parties, must determine what a final bill will look like before each chamber approves it and sends it to the governor. In the next few weeks, the legislative calendar is likely to be brimming with conference committees.
A conference committee consists of three to five members from each chamber – often called “conferees” – tasked with reconciling differences between House and Senate proposed legislation. It’s another round of committee-like work, with additional chances for outside input as legislators head into the session’s homestretch.
Joint rules outline what the conference committees can and can’t do. For instance, conference committees can’t schedule meetings between midnight and 7 a.m., but can vote to extend their meetings past midnight; or chairs must rotate between representatives and senators every calendar day.
Conference committees can’t appropriate more money than the initial bills or amendments included unless the House speaker and the Senate majority leader approve them. Additionally, conferees can’t add rulemaking power to agencies and departments unless they, too, were included in the House or Senate bill or amendments.
If conferees agree, a written report is published. The report returns to both the House and the Senate for votes, beginning with the original chamber.
“This process is designed to be inefficient and efficient at the same time,” Rep. Sarah Anderson (R-Plymouth) said. “Inefficient in the sense that you need to make sure everybody has a voice in it, but efficient in the sense that that’s why we have committees in the first place – to have people focus on one area and bring it to the body as a whole.”
In the sports world, there are events like the Stanley Cup Playoffs and the NCAA basketball championships where teams live and die each round. In the Legislature, Anderson said, conference committees are “the semifinals” in the life of a bill.
So far this year, two conference committees met and passed reports. The first established a state-funded insurance relief package and the second implements a reinsurance program. Others started their work Tuesday and more will continue throughout session.
There aren’t any official rules dictating conference committee membership.
When House Speaker Kurt Daudt (R-Crown) appoints House members to conference committees, in the case of omnibus bills, he said he first looks at bill sponsors, vice-chairs of related committees and members with significant provisions in the bill.
There is a trend for minority party members, too: If a member of the minority party votes for the original bill – this year, the number is scant of DFLers voting for Republican omnibus bills – they’re probably assigned to that omnibus bill’s committee.
Rep. Mary Murphy (DFL-Hermantown) was the only DFL member to vote for HF890*/SF718, the education finance omnibus bill, and she was assigned to that conference committee. Likewise, Rep. Ilhan Omar (DFL-Mpls) joined every Republican in supporting HF2477/SF2214*, the higher education finance package, and Rep. Jennifer Schultz (DFL-Duluth) was the lone minority vote in favor of HF945/SF800*, the omnibus health and human services bill. They are both on those conference committees.
Asked about her vote on the bill and her conference committee membership, Murphy cited “past experience in education,” as one of the reasons Daudt might have appointed her to the committee.
“At this time, the economy of the state is good,” Murphy said. “I’d like to see education be the highest priority for the children of Minnesota… I’d like my voice heard.”
There are exceptions to that trend. Murphy was also the lone DFLer to vote for HF861, the omnibus transportation finance bill, but that conference committee’s House membership is comprised of all Republicans. Sen. Dan Sparks (DFL-Austin) is the only minority party representative.
Anderson chairs the House State Government Finance Committee, which produced what is now HF691/SF605*. Not a single House DFLer voted for Anderson’s bill, and in turn, none are on that conference committee. Sen. Carolyn Laine (DFL-Columbia Heights) is the lone DFLer on the 10-person committee.
“Generally there is a belief in the Legislature – I don’t know if it stands for the Senate, but for the House at least the practice has been – if you do vote for the bill and you’re in the minority party, it increases your chances to serve on that conference committee,” Anderson said.
Daudt said flat-out that although “we want [DFL] input,” people who didn’t vote for the bill – minority and majority party members – don’t get a conferee spot.
“We put a Democrat on if a Democrat voted for the bill,” he said in an interview. “If no Democrats voted for it, no Democrats get to be on the conference committee. That’s been pretty standard operating procedure. If the minority doesn’t vote for it, they don’t get a spot on the conference committee.”
Omar is in a unique spot, too. While Senate Republicans have placed at least one first-timer on each of these committees, she is the only freshman House conferee.
Some lawmakers assume bills with slight differences will automatically go through the conference committee process, like in January when Daudt and Rep. Joe Hoppe (R-Chaska) announced that conferees would best tailor the HF1/SF1* insurance premium relief bill. Others end up in conference committees because of gaping differences in longstanding political battles, like the Real ID bill.
With the spending-and-policy-changing omnibus bills, however, conference committees usually have much more to compare. With that, every party is optimistic for their ideals to emerge.
Murphy said her efforts will focus on increasing education spending levels closer to Gov. Mark Dayton’s proposal than the Republican proposals passed by both chambers.
“Every conference committee is different,” Murphy said. “The conference committee depends on the personalities of the individuals, as well as the goals of the people of Minnesota – and in [our] case, the children of Minnesota.
“It’s not an easy task – it’s never easy – but there should be enough money to go around,” she said.
How to spend a $1.65 billion projected surplus is driving a wedge between the administration, which wants to increase spending on education, transportation and health care, and the Republican majorities controlling both legislative chambers, which emphasize reduced government programs and large reductions in tax collection.
Anderson said she and Sen. Mary Kiffmeyer (R-Big Lake) reached out to the administration, hoping for input on priorities, believing answers would quash any concerns from the governor. The governor’s appointees railed against Anderson’s bill during a committee hearing – and they will join the public with more input during conference committee meetings.
The ultimate goal is, of course, to get the bills signed into law.
“I’m excited about this process,” Anderson said. “It’s kind of like you get through the initial piece and now it’s like you get to kind of fine-tune things, if you will. So I’m looking forward to getting feedback from the senators and putting together a good product the governor will sign into law and – again, I can’t say this enough – I hope that he participates in the process and they don’t have a closed door to our thoughts in the Legislature.
“We all represent the same people he represents and so [I’m] just looking for his active participation in this process,” she added.
Daudt said he’s “pretty hands off” when it comes to conference committee details, leaving the lawmakers who heard public testimony and who talked to fellow legislators to dig into the minutiae. He’ll become more involved when it comes to negotiating with Dayton.
“We want to engage the governor in that process because we want to put bills on the governor’s desk that the governor will sign,” he said.
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Tehran is conducting fire tests of its own air defense missiles, which correspond in their characteristics to the Russian C-300. Weapon was created in connection with the cancellation of the contract for the supply of C-300 to the Islamic Republic, the Iranian state television channel Press TV reported Wednesday referring to the deputy commander of the air defense base, brigadier general Mohammad Hassan Mansourian.
The contract for the supply of C-300 air defense systems to Iran was signed at the end of 2007: Russia was supposed to supply Iran with five divisions of the C-300PMU-1 anti-aircraft missile system worth about 800 million dollars. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev 22 September signed a decree on measures to implement the fourth UNSC sanctions resolution on Iran (1929 from 9 June 2010 of the year). The decree prohibits the transfer to Iran of C-300 complexes, armored vehicles, combat aircraft, helicopters and ships.
“Air defense systems similar to the C-300 are subject to fire tests and refinement in field conditions. Other long-range (rocket) systems are under development and production,” Mansuryan said.
The Russian C-300 medium-range anti-aircraft missile system is today considered to be one of the most effective means of defense of various kinds of objects, military bases and command posts from the attacks of all types of missiles, including ballistic and other aerospace attack weapons. According to expert estimates, in terms of basic combat characteristics, it is superior to the functionally similar American Patriot air defense systems, which, in addition to the territory of the United States, are deployed in a number of countries around the world, including Israel.
The latest modifications of C-300 systems are capable of destroying enemy aircraft at a distance of 150 kilometers and an altitude of up to 27 kilometers. Earlier, Russia delivered the Tor-M1 anti-aircraft missile systems to Iran with a range of 12 kilometers (six heights).
Iran is testing a self-developed air defense system close to C-300
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Samoa an escape from harsh realities of the world
In the bustling market place at Savalalo, we came across a dynamic duo.
Liz and Grant Walker of Te Anau, New Zealand were enjoying some pork buns and winding down from their 10 day tour of Uplou and Savail.
Liz and her bloke Grant gave us some interesting perspectives on their trip so far.
Liz excitedly told us about their travels through Savai’i where they walked the rainforest canopy in Falealupo and witnessed the powerful Taga blowholes.
She said it was difficult to say which were her favourite highlights but what she will remember most is the ocean here and its water temperature that’s perfect for swimming no matter where you go in Samoa.
“The sea is just so beautiful, the temperature is perfect for swimming everywhere on the island and the people … the people were just so friendly and nice.”
There was one mystery that kept the Walkers preoccupied during their travels around the Samoa and it involved how the Savaiians ability to keep their lawns so trim and manicured.
“I just loved seeing all the gardens in front of everyone’s houses, it’s just so pretty and the lawns are so well kept. We thought to ourselves why didn’t they use lawnmowers to mow the grass instead of the clippers and then we worked out that underneath the grass is all lava rocks and a lawnmower would die here,” she said.
Grant on the other hand waited patiently to add his suggestions and perspective (albeit a little sinister) on Samoa.
“Samoa is a place that is on the verge of a lot more tourists coming this way and I would say it’s because of all the stuff with the war on terrorism and ISIS. People like to come to a place that’s nice and sunny away from everyone.”
The Walkers would love to return again to spend more time in Samoa.
However Grant said there are a few improvements that he would like to see implemented for the future and asked us to personally deliver his message to the Prime Minister.
“I’d like to say something directly to the government, Id like to see more sign posting at the all the tourist hotspots so we don’t have to waste time in the car lost all the time,” he said.
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The first time Lauren Jones-Spencer, head coach of the women’s tennis team, picked up a tennis racket, she was playing with her mom on a summer evening. The two were hitting tennis balls back and forth when Spencer was suddenly hit in the face. Though a bit traumatizing, this event was the beginning of the rest of her life.
Just like Spencer, all the players on the women’s tennis team can recollect early memories of playing the sport they fell in love with. Some of them were naturally gifted athletes; others not so much. But the important part of it all was they continued to work, set goals and improve from where they left off the last time.
Megan Price, a senior from Kiama, Australia, was 5 years old and living in South Africa the first time she played.
“I remember hitting against the back wall for hours and hours on end,” Price said. “I broke a couple of windows, but I remember just hitting to see how many balls I could hit in a row.”
Morgan Anderson, a freshman from St. George, began simply because her mom signed her up.
“My mom put me in some city lessons,” Anderson said. “I can still see the old ghetto city court. I still remember my coach teaching me how to serve with the whole trophy stance. From there, I loved it and kept working at it.”
Throughout the past decade, these players and the others of their team have played in hundreds of matches, won some and lost some, but they keep coming back to the court for more.
So far this year, the Cougars have experienced ups and downs in tournaments they have competed in. Two weeks ago the team played in the California Nike Invitational where most players experienced an early exit from the tournament.
Despite shortcomings the team has experienced, they continue to go back to the drawing board to set goals of what they want to accomplish before each match.
“We meet all together before we go on,” Jones-Spencer said. “We fill out match sheets with their goals for the day. We also do visualization to get them in the right mind set and prepped and ready to go.”
Several players said they are religious about the visualization techniques they work on.
“A couple days before, I try to visualize the actual court I’m going to be playing on,” Anderson said. “I try to visualize how I want to play and the things I need to do in order to win. Right before I go out I like to be by myself. I don’t like to talk to anyone. I like a good 20 minutes early to my match so I can relax.”
Price also said she visualizes winning all the big points in order to see herself being successful.
This week the Cougars head back to the courts for the USTA/ITA Mountain Region Championships in Las Vegas, where they will continue to improve off the lessons of the last tournament.
“Last week was a good test for us to see what we needed to work on when we went to Cali,” Jones-Spencer said. “They played against some tough competition, but all the girls are ready for this tournament and I think we will see good things.”
After Jones-Spencer was wounded by her mother so many years ago she didn’t quit.
“Even after I got hit in the face, I came back,” she said.
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Since July 2018, the Trump Administration has imposed two sets of tariffs on goods made in China under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 (“Section 301”) (19 U.S.C. § 2411) that cover an estimated $50 billion in imports annually. Section 301 tariffs on $34 billion in goods from China (“List 1”) have already been in effect since early July, and another round of Section 301 tariffs on an additional $16 billion (“List 2”) took effect on August 23. However, the Administration is now weighing a third potentially much larger and more widely applicable set of Section 301 tariffs that will cover an estimated $200 billion in annual imports from China, and those proposed tariffs will be hiked from 10% to 25% (“List 3”). For affected U.S. companies and their suppliers in China, the time period for U.S. parties to submit written comments on this third, broadest set of tariffs ended on September 6, and October 9 will be the next deadline for U.S. importers to seek exclusions from the List 1 tariffs that came into effect on July 6. The Trump Administration has not yet issued the procedures for exclusion requests for the List 2 tariffs, but they are likely to resemble the current process for List 1. The List 3 tariffs still await full adoption and announcement of an effective date, which may be imminent based on recent statements from President Trump.Background
Section 301 empowers the U.S. Trade Representative (“USTR”), following an investigation, and subject to the President’s direction, to counter any foreign government’s trade agreement violations; act, policy, or practice creating an unjustified burden or restriction on U.S. commerce; and acts, policies or practices that are unreasonable or discriminatory and that burden or restrict U.S. commerce. The Administration’s announced Section 301 tariffs are based on a USTR investigation begun in August 2017 to address China’s alleged unfair trade practices that adversely affect U.S. businesses doing business in China. In particular, the Administration has criticized strongly a national industrial policy in China, the “Made in China 2025” initiative, adopted by the Chinese government in 2015. That policy aims to shift China’s economy into higher value-added manufacturing sectors, such as robotics, aerospace and energy-saving vehicles, through development or acquisition of more “Chinese” technologies. The Administration has interpreted that industrial policy as a de facto directive to misappropriate American industrial trade secrets and intellectual property to achieve the policy’s stated goals for greater domestic Chinese content of manufactured products in a number of identified areas of advanced technology.
The USTR published its Section 301 investigation findings in March 2018, which eventually led to three sets of Section 301 tariffs, each of which has been the subject of public hearings and comments. In June, the USTR announced a finalized List 1 covering an estimated $34 billion in annual imports from China that took effect on July 6. At the same time, the USTR announced that it was considering a List 2, covering about another $16 billion in annual imports from China. (The finalized version of List 2 took effect on August 23.) In response, China announced its own retaliatory tariffs on U.S. manufactured goods and agricultural products such as soybeans and pork, which threatened to create political pressure against the Trump Administration in specific regions across the United States. Reacting to those Chinese retaliatory tariffs, the Trump Administration then announced in July that it would impose yet more Section 301 tariffs on List 3 at 10%, which will cover a much broader range of Chinese-made goods estimated at $200 billion annually. On August 1, the USTR announced that the List 3 tariffs would increase to 25%. U.S. companies that might be adversely affected by the new List 1 tariffs have until October 9 to submit individual exclusion requests. Estimates vary, but it appears about 1,300 exclusion requests have already been sent to the USTR regarding the adverse effects of the List 1 tariffs and more can be expected as affected U.S. companies face these 25% tariffs.
The current version of each of the three announced Section 301 tariffs lists are available at:Goods Subject to Section 301 Tariffs
It should be noted that Section 301 tariffs are based on the country of origin, not country of export. Currently, the additional Section 301 tariffs apply only to goods that are considered products of China under customs law. Accordingly, imported goods that are legitimately the product of other customs territories, such as Hong Kong or Macau, are not subject to these additional Section 301 tariffs even if shipped from a port in mainland China.
The three lists issued thus far by the USTR specify the goods subject to the Section 301 tariffs, and the applicable Section 301 tariffs at 25% will be assessed on any goods for which customs entry is made on or after the effective date of the respective Section 301 list. The products covered by these lists are identified according to the U.S. tariff classification codes used for customs entry, which are found in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (“HTSUS”).
Section 301 tariffs under List 1
In June, the USTR imposed a Section 301 25% tariff on goods from China that are classifiable under any of 818 different HTSUS tariff subheadings under List 1 covering about $34 billion in imports from China. The types of goods covered in List 1 include certain machinery, parts and components, certain vehicles and vehicles parts, and miscellaneous industrial products. The List 1 tariffs took effect on July 6.
On July 11, the USTR also announced an application process by which interested U.S. parties can request that particular products under List 1 be excluded from the additional 25% tariff. The deadline for exclusion requests under List 1 is October 9.
Section 301 tariffs under List 2
On August 16, the USTR released List 2 with another 279 individual HTSUS tariff subheadings comprising approximately $16 billion worth of imports from China that are subject to a 25% tariff. The type of goods covered in List 2 includes certain chemicals, plastics, metal articles, machinery, and vehicles. The tariffs in List 2 took effect on August 23. The USTR has indicated that there will also be an exclusion process for the goods covered under List 2 but has not yet published the procedures for that process as it had done previously for List 1 goods.
Section 301 tariffs under List 3
Because the Trump Administration increased the proposed List 3 tariffs from 10% to 25% on August 1, the USTR had extended the public comment period for List 3 until September 6. The USTR is currently considering those comments before implementing the List 3 tariffs, which could occur at any time. The proposed List 3 includes over 6,000 HTSUS subheadings and thus covers a much wider range of goods that would affect about $200 billion of annual imports from China, including both manufactured goods and agricultural products. If implemented, List 3 will probably have significant impact on U.S.-China trade relations and potentially could cause significant disruptions in supply chains because of the widespread use of Chinese-origin raw materials and products itemized on List 3 that are imported into the United States for manufacturing purposes or as finished goods each year.
Procedure for Product Exclusion Requests
The USTR’s exclusion request process for List 1 items gives U.S. stakeholders relying on targeted imports from China an opportunity to seek specific relief from the Section 301 tariffs. The exclusions will be effective for a period of one year from the publication of the exclusion determination in the Federal Register, and will apply retroactively to July 6, 2018, when List 1 first took effect. The deadline for filing such exclusions requests with the USTR is October 9, 2018, less than a month from now, so adversely affected U.S. stakeholders should act promptly if they wish to seek such an exclusion from the USTR.
Although these harsh 301 tariffs will clearly affect both U.S. importers and Chinese exporters, the USTR has made clear that the formal product exclusion process to escape assessment of the Section 301 tariffs is only open to persons who are considered to be U.S. stakeholders. The USTR will therefore not accept any such requests directly from a Chinese exporter whose goods are subject to the Section 301 tariffs (unless the Chinese exporter also has a U.S. affiliate that is itself an actual importer of record for those Chinese goods or is itself a U.S. manufacturer that uses those Chinese goods (e.g., parts or components) to produce American end items) so that such U.S. affiliate could be considered a U.S. stakeholder. Instead, as a practical matter, a Chinese exporter that is adversely affected should generally work in close collaboration with its key U.S. stakeholders, such as its key American importers, customers or end users who would be recognized as such by the USTR. Because an effective Section 301 tariff exclusion request may take considerable effort and information from both the U.S. and Chinese parties, the Chinese exporter’s cooperation and support to the U.S. stakeholders may be extremely valuable and even essential in some cases.
Stated Criteria for Exclusion
The USTR has announced the criteria for granting such exclusions from its 301 tariffs, as explained below. The USTR will make exclusion determinations on a product-by-product basis. A particular exclusion, if granted, would then apply to all imports of the excluded product, regardless of who filed the exclusion request for that product. If an exclusion is granted, that exclusion will then apply not only to the requesting company but to any other imports of the same product by other importers. (Indeed, the USTR does not allow requestors to identify their products on the basis of the producer, importer, user, or trade name.)
The USTR will consider the following factors as relevant in weighing an exclusion request:
(a) whether the particular product is available only from China; and in addressing this factor, specifically whether the particular product and/or a comparable product is available from sources in the United States and/or in third countries;
(b) whether the imposition of additional duties on the particular product would cause severe economic harm to the requestor or other United States interests (such as any potential harm to U.S. jobs);
(c) whether the particular product is strategically important or related to China’s “Made in China 2025” policy or any other similar Chinese industrial policy programs; and
(d) any other information considered relevant by the USTR to an evaluation of the request.
Dorsey & Whitney Resources in Section 301 Matters
Dorsey & Whitney attorneys can assist both U.S. and Chinese companies in determining whether their goods are subject to any of the Section 301 tariffs in Lists 1, 2 or 3, as well as other existing or tariffs on imports into the United States, such as the separate Section 232 tariffs on certain foreign-made steel and aluminum articles or other tariffs imposed on foreign products as trade remedies (such as "antidumping" and "countervailing" duties on aluminum extrusions from China, and "safeguard" duties on foreign-made residential washing machines and solar cells and modules). As part of that process, Dorsey & Whitney can also help both U.S. and Chinese companies to understand key information such as the proper tariff classification and “country of origin” of their goods and potentially seek clarification on such questions from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the key agency that will assess and collect these new tariffs.
Dorsey & Whitney also can help to coordinate and support the cooperation between affected U.S. and Chinese companies in regard to exclusion requests by U.S. stakeholders to seek relief from the Section 301 tariffs on Chinese-origin goods under Lists 1, 2 or 3 and to prepare such U.S. stakeholder exclusion requests. The firm has fully bilingual attorneys fluent in Chinese and English in its offices in its Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong offices in Greater China and also in its offices in Seattle and New York City in the United States.
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AT&T has become the first operator to launch the service for 5G networks in the United States, surpassing large operators such as Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile. As promised at the beginning of the year, telephone operator AT&T has announced the official launch of the 5G network before the end of 2018.
The AT&T network would be the first network in the US, based on 3GPP standards, as well as a mobile network, although until now not all devices are prepared for this technology.
According to the report, since there are currently no mobile devices with 5G support, this mobile network will work with the Netgear Nighthawk 5G mobile access point, a portable device that creates its own Wi-Fi network, so you can link phones, Laptops, and tablets to the 5G network and navigate faster.
This is the first test of the mobile 5G era.
AT&T plans the mobile hotspot and data would be free for 90 days for “selected businesses and consumers.” Afterward, the company will charge the hotspot at a price of USD 499 in advance, while the 15GB data plan will cost USD 70 per month.
Being the first, you can expect us to evolve very quickly. We are starting the 5G journey and we are ready to learn quickly and continuously iterate in the coming months. – Andre Fuetsch, CTO, AT & T
The fifth generation of mobile phone technologies, 5G will be available in the cities of Atlanta, Charlotte, NC., Dallas, Houston, Indianapolis, Jacksonville; Louisville, Oklahoma City; New Orleans; Raleigh, NC, San Antonio, and Waco, Texas as of this week. However, it is expected that by 2020 AT& will extend the service in parts of Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Nashville, Orlando, San Diego, San Francisco and San Jose, California. | <urn:uuid:b3002ec3-8c3f-457d-89ae-0239ce4cb661> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.techgenyz.com/2018/12/19/att-announces-launch-5g-mobile-network/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.937462 | 391 | 1.796875 | 2 |
The following excerpt is from Douglas Gray and John Budd's The Canadian Guide to Will & Estate Planning, published by McGraw-Hill Professional.
Taxes Arising on Death
We said earlier (tongue in cheek) that, from a tax viewpoint, the U.S. is a good place to live, and Canada is a great place to die. But is this really true? Is Canada really so much better than the U.S. from an estate planning viewpoint because of the absence of estate taxes in Canada?
As outlined below, the situation is not as rosy as it might seem because of the income taxes that can arise in a person's final income tax return for the year of death.
For most people, the greatest tax exposure exists with respect to the cash and investments which are sitting within an RRSP or RRIF. Generally speaking, the full value of these "registered" accounts at the time of death must be reported as "income" in the person's final income tax return. The amount of income tax actually payable will depend on the deceased's marginal income tax rate in his or her final income tax return. (However, there are a few important exceptions, such as when the RRSP or RRIF is transferred to a surviving spouse.)
Other assets can also attract tax in your estate. For example, if you own a vacation home that has appreciated in value, a taxable capital gain may eventually have to be reported by your executors in your final income tax return, because of the "deemed disposition" on death. Similarly, if you have a portfolio of marketable securities, some of the long-held stocks may have increased significantly in value. Such accrued but unrealized gains as of the time of death will give rise to income tax in your final income tax return, unless there are large enough offsetting deductions or tax credits, such as charitable donations.
Estimating the Future Capital Gains Taxes in Your Estate
For estate planning purposes, you need to think about the capital gains taxes that will be imposed on your estate in the future. Tax rates change from year-to-year, and it is anybody's guess what the income tax rates will be a year from now, let alone in five, 10 or 20 years. Estate planning is a long-term proposition, and there is no way of knowing how long we will live.
Therefore, for purposes of estimating the amount of capital gains tax that could be payable by your estate in the future, it is probably best to err on the high side.
For someone with an annual taxable income over $75,000, the effective rate of income tax (federal and provincial combined) on a $100 capital gain is currently in the range of 20 to 26 per cent, depending on the province of residence.
Therefore, for estate planning purposes, we recommend that you use a capital gains tax rate of 25 per cent in estimating the taxes that could be payable by your estate in the future.
Deemed Disposition for Capital Gains Purposes
Since we don't have a gift tax, you may be wondering if it is possible to avoid capital gains tax on death by giving away your assets during your lifetime. Unfortunately, a gift of assets during your lifetime is treated for capital gains purposes in much the same way as assets that are deemed to have been disposed of at the time of death. If you transfer an asset to another person (other than your spouse) by way of gift, you are considered for income tax purposes to have received proceeds of disposition equal to the fair market value of the property, even though you receive nothing in return. Because of this rule, any gift of property that has appreciated in value to someone other than your spouse will force you to recognize a capital gain in your income tax return. Here is an example of how a "paper transaction" can have undesirable tax consequences:
PLANNING TO PROTECT ● Giving Gifts of Equal Value-Or Not?
Graham and Robert are the best of friends and each of them has a daughter who is getting married. Graham is going to give his daughter Marjorie and her husband-to-be $25,000 cash to help them save for a house. Not to be outdone, Robert is going to give his daughter Joan $25,000 worth of shares of Microsoft Inc., which he bought in the early 1990s for only $1,000.
Graham's gift will be tax-free (since we do not have any gift tax), but Robert will have to report a capital gain in his tax return. Because he is transferring "property" rather than cash, he will be considered to have disposed of the Microsoft shares for proceeds of disposition equal to the current fair market value of the stock. Since his adjusted cost base (his cost) is only $1,000, he must report a $24,000 capital gain. Since 50 per cent is taxable, the income tax could be about $5,500 assuming that Robert is in the top income tax bracket.
Income Tax on RRSPs and RRIFs
If a Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) is in existence at the time of death, the full value of the RRSP must be reported in the deceased's final income tax return. An exception to this is where investments held in a RRSP or RRIF account have dropped in value after the date of the person's death until when such investments are transferred to the beneficiaries. In such cases, the amount of the drop in value can be claimed as a deduction in the deceased's final income tax return against the year of death RRSP/RRIF income inclusion.
Another very important exception to the rule regarding the full value of RRSP/RRIF accounts being included in the deceased's year of death taxable income is where the deceased was survived by a spouse, and the RRSP is transferred to the spouse. In that case, the income tax will merely be postponed, since taxes will be payable by the spouse as funds are withdrawn from the RRSP in the form of an annuity or as payments under a Registered Retirement Income Fund (RRIF). Any amount remaining in a RRSP or RRIF at the time of the spouse's death would be subject to income tax at the time of the spouse's death.
YOUR PRIMARY TAX PLANNING GOALS
The primary tax planning objectives that should be an integral part of your estate planning are: Tax Deferral It makes sense to defer (postpone) capital gains taxation for as many years as possible, by taking advantage of any rollovers that are available, such as the spousal rollover, or the farm property rollover.
Minimize Taxes Arising on Death
You should minimize the future capital gains taxation on death, by taking advantage of whatever exemptions are available, such as the principal residence exemption, and the lifetime capital gains exemption for shares of a small business corporation.
Minimize or Eliminate Your Exposure to Foreign Estate Taxes
If you own assets outside of Canada, or if any of your intended beneficiaries reside in a country which imposes an estate or inheritance tax, you should explore ways of reducing or eliminating the exposure to foreign estate or inheritance taxes that could be payable on your death. For example, consider setting up a Canadian investment holding company to hold your investment portfolio, if it includes U.S. stocks or bonds.
Achieve Current Income Tax Savings
You may achieve some current income tax savings at the same time as you restructure your affairs to achieve future estate planning objectives. For example, there might be some income tax savings resulting from the formation of an income splitting family trust that is part of your overall estate plan. Any tax savings that you realize during your lifetime should mean that you will have a larger net worth in the future, and a larger estate for your family.
Avoid Unnecessary Complexity, and Retain Flexibility
Ensure that any plans which you implement are sound from a financial and legal viewpoint, and flexible enough to be adapted to your changing circumstances and future changes in the tax laws. Don't embark on a complex tax planning strategy, unless you fully understand what is involved, and you are prepared to live with the complexity.
YOUR GENERAL ESTATE PLANNING OBJECTIVES
Before delving into tax planning objectives, keep in mind that any tax planning strategies that you may be thinking of implementing should always be tested against your more general objectives, to ensure that they are not at cross purposes.
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Description Orchid Blooms Watercolor: a wall art print where I used a watercolor technique creating this scene. This technique uses blended brush strokes and basic drawings of the subject creating a clean, simple look. This particular wall art print depicts orchid blooms.This print is of beautiful orchid blooms from one of our household plants. Taking a macro shot of the blooms and then using the technique described above, I turned it into this art print.Follow my work: TheWallGallery: https://thewallgallery.comBlog: http://thewallgalleryblog.wordpress.com/Twitter:https://twitter.com/KirtWallGalleryFacebook:https://www.facebook.com/TheWallGallery.KirtTisdaleCopyright 2013 Kirt D. Tisdale
Kirt Tisdale, Everett, Washington Member Since February 2013 Artist Statement I have been creating art since I can remember. I have been blessed with having my work featured in various venues. What drives me is the beauty in the world with which we live. I remember as a kid looking up at the clouds and watching them change shape...if they could only stay in one shape long enough for me to enjoy and appreciate them....but that's not how it works. What I can do though is take a moment and freeze it. The beauty around us needs to be savored, contemplated and appreciated. Good art invokes an emotional response either through the scene depicted or the colors used. I hope my work invokes the same in you. For all of my art prints, visit my main gallery https://thewallgallery.com. | <urn:uuid:2bb1c8e3-0bd4-4c80-954a-ca4fd42c8c3e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.imagekind.com/art/orchid-blooms-watercolorart_art?IMID=386d46fc-7e52-4486-a0b1-a39dfa5ab067 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.924631 | 331 | 1.601563 | 2 |
“Should the cabin lose pressure, oxygen masks will drop from the overhead area. Please place the mask over your own mouth before assisting others.” Of course you cannot take care of your travelling companion or child if you do not first take care of yourself. It goes without saying. Those of us in caretaking professions such as nurses or hospice workers know the facts. Burnout. Depression. Anxiety. All can be a direct result of neglecting yourself at the price of taking care of others.
Parenthood is no different. In fact, it is the ultimate caretaking profession. A colleague who is the mother of two small children recently told me, “If they are awake, my kids need something. Food, attention, supervision, encouragement, or a band-aid. It’s always something!” And, in my own experience, children continue to require our personal resources well into adolescence. To a parent, none of this is news. Furthermore, most of us can easily recognize our own symptoms of burnout when we are not taking care of ourselves. Those are the days where our tempers are short and our patience is thin. Those days that we fail to bring our “A game” to parenting.
Knowing the importance of self care, we parents still neglect to nurture ourselves. And, quite frankly, it’s difficult to find the time in our already over scheduled lives to make this a priority. But self care does not have to include a day long trip to the spa or a kid-free weekend getaway, although I highly endorse both. Self care can be included in daily activities as well as overall changes in how we approach our caretaking careers. In short, there are a multitude of ways we can nurture ourselves while modeling self care for our children.
Sleep Prioritizing our own bedtime can assure that we are getting the quality sleep we require.
Ask for help As a parent, having great resources is a necessity. Though you would likely not leave an 11 year old in charge of your toddler, the school age kid next door can be helpful in entertaining you child while you take care of laundry or cooking. Also, that kid would likely welcome the opportunity to earn a few bucks walking your dog or washing your car.
Learn to say no Perhaps this isn’t the best year to be the PTA president, volunteer coordinator for the church social, and the coach for the neighborhood soccer team. When asked to help, give yourself time to thoughtfully consider the time commitment and trade offs it will cost.
Build a support team Being a part of a carpool to school or extracurricular activities is a true resource. Parent networking can yield referrals for baby sitters, pediatricians, and tutors to name a few.
Exercise Taking the time to engage in regular exercise has proven benefits for stress management. Exercise does not have to mean competing in an Ironman triathlon. A 15 minute walk with the dog or weekly exercise class with friends are worthwhile.
Schedule alone time Of all the things parents schedule in a given week, a few minutes of daily time to ourselves is equally worthy. Time to read or meditate helps recharge our batteries and reconnect with ourselves. Meditation has been proven to increase the attention span and decrease anxiety. Both of which are favorable traits for parents.
The life of a parent is one of constantly trying to maintain balance. It’s not easy to find the time for a run or lunch with friends. But these behaviors are priceless to model for our children and necessary for our own emotional health. By taking the time to care for ourselves, we can demonstrate stress management and balance. Ideally, we can help our children develop the important skills of being able to say “no” and manage their own overscheduled lives while taking the time to nurture ourselves.
Shelley Coleman M.A., L.P.C.-S.
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As Design Outreach seeks to address issues that alleviate global poverty, it has become evident that addressing the needs of healthcare in developing countries is an essential component of healthy and thriving individuals and communities.
The challenges faced by healthcare providers in developing countries are many. As much as 80% of equipment is donated or funded by international donors and foreign governments. While having the equipment may seem like the answer, not all of it is usable because it is not designed for the conditions that exist in these settings. Other factors challenge the usability of donated equipment:
“Technologies are either donated and therefore are old and prone to failure or needing specialized upkeep which we can’t provide; are too advanced for our setting; or are prohibitively expensive to import. On the other hand, when we can source technologies in-country they may be of inferior quality and need frequent repairs or even replacement.”
–Survey response from a missionary doctor in Kenya
DO is preparing to address some of the most pressing challenges for appropriately designed medical devices through disciplined and informed engineering design practices. Highlights include:
Initial Project: Karanda Mission Hospital – Improved Humidifier Bottle Design
Initial projects have included partnering with Karanda Mission Hospital in Zimbabwe to find an appropriate and sustainable solution to replace single-use oxygen humidifier bottles. DO investigated new design solutions, but ultimately was able to identify and source humidifier bottles made of more robust materials that can be sterilized and reused.
Humidifier bottles are typically a single-use component high-resource settings. However, due to lack of supply chain and resources, the hospital was forced to use the plastic humidifier bottles repeatedly. Over time the bottle lid attachment wore down and needed to be held on with tape.
Karanda approached Design Outreach about finding a solution in December 2020. As part of the Inspiration phase of the DO Way for Appropriate Technology Development, the DO team explored many solutions but was able to find an off-the-shelf option that could work to replace the disposable bottle. They found a high-quality bottle made with more durable materials including stainless-steel connections that hold up to repeated use and is easier to keep clean. The hospital is now using the new bottles sourced by DO.
Through extensive conversations with healthcare experts and a Healthcare Advisory Panel, DO has identified a major unmet need in wound care. With a high prevalence of traumatic and chronic wounds, effective and affordable wound care is a necessity for low-resource healthcare facilities. If wounds are treated inadequately or left untreated, they can lead to serious illness, disability, or even death. An appropriate wound care device coupled with comprehensive education and training are key to improving the wound care space.
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Talking last night with a young woman who has lived in the neighborhood more than two years, and she recounted a short conversation with a woman who moved in about six months ago.
“She said that from her house she could see my bathroom window and that I had too many bottles in the window. She said the sight of all those bottles spoiled her and her husband’s dinner every night.
“I told her she should close her curtains if she doesn’t want to see my bathroom window.”
That’s the way, girl.
Bathroom windows in all the houses begin around five feet above the shower floor. Each window is at least four feet long. In most places, the window facing would be called a “shelf.”
People who were busy bodies in the places they moved from think they can just pick up the same habits here. West Central Florida is not New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, Connecticut, Massachusetts … Take your pick.
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"With the coming of the dawn, the promises of the night fade away". In politics, as in love, the old Spanish saying sounds a pertinent warning; not least in regard to the memorialisation and assessment which the events of 1968 (and particularly the Paris uprising of May of that year) are receiving on their fortieth anniversary.
Anyone who lived through those exhilarating and formative times - as I did at the age of 22 - can testify to the hurricane force of that year. Like every such phenomenon it carried multiple elements: in this case a generation's visceral rejection of the accumulated conformism of post-1945 Europe and north America; a heady encounter with new forms of music, art, thinking, and debate; and a many-centred solidarity with global movements of protest and revolt - be they in Vietnam and Latin America, in Czechoslovakia and Russia, or in the United States among African-Americans and anti-war protesters.
As one of the editors of the newly founded radical weekly Black Dwarf, I well remember the day in which we decided on the frontpage affirmation that to me encapsulated the aspirations and enthusiasms of that time more than any other: "Paris, London, Rome, Berlin. We shall fight, and we shall win!"
The problem is that, in many ways, we lost. 1968 was a wonderful time. It shaped the intellectual and moral framework of my adult years. It does not deserve the sneering, partisan dismissal of some of its unacknowledged beneficiaries (such as Tony Blair and Nicolas Sarkozy). But it is equally ill-served by the kind of one-dimensional and (in the true sense) uncritical celebration that contemporary media, publishing and intellectual cultures too often regurgitate.
The cycles of reality
A recollection of the larger political currents that contextualise the experience of 1968 exemplifies the point. The theatre of Paris in May ’68 notwithstanding, the year did not alter the politics of any western European country.
France is the primary exhibit. A month after May, after all, came the mass rallies in favour of Charles de Gaulle in the Champs-Elysées; followed by the general elections of 23-30 June in which the French right won a resounding victory. When de Gaulle resigned a year later, his successor was the loyal subordinate Georges Pompidou. It took until 1981 for a candidate of the left, François Mitterrand, to be elected president - and this socialist was a ormer Vichy collaborator whose conspiratorial style of politics was the very opposite of the best of May '68. Such tainted political advances are characteristic of the year's ambiguous legacy.
In Britain too, the anti-Vietnam-war demonstrations of March and October 1968 (in both of which I was an enthusiastic participant) did not presage any wider change, within or outside the parliamentary system. The protestors denounced the Labour prime minister Harold Wilson, but his replacement after the election of June 1970 was not a figure of the left but a Conservative, Edward Heath.
In the United States, 1968 marked the onset of a politically more reactionary epoch rather than a progressive one. The election of Richard M Nixon on 6 November, albeit narrow, was its augur; though it came to fruition only with Ronald Reagan's victory in 1980, after the insipid administration of Jimmy Carter in the late 1970s (just as the Labour governments of Wilson/James Callaghan in Britain were in retrospect an interlude in a long Conservative hegemony, heralded by Margaret Thatcher's election in May 1979).
True, Germany did see a momentous and long overdue political change with the victory of Willy Brandt's Social Democratic Party (SPD) in 1969 (marking, as Brandt's victory speech had it, the final defeat of Nazism). But this was self-evidently the work of an established party descended from the respectable Second International centre-left, not the "extra-parliamentary opposition" of 1968. Rudi Dutschke, whose rhetorical and personal appeal I had been enthralled by at a conference on Vietnam in Berlin in January 1968, was permanently damaged by an assassination attempt in April which forced his withdrawal from the scene.
But one polity in western Europe that was irrevocably altered by 1968 was Northern Ireland, part of the United Kingdom dominated since the 1920s by the representiatives of the province's Protestant majority, the Ulster Unionist Party. The rise of a "civil-rights movement" demanding equal voting, residence and employment rights for Catholics soon collided with the state's sectarian institutions and instincts. After serious intercommunal violence exploded in 1969 and the British army was deployed to guarantee order, leadership of the Catholic community was seized by the Provisional IRA, a murderous and itself sectarian body that owed little to May 1968 and far less to the non-violent civil-rights movement in its American or Northern Ireland variants.
I well recall, in an interview in Dublin in 1971 with the then Provisional leader Ruari O'Brady (as he then spelt his name), an inquiry about the connections between his "national-liberation" movement and that of its putative equivalents in Vietnam and Cuba. His brisk reply was worthy in tone and content of the schoolmaster he was: "Mr Halliday, in Ireland we have no need of your Che Guevaras and your Ho Chi Minhs." The pattern of the three decades to come was being set, where militarised Catholic nationalism battled its enemies to a dead-end over the bodies of hundreds of innocents, its struggle finessed or cheered by "socialist" fellow-travellers who strained to see a trace of 1968 dreams in the carnage.
The silences of memory
That the political consequences of 1968 defied its combatants' ideas and hopes is not to our disgrace. The events were indeed extraordinary, and remain indelible. What is wrong in the memorialisation is the fetishism of the moment, and associated loss of perspective and overall judgment, which leads to three kinds of distortion of focus.
The first is that the glorification of what was and remains positive about 1968 obscures - and thus at some level perpetuates - the darker sides of the year. In retrospect, the most striking absence from the currents of the time was feminism: true, there was talk of "sexual liberation", but the radical critique of gender came only with the "second-generation feminism" of 1969 and later. (I recall attending the "dialectics of liberation" conference at London's Roundhouse in July 1967, when around thirty prominent leftwing and radical speakers in my recollection included not one woman - and, equally in my recollection, no one commented upon this absence).
The second distortion of the 1968 events is the way that the indulgence of violence is filtered out of consideration. Much of the left thought little about the ethics and politics of violence beyond regarding it as permissible (and even beyond criticism) as long as it was the weapon of the oppressed; but a small section of the movement in Europe and north America, intoxicated by self-glorifying rhetoric and unable to face the blockage of their own politics, opted for proclaimed "urban guerrilla warfare". The Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF) in Germany, the Brigate Rosse in Italy, the Black Panthers and Weather Underground in the United States were (as much as hippies, anarchists and proto-environmentalists, though with far more damaging effects) also the children of 1968.
The tides of globality
The third distortion of judgment in regard to 1968 is the absence of political realism: the ability to match aspiration and imagination with a cool assessment of the balance of existing political forces. It was the political "winners" who were to benefit from the events of the year (among them Georges Pompidou, Richard Nixon, and Edward Heath) who in this respect showed a political capacity that their adversaries in the lecture-halls or on the barricades more often lacked.
The inability of many leftist 68ers to anticipate or comprehend the conservative reaction to their own initiatives which these "statesmen" represented is telling here; as is the unreflective tendency of those who espouse some variant of revolutionary Marxism to laud 1968 as a single moment of glorious resistance without looking too closely at its dynamics. This fatal lack of political realism, however, is only part of a wider absence of understanding of the whole period: in particular, the inability of those who prefer the myths to the realities of 1968 to see that this was a time not of "world revolution" but of international - indeed "tricontinental" - counter-revolution.
The years from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s had seen a spate of revolutions and less dramatic but real changes across what was becoming known as the "third world" - in "Indochina" (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos), in the Arab world (Egypt, Iraq, Algeria, Yemen), in Africa (the Congo, South Africa, Ghana, Kenya) and in Latin America (Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba). From the mid-1960s, however, a series of events indicated that the tide was beginning to turn.
The coup in Brazil in 1964; the fall of the moderate Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in the same year; the coup in Indonesia, and the invasion by the United States of the Dominican Republic and South Vietnam in 1965; the coup that ousted Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana in 1966; the coup in Greece, the six-day Arab-Israeli war and the death of Che Guevara in 1967 - all heralded a global shift to the right, of which Richard Nixon's victory in the US presidential election of 1968 represented the culmination.
It took until the mid-1970s for a further sea-change to occur, with the end of fascism in Portugal and Spain in 1974-75, and a spate of revolutionary victories (Vietnam, Angola, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Iran, Nicaragua) in what was then not yet known as the "global south". The "second cold war" of the 1980s closed one cycle and opened another. By then, many veterans of 1968 had long exchanged thinking through the present for romanticised celebration of the past.
The cunning of history
The most dramatic events of 1968, and the ones with the greatest long-run consequences were not, however, in either Europe and north America or in the "third world" - but in the "second" (that is, communist) world. Two events here in particular - the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 which crushed the liberalising "Prague spring" under Alexander Dubcek, and the apogee of China's cultural revolution in 1967-68 - signalled the brutal imposition of authoritarian and coercive bureaucratic communism.
In Prague, Moscow and Beijing - a world away from the liberal and culturally experimental world of Paris or Berkeley - it was not the emancipatory imagination but the cold calculation of party and state that was "seizing power". Yet in the longer run the counter-cyclical reinforcement of hardline communist rule in its two major centres proved less durable than appeared likely at the time.
Indeed, the repression of 1968 contained the seeds of the demise of the regimes that deployed it. In Europe, the decision by Leonid Brezhnev and his associates to invade Czechoslovakia in effect killed what were already the last, threadbare hopes that a progressive evolution of communist societies was yet possible. The casualties included the next generation of intra-party reformers, who thus had few reserves of loyalty or enthusiasm to call on beyond the party nomenklatura - and who were challenged by dissidents now hardened by experience to contemplate only communism's demise rather than its reform. The brief flowering of optimism under Mikhail Gorbachev proved as evanescent as that under Nikita Khrushchev, but this time with far more serious results for the communist edifice.
In western Europe, the collapse of faith that the Soviet system deserved even a modicum of trust was more damaged by the Red Army's invasion of Czechoslovakia even than by that of Hungary in 1956. The wholesale evacuation of members from Moscow's "brother parties" in 1956 at least did not damage their core; but Prague led the communist leaderships (in Italy especially) onto the road of coalition-seeking "Eurocommunism" and then to effective oblivion.
In China, the violence, fear and societal damage inflicted by the cultural revolution were of such a scale that the generation that came to power after Mao Zedong's death in September 1976 and the revolutionary spasm of the "gang of four" that followed sought to pursue a moderate and reforming path. The system survived, but it lost its inner, doctrinal conviction. What is left is nationalism and fear of the people: which it can appease only as long as "market socialism" delivers the goods. The years around 1968, for all their zealotry, spelt the end of revolutionary commitment.
Much of the left in western European and the United States feted China's cultural revolution in displays that mixed political misjudgment, exoticist fascination, and infantile irresponsibility in equal measure. The warnings of older and wiser observers such as Isaac Deutscher and Herbert Marcuse against the dangers of collectivist frenzies of destruction and shaming were heard, but also ignored.
It is clear in retrospect that 1968 did not bury European capitalist democracy or American imperialism. It did, however, set in train the death and burial of the Russian and Chinese revolutions and of communism in western Europe. A fine example, indeed, of the cunning of history.
Also in openDemocracy on legacies of 1968:
- Donald Nicholson-Smith, "Black glove/white glove: revisiting Mexico's 1968" (25 August 2004)
- Neal Ascherson, "The Polish March: students, workers, and 1968" (1 February 2008)
- Todd Gitlin, "Rethinking the kinetics of 1968" (11 April 2008)
- Patrice de Beer, "May '68: France's politics of memory" (28 April 2008)
- Sophie Quinn-Judge, "Hoang Minh Chinh: the honourable dissident" (30 April 2008)
- Paul Hockenos, "The 1968 debate in Germany" (2 May 2008)
Fred Halliday is ICREA research professor at IBEI, the Barcelona Institute for International Studies. Among his many books are The Middle East in International Relations: Power, Politics and Ideology (2005) and 100 Myths about the Middle East (2005). His many books include Islam and the Myth of Confrontation (IB Tauris, 2003), 100 Myths About the Middle East (Saqi, 2005), and The Middle East in International Relations: Power, Politics and Ideology (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
Fred Halliday's "global politics" column on openDemocracy surveys the national histories, geopolitical currents, and dominant ideas across the world.
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Dutch architect KCAP and Germany’s K+H have received a competitiveness to layout the Wasserhäuser (Waterhouse), a sustainable household tower on Hamburg’s waterfront.
KCAP and K+H are joined by Transsolar KlimaEngineering, PML Lange and WTM Engineers for the job, which is aspect of the HafenCity masterplan, currently Europe’s most significant interior-city growth.
The staff defeat proposals from Buchner & Bründler, Hadi Teherani Architects and Prasch Buken und Associate.
The 7,500 sq m “Seestern” Wasserhäuser will have 62 units. It is one particular of three towers in the growth that will be required to have the very same top and footprint and equivalent façades.
The Seestern building is named following its starfish plan, in which each ground apart from the highest and cheapest share a straight structure surrounded by a balcony zone with rounded corners.
The plinth is surrounded by an entrance deck, which can be achieved by a covered bridge. Within, a double-top entry hall qualified prospects to an indoor children’s playground. The pedestal of the building is surrounded by h2o, and is decorated with a wave pattern with starfish reliefs.
Kees Christiaanse, KCAP’s founder, said: “Within the entire urban plan, the Wasserhäuser has the only volumes to be designed directly on the h2o – a prominently obvious location. As a consequence, the person layout for every single tower demands a refined but recognisable architectural articulation.” | <urn:uuid:8dc9a6f0-8503-4192-a6f2-2634e182b1c5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://lenduckworthsfishandchips.com/kcap-and-kh-layout-sustainable-tower-for-europes-greatest-inner-city-improvement/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.931055 | 346 | 1.882813 | 2 |
LEGISLATION PROCESS IN THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN
Legislative power is the most respectful and effective entity in a system based on the separation of power. In such systems, legislative power establishes the code of conduct to be executed by executive power and to be judged by judicial power. Therefore, the doctrine of the constitution is determined by legislation by the people. Further, as parliament represents the national governance and authority, it has jurisdiction to issue general rules regarding the national interest. Hence, in a country where the constitution exists, the system of separation of powers is accepted, no entity is involved in the legislation process, and approvals of no entity except for legislative power are applied as law. Authority of legislative power rather than executive power in the Islamic Republic of Iran is based on the independence of legislative power other than executive power. In this case, executive power is not allowed to the dissolution of legislative power. According to results, despite the general jurisdiction of Islamic Parliament in legislation power, this entity faces some constraints like other powers regarding rule of law, the principle of powers independence, and delegation of duties and authorities. These constraints are rooted in some factors, including the principle of the inherent limitation of parliament's authorities in legislation, the principle of supremacy of the constitution, the principle of the apparent constraint of parliament in legislation, and formal limits. | <urn:uuid:f0aafffc-1593-4ab3-a4e0-af3d0cd32c72> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.archives.palarch.nl/index.php/jae/article/view/8868 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.949042 | 277 | 3.65625 | 4 |
Have you ever wondered what types of questions people “Ask the Expert“? Here’s a recent question from a home inspector, and the response from TRI President and Technical Director, Rick Olson.
“I recently inspected a home in that was being sold by a real estate agent who was also the homeowner. There were a number of cracked concrete roof tiles that I observed. The buyer asked me what type of repairs needed to be performed and I told him the only acceptable repairs, according to the roof tile manufacturers, was to replace the broken tiles and that gluing them back together was considered only a temporary “patch.” The homeowner/agent called me after “repairs” in the form of gluing the broken tiles back together was performed and was told by her licensed roofing contractor with 40 years of experience that this was a totally acceptable repair and now she is very upset with me telling the buyer otherwise. Thoughts?”
The repair of a broken tile is always an important topic to the roofing professional and does not have a one-size fits all answer. The key is to identify what the broken area represents. As the TRI, our members rely upon the formal codes and local building code official approvals to determine the appropriate steps for a minor repair. In the case of a broken corner that may be about 1-2”, the use of a concrete compatible adhesive may be used. This practice is often used at the transitional flashing areas where a small piece of tile may be needed to complete the aesthetic look. The use of adhesives or wire will help hold the small piece in place. It is also used when a few tiles may have a small broken corner.
In the case where damage to the tile was created from a load or impact that has created a full vertical or horizontal break the entire width or length of the tile, the use of adhesive is not recommended. These tiles should be replaced. The benefit of concrete and clay tile installations is the ease with which broken tiles can be replaced. In many applications where battens are used, only the perimeter tiles are attached and therefore sliding the upslope course and lifting out the broken tiles will allow for their replacement. Even when tiles are fastened, the broken tiles can be easily removed and the replacement tile secured back in place without disrupting the balance of the roof. This will ensure the ability to return the roof to its pre-damaged conditioned. | <urn:uuid:50446324-c808-436d-96fe-5108cd463041> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tileroofing.org/ask-the-expert/ask-the-expert-can-cracked-roof-tiles-be-glued/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.970525 | 504 | 1.851563 | 2 |
1. Compare and contrast organization development and organization transformation. How are they similar or dissimilar?
2. Can you identify the characteristics that describe your organization’s culture?
4. Suppose you receive a new job offer. What cultural factors would you consider in making a decision?
5. How does the culture affect an organization’s ability to change?
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A very gifted young man
Roger Chomeaux was born in 1907, in the northern French town of Berlaimont. Gifted with an instinctive sense for shape and space, he quickly enters the École des Beaux Arts in Valenciennes, then in Paris, where he practises painting and sculpture. Chomeaux is a student who is appreciated by his teachers, and he wins several prizes before finding employment with a specialist carpet-making business, while his wife sells craft wools on the Quai des Grands Augustins.
But the Second World War removes this promising young artist, already a father of four children, to a Polish POW camp, from which he returns a man in revolt. Over the course of the next decade, he takes refuge in the Forest of Fontainebleau, where his wife has bought a few
hectares of land. He takes up at that time a parallel language and from then on signs his name as “Chomo”.
In 1960, his first exhibition at the Galerie Jean Camion, Rue des Beaux-Arts, is a success. The last of the Surrealists swoon over his burnt wood pieces, but Chomo flees from fame and money and is just as ready to show an enthusiastic Jean Cocteau the door as the gallery’s patron: Alix de Rothschild. He decides at that point to leave Paris permanently. Thus begins the new life of an unclassifiable man.
A visionary artist
Chomo settles alone in Achère-la-Forêt, surrounded by passing friends and opening up to the public on Saturdays and Sundays. An ecologist ahead of his time, a bee-keeper – he will keep up to twenty hives – he works with wood, fire and spirits. The path that leads to his artistic domain, where he used to work in the open air, is scattered with inscriptions. We read there for example: “Qèl anprint ora tu lésé sur la tèr pour qe ton Die soi qontan?” (“Quelle empreinte auras-tu laissée sur la terre pour que ton Dieu soit content?” – “What mark will you have left on earth to make your God happy?”).
Because Chomo develops a phonetic writing whose poetry pervades his work. They call him the hermit of the forest, and he imagines the world of the future: between cosmic reveries, biological observations and environmental disaster. He thus baptises his corner of the forest: “Village d’Art Préludien”, the village of “preludian” art: because his art is the prelude, the key to understanding and accessing the new world that’s coming.
A SCULPTOR OUTSIDE THE NORMS
Putting aside bronze, terracotta and marble, Chomo deliberately chooses “materials that breathe”. Sheet metal, wood, plastic, glass and concrete are sources of permanent discovery. He ceaselessly reinvents the figures of Man, God and World. The sculptor pursues his series of burnt wood pieces, working between reclaimed and natural materials. He also shapes chicken wire, which he paints or inlays with melted plastic and various media. Reworking children’s toys, Chomo “stigmatises” them to give them more than a new life: a soul.
Cellular concrete, or siporex, opens up new perspectives for him: “I sculpt it like writing a poem”, he explains to his visitors. His work with colour finishes on each of these unexpected media betrays his very considerable classical knowledge, even though he disowns it and claims to have spent 40 years unlearning the teaching of the Academies.
A protean genius
Chomo is a total artist. His drawings and paintings are a faithful and audacious response to his sculptures. But he also throws himself into architecture and the art of stained glass: he makes three buildings out of wood, chicken wire and bottles. The first is called the “Sanctuary of Burnt Wood Works” (“Sanctuaire des bois brûlés”); the second, “The Church of the Poor” (“L’Église des Pauvres”), is adorned with a spectacular rose window, and the last one, “Refuge”, is covered with car bonnets. It was Clara Malraux who, sent to report on his works on-site, convinced the minister for cultural affairs (her ex-husband, André Malraux) of Chomo’s creative genius, whose freedom from then on no longer had to suffer under bureaucratic regulations.
But Chomo considers his great work to be elsewhere. After being a pioneer of concrete music in the Forest of Fontainebleau, between synthesizer music and poetry, the sculptor becomes a film-maker. His twenty hours of footage in the 1980s are at the leading edge of experimental cinema. The title of the film resonates like a program: “The spiritual disembarkment” (“Le débarquement spirituel”).
Chomo dies in 1999 amidst his works, watched over by his second wife, but completely indifferent to the public authorities, the art market and the inner circles of the cultural scene. Ten years after his death, the Halle Saint Pierre, Musée de la Ville de Paris, has just given him his first major retrospective, and for the first time his work is facing the fire of the auctions at Cheverny.
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Part of being a professional is meeting new people. They can be across your company, within the same industry, across industries, the possibilities are endless. Meeting new people in any arena is the first step to networking (an overall area in which I admittedly struggle), and can be the start of successful or rocky relationships. This post isn’t to say that you can’t come back from a bad first impression, rather let’s aim to make a good impression to start so that we don’t have to worry about recovering later. Let’s discuss the key points for making a good first impression, following up, and maintaining privacy.
There are three key areas I consider when meeting someone for the first time: handshake, eye contact, and how or why I’m meeting this person. This may seem obvious to some, but could be new information to others, give the person a firm handshake with the entire palm of your hand. When you go to shake someone’s hand, you shouldn’t just barely be touching them and you definitely shouldn’t try to squeeze the life out of their hand. In a good shake, your palm meets the other person’s palm and your fingers firmly cup that person’s hand. If you have to stretch a bit to reach the person the actual shaking motion comes from your shoulder, if you’re fairly close to the person that motion comes from your elbow. An appropriate handshake shouldn’t be more than a few seconds. If it’s longer than that, you’re in slightly odd territory.
Eye contact is something that can be very tricky to some and come naturally to others. Whether you’re shaking somebody’s hand or listening to them speak, you should try and make some eye contact. This doesn’t mean that you have to stare into that person’s eyes, but you should feel comfortable occasionally looking them in the eyes and to assure them that you’re listening and what they’re saying is important to you. If you’re a more timid person, doing this may be counterintuitive to you, in which case you’ll have some homework by practicing with people you already know and feel comfortable. Listen to what the other person is saying, detect the tone in their voice, and when they’re emphasizing something, look them in the eyes.
How you’re meeting the person you’re speaking to can give great context to what their interests are or professional expertise is. If you think about the setting in which you’re meeting this person: formal, informal, casual like a happy hour, formal like an awards ceremony, you already have a bit of insight to their passions. Conversely, they could just be there out of obligation, in which case you’ll find out by talking to them. If you’re somewhere you feel your personal passions are strongly represented, then you’re more likely to meet people with whom you’ll have an organic connection. Consider starting a conversation based on how good the event is, the content, or even the food and drinks. Sometimes you’ll be introduced by way of a friend or coworker where you may want to briefly consider why you’re being introduced to this person. These predestined meetings can be great in that you make a connection and everyone will benefit at some point in the future. Make sure you don’t put all of your eggs in this basket and hope you just get introduced to people because sometimes these meetings lead to nothing and you and the other person have nothing in common and wouldn’t work well together. Nobody knows you like you, so you have to go out there and meet people you think you’d like to know or get to know.
Once a conversation is finished, before leaving, get the person’s contact information. This can be a LinkedIn profile link, email address, website, or phone number. First things first, don’t be offended if someone doesn’t give you their phone number. Not everyone feels comfortable giving out such a personal piece of information to a stranger. LinkedIn has become a very popular option for staying in touch because you can connect to that person, communicate via InMail, see if you have any common connections, and decide if you’d like to communicate more personally via email or phone. Typically it’s best to follow up in the next 24-72 hours depending on the circumstances so that you’re not forgotten and the conversation (and person) are still pretty fresh in your mind. If I can be completely honest, I have not been good at this. I’ve missed out on so many great connections because I forgot to follow up or got caught up in something else that did NOT benefit me at all in the long run. Learn from my mistakes: follow up shortly after meeting or set a reminder for yourself to follow up if you know you might forget. If you’re sending an email, make it concise but memorable. Thank the other person for their time and the good conversation. In some cases, this might be someone you didn’t meet directly, in which case you can mention the event you both attended or the talk that they gave and what you took from it. If you spoke to them directly about something poignant, briefly mention it in the email. For example, “I enjoyed hearing your views on the how to improve the education system in NYC. I’d love to connect and help by implementing some of those ideas in my school.” Disclaimer: I am not a teacher or school administrator, but you get the gist. If you didn’t have the opportunity to provide your contact information, now is your chance. Drop a line saying you’d like to connect via email or phone, if you’re that bold, because you don’t get what you don’t ask for. Don’t be afraid of rejection because it happens to everyone and the worst someone can say is no.
With the world being the way it is now I wanted to make sure I touched on how to maintain your privacy. Be careful when providing any personal information about yourself. I usually start out by just providing my email address or LinkedIn and if I keep in contact with the person, it may progress to a phone conversation and potentially a friendship. When you first meet someone, don’t go in with the assumption that you’ll be friends right away or expect too much too soon. When you first start your career, it can be exciting to meet so many people, especially those who seem to be doing very impressive things, but keep your guard up to protect yourself. Don’t give too much information about yourself such as where you live (exact address), names and occupations of family members, or any personal identifying numbers (drivers license number, SSN, any ID numbers of any kind). Not everyone is bad or has malicious intentions, but it’s much easier to put safeguards in place so that you don’t have to find out the hard way who’s out to get you. Stay smart and stay safe while you’re interviewing, networking, and just generally out and about.
Pro tip: if you would like to communicate with people via phone and not have to give out your personal cell number, sign up for Google Voice. It’s free to make and receive US based calls and texts if you have an internet connection and will assign you a phone number with the area code of the region you select (if there are any available). You can opt to have it ring directly to your phone as well as send texts directly to your phone as if you’re receiving a normal phone call or text directly to your number. Don’t worry, people can also leave voicemails to your Google Voice number and you’ll be alerted to any missed calls. | <urn:uuid:8b19805a-00b5-4c13-925b-f2c90392a153> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theyoungblackprofessional.com/2020/05/20/greetings-and-meetings/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.952258 | 1,648 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Colorado and North Carolina protect abortion from out-of-state prosecution
The Democratic governors of Colorado and North Carolina on Wednesday issued executive orders to protect abortion providers and patients from extradition to home states that have banned the practice.
Abortions are legal in North Carolina until fetal viability or in certain medical emergencies, making the state an outlier in the south-east of the country.
“This order will help protect North Carolina doctors and nurses and their patients from cruel right-wing criminal laws passed by other states,” governor Roy Cooper said.
The governors of Rhode Island and Maine also signed executive orders late on Tuesday, stating that they will not cooperate with other states’ investigations into people who seek abortions or health care providers that perform them.
Rhode Island Democratic governor Dan McKee said women should be trusted with their own health care decisions, and Democratic lieutenant governor Sabina Matos said Rhode Island must do all it can to protect access to reproductive health care as “other states attack the fundamental right to choose”.
Maine Democratic governor Janet Mills said she will “stand in the way of any effort to undermine, rollback, or outright eliminate the right to safe and legal abortion in Maine”.
Their offices confirmed on Wednesday that they are pre-emptive, protective moves, and that neither state has received a request to investigate, prosecute or extradite a provider or patient.
The attempts to protect abortion rights come as tighter restrictions and bans are going into effect in conservative states after last month’s Dobbs v Jackson ruling in the US Supreme Court, which overturned the nearly half-century-old holding from Roe v Wade that found that the right to abortion was protected by the US Constitution. The issue reverts to the states, many of which have taken steps to curtail or ban abortions.
Several states have put new restrictions in place since the Supreme Court ruling and more are pressing to do so. The Louisiana Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the attorney general’s request to allow immediate enforcement of laws against most abortions, saying it was declining to get involved “at this preliminary stage”.
Enforcement was blocked by another court last week. Louisiana attorney general Jeff Landry tweeted that Wednesday’s decision “is delaying the inevitable. Our Legislature fulfilled their constitutional duties, and now the Judiciary must. It is disappointing that time is not immediate”.
The specific fears of Democratic officials are rooted in a Texas law adopted last year to ban abortions after fetal cardiac activity can be detected. The law lets any person other than a government official or employee sue anyone who performs an abortion or “knowingly engages in conduct that aids or abets” obtaining one.
The person filing the claim would be entitled to 10,000 dollars (£8,367) for every abortion the subject was involved with — plus legal costs.
The US Supreme Court has declined to hear challenges to the Texas law so far.
Stanford law professor Bernadette Meyler said it is not clear whether judgments against out-of-state abortion providers would hold up in courts, especially if they are not advertising their services in states with bans.
But she also said it is not clear the liberal states are on firm legal ground to protect their residents from any out-of-state litigation.
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Several of the introductory essays in this blog have dealt with aspects of polyadenylation and the complex that mediates this process. As shown in this figure and as discussed (in part) here and here, the complex is sizeable and possesses a number of activities, including some that seem superfluous. However, genetic studies in yeast indicate that virtually every subunit of the core complex is essential – for viability and for pre-mRNA processing and polyadenylation in vitro and in vivo. Biochemical and/or immunological depletion studies reveal a similar scenario in mammals, and a less-expansive set of studies suggests that a similar rule of thumb will apply in plants. The bottom line of all of this is that almost all of the subunits of the polyadenylation complex seem to be essential. In the vernacular of a proponent of intelligent design, the polyadenylation complex would seem to be irreducibly complex.
It is in this context that the recently-completed genome of the parasitic organism Giardia lamblia enters the fray. Last year, the complete sequence of G. lamblia, some 12 million base pairs, was determined and analyzed. The authors of the study published in Science noted a number of interesting things – a preponderance of genes encoding protein kinases, evidence for substantial horizontal gene flow from bacteria and archaebacteria, and a streamlined core gene expression machinery (transcription and RNA processing). This streamlining is especially notable in the case of the polyadenylation machinery. Remarkably, of all the subunits pictured in this figure, genes for only three* can be found in G. lamblia (see the figure that follows this paragraph). | <urn:uuid:4ebcea8c-54e1-4739-af89-c4034c8d1978> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aghunt.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.941759 | 351 | 2.75 | 3 |
Hydroponics is the fastest-growing technique in the field of biology and research. You can grow any terrestrial plants with hydroponics aptly and quickly. Therefore, if you are interested in finding new and the best hydroponics system to garden indoors, look no further.
Hydroponics is the practice of growing plants without the use of soil. This technique of growing plants can achieve accelerated growth rates and insane yields. You can develop a great variety of vegetables with hydroponics, but there are a few things that you can do to make sure you get the best hydroponics system for your needs.
One of the best things about hydroponics systems is how simple they are to use. It doesn’t take a lot of time or effort to set up a system like this, and once you have everything you need, you’re ready to get growing right away.
It’s essential to get a good quality hydroponics system because it will help save time and money, especially if you are trying to grow many things at once. You can use a small hydroponics system to start with and upgrade as you grow more plants.
There are several hydroponics systems out there, including everything from straightforward ones to very complicated ones. You can even buy kits. Here we will talk about the best hydroponics system, and that is the Gravity fed growing system. Well, let’s read ahead and discover why you should choose a Gravity fed growing network.
The most common type of hydroponic system is known as a gravity feed, where the water is actually siphoned from another reservoir and fed into the growing pot through a system of water pumps. These pumps pull the water from another reservoir via pipes, and then the water is passed through a system of filters, pumps and filters, before reaching the roots and plants.
The Gravity fed growing systems don’t use as much electricity as another hydroponics system to circulate the water. The Gravity fed growing systems also maintain the plant’s longer lives by supplying an adequate amount of water to them.
In a gravity-fed system or hydroponic grow tent, the nutrient-filled water is initially fed into a growing pot or produce tray from a second reservoir located on a lower level. Hydroponic growers can utilize ‘smart valves’ to regulate the flow of nutrient solution into their growing pot.
Therefore, in a Gravity fed system or hydroponic grow tent, the nutrient-filled water is initially fed into a growing pot or produce tray from a second reservoir located on a lower level. Hydroponic growers can utilize ‘smart valves’ to regulate the flow of nutrient solution into their growing pot.
Well, if you want to see the whole picture, why these gravity feed growing systems are the best kind of hydroponics to enhance your gardening. Then you should have a look at these incredible benefits of hydroponic gardening.
For small growing spaces, gravity fed hydroponic systems can be a cost-effective solution. However, the systems that use the water feeder are best suited for growing hydroponic vegetables such as strawberries, herbs, and tomatoes, as these plants increase and require large amounts of water and nutrients for successful growth.
In conclusion, several different types of hydroponic systems are available, and each has its advantages and disadvantages. If you want to grow small plants with a faster growth rate than the gravity fed growing network are the best hydroponics system available for you in the market. | <urn:uuid:46c82ae4-e35c-4c40-978a-4bfad8537137> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mega-pot.com/hydroponics/what-is-the-best-hydroponics-system/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.95236 | 721 | 2.65625 | 3 |
A few years ago, a friend who used cannabis daily to relieve insomnia told me that, while marijuana was still helping him sleep, he felt it no longer promoted creative thinking like it used to. “It’s just not the same anymore,” he complained. When he first started smoking, he felt inspired to compose music, write lyrics, and draw; now he just felt complacent.
Was marijuana inhibiting my friend’s creativity? On the contrary, it’s long been suggested that cannabis actually promotes creative thinking. Studies dating back to 1970 show that regular users report having more original thoughts while using marijuana, and more recent research also indicates that up to 50% of cannabis users think it heightens their creativity.
However, results from two newer studies—a Dutch study published last year and a 2012 British study—take other factors into consideration, including the strength of cannabis strains, how often a person uses it, and their baseline personality. The results back up my friend’s suspicion but also shed some light on other influencing factors. According to these studies, regular use of cannabis strains high in THC may decrease creative thinking skills, but cannabis’ particular effects also may depend on your personality.
High Doses Decrease Fluency, Flexibility, and Originality
Considering there’s no universally agreed-upon definition of creativity, it can be tricky for a study to effectively measure it. Rather than define creativity as a product of creative activities or as a personality type, the 2015 study from Leiden University in the Netherlands tested participants on two classic creative processes: divergent thinking, in which you come up with many solutions to a single, loosely-defined problem (otherwise known as brainstorming), and convergent thinking, when you find the single best solution to a well-defined problem. Both processes are integral to creative thinking: one helps you produce many ideas and the other helps you choose the best one.
It seems reasonable to think that smoking would increase divergent thinking, which is optimal when your dopamine levels are high (THC has been shown to increase dopamine in the brain) but that it would weaken convergent thinking, which functions better with lower levels of dopamine.
Interestingly, the study showed that using cannabis did correlate with increased signs of divergent thinking, but only to a certain point. Whereas the low dose (5.5 mg of 19% THC) was associated with a slight increase in divergent thinking traits like fluency, flexibility, and originality, the higher dose (22 mg THC) had a much stronger and opposite impact, actually decreasing divergent thinking to well below the control group’s average score. In other words, a little bit of cannabis increased creative thinking, but a high dose decreased it to below sober levels.
It’s important to note that the study focused on regular cannabis users—“regular” being defined as using marijuana at least 4 times a week for two years—which is a population known to have lower levels of dopamine. It’s possible that the effects on a less-frequent user would be different, but the chosen audience is part of what make this study an important addition to the discussion on marijuana today. As marijuana becomes more widely used for its medicinal properties, it’s important that we understand the effects of its long-term use so we can manage treatment in the healthiest way possible.
Some Use May Carry Benefits, Particularly for the Uncreative
So does cannabis really hurt creativity despite what people say? After all, plenty of individuals have reported major creative revelations on marijuana. Astrophysicist Carl Sagan, a staunch but secret cannabis advocate, wrote in his anonymous marijuana chronicles “Mr. X” that “I find that most of the insights I achieve when high are into social issues, an area of creative scholarship very different from the one I am generally known for.” In the chronicle, he details how one idea that came to him while on cannabis inspired twelve essays on the “origins and invalidities” of racism.
Individual stories like that—in which not only are creative ideas inspired but the ideas are outside of one’s field or normal realm of thinking—suggest, pretty powerfully, that cannabis can inspire creativity. Beyond personal anecdotes, other studies have shown that cannabis can increase creativity in some circumstances. It seems like the key might be the amount of marijuana you use and how creative you are naturally.
Another study from University College in London looked at the difference in divergent thinking between two groups defined as “high” or “low” creativity on a scale of creative traits. This study also used regular cannabis users (on average, participants used marijuana 15 days a month), but, this time, researchers asked that participants smoke their own marijuana at home and then perform cognitive thinking assessment, both with marijuana and when sober.
The study showed that smoking cannabis increased divergent thinking acutely in the low creativity group but less so in the high creativity group—under the effect of cannabis, the low creativity group was “as creative” as the high creativity group (compared to sober, when they scored much lower on creativity assessments). In simple terms, the study suggests that if you’re already creative, marijuana won’t make you much more creative. If you’re not creative (or in a creative rut), it may help you.
So, how can we make sense of these different results? One clue may lie in the strength of THC in the cannabis strains, which was relatively low in the British study at an average 10% THC content—almost half the strength of the marijuana in the Dutch study. And in the Dutch study, it was the “high” dose of cannabis at which participants had low creativity—with the smaller doses, their creativity increased slightly. As with the research on the effects of cannabis on depression and bipolar disorders, it seems that moderation may be the key to effectively using cannabis as a catalyst for creativity.
Psychedelics and Creativity
In a discussion about cannabis and creativity, it’s also worthwhile to bring up other psychedelics, like LSD and psilocybin, which are growing in their reputation as creativity enhancers. Namely, microdosing—taking small amounts of a psychedelic, usually around 1/25 of the amount you’d usually take—has become a popular way to enhance creativity and problem-solving skills. Unlike with cannabis, it’s pretty universally accepted among those microdosing LSD and psilocybin that a lower dose is the “sweet spot” for boosting creative functions.
Meanwhile, marijuana’s drastic increase in strength over the last few decades means that a normal strain today might average anywhere from 18 to 30 percent THC. In other words, it’s not hard to achieve what would be termed by these studies as a “high” dose. Compared to other psychedelics like LSD and psilocybin, marijuana is often seen as a more “casual” substance—people are more likely to use it daily and, due to its quick administration, it’s more likely that a smoking habit will become mentally addictive.
Results from studies like these bolster the opinion that, rather than be treated as a more casual cousin to other psychedelics, marijuana deserves just as much respect when dealing with its powerful and varied effects. As with all psychedelics, the proper use of dose, set and setting, and integration make all the difference in creating a positive, healthy experience. | <urn:uuid:105cdef6-5dae-4d0e-a118-c8caa6ec4e22> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://psychedelictimes.com/does-cannabis-increase-creativity-studies-suggest-it-depends-on-dose-personality/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.958018 | 1,553 | 2.28125 | 2 |
In computing, a ″trigger″ is described as any event that puts in motion a course of activity. For example, if you wish to take action on particular database events such as INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE or TRUNCATE, the trigger capability in PostgreSQL may be quite beneficial since it will run the needed function on the stated events as they occur.
- 1 What are PostgreSQL triggers and how do they work?
- 2 What is trigger in SQL Server?
- 3 How do I drop a trigger in PostgreSQL?
- 4 What is the default trigger time in PostgreSQL?
- 5 How do Postgres triggers work?
- 6 What is a trigger function?
- 7 How do I get triggers in PostgreSQL?
- 8 What is instead of trigger in PostgreSQL?
- 9 What is trigger on an oscilloscope?
- 10 Are Postgres triggers Atomic?
- 11 What trigger means?
- 12 What is trigger and its types?
- 13 What is trigger explain with example?
- 14 Why triggers are written?
- 15 How do you name triggers?
- 16 Which three events can activate a trigger?
- 17 What events activate a trigger in PostgreSQL?
What are PostgreSQL triggers and how do they work?
What are Postgresql Triggers and How Do They Work? When a database event happens on a database object, a PostgreSQL trigger is called. It is a function that is called automatically. Consider the case of a table. INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, and other database operations are examples of database events that can trigger a trigger.
What is trigger in SQL Server?
It is possible to create triggers that are executed automatically when a given change operation (SQL insert, update, delete, or TRUNCATE statement) is done on a specified table in a certain database. When it comes to duties such as enforcing business rules, verifying input data, and maintaining an audit trail in place, triggers are quite valuable.
How do I drop a trigger in PostgreSQL?
DELETE a PostgreSQL trigger from the database. Use the DROP TRIGGER statement to remove or otherwise deactivate a trigger. The current user must be the owner of the table for which the trigger is specified in order to be able to run this command. Syntax. DROP TRIGGER name ON table name Parameters DELETE TRIGGER name
What is the default trigger time in PostgreSQL?
The default time for the PostgreSQL trigger is one of the following: DEFERRABLE, NOT DEFERRABLE, INITIALLY IMMEDIATE, and INITIALLY DEFERRED. This will specify that the trigger will be activated just once for each row that has been influenced by trigger events for that particular row. For each statement — If we haven’t provided any rows or statements, this will be used as a fallback.
How do Postgres triggers work?
Database callback methods, such as those provided by PostgreSQL Triggers, are automatically executed or triggered when a specific database event takes place. A trigger that is tagged FOR EACH ROW is invoked once for each row that is modified as a result of the operation.
What is a trigger function?
This function retrieves the event, subevent, or name of the object or analytic workspace that caused the execution of a trigger program (that is, a TRIGGER DEFINE, TRIGGER AFTER UPDATE, or TRIGGER BEFORE UPDATE program, or any other program identified as a trigger program using the TRIGGER command) to be executed.
How do I get triggers in PostgreSQL?
List of triggers in a PostgreSQL database: everything you need to know
- Using a SQL Query as an example. If you want to see a list of all the triggers in your PostgreSQL database, you may do so here.
- Psql is being used. For example, you may list down triggers on a certain table using the psql command-line, as seen in the example below. \dS
- Using the ERBuilder Data Modeler to create a data model
What is instead of trigger in PostgreSQL?
The INSTEAD OF triggers do not support the WHEN conditional expression. Typically, row-level BEFORE triggers are used to inspect or edit the data that will be inserted or modified before it is actually inserted or updated. Examples include inserting the current time into a timestamp column or ensuring that two items in a row are constant using a BEFORE trigger, among other things.
What is trigger on an oscilloscope?
The trigger function of an oscilloscope is responsible for synchronizing the horizontal sweep at the proper point in the signal. The ability to clearly characterize signals is required for this. Stabilizing repeating waveforms and capturing single-shot waveforms are made possible by using trigger controls.
Are Postgres triggers Atomic?
The fact that the event and the trigger function are both part of the same atomic transaction means that you can be absolutely guaranteed that the trigger will be called if the event is called.
What trigger means?
Trigger 1a: to cause something to happen by pulling a trigger especially: to shoot a gun by pushing the trigger using a mechanical trigger In order to generate an explosion, a proximity fuse must be used in conjunction with a missile. 2: to cause something to happen or to occur as a result of a trigger an indiscreet remark that prompted a fight a stimulant that triggered a reaction
What is trigger and its types?
A trigger is a collection of activities that are carried out in reaction to an insert, update, or delete operation on a specific table defined by the trigger. The trigger is considered to have been engaged when such a SQL action is performed on the database. It is possible to use triggers, which are defined using the CREATE TRIGGER command.
What is trigger explain with example?
Triggered stored procedure (also known as trigger): A stored procedure in a database that is automatically invoked whenever a particular event happens in the database. In the case of inserting a row into a particular database or updating certain table fields, a trigger can be used to initiate the action.
Why triggers are written?
Triggers are constructed such that they can be executed in response to any of the events listed below. A database manipulation (DML) statement is one that manipulates a database (DELETE, INSERT, or UPDATE). A database definition (DDL) statement is a kind of SQL statement (CREATE, ALTER, or DROP). An procedure on a database (SERVERERROR, LOGON, LOGOFF, STARTUP, or SHUTDOWN).
How do you name triggers?
The following is the naming standard for triggers:
- Each trigger name should be written in the following format: ″TR__
- The prefix ″TR_″ should be used in the name of each trigger.
- Each table name and action name should begin with a capital letter, unless otherwise specified.
- If the table name is plural, it should conclude with the letter s (or the letter es) at the end of the name.
Which three events can activate a trigger?
A trigger is composed of three fundamental components: An event or phrase that sets off the chain of events. A trigger restriction is a limitation that prevents something from happening. An action that is triggered.
What events activate a trigger in PostgreSQL?
A trigger in PostgreSQL is a function that is automatically run whenever an event related with a table takes place. INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, and TRUNCATE are all possible events in a transaction. A trigger is a particular user-defined function that is connected with a table in SQL Server database. | <urn:uuid:0fdd2d1e-36ae-4ecb-8ad0-33e3c68f8a20> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://kanyakumari-info.com/useful/what-is-triggers-in-postgresql.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.877106 | 1,615 | 3.328125 | 3 |
The annual budget allocates funding so that the city can deliver services to residents and build and maintain the infrastructure that maintains a high quality of life in Beaumont. This includes the roads that get people around; the system that brings water to your home; the police, fire and bylaw enforcement services that keep our community safe; the recreation facilities and programs that keep you active; along with all the other things that make Beaumont a great place to live.
City administration prepares a draft of the budget, aligning spending priorities with Our Beaumont, Municipal Strategic Plan and other city directional plans, along with general direction from council. Council works through the draft budget and adds their changes during a series of public meetings. At the end of this process, a revised budget is presented to council for final approval. | <urn:uuid:475bbbb8-244d-43b8-b593-1250ec2e6bab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://beaumont.ab.ca/259/Budget | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.946468 | 168 | 1.78125 | 2 |
A press release from the Queensland Government notes that Bundaberg is now the rooftop solar capital of Australia. Let’s read more into solar power in north Queensland.
Bundaberg is the rooftop solar capital of Australia.
On the back of the Clean Energy Council report released today, Energy Minister Dr Anthony Lynham praised Queensland for its rapid update in solar power compared to the rest of Australia:
“Queensland fills six of the top 10 rooftop solar postcodes in Australia, by number of installations.
“And sitting at the top is Bundaberg with 12,620 installations with a capacity of 47,500kW.
“In fact, Queensland has four of the top five places with Hervey Bay at No 3, Caloundra at No 4 and Toowoomba at No 5,’’ Dr Lynham said.
Queensland’s $2b Affordable Energy Plan means that the state now has the lowest ‘typical’ household power bill of the mainland states, according to a separate press release on Dr Lynham’s site.
North Queensland solar is going really well at the moment, with the government trialling grants for landlords to install solar in Bundaberg, Gladstone and Townsville.
“Bundaberg people are embracing the financial and environmental benefits of solar,’’ Dr Lynham said.
“Queensland is leading the way on renewables as the Palaszczuk Government heads towards its target of 50 per cent renewable energy by 2030.
“Palaszczuk Government initiatives, encouraging the take-up of rooftop solar and batteries and creating an environment that has been embraced by the solar industry across the state, particularly in regional areas, is paying dividends across-the-board for Queenslanders.
“In Bundaberg seven applications for the Queensland Government’s solar-only loan package have been approved and a further 35 applications for battery assistance packages also have been approved.’’ Dr Lynham continued.
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Saturday, August 28, 2010
The Thicket, even better, the Briar Patch,is sanctuary for small feathered and furry friends, the denser the thicket, the better! If in the well ordered and cultivated garden there are periodic small thickets, especially near your windows, you will enjoy an abundance of creatures and provide a measure of safety for them! Your abundance will increase since these thickets will be home and partial larder, for the broody! It's unfortunate that the urban dweller may have more difficulty establishing the thicket since they are necessarily untidy, and the briar patch even more so, and often an affront to the scrupulous neighbors. Here,in the rural garden on Lotus Island, Mother Nature's display of thicket, can go hand in hand with that controlled effort of the Elderly Eclectic Gentleman. Mother Nature gardens in her own inestimable way and I in my trial and error fashion. The bird feeder and the bird house, while of some value, do not supplant the thicket or briar patch in meeting the needs of the creatures. In fact they may foster a culture of dependancy that is counter productive to the well being of the vulnerable. Well meaning activity on the part of animal lovers toward the wild, may expose them to more predation and disease and interfere with the survival skills in an uncertain world. This applies to us and our children as well as the fellow creatures. We hominems also need a thicket sanctuary where we can return, after we venture out. We all live in an uncertain world and need survival skills if we are innately capable, rather than handouts. Blessed assurance however, is that our thicket may still be there. Kindness is:come as close to Mother Nature as you dare! | <urn:uuid:3186747b-245f-49aa-b1b0-86f5d70627e7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://elderlyeclecticgentleman.blogspot.com/2010/08/thicket.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.950196 | 372 | 1.703125 | 2 |
The above-named, Professor of Philosophy at Bir Zeit University and a leading Palestinian figure in the Occupied Territories was arrested on 29 January 1991 and served with a six-month administrative detention order. The authorities alleged he was a leader of the Al-Fatah faction of the PLO and that he was involved in the drafting of literature inciting violence. He was also accused of gathering intelligence for the benefit of the PLO and Iraq during the Gulf crisis. Dr. Nusseibeh denied the allegations in a public statement given after his arrest. At a hearing on 3 February 1991, Dr. Nusseibeh’s detention order was reduced by three months. | <urn:uuid:cd9baaee-20a0-4db3-a8a9-c74b84caeef1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.amnesty.org/fr/documents/MDE15/012/1991/en/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.984273 | 136 | 2.03125 | 2 |
What is Triple Complex Sleep Tonic?
Triple Complex Sleep Tonic contains Calcium Sulphate, Magnesium Phosphate and Calcium Phosphate and can help to restore healthy sleep patterns naturally.
Triple Complex Sleep Tonic helps the body relax and produce all the hormones essential for healthy sleep.
Best of all, Triple Complex Sleep Tonic is safe for everyone, including pregnant and nursing women, children, small babies and people on other prescription drugs.
What are Tissue Salts?
Tissue Salts, also called cell salts or biochemic salts, are composed of Minerals which occur naturally in our bodies and all organic matter on earth, such as plants, rocks and soil.
Dr Scheussler, a prominent 19th Century German doctor, conducted research which demonstrated that, when reduced to ashes, each human cell contains 12 Minerals or biochemic tissue salts and that these Minerals should be present in all living cells in perfect balance to ensure good health.
Imbalance, or a deficiency of any of the tissue salts, causes disease and the body begins to develop symptoms associated with the tissue salts that are lacking.
Restoring the correct balance of tissue salts in the body will therefore remove the symptoms and restore health and vitality.
This system of medicine is called Biochemistry and is still practiced today by homeopaths and naturopaths all over the world.
Are tissue salts Supplements or medicine?
A little of both in a way! Tissue salts can be described as ‘Nutroceuticals’ - nutritional substances which are used to maintain optimal health and functioning and also to restore balance and relieve symptoms of disease.
Tissue Salts can therefore be taken regularly to prevent illness and improve functioning (just like Vitamins), but can also be used to treat symptoms when this is necessary (as one would do with medicines).
The only difference is that they are taken more frequently to treat symptoms and less frequently as a preventative and a health aid.
As an example, certain tissue salts can be taken three times a day to promote digestive health. However, if symptoms like indigestion, gas, nausea or bloating occur, the frequency can be increased too.
If tissue salts are also nutritional, can I get them from a healthy diet?
Yes, in theory you can - and that is how it is supposed to be! Since the 12 different tissue salts are present in all organic matter, our bodies obtain tissue salts from the food that we eat and the water that we drink.
A healthy diet should be able to provide all the tissue salts that our bodies need. Unfortunately, due to modern farming methods, the food that is available to us is often deficient in the Minerals and Vitamins that are essential for health - even if we follow a healthy diet.
Added to this is the fact that many people rely on fast food or pre-packed processed meals due to time constraints and a stressful lifestyle.
Over time, this can lead to symptoms of poor health or even disease. This means that the majority of people in Western countries are deficient in essential Vitamins and other nutritional substances, and need to take Supplements on a daily basis.
Are tissue salts safe?
Even some Vitamins taken in excess can do harm! Not so with Tissue Salts.
Due to a unique and specialized manufacturing process, our tissue salts are present in a highly absorbable form and only minute amounts are therefore present in each tablet.
This means that tissue salts are extremely safe and free of side effects.
It is impossible to overdose with tissue salts and they may be safely be taken by people of all ages, as well as infants and women who are pregnant or nursing.
How has Triple Complex Sleep Tonic helped others?
“Thanks to your Sleep Tonic, my nights of lying awake are over! I have a heart condition and cannot take anything else - so you can imagine how glad I was to find something that works so well and which also does not interact with my heart medication!” Sheila.
“I took your Triple Complex Sleep Tonic while I was pregnant and have continued ever since because it really helps me to sleep well. I have also used it in a little bit of warm water for my baby and for my three year old son, who have both inherited the family insomnia and find that they sleep soundly. It is truly wonderful to find a product which does so much good without the risks attached to the drugs that are usually prescribed!” Lindi B.
How do I take Triple Complex Sleep Tonic?
Tissue salts are easy to take! For everyday use, simply place the tiny tablets under your tongue and allow to dissolve. They are pleasant tasting and even children love to take them! For babies and smaller children, the tablets can be crushed and sprinkled on the tongue or mixed in a little warm water.
As a preventative or part of a maintenance program - dissolve 2 - 4 tablets under the tongue in a clean mouth three times a day.
For symptomatic treatment - dissolve 2 - 4 tablets under the tongue up to six times daily.
Babies and toddlers: Dissolve 1 - 2 tablets in a little warm milk or water. May be added to the night time bottle.
How long till I see results?
People can differ widely in their response times to Tissue Salts depending on individual makeup, severity of symptoms, lifestyle, diet, etc.
Some may experience symptomatic relief within days, while others can take up to 6 weeks before an effect is felt.
Often, as in the case of all good tonics, a gradual improvement is felt over time.
How long does a bottle last?
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AIXTRON SE announced that AIXTRON Ltd, a subsidiary of AIXTRON SE, will deliver a deposition system from their Close Coupled Showerhead® Metal-Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (CCS® MOCVD) product range for compound semiconductor materials to the Boise State University. The CCS® 3x2 is an essential part of an infrastructure expansion awarded to Boise State University. The AIXTRON CCS 3x2 being delivered to Boise has a capacity of 3x2” wafers. The system will have a maximum operating temperature of 1400 C which will enable the deposition of graphene and hBN on sapphire as well as novel structures for GaN-based UV LED’s. Equipped with a wide variety of metal-organic and gas channels the system will enable Boise State University to deposit the most advanced 2D materials. In addition, the system includes AIXTRON’s proprietary ARGUS and EPISON in-situ metrology technologies which are proven key enablers for the uniform, repeatable wafer scale growth of 2D materials. With help of the CCS 3x2 Boise State aims to enable up-to-date manufacturing of advanced flexible hybrid electronics using 2D-3D heterostructures. The goal is to use the AIXTRON system to research and overcome the challenges of large-scale synthesis and integration of 2D materials into full semiconductor device process flows. The AIXTRON CCS 3x2 tool is expected to be the only system at a U.S. university dedicated and configured for wafer scale 2D and Nitride-based compound semiconductor growth. It will prepare the future semiconductor workforce at the undergraduate and graduate levels for the U.S. based semiconductor industry. In close cooperation with AIXTRON, the Boise State research team will leverage unique material properties, artificial intelligence algorithms and trailblazing microfabrication techniques for the creation of novel technologies that will drive future applications. | <urn:uuid:df03cc69-5861-4fd4-84d4-7839640c5c36> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/AIXTRON-SE-3975874/news/AIXTRON-SE-s-Subsidiary-AIXTRON-Ltd-Provides-Key-Deposition-Equipment-for-Advanced-Research-to-Micro-40465449/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.90765 | 417 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Wells Fargo recently revealed that new checking account openings have dropped by 43% year-on-year and new credit card applications have plunged by an even greater amount – 55%.
According to some observers, dealing with the fallout from this scandal represents perhaps the biggest challenge the bank has faced since it was founded in 1852. Ironically, the scandal could have been avoided if the company had heeded the advice of its largest shareholder, Warren Buffett. The legendary investor famously once stated, “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”
Now faced with the task of rebuilding its reputation, Wells Fargo has unveiled a new brand platform dubbed Building Better Every Day.
According to Jamie Moldafsky, Wells Fargo’s CMO, “Our research clearly shows our customers are ready to hear a different message from us, and the ‘Building Better Every Day’ platform behind this advertising came directly from the research results. In addition to showing our customers how we are building a better bank – fixing things, and making them right – this effort is focused on how we are helping customers achieve their financial goals.”
The Building Better Every Day platform will rely on marketing across virtually all channels, including digital, television, print, radio and billboard. It aims to highlight how Wells Fargo is helping customers through “customer-centric” technological innovation, guidance and personalized service, security and community involvement.
Phil Wang, a marketing manager who was involved in the platform’s development, says that the ads will focus a lot on interactions between Wells Fargo and its customers. “Team members are front and center in these spots, and portrayed as helping customers in a way that’s in keeping with our vision and values.”
To hammer home the bank’s commitment to the diverse communities it has a presence in, Wells Fargo is even creating ads for specific audiences in other languages, including Mandarin, Cantonese and Spanish.
All of this sounds like a textbook plan from a marketing perspective, but will Wells Fargo’s new brand platform really heal the damage caused by its scandal?
There are reasons to be skeptical because not only was the scandal itself really, really ugly in nature, the timing couldn’t have been worse for the banking behemoth.
First, big banks are among consumers’ least favorite institutions today thanks in large part to the financial crisis of 2008, which was widely blamed on out-of-control financial institutions. While Wells Fargo had the most pristine reputation of any big bank following the crisis, having emerged from the Great Recession largely unscathed, the unauthorized account scandal plays right into Wall Street critics’ argument that big banks are out of control and simply can’t be trusted.
Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, banks find themselves under attack from fintech startups that are attempting to disrupt their business models. From consumer, business and mortgage lending to brokerage services and everything in between, many of the financial services that consumers used to obtain from the bank where they kept their checking and savings accounts are increasingly acquired through standalone non-bank service providers in an unbundled fashion. By some estimates, this could soon cost established financial institutions a quarter of their revenue.
In fact, that Wells Fargo employees were opening unauthorized accounts to meet aggressive sales quotas hints that it is increasingly difficult for banks to successfully cross-sell to their customers in the age of unbundling.
Unfortunately for Wells Fargo, the damage caused by the actions of thousands of its employees probably won’t be undone with a new brand platform and an aggressive and expensive marketing campaign. While it’s not too soon for the bank to start employing marketing in an effort to re-engage consumers, ultimately Wells Fargo will probably have to accept that the old Buffett nugget of wisdom is pretty accurate. | <urn:uuid:a626fba8-f5c0-4ba7-9d7b-850ee102abf1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://econsultancy.com/can-wells-fargo-s-new-brand-platform-help-it-restore-consumer-trust/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.967884 | 801 | 1.5625 | 2 |
The edible basidiomycete mushroom Agaricus bisporus is found in grasslands throughout Europe and North America. While immature, it has two color states: white and brown, all of which have different names, with additional names for the adult state.
This mushroom is also called as common mushroom, white mushroom, button mushroom, cultivated mushroom, table mushroom, and champignon mushroom when it is young and white (or simply champignon). It’s also known as Swiss brown mushroom, Roman brown mushroom, Italian brown mushroom, cremini/crimini mushroom, chestnut mushroom (not to be confused with Pholiota adiposa), and baby bella when it’s juvenile and brown.
Portobello mushrooms (often known simply as “portobellos”) are mature white button mushrooms that belong to the fungus family. Not only are portobellos inexpensive in calories and a terrific meat substitute in dishes, but they’re also high in phytochemicals like L-ergothioneine and conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), which have cancer-fighting and anti-aging characteristics. Mushrooms scavenge organic stuff since they are fungi, which means they grow by collecting nutrients from the ground and decomposing matter.for example, wood or even manure This causes them to become extremely nutrient-dense, and when consumed by humans, these nutrients aid in the elimination of toxins from the body and the scavenging of disease-causing free radicals.
May Assist in Cancer Prevention
Antioxidants and natural anti-inflammatories are present.
Suitable as a Meat Substitute
B Vitamins are abundant in this food.
Copper and Selenium are provided.
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Poster: Biology & Disease Mgmt: Bacteriology
Development of green fluorescent protein-expressing Xanthomonas gardneri strains to study tomato infection processes
F. ROTONDO (1) (1) The Ohio State University, U.S.A.
Bacterial leaf spot (BLS) is a serious disease of tomato, causing millions of dollars in losses worldwide. While BLS is associated with several species of Xanthomonas, X. gardneri is the predominant species in Ohio where it causes severe damage to processing and fresh market tomatoes. To improve our understanding of BLS disease development, two green fluorescent protein (GFP)-labeled X. gardneri strains were developed to study colonization in planta. Wild-type X. gardneri strains SM605-2011 and SM775-2012 were isolated from tomatoes produced in Ohio. Each strain was transformed by electroporation utilizing a GFP-expressing kanamycin/tetracycline-resistant plasmid, CGT46339. Overall, transformation efficiency for this system was low, approaching 102 CFU/ug DNA. Two GFP-expressing transformants, SM605-2011gfp and SM775-2012gfp, were evaluated against their wild-type counterparts for growth in vitro. No significant differences were observed based on optical density measurements (Permutation test, p>0.05), and both reached the stationary phase at 1.8 OD600 and 109 CFU/ml. Stability of the GFP marker and virulence of the transformed strains will be determined. These strains will be used to study leaf, fruit and seed infection using confocal microscopy (Leica TCS SP5). The transformed strains will be a powerful tool to visualize infection processes and provide critical information for disease management. | <urn:uuid:0745ada9-4293-4f9b-8382-3b7e771e6e41> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.apsnet.org/meetings/Documents/2016_meeting_abstracts/aps2016_472.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.902395 | 378 | 2.296875 | 2 |
This week was the fifth week of our annual Bucket Calf Project, where kids in our local community head to our farm at the beginning of the summer to choose a calf that they will take care of and call their "own" for the next seven weeks. This week, the kids learned about our milking parlor, where our cows give us the delicious A2/A2 organic milk that we bottle and sell.
For the first half hour of each meeting, the kids practice leading their calves on a halter in Blake and Stephanie’s yard across from the dairy. Everyone groups together by the breed of the calves. At week five out of seven, the kids are getting pretty great at working with their calves!
They have also developed confidence in themselves while working with their calves, and have a respect for and a relationship with the animal. You can see the confidence growing in the calves as well. This kind of human interaction at a young age greatly benefits the calves when they mature into adulthood and become a dairy cow, working directly with humans every day.
After practicing leading their calves around the perimeter of the yard, the kids re-grouped outside of the milking parlor to hear about the milking process. Last week, they learned that when a herd of cows finishes grazing in a field, they head to the freestall barns where they relax and are given the opportunity to enjoy a supplemental feed ration that, in addition to the endless pasture, rounds out their diet and helps them produce nutrient-dense milk. After about two hours, the cows line up to head into the milking parlor.
Each of our dairy cows are milked twice per day, approximately every 12 hours, and at the same times each day. Herd animals prefer to operate on a regular schedule, and the cows know when it is time to leave pasture to be milked.
The cows line up 32 cows at a time at the milking machines. First, their teats are sanitized and wiped clean. Then, the milking attendant briefly milks each cow by hand to check on the consistency of the milk to ensure it is up to par for bottling.
Next, it's time to be milked! The milker connects the machine suction cups to each of the cows four teats and for 5-6 minutes – to empty the udder - the milk is pumped out with gentle squeezes (similar to the pressure of hand-milking).
The kids loved watching the process of the cows being milked. After the milking parlor, the kids head to the room with the holding tanks for the milk, and along the way, learn about how the milk flows from the parlor to the tanks through metal pipes that run along the ceiling.
Multiple times a day, milk tanker trucks pull up outside of the tank room and hook up to the tanks to receive the milk. These trucks are temperature controlled and deliver the fresh milk to our creamery in San Leandro, CA, where it is processed and bottled before being shipped out to distributors and then retailers.
And that leads us to the next step: getting our milk from the store to your refrigerator. Next week, the kids will learn about the business of selling milk and eggs, and how branding and sales come into play. | <urn:uuid:6dc1fc4d-c9f8-4e3d-842e-0d6e9509497a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://alexandrefamilyfarm.com/blogs/blog/bucket-calf-project-2022-week-5-the-milking-parlor | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.963795 | 677 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Not so fast. There is some bad news, too. On balance, it appears that the US banking system has a long way to go to be fully healthy. Here are some of the negatives:
- Bank lending activity has not increased since the inception of TARP in October, 2008. In fact, by some measures lending has declined.
- Bank profits are coming from trading activities, not from lending. This limits the positive spillover from Wall Street to Main Street.
- Banks point out that one reason they are not lending more is that lending remains risky in a weak economy. This argument seems justified at least in part. For example, the percentage of nonperforming loans continues to rise, especially at the largest banks.
- The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) reports that the number and size of problem banks continues to increase. "Problem banks" are those that have received low marks on regulatory reviews, even though they remain solvent for the time being.
Some critics believe that banks should not have been allowed to repay TARP funds so soon. They say that the primary motive for early repayments is the desire to escape government limits on bonuses for top executives and traders. Early repayment may come at the expense of shareholder value, and failure to rebuild capital could lead to the need for more bailouts in the future.
To download a free set of PowerPoint slides summarizing these points, click on this link. If you find the slides useful for your course, please post a comment! | <urn:uuid:d03e5ef5-beec-4185-b2a5-da39bfc9e458> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://dolanecon.blogspot.com/2009/12/how-healthy-are-us-banks.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.955386 | 303 | 2.140625 | 2 |
I ran into a former student the other day. She said, “You heard that Tom abandoned me in the practice, didn’t you?”
“No,” I replied. “I hadn’t heard a word. What happened?”
“He just decided to leave. I am so mad at him I could kill him. I’ll never forgive him!”
Clearly, my student was not in a forgiving mood, which is a common condition when people are in conflict. The conversation got me thinking about forgiveness in the context of neuropsychology.
The perception of injury to our self, which is injustice, has several parts: (1) a sense of self; (2) an ability to evaluate the behavior of others as being injurious or beneficial; and (3) memory of the event to link that injury to the offending person.
Our sense of self originates in the abstractive cognitive operator located in the inferior parietal lobule of the brain. The inferior parietal lobule is richly connected to the limbic system. The limbic system is the part of the brain primarily involved in creating, expressing, and controlling emotion.
We tend to perceive ourselves in a grander manner than we perceive others because, out of self-protection, we must perceive, analyze, and evaluate all experiences regarding self. Thus, we are highly sensitive to others’ perceptions and our own perceptions about our self. From an evolutionary perspective, without this sensitivity, we would be less interested in protecting our self and thus not as likely to survive in difficult, challenging environments.
The second part of injustice is the notion of conspecific congruence. Basically, we expect to be treated fairly and equally by those who we perceive as our equals (our conspecifics). Along with hierarchical ordering, conspecific congruence is one of the more powerful psychosocial forces creating the structure, relationships, and roles within social groups. Hierarchical ordering is vertical, while conspecific congruence is horizontal. Both always seem to be present to some degree in all stable human social groups.
Conspecific congruence probably developed out of the structures in the brain that underlie the ability to form classes of groups with perceived similarities. This would be a combination of the reductionistic, quantifying, and binary cognitive operators.
Conspecific congruence is asserted when all members behave to maintain social balance within a group. In other words, we are always monitoring the group environment to be sure we are being treated and are treating others fairly and respectfully. We also utilize conspecific congruence to evaluate the behaviors of others. A positive change in conspecific congruence occurs with kindness or a favor, with the consequent obligation to return it to balance the incongruence. A negative change in congruence is perceived as an attack on self. A desire for revenge is generated to restore the congruence.
Revenge is related to self-preservation. It requires a sense of self and the internal drive to equalize incongruence between others. Thus, when a person is hurt, he or she experiences a strong impulse to return the hurt and bring the incongruence into balance. Revenge behavior also requires long-term memory. One has to be able to hold an offense in memory to carry out a future action to balance the incongruence.
The revenge-complex is based on a number of brain structures related to each other in complex neural networks. For example, the evolution of long-term memory arose from the development of the hippocampal-amygdalar memory system. Revenge behavior is poorly controlled by the brain because it originates in ancient subcortical structures not controlled by rational thinking. Thus, revenge can easily lapse into an excessive mutual retaliation owing to an excessive evaluation of self, with the consequent miscalculation of what is needed to restore equilibrium.
Serious and intractable conflicts arise when, out of an exalted sense of self injury, the victim seeks excessive revenge. The offender, whose exalted sense of self feels attacked, retaliates with even more zeal. Such a neuropsychological system, if unchecked, could lead to social chaos. Forgiveness therefore evolved as a means of checking uncontrolled escalation by eliminating bellicosity in one’s opponent. In addition, forgiveness has the unique effect of generating warm feelings for the victim from observers not involved in the conflict. This can have remarkably profound social consequences. To the extent that observers sincerely support the victim’s forgiveness, attachment mechanisms in the victim’s brain are activated to reduce the desire for revenge.
In peacemaking, finding appropriate justice can be challenging. However, more often than not, when given the opportunity, people demonstrate an amazing capacity for compassion and forgiveness. In these moments, the beauty of the human spirit is revealed to all.
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The Kelantan government plans to enact a law that prohibits the use of electronic cigarettes (vapes) among the state’s young, aged 17 and below.
State Local Government, Housing and Health Committee chairman, Dr Izani Husin said the proposed ban would specifically apply to those born on Jan 1, 2005 and thereafter.
However, he said, the matter was still at the proposal stage and the state government would be tabling it via a working paper at the coming Parliament sitting.
“Yesterday, the Ministry of Health had tabled a working paper on the effects of smoking cigarettes and vaping.
“There are those among the public who think that electronic cigarettes are not dangerous to health and that the side effects are milder than smoking the normal cigarettes but the fact is, the nicotine content of vapes are more dangerous,” he told reporters after attending a State Executive Council meeting, here, today.
Dr Izani said the state government was very concerned and worried about the increasingly rampant use of vapes, especially among women and primary schoolchildren.
“We’ve found out that some of the vape users are as young as 10 years old, while its use among women is increasing. Therefore, I urge that parents monitor their children towards preventing them from using vapes.
“In Kelantan, we (state government) do not issue licences for the electronic cigarette business while we also do not have the power to prevent the people from vaping as those selling vapes in the market, do so without a licence or via online,” he added.
On another development, Dr Izani urged the people of Kelantan to be wise by adhering to the standard operating procedures (SOP) in the new normal, especially upon the country entering the transition to the COVID-19 endemic phase.
“We urge that those with symptoms like a sore throat, fever and so on to not go to public places or attend any family gatherings. The state government is worried that COVID-19 daily cases could spike if the people flout the SOP set,” he said. | <urn:uuid:acb19958-07b7-47db-b18f-d9756c950919> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tdpelmedia.com/general-kelantan-plans-to-enact-law-to-prevent-use-of-vapes-among-the-young | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.957195 | 437 | 1.945313 | 2 |
The simple conjuring trick in Figure 1 is intended to provide some enjoyment for the beginner in electronics or conjuring, and should take only an hour or two to build.
The trick works as follows: a wand (with a magnet mounted in one end) must pass in a 1-2-3 sequence over reed switches S4 to S6 before the bulb LP1 will light. If the wand passes over reed switches S1, S2, or S3, the 1-2-3 sequence will be reset (that is, cancelled). Or, if the bulb is already burning, the activation of reed switches S1, S2, or S3 will extinguish it.
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Sisi receives Josep Borrell, the European Union’s high representative for foreign affairs - Press photo
CAIRO – 3 September 2020: President Abdel Fattah El Sisi reiterated Egypt’s unchangeable stance on supporting a political solution in Libya, away from foreign intervention and armed militias, as he received on Thursday Josep Borrell, the European Union’s high representative for foreign affairs, the Egyptian Presidency said.
Sisi affirmed that Egypt welcomes all constructive and positive steps that would lead to peaceful settlement, de-escalation and development in Libya. He also stressed Egypt’s support to international efforts in this regard, including backing all international envoys to Libya, relevant international conferences such as the Berlin Conference earlier this year and the Cairo Declaration calling for ceasefire and dismissing foreign fighters from Libya.
Borrell highlighted the importance the EU attaches to Egypt’s pivotal role aiming to achieve balance in the Libyan issue. He also lauded Egyptian efforts to tackle regional challenges that affect the security and stability of the countries of the Mediterranean, including hosting millions of refugees, combating illegal immigration, terrorism and extremism and bringing peace to the Middle East.
The meeting was attended also by Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and EU Ambassador to Egypt Christian Berger.
Sisi and Borrell also discussed the peace process in the Middle East and agreed on the need to push forward joint international work toward resuming negotiations between the Palestinian and Israeli sides, with the aim of reaching a fair and comprehensive settlement to the Palestinian issue, in accordance with international references.
For his part, Borrell hailed the continuous Egyptian efforts to deal with tensions between the Palestinian and Israeli sides regarding Gaza Strip.
Concerning the dispute on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Sisi affirmed Egypt’s adherence to its water rights, through reaching an international, binding and balanced agreement that states clear rules for the process of filling and operating the massive dam and achieves mutual interests of all parties.
The president affirmed paramount importance of the water issue for Egypt, as it mainly touches the Egyptian national security.
Sisi in August welcomed a cease-fire initiative declared by Libyan Speaker of the House of Representatives Aguila Saleh and head of the Presidency Council Fayez Al-Sarraj, as a way for the departure of all mercenaries in Libya.
"I welcome all statements issued by the Presidential Council and the House of Representatives in Libya to reach a ceasefire and stop military operations in all Libyan territories, as this is an important step on the road to achieving a political settlement and the aspirations of the Libyan people to restore stability and prosperity in Libya," Sisi tweeted.
To know more about Egyptian efforts to resolve the crisis in Libya, you can read:
CAIRO - 20 July 2020: The Egyptian House of Representatives has authorized President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to "take necessary measures" to protect national security, giving a green light for the president to send troops to Libya. This came in a closed Monday session on protecting the Egyptian and Libyan national security against terror threats. | <urn:uuid:1b72a3c3-bcea-49d6-9c5c-174a7be4c9b1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/91595/Sisi-affirms-supporting-political-solution-in-Libya-as-he-receives | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.933687 | 661 | 1.617188 | 2 |
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IRS Proposes New Regulations Penalizing Non-Compliance of ObamacareTax Professionals' Resource
February 6, 2014 — 2,017 views
The much talked about Obamacare mandate finally came into effect on January 1. Now the IRS has proposed regulations that govern penalties in case individuals do not comply with it. The tax-collection agency has been given the task of enforcing these regulations.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) the 2010 legislation, more popularly known as “Obamacare”, made it mandatory for individuals to get “minimum essential health insurance”, in case they didn't have it already. On failing to acquire minimum essential health insurance, they will be mildly penalized initially, but it can get stricter in the next few years. Minimum health insurance coverage can be defined as health insurance under:
- Government- sponsored coverage plans
- Employer-sponsored coverage plans
- Individual marketplace plans
- Grandfathered insurance coverage plans
- Other health benefits recognized by Secretary of Health and Human Services
For the year 2014, an individual should bear a penalty of $95 (individuals under 18 bear a penalty of $47.50), which almost accounts to about 1 percent of the household income. A family can bear a maximum penalty of $285. The fee increases in 2015, to $325 per individual, $162.5 for under 18's and $975 for a family, which accounts to 2 percent of the household income. In 2016, the fee rises to $695 per individual, with 42,085 for families, that is 2.5 percent of the household income. Post 2016, the fees climb further up to inflation rates. If an individual is uninsured only for a certain portion of a year, he or she will be liable to a penalty that is one-twelfth the annual penalty, per month.
Although individuals don't have to pay the fee if they are uninsured for under three months, individuals can avoid being penalized by enrolling before March 31, 2013. Which means, if you enroll for a plan on March 31, and your coverage comes into play from May or June, you won't be penalized for the preceding months in 2014.
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China is the world’s largest importer of commodities. Number one oil importer. Number one iron ore importer. Number one copper importer.
When commodity prices fell sharply in 2014, it was easy to find evidence of its balance of payments impact. Saudi Arabia swung into current account deficit. The Russian ruble fell sharply. Brazil sunk into a deep recession. Global trade fell, as emerging markets cut back on their imports.
The terms of trade shock was showing up pretty everywhere one would expect—except in China’s current account balance.
That was the dog that didn’t bark. At least not as loudly as expected.
China’s current account surplus didn’t rise by anywhere near as much as China’s goods balance.* The reason, it turned out, was that China revised its methodology for calculating tourism imports, and the tourism deficit (travel in the balance of payments) soared, partially offsetting a growing goods surplus.
In a new working paper, Anna Wong of the Federal Reserve Board’s international staff shows China’s current account surplus likely did jump by more than reported in 2014 and 2015.
China’s pre-2015 methodology seems to have undercounted China’s tourism imports. It thus slightly overstated China’s 2003 to 2013 current account surplus. But China’s post-2014 methodology almost certainly overstates China’s tourism imports (and its overall travel deficit). It thus understates China's true current account surplus.
China changed its methodology again this year (see appendix A of the Anna Wong paper, there are charts comparing the 2015 and 2017 revisions). It now overcounts tourism imports by a bit less, but it also seems to be undercounting tourism exports rather significantly. Go figure. The net impact on the current account hasn’t changed much.
Full disclosure: Anna and I used to work together at the Treasury, so I am not surprised by her results. Anna though has gone way beyond simply looking at China’s partner data, and seeing if China’s reported imports line up with the tourism exports of China’s trading partners (they don’t). She calculated a gravity model of tourism trade. She estimated “norms” for tourism imports for a given level of development (higher income means more tourism spending) and then used those norms to estimate the deficit that should be associated with given number of tourists. And so on.
All three of her methodologies imply that China is now overstating its tourism imports. And all three imply China’s tourism deficit is probably overstated by just under a percentage point of GDP.
With more reasonable tourism imports—imports in line with past trends rather than the 100% year-over-year growth now in the 2014 data—China’s current account surplus likely rose to around 4% of GDP back in 2015.
See figure 18 on pg. 57 of Anna Wong’s paper:
China’s current account surplus subsequently has fallen a bit, for real I think: the credit stimulus and the lagged impact of the yuan’s 2014 and 2015 appreciation combined to bring down the 2016 surplus—though Anna’s model suggests the surplus remains a bit higher than officially reported.
There is a bigger point here. A large share of the post-crisis adjustment in China’s current account surplus has come from two hard-to-verify components of the current account, not from an adjustment in China’s goods balance. Much of the adjustment is in what the British used to call “invisibles”: tourism and the income balance. And in both cases, a portion of the adjustment comes from methodological changes in how China counts its current account surplus—the income balance was revised to count the profits that foreign firms earn in China and reinvest in China a few years back.
Now, the new numbers are not necessarily wrong.
Foreign firms do make profits in China, and do reinvest them. Counting these profits in the current account and adding an offsetting imputed financial account inflow is international best practice. But since no money actually crosses a border if profits from China are retained and reinvested in China, the numbers are hard to verify.
The income balance also includes the interest China gets on its reserves, and those numbers do check out: China now gets significantly less interest income on its foreign reserves than it did in 2007 or 2008. Treasury and bund yields are down.
But, as Anna shows, the tourism numbers do not really check out. To be clear, there is no doubt that a rising number of Chinese outward tourists has led to a rise in China’s tourism imports. The trend isn’t in question—just the level.**
And, well, the “true” size of China’s current account surplus matters.
If China’s current account (savings) surplus is “too big” right now (the “norm” for China that the IMF calculated in the past implies China should be in rough balance on its current account) the IMF arguably should be a bit more cautious in recommending that China introduce surplus enhancing policies—notably fiscal consolidation. And a bit more aggressive in calling for China to adopt policies that might bring its surplus down. Here the signs are good, the IMF’s concluding statement put new emphasis on strengthening China’s system of social insurance.
And obviously the size of the current account deficit is one of three criteria that the U.S. Treasury’s looks at when evaluating whether a country is “manipulating its currency”—and more generally for examining whether countries are impeding global balance of payments adjustment. Even if China’s true current account surplus exceeded the three percent threshold, China clearly didn’t meet the reserve growth criteria in 2015 and 2016. Anna’s calculations imply a bigger current account surplus—and so they also imply more private financial outflows. They don’t change the fact that China was selling its reserves in 2015 and 2016. China still would not have met all three of the criteria set out in the Bennet amendment (see this post).***
But the mechanical application of the three percent of GDP current account threshold—and the two percent of GDP reserve growth standard—could nonetheless be a problem.
The size of a country’s current account surplus depends, to a degree, on how it chooses to measure its surplus.
And the size of a country’s foreign exchange reserves also depends significantly on what a country chooses to count as reserves, and what gets hived off to a sovereign fund or a development bank. It also isn’t always clear-cut.
Focusing on simple thresholds has the obvious appeal of appearing to take politics out of any determination, but the new methodology isn’t fail-safe.
*/ The gap is a bit less apparent now than it was before the latest round of revisions to China’s current account numbers. China is constantly (it seems) adjusting its numbers.
**/ One small aside: as tourism numbers rise, spending per tourist sometimes falls, as first time travelers are often on a budget—the dynamics turn out to be complicated.
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How Sensitivity Readers Can Improve Your Work | Lex Academic Blog
A sensitivity reader resembles a maritime pilot, manoeuvring a writer through unfamiliar waters, helping them hone their language with the benefit of someone who knows the local reefs, rocks and shallows. As a specialist kind of editor, they might highlight racial profiling, stereotyping, ableism, and unwitting cultural appropriation, offering the benefit of their lived experience along with professional editorial expertise.
Writers and publishers are split on the merit of sensitivity readers. Do they offer valuable perspectives, helping writers to avoid causing offence? Or do they represent a kind of censorship? The issue of language and its policing is contentious, but it is misguided to characterise sensitivity readers solely in political terms. Sensitivity readers offer a way for us to discuss our language, take its significance seriously, and to respect the people we write for as well as the stake they have in our words.
Trade publishers were the first to employ sensitivity readers, ostensibly to give writers the benefit of traditionally marginalised perspectives (or, more cynically, to defend publishers and writers from Twitter mobs). Some authors have embraced this attention. In 2016, for instance, Keira Drake’s young adult novel, The Continent, was derided on Twitter as ‘racist trash’. Embarrassed and ashamed, the author admitted her critics were right. She and her publishers sent the book to four sensitivity readers. Descriptions of ‘natives’ and ‘primitive’ people with ‘almond-shaped eyes’ were picked up as racist and inappropriate, as were other racist stereotypes colouring the fictional tribes of her world. And she built her story around a white girl who saved the ‘savages’. According to an article she wrote in the New York Times, her sensitivity readers suggested changes she was humble enough to take on board.
A second author, Kate Clanchy, had her work reviewed by a series of sensitivity readers more recently, in 2021. Her memoir Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me, was initially well received. She even won the prestigious Orwell prize. After a while, reviewers on Goodreads began to accuse Clanchy of racism, which spilled over onto Twitter and gained momentum from there. Clanchy was asked to revisit her work, and went willingly into the process. But her editors’ comments, she thought, threatened to flatten her work, remove nuance, and bowdlerise her deliberately imperfect literary creations. Between them, readers would praise and criticise the same passages, contradicting one another. Clanchy decided to utterly reject their edits.
Dropped by her publisher, Clanchy was further vilified online. And Drake now faced attacks from two sides. One set of tweeters insisted she and her work were fundamentally racist and unfixable, and that she should commit suicide. Another set wrote her off as spineless for capitulating to ‘politically correct censorship’. Both women took reasonable positions in what reads like cynical attempts for publishers to appease internet trolls. As the scholar Debbie Reese points out, in a politically charged literary world, a publishing behemoth might use a sensitivity reader as a shield.
To properly consider sensitivity readers, we must move beyond the over-simplified discussions in mainstream media – discussions that are really more about publishers and people on Twitter than the writers and sensitivity readers themselves. Whatever our discipline, we are in the business of creating, framing, and communicating knowledge, of inventing significance and making meaning – aspects of our writing and scholarship that deserve the specialist attention a sensitivity reader can give.
The social semiotician Gunther Kress, working with the surgeon Roger Kneebone, coined the term ‘reciprocal illumination’ to encapsulate the relationships that might flower from our attempts to engage with audiences. When we speak of ‘engagement’, in other words, we should not simply think or ourselves as transmitting knowledge to passive recipients. We rather have a responsibility to engage our many publics in conversation. As educators, researchers and even storytellers, we have a duty of care to our readers – a relationship that goes well beyond the imperative not to offend our interlocutors. Sensitivity reading, in this context, helps us to pitch our work as part of a meaningful conversation, as opposed to shouting into the void; making connections between people and ideas as opposed to defending ourselves from their attacks, real or imagined.
Managed well, these conversations should lead to a mature and informed discussion about language. For her book The Facemaker, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris employed a sensitivity reader. The Facemaker tells the story of the surgeon Harold Gillies, the reconstructive surgery he pioneered during the First World War, and the soldiers whose lives he worked tirelessly to improve. As with Drake and Clanchy, Fitzharris was encouraged to adjust her language – using ‘typical’, rather than ‘normal’, for instance – and she fine-tuned her manuscript accordingly. But the value of the author–sensitivity reader relationship came from the changes in perspective that lifted her work, improving her scholarship.
Describing the horrific facial injuries sustained by the participants in early mechanised warfare, Fitzharris used the term ‘facial disfigurement’. This led to a valuable conversation about her words and how, as a professional historian, she might responsibly deploy them. ‘Disfigured’ is a negative expression, indicating a kind of disgust. A face disfigured is a face no longer complete, a broken human being – a sentiment reflected in the contemporaneous French expression les gueules cassées (‘the broken faces’) or German equivalent das Gesichts entstellten (‘the twisted faces’). Some might, her sensitivity reader suggested, be offended by the term ‘disfigured’. Perhaps ‘facial difference’ might be substituted. ‘Disfigured’, however, reflects the historical relationship Gillies’s patients had with the world – a society that went out of their way to hide them from view, that instructed them to work in the back of shops, to sit on the blue benches so others could easily avert their eyes.
Author and sensitivity reader arrived at a joint position and Fitzharris opted to use the term ‘disfigured’ despite its potential to offend – because it touches us in uncomfortable ways. As readers, we have to feel that discomfort, and come to terms with the way our society treated those with facial differences. Her sensitivity reader helped Fitzharris engage with this point, maximise its impact, and respectfully weave it into the tapestry of her book.
In other places, her sensitivity reader helped change Fitzharris’s perspective. Gillies imposed a mirror ban, which Fitzharris initially interpreted positively – the ban protected these men from the trauma of seeing their mangled features. But her sensitivity reader encouraged her to also think about how such a ban would have inadvertently made ‘disfigured’ patients feel that their faces were not worth looking at, or too horrific to contemplate. Such attention to detail requires more than lived experience.
The relationship between a writer and sensitivity reader should neither be motivated by a publisher’s defence reflex nor cancel culture, but by the responsibility of a writer to use language appropriately, rigorously, and respectfully. It is the privilege of a scholar to set the agenda and decide on the conversations that we, as a society, are having in all kinds of ways. And with this privilege comes a responsibility. As writers and academics, words are our stock-in-trade, and it is vital that we use the most appropriate ones.
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OPUS MORS by Jacob Kirkegaard caught my attention initially because of the relationship to Stan Brakhage's 1971 film The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes, a relationship I formed in my mind when I saw the postmortem concept of the work, but was later confirmed by Mr. Kirkegaard in a letter in terms of being an influence. It should be said that having followed Mr. Kirkegaard's work since his 2002 collaboration Soaked with Philip Jeck, everything by him warrants the utmost attention, especially if presented with such beyond lovely packaging, but the Brakhage relationship gave OPUS MORS a strong flash on my radar, and better than that initial interest, the release gave complete and utter satisfaction upon listening which is becoming more rare for this listener these days.
I first came across the Brakhage film my second year of film school, and my first exposure to his work. The influential filmmaker and teacher Saul Levine showing it warned of the content and perhaps this 19 year old kid was a bit nervous of a 32 minute film of cadavers being dissected? Yet not long after the film began a new way of seeing was initiated, and in a way a new method of interacting with not only art, but also with the world in a way that is not unlike the experiences of the great ascetics like St. Francis (this I should say is coming from a non-religious person). Looking back, part of the initial draw of Brakhage's film (one needs something initially to grab onto) was the deeply rich colors of Brakhage's photography, like a muted vividness with reds the like I had never seen (shown on a 16mm print).
Brakhage's work was initially also a bit tough for a youngster because of the lack of sound. The idea of watching film without sound was something that was "unheard" of for a neophyte like myself. Today it is quite normal to see the opposite in the avant'garde film tradition in what could be described as music videos for sound artists where music is there to accompany pretty pictures or the pretty pictures are there to accompany pretty music. The rawness and almost asceticism of works like The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes is more of where this listener is coming from when engaging with a work like OPUS MORS. Through this exposure to asceticism, the viewer (with patience) finds themselves after a time (perhaps the unease and boredom needs a minute or two to dissipate) to be completely in a environment outside of their mind, full of lushness and perhaps slowly navigating toward a state of emptiness? Black walls lacking articulation slowly reveal complex details that are beautiful and in a way incomprehensible, not unlike Plato's Cave. And then as slowly as a subtle light reveals this magic, blackness beyond black again takes over one's vision and the memory of details reverberates through your consciousness.
Jacob Kirkeegard's OPUS MORS is very much in tune with works, often long form, that hover someplace between deep asceticism and unknown pleasures. The second LP as an example is basically field-recordings of "a full autopsy starting with opening the corpse, following the removal and slicing and cutting open all the organs and brain, to finally returning all the organs, closing and washing the corpse". There is a concentration on this disc, in Kirkegaard's words, on the "timbre" of the body. Much like Brakhage's film, with only the ears here at work (instead of the eyes) we are slowly taken from a state that is potentially quite uncomfortable as a spectator, to a meditation-like place where the subtle tone-color projecting from the LP via the speakers has almost psychedelic like qualities, strangeness in a way that relates so strongly to first hearing kosmische music or the painted light of a Brakhage film. The acoustics of the autopsy room commingling with the acoustics of my spacious living room was magical and mysterious, having a conversation that is in a way quite over my head but nice to bear witness to. The sound of my dog chewing a bone as Kirkegaard concentrates his microphone on the cleaning of the body by the medical examiner/pathologist had a very nice Cagean quality, but also intriguing as my pup Leviathan generally is uncomfortable with music I listen to but here he found himself in total peace with the sounds emanating from the speakers.
One reason in often returning to a work of art over the years (repeat listens or viewings) is upon initial exposure, the structure of the work is somewhat unclear, but the importance of its meaning is felt at some unconscious level. Over the years of interacting with works that fit this description, one finds the initial mystery of the structure to be just as beautiful as the structure that emerges or sometimes does not emerge, not unlike multiple readings of a Raymond Chandler novel with a somewhat nonsensical plot line. OPUS MORS enters your perception with about as an intense of a drone LP (I played it very loud) as one can experience. Mr. Kirkegaard explains the beginnings as "two ambient recordings made inside two morgues listens within the slow and deep tones from the facilities that keep the corpses cold." This sounds like a description of a space listening to a space, or sound worlds within sound worlds within sound worlds, not unlike his 2006 recording 4 Rooms recorded in deserted rooms inside the 'Zone of Alienation' of Chernobyl. Honestly with the number of drone recordings one can listen to in 2019, it is hard to really find a recording that speaks so clearly. It is like the experience of someone hard of hearing suddenly being able to clearly hear details. LP 1 OPUS MORTURARIUM we get into this highly articulated world of droning sounds with in sounds within sounds within sounds, where sound that can almost be described as minimalistic mud, becomes like a bathing light that gives warmth to one's experience as a listener, similar to sound healing work done by a skillful shamanic practitioner who can with such ease entice your mind into journeying to a place so clearly outside of itself with what seems like simple or even non-existent techniques.
This sound healing effect is also strongly present in disc 3 OPUS CREMATIO where mechanical drones vibrate so powerfully in my listening space that time is something no longer until it is disrupted by a quick transition to shoveling and static. Side B situates the listener in a wavering back and forth place somewhere between pulsing static and a warm drone where a nonphysical sense of emptiness and lack of presence is so beautifully perceived.
Concluding this deeply thought out and composed structure of the four LPs we find the last LP OPUS PUTESCO made up of of two tracks - decomposition internal & decomposition external, recorded at a forensic study facility with measurement microphones placed above decomposing corpses, and vibration sensors placed within the corpses. Rain and flies merge with what could be described as sounds never experienced. The listening pleasures that come from the level of artistry and skill of this LP is like a bit of cake that comes after a perfect meal. Not unlike the master field recorders and composers Yannick Dauby and Chris Watson, the construction of this final LP is like imagining a conductor guiding a large orchestra through a blissful score where the violins are flies, the percussion drops of rain, and the bass is decomposition. The lushness of the sounds discovered by Mr. Kirkegaard really boggles the mind here, like being temporarily in the mind of someone who truly hears and sees the world in a way that you know you are not capable of.
Here we are in Mid November and this release is clearly the best of 2019 for this listener. This site is really not about music/sound reviews, but here are some words that attempt to convey the feelings and emotions that Mr. Kirkegaard's set fires up within me, and why it will be amongst my favorites in the years to follow and constantly spinning and spinning on the player and traversing the walls of my memory.
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Pet parents are no different. All parents want to track and monitor their kids 24/7 for wellness and get fair warning in case of a problem. Thanks to the booming wearable technology market, pet parents can now care for their children from near and afar. This opportunity is supported by the growing affordability of technology and universal connectivity. As a result, wearable devices are leveraging a range of technologies, such as radio frequency identification (RFID), global positioning system (GPS) biosensors, motion sensors, accelerometers, bluetooth, antennas and transmitters, in devices like collars, vests, harnesses, cameras, and tags.
The choice and scope of wearable pet products has grown dramatically over the past few years, helping owners in many ways:
- Track pet location, activity and even mood when owners are not around;
- Analyze and understand links between pet behavior and state of mind;
- Warn when in danger of drowning or heat exposure, and use loud sounds to break up fights or scare away hostile animals;
- Use diagnostic tags to monitor pet vitals and activity levels to alert owners at the first sign of abnormalities;
- Track changes in chronic health conditions such as skin or orthopedic issues
- Store pet medical records in the cloud and conveniently share information with vets or trainers;
- Set goals for fitness and reminders for vaccinations/medical follow up;
- Give orders remotely using speaker/microphone and display contact information on collars;
- Use vest or harness cameras to see things from your pet’s point of view via webcam; and
- Remotely dispense the right amount of food at the right time using smartphones.
Wearable technology is also finding its way into farming. Smart farming takes advantage of devices like smart collars to save time and cost while increasing herd management efficiency. For instance, collar sensors can help manage individual animal stress, detect diseases early, and highlight best breeding times at cow farms. At equine farms, wearables can ensure minimal injuries to horses by preventing over-exertion during training. Innovative uses for wearables include LED strips for horse tails to improve the animals’ visibility and prevent collision accidents.
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The ski instructor job description does not always tell the full story. Every day can be different; every hour can be different. There are many traits required to become a good ski instructor.
Getting a good ski instructor can turn a good ski holiday into a great one. Hence, your enjoyment is sure to improve at the same time that your is skiing progressing!
So, lets take a look at the traits of all good ski instructors:
Good at skiing (Duh!)
Pretty obvious place to start…right!?!?
While being good at skiing is a must when it comes to passing your ski instructor qualifications, being able to continuously demonstrate near perfect technique is what separates the good from the great.
Explaining precisely how to complete a task is great, however, it’s also a very important part of the ski instructor job role to be able to provide accurate and consistent demonstrations.
You would like your clients to look at your skiing and think; ‘I want to look like that!’
Giving people some aspiration is a sure fire way to increase their confidence and trust in you – which in turn will improve their skiing ability.
Adaptable to different types of students
Every lesson you teach can be hugely different.
It might be your morning clients first day skiing but your afternoon lesson could be an expert!
You might find yourself teaching a seven-year-old in the morning and a seventy-year-old in the afternoon.
Your seventy-year-old skier may have a cautious approach and an analytical mind, meaning that a lot of detailed explanation and demonstration will most likely be the best path to development.
However, a seven-year-old will usually prefer much less talking and much more action! Task setting, humour and games might well be a better approach here.
Kids don’t usually want to be stood still for 10 minutes while you explain the details of how to make a ‘pizza’!
Good ski instructors are able to adjust their teaching style to suit any type of learner.
Adaptable to different situations
Circumstances and conditions can change at any moment. A good ski instructor is able to think on their feet and modify any lesson plan they might have previously prepared.
The mountain is an ever-changing natural environment. Weather and snow conditions can change quickly and you need to be able to adapt your lesson to suit many variables.
If it’s due to snow heavily then you might be inclined to teach your advanced group some powder skiing! However, that snow might not come.
Adapting to these scenarios is a trait all good ski instructors share.
You must always have additional lesson plans and ideas ready at short notice that can keep people entertained and improving…even if it’s not what you (or they!) had previously planned.
You also must be able to adapt to any number of situations you can be put in by your students. When you have a group ski lesson, not every student is going to be at the same level.
A good ski instructor is good at multi tasking
When you have a group of students with varying ability levels, this can make your ski lesson a challenge. However, this is something you might need to deal with almost every day!
The first thing to mention – safety is paramount.
When deciding which slope to use with your group, you should always make your decision based on the ability of the worst skier in the group.
Again, ensuring the safety of everybody in the group is priority number one.
Secondly; keeping everybody occupied, learning and improving is a skill that takes time to perfect. You can easily find yourself teaching two, three or even four lessons at the same time!
It’s very important to quickly determine the ability of each individual group member before selecting suitable terrain.
Once you have found the best slope to use, you will be able apply separate tasks to individual group members if necessary.
No matter how basic the terrain is; there is always an aspect of everybody’s skiing that they need to improve!
Enthusiasm and passion
As with any sports coaching role, a little enthusiasm can go a long way – and a lot of enthusiasm can go even further!
It’s important to keep the energy levels up in your lessons – enthusiasm can be infectious. The more you encourage and portray excitement, the more your skiers will enjoy your lesson and have fun.
If your skiers are enjoying the lesson – they will always improve quickly.
If you have a passion for skiing, you are more likely to be enthusiastic.
When you talk passionately about skiing during your lesson, this will rub off on your group. They will see it in your mentality and they will believe in you. They will want to improve.
The trust of the group they’re teaching is something all good ski instructors have and talking passionately is sure to help reassure the faith that your learners have in you.
Organising your time
Organisation in a huge factor in being a good ski instructor. If you want your ski school to approve of you, you will need to show great organisational skills.
The first part is that you must be excellent with time management.
From meeting your group on time, to dropping them off at the end of the lesson, you always need to make sure you adhere well to the set schedule.
Getting your group back at the correct time can sometimes be a challenge, as weather conditions and skiing ability can affect this. If there is an accident in your group on the last run coming back, you may well be late!
Having a good knowledge of the ski resort you’re working in can play a huge role in organising your time. Putting it simply – if you get lost, of course your going to be late!
Organising your group
Organising your ski group might be one of the most important traits that make a good ski instructor.
You need to know how many people you have and where they are at all times. Remember – safety is paramount.
Organisational skills are especially important when it comes to children. When you are enthusiastic in your lesson (which I hope you are!), they will have a lot of energy. They will want to be skiing fast and furious!
Keeping your group of kids safe should be your highest priority, so setting boundaries and keeping them organised is a must.
I’m sure you don’t want to tell any parent that you have lost their child.
As for adults…they can be even more difficult!
Remember, you cannot control adults; they have a mind of their own. Keeping track of your group of adults is as easy as keeping them engaged and occupied.
If they’re hanging on your every word of advice, I’m sure they will not go very far!
Stamina and energy
High energy levels is a certainly a trait all good ski instructors have.
Stamina is important in many different ways, short term and long term!
You will need to have the energy to keep up with skiing for five or six hours per day while taking limited breaks. Keeping up the enthusiasm and energy for a full day can sometimes be a challenge.
Remember; every client deserves the same treatment!
From the first lesson of the day until the last, your energy levels and attention need to remain at 100% if you want to be a good ski instructor!
The second part of stamina is more long term. Now, instead of thinking about five hours, lets talk about five months!
When you’re a ski instructor, you’re almost sure to be working six days per week on the slope.
During the peak season, it’s not uncommon to be working seven days per week!
Being a good ski instructor means keeping up those high energy levels for the whole winter season.
Every lesson counts. Four or five months are not a long time. Make sure you give 100% during the winter so you can enjoy your summer break with no regrets!
Being sociable is a skill that will get you a long way
A good ski instructor is not just good at talking about skiing!
Your clients will not only want to talk about skiing all day. Being personable when you’re not talking about skiing can certainly help your lesson once you are on the snow.
If your clients like your personality, they will believe in you more and take action on your advice. People will also take criticism better from somebody they like!
Remember, another important part of being a successful ski instructor in securing those lesson requests!
Socialising with your clients is a great way of keeping them coming back for more.
As I have mentioned in previous articles, your clients can become friends for life…and who wouldn’t want to ski with their friend!
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People will always learn better when they are having fun. Keeping your lessons light hearted and lively is a great trait of all good ski instructors.
Everybody is different, meaning every person has a different idea of fun. This is another example where your adaptability can come into play.
Fun can mean playing silly games with your group of kids. Fun can also mean setting a competition with your group of adults.
Every lesson can be just as entertaining in many different ways – it’s your job as an instructor to figure out how.
The more enjoyment your group have, the more engaged they will be and the more they will learn.
A good ski instructor is a confident ski instructor
Confidence is key. If you would like your clients to believe what you’re saying, you need to say it like you have no doubts!
When you become a ski instructor you have already been through so much to arrive in your job. You have passed all the exams and you have proven yourself.
When a good ski instructor speaks to his or her group, they speak with absolute certainty and belief.
When you project confidence you will always be able to win people over. Get people to believe in your methods and you will usually succeed in improving the skiing of your group.
A good way to feel confident is to make sure you stay up to date with teaching methods and gain as much knowledge as possible. Make sure you always know exactly what you’re talking about!
Another method is time. With experience comes knowledge and with knowledge comes confidence.
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While the concept of “Deepfakes,” or AI-generated synthetic imagery, has been decried primarily in connection with involuntary depictions of people, the technology is dangerous (and interesting) in other ways as well. For instance, researchers have shown that it can be used to manipulate satellite imagery to produce real-looking — but totally fake — overhead maps of cities.
The study, led by Bo Zhao from the University of Washington, is not intended to alarm anyone but rather to show the risks and opportunities involved in applying this rather infamous technology to cartography. In fact, their approach has as much in common with “style transfer” techniques — redrawing images in an impressionistic, crayon, and arbitrary other fashions — than with deep fakes as they are commonly understood.
The team trained a machine learning system on satellite images of three different cities: Seattle, nearby Tacoma and Beijing. Each has its own distinctive look, just as a painter or medium does. For instance, Seattle tends to have larger overhanging greenery and narrower streets, while Beijing is more monochrome and — in the images used for the study — the taller buildings cast long, dark shadows. The system learned to associate details of a street map (like Google or Apple’s) with those of the satellite view.
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The largest orbiting laboratory in the sky just got a lot busier.
The Axiom Space mission, the first all-private astronaut expedition to the International Space Station, arrived Saturday morning. As the ISS flew 250 miles directly over the Atlantic Ocean, private astronauts Michael Lopez-Alegria, Larry Connor, Eytan Stibbe and Mark Pathy successfully docked the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and opened the hatch at 10:13 a.m. ET.
Perhaps a new group photo—with some lagging and cabin fever-tired faces—says it all.
Private astronaut brings an item of mythical proportions to space station
The Axiom crew will spend 10 days aboard the space station to conduct science experiments using the lab’s unique microgravity environment and participate in other commercial activities.
The mission will earn its place in history by expanding the definition of “astronaut.” For decades, that title was reserved for space pilots and government crew members. More recently, uber-wealthy space tourists riding Blue Origin, SpaceX and Virgin Galactic have been awarded the accolade of breaking through Earth’s atmosphere.
With this new journey comes a third possible description: one who was privately trained and launched into space to conduct commercial scientific research.
“It’s important to address the difference between space tourists and private astronauts,” said Larry Connor, the mission’s pilot, at a news conference a week ago. “Our feeling is with the space tourists, they will train for 10 or 15 hours for five to 10 minutes in space – and by the way, that’s fine. In our case, depending on our role, we have somewhere between 750 and up to more than 1,000 hours of training.”
With the four Axiom astronauts on board, the space station now has a group of 11. That’s almost double the capacity the space station was supposed to support: a crew of six, according to NASA (although the station can temporarily support other visitors as well) . Now imagine that the space station is only about the size of a five-bedroom house.
Before the official public broadcast began, the crew had to refocus the camera to fit all of the space station’s residents into the frame, a mission broadcast commentator said.
But it’s not a record. Most of the people who stay on the space station at the same time are dozens of bakers. Occupancy increased three times during the Space Shuttle program to 13 people: STS-127 in July 2009, STS-128 in August 2009, and STS-131 in April 2010.
Other current residents include three NASA astronauts, Thomas Marshburn, Raja Chari, and Kayla Barron; an astronaut from the European Space Agency, Matthias Maurer; and three Roscosmos cosmonauts, Oleg Artemyev, Sergey Korsokov and Denis Matveev.
What were the newcomers’ reactions to the view from their new digs?
“One by one I heard them say ‘expletively removed’ as soon as they looked out the window, literally all of them, and I smiled a little,” said Lopez-Alegria, the commander of the Axiom mission. † “And when I got my turn to look at it, the same expletive. It’s just an amazing experience.”
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Often, people ask does Kilz kill black mold? If the mold is fuzzy and black, it may be much worse than just unsightly. Remove any items with the fungi that could be in contact with the wall surfaces. As there is no practical way to completely remove mold from drywall, you will have to cut out and dispose of any drywall you discover which has mold growing on it. Painting over mold will only work on a permanent basis if you fix the source of the mold problem first. Here's how to remove it with one simple trick. Black mold can be dangerous to your health, mainly causing respiratory issues. Remove the outer wall to evaluate the damage inside or behind the wall. Black mold has a slimy appearance, and can often be described in color as black or grey, depending on the strain of mold that is present. Scrub the affected area with a stiff brush and soapy water, then spray the mold with a commercial biocide or household cleanser. Vinegar is a bold mold killer. 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Debt is a global problem. Every day more and more people are falling further into the debt spiral. They take up loans they cannot repay and max out credit cards with high-interest rates. Falling into the debt spiral is detrimental to anyone. Additionally, crippling debt is spilling over into our younger generations. Paul Philips of the Debt Line says this has in fact greatly impacted the overall economy.
Over-indebtedness and credit which has for years been overextended are starting to play a massive role in the economy of the country. In this piece we will take a look at the different types of debts which have affected almost everyone:
Pay Day Loans
Pay Day Loans are notoriously easy to get and offer those in a pinch a chance to access money quickly. Credit checks are not as stringent as those run by banks and this has meant that even those who are already over expended could access them. PayDay loans are far smaller than those available through banks but they are paid back at great interest rates. This, in turn, leaves the applicant in a worse off position than before they took out the loan. People who usually take payday loans are 80% more likely to reapply for the loan once they have been paid back. This, in turn, throws them into a never-ending spiral of debt.
Not everyone will have the means to study further after school. This is where student loans come in. They give the prospective student the financial means to study with payments only due once the applicant has completed their studies. These high-value loans are paid back in small installments and at extremely high-interest rates. It is not uncommon for those paying off student loans to do so for up to 10 years after they have completed their studies. Additionally, the loan applicants are unlikely to find employment which allows them to live comfortably while still paying off their loan. This will lead to the applicant taking out additional loans as a means to live.
Credit cards are easy to access and easy to use. They are not as easy to pay off. In the banking sector, this type of loan is also called revolving credit. This means that when used correctly, a credit card is meant to be paid off a month or two from using it. But, this is not how most people use credit cards. Once the applicant of the card maxes out the facility they find that the payment into the account is unsustainable. The repayments are minimal and the interest rate of the card is high. This means for the first 15 months of repayment, the cardholder will only pay off the interest accumulated on the card. The months that follow will slowing dig into the capital amount on the card. Many people find it hard to completely pay off their credit card and will resort to using it time and time again until it is maxed out. Then they will have to start the repayment process again. | <urn:uuid:bf8ca9f1-7e5d-4cc6-b6d5-281d8f9b0904> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://isitvivid.com/biggest-personal-debts-understanding-personal-debt/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.982738 | 583 | 2.78125 | 3 |
This report reviewed the cost-effectiveness of key health systems strengthening intentions, which includes results-based financing (RBF), voucher schemes, health insurance, personnel training, community mobilization, etc., with a total of 24 articles included in the review. Specifically on RBF, this report identified three studies on cost-effectiveness of the RBF programs, and the results showed that RBF was among the cost-effective interventions in addressing maternal and child health services. However, the evidence remains limited and calls for more and standardized cost-effective studies. Additionally, this report also suggests that it is critical to examine long-term cost-effectiveness of programs and cost-effectiveness of synergistic demand- and supply-side interventions.
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At long last, the Eco Relics shop is operational! Doug “the Termite” has moved in and is now constructing custom builds on-site rather than at his home shop. The sawdust is flying, but many details are still sorting themselves out. The Termite says, “It’s not down to a science yet.” The final layout of tools and work stations will be determined as he gets a better idea of work flow on a daily basis. “We’ve still got to drive it into the floor and weld it in place.”
Getting the new shop in order while handling custom builds and dealing with the day-to-day business at the Southeast’s largest architectural salvage operation has been a challenge. Shop classes for the public are still on the way, but not until we’ve dotted the i’s and crossed the t’s. The Termite will start with hands-on woodworking classes on tools like the band saw, table saw, and router. Students should expect to learn all sorts of tips and tricks for setting up and operating the tools, while also making something useful to take home. “I can read something and figure it out,” the Termite says.” But you can’t beat hands-on instruction with someone who’s done it before.”
As we get our sea-legs, Eco Relics will be offering more classes based on input from customers. What would you like to learn?
Doug won’t be giving up on his home shop. He’ll be using it to build spec projects from repurposed materials that will be offered for sale at Eco Relics. A salvaged piano case will get a new life a bookshelf. He’s also got plans for pieces from salvaged apothecary cabinets. “Most of it is falling apart, rotting,” the Termite said. But what is left is old growth ¼-sawn tiger flame oak. The Termite is carefully dismantling the usable pieces and cleaning them up for future use. “This stuff doesn’t exist anymore!” he said. “I spent an hour on it last night and got five pieces done.”
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The reasons why wood is still your best option for your kitchen, Cabinetry is a vital component of your kitchen as it witnesses a lot of action. Since cabinetry is subjected to water, dust, dirt, various food stains and even smoke, you might need to consider the material of which it is manufactured. So, there different available materials on the market, and each has its own advantages and inconveniences. However, wood stands out as the most popular and widely chosen material. The question now is a ‘why’, why do we strongly recommend wood as your cabinetry material?
Wood in general and natural wood in particular has multiple advantages to it, one of which is the high level of endurance it has. Natural wood’s main positive point is its durability and resistance to the different factors that naturally affect any material used in kitchen furnishings. Another reason why wood is still the best option for kitchens is that the solid wood used in cabinetry do not just curl or peel like other materials. Moreover, if you are the kind of person who likes his home to be eco friendly, then you might be delighted to know more about recently innovated techniques of finishing which are totally green and non-tnon-toxic.
Furthermore, since we care a lot about how our kitchens look then it will be of great value to discover more and more about the wide variety of wood types and finishing touches. Actually, marble wood is one great example of the warmth it brings to the overall look of kitchen cabinets. For every single scenario there is an alternative wood type; if you are tight on space you might need to consider wood types with lighter shades and wider grains, how does this matter? Wood types with light shades will still remain light after being stained and this is one factor that affects the diversity of shades and degrees of the brown colour on various furniture pieces.
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There’s a room in your house that holds the key to longer life expectancy and a healthier old age. And chances are it’s a place where your parents and grandparents spent more time than you do. But researchers now say that for your own well-being you’d be smart to borrow a habit from them and go there more, too.
The room I’m talking about isn’t a home gym. It’s the kitchen…
The latest medical research demonstrates that it’s not how much time you spend in the gym, but how much time you use your kitchen that’s the crucial factor for better health.
In examining our daily habits, the nutrients we consume and how we age, researchers have discovered that people who generally spend more time in the kitchen preparing their meals and snacks live longer and age more gracefully than those who rarely grace the kitchen with their presence.
Lived 47 Percent Longer
A ten-year study conducted by researchers in Australia and Asia discovered that people in their sixties and older who cooked at home at least five times a week were 47 percent more likely to still be alive at the end of the study than those who rarely entered their kitchens.1
In the study, less than one in three people reported cooking in their kitchens at least five times a week. And more than 40 percent said they never cooked at home. Never!
That’s a big mistake.
The researchers found that the benefits of cooking at home, along with extra longevity, included more positive emotions and a healthier diet.
“Cooking is an activity that requires both good mental and physical health,” says researcher Mark Wahlqvist, PhD. “Besides the health benefits the actual cooked meal provides, there are other physiological benefits obtained from its production, purchase, preparation and eating, especially with others.”
Dr. Wahlqvist adds that, “We found that those who cooked more frequently had a better diet and more favorable nutrient densities. It is therefore possible that cooking is related to longevity through food choice and quality.”
Home Cooking May Help Keep Your Weight Down
A study at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Health shows that another benefit of home cooking is that it can help you avoid overeating and potentially help you keep your weight under better control.2
This research demonstrated that when you cook most of your meals at home you tend to eat less food and are more resistant to over-consuming large amounts of food.
And the home-cooking folks in this study were better able to control their eating even when they ate out at restaurants. But while the Hopkins researchers recognize that not everybody has time to cook at home, they believe that just becoming more knowledgeable about cooking can help you eat a better, more nutritious diet.
“Time and financial constraints are important barriers to healthy cooking and frequent cooking may not be feasible for everyone,” says researcher Julia A. Wolfson, PhD. “But people who cook infrequently may benefit from cooking classes, menu preparation, coaching or even lessons in how to navigate the grocery store or read calorie counts on menus in restaurants.”
Better Nutrition Starts in the Kitchen
Another study, this one at Newcastle University in England, shows that eating home cooked food also results in eating more fruits and vegetables while consuming extra amounts of vitamin C in your meals.
This investigation, which looked at the kitchen habits of people aged 29 to 64, found that cooking at home was linked to having a lower chance of being overweight, consuming more nutritious meals and carrying around less body fat.3
All of this adds up to strong evidence that rattling those pots and pans in your kitchen and cooking your own meals can make a significant difference in your health and longevity. What’s more, it can help your bank account. You’re sure to save a bundle when you eat at home.
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The Inner Citadel
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius are treasured today--as they have been over the centuries--as an inexhaustible source of wisdom. And as one of the three most important expressions of Stoicism, this is an essential text for everyone interested in ancient religion and philosophy. Yet the clarity and ease of the work's style are deceptive. Pierre Hadot, eminent historian of ancient thought, uncovers new levels of meaning and expands our understanding of its underlying philosophy.
Written by the Roman emperor for his own private guidance and self-admonition, the Meditations set forth principles for living a good and just life. Hadot probes Marcus Aurelius's guidelines and convictions and discerns the hitherto unperceived conceptual system that grounds them. Abundantly quoting the Meditations to illustrate his analysis, the author allows Marcus Aurelius to speak directly to the reader. And Hadot unfolds for us the philosophical context of the Meditations, commenting on the philosophers Marcus Aurelius read and giving special attention to the teachings of Epictetus, whose disciple he was.
The soul, the guiding principle within us, is in Marcus Aurelius's Stoic philosophy an inviolable stronghold of freedom, the "inner citadel." This spirited and engaging study of his thought offers a fresh picture of the fascinating philosopher-emperor, a fuller understanding of the tradition and doctrines of Stoicism, and rich insight on the culture of the Roman empire in the second century. Pierre Hadot has been working on Marcus Aurelius for more than twenty years; in this book he distills his analysis and conclusions with extraordinary lucidity for the general reader.
Harvard University Press, 9780674007079, 368pp.
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As I work from home today, the mood is eerily similar to what I witnessed in 2008 as I prepared for my first legal job in the private sector. The words “recession” and “crash” and “debt” were all over the news then, as they are today. In my world of bankruptcy, banks were strengthening their special asset groups and law firms were filling their bankruptcy ranks, as they are today.
According to Bloomberg Monitoring the recession, the likelihood of a recession in the next year has risen to 53% this month, from 28% just a month ago. Meanwhile, other analysts predict that a global recession is already upon us. With the new coronavirus causing unpredictable turmoil in markets and forcing consumers to stay in their homes, potentially losing wages and slowing spending, it seems more likely that the long-awaited recession is now upon us.
If we are really on the verge of a recession, what could this mean for bankruptcies?
For the first time in a decade, bankruptcy filings are on the rise. And there are several factors that could cause an even bigger increase.
Chapter 11 Accessibility
The Administrative Office of the United States Courts (AO) reported an overall annual increase in bankruptcy filings of 0.2% for 2019 compared to 2018. Last year, business bankruptcies saw an increase of 2.5% compared to 2018, which could increase due to recent changes to Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code.
On February 19, 2020, Small Business Reorganization Act became effective. The new subchapter V of Chapter 11 is specifically designed to make bankruptcy protection more accessible to struggling small businesses by eliminating quarterly fees and shortening and streamlining the process. With the changes, small business debtors can choose a process that more closely resembles the more expedited Chapter 13 process, with a trustee, shorter deadlines, a condensed form plan, and the exclusive right to propose a plan.
It’s too early to see what effect the Small Business Reorganization Act will have on Chapter 11 filings, but its intention is to lower barriers for small businesses seeking legal redress.
Chapter 12s Increase
According to statistics published by the OA, Chapter 12 bankruptcy filings, designed specifically for family farmers and fishermen, from January to December 2019 increased by 19.48% from the previous year. This is the largest annual increase in at least five years.
With the Family Farmer Relief Act increasing family farmer debt limits from $ 4.3 million to $ 10 million as of August 23, 2019, more farmers will have access to the specialized procedures and protections offered by Chapter 12.
According to Bloomberg Law Records, Chapter 12 filings for the fourth quarter of 2019 (measured October 1 to December 31) increased to 140 from 130 in the same quarter of 2018. So far in 2020, debtors have filed 141 Chapter claims. 12, far ahead of the 100 applications filed during the same period in 2019.
Consumer bankruptcies could see further increases as well. Based on bankruptcy eligibility timelines, millions of debtors who filed during and shortly after the Great Recession are, presumably, eligible to re-file.
Chapter 7 debtors receiving discharges as recently as 2012 may now become eligible for Chapter 7 relief upon the expiration of the eight-year legally required period between the Chapter 7 discharge and the new filing. Debtors receiving a Chapter 13 discharge in cases filed as recently as 2014 may also become eligible to file Chapter 7 at some point this year.
If we read the tea leaves correctly and the country is truly on the verge of a recession, the pump seems to be on for an increase in case filings. It’s too early to tell if deposits will reach Great Recession levels, but that would require current numbers to more than double. The actual amount of the increase will depend heavily on whether the impending economic contraction is as drastic as that of the last recession and whether our country has the capacity to cope with and quickly stop the spread of the new coronavirus.
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We used multiple logistic regression to model how different landscape conditions contributed to the probability of human-grizzly bear conflicts on private agricultural ranch lands. We used locations of livestock pastures, traditional livestock carcass disposal areas (boneyards), beehives, and wetland-riparian associated vegetation to model the locations of 178 reported human-grizzly bear conflicts along the Rocky Mountain East Front, Montana, USA during 1986-2001. We surveyed 61 livestock producers in the upper Teton watershed of north-central Montana, to collect spatial and temporal data on livestock pastures, boneyards, and beehives for the same period, accounting for changes in livestock and boneyard management and beehive location and protection, for each season. We used 2032 random points to represent the null hypothesis of random location relative to potential explanatory landscape features, and used Akaike's Information Criteria (AIC/AICC) and Hosmer-Lemeshow goodness-of-fit statistics for model selection. We used a resulting "best" model to map contours of predicted probabilities of conflict, and used this map for verification with an independent dataset of conflicts to provide additional insights regarding the nature of conflicts. The presence of riparian vegetation and distances to spring, summer, and fall sheep or cattle pastures, calving and sheep lambing areas, unmanaged boneyards, and fenced and unfenced beehives were all associated with the likelihood of human-grizzly bear conflicts. Our model suggests that collections of attractants concentrated in high quality bear habitat largely explain broad patterns of human-grizzly bear conflicts on private agricultural land in our study area. ?? 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. | <urn:uuid:699449c4-be8d-46b4-8b17-43727325e174> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70028087 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.896105 | 358 | 2.4375 | 2 |
What's going on inside that head of yours? That's nobody's business, of course -- except, perhaps, for companies planning to roll out games and gadgets with supposed "brainwave-reading" capabilities.
Among them is Sega Toys in Japan, which makes Brain Trainer, a portable electronic device with various mind-expanding exercises that retails for about $30. Last week Sega announced it will incorporate bio-signal-reading technology from San Jose-based startup NeuroSky into unspecified products.
While NeuroSky's technology is available now, don't expect to find mind-reading toys or videogames at Toys 'R' Us just yet. That's because NeuroSky's technology is aimed at manufacturers and developers, and it will take awhile before products incorporating the technology reach the market.
NeuroSky sells a systems-development kit incorporating a sensor that picks up bio-signals, which are processed into digital signals. A manufacturer can incorporate the sensor into a headset of its own design. The sensor is dry (read: no icky gels), and only one sensor is needed to pick up the signals.
Sensors like NeuroSky's pick up physiological signals, not just brainwaves, so overblown claims of "reading your thoughts" should be taken with a grain of salt. And such sensors don't necessarily work equally well on every individual, something that becomes apparent when various people try to produce commands -- say, to move a robot forward.
"I have noticed it's a little more challenging for some people than for others," says Ted Larson, a founder of OLogic, based in Los Altos Hills, California. His company, which designs robots and other products for various clients, has become a NeuroSky partner and an expert in incorporating its technology.
To demonstrate that expertise to potential clients, OLogic designed a few demo products. One is a two-wheeled robot that can be moved forward by a user standing at a distance, who wears a battery-powered headset that transmits signals wirelessly. Another is a modified Star Wars light-saber toy that can be turned on and off by someone wearing a biosensor (and a Darth Vader helmet, if so desired).
OLogic teamed up with NeuroSky because, Larson says, "Let's just face it, their stuff is cool. It seems like magic, and it's not."
Larson says he knows of only two other companies in the consumer space that offer something an organization or developer can buy today. Interactive Productline, a Swedish company, makes a two-player game called Mindball that's been displayed at Wired's Next Fest (where astronaut Buzz Aldrin played it) and shown on ABC's Live With Regis and Kelly.
Mindball can be found in museums and schools, but it isn't meant for individual consumers -- the setup is large and, arguably, the novelty wears off fast. (Each player sits at the end of a long table and competes to move a ball into a desired hole using their "thoughts.")
The company is "looking into developing consumer-oriented products," says CEO Bitte Hanell, though she declines to provide further details.
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The battle for car hailing market share has ended with Uber merging its Chinese business with Didi Chuxing.
| Sep. 7 2016
Yidao Yongche was the first car-hailing business in China. At first, the company was badly affected by opposition from.
| Aug. 22 2016
Uber has largely managed to avoid conflict by operating as a separate Chinese subsidiary on the mainland.
| Jul. 12 2016
The sharing economy has been threatening traditional industries in the West. Now it’s gaining a foothold in China.
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Gill Crabbe, FNG Research
As the Helene Schjerfbeck exhibition opens at the Ateneum Art Museum in Helsinki, Gill Crabbe discusses the artist’s self-portraiture with contemporary art curator Patrik Nyberg and art historian Marja Lahelma
Patrik, you are a curator at the Finnish National Gallery’s Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma and you have just published your doctoral thesis on Helene Schjerfbeck’s self-portraits. How did you become interested in Schjerfbeck?
Patrik Nyberg I have always been interested in art that seems to critique or subvert its own representation, be it in a video, or any contemporary art, or painting from the modernist era or earlier, so I wanted to look at Helene Schjerfbeck’s self-portraits in this light.
Where would you place Helene Schjerfbeck’s self-portraits in the modernist canon?
PN Well, that’s a question I’m thinking about in my thesis – what is the modernist canon and what kind of painting is defined as modernist painting? I think Schjerfbeck’s self-portraits go beyond the parameters of how modernism is defined by its defenders, such as Clive Bell, Roger Fry and the Greenbergian tradition. These works also question the way that, in the postmodern era, we tend to define painting in the modernist era as self-sustained autonomous art and in favour of an autonomous subject. I think Helene Schjerfbeck’s self-portraits go beyond that idea and are more contemporary in a way.
Marja, you were the opponent for the public defence of Patrik’s doctoral thesis. You have seen the recent Helene Schjerfbeck exhibition at the Royal Academy in London, in which the self-portraits were given a central focus by presenting them chronologically in the room at the heart of the gallery space. What did you make of that kind of presentation – do you think this shows that the self-portraits are the most important of her works?
Marja Lahelma I thought it was quite powerful to walk into that room and as I had already read Patrik’s thesis I was aware of the fact that, although these self-portraits were presented as a chronological sequence, they didn’t really produce a narrative, which I liked. Apart from the early self-portraits, you couldn’t really see a progression that starts from likeness and representation, then going towards abstraction – it doesn’t really work that way with her.
So how did it work?
ML They are all such different kinds of works. In his thesis, Patrik discusses the performative aspect of these works and that became very clear to me in that room. It appeared almost as some kind of a game. I had the impression that Schjerfbeck was really conscious of what she was doing, that there was nothing accidental. I was also aware that these works don’t really say anything about who she was – for example that they reveal the soul – in fact there was nothing of that kind there, it was all about surface. I really liked that.
Featured image: Helene Schjerfbeck, Self-Portrait with Palette I, 1937, tempera and oil on canvas, 44.5cm x 33.5cm
Moderna Museet, Statens konstmuseer, Stockholm
Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Yehia Eweis
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This page is obsolete! The information included is probably invalid and thus should be used with care
This How-To aims to support All Developers who want to get all 4 parts which belong to the latest mailmanweb development running on a standalone installation. Please remember that most of the branches are experimental !
- Check prerequirements - e.g. in Ubuntu 11.04 you need to install Postfix if you didn't yet
Download the Archive
OR: branch it and skip 2.
- Unpack it and open a terminal session in that directory
- Test it by using
- Be aware that if you launch it from another directory you will have trouble with the DB
- Run the Daemon (better do this after REST Installation) by executing the following
This is dummy Django Site - you could easyly create your own site but this one comes with prefilled settings.
branch it into a directory
bzr branch lp:mailmanwebgsoc2011/django-site-0.1
- make sure you do have Django installed on your system
- Vertify that APP neither Site Folder do include special characters (e.g. .,;:/) and that the working directory is on the python path
- after installing the app use
python manage.py runserver
to run a development server on localhost:8080
- Branch the app beside the Django branch
- rename it to "mailman_django" just in case the directory has got another name
- Make sure Django-Site does link do the right App (urls.py; settings.py ...)
https://code.launchpad.net/~flo-fuchs/mailman.client/settings #Development will be merged to :
- branch the latest release (dir name is settings atm.)
sudo python setup.py installor if developing the API
sudo python setup.py develop
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Quick Dialog Example
How to create a quick dialog.
Begin by launching the Action Scripting Editor and clicking Add New Action.
Select Dialog Boxes > Quick Dialog. Here you can add selection choices, sort those choices, select a default choice, pick a style for the dialog box, and specify a title for the dialog box. You can also preview your dialog box.
Here are the radio button and list box versions.
Click Next > to specify actions for each of your choices. The actions can be Action Scripts, pre-built scripts, or in-line Xbasic code (including calls to user defined functions).
Click Next > to begin formatting the dialog box. Here you can specify the font, size, and style for both the choices and for additional descriptive text that you can put on any side of the choices. You can specify the dialog background color and the number of choices to display. You can define the OK and Cancel button labels and whether the dialog box will be modal or modeless. Again, you can preview your results.
Optionally click the Header Text, Footer Text, Left Panel Text, or Right Panel Text buttons to add additional text that will be positioned above, below, to the left, or to the right of the choices.
Click Finish to return to the Action Scripting Editor.
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With reference to tribal uprisings during British government in India, consider the following statements:
1. Rampa Rebellion was against new restrictive forest regulation of the British government.
2. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s ‘Anand Math’ was based on the Sanyasi Rebellion.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Both 1 and 2
Neither 1 nor 2
The Rampa rebellion of hill tribesman of Rampa in coastal Andhra Pradesh was explicitly against the atrocities of government supported mansabdars and against new restrictive forest regulation of the government.
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A lively and open discussion explored tools and methodologies to accelerate embedded software development
Source: Design News
What follows is an excerpt from our lively and open discussion on tools and methodologies to accelerate embedded software development.
Lauro: What are the technologies to develop software and what are the most effective ways to use them to start and finish software development earlier?
Russ: When people think about starting to develop software earlier, they often don’t think about emulation. Software can be developed on emulation. Emulation represents the earliest cycle-accurate representation of the design capable of running software. An emulator can be available very early in the design cycle, as soon as the hardware developers have their design to a point where it runs, albeit not fully verified, and not ready to tape-out. At that point, they can load memory images into the design and begin running it. Today’s emulators support powerful debug tools that give much better debug visibility into the system, and make it practical to start software development on emulation, sooner than ever before.
Jason: There are six techniques for pre-silicon software development: FPGA prototyping; Emulation; Cycle-Accurate/RTL simulation; Fast instruction set simulation; Fast models and an emulation hybrid; operating system simulation (instruction set abstracted away). Most projects adopt two or three since it is too difficult to learn, setup and maintain all of them.
When you start a project, you write code, and the first thing that occupies your mind is how to execute that code. Software developers are creative about finding ways to execute their software. It could be on the host machine, a model, or a prototype.
The next thing you need to think about is how to debug the software, because the code we write doesn’t always work the first time. There are various ways to perform early software debugging.
Then, less known, are performance analysis and quality of software.
You should try to get a good handle on performance as soon as possible. It could be done with the emulator, an FPGA prototype board, or other means. It is important to get some grasp on the performance of your code because often you are doing algorithm work and you need to get it under control as quickly as possible.
The last thing is the quality of the software. In pre-silicon software development, we always have milestones like system boots or test pads that don’t tell you much about the quality of your software.
You want to run, debug, get a handle on performance early on and try to do what you can for boosting software quality.
Mike: I’m the hardware guy, and I have to deal with software people. While early software development is fine and good, it’s too slow and too abstract. You find that software people tread water and until they get further along the hardware cycle and have something that gives blue
screens of death or smoke when there are bugs. That’s when real software development is accomplished. There is only so much you can do until you are far enough in the hardware development process to convince software people to actually start developing their code.
FPGAs can be used to prototype complete systems long before real silicon is available. FPGA-based prototypes are much closer to the final system in speed and functionality, making this approach a good fit for early software development. It is, unfortunately, hard to deploy and use.
Lauro: Jason, you are known as a leading authority on virtual prototyping. What are the advantages?
Jason: At ARM, we provide various types of models to perform early software development, but there are tradeoffs, and pros and cons. Virtual prototyping is extremely flexible. You can run your codes on a model sitting at your desk. It’s abstracted, runs fast but may not have all the detail. Still, it is probably the best way to get functional issues out of your code right away.
The good thing about fast models is they are available early. ARM has tons of processors coming out all the time and many of our partners are adopting leading-edge processors. Unfortunately, it’s going to be a while before they see any hardware. What this means is, they can use fast models to start running their code.
The minus is the case of the missing model, a problem for 20 years. We provide models of ARM IP but a chip isn’t all ARM IP. Many IP come from different vendors from different places in different forms, and there is always the case of a missing model at the OEM level –– if you are buying chips and putting them on boards, if you have a problem with your microcontroller, a model may not be readily available, the hurdle over the last two decades.
The technology is available to run software extremely fast and, more often than not, as fast as your actual hardware. The missing models plague the landscape.
Mike: Sounds good, except the models never exist and really performance is not that good. In my experience, it’s hertz rather than megahertz.
Jason: There are two kinds of models. In one domain, you have fast models. They are called fast because they are fast and use dynamic binary instruction translation. If you are targeting an ARMv8 instruction set, it’s running those instructions on your X86 workstation at a pretty high speed. Normally, 100 megahertz would be a reasonable speed depending on the size of your system.
The other domain is what we call cycle models. These are the accurate models but they run much slower. Cycle models are extremely limited in terms of what you can do with them because anyone who needs them wants to see the accuracy of a processor, interconnects and the memory controller. They tend to be used in the hardware architecture domain to run low-level stuff to figure out throughput and latency. They are not made for serious software development other than benchmarking boot code, and executing low-level hardware tests.
Lauro: What is the advantage of using FPGA prototyping over emulation or virtual prototyping?
Mike: There are places in the design cycle for virtual prototyping followed by emulation followed by FPGA prototype. But, first let me discuss design capacity.
The largest FPGA shipping today maps approximately 30-million gates. This is the Xilinx UltraScale 440. When your design exceeds 30-million gates, you have to partition your design across multiple FPGAs. Partitioning is a nightmare. The larger the design, the more FPGAs needed. When you try to partition it across multiple FPGAs in prototyping hardware, whether an in-house custom FPGA board or a commercial FPGA board, you have a few hundred connections between FPGAs but need thousands or tens of thousands of connections. Now you have to multiplex the I/O pins that slow down the speed of your prototype. There are automated tools to implement multiplexing, but it may be worse than nothing, and not helpful. It can be difficult to partition a design effectively. In terms of max design capacity, while many vendors claim they can handle a billion gates, 200-300 million in the range of eight to 12 FPGAs, is probably the max before it becomes untenable.
Even though prototyping is hard to do, the advantage of FPGAs is that it’s much faster than emulation. Emulation may run in single digit megahertz. It is not unreasonable to get 50 megahertz out of an FPGA. If your ASIC designers are part of the team, you can get faster speed than that. You can get about a tenth of the frequency of your ASIC. When you are running it with all the peripherals in place, your software guys are seeing somewhat real-time performance out of the unit. This is about 10 to 20X of what you get out of an emulator. IoT designs require real time debug. Often times the emulator is too slow in response time to do what you need. This is a clear advantage of FPGA prototyping.
The other advantage of FPGA prototyping is that they are dramatically cheaper than emulators. A 100-million gate FPGA board may sell for $100,000 where an equivalent emulator may cost you $1 million. If you have a large team and want to replicate these things, it may be worth the effort and time if you have enough information to do an FPGA prototype rather than use emulation.
Lauro: How do you view today’s verification landscape? Is it one size fits all or specialized per application?
Russ: The goal of verification is dependent upon what the final target is and how much you can verify. Security and correctness are going to be different for a medical device versus a toy. Those two products are going to be validated to different levels. As security and correctness become more important, we have more and more systems where the correctness of that system is going to impact whether people live or die. The amount of verification you want to achieve is substantially higher than it has been in the
past. Jeremy Clarkson, who is the host of Top Gear BBC show, a while back quipped that one day your automobile is going to have to decide whether to kill you or not. He was talking about a car that will be an embedded system with hardware and software. If it goes around the corner and sees some school kids on the sidewalk or a brick wall, what do you do? Cars will have to decide. We as tool vendors need to enable folks to verify things to the degree necessary to assure it is alright.
Jason: Unless you work in a large company with an infrastructure to do virtual prototyping, FPGA prototyping and emulation together, by the time you learn all of them, your project is over. You have limited time to decide what to use to get the software done with higher quality and better performance, whatever it is.
I think people choose different techniques for early software development and make a project decision about which approach make sense when. One possible scenario is a design group using FPGA systems for running tests in their lab. They have virtual prototypes to run regression tests on a subset of the system or to execute certain software algorithms just to make sure they don’t break anything or to assure the code is functioning.
Russ: And you are going to get different characteristics out of these different models. A fast model is going to perform fast. It’s going to tell you how functionally the system will work but limited in terms of the detail or performance. An emulator is going to be much more accurate in terms of clock cycle counts but it’s going to run lot slower. It’s what are we focusing on to verify at that particular stage of the development?
Lauro: Outline the ideal verification flow for a large and complex networking chip that will go into a data center. Budget is no limit, resources are plentiful but the timeline is not. All the tools will work together seamlessly. Which ones would you implement?
Mike: You start with a high-level model of what is going to run, some sort of virtual prototype, and start software development. As you get farther down, put it in an emulator and do it faster, closer to the real hardware, and then toward the end, just before tape-out, put it in FPGAs and run it quicker yet.
Jason: My take is different because I see power users, that is, people deploying leading-edge technology, adopting the latest ARM CPUs in the largest systems and go right through to an emulator. They don’t waste time with much of anything else. They have farms of emulators, and throw more emulators and more embedded software people at the problem.
Mike: That sounds like an infinite budget. We are talking tens of millions of dollars or more.
Jason: In the old days, we used to create testbenches and perform block-level verification and build up a chip design piece by piece. Now there is so much IP reuse
that people are buying from so many sources and a race to market. People are buying Verilog files from all the places they can get to make a chip, throwing it into the emulator and turning loose couple of hundred software people to make sure the system works. You write software, tests, all the functionality of all the peripherals and everything else to the shortest path with an unlimited budget and unlimited people.
Mike: And it does occur, actually. There are customers who will tell you that budget is not an issue. There are not many of them, but there are three, four or five that I can think of.
Russ: What a wonderful vision that is.
I would argue that there is probably a lot of software from the operating system on up that you would never want to take into the realm of an emulator. You want to run on a virtual prototype. In an ideal world, you want the software guys peddling as soon as possible and get a virtual prototype ahead of an emulation design. Again, in an ideal world with unlimited money, you want to get detailed virtual prototype and start software development six months before you start emulation for more work done up front.
Lauro: What trends do you see in the verification space, what new challenges are emerging?
Russ: One trend we clearly see is as we get more and more processors and processors get cheaper and faster is more of the functionality of the overall system moving into software because it is cheaper to create than hardware. To the degree we have the ability to do that, more and more of that functionality goes into software. Hence, the functioning of the overall system now depends not just on hardware, but hardware and software working together. Fundamentally, you can’t wait until somebody throws the hardware over the wall to start developing software because it’s going to be an integral part of that system. As hard as it is to debug them together, we have got to start sooner.
Jason: Software complexity is getting much worse. Think about hypervisors, virtualization, like in automotive where you are going to have this type of virtualization. In the old days, you had a CPU and you could start it up, write some assembly code and get your application. Now, it’s complicated to deal with. Even simple interrupt controllers in an ARMv8 core has a thousand system registers. Do you program all one thousand correctly? Do you need to program even any of them? Software complexity is getting more and more complicated. Reuse goes up and people start cutting and pasting, copying code, and the system looks like it’s working but there is some fundamental problem that’s hard to detect. That scares me –– all the complexity in the software stack, getting it right so that it is secured and the quality is good.
Mike: I don’t see anything revolutionary. It’s evolutionary where it gets bigger, faster.
In the past, we built boards with 20 FPGAs. Today,
we build boards with four Virtex UltraScale FPGAs and stack the boards to expand design capacity. The question is, how many boards can we stack before we hit a wall? For instance, on a system that includes four different stacked boards, we can achieve 10 megahertz because of the pin multiplexing, although the testbed speed may reach 20 megahertz.
About the Moderator
Lauro Rizzatti, Verification Consultant
Dr. Lauro Rizzatti is a verification consultant and industry expert on hardware emulation. Previously, Dr. Rizzatti held positions in management, product marketing, technical marketing, and engineering.
About the Panelists
Jason Andrews, ARM
Jason is Principal Solutions Architect in the software tools group at ARM. Previously, he worked at Carbon Design Systems and Cadence in numerous pre-silicon software development projects utilizing fast models, cycle accurate models, emulation and FPGAs.
Mike Dini, The Dini Group
Mike Dini is President of DINI Group. He has been a specialist in the design and application of FPGAs for the last 30 years.
Russell Klein, Mentor Graphics
Russell is a Technical Director in Mentor Graphics’ Emulation Division. Russ has more than 20 years of experience developing design and debug solutions that span the boundary between hardware and software. | <urn:uuid:07bc9014-cdeb-41cf-a971-7984872de56a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rizzatti.com/develop-software-earlier-panelists-debate-how-to-accelerate-embedded-software-development/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.947824 | 3,394 | 3.046875 | 3 |
The Chelan region is known for producing hearty apples of exquisite quality, flavor, texture, color, and shape. Such beautiful fruit is a product of a unique temperate microclimate. Orchards line the shores of the 50-mile long lake, whose deep waters cool hot summer days and warm the air temperature in winter.
“As a small grower, you have the ability to be hands on. Your voice is heard just a little bit more.” Read more>
Washington’s apple standards are the most rigorous in the country. We evaluate every variety’s color, weight, pressure, sugar level, size, and condition before and after harvest before any fruit is packed up and sold. | <urn:uuid:bf607794-83b5-4d27-a4ef-cef4929195ef> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://waapple.org/regions/lake-chelan/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.918551 | 151 | 1.953125 | 2 |
Mr and Mrs Swiss are special beings. While Economists see the cash all over the world on the retreat, we celebrate our Bank notes, such as works of art. And whether cinema or Restaurant still Bares is the true means of payment, with the local population to pay their bill.
The popularity of the Swiss franc in note form, it is reflected also in the increase of the circulation. Notes to the value of 45 billion Swiss francs in circulation were ten years ago, there are to date approximately 79 billion. “Since 2008, cash as a store of value has gained importance,” says the Bank in an analysis. The increased demand for Bank notes, according to SNB, among other things, on the sustained low interest rate level. “In addition, the financial market and the state contributed to the debt crisis increased the attractiveness of holding Cash.”
An Era comes to an end
the importance of the Bills for the population, we can today observe when in Bern, the last banknote of the new series, the 100-franc Note, will be presented. With a number of pieces of exactly 133’905’125 and a share of about 28 percent of the 100-franc Note of by far the most popular Frank bill.
In the circulation of the new note, but only on 12. September. In order for everything to work smoothly, had to make the banks small adjustments. “The new one hundred note is slightly smaller than its predecessor, which due to the cassettes, an adjustment of the previous Note,” says Raiffeisen spokeswoman Angela Rupp to VIEW. ATMs with Deposit function will also receive a Software Update to recognize the new Hunderternötli correctly.
With the last Note of the new series goes well for Manuela Pfrunder (40) the end of an Era. Delicate 26-year-old graphic designer was, as she moved with the design of the new banknote series one of the most prestigious jobs in the Switzerland country. Eleven years Pfrunder and your Team worked under the strictest security measures, before, in the spring of 2016, with the 50-franc note, the first Note was presented. Today, if the new one hundred note is presented, is done your work fully.
In an interview with a VIEW Pfrunder emphasized what a huge privilege it was to make the new note series. “I’m proud of the look and feel of Switzerland to influence them.” With the last Note, the largest project now, after 13 years in their still young career to end.
What remains are the Notes: “I must smile when I see that my notes will be paid,” says Pfrunder. Then you will realize how omnipresent their work is. “I was very lucky to get a job of such magnitude.” | <urn:uuid:5d6f5d0a-3364-4c05-aa26-76460f00b043> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kxan36news.com/national-bank-presented-the-new-100-based-views | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.950257 | 599 | 1.59375 | 2 |
New Delhi: India’s volatile and below-normal monsoon rainfall may create challenges for inflation and economic growth in rural areas over the medium-term, according to Barclays Plc’s chief India economist.
The nation is facing an 8% monsoon rainfall deficit, which will impact future sowing and harvesting seasons, pressuring consumer prices and squeezing the agriculture sector, Rahul Bajoria said in a Bloomberg Television interview Monday with Juliette Saly and Rishaad Salamat.
“I think it is more of a slightly medium-term impact that kicks in, where the government will have to think about mitigating steps for rural incomes, which tend to depend on farming activity quite a bit,” Bajoria said.
Inflation broke above the Reserve Bank of India’s 2%-6% target range in May and June before slipping back, while the central bank has maintained its lower-for-longer stance to nurse the economy’s recovery from the pandemic. The central bank sees inflation at 5.7% in the financial year to March 2022, viewing the current surge in inflation as temporary.
To mitigate the impact of rainfall shortage, the government may have to scale up relief measures such as rations and cash transfers, according to Bajoria.
“They may also have to think from a geographical stand point, which are the crops getting more impacted and take mitigating steps to try and contain inflation,” Bajoria said. For example, clothing inflation might pick up because of low cotton harvests.
Bajoria also said the RBI is gradually moving toward normalization, which will require “securing growth outlook,” he said.
The RBI has been factoring in elevated inflation in its policy stance, but it’s not enough to trigger normalization.
“The priority will still be to try and see whether the uncertainty around growth forecast have dissipated or not, because inflation has been elevated for the last one and a half years,” he said.—Bloomberg | <urn:uuid:eb13d68a-6113-4274-be0d-0b2bd87cf2fc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theprint.in/economy/indias-volatile-monsoon-will-likely-impact-inflation-says-barclays-chief-economist/721006/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.951973 | 419 | 1.929688 | 2 |
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