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A big fan of stereoscopic imaging, Matti heavily modded a viewmaster – adding an Arduino board, accelerometer, bluetooth and some buttons. The result is an interactive animation viewer using color-based chromadepth technique for 3D –
The Arduino sends the sensor data and the button states wirelessly via bluetooth to my computer. The information is parsed in Max/MSP, which in turn sends the data as OSC packets to Animata (my favourite software at the moment). Animata then animates everything in real-time and handles the hiding/revealing of different layers.
Definitely a unique functionality, the demonstration video sheds some light –
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December 8th, 1963 @ 10:50 AM
Dr. W. A. Criswell
12-8-63 10:50 a.m.
On the radio you are sharing the services of the First Baptist Church in Dallas. This is the pastor bringing the eleven o’clock morning message on the life and story of a great, noble, worthy woman missionary. At this season of the year, wherever in the earth there is a Southern Baptist church, there is also a week of prayer for foreign missions and a Christmas offering dedicated to our Lord in memory of and in honor of a noble woman missionary by the name of Lottie Moon. On the marquee in front of our church, early each Monday morning, there are placed the names of the subjects of the pastor’s messages for the following Sunday.
And some people seeing that announcement on the board across the sidewalk in front of our church on Ervay street, asked me, “Who is Lottie Moon? That’s the title of your subject: Lottie Moon. Who is Lottie Moon?” To my surprise and disappointment, I have discovered it has been beyond fifteen years since I spoke on the life of this great missionary. I have promised myself and our Lord to do better, if God gives me length of days, in the future. There is a whole generation of young people, teenagers, who have never heard a message from this pulpit on the life and ministry of that tremendous missionary. So today the message is for foreign missions; the evangelization of the world; the preaching of the gospel of Christ beyond our shores as it is dedicated to the memory in our Lord of this great representative of Christ.
You will find that one of the unusual—though to us we are not sensitive to it—one of the unusual characteristics of the Christian faith is the part made for and played in it by the women. If you were a Muslim, there would be no woman in the congregation this morning. If you belonged to some of those mystery religions that almost swept the Roman Empire and almost destroyed the Christian faith, if you were conversant with some of those mystery religions, you would find there was no woman allowed in it. But from the beginning, our Lord was ministered to by faithful women.
In the sixteenth chapter of the Book of Romans, Paul writing to the church at the capital city of the Roman Empire, said, “I commend unto you Phoebe our sister, a servant,” a deaconess it is in Greek, “a servant of the church; for she hath been a helper of many. And Priscilla, and Priscilla, for whom not only I give thanks, but all the churches of the Gentiles” [Romans 16:1-4]. Here in one breath Paul names two noble Christian women: Phoebe and Priscilla. So through the years in the kingdom of Christ and in the building up of His churches, our women have had a distinct, a leading and effective part.
I was in Recife, the capital of Pernambuco, one of the great states of Brazil. We have in the heart of that city a wonderful educational institution. Children are taught there, high school teenagers are taught there, college students are taught there, seminary students are taught there. It is a wonderful, God-blessed educational missionary complex.
The leader of it when I was there was a lawyer by the name of Alfredo Menezes. He was a handsome man, a brilliant man, an eloquent man; but a lawyer. That interested me. I would have expected a pastor, a preacher, a theologian to be the head of that great missionary school; but he’s a lawyer. Well, I asked how it is he became a Christian and a Baptist and the head of the school.
And the answer was this: a missionary in Brazil, in Recife, had translated the life of Lottie Moon into Portuguese; there was in the city of Recife a brilliant orator by the name of Alfredo Menezes, who was eloquent in his use of the Portuguese language. So the missionary brought the manuscript to the lawyer and asked him to polish the phrase and the sentence and the paragraph into beautiful Portuguese. The lawyer accepted the invitation. He read the life of Lottie Moon. He became a Christian. He accepted our Lord reading the life of the great missionary and became head of that school. Is he still the head of the school? Yes. I haven’t inquired in recent days, but that brilliant man, so eloquent, so fine looking made an impression upon me that lasts to this present day.
She died Christmas Eve in 1912 in a ship riding at anchor in Kobe, Japan. Kobe is a city, as with so many of the cities in Japan, built on the side of a mountain that rises out of the sea. And as you go up the side of the mountain, up there is a missionary’s home. And I was a guest in the missionary’s home. I wanted to be left alone for a while, as I sat there and looked out over the beautiful harbor of Kobe. And I just reviewed in my mind the life of this great, godly emissary of Jesus. Could I review it for you, as I did there in Kobe, looking out over the spacious harbor of blue water below me?
She was born in 1840, in Albemarle County, in the heart of Virginia, not very far from Monticello, the home of Jefferson Davis . . . Thomas Jefferson—I’m a good Confederate still, I tell you—the home of Thomas Jefferson. She was born into an affluent, aristocratic Virginia family. The county seat of Albemarle County is Charlottesville, where Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia. And in that day, so long ago, the school for girls, which was a new development then, a school for girls had been founded in Charlottesville. This affluent family sent their daughter, Lottie Charlotte Moon, to the school in Charlottesville.
There was a teacher there by the name of John A. Broadus. He was also the pastor of the Baptist church. Dr. John A. Broadus was the most gifted scholar our Southern Baptist people have ever produced. He later became president of the Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. Dr. Broadus, in 1859, won this gifted, brilliant young girl to the saving faith we know in our blessed Lord Jesus, and he baptized her into the fellowship of the Baptist church at Charlottesville, Virginia.
She became a teacher and was with Miss Safford, the two of them, teachers in a girls school founded in Cartersville, Georgia. In February of 1873, the pastor of the church in Cartersville, Georgia, Dr. R. B. Heddon, attended a Baptist association, at which a flaming missionary sermon was preached. And when the message was delivered, Dr. Heddon stood up and proposed a covenant of prayer in behalf of all the deacons and pastors there, and the following Sunday that each preacher deliver a missionary sermon in his church and make an appeal for Christ and the foreign field. Dr. Heddon stood in his pulpit the following Sunday and preached on the text, “Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields: they are white unto the harvest” [John 4:35]. “Pray ye the Lord of the harvest to send forth laborers” [Matthew 9:38]. And when he preached his sermon and gave the appeal, to the amazement of the citizens of Cartersville, their two teachers in the girls school walked down the aisle, Miss Moon and Miss Safford, and gave themselves to God to be missionaries in China.
Christmas that year of 1873, she began her work in Shan Tung, a province of north China, in Ting Chou, an ancient Chinese city with a wall around it; and for forty years, in Ting Chou, as a teacher, and in Ping Tu, an area about a hundred fifteen miles away, as an evangelist, in which field our Southern Baptist people reap our greatest harvest of souls in evangelism; in those two fields she devoted her life for forty years.
There is a devotion in this missionary, Lottie Moon, that has moved my heart to gratitude, to admiration for these years since I first was introduced to her life. She lived, she died, a single woman, alone. She was never married. Why? When she was in school in Charlottesville, there was a brilliant young student and professor who fell in love with her, and her heart responded to him. When she went away to be a missionary to the Orient, she continued to write to him and he to her. And they set a wedding date. And Miss Lottie Moon wrote to her family: she was returning to America to be married, after which both of them would return to the Orient, and either in Japan or in China, live their lives as a missionary couple.
This young man was, I suppose, the most brilliant, the most scholarly intellectual of all of the young men of his generation. As a young man he was invited to be professor of Hebrew on the faculty of our oldest seminary, the Southern Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. In his education he went to Germany; and in Germany he was introduced to German rationalism and German higher criticism. That is a study of the authenticity of the books in the Word of God. And as you would know by the characterization of German rationalism, it looks upon the Bible as anyone would look upon any other antique document: no more of God than Homer; and the stories told in the Bible, no more likely to have happened than the stories of Greek mythology, Jason and the Golden Fleece, the exploits of Agamemnon, or Pericles, or Paris and Achilles of the war in Troy; that’s German rationalism. And this young man opened his heart to that repudiation of the Word of God; and he began to teach it in the seminary, the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville, Kentucky.
Dr. James P. Boyce, who was president of the seminary, Dr. John A. Broadus, who succeeded him, those two men talked to the brilliant young professor, “You cannot teach in our seminary believing that the stories in the Old Testament are myths and legends and spiritual parables.” What a far cry from the day when God blessed our Southern Baptist people, and this day, when He is beginning to take away His favor. “You cannot teach,” said Dr. Boyce and Dr. Broadus, “You cannot teach in this Baptist seminary and believe that the Word of God is myth and legend and parable, with no substance in reality; that there’s no Adam and Eve, that there was no garden of Eden, that the laws of Moses in his books are concoctions by a list of unknown authors that they documentize until it becomes a foolish fragment,” on and on.
Dr. Broadus, Dr. Boyce accompanied this brilliant professor, Crawford H. Toy—if you are a theologian, the author of the book on Proverbs, in the International Critical Commentary—they accompanied Dr. Toy to the railroad station in Louisville. Dr. Boyce put his arm around him, and raising his right hand to heaven, said, “Crawford, I would give this right arm if you were as you were when you came to us at the Southern Seminary here in Louisville.” He left, he became a professor of Hebrew at the Unitarian Harvard Divinity School, the Harvard Divinity School that the Unitarians captured. He joined the Unitarian church. Finally he didn’t bother to go to church at all. That’s the man.
Lottie Moon and Dr. Crawford H. Toy set a date to be married. But in those days, as the letters crossed the Pacific Ocean, she learned of Dr. Toy’s German rational acceptance; the repudiation of the Word of God. And in her missionary life, she had come to feed upon the Holy Scriptures, to believe in them as veritably the inspired message of the living Lord. And finding the repudiation of the Holy Scriptures by the brilliant young professor Dr. Toy, she wrote him and said, “I cannot find it in my heart to marry someone to whom the Bible is not the Word of God.”
She broke off the engagement. She lived her life, forty years a missionary, alone. One time wrote, when she drew out of her bank the last savings she had to buy bread for starving Chinese, she wrote across the little book of deposit, “I pray that no missionary shall ever be as lonely as I.” I salute the memory of Lottie Moon.
I would predict that our Baptist people would grow in power, in numbers, in effectiveness as we have grown since the days of that glorious woman; did we stay as true to the Word of God, as did she? But that awful dry rot and disintegration of rationalism enters us, and enters us, and enters us, and enters us, and saps our life, and saps our strength, and destroys our zeal and our fervor; and soon we shall become, barring the intervention of God, as any other of those rational unbelievers: without power with God or with men. I salute in admiration beyond what I could say in syllable or in sentence the devotion to the Book, to the Word, to the Scriptures of the great missionary Lottie Moon.
Those things are not known. It was not because of that of course that she became the name in which this great appeal for Christ beyond the sea is made. This is named for her because of her life of appeal. For example, she would write back to the states, write back to the states, “Oh, that the church, the individual church would send out missionaries, missionaries, missionaries.” There’s nobody going to listen to me, there’s no need to say it, but I’m going to say it anyway for my own soul’s good: if you were to take the missionary enterprise back to the churches, you would find thousands, and thousands, and thousands, and thousands of your young people out on the foreign field.
We support an impersonal program. It’s in the budget, and we support the budget. And our whole effort is impersonally represented there in the budget! What if you had forty young people from the First Baptist Church of Dallas out in the foreign field? What if you had all of our doctors and all of our dentists taking their vacations down to help them? What if you assigned to our church, say, Guatemala? We have two, maybe three Southern Baptist missionaries for the whole nation of Guatemala. What if you assigned Guatemala to the First Baptist Church in Dallas, this one church? I don’t know how many we could send down there, and our people learn the missionary life and appeal and intercession and all that it takes to pour into that effort a personal heart’s interest.
And our churches all over this nation that could do what the First Church of Dallas could do, and if one church couldn’t do it, two could do it; and if two churches couldn’t do it, then three could; and if three couldn’t do it, then four could bind themselves together to do it. Their missions would live. It’d be my son, it’d be my daughter, it’d be my Sunday school pupil, it’d be my RA boy, it’d be my GA girl, it’d be our YWA young people, it’d be us, it’d be you. I’m just saying what Lottie Moon said. She made appeal to the churches to send out missionaries and support them. Thrill my soul to get into the missionary business across the sea, just as we’re in the missionary business here at home in this city. I’d love to do it.
Now that’s just I. This is just I saying these things. Lottie Moon said them. Another thing, I say her life was one of appeal. In the years before 1888, she made appeal that the women of the southland organize themselves and support the foreign mission endeavor. The Southern Baptist Convention met in May, 1888, in Virginia, in Richmond; and at that session of the convention, they organized Woman’s Missionary Union, an auxiliary of the Southern Baptist Convention, to support the missionary cause in the earth.
Lottie Moon’s appeal again: that the women at Christmas time make an appeal for Christ and take the money and send out missionary helpers, so desperately needed across the seas. They listened to her appeal, and that Christmas, 1888, Lottie Moon saw the first Christmas offering, with its goal of two thousand dollars, taken up by the women of the South. They got three thousand dollars, enough for two missionaries, and sent them out to China, to help Lottie Moon in the work of the gospel of the Son of God. That’s why you have Woman’s Missionary Union. That’s why we have the Christmas offering, in appeal to the earnest entreaties of this missionary in Ting Chou, Miss Charlotte Moon.
Despite the efforts of WMU and men and churches, in the years of 1910, 1911, finally 1912, our people gave less, and less, and less, and less. Oh! You don’t have to stand someday at the judgment bar of Almighty God and hear read to us why these things happen in history. All you have to do is to open your heart, and make it sensitive to the call and message of Jesus, and everything that happens in history today is an open book.
In the days, in the days, in the years of Lottie Moon, had there been a response on the part of our people, had our sons and daughters been God’s emissaries, had our gifts, our tithes, and our offerings supported the work, China, China would have been today a Christian nation. It fell into the hands of blood red atheism; a pronounced government of the repudiation of God, because, because God’s people, God’s people have been unfaithful in delivering the message of Christ in the earth. And we’re getting ready to live through the same reiterated, repeated travesty and tragedy!
When MacArthur entered Japan, he said, “Send me a thousand missionaries”; and he took money by his own mandate, he took money and had Bibles sent to Japan by the millions, and they were distributed out by the chaplains of the conquering army. And the Japanese, instead of fearing and cringing before the conquering Americans, found those men with Bibles in their hands, their pockets full of chewing gum and candy for the kids. When I was in Japan in that preaching mission, I think I never spoke but that there were a hundred fifty to three hundred fifty who gave their lives to Christ, accepting Jesus as Savior.
Did you know, did you know that in all Christendom we have never sent for the evangelization of Japan an amount of money equal to the cost of one battleship sunk on the attack at Pearl Harbor? I must turn aside from these things. I am just repeating to you, you will not have to wait till you stand at the judgment bar of Almighty God to find why history is turned as it has. You can read it plain and simple in the dereliction of God’s people in the earth.
So in 1910, 1911, 1912, the foreign mission board had less and less and less. People gave practically nothing. And in order to support the work already launched, the board went in debt, went in debt, supporting the missionaries already sent out; went in debt, went in debt. At that time there was a great famine that swept through China, and finally to Ping Tu, where Lottie Moon had spent so much of her life and where God had given us our greatest harvest in evangelism. And the Ping Tu Christians began to starve by the scores and by the hundreds and by the thousands.
And then the word: there is nothing from America to help. And not only was there nothing from America to help, but her own life supported by borrowed money; people not even giving enough to support the missionary herself. She was nearing seventy-two years of age. The strangest illness overtook her, the strangest illness. When finally a doctor was summoned, and could come, he looked at her, and in a moment said, “Why, she is starving, starving.” If her Ping Tu Christians were starving, she would not eat. And if the board of the Southern Baptist Convention would not pay her living, she refused to live on borrowed money. She had given her entire salary. She had taken out all of her savings. She was starving.
They made a decision to send her back home to America. Miss Cynthia Miller, a nurse, had a furlough due; so the two were put on a ship at Shanghai. It rode at anchor there at Kobe, Japan, on the blue waters of the western Pacific. And there in the ship, Miss Cynthia saw her speak and her hands clasp and unclasp in Chinese fashion, in Chinese greeting, bent low her ear to hear: the missionary was greeting old Chinese friends who for years before, years before had gone to be with the Lord. You reckon God’s people see like that when they die?
In preparing my sermon tonight on angels, The Angels of Heaven, I came across in my studying so many instances where godly people, godly people would say, “What? You cannot see the angel standing at the foot of my bed? Look, look. I hear the angel choir. I see, I see the host of heaven.” Are they out of their minds, these godly people? Or do they see? Well, that was Lottie Moon: greeting old Chinese friends, who in the years and the years and the years had gone away, had gone away to be with the Lord.
All I know is this. I wish I could die seeing angels, and looking into the courts of glory; to die triumphantly, victoriously, with a smile on my face and a greeting on my lips, dying as a victor, a more than conqueror in Christ [Romans 8:37]. I must close.
The law of Japan is one of cremation. They cremated her body, brought it back to Virginia, buried there in Albemarle County where she grew up as a girl; dedicated to her in the providence of God this appeal for foreign missions. And at this season of the year, if you find it in your heart to put Christ in Christmas, either in the name of our Lord helping support the orphan children in the Buckner home, or giving to our Lord a special remembrance for the poor, or any mission, or if you would like to join the women of our convention and dedicate that special gift for the evangelization of the peoples to whom yet we have opportunity to preach the gospel of the Son of God, you are invited, urged: do it. Do it. God bless the effort, God bless our people, God bless this church as we pray through what God would have us to do and answer with our lives.
While we sing our song of invitation and appeal, you, does the Lord speak to your heart, does He, does He? “Pastor, I give you my hand; I have given my heart to God. I do take the Lord Jesus as my Savior, and here I stand, and here I come.” Would you this morning, would you? A family to put their lives in the fellowship of the church, “Pastor, this is my wife, these are our children; we’re all coming this morning.” What a glorious time to respond. In the throng in the balcony round, in this lower floor, into the aisle, down to the front, “Here we come, pastor, here we are; God take us, God have us. Here we are.” Come, come, while we stand and while we sing. | <urn:uuid:e15d73c9-ed66-4eaf-89c5-63b93252ece4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wacriswell.com/sermons/1963/lottie-moon1-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.976106 | 5,146 | 1.5 | 2 |
When a political party is in trouble, we see infighting, leak inquiries, resignations, mass loss of council seats, dismissals and botched attempts to depose the leader. But when a party implodes, something different happens: it loses the ability to defend or explain itself. An imploding party can and will lose any argument, no matter how strong its track record. The Tories entered this terminal stage under John Major after the disastrous local elections of 1995, which were followed by their landslide defeat of 1997. With the party now having had its worst set of election since 1995, it looks very much like they might be entering it again.
When John Major left, the economy was in such good shape that it took a typically overspending, over-regulating Labour government a whole decade to ruin it. Wages were at an all-time high, as was disposable income — and yet the Tories were still wiped out. Why? Because they came across as a feuding, disgraceful shambles; a sorry pantomime, which voters wished to bring to an end. Tories are yet again obsessed with their own party, more interested in settling scores than in governing or defeating Labour. They seem unable to work out what they got right, let alone where they are going wrong.
University reform, for example, has been a progressive success. It never made sense for the government to subsidise wealthy students — for as long as the huge subsidies existed, student numbers had to be capped. The fee was expanded to £9,000 and the cap removed. The result: vast expansion, more offers, and more students from poor backgrounds going to university than ever before. Graduates who don’t go on to earn much will never be asked to repay the whole fee. Yet all it took was an attack by Jeremy Corbyn for the Tories to put the entire policy under ‘review’.
On the environment, they also had success: coal-burning in power stations is at the point of being consigned to history. Britain has cut emissions faster than any G20 country since 1990 — carbon emissions have fallen to their lowest level since in Victorian times. The Tories had managed to strike a sensible balance between environmental protection and the need for affordable energy — and yet they end up repeating the soundbites of anti-capitalist protesters. The 16-year-old Greta Thunberg makes headlines because she has what ministers lack: self-confidence.
The Labour party this week produced a video suggesting that extra welfare makes the economy grow. It was well-produced but it made old and easily disproven arguments. Why can’t the Tories communicate the success of their own employment policies? Jobs have been created at a faster rate than at any time in our economic history, wages are growing at the fastest rate in ten years, and a labour shortage has taken power from employers and given it to workers. When Tony Blair came to power, 20 per cent of children were in jobless households. Labour left this at a still shocking 18 per cent. Tory reforms have further reduced this to 12 per cent. This is what progressive government looks like.
School reform has paid dividends, yet since Michael Gove left the education brief the Tories have been unable to recognise, let alone highlight, their success. Most secondary schools have successfully applied to become self-governing academies. Standards are soaring: since Labour left office, the proportion of children in schools rated ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ has risen from 66 per cent to 85 per cent. This is the surest way to promote opportunity and social mobility. Bad schools, which inflict damage on their communities, are rarer.
As for social justice, the best-paid 1 per cent are now paying a record 28 per cent of all income tax. That is an achievement which ought to warm the heart of any redistributionist — yet the Tories are silent. When Sir Roger Scruton was accused of thought crime, he was sacked within hours. The Tory assumption was that if it came to a fight, they should cave in as soon as possible. It’s not that government ministers are huddled in their bunker. It’s worse. Mentally they are already on trial, pleading leniency in the kangaroo court of their enemy.
Where is the fight? The party is supposed to have been fighting local elections this week, yet its senior figures can barely bring themselves to show their faces. There has been very little visible campaign. No wonder many of the party’s own councillors have all but given up and are threatening to vote for Nigel Farage’s Brexit party.
In 1997, John Major lost to a competent and moderate opposition at least. Theresa May is in danger of suffering an equally calamitous defeat to what would be the most left-wing government in British political history — led by a figure so shambolic that he makes Michael Foot look a statesman. There is still time to avoid that defeat, but it will require a total transformation in the Conservatives’ approach — and of leadership. With every day that Theresa May stays on, the Tories become more closely associated in voters’ minds with incompetence, chaos and defeat. As Sir John found out, such impressions, once formed, take a long time to reverse. It takes a truly incompetent party to create such a disaster from a backdrop of such success. If the Tories cannot replace Theresa May with a better leader, they will deserve what’s coming — even if the country does not. | <urn:uuid:df21a144-5ab1-44d9-bced-211a446f7d6f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-to-lose-elections | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.97881 | 1,128 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Bijections are given which prove the following theorems: the q-binomial theorem, Heine’s2Φ1 transformation, the q-analogues of Gauss’, Rummer’s, and Saalschütz’s theorems, the very well poised 4Φ3 and 6Φ5 evaluations, and Watson’s transformation of an 8Φ7 to a 4Φ3. The proofs hold for all values of the parameters. Bijective proofs of the terminating cases follow from the general case. A bijective version of limiting cases of these series is also given. The technique is to mimic the classical proofs, based upon a bijective proof of the q-binomial theorem and sign-reversing involutions which cancel infinite products. | <urn:uuid:41a39733-d4db-4383-abcc-808d71faef27> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://experts.umn.edu/en/publications/bijective-proofs-of-basic-hypergeometric-series-identities | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.884992 | 173 | 1.953125 | 2 |
Sokoto State, German firm ink partnership for Nigeria’s first solar powered cars
From next year, Nigeria’s first locally manufactured electric and solar powered cars will be on the streets. This follows a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed by a firm, Oldang International Limited with Chinese companies, Halkoff Logistics and Hornson Development Limited, to produce non-fossil energy cars that should begin Nigeria’s entry into the global shift to electric cars. The project has strong backing of the Sokoto State government.
At the signing of the MOU in this week in Lagos, the Managing Director, Oldang International Limited, Olubunmi Oluwadare, said that the project, which will start January 2018 with about 150 solar vehicles expected to be manufactured per day.
Meanwhile, The Sokoto State government has begun connecting a number of rural households with solar energy. A statement by Mallam Imam Imam, spokesman to Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, said a pilot scheme had already started in Kurdula, Balle town, in Gudu local government area of the state.
The statement quoted the Special Adviser to Tambuwal on Public Private Partnership, Bashir Gidado, as saying the project is a four-party partnership between the state government, the Nigeria Energy Support Project (NESP), GIZ of Germany and GoSolar.
With a target to generate over 50,000 direct and indirect jobs for Nigerians, Oluwadare said that the project, in its first phase, was projecting sales of up to 100,000 solar and electric vehicles in 2018.
“What we are doing now is that we want the value chain to create employment opportunities, which is very key to what we are doing. The machines are coming from China while the time frame will be three months. What we are trying to do is that the first phase should start immediately, meaning that the other parts, like the battery section and the solar panel section, will start coming. We are likely going to take off by January 2018.
“The first phase will create 550 jobs. Indirectly, it will create 50,000 jobs because we have people that are going to operate the charging stations, the repairs, the dealership, sales and those along the value chain.”
Non-Executive Director of Oldang, Mohammed Dangote, said the project would create change in the transportation system through the use of natural resources and reduced cost of transportation.
“I believe this will show the masses that government is really working to make a safer, cleaner and healthier Nigeria. A project like this will literally open eyes that it is possible to go for change that will not cost a lot of money.” | <urn:uuid:4323897f-8af0-4796-ac25-80b5d2bc2375> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.baobabafricaonline.com/2017/10/31/sokoto-state-german-firm-ink-partnership-nigerias-first-solar-powered-cars/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.956501 | 570 | 1.625 | 2 |
Tricks for Better Finishing
Tried-and-true tips for working with finishes and applying finishes guaranteed to bring out your best job.
Bag the putty for neater results
Mixing water putty and similar products poses a couple of problems: What do you mix it in, and how do you stir it thoroughly without spilling it all over? Grab a resealable sandwich bag the next time you mix putty. Measure out the powder, pour it into the bag, and add the water. Then, seal the bag and knead it to mix without making a mess. To apply, snip off a corner of the bag and squeeze out the putty.
—Paul J. Feller, Dubuque, Iowa
Milk jugs make handy brush cleaners
Recycling programs today cart away most of our empty plastic milk jugs, but you may want to hang on to a few to take advantage of this tip. Cut a large opening in the front of the jug and put solvent in the bottom to clean brushes. When your hands get slippery from paint or solvent, the jug with its handle proves easier to carry around and empty than a large metal coffee can.
—John Regan, Gorham, Maine
Hardware cloth makes a mini drying rack
Finishing turnings and other small wooden pieces for toys was always a hassle because I could never find a good place to set them to dry. I solved the problem with strips of hardware cloth. By cutting thin strips, I can bend the hardware cloth to the shape I need to support even irregularly shaped pieces. The cut points of the mesh support the pieces with minimal contact. I use larger mesh for bigger projects; smaller mesh for little pieces.
—J.M. Evans, Waycross, Ga.
"Canned" applicator finishes small pieces
Like other woodturners, I use a lot of different finishing materials on my projects—sanding sealer, oils, and stains. My small turnings don't require much finish, so until recently, I was spending more time cleaning applicators than applying finish.
Now, to save time (and finish), I keep a tied-off ball of cotton cloth cut from an old T-shirt in each can of finishing material. I just grab the cloth from the bottom of the can with wooden tongs, daub on the finish, then drop it back in the can, where it stays until I need it for the next bowl or candlestick.
—Bob Edwards, San Antonio, Texas
Knife blade gets you through close scrapes
Sometimes you need an extra-small scraper to clean up an area where a typical cabinet scraper just won't fit. Here's a quick answer to that problem. Remove an old blade from a utility knife and grind all the edges flat. You'll end up with a burr on all four edges. The two short edges of the blade help you scrape into even the tightest spaces.
—Jan Svec, WOOD® magazine staff
For staining details, try pipe cleaners
It's hard to get stain or paint into narrow spaces. But I solved the problem with nothing more than a wooden handle and a pipe cleaner. As shown above, I drilled two small holes in one end of the handle of an old foam brush, bent the pipe cleaner in half, and stuck one end in each hole.
I dip the pipe cleaner into my finish and work it into just about any tight spot. When I'm done, I just pull out the pipe cleaner and throw it away. I then pop in a new one, and I'm ready for my next project.
–Bill Allmon, Fort Worth, Texas
Furniture spray makes substitute tack cloth
I've tried using commercially available tack cloths but found they sometimes left a sticky residue on the workpiece. They were also expensive for their limited useful lifespan.
For a simple, inexpensive alternative, I use Endust furniture polish sprayed onto a lint-free cotton rag. The Endust helps capture the dust but doesn't leave any residue on the wood. When the rag gets too dirty to shake clean, I throw it in the wash and reuse it
Note: Do not use silicone-based spray waxes (Pledge is one brand name), which may contaminate to your finish.
—Jan Svec, WOOD® magazine staff
Avoid a mess with mesh
Here's a neat and easy way to stain small parts, such as drawer pulls, plugs, and Shaker pegs. Start with an old cake pan. Cut and bend 1⁄4 " hardware cloth so that it fits inside the pan, reaches nearly to the bottom, and has enough left at each end to serve as handles. Pour stain into the pan, place the wooden parts on the mesh tray, and lower it into the pan. After the parts are coated with stain, lift the tray, put a couple of scrapwood stickers across the pan, and set the tray on them. Let the excess stain drip off, then wipe the parts.
—R.B. Himes, Vienna, Ohio
Slash shelf-finishing time with just a few screws
I recently built a bookcase and wanted to spray lacquer on both sides of the shelves. I could have set the shelves on nailpoints, but I wanted to keep the fresh finish absolutely untouched. So, I came up with a touchless method.
Fasten a frame of 2x2s, spread 1" wider than the length of the shelves, to a pair of sawhorses, as shown at above. Into the center of one end of each shelf, drill a shallow hole and drive a 21⁄2 " deck screw into the hole, leaving about 13⁄4 " of the screw sticking out. The same way, put two screws into the other end of each shelf.
To finish the shelves, lay them across the frame, resting them on the screws. When one side is finished, grab the shelf by the two screws and flip it over, rotating it on the single screw on the other end. If your frame won't hold all of your shelves, lean the finished shelves against a wall—two-screws down—to dry thoroughly.
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A method that was widely used in past to renovate marble flooring was crystallization but over the years this method has flopped badly because clients started to realize that crystallization has started to damage the natural stones that were being used in flooring, to counter this new method like honing, grinding, polishing and cleaning were introduced.
These methods help to bring out the glow that your floor previously had, therefore companies like Marble Restoration use such methods to create that new-like smooth finishing on your floor. You can get expert stone cleaning services via https://thestonerestorationcompany.com.au/service/stone-cleaning/.
Marble is a natural stone
Marble is a natural stone that can greatly enhance the beauty and overlay of the interior and exterior surfaces of your home. That is why the use of marble is gaining momentum throughout the day.
The use of marble is nothing new. This is the same stone that kings used to install in their palaces to make them attractive and beautiful.
Natural and artificial tiles
There is no denying that marble floors are stunners in terms of both beauty and durability, the beauty of which cannot be matched by artificial tiles. Marble stone is every art form. Wherever you fit it, it looks very fit, whether it is a commercial building or a domestic one, isn't it?
How to keep the marble floor maintained?
However, the maintenance is very important, which includes occasional professional washing and polishing, otherwise, it loses its luster and shine.
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As we know, hair influences a lot in to be valued as good appearance. If your hair is healthy, hair can be easily styled as we want. But, long hair is identically facing many problems. The most common problem is that the hair is dry and fall out. You need to know the how to get long healthy hair without suffering these problems. The problems can also come from stress, chemical things, diet, and hairstyle. Taking care in how to get long healthy hair is important for everybody, especially for you who like to style your hair.
Wash Your Hair Regularly
First of all, to know how to get long healthy hair, it is forbidden for you to always wash your hair with shampoo everyday. Washing your hair everyday can make your hair dry. Your hair needs to produce hair oil to protect it. But, you also cannot let your hair rarely washed. Wash your hair once in 2 or 3 days. Do not forget to take the right shampoo for your hair, not only because of the fragrance of the shampoo.
Walnut Oil to Get Healthy Hair
In how to get long healthy hair, sing walnut oil can reduce the amount of your hair that fall out. Use walnut oil for 30 until 45 minute before washing your hair with shampoo. Use the walnut oil and massage your head for 15 minutes. After massaging your head, you can let it for 30 minutes. Wash your hair just like usual. The result will come if you have done this for more than 2 weeks. Do not forget to use cold water to wash your hair. Washing hair with cold water can prevent the chemical impact to your hair. Using warm water will open your pores that can let the chemical impact make your hair fall out more.
Use Conditioner to Keep the Hair Healthy
In washing hair with shampoo in how to get long healthy hair, you need to use conditioner. Conditioner works well to moisturize your hair. There are two types of conditioner that you can choose. The first type of conditioner can be used when you wash your hair. Use shampoo first, and then wash your hair. Use conditioner and massage your head. You need to wash your hair after that.
But, you can also use conditioner that does not need to be washed. Dry your hair until it is half dried. Use the conditioner by rubbing the liquid to your hair. Pay attention to the hair ends because they need more treatment than any part of hair. Hair ends has risk of having branched hair instead of how to get long healthy hair.
Hair Tonic Works Well Like Conditioner for Long Hair
Beside conditioner, to get to know how to get long healthy hair, you can use hair tonic to keep protect your hair from dryness. Using hair tonic is as the same as conditioner. Let the hair half dried but never use it when it is totally dried. Hair tonic can protect strength your hair from inside.
And the last note to answer how to get long healthy hair is never dry your hair using hairdryer. Using hairdryer has big risk in having hair that is too dry. Dry hair can lead to branched hair ends. Besides that, your hair looks like they are flying instead of falling down neatly.
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Ajo Gardeners Network
The Ajo Gardeners Network, or AGN for short, is a program of the Ajo Center for Sustainable Agriculture (Ajo CSA). This program is a network of backyard gardeners and growers in and around Ajo.
Members of this free program enjoy a multitude of benefits, which include unlimited seeds and seedlings, provided by the Ajo CSA, free access to a variety of gardening and food-related workshops, tips from experienced CSA farmers, access to personal consultations by CSA staff, and an annual garden tour, visiting different gardeners around Ajo to see a variety of techniques and approaches to growing in the Sonoran Desert.
For those who like, the Gardeners Network provides sewage free compost at a subsidized price, for up to two bags. This is the same compost that the Ajo CSA uses in their own beds, used to grow for CSA shares and for market.
Between free seeds, seedlings, workshops, advice, and with access to compost for those who would like to remediate their soil, the Ajo Gardeners Network helps reduce the barriers for community members growing their own food here in and the surrounding areas of Ajo, AZ.
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Posted on Tue Apr 24 2018
Thanks to the generosity of One Million Goal donors in early 2016, we were able to partner with Charity:Water to help a community in the Northern Region of Uganda gain access to clean water! Our donations helped fund a drilled well in a region where only 23% of the population has access to clean water. This well, completed in March of this year, will serve approximately 284 people.
The water technologies Charity:Water funds depend on the region's water availability, geology, and population density. Their partners survey each site and meet with the communities to determine the best solution. In the community of Tingobwor, the best solution was a drilled well. The construction of a drilled well required a team of professionals to drill deep underground, reaching aquifers that aren't accessible by hand-digging. To instill a sense of ownership, the community joined in the planning and building process. Local residents formed water committees, which are trained to promote the best hygiene practices for health and sanitation among the community.
Families used to spend valuable time walking to collect water that wasn't safe to drink. Now, they're walking much less. Most importantly, the water they bring home is clean and safe.
Thank you to all the One Million Goal supporters who helped make this happen.Read More
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Felt is the oldest man-made material that is known, it existed before woven cloth and knit. It is made when layers of wool are wet with soap and water after which the fibers are agitated to form a dense fabric. The product can then be stretched to make varieties of items including belt which are then referred to as felt belt.
Felt are used for various purposes in different industries since they are produced based on pressing, blending, and then drying. In this article, we discuss the advantages of using felt to manufacture felt belt.
The coatings applied on synthetic belts are termed polymers and can be made of different materials that have an effect on the suitability of the belt in a specific application. Polymers can be divided into two unique groups which are the thermoplastic or the thermoset. Fabric and felt belts are employed in a wide group of material transport systems like vehicle producing, food processing, and significant industries. Felt is a non-woven texture and it's most significant crude material for belting textures is polyester. The other fabric used are polyamide, cotton, and Flax.
At the best possible thickness and firmness, felt can be seal in greases and seal out pollution.
It can serve as vibration and sound-reducing material.
These characteristics may run from those of a subtle, graceful softening to a hard, thick material perfect for conferring profoundly cleaned surfaces to glass and metal.
In numerous cases, in spite of present-day innovative advances in synthetic and mechanical building, felt is a good material with good properties. As a matter of fact, they are the main material that will perform satisfactorily on a practical reason for some, grease metering, pressing, and protecting applications.
Felt's inherent attributes as well make it perfect for a wide scope of controlled separating applications.
While Felt might be viewed as one of the more building materials, its potential for mechanical applications has just been hardly tapped.
The following are a few areas where felts of different structures and densities have successfully used for various applications.
1.Architectural Applications: They are used in wall covers, wall paintings, furniture, and decoration.
2.Home Appliances: Build-up and air seals, pivoting shaft lubricators, against clatter guards
3.Automotive Components: Drive instrument oil retainers, commotion and vibration retention and, transmission liquid filters
4.Electric Motors: Felt wicks and pressing convey consistently, metered oil source
5.Polishing and wiping: Fluid, focal points, glass, ceramics, floor scrubbers and polishers, metal tubing, rolled sheet steel and aluminum, and semi-fluid covering application
6.Power Tools: Felt lubricators, pressure cushions for sanding machines, fuel, and fuel filters.
7.Seals and Bearings: Seal out soil and residue while successfully greasing up bearing inside.
8.Other Applications: Light bases, stamp cushions, against scratch cushions, climate stripping, and different padding.
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
Studying at Tennessee State University
Creating at The Art Institutes
Interning at NASA as an Electrical Engineer
Leading their university as Student Body President
Working as a Video Producer in Atlanta
Earning Master’s Degrees in Criminal Justice, Public Administration & Molecular Biology
Serving as Officers in the U.S. Army
Volunteering their time at Inspiring Minds
Working as an Engineer for the U.S. Government
Starting their own companies around the country
Giving back to their communities
Becoming strong, successful members of society
“The feeling of walking across the stage, knowing you’re going on to do bigger and better things in life is the best.”
Leo joined Inspiring Minds as an 8th grader, struggling with his grades and always wanting to be the class clown. Towards the end of his junior year, he realized that if he didn't change his mindset, he would have no hope of graduating on time with his class. Leo overcame many challenges to graduate, and Inspiring Minds was with him all the way. He had to retake two additional math courses and one additional English course during his senior year, as well as pass his Ohio Graduation Test. He was also required to take a full physical science class online and pass it with an A, in just two weeks, to walk across the stage with his class. HE DID!
Inspiring Minds alumni Sergio Smith has kept himself busy since graduating from Howland High School in 2008.
Born and raised in Warren, Ohio, Sergio earned his bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Cincinnati and works as a Behavior Specialist for Norwood City Schools. In his position, Sergio works with emotionally disturbed and challenged students, grades K-12.
“I build a rapport with my students, where they can trust me and feel comfortable talking to me,” Sergio said. “There's nothing better than seeing them have a positive breakthrough and start heading in the right direction.”
A student of the first Inspiring Minds Class in 2006, Shawná King started the program as a quiet, reserved homebody. Through eye-opening experiences and opportunities with Inspiring Minds, she grew into a dreamer, a traveler, a leader and an impressive success story.
As a true veteran of Inspiring Minds, Shawná remembers the days of meeting at McDonald’s and selling candy bars to raise money for the group’s first exposure trip 10 years ago. She says one of the most important things she learned through Inspiring Minds was to be open-minded and try new things, even if they’re outside of your comfort zone. | <urn:uuid:4b24a907-ca12-4d45-b382-1392d7696cc7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://imyouth.org/success-stories/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.975999 | 577 | 1.6875 | 2 |
24 Oct 2014
The Power of Six
Word of mouth is powerful in boosting company growth; influencing perceptions and buying behaviour; building reputation; and creating new markets. According to research it is seen as authoritative and trustworthy compared to other communications, and it can reach where others parts of the marketing mix can’t. But word of mouth is not just something that happens or not.
Contacting customers is simple, but influencing prospects, decision-makers, or, for example, politicians you don’t know or you wouldn’t normally have access to, is difficult.
It’s a small world
Getting to the right person who can say yes to you is easier than it seems. According to the ‘small world’ theory, there are only six degrees of separation between anyone on the planet through a chain of acquaintances. The number of acquaintances grows exponentially with the number of links in the chain, so only a small number of links is required to reach anyone on the Earth.
In 1967, American social psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a postal experiment to test the theory, randomly selecting people from across the US to send postcards to specific targets. The sender knew the recipients name, occupation and general location, and had to send the card to a person they knew who they thought was most likely to know the target personally. That person would do the same, and so on, until it hit the target. According to Milgram, 80% of the successfully delivered postcards were delivered after four or fewer steps. Almost all were delivered in fewer than six steps. If you are not convinced try it for yourself. Very often you don’t need 6 links, 3 or 4 will do – as we can all see with LinkedIn!
The theory that everyone is connected through a chain of acquaintances lends itself perfectly to word-of-mouth marketing.
But word-of-mouth is not restricted to verbal communications. Techniques such as ‘buzz’ and ‘viral’ marketing work on the same principle, delivering a message to the right people via emails and letting the campaign effectively run itself. It isn’t an entirely predictable sport but viral marketing is now an effective weapon in the marketing mix. A striking advert or short video can also be a talking point and an important part of a coordinated word of mouth campaign.
The key to word-of-mouth marketing is to get people talking about your brand and your company, product or service. The ideal people to do that are customers, and you can enlist non-customers too. But mere customer satisfaction or just being ‘great’ is rarely enough to generate word-of-mouth recommendations. You have to get into the marketing driving seat and put your foot down.
Are you giving your customers something to talk about? Is your message simple and clear? Get it right and your growth could take on a life of its own.
For help reaching and influencing customers and prospects contact Mike Rigby on 01453 521621, firstname.lastname@example.org or @wehelp_you_grow. Or follow MRA Marketing on LinkedIn to see the power of six in practice!
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As a PhD researcher exploring regional examples of recipe manuscripts in the local archives, I was thrilled when two opportunities to talk about my research with two very different local audiences recently arose. The first, for the wonderful Nottingham PubhD audience, and the other, in a nearby secondary school as part of an event designed to give a ‘taste’ of postgraduate study opportunities to a group of 16-18 year old, post-16 pupils.
What is PubhD?
PubhD is an innovative event that began in Nottingham in 2014 and has been steadily taking up residency in other university cities ever since. The premise is simple; on a monthly basis, PubhD invites three doctoral students from any discipline, to take on the challenge of explaining their research topic in ten minutes or less, at ‘pub level’. In return, participants get a drink or two for their efforts, a great opportunity to face challenges from the (very friendly) audience, and a chance to try out new ideas.
For me, the key to introducing recipes to this pub audience was an emphasis on some of the local Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire families that I am currently researching through their recipe collections; the Willoughby’s of Aspley, the Miller-Mundy’s of Shipley Hall, and Henrietta Cavendish-Holles-Harley of Welbeck Abbey. From here, I was able to give a brief overview of three key themes in my thesis. First, how much recipe manuscripts can tell us about what people ate and the ailments which afflicted local households in the early modern period. Second, how we can trace recipe sharing networks in the region through the many frequent attributions. And tthird, what we can learn about the role of men in early modern domestic life.
The audience response was outstanding and like other speakers on the night, I was asked an array of insightful and interesting questions which ate into far more than my allotted 20-minute Q&A time! I was particularly pleased to see notes taken by one audience member who summarised the talk in a way that gave me a chance to reflect on the current shape of the project:
Postgraduate Outreach Taster – ‘What is a PhD?’
University outreach is a big part of my working life and so, when given the chance to extend this to a postgraduate awareness and aspiration-raising session, I was quick to take it up. By first asking the question ‘What is a PhD?’, the introductory part of this session aimed to address any pupil misconceptions, as well as explain the many routes and options beyond undergraduate study. I approached pupil perceptions and concerns with post-it questions collected from the group early on in the session and answered by the end.
I opened the recipe workshop with a very brief introduction on what a receipt book is, and some of the questions I am seeking to answer as part of my research. The main body of the session then aimed to get pupils actively engaging with recipe sources by examining manuscript and printed recipe sources alongside one another.
I asked the groups two ‘starter’ questions for discussion, alongside the caveat that they should be prepared to share their views with the rest of the class:
- What are your first impressions of these sources?
- What are the similarities and differences between them?
The most striking aspect of the group responses was their own recognition that these types of documents were quite removed from what they are used to encountering in curriculum history topics in school – and this excited them! Although they were unfamiliar with some of the key local historical families and their homes, pupils quickly appeared to be able to identify with the distinctly local aspect of the manuscript copies I gave them. The groups also highlighted their own difficulties in transcribing and understanding some of the text due to sentence structuring and unfamiliar language. They also began to show an interest in how the printed example proclaimed itself to be aimed at ‘Good-h[o]us[e]wives’.
In a time-limited session, it was a challenge for the group to get far beyond these initial responses but with more time, lots could have been done to see pupils extending their skills in reading and transcribing the sources. There are plans to develop this outreach session into an extended history ‘taster’ as part of a summer residential programme for pre-entry university students. In this session, pupils will be given a much longer opportunity to dissect and engage with recipe sources, as well as to explore key themes in greater detail.
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What makes Congo, Republic of the a unique country to travel to?
The Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville) is a developing nation in Central Africa. The official language is French, and Lingala, Kikongo, and Kituba are also widely spoken. The largest cities are the capital, Brazzaville, located on the Congo River, and Pointe Noire, on the Atlantic coast. Parts of the capital and large areas in the south of the country were damaged during civil conflicts from 1997 to 1999. The last rebel group signed a cease-fire accord with the government in March 2003. Facilities for tourism are very limited.
Several incidents of petty street crime against U.S. citizens have occurred recently and reports of violent crime in Brazzaville, although not specifically targeting U.S. citizens, are not uncommon. Incidents of armed robberies, vehicle break-ins, mugging, and pick-pocketing have been reported near the ports, outside popular restaurants, as well as in the Congolese neighborhoods surrounding the city center in both Pointe Noire and Brazzaville.
U.S. citizens and many foreigners are perceived to be wealthy and should take precautions to avoid becoming victims of crime. Criminals often target individuals based on their dress, actions and perceived vigilance.
The Embassy recommends that you do not travel alone, avoid poorly lit streets and unfamiliar areas, especially at night.
You should note that in cases of theft and robbery, legal recourse is limited; leave valuable items at home. Pointe Noire shares similar concerns to Brazzaville with one exception; petty crime is often committed near Pointe Noire’s beaches. The Embassy recommends that you stay on main beaches, secure valuables, and avoid all beaches completely at night, when crimes typically occur. You should also use caution when swimming because of riptides. The main areas of concern in Pointe Noire are the coastline (currents), beachside after hours, and market areas (another popular area for petty crime, which you should avoid after dark).
While you are traveling in the Republic of the Congo, you are subject to its laws even if you are a U.S. citizen. Foreign laws and legal systems can be vastly different from our own. It is important to carry some form of identification at all times. Wallets should contain only a small amount of cash and be free of all credit cards. You may be taken in for questioning if you are stopped by the police and are unable to produce an acceptable form of identification. A common practice among policemen is to stop foreigners and accuse them of minor infractions (which may or may not be valid). When this occurs, the police do not want to write a ticket, but rather request the person to pay a fine on the spot. The U.S. Embassy does not encourage anyone to pay fines. The Embassy recommends that all travelers carry a copy of their U.S. passport and Congolese visa to prevent them from being taken by police or armed assailants during an attempted bribe.
If you travel to a new region within the Republic of the Congo, you should carry your passport, as you may be asked to register with Immigration Service officials upon arrival in a new location. It is illegal to take pictures of government buildings, military installations, and other key parts of infrastructure such as ports, train stations, and airports. In general, it is best to keep your camera out of sight and ask permission prior to taking photos. If permission is refused, don’t take the photo.
There are also some things that might be legal in the Republic of the Congo, but still illegal in the United States. You can be prosecuted under U.S. law if you buy pirated goods. Engaging in sexual conduct with children and using or disseminating child pornography in a foreign country is a crime prosecutable in the United States. If you break local laws in the Republic of the Congo, your U.S. passport will not help you avoid arrest or prosecution. If you are arrested in the Republic of the Congo, you have the option to request that the police, prison officials, or other authorities alert the U.S. Embassy of your arrest, and to have communications from you forwarded to the U.S. Embassy.
Medical Facilities and Health Information
Medical facilities are extremely limited. Some medicines are in short supply, particularly in rural areas. Travelers should carry their own supply of properly-labeled medications. The Embassy’s Consular Section maintains a list of clinics in Brazzaville and Pointe Noire. This list is provided as a service for U.S. citizens residing in or visiting the Republic of the Congo, and in no way constitutes an endorsement or recommendation of any particular facility.
Disease Outbreaks: Mosquito borne illnesses are a major problem throughout the country and prevention of bites and proper immunizations are important for all areas. Travelers should carry and use mosquito repellents containing DEET or picaridin and sleep under insecticide-impregnated mosquito nets if possible. A yellow fever outbreak in western portions of the country started in December 2012 leading to an immunization program for citizens. All visitors should have documentation of yellow fever vaccination within ten years. Chikungunya, another mosquito borne virus, appeared in June 2011. There is no immunization or treatment for this disease, which causes fever, headaches, and severe joint pain. Again, prevention of mosquito bites is most important.
Hepatitis A and typhoid are very common in the Republic of the Congo; all travelers should be immunized. Because of an ongoing measles outbreak, you should be immunized (or have had measles). Rabies is not uncommon; travelers staying in rural settings, especially for long periods, should be immunized before arriving. Although currently controlled, polio outbreaks have occurred in recent years. Travelers should be immunized before arrival.
Malaria is a serious and sometimes fatal disease that is highly prevalent in cities and rural areas throughout the country in all seasons of the year. If you will be visiting the Republic of the Congo, you will need to discuss with your doctor the best ways for you to avoid getting sick with malaria. A combination of strategies should be taken to diminish the chance of developing malaria and other mosquito-borne illnesses such as chikungunya and yellow fever:
Taking a prescription antimalarial drug,
Using insect repellent and wearing long pants and sleeves to prevent mosquito bites, and
Sleeping in air-conditioned or well-screened rooms and/or using bed nets.
All of the following antimalarial drugs are equal options for preventing malaria in the Republic of the Congo: Atovaquone-proguanil (Malarone®), doxycycline, or mefloquine. Chloroquine is NOT an effective antimalarial drug in the Republic of the Congo and should not be taken to prevent malaria in this region. The CDC provides additional information on malaria protective measures.
If you become ill with a fever or flu-like illness while traveling in the Republic of the Congo, and for up to one year after returning home, you should seek prompt medical attention and tell the physician you have traveled into a malarial area and what antimalarials you have been taking.
African trypanosomiasis is transmitted by the bite of the tsetse fly and is primarily found along the Congo River in the regions of Bouenza (including Loudima, Nkayi, and Madingou), Pool, Plateau (including Gambona), and Cuvette (including along the Likouala and Sangha rivers). Conventional insect repellents (DEET and permethrin) are ineffective against the tsetse fly. Wear light-colored, (not blue, which attracts tsetse flies) heavyweight clothing.
Loiasis, a filarial infection transmitted by large tabanid flies (Deer or Mango Fly), is highly endemic in forested areas. Exposure of longer than just a week or two is generally required for infection. Daytime insect precautions are recommended. Onchocerciasis, another filarial infection which is transmitted by black flies, is highly endemic. Exposure of longer than just a week or two is generally required for infection. Daytime insect precautions are recommended, especially near the shores of rivers.
Schistosomiasis is caused by a parasitic worm and is endemic in the Republic of the Congo. The larval stage of the worm burrows through the skin when in contact with contaminated fresh water. Avoid wading, swimming, bathing, or washing in, or drinking from bodies of fresh water such as canals, lakes, rivers, streams, or springs.
There is a very high incidence of diarrheal diseases throughout the country including in luxury hotels in major cities. Travelers can protect themselves by following good hygiene and safe food preparation. These include scrupulous washing of hands under running water, especially before food preparation and eating, thorough cooking of food, boiling or treatment of drinking water, and use of sanitary facilities. Above all, be very careful with food (especially raw vegetables and leafy salads) and water, including ice.
Tuberculosis is an increasingly serious health concern in the Republic of the Congo.
Safety and Security
Although the Republic of the Congo is still recovering from its civil war, there have been no serious episodes of unrest or violence since the March 2003 peace accord. Continued security awareness, however, remains a key consideration for all visitors.
You should avoid travel in the Pool region south of Brazzaville. Although terrorism has not been a recent problem in the Republic of the Congo, the Ninjas (a former rebel group) reside in the Pool Region, especially in and around the village of Kinkala. Although they do not specifically target U.S. citizens, they do routinely establish roadblocks and conduct highway robberies. For this reason, the Embassy advises against travel by road between Brazzaville and Pointe Noire. In the past, the passenger train connecting Brazzaville and Point Noire passed through this region and train passengers have been robbed; however, there has been a recent push by the government to improve the comfort and safety of the rail connection between Congo’s two largest cities. For more on these developments, feel free to contact the Embassy as we will continue to monitor these improvements.
You should also pay close attention to events in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as unrest in Kinshasa can also affect Brazzaville. In 2007, stray small arms fire originating in Kinshasa landed in Brazzaville.
Traffic Safety and Road Conditions
While in the Republic of the Congo, you may encounter road conditions that differ significantly from those in the United States. Traffic safety in general is hazardous due to high speeds, aggressive driving, poorly maintained vehicles, and general indifference toward the safety of pedestrians and cyclists. The information below concerning the Republic of the Congo is provided for general reference only, and may not be totally accurate in a particular location or circumstance.
Road conditions are generally poor and deteriorate significantly during the rainy season from November to May. The National Highway 2, which links Brazzaville to Pointe Noire, is largely unpaved and often impassable in the rainy season. Unleaded gasoline and diesel fuel are frequently unavailable in the major cities and especially in the more isolated regions of the country. Maintenance of the few paved roads is limited. Overland travel off the main roads requires a four-wheel drive vehicle. Poorly-marked checkpoints, sometimes manned by undisciplined soldiers, exist in many areas of the countryside.
Bus travel is strongly discouraged. While there are no officially registered taxi companies in Brazzaville or Pointe-Noire, taxis are required to have an operator permit. Many taxi drivers are owner-operators. In the past several years, there have not been any reported criminal incidents involving U.S. citizens using taxis in Brazzaville or Pointe Noire. Hire only taxis painted in the government-authorized green and white color scheme in Brazzaville and blue and white color scheme in Pointe Noire. Taxis are not metered, so fares should be negotiated before passengers embark. Most taxi drivers will always round-up fares or not return change.
Emergency services are limited within Brazzaville and Pointe Noire and virtually non-existent elsewhere in the Republic of the Congo. Please refer to the medical section above.
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Industry: Fruit and Vegetables (NAICS 3114) Dairy (NAICS 3115)
Process Brief: Water is removed heating a product under pressure and allowing the water to flash-vaporize.
Energy source: Steam/natural gas
Forced circulation tubular evaporators are similar to natural circulation systems with the addition of a pump that forces the product upward in the tubular heater. Forced circulation evaporators were developed for processing liquors because the product circulates rapidly through the heat exchanger and is prevented from boiling by the hydrostatic head maintained at the top of the tube plate. The liquor flash vaporizes in the separator where it encounters a reduction in absolute pressure. The system continuously circulates the product between the separator and the heat exchanger so that the temperature rise in the heat exchanger is only 3 to 5°F. In a typical application, 200-330 pounds of product circulate through the heat exchanger for every pound of water removed.
Forced circulation evaporators are used only for specific products, such as liquors, because the design requires large diameter piping and high capacity pumps. The high fluid flow of the system also leads to high operating costs.
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How do I write in general?
Grammar: According to the new orthography, the two adjectives in the word structure “by and large” are capitalized because the noun after “im” requires it.
What does broad mean?
all in all in general in general in general in general in general in general in general as a rule in the sum in total as a whole summa summarum (lat.)
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How do I write the two?
While both of you are spelled correctly, there is no choice in capitalization of either. Only the lower case is correct, which is why hello you two is simply wrong.
How do you write the two uppercase or lowercase?
One always writes “both” in lowercase D 76: it was the two of them there.
How do you write hello love?
Hello, my dears! The her is written in lower case anyway, because there is a noun behind it. When the plural as well as you, you, appear, it is also written in lower case. Only if you address a specific person, the you is capitalized.
How do you spell love everyone?
Correct: “Dear all”. Apart from the fact that you can’t write “Dear All” at all, because the word “All” is an adverb, which must also be lowercase and must always be followed by a noun (for example: “all parents “).
How to write to you and your loved ones
However, the rule that has been in force since 2006 is new: the pronouns of address you, you, you, you, your, your are written in lower case! But there is an exception to every rule, and letters, e-mails and text messages can still be capitalized. That means: I thank you OR you for your OR your dear letter!
How to write good day together
It doesn’t matter whether it’s “Hello everyone”, “Good morning everyone”, “Good day everyone” or “Good evening everyone” – you always have to write the word in lower case.
How do you spell good morning you two?
Hello Tom. one always writes “both” in lower case: both, the two, these two, everything both etc.
How do you spell colleagues in one word?
The following spelling is used in the dictionary: employee, teacher, colleague. We did not find any recommendation under DIN 5008. So far we have written employees, colleagues.
When do you write Hello everyone?
“Hello everyone, / Hello everyone,” This salutation is suitable if the sender is familiar with the person – for example in a circle of friends or in a team, if everyone addressed is on first name basis.
How do you spell dear colleagues?
“Dear colleagues” – that’s always possible… If that seems too boring or long-winded for you, you can also use these variants in the salutation of business letters: Dear team, Hello, Hello everyone, Dear marketing team, Good morning, everyone together, good morning,
How is it best?
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Is hello on first name basis?
The English language doesn’t have the problem, the German language does: the salutation. If it’s just the simple “You” there, it can be “Du” or “Sie” here. But sometimes a “Hi!”, “Hello!” or “Tach!” is enough.
When can I say you?
A “you” must be offered. This is usually done by the older of the two. At work, however, whoever is in the higher position offers the “du.” So the boss decides whether “you” or “you”, even if he is younger than his employee.
Is you guys a DU shape?
The you form You generally write the you form of address ( you, your, your, your, you, you, your, your, your, your ) in lowercase. You can only capitalize them in letters as a polite form of address. But then you should write all shapes either in upper or lower case.
Is her a DU form?
In the standard German language, the polite form is now addressed with the capitalized grammatical plural form “Sie” and with the derived forms of the 3. The address with “Sie” is called Siezen, the address with “Du” Duzen.
What do you call the du shape?
The address in the second person singular of personal and possessive pronouns (you, you, your etc.), colloquially called Duzen, is the grammatically direct and simplest form of address underlying all Indo-European languages.
What forms of address are there?
Letter and e-mail: Which form of address is appropriate?Dear Ms. or Dear Mr. ….Dear Ms. or Dear Mr. …Good day, Ms. or Good day, Mr. …Hello, Ms. Hello, Mr. …Hi, Ms. Hi , Mr….Pay attention to the spelling, especially the commas.Three tips at the end.You might also be interested in this:
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The AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC) thanks the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) for adding hepatitis C medications to the list of drugs available under the state’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP), which ensures that people living with HIV have access to life-saving treatments. The IDPH decision is especially significant given that about one-third of people living with HIV are co-infected with HCV.
The five drugs added to the ADAP formulary, effective Feb. 10, include:
Making these medications accessible to people living with HIV is a major step forward in the effort to cure hepatitis C infection, prevent chronic liver disease and halt the transmission of the hepatitis C virus (HCV). These five new medications will be available to 100 ADAP-eligible clients in a pilot program after they complete an IDPH approval form that will be posted on the IDPH website.
According to the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors, 31 ADAPs in the U.S. currently cover some form of HCV treatment, while up to 14 cover some form of the newer, curative treatments.
As we applaud IDPH for increasing access to these new drugs, we urge the Illinois Medicaid program to review and change their hepatitis C access and treatment guidelines, which are the most restrictive in the nation. We also urge pharmaceutical companies to address astronomical drug pricing that too often keeps life-saving medications out of reach for people who desperately need them. The high cost of pharmaceuticals forces states and private insurance plans to place deadly, restrictive guidelines on who can get their HCV cured.
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Chimpanzees share 98% of our DNA, they have complex relationships, raise their young, wage wars, have friendships, alliances and enemies. They have extensive tool use and even have intricate means of communication. As far as I knew, they were endangered species. I mean, this is what IUCN’s website and even WWF will tell you. But today I learned that that was only applicable to free-living chimpanzees. This means that chimpanzees in captivity are listed as threatened. Maybe this doesn’t seem so bad, until you realize that that is the loophole that allows them to be test subjects and live in labs, in often, sub-par conditions.
Of a chimpanzee researcher at Gombe National Park. Does Gombe sound familiar to you?? Well, if not, it should. Gombe is where Jane Goodall began her groundbreaking research on chimpanzees, or Pan troglodytes.
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Running your own business is hard work, there is an innumerable number of things to keep track of at all times. Inventory, Staff wages, morale, forecast, budgeting but most importantly, everything is connected to the lifeline of the business; its blood – cash. A business needs to have a steady amount of cash inflow to complement its cash outflow or very soon the company might cease to exist.
Every business has several monthly expenses that must be settled. For instance, you’ll need to pay your employees their salaries, purchase inventory, service loans, and pay utility bills. All these factors are important and they make up the cash outflow of your company. Therefore, the amount of money you pump into your business should be able to multiply to a point where you can comfortably settle these bills and remain with a reasonable amount of profits.
Most ventures raise capital in many ways; some submit their personal income into the business as capital. Other’s raise money through crowdfunding, angel investors, and some stay the course and let the market handle it.
But most are not so lucky; they have smaller businesses that do not attract that level of attention or hype. They start to suffer because of many variables, and they need to secure finances, so the business remains operational and changes its course for the better.
Perhaps the best way out in such a case is loans. Taking a loan could help your business stand on its feet and remain competitive in the market. Of course, there are a lot of negative notions attached to this idea, but with the right plan in place and a sound strategy on how to utilize your finances, you could enjoy a lot of benefits from such financial aids.
It’s worth noting that there are two options when it comes to loans. You can either opt for secured or unsecured business funding. The former is offered by most banks and similar financial institutions. Secured loans attract low-interest rates because the borrower pledges an asset. Unsecured loans, on the other hand, although they come with higher interest rates, are easier and faster to process since loan applications are assessed based on a business's creditworthiness and affordability evaluations.
Whichever option you choose, this financial boost can have a huge impact on your business, both short-term and long-term. Keep reading our article to learn how loans could enhance the growth of your start-up business.
Ways Loans Help Your Small Business Grow:
Some benefits of loans for your small business are discussed below;
Let’s hypothesize: A small business isn’t doing so well and an outsider or a partner decides they would help. In order to receive funds, the owner must relinquish about 50% of the business. This scenario might not be such a great idea for the owner. Not only would you be losing control of the business, but profits would be cut in half as well. Additionally, if you decide to one day sell the business, you, the owner, don’t get to reap the rewards of the sale.
Owners might also be tempted to fund it out of their pocket, but combining the finances of the personal and business accounts should not be entertained. They will only lead to a lot of questions and probes into the future if ever the IRS gets involved. This might also put a dark spot on your credit scores.
In the future, the owner might want to explore the option of expanding the business or investing in an online store; or outsourcing work to freelancers. Whatever the case may be, every small business must have a plan of action to expand. If finances do not show up when needed that could cause a lot of troubles and speed bumps along the way.
A small business loan can inject the business with enough life for it to meet its immediate obligations and turn towards focusing on securing potential future profits.
Lack of conflict:
Once someone is in a tricky situation, they likely lean on their close circle of friends and family to help support and go to their aid. It is no different in the business world; the owner might feel the burden of asking his closest connections to come and dig him out of this hurdle. But this could be risky on both a personal and professional level.
Not only would you put part of the company at stake, but giving the investor substantial authority it could lead to tensions in the relationship as well. It’s best to avoid such headaches by going after a loan that can not cause any more stress on the owner’s personal and professional life.
It will also help the business avoid falling back on tending to its monthly payables to employees, traders, and suppliers. Inventory upgrade
Managing an inventory can be a task that is heavy on the company’s budget. Especially with rapidly advancing technology routinely outdating older machines; a business needs to keep up with the demands of the industry to satisfy its consumers and stay relevant.
Not promptly upgrading the equipment hurts the business and affects potential cash flows from future sales. It is important to be able to purchase updated machinery to keep pace with the competition.
This can be especially crucial in a hectic quarter of the year where the demands of the business are at an all-time high to meet the needs of the market.
Small business term loans can keep the business elevated without forcing the owners to dip into their personal accounts.
Securing a larger loan:
If you are a small business owner, then you’re quite familiar with all the above-mentioned concerns. To help bring your business to the next level, it is essential to understand that your credit standing and history are vital when attempting to secure large business loans. That is why it is better to take out smaller loans at the start, especially if the business hasn’t had a credit history beforehand.
Initially, your business may not secure the best loan because your company doesn’t have credit rapport.
However, making your small business loan payment on time secures your reputation as a reliable business to invest in. Give lenders a safer picture of your operations, and then they might be more inclined to invest in your business.
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Cursive handwriting is today’s blog topic and one I will be spending time on next year with including exploring Spencerian system of penmanship, Palmer Method of penmanship, and the McGuffey’s Readers lessons still available.
Today we are looking at something overlooked and (probably) under practiced – our cursive handwriting!
There is something we can give ourselves without having to use up a gift card and it can be ours for no money. For just the purchase price of our personal time we can practice and find ourselves sending our personal correspondence with beautiful cursive handwriting. With all of the recent handwriting from this Holiday season just concluding, I am reminded my own penmanship can use some practice before the next big concentrated letter writing wave and there are steps I can take to improve!
“Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.” – Vince Lombardi
Today there is a very nice less than 4 minute video that CJ’s Creative Studio put together last year on tips for improving our cursive handwriting. In this video he stresses the importance of being focused and diligent, personal style, to be generally legible, and to practice daily. You will want to visit his site as he addresses how to create your own guide sheets for practicing.
Back in September I blogged about Getting that handwritten letter look (TrueType font) and while it is true we can use technology to give us that look and there are times it comes in handy, my point is it is nice to be able to have the choice and when time permits actually handwrite our own letters.
It is fun exploring and finding a Spencerian Set of copy books with penmanship theory book available for ordering on line. To see the different options for the 1836 Original McGuffey Readers Hard Cover Set of 7 books available has me digging even more to see all the options. The more I spend time among these found pages there are even more items to explore for using to improve our cursive handwriting. For now suffice it to say I am exploring and doing some ordering to tryout out some of these items with plans to share writing about them in future blog posts in 2016 here at AnchoredScraps.com!
Attribution & Thank you to the following who are referenced today —
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Knives in general rust because it’s made of metal. When any metal runs into water and oxygen, oxidation occurs. This is a natural chemical reaction that should be, in a way, expected since knives are washed all the time.
But Isn’t This Supposed to be Stainless Steel?!
It’s understandable when people gripe about rusty steak knives, especially when they have paid top dollar for its supposedly non-corrosive, non-staining properties.
But this happens even for the most expensive, high-quality blades made by the most respected cutlery companies. And there are several reasons why it does.
Enumerated below are several reasons why this problem could happen. And believe it or not, most of the reasons listed are bad habits that most home cooks tend to have when it comes to their kitchen cutlery.
Take note of each so that, hopefully, you won’t be troubled by rusty stainless steel steak knives ever again.
(See more: 10 best sets of steak knives you should know about)
It is the leading cause of steak knives rusting. It is mostly happening near the sharp edge of a
Keeping in humidity
The second cause of knives rust is keeping knives in humidity and especially when people put the steak knives in the dishwasher. In the dishwasher, it will be exposed to water for a long period of time so making it easy for rust to make its place on the
It is seen due to many tasks that are needed to be done in the kitchen, the
Not sharpening the
This point is most important as sharpening can also prevent pit corrosion. If the
Not caring for a small rusty area
It is easy to ignore a very small spot of rust on the knife but this is a big mistake. Once there is even a small spot of rust on the
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Chickens are easy farm animals to have - provide them a safe space, quality feed, clean their coops weekly & provide fresh water daily.
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We seem to have an abundance of eggs. Many homesteaders use the water glass storage method for their eggs, some crack an egg in cube trays & freeze (great for baking), other dehydrate (no idea how they do this last method) I do know that when you dehydrate, you should store in freezer.
Not being a person that likes to "reinvent the wheel" I am sharing a link on tried and true methods. For those that are not aware of the many methods to preserve eggs!
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New York's Federal Reserve Bank announced Tuesday that total household debt in the U.S. has surpassed $16 trillion, the largest ever.
The Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit, organized by the bank's Consumer Credit Panel, also showed that total non-housing balances experienced the most significant jump in six years.
"The second quarter of 2022 showed robust increases in mortgage, auto loan, and credit card balances, driven in part by rising prices," stated New York Fed economic analyst Joelle Scally. "While household balance sheets overall appear to be in a strong position, we are seeing rising delinquencies among subprime and low-income borrowers with rates approaching pre-pandemic levels."
In 2022's second quarter, there was $758 billion in mortgage originations, with mortgage balances rising by $207 billion and credit card balances increasing by $46 billion over that same period.
Mortgage balances were the largest contributor to the $2 trillion increase, even as mortgage originations slightly declined. Auto loans saw a $199 billion jump, and aggregate limits on credit cards reached $4.22 trillion, the most in a decade.
Student loan balances barely changed in the second quarter. They stand at about $1.59 trillion.
Banks analysts chalked up much of the record household debt to the effects of inflation on the U.S. economy, writing in a subsequent blog post that historically low delinquency rates were coming to an end.
"In part, the growth in each debt type reflects increased borrowing due to higher prices," they wrote, adding that the "effects of inflation are also visible in credit card balances."
"Americans are borrowing more, but a big part of the increased borrowing is attributable to higher prices," the analysts concluded.
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Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) is aiming to develop out brand-new collaborations with vendors of lithium-ion batteries in Africa. An Australian-owned business in Mozambique runs among the globe’s biggest graphite mines in the area, and also Tesla intends to buy as much as 80% of the raw product from them, beginning in 2025.
Why is Tesla making this action?
China possesses the mass of procedures when it concerns graphite and also the lithium-ion market. Tesla doesn’t wish to remove connections with China, however it does wish to minimize dependancy on one resource in one nation. In addition to developing a number of vendors, some resources in China have actually been slammed for their working problems worrying “compelled labor” and also “various other civils rights misuses”, which might have additionally triggered the action.
However, it’s really not likely Tesla aims to reduce connections with China at any type of phase in the future as it’s the business’s biggest potential market, with an approximated 450,000 cars marketed there in 2015.
Just how does it profit the business?
It indicates Tesla will ultimately safeguard a concurred supply of graphite and also will certainly have the ability to create its very own batteries locally. The business won’t need to catch the rates power of a specific vendor and also will inevitably have even more control over the supply chain.
Tesla intends to create 20 million systems each year by 2031 so it will certainly require as lots of batteries as it can getting to get rid of both time and also supply restraints for its design. As the business broadens its manufacturing facilities and also manufacturing centers — with Giga-Berlin opening in very early 2022 to fulfill European need — these aspirations will certainly be made a lot more reasonable.
It additionally has ecological, social, and also administration (ESG) advantages for the business. Tesla has actually constantly been a forward-thinking business, and also this is simply one added action it can do to place that concept front and also facility for itself. Not just is it a service concentrated on the security of the environment, however additionally on the civil liberties of employees.
Is Tesla still a great financial investment?
Tesla remains to control in its room and also has actually led the way for various other carmakers that are currently aiming to comply with in its steps — whether it be novices or tradition gamers. The business still generates cars in faster durations than lots of, has actually gotten to productivity with enhancing margins, and also is amongst the top-selling electrical cars worldwide. All the while, there’s still a lengthy method to go with them.
The disagreement, certainly, is Tesla’s assessment, which currently surpasses the consolidated market capitalization of the following 8 biggest business. Regardless of looking foamy, the business has actually kept its management setting, is expanding shipments at a document speed, and also will likely remain to be a leading pressure in the U.S., Europe, and also China moving forward. | <urn:uuid:c9428a05-cdb4-479d-bd2c-7374d8434a48> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.investcampaign.org/tesla-wants-to-reclaim-control-in-the-supply-chain/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.971474 | 633 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Vangelis – Hymne
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Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou born 29 March 1943), known professionally as Vangelis is a Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, pop rock, and orchestral music.
He is best known for his Academy Award–winning score for the film Chariots of Fire, composing scores for the films Antarctica, Blade Runner, Missing, 1492: Conquest of Paradise, and Alexander, and the use of his music in the PBS documentary Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan.
Vangelis began his professional musical career working with several popular bands of the 1960s such as The Forminx and Aphrodite’s Child, with the latter’s album 666 going on to be recognized as a psychedelic classic.
Throughout the 1970s, Vangelis composed music scores for several animal documentaries, including L’Apocalypse Des Animaux, La Fête sauvage and Opéra sauvage; the success of these scores brought him into the film scoring mainstream.
In the early 1980s, Vangelis formed a musical partnership with Jon Anderson, the lead singer of progressive rock band Yes, and the duo went on to release several albums together as Jon & Vangelis.
In 1981, he composed the score for the Oscar-winning film Chariots of Fire, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Original Music Score. The soundtrack’s single, the film’s “Titles” theme, also reached the top of the American Billboard Hot 100 chart and was used as the background music at the London 2012 Olympics winners’ medal presentation ceremonies.
Having had a career in music spanning over 50 years and having composed and performed more than 52 albums, Vangelis is one of the most important proponents of electronic music.
Vangelis was born 29 March 1943, in Agria, near Volos, Greece. Largely a self-taught musician, he reportedly began composing at the age of four. He refused to take traditional piano lessons, and throughout his career did not have substantial knowledge of reading or writing musical notation.
He studied painting—an art he still practices at the Academy of Fine Arts in Athens. When he was six, Vangelis’s parents enrolled him at a specialist music school in Athens.
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Are you interested in exploring an unfamiliar street, but wondering if it's safe? Well, you can always look around for reassuring signs—such as the presence of a medical marijuana dispensary.
Newly published research that analyzed Los Angeles crime statistics finds "an immediate increase in crime around dispensaries ordered to close, relative to those allowed to remain open."
"This increase is specific to the type of crime most plausibly deterred by bystanders, and is correlated by neighborhood walkability," write Tom Chang of the University of Southern California and Mireille Jacobson of the University of California–Irvine.
In other words, more thriving businesses on a given street means more pedestrian traffic, which, in turn, means less crime. And pot shops perform that role as well as any other establishment.
The study, published in the Journal of Urban Economics, took advantage in a change in a city ordinance that led to the forced closing of 417 medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles on June 7th, 2010. Another 180 were allowed to remain open.
These findings will likely create cognitive dissonance for our nation's chief crime-fighter, the marijuana-hating Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Using block-level crime statistics obtained by the Los Angeles Police Department and country sheriff's department, the researchers noted the number of incidents in a given neighborhood in the 10 days prior to June 7th, and the 10 days that followed it.
They estimate that, in a one-third-of-a-mile radius around a closed dispensary, "property crimes increase by 12 percent." This spike was "largely driven by increases in larceny and, specifically, theft from vehicles."
Focusing in on the shuttered facility's immediate neighborhood, they found the effect was even more pronounced. "Thefts from vehicles increase by almost 30 percent at one-quarter of a mile, and by 100 percent at one-eighth of a mile around dispensaries ordered to close, relative to those allowed to remain open," they report.
Curious, the researchers conducted a similar analysis of restaurants that were temporarily closed due to health violations, and found very similar results: A 9 to 12 percent increase in property crimes within a one-third-of-a-mile radius. The spike evaporated once the restaurant reopened.
"We can conclude from our research that retail businesses are effective in lowering crime," Johnson said in announcing the results, "even when the retail business is a medical marijuana dispensary."
So fears that such shops will increase neighborhood crime turn out to be not just overblown, but completely wrong. Given that legal sales of recreational marijuana will begin in California on January 1st, that's very good news.
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The Chinese people and leaders have always been tolerant and patient to the Dalai Lama. In an interview with AP journalist Steele held after the decade-long Cultural Revolution, the then vice chairman of the CPC Central Committee Deng Xiaoping said, "The Dalai Lama may come back, but must as a Chinese citizen. We have only one requirement, that is, patriotism. We have also maintained that it is never too late to be a patriot. "
In February the next year, the Dalai Lama's private envoy returned to China and contacted related departments of the Central Government. In March, Deng Xiaoping had a meeting with the Dalai's envoy, saying: "The cardinal principle is that Tibet is part of China. We ought to use this criterion to judge whether anything is correct or not."
In Nov. 1997, President Jiang Zemin delivered a speech at Harvard University in the U.S. After the speech, a question concerning talks between the Chinese Central Government and the Dalai Lama was raised. President Jiang answered the question in explicit terms: "As long as the Dalai Lama really abandons his advocate of Tibet independence, as long as he stops his activities to split the motherland, as long as he openly declares that Tibet is an inalienable part of China, as long as he acknowledges Taiwan is a province of China and the Government of People's Republic of China is the sole legitimate government to represent the whole of China, the door of negotiations is wide open."
On March 26, 2008, in his phone conversation with U.S. President George W. Bush, President Hu Jintao made clear China's policy concerning the Dalai Lama: "The Chinese Governemnt's policy concerning the Dalai Lama has been explicit and consistent, and we have been maintaining contacts with him with maximum patience. So long as he abandons Tibet independence, halts activities to split the country, especially the present activities to instigate and design violent crimes all over Tibet and elsewhere in China, and activities to sabotage the Beijing Olympics, as long as he acknowledges Tibet and Taiwan are inalienable parts of China, we are willing to continue engaging him and holding talks with him."
It can be stated that the Chinese leaders' attitude toward and policies on the Dalai Lama have been consistent, whereas the Dalai Lama's attitude varies with the changes in the international situation.
As early as 50 years ago, Mao Zedong came to know the true nature of the Dalai Lama. Just a few days before Dalai went to India to attend ceremony to mark the 2500 Anniversary of Sakyamuni's Nirvana, the leader predicted the possibility of Dala's not return at the Second Plenary Session of the Eighth CPC Central Committee.
"We must predict that Dalai will possibly not come back. He will not only refuse to return, but also curse us, saying 'Chinese Communist Party' invaded Tibet'. He would go so far as to declare 'Tibet independence' in India."
As was expected, after the Dalai Lama and the 10th Panchen Erdeni went to India, only the latter returned, while the Dalai Lama stayed in New Delhi and refused to return home at the instigation of certain foreign forces and Tibetan separatists who had previously fled to India.
Late Premier Zhou Enlai who was then visiting India met with the Dalai Lama for three times. Thanks to Premier Zhou's earnest admonition and patient persuasion, the Dalai Lame returned to China. Chairman Mao sent a letter to him right away in praise of his deed.
On Jan. 23, 1961, Mao Zedong had a long conversation with the 10th Panchen Erdeni in Beijing. Speaking of the Dalai Lama, he said, "The Dalai Lama was very reluctant to sign the agreements. He and his clique sent two groups of negotiators: one led by Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme from Chanmdo to Beijing, and the other from Kolkata, India. The second delegation was obstructed by Nehru, while the delegation members did not want to come. Seeing that they had to, they arrived at last. … The Dalai Lama began to conspire a rebellion after he left Beijing in 1955. He had been arranging the rebellion for two years, from his departure from India to his return from India in early 1958. "
On Oct. 6, 1959, Mao Zedong met a delegation of the Communist Party of India. In his conversation with Ajoy Kumar Ghosh, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India, Mao expressed China's attitude toward the Dalai Lama: "We hope for his return if he supports our proposition. As long as he acknowledges two principles, i.e., first, Tibet is part of China; second, he agrees to carry out democratic and socialist reforms in Tibet, then he can come back. "
China's central authorities have not changed the policy formulated by Mao Zedong 57 years ago concerning the Dalai Lama who fled abroad, especially the first principle. With the passage of so many years, however, the Dalai Lama has not changed his attitude at all. Furthermore, he has become even more skilled in serving as a double dealer, and slipped further and further on the path of splitting the motherland.
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Shirdi Sai Baba Temple
The temple of Sai Baba was built near that tree in 1922. Shirdi Sai Baba Temple is located in Shirdi which is 296 Kilometers from Mumbai (Maharashtra) in India. Shirdi is known as “Land Of Sai”. It is closely and highly connected to Ahmednagar city. Sai Baba used to do meditation under a tree of neem and he was died under that tree. Shirdi Sai Baba was and is the true and tangible belief of people. Both of his Muslim and Hindu devotees esteemed him with a deep soul. He is the most popular saint of India. People of all over the world worship him with a true faith. Perishable things were not the part of his divine love. His spirit is mostly concentrated on self-realization. A moral code of love, forgiveness, helping others, charity, contentment, inner peace, and devotion to God and guru were taught by him. His teachings followed the path which covers up the characteristics of both the Hinduism and Islam. His sayings are:
- Allah Malik Ek-means one god governs all
- Trust in me and your prayer shall be answered
- Allah Malik– means god is king
One can reach Shirdi sai baba Temple by mean of three modes: road, rail and air. There is abus network from all major destinations of Maharastra.The important railway station near Shirdi is Daund-Manmad Line and Manmad. The airport which is near to Shirdi is at Nasik, Pune and Mumbai. People can reach the shrine by mean of local transport.
Security And Some Tips
The security arrangements are good at this temple. So many CCTV cameras are installed within the temple premises. The private security guards which are employed here are 730 in number for the purpose of crowd management. Yatris should not carry cash and ornaments with them. Yatris should also place their luggage at safe and secure place.
When to Visit
The best time to visit this shrine is during the month of September to April. The timings of the temple are 5:30 AM to 10 PM. People from distant places flocked towards Shirdi to visit the temple for getting mental peace.
What To See And Do
The temple consists of an assembly hall comprises near about 600 devotees. The first floor of the temple consists of the paintings of the saint which reveals his life story. The Sai Baba Temple complex comprises:
- The Khandoba temple: the place where baba has gained the title of Sai
- Gurusthan: the place where he spend a large part of his time under neem tree
- Dwarkamai- a mosque i.e. a dwelling place of baba
- Chavadi- the place where baba used to spend his alternate nights
- Lendi Garden- The place which holds Nanda deep set up between a neem and a bodhi tree planted by baba himself. The lamp-Nand Deep has never been extinguished.
The deity of Sai Baba is the stunning figure made up of Italian marble. Darshan of Sai baba is the most delightful and divine achievement of the devotees. The starting of the day takes place by morning aarti which is held at 5:30 am daily. After that the holy bath is carried out. At temple entrance devotees use to make queues since 4 am so as to have regular Darshan starting at 7am. The Sai Baba temple complex consists of four gates and the queue for the darshan starts at gates 2 & 3. The closing time of gate is 10 pm after the night aarti.
The temple does not accept cooked food from outside as an offering. Following items are offered to make the parshad of the temple and also to participate in the temple services:
- Clothes (Dress) for Baba: The holy bathing of baba use to take place daily and for that dresses are offered.
- Flowers: After holy bathing and changing of clothes garlands of fresh flowers is offered to Baba daily. The number of garlands that are offered daily is about eight to ten.
- Fruits: The offerings of fruits use to take place during whole of the day at the time of worship.
- Oil: The oil lamp which burns all the time in the temple use to get lighted by Sesame oil.
- Naivedya: It is offered thrice daily to Baba and is made inside the temple itself.
Where To Stay:
There are many dharamshalas in shirdi for having stay at economical price. They are: Gobind Dham, Shri SAI Dham, Shri Sainivas Mega Dharmasala and Gobind Dham. The rooms in these people are big enough for providing space for about 10 people.
Where Else To Stay
There are so many hotels in Shirdi which provide luxury and they are meant for rich people. These hotels are: Hotel Sai Mahal, Veer Sai Hotel, Sun-N-Sand, Marigold Regency, Matrix Inn, Keys Hotel Temple Tree and Hotel Sai Leela
Lakhs of people are gathered in the temple premises to celebrate the festivals. People use to do puja and chant bahjans during these festivals. The festivals which are celebrated here are Guru Purnima (celebrated during the month of July), Ramnavami (celebrated during the month of March-April) and Vijayadashami (celebrated during the month of September).
There are many fascinating places to visit near Shirdi. These places are: Muktidham, Kalaram Temple, Shanishinganapur, Ellora Caves, Daulatabad, Shanishinganapur, Coin Museum, Pandavleni Caves and Ramkund.
Yatris should take a personal diary with them in order to have a written record of the whole visit. Yatris should also hire a tourist guide to have the complete knowledge of the temple including its history. They should also take first aid in order to cure frequent injury.
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So many times during my bouts of anxiety, which is often, I know that there is no reason to be worried or thinking about what I am. However, It is so difficult to stop the thoughts and emotions on the spot. It can be incredibly frustrating because many times I understand the irrationality of my thoughts and feelings, but I continue to think and worry and there is no stopping it.
What I’ve learned in therapy and researching videos, is not to stop the emotion. I’ve learned that riding out the feelings and emotions is a lot more beneficial, then trying to stop it all together. Getting frustrated and trying to stop thinking about a specific thing, can make someone with anxiety disorder, even more anxious. Become accepting of the feelings you go through. Allow them to run through you and then release them ever so slowly, until you start to feel better.
I for one, understand how frustrating it can be to try to force myself to stop thinking about “nonsense” and to stop creating things in my mind. The more I become frustrated, I become more upset and that leads to me becoming more anxious. So when things enter my mind, and I begin to feel my hands tremble and my heart palpatate, I take a moment, close my eyes, inhale through my nose and exhale through my mouth. I then repeat to myself “Thank you and goodbye”. I accept the thoughts running through my mind, then I release them. If I am at the point of being extremely anxious, I repeat my favorite mantra: “Today, I choose peace over anxiety”. I repeat it over and over, while doing my breathing technique. It may take a little while, but it ends up helping me.
So my piece of advice for people dealing with anxiety disorder, is try being accepting. Know that there is really no way for you to just stop thinking of something. There is no quick fix to stop the emotions brought on by obsessive thinking or specific worries. Be accepting of these thoughts and emotions. Once you let them roam around your mind and body, try and release them. Learn some breathing techniques and try finding a mantra that works for you. Remember that we are all different and there is no reason to be angry with yourself. Love yourself and find what works for you. | <urn:uuid:bd7286ad-a290-481e-be33-0af71f106ca7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jensanxietychronicles.wordpress.com/2016/08/08/be-accepting-of-your-emotions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.968131 | 480 | 1.710938 | 2 |
After Google intrigued tech journalists with its Cardboard virtual reality (VR) headset last June, Samsung is soon to launch its own headset that will also base its function on smartphones.
Known only as Project Moonlight, Samsung will make its first attempt in the ever-growing VR industry, not with a DIY cardboard headset like Google, but with a solid plastic model whose VR technology will also be based on the smartphone inserted into the device to reduce costs.
According to The Verge, which obtained photos of the device, the headset will include a focus dial with the potential for a USB connection with the user’s smartphone, as well as a handheld controller device that could draw parallels with a gaming controller from an older generation of gaming consoles.
While Project Moonlight has been pictured with a Samsung Galaxy S5, the headset is due to be launched at Samsung’s product event this September, where another one of its new gadgets, the Galaxy Note 4, is also due to be launched.
Given that the headset has yet to hit the market, it would therefore make sense that the new Note will also be compatible with the headset.
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It’s the first Tuesday of the month, which in my world means it’s quiz night. My team won last month (mostly not through my efforts – I knew two answers). I wonder if we can do it again?
In honour of quiz night, I thought I’d write a post with some (hopefully interesting) random facts. Just in case you ever find yourself in need of some trivia. You never know… it could happen!
- The shortest war on record – between the United Kingdom and the Sultanate of Zanzibar – took place on 27 August 1896 and lasted 38 minutes.
- The first country in the world that allowed women to vote was New Zealand in 1893.
- The Bee Hummingbird is the smallest bird in the world. An adult male measures about 2.2 inches and weighs about 0.06 ounces.
- The first person on a British stamp other than royalty was William Shakespeare, in 1964. The first self-adhesive stamps were issued by Sierra Leone on 10 February 1964. (Obviously 1964 was the year for stamp-related trivia).
- Hong Kong is made up of 235 islands.
- The national bird of India is the peacock.
- The unit of currency in Ethiopia is called the Birr.
- The tallest waterfall in the world, at 3,212 feet (979 m), is Angel Falls in Venezuela. Second is Tugela Falls in South Africa, which is 3,110 feet (948 m).
- The first ever official international football match took place in Glasgow between England and Scotland on 30 November 1872. It finished in a 0-0 draw.
- The first SMS (text) message was sent over the Vodafone GSM network in the United Kingdom on 3 December 1992. It said “Merry Christmas”.
There you are – 10 random facts. Let it never be said that Confuzzledom is not educational 😉 | <urn:uuid:58caff55-5f8d-4399-ad16-d0a2cbad6e33> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://confuzzledom.wordpress.com/tag/stamps/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.951217 | 406 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Okey Dokey, here is my first attempt at a tutorial…feedback encouraged! Hopefully at least some of this makes sense. 🙂
I’m going to explain the ridiculous way I figured out how to do the gradient water/waves quilt. It is entirely possible there is a better way to do this, but this way worked for me, so hopefully it works for you!
First let’s take a look at the pattern repeat. The quilt is made up of two rows that repeat as many times as you’d like them to. You can use a variety of colors, but for this version I chose a six color version, seen below.
Here is a better look at how the blocks are pieced together to make up the rows:
As you can see above, there are 2 rows of 6 blocks each. All of those blocks will be made via strip piecing. Each strip set will produce 4 blocks, which is enough for a lap size throw in the end if you do 6 blocks across. To make the quilt shown in this tutorial you end up needing 12 strip sets to produce the 12 blocks above.
Now it is time to figure out the pesky colors and how many strips of each color you need. First, number your chosen colors (I literally pinned a piece of paper with a written number to each color fabric). Next, using the pattern repeat diagram and the colors chosen, number the colors and where they occur in your diagram, like below.
Now go through and count the number of times each color appears in the strips (ie; how many times the number 1 appears in the diagram, etc), and presto, the number of strips you need of each color! Write this down by your chosen colors and get to work cutting out your strips. Again, I kept the color number pinned to each stack of strips so I wouldn’t get confused, especially if you are using similar colors!
I cut my strips 2.25 inches so that I could end up getting 4 blocks per strip set. You can use 2.5 inches, but you only end up getting 3 blocks per strip set with a bunch of leftover fabric.
After you’ve sewn your strips together it is time to cut them down to size. If you used a scant 1/4 inch as your seam allowance you’ll end up with your strip set being 9.25″ from top to bottom, and 42-44″ in length. Measure and cut down to 9.25″ squares.
Now, piece together your columns:
After you are done with your columns, sew them together and you should end up with something like this:
I went ahead and put together a diagram you can print and color in, since everyone doesn’t have the luxury of Adobe Illustrator. Works the same way, just color, number, and sew! The diagram includes more rows and columns than the tutorial quilt, just in case you want to try more colors.
If you end up making one, I’d love for you to comment on this post with a link to your blog post about it! Happy sewing everyone! Here is the blue version I have yet to quilt (Blogged here): | <urn:uuid:d5d4d6a1-0bbd-4a52-8bc5-ab3c25b92070> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mustlovequilts.com/2013/10/24/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.933297 | 666 | 1.9375 | 2 |
Learn what a merchant is, the varying types of merchants, and their role in direct-to-consumer (DTC) companies.
A merchant is a person or a company that sells goods or services. The merchant will sell products for a profit and facilitate the customer's buying journey. They can be an online retailer or a wholesaler and sell to any source, as long as they are selling for profit.
When shopping online, you often have a range of products available to you. Whether it's a large website, an online boutique shop, or a one-person online business, the person or business you purchase your items from is a merchant.
A merchant is anyone who sells goods or services for a profit. You are a merchant if you facilitate the customer journey by selling something and receiving funds in return.
A merchant is a seller in a sales transaction. The merchant has goods or services to sell and offers them to customers for a price. While a merchant will make purchase—for example, paying for production by a manufacturer—the person or entity is not considered the merchant during that transaction.
A merchant can either sell products and services to another business or directly to a customer. The type of merchant is defined by the buyer and the platform used to facilitate the transaction.
Retailers and wholesalers are two of the most common merchant types. In this digital age, new types of merchants have also emerged, such as ecommerce merchants and affiliate merchants.
Typically, wholesalers or wholesale merchants buy goods in bulk and resell them to retailers in smaller quantities. Because wholesalers buy goods from manufacturers and resell them to retailers, they are both resellers and merchants—serving as a link between the producer and retailer.
Most wholesalers ship from large storage facilities, such as warehouses. Nowadays, wholesalers are also commonly used as brokers even though they do not actually handle the stock—a process known as dropshipping. They are considered an essential part of any market. In a business-to-business (B2B) model, wholesalers sell to suppliers. In a business-to-consumer (B2C) market, they serve as an intermediary in the customer journey.
A retail merchant is commonly recognized as the person or business that a customer buys the product or good from in a transaction. The retail merchant acts as the intermediary between the manufacturer or wholesaler and the customer. Retail merchants do not create or manufacture any products. They are responsible for the sales process and reaching customers.
After receiving the product from a wholesale merchant, retailers will sell it again for a profit. These prices must be at a specific margin rate to ensure profitability. Wholesale prices are always lower than retail, but these products are often only available to consumers through retail channels.
An ecommerce merchant is strictly involved in the sales of goods online. They use online marketplace platforms like Amazon, eBay, Etsy, or their own websites to sell the goods.
The concept of an ecommerce merchant is relatively new in the sales space. It has gained popularity in the digital age, as it's often cheaper to run an ecommerce business than to have a physical storefront.
An affiliate merchant uses a network of affiliates to help facilitate sales. They are usually not a part of the primary sales process and are hired by manufacturers or wholesalers to leverage their network and sell products to the retailers that will then sell to the end user. Affiliate merchants create profits by charging each account a membership fee and collecting commissions from successful sales.
A merchant sells goods directly to consumers through various distribution channels to earn a profit. Retailers are just one type of merchant in the sales world. They are the consumer-facing part of the supply chain and what most people recognize as the place from which they buy goods.
Large retailers can purchase goods in huge volumes from manufacturers or wholesalers—often at a considerable discount—giving them the ability to charge lower prices. Small, family-operated stores can buy from the same outlets or smaller vendors but may charge higher prices. Either way, retailers then sell those goods to the end customer at a markup price—the difference between the purchase price and resale price.
Many companies now assume the role of both retailers and manufacturers. For example, Apple is both a manufacturer and a retailer because it builds and sells its products through company-owned storefronts and online portals. A company like Best Buy is considered a retailer, as it sells a variety of products from different manufacturers but does not have any of its own products. Companies that manufacture goods eventually sold in stores first sell their products to wholesalers, who then distribute them to retailers like Best Buy.
Each type of merchant has its own strengths and place in the economy. The channel you choose to sell through and which part of the sales process you want to target will determine which type of merchant you will be.
Once you choose which type of merchant to be, getting your goods to the next channel is most important. Outsourcing logistics to a third-party logistics (3PL) provider will help you save time, lower operating costs, and ensure your customers are receiving their goods as expected. With the help of an order fulfillment provider like Airhouse, you can streamline fulfillment logistics, giving you more time to grow your business.
Connect with a logistics expert at Airhouse to learn how we can help get your products from factory to front door—without headaches, hassles, or hurdles.
Find tips, tricks, and advice for building scalable operations at your modern ecommerce company.
Companies like yours are automating their operations with Airhouse, so they can focus on scaling their brand.
Airhouse makes it easy to hit the ground running with native cart and shipping carrier integrations. | <urn:uuid:cbad1a30-338e-4e0c-8d38-d465f20ffbd3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.airhouse.io/glossary/merchant | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.964254 | 1,179 | 2.984375 | 3 |
The Sherfield walkway is a main artery through campus and footfall is an average of 1000 people an hour in term time; at peak times this reaches 1,800 an hour [source: College Masterplanning team, 2014].
Located at the entrance of the visualization corridor, the Visualization Touchscreen features different applications, created by DSI current and former employees, for visitors, students and staff to test while walking down the corridor. From quick math calculation quizzes to tracing networks on a map, the visualization touchscreen is a great way for people to both test their applications as well as a creative and intellecutal way to involve people on campus with the DSI.
We have had several apps created for display on the touchscreen, to name just a few:
-Crawlr: Visualizes web server locations as you browse between links of a webpage. (pictured left)
-Crunchr: An interactive mental math game with the history computing to explore.
-Neuron: 3d brain visualization which mimics a neural network.
-Surveyr: A touchscreen surveying app with admin page.
The DSI encourages staff and students from around the College to make use of the Visualization Touchscreen in a creative and intellecutal way to involve people on campus. | <urn:uuid:102d9d23-a596-43e1-a9b0-0b8396f08ac8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/data-science/about-the-institute/facilities/visualization-touchscreen-/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.931224 | 274 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Connection String URI Format
This document describes the URI format for defining connections between applications using MongoDB drivers and MongoDB instances.
You can specify the MongoDB connection string using either:
This section describes the standard format of the MongoDB connection URI used to connect to a MongoDB deployment: standalone, replica set, or a sharded cluster.
The standard URI connection scheme has the form:
- Replica Set
- Sharded Cluster
For a replica set, specify the hostname of the
mongod instance as listed in the replica set configuration.
For a replica set, include the
For a connection string to a sharded cluster, specify
mongos hosts in the connection string.
For more examples, see Examples.
The standard URI connection string includes the following components:
||A required prefix to identify that this is a string in the standard connection format.|
Optional. Authentication credentials. If specified, the client will attempt to log in to the specific database using these credentials after connecting.
If the username or password includes the at sign
The host (and optional port number) where the
If the port number is not specified, the default port
||Optional. The name of the database to authenticate if the connection string includes authentication credentials in the form of
Optional. A query string that specifies connection specific options as
If the connection string does not specify a database/ you must specify a slash (
New in version 3.6.
In addition to the standard connection format, MongoDB supports a DNS-constructed seedlist. Using DNS to construct the available servers list allows more flexibility of deployment and the ability to change the servers in rotation without reconfiguring clients.
In order to leverage the DNS seedlist, use a connection string prefix of
mongodb+srv: in place of the
mongodb: string above.
+srv indicates to the mongo client that the hostname that follows corresponds to a DNS SRV record. The client driver will then query the DNS for the record to determine the hosts that are running the mongod instances.
For example, to connect to a DNS-listed hostname:
A typical DNS configuration for the connection string above might look something like this:
The hostnames returned in SRV records must share the same parent domain (in this example,
example.com) as the given hostname.
The DNS seedlist connection string can also provide options as a query string, with a trailing “/?” as in the standard connection string above. However, the
+srv appended to the standard connection string signals the driver to query the DNS for options as a configured TXT record.
Only two options are available for configuration via a TXT record –
authSource, and only one TXT record is allowed per server. If multiple TXT records appear in the DNS and/or if the TXT record contains an option other than
authSource, an error will be thrown by the driver.
An example of a properly configured TXT record:
In this case, taking into account both the DNS SRV records and the options retrieved from the TXT records, the parsed string will look like:
Options set in a TXT record can be overridden by passing in a query string with the URI. In the example below, the query string has provided an override for the
authSource option configured in the TXT record of the DNS entry above.
The rest of the option string will remain, and we can expect that the resulting URI would look like this (after parse).
mongodb+srv option will fail if there is no available DNS with records that correspond to the hostname identified in the connection string. In addition, use of the
+srv connection string modifier sets the
ssl option to
true automatically for the connection. This can be overridden by explicitly setting the
ssl option to
ssl=false in the query string.
This section lists all connection options used in the Standard Connection String Format.
Connection options are pairs in the following form:
value is always case sensitive. Separate options with the ampersand (i.e.
&) character. In the following example, a connection uses the
Semi-colon separator for connection string arguments
To provide backwards compatibility, drivers currently accept semi-colons (i.e.
;) as option separators.
The following connection string to a replica set named
myRepl with members running on the specified hosts:
When connecting to a replica set, provide a seed list of the replica set member(s) to the
The following connection string to a replica set includes
A boolean to enable or disables TLS/SSL for the connection:
|The time in milliseconds to attempt a connection before timing out. The default is never to timeout, though different drivers might vary. See the driver documentation.|
|The time in milliseconds to attempt a send or receive on a socket before the attempt times out. The default is never to timeout, though different drivers might vary. See the driver documentation.|
You can specify the following compressors:
If you specify multiple compressors, then the order in which you list the compressors matter as well as the communication initiator. For example, if the client specifies the following network compressors | <urn:uuid:66b3f4dd-222d-4755-804d-de50fff11ec9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.docs4dev.com/docs/en/mongodb/v3.6/reference/reference-connection-string.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.790863 | 1,220 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Some Alabama school districts are planning to install vape sensors in restrooms after witnessing a dramatic increase in students vaping when they returned to in-person classes after the pandemic.
(TNS) — Vaping has increased so much among youths since the pandemic began that some local schools are installing vape sensors in restrooms this summer and ratcheting up disciplinary action for offenders.
“We’re seeing it as young as fifth grade,” said Danville Middle School Principal Chad Kelsoe. “One of my largest collections (of vapes) has come from fifth grade this year.”
Deputy Superintendent Lee Willis said youth vaping is not new, but this school year administrators are having to discipline students more frequently for possessing, distributing or inhaling vapes. | <urn:uuid:3771d2b8-1eb5-414e-9ca7-55b5c1391b51> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://halodetect.com/blog/press/rise-in-teen-vaping-prompts-schools-to-install-sensors/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.94805 | 159 | 1.765625 | 2 |
In 2013, security experts at Kaspersky Lab uncovered a cyber espionage that targeted the gaming industry with a malware signed with a valid digital certificate. The threat actor behind the campaign was dubbed the Winnti group, it was targeting the gaming industry to steal game community currency and source code.
The experts at Kaspersky Lab discovered that the Winnti group has been active since 2009 targeting more than 30 gaming companies and hitting various popular online games.
According to the researchers the Winnti group is based in China and most victims are located in Southeast Asia, Germany, United States, Japan, China, Russia, Brazil, Peru, and Belarus. In June 2015, the security experts at Kaspersky collected evidence that the Winniti APT is moving beyond the gaming industry targeting telecoms and companies in the pharmaceutical industry.
Further analysis allowed the experts to discover that the Winnti group has been using as an attack platform for infecting the systems of organizations in South Korea and other countries worldwide. The hacking tool in the arsenal of the APT is the “HDRoot,” a malicious code based on a bootkit installer named “HDD Rootkit” that was developed in 2006. It is likely that the author of the HDD Rootkit joined Winnti when the group was formed in 2009, or the APT simply acquired it on the underground market.
The HDRoot is used by hackers to deliver backdoors in the targeted system and obtain persistence.
The researchers discovered that the HDRoot bootkit had been protected with VMProtect, a commercial software used to protect source code from reversing and cracking. Also in this case attackers digitally signed the code of the HDRoot bootkit with a compromised digital certificate, already used in the past by Winnti hackers, issued to a Chinese company named Guangzhou YuanLuo Technology.
“It was protected by a commercial VMProtect Win64 executable signed with a known compromised certificate from Chinese entity Guangzhou YuanLuo Technology. Moreover, the properties of the executable read as if it were Microsoft’s Net Command net.exe, and even running the sample also resulted in output typical of the original net.exe utility:” states the blog post published by SecureList.
The experts identified two sample of backdoors delivered by HDRoot, one of them targeted products that are popular in South Korea, but Kaspersky has also spotted one infection in the United Kingdom and one in Russia.
The level of sophistication of the HDRoot is low, the developer that designed it have made some mistakes that could make advantage the detection of the threat on an infected machine.
“The Winnti group took a risk, because it probably knows from experience which signs should be covered-up and which ones can be overlooked because organizations don’t always apply all the best security policies all of the time. System administrators have to keep on top of many things, and if the team is small, the chance that cybercriminal activity will remain undetected is even higher.” said Dmitry Tarakanov, Senior Security Researcher in Kaspersky Lab’s GReAT team.
(Security Affairs – Winnti APT, hacking) | <urn:uuid:a5782309-baa5-4f4a-9a48-10d0812480eb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/40788/cyber-crime/winnti-apt-platform.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.964107 | 662 | 1.796875 | 2 |
What Does Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) Mean?
Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) is a communications protocol designed to help facilitate the setup of wireless networks in homes and small offices. It is geared toward users and groups that are not familiar with Wi-Fi configuration. WPS allows devices to be easily added to a network while providing a secure connection.
Techopedia Explains Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS)
In 2007, the Wi-Fi Alliance introduced the WPS certification program, previously known as Wi-Fi Simple Config. The standard supports Wi-Fi certified devices under the 802.11 set of protocols.
The WPS protocol categorizes wireless devices, as follows:
- Enrollees: Devices seeking connection to the network
- Registrars: Devices that can connect and disconnect devices
- Access points (AP): A medium between enrollees and registrars with registrar capabilities
APs that are WPS certified use a personal identification number (PIN) and button to connect devices. The PIN, located on the wireless device display, must be entered at the AP, or vice versa. Buttons may be physical or virtual and must be pushed to connect two or more devices.
Unfortunately, WPS is prone to brute-force attacks, which can allow other devices to connect to a network. One attack may last up to four hours until the perpetrator figures out the correct PIN. This vulnerability can be countered by imposing restrictions or disabling the WPS feature after several incorrect attempts to input the PIN. However, in some devices, the WPS feature is not disabled if it is turned off. | <urn:uuid:4071e895-6e20-4b94-a380-41a0f96cbe8d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.techopedia.com/definition/2991/wi-fi-protected-setup-wps | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.91705 | 338 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Mount Kenya has influenced the customs of the people who live in its vicinity. The Kikuyu tribe, who dwell on the mountain’s southern and western flanks, regard Mount Kenya as the holy seat of their god, Ngai. Houses built by the Kikuyu used to have doorways that faced the sacred mountain.
The Kikuyu (also Agikuyu/ Gikuyu) are a Bantu ethnic group native to Central Kenya, while they are found in Tanzania in much smaller numbers. With a population of 8,148,668, they make up 17.13 percent of Kenya’s overall population, making them the country’s biggest ethnic group.
Meaning of Kikuyu
The term Kikuyu comes from the Swahili word Gikuyu.
The name “Gikuyu” comes from the word “Mukuyu,” which means “sycamore fig (Mukuyu) tree.” As a result, Agikuyu translates to “Children Of The Big Sycamore” in Kikuyu. The alternate name for Embu, Gikuyu, and Meru is Nyumba ya Mumbi, which means “House of the Potter” (or “Creator”)
The Kikuyu People and their History
Kikuyu, also known as Gikuyu or Agikuyu, are Bantu-speaking people who dwell near Mount Kenya in the highlands of south-central Kenya. The Kikuyu ethnic group totaled around 4,400,000 people in the late twentieth century, accounting for over 20% of Kenya’s total population. Gikuyu (also known as Agikuyu) is their own name.
In the 17th–19th centuries, the Kikuyu migrated from the northeast into their current homeland.
Intensive hoe cultivation of millet (the primary crop), peas, beans, sorghum, and sweet potatoes supported their traditional economy. Coffee, corn (maize), wattle, and fruits and vegetables are the most important contemporary cash crops. Irrigation and terracing were used by some cultures. Animal husbandry was a valuable addition.
The Kikuyu used to live in distinct domestic family homesteads, each of which included a hut for each woman and was bordered by a hedge or stockade. However, during the Mau Mau revolt of the 1950s, the British colonial authorities relocated the Kikuyu to villages for security concerns. Many Kikuyu chose to keep this structure once the emergency ended because of the economic benefits of village settlement and land consolidation.
The mbari, a patrilineal group of males and their wives and children ranging in size from a few dozen to several hundred people, is the local community unit. The people are split into nine clans plus a number of subclans beyond the mbari.
Kikuyu are also divided into age groups, which have historically served as the primary political institutions. Each year, new groups of males are introduced, eventually forming generation sets that dominate for 20 to 30 years. Traditionally, political power was vested in a council of elders representing a certain age class during its reign as ruler. The Kikuyu believe in an all-powerful creator god named Ngai, as well as the spiritual presence of their ancestors.
Mau Mau Rebellion by the Kikuyus
The Kikuyu were the first local ethnic group in Kenya to engage in anti-colonial agitation in the 1920s and 1930s, in response to European farmers and other immigrants’ colonization of their highlands. In 1952, they conducted the Mau Mau rebellion against British control, and later in the decade, they led the movement for Kenyan independence. They rose to the top of Kenya’s economic and political echelon after independence. Kenya’s first prime minister (1963–64) and president (1964–78) was a Kikuyu named Jomo Kenyatta. He was also one of the first Africans to earn a Ph.D. in anthropology from the London School of Economics and to publish an ethnography (Facing Mount Kenya, 1938).
Facing Mount Kenya – A Tribal Life of the Agikuyu
Kenyatta, Kenya’s first president, authored this colorful series of articles for Bronislaw Malinowski’s anthropology course at the London School of Economics, and they were published in Britain in 1938 as a monograph about the Kikuyu people’s life and traditions prior to colonial subjugation. Kenyatta set out to establish that Africans were “conditioned, by the cultural and social institutions of ages, to a freedom of which Europe has no conception,” by challenging the prejudiced preconceptions of settlers, missionaries, and colonial authorities. The colonizers had confiscated African farms under the pretense that tribal property was communal, despite traditional norms controlling individual land ownership, which Kenyatta describes in great detail.
Colonial control had brought the Kikuyu social order to rubble, and its inhabitants to serfdom, from an affluent, moral, and healthy way of life. This classic, like Chinua Achebe’s brilliant masterpiece “Things, Fall Apart” (1958), depicts the anguish of colonial “cultural contact” from an African perspective. Despite its author’s political undertone, it also holds its own among the major works of African ethnography.
Social Life + Kikuyu – Mount Kenya Politics
There were nine clans in the Agikuyu country. Each clan traced its roots back to a single female ancestor who was Mumbi’s daughter. The clans were not confined to any single geographical location; they coexisted. Some clans had a well-known chief, while others didn’t.
The ruling council of elders for each clan, however, wielded true political authority in both cases. The leader of each clan’s council was then forwarded to the community’s supreme council of elders. A headman or the nation’s representative led the overarching council of elders representing all the clans.
The Gikuyu are credited with being the first indigenous people to organize utilizing colonial-era structures such as voluntary societies, autonomous schools, and churches to fight British control. The Mau Mau colonial and civil war (1952–1956) fundamentally altered Gikuyu’s social fabric and cemented the process of Christian conversion.
Under the leadership of a Gikuyu president, Jomo Kenyatta (1963–1988), the war’s tragedy prepared the path for independence. Following Kenyatta’s death, Daniel Arap Moi, a Kalenjin, took over as president, ending Gikuyu elite socioeconomic and political advantages until his forced retirement in 2002. The elections were won by Mwai Kibaki, Moi’s former vice president, who returned power to the Gikuyu. His two periods in power were marred by corruption scandals—not uncommon in Kenya—and ethnic riots, which killed over a thousand lives in the aftermath of Kibaki’s close victory in the disputed 2007 elections. When Uhuru Kenyatta, the first president’s son, won the first round of the 2013 elections, political power stayed in Gikuyu’s hands.
Gikuyu people are still a diverse group, split by area, class, religion, and other factors. Among the well-known Gikuyu are Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai and authors Koigi wa Wamwere and Ngugi wa Thiongo.
Mount Kenya & Kikuyu Religion
The Supreme Creator and Giver of All Things, Ngai or Mwene-Nyaga, is the Supreme Creator and Giver of All Things. He established the first Gikuyu settlements and gave them everything of life’s necessities, including land, rain, plants, and animals. The sun, moon, stars, comets and meteors, thunder and lightning, rain, rainbows, and the big fig trees are all manifestations of Ngai (Mugumo).
These trees were used as sites of devotion and sacrifice, and they marked the location where Gikuyu and Mumbi – the Giukyu’s forefathers according to folklore – initially resided at Mukurue wa Gathanga. Ngai has human traits, and while some think he resides in the sky or in the clouds, Gikuyu tradition claims that Ngai visits the world on a regular basis to check it, dispense blessings, and administer punishment. Ngai sleeps on Mount Kenya (Kirinyaga) and Kilimambogo (kiirma kia njahi) when he arrives. Thunder is thought to represent Ngai’s movement, while lightning is the weapon he uses to clear the path when traveling from one holy site to another. Ngai is said to have a home atop Mount Kenya, according to some.
According to mythology, while on an inspection trip of the planet, Ngai chose the mountain as his resting spot. Ngai then led Gikuyu, the first man, to the top of the mountain to show him the beauty of the land he was gifting him.
List of Famous Kikuyu People from Kenya
- Wangari Maathai, Nobel Laureate, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first environmentalist to win the prize. She is the first Kenyan woman to earn a Ph.D.
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Gikuyu-language author, father of author, and professor
- Uhuru Kenyatta, fourth and current President of Kenya, former Deputy Prime Minister. Expected to see out his two-term presidency on August 9th when Kenya goes to the polls.
- Martha Wangari Karua, politician and former presidential candidate, and current key member and vice president hopeful in former prime minister Raila Odinga’s presidential campaign for Azimio -ODM party.
- Ng’endo Mwangi, Kenya’s first woman physician. The Mwangi Cultural Center at the Smith College in Massachusetts is named in her honor Carole
- Wamuyu Wainaina, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Resources Management at the United Nations
- Helen Gichohi, ecologist and President of the African Wildlife Foundation
- Olive Mugenda, first woman to head a public university in the African Great Lakes region
- Thumbi Ndung’u, HIV/AIDS researcher and the first to clone HIV subtype C. Recipient of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s International Early Career Scientist award
- Dorothy Wanja Nyingi, ichthyologist and recipient of the Ordre des Palmes académiques (Order of Academic Palms)
- David Muchoki Kanja, the first Assistant Secretary-General for the Office of Internal Oversight Services at the United Nations
- Simon Gikandi, English professor at Princeton University
- Gibson Kamau Kuria, lawyer, and recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award
- Paul Muite, lawyer, politician, multiparty activist, and former presidential candidate
- Maina Kiai, lawyer, human rights activist, and United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
- Rebeka Njau, author and playwright. Her one-act play The Scar (1965), which condemns female genital mutilation, is considered the first play written by a Kenyan woman
- Binyavanga Wainaina, author, LGBT activist, and a winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing
- Boniface Mwangi, photojournalist and sociopolitical activist
- Wanuri Kahiu, film director
- Wahome Mutahi, a humorist popularly known as Whispers after satirical column he wrote
- Jeff Koinange, Emmy Award-winning journalist
- Julie Gichuru, news anchor and entrepreneur
- Liza Mũcherũ-Wisner, a semi-finalist in The Apprentice Season 10
- Edi Gathegi, stage, film, and television actor
- Tom Morello, Grammy Award-winning guitarist, son of Ngethe Njoroge
- Eric Wainana, musician
- Janet Mbugua, news anchor
- Patrick Ngugi Njoroge, Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya
- Samuel Kamau Macharia, founder and chairman of Royal Media Services, the largest private radio and television network in Eastern Africa
- James Mwangi, group CEO and largest individual shareholder at Equity Group Holdings Limited
- Chris Kirubi, industrialist and largest individual shareholder at Centum Investment Company Limited, the largest listed private equity firm in East Africa
- Sam Thenya, founder and group CEO at Nairobi Women’s Hospital
- Betty Muthoni Gikonyo, co-founder and group CEO at Karen Hospital
- Simon Gicharu, founder of Mount Kenya University, East and Central Africa’s largest private university
- Tabitha Karanja, founder and CEO of Keroche Breweries, Kenya’s second-largest brewery
- Paul Wanderi Ndung’u, entrepreneur and co-founder of SportPesa, one of the first African businesses to sponsor a Premier League team
- Esther Muthoni Passaris, businesswoman and politician
- Dorcas Muthoni, an inductee to the Internet Hall of Fame
- Joseph Mucheru, former Google Sub-Saharan Africa Lead and current Cabinet Secretary for ICT in Kenya
- Waiyaki wa Hinga, 19th century leader
- Waruhiu Itote also known as General China. Mau Mau resistance leader
- Bildad Kaggia, freedom-fighter and politician. Member of the Mau Mau Central Committee and the Kapenguria Six
- Mutahi Kagwe, politician
- Josephat Karanja, former Vice-President
- Lucy Muringo Gichuhi, first person of Black African descent to be elected to the Australian Parliament
- Kung’u Karumba, freedom-fighter and member of the Kapenguria Six Njenga Karume, politician and businessman
- Peter Kenneth, politician, businessman and former presidential candidate
- Jomo Kenyatta, first President of Kenya, father of Uhuru Kenyatta
- Margaret Kenyatta, fourth and current First Lady of Kenya, wife of Uhuru Kenyatta
- Ngina Kenyatta (Mama Ngina), former First Lady, wife of Jomo Kenyatta, mother of Uhuru Kenyatta
- Lucy Kibaki, former First Lady, wife of Mwai Kibaki
- Mwai Kibaki, third President of Kenya Dedan Kimathi, Mau Mau resistance leader
- Mbiyu Koinange, former Minister of State, brother-in-law of Jomo Kenyatta, first Kenyan holder of a master’s degree
- Moses Kuria, Member of parliament, Gatundu South.
- Eliud Mathu, first African member of the Kenyan Legislative Council (LegCo)
- Kenneth Matiba, businessman, politician, multiparty activist and former presidential candidate
- John Njoroge Michuki, politician and businessman
- Githu Muigai, Attorney General
- Njoroge Mungai, politician and businessman. Personal doctor and first cousin to Jomo Kenyatta
- Njoki Susanna Ndung’u, Judge of the Supreme Court of Kenya
- Charles Njonjo, former Attorney General and Minister for Constitutional Affairs
- George Saitoti, former Vice-President Harry Thuku, freedom-fighter, and Independence Hero
- Anne Waiguru, former Cabinet Secretary for Devolution and Planning and a key member of the current Deputy of President, William Ruto’s UDA party presidential campaign.
- Manasses Kuria, second African Anglican Archbishop.
- John Njenga, Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church
- Samuel Wanjiru, first Kenyan to win the Olympic gold medal in the marathon, 2008 Beijing Olympic Marathon Champion, 2009 London and New York Marathon Champion, 2009 Rotterdam Half Marathon champion
- John Ngugi, World Cross Country Champion four consecutive titles between 1986 and 1989 and five titles overall. 1988 Olympic Champion 5000 metres
- Catherine Ndereba, four-time Boston Marathon Champion, Olympic marathon silver medalist in 2004 and 2008.
- Henry Wanyoike, Paralympics Gold medalist over 5,000 meters, holder of various marathon and half marathon records
- Douglas Wakiihuri, 1987 World Championships in Athletics Marathon Champion, 1988 Olympic Marathon silver medalist, 1990 London and New York Marathon Champion
- Patrick Njiru, rally driver with Subaru World Rally Team
- Joseph Gikonyo, 100 and 200 metres sprints gold medalist at 1990 African Championships.
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A will is a legal document that makes a testator’s wishes known upon their death. Common areas covered in a will include how property and assets are to be disbursed among family and friends. In some cases where a testator has children under the age of 18, a will includes their wishes for guardianship to ensure the proper care for their family.
Assigning a guardian in a will does not guarantee that the person named will take over the care of the children in question. A surrogate court judge must approve the request based on their assessment of the guardian’s abilities to provide a stable living situation for the children. A guardian must be 18 years or older. After the will is probated and the guardian is approved, they take full responsibility for the children and are allocated the power to make decisions on their behalf.
Key things to consider when selecting a guardian for your child
Choosing a guardian for your children is a crucial decision that requires careful thought. Below are some areas to consider when making this decision:
- Consider where the guardian lives. Providing your children with the same quality of living and access to essential resources, like good schools and activities, is a major factor to consider to ensure their comfort and happiness.
- Choose a financially stable friend or family member to be your child’s guardian. Raising a child is expensive, which can cause strain on someone with limited financial means.
- Consider whether your chosen guardian already has children. In some cases, this is a positive quality since they are experienced parents. In other scenarios, adding more children to their home may be overwhelming.
- Select a person that shares similar values and beliefs. Ideally, your chosen guardian will continue to raise your children in a way that honors your wishes for their family values and upbringing.
- Consider a guardian that you know is ready and capable of caring for your children. Having an open, honest conversation about your expectations beforehand will ensure that both you and your prospective guardian are aligned and that they do not feel pressured or burdened by the responsibility.
Obtaining guardianship of a child in New York
Matters involving guardianship are typically reserved for family court or surrogate court. Any individual who wishes to become a guardian must file a petition in court asking permission to take care of a child in need. Typically, the court terminates guardianship after a child reaches 18 or 21 years of age, depending on how the guardianship was granted. | <urn:uuid:f93cbb75-e1d7-43d4-8ec2-06a7ec0e1fd1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.connorsandsullivan.com/blog/2022/07/establishing-a-childs-guardian-in-a-will/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.959907 | 499 | 2 | 2 |
Do you ever ask yourself these questions when choosing a tapestry!
What colors should I use? What design would suit me? And, often the biggest question, what size is best? At Rugs and More we will help you to understanding tapestries in general and your project in particular. At first, decorating with tapestries can seem intimidating. The old world meets the new, and whether our walls are to large or to small.
Choose the designs and colors you want first, then consider the size. As architectural detail, a tapestry should be scaled to the room and the wall – neither too large nor too small. A rule of thumb: it should occupy around 80% of the intended space.
When hanging your tapestry it will look better and age better if it is installed flat against a wall. If the tapestry wall hanging is mounted flat to the wall, it gains support from the wall and has one less direction in which to wave. Most good galleries and all museums display tapestries hung flat against the wall, creating magnificent wall art.
When hanging your tapestry make sure it is not in hot, direct sun. All textiles fade, and instant sun to your tapestry will increase fading and fiber deterioration faster. Most tapestries with colorfast dyes can be safely displayed in most areas of your home where indirect sunlight and humidity are normal. Bathrooms for instance may be too humid unless well vented. Displaying your tapestry in your kitchen may also have direct contact to excessive heat and fiber absorption of food odors.
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What is the role of the non-executive director?
Essentially the non-executive director's (NED) role is to provide a creative contribution to the board by providing independent oversight and constructive challenge to the executive directors.
The 1992 Cadbury Report initiated a debate about the main functions and responsibilities of non-executive directors. Today, it is widely accepted that non-executive directors have an important contribution to make to the proper running of companies and, therefore, more widely to the economy at large. As the Cadbury Report said, they “should bring an independent judgement to bear on issues of strategy, performance and resources including key appointments and standards of conduct”.
There is no legal distinction between executive and non-executive directors. As a consequence, in the UK unitary board structure, NEDs have the same legal duties, responsibilities and potential liabilities as their executive counterparts. Clearly, it is appreciated that NEDs cannot give the same continuous attention to the business of the company. However, it is important that they show the same commitment to its success as their executive colleagues. It follows that NEDs are subject to the codified duties of directors contained in the Companies Act 2006 in the same way as executive directors.
Prior to accepting a non-executive appointment, the prospective appointee must ensure they have a comprehensive understanding of the company they are about to join and have undertaken their own due diligence. Once appointed an NED should ensure that an appropriate induction programme is put in place; they participate in on-going training and keep up to date with developments in the company and the relevant business sector.
The UK Corporate Governance codes states, “Non-executive directors should have sufficient time to meet their board responsibilities. They should provide constructive challenge, strategic guidance, offer specialist advice and hold management to account.”
All directors should be capable of seeing company and business issues in a broad perspective. Nonetheless, NEDs are usually chosen because they have a breadth of experience, are of an appropriate calibre and have particular personal qualities. Additionally, they may have some specialist knowledge that will provide the board with valuable insights or, perhaps, key contacts in related industries or the City. Of the utmost importance is their independence of the company management and any of its ‘interested parties’. This means they can bring a degree of objectivity to the board’s deliberations, and play a valuable role in monitoring executive management.
The Cadbury, Hampel and Higgs reports, some of whose recommendations are included in the UK Corporate Governance Code, stress that the board should include independent NEDs of sufficient calibre and number for their views to carry significant weight in the board’s deliberations. Independent directors, are defined in the Cadbury Report as persons who “apart from directors’ fees and shareholdings [are] independent of the management and free from any business or other relationships which could materially interfere with the exercise of the independent judgement”.
The UK Corporate Governance Code advises that the, “board should include an appropriate combination of executive and non-executive (and, in particular, independent non-executive) directors, such that no one individual or small group of individuals dominates the board’s decision-making. There should be a clear division of responsibilities between the leadership of the board and the executive leadership of the company’s business”.
While much of the comment and discussion on NEDs tends to focus on listed companies, it is important to note that they can also make a valuable, albeit somewhat different, contribution to private companies. Indeed, there are a growing number of private companies, including relatively small ones, which are now actively searching for the ‘right’ non-executive director.
The functions of NEDs
Non-executive directors are expected to focus on board matters and not stray into ‘executive direction’, thus providing an independent view of the company that is removed from the day-to-day running. NEDs, then, are appointed to the board to bring:
- wide experience
- special knowledge
- personal qualities
The key responsibilities of NEDs
Chairmen and chief executives should use their NEDs to provide general counsel – and a different perspective – on matters of concern. They should also seek their guidance on particular issues before they are raised at board meetings. Indeed, some of the main specialist roles of a non-executive director will be carried out in a board sub-committee (particularly the remuneration and audit committees), especially in listed companies. The key responsibilities of NEDs can be said to include the following:
As ‘an outsider’, the non-executive director may have a clearer or wider view of external factors affecting the company and its business environment than the executive directors. The normal role of the NED in strategy formation is therefore to provide a creative and informed contribution and to act as a constructive critic in looking at the objectives and plans devised by the chief executive and the executive team.
Non-executive directors should take responsibility for monitoring the performance of executive management, especially with regard to the progress made towards achieving the determined company strategy and objectives. They have a prime role in appointing, and where necessary removing, executive directors and in succession planning.
Non-executive directors are also responsible for determining appropriate levels of remuneration of executive directors. In large companies this is carried out by a remuneration committee, the objective of which is to ensure there is an independent process for setting the remuneration of executive directors.
The company and its board can benefit from outside contacts and opinions. An important function for NEDs, therefore, can be to help connect the business and board with networks of potentially useful people and organisations. In some cases, an NED will be called upon to represent the company externally.
NEDs should satisfy themselves on the integrity of financial information and that financial controls and systems of risk management are robust and defensible.
It is the duty of the whole board to ensure that the company accounts properly to its shareholders by presenting a true and fair reflection of its actions and financial performance and that the necessary internal control systems are put into place and monitored regularly and rigorously. An NED has an important part to play in fulfilling this responsibility, whether or not a formal audit committee (composed of NEDs) of the board has been constituted.
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Two new members of the US Postal Service’s Board of Governors slammed the agency for its plan to slow delivery of first-class mail.
Ronald Stroman, one of President Biden’s three new appointees to the board, called the plan “strategically ill-conceived” Friday, according to a report.
Another new member, Anton Hajjar, worried about a proposed plan to end air mail delivery, saying that potential savings were not “quantified.”
Stroman, a former deputy Postmaster General, said at the board of governors’ meeting that the country was only now beginning to emerge from a global pandemic and that first-class mail delivery was far below pre-pandemic levels.
The changes, he added, “disproportionally impact our seniors, middle- and low-income Americans, [and] small businesses, who are our most loyal customers and most dependent on us.”
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Göbeklitepe, the world's oldest temple, which is located in Turkey's southeastern Şanlıurfa province, was added to UNESCO's World Heritage List some three years ago. Since the UNESCO crown, the prehistoric site has been attracting thousands of tourists from Europe to the Far East and from the United States to Africa.
Mayor Zeynel Abidin Beyazgül said the third anniversary of the inclusion on the list coincides with the date when the coronavirus restrictions will be lifted, July 1, and the numbers of domestic and foreign visitors are predicted to continue increasing.
Şanlıurfa, which recently attracted the attention of the whole world with its deep-rooted history, tourism diversity and potential, is a city of history, archeology and tourism, said Beyazgül.
Expressing his satisfaction with the rising interest in the region, Müslüm Çoban, the head of a regional chamber of tourist guides, said Göbeklitepe has become a hub for attraction. Now, many tourism agencies have started to come to Şanlıurfa just for Göbeklitepe.
The famed ancient site was discovered in 1963 when researchers from Istanbul and Chicago universities were working at the site.
In joint works at the site since 1995, the German Archaeological Institute and Şanlıurfa Museum found T-shaped obelisks from the Neolithic era towering 3 to 6 meters (10-20 feet) high and weighing 40-60 tons.
During excavations, diverse 12,000-year-old artifacts such as human statuettes 65 centimeters (26 inches) high were also unearthed.
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As the crackdown on cryptocurrency continues in China, research and development is running full steam ahead in Hong Kong.
Recently, James Henry Lau, Secretary for Financial Services and Treasury in Hong Kong made statements regarding a trade financing system powered by blockchain technology.
According to Lau, who spoke at a forum on November 10, 2017, a blockchain-based system could yield “great benefits.” One of the manners in which such technology might be applied would be to strengthen trade in China’s Belt and Road initiative, where trade generally takes place between small and medium sized firms. According to Lau, a blockchain based system would eliminate the need for centralized organization and middlemen.
As per the report, Lau provided details on exactly how a blockchain powered trade system would benefit Belt and Road trading partners:
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What is a PBT?
A preliminary breath test (PBT) is a procedure where the person whom the test is being administered to provides a specimen of breath into a device (a breathalyzer) which can indicate whether the amount of alcohol in the person’s breath is likely to exceed the legal limit. Many will encounter this preliminary test on the side of the road after completing the field sobriety tests.
With a PBT, a key issue that happens in OWI cases is where the PBT was done before the field sobriety test. Officers are sometimes in too much of a rush, especially during the closing times of local bars, to make successful OWI stops. At initial contact prior to the field sobriety test, some officers will make the procedural mistake and ask for a PBT. Depending on the specific facts, this could be a violation of the defendant’s 4th amendment right to not being searched without cause. In order for an officer to take a sample of your blood, breath, or urine, he or she must first have probable cause to do so. This means that they have to collect enough evidence in order to ask you to do a PBT. Officers normally meet that burden by having you go through the field sobriety tests. If you fail a majority of those tests, then that is usually enough probable cause to take your breath sample with a PBT.
An important question many ask is whether taking the PBT will help or hurt them. The purpose of the PBT is to give the defendant one last chance to prove that they are not driving while intoxicated. Many people with a history of physical injuries or those who are very over weight will find it difficult to successfully pass the field sobriety tests. The PBT is their chance to prove that they did poorly on the tests because of a reason other than drinking.
Although the PBT may help show that you are not intoxicated, it is more common that the defendant has been drinking and may actually be intoxicated. So you ask, can you refuse the PBT if you know the results won’t be in your favor? Well in Wisconsin, there are no penalties for refusing the PBT, however if the officer has enough probable cause for your arrest then they will request an official sample of your blood, breath, or urine. Once you are arrested, there are harsh penalties for refusing to provide an official sample of your blood, breath, or urine. Furthermore, even if you do refuse the official sample, if this is a second offense or higher then the officers may forcefully take that sample once they obtain a search warrant.
What are the Penalties for Refusing a PBT?
- If this is your first time refusing then your license is revoked for one (1) year and you will have to have an Ignition Interlock Device installed in your car at your expense. You will be able to apply for an occupational license after thirty (30) days.
- If this is your second time refusing then you are facing a two (2) year revocation of your license and again an Ignition Interlock Device will be installed in your car at your expense. You can apply for an occupation license after ninety (90) days.
- Lastly, if this is your third time or more refusing then your license will be revoked for three (3) years, an Ignition Interlock Device will be installed at your expense, and you will not be able to apply for an occupational license until one hundred and twenty (120) days pass following your refusal conviction. These waiting periods are separate from the waiting periods if found guilty for an OWI second offense or higher.
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Variable Expressions and Math
Ok, so now you know what kinds of variables you can have, how to name them and how to declare them. Now let’s do something with them! As an engineer or scientist, most of the time we’ll be interested in performing some math operations on these variables, but later I’ll also go over some ways to manipulate text as well. In VBA terms, we accomplish this using expressions.
According to Excel’s VBA Help, an “expression” is a combination of keywords, operators, variables, and constants that yields a string, number or object. An expression can perform a calculation, manipulate characters, or test data.
Any engineer or geologist worth their salt will want to take some numbers and do something to them. Here are the basics:
- + Addition operator, ie. result = expression1 + expression2
- – Subtraction operator…you get the picture
- / The division operator – not to be confused with the integer division operator. This one returns a floating point number.
- * Multiplication operator
- \ Integer division operator. Performs division and returns only an integer result (no remainder or decimal places, ie. 5.43\1 returns 5)
- Mod The modulo operator. Performs division on two numbers and returns only the remainder. If either of the two numbers is a floating-point number, it is rounded to an integer value prior to the modulo operation. Example 1: 6 MOD 4 = 2, Example 2: 12 MOD 4 = 0
- ^ The exponentiation operator. Raises a number to the power of the exponent. Example: result = number ^ exponent
- Warning: As a new VBA programmer, be very careful with the division operator and the integer division operator. Picking the integer division operator on accident can create a logic error that may not be very easy to track down.
Order of Operation
As you would expect, you can group various operations using parentheses. You will need to keep in mind the order of operation which is outlined below. I’ll get to Comparison and Logical operators in a bit.
- Math operators
- ^ Exponentiation
- * / Division and multiplication (no precedence between the two)
- \ Integer division
- Modulo arithmetic
- + – Addition and subtraction
- Concatenation operators (not exactly sure what these are)
- Comparison operators (ie. >, <, <>, >=, <=, =)
- Logical operators
- Some other ones you probably won’t ever need
If the same operator is used multiple times on a line, it evaluates from left to right.
Other Math Functions
Ok, now VBA has some built-in math functions that you’ll need. Here are a few of the most common ones:
- Trigonometric (Trig) Functions
- Atn() – Arctangent
- Abs() – Absolute value
- Log() – NATURAL log
- For Log base 10, do: sngLog10 = Log(sngX) / Log(10)
Warning: Trig functions can be tricky. Remember that like Excel, VBA trig functions work in radians. Also worth noting is the ATan function. It only returns values between -Pi/2 and Pi/2 radians. Note that there are no ArcSin and ArcCos functions. You’ll have to write your own, or download my modMath.bas file. Did I mention that I always hated Trig?
Excel Worksheet Functions
Sometimes in your VBA coding, you may find that the math functions VBA has aren’t enough, and you need to do something that you know you can do with an Excel worksheet formula. You’re in luck, VBA has a method for allowing you to call those "Excel Worksheet Functions” in your code. Here are a couple of simple examples.
Listing 8: Excel Worksheet Function Examples
dblKurtosis = Application.WorksheetFunction.Kurt(val1, val2, val3, val4) sngPresentValue = Application.WorksheetFunction.PV(rate,nper,pmt,fv,type)
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Senior Capstone Project Poster, Nebraska College Preparatory Academy/Grand Island Senior High School 2017. University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Voltaire was not the common Enlightened philosopher. No, he was one of the great ones. And especially critical in the fight for social justice and equality for women. Voltaire did not write about women. Typically, women were seen as weak, fragile, had pale skin, and were very thin. But Voltaire wrote about them in the exact opposite way. They were as strong, resilient, and brave as any man. And they were buxom, plump, and provocative. Voltaire purposefully writes this way to switch the gender roles; to show that women could be anything a man could be. That they could be heroes. Emilie Du Chatulet was more than a lover to Voltaire. Upon her death, Voltaire said, “I have lost one who was my friend for twenty-five years, a great man, whose only defect, was being a woman”. He meant that women were always seen as lessers of men, even though they could be just as great.
The conclusions one can draw from Voltaire was that he was an immensely prowomen philosopher, proving time and time again in his writings and personal life the gratitude and respect he held toward women. Voltaire purposefully wrote women characters to break traditional gender roles and to criticize social constructs which unfairly prejudice women and thus lead to a culture of intense rape and suffering of women. In Voltaire’s personal life, he denounced critically, many social norms and their associated social constructs. Denouncing them as horrible conventions to subjugate women under men. As if they were slaves.
Further Research: Further research ideas might include how Voltaire shaped a feministic wave within the Enlightenment and how this changed France and the rest of the world.
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A walk through some of the small businesses in the western suburbs of Sydney paints a dire image of what’s in store for business across Australia; foreclosure signs and rampant staff advertisements are just the tips of the iceberg.
We were among the lucky countries that continued to grow during the pandemic, despite various bottlenecks existing within the supply chain and stagnant global growth. The support offered by the government and the resilient nature of Australians helped us avoid inflation and recession during the pandemic, but that may now be on the wane given rising interest rates, rising inflation, withdrawal of government support and a new wave of Covid set to peak in August. Given we are one of the few countries in the world still requiring a 7 day ‘isolation’ period, there is no doubt this too has a knock on effect.
The current employment rate has remained flat at 3.9 %, indicating that individuals on shore might not be actively looking for a job. Adversely the closure of our borders during the pandemic and the soft opening with its well-publicised visa processing delays, has driven away most of our offshore workers to look for opportunities elsewhere.
The result: Australia is currently facing its worst skills shortage in decades, and individuals working fewer hours due to covid related illnesses and a 7 day isolation period that many employers are calling for the end of.
An insight into our job portal alone would indicate that a few industries have been hit worse than others, for example shortages in skilled Child Care educators, ages care services, nursing and hospitality.
With most Unions lobbying toward training Australian citizens onshore in the areas of existing shortages, a key point to note would be that it would take three to four years to adequately train an individual to be proficient in their line of work. With a high number of jobs that mature workers currently occupy, we may not have that time to fill the gap as they retire.
What can we do to fix this?
We need to remain highly competitive if we are to fill the gaps caused by the shortages, especially compared to countries like Canada, the U.K, and The United States, which have revised their immigration policies to attract more workers.
We shouldn’t just focus on the industries that need immediate assistance right away, but rather plan ahead and invite individuals from diverse technical and non-technical backgrounds to reduce the probability of future shortages.
We should also remind ourselves that skilled migration alone is a temporary skill; we need to take a page from our competitors’ playbook and offer more to our skilled migrant, perhaps easier and clearer pathways to permanently migrate to our country especially if we want to remain an active global player.
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There are 57.75 cubic inches in 1 quart.
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Also, how plenty of square customs is a 110 quart bin? 649.31 sq. Inch
Similarly, you may ask, exactly how do you calculate quarts?
multiply the variety of ounces in a cup, i m sorry is 8 ounces, by 2. Through 1 pint stop 16 ounces, 1 pint is equal to 2 cup (2 x 8 = 16). Convert cups or pints come quarts. As there space 32 ounces in a quart, a quart will organize 4 cup (4 x 8 = 32) or 2 pints (2 x 16 = 32).
What is a quart measurement?
A quart (qt) is the same thing as 4 cup or 2 pints. 1 quart = 2 pints = 4 cup = 32 liquid ounces. If we still need more liquid we can switch to utilizing gallons. A gallon (gal) is the exact same as 16 cups or 8 pints or 4 quarts. It is the biggest liquid measurement.
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How large is a gallon?
The united state liquid gallon (frequently called simply "gallon") is legally defined as 231 cubic inches, i m sorry is exactly 3.785411784 litres. A united state liquid gallon of water weighs about 8.34 pounds or 3.78 kilograms at 62 °F (17 °C), do it around 16.6% lighter 보다 the imperial gallon.
What walk 5 Qt mean?
5 qts to together conversion. 5 Quarts = 4.7317647 Liters.
How large is 10qt?
Overall Dimensions: peak Diameter: 10 Inches. Height: 7 9/16 Inches. Capacity: 10 qt.
What is the volume that a quart jar?
US liquid quart
from this an interpretation is obtained the metric equivalencies because that inches, feet, and also miles, area measures, and also measures of volume. The united state liquid quart equates to 57.75 cubic inches, which is specifically equal to 0.946352946 liters.
How large is 5qt?
Cookware Product dimension Conversion Chart
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How huge is 16qt?
Top Diameter: 10 Inches. Height: 12 Inches. Capacity: 16 qt. qt.
How carry out I measure cubic inches?
To calculate cubic inches, begin by measuring the length, width, and depth of the box you"re measuring in inches. Then, main point the length by the width. Finally, multiply the product of the length and the width by the depth of the box to uncover the volume in cubic inches.
How plenty of inches is a 5 quart pan?
Product Dimensions: 23 x 6.5 x 14 inches. Stainless stole sauté pan is 7.5 pounds. Lid helps trap moisture, heat, flavor, and nutrients inside. Saute Pan is 5 Qt.
What is 2 quarts equal to in cups?
2 cups to quarts = 1/2 quart in 2 cups. 4 cup to quarts = 1 quart in 4 cups. 8 cup to quarts = 2 quarts in 8 cups.
How big is 4qt?
4 QT: Depth=5 inches; size (to finish of handle)=18.5 inches; full Diameter=8.5 inches; food preparation Surface Diameter=7.5 inches; Weight=3 pounds.
How big is a quart of paint?
As it happens, a quart the paint frequently covers around 100 square feet, therefore if you"re to plan on just one coat, girlfriend may have the ability to get away through that smaller container size.
How many gallons the water are in a cubic inch?
1 cubic inch of water (in3 - cu in) = 0.0043 united state gallons the water (gal)
How do you calculate the volume of a bag?
Working out the volume the a carton is in reality pretty straightforward, as long as you have a calculator to hand. The very first thing you must do is main point the size by the width by the height. That gives the variety of cubic millimetres. Come calculate the number of litres, you then divide that number by a million.
How countless cups is a lint?
1 Cup = 0.5 Pint
1 Pint is equal to 2 cups.
How execute you transform square inches to cubic inches?
Calculate the cubic-inch volume by multiplying the base"s square-inch area and height provided. Because that example, if her box"s base amounts to 300 square inches and the crate is 18 inches high, you would multiply these numbers together to obtain 5,400 cubic inches. Every 12-inch unit represents a foot in length, width and also height.
Are bin cages an excellent for hamsters?
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Outgoing Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon said the completion of the Jalaur River Multi-Purpose Project (JRMP) will help boost the country’s food security and address declining agricultural productivity.
Drilon is a major proponent of the construction of the biggest dam outside of Luzon.
“The completion of this mega-dam by December of next year will provide the much-needed push in the incoming administration’s efforts to address the numerous challenges to the country’s food security,” Drilon said on Friday.
“Its immediate completion will play a crucial role in the Marcos administration’s commitment to stabilize the food supply and improve food production,” he stressed.
Drilon said the P11.2-billion irrigation project will provide the critical support needed by farmers and the agriculture sector “in order to improve productivity.”
“The construction of Jalaur Multi-Purpose Project will improve agricultural production in Western Visayas and in the country. JRMP will increase the annual production of rice in Iloilo to 300,000 metric tons from 140,000 metric tons. It will likewise expand the production areas of sugarcane and other crops,” Drilon said.
Drilon thus hopes that President-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr., who will sit as agriculture secretary, will include among its priorities the construction and completion of agricultural facilities in the country such as JRMP.
As of May 31, 2022, the project is 44.80 percent complete, Drilon noted.
Stalled for more than three decades, the P11.2-billion is the first large-scale reservoir dam outside of Luzon. It was Drilon who secured the funding for JRMP from Korea through its Export-Import Bank which extended $207 million loan to the country payable in 30 years at an interest rate of 0.15 percent per annum. The project is the single biggest Official Development Assistance (ODA) project of South Korea.
JRMP II will be able to provide year-round irrigation to 31,840 hectares of farm lots in the Province of Iloilo, so Iloilo, and the whole of Western Visayas, Drilon added.
JRMP II includes the construction of the 109-meter Jalaur high dam, 38.5-meter afterbay dam, 10-meter Alibunan catch dam, 80.74-kilometer high line canal; generation of new areas for irrigation; and rehabilitation of existing irrigation system.
As a multi-purpose project, JRMP will provide benefits such as flood mitigation and control, the promotion of eco-tourism in selected reservoir areas, and serve as possible source of power supply.
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Over the past few years, Keen Marine and Bays Consulting have been working together on a study to support evidence-based ecological decision-making.
The UK coastal zone supports a high diversity of fish species, many of which are caught in commercial fisheries as well as individual fisherman. Overall, the total value of the shellfish industry to the UK exceeds £250 million (2013 data).
The conservation of shellfish is critical not only to support biodiversity and healthy aquaculture industry in the UK but also to support the shellfishing industry and ensure food supplies for the future.
Determining the provenance of landed shellfish is difficult but much of the value of a catch, and the application of conservation strategies is dependent on knowing this. How then can those deriving a living from harvesting them, or tasked with protecting no-take zones, or working to stop illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing be helped?
Keen Marine Ltd and Bays Consulting Ltd joined forces as part of a wider study into the use of trace element patterns in sea creatures to see if mussels could be assigned to the location in which they were grown based on the trace elements in their shells. Mussel juveniles (spat) were obtained from a single source outside the study area and were grown in three harbours (Poole, Newtown and Langston) on the South coast of England. These harbours have similar underlying geochemistry (the Hampshire chalks) but differ with respect to surrounding land use. The spat was grown naturally on the rope for a year before being harvested and having their shells processed for analysis.
Using a high resolution Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (an ICPMS) the chemical composition of the shells was determined for 16 different trace elements including common trace metals and some rare earth elements as well. They were standardised with respect to calcium, the dominant component of a mussel shell, before being analysed with a range of mathematical techniques. The analysis was carried out as a “double-blind” fashion so Bays Consulting had no idea which shells had come from which location. Even so, Bays Consulting could identify three distinct groups with a robust level of accuracy in grouping mussels from the same location.
Shellfish don’t move much so they integrate the chemicals for a single location over their lifespan. Suggests there is potential for the mussel shells to act as sentinels against which the fingerprints of mobile species that spend time in different locations could be compared. This would shed light on habitat usage by transient users of nearshore habitat such as nursery environments for commercially important fish species.
Together Keen Marine and Bays Consulting are now expanding the study to include more areas across the UK and to include different types of shellfish and other fish. If you’re involved in the fishing industry or are a researcher who would like to get involved in the study we’d love to hear from you. | <urn:uuid:e94411a1-bb88-49b2-8d9d-6d62c9771af5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://keen-marine.com/projects/markers-of-provenance/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.966596 | 601 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Red fox (Vulpes vulpes) is known as a medium-sized game species in some parts of the Northern Hemisphere and a predator therewithal. In this study, we focused on Iranian (n = 14) and Turkish (n = 54) red foxes. Genetic analyses were performed by using mitochondrial D-loop sequences and revealed that there was a remarkable genetic variation within the Iranian and the Turkish populations. Intraspecific pairwise divergences within the Iranian and the Turkish red foxes ranged from 0.2% to 4% and from 0.3% to 3.1%, including 10 and 25 haplotypes, respectively. Also, a haplotype network was reconstructed by using the D-loop sequences obtained from the current study and conspecific populations throughout the species' range. Based on the D-loop sequences, the red foxes were clustered into three main haplogroups (Palearctic basal haplotypes-African clade, Holarctic clade, Nearctic clade), in which the Iranian and the Turkish red foxes were grouped into two haplogroups (Palearctic basal haplotypes-African clade and Holarctic clade). The present study proposed that genetic differentiation occurs within the Iranian and the Turkish populations of the red fox, and it supported an ancient Middle Eastern-North African origin suggested by previous studies for modern red foxes due to the occurrence of some the Iranian and the Turkish haplotypes that were grouped into the Palearctic basal haplotypes-African clade. | <urn:uuid:9d44a352-e7d8-44a5-a29c-64ef2a689665> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://avesis.erciyes.edu.tr/yayin/d675c9e6-e439-4b5a-b731-72732547396f/genetic-analysis-of-iranian-and-turkish-red-foxes-vulpes-vulpes-based-on-mitochondrial-dna-d-loop-sequences | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.949474 | 309 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Consumer Reports has a recent article describing a supplement callled BrainStrong that touts itself as being “clinically shown to improve adult memory.” The kids version “helps support your child’s brain development.” They have a line of nutritional supplements with an algae-derived form of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), an omega-3-fatty acid found in fish. The company also makes a version for pregnant women, as well as one for toddlers. While DHA is crucial for adult brain function, as well as fetal and infant eye and nervous-system development, there is insufficient evidence that supplements with DHA improve cognitive development. When Consumer Reports contacted BrainStrong they were referred to an American Heart Association recommendation that adults who are not getting enough omega-3s from their diet should take a supplement. That advice however applies only to people with heart disease or high triglycerides… and in those situations there is evidence that omega-3 supplements can be beneficial.
You may see a TV ad for the supplement. It shows a woman wondering “what did I walk into this room for?” Her dog answers from the couch, “your sunglasses.” The narrator asks “need a memory boost?” “Now there’s BrainStrong.” “Nourish your brain.” The Consumer Reports article bottom lines it with the advice of saving your money. Most healthy people can get their needed DHA through two servings a week of low-mercury fatty fish, like wild salmon, mackerel and tilapia. Vegetarians can get their DHA through a different kind of omega-3 found in walnuts, canola oil and flaxseed. It’s always a good idea to check with your healthcare provider before taking supplements, or giving them to children….. Consumer Reports September 2012
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18 March 2021
Southampton Hospitals Charity and Theatre for Life celebrates funding award to deliver social prescribing across Wessex
Regeneration, a joint initiative between Southampton Children’s Hospital and Theatre for Life will support children and young people to engage with arts, culture, nature, advice and physical activity.
Specifically aimed at young people with a long term medical condition, it will help them to recover from COVID-19 through the power of social prescribing.
Regeneration will give these young people the opportunity to not only manage their own health and wellbeing, but also help them become more physically active. The initiative also looks to reduce isolation and help those with a long term health condition to meet other young people, giving them a sense of belonging and enabling them to have peer support.
Michelle Smith, Artistic Director of Theatre for Life, says:
We’re delighted that The Thriving Communities Fund has recognised our work in this way. Now, we will be able to help hundreds of children and young people with long term health conditions to actively engage with their community, gain new experiences and make friends on the way.
Charlotte Otter from Southampton Hospitals Charity, says:
Southampton Children’s Hospital has been greatly affected by COVID-19. The pandemic has meant that patients have had to isolate to prevent any potential spread, and so they have had limited contact with peers. Initiatives like Regeneration are really important to allow our patients the chance to engage once again and to reduce the isolation they have felt over the last year.”
Social prescribing enables health care professionals to refer people to a range of local, non-clinical services to support their physical and mental health and wellbeing.
The Thriving Communities Fund will support 37 projects across England and is being delivered in a unique partnership between the Arts Council England, Historic England and Natural England, NHS England and NHS Improvement, Sport England, the Money & Pensions Service and NHS Charities Together.
It is part of the Thriving Community programme, which aims to strengthen the range of social prescribing activities offered locally, enhance collaboration and networking between local organisations and enable social prescribing link workers to connect people to more creative community activities and services. The programme is enabling providers working in arts, culture and heritage, nature, physical activity and offering life advice and support to develop initiatives, learn and network, and build the evidence base for social prescribing. | <urn:uuid:e77c04f8-9f0e-426d-a9c6-92e839ee7da1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://southamptonhospitalscharity.org/delivering-social-prescribing-across-wessex/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.952848 | 494 | 1.554688 | 2 |
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Borne the Battle #212: Aaron Quinonez, Marine Corps Veteran, Operation Pop Smoke
Published On: September 21st, 2020|413 words|1.5 min read|
For many Veterans, readjusting to civilian life after leaving the military can be difficult. That’s what Aaron Quinonez found when he left the Marine Corps, as he soon faced divorce, homelessness and the inability to secure a long-term job. Over time, his mental health steadily deteriorated as PTSD ravaged his mind. For Quinonez, life seemed to always get worse, and on one July 4th afternoon, he parked in an empty lot, pulled out his SIG Sauer and prepared to end his life.
In this week’s episode of Borne the Battle, Quinonez shares his journey from being on the brink of committing suicide to becoming an entrepreneur, sharing how he developed new programs and technologies to help Veterans suffering from PTSD and suicidal thoughts.
Quinonez credits his faith as the reason for much of his climbing back up, out of despair. He talks about attending church and being surrounded by supportive people who embraced him. He felt called to help, and was encouraged by church-mates, to build housing for a family in Mexico. Quinonez was so inspired by the experience that he founded the organization, Q Missions, to bring Veterans together to construct buildings around the world.
Quinonez also describes the arduous journey he took to launch his most recent project, Operation Pop Smoke, a mobile app which aims to prevent Veteran suicide. The app also brings a sense of military camaraderie to those who’ve transitioned into civilian life.
In 2019, VA reported an average of 17 Veterans die from suicide each day. Borne the Battle (BtB) stands by Veterans grappling with mental health challenges. As part of this September’s Suicide Prevention Month, BtB hopes Quinonez’s story sparks a conversation that inspires people to support Veterans suffering from emotional distress.
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Almost one million older Windows devices are still vulnerable to the BlueKeep security flaw even after Microsoft released a security patch to address the vulnerability.
The vulnerability, known as CVE-2019-0708, affects Windows Remote Desktop Services (RDS) and Microsoft has already addressed it with its May 2019 Patch Tuesday update.
The BlueKeep security flaw, which has been described as wormable, can be utilized by malware to spread in a similar way to how the WannaCry ransomware did back in 2017 through the EternalBlue exploit.
- Windows 7 and XP are vulnerable to a major security exploit – so patch now
- WannaCry still hitting thousands of users worldwide
- IT security budgets are falling
By sending specially created requests via the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), a hacker can exploit the flaw to execute arbitrary code and take control of a user's machine without their knowledge.
Microsoft has already released patches for Windows 7, Windows XP, Server 2008 and Server 2003. By enabling Network Level Authentication (NLA) Windows 7 and Server 2008 users can prevent unauthenticated attacks and alternatively the threat can be mitigated by blocking TCP port 3389.
BlueKeep security flaw
Researchers have already developed proof-of-concept exploits for BlueKeep though none have been released publicly. Many expect attacks exploiting the flaw to appear any day now and to make matters worse, industrial and medical products are also at risk.
By using the Masscan port scanner and a modified version of rdpscan, Errata Security's Robert Graham carried out an internet scan that found more than 923,000 devices which appear to be vulnerable to BlueKeep attacks.
Graham also identified more than 1.4m machines that have been patched to protect them from BlueKeep and around 1.2m devices that cannot be exploited online since they're using NLA or the Credential Security Support Provider protocol.
If you're unable to install the latest security patch from Microsoft to protect your devices from the BlueKeep security flaw, thankfully opatch has released a micropatch (opens in new tab) which can be easily applied to vulnerable systems.
- We've also highlighted the best antivirus to help keep your systems protected from the latest cyber threats
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How far apart should I plant Colorado blue spruce?
Colorado blue spruce is hardy in our region. Purchase trees from a local nursery or garden center. Plant trees in full sun from spring to summer in well-drained, slightly acidic, humus-rich, moist ground. Space specimen trees 20 to 30 feet apart.
How do you plant a blue spruce tree?
Colorado blue spruce grows best in a sunny location with moist, well-drained, fertile soil. It tolerates dry wind and can adapt to dry soil. The tree is hardy in USDA plant hardiness zones 3 through 7. Plant Colorado blue spruce in a hole that is as deep as the root ball and two or three times as wide.
How far apart do you plant baby blue spruce trees?
Spacing Your Baby Blue Colorado Spruce For a seamless planting, space your Baby Blue Colorado Spruce 4-5 feet apart from plant center to plant center. For space between plantings, plant them 6-8+ feet apart.
How often should you water a newly planted blue spruce?
every three to five days
Generally, a newly planted tree should be watered every three to five days during the growing season, depending on weather and soil conditions. Remember that newly planted trees also need water during dry periods in the winter months. Try to water at least once a month in the dormant season.
How close can you plant a blue spruce to a house?
I would plant this particular tree species at least 20-25′ away from your house as it is my experience that most homeowners and landscapers tend to plant trees way too close to structures. Keep some distance!
How fast does a Colorado blue spruce grow?
12″ to 24″ per year
Growth Rate This tree grows at a slow to medium rate, with height increases of anywhere from less than 12″ to 24″ per year.
How can I make my Colorado blue spruce grow faster?
Its growth rate is moderate to quick, so some trees may grow a scant 12 inches a year while others may grow upward of 24 inches in a single growing season. To encourage growth, do not plant the tree in dry or arid sites; this can stunt it or cause it to struggle. Provide consistent moisture for best growth.
What is the difference between Colorado blue spruce and baby blue spruce?
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The Baby Blue Spruce is much smaller than the Colorado Blue Spruce so it is able to fit in most landscapes. This small tree gives you more options when planning your landscape. Beautiful tree. Spruces are beautiful trees and this one is no exception.
Can you over water blue spruce?
As with so many other ornamental trees, spruce do not like constantly soggy or wet soils, which can lead to root rot and other harmful plant diseases. So be careful to avoid over-watering them!
What is the best fertilizer for blue spruce trees?
Slow-release granular fertilizer is the best choice and should be used near the root zone. To prevent burning from the fertilizer, you want to add two inches of water around the trunk. These spruce trees do not need to be pruned.
Do blue spruce trees have invasive roots?
Depending upon the size of your spruce, you’ll find most of the roots in the top 12-18″ of soil, extending out at least as far as the branch tips. Typically the roots are not invasive, but it depends upon how close the tree is planted to them.
Are blue spruce trees invasive?
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The Guardian reports on the concerns of British migrants across Europe regarding the affects of Brexit. Our own members have a strong voice which can be viewed below – You can read the full article on The Guardian site here.
‘It terrifies me’: Britons in Europe on how Brexit is going to affect them
British citizens who have chosen to work or spend their retirement years elsewhere in Europe fear their pensions, healthcare and right to remain will disappear post-Brexit.
“We were not even allowed to vote in the referendum that could turn our lives upside down,” said Denise Hope, a retired translator living in Italy. “I feel very bitter about it, as do other expats.”
Hope is one of 1.2 million Britons living elsewhere in the EU whose lives have been thrown into disarray by the prospect of Brexit. Rights to property and to own a business are protected under international law, but automatic reciprocal rights to pensions, education grants and healthcare are not.
Up to 20 groups have now sprung up across Europe to campaign for those rights to be protected. Some individuals have considered changing nationality but, as Jane Golding, a British lawyer living in Germany, said, that too could have unforeseen consequences.
Countries such as Spain do not recognise dual nationality, so if any of the 300,000 British people registered in the country opt to swap their passports will they deny themselves the future right to return to Britain?
Others worry about the value of the state pension, guaranteed under EU law, but not post-Brexit, such as Sue Wilson, Chair of the Bremain in Spain campaign.
The estimated 450,000 retirees drawing a British state pension from elsewhere in the EU have already seen a drop in their income because of the collapse of sterling and fear that it could fall further when the UK withdraws.
Under EU law, the pension, is effectively index-linked, said Golding, who is campaigning to ensure the rights of UK citizens in the EU and EU citizens in the UK. Unless a replacement guarantee is in place when Britain quits the EU, this could be frozen, she said, adding: “These rights need to be settled before the triggering of article 50.”
Healthcare is another thorny issue with different systems across the continent. Campaigners have complained that the government barely grasps the issue. Expat Citizens Rights in EU (ECREU), a pan-European group, wrote to the House of Lords EU justice committee to tell them the government appeared to confuse health arrangements for tourists with healthcare for Britons living abroad.
Under EU law, UK pensioners are entitled to receive healthcare as though they were nationals of that state.
“Without that health support, it may well be the case that great numbers of citizens aged over 65, would need to return to the UK. Many could not afford to make that return and would become isolated, poor, and even destitute,” said ECREU in its submission.
Britons in Ireland are also affected, despite earlier assumptions that they would be protected under joint Anglo-Irish laws giving nationals from both countries more rights than EU citizens in each other’s countries, including the right to vote in general elections.
It emerged in a House of Lords report earlier this week that while Britain could guarantee the rights of Irish people settled in the UK, Ireland will not have the power to reciprocate without the agreement of other EU members.
The Department for Exiting the European Union declined to say if it was looking at any solutions or any potential models to resolve the uncertainty.
“We are determined to deliver the best possible outcome both for people living in the UK and for UK nationals living in EU countries, and that is why we are preparing for a smooth and orderly exit from the EU and an arrangement that works in the mutual interest of both sides,” said a spokeswoman.
Jo Chipchase, 44, photographer, Granada, Spain
“If we had to go back to the UK would my boys be picked on by leave neighbours?”
I was born in Newcastle and have owned a house near Granada for the last 10 years. My kids, who are nine and 10, are attending a Spanish school, where they are doing well both educationally and socially and I worry about the impact on their future. They were born EU citizens, I always thought we would be EU citizens, and I loathe the idea of that being stripped away.
We don’t qualify for citizenship yet because in Spain you have to be here for 10 years and my biggest fear is that we would be forced to leave. I don’t want to leave because I don’t like the idea of living in England. My family are staunch leavers and this has caused a lot of friction.
My eldest son is a promising goalkeeper on a local football team and they are both bilingual. They have settled lives here. Imagine if we had to unwillingly start again in the UK, with all those leave voters literally on our doorstep telling us to “suck it up” and how “unpatriotic” we are because we lived in Spain. Would my boys be picked upon, because they speak fluent Spanish to each other? I feel that anything is possible, the way “Brexit Britain” is heading with diminishing levels of tolerance and respect towards others. From the outside looking in, it is a big step backwards for society.
I don’t think the Spanish will march us off to the nearest port or that they will want us to leave because the British are contributing to the economy, whether they are retired here or running businesses. But no one knows and when you have teenage children it’s terribly worrying.
Malcolm Perry, 45, entrepreneur, Granada
“We worry what would happen to our dogs. Will the European pet passport work if we have to return to the UK?”
We took the jump after my husband, James, was made redundant. I’m originally from Kent and worked for 20 years in learning disability and gave up my job to start a new tourism business here in Spain.
Just as our life was getting better, this has happened and it has taken the wind from our sails.
We are totally immersed in a small community here, we have a small mortgage and if we had to leave, we could never get on to the property ladder again in Kent. It would be very difficult to go back into a job for me as I’d have a four-year gap in professional development.
We pay social security, our taxes and regional taxes here and have access to the healthcare system. We are also paying into the pension system here. When Britain leaves the EU we will be in a catch-22 situation. Could we afford private healthcare? What will happen to our pension? We don’t know what the Spanish government is going to do.
It sounds silly but we also worry what would happen to our dogs? They currently have European pet passports. Would they work in the UK? If we do have to return would they be able to come with us?
My big fear is the European Union I’ve grown up in will no longer be there and generations of British citizens will miss out.
Sue Wilson, 63, Chair of Bremain in Spain, Valencia
“My Spanish friends are shocked and mystified by the Brexit decision – and offended – and are happy I am fighting it.”
My Brexit fears centre on the loss of the freedoms I have enjoyed, specifically the freedom of movement and the benefits that come with being a member of the European Union. I am very fearful of the attitude of the British government and of the change in nature of British society, which has become an intolerant and inward-looking one.
In Spain, multiculturalism is to be admired, not abhorred. We are welcomed by the local communities, we haven’t suffered any racism or ill-treatment. It would be fair to say that the Spanish are shocked and mystified by the Brexit decision – and offended. They actually take it very personally that we wish to leave a union that they value so highly and my Spanish friends are very happy that I am fighting it.
On a personal level, worries include those over the future of our pensions. You can draw a British pension anywhere in the world, but within the EU it is linked to inflation or the cost of living. Will this now be frozen for pensioners?
Pensioners, especially those on low incomes, are already suffering because of the exchange rate changes since the referendum and are having to live on less.
Gemma Middleton, 43, film producer, Valencia
“I hate that my children in Spain will not have the freedoms to work and travel in Europe that I had.”
We’ve lived here in Spain for seven years with my two children, 19 and 14. they were both born in the UK and none of us are eligible for Spanish citizenship because you have to have been here 10 years. The Spanish don’t offer dual nationality, so the worry is whether we will be able to stay post-Brexit.
It terrifies me that my children will not be getting the same opportunities I have had. When I was 19 I backpacked around Europe with no complications. I worked in bars, did au pair work along the way and I’ve always considered myself European. I hate the fact that my children can’t have that now through no fault of their own.
It’s a narrowing of choice and will probably mean having to apply for work visas every time they want to work in Europe. I can’t bear to think they just can’t hop on a train and travel. That’s not something our generation had to even think of and that’s just been snatched from them.
All their friends are Spanish and my youngest is more or less Spanish now. There’s very little English about him. He’d be quite prepared to give up his British citizenship, but the older one, he would find it harder.
I wouldn’t hesitate in renouncing my Britishness, it doesn’t bother me in the slightest. My family voted to leave: my parents, my sisters, my brother-in-law, my cousins, everyone. Some of my family were due to come here in October but we cancelled. It would have been world war three.
Kathryn Dobson, 39, magazine publisher, Poitiers, France
“I worry that our 15-year-old will not now have the same options as her older sister.”
“We left the UK 14 and a half years ago because my husband and I were both facing redundancy. I was offered a post in Geneva and we came to France and worked with Procter & Gamble in Switzerland. We had three children aged five, three, and under one, and after three years we decided to stay in France and try something completely different.
With three children in French schools and having worked in an international situation, I saw how beneficial it was having two languages. So my strong motivation for staying in France was so my children could be bilingual and culturally flexible because we are all EU citizens.
I felt severe shock on 24 June, as if part of my identity was being forcibly removed. I am nearly 50 and grew up in the EU. My family took full advantage of the EU, yet overnight we have risked those rights being taken away from us.
On social media, I see people in the UK calling families like us traitors, but we came here because there wasn’t work for us in the UK. Our children are now 19, 17 and 15. My middle daughter has just started university in Rotterdam and has received a Dutch grant because she is an EU citizen.
When she applied for her course, we had no idea Brexit would happen. She is doing a degree in business studies and forming bonds with 500 other international students and many go on to do a masters, but this is now at risk.
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On January 16, 1991, the United States and its allies launched “Operation Desert Storm.” The first Gulf War had begun.
In 1980 Saddam Hussein had sent Iraq into war with neighboring Iran in an effort to expand its borders. The war ended inconclusively in 1988. Iraq was deep in debt for the money it had spent purchasing arms, and plummeted into a grave economic crisis.
Iraq owed the most to its Gulf state neighbors, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, with whom it shared a regional economy based on oil exports. With Saddam unable to honor his debt, Kuwait and the Emirates decided to make up the shortfall by producing more crude oil, in breach of OPEC regulations. The oil market was flooded and prices plummeted. Iraq’s dire economic situation worsened.
Saddam considered their violation of the oil quotas a provocation and asked for cancellation of Iraq’s war debt as restitution. He demanded that Kuwait turn over oil fields at border between the two countries, as well as strategically important Gulf islands. His requests were ignored. Saddam decided to invade Kuwait.
On August 2, 1990, the Iraqi army easily overran Kuwaiti resistance and occupied the country. The United Nations, the organization that oversees international peace and security, condemned the invasion. On November 29, 1990, the UN Security Council issued an ultimatum to Iraq. Iraq was to withdraw from Kuwait by January 15 or face intervention by a military coalition headed by UN member states. The United States headed the coalition, along with 30 other nations, including Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain and France. | <urn:uuid:77a0ce57-4099-4189-80c3-b2b2ddf808b3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://ovovideo.com/en/first-gulf-war/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.978028 | 321 | 3.609375 | 4 |
This Week in Water for February 13, 2022
"Generating Power While Saving Water" on the latest segment of H2O Radio's newscast, " This Week in Water "
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We go to school in an environment where we joke about living off cups of Ramen and small bowls of not-so-delicious, mac n’ cheese. But for some people, it is not a laughing matter.
In 2014, about 4.5 million college student clients of Feeding America, the leading network of food pantries in the U.S., were forced to choose between paying academic expenses and food.
In 2015, the Wisconsin HOPE Lab, based in Madison, surveyed 10 community colleges and found that almost 50 percent of the 4,000 respondents struggle with issues of food and housing insecurity. In 2016, the University of California system found that almost 20 percent of their students face food insecurity problems at some point. Hunger and food insecurity among college students is a nationwide problem that, until recently, has gone completely unnoticed.
In high school, a favorite teacher of mine once posed a question to a student who rudely interrupted class time by talking out of turn. The teacher said, “If everyone was doing what you’re doing, what would happen?”
It was meant to put him on the spot — to make him understand there is a consequence to his action — but for me it became a mantra to live by, especially at times when I felt particularly hopeless at the plight of the world, and I just wanted to curl up into a ball somewhere and ignore the problems around me.
If everyone was doing what I was doing, what would happen? In other words, how might I change the world for the better? I make change by action and involvement rather than apathy and just curling up on my bed into the fetal position.
This mantra has motivated me, and since my freshman year, I have volunteered and been a student leader for the University of Wisconsin chapter of Challah for Hunger, a college-based volunteer and philanthropy program at more than 80 universities across the U.S. and abroad.
Every week, our chapter and hundreds of college students across the country gather on our individual campuses to bake and sell challah bread to raise funds and awareness for local and national hunger-relief nonprofits.
This fall, Challah for Hunger in collaboration with MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, launched The Campus Hunger Project, to understand and address the problem of food insecurity among college students.
When I joined Challah for Hunger, I felt as though I had taken a step in the right direction. I used to walk by Porchlight, a helping hand to get people back on their feet by providing housing, and wondered what I could do to help. Now, our chapter of Challah for Hunger donates to Porchlight and I feel like I actually make a difference.
So get involved, and start by coming to Hillel every Thursday starting Sept. 22, to knead out your stress, braid some dough and help bake a difference in our community. In addition, we will also be conducting interviews and hosting information sessions about how to end campus hunger. Ask yourself, “If everyone was doing what I was doing, what would happen?”
Remember, change starts small — one small question followed by one Challah loaf at a time.
If you would like more info about our chapter, please check out our chapter’s Facebook page at facebook.com/C4HUW
To learn more about Challah for Hunger as a national organization and The Campus Hunger project, please visit challahforhunger.org
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Modular architecture is one of the most dynamic components of design, offering versatile solutions in creating efficient and sustainable spaces. Modules can be used as both the building blocks of a structure and standalone elements, adding customisation to projects without incurring excessive costs.
The Modular Architecture Essay Competition is being run in tandem with the Modular Home Design Challenge 2021, in which participants are tasked with designing a modular home that can be constructed in any form or layout in any location in the world. This essay competition is calling for submissions that offer a critical analysis of modular architecture and how it can be used to revolutionise architectural design in both residential and commercial spaces.
How has modular construction enabled more sustainable designs? How has modular architecture been integrated into standard practice? What is the global impact of modular design trends and how will the future of architecture be impacted by this versatile design component?
Winning entries will be featured in the next edition of ARCHHIVE BOOKS’ ‘Modular Architecture’ publication, alongside the winning entries of the design competition. Participants are welcome to enter either competition separately or both of them together.
Do you have an idea or something to say about modular architecture?
3 winning proposals and 6 honourable mentions will be selected. Bee Breeders will award a total of 1,000 € in prize money to competition winners as follows:
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- 2nd Prize – 300 €
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Authors of all winning submissions will be credited for their work. The publication will be featured on our partner websites, and is intended to receive international exposure. Each selected author will receive a free copy of ARCHHIVE BOOKS Modular Architecture.
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[OVERSEAS VIEW]Criticism of the U.S. is counterproductiveAfter Unification Minister Lee Jong-seok was criticized by ruling and opposition lawmakers for stating in the National Assembly that the United States had made the greatest failure by allowing North Korea to launch missiles, President Roh rose to his defense and asked, “Can’t a Korean minister criticize the United States?”
My answer to that question is, “Yes, of course, a Korean minister can criticize the United States.” After all, the U.S. makes mistakes and as the world’s only superpower we are certainly used to being criticized from all quarters. British, Australian and Japanese ministers say critical things on occasion and it does not fundamentally damage bilateral relations.
However, the question isn’t whether a Korean minister is allowed to criticize the United States, but whether it advances Korea’s national interest ― as former Foreign Minister Yoon Young Gwan and others have pointed out.
It is also important to remember that throughout the North Korean nuclear diplomacy, there has been a steady and deliberate effort by the senior-most officials in Seoul to put the blame for North Korea’s bad behavior on the United States. The most famous criticisms include President Roh’s statement at the Los Angeles World Affairs Council on November 12, 2004 that “it is understandable for North Korea to have nuclear weapons because of the United States’ first-strike policy,” and his claim after meeting President Bush in Santiago, Chile, that week that he had convinced Mr. Bush to “give up all use of force” against North Korea. President Roh and the Blue House have repeated the assertion on several occasions, arguing that “the United States hinted at the use of force” but South Korea’s “strong objections” have ensured that “there will be no war on the Korean Peninsula as long as South Korea is opposed to it.”
Put in this context, I would argue that there are at least five reasons why senior South Korean leaders should stop and think before casting stones at the United States.
First, the criticism of the United States is often based on inaccurate claims. President Bush has never “hinted” at using force against North Korea and never seriously considered any options other than diplomatic ones to get rid of North Korea’s nuclear programs. The White House has been perplexed at the repeated claims that President Roh “stopped” the United States from using force, and the president and other senior officials have tried to dispel this myth, yet it seems to be part of the official South Korean narrative.
Second, repeatedly suggesting that the possibility of U.S. use of force against the North is the greatest threat to South Korea unnecessarily undermines the confidence of the South Korean people in the United States and makes it more difficult to coordinate North Korea policy. Unfortunately, South Korea was probably the least influential player of any of the six parties in the Security Council debate last month ― not because it was out of the Security Council, but because Seoul’s main message was to criticize Washington and Tokyo and not work on strategies to stop further escalation by the North. Even China and Russia saw the futility of blaming Washington and not standing up to Pyongyang.
Third, blaming the United States for North Korea’s bad behavior is not working politically for the Blue House domestically. Polls show that the majority of South Koreans are growing increasingly skeptical about the North, and efforts to pass the blame to Washington instead of articulating a clear strategy are not resonating. I expect it would be far more effective politics to demonstrate a coherent and joint U.S.-South Korea strategy to maintain peace on the Korean Peninsula, rather than casting Washington as the bad guy.
Fourth, exacerbating tensions with Washington is doing nothing to deter Pyongyang from further escalation. The July missile tests ― which came after universal urging that Pyongyang not proceed ― strongly suggest that North Korea has its own escalation ladder and is not just spontaneously reacting to provocations from Washington. The next rung on the ladder is a full nuclear test ― something I personally judge to be a 50/50 possibility within the next year. The tough Security Council resolution may have helped to slow down or even stop further North Korean escalation because of China’s firm stance, but the criticism of U.S. policy in Seoul is not doing anything to help deter Pyongyang from taking the next fateful step. It is important to stop emphasizing differences that Pyongyang might be tempted to exploit.
Finally, it is worth remembering that even in spite of a steady stream of criticism from Seoul, senior Americans such as President Bush and Secretary of State Rice have had nothing but praise for South Korea and have tried to maintain an emphasis on working together for a peaceful diplomatic outcome.
President Roh and Lee Jong -seok deserve a lot of credit for their hard work to strengthen the alliance in challenging areas such as the realignment of U.S. forces, dispatch of forces to Iraq and a free trade agreement. But when foreign leaders and ministers blame the United States publicly in the midst of a diplomatic crisis, it always also gets noticed in Washington. With President Roh coming to meet President Bush in September, it is more important than ever for the two leaders to have a clear-headed strategic discussion on the North Korea problem ― hopefully not one clouded by public airing of the “blame game.”
* The writer is former senior director for Asian affairs at the U.S. National Security Council.
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Last January, a major milestone was reached when the world’s one millionth blood stem cell transplant was performed. Beginning in the 1970s, bone marrow and blood stem cell transplants — also known as BMTs — have offered the chance of a cure for many people with leukemias, lymphomas, and other blood disorders.
But since patients first began receiving this treatment, a major complication of allogeneic transplants, in which patients receive stem cells or bone marrow from a donor, has been graft-versus-host disease (GVHD).
GVHD occurs when newly transplanted immune cells from the donor recognize the recipient’s tissue as foreign and attack it. The condition can be temporary or chronic and can result in damage to the liver, lungs, digestive tract, or other organs. In some cases it is fatal.
Memorial Sloan Kettering physician-scientist Robert Jenq is one of many investigators studying the disease. His particular research is focused on the role of bacteria and how certain bacterial strains that are naturally found in the body may protect against GVHD. This past weekend at the BMT Tandem Meeting near Dallas, he presented a study that was selected as one of the six best abstracts of the meeting.
We spoke to Dr. Jenq about his research and how it might someday benefit patients.
Studying the Microbiota
“Since the 1970s, we’ve known that the bacteria that live in the gastrointestinal tract — the microbiota — have an impact on the risk for GVHD,” he says. “We tried to apply some of the early discoveries we made in mouse models to patients, but in the end they didn’t work.”
Fast-forward to the advent of computational biology. Advances in computing power over the past decade have made it possible to make sense of vast amounts of genetic data coming from populations of bacteria living in the human body. “New genetic sequencing technologies have helped us to characterize all the bacteria that live in the gastrointestinal tract in great detail,” Dr. Jenq explains. “This approach is something that wasn’t possible even a few years ago.”
Aiding in the development of new research is the Human Microbiome Project, an ongoing, multi-institutional initiative funded by the National Institutes of Health that aims to characterize and provide detailed insight into the complexity of all of the microorganisms that live inside us.
Previous studies from Dr. Jenq and his colleagues, including Hematologic Oncology Division Head Marcel van den Brink, began looking at how the balance of intestinal bacteria can affect GVHD. One of their areas of focus has been how antibiotics given to patients during the course of treatment to either relieve or prevent infections may have a negative effect on the so-called good or healthy bacteria that live in the body.Back to top
A Bacterium Called Blautia
The latest study, done in collaboration with Dr. van den Brink and infectious disease specialists Eric Pamer and Ying Taur, focused on a genus of bacteria called Blautia. “Using sequencing technologies to study the bacterial makeup of the gastrointestinal tracts of patients undergoing BMTs, we found that if patients had even a smidgen of Blautia left — just 0.1 percent of the total makeup of bacteria in their GI tract was Blautia — they had an almost negligible risk of GVHD,” Dr. Jenq says.
The investigators took their findings back to mouse models and found that giving Blautia to mice that had lost it could protect them against GVHD.
“Blautia is a harmless type of bacteria that every patient comes in with, but a lot of them lose it during the course of transplantation,” he adds. “It seems to be sensitive to the antibiotics that patients are given during the course of treatment, and it also declines in patients who aren’t eating, a common situation in BMT patients.”
Currently, GVHD is treated with powerful immune suppressants. “It’s necessary because GVHD can be fatal,” Dr. Jenq says, “but these drugs increase the risk that patients will develop infections and also that their cancer may come back. Our findings about Blautia open up new avenues for preventing GVHD.”Back to top
New Approaches to Preventing GVHD
One solution may be giving patients only types of antibiotics that do not affect Blautia. In addition, encouraging patients to eat during their transplants rather than providing them with their nutrition intravenously may help to keep their Blautia alive. “When you supply nutrients by IV, you’re feeding the patients but you’re not feeding their bacteria,” Dr. Jenq notes. “That may be important.”
Another approach could be finding a way to give patients beneficial bacteria such as Blautia after their transplants. (This is the basis of the idea behind the food supplements known as probiotics.)
Some studies have suggested that the role of Blautia in the gastrointestinal tract is to produce compounds called short-chain fatty acids, which researchers believe help to suppress inflammation. “If this proves to be true, we may be able to bypass the bacteria completely and just give as a treatment the compounds the bacteria are producing that mediate the beneficial effects,” he says. “We call this strategy ‘postbiotics.’”
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‘EMERGENCY SEX’: How Kenyan boys rank their relationships [ARCHIVE]
- Sex & Health
- 26 Jan 2016
Cate and Symo have been together for a few months. So far, their relationship has been great and Symo thinks he may have found ‘The One’. Now that they’re going steady Cate no longer thinks it’s important for them to use condoms. Symo welcomes the idea.
Symo’s other girlfriend, Joy, is a more casual relationship (aka his ‘Plan B’). Joy uses an implant. So that means no more condoms, no more buying e-pills. He’s living the dream.
Like Symo, many boys in Kenya are simultaneously dating several girls. In July 2016, Well Told Story’s (Shujaaz Inc) research team spoke to young Kenyan men to better understand their views on relationships and contraception. They learned that a boy’s peers judge his masculinity by how many girls he is sleeping with simultaneously. And not all of the girls a boy sleeps with are treated the same – there appears to be a ‘relationship hierarchy’ that is widely accepted and used by Kenyan boys to make sense of their sex lives.
Each of the girls fills a certain role from ‘The One’ (marriage & mother material) to a one-off hook-up for ‘emergency-sex’. The place in the girlfriend-hierarchy determines which contraception method a girl is ‘allowed’ to use. A casual hook-up can use whatever contraception she likes as she does not need to carry his child one day – it is better for him that she doesn’t get pregnant because abortions are costly. He would prefer her to use long-acting methods or daily pills as these do not interfere with his pleasure and ensure he does not have long-lasting regrets.
‘The One’ might only be allowed to use a condom once in a while (and only if the boy buys it!) or the emergency pill. She cannot even think of using long-acting methods because it is feared that the ‘dangerous chemicals’ in contraception (including in condoms) could make her infertile. Not providing her husband with a child would cast a shadow on his masculinity, which according to many boys in the Shujaaz audience would be a disaster.
With an ‘emergency-sex’ girl, things become more complicated because a boy has to at least consider HIV/STI risks, but in most cases one-off sex is a result of a party and alcohol and drugs can interfere with rational thinking. And after all, it is a one-off encounter – he might never see this girl again, so it doesn’t matter what she thinks of him.
The fact that one boy’s ‘the one’ could be another boy’s casual girl or vice versa adds complexity to the situation. Boys do not seem to be bothered by such cross-dating, yet girls might be using the fact that they also have multiple boyfriends as a loophole that allows them to use contraceptives. In our studies, we met girls who were simultaneously casual girlfriends, one-off and ‘the one’ – all to different boys. Many of these girls with multiple partners were ‘bullet-proof’ – often using a long-acting method AND a condom for double-protection — unlike their counterparts who only dated one boy they were planning to marry.
So ironically, this relationships hierarchy leaves the most important girl, like Cate, the most vulnerable because with her, boys will not use any form of contraception, making her the most disadvantaged when compared to the casual and the one-off girl. What is also ironic is that girls have a similar view: that contraceptives are only used by girls who are not loved or trusted enough and so unprotected sex is the first step to a marriage proposal.
“… some of our girlfriends ask us not to use condoms after months of dating.”
So, what will be the ending to Cate and Symo’s story? Cate will try to figure out how to use safe days while Symo masters withdrawal (their preferred methods) while they try to achieve their dreams before they marry. Or they might get a kid when they are both 17 and have to put their lives on hold. Or they might both get infected with HIV because of Symo’s need for emergency sex. Anything is possible – their paths through life will be determined by their own choices.
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It was primarily prevalent in England and Spain during these years and is defined by a few interesting features. These include a reliance on literary devices and a desire to write on moralizing or religious subjects. Some of this was at the Catholic Church’s insistence. Important writers of this period include John Milton, George Herbert, Francisco de Quevedo, and Miguel de Cervantes. The Metaphysical poets, like John Donne, are also commonly cited.
Baroque pronunciation: buh-rowk
Explore The Baroque Period
Definition of Baroque Literature
Baroque literature was created between the 16th and 18th centuries. It is generally defined as featuring between the Renaissance and Enlightenment periods. Throughout this period, writers were interested in using literary devices quite heavily. These included examples of metaphors and symbols. Religious themes, those that were approved by the Roman Catholic Church, were also quite popular. Often, the Metaphysical poets, like John Donne, are cited as having created some of the most important writing during the Baroque period.
Spanish Baroque Literature
Spanish Baroque literature was also an important part of the literary period. It was written during the 17th century and often dealt with themes of time and religion. Much of the writing produced during this period included elements of pessimism and disappointment (such as in the Renaissance ideal). Writers, like Quevedo, engaged with satire as a form of writing. One of the primary authors of this period was Miguel de Cervantes, whose first work was produced in 1585 and is best known for The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, commonly referred to as Don Quixote.
Examples of Baroque Literature
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Paradise Lost was published by John Milton in 1667. It’s an epic poem or a long, narrative work of poetry. It details the Biblical story of the “Fall of Man.” It includes details about the temptation of Adam and Eve by Satan and what happened after their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. It also features Satan as one of the primary characters. Consider these lines from Book I of Paradise Lost:
They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld
Of Paradise, so late their happy seat,
Waved over by that flaming brand, the gate
With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms:
Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon;
The world was all before them, where to choose
Their place of rest, and Providence their guide;
They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow,
Through Eden took their solitary way.
In these lines, readers can see examples of Milton’s skill with language, in addition to his use of literary devices. Imagery is one of the most important devices at work in this poem. Consider these lines from another section of the epic poem and how Milton uses an epic simile:
His legions—angel forms, who lay entranc’d
Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks
In Vallombrosa, where th’ Etrurian shades
High over-arch’d embow’r; or scatter’d sedge
Afloat, when with fierce winds Orion arm’d
Hath vex’d the Red-Sea coast, whose waves o’erthrew
Busiris and his Memphian chivalry,
Explore more of John Milton’s poems.
Within this thoughtful piece of poetry describes a speaker’s desire to escape from his religious life and turn to one of greater freedom. He notes that he’s no longer going to stand for his life as it is. He’s going to seek out real pleasures and stop worrying about what’s wrong and what’s right. Here are a few lines from the poem:
I struck the board, and cried, “No more;
I will abroad!
What? shall I ever sigh and pine?
My lines and life are free, free as the road,
Loose as the wind, as large as store.
Shall I be still in suit?
He notes at the end of the poem that he’s going to be a stronger man as well.
Discover more of George Herbert’s poems.
The Flea by John Donne
‘The Flea’ is often cited as the perfect piece of metaphysical poetry. In it, Donne’s speaker uses a conceit to convince his lover to sleep with him. He describes a flea that jumps from his body to hers and sucks their blood. Together, in its body, their blood intermingles. There is no loss of honour in this act, just as there shouldn’t be if they sleep together. Here are a few lines:
Mark but this flea, and mark in this,
How little that which thou deniest me is;
It sucked me first, and now sucks thee,
And in this flea our two bloods mingled be;
Thou know’st that this cannot be said
A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead,
This piece is one of Donne’s most original. The thoughtful and surprising metaphor at its heart is a great example of why his poetry remains so popular to his day.
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne
This incredible love poem includes another famous conceit. This time, comparing the love between two people to the movements of a compass. It was written for the poet’s wife in 1611 or 1612 before he left on a trip to Europe. It was published in Songs and Sonnets after the poet’s death. Here are a few lines from the poem:
If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if the other do.
In this section of the text, the speaker is stating that his wife is the stable hand of the compass while he is the one who roams. Their connection always ensures that he comes back around to her again.
Explore more John Donne poems.
Baroque literature is important because, during this period, some of the most important poets were working, and some of the most influential poems were produced. The Baroque period was inspirational for the writers who followed as well.
The characteristics of this period are the use of figurative language, such as similes and metaphors, as well as other literary devices like hyperbole and imagery. These writers were often concerned with religious themes as well.
The Baroque period lasted from the 16th century to the 18th century. The specific decade or year is sometimes contested depending on the country and what elements are used to determine when the prior period ended and when the latter began.
Related Literary Terms
- Enlightenment: also known as the Age of Reason, was a period from the late 17th century through the 18th century.
- Romanticism: a movement that originated in Europe at the end of the 18th century and emphasized aesthetic experience and imagination.
- Neoclassicism: a movement interested in reviving Greco-Roman literature, art, architecture, philosophy, and theatre in the 18th century.
- Metaphysical Poetry: marked by the use of elaborate figurative languages, original conceits, paradoxes, and philosophical topics.
- Elizabethan Era: a literary period that lasted through the years of Queen Elizabeth’s reign, from 1558 to 1603.
- Edwardian Period: officially lasted from 1901 to 1910, includes the reign of King Edward VII.
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During the first three tutorials of BCM300, our class has been playtesting a range of boardgames. The game I have chosen to analyse is called Flash Point – a cooperative boardgame where all players work together to rescue people and animals from a burning building. I chose to analyse this game specifically because it was such a different experience to those I have played in the past, which have always been every man for himself.
Flash Point was designed by Kevin Lanzing, with the help of actual firefighters. It was originally published by Indie Boards & Cards in 2011, but has since been picked up by several other publishers, with a BoardGameGeek rating of 7/10. The game falls under the adventure category, can have up to 6 players, and has an average playing time of around 45 minutes.
Flash Point takes place on a double-sided playing board, complete with…
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Outlook on the Integrated Pest Management Global Market to 2027 – Featuring Advanced IPM, Ecolab, Rentokil Initial and Bayer Crop Science Among Others
DUBLIN, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The “Integrated Pest Management Market – Forecasts from 2022 to 2027” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering.
Integrated pest management involves the application of various methods, including biological, chemical, cultural, and physical control, etc., to get rid of pests like weeds, pathogens, vertebrates, invertebrates, and such.
The pest attacks in the agriculture field are responsible for the large-scale ruining of crops that give rise to economic damage to the owner. Pest management has turned out to be an efficient solution to safely procure the crops by efficiently handling the pest attacks. Besides that, rising awareness about chronic diseases caused by these pests is expected to drive the market in the future and increase its residential and industrial applications.
The rising population demands more food, which is possible only when fields are provided with the necessary protection. With the rise in technological advancements and increasing government expenditure, integrated pest management has become quite necessary, especially regarding food safety.
A few of the major restraints for the market are high cost and lack of knowledge to properly implement the required pest solutions, which can hamper its market growth in the future.
Pest Attacks in Agricultural Fields:
Effective pest control and management have become essential, especially due to the potential loss of crops and financial damage accompanied by it. Pest attacks are responsible for both direct and indirect damage to the crops. Direct damage is when the pest injures the plants by eating them up, whereas indirect attack refers to the bacterial or fungal infection caused by the pests.
In integrated pest management, monitoring and correct pest identification can help to curb the problem with greater effectiveness. Climate change poses a major threat to food security and the environment as pest attacks that destroy economically essential crops are increasing at a ravaging rate.
As reported by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, pests like fall armyworm, Tephritid fruit flies spread increasingly during warm weather, and the world’s most destructive migratory pest: desert locusts, are expected to change their migratory routes due to climate change. Recently, it has been reported that of 1.06 lakh acres of land attributed to the red chili crop, around 70,000-80,000 acres have been damaged in parts of Telangana, India, due to invasive pest attacks. These alarming rates are expected to drive up the demand for integrated pest management in the coming years.
Chronic Diseases caused due to Pest Infections:
With the growing health awareness and wide-scale adoption of hygiene practices, people have become more conscious about the effects of pests not just in agriculture but also in their homes, industries, etc. Pests such as mosquitoes, ticks, rodents, bacteria, viruses, prions, and cockroaches can cause serious and even fatal diseases like Zika virus, Lyme disease, rabies, allergies, and microbial diseases.
To control the spread of these chronic diseases, integrated pest management has turned out to be the best solution.
The constraint of Price and Lack of Knowledge:
A few of the restraints for the growth of the integrated pest management market is the high price associated with the products and services, which makes it unaffordable, especially to the low-income farmers who can barely make out of their earnings. Besides that, lack of knowledge regarding the application of a specific technique and that too only after monitoring and analyzing the situation is also expected to pose a restraint to the market growth.
Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Integrated Pest Management Market:
With the outburst of the coronavirus pandemic across the globe, integrated pest management, especially in the agriculture sector, suffered negatively. This was attributed to several reasons, including a shift in government priorities to handle the COVID-19 along with a reduction in the supply of plant protection products due to a sudden surge in demand for these products. Besides that, lack of labor due to various government restrictions hampered the IPM activities – such as field activities for pest management, capacity development initiatives, etc.
However, with the increase in pest control management and hygiene practices, especially after the COVID, the demand for integrated pest management is expected to increase in the future.
Key Topics Covered:
2. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
4. MARKET DYNAMICS
4.1. Market Drivers
4.2. Market Restraints
4.3. Porters Five Forces Analysis
4.3.1. Bargaining Power of Suppliers
4.3.2. Bargaining Power of Buyers
4.3.3. The Threat of New Entrants
4.3.4. Threat of Substitutes
4.3.5. Competitive Rivalry in the Industry
4.4. Industry Value Chain Analysis
5. INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT MARKET ANALYSIS, BY PEST TYPE
6. INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT MARKET ANALYSIS, BY CONTROL METHOD
6.2. Biological Control
6.3. Chemical Control
6.4. Cultural Controls
6.5. Mechanical & Physical Controls
6.6. Other Control Method
7. INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT MARKET ANALYSIS, BY APPLICATION
7.3. Commercial buildings
8. INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT MARKET ANALYSIS, BY GEOGRAPHY
8.2. North America
8.3. South America
8.5. Middle East and Africa
8.5.2. South Africa
8.5.4. Saudi Arabia
8.6. Asia Pacific
8.6.6. South Korea
9. COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT AND ANALYSIS
9.1. Major Players and Strategy Analysis
9.2. Emerging Players and Market Lucrativeness
9.3. Mergers, Acquisitions, Agreements, and Collaborations
9.4. Vendor Competitiveness Matrix
10. COMPANY PROFILES
10.1. BASF SE
10.2. Rollins Inc.
10.3. SGS S.A.
10.4. Terminix International Company L.P.
10.5. Advanced IPM
10.6. Ecolab Inc.
10.7. Rentokil Initial plc
10.8. Bayer Crop Science LP
10.9. Suterra LLC
10.10. Dodson Pest Control
10.11. Massey Services
10.12. Cook’s Pest Control
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Hatha Yoga: An Overview
Hatha yoga is one of the four main traditions of Tantra Yoga. Hatha
yoga is mainly practiced for health and vitality in this modern age. It
comes from the words Ha meaning sun and Tha meaning moon unites in
Hatha Yoga. It is commonly translated as the yoga, which brings
combination “of the pairs of opposites.”
It is the symbolic combination of active and passive energies, the
opposites. Hatha yoga is sometimes also known as forceful yoga. It is
from this yoga that several other styles of yoga originated including
Power yoga, Bikram yoga, and Kundalini yoga.
History of Hatha Yoga
Hatha Yoga is a system of yoga introduced by Yogi Swatmarama, a yogic
sage in the 15th century in India. It is introduced to modern society
by T. Krishnamacharya, a yoga teacher in Mysore Palace in south India,
in late 19th century.
His disciples B.K.S. Iyengar, K.Pattabhi Jois and Indira Devi, and his
son T.K.V. Desikachar, were involved in setting up their schools and
spreading Yoga all over the world, especially in America.
Hatha Yoga tries to attain balance between body and mind, and also
tries to free the more subtle spiritual elements of the mind through
physical asanas, pranayama, and meditation.
It basically concentrates on the practice of asanas and pranayama to
energize the subtle channels. Therefore it focuses mainly on the 3rd
and 4th steps in the eight limbs of yoga.
These are the various body positions, which help in the improvement of
health and removing of diseases in the physical, causal, and subtle
bodies. Actually, the word “asana” means seat in Sanskrit, which not
only refers to the physical position of the body but also to the body
position in relation to divinity.
These asanas are originally meant for Meditation, as the postures can
make you feel relaxed for extended time period. A yoga practitioner can
improve the flexibility of the muscles and bone strength, as well as
non-physical rewards such as the development of will power,
concentration, and self-withdrawal by practicing these asanas regularly.
Pranayama is derived from the words prana, which means life or energy
source and ayama, which means to control. It is the science of breath
control. It is very essential for a yoga practitioner to practice
pranayama in hatha yoga for mastering ones’ breathing patterns. The
mastery of mind is within reach if one can master breath.
The flow of prana or vital life force through the body is regulated
through breathing exercises. That energy is definitely required on the
further steps of Hatha Yoga that ultimately may lead to samadhi.
In Special breathing techniques, the flow of breath though both
nostrils are alternated, this brings balance to the two hemispheres of
the brain, which is possibly the central objective of Pranayama.
Kundalini Energy is also activated with the pranayama.
Some asanas are helpful in toning up your internal organs, and thereby
preventing diseases such as diabetes, arthritis, and hypertension. They
also bring balance to internal and glandular functions. In contrast,
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In this, generally the ranks of a person both from the top and from the bottom are mentioned and the total number of persons is asked. Sometimes the question is put in the form of a puzzle of interchanging seats by two persons.
* Rajnish is older than Rajesh and Raman. Ramesh is older than Rajesh but younger than Rajeev. Raman is older than Rajeev. Who among them is oldest?
A) Rajeev B) Rajesh C) Rajnish D) Ramesh E) None of these
Hint: Rajnish > Rajesh, Raman ... (i);
Rajeev > Rajesh ... (ii);
Raman > Rajeev... (iii)
combining all, we get Rajnish > Raman > Rajeev > Ramesh > Rajesh.
* If Anju is taller than Rohini but shorter than Manju and Rohini is as tall as Sarayu but taller than Shubhangi, then Sarayu is
A) taller than Manju B) shorter than Anju C) as tall as Anju
D) shorter than Shubhangi E) shorter than Rohini
Hint: Manju > Anju > Rohini = Sarayu > Shubhangi.
* In a unit test Suman's marks in Mathematics is more than her marks in History but not more than Geography. Her marks in Science is more than that in History but not as much as in Mathematics and her marks in English is not as much as in Geography. In which of the given subjects did she score the lowest?
A) History B) English C) Science D) Data inadequate E) None of these
Hint: Geog > Math > Hist ... (i);
Math > Sci > Hist ... (ii);
Geog > Eng ... (iii)
* P, Q, R, S, and T are sitting around a circular table. R is to the right of P and is second to the left of S. T is not between P and S. Who is second to the left of R?
A) S B) T C) Q D) Data inadequate E) None of these
* In a row of boys Akash is fifth form the left and Nikhil is eleventh from the right. If Akash is twenty-fifth from the right then how many boys are there between Akash and Nikhil?
A) 14 B) 13 C) 15 D) 12 E) None of these
Hint: There are (25-11-1) =13 boys between Akash and Nikhil.
* Haresh is 27th from the left end of a row of 49 boys and Mahesh is 27th from the right end in the same row. How many boys are between them in the row?
A) 6 B) 3 C) 5 D) Data inadequate E) None of these
Hint: Since Harish is 27th from the left, then he is 49-27+1 from the right, i.e. 23rd from the right. Again, since Mahesh is 27th from the right, therefore there are three boys between them in the row.
* Arun is fifth from the left end and Navin is twelfth from right end in a row of children. If Navin shifts by three places towards Arun he becomes tenth from the left end. How many children are there in the row?
A) 21 B) 22 C) 23 D) 24 E) None of these
Hint: 9 - D, Total number of children = 12+3+10-1= 24.
* If Nikhil is eleventh from the left in a row of boys, Rehman is fourteenth from the right, how many boys are there in the row?
A) 25 B) 23 C) 36 D) Data inadequate E) None of these
Hint: We do not have information regarding the number of persons between Nikhil and Rehman.
* In a row of girls, Ravina is 15th from the left and Mohini is 18th from the right. If they interchange their places, Mohini becomes 15th from the left. How many girls are there in the row?
A) 33 B) 48 C) 47 D) Data inadequate E) None of these
Hint: We still need some more information.
* In a row of boys facing north, Sudhanshu is twelfth from the left. When shifted to his right by four places, he becomes eighteenth from the right end of the row. How many boys are there in the row?
A) 32 B) 33 C) 34 D) Data inadequate E) None of these
Hint: 12+3+18 = 33.
* In a queue, Amrita is 10th from the front while Mukul is 25th from behind and Mamta is just in the middle of the two. If there be 50 persons in the queue, what position does Mamta occupy from the front?
A) 20th B) 19th C) 18th D) 17th E) None of these
Hint: Number of persons between Amrita and Mukul = 50-(10+25) = 15. Since, Mamta lies in middle of these 15 persons, so Mamta's position is 8th from Amrita i.e., 18th from the front.
* Raman ranks sixteenth from the top and forty ninth from the bottom in a class. How many students are there in the class?
A) 64 B) 65 C) 66 D) Cannot be determined E) None of these
Hint: Clearly, number of students in the class = (15+1+48) = 64
* Sanjeev ranks seventh from the top and twenty eighth from the bottom in a class. How many students are there in the class?
A) 37 B) 36 C) 35 D) 34 E) None of these
Hint: Clearly, number of students in the class = (6+1+27) = 34.
* If Atul finds that he is twelfth from the right in a line of boys and fourth from the left, how many boys should be added to the line such that there are 28 boys in the line?
A) 12 B) 13 C) 14 D) 20 E) None of these
* Manisha ranked sixteenth from the top and twenty ninth from the bottom among those who passed an examination. Six students did not participate in the competition and five failed in it. How many students were there in the class?
A) 40 B) 44 C) 50 D) 55 E) None of these
Hint: Number of boys who passed = (15+1+28) = 44. Total number of boys in the
class = 44+6+5 = 55.
* Aruna ranks twelfth in a class of forty-six. What will be her rank from the last?
A) 33 B) 34 C) 35 D) 37 E) None of these
Hint: Number of students behind Aruna in a rank = (46-12) = 34. So Aruna is 35th from the last.
* In a class of 60, where girls are twice of boys, Kamal ranked seventeenth from the top. If there are 9 girls ahead of Kamal, how many boys are after him in rank?
A) 3 B) 7 C) 12 D) 23 E) None of these
* In a row of ten boys, when Rohit was shifted by two places towards the left, he became seventh from the left end. What was his earlier position from the right end of the row?
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[EDITORIALS]Shape up!Where did governmental discipline go? No sense of responsibility can be heard in what ministers and senior Blue House officials say about important state affairs. After one official says something dubious, others get flustered trying to cope with the confusion that follows. Senior officials are making things go awry instead of uniting national strength. How can people trust the government?
Several happenings in recent days are enough to trigger skepticism about whether the government is able to deal with the problems this nation confronts. A senior political advisor at the Blue House recently told a reporter of his opposition to sending combat troops to Iraq. After reporters printed the comment, he made some weak excuses, including “I was dead drunk when I told you that,” and “That’s just a personal opinion.” What adds to the seriousness is that the incident happened right after President Roh Moo-hyun said he would give particularly careful study to the question. We are not saying that a Blue House official cannot have personal opinions, but he was imprudent about the timing and occasion of his comments.
Another example is the issue of Kim Doo-gwan, the minister of government administration and home affairs. The National Assembly said it wanted him out, but Mr. Roh said, “Resign after dealing with the aftermath of the typhoon,” even though the minister wanted out. In the end, they struck an odd bargain in which the minister will stay on even after his successor is named. That makes him a perfect lame duck administrator.
After the minister of commerce, industry and energy announced a plan to build a vacation home for the president, the Blue House spokesman instantly denied the existence of such a plan. Did the minister not talk with the Blue House before announcing it?
And what was the head of the economic cabinet team doing when the typhoon struck? He was golfing at Jeju. Taking pride in a non-authoritarian administration doesn’t excuse this state of affairs. It would not be too much, we think, to ask that government officials be more careful in their words and behavior. | <urn:uuid:4f512b48-052b-496a-9562-8b75fef8846b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2003/09/17/editorials/91EDITORIALS93Shape-up/2032994.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.976136 | 439 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Attend the unveiling of the new “East Falls Tapestry” public art display under the Twin Bridges, located on Ridge Avenue. The work was inspired by Japanese kimonos and native creatures from the Schuylkill River.
The dedication will be held on Tuesday Aug. 7 at 6 p.m. and is open to the public.
The display evokes the textile manufacturing that was common in East Falls during the Industrial Revolution, with Dobson Mills (now modern apartments) as a primary manufacturer. The artists of the Tapestry are Mike Smash and Johnny Buss.
Murals Arts Director Jane Golden and Philadelphia City Councilman Curtis Jones will attend. PennDOT, which helped fund the art, and Philadelphia University, which holds the kimono, will be represented as well.
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Thanksgiving weekend is notorious for being a time of consumer chaos, when shoppers flock to big box stores and malls around the country. Now a dozen public and private organizations are partnering up to get consumers to focus on small businesses.
Companies ranging from Facebook to
are hoping to encourage consumers to flock to locally owned businesses by designating the Saturday after Thanksgiving as Small Business Saturday. That fits tidily between your Black Friday and Cyber Monday bargain hunting.
Companies including Facebook and American Express are encouraging consumers to shop at locally owned businesses next week on "Small Business Saturday."
(Now New Englanders are pushing an idea that emerged a year ago in Oakland, Calif., for "Plaid Friday," in which people wear autumnal plaids and stay away from malls, choosing to appreciate their communities instead. They might do better joining up with Small Business Saturday than taking on Black Friday.)
"Small businesses are the backbone of our economy and the glue that holds communities together, and we've always sought new ways to support them -- something that became even more important when the national economic downturn began," said New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a supporter of the movement, in a press release. "This year, if you have the opportunity to shop on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, make it a point to visit local small businesses. It really can make an enormous difference for merchants trying to succeed."
The supporters of this movement point out that small businesses are responsible for creating nearly
of the jobs in this country -- a claim
by researchers at the National Bureau of Economic Research -- meaning we prosper when they prosper.
If that's not enough, American Express has already announced it will give a $25 credit to the first 100,000 cardholders who shop at a locally owned business that Saturday. American Express will also give $100 of free advertising on Facebook to the first 10,000 small businesses who sign up on
to promote the event.
Now the only question left is what people will come up with to promote on Sunday. Something in a plaid, perhaps?
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The emotional and intellectual wallop one feels reading Mira Jacob’s Good Talk might be partly due to its unique form. It’s an illustrated series of real-life conversations the East-Indian-born, American-raised author has had with her mixed-race son, spurred by questions like “Can Indians be racist?” and “Was Michael Jackson brown or was he white? Are you going to turn white?” Jacob dives headfirst into life as a brown person in Trump’s America, while interrogating her memories as a teenager in New Mexico, as a young woman in post-9/11 New York, and, finally, as a writer.
In truth, Good Talk’s graphic elements have little to do with its achievement, which is substantial. Rather, it’s Mira Jacob’s talent and generosity, her rage and her intellect. The book’s conversations are the same ones thousands of us are having with our relatives, with our children, with our in-laws. In a sense these conversations are unfinished: upon closing the book you’ll want to give it to a friend so that you might continue the dialogue.
Mira Jacob is also the author of the novel The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing, and she is often writing for Electric Literature and Tin House when not giving superb advice to other writers and artists. I was fortunate to speak by phone with her the week before Good Talk’s publication.
The Rumpus: Where did the project originate? With the BuzzFeed article?
Mira Jacob: I had the idea of drawing conversations years before. Then, my son Z was six and became obsessed with Michael Jackson and had all these questions about his own skin color, it seemed like the only way to handle it, creatively. Some of the questions—Did he lose his other glove?—were funny Some of them—Are White people afraid of Brown people?—were devastating.
I realized I had to deal with it somehow. I started writing an essay, and the essay was horrible. I just knew people wouldn’t believe it. They wouldn’t believe me, they wouldn’t believe his questions, they wouldn’t believe how mundane and horrific things could be at the same time. This was 2015 in America, and we were ramping up to this really scary time, when people just don’t believe anything about each other anymore, and no amount of racial pain was valid, you know, you’re just being a snowflake, blah blah blah—and I didn’t want that pointed at him.
So I drew us on printer paper, cut us out, put us on top of the Michael Jackson album, and wrote the conversation in dialogue bubbles. That was the piece for BuzzFeed. As I was doing that one, I kept thinking of all the other conversations I’d had over my life that had been formative and weird and funny. By the time the piece came out I had a good idea of the book I was going to write.
And Ryan, that book was going to be hilarious, okay? HILARIOUS.
Then the 2016 election happened.
I remember meeting with my editor, the first editor of the book, and we were both wrecked. The only thing I could figure out to do was to just keep going. I told him, I’m just going to tell the fucking truth about this moment and I don’t fucking care who it hurts anymore. I don’t care about protecting their egos more than I care about all the lives they are ripping apart. Enough.
Rumpus: I could identify with the anger and despair you feel when talking Trump with conservative relatives. I didn’t realize I needed to see that in literature until I read those pages. You’re going to get a lot of similar replies from readers.
Jacob: It’s funny, because while I appreciate that, I also had to distance myself from what anyone else was going to think about what I wrote. The first book you write is in such a bubble, you know? But with this second, I could just feel the weight of other people’s expectations, their needs. They want a triumphant ending, or they want solutions, or they want really hard-hitting anger in the end.
I rewrote the ending a good ten to fifteen times to satisfy all of those desires. Then I thought, get a hold of yourself. You’re writing this to your son. This is for him. Forget everybody else. Just write the thing you need to tell your boy.
Rumpus: Because its visual nature, you were able to share more of the work-in-progress on social media. Did it feel like you were writing it in public? Which is another way of asking how you felt switching to graphic memoir after working in prose fiction—after working on Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing for ten years.
Jacob: It’s a really interesting question. I wrote Sleepwalker’s in total anonymity, from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m., as a working woman and then as a working mother. I wrote it through my dad’s death, through my child’s birth. There were just a lot of things going on in my life. That book was the thing I would return to every night, by myself.
This time, I would have people in the publishing industry say to me, “I know what you’re working on; I look forward to reading it.” As a person who came from complete obscurity, and only published in my forties after I thought the dream was over, I was cheered by that. But it also made me incredibly nervous.
I was doing something I’d never done before. I didn’t know how to draw particularly well at that point. I was staying up really late at night just figuring out how to use the software. So when I ran into publishing people I was thinking: “Oh, you think I’m doing this thing! And perhaps even doing it well! In reality I’m crashing on my face night after night after night.”
It was also scary putting the pieces out: people could see what I was working on. And it was about my actual life.
Rumpus: Some memoirists allow relatives or friends to read the manuscript and remove things they find objectionable or too private. And with a graphic memoir, it’s a different kind of intimacy. We see your husband, your son.
Jacob: My husband is a documentary filmmaker, so we’ve always been very creatively tight. He always shows me his rough cuts; I always show him my rough drafts. We care intensely about what the other person thinks. Too much, sometimes. And we workshop each other in a way that is weirdly rigorous for two people who need to stay vulnerable enough to stay married.
In the course of writing the book, we would get into it. I’d say, “I am writing some things that are hard to write, and they are going to be hard for our family to read.” And sometimes it would upset him because duh. We love our family. We love each other. It was a hard place to be in. But he always came back to me saying, “You just have to write it. You can’t censor yourself because it’s going to hurt other people’s feelings. You just have to write it as fully as you want to, then you can figure out what you want to edit out.”
So I did that. I’m not going to say it was easy—I didn’t sleep for a few years. But it also felt like the best way to move forward.
Rumpus: The book incorporates photography and outside texts in a way not often seen in graphic memoirs. It’s open to the material of the world.
Jacob: I wanted it to feel like it was done with urgency because it was. That meant I had to simplify things in ways that other graphic books don’t often do. I had a series of rules. Early on I decided my characters could never show emotions. I would never draw them laughing, crying, getting angry. I thought with showing emotions, if I do that, then the reader waits for that, you know? And then the character has to carry the emotion as opposed to the reader carrying it. And I want readers to know what that feels like because that is what my body feels like every day. That level of disconnect is what it feels like to walk through an America where these things are happening, and people are not reacting, or tell themselves it’s not happening. It’s crazy and crazy-making.
There were other things I had, little things like: you may never write how you feel. You can only write the action and the dialogue. I ended up breaking that rule after the initial draft. But these rules were there to prevent me from emotionally exhausting myself.
Rumpus: Assembling this book seemed more like the work of a film director than the one-person team of the prose novelist. A full-on production. There’s a lot of risk there. One doesn’t know if it works until fairly late in the process.
Jacob: You’re right, I didn’t know if it was going to work. But also, I didn’t let myself worry about it too much. I’m serious. I was having so much fun making it. I’m a person who likes to use my hands to make things, to cook and draw and sculpt and touch the people I love, so there was a sense of, “This is all mine and I’m gonna make it like no one else can.” There was a kind of recklessness to it.
Rumpus: I’m thinking about your BuzzFeed essay on the state of diversity in the publishing industry. Have you seen any progress, however small? Your imprint could be seen as a step in the right direction.
Jacob: I’m not exaggerating when I tell you that I feel this sizable relief that the One World imprint even exists. I basically have Ruth Bader Ginsburg feelings for each of the editors there: “Oh my god, don’t let anything happen to Chris [Jackson] or Victory [Matsui] or Nicole [Counts]!” They are each doing an inordinate amount of work with all of our dreams on their shoulders.
And yes, there other editors ushering in diversity with the unique advantage of having grappled with their own, but not nearly enough. We need more—that’s the obvious part. And to this mythology that suddenly all the doors are swinging open for diverse writers, I’ve just got to call bullshit. I’ve had extremely accomplished friends this year who wrote phenomenal, brilliant work, and then had it pulled because white editors couldn’t stomach what they’d written. I’ve had friends get their manuscripts rejected because there were no white characters in them, and white editors couldn’t figure out what people would relate to. Still. Yes. Often. And I know if it’s happening at my level, then below me is a vast sea of What The Fuck.
Also, and this is important, I almost didn’t get to One World at all. It only happened because my book was orphaned, and in a panic, I reached out to Alex Chee. He asked what my biggest fear, and because it was him and I knew I could be honest, I said I wasn’t sure white editors knew how to edit a book like this. They don’t live inside this world, which makes it complicated in this moment. It used to mean that they would demand I made nuanced things obvious, but in this case, I was more scared that they wouldn’t hit me hard enough, punch out the weak parts, challenge me in the way the work needed to be challenged (as opposed to the way work is challenged when it affronts the readers ego).
Alex said, “You know you’re allowed to request an editor of color.” I was like, Whaaaat? [Laughter] I said to Alex, “What if I know the editor I want?” And he said, “You’re allowed to ask for that editor.”
So I did. And Random House heard me out, and Chris took me on, which again, is the blessing of all blessings. But it never would have happened if I hadn’t had a crucial conversation with another writer of color who empowered me at the exact right moment.
And look, I’m not overstating things at all to say it was the greatest joy of my working life to finally duke things out with editors who got this part of me. They asked the hard questions. The first round of edits were brutal. I spent a lot of time going on long runs and punching things and cursing them and getting back into it. But also, feeling really fucking lucky, because I had never in my life felt so held by an editing process. I’m forty-six years old. I’ve been writing professionally for over twenty-five years. And sometimes, I can’t help but think, what if I had had this editing experience earlier? Who would I have been by now? Don’t get me wrong, I’m thankful for now. But I also just want to get a shit ton of us on the ground, so that all those people coming up have this. Because this feels amazing.
Rumpus: Last question. If we fast forward twenty, thirty years, what questions do you think your son’s children will ask him?
Jacob: In my optimistic place I would want them to be asking, “How did we get out of that situation? How did we recover the country? What changed for you? How did you grow?”
That’s what I hope they ask.
My fear is that they’ll ask, “What was it like to be part of the country once known as the United States?”
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Trapezio-Metacarpal Joint Arthritis of the Thumb
Trapezio-Metacarpal Joint Arthritis of the Thumb
This article describes joint arthritis of the Trapezio-Metacarpal joint of the thumb and treatment.
Hand function requires a thumb with an intrinsic stability, strength, and mobility to resist the forces by one or all four fingers during pinch or grasp. This mobility requires the thumb to be in the proper position for function and is dependent upon the trapezio-metacarpal joint. This complex saddle-shaped joint at the base of the thumb allows for abduction away from the palm, both radially and palmarly, while allowing the rotation (pronation and supination).
The forces generated from this joint are extremely high. (In fact, in simple pinch the amount of force within the trapezio-metacarpal joint is twelve times the force to the tip of the thumb). Unfortunately, this joint is the second most frequent for osteoarthritis of the hand and by rheumatoid arthritis as well. A painful, stiff, trapezio-metacarpal joint can make even the simplest tasks of daily living (turning a key, grasping a doorknob, opening a car door, buttoning a shirt, etc.) impossible.
Osteoarthritis of this joint is most commonly seen in middle-age or post-menopausal women. Female prevalence of this degenerative process is most likely due to greater joint laxity which leads to increased joint incongruity. Combining joint incongruity with high frequent forces leads to an accelerated degenerative process.
The physical examination of a patient with trapezio-metacarpal joint problems starts with inspection. Subluxation of the trapezio-metacarpal joint is noted by a prominence at the base of the thumb and a decrease in range of motion. Patients will have increased tenderness to palpation over this area as well as painful, weak, key pinch. Finally, perform a “Grind Test”. This is where the examiner holds the thumb and applies compressive force with rotation reproducing the patient’s pain and testing for instability. If any of these tests are positive, obtain x-rays.
Eaton describes a radiographic classification in which progressive destruction and subluxation of the trapeziometacarpal joint occur.
Stage I: This stage precedes any joint degeneration, articular contours are normal. The joint space may be widened if effusion is present.
Stage 2: Slight narrowing of the thumb metacarpal trapezial joint space is present, but the articular contours are maintained. Osteophyte formation, when present, is less than 2mm in size.
Stage 3: Significant thumb metacarpal trapezial joint destruction is present. Sclerotic or cystic changes occur in the subchondral bone. Osteophytes are larger than 2mm in size.
Stage 4: In this stage both the trapezio-metacarpal joint as well as the scaphotrapezial joint demonstrates significant degenerative changes and debris. The trapezio-metacarpal joint may have a subluxation. Cystic changes can be found in the Scaphoid, trapezium, and first metacarpal bones. Treatment for trapezio-metacarpal joint problems is based on a radiographic stage. Although, we try conservative efforts in all four stages, they are usually more successful for stages 1 and 2. Rest and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medications should be the
If this fails, the treating physician may wish to try a Medrol Dose Pak, and have a custom designed splint constructed. An occupational therapist with special splint training will make a hand-based, palmar abducted, first CMC joint splint with the thumb interphalangeal joint free.
This splint gives support for the trapezial-metacarpal joint while allowing for flexion at the interphalangeal joint of the thumb. Unfortunately, most patients have difficulty tolerating this splint since it limits thumb function considerably by limiting mobilityof the trapezio-metacarpal joint. If the above maneuvering fails to improve function and pain, the next step is an injection of steroid into the trapezio-metacarpal joint. The author’s personal preference is a mix of 1cc of Celestone. Obtain X-rays if there are any difficulties.
h 1cc of Xylocaine. Apply traction to the thumb while palpating the base of the first metacarpal. Advance a 25-gauge needle into the joint and the solution
The injection will usually resolve the pain due to early stages of arthritis; advanced stages may have no improvement. If there is no improvement in pain despite the above conservative efforts, the next step would be to consider surgical intervention. There are many different techniques available to address trapezio-metacarpal arthritis. With long-term follow-up there is clearly one superior technique. In the late 1970’s and 1980’s there was much enthusiasm with silicone implant arthroplasty, resurfacing the base of the first metacarpal while replacing the trapezium.
Follow Up Studies.
In a follow-up study of 32 patients with an average follow-up at 3.9 years, there was a twenty-five percent failure rate.4,5 The high failure rate was due to silicone cold flow and wear, subluxation, and reactive giant cell synovitis. Despite the fact that silicone arthroplasty has been highly successful in the metacarpal phalangeal joints of the index, middle, ring, and small digits, it has failed in the trapezio-metacarpal joint of the thumb. The technique that has proven successful with greater than 10 year follow-up is the flexor carpi radialis ligament reconstruction with tendon interposition arthroplasty.
In this technique removes a part of or all of the trapezius. Then, the flexor carpi radialis tendon is taken through the case of the thumb metacarpal. The tendon is then brought back to itself at the base of the thumb metacarpal. The tendon is then brought back to itself at the base of the trapezial trough. Then folded like an accordion filling the space once occupied by the trapezius. This technique restores stability of the thumb while also constructing an arthroplasty with local tissues. Long-term follow-up outcome study has shown a ninety-five percent excellent relief of pain while also restoring thumb function.
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Heinrich Moser was born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland on December 12, 1805. He learned the basics of watchmaking craftsmanship from his father before continuing his studies in Le Locle, Switzerland after 1824. In 1828, he founded the original H. Moser & Cie. in St. Petersburg, Russia. Moser established a watch factory in LeLocle in 1829, which produced watches exclusively for his businesses in Europe and Russia.
In 1848, Heinrich Moser returned to his hometown of Schaffhausen and established a watch factory there to supply his business. Notable clients of H. Moser & Cie. at the time included Russian nobility and members of the Russian Imperial Court. In particular, Vladimir Lenin was known to have owned a Moser watch. Heinrich Moser died on October 23, 1874, and the company was sold because none of his heirs was willing to take over the business. The buyer was the existing Managing Director, Mr Winterhalter. It was stipulated in the contracts of sale that all successor companies would continue to operate in perpetuity under the registered brand names of H. Moser & Cie. or Heinrich Moser & Co.
In 1953, H. Moser & Cie. continued its business in Le Locle where it produced its first wristwatches. I find this difficult to believe, as they would have been 30 years behind the rest of the industry. The company suffered during the quartz crisis in the 1970s and 1980s. H. Moser & Cie. was acquired by the Dixi Mechanique Group and the original brand name was dropped, becoming “Hy Moser & Cie”.
I came across Moser when researching manufacturer codes for WW1 cockpit watches (Moser, code was CC). They must have been making good quality watches to be approved for the manufacturing of military-grade watches. The history of Moser is patchy, most of the commentary is a summary of what is found on Wikipedia. The company was relaunched in 2005 and currently produces limited edition watches.
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By MPP Toby Barrett
Parliamentary debate last week addressed the fact New York State passed legislation that will mandate only American-made steel may be procured for certain infrastructure projects. Texas has similar legislation that came in last September which placed ‘Buy American’ requirements on iron and steel in highway and construction projects. As a result, Ontario tabled legislation that will allow the province to respond in kind.
Ontario has introduced Bill 194, the Fairness in Procurement Act, as an attempt to try and deal with the state laws, even though there are already countless other laws and bills like this one on the books throughout the United States.
Initiating a trade war now with the US, during what continues to be a critical time during the ongoing and extended NAFTA negotiations, really appears to be reckless. It seems to be a last-ditch ploy to distract from Ontario’s disastrous economic policies of high taxes, high energy costs, and the plethora of suffocating bureaucratic red tape.
This attempt by Ontario to retaliate is a threat to what many have been working on over the past year. Many of us have been actively lobbying and communicating with American leaders with respect to the benefits of trade. Over several years, I’ve built up what I consider important relationships with US state-elected farmers and ranchers – those people who have benefited tremendously from NAFTA and from trade with Canada and Mexico.
Now – with this new Ontario bill — we’ve got a bit of a monkey wrench thrown into the mix. Why are we not seeing a well-crafted, well-thought-out, meaningful response to these kinds of American policies that can have a significant impact on Ontario and certainly on our steel industry?
We in the Official Opposition will not support this kind of retaliation from the province. It’s premature. It’s a very weak response and something that would not be expected of either a federal or provincial level of government.
On May 18 last year, US trade representative Robert Lighthizer gave notice of intent to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement—NAFTA—with Canada and Mexico. At that announcement, he cited outdated standards and regulations; a fair comment that would be accurate to some extent. Lighthizer stressed the need for higher-paying jobs in the United States. That was the reason given.
This New York State legislation against steel produced in Ontario is ill-advised. Ontario’s proposed retaliation is also ill-advised and flies in the face of the fact that the United States and Canada boast one of the largest trading relationships in the world.
No other country buys more goods and services that are made in the USA than Canada—something in the order of $322 billion a year. As a result, Canada supports close to nine million US jobs.
Factories and farming in both our countries are linked, with just-in-time delivery chains that criss-cross the border. Investment, productivity and competitiveness in both countries are by and large supported by common rules and harmonized regulation—not by suffocating regulation and not by mutual retaliatory measures.
At the state and at the provincial level, elected representatives agree—and the numbers speak for themselves—cross-border trade has resulted in prosperity and good-paying jobs. Restricting Canada-US trade and retaliating in kind suffocates that very prosperity and kills those good-paying jobs.
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Venerable Master Sheng Yen (1931-2009)
Dharma Drum Mountain (DDM) was established by Master Sheng Yen in 1989. DDM emphasizes on spreading and promoting the authentic teachings of Buddhism, particularly Chan.
DDM's mission is to "uplift the character of humanity and build a pure land on earth." In order to implement this ideal, we advocate the protection of the spiritual environment and the fivefold spiritual renaissance, as well as the three types of education: education through academics, education through public outreach and education through caring service. In addition, DDM offers various programs to meet the spiritual and educational needs of people at all stages of their lives. Some of these programs include international Buddhist conferences, ecological seminars and lectures, social welfare programs and meditation retreats.
Biographical note: He was born on a farm near Shanghai in early l931 and joined a nearby Buddhist Chan temple as a monk at 13. Unhappy that he was assigned to do mainly ordinary chores every day in the first two years, he ran away and joined the Buddhist Academy at Ching-an Monastery in Shanghai, where he had his first chance to hear inspiring teachings from Chan Master Xu Yun and Master Tai Xu when they visited Shanghai.
In 1949, shortly after the Communist takeover of China, he was conscripted into the Nationalist Army and moved to Taiwan. He was a warrant officer then and served as a telegraph operator.In the army, he continued his studies in Buddhism and meditated daily. He also used his leave to visit various monasteries.
After 10 years of military service, he retired from the army and resumed monastic life in 1959 at the Buddhist Culture Center in Beitou, in suburban Taipei. In that year, he met his first real master, Ling Yuan, in southern Taiwan and learned the methods of experiencing peace, tranquility and happiness in life.
He was a disciple for two years under Master Tung Chu, a heir to both the Lin Chi and Tsao Tung sects of Chan Buddhism, before going into solitary retreat in the mountains for six years from 1961 to 1968.
At 38, he went to Japan to pursue further education to pave the way for future Dharma preaching. He received a master's degree in 1971 and a doctorate in Buddhist literature in 1975 from Rissho University.
In 1975 he formally received transmission from Chan Master Dong Chu of the Tsao Dong sect, and in 1978 he also received transmission from Chan Master Ling Yuan of the Lin Chi tradition. From then on, he became the Dharma heir in the two lineages of Chan Buddhism.
Two years later, he became the abbot of The Temple of Enlightenment in New York and started to teach Buddhism in the United States. In the following years, he conducted more than 140 group meditation retreats in the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe, using his teachings to help practitioners achieve peace and harmony of the body, the mind, the family and their careers.
In 1978 Sheng Yen became a professor at Chinese Culture University and president of the Chung-Hwa Buddhist Cultural Institute in Taipei. The next year, he became the abbot of Nung Chan Monastery in Beitou. He founded the Chan Meditation Center and the Institute of Chung-Hwa Buddhist Culture in New York in 1980, and five years later, he set up the Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies in Taipei.
With more than 1 million followers worldwide, Master Sheng Yen began to feel the need for a permanent, spacious monastery, called Dharma Drum Mountain. After spending eight years looking for a construction site, he finally succeeded in 2000.
The Dharma Drum Mountain Monastery, located in Jinshan township, Taipei County, was inaugurated in October 2005. His wish fulfilled, the master's health showed signs of deterioration. In his final years, his devotion to Buddhist teaching never faded, and he was still planning to build a Dharma Drum University.
Master Sheng Yen received many awards from different governments in recognition of his humanitarian, cultural, and academic contributions. In August 2000, he was one of the keynote speakers in the Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders held in the United Nations.
He was the author of some 90 books in Chinese and over a dozen books in English. Some of his books have been translated into more than 12 languages, including French, German, Japanese, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Vietnamese.
Master Sheng Yen is a living gem of the contemporary Buddhist world. He is credited, locally as well as internationally, for sparking a revival of Chinese Buddhism.
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama once described Master Sheng Yen as "extremely modest, a true spiritual practitioner of deep and broad learning."
Master Sheng Yen was appointed as one of the chairs of the World Council of Religious Leaders, an official unit of the United Nations to aid the Secretary General on religious matters.
An opinion poll conducted by the "Common Wealth", a famous Taiwan magazine, selected Master Sheng Yen as one of "the 50 most influential people in Taiwan in the past 400 years."
Master Sheng Yen has received Dharma transmission in the two major branches of Chan Buddhism, the Linji (Japanese Rinzai), and the Caodong (Japanese Soto). In genealogical terms, Master Sheng Yen is a sixty-seventh (within the Linji lineage) or sixty-second (within the Caodong lineage) generation descendant of Bodhidharma ( ?-ca. 530), the First patriarch of Chan, and the sixty-second (Linji) or fifty-seventh (Caodong) generation descendant of Hui-neng (638-713), the Sixth Patriarch of Chan.
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Mediation is a way to solve disputes by making resolutions together with the assistance of a Empathy mediator. Empathy three key characteristics are: 1. conversation with no strings attached; 2. Voluntary and 3. Confidential. The participants agree to these mediation characteristics before going into mediation. Mediation will work only if the following conditions are present: The parties must be willing to resolve the problem together. The participants in the meetings must have authority to enter into a settlement agreement. Participants will guarantee to each other confidentiality of the what will be discussed.
For the work of a mediator it is needed to have a good working relation with all participants of the mediation. Only if parties trust & respect the assigned mediator it can be successful.
In mediation it is needed to have mutual trust, respect and open communication
The parties accept that the mediator will investigate the information only as far as the mediator feels it is needed.
Dutch certified mediators can in the Netherlands only work within the conditions of Dutch Law. According to the instructions of the Dutch mediation association the mediator keeps confidentiality unless the professional work of the mediator itself will be subject of discussion.
relations may meet improvement; a completion in a wise way of a relation and avoiding unnecessary damages to either person.
Empathy.nLaw has the capacity and time for a good conversation
Empathy.nLaw has specialized mediators for divorce agreements
Expert in ADR: Appropriate Dispute Resolution systems. “Mediation is even possible between different nationalities if the mediator can work well with a translator.”
Mediation in Thai language: การไกล่เกลี่ย phonetical Kār kịl̀kelī̀y or the way Michael prefer to pronounce cry clear
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- French Emperor Napoleon III had planned to trade weapons for cotton with Confederate states during France's invasion of Mexico.
- However, Mexico's resolve at the Battle of Puebla in 1862 prevented France from supplying weapons to the Confederacy during the Civil War.
- France retreated to Veracruz for a year giving the Union Army enough time to rack up victories against the Confederacy and end the war in 1865.
As people across the country indulge in Cinco De Mayo celebrations with margaritas and tacos, few may know about the connection the holiday has to US history.
On May 5, 1862, the Mexican army defeated the French in the Battle of Puebla. This prevented French Emperor Napoleon III from supplying weapons to the Confederacy during the Civil War. Napoleon III had planned to trade weapons for cotton with the Confederate states during France's invasion of Mexico. But upon arriving at combat, the French found that they were unprepared to battle the resolve of the Mexican army.
Emperor Napoleon III wanted to claim Mexico for France.
In 1860, Mexico was dealing with bankruptcy and told their European creditors that they would be pausing payments for two years while they got their affairs in order. That upset the French, Spanish, and British, so in 1861, the three countries sent their military forces to Mexico to collect their debts.
The British and the Spanish eventually settled the issue of debt, but France was not satisfied. Napoleon III wanted to make Mexico a colony of France. Spanish and British forces eventually withdrew from Mexico once Napoleon III's ambitious plans were made known. Knowing he wouldn't face any resistance from the other European forces and that the US was in the midst of the American-Native Wars and the Civil War, he decided to press on.
In 1862, French General Charles de Lorencez marched his forces into the port city of Veracruz with the goal of capturing Mexico City. However, on May 5th, French forces were decimated at Puebla at the hands of Mexican General Ignacio Zaragoza and his troops.
Losing at the Battle of Puebla forced French forces to delay their weapons trade with the Confederacy.
The French retreated to Veracruz where they stayed put for over a year.
That decision has led some historians to believe France's year-long delay to go back into combat gave the Union Army time to rack up enough victories against the Confederacy before Napoleon could send artillery and ammunition.
However, others believe that the Battle of Gettysburg was about to begin at the time of France's retreat and that the Union Army was already in a good position to wrap up the war by year's end.
"Even if French were able to set their supply lines by mid-1863, it would have made very little difference in the outcome of the Civil War," Eric Rojo, a retired U.S. Army Colonel and commander-in-chief of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, an organization composed of descendants of Union officers in the Civil War, told History.com.
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 freeing enslaved Black people.
Mexican Americans living in California at the time saw the connection between the Union army's victory and the Battle of Puebla as a fight against slavery. Before the state became a part of the US, many Mexicans who lived in California voiced their opposition to slavery as early as 1829. Once the Mexican army prevailed, according to WBUR, they celebrated with fireworks and drinks, and thus, Cinco de Mayo was born. | <urn:uuid:454173cc-cae5-4aac-ad45-35af4fffa00c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://embed.insider.com/how-cinco-de-mayo-prevented-the-confederacys-win-in-the-civil-war-2022-5 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.980956 | 732 | 3.703125 | 4 |
The practitioners of therapeutic touch say that they can improve a wide variety of medical conditions, such as decubiti ulcers (pressure sores), Alzheimer’s disease, and thyroid disorders, etc., by correcting the energy-field disturbances, which they are able to feel and re-pattern:
by passing their hands over a patient’s body at a distance of 5–10 cm.
The originator of this type of energy medicine is Dora Kunz, a past president of the Theosophical Society.
Dora Kunz is herself a ‘spiritualist’ who looks to ‘invisible intelligences,” ‘angels’ and theosophy’s “ascended Masters’ for inspiration and guidance.”
Delores Krieger R.N. credits Dora Kunz for her knowledge of this practice. Krieger also had additional training in occult healing techniques. She studied yoga, Ayurvedic medicine (Hindu occultism applied to medicine), occultic Tibetan medicine, and Chinese traditional medicine. Delores Krieger has been a leading promoter of therapeutic touch in the nursing profession. Therapeutic touch is an example of the Hindu concept of prana (vital energy, chi), under a new guise. Krieger stated that the Hindu version of universal energy is the basis for healing energy that is said to be transferred. She comments that the practitioner of this so-called art is the conduit not the generator, of the energy believed to be present.
…prana may be transferred from one individual to another and may not be so readily apparent to us unless we have gotten into the practice of and literature of hatha yoga, tantric yoga, or the martial arts of the orient.
The therapeutic touch technique is based on four steps:
a. Centering type meditation by therapist prior to applying treatment.
b. Assessment–scanning the patient’s energy fields with the hands, feeling for energy imbalances.
c. Unrufling the field–checking for stagnant energy and sweeping this energy away with the hands.
d. Transfer of energy–moving energy via the hands to the patient so as to correct energy imbalance.
Whatever their initial appeal, energy therapies inevitably beckon the budding healer into more hard core ‘New Consciousness’ thinking since these systems are in essence profoundly mystical.
In April 1998, three medical journals, Journal of the American Medical Association, British Medical Journal and Lancet (also a British medical journal), reported a study done by Emily Rose, a nine- year-old girl testing the ability of practitioners of therapeutic touch. In her test, the therapeutic touch practitioners put their hands through a small hole in a shield that prevented them from knowing if anyone was on the other side or not. Then a person’s hand would be put very close to the therapist’s hand and the therapist was asked to tell when a hand was near his or her hand. The results were no better than guessing. This was done as a school project and the quality of the experiment was such that when written up by adults it was accepted and placed into three prestigious medical journals. The conclusion of the journals editors were:
Twenty-one experienced Therapeutic Touch practitioners were unable to detect the investigator’s energy field. Their failure to substantiate Therapeutic Touch’s, most fundamental claim, is unrefuted evidence that the claims of Therapeutic Touch are groundless and that further professional use is unjustified.
As we close this section concerning various massage methods a little should be said concerning various mechanical apparatuses that are sold to effect massage. Swedish type massage by hand or by machine can and may be a desirable experience and should not be considered as “spiritualistic.” It is when the therapist may describe or explain benefits and actions of the massage as being a method of unclogging, diffusing, or imparting energy we know we have a therapist that is connected to the power of Satan. Therapy from this person then becomes of concern. | <urn:uuid:d029f7f6-36a3-42cd-8d77-2f3e2841659f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://healthandspirituality.info/energy-medicine/touch-for-health-therapeutic-touch/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.952101 | 840 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Just about two weeks back I was coincidentally confronted with the most contrasting situation in a market. On the one hand a crowd of people jostling in front of a wine store, but on the other hand one woman standing near the bookstall which was closed. On my inquiry, she informed that she was looking for a particular physics book for her daughter appearing for Class-12 exam. I noticed a clear feeling of distress overwhelming her since she could not find the book. Having seen the rush at the nearby wine store for bottles of liquor and herself not finding a copy of the book for the daughter appearing the exam must have made the lady think what is quite unthinkable. A question that may have crisscrossed her mind could be why there is no restriction on wine stores — which has taken a heavy toll on our youths, but a restriction on opening the bookstall. Can we wish away this disgraceful situation standing on the high pedestal of the 21st Century? I am quite bewildered. Something must be amiss so far as “setting the priority” is concerned.
Incidentally, all kinds of academic proficiencies, all kinds of developmental activities and modern advances achieved only because we and our forefathers read and studied the great books. They read great “works” of Pythagoras, Aristotle, Marshal, Leibniz, Milton, Faraday, Pasteur, Newton, Dalton, Hegel, Engels, Ramanujan, Dickens, and so on and so forth. So, needlessly to say, for knowledge our children now entirely depend upon academic institutions and the prescribed textbooks. But, due to COVID-19, the schools/colleges are almost closed since over a year. Should we now “deprive” our kids of textbooks as well? Come on, let’s cudgel up our brain. Let’s be more pragmatic. What could be likely if our school-going children “remain idle” at home for a longer period of time without books. Usually, either they will while away their time playing addictive games or watch frivolous entertainment programs on TV which may not be very healthy to their tender minds.
If the government can consider allowing the hardware shops to open during the containment period why not they consider allowing the bookstalls as well to open to cater to the considerable needs of students in the state —- of course, under the strict enforcement of Covid norms. This will doubtlessly keep our children off many “harmful indulgences.” Moreover, why do we have to limit ourselves to the only idea of construction of new concert buildings and roads and to accelerate urbanization for development? What is more important for the government is to work out the policies that will help encourage our children to “construct” their better minds and improve their “mental ecology”. For our better tomorrow, we need to educate them in every possible way. Come what may, the government/parents must be extra careful and make sure that the lockdown isolation is not adversely affecting the mindsets of our kids. Due to idleness, they are more likely to fall prey to various wrong habits due to peer pressures. Why don’t we ever think about these inevitable realities. Is the increasing cases of “drug addiction” and alcoholism among our youths not the bigger challenge to the state?
Here I recall a beautiful quote by a famous American journalist Margaret Fuller — “ Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” Very true indeed! Great readers usually emerged as great figures in the future. If each of our individual authorities in the helm of affairs harks back, everything appears like an open book. They all had put “utmost efforts” to read their books for knowledge resulting which they are in the higher positions now. Therefore, to my mind, “books are as essential as food to our body. They alone can effectively nourish the minds of our children. There are many interesting anecdotes in which Einstein, Edison and Pascal have forgotten their food but they have never forgotten to read in the “good” books. Good books and sports can alone lure children away from bad habits and wrong influences.
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One of the first things to consider when thinking about communicating with your employees is that what you are sending must be clear and consistent. If your employees know what sort of things your communication is likely to contain, and it is consistent with the style they are used to for your company, they will already have a level of understanding that will help them be receptive to the message and engaged on some level.
The types and frequency of communication that you share with your employees could be vastly different depending on how your team works. Currently, a lot of teams are working virtually which comes with its own set of challenges, so ensuring that the information sent is clear and consistent is more important than ever. In a face-to-face setting, it is easy to gather teams together for a quick meeting to share information, but this becomes much harder when teams are working remotely. One way to approach this would be to send out a daily or weekly ‘briefing’ type email to your employees with everything that they need to know regarding remote working, organisational policy, or news.
When communicating this way though, it is essential to avoid sending too many emails or communications. In the same way, your employees would get frustrated with being called to a meeting every few hours, they can get equally frustrated with multiple emails of communications which can quickly lead to disengagement.
Another good way to create more engagement with your communications is to open up a two-way or multi-directional dialogue system. By empowering your employees to open up a dialogue with more senior staff and each other they automatically feel more ownership over the communication and information therein so their baseline engagement is higher.
Choosing the channel for messages can be a key factor in engaging your employees. If your chosen method is very one-sided such as a presentation to all your employees or a briefing it can be hard to ensure engagement, although depending on the message this may be the most effective and necessary form of communication. Open dialogue forums generally foster higher engagement, but they are not appropriate for all communications.
When looking at any communications program, it is important to assess its effectiveness, and this will give you more information on how your employees are feeling about it, and allow you to make changes to your communications to keep improving engagement.
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Beginning on January 1, 2018, if your business is taxed as a partnership you will need to file an election in order to try and avoid some of the new partnership audit rules. There will be two types of partnerships for audit purposes. The large partnership is one that has 100 partners and assets of $100,000,000 or more. The small business partnership is one that has less than 100 partners. The trap for a small business partnership qualification will be if the business has an ineligible partner, such as a family trust, which is discussed below.
A lot of partnership audit start first with an individual partner’s audit that leads to a partnership audit later. The reason why a business owner would want to file the new election is to avoid a 37% tax on an audit deficiency at the partnership level and be able to push out the deficiency at the partner’s tax level which generally is at a lower tax rate. Audits for 2018 will now be at the partnership level and partners will not be allowed to participate in an IRS audit.
The partnership audit and adjustment rules enacted as part of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 and amended by the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015 (the “BBA audit rules”) revolutionize the manner in which partnerships will be audited and related taxes will be assessed and collected for tax years generally beginning after December 31, 2017. Beginning in 2018, the TEFRA (Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982) partnership audit rules are repealed.
- How do you qualify to be a BBA small partnership? BBA small partnerships are a partnerships with no more than 100 partners of Schedules K-1 and whose partners consist only of one or more of the following five types of partners:
- i) Individuals,
- ii) The estates of deceased partners,
- iii) C corporations,
- iv) Foreign entities that would be C corporations if they were U.S. entities, and
- v) S corporations.
There are three types of ineligible partners for a BBA small partnership. If any partner in the partnership is either a trust, single member LLC, or a partnership they are ineligible partners and will cause the partnership to not be able to make the election. The IRS ruled on January 2, 2018 a typical family trust is an ineligible partner, as well as, other types of trusts that are partners are also a problem.
What can be done if a partnership can’t qualify as a BBA small partnership? If you have an ineligible partner, you need to amend the partnership or operating agreement to provide for the (i) appointment of a “partnership representative” and (ii) a “push-out” provision agreed to by partners. A partnership agreement may “push out” partnership audit liabilities on a pro rata basis to persons who were partners in the reviewed year. While the matter is unclear, it appears probable that these persons may pay their shares of these liabilities at their marginal rate and not at the above 37% rate.
The BBA audit rules are complex and will require all business owners to review their partnership and LLC operating agreements to deal with the new audit rules with their tax advisors. At a minimum, whether or not you can elect to be a BBA small partnership, amending the partnership and or LLC operating agreement to protect the partnership from not having ineligible partners, appointing a “partnership representative” and providing for a “pushout” provision would be a prudent move against potential partnership audits. | <urn:uuid:6d592ab1-66bb-4799-b14f-8467bfac0a92> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://trainottilaw.com/are-you-ready-for-new-partnership-audit-rules-in-2018/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.965391 | 729 | 1.53125 | 2 |
New year’s resolutions are common, but having one for a pig farm might not be. Mine is to manage my gilts herd better.
I have been looking at my target service figures and farrowing rates over 2011 and found my herd takes a 10% drop in fertility from spring through summer and then lifts quite quickly again in the autumn. I will have to make provision for extra gilts this summer, taking into consideration gilts are more difficult to get to cycle when required. I estimate I will need 30% extra to provide adequate cover.
I recently presented a paper at the Oxford Farming Conference; the organisers had commissioned a report entitled “Power in Agriculture” and I was asked to give a presentation on my interpretations of the report and the impacts on my business. I focused on how, given the right government led incentives, pig farmers may be well placed to reduce their energy and heating costs by investing in anaerobic digestion and wind energy technologies.
Incidentally I recently looked at a grading sheet for our pigs slaughtered in 1967, over 50 years ago. I found that back then pig producers were receiving more than £210 a pig when converted into today’s money. This is hard to comprehend but maybe we just happen to be selling a very cheap product now. Undoubtedly it proves that pig meat is extremely good value for money and when combined with high quality, good welfare and complete traceability, is why nearly 50% of all meat eaten in the UK is pig meat.
Find my presentation and the power report at www.ofc.org.co.uk
Farmer Focus: Andrew McCrea
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It seems like it was just yesterday that Apple promised users their devices were not affected by bugs, viruses, and other “PC problems”.
Those days are long in the past.
A recent vulnerability in iOS is so serious that the U.S. government weighed in on the matter. The vulnerability can be exploited using something called the Masque Attack, the American government said in an online bulletin posted at its Computer Emergency Readiness Team blog.
The vulnerability was discovered by a company called FireEye Inc., which claims that attacks have already been launched, including one specific campaign called WireLurker.
Here’s how this Masque Attack exploit works:
-The attack begins with the user installing an app from outside Apple’s App Store
-The app then runs the exploit on the device, giving the remote third party near-complete access to the iPhone
-Hackers could potentially use this exploit to steal login credentials like usernames and passwords
-Hackers could also remotely monitor activity on the device and access sensitive data stored on the iPhone or iPad
Apple is downplaying the vulnerability
Apple is understandably downplaying the issue. So far, the bug is only affecting users who install apps from outside the iTunes App Store.
However, installing apps from outside the iTunes App Store isn’t as hard as some people think. Some websites and third-party apps deliver pop-ups which try to direct users to a download site for an app.
Users then have to click through various confirmation messages and warnings before installing the app. They need to click Install from the pop-up and then click Trust from the “Untrusted App Developer” warning box. However, it’s still a relatively easy path for a user to follow – especially if they’re uneducated about security threats.
The issue is currently affecting the majority of iPhones on the market today. Apple has not yet issued a response.
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Like most everywhere on the planet, Canada has its own abysmal history. Perhaps the darkest stain on our record occurred during the WWII Japanese internment.
Japanese persons began immigrating to Canada early in the 19th century – despite our blatant fear, racism and discrimination toward them.
At the time, we were also intolerant of Jewish persons, and persons of colour. These groups were banned from voting, and prevented from entering certain forms of employment. They were primarily ineligible for social assistance and all but barred from fishing and hunting.
The hope was that we would push the foreigners out, forcing them to return to their homeland.
Canada was so discriminatory against the Japanese, that we formed the The Anti-Asiatic League in 1907. Made up of primarily white business owners, the purpose of the ‘League’ was to force limits on Asian immigration.
The Japanese were seen as fierce competition in agriculture and fishing sectors.
On 14 January 1942, the government passed an order calling for the removal of male Japanese nationals 18 to 45 years of age from a designated ‘protected area’ 100 miles from the BC coast.
At first, these men were primarily sent to ‘road camps’ throughout British Columbia.
Many men (and boys) perished from sickness and starvation while building roads connecting communities through rural mountainous BC.
Just three weeks after the first, another order was given to allow the removal of “all persons of Japanese origin”. At least 27,000 people were detained (women and children), and their property confiscated.
They were made to believe that their homes and valuables would be returned at the end of the war, but of course that did not happen.
Homes, fishing boats, vehicles, businesses – family heirlooms – everything. Taken and sold for a pittance to the local whites.
Men drove the family vehicles to a downtown Vancouver stadium, parked, handed their keys over to a white man, and entered the crowded, stinking stadium to wait with thousands of other Japanese to be taken away to camp.
Not all men were sent to internment camps and road crews.
In the Lillooet valley, Japanese men found work on the railway, in local stores and on farms. In the Okanagan, they were put to work in the orchards.
Some lived in unsanitary stables and barnyards, through freezing winter – and hell hot summer. In a few cases, conditions were bad enough that the Red Cross stepped in and redirected food rations meant for Canadian civilians affected by the war, to the starving Japanese.
Various camps in the Lillooet area were labelled “self-supporting projects” (or “relocation centres”). These housed middle and upper-class families deemed less a threat to public safety.
Though not technically ‘interned’, the Japanese here faced restrictions on their movement, but were able to live a somewhat ‘normal’ life with their families. They worked, operated shops and had children in school.
However, their children could only attend certain schools, and they could not leave the boundaries of the “relocation centre” without permission.
At the end of the war, interns were given a choice. Move east or go back to Japan. Many Japanese-Canadians (born in Canada), chose to head to Ontario – where they faced further discrimination.
There are many stories of successful business owners, teachers and doctors being forced to Ontario to work as farm hands – one of the few employment options they faced.
Other Canadian born Japanese were forced to relocate to Japan – an unfamiliar foreign place, with a language they didn’t speak, and food they had never eaten. Many stories have been written about this uncomfortable process.
Truly, Canada played a big hand in contributing to an already dark WWII history. Though we finally made apologies (by 1988) and nominal financial retribution (on-going) for our part in the former laceration of Canadian-Japanese life, in some cases, the wounds are still healing – and others will never mend.
Additional photos in the slideshow.
The upcoming articles are of a recent (photo rich) tour of ‘Canada’s (former) Japanese Internment Camps’ (CJIC).
- Japanese Canadian Internment (Wikipedia)
- Internment Then and Now (najc.ca)
- Photos: BC’s Dark History of Japanese Internment (windsorstar.com)
- The Politics of Racism (japanesecanadianhistory.ca)
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