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Bloom, still a junior at Emerson College, was listening to Sen. Hillary Clinton deliver a keynote address when she realized her path in life.,Alyse Nelson Bloom recalls how over a decade ago at the 1995 United Nations World Conference on Women in Beijing, she was stirred by one particular speech.
Bloom, still a junior at Emerson College, was listening to Sen. Hillary Clinton deliver a keynote address when she realized her path in life.
“I desperately wanted to connect with the 50,000 women at that conference,” she said.
From that moment, Bloom, (’97) wound her way through the worlds of both government and advocacy, working with the U.S. Department of State and the Attorney General.
Now, 11 years after her graduation from Emerson, Bloom serves as the leader of Vital Voices Global Partnership, a non-government organization created during the Clinton administration, that enables women to better themselves and the societies in which they live. At Emerson last night, Bloom preached maxims of progress and female empowerment at the Semel Theatre.
A crowd of about 100 women and 20 men turned out to hear her moderate a panel of four other global leaders in women’s rights and activism.
The evening was organized as part of Emerson’s Leadership Communication Speaker Series and Bloom used the forum to urge audience members away from passivity, and toward action against injustice.
“So many women here tonight are lone voices,” Bloom said, before opening the discussion with her panelists. “But we realized we tapped into something, that women’s voices are vital to society.”
Joining her was Hafsat Abiola, a 1997 Harvard University graduate and daughter of former President of Nigeria, Moshood Abiola. President Abiola won the 1993 election, but never took office after being imprisoned by a military that refused to hand over power. Abiola and his wife were later murdered.
“When my mother was assassinated by the military and I was asked to go on CNN, I said to the Nigerian people, ‘This woman has been killed, but we will not let her down,'” Abiola said.
Also in attendance was Mu Sochua, Cambodia’s Minister of Women’s Affairs, who spoke about her 18 years as an exile in the United States and the time she has spent reforming a Cambodian society that had, over time, come to accept women’s rights abuses as commonplace.
“I wanted to give women the place, the values, the integrity to be human beings,” Sochua said. “We seek power in order to empower other people.”
Since her election she has helped pass an agreement with neighboring Thailand to transport refugee Cambodian sex workers back to their home country instead of being jailed abroad.
The four guests represented countries from all over the world. Marina Pisklakova-Parker, a Russian researcher-turned-activist, helped invent a support system for battered women in her home country.
Pisklakova-Parker said domestic violence was a silent scourge for decades in Russia and termed a “private matter” with which police had no business interfering.
“How [domestic violence] is so severe, but also so hidden, astonished me,” Pisklakova-Parker said, of her first years helping women. “In Russia, it’s said that if he beats you, he loves you.”
From a single call center, her network has grown to over 160 telephone hot lines for battered Russian women and has helped the Russian government pass laws mandating the police establish domestic violence departments in their offices nationwide.
Former Emerson professor Walt Littlefield was in attendance, and said he felt the crowd and speakers were a sign of Emerson’s rich community.
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Horses for Courses? The Candidates and the Economy
It may be difficult to believe right now, but eventually the nightmare will be over. The race for the presidency will end, and we will be free of the daily media diet of who is ahead, who is behind, and who might get ahead as others falter. Time and again right now, the bulk of the media – across the entirety of the political spectrum – focus entirely on the race, in the process distracting us from the course over which the race is being run. But when the race is over, reconstructing/improving that course will be the over-riding task facing whoever wins. So can we please start talking now, in a systematic way, less about the candidates and more about their programs?
When we do, a very early item will need to be the state of the US economy. For as the world economy slows down, and (as the IMF says) prospects for global economic growth dim, it is all the more essential that the US economy grows as quickly as possible and as effectively as it can. Economic growth eases all the resource constraints on public policy; whereas its absence erodes the capacity of individuals to prosper and social reform to flourish. So the strength of the US economy matters – it matters to all of us regardless of our politics – and currently that economy is not strong, certainly not as strong as it needs to be if full-scale economic recovery is to be both substantial and prolonged
There are many signs of present and future underperformance in the relevant data sets. The data on growth and trade record current net investment levels some 25% down on pre-crisis trends, labor productivity rising at only 0.3% per year, the trade deficit with China at a record high, and net infrastructure spending at currently zero. The portents in the data on employment and job creation are likewise troubling. Even after 74 months of unbroken job growth, the ratio of job seekers to job openings is still 1.5:1; the jobs being created are more heavily low-paid than the ones being lost; and the number of those wanting full-time work but only getting involuntary part-time work remains around six million. For most workers, real wages remain stuck at little more than 2004 levels, and more than four workers in ten currently earn less than $15 an hour. Ethnic inequalities in wages and unemployment remain frozen; unemployment among young workers, workers over 55, and the long-term unemployed remains intractable; and the new time-bomb of student debt is currently running at the daunting total of $1.3 trillion and rising. There is anger in the land, and much of that anger has its roots here – in the large numbers of hardworking Americans who see troubled economic times ahead, and precious little economic improvement in their immediate conditions.
What political lessons should be drawn from these economic times? These three at least.
1. The fault does not lie primarily with the policies and practices of the Obama Administration, no matter how often that linkage is asserted by Republican presidential candidates as they campaign. On the contrary, if it is legitimate at all to attribute possession of a recession to a sitting president, the one from which we are still struggling to recover actually belongs to George W. Bush. It began on his watch, not on Obama’s. The recession started in January 2008. The credit crisis occurred the following September. The President in both months was a Republican, not a Democrat; and the recession left to the incoming Democratic Administration by the outgoing Republican one was truly horrendous. The recession of 2008-9 was not a minor affair. On the contrary, it threw a huge shadow forward, constraining the Obama Administration as it did so. The US economy shed a million jobs in November and December 2008 alone, as the official rate of unemployment began its steep rise to 10% by the middle of 2009, and as many as one in six American workers experienced unemployment either side of the presidential handover of power. As the Obama Administration took office, there was one January day when more than 72,000 American workers were laid off in just 24 hours, with every likelihood of similar days to follow. Far from blaming the Obama Administration by making it responsible for the crisis, it is more appropriate to congratulate the incoming Obama team on eventually stopping the bleeding. Levels of economic growth and rates of job creation are significantly higher now than they were in 2009. Levels of unemployment and even poverty are lower. The Obama Administration can be faulted – on an honest day it might even fault itself – for not doing enough to lift the economy out of recession as quickly as it could have done. But it cannot, and should not, be blamed for putting the US economy into recession in the first place. Responsibility there lies on the other side of the aisle.
2. Which also means that the economic policies currently being advocated by leading Republican presidential candidates are more likely to return us to recession than to generate further economic growth. Those candidates tell us, on a very regular basis, that the economy is stalling because tax levels are too high (particularly on the rich) and because the business community is overburdened with regulations and controls. Yet it was precisely that mixture of trickle-down economics and business deregulation that the Bush Administration pursued between 2001 and 2007: a mixture that generated fewer jobs in the upturn of the US business cycle than any upturn since 1945: remember the widespread talk then of a “jobless recovery” under George W. Bush. It was also a policy-mix that the Bush Administration entirely abandoned in 2008: giving a tax break to low-income earners in early 2008 in an attempt to retrigger economic growth (that is, replacing trickle-down economics with trickle-up) and by the fall of that year abandoning light-touch regulation in favor of a bevy of stimuli packages, bank controls and bailouts. It was Henry Paulson, not Tim Geitner, who first introduced the Temporary Asset Relief Program (TARP). It was the Administration of George W. Bush, not that of Barack Obama, which effectively nationalized Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (in September 2008) and introduced an emergency $700 billion rescue package a month later When Republican candidates these days criticize Obama’s economic policies, and advocate a return to pre-Obama ones, they forget that the Obama Administration simply picked up, and carried on, from where Bush/Paulson had left off. They also choose to ignore that what they are advocating as an alternative economics to that of the current Administration spectacularly failed on the last occasion that it was attempted.
3. This much then follows: that the only public policies likely to lift the US economy onto a higher growth path are policies that directly tackle each of its weaknesses in turn: and that the two Democratic candidates are the only ones even attempting that type of agenda. The Republicans are not. They have a blunt “tax cuts solve all problems” approach to this issue. It is the Democrats who have the more nuanced policies. And for all that Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton disagree with each other, and are starting to clash sharply, the truth is that they share many similar policies and objectives. Indeed, their similarities here exceed their differences. Both argue that the best way to trigger sustained economic growth is to make the distribution of economic gains fairer and more equal. Both support equal pay for women, and the ending of gender and racial inequality. Both are advocating a substantial stimulus package based on infrastructure spending financed by closing corporate tax loopholes – one geared to the creation of a clean-energy future. Both are proposing the raising of the minimum wage, the curtailing of CEO pay, and a redistribution of income downwards: to simultaneously reinvigorate the American middle class and stimulate consumer demand at the bottom of the income ladder. Both are in favor of strengthening trade union rights and extending collective bargaining. Both want to bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States, and both for the moment oppose the signing of the TPP as it is presently constituted. These are vital, necessary policies. There is sharp disagreement between them, of course: on whether the US banking system is best disciplined by making banks smaller or by regulating big banks more tightly; on how to handle issues of student debt and the expansion of health coverage; and on whether the export of manufacturing jobs is best solved by a fundamental break with free trade or with its careful extension. The debate on those should help settle which Democratic candidate is making the sharpest break with established neo-liberal orthodoxies, and so is best placed to deliver growth and prosperity in 2017. But it should not settle whether the next president needs to be a Democrat or not. The weakness of the Republican economic alternative should already have settled that in the minds but all but the most intransigent and myopic of undecided voters.
It is remarkable how issues that consumed the Republican Party when the Obama Administration was in its heyday now consume them not at all. Once the talk in Republican circles was all about the desperate impact of public debt on economic recovery, and of the vital need to prune that debt before all else. But not anymore: now leading Republican candidates outdo each other with their commitments to tax cutting, leaving the debt to sort itself out as the accidental bye-product of the growth and employment they claim that trickle-down economics will automatically and rapidly deliver. This is a sensible shift of focus, because the debt problem was always a false one. The rise in public debt was caused by the recession, not the other way round, and by public policy made necessary in response to it; and debt totals were always going to settle back to manageable levels just as soon as growth and prosperity returned – as indeed we have seen.
The Republican problem – on the economic agenda at least – is that instead of learning the proper lessons of the last 12 months of the George W. Bush presidency, its leading candidates have instead merely replaced one set of nonsense with another. Ted Cruz talks of the need to return to the gold standard – the one that in the 1930s helped trigger the Great Depression. Donald Trump brags of an ability – unique to himself – to eliminate the federal debt entirely in eight years, while simultaneously cutting taxation. But to do that would require an even more brutal version of the slash-and-burn approach to discretionary spending of the kind we have just seen from the Conservatives in London since 2015, with the same dismal impact on poverty and growth: increasing the first and lowering the second. The tragedy for the Republican Party is that their primary contests have already weeded out any Republican with a serious understanding of how modern economies work, and of the vital role of targeted public spending in generating sustain growth and competitiveness.
The economic conversation between the eventual Democratic presidential candidate and a Marco Rubio, a Jeb Bush or even a John Kasich might have been one held on a level playing field. But combine any mixture of Sanders/Clinton on the one side and Cruz/Trump on the other, and the evidence is clear. All the economic intelligence is on one side: which is why the one true way to send the economy into a tailspin will be to vote Republican in November.
For these data sets, see David Coates, Flawed Capitalism: The Anglo-American Condition and Its Resolution. Newcastle UK: Agenda Publishing, forthcoming. Details at http://agendapub.com/index.php/flawed-capitalism
Jim Tankersley, “The huge divide in the presidential race that no one is talking about,” The Washington Post, March 3, 2016: available at https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/03/the-huge-divide-in-the-presidential-race-that-no-ones-talking-about/
Details in David Coates, Answering Back: Liberal Responses to Conservative Arguments. New York: Continuum Books, 2010, p. 43. Available at http://www.amazon.com/Answering-Back-Responses-Conservative-Arguments-ebook/dp/B0050BKON2/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1460489363&sr=1-5
Details in Making the Progressive case: Towards a Stronger U.S. economy. New York: Continuum Books, 2011, p. 14. Available at http://www.amazon.com/Making-Progressive-Case-Towards-Stronger/dp/1441186506/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1460489363&sr=1-6
Ben Casselman and Andrew Flowers, “The Numbers Behind Hillary Clinton’s Economic Vision,” posted at FiveThirtyEight, July 13, 2015: available at http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-numbers-behind-hillary-clintons-economic-vision/
TPC, An Analysis of Hillary Clinton’s Tax Returns. March 3, 2016: available at http://taxfoundation.org/article/details-and-analysis-hillary-clinton-s-tax-proposals
Joe Davidson, “Clinton, Sanders respond to union questions ignored by GOP hopefuls,” The Washington Post, March 29, 2016: available at https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/03/29/clinton-sanders-respond-to-union-questions-ignored-by-gop-hopefuls/
Paul Krugman, “Crazy About Money,” The New York Times, March 25, 2016: available at http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/opinion/crazy-about-money.html
For details, see Fact Checker, “Trump’s nonsensical claim he can eliminate $19 trillion in debt in eight years,” Washington Post, April 3, 2016: available at https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/04/02/trumps-nonsensical-claim-he-can-eliminate-19-trillion-in-debt-in-eight-years/ | <urn:uuid:f11c542d-ef57-4157-a9f7-b816048be550> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.factsandarts.com/current-affairs/horses-courses-candidates-and-economy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.95316 | 3,001 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Acts 20:35. “In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive. ‘” Even when I’m struggling, there is someone out there that I can help.
How do I get through financial hardship?
How to get through financial hardships
- Adjust your budget to accommodate changes in your income. …
- Communicate with your service providers. …
- Determine what financial hardship programs your lenders are offering. …
- Negotiate bills in collections. …
- Find a side gig for extra income. …
- Don’t give up.
How do you pray for financial break through?
Give me the wisdom and drive to manage my money well and reap the financial increase. Lord show me a new vision and a revelation for my finances. Lord, I want to be blessed when I go out, and when I come in (Deuteronomy 28:6). I pray the blessings of the Lord will chase me down and overtake me (Deuteronomy 28:2).
Where can I read the Bible for financial breakthrough?
18 Best Bible Verses For a Financial Breakthrough
- 18 Best Bible Verses For a Financial Breakthrough. …
- Three things to keep in mind when seeking a financial blessing. …
- 18 Best Bible Verses For a Financial Breakthrough.
- Matthew 6:33. …
- Philippians 4:19. …
- Deuteronomy 8:18. …
- Proverbs 10:22. …
- John 10:10.
How do I ask God for a financial miracle?
Prayer to Get Rid of Debt
Please, God, I’m asking you to help Give me a financial miracle so that I can breathe again. Please forgive me, God. Help guide me to making good decisions through my journey in life. Amen.
What are examples of financial hardship?
A financial hardship occurs when a person cannot make payments toward their debt.
The most common examples of hardship include:
- Illness or injury.
- Change of employment status.
- Loss of income.
- Natural disasters.
- Military deployment.
What would be considered a financial hardship?
What is financial hardship? … Financial hardship typically refers to a situation in which a person cannot keep up with debt payments and bills or if the amount you need to pay each month is more than the amount you earn, due to a circumstance beyond your control.
Can you pray for financial blessings?
Prayer to Give Finances Up to God
Father, my finances belong to You. I thank You in advance for my financial prosperity. Lord, I know that everything that comes from You is good, so I know that by placing my finances in Your hands, You will come through for me and I will become financially stable and secure.
What is the best prayer for money?
Heavenly Father, I Come before you today to ask for a financial blessing to improve my life. My faith keeps me strong, and I know you will provide for me and the people I love. I do not seek a large sum of money. I do not trouble you for unneeded comforts or luxury.
How do I pray to God for immediate financial assistance?
Lord, here’s my prayer for immediate financial help for I know You are aware of my strength and ability. So, I pray in Your powerful name that You enrich me now according to Your benevolence so that I can settle this debt before me and have more to take care of my loved ones today. In Jesus name. Amen.
How do I get a financial blessing from God?
6 Keys to Biblical Wealth and Prosperity in Every Part of Your Life
- Seek God in Everything.
- Seek Righteousness.
- Keep His Commandments (Walk in His Ways)
- Honor God With Your Wealth.
- Develop Your Faith (Trust) in God.
What does God say about financial debt?
Bible Verses About Debt
Romans 13:8 Let no debt remain outstanding except the continuing debt to love on another.. Proverbs 22:7 The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender. Psalm 37:21 The wicked borrows and does not repay, But the righteous shows mercy and gives.
How do you pray for a financial miracle?
Prayer for Abundant Blessings
I thank You for being the God of Abundance because I know that my financial miracle will come by Your divine power. You are able to bless me abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that I need, I will prosper in every good work.
How can I attract money immediately?
7 Steps to Attract Wealth
- Believe your are worthy of happiness. Part of attracting wealth requires that you believe you are worthy of happiness. …
- Focus on what you have right now. …
- End the cycle of learned helplessness. …
- Respect the power of money. …
- Study wealth. …
- Give money away.
Can you pray to win lottery?
Lord, I know that I am not worthy to you, I know that I have sins, I am not a perfect one, but I am here begging for you to help us overcome for all our financial difficulities, help us to win in lottery even once only and also help us to get our money back, help also those people who have done wrong to us, thank you …
How do you ask God for something you really want?
Ask God specifically for what you want.
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4th of July Poem and Movement Activity for Kids
[Source: The Inspired Treehouse]
I always remember being a little bit scared of the fireworks on the 4th of July when I was a kid. They always looked SO close, like they were just going to fall right down on your picnic blanket!
And all of that loud booming and cracking – definitely scary for a little kid! Today’s activity for kids is a great way for everyone to experience fireworks, even if they’re a bit afraid of the real thing – perfect for younger kids or kids who are sensitive to loud sounds.
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By Jerri-Lynn Scofield, who has worked as a securities lawyer and a derivatives trader. She is currently writing a book about textile artisans.
Burberry triggered an avalanche of bad publicity earlier this summer when the company disclosed that in 2017, it had burnt £28.6 million worth of product– clothing, accessories, and perfume– to protect its brand. The value of unsold goods Burberry destroyed over the last five years totalled £105 million.
As ABC News (e.g., Australian Broadcasting Corporation) reported in Burberry burns unsold products and not everyone is buying why in July:
Fashion firms including Burberry destroy unwanted items to prevent them being stolen or sold cheaply.
The Times reported shareholders were unhappy with the practice — critics have reacted angrily on social media, concerned luxury brands don’t want “poor people” to wear the items.
In a statement Burberry said it seeks to reduce its waste and has partnered with the Ellen MacArthur foundation’s Make Fashion Circular Initiative, “where we join other leading organisations to work towards a circular fashion economy”.
That’s nice rhetoric, belied by the company’s practice of destroying unsold goods.
The company’s initial response to criticism after its disclosure was to defend its actions, in terms that suggested it was missing the point. As The Guardian reported in Burberry destroys £28m of stock to guard against counterfeits:
Burberry said it only destroyed items that carried its trademark and only worked with specialist companies able to harness the energy from the process in order to make it environmentally friendly.
Well, alrighty then. As long as they harnessed energy from the process, that makes things hunky-dory, no?
Burberry Responds to Criticism
Perhaps not– as Burberry has belatedly come to realize.
The company has just announced that with immediate effect, it will no longer destroy unsold goods, according to the BBC in Burberry stops burning unsold goods and using real fur. Instead, Burberry will now reuse, repair, donate or recycle all unsold products, thus reducing the waste it generates.
Burberry has also pledged to cease using animal fur in its products.
I’ve written before about the tremendous waste generated by the fashion industry, especially the fast fashion segment, which produces clothing according to a quick timetable, with many items discarded after a few wearings (see The High Hidden Costs of Fast Fashion; Fast Fashion: A Few Thoughts Sparked by Recent News
Faster Fashion Cycle Accelerates; Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Why Burning of Fast Fashion Clothes to Fuel Power Plants is Troubling; Fast Fashion: Magical Shift in Consumption Patterns Will Save the Planet?; and Fast Fashion Juggernaut Rolls Along; Fast Fashion: Recycling No Panacea).
This is just one reason why fashion is often called the second-dirtiest industry in the world– second only to oil, as reported by AlterNet in It’s the Second Dirtiest Thing in the World—And You’re Wearing It.
But the Burberry revelations suggest it’s not only low-end, disposable fashion that’s produced without regard to waste; the problem extends to high-end offerings as well.
The Guardian reports in Burberry to stop burning unsold items after green criticism some positive response to Burberry’s shift:
Greenpeace welcomed the move as a “much-needed sign of a change of mind in the fashion industry”. Kirsten Brodde, who leads the Detox My Fashion campaign at the NGO, said: “Because fashion is a high-volume business with more than 100bn garments produced each year, consumers’ closets are already overflowing with unworn clothes, creating an overstock problem for many companies.
“It’s high time for the whole fashion industry to start dealing with overstock at its source: by slowing down production and rethinking the way it does business.”
Burberry Not Alone
Unfortunately, many other fashion companies pursue the same practice that Burberry has just abandoned, according to the ABC:
“It’s not just Burberry, this practice is systemic in the fashion industry,” Melinda Tually from Fashion Revolution told ABC Radio National Drive.
“It has been based on managing their reputation as a brand, so that is not diminished further, unfortunately that’s what’s driven this decision.”
Burberry’s shift may inspire other companies to reconsider their waste practices. The Guardian notes in Burberry to stop burning unsold items after green criticism:
Burberry is one of the first companies to publicly end the practice of destroying unwanted products. Marco Gobbetti, its chief executive, said he hoped others in the industry would follow suit.
Gobbetti said: “Modern luxury means being socially and environmentally responsible. This belief is core to us at Burberry and key to our long-term success. We are committed to applying the same creativity to all parts of Burberry as we do to our products.”
Luxury brands currently define their product in terms of exclusivity; from such a perspective, there’s a certain logic to destroying stock to protect exclusivity. As ABC noted:
Ms Tually urged luxury brands to value their reputation beyond “exclusivity”.
“You can send the message that our products are durable, we’ve designed them for longevity with craftmanship,” she said.
“Other brands have decided with excess inventory they’re happy for their product to be sold in the charity sector as they stand by their product.”
What Is to Be Done?
Fashion’s waste problem extends well beyond companies burning or destroying excess inventory. According to the ABC:
From manufacture through to legalities of contract supplies, Ms Tually said the industry needs to reconsider how it completes supply deals.
Ms Tually said overproduction results in massive waste in the global fashion industry.
“Thirty per cent of what’s produced doesn’t even make it to the shop floors — that’s pre-consumer waste.
“On top of that, Australia contributes half a million tonnes a year to landfill — 95 per cent of that doesn’t need to be there, textiles can be recycled.”
Ms Tually said different business models such as online consignment rather than meeting minimum order quantities can help reduce oversupply.
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Here’s what you need to know about your home before installing solar panels.
The first step to a lifetime of renewable energy is to equip your home with solar panels. But you’ll need to find out how to make your home generate as much energy as possible in order to make the most of your electricity.
1. Consider the direction in which your roof faces
Your panels won’t be able to soak up enough light to generate the amount of energy you need to power your home if your roof is not tilted toward the sun. Those with roofs that face south or west are the best homes for solar power. Consequently, solar panels will theoretically absorb enough energy when mounted facing properly depending on the pitch of the roof.
2. Your roof must be in good condition
The age, form , and material of your roof matters when it comes to utilizing solar energy. If your roof has seen some wear over the years and needs to be fixed, whether it’s an older roof that will eventually need to be replaced, before installing solar panels, you might be better off taking care of evaluating those things first. You would need to remove the panels for maintenance and then get them reinstalled afterwards if you want to install solar now and make the improvements later; which in itself is a really expensive more difficult thing to do. If your roof is structurally stable enough to withstand the weight of solar panels, or if it would need additional support, a solar technician will decide.
3. Consider the type of materials
Some roof materials are better than others for solar panels when it comes to which composition or material they are made of:
- Metal appears to be the simplest material for solar installation since it does not require roof penetration.
- For solar installation, composition shingle is also quite simple
- Tile roof surfaces will depend a lot on the material; concrete tiles are really basic and not much to worry about, while solar installation on a clay tile is more difficult because it is more likely to break.
4. There are various kinds of solar panels to choose from.
The best thing about solar panels equipping your home is that you are not limited to conventional roof installations. If your roof is not facing the right direction, ground-mounted panels may be precisely angled on your property to soak up every possible ray of sunlight. Without taking up a needless property, a solar carport can be an effective way to harness the power of the sun.
Not only can you produce more energy than you would on your shaded roof, but in the long run, you can also save more money.
You need an installer for solar panels that you can trust.
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BRDASON has introduced a new welding system to the Ultraseamproduct offering, the Ultraseam Ultrasonic Solar Panel Seam Welder Turnkey System. This semiautomatic manufacturing system was specifically developed to address the needs of solar panel manufacturers. During production, parts to be welded are placed into a fixture aligning the parts with the welding tool. This fixture can accommodate copper tubing and collector panels of varying sizes. Once the cycle is initiated, the ultraseam welder moves downward onto the preassembled panel assembly where precise pressure and ultrasonic energy are applied. The configuration modules are customizable to a maximum of 3 meters, depending on material thickness and hardness.
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Not-knowing is our most powerful position, because it opens the door to possibility. Why would it be any different for God?
The statement “God knows everything” is meaningless, or at the very least has been grossly misinterpreted. The rules for creativity are the same for God as they are for us – you have to know nothing before you can know anything – “And darkness was upon the face of the deep.”
Not-knowing creates a space within which all things are possible. Not-knowing breaks down the barriers that keep us imprisoned in the known. The known is a parched desert – nothing grows there. Once a thing is known, it ceases to live. Not-knowing is the key to life. You can’t exist in a state of not-knowing and believe that God knows everything. If God knew everything, everything would cease to be. It is God’s not-knowing that keeps the universe growing and evolving. It is the very thing that generates life.
Consider that our greatest awakening occurs in the space created by not-knowing. Why would it be different for God? We are the microcosm of the macrocosm. What is true for us is true for it. If we believe in statements like “Man, know thyself” and “We are created in God’s image and likeness,” then we have to afford God that which provides the opening within us, namely, not knowing.
Only in a society caught in the glamour of the intellect, a society that values knowledge and information above all else, can you find a concept of God that knows everything. When knowing everything is the highest concept of good, then naturally the god of that society must epitomize that concept. But the mystic knows better. The mystic knows that in order for God to be the creator of all life that there must be that within God which creates the emptiness within which life can occur. Unless the universe holds that space within itself, the whole thing would grind to a halt.
The one thing that is guaranteed to produce movement (life) is a vacuum. When we stand in the place of not-knowing, we effectively create a vacuum in the universal mind, the mind of God. God then rushes in to fill the vacuum that we are.
In order to understand this concept, we have to think in terms of power, force, and energy. God is not an external entity – God is the living, sentient being in Whom we live. The only thing that keeps us from the experience of God is the belief that we exist as a separate self. This is the lie perpetrated by our own senses. When we turn away from the senses and go into the silence within us, we begin to experience God as a presence. And by that I mean a living power that knows and experiences you to the degree that you know and experience it. God’s love is a two-way street – love begets love, although, “we love because He first loved us.”
Taking the phrase “first loved us” out of the context of space and time, which is what we have to do if we want to know God, “first loved us” means that we exist in a field of love, a conscious energy that is always present and always here. “first loved us” means that we did not create it – it was already here when we arrived. But when we get quiet within ourselves and open up to it, we allow it to occur in the world. This is our place in the scheme of things. As Eric Butterworth put it, “We are an inlet and an outlet of God.”
It is imperative that we stop thinking of God as something external. God is that which keeps the Cosmos in motion, from the very smallest to the infinitely big. It is all one thing. Emerson said, “There is no great and no small to the mind that maketh all.” Size and distance are creations of the mind. They do not exist in Gods reality. If we want to know God, we have to be like God and think the way God thinks. This is not as difficult as it might sound, because again God knows nothing about difficulty, either large or small. We need only ask for help and help is given.
When a spiritual teacher pushes the idea that God knows everything, what he’s really saying is, “I know more than you do.” The assumption is that the teacher is closer to God and therefor naturally knows more of what God knows. This is a well-known tactic to gain power over one’s students. The true teacher, on the other hand, seeks to draw students into the state of not-knowing, so that together the entire community can become one with God in that state. The Buddha of Compassion, Avalokitesvara, vowed not to enter into enlightenment until all sentient beings were saved. And in Hebrews 8 we read, “And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying,’Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.” Not-knowing is the Causeless Cause of the act of creation. It is the organizing principle of all that is. “Of myself, I do nothing.” This is humility. | <urn:uuid:46f70f3f-8eae-4007-9b52-4a29b7612b72> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mysticalchrist.org/2011/08/07/gods-humility/?replytocom=166 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.972163 | 1,139 | 2.1875 | 2 |
New legislation urges University of Illinois to adopt IHRA definition
Illinois General Assembly Minority Leader Jim Durkin introduced the bill amid a spate of antisemitic incidents
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call
A new resolution introduced in the Illinois General Assembly on Wednesday calls on the board of trustees of the University of Illinois to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism. The proposed non-binding resolution comes more than a year after a federal civil rights complaint was filed with the U.S. Department of Education accusing the university’s Urbana-Champaign campus of not doing enough to combat increasing antisemitism on campus.
“The fact is, we have seen no resolution, nor has the university taken steps to address the concerns of the students,” House Minority Leader Jim Durkin, who introduced the resolution, told Jewish Insider. “To see this happen and to drag on — to me, it’s unacceptable. And so this resolution, I hope, puts the university on notice that we’re watching, and we want you to resolve this in the appropriate way.”
Durkin introduced the resolution without any input from Jewish organizations in Illinois or members of the Illinois Jewish Legislative Caucus.
The resolution urges the university’s board of trustees to adopt the IHRA definition “as a basis for recommending policies and actions to stop anti-Semitism at the University of Illinois.”
In March, the Biden administration declared that it “enthusiastically embraces” the IHRA definition, which former President Donald Trump had previously codified in a December 2019 executive order that added antisemitism to the list of types of discrimination prohibited by federal law.
The resolution also asks the board of trustees to report back to the General Assembly on the steps it takes to combat antisemitism, and suggests several such steps “including mandating training to counter anti-Semitism among administrators and faculty,” “mandating anti-Semitism awareness for new students,” and “enforcing a student code of conduct that prohibits intimidation and disruption of Jewish students and organizations on campus.”
The complaint against the university was filed in March 2020 by the law firm of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights, alleging that university administrators have “simply not provided the community of pro-Israel, Jewish students with a discrimination-free academic environment.” It followed a wave of antisemitic incidents at the university’s flagship Urbana-Champaign campus.
“I’m gratified that public officials in Illinois have recognized the seriousness of the issue and are expressing not just their appreciation for the need to address it, but trying to provide assistance,” Alyza Lewin, president of the Brandeis Center, told JI. “I think what this resolution reflects is that combating antisemitism is something that’s not just a Jewish issue. It’s necessary for the health of our society.”
The University of Illinois did not respond to a request for comment on the civil rights complaint or the legislation. The case remains open, and a Department of Education spokesperson said he could not comment on an ongoing case.
In November, the university issued a statement with Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago, Hillel International, the Brandeis Center and several on-campus groups at UIUC promising to take steps to make Jewish students feel safer on campus. Last month, the university announced the creation of a Jewish dorm — similar to other faith-based housing options on campus — in conjunction with Illini Chabad.
Jewish students at the university have expressed frustration with continuous efforts to pass student government legislation supporting the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. In September, the school’s student government passed a resolution expressing support for the Black Lives Matter movement that also called for divestment from companies that do business with Israel.
“I should not have to choose between supporting the right of Jews to their homeland and the rights of all people to social justice in the United States,” said student Ian Katsnelson in a public comment during debate over the resolution. “Unfortunately, this resolution forces me to make that choice.”
In February, raw eggs were thrown at an apartment with an Israeli flag hanging from its balcony. The university referred to the incident as “targeted vandalism” in a statement, which also stated that “anti-Semitism in any form will not be tolerated.”
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An autumnal harvest of bloopers
Published 6:00 am Friday, November 12, 2021
Language and the multiple ways we use and misuse it continue to fascinate many of us. In these days of advanced technologies, digital communications, spell-checkers and automatic editors, one might expect mistakes, misspellings and grammatical errors to be endangered species at risk of extinction, but that is not the case. And all of this provides us a ringside seat at the continually evolving, incredibly complex phenomenon of language and the tension between standard language and its rules or conventions and the much freer flowing reality of speech combined with a common tendency to partially recall or even confuse similar pairs of words.
In a recent medical documentary on PBS, one of the participants spoke of “underlining medical issues” that can provide clues to aid in a successful diagnosis. Could it be that “underline” and “underlining” are more frequently used than “underly” and “underlying?” And a student paper noted that the “harm that pesticides inflect has been denied for many years now.” It called to mind an image of pesticides acting as covert grammatical agents, responsible for malevolently attaching verb endings and other encoded grammatical information.
It is often the case that older words and phrasings can be difficult to recall accurately because their use is often restricted to specific phrases. One may have read or heard these words, but they aren’t used frequently. An example of this is the word “array” meaning a “display” and is most often used in the expression “wide array.” I was reading an essay not long ago and saw that the student author wrote that “the people in the country experienced a wide arrangement of complications.” It would appear that the student is far more familiar with the word “arrangement” than the less common “array.” In an episode of a fairly popular reality show that follows a celebrity who becomes a farmer, one of the cast commented that “people are a bit bermused by the show.” This, of course, is an incorrect recall of the word “bemused” meaning “puzzled” or “bewildered,” which is now far less commonly used than “amused” or “bewildered.”
Sometimes words or phrases from an older stage of the language preserve cultural aspects that no longer exist in the modern era. Without a connection to or understanding of the original concept, it can be difficult to use the idea metaphorically. A student who was trying to explain his apprehension over an upcoming event wrote, “I was worried it would be a kind of menstrual show, a caricature of the real thing.” The unfortunate choice of word here lends a completely unintended meaning to an idea that the student hoped to phrase in a new and creative way. Recently I was looking at different travel blogs and found a description of Roman baths in a small city in Spain. The author’s description of one of the photos carried the following suggestion, “Imagine these baths filled with the who’s of who of society.” Again, the phrase “who is who” or “who’s who” has been inaccurately modified.
Spelling is now particularly subject to the capricious whims of spell-checkers and text-editors. I was initially bemused and later amused (although that was not my first reaction) to receive an e-mail from one of my advisees, who is normally very polite, that read “Hey, mama. I need to drop my language class.” I ignored the casual and overly familiar salutation “hey” and the unsettling form of address “mama” and wrote to offer my help to which he replied, “Yes, mama.” At this point, I realized his text editor was changing his spelling of “ma’am” to the more common, yet more potentially problematic (at least when addressing his Spanish professor) “mama.” Poor guy. He was understandably mortified when he realized all of this. And we’ve gotten along well ever since.
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Here's how people in Fayetteville are helping at-risk members of the community
As the weather is getting cooler, the more vulnerable members of society will be left at risk to brave the elements. Members of the Fayetteville community are working to help them get through it.
Every first Sunday of the month, community leader Carl Pringle hosts his Lunch on Us event where he feeds the homeless.
"I love doing it because I always say blessings are best when they're shared," Pringle said. "So it makes me feel a lot better about myself when I'm able to help someone. I may even be going through something on my own, but at the same time, I'm able to still help somebody. It brings back that value to me."
On Thanksgiving, Pringle's community group, We Are 1 Big Family, will host a Thanksgiving feeding for the community from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Ponderosa Shopping Center.
Closer to the end of fall, Pringle said he also plans to participate in the national Cover Me campaign, where he collects blankets for the homeless.
Community organizations, Cora's Community Foundation and Southern CC will host an Everybody Eats event at Segra Stadium, located at 460 Hay Street. Everybody Eats will be held Nov. 21 from 2 to 6 p.m.
The event aims to help at least 1,500 families with Thanksgiving meal food boxes and winter clothing and blankets.
Rakeem Jones, founder of Cora's Community Foundation, said he wanted an event that would bring everyone together to help each other.
"This is extremely weird that people have so many different events all over rather than just having one big thing," he said. "Everybody Eats is like there's enough spacing opportunity for everybody to help everybody."
Jones said that another thing that motivated him to hold the event was to help members of his community in need who might be affected by the backlog from the rental assistance program.
The event will offer more than just food and clothes. Jones said the event will include other resources including rental assistance, utility assistance, veteran services, career service and job training.
"Just want to make sure that it's not just give you a plate and decent clothes and that's it," he said. "We want to make sure you'll be able to fend for yourself after you leave here or at least get a starting point."
More than homeless
When it comes to helping at-risk members of the Fayetteville area, Pringle said it's important to treat them for who they are — human beings.
"I actually had a lady come to me one time — it was one of my first times feeding at Festival Park — she said 'Carl, we love when you come down here,'" he said. "Then she said, 'don't get me wrong, we love some of the help we get down here but sometimes when they come down, they treat us like animals. It's like they hand us food then they pull their hand back so we don't touch anybody."
Pringle said he sees homeless people as just people, and one thing he's learned from them is that sometimes it just takes one mistake to get to where they are.
"A lot of them, it was just one wrong choice, one bad decision, one bad situation," he said. "It's sad to say but a lot of people are maybe one or two checks from being out there themselves."
Staff writer Akira Kyles can be reached at email@example.com.
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The best way to help save lives is by fostering. Most rescue organizations such as PAW are supported by volunteers, so their ability to rescue animals is limited by the availability of foster homes and donations which pay for the vet care. Fostering is a vital part of PAW’s rescue efforts and dramatically increases how many dogs and cats can be rescued each year. Which is why we need more fosters – so we can save more lives! Please consider applying to be a foster today, it’s the biggest contribution you can make!
Various rescue organizations operate differently, but many have foster programs of one kind or another.
Here we describe fostering through PAW.
The caregiver provides food, water, litter, and other simple necessities.
The caregiver is responsible for helping to get the animal adopted by bringing her to adoption shows, helping to talk to applicants, and providing information for ads and the website.
The caregiver must follow PAW’s procedures for adoption, for getting veterinary care, and for providing appropriate care.
Veterinary care, as approved by the Medical Coordinator.
Some supplies, as needed, such as a crate, temporary ID tag, collar, leash, litter box, or carrier.
Lots of in-house expertise with behavior, diseases, and training.
Advertising, newsletters, adoption shows, and so forth.
The animal lives in a home environment where they can feel safe and comfortable.
The foster caregiver can give plenty of attention to the fostered pet, and watch for problems with illness or behavior.
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19th century Iron Tsuba, Old Man and Mouse
Title: Iron tsuba designed with an old man and mouse
Date: 19th century
Size: 8.1 x 7.4 x 0.5 cm
Original Japanese antique.
The tsuba is usually a round (or occasionally squareish) guard at the end of the grip of bladed Japanese weapons. They contribute to the balance of the weapon and to the protection of the hand. Tsuba are usually finely decorated, and nowadays are collectors' items.
|Dimensions||8.1 x 7.4 x 0.5 cm|
|Subject||Animal & Birds|
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Author : Ahmad ���Afi Izzuddin AMRAN, Juliana Mohd Abdul KADIR, Saunah ZAINON, Rina Fadhilah ISMAIL, Siti Noor Ain AZIZ ,
European Journal of Molecular & Clinical Medicine,
2020, Volume 7, Issue 6, Pages 1550-1559
The increase in the ageing population in a country requires the government to properly manage and plan for the well-being of society. This phenomenon has important implications for retirement planning if individuals do not make practical plans and not financially prepared for their future. Moreover, with the rising cost of living, future efforts become more challenging. Therefore, this research is important to examine retirement planning behavior among workers in Klang Valley with regards to financial literacy, saving behavior, personal attitude and goal clarity. A total of 112 respondents participated in the survey via systematic random sampling technique. Data were collected in the Klang Valley and analyzed using SmartPLS. The results revealed that goal clarity, personal attitude and saving behavior have a significant effect on retirement planning behavior. Within this context, respondents were satisfied with their financial situation from their behavioral assessment of goal clarity, personal attitude and saving behavior. Therefore, the outcome of this research could be a guideline for both employees in managing good retirement planning and policymakers in strategies and supporting the public post-retirement period. | <urn:uuid:95521de3-7bdf-44cd-b71f-5858e7575e45> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ejmcm.com/?_action=article&au=20600&_au=Ahmad+%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BDAfi+Izzuddin+AMRAN,+Juliana+Mohd+Abdul+KADIR,+Saunah+ZAINON,+Rina+Fadhilah+ISMAIL,+Siti+Noor+Ain+AZIZ+,+ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.926426 | 277 | 1.90625 | 2 |
Women of all ages use contraceptives daily, but a recent report from the Daily Mail has revealed that a 19-year-old girl was rushed to the hospital after using the pill for only six months.
According to the report, a student named Eleanor Waring “developed pneumonia and potentially fatal blood clots [in] her lungs,” and she developed back and chest pains before Christmas. The pain left her too weak to walk. For more than seven days Waring received treatment for “suspected urine and chest infections” until she was diagnosed with pneumonia and blood clots in her lungs. (Related: Young woman died from blood clot linked to contraceptive, investigation reveals.)
Previous studies posit that the combined contraceptive pill can triple the risk of blood clots since it contains estrogen, the female hormone that can increase the risk of blood clots.
Eleanor, a criminology student at Northumbria University, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, cautions other women about the possible negative side effects of contraceptives. She said, “I’d been on the contraceptive pill for about four years but I wasn’t on the same one all that time – I’d swapped it a few times. I’d only been on that pill for about six months.” She adds that whenever she would use a different contraceptive, she was told that women who take the pill are rarely at risk for blood clots. But she’s warier and she’s speaking up to inform people that “they can be potentially fatal.”
Waring’s symptoms began with a bout of cold and cough that lasted for at least four weeks, and the pain in her “lower back, buttocks and chest” began just before Christmas. The doctors she saw diagnosed her condition as a urine infection and they gave her antibiotics.
Waring then went to a minor injuries unit because her condition wasn’t improving. She was then given more antibiotics. But the teenager went to the Hull Royal Infirmary because of severe chest pain. After a computed tomography (CT) scan, she stayed at the hospital to be monitored but she waited for a bed for 22 hours since the emergency rooms were “rammed.”
The next day she was given antibiotics and blood thinning medication. The medics insist that Waring’s pneumonia and blood clots were not connected, but it would have been fatal if she wasn’t properly diagnosed earlier.
Waring stopped taking the pill and she was warned that she can’t take them again. She shares that doctors from the hospital told her that out of the risk factors for blood clots, the only one that applied to her case was the fact that she was taking contraceptives.
According to the sexual health charity Family Planning Association (FPA), women who use combined hormonal contraception “only have a risk of between five and 12 per 10,000 women each year.” But this depends on the method that they’re using.
Deputy chief executive Bekki Burbidge warns that the combined pill and other types of combined hormonal contraception (like the vaginal ring and contraceptive patch) are linked to a small risk of developing a blood clot. Before being prescribed one of these methods, individuals must always be asked about their medical history and their smoking habits. Burbidge concludes that women must consult healthcare professionals if they have any medical concerns.
If you’re wondering about the other side effects of the oral contraceptive pill, read the list below:
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The State Duma of the Russian Federation has prepared a bill that proposes to replace the fine for minor traffic violations with a warning, as well as to toughen the responsibility for serious misconduct. This is written by the publication “Izvestia”.
We are talking about amendments to the “automobile” chapter of the Russian Code of Administrative Offenses.
Minor violations include, for example, a dirty number plate, a forgotten driver's license and a turned off “turn signal”, and among serious — unfastened seat belt and transportation of a child without a child seat.
It is noted that, in addition to the above, the bill provides for the introduction of sanctions for exceeding the average speed and provides for the waiver of a fine for the absence of a diagnostic card.
Earlier in The State Duma of the Russian Federation proposed to deprive the worst violators of traffic rules of discounts on fines.
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Salvador Dali, ‘The Persistence of Memory’, 1931, oil on canvas
Dali The Persistence of Memory 1931
Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
“The Persistence of Memory is aptly named, for the scene is indelibly memorable. Hard objects become inexplicably limp in this bleak and infinite dreamscape, while metal attracts ants like rotting flesh. Mastering what he called the usual paralyzing tricks of eye-fooling, Dali painted with what he called the most imperialist fury of precision, but only, he said, to systematize confusion and thus to help discredit completely the world of reality. It is the classical Surrealist ambition, yet some literal reality is included too: the distant golden cliffs are the coast of Catalonia, Dali ‘s home.
Those limp watches are as soft as overripe cheese — indeed the camembert of time, in Dali ‘s phrase. Here time must lose all meaning. Permanence goes with it: ants, a common theme in Dali’s work, represent decay, particularly when they attack a gold watch, and become grotesquely organic. The monstrous fleshy creature draped across the painting ‘s center is at once alien and familiar: an approximation of Dali ‘s own face in profile, its long eyelashes seem disturbingly insect-like or even sexual, as does what may or may not be a tongue oozing from its nose like a fat snail.
The year before this picture was painted, Dali formulated his paranoiac-critical method, cultivating self – induced psychotic hallucinations in order to create art. The difference between a madman and me, he said, is that I am not mad.” (Museum of Modern Art) | <urn:uuid:bd80ab8f-195f-449e-9886-94d46eb3e896> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.shafe.co.uk/salvador_dali-_-the_persistence_of_memory--_1931-_oil_on_canvas/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.943767 | 372 | 2.671875 | 3 |
For small educational institutions like Central Wyoming College (CWC), enhancing the student experience is a critical part of maintaining enrollment. Today’s students want and need access to flexible tools for working with their classmates, as well as communicating with teachers. “We have to provide as many services as a larger college, like applications that work on mobile devices,” says John Wood, CIO of Central Wyoming College. “But costs have to remain fixed. We can’t double the size of the IT department or double our budget, so a cloud-based model seemed like the right fit.”
Cloud-based tools could also respond to the unique challenges faced by a community college in a rural area, with students, faculty and staff traveling long distances to get to school. The school’s 2,000 students are spread across four campuses as well as remote wilderness sites for its Outdoor Education program. “It’s extremely hard for our students to get together in person,” Wood says.
At the same time, students are being encouraged to work on teams. “Collaboration among students is much more common than it was several years ago,” Wood says. Professors assign projects to groups of students, not single students. Collaboration has become the norm on the staff side as well, Wood adds: “I can’t think of the last time I worked on a project by myself. | <urn:uuid:4a84584a-0378-4f43-840d-9e5bb4a513cc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://edu.google.com/why-google/customer-stories/central-wyoming-college-google-workspace-for-education/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.980468 | 295 | 1.867188 | 2 |
Artificial RNA editing with ADAR for gene therapy
Many of the diseases caused by point mutations have no established therapeutic approaches. Prof. Tsukahara and colleagues (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) are studying a therapeutic method using artificial RNA editing. Artificial site-directed RNA editing is an important technique for modifying genes and ultimately regulating protein function. We are trying to modify the genetic code of transcripts (RNA) by artificial RNA editing for the treatment of genetic disorders.
Although genome editing is drawing attention as a gene repair technology, genome editing such as CRISPR/Cas9 may result in permanent alterations, potentially affecting multiple loci. Currently, it is very difficult to perform accurate genome editing in all targeted cells in vivo. Although it is possible to edit the genome in a fertilized egg, embryo, or cells, it is not suitable for gene therapy in humans. Moreover, genome editing raises ethical concerns. Therefore, we believe that genome editing is a suitable method for "ex vivo" techniques, or for use in fertilized eggs, but not throughout a patient's body. In contrary, changes resulting from the RNA editing are not permanent because they do not affect the genome sequence, and can be context-specific. Therefore, for the purpose of therapeutic treatments, RNA editing is preferable to genome editing, says Prof. Tsukahara.
RNA editing is a physiological process and widespread in living organisms to produce various proteins with different functions from a single gene. In mammals, C or A of the RNA chain is base sequence-specifically hydrolytically deaminating, whereby C is replaced by U and A by I (inosine). Since I forms a Watson-Crick base pair with C, the genetic code is synonymous with G. These base conversions occur as a result of deamination of A or C, which has been found to be catalyzed by ADAR and APOBEC family enzymes. Recently, various techniques for RNA restoration by artificial RNA editing using ADARs have been reported.
In this paper, we review recent findings regarding the application of ADARs to restoring the genetic code along with different approaches involved in the process of artificial RNA editing by ADAR. We have also addressed comparative studies of the various isoforms of ADARs. Therefore, we will try to provide a detailed overview of the artificial RNA editing and the role of ADAR with a focus on the enzymatic site directed A-to-I editing.
Most of artificial RNA editing systems use an active site of catalytic enzymes, ADARs, and a guide RNA complementary to the target to recruit an active site to the target RNA. One approach to artificial RNA editing is the use of chemical methods. Vogel and colleagues employed SNAP tag to join ADARs with a guide RNA and reported that the system is functional in vitro and in vivo. However, this technique requires a continuous supply of effector molecules to be effective. It is also known to use RNA-binding proteins to bind guide RNAs to enzymes. Two types of tethering system originating from bacteriophage are typically used in eukaryotes: the Lambda N system and MS2 system. Use of the ADAR enzyme with the MS2 system enables restoration of the genetic code, and holds promise for gene therapy.
In the future, site-directed A-to-I RNA editing including, enzymatic and non-enzymatic A-to-I editing, specially enzymatic, promises to effectively correct a variety of human diseases related to G to A mutations. A successful approach to treat the single mutation diseases will work as a potential remedy to the patients and will open a new era in this field of research. | <urn:uuid:996f59cf-53f5-4d6d-ba46-00b58c3bce70> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-07-artificial-rna-adar-gene-therapy.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.94596 | 750 | 2.96875 | 3 |
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It might seem a contradiction, but it is an everyday reality: there are forms of love that hurt, that stray far from the virtues and qualities of love..
Undoubtedly, the most serious damage is what we inflict on ourselves: thoughts, insecurities, fears constantly overflow from our heart and compromise our present and our future.
And that's why if we don't love ourselves properly, if we don't take care of ourselves, our projection on our loved ones won't be the best: emotional ineffectiveness will continue to hurt the people we love.
The emotional base always resides within us and taking care of it is a job that we must add to our list of daily responsibilities..
When we give our love to others, we sometimes take recipients for granted. The different feelings we experience are amplified and not knowing how to manage them correctly will compromise love.
Why does love hurt?
Perhaps one answer could be the ability to ruin a loved one along with our fears and insecurities. Below, we give you some examples of loves that hurt:
• Excessive protective instinct: for many parents this feeling arises and grows during the life of their children. What at first is a natural emotion, with the passage of time becomes a wall where the ideas and illusions of the children collide. The "no" becomes the main weapon that is used to stem fears, without knowing or listening to the emotions of the children, in this case. This way of loving returns only misunderstandings and a non-existent ability to communicate, which over time will affect us.
• Inability to put yourself in the other person's shoes: this concept must be further explored, as it is one of the most important psychological concepts that the human being can develop and which prevents many bitter situations in life. To love is to understand the other person, be it a child, wife, husband, etc.. Trying to know who is shaping us or not, his feelings about him, what he does and how he does it, who he is. We are not perfect and we must open our capacity for reflection to everyone, like it or not, and this will help us to love people and to know them in a broader sense. Putting yourself in the place of others enriches the vision of the emotional relationships we have and is a form of healthy love compared to others that instead hurt.
Love hurts and hurts when what we give is poisoned by our ghosts. The act of loving must be free from shadows, honest, pure, otherwise we do nothing but add pain to a feeling that instead has the function of accompanying and supporting our loved ones throughout their life. | <urn:uuid:fa4ab97b-416e-451b-8286-99b3cdaf5ba9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.getpersonalgrowth.com/en/loves-that-hurt | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.960728 | 544 | 1.875 | 2 |
6 June 2019
We are all of us committed to the environment as a citizen and a business. On the occasion of the Sustainable Development Week from May 30 to June 5 and the World Environment Day on June 5, we promote and encourage everybody to take green action for a better world.
Louis Dreyfus TravOcean's building, located in France Parc National des Calanques, is designed to minimize environmental impact throughout its life cycle.
Among other green commitments, our subsidiary has developed partnership with a local beekeeper: 140 000 bees in two hives actively participate in the biodiversity preservation in the area.
Not to mention the building's green yard made of endemic plant like olive trees, thin, rosemary and lavandin with reduced water consumption and protected biodiversity...
About LDTVO: Since its foundation in Marseille in 1977, Louis Dreyfus TravOcean acquired over the years a unique expertise in the fields of submarine cable installation and protection, covering all types of seabed (from very soft to very hard), in shallow waters as well as all cable types (fibre optic, electric cables or umbilical cables).
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Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB), also known as gastric banding or lap band surgery, is a type of bariatric surgery that promotes weight loss by restricting the amount of food that can enter the stomach at any one time. By slowing digestion, it also helps to control feelings of hunger and increase the feeling of fullness after eating a meal. Gastric banding is an alternative that is less invasive and safer than gastric bypass surgery or sleeve gastrectomy.
Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding does not involve changing the body's natural digestion or cause nutritional deficiencies as with gastric bypass procedures. While the amount of food that can be eaten is restricted, the stomach and intestines are left intact to digest food and nutrients completely and naturally.
The gastric band is a medical device that is implanted into the body during a relatively quick and minimally invasive operation. It consists of a silicone band lined with inflatable sacs, an injection port, and tubing. The band is placed around the upper stomach and is connected with tubing to an injection port that is attached to the abdominal wall.
There are two gastric bands approved for use in the United States:
The inflatable sacs that line the gastric band are usually left empty when first placed into the body. Over time, they are filled with a saline solution to further reduce the opening to the stomach and make it difficult to eat a large amount of food at any one time.
The gastric band fills are performed by a bariatric surgeon on a periodic basis. The saline solution is added to the gastric band using a thin needle that is inserted into the access port. When the saline solution is injected into the port, it travels to the inflatable sacs through the connective tubing and the band tightens around the stomach opening. This shrinks the stomach opening and increases food restriction.
The first fill is often performed about 4 to 6 weeks after surgery. Periodic fills are scheduled over the next couple of years to find the optimal amount of restriction that balances eating comfort with satisfactory weight loss.
The gastric band is a specific treatment for obesity and not a general method of weight loss for anyone who is overweight. Certain indications are used as guidelines by bariatric surgeons in determining whether or not an individual is a good candidate for gastric band surgery.
In general, the following guidelines outline patient criteria for gastric banding:
Individuals with the following conditions are not good candidates for gastric banding:
Individuals who are interested in gastric banding should talk to their doctor in order to determine if they are acceptable patients for this bariatric procedure.
Although gastric banding is considered a relatively safe procedure, especially compared to other bariatric surgeries, all surgical procedures involve some degree of risk and possible complications which should be considered before proceeding with surgery. During surgery, complications include: hemorrhage; injury to the spleen, stomach, or esophagus; conversion to open surgery. After surgery, complications include: band slippage, band or tubing leakage; port or band infection; obstruction; nausea and vomiting. Long-term complications include: band erosion into stomach; esophageal dilatation (stretching).
Gastric banding promotes a safe and steady rate of weight loss and long-term weight loss maintenance. The average weight loss in gastric band patients is:
The weight loss also leads to an improvement or resolution of obesity related health conditions, such as type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and severe sleep apnea. | <urn:uuid:e64377eb-a06e-4f6c-aac7-fd6726d31e37> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bariatric.us/gastric-band.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.945065 | 728 | 2.28125 | 2 |
More than a dozen app makers and other companies have joined together to form the Coalition for App Fairness, a nonprofit group that's taking aim at Apple and its App Store rules. Among the founding members are , and Match Group, all of which have been vocal critics of the fees Apple charges developers.
"As enforcers, regulators, and legislators around the world investigate Apple for its anti-competitive behavior, The Coalition for App Fairness will be the voice of app and game developers in the effort to protect consumer choice and create a level playing field for all," said Horacio Gutierrez, head of global affairs at Spotify, in a release on Thursday.
The coalition comes as Apple is locked in a public battle with Fortnite developer Epic Games. Fortnite was kicked off both the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store in August after Epic attempted to bypass the 30% fee Apple and Google charge developers. Epic countered by filing lawsuits against both companies. Apple earlier this month raised the stakes further by if it convinces a judge that it was within its rights to kick Fortnite off its more than 1.5 billion active iPhones and iPads.
Apple didn't respond to a request for comment on the coalition. On Thursday, the company published several pages on its website highlighting the benefits of the App Store for users and developers. Apple says the pages provide context for its broader work to support its app store, which now counts more than 28 million developers worldwide, and 1.5 billion devices across 175 countries.
The App Store helps developers "from start to finish -- to build, test, market, and distribute your products and grow your business," says Apple's site.
The Coalition for App Fairness also released a set of 10 App Store Principles that is says will help "protect the app economy" and ensure that the "benefits of digital technologies are shared by everyone."
Here is the full list of coalition's founding members: Basecamp, Blix, Blockchain.com, Deezer, Epic Games, the European Publishers Council, Match Group, News Media Europe, Prepear, Protonmail, SkyDemon, Spotify and Tile. | <urn:uuid:9d54929e-f811-437e-908c-bcb015d5d156> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/epic-spotify-and-other-apple-critics-form-coalition-to-take-on-app-store-rules/?UniqueID=22EDF39C-FE65-11EA-AA91-8ACB4744363C&ServiceType=twitter&PostType=link&TheTime=2020-09-24T12%3A54%3A51&ftag=COS-05-10aaa0b | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.960316 | 437 | 1.539063 | 2 |
South Korea Monday reported 476 new cases of Coronavirus, taking the total number of COVID-19 infected people in the country to 4,212. This is the largest outbreak of the deadly Coronavirus outside China.
Although the daily number of cases were less than Sunday's when the country reported 586 news cases, the virus is spreading rapidly in South Korea. On Saturday, the country had reported its biggest daily jump of 813 confirmed coronavirus infections.
According to the Korea Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDCP), the number of dead rose to 22 from Sunday's 20. South Korea has the largest Coronavirus outbreak in the world outside mainland China.
In another development, the city government of Seoul has ordered to launch a murder investigation into a controversial church at the heart of the virus outbreak. Founder and chairman of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, Lee Man-Hee will face murder charges after authorities held the church liable for refusing to co-operate with efforts to stop the outbreak.
KCDCP said some members of church visited the Wuhan
The KCDCP said that some members of the church had visited the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the Coronavirus outbreak. However, the agency was yet to determine if they played a role in the spread of the virus in South Korea.
Of the new cases, 377 were from the southern city of Daegu, where a branch of Shincheonji Church is located. Most of South Korea's Coronavirus cases are said to have been traced with the church.
The KCDCP believe the number of confirmed cases in South Korea may jump further in the coming days as health authorities have begun testing more than 210,000 members of Daegu's Shincheonji Church of Jesus. Health authorities suspect that more than half of the country's virus cases were linked with Shincheonji, a home-grown religious sect.
South Korea confirmed its first new coronavirus case on January 20 when a Chinese woman from Wuhan, the epicentre of the virus outbreak, tested positive for the virus. Globally, the virus has killed more than 3,000 people with most of the deaths taking place in mainland China. | <urn:uuid:611a978d-92f9-4775-92ea-350e7349ceaa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ibtimes.co.in/coronavirus-alarm-death-toll-hits-22-south-korea-covid-19-cases-jump-4212-814310 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.96642 | 469 | 1.9375 | 2 |
By TRAVIS DE JONK
It’s the largest pool complex built in Sydney since the 2000 Olympics. After three years of design and construction, Gunyama Park Aquatic and Recreation Centre has finally opened, although $56million over budget and more than eight months later than scheduled.
In 2014 the City of Sydney Council issued an open architecture call for the design of a new pool and recreation centre to serve Green Square’s growing population. A collaboration between Andrew Burges Architects with Grimshaw and TCL won the tender. The winning design was chosen for its integrated sustainability and its innovative, seamless integration of an urban beach pool into a park and surrounding native landscape, inspired by the area’s former wetlands.
WATCH: Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore takes a hard hat tour of the new aquatic centre
Situated in Zetland, in the City of Sydney’s new Green Square development, the expansive, state of the art complex is said to be Australia’s most accessible and sustainable facility of its kind.
Officially open to the public as of this week, the Gunyama Park Aquatic and Recreation Centre was approved in 2015 originally at a budget of $50 million. However by the time CPB Contractors were contracted to build the facility, the project costs had blown out to $84 million. Further delays and construction costs were exacerbated by Covid-19, resulting in the final opening costs coming in at a reported $106 million.
In December 2020, The Sydney Morning Herald reported that the City of Sydney will have paid more than $1 million to the operations contractor – Belgravia Leisure – prior to the centre’s opening.
Council officers said these funds were spent on recruiting and training 149 people, marketing, chemicals, equipment purchases, plant and equipment maintenance, insurance, IT equipment and licences, and a facility pre-clean.
A City of Sydney spokesperson said in an official statement that “many factors, including the impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic, delayed completion of the project”.
The construction period blowout has been blamed in part for difficulties plaguing the $34 million Joynton Creative Arts Centre across the road – a three level arts centre which opened in 2018 before being crippled by the council approval of roadworks and building works blocking direct entry to the centre. Commissioned to be run by Projects 107, the difficult operational circumstances have impacted the bottom line of projects and businesses within the facility.
The first aquatic centre in Australia to hold a Green Star rating, Gunyama Park is a leader in sustainability, featuring an energy co-generation system to heat and power the centre, significantly reducing its carbon footprint and making it cheaper to run each year. Solar panels on the roof of the centre are connected to the local electricity network, allowing any surplus electricity to power buildings in the neighbouring community and cultural precinct.
The aquatic centre is designed to meet the needs of the community, from kids taking a dip to athletes swimming serious laps.
Gunyama Park Aquatic Centre features:
- 50m heated outdoor pool set within a larger, irregular shaped artificial beach pool
- 25m heated indoor program pool for swimming lessons
- Indoor leisure pool with a range of interactive toys, including water spraying devices and tipping buckets
- Heated hydrotherapy pool
- Health and fitness centre and covered outdoor yoga deck
- A full-size outdoor synthetic multipurpose sports playfield
- A fully equipped gymnasium and outdoor training circuit
WATCH: The Green Square development vision
Spanning the suburbs of Zetland, Waterloo, Rosebery, Beaconsfield and Alexandria, the Green Square precinct is set to become the most densely populated part of Australia by 2030. With the population rising so fast, approximately 470,000 visits to the centre are forecast in its first year of operation, expected to rise to 680,000 by 2024.
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An airship or dirigible is a lighter-than-air craft that can be steered and propelled through the air using rudders and propellers or other thrust.
Airships were the first aircraft to enable controlled, powered flight, and were widely used before the 1940s but their use decreased over time as their capabilities were surpassed by those of airplanes. Their decline was accelerated by a series of high-profile accidents: the crash of the British airship R101 on 5 October 1930, the storm-related crash of the American airship USS Akron on April 4, 1933 and the burning of the hydrogen-filled German Zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg on 6 May 1937.
In the 21st century, airships have been used in advertising, tourism, camera platforms for sporting events, geological surveys, and aerial observation, applications where the ability to hover in one place for an extended period outweighs the need for speed and maneuverability.
Airships are also a common trope in "steampunk" literature and design.
Airship in The Two Georges
Airships were the preferred method of long-distance travel in the British Empire, which included the North American Union, in the late 20th Century. Passengers traveled in luxury and comfort aboard the massive liners. Non-flammable Coronium had replaced the temperamental hydrogen as the lifting agent, making the vehicles much safer. Airships, by 1995, had enjoyed unchallenged status as the dominant long-distance form of air travel for nearly a century, offering sightseeing opportunities available aboard no train or passenger ship.
Aeroplanes were much faster, but also much less comfortable. Their speed, while of great use to the military, was widely regarded as vulgar and not worth the trouble for any respectable citizen. As a result, no aeroplane transport lines existed and in peacetime sightings of aeroplanes were rare apart from the occasional patrol.
- The Two Georges, Chapter i.
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The Largest Manufacturing Sector in Europeia
World Census bean-counters tabulated data from across several industries in order to determine which nations have the largest Manufacturing sectors.
As a region, Europeia is ranked 8,101st in the world for Largest Manufacturing Sector.
|1.||The Dictatorship of Peplesania||Psychotic Dictatorship||“Strengh by Obedience”|
|2.||The Negative Zero Positive of Comfed||Psychotic Dictatorship||“We become what we behold.”|
|3.||The Militarized State of Dat Countreh||Psychotic Dictatorship||“Scite et strenue”|
|4.||The Cheese Loving Monarchy of Gabingston||Right-wing Utopia||“Socialism no food 11 trillion dead”|
|5.||The ULTIMATE WALUIGI REGIME of WALUIGI ROCKS||Psychotic Dictatorship||“IT'S WALUIGI TIME”|
|6.||The Lethadone Clinic of Drecq||Left-Leaning College State||“Nihil Sine Justitia”|
|7.||The Soviet Republic of Filiae||Psychotic Dictatorship||“For the workers!”|
|8.||The Mercantile Coalition League of Samuelstani||Father Knows Best State||“Wub a lub a dub dub”|
|9.||The Moderated Nation of Heck Land||Corporate Police State||“I will not flamebait other players using my motto and custom fields”|
|10.||The National Union of Poulton-with-Fearnhead||Democratic Socialists||“Ad aeternum”| | <urn:uuid:f61f607d-36b2-4921-8b06-d695ea7ddd62> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://m.nationstates.net/page=list_nations/region=europeia?censusid=26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.669664 | 401 | 1.570313 | 2 |
The COVID-19 pandemic means we must adapt to different workspaces and lifestyles, beyond simply moving desks around and providing hand sanitizer. We must also reevaluate existing spaces and recalibrate standards. The six new degrees of separation include:
First, do a strategic space assessment. Measure your existing spacing, density and capacity. Review the flow of circulation paths between communal spaces. Are there open workspaces? Cubicles? What are the entry and exit challenges? Make your employees part of the process by surveying them.
Office suites could adopt a concept from home: the mud room. This allows employees to hang up their coats, put umbrellas and commuting shoes in place and wash their hands before entering. Deliveries may go back to the old mail room concept, with packages placed in a quarantine area, where all materials are discarded, mail is sanitized and left there for pickup.
Other design reconfigurations include conference rooms and collaborative spaces. For the former, we recommend adopting a “campfire” concept, where desks and chairs are placed in a spoke formation for more distance. Individual workspaces have continued to shrink in lieu of collaborative workspaces, but we need to alter floor plans to maintain the positive aspects of collaboration while fostering security and well-being.
Next, develop procedures to create a safe return-to-work plan. Your checklist may include furniture reconfiguration and retrofit, improved wayfinding, hygiene protocols for cleaning to encourage behavioral changes, upgrading HVAC systems to provide sanitized air conditioning and establishing a budget and a timeline.
Touch-free technologies will be game changers for sterilization and placement. The novel coronavirus cannot survive under prolonged UV light, so UV-lighting fixtures should be installed in office entry portals and bathrooms. Copper, which has an anti-microbial capability, is a good choice for doorknobs, handles, railings and touch plates. While superbugs like MRSA and coronaviruses can live up to four or five days on most hard surfaces, they start to die within minutes and are undetectable within hours on copper and copper alloys like brass.
We’re in this for the long haul to protect the health of our employees and our businesses. Our job is to rethink the workplace, renew it with affordable strategies and reopen it in a way that promotes health and productivity.
Denver-based Lauren Amber Prestenbach, NCIDQ, a principal at Powers Brown Architecture, is a LEED and Evidence-Based Design Accreditation and Certification accredited professional. She serves as vice president and advocacy director for the International Interior Design Association’s Rocky Mountain Chapter. | <urn:uuid:e491e6c2-32c6-4eef-9eb7-dbdf5f4b1340> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://powersbrown.com/news/viewpoint-six-degrees-of-separation-a-roadmap-for-safe-return-to-work | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.919019 | 548 | 1.640625 | 2 |
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Paper Resume Examples Of Apa Style Papers. Sam Smith updated on March 24, 2020 April 28, 2020 updated on March 24, 2020 April 28, 2020.
What Is APA Style? a set of rules intended to encourage and maintain clear, concise writing provides guidelines for formatting papers used to create citations for resources primarily used by the social sciences, but other sciences use it as well (like nursing, for example).
If you are writing a paper in the social sciences, the writing style developed by the American Psychological Association (APA) is the most accepted option. APA style puts an strong emphasis on being concise and clear and discourages overly-poetic language and metaphor.
APA manual (APA, 2010) will help give you some ideas about how to write this. The bulk of the Introduction section is background literature on the topic, often helpful to provide a theoretical or empirical basis for your research.
APA journals will begin publishing papers in seventh edition APA Style in 2020. The transition to seventh edition style will occur over time and on a journal-by-journal basis until all APA journals use the new style. Professional authors should check the author submission guidelines for the journal to which they want to submit their paper to determine the appropriate style to follow.
To see sample references with this formatting, please see the references in the Annotated Student Sample Paper by the American Psychological Association. See How Should I Format my References in APA Style? for more information. For much more information on the APA Style rules, please visit APA Style on the Writing Centre website. To search for.
Writing APA-style papers is a tricky business. So to complement my discussion of writing publishable scientific articles, I’ve created an infographic showing some of the major ideas you should consider when writing the introduction to an APA-style research paper.This approach will work well in most social scientific fields, especially Psychology.
SAMPLE APA PAPER FOR STUDENTS 5 Method The Method section is the second of four main parts of an empirical paper (see Section 3.6 of the APA (2020) manual).
APA style research paper outline writing by students helps them perfect their skills in writing. APA format is popular among students due to its simple guidelines and approach. The outline brings out the drawbacks in the presentation style and gives an introduction to the research paper. The outline is a brief synopsis of main research paper.
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Research paper introduction writing tips. Research paper introduction is essential part of your writing and it must be created according to certain rules. It is true that when you write any kind of text you can push yourself too hard and cross borders of norms. Because academic styles of writing are referred to creative writing as well.
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Writing an Empirical Paper in APA Style A lab report is a writeup of an experiment and has the same components as a published research study. This. Arrange information in the same order as the sections in the paper: Introduction, Method, Results, and Discussion. Each section of the paper requires at least one sentence in the abstract.
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Question: Can chickens be sexed after hatching, and if so can I do it?
It’s not easy to sex chicks, but two main methods are used, depending on the breed of chicken:
- Feather sexing is possible in fast-feathering breeds. The length of the primary wing feathers is compared in order to differentiate between male and female.
- Vent sexing is the method most often used. It’s a specialised operation, and exponents are trained for two to three years. People qualified in this field are sought after in the poultry industry.
Broiler chicks aren’t usually sexed because the males grow faster and this enables you – by the time the chicks are 2 weeks old – to differentiate between the sexes to a certain extent.
Commercial layer chicks are sexed at the hatchery and the pullets are sold to growers. It’s important to note that errors of up to 2% can occur when chicks are sexed.
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It’s an irrational statistic: For every Californian soldier under age 35 killed in Iraq or Afghanistan, three die from suicides, reckless vehicular accidents and substance-related incidents.Exit Wound,a 25-minute documentary,follows Chess Johnson, a 28-year-old army veteran near Seattle who was shot through the eye while serving in Iraq. After being told he is no longer fit to serve, Chess suffered through a downward spiral of anxiety, depression and PTSD while fending off an addiction to alcohol and adrenaline, compounded by heavy prescription drug use.
Having sworn of alcohol, and trying to find peace in outdoor recreation, Chess and his wife Krianne are invited to Higher Ground, a camp in Sun Valley, Idaho treating veterans with PTSD, specifically with activities like snowboarding, fly-fishing and other progressive outlets.
The films follows Chess at the camp as he and other veterans talk about what PTSD really looks like, providing an intimate look at the problem, and the kinds of treatment that may be needed to deal with it. | <urn:uuid:9a4a4365-c974-45ba-a066-ae16bb427b06> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0fr1t8zc | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.956648 | 234 | 1.539063 | 2 |
What better way to have the adventure of your life so far, than with a friend by your side experiencing it with you? At Glion, you can choose to live by yourself or share a room, or apartment, with like-minded hospitality students from around the world. Who knows, 15 years from now you could be having your own friends reunion together!
Everyone loves the sitcom Friends; no matter what year you were born, where you are from, it is hands down one of the greatest series of all time!
Friends showed us how awesome it is to have roommates, from the bonds you create that could last a lifetime to the constant support system you can have, and potentially meeting the love of your life (not bad, right?). For some people, they have never lived with anyone besides their family, and this piece is a how-to guide on living with roommates, with the advice given based on the Friends experience.
Adjust and adapt
Living with roommates, especially for the first time, requires huge adjustment; whether it be sharing a room in a dorm, or sharing an apartment, learning to adjust will be the first thing you have to learn. On the show, Chandler, Joey, Ross, Phoebe, Monica, and Rachel were roommates with one another at some point in time, and they had to majorly adjust. We all know how difficult it is to live with someone and how many compromises have to be made to do so.
It was difficult to put up with Monica’s OCD, Ross’s dehumidifier, or even Joey’s eating habits; remember: Joey doesn’t share food! However, the show showed us the importance of adapting, which is a must in today’s world. It showed us how to find the beauty in our roommate’s flaws, the art of compromise, and to enjoy the weird bits about all of us and how to make it work.
Conflict is normal, and ok
Conflict and confrontation can be highly uncomfortable, of course, but it is inevitable when you live with someone, and it is ok, as long as you always find a way to work through it. There were times where Monica almost lost her head when Rachel didn’t scrub the toilet the right way, or forgot to take out the trash.
There were plenty of times when Chandler almost got into it with Joey because he had used his toothbrush (I highly wouldn’t recommend this), but they always found a way to resolve it. It takes patience, kindness, and always remembering that you both are adjusting to each other, that there is always common ground, and that somedays will be off days, and that is ok.
Friends for life
Friendship is truly a beautiful thing, which is definitely the biggest lesson the gang from Friends taught us. Yes, indeed, you may not always be friends with your roommate or super close, but if you go in with an open mind, you could end up with a friend or friends for a lifetime, sharing memories and moments together that you will cherish for a long time and remember in your golden years.
A buddy beside you is more helpful than anything else in the world, no matter how complicated the solution is. Chandler and Joey’s relationship was the definition of #goals. We had some serious friendship aspirations after seeing how they couldn’t go a day without talking to each other, and how they knew what was bothering the other person. Who wouldn’t want that?
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Annual HOSA challenge pits students in friendly competition to register new donors
Ann Arbor, MI – There are nearly 400 new organ and tissue donors registered in Michigan, thanks to the efforts of students across the state.
The students, from the Health Occupation Students of America – known as HOSA-Future Health Professionals – have just completed their third statewide competition with other Michigan HOSA chapters to register new organ and tissue donors and inspire support for organ and tissue donation.
The Gift of Life HOSA Challenge took place from Nov. 3 through Nov. 20, with 20 different schools taking part. The competition was changed this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and featured virtual events, activities and discussions. Despite the lack of prominent, public tables where students could register their peers HOSA students combined to add 374 new donors to the Michigan Organ Donor Registry.
“Hosting a virtual challenge presented some unique obstacles, but these young people really stepped up to the challenge,” said Alison Gillum, Community Relations Coordinator at Gift of Life Michigan. “They did an amazing job.”
Schools are awarded points for each new registration, as well as activities they coordinate to educate their peers about organ and tissue donation. There were more than 1,200 activities combined at the 20 schools. Sanilac HOSA registered the most new donors, with 133. The Grand Blanc HOSA chapter earned the most activity points, with 2,973.
Tristan Johnson, a high school student from Kalamazoo who received a kidney transplant last year, said he thought it was important to educate his peers about the need for additional organ and tissue donors.
“A lot of people don’t know about organ donation unless it affects them directly,” he said. “The more people are aware of it, the more people will want to register – or be aware of the signs before they get too bad.”
The Kalamazoo HOSA chapter rallied for him; they finished third in activity points with 2,054. They also registered 17 new donors and made comfort blankets for donor families.
There are more than 110,000 people waiting for a new organ in the U.S., including 2,562 in Michigan. A single donor can save up to eight lives and help as many as 75 more through donated tissue.
“This has been an important partnership for us,” said Dorrie Dils, CEO of Gift of Life Michigan. “I am impressed with the energy, enthusiasm and creativity these students show in educating the community and advocating for organ and tissue donation. Each new registration brings new hope to the many people waiting for a life-saving transplant.”
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How childhood sex abuse leads to PTSD
Post-traumatic stress disorder, commonly known as PTSD, is a grave psychological condition triggered by a traumatic or horrifying event in a person’s life, such as childhood sexual abuse. The person’s life may have been placed in mortal danger, or they may have sustained grievous injury—or there may have been the imminent threat of grievous injury. PTSD is a consequence of the feelings of powerlessness, terror, or latent phobias which often plague survivors of traumatic experiences. While PTSD has traditionally been associated with war veterans, similar symptoms have been documented in victims of accidents, natural disasters, or physical or sexual assault.
Moments of intense fear or horror create powerful echoes within a person’s psyche. It’s natural for that person to experience a broad spectrum of emotional turmoil following the event; awe, anxiety, anger, terror—even shame and guilt. In some cases, these emotions may fade with time. Frequently, however, these emotions escalate, taking over the individual’s life and making it difficult to work or have normal relationships. A person who has had PTSD symptoms for longer than a month and is experiencing difficulty with their lifestyle and functionality needs immediate help.
Attorney Lauren Cerri: PTSD is a disorder that develops after a trauma, a traumatic event. What most people think of is war veterans when they come back from combat. Victims of sexual abuse are very commonly diagnosed with PTSD. Like a war veteran that might hear a car backfire and it brings them back to the scene of battle, a child who has been sexually abused, if they see someone who looks like the perpetrator, they can immediately be brought right back to the moment of when they're being abused. They avoid the circumstances. They don't want to even drive by the school or the church where it happened. They relive it. They have nightmares or flashbacks of the person or of what happened to them. Let me give you some examples. We represented a young girl who was sexually abused by her third grade teacher under the guise of a Helen Keller study. He was blindfolding her and putting things in her mouth. When she went to the dentist, she had a male dentist and she sat in the chair. She panicked and she had to leave the room and her mom had to take her home because she could not sit in a chair and have a man put things in her mouth because she thought of what happened to her in the classroom. It brought it all back.
How to Recognize the Signs of PTSD
The first signs of PTSD may not show up until three months after the traumatic event, sometimes much longer—years, even. Everyone reacts differently to traumatic events; there is no “standard” or “right” or “wrong” way to behave after you’ve been traumatized. For this reason, the intensity, scope, and duration of post-traumatic stress differs widely between individual people. Some individuals may recover within 6 months, while others may take years to cope with their pasts. Others may never recover without the proper counseling.
PTSD may take various forms, which include but are not limited to:
- Revisiting the trauma mentally. People who suffer from chronic PTSD are unable to forget the intense experience they lived through, and repeatedly relive it in their minds and dreams—nightmares, flashbacks, even vivid hallucinations.
- Avoidance of people, places, or things. Anything which reminds the individual of a particular event may trigger unpleasant memories or flashbacks; the location where the event happened (or a location similar in appearance), people who remind the victim of their attacker, even inanimate or otherwise innocent objects. This can easily lead to social isolation and problems associating with friends, coworkers, or peers.
- Emotional instability. A person with trauma in his or her past may become easily surprised or frightened; have difficulty showing affection; find it impossible to relate to others on a personal level; overreact or underreact emotionally; or lose their ability to concentrate or focus. Physical side effects may include diarrhea, nausea, muscle twitches/tension, breathing difficulty, hyperventilation, heightened heart rate, and elevated blood pressure. The body is essentially undergoing a “fight or flight” or traumatic stress response around the clock.
- Negative self-thought. Sexual assault victims frequently have problems affixing blame to their molester. They may internalize guilt, blaming themselves for what happened. This can result in persistent, nagging shame, worthlessness, depression, self-doubt, and negative self-talk. It can even lead to suicidal thoughts.
The Impact of PTSD on Young Children
As devastating as these symptoms can be to an adult, it’s even worse when the victim was a young child. Children who suffer from PTSD may even have their physical and intellectual development delayed. Traumatized (especially sexually traumatized) children may be late in learning toilet training or have difficulty mastering motor skills, coordination, and language skills.
Young children are especially vulnerable. They do not have the emotional equipment necessary to externalize guilt and find much-needed perspective and solace in the days, months, and years following an episode of sexual abuse. Abuse can psychologically scar children for life, especially if particularly intense or long-lasting. The worse the abuse was, and the younger the child was, the more likely the child will develop chronic PTSD. This, in turn, can lead to social problems, physical deterioration and disease, and even self-harm and suicide.
Overcoming PTSD with the Right Therapeutic Approach
With the right therapeutic approach, however, anyone of any age can overcome PTSD. Therapists seek to lessen the emotional and physical impact of trauma-related stress while simultaneously helping the victim to function better in society and cope with their agonizing memories.
With children in particular, cognitive behavioral therapy helps individuals to change their destructive and self-deprecating mindsets. As was stated earlier, victims of sexual abuse—especially young ones—often blame themselves for what happened. They feel overpowering feelings of shame, guilt, and anxiety. The younger they were when the abuse took place, and the more intense and long-lasting the abuse was, the more psychological damage the adult victim will be likely to incur. Cognitive behavioral therapy serves to stop these negative impulses and thoughts, and replace them with healthy, positive ones.
Family therapy may also be a wise option for victims of sexual abuse. A sex crime often casts a pall over an otherwise healthy family. The very taboo nature of sex abuse means that many families are reluctant to talk about what happened and work through the related issues on their own. A licensed therapist, however, can help a family to communicate their feelings, doubts, fears, and issues to each other in a healthy, non-confrontational way. In this manner, families can solidify the bonds between their members and heal as a group after sex abuse has taken place.
If somebody has sexually abused your child, it’s always a good idea to take them to see a licensed therapist, especially one that has experience treating sexually abused children. Even just a quick chat with the therapist will help determine whether or not your child may develop PTSD and will need further treatment, and will also serve to begin healing their psychological damage. Don’t risk your child’s future—or life. The law firm of Corsiglia McMahon & Allard represents victims of childhood sex abuse in seeking justice against their predator and/or the organization that allowed the abuse to occur. Call us at 408-289-1417. | <urn:uuid:8e0f1a10-3ed2-443f-9c55-bb85e35deacd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://childmolestationattorneys.com/ptsd-childhood-sex-abuse/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.963664 | 1,565 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Published on 12 February 2014 by TeleSUR English
Coup plotters planned on assassinating the Venezuelan president and installing a de facto government.
A coup plot against the Venezuelan government has been foiled, with both civilians and members of the military detained, President Nicolas Maduro revealed Thursday in a televised address.
Those involved were being paid in U.S. dollars, and one of the suspects had been granted a visa to enter the United States should the plot fail, Maduro said.
Venezuela’s president stated that the coup plotters already had a “transitional” government and program lined up once the plan, which included bombings on the Miraflores Palace and the teleSUR offices in Caracas, as well as assassinations of members of the opposition, Maduro and others, was carried out.
Maduro explained that a video of masked military officials speaking out against the government had been recorded, which was set to be released after the planned assassination was carried out.
Venezuelan Minister of Defense Vladimir Padrino Lopez stated via his Twitter account that the armed forces remain loyal to the constitutional government.
“The Bolivarian National Armed Forces remain resolute in their democratic beliefs and reject coup schemes that threaten the peace of the republic,” said Padrino.
According to Maduro, one of the suspects was already under surveillance and had been suspected of plotting against the government during last year's violent demonstrations, but was not charged. Nevertheless, he continued plotting against the democratically-elected government.
The four-stage plan involved creating an economic assault on the country, creating an international debate around a supposed humanitarian crisis, a political coup involving officials who would turn on the government, and finally a military coup that would lead to the installation of the transitional program.
Maduro stated that the plot, which was scheduled to coincide with anti-government demonstrations planned for the one-year anniversary of the start of violent, opposition-led demonstrations which began last Feb. 12, was uncovered after military officials who had been approached to participate reported the schemes to authorities.
Maduro called on the Venezuelan people to be on alert and prepared to maintain peace in the country in the face of continued attempts by sectors of the right wing who seek to overthrow the democratically-elected government.
Below is a timeline of how the coup plotters hoped their plan would play out provided by TeleSUR Engish, Anatomy of a Coup.
January 6-8: Coup plotters planned to conduct nationwide operations aimed at creating unrest in the streets. Queues outside commercial stores such as supermarkets were set to be among the primary targets, where operatives hoped to set off violence. Elsewhere, various groups planned to engage in other activities aimed at fomenting destabilization in the streets.
January 9-February: Over the weeks, plotters hoped the country would descend into a state of turmoil, paving the way for the violent overthrow of the Maduro administration.
February 3: Officials at the U.S. Embassy in Caracas tried to bribe people in strategic positions to participate in a coup, said President Nicolas Maduro at the time.
February 12: The coup was scheduled to begin this day. Chavista and opposition rallies commemorating Youth Day were slated as the first targets. Coup plotters planned on attacking the marches to provoke panic in the streets. Then, strategic sites across the capital were to be bombed in a series of coordinated attacks, carried out using a Tucano attack aircraft. The Tucano is a small, highly maneuverable military aircraft manufactured in Brazil, though the U.S. military has purchased a handful for counterinsurgency operations. The sites targeted for bombing included public transport, government offices, mass media and open areas, such as the grandiose Plaza Venezuela. The full list of targets included:
- teleSUR headquarters (east Caracas)
- Headquartes of the Military Intelligence (DIM)
- Plaza Venezuela
- Metro station Zona Rental (center of Caracas)
- Ministry of Defense (center of Caracas)
- Caracas municipality building (west)
- Miraflores palace (national government and presidential headquarters)
- Public Prosecutor’s office (center of Caracas)
Members of both the opposition and the government – including Maduro – were expected to be assassinated during the ensuing chaos.
Amid the turmoil, media outlets would be forced to broadcast a statement announcing the collapse of the government.
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Delve into the Aesthetica archives and discover bold photographs of our cities. These bright, geometric images encourage us to look at architecture in a new way – from Michael Wolf’s metropolis to icons of 20th century modernism.
Laurent Kronental documents the lives of residents in the Grands Ensembles, the distinctive housing projects around Paris. The series, Souvenir d’un Futur, references the original hope invested in these monuments of an imagined social utopia, erected between the 1950s and 1980s to address the city’s housing crisis. Initially drawn to the Modernist character of the buildings, the citizens within provided Kronental with his real impetus: an examination of personal histories.
In 2014, Turkish-born Yener Torun (b. 1982) began an Instagram account (@cimkedi) focusing on the lesser-known buildings and side-streets of Istanbul. The images capture colour-blocked high rises, apartment blocks and resort complexes. Torun’s expansive portfolio, acclaimed for its clean-cut shadows and forms, has been recognised by publications including The Guardian, The Washington Post and CBS News.
Michelle Cho (b. 1992) & June Kim’s (b. 1990) collaborative series are inspired by vivid and structurally expansive architecture. Using photography and digital manipulation, the duo conjure a visual relationship with the self and its multiple identities – transfixed amongst anonymous and almost desolate sets. Performativity plays a significant role within the images; the characters turn away from each other and embrace the walls of the structures.
Anna Di Prospero (b. 1987) studied photography at the The Istituto Europeo di Design, Rome, and at the School of Visual Arts, New York, where she became interested in the relationship between humanity and the environment. The Urban self-portrait series combines architecture with performance. Bold shapes and primary colours are a consistent feature, with the angles of contemporary cities meeting bodies.
German photographer Michael Wolf (1954-2019) documented and marveled at the vernacular culture of the modern metropolis. Architecture of Density is a sprawling collection of colossal structures that can be found in Hong Kong. Charting the excessive repetition of rooms and blank windows, the photographs turn housing into a world of abstraction. Through cropping, he presents a different perspective of architecture. Cities can continue to move in our imaginations as we attempt to visualise their size. | <urn:uuid:ea65fd17-17e6-43da-8145-b0d11ecf03d4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aestheticamagazine.com/aesthetica-archives-architectural-photography/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.932117 | 506 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Noting the recent wins by “tea party” candidates in Republican primaries, Daniel Charnoff of the USC Daily Trojan warns his readers about the implications of the movement’s agenda:
Miller is a stand-up tea partier, meaning he wants to get rid of Medicare, Social Security and the Department of Education. Miller considers unemployment benefits unconstitutional and has called the scientific evidence for climate change “dubious science at best.” He wants to cut foreign aid and United Nations funding at a time when the United States’ international image hangs in the balance and slash funding to the National Endowment for the Arts.
Some of Miller’s other proposals might sound reasonable at first, but they are cloaked in the language of smaller government that would in practice really lead to a paralyzed government.
These include proposals to give the president power to veto line items in spending bills, requiring each bill to note what part of the Constitution gives Congress the authority to enact it and allowing unlimited debate over appropriations bills.
One can think that stopping new government spending that lacks constitutional justification is “paralyzing” only if one already thinks that government should forever expand its involvement in every area of life and the economy. Charnoff states that “the federal government . . . is a serious institution that plays a crucial role in every American’s daily life,” which is undoubtedly true. But why think that the government should play a crucial role regulating what we buy, what we eat, whom we trade with, how we spend our money, and how much of it we get to keep?
The Tea Partiers are not calling for the elimination of the police, the courts, or the military, as Charnoff seems to imply. They are asking, whatever their personal flaws and massive inconsistencies, whether government should control every area of our lives. The complaint that Tea Party proposals will “paralyze government” is not only false, but misses the point of the movement: to challenge the idea that our lives, property, and choices belong to the state. The Founding Fathers were some of the first men in history to challenge this idea. As the Ayn Rand Center notes:
The colonists were driven by a certain view of the proper purpose of government, which the Tea Act repudiated. That view, which would reach its full expression in the Declaration of Independence, was that the role of government is to protect individual rights—to protect the sovereign individual’s right to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness.
But over the past two centuries, the ideal of individual rights has all but disappeared from public discourse. In its absence has emerged today’s massive regulatory-welfare state, which taxes away nearly half our income, tells us what medicines we can take, what kind of light bulbs to buy, and is rapidly consolidating control over America’s banks, insurance companies, and industrial giants like General Motors.
What happened? Why did we abandon the American ideal? Above all, because the ideal lacked a moral defense.
Read the rest of ARC’s statement on the Tea Parties, and how they propose to offer a proper moral defense of limited government.
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A genuine war hero championed by Shasta County veterans has passed away. Jack Tolbert was a Sergeant in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He had just one month remaining in his tour of duty when his platoon was suddenly overrun by a wave of Chinese troops. When a Chinese hand grenade was lobbed into the bunker in the midst of Tolbert and his platoon, it might have meant the death of the entire unit. That was not the case because Jack Tolbert was an exceptional man and that was the sort of moment that reveals a man’s true nature. With no time to think, Jack’s instinct was not to jump away from the blast. Jack’s concern was for the protection of the men he considered his brothers, so he threw himself on top of the grenade. The blast took both of his legs, but he was not dead. He used his remaining strength to crawl around in search of a radio so he could warn the commanders to the rear of the fight that the Chinese were coming. When they did come, Jack remained still and played possum. With his body torn apart, he must have looked like he was dead, but the Chinese bayoneted him anyway and cracked his head with the butts of their rifles. After 3 months in army hospitals, Jack finally went home. Following that incredible ordeal, Jack has led a spirited life of integrity, compassion, and positivity. Jack and his wife raised eight children, and he earned his livelihood with Jack’s Small Engine Repair in South Redding. Late in his life he counseled a number of young wounded veterans and has been a moving force behind countless veteran’s projects. Despite his obvious valor, Jack was never a recipient of a Medal of Honor, despite a campaign by fellow veterans that ended in 2009 with a denial by the secretary of the army, who deemed that the Distinguished Service Cross was adequate. Jack proved that the most meaningful honor he could receive was from the Redding community he served and loved for more than 50 years. That community now mourns the passing of a true American hero. Jack Tolbert died November First at the age of 94. | <urn:uuid:ab6c409b-d3b6-4ffc-9085-dafa905b2bd7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.foxsportsredding.com/2017/11/08/longtime-veterans-advocate-passes-away-at-94/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.993657 | 442 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Poker is among the many casino games that are most well-known and loved around the world. Poker, also called pay-to-play or video poker, has existed since the mid-nings years of the 1970s. Poker is any of a wide variety of card games where players place wagers over what hand is most likely to come out before the timer runs out in each game of poker. Some variations on the game include no-limit and low-stakes poker. The object of the game is for the player to “buy” or put up “sell” their hand in hopes of getting more “picks” or money from the other players by making their hand bet higher than their opponents’.
In order to play a good game of poker, it’s important to get some basic knowledge of how it works. A novice player of poker, or even an experienced player can lose a lot of money if they don’t know the basic principles and strategies of how the game works. This article will give you a brief explanation of the most important of those principles and strategies. In the first round, the two players seated across from each other begin betting. The first round usually goes like this: the players have a value card (low grade card) and the dealer has a “full house” card. The value card is considered the worst card that can be played; however, it’s worth noting that this is not always the case.
A “bluff” is when you intentionally or subconsciously (or accidentally) send your own cards to your opponents. Bluffing is often used by beginners who have not yet mastered the fundamental rules of poker. For example, a person can bluff by showing his opponents that he has got a better hand than them. It may sound weird, but many players do it by showing their opponents that they have got cards that are better than they have. The main idea behind bluffing is to make your opponents believe that you are having better hands than they have.
Another useful strategy in the poker is to make your bets in the middle of the pot, so that you have the option of taking your opponents betting money out of the pot. When players in the middle of the pot to make bets, more often than not, other players in the pot also make bets. If all of the pots are controlled by one person, then the player with the highest hand usually takes all the money from the pot, leaving only the pots left for the other players. In a nutshell, making all your bets in the middle of the pot makes it more likely that you will win the pot.
One of the most popular ways in which beginners play POKER is to fold their hand before the flop. However, this is not recommended. Although a novice can easily lose a lot of money by doing this, the main problem with having a low flush is that more often than not, the other players in the pot will also fold because they also have no other choice but to take their opponents’ money. Although it is a popular strategy, people who are just starting to play Pot-Limit Omaha should not make it their primary method of play. More often than not, they will end up losing money instead of making it.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Revised projections show a worsening impact of the coronavirus on the U.S. economy: a loss of 5.9 million jobs by the end of April due to declining travel, according to data released Tuesday by the U.S. Travel Association and Tourism Economics.
The figures indicate that the economic damage from the public health crisis is accelerating; a similar analysis released last week forecast 4.6 million jobs lost to travel declines before May.
“The coronavirus crisis is hitting the travel economy hard, and it’s also hitting fast,” said U.S. Travel Association President and CEO Roger Dow. “These new figures underscore the extreme urgency of financial relief for travel businesses—83 percent of which are small businesses—so they can keep paying their employees. Not only are workers suffering right now, but if employers are forced to close their doors, it is unknown when or if those jobs will ever come back.”
U.S. Travel is urging the inclusion of numerous relief measures for travel businesses in the “Phase III” coronavirus package being negotiated in Congress, including: access to more significant small business loans, and ensuring immediate access to retain employees and cover basic costs during the shutdown; a Workforce Stabilization Fund to help medium and larger travel businesses retain their workers and remain solvent; and tax relief to help mitigate economic losses.
Travel supports 15.8 million American jobs in total—employment for one out of every 10 Americans. According to the latest analysis, the loss of 5.9 million jobs in travel will more than double the U.S. unemployment rate from 3.5 percent to 7.1 percent by the end of April. The expected loss of $910 billion in travel-related economic output in 2020 would be seven times the impact of 9/11. Additionally, the analysis found that the predicted slowdown in the travel sector alone will push the U.S. economy into a protracted recession.
“The health crisis deserves the government’s full attention, but the economic crisis will be worse and longer without aggressive action to confront it right now,” Dow said. “Businesses can’t keep their lights on if they don’t have any customers, and they don’t have any customers because of the actions that are necessary to stem the spread of coronavirus. The resulting closures will take the greatest toll on the frontline employees who can least afford to lose their jobs—wait staff, housekeepers, concession workers, etc.”
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Each person learns information differently. As you prepare for your exam, it is helpful to identify how you learn and retain information. There are three major learning styles which include auditory, visual, and tactile. This post will explore everything you need to know about the 3 learning styles.
What is an auditory learner?
An auditory learner finds the most benefit from listening to study material and questions. Also, they are better able to retain information if they read it out loud and then listen to the recording. For example, someone with this learning style will find it helpful to read the exam questions out loud and answer them. Speaking the information helps them remember it better.
Someone who is an auditory learner doesn’t mean that they don’t also learn information from visual and tactile styles. Auditory learners can absorb and recall information better when it is delivered through hearing. Knowing your learning style can cut down on test-taking anxiety and frustration.
You may be an auditory learner if
- You find it helpful to have someone ask the question, and you verbalize the answer to them
- You like someone to tell you directions versus reading directions
- You discuss answers versus write out answers
- You use rhymes to remember information
- You read questions out loud then you provide the answers
Tips to help auditory learners
- Listen to recordings of exam questions and study material
- Read each exam question out loud then verbalize the answer
- Record your reading of questions and answers in a voice memo app
- Describe information in detail including steps and processes
- Participate in group discussions of exam material
What is a visual learner?
A visual learner is someone who likes to see what they want to learn. The space that is created by visually seeing information aids in the learning process. The term for this is visual-spatial learning.
If you like to see concepts written out versus hear about them, you are a visual learner. Your ability to see how the information looks helps you absorb the material and memorize it. Just because you are a visual learner doesn’t mean that you don’t include other learning styles such as auditory or tactile. The goal is for you to identify the best way you learn the material then align your study plan to match it.
You may be a visual learner if you:
- Make lists to help you learn or stay organized.
- Find it useful to write out your thoughts and ideas.
- Prefer reading material and study guides versus listening to audio recordings of the same information.
- Find it helpful to highlight, underline, or make notes in your study guides.
- Re-write information you have learned. For example, you re-write lecture notes.
Tips to help visual learners
- Write things down. Whether it’s a term or process, be sure to write it out.
- Utilize flashcards to help memorize and understand the material.
- Watch videos that cover the concepts and theories you are learning.
- Visualize critical concepts as symbols, acronyms, or picture. For example, in learning systems, draw a diagram or image to represent it.
- Arrange your notes in an outline.
What is a tactile learner?
A tactile learner is someone who learns through movement. This learning style is often forgotten because it isn’t as traditional as auditory or visual. A tactile learner can better absorb and understand new material through movement of the body.
Pay attention to how your body moves and reacts during your next study session. Is your pencil moving or tapping as you read? Does it help to read the material out loud as you walk throughout your house? This learning style is a powerful one, and your study program can benefit from implementing more tactile learning.
You may be a tactile learner if
- You continuously move your leg or shake your leg while reading.
- You talk with your hands.
- You have good hand-eye coordination.
- You are good at sports.
- You like to use a pen or highlighter to make notes while reading.
Tips to help tactile learners
- Place toys or objects you can play with on your desk while studying.
- Listen to audio study guides while you are exercising.
- Stand up and walk around while you read new material.
- If you feel tired while studying, stop every 30 minutes and do a few jumping jacks.
- Keep a sketch pad handy during study session so you can draw diagrams or systems.
Combining your learning style and the right study aids is crucial to your exam preparation. Set up an appointment with one of our AATBS consultants for an overview on how each package can cater to your learning style.
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Welcome to the most complete guide to going solar in 2022.
What you’ll learn:
- Why everyone is talking about solar energy right now
- Why brands matter when it comes to your solar system
- Solar trends for 2022 and why you should buy sooner rather than later
- Lots of pro tips on going solar and choosing wisely
- Solar Smart tips that you won’t hear anywhere else
So if you’re thinking about switching to clean solar energy this year and have a hundred questions, this guide is for you.
And even if you already know what solar is, this guide for 2022 will give you the most up-to-date info on solar out there.
Let’s get started.
Solar Energy 101
In this chapter we’re going to break down the basics of solar energy.
- Why solar energy is taking off
- Why old energy sources are running out
- Why alternative energy sources are becoming increasingly important
- Why you should look to the sun to power your home in 2022
You ready to dig in? Let’s start with the basics.
Solar Energy in 2022: The Facts
Solar energy is here to stay. With many cities and states (and countries) adopting aggressive renewable energy goals by 2050, the topic of solar energy is only becoming more important. And with good reason: it’s the leading source of renewable energy that puts power directly in the hands of homeowners across the world. Solar is the first step towards energy independence and utility companies are intimidated.
Here are the facts about the current state of solar energy.
In the last decade, solar has experienced an average annual growth rate of 42% (SEIA). And with each year of falling prices, solar continues to expand into new markets as well as more and more homes across the world. SEIA reports the cost to install solar has dropped by around 70% over the last decade which has fueled much of this growth.
Solar Energy Snapshot 2021
Let’s take a look at recent reports from SEIA that summed up the growth of solar in the first half of 2021:
- In Q2 2021, the US solar market installed 5.7 GWdc of solar capacity, a 45% increase over the second quarter of 2020 and the largest Q2 on record.
- With Q2 additions, the US officially surpassed 3 million installations across all market segments, the vast majority of which are residential systems.
- Solar accounted for 56% of all new electricity-generating capacity added in the US in the first half of 2021.
The Rise of Solar Power
In addition, according to a report from November 2021, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) states that, “solar power accounted for 3% of U.S. electricity generation from all sources in 2020.” In other words, of all the power supplied to homes across the nation, solar power accounted for around 3%. That may not seem like much, but it doesn’t stop there. At the rate solar power is growing, the EIA also predicts it will account for 4% of the U.S. total in 2021, 14% in 2035 and 20% in 2050. It helps that many cities in the U.S. are adapting 100% renewable energy goals every year.
There’s a simple explanation for this rapid growth:
Not only is solar power great for the environment, but homeowners who switch to solar power are saving thousands in electricity costs every year by choosing to produce their own energy. Here’s how one homeowner even achieved a negative electric bill.
Solar as an Economic Engine
To top it all off, solar is a great economic engine. As of 2020, SEIA reports that “more than 230,000 Americans work in solar at more than 10,000 companies in every U.S. state.”
Solar also employs about 30% of individuals identifying as female and 2020 saw a significant increase in the employment of various ethnicities. In addition, veterans make up a larger share of employment than the rest of the country. (National Solar Job Census 2020) Solar is a great industry to boost the economy, as the more people who choose solar energy for their home, the more jobs it creates. These jobs include extensive training programs for the investment of knowledgeable employees that desire a lifelong career in solar.
Old News: Fossil Fuels
Our old sources of energy are running out.
That’s right. Fossil fuels (like coal and gas), the most widely used sources of energy on Earth, are non-renewable.
If you don’t believe us, take a look at this. This image shows us renewable vs. non-renewable sources and how much potential energy they provide each year.
Image source: GW Solar Institute
Non-renewable energy, otherwise known as finite, includes any form of energy that is derived from sources that were formed in the earth billions of years ago. Which means we have to keep digging deeper and deeper into the earth to find more.
The Importance of Solar Energy in the Future
Renewable energy sources offer more flexibility to our electricity grids at a time when our grids need it most and homeowners need a break from electricity costs the most.
Read more about the future of our unstable power grid and the alternatives.
Ever-expanding electrical networks, increased demand on outdated grids, more pull of electricity required to power homes, appliances and cars — our demand for energy in the coming years is only going to intensify and become more unstable.
And the share of available fossil fuels will continue to decline.
It’s also a well-known fact at this point that clean renewable energies like solar and wind are better for our planet. The future generations who will need enough energy to power the civilizations of their own.
If we don’t curb our use of non-renewable sources soon, there will be none left for generations, not so far into the future.
It’s becoming ever more important in our current world to have alternative sources of energy.
Why Solar is the Champ of Renewable Energy
All renewables are great alternatives and all over the world, people are finding out more ways to use it. In fact, here are some facts not commonly known about renewable energy. But do you know which renewable energy source rules them all?
If you guessed the sun, you’re dead on!
The sun is the ultimate source of all other energy sources.
Think about it: everything needs the sun for power.
And the sun’s importance wasn’t lost on ancient civilizations. The sun has been studied as a power source for centuries. We’re even currently researching ways for space-based solar to take off. Why all this focus on learning and innovating solar energy generation, you ask?
The sun is nature’s power plant, and it’s available to all living things on our planet.
It’s not so hard to believe given the fact that the energy comes from the sun which is always available, every day on Earth. For those looking for a way to live more sustainably, solar is one of the greenest options.
The amount of power from the sun that strikes the Earth in one hour is more than the entire world consumes in an entire year!
Alright, got the basics down? It’s time to tackle some of the widely held misconceptions about solar energy.
Let’s move onto the technical details about how we harvest the sun for power.
Parts of a Solar Energy System
In this chapter, we’re going to break down the parts of a solar energy system. If you’ve ever wondered, “How do solar panels work?” this one’s for you.
- The three types of solar panels and why efficiency matters
- Microinverters versus string inverters
- What racking is
- Why brands matter in solar products
Understanding the components of a solar system is like geeking out on the latest tech gadgets. Moreover, there’s great things to come from understanding how solar panels work. Knowledge is power and you can answer tons of burning questions, like “Do solar panels get hot?” Or maybe, “Do they work on cloudy days?” Answer these questions with ease once you learn more about solar energy.
If this doesn’t appeal to you, skip over this part, but don’t miss the pro tips at the end of the section. For those curious tech hounds, let’s dig into the parts of a solar panel system.
1. Solar Panels
Solar panels are the part that everyone knows about. They’re the technology that’s gathering the energy of the sun from your rooftop.
There are 3 types of solar panels.
Here’s the nuts and bolts.
Monocrystalline is the most widely used type of panel for residential use.
Polycrystalline panels are typically less efficient than monocrystalline and are often used for commercial buildings.
Thin film is more flexible, has a shorter life-span and is typically used in small solar installations.
You may want to cut costs by choosing a cheaper brand of solar panels, but consider the efficiency of the solar panels you’re purchasing. You want a brand you can trust to be reliable and innovative. Whether it’s solar panels or a solar panel battery backup, you want high quality, security, and resiliency. Even 3% more efficiency can mean larger power output and a better return on your investment.
Choose solar panels that have a warranty longer than the life of your loan if you’re financing.
Hint: We prefer solar panels backed by industry-leading warranties.
What the heck is a microinverter?
We’re here to make it all easy for you so simply stated:
Your solar panels produce DC energy. Your home needs AC electricity.
So, just the opposite of the rock band AC/DC, the microinverter is the component that turns DC your solar panels produce into 230V AC electricity that your home uses.
There’s a whole history of solar you’ve probably never heard about. Before micro inverters were
invented, string inverters were the norm. Each panel fed straight into one main inverter via
“strings” attached to each panel. The problem with this was that the system would
only produce as much electricity as its least productive panel.
The microinverter is the component most likely to fail within 10-15 years. Choose wisely.
Hint: We prefer and only use Enphase microinverters.
Racking is the most straight-forward component of them all.
The racking component is what the solar panels are installed on. The racking goes on your roof, the solar panels fit into the racking. It’s as simple as that.
You generally don’t need to worry about this part, this will come with the solar installation and your solar company will handle this.
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The most important part of this section is to understand how important it is to consider the brands
you’re purchasing. Solar is a major investment: an upgrade to your home that can last over 25 years
and drastically increase the value of your home, but only if you shop wisely and ask the right questions.
Alright, let’s move onto learning about the dreaded… power grid.
All About Home Energy
In this chapter, you’re going to learn all about home energy, the best ways to save energy and how the power grid powers your home.
- Understanding the power grid
- What being ‘on the grid’ and ‘off the grid’ really means
- What net metering is and how it can save you money
- Why your home energy use is important to know and how to calculate it
- How you can free yourself from your electric company
Gridlocked: What’s the Power Grid Anyways?
Anytime you start talking about rising electricity costs, outages and blackouts, it all points back to the power grid.
Going ‘off the grid’ is something you may have heard of before.
But what about being ‘on the grid’.
Do you know the difference between the two?
What is the power grid?
The power grid carries the electricity fueled by your utility company and runs throughout neighborhoods, shopping malls, office parks and across property lines. To sum it up easily, being on the grid means your home is connected to this power grid.
What does being “off-grid” mean?
Therefore, being “off the grid” means your home in no way receives power from this electrical grid.
Solar panels and being “off-grid”
In terms of solar energy, being off the grid is different from having solar panels installed on your home. Having solar panels installed on your home means your home will get powered by solar energy while you’re still connected to the grid.
For this reason, solar panels alone will not work during a power outage, therefore you’ll need a solar battery for that. We’ll get to that soon, but if you can’t wait, jump there now.
Being connected to the grid certainly has its advantages. For one, if your solar panels collect more energy than your house needs (which is likely depending on your peak sunshine hours), then you have the option to “sell” it back to your utility company.
This is called net-metering, and it’s available in most states.
Net Metering 2022
As of 2021, these are the states that offer unlimited, state-mandated net metering:
But just because your state doesn’t have a full-fledged net metering program doesn’t mean there are no options for your grid-connected excess energy. More than a dozen other states offer some form of compensation in exchange for your solar panel-produced power.
Have no fear, your solar specialist will help you understand net metering and take advantage of programs as well as solar incentives in your state.
The solar energy you produce is way more valuable when you keep than when you sell it back to your utility company.
In fact, 2-3X more valuable! So, try to keep what you can of it. This means including solar battery storage to your solar panel system.
Read more: What is a solar panel battery?
Why Home Electricity Usage Habits are Important
Year after year, electricity prices get higher. This much we know is true. But solar energy presents you with a sensible, simple option that puts you in control of your electricity usage and costs.
With that being said, are you aware of how much energy you use in a day? This question will help you understand how many solar panels can power your home.
If not, you might want to start understanding your energy consumption habits.
For example, take a look at the wattages for common household appliances:
|Space Heater (40gal)
To get a better idea of your home energy use, try using this calculation for a single appliance.
While the final cost of a single appliance for the month might be less than $3, all your appliances
will add up. And your usage can increase or decrease depending on this each month.
For better control over your energy consumption, opt in for a smarter home. These upgrades
tend to run more efficiently, conserve more energy, and save you more money on your utility bills.
It’s a green living tactic that keeps the green in your pocket!
1. Calculate Watt-hours Per Day
Device Wattage (watts) x Hours Used Per Day = Watt-hours (Wh) per Day
Example: A 150-watt computer monitor used four hours per day
150 watts x 4 hours = 600 Wh/DayInstead of watt-hours. your energy bill is measured in kilowatt-hours (kWh). Since one kilowatt is equal to 1000 watts, divide the watt-hours by 1000.
2. Convert Watt-Hours to Kilowatts
Device Usage (Wh) / 1000 (Wh/kWh) = Device Usage in kWh
Example: A computer monitor using 600 Wh of electricity per day
600 / 1000 = 0.6 kWhNow, we estimate usage over a month or, for the sake of a simulated average, 30 days.
3. Find Your Monthly Usage
Daily Usage (kWh) x 30 (Days) = Approximate Monthly Usage (kWh/Month)
Example: A computer monitor using 0.6 kWh of electricity per day
0.6 kWh x 30 Days = 18 kWh/Month
4. Calculate Your Monthly Cost
Monthly Usage (kWh) x Electric Rate ($/kWh) = Approximate Cost per Month
Note: The average residential electric rate for Americans in 2020 was 13.26 cents/kWh
After you’ve mastered understanding your energy consumption habits, you should get to know your electric bill. And learn how to read it.
Climate change is requiring more power for heating and cooling. More electric cars are hitting the
road and there’s more than one way to keep your EV fully charged. Meanwhile, the demand for
residential electricity is increasing as more people continue working from home.
The already fragile electric grid faces even more strain in the future.
It should come as no surprise that electricity costs are expected to rise dramatically again in 2022.
In fact, residential electricity costs are projected to rise around 3.5% in 2022; continuing a decade-long streak in climbing prices for electricity. (EIA) While there are smart ways to save money on your utility bills, the smartest way is to go solar.
Why Solar Panels Are Worth It
You’ll be paying your electric company for the rest of your life, at the mercy of whatever the utility company charges. These prices will continue to increase due to lack of available energy resources.
It’s as certain as death and paying taxes except the bill climbs higher every year whether you make more money or not. That’s why it’s important to understand how much energy you consume and how to read your electricity bill now.
But What About My Solar Loan?
Some homeowners can pay off their solar loan in as little as 8 years with the right incentives in place, and nearly every day thereafter, they’ll produce free clean energy from their own home.
Of course the size of your home solar system, the amount of panels, any added battery storage and your state’s solar incentives all factor into the cost of going solar in 2022, but the important part is that you are in control.
Maybe the coolest part about going solar: there is an end date for payments.
The electric company can’t say the same about their traditional residential electricity bills.
If you think about it that way, the electric company made you buy something you never signed up for.
You can change that and put the power back in your hands. You can change that and
put your home’s power back in your hands.
Putting It All Together
Convinced yet that solar panels are worth it? Ready to move on to why you’ll probably, but most definitely want a solar panel battery with those panels.Free Solar Quote
What is a Solar Battery and Do I Need It?
In this chapter we’re going to go through the ins-and-outs of solar batteries.
- What is a solar battery backup
- How it works
- Why to consider a solar battery backup
- How to protect your home from outages
- Top benefits of a solar battery
- What brand of solar battery is best?
Ready to see what the fuss is all about?
What is a Solar Battery?
A solar battery works like any other battery except for two distinct differences:
- It’s connected to your solar system
- It stores solar energy
Read more: What is a solar panel battery?
How Does a Solar Battery Work?
To understand the advantages of having a solar battery, let’s first understand how having a solar battery works into your solar panel system:
- Solar begins powering your panels in the morning when the sun rises.
- Excess solar energy charges your solar battery during peak hours.
- Your solar battery runs your home at night and during power outages.
Here is how the Tesla Powerwall, one of the industry’s leading solar batteries, works.
Do I Really Need a Solar Battery?
Considering a solar battery can be a big decision.
On the one hand, it adds to the price tag of your initial solar investment, on the other hand it’s a really great investment for your home’s protection, especially during power outages and natural disasters.
Let’s break down the reasons why you need a solar battery to give your solar panels (and home) a boost.
There are 4 main reasons you’ll need a solar battery.
- Power during the night
- Less dependence on the grid and rising costs
- Complete control of your home energy usage
- Protection for your home and family during outages
Power through the night.
The first major benefit of a solar battery is freedom from your utility company. While you can’t have complete independence since you’ll still be grid-tied (as we explained earlier), you can have more freedom and flexibility than your utility company can offer you. That means whatever solar energy your panels produce can be stored instead of sent back to the grid. Remember how we said the electricity you produce is 2-3 times more valuable? Well, now you can keep it all! Use it at night, during outages, or when the sun isn’t shining as much.
Avoid surging electric prices.
Because you have more freedom from the utility company, you won’t be trapped by the rising rates each year. The cost of energy is constantly rising due to energy resources running out, so this will become an ever increasing issue.
Monitor your energy.
Wondering how much electricity you use during the day and how much your solar panels produce? Having a solar battery system with the most up-to-date technology, like the Enphase Encharge or Tesla Powerwall, can help you keep your power in your control. There are other ways to approach green living as well, such as using smart light bulbs and smart appliances. Overall, green improvements are the best ways you can power your home and monitor your energy. Using a mobile app, you can monitor your home energy system in real time, get weather related updates and even control what appliances are getting powered during outages with Enphase IQ technology.
Protect your home.
Do you live in an area where natural disasters are likely to occur? This is when having a solar battery really sets you apart from the rest of your block. A solar battery can keep your home powered when the rest of your block loses power, even under normal situations like routine outages.
Other important reasons to consider.
Homes that operate essential equipment that cannot have interruption like medical equipment, homes with small children, or even homes in extreme climates that need heat and AC to keep occupants comfortable.
In most situations, you’ll want your home to stay powered ‘on-grid’. But to get an ‘off-grid’ like
experience, you can stack solar batteries to cover the full amount of electricity your home uses.
That way you’ll store as much energy as you’ll need during a power outage. A qualified solar specialist
can help you figure out how many batteries you’ll need.
Save money when you add a battery to your system! A solar battery is covered under the
solar federal tax credit, as well as many other statewide solar rebates and state incentives.
What’s new for 2022: You may have noticed a lot of extreme weather in 2021 like in Texas and
California, causing wide areas of power outages. You can stay ahead of 2021 disaster preparation
by arming yourself with a battery backup.
Which solar battery is best?
Solar battery backups are the undisputed champs of energy storage. There are several important things to look out for when shopping for the best solar battery available for your home. Terms like depth of discharge, round-trip efficiency, lead acid and lithium ion. This can all get confusing pretty quickly, but don’t worry, we’re here to help you out.
Depth of discharge (DoD) and round-trip efficiency (RTE)
In short, all these terms are referring to is the amount of charge a battery can hold and how long it can be used before needing to be charged. All you need to know is: look for a DoD over 95% and a RTE of 90% and over.
What is a solar battery made of?
There are generally two types of solar panel battery for your home and they are made of lead acid or lithium ion. The quick facts: lithium ion batteries are more expensive but last a lot longer than lead acid. They are also a lot safer, with Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) being the safest option, compared to Nickel Manganese Cobalt (NMC).
If you want to read more about any of these terms and see how the Enphase IQ compares with the Tesla Powerwall, read: Enphase IQ battery vs. Tesla Powerwall 2
Ready for the switch to solar in 2022?
Keep reading to find out everything you need to know before choosing the right solar company for your solar journey.Free Solar & Battery Quote
What You Need to Know Before Solar Panel Installation
Now it’s time to give you all the tools you’ll need to make an informed decision about going solar in 2022. Specifically, our pro tips for staying an informed consumer with all the confusing information out there.
- How to choose the right solar company
- Why warranties make a difference
- How to avoid solar scams
- How to choose the right amount of solar panels
- Why 2022 is the last year to save the most on going solar
Let’s get to it.
Where to Start
Solar power for your home is now more accessible than ever before, which means your decision to switch comes with many more considerations. That includes one very important question: where do you start?
If you’re convinced that solar is the way to go, it’s natural to feel puzzled about what to do next.
Let’s start with making the big decision. It can be the most dreaded step, yet, the most important part of the process.
How Do I Choose the Right Solar Company?
There are so many companies to choose from, so many different products and, like any purchase, there are even scams to be on the lookout for.
Before a single panel is placed on your roof, you’ll want to be prepared. When you know what to expect from the technology and the install team behind it, the switch to solar is easy.
In our experience, it’s a pretty exciting decision; especially when our customers are able to finally seize control of their energy.
But don’t worry if you feel overwhelmed. We’re here to help!
Let’s just breathe and break it down together with our unique pro tips.
Pro Tip #1: Find the Warranties
Buying a solar PV system is a huge investment for your home and should be treated like one. Your car has insurance, so why not have peace of mind when purchasing a solar system?
The solar panels on your roof will produce power on a daily basis, but it’s important to make sure that they last longer than the time it takes you to pay for them. A warranty is a crucial sign to determine the lifetime of the panels as well as the efficiency over time.
After making the decision to switch to solar power, this is possibly the most important thing to look out for when choosing solar products and a company that will provide and install them.
Once installed, a solar panel system is as much a part of your home as the roof on which it’s installed — even more reason to be picky when it comes to quality.
Make sure you ask the specialist from your solar company to provide complete information about
the panels themselves as well as any guarantees of service and maintenance should any extreme or
unexpected damage occur.
Pro Tip #2: Be on the lookout for scams
You might have heard a lot about solar scams. There are a lot out there, which is why it pays to choose a trusted name company.When you provide solar service to thousands of customers in multiple towns, cities and states across America, reputation matters. More often than not, the level of trust in a company factors substantially into a customer’s decision to go solar in the first place.When you’re in our position, you simply can’t afford to overlook trust. The same is true if we were in yours.
So how can you avoid a solar scam?
- Check reviews. Any company that has mostly bad reviews, is a company you want to stay clear of.
- Talk to your neighbors. If you know anyone who made the decision to go solar, listen to their experience. Use it to help you ask the right questions.
- Choose warranties. As we already mentioned, choose a company that backs their products and installs 100%. This is key to protecting your investment.
- Be aware of anything that sounds like, well, B.S. Stay away from any company quoting things like 100% consumption or something that’s too good to be true.
Pro Tip #3: Maximize the amount of solar panels during install
One of the biggest regrets homeowners have after their install is that they wish they would have installed more solar panels when they had the chance. They see the amount of power produced, and they want even more — especially if it means they can connect to a home battery like the Enphase IQ battery or the Tesla Powerwall to store excess power or sell it by way of net metering.
If you decide at some point after your install that you want more panels, it will be complicated and expensive, while adding additional solar panels to the original quote can be surprisingly cheap. Even though it may be increased initial installation costs, it’s a smart thing to consider.
How Many Solar Panels Do I Need?
If you want to lower your monthly electricity bill, there are so many energy efficient upgrades you can make. But when it comes to solar panels, how many you need will be determined by exactly how much you want to lower it.
If you just want half your electricity use to be reduced, your solar panel system will probably be smaller. A great first step is learning how to read your electricity bill to find out how much energy your home is using.
And if you’re looking to cover all your electric needs, you’ll probably need a larger solar panel system, which means of course, more solar panels
However, if you have limited roof space you could instead use higher efficiency solar panels. This would mean fewer solar panels, but greater generation rates.
At the end of the day, the size of your solar panel system depends entirely on your needs.
Depending on several factors, the amount of solar panels needed to power your home can vary greatly.
For example, for an 1800 sq ft house, it can be around 25-30 panels. If you’re interested in how
many solar panels it might take to power your home, you can get a free estimate from a solar energy
professional and they can help you maximize the benefits of solar energy for your home.
You may also want to consider investing in a solar energy battery, which will store any excess energy your panels will produce. This will allow your home to run on renewable energy even at night.
Solar energy prices have gone down over the last 10 years. Government legislature is also providing
more incentives to make the cost of solar more affordable. So why should you buy in 2022?
The federal tax credit is 26% through 2022.
This means a 26% credit for your solar panel system purchase (including battery!) when you go solar through 2022.Free Solar Quote
So you went solar. Congratulations and welcome to the clean energy club! Thanks for helping make the world a better place now and for future generations. Now here are a few important things you need to know.
In this chapter we’re going to go over everything you need to know about owning solar (for those of you who are curious what it’s like to actually have a system).
- What type of maintenance solar panels need
- How much solar can increase the value of your home
- How to monitor your home energy use
Starting in 3, 2, 1….
Solar Panel Maintenance
The good news: Solar panels have no moving parts, so the maintenance is a breeze.
In addition, solar panels are built to withstand weather, including hail and hurricanes! And most of the time, panels will be mounted tilted, which means the rain already cleans them off for you.
You may also hose them down or use a leaf blower if it’s been dry weather to keep them running at their highest possible efficiency.
If you live in snowy climates, you may need to wipe them off with a long squeegee or lukewarm water.
And if you have a warranty (and production guarantee) through your solar panel company, then you shouldn’t have anything to worry about.
We love to debunk myths about solar, and one of these myths includes the fact that solar panels
actually work better in cold climates than warm climates. This is because the panels don’t run as
hot which can limit some brands of solar panel’s efficiency.
In addition, high-quality solar panels are made for high efficiency in all weather and are made to withstand the elements.
Solar Panels and the Value of Your Home
Here’s some more great news: having solar installed will most likely increase the value of your home.
According to data from Zillow, adding solar to your home can increase the value, depending on where you live (check your local area information).
Here are the top 10 states with the highest solar premiums, according to Zillow’s findings:
- New Jersey: 9.9% or $32,281 for the median-valued home.
- Pennsylvania: 4.9% or $8,589 for the median-valued home.
- North Carolina: 4.8% or $8,996 for the median-valued home.
- Louisiana: 4.9% or $7,037 for the median-valued home.
- Washington: 4.1% or $15,916 for the median-valued home.
- Florida: 4% $9,454 for the median-valued home.
- Hawaii: 4% or $24,526 for the median-valued home.
- Maryland: 3.8% or $10,976 for the median-valued home.
- New York: 3.6% or $10,981 for the median-valued home.
- South Carolina: 3.5% or $5,866 for the median-valued home.
Do solar panels really increase home value? 2020 was the first year that California became the
first US state to require solar panels on all new homes. And solar has become more than an
investment in future energy savings, it’s also an investment for when you sell your home.
Watch: The Rise of Solar Power
If you have Enphase IQ microinverters and IQ battery installed, monitoring the energy
use of your home is a breeze. This means added savings and control of your home for years to come.
Monitor your energy use like a pro
If you have warranties on all the equipment and service, you can rest easy knowing you’ve made a
sound investment in clean energy.
Look for something like what we offer:
- 25 Year Labor Guarantee
- 25 Year Power Production Guarantee
- 25 Year Panel Module Performance Guarantee
- 25 Year Enphase Microinverters Guarantee
Top 2021 Questions about Solar Answered
So you want to go solar but you still have a ton of questions?
It’s likely Google didn’t give you the information you needed this year, and maybe you’re not quite ready to ask a Solar Energy Specialist.
No problem. We’ve got you covered.
We compiled a list of all the TOP questions about solar that were asked in 2021. And we answered them all for you in a clear concise way that helps you know what you need to know all in one handy guide. Also check out the pros and cons of solar panels.
Are solar panels worth it?
Considering all the factors, switching your home over to clean solar energy is an investment that keeps on giving. Here are just a few reasons why solar panels are worth it for your home.
- Help protect the environment from harmful pollutants.
- Save on your electricity bill.
- Experience increased freedom from the utility company.
- Protect your home from outages.
- Be in control of your home energy and fluctuating energy costs.
That sounds great, but is solar energy right for my home?
If you’re wondering whether solar panels are worth it for your individual situation, you’ll have to get a free estimate from a qualified Solar Energy Specialist. And don’t forget to follow our pro tips for finding the right company. The reason there are so many incidents of solar scams out there is because some companies don’t assess what’s best for your particular situation.
It’s difficult to know whether solar is worth it for you if you’re doing all your own research. Even with researching on Google, it’s hard to find the unbiased information you’ll need to know and all the opportunities available to help you switch to solar.
Schedule a no-pressure free consultation with a ADT Solar Energy Specialist.Free Solar Quote
Here are a few more reasons why solar is worth it in these areas:
- Is solar worth it in California?
- Why solar is worth it in New Mexico.
- Are solar panels worth it in Las Vegas?
- Are solar panels worth it in Texas?
- Why solar panels are worth it in Florida.
Are solar panels expensive?
The cost of solar panels depend on a lot of things.
The price of solar panels can seem high at first. Until you start breaking down the cost with a trained solar professional. They can help you chew on some facts and math to show you what makes sense for you.
And with things like solar leases and power purchase agreements (PPAs), switching to solar can be more doable than you think.
Let’s put it this way. You’ll be paying your electric company every month for the rest of your life. And the cost of electricity is going up each year (see chapter 3).
Unless you have a fixed rate, (someone, anyone?) you’ll be vulnerable to these rising costs, especially as fossil fuels become less available. Because, don’t forget, they’re running out (see chapter 1).
But when you go solar, you’ll own the energy for your home. Even if you finance your solar system, you’ll pay a fixed rate each month instead of increasing, unpredictable rates. That means no more energy bill surprises. And with things like net-metering, federal and state incentives, solar tax credits and rebates, you may end up making money in the long run.
Just let us help you crunch the numbers and find out.
Oh, and by the way, you can help offset the cost of your solar system by using the ADT Referral App.
Do solar panels increase home value?
Solar panels do increase your home’s value, according to studies. Let’s take a look at some of these findings.
The Department of Energy and Berkeley Laboratory did a price-premium analysis for homes with solar across 8 different states on nearly 4,000 homes.
- They found that buyers are willing to pay an extra $12,000 to $15,000 for a home with even an average-sized solar array.
And according to a comprehensive report done by the US Department of Energy and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL):
- Each additional $1 in utility bill savings from your solar installation can add $20 to your home value.
This means, not only can you save on your home’s electricity bills, but for every dollar in savings, you’re also adding to your home’s value. What more could you want? And if that wasn’t enough, when you’re ready to sell your home, they also found that homes with solar arrays sold 20% faster, and for 17% more. Solar panels for the win.
What are solar panels made of?
Simply stated, solar panels are made of a few key ingredients: silicon, metal, and glass.
Nothing toxic, no moving parts, nothing to worry about, just clean energy converted from sunlight.
Do solar panels work on cloudy days?
Solar panels will work on cloudy days for the same reason you can get a sunburn on a cloudy day. Solar panels will absorb some sunshine, depending on how much sun is coming through the clouds.
On cloudy days, solar panels will generate around 10 – 25% of their normal power output.
Although solar panels do not work as well in rainy or cloudy weather, they do still work and depending on your particular situation, that may be just enough.
In fact, some of the cloudiest cities house some of the country’s best solar producers. So don’t let that deter you from installing solar panels on your home. Talk to a professional about it.Free Solar Quote
What about when it’s raining?
They do! It’s the same as when it’s cloudy. See above for more information.
How long do solar panels last?
Depending on the brand, solar panels should perform well beyond 25 years.
This is precisely why it’s important to research the panels and the company you’re buying from.
Do solar panels work at night?
Solar panels do not work at night because they are powered by the sun.
No sun, no power. Unless of course, you have a solar panel battery like the Enphase IQ or Tesla Powerwall. A solar battery will store your solar energy from the sun and power you through the night.
What do solar panels do?
This is complicated, but at the most basic level, solar panels take sunlight and convert it to electricity to power your home. Here’s a great place to learn more about how solar panels work. The journey through solar energy is a long history of developed science and product testing. Today, many advancements in the ways we harness energy from the sun are being explored.
If you want to nerd out on the technology, watch this via Live Science.
Are solar panels toxic?
There are a bunch of solar panel myths out there about solar that just aren’t true. This is one of them.
Solar panels on your home are not toxic. They will not leak and they will not do damage to you or your home.
In fact, they are the only form of electricity generation that has no moving parts.
Solar panels are made from silicon, metal, and glass which takes the sun’s energy and creates a reaction to create photons (light energy particles) which then sends it to be converted to electricity for your home. That’s it.
But what about the pollution they cause after their lifespan is over?
The good thing is that solar panels are built to last for 25 years or more. In fact, we’re so confident about that, we have a 25 year guarantee.
When your solar panels are finally done working, you will be able to recycle them. This is because solar panels are made from silicon, metal, and glass, and all of these materials are useful for other things. In fact, they can be processed to re-use with around 80-100% recycling efficiency!
There is a lot of research already out there about recycling solar panels. Read about it.
While that doesn’t erase the damage of the trash, check this out.
After 25 years a 6.6kw system will have a net saving of around 243 tons of CO2 from the air!
You can’t argue with reducing your carbon footprint by that much.
Watch an LG solar expert talk about the following things:
- What is power output
- Why efficiency ratings are important
- What is degradation and how will it affect long-term savings
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Two compact planar crossed-dipole antennas loaded with near-field resonant parasitic (NFRP) elements are reported. The NFRP and crossed-dipole elements are designed for the desired circularly polarized (CP) radiation. By placing the NFRP element over the driven element at angles of 0° and 45°, respectively, dual-band and broadband CP antennas are realized. All radiating elements of antennas are 35 mm × 35 mm × 0.508 mm (0.187 λ0 × 0.187 λ0 × 0.0027 λ0 at 1.6 GHz) in size. The dual-band CP antenna has a measured S11 <-10-dB bandwidth of 226 MHz (1.473-1.699 GHz) and measured 3-dB axial ratio (AR) bandwidths of 12 MHz (1.530-1.542 GHz) and 35 MHz (1.580-1.615 GHz) with minimum AR CP frequencies of 1.535 GHz (AR = 0.26 dB) and 1.595 GHz (AR = 2.08 dB), respectively. The broadband CP antenna has a measured S11 <-10-dB bandwidth of 218 MHz (1.491-1.709 GHz) and a 3-dB AR bandwidth of 145 MHz (1.490-1.635 GHz). These compact antennas yield bidirectional electromagnetic fields with high radiation efficiency across their operational bandwidths.
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Memory Scientists Say: All Is Not Forgotten
Though they seem inaccessible, forgotten details persist in our brains
Unless you are this woman, you probably have a long mental list of moments and facts you wish you could remember — but for the life of you, you can’t. To use a personal example, I periodically Google the words “yellow house Berlin,” hoping to produce the name of that one hostel I lived in for a summer in college; alas, no success yet. The good news, though, is that while such memories may be currently inaccessible, they’re not entirely gone, and could theoretically be retrieved, according to new brain imaging research from the University of California, Irvine.
In the study, neurobiologist Jeffrey Johnson (along with a few colleagues) ran 16 college participants through an fMRI machine (which measures neural activity via blood flow) to compare brain patterns during memory formation and recall. First, he showed the students various common words (e.g., carrot, tennis, ocean) and had them perform a few tasks: say the word backwards in your head, think of its uses, and picture how an artist would depict it. Then, 20 minutes later, after the students re-entered the fMRI machine, Johnson showed them the list of words and asked them to recall whatever they could from before. Finally, he compared brain activity from both sessions, and what he found will surprise you.
Using what is called “pattern analysis,” it’s possible to attach a unique pattern of brain activity to every individual thing we do. This means that when a participant says the word “apple” backwards (it’s elppa) the associated pattern of brain activity is different than when he pictures the fruit. But interestingly, there’s a close similarity between the pattern that emerges when we engage in an activity and when we later recall it. The stronger our memory, the closer the pattern, but as Johnson found, even at a moment when we can’t remember anything, our neurons still fire in a way that resembles the activity of when we formed the memory. It’s like our brain is telling us, “You may not remember that, but I do.”
This suggests that forgetting is more a matter of access-denied than erased-data, and implies that sometime in the future we may be able to retrieve the memories we thought we’d lost forever. This, of course, is not yet possible — so in the meantime, you’ll have to rely on the Polaris phone to remind you of the shenanigans you pulled last week. | <urn:uuid:c7d31f19-25eb-452a-9c2f-fafcd66248c7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-09/memory-scientists-say-all-not-forgotten/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.944239 | 550 | 3.21875 | 3 |
Butter bison featured at Kansas State Fair
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (KWCH) - It has been a Kansas State Fair tradition since 1983. This year’s butter sculpture celebrates the state animal.
The “Mamie the Bison” is made of more than 800 pounds of butter and is kept inside a cooler at 36 degrees. It took Sarah Pratt, of Des Moines, Iowa, nearly 85 hours to create. The butter is reused and will be stored in five-gallon buckets in a local freezer where it will remain until the next year.
Animals are the centerpiece of the state fair.
On Tuesday, those who stopped by the milking demonstration learned how it takes about 48 hours for milk to come from the cow and into stores. Another interesting fact, a cow’s udder in the morning, can weigh up to 30 pounds.
Milking instructor Kari Hamilton said her main purpose is to show the importance of dairy in our daily lives.
“The people just don’t realize how nutritious it is and how important it is to get those three servings of dairy a day,” said Hamilton.
You can learn more about the process of milking all this week at the Kansas State Fair. Just search for the Milking Demo in Milking Parlor on the daily schedule: https://www.kansasstatefair.com/p/plan-your-visit1/schedule .
If you’re more into tricks and stunts, the Ninja Experience is for you. You can witness the best talents of six performers all this week at Gottschalk Park.
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Police have confirmed no arrests were made as two Black Lives Matter protests in Staffordshire passed off peacefully.
Around 600 anti-racism campaigners gathered in Stafford's Market Square this afternoon (June 13).
A small group of counter-protesters also attended.
But unlike elsewhere in the country where ugly scenes have broken out, the Stafford event - and a smaller one held in Leek - were both trouble-free.
Now the police have thanked the placard-waving protesters for behaving responsibly.
A Staffordshire Police spokesman said: “Approximately 600 people attended the protests in Stafford.
“We want to thank the people in attendance for the peaceful nature of the protests.
“Local officers worked with organisers, partners and the local community to ensure things remained peaceful and respectful.
“We understand that people want to make their voices heard in the fight against racism and inequality with Black Lives Matter and we are encouraging people to consider alternative ways to gathering on the streets which carries a risk of spreading the virus to family and friends.”
A number of speeches were held and members of the crowd were invited to have their own say, with several taking the opportunity to speak.
At one point everyone in town centre was asked to go to one knee, where they remained in silence for eight minutes and 46 seconds – the length of time a police officer lent on George Floyd’s neck before he died in Minneapolis.
The event in Stafford was organised by a group of friends from the town, with no official connection with the global Black Lives Matter movement.
Organiser Faith Gunasekera, aged 21, of Stafford, said: “I think it’s been amazing. It has been very peaceful, very successful and I think it sent a powerful message.
“I heard someone say that there were 900 people there. I really didn’t expect that many to come. “People are showing solidarity. For many years black people have had to stand alone. Now many people are joining them.”
Georgia O’Brien, aged 21, of Stafford, said: “We are just so proud of Stafford.”
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- January 3, 2022
Hello Readers, In this blog we are goin to discuss how to create a Log Analytics workspace in Microsoft Azure. Log Analytics workspaces is a basic management unit of Azure Monitor Logs. It is the logical storage unit where your log data is collected and stored. We can easily create a own workspace. Each workspace has its own data repository, configuration & data sources & we can store the data in a particular workspace.
There are some points to create Log Analytics workspace in microsoft azure.
- Login to azure portal.
- Click on All services.
- Select Log Analytics workspaces.
- Click on create.
- Provide subscription id.
- Create or select existing resource group.
- Provide the Log Analytics workspaces name.
- Select Region.
- Click on Next: Tags.
- Provide the key name & value.
- Click on Next: Review + create.
- Once validation passed successfully click on create option.
- Once creation is completed,click on Go to sources.
- Now,Log Analytics workspaces is Ready.
- Click on Home page of log analytics workspaces.
Create Log Analytics workspaces using command line
- Install & configure azure cli so click on link https://www.hackerxone.com/2021/04/22/install-and-configure-azure-cli-ubuntu/ for how to install & configure azure cli.
- Create a Log Analytics workspaces using command-line.
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A biography is an in-depth summary of a person’s life, consisting of greater than the essentials of facts. As a matter of fact, a biography can be much more detailed than a mere timeline, given that it consists of an individual’s actual experiences and viewpoints on different events. As an example, a bio concerning Winston Churchill contains information about his early life. But it likewise offers understandings right into his individual partnerships with other people, including his marriage to the lady that would certainly become his other half.
When composing a biography, it is important to bear in mind that basic realities don’t create an excellent bio. After all, people are selected because they are interesting, so you do not intend to fill your paper with dry facts and information. You’ll want to start your bio with an interesting initial sentence, such as an occasion, statement, or obscure reality. When you have actually composed a great very first sentence, carry on to establishing your bio.
A biographer might likewise select to create a collective biography concerning a group of individuals. Captain Charles Johnson’s A General Background of the Pirates, published in 1724, cataloged the lives of well-known pirates as well as developed photos of pirates in pop culture. A more intimate group could be the subject of a collective biography, like the folk music scene in New york city City. The style of biography has transformed considerably in the last century, and you can check out the advancement of music, film, and also television.
A biography is an in-depth record of another person’s life, written in third-person. Bios normally cover the whole life of the subject and include essential events in the person’s public as well as personal life. Many biographies additionally discover the topic’s character as well as inner feelings, permitting the reader to make an educated judgment on the validity of the information presented. Even if a biography does not explore these facets of a person’s life, it still contains a great story.
There are 2 various types of biographies: literary and historic. While both are worried about the life of an individual, a literary biography explores how a particular individual’s experiences shaped their job. Literary bios commonly employ a mix of the two and also explore just how historic truths impacted the individual’s innovative outcome. Bios of musicians and writers, such as Jackson Pollock: An American Saga, are instances of literary biographies.
Along with a memoir, a biography is a narrative account of a person’s life composed by someone besides the topic. It discusses the most vital facets of an individual’s life. A biography additionally reveals what the person was really feeling at the time of the events. The author additionally highlights the underlying motivations of the topic, such as love, death, or success. A biography is a very essential tool in preserving history.
A biography and also a memoir are both forms of autobiographies. A memoir provides the storyteller’s profile. These items of writing may include the narrator’s childhood and adolescent years. It is possible that a bio might have valid errors. Nonetheless, memoirs are not subject to censorship. And also although they are commonly incomplete, memoirs can still be thought about a valuable piece of literature.
Between Ages, biographies came to be less spiritual, as well as the style ended up being much more secular. Biographies of kings, knights, and also autocrats came to be preferred, including Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur. The new humanism of the Renaissance encouraged authors to compose biographies in vernacular languages and also include non-Christian subjects. Bios were increasingly common in Europe, but their appeal was not universal.
Bios are a rich source for discovering a person’s life. One of the most vital parts of that person’s life are stressed in a biography, as they are the most interesting. As an example, the life of Winston Churchill is described in detail, and also the writer makes use of the writer’s experience to describe some of the events that shaped his or her life. This permits the reader to understand the individual much better as well as determine whether they wish to find out more regarding him or her.
Prior to creating a biography, you need to select the emphasis of the job. As an example, if you are writing a biography about an individual’s very early life, it makes little sense to concentrate on their wartime actions. If the bio has to do with a trainee, the emphasis must be on the existing and also future details regarding the subject. The writer must also write about the trainee’s life objectives as well as experiences in 3rd person point of view. This will certainly assist the reader connect better to the student.
Movies that represent real-life stories may utilize the documentary category to inform the story of the topic. These movies are normally based upon the life of an individual, although they might be based upon a fictional person. Furthermore, they might integrate historical video footage, recreations, and also interviews with experts to develop an extra compelling tale. Among the most popular movies in this style are Grey Gardens (regarding the Kennedys’ once-wealthy relatives) and I Am Not Your Negro, regarding the life of American author James Baldwin. Browse around this site
An expert bio can be really appealing and helpful. For example, if you’re a skilled electronic marketer, your biography might focus on your success as a student. Moreover, you might include your background as well as education to demonstrate how you have actually advanced in the field. A bio can likewise be published on the internet as part of your business’s site or portfolio. When writing a bio, it is an excellent idea to write the bio in third individual and also include all relevant details. | <urn:uuid:282bb999-5162-4d94-812e-e791ad792a4c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.southeasternfirst.com/2022/07/14/everything-you-required-to-understand-about-biography/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.960144 | 1,213 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Since the 1990s, New York–based artist and landscape designer Paula Hayes (b. 1958) has produced botanical sculptures—organically shaped vessels made from blown glass, silicone, or acrylic and filled with a rich variety of plant life—that expand upon the classic terrarium, both through their imaginative containers and the microcosmic universes within. Hayes has conceived an installation for the Museum lobby that includes a fifteen-foot-long, wall-mounted horizontal sculpture for the west wall, and a free-standing, egg-shaped, floor-to-ceiling structure nearby. Organic in form and containing a variety of living plants, the vessels will add a joyful vitality to the lobby, enlivening the space during the winter season.
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As technology continues to integrate into our society, an increasing number of daily operations have become available virtually. Meetings, medical appointments, school… even physical therapy appointments have started to become accessible online. One of the biggest benefits of online services is that is increases accessibility. Many people are unable to attend face-to-face appointments due to time and financial constraints, and this is true for seeking mental health treatment as well.
BetterHelp is on a mission to offer accessible, affordable, and high-quality care to all. BetterHelp is the largest online therapy platform in the world and aims to provide discreet and convenient access to licensed and highly experienced medical professionals. This platform allows users to have access to therapists and counselors that they might otherwise be unable to work with due to geographic constraints and work around time zones, schedules, and travel. If you have access to a computer, tablet, or smartphone, you have access to high-quality mental health help.
Is BetterHelp therapy or counseling?
When answering this question, the first important thing to understand is the difference between counseling and therapy. While therapy and counseling are often used as interchangeable terms, there are key differences between the two. Counseling generally focuses on specific issues for a shorter duration, while therapy aims to uncover long-term patterns of behavior, thoughts, and feelings.
When you seek counseling, a mental health counselor or clinical mental health counselor will help you process and work through a specific issue for a finite amount of time. Counseling is generally sought for a specific issue, such as a marital problem or the loss of a loved one. When you work with a counselor, they will give you guidance and tools to use to handle complex emotions. When a patient seeks counseling, they generally expect to only complete a short duration of sessions.
Therapy, on the other hand, has a long-term focus and aims to understand how a patient’s childhood, experiences, and relationships affect their thought patterns, behaviors, and the way they see the world. Essentially, in therapy, a patient works with their therapist to understand why they think and act the way they do. Therapy is generally a long-term commitment, and patients will work with their therapist to develop coping strategies to work through negative thoughts and feelings and explore how to improve the quality of their everyday life.
Where the two types of mental health help intertwine is that therapy can include counseling for specific issues as they arise. Many mental health clinicians are trained in both areas. At BetterHelp, mental health professionals are employed who are licensed and credentialed by the state’s board to provide both therapy and counseling.
These professionals include accredited psychologists (PhD, PsyD), licensed marriage and family therapists (LMFT), licensed clinical social workers (LCSW/LMSW), and licensed professional therapists (LPC). All professionals employed by BetterHelp have at least 3 years and 1000 hours of hands-on experience, as well as the necessary exams, training, and practice to effectively treat patients.
Is BetterHelp therapy legit?
Yes, BetterHelp is a legitimate company and leader in online therapy. BetterHelp employs over 22,000 therapists and almost 2,000,000 patients as of 2022. Many people prefer BetterHelp to in-person therapy, and thousands of patients have left positive reviews.
BetterHelp has been accredited by the Better Business Bureau since 2015 and acts in full compliance with HIPAA law to protect patient privacy. BetterHelp understands how important trust and safety are for patients and acts in accordance with this value.
How do therapists feel about BetterHelp?
BetterHelp therapists have consistently left positive reviews about working with BetterHelp. BetterHelp believes that therapists who are happy, respected, and satisfied with their working platform will serve patients better, and this is reflected in the treatment of therapists.
Is better health Counselling free?
BetterHelp counseling sessions range from $60-$90 per week and are billed once every 4 weeks. Many users receive a discounted price due to financial need, and prices range based on location and therapist availability.
One thing to note is that BetterHelp is not eligible for claims to Medicare, Medicaid, or other health insurers. Generally, BetterHelp services are not covered by health insurance.
While this may make face-to-face therapy seem more appealing financially, there are several factors that lead BetterHelp to often have the lower cost overall. For example, many health insurance plans have very limited coverage of mental health services. Those that do offer coverage typically have a co-pay, and this co-pay is often higher than a full week of BetterHelp. For many reimbursements of traditional therapy, the therapist is required to diagnose a mental disorder or issue for coverage. This diagnosis is sent to insurance companies and recorded in medical files, which can lead to certain difficulties later on.
How long are BetterHelp sessions?
BetterHelp offers 30-minute scheduling blocks with therapists and multiple blocks may be reserved at once. There is no limit on BetterHelp for how long the duration should be, though different therapists have different standards and preferences for session lengths. This is an important thing to discuss with your therapist when making an appointment.
Another thing to note is you can only schedule one live session at a time.
Is BetterHelp religious?
When you schedule an appointment with a BetterHelp therapist, you are able to indicate whether you would prefer religious or non-religious counseling or therapy. BetterHelp has a sister site called Faith Counseling that is directly based around Christian counseling, but many therapists on BetterHelp offer religious counseling for multiple different religions.
BetterHelp is not a directly religious platform, so many mental health professionals will not practice faith-based therapy. If this is something you are looking for, it is important to include it in your biography for your therapist and in your search terms when looking for a mental health professional. However, whether you are religious or not, religion and spirituality is often discussed with your therapist during your sessions.
What happens if you don't like your therapist on BetterHelp?
When you sign up on BetterHelp, you will be matched with an available therapist who is the best fit for your short and long-term goals, preferences, type of therapy desired, and any other indicated desires. Because of the large volume of mental health professionals employed by BetterHelp, many therapists have different approaches that can achieve the best results for different types of clients. Most of the matches on BetterHelp have been successful, but if patients start the process and believe somebody else would be a better fit, they are able to select a different match with no extra charge.
How do I quit BetterHelp as a therapist?
To quit BetterHelp, follow these steps:
Is BetterHelp available in Canada?
Yes, BetterHelp is fully available in Canada.
What happens at the first BetterHelp session?
At your first session with BetterHelp, it will be an introductory meeting between you and your therapist. Your therapist will likely have several questions for you to help inform the structure of the sessions, and it is best if you can answer these questions as truthfully as possible. You will not be required to “dive right in” to topics that make you uncomfortable, and you will be able to set the tone and pace at which you would like to move through the sessions. The goal of the first meeting is to start becoming comfortable with your therapist and help your therapist understand what concerns and challenges you have regarding your mental health. They will also likely ask you questions such as about your occupation, physical health, goals, preference for session length, and plans for future sessions.
Before you begin your BetterHelp sessions, you will be able to indicate a preference for receiving therapy in one of four different ways:
These choices are meant to honor patient preferences for communication, as well as differences in availability and need. Based on your choice, your first session will look different.
If you select to meet over a video call, you will speak to your therapist in a virtual face-to-face meeting similar to Skype or Zoom. During your first appointment, you will log into an online therapy room and your therapist will prompt you to start the video session.
If you are meeting with your therapist over a live chat, you will schedule a time with your therapist. When the time comes, you will log into the platform and be directed to a private chat thread where you can meet in real-time with your therapist.
For those who are meeting over a phone call, you will be able to speak with your therapist over either a landline or cell phone, regardless of location. You will log into your therapy room at the time of your scheduled appointment and your therapist will prompt you to start the phone session. The system will ask for your phone number and then call you at the number. The line will automatically connect you with your therapist.
Note that your phone number will not be shared with your therapist directly.
If you’d like to communicate with you therapist over asynchronous chat, you and your therapist will have a dedicated room that is private and secure. You will write about yourself, your life, ask questions, and discuss anything that you would like. You are able to communicate from any location at any time, so long as you are using any internet-connected device.
This option does not require scheduling because you are not communicating live. Your therapist will read the messages and respond with their questions, insights, guidance, and feedback.
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New Features included in 2.27 Software Update include:
- The option for an empty Word Prediction dictionary when using Learning Word Prediction. This fills the request for providing the ability to create a smaller, very specific dictionary for the device user. The Word Prediction Types now offers:
- Static (includes the default dictionary)
- Learning (this option does not include the default dictionary)
- Learning +Static (included the default dictionary)
Vocabulary additions have been added to WP 42 Basic (SS and PCS) and WP 60 Basic (SS and PCS), that supports the Readtopia curriculum developed by Karen Erickson and Caroline Musselwhite
View the What's New Video for details of 2.25, 2.26 & 2.27 updates!
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MADRID — A divided Spain voted Sunday in its third general election in four years, with all eyes on whether a far-right party will enter Parliament for the first time in decades and potentially help unseat the Socialist government.
The incumbent prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, is set to win the most votes, but his Socialists seem far from scoring a majority in parliament to form a government on their own.
Spain’s Prime Minister and Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) candidate Pedro Sanchez casts his vote during Spain’s general election in Pozuelo de Alarcon, outside Madrid, Spain, April 28, 2019. Photo by Rafael Marchante/Reuters
The fragmentation of the political landscape is the result of austerity that followed a recession, disenchantment with bipartisan politics and the recent rise of far-right populism.
Sánchez called Sunday’s ballot after a national budget proposal was rejected in the Lower Chamber by the center-right-conservative opposition and Catalan separatists pressing for self-determination in their northeastern region.
Polls a week ago found that about one third of the nearly 37 million eligible voters hadn’t decided how they would vote. Their decision, and the expected high turnout, could swing the result between the left and right wing blocs that have taken shape during the electoral race.
The anti-austerity Unidas Podemos (United We Can) party, has offered to enter a coalition with the Socialists, but they might need to rely on smaller parties, including the Catalan separatists.
Unidas Podemos’ (Together We Can) candidate Pablo Iglesias casts his vote during Spain’s general election in Galapagar, Spain, April 28, 2019. Photo by Juan Medina/Reuters
On the splintered right, three parties are competing for leadership: the once-dominant conservative Popular Party (PP), the center-right Citizens, and the nationalist and anti-migrant Vox party, which looks set to enter the lower house of Parliament for the first time. Its arrival would mark a big shift in Spain, where the far right has not played a significant role since the country’s transition to democracy following the death of dictator Gen. Francisco Franco in 1975.
Voting stations opened at 9 a.m. (0700GMT) Sunday and will close at 8 p.m. (1800GMT), with results expected a few hours later.
Laura Sanchez Herrero is helped by relatives to exercise her right to vote, during Spain’s general election, in Pola de Siero, April 28, 2019. For the first time in Spain people with intellectual disabilities have the right to vote. Photo by Eloy Alonso/Reuters
Speaking Sunday shortly after casting his ballot, Sánchez said he wanted the ballot to yield a parliamentary majority that can undertake social and political reforms in the country.
The prime minister said he wanted the lower house to support “a stable government that with calmness, serenity and resolution looks to the future and achieves the progress that our country needs in social justice, national harmony and political cleansing.”
Citizens and PP have focused their campaigns on unseating Sánchez, hinting at repeating the coalition government that with the help of Vox’s parliamentary backing ousted the Socialists from more than three decades in power in the southern Andalusia region earlier this year.
Citizens’ Albert Rivera said that a high turnout was needed Sunday to “usher in a new era.”
Pablo Casado, who recently took over leadership of the conservative PP and has steered it to the right in an effort to stop the draining of votes to Vox, called the ballot the country’s “most decisive” in recent years.
People’s Party (PP) candidate Pablo Casado casts his vote during Spain’s general election in Madrid, Spain, April 28, 2019. Photo by Jon Nazca/Reuters
United We Can party leader Pablo Iglesias also stressed the importance of voting on Sunday.
“My feeling is that in Spain there is an ample progressive majority, and when there is high participation that becomes very clear,” Iglesias said.
Vox leader Santiago Abascal, who has been drawing the largest crowds during campaigning, told reporters in Madrid that “millions of Spaniards are going to vote with hope, they are going to do it without fear for anything or anybody.”
Spain’s far-right party VOX candidate Santiago Abascal waves as he casts his vote during Spain’s general election in Madrid, Spain, April 28, 2019. Photo by Javier Barbancho/Reuters
At the Palacio Valdes public school in central Madrid, voter Alicia Sánchez worried that the nationalist party could influence policy-making if they score a significant power grab on Sunday.
“I’ve always come to vote, but this time it feels special. I’m worried about how Vox can influence policies on women and other issues. They are clearly homophobic. Reading their program is like something from 50 years ago,” said the 38-year old administrative worker.
Having voted in all elections since Spain returned to democratic rule four decades ago, Amelia Gómez and Antonio Román, she 86 and he 90, said they had little faith in any candidate.
“All I want is for whoever wins to take care of the old people,” Gómez said, complaining that the two of them together receive less than 1,000 euros (1,100 euros) a month in state pensions.
The vote will decide the 350 members of the Congress of Deputies, who then choose a government, and also 208 senators for the Upper House.
For the first time since Spain transitioned to democracy in the 1970s, more than 100,000 people with mental disabilities are allowed to vote in the general election.
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How do you know when a relationship is bad?
There are several warning signs to a relationship being a bad match, but even with a good list in front of you…you may not be able to guarantee that you won’t get hurt. The fact is, some traits that we might talk about will be good in certain situations.
So let’s talk about an example of one of these traits that could be good or bad. Let’s take a leadership type of person who thrives at work and seems like a great catch on paper. Now, let’s take a look at that same leadership material and look at that same person’s leading while talking to a partner at home. Being a leader might mean talking over you or not considering others point of view. So the great catch can start to look a little dull.
Now, let’s look at activities. You might fall in love with an avid crossfit competitor and feel like you are a great match since you can speak the same Burpee language. Now let’s say this happy, athletic couple then has one partner who get’s chronic illness. They were happy, but something changed for them both.
When you choose a partner, you choose a set of problems you will have to deal with in this partnership. If you choose another partner, guess what you will have? A different set of problems that can be equally hard, but for different reasons. So that happy crossfit couple might have met different partners and they still would fight about other things.
The traits we find most compatible for partnership is where they both work as a team, even if that means that needs are not met sometimes. Great partners are ones that give and trust that they will have the chance to help themselves later. A pairing that works well like this won’t want the other person to suffer.
The traits that you will want to focus on for compatibility are these:
- Emotional Intelligence: how aware is this person of their feelings and how this impacts others. If you are very aware of your own feeling world and partner doesn’t care…you will have a difficult time.
- Conflict Style: how much can this person solve problems, handle criticism, cope with being wrong, and handle disappointment. If you are not someone who thrives in conflict, then you will want to think about this area in your next partnership.
- Stress Management: how does your partner deal with stress, hunger, fatigue, and others mood triggers? Some people get mood swings easily while others will remain fairly calm. Do you vibe with stress coping?
- History of Relationships: how much has your partner been hurt by family or partners before you? Do you have room for their pain story or do they have room for yours? Low tolerance of past traumas can hurt a love story.
So when you choose a partner, consider compatibility testing to learn how these areas of involved in your new partnership. It can be fun to learn when you are not already in an argument and feeling hurt. You can do this with me for a nominal fee. | <urn:uuid:b63a4c71-7199-4636-8f20-cb08cf6653df> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://renewthelove.com/noticing-red-flags | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.966574 | 640 | 1.726563 | 2 |
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Located north of Paris, the Chantilly Domain is one of the finest jewels in the crown of France’s cultural heritage. The castle is located in the heart of a vast area of 7800 hectares of land. The chateau architecture is typical of the Renaissance, a true work of art.
The château construction was built in 1386 on the ruins of an ancient medieval fortress. Over time the Château of Chantilly met several episodes of destruction and reconstruction, for example, during the French Revolution the château was confiscated as « national asset » and was used as a prison during the Terror period.
Finally in the nineteenth century, Duke of Aumale, the fifth son of King Louis-Philippe (Luis-Felipe) and last owner of Chantilly Castle, bequeathed it in 1884 to the Institut de France, with the condition that there would be a museum installed and open to the public after his death. The Château offers the 2nd largest national collection of old paintings after the Louvre, works like Raphael, Botticelli, Delacroix, Poussin, Ingres, among others. The Château also includes France’s most beautiful private library. The name Chantilly is also commonly known as: a culinary technique called crème Chantilly (whipped cream), Vatel’s Kitchen, Le Nôtre gardens and furthermore the most beautiful stables in the world. | <urn:uuid:48f3e064-cc45-49ae-bd5e-2d1a61f92451> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://navparis.com/tour/chantilly-castle/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.935402 | 359 | 1.875 | 2 |
Busy caregivers know how exhausting a day keeping up with kids can be. Many of us are balancing our own stresses with the stresses of
Are you looking for ideas and new activities for parents and caregivers to engage in with their children? Do you want to support brain-building activities?
The Center on the Developing Child (Harvard University) has put together their 2019 year end review. Check out the resources below by clicking on each
In this video, learn more about how play can foster children’s resilience to hardship, and how the complex interactions involved when children play help build
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Derry's council to switch off Guildhall fountains due to water shortage after concerns raised over its contractors using hoses to clean areas of the city centre
05 Jul 2018 10:22 AM
DERRY’S council has said that it is only using water for ‘essential maintenance’ after concerns were raised about its contractors using hoses earlier this week to clean areas of the city centre. The council has also confirmed that the water fountains at Guildhall Square will now be turned off due to the ongoing water shortage. The statement was issued after the Derry News was contacted by a member of the public who spotted a contractor working on behalf on Derry City and Strabane Council using a hosepipe to clean an area of the Strand Road on Tuesday afternoon. It comes after a hosepipe ban was put in place across the north on Friday night due to water shortages caused by the ongoing hot weather. As a result, the public is being asked to limit the use of tap water to the essentials, like drinking, cooking and washing. Commenting, a spokesperson for Derry City and Strabane District Council confirmed that Tergo Solutions are currently undertaking street maintenance works and deep cleaning in the public realm area of the city centre in preparation for the Clipper Festival. “During the current shortage, council is using water only for essential maintenance and it has curtailed a number of non-essential activities including turning off the water fountains in Guildhall Square,” the spokesperson added.
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What is the best way to chop up a shirt?
- Making a large tee-shirt fit more comfortably Remove the sleeves from your shirt by turning it inside out. Cut the sleeves at the seams so that they are no longer attached. Choose a shirt that is comfortable for you, and layer it over top of the larger shirt. Make a trace around the smaller shirt, making sure to include seam allowances. Pin the larger shirt in place before cutting it. Sleeves should be pinned and sewn onto the garment.
Why is it called a wife beater?
After a 1947 criminal case in which a Detroit man was jailed for beating his wife to death, the term “wifebeater” was said to have been associated with an undershirt, according to legend. It is said that news outlets published a photo of him in a soiled undershirt and referred to him as “the wife abuser” after seeing the photo.
What is singlet called in USA?
A 1947 criminal case in which a Detroit man was jailed for beating his wife to death is said to have established the phrase “wifebeater” as a generic name for an undershirt. It is stated that news outlets published a photo of him in a dirty undershirt and referred to him as “the wife abuser” in the article.
Is the term wife beater offensive?
“Wife Beater” is an abbreviation for Slang and offensive language. A sleeveless ribbed undershirt that is usually white in color. The phrase was first used in 1947. His character is furious, enraged, and beats his wife—all while wearing a sleeveless undershirt underneath his shirt.
What are white beaters?
Alternatively, it may be referred to as a white tank top, which is synonymous with an undershirt. Many others consider it to be a “wife-beater.” According to comedian Louis C.K., “it was so acceptable to beat your wife until so recently that today we have a style of shirt named after it.”
What is a cutoff shirt?
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My syllabus is here. I’m excited about these midterm questions, especially question 6. Students get all six questions 2.5 weeks in advance, will get three on the in-class midterm, and get to choose two to answer.
- Looking back over the past two centuries, have more democratic and efficient institutions naturally emerged over time? Is the answer any different for the coming decades, and why? Argue the case for and against, drawing on the theories and ideas in the course readings as much as possible.
- By the 15th century, Western Europe was in a position to dominate Africa and the Americas economically and militarily. At a family gathering, your uncle tells you this is because Africa and America had an inferior culture, maybe even inferior genetics. In plain language (as if you were talking to a layperson) how would you respond? What other explanations would you lay out for the difference in development levels and trajectories between Europe and Africa/the Americas around 1400 A.D.?
- Think about various 21st century conflicts: the US invasion of Iraq or Afghanistan, the collapse of Syria, conflicts between ISIS and various states, the fighting in Ukraine, or war in central Africa. Pick one from this list (or another 21st century conflict you’re more familiar with). Why didn’t both sides strike a bargain, divide the spoils, and avoid costly fighting altogether? That is, examine the conflict through the lens of rationalist bargaining. You should feel free to highlight alternative explanations as well.
- Imagine 100 years from now that technology change drastically concentrates the means of production among a few elites or firms. Is democracy likely to persist, or would you expect to see more authoritarian and extractive institutions to emerge? Explain why or why not, drawing on ideas and theories from the readings. Consider both sides of the argument.
- I want you to describe two examples of a state capacity-building interventions advocated by Western governments or domestic reformers in current or recent years. What, to you, is a good definition of state capacity and what it is about these two interventions that we should expect them to build the capacity of a weak state?
- A U.S. Department of Justice report on the Ferguson Police Department (FPD) made the following observations:
Ferguson has allowed its focus on revenue generation to fundamentally compromise the role of Ferguson’s municipal court. The municipal court does not act as a neutral arbiter of the law or a check on unlawful police conduct…
FPD has communicated to officers not only that they must focus on bringing in revenue, but that the department has little concern with how officers do this. FPD’s weak systems of supervision, review, and accountability…have sent a potent message to officers that their violations of law and policy will be tolerated, provided that officers continue to be “productive” in making arrests and writing citations…
Officers expect and demand compliance even when they lack legal authority. They are inclined to interpret the exercise of free-speech rights as unlawful disobedience, innocent movements as physical threats, indications of mental or physical illness as belligerence. Police supervisors and leadership do too little to ensure that officers act in accordance with law and policy, and rarely respond meaningfully to civilian complaints of officer misconduct. The result is a pattern of stops without reasonable suspicion and arrests without probable cause in violation of the Fourth Amendment; infringement on free expression, as well as retaliation for protected expression, in violation of the First Amendment; and excessive force in violation of the Fourth Amendment.
Racially, in 1990 the city of Ferguson was 74% white and 25% black. Just 20 years later the percentages had nearly inverted, 29% white and 67% black. The government and police force has tended to remain predominantly white.
Ferguson thus resembles a predatory state, with coercive extraction of the population. Yet the city of Ferguson exists within a rich and advanced democracy where the formal, written institutions in principle should constrain rulers or threaten their hold on power, and where the population in principle can move to a less coercive city.
I want you to speculate on the following questions: What could help explain why a predatory state can exist for so long in a democracy? Shouldn’t the rule of law have constrained the city government? Shouldn’t exit or voice have prevented this level of predation?
Try to either draw on the readings and ideas in class as much as possible, but feel free to also identify the weaknesses or incompleteness of what we have covered and speculate on alternative explanations. I do not, however, expect you to need to research Ferguson or alternative answers for a good answer. The situation above and your impressions from the course material are sufficient. | <urn:uuid:642c3441-7971-4562-9bbd-3c730088e731> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://chrisblattman.com/blog/2016/02/18/13620/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.952971 | 968 | 2.703125 | 3 |
ABOARD THE VICTORY I: Several teens sitting in the audience began to chuckle when the film narrator said, “Imagine there was a time in America when there was no rock and roll.”
For these youngsters, there never was such a time.
Rock and roll has always been a part of their lives. So the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum must have been a real eye opener for them. After the short film ended, I saw the young people avidly reading information in the exhibits and commenting on how much music has changed.
They even giggled at Elvis’ flamboyant jumpsuit and the video of a Baptist preacher denouncing Elvis as an evil influence in a 1956 sermon.
But, then again, I couldn’t help smiling at the ridiculous (to me) skimpy outfits and flashy makeup of newer performers. To each his own. And the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum does seem to have something to interest everyone.
When the Victory I docked in downtown Cleveland on the shore of Lake Erie, many of us hustled to the nearby museum. I rode the complimentary trolley to the museum and took the short walk back to the boat after my rock and roll visit.
“We have from 5,000 to 8,000 visitors a day and 85 percent of them are from out of town,” a tour guide told me. “It is Cleveland’s biggest attraction.”
Which leads to the question – why Cleveland?
As a Buckeye myself, I never particularly thought of Cleveland as a hot bed of rock and roll. But the museum does a good job of explaining why Cleveland is a natural choice for the world’s definitive collection of the history of rock and roll.
Alan Freed was a Cleveland DJ who coined the term “rock & roll” and hosted the first rock and roll concert here in 1952. Cleveland also was the first place north of the Mason-Dixon Line where Elvis played.
Of course, Cleveland also was mighty supportive of hosting such an attraction. It was financially, emotionally and spiritually supported by Cleveland people.
BIRTH OF HALL OF FAME
When the idea for a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame initially came about, Cleveland leaders were among the first and most enthusiastic in lobbying Hall of Fame officials to bring the museum to their fair city. Cleveland overwhelmingly beat all rivals in a USA Today poll, earning more than 100,000 votes over its nearest rival.
In addition, 660,000 people signed petitions to bring the museum to Cleveland. The city’s civic and business leaders worked together to provide the necessary financial support to make the museum not only a reality but also a stunning showcase for rock and roll’s history.
On May 5, 1986, Cleveland was selected as the site for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Groundbreaking for the building took place on June 7, 1993, and the building was opened to the public on Sept. 2, 1995.
Located on the shores of Lake Erie, the I.M. Pei-designed museum is a real beauty. A futuristic composition of bold geometric forms and dynamic cantilevered spaces, it is anchored by a 162-foot tower. The tower supports a dual-triangular-shaped glass “tent” that extends at its base onto a 65,000-square-foot plaza, making a dramatic main entry facade. Pei died May 16 at the age of 102.
“In designing this building,” Pei has said,” it was my intention to echo the energy of rock and roll. I have consciously used an architectural vocabulary that is bold and new.”
The $92 million glass-paneled pyramid and tower-type structure was funded through a public-private partnership that included the State of Ohio, City of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority and Cleveland area and music industry corporations and foundations.
The original concept for the museum and archive dedicated to rock and roll was initiated in 1983 when several music industry leaders created the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation. Their goal was to honor the men and women who made significant contributions to this musical style.
In 1986, they began inducting individuals. The museum was built to house the Hall of Fame, so they are actually two distinct entities.
The first-year Hall of Fame roster included Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley and Little Richard.
Artists become eligible for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 25 years after the release of their first commercial recording.
The process of nominating inductees each year is based on the artist’s “influence and significance to the development and perpetuation of rock and roll.” Ballots are then sent to about 900 performers, historians and music industry professionals. Those nominees who receive the most votes are inducted. The Hall of Fame typically welcomes five to seven artists each year.
The Class of 2019 includes The Cure, Def Leppard, Janet Jackson, Stevie Nicks, Radiohead, Roxy Music and The Zombies.
LEAVE PLENTY OF TIME TO VISIT
For the museum itself, leave plenty of time to visit. The constantly changing museum has so much to see, read and hear. For starters, there’s the fashion of Sgt. Pepper, Jimi Hendrix’s handwritten lyrics, Janis Joplin’s psychedelic wardrobe, a dazzling Tina Turner costume designed by Gianna Versace and more.
Other specials are John Lennon’s grammar school report card, Buddy Holly’s high school diploma, David Bowie’s “Ziggy Stardust” jumpsuit, Bruce Springsteen’s outfit from the cover of “Born in the U.S.A.,” Jim Morrison’s Cub Scout uniform, John Lennon’s gaudy jacket he wore to rehearsals for his “All You Need is Love” performance, Jimi Hendrix’s patchwork jacket from his final concert appearance in Germany on Sept. 6, 1970, a shirt John Mellencamp wore on his “Scarecrow” tour and autographed drumsticks from Kenny Aronoff.
Then there are the musical instruments – enough to delight any music lover. You can see Duane Eddy’s Gretsch guitar, Eddie Cochran’s 1955 Gretsch, Duane Allman’s 1959 Gibson Les Paul, Dickey Betts’ 1954 Les Paul gold top, Lead Belly’s 12-string acoustic guitar, Louis Jordan’s tenor saxophone and Robbie Robertson’s 1958 Fender Stratocaster, among others.
Exhibited items change so many visitors return often to see and hear what is new.
Several theaters take visitors on a cinematic journey through rock and roll history, including Dick Clark’s American Bandstand in the RMS Theater and a 14-minute film in the Elvis exhibit.
An unusual exhibit called Part of the Machine: Rock & Pinball showcases rocked-out pinball machines with popular performers and bands.
As expected, the museum is alive with music and film and interviews. At the Rock & Roll Radio exhibit, you can hear sound clips from famous rock and roll DJs from different eras and regions. Rapper’s Delight shares the history of hip-hop.
Before the museum opened, experts predicted fans would need about two and a half-hours to wander through the musical lesson. They were sure wrong.
“We’ve found that most people stay closer to four hours or even the entire day,” a guide told me before I left. “Once they get here, people are often surprised at all there is to see and they stay longer than they expected.”
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We were all born yogis, we just forgot who we are.
As we grow up into being active, goal oriented, professional and responsible adults, most of us tend to lose our connection and the doorway to our innate essence and nature. We go through life experiences, some more unpleasant and hurtful than others, and we progressively develop layers (conscious and unconscious) or scars of protection around our Spiritual Heart, which seems to 'disappear' deep into a dark cave inside of us… until we miss that part of ourselves. We progressively or suddenly feel fragmented, without direction or empty, lost without a life purpose, and there is the opportunity to start listening again to its song! But how?
Yoga in its most essential meaning is being whole: body, mind and Heart are one, and all connected to the Universe as a sparkle of the macrocosmos, a seed of Divinity humanly embodied.
The concept may sound beautiful, inspiring, poetic, though far away from what we perceive as our world reality and fast paced daily life.
It takes one step, one moment, one breath, one feeling at a time, to set some strong anchors in your life and tap into who you are one day at a time: daily practice is truly sacred.
It does not require to sit still in a perfect lotus position for an hour long meditation, it does not involve mastering a handstand, it does not take you away for a full month retreat in a secluded ashram, it's not even about an hour of asana practice on your mat.
It simply starts by making space for yourself, taking a daily appointment with YOU, and finding the right tools and/or modalities to play with and infuse your life with a sense of wellbeing as you come to meet you… every day in any way.
It can be cooking paying full attention to the colors, shapes, smells, being fully present and connected to the experience; dedicating 15 minutes upon rise to insightful reading as you sip on hot lemon water; opening the body through stretching, breathing and twisting for a few minutes; scraping your tongue to get rid of ama (undigested foods); nurturing your body with self-massage; sharing a special moment with a dear friend; watching a beautiful sunset; walking barefoot on your front yard grass; stopping and disconnecting from your electronic devices; planting new seeds in your garden; making love with your partner… What feels good to you, and makes you feel alive and connected to your surroundings, to the people you love, to a project, to a cause? When do you feel aligned and in harmony with yourself and the calling of your Heart, even if it's a one second experience? Any drop has already the potential of becoming an ocean, every ripple may grow into a wave of wellbeing; it just takes a little bit of daily bliss that adds up!
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Buckets are the structure where the objects are stored. Buckets do not have a size limit, you can store any number of objects in a bucket, but it is not recommended to store a huge number of objects, this will cause performance issues. Although we recommend storing objects across multiple buckets, there is a limit for bucket numbers. You can use up to 100 buckets if you’re a standard client.
To start using Merlin Storage, you should create a bucket first. While creating a bucket, you choose its name and region. After the creation, a unique URL will be assigned to the bucket which is used to access the public objects inside the bucket.
Bucket names must be valid according to Bucket Naming Rules. Bucket names should be unique among all regions. The name and the region of a bucket cannot be changed after creation.
Every bucket in the Merlin Storage is stored in two separate regions for maximum data reliability and accessibility. A region is the physical location of the storage servers. Merlin Storage servers are located in 4 regions such as; France, Germany, Netherlands, and Turkey. Each location is grouped by two. Germany and Turkey regions work geo-replicated, as well as France and Netherlands.
It is possible to select one of two regional groups while creating a bucket. Let’s say Turkey and Germany are selected and a bucket is created. Once you upload an object to this bucket, the object will be uploaded to the geographically closest region, either Germany or Turkey. Then the object will be sent to the other region and another copy will be stored in this region as well. Even the servers suffer from downtime in one region, the other region keeps serving the storage user. If data inconsistency occurs between two regions, the healthy storage server sends the objects to the other storage server to replace the corrupted ones. Geo-replicated regions increase the reliability, accessibility, and security of the storage service offered by Merlin.
An object is any file that is stored in the storage service. An MP4 file can be an object as well as static HTML files and images. No file type restriction applies to an object, Merlin Storage allows you to store any kind of data inside your buckets.
Object consists of object data and metadata. The metadata is the key-value pairs that describe the object. The size limit for an object is 5 TB. If you have bigger objects than this storage capacity, you can consider dividing them into chunks and storing them this way.
Objects can be accessed from the storage bucket with public URLs. The visibility of the object can be changed from the interface or CLI. The default visibility for an uploaded object is private. You can set visibility to “public” to make objects publicly visible.
Object versioning allows you to keep different versions of the same object. You can check the version history of an object with timestamps. It is possible to turn back to a specific version of objects.
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Tulsi Pipe is a stretch of road in mumbai running along the western railway line.
Almost along the entire length of the this road there exists a slum colony. Consisting of the scrap material of the railways, dismantled advertising boards, and cheap construction plastics, one could only call this a slum. The average inhabitant of Mumbai knows this colony only from the blurred, surreal cinematic images that one perceives when traveling on the north south line; a series of distorted images, which doesn’t show anything but chaos, poverty, and dirt.
This living environment is according to the United Nations the daily reality of 900 million people on earth. Every day more and more people live in an environment where scarcity of good drinking water facilites, sanitairy facilities, sufficient living space, and houses with sufficient sustainable qualities. Even more the inhabitants are being structurally isolated from the society. This is sufficient reason to study the Tulsi pipe slum in Mumbai carefully.
Instead of the cinematic flash of dramatic information which occurs when in motion, this research project tries to understand the slum from a frozen image over its 2 kilometer continuous elevation. The image which appears is surprisingly orderly and intelligent. This strip contains in fact a housing typology which is well suited to its situation. It is consistent in its repetition, while giving room for variety.
It could be argued that this slum is in fact the predecessor of an ingenious new urban development full of potential. In this time in which intuition and creativity of individuals and small communities is being ignored, and on an enormous scale, monotone and rigid dwellings are produced, this slum actually provides a chance to generate a whole new urban typology. It would be a typology which enables time to influence its structure. It would allow time for development, to mature in an unpredictable way, which fully adjusts to the means and needs of the moment. Most probably the inhabitants of Tulsi Pipe will never have the chance to prove this. In the summer of 2006 an army of bulldozers demolished a large part of their dwellings. | <urn:uuid:915b4ef2-a337-4298-a8a8-a078107c6853> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.architecturebrio.com/tulsi-pipe/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.954415 | 432 | 2.234375 | 2 |
The first of the ICRL Conversations Podcast Series, Bob Jahn and Brenda Dunne discuss their work at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory at Princeton University over its thirty-five-year history.
Robert G. Jahn, Chairman of the Board of ICRL, was founder and director of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory from its establishment in 1979 until its closing in 2007. As an applied physicist and aerospace engineer and Professor of Aerospace Sciences, he served as Dean of the Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science for 15 years. He has presided over major research programs in advanced aerospace propulsion systems in cooperation with NASA and the U.S. Air Force. In 2006 he received the Edgar Mitchell Award for Noetic Leadership.
Brenda Dunne, President and Treasurer of ICRL, was Laboratory Manager of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory for its entire duration. With Robert Jahn, she is co-author of three major textbooks on consciousness-related anomalies. Although she holds a Masters degree in developmental psychology from the University of Chicago, her deeper interests are in the humanities, the history and philosophy of religion, and cross-disciplinary approaches to the study of consciousness that incorporate metaphysical as well as scientific traditions. She also serves as Education Officer of the Society for Scientific Exploration. | <urn:uuid:7b3cb86f-c6ab-4dd5-acb1-d4a1fddd57e5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://icrl.org/podcasts-2/podcasts/episode-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.952454 | 274 | 1.578125 | 2 |
In conversation with Speck Lee Tailfeather
The Architecture According to Pigeons star on the Chrysler building, bird control spikes and human/avian relations
Architecture According To Pigeons is a simple and engaging introduction to the world's most beautiful buildings and the basic principles of architecture for children aged seven and over. In Architecture According To Pigeons, Speck Lee Tailfeather reveals that pigeons are in fact great aficionados of architecture and offers an account of his travels around the world, giving information on and insight into the buildings he visits. Speck profiles more than 40 of the best-loved structures in the world, including the Colosseum, the Taj Mahal, and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater. Featuring charming collage artworks by award-winning illustrator, Natsko Seki, an engaging and funny text by the equally lauded children's writer Stella Gurney, as well as a wealth or architectural knowledge, Architecture According To Pigeons is a delightful way to share a love of architecture with young inquiring minds.
Phaidon's Rebecca Price says Architecture According to Pigeons was a dream to work on for a production controller, not least because the book's illustrator Natsko Seki, does all her work digitally.
"I love Natsko's artwork. She makes collages. but she cuts and pastes everything on her computer. So, she supplies us with files that are really easy to reproduce. Natsko's images are just so beautiful, and she was really easy to work with. Her work is supplied to us as TIFFs, rather than JPEGs, because, unlike JPEGs, TIFFs tend not to degrade with use. We prefer them. This book is printed on a matte art paper, which is really nice for bringing out the colour of the images. It might have been a straightforward job, but I think the title itself is quite remarkable. It's so unlike anything else out there. I'm excited about showing it to my two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, when she's old enough."
Speck Lee Tailfeather is a highly respected Pigeon Elder, elected by his peers to reveal to humankind the truth about pigeons' finer sensibilities and their love of architecture. As Speck makes clear, far from being pests who plague our buildings, pigeons are, in fact, great admirers of architecture. It is, of course, for this reason that they can be found in great numbers around the most beautiful and significant buildings in the world. Speck hopes that, through these latest revelations, bridges will be built between our two species, and, after thorough investigation, Speck has chosen renowned international arts publisher, Phaidon, to convey his message. Architecture According To Pigeons is Speck Lee Tailfeather's first book.
RIBA's educational programme
The American Institute of Architects educational programme
The National Building Museum, Washington DC
The Architecture and Design Museum, Los Angeles
Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine's kid's site
The Design Museum's schools and colleges activities
Fallingwater's family visitor guide
The Chicago Architecture Foundation's children's tours
The Australian Institute of Architects schools programme
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Emergence of Industry 4.0 and integration of advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) are anticipated to boost the Industrial Robotics market during the forecast period 2020-2025. Industrial Robotics Market size was valued at $28.9 Million in 2019, and it is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 9.5% during 2020-2025
With the emergence of industry 4.0, maintenance has become a crucial part and companies have started to assess the advanced technologies to assists them go beyond traditional run to failure and preventive maintenance approach. This has created huge demand for industrial robotics market in small, medium and large sized enterprises.
Robotics process automation landscape has been changed in the past couple of years and has evolved from an emerging factor for the industrial robotics industry. Robotic automation enables to achieve the innovation in a quick and impactful way which can drive quantifiable benefits to the industrial automation industry. Across the globe, automation companies are investing lots of capital to develop and innovate new technology in research and development. In 2019, ABB has committed to invest more than $150 million for construction of its new robotics manufacturing and research facility in China by 2021. Similarly companies such as Mitsubishi electric Corp, Ellison and so on are investing heavily for the development of industrial robots in the forecast period. Some of the key factor affecting robotic process automation includes process with higher automation potential, with higher head count reduction that offers a great cost saving to the manufactures. Robotic Process Automation (RPA) recurring cost includes licencing, hosting, and monitoring vary significantly by vendors and type of solution, the lower the recurring cost for RPA, the higher will be the cost saving. Various service providers are implementing RPA tools in various areas of end-user processes focusing on achieving consistency, risk reduction, and cost reduction factor.
APAC dominated the Industrial Robotics market in 2019 with a share of 58%, followed by Europe and North America. High and early adoption of advanced technologies in countries like India and China is set to boost the market growth. The strong financial position allows it to invest heavily in the adoption of latest tools and technologies for ensuring effective business operations. The Chinese government’s ‘Made in China 2025’ policy aims at improving the competitiveness of Chinese companies though automation. As part of the strategy to achieve this, the government’s Robotic Industry Development Plan gives a target robot density (the number of robots per 10,000 workers) of 150 by 2020. In addition according to CRIA forecasts sales of industrial robots will reach 625,000 by the end of 2020. On the other hand, the Chinese government invested $577 million for the development of intelligent robots. Moreover, the automotive industry is the major adopter of industrial robotics with a wide variety of applications and thus the growing automotive industry in this region will propel the market. Companies such as BAIC Motors, Changan Automobile Group, have been investing heavily for the adoption of robotics in the forecast period 2020-2025. In addition, The launch of ‘Make in India’ has increased the focus on Indian manufacturing sector, which is set to be among the fastest growing market in the APAC region as well as globally. The manufacturing sector’s growth output has increased and is projected to exhibit high growth through 2020. The government of India has committed to invest more than $13 billion for industrial robotic R&D. The government estimates the manufacturing sector value could reach $1 trillion by 2025. Major companies such as GE, Bosch and Panasonic are planning to invest in the country which would boost India’s economic growth.
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INDUSTRIAL ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION WILL DRIVE THE FUTURE OF FACTORY
As per industrial federation of robotics, industrial robotics deployment in factories is expected to cross more than 1.4 million new industrial robots by 2019 and more than 30% of these robots are engaged in manufacturing process for automate the operation. The growing adoption of robots are supposed to increased demand for handlers to ease integration install them and service them across the life cycle. The production concept in which manufacturing activities and material flows are handled entirely automatically is one of the major driving factors for modern manufacturing facility. Now days most advanced automation systems have own manufacturing cost by replacing increasingly expensive people as compare to the cheaper robots. Some of the key driving factor that fuels the growth of industrial robotics includes:
Decreasing Robot price: As robot’s production has increased year on year the cost of robots gone down. Past couple of years the average robot price has decreased by more than 35%. Increasing demand from different emerging economics penetrating the production of robots to change low cost region and they are expected to become cheaper in the coming future.
Ease of integration: Advancement in computer technology, software development technique, and innovative networking technologies have made easy of installing and maintaining Robot faster and become cheaper than before. Various sensors and actuators are individually connected to robot controllers with terminal racks, connectors and those components are now use plug and play technologies in which components can be connected with simple network wiring.
Increasing Capability: In the modern world robots are getting smart compare to the early age robots. Early robots blindly follow the same path and command, but the latest generation of robots are able to integrate the information from multiple sensors and implement their movement in the real time scenario. Advanced technology-based robots are made of more powerful computer technology. Industrial robots use spectral analysis to check the quality of product manufactured.
INDUSTRY4.0: THE ZERO DOWN TIME SOLUTION (ZDT) FOR INDUSTRIAL ROBOTICS
The industrial sector is very crucial to every country’s economy and one of the major driving factors for the country’s growth and employment. Industry 4.0 refers to the industrial manufacturing process in which all equipment, devices and computer are connected, this will help to the manufactures to make zero down time solution. The concept of industry 4.0 will have a great impact and wide ranges of changes to the manufacturing process outcomes and business models. This industry 4.0 offers mass customization, increase of productivity, flexibility and speed of production unit and also help to improve the quality of the product with zero down time solution. The flexibility also offers innovation; meanwhile prototypes or new product can be manufactured quickly without re-tooling and set-up for new product lines. So, this technology can produce one product with many variants, with decrease in inventory with the help of industry 4.0 technologies. Integrating product development with digital and physical production has been linked with great improvement in product quality, and able to reduce the error rates. With the help of industry 4.0 manufacturing companies can avoid machine failure in the factory and result in downtime cut and increase the production.
Japan increased its robotics R&D budget for 2019 to $351 million with the intention of making it the leading robotics innovation hub in the world.
The Major Players in this Market Include
The major companies in the Industrial Robotics market include include Fanuc, KUKA AG, ABB Group, Yaskawa Electric Corporation, EPSON, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Omron Adept Technology, Staubli, Siasun Robot and Automation among others. In 2019, FANUC UK has launched its latest collaborative robot, the CR-7iA, with the ability to lift payloads of up to 7kg.
In November 2019, Yaskawa Launched Collaborative Robot MOTOMAN-HC10DTF with a Payload Capacity of 10kg Equipped with Food Specifications. New lining up against food hygiene by surface coating that eliminates the risk of paint shards contamination. Development of new solutions and technologies and acquisition of the companies are the major factors set to buoy the Industrial Robotics market during 2020-2025.
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Many opinions I held as a Witness regarding doctrine, life and other people were wrong, due to an upbringing filled predominantly with information provided by the Watchtower. With Watchtower leaders claiming to be dispensing information from God, a Witness child's critical thinking skills are bypassed, and they accept Watchtower statements as truth.
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If you're a non-English speaker looking to work or study in an English-speaking country, then you'll likely have to take the test of a foreign language (TOEFL). And if you're confused about how and when to take the test, then have no fear.
We'll walk you through both how to decide between TOEFL test dates and how to make a study schedule. Let's get started!
When Are TOEFL Test Dates?
There are roughly 60 TOEFL test dates each year, and you'll be able to register for test dates up to four months in advance. Though test centers give the TOEFL (sometimes known as TOEFL iBT) throughout the year, test dates only extend three to four months out for most test centers. You won't be able to see test dates for most centers more than four months away from any given date. Additionally, different test centers offer different exam dates, so just because one location is offering the TOEFL on a certain day doesn't necessarily mean another is.
TOEFL test dates are only on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. Most test centers will offer the test at least once or twice a month, though some only offer the test once every two months. How often your test center gives the test depends on their funding and on how popular the test is in your country, so double-check with your test center to see your available TOEFL test dates.
By clicking on the link above, you'll be able to enter a location and timeframe and see what TOEFL test dates are available. Below is a screenshot of TOEFL test dates and locations for Sydney, Australia for May and June 2021.
Within those parameters there are four test dates, and you can click on each one to expand it and see the exact location, time, and cost:
You can take the test as many times as you want to, but you must wait at least 12 days between tests. Check the test-date schedule for your testing location. Do take note that these test dates may not be completely accurate, so it's best to register and find your nearest testing center for the most accurate TOEFL exam dates.
The price of the test will vary depending on the country in which you take it, but will typically fall into the 160 - 300 US dollar range. Always double-check on the ETS website so that you know how much each TOEFL will cost for you.
How to Pick the Right TOEFL Test Date for You
If you're taking the TOEFL as part of a school application, you'll need to schedule your TOEFL exam date around your application deadlines. Most undergrad or grad school applications are due either December 1st or January 1st, but always check the deadlines for your individual schools. For instance, some schools allow international applicants to submission applications later (in March or April).
Also take note that some schools accept test scores like the SAT after the application deadline, but other schools will not. So if your application deadline is January 1st, it's best to assume that the school wants to have every piece of information (including your TOEFL score report) before or on January 1st.
TOEFL scores take ten days to get reported online, but 7-10 days to be delivered by mail in the United States, and as much as 4-6 weeks to be delivered outside the US. It's best to take the TOEFL:
- Three weeks prior to applications if you're applying to US schools,
- Or two months prior to application deadlines if you're applying to schools outside the US.
Though taking the test this far in advance may seem conservative, it's to make absolutely sure that your universities receive your scores in time. Better to take the test a little early than to have your application denied because your scores were too late!
Setting a TOEFL Testing Schedule
Now that we've looked at some of the basic facts about TOEFL dates, let's discuss how to create a timeline for studying, taking the test, and getting the scores into your universities of choice before deadlines. The exact schedule I've outlined here won't work for every application, so use it as an example and make the adjustments necessary for your own applications.
In order to make any test-taking schedule, it's a good idea to work backwards from your application deadlines. That way, you can see how much studying you need to do and how many times you can (or should) take the TOEFL.
Step 1: Find Your Application Deadline
Whether you're planning to take the TOEFL just once or multiple times, it's important to know the last possible date you can take the test before deadlines. Of course, you'll always be able to take an earlier test, but knowing the cutoff will give you the flexibility to make any changes.
If, for example, your application deadline is January 1st and you're applying to a school in the US, then subtract three weeks to find your last possible test day. This means that your final possible test date to take a TOEFL is on or before December 17th.
If you're application deadline is January 1st and you're applying to a school outside the US, you'll have to subtract approximately two months from your application deadline so that your scores arrive in time. This means your final possible TOEFL testing date is on or before November 4th.
Step 2: Make a Score Goal
Most universities require their applicants to hit or exceed a certain score on the TOEFL for admittance. Unlike the SAT or ACT, you do not need to "show off" by getting as high a score as you can on the TOEFL—if you reach the cutoff point for your school, then that's all that matters. After that, you can be satisfied and turn your attention to other parts of your application.
Each university has its own cutoff score, but the most common score universities want you to earn on the TOEFL is 100 points. Just remember that your schools may want a little more or a little less, so be sure to always look up the requirements for your specific schools. But as a general rule of thumb, 100 points is a good score to shoot for. So keep this number in your head as you study for the TOEFL.
Step 3: Take a TOEFL Practice Test
In order to get a general idea of how much you'll need to study for the TOEFL, it's a good idea to take a practice test. That way, you can see where your current areas of strength and weakness are and see how the test works before you take the official TOEFL.
The creators of the test are ETS.org, and it's best to use their source materials for your practice tests. Though other companies do their best to replicate the test structure and test questions of a real TOEFL, the creators of the test simply have more experience with the TOEFL. You can take an ETS practice test online for $45.95, or you can purchase one of the official TOEFL books, which include access to practice tests. Check out our guide to learn what the best TOEFL practice books are!
Again, you'll be able to find other practice tests and practice questions online, but they (unfortunately) won't be as accurate as the ones you have to pay for through ETS. These practice materials aren't written by the same people who make the test and so will not as accurately reflect the TOEFL you'll eventually take.
Step 4: Calculate the Hours You'll Need to Study
Now it's time to compare your practice test results and your TOEFL goals. How far away were your practice test scores from your score goal?
As a general rule, it takes approximately 6-8 hours of studying English to earn one point on the reading, listening, and writing sections, and about 15 hours of speaking English to earn one point on the speaking section. You'll notice that speaking takes twice as many hours of studying to improve as the other three sections. This is because most students have had much more practice with reading, listening, and writing in English and very little practice speaking it.
To figure out a study plan, subtract your score on your TOEFL practice test from your score goal. Then calculate the approximate number of study hours you'll need to put in to reach your goal. (Remember that it takes longer to improve your speaking section score, so prioritize appropriately.)
If you don't have much time before your TOEFL date but you need to improve by several points, you may want to look at the number of hours you can put in to improve each section. If you prioritize your study time by section, you can reduce the total number of hours you spend studying.
For example, let's say your score is currently: 25R, 23L, 21S, 23W, with a total of 92 points. You know that many schools have a cutoff of 100 points, so let's say you want to earn 8 more points total. If you simply aimed to improve each category by 2 points (27R, 25L, 23S, 25W) you'll likely have to study: 2(6) + 2(6) + 2(15) + 2(6) = 66 hours.
Now trying to improve each section equally may not be very practical, because it takes much longer to earn points on the speaking section. Instead, you may find that you want to aim for higher scores on the reading, listening, and writing sections, and spend less time on the speaking section. For instance, if you still wanted to earn 100 points, your score goals could be: 27R, 26L, 21S, 26W. This would mean that you increased your reading score by 2, your listening score by 3, your speaking by 0, and your writing by 3. Now your study time is: 2(6) + 3(6) + 0(15) + 3(6) = 48 hours. In the end, you've still earned 100 points total, but you'll have saved yourself almost 20 hours of studying.
Keep in mind that these study hours are guidelines for the average student and you may find that it takes you more or less time studying per section. Make your study schedule with these guidelines as a starting point, but be prepared to adjust if you find that you improve at a different rate.
Step 5: Make a Weekly TOEFL Study Plan
Look at your daily and weekly schedules and see how many hours a week you can spend studying for the TOEFL. Even if your TOEFL date isn't for several months, you'll still want to try to budget at least 4-5 hours of studying English and 2 hours of speaking it each week. But don't panic if this seems impossible! Studying another language doesn't always have to mean textbooks and grammar drills. Surrounding yourself and paying attention to the English language—English movies, TV shows, books, or conversation—is just as important as sitting down and studying grammar and vocabulary.
Learning and retaining a language happens over time, and you can't really cram for it or just study for one or two hours a week. It's a good rule of thumb to study at least one hour each day and to speak English for an additional half an hour to forty-five minutes each day, four or five days per week.
If possible, try to schedule a test at least two months in advance. So if you study an average of six hours per week for eight weeks, you'll have studied 48 hours at the end of two months. At an average point improvement rate of six hours per point, you'll earn approximately eight points spread out over the reading, listening, and writing sections.
And if you speak an average of two hours per week for eight weeks, you'll have spoken for a total of 16 hours. At an average point improvement of 15 hours speaking per point, you'll earn approximately one point on the speaking section. In total, this gives you a total of nine points of improvement on the TOEFL in just two months.
Step 6: Anticipate Taking the TOEFL Test More Than Once
Practice tests will never completely emulate the experience of taking the real TOEFL, so it's a good idea to anticipate having to take the test multiple times before your application deadlines.
Try to budget the time and money to take the TOEFL twice (or even three times if you can manage it).
If you decide to take the TOEFL more than once, give yourself at least one month between test dates so that you can examine your scores, learn from your mistakes, and prioritize your studying. This means that it's a good idea to start planning and studying at least three months before your final TOEFL test date (or three months and three weeks before your application deadlines for US schools and five months for schools outside the US).
Sample TOEFL Test Dates Schedule
If your application deadline is January 1st and you're applying to a school in the US, then your test-taking schedule might look like this:
- Practice TOEFL: September 17th
- 1st official TOEFL: October 14th
- 2nd official TOEFL: November 12th
- 3rd official TOEFL: December 9th
- Application deadline: January 1st
If you only have two months before your test, then you'll likely only have time to take an official test twice. If that's the case, then your schedule will look more like this:
- Practice TOEFL: October 14th
- 1st official TOEFL: November 12th
- 2nd official TOEFL: December 9th
- Application deadline: January 1st
Review: Picking TOEFL Test Dates and Centers
The TOEFL is an important test for non-native English speakers, and it's crucial to know when and how to take it so that you can do your best. Though the amount of information surrounding the test can be confusing, just take it one step at a time.
Look up your country's TOEFL test dates and centers, work backwards from your deadlines, and adjust your study plan as you go. Soon be conquering your English, your TOEFL, and your applications. Good luck!
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Mass protests in Belarus have been ongoing since Alexander Lukashenko, the former Soviet Republic’s president for the past 26 years, won a widely contested victory back on August 9th. Huge crowds of demonstrators erupted across the landlocked Eastern European country, issuing a range of demands starting with the resignation of the authoritarian leader and a fair re-run of the election, which activists and other organisations have denounced asrigged and untransparent.
As Lukashenko still resists the pressure from large swathes of the public, masses of workers and students alike have gone onstrike, leaving some key industries running temporarily on a skeleton staff. Lukashenko has not given an inch to the protestors, instead opting to employ brutal suppression tactics, making heavy use of troops,stun grenades, water cannons andmass arrests to attempt to squash the dissent.
While the media has focused on Lukashenko’s reaction, one key issue which has been left out of the discourse surrounding this political crisis is the environmental concerns of the country. The Belarusian state has not traditionally been sympathetic to ecological demands, often choosing to demonise those fighting against the ‘existential climate disaster’. In the recent past, anti-nuclear campaigners have beenharassed by authorities, as well as more recent and alarming reports of environmental journalist Nasta Zakharevich beingsuddenly detained by plainclothes authorities. The targeting of environmental activists this year in particular has been no accident – some of the key organisers on the issue of climate justice are also involved with questioning the summer election results. The overlap is one of a shared goal – transforming society to reflect more progressive aims and a sustainable future.
Activist Maria Suma, a zero waste specialist at theCentre for Environmental Solutions based in Minsk, has elaborated on the link between ecological activists and the wider protestors. “All activists, including those from the environmental movement, are interested in positive changes in Belarus and its free development,” she articulates, “And many of them are involved in the protest movement to some extent.” In fact, recently some ecological experts and scientists were part of a group of 1,255 people detainedfor protesting against Lukashenko.
The relationship between the two movements demonstrates some hope of solidarity and interlinking separate actions within the embattled country. Maria adds the caveat that the protest movement is not easily categorisable, as it does not break down into smaller factions and groups. So the overlap with environmental activists is more fluid in this sense, “the [wider] movement does not yet have a specific group or initiative with environmental or climate demands”. As with other burgeoning and growing movements, there is work yet to be done on this front.
The recent state of affairs has been illustrative of Lukashenko’s determination to remain in power. Indeed, the state’s authoritarian crackdown on the protestors has been as relentless as the protests themselves. Although the environmental movement in Belarus has never been huge, environmental activists recognise their struggle is a part of challenging Lukashenko’s 26-year rule, based on his own negligible climate record.
Maria elaborates on this point: “for the Belarusian authorities, environmental issues have never been a priority, and they have been sacrificed whenever possible in favour of economic priorities,” even to the point of ‘ignoring’ obligations under variousclimate conventions.Maria further outlines that the few positive steps that Belarus has taken, including participation in climate negotiations and concessions such as amove towards solar energy, were carried out to gain trading benefits, or were only largely possible due tointernational grants. Others have called Belarus’ response to the climate crisis “not sufficient”, although it is a sad reality that this matches the actions ofmany countries around the globe.
Even beyond economics, Belarus has strategic geopolitical reasons for pursuing environmentally damaging forms of energy, including, most controversially, nuclear power. There is a huge interest in gaining energy independence, as despite energy disputes with its much larger neighbour Russia, Belarus has beendescribed in recent years as “almost totally dependent on Russian oil and gas supplies”. Thus, the nation has undertaken a huge project to construct anuclear power stationon the outskirts of the town Astravets near its Lithuanian border, part of a larger nationalistic trend towards self-sustainment.
Reaction to the construction of this power station, opened on 7th November byLukashenko himself, has been mixed, with many Belarusians cautiously hoping for economic relief from the project. As with populations of all nations, people are often put in a position where choosing a potentially risky or environmentally damaging option is framed solely in terms of their economic interests. It is an indictment of our global system that the material conditions people find themselves in, largely due to the decisions of the ruling class of their country, leaves them under duress to accept such drastic changes for the faint possibility of a better life.
This nuclear pursuit has got many Belarusians on edge, particularly because of the possibilities and implications for mismanagement or, worse, disaster. The shadow of the 1986 Chernobyl tragedy, which took part in neighbouring Ukraine but had far-reaching consequences into Belarusian land, lingers. The radiation released into the atmosphere was damaging to local populations andthe environmentalike, with the fallout alarmingly apparenteven to this day. This is a key reason why the Belarusian Green Party and other ecological organisations, amongst other politicians, havecampaigned against the opening of the power plant at Astravets this year.
Most striking is how environmental organisations tied the possibility for ecological damage to the current political crisis in Belarus. Theypoint out that many military and security forces which would be expected to monitor the site have been deployed to suppress the ongoing protests and demonstrations instead, leaving a potentially catastrophic vacuum. This also applies to response resources, who are similarly swept up by the national upheaval. The protests arenot dying down anytime soon, so it is worrying that the maintenance of the nuclear site is not currently one of the highest priorities for the state. Amidst an unprecedented crisis of power and suppression, the launch of this power plant ties into Lukashenko’s insistence on stifling voices and not directly addressing the demands of the protestors nor the warnings of environmental organisations, instead continuing his policy plans regardless.
The nuclear example example illustrates the larger ecological issue in Belarus, namely that the organisations which do exist have limited power due to non-cooperation of the state. The current political crisis has exasperated this issue, with the state becoming more suspicious of ecological bodies in the country, who have traditionally aligned with other forces putting pressure on the Lukashenko regime. The wide-ranging crackdown on dissenters has even expanded to fining one of Minsk’s few vegan cafes,MonkeyFood, whose staff chose to join the national strike in late October.
Due to this relationship between activist organisations and the state, the Belarusian ecological movement is stunted. Maria expands on this, stating that the movement is currently represented by just a fewlarge organisationsand other smaller initiatives organised in response to local environmental issues. “There is no sustainable climate movement in Belarus,” she continues, “the state does not encourage the development of local initiatives, sometimes even complicating their implementation.”
But as with the protests, which have been repressed but still hold significant sway across the country, there is some hope for the environmental movement in Belarus. The progress made so far has been mainly achieved due to the growing recognition of the importance of looking after the environment, starting at basic levels such as anti-litter campaigns and eventrash-sorting competitions.Awareness of the issue is paramount, even in the current schism.
Belarus’ example shows us that an international movement to tackle climate change is one which will often work in tandem with protestors and demonstrators of many causes. Shared goals have the potential to dwarf minor ideological differences across groups -–wider movements have been forged in times of crisis and political chaos before. There are positive aspects from Belarus which can serve as inspiration, as Maria states: “the situation is changing rapidly and the population is becoming more aware and involved in the environmental movement more actively”. She concludes by warning off despair: “despite the difficult conditions for the development of the movement under the authoritarian regime, the efforts of environmental activists have made great progress in promoting environmental values among the Belarusian people”. May that momentum outlast the current moment. | <urn:uuid:8ba7bbc7-028b-4200-a92c-87ecc6c7669c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://shado-mag.com/all/channeling-climate-justice-in-the-fight-for-belarus-soul/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.960807 | 1,741 | 2.328125 | 2 |
‘‘As long as life,
Is dear, is free,
I am the Earth
And the Earth is me.’’
(Jane Yolen, 1995)
This Wednesday, April 22nd marks the 45th observance of Earth Day, promoting ecology and respect for our planet, as well as encouraging awareness of growing environmental pollution and damage to the natural world and environment.
Take action this year by saving water and energy, recycling materials or working to protect vulnerable animals. It doesn’t matter what you choose to do, any good cause counts and the planet will love you for it. Here are just a few ideas of ours on how you can get involved and contribute positively to the world!
- Plant a tree in your garden
- Go for a bike ride or a long walk
- Make nature crafts at home
- Join Earth Day Network
- Reduce, reuse and recycle
- Clean up litter in your housing area or a park
- Get involved with an environmentally based charity
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November 22, 2010
Outside the Oval / The Case Against the Fed
When we analyze historical relationships between economic and financial variables, it's important to examine the data for "outliers" that significantly depart from typical behavior. Very often, these outliers are corrected over time in a way that creates profit opportunities. In the office, we usually refer to these observations as being "outside the oval," because they diverge from the cluster that describes the majority of the data.
Failing to recognize data that is outside the oval can lead investors to learn dangerous lessons that aren't valid at all. A good example of this is the relationship between valuations and subsequent market returns. The chart below presents the historical relationship between the S&P 500 dividend yield and the actual annual total return achieved by the S&P 500 over the following decade. The majority of the points cluster nicely - higher yields are associated with higher subsequent returns. But there is a clear segment of the data that breaks away from the oval. I should note that the same departure is evident on the basis of P/E ratios that reflect normalized (full cycle) earnings, so this is not simply a dividend story.
Prior to about 1995, the lowest yield ever observed on the S&P 500 was 2.65%, and then only at the three most extreme valuation peaks in history - August 1929, December 1972, and August 1987. But in the mid-1990's, valuations broke free of their prior norms. As the bubble continued and yields fell further, investors observed that poor dividend yields were actually accompanied by high returns over the following decade anyway. By the time the market reached its peak in 2000, the dividend yield on the S&P 500 had declined to just 1.07%, and dividend yields were almost universally discarded as a measure of stock valuation. The intellectual case was seemingly reinforced by the idea that stock repurchases had made dividend yields an obsolete measure of valuation, even though the calculations made by Standard and Poors for both the level and the growth rate of index dividends for the S&P 500 properly reflect the impact of repurchases.
Unfortunately, discarding the information from dividend yields was the wrong lesson. As you can see in the chart, the data points eventually came back into the oval: the extraordinarily low yields observed at the tail of the bubble were followed by a decade of negative total returns, including two separate declines of more than 50% each.
Despite this outcome, investors have failed to recognize the wrong lesson that they learned. With the exception of the market bubble that took the relationship between yields and subsequent returns outside the oval, the historical evidence is very consistent that low yields (elevated valuations) are accompanied by dismal subsequent returns. At present, the yield on the S&P 500 is just 1.95%. This level can be expected to be followed with S&P 500 total returns of about 2.2% annually over the coming decade, with a confidence interval that easily includes zero. Based on normalized earnings, our projections are somewhat better, at about 4.8%. Meanwhile, our estimate based on forward operating earnings (see Valuing the S&P 500 Using Forward Operating Earnings) gives a 10-year total return projection of about 4.7% annually. Again, this is not simply a dividend story.
In recent months, we've heard a related, but also mistaken lesson from various corners of the investment community. This one suggests that poor market returns over a 10-year period, in and of themselves, can be taken as evidence that market returns over the following decade will be glorious. The problem is that this argument fails to take valuations into account. Historically, poor 10-year periods have invariably terminated with very low valuations and very high yields. It is the low valuations that resulted in high subsequent long-term returns, not the poor preceding market returns per se.
Likewise, high unemployment rates cannot be taken, in and of themselves, as a signal that subsequent market returns will be strong. Look at the relationship between the unemployment rate and the dividend yield, and what you'll find today is that the current dividend yield is way outside of the oval. Historically, high unemployment has been associated with high subsequent returns, but only because high unemployment was associated with high stock yields and depressed valuations. Not today.
Our estimates for S&P 500 total returns remain below 5% at every horizon shorter than a decade. One can argue that 5% is "attractive" relative to less than 3% on a 10-year Treasury bond, but that assumes a static world where stocks are risk-free and securities deliver their returns smoothly. If investors decide that they are no longer ecstatic about these low prospective rates of return a year or two from now, they will promptly re-price the assets to build in higher rates of expected return. Unfortunately, the way you increase the future expected rate of return is to drop the current price, and the amount by which prices would have to drop in order to normalize expected returns is enormous.
From our standpoint, it isn't likely that investors will get their expected 5% return over the coming decade in a smooth, diagonal line. Our guess is that they will instead see a large negative return over the first two years or so, followed by subsequent returns that are much closer to the historical norm. The third alternative, of course, is the bubble scenario, where stocks achieve returns above 5% annually in the immediate few years, followed by flat or negative returns for the remainder of the decade. That is certainly the pattern we observed beginning in the late-1990's.
We'll take our evidence as it comes. As I noted at the beginning of this year, as move toward 2011, we are increasingly weighting post-1940 data in setting expectations about prospective returns and risks, in the expectation that there is a wide enough range in that data to manage the residual economic risks we observe.
Presently, we have a combination of overvalued, overbought, overbullish, rising yield conditions that have been very hostile for stocks even in post-1940 data. We also have not cleared our economic concerns sufficiently to lift that depressing factor on the expected return/risk profile for stocks. It follows that changes in some combination of those factors - valuation, overbought conditions, sentiment, and economic conditions, provided that those changes aren't accompanied by a clear deterioration in market internals - would prompt us to remove a portion of our hedges (most probably covering short calls and leaving at least an out-of-the money index put option exposure in place). Unfortunately, with stocks overvalued, a shallow decline that simply clears the overbought condition would not leave much room to advance until stocks were overbought again, so the latitude for a constructive position would be limited. Ideally, we'd prefer a very substantial improvement in valuation, that is, significant price weakness that would also be accompanied by internal deterioration. In that event, as in 2003, we would look for early divergences and internal strength as an indication to remove the short-call portion of our hedges, and possibly more depending on the status of valuations and other factors at the time.
For now, we remain defensive, even purely on the basis of post-1940 relationships.
The Case against the Fed
Ever since the Bear Stearns bailout, I've been insistent that the Federal Reserve is increasingly operating outside of its statutory boundaries. As I noted in the March 31, 2008 weekly comment (What Congress and Investors Should Understand about the Bear Stearns Deal):
"The clear historical role of the Federal Reserve has been to manage the composition of Federal liabilities (by varying the mix of Treasury securities and monetary base - currency and bank reserves - held by the public). The recent transaction is a dangerous break from that role, in which unelected bureaucrats are committing public funds to facilitate private business transactions and selectively defend the holders of corporate securities. Only Congress has the Constitutional right, by the representative will of the people, to commit public funds. The Bear Stearns deal is a dangerous precedent and a dilution of Congressional prerogative."
My concerns here have nothing to do with the direction of the stock market. Ensuring the legality of Fed actions is not a Democratic issue, a Republican issue or a Tea Party issue. Rather, it is about whether we want America to function as a representative democracy. We hear a lot about the risk of "politicizing" the Fed, as if it should somehow operate outside of Constitutional checks and balances. This idea is insane. Reserving the appropriation of public funds to Congress, and by extension to the will of the American people, is central to the meaning of democracy. There is clearly a mindless carnival of circus clowns on financial television that is perfectly willing to look the other way as long as the Fed encourages risk and bails out reckless behavior. We should recognize what we stand to lose.
Over the past week, several observers have interpreted my comments about QE2 as suggesting that this second round of quantitative easing is unconstitutional. This is incorrect. Section 14.1 of the Federal Reserve Act, which relates Open Market Operations, specifically states "Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, any bonds, notes, or other obligations which are direct obligations of the United States or which are fully guaranteed by the United States as to the principal and interest may be bought and sold without regard to maturities but only in the open market."
It should be clear that the purchase of Treasury debt by the Federal Reserve is legal, and because Treasury securities are issued as a result of explicit Congressional appropriations, this provision of the Federal Reserve Act also constitutional. QE2 may be reckless and ill-conceived, but it is perfectly legal and constitutional.
Bernanke offered a defense of QE2 last week in Europe that was reported as "coming out swinging," but what he swung before the world was ignorance. Bernanke correctly observed that quantitative easing was capable of "moving asset prices significantly." But he incorrectly said that "we don't know what effect this will have on the real economy." In fact, we do know. The elasticity of GDP growth to stock market changes can be easily estimated to be on the order of 0.05% or less, and transitory at that. In other words, a boost to the stock market isn't interpreted by consumers as "permanent income" or stable wealth that should be consumed. Since QE2 doesn't operate on any constraint in the credit markets that is binding, it is simply a way to blow asset bubbles, and nothing more.
Paul Krugman recently said that by engaging in QE2, "it's not as if the Fed is doing anything radical." I couldn't disagree more. Look. My furnace may be intended to regulate the temperature in my house, but at the point it starts blazing at temperatures beyond anything ever intended in the wildest imagination of the engineers, there's a problem.
Maybe this aversion is a Stanford thing. My views on economics were heavily influenced by John Taylor, Joe Stiglitz (both who reject QE2 even though they are at opposite sides of the political spectrum), Tom Sargent (rational expectations), Ron McKinnon (international economics), and Robert Hall (who chairs the NBER business cycle dating committee). If I had proposed a half-brained idea like QE2 at my dissertation defense, these guys would all have looked at me and wept.
I do agree with Krugman that the U.S. could use additional stimulus spending, particularly targeted at non-residential investment, infrastructure, and R&D. With respect to the deficit, it's important to target what I'd call a "full employment surplus" - policies that could reasonably be expected to produce a surplus at a normal unemployment rate - rather than imposing austerity on an already weak economy. But as for QE2, the Fed's policy is just reckless.
b) Maiden Lane and QE1
While QE2 is clearly both legal and constitutional, this contrasts with the activities of the Federal Reserve in creating Maiden Lane and other off-balance sheet vehicles to purchase private debt, as well as the first round of quantitative easing. In these instances, I am convinced that these transactions were outside of the restrictions of the Federal Reserve Act.
QE1 was clearly the most egregious, because the Fed bought obligations of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac outright - securities that were not "fully guaranteed by the United States as to the principal and interest," and whose issuers were insolvent and in conservatorship when the Fed bought the securities. Even though Fannie and Freddie securities maturing before 2012 have since been effectively guaranteed by the Treasury, the Fed's ownership of later maturities is still legally problematic.
Moreover, even if these purchases were consistent with the Federal Reserve Act, they still have, in Bernanke's own words, "a fiscal component." This makes them unconstitutional. The Fed cannot simply make transactions that have a "fiscal component" - such as buying bad debt to make what Bernanke calls a "money-financed gift to the private sector" - unless that expenditure is the consequence of appropriations made by law (per Article 1, Section 9 of the Constitution). Congress never intended such "money financed gifts." When you read the Federal Reserve Act itself, there are numerous provisions to explicitly prevent transactions that would risk the loss of principal, or that would perpetually roll over debt with no expectation of final payment.
c) Open Market Operations
With respect to Open Market Operations (Section 14), the restrictions in the Federal Reserve Act are important, and should probably be memorized by Congress, because I suspect that the next place the Fed may look to do "quantitative easing" will be in the area of municipal bonds, and Bernanke has demonstrated a clear willingness to ignore the obvious intent of the Act:
Notice the conservative way that the Federal Reserve Act is written. Section 14.1 (Purchase and Sale of Obligations of United States, Counties etc., and of Foreign Governments) allows the Federal Reserve (boldface mine):
1. To buy and sell, at home or abroad, bonds and notes of the United States, bonds issued under the provisions of subsection (c) of section 4 of the Home Owners' Loan Act of 1933, as amended, and having maturities from date of purchase of not exceeding six months, and bills, notes, revenue bonds, and warrants with a maturity from date of purchase of not exceeding six months, issued in anticipation of the collection of taxes or in anticipation of the receipt of assured revenues by any State, county, district, political subdivision, or municipality in the continental United States, including irrigation, drainage and reclamation districts, and obligations of, or fully guaranteed as to principal and interest by, a foreign government or agency thereof, such purchases to be made in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, any bonds, notes, or other obligations which are direct obligations of the United States or which are fully guaranteed by the United States as to the principal and interest may be bought and sold without regard to maturities but only in the open market.
2. To buy and sell in the open market, under the direction and regulations of the Federal Open Market Committee, any obligation which is a direct obligation of, or fully guaranteed as to principal and interest by, any agency of the United States .
Note: The FHA, and its financing arm, Ginnie Mae, are agencies of the U.S. Government. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are "government sponsored enterprises," but are private corporations that lack agency status, and whose securities are not guaranteed as to principal and interest by the U.S. government (at least those maturing beyond 2012).
Let me be clear - if Congress decides by a vote of its members to defend Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and to give their securities the full faith and credit of the United States, with an appropriation as to the cost of doing so, then there is no legal or constitutional problem. It may not be good policy - I'd prefer to let Fannie and Freddie pay on the existing mortgage pools without recourse for losses, and start fresh with a far more risk-based and capital-regulated entity to keep the mortgage market going - but in any event, any bailout should result from the representative will of the American people. No government bureaucrat should have the ability to take what amount to fiscal actions without an appropriation by Congress.
To revisit Bernanke's own words from his 1999 speech "Japanese Monetary Policy - A Case of Self-Induced Paralysis?":
"In thinking about nonstandard open-market operations, it is useful to separate those that have some fiscal component from those that do not. By a fiscal component I mean some implicit subsidy, which would arise, for example, if the BOJ purchased nonperforming bank loans at face value (this is of course equivalent to a fiscal bailout of the banks, financed by the central bank). This sort of money-financed "gift" to the private sector would expand aggregate demand for the same reasons that any money-financed transfer does. Although such operations are perfectly sensible from the standpoint of economic theory, I doubt very much that we will see anything like this in Japan, if only because it is more straightforward for the Diet to vote subsidies or tax cuts directly. Nonstandard open-market operations with a fiscal component, even if legal, would be correctly viewed as an end run around the authority of the legislature, and so are better left in the realm of theoretical curiosities."
As for the Maiden Lane transactions, the Fed uses Section 13.3 of the Federal Reserve Act to justify the creation of off-balance sheet shell companies to purchase private debt of uncertain quality and undisclosed valuation. This is illegal, because it is neither authorized by, nor consistent with, the provisions of the Act.
To see this, it's essential to understand the word "discount" as it is used in the Federal Reserve Act. Discounting relates to providing short-term liquidity, and is much like providing a check-cashing service. To "discount" a note, draft, bill or other security is to purchase it at slightly less than the face value that will be delivered at a slightly later date. Think about Treasury securities. The only ones that trade on a "discount" basis are Treasury bills with maturities of less than a year. For example, if you buy a one-year Treasury at $98 and it pays $100 at maturity, you'll earn 2.04% in "interest."
Similarly, suppose a manufacturer buys $100 worth of widgets, and gives the widget maker an IOU to pay for them 30 days from today. If the widget maker sells that IOU to a bank for, say, $99 today, the note is said to be "discounted." In 30 days, the manufacturer pays the $100 to the bank to clear the obligation. Within the meaning of the Federal Reserve Act, the word "discount" is exclusively used in the context of this sort of short-term payment clearing function.
The Federal Reserve Act gives the Fed the ability to discount a wide variety of "paper." These provisions, mostly in Section 13, were put in place to guarantee short-term liquidity - again, essentially a sort of "check cashing" function. It was not intended to make long-term loans, purchase risky securities, or to provide solvency. To the contrary, there are numerous provisions to ensure that the obligations that the Fed pays off (by purchasing them at "discount") are short-term, promptly collectible, and well-collateralized.
Consider Section 13.2 (Discount of Commercial, Agricultural, and Industrial Paper). This allows any Federal Reserve bank to discount "notes, drafts, and bills of exchange arising out of actual commercial transactions; that is, notes, drafts, and bills of exchange issued or drawn for agricultural, industrial, or commercial purposes." It also provides that "Notes, drafts, and bills admitted to discount under the terms of this paragraph must have a maturity at the time of discount of not more than 90 days, exclusive of grace." That section does give the Board of Governors the "right to determine or define the character of the paper thus eligible for discount," but only "within the meaning of this Act."
Look at other provisions, and you'll also consistently see what Congress intended by the word "discount" within the meaning of the Federal Reserve Act.
Section 13.4 (Sight Drafts): "...Provided , That all such bills of exchange shall be forwarded promptly for collection, and demand for payment shall be made with reasonable promptness after the arrival of such staples at their destination: Provided further, that no such bill shall in any event be held by or for the account of a Federal reserve bank for a period in excess of ninety days."
Section 13.6 (Acceptances): "...which have a maturity at the time of discount of not more than 90 days' sight, exclusive of days of grace, and which are indorsed by at least one member bank: Provided , That such acceptances if drawn for an agricultural purpose and secured at the time of acceptance by warehouse receipts or other such documents conveying or securing title covering readily marketable staples"
Section 13.13 (Advances): "... secured by direct obligations of the United States or by any obligation which is a direct obligation of, or fully guaranteed as to principal and interest by, any agency of the United States. Such advances shall be made for periods not exceeding 90 days"
Section 13A (Agricultural Paper): "... Provided , That notes, drafts, and bills of exchange with maturities in excess of six months shall not be eligible as a basis for the issuance of Federal reserve notes unless secured by warehouse receipts or other such negotiable documents conveying or securing title to readily marketable staple agricultural products or by chattel mortgage upon live stock"
Section 24(b) (Real Estate Loans): "...Notes representing loans made under this section to finance the construction of residential or farm buildings and having maturities not to exceed nine months shall be eligible for discount as commercial paper within the terms of the second paragraph of section 13 of the Federal Reserve Act if accompanied by a valid and binding agreement to advance the full amount of the loan upon the completion of the building entered into by an individual, partnership, association, or corporation acceptable to the discounting bank."
The restriction that the Fed can only operate "within the meaning of this Act" is a real problem for the Fed.
Now, consider Section 13.3, which is the section that the Fed used as the justification for making outright purchases of questionable long-term mortgage securities from Bear Stearns:
"Section 13.3 Discounts for Individuals, Partnerships or Corporations: In unusual and exigent circumstances, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, by the affirmative vote of not less than five members, may authorize any Federal reserve bank, during such periods as the said board may determine, at rates established in accordance with the provisions of section 14, subdivision (d), of this Act, to discount for any individual, partnership, or corporation, notes, drafts, and bills of exchange when such notes, drafts, and bills of exchange are indorsed or otherwise secured to the satisfaction of the Federal Reserve bank: Provided , That before discounting any such note, draft, or bill of exchange for an individual, partnership, or corporation the Federal reserve bank shall obtain evidence that such individual, partnership, or corporation is unable to secure adequate credit accommodations from other banking institutions. All such discounts for individuals, partnerships, or corporations shall be subject to such limitations, restrictions, and regulations as the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System may prescribe."
It should be obvious that the Maiden Lane arrangements didn't represent "discount" transactions under any reasonable interpretation of the Federal Reserve Act. Instead, the Fed created shell companies to stash long-term securities of questionable credit quality, bought them outright, and still holds them more than two years later. This is simply illegal.
These arguments are not about whether various financial institutions should or should not be bailed out. They are about whether we have any interest in preserving a representative democracy that operates under the rule of law; or whether we instead want a fourth branch of government that operates independently of Constitutional checks and balances, where unelected bureaucrats can arbitrarily commit a greater amount of public funds in a day than the National Institute of Health spends on public research for cancer, Alzheimers, Parkinsons, autism and other disorders in a year. Count me out.
As of last week, the Market Climate for stocks remained characterized by an overvalued, overbought, overbullish, rising yields conformation that has historically been hostile for stocks. As noted above, we would be likely to take a more constructive position after clearing some combination of these factors, if it was coupled with a further improvement of various leading economic measures (Philly Fed was a start, but the overall set of measures is still negative and mixed). A constructive position, given current valuations, would most likely be limited to covering a portion of our short call positions, leaving most or all of our put option defenses in place. A significant improvement in valuations, followed by a firming of market internals, would give us more latitude for larger exposures to market fluctuations. For now, both Strategic Growth and Strategic International Equity remain tightly hedged. In bonds, the Market Climate remains characterized by unfavorable yield levels and rising yield trends. Strategic Total Return remains strongly defensive, with a duration of less than one year, and only about 4% in bond market alternatives such as precious metals, foreign currencies and utility shares.
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How to Steer Birds Clear of Windows
Experts offer tips for homeowners who want to minimize the number of bird-window strikes at their houses
Window collisions with low-level structures like houses account for between 100 million and 1 billion bird fatalities in the United States each year, according to Daniel Klem, a professor at Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania. His research has also shown that these collisions—which involve both migrant and resident species—occur during all seasons, all times of day and with windows facing any direction.
Many people don't even notice the birds dying beneath their picture windows. "Birds that are injured or dead will be scavenged a majority of the time," says Michael Mesure, program director for the Fatal Light Awareness Program, a Toronto-based group that documents and raises awareness about the problem. "Birds that fly away can also later die of their injuries. Many times they have broken beaks, which makes foraging impossible, or they die from a brain hemorrhage."
The long-term solution is to design glass that is less reflective, says Mesure. But in the short-term, he and other experts offer some advice for homeowners who want to minimize the number of bird-window strikes at their houses.
Make sure birds are not flying at full speed when they hit.
Many times window strikes occur after a scare from the neighbor's cat or a hawk scatters the birds at a feeder in all directions. House plants hanging on the inside or vegetation reflecting from the outside may mislead a hapless bird into thinking the area is a passage to safety. But if feeders, baths and other bird attractants are placed three feet or less from the window, no matter how fast the bird takes off, if it hits the window it will bounce to the ground, dazed but alive.
Tip: To help a bird while it recovers place a colander over the bird and weight it down so that it can't be tipped over by a predator.
Cover windows with netting during peak migration seasons
If it's not possible to remove or relocate bird perches and feeders, home owners can cover windows with netting, especially during peak migration periods. "Soccer-grade netting is best but it must be stretched taut so that birds don't get caught," says Mesure. "If they collide it will act like a trampoline and bounce them to safety."
Tip: An old storm-window screen hung outside the window will also work well.
Tip: Decals of falcons, owls or spiderwebs on windows rarely work. "When effective the decals become impractical, as they'd have to cover 80 percent of the glass," says Mesure. When using silhouettes, he recommends hanging them by chain or rope from an overhang so that they will stand out more by blowing in the wind.
Try interior coverings such as blinds and curtains
If you live in a high rise, this works well to warn birds on nighttime flights. For residential home owners, this will only make a difference when the sun is shining directly on the window.
Consider placing a few dead branches in front of a problem window
The branches will reflect, but they'll also slow the bird down a bit.
Tip: Planting a shade tree or some shrubbery close to the window will serve the same purpose, as will an awning.
Hang streamers of shiny, reflective plastic ribbon or strips of black garbage bags in front of problem windows
"Anything that glitters and moves in the breeze will help prevent a bird from colliding with a window," says Mesure.
Let windows get a little grimy
"Don't clean them” says Mesure. “The dirtier the window, the less reflection and the more birds will see it as a solid object."
Adapted from "Steering Birds Clear of Windows" by Heidi Ridgley, National Wildlife , October/November 2001.
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With the job market going down the tubes, professionals across the board are looking for things to do with their time. Those who once enjoyed six-figure salaries are now volunteering their time to help those in need. One example are lawyers, a profession traditionally thought of as being particularly "money-hungry."
CNN.com looks at one such example of legal largesse, following the story of David Dineen, who had been earning well over a hundred thousand dollars a year working for a prestigious law firm in Massachusetts. But when the economy went belly-up, his boss didn't fire him. Instead, he gave David the chance to work for the Greater Boston Legal Services.
Throughout the United States volunteer organizations or organizations designed to help the less fortunate have been struggling to find qualified people to work for them. Now, with so many in trouble and looking for work, any work, they are finding more people than they know what to do with. Dineen took a huge pay-cut, but he now continues to practice the career he went to school for while also helping people who really need it.
It seems that this trend his particularly prominent in the legal field. The United States has led most countries in producing lawyers. Law firms began hiring those graduates during the boom times, and apparently grossly overestimated their future needs. With the economic slowdown many of these professionals are suddenly without a job.
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Self-Isolation vs. Self-Quarantine: What You Need to Know
The words self-isolation and self-quarantine are often used interchangeably and thrown around without a solid handle of what they mean.
Self-quarantine and self-isolation are similar, and the concrete actions you should take while observing them are also similar, but they are not the same.
There are subtle differences that can stand between the escalation of the outbreak, and breaking the chain of infection spread.
What Does Quarantine Mean?
To quarantine is to restrict the movement of people who may have been exposed to a contagious disease to see if they become sick. Often these people have been exposed and do not know it or they may have the disease but haven’t shown symptoms.
How Is it Different from Self-Isolation?
Isolation is separating people who are sick with a contagious disease from people who are not. If you are sick, either with COVID-19 or another illness, it is important you self-isolate.
Quarantining is a precautionary measure. It’s a wait out for the virus incubation. At the end of quarantine, people may or may not show symptoms and testing has to be done in case symptoms appear.
Self-isolation should be more rigorous. It is the period of mandatory and aggressive distancing for an individual who has already contracted a contagious illness.
The key to self-quarantining is to remain quarantined for enough time to see if you develop symptoms. Here is an infographic on best practices for self-quarantine:
If you have a positive COVID-19 diagnosis, it’s important to self-isolate. Here are top tips on how to do it:
1. Monitor your health:
If your symptoms worsen, contact your doctor immediately. If you need to see a healthcare professional in person, be sure to wear a facemask and keep your distance from other people.
2. If you live alone:
Ask family, friends, or use a delivery service to get essentials like groceries and medicines delivered to your home. Avoid human contact by having them leave the items at your doorstep.
3. If you live with others:
Stay in your room with the door closed. Eat meals alone in your room and be sure to air out the room regularly. Leave the room only when necessary. Keep your distance from others and avoid contact with pets.
Use your own bathroom. If that’s not possible, clean all amenities after each use. Do not share household items or towels or linens with other people and wash these items regularly.
4. Practice good hygiene:
Wash your hands for at least 20 seconds with soap and water. If none is available, use hand sanitizer and rub into hands until dry.
Cover your mouth when you cough or sneeze and throw away or wash the item you used to cover your mouth.
Any bodily fluids should be disposed of separately before being thrown away with other waste. Clean and disinfect any surfaces you touch. This should be done daily.
5. End of isolation period:
You can come out of isolation 48 hours after showing no further symptoms, provided ten days have passed since the first symptoms appeared. Continue to monitor your health and practice good hygiene.
While it is important to remember the concept of physical distancing, social connection during both self quarantining and self-isolation is just as important. FaceTime with your family and friends. Answer questions on Quora and Reddit. There are lots of threads where those who are confused and stressed ask advice on how to handle the pandemic.
Connect with these individuals, share your first-hand experiences, and help fight some of the misinformation on the net, as your body fights the Coronavirus.
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Dog Traits & Personalities for the Seven Breed Classes
You probably pay close attention to the characteristics of certain breeds if you're looking to bring home a new pet. Whether you want a pup to cuddle with or one to join you on runs and hikes, dog personality traits are largely defined by which of the seven main breed classes he falls under. If you already know which dog personality type you'd like, do your research on which breed is best suited for you and/or your family. Your local shelter is a great place to find the perfect dog. They have both purebred and mixed-breed dogs.
Herding Dog Personalities
Dog breeds that belong to the herding group, as detailed by the American Kennel Club (AKC), are smart and serious with an energetic flair. Because they're territorial of "their" property and people, they make for terrific watchdogs. They may bump or nip at people, though, as is their innate response as animals whose ancestors were bred to help herd and organize. These dogs have an instinct for working, and are very athletic.
Herding dogs are intelligent and may be the easiest (and most willing) group of dogs to train. As such, they are well suited to dog sport and competitions.
Herding dogs are a good match for large families; they'll enjoy spending time with groups of people. Even if you don't have a big household but live on an expansive property with multiple animals, a herding dog will fit right in. Companionship is very important to this dog group, so bring one into your family if you're looking for a loyal, loving pet.
Breeds that belong to the herding group include the Australian Cattle Dog, Australian Shepard, Bearded Collie, Belgian Sheepdog, Border Collie, German Shepard, Pembroke Welsh Corgi, Puli, and Shetland Sheepdog.
Hound Dog Personalities
There are two types of hound dogs: scent hounds and sight hounds. The latter use their vision to find what they're looking for. They are agile and speedy. Scent hounds, on the other hand, smell their way to what they are trying to find. They're tough, but slow.
Both types of hound dogs are very inquisitive, independent creatures. They can be trained, but must understand why they are being taught to do something. Their intelligence is a double-edged sword;if they don't think the training is important, they'll simply ignore all your hard work. For this reason, it's best to seek professional help for training a hound dog.
Hound dogs are a good match for people who have a secured place for them to explore. They should be kept on leash at all times, or else they may get loose. They also require a patient pet parent, as hound dogs are often interested in tracking sights or scents you may have no interest in.
Breeds that belong to the hound group include the American Foxhound, Basset Hound, Beagle, Dachshund, Greyhound, Norwegian Elkhound, Rhodesian Ridgeback, Treeing Walker Coonhound, and Whippet.
Sporting Dog Personalities
Expect a sporting dog to be active and alert at all times. Known to be multi-taskers, these dogs are both easily trained and befriended. They're bred to be hunters, and depending on the sub classification of the breed, will find, point, flush out, hold, or retrieve what they're hunting. The water dogs of this classification love swimming, as you can imagine, and would happily spend all day at a shoreline. Sporting dogs also make for great therapy or assistant dogs.
Sporting dogs are a good match for someone who can keep them entertained and exercised. If you're looking for an animal who can keep up with your active lifestyle, a sporting dog may be your forever pet. They are particularly good family dogs as well.
Breeds that belong to the sporting group include the Chesapeake Bay Retriever, Cocker Spaniel, Golden Retriever, Irish Setter, Korean Jindo Dog, Labrador Retriever, Pointer, and Weimaraner.
Terrier Dog Personalities
Known to be feisty and fun, terriers come in all shapes and sizes. Largely territorial, terriers will bark at anyone approaching their home or family. They're also hunters of small animals (such as foxes or rats), and will dig to find their prey.
Terrier dogs are a good match for patient but high-energy pet parents. They want to work, because it feels like playtime to them. If you can match their energy level, you're bound to be best friends.
Breeds that belong to the terrier group include the Jack Russell Terrier, Rat Terrier, Miniature Schnauzer, Scottish Terrier, Staffordshire Bull Terrier, and Welsh Terrier.
Toy Dog Personalities
Want a lot of dog in a very little package? A toy breed may be perfect for you. They may be small, but what they lack in size they make up for in character. Toy dogs are full of personality, and for generations were bred specifically to be companions. Most toy dogs are very loyal, though some can be territorial depending on breed and upbringing.
Toy dogs are a good match for people living in tight quarters. They don't require a lot of space, but they do deserve attention. They may also be good for adults without young children or a single professional.
Breeds that belong to the toy group include the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Chihuahua, Chinese Crested Dog, Italian Greyhound, Maltese, Pomeranian, and Pug.
Working Dog Personalities
The most diverse group of dogs, working dogs were bred in order to help you. Their jobs vary from pulling sleds to guarding livestock. They are strong and smart, and definitely capable of being trained. Many of these dogs act as guards, but as long as they're properly socialized they can be super friendly.
Working dogs are a good match for most people. As long as you have the space for them, are consistent, and keep them active, working dogs make a great pet.
Breeds that belong to the working group include the Akita, Boxer, Great Dane, Mastiff, Portuguese Water Dog, Saint Bernard, Samoyed, and Siberian Husky.
Non-Sporting Dog Personalities
The non-sporting dog breed began for working dogs that no longer performed the activity for which they were originally bred. Dalmatians, for example, were raised to accompany horse-drawn carriages. Bulldogs were previously used to bait bulls. Neither dog needs to fill those roles, today, and now have a fitting place in the non-sporting dog breed category.
In general, breeds that don't quite fit in any of the above categories will find themselves in the diverse group of non-sporting dogs. Some dogs may be small, yet too big to fit in the toy breed category. Others may be hunters, but not hounds or sporting dogs.
Non-sporting dogs are a good match for many different types of people. Because personalities vary from dog to dog, however, it's important to meet your new puppy first to find out if he'll be a fit for your lifestyle.
Breeds that belong to the non-sporting group include the Bichon Frise, Boston Terrier, Bulldog, Dalmatian, Keeshond, Lhaso Apso, and Poodle.
Although dog personality traits seems to be consistent over these seven main breeds, that doesn't mean your own special pet can't have other personality traits as well. Your hound may play detective in the yard, sniffing every square inch of grass for "clues," but may also be happy to kick back with you on a lazy Sunday. Likewise, your toy dog may be small, though not enjoy as much cuddling as his full-sized counterpart.
Remember, all have individual dog personality traits regardless of breed group. Just because one group often produces friendly pups doesn't mean socialization and training don't play an important role in their development. Spend some time with a dog before bringing him home to determine for yourself that you'd make a good pair. And be honest; the dog may be the cutest you've ever seen, but Great Danes aren't good apartment dogs, and tiny Chihuahuas don't exactly enjoy marathons.
Once you've found your perfect match, enjoy a long-term rewarding relationship!
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Older First Edition databases may have experienecd data related problems in the past. As software applications evolve, the tendency for newer versions of the application(s) to become more sensitive to these "legacy issues" caused by older versions. For example, a power outage causing a record to corrupt might now produce a problem that a newer version may detect, while the older version did not. This is due to ongoing quality control of the software products.
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Whether you consider cryptocurrency an investment, a commodity, an alternative banking system or a form of legalized gambling, the rapid adoption and stunning recent volatility of cryptocurrencies has led to frenetic trading by investors. As a result of COVID-19 disruption, economic uncertainty and the entry of PayPal into the crypto-consumer market (allowing more than 300 million users to buy cryptocurrencies easily), the crypto market has seen a dramatic runup in the values of Bitcoin and many other cryptocurrencies.
Speculative crypto trading (as well as day trading of stocks) has made many crypto investors wealthy on paper. Their trading generated a substantial amount of short-term capital gains. The IRS has made it clear that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies should be treated as assets or intangible property — and not currency — since it is not issued by a central bank. This results in taxability virtually every time crypto is transferred or liquidated.
Thus, your clients’ gains from crypto investments that were held less than 366 days are considered short-term in nature. That means they will be taxed at ordinary income rates as high as 37 percent at the maximum federal rate (for taxable incomes in excess of $622,051 for married filing jointly taxpayers, and $518,401 for single and head of household taxpayers) , plus the 3.8 percent Net Investment Income Tax, or NIIT (for taxpayers with modified adjusted gross income in excess of $250,000 if they’re married filing jointly, or $200,000 for single and head of household), or 40.8 percent. These days, even marginally successful crypto investors and day traders are often meeting these high-tax income thresholds.
A California taxpayer with more than $1 million of taxable income would pay an additional 13.3 percent of state tax for a staggering 54.1 percent combined tax rate. New York taxpayers won’t fare much better as Governor Andrew Cuomo signaled the Empire State will raise state income taxes due to COVID-induced budget shortfalls. Many other states are expected to follow suit.
Even if the cryptocurrency is held long enough to qualify for long-term capital gains rates (a year and a day), the tax rate will still be up to 23.8 percent at the federal level (20 percent LTCG tax rate plus 3.8 percent NIIT), plus the state capital gains tax.
This is the first tax season for many crypto investors and suddenly they’re not feeling so confident and flush. With the U.S. facing historically high federal spending in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this tax burden seems likely to increase. President Biden may propose taxing both long-termandshort-term capital gains at federal rates as high as 43.4 percent for high-income taxpayers.
Where can investors with substantial short-term gains turn to avoid, or at least mitigate, the possible 50+ percent combined tax rate they face?
Enter opportunity zones
The federal opportunity zone (OZ) program as described under IRC Section 1400Z-2 offers a large potential tax savings to taxpayers who generated capital gains on Oct. 5, 2019 or later — including gains from cryptocurrency bets.
Taxpayers who individually generated such gains in 2020 (including gains in 2019 recognized on or after Oct. 5, 2019) can invest those gains into a qualified opportunity fund (QOF) as late as until March 31, 2021 and still qualify for favorable tax treatment. Further, gains recognized in 2019 or 2020 in a partnership, S corporation or non-grantor trust can be invested in a QOF as late as Sept. 10, 2021, respectively. See IRS Notice 2021-10 for COVID-19 extensions.
3 ways the OZ program benefits investors with short-term gains
A timely and successful QOF investment provides taxpayers with the following three benefits:
1. Capital gains timely invested within 180 days into a QOF are deferred until the later of: (i) the time that the amounts are withdrawn or otherwise triggered under the “inclusion event” rules or (ii) Dec. 31, 2026.
2. After holding the QOF interest at least five years, the taxpayer’s basis in the QOF is increased by 10 percent of the original amount invested and thus the reportable gain drops to 90 percent when recognized.
3. Taxpayers holding the QOF investment for at least ten years can exclude 100 percent of the post-reinvestment appreciation in the QOF and in the underlying assets held by the QOF — including any eligible qualified opportunity zone business (QOZB) into which the QOF invests.
To illustrate, assume a crypto investor residing in New York purchased 100 Bitcoin on April 1, 2020, for $660,000. Assume she sold all 100 coins on Dec. 31, 2020, for $2,880,000, resulting in a short-term capital gain of $2,220,000. Assume the taxpayer is single and had other net taxable income of $600,000. That means she is subject to income tax at the highest federal and New York marginal income-tax rates.
The federal income tax on this gain would be $905,760 (37 percent on short-term capital gains and 3.8 percent for the NIIT, for a combined 40.8 percent effective tax rate), and the New York income tax would be $195,804 (8.82 percent tax rate). This results in a combined tax liability of $1,101,564 (49.62 percent).
Under the OZ regulations, if the taxpayer reinvests all or a portion of these short-term gains into a QOF within 180 days from Dec. 31 (June 28, 2021), then the gain will be deferred. However, due to COVID’s continuing impact, if the sale of a directly held asset (vs. K-1 reported) occurred between Oct. 5, 2019 and July 5, 2020, then the 180-day reinvestment period would fall within the extended reinvestment periods provided in IRS Notice 2020-39 and 2021-10. This allows extra QOF funding time through at least March 31, 2021. Investors with calendar 2020 K-1 gains will have until Sept. 10, 2021 to be reinvested (since the 180-day period begins on March 15, 2021). Taxpayers who timely reinvest those gains into a QOF and follow the other OZ re-investment requirements can defer federal (and most state) taxes until Dec. 31, 2026.
Since the QOF investment will have been held for more than five years on that date, only 90 percent of the gain will then be reportable. Holding the QOF or the underlying QOF assets for 10 years or more will result in complete tax-free treatment of the post-reinvestment appreciation in the QOF or assets held by the QOF for federal and state purposes other than in California, Mississippi, North Carolina and Massachusetts. Residents of these states will not obtain the initial deferral and subsequent step-up benefits of the OZ program for state purposes. In addition, any tangible property investments into these states generally will generate taxability upon exit from those investments — even if residing outside those states.
Assuming tax rates hold steady through the end of 2026, this amounts to a tax savings of $110,156 (49.62 percent x $222,000 of excluded gain) and allows the taxpayer the interest-free use of the remaining deferred tax liability of $981,408 ($1,101,564 – $110,156) for a period of almost six years.
For taxpayers with patience, the OZ tax program allows for diversification of asset investment classes, a powerful tax deferral and ultimately the avoidance of tax on all post-reinvestment appreciation from the investment date until the date the QOF investment is liquidated or sold, which can be anywhere from 10 to almost 30 years in the future (the investment incentive ends on Dec. 31, 2047).
Although a small number of states have declined to adopt the OZ tax benefits, the vast majority of states do follow the federal OZ provisions, and some states even provide additional incentives for OZ investors.
Cryptocurrency has gained favor because it offers impressive flexibility and an alternative investment strategy to bold investors. The “Land of OZ” may well be the next frontier for crypto investors and others generating short-term gains in the market, and the ultimate tax tool for maximizing the after-tax economic return on those 2020 cryptocurrency gains. You are likely to see more and more of your forward-thinking clients gravitating toward crypto and OZ. If you haven’t done so already, get up to speed on both cryptocurrency tax treatment and opportunity zone investment rules. | <urn:uuid:b4a0e730-c879-460b-9827-f532b6ba7088> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://taxnewest.com/2021/02/21/cryptocurrency-investors-turn-to-opportunity-zones-for-tax-relief-and-social-good/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.950304 | 1,804 | 1.929688 | 2 |
Intriguing Dresden, Germany, winds up on far fewer American itineraries than it deserves to. Don't make that mistake. Since its horrific firebombing in World War II, the city has transitioned to a thriving cultural center that's well worth a visit. Even with only a day to spare, Dresden is a doable side trip from bigger attractions like Berlin or Prague.
The burg surprises visitors with fanciful Baroque architecture in a delightful-to-stroll cityscape, a history that mingles tragedy with inspiration, and some of Germany's best museum-going. A generation ago, Dresden was dreary, but today it's young and vibrant, crawling with proud locals, cheery tourists, and happy-go-lucky students who have no memory of communism.
Even so, Dresden's heritage of destruction is hard to ignore. I'll never forget standing on the Altmarkt square in the Old Town…it seemed like just another square. Then, looking down at the cobblestones, I saw an inscription that reads, "After the air attack on Dresden on February 13–14 1945, the corpses of 6,865 people were burned on this spot." Carved on a piece of granite above that was a simple statement: "Thus the horrors of war, unleashed by Germany upon the whole world, came back to be visited upon our city."
Four eras have shaped Dresden: its Golden Age in the mid-18th century; the city's devastation in World War II; the communist regime (1945–1989); and the current "reconstruction after reunification" era. Each city sight provides a glimpse into this timeline, so I like to weave my sightseeing into a day-long stroll for the most comprehensive and meaningful visit. The highlights are conveniently clustered along the delightful Elbe River promenade, nicknamed the "Balcony of Europe."
I start at Theaterplatz, the main square and home to the statue of King John of Saxony, a mid-19th century ruler who preserved Saxon culture in Germany. The buildings in this square — like many Dresden landmarks — are reconstructed to resemble their pre-bombing facades. At the head of the square, the sprawling Zwinger palace was once the site of lavish royal celebrations hosted by the Wettin dynasty, which ruled Saxony for eight centuries. Today, this Baroque complex is filled with three museums, including the Old Masters Gallery, featuring works by Raphael, Titian, Rembrandt, and more.
Across the street, the Royal Palace, once destroyed, is being rebuilt — with galleries opening as they're completed. Here, I visit the Historic Green Vault. Wettin dynasty big-shot Augustus the Strong began his Baroque treasury collection here in the early 1700s, and the extravagant trove is clearly designed to wow. The ivory, silver, and gold knickknacks are dazzling examples of Gesamtkunstwerk — a symphony of artistic creations, though obnoxiously gaudy by today's tastes. (It's important to reserve tickets in advance; the number of visitors each day is limited to protect the collection.)
The highlight of my day is a stop at the symbol and soul of the city: the Frauenkirche (Church of our Lady). After World War II, the Frauenkirche was left a pile of rubble and turned into a peace monument. Only after Germany's 1990 reunification was the decision made to rebuild it completely and painstakingly. Over a decade and €100 million later, it reopened in 2005. Inside, the circular nave is bright, welcoming, and poignant, featuring a twisted old cross, which had once been the bright golden cross that topped the whole church, but fell 300 feet and burned in the bombing wreckage. Lost until restorers uncovered it from the debris in 1993, it stands exactly on the place where it was found — still relatively intact. The persistence of this cross symbolizes the themes of the church: rebirth, faith, and resolution.
The Frauenkirche towers over the Neumarkt, a once-central square ringed by rich merchants' homes. The eight quarters that surround the Neumarkt have been rebuilt to resemble the facades of the original structures, and the area is once again alive with bustling cafés. A statue of Martin Luther holding his self-translated Bible reminds passersby of the Reformation that began in nearby Wittenberg.
A short walk toward the water leads me to the end of the Balcony of Europe, where the Albertinum modern art museum boasts a fine collection of work by Gaugin, Monet, Picasso, and Rodin and other Romantic and contemporary masters.
Dresden's intense history and remarkable museums can be draining. To unwind after my walking tour, I head over to the New Town (Neustadt), across the river. The bombs missed most of this area, so it retains its well-worn, prewar character. With virtually no sights, the area is emerging as the city's lively people zone that's best after dark, when the funky Outer New Town sets the tempo for Dresden's trendy nightlife.
Today, Dresden is rebuilt, full of life, and wide-open for visitors. These streets paint a portrait of the city's highest highs and lowest lows. But in this era of cultural rebirth, Dresden is in its prime. | <urn:uuid:a652390d-661b-439d-b08d-93ad886c1494> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/read/articles/dresdens-inspiring-rebirth | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.945035 | 1,118 | 2.0625 | 2 |
In 1911, with his wife and children as his original workforce, Joseph Meriam began manufacturing U-Type Manometers in his garage. The need for durable, accurate pressure measuring instruments in the industrial revolution was driving the growth of the company. Within a few years, demand for Meriam products forced Mr. Meriam to move his business into a larger facility and hire a full workforce.
Years later, the growing need for the overhaul and repair of the stationary gasoline engine, one of Meriam’s other areas of expertise, became another stimulus to the growth of Meriam. The company’s work with power-generating gasoline engines led to the development of flow-measuring devices, one of Meriam’s core technologies today. To accommodate the repair work, the facility was expanded just in time to assist in the war effort.
During the war years and afterward, Meriam expanded the manometer line to contain hundreds of different configurations for different applications. The instruments were adapted to work in manufacturing processes to measure differential or gauge pressures. Absolute and vacuum gauge manometers were designed for use in everything from aviation to laboratories.
Other products were added to the line, such as differential pressure bellows gauges for heavy-duty applications. The flow product line continued to expand with the addition of annular average pitot tubes, laminar flow elements and orifice plates and flanges. Meriam had a mechanical solution to nearly every pressure or flow measurement need and many of these products are still in demand today.
The Meriam family sold the Meriam Instrument Company to the Scott & Fetzer Company in 1969. Today Meriam remains a Scott Fetzer Company. Meriam manufactures reliable and accurate measurement instrumentation including mechanical and electronic pressure indicators, analog and digital pressure transmitters, primary flow elements, handheld pressure, temperature and loop calibrators, handheld HART communicators, process indicators and complete flow systems.
Meriam products are used around the world in industries as diverse as Chemical, Petrochemical, Oil & Gas, Medical, Utilities, Automotive and Laboratory. Today, the company is recognized as a leading supplier of instrumentation and test and calibration equipment, utilizing the latest advances in technology and design while delivering superior performance. We are committed to providing uncompromising quality products with an impeccable support experience. | <urn:uuid:f6dbbe5f-5e2d-47c3-8d4a-09792c026860> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.meriam.com/about-us/press-release/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.955465 | 472 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Correction of Medial Patella Luxation
Function of the patella
The patella is an integral component of the extensor mechanism of the stifle joint, along with the quadriceps muscles.
To serve its function, the patella must remain in the trochlea, the groove at the distal end of the femur. The patella is anchored distally to the tibial tuberosity.
Small breeds of dogs often suffer from a medially luxating/luxated patella. Larger breeds can also suffer from patella luxation, either medially or laterally. Most of the time, the conditions affects both legs. Patella luxation, being usually a congenital problem, manifests itself at a young age. Left untreated, it results in abnormal development and wear of the stifle joint, osteoarthritis, and impaired hind leg function.
Correction of luxation
The correction consists in aligning the extensor mechanism (quadriceps muscles/patella) with the long axis of the leg and the trochlea. The most effective way to do that is to move the distal attachment of the patella in the opposite direction of the luxation. The trochlea is then deepened for further insurance against reluxation.
- The surgical incision needs to be evaluated daily; Report excessive swelling, redness, or drainage. Contact us regarding any concerns.
- Ice the surgical site a few times a day for 4 days
- Administer medication as prescribed
- Sutures need to be removed 10-14 days after surgery
- Confined to level surface (no stairs or furniture) for 3 weeks
- Supervised walk and, if possible, swimming/physical therapy starting 2 weeks post-op
- Resume all normal activities 6 weeks post-op
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Since 2016, Louis Vuitton has partnered with UNICEF to support the most vulnerable children around the world.
The aim of this global partnership is to raise funds for UNICEF and help support children who are exposed to conflict, diseases, natural disasters and other situations that threaten their safety and well-being.
Funds have been raised through the sale of a dedicated jewelry item, the Silver Lockit. It is a symbol of protection and was chosen to signify sealing one’s promise to help children in urgent need.
Thanks to the sales of the bracelets and pendant, the Louis Vuitton for UNICEF partnership has raised over $19 million since the 2016 launch.
The funds raised by Louis Vuitton for UNICEF have helped provide emergency support to children victims of:
In Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, the Rohingya refugee crisis continues to endanger the lives of hundreds of thousands of children and their families. Louis Vuitton’s support allowed UNICEF field workers to immunize around 57,000 children against measles, diphtheria and other diseases and provide almost 250,000 more Rohingya refugees with access to drinking water.
In March and April of 2019, Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe were hit successively by two cyclones, devastating everything in their path. Louis Vuitton’s support enabled UNICEF to meet the needs of vulnerable children and their families affected by the disaster and vaccinate more than 600,000 children - notably against measles, which can be fatal when children are already sick or malnourished.
The Syrian crisis is one of the biggest humanitarian crises of our time. As part of the humanitarian response to this crisis, Louis Vuitton supports UNICEF’s programs to help Syrian refugee children. Thanks to Louis Vuitton’s support, UNICEF was able to vaccinate 4 million children under the age of five against polio, improve access to drinking water for 14 million people and provide nearly 140,000 children with school supplies.
On April 25 and May 12, 2015, two major earthquakes left more than one million children in need of urgent humanitarian aid in Nepal. With Louis Vuitton’s support, UNICEF has worked to ensure all children in Nepal have access to vaccinations, safe drinking water and quality education since then.
UNICEF promotes the rights and well-being of every child, in everything we do. Together with our partners, we work in 190 countries and territories to translate that commitment into practical action, focusing special effort on reaching the most vulnerable and excluded children, to the benefit of all children, everywhere.
With €10, you fund the equivalent of 12,500 liters of drinkable water.
With €30, you fund the cost of 200 vaccinations against the polio virus.
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Flagellin subunits are important inducers of host immune responses through activation of TLR5 when extracellular and the inflammasome if cytosolic. Our previous work demonstrated that systemic immunization of cattle with flagella generates systemic and mucosal IgA responses. The IgA response in mice is TLR5-dependent and TLR5 can impact on the general magnitude of the adaptive response. However, due to sequence differences between bovine and human/murine TLR5 sequences, it is not clear whether bovine TLR5 (bTLR5) is able to stimulate an inflammatory response following interaction with flagellin. To address this we have examined the innate responses of both human and bovine cells containing bTLR5 to H7 flagellin from E. coli O157:H7. Both HEK293 (human origin) and embryonic bovine lung (EBL) cells transfected with bTLR5 responded to addition of H7 flagellin compared to non-transfected controls. Responses were significantly reduced when mutations were introduced into the TLR5-binding regions of H7 flagellin, including an R90T substitution. In bovine primary macrophages, flagellin-stimulated CXCL8 mRNA and secreted protein levels were significantly reduced when TLR5 transcript levels were suppressed by specific siRNAs and stimulation was reduced with the R90T-H7 variant. While these results indicate that the bTLR5 sequence produces a functional flagellin-recognition receptor, cattle immunized with R90T-H7 flagella also demonstrated systemic IgA responses to the flagellin in comparison to adjuvant only controls. This presumably either reflects our findings that R90T-H7 still activates bTLR5, albeit with reduced efficiency compared to WT H7 flagellin, or that other flagellin recognition pathways may play a role in this mucosal response.
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Financial Planning is an important activity focused on determining your needs and setting practical goals such as funding retirement, sending a child to college, or perhaps the purchase of a home. A financial professional can help you develop short-term and long-term goals designed to aid you in accomplishing these financial objectives. But is there value in paying for investment guidance?
The value of guidance and advice provided by a licensed and trained financial professional is hard to quantify. For some, the convenience of letting someone else handle the complexities of investing is invaluable. For others, professional advice and guidance can help provide a sense of financial security.
Prudent investing is based on the patient, disciplined application of a plan. In addition to helping you develop the plan, an experienced financial professional has an understanding of how markets have historically performed, the value of compounding, and the implications and consequences of taxes. Milestones in life often require the assistance of a professional, just as an illness might require a doctor’s advice and care.
Together, you and your financial professional can navigate the increasingly complex world of investing and financial planning.
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The Price of Procrastination
Even a small delay in implementing your financial plan can have monumental results. For example, a 35 year old man has $10,000 to invest in an IRA. If he made no further contributions and the account grew at a hypothetical 7% return for 30 years – until he retired at age 65 – it would be worth $81,160. That’s because compound and tax-deferred interest have enough time to work their magic. But just waiting 10 years to invest that same $10,000 can be costly. Assuming the same IRA at the same 7% return, the money grows for only 20 years and will be worth $40,380. Let’s look at it from another angle – investing on a monthly basis. Let’s assume you want to retire at age 65 with a nest egg of 250,000. Assuming a hypothetical 7% return, how much would you have to put aside each month to reach your goal?
The above illustration assumes an 7% hypothetical rate of return in a taxdeferred account during selected time periods. Such a rate of return for every time period is very unlikely. Rates of return will vary over time. This example is not intended as an indication of the actual performance of any fund or investment.
Developing and implementing a financial plan now could dramatically increase your chances of attaining your financial goals later on.
As you see, it’s important to understand the many variables of investing and financial planning, and deciding on a course of action can seem overwhelming. The value added guidance provided by a qualified financial professional is incalculable. Taking that first step to partner with someone who can help you with those decisions should provide you with an increased comfort level and the knowledge that, together, you’re both working toward the same goal – your financial independence. Let’s start targeting your strategy today!
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This page is for the classic Esri Story Maps templates. If you are looking for the newer story authoring experience, the ArcGIS StoryMaps app is available in ArcGIS Enterprise as of 10.8.1.
The Story Map Journal app template allows you to create apps to present a map-based narrative organized into a set of journal entries. This application is ideal for creating compelling multimedia stories that combine text, graphics, and maps, especially where you have a lot of text and detail you want to convey. When you configure a Map Journal, an interactive builder appears that makes it easy to create your story.
For more information, see Story Map Journal on the Story Maps website.
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Some 120,000 books from the collection of the National Library of Israel will go online in a collaboration between the library and Google.
The digitation process, which is expected to take about two years, is underway, the library said in a statement, which calls the process “complex.”
The books must be shipped in containers meeting strict climate-control and security requirements from the library located in Jerusalem to the Google digitization center in Germany.
The collection includes the library’s out-of-copyright books that have not yet been digitized.
About 45 percent are in Hebrew, Yiddish and Ladino, with the rest in languages including Latin, English, German, French, Arabic and Russian.
The collaboration is part of the Google Books project, which includes over 40 million books from over 70 major libraries in the United States, Europe and Japan, as well as from thousands of publishers. It includes books in over 400 languages, including Hebrew.
“We are very happy to be working with Google in fulfilling our mission to open access to the treasures of Jewish, Israeli and universal culture for diverse audiences across the globe,” Yaron Deutscher, head of Digital Access for the National Library, said in a statement. “More specifically, it is a significant contribution to our work opening digital access to all books published in the first 450 years of Hebrew printing.” | <urn:uuid:e7399947-193f-4dc4-97a7-31ca17970bd7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/israels-national-library-partners-with-google-to-digitize-120000-books | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.95511 | 299 | 1.984375 | 2 |
Among great economic achievements of HCMC is the impressive recovery of the trading, service, and industry sectors, along with bustling import-export activities. These three, which have been kept stable since the end of 2021, are the foundation for such meaningful economic accomplishments.
If this recovery pace continues, the economic status of the city for the last 6 months this year is truly promising, turning completely back to the time before the Covid-19 outbreak. This means the estimated growth rate of 6-7 percent for 2022 compared to 2019 and 2020 can be fulfilled.
Experts in the field, however, have always raised the question whether it is possible to reach a higher goal when may supporting policies are in effect.
Statistics from the aspects of public investment, public resource mobilization, construction, and real estates reveal a decrease of 10 percent compared to this time previous years, meaning certain ineffectiveness in addressing existing economic issues.
In addition, the administrative reform has been initiated but the results are not as expected when HCMC is only in the average group. This has asked for a long-term campaign to create good habits in public services.
In the next 6 months, it is advisable to prioritize economic recovery for a quicker growth rate. The three pillars of the city economy should be maintained as the leaders for post-pandemic economic activities. There must also be adjustments of businesses to better adapt in the post-pandemic period, in hope of creating more breakthroughs after such a painful time.
More importantly, congestions in administrative reform must be tackled. The People’s Committees at all levels must try to increase the administrative reform indexes via improvements in performance, practical programs to accelerate the progress of current projects in the city, so that estimated positive results in the third quarter will become the foundation for the fulfillment of goals in the last one. Strict human resource management measures should be applied to improve the quality of weak staff while encouraging more commitment from capable officials.
Major projects in HCMC like Ring Road No.3, Metro Route 1 and 2, Moc Bai Expressway, Thu Thiem 4 Bridge, Xuyen Tam Channel, water supply – drainage system, social housing must receive more attention. The beauty and culture aspects of the city should be properly taken care of during special events like the Independence Day, New Year Day.
Obviously, experience gained from this historic post-pandemic time, when used appropriately, will become the motive force more even stronger socio-economic development of HCMC in the future. | <urn:uuid:ec64d290-ee08-4037-bc02-a3d80c40c86d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sggpnews.org.vn/business/hcmc-enjoying-great-achievements-in-economic-recovery-100142.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.944155 | 511 | 1.570313 | 2 |
There is some discussion about the age of the “Rig Veda.” While modern Western scholars tend to date its creation around 1500 B.C.E., other great yogis and scholars date it to before 4000 B.C.E., perhaps as early as 12,000 B.C.E.
Many of the mantras in the “Rig Veda” are hymns to the gods, asking them for help and benefits like health, wealth and long life. Besides hymns of praise, the mantras contain blessings and curses. Originally, the mantras were meant to be chanted as part of religious rituals and this was the main way in which the people communicated with the gods.
The “Rig Veda” is said to be the Veda of mantra. Mantra is the foundation of Vedic yoga, the oldest form of yoga. The “Rig Veda” contains the oldest iterations of many Sanskrit mantras. Many aspects of Vedic science — like the practice of yoga, meditation, mantra and Ayurveda — can be found in the “Rig Veda,” and many of its teachings are still being used in these practices today. | <urn:uuid:8cfa6c67-fcfa-4b0f-a57f-61b2b1b22478> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://swadharme.com/what-is-rig-veda-definition-from-yogapedia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.972757 | 253 | 3.421875 | 3 |
Janet Laurence: The Pharmacy of Plants
By Prudence Gibson
NewSouth Books, 192pp, A$49.99, 2015
Reviewed by Sigi Jöttkandt
© all rights reserved. Printer friendly PDF version.
In the early part of the twentieth century the Indian biophysicist Sir Jagadish Bose invented an instrument for measuring plant growth. Called the ‘magnetic crescograph’, it enabled Bose to detect extremely tiny movements in the plant. So delicate was the apparatus, it compressed plant growth to a series of pulses. Picked up by the crescograph’s magnetic forces, the plant’s notoriously slow growth could be magnified tens of millions of times, enabling Bose to record its movement within a time-frame of mere seconds. The pulses showed how, far from insensate, plants are affected by the slightest of touches, and that it takes time to recover from such contact. Under such extreme magnification, plants were found to grow at a normal rate at the equivalent of 36 inches per second but as soon as they were exposed to or ‘made to imbibe’ soda water, the growth immediately ‘exalted’ by an order of ten. In contrast, ‘a puff of tobacco smoke’ was shown to instantly retard the rate (Bose 156). The crescograph demonstrated that plants are profoundly attuned to changes in the world around them, responding to passing clouds, to the sounds of crickets and even to music. Bose called the recordings of the crescograph the ‘automatic writing’ of the plant. In a lecture delivered in 1918 at Bombay University, he addressed the idea of a ‘hidden history’ of the life of the plant. Do plants write their own autographs, he wondered, and can these be made legible to the human eye?
In Janet Laurence: The Pharmacy of Plants, Prudence Gibson and Janet Laurence have created a sort of ‘aesthetic crescograph’ that would measure the effect of art’s contact with plants. This collaboration between an artist and a philosopher documents Laurence’s life-long artistic engagements with vegetal elements in their capacities as tonic and tinctures, structures and systems, and as mediations and connections between the Earth and the atmophere. However, The Pharmacy of Plants is much more than a work of art criticism. It is an extended reflection on the intersection of writing, art and the ‘nature’ of thought itself.
Following on from The Rapture of Death (2010), Gibson emerges in her second book as one of Australia’s leading voices in the developing field of plant philosophy. Seemingly a mere off-shoot from contemporary animal studies, plant studies would in fact fundamentally reframe the way we think about ‘nature’. The Moscow-born philosopher, Michael Marder, a leading exponent of what he calls ‘plant-thinking’, proposes we consider plants not merely as representatives of certain species within a biological kingdom that subsists alongside (or underneath) the animal world. Rather, they act as a synecdoche for what we call ‘nature’ itself. This synecdochal relation requires a sort of perspectival shift in which a part, coming to stand for the whole, forces a radical rethinking of the entire order of things, including the place of humanity in the natural world. It has been a long time since we thought we could occupy a position as its centre. But plant-thinking also disabuses us of the idea we inhabit a sort of parallel or sister kingdom for which the plant world acts as the life-support. As Marder remarks in his own artist/philosopher collaboration with Anaïs Tondeur, The Chernobyl Herbarium, ‘Plants […] break through concrete, growing in its cracks and upturning massive slabs with their roots. They open everything and everyone to the outside’ (50). From the perspective of plant-thinking, one must therefore begin from a more disturbing proposition, an ancestral heritage of a vegetal life engaged in very different processes of ‘thought’ and perception.
Marder’s conceptualization of plant-thinking is clearly in the background of Gibson’s sensitive and descriptive accounts of Laurence’s plant art. Gibson’s lambent prose lights our way through a number of Laurence’s key exhibitions such as Waiting (17th Biennale of Sydney, 2010); Elixir (Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Japan, 2003); Treelines Track (site-specific walking track, Bundanon Homestead, NSW, 2015-2016); Fugitive (Animate/Inanimate, TarraWarra Museum of Art, 2012) among many others. Laurence’s breathtakingly beautiful work is depicted in a central spread of colour photographs in this elegantly designed book. Each of Laurence’s artworks acts as an invitation for Gibson’s extended reflections on how one might ‘be’ in a world in a way that is as responsive to its environment as the plant. Along with Marder, Gibson solicits other contemporary thinkers of what can be loosely called the ‘new materialism’—Timothy Morton, Ben Woodard, Karen Barad, Levi Bryant, Isabelle Stengers—whose work acts as sounding chambers for her reflections on what she calls ‘green thinking’. ‘Green thinking’, Gibson explains, ‘is a means of politicizing aesthetics, including art. This politicization is also a writing method […] as I write about Laurence’s work’ (16).
It transpires that what ‘green thinking’ addresses is precisely the shock the environment is experiencing from the human touch called climate change. If art in Laurence’s sensitive and surgically skilled hands emerges as a precise instrument for registering this shock, Gibson’s writing submits these results to an acute analysis. This takes in the overlapping registers of care and cure, of capture and culture, drawing inspiration from Jacques Derrida’s play on the word pharmakon as both remedial drug and poison. Woven through Gibson’s discussion of the paradoxes and potential dangers of eco-centrism is a reflexive attention to the work of writing itself. If Laurence’s art is implicated in a kind of ‘performance’ that contains magical or alchemical powers, if it constantly asks after the politics of visibility as she wraps, enshrouds, catalogues or displays under glass a plant world in a state of what Alain Badiou would call ‘inappearing’, so do Gibson’s words. Both artist and writer engage the power of representation as a means for making perceptible something unseen. As Gibson writes of Laurence (but also implicitly of her own words), ‘she works to create a tension between life and afterlife, past and future, being and non-being. Her shrouds or veils [or words] became the slender spaces between’ (54).
Plant-thinking, in Gibson’s perceptive intelligence, ultimately becomes a model for how one might materially engage cognitive processes. Gibson comments, ‘Where philosophers “think” through their experiences of nature, artists “think” through their materials. For Janet Laurence, it is a complementary process of the two’. Gibson goes on to cite Laurence as saying, ‘I used to be obsessed with painting, with mixing different colours for my palette to represent nature. Now nature has become my materials’ (98). In similar fashion, nature becomes the materials for Gibson as a model for thought itself. The book wanders across the terrain it covers as a series of shoots and tendrils that constantly circle back around to her fundamental questions: how to live ethically, what we might learn from the vegetal world in order to do so, what role art might play in developing and expanding our perception of the world, and how writing and thinking are actively implicated in this project.
Janet Laurence: The Pharmacy of Plants is, then, a form of plant autography that jointly documents a ‘hidden history’ of the life of the plant and its own relation to us. Sir Jagadish Bose discovered that, instinct with sensibility, plants are in fact in constant communication with the world around them. Through their philosophical/aesthetic collaboration, Laurence and Gibson have created an exquisitely sensitive receptor for seeing and reading that answering signal.
[sta_anchor id=”bio”]Sigi Jöttkandt is a Senior Lecturer in English at the Centre for Modernist Studies in Australia, UNSW, and a co-founding Director of Open Humanities Press <www.openhumanitiespress.org>
Badiou, Alain. Handbook of Inaesthetics. Trans. Alberto Toscano. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2004.
Bose, Jagadish Chander. Sir Jagadish Chander Bose: His Life, Discoveries and Writings. Madras: Nateson and Co., 1921.
Gibson, Prudence. The Rapture of Death. Sydney: Boccalatte Publishing, 2010.
Marder, Michael. Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life. Foreword Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala. New York: Columbia UP, 2013.
Marder, Michael, and Anaïs Tondeur. The Chernobyl Herbarium: Fragments of an Exploded Consciousness. London: Open Humanities Press, 2016. <http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/the-chernobyl-herbarium/>. | <urn:uuid:fd45a722-00dc-4333-9343-8b812711eb4b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://australianhumanitiesreview.org/2016/04/10/review/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.930001 | 2,074 | 2.46875 | 2 |
Molecular cloning and characterisation of the mouse preprogalanin gene
Using a probe obtained by PCR amplification from mouse genomic DNA, a genomic clone was isolated covering the entire mouse preprogalanin gene. The mouse gene has an exon:intron organisation very similar to that of the rat and human genes. The first exon is noncoding while exons 2-5 carry the coding region. Exon 6 also encodes the stop codon and a polyadenylation signal. The deduced amino-acid sequence of mouse preprogalanin is 94% and 68% identical to the rat and human peptide, respectively. The amino-acid sequence of mouse galanin was confirmed by RT-PCR amplification of mouse brain RNA. The cloning of the mouse galanin gene should allow elucidation of the regulatory characteristics of its promoter and facilitate transgenic approaches to the analysis of galanin gene function in this species.
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The objective of the domain Sustainable Cities is to accelerate low-carbon economic growth and improve the quality of life for people in urban areas of Ukraine.
Switzerland prioritises better municipal energy management. It will expand its work on integrated urban development and sustainable urban mobility.
Selected small and medium-sized cities, including in eastern Ukraine, will prioritise new or rehabilitate old municipal infra-structure, provide affordable low-carbon and economically viable heating services and favour resource-efficient production through enhanced energy management, stronger local capacities and policy dialogue.
Partner cities will also improve public transport and promote user-friendly public spaces thanks to improved strategic planning and the development of multi-modal mobility systems.
These measures rely on inter-departmental cooperation within municipalities and on private sector and civil society participation, in particular women, low-mobility groups and internally displaced persons (IDPs). In the long run, cities’ attractiveness for investors and residents will be increased, sustainable economic growth will be fostered and the quality of life in urban areas will be enhanced in support of SDG 11.
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“Net zero means that you may have some emissions, but you’re going to offset them in another way…When you talk about net zero buildings, meaning…that it’s generating as much energy as it’s using. But when you talk about a utility commitment to be net zero by 2030, 2035, 2040, they may mean net zero in….the energy they produce to sell to customers. They may mean net zero across the organization.” Janet Gail Besser on Electric Ladies Podcast
Companies and governments announce their “net zero” goals, saying they will get to net zero by 2030 or 2035, for example, but what does that really mean and how will they do it? If you work in an organization that made this commitment, you also need to figure out how you’ll guide your organization that way.
Listen to Janet Gail Besser of Smart Electric Power Alliance explain “net zero” and their framework any organization can use to get there in this fascinating interview with Electric Ladies host Joan Michelson. (Electric Ladies was formerly known as Green Connections Radio.)
- What net zero really means, for companies, utilities, buildings and more.
- A 5 point framework that organizations can use to get to net zero, regardless of where their power comes from or how they use it.
- How to hold companies and organizations accountable for their net zero commitments.
- How utilities and the grid can transition to net zero, using innovation.
- Plus, insightful career advice.
And much more!
“There are a lot of new opportunities. And so one piece of advice I give is to be open to anything. If you have been at a utility for 15 years, look around at some of …the new technology providers, look at some of the startups, look at some of the opportunities in clean energy finance, if that matches your skillset. Look beyond where you are now at what’s happening and be open to new opportunities. My other big ad advice is network, join the organizations that are supporting women and energy in the environment.“ Janet Gail Besser on Electric Ladies podcast
Read Joan’s Forbes articles here.
You’ll also want to listen to (some of these are under the name Green Connections Radio):
- Meredyth Crichton, Clemson University Energy Innovation Unit, on the grid, wind and solar power.
- Jennifer Gerbi, Ph.D., Deputy Director and Acting Director, ARPA-E, the innovation arm of the Department of Energy
- Michele Wucker, thought leaders and author of “You Are What You Risk: The New Art & Science to Navigating an Uncertain World.”
- Kathryn Pavlovsky, Deloitte Energy, Resources & Industrials, on the energy transformation and ESG
- Kristen Sullivan, Deloitte Sustainability & Supply Chain practice, on companies “doing” ESG, and the supply chain.
- Roberta Rincon, Society of Women Engineers, Director of Research, on the status and careers of women in various types of engineering roles.
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Princeton University Library’s Arabic Movie Posters and Lobby Cards Collection was acquired in Lebanon in 2008 and is comprised of 1,748 posters and 768 lobby cards. Egyptian posters predominate with 1,474, reflecting the unchallenged prominence of Egypt in the production of Arabic feature films. Some 150 posters are for Lebanese films, 113 Syrian and 11 Iraqi. The purpose of the posters was to advertize coming attractions, and they represent films produced from 1935 to 2007. Most of the posters are on standard Arab single-sheet size paper. However, many are on non-standard sheets. Similarly, there are posters that are composed on multiple sheets, including some on twenty-four sheets meant for display on the side of multi-story buildings. The lobbies cards, also for coming attractions and meant for display in theater lobbies, are composed of multiple still shots taken on movie sets and affixed to standard–sized cardboard. They represent 172 films produced in Egypt (145), Lebanon (13) and Syria (14) from 1964 to 2007.
The Lobby Cards Collection is now available in the Princeton University Digital Library. The entirety of the Poster Collection has been digitized and the majority of the collection is now accessible to scholars and students through the Princeton University Digital Library.
The study of Middle Eastern popular visual culture is still in its formative stage; it is hoped that Princeton University Library’s Arabic Movie Poster Collection and its availability online will contribute to the efflorescence of this burgeoning field.
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Cairo: al-Cinema al-'Arabiyah, H. Gassour Printing
Director: Togo Mizrahi (1905-1986)
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Please Your task for this assignment is write a one-page paper double-spaced for both articles attached. Which means two pages in total. Explanation of its relevance to brand management. Related to branding awareness and how could that effect the company.
1) Mazda recalls close to 190k cars.
2) Some of new Samsung’s new fold phones are breaking
Below are some questions to help write this paper.
- What could the brand have learned from the incident?
- What could they have done differently?
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Today, LeanIn.Org, the women's nonprofit I founded in 2013, launched Together Women Can, a public awareness campaign celebrating the power of women supporting each other. The campaign emphasizes that women can be powerful allies for each other at work -- and are uniquely qualified to do so because we experience many of the same challenges. When a woman helps another woman, they both benefit. And when women celebrate one another's accomplishments, we're all lifted up.
I asked Arianna Huffington (one of my own biggest workplace allies!) about leaning in, supporting one another, and creating a new version of success. Here's what she had to say.
1. What advice would you offer to women who want to lean in?
We have to remember that the culture still prevailing in many workplaces women are trying to make their way into was created by men, and is dominated by the antiquated notion that burnout is a sign of dedication and commitment. This culture is certainly harmful to men too, but it's women who suffer the most from it--both because women process stress differently and because even when women succeed at work, they're still doing the lion's share of the work at home, too. So women have to both lean in and lead the way in changing how our workplaces are structured.
So part of leaning in means not trying to outdo men chasing a flawed notion of success. There's a French expression I love, "reculer pour mieux sauter," which, loosely translated, means leaning back in order to jump higher. That's what cats do. And by leaning back, we become much more effective at leaning in.
That means acknowledging the value of caring for our human capital -- including getting enough sleep. It also means, as they tell us on airplanes, putting your own oxygen mask on first -- taking care of yourself to create the space to listen to your own wisdom and intuition. Not because you are selfish, but because that is how you are going to be at your best and most effective. You shouldn't have to lose yourself to advance yourself.
2. This campaign is about how women can accomplish amazing things when we support each other. You've been such a tremendous source of strength and support to me personally and professionally. Who are the women that have supported you in your career?
First and foremost, my mother. She gave me such a sense of unconditional loving while encouraging me to go for my dreams that I was not afraid to take risks and fail, because I knew that she wouldn't love me any less if I did. And now that my daughters are in their 20s, they have morphed from being my children, for whom I am naturally a constant source of support, to being my friends and a tremendous source of strength and support for me. They are full of advice about what I should or should not be doing at work and always pushing me to take more risks and never settle.
The support I've received from women, both personally and professionally, has shown me over and over again the importance of creating what I call a tribe -- people who will always be in your corner, always there for you, in good times and tough times, whether you are succeeding for failing. And you, of course are a charter member of my little tribe!
3. What is the most important thing women can do to help each other at work?
To be there for other women not just during the big moments of obvious success or failure, but in all the small ways in which the workplace culture isn't there for them. Even though we are in the middle of a culture shift, with the role of men at home dramatically changing, at the moment there are far too many ways in which women's needs fall through the cracks -- like needing to leave early for a sick child, or being tired after being up all night with a newborn. These are opportunities in which women can support each other, until we get to a place where women no longer feel like they have to choose between their life at work and their life outside work. At the moment the status quo in far too many companies assumes that the only way to signal your dedication is to give your attention to work 24/7 -- and that's actually a backdoor way of excluding women, or at least diminishing their contributions. Another important way for women to help each other at work is to encourage them to know their value and stand up and speak out for what they want.
4. Two of the most important women in your life are your amazing daughters. What is some advice you have offered them to help them thrive?
As they'll tell you, I harangue them all the time about sleep, not burning out, taking care of themselves and making time in their lives to recharge. There's an occasional eye-roll, but for the most part they've taken my advice -- and sometimes I even catch them evangelizing to others! So I know they get it. And I've reinforced the advice you've given in Lean In, which they have now taken to heart: "What would you do if you weren't afraid?"
5. If you could change one thing for the next generation of women, what would it be and why?
That they no longer buy into our collective delusion that burnout is the price we must pay for success.
6. I've heard you talk about how we need to change the definition of success and women can be the ones to help accomplish this. What does this new version of success look like and how can women be a part of this?
It's about redefining success beyond just money and power/status to make room for well-being, wisdom, wonder and the power of giving. And because women are not yet as invested in the status quo, we're in the best position to not only take our place at the top of the world, but to change it.
7. You've often talked about how your mother taught you how to reach for the stars and that "failure is not the opposite of success, but the stepping stone to success." What advice do you have for women on how to reach for the stars and redefine failure?
To me it's really redefining failure as an inevitable part of success, and that redefinition makes it much easier to accept it as an opportunity to learn. It can even be an opportunity for intimacy and connection -- yes, it's fun to succeed with your friends and coworkers, but going through failure together can also breed connection and intimacy. You see each other at your most vulnerable, and if you're not afraid or ashamed of failing -- and in my experience women, unfortunately, are more likely to have these fears -- that can be a powerful experience. I strongly believe that we are not put on this earth just to accumulate victories and trophies and avoid failures; but rather to be whittled and sandpapered down until what's left is who we truly are. | <urn:uuid:7a6824d0-6abb-4869-9451-418259940cfd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/together-women-can-celebrating-the-power-of-women-helping-women-at-work_b_10622996 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.978733 | 1,410 | 1.742188 | 2 |
The Mammoth Lakes region features backpacking trails that crisscross forests -- including Inyo National Forest -- and scale mountains. The Seven Lakes hike refers to Seven Lakes Point, a singular spot where backpackers can view lakes Mary Jane, George, Horseshoe, TJ, Mamie and the Twin Lakes. Although not meticulously maintained, the approach to Seven Lakes Point draws hikers for its unusual sites along the volcanic ridge and the basin of Mammoth Lakes.
Seven Lakes Point Trailhead
The principal location for accessing the Seven Lakes Point trail is at the Twin Lakes Campground near near Tamarack Lodge and Resort. Backpackers can start on the trail that winds behind site 31, progressing around site 34 until branching away from the campground and into a series of switchbacks. Another option entails riding on Mammoth Mountain Main Lodge Panorama Station's gondola to reach the summit. Disembark and proceed downhill until you reach the Twin Lakes trailhead. This second approach requires having two vehicles because the lodge and the trailhead are on opposite slopes of Mammoth Mountain.
Hiking to Seven Lakes Point from the campground offers many viewpoints en route. The Bottomless Pit features a sheer, bottomless ravine carved in volcanic rock. As you climb the switchbacks to Dragon's Back overlook, you will increase altitude quickly, providing a panoramic view extending toward Nevada's White Mountains and Boundary Peak. The peak of Seven Lakes Point trail affords views of Mammoth Mountain's ski area and mountain bike trails.
This loop trail is demanding. Backpackers experience an elevation gain of about 1,700 feet. The campground trailhead stands at 8,600 feet in altitude and the peak at 10,150 feet in altitude. Sections of the trail are slippery because of crumbling rock and loose gravel. Plenty of switchbacks make for accessible climbing but a slow approach to the peak.
The Mammoth Mountain area has extensive backcountry areas for backpackers and campers. Conditions are primitive, so inquire about trails and weather conditions before attempting a longer jaunt. If you opt to camp overnight, you must obtain a wilderness permit. Backcountry trails in the summer treat you to verdant alpine meadows and crystalline lakes. In the autumn, night is cold and mornings crisp. You will see brilliant leaf colors on the cottonwood, willow and aspen trees.
Decent signage, mileage markers and wooden posts define the Seven Lakes region's trails. If you see animal tracks, they might belong to the area's bighorn sheep. Backcountry hikes and camping require your using bear-resistant containers for your food.
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Warriors for God would like you to join them as they study the Gospel of John. It will be simple! The only thing you need to do is have a Bible and follow along as we read through the chapters of John over the coming weeks. You are welcome to give feedback through comments or just learn new things from each section.
The Gospel of John is meant to strengthen one’s knowledge of Christ and salvation.Let’s begin with some facts about the Book of John:
– Did you know that the Gospel of John is the most recommended book in the Bible for new Christians to read? Leon Morris wrote that John’s Gospel is a pool in which both a child can wade in and an elephant can swim in.
– John’s purpose in writing his book was to strengthen the church for the long period of time before the 2nd coming of Christ.
– John really wanted believers to abide in Christ and depend on His word.
– John emphasizes the need to truly know Christ through a continual trust and connection instead of one moment of confession.
– Gospel of John is known for the 7 statements of “I am”
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Whether you’re working from home, studying online or just wanting to enjoy your devices in your free time, it’s never fun when the internet simply “cuts out”. If WiFi dropouts make you want to drop your bundle, don’t despair – we’ve handpicked seven tips to help you get reconnected.
Try a reboot
A good old fashioned reboot can work wonders for a lot of technical problems. It’s worth turning off your router for a few minutes, then turning it back on again, before trying any other WiFi fixes. While you’re there, make sure your router is connected to the primary phone point and there are no filters or splitters degrading the quality of your phone line.
Find the culprit
If your device simply drops off your WiFi, you’ll want to find out if other devices have the same issue. Make sure you check the settings on every device being affected, confirming everything is functioning correctly. Similarly, if you have a connection problem with a device hardwired to your router, such as a computer over ethernet, consider trying a new cable.
Check the equipment
Cables have a limited lifespan, and a compromised one going to your modem or router can wreak havoc on your WiFi performance. Routers can also go bad after a number of years, so if it’s really old, you may want to replace it. Equipment failure can also be caused by outdated firmware or drivers on your modem. Check the manufacturer website and try updating to the latest version. Not sure what to do? Contact our Technical Support team and they can walk you through it over the phone.
Know your WiFi strength
If a device drops off the network it might be due to distance – especially if it’s near the edge of that WiFi network. While you can move a portable device closer to the router, sometimes actually moving your router to a central location, with the help of professional cabling by tech2, can work wonders. Do you have a large home or multiple levels? We can also help you enlarge your WiFi footprint by installing a mesh system or WiFi extenders.
Consider your other devices
Your home WiFi network may get overloaded as your list of wireless devices continues to grow. Either these devices will each compete for their space on the network or they may cause radio interference with each other. You can experiment with moving some of these devices from the 2.4GHz band to 5GHz to distribute the bandwidth better. But if the whole family is streaming entertainment and gaming online simultaneously, it might be worth giving some of these devices a break or turning them off temporarily to take the strain off your WiFi network. Remember, these types of interruptions are more likely to happen during peak periods – for example, in the evening when everyone in your neighbourhood is watching Netflix on a Friday night.
Address in home wiring
If your home wasn’t built recently you may have copper cables in your walls that are wired for a plain old telephone service (POTS) line. While this setup may have worked fine for ADSL, it is not well suited to modern nbn fibre technologies. Multiple phone sockets in your home points to star wiring, which can cause havoc on WiFi connections. If you suspect your in-home wiring is causing issues, our technicians can come into your home, test the wiring and fix it.
Consider what’s going on outside
An internet dropout can sometimes be caused by an issue outside your property, for example, damaged or faulty network infrastructure, or weather conditions such as rain, wind and flood. There could also be upgrades taking place on the network, fixes, planned outages or even emergency outages. You can check online with nbn if there is any maintenance/outages at your address here.
You can also check with your internet service provider (ISP) to see if there is an outage in the area. It’s normal for your internet speeds to slow a little during peak times of the day, which could fall within business hours from 8am to 5pm, early evening hours from 5pm to 8pm and evening hours from 8pm to 11pm. If you suspect there is a problem, we can diagnose the issue in-person during our in-home internet assessment, giving you the information you need to provide to your ISP to get it fixed. | <urn:uuid:feb83eef-5652-4ab5-8ff6-6803953020ab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tech2.com.au/teched/7-tips-for-tackling-wifi-dropouts/page/2/?et_blog | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.941297 | 896 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Injured afferent neurons produce spontaneous activity that is generated away from the normal impulse generation site. Since this activity, referred to as ectopic discharges, may play a significant role in neuropathic pain, it is important to systematically analyze the activity in various pain states. The present study used the segmental spinal nerve injury model of neuropathic pain to quantify the ectopic discharges from injured afferents in the neuropathic rat under various conditions. All aspects of measured ectopic discharges declined as postoperative time lengthened. Neuropathic pain behaviors declined in a similar fashion over the same time period. Surgical sympathectomy on neuropathic animals lowered the level of ectopic discharges along with neuropathic pain behaviors. The data indicate that the level of ectopic discharges is well correlated with that of pain behaviors in a rat neuropathic pain model, and this reinforces the supposition that ectopic discharges are important to the maintenance of neuropathic pain behaviors. The data suggest that there are two components of ectopic discharge generator mechanisms: sympathetically dependent and sympathetically independent components. Copyright (C) 2000 International Association for the Study of Pain. Published by Elsevier Science B.V.
- Central sensitization
- Dorsal root ganglion
- Ectopic discharges
- Sympathetically maintained pain
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Clinical Neurology
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Challenges in implementing the precautionary principle in the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity
Translating principles into practice
In the last three decades, there has been sufficient growth in the volume and importance of environmental law and policy. This has brought many significant improvements at the time of managing the environmental which also generates important question regarding the ways through which public and private institutions could manage scientific uncertainty at the time of undertaking decision regarding the practices which impacts the environment on diverse grounds. In this respect, it can be said that the precautionary principle is greatly adopted by several bodies that aids in generating the solution and this collection is also crucial in terms of exploring its potential. Overall level of environmental degradation is increasing; thus considering the same Environmental related laws have been developed. Considering the same, it can be said that some of the damage is not surprising.
Cause- effect relationship have been clear; however at the same time political, economic and social trade- offs have allowed the damaging actions to occur since it keeps on changing. In a few cases, there has been scientific uncertainty regarding the outcomes of the actions; but it also generates a reasonable possibility that results in damaging the environment. However, in other situations, negative outcomes have been a surprise as the activities have been thought to be safe and secure. The exhaustion that happens in the stratospheric ozone layer through emissions of chlorofluorocarbons is one of the examples of such thing. Thus, it should be made clear immediately that the precautionary principle is greatly integrated with the second of these examples wherein situations shows scientific uncertainty which is also recognized in regard to the environmental outcomes of our activity.
Therefore, it is essential to find out the requirement to deal with scientific uncertainty that has been a recurring theme in environmental law and policy. Recognition of increasing environmental degradation by the early 1970s have generated the need of critical decision making process and tools that aids to expect harm from human activities. Thus, according to that, appropriate measures needs to be taken for the purpose of migrating or preventing damage. Thus, as per the analysis, precautionary principle can be considered as an approach that has always been taken to some extent for the purpose of protecting environmental dimensions. Therefore, it is also identified that a number of themes have been developed in social science, philosophy and law which together have led to the precautionary principle. This can be regarded as a logical conclusion which brings numerous development which occurs both on practical and philosophical levels especially in western culture.
Henceforth, it includes the failure of environmental management approaches such as the assimilative capacity approach and risk assessment to stop environmental degradation. This also gives acceptance of the concept of intergenerational equity; thus legal concerns are increasing over the problems with the burden of proof in environmental matters. At the same time, it also increases awareness of the complexity of environmental issues; hence this has emerged the concept of new sciences which includes Chaos theory and which also brings many questions related to the practices that are based on simple models of preventing the environment.
At the time of implementing precautionary principle into practice, several issues arise such as execution of policy into practice. Since, it includes several stages; therefore it is crucial to consider all the principal facets. Such framework is also useful in providing aid so as to implement the rules mentioned in the precautionary principle which also aids in conserving biodiversity and natural resource management. These guidelines are being formulated because it crucially focuses on forestry, fisheries and protected areas. Incorporating the precautionary principle explicitly should be there on appropriate level so that policy framework could be changed accordingly. This could also result in conservation of natural resource management. Thus, it can be said that application of the principle needs to have a legal policy which has adequate control through the organized system of governance.
At the same time, it has also led to the development of resource institutions that aids in carrying out several research regarding challenges and issues that is concerned with decision making aspects about the protection of natural resource management. Furthermore, there must a concise and particular aspect that defines measures that deals in operational values and this must be clearly implemented so as to reach towards specific outcomes. Thus, in terms of stating about the effects of conservation, it needs to translate the policy formation with operational measures so that the issues related to conservation problems can be ascertained and it also identifies practices that needs to be adopted in specific areas. Therefore, the implementation is also necessary as there is a need for flexibility and it also requires particular decision aspects that are regarded with policy measures. The support it provides also changes as per the time according to transformed circumstances.
For the purpose of safeguarding the environmental values, the precautionary principle is essential to be implemented as per the capabilities of the states. The situations that are hazardous for the environment should not allow the use of scientific certainty as it postpone cost as this is an effective way to minimize the possible issues related to environment deprivation. Further, precautionary situations are generally risk associated wherein casual chain (that moves from hazards to final impacts) shows some uncertain effects because of the presence of casual relationship that can neither be established nor rejected. Without the incorporation of these principles in law or policy, it may have little influence on practice. However, at the same time, there is also a need for flexibility in applied principles that requires specific decision and management policy measures in the same domain as it results in supporting for conservation purposes.
From the underlying challenges, it can be said that the threats that are included in conservation and protection aspects have a huge impact on several and changeable activities and decisive aspects. Therefore, all such reasons and hazardous elements are required to be addressed suitably as it requires efforts that are made to determine the known and unknown facts. This also states that the level of knowledge can be improvised; therefore there must be several aspects that can ignore the areas of uncertainty. At the same time, it also brings several challenges that could lead to conserve the resources by detecting and analysing the level of threats.
Further, the frameworks is also required to analyse diverse alternatives so that the best practical solution can be ascertained which can also work in minimizing and reducing the level of threats. Therefore, at the same time, in this respect it can be said that significances and challenges that are developed from such courses are required to be accessed as such threats may have short term or long term effects. Proper roles and responsibilities are also required to be allocated so that it can aid in managing all the activities that are related to conservation of environment and biodiversity. However, if such thing includes diverse additional groups that conducts their responsibilities and investment aspects that are highly powerful in terms of financial and technical aspects.
However, in some of the circumstances, there are various alternatives present which will also develop different challenges related to environmental conservation and in that case, the direction for accessing threats should be included. At the same time, when several decisions are made to deal with the uncertain condition, it imperatively requires to be apparent and to respond to the uncertainty so that the work of precautionary principle can be carried out in suitable way. Along with this, it is also crucial to ensure that transparency is being maintained and that it can provide a concise dimension that includes monitoring and feedback collection in decision making procedure. In this aspect, a reasonable balance is required to be struck out among the measures developed in precautionary conservative ways and this also have integration with several other aspects that brings varied threats while implementing it. Thus, it highly needs to consider the level of uncertainty especially at the time of dealing with precautionary principle.
The process of implementing precautionary principle is relevant in all the variants of scientific uncertainty that appears to have caused confusion and is on ongoing source of debate. Thus, in this case, a precautionary approach can be regarded as highly useful component and process of ecosystem whose impacts and consequences may develop other issues. This also generates other risks and challenges if not implemented properly and this also occurs at the time when precautionary principle is applied. Henceforth, precaution and risk management are not important until the risk factors are identified in the situations that warranty proper execution of the precautionary principle. However, it also needs to include all the situations that can be thought of as imposing potential risks. In terms of generalized aspects, implementation of precautionary principle requires safeguarding environmental facets so that species in the ecosystem can be managed suitably.
However, on the other hand in several domains, application of precautionary principle seems to be an unusual concept that requires proper strategic implementation. While, on the other hand, several ways of precaution could also be executed as an important dimension that aids in conserving the biodiversity and along with that, challenges also arise while executing principles that requires consideration for a wide range of issues. Thus, the development of the principle could affect other strategic aspects if they are not managed suitably. For example- there are varied development aspects that lies in precautionary principle is included and also shows lesser impacts on the execution procedure of precautionary principle which is an important aspect that changes the execution procedure.
Extent and nature of uncertainty
It is identified that the operative measures are used for the purpose of executing precautionary principle which also depicts its impacts and this definitely changes as per the requirements of the environmental facets. This is greatly associated with the risk aspects through which it develops and the capacity of interest risks that prevails in management practices and approaches. Therefore, it can be said that up to a greater level, the generation of precautionary principle has led to development of several issues which are uncertain; however they are related to the philosophy of the management. Furthermore, it also make use of several values which are essential to safeguard the environment and eco-system. These attributes have also changed the ways through which value of environment is depicted. Contrary to this, there are a number of aspects that are concerned with biodiversity and that emerge from this paradigm which sometimes also brings various consequences.
The term uncertainty is apparently unpredictable and that aids in preservation and resource management aspects. The categories of uncertainty can be split into two types which also vary from each other. One is related to data omission which also changes the value of conservation and protection. It can be connected with varied values such as improper availability of investigation and measurement biases. This kind of uncertainty at least in precautionary principle can be solved through various investigation and research processes. The second uncertainty is related to the inherent aspect lies in the system which is also ascertained. Thus, the attributes of the system includes its complexities, scale, dynamics and other things that aids in comprehending or predicting the outcomes that are impossible or highly unreliable.
In the area of biodiversity, uncertainty has several dimensions that changes the value of environmental concern. Therefore, changes in the disturbances is poorly understood with the help of such principle. Therefore, it can be said that association in ecologies (specifically the most bio diverse) consists of numerous differentiating species which are interlinked with each other for developing the level of interaction and this is also associated with those values that enhances nutritional values, temperature aspects and hydrological systems. At the same time they also show how the ecosystem is related to varied dimensions of the environment (which usually keeps on changing). This also involves experimentation which comprises of those variables that cannot be developed possibly. While at the same time, it also changes the level of uncertainty that is explored in biodiversity and conservation of natural resource management which is being evaluated by the fact that it is known that how many species exist.
Thus, it can be said that the pre-determined aspects of natural resource management is featured by the fact of ecology and is also cannot be identified while focusing on scientific approaches. For instance – when the species present in the ecology are clearly identified, decisions related to the management of ecosystem needs to consider social, political and cultural values. Thus, it can be contended that in this scenario within which the precautionary principle is evolved with the human behaviour is consequently adopted on regulation. Thus, control of emissions generally leads to predictive reductions and that has also brought quitting the hazardous chemical values which is included in the production of the several conservative dimensions. However, most of the biodiversity conservation consists direct association among natural values of the ecosystem and the associated factors.
This also impact the decision regarding decrease in the fishery which also bans the use of toxic material for wildlife products and that depends on biological attributes of the species of system; alongside it also includes human responses to it. Therefore, it can be said that fisheries may develop the restrictive facets; however this can also affect the trade aspects present in the wildlife; but it may also adhere to various routes. Thus, it can also be said that it includes illegal aspects which also creates issues in regulating it. In this respect, managing the decision making aspects can also include not merely information concerned with science; but also it could include consideration of diverse environmental factors that changes the protection facets. With a certain level, it depicts that the association placed among precautionary principle and conservation action is not clarified and it may be regarded as essential in terms of developing precautionary aspects. This also develops scope among various aspects of precautionary principle and other dimensions that lies under this. This needs to be executed with the variables that are essential for principle implementation. Therefore, it can be articulated that there exists differences among threats under precautionary principle and conservation of biodiversity in the realm of natural resource development and it can also be applied to industrial applications.
This has been an important question which is occurred in the domain of implementing precautionary principle and which states that appeal of precautionary principle in domestic law and policy formation has various effects on actual conservation results. For example- it is also observed that afterwards several years of precaution which was executed as an important requirement under Australian environment law. Further, it seems to have a few impacts on practical aspects of precautionary principle. The development of the principle facets is also getting impacted if such legal flaws are initiated. At the time when the obligation is developed it shows greater impact on decision making aspects which includes all such provisions that are essential to reach towards a specific outcome. Whereas, in few of the activities, precautionary principle can be regarded as a mandatory procedure than to practical requirement. Therefore, it is also required to depict that while implementing precautionary principle, it is essential to take specific decision about the policy formation.
This also defines the operative measures that is vital to be executed while focusing on precautionary principle and the impacts which it gives also keeps on changing according to diverse environmental facets. This is also depending on the nature and source of risks which has different capacities of interest groups. At the same time, it also prevails challenges while implementing different activities and policies. However, up to a larger extent, the precautionary principle has been shown in integration with several risks and challenges which includes marine pollution and that is also against the prevailing management paradigm. At the same time, it also comprises different set of key interests that are made for the purpose of protecting environmental facets. These attributes are also useful in terms of showcasing the understanding of implementing of precautionary principle. Nonetheless, various significant aspects in respect of biodiversity and NRM sectors which also deviate from this philosophy along and brings several imperative consequences.
However, along with this, it is also observed that most biodiversity and conservation scenario comprises of concise interaction among natural ecosystem and factors present in the external environment. This includes an example as well such as the impact of a decision whether on fishery or ban on wildlife product which changes the biological characteristics of the system. This also states that fisheries may also enhance the level of restrictions and trade in wildlife will not reduce: however it could adhere to several aspects that may be regarded as illegal and insufficient which is also difficult to regulate. Thus, managing things regarding decision making can develop several scientific facets which may also show integration with environmental factors. Therefore, to a greater level, it emphasizes on the developed edge among precautionary and preventive related to conservation of biodiversity and it does not depict any specific aspect. Therefore, it can be said that most of the conservation and NRM measures can be called as important variables which reflects the requirements of precautionary action which also leaves scope that develops the ways through which precautionary principles can be applied. At the same time, it applies measures which needs to be implemented in different courses of policy development.
Nature of threat to biodiversity and living natural resources
According to the analysis, there has been a considerable difference between threats in precautionary regulation and management in the biodiversity. It is also ascertained that the precautionary principle is developed for the purpose of handling the contemporary aspects that is established through focusing on changing legal processes which usually shows the outcomes of technical values such as industrial chemicals, hormone treated livestock and nanotechnology. Thus, in this context it is analysed that in the protection of biodiversity and living natural resources, challenges are present which can also be observed by new devices and practices. This is truly a possible risk to biodiversity that is being posted by those organisms that are genetically appeared. At the same time, challenges are also emerged which are being developed by introduction of alien species that particularly leads to climatic changes. This can also be observed as a new dimension in the realm of contemporary values.
However, at the same time while ascertaining the challenges developed by habitat loss and degradation of natural resources that can also impact the biological facets of the environment. This also explains that there exist no new scientific aspects and processes. At the same time, there is no specific mystery which is concerned with casual links that is also associated to a newly developed variable concerned with technology. Still, the consequences of this difference is not clear yet. This also does not depict anything regarding the ways through which scientific risk assessment and stakeholder consultation can be carried out. This is usually adopted for the executing precautionary principle. This can be stated to generalised sorts of threats. It also includes the provision of multiple risks which includes the conceptual framework of precautionary principle. Thus, improper implementation of principles could also lead to risks and challenges that may further impact the conservation of biodiversity. This also generates the decisions to be taken among challenges and precautions.
Nonetheless, at the same time, decision makers that works in conservation of NRM should come up with numerous strategies so that the risks and challenges can be minimized. This also contends that if prevention can be made through harvesting coral reefs, then they may explode the reef for cement. At the same time, if harvesting is prohibited from medicinal plants and wild foods, then people may dislike such contradictions and can also ask for transformation in the conservation areas. Therefore, it is clearly said that management of eco-system for developing the value of species can generate economic aspects and it can also lead to underpin the agriculture sector. However, it may also lead to alternations regarding detrimental effects to other species. Hence, risks and challenges may also arise because of diverse sources and this may also change due to time variations which requires the application of precautionary principle.
It also includes values and objectives in decision making which clearly depicts that implementation of precautionary principle involves value judgement and the concept of trade-offs among diverse competing objectives. In NRM and conservation, different norms and aspects created challenges and risks which also shows that there exists greater diversity within the constituency and that leads to safeguarding the environment. A few are associated with the obligations of the individual animals which depicts the problems of the species after changing the procedure of policy formation. Whereas, some also focus on enhancing the value of ecosystem services, maintenance of other services and balancing species and ecosystem. These may also emphasize on several aspects that reduces the implication of ecosystem to perform the same aspects. This happens because of the broad environmental community. Therefore, in various decision making contexts, interest of other groups can be protected to raise the involvement.
Thus, it can be said that execution of precautionary principle also addresses specific objectives that are essential in terms of precautionary aspects and that also includes standards which are highly suitable in terms of developing interaction among competing groups who have different values, objectives and specifications. Similarly, the negative distributional consequence of precautionary management and policy in the biodiversity and NRM and this may also have a detrimental impact on poor facets rather than powerful. In current scenario, various analysis concerns the precautionary principle that also proponents the threat causing activities. This also depicts powerful interests that stands to profit by such activities. In this respect, the precautionary principle has been applied for the purpose of preventing the public or the environment. This also comprises the burden that are established by the application of precautionary principle and at the same time it also leads to several restrictions that lies on import, emissions or other activities which deals with the same. We provide the best online homework help at the best price. Contact our experts.
Thus, it can be said that precautionary restrictions on use of wild resource can impact most serious aspects on underdeveloped countries among poor people and this can equitably consider specific aspects which are important from conservation point of view. From overview about precautionary principle, it is being analysed that in the realm of biological resource management; there are several principles that may not be directly opposed to such groups whose actions can develop further threats from environmental grounds. In this respect, it has also been analysed that there exists several differences among fisheries and pollution and the principles are typically developed for the purpose of surviving capturing fisheries. Therefore, in the area of industrial applications, there exists several groups that threaten the environment and also damage beneficial aspects. On the contrary, under such situations, it is essential to consider how to utilize manage and administer trade biological resources such as wildlife, forest products and fisheries which have a specific impact on eco-system and conservative facets. Typically, such groups are useful in terms of enhancing the value of sustainable management.
Therefore, it enhances the concern regarding precaution which is required to be implemented through community level resource and wildlife management. It is also an anticipated aspect which showcases that traditional and indigenous natural resource management does not exist on wider extent and this may also comprise the requirement of precautionary elements. Thereafter, this also raises concern towards implementing precaution in biodiversity conservation and NRM that specifically includes the use of management policy and tools. It is also ascertained that the precautionary principle is highly executed into practical terms because it has the nature of reversing the evidentiary burden. However, it requires establishment of an assumption wherein most of the activities are not required to be included because of the harmful elements it contains. At the same time, evidentiary burden may then also be implied on the exponent of the practice which also depict that it is not hazardous. For example – national forest regulations may also need specific consideration to get concession for forestry and this also safeguards the impact on biodiversity.
Thus also states that there is a need of strong version of precautionary which may also require definite evidence that the practice will not lead to any cause or any sort of impact prior it is allowed to be proceeded. For instance – under the Revised Management Procedure, development is required under the International Whaling Commission which also depicts the risk of overexploitation. This is also enumerated and can be determined on lower level. Where there are serious irreversible aspects that can produce harm, activities are considered as dangerous; hence it needs to be entirely prohibited in all aspects. Therefore, in various countries, there exists a multiple cessation on driftnet fishing which requires the application of the South Africa Marine Living Resources Act. This also forbids the utilization of risk associated elements that could impact the development of fisheries. Hence, precaution in conservation is also linked with broad conceptual or management approaches. This states that the species- based approaches shows varied global and national which are developed for the purpose of enhancing the value of conservation and protection of natural resources. Therefore, in this dimension the ecosystem approach incorporate the understanding regarding ecosystem which is largely unpredictable and uncertain. | <urn:uuid:b35a1ac5-dbbd-4008-a758-4d65bac95a31> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.instantassignmenthelp.com/free-samples/biology/role-of-the-precautionary-principle-in-the-conservation-chapter-3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.963525 | 4,786 | 3 | 3 |
(Pocket-lint) - We thought the phone call had died long ago when text messages took to the fore. But it looks like talking to your mates is about to become the norm once more, if new smart call apps have anything to do with it.
Former Microsoft chief software architect, Ray Ozzie, is pushing his new app, Talko, that he says will reinvent phone calls. But it's got competition with Skype, Apple Facetime and Google Hangouts. He can see the future of calls is changing though, thanks to 4G.
Ozzie, on the idea behind Talko said, "I asked myself, what if the net had come before the phone: how would voice be woven into our online experience?" While other calling apps already exist for VoIP (Voice over IP) calls, these smarter functional calling apps will be the way forward.
WhatsApp has already announced it will be offering phone calls via data using 4G and it's only a matter of time before all calls are over this bandwidth. It means higher call quality, the ability to see the person you're talking to, and sharing files. For businesses this is ideal as it not only allows for conference calls but does it for free, wherever a person has a mobile connection. This could save money on paid-for conference services and in some cases could even negate the need for an office.
Outside of business Talko and the like will also be more common as people choose to make calls over data rather than the traditional 2G or 3G network. Higher quality calls is one huge pull, but smarter calling is also a factor. Imagine being in a call to a friend and being able to tag parts of a call so you can refer back to the call, which is being recorded, later.
You'll be able to send a voicemail like a text message that can be read in the same app. Imagine replying to all, like in an email, except doing it with your voice to the group. Even sending files, while in the call, could be possible making chatting about that new YouTube video even easier than in person.
Talko is an impressive sounding call app but we expect this to be the tip of the iceberg with the big names following and plenty of third party app copies to be in tow soon.
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