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If you are in any food business, you will know how complicated it is to operate it. All foods are delicate items that need protection against all unfortunate circumstances. You have to be extra careful while dealing with food items. All handling and packaging of food demand keeping care of all safety measures. This trouble can only become double when you have a fish business on your hands. Out of all the food items, fish is one of the most perishable food items you can have in the food business.
The food business is always a complex business to operate. You have to be extra careful with it else you can bear a heavy loss. Know that any mistake in handling the fish can result in reducing the shelf life of your item. It is a long process from transferring the fish from farms to fish display counters in the supermarkets. It is a fact that there are hazards and risks in every food business. You cannot maintain the food quality if you do not follow the strict safety measures of handling the fish in farms.
Before you jump into the fish business is better to know which risks and hurdles you can face. Today we are jotting down some safety measures that you need to follow. Read the below five safety precautions that can help you secure your fish.
1. Understand your risks
The first tip you need in your fish business is to consider the risk that can harm your product. Several risks can put your fish health in danger. It is the first task to identify all the hazards. Know that by knowing which hazards are present so that you can take precautions according to it. In any business, planning is the most vital step. You cannot proceed without preparing yourself to face the circumstances.
2. Maintain the feeding quality
One poor feeding quality is one of the most common reasons your farm fish is having a problem. The items you feed to your fish must be of premium quality. You can reduce the risk of almost half of the diseases by food quality food to your fish. Make sure that the fish is getting enough nutrients from the food you are feeding them.
3. Reducing severe climate conditions
We all know that fish is a delicate food item, and it cannot bear any toxic conditions. The other reason your fish can become spoiled is because of the extreme conditions. Try to maintain a healthy environment for your fish. You also have to be extra careful while handling the fish. Any rough handling can make your fish prone to disease.
4. Have suitable water temperature
The water in which you put the fish also needs to be according to the standard. Know that fish demand a suitable temperature of water to become healthy. Not every fish will be appropriate for warm or cold water. You have to examine which fish will be good in warm water and can live in cold water.
5. Limit the toxic gases
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Bylaw No. 2743 - Corrugated Cardboard: Implementation
- February 2021
- Public Engagement Commenced
- March 2021
- Four (4) Public Engagement Meetings Held via Zoom
- April 2021
- Report and Draft Bylaw Written and Presented to the TNRD’s Regional Solid Waste Steering Committee
- June 2021
- Proposed Bylaw Presented to the TNRD Board of Directors for Consideration at the June 17 Board Meeting. The Board Adopted the Bylaw
- April 2022
- Outreach and Education Commenced at Regional Solid Waste Disposal Facilities (TNRD & City of Kamloops facilities)
The TNRD is currently implementing its Mandatory Recyclable Material Bylaw No. 2743. The first material to be introduced as a mandatory recyclable is old corrugated cardboard, which has subsequently been banned from disposal at TNRD and City of Kamloops solid waste facilities. Bylaw No. 2743 requires all haulers disposing of municipal solid waste at any TNRD or City of Kamloops solid waste facility to ensure their loads do not contain recyclable materials (cardboard).
Enforcement of Bylaw No. 2743 specifically targets commercial loads (including municipalities). Commercial loads are the largest contributor to the amount of waste generated, and represent the greatest potential for diversion.
Prior to developing Bylaw No. 2743, staff conducted four virtual engagement meetings, to hear directly from stakeholders who would be the most impacted by this bylaw. Those invited to participate included commercial waste haulers, member municipalities and First Nations. The feedback received was considered in the development of the Bylaw and in the implementation plan.
A key strategy of the TNRD 2018 Regional Solid Waste Management Plan (RSWMP) is increasing diversion in the Industrial, Commercial and Institutional (ICI) sector. One of the tools to achieve this is the introduction of a disposal ban on recyclable materials.
Frequently Asked Questions
It is a disposal ban which prohibits recyclable materials from being landfilled.
The Bylaw applies to only corrugated cardboard at this time. Other recyclable materials, such as paper products, plastic, glass and metal packaging, may be added to the list of mandatory recyclables in the future.
Cardboard is one of the easiest packaging materials to recycle because it’s easy to identify, it’s generated in large volumes, and is easily recycled. Most residents and businesses have been recycling cardboard for years, however, we still see loads of refuse going into the landfill that contain large amounts of cardboard.
This bylaw is a mechanism to require those who are currently still putting cardboard into the garbage bin to recycle instead.
Enforcement will be conducted by TNRD staff and bylaw officers. Disposal facility staff, such as scale attendants, will not have the authority to issue fines.
Inspections may occur when loads are dumped at any disposal facility in the TNRD (landfill or transfer station). This also includes City of Kamloops landfills and private landfills. If a load contains more than 10% corrugated cardboard by volume, a fine may be issued to the hauler.
No inspections will take place outside the boundaries of authorized disposal facilities. This means that the TNRD will not be inspecting bins at businesses and residences. Only the loads tipped at the disposal facility will be inspected.
Penalties may be issued to the hauler of the load, regardless of where the load originated. It is the responsibility of the hauler to work with their customers to comply with the ban.
If a load contains more than 10% cardboard by volume, a fine of 50% of the applicable tipping fee may be imposed.
For example, if a load is 2, 000 kilograms (2 tonnes), the customer will pay the normal disposal fee of $160.00 ($80.00 per tonne x 2 tonnes), plus, receive a fine of $80.00 (50% of $160.00) if the load is in contravention of Bylaw No. 2743. The minimum fine is $40.00.
Fine amounts are reduced if paid within 30 days.
Enforcement will focus on large commercial and municipal loads. Inspectors will not be breaking open individual garbage bags to inspect contents.
The maximum allowable threshold will be 10% recyclable content in a load. The threshold could be reduced in the future, and communication would precede any proposed change.
Penalties will be determined by the inspector based on total volume by conducting a visual assessment (including photo documentation). Photos may be used as evidence if a ticket is disputed.
Throughout the TNRD, there are several service providers offering comprehensive garbage collection, disposal, recycling and bin rentals. Businesses are encouraged to contact one of these service providers to learn which disposal options are best suited.
The proposed implementation timelines in 2022 are as follows:
|April – May 2022|
|June – August 2022|
|September 2022 – ongoing|
A robust communication/ education campaign has been undertaken by the TNRD. Specific assistance, including support materials, will be given to commercial haulers to help them communicate directly to their customers. Examples of support materials that may be provided to commercial haulers include:
- Brochures/ rack cards
- Bin decals/ signs
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How to Draw a Bike
- Drawing Tutorials
- Two Wheelers
- How to Draw a Bike
First commence the tutorial by making circles.
Draw outline for body and handle.
Make outline for tyres.
Draw front body.
Make side body.
Move onto Make upper and back body.
Move onto draw seat and handle.
Make another handle.
Make chain cover and enhance front body.
Draw left side tyre with cover.
Draw right side tyre with cover.
Make chain and paddles.
Enhance chain cover and whole bike.
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The largest section of the house was built in 1875.
As a result large sections of the population do without.
Right up front there is a large section of cultural critical theory.
The craft took up a large section of the field as it set down.
Therefore I myself and a large section of my group will be voting against.
A large section of the entire book is devoted to this.
A large section of the area remains under water during incoming times.
A major fire also destroyed a large section of the village in 1903.
There was a large open section that had been a dining room area.
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- Figures by Johns Hopkins University show that the number of new coronavirus infection cases in the first five days of December is about 1.04 million in the U.S. The country has been averaging more than 2,000 deaths each day.
- Japan’s space agency says it plans to transport a capsule released by its asteroid probe Hayabusa 2 from Australia to Japan by plane as early as Monday night. The capsule is believed to contain sand samples from the Ryugu asteroid.
- British officials and health care workers are rushing to prepare for Tuesday’s launch of the country’s coronavirus vaccination program. The vaccine needs to be stored at around minus 70 degrees Celsius. Fifty hospitals in England with appropriate facilities have been earmarked as the first hubs for the vaccinations.
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Eng 201 Exam #2 -Please choose 7 of the following 10 questions to answer. You may choose to answer all 10 if you prefer as backup but you cannot score above a 100%. Remember: -Each answer should use the following formula (Assertion, Evidence, Commentary). -First, make an assertion (a statement in your own words that posits the point you want to make). This can be 1-2 sentences. -Then, cite from the text a quote that supports your assertion. Quotes must have proper MLA in-text citations which is author’s last name and page number. Ex. “Stand up, children” (Sophocles 711). If author is unknown use the title of the text; i.e.. (Gilgamesh 105). -Finally, justify the quote by explaining in your own words how it supports the assertion. This should be at least two sentences. Here is an example of what an answer might look like if the question were as follows: Example Question: As is common in many ancient epics, women play an extremely important role in the development of plot and in shaping the actions of the male characters. Give one example of an important female role in The Epic of Gilgamesh. Example Answer: Although a minor character in the story, the prostitute Shamhat plays a very important role in the epic tale. They ask her to give of herself to tame the wild beast Enkidu and she does so without hesitation. The hunter take Shamhat to Enkidu and tells her to “open your embrace, open your embrace, let him take your charms!” (Gilgamesh 103). By doing so, she tames Enkidu. As a result, the wild beasts no longer welcome him and he must then turn to Gilgamesh as a friend. Thus, Shamhat’s actions set-up the action for the rest of the epic tale. This was just a sample question. The Actual 10 questions from which you can choose begin on the next page! 1. According to Augustine, conversion is rarely a conscious act or an act of will. Rather, it is something that one comes to unconsciously through life experiences. Explain how he shows this idea through his work, Confessions. 2. In Book IX of Confessions, Augustine eulogizes his mother with a kind of moral biography, adding further dimension to the record of his own life and showing the spiritual perfection he discovered at her urging. Give an example from this section and explain how she influenced his eventual return to Christianity. 3. Poetically, Beowulf is a rare manifestation of a “sung” narrative that maintains much of its orality in writing, even when it does not feel especially musical. Many of the poem’s defining features are derived from long-standing traditions of oral narrative. Cite two examples from the text that suggest this oral history. Explain how/why each is an closely tied to the traditional of oral narratives. 4. First and foremost, Beowulf is a heroic epic as defined by the characteristics of such tales explained in the PDF. Cite two examples from the text that clearly demonstrate a characteristic of a heroic epic. Explain what characteristic each citation is an example of and how it demonstrates that characteristic. 5. Dante was the leader of the Dolce stil novo (“sweet new style”), a poetic movement that explored the relations between earthy, secular love (love of people) and Divine Love (love of God). Give an example of this from Inferno. Cite from the text. Explain how that citation shows the similarities or differences of earthy love and Divine Love. 6. The triune (three-in-one) nature of Christian divinity- a single entity comprised of three aspects (Father, Son, Holy Spirit)- is the basis of structure and style in Dante’s poem. Give an example of the use of the triune (3 or a multiple of 3) in Dante’s poem. 7. Like The Canterbury Tales, one narrative path of The Inferno follows the embedded tales of characters, historical and legendary, who implore the narrator to report the truth to the living world. Give one example of a historical character that the narrator meets in Hell and explain the truth that they are imploring him to report. 8. From Chaucer’s knight down to the Wife of Bath’s knight, the warrior class was supposed to uphold the values of chivalry. Writers of medieval romance often connected moral duty and romance to the discipline of those seen as warriors. Give an example of this connection of duty and romance with the knights seen in Chaucer’s tales. 9. Medieval narrative tended toward allegorical storytelling that emphasized monolithic (one big) truth over subjective experience and broad moral lessons over individual knowledge. Give an example from Canterbury Tales that exhibits a moral lesson. You must explain the moral established by that tale. 10. A key theme of The Canterbury Tales as a whole-and at the center of many disputes on the road-is the notion of secular versus clerical authority. Give an example of this from either tale and explain. | <urn:uuid:878ae769-2659-4072-9bcb-8def793cd307> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://essaywriters.help/index.php/tag/canterbury/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.941528 | 1,056 | 3.671875 | 4 |
Pain treatment has the priority over the use of sedatives and antipsychotics. Good pain control is essential for the high risk patient adaptation to acute illness and intensive care environment.
Nevertheless, we must not forget the side effects of analgesics, in particular for opioid: respiratory depression, hypotension, bradycardia, nausea and vomiting, slowing of peristalsis, pruritus, urinary retention are dose-dependent effects, which lead us to limit the amount of opiates at the minimum necessary to control pain.
Recently, analgesia-based sedation has been responsible for increase the intensivists' sensitivity to the problem of pain control in ventilated patients and allowed to test the possibility of keeping awake even critically ill patients at high risk; unfortunately it resulted in an excessive use of opioid analgesics, exposing to the risk of probably avoidable side effects ...
The multimodal analgesia (intravenous acetaminophen, NSAIDs, use of adjuvants such as gabapentin or clonidine, locoregional analgesia where possible) could lead to a reduction of side effects with the same analgesic efficacy.
The international literature shows that the winning approach to decrease morbidity and mortality is to control the pain through the minimum effective dose of analgesics and control anxiety and agitation with other methods (pharmacological and non pharmacological) that have fewer side effects.
A new frontier in critical care: saving the injuried brain.
Gestire il doloreFlowchart dolore
Gestire la sedazioneFlowchart sedaz/agitaz
Gestire il deliriumFlowchart Delirium
Scheda di lavoro CAM-ICU
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“Nature destruction cannot be compensated for” say NGOs warning communities against biodiversity offsetting
As the world’s forests, lands and waters keep being destroyed, the people whose livelihoods are deeply linked to these places cannot continue their way of life and are often pushed into poverty and hunger. At the same time, the very actors profiting from this destruction have found a way to come across as friends of Nature. How is that possible?
Exposing the absurd logic behind this paradox is the goal of a new booklet published by the NGOs Re:Common and Counter Balance. “Biodiversity Offsetting, a threat to life” is a short publication aimed at explaining what biodiversity offsetting is and how it is deployed by private companies – with the support of governments and the legitimization of some conservation organizations and academics – to greenwash their reputation and continue with business-as-usual.
Starting from the observation that biodiversity offsetting projects are mainly top-down and imposed on communities with little regard for their wellbeing, the booklet shows through concrete examples and illustrations how this mechanism is nothing but a license to destroy.
While in the eyes of international financial institutions, governments and corporations, the damage to nature and communities is an inevitable price to pay for development and economic growth, the booklet calls on communities to reclaim their fundamental right to decide what is best for them and their territories.
Alessandro Runci, campaigner at Re:Common and author of the booklet, claimed:
“We deem unacceptable that the burden of the protection of Nature is placed on those who are least responsible and most affected by its destruction, while helping corporate polluters to greenwash the impacts of their businesses. It is illogical to replace environmental regulations with perverse mechanisms to trade forests, grasslands, mountains and deserts for profit. Nature is priceless, and it is not for sale.”
Xavier Sol, director of Counter Balance, added:
“The real causes of the destruction of Nature are rooted in a development model designed to take from the many and give to the few. Biodiversity Offsetting allows corporations to continue with their destructive businesses undisturbed. We believe that it is of vital importance that civil society and NGOs stand united against this mechanism, and say: No to biodiversity offsetting!” | <urn:uuid:d08e19e4-7543-41af-9297-152f43a11029> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://naturenotforsale.org/news/new-report-on-the-risks-of-biodiversity-offsetting/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.955818 | 468 | 2.84375 | 3 |
- 1 Can you split cable to two TVs?
- 2 How do I connect multiple HDMI TVs?
- 3 How can I watch cable TV on two TVs?
- 4 Do cable splitters weaken signal?
- 5 Can you split HDMI input?
- 6 What happens if you only have one HDMI port?
- 7 How does a TV splitter work?
- 8 Does each TV need a cable box?
- 9 Does splitting cable reduce internet speed?
- 10 How can I share my TV to another TV?
Can you split cable to two TVs?
Normally, TVs require individual cable reception boxes. However, if you have a TV in two different rooms in your home, it's possible to connect them to the same box using cable splitters. You can either use a wireless cable transmitter or coaxial cable splitters to link the TVs in your home to one cable box.
How do I connect multiple HDMI TVs?
You can use an HDMI splitter to connect and operate multiple devices through one HDMI port. An HDMI splitter simply has a cable with an HDMI plug on one side and on the other side (depending on the HDMI splitter type) you can have two, three and even four HDMI ports.
How can I watch cable TV on two TVs?
- Connect the cable receiver box to the main cable line in your home through the receiver's input port.
- Attach another coaxial cable to the output port on the receiver.
- Link each TV set to the splitter or switch using however many coaxial cables and ports on the splitter/switch you need.
Do cable splitters weaken signal?
Any time a TV signal is split, it will encounter insertion loss that will weaken the signals distributed beyond the splitter. If you experience signal issues while using a splitter, you may need to install a distribution amplifier or a preamplifier.
Can you split HDMI input?
Unfortunately you can't simply split or combine two HDMI inputs into a single jack, but you do have a few options. You can either purchase a simple HDMI switch or an HDMI-switching home theater receiver, or you can use another input on your set that also supports high definition video (more on that below).
What happens if you only have one HDMI port?
Sometimes you have only one HDMI port on your computer (typically on a laptop), but need two ports so that you can connect 2 external monitors. In this case: You can use a 'switch splitter' or 'display splitter' to have two HDMI ports.
How does a TV splitter work?
A splitter is connected to one input and then multiple outputs. It readily works with all types of TVs, even your Apple TV. A signal that goes through a splitter is divided so that other connected devices are also able to share the cable connection. This makes the signal weak.
Does each TV need a cable box?
If you have more than one TV in your home and want them to all be able to access basic cable channels independently, each TV will require that you rent a box from your cable provider. … This inconvenience means an added expense to rent or buy a cable DVR or TIVO to record TV shows from cable.
Does splitting cable reduce internet speed?
Cable splitter only reduces signal strength. It won't affect the internet speed.
TVs don't have HDMI or any other video outputs so you can't send AV from one TV to another. or a media box to provide an HDMI output from USB drive. You will also need an 1 in 2 out HDMI distribution amp to split the output. One goes to the local TV, the other to the wireless HDMI transmitter. | <urn:uuid:b287b208-2502-4fe2-bee8-67e3105c02d0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ambrosiospa.com/can-you-split-an-hdmi-cable-to-two-tvs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.908523 | 767 | 2.453125 | 2 |
In the 1930s, the retired British governess Mary O’Neill lived in Florence in the company of her female co-nationals. A close-knit diaspora of English aristocratic intellectuals and bohemians, they sought to spread English cultural traditions to the Italian masses. They tried to help ordinary Italians enjoy Shakespeare and Renaissance art, not only to dream about glamorous cars and other pleasures of the Jazz Age. Mary O’Neill and her friends greatly contributed to the upbringing and the artistic rise of the young Franco Zeffirelli. But did they manage to gain prestige within their Italian community? Known for their poignant wit, those expat women, whom the locals sarcastically called ‘Scorpions’, were, in fact, totally alienated from a wider Florentine community.
Depicted in Zeffirelli’s Tea with Mussolini, this story of cultural resilience finds a lot of resonance with diasporic reality today. In the large volume of studies on diaspora, an issue of concern is that many expats who speak culturally and civically on behalf of their homeland find zero reciprocity within their local community (Nye 2004; Watanabe and McConnell 2008).
Why do highly intellectual expats, who seek to morally enrich their host society, often fail to be accepted by their local communities? This question is explored in-depth in our Identities article, ‘Reflections on diaspora and soft power: community building among female US expats in Southern Europe’, which looks at life experiences of highly educated US-national expat women in Italy and Greece from the 1990s to 2015. They all hold degrees from leading US universities. Many of them are married to local men. And all of them seek to spiritually invigorate their local communities by showing them how to take care of the public space, such as to clean streets from litter and set up shelters for stray dogs and cats. They see these as typical ‘North American civic values’ that they are teaching to their ‘unenlightened’ neighbours.
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred on 26 April 1986 in the Soviet Union. Children born before and after 1986 were at risk of developing different health conditions. For example, instances of thyroid cancer increased 40 times due to release of radioactive iodine. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, borders opened and many Western charities offered recuperation to affected children in host families abroad during summer. The idea was to take children out of contaminated territories and provide them with an environment free from radiation. Belarus was the most affected, having 23.5% of its territory contaminated with radioactive cesium and strontium. Italy was the most active in these recuperation programmes; it has hosted more than half of all affected children from Belarus.
The goal of my Identities article, 'Kinning as intimate disaster response: from recuperation in host families to educational migration of the Chernobyl children from Belarus to Italy', was to uncover what happened to these children and their host families over time. I demonstrate that one of the unexpected outcomes of Chernobyl children’s recuperation in Italy was their educational migration to Italy for further education as they grew up (some went on to attend high school in Italy; the majority of these went on to do their Bachelor and/or Master’s degrees in Italy, as well). I argue that educational migration became possible due to kinning – strong emotional bonds developed between the Belarusian children and their Italian host families over their repeated encounters during the humanitarian programme of child recuperation abroad. The concept of kinning has been used in the studies of transnational adoption (by Signe Howell) and domestic and institutional care work (by Loretta Baldassar and colleagues). My article applies kinning to the studies of disasters, migration and humanitarianism.
By studying a Hmong community located in a rural village in Laos and their transnational families and relatives residing in California, I have learned that the surname-based, clan kinship system is not only critical for them to maintain their cross-border economic relationships and promote cultural traditions, but it has become hegemonic despite the salient generational and national differences between the two countries. For example, Hmong's clan identification has been the basis for the remarkable hospitality Hmong extend towards strangers and unexpected guests who are members of the same clan.
Many Hmong jokingly told me that I am technically 'Korean Hmong', because the English pronunciation of my Korean surname sounds identical to one of their eighteen clans. I came to wonder what makes Hmong clan kinship, based on a surname system, so dominant and inclusive that it allows Hmong to consider complete 'strangers' as family members and kin. Moreover, the strong emphasis on clan-based kinship causes Hmong to strictly adhere to the principle of clan exogamy (members of the same clan cannot marry or even become romantically engaged) and ethnic endogamy. | <urn:uuid:6e34bc4c-c781-4aef-9c40-0ee73df49284> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.identitiesjournal.com/blog-collection/category/kinship | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.967578 | 1,047 | 2.75 | 3 |
Solar panels aren’t just for sunny states like Arizona or California. Even homes in the dreary northeast can power up with rooftop panel systems. To prove the point, Redfin partnered with the Department of Energy-supported solar-analysis company Sun Number to identify the northeastern cities with the most untapped solar potential.
To form the list, they identified the northeastern cities with a Sun Number (the projected benefit from going solar—so the higher, the better) above 70, and then ranked them by how few of the listings in that city mention solar panels. Providence, RI, which has a Sun Number of 79 out of 100, topped the list. Rochester, NY, Syracuse, NY, Worcester, MA, and Buffalo, NY round out the top five, followed by Boston, MA, Newark, NJ, Augusta, ME, Albany, NY, and Concord, NH.
A study from the U.S. Department of Energy recently confirmed that home buyers will pay more for houses outfitted with solar panels. “...[S]olar panels are viewed as upgrades, just like a renovated kitchen or a finished basement, and home buyers across the country have been willing to pay a premium of about $15,000 for a home with an average-sized solar array,” reads a summary of the study. | <urn:uuid:2181dec2-2080-4c69-9568-e1ac170a38ee> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://archive.curbed.com/2017/2/13/14591266/solar-energy-potential-cities-sun-number | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.951947 | 269 | 1.726563 | 2 |
A Fed-up CatPliny's owner thought he looked younger than he was, when in fact, he looked older. He was the kind of man that spoke as though he was inundated with friends when he wasn't. Christmas for him was a frozen turkey dinner and the television.
He did a lot of compensating behavior. Psychological compensation comes in handy when people feel worthless. They write copious letters to newspaper editors, they haunt message boards, write critiques and seek to get their opinions out far and wide on a great many subjects. It gives them something to do and they don't feel as lonely or sad. Perfectly understandable the cat thought. More about him in a moment.
The cat owner's relatives didn't even like their relative as they considered him odd and fractious which he was. Even the cat, a very tolerant and loving cat, it has to be said, was tired of his company. Sometimes Pliny thought of running away, of being let out and not coming back. He had already sized up the neighborhood in that regard and knew very well, he'd find a far more suitable home.
It wasn't that his human was mean, it was just that Pliny had begun to hate the very sight of him. Big oversized glasses, a smile which didn't seem to fit his face and a three room apartment that was too dark and claustrophobic. Small places crammed with too much furniture and one cat toy was not cat nirvana as far as Pliny was concerned.
At least the human went to work every day. Pliny loved that. He'd have the entire day to himself to tear out the last page of whatever book the human was reading.
Pliny could hardly wait for the man to get to the end of his book and then explode. "You've done it again! Now, I won't be able to put up my book review!"
Like anyone cares, Pliny thought. What a pompous, self important poor excuse for a human being! Even mice were better company, especially if one lets them live!
Pliny's name suited him because he was named after a Roman historian--well one of them anyway, either Pliny the Elder or Pliny the Younger.
It was shortly before Halloween when the big cat appeared. This cat was scary. Pliny had never been frightened before but he was now. He had been curled up on the sofa, he always pulled that stupid plastic off. What's His Face got a big kick out of it, too. "You are an amazing cat! However did you manage to pull that off?"
Pliny just stared him down and turned his bottom toward him--and sauntered off. Cats were far more clever than often given credit for being. All cats knew that and some people, too. The really nice cats had doggie friends that they never looked down upon or spoke about maliciously to other cats or gloated that they were at least as smart.
Pliny had a doggie friend, Oscar, a shaggy nervous dog whose owner had decided to keep chickens. Poor dog hated those damned chickens because they terrorized him. He could have easily killed them but he wasn't like that, so instead he just ran away and tried to manage. Eventually, he was taken in by a nice old woman that lived across the street from Pliny's apartment. Yes, that was how Pliny thought of the place.
To make a long story a bit shorter, as this is a flash account of Pliny and the scary cat, really--one day Oscar brought over his good friend, Hecuba. She was sleek and beautiful but her eyes were strange. They were startling amber and if peered into too long, they seemed to do something to the gazer!
It happened a few times with Pliny. He felt he had no will of his own.
It had to be around Halloween that Pliny's life changed. Pliny had no recollection of Oscar or Hecuba or his human--it was like a dream. Something dark and horrible. The screams were the worst. Awful shrieks they were and hissing too.
Pliny was frightened. And when he felt himself being forcibly nudged away and ordered to move, he was shocked. That was because he opened his eyes and saw the mutilated remains of his human. He was no longer recognizable as a human! All that remained were his big eye glasses and part of one white loafer. And the blood!
"Did I do that?!"
No matter how often he asked, he never received an answer. Oscar at least said he shouldn't worry about it. "It won't bring him back."
The three of them left then. It was Oscar's idea. "Hecuba," Oscar smiled, "Since you enjoyed that so much, how about I take you to my former owner. After you get through with her, there are those damned chickens..."
© 2016 Carole Gill
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Fort Lauderdale Beaches
Fort Lauderdale Beach
DESCRIPTION: Its one of America’s most memorable beaches for having a blend of great beach weather, clean beaches, plenty of hotels, bars, restaurants and gift shops facing the beach. It used to be overwhelmingly populated during college spring break, but upscale hotels replacing cheap motels have chased most of the students away. In many ways its a more family-friendly version of Miami Beach. Rent a chair and umbrella to shade against the blazing sun while taking in ocean breezes; plenty of room to roller-skate, grills to barbeque and tables to picnic; metered parking is strictly enforced — don’t ruin a good time and sightseeing with a ticket.
ADDRESS: Harbor Drive North on AIA Highway to Sunrise Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, FL MAP
DESCRIPTION: Often called the Heart of the Gold Coast, Pompano Beach waterfront is known for its excellent boating and fishing. A pleasant bonus is the offshore coral reef accessible to scuba divers and snorkelers. Fishermen flock to the 1,000-foot-long municipal fishing pier, beachside playgrounds, grills and picnic tables. The annual holiday boat parade in December, seafood festival in April, and fishing rodeo in May are big attractions.
ADDRESS: Northern tip of Dania Beach, FL; MAP
DESCRIPTION: In a city better known for Gulfstream horse racing, a casino and greyhound racing, the small beachront is overshadowed by high rise condos and hotels. Its great for residents, but not as much fun for visitors as nearby Hollywood Beach or Fort Lauderdale Beach.
ADDRESS: South of Hollywood Beach, Hallandale, FL MAP
DESCRIPTION: Prior to desegregation, African Americans had limited access to the beach. They could only visit when European Americans chose not to visit. After civic activists lobbied and demonstrated in the 1950s, the northern tip of Dania Beach was purchased and designated by the county as Colored Beach. Even then, it required an undependable boat through swampland to reach the beach on Atlantic Ocean-facing inlet. After the 1961 Wade-in at Fort Lauderdale Beach, a bridge was finally built that enabled easy access to Colored Beach. A few years later all South Florida Beaches were integrated. In 2016, John Lloyd State Park containing Colored Beach from 1954 to the 1960s, was renamed Von D. Mizell and Eula Johnson State Park in honor of the civil rights activists who led the wade-ins that eventually integrated South Florida beaches.
ADDRESS: Northern tip of Dania Beach, Dania, FL MAP
DESCRIPTION: There’s more than 5 miles of palm-shaded beach with picnic tables and volleyball nets at some locations; lifeguards on duty, restrooms and showers at this public beach. Arrive early for the best spots, feed the meter or use a nearby parking lot.
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The music classes are taught to all the children to offer an enriched extension of the curriculum taught within the classrooms. Activities include movement, songs, rhythm, and games. This class is taught by a highly trained and experienced music teacher.
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Compression After Impact (CAI) strength is critical to the safety and weight of carbon fibre aircraft. In this paper, the standard aerospace industry practice of using separate analyses and tests for panel buckling and CAI strength is challenged. Composite panels with a range of stacking sequences were artificially delaminated and subject to compression testing in a fixture that allowed local sublaminate and global panel buckling modes to interact. Compared to panels without delamination, interaction of buckling modes reduced panel buckling strains by up to 29%. Similarly, compared to delaminated panels restrained against panel buckling, interaction reduced delamination propagation strains by up to 49%. These results are the first to indicate that restriction of interaction during CAI testing is unconservative and therefore potentially unsafe. A novel integration of an analytical Strip model, for sublaminate buckling driven delamination propagation, and a Shanley model, for determining increased local strain due to sublaminate-buckling-induced panel curvature, is used to calculate the reduction in strength due to buckling mode interaction. Assuming a typical sublaminate post to pre-buckling stiffness ratio of 0.65, the difference in integrated model and experimental results is <11% – a level of accuracy that will allow the integrated model to drive initial design studies.
- Compression after impact
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- Ceramics and Composites
- Civil and Structural Engineering
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Daren Bakst: Farmers face damaging regulations and subsidies
Washington just can't stop meddling in agriculture. Its bureaucrats saddle farmers with crushing regulations, while Congress provides wasteful and harmful handouts. All the tampering completely disrespects farmers.
Regulations threaten farmers' ability to engage in even the most basic agricultural practices. The Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, for example, have issued a water rule that seeks to regulate almost any body of water _ from man-made ditches to land depressions that may hold water a few days a year.
This rule isn't currently being enforced due to pending litigation. But if the regulators win, farmers will have to spend a lot of time and cash to get many more permits just to work their land. Worse, the rule is so vague and subjective that many farmers will simply give up on working productive fields rather than run the risk of having the EPA lower the boom on their operations.
And then there's the Endangered Species Act. All too often, it puts the burden of protecting species on landowners instead of spreading the costs to all taxpayers. Farmers and ranchers, who are particularly affected by this law, are often restricted in how they can use their land, yet they receive no compensation for the trampling of their property rights.
No good comes of poorly considered regulations _ especially when they make it so hard for farmers and ranchers to produce our food.
Subsidies are just the flip-side of federal meddling. Washington's elite treat farmers as inferior to other business owners. To them, it isn't enough to provide farmers a strong safety net to protect against major crop losses. They also feel they must insulate farmers from low market prices and make sure they get the revenues that they expect.
The Agriculture Department's recent cheese bailouts exemplify this mentality. Due to allegedly low milk prices, the USDA has twice spent $20 million buying up surplus cheese to help raise the price of milk.
But low prices serve a purpose. They signal to producers that they need to reduce production, and if necessary, diversify, innovate, become more efficient, or otherwise adjust their operations.
Excessive handouts insulate farmers from the need to respond to market conditions. This doesn't merely hurt consumers and taxpayers; it also hurts farmers. It makes it impossible for farmers to receive the full benefit of being better managed than their competitors.
Moreover, these massive subsidies —and farmers' growing dependence on them — expose farmers to the threat of even greater meddling in their business. For example, nutrition-oriented organizations would like to manipulate subsidies to get farmers to stop planting 'unhealthy' crops and plant 'healthier' crops instead. Some environmental interests are seeking to further condition the receipt of subsidies on farmers' willingness to adopt the practices that they favor.
Enough is enough. Congress needs to place its faith in farmers, not federal bureaucrats and their pet causes. Lawmakers should reduce the regulatory burden and stop shelling out misguided subsidies.
Farmers are every bit as sophisticated and innovative as other business owners. Like them, they are more than capable of succeeding in the marketplace. Any safety net should catch them when they have fallen due to major crop losses, not because they failed to prepare for the inevitable changes in market conditions, such as low prices.
The next farm bill should be one that promotes freedom and respects farmers. Farmers and ranchers need to be allowed to flourish, not controlled by politicians and bureaucrats in D.C.
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October 19, 2021 7:54 am at 7:54 am #2018110
Yes this topic is about attention. Two questions I have recently.
1. What is it about attention that if someone “asks for it” no one wants to give it? If someone wants a loan no body minds lending. If someone wants a kind word or encouragement people give it. If someone wants a lift people give him. But if someone “just wants attention” then everyone has to ignore him?
2. There are so many times people do weird or loud or different things and people run to say they’re just doing it for attention. and so many times that’s no true. Let’s say you have a tenth grader standing on his desk in middle of math class and screaming and one of the more mature kids say “You just want attention.” Which could be not true at all. Maybe he just finds it very funny. In fact, if someone els would do it he’d find it funny and enjoy it so obviously his actions have nothing to do with attention, it’s just he finds it funny and wants it done–doesn’t matter who does it.
Or you have a guy who lights his menorah outside and someone walks by and mutters it’s not the minhag he just wants attention. Like how dumb is that? Maybe the guy’s a big machmir maybe he doesn’t know halacha maybe he does know halacha and the passer by is wrong–whatever, why are people always running to say oh its just for attention?October 19, 2021 1:23 pm at 1:23 pm #2018507ujmParticipant
Some people cry for attention.October 19, 2021 3:32 pm at 3:32 pm #2018601DBSParticipant
Like you?October 19, 2021 3:34 pm at 3:34 pm #2018628
Well the underlying question is why does that person want attention?
It’s a form of immaturity, whereas the others are notOctober 19, 2021 5:18 pm at 5:18 pm #2018605mesivta bachurParticipant
” Let’s say you have a tenth grader standing on his desk in middle of math class and screaming” thanks for the idea spot onOctober 19, 2021 5:38 pm at 5:38 pm #2018690
First of all, why’s it immature, second of all, let’s say it is. You can’t humor the immature?October 19, 2021 7:35 pm at 7:35 pm #2018739
“let’s say it is. You can’t humor the immature?“
You can, but not during class
It’s like acting immature at a funeralOctober 19, 2021 9:23 pm at 9:23 pm #2018763user176Participant
Everyone wants attention and to an extent considers how people will react to him in mind before doing or saying anything. Sometimes people do things specifically because they want attention (whether they know it or not) sometimes they are just being themselves. People who brush others off as “wanting attention” are just proud of themselves that they know how to read people. If they really cared they would simply give the person the attention they thought he was seeking.October 20, 2021 7:47 am at 7:47 am #2018914ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤParticipant
What is immuturity at its core?October 21, 2021 9:02 am at 9:02 am #2019241
coffeddict, not what I said at all. The math class was an example of not seeking attention. Even people doing mature things if perceived by the attention police as sn attention seeking effort then they will make sure not to respond.
I understand not encouraging immaturity. That’s not the issue here.October 21, 2021 9:02 am at 9:02 am #2019240
“Everyone wants attention”
Why is that?
“eople who brush others off as “wanting attention” are just proud of themselves that they know how to read people. If they really cared they would simply give the person the attention they thought he was seeking.”
The point I was making. Plus they’re often wrong.
I just don’t know why attention was the thing so zoiche to this.October 26, 2021 4:26 pm at 4:26 pm #2020981ParticipantParticipant
“why are people always running to say oh its just for attention?”
You’re asking how people who always know everything always know everything? Because they know everything, that’s why.October 26, 2021 4:26 pm at 4:26 pm #2020983ParticipantParticipant
“First of all, why’s it immature, second of all, let’s say it is. You can’t humor the immature?”
“I understand not encouraging immaturity. That’s not the issue here.”
Contradiction?October 26, 2021 11:32 pm at 11:32 pm #2021147bored_teen 💕Participant
A word boring people use to describe fun people!
People have always told me I’m immature but I wear it like a badge of honour because it just means they’re jealous that I have a personality!October 27, 2021 5:57 pm at 5:57 pm #2021579
Huh participant? Is that sarcasm or what? I can’t figure t out.
But u asked a good question. let me explain. the root of attention might be immaturity (n, immature= adj) but so what? IF someone does something normal because of immaturity u don’t have to call him out on it. Bad stuff because of immaturity does have to be stopped. So jumping on a chair and screaming in class, don’t encourage that immaturity. But something else, who cares?
For example , I remember someone eating a lemon. I guess that he did it for attention, because I can’t think of any other reason someone would do it. Maybe I’m right, maybe not, but the point is let’s assume it was for attention. Is there any reason I have to ignore him because he’s “just doing it for attention?” Who cares?
If someone asks you to borrow money so he can buy candy, do you purposely not lend him so he’ll grow up?October 28, 2021 2:12 pm at 2:12 pm #2021938leibyParticipant
people crave attention and we should give it to them. however there is a new way in which people demand our time and that’s not acceptable. it happens at least a few times a week that somebody wants to show me some clip on their phone or demands that a listen to some song (isn’t it great?). this is beyond all pale of normalcy and must be purged from our society asap.October 28, 2021 7:05 pm at 7:05 pm #2022080Reb EliezerParticipant
If someone says that they know everything, they really know nothing. Only Hashem knows everything.October 28, 2021 9:20 pm at 9:20 pm #2022112ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤParticipant
hey if i have your attention can someone please find me link to the riddle thread. ThanksOctober 28, 2021 9:21 pm at 9:21 pm #2022117
“For example , I remember someone eating a lemon. I guess that he did it for attention, because I can’t think of any other reason someone would do it.”
I love to eat lemons and limes
Maybe the guy was vitamin c deficient?
Anyways if it bothers you then don’t give him the attention but if you think it’s cool, why not?
By a chasuna people do things “to be misameach the chassan and kallah” so people that think it’s cool give that person attentionOctober 29, 2021 7:11 am at 7:11 am #2022229
good, coffeaddict,, your catching on.October 29, 2021 8:32 am at 8:32 am #2022257
שלמה המלך wisely says
לכל זמן ועתOctober 31, 2021 1:55 am at 1:55 am #2022587farfetchedpshatParticipant
To try answering the first question, maybe people realize that sometimes giving attention to those who crave it may create a pattern of emotional dependency where they keep coming back to you for more in desperation. Like that friend that always makes the joke and immediately looks at you to see your reaction. Not everyone enjoys that.
Similarly, many people may not want to even give a loan if the person will keep coming to borrow more.November 1, 2021 3:33 pm at 3:33 pm #2023280
“people crave attention”
Why is that?
“a few times a week that somebody wants to show me some clip on their phone or demands that a listen to some song (isn’t it great?). this is beyond all pale of normalcy and must be purged from our society asap.”
What’s the matter? Technology? or it’s too often?November 1, 2021 3:37 pm at 3:37 pm #2023283
i just posted two things but my internet s not really working well. if it didn’t work I’ll have to do write it again.November 2, 2021 7:25 pm at 7:25 pm #2023819
“maybe people realize that sometimes giving attention to those who crave it may create a pattern of emotional dependency where they keep coming back to you for more in desperation”
I would hear that but it doesn’t make sense that people tell others “shh. he’s just doing it for attention.” Are they that considered about others being the attention-seeker’s desperation korban?
Also, they’ll say things like “Don’t do xyzzy, if u want attention, say “I want attention.” That sounds like their just being balei gavia like user176 said, that they have to prove they know the motive behind everyone’s actions.
“Like that friend that always makes the joke and immediately looks at you to see your reaction. Not everyone enjoys that”
Spot on! But i feel ppl are more likely to give a chesed laugh to a stupid joke than give attention to someone seeking it. And i never heard someone say, “don’t laugh at his stupid joke.” if they don’t want to laugh, fine, they’re not stopping anyone else from it.November 2, 2021 9:27 pm at 9:27 pm #2023843Little FroggieParticipant
I am posting here for attention
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A B.Tech final year student has recently invented a gadget that is going to ensure social distancing norms during the lockdown amidst the ongoing COVID19 Pandemic.
Amit Singh Maurya, Student of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Heritage Insititute of Technology, Kolkata, invented the gadget that can be attached to one’s belt and gives alert when a person violates the social distancing norm of two meters.
Speaking to News Sense, Amit said, “It works on the basis of a sensor and this sensor sends the alert on coming in contact with infrared rays emitted from the human body“. He gave the name of the gadget ‘Rekha’ which now costs around 400 INR and can alert when anyone breaks the social distancing norm in any place.
In India where there are large number of population and people tend to break the norms, this gadget can come handy for them to prevent the Covid-19 from spreading. Currently, Amit is working on the development of an App ‘Drishti’, that will connect COVID19 Positive Patients to the Doctor online. | <urn:uuid:447856b7-b25a-447e-bc2e-73a0f29c0f33> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://newssense.in/2020/06/20/rekha-to-ensure-social-distancing-during-covid-19-lockdown/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.925233 | 231 | 2.71875 | 3 |
What happens to a person who spends forty days and forty nights talking to God on a mountaintop? Moses testifies about himself: “I stayed on the Mountain for forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.” (Deut 9:9 and Exodus 34:28) Is it possible for a regular human being not to eat for forty days? How is Moses affected by this superhuman feat? How does Moses change as a result of his close encounter with God?
MEKOROT FOR CHAVRUTA STUDY
- See Shemot 34:29-35.
These are difficult pesukim. Even the basic understanding here is challenging.
- Why did Moshe’s face radiate?
See the pesukim. Esp. v.29
See Rashi (v29)
- At what times did Moshe wear a veil?
See Ibn Ezra v.29, 34. Rashi v. 32-5. Ramban v.33.Haemek Davar (peirush of Rav Naftali Tzvi Berlin.)
THE SHIUR SECTION: MOSHE’S RADIANCE.
“Moses descended Mount Sinai, holding the two tablets of the testimony when he came down from the mountain; and Moses was unaware that the skin of his face was radiant, since God had spoken to him. Aaron and all the people saw that the skin of Moses’ face was radiant and they shrank from approaching him. But Moses called to them, and Aaron and the leaders of the community returned to him and he spoke to them. Afterwards all the Children of Israel approached him and he instructed them concerning all the Lord had spoken on Mt. Sinai. And when Moses finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face.
Whenever Moses came before the Lord to speak with Him he would remove the veil until he came out. He would come out and tell the Children of Israel that which he had been instructed. The Children of Israel saw Moses’ face, that the skin of his face was shining and Moses would then put the veil back on his face until he went in to speak with Him.” (Exodus 34:29-35)
This passage surely records a most remarkable and even startling occurrence. Moses’ face shines with such brilliance that the people are afraid to approach him. Moses walks around the camp with his face veiled. How are we to understand this story? Where did Moses’ radiance come from? How long did it last? Did this radiance stay with him for the next forty years? Let us try to find some answers. We will examine this story from three angles, three relationships. The relationship between:
- God and Israel
- Moses and the people.
- Moses and God.
THE TABLETS OF TESTIMONY
“Because the first tablets of stone were given amidst the sounds of revelation and this set of tablets were handed over quietly, in private, God wanted to demonstrate that these tablets were also spoken and given in holiness, from God. It was for this reason that God made Moses’ face shine with the brightness of the Divine when he received them.” (Bechor Shor)
What are the tablets of stone? In the Torah, the two tablets of stone are called “tablets of testimony” (31:18). They are “a testimony and a covenant between God and Israel” . What do we mean by this? The tablets are a demonstration and a sign that there is a connection, a covenant, and an everlasting agreement, between God and Israel. It is as if they are the contract, which seals a relationship. As long as the relationship exists, the contract must be abided by.
The first tablets found their origin in the revelation at Sinai. After that overwhelming spectacle, Moses was invited to ascend the mountain to receive “the stone tablets, the Torah and the commands” (24:13) directly from the Almighty. But then came the episode of the golden calf. The people betrayed God and the laws that they had agreed to obey. Moses came down the mountain with these symbols of covenant in his hands, and when he “saw the calf and the dancing…he hurled the tablets from his hand and shattered them.” (32:19) These “tablets of testimony”, symbols of the pact between God and Israel, were now worthless. Their shattering was an automatic response, for what is the value of a contract if the terms of the agreement have been violated? The Children of Israel have already broken their side of the deal.
After the episode of the calf we read about the efforts to repair the damage. We read of Moses’ earnest prayers on behalf of the people. We hear how he argues passionately with God. (This is the basic content of Chapter 33) And then, in an atmosphere of renewal, God invites Moses to reaffirm the covenant. He is willing to give Israel a second chance. Chapter 34 describes the terms of a renewed covenant and we hear God utter the 13 attributes of mercy indicating His desire to forgive the Children of Israel for their misdemeanors.
The symbol of healing and repair of this relationship with God is the creation of a second set of tablets, identical to the first. These tablets are the result of a “joint effort” between God and Moses; Moses hewed out the stones and hauled them up to the mountaintop and God wrote on them, engraving the words of the Ten Commandments for a second time.
Were these tablets “second rate”? Could the damage to the covenantal relationship between Israel and God be given to repair? God for His part wished to send a clear message that these second tablets are no less than the earlier ones. To this end he gave Moses an appearance of brilliant radiance. Now the people needed only to look at Moses and to realise that the second covenant is equal to the first. Moses has experienced the ultimate communion with God in receiving the second covenant, in much the same way that the entire nation experienced God’s revelation at Sinai many days earlier. These tablets have the same spiritual importance as the earlier tablets despite the difference in the prevailing atmosphere. The covenant is renewed.
THE EFFECTS OF THE GOLDEN CALF
RASHI however chooses a different focus within this story. He stresses not God nor Moses, but the people. He notes that the Children of Israel cannot even look at Moses’ face.
“See how the enormity of the effects of sin: Before the people had embarked upon their sin, it states that “ the appearance of God’s glory was like a consuming fire at the mountain top, seen by all of Israel” (24:17) – and the people were not shaken nor were they scared. Now, after the golden calf, fear grips the people and they tremble from the mere sight of the rays of light emerging from Moses.” (Rashi on 34:30)
Rashi’s explanation is remarkable. It is not that Moshe is glowing; It is that the people cannot withstand the sight of this divine light. At Mt. Sinai the first time round, this glow did not seem as dazzling, as blinding. At that time, many days earlier, Am Yisrael’s spiritual level was such that it could withstand unfiltered spiritual power. Who knows? – Maybe they all glowed with a dazzling Godly brilliance as they stood at the foot of the mountain experiencing God Himself. But now after the spiritual fall of the Golden Calf, it is only Moses who bears such light, and they cannot even behold the sight of him in this state of being. Moses’ God-inspired face is too much for the man sullied by sin. The Israelites cannot even look upon him.
Note that according to both interpretations that we have quoted, this episode is a footnote to the story of the Golden Calf. For the Bechor Shor, it tells us about the forgiveness and restoration of relations with God that followed the rift of the sin of the golden calf. It is a message of repair.
According to Rashi however, the message is different, possibly opposite. This story demonstrates that after the Golden Calf, the people could not return to precisely the same position that they had been in before. They were tainted, detrimentally affected by sin. Their spiritual refinement had been violated by their escapade with the calf. They will have to work hard to regain their level.
Thus far, we have demonstrated how this episode forms a part of the God-Israel relationship. But this is not the complete story. Our episode must be examined from two angles: The God-Moses relationship and Moses’ relationship with the people.
Let us begin with the veil. Why did Moses wear it and when? If God wanted the people to see his face shine, then why did Moses need to cover his face? Different explanations are proposed by the commentators.
Some suggest that Moses always veiled his face when he spoke to the people. Even when he was teaching them Torah he wore it. Their proof is from the final verse of our parsha: “Moses would then put the veil back on his face until he went in to speak with Him”. He was unveiled only before God. After all, it makes sense for Moses to veil his face before the people. After all, were the nation not terrified when they saw his appearance? They turned away from him, they would not approach him! If he wanted to have contact with his flock, he would have to veil his face.
- DIRECT CONTACT WITH GOD
But what was the nature of this brilliance that they saw? Was it the effect of the direct contact that Moses had had with God?
“Where did Moses receive the beams of majesty? The Rabbis said: From the cave , as it says “When my glory passes by I shall put you in the crevice of the rock.(33:22)” (Midrash Rabba)
Moses speaks to God “face to face” (33:11). He is in the most direct connection with the Divine. Moses’ glow is a reflection of the glow of God. Moses is “Ish Ha’elokim” – the Man of God (Deut 33:1). He has the brilliance of God. And that is why the Moses must be veiled. “So that the people will not feast their eyes (on the Godly light)” . Moses is veiled because he is God-like and the Israelites must be cautious in their direct approach to him. For this reason Rabbeinu Bachya explains that Moses’ glow never left him:
“And this light which shone forth from his face never left him from the time that he was on Mt. Sinai. It was with him all his life.”
- A SEPARATION BETWEEN HOLY AND UNHOLY
But other commentators dispute this explanation. In the verses, it tells us that Moses veiled himself only AFTER he had finished speaking with the people. Clearly there was no barrier between Moses and the people. The Abarbanel suggests that the reason for the veil was so that:
“He should not use this divine light when he was eating, drinking and sleeping, when he spoke with his wife and family about matters unrelated to Torah.”
It is as if Moses uses the veil to separate his life. Holy things are done unveiled, in a natural manner. Speaking to God, and teaching Torah are natural processes for Moses. But mundane life; shopping, eating, talking about the household chores have to be done with a veiled face. Moses must contain his spirituality at that moment. It is interesting that despite the fact that Moses is portrayed here as naturally holy, he finds it easy to “switch” mode. He can find his way in “normal” life.
If we can summarise this approach, then, we will say that the veil is not between Moses and the people, but rather a demarcation line between Moses’ Godliness and his human-ness.
- THE BRILLIANCE OF TORAH
A third explanation sees the divine glow as a product not of God but of Torah:
Rabbi Yehuda ben Nachman stated in the name of Resh Lakish: There was some ink left over on the pen, which wrote the Torah. He passed it over his head and this was responsible for the ‘beams of majesty’.” (Midrash Rabba)
This explanation suggests that the law, the Torah itself, was responsible for this effect. The parable of the inkdrops would seem to be telling us that the source of Moses’ brilliant appearance is in the Torah itself. Moses is the embodiment of Torah and it is in this connection that he glows. The Ibn Ezra explains that Moses’ radiance was
“recharged” every time he received a new law from God. This brilliance of appearance was a reflection of the brilliance of Torah. We might suggest, on this basis, that Moses’ face radiated only as long as the Torah was being given. When they left Mt. Sinai, this miraculous phenomena might have stopped. At any rate , we never hear about it again in the Torah.
THE DISTANCING OF MOSES
In a sense, when we look back on the book of Exodus, we can identify a progression in the life of Moses. We can trace a process of spiritual ascent in Moses’ life as he moves from private individual to prophet to “man of God”. But we can also identify another, more tragic development. This is the distancing of Moses from the people. His personal spiritual progression is going to incrementally create a separation between Moses and his people.
Our first images of Moses’ personality are from Shemot Chapter 2 where we see Moses involved in three incidents. In the first he saves a Jewish slave from a beating by an Egyptian slavemaster. In the second he attempts to settle a fight between two Israelites. In the third story, in the province of Midyan, he intervenes to save a group of girls at the well, from some aggressive shepherds. Moses is portrayed in all these stories – our earliest picture of him – as one who upholds justice, a man of action who is not afraid to pay the price for his actions, and a man whose heart lies with the people.
It is probably for these very reasons that he is picked by God to lead the Jewish people. At the burning bush, God informs him that He wishes Moses to lead His people from Egypt. Moses refuses. He uses every excuse possible. In one argument, Moses tells God that he is of “slow of speech”, apparently a quality which will hamper his verbal communication. God succeeds in appointing Moses but Aaron will be his spokesman (4:10-15). Moses will now speak through Aaron, a first stage in his distancing from the people.
Moses’ role in the Exodus is the next step, which portrays him as something other than a regular human being. Moses is given wonders and miracles to perform for all to see. At the Red Sea, it is Moses who stretches out his hand and the sea splits. It is Moses who later strikes the rock to give water to the camp. It is Moses who has a direct link with God. Moses is not only a leader; he is a prophet who seems to be able to create a miracle at will. “And they believed in God and Moses His servant” (Shemot 14:31). Moses and God can be spoken of in the selfsame breath.
But Moses still has ongoing contact with the people of Israel, he hears their worries and complaints with a smile. He acts as judge to solve their quarrels and disagreements. “Moses sat as judge AMONG the people… from morning until evening(18:13) .That is, until Jethro arrives. Jethro advises Moses that it is all too much:
“You will wear yourself out, and these people as well, the task is too heavy, you cannot bear it alone. Let me advise you … You represent the people before God and bring the disputes before God … set officers of thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens, let them judge the people at all times …every major dispute will be brought to you.” (18:17-22)
And Moses accepts the idea. He does not sit in judgement each and every day, and there are certain clear advantages to this new arrangement. Moses now has some time to think. But he has paid a weighty price. He has lost is daily contact with the nation. He is now the supreme court, he brings the most difficult cases to God. But he is at the top of a very long chain. How many cases does he see? how many people? How many people see him? have contact with him?
Mount Sinai clearly takes this process a stage further. He survives on the mountain for over a month without food or water. The people see him talk with God. (33:7-10) It is Moses’ voice (according to certain opinions – see Shemot 19:19) which they hear talking to them from Mount Sinai, amplified by God. In the episode of the Golden calf, Moses is gone and they try to replace him with a god: “Let us make for ourselves a god who will lead us, for this man Moses….. we know not what has befallen him” (32:2) . Moses is perceived in godly terms.
And now, we have the veil. Moshe is not simply distanced in the minds of the people. He now has a physical barrier, which separates him from them.
In a spiritual sense, Moses has reached the highest point that man can reach. He is almost more comfortable withGod that he is with humans. His natural, unveiled state is with God. He shines with a divine brilliance.
But the tragic correlation is his distance from the people and his separation from them. Moshe is now the man of God, the teacher of Torah. Israel needs a leader such as Moses. We could not have received the Torah without a Moses. The Torah is called the “Torah of Moses” (Malachi 3:22) because without a prophet on Moses’ level there might never have been a Torah. But at the same time Moses has lost one aspect of his personality – he will now find it difficult to be the man of the people.
I have deliberately quoted the entire passage, with its ambiguities and repetitions. The differences of opinion between commentators rest on alternative readings of these complex verses. We would do well to share the inherent confusion within the text.
Rashbam . Commentary to Exodus 25:16
Ha’emek Davar
Rabbeinu Bachya 34:33
See Rashi on Exodus 19:19
See the Rambam’s seventh principle, and especially the commentary of Rav Yitzchak Shilat (Yeshivat Ma’aleh Adumim publications) pg.202-208. There, Rav Shilat claims that Moses’ prophecy was unique and (unnatural) and was orchestrated so that Am Yisrael could receive the Torah. His clarity of vision was created with this clear aim in mind. | <urn:uuid:b1e1abd3-f8a7-4014-b48d-5564bf563b04> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://en.harova.org/online_torah_books/ki-tisa-5760/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.977332 | 4,115 | 2.140625 | 2 |
By: Ashley Tulio, Communications Specialist
Growing up I remember having a book on idioms. My brain used to be just filled with different idioms, and their meanings and history. I actually believe that everyone uses idioms more often than we think. This blog will explore what idioms are and some common ones frequently used!
Let’s begin with the definition of idioms. An idiom is a word or phrase in which the figurative meaning is different from the literal meaning of the grouping of words. In a way, expressions are expressions that describe a particular situation creatively. Each idiom has its own historical meaning and can sometimes reflect a specific cultural tradition. Idioms are valuable as they help us express things with just a few words. Moreover, they add a more positive and lighter tone to conversations.
Feeling under the weather
This idiom is typically used when people feel sick or ill. The origin of this is believed to come from when a sailor would feel sick, they would go below the front part of the boat to protect themselves from adverse conditions. Sailors would literally be under the bad weather that could further make their condition worse. Thus sailors who were sick were described as “under the weather.”
Beating around the bush
The idiom is usually used when someone is trying to tell a story. However, it may seem as if they are avoiding the main point or avoiding telling something. The person listening to the story wants to know what the main point is, so they say, “Stop beating around the bush!” This originated in response to a hunting game in Britain. When people were hunting birds, individuals would beat bushes to draw out the birds before getting to the main point, which was the actual capture of the birds.
Spill the beans
This idiom is used when someone wants someone to leak or tell them some secret information. The history behind this one is fun because it is most likely derived from an ancient Greek voting process involving beans. People would vote by placing one of two coloured beans in a vase, and if someone spilled the beans, the secret results of the election would be revealed beforehand.
Before someone goes bed, you might catch yourself saying, “Good night! Sleep tight!” Wishing someone to sleep tight really means you hope they sleep well. The history behind this idiom dates back to when people would sleep on mattresses supported by ropes. Telling someone to sleep tight really meant that you hoped that the ropes were pulled tight to have a well-supported bed for them overnight.
It’s raining cats and dogs!
This idiom actually has a few different stories of where it originated from. The most common one though, says that homes had thatched roofs in which domestic cats and dogs would go under to hide years ago. However, during heavy rain, the animals would either be washed out of the thatch or abandon the hiding for shelter, making it seem like it was raining cats and dogs.
As you can see, there are a lot of idioms that we use on a daily basis, without even thinking about the actual idiom itself. There are so many more, such as “break a leg”, “piece of cake”, “kill two birds with one stone”, and “call it a day”. Idioms are a fun way to express various meanings, and they make great memes!
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The chemistry and physics section of the MCAT is notoriously daunting. However, while questions may seem perplexing with complicated equations and challenging calculations, one can answer questions in this part of the exam quickly by knowing units of variables commonly encountered in chemistry and physics.
Knowing units well can help you avoid memorizing a plethora of different equations. While some equations have constants that would be impossible to derive using units alone (e.g. those that are obtained by integration like kinetic energy), some common equations can be derived through algebraic manipulation using the units of the variables in the equation. Let’s review an example. I have a cylindrical tank with height h with a certain volume, V, filled with liquid of density ⍴, and I want to know what the pressure, P, is at the bottom of the tank. I may remember that P = ⍴gh. But, let’s say I can’t remember this equation. How do I figure out what the pressure is based on units?
Take a look at the units of the entity you’re trying to find. Remember, Pressure = Force/area. I know that force has units of newtons (N). Area has SI units of m2. Therefore, Pressure = N/m2. In order for two sides of the equation to be equivalent, the units must be equivalent. So, I’m given volume, which I know has standard units of m3. I’m also given a height, which has standard units of m. Finally, I’m given density, which has SI units of kg/m3. At this point, I can ask myself: how do I arrange the right side of the equation in such a way that I obtain units of N/m2. Well, I need to obtain units of force in the numerator. A tank that’s sitting on the ground and not experiencing any acceleration other than gravity experiences a force of its mass, m, multiplied by the acceleration due to gravity, g; Force = mg, which ultimately has units of kg ∙ m/s2 = N.
Now I have a way to obtain units of force in the numerator. That is, I’m given density and I know the acceleration of gravity, so if I multiply density by gravity, I obtain units of kg/m3 ∙ m/s2 = N/m3 because the numerator is mass multiplied by acceleration, which has units of N. The final thing to do is to transform these units into units of pressure. The pressure that I want is the pressure at the bottom of the tank. I’m given the height, h, of the tank, which has units of m. If I multiply N/m3 by height in meters, I obtain units of N/m2, which is pressure. So, our final equation is P = ⍴gh, where P is the pressure at the bottom of the tank. We obtained the desired equation just by considering the units of variables given to us in the question!
In summary, we want to consider the following when we’re stuck and can’t remember an equation:
- Identify the units of the desired answer, in this case it’s units of pressure
- Look at the variables given and identify the units of those variables
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The EU is following closely the situation of Palestinian detainees. The EU has raised repeatedly with Israeli authorities the conditions under which Palestinians are held in administrative detention, including by highlighting that under international law, detainees have the right to be informed about the reasons underlying any detention and to have the legality of their detention determined without undue delay. You will have also seen the tweets issued by the EU Representative Office in Jerusalem on 19 October and 5 November, and by EU Special Representative for Human Rights on 16 November:
The EU welcomes the fact that several detainees have recently suspended their hunger strike, after reaching agreements on their release. The EU remains concerned about the situation of the remaining detainees who have continued their hunger strike for a very long period.
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#People #Charge #Abortion #High #Situation #Fall #Roe
It’s been greater than two weeks because the Supreme Court ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health that there isn’t a consitutional proper to abortion, overturning the precedent set in 1973’s Roe v. Wade determination. This has set off a scramble across the country, as some states move to restrict legal access to abortion whereas others search to increase it.
Polls present that People largely disapprove of the court’s decision, and the newest FiveThirtyEight/Ipsos survey discovered that People at the moment are extra prone to prioritize abortion as a significant concern — even when it nonetheless isn’t their prime concern. Performed shortly after the courtroom overturned Roe, FiveThirtyEight/Ipsos as soon as once more interviewed the identical 2,000 or so People from our earlier two survey waves utilizing Ipsos’s KnowledgePanel. And from a listing of 20 subjects, the greater than 1,500 adults who responded ranked abortion because the fourth-most vital concern going through the nation, with 19 % score it as a number one concern. This marked a notable enhance from the 9 % who ranked abortion as a prime concern in our final survey launched in early June.
Regardless of the clear uptick in concern about abortion, nonetheless, the problem nonetheless considerably trailed three different points: inflation or rising prices, crime or gun violence and political extremism or polarization. Inflation is way and away People’ main fear, as greater than 60 % named it as one in every of their prime points. In the meantime, concern over crime and gun violence fell to 34 % after reaching the low 40s in June, whereas issues about polarization and extremism grew to 33 percent.
Democrats and independents have been particularly prone to say abortion ranked as a prime concern for the nation. The share of Democrats who named abortion greater than doubled, from 13 % in our earlier wave to 27 % in our newest wave, whereas the share of independents who talked about abortion jumped from 8 % to 17 %. Republicans, too, have been extra frightened in regards to the concern, however their share solely elevated from 8 % to 13 %.
The political penalties of overturning Roe v. Wade
We requested these respondents why they listed abortion as a key concern, and plenty of supplied stark responses that confirmed the vary of feelings that may accompany this concern — generally from sudden sources. “Abortion is a private matter for ladies. Nobody/no legislation ought to go in opposition to a girl’s private concern regarding this matter,” mentioned a 60-year outdated Hispanic lady from New Jersey who recognized as an impartial however leaned Republican, whereas a 26-year outdated white lady in Colorado who recognized as a Republican instructed us that “a nation that kills its infants can’t presumably survive as a robust, compassionate, cohesive nation.” A 20-year outdated Black man from California who recognized as a Democrat wrote, “Ladies have much less rights now than their moms and grandmothers did.”
Apparently, most People supported the underlying argument for Roe — that there’s a proper to privateness established within the Structure; solely not everybody agreed that it utilized to abortion. General, 65 % of People mentioned the Structure accommodates a proper to privateness; solely 10 % mentioned “no,” with virtually no variations throughout get together traces. Nonetheless, a plurality (39 %) mentioned there was no authorized proper to abortion within the Structure, whereas 30 % mentioned there was, a cut up largely pushed by Republicans (70 % of whom mentioned there was no authorized proper to abortion).
What overturning Roe means for abortion entry throughout the US | FiveThirtyEight
However the query now could be the place the struggle over abortion will go subsequent. As an example, the Dobbs determination may have opened the door to future judicial rulings that threaten long-protected entry to totally different types of contraception. And a few Republican-controlled state legislatures have even began trying to restrict access to totally different types of contraception with laws. Our ballot discovered, nonetheless, that such payments could be a bridge too far for many People, as there may be overwhelming assist for authorized entry to frequent types of contraception throughout get together traces. Strikingly, round 90 % of People mentioned condoms and contraception tablets needs to be authorized in “all” or “most” circumstances, and 81 % mentioned the identical of IUDs (intrauterine units). And, there may be little or no distinction in assist for the legality of every of those contraceptives throughout get together traces.
People are extra clearly divided over emergency contraception like Plan B tablets, however 70 % general nonetheless mentioned these strategies needs to be authorized, together with 62 % of Republicans, who have been much less supportive than Democrats or independents. However abortion itself introduced out the sharpest partisan splits. No less than 80 % of Democrats mentioned abortion in surgical or tablet kind needs to be authorized, in comparison with a couple of third of Republicans. “I establish extra with Republicans as a result of the Democrats appear to be ‘everyone will get a free experience.’ However on this concern, I’m extra with the Democratic Get together,” mentioned Debra W., an older white lady from Michigan. “Too lots of [the Supreme Court justices] are too conservative. They usually simply are seeming to return on loads of rights.”
The truth is, whereas Republicans have been extra prone to oppose abortion than Democrats or independents, they, like most People, rejected the thought of creating abortion totally unlawful, with no exceptions. That is notable as a result of quite a lot of virtually fully Republican-run states could end up with abortion bans that comprise no allowances in circumstances of rape, incest or when the mom’s life is in peril. However in our ballot, 81 % of respondents opposed such a complete ban, together with 74 % of Republicans. “I really feel like loads of the conservative views are a bit extra excessive than they have been earlier than,” mentioned Soledad Ramos, a 33-year outdated Hispanic lady from Texas who recognized as impartial however leaned Democratic. “Regardless the way it occurred, [women] might find yourself in a state of affairs the place they might resolve that abortion is the higher choice for them. And I really feel like they need to have the say to resolve that.”
Some GOP-controlled states are also looking to punish women who search abortions throughout state traces, but 78 % of respondents opposed making it unlawful to cross state traces to acquire an abortion, together with 73 % of Republicans. And 76 % general opposed making it unlawful to help a girl searching for an abortion with cash or transportation, together with 61 % of Republicans. Extra broadly, there simply wasn’t a lot assist for punishing those that violate legal guidelines in opposition to abortion, as solely 18 % of respondents supported criminally charging violators and having them face both jail time or a high-quality. By comparability, 13 % supported them being charged with a misdemeanor and a high-quality, whereas 36 % opposed any punishment in any respect (31 % mentioned they didn’t know).
Republicans are also pushing forward controversial fetal personhood laws — legal guidelines that would make in vitro fertilization illegal. In our survey, we requested half our respondents whether or not fetuses needs to be given the identical rights as kids and adults, and the opposite half whether or not fertilized eggs ought to have these rights. Majorities opposed each proposals, however fetal personhood did obtain a bit extra assist, particularly amongst Republicans. General, 59 % opposed making fetuses authorized individuals, whereas 36 % supported the thought, together with 66 % of Republicans. By comparability, 62 % opposed personhood for fertilized eggs, together with 50 % of Republicans.
Past what states are doing to limit or increase abortion entry, there’s additionally the query of the problem’s influence on the 2022 midterm election. It’s early but, however we’ve observed a small development within the Democrats’ course in our generic poll query amongst doubtless voters, not in contrast to that seen in some other recent polling. Again in early Could, Republicans led by 5 factors amongst doubtless voters (40 % to 35 %), however the GOP edge shrank to 2 factors in early June (40 % to 38 %), and in our newest wave Democrats really led by 1 level (39 % to 38 %). As a result of the FiveThirtyEight/Ipsos ballot makes use of a panel, we’re speaking about motion amongst largely the identical group of voters, so this may very well be significant.
The Supreme Court docket dealt an enormous blow to the separation of church and state
Nonetheless, we shouldn’t overstate the significance of this swing, because it’s solely July and we all know the generic ballot polling average tends to trend towards the get together not within the White Home as we get nearer to the election. Furthermore, abortion (or every other concern, for that matter) doesn’t appear to have made individuals who weren’t prone to vote say they’re now prone to vote. A lot of protection has cited polls that ask respondents whether or not the Supreme Court docket’s determination has made them extra prone to vote, however respondents who have been already prone to vote may nonetheless reply “extra doubtless” in such surveys, so these figures don’t inform us that a lot about potential will increase in voter engagement. In the meantime, in our survey, the share who mentioned they have been prone to vote has hardly modified throughout the three waves — and there’s been little change by get together, too.
Lastly, whereas about 1 in 5 respondents cited abortion as a prime concern, 3 in 5 named inflation or rising costs. Furthermore, larger costs, notably larger fuel costs, often correspond with abysmal presidential approval rankings, which, after all, normally align with worse midterm performances by the president’s get together. We didn’t ask about job approval, however President Biden’s favorability numbers remained poor: Thirty-three % registered a positive opinion of him, in contrast with 59 % who held an unfavorable view. These numbers have been considerably higher amongst doubtless voters (40 % favorable, 59 % unfavorable), however nonetheless fairly detrimental for Biden.
In different phrases, abortion has develop into a extra urgent matter within the midterms, however the elementary fear about rising costs and Biden’s low standing may nonetheless be a significant boon to Republican fortunes within the fall.
Extra reporting and analysis by Amelia Thomson-Deveaux. Artwork course by Emily Scherer. Copy modifying by Santul Nerkar. Graphics by Paroma Soni. Story modifying by Sarah Frostenson.
“Biden Laments Post-Roe ‘Horror’ in the US And Signs Order on Abortion Access. He Advocates Seeking A Stronger Stand After Roe v. Wade Ruling Order Requires HHS To Detail Efforts To Expand Abortion Access.” ( Guardian, July 8). President Biden’s Executive Order Proves His Commitment To Protecting A Woman’s Right To Health And Reproductive Freedom. The President Is Also Urging Congress To Codify Roe As A Federally Protected Law And For Americans To Only Vote For Candidates That Protect A Woman’s Reproductive Autonomy. | <urn:uuid:514a8dff-074f-45fd-9bd7-4e7a424d6dbc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://currenttime.news/1-in-5-americans-rate-abortion-as-a-top-issue-after-the-fall-of-roe/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.941828 | 2,367 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Can you please do an episode on the Kokoda Track.
It was the first defeat of Japan in a land battle in WW2.
It was achieved by Australian conscripts, who where only allowed to be deployed on Australian soil. Because Papua New Guinea was a colony, the conscripts were deployed there.
The conditions were hellish. The men looked like a rabble at the end.
When Macarthur and the Australian head of army, Blamey, came after the victory, they criticised the conscripts.
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In 1957, at the age of twenty-two, Yoshihiro Tatsumi left his job as a commercial comics artist to create a new style of graphic fiction. He named it gekiga, Japanese for “dramatic pictures.” Tatsumi’s new style marked a major departure from the mainstream manga style, which was dominated, then as now, by entertainment-based, mass-produced cartoons. Tatsumi’s gekiga is distinguished by its discordant placement of flat, almost crudely sketched ordinary characters within gritty, naturalistic backgrounds. The drawings alternate between impressions of mundane daily life and images of surprising violence and sex, conveying a sense of individual alienation within the rapidly changing throng of postwar Japanese society.
Tatsumi’s working-class antiheroes are frequently driven by loneliness to take risks that lead them deeper into crisis. In “The Washer,” for instance, a professional window-cleaner spies his daughter being molested through a window of the office building he’s working on and resolves to teach her a lesson; in “My Darling Monkey,” a lonely factory worker decides to free his pet monkey from the confinement of his shabby Tokyo apartment by releasing him into the monkey cage at the zoo—only to watch as the resident troop tears his companion to pieces.
In tone and style, Tatsumi’s gekiga shares an obvious kinship with the “alternative” or “literary” comics that began proliferating in North America in the mid-1980s—yet it predates that work by as much as three decdades. The stories from which the images in these pages were sleected are all set in Tokyo in the 1960s.
These days, Tatsumi lives in Tokyo, where he continues to write and draw. When asked whether he wanted to say anything to English-language readers coming to his work for the first time, he said: “I myself am a very normal person. Please do not interpret these stories as representative of the author’s personality.” | <urn:uuid:30d177c1-006e-4f2e-b96c-702fca1057e6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://toutpourlavape.frwww.theparisreview.org/art-photography/5602/graphic-tokyo-yoshihiro-tatsumi | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.973553 | 440 | 1.96875 | 2 |
An article published in the American Journal of Medicine says that “wicked” scientific papers that are published in journals like Nature can have no practical effect in the healthcare system.
This article is a continuation of a story published in Nature last month on the dangers of “wasted” science.
The article is by Dr. Paul S. McHugh, professor of medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
The paper, entitled “Is there any benefit of the scientific method?” was authored by Drs.
Thomas H. Kiely and Robert R. Cipollini, who are both at the University of California, San Francisco, respectively.
The authors were not involved in the paper.
McHuch said in a statement that they were “wary of the journal Nature,” because it has “a reputation for being a journal of noise.”
The paper describes how scientists in the medical field are attempting to make sense of the world, and that their methods may be “wasting” money and lives.
“The scientific method is supposed to be the gold standard for understanding the world,” McHugh wrote in the statement.
“Nature has published hundreds of papers that, taken together, tell us nothing of value about our world.
In fact, many of the papers we publish are of little or no value.”
McHugh said that many of these papers are published by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), a peer-reviewed body of scientists.
“NNAS has been so successful in publishing papers that it’s now become the scientific equivalent of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences,” McHuch wrote.
The paper is a part of a large effort by the NAS to develop a new way of looking at science.
Last year, NAS president John C. White said that NAS is “ready to move on” from its “toxic” and “fraudulent” publishing methods.
“We have decided to focus on publishing papers of greater value, not more toxic, misleading, or fraudulent papers,” he wrote.
McHuff said that in some cases, NAS papers may have “substantial value” to patients.
“But if we publish a paper that is so worthless, that there’s no value to the patient, and there’s nothing to learn, then we are in serious trouble,” he said.
“This is a problem in medicine.”
The NAS does not require that all papers be published in peer-review, and it does not have a requirement for papers to be “well-documented.”
Instead, NAS scientists can select papers based on their own scientific reasoning and be allowed to present their work as they see fit.
“If you publish a research paper that says ‘the best thing to do is to reduce the incidence of COVID-19 in the United States, which we believe is probably the most important thing to achieve,’ and that doesn’t work out, you should be able to put that paper in Nature,” McHuff told ABC News.
McHuf said that there are a number of ways in which the NAS could be improved.
“I think the NAS would do a lot more to improve the quality of the research,” McHough said.
A spokesperson for the NAS told ABCNews.com that it has published some more than 1,000 peer- reviewed papers and is currently reviewing papers from all over the world.
The NAS has a new process in place called the “Open Access Model,” which is intended to make it easier for researchers to publish their research and share it widely.
It also says that it is “not a place for the publication of harmful research.”
The spokesperson did not have any additional comment.
The New York Times reported that McHugh is also involved in a major scientific conference, which is taking place in New York City on May 18.
The Times reported: McHugh told The Times that the conference, called the International Conference on Cancer, is not sponsored by the American Association for Cancer Research, but is being held at the invitation of the New York-based Cancer Prevention Alliance.
He said that he is trying to use the conference to “share the latest research with cancer patients around the world.”
McHuff has also written several books, including “Wicked Science: Why We Can’t Get the Science We Need to Save Our Lives,” which was published by Princeton University Press in June, and “Harmful Science: How to Save Your Health and Your Country,” which appeared in August by Penguin Random House.
“Science is a science of ideas, and what you see in Nature, Nature tells you about what’s going on,” McHuf told ABC.
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Starting 15 June, the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service's (CAMS) European air quality forecasts are composed of an ensemble of eleven individual models instead of nine previously.
With these additions to the nine models already included in the ensemble, CAMS consolidates its position in the "Premier League" of European teams developing numerical models for air quality. Regional air quality forecasts are delivered daily, and they cover the following 4 days.
All the models rely on specific emissions datasets - another important product of CAMS - and are driven by ECMWF's high resolution weather forecasts. The products combining the outputs of the eleven systems are delivered by Météo-France and INERIS (France) on behalf of CAMS and are accessible on the CAMS website and in the Atmosphere Data Store (ADS).
The ensemble products cover a range of pollutants including those regulated in the European Union: ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide, and fine particulate matter PM2.5 and PM10. The forecasts and analyses are provided on a regular grid with a resolution of about 10km by 10km over a large domain encompassing Iceland and the whole Mediterranean basin.
Such a distributed state-of-the-art multi-model operational ensemble is unique in the world. All data is available freely in the Atmosphere Data Store, together with documentation and evaluation and quality control information.
Why ensemble size matters
The advantage of an ensemble over a single model is that it benefits from a set of forecasts of similar general skill, the performance of each individual model being overall equivalent. The slight differences between models allows assessment of uncertainty: the more similar the individual forecasts, the lower the uncertainty. Uncertainty information is essential for CAMS users, in particular for decision making within the agencies managing air quality in the European Union.
Using the median value of all models -the forecast in the "middle of the pack" with as many individual forecasts above and below, at each point and timestep, CAMS could show that the ensemble European model has more skill than any of the individual forecasts on average. CAMS teams have already developed a new methodology that will give different weights to the different individual forecasts based on a machine learning algorithm. The project is in the research phase and will be implemented in one of the next upgrades. Of course, this future upgrade will also benefit from the new 11-strong ensemble.
As CAMS operates under stringent time-critical conditions, having 11 systems instead of 9 means that the possibility of receiving 9 individual forecasts in time becomes more likely, making the ensemble more robust. Finally, as models are developed in different countries, the ensemble benefits from a wider range of expertise than would be available in any single country.
The new CAMS regional air quality ensemble member MINNI (ENEA, Italy)
ENEA's participation in the CAMS Regional Air Quality Production started officially in 2018, with a 3-year "benchmark" period, for setting-up and operating the forecast system in parallel with the operational real-time service.
At that time, the regional modelling suite (MINNI), based on the chemical-transport model FARM, had been working for years supporting the Italian Ministry of Environment and running on a national domain. In 2015, it was first switched to forecasting mode on a national basis (starting from a previous suite developed by Arianet s.r.l, Qualearia).
"Given the growing interest of policymakers in real-time air quality model forecasting systems, at ENEA we found it natural to look for the best available framework for developing and testing our system, which was the CAMS model ensemble on Europe" says Antonio Piersanti, head of ENEA's Atmospheric Pollution Laboratory. "We also felt that the Italian expertise on air quality modelling could really help CAMS, in better assessing pollutant concentrations in Mediterranean hot-spots like the Po Valley".
"Joining the CAMS Regional Air Quality Production team was a big challenge for us" says Mario Adani, Scientific Manager for ENEA in CAMS. "We could rely on a small but very motivated and skilled team of air quality modellers and HPC experts, running MINNI on CRESCO (ENEA's supercomputing facility in Portici, Naples). We had to reshuffle our priorities and learn to stay on track with tight daily production requirements, including data flows and model simulations. We were strongly supported by all the other teams and namely Météo-France and INERIS. Working side-by-side with 10 modelling teams among the most relevant in Europe, and with other CAMS services, has been and continues to be a unique opportunity to support European air quality policy, driven by scientific excellence."
The new CAMS regional air quality ensemble member MONARCH (BSC, Spain)
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) has been involved in the CAMS regional production service in recent years to demonstrate the added value of including the BSC in-house MONARCH model as a new member of the European Air Quality multi-model ensemble forecasting system of CAMS.
The Multiscale Online Non-hydrostatic AtmospheRe CHemistry modelling (MONARCH) is a chemical weather modeling system continuously developed at the BSC with a focus on mineral dust and other aerosols, atmospheric chemistry, emissions, data assimilation, workflow management, and operational forecasting. MONARCH has been further enhanced to fulfil the requirements of the CAMS Regional production service: refinement of multi-phase chemistry processes, bioaerosol representation, data assimilation of reactive species, optimization of workflow for operational production, use of ECMWF meteorological forecasts, and regular updates of emission fluxes.
The fruitful collaboration with partners involved in CAMS European air quality production together with the support of ECMWF has strongly contributed to the success of the operational deployment of the MONARCH model in CAMS. | <urn:uuid:fd5bb835-e0ff-4487-9f48-e58786f562ae> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/cams-european-air-quality-ensemble-forecasts-welcomes-two-new-state-art-models | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.935223 | 1,213 | 2.578125 | 3 |
It’s sad, but true. Recent research has revealed what many of us have been observing in our own homes for years. The self-esteem of our daughters takes a nosedive before they even become teenagers. As preschoolers and during the early elementary school years, girls are often full of confidence and ready to take on the world. They show off their talents, share their successes, and brag about their many friends and accomplishments.
But then something happens. During the tween and teen years, our daughters begin to question the very things they used to be confident about. Am I pretty? Do my friends like me? Are my clothes just right? Am I smart? Does my body look good? Am I talented? These questions (and more) begin to haunt them leading to a sudden decrease in their once positive and healthy self-esteem.
As parents, there’s so much that we can do to help build the self-esteem of our girls, both before and during the teen years. Try some of these strategies to help protect your daughter’s self-esteem during this delicate time:
Be a good role model. Much of what our children learn in the early years comes from us, their parents! If your daughter hears you saying “I can’t wear that, it makes me look fat” or “I can’t do that, I’ve never been good at math,” then she’s going to pick up on that and store it away in her memory bank. As she ages, she’ll likely begin to question her own image or worth in the same way. You can help prevent that by being a good model of healthy self-esteem. Even if you do question your outfit or math skills, be cautious about how you verbalize that in front of your daughter. Instead of “I can’t do that, I’ve never been good at math,” try “That’s a hard question. Let’s try to figure it out together, I bet we can!” Remember, she’s always watching and listening.
Talk about your self-esteem when you were her age. One way to get your daughter to open up about how she’s feeling is to talk with her about your self-esteem growing up. Finding out that you felt heartbroken when you were left out by your friends as a teenager might help your daughter realize that she’s not the only one to have ever felt this way. Also, talking with her about how you handled your struggles will arm her with ideas on how to respond when she’s faced with similar situations.
Discuss the influence of media. Watch television with your child, listen to music together, and read some of her favorite magazines. When you see or hear something that is unsettling, talk with her about it. Many ads are designed to take advantage of this time of insecurity and self-doubt, encouraging young girls to purchase the latest and greatest outfits, technology, and beauty products just to fit in. You can help combat that by engaging your daughter in discussions about the influence of the media on her self-image.
Reach out. If your daughter is really struggling with her self-esteem, speak to her school counselor or pediatrician about your concerns or call a child psychologist in your area for specific advice on how to best help your child. For more activities and conversation starters to enhance your daughter’s self-esteem, visit The Dove Movement for Self-Esteem.
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Sun Farms cooperatives break ground
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - 4 Rivers Electric Cooperative is breaking ground for its new sun farms.
Today’s Power Inc. says 4 Rivers Electric Cooperative, Inc. has joined 11 other rural electric cooperatives in Kansas to invest in 20 Megawatts of solar power that will be installed across 800 miles across the state and power 80,000 homes in rural Kansas.
According to TPI, 4 Rivers Electric’s portion of the project is made up of two sun farms sized at 1 Megawatt each. It said preliminary work has already been started on the two plots of land acquired for the project by 4 Rivers Electric for the project. It said construction is expected to be completed by June of 2021.
TPI said one 4 Rivers Electric 1 Megawatt sun farm will be located southeast of Fredonia, near the Studebaker substation and 4 Rivers’ office along Highway 400. It said the other will be located 8 miles north of Emporia at 4 Rivers’ Americus substation.
TPI said it is a North Little Rock-based company created by rural electric cooperatives in Arkansas. It said it will develop and own the two sun farms and the other arrays in Kansas. It said over the past 5 years in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Tennessee it has successfully installed over 25 solar projects that have totaled over 40 Megawatts. It said a solar power service agreement with it has been signed by 4 Rivers Electric Cooperative to buy the solar energy generated by the two arrays for the next 25 years. It said this type of agreement makes sure the cooperative is not at risk or liable for ongoing costs associated with the maintenance and operation of solar systems.
According to TPI, all participating cooperatives in Kansas were able to negotiate favorable long-term rates by working together in the Kansas Cooperative Sun Power Program. It said additionally, in the design process the solar arrays will be customized to maximize production during the peak demand hours of the cooperative when electricity is the most costly. It said these variables help 4 Rivers in stabilizing the cost of electricity and keeping power affordable for those served at the locations.
“We are excited to work with Today’s Power to install utility-scale solar, which is the most beneficial way to install solar generation. These projects will reduce costs for our members for many years to come,” says 4 Rivers General Manager/CEO Dennis Svanes.
TPI said national data indicates that solar power in the country is rapidly increasing. It said 4 Rivers has around 45 members using solar panels installed on their own property and interconnected to the electric system. It said by investing in the two arrays, 4 Rivers ensures that clean and affordable power is generated to benefit all of its members, not just those who place panels on their homes. It said 4 Rivers’ investment in solar is just another way it works to lower the cooperative’s demand during peak hours and control the cost of power.
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Exercise and relaxation are an important part of our lives. Especially in the current era in which we cannot avoid the impact of the epidemic on our mental and physical well-being. Research also finds that exercise, especially running and outdoor exercise, helps maintain a positive attitude, optimism and energy in these conditions.
The transforming power of running
Global research done at adidas during the launch of a new generation of iconic running shoes Ultraboost 21, brings interesting findings about the positive effects of running. Research has shown that people who regularly run during an epidemic, who have 20 percent more energy self they better face obstacles in everyday life. About 36% of runners cited the main reason for running positive impact of running on their mental health and mental well-being. Runners therefore have more energy better prepared for challenges and pressures, brought about by the current situation, but at the same time it is also so more optimistic in they achieve the set goals more easily.
adidas believes in the transformative power of running
Extra energy for new goals and changes
The transforming power of running is also the basic idea of adidas the latest running model Ultraboost 21. With that they want to enter between people extra energy for positive change and improvement of life and motivation to persevere on the path to their goals and set new ones.
Ultraboost 21 is technological the most advanced model Ultraboost, which provides an excellent balance between ease and responsiveness. It has been developed in close collaboration with the running community, among which Ultraboost slippers already have iconic status. The new, boldly designed Ultraboost 21 builds on the innovations of previous models (Ultraboost 19 and Ultraboost 20), while at the same time linking the original, iconic Ultraboost to aesthetics and design.
Superior balance between weight, cushioning and responsiveness
Technology Optimized BOOST the Ultraboost 21 offers the best damping and support as it contains so much 6 percent more foam BOOST as his predecessor. Advanced technology ensures the best possible fit of the foot Primeknit +, characterized by precise knitting that combines performance with pure comfort and lightness. The new running shoe also confirms Adidas commitment to sustainability. The upper part of the slippers is made of recycled material PRIMEBLUE, which contains at least 50 percent recycled ocean plastic.
Ultraboost 21 is made from recycled PRIMEBLUE material, which contains at least 50 percent recycled Parley Ocean plastic.
Let technology work for you, not against you
Along with the new model running shoes at adidas, they also call for the replacement of bad habits and modern technology by habits good for our psychophysical well-being. So why not choose a morning run instead of a morning browse on Instagram? In the Ultraboost 21 slippers, the modern technology built into them will work in our favor. This will improve our well-being and increase our energy levels, unlike flipping on the phone, proving that it causes physical and even more mental fatigue and lack of motivation. Set new goals for yourself achieve with more energy and good will and you wanted even more. In times when we all need positive motivation, it is very welcome.
New goals, new commitments
Also Slovenian athletes in adidas influencers they set new goals and commitments. Patricija Pangeršič, Eva Peternelj, Tamara Simovič, Špela Kozan, personal trainer Matic Kolenc and others trusted them and wrote them down on the website: https://sl.ultraboost21.com/. They are also waiting for all participants there nice prices.
Discover your new energy boost and enjoy the exciting effects of running. The new running shoe adidas Ultraboost 21 in vibrant white and fluorescent yellow is already available in adidas stores and Intersport stores in Slovenia.
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Belgorod State University
Belgorod State University: Estd. 1876, Total Fees- 32,380$
Approved by: NMC, WHO
Belgorod State National Research University, Russia is located in the city of Belgorod to the west of the river Volga and it was founded in 1876. It has gone through various transformations before evolving as a renowned name in the field of medical education and today it is one of the leading universities in Russia.
Currently, Belgorod State National Research University trains more than 30,000 students in various programs including MBBS in Russia with an extensive academic structure of 20 faculties and 1 institute. The university provides an extensive range of Bachelor’s and Master’s Programmes in English with excellent teaching methodology and well-resourced teaching equipment along with a remarkable education curriculum.
The advantages of studying MBBS at Belgorod State University are as given below:
- Belgorod State University is one of the top medical universities located in Russia.
- The medical degree that students get after completing the MBBS course in this university is recognized globally.
- The Belgorod State University has a long history and is one of the oldest universities in Russia.
- Students studying at Belgorod State National Research University can take advantage of student exchange programs as the university has tie-ups with many American and European universities.
- Students are not required to qualify for IELTS/TOEFL screening tests to study at this university.
- The technologies and methodologies used at this university are always updated as this is a growing institution.
- On-campus accommodation facilities are available for foreign students at Belgorod State National Research University.
- There is no entrance exam to study MBBS at this university.
- At leading hospitals of the Belgorod region, clinical practices are conducted.
The eligibility criteria to study MBBS at Belgorod State University are as follows:
- The applicant’s age should be between 17 and 25 years on or before the date of admission.
- The applicant should be a high-school graduate with Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and English as subjects.
- The applicant should have secured at least 50% aggregate in all the above-mentioned subjects in 10+2.
- If the applicant falls under the category SC/ST/OBC, he/she must have secured at least 45% in all the above-mentioned subjects in 10+2.
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Winnipeg, MB: On March 5, 2020, the Canadian Centre for Child Protection (C3P) and the Phoenix 11 participated in a roundtable meeting at the White House with ministers from the Five Eyes security alliance, industry, and National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Following the discussion, the Five Country Ministerial released their voluntary principles to counter online child sexual exploitation and abuse in order to drive consistent and collective industry action, which C3P and the Phoenix 11 strongly support.
The Five Country Ministerial principles echo the public opinions seen in C3P’s latest survey, Your Voice Has the Power to Protect Children. In conjunction with a series of 2019 New York Times articles that underscored the prevalence of child sexual abuse material online and industry’s lack of response, C3P launched the short survey asking the public to weigh in on the responsibility industry bears in the removal of child sexual abuse images online. In just over three months, 10,500 respondents overwhelmingly indicated that technology companies must be held accountable for failures to remove images/videos harming children, and government should pass laws that include penalties for non-compliance.
Notable results include:
- 83% of respondents felt a technology company who does not remove child sexual abuse imagery on its service should be criminally charged.
- 90% of respondents felt governments should pass laws that require technology companies to meet safety standard that include penalties for non-compliance.
- 95% felt that technology companies who are notified that stolen images of children are being reposted/shared in a sexual context on their services and platforms should be required by law to remove the stolen images.
Stolen imagery is commonly detected by C3P’s platform Project Arachnid within forums/chatrooms dedicated to those with a sexual interest in children. C3P’s new child protection and rights framework, How we are Failing Children: Changing the Paradigm, calls on immediate industry action when notified of stolen images. These images may have been originally posted innocently, but are reposted and used in a way that sexualizes and harms children.
To view the full results of Your Voice Has the Power to Protect Children, visit protectchildren.ca/yourvoice.
For a summary and the full version of How we are Failing Children: Changing the Paradigm, visit protectchildren.ca/framework.
“This issue has been largely invisible to the public. The survey results underscore the outrage people feel when made aware of the prevalence of harmful and abusive images of children online and the lack of response from industry to address it and prevent it. Public opinion supports the need for governments to hold industry accountable.”
“Every one of the images captured during our child sexual abuse and their continued distribution online is a violation of our rights, dignity, and personal safety. Industry must prioritize the protection of children on their platforms and the public outcry in the Canadian Centre’s survey reinforces the responsibility tech companies must bear in ensuring children are safe and free from harm.” | <urn:uuid:660a3788-a94a-4248-9271-9fa73071f6b8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cyberaide.ca/en/campaigns-and-media/news-releases/2020/csam-survey-results/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.932655 | 625 | 1.507813 | 2 |
and has in His own time revealed His message in the proclamation that I was entrusted with by the command of God our Savior:Titus 1:3(HCSB)
The book of Titus gives brief but thorough guidance on living a consecrated and virtuous Christian life that is holy to the Lord and displays grace and love to others. Titus is the man who was entrusted to teach, correct, and give guidance to the Christians in Crete - but Paul was the person who was entrusted by the Lord to reveal the truth of the gospel of grace to Titus - and to many in the early Gentile church.
In his letter to Titus, Paul lists the characteristics he should look for in Church elders and the qualities that should be encouraged in older men and women. He gave him advice on training and encouraging young people and children to fulfil their duty to God and their obligations to their parents, in their homes, families, and the wider Church community.
Paul addressed Titus as his, "true child in a common faith," and wanted to ensure that this young pastor stood firm on the Word of truth and that he presented a good testimony of God's grace in his own life, while encouraging others to live righteously as well.
It is in the midst of his introductory salutations, but before he wrote his customary greeting of, "Grace and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour," (in verse 4), that Paul seems unable to refrain from declaring, once again, the truth of the beautiful gospel of grace and the hope of eternal life which is given to all who trust in Jesus' name.
In his opening words, the apostle Paul expressed his joy for the faith Titus had in the gospel. He was overjoyed for all the saints of God who rejoice in a knowledge of the truth and whose life is consecrated to the Lord Jesus. Such a life, Paul reminds us, is underpinned and sustained by the hope of eternal life... which is God's trustworthy promise to all who have faith in Him.
As Paul - the bond-servant of God and apostle of Jesus Christ - started to rejoice for the faith of Titus and those chosen by God and who know the truth, live godly lives, and trust in Him for their eternal salvation, he started to expand his thoughts about the Lord's amazing promise of salvation, which was made before the world began.
God's plan of redemption for fallen sinners was the promised 'hope', which would come through the sacrificial death and glorious Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. He was the Word made flesh. He was the incarnate Word of God Who was sent to earth at the appointed time to redeem mankind from their sin.
God promised long ago that by faith in Christ we would be declared righteous by God. Scripture told of His coming - giving man hope of eternal life. And Paul could hardly conceal his praise and thanksgiving that in God's own time and God's own way, the Son of God was revealed; the message of redemption was proclaimed - and Paul was entrusted to preach the precious gospel of grace, as commanded by Christ - our God our Saviour.
There is no greater hope and assurance that God's Word is true - for God cannot lie. And there is nothing more important than to live our lives in a way that honours the Lord and displays grace and love to others - and the little book of Titus gives much guidance to pastors and people alike on the godly qualities and characteristics that should be manifest in the lives of all God's people.
Heavenly Father, thank You for the book of Titus and the many teachings it provides on living godly lives for Your honour and glory. Thank You for the life of Paul and for entrusting him with the truth of the gospel of grace. Thank You that Your Word is true and never fails and that You determined before the foundation of the world to redeem mankind from their sin, by grace through faith in Christ. Thank You for sending Jesus as the incarnate Word Who lived a perfect life and died and rose again so that I might have the promise of eternal life - through faith in Him. Praise His holy name, AMEN. | <urn:uuid:81e398c9-8ec5-4d76-bf11-3fff2196f0d6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dailyverse.knowing-jesus.com/titus-1-3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.976726 | 853 | 1.898438 | 2 |
Edward Joseph Lowe was a renowned English botanist, meteorologist and astronomer, who published papers on a wide variety of subjects, including luminous meteors, sunspots, the zodiacal light, meteorological observations during the eclipse of 1860 (at Fuente del Mar, near Santander), conchology, ferns, grasses and other plants.
The son of Alfred J. Lowe, he began his scientific observations at the age of 15. Alfred was a member of many national and local astronomical societies and was particularly interested in meteorology and astronomy.
His interest in ferns led to his studying them. His most noted work was Ferns: British and Exotic and consisted of eight illustrated volumes published in London by Groombridge and Sons in 1856. The bookplates of which were drawn by A. F. Lydon and engraved by Benjamin Fawcett. He collaborated on observations of luminous meteors with Professor Baden Powell of Oxford. Lowe invented the dry powder test for ozone in the atmosphere. He was one of the founders and original Fellows of the Meteorological Society and a Fellow of the Royal, the Geological, the Linnean, the Royal Astronomical and other learned Societies. | <urn:uuid:a861392b-6f61-4856-a61a-d697d7a592b1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://artvee.com/dl/hibiscus-cooperi/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.970812 | 252 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Retraining your breathing is like any habit - it takes time ... Here are some pointers on getting started and taking a first successful step to stopping mouth breathing which can dramatically improve your sleep, daytime performance and overall health.
Healthy Sleep Habits
- If you have nasal congestion, use a nasal rinse such as NielMed.
- Avoid stimulants prior to sleep such as caffeine, alcohol, sugar, exercise or overeating.
- Side sleep - sleeping on your back promotes mouth breathing and can block your airway.
- Clear the mind by focusing on a calm breathing pattern for 5 minutes.
Starting with LipSeal Tape
Using LipSeal Tape is an aid to help with this transition- we recommend trying for a minimum of two weeks before determining how it is working.
- Practice first while awake - watching TV, working on computer, reading… (however, keep in mind: experts recommend no screen time at least 30 minutes before bedtime).
- Prior to applying the tape, curl the lips inward and hold together.
- Apply the tape in a horizontal position with the ends curved down (think mustache, not joker smile).
- Use the pull-tab for quick release.
If you have any complications with breathing through your nose, please discontinue use and consult your physician.
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The FCC got only a few hundred indecency complaints in 2001, but about 14,000 in 2002 and no less than 240,000 in 2003, just before its Janet Jackson crackdown. Today, Todd Shields of MediaWeek revealed an unreleased FCC estimate that 99.8 percent of the 2003 complaints came from one organization, Parents Television Council. The same was true for 99.8 percent of complaints in 2004, through October. Via SPJ PressNotes. PTC, founded by conservative media watchdog Brent Bozell, monitors and compiles reports on sex, innuendo and violence on broadcast and cable networks, according to its website. | <urn:uuid:454dcf87-3b6f-4833-8e5e-e0dfd28c817e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://current.org/2004/12/12558/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.936489 | 128 | 1.539063 | 2 |
High youth unemployment led many to stay longer in education and postpone settling down. Frustration was also growing in Eastern Europe, where the young saw little chance of advancement within failing communism. A common refrain appeared in the music of young people ‘No Future’. Economic, cultural and political stagnation inspired new genres and subcultures. Punk, for example, set out to shock and offend, offering a critique of contemporary society and lifestyle all over Europe. | <urn:uuid:a7de2400-a3f7-4f22-9415-802da12c4619> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://historia-europa.ep.eu/en/node/848 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.948692 | 95 | 2.6875 | 3 |
from the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns
Take action: Urge President Biden and Congress to salvage the Iran nuclear deal and lift economic sanctions for suffering Iranians.
This week, negotiators are meeting in Vienna to discuss the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or the Iran nuclear deal. There is hope that the deal can be salvaged. Although President Trump withdrew the United States from the deal in 2018, President Biden has sent a representative to indirectly participate in the talks.
The Iran nuclear deal was a diplomatic success story; it was effective in preventing Iran from developing materials used in nuclear weapons. Now that the deal has collapsed, Iran has come closer to being able to build nuclear weapons and the threat of war has increased.
In addition, Iranian civilians are suffering under the weight of U.S. economic sanctions which are preventing the country from recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, including through access to vaccines. Today, we can urge President Biden to ease sanctions as a show of good will to help encourage Iran to return to the deal and to help the nation recover from the pandemic.
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Hydraulic pumps can be - hydraulic gear pumps and hydraulic piston pumps (hydraulic axial-piston pumps, hydraulic radial-piston pumps), vane pumps, plate pumps.
Hydraulic gear pumps and hydraulic piston pumps are used to transform mechanical energy into working fluid energy - pressure and flow. Hydraulic pumps can be driven directly or through an additional gear (gear, chain, belt). In both cases, axial or radial loading of the pump shaft must not be allowed. Hydraulic pumps are designed with a displacement of generally 0.25 to 140 cubic centimeters and provide a pressure of up to 250 bar.
Hydraulic piston pumps have a displacement of 30-50 cubic centimeters, but provide pressure up to 350 bar and flow rate up to 130 l / min. Various mechanical and hydraulic couplings are possible. We offer Caproni, Industrialaltechnik and M + S Hydraulic pumps.
Hydraulic pumps are widely used - Tractor Pumps, Agricultural Pumps, Forestry Pumps Pumps for Electric Trucks, Forklift Pumps, Pumps for Industrial Equipment, Mechanical Engineering, Heavy Industry, Pumps for Road Construction Machinery. We offer hydraulic pumps (hydraulic pumps) group 00, hydraulic pumps group 10, hydraulic pumps group 20, hydraulic pumps group 30, hydraulic pumps group 1, hydraulic pumps group 2, hydraulic gear pumps group 3, hydraulic gear pumps group 4, hydraulic pumps group 5, twin-head pumps, built-in pumps, tandem pumps, special pumps, hydraulic pumps with valves.
We offer a wide range of manual hydraulic pumps (manual piston pumps) too
Hydraulic piston manual pumps have a displacement of 12, 25, 45 cubic centimeters. Hand pumps are ideal for use where cylinders need to be powered without electricity or motor. They are used for hydraulic jacks, presses, hydraulic boards and more.
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Last updated on March 21st, 2018
Recent reports suggest that the EU will soon be adopting tougher standards on vehicle emissions. They will also update their testing rules. The aim is to get results which will be closer to realistic driving conditions. The new standards will come into play in 2016. First of all, however, they will need to be improved by Frans Timmermans. He holds the position of vice president of the European Commission.
The current standards are the New European Drive Cycle protocol or NEDC. This has been criticized as unrealistic and optimistic. It seems that this is having a large effect. The testing process of the Environmental Protection Agency in the US uses their own protocol. They report fuel economy numbers on European cars as much lower than the NEDC does.
Car manufacturers are not pleased with the suggested changes. They are already able to game the system in a way that is beneficial to them. There have been reports that some manufacturers are trying to stop the changes altogether. It is believed that this is one of the reasons why it will take so long to go into force. In the public eye, they claim that they need more time to change their processes. When the standards come into force, cars will need to have lower emissions overall. Whether they find a new way to play the system or not will likely not change that.
Currently, it is thought that a number of tricks are employed to play the figures. For example, windows and doors can be taped up to lower the amount of air resistance. Fake roads which are far too smooth compared to the real thing are used. High air temperatures, which are unlikely in real situations can also be employed. Some cars even have a low emission mode, which is triggered when the front wheels only are spinning. This is because the back wheels are normally stationary when the tests are being conducted.
Research suggests that the real emissions figures are on average seven times higher than the standard. Some models may even be running at twenty-two times that. Only one car out of sixteen looked at by the Council on Clean Transportation met the limit. This is 80 mg/km of nitrogen oxide emissions. This is obviously not great for our battle against pollution.
There is some hope that the push towards greener cars and vehicles will help in this area. If the vehicles on the roads are electric or hybrid, the standards will not be abused as much. In the meantime, there are still plenty of old cars on the roads. Until these more harmful models are retired, pollution will continue to be a big issue. We can expect to hear more about the plans to tackle this by September. Then we will understand the changes to the regulations as well. This gives more than enough time for manufacturers to state their arguments. When the final legalization goes through, however, they will be forced to comply. | <urn:uuid:4cbde4e9-ce76-4ffb-abd6-7fe9b21115a6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.emissions.org/uncategorized/europe-gets-tough-on-emissions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.973849 | 574 | 2.875 | 3 |
South Plainfield, NJ, Suzhou, CHINA, and Rehovot, ISRAEL – May 28, 2015 --Leading global genomics service provider, GENEWIZ, announced a partnership with Hy Laboratories Ltd. (hylabs), Israel’s premier provider of microbiology and molecular and cell biology products and services, for the development of novel diagnostic panels for the determination of the gut microbiome in obesity and diabetes. Obesity and diabetes are growing worldwide epidemics that are closely related to the function and population of the gut microbiome.
Utilizing hylabs’ strong association and presence in the healthcare industry – including rich relationships with healthcare management organizations, health insurance companies, hospitals, and private laboratories – and GENEWIZ’s genomics development pipeline, the multi-year development initiative aims to improve stratification for bariatric surgical intervention and/or alternative treatment options for patients suffering with diabetes and obesity. A pioneering clinical study will be conducted at Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot Israel, and will be conducted subsequently in the United States.
“With access to hylabs’ patient network, we will target the most relevant microbiota in the gut system via stool sample collection and medical metadata to detect and determine the relative abundance of bacterial and archaeal species in the 16S obediome [obesity and diabetes microbiome],” asserted Dr. Shihong Li, GENEWIZ Manager of Research and Development. “Working together with hylabs, we will apply GENEWIZ’s proprietary next generation sequencing methodologies on both the Illumina MiSeq and the Ion Personal Genome Machine (PGM) to capture increased sequence diversity with a very high level of sensitivity.”
This joint venture is one of eleven new projects granted funding this year from the Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation (BIRD Foundation). Awarded bi-annually, the BIRD Foundation approves grants to promote industrial research and development collaborations between United States- and Israeli-based companies for joint product development spanning various technological fields, such as healthcare. To date, BIRD funded projects have helped to generate over $10 Billion of indirect and direct revenue.
“By combining GENEWIZ’s next generation sequencing capabilities with our expertise designing microbiology and toxicity testing, we can accelerate the delivery and commercialization of obediome diagnostic panels,” stated Doron Cohen, hylabs CEO. “We expect hylabs’ vast experience with international regulatory compliance and expertise in molecular gene services to help facilitate product development.”
As a trusted genomics provider to hylabs, GENEWIZ was approached for this endeavor for their reliability, quality, and global capabilities. “The main goal of our strategic partnership is to provide enhanced options, and ultimately an improved quality of life, for patients suffering with diabetes and obesity,” remarked Steve Manobianco, GENEWIZ Vice President, Global Sales & Business Development. “Leveraging GENEWIZ’s global network of laboratories and relationship with Admera Health, GENEWIZ’s spin-off company focused on clinical diagnostics, we are well-positioned to produce new obediome solutions through this collaboration.”
GENEWIZ is a global contract research organization (CRO) specializing in genomic services, including DNA sequencing, gene synthesis, molecular biology, next generation sequencing, bioinformatics, and GLP regulatory-compliant services. GENEWIZ leads the industry in outsourcing partnerships with pharmaceutical, biotechnology, clinical, academic, and government institutions.
Headquartered in South Plainfield, NJ, GENEWIZ is a privately-held global enterprise with locations in Boston, MA; Washington, DC Metro; Research Triangle Park, NC; San Diego, CA; Los Angeles, CA; San Francisco, CA; and Seattle, WA. International locations include Beijing, China; Suzhou, China; London, United Kingdom; Langen, Germany; and Tokyo, Japan.
About Hy Laboratories Ltd.
Hy Laboratories Ltd (hylabs), is Israel's leading developer, manufacturer and distributor of tools for detection and identification of microorganisms and molecular biology products. hylabs provides a full range of products and services to the healthcare, industrial, environmental, and academic research markets.
About the BIRD Foundation
The BIRD (Binational Industrial Research and Development) Foundation works to encourage and facilitate cooperation between U.S. and Israeli companies in a wide range of technology sectors and offers funding to selected projects. BIRD has approved over 900 projects over its 37 year history. To date, BIRD’s total investment in these projects has been over $300 million and has received approximately $100 million in repayments. BIRD funded projects have generated direct and indirect sales of approximately $10 billion.
The BIRD Foundation provides support of up to 50% of a project’s budget, or up to $1 million, beginning with R&D and ending with the initial stages of sales and marketing. The Foundation supports projects without receiving any rights in the participating companies or in the project itself. The Foundation shares the risk and requires the investment to be repaid only if the project reaches the sales stage. | <urn:uuid:edf6303b-0c55-41a8-b9da-5e5055297a55> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.genewiz.com/Public/Company/News-and-Events/Press-Releases/GENEWIZ-announces-partnership-with-Hy-Laboratories-Ltd/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.905298 | 1,080 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Grab a pool cue, step up to the pool table and play some billiards games.
Position the angle of the cue ball
by placing your mouse next to the pool ball you are aiming at.
Hold down your left mouse button while watching the power bar.
Release the button to shoot, but be careful! If you scratch
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The Maintenance Bar allows you to perform printer maintenance or change printer settings.
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Cleaning Performs printhead cleaning. Printhead cleaning removes any blockages in the printhead nozzles.Performs cleaning when the printout is faded or fails to print a specific color, though all ink levels are still high enough.
Deep Cleaning Performs a deep cleaning. Performs a deep clean when two cleanings do not solve the printhead problem.
Deep Cleaning consumes more ink than Cleaning. Cleaning the printhead regularly will quickly deplete the printer’s ink supply. Therefore, perform cleaning only when necessary.Ink GroupWhen you click Cleaning or Deep Cleaning, the Ink Group window is displayed.Select an ink group. for which you want to clean the printhead.Click Initial Check Items to display the items you need to check before you perform cleaning or deep cleaning.
Print Head Alignment Print Head Alignment adjusts the printhead’s installation positions and improves the colors and offsets.Align the printhead immediately after the printhead is installed.When you click Print Head Alignment (Print Head Alignment), the Start Print Head Alignment dialog box is displayed.
Nozzle Check Prints a nozzle check pattern.Perform this function if the printout becomes pale or a particular color cannot be printed. Print a nozzle test pattern, and check that the print head is working properly. If the print results for a particular color are faded or if any part is not printed, click Cleaning to clean the printhead.To display the list of items you need to check before printing the nozzle check pattern, click Initial Check Items.
Print Check PatternFunction This feature prints a pattern that allows you to check for any clogged ink nozzles. Click Print Check Pattern. When the confirmation message is displayed, click OK. Then the Pattern Check dialog box is displayed.The left bitmap (good) The print head nozzle is not blocked. The right bitmap (bad) The print head nozzle may be clogged. Exit(Exit) Close the Pattern Check dialog box, and return to the Maintenance tab.Cleaning Perform printhead cleaning.Cleaning the printhead removes any blockages in the nozzles. of the printhead.Perform cleaning when prints are faded or if the machine fails to print a specific color, even though all ink levels are still high enough.
Ink Cartridge Settings Opens the Ink Cartridge Settings Dialog Box. Use this function to specify the FINE cartridge you want to use.
Bottom Plate Cleaning Clean the printer’s bottom plate. To prevent the back of the paper from tarnishing, perform Bottom Plate Cleaning before you perform duplex printing. Also perform Bottom Plate Cleaning if ink stains on the printed page are caused by something other than the print data.
Roller Cleaning Clean the paper feed roller. The machine may not be able to feed if paper dust is jammed in the printer’s feed roller. In this case, clean the paper feed roller to improve printing results.
Power Off Turns off the printer from the printer driver.Perform this function to turn off the printer when you cannot press the ON button (POWER button) on the printer because the printer is out of your reach.You the ON button (POWER button) on the printer must be pressed to turn the printer back on after clicking this button. When using this function, you will not be able to turn on the printer from the printer driver.
Auto Power Opens the Auto Power Settings dialog box. Specify settings for automatic printer power operation. Perform this function if you want to change the power settings automatically.
If the printer is turned off or communication between the printer and the computer is disabled, an error message may appear because the computer cannot obtain the printer status information. If this happens, click OK to display the printer status information. the most recent setting specified on your computer.
Silent Settings Opens the Silent Settings Dialog Box. The Quiet Settings dialog box allows you to specify a setting that reduces the operating noise of the printer. This mode is useful when printer operating noise is a concern, such as when printing at night. Do this when you want to change the silent mode setting.
If the printer is turned off or the communication between the printer and the computer is disabled, an error message may appear because the computer cannot receive the printer status information.
Custom Settings Opens the Custom Settings Dialog Box. Perform this function to change the settings of this printer.
If the printer is turned off or communication between the printer and the computer is disabled, an error message may appear because the computer cannot obtain the printer status information. If this happens, click OK to display the printer status information. The most recent setting is specified on your computer.View Print History This function starts the Canon XPS preview, and displays the print history.
You can use this function only with XPS printer driver.View Printer Status(View Printer Status)Start Canon status screen Httl.com.vn/EN .Perform this function when you want to check status. printer and how the print job is doing.
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Installing your TV isn’t as easy as it first appears. It sounds simple, just take your new TV out of the box and plug it in. In reality though it’s quite a complicated exercise and if you get it wrong the consequences can be costly. Here’s an Adelaide TV installation checklist and a few tips to help you.
TV Installation Tips
- Are you physically able to lift the new TV into place? If not, make sure you enlist someone to give you a hand.
- Have you cleared enough space in the room to work safely? There’s lots of packaging inside that box and it’s going to spread out quickly. Make sure you leave enough room to work.
- Take the time to read the assembly instructions. I know guys, it’s boring and we don’t usually read instructions, but it does help. No two TV’s go together the same.
- Don’t put pressure on the screen with your fingers! You may think that screen is tough, but it’s actually not. Crack the screen and your new TV is toast.
- Make sure the screws holding the base on are nice and tight. Big TV’s are heavy and toppling over is not only bad for the TV, but it’s a safety hazard.
We were recently called to an Glenelg home to investigate what appeared to be a faulty screen on a new TV. On closer inspection the cause of the poor picture quality became obvious. The unsuspecting client had picked up the large TV by himself and squeezed the screen with his thumbs, resulting in the screen cracking. End result was a broken TV which needed replacing, before it was even plugged in. Don’t risk breaking your new TV. TV installation Adelaide. | <urn:uuid:1494ea61-6601-4fb2-aef0-a5e05ead116c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://adelaidedigitalandwifi.com.au/tag/glenelg/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.969005 | 373 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Did you know that Boxing Day was not originally a shopping holiday? According to some sources, Boxing Day was more similar to Giving Tuesday. The day after Christmas, people would give alms to the poor on the Feast of Stephen. The Feast of Stephen is even the context for the song Good King Wenceslas.
So instead of consuming more on Boxing Day this year, it is a good time for us to reflect on what we can share with those in need. Our focus can shift from the deals that we can get to the value that we can share. And if we are pursuing deals for the sport of it, we can pursue deals that benefit others, not ourselves.
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A guest article by Katrina Yeo
Gone are the days where you see people sitting down at their desk using their desktops or laptops to surf the Internet. Due to the rise of smart phones and tablets, a more common sight would be people busy surfing on their little hand-held devices. For all those statistically-inclined people out there, mobile traffic accounts for about 53% of total online traffic.
However, this 53% poses a slight challenge to all web designers out there. Whether you are a blog owner or an entrepreneur, you now have the important task of building mobile responsive sites to ensure continued user friendliness.
Hang on a minute.
What’s a mobile responsive site? Why is it important?
When you place all your devices side-by-side, you should notice that all the screen sizes, shape and aspect ratio differs. Because of this, your websites should not look completely the same across all devices.
In the case where websites are not mobile responsive, what would happen is that your entire site would just fit to your screen. This would probably result in your users having to manually pinch and zoom in order to see what information you have on your site. Trust me, this frustrates a lot of people and results in them leaving your site. If you need a visual depiction, this is what I mean:
Conversely, a well designed and mobile responsive site enhances user experience and encourages them to continue viewing the site.
Take a look at the layout of this beautiful Coding For Her website (if i do say so myself). Notice how the layout changes on different platforms.
Oh I see!
So how can I make my site mobile-responsive?
In order to make your site mobile responsive, you’ll have to include media queries using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)*. If you are using a WordPress site, these can be added in the Custom CSS segment found on your Dashboard.
But before we do that, allow me to show you how to inspect a webpage.
Please be warned that although this is a very useful tool, sometimes it may not be accurate. Hence it would be best if you could test out your webpages on the actual device itself, or at least one device from each size range you’ll see later on.
To inspect a webpage using the developer tools:
- Right-click on any webpage and select inspect on the element itself. In this case, I want to have a look at the background of the CFH site.
- Click on the blue mobile icon on the bottom left side and the view will change to that of a mobile site. You can then toggle the phone screen size either by clicking on the ‘iPhone X’ and changing it to another mobile setting, or play around with the bars just below that.
With this, you should be able to see how your site looks like on mobile devices. If you would like to change something, click the ‘+’ button on the bottom right side of the screen, make changes, and preview them before adding them to your actual site as custom CSS.
Of course if you would like the changes to apply to mobile sites only, this is where media queries would come in.
Let’s see how we can use media queries!
If you were to play around with the boxes (previously in step 2), you’d notice that the demarkation points are used are usually:
- Up to 320px for small mobile phones such as the iPhone 5
- Between 321px to 375px for medium phones such as the iPhone 6/7/8/x, Galaxy 5
- Between 376px to 425px for large phones such as the Pixel, Pixel 2 XL
- Between 426px to 768px for tablets such as the iPad
- Between 769px to 1024px for tablets such as the iPad Pro
So these are the 5 size ranges that we usually play around with when coding mobile responsive sites. There are larger settings for bigger devices, but we won’t be focusing on those for this blog post.
Now, here’s an example as to how to use media queries:
As you can see, I’m controlling the size of h1 elements for the various screen sizes and the letter-spacing for h2 elements of small mobile devices (Up to 320px). Of course, these aren’t the only things that you can do. Anything that can be controlled by CSS on a non-mobile site (to be honest, that’s practically everything), can also be controlled on mobile sites.
My biggest tip on mobile responsiveness would be that you should cut out as many chunks of text as possible (use display: none; on an element), because something that is of ‘decent length’ on a desktop or laptop could be extremely long and wordy on a mobile device. And that would inevitably become boring after awhile.
I think I’ve made my site mobile responsive.
How can I do a final check of my site?
As a final check, you can also test your site’s mobile friendliness using sites like this by google. These sites would analyse you site and give you a final conclusion if your site is actually mobile responsive.
So that’s it from me! If there’s one thing you’d take away, I hope it will be how simple media queries can make your website look more beautiful and interactive. Have fun and code away!
Here’s Katrina signing off, XOXO.
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Lots of Places to Visit in Canada
Are you planning on travelling to Canada? There are lots of places to visit, and travel to Canada is one of the best trips to make. The population of Canada is world-famous. They are very rich in culture and traditions.
The weather in Canada is different from other countries.
When you visit Canada, the weather is mild, and the climate is ideal for a vacation. You have a number of choices when you are choosing the best time to travel to Canada, depending on where you are from and what you’re interested in. Try to visit this country while it is warmer and you will have the opportunity to see a lot of sites.
There are lots of options to travel to Canada. There are a lot of air flights to Canada, and so, this is a convenient option. If you want to go for your trip, you should take a train that runs between Vancouver and Toronto. One more option is to fly.
However, it’s quite expensive as compared to the other methods of travel to Canada. Aeroplanes are not cheap to fly in and out. You will also have to spend some time in going from one place to another.
Planning a Fun Vacation
A vacation to Canada can be a lot of fun if you plan it well. Before you go, you should decide what your plans are going to be for your vacation. What type of activities are you looking forward to doing?
If you like sports, you should choose a destination that offers a variety of sports activities. For example, if you are interested in baseball, select a place that has major league baseball games. If you like golf, you should choose a place where there is golf. If you like water, you should consider a place that offers swimming or diving.
When you choose the type of trip you are going to take; you will have an idea of the attractions you are most interested in. While you might want to stay at a nice hotel, you might want to choose something a little more adventurous like a resort.
The location of the destination is important as well. The attractions are all based on what you want to do. You should always take into consideration your own personal interests when planning your trip.
For example, if you enjoy activities such as snorkelling, scuba diving, biking, or swimming, you might want to choose an attraction that includes these types of activities.
In Canada, there are many great places to visit for a vacation. Some of the more popular destinations include Niagara Falls, Toronto, and Montreal. Many other cities in Canada also offer great activities. After you have decided on your own personal interests, it will be much easier to find fun activities to do while you are on vacation.
How To Travel To Canada With Green Card?
Many of these people who desire to travel to Canada may want to know what documents they need to obtain in order to enter Canada and how to travel to Canada with Green Card. This may sound quite confusing, but there are actually many ways in which you can travel to Canada.
The simplest way to enter Canada is by applying eTA. This is an authorization for travellers who plan to enter Canada for tourism, business and transit. In case you would like to apply for eTA, you will have to confirm your nationality.
There are around 50 countries in the program. If you do not hold a passport from one of the countries on the list, you will have to go to the embassy to apply for a visitor visa. However, if you are a Green Card holder, then you will have the right to apply eTA without other conditions.
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Just when you think you’ve heard every musical instrument there is you find that there’s one more. Don’t feel bad though, since no one has heard an aulos in more than 2,000 years. Only 5 complete original instruments are known to currently exist. The aulos is a double pipe with a reed at the top […]Continue reading
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The Europe Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods provides for all the necessary provisions concerning the classification, packaging, labeling and control of dangerous goods sent by road transport. Greece in turn joined the ADR Agreement in 1987. Now the most European countries have accepted its terms.
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There are 9 classes of dangerous goods, depending on the type of their danger:
- Class 1. Explosives substances and items
- Class 2. Gases
- Class 3. Flammable liquids
- Class 4.1. Flammable solids, self-reactive substances
- Class 4.2. Substances with the possibility of automatic combustion
- Class 4.3. Substances that in case of contact with water emit flammable gases
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In each transfer, the necessary documents are: the transfer document, the written instructions on the transport of dangerous goods, the certificate vocational training of the driver and approval of the vehicle, as well as the
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We all know the promises government has made over the years about how certain programs and initiatives would eradicate poverty. But perhaps nothing rivals the Methodist movement in terms of effectively stamping out poverty in England. Charles Edward White and Bobby Butler’s essay “John Wesley’s Church Planting Movement: Discipleship that Transformed a Nation and Changed the World” is a splendid overview of Methodism’s impact on English society, especially as it relates to the middle class explosion.
People of faith understand best just how primary the change of heart is on all aspects of life. In the West, poverty is primarily attached to social ills. Bad lifestyle choices inherently have an economic trapping affect. The path of holiness, discipline, education, and accountability was so crucial to the early Methodists that the change in the life of the believer was momentous. John Wesley’s theology of holiness and grace would indeed have enormous social repercussions that John Newton and William Wilberforce both lauded his example.
White and Butler highlight just how substantial Methodism’s impact was on England and the world:
The Methodists made such an impact on their nation that in 1962 historian Élie Halévy theorized that the Wesleyan revival created England’s middle class and saved England from the kind of bloody revolution that crippled France. Other historians, building on his work, go further to suggest that God used Methodism to show all the oppressed peoples of the world that feeding their souls on the heavenly bread of the lordship of Christ is the path to providing the daily bread their bodies also need.
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by Vula Bolou
Patañjali is the author or authors (there is a difference of opinion among historians as to the existence of just one person or many with the same name)1 of the seminal text on yoga “Pātañjala Yoga Sūtrāṇi.” Philosophically this work is based mainly on Sāṅkhya, a dualistic system of thought, which considers Puruṣaḥ (spirit) and Prakṛtiḥ (matter) the two pillars of explaining everything.
In the second sūtra of the first chapter (Samādhi Pāda), Patañjali uses just three words to describe yoga – one of the most widely used and misused terms nowadays.
Yogaścitta vṛtti nirodhaḥ – PYS I.2
“yoga is the cessation of movements in the consciousness.” 2
Citta refers to consciousness or the mind in a broader sense. It comprises of Buddhi (intellect), Ahaṃkāra (I-ness) and Manas (mind). The root evolvent (or Primal Nature) is Prakṛtiḥ or Mūlaprakṛtiḥ, which then produces Buddhi (or Mahat), this produces Ahaṃkāra, which then produces Manas and the rest of the tattvas (karmendriyas, jñānendriyas, tanmātras and mahābhūtas). 3
Mūlaprakṛtir avikṛtir mahadādyāḥ prakṛti vikṛtayaḥ sapta
ṣoḍaśakastu vikāro na prakṛtir na vikṛtiḥ puruṣaḥ – SK. 3
Patañjali then identifies vṛtti. Vṛtti means modification or movement. Citta vṛtti involves all movements of consciousness, namely correct knowledge, illusion, delusion, sleep and memory.4
pramāṇa-viparyaya-vikalpa-nidrā-smṛtayaḥ – PYS I.6
The action between consciousness and its movements is nirodhaḥ or cessation. Therefore, for yoga to be realized, Patañjali advises that all movements of consciousness be stopped. This relates to yoga as a goal or samādhi, which is defined as,
tad evārtha-mātra-nirbhāsaṃ svarūpa-śūnyam iva samādhiḥ – PYS III.3
“that state (dhyāna – meditation) becomes samādhi when there is only the object appearing without the consciousness of one’s own self. “5
However, yoga-the path is also the process for yoga-the goal to be achieved. Patañjali calls yoga-the path ‘aṣṭāṅga (eight limbs) yoga’ in the second chapter (Sādhanā Pāda) and lists its component limbs as,
yama-niyamāsana-prāṇāyāma-pratyāhāra-dhāraṇā-dhyāna-samādhayo ‘ṣṭāv aṅgāni – PYS II.29
“the eight components of yoga are external discipline, internal discipline, posture, breath regulation, concentration, meditative absorption and integration.” 6
This is yoga according to Patañjali, who was mainly influenced by Sāṅkhya, as previously mentioned. A common philosophical mistake is when yoga is termed as the union of two separate entities. This is a tantric notion that, despite true as mentioned in Hatha Yoga Pradīpikā, is not what Patañjali advocated. So,
Tatsamam ca dvayoraikyam jīvātmaparamātmanoḥ
pranaṣṭsarvasamkalpaḥ samādhiḥ so’bhidhīyo – HYP 4.7
“when the twofold nature of the individual soul and cosmic soul becomes one, all desires/ideations are destroyed and that is considered samādhi.” 7
From the author’s point of view, yoga was initially a physical discipline or Hatha Yoga discovered in the context of a gym over twenty years ago. The Iyengar tradition of practice was followed (revolving mainly around āsana and prāṇāyāma of aṣṭāṅga yoga), which is deeply rooted in Patañjali’s yoga sūtra and Guruji Iyengar’s Vaiṣṇava spiritual path. For the first years, any philosophical connection eluded the author, since few teachers outside of Guruji himself or, indeed, the Iyengar family were discussing sūtra in āsana classes. Philosophy was in books, physical practice was on the mat. Yet, some quietness was experienced, possibly glimpses of citta vṛtti. It seemed to occur less obstructed in prāṇāyāma.
It was not until studying in Pune under the guidance of the Iyengar family that some interweaving began to take place. This was after over ten years of āsana and prāṇāyāma practice. The author experienced some sort of integration or even oneness, far from Patañjali’s samādhi, but still the link between the book and the mat was established.
The journey is long and full of magical discoveries. On one of the trips to India another dimension of yoga was revealed to the author – the yoga of Bhagavad Gītā. The Gītā differentiates between Karma yoga (yoga of action), Jñāna yoga (yoga of knowledge) and Bhakti yoga (yoga of devotion). It defines yoga as,
Yogaḥ karmasu kauśalam – BG 2.50
“yoga is skill in action.” 8
Apparently yoga included more than āsana and prāṇāyāma, or even the eightfold path. Satsaṅga (spiritual talk), chanting the vedās (ancient scriptures), rituals (pūjā and homa) and darśana (literally sight or blessing) of the guru were all part of yoga – yoga in an aśram setting.
Eventually, Patañjali’s samādhi or yoga-the goal seemed for the author easier to grasp in an aśram environment in the presence of a living guru in India than a yoga studio setting anywhere in the West. These various methods (Karma, Jñāna and Bhakti yoga) provided a broader backdrop for feelings of serenity and oneness to arise with greater frequency and intensity. While at the aśram, it was becoming a common occurrence for equanimity to dawn effortlessly. For the time being, the author feels that it is a start to have had a few experiential glimpses of Patañjali’s words.
To be established in those states, i.e. a state of oneness, a broader sense of equanimity, an all-round serenity as the result of those, the author trusts that is a prelude to samādhi. A natural desire to remain on the path of yoga is still prevalent. The author longs for the ānanda (bliss) of samādhi – and feels it is certainly within reach, as the journey in yoga languorously unfolds.
PYS = Pātañjala Yoga Sūtrāṇi
SK = Sāṅkhya Kārikā
HYP = Hatha Yoga Pradīpikā
BG = Bhagavad Gītā
- Tola, Dragonetti & Prithipaul 1987, p.xi.
- Iyengar 1996, p.46
- Swami Virupakṣānanda 1995, p.10
- Iyengar 1996, p.52
- Swami Satyananda Saraswati 2013, p.227
- Iyengar 1996, p.134
- Swami Muktibodhananda 2011, p.473
- Radhakrishnan 2010, p.137
- Tola, Fernando; Dragonetti, Carmen; Prithipaul, K. Dad (1987), The Yogasūtras of Patañjali on concentration of mind, Motilal Banarsidass
- Iyengar BKS (1996), Light on the Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali, Thorsons
- Swami Virupakṣānanda (1995), Sāṅkhya Kārikā of Iśvara Kṛṣṇa, Sri Ramakrishna Math
- Swami Satyananda Saraswati (2013), Four Chapters on Freedom, Yoga Publications Trust, Ganga Darshan, Munger, Bihar, India.
- Swami Muktibodhananda (2011), Hatha Yoga Pradīpikā, Yoga Publications Trust, Ganga Darshan, Munger, Bihar, India.
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Every four years the summer Olympic Games capture the world's attention. Over 10,000 athletes from more than 200 countries gather to prove they are the best in their sports. From the first competition held in 1896 to the 2012 London Olympics, the games have hosted some of swimming's greatest victories and toughest defeats. Fans have witnessed Johnny Weissmuller win back-to-back Olympic gold medals before he found fame on the big screen as Tarzan; they have seen Dara Torres defy age to win three silver medals at the age of 41; and they will forever remember Michael Phelps capturing a record eight gold medals at the 2008 games.
The Most Memorable Moments in Olympic Swimming relives the sport's greatest moments on its biggest stage. Through careful research and the personal recollections from the athletes themselves, John Lohn has brought together the key performances, top athletes, major controversies, and improbable victories of the games. Organized chronologically, the progression of swimming as an Olympic sport comes to life as the top 25 moments are revealed. The best swimmers in Olympic history are featured throughout, from Mark Spitz and Ian Thorpe to Debbie Meyer and Dawn Fraser.
Dozens of photographs highlight the athletes and their shared passion for swimming glory. Detailed appendixes include the top Olympic medal winners by country and by athlete, and a bibliography provides key swimming references for the reader. Swimming fans, coaches, athletes, and researchers will enjoy this history of a sport rich in tradition and spectacular moments.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Number of pages: 194
Weight: 499 g
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 25 mm
This book, part of the Rowman & Littlefield Swimming Series, highlights 25 of the best moments in swimming history. The chronologically ordered moments included here were history-making, had a huge emotional impact, were totally thrilling, or transcended the sport in some way. The vignettes do not just list the facts, but tell the history of the moment under discussion and the sport itself. The book begins with Australian Fanny Durack's win in the 100 freestyle at the 1912 Stockholm games and concludes with 41-year-old American Dara Torres's three silver medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In between, the book features moments such as Mark Spitz's seven gold medals at the 1972 games in Munich, forced doping by the East German women's swimmers in the 1970's and 1980's, the American boycott of the 1980 summer games in Moscow, the gold medal 100 butterfly race by Anthony Nesty of Suriname at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, and the U.S. men's 400 freestyle relay at the 2008 games in Beijing under the anchor leg by Jason Lezak. The book has six appendixes, a bibliography, and an index. This would be a welcome addition for a library looking for reference materials on swimming or sports; it will also appeal to a general audience. * American Reference Books Annual * | <urn:uuid:fc50dcdf-9f31-4d5b-952c-6a98eaa10e32> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-most-memorable-moments-in-olympic-swimming/john-lohn/9781442236998 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.94995 | 620 | 2.453125 | 2 |
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Changing climate change targets would, according to investors, bring more certainty to a market which is currently unaffordable.
Rushing climate change goals means the UK risks investing in unproven and expensive technologies, which would result in a slower uptake of a lower carbon economy in the UK.
Called in front of the Energy and Climate Change committee a group of investors agreed that the only way the EMR could be fulfilled would be by creating incentives for potential investors.
Peter Atherton, Head of European Utility Sector Research, Citigroup said: “Our investors don’t have the confidence that the policy mechanisms will be sustainable. Their advice will be ‘change the targets’- that’s what’s driving it all .The targets are too much, too fast. That scares the investment community quite profoundly.”
Chris Hunt, Managing Director of Riverstone reminded the Committee of mistakes made in Europe: “It’s fair to say that we’re still at a very early stage in this renewable energy cycle. Solar may not be attractive right now, but could benefit the UK in the long run. Wind is improving all the time, tidal has not even started. All these things should be allowed for in a framework.”
The investors agreed that a more flexible market, with less restrictions would encourage larger capital flow.
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A Catholic bishop has deplored the world’s indifference to escalating extremist violence in northern Mozambique, where multiple churches have been burnt, people beheaded, young girls kidnapped, and hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the violence.
Bishop Luiz Fernando Lisboa of Mozam-bique’s Pemba diocese has been an outspoken advocate for the needs of the more than 200,000 people who have been displaced by the violent insurgency.
In June there were reports that insurgents had beheaded 15 people in a week. Yet the bishop said that the crisis in Mozambique has largely been met with “indifference” from the rest of the world. “The world has no idea yet what is happening because of indifference,” Bishop Lisboa said in an interview with Portuguese media on June 21.
“We do not yet have the solidarity that there should be,” he told LUSA news agency.
During Holy Week this year insurgents perpetrated attacks on seven towns and villages in Cabo Delgado province, burning down a church on Good Friday, and killing 52 young people who refused to join the terrorist group, the bishop told Aid to the Church in Need. More than 1,000 people have been killed in attacks in northern Mozambique since 2017, according to the Centre for Strategic and International Studies. Some of these attacks have been claimed by the Islamic State, while others have been carried out by the homegrown Ahlu Sunna Wal extremist militant group, which has been kidnapping men and women. | <urn:uuid:f881906d-a5c4-4d5d-9a8f-2764e84d60c1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://lightoftruth.in/churches-burned-people-beheaded-mozambiques-escalating-extremist-violence/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.978961 | 315 | 1.609375 | 2 |
According to the CDC, as of June 1st, 2016 there are 17 cases of the Zika virus in Minnesota. That doesn’t sound like many and for most infected individuals it’s not a major illness. The virus, a mosquito-borne illness, causes some unpleasant symptoms such as fever, rash, and joint pain. For most healthy people those symptoms are gone within a week. However if you are pregnant and become infected, it is a far different concern. Zika virus can infect babies in the womb and cause microcephaly as well as other neurological and developmental issues. Here in Minnesota, there are two women dealing with those concerns right now.
Two women here in our home state contracted Zika while pregnant. One while traveling and the other sexually transmitted from her husband who had been travelling. The good news at this point is that one child has been born with no problems, and so far the other fetus appears healthy. The bad news is that this issue is so new, doctors don’t know if there are future concerns. These children will have to be monitored for quite some time before anyone is sure that they will remain healthy and develop normally.
In Related Zika Pregnancy News
The Washington Post states that there are 340 Zika infected women across the US waiting to see if their unborn children will be affected, however in three states there are devastated mothers that are no longer waiting. In Hawaii, New York, and New Jersey the reality of what Zika can do to an infant is just sinking in. Three children have been born with microcephaly, which causes the child to have an unusually small head and brain. There have been other developmental issues with these babies as well, including intestinal issues and issues with their eye structures.
The keyword being cautiously. We don’t know when and if Zika will become a locally transmitted virus. Having the virus while pregnant doesn’t mean your child will be born with birth defects, but when they are it can be severe. As a nation, this is something we will be watching develop for a long time to come. What we must do as individuals is protect ourselves by avoiding mosquito bites. If you are pregnant or plan to be,avoid travel to countries where Zika is present. When in untreated areas where mosquitoes are present, cover your skin and use insect repellant. At home, Mosquito Squad of Twin Cities can eliminate 85-90% of the mosquitoes in your yard all season long. Call us today.
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Learn Ukulele Summer Event at Adams Free Library Aug. 9
ADAMS, Mass. — Families and children of all ages are invited to join the Adams Free Library hosting Julie Stepanek’s Learn Ukulele summer event at 3 p.m. on Aug. 9.
Join Julie Stepanek at the Adams Free Library as she shows the fundamentals of ukulele playing. To register, call (413)743-8345.
Those in attendance learn how to tune, strum and read chords. After a short lesson, guests should be able to play songs. No experience necessary. Bring your own ukulele or borrow one of hers.
“Read Beyond the Beaten Path” is sponsored by The Adams Free Library, the Massachusetts Library System, the Boston Bruins, and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
An adult must accompany children under 8 years of age. Library events are free and open to the public. Attendance at library programs constitutes consent to be photographed; photos may be used in print or electronic publicity for the Adams Free Library.
Conctact the Adams Free Library at (413)743-8345 or www.adamslibraryma.org for more information.
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It has been a while since I have posted anything on this blog. Blogging involves a great deal of self-discipline, which I lack. Those bits of self-discipline I do have are all invested in lesson planning. Choices, you know.
Anyway, my third semester of teaching English discussion finished several days ago. Last lessons are always hard to plan: I find it tricky to stuff something meaningful, something memorable and something exciting into one lesson altogether.
I believe that the end of something is always a good chance for a reflection. That is why this time, I decided to begin the last lesson with a reflection.
At the end of almost every lesson, my students would write answers to two questions: the first question would ask them about what they liked or found interesting, and the second question would make them focus on something they thought was difficult. I wrote about this activity a while ago.
I thought that students would benefit from getting some tangible result from this activity. Even though I would write them a reply and hand it out at the beginning of the next lesson, I was not sure how many of them would actually read it 😀 Since most of my students admit that speaking English is stressful, I wanted them to see that these 3 months were enough to make some progress. Therefore, I prepared a simple reflective task.
First, I looked through their answers to the second question and made a list of top-10 difficulties/issues/problems they faced at the beginning of the course (first 5 lessons). Students were asked to have a look at these problems and circle yes or no when answering two questions:
1. Did you have this problem in the beginning?
2. Do you still feel like you have this problem?
After that, students would discuss their answers with each other and share their impressions. They would also answer some other questions, e.g., “Do you feel you made some progress?”, “Are English Discussion classes similar to your high school English classes?”, etc.
It was heartwarming to see how many yes became no! I heard some of my students saying that in the beginning, they were nervous and had some kind of negative attitude towards the whole idea of having discussions in English (something we can call demotivation, according to Kikuchi). However, after some time, they started feeling like it was getting easier and realised they actually could have long discussions in English. The thing is that in Japan, in most high schools, the grammar-translation approach is still used so when students get into universities that use CLT, they feel anxious and stressed out because they have to communicate in English – something they were not taught to do.
There is nothing more empowering than watching these students develop their English communication ability, watching how they rely on L1 less and less and learn to use communicative strategies effectively.
Another reflective activity I did in this lesson was a Semester Reflection. Students would draw a mind map for the following topic: My first semester at university. They would put whatever they think was important enough to be on paper. They would share their mind maps with each other and ask some questions if needed. They would also discuss some questions, e.g., “If you could go back in April 2018 and start your semester again, would you change anything?” and “What is your goal for next semester?”.
So far, I am happy with how the weekly dialogical feedback activity ended up being wrapped into an end-of-semester reflection. I would say the piloting was successful. Getting ready to try out the refined version next semester and write a paper on it! And for now, holidays.
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The 1838 Rendezvous Association
P.O. Box 1838
Riverton, WY 82501
MOUNTAIN MAN RENDEZVOUS
Since 1989 the 1838 Rendezvous Association has been working to preserve one of the rare historical sites associated with the American mountain men. This site is at the confluence of the Wind River and Popo Agie (now Little Wind) rivers and was used for the 1830 and 1838 Rendezvous`, and Captain Bonneville`s camp in the summer of 1835.
19th century trappers who met on the site several times were explorers of an unmapped and exotic landscape very different than the woodlands found in the east. These adventurers lived in the west without leaving a permanent trace of their lives on the land and the undeveloped site is an appropriate memorial to their mysterious lives. Mountain men were not interested in development or civilization and they adapted their own distinct nomadic culture that was very similar to that of the Plains Indian. Since permanent structures or physical remnants of the mountain men are even rarer than even those of the Native Americans the places they were known to inhabit become more important with time.
The historic area along the Wind River still retains the flavor of the land as it looked in 1830 and 1838 when Jim Bridger, Kit Carson, and a host of famous mountain men met for the annual fur trade and to re-supply. The landscape near the forks of the Wind River harbors one of the rare rendezvous sites accessible to the public and still in pristine condition. A fifteen year span of early 19th century history is represented by the site.
The 1838 Rendezvous Association is asking for the help of interested people who will work toward the goal of preserving this historic site. “We look forward to being able to treat our valuable Wyoming historic site like other important sites in the United States are treated, says association member Lee Teter.
The Wyoming Department of Highways has been a major player in the preservation of the site and continues to press ahead in an effort to end mining in the surrounding area as soon as possible. They have assured the 1838 Rendezvous Association that they are trying to inflict as little damage to the landscape as possible and when mining is complete the site will be reclaimed. Other interested parties including officials from the State of Wyoming, Fremont County, and the city of Riverton joined with organizations such as the Fremont County Historic Society and the Wind River Muzzleloaders to secure the site and preserve it for future generations. The site was even selected as the “Lasting Legacy Project by Riverton`s 1990 Wyoming Centennial Committee.
An annual re-enactment of the 1838 Rendezvous is part the effort to draw attention to the history and romance of the area. Reenactors , or “buckskinners have done their part for the site, but the organization is presently in need of more members who are creative, energetic and love history. They need active members who care how the world sees Wyoming’s ancient landscape and early history. “We have a lot to do and we need help, said an association member, “People come from all over the world to this site. European, South American, Canadian and Asian people visited the site this year and we can make their impression of American values more accurate by showing how important this site is to American history. | <urn:uuid:7fcdb020-c896-40bd-a961-fb5fce9f57d6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.1838rendezvous.com/rendezvous | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.968923 | 705 | 1.960938 | 2 |
The University of Cambridge has trial access to the Patrologia Orientalis database, published by Brepolis via the following link:
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The Patrologia Orientalis Database (POD) is the Online version of the famous collection of patristic texts from the Christian East, including works, recorded in non-Latin languages, that come from geographical, cultural, or religious contexts somehow linked to Rome or the Eastern Roman Empire.
This initial version of the database allows users to access texts included in the Patrologia Orientalis (PO) series in two forms: the original text and a searchable translation.
The user can search for items (such as keywords or quotes) in the language into which a text was translated in the PO. All the texts in the PO are searchable, and the reader can check the translation with the original text visible alongside as a non-searchable PDF file.
The Patrologia Orientalis is a source of prime importance for many disciplines: in Patristic Studies, in History, in Theology, in Canon Law, and so on.
Numerous major works are included in the Patrologia Orientalis. It is only right to draw attention to the Armenian, Copto-Arabic, Ethiopic, and Georgian Sinaxaria, such as the commentated edition of the Ṣoma Deggua and the Ethiopic Me‘eraf, and to Bar Hebræus’s complete encyclopaedia, also known as Candélabre du sanctuaire. The complete collection of the Homiliae Cathedrales by Severus of Antioch is outstanding, published in the Syriac translation by Jacob of Edessa, in the original Greek when extant, otherwise in the Coptic version.
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Energy Of Displaced Pendulum
You will be presented with a object hanging from a string from the ceiling of a room. The object will be displace from the vertical by a certain angle. Your task is to figure out the speed of the object when it reaches the lowest point in its oscillation.
When you are ready to start the problem, click on the Begin button and when you have finished your calculation hit End to submit your results.
Find the speed of the pendulum bob when it reaches the lowest point of its swing.
When you are ready to check your answer, hit the "End" button.
Not Real Time. The simulation has been slowed down by 5x to allow you to easily track your pendulum as it changes PEg to KE.
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Industrial Drone Inspections | RayAccess, Inc.
Proudly Serving Los Angeles, Orange County, and Surrounding Areas
RayAccess proudly serves the industrial sector by performing industrial drone inspections. Our FAA-certified UAV pilots capture surface details of hard-to-reach areas. With drone inspections, we are helping industrial clients detect cracking and corrosion before major damage occurs.
Do you need help with disaster relief or routine maintenance of a large structure, vessel, or storage tank? Hire a FAA-certified drone pilot to document the condition of your industrial asset. Prevent onsite injuries, avoid expensive repairs, and major losses to productivity. Deploy an industrial drone flight inspection today.
Industrial drone inspections document: corrosion, substrate cracks, paint condition, water intrusion sources, structural integrity, bolt & fastener torque, surface discontinuities, load limits, and more.
Table of Contents
- 1 Applications for Industrial Drone Inspections:
- 2 Benefits of Using Drones for Industrial Inspections:
- 3 How To Choice the Best Industrial Drone Inspector:
- 4 Industrial Drone Inspection Capabilities:
- 5 Federal Regulation:
- 6 Alternative Services:
- 7 The RayAccess Difference:
- 8 References:
Applications for Industrial Drone Inspections:
Bridges need routine maintenance to detect any surface irregularities that may impact structural soundness. Industrial drone inspections complement traditional bridge inspections by providing a more efficient means to capture images.
Smokestacks discharge smoke from a factory. The reason why they were built so tall is to alleviate environmental concerns. Drones are an effective way to quickly reach and inspect industrial chimneys or smokestacks.
Dams and Reservoirs:
Dams have been used to create reservoirs for centuries. Fortunately, drones are a new technology to inspect the structural condition and monitor water levels in very old infrastructure.
Powerlines, cell towers, and radio towers to name a few types of utility towers that are routinely inspected with UAVs or drones.
Docks, Piers, Maritime Vessels:
Docks, piers, and container boats are a major part of the global supply chain. It’s essential to inspect this important infrastructure.
The major manufacturing plants use drones to inspect for defects in large machinery and monitor production. Drone inspections are supporting large plants in aerospace, automotive, oil, pharmaceutical, and packaged goods.
Tanks & Vessels:
Drones are used on water tanks and vessels to inspect for potential issues that may cause leaks.
Wind turbines provide a sustainable source of energy but need to be routinely inspected to function properly. Drones are an efficient means to complete inspections for a low cost.
Benefits of Using Drones for Industrial Inspections:
- Safety: An industrial inspection can require a human inspector to enter a confined space or high area. Since these are hazardous areas, drones are used to replace human workers and reduce safety concerns.
- Unobtrusive: Unlike scaffolding or cranes that take up physical space on the ground level, drones are much more unobtrusive for industrial inspections.
- Cost: Industrial drone inspections don’t call for high labor costs. Drones are the most cost-efficient inspection devise for industrial inspections.
- Compliance: Routine inspections of manufacturing plants, bridges, utility towers and other structures help keep the aforementioned industrial assets in compliance with regulators. Since drones are low cost, the number of industrial inspections can be increased. More inspections are a direct correlation with compliance.
- Speed: Drones are quick to deploy. In a short amount of time, drones can obtain valuable information.
How To Choice the Best Industrial Drone Inspector:
A competent industrial drone inspector is focused on safety, quality, and efficiency. Beware of drone providers that don’t have the following qualifications.
- FAA certifications: Drone pilots need to be competent and possess a Remote Pilot Certificate from the FAA.
- Visual Inspection Expertise: Besides being able to operate a drone, your inspector should be knowledgeable in visual inspection (visual testing). Obtaining visual images using drones is one thing, but your inspector needs to interpret the visual information to help you make informed decisions.
- Professional Inspection reports: Make sure you ask the industrial drone inspector to provide a sample report from a recent industrial drone inspection.
Industrial Drone Inspection Capabilities:
Drones equipped with thermal imaging cameras are able to detect changes in surface temperatures. A change in surface temperature can be a sign of corrosion, sealant issues, or water intrusion.
Drones equipped with sensors can easily navigate confined spaces such as a vessel. Wind turbines, smokestacks, and container ships can be inspected from the interior via drones equipped with sensors and container cages.
GPS Position Tracking Technology:
GPS technology enables drones to provide mapping coordinates for flights up to 10 miles long.
Drones can safely capture clear images and video from a distance via a 32x digital zoom. In case of hazardous zones, drones can get detailed visuals from a distance.
Industrial drone flights of unmanned aircraft are regulated by the FAA. Under FAA regulations, certified drone pilots are permitted to fly UAVs over people and at night under certain conditions .
- The UAV (Unmanned aerial vehicle) has to be less than 55 pounds during takeoff.
- The drone pilot has to have a readily available certificate for operations and a registration number for the commercial drone. This physical document must be provided to any Federal, State, or local law enforcement officer that asks for it.
- If an accident occurs causing serious injury to a person or property damage greater than $500, the pilot in command must report the accident to the FAA within 10 days.
- Prior to deployment, the drone pilot must check the drone to see if it is in condition for safe operation, considering risks to persons and property in the immediate vicinity both on the ground and in the air.
- The pilot can not allow any object to be dropped from the UAV that creates a hazard to any person or property.
- No pilot can operate a UAV from a moving vehicle.
- A UAV must be in long of sight of the drone pilot during the complete duration of the flight.
- Only one UAV can be operated at a time by the drone pilot
- No pilot may operate a UAV over a human being unless the human being is directly participating in the operation of the small unmanned aircraft, is located under a covered structure, and meets specific operational categories.
- The speed of the UAV may not exceed 100 miles per hour. Cannot be higher than 400 feet above ground level or within 400 feet radius of a structure. Lastly, the minimum distance cannot be less than 500 feet below a cloud.
RayAccess employs FAA-certified drone pilots and complies with the aforementioned conditions .
RayAccess performs infrastructure inspections via UAVs and industrial rope access. Both methods are cost-effective, quick to deploy, and undisruptive to operations.
Industrial painting involves protecting important assets against harsh weather conditions, fire, chemical spills, and corrosion.
RayAccess paints a number of towers such as ski lifts, roller coasters, and telecommunication towers to name a few.
Wind turbines have oil inside to keep internal parts, bearings, and gears lubricated. Oil leaks can occur, therefore operators must have spill containment plans for wind turbine cleaning.
The RayAccess Difference:
High Access Expertise:
RayAccess employs skilled professionals that are experienced in using the complete spectrum of high-access equipment.
FAA certified & Fully insured:
RayAccess employs FAA-certified drone pilots. We are a fully insured, our typical coverage includes $1,000,000 Workers Compensation, $2,000,000 General Liability, $5,000,000 Excess Liability, and $1,000,000 Commercial Auto coverage.
In addition to industrial drone inspections, RayAccess is a one-stop shop for rope access inspections, cleaning, painting, and waterproofing.
- Federal Aviation Administration. Operations Over People General Overview. https://www.faa.gov/uas/commercial_operators/operations_over_people/
- Code of Federal Regulations, PART 107 – Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-F/part-107
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
On behalf of 1033 Ocean Ave HOA, I would like to thank RayAccess for a great job in cleaning and restoring the exterior of our building. Utilizing your rope access system saved our Association much in costs and we are glad to have avoided the need to erect scaffolding to perform the work. Sergey and his crew were very professional and communicated well during the project.
"Great job in washing our building! Very professional team."
"Thanks so much for the great work! The windows look perfect"
"Great job at a great price! Had them come in to clean our building and were able to reach the high windows with no problem! Called for a free estimate, they came that same day and then came to clean to the next day! Friendly staff as well!"
Thank you so much for cleaning windows at our building. The tenants are so happy! They can finally see what's outside their windows!
I'm really happy with work RayAccess did for us on painting the exterior of Loews atrium. At first, I though it would be a nightmare project because of old paint condition and difficult access to some areas. But it turned out to be a very professional and smooth job! Thank you.
RayAccess painted our outdoor movie screen on a high-rise building in Downtown LA. With their Rope Access method, they saved us thousands of dollars in bringing a huge lift and blocking almost entire street. The job was done perfectly! Thank you so much!
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Dr. Harsha Chadaga – Senior Consultant and Head of Radiology, Columbia Asia Radiology Group, Columbia Asia Hospitals
Mumbai, 15 Dec 2020: Radiology has come a long way since the discovery of X-rays in 1895 and now has a central role in better diagnosis and monitoring of patient.
The capabilities of medical imaging has seen rapid advancements in the last few decades due to constant increase in the computing power and the availability of large data to analyze. The latest advancements in the field of radiology can be understood from the below perspective.
Technology and Digitization:
One of the major advancement in radiology has been “Digitalization”. This has enabled hospitals to go paper-less. The use of PACS has enabled radiologists to easily access the prior study of patients, retrieve large data on just a click and use this data for developing decision support systems. Large chain of hospitals are utilizing the Enterprise solutions which has helped in improving patient safety, cost savings and data mining.
Software solutions like RIS has now made it easy to record every patient right from scheduling appointments to diagnosis and treatment. Currently intelligence is being built into these systems to make this a robust, patient friendly process.
Technology improvements have enables the radiologist and clinicians to make diagnosis noninvasively and accurately while improving patient safety by introducing low dose imaging and non-contrast techniques.
The use of 3D technologies in diagnostic radiology has enabled better understanding and planning of surgery, which in turn has improved the safety and outcome of surgeries.
Big Data and Analytics: Radiologists are looking forward to in the future of analytics in medical imaging which would augment their working and lead to fewer errors, more personalized care.
- Kindly elaborate on the latest trends in radiology
Latest trends in radiology can be discussed in terms of improvements in machines, reporting and clinicians. The newer scanners have technologies which reduce the amount of radiation being delivered, has artificial intelligence built to help the technologists to perform scans and improve patient comfort while undergoing various scanning.
There has been development in reporting artificial intelligent enabled workflows which aid the radiologists to make faster and accurate reports that are multimedia enhanced and more clinically relevant.
The new enterprise imaging has been designed to help radiologists take on the challenges of modern diagnostic imaging. The migration from traditional method of picture archiving and communication systems to enterprise imaging and data management system will change how clinicians have been accessing images and patient information.
The latest trends in radiology like the 3D printing has made it possible to print 3D models of internal organs which aid in diagnosis and guiding the surgeons through complex procedures.
- What technological advancements has Columbia Asia Hospital introduced lately?
We have recently introduced Brain Tumor Surgery Navigation Technology, this allows the surgeons to get a 3D view of the brain and better control their surgical procedures.
We have leveraged modern technology to virtually consolidate our radiologist across group hospitals spread across different geographies helping cross utilize expertise and load balance.
CARG has been closely associated with the industry for development of AI in radiology. With a startup it has been able to develop AI for Chest X-ray reporting, which has been presented in various national and international forums and has been CE approved. The algorithm will be deployed in the workflow to assist radiologist to improve accuracy and efficiency and also used as a quality tool.
We are working with industry player to centralize protocol management, better manage equipment utilization and monitor radiation dose
- Is medical imaging the fastest growing segment of healthcare?
Medical imaging is one of the fastest growing segments of health care.
I think this growth is triggered by the fact that radiology has become even more integral part in patient management by aiding the clinician to make early and accurate diagnosis, increasing demand for early stage diagnosis of chronic disease and rising aging demographics. Also with increasing awareness in population importance of good health, preventive health care is on the rise.
Technological advancements coupled with supportive investments and funds by government like Ayshuman Bharath is expected to contribute towards the market growth.
The global medical imaging market size was valued USD 33.7 billion in 2016 and is expected to witness a CAGR of 5.8% over the forecast period 2018-2024. Major factors driving growth of this industry is increasing demand for early-stage diagnosis of chronic disease and rising aging demographics, which is expected to boost the demand of diagnostic imaging across the globe.
Diagnostic imaging has been one of the major industries in healthcare, which has adapted to constant changes and continuing to grow consistently.
- Kindly elaborate on the major role of Artificial Intelligence in radiology. Will it change the scope of Medical Imaging?
I strongly believe that artificial intelligence will change the way radiology is being practiced currently and will help augment radiology practice.
Role of AI in radiology as I see are:
- AI will play an integral part in triage of studies to prioritise and appropriately route through the organisation.
- It has the capability to perform preread or second read, after initial interpretation on images and report
- It can deliver real time diagnostic support alongside a radiologist.
- Visualizing features on images that reflect genomic or diagnostic properties is one of the key role of Ai. With the advent of deep learning, Ai seems to be able to see patterns that are beyond human perception.
- How do you see the radiology market in India?
Healthcare sector is seeing a sharp growth in many sectors, one of which is radiology. With emerging trends and technology, it is interesting to see the tremendous scope that this sector has to offer. The world of imaging and technology is constantly evolving and opening up to a vast new world of innovations.
The radiology market in India is multi-segmented. Market for diagnostic services has been growing in India over the past couple of years at a rate of 15-20%. Nearly 50% utilization is noted for MRI/CT Machines across cities
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MURRAY — When Loraine Jensen's legs started swelling at the end of 2020, she feared she might be going through the same thing her husband experienced several years earlier before he passed away.
"My left leg was almost double," she said on Tuesday. "My feet would hurt, and I'd wake up in the middle of the night in pain."
But medical treatments for people with a heart condition like Jensen's have undergone technological improvements since her husband's illness.
Aortic stenosis causes the aortic valve — which is where blood exits the heart — to stop opening, said Dr. Edward Miner, a cardiologist at Intermountain Medical Center. The condition is often diagnosed in patients with a heart murmur.
When she gave birth to each of her nine children, Jensen remembered doctors pointing out that she had a heart murmur. But she says it got worse through the years.
"And some people think it's nothing to worry about, but eventually that murmur can become a very serious and even life-threatening problem. When the valve fails to open completely, that leads to heart failure, fluid retention, and can lead to death," Miner said.
For decades, doctors have successfully treated the condition with open heart surgery, which includes removing the original valve and sewing in a replacement valve.
Intermountain Medical Center, however, pioneered a new treatment called transcatheter aortic valve replacement in 2009. During the procedure, a doctor inserts a new, special valve without the need for open heart surgery. The valve is about 1 inch in diameter and can be sewn in with surgery, or it can go through a small tube inserted in the femoral artery, according to Miner.
Aortic stenosis often occurs in elderly patients who aren't ideal candidates for open heart surgery, Miner noted. Now, more than 2,000 patients in Utah have received the treatment since Intermountain Healthcare became the first hospital system in the Intermountain West to offer it.
Jensen became the 2,021st patient of Intermountain's in late May. Intermountain Medical Center celebrated her on Monday by sharing her story and awarding her a heart-shaped plaque.
Miner said patients face a lower risk of complication compared to open heart surgery and "feel better" soon after the procedure.
"And the risk of hospitalization and heart failure is avoided," Miner said.
The special valves are more expensive than the valves that are put in during open heart surgery, Miner said, but ultimately lead to cost savings.
"Where the hospitalization is shorter, less days in the hospital, less risk of having to recover in a rehab facility, and for many patients going back to work sooner is a cost savings," he said. "So the total cost to our society and health care system is favorable with transcatheter valves, even though the valve itself is more expensive than a surgical valve."
Dr. Kirk Knowlton, director of cardiovascular research at Intermountain, said the implementation and design of the catheter "is one of the greatest innovations of the last 10 to 15 years in cardiovascular medicine."
"Many of you probably have neighbors, I have one who came to me and said, 'I got a valve put in. I can think again, I can climb stairs again.' Many of you probably know people in similar situations," Knowlton said.
After receiving the treatment at the end of May, Jensen said she already feels much better.
"Now I wake up in the middle of the night, but it's not from this pain," she quipped.
"I wake up now, and I can get out of bed, and I don't have pain in my legs, and my legs are much better. I can go up the stairs. I have seven to go up to my bedroom and seven to go down to my washing machine room. And I can go down those holding on to a railing, but I can breathe so much better," she said.
"It's a miracle, I think. It's just amazing all of the things that the doctors have been able to do," Jensen said.
Her husband had coronary bypass surgery in 2000 and needed to recover in the hospital for more than two weeks.
"I was in the hospital, I could have come home probably after two days, but I stayed three because I was going to go home and be by myself, and they wanted to make sure I was fine," Jensen said. "My husband's surgery and this is just like two different worlds."
She noted that the treatment has also helped her feel better mentally.
In addition to her nine children, Jensen has 35 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren.
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The Internet’s been around since 1969, the web since 1990. I was one of the first 5,000 people on the Internet, back in 1971, when they were giving accounts to students at schools (like UCLA, Harvard, MIT, CMU, Stanford) involved in developing the network that linked the 69 (yep, count ‘em, 69) sites on the Net. ARPA, the DoD Advanced Projects Research Agency, which was paying for the whole thing, also had a few sites in that bunch of 69. Those mostly had design specs for the Net, which everyone on it already had. There just wasn’t much traffic.
The reason they gave accounts to lowly undergrads was to generate some traffic to see if the damned thing worked. There wasn’t much to do besides pass around the UNIX joke file and peruse the generally sparse digital archives offered. But there were lots of undergrads with email, and the UNIX jokes never die, so it worked.
But nobody, anywhere, ever seemed to care even a fempto-iota what was in your emails or which sites you visited. This lack of interest continued during the early days of the consumer Internet. One of 1993’s most popular cartoons, by the New Yorker’s Peter Steiner (which would be called a meme now), showed two mutts in front of an old style CRT. One says to the other “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.”
Now, not only do they know you’re a dog, they know your size, preference in kibble, chew toys, and if you have fleas. It may sound small, but it’s in the Big Data-verse. For a partial list of the Big Data they have about you, click here.
There are so many kinds of “Big Data” people talk about that it’s hard to tell the players without a program. Lots of us, including me, are trying to figure out the “Big Data Landscape.” My fellow Forbes contributor Dave Feinleib has published a handy map. I visited many of the websites, and this is a vast technological territory.
My last post ("Speed Is Making The Market Dangerous. Nascar Shows How We Can Make It Safer.") was about the kind of big data produced in financial markets. People are interested in that because of the perceived value in it. But if we measure by entrepreneurial energy, especially in Silicon Valley, there is more perceived value in the new flavor of Big Data than the old.
This idea was particularly vividly stated to me by George John, the CEO of Rocket Fuel, a fast-growing Big Data science firm in the Valley. George, and his lead quant jock, Mike Benisch, both have quant investing cred, having worked on Wall Street, and read “Nerds on Wall Street," and they invited me over for a visit.
George’s insight is that “Big Data is the New Quant Investing,” and the more I think about it, as a longtime quant investor, the more I think George is right. Many of the ideas from quant investing make sense in this context; histories are huge, and experimentation is easy. There’s an underlying behavioral model, plus, you know your counter-parties. The large volume and variety of data allows use of new “data voracious” statistical and machine learning methods that, in finance, are useful for high-frequency trading, but are worthless on daily or monthly market data. It's words as well as numbers, so natural language tools can work along with numerical calculation.
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University of Chicago Press
May 27, 2014
Is administrative law unlawful? This provocative question has become all the more significant with the expansion of the modern administrative state. While the federal government traditionally could constrain liberty only through acts of Congress and the courts, the executive branch has increasingly come to control Americans through its own administrative rules and adjudication, thus raising disturbing questions about the effect of this sort of state power on American government and society. With Is Administrative Law Unlawful?, Philip Hamburger answers this question in the affirmative, offering a revisionist account of administrative law. Rather than accepting it as a novel power necessitated by modern society, he locates its origins in the medieval and early modern English tradition of royal prerogative. Then he traces resistance to administrative law from the Middle Ages to the present. Medieval parliaments periodically tried to confine the Crown to governing through regular law, but the most effective response was the seventeenth-century development of English constitutional law, which concluded that the government could rule only through the law of the land and the courts, not through administrative edicts. Although the US Constitution pursued this conclusion even more vigorously, administrative power reemerged in the Progressive and New Deal Eras. Since then, Hamburger argues, administrative law has returned American government and society to precisely the sort of consolidated or absolute power that the US Constitution—and constitutions in general—were designed to prevent. With a clear yet many-layered argument that draws on history, law, and legal thought, Is Administrative Law Unlawful? reveals administrative law to be not a benign, natural outgrowth of contemporary government but a pernicious—and profoundly unlawful—return to dangerous pre-constitutional absolutism.
This is a magnificent book, simultaneously haunting and bracing. In this book, Philip Hamburger demonstrates, shows, and proves that Americans are currently ruled by a system that the U.S. Constitution was explicitly designed to prevent. Our current system of administrative law “returns to the very power that constitutional law developed in order to defeat, it does more than simply depart from one or two constitutional provisions. It systematically steps outside the Constitution’s structures, thereby creating an entire anti-constitutional regime” (p. 498).
This book is a fifty-gallon-drum-sized stick of dynamite with the fuse already lit. It is required reading for every attorney, every political activist, and every land owner hassled by the EPA because of that duck that lands in your puddles in the spring, thus making your lower acre a wetlands. | <urn:uuid:c35f3aa2-3edf-47ef-a8cf-b7d800a25058> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dougwils.com/books-and-culture/books/is-administrative-law-unlawful.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.951635 | 532 | 1.984375 | 2 |
What is Sick Building Syndrome?
According to the National Health Service (NHS), “Sick building syndrome (often referred to as SBS) is the name for symptoms you only get whilst in a particular building, such as an office”. SBS isn’t namely an illness or even in fact a physical reaction. It is the human bodies stress response to an inadequate environment in the workplace. The symptoms of SBS are extremely common and can be caused by a number of things within an office building. Symptoms of SBS are as followed:
- Blocked or runny nose
- Dry and itchy skin
- Dry and sore eyes
- Tiredness and difficulty concentrating
- Nausea and dizziness
What causes SBS?
The NHS state that poorly maintained air ventilation and conditioning systems can contribute many factors that may cause SBS. Where these symptoms can occur due to poor conditions within the work environment, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have found that inadequate air ventilation and conditioning systems are providing workplaces with a number of factors affecting SBS. SBS can create low morale and dissatisfaction, making for an unproductive work environment.
Poor ventilation and conditioning systems are creating discomfort with high temperatures and low humidity. Where high temperatures generally lead to discomfort, low humidity levels can have many impacts on the work environment. If the humidity drops below 20% it can possibly cause irritation to both a person’s skin as well as their eyes. On the flip side, high levels of humidity exceeding 70% can be uncomfortable for people in the workplace, as well as be potentially harmful to their health, by contributing to the development of surface condensation and mould growth.
Inadequate air ventilation and conditioning systems can also be spreading pollution into your workplace environment. Airborne pollutants such as respiratory carbon dioxide, tobacco smoke and any outdoor pollution filtering inside, can have toxic, irritant and allergenic effects on people within the workplace. This could be because the system is situated near areas affected by traffic on the road and any smoking areas. These systems may also have poor filters which are allowing harmful pollutants into these systems.
How can Clean Air 24 Seven help with SBS?
Clean Air 24 Seven are able to send qualified technicians to help deal with your air ventilation and conditioning requirements. Our technicians will be able to audit your system to see exactly what is required to prevent SBS from affecting your workplace. This can range from taking tests to see whether your systems are due a clean, your systems filters need upgrading or replacing and auditing your LEV systems to make sure they are correctly and efficiently removing any pollutants and dust particles from your workplace.
If you have any enquiries on how Clean Air 24 Seven can help your workplace prevent SBS, visit: www.cleanair24seven.co.uk, call: 0203 6408 247, or email: [email protected] | <urn:uuid:24e190e1-8d72-400c-9c0c-3dca5c4d7313> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cleanair24seven.co.uk/air-ventilation-system-cleaning/how-can-poor-air-ventilation-systems-affect-the-workplace-sick-building-syndrome/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.951872 | 600 | 2.6875 | 3 |
- the types of information we collect and how we collect it;
- the ways in which we use, share and protect that information;
- the choices you have in controlling the collection of your information; and
- your ability to access and update your information.
Some Important Vocabulary
Whenever we reference “this site,” “our site” or “the site,” we mean the CT Lottery website found at www.ctlottery.org and all related sites optimized for mobile devices. When we talk about “authorized features and apps,” we’re referring to elements of our social media presence viewable from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, or any of the many other available external third-party controlled and operated social media platforms, as well as mobile or other apps we’ve created and distributed to let our fans and followers view our site or otherwise interact with our content. When we use the term “services,” we mean the sites and authorized features and apps collectively. Last, but definitely not least, when we refer to “personal information,” we mean information that can be used to identify you or that can be easily linked to you. So, a fairly comprehensive list of “personal information” would include such things as your name, address, telephone number, fax number, e-mail address, social security number, and date of birth. In contrast, a domain name or an internet protocol (“IP”) address or type of browser used to access the site is not considered personal information.
We’re a Bit Different: Records Retention and the Freedom of Information Act
Our services are not like others you may be used to accessing. We say that because we are what is known as a “quasi-public” agency. In other words, we are, in certain ways, more like a governmental agency than a private company. One of the ways we’re more like the government is that we retain the information collected through our services in accordance with the records retention and disposition requirements of Connecticut law. Another way we’re more like the government is that the Freedom of Information Act, also known as “FOIA,” applies to us. What this means to you as a visitor or user is that no matter how committed we are to maintaining the privacy of the information we collect, we cannot ensure its absolute privacy. Under FOIA, any person can request information collected by a public agency (or, as in our case, a quasi-public agency), and that information must be disclosed unless an exemption applies. If you want to know more about FOIA in Connecticut, then this is a good place to start: http://www.ct.gov/foi/site/default.asp
This policy is intended to provide you with the information you need to make an informed choice about your use of our services, as well as to make a decision about whether to share personal information with us through the services. You should consider the implications of FOIA as you make that decision. You should also be aware that, although we consider the information you provide to us to be trade secret information, we will use or disclose personal information when compelled to do so by legal obligations other than FOIA (e.g. a valid subpoena or court order), or based on our good-faith belief that the use and disclosure of personal information is necessary to enforce and protect our rights and interests or the rights and interests of others or to ensure that the lottery continues to be operated with integrity and for the public good. We do not sell, rent, or trade personal information with third parties.
Please be a Grown Up: User Age Requirements and Children’s Privacy
Connecticut law prohibits anyone under the age of 18 from participating in the games and programs we offer. So, purchasers of our products and users of our services, including registration for second-chance drawings and entry in our giveaways, must be at least 18 years of age. We take those age-related legal requirements very seriously and, consistent with them, do not intend for the services to be used by individuals under the age of 18, and certainly not by anyone under the age of 13. Moreover, we do not knowingly collect personal information from individuals under the age of 18. If we become aware that anyone under the age of 18 has submitted personal information through the services, then we will delete that information and will not use it for any purpose whatsoever. We encourage parents and legal guardians to talk with their children about the potential risks of providing personal information over the internet.
Nothing Personal: Automatically Collected Information
When you visit or use our services or interact with us, basic information is passively collected through various means, including through your web browser via use of tracking technologies such as “cookies”, "web beacons," "clear gifs," and the like, that utilize, among other means, simple text files sent from our servers to your device. The information we collect through these means is not personal information and does not individually identify you. It includes things like:
- the domain name and IP address from which you accessed our site.
- the type of browser and operating system you use.
- the date and time and length of your visit.
- the specific page visited, graphics viewed and any documents downloaded.
- the specific links to third party content you accessed from our services.
- the specific links from other sites you used to access our site.
Mobile devices are the one possible exception to the rule that our passive, automatic-collection activities exclude personal information. We say that because, if you access our services from a hand-held or other mobile phone or device, then the mobile services provider may transmit to us uniquely identifiable mobile device information that allows us to then collect mobile phone numbers and associate them with the mobile device identification information. Some mobile phone service providers also operate systems that pinpoint the physical location of devices, and we may receive this information as well. If you downloaded our mobile app, then the mobile device on which you use it may use GPS or other similar technology to determine your location for a variety of purposes, including displaying that location on a map and showing you nearby CT Lottery retailers or game information we think you might find relevant. We will not share your current location. If you do not want us to use your location for the purposes just described, then you should turn off the location services on your mobile device whenever you use our mobile app.
We may use both automatically collected non-personal information and mobile device information to compile generic reports about our services (such as popular pages on our site); to see how our followers, fans, and players are accessing our services; and for advertising and marketing purposes. We then use that data to administer the services, make your activities more convenient and efficient, and enhance the functionality of our services (such as by remembering certain of your information, thereby saving you time).
Now it’s Personal: Voluntarily Submitted Information
If you participate in certain activities through our services, then you may need to provide us with information about yourself. For example, if you choose to send us an e-mail, enter a second-chance drawing or promotion, fill out an on-line form (such as a request to have one of our employees speak to your group, or a request for more information about becoming a retailer), or participate in a player survey, then you are voluntarily providing personal information to us. In doing so, you are giving us your consent to collect, retain, use, and disclose that information in the ways we describe in this policy.
We may use voluntarily provided personal information (such as e-mail addresses, the content of e-mail, text messages, and phone numbers) to communicate directly with you on a one-to-one basis; to operate a promotion, giveaway, or a second-chance drawing, and to contact the winners; to verify information, such as age eligibility; to customize our promotional and giveaway pages with more relevant news and information; for our internal marketing and product development purposes; and for any other lawful purpose.
We may also use personal information as otherwise described to you at the point of collection, pursuant to your consent. We do not sell, rent, or trade personal information with third parties. We consider the information you provide to us to be trade secret information. If you don’t want us to collect your personal information, then don’t provide it! This means you shouldn’t participate in the activities offered through our services that request or require it. Participation is strictly your choice. Not participating may limit your ability to take full advantage of the services, but it will not affect your ability to access important lottery information.
Note that some authorized features and apps may allow users to post or upload messages, comments, screen names, computer files, and other materials. If you choose to make personally identifiable information public through these means, then we will consider that information to be in the public domain and will not limit its disclosure in the manner described by this policy.
A Choice you can make: Opt Out
If we are using personal information you provided to receive materials from us, such as newsletters, promotions, and program announcements, via text or e-mail, and you decide you don’t want to receive such materials, then you may opt out by sending an e-mail to us with your name, e-mail address, and/or mobile phone number (as applicable) to firstname.lastname@example.org. When we receive your request, we will take reasonable steps to remove your name from our distribution lists. This information remains part of our records, and may be available under FOIA even after you opt out.
Please understand that communications may not stop immediately. Additionally, if you continue to separately submit forms to us or take surveys after you opt out, then you will be voluntarily submitting your personal information through those separate means.
Do Not Track
Your web browser may offer a Do Not Track (DNT) feature allowing you to tell us you want to opt out of tracking for some purposes. At this time, our site does not specifically respond to DNT signals sent from your web browser.
Things Happen: We do what we can to ensure Information Security
We will take all reasonable security precautions to protect your personal information provided through our services. Due to the inherently open and somewhat risky nature of the Internet, however, we cannot guarantee that your information, whether during transmission or while stored on our systems or otherwise in our care, will be free from unauthorized access or that loss, misuse, destruction or alteration will not occur. We disclaim any liability for any theft or loss of, unauthorized access or damage to, or interception of any data or communications. You should also note that third party companies that help us operate and maintain both our services and our corporate technology environment (for example, a service provider that sends e-mails on our behalf) will have incidental access to your information, including your personal information, as part of the work they perform, and we cannot guarantee or be responsible for their practices.
We will take all reasonable security precautions to protect your personal information provided through our services. Due to the inherently open and somewhat risky nature of the Internet, however, we cannot guarantee that your information, whether during transmission or while stored on our systems or otherwise in our care, will be free from unauthorized access or that loss, misuse, destruction, or alteration will not occur. We disclaim any liability for any theft or loss of, unauthorized access or damage to, or interception of any data or communications. You should also note that third-party companies that help us operate and maintain both our services and our corporate technology environment (for example, a service provider that sends e-mails on our behalf) will have incidental access to your information, including your personal information, as part of the work they perform. We cannot guarantee or be responsible for their practices. | <urn:uuid:72119a90-4c2a-43c1-99ea-7c25e1162465> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ctlottery.org/PrivacyPolicy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.932253 | 3,294 | 1.601563 | 2 |
As stated in the PMI Network Magazine: "Project leaders with high emotional intelligence inspire their team, connect with their piers and get the job done." This course will emphasize the critical role that the "human relation" side of management plays in planning, execution and control of any project effort. True leadership is one of the most important characteristics in successfully executing projects. We will discuss how to build on your management expertise to enhance your success as a leader and improve your performance through the emotional intelligence.This course is highly interactive and adaptive to class interests and needs. Workshops, exercises and discussions are combined with course content to deliver knowledge that can be applied immediately by class participants.
There are no prerequisites for this course.
1 Day/Lecture & Lab
This course is designed for managers and executives who have leadership roles in their organizations would benefit from this course.
- Leadership in Project Management
- Overview of Emotional Intelligence (EI)
- Areas that make up your EI
- Self awareness and Control
- Assess our own Emotional Quotient (EQ) | <urn:uuid:79a957a8-d09d-4367-916d-70ed2414261a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.protechtraining.com/emotional-intelligence-and-leadership-for-pms-pt8694 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.938639 | 239 | 2.015625 | 2 |
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Traps for private and public areas
Geberit washbasin traps feature a long service life and protection against corrosion. They also provide a high discharge rate and are shaped for optimised flow in order to counteract clogging.
GEBERIT DISENO BOTTLE TRAP
Designed for perfect flow
Geberit traps for basins are shaped for optimised flow. Among other things, Geberit uses computer-animated simulation technology in the continuous development of products. The traps for basins, therefore, offer a high discharge rate as well as a considerable self-cleaning effect that prevents clogging.
Easy to install
It is supplied with maximum length and can be shortened to minimal adjustments with a standard hacksaw. No further tools are required to install it.
To ensure a long service life and protection against corrosion, it is made of high-quality plastic which allows it to look brand new even after 10 years.
It hides the trap behind an attractive design. They can therefore be integrated elegantly into the existing bathroom design and are available in a bright chrome-plated finish. | <urn:uuid:be2aaa1a-4315-4db6-b191-2850ac63b849> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.geberit.com.au/products/bathroom-products/traps-for-washbasins/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.937708 | 248 | 1.53125 | 2 |
About this Research Topic
In this Research Topic we seek to build a collection of articles addressing how aquatic plants respond to their physical and biological environment and the factors influencing their loss and recovery. This includes focus on how top-down and bottom up processes interact to control aquatic plant communities. This is particularly with respect to biodiversity-ecosystem functioning and what aspects and traits of the communities facilitate ecosystem resilience and how these changes influence ecosystem service delivery (e.g. Blue Carbon, fisheries productivity).
This research topic will include submissions on reproduction, connectivity and dispersal with respect to their implications for conservation biology. It will also include submissions on the floral-faunal interactions. We also welcome submissions that relate to indicators and thresholds relevant to ecological assessment and conservation management of these systems. Importantly, aquatic plants are part of linked social-ecological systems and as such their conservation management is as much about understanding human-environment relationships. We therefore encourage interdisciplinary submissions at the edges of conservation biology and socio-economics.
Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review. | <urn:uuid:fd234f73-c3a7-4c41-bd2e-73266521493a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/5560/conservation-ecology-of-aquatic-plants | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.927599 | 265 | 2.234375 | 2 |
When I wrote my first resume back In the 80s, things were much different. Resumes were written with broad objectives, with content that was comprehensive and generic in focus, and everything was included—just in case. Overall, my resume was all about me and was designed to cover a wide range of employers and potential opportunities.
However, in today’s resume and employment market—hiring needs are much more specific, and the process is much more automated. There is a larger population of highly educated, experienced job seekers, and recruiters need to quickly narrow down the candidate pool. Today’s employers want resumes that are position focused and address their needs.
To create an effective resume for today’s job search environment, it is important that you start by having the correct resume writing mindset.
Here are five principles to keep in mind when developing an effective resume:
- Make it about the employer. Remember that filling their position with the right candidate and satisfying their business needs is the primary concern.
- Be strategic in your messaging. Shape your message to fit a specific position. Communicate that you are the right “fit” for the job by effectively aligning your talents and experience with those needed for the position. Employers are not interested in sorting through all of your information to see if they can make you fit, they want a candidate that establishes good fit from the start.
- Understand that hiring is position specific. Employers recruit to fill predetermined positions with stated requirements and parameters. You must clearly explain what you have to offer relative to the needs of the marketplace and of the desired position.
- Be deliberate in deciding what information to put in and what to leave out. Provide the reader with useful and relevant information. It is not necessary or advisable to include everything.
- Communicate value relative to the position and employer’s needs. Remember that it is about them and who they are looking for to fulfill the position. You may know how to drive a Zamboni, but unless the accounting firm has an ice rink in their lobby, that skill is not of value to them.
The key to creating an effective resume is to understand that organizations hire to meet their business needs. Creating a resume that is position and employer specific may help you succeed in your career search.
For more information on developing an effective resume and to receive feedback on your resume, visit CareerQuest’s resume tools VMOCK and Resunate. These tools provide a real-time analysis and recommendations for improving your resume. For more resume assistance, contact your UMUC Career Services Office at 240-684-2720 or email@example.com.
Ann Martin is a career advising specialist at University of Maryland University College where she has worked for more than five years. She holds a master’s in mental health counseling from Bowie State University. As a mid-life career changer, she feels uniquely qualified to assist adult students in transforming their lives and finding their place in the workforce. | <urn:uuid:271d537d-b3df-4ff0-8952-74e9215c7a9f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://careerconnection.umgc.edu/2017/09/07/five-principles-for-developing-an-effective-resume/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.969306 | 615 | 1.671875 | 2 |
D.G. MARTIN COLUMN: Another prize for Elizabeth Spencer
Published 5:41 pm Wednesday, June 9, 2021
Elizabeth Spencer, arguably one of our country’s greatest writers, died in December 2019 in Chapel Hill, where she had lived since 1986.
Due to the oncoming Covid epidemic, we did not do enough to celebrate and recognize her contributions.
This month we have another chance to remember her. On June 1, her life and work were honored by publication of “Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories” by the Library of America series. Into the 800-plus pages the editors have squeezed three novels, 19 stories and a wealth of reference material.
Spencer was best known for her 1960 novella, “The Light in the Piazza.”
“You’d think it was the only thing I’d ever written,” she once told me, reflecting her mixed feelings about having this one book overshadow some of her more important and better works.
The new volume includes “The Light in the Piazza” and a good selection of her other works.
In “The Light in the Piazza,” an upper-class American mother from Winston-Salem visits Italy with her mentally disabled adult daughter.
A charming Italian young man falls in love with the daughter, overlooking her mental disability, or mistaking it for a naïve charm.
The mother’s dilemma is whether to approve and facilitate the marriage or disclose her daughter’s condition and lose the opportunity for her happiness.
In 1960, I read an early version of it in “The New Yorker” and was entranced by the story and the connection to North Carolina.
Alas, the North Carolina connection was mythical. Spencer told me she was really thinking of Birmingham, where she had friends, but changed the city’s name to Winston-Salem so her friends in Birmingham would not try to see themselves in the story.
The story became the basis for a popular film in 1962. It starred Olivia de Havilland, Yvette Mimieux and Rossano Brazzi. In 2005, a musical based on the story was staged in New York and broadcast on public television.
Before moving to Chapel Hill, Spencer and her husband lived in Italy and Canada. Her roots, however, were in her birthplace, Carrollton, Miss., and her early work reflected the complicated racial caste systems of the South.
The headliner of the new collection is “The Voice at the Back Door,” Spencer’s 1956 novel. Michael Gorra, the new volume’s editor, writes that it is “widely considered Spencer’s masterpiece.”
Set in rural Mississippi in the early 1950s, complicated race relations and violence are at its center. Gorra writes that in 1886 there had been a massacre in Spencer’s hometown, where more than 20 Blacks had been shot at the local courthouse. “The bullet holes remained visible until the 1990s, and as a child she always wondered about them, puzzled that she couldn’t get the grown-ups to tell her what had happened.”
Gorra continues, “The novel depicts the everyday racism of white society, ventriloquizing the spitting vehemence of her characters’ speech. And then Spencer does something more: she describes her own rising generation as one that in private might almost seem progressive, but that in public preached segregation. She names the conscious hypocrisy of the world to which she belonged, in which political expediency could excuse anything. Some white readers branded her a traitor, and her Vanderbilt teacher Donald Davidson, a Confederate apologist, refused ever to speak to her again.”
The judges for the Pulitzer Prize unanimously recommended “The Voice at the Back Door” for the award in fiction. According to the new book’s jacket, the Pulitzer board, however, decided to make no award. and that decision has never been adequately explained. Perhaps, it “was for fear that Spencer’s racial subject matter was too incendiary for the national climate at the time.”
Too late for the Pulitzer, but the new volume of Spencer’s work gives us another chance to rejoice in her courage and great stories.
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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Sedalia
SEDALIA, a city and the county-seat of Pettis county, Missouri, U.S.A., a little W. of the centre of the state. Pop. (1900) 15,231; (1725 negroes; 972 foreign-born); (1910) 17,822. Sedalia is served by the Missouri Pacific and the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railway systems, and is a transportation centre with good facilities. The city has a high and pleasant site (about 990 ft. above sea-level) on a rolling prairie, and is laid out as an exact square. Among the public buildings much the handsomest are the court house, built of Warrensburg blue sandstone (1884), and the Public Library (1900), given by Andrew Carnegie. Sedalia is the seat of the George R. Smith College (M. E., founded in 1894) for negroes. Liberty Park (60 acres), in the W. part of the city, is owned by the municipality. Broadway, the principal residence street, is 120 ft. wide, and is parked on either side. The State Board of Agriculture established fair grounds (now 210 acres) adjoining the city on the S.W. in 1900, and the annual state fair attracts many visitors. The water supply is derived from a storage lake on Flat Creek, 3 m. from the city, settling basins being used to clarify the water. There are a city hospital and the Maywood, a private hospital; and the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, railway maintains here a hospital for all parts of its system. The surrounding country is a magnificent livestock and farming region, and in the immediate vicinity are valuable deposits of coal, of limestone, of shale suitable for sewer pipe and of ire clays. The city has important horse and mule yards. The Missouri Pacific, three of whose operating divisions end at Sedalia and thus make the city its central division point, in 1904 established large shops (129 acres) in a suburb E. of the city. These shops and those of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railway, of which Sedalia is the central division point on the N. end of its system, add greatly to the industrial importance of the city. The total value of the factory product in 1905 was $1,691,727, showing an increase of 31.8% since 1900.
Sedalia was established as a station on the Missouri Pacific railroad in 1857. In 1864 it was chartered as a town and was made the county-seat, succeeding Georgetown (then a flourishing town, which speedily fell into decay), the transfer of the offices taking place in 1865. Sedalia was a Union military post throughout the Civil War; on the 15th of October 1864 a detachment from Sterling Price's raiding column dislodged a small Union force that was occupying the town, but the Confederate occupation lasted only one day. Sedalia was chartered as a city in 1889. In 1896 a constitutional amendment to remove the state capital from Jefferson City to Sedalia was defeated by popular vote. | <urn:uuid:2ce05ec3-2368-4ee9-8c17-6c6fba631570> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Sedalia | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.966296 | 644 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Sermon Based Group Homework
For the message on September 22 , 2019
Passage: 1 Peter 2:4-5, 9; Ephesians 2:1-10
This Sunday, Sellers continued our new series on Identity by encouraging us to unpack the emotional baggage of rejection, failure, and the wounds from our past.
GETTING TO KNOW YOU
When traveling, are you more likely to pack way too much or not pack enough?
LET’S GO DEEPER
1. On the cross, Jesus was rejected by his own people and sentenced to death. Read the account below of Jesus on the cross and write down how He dealt with such intense rejection.
Luke 23:22-25 (ESV)
22 A third time he said to them, “Why, what evil has he done? I have found in him no guilt deserving death. I will therefore punish and release him.” 23 But they were urgent, demanding with loud cries that he should be crucified. And their voices prevailed. 24 So Pilate decided that their demand should be granted. 25 He released the man who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus over to their will.
Luke 23:32-43 (ESV)
32 Two others, who were criminals, were led away to be put to death with him. 33 And when they came to the place that is called The Skull, there they crucified him, and the criminals, one on his right and one on his left. 34 And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments. 35 And the people stood by, watching, but the rulers scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others; let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, his Chosen One!” 36 The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine 37 and saying, “If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!” 38 There was also an inscription over him, “This is the King of the Jews.” 39 One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him, saying, “Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!” 40 But the other rebuked him, saying, “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? 41 And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong.” 42 And he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” 43 And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”
- What surprised you about Jesus’ response to the verbal and physical abuse He endured?
- Why is it so difficult to move on in spiritual maturity until we have honestly dealt with rejection, failures, and the harmful actions of others?
2. Read Ephesians 2:1-10 and make a list of the traits that describe our old identity before choosing to follow Christ. Then, make a list of traits that describe our new identity in Christ.
Ephesians 2:1-10 (ESV)
1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
- Is there anything from your past that is hindering you from accepting your full identity as a child of God?
TAKE IT HOME
1. What is your biggest takeaway from this sermon and study?
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The excavation program aims to uncover, and ultimately enhance, the unknown Gallo-Roman past of Lilibon.
Lilibon is not one of those cities whose past emerges from the smallest pores of its streets and squares. The Normandy metropolitan area of Seine-Maritime, between Rouen and Le Havre, is home to a small chain of ancient ruins. Here is the tired dungeon of a fading medieval castle, there is a late Gothic church that has survived the centuries. And between the two, the awe-inspiring remains of a stunning Roman theater remain. Its stones form the jutting part of Jolliopuna, and the ancient Roman city is now determined to make a place for itself on the map of Gaul.
A number of fragments are stacked together tightly between the walls of Lilebon’s Municipal Museum: blocks of carved limestone, displays of statues holding statues of ancient deities and other funerary objects, of glass, silver and terracotta, offer visitors a glimpse into this Gallo-Roman city. The accumulation is the construction while the site, founded on the grounds of Calètes, ignites the imagination less than Lugdunum or even Alésia. False: The hidden port of Jolyubuna was one of the most important ports in northern Gaul. A remarkable heritage of a city now located more than three kilometers from the river.
“The landscape was radically different,” Says Jonas Baritias, with that mysterious half-smile reserved for specialists. Modern Doctor of Antiquity Sciences, the new Head of Studies in Archeology with the Caux Seine conglomerate society is in the picture aspiration of Lilebon Heritage: full of impulse. « The river was directed on the nineteenthAnd century, which significantly modified the composition of this part of the Seine « , Identifies by pointing to the topographical model at the entrance to the museum. In the first centuries of our era, the city closely embraced the waves of the Seine, whose ancient estuary reached its port. The flow of goods coming and going from the canal to Lotes passes through this famous mall, which is located between the sea and the river. It’s clear: Jolliopona’s location was strategic. He is slowly coming back to her. At least culturally.
Find the old city
Not much left of yesterday’s bustling ports. It has been replaced by new, more realistic animations. At the end of March, the smell of meat mingled with the whiff of the tractors, and so it flew over the square Felix Faure, in the center of Lilbon, after the annual cattle fair. The event was particularly resounding: it’s been two years since it was able to happen, due to the pandemic. On the other hand, the situation did not hamper other activities. And so, a few months ago in the same square, the clever movement of shovels and trowels from archaeologists preceded the melodies of calves, cows and goats at the fair.
In July, a section of the parking lot in the center of the square, between the Municipal Museum and the ruins of the ancient theater, was carefully examined. Under the direction of Jerome Spicer, former Director of Archeology Studies, the programmed excavation provided unusual animations for local residents. It also allowed specialists to discover the features of some of the new structures of the ancient Goleopona. The site revealed a possible habitat as well as a 1.8 meter wide wall, dated from the end of the firstVerse or from the beginning of the secondAnd century, it may have belonged to a poorly recognized Roman public building », identifies Jonas Baritias, in front of the excavation sector and covered with a layer of gravel ever since. Not everything has yet been discovered in the former capital of Calette.
The field of study is wide. At its height, at the end of the secondAnd In the last century, Jolliopona stretched over nearly thirty hectares and contained, perhaps, up to 10,000 inhabitants, according to the highest estimates; More than the current population of Lilbon. Aqueduct layouts, tombs, and northern and southern sections of the late Roman wall are documented. There were at least two bathing establishments within the walls between them a house Luxurious and few public buildings not clearly marked. The outlines of the temples also seem to indicate the ends of their walls. Amid these disparate elements, one question remains unresolved to this day: How do we explain the sudden decline of the city?
near the end of the thirdAnd century, Juliobona lost its status as capital in favor of Rotomagus – Rouen. A large calcined layer, dating from the same period, has been found on both sides of the city, a testament to a massive fire that destroyed the site. Was it a devastating accident, or the work of Bagod, named after the bandit forces who then ravaged northern Gaul? The looting of the city by German, Franc or Saxon pirates is also not excluded. Unless it is the lateral ruin of the civil war that opposes, from 293 to 296, the imperial power of the usurper Carusius, which rages in these regions. The crucial key to this mystery may be waiting to be discovered, somewhere under the cobblestones of Lilebon.
Revival of the ancient Seine port
Various researches about the city’s past began with noise at the beginning of the nineteenth centuryAnd Century, directed by part of Jolliopuna. Its theater of course, but also a group of exceptional remains, such as the so-called « deer hunting » mosaic. They are kept in the Rouen Archaeological Museum, as are many of the site’s other treasures. This is not the case with Apollon de Lillebonne. This magnificent gilded bronze statue, a masterpiece of Jolliopona’s antiquities, was found in exile farther afield. « It’s a bit like our Mona Lisa, » Passionately, Elise Cousin, president of the Ko Sen Museums conglomerate, slides past a cardboard sculpture of the sculpture displayed in a corner of the Municipal Museum. The leaf silhouette reminds of a heartbreaking absence; The original Apollo is currently kept in the Louvre in Lens, as part of the exhibition Rome. City and Empire.
The absence of the Apollonian Mona Lisa from Lilebon did not affect the implementation of a comprehensive upgrade program for the ancient Jolliobona. Sadi Carnot Place, in front of Notre-Dame de Lillebonne, traces of an ancient portico protecting Roman stalls as well as a hypothetical church wall can mark the Old Town Forum. The nerve center of Roman public life, this space has been accordingly redesigned and used again today as a meeting place for the inhabitants of Lille. Other combinations should better refer to different locations of the city: a a housepublic thermal baths, and the waterfront, and this upcoming prosperity of Lielbon’s ancient past will be accompanied by a scenic road, a conservation center and an expansive museum.
As both a tourist and a scientific one, the Jolliopona development project seeks to revitalize the ancient past of the city and the port. It was also fortunate not to have to suffer – as in southern Transalpine – from direct competition from other great sites in Roman Gaul. “Not only do we want to build on the renewal of knowledge about Juliobona, but we also want to participate in it, Emphasizes Elise Cousin. We are seeking to better understand its implications through a dedicated cohort research program, which has mobilized about fifty researchers since 2021.” For Lillebonne Apollo, a contemporary reinterpretation of the statue should see the light of day in the coming months. And the Norman Arlesian would then return to the Good Harbour, at least symbolically.
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We’re living in the age of mobile devices. From children to the elderly, nearly everyone relies very heavily on their mobile devices for everything from booking airline tickets to buying groceries. With hand-held devices becoming nearly as powerful as desktop PCs, the multimedia experience on these devices is unsurpassable.
This has sparked a rise in the sales of mobile devices, with many people finding no use for a personal computer at all. Mobile devices have technically conquered the internet. The popularity of mobile devices gave rise to the war of the apps.
Today, there is an app for nearly everything that you can think of. This has also spurred the scramble for companies to launch an app for every service they offer, as apps provide a much better user experience compared to responsive websites that were earlier optimized for much larger screens.
According to a survey by Gartner, they expect to see a continued high level of interest in apps. This reflects in the fact that large companies like Amazon and Facebook now continually seek to improve their app user experience at a faster pace compared to their browser-based instances.
However, with the staggering number of apps available today, how does one ensure that their customers are able to find their app when they want? Even if your idea is ground-breaking and has just the right functionality for the purpose, app marketing, and app development should go hand in hand in the race to the market.
This handy guide can help you formulate an app marketing strategy while or even before you develop it. An app is only as successful as the planning for it is. With things being thought through before the app reaches the development stage, you can spend the time you save to create an engaging launch event. Here’s the ABCDEF of how to market your app better.
Researching the market
Knowing your market, your target audience, and your competition better than your own product is crucial before your development cycle begins. Early exposure to what your end-users like and dislike, the challenges they face with the apps that they currently use will give you a clearer picture of their expectations.
Collecting information about your competitors as a habit is an amazing idea. If you do not keep track of what your competition is up to, you will not be able to rake in newer users and continue innovation.
How to research your market and competitors:
Create a customer profile that includes their gender, age, location, nationality, education, religion, occupation, and financials.
Conduct marketing research that includes user interests and hobbies, values, habits, worldviews, and lifestyles.
Research what your competitors offer, understand why they’re popular, try to improve on their advantages, do not copy their idea but get inspired by what they do right.
Ensure that your app is visible and easy to find everywhere. This can be done in many ways. You can promote your app on websites and on search results. Google presented a report in Think with Google that over 70% of users search for mobile apps on Google.
Using search ads is extremely efficient as it enhances app awareness and drives downloads because these apps are shown when people are looking for mobile apps. As Google enhances its search results to include mobile app content, apps have become even easier to find in searches.
Selecting proper keywords and ensuring common verbiage for both your website and your app enhance visibility and boost users. A proper SEO tactic along with content marketing can go a long way in advertising and generating organic results for your website. Podcasts, YouTube videos, and blogs are other important ways to market your app.
Blogging about your development process builds interest around your app and provides enhanced search visibility. Linking to influencers, selecting target keywords and creating impeccable content can highly improve your blog’s search engine rankings.
YouTube is a great way to visually spread the word. Going with market trends, playing on memes and using famous characters can help increase engagement and drive downloads. With YouTube’s massive user base, it becomes an important tool for app marketing.
The intent should be to reach your target audience where you find them the most, whether it is using podcasts, forums, and blogs. With the correct approach and effort, you can boost your app to be at the top.
Creating an effective landing page
The landing page of a mobile app is as important as any other form of marketing or promotion. It helps to create buzz around your app and motivates individuals to engage with your product and finally install it when available. The more creative a landing page is, the more users it will drive towards your app.
An effective landing page should be able to answer the following questions at a glance:
- Which company created the app?
- What does the app do?
- How is it different from the other apps?
- What do I do next?
If your landing page is able to resolve these queries within the first five seconds of the user checking out the page, you’re all set.
App Store Optimization
The app store is where people decide whether they should download and install the app or not. If your app store page is unimpressive, people will just move on. Take care of the following while optimizing the app for the app store:
The name of the app
Keep it short, as anything beyond 25 characters gets cut off. The app name should be creative, original and explain the app. As the name of the app will affect its raking, remember that the name should ideally contain a keyword, but do not try to use a keyword for a name.
Finding a middle path that fills the gap between a keyword and your branding is ideal. Using services like App Annie and Sensor Tower can help you find the right keywords.
The description of the app
The first two to three sentences of your app brief should describe the app and help users understand what the intent of the app is. Tell people what problems your app solves in the brief. Use keywords to make the description more effective.
Ensure that your description also includes any bugs, new additions to the app and more. Your keywords should ideally follow the formula Key=T/Kol, where T is the query traffic, Kol is the number of apps that appear for a given search query. You should strive to maximize T and minimize Kol.
App screenshots and visuals
Most users get drawn to an app when they see its icon. They might decide if they wish to read further about the app by the icon itself. A vivid icon will increase the number of views, if not the number of downloads.
Keys to designing a great icon
Simplicity: Focus on the element that reflects the essence of your app and gives it a unique shape. Do not use words. That is the job of the app’s name.
Size: Ensure that it looks good at each size
Contrast: Test the app against various backgrounds, both dark and light. Try all options to see how your icon looks.
Screenshots of an app go a long way in helping users decide. As they show up in the first 8 seconds, they ensure that users get attracted to the screenshot. Show the home screen and use the screenshots to explain how your app works.
Localize: Using screenshots of the local language helps!
App KPIs and analysis
Analyzing your apps KPIs regularly will help you gain deep insights into your ideation and you can easily figure out how well your app is doing.
The number of downloads:
These indicate how your app is performing on the app store. If the number of downloads is low versus the competition, you might want to reconsider your marketing strategy.
The stickiness of an app is determined by the number of active users it has. Active users are divided into two broad categories, DAU and MAU. DAUs are daily active users. MAUs are monthly active users. The Stickiness of an app is determined by dividing the DAU by the MAU. This rate measures the potential to turn an MAU to a DAU.
Dividing the number of daily sessions with the number of daily users can give you a rough estimate of the number of daily sessions per daily user. Short session lengths mean that your app might have poor usability or poor quality of content. It may also mean that users are just not interested. If this is true, maybe it is time to go back to the role drawing board.
The number of users who returned to your app after using it for the first time is the retention rate. To find a retention rate for a set period of time, say a month, compare the number of users who used the app this month versus the number of users who used it last month. Dividing the two will give you the retention rate of your app.
The percentage of users who stop using your app is the churn rate of your app. To calculate the churn rate, use the following formula:
1 – Retention Rate = Churn Rate. As an example, if .40 out of every 1 user that installs your app leave, you have a 60% churn rate.
High churn rates may be caused by an incorrect marketing strategy that is not effective enough. The wrong users and poor app performance can also hit the churn rate.
Ensure that you do not over track your app. By measuring the KPIs described above, you can optimize your app effectively and bring It high up in the download charts.
Being the most talked-about app in the market is important. Narrate the story of your app to your audience, the idea behind the app and the design so that users get interested in knowing more about it. An engaging, yet creative description can go a long way in ensuring that users queue up for downloading the app.
Humans love visual descriptions, hence the high usage of multimedia-rich mobile phones. In the age of short attention spans, ensure that your app’s video describes the app in the first five seconds.
That is all the time a user will give to a video to see if it interests them. Focus on the unique features and not all of them. Keep the video short, crisp and to the point. To check if your video makes sense, watch it on mute, If it does, you’ve hit the spot.
Social Media Marketing
Social media marketing is as important as the app itself. With the massive amount of data that social networks process, they are able to place your advertisement to the people who are most likely to search for those apps, ensuring that the advertisements are targeted and precise. With over two billion active users for the most popular social networks, they contain the potential to make or break an app.
Your social media presence should contain relevant content that is updated regularly. Generating viral content and getting people involved is equally important.
Communities must be encouraged to download the app by promoting them on community pages. Like-minded people are twice as likely to try a new app.
Thought leaders have a strong social standing. Their recommendations can make users flock to your app in droves.
Targeted advertising by using social networks can ensure that the right people see the right advertisement. Comparative descriptions that include screenshots and user reviews are important to help people decide whether they should download your app. With the core information available at a glance, users make their minds up quickly.
There is no real secret recipe for the perfect marketing strategy. Your tactics may appear to work in the beginning but might vane at the end. There is no tool or mantra that might help you stay at the top. You need to stay relevant, alert and change according to user inputs to ensure stickiness.
Mix and match various promotion methods. As an example, mix ASO with Facebook ads. This can ensure that you cover all your bases.
With all the information that you may need and armed with a strategy that you think may work, you should be all set to conquer the world of mobile apps and be the app that everyone is talking about today! | <urn:uuid:671695d5-5ddf-4b2f-8700-f042ea72d6d1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://test.volumetree.com/app-marketing-strategies-to-market-your-app-better/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.940501 | 2,498 | 1.773438 | 2 |
The trail map below shows an aerial view of the HeadsUp Adventures property.
Check out our awesome selection of mountain bike and monster scooter tracks. We will provide a printed trail map when you arrive for your adventure.
Download HeadsUp Adventures Trail Map (Acrobat file)
Mountain Bike Trails
Elevation from top to bottom is approximately 185 metres. There are fourteen tracks to choose from and they all start in natural bush, meandering along ridge tops and through valleys. All tracks start at the drop off point, then branch out and end up together at the pick up point. In general, all tracks are downhill with only a few gentle uphill gradients. Those that want to utilise the shuttles, can buy passes and those that wish to cycle back up to the top, there is a designated boundary track to use, this is our eleventh track. It’s approximately 4km in total, which includes a 2.4km steady incline to get back to the top.
Grades of tracks start from grade 2 through to grade 5.
The easier tracks will be fine for an average rider, probably not for kids under 8 (unless an experienced rider). We have a newly re-designed pump track for young kids to ride on.
There are 5 downhill tracks through the bush for intermediate to experienced riders. These are tight, twisty trails through the natural forest, along with some drop offs and some awesome ‘rooty’ sections.
There is an awesome 1,300 metre jump track (grade 3) which consists of big rollers, table tops and cool berms. This track is designed for average to experienced riders. Each rider can ride at their own pace and improve in time.
Riders will be shuttled to the start of the tracks at the top of the hill. From there, riders can meander their way down to the bottom where they will be uplifted. These tracks range from 1,400 – 1,900 metres long and there are 9 diverse tracks to choose from. The tracks range from family tracks, intermediate tracks and harder tracks for the adrenaline junkies. Three of the tracks have been metalled for the wetter conditions, so that we can cater for all types of NZ weather.
The scooters have front and back disc brakes for fast stopping. Kids under 6 years old can ride with parents on the scooters standing in front, or if they are able to, they can ride solo. | <urn:uuid:264b074d-2263-46ab-8298-0ff6372a041a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://headsupadventures.co.nz/downhill-adventure-trails/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.941881 | 513 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Pearson Level 5 HND Diploma in Business and Human Resources RQF
The Pearson Edexcel BTEC Level 5 HND online distance learning program in Business and Human Resources is perceived as being comparable to the initial 24 months of the UK degree. Following 12 months of additional examination, with passage into the third and last year 3 at a UK, European or International college, it can turn into a BA Honors Degree. When finished, you would then be able to consider a BA (Hons) Top-up course in different Business related courses. We have an association with Arden University to offer simple movement onto these programs.
The Pearson Edexcel BTEC Level 5 HND in Business and Human Resources is a capability with at least 240 credits. The HND has 15 units.
Level 5 Higher National Diploma
The HND in Business and Human Resources has fifteen segments. Duration 2 years. Approx. 5-10 hours, 7 days of Self-Study.
Course Content: Developing Individuals and Teams, Business Strategy, Strategic Human Resource Management, Employee Relations, Resource and Talent Planning, Organisational Behaviour, Research Project, Managing a Successful Business Project, Financial Accounting, Business Law, Management Accounting, Management and Operations, Human Resource Management, Marketing Essentials, Business and the Business Environment.
Who is this course for?
The program is perfect for the individuals who might want to pick up the initial 24 months of a Business Management Degree and afterward move onto a 12 months top up at University to pick up a full degree. The HND course is additionally perfect for chiefs who need a sound comprehension of fundamental business and the board exercises as well as a capability that is very regarded by bosses in all segments, or administrators who need a degree level business capability.
When finished, you would then be able to consider a BA (Hons) Top-up course in different Business related courses. We have an association with Arden University to offer simple movement onto these programs.
- Have a related Level 3 qualification or related work experience (paid or unpaid)
- English language fluency to IELTS Level 5.5. (International students only if not previously studied in English)
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Every now and then, engineering teams will get into trouble for any number of reasons. Sometimes, explosive growth catches the team by surprise. Or, on-call has gotten out of control, with alerts going off every five minutes. Or, development and operations teams simply have stopped seeing eye to eye. Regardless of why, the team is in a bad spot and something needs to be done to resolve it.
If it’s a new problem, the fix might be easy: Add a few more servers, roll back to a known good application version or get everyone together over pizza and beers to clear the air. Often, however, the problem creeps up on you over time and suddenly the hole is so deep you can’t find the way out. At LinkedIn, a team that has gotten to this point will often declare a state known as “Code Yellow.”
Some people assume the name Code Yellow is based on traffic lights, but more accurately—and with a geekier twist—it’s actually from your favorite “Star Trek” series. More precisely, it’s how the crew of the Starship Enterprise indicates their current defensive condition. Either way, the definition is clear: Something is wrong, and we need to move forward with caution. True to both metaphors, we also have a Code Red. That’s better described as an immediate crisis, with everyone working 24 hours a day until it’s resolved. The Code Yellow is slightly more laid-back: This is everyone’s primary focus, but during business hours only. Code Yellows also tends to last on the order of months, while a Code Red should last on the order of days.
Other companies may use a different term than Code Yellow, but the effect is the same: The team is communicating to the rest of the company that they’ve identified a serious problem that is a priority to be fixed to ensure the success of the team and, therefore, the company. The ability to do this is an important aspect of open and honest communication, a value that is critical to a healthy culture and can often get overlooked. Talking about our problems is just as important, if not more so, than celebrating our successes. Teams can learn more from fixing a problem than they can from a total success.
This is Not a Failure
The first step in starting a Code Yellow is to understand this is not a failure. There is no shame in admitting that the team has a problem that needs to be fixed. Bugs happen, despite our best efforts to avoid them. The only thing we can do is diagnose the problem and remediate it. The only time we fail is when we turn a blind eye to these problems. This applies to how our engineering teams interact with each other just as much as it does to the software and systems we produce and run.
It is critical, however, that the right problems are addressed. Most of the time, we’ve gotten into the current situation because of a slow boil—increasing technical debt, many small issues or breakdowns in a process—that eventually built up into a crisis. The goal of the Code Yellow must be to not only remediate the current problems (a reactive component), but also make sure they are not repeated in the future (the proactive component).
Planning for a Successful Code Yellow
There are several components required for a successful Code Yellow, as well as necessary pieces to get buy-in from the rest of the organization:
- Problem Statement: There must be a clear and agreed-upon statement of the problems facing the team that prompted the Code Yellow. This should include not only what the current problems are, but also what the current understanding of their root cause is.
- Exit Criteria: Next, you need to have specific goals that the team will work toward to exit the Code Yellow. These should be traditional SMART goals: specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound. These goals are what make it possible for the team to enter a Code Yellow in the first place, as it covers a fixed scope and is not open-ended.
- Communication: All information about the Code Yellow, including the announcement (which includes the problem statement and exit criteria), the successful conclusion and periodic status updates should be sent to the larger organization. This may be your department, or it may be the entire engineering organization. It may even be the entire company, depending on the nature of the problems.
- Project Management: Like all large projects, there needs to be someone responsible for organizing the work and communicating information. As this represents an “all hands on deck” scenario for the impacted team, it is usually helpful to have a dedicated project manager (PM) to help with this. This is typically a PM who is knowledgeable about the team and the work, but not directly involved with the execution. This frees up the managers and individual contributors to focus on the work at hand.
Once each of these aspects have been thought about, and the decision has been made to enter Code Yellow, the team’s first act is to reorganize their priorities around the exit criteria. This often means putting quarterly goals on the shelf. It may also be necessary to establish a dedicated meeting around discussing the status of the exit criteria.
Space to Breathe
It is all well and good for a team to enter Code Yellow and work with a single focus on the goals that have been set to make things right, but this is not enough for the team to succeed. For true success, everyone surrounding the team must understand the situation and give them the space to do their work. This is the place where a healthy engineering culture rises to meet the challenge.
- Expect Delays: The most common way that a tangential team will be affected is through delays. They must expect that any requests that have been made of the impacted team may be delayed if they are not within the scope of the exit criteria. The Code Yellow involves, at its core, a reordering of priorities to address the stated problem. Outside teams need to factor this in and understand that their own project timelines may need to be adjusted.
- Minimize New Requests: Other teams should also refrain from asking the impacted team for new things that are outside the scope of the defined exit criteria. Minimizing these requests, in addition to accepting delays on any existing requests, allows the impacted team to spend their limited engineering hours on getting to the other side of the Code Yellow.
- Requests for Assistance from other teams: The team in Code Yellow may find they need outside help to reach their goals. For example, if there is sudden, explosive growth in traffic, they may need to accelerate the provisioning of new hardware. Finding yourself on the receiving end of a request such as this may require shifting your own priorities. Always remember that the team is all part of the same company, and as such, everyone succeeds or fails together.
Engineering teams rarely stand alone, and it is important that everyone understand the value in having those teams working well, and working together well. A little temporary delay in goals to assure that this is the case is well worth it.
Light at the End of the Tunnel
Code Yellow represents a significant amount of high-priority work and working through it will often be stressful for the team. Saying “no” to coworkers that are making a reasonable request is hard, and the work that is in scope rarely involves spending time on interesting new features. In addition, if the problems being addressed include communication issues between groups, there are going to be some difficult conversations that need to happen. However, as the team approaches the end of the work, it will be much easier to see through to what lies on the other side of the exit criteria.
The ultimate goal of the Code Yellow is to get the team out of a reactive mode where they are running from crisis to crisis and into a proactive state where they are able to work on the right big projects. Achieving the exit criteria will mean the engineers are more effective and able to work proactively. This is a stronger team—engineers are happier because they’re not under a heavy stress of operations work, the team is working well because they’re talking to each other effectively, and customers are pleased because requests are handled either through automation or in a reasonable amount of time.
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MIL OSI Translation. Region: Russian Federation –
More than 50 new and modernized units of military and special equipment entered service with the 201st Russian military base in Tajikistan in 2021.
According to the plan for equipping the troops, the unit was supplied with upgraded T-72B3M tanks with improved combat characteristics, modernized BMP-2M infantry fighting vehicles, repair and locksmith shops, maintenance workshops for the repair of weapons and military equipment in the field. Also in 2021, the base received a batch of new AK-12 assault rifles, modern portable anti-aircraft missile systems “Verba”, large-caliber sniper rifles ASVK-M, 12.7-mm NSV “Utes” machine guns, anti-tank missile systems “Kornet”. The artillery units were reinforced with the Aistenok portable reconnaissance and fire control radar system, designed to reconnoitre the positions of enemy fire weapons, calculate the trajectories of projectiles, and adjust the fire of friendly fire weapons.
The 201st military base stationed in Tajikistan is Russia’s largest military facility outside its borders. Located in two cities – Dushanbe and Bokhtar. It includes motorized rifle, tank, artillery, reconnaissance units, air defense units, RCB protection and communications.
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The owner of this axe head was fishing as a child with his father below the Cutts on the river Bann. He recalls the moment he first saw the axe:
“It was an unusually low tide that day and the bay was thick with dark sticky mud. Here and there patches of smooth grey pebbles emerged like eggs from the mud. We set up to fish close to an ancient willow that stretched horizontally out into the water and while I was fixing the bait ready to cast, one of the rocks caught my eye. There was something unusual about this pebble, it looked unnatural. It was too symmetrical, too uniform. I squelched through the mud and peered more closely. I couldn’t believe my eyes. A smooth polished axe head lying flat on the mud as if placed there yesterday. It was an unforgettable moment to find such a beautiful object lost for thousands of years. I often wonder about the person who must have stood close to that spot before discarding it, broken; someone with the skill and perseverance to make a stone axe, and who maybe grew up on the same river bank.”
This object is a polished stone axe head. Its blade is intact but the axe has been broken along the butt. Wear on the stone, just in front of the break, may indicate where the axe head was fastened onto a wooden handle or haft.
The prominent layering visible on the axe head suggests that it has been made from a sedimentary rock, likely an indurated mudstone. Polished axe heads made of mudstone were produced along the River Bann during the late Mesolithic (c.5500-3800 BC), but with the exception of a site at Newferry, there is little unambiguous evidence that they were extensively used. Polished stone axe heads are most commonly associated with the Neolithic (c.3800-2000 BC), although in the later period the preferred stone was porcellanite.
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The Ethical Hazards of City Council Members Attending Other Board Meetings
Michael Dean is a Sacramento-based principal and the ethics chair at the legal firm of Meyers Nave. Dean serves as city attorney for the City of Dixon and assistant city attorney for the cities of Colusa and Plymouth. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org. This column is provided as ethics advice and is not intended as legal advice.
Imagine this scenario: The planning commission is considering whether to recommend a zoning change to the city council, which would allow more residential use in the downtown area and promote the mixed-use vision in its General Plan. Wouldn’t any city council member want to know as much information as possible? Attending the planning commission meeting and listening to the perspectives of the city planner, engineer, architect, commission members and others might seem like a smart move. The council member may even be able to ask questions of the participants or give his or her views, thus learning about the issues and influencing the matter before it comes before the city council. In fact, city council members can often be found in the audience of planning commission meetings, listening to the proceedings and occasionally participating.
However, this may not be such a good idea. As innocent as a council member’s motives may be, when he or she personally attends a planning commission meeting or another subordinate committee meeting, he or she may be crossing an ethical boundary. Council members do not violate any laws by attending commission meetings. However, they run the risk of:
- Potentially revealing a biased view, thereby causing their own disqualification should the matter at hand subsequently come before the council;
- Interfering with the role of the commission as an independent advisory body; and
- Not acting in accordance with the views of the city council as a whole.
Most city council members know to steer clear of the somewhat hazy legal boundaries that might cause them to be disqualified from the decision-making process due to bias. Many if not most planning commission or other commission decisions are merely advisory to or at least appealable to the city council. Because the right to due process is attached to many of these types of commission decisions, the participants in such proceedings have the right to an unbiased decision-maker at the city council level. A council member who comments at the commission meeting and indicates a firm position on a particular matter may be subjected to a challenge for bias when the same issue reaches the city council.
Related Ethical Challenges
Beyond the issue of perceived bias, participating in a commission meeting raises other ethical questions. For instance, council members generally have the authority to remove a commission member. With this power, a council member’s mere attendance at a meeting can be highly influential, especially when he or she makes his or her opinions known. Merely indicating that one is not speaking for the entire council, but rather providing one’s own opinion, does not address the significant impact of the “boss” offering an opinion. This influence may also jeopardize a significant role of the commission, which is to provide independent recommendations or decisions to the city council. After all, none of the cities’ commissions are required to exist; if the city council wants to have the role of decision-maker, it could take that role. But when a city establishes a commission, the city council has also by implication indicated its desire to have an independent body make decisions or recommendations. The presence of the appointing authority at the commission meetings affects that independence.
Likewise, in a council-manager form of government, the intent and expectation is that a city council will act as a whole, not as individuals. Council members normally receive the same information simultaneously from city staff or from their subordinate commissions or the public’s testimony. This allows the council members as a body to draw conclusions in a fair and balanced way based upon the same factual foundation.
City council members may undermine this expectation when they individually attend meetings of a subordinate commission. To some extent the council member who attends collects information that will not reach other council members in quite the same way. Those council members who attend may also subtly influence either the outcome of the commission’s deliberations or how the matter will eventually be presented before the council — in ways not available to the council members who did not attend the commission meeting.
Of course, council members do not completely give up their rights as private citizens, and they are both free to and expected to gather information relevant to the performance of their duties. They are entitled to attend a commission’s public meeting. However, to remain firmly upright on the ethical tightrope, council members should wait until the commission makes its recommendation to the city council in its entirety — thus preserving the original intent of both the independent commission and the city council.
Alternatives to Attending in Person
This does not deprive council members of the ability to learn what occurs at a commission meeting. A city council member may listen to most meetings online, on television or by using the city clerk’s taped recordings. Information can also be obtained by reading the commission’s meeting minutes. A council member’s personal presence at or participation in a commission meeting, on the other hand, could reveal a biased view, disrupt the independence of the commission or exert undue influence on the commission, regardless of the council member’s intent. It is best avoided.
For More Information
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Spend some time following different tracks with The Approach, an action-driven ski and snowboard film elevating people of color, women, and adaptive athletes.
Film director Anne Cleary highlights a unique group of people in this winter film — BIPOC, female, and adaptive athletes. Despite their big talent and passion for skiing, they aren’t usually represented in film or the industry as a whole.
“The Approach” is one project aiming to change that by setting an example.
“Whether taking turns breaking trail or finding our own unique paths down, the tracks we leave behind are the perfect expression of each person’s individual contribution as well as what we can collectively accomplish,” wrote Cleary.
The film stars big-name athletes too: Brooklyn Bell, Vasu Sojitra, Leanne Pelosi, and Spencer O’Brien, along with rising stars Ingrid Backstrom, Emilé Zynobia, Sophia Rouches, and Anna Soens.
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British Glass helps its members fulfil their duty to protect their workers and the environment from any risks associated with the substances they use in their products and manufacturing processes.
On behalf of our members we liaise with the Health and Safety Executive in the UK and the European Chemicals Agency and Commission through our work with the Glass Alliance Europe, and Chemicals at Work working groups.
Based on constant dialogue with our Health and Safety Committee of industry representatives, we feed accurate information about specific use of chemicals in the glass industry into the REACH process, the development of EU directives and regulations, and the transposition of these into effective UK legislation.
Our Health and Safety Committee also allows members to work together on industry-specific challenges. For example, we are currently exploring substitutes for refractory ceramic fibre (RCF) which is used for the insulation and sealing of glass furnaces.
British Glass supports the whole glass industry in fully understanding and meeting its obligations under the COSHH and REACH regulations through topical training days and guidance documents – which are available to members and non-members. | <urn:uuid:7d03385f-844b-48bc-aa5e-4e3e0b2b1b7f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://britglass.org.uk/our-work/chemicals-work | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.949743 | 218 | 1.945313 | 2 |
British Scientists Working On Creating "Zombie Cows"
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|News that the daughter of a US clone cow has been born on a British farm has moved the issue from science fiction to consumer reality. While some are concerned about this bringing on a new crop of "farmyard freaks", scientists boast of the ability to create "zombie cows" which in-effect don't mind living their life in cramped spaces and ultimately being slaughtered for food.|
Professor Ben Mepham, of Nottingham University, said the impact of bio-engineering, creating GM and cloned animals, is huge.
Factory farming techniques, most commonly used with pigs and chicken, often involve keeping animals confined in cramped conditions.
For pigs, who are highly intelligent, these conditions can lead to stress and aggression.
However, GM scientists are actively investigating ways to remove the stress and aggression gene from animals, effectively turning them into complacent zombies.
The professor said it might become technically possible to produce "animal vegetables" - beasts which are "highly prolific and oblivious to their physical and mental status".
However, he argued that while this could reduce the pain and stress of factory farming, this did not mean it should be allowed to develop without question.
The professor of applied bioethics warned that many of the GM experiments on animals have resulted in cruelty, producing mutants or animals which grow so large in the womb that they can only be surgically removed.
He said: "The question of whether humanity should take it upon ourselves to alter animals by GM, involving in many cases mixing the genes of different species - and sometimes those of human origin - is undoubtedly critical for many people."
The professor said that religious groups would see it as "an attempt to usurp God's role" while others would be unhappy about "so fundamentally altering the natural order".
Prof Mepham, is a former member of the Government's Agriculture, Environment Biotechnology Commission.(AEBC)
In 2002, the Commission called on the government to set up a regulatory body to police developments such as GM and clone farming.
However, this was ignored by ministers, who subsequently scrapped the AEBC after it issued a number of reports challenging government policy in areas such as GM crops and food.
The AEBC called for a ban on the creation of "intrinsically objectionable" creatures - such as pigs and cows modified not to feel stress in factory farming conditions.
Posted by Frank West on 2007-01-13 18:13:00
|I've been in wars, ya know.|
|its not a good idea|
Posted by aaron on 2007-01-14 09:12:52
|it took a long time for things to evolve to the point they are at now. There are and have been conditions that have evoked current biological status as a whole. some person in lab should not be a able to draw a cartoon then create it out of real living things.|
|Now here's a thought|
Posted by wizeGurl on 2007-01-14 17:32:36
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IT service management (ITSM) is nothing new. However, it is still the proven approach for ensuring the right processes, people and technology are in place for the IT department to support the business. The IT infrastructure library (ITIL), which was originally developed in the 1980s (with updates to the framework in 2001, 2007 and 2011) is commonly the de facto framework for implementing ITSM. This year, ITIL is expected to get enhanced, with a new version of the framework and best practices being published.
I am excited to see a new version issued and to be a part of the AXELOS Global Research Programme. While I do not anticipate this version to be radically different than the current 2011 version, I do expect we will see enhancements to some processes and new integrations with other frameworks.
While the future of ITSM is exciting, I find the current state of ITSM within most organizations disappointing. There are many firms that have not truly committed to ITSM/ITIL and therefore do not reap the framework’s full benefit. Although thousands of IT organizations have adopted parts of the ITIL framework, few have leveraged it well outside of infrastructure and operations teams that use it for operational processes that support the service desk or technology teams. Formal processes such as incident management, problem management and change management are the most commonly implemented.
If an organization expands the guidance of ITIL, service asset and configuration management, release and deployment management, and capacity management are the most frequent ITIL next steps. A configuration management system/configuration management database provides significant value in understanding what IT assets exist and how they relate to the services provided to the company. This information can also be leveraged to significantly reduce risks by understanding the impact one IT device has on everything else.
Still, many of the higher-level ITIL processes, such as demand management, business relationship management, service level management and financial management for IT services are not properly leveraged or integrated. The thing that frustrates me the most is that a majority of larger organizations perform these processes in some fashion anyways, but rarely is it understood that these are also ITIL processes. If implemented properly these strategic processes can be integrated into the rest of the process framework implemented within the IT organization. This results in much better service to the customer. The processes and activities therefore are not integrated properly into the service management program, resulting in “gaps,” fragmented value, lost efficiencies and failed expectations for the IT department.
There is so much more to garnish from the framework when ITIL’s extensive inventory of formal definitions are linked with all the other processes and activities within the IT group. For instance, ITIL can help the organization establish a baseline from which it can plan and implement. It can be applied by an organization for establishing methods of communication within the business and to ensure the IT department is supporting business expectations and requirements. ITIL will ensure integration between IT and the organization’s business strategy. It can also help IT maintain a minimum level of competency, demonstrate compliance and measure improvement during digital transformation.
In the last few years, the ITIL framework has come under some scrutiny as organizations look for ways to better serve their customers. There seems to be a growing belief that an IT organization needs to shift to Agile and/or devops to be responsive to the business and leverage these practices instead. For the organizations that have not realized the full magnitude of the ITIL framework and its ultimate purpose, I can see why some turn towards alternate methodologies. However, ITIL was never intended to be used in isolation, or without other practices such as PMBOK/PRINCE2 and COBIT. Agile, devops and Lean are not replacements for ITIL to provide quality, nimble IT Service to the business. Quite the contrary, many of the practices like devops are supported by ITIL practices such as change management and release and deployment management.
This year should be an interesting year for ITIL and ITSM. AXELOS, which is commissioned to oversee the ITIL best practices on behalf of the UK government, announced last fall that there will be an update to ITIL this year. The update is expected to keep the core components of ITIL and will also include practical guidance on how ITIL is adopted in conjunction with practices such as devops, Agile and Lean.
ITSM is also seeing significant growth in its application to organizations outside of IT. Called enterprise service management, the ITIL best practices can be applied to all sorts of groups that require workflow management such as human resources, facilities, customer service and legal. Vendors such as ServiceNow are expanding their product presence to support workflows for these group like they have for IT service desks.
With the excitement of a new version of ITIL, a strong push by platform vendors to expand their ITSM reach, and a better understanding on how ITIL can support other frameworks such as devops, I expect there to be a resurgence of interest in ITSM and ITIL and hopefully an improved relationship of corporate back office organizations with their businesses. | <urn:uuid:50da9f6a-68df-4c4a-9b4a-2c8ed60abac5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cio.com/article/228855/revitalizing-itsm-with-a-new-itil-framework.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.953785 | 1,041 | 1.710938 | 2 |
2016 Theme: Indigenous Peoples’ Right to Education
This year’s International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples is devoted to the right to education. The right of indigenous peoples to education is protected by the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which in Article 14 states that “Indigenous peoples have the right to establish and control their educational systems and institutions providing education in their own languages, in a manner appropriate to their cultural methods of teaching and learning.”
The right of indigenous peoples to education is also protected by a number of other international human rights instruments, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Goal 4 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development calls for ensuring equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations. In spite of these instruments, the right to education has not been fully realized for most indigenous peoples, and a critical education gap exists between indigenous peoples and the general population.
Where data exist, they show consistent and persistent disparities between the indigenous and the non-indigenous population in terms of educational access, retention and achievement, in all regions of the world. The education sector not only mirrors the historical abuses, discrimination and marginalization suffered by indigenous peoples, but also reflects their continued struggle for equality and respect for their rights as peoples and as individuals. | <urn:uuid:107ecca3-f53f-49a4-ae94-5018f52a4806> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://image-i-nations.com/international-day-of-the-worlds-indigenous-peoples-9-august/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.949775 | 277 | 4.0625 | 4 |
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An ingrown nail can result when a deformed toenail grows improperly into the skin or when the skin around the nail grows abnormally fast and engulfs part of the nail. Wearing narrow, ill-fitting shoes and trimming the nail into a curve with short edges rather than straight across can cause or worsen ingrown toenails. Toenails should be cut straight across and not into a curve with short edges.
Ingrown nails may cause no symptoms at first but eventually may become painful, especially when pressure is applied to the ingrown area. The area is usually red and may be warm. If not treated, the area is prone to infection. Once infected, the area becomes more painful, red, and swollen. Pus may accumulate under the skin next to the nail (an infection of the cuticle called paronychia Acute Paronychia Acute paronychia is a bacterial infection of the nail fold. In acute paronychia, bacteria (usually Staphylococcus aureus or streptococci) enter through a break in the skin resulting from... read more ) and drain.
For mildly ingrown toenails, the doctor can gently lift the edge of the nail out from under the surrounding skin and place sterile cotton under the nail until the swelling goes away. Sometimes a flexible tube is inserted between the nail and nail fold (the fold of hard skin at the sides of the nail plate where the nail and skin meet) instead of cotton.
If an ingrown nail requires further attention, the doctor usually numbs the area with a local anesthetic (such as lidocaine), then cuts away and removes the ingrown section of nail. The inflammation can then subside, and the ingrown nail usually does not return.
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Continuity testing is one of the most valuable functions on the modern multimeter. It will help you investigate wiring problems in your car, tell you if you’re holding a nullmodem serial cable or the regular kind, and even reveal when you’ve accidentally shorted the data lines right to the power supply. However, all that beeping can get annoying, so [bitelxux] built a vibrating version instead.
The build was borne out of necessity; [bitelxux]’s meter lacked a buzzer, and it grew frustrating to always look at the display. In order to allow late night hacking sessions to go on undisturbed, an unobtrusive vibrating tester was desired, as opposed to the usual audible type. Two whiteboard markers donated their shells to the hack, fitted with small nails to act as probes. Inside, a pager vibration motor is connected, vibrating when continuity is found. The circuit runs from a 1.5V AA battery which neatly fits inside the marker shell.
It’s a basic build, but gets the job done with a minimum of fuss using parts that most makers probably have lying around. Of course, you can always go a slightly more complicated route and throw an Attiny at the problem.
Tiny motors used for haptic feedback and vibration come in a variety of shapes and sizes. The most familiar is the “eccentric rotating mass” (ERM) variety which just spins an imbalanced weight on a small motor and comes packaged in two form factors. The classic is the pager “pager motor” which just looks like a tiny, adorable motor and the squat cylindrical “pancake style”. ERMs are simple to use but provide imprecise response when compared to their new-age cousin the “linear resonant actuator”. Unlike the motor in an ERM, LRAs are typically an enclosed mass on a spring placed near a coil which pushes the mass back and forth. The name LRA might not be familiar but Apple’s branded implementation, the Taptic Engine, might be a little more recognisable.
[Precision Microdrives] is a vendor of these sorts of devices who happens to have a pleasantly approachable set of application notes covering any conceivable related topic. A great place to start is this primer on ways to drive motors with constant voltage in a battery powered environment. It starts with the most simple option (a voltage divider, duh) and works through a few other options through using an LDO or controller.
If you’re thinking about adding haptics to a project and are wondering what kind of actuator to use (see: the top of this post) AB-028 is a great resource. It has a thorough discussion on the different options available and considerations for mounting location, PCB attachment, drive modes, and more. Digging around their site yields some other interesting documents too like this one on mounting to fabric and other flexible surfaces. Or this one on choosing PWM frequencies.
[Tinkermax] has been reading about the Internet of Things and wearable computing and decided it was time for him to have a go at building a device that turned computing physical. The result is a vibrating wristband that connects his sense of touch to the Internet.
The electronics for this haptic wristband are a mix of old and new technology. The radio and microcontroller come from an ESP-8266 module that was programmed with [Mikhail Grigorev]’s unofficial SDK. The mechanics for the wrist-mounted computer consist of six pager motors mounted around the wrist. These are driven somewhat ingeniously by a TLC5917 LED driver chip. This meant the ESP would only need to use two of its GPIOs to control six motors.
Right now the software is simple enough; just a web page, a few buttons, and the ability to buzz any of the pager motors on the wrist band over the Internet. Now it’s just a question of making this wearable useful, but connecting each pager motor to different notifications – a new email, a new SMS, or some emergency on the Internet – should be pretty easy.
Continue reading “A Haptic Bracelet For Physical Computing”
Back in the late 80s and early 90s, a lot of young electronics hobbyists cut their teeth with BEAM robots – small robots made with logic chips and recycled walkmans that tore a page from papers on neural nets and the AI renaissance of the 80s. Twenty years later, a second AI renaissance never happened because a generation of genius programmers decided the best use of their mental faculties was to sell ads on the Internet. We got the Arduino, though, and the tiny robot family is a more than sufficient spiritual successor to the digital life of the old BEAM bots.
The tiny robot family is [shlonkin]’s growing collection of small autonomous vehicles that perceive the world with sensors and act with different behaviors. They all contain an ATtiny85, a small battery, two motors, and at least one phototransistor and a LED. One robot has left and right eyes pointing down, and can act as a line follower. Another has a group of LEDs around its body, allowing it to signal other bots in all directions. The goal of the project is to create a whole series of these tiny robots capable of interacting with the environment and each other. Video of the line follower below.
Continue reading “A Tiny Robot Family”
Looking at the size of this bristlebot the first thing we wondered is where’s the battery? All we know is that it’s a rechargeable NiMH and it must be hiding under that tiny circuit board. But [Naghi Sotoudeh] didn’t just build a mindless device that jiggles its way across a table. This vibrating robot is controllable with an infrared remote control. It uses an ATtiny45 microcontroller to monitor an IR receiver for user input. An RC5 compatible television remote control lets you send commands, driving the tiny form factor in more ways than we thought possible. Check out the video after the break to see how well the two vibrating motors work at propelling the device. They’re driven using a PWM signal with makes for better control, but it doesn’t look like there’s any protection circuitry which raises concern for the longevity of the uC.
This build was featured in a larger post over at Hizook which details the history of vibrating robots. It’s not technically a bristlebot since it doesn’t ride on top of a brush, but the concept is the same. You could give your miniature fabrication skills a try in order to replicate this, or you can build a much larger version that is also steerable.
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Wide Format Printing in Portland
Digital wide format printing is a printing medium, largely used for advertising, which has grown in popularity worldwide over the last decade or two. As one could most likely guess from the name, the purpose of wide format printing lies largely in supporting the largest print roll width possible. This allows for a larger area for Portland-area designers, graphic artists, and advertisers to work with, allowing them to think in larger formats, producing bigger and bolder works for commercial and other uses.
Large format or wide format digital printing is often used to produce banners, wallpapers, murals, wall appliqués and decals, posters, skins for large objects like cars, and many other projects required by Portland-based businesses. Digital wide format printing allows for more visually engaging graphics and is ideal for graphic-heavy or visual-heavy designs. This is particularly effective when used for advertising, but can also be used in a variety of other artistic and decorative contexts.
How Wide Format Printing Works for Your Portland-Based Business
Digital wide format printing is also known as “grand printing” or “large format printing.” Typically, the largest width available for large-scale prints is 61 inches. With wide format printing, the printing is typically computer-controlled and accomplished via ink nozzles that spray the image onto rolls of stock that’s fed incrementally into the printer.
In this way, wide format digital printing is designed to support the maximum width of the print roll. Wide format digital printing is typically faster than other forms of printing, and produces brighter, more visually stimulating colors without sacrificing detail in the images it reproduces on a grand scale.
High Quality Finishes Available With Wide Format Printing
In wide format digital printing, UV inks are typically used, resulting in a high quality, easily readable finish, regardless of size. These inks are resistant to fading from sunlight or damage from weather or other outdoor forces. However, some wide format printing can use solvent-based inks instead of water-based inks, resulting in different finished effects.
Depending on your artwork and the size and use of the project your Portland business is looking to do, a printing professional like East Side Printing Co. can typically recommend the best format and inks for the particular job.
Thinking Big in PDX: Banners, Billboards & Other Possibilities
With digital wide format printing, the artist or designer’s imagination is free to dream big. Wide format digital printing can be used to create massive posters, billboards, building graphics, and skins for just about any object you can think of.
Because the printing process itself is computer-controlled, digital wide format printing generally works best with computer modeled or digital images. Digital wide format printing allows you to fully translate digital and computer-generated or augmented images into printed material without loss of readability or texture.
This type of printing is generally the best method to use to create high quality banners, skins, and billboards for advertising or decorative purposes.
Get Your Message Bigger With Digital Wide Format Printing
The best thing about digital wide format printing is that it allows you to think as big as you want. Whether you are working on a banner; an advertising sign; a billboard; a skin for an entire building, or a car, or a piece of machinery; you will be able to accomplish whatever your creativity can dream up through digital wide format printing.
And, given the inks used, the detail attainable, and the finishes possible with this type of printing, you can rest assured that the effort and expense that you have put into your project will be visually striking, readable, and last in the face of sunlight, weather, and other potentially damaging forces.
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(focus on: urban growth, air quality, natural and manmade disasters, health and contaminated sites)
According to UN’s “World Urbanization Prospects: The 2014 Revision” in today’s increasingly global and interconnected world, over half of the world’s population lives in urban areas, while the coming decades will bring further profound changes to the size and spatial distribution of the global population. The continuing urbanization is projected to add 2.5 billion people to the urban population by 2050, and the proportion of the world’s population living in urban areas is expected to increase to 66%. Under these circumstances, sustainable development challenges will be increasingly concentrated in cities" (United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2014). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2014 Revision, Highlights (ST/ESA/SER.A/352)).
The overall goal of ERA-PLANET’s Strand 1 is to fully exploit data and information, tools and services that derive from the increasing multi-sensor, multi-temporal and multi-scale capacity and use of EO (in situ and space-borne), in conjunction with other cross cutting observational platforms, towards identifying and facing cities’ vulnerabilities, supporting policies to design strategies and procedures to shield citizens and mitigate impacts of urbanization.
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FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
How do concrete steps and decorative stone steps compare regarding costs, design, durability, etc.? Please focus on the more formal type of concrete steps (as opposed to, say, making precast concrete stepping stones).
Concrete steps cost about $300 per step to be installed as opposed to $150 for a stone step. While concrete as a material may be cheaper than stone, it is much harder and more time consuming to install. On average, it takes about two full days to lay concrete steps, but only half a day for stone stairs. The prep and installation of concrete is also much more meticulous because there is more room for error.
What are the differences between the different foundation types?
Slab or Slab on Grade is a foundation that is one large piece of concrete reinforced with steel bars or cables. "On grade" simply means the structure is supported by the ground or grade.
A Pier and Beam foundation keeps the structure lifted off the ground or grade by using a tall perimeter concrete beam and a series of piers which support the floor constructed of wood.
A Simple Frame foundation is the oldest type of foundation and is similar to a Pier and Beam. A frame foundation does not use a concrete perimeter beam, but has supports around the perimeter that are covered by siding down to the ground.
At what point should I require a foundation inspection?
Foundation engineering and inspection is a necessity when walls continue to crack or produce cracks greater than 1/16th of an inch, at which point water can pass through the wall.
No matter how much attention is given to foundations during construction, foundations will crack when the soil beneath moves, upward, downward, and laterally. Foundation and building walls are typically design to only accommodate very small amounts of movement. In terms of residential buildings, the tolerance is significantly less. Due to the relatively light load the house must withstand, the foundations and structural walls are designed accordingly, thus when movement occurs, the residential structure is more likely to crack. Most residential walls are not designed to withstand this additional ground movement.
Why are my floors sagging?
The causes of sagging floors, like many other issues, are usually not obvious. In many cases, there are several contributing factors. Reasons your floors are sagging; a few common causes are listed below, please note, that in most situations there are several issues that can contribute to the problem. Foundation Settlement Below Pier, Rotten or Decayed Wood, Over-Loaded Members, or perhaps Excessive Moisture.
That is why it is important to correct the cause of the problem and not only fix the obvious problems. That is why we suggest contacting a structural engineer to inspection your current issues.
Is There any type of preventive methods a homeowner or business can perform to maintain the foundation?
Following these common sense steps could save you thousands of dollars in foundation repairs.
During the rainy season: Check your drainage around your property. Wait until a hard solid rain (not just a sprinkle), then walk around your house and see if the runoff water is draining away from your foundation without standing or puddling.
If you see puddling that's a problem, the solution is a positive watershed. A positive water shed exists when the dirt is higher at the foundation and slopes away from the house at the minimum rate of one inch per foot and extends past the roofline. If your house has gutters, be sure they are free from obstructions and that the down spouts direct the water away from the house past the roof line.
Do not build a dam around your house with landscape timbers, concrete trim, sidewalks or metal trim, that will prevent proper drainage. Fixing a severe problem could include cutting a depression in the ground to direct the water or installing a drain system. Remember, too much water is just as bad as not watering in the dry season.
During the dry season: The ideal way to maintain a constant moisture level around your foundation is to use an automatic sprinkler system with a rain gauge cut off. You can also use a soaker hose positioned 18 inches from the foundation. Turn on the water until you see it form a standing puddle on the ground.
The expansion of the soil will provide uniform support for the foundation. Watering should be repeated when drying cracks are observed or when soil is clearly too dry. Do not put a hose in big cracks and try to water the foundation. This can cause additional damage. You may find that the south and east sides of the house will require more watering. Remember... the goal is moisture uniformity on all sides.
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Healthy nutrition is vital for overall health and well-being. It is essential in enhancing your body's function, especially your urinary system. Some foods and beverages are bladder friendly; however, few may irritate your bladder. It is vital to stay aware of what food soothes and irritates your bladder. Therefore, in this article, we focus on the food that your bladder will fall in love with.
VPN, an acronym for a virtual private network that provides you an extra layer of privacy, enables you to access banned websites and a secure connection for the transfer of information that can be confidential to you. Moreover, you can manage multiple user accounts, block content, and secure your data from hackers and other trackers. Out of thousands of VPN services, we bring you the top pick for 2022. Here are the top 5 VPNs that can save you from cybercrime, protect your data, ensure your business privacy and give you various other benefits.
VPN is an acronym for Virtual Private Network that enables you to have privacy online. Business organizations and governments use VPNs to secure their data from hacking or loss of personal information. Nowadays, everyone uses VPNs to ensure your location is private, encrypted data, and you can serve the internet anonymously.
XML sitemap assists search engines in understanding your website structure and effectively indexing web pages by improving SEO rankings and bringing more traffic to your website. Although, manually building an XML sitemap is challenging due to its technical structure. So, here's all that you need to know about XML sitemaps and the best tools to generate them.
Menstruation is a natural biological process that every woman and girl goes through each month for about half of her life. A phenomenon that is so significant that the survival and reproduction of specie depend upon it. Yet we consider it a taboo. We feel awkward and shameful talking about it. I was told to keep it a secret from others when I got my first periods, and later when this chapter appeared in textbooks, our biology teacher skipped the section. This taught me that it is shameful to talk about menses and made me ashamed of my body. I learned to stay unaware of periods to stay decent.
Do you look for the best information on fitness, healthy living, and healthy eating? Then, stop right here and continue reading! This article will help you find a handy blog. When your well-being and health get disturbed, everything in life suffers. There are millions of related blogs that you can find online but finding the best one would be overwhelming. So, here is the list of top health and nutrition blogs in 2022 which will help you reach out to the best.
A healthy air to breathe and a portion of healthy food to eat is necessary for an individual. Your body needs the energy to stay alive and function normally. The food you eat gives you energy; the carbohydrates, proteins, fats, minerals, and vitamins are the nutrients that are important in your diet. A healthy diet keeps you keep a healthy weight, enhances your mental health, boosts your immunity, and helps you fight against different diseases. In addition, you can also prevent chronic diseases such as heart diseases, diabetes, and stroke.
In the olden days of the internet, web design involved complicated coding that could be understood by skilled programmers. When WYSIWYG was invented, webpage development and content creation became so easy that coding is not essentially needed. This editor automatically reflects the final result when changes are being made on the screen.
Webpages can be created by using HTML source code that makes up a Web view which is made up of HTML tags. The same goes for content creation because the content is made up of rich elements such as headings, tables, lists, indentation, and other rich elements. Not everybody has experience with HTML to create content; to solve this problem, WYSIWYG editors come into play.
Adding walking and jogging as a part of your workout routine is the easiest way to build fitness and ensure your health. However, a busy work schedule, bad environmental conditions,s or avoiding more socialization (due to COVID-19) may hinder your exercise. The latest home treadmill can help you achieve your fitness goals despite all the odds. It offers a variety of workout programs, and its features will keep you motivated, moving, and enjoying your journey.
Nurturing a kid is fun yet so challenging. This is because children are so sharp; they keenly watch and catch everything around them, repeat the words they hear in the surrounding, try to copy their actions, and quickly adopt the pattern of behavior they witness around them the most.
Being a busy bee, it is quite a challenge to always get to the gym. But here’s good news you can create your mini gym at home. Wondering how to get started and what to choose? Then keep reading! These home workouts will help you improve your health and save money.
According to various researches, exercise is the most recommended way to relieve stress. Of course, exercise is not just strength training or heavy lifting; however, a short walk around the street and a stretch during a break at work can get you immediate relief.
Living a fit and healthy lifestyle perhaps is the most important goal of life. The advancement in science and technology has a major concern with your health and wellness, it brings awareness to people and provides a clear picture of how a healthy lifestyle can impact your life. For this purpose, we may look out and stay updated on the latest information that can help you maintain your health and improve overall fitness.
Mental health is essential to your overall well-being. It determines how you feel, think, and survive by operating your emotional, psychological, and social well-being. Moreover, it’s a state of well-being; a person copes with the everyday stress in life. Physical health and mental health are both keys to overall health.
Maintaining a good lifestyle is significant to keeping your body fit and healthy. Back in the olden days, people had a healthy lifestyle as the food was fresh and organic. Moreover, they had an active lifestyle. Unfortunately, in today's time, we have a less active lifestyle. Since we are so busy with jobs and the daily grind, it seems impossible to hold healthy habits.
In this blog article, we will discuss slack, and we will provide you with a list of 3 top used time trackers to ensure effectiveness and enhance management and productivity. Moreover, after reading this article, you will be able to introduce the most excellent communication strategies.
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How do you confess to your crush in Korean?
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How do you say cute in Aegyo?
If you are impressed by somebodys aegyo, then you can say 귀여워요 (gwiyeowoyo) which means “cute“ in Korean (dictionary form: 귀엽다 | gwiyeopda).
Can you call your girlfriend oppa?
오빠 (oppa) is also a common term for girls and women to use with their boyfriends and husbands. The term, 오빠 (oppa), is used both directly with your partner and when talking about him to others. When saying this term, be sure to add in some aegyo for additional cuteness!
What is Kyeopta?
“Kyeopta” (originally pronounced “gwiyeopda”) means “thats cute,” and “bogoshipo” (“bogosipeo”) means “I miss you.” The words are often reflections of a specific facet of Korean culture that cannot be easily translated into English. | <urn:uuid:45d1a1f0-2b0e-44b3-bfa4-017e3eeeee82> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://blog.pristine.io/jirymyke26493.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.945904 | 360 | 1.953125 | 2 |
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Quartz mineral ball could culture nitrifying bacteria to improve water quality. the micropore of ball iteself has the habitat for nitrifying bacteria. Quartz ball has strong adsorption, it adsorp the pigment, bacteria, harmful metal elements etc. The ions that swimming in water also become the food of quartz ball which adsorption capacity is very high. The water that treatment by quartz ball is named soft water. The quartz ball could adsorb bacterial include E. coli, Staphylococcus aureus.
The quartz ball will cultivat and form a nitration system, can decompose fish's feces and residual feed, improve fish immunity, remove chlorine and heavy metals from water, prevent the breeding of algae. The establishment of nitrifying bacteria in fish tanks depends on the quality of bacteria house used, which is directly related to the clarity and stability of water quality in fish tanks.
1: High efficient bacteria culture:
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High density voids bring more surface area, there are more than 450M2 surface area per liter quartz ball. that pvoding a good place for the adhesion and reproduction of nitrifying bacteria.
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Michael Ondaatje’s “White Dwarfs” explores silence as the negation against the greater context of order, language and society. Because silence is absence, it cannot truly be articulated without undermining its very purpose and nature. Instead, Ondaatje conveys silence through physical and metaphysical spaces. These spaces are impossible, contradictory and often violent—allowing Ondaatje to voice silence, and ultimately giving the reader an understanding of the presence of absence.
Mavis Gallant’s “The Ice-Wagon Going Down the Street” is a story about Peter’s repeated memory as he tries to validate his passive lifestyle. But this is threatened by Agnes, who serves as a reflection of Peter. Repetition is used to define Peter as unchanging and passive, but reflection is used to define activity and hint at change. The image of the ice wagon allows Gallant to reconcile repetition and reflection, to create an emergent space which captures the difference between Peter and Agnes: Agnes ultimately accepts the ice wagon, embracing independence at the risk of alienation; Peter rejects the ice wagon, choosing to remain in his cycle. It is this that gives the story its final poignancy: Peter is changed, but unchanged.
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It’s nice to know that at least one human/sentient robot read my blog, and that you’re not all web spiders.
Also, it took me like 10 minutes to figure out to pixellate text in Photoshop.
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Phyllis Webb’s “Poetics Against the Angel of Death” is a poem about poetry. Webb’s persona reacts against the institutional and patriarchal iambic pentameter, seeing it as oppressive. She equivocates iambs with the ego, which can be aptly expressed through their homophonic relationship: “iambs” and “I am’s.” Fittingly for a poem about syllables, Webb uses syllabic structure to reflect her increasing disdain for egocentric poetry, and her development towards more liberating forms and meters.
In Robert Kroetsch’s “Stone Hammer Poem,” the persona traces the origin of a stone and a stone hammer against the backdrop of family and national history and the Canadian landscape. Greater physical and metaphysical ramifications are at stake: Kroestsch wants to know the purpose of a stone beyond a human tool as a hammer—he is seeking intrinsic meaning unrelated to human-imposed extrinsic meaning. The very title of the poem suggests this dynamic: Stone, Hammer, Poem. Like the Trinity, the three are distinct yet one. Poetry ultimately allows Kroetsch to connect with his forefathers, reconciling the unknowable stone and the imposed hammer and deriving meaning from the struggle of finding meaning.
A black dragon burned and buried under coal mines,
Imprisoned in pure granite grey while men wine and celebrate.
Gladly, I will fight,
No calm cosmos tonight.
Birds dive towards the vaulted sky.
In “The Cariboo Horses,” Al Purdy explores the district of Cariboo and the tradition of equinity against human civilization. “The Cariboo Horses” is definitely set in a space, specifically 100 Mile House in Cariboo, but this space is endlessly nuanced and layered. Purdy uses micro and macro techniques to capture every vantage point, including metaphysical ones. Its time is likewise complex, bordering anachronistic: the cowboys of the frontier exist with the technology of modernity and the ancient civilizations of millennia past. Space and time are manipulated to create a new space where humanity’s growth can be examined. This allows the reader to better understand the continuity and discontinuity of humanity through a constant: namely, the titular horses.
P.K. Page’s “Arras” is set in a strange dimension, filled with screaming peacocks and shadowy figures, where the persona seeks answers and meaning. However, Page had designed “Arras” to be an unknowable mystery. It is deliberately beyond human comprehension, without answers. Page uses the persona to show humanity’s desire to impose human meaning in everything. In imposing meaning where none exists, the persona only further alienates herself.
In The Permanent Tourists, P.K. Page explores the contradictory identity of those without identity. The very title, “The Permanent Tourists”, suggests the irony of their situation. As permanent tourists, they are in constant juxtaposition against the “foreign cities”, continually being relegated to the Other. Hence, their permanence stems from their transient and alien status as “tourists”. Their identity is non-identity. Such a quandary is at the crux of the poem, and Page seeks to explain the motivations and actions of the tourists.
Mad dog? God dam!
Am I reviled? Deliver! I’m a
Devil. I lived a Devil. I lived!
Am I reviled? Deliver I’m a
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