text stringlengths 160 608k | id stringlengths 47 47 | dump stringclasses 2
values | url stringlengths 13 2.97k | file_path stringlengths 125 140 | language stringclasses 1
value | language_score float64 0.65 1 | token_count int64 48 145k | score float64 1.5 5 | int_score int64 2 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
What if I told you you could have a career as a car adaption?
You might be asking yourself the same question you’ve been asking yourself since you saw a trailer for the new car adascan, and I’m here to help.
First of all, if you’re just starting out in car adamistry, let me introduce you to the caradascan world.
This is the best-known and most respected career in caradadisc.
It’s been around since the 90s, but it’s a bit of a mystery to the uninitiated.
Caradascans are licensed by car manufacturers and are required to work on every car they make.
The caradas also work on the vehicles of other companies, and they’re usually the ones with the most money, time, and resources to hire someone to do the job.
They’re the guys you go to for help when you have trouble with your car, or when your car breaks down and you’re not able to fix it yourself.
And they’re the ones who actually put the car back together when it’s broken down.
Caradascanas are licensed for their car, and there are some things you need to know to get started.
They can be a bit confusing at first, so let’s break it down.
First, you need a car.
You’re the guy who will work on your car for the rest of your life.
This means your car will need to be well-maintained and have a working engine.
And you need at least one driver who can drive the car for you.
Your car can be anything from a Ford Fusion to a Dodge Ram.
You can also get an old Ford Taurus or a Toyota Camry.
If you’re going to be driving it for a long time, you’ll want to get some parts for it.
The most important part of your car is probably the transmission.
The engine that powers your car should be one of the easiest to fix and maintain.
If the engine is not properly installed, the engine won’t run.
This will affect your overall performance, so you’ll need to look at getting a new engine if you want to be competitive in the industry.
If there’s a problem with your engine, it might need to go to the parts department to be fixed.
And, of course, you will need a backup engine if something goes wrong.
Here’s the deal: You’ll have to learn a few basic things before you start.
First off, you don’t need a computer to make a caradastan.
There’s a whole industry for caradassa.
You need to understand the basics of how caradads work, how they’re sold, and how they work together with other parts.
There are also different types of caradasts.
You’ll learn how to do basic caradashas like driving and maintenance, and the ins and outs of different caradars.
You also need to get used to being able to see what’s happening inside your car.
And of course you’ll learn a little bit about the car and how it works.
But the most important thing to know is that you don´t need to take this to the next level.
You don’t have to be an expert to start out.
There are actually three different types or sub-types of carads: engine-driven, transmission-driven and transmission-motor-driven.
You might not know which type is right for you, but you need the right knowledge to get the job done.
Let me explain why.
In order to make your caradaspan work properly, you must have a car with a working transmission and an engine that works properly.
This doesn’t mean that the engine has to be perfect.
A problem could occur with a transmission or a motor, and you need some sort of way to get it back on track.
And most caradades don’t work if you donít have the right parts for the job right from the start.
In a typical caradaste, the car needs to have at least four of the following:Power steering, brakes, brakes and fuel injection.
These are the main components of a carcaradast.
Power steering is the system that keeps your car on the road.
Brakes and brakes are also important for braking.
Fuel injection is another part of the carcarast, and it provides fuel to the engine.
It doesn’t need to run all the time.
If it doesn’t have a fuel injection system, you can’t drive it.
In a typical automobile, the gas tank can have a diameter of about one inch and a depth of about six inches.
The tank itself can be at least three inches in diameter and two inches deep.
The engine has three major components: the compressor, the injector, and a valve.
The compressor is the part that moves the fuel | <urn:uuid:d4b6cec5-61af-4acc-b5db-22f8a0e746d3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bilotagps.com/2021/08/how-to-get-a-career-in-the-car-adas-the-worlds-best-kept-secret/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.945669 | 1,095 | 1.890625 | 2 |
Recently, clinical and research attention has been focused on refining weaning processes to improve outcomes for critically ill patients who require mechanical ventilation. One such process, use of a weaning protocol, has yielded conflicting results, arguably because of the influence of existing context and processes.
To compare international data to assess differences in context and processes in intensive care units that could influence weaning.
Review of existing national data on provision of care for critically ill patients, including structure, staffing, skill mix, education, roles, and responsibilities for weaning in intensive care units of selected countries.
Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom showed similarities in critical care provision, structure, skill mix, and staffing ratios in intensive care units. Weaning in these countries is generally a collaborative process between nurses and physicians. Notable differences in intensive care units in the United States were the frequent use of an open structure and inclusion of respiratory therapists on the intensive care unit’s health care team. Nurses may be excluded from direct management of ventilator weaning in some institutions, as this role is primarily assumed by respiratory therapists guided by medical directives. Availability of critical care beds was highest in the United States and lowest in the United Kingdom.
Context and processes of care that could influence ventilator weaning outcomes varied considerably across countries. Further quantification of these contextual influences should be considered when translating research findings into local clinical practice and when designing randomized controlled trials.
In an effort to reduce morbidity and mortality associated with mechanical ventilation, in the past 15 years, clinical and research attention has been focused on reducing the duration of mechanical ventilation by improving the processes of ventilator weaning. To date, well-conducted clinical trials1,2 have shown that the ventilatory mode used in weaning is not as important as the clinical processes that facilitate timely recognition of a patient’s readiness to be weaned from ventilation.3 Consequently, the focus of weaning in recent years has moved from an informal approach, based on the clinician’s education and experience, to a formal approach that uses guidelines or protocols.
Weaning protocols generally include 2 components: (1) a daily assessment of weaning readiness by using a list of objective criteria and (2) a spontaneous breathing trial during which the patient is evaluated for extubation readiness and/or an algorithm that details stepwise reductions in ventilatory support before assessment for extubation. This standardized approach may reduce variation in practice, thereby improving weaning outcomes, yet studies of weaning protocols have produced conflicting results. A recent Cochrane review on the efficacy of weaning protocols reported some evidence that protocols can reduce the duration of mechanical ventilation but the effect is not consistent across studies.4
The Complexity of Weaning
Weaning is a complex clinical intervention that comprises a range of interrelated and interdependent components including (1) context and setting (critical care provision, organization of the intensive care unit [ICU], resources and staffing, unit culture), (2) characteristics of health care professionals (skill mix, education and training, interprofessional relationships), and (3) clinical processes (guidelines, protocols, algorithms, frequency of assessment and monitoring, interdisciplinary decision making). Each component may affect weaning outcomes. When the influence of these components is not clearly defined or understood, it is difficult to determine the utility of weaning protocols within individual settings.5
The concept of complex clinical interventions is not new to clinical practice. In a seminal paper, Donabedian6 used the domains of structure, process, and outcome to describe how the environment or context (structure) and processes of care are predictive of patients’ outcomes. Similarly, Pawson and Tilley7 proposed realistic evaluation of context, mechanism, and outcomes to explain why interventions work in some circumstances and not in others, thereby highlighting the role of context and mechanisms for introduction and delivery of interventions. The lack of effect of weaning protocols on the duration of mechanical ventilation in some studies has been attributed to the existing organizational structure of the ICU and to local clinical processes that promote optimal weaning practices.8–11 Yet little work explores the structure and processes that influence the weaning process.
Weaning protocols may reduce mechanical ventilation duration but data is not consistent across studies.
We sought to describe the context and process of weaning from an international perspective in terms of patterns of organization, staffing, skill mix, and role responsibility that could influence practices related to weaning from mechanical ventilation. Of specific interest was the role of critical care nurses.
Selection of Countries for Comparison
Because of practical considerations in terms of data availability, we chose 7 countries: Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. These countries were selected for evaluation because study collaborators have previously described aspects of weaning processes through formal evaluation of protocols or automated weaning systems,8,9 exploration of nurse roles and decision making,12,13 description of nurses’ education and training practices for mechanical ventilation,14 and the study of an outcomes-managed approach to weaning.15,16 We anticipate that the findings will provide relevant information for further work on weaning in these geographical areas.
We sought the following information about each country: (1) population data, (2) total number of ICUs, (3) ICU bed capacity, (4) descriptors of care provided by ICUs, (5) staffing models (clinician to patient ratios, skill mix), (6) critical care nursing education, and (7) nursing roles and responsibilities in relation to ventilator weaning. To obtain this information, we used 3 search methods. First, we obtained publicly accessible data from reports located on Web sites of critical care societies or organizations of individual countries (American Association of Critical Care Nurses, Society of Critical Care Medicine, Australian College of Critical Care Nurses, Australia and New Zealand Intensive Care Society, Intensive Care Society of the United Kingdom, British Association of Critical Care Nurses, European Federation of Critical Care Nursing Associations, European Society of Intensive Care Medicine) as well as respective government Department of Health Web sites. Second, for data that could not be obtained by using this method, we searched peer-reviewed publications on the following electronic databases: MEDLINE (1950 to September 2009), Embase (1988 to September 2009), Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (1981 to September 2009), and ISI Web of Science (to September 2009). We used the following key words: critical care or intensive care combined with organizations, critical care combined with education, nurse role combined with weaning and with mechanical ventilation. Third, in the event that data could not be located by using the first 2 methods, information was sought from other sources through personal contact and e-mail communication with relevant government agencies or national critical care medical/nursing associations. We sought the most recently available data. Contributing authors located data; data sources and accuracy were confirmed by a second author (L.R.).
There is wide variation in the provision of critical care across countries.
Numerical data obtained from relevant sources were assembled and presented in summary tables. Data on the roles and responsibilities of nurses for mechanical ventilation and weaning were summarized as narrative description.
Unit Structure and Staffing Models
The provision of critical care varies widely across countries (Table 1). Overall bed capacity was similar in the Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Sweden, Norway), Australia, and New Zealand. The United Kingdom has the lowest availability of beds in adult ICUs (3.4 beds/100 000 population) and the United States has the highest (20.0/100 000).25 ICU bed classification does not follow a standard format from country to country. In Australia and New Zealand, ICUs are categorized according to 3 levels of care: complex multisystem life support (level 3), general intensive care (level 2), and immediate resuscitation and short-term cardiorespiratory support (level 1).26,27 Scandinavian countries use a similar categorization scheme, whereas for ICUs in the United States, the descriptors of the care levels are reversed.28,29
In the United Kingdom, a 4-level patient (as opposed to ICU) classification system exists. Level 3 patients require advanced respiratory support or other multiorgan support, whereas level 2 patients need continuous monitoring and support of 1 failing organ system.30 Level 3 patients receive care in an ICU, whereas level 2 patients receive care mainly in high-dependency units. Level 1 patients are managed in general care areas (wards) of acute hospitals with guidance from the critical care team (critical care outreach). Level 0 patients require only treatment in a general care area (ward).
Patients’ outcomes and quality of care are influenced by how care is organized within the ICU and the intensity of staff delivering care.31 Table 2 presents data on unit structure and staffing models. Intensive care units are organized as open or closed units.36 ICUs in Australia and New Zealand, Scandinavia, and the United Kingdom all function as closed units. In the United States, the structure, staffing, and skill mix of ICUs are more heterogeneous than in other countries. Most ICUs function as open units without intensivist coverage.34 The Leapfrog Group (an American initiative aimed at improving patient safety and quality) ICU Physician Staffing Standards recommend that intensivists provide exclusive on-site ICU coverage during daytime hours with after-hour coverage from nonintensivist physicians or physician extenders available within 5 minutes.37 However, few US ICUs currently meet these standards.34
Other factors related to the process of intensive care delivery are the number and type of professionals who deliver care.38 Australia and New Zealand are the only countries where a 1:1 nurse to patient ratio for mechanical ventilator patients is mandated by the College of Intensive Care Medicine26 and fully supported by the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses.27 A 1:2 nurse to patient ratio may be used in lower acuity patients who do not require mechanical ventilation. In Scandinavia, nurse to patient ratios are 1:1 for day shift and 1:2 during the night.32 Nurse to patient ratios in the United Kingdom for level 3 patients is generally 1:1 (Table 2). In the United States, the nurse to patient ratio is determined by severity of illness, specific care needs, and the amount of advanced technology (eg, renal replacement therapy and intra-aortic balloon pumping) required by the patient.35 Mechanical ventilation alone does not mandate a 1:1 nurse to patient ratio. Although nurse staffing ratios are not federally mandated in the United States, individual states have adopted regulations to ensure adequate staffing. Examples include reportable nurse staffing plans, mandated unit-based nurse to patient ratios (California established a 1:2 ratio in 1999),39 and disclosure of nurse staffing to the public and/or regulatory bodies.40
Intensive care unit bed classification does not follow a standard format among countries.
Medical staffing of ICUs is difficult to quantify because of the heterogeneity of institutional as well as ICU models of care, particularly in the United States. In Australia and New Zealand, the ratio of medical specialists (intensivist or other) is consistent at 1:3 ventilator beds in Australia and 1:2 in New Zealand.17 Level 3 ICUs in Denmark have a physician to patient ratio of 1:2 or 1:3.32 A typical 6-bed unit in the United Kingdom has approximately 3 consultants committed full-time to ICU and 3 available on-call.33
One group of professionals included in the ICU staffing profile of the United States, but not other countries, is respiratory therapists. Respiratory therapists are ancillary personnel responsible for respiratory therapeutic treatments, including mechanical ventilation and weaning, and some diagnostic testing while practicing under the supervision of a physician.41 Inclusion of respiratory therapists in the ICU staffing profile must be considered when comparing clinician to patient ratios for ventilator patients across countries.
Critical Care Nursing Education
Available specialty education for critical care nurses is outlined in Table 3. In Australia and New Zealand, a range of tertiary programs specific to critical care are available at the graduate certificate, diploma, and master’s level.42 Graduate critical care programs include didactic content and clinical experiential learning focused on physiology and pathophysiology, as well as technical skills including management of invasive and noninvasive ventilation and weaning. In Australia, a portfolio-based credentialing process is offered by the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses. However, few nurses complete this nonmandatory credentialing process. In the United States, as in Australia and New Zealand, a range of tertiary programs specific to critical care are available that enable nurses to assume advanced practice roles including critical care clinical nurse specialist and acute care nurse practitioner.
In Denmark, specialization in critical care nursing is available (but not required) as a 2-year (nonacademic) course.43 Both Sweden and Norway have a required specialization course available at universities and community colleges at the baccalaureate level.
Specialty education at the postregistration level in the United Kingdom varies according to the length of study (6 months to 2 years), course content, and education entry level (undergraduate or postgraduate). In some institutions, these courses are “nested” in a diploma, degree, or masters program that requires additional modules for achievement of the relevant academic award.
Nursing Roles and Responsibilities for Mechanical Ventilation and Weaning
In general, medical staff have overall responsibility for the management of ventilation and weaning. Nurses, though involved in ongoing assessment and monitoring of weaning, previously were not acknowledged to have the autonomy to initiate or direct change.46–48 Most ICUs in Australia and New Zealand foster interdisciplinary collaboration between nurses and physicians,49,50 which extends to the management of mechanical ventilation and weaning.51 Although variation exists across ICUs in Australia and New Zealand, in many units, nurses are responsible for manipulation of ventilator settings adjusted in response to physiological parameters and are actively engaged in the management of weaning, generally in the absence of protocols.13,51 These activities are considered within the scope of nursing practice and do not require written orders from medical colleagues.
Scandinavian nurses usually make certain ventilator changes and are responsible for adjustment of the dosages of sedative drugs.52 About one-third of ICUs use weaning protocols.53,54 Weaning in Danish ICUs is usually dependent on dynamic interprofessional collaborative decision making as opposed to weaning protocols.12 In the United Kingdom as in Australia and New Zealand, mechanical ventilation is generally the domain of nurses and physicians in collaboration, with additional support from physiotherapists and medical physics technicians. Members of the interdisciplinary team work collaboratively to set and achieve goals for patients, with nurses conducting and monitoring the practical application of mechanical ventilation and its weaning. The extent of individual nurses’ decision making related to weaning is dependent on their clinical experience. The past 2 decades has seen implementation of nurse-led weaning by protocol in the United Kingdom55–58 based on the results of US studies that showed substantial reductions in the duration of mechanical ventilation with use of a weaning protocol. However, the extent of the uptake of such protocols and compliance with their use are unknown.
The role of nurses relative to ventilator adjustments and weaning in the United States varies by institution according to availability of respiratory therapists and the presence of policies and protocols that empower nurses to manage different aspects of ventilator management. Weaning protocols are widely used to guide the weaning process, although for the most part as the domain of respiratory therapists.14 According to the 2010 hospital standards, all respiratory care services must be ordered by a physician but may be delegated to an eligible nonphysician practitioner if the responsible physician co-signs all orders.59 In many institutions, respiratory therapists operating under medical directives insist that ventilator parameter changes (including weaning) are solely within their practice domain (often excluding physicians from making ventilator adjustments). In many institutions, management of mechanical ventilation and weaning is not seen as part of nurses’ scope of practice,60 resulting in a separation of care wherein care of the patient and adjunct therapies such as sedation and analgesia are handled by the nurse and management of the ventilator is handled by the respiratory therapist.
Our findings suggest that the context of US ICUs differs from the context of ICUs in other selected countries because of the frequent use of an open ICU structure and the inclusion of respiratory therapists in the work force. Nurses may be excluded from direct management of ventilator weaning in some institutions, as this role is primarily assumed by respiratory therapists guided by medical directives. International comparisons of critical care structures and processes are necessary to develop a better understanding of the utility of ICUs in various populations of patients, to identify factors that improve patients’ outcomes, and to determine the transferability of study findings.61 The implications of differences and similarities must be carefully considered because the structure and context of ICUs affects the process of care. Differences in availability of critical care services influences the ICU patient profile,62 access to ICU beds, overall case mix, and clinician workload.61 Bed availability may influence adoption of clinical practices that may reduce ICU length of stay, such as weaning protocols and daily spontaneous breathing trials, enabling provision of services to more patients.
Weaning protocols are an excellent example of a complex clinical intervention, the outcomes of which are directly affected by contextual elements. Substantial reductions in the duration of ventilation reported in early studies of weaning protocols conducted in the United States led to widespread interest and adoption of such protocols. Yet subsequent studies that did not report similar reductions suggest that ICU context strongly influences the effectiveness of weaning protocols.8,9,11 Protocols may be redundant in units with existing high physician and nursing staffing levels and structured processes that promote early recognition of weaning readiness and, if appropriate, rapid transition to extubation.8,9 Krishnan and colleagues11 postulated that failure to demonstrate a reduction in the duration of ventilation in their US-based evaluation of a weaning protocol was the result of high physician staffing levels compared with the staffing levels reported in previous US studies of weaning protocols.63–65
Australia and New Zealand have a 1:1 nurse to patient ratio for mechanically ventilated patients.
Recent recommendations for weaning state that weaning protocols are most valuable when physicians do not otherwise adhere to standardized guidelines.3 Absence of intensivists may adversely affect the timeliness and duration of weaning as nonintensivist physicians may be unaware of best practices or unavailable for decision making. No identified study directly examined the effect of physician staffing levels on the duration of ventilation and weaning. A meta-analysis30 of studies done to evaluate physician staffing models and patients’ outcomes indicated that high physician staffing, defined as a closed ICU model or mandatory intensivist consultation, was associated with decreased hospital and ICU mortality and hospital and ICU length of stay. Increased availability of intensivists is likely to facilitate timely decision making for the weaning process. In units with low-intensity physician and nurse staffing, weaning protocols may delineate decision-making trajectories that reduce unnecessary delays.
US intensive care units’ context differs from other countries due to use of open intensive care units and respiratory therapists.
Less convincing evidence exists for the positive effect of high nurse staffing in the ICU despite 1:1 nurse to patient ratios mandated in Australia and New Zealand. A recent systematic review66 of nursing resources and ICU outcomes identified 15 studies that were done to evaluate the impact of staffing ratios and skill mix on mortality and on adverse events. Few studies cited in this review showed an association between nursing resources and mortality; the link to a reduction in adverse events and nursing resources was more evident. Increased availability of critical care nurses may facilitate more frequent assessment of weaning readiness and monitoring of patients’ progression through the weaning continuum toward successful extubation. Variation across countries and individual institutions results in quality differences in critical care nursing education. Nurses with little education specific to management of ventilator weaning may benefit from availability of an institutional protocol to guide decision making about weaning. In a study specific to the process of weaning, Thorens and colleagues67 reported a reduction in the duration of weaning for patients with exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease when nursing resources were optimized. Similarly no studies have provided empirical evidence of the effect of nurse specialty education on outcomes for critically ill patients.
Increased availability of intensivists may facilitate weaning decision making.
Differences in role responsibility and scope of practice also may influence weaning management. Exclusion of staff other than respiratory therapists from the responsibility of manipulating mechanical ventilation and managing weaning, as occurs in some US settings, may result in treatment and decision-making delays, thus increasing the duration of mechanical ventilation.60,68 Respiratory therapists, though skilled and specialized in the management of ventilation, are not constantly available at the ICU bedside as is the case with ICU nurses. Despite the benefit of personnel focused specifically on the provision of mechanical ventilation and weaning of patients from such ventilation, the addition of respiratory therapists to the disciplines involved in the weaning process may add steps to the decision-making process, causing delay. In some institutions, staffing models require respiratory therapists to be responsible for the respiratory care of patients across many hospital departments, resulting in the potential for considerable delays due to priorities of care for other patients. If other members of the interdisciplinary team are not skilled in ventilator management or permitted to make appropriate ventilator changes, including the timely initiation of weaning, threats to patient safety may occur with inappropriate and potentially injurious ventilation occurring. Interdisciplinary collaborative decision making with appropriate education and skill development of all team members is a model that may facilitate appropriate and timely weaning.
Inability to replicate research findings in different settings is arguably due to differences in context and process.
Translation of research findings to useful application in clinical practice is a major challenge.69 Replication of research should result in a body of evidence that converges toward estimates that are stable and do not change with additional data.70 However, more often, we see variation in results that leads to reduced confidence in study findings and translational failure. Inability to replicate research findings in different settings is arguably due to differences in context and process. Studies of weaning interventions such as protocols frequently require comparison to the usual care existent in study units. Because of the potential for substantial variation, detailed description of “usual care” is required to enable assessment of transferability of study findings to various clinical contexts, both nationally and internationally.
Context and processes of care that could affect outcomes of ventilator weaning varied considerably across the countries we considered. Further quantification of these contextual influences should be considered when translating research findings into local clinical practice and when designing future randomized controlled trials.
The contribution of Susan Frazier to this work was supported in part by a Center grant (1P20NR010679) to the University of Kentucky College of Nursing from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Nursing Research. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute of Nursing Research or the National Institutes of Health.
Now that you’ve read the article, create or contribute to an online discussion on this topic. Visit www.ajcconline.org and click “Respond to This Article” in either the full-text or PDF view of the article.
To purchase electronic or print reprints, contact The InnoVision Group, 101 Columbia, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656. Phone, (800) 899-1712 or (949) 362-2050 (ext 532); fax, (949) 362-2049; e-mail, firstname.lastname@example.org. | <urn:uuid:965d0147-ee4d-4c58-9e30-c6c5eaf5b62d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aacnjournals.org/ajcconline/article-standard/20/1/e10/6020/International-Perspectives-on-the-Influence-of | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.934037 | 4,979 | 2.515625 | 3 |
People of all ages can play sports with asthma as long as their asthma is managed and under control. It is important to talk to your doctor before engaging in athletic activities if you’ve been diagnosed with asthma.
Some sports are less strenuous than others and therefore pose less of a risk to those that struggle with breathing normally on their own. Golf, yoga and gentle biking are less likely to trigger and asthma attack than a more intense running sport like basketball. Baseball, football and gymnastics are also good options.
Sports with long distance running or endurance sports like soccer or basketball can be challenging for those with asthma and should be avoided if possible. If you truly enjoy these sports, you can make it work, but you would need to ensure your medication and training are solid before participating in these types of sporting activities.
To keep your asthma under control, it is important to consult with your physician and to take your medication as prescribed. Skipping medication can make symptoms worse and limit the ability for one to participate in athletic events. It is also good to keep triggers in mind, such as high pollen or mold count days.
You should also carry your medication with you at all times in case of any emergency. It’s good to have an asthma action plan so you are prepared in the event that your breathing becomes out of control. | <urn:uuid:bd57a1a0-79cb-40b8-a3f1-799e9d793051> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sportingplaymakers.com/can-people-with-asthma-play-sports/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.973488 | 271 | 2.65625 | 3 |
once you consider Tx businesses, big corporations like Exxon Mobil , Dell , and Texas Instruments are usually the very first that come in your thoughts. But over the past few years, from the internal locations to out-on-the-range, smaller businesses happen stirring the Lone celebrity State economic climate.
Much more entrepreneurs flock into the state, experts tend to be pointing to a mix of growth-friendly problems that have small enterprises developing in, and messing with, Texas.
Based on U.S. Census outcomes for July 2011 to July 2012, Texas had the most notable two largest developing metro places (Dallas and Houston) and three (Midland, Odessa, and Austin) of top 10 quickest growing Metro places in the country. This swell in populace corresponds to a matching surge in small company friendliness, according to a recent survey by on the web contracting service Thumbtack.com, conducted in partnership with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. Not only is Texas listed among the five friendliest says for small company, but Austin, Houston, and San Antonio are included among the list of top five towns.
Similarly, Tx’ representation in the 2013 Inner City 100, an annual ranking of the quickest developing urban companies inside U.S., is larger this season than at other point in the program’s 15-year history. “If you look during the 11 businesses on our list from Tx, you are able to almost track that towards growth companies, ” says Mary Kay Leonard, the president and CEO the Boston-based Initiative for an aggressive inner-city (ICIC), which yearly amasses the number of dynamically carrying out metropolitan organizations. “They’re a great research study how a regional or condition economic climate can actually be leveraged by, as well as for, inner city corporations.”
An agreeable Texan greeting
“I would personally state, without concern, Tx is the greatest large condition for which doing company generally speaking, as well as small enterprises, in particular, ” says Tom Castro. a handling director of New York-based IMB Development Corporation, Castro features had businesses both in California and Tx in the last 25 many years, and relocated from Los Angeles to Houston 14 years ago, using the state’s prime business conditions –including its not enough state income tax, few land-use restrictions, and low expenses — being a big reason.
Relating to Castro, Texas’s nonexistent income-tax is a particularly important device in recruiting external talent into the state. “i'd show them in monochrome, if they had been making $100, 000 or $80, 000, by simply moving to Tx at the exact same wage, they are able to place 15per cent, occasionally 20% more in their pockets, ” he claims.
And also as industries like biomedicine and social networking pick-up vapor in Tx, startups can entice top skill using that advantage. “man money are at an all-time saturated in need, ” says Nina Vaca, the creator and CEO of Pinnacle Specialized Resources, a Dallas-based, IT-focused staffing company the Fortune 500. “If you’re inside it and you’re great, you have a range of where you are able to go, ” claims the former Inner City 100 winner.
As an example, San Antonio-based InGenesis, which was ranked fourth about this year’s Inner City 100, staffs when it comes to health industry and recorded $57.5 million in income for 2011, the year for which the 2013 winners were studied.
Needless to say, large corporations undoubtedly make use of this tax advantage, as have actually Dallas-area leaders like AT&T , and Houston-based power corporations like ConocoPhillip s.
Texas’ populace development features certainly assisted small business success. In accordance with the census, the state’s population swelled 3.6percent, or almost 900, 000 people, from 2010 to 2012. To suit this development, home building has actually held pace through recession and slow recovery, permitting multiple industries to flourish. Aspenmark Roofing & Solar, a Dallas-based provider of commercial and residential solar power arrays, didn’t stall through the housing marketplace’s harsh plot. As an alternative, the ninth listed company about this year’s inner-city 100 brought in $6.5 million in revenue last year. | <urn:uuid:8a91917b-2e59-4218-88d2-0230ee2b1d73> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://home-business-start-up.com/HomeBasedBusinessIdeas/best-business-to-start-in-texas | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.953975 | 930 | 1.75 | 2 |
See how the ISTP's personality dimensions combine to yield several remarkable patterns
Reading time: 5 minutes
ISTPs tend to have distinct patterns on the Big Five personality traits, and these patterns lead to a few common strengths among ISTPs.
There are at least three exceptional patterns commonly seen in the ISTPs:
ISTPs often score on the lower ends of Agreeableness and Conscientiousness, two dimensions closely related to trust and adherence to social norms. People who score low on both, like ISTPs, tend to be suspicious of others’ motives and have a greater distrust of individuals and institutions.
They may feel an inherent resistance to authority and certain social conventions. Rather than following others and trying to fit in, ISTPs have a strong independent streak and prefer to go their own way.
ISTJs will often say what they mean and use very few words to say it.
High Openness is related to using more sophisticated, abstract language, whereas lower Openness (as seen in ISTPs) correlates with simpler, more concrete words and phrases. Combined with this, most ISTPs tend to score lower on Agreeableness, which influences our use of polite, friendly language. The lower Agreeableness of many ISTPs may be behind their more direct and frank communication.
Others may have difficulty reading ISTPs, who often have a quiet, reserved exterior but a spontaneous, impulsive mind. ISTPs usually have a blend of lower Extraversion and lower Conscientiousness, leading them to be more reserved and withdrawn, holding their opinions and thoughts back in most social situations and avoiding the spotlight.
Despite their quiet exterior, they often impulsively make decisions with their gut, rather than with careful planning. When possible, they will avoid sticking to a schedule and prefer the freedom to change their plans at the last minute.
Understanding an individual’s unique strengths requires more than just knowing a personality type or Big Five personality traits. Even among ISTPs, every person has their own set of strengths that they use when they are at their best.
One easy way to learn about your own strengths is with the Strengths profile in TraitLab Plus. | <urn:uuid:b38bef23-1d9d-4ba8-934e-3f44ec9e9338> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://traitlab.com/blog/istp/strengths | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.95628 | 444 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Discover Manu Amazon Rainforest in Peru 6 Days
Manu Amazon Rainforest Tours is located in southeastern Peru, is one of the largest parks in South America. It is located among the departments of Cusco and Madre de Dios. Manu Jungle protects over 2 million hectares (4.5 million acres), The flora and fauna in this part of the country is extremely varied and around 800 species of birds have been recorded, as well as more than 200 mammals and 100 species of unique plants.
Manu National Park also contains 10% of the world’s vascular plant species, including several species of figs and palms, as well as countless species of medicinal plants that scientists are currently cataloguing. A single hectare of forest in Manu can have up to 220 species of trees, while a hectare of temperate forest in Europe or North America may only have 20 tree species. This makes it one of the most biologically diverse parks on the planet.
- This area full of biodiversity is a delight for all our senses and not to mention the fabulous views of the sunset that cannot be missed.
- The jungle cabins with mosquito nets and traditional dinner menus are part of what the Peruvian jungle with short excursions, walks and boat trips as part of the Amazon experience.
- The fauna that inhabits the Amazon rainforest of Peru is one of the reasons why many people visit it, you can see capybaras, alligators, turtles, puffins, dart poison frogs, freshwater dolphins, otters, monkeys, macaws, coati, tapir , lazy, toucans, parrots, capuchin monkeys, jaguars and more.
- Lush nature: If you are already tired of visiting monuments, archeological sites or man-made wonders, and want to merge with nature and have the most extreme adventure you had dreamed of, the jungle is the ideal place for you.
- Boat trip on the Alto Madre de Dios river to observe the alligators, you can even fish in the lagoons or take a walk in the lakes in search of animals around the water.
- Probably the most important reason, the warmth of its people, kind, affectionate, always receiving you with a smile and willing to take another with their occurrences
Inclusions of this tour
CUSCO - PAUCARTAMBO - AJANACU - SAN PEDRO
Leaving Cusco early in the morning, we begin an 8-hour journey over the Andes by bus, stopping for breakfast at the beautiful colonial village of Paucartambo. Continuing, we climb to the highpoint of the Manu Biosphere at about 4000m before descending to the cloud forest. In these green and moist surroundings we take our first long walk. There are many bird species to be seen among which the beautiful paradise tanager, umbrella bird and the golden headed quetzal. Among its butterflies are clouded yellows and various skippers. The cloud forest has three monkey species: the woolly monkey plus the two capuchin monkeys of Manu. There are plenty of other mammal species, but they are more difficult to see. We end our walk at the lek of the strange looking cock-of-the-rock, to watch the dancing and singing ‘performance’ of the males right under our eyes. We spend the night in the rustic Manu Green Lodge (appr. 1,600m).
Paraiso Eco Lodge
SAN PEDRO - ATALAYA - AMAZON ECO LODGE
At daybreak we continue by bus to tropical lowland rainforest, stopping along the way to visit a coca plantation. Arriving at the small village Atalaya at 650m, we change into a motorized canoe to navigate some 40 minutes down the fast Alto Madre de Dios River. Then we take a 30 minute walk to one of the very view lakes on the Alto Madre de Dios River. You can go around this small lake on traditional balsa rafts and from there admire the enormous rainforest variety in aquatic birds, such as the moscovy duck, neotropic cormorant, anhinga, the white- necked and capped herons and the prehistoric looking hoatzin. Usually the water is clean enough to be able to see many tropical fish we may know from aquaria at home. It is common to see squirrel monkeys or others, in the trees around. In the late afternoon we continue down the river to Pantiacolla lodge, right at the foot of the Pantiacolla Mountain Range. The forest of Amazon Eco Lodge is a very special rainforest: this is where the Andes and the lowland tropical rainforest of the Amazon meet and it provides you with a chance to see a good selection of birds and plants from bóth zones as well as endemics to the area. Your first walk will be at night, exploring the forest by torchlight looking for insects, lizards, snakes and the only nocturnal night-monkey, or ‘douricouli’, on Earth. We spend the night in Amazon Eco Lodge.
Amazon Eco Lodge
MANU AMAZON RAINFOREST: AMAZON ECO LODGE - LIMONAL - CASA MATSIGUENKA
We leave the lodge very early and continue our journey downriver (Alto Madre de Dios River) to go into the Reserve Zone on the Manu River. Our first stop there is a national park control point (Puesto de Vigilancia Limonal). Halfway to Casa Matchiguenka lodge we do a first short walk in the Reserve Zone. Along the boat trip we will observe many different kinds of animals such as capybara, peccaries, monkeys, lots of birds and caimans, maybe even a jaguar. Late in the afternoon we arrive at Casa Matchiguenka Lodge where we spend the night. (Optional night walk there.)
Casa Matchiguenka Lodge, is owned and run by two indigenous communities of the tribe Matchiguenka. This lodge has a rustic design with 12 double rooms and provides mosquito nets. Surrounding the lodge are private trails, where Matchiguenka act as local guides. They also have an interpretation house where they produce and sell craftwork.
Casa Matchiguenka Lodge
MANU AMAZON RAINFOREST: LAKE SALVADOR - LAKE OTORONGO
In the morning we visit Cocha Salvador. From a catamaran we watch animals such as gamin herons and spider monkeys and enjoy watching the nearly extinct giant otters fishing. After lunch we start our excursion thought the virgin jungle to Cocha Otorongo Lake, where there is a 20m high observation tower. From this tower we will have another chance to see giant otters and black caimans. For the rest of the day we will explore the jungle, looking for more species of monkeys. The guide will also explain about the jungle lifestyle, flora and fauna, medical plants and jungle food. We might also find a group of peccaries. In the evening we can enjoy the beautiful sunset and return to Casa Matchiguenka Lodge, where we spend the night.
MANU AMAZON RAINFOREST: CASA MATSIGUENKA - BOCA MANU - AMAZON ECO LODGE
We leave the Casa Matchiguenka Lodge very early to have another opportunity to see a jaguar on our way out of the Reserve Zone. We might also see tapirs, turtles and caimans. After a short stop in Boca Manu. We continue upriver (Alto Madre de Dios River) to our private amazon reserve, where we spend the night. And relax the evening.
Amazon Eco Lodge
MANU AMAZON RAINFOREST: RETURN TO CUSCO
Unfortunately this day we got up very early and after our last breakfast in the jungle we continued the trip by river to the port of Atalaya. Where we will take our bus back to Cusco Turning again through the mysterious cloud forest where we can find some latest activities and we can also do some short walks. Arriving in Cusco around 18:00 where we will make a stop at your hotel.
- Included Activities:
- Manu National Park – Acjanacu , natural viewpoint of the Amazon rainforest from the Andes
- Manu National Park – San Pedro cloud forest (cock of the rock, monkeys, andean birds, orchiqs) Viewpoint photo stop
- Manu National Park – Paucartambo, Colonial town
- Meals Included: Lunch
Best season to travel
The best time to visit Peru is during the dry season, between May and November, when the weather is dry and bright, with more frequent rainfall occurring between November and April.
Choose your preferred departure date to proceed
A unique adventure in Manu Amazon Rainforest Reserved Zone 6 Days
What to Bring for this tour
Inca Trail Tours
Why Inca Trail Expeditions
We make sure you get a true taste of your destination. We want to create experiences that give you a deeper perspective
Our friendly reservations team have first-hand experience of our holidays and will help you at every stage of your booking. They are available seven days a week to answer your questions.
Inca Trail Expeditions is a 100% local Tour Operator , with more than 15 years of experience.
Discover the most impressive landscapes of the Andes, travel to the Amazon rainforest, enjoy authentic cultural experiences with the best guides in Peru.
Explore the best Inca Trail hike to Machu Picchu in small Groups.
Our much-loved National Escorts, whose knowledge and dedication have won us the best reputation in the industry, will make your holiday with us truly extraordinary. | <urn:uuid:d99e3523-654b-4ecd-9b29-ae5c2ce031ea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://incatrailexpeditions.com/manu-amazon-rainforest-tours-in-peru/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.916227 | 2,074 | 2 | 2 |
I recently came across a work of classical poetry that blew me away. A friend inquired from our teacher about “Matn al Sakhawiyya” on the Mutashabihat ayat of the Quran. Our teacher replied that it was an excellent way to remember a lot of confusing similarities in the Quran by quoting a line from her memory. Not only did the poem fascinate me, her ability (May Allah Bless her) to immediately recall a verse of a long poem I never even knew existed was remarkable. She then spoke about the importance of memorizing such poems and how it eases learning in the long run.
In the past, our scholars have made painstaking efforts to ease the path of knowledge for generations to come after them. At current, knowledge is abundant and the access is so easy that we often take it for granted. We are so used to having this abundance without having to lift a finger; instead of appreciating classical work, ironically, we question the need for it. Allahu Musta’an.
One such area in the path to knowledge is the memorization of poems. In all fields of Islamic knowledge, anything with a rhythmic flow is easier to understand, grasp, remember and recollect its contents later. The efforts made in all aspects of Islamic literature are innumerable, and unfortunately for non-Arabic speakers, almost always in Arabic. Yet, it is still possible to memorize and understand the context of some of these amazing works. Knowledge memorized and then understood always stay etched in the mind, whereas read and understood are more likely to be lost.
The poem consists of 427 verses in total and is very comprehensive. The author has arranged the mutashabihat in an alphabetical order, in order to bring parts of it to you- parts which are most commonly confusing and hopefully help those memorizing the Quran navigate through challenging similarities and differences.
Those who know Arabic will realize that the translations are not exact. This is because exact translation may make it difficult to understand, and the purpose of this is to give a rough understanding of the lines so as to memorize them, not to use English as the base. The wider purpose is to benefit from the mutashabihat mentioned in these verses even without memorizing the lines.
Some of the verses are extremely difficult and lose meaning when translated, so from those I will only derive the mutashabihat without translating the lines.
The letter Alif
Anyone who has memorized Surah Al-Baqarah and then Al-‘A`raf will find these very useful. These following lines mention the mutashabihat of Al Baqarah, verses 58-59 and Al-‘A`raf, verses 161-162:
(The verses share more mutashabihat than those mentioned in the lines of the poem but we will mention only those mentioned in the above lines.)
What Can be Derived?
Many of you might think this as a long and cumbersome way to remember something so simple. It probably is more work initially. However, in the long run it stays etched in your memory. If you don’t usually get confused in these verses or have your own way to remember them, you may want to skip it. But this may come of use to some of you. And even if you don’t learn the lines, you can use what is derived to help you recall.
What can be derived?
The story of Prophet Adam عليه السلام and Iblees is mentioned in various places in the Quran. This ayah brings to notice that Surah Sad doesn’t have the word أبى
What Can be Derived?
These ayat are in Surah al Baqarah and Surah Aal Imran in the last pages of the first and third juz respectively. The ayahs are almost identical with only some minor differences.
I pray this benefits those who have found remembering the differences challenging. May Allah accept our efforts to please Him.
These are the most commonly confused mutashabihat during recitation. | <urn:uuid:6b478bd8-53a8-423b-8b4e-0bb9e767b990> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://inkoffaith.webflow.io/post/matn-al-sakhawiyah-unlocking-the-quran | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.957842 | 859 | 2.78125 | 3 |
The command line arguments are handled using main() function arguments where argc refers to the number of arguments passed, and argv is a pointer array which points to each argument passed to the program.
Correspondingly, what are the arguments in Java?
Terms: actual argument, argument, actual parameter, parameter. The values that are passed to a method are called actual arguments in the Java specification. However, it is very common for them to be called just arguments, actual parameters, or just plain parameters.
What is String args?
In Java ‘args’ contains the supplied command-line arguments as an array of String objects. In other words, if you run your program as ‘java MyProgram abc xyz’ then ‘args’ will contain [“abc”, “xyz”]. When a java class is executed from the console, the main method is what is called.
What is variable length arguments in Java?
Variable Arguments (Varargs) in Java. A method that takes a variable number of arguments is a varargs method. Prior to JDK 5, variable-length arguments could be handled two ways. One using overloaded method(one for each) and another put the arguments into an array, and then pass this array to the method.
What does command line do?
A command-line interface or command language interpreter (CLI), also known as command-line user interface, console user interface and character user interface (CUI), is a means of interacting with a computer program where the user (or client) issues commands to the program in the form of successive lines of text (
What is a command line argument in Java?
The command line argument is the argument passed to a program at the time when you run it. To access the command-line argument inside a java program is quite easy, they are stored as string in String array passed to the args parameter of main() method.
What does argc and argv stand for?
The name of the variable argc stands for “argument count” , argc contains the number of arguments passed to the program. The name of the variable argv stands for “argument vector”. A vector is a one-dimensional array, and argv is a one-dimensional array of strings.
What does the Atoi function do?
atoi is a function in the C programming language that converts a string into an integer numerical representation. atoi stands for ASCII to integer. int atoi(const char *str); The str argument is a string, represented by an array of characters, containing the characters of a signed integer number.
What is the use of header files in C?
A header file is generally used to define all of the functions, variables and constants contained in any function library that you might want to use. The header file stdio.h should be used if you want to use the two standard I/O functions printf and scanf.
What is meant by dangling pointer?
Dangling pointers arise during object destruction, when an object that has an incoming reference is deleted or deallocated, without modifying the value of the pointer, so that the pointer still points to the memory location of the deallocated memory.
What are command line arguments in C++?
In C++ it is possible to accept command line arguments. After that, every element number less than argc is a command line argument. You can use each argv element just like a string, or use argv as a two dimensional array. argv[argc] is a null pointer.
What are the arguments in C?
Parameters and arguments. The term parameter (sometimes called formal parameter) is often used to refer to the variable as found in the function definition, while argument (sometimes called actual parameter) refers to the actual input supplied at function call.
What is the meaning of argument in C++?
} The arguments to a function are values that can be passed to the function to be used as input information. The ‘return value’ is a value that the function returns. For example, in the call to the function square(10), the value 10 is an argument to the function square(). The returned value is 100.
What is meant by arguments in C?
The term parameter (sometimes called formal parameter) is often used to refer to the variable as found in the function definition, while argument (sometimes called actual parameter) refers to the actual value passed. By contrast, the arguments are the values supplied to the procedure when it is called.
Are arguments and parameters the same?
A parameter is a variable in a method definition. When a method is called, the arguments are the data you pass into the method’s parameters. Parameter is variable in the declaration of function. Argument is the actual value of this variable that gets passed to function.
What is the need of function declaration?
In computer programming, a function prototype or function interface is a declaration of a function that specifies the function’s name and type signature (arity, data types of parameters, and return type), but omits the function body.
Why do we need a function prototype?
The main reason they exist is so that the compiler can go through the program exactly once, knowing which functions are in scope at any given time. To do this, functions would have to be declared before they’re used; prototypes let you declare a function without implementing its body until later.
What is function declaration and definition?
A function declaration tells the compiler about a function’s name, return type, and parameters. A function definition provides the actual body of the function. The C standard library provides numerous built-in functions that your program can call.
What are the functions of Java?
Function or a method is a named callable piece of code which performs some operations and optionally returns a value. In C language the term function is used. Java & C# people would say it a method (and a function in this case is defined within a class/object).
What is meant by declaration and definition?
The term declaration means (in C) that you are telling the compiler about type, size and in case of function declaration, type and size of its parameters of any variable, or user defined type or function in your program. No space is reserved in memory for any variable in case of declaration.
What is a class declaration?
A class in C++ is a user defined type or data structure declared with keyword class that has data and functions (also called methods) as its members whose access is governed by the three access specifiers private, protected or public (by default access to members of a class is private).
What does the class can hold?
What does your class can hold? Explanation: The classes in c++ are used to manipulate both data and functions. Explanation: There are three types of access specifiers. They are public, protected and private.
What is meant by return type in Java?
In computer programming, the return type (or result type) defines and constrains the data type of the value returned from a subroutine or method. In many programming languages (especially statically-typed programming languages such as C, C++, Java) the return type must be explicitly specified when declaring a function.
How many parameters can be passed to a method in Java?
You can use any number of arguments in a function in java. There is no standard limit to have this number of argument in function in java.[As per I know] IMO as a practice you should not have more than 4 arguments for a function but this is not the standard you can have any number of arguments. | <urn:uuid:3596bc48-d048-45aa-99e7-d4dd24b9962e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.foleyforsenate.com/what-are-the-command-line-arguments.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.855637 | 1,602 | 3.75 | 4 |
Cumbria Industrial History Society Series – It’s a Gas
The industrial revolution shaped our lives in West Cumbria. Its impact was significant and the Cumbria Industrial History Society reveals how it affected our modern world.
In the days before electricity, everything was lit by gas. Every town had its own gasworks where coal was baked to release crude gas. This went through a series of processes to clean it up so it was fit to be supplied through mains pipework.
Before it left the gas was stored in large holders. These were large circular tanks, usually partly sunk into the ground. The tanks would rise to hold the supply from the works, then gradually fall when customers switched their gas on.
They were an impressive sight.
Carlisle had the first gasworks in Cumbria in 1819, it was one of only 15 places in Britain to have one. Maryport and Whitehaven built theirs in the 1830s. Workington, Egremont, Silloth, Harrington, Cleator Moor and Millom followed during the next 40 years. Smaller places like St.Bees and Seascale joined by the 1880s and Frizington was last – in 1910 – after resisting the offer of supply from their neighbours for years.
Some industrial sites built their own – the foundry at Lowca and the paper mill at Workington for example. In the early 1900s, new methods were developed to produce gas on a smaller scale. Country houses like Gilgarran Mansion at Distington and Holmrook Hall in Gosforth had acetylene plants, as did the golf club and church in Seascale! The quarry at Waberthwaite built a plant to power the aerial ropeway down to the Furness Railway.
Demand rose as new uses were developed like engines, cookers, fires and fridges. This new-fangled equipment had to be “sold” to the public and cooking demonstrations were held in Keswick in 1887.
A lot has changed and gas is no longer made locally but piped in from under the sea. Some gasholders were used to store this initially but they are now redundant and very little is left of an important industry.
Our past is fascinating, visit www.cumbria-industries.org.uk if you’d like to learn more. | <urn:uuid:5ad6b6a6-be0c-43bc-af40-963bf9c01307> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cumbriaguide.co.uk/cumbria-industrial-history-society-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.982347 | 491 | 3.171875 | 3 |
Thinking about switching to solar power?
Harnessing the sun’s hot energy is a great way to make your home or business more environmentally friendly, while bringing down your monthly bills and potentially even boosting the property’s resale value. But before opting for solar power, you need to know which panels are best suited for your needs – and there are a few different key considerations that can help make your decision.
The Great British climate
Here in the UK we certainly have our sunny spells, however the weather in the UK is also very changeable with lots of rain, wind and cloud cover. This means it’s important to choose panels that not only offer reliable performance in varied weather conditions, but also have the strength to stand up against strong winds without becoming damaged.
Luckily companies are producing panels with these two factors in mind, meaning that homeowners still have plenty of options available – even when the British weather is less than ideal. And as the technology develops, solar panels are only becoming more resilient and able to handle varying levels of sunshine.
Price vs. productivity
Never start any big home or office improvement projects without first considering your budget. As with most things, the panels with more bells and whistles will come in at a higher price – and panels that cost more will often offer better efficiency over a long period of time.
Companies specialising in solar panels, such as In Style Solar, will offer a wide range of options to suit many different budgets. As a rule of thumb, the price of your panels is likely to be affected by the size you need, how robust the panels are, any certifications that they have and the overall quality of the system.
Of course, not everybody needs all the bells and whistles. If you’re planning to provide energy to a small family home then this is a very different situation than trying to supply power for an office or a large, detached house.
In order to calculate the amount of power your system will need to generate, you’ll first need to determine your average daily energy consumption. This can be done by looking at your past energy bills. Once you have an estimate of your daily energy consumption, you can then determine the size of the system you’ll need to offset that consumption.
Keep in mind that the efficiency of solar panels has increased significantly in recent years, so you may be able to get by with a smaller system – however this should still give you a good guideline. If in doubt, your seller should be able to explain further and offer advice for your property.
It shouldn’t be surprising that producing your own energy can help reduce your carbon footprint, but the extent of the change can be staggering, with some stats suggesting it can cut your footprint by as much as 80%. Solar panels produce renewable energy, and can keep going for a long time with very little upkeep or maintenance required.
Look for panels produced using an eco manufacturing process, and you can make an even more substantial difference to the environment. Some of the factors to consider include the materials used to create the panels, where they’re being produced, and how they are transported and installed. However if you’re on a tight budget, even the cheaper and less eco panels will still have a positive impact overall, especially if you look after them so that they can keep producing energy for many years to come.
Making the final decision
So here’s the bottom line: Solar panels are a great way to reduce your carbon footprint while generating electricity for your home or business. While there are lots of different options on the market, a good retailer should be able to help you narrow it down to something that suits your energy needs as well as the energy needs in your local area.
As with all big financial decisions, taking the time to compare options and chew over your decision will help ensure that you make a purchase you can feel good about. And as home improvements usually offer a return on investment when you eventually come to sell, it’s a purchase your wallet can feel good about too. | <urn:uuid:cb13430b-f5fc-4401-a7c7-c2c8fe727902> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://londondesigncollective.com/eco-friendly/choosing-the-right-solar-panels-for-your-home-or-business/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.955869 | 839 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Sunny Flower Garden
Get the kids inspired to garden for fun with this colourful garden activity that is sure to brighten up your life, in more ways than one!
What you'll need:
- A patch of garden
- Shovel and rake
- Selection of sun loving plants that haven’t flowered yet
- Mulch (optional)
- Watering can
Pop into your nearest accredited garden centre and pick up a selection of small sun loving annuals. Preferably ones that haven’t flowered yet.
By “planting green” you’ll encourage a stronger root system for the plant, ensuring a healthy development.
Choose a spot in your garden that gets approximately six or more hours of sun a day.
Prepare the soil by pulling the weeds and digging up the soil until it crumbles.
Spread a layer of compost over the area and let the kids get their hands dirty by mixing it into the soil.
Place your plants on the bed and arrange them with the tallest ones towards the back.
Be sure to give the young plants plenty of room to grow. Check the instructions on each of your plants to find out exactly how far apart to plant them.
Once you are happy with the positions of the plants, use your trowel to dig a hole for each plant.
Turn the pot over, and tap the plant into your hand. Loosen the root ball with your fingers, and place the roots into the soil.
Press down firmly around the base of the plant.
Water your plants every few days and soon your sunny flower garden will be in full bloom. | <urn:uuid:de8e582e-2fba-4a15-b412-c757f5b8bab3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lifeisagarden.co.za/sunny-flower-garden/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.906664 | 368 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Herbicides give operators a degree of flexibility in control of weeds that is not available using other methods. Operators can vary the timing and size of the operation and in most cases, the cost is reasonably low.
When using a herbicide always read the label to ensure the herbicide is registered for the weed and situation you intend to use it for.
In many cases control of a weed is affected by a combination of strategies which together have a maximum impact on an infestation.
Herbicides for declared pest plants
In some instances a declared plant is not included on a herbicide label. However, the use of that herbicide on that plant may be covered by an APVMA minor use permit.
From research in Western Australia on particular declared pest plants, applications are made to the APVMA to allow certain herbicides to be used in this state. The APVMA usually grants a permit which may cover a specific emergency weed eradication incident or may be for general application on non agriculture, pastoral or agriculture lands. These permits usually are valid for about five to ten years.
The minor use permits for herbicides used for declared plant control can be found in the link(s) to the APVMA web site on this page.
- Off-label APVMA minor use chemical permit for declared plants
- Off-label APVMA minor use chemical permit for environmental weeds
Further information on controlling declared plants can be found through the Declared plant control handbook link.
Other topics that may interest you include:
- Herbicides: a general guide to the types of herbicides available and when and how they should be utalised.
- Herbicide resistance: a guide to herbicide resistance, the inherited ability of individual plants to survive herbicide application.
- Herbicide application: information on different types of methods to apply herbicides.
- Herbicide application for declared plants: further methods of herbicide application that can be used for declared plants.
- Declared plant calibration of spray equipment: how to calculate the correct rate of herbicide to be applied.
- Herbicide application legal aspects: how to avoid spray drift and legal aspects of herbicide application.
- Herbicide safety: herbicide first aid, toxicity, storage, handling, protective clothing and disposal. | <urn:uuid:9a07280f-9408-46c0-a3dd-e8b1294a1fa0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/herbicides/chemical-control-declared-plants | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.866951 | 479 | 2.625 | 3 |
Eggs… happy Easter!
Let’s talk about eggs to wish everyone a happy Easter!
The red-figure bell hydria by the painter of C.A (Cumae A), 4th century B.C., was purchased by the University of Pavia’s Museum of Archaeology in 1940 on the initiative of Professor Carlo Albizzati, on the Roman antiquities market. The hydria, probably destined to be part of funerary equipment, is perfectly preserved because was entombed for centuries. Unfortunately, we do not know where it was discovered. The vase, commonly used to hold water or oil, is decorated on the body with a large funerary stele that displays the offering of two eggs and two pomegranates. Around it are two women represented on either side in the two registers (four elements in total): those seated above and those standing below. The women all carry offerings to the grave: a basket full of foliage, wreaths and containers, including a tray full of eggs. The ancient thought that the dead needed food for their otherworldly banquet: as we still offer flowers, likewise, together with them, in antiquity people used to take food to tombs. They also had the custom to dine on them, perpetuating the memory of the beloved who had passed away. This tradition still survives today, for example in Calabria and Mexico.
Let’s add a curiosity: in the ancient Etruscan tombs, ostrich eggs have been found. These were decorated, painted or treated with specific acids to create a fretwork or bas-relief: they were luxury items imported from Africa that were pleasing to see but also had a deep symbolic meaning.
Even in ancient times, eggs always represented fertility and, therefore, wealth, as well as life and rebirth after death.
Thus, our chocolate eggs have very ancient roots…
The photos show the hydria from the Archaeological Museum of the University of Pavia, a painted Etruscan ostrich egg from the National Archaeological Museum of Tarquinia and an ostrich egg decorated with small holes and stars, from South Africa, where this tradition continues. | <urn:uuid:7a050bd2-63ae-4185-ac3e-eea5afa8fc9d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://archeologia.unipv.eu/letstalkaboutthemuseum/eggs-happy-easter/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.970828 | 450 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Is it OK to pave without mixing? Ask Question ... I used Quikrete fast-drying concrete for a small slab outside my house. Not load bearing. ... very strong but I get ...
This concrete mixer is driven by one diesel engine, no need electricity. The diesel engine drives the feeding and mixing via two control handles. JZC-B / JZR series concrete mixer is used for the construction sites where has no electric power supply. It is very popular for mixing small capacity plastic concrete and semi-dry concrete.
Jul 03, 2012 · When I mix small batches of cement, I need a better method than mixing in a wheelbarrow. I built this tiny mixer that does an excellent job of mixing. It is mounted on a 15 degree angle and the ...
Use ice as part of the concrete water mix to cool the concrete. Reduce the mixing time once water has been added to the mix. Bags of concrete mix and all equipment needed to pour concrete in hot weather should remain covered or in the shade until the last moment before using. When pouring concrete for a slab, first dampen the sub-grade.
Bitumen Mixing Machine is specially for Bitumen Production. It can be equipped with materials transfer pump in front of it to make it suitable for materials with mid-and-high viscosity. The materials are thoroughly dispersed and sheared after going through it. It is characterized in low noise and stable running, short transfer distance and low ...
Oct 14, 2019 · A basic concrete mix works for many small projects, such as setting posts, while a high-strength or crack-resistant mix works better for patching a driveway. Avoid substituting a mortar mix for a concrete mix. Plan to keep the concrete surface slightly moist for 3 to 5 days while it cures to prevent cracks.
ce certificate yhzs35 moving concrete batching plant muhammad amjad best selling sand china simple 35m3/fh mini concrete batching plant supplier to mix concrete mortar
mixer beton reimer untuk dijual motorized projector screen hot sale hzs75 low price conc mixture machine made in pakistan price
How to mix concrete manually (by hand) Proper mixing of concrete ingredient is very much necessary as it affects the quality of concrete in its fresh state as well as in hardened state. A concrete is said to be well mixed if it fulfills the following requirements. Concrete mix should be uniform in colour
concrete vibrator flexible shaft poker needle head hose shaft china commercial planetary cake mixer electric universal food shanghai machinery exhibitionmobile construction material recycling equipment
Ready mix concrete is a special concrete mixer used for mass concrete construction with great quality control. Ready Mixed Concrete is a tailor – made concrete that is manufactured in a factory or within a batching plant based on the standard required specifications. The prepared concrete mixed is then taken to the work site within transit mixers mounted over a truck.
Mixing small quantities by mechanical mixer. Concrete can be mixed in one of two ways for household projects: in a mechanical mixer, or by hand on a board or in a wheelbarrow. Mechanical mixing is less strenuous and much more reliable than hand mixing. The latter should therefore be used only for very small quantities.
A concrete batching plant is the essential equipment for processing concrete, and a concrete mixer truck must be the essential device to transfer concrete. As we all know, if the concrete do not mixing, it will be solid very soon, so keep mixing b...
Sep 11, 2019 · Astronauts Try Mixing Concrete in Space. What sounds like a slap-stick comedy shtick is actually solid science. With so much of humanity’s space-faring future involving habitats, other ...
Jul 17, 2017 · How to Dispose of Leftover Concrete. It is very possible that you will have some concrete left over when you finish that masonry project. Disposing of it can be a problem or an added benefit. Let's look at some of the options available.
Sep 01, 2004 · Trucks Solve Small Concrete Pour Issue ... “It is a mobile mixing unit which carries — in separate bins — sand, stone, cement and water,” says Mullin. ... Because they have proven very ...
Dec 17, 2019 · The more water you use to mix the very fluid concrete, the weaker the concrete mix. The less water used to mix the concrete, which is somewhat dry but workable, the stronger the concrete mix. Correct concrete mixing ratios are achieved by measuring the dry materials using buckets or some other kind of measuring device.
2013 factory price preformed used cement equipment machine manufacturers machine
Small concrete mixer 4×4. Small concrete mixer 4×4 with 1.400 litre drum (308 gal UK – 370 gal US), 180 litre (39 gal UK – 47 gal US) shovel articulated chassis. The Carmix ONE mobile concrete mixer works with an operating speed from 0 to 4,35 mph and a road transfer speed from 0 to 8,7 mph.
Mar 01, 2020 · Then, add 3 quarts of water for every 80 pounds of Quikrete, and use a hoe to mix the water and concrete together. When the concrete is ready, it should feel like wet oatmeal and hold its shape when you squeeze it. To learn how to mix quikrete with a machine, keep reading!
Creative Plastic Concepts Small Mixing Tub 20-in W x 28-in L x 6-in D Drywall Mud Pan at Lowe's. This 10 gallon mixing tub is flexible, heavy duty and durable. It can be used to mix concrete, drywall, and stucco. It can also be used for gardening
Small concrete pump——mixing pump, the use efficiency of this kind of small concrete pump can reach 4-6 times of the traditional stationary mixer and concrete pump, the economic efficiency has made great progress. The biggest feature is the mixing pump type makes the mixing and pumping combination, it can move convenient and flexible with high …
fibre sintetiche 300t steel cement silo concrete mixing plant 60m3/h orbit construction equipment manufacturer for sale
Dec 19, 2019 · The mixer stays running throughout the pour, and at the end of the day, I just give the drum a final rinse and dump that small amount of water. Mixing Concrete in a Wheelbarrow. It’s not always worth the time and effort to tow my mixer to the site and set it up. On very small pours, it’s often easier to mix the concrete by hand in a ...
After the water is added, the concrete will be more difficult to mix, unless you have a very powerful drill. 1. Weigh out all of the DRY material and add it to a bucket (Sacked Concrete Mix, Dry Pigment, Dry Water Reducer, Fiber, or any all-in-one Admixture like CHENG Pro-Formula).
mixer beton reimer untuk dijual two sets aimix 50t bolted cement silo exported to uk china meaning of c25 in concrete mixt manufacturer dry
Jul 27, 2008 · Mixing concrete for small jobs. ... Was a builder's labourer for a day once mixing cement all day as a favour to a friend - never again it's really hard work. and i ...
Small concrete batching plant for sale cover a smaller area and are more convenient for transportation. They are simpler to install than the large concrete mixing plants, also are economical and practical and are usually built in smaller rural areas at the county level.
Mixing concrete is a delicate balancing act; choosing a concrete mix that is pre-mixed by our expert team will ensure that you get the quality of concrete you need. Mixing concrete by hand requires a lot of time and effort, and can become costly if you under or overestimate the amount of concrete you need or mix a poor slump.
If you have any questions about our products and services, please put your questions in the form below.
We will reply you as soon as possible within 24 hours. thank you!
Any personal information you leave with us will be kept strictly confidential and will not be passed on to
any third party, so please rest assured! | <urn:uuid:10a2061e-c93a-4644-8ca0-44134aaecb0f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.instalacjecyfrowe.pl/PRODUCT/Crusher_machine/jRtoOk | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.931806 | 1,714 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Construction As The Biggest Resource
When it comes to the construction premises and matters, Grounded group ranks up as the most safest and dynamic group of Australia. The company has done a marvellous job in the domains of construction and the development regarding Installation, refurbishment and relocation of different camps and structures. The group is not only known for breaking the rock up and spreading the dust around, but it is known for the unique development of the buildings and camps in an adequate way. Along with this, Grounded Group is specialized in the installation of both permanent and temporary modular and antique portable building which is one of the most trusted and reliable product of the group. Grounded Group is also empowering the norms of mining portable buildings which plays an important in the world of buildings and camps. Portable building is one of the most crucial projects of the decades and demands a very authentic and skilful personal to be employed in the task. Grounded Group incorporates the best parameters which assures the safety and reliability of portable building projects. The biggest key trait of Grounded Group is the involvement of quality assurance while making new camps and buildings. Grounded Group is investing hard in the zones of portable buildings and playing a lead role in the society because of its adequacy and safety decorum’s.
Safety and Construction
Many Companies try their best to play their part as the safest construction group or as the most reliable construction and portable building partners but they remain inconsistent. The construction and development of transportable mine camps is one of the finest products of a construction company and groups. These mine camps plays and important role in any kind of sectors because they are transportable and handled by one of the most skilful group known as Grounded Group. A construction company needs to be safe because of their role in the society and they cover a huge area. If the process gets faulty, a huge destruction can be caused by the decay. So in that case a single mistake can lead any construction company towards destruction. The working Personal should be trained and needs to play their part with honesty and loyalty so that they can gain the trust from their company. These projects are done on a larger scale and a single mismanagement could be able to break the peace. In this matter, the companies need to incorporate fine building and construction material so that they can avoid the errors and mitigate the risk of crashes.
Management of Natural Disasters
The second most important thing is the survival of earth quakes and the after effects caused by these earth quakes. A building must be able enough to survive the shocks of earth quakes because it happens naturally and could not judge and controlled and that is why companies equip the best inventory to make their buildings safer and long lasting. These factors play an important role in the dynamics of a construction group or a company. They need to focus on their mining portable building solutions so that they can survive the natural disasters without causing any destruction.
For more information please visit; https://www.groundedgroup.com.au | <urn:uuid:e026922b-e1c7-422b-a061-c9c4022a16a6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://libreproyecto.com/construction-as-the-biggest-resource/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.960765 | 606 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Reflux Radio brings you the third episode in this series and explores the history, causes, symptoms and treatments for H-pylori. There is a fascinating back story to the discovery of this common infection and how it was found to be one of the most important causes of peptic ulcers and not excess stomach acid as was previously thought. The podcast looks at how prevalent it is within the population and whether it is more common in different parts of the world. Dr Adam Harris, who was awarded an MD for his original research on peptic ulcers and Helicobacter pylori in 1995, explains the symptoms and how these need to be distinguished between reflux and dyspepsia. Sue and Adam go on to discuss the test and treatments that are available to patients who are infected and how effective a course of antibiotics is on eradicating it. They debate whether antibiotics make people`s reflux symptoms worse and the associations between H-pylori, Barrett`s Oesophagus and stomach cancer. Finally, Adam tells us about what his hopes are for the future for those diagnosed with Helicobacter.
The views and information contained within this podcast do not constitute medical advice. Any opinions expressed are those of the relevant individuals and do not necessarily reflect the views of RefluxUK and may be subject to change without notice. | <urn:uuid:eddd20b3-8f70-4a76-81ba-9219525810d4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.buzzsprout.com/1773461/8636665 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.95992 | 270 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Although similar issues are present in all media, there are unique concerns as well. We’ll discuss the media types separately first. Then we’ll offer a list of suggested convictions to build into your child to help him make wise media entertainment choices.
You may not agree with where we have drawn our lines as a family. The issue isn’t what we believe; it’s what you and your family stand for and are holding as a conviction.
Television has always had its critics, but in the past, although much programming may have been a waste of time, it was at least innocuous. No more. In addition to the unrealistic view of life that most TV programming presents, now we face increasing doses of violence, sex and sexual perversions, off-color jokes, cynicism, bad language, and the glamorization of sinful and perverse behavior. And it’s not just the programming that is offensive; much advertising glamorizes horrible attitudes and is downright lewd. Unfortunately, advertisements are not rated.
Yes, there are some wholesome programs. We repeat, not all television is bad.
But the garbage spewing from the screen is increasingly foul. Television has become so repulsive that even the federal government has become more involved by requiring warning labels on all programs. The ratings may be of some help to you, but stay on guard. You can be confident that the world view supporting the ratings is not biblically based. How you and the person rating a program establish standards may be miles apart.
The bottom line with TV is that we parents have to be incredibly involved in determining what we will allow our teens to watch and in what quantity.
If you can pull it off, consider pulling the plug—don’t watch at all. You and your children really won’t miss much, and the benefits could be enormous. You may want to give this serious consideration.
But if television remains a viewing option in your home, consider:
- Not allowing TV viewing by children without prior approval by a parent.
- Limiting TV viewing to no more than 30 to 60 minutes per day or a certain number of hours per week.
- Videotaping favorite shows. Then you can choose the ideal time for viewing, and save time by skipping over commercials.
Sometimes, though, no matter how careful you are, something slips by. A number of times, we will see something flash on the screen and we’ll say, “Turn it off.” Our children will complain, “It’s not that bad,” or “It’s almost over.” In spite of their complaints, they are seeing our convictions lived out.
Cable television provides a plethora of special-interest channels, including religious broadcasting, that offer outstanding information and entertainment. But also on cable, some movie channels show feature-length films uncut.
If you have subscribed to some of the movie channels on cable TV, you may need to reconsider that choice because you may not know what your child is seeing at 3:30 in the afternoon. The cable movie networks avoid showing R-rated movies until after 7:00 p.m., but these days it doesn’t take an R-rated movie for your children to see things they shouldn’t.
And at night when the babysitter is watching or after you have gone to bed and a child sneaks back downstairs, he could be exposed to something graphic.
For these reasons we have drawn a line in the sand in the Rainey home: we don’t subscribe to cable. As a result we don’t enjoy some of the advantages, but more important, we don’t have the distractions and temptations. And we have the opportunity to enjoy more time together.
The first thing to do is to stop making movie decisions based on the movie ratings system. The best approach is to see a movie before you decide whether or not your child should see it. However, in previewing movies for your child, you may have to endure something you don’t want to file in your brain, either.
Until Hollywood cleans up its act, you might want to adopt the policy of curtailing this form of entertainment.
Nearly every movie is released in video within a few months of its initial release. Resist the urge to see the newest movie within a week of its release. This gives you time to collect reviews, seek out other information on just what a movie contains, and carefully listen to what others you respect have to say about the movie.
Related to bad language in movies, sometimes one of our teenagers will say, “I hear those words at school all the time. What’s the difference?”
We respond: “You hear it enough at school. You don’t need to hear it here too.” Here are some resources that will help you evaluate the suitability of movies:
Just a few years ago most of us would have thought the Internet was just an information highway. Today we know that you can find almost anything along that highway, and it’s not a safe road for an unprepared, novice teenage driver.
Because the material is so easily accessible, we are even more concerned about the Internet than we are about television. The Internet offers a vast array of educational information on virtually every subject. But it is also an enormous clearinghouse for hard-core pornography. Supposedly the word sex is the most searched for word on the Internet.
All it takes is a couple of mouse clicks and your child indicating he is age 21, and the pornographic images will be downloading on your computer.
As a result, we control our children’s access to the Internet through various means. We strongly recommend some type of screening software, such as Cybersitter. Such software will deny visitation to certain categories of Web sites.
One of the largest subscription services recently took a stand against pornography by being the first to offer a porn-free Internet service. (For more information, contact FlashNet Communications.)
We also encourage you to make sure your home computer is in a very public room of your house. If that’s not possible, insist on a no-computer-use-with-the-door-closed policy, and no Internet use when the parents are gone or later at night when you may be asleep. This is not child’s play; the Internet is a very dangerous trap.
Stay involved in your children’s lives in this area by asking them if they are visiting any Web sites that they shouldn’t be. It never hurts to ask. And it never hurts to look and see what sites they have been visiting. Every computer has a memory that logs every step taken. Be careful about assuming your child would never drive down the information highway to the wrong part of town.
Computer and Video Games
Many of the games are harmless, involving sports and good-guy-versus-bad-guy story lines. But others are tasteless or decidedly evil in tone. Our suggestion on games is similar to that given on most media: Stay involved in what your child borrows or buys. Since such games often are non-returnable, make sure your child understands that if you later decide the game’s content is unacceptable, it’s his loss.
Reviews of games are available in computer magazines (check the library or on the Internet), and demo disks often can be obtained that show a game’s features. The rating system for video and computer games may help too.
All of this involvement takes time, but it’s well worth the effort. Do you want your preadolescent to spend hours perfecting his effectiveness at blowing people away in computer or video games? You must decide.
In their early adolescence, we work on helping our teens understand the overt and subtle messages communicated through the music they listen to. We try to convince them how important it is to put good things into their heads, because what goes in stays in and shapes their thinking and their feelings.
Since music is an area more dictated by personal tastes, parents should approach the topic shrewdly and wisely. Particularly as your child gets older, your ability to understand his tastes and why he likes certain kinds of music is critical. You are a coach; you want him to understand for himself how different types of music will affect his emotions and moods, especially how music can play a significant role in romantic relationships with the opposite sex.
With our current young teens (they are 13 and 15), we are quite aggressive in monitoring what they listen to. In fact, except for classical music we do not let them listen to stations playing secular music. As our 13-year-old goes to sleep at night, she listens to instrumental praise music.
So that we don’t leave the wrong impression, each of our older teenagers has done some experimenting with types of secular music that we found questionable. They were not dabbling with extreme, vulgar, way-out-there stuff with garbage lyrics. But they have done some exploring. Eventually they have all come back to Christian or acceptable secular music.
The important thing is to engage your child in ongoing discussions.
When one of our daughters was 16 or so, I (Barbara) observed that she was alternately listening to secular and Christian music. The secular music was on a radio station that played Top 40 pop from the 1980s and the 1990s.
I would walk into her room when she was studying and sit down on her bed. Sometimes I was surprised by the suggestive lyrics in the songs. I would ask our daughter, “Do you know what that is saying?”
“I turn it off when the bad stuff comes on,” she’d answer.
“So, you’ve listened to it enough to know when the bad parts are coming?” I would ask. “By then it is already in your head.”
We talked this through a number of times over a period of a few months. Our daughter is no longer listening to that secular music. I never told her she couldn’t listen to that music; I just asked questions that made her think about what she was doing.
Books and Magazines
Unfortunately, you can’t blindly expect publications you may have enjoyed as a teenager to be acceptable for your child.
When I (Barbara) was a teenager in the sixties, I loved looking at Teen and Seventeen magazines. When Ashley became a teenager I thought it would be so cool to get her a subscription to Seventeen. But when I saw the content–with its emphasis on the body, sex, romance, and the externals—I was appalled. In all of Ashley’s teenage years, she probably only had one or two copies.
About the only teen magazines we’ve been comfortable with are the excellent publications Brio (for girls) and Breakaway (for boys) from Focus on the Family. Another good one is Campus Life.
Parents need to keep an eye out for adolescent girls reading romances, which can stir up romantic or even sexual emotions. Boys need to be steered away from books that are overly violent or have explicit sexual content.
Taking into consideration all of the information we’ve presented in this article, we suggest that the following list of convictions on media be shaped in every child:
- I need to allow Jesus Christ to be Lord over all forms of media that I allow in my life. What would Jesus do, listen to, read, and watch? is a great question to ask.
- I need to understand that what I allow to come into my mind can affect the way I think and live.
- I need to stand firm and turn away from media temptations quickly.
Adapted from Parenting Today’s Adolescent: Helping Your Child Avoid the Traps of the Preteen and Teen Years. Copyright 1998 by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. Used by permission of Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers. | <urn:uuid:62e121f1-594c-4809-b8a6-9c0ce76c8c2c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.familylife.com/articles/topics/life-issues/challenges/media-and-entertainment/teaching-your-child-to-make-wise-media-entertainment-choices/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.963612 | 2,518 | 2.15625 | 2 |
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication” – Leonardo da Vinci
Wabi-Sabi – a Japanese term – is a form of appreciation for the beauty of simplicity. It is an idea foreign to many westerners.
Wabi means a lack of materialistic ‘wealth’ while feeling free from a need of worldly things. Sabi is defined by a feeling of solitude and loneliness described in Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds as “the feeling you might have while walking alone on a deserted beach deep in contemplation.”
Together, the terms meld to give tribute to simplicity.
A story titled “The Fish Story,” as told in Presentation Zen, talks of the importance of reducing something to its essential form:
Vijay opened a store and put up a “we sell fresh fish here” sign. His father suggested taking out ‘we,’ because it gave the vibe that the company was more emphasized than the customer. The sign was changed to ‘Fresh fish sold here.’
Next, his brother suggested removing the word ‘here,’ as it was obvious where the fish was being sold. ‘Here’ was nixed and the sign read ‘Fresh fish sold.’
His sister said ‘sold’ could be removed from the sign because where else would it be sold? What remained was ‘Fresh fish.’
Finally, a neighbor mentioned the freshness of the fish was evident from the fish itself.
The sign simply said “FISH” at the point when Vijay realized the smell and appearance of his shop made the fact he sold fish obvious. So, in its final form, the sign became a picture of a fish with the word “fresh” inside.
“By stripping down an image to its essential meaning, an artist can amplify that meaning.” – Scott McCloud
How close to Wabi-Sabi are we in our life? Why?
In western culture, grunge is popular: a non-restrictive, messy, chaotic style because we believe less is not more. It’s proof that many of us aren’t close to Wabi-Sabi in our lives.
This isn’t good in a society that sees so many messages.
According to the American Marketing Association,“The average consumer is exposed to up to 10,000 brand messages a day.”
What does that mean for your presentation? It’s in competition with many other messages, and most of those messages lean toward the grunge style. Why? Because people think more is better.
More is easier – as Churchill says, ‘I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter’– but it isn’t better.
Simplicity can be confused with emptiness, and while emptiness is always simple, simplicity is not always empty. | <urn:uuid:3ba1300e-0baf-468a-84db-2cd0c60ecfe7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://prezentium.com/how-wabi-sabi-amplifies-through-simplification/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.973581 | 617 | 2.46875 | 2 |
Meryl Streep has had it.
And she’s not the only one. Looks like someone’s Bacon Number is one.
A new campaign launched by the Center for Reproductive Rights aims to #DrawTheLine when it comes to reproductive health care rights. I spoke with Julie Rikelman, the litigation director at the Center for Reproductive Rights via email to learn more about the social media campaign and its goals IRL.
The Center for Reproductive Rights, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, is “the only global legal advocacy organization dedicated exclusively to advancing and defending reproductive rights” which “fights to ensure strong legal protections for reproductive rights, and affordable and unhindered access to a full range of reproductive health care services—including contraception, pregnancy care, abortion, and fertility treatments.” As a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, the Center does not support nor oppose candidates for election. “This can’t be about a single election or candidate or party,” said Rikelman.
Nonetheless, the Center is highly concerned at recent legislative and political assaults on women’s right to safe and accessible reproductive health care, including increasing restrictions on abortion to access, battles over contraceptive coverage under the Affordable Care Act, and other reproductive health issues.
“There are generations of Americans who do not know of a time before Roe v Wade, and so it’s difficult to imagine a day when women could not have safe and legal access to abortion. But this fight isn’t just about abortion, and we hope to reach not only those young people, but Americans from every walk of life,” explained Rikelman.
“This campaign is about activating everyone who cares about women having the right and access to a full range of reproductive health care —including birth control, cancer screenings, abortion, pregnancy care, and fertility treatments.”
The Draw the Line campaign, according to Rikelman, is “building a movement to rescue women’s health from political and partisan games” through leveraging its star power—celebrities involved include Amy Poehler, Lisa Kudrow, Sara Silverman, Billy Crudup, Olympia Dukakis, and, of course, Kevin Bacon and Meryl Streep — to garner support for the organization’s Bill of Reproductive Rights.
Rikelman explained, “The Draw the Line campaign is primarily aimed at amassing hundreds of thousands of signatures, and supporters are encouraged to help us do that by emailing their friends and family to urge them to sign as well! It also includes sharing the campaign and videos far and wide among their social networks on sites like Facebook, Twitter, Pintrest and Google+. And you can support the campaign and the Center’s work by donating.” Since the campaign’s launch on Tuesday, over 66,000 people have already signed the Bill, and the signatures keep coming in. Once enough signatures are collected, the Center plans to present the Bill of Reproductive Rights to the federal government, state legislators, and politicians across the country to “tell them that these are fundamental inalienable human rights that they must guarantee and defend for all.” As an added bonus, signing the petition earns you a video shout-out from Amy Poehler.
As Thursday night’s vice presidential debate discussion of abortion indicates, Americans have a long way to go before they consider reproductive rights to be inalienable human rights — and very likely, some never will. But in the meantime, the Center for Reproductive Rights will continue to draw the line across the internet, and encourage others to do the same. | <urn:uuid:a1e93938-020b-4938-81fc-64fd01bc1508> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mic.com/articles/16428/draw-the-line-why-kevin-bacon-and-meryl-streep-want-you-to-stand-up-for-reproductive-rights | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.937376 | 760 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Glaucoma is the name given to a group of conditions in which the optic nerve suffers a characteristic form of damage at the back of the eye which is often associated with a raised level of intraocular pressure. It can cause irreversible vision loss if left untreated. Fortunately glaucoma is easily treated with eye drops if diagnosed early but despite this it is still one of the biggest causes of blindness in the developed World. Learn more by reading our Article on Glaucoma.
If you are concerned about glaucoma or have been identified as being at risk we can provide a NICE compliant diagnostic examination performed by Dr Jones who holds the College of Optometrists Higher Diploma in Glaucoma which will provide you with an diagnosis and treatment if required.
Alternatively, if you already have been diagnosed with glaucoma and no longer want to have the inconvenience of attending the hospital for your follow up visits, we are able to provide after care at a time that is convenient to you.
We comply fully with the recently published guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence on diagnosing, treatment and monitoring of patients with glaucoma or who are at risk of developing the disease. | <urn:uuid:a05bacbb-2043-442d-a7ec-27427b21c08c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jonesandmurphy.com/eye-care/glaucoma/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.961219 | 246 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Get the Naturopathy Treatment for Diabetes in India
By: Nimba - February 15, 2022
In today’s fast-paced culture, people frequently choose the easy and quick road. For example, a person suffering from a minor headache will choose paracetamol over an oil massage or rest. It is difficult for a human body to keep pace with the amount at which the world spins around them, and then they often fail to maintain their health and overall well-being. Naturopathy Treatment for Diabetes is one of the most effective therapies practised nowadays that is beneficial to your health and aids in the monitoring of your blood sugar level.
Patience is the key to everything, and you must be patient if you want to conquer your chronic conditions. Diabetes, in this scenario, is a chronic condition. If you have diabetes, you know that while you may live a regular life, it can be difficult at times. You are exhausted after only a few minutes of exercising. If you’re having a hard time resisting your favorite foods, Anxiety about maintaining optimal blood sugar levels and the need for constant monitoring. Frequent bathroom visits, particularly getting up in the middle of the night to empty your bladder and then finding it difficult to fall back asleep, taking tablets as if they were peanuts every now and then, and being concerned about how the adverse effects of these daily dosages of medicine may influence your body and mind If you’re tired of the ups and downs of diabetes, naturopathy may be the solution you’re looking for.
Learn more about how naturopathy is used to treat chronic diseases and what therapies are used in the process of healing diabetes using naturopathy. Naturopathy is a type of treatment that uses natural ingredients to assist a person cure their body from the inside and revitalize their body.
Difference between Allopathy and Naturopathy for diabetes
Allopathic therapy often focuses on the symptoms of existing physiological discomforts or disorders. Powerful radiation, chemical medications, psychiatry, surgery, and strong chemical drugs are used in this therapy. Typically, the focus is on addressing the problem at the moment rather than looking ahead.
On the other hand, skilled and professional naturopaths adopt a different strategy. The primary goal for them is disease prevention. Furthermore, naturopaths aim to find the root causes of the ailment and assist in eradicating them through detoxification and proper nutritional balance.
Naturopathy advocates the use of herbs, organic foods, and nutrients to treat both the disease’s underlying cause and the illness itself. There are no harmful negative effects to be found here. It seeks to get to the bottom of the problem and then provides a good, long-term solution. Holistic healing is risk-free and has no negative side effects. Naturopathy does not require any surgical procedures like current allopathic therapies.
Can Naturopathy Cure Diabetes
Because of its holistic approach, naturopathy has emerged as a successful alternative therapy for the treatment of diabetes. Naturopathy therapy aids in the management of blood sugar levels. It is also effective in the reversal of type 2 diabetes with no adverse effects.
Why Is Naturopathy Effective In Treatment Of Type 2 Diabetes?
Type 2 diabetes is classified as a lifestyle disorder since its underlying cause is the patient’s poor lifestyle. This explains the benefit of naturopathy in the treatment of diabetes, since it recommends behavioral and lifestyle adjustments tailored to a patient’s specific needs. Instead of focusing on specific treatments to control blood sugar levels, naturopathic diabetes therapy focuses on enhancing the patient’s general well-being and immunity. Along with diabetes therapy, this aids in the prevention and control of other lifestyle disorders such as strokes, high blood pressure, stress, weight problems, renal failure, eyesight loss, and so on.
Yoga Poses For Diabetes
Your body must be in tune with nature. A yoga retreat, when practiced on a regular basis, may be the most effective method to engage your mind, spirit, and body with nature. Type 2 diabetes requires a different approach than type 1 diabetes since reducing sugar intake is essential for individuals with type 2 diabetes but not for those with type 1.
Yoga postures that are beneficial for diabetes therapy include:
Kapalbhati Pranayama is a breathing technique that improves pancreatic effectiveness. As a result, it increases the release of insulin in your body in order to keep blood glucose levels stable.
This posture strengthens and regulates the pancreas. As a result, this position is appropriate for diabetics. It also works to strengthen the abdominal muscles, improve digestion, and avoid abdominal cramps.
This position works the hamstrings, rotator cuff, and spinal extensors. It promotes relaxation, which aids in the formation of insulin-producing beta cells.
In this posture, your spinal extensors, triceps brachii, and quadriceps muscles all work simultaneously. As a consequence, your muscular strength will improve. It eventually reduces your blood sugar levels.
It’s the ultimate in relaxation. This posture not only soothes the body but also the mind. Practice this posture at the end of your yoga session,
This posture can help you regulate your blood pressure and reduce your blood sugar levels if you practise it on a regular basis. In addition, the legs up the wall position calms your body by increasing blood circulation and energy levels.
This posture opens up your body and allows your internal organs to perform more effectively. As a result, it improves blood circulation and boosts insulin sensitivity, allowing you to better regulate your blood sugar levels.
It is another helpful diabetes control yoga practise. It helps to control your blood sugar levels by strengthening the pancreas and stimulating the secretion of insulin. In addition, it enhances the condition of your kidneys and liver. These people are at a greater risk of developing diabetic complications.
Patients with diabetes who have unhealthy lifestyles should practise halasana. It aids in the reduction of abdominal fat and increases insulin secretion in the body. As a consequence, it regulates your blood sugar levels, and consistent practice of this yoga asana lowers your risk of type 2 diabetes.
Naturopathy Therapies For Diabetes
Patients with diabetes and cardiovascular disease may benefit from hydrotherapy. It aids in the reduction of several of the consequences of diabetes, such as blood sugar, blood pressure, and body weight, while also boosting blood circulation.
The most prevalent kind of acupuncture used to treat diabetes is electroacupuncture. An acupuncturist puts a pair of needles into each acupuncture point and sends an electrical impulse from one needle to the next. This medication appears to be useful in the treatment of diabetic neuropathy pain.
Diabetes patients are under a great deal of stress. Even among diabetics, this tends to raise blood sugar levels. Abhyangam relaxes the muscles and improves circulation in the body. It also helps by boosting glucose absorption and the quantity of insulin required to treat impaired glucose levels in the body.
Biofeedback treatment assists patients in gaining control of their blood pressure and blood sugar levels. It also eases migraine or tension headache discomfort. It is mostly used for regaining muscular control in paralysis, controlling heartbeat abnormalities, blood circulation issues, and treating digestive diseases.
Naturopathy, Change Your Focus @ Nimba Nature Cure Village
Nimba Nature Cure Village is a premier naturopathy treatment centre in Gujarat. After a detailed study of the patient profile, our trained dieticians offer dietary adjustments to treat diabetes with naturopathy. To achieve the best results, we mix a nutritional plan with yoga, meditation, and different activities to realign the mind-body balance. Based on the patient’s needs, botanical medications and herbal nutritional supplements are also recommended. We use a scientific approach to diabetes therapy through naturopathy, which involves evaluating biomarkers before and after treatment. All patients say that naturopathy has helped them regain physical and mental energy, which helps to keep the mind in sync with pleasant ideas and sensations.
The Nimba Nature Cure Village is set among lush greenery and provides a tranquil refuge in nature. It has world-class therapy, relaxation, rejuvenation, exercise, and entertainment facilities. Do you want to know if naturopathy therapy for diabetes will work for you? So, no more pondering. Simply give us a call or visit our retreat, and our specialists would be pleased to clear up any confusion. | <urn:uuid:4418d599-8394-40b8-9307-ce0889fffea8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nimba.in/get-the-naturopathy-treatment-for-diabetes-in-india/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.900968 | 1,819 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Conservation - Royal Coachman Lodge's EffortsThe Royal Coachman Lodge is concerned about the salmon populations around the world, and Alaska.
We are fortunate to have very stable salmon runs, but they need to be protected to keep them that way. Threats from the Pebble Mine, over fishing, salmon anemia from salmon farms, and habitat destruction could all play a role in destroying one of the largest intact salmon ecosystems left in the world. Royal Coachman Lodge, and Copper River Lodge have helped raise, donated, or donated trips valued over $250,000 in the last 6 years to conservation causes!
On this page we will try to keep you updated on current threats.
In 2017 the Royal Coachman Lodge and the Copper River Lodge matched donations, with the the George Hauer foundation, up to $10,000 to help fight the Pebble Mine. This was also matched by Trout Unlimited through the Sportsman's match. As a result we have now raised over $250,000 in just the last 6 years to stop this destructive mine. This was so successful that we plan to match donations again in 2018. Please contact us if you want to have your donation matched.
Royal Coachman Lodge also sponsors two students every year at the Bristol Bay Guide Academy. This is a guide school to teach local youth how to get in the sport fishing business. It is essential that the sport fishing industry supports the local communities, and this is a great way to start the process.
Our greatest fight at this point is trying to slow down or stop Pebble Mine which could become the largest open pit mine in the world. The mine is located between the two largest salmon producing drainages in Alaska, the Nushagak and the Kvijack. Please support the agencies that are fighting this mine: Trout Unlimited, the Conservation Fund, the Nature Conservancy, and the Sportsman's Alliance.
Recent News:As you might have heard Scott Pruitt of the EPA has slowed our progress to a standstill, and threatens to erase our years of hard work. A permit application from Pebble Partnership will most likely be occurring.
For the most up to date information on the Pebble Mine please go to:
Bristol Bay needs every sportsman and woman that has fished, or wants to fish, Bristol Bay to make a donation this summer! We cannot let these generous donations and matches go unfulfilled and, most importantly, we cannot allow foreign mining companies to devastate the world’s greatest Sockeye run. Bristol Bay’s fish, wildlife, and people are depending on us to support them.
If you want to make a donation please click on this link, every donation helps!
IF YOU WANT YOUR DONATION QUADRUPLED YOU HAVE TO MENTION SWEETWATER TRAVEL, COPPER RIVER LODGE, OR ROYAL COACHMAN LODGE, IN THE MEMO OF YOUR DONATION.
If you want to learn more on why this is the wrong mine in the wrong place please click here….
Thank you for your support!
Recent News 2019:
The Nushagak Electric Coopeartive is proposing a Hydroelectric Plant on the Nuyakuk River in the Tikchik National park at the Nuyakuk falls. This is Just 3 miles downstream from the Royal Coachman Lodge. We host 10 -12 anglers per week and operate 16-18 weeks of each summer from June to early October. Because of close proximity to this site and all the time we spend there we feel we know this area more than anyone and we have great concerns if this project was to go through. We are working to stop this project and we want your support to help us stop this.
Here is a video of what may be changed forever if the Hydro plant goes through.
Video link https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1n3nuuplqk8rqje/AABMho7crDeKuNvL3KDIMH1ra?dl=0&preview=Falls+-+Final+-+Vimeo.mp4
You can get more information from the FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) You can follow this link and see public comments.
Go to : https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/elibrary.asp
·-Go to Elibrary
·-Hit advance search
·-Type in the Docket number: P-14873
·-Click the Hydro box
Following are issues that we believe should be studied or addressed prior to allowing the Nuyakuk hydro project to continue:
- The effect of the hydro turbines on not only on sockeye, king and coho salmon smolt but also on pink salmon alevin and fry. Thousands of pink salmon spawn above the Nuyakuk falls and in the Tikchik river on even numbered years. As you may know, the pink salmon do not stay in the system until reaching the smolt stage. They drift/swim downstream shortly after hatching and may be more sensitive to turbines than the larger smolt sized fish.
- We also believe that 2 years of studies relating to salmon runs moving through the falls and smolt/Alvin downstream migration is not sufficient to fully understand the fish movement through the affected area. The salmon in this system have 2 to 5-year life cycles. Varying water conditions also affect how the fish move through this area and the study should be conducted over at least a 5-year period to fully understand their movements.
- Study the effect of resident fish moving upstream and downstream through the falls. We know that rainbow trout, grayling and even lake trout move up and down through the falls throughout the year.
- Study the oxygenation provided by the falls and its benefit to the fish in the system. With water temps rising, changing the oxygenation levels of the river could cause damage to the fishery and the ability of the anadromous fish to proceed upstream on their spawning runs.
- Study the effect of lower water flows through the falls on the birdlife that relies on the high turbidity to feed heavily on the smolt migration through the site. With the experience we have in the area, it’s obvious to us that the smolt migrate through the falls not only in springtime but throughout all the summer months.
- We’d like to see a full archaeological study along the portage trail. We’ve heard of people discovering items believed to be remains of spear heads along the trail. Digging this area up could destroy a lot of evidence pertaining to the history of the people who have used this site for thousands of years.
- Park user impacts should be investigated. Our guides and guests hike through the proposed construction area to fish below the falls nearly every day June through September. This project would adversely affect their experience (visually, fishing quality, remoteness, etc.). Therefore, we believe it would definitely have a negative impact on our business. Maybe a visitor questionnaire could be created that the local lodge guests could fill out after their stay?
- Study the effect of the noise that will be generated during the construction of this project and how it will impact park visitors and wildlife.
- Determine the minimum CFS needed to operate the turbine(s). SB 91 was worded to allow up to 30% flow to be diverted around the falls. With winter flows always going down to 3000 CFS and sometimes as low as 1000 CFS, it’s safe to say this power plant may not operate year-round.
Because there is no turning back once the powerplant is installed, we believe a full EIS (environmental impact statement) is in order for this site. We believe this project will have a cumulative effect on the salmon runs and other local wildlife. An EA (environmental assessment) is much less suited to determining the full impact this project will have on the park and its resources.
·We asked the Nushagak Cooperative engineer this question: “If after the fact you do find that you have an impact on the salmon fisheries or salmon runs, would this project get shut down?
The answer was: “No” | <urn:uuid:5f49a3b4-0d1b-43a0-b792-0b5927a39d48> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://royalcoachmanlodge.com/conservation.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.935196 | 1,807 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Corset Talk: Are Spiral Bones Better Than Flat Steels?
There's a lot of confusion and misinformation about corset bones that get circulated. I mean, first of all, why are they even called bones? The term originates from whalebone, which wasn't bone, but baleen, the filter-feeding system used by some whales. Then there's the raging debate as to whether flat steels are superior to spirals, or vice versa. Flat steel boning is made of strips of spring steel sheets, carefully blunted on its sharp edges and coated with a rust protectant. Spiral steels take the form of a flattened coil, carefully capped, and are noted for their greater mobility.
Well, not to cut myself off here, but there is no objective superiority between flat (spring) and spiral steel corset bones. It all entirely depends on the intended placement of the bone and intended use of the corset. Which is to say, there are advantages to both types --- depending on the circumstances. When ordering or purchasing a corset, knowing your preferences and needs regarding boning can be incredibly valuable. (Corsetieres interested in learning more on the subject will probably enjoy Jenni "Sparklewren" Hampshire's post on Foundations Revealed, "Comparing Steel/Spiral Boning.")
First, it's important to note that boning comes in various qualities, like every other corsetry compenent. And I don't just mean quality as a good/bad spectrum, but rather attributes. Before my last trip to England for the Oxford Conference of Corsetry, for example, I had never encountered flat steels so stiff! Except, perhaps, in my English-made Sparklewren cincher sample some years prior. Whether that's a feature or deterrent depends entirely on the intended use. Also remember that boning only supports and enhances the shape enabled by the fit patterned into the corset.
Lacing bones, which have pre-cut holes for grommets, are generally noted to also be quite stiff. On some figures, this may equate to greater stability; on others (such as curved sway-backs), this may create uncomfortable pressure. Even without lacing bones, though, it seems to be universally agreed that the grommets at center back must be supported by flat steel bones. (If there are any exceptions to be had, I would love to hear about them in the comments below!)
Conversely, spiral bones are always needed on any seam that has a lateral curve as well as a vertical contour. Any bone channel that is curved on a style line (rather than tracing a straight line down a curved form) will certainly require a spiral steel bone. Depending on the style of corset, spiral bones may be required to fit the style line.
On plus size figures, I've heard it both ways. "Flat steels are too poky, and dig in!" versus "Spiral steels aren't supportive enough!" Ultimately, this means that it may just come down to personal preference, which is no help when shopping for your first corset. (Sorry.) On bony figures, though, I would almost always recommend spiral steels. If you have a highly compressible rib cage, it may not be an issue, but with protruding ribs and hip bones, flats are liable to cause bruising. I always describe spirals as being able to achieve a "more complex" contour --- they easily trace the swell of a bust, then the curve of the ribcage, a subtle indent of the waist reduction, and then gracefully round the hip bone. This is why some corsetmakers use spirals for seams that cover the bust, even if they use flats in all the other channels. A flat steel bone, unless pre-contoured or broken in to a certain curve, will skim the outermost convex points of those curves and chafe.
Speaking of pre-contouring flat steels, do note that curved steels are not the sign of an inferior garment. Cheap plastic bones will crumple like an accordion under stress. Flat steels will mirror the curves of the corset pattern and the body that wears it, and can intentionally be curved to do so. I like to contour the center front of my corsets to minimize pressure on the solar plexus and, well, guts, as well as the side-seams on my ribbon corsets to encourage the straight ribbon edges to curve rather than simply flare.
If you're really curvy, you may be better off with spiral steels. Why? Well, as Ani DiFranco says, "What doesn't bend, breaks." Which isn't to say flats don't bend (since I just said they did), but they don't bend as far or as comfortably as spirals. At Dark Garden, I just took a friend's corset in to be repaired: two of the flat steels had snapped right on the waist line side seam. I showed our production manager and she said, "It looks to me like she's really curvy. We should replace these with spirals, because those don't break." She was right, the friend is very curvy, even without her corset on, which she wears daily for an impressively rigorous schedule of work-related travel and personal activities, and though the spiral steel corset I'd made her two years ago has worn out in some places, the bones themselves remained true. Again, your mileage may vary according to personal taste and the source of the boning in question, but it is well worth considering.
Another instance in which spiral steels may be preferable is when the corset is intended for performing. Dancers and circus performers often need the extra mobility provided by spiral boning.
Waist trainers and tightlacers are another bunch that can go either way. It may be easier to cinch to smaller reductions with spirals (results may vary!), but they may also lack the feeling of constriction and confinement that some tightlacers not only enjoy, but crave.
What's your preferred boning type and why? Share your opinions and experiences in the comments below! | <urn:uuid:c1dcb998-a0f9-440b-b8ac-0cc12a11635c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thelingerieaddict.com/2013/12/corset-talk-spiral-bones-better-flat-steels.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.959103 | 1,280 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Advances in technology raise fundamental questions for competition in financial services – and pose a challenge to economists.
In 1899, Charles H Duell, then director of the U.S. Patent Office, memorably predicted that “everything that can be invented, has already been invented.”
It is not a forecast that has aged well. But Duell’s unfortunate (and much mocked) quote does illustrate an important characteristic of technology. The speed of its adoption tends to catch people off-guard. A point that is emphatically true today.
Ten years ago, only two tech companies appeared in the top ten US firms by market cap. Today, Apple looks down on a list spearheaded by Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook. And herein lies an important conundrum for today’s competition economists.
Tech has brought a lot of benefits and in some cases it’s disrupted the status quo to increase competition. As recently noted by the Competition and Markets Authority: “algorithms can reduce transaction costs for firms, reduce frictions in markets, and give consumers greater information on which to base their decisions.”
But technology is also creating important competition and regulatory issues. There have been ongoing discussions, for example, at regulatory organisations around the world about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning on price collusion.
At the same time, firms are getting better at extracting commercial value from our information. And there is mounting concern that the business world’s reliance on data is creating significant network effects, barriers to entry and expansion, and advantages for those with access to more (and better) data.
Firms need a critical mass of data before this value can be extracted. But once operational, incumbents benefit from a cycle of superior products and service offerings (based on existing data) leading to increased data, which can be used to improve their products and services. A search engine being improved by the number of searches that are conducted is a classic example of this effect.
In financial services, the same principle could well apply. A large insurer or bank might use the data they have to get a competitive advantage over new entrants, posing a barrier to entry. Alternatively, firms may have advantages in the data they hold simply by virtue of their scale (without the need for the reinforcing mechanism described above). Arrangements that introduce data sharing, such as Open Banking, offer one method of mitigating these potential barriers, regardless of the source.
However, the pace at which markets are evolving means that policy makers will have to stay on their toes to understand if these solutions become effective or give rise to new problems.
For example, we have seen big tech firms enter financial services in other jurisdictions (Amazon in the US, Alibaba in China). They have complementary consumer data and will know much more about consumers than their rivals who are only operating in financial services.
We don’t yet know what, if any, effect this will have on the dynamics of competition. But we do know that this is a trend that raises some fundamental questions for competition policy makers. Are they adequately equipped to assess if competition is working effectively? And can they respond quickly enough to problems in fast moving markets, without making mistakes that prevent developments that would have brought significant benefits to consumers?
At the moment, economists struggle to accurately define the value of data, or explain the point at which accumulated data can lead to market power. Probably because many of the more traditional measures of market power – like market share, price trends, and margins – have little to say about it.
This is an important gap because it can influence the speed at which (or whether) markets tip, going from effective competition to ineffective competition. If we do not fully understand how (or when) data contributes to market power it will be harder to identify this tipping point using traditional competition frameworks.
A hypothetical (but not especially unlikely) example could be a free platform that provides customers access to a range of financial services. This business might follow a Facebook lifecycle, where it leaps from being a minnow – with no serious market power – to dominance based on the data it collected while offering its free service.
At face value, competition policy has not evolved at anything like the same pace as technology. How different does today’s approach look from twenty years ago? The answer is not a lot at a high level.
Certainly the fundamental legal questions we wrestle with are pretty much the same. I started my career working on mergers using a framework that basically involved defining markets. Seeing if the merging firms overlapped in any of those markets. Using a range of indicators to assess whether the merging firms held (or would be likely to gain) market power on those markets. And assessing the likely effect of the merger on competition.
Of course, it was never straightforward. We considered issues such as whether mergers might increase the risk of coordination or stifle innovation. And it has always been hard to demonstrate, on the basis of balance of probabilities, that a merger will damage long-term innovation, or indeed lead to a market tipping.
The important point though is that if we want to make sure customers continue to enjoy dynamic, competitive markets, it is essential that policy makers’ approach keeps up.
If elements of traditional analysis are no longer fit for purpose, then they should be adapted. Some of the analytical tools economists use to analyse data have improved significantly since I first started, and we are exploring ways of using data science in our analysis of markets, as well the implications for its use by the firms in those markets.
But equally, we must not throw the baby out with the bathwater. Understanding the sources of market power are as important today as ever. We shouldn’t be afraid to challenge ourselves as to how best to identify those sources. Potentially using different indicators, including metrics relating to the importance/quality and quantity of data held exclusively by a firm, and then tackle them appropriately.
Source: FCA Insight. Author: Robin Finer
Robin Finer is the FCA’s Acting Chief Economist and Director of Competition. Prior to joining the FCA in 2014, Robin was a Director of Economic Analysis at the Competition Commission, where he worked on mergers, market investigations and regulatory inquiries across a wide range of sectors. | <urn:uuid:7404ff3c-6f29-4044-9ec4-21fd9e758b3d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lscprom.co.uk/fca/big-tech-competition-dilemma/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.958609 | 1,292 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Love travelling and doing lots of fun activities with my kids!
Published November 10th 2016
Interactive fun for the curious mind
The Phenomena Factory is located inside the QVMAG Museum. It's a great interactive playground where kids get to learn all about how actions cause reactions in our physical world. Learn about kinetic energy by turning the handle fast enough on the Jaffa Machine and it might just reward you with a sweet treat. It's a place where you can make music with a thong and send rockets into space. You discover that your quietest whispers can be heard by someone standing some twenty metres away and your loudest shouts come tumbling back at you from inside a long tube. Measure how fast you can throw a ball. Are you the next champion fast bowler?
There is plenty to keep the kids busy with while mum and dad can sit down for a coffee at the Railway Café. Once you manage to drag the kids away from all the action, you can walk around the rest of the museum. There is an astronomy section and an animal display with a particular focus on the Tasmanian Tiger. This exhibit details the life and extinction of the often misunderstood thylacine. Outside, you will find the Blacksmith Shop which was functional up until 1994. On Sundays, the museum runs a free guided tour of the Blacksmith Shop.
With the summer school holidays coming up, the Phenomena Factory is a great place to keep the kids entertained. They won't even realise how much they are learning! There is plenty of parking outside the museum or you can take the free city Tiger Bus. | <urn:uuid:241e25c9-7cac-4634-a9f6-9d9b5b6c1b79> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.weekendnotes.com/phenomena-factory-queen-victoria-museum-art-gallery/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.945696 | 329 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Seventeenth and eighteenth-century Delftware was inspired by many other ceramic centers. Sources of influence included Southern European wares, such as maiolica and Faenza, the much coveted Chinese porcelain wares and later the Northern European ceramic centers, such as Nevers and Meissen. Of course, Delftware was also inspirational for these same ceramic centers. Some examples of Chinese porcelain retain Delftware marks, and Meissen potters adapted the techniques of red stoneware objects after visiting the factories in Delft. The Delft industry further influenced faience factories in Northern France throughout the eighteenth and even nineteenth centuries.
Starting in the eighteenth century, the faience produced in Northern France was directly influenced by the Northern and Southern Netherlands. This successful venture largely remained a regional industry until the middle of the nineteenth century, and has continued in the city of Desvres until present day.1
The first faience factories were established in Northern France at the turn of the eighteenth century: in the city of Lille in 1696, in Saint-Amand-les-Eaux around 1705, in Aire-sur-la-Lys around 1713, in Bailleul around 1717 and for a short run in Saint-Omer from 1710 until 1715.2 The Saint-Omer factory preceded several earthenware factories that were established later in the eighteenth century. The faience of Saint-Omer is characterized by a bluish-white background color, covered with a smooth glaze, and a glossy enamel. Its color palette was quite extensive and evolved over time. The most important of these, the Saladin-Lévesque factory, was established in 1750 and aimed to compete with the faience of the Netherlands. The factory obtained a twenty-year privilege to produce ‘faience as good and as beautiful as that of the Netherlands,’ in which the Chinese-inspired motifs painted from Delftware were combined with shell motifs that were popularized by Rouen and Lille faience.
Until the middle of the eighteenth century, the regional French production of faience was concentrated in Flanders and the Audomarois region, while tile production was centered in the city of Lille.3 In 1765, the first faience factory in the coastal Boulogne-sur-mer region was established in Desvres. Other factories followed: Boulogne sur Mer in 1772, Vron in 1798 and then Hesdin in 1808.4
The factory in Desvres was established by the notary Maître Jean-François Sta, who brought skilled Dutch workers and painters previously working in Saint-Omer and Saint-Amand-les-Eaux. The earthenware produced in this factory during the eighteenth century included dishes, plates and jugs, but also some sculptures and probably tiles. The dishes are remarkably similar to the traditional Dutch majolica wares from the seventeenth century and faience from the eighteenth century that was produced in Frisian cities, such as Makkum and Harlingen.5 As with Dutch majolica, the earthenware from Northern France is characterized by its many colors and the simple decorations. Further, only the front of the objects is tin-glazed; the reverse is lead-glazed. However, in contrast to Dutch majolica, the Northern-French wares were not fired upside down, but were placed on pins in saggars. Therefore, there is no glaze damage in the decoration on the front, and only minor glaze damage of the pins is visible on the rim on the reverse.6 The subjects are also taken from Dutch majolica, from biblical and genre scenes to portraits, landscapes, floral still lifes and scenes from daily life.
The 1770s marked a turning point in regional production, which reached its peak at the beginning of the decade when ten important faience factories were active. However, the deterioration of the factories began soon after this peak. Around 1880, the faience factory of Desmoutiers in Saint-Amand-les-Eaux and that of Aire-sur-la-Lys stopped producing faience. In 1788, the Saladin-Lévesque faience factory in Saint-Omer also stopped production. At the end of the eighteenth century, the emergence of new centers formed in Vron and Ferrière-la-Petite in 1798, and then Hesdin in 1808, redesigning the map of regional faience production. The production of faience was now focused mainly on the northeastern border and on or near the coast around two cities: Lille and Desvres.7
Desvres gradually began to play an even greater role, in particular for the production of tin-glazed tiles between 1804 and 1807, when a second factory was established. In conjunction with the burgeoning industrialization at the turn of the nineteenth century, faience factories began to produce semi-mechanical tiles. This development led to the dominance of Desvres, especially after the closure of the last factory in Lille in 1850. Throughout the entire nineteenth century, there were eight factories that produced tiles in Desvres. The potteries of the ‘Cité pottière du Pas-de-Calais’, which constituted the most important centers of the region, continued to draw their figurative decorations from the Dutch repertoire, inspired by daily life in the countryside, on which shepherds, mills, buildings and wild or domestic animals appear.
For a long time, and even still today, the early faience made in the city of Desvres was confused with that of other Northern French centers, such as Lille. But, as is illustrated, it was also confused with the early Majolica production and the Frisian wares produced in the Netherlands. This illustrates not only the interdependence of the Northern French factories, but also shows to what extent they were inspired and imitated seventeenth and eighteenth-century Dutch pottery.
1 Exh. cat. De Delft à Desvres: le merveilleux voyage des faïences et des motifs; Van Delft tot Desvres: de wonderlijke reis van faience en patronen, Dunkerque, 2018: p. 17
2 Idem, p. 17
3 Idem, p. 18
4 Idem, p. 18
5 Idem, p. 106
6 Idem, pp. 107-108
7 Idem, p. 18 | <urn:uuid:f72db250-5494-4ad6-8346-4a274a876739> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.aronson.com/delftware-inspiration-for-northern-french-ceramic-centers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.954828 | 1,376 | 2.953125 | 3 |
This is the last article you can read this month
You can read more article this month
You can read more articles this month
Sorry your limit is up for this month
FROM 1948 to 1960 the jungles of Malaya (now Malaysia) were home to communist guerillas waging a war of independence for their homelands.
The conflict was known as the “Malayan Emergency” rather than the Malayan war, so insurers would continue to cover British corporations extracting profit from misery. Like so many anti-colonial struggles of the era, the rebels had previously been funded and trained by the British to fight against Japan during World War II – Chin Peng, the communist leader, had been personally awarded an OBE medal by Supreme Allied Commander Admiral Mountbatten.
Dubbed “Britain’s Vietnam” by some historians and journalists, Britain’s experience in this war would lay the groundwork for the US involvement in Vietnam: the British military eventually defeated the guerillas only by resorting to the most brutal and inhuman methods available to them.
These methods included but were not limited to locking up all 500,000 of Malaya’s ethnic Chinese population in concentration camps called “New Villages,” burning farmland to starve rural areas of food, executing entire villages of people in incidents such as the infamous Batang Kali massacre and instituting a policy of terror against the Malayan population. At the height of the terror, the British would photograph executed independence fighters, place photographs of their mangled corpses onto millions of leaflets and drop these leaflets out of airplanes.
Among these crimes was the military policy to kill pro-independence fighters and decapitate their heads from their corpses. The existence of this policy was denied by the government but was exposed when on April 28 1952 the Daily Worker, which later became the Morning Star, released photographic evidence of decapitations.
Not only had the British military allowed these decapitations but it employed specialist Dyak tribal head-hunters from Borneo to do this work for them. The British government initially denied that the decapitations were genuine, but ended up admitting they were after the Daily Worker released a second set of photographs on May 10 1952 showing yet more evidence.
This controversy did not go unnoticed by Parliament which held a debate in the House of Commons over the issue. This eventually caught the attention of the Cabinet Office which also held a discussion over the Daily Worker decapitation photographs. The exposure of the photographs did eventually change British policy towards the war but not in a positive way. Instead of promising to cease the decapitations, the British government went into a defensive overload and began to publicly defend the practice as necessary to defeat communism.
The most notorious justification was that the decapitations were necessary for identification purposes because camera equipment would not operate in the damp climate of the Malayan jungles. The obvious problem with this justification was that if camera equipment did not work, then where did the photographs of the decapitations come from? Why were British soldiers posing and smirking in photographs with the heads of their victims?
Sadly, despite exposing the outrage to the British public, the decapitations did not cease; they continued to be a bona fide part of British colonial policy towards the Malayans up until the end of the war in 1960.
However, the impact on public perception of the colonialism and British empire itself cannot be underestimated, and laid the ground for solidarity with the emerging anti-colonial movements to come of the next two decades: the myth of the British empire being a civilising influence on barbaric savages was burst in one image.
The United States also learned — very different — lessons from the Malayan Emergency. In Vietnam it followed Britain’s use of chemical defoliants, and copied the “New Village” system of concentration camps rebranded as “Strategic Hamlets.” However the Vietnamese were not as fragmented ethnically and religiously as the Malayan people, and this method of occupier-protected villages counterposed to the local insurgents was far less effective.
Unlike Malaya, the Vietnamese also had foreign support from the Soviet Union and China, meaning that methods of starving people into submission that had worked in Malaya were far less effective in Vietnam.
From Vietnam to the present day, imperialism’s military ventures struggle to hide the the brutal reality of invading and occupying weaker nations, from the My Lai Massacre to Abu Ghraib. Instead they focus on their “jungle camera solutions” — explanations, no matter how implausible, to salve the consciences of those back home. Political answers and political alternatives from dedicated left wing press, then, remain as crucial today as they did in 1952.
You can’t buy a revolution, but you can help the only daily paper in Britain that’s fighting for one by joining the 501 club.
Just £5 a month gives you the opportunity to win one of 17 prizes, from £25 to the £501 jackpot.
By becoming a 501 Club member you are helping the Morning Star cover its printing, distribution and staff costs — help keep our paper thriving by joining!
You can’t buy a revolution, but you can help the only daily paper in Britain that’s fighting for one by become a member of the People’s Printing Press Society.
The Morning Star is a readers’ co-operative, which means you can become an owner of the paper too by buying shares in the society.
Shares are £10 each — though unlike capitalist firms, each shareholder has an equal say. Money from shares contributes directly to keep our paper thriving.
Some union branches have taken out shares of over £500 and individuals over £100.
You can’t buy a revolution, but you can help the only daily paper in Britain that’s fighting for one by donating to the Fighting Fund.
The Morning Star is unique, as a lone socialist voice in a sea of corporate media. We offer a platform for those who would otherwise never be listened to, coverage of stories that would otherwise be buried.
The rich don’t like us, and they don’t advertise with us, so we rely on you, our readers and friends. With a regular donation to our monthly Fighting Fund, we can continue to thumb our noses at the fat cats and tell truth to power.
Donate today and make a regular contribution. | <urn:uuid:9ddaae25-6a25-427d-8baf-6f5f2f4b2ad3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/how-morning-star-exposed-britains-decapitation-war-crimes | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.96899 | 1,321 | 3.515625 | 4 |
Limestone, granite, basalt crushed stone production line. December.19,2019. Crushed stone production line is a special production line for sand and stone used in construction, highway, railway and other industries. The main equipment includes jaw crusher, impact crusher, impact crusher, vibrating feeder, vibrating screen, sand washing machine.
Oct 14, 2019 Limestone coarse crusher jaw crusher. The limestone jaw crusher is usually used as the first rock crusher, and it is suited for medium-size crushing of ore and bulk materials with a compressive strength of not more than 320Mpa. Jaw crusher is divided into coarse
Limestone crusher plant is kind of special stone processing line for crushing hard mineral. To meet the production requirements, it can take coarse or fine crush for the limestone to produce stones of all sizes. This is beneficial to the deep processing of limestone in the later stage. Large amount of limestone is used as building material and ...
500TPH Canada Limestone Crusher Plant. The Limestone Crusher plant powered by JXSC Machine Factory has been put into production in Canada, this production line has an output of over 500 tons per hour.. General Information of Limestone Crusher Plant 1.Main equipment as follows Jaw crusher, impact rock crusher, vibratory feeder, single-cylinder cone crushers, vibratory screen.
Crusher run is crushed natural limestone unlike crushed asphalt that is an oil product Crusher run consists of 34 particles plus a specific blend of stone dust The stone dust fills the voids between the rocks to ensure that they are interlocked tightly and will not move with the time.
24,692 limestone crusher products are offered for sale by suppliers on Alibaba.com, of which crusher accounts for 86, plastic crushing machines accounts for 1, and tire shredders accounts for 1. A wide variety of limestone crusher options are available to you, such as 1 year, 2 years, and 1.5 years.
1,392 limestone crusher for sale products are offered for sale by suppliers on Alibaba.com, of which crusher accounts for 36, plastic crushing machines accounts for 1. A wide variety of limestone crusher for sale options are available to you, such as 1 year, 2 years, and 1.5 years. You can also choose from united states limestone crusher for ...
Minus 1 Crusher Run Limestone is produced by crushing blasted Limestone and reducing everything to 1 inch and smaller. The result is a highly compactable subbase that is ideal for building and resurfacing driveways and parking lots. Its gray color is visually distinct. Crusher Run Limestone is
Whether youre a homeowner, landscaper, or construction company, Area Sand amp Gravel has everything you need for your construction or landscaping project. We offer a large selection of rock and gravel products in various sizes and styles. . Call us at 334 567-1850 or 334 271-5008 to
Limestone Various sizes of crusher run Riprap . Stone Delivery. We deliver a variety of raw materials including limestone, crushed stone, rip rap, topsoil, and sand run to Watertown, NY and Jefferson and Oswego Counties. Need to schedule a delivery Call us today 315-583-3560.
Limestone crusher is a crushing machine which is mainly used to process all kinds of limestones. Besides, this limestone equipment is widely used in many fields, such as power plant, metallurgy, chemical, cement, bridge construction, road construction and so on.
11.19.2 Crushed Stone Processing and Pulverized Mineral Processing 18.104.22.168 Process Description 24, 25 Crushed Stone Processing Major rock types processed by the crushed stone industry include limestone, granite, dolomite, traprock, sandstone, quartz, and quartzite. Minor types include calcareous marl, marble, shell, and
process of limestone crusher. Limestone Crusher Process Limestone Crusher Process. Limestone Stone Crushing Plant Shanghai TON Company r. Limestone crushing process passing through a hopper raw limestone materials are fed by vibrating feeder into the jaw crusher evenly and gradually for primary crushing after first crushing the material will be transferred by belt conveyor to impact crusher ...
PI-2 Mobile Limestone Crusher production capacity changes between 250 to 300 tph according to hardness grade of the material to be crushed. Maximum feeding size is 950 x 950 mm. Thanks to special design of the secondary impact crusher, produced final materials have a satisfying fine material ratio and also excellent cubical shape which is a ...
Crushing operation consumes about 1.5 to 2 units of power per ton of limestone crushed. In terms of cement it would be about 2 to 3 units per ton of crushed material. Venting in crusher section. Crushers and feed transition points are vented by collecting vent gases through a bag filter.
Metso limestone crushing and screening plant high efficiency ... 2016-06-04 Stone Crushing Line, Stone Crusher, Crusher Price manufacturer supplier in China, offering High Efficiency Artificial River Stone Production Line 150TPH, Atairac Track Mounted Crusher Crawler Mobile Crusher Station for Construction YT150, Atairac Wheel Type Mobile Crushing Screening Crusher Plant for Road ...
Sandvik Limestone Impact Crusher for Sale. Metso 200 tph jaw crusher germany. Jaw Crushers An average jaw crusher is 1 to 100 tons heavy and has a power in the range of 6
The use of limestone to produce calcium carbide and white ash industry requires higher particle size and material shape of limestone. The products crushed by the traditional secondary crushing equipment have high over crushing rates and poor material shapes, which seriously affect the production efficiency and sales of limestone, and produce ...
Approved by the China National Commerce Ministry, established in 1986, located in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, covering area about 300,000 square meters, with more than 1000 employees which including RampD staffs more than 100 people, Henan Dewo is a comprehensive enterprise which integrates researching, manufacturing, market developing and service for mining crushing equipment.
Crusher Run gravel -- also known as Crush and Run, Crush N Run, Graded Aggregate Base GAB, or Aggregate Base Coarse ABC Stone -- has perhaps even more useful applications than it does names it goes by. The material is most commonly used in home projects as a compactible sub-base material. It is a combination of coarse and fine ...
Limestone Production Limestone is quarried or mined rock. The processed material is crushed and transported across sizing screens whereupon it is saturated with water to remove unwanted material before storage and transportation, or further processing. Measurement Locations 1. Over a conveyor before the final crusher 0-5 moisture to enable ...
Jun 03, 2020 Cone crusher is widely applied in metallurgical, construction, road building, chemical and phosphatic industry. Cone crusher is suitable for hard and mid-hard rocks and ores, such as iron ores, copper ores, limestone, quartz, granite, gritstone, etc. Crushing chamber type of ore used by the decisio. Related tags cone crusher.
The limestone put into a vibrating feeder from a hopper, then feed into the jaw crusher by vibrating feeder. Jaw crusher as primary crusher for limestone, then the crushed aggregate via belt conveyor transport into hammer crusher to secondary crushing. The limestone crushing process is accomplished.
Jul 30, 2020 After being crushed and processed into stone, limestone can be used in construction, highway, building materials and other industries. Limestone jaw crusher is currently widely used in the fields of ore, smelting, building materials, highways, railways, water conservancy and chemical industries.
We offer a variety of Crushed Limestone. Please note Limestone, by nature, will have variations. Images are to provide an idea of what the actual product will look like. Your computer or mobile device may show color differently than the actual product. As such, we encourage you to visit one of our locations to view our products.
According to the functions or types of Wholesale Limestone Crusher, Wholesale Limestone Crusher can be classified into many types. Be honest about your volume and choose the Whole
Getting started Limestone Crusher Limestone Crusher - Factory, Suppliers, Manufacturers from China. Our group through specialist training. Skilled expert knowledge, sturdy sense of assistance, to fulfill the provider needs of shoppers for Limestone Crusher, Hammer Rock Drill, Rock Drill With Leg, Picking Hammer,Hammer With Pick.Our goal is to create Win-win situation with our customers.
Carthage Crushed Limestone supplies product to a variety of major industries, such as glass, fiberglass, roofing products, clay targets, cast stone, animal feeds and fertilizer, to name but a few. We look forward to continuing to grow with these industries and others as our current reserves well exceed 50 years.
Limestone Crushing Plants Newest Crusher Grinding Mill. A Few Words About Us. About us. We mainly produce large and medium-sized crushing and crushing equipment, precision manufacturing, pioneering and innovative, and have become a leader in the machinery manufacturing industry at home and abroad.
A finely crushed limestone as in the crusher run, without the larger pieces. It is great for compacting and will compact tight not allowing much drainage. High-Performance Bedding HPB A chip limestone without any fines. It is a limestone that is already 93 compacted, easy
7. Russells Masonry Houston. Stone Natural Stucco amp Exterior Coating Contractors Brick-Clay-Common amp Face. 713 865-2489. 4900 Summer Rain Dr. Conroe, TX 77303. 8. Gulf Coast Limestone Inc. Lime amp Limestone Crushing amp Pulverizing Service Demolition Contractors.
Crushed Limestone Crushed limestone is used for numerous construction projects ranging from making concrete and crushed limestone can be used as a base. Additionally
The limestone crushers and mills are effective for direct-injection of dry sorbent lime or limestone during the CFB process. Below you can explore our catalog of
Limestone generally adopts dry crushing process. For metallurgical and construction use limestone, only the ore needs to be crushed and screened. If you want to
Limestone, granite, basalt crushed stone production line. December.19,2019. Crushed stone production line is a special production line for sand and stone used in | <urn:uuid:f65c823f-2bee-41ee-941a-46e1e67f5437> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tibetthirdpole.org/powder-mill-machine/Dec-31_16557.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.920626 | 2,185 | 1.726563 | 2 |
How to black out words on pdf
6/01/2010 · If the file’s not protected, and you have a pdf editor (not a reader), yes. Otherwise, you can convert it to Word with any of several programs (none of them perfect – it depends on how well the pdf file was created), do what you want in Word and convert it back to a pdf …
This site is a companion to the book Newspaper Blackout by Austin Kleon. It’s a place where anyone can share their attempts at blackout poetry. Grab a marker and a newspaper, redact the words you don’t need, and share your poem.
30/08/2018 · The black squares can be created by drawing long squares over the removed text areas and coloring them solid black. Make sure you delete the text underneath the black squares to ensure the black squares cannot be removed somehow to reveal the information.
1 Create a PDF with Editable Fields; 2 Black Out Text in Acrobat; 3 Delete a Word in a PDF Document; 4 Save a PDF as Read Only; Whiting out a line is an intuitive way to conceal errors in any
4/10/2014 · I need to black out text in a confidential document I am writing. I cannot figure out for the life of me how to do it! I cannot figure out for the life of me how to do it! carmella · 4 years ago
Easily creates PDF records out of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Text and other types of documents. Allows user to conduct multiple conversions-Converts up to 200 PDF documents at a go. Allows users to edit texts and pictures in a PDF through deleting, highlighting and adding remarks.
How to Use the Redaction Feature in Soda PDF YouTube
How to blackout text? Yahoo Answers
18/01/2012 · How to blackout text? An old friend of mine on Facebook posted a status update today. It was about a paragraph long, but all the words were blacked out except for four randomly scattered words.
How do I black out text in Adobe Reader? This tool lets you black out text and graphics in your PDF. You can easily change the redaction color, add overlay text and redaction code. Open your PDF with PDFelement. Go to “Protect” and click “Mark for Redaction”. Then use your mouse to draw an area on the text you want to black out. You can double click the redaction area to open the
Whoever posted the PDF document thought they were exercising due diligence by drawing little black boxes over the sensitive parts. Congress wasn’t impressed. 8 Steps to Redacting a PDF . Here steps to redacting a PDF, whether you’re on a PC or on a Mac. In Acrobat Pro DC: Choose Tools > Redact. The Redact toolset is displayed in the secondary toolbar. In the secondary toolbar, choose Mark for
15/09/2015 · The award-winning Soda PDF is a customizable PDF software that allows you to pick and choose the specific functions that best suit your needs. Its …
Type each word in the New Word Or Phrase text field and click Add. You can also import a text file with the list of words or phrases to search for. You can also import a text file with the list of words or phrases to search for.
“Brave New World p. 23 Copy pages from the novel, black out text, the remaining words will become a poem. (Could do this with a lot of different books!” (Could do this with a lot of different books!” “Neat idea for propaganda or poetry.
24/06/2018 · While plenty of sites and services can convert a PDF file into an image, PDF-to-Image will save each of your document’s pages as an individual JPG file without showing the text beneath your black highlighter.
23/09/2011 · I have contracts that were scanned into PDF files. I will link to these from online help, but need to black out personal and sensitive information from the PDF file before I publish. I will link to these from online help, but need to black out personal and sensitive information from the PDF file before I …
To black out text in PDF forms, upload your PDF forms to PDFfiller, or choose the form you’d like to black out in “My Forms” page and click “Fill” button. Click the second “Black Out” button and get a black square. Select the text that you want to black out by clicking and holding the button on the mouse to draw a box around the area. Release the mouse when you’re done. You can change the size
As you’ll see in the video below, with a black Sharpie, you put a rectangle around the words you would like to use in your poem. It’s tricky because since you can’t move the text on a newspaper, you have to be careful that the poem reads correctly yet still uses the words in the location on the page where they already are. Once you’ve blocked out your poem, you simply black out the
1/08/2018 · When you create and share PDF documents, your files may contain text or graphics you need to obscure to protect information that’s proprietary to your clients or your business. In other words…
Change the color to BLACK…and then HIGHLIGHT ANY TEXT YOU WANT “GREYED OUT” When you save the PDF, it appears that the highlighting is permanent, so people can’t see your information. Should solve the problem the previous poster mentioned. | <urn:uuid:c2339f85-4850-4565-856f-bda1e00c5f9c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://denderahhealingarts.com/2022/how-to-black-out-words-on-pdf/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.881308 | 1,216 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Martha Sullivan, M.S.
Associate Professor of Practice, and Chair of Industrial Design
Excellence in Teaching Award from the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Virginia Tech
The award, presented by the center to approximately nine Virginia Tech faculty members each academic year, recognizes a faculty member's effective, engaged, and dynamic approaches and achievements as an educator.
Among the goals of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning are advancing experiential learning at Virginia Tech and improving student learning through research-based instructional practices and student-centered design. According to Sullivan, her approach to teaching focuses on integrating her diverse experiences. She explained that “These three components: creative practice, teaching, and outreach, are bound together and focus my approach to working with students and colleagues on wisdom, curiosity, and compassion.”
Sullivan elaborated on her approach by providing specific techniques she has applied in her classes: “The practices I use include meditation or calming of the mind, as well as creative, generative, and reflective exercises. I also look to help establish healthy habits/rituals of working, maintain an inclusive environment, and promote activism. I employ these techniques in all classes and work relationships; sometimes these practices are implicit, but the most successful experience has been the introduction of a course titled, Mindful Designer.” She also commented on the positive impact of these techniques on her students’ experiences: “Being explicit with the students about their well being and capacity to design their own life helps them in the present moment stress of college, and many have told me later that they utilize these skills long beyond the single course.”
Chelsey Pon, a former student, described that Sullivan’s “superpower” is “natural empathy toward others, especially her students.” According to Pon, Sullivan “looks at each student as a unique, whole person and understands that their individual well-being comes before anything else.”
Relatedly, Stephanie Majewski, a current student, described Sullivan as “the most supportive professor” she has ever had: “When any of us are struggling within a project, she always reassures us to not stress because ‘we’ll figure it out together’. You can really tell she wants her students to succeed, and will do as much as she can to help us get there. I definitely wouldn’t be where I am today without her.”
One of Sullivan’s colleagues, Kathryn Clarke Albright, summarized the various ways in which Sullivan contributes to the department: “I have known Martha for a decade and she stands out among her peers through commitment to students in a spectrum of ways in and out of the classroom whether leading them on study abroad to Ecuador, China or Dubai or challenging them to make bowls in ceramics class for a fundraiser in which participants purchase a bowl of soup to benefit local food banks.”
When asked about her most meaningful experiences as a professor, Sullivan discussed her favorite class titled Empty Bowls. According to Sullivan, students “grow their skills through the design and production of soup bowls” and “donate their work to a ticketed community event to combat food insecurity in our region.” Sullivan reported that “In ten events, we have raised around $55,000 and served over 3,000 people with soup in our handmade bowls.” She believes that the class “is a life changing experience in the most elemental way. The most common feedback from students is their satisfaction at being a part of something bigger than themselves, an act for the greater good.”
Sulivan provided the following advice for new college teachers: “Plan for longevity, just as you would tell students to prepare for a project. Pace yourself, identify assets you have and assets you need. Make a plan for success and give yourself plenty of space to grow too. I learn just as much from my students as they do from me, and I am better for it. Keep a connection to your expertise and your community, you can find help in those places on the days being a teacher is hard. It is a constant practice, no different than design itself, and as such it leads to a path of truly knowing the grand potential of humans in our ever changing ecosystem.” | <urn:uuid:6b1bc6a9-0c31-4879-b97e-ff221682aec4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://teaching.vt.edu/grantsandawards/teaching-awards/martha-sullivan.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.972383 | 895 | 1.851563 | 2 |
One of the biggest advantages of an external hard drive, over the internal hard drive, is its portability. You can take an external hard drive with you whenever and wherever you want. In this way, the Data Recovery and applications saved on this removable hard drive are always available. Still, do you know how to recover data from dead hard drive?
When you appreciate the portability and ease of access brought by external hard drives, you should understand that they also increase the possibility of hard drive damage.
Imagine you are faced with a dead external hard drive; you can easily panic, right? How to recover files from dead external hard drive would be the thing you will think about when you have important files stored here. If not, you can just reformat the hard drive to try and get it working again easily.
It’s just. I mean, if important files are included in the dead external hard drive, you are strongly advised to recover files from broken external hard drive first.
But do you know how to recover hard drive data? Here I introduce MiniTool Power Wikipedia Data Recovery, a wonderful hard drive recovery tool which enjoys high reputation. By using it, you can complete HDD file recovery in few easy steps.
I will tell you how to recover data from damaged external hard drive without formatting in the following content. When the hard drive data recovery is complete (you get all the data you want to recover), I will guide you how to fix external hard drive not detected. | <urn:uuid:0105c7f2-3e74-4147-9fcd-d54e7a51bd1a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nhtroopers.org/general/how-to-data-recovery-files-from-dead-external-hard-drive/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.938476 | 302 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Conference votes to recognise non-religious belief and caste in the party constitution
On Monday 20th September, at Autumn Conference, party members amended a key passage of the Preamble to the Party Constitution, to reject prejudice and discrimination on the grounds of non-religious belief or caste.
Previously, the Preamble recognised religious belief but not non-religious belief.
The passage, in the second paragraph of the Preamble, now reads: "Upholding these values of individual and social justice, we reject all prejudice and discrimination based upon race, ethnicity, caste, heritage, class, religion or belief, age, disability, sex, gender or sexual orientation and oppose all forms of entrenched privilege and inequality."
The motion that was originally proposed would have inserted the words "ethnicity", "caste" and "class" into this sentence. We submitted our own amendment, extending the motion to include non-religious belief.
During the short debate, HSLD Chair Toby Keynes spoke in support of the motion and our amendment.
The motion, as amended, was carried by a stonking majority of 194 to 11.
You can watch the debate at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqTSgJmkyiQ, starting at 52:20.
The amendment, as adopted, is at https://www.libdems.org.uk/f42-language-equality-inclusion
You can read the amended constitution at https://www.libdems.org.uk/constitution. | <urn:uuid:052a36f2-b87d-4170-bc37-4403cf54d792> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hsld.org.uk/en/article/2021/1418539/conference-votes-to-recognise-non-religious-belief-and-caste-in-the-party-constitution | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.936218 | 320 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Yep, feta cheese is safe, as long as it is pasteurized. With feta cheese, the problem is a bacteria called listeria. This can cause listeriosis – a very severe food poisoning.
What happens if you eat feta while pregnant?
The main risk of eating feta cheese, or any soft cheese during pregnancy, is that it can contain a harmful type of bacteria called Listeria monocytogenes that can be very harmful to your unborn baby.
Does cooking feta kill listeria?
Listeria is killed by pasteurization and cooking. There is a chance that contamination may occur in ready-to-eat foods such as hot dogs and deli meats because contamination may occur after cooking and before packaging.
Are most feta cheese pasteurized?
In the U.S., nearly all fresh (unaged, rindless) cheese—like mozzarella, fresh goat cheese/chèvre, ricotta, or feta—is pasteurized. It also means that 99 percent of soft, creamy, spreadable cheeses are pasteurized.
Can you eat cooked feta when pregnant NZ?
During pregnancy, do not eat any of the following foods:
soft pasteurised cheese* (ie, brie, camembert, feta, blue, mozzarella and ricotta) pre-prepared or unrefrigerated salads, including rice or pasta salad, coleslaw, roasted vegetable and green salads.
Can feta cause miscarriage?
“Feta cheese made from unpasteurized sheep or goat milk may be contaminated with bacteria that can not only make you sick but also can cause miscarriage,” explains Bruce K.
Can you eat cooked feta when pregnant Australia?
Pregnant women should avoid foods such as soft or semi soft pasteurised white cheeses (e.g. brie, camembert, feta, blue, mozzarella, ricotta) unless thoroughly cooked, unpasteurised dairy products, oysters, pre-packed salads and soft serve ice cream.
Has anyone got Listeria while pregnant?
Good news—they’re very low. It’s true that pregnant women have an increased risk of contracting listeriosis, but the real risk is still tiny. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there are approximately 1,600 cases of listeriosis in the United States each year.
Is feta in Greece pasteurized?
Imported feta is usually pasteurized.
However, if you’re visiting Greece or surrounding countries and you’re eating feta or feta style cheese, you may come across the unpasteurized versions as the producers have the option of making it. Feta may also be homemade in an artisan style, from raw milk.
Can I eat a toasted sub while pregnant?
It needs to be steaming, or 165 degrees F. If you get your sub toasted, that’s fine, too. The same goes for hot dogs, sausages and other cured meats like salami and prosciutto. It’s the Listeria you have to worry about if you eat them cold or at room temperature.
Why can’t pregnant eat feta cheese?
Soft, unpasteurized cheeses like feta, Brie, Camembert, blue-veined cheeses, and goat — as well as ready-to-eat meats like hot dogs and deli meats — may contain Listeria, bacteria that cause mild flu-like symptoms in most adults but can be very dangerous for unborn babies.
How do I know if feta is pasteurized?
How can you tell? Read the label. If it doesn’t clearly state that the product is made from pasteurized milk — or if it says the product is made from raw milk — avoid it. It’s not just pregnant women who now can go on pasteurized feta frenzy.
What happens if you eat unpasteurized cheese while pregnant?
Unpasteurized soft cheeses may contain dangerous bacteria including the one that can cause fatal tuberculosis, and another one called Listeria, which can cross over into the placenta and lead to infections or blood poisoning in the baby, or even miscarriage.
Can I have hummus pregnant?
The new advice suggests hummus is not safe to consume for pregnant women because it contains tahini, a paste made from sesame seeds. “The issue with hummus is the tahini,” associate professor Cox said.
Is NZ feta pasteurized?
Are fancy cheeses really off the menu? All New Zealand dairy products are made from pasteurised milk, which should destroy the Listeria monocytogenes bacteria that is prevalent in the environment and can cause stillbirth.
Can you have halloumi when pregnant?
As long as it’s made from pasteurised milk7, a semi-hard, brined cheese such as halloumi is safe to eat during pregnancy. | <urn:uuid:fafd5aa2-9849-4b3c-8337-77a70cca2adc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://childspacenyc.com/for-pregnant/is-it-ok-to-eat-cooked-feta-when-pregnant.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.919544 | 1,060 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Among the novelties of the publishing house Schmidt Spiele is a board game that works with the official film license from Jurassic World. They wanted to present the title in Nuremberg at the toy fair: "The return to Isla Nublar" is the name of the deck builder by game author Marco Teubner.
Jurassic World 3: A New Age by director Colin Trevorrow will continue the story of the popular prehistoric lizards. The film follows the events of the previous film. However, a lot more happened between the second and third parts of Jurassic World: The game designer Marco Teubner and the publisher Schmidt Spiele tell this story with their board game “The Return to Isla Nublar”. As soon as we have image material for Schmidt Spiele's new Jurassic World title, we'll add it to the post. So the cover photo is a placeholder.
A fictional story of its own
Isla Nublar is something of a bugbear for dinosaur fans. The first Jurassic Park was created on the fictional island off the coast of Costa Rica, and around 20 years later another attraction, Jurassic World. Fans of the films know how the stories ultimately ended. Despite all the abuse of the naysayer: Dr. Ian Malcolm was always right in the end.
Because people are known to be pretty stupid, they keep trying their luck with the revived giant lizards. The name of the new board game from Schmidt Spiele says it all, but the background story has not yet appeared in the required form.
“We developed our own “fictitious” story for the game, which has nothing to do directly with the story of the films, but hopefully doesn't contradict it either,” explains game designer Marco Teubner. The game is thematically scheduled between the second part and the third part coming in the summer.
"In the second part of the trilogy, people had to leave Isla Nublar with a few selected dinosaurs, which was rocked by a devastating volcanic eruption," says Teubner about the story of the Jurassic World board game. “A lot of research results remained on the island. After the volcano has calmed down a bit, we players dare to return to Isla Nublar to save what is still there. For this we set up camps on the island.” The dinosaurs are "very upset" because of the still active volcano, which makes the work much more difficult. “Again and again we have to leave camps or continue our work elsewhere”.
Competitive deck builder around dinos
The licensed board game has a story, but what idea can fans expect from a purely playful point of view? Teubner explains it this way: “Mechanically speaking, the game is a relatively simple, competitive deck builder. However, we act against each other on a game plan”. By schedule the author means Isla Nublar. As a result, it could “be quite confrontational”. Solitaire deck building is therefore not popular.
"Essentially, we're playing the explorers returning to the island," Teubner said of the board game's premise. “However, dinosaurs keep creeping into our deck, allowing us to control the dinosaurs' paths from time to time as well. In this case, of course, always in the direction of my teammate’s camp.”
The return to Isla Nublar can be played at different levels of difficulty, with which the author and publisher want to appeal to different types of players. Clever.
Marco Teubner explains: “We're trying to do a little balancing act with the game. On the one hand, of course, we want to reach dinosaur fans and fans of the film series.” It doesn't always have to be the ambitious players. "On the other hand, we also want to offer players a good Jurassic World game." The author wants to achieve this by dividing the game into two: There is a simpler basic game and two modules that can be added for a somewhat more demanding game. "The game is still in the family game," explains Teubner. According to the publisher, the playing time is around one hour. The board game “The Return to Isla Nublar” is aimed at 2 to 4 players aged around 9 and over.
Schmidt Spiele commissioned the title, and according to Teubner, it took around a year and a half to develop.
Movies and Merchandising: Trending
When the first cinema film about the computer-animated dinosaurs was released at the end of 1993, the film was so sensational for being frightening: the cinemas meticulously made sure that the age limit of 12 years was observed. From a purely cinematic point of view, the strip was already a masterpiece – it won Oscars for it. Despite this, not everyone likes the idea behind the films. What about the author who had to develop a board game for the license?
Teubner: “Jurassic Park or Jurassic World is good popcorn cinema. A bag tastes pretty good. If you eat too much, you will spoil your stomach." But since it was four years ago that the last part was shown and the third part of the Jurassic World series had to be postponed to summer 2022 because of Corona, I'm already looking forward to the film. And now that I've also been able to make a game for the license, the anticipation is all the greater."
Teubner is not a die-hard dinosaur fanatic: "I'm actually not a big dinosaur fan," says the author. "Sometimes I feel like a dinosaur and my kids would certainly say I act like a dinosaur more often." If he had to choose a favorite dinosaur - he didn't have one (!) - it would be the Ankylosaurus according to the game development. Not without reason: “In terms of popularity, he is always somewhat overshadowed and does not appear so imposing due to his somewhat stocky appearance. But let him swing the club..." The fact is therefore: In the deck builder "Return to Isla Nublar" at least the Ankylosaurus appears.
Whether you're a fan or not, you'll come across dinosaurs again and again in the board game world. "It's noticeable that the merchandising and thus also the releases of board games on the subject are increasing sharply with the films," says Marco Teubner when asked whether it's a trend or an evergreen: "In that respect I would say it is a trend! But thanks to Jurassic World's strong brand, a very consistent one."
The Franconian game designer was able to gain experience with licensed board games with his last two games: he is behind the two adaptations of two ideas by the bestselling author Sebastian Fitzek. In 2016, Teubner won the Children's Game of the Year award with Stone Age Junior.
Still, developing a board game based on a popular license is a challenge. Fans are often critical, often petty. Marco Teubner remains relaxed: "It doesn't matter whether I'm developing a game with or without a license - I want the game to be fun and to be played with."
"Of course it can be that a licensed game raises certain expectations and these cannot be fulfilled for everyone," he continues. Then pragmatically: "My suggestion would be: approach the game openly and curiously and have fun!".
|Pegasus Games 57702G A Battle Through History – The Sabaton... *||39,99 EUR||Buy|
Last updated on 4.08.2022/XNUMX/XNUMX / Affiliate Links / Images from the Amazon Product Advertising API. * = Affiliate links. Images from Amazon PA API | <urn:uuid:c1808168-89e5-4f74-ad2a-35ca4ec9be63> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://en.spielpunkt.net/schmidt-spiele-neues-brettspiel-zu-jurassic-world-kommt/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.966777 | 1,620 | 1.554688 | 2 |
By Aaron Krause
Gay men, characterized as deviants in 1920s New York City, populate prolific playwright Ronnie Larsen’s new musical, Come Out! Come Out! in the Foundry space at the Wilton Theatre Factory.
Sure, it was a time of revelry. But it was also a period when sex or even perhaps a kiss between people of the same gender could lead to a beating and a jail sentence. However, for the most part, the characters on stage here seem as unconcerned and safe as though they were living in modern-day Wilton Manors.
Come Out! Come Out! is experiencing its world premiere in a vivacious production. It features triple threat performers who appear to effortlessly tap dance as though it were as natural to them as breathing. Their vigorous footwork, part of Kurt Phelan’s creative choreography, earned well-deserved applause during the reviewed performance. Moreover, the performers fully inhabit their characters and emote well while singing. In fact, their voices sometimes blend so well that they sound as pleasing as a seasoned barbershop quartet.
And musical director Bobby Peaco, whom composer/lyricist Jerry Herman reportedly called “the best show pianist I have ever heard,” accompanies the actors’ robust, expressive voices. In particular, Peaco’s flawless keyboard playing produces a rich sound without drowning out the performers.
But while Larsen’s piece is an engaging, vibrant and touching, it’s a work in progress. For instance, it needs the kind of palpable tension people feel when their actions could result in severe consequences.
To be fair, the shrill of two whistles from an unknown source, perhaps a police raid, pierce the quiet twice – once shortly after the show’s beginning and the other toward the end. At least the first time, the sound caused the characters to freeze. Even so, the musical needs more tense drama. Perhaps, multiple such abrupt noises or sightings of figures in shadows would unnerve these characters further.
Indeed, if the characters palpably and near constantly felt on edge while having sex, or even enjoying brief, clandestine trysts in the park, the musical would more vividly serve as a reminder “that our newly found rights and freedoms cannot be taken for granted” – the way Larsen and his co-director Michael Mills’ program notes describe Larsen’s purpose in writing the show.
Its main character is Jacob, a young gay man. He strongly desires that a man kiss him, marry him and start a family with him. It appears Jacob’s main obstacle is not law enforcement hiding where people engaging in “deviant” behavior cannot see them. Rather, Jacob’s main hurdle seems to be that no man wants to at least kiss him. Late in the play, Jacob says as much when he begs for a man to kiss him. But then, how do you explain an earlier scene in which Jacob and Edward, a fellow single gay man, enjoy themselves under the covers in Jacob’s apartment? Is it really plausible that Edward would consent to steamy sex, yet not kiss his partner?
Rather than a fully-formed plot, the musical seesaws between scenes centering on the characters’ efforts to form satisfying relationships and vaudeville-like scenes. The latter captures the “Anything Goes” aura of the “Roaring 20’s.
True, the scenes that capture that ambiance are entertaining, invigorating and visually breathtaking. Still, this show works best during touching, heartfelt moments during which we can truly identify with the characters. These moments include a scene during which an emotional and vulnerable Edward bravely describes to a sympathetic Jacob an upsetting experience from his past. Edward describes his ordeal, which might move you to tears, as an “earthquake.” It’s one of two strong metaphors that Larsen uses. The other comes during the song, “If You Want the Rainbow You Must Have the Rain.”
Quite possibly, the rain stands for upsetting incidents or setbacks that gay people have had to endure (or still do) to achieve full equality and freedom in society (represented by the rainbow). Or the rain might stand for harsh penalties that they suffer after law enforcement catch them performing “deviant” behavior. Or, the rain could be a stand-in for loneliness and feelings of frustration that these characters experience in their efforts to establish everlasting relationships.
All of the songs in are originals from the period. The genres include tap, soft-shoe, and vaudeville. Larsen has chosen music that fits into his narrative and helps reinforce emotions, from joy to loneliness. Interestingly, the title song features lyrics similar to those in The Wizard of Oz. It’s the same show that made the gay anthem “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” famous.
The cast’s quartet of performers credibly portrays these emotions. As Jacob, Greyson Wade delivers a multi-faceted performance. It’s blessed with spontaneity and charisma. The fresh-faced Wade kicks off the show by radiating carefree charm, a sense of serenity and joy. This is especially true during the opening number, “I Just Roll Along (Having My Ups and Downs).”
As Jacob interacts with the other characters, his charm, sense of calm and seduction make him likable, if a bit pushy. Meanwhile, Wade equally succeeds at conveying frustration and sarcasm, even thunderous anger at one point, when he senses obstacles to his objective are immovable. Wade makes it clear that Jacob is trying to control himself, with just some success.
Meanwhile, Chris Carranza gives us a nervous, searching Edward. He’s a man looking for his place in the world. The performer particularly shines when Edward relates that traumatic experience to Jacob. Carranza describes the events in a shaken voice and with a familiarity that suggests he remembers them as though they just happened. Clearly, the incident has left Edward scarred.
Another cast standout is Zachary Swartout as Billy, a one-time fling of Jacob’s. Billy is married to a woman. Together, they have children. And Swartout’s Billy is credibly conflicted, trying to please Jacob, yet strongly defending his heterosexual marriage and passionately praising his wife through song. Dom Giovanni plays Norman.
Nicole Alcaro’s elaborate costumes are visual delights. And her more everyday costumes are period specific.
The action takes place on Melqui Dominequez’ simple, yet effective set. It includes a model New York City skyline. A barrier separates it from the park in which the characters gather for conversation and quick trysts. The barrier, while short, divides the characters’ world of secret gatherings from the “real world” of downtown New York City. Walkways from the park conveniently lead to Jacob’s apartment. It includes enough period detail to place us in the 1920’s.
Jamie Roderick’s varied lighting helps differentiate Jacob’s real world, where he’s constantly striving to form a relationship, from the character’s non-realistic, yet idealized world. The latter consists of unique, eye-popping costumes as well as song and dance.
Larsen is a successful and prolific theater artist. His shows have experienced Off-Broadway productions and his work has seen productions throughout the U.S. and in foreign countries. Recently, he had five shows running simultaneously in Broward County and his work has earned two Carbonell nominations.
Come Out! Come Out! is a promising musical that can become stronger with some improvements.
The show can remind us that despite all the gains the LGBQT community has made, there are forces today that are not friends of this community. They may wish to push back the clock to a scary time like the period in which this musical is set. Perhaps to reinforce the musical’s connection to today, actors sometimes enter the stage from aisles in the audience seating area.
Seen from this lens, Larsen’s new musical is a warning tale not to take today’s freedoms and equality for granted.
At the same time, Come Out! Come Out! is an entertaining and refreshing tale. It celebrates the bravery of gay men during a time when it would have been easy for them to hide in the closet. Instead, they “come out,” and fight for their desires.
The world premiere production of Come Out! Come Out! runs through March 29 at The Foundry space within the Wilton Theatre Factory, 2306 N. Dixie Highway in Wilton Manors. Performances are at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, 4 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday. Premium front row seats cost $50, while general admission seating is $35. For more information, visit https://www.ronnielarsen.com/come-out-come-out or call (954) 826-8790. | <urn:uuid:1ec6a680-0f66-4ba6-9868-8bcee0706421> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.floridatheateronstage.com/reviews/ronnie-larsens-musical-come-out-come-out-shows-promise/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.961272 | 1,913 | 1.585938 | 2 |
A new International Labour Organisation reports says that as much as 50% of youth are now unemployed in many countries. Capitalist crisis has meant soaring unemployment especially amongst the young. The report warns of difficult years ahead where young people may resort to violence to vent their anger at governments worldwide.
The International Labour Organisation, a UN agency, says riots of the kind seen in Britain this summer are likely to recur as many young people give up looking for work altogether, leaving the \”hidden\” youth unemployment level even higher than official figures suggest.
The reports says that as many as one in two young people are without work in some countries.
The ILO predicts the number of unemployed 15-24-year-olds will stand at 74.6 million, or a rate of 12.6% for 2011. While this figure is slightly down from 12.7%, or 75.1 million, in 2010, the ILO report attributes this more to young people opting out of the labour market, rather than looking for jobs.
As the crisis deepens, it said that this development was especially true in developed economies and the European Union and unlikely to improve.
\”A lot of these young people are simply giving up and they are saying \’enough is enough. What is the point of looking if there\’s nothing out there?\’\” said Sara Elder, ILO economist and the report\’s author. They are sometimes re-entering education but often living with, and off, family. \”These people are delaying their advance into adulthood. It\’s a very scary time for young people, they find the path that worked for their parents is not working for them.\”
She predicts that when those young people do eventually go back into the labour market, unemployment rates will rise again and probably stay high. \”The longer they stay out of the labour market, the more difficult it will be,\” argues Elder. Significantly, the report warns that consequences around the world could be dire.
\”Increased crime rates in some countries, increased drug use, moving back home with the parents, depression – all of these are common consequences for a generation of youth that, at best, has become disheartened about the future, and, at worst, has become angry and violent,\” it says.
The ILO report uses the Arab Spring uprisings to demonstrate a link between unemployment and the entrenchment of distrust of the political and economic system.
It notes that in the Middle East and North Africa, for example, over the past 20 years approximately one in four youth have been unemployed. It also draws links to unrest in Europe, including riots in Britain.
\”I do think we are going to see more and more unrest,” says the author of the report.
The ILO says that in 56 countries for which comparable data was available, there were 2.6 million fewer youth in the labour market in 2010 than expected based on pre-crisis trends. \”This figure implies that growing frustration over unemployment and underemployment has pushed a large cohort of discouraged youth to drop out of the labour market altogether.\”
Again, the report highlights Ireland where almost one in two young people is out of work. In Spain, the rate is even higher at just over 50%.
As a consequence, many young people are choosing to leave home and search elsewhere. In 2009 the number of under-25s emigrating from Ireland hit 30,000, almost double the 15,600 leaving in 2004, according to the National Youth Council.
For those in poorer countries it appears not working at all is not an option and many young people are \”trapped in a vicious cycle of working poverty,\” the ILO says. On a capitalist basis, it reflects the fact that the poor must work at whatever slave-rates they can find, or perish
This article was first published on Socialist Appeal
Categorised in: Article
This post was written by Rob Sewell | <urn:uuid:edf714dc-d8d8-4bbf-8f6e-86773c6998b4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://londonprogressivejournal.com/2011/10/24/capitalisms-lost-generation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.969738 | 869 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Every day, nearly 275 people are dying from opioid addiction in America. This doctor wants to stop the crisis.
“I can’t retire. Not until the Opioid Epidemic finally becomes a chapter in our country’s history.”
Over the past two decades, the opioid addiction has resulted in the deaths of nearly one million people in our country. Screening and brief intervention for addictions will mean fewer people dying from illegal overdose and ensure that patients get prescription-grade pain pills or buprenorphine from the pharmacy, but doctors are not taught this in American medical schools.
In 2006, after years of feeling powerless to help those addicted to opioids, benzodiazepines, and stimulants, general practitioner Dr. Arun Gupta joined the American Society of Addiction Medicine and earned his certification to treat patients with addictions. Now, in his eye-opening new book, after decades of research and first-hand experience, he tells us how to end this crisis that is destroying so many lives. Here are some hard facts:
-The CDC classifies Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) and overdoses as “preventable,” and yet nearly 275 are dying every day.
-SAMHSA says 41.1 million people needed Substance Use Disorder (SUD) treatment in the past year, but only 6.5% received it. There are not enough addiction doctors to care for them.
-Doctors are trying to comply with the literally thousands of regulations that have been thrown at them, or they face serious punitive consequences. | <urn:uuid:4005da8c-e1a0-4873-be7d-bba115f1e95f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thealdenreport.com/the-preventable-epidemic/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.954001 | 324 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Srinagar, Nov 16: Valleyities have all reasons to worry as darker nights are in the offing with Power Development Department (PDD) issuing electricity curtailment schedule in next four days.
Kashmir has been facing abrupt power cuts since November 7, when valley received season’s first snowfall.
An official of Power Development Department said there would be further reduction in power supply from next week.
“There will be at least 6-hour power curtailment in metered areas and over 8-hour load shedding in non-metered areas of Srinagar district,” the official said.
In other districts, the official said, there will be 6 to 8 hours power curtailment in metered areas and over 8-hours in non-metered areas.
As per rules, metered areas are bound to get round the clock power supply.
Chief Engineer, Power Development Department, Kashmir, Hashmat Qazi told The Kashmir Monitor hat there is a need for power curtailment schedule in view of the increase in demand.
“We did not curtail power this year till snowfall hit Kashmir on November 7. The load has increased now. We are framing power curtailment schedule which will be issued within three to four days,” he said.
On chances of any improvement in power supply this year, he said it all depends on the people. “If they use electricity judiciously, then there will be improvement in power supply. We have to optimize things from available resources.”
The PDD has 1200 MWs of electricity available. However, during winters, the demand reaches over 2000 MWs.
Centre has been allotting additional 700 MWs of power to Jammu and Kashmir in view of higher demand in winters. However, PDD has failed to augment existing infrastructure to receive additional electricity from the central grids.
At the same time, PDD is yet to restore electricity in various parts of Kashmir since November 7.
“Towers have collapsed at various places resulting electricity could not be restored in Magam, Beerwah, Arizal and Khaag areas,” Qazi said. | <urn:uuid:d6217dc5-b7da-417a-b734-7828b17fd60f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thekashmirmonitor.net/pdd-to-issue-curtailment-schedule-next-weekmore-power-cuts-in-offing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.958257 | 446 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Blog writing is a preferred online interaction tool. Blog entries are discrete items of text displayed on an internet site. Typically, the latest post appears on top of the web page. A blog is an info web site, conversation web site, or combination of both. It is often written in the form of an informal journal. In this format, the most current articles show up initially online page. The most recent blog access shows up on the top of the websites.
In its earliest kinds, blogs were produced as a way to express individual opinions as well as accentuate particular locations of know-how. Today, the Internet is a community, and also individuals can use blogs to spread awareness regarding crucial subjects. Lots of people utilize blogs to share their point of views and experiences. Some individuals use blog sites to educate consumers on essential topics. Others use them to create an outlet for themselves, and also others can locate inspiration in what they create. A blog can be made use of to teach consumers regarding safety and also boost their lives.
There are several kinds of blogs. The very first was the Wearable Wireless Cam, which transmitted live video clip to an internet site in 1994. It was a common journal of a person’s life, combining electronic photos as well as text. It is important to keep in mind that the term blog has actually come to mean several points. Prior to the term “blog site” came to be common, blog writers described their online visibility as a zine or a personal internet site.
A wiki is a joint room. Any individual can modify the material. A blog usually has just one administrator and one proprietor. Nonetheless, a wiki is additionally open to public involvement. If you are an individual who really feels unpleasant blogging about your point of views, take into consideration outsourcing this work to a blogging solution. It is also less complicated to regulate the content of the blog. The device you pick should supply features that will enable your target market to comment on the web content.
There are many sorts of blog sites. Business blog sites are generally run by a team of authors. Some individuals start a blog site as a personal journal. Others do so to create an expert on-line visibility. Practically every blog is an open diary. A political blog owner, for instance, could connect to another political blog site. Similarly, a music teacher could connect to a musician’s blog site. Consequently, blogging can assist construct understanding as well as rise sales.
Some blog sites are anonymous. While the latter might be harmless, others may go through harassment and discrimination. There are likewise blog sites with personal blog sites. The Web is a huge space and a blog can cause trouble. A specific or organization can be demanded publishing details that is hazardous to a person. For instance, a blog owner might be filed a claim against over a write-up in a non-profit blog site. A company can file for personal bankruptcy. Even a firm can be demanded libel, and the blog writer may be penalized for a suit related to their job.
There are several benefits of blogging. Some blog sites are exclusively for personal use, while others are made use of to spread info. While lots of blogs are text-based, others are interactive, and many people use them to develop new relationships. Some people likewise utilize their blog sites for business objectives. Some blogs are more than simply a pastime. They can be made use of as instructional sources for the public. In some cases, blog sites have ended up being a full time task. Some bloggers have ended up being extremely successful in monetizing their blog site.
A blog site ought to be informative, and also it needs to be updated frequently. This is specifically important for people that are simply starting. In a traditional web site, the most essential element is the item and the rate. A blog can be sold at a much reduced price. The rate will depend upon the high quality of the web content. To learn more, visit the blog’s homepage. Its goal ought to be to promote the product and also make it more eye-catching to customers.
A blog site can boost an organization’s presence. It can help a company develop itself as a specialist and can develop a network of dedicated viewers. It can likewise help a blog site proprietor develop a reputation. Therefore, it can increase a brand name’s online reputation. Along with gaining a lot more exposure, a blog can additionally help a company gain trust amongst its target market. There are lots of benefits of blog writing, and the more individuals begin blogging, the more likely they will purchase a services or product.
The privacy of the Net makes Net trolls more happy to bug and also attack blog owners. Apart from anonymous hazards, bloggers can be the targets of cyberbullying. Actually, a blog writer can become a target of cyberbullying if she reveals that she is the target of malicious attacks. The very same can take place offline too. In a lot of cases, it refers safety. It is possible for individuals to be harassed, which is not appropriate worldwide of blog writing.
Besides allowing people to share themselves, it allows companies to engage with consumers. It likewise enables a brand to raise its visibility and also enhance its consumer fulfillment. Usually, a blog is a means to stay current with the most recent information as well as events. A blog site is also a terrific way to maintain your clients upgraded on the most up to date advancements in your sector. In addition to being an important resource of info, a blog is also an excellent method to advertise your products or services.
Unlike conventional media outlets, blog sites can likewise be used for fundraising. For instance, one can hire a team of blog owners to compose for a firm. By employing a team of writers, a blog can be a resource of funds for a firm. Additionally, the blog site can be an effective system for fundraising. Lots of people who see a blog can share info, which subsequently helps the brand accomplish far better lead to the marketplace. Have a peek here
While blog writing is an outstanding kind of communication, it can have unanticipated repercussions for a company or a company. The visibility of blog sites in politically sensitive areas can result in Internet cops tracking. A blog can likewise be utilized by the secret police to target staff members as well as punish them. Because of this, it can be difficult to regulate the content of a blog contrasted to other kinds of media. A well-written blog site can bring in employers, which can bring about better sales as well as profits for a business. | <urn:uuid:c5ab9b54-e0ed-4ea7-a0c7-50c621f23a72> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://byexpand.com/2021/11/25/what-i-dream-every-person-knew-about-blog-writing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.960988 | 1,340 | 2.28125 | 2 |
A definition of web space hosting
As its name denotes, web hosting is a service, which involves hosting online content. There are different varieties and kinds of web hosting, depending on the aims and on the usage. Yet, they all pertain to hosting files, which, once hosted, are made accessible through the Internet. A host is in fact a server that is linked to the Internet and has its own personal Internet Protocol address, which permits users to gain access to it through the Web. The server's architecture and its resources are determined by the sort of hosting service it's going to be used for.
What are the various forms of web hosting?
Depending on the usage, the business website hosting service may be:
File Hosting - this form of web hosting permits the clients to host their files on a given hosting server. With the routine file storage hosting solution, the files that are accommodated may only be accessed by the person that's using the service. This web hosting service usually is associated with backups of computers , documents, private files and even other hosting servers. This solution may also include certain limitations in relation to the data space and the root access. There may also be bandwidth quota limits, but that is dependent on the given hosting service provider.
Warez Hosting - the so-called warez web hosting solution is resembling the previous hosting service form. Still, unlike the file storage web hosting solution, the warez hosting service is used for transmitting patented content without the permission of the licence keeper. In short - it is connected with the unlawful distribution of files and materials. There are multiple approaches for this to be done, but the 2 principal ways are - through simple Hypertext Transfer Protocol downloading and through peer-to-peer connections. The first approach entails either a particular web portal, or, most typically, just a directory on a web server that's been made available for everybody to access it and thereby download licensed content for free. The second approach involves a P2P connection, using the so-called Torrent servers, through which people share files between each other. There aren't many hosting companies that allow such type of hosting on their web servers, mainly due to all the judicial complications that it entails. Generally such web pages are hosted on private dedicated hosting servers that are registered by 3rd party corporations either in the Middle East or in Asia.
Mail Web Hosting - this service is utilized with both shared site hosting and dedicated web hosting servers, based on the user's intention. If you would like to launch your own personal SMTP server, then you will need either a private virtual web server or a dedicated web hosting server that provides the access level required to perform such an operation. For routine electronic mail hosting ends, however, you can create an average shared webspace hosting account, to which you can point the MX records of your domain name. This is not a solution that's widely popular, since the web hosting and the e-mail hosting services are being served by two separate servers, often belonging to separate companies.
Site Hosting - the most famous and universally utilized hosting service as of today. It's used for hosting site files, whose type depends on the OS the web hosting server is making use of - Linux or Windows. Different kinds of files necessitate different web server Operating Systems, or else they won't be shown correctly on the Internet. This sort of hosting may have data space and traffic restrictions, server root access and central processing unit usage limitations.
Based on the purpose and on the functions, the user should select the type of server that he demands for his work, and, of course, the web site hosting provider that's going to furnish it. There are different sorts of web hosting servers, based on the configuration and the site hosting services that they offer. These are:
Shared Hosting Server - a shared web space hosting server offers a smaller quantity of system resources, which, of course, is reflected on the cost of the service. It can be utilized for hosting small and middle scale websites, which do not demand considerable quantities of web storage and bandwidth.
Semi-Dedicated Servers - they work on the very same principle as the shared site hosting servers. Yet, there are much less users accommodated on the same server. For that reason, each of them will enjoy a larger quota of the web server's resources like RAM, web storage space, traffic and CPU. Ideal for hosting huge online portals that do not require complete root access.
Virtual Private Server - the private virtual web servers are ideal for medium sized web sites, which do require root-level access to the web hosting server's config files. Generally, there are a number of private virtual server web hosting accounts hosted on the same physical machine. Nonetheless, each of them is autonomous from the others and runs its own OS.
Dedicated Server - a completely dedicated physical machine set up and accessed by you and only you. It guarantees a colossal quantity of system resources. It also provides full root-level access, which makes it an excellent environment for any kind of website that demands a web site hosting solution.
The sole question that remains is:
Which webspace hosting distributor should I select?
As stated above, there are very few companies providing warez web hosting services due to legal entanglements. Such web hosting providers are being shut down virtually every month. Because of that, if you want to offer such a service, you should do it on your very own PC. The shared web space hosting solution is the most widely spread kind of hosting service. So, each hosting firm offers it. Not all of them, though, provide services such as virtual web servers, semi-dedicated servers and dedicated web servers. Most of the small sized web hosting firms do not have the means needed for maintaining those solutions. That is the reason why it's invariably best to opt for a larger host that can furnish its clients with all the solutions that they necessitate. You can quickly ID such web hosts by the types of services that they are offering and by the manner in which they introduce them to the customers. For instance, certain hosts permit you to kick off with a small scale website hosting account and afterwards shift to a more advanced one, if you deem it compulsory to do so. This is very convenient, because you do not have to move sites between servers and there is no risk of suffering service outages due to all the problems that may appear. Hosting companies like Cyberomni Development provide all sorts of services and possess the necessary web hosting server resources and personnel to guarantee that their customers will not run into any complications when changing services, which is what a top hosting supplier is in fact all about. | <urn:uuid:866db4f9-3a1e-4b1b-93a1-fe3a6ec300ec> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://antiguayachtservices.com/firstrate-website-hosting/webspace-hosting-explanation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.948432 | 1,362 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Book Review: Getting Things Done by David Allen
- Keep everything out of your head
- Decide actions and outcomes when thing first emerge on your radar instead of later
- Regularly review and update the complete inventory of open loops of your life and work
Checklists: be willing to create checklists for anything. These are great tools. You should have them for the various areas of life, as well as things you do often. They are helpful for clearing your mind of things you don’t need to know for a task.
Tickler file: have a file system with 43 files. There should be one for each month, and 31 for the current month. Every month you go through the month file and put things in the appropriate day. It is important to check this every day, so you trust it. It only takes seconds per day. This is useful for physical reminders of things that don’t need to be dealt with immediately.
It is important to have separate lists of things to do according to where/what you need to accomplish them. This way when you have a small block of time, rather than having to go through your whole to do list, you can just look at the part that is relevant.
The Four Criteria Model for Choosing Actions in the Moment:
- Context – are you by a phone, a computer, at your desk, at the store, etc.?
- Time available – if you only have 10 minutes, knock out a 10-minute task that you would have to do at some point anyway.
- Energy available – some tasks should not be done when you are not in top form and others don’t matter. Do simple tasks when you can do nothing else well.
- Priority – ask yourself, “Out of all my tasks to do, which is the most important right now?”
The Threefold Model for Evaluating Daily Work:
- Doing pre-defined work
- Doing work as it shows up
- Defining your work
The key is to have a good system so that if you get distracted and have to pull off of your pre-defined work to do something that just came up, you can get right back as soon as the new work is done.
“Bailing water in a leaky boat diverts energy from rowing the boat.”
It is important to collect everything into a system that allows you to see all your open projects. The problem with keeping something in your head is that your subconscious can’t tell the difference between past, present and future. Anything that needs to be done needs to be done now. Having an item on a list allows you to know that you are not failing for not working on that right now. Also, when we don’t do things we want to do we are breaking a contract with ourselves, which makes us feel bad. If we have all of our to-do items on lists, we can re-negotiate things we can’t get to when we thought we would. This is like calling to cancel an appointment – there is no shame in that like there is with a no-show.
Always ask, “what’s the next step?” This is how you should run any organization, and how you should run your life. This breaks large projects down into manageable, actionable tasks. It makes people more proactive. It ends procrastination. It is energizing. It gets rid of the victim mentality. We should understand what the next task is on everything we want to do, and when a situation arises and others are involved, we should always seek to define the next task.
Have a someday, maybe list. This way you don’t ignore or eliminate things you’d like to do, but you don’t keep them on your current to-do list either. This eliminates the guilt and the mental drain from not accomplishing things you want to do.
“It never fails to greatly improve both the productivity and the peace of mind of the user to determine what the next physical action will be to move something forward.” David Allen
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks and then starting the first one.” Mark Twain
“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.” Mark Twain
“Complaining is a sign that someone isn’t willing to risk moving on a changeable situation, or won’t consider the immutable circumstance in his or her plans.” David Allen
“A vision without a task is but a dream, a task without vision is drudgery, a vision and a task is the hope of the world.” From a church in Sussex, England, 1730
There are only two problems in life:
1) You know what you want, but you don’t know how to get it
2) You don’t know what you want
There are only two solutions: make it happen, make it up. | <urn:uuid:9ca1ec4f-6da0-4813-a1c5-7a5cb63a23a1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rothmaninvest.com/resources/getting-things-done | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.954868 | 1,072 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Giant pandas are one the laziest species in the animal world, reported a new study. The research, from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the University of Aberdeen, and the Beijing Zoo, found the bears are equal in sluggishness to slow-moving sloths.
For the study, published in the journal Science, scientists tracked five captive pandas and three wild ones. Pandas, they found, that are much less active than other kinds of bears, and used up only 38 percent as much daily energy as the average for other land animals of their size.
“The daily energy expenditure values for giant pandas are substantially lower than those for koalas, for example, and more akin to those of three-toed sloths,” wrote the study authors.
Pandas are unique in that they are meat eaters, members of the order Carnivora, yet are entirely herbivorous, living almost entirely on bamboo. But unlike most other plant-eating animals, their digestive tract has not evolved the long twists and turns that allow the slower digestion necessary for cellulose-rich plants.
Panda kidneys, livers, and brains were also found to be smaller than the organs seen in other bears. The study identified a gene mutation in the pandas’ DUOX2 gene, matching one seen in humans with underactive thyroids.
Their thyroid hormone levels, the authors note, “are only a fraction of the mammalian norm—comparable to a hibernating black bear’s hormone levels.”
In combination, the bears’ small organs, genetic adaptations and mellow demeanor enable them to survive on bamboo, concluded the study.
China has about 1,600 giant pandas living in their natural habitat, a mountainous southwestern region of China, and another 300 held in captivity.
Exceptionally low daily energy expenditure in the bamboo-eating giant panda Yonggang Nie, John R. Speakman, Qi Wu, Chenglin Zhang, Yibo Hu, Maohua Xia, Li Yan, Catherine Hambly, Lu Wang, Wei Wei, Jinguo Zhang, and Fuwen Wei Science 10 July 2015: 349 (6244), 171-174. DOI:10.1126/science.aab2413
Photo: Kyle Taylor/flickr | <urn:uuid:0dd388b2-acfc-4043-8024-ac99ac271f95> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sciencebeta.com/giant-pandas-sluggish-metabolism-enables-bamboo-only-diet/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.914384 | 475 | 3.28125 | 3 |
The tzaddik Rabbi Moshe Tzanani shlit”a – “Bezrat Hashem, that everyone should be included in this holy place by donating well to this holy place.”
The Shuvu Banim Breslov Rabbinical Council comes out in a holy call for the important appeal
The words of the tzaddik Rabbi Moshe Tzanani shlit”a:
Holy Community! Here, baruch Hashem, is the Beit HaMidrash of the tzaddik.
Rabbeinu writes that the tzaddik builds the Tabernacle in every generation; there all the souls gather…the students of the tzaddik, and from there the sweetening of judgements emerges.
For direct donation, click here
The whole life spirit and breath of holiness for the entire Jewish people, everything is through the power of this Beit Midrash. All the shiurim and prayers which the Rav gives over here – this is what really brings the redemption and removes the judgements from the entire Jewish people.
However, like they say – if there is no flour, there is no Torah, and now the [last] penny is gone from the wallet, literally. We mamash are really, really asking the public to donate to the Beit Midrash, and through this, mamash everyone will be included in this holy kibbutz (gathering), in this holy place, in this holy sanctuary – this is mamash the heart of the Jewish people.
Then, those have a fixed monthly donation should be blessed with all the blessings, but there are still many who are not assisting. We are mamash begging everyone to join in and help.
There is something which is especially very great, through which a person can assist the tzaddik also materially. Here, with prayers with the tzaddik, there is spiritual assistance; this is a very awesome assistance, but a person can also merit [to assist] materially.
What does this mean?
There are many material needs of our Rebbe Rav Berland shlit”a – medical, for example, etc., etc. – that this costs a tremendous amount of money, really. If, chas v’shalom, the Rav doesn’t receive his medical care – the best, most expert doctors, then chas v’shalom… everything is built on the Rav.
And mamash, you should know, that those who are present here [who are working on everything around Rav Berland shlit”a] are literally sacrificing their souls, but they require the help of everyone. It’s impossible without the help of everyone. They are mamash falling under; there’s nowhere from which to take out money.
Anyone who donates to the Beit Midrash and the Heichal HaKodesh, and the needs of the Rav – it’s all one thing – there’s no doubt that they will see miracles and wonders. There are many who experienced this mamash, experienced this themselves, mamash miracles and wonders in everything that [they] need.
Bezrat Hashem, that everyone should be included in this holy place through donating well to this holy place. | <urn:uuid:5df6f6af-dc47-4d18-a852-97445a36e90e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ravberland.com/important-fundraising-appeal-rabbi-moshe-tzanani-shlita/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.950841 | 704 | 1.804688 | 2 |
The FloodBreak® Automatic Floodgate was recently featured in Business Insider. The media platform interviewed FloodBreak President and Founder, Lou Waters, to discuss how the revolutionary technology protects communities from natural disasters without human intervention.
The Business Insider feature ie entitled: How an automatic floodgate is helping communities against natural disasters
- The FloodBreak passive automatic floodgate can work in flash floods and areas that are unprepared for natural disasters.
- It uses the hydrostatic pressure of the flood water, the gate does not need to be controlled or operated by people.
FloodBreak floodgates were deployed during Hurricane Harvey in Houston saving numerous commercial buildings, hospitals and other assets. Read more.
FloodBreak automatic gates have deployed in dozens of locations including Norfolk VA, Bloomsburg PA, Alexandria VA, Hillside NJ, Great Neck NY, Davenport IA, Solon OH, Dallas TX, Oklahoma City OK, Chicago IL and Houston TX.
Read more about the revolutionary passive technology that deploys the self rising panel without human intervention or power. | <urn:uuid:1bf9dafc-42d9-4cce-889e-06e90418102f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://floodbreak.com/floodbreak-passive-automatic-technology-featured/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.920817 | 213 | 1.632813 | 2 |
|Part of a series on|
Flying Purple Hippos
Leader · Admin · Mod
Templar · Member
Guest · Bot
Clan Prehistory · Archaic FPH
Classical FPH · Heroic FPH
Mythic FPH · 40kpr
Empirette · Stone Age FPH
Putting FPHs in AoM
Putting FPHs in Ao3
The Flying Purple Hippo (Hippopotamus Purpuluz), also called Flying Purple Hippopotamus, often shortened to FPH, from the ancient Greek for "river horse" (ἱπποπόταμος) and old English for "flying purple" (ye flyinge and coloured like ye eggplante) is a species of sentient, intelligent and fat mammal capable of active flight and passive swimming. Considered a creature of considerable grace and wisdom, they are the object of reverence of the FPH Clan.
A detailed description of the FPH appears in AoM, given in the description of the game's representation of the animal. It goes like:
Scientific name -- Hippopotamus PURPULUZ
Size -- 8000 lbs., 15' long Diet -- grass, GIANT SPIDERZ, MUMMIES, TANKS
Hippopotami spend most of the daylight lounging in water in large groups EXCEPTS WHEN THEY ARE FLYING. At night they venture out of the water to graze alone EXCEPTS WHEN THEY ARE FLIEING. They are sluggish on land WHEN NOT FLYING, but can still reach speeds of 30 miles per hour OR MACH 3.4 WHENS FLYING. In the water, they are graceful and display several adaptations for their mostly aquatic existence, including ears and nostrils that can close and a skin excretion that acts as sunscreen. IN AIR THEY AER ALSO GRASEFUL AND THEIR ADAPAPTATIONZ INCLUDEZ LARGE WINGZ IN CASE YOU HADNT NOTISED.
Hippos are large animals with large teeth and are aggressive towards humans. Even in modern times, among animals only the mosquito kills more humans each year than hippos. THEY ARE PURPLE AZ A RESULT OF BILLIONZ OF YEARZ OF EVULUTION.Hippos were sacred to ancient Egyptians. The fertility goddess Tauret was depicted as a bipedal hippo. FLYING HIPPOZ ARE SACRED TO THOSE WHO SPECULATE ABOUTZ ALKL THE UNITZ OF AGES OF MITHOLOGIESS.
This is considered somewhat inexpert but fair enough.
FPHs are capable of many magical feats, powered by sheer lurv. They spit cartoonish hearts (real hearts will be used in Christopher Nolan's gritty reboot of AoM) and fart rainbows. By some accounts, they can breathe fire. In the classical mythology they could speak, but not so much in any subsequent representations.
Relationship with humans
FPHs are friendly and willing to share their wisdom with other creatures, such as humans. The FPH Templars are mentored by the FPHs. Also, the Templars use them as mounts, because why not.
|Species in FPH Lore|
|Allies||Flying Purple Hippos • Nile Penguins • Flying Purple Tapirs|
|Enemies||Teal Hippos • Giant Carnivorous Hissing Cockroaches|
|Minor Factions||Cocogoats • Gobi Herrings • Yellow Digging Wise Birdies|
|Important Creatures||Blue Footed Boobies • Ponies • Dugongs • Elephants • Goats • Sheep • Miscellaneous Poultry|
Maggots • Cataphracts • Quaggans | <urn:uuid:8f75e3f8-6e4f-48f5-b77d-8a380d7e0190> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fph.fandom.com/wiki/Flying_Purple_Hippo | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.843688 | 840 | 2.515625 | 3 |
29 Apr Administrators: How to restore the Database
As you know, one of the options available to the administrator of a PHP Webquest installation is to make a backup copy of the database, which is highly recommended for obvious reasons of precaution and security. However, the restoration of this backup is not done through the administrator interface, but through PHPMyAdmin, and although it is not a difficult process, it is not the obvious one either.
Given this, a Mexican user, Jorge Álvarez , has made a wonderful interactive tutorial in which he explains in detail how to carry out the restoration of the database if unfortunately, the time comes when this task must be undertaken. He has done it with Wink, a little gem of free software, so we are especially happy with this tutorial, which demonstrates once again that you can perform professional-level tasks with free software tools. Thank you very much for your contribution, Jorge | <urn:uuid:1745c18a-b0e9-4737-8fee-e8bc126e3f81> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://phpwebquest.org/wq/wq_badminton/index.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.945488 | 186 | 1.609375 | 2 |
We can all get stuck in a rut from time to time. Whether it’s teaching within the classroom or within the student salon, it is important to keep in mind that we are not the only ones that get stuck in a rut. Students can also get complacent doing the same thing day in and day out. To get out of your rut, you must shake things up. I have found that simply doing something different from our daily routine can get us reenergized.
Webinars are a powerful resource for information to transform your students learning environment without ever leaving your school.
The great news is, it is easy mixing things up by going online and finding some short webinars. These short 5 – 6 minute webinars can easily be integrated into your day. There are numerous online webinars at your disposable and one of my favorite sources is miladypro.com.
Once you have selected your desired webinar, set-up a learning station within the student salon, students go and watch a short webinar when they are not performing services for guests. I suggest that you have prepared a call to action activity around each webinar. Students should view the webinar and then complete a short activity. For example; you could prepare a series of questions that students would answer or incorporate a group discussion at the end of your day around the webinar.
Getting out of a rut does not have to be complicated or time-consuming and webinars are a great tool to help keep things fresh for you and your students.
Patti Wanamaker brings 21 years of experience to the Milady team, where she currently serves as an Academic Training Specialist. Her intimate understanding of the salon, school, and beauty industry comes from 18 years of hands-on experience as a multi-faceted training specialist, including 8 years of salon and spa ownership of 3 salons with annual sales of $5 million. Her experience in all 3 areas of our industry allows her to think outside the box and develop innovative trainings that not only inspire, but empower educators/trainers to create the most effective learning environments for their students. | <urn:uuid:de2a1e17-b025-425e-9181-b0154423054e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.milady.com/blog/save-students-losing-minds | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.960774 | 440 | 1.828125 | 2 |
New Bedford Delegation Gets a Look at Fall River Police Drones
New Bedford Police Chief Paul Oliveira and City Council Public Safety Committee Chair Brian Gomes paid a visit to Fall River on Wednesday for a look-see at the Fall River Police Department's new drones and body cameras.
Gomes has insisted New Bedford Police could employ drones as a frontline tool to combat illegal ATV and dirt bike use in the city, saying drones are "21st century policing."
Some have suggested that drones could violate the public's privacy if misused by the police, but Gomes said it's "not about hide and seek, this is about providing public safety."
He said drones "could be helpful in search and rescue operations" and for "security at outdoor events such as '50s Night, the Portuguese Feast or even the Cape Verdean parade."
Chief Oliveira agrees. Oliveira told me drones could be "an additional tool" for police, "not so much for crimefighting but for public safety and search and rescue," he said.
Oliveira acknowledges that there are restrictions on drone use imposed by the Federal Aviation Administration to which police would have to adhere, as any other citizen licensed to pilot a drone would have to follow.
Gomes said one of Fall River's new drones has a camera and a speaker so that when police locate a missing elderly person or a child, there is communication to comfort the individual until officers can arrive at the scene.
The Fall River Police Department has three drones. The department has also begun a pilot program with several officers equipped with body cameras.
Gomes said he will be "looking for state and federal monies" so that New Bedford can purchase police drones and body cameras as well.
"I am a strong believer that the federal government should have issued a nationwide camera policy after all the disruption in 2020," he said.
Oliveira is also a fan of body cameras but said the city would have to find the money. He said perhaps American Rescue Plan Act funds received by the city could be used to purchase body cameras.
Gomes said he's not certain there is any ARPA money left in New Bedford. | <urn:uuid:ec984f74-ac30-408c-983d-cc49929c929d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fun107.com/new-bedford-gets-look-fall-river-police-drones/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.973791 | 444 | 1.609375 | 2 |
In CPS Test user check their clicks per second and count the CPS clicker. CPS counter is the shortest mode of the game challenge yourself.
Click Per Second Score Table
|#||Click Per Second (CPS)||Results|
|1||0 To 5||Snail|
|2||6 To 8||Turtle|
|3||9 To 10||Rabbit|
|4||10 To onward||Cheetah|
Although the game ends too quickly, CPS is the best way to test yourself in a short time. It doesn’t take enough time to check your clicking speed.
Measure the number of your mouse clicks per second and give your test results soon; as your time runs, you can immediately see your score.
How to Achieve Your Desire Score In CPS Test:
Higher the number of clicks per second, the higher the score you get in CPS Test. Before starting the game, check your mouse that the mouse is connected well. Using a gaming mouse rather than a regular mouse.
There are different techniques of clicking like jitter clicking, butterfly clicking, drag clicking, etc. Start practicing with these techniques to achieve your target and compete with your friends.
It’s not only played to compete but also as fun. Don’t lose hope if you don’t reach the target set in your mind because we designed the game for you as you can play the CPS tester many times to get your target score.
How to Play CPS Counter:
Test your CPS and see how fast you can play in one second, but you have to make your target score in a given time frame of only one second. Let me show you how fast you can play CPS Counter, the following steps you need to follow to play the clicks per second test:
- As you know that you’ve to hit the grey box to start the game. After your one click, the game starts immediately, and you must have to click as fast as you can because your timeframe is concise. So, you have to make more and more clicks in one second.
- As your time ends, your results will be shown, and you can see your score.
- But if your score is not much better, so, don’t be sad because there is an option of ‘try again’ for you. So, let’s start again and enjoy your CPS test.
Frequently Asked Questions Of CPS Tester
If you want to become faster in CPS then you need to click between 7-10 clicks per second. CPS defined your clicking speed, So you must do the clicks between 7-10.
On Average, most users can easily score between 8-10 clicks per second.
According to the latest update, the highest world record in click per second is 22.
Our website gives you the exact idea that how can you get the high CPS, you just have to keep practising to reach the highest score. You need to try with different techniques of clicking and play the game again and again to get your target score, the faster you click the faster you get the high CPS.
Yes, it does matter at a very high level. Not entirely sure how much it affects knockback and how effective your hits get through but it is very small. People say that you need a high CPS to be good because they want to feel like they have an excuse for being bad.
You need at least 15 CPS to God bridge. First, you have to learn about methods of clicking.
Yes, the CPS matters a lot in Minecraft. The CPS value gives you the exact idea of how you can click the mouse button. So, CPS matters a lot in these games like Minecraft etc. The CPS value will be lower if the time is more than 10 seconds because your fingers get tired, stained and slow down due to continuous clicking.
The world record for most clicks in one second is 22. | <urn:uuid:452fec74-0bf7-4ae4-8025-b17cbf10793b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://clickspeeder.com/click-per-second | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.946102 | 811 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Low Preparation & Fun Learning Activities
from the blog
Match the Patterns
My daughter- Amaya (28 months) loves to choose her own clothes while dressing up.
But, every-time she chooses her favourite unicorn skirt with every top.So, I thought why not make a match the dress activity for her with some packing papers.
With this activity we intend to practice some-
- Visual Discrimination skills
- Fine Motors
- Hand -Eye Concentration
- Fun Learning Activities
Hope you give this activity a try! | <urn:uuid:f5b138af-9a76-4958-9c88-ad3db00d9809> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://learningisfunwithus.com/?v=79cba1185463 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.883973 | 112 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Issues in Program Design
|Contributor: World Bank|
Author: Decentralization Thematic Team
Contact: Jennie Litvack
It is important to clarify where local governments can determine the allocation of expenditures themselves versus those where the center mandates expenditures and local levels simply execute those expenditures. When statistics on subnational finance are available (most notably in the IMF's Government Finance Statistics) these two types of expenditures are usually aggregated and one figure is provided on "percentage of subnational expenditures." Thus, analysts must be very careful when using this as in indicator of local autonomy, as autonomy will not be enhanced unless the funds are not tied by the center. (Of course, some countries do derive the benefits of local expenditure autonomy as a result of local governments' ability to access the funds and circumvent the central mandates!)
Unitary and federal governments provide different opportunities for fiscal decentralization. Unitary countries do not have sub-national governments that are constitutionally empowered to make decisions over a specified range of government functions and services; rather, they have multiple subordinate levels of the same government (e.g., central, provincial, district). Federal governments, on the other hand, have constitutionally protected sub-national governments and thus, the possibilities for independent decision making are clearly stronger under these systems. It is important to note that local governments (as opposed to state or province) may not necessarily enjoy constitutional protection under federal systems. In practice, however, the extent and nature of decision-making power exercised by lower tiers varies widely from country to country in both federal and unitary countries and may change (in either direction) from time to time. At the extremes, some nominally federal countries (e.g., Venezuela) may be considerably less decentralized in reality than in nominally unitary countries (e.g., Colombia).
Despite the complexity of the existing situation in many countries, both theory and experience suggest strongly that it is important to state expenditure responsibilities as clearly as possible in order to enhance accountability and reduce unproductive overlap, duplication of authority, and legal challenges. Many would argue that decision-making should occur according to the principal of "subsidiarity" -- that is at the lowest level of government consistent with allocative efficiency (e.g., the geographic area that internalizes the benefits and costs of decision-making for a particular public service). The optimal size of jurisdiction for each service could theoretically differ, but in practice economies of administration and transactions costs lead to "grouping" of roughly congruent services at local (e.g., street lighting, refuse removal), regional (rural-urban roads, refuse disposal), and national (intercity highways, environmental policy) levels. Decentralized decision-making enlarges possibilities for local participation in development. In addition, national allocative objectives may be carried by local governments responding to incentives created by national grants and regulations as well as interlocal or interregional agreements. National governments have obvious roles with respect to both stabilization and distribution, and due attention must be paid to possible local conflicts with these policies.
In most cases, it is desirable that the national government assume responsibility for national public services, international affairs, monetary policy, regulation, transfers to persons and businesses, fiscal policy coordination, regional equity, redistribution (in which all levels of government may play a role), and preservation of an internal common market. However, some central functions such as regulation of the financial sector, environment, etc., may be effectively shared with sub-national governments. State governments may have dominant responsibility for education, health, social insurance, intermunicipal issues, and oversight of local governments. All local services should be assigned to local governments. In areas of shared responsibilities, the roles should be clarified. Generally, the central government should be involved with overall policy, setting standards, and auditing; state governments should have an oversight function; and local governments should be involved with the provision of infrastructure and services.
Assignment of public services to local or regional governments can be based on various considerations such as economies of scale, economies of scope (appropriate bundling of public services to improve efficiency through information and coordination economies and enhanced accountability through voter participation and cost recovery), cost/benefit spillovers, proximity to beneficiaries, consumer preferences, and flexibility in budgetary choices on composition of public spending. Assignment of responsibilities to various local governments could be asymmetric based on population size, rural/urban classification and fiscal capacity criteria. Thus large cities may have responsibilities for some services which are provided directly by the center in other areas.
An illustrative representative assignment of expenditure responsibilities is depicted in Table 1, taking into account also the possible desirability in some instance of "decentralization" beyond formal government to civil society. An additional important consideration to be borne in mind is that accountability is often best promoted by establishing a clear and close linkage between the costs and benefits of public services, so that the overall amount of expenditure responsibility to be assigned to a particular level of government will ideally correspond to the amount of revenues that level has at its potential command.
This table provides a guideline of expenditure assignments based on the subsidiarity principal. In practice, it is unlikely that any country would or should follow precisely the division set out in the table. In many instances some functions should be shared between levels of government in the sense that higher levels of government may exercise a regulatory or policy role, while lower levels of government are responsible for service delivery. Even within service delivery though, there are aspects best conducted by different levels of government. For example, with regard to infrastructure, the technical specifications for bridge construction might come from a higher level of government, construction and maintenance at the local level. In health care, the center may continue to provide technical training for staff, procurement of pharmaceuticals to benefit from economies of scale and ensure quality, and fund public health services. Intermediate levels might conduct supervision of local level personnel, provide refresher training courses, and, together with the local level, decide the appropriate mix of curative services to offer as well as ensure adequate maintenance of facilities and satisfaction with the personnel.
In this connection, it should be emphasized that assigning responsibility for the provision of service to a specific level does not imply that the same government should be directly engaged in its production. Collection, transport, and treatment services in solid waste management, for example, can be assigned to different public and private entities depending on economies of scale, commercial viability, and externalities. Many other services can also be "unbundled." Production decision should result from evaluation of alternatives using efficiency and equity criteria.
Experience has clearly shown that effective decentralization requires complementary adaptations in institutional arrangements for intergovernmental coordination, planning, budgeting, financial reporting, and implementation. Such arrangements may encompass both specific rules (e.g., in the design of fiscal transfers) and provision for regular intergovernmental meetings and periodic reviews of intergovernmental arrangements. Detailed central control over local use of funds is seldom appropriate. Instead, what is needed is transparency and accountability to local constituencies supported by strengthened higher level monitoring and reporting of local fiscal performance. | <urn:uuid:55a140e3-d1ea-4549-873a-26634e0a02af> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.ciesin.org/decentralization/English/Issues/Expenditure.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.935759 | 1,455 | 3.1875 | 3 |
The ‘Ligeti bench’, which was designed for the foyers of the Concert Hall in Bruges (1999– 2002), ranks as one of the most empathically coloured designs of Robbrecht en Daem. This piece derived from the idea of introducing lightness as a contrast to the rigid concrete interiors of the building. A low, deep bench was designed and painted in stripes, with a colour composition inspired by the precisely conceived Farbenklavier of Le Corbusier. The colour palette developed by the modernist architect had been edited and republished just before Robbrecht en Daem started to build the Concert Hall in 1999. Despite (or because of) its lightness and fluid appearance, the colourful Ligeti bench gained a significant, recurring presence in the halls of the building. The reference to the Farbenklavier was chosen specifically because of its musical connotations, as the name of the bench is borrowed from the influential avant-garde composer. The furniture tells its story effortlessly, triggering an immediate association with the keyboard of a piano and also with the surroundings for which it was designed.
Text by Aslı Çiçek – Original Publication: Aslı Çiçek, ‘Spaces for the Mind, Objects for Well-Being’, in Maarten Van Den Driessche, ed., ‘Robbrecht en Daem An Architectural Anthology’ (Ghent, 2017), pp. 481–484. | <urn:uuid:79155e68-7e31-463d-9b3c-51f0d1d6d533> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://robbrechtendaem.com/projects/ligeti-bench | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.944917 | 314 | 1.726563 | 2 |
The scientific evidence is too limited to make firm conclusions about the effectiveness and safety of cannabis and cannabinoid products in treating chronic pain or post traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD). The results of two systematic evidence reviews from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are published in Annals of Internal Medicine.
Currently, medical marijuana is legal in 28 states and the District of Columbia and up to 80 percent of persons who seek medicinal cannabis do so for pain management. While the use of medicinal cannabis has become increasingly accepted, there is little comprehensive and critically appraised information about the benefits and harms of using it to treat chronic pain.
Researchers reviewed data from 27 chronic pain trials to determine the benefits and harms of cannabis preparations for treating chronic pain in adults. They found low-strength evidence that cannabis alleviates neuropathic pain but there was insufficient evidence to draw conclusions about the use of medical marijuana for other types of pain. The researchers found sufficient evidence to conclude that cannabis use among the general population could increase risk for harms, including motor vehicle accidents, psychotic symptoms, and short-term cognitive impairment. There was insufficient evidence to determine the risks for other types of harms associated with heavy or long-term cannabis use or in older populations.
Plant-based Cannabis for PTSD
More than one-third of patients seeking cannabis for medical purposes in states where medicinal marijuana use is legal list PTSD as the primary reason for their request. However, there is little scientific evidence available for determining the benefits and harms of cannabis use for treating PTSD.
Researchers reviewed data from 2 systematic reviews and 3 primary studies assessing the benefits and harms of plant-based cannabis preparations (not synthetic cannabinoids) in treating PTSD in adults. They found that evidence was insufficient to draw firm conclusions about the efficacy of cannabis in this patient population, but one of the largest observational studies of veterans with PTSD found small but significant worsening of symptoms in patients who continued or started cannabis use compared with patients who had never used or stopped using cannabis during the study.
The author of an accompanying editorial from Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital writes that these findings largely echo the findings of other respected organizations and suggest a growing consensus in the field. Little high-quality evidence exists from which to draw firm conclusions about the efficacy of cannabis and cannabinoid products for treating pain and PTSD. Regardless of the research gaps, states are unlikely to remove medical indications from legislation. Practicing physicians must learn what they can about cannabis, educate their patients, and make recommendations based on the science. | <urn:uuid:65477e41-018d-4167-9665-f343927be683> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://scientificinquirer.com/2017/08/19/study-cautions-against-treating-pain-and-ptsd-with-cannabis/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.950005 | 500 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Our eyes help us see all the wonderful things that are around us and it has given us experiences and memories that we will never forget. Our eyes have gone everywhere with us and they have not only seen everything that we have seen, but they have helped us see those things.
Not having the support of our eyes even for a while is excruciating and that is why you should never have to go through something like that. You should keep your eyes safe and sound and if you ever think that there might be something wrong, you should try and get it fixed.
We have been blessed with great technology and modern science to help us out whenever we are in trouble and whenever we face a condition that seems to be impossible to cure. There is a cure for everything and that was proved when we had the perfect cure for Covid-19 as well even though people thought that there was no way they could get rid of it.
They found the cure right on time and saved a lot of people from losing their lives or causing anyone serious damage. If you ever think that you are hitting rock bottom or your health is just declining rapidly, it is time that you go see a doctor so that you don’t end up with any serious condition that is worse because of how long you waited.
The eyes are an important part of our body, and there are so many things that the eyes help us do and help us see. Having great eyesight is a serious flex because of how useful it is, but some people are unfortunate enough to have bad eyesight as well.
Those same people can also get the right treatments and turn that frown upside down because there are a lot of different techniques that can help them out.
Taking care of ourselves:
Our health should always come first, and this is something that we have been trying to practice for a long time, but we still haven’t gotten good at it which is a horrible thing. Our health and fitness can be maintained well without us facing any issues if we want that for ourselves.
We need to start to take things more seriously so that we don’t end up spending most of our hard-earned money at the doctor’s clinic or the hospital. Imagine working so hard to earn as much money as you need and then all of that being spent just on a doctor’s fee because while you were working hard, you didn’t remember to take care of your health and have a fit body.
Eyes help us see some beautiful things, and our eyes may seem tiny, but they also have many other tiny organs inside them. These eyes are the best thing that we could ever ask for and this is why we must always take care of them well.
Any tiny mistake regarding this could put us into trouble and something that we wouldn’t want to face. Sometimes, people start having permanently puffy eyes instead of just having them when they don’t sleep well, and that’s where the problems start.
As soon as this happens, it is better to get it checked because you may need eyelid surgery in Miami. Even though this is eyelid surgery, this is the one that will help you solve the problem, and you should consult your doctor at once because they are the ones who can give you the best recommendations regarding your eyes, body, and what treatment they need. | <urn:uuid:f4045701-b865-4c39-bf6c-dbea0158f679> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ikarnews.com/2022/06/22/keep-eyes-safe-any-damage-eyelid-surgery/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.979695 | 693 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Smart cities are on the rise. By definition, a smart city uses information and communication technologies to improve operational efficiency, share information with the public, and improve both the quality of government services and citizen welfare. Every day, smart city technologies are deployed across the globe, improving the lives of citizens everywhere, but it can be daunting to implement a radically different technology initiative. That’s why cities around the world are taking small, impactful steps first, by installing LED streetlights.
Streetlights are essential critical infrastructure
The streetlight is a piece of critical infrastructure that many civilians take for granted. While residents don’t notice streetlights until they stop working, utility companies and city officials struggle to keep hundreds of thousands of streetlights on every day. The traditional streetlights’ (Incandescent, mercury vapor, and high-pressure sodium) average lifespan is 3-5 years and a city has anywhere from 150,000 to 350,000 of them. Utility companies have their work cut out for them.
LED streetlights save money
Constant maintenance and upgrades to streetlights take time, but the amount of electricity used costs the city money, as well. Traditional streetlights cost anywhere from $95 to $150 per light per year. In a city like New York, with over 300,000 streetlights, the electricity and maintenance costs for streetlights are astronomical, and switching to LED could and has saved the city millions. LED streetlights produce more light with less energy and also cost less, around $30 to $40 per light per year. And, LED streetlights last for over 20 years. With lower annual costs, less maintenance, and increased energy efficiency LED streetlights are a great first step for cities making the move to being a smart city.
Decrease cost and increase safety
Currently, there are 304 million streetlights in the world. By 2025, there will be 352 million. LED and smart street lighting will cumulatively represent a $63.5 billion market opportunity. In addition to offering longer lifetimes, lower energy consumption, and less in maintenance LED play a critical role in improving cities operational efficiency. When LED streetlights are networked together they are able to decrease cost and increase city safety by off-peak dimming, reduced downtime, and lower maintenance costs.
LED streetlight installation
The process of upgrading a streetlight from traditional to LED takes about 30 minutes. Remove the streetlight head, replace it with the new LED, and repeat. Sounds simple, right?
Switching over an entire city’s streetlight system to LED is a high volume project that involves hundreds of thousands of sites. Even though an individual installation will only take about 30 minutes, installing an entire network is much more complex. In San Francisco, installing 18,500 LED streetlights will take about 555,000 hours. For high volume projects, it is important to have a single source of truth, real-time updates, and robust reporting in order to make data-driven decisions that will affect the future of the project. Sitetracker is a project and asset management platform trusted by utility companies to track their LED streetlight installations. Learn how Sitetracker can help your city get smarter. | <urn:uuid:d41a1ade-6324-47d6-9982-5f37e63fb490> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sitetracker.com/smart-city-deep-dive-led-streetlights/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.935365 | 653 | 3.28125 | 3 |
Toddler Gabriella completes the Race for Life
RACING TODDLER: Little Gabriella Dudley became one of the youngest entrants to pick up a medal in the Race for Life on Sunday. The 15-month-old from Brampton entered the charity event in Cambridge with her mum, Amanda, with the aim of raising £100 for Can
RACING TODDLER: Little Gabriella Dudley became one of the youngest entrants to pick up a medal in the Race for Life on Sunday.
The 15-month-old from Brampton entered the charity event in Cambridge with her mum, Amanda, with the aim of raising £100 for Cancer Research UK.
They took their place among thousands of other runners and walkers on Jesus Green.
However, instead of completing the entire 5,000m course, Gabriella ran at the start of the race and again at the finish.
"Gabriella started by joining in the pre-race warm up and as predicted ran at the start and through the finishing line, happy to have a shoulder ride in between.," said Amanda. "She was cheered on throughout the race by supporters and race participants. Everyone was amazed at her ability to run at such a young age."
She added: "Gabriella is still collecting sponsorship following the Race for Life and is hoping to raise £100."
- 1 Police called to reports of violence in Huntingdon
- 2 Planning proposal for a new café to be reviewed by St Neots Town Council
- 3 Biggest 'shooting star' meteor shower to peak this week
- 4 Fire safety warning as Met Office warns second heatwave on way
- 5 No water relief for depleted rivers and reservoirs with another heatwave forecast
- 6 Ramsey students crowned winners in science competition
- 7 Police officer speaks out after violent assault left bleed on brain
- 8 Home of the Week
- 9 Family pay tribute to 'hard worker' father killed in A14 crash
- 10 Dancers Jive, tango and have fun at the Illumination Dance Masquerade Ball
Amanda said the watching some of the runners who had suffered from cancer taking part in the event was inspiring and hoped their efforts would attract even more people to the next event.
Picture are Amanda and Gabriella Dudley after receiving their medals at the Race for Life on Sunday. | <urn:uuid:b3254c59-2ee6-4c08-ba2d-462f5cc8518f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.huntspost.co.uk/lifestyle/toddler-gabriella-completes-the-race-for-life-7765670 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.971638 | 483 | 1.53125 | 2 |
ARMSTRONG, LAWRENCE, lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia, 1724/25–1739; lieutenant-colonel of Philipps’ Regiment (later the 40th Foot), 1720–39; b. 1664 in Ireland; committed suicide at Annapolis Royal, N.S. 6 Dec. 1739. It is not known which of the three branches of the Irish Armstrongs he was born into, but all three contributed distinguished officers and engineers to the British service in the 18th century.
In the early 1690s Armstrong joined a regiment raised in Ireland, and saw service in Marlborough’s campaigns on the Continent until 1711, when the regiment was detached from the Duke’s forces to join Sir Hovenden Walker’s expedition against Quebec. When several of Walker’s ships were wrecked on the night of 22–23 August (o.s.) off Île-aux-Oeufs, Armstrong suffered the first of the reverses that were to mark his career in Canada. He was cast up on the littered shore with only his clothes, having lost his money, his personal effects, and the equipment of his entire company.
Armstrong’s men formed part of the force that was detached from the battered Walker expedition in September to reinforce the garrison at Annapolis Royal. The former Port-Royal had been captured from the French only a year before; but already its new masters were floundering in the problems of exercising British control over Nova Scotia from an isolated fort The garrison was poorly clothed and demoralized because of Governor Samuel Vetch’s inability to pay his New England agent for supplies; the arrival of the destitute reinforcements aggravated the situation so much that Armstrong and his fellow captains had little choice but to use their own pay to support their companies.
By 1712 the officers of the garrison had settled into a pattern of semi-poverty, continuing debt and petty quarrels that was to prevail for 30 years. Armstrong, possessing an erratic temperament and strong convictions, soon succumbed to the closeted atmosphere. The officers, “. . . a multitude . . . whose jarrs about Command and Rank create one Endless trouble, . . .” became involved in heated polemics about the virtues of the Protestant succession. As a member of an Irish family who had been “great sufferers for the Protestant Interest,” Armstrong was hardly the type to have doubts about the question; and reacting to the pro-Jacobite remarks of George Vane, a fellow officer, at the mess table he smashed a wine decanter over his head. In 1714 he fell out with the gentle Caulfeild, Vetch’s successor as governor, and quarrelled with the local New Englanders, one of whom, William Winniett*, accused Armstrong of uttering “virulous Conceptions” against him.
Armstrong’s debts accumulated as the problems of supporting his company increased, and with his Boston creditors pressing him he went to England in 1715 to seek redress. In February 1715/16 he presented his case to the Lords of Trade, who arranged to reimburse him for his losses. He spent four years in England, living on his pay and compensation.
When he returned to Nova Scotia in 1720, the province’s situation held greater promise. Colonel Richard Philipps* was governor, with orders to form a civil government, secure the Acadians’ allegiance, and consolidate British control. The orphaned “independent companies” had been formed into a regiment of foot under Philipps. The latter established a provincial council consisting of the regimental officers and New England civilians, and Armstrong, as the new major of the regiment, was given a council seat.
He took little part in council meetings, being dispatched to Louisbourg in the fall of 1720 to negotiate with the French governor, Saint-Ovide de Brouillan [Monbeton*], for the return of property seized by Indians from the New England fishermen at Canso (Canseau). The Canso area had posed a delicate problem for French, British, and New England authorities since 1718, when Captain Thomas Smart, commanding the Squirrel, plundered the French fishermen there on the grounds that the fishery was in British-held territory. Responsibility for encouraging the Indians to raid the New Englanders in 1720 was disavowed by Saint-Ovide at Louisbourg; but Philipps sent Armstrong to deliver a stiff protest to the governor and press for compensation. Saint-Ovide received Armstrong politely, and by giving him every assistance in collecting evidence from French fishermen in the Canso area skilfully underlined the fact that the British had never given satisfaction for the 1718 incident.
Throughout his career Armstrong shared Philipps’ view that the Canso fishery was a significant asset to the province. In fact, by this time Armstrong’s ideas about Nova Scotia were firmly set, and were to undergo little evolution. Like Philipps, he favoured Protestant immigration as a logical confirmation of conquest; yearned for a strong military force that would overawe the Acadians and Indians; recognized the importance of securing the Acadians’ allegiance, or at least their neutrality; and chafed under the inability of the government at Annapolis Royal to control the province.
Aside from this basic attitude, Armstrong shared little with Philipps. The two men took an instant dislike to each other. Philipps distrusted his major, fearing the latter’s influence with the authorities in England, while Armstrong made no effort to hide his contempt for the governor. He was in financial straits again, his company’s provisions having been lost in shipwrecks on two occasions in 1720. Philipps refused to bear the cost of one of these setbacks, and blocked Armstrong’s attempts to get leave.
Armstrong, now a lieutenant-colonel, returned to Annapolis from Canso in 1721 and took advantage of Philipps’ absence to hurry to England. His movements during the next four years are obscure. He bombarded the Lords of Trade with requests for compensation for his Canso losses, obtaining substantial repayment with the help of friends and relatives in the government. He took a house in Westminster, lived comfortably, and seems to have kept in close touch with the political machine of the Duke of Newcastle. On his own request he was appointed lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia, effective 8 Feb 1724/25. Philipps was at this time living in England, although still holding the governorship; John Doucett was lieutenant-governor of the town and fort of Annapolis Royal.
Armstrong’s first period of residence as lieutenant-governor (May 1725 until the fall of 1729) was marked by a determined attempt to solve local problems, by quarrels with the council and with members of the Roman Catholic clergy, such as Father Gaulin, and by complete failure to achieve the progress he so earnestly desired for the province. After a year at Canso, where he vainly hoped to establish a large permanent settlement of fishermen, he came to Annapolis Royal resolved to settle the Acadian issue. On 25 Sept 1726 he met the Annapolis Acadians at the fort, where he presented an oath requiring them to be “true subjects,” to swear “submission and obedience,” and to affirm (an Armstrong touch) that “no hopes of Absolution from any in Holy Orders” would move them from their allegiance.
Predictably, the Acadians requested exemption from bearing arms. Armstrong replied that British law prevented Roman Catholics from serving in the army in any event, “His Majesty having so many faithful Protestant subjects first to provide for “J. B. Brebner suggests that this was an ingenious dodge on Armstrong’s part, but it is equally plausible that Armstrong’s reaction was a spontaneous one, entirely in character. After some discussion he agreed to have the exemption written on the margin of the document “in order to gett them over by Degrees.” Another attempt was made to impose an unqualified oath in September 1727. This time the Annapolis Acadians asked for several conditions, including the exemption from bearing arms and the provision of more priests. Armstrong and his council reacted sternly, arresting four Acadian deputies, including Abraham Bourg; three of them were briefly imprisoned.
Armstrong’s last attempt to deal with the issue was made a month later, when he sent Ensign Robert Wroth to the Acadian settlements to achieve by diplomacy what had been lost in September by imperiousness. Wroth gave the Acadians a written confirmation of the exemption from military service, a concession that Armstrong and the council refused to ratify. It does not appear that the Acadians were officially informed that the modified oath was annulled; and the net result of Armstrong’s efforts was simply to strengthen the Acadians’ belief that they were entitled to neutral status in war time.
His attempts to impose the oath tell much about Armstrong. It was characteristic of him to meet a problem head-on, without much subtlety, and with an insistence on complete success that made disappointment inevitable. His prejudices, although standard for the times, ensured defeat in the Nova Scotian situation. He distrusted the priests, with some justification during his first residence, and did not yet recognize the pragmatic value of consistently cultivating their support. His chances of ever obtaining an unqualified oath from the Annapolis Acadians were effectively wrecked in 1728 by his violent treatment of their priest, Father René-Charles de Breslay. For reasons which remain obscure because of contradictory evidence, Armstrong believed that the priest was interfering in secular matters, and Breslay was forced to hide in the woods after his house was pillaged on the angry lieutenant-governor’s orders.
Other difficulties beset Armstrong during this period. The merchants at Annapolis engaged in clandestine trade with the Acadians and French at will. Perhaps because of his experiences with the garrison’s New England contractors, and certainly because of their “antimonarchical” tendencies, he quarrelled with the local New Englanders, who reciprocated by petitioning against him to the Board of Trade. His problems were compounded by a corrosive and perennial feud with Major Alexander Cosby*, a council member and Philipps’ brother-in-law.
The complaints which accumulated against Armstrong were probably responsible to some degree for Philipps’ reappearance in Nova Scotia in 1729. Yet it is not clear that the authorities were greatly dissatisfied with Armstrong He left Nova Scotia as soon as Philipps arrived, but was back in 1731 bearing a new commission, the orders for Philipps’ recall, and an entitlement to Philipps’ pay.
For the next eight years Armstrong wrestled mostly with routine problems. His inconsistency, as usual, made his work more difficult than necessary. He had always believed in using Acadians as rent-gatherers and notaries, and as far back as 1727 had appointed Prudent Robichaux as notary for the Annapolis area. Yet in 1737 he dismissed Alexandre Bourg*, dit Belle-Humeur, who had been appointed for the Minas district by Philipps, and replaced him with François Mangeant*, dit Saint-Germain, a Frenchman of doubtful character who had fled Quebec after killing a man in an alleged affair of honour, and who was detested by the Acadians for his peremptoriness and his earlier part in the Breslay affair. At the same time Armstrong was urging the home authorities to allow Acadians to become justices of the peace in an official, regular sense – an obvious impossibility under the British laws governing Roman Catholics. Nevertheless, in spite of these aberrations he seems to have made a genuine attempt to rule the Acadians wisely, arbitrating their numerous disputes with unaccustomed patience – or resignation – and applying himself assiduously to the most mundane details of administration. Despite his suspicions about the priests, and a few quarrels with them, he avoided outright clashes, and even gained an admission from Saint-Ovide that he was tolerant towards their religion.
His relations with the garrison and council, however, worsened in this period. The continuous personality clashes, the failure of his hopes to attract settlers to the province and establish new townships, the lack of encouragement from home, and a tendency to “Melancholy fitts” wore him down until he became an aged caricature of himself. On 6 Dec. 1739 he “put a Period to his life with his own Hands” and was found with “five Wounds in his Breast and his sword Lying carelessly by him in his bed.” The officers held an inquest and discreetly attributed his death to “Lunacy.”
Armstrong was a difficult man to his contemporaries, and is a difficult man to judge now, for his character and career were full of contradictions. He considered the Acadians “a Rebellious crew,” an “ungovernable people,” but tried frequently if clumsily to cultivate their loyalty and support. His deep-rooted distrust of the priests was not universal, being reserved for regular priests, and he was generally on amicable terms with their secular brethren. No one was more aware than he that British control of the province lacked substance, and yet he seemed genuinely mystified whenever the prestige of his position failed to command respect and obedience from the Acadians. His reports to the home authorities reveal a mixture of shrewd assessment and administrative myopia, of objectivity and gross exaggeration.
Until J. B. Brebner produced a deft analysis of the man in 1927 (New England’s outpost), Armstrong suffered at the hands of historians of the Acadian period, notably Édouard Richard and H.-R. Casgrain. This is understandable, since Armstrong clearly displayed bad temper, arrogance, impatience, and lack of perception in dealing with people. Yet, with the possible exception of his harsh treatment of Breslay, he cannot be accused of questionable motives, and was fiercely dedicated to British retention of Nova Scotia. Nor can he be charged with oppressing the Acadians, for he had neither the force at his disposal nor the mandate to do so; and his characteristically exaggerated language provides no safe clue that he really had the inclination. It is worth noting that Armstrong’s unpleasant traits have obscured the fact that he had a minor effect on the Acadians and the future of the province.
Indeed, it could be said that personality is largely irrelevant to an assessment of any resident authority’s influence on events in Nova Scotia during this confused period. Philipps brought blandishments and poise to his attempts to get an unqualified oath from the Acadians, and concluded the business by retreating drastically from his demands. Paul Mascarene*, who followed Armstrong and understood the Acadians better than his predecessors, enjoyed some success in dealing with them; but he could not solve the basic problem of the oath, and recognized the futility of the attempt. Armstrong, with a more simplistic outlook, based his hopes on imperiousness and the imaginary prestige of the lieutenant-governor’s position. He failed too, and not only because of his unsuitability for the post. A good part of the fault lay with a British government which was occupied with greater things than Nova Scotia, and which could bring little interest, less understanding, and no coherent policy to bear on the problems of the far-away province.
As a man Armstrong may justly be considered a complex, quarrelsome, and unlikeable individual whose traits were aggravated by the frustrating circumstances under which he lived. As an administrator he shared with Philipps the responsibility for the Acadians’ conviction that their status was an officially neutral one, for their first understanding that they were exempt from bearing arms came during his regime In summary, he has a place as one of the men who laboured with little guidance and support to keep Nova Scotia at least nominally British in a period when Walpole’s policies precluded any consolidation of overseas empire.
AN Col., B, 53, 59, 65; C11B, 8 (see also calendars for these series in PAC Report, 1905, 1887) Mass Hist Soc., Gay papers, V. N. B. Museum, Webster Coll., pkt. 200 PAC, Nova Scotia A, 3–7; 8, pp. 19, 133; 9; 12–14; 15, pp. 33–210; 16; 17, p. 283; 19–24 (see also PAC Report, 1894). PRO, C.O. 217/3 Coll. Doc. inédits Canada et Amérique (CF), I (1888) N.S. Archives, 1, II, III. PAC Report, 1905, II, App A, 70–72. PRO, B. T. Journal, 1734/35 to 1741; CSP, Col., 1720–21, 1722–23, 1724–25, 1726–27, 1728–29, 1730, 1732, 1733, 1734–35, 1735–36, 1737 Walker expedition (Graham). Army list of 1740 (Army Hist. Research Soc. Reprint, Sheffield, 1931), 43. John Burke, A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland (4v., London, 1838), IV, 338–49. Le Jeune, Dictionnaire, I. W. P. Bell, The “foreign protestants” and the settlement of Nova Scotia (Toronto, 1961). Brebner, New England’s outpost. Casgrain, Les Sulpiciens en Acadie. McLennan, Louisbourg Édouard Richard, Acadia; missing links of a lost chapter in American history, by an Acadian (Montreal and New York, 1895) Robert Rumilly, Histoire des Acadiens (2v., Montréal, ), II Waller, Samuel Vetch H.-R Casgrain, “Éclaircissements sur la question acadienne,” RSCT, 1st ser., VI (1888), 38–44. | <urn:uuid:e62a7f4a-ff43-48eb-bc0a-94f4b4ba2f65> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio.php?id_nbr=612 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.974625 | 3,826 | 2.84375 | 3 |
A First-Class Service and Affordable Prices Guaranteed
Find below answers to some of the questions that you may have about the mechanics on your car, and its health.
We recommend a regular service every 12 months or 10,000 Miles, whichever comes first, unless specified otherwise by your vehicle’s manufacturer.
Synthetic oil is composed of designer molecules created by engineers for their superior lubricating characteristics. Synthetic oil has been shown in independent laboratory tests to do a better job of both lubricating engine parts and in controlling internal engine combustion deposits.
Check with the specifications of your vehicle Manufacturer to see if it is applicable to your vehicle. We recommend synthetic oil for all 1998 and newer cars. We do not think it is necessary for older vehicles.
We recommend biannual fluid, lubricant and coolant check-ups. A brake flush is very important because brake fluid can absorb atmospheric moisture. This can really compromise your brake-system performance, causing poor pedal feel and brake fade. In extreme cases the moisture will lower the boiling point of your brake fluid, possibly leading to failure but also causing corrosion, and damage to your wheel callipers, wheel cylinders, master cylinder, and brake lines.
The same problem occurs with engine coolant. Diluted engine coolant will have a lower boiling point, which may lead to over-heating. Corrosion and deposits can damage your radiator and water pump.
Antifreeze should be checked and changed at regular intervals. After prolonged use, antifreeze will break down and become very corrosive. It can lose its rust preventative properties and the cooling system can fill rapidly with rust.
Check your owner’s manual for antifreeze usage specifications. Antifreeze, when mixed at a 50/50 ratio with water, provides excellent anti-freeze, anti-boil, and anti-corrosive properties. In extremely cold environments, the ratio for standard ethylene glycol can go as high as 70% antifreeze, 30% water.
The most common formulation of antifreeze is green in colour, and uses ethylene glycol as a base with anti-corrosion additives mixed in. The ethylene glycol part of the formula provides crucial anti-freezing characteristics, and the additives deliver the anti-rust and anti-corrosion capabilities.
Other antifreeze formulations include silicate-free for Japanese cars and phosphate-free for European cars. | <urn:uuid:7b7c4f9f-a40f-4d65-95d4-de987bd62446> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.tyresinbradfordonavon.co.uk/faqs | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.927176 | 509 | 1.9375 | 2 |
Scout, it seems we have a mystery eary in this Campagn.
Lt. Mark Jericho Auchell Aerodrome Feb. 10, 1916
Jericho eased his damaged Morane for a landing at Auchell. After rolling to a stop the adrenaline poured from his body leaving him exhausted and limp. He laid his head back and pulled his goggles off letting out a big sigh. "That was too d#%n close Robert!" "It certainly was" Robert replied as he examined the two holes in his flight jacket where a bullet had gone clean through missing him by a fraction. Jericho was going back over the fight in his mind. He, Gridder and Dickens had gone 10 miles behind enemy lines to bomb Avelin aerodrome northwest of Lens. "Why do they keep sending us over there without escorts" he thought. The wind was buffeting them all over the sky and Archie was light but very accurate. After dropping their bombs while forming back up , three of the dreaded Fokkers attacked from the clouds. The formation immediately broke up with Gridder loosing altitude and smoking. Jerico's new observer, Robert Christian kept up a good rate of fire at an enemy Jericho could not see. He did see the other Fokker coming to join the one already on their tail.
The two airmen were soon taking hits from their antagonist as Jericho turned right and left to stay out of their aim and give Christian a shot. One soon gave up as Christian sent it packing trailing smoke but the other was hanging on like a Mississippi tick! All of the maneuvering had caused them to loose a lot of altitude and Jericho was getting concerned as he was running out of air to maneuver in. They were at 1500' when Christian got in another good burst on the last Hun and sent him on his way.
Something was not right with the Morane. The engine was not holding full RPM and it was all Jericho could do to hold her level. Any attempt at climbing would cause a stall. Low behind the lines with an engine not giving full power, Jericho used all his skill to get a little more height out of her. Crossing the lines this low was suicide. By the time they reached the lines he had gained a little and they crossed without a problem. Jericho relaxed a little but not much much. He was still having a time keeping her airborne, They soon spotted Auchell and he made a beeline for the field not even thinking about circling.
As he climbed out of the plane, Robert reached up to give Jericho a hand. "I tell you what Pard. That was some d@#n fine shooting! You saved our a@$es today! You did fine for your first combat."
Robert was still sticking his finger in the hole in his jacket. "that sure was close" he said to no one in particular.
Gridder and Dickens were ok but their observers did not fair as well. One was badly wounded and the other killed. The flight was given a "Congratulations" for a good mission. "Congratulations for what!" Jericho thought to himself.
Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from either end. BOC Member since....I can't remember! | <urn:uuid:12973a39-5e8b-41e1-b3dc-243e9592376f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/posts/4460765 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.989799 | 664 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Laughter Yoga is a revolutionary thought – easy and profound. Train usually helps most individuals who suffer from again pain. Actually, those who endure from continual again ache usually profit from common stretches and bends. The explanations for back ache are many; specialists have identified falls, dangerous posture or sudden jerks and even osteoporosis as some of the root causes. Just a little care might help prevent again pain. Good calcium and protein-based mostly nutrition is commonly at the base of a sturdy back. Together with this it is important to put on sneakers which might be snug and shouldn’t have very high heels. It’s also necessary to appropriate one’s posture and learn the proper strategies of lifting and bending. Again ache has a wide selection of options. The proper analysis and specific options will bring you relief.
Yoga is nice for males, ladies, youngsters and old individuals, as a result of causes, thousands and thousands of people men, ladies and old individuals, especially old people who find themselves affected by obesity, arthritis, joint ache, decrease and higher again pain and different well being issues are involving in yoga. Most of them are going for yoga courses daily or some days in per week. Many dad and mom, nowadays, admitting their kids in yoga courses to improve their flexibility of body, improving ailments resisting energy and enhancing the mind. Yoga advantages are simple. If you wish to know extra about yoga and yoga therapy benefits learn this article in full. Let us talk about the advantages of yoga.
Padmasana (the lotus pose) is good to induce mental calmness and bring about bodily health and psychological equilibrium on everlasting foundation. Hypertension and coronary heart problems are co-associated and training yoga helps in lowering blood pressure that decreases the chances of coronary heart assaults and stroke. Yoga relaxes the blood vessel and improves blood circulation. It helps to forestall and remedy cardiovascular problems. Yoga follow soothes the nervous system and makes us calm. It makes us become conscious of our feeling that helps in balancing the emotions and prepares us to stand strong in tough occasions. Heartbreak, emotional breakdown, traumatizing incidents, and so on., contribute towards the emotional usability and may also result in psychological sicknesses.
Yoga holidays are designed to supply an entire escape from the day-to-day life lodged with fun and relaxation. The classes, therapies, meals, and activities are made for you and lead you to stay within the present second without any worries. In your free time, you are able to do something of your alternative like studying or visiting local laces, spending time alone, and so on. 7. Energized Physique and Mind: Workers are sure to feel exhausted, dull, and bored as a result of fixed sitting and straining the eyes on the computer screens. The performance of yoga postures is a great way to energize their physique, mind, and soul that helps them feel fresh during their working hours.
GS Virk has revealed books on Yoga, Meditation, spirituality, Gita , Sikhism, God , Religious Sculptures and phones. All are absolutely accessible online at Spiritual Ebook Numbers, and are for rookies. Amalaki, the Amla or Indian gooseberry that’s an ‘Ayurvedic wonder’, which helps in strengthening the immune system, helps in digestion and elimination, interior & outer skin well being making it absolutely radiant Cow colostrum, it’s the milk which is collected inside half an hour of the delivery of a calf, it helps in constructing and strengthening the immunity system and comprises vitamins, proteins, minerals, and micro-nutrients. | <urn:uuid:6236545b-4d44-46d1-9a27-97d187c11f52> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thecaremedicalgroup.com/2017/10/04/5-stress-free-yoga-workouts-for-a-good-night-sleep/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.945391 | 747 | 2 | 2 |
How typically do stars stay alone? For brown dwarfs — objects that straddle the boundary between essentially the most huge planets and the smallest stars — astronomers must uncover extra examples of their companions to search out out. Ace citizen scientist Frank Kiwy has performed simply that by utilizing the Astro Data Lab science platform at NSF’s NOIRLab to find 34 new ultracool dwarf binary methods within the Sun’s neighborhood, practically doubling the quantity of such methods recognized.
A citizen scientist has searched NSF’s NOIRLab’s catalog of 4 billion celestial objects, generally known as NOIRLab Source Catalog DR2, to disclose brown dwarfs with companions. His intensive investigation led to the discovery of 34 ultracool dwarf binary methods, practically doubling beforehand recognized samples .
Brown dwarfs lie someplace between essentially the most huge planets and the smallest stars. Lacking the mass wanted to maintain nuclear reactions of their core, brown dwarfs loosely resemble cooling embers on an enormous scale. Their faintness and comparatively small sizes make them troublesome to establish. Data from delicate telescopes have enabled the discovery of a number of thousand objects however only a small subset have been recognized as binaries. The issue in observing these faint embers additionally implies that astronomers are nonetheless not sure how typically brown dwarfs have companions.
To assist discover brown dwarfs, the astronomers of the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 citizen science mission have beforehand turned to a worldwide community of greater than 100,000 volunteer citizen scientists who scrutinized telescope pictures to establish the delicate movement of brown dwarfs towards background stars. Despite the skills of machine studying and supercomputers, the human eye remains to be a singular useful resource on the subject of scouring telescope pictures for shifting objects.
“The Backyard Worlds project has fostered a diverse community of talented volunteers,” commented Aaron Meisner, an astronomer at NSF’s NOIRLab and co-founder of Backyard Worlds. “150,000 volunteers across the globe have participated in Backyard Worlds, among which a few hundred ‘super users’ perform ambitious self-directed research projects.”
One such ‘tremendous sleuth — citizen scientist Frank Kiwy — launched into a analysis mission involving the NOIRLab Source Catalog DR2, a catalog of practically 4 billion distinctive celestial objects that accommodates all of the general public imaging knowledge in NOIRLab’s Astro Data Archive. By looking the information for objects with the colour of brown dwarfs, Kiwy was capable of finding greater than 2500 potential ultracool dwarfs lurking within the archive. These had been then scrutinized for hints of comoving companions, yielding a complete of 34 methods comprising a white dwarf or low-mass star with an ultracool dwarf companion . Kiwy then led a staff of skilled astrophysicists in publishing these discoveries in a scientific paper.
“I love the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project! Once you master the regular workflow you can dive much deeper into the subject,” commented Kiwy. “If you’re a person who is curious and not afraid to learn something new, this might be the right thing for you.”
“This amazing result clearly demonstrates that NOIRLab’s data archive has a reach far beyond that of professional astronomers,” notes Chris Davis, NSF’s Program Director for NOIRLab. “Keen members of the public can also participate in cutting-edge research and directly share in the joy of cosmic discovery!”
As properly as being an inspiring story of citizen science, these discoveries may assist astronomers decide if brown dwarfs are extra akin to outsized planets or undersized stars, in addition to offering insights into how star methods evolve over time. It additionally demonstrates the continued distinctive contribution to astronomy made by scientists utilizing astronomical archives and science platforms akin to NOIRLab’s Astro Data Archive and Astro Data Lab on the Community Science and Data (*34*) (CSDC).
“These discoveries were made by an amateur astronomer who conquered astronomical big data,” concluded Aaron Meisner. “Modern astronomy archives contain an immense treasure trove of data and often harbor major discoveries just waiting to be noticed.”
Previous samples embody white dwarf plus ultracool dwarf (L dwarf) pairs separated by greater than 150 astronomical models (au), and purple dwarf plus L dwarf pairs with separations between 700 and 1800 au. An astronomical unit (au) is a unit utilized by astronomers that was initially chosen to signify the typical distance between the Earth and the Sun: roughly 150 million kilometers or 93 million miles.
The closest-together pair of dwarfs had a bodily separation of solely ~170 au, and the furthest aside had been about 8500 au from each other. | <urn:uuid:f2410deb-a95c-4bc6-90bc-bc8d3416183c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://zizzmedia.com/citizen-scientist-leads-discovery-of-34-ultracool-dwarf-binaries-sciencedaily/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.913755 | 997 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Objective Prior work investigating deficits in self-appraisal in behavioural-variant frontotemporal degeneration (bvFTD) has focused on a single domain: sociable/behavioural processes. measure was related to gray matter (GM) denseness in each group using voxel-based morphometry. Results bvFTD individuals were poor at evaluating their personal overall performance on all cognitive checks with no significant correlations between self-appraisal and actual overall performance. By contrast poor self-appraisal in AD was restricted to episodic memory space overall performance. Poor self-appraisal on each task in bvFTD and AD was related to reduced GM density in several ventral and rostral medial prefrontal areas. Crucially poor self-appraisal for those domains in bvFTD was related to a specific part of decreased GM thickness in the subgenual cingulate (BA 25). Bottom line Poor self-appraisal in bvFTD impacts multiple domains which multi-domain impairment design is connected with frontal disease in the subgenual cingulate. PF-04217903 Launch Self-appraisal identifies impaired knowing of one’s very own abilities. The capability to appraise our very own functionality is a distinctive element of daily individual working which allows us to discover our own restrictions. Poor self-appraisal continues to be observed in sufferers with neurological disease for several cognitive and behavioural domains including sensory perceptual electric motor and social working.1 Despite several research examining self-appraisal deficits the complete character and neural basis continues to be unclear.2 Poor self-appraisal may be design which includes multiple regions of working. For example sufferers using a semantic version of principal progressive aphasia an aphasic subtype of FTD possess demonstrated decreased understanding for both their language-related and behavioural symptoms.9 Because poor self-appraisal is this important diagnostic feature of bvFTD10 11 and has such profound consequences for day-to-day working the present research was the first ever to measure the specificity of the self-appraisal deficit across multiple domains and in a comparative PF-04217903 manner in bvFTD and AD. The neural basis of self-appraisal in sufferers with neurodegenerative disease isn’t well known. Few studies have got examined the anatomical basis of impaired self-appraisal in these circumstances. Medial prefrontal cortex (PFC) in the proper frontal lobe seems to play an essential function in self-appraisal.12-15 This area is very important to social cognitive Rabbit Polyclonal to US28. processing and specifically understanding of the self 16 which may confound assessments from the neuroanatomy of self-appraisal concentrating on social content. Furthermore the precise region within medial PFC that is critical for self-appraisal remains to be specified. The present study was the first to assess the neural basis for impaired self-appraisal objectively and comparatively in multiple areas of cognition in bvFTD and AD. We hypothesised that only bvFTD would demonstrate a self-appraisal deficit in multiple cognitive domains and that this multi-domain deficit would be associated with changes in ventral medial PFC. METHODS Individuals One hundred and twenty-two subjects participated with this study. All individuals were evaluated and recruited by an experienced cognitive neurologist from your Division of Neurology University or college of Pennsylvania. bvFTD and AD individuals were classified based on published criteria.11 17 At least two trained reviewers of a consensus committee confirmed the presence of specific diagnostic criteria and also assigned individuals to AD or a specific FTD phenotype based on an independent review of the semi-structured history obtained from individuals and their families a detailed neurological exam and a comprehensive mental status evaluation. Inter-rater reliability for clinical analysis was 85% agreement. When there was disagreement between reviewers the case was discussed by the entire committee to arrive at a consensus analysis and agreement on the remaining 15% was acquired at PF-04217903 follow-up assessment. PF-04217903 This sample of slight to moderately demented individuals included: bvFTD (n=49; MMSE (mean ±SE) 23.6±0.9; range 4-30) who presented with PF-04217903 progressive sociable and personality problems often with alterations of executive functioning; and individuals with mild-to-moderate AD (n=73; MMSE (mean ± SE) 20.6±0.7; range 9-28) who experienced episodic memory space deficits as well as difficulty in language executive and visual perceptual-spatial domains. All individuals participated in an informed consent process authorized by the School of Pennsylvania. | <urn:uuid:0feba137-da44-4623-88b3-d379a4c93dc6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.siamtech.net/2017/06/25/objective-prior-work-investigating-deficits-in-self-appraisal-in-behavioural-variant-frontotemporal-degeneration/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.955273 | 980 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Civil War to Civil Rights: The Well-Being of A Nation
Observing the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, the symposium will be both commemorative and forward-looking.
Hosted by the Clarice Smith Center, in partnership with the UMD School of Public Policy and the UMD School of Public Health, the symposium is the launch of The National Civil War Project at the Center. With the Civil War as the genesis of the Civil Rights Movement in this country, scholarly presentations and stimulating artistic experiences will examine issues of the Civil War through the lens of our nation’s civil rights struggles. It will place the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in its historic context, both as the culmination of the struggle since the Emancipation Proclamation and as the stage-setting for a new generation of civil rights issues that reveal the important— but often hidden — inequalities of our time.
Throughout the symposium, ‘visual journalist’ Ellen Lovelidge will capture salient points using artistic interpretation. Able to see ideas from an innovative perspective and present them to audiences with a combination of words and pictures, Lovelidge’s work will allow symposium attendees to interpret and embrace new concepts. The pieces created as part of the symposium will be displayed in the lobby and samples will be available to attendees as artistic documentation of their experience.
Thursday, September 5, 2013
6 – 6:45PM
7 – 8:15PM
Keynote: Why the March on Washington Still Resonates Today
Julian Bond, speaker
Introduction by UMD student Jazz Lewis
Fifty years ago, and 100 years following the Civil War, more than 250,000 people gathered on the National Mall in Washington, DC to mount a peaceful protest for jobs and freedom for African Americans. One of the largest rallies for human rights in our history, it fueled support for the Civil Rights Movement and led to the passage of legislation that transformed our nation. Civil rights leader and activist Julian Bond was at the March and has devoted his career to fighting for human equality.
His speech will explore the goals of both the 1963 march and the August 24, 2013 march, giving consideration to the civil rights movement then and now. Mr. Bond will recount his own history and experiences at both marches, making the connection to the significance of the recent Trayvon Martin case and the Voting Rights Amendment.
8:30 – 9PM
Liz Lerman, choreographer, speaker and author
Vincent Thomas, choreographer, dancer and educator
What does change look like today? Are our actions relevant? How do we keep ourselves going? What feeds us? Our bodies are both a source of knowledge and a tool for inquiry. Liz Lerman and Vincent Thomas, experts on embodied learning, will draw on participants' observations, experiences, and ideas about the issues addressed in the symposium, and then reflect on and synthesize what's happening and what might be possible. Requiring only curiosity, expect to engage, witness, listen, imagine and make art together.
Friday, September 6, 2013
TerpTalks: Jobs and Freedom: How Far Have We Come?
Preceded by creative framing for the day with Liz Lerman, choreographer, speaker, MacArthur fellow; Vincent Thomas, choreographer, dancer and educator; and Donald F. Kettl, Dean, UMD School of Public Policy, Dean, UMD School of Public Policy
Despite the successes of the March on Washington and the Civil Rights Movement, we are still striving to achieve the principles behind the movement: equality, peace, and freedom. African-Americans continue to struggle disproportionately against poverty and to gain equal access to education and health care. Our TerpTalkers will speak for 15 minutes followed by the opportunity for audience members to ask questions.
REV. CEDRIC A. HARMON: “Creating a More Perfect Union”
Rev. Harmon is Co-Director with Ann Thompson Cook of Many Voices, a Black Church Movement aimed at growing and nurturing gay and transgender justice.
HOWARD SMEAD: “Racial Violence as the Defining Truth of White Racism”
Dr. Smead teaches in the History Department and Honors College at UMD and is the author of Blood Justice: The Lynching of Mack Charles Parker, which recounts an all but forgotten lynching in Poplarville, Mississippi in 1959, and Don’t Trust Anyone Over Thirty, a history of the Baby Boomer generation.
PERLA M. GUERRERO : “Reactions to a Diversifying U.S. South”
Dr. Guerrero is Assistant Professor of American Studies & U.S. Latina/o Studies at UMD. She is in the process of writing Asians and Latinas/os Remaking Arkansas: Race, Labor, Place, and Community, which traces the arrival and racialization of refugees and immigrants in the last quarter of the 20th century.
DARIUS GRAHAM: “Cultivating Community Change”
Darius is the founder and director of DC Social Innovation Project, an organization that provides both funding and pro bono services to support the development and launch of innovative community initiatives in Washington, DC.
11:30 – 11:45AM
11:45AM – 12:30PM
STEPHEN B. THOMAS: “Why Race Matters in Eliminating Health Disparities”
Dr. Thomas is a Professor of Health Services Administration in the School of Public Health and Director of the University of Maryland Center for Health Equity. He is one of the nation’s leading scholars on health inequities and works to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities.
KALIMA YOUNG: “Mapping the Arts to Transform the Community”
Kalima directs the Baltimore Art + Justice Project in the Office of Community Engagement at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She is also an instructor in LGBT Studies at Towson University.
ANDY SHALLAL: “The Prism of Race in America”
Andy is an Iraqi-American artist and activist, as well as founder of the Busboys and Poets restaurants in the greater Washington, DC area.
12:30 – 1:15PM
And the March Continues
A conversation with UMD student activists Raaheela Ahmed, Ola Ojewumi, Andrew Mulinge and Sarah Ferrell
Facilitated by Truman Scholar and UMD student Mohammad Zia
The new era of civil rights activism is alive and well on college campuses across the nation, including here at the University of Maryland. Join these young visionaries as they talk about the impact that the Civil Rights Movement has had on their work and how it continues to inspire them in their pursuit of social change.
1:15 – 2PM
2 – 3:15PM
Rights, Equality and the American Dream
Judith Browne Dianis, founder of the Advancement Project
Peter Edelman, Center on Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy at Georgetown University Law Center
The Rev. Dr. Edna Canty Jenkins, Embry Center for Family Life
Stephen B. Thomas, Director of the University of Maryland Center for Health Equity
The Rev. Dr. Christine Wiley, Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ
Kojo Nnamdi, moderator
Introduced by UMD student Ben Simon
The Enlightenment era gave rise to the United States of America and promised great opportunity. The emergence of public libraries and schools, transportation departments, the democratization of elections and the GI Bill guided millions into an upward mobility that seemed without limit. But opportunities have never been universal and African Americans have long been at the end of the line, even as other minority groups have gained access to them faster. Voting rights, education, health, housing and libraries have always been unevenly distributed. Join our speakers in the conversation of why racial inequities are on the rise again and what we can do to address this reality.
3:15 – 3:30PM
3:30 – 4:45PM
Keynote: Still Marching: the Work That Lies Ahead
Marian Wright Edelman, speaker
Preceded by creative framing by Liz Lerman and Vincent Thomas
The March on Washington paved the way for major changes in our country. But the struggle for equality continues in the fight for equal access to health care, education, and a shot at living the American dream. Marian Wright Edelman, a participant in the March and a lifelong activist for racial justice and children’s rights, will consider how far we’ve come and how far we have to go to achieve its goals.
4:45 – 5:30PM
Marching Forward: A Call to Action
Generations that have come after the March on Washington know only a transformed America, in which discrimination based on race is prohibited, and equal access for everyone is protected by the law. Writer, commentator and cultural critic Touré will discuss what the movement means to post-Civil Rights generations, and deliver a call to action to continue working toward the movement’s goals.
Christian McBride Big Band, Harry Belafonte and Heritage Signature Chorale: The Movement Revisited
Christian McBride, Harry Belafonte and Heritage Signature Chorale kick off our 2013-2014 season with a new incarnation of The Movement Revisited, a four-part suire dedicated to four major figures of the Civil Rights Movement: Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Separate tickets are required; purchase them here.
This project was made possible by a grant from the Maryland Humanities Council, through support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or the Maryland Humanities Council.
This program is also supported by the Prince George’s Arts and Humanities Council.
The National Civil War Project is a multi-city, multi-year collaboration between four universities and five performing arts organizations to create original works and innovative academic programming inspired by the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.
This event is part of our Civil War to Civil Rights: The Well-Being of a Nation series.
Videos of symposium sessions
Visit the Civil War to Civil Rights channel on Vimeo to view videos from all symposium sessions.
Drawings by Ellen Lovelidge, visual journalist
Visit Flickr to view and download photos of drawings by Ellen Lovelidge made during symposium sessions.
About Ellen Lovelidge
Ellen Lovelidge is a visual journalist, graphic recorder, illustrator and digital strategist for Visual Insight. Her academic background is in natural sciences including marine ecology, environmental policy and sustainable living. Ellen is also the author of several blog posts and copy for a variety of brands and online publications involving topics such as food & drink, science, music and lifestyle.
Photos from the symposium
View the #UMDMarchesOn Tagboard to view tweets, photos and other posts related to the symposium.
Building Trust Between Minorities and Researchers
Visit buildingtrustumd.org for more information about his project by the Center for Health Equity at the UMD School of Public Health.
Review by The Huffington Post
The conference beautifully placed the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in its historic context, both as the culmination of the struggle since the Emancipation Proclamation, and as the stage-setting for a new generation of civil rights issues that reveal the important -- but often hidden -- inequalities of our time. The larger social message of the civil rights symposium remained to address the misconception that racial inequality ended with Dr. King and the Civil Rights Movement.
– OLA OJEWUMI , The Huffington Post, December 12, 2013
Review by DCMetroTheaterArts
Linking the social issues of yesterday to the modern-day march for civil rights and economic justice, Bond’s frank essay on where American has been, where we are now , and where we should be headed, brought the audience to its feet as he eloquently laid out his plain-talking but optimistic views on America’s future.
– RAMONA HARPER, DCMetroTheaterArts, September 7, 2013
Segment by The Diamondback
Review by The Diamondback
The first speaker in the center’s two-day symposium…[Julian] Bond detailed his experiences at the first march, discussing the tumult and violence of 1963…juxtaposed with the peace of the march.
– BEENA RAGHAVENDRAN, The Dimaondback, September 6, 2013
Preview by The Gazette
“There are so many issues that are going on today in society ... it may not be being called an inflammatory name to your face or being in a situation where you couldn’t drink out of a certain fountain, but there’s definitely a lot of problems that exist in the African American community and here in America,” [UMD student Andrew] Mulinge said.
– CARA HEDGEPETH, The Gazette, September 5, 2013
Make Some Noise: Students and the Civil Rights Movement
Visit the Newseum to view their Make Some Noise exhibit, which explores the new generation of student leaders in the early 1960s who fought segregation by making their voices heard. This exhibit is on display indefinitely. | <urn:uuid:85d3f3a7-082d-4c7d-b0c5-f6a94681f347> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theclarice.umd.edu/events/2013/civil-war-civil-rights-well-being-nation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.926888 | 2,836 | 2.75 | 3 |
Audio – 0:55:46
Talk by John Chowning and Holly Herndon
Thu, Apr 21 & Fri, Apr 22
Ever since Pythagoras’s monochord experiments, mathematics have radically expanded our understanding of and the possibilities for producing and experiencing sound. At the same time music has a particularly intense effect when it exhibits qualities that are mathematically unpredictable. The second edition of Technosphärenklänge takes a look at the electrifying interconnections of music, mathematics and technology. | <urn:uuid:619357bc-2b68-4945-816a-6e5217e15691> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hkw.de/en/app/mediathek/audio/50159 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.845807 | 122 | 2.203125 | 2 |
There are plenty of resolutions that make for admirable New Year’s goals: spending more time with family, resolving to cook wholesome meals, or learning a new language, to name a few.
But how about investing?
Investing can mean different things for us all. Some may dream of buying a home, a new car, or putting our money in stocks or mutual funds for the future.
If you are trying to reach a financial goal in 2021, understanding what investing is and the many options available is a great place to start. Taking the first step can often be overwhelming—but no need to fear, we are here to help!
What Is Investing?
From a definition standpoint, investing is the process of allocating money with the expectation of financial gain, commonly known as a return. The goal of an investment is to own an asset (i.e., something that holds value like stock or property) that can increase in price over time. The idea is to have your money work for you so that it can bring you closer to achieving your financial goals.
One of the most critical factors in deciding which investments are right for you is your potential financial return. This return often comes from interest payments or a price increase, and it’s calculated as a percentage of the initial investment. Take a simple stock, for example. You buy the stock at $100 and it goes to $120. Congrats! You’ve just collected a 20% return.
When familiarizing yourself with returns, it’s important to keep in mind that returns on investment are not guaranteed. Typically, the chance for greater returns also comes with a greater risk of losing some (or all) of your money.
If you know how to choose your investments wisely, you can lower your overall risk of loss (and ideally, maintain your financial security).
Generally speaking, there are two ways to invest: short-term and long-term.
Short-term investing is generally riskier. Because of the high risks associated with it, short-term investing is often less suitable for beginners. Even financial professionals who track the market daily have trouble predicting short-term market movements.
Long-term investment strategies, on the other hand, are good for both beginners and seasoned investors. You may have heard the term “buy and hold” strategy, which allows investors to purchase, then ride out the shorter-term shock waves like news events and pandemics.
Why Investing Works
Financial returns are particularly powerful because of a principle called compounding. Compounding means that the money you invest earns a return, and that return also earns money, which accumulates over time. Returns can come from interest payments, dividends, or increasing prices, all of which help your investment portfolio grow.
Higher returns on your investments not only exploit the power of compounding but also protect your money from inflation. Often viewed as the constant enemy of your hard-earned cash, inflation refers to the rising costs of goods. It can vary, but as of recently, money has been losing value by about 1.2-1.4% per year, on average.
To put that percentage in perspective, money that loses 1.2% each year loses about 22% over 20 years. Imagine you have $100 now. In 20 years, that same amount of cash will be worth the equivalent of $78. Essentially, if your uninvested money is just sitting in your bank account, this is what inflation is doing to it.
According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, the national average interest rate for savings accounts is around 0.06%. This means that the rate of devaluation of your money is often greater than the interest rates on savings accounts offered by banks.
So, what do you do?
Long-term investing can combat inflation and help build wealth for your retirement. Investments can expand or shrink in the short-term, but the long-term tendency of the stock market is upwards.
In fact, over the last 100 years, the average stock market return rate is about 10% annually—beating both inflation and your savings account gains.
Common Types of Investments
We know, finance is full of different terminology and it can often feel overwhelming. A good way to start feeling comfortable is to familiarize yourself with a few types of popular investments.
Stocks or shares become available during an initial public offering (IPO), where they are listed on a stock exchange. During this process, corporations sell shares to raise funds and a company goes from being owned by founders and early investors to being available for public ownership.
Think of every stock as a tiny piece of the corporation. The two main ways to profit from these stocks are by selling shares for a profit or receiving dividends, which are payments made to shareholders at the company’s discretion.
Anyone can buy stocks. However, because of their volatility, they are typically considered a relatively aggressive investment. If you’re interested in stocks, buying a portfolio of stocks can often be less risky than buying stock in one single company (that’s because if one company plummets, you’ll have the others to hopefully balance it out). You can purchase stocks through a FINRA registered brokerage platform and start to build up that diversified portfolio.
Bonds are considered relatively safer investments and are commonly issued by corporations or governments. When you purchase a bond, you’re lending money to the issuer in return for interest payments. Terms of the bond include the interest rate paid to the bondholder, and the time by which the loan must be paid back (otherwise known as the maturity date). Bondholders can trade their bonds in the secondary market with other investors.
Bonds are typically classified into three categories:
- short-term (one to three years)
- medium-term (10 years or more)
- long-term (typically 30 years)
As an example, the current interest rate of a 30-year U.S. treasury bond is 2.05%. You can buy bonds directly from the government or a brokerage. Corporate bonds tend to have higher yields (interest rates), but they also come with more risk. The main scenario where you would lose your entire investment is if the issuer can’t pay back its debt.
Stock market and bond market indices are portfolios of assets that represent a broader category. For example, the S&P 500 Index is a U.S. index created by Standard & Poor’s with 500 stocks meant to represent the 500 largest publicly traded companies. Indices allow you to build a diversified portfolio without needing significant research. You can trade indices using exchange-traded funds (ETFs) or mutual funds.
ETFs are exchange-traded funds that track index funds. They are well suited for beginner investors because of their abundant liquidity, low expense ratios, diversification, and a range of investment options across assets. You often find ETFs in managed portfolios (a pool of different investments) with different investments across industries and assets.
A mutual fund is a diversified investment fund that manages money for investors. Mutual funds can be both active and passive. Active funds have more flexibility to choose investments that the fund manager thinks will perform well. Passive funds tend to track a selected index. Mutual funds are not directly available on an exchange, but you can buy them through brokerage platforms.
Real estate investing involves purchasing an asset (or assets) such as a house, apartment building, or land. You may need more capital in the form of a down payment to buy property, but securing a mortgage loan can help with the purchase. Real estate returns are a good way to go as they tend to be relatively stable in the long run.
When it comes to real estate, there are multiple ways to invest. Investors may trade physical property by buying a house priced below the market, renovating it, and then selling at a higher price. This is an active investment that requires market knowledge and experience. Investors may also buy and then rent out a property as another way to profit off of real estate.
You can also invest through real estate funds or Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). These allow you to start investing in real estate on a stock market exchange, with far less capital than you would need to buy a single property. If you’re thinking about going this route, know that the return rates and levels of risk of different funds and trusts can vary.
A commodity is a raw material that can be traded with other similar goods. Anything from gold, silver, oil, natural gas, grains, or even livestock are considered commodities. Commodities are often used in the production of other goods or services.
When these commodities are traded, they must meet specified standards to be exchanged in the market. Within your portfolio, commodities tend to help with diversification and can help fight inflation. During inflationary times as the demand for basic goods increases, commodities tend to do well. Also, if central banks print money, investors tend to see gold as a store of value.
How to Get Started
Before you start, look at your monthly budget and determine if and how much extra you have available to invest. Then, it’s a good idea to build up an emergency fund. Ideally, this will cover three to six months’ worth of expenses and should be set aside for unexpected events.
Once your emergency fund is set, determine your investment goals. For example, if your goal is to save for retirement, you can maximize your contributions to retirement accounts like a 401(k) or IRA. Shorter-term investments can be made in brokerage accounts that are easier to access when needed. Knowing your goal will give you a good idea of what type of investments you need and what your risk tolerance is.
After you plan your investment strategy, the next step is to open up an investment account. You can usually open a brokerage account online and transfer funds from a bank account.
Once you're ready to invest, the best advice is to “never put all your eggs in one basket.” You may be passionate about a company and want to invest in it for the long run. However, predicting the future is impossible, and taking a risk on only one single company may leave you with lasting regrets.
If you’re considering investing, it’s better to start sooner rather than later because you’ll benefit from time and compound interest.
As we like to say at Teachers, investing now will help set you up for a better tomorrow.
Personal Financial Management Guidance
The unique thing about investing is that there are endless opportunities to learn and grow. Investors can always use financial planning support. If you’re interested in investing and need some help getting started, we offer resources that put you on the right track.
Our Teachers Trust & Financial Services team provides personalized consultations to analyze your current financial situation and your future goals followed by specialized recommendations.
We also offer educational workshops to help with things like investment planning, retirement, annuities, mutual funds, and life insurance. Our managed account service puts a professional investment manager at your service so you can learn how to thrive.
No matter who you are or what your goals are, we’re certain there’s an investment path to help you get where you want to be. We’ll do all that homework; you just reap the rewards. | <urn:uuid:fdcbb2ed-5f3c-4f43-a85c-da24a7fb3f95> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.teachersfcu.org/blog/financial-education/new-years-resolutions-investing-101 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.956574 | 2,377 | 2.6875 | 3 |
You might be questioning why you need a triple monitor setup when you can get the job completed by a single monitor. You must have come across many gamers and coders who fancy a triple monitor setup above a single monitor.
This is because a solo monitor is not sufficient for a relaxed capability as well as for their necessary productivity.
Moreover, a triple monitor setup enriches the aesthetics and fetches a widespread perspective. We will check up on the whole thing you need to diagnose about the triple monitor setup.
A triple monitor setup consists of three monitor screens connected to a single PC commonly used by high-end creators, coders, gamers, live streamers, and much more.
What is a Triple Monitor Setup?
A triple monitor setup is, fairly basic, manipulating triple monitors linked to a computer or laptop to display a solo image. You use cables to link the triple monitors such as HDMI, VGA, Display Port, or USB c-type.
The matters of concern presented by the monitors can diverge broadly. A triple monitor setup could be engaged for gaming or it might be used for professional or business-oriented quests such as exchange, programing, or graphic designing and editing.
This setup is one of the best ways to surge efficiency while growing the amusement of using your computer.it is surely an appropriate and exciting way to use your PC.
How to build a Triple Monitor Setup?
It is very important to check that not all PCs support a triple monitor setup. That is why you should first check if your existing computer supports a triple monitor setup or not
Using a Desktop:
For desktop computers, check the rear of your system to find out how many video ports are there. There could be an integrated graphics card as well as an additional graphics card and both of them have video ports. If there are three ports, check the handbook to see if the graphics card permits using three ports concurrently.
Using a Laptop:
Your laptop will likely have at most two video ports. Certainly, you cannot run a triple monitor setup with your laptop under normal circumstances. That is when you need to opt for extra hardware so that you can set up triple monitors to work altogether.
PC Doesn’t Support Triple Monitor Setup
In the former phase, if you find out that your desktop or laptop does not support a triple monitor setup, there is nothing to be troubled about. You want to purchase the following hardware items to set up triple monitors to work simultaneously.
- Graphics Card
- External Multi-Display Adapter
- USB to HDMI Adapter
- Docking Station
- Ensure you have the Required Cables
- Configure your Display Settings
Configure Display Settings on Windows 10
Right-click on the blank area on the desktop, and from the menu, click Display Settings.
You will get three monitors and click on Identify button.
After clicking Identify button, you have to organize the monitors in order as per your requirements. You have to drag and drop the monitors for rearrangement.
You can also modify the scale and layout if you want.
Go to Multiple Displays and from the drop-down list, select Extend these displays option.
Update the Drivers for Monitors
If the drivers of your monitors are not updated to their latest versions, there could be lag issues, black screens, and more. Not just your monitors, you need to update your graphics card driver.
Download & Install Drivers Manually
You can download the drivers for your monitors and graphics card from the manufacturer’s website. Make sure that the model number matches your hardware before downloading. In addition, make sure the driver is compatible with your Windows OS version.
Automatically Update Your Graphics Drivers
You can use Driver Updater to update drivers of the required hardware items. We recommend downloading Driver Easy which can automatically search and install drivers for all the hardware items on your computer. You can update all available latest drivers as well as update only monitor and graphics card drivers selectively.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
How to Mount a Triple Monitor Setup?
Most monitors come with a built-in desk stand when you want it on your desk, it can also be mounted by a wall stand or arm stands easily available for all sizes. All we have to consider is space because a triple monitor system requires more space.
Does Screen Size matter while using a triple monitor setup?
In many cases, people prefer the same sizes for all three screens but it is a myth you can adjust different sizes as your demand work.
What Equipment is required for Triple Monitor Setup?
We need triple monitors and a PC, supported cables, wall mount stand if you want it on the wall otherwise monitors come with their stands. Some hardware assistance will be required.
How to know if your device is well-suited with a triple monitor setup?
Check your PC rare if it has three display output ports you are good to go otherwise you will need additional hardware to set up a triple monitor.
A triple monitor setup is very beneficial and stress-free if it comes to multi-tasking, development, designing, gaming, and live streaming it gives extension to your graphic output and it becomes easy to handle multi applications all at once.
While using a single monitor it is difficult to watch over all applications because you have to keep swapping among applications.
Single monitors are frequently used for simple tasks on your pc when you get expert your tasks become complex transferring to a triple monitor will become vital to set more clearness into the stuff you do your supreme. | <urn:uuid:736adb42-7b5a-40de-a2d6-d76f8bb9b5be> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://monitorshub.com/how-to-use-triple-monitor-setup/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.916114 | 1,139 | 1.828125 | 2 |
South Africans should brace themselves for a further slump in the economy, as gross domestic product (GDP) numbers for the second quarter of the year are expected to plummet.
Statistics South Africa is due to release the GDP numbers on Tuesday next week. The organisation said the Covid-19 lockdown had affected its ability to collect data.
Jeff Schultz, a senior economist at BNP Paribas SA, believes the worst of the coronavirus disruptions are behind us, but says the GDP numbers are likely to be less than desirable.
BNP has downgraded the country’s second quarter GDP growth forecast to -51.5% from the previous 40% estimate.
BNP says the South African Reserve Bank’s GDP estimates for both this year and the next remain tilted to the downside.
This contraction is despite the Reserve Bank’s efforts to cut rates by 300 points this year to mitigate the negative effects of Covid-19.
Last month, Reserve Bank governor Lesetja Kganyago speaking at the Cape Town Press Club, said inflation would not be a problem for the country for the next 12 to 18 months. He added that quantitative easing — where the central bank increases money supply by buying government securities or other financial assets — is something the bank would not embark on because the country’s interest rates and inflation are not at zero percent.
Second quarter slip
The supply side of the economy will primarily drive the second-quarter downturn. This includes mining, manufacturing, construction and utilities, which Schultz estimates have contracted by more than 70% in the second quarter. He says the lockdown has made a significant number of consumers financially more vulnerable, which means they are more likely to save their money or use it only in case of emergencies.
The Covid-19 lockdown slowed the economy to a point where businesses across all sectors are operating below capacity.
“The only bright spot that we are anticipating in the second quarter numbers is going to come from the agricultural sector because it was one of the few sectors that were permitted to operate uninterrupted during the hard lockdowns,” says Schultz.
But the agriculture sector contributes only 2.5% to the country’s GDP and is unlikely to offset the expected slump in GDP for the second quarter.
All sectors hit
The hard lockdown saw many industries’ output slowing or coming to a standstill, according to the BeyondCOVID Business Survey by Redflank, a specialist management consultancy.
The survey, conducted between June and August, shows that 76% of the more than 1 800 companies that participated in the study have seen their revenues drop since March.
Beyond that, more than 56% of participants across all sectors are operating under their standard capacity. An even bigger percentage, 76%, has seen their revenues shrink and 23% have had to shut down, temporarily or permanently. For only two out of 10 companies is it business as usual. And a tiny fraction, 2%, have expanded their operations.
The sectors affected the most include accommodation and food outlets such as restaurant, the arts, entertainment and recreation. The contraction has severely affected businesses such as hairdressing and beauty salons, wholesalers and retailers, construction and travel companies such as car hire firms and travel agencies.
The survey also focused on retrenchments. The accommodation and food services companies top the list.
Redflank director Lings Naidoo says about 68% of respondents in these sectors have had to let all, most, or some of their employees go.
“This is followed by hair and beauty salons (62%), construction firms (61%) and entertainment, arts and sports (57%).”
Glimmer of hope
Although most sectors were affected, Rhangani Mbhalati, the managing director of Chapu Chartered Accountants, says small- and medium-sized enterprises are hardest hit because most of these businesses do not have reserves. But they still have fixed costs such as salaries and rent to pay.
He says those companies withstanding the Covid-19 storm have adjusted to working with a reduced labour force and may attempt to achieve the same output as before with the reduced number of employees.
“This situation may present an opportunity for people to start small businesses,” he added.
But Stanlib’s chief economist, Kevin Lings, says that “many parts of the business sector have adopted a wait-and-see approach to new investment, thereby limiting future economic growth and job creation”.
He says that without a vibrant business sector with new investments the economy cannot gain significant momentum to lead to widespread job creation.
The banks, which have been given R200-billion by the state to provide customers with payment relief, say many of their clients are asking for longer payment holidays while others have missed their credit card payments.
The banks have also been negatively affected by the contraction in the economy. This week Bidvest Bank announced that it was considering retrenching at least 400 of its employees.
Tshegofatso Mathe and Thando Maeko are Adamela Trust business reporters at the Mail & Guardian | <urn:uuid:7da39751-58e8-4b26-b217-87fa3f0bddb3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mg.co.za/business/2020-09-06-covid-wave-brings-second-quarter-slide/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.965819 | 1,053 | 1.9375 | 2 |
Continuing Education for EMS Licensure
Licensed providers in Oregon are required to complete a specified amount of continuing education (CE) hours each renewal cycle. This page serves as a resource to answer questions surrounding the requirements, documentation and where to find sources.
EMR licenses expire on June 30th of every even year.
EMT, AEMT, EMT-Intermediate and Paramedic licenses expire on June 30th of every odd year.
07/1/2021 - NEW VERSION of Appendix 1
Starting on July 1, 2021, the revised continuing education requirements specified in
Appendix 1 will be required for all licensed EMS providers for the current and future licensure periods. The summary of changes include the following:
- One additional hour of pediatrics and obstetrics education for EMR level
- Removal of the category titled, "Education Topics Approved by the Medical Director" for all levels
- Increase in hours to the "Miscellaneous EMS Topics" category for all levels
- Addition of a new category titled, "Culture, Race, Gender and Ethnicity" for all levels
Guidance Regarding the "Culture, Race, Gender and Ethnicity" Category
In 2019, the passage of Oregon House Bill 2021 and subsequent revisions to
Oregon Revised Statute (ORS) 676.850 and
Oregon Administrative Rule (OAR) 943-090 mandates all health professional regulatory boards to include cultural competence as an additional requirement for continuing education.
According to Oregon Administrative Rule (OAR) 943-090-0010(3), cultural competence is defined as:
"A life-long process of examining values and beliefs and developing and applying an inclusive approach to health care practice in a manner that recognizes the context and complexities of provider-patient communication and interaction and preserves the dignity of individuals, families and communities."
OHA-EMS and Trauma Systems will accept continuing education that represents any or all subjects related to this definition. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Effective application of linguistic skills in cross-cultural communication
- Understanding of culture and ethnicity as a way to establish a positive therapeutic relationship
- Eliciting, understanding and applying cultural and ethnic data in the process of clinical care
- Unconscious and/or implicit bias; stigmas and/or discrimination as they relate to race, ethnicity, and/or gender identity
- Social determinants of health
- Disparities in health care unique to race, ethnicity, and/or gender identity
- Improving equity in medical care systems for diverse populations
The Oregon Health Authority lists a number of trainings that may be
accessed here for a fee.
The OHA-EMS and Trauma Systems Program will also provide free education through the monthly webinar series relating to cultural competence and post previously recorded webinars relating to race, culture, gender and ethnicity to the new state learning management system in the following months (Workday Learning). Click the drop-down menu titled, "OHA-EMS & Trauma Webinar Series" on this page to sign up for this service.
Acceptable formats for obtaining this education are the same as all other categories of Appendix 1. For further details, click on the drop-down menu of this page titled, "Oregon Continuing Education Requirements".
EMTs, AEMTs, Paramedics
The initial licensing process for EMTs, AEMTs and paramedics will result in two separate credentials: an
NREMT certification and an
An Oregon license is required to
practice. Maintaining an Oregon license requires completing continuing
education. Oregon honors current NREMT certification holders by waiving
some aspects of the continuing education requirements.
Please see the
Renewal of an EMS License and
NREMT in Oregon sections of this page for more information.
EMRs and EMT-Intermediates
initial licensing process EMRs and EMT-Intermediates generates only one
credential, which is an Oregon license. Providers must maintain their
license by completing continuing education. Please see the
Renewal of an EMS License section of this page for more information.
CE is prorated for EMRs and EMT-Intermediates between initial licensure and the next renewal cycle. Please refer to
Appendix 2 for this proration.
Appendix 2 (pdf) -
Minimum Continuing Education Requirements
for EMR and EMT-Intermediate when Initial Licensure is less than 24 month.
Oregon Continuing Education Requirements
EMS providers are required to either:
- Complete all continuing education hours specified in
Appendix 1 OR
- Hold a current NREMT license at the level they are renewing
In addition, EMS providers are required to:
- Maintain a current AHA Basic Life Support (BLS) Provider or equivalent CPR card
Affiliated providers (working or volunteering
with an agency under a supervising physician) must complete Section 2 of
Appendix 1, the Clinical Skills Competencies. If a provider is not
affiliated, they can disregard Section 2.
There are many ways of obtaining CE during the two-year licensure cycle.
Hour for hour credit shall be granted for:
- Attending training seminars, educational conferences, and continuing education classes
- Attending a live, webinar, or interactive online course (you must be able to give, receive and discuss information in real time)
- Attend online continuing education that provides a certificate of completion and is approved by the CAPCE
an accredited college course relating to medical and EMS-related topics
(must retain course syllabus- hour for credit hour granted)
- Teaching any topics listed in Appendix 1, if qualified to teach the subject
of the total hours needed in each category of Appendix 1 (i.e. an EMR
may obtain 6 out of the 12 hours needed for renewal this way) may be
- Self-study of medical journals, video or other
media that is not CAPCE approved and is not facilitated by a live
instructor. These must be approved by an agency training officer or EMS
- Being a psychomotor skills examiner
Continuing Education Requirements for License
Appendix 1 (pdf) -
Minimum Continuing Education Requirements
providers are required to keep all continuing education records for two
licensure cycles (four years). Please see the following rule for how
to properly document continuing education records
Maintaining Continuing Education Records
National Registry of EMTs (NREMT) and Oregon EMS
NREMT CE requirements and renewal dates are different from Oregon EMS renewal dates. NREMT certifications expire on March 31st
of a given year. Oregon licenses for EMTs and above expire on June 30
of every odd year, regardless of the initial issue date. These licenses
must be maintained separately.
If you choose to maintain both an NREMT certificate and an
Oregon license, please be aware that the two entities have different CE
requirements. NREMT established a National Continued Competency Program
(NCCP), which includes three components: National (50%), Local (25%),
and Individual (25%) content. The OHA EMS & Trauma Systems Program
has not designated topics for the
Local component of the NCCP. The hours for this category
should be completed similarly to the Individual component of NCCP, where
the certificate holder chooses the EMS hours to study.
OHA EMS & Trauma Webinar Series
A live, continuing education webinar is offered on
the second Tuesday of each month, from 1200-1300. These webinars are
free and focus on current, relevant education for EMS providers. Please
click the link below to receive monthly invitations.
Subscribe to webinar series
Coming Soon - Workday Learning
Workday Learning is the new learning management system for the state of Oregon. Recorded OHA-EMS and Trauma System webinars will be available in the coming months. Instructions for establishing an account will be posted here when they become available.
Continuing Education Opportunities
Free Continuing Education:
Bound Tree University- free: CAPCE accredited courses for free. Self-paced recordings.
PeaceHealth: PeaceHealth is offering monthly webinars and an EMR refresher course:
- Stop the Bleed
- EMS Resource Toolkit
Oregon EMS Conferences:
Eastern Oregon EMS Conference: (virtual this year)
Newport EMS Conference: typically takes place in April (Newport, OR)
State of Jefferson EMS Conference: typically takes place in April (Medford, OR)
Timberline EMS Conference: typically takes place in April of every odd year (Mt. Hood, OR)
Oregon EMS Conference: typically takes place in September (Salem or Bend, OR)
- 2022 Providence EMS, Stroke and Heart Conference: (February 18, 2022) | <urn:uuid:96dbbc6a-7dae-48d1-af34-334f98b24401> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.oregon.gov/oha/PH/PROVIDERPARTNERRESOURCES/EMSTRAUMASYSTEMS/MOBILETRAININGUNIT/Pages/index.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.888319 | 1,922 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Accidents happen at work even in the best situations. However, many of these accidents could be avoided and were the result of negligence on the part of the employer. In other cases, the incident occurred due to unforeseen circumstances. Worker’s compensation is in place to protect employees who are injured on the job and ensure they receive adequate medical care and that their job is waiting for them once they recover.
Challenges with Worker’s Compensation
The reality with worker’s compensation is that it doesn’t always work the way it should. Worker’s comp companies are focused on reducing the cost of care that must be paid out and getting the employee back to work as soon as possible.
Employees are limited to seeing specific doctors and following the treatment plan initiated by the medical provider even if they feel it’s not the best option for them. While most of the time worker’s compensation provides adequate treatment and continued pay until the employee is ready to return to work, there are times when it doesn’t measure up to what the person needs for recovery.
Worker’s compensation agents will work to settle the case as quickly as possible. They may even offer a settlement for long-term injuries or permanent disabilities. However, the amount offered may be less than what you need to pay for medical care.
If you need to file a claim against worker’s compensation, you may be entitled to receive:
- Payment for past and future medical costs
- Lost wages
- Pay for future wages
- Temporary or permanent disability
- Training for a new vocation if unable to return to prior job
- Survivor benefits if injury was fatal
Getting Help with Your Worker’s Compensation Case
Work injuries can be serious accidents that happen with a fall, burn or other injury. They may also result from repetitive work injuries, such as carpal tunnel, chronic back problems and other issues. Sometimes, the worker may be unfairly denied their claim because the worker’s compensation adjuster says the accident wasn’t work-related. It can be difficult to prove some injuries, which is why you need to work with a legal team experienced with worker’s compensation cases.
An attorney will request medical records and other documentation to prove your claim. They can also request testing be done by doctors to determine the level of disability or prognosis of recovery. It’s important not to settle too quickly after a workplace injury because you may not know the extent of the injury until a year after it happens. Expenses add up and they can be lifelong costs with a permanent disability. Common expenses include:
- ER treatment of the initial injury
- Surgeries to repair the injury
- Medications and therapy
- Occupational rehab to learn to adjust to permanent disabilities
- Home care
- Changes made to a vehicle or the home to accommodate a disability
- Mental health treatment to deal with the trauma
- Prosthetics and other equipment to help with the injury
All of these expenses add up for the injured person. They need a fair settlement from worker’s compensation to pay for the costs associated with the injury.
If you’ve been injured at work, you can contact Weiser & Associates for a free consultation. We will help you get the compensation you deserve for your injury. Contact us at 888-254-4697 or [email protected]. | <urn:uuid:f6407f06-fb02-40ce-a71b-66904dcd01eb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://weiserlaw.com/areas-of-practice/workers-compensation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.96355 | 707 | 1.71875 | 2 |
How to Remove the Screws on a Toilet Seat
Replacing a toilet seat is something that most homeowners do at least once, and it's a simple upgrade that can improve the look of your bathroom. Toilet seats attach to the toilet with nuts and bolts, rather than screws. They can be removed with a wrench, but sometimes the bolts can rust with the passage of time, making it impossible for them to be removed without cutting them off. With the right tools, you can remove an old toilet seat without complications.
Locate the bolts that attach the toilet seat to the toilet at the back of the seat. If they're covered with plastic caps, pop them off with your fingers or a flat screwdriver.
Remove the nut from the bolt with a wrench, turning it counterclockwise. Pull the bolt up and out of the toilet base. For rusted or corroded bolts that won't loosen from the toilet, you'll need to cut them out.
Open the toilet seat completely, and cover the top of the toilet in front of the bolts with duct tape or pieces of cardboard. Hold a close-quarter hacksaw along the side of the bolt and face it toward the back of the toilet. Saw forward and back until the bolt breaks, then remove it from the toilet.
- Take care when using a hacksaw. Don't saw toward your body.
Shelley Marie has been writing professionally since 2008 for online marketing and informational websites. Her areas of expertise include home, garden and health. She holds a Bachelor of Science in business administration and an associate degree in medical billing and insurance coding, both from Herzing University. | <urn:uuid:06a82840-615d-4322-b5d2-dd6a6111d6ec> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://homeguides.sfgate.com/remove-screws-toilet-seat-34202.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.938649 | 357 | 1.664063 | 2 |
The Polaroid Project surveys the history of the innovative photographic company Polaroid and its intersection with art, science, and technology during the second-half of the twentieth century. Featuring a wide-ranging group of artists, the exhibition showcases the diversity of works produced over several decades.
The Polaroid Project displays a variety of image sizes and formats produced over the years and the rich legacy of technological and artistic experimentation that the company enabled prior to its obsolescence. This exhibition has been organized by the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, Minneapolis/New York/Paris/Lausanne, in collaboration with the MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass., and the WestLicht Museum for Photography, Vienna.
Visitors of all ages can look for interactive cards that include interesting bits of information about the Polaroid Corporation’s cameras, film, history and more scattered throughout the exhibition. | <urn:uuid:80c218bd-c886-4a26-bfb1-f53357017582> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.meer.com/en/28510-the-polaroid-project | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.928728 | 176 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Teaching children about what is right and what is wrong is an essential part of their upbringing. I totally agree that punishment is the only way to persuade kids about the consequence related to their actions.
essay will discuss why strictness is required and how moral values can be inculcated in young ones.
, at an early age, it is difficult to persuade a child about his or her wrongdoings through communication.
, children are not mature enough to understand the seriousness of their actions. At
stage, what works well is the harshness of guardians as they are well known for their dependency on elders in the family. A perfect example is my cousin, she once stole money from her mother's purse for buying ice cream. When her mother realised
, she slapped her and scolded her severely. Since that moment she never attempted to steal again.
, severeness is required to discipline offspring.
, there should be a few limited ways to penalise kids or else the extreme harshness can affect their mental and physical well-being over the years.
parents know well how to control their young ones, they can discipline their children by not allowing them to do their favourite thing at the moment.
On the other hand
, mentors can make their pupils stand or assist teachers throughout the class.
, one of my friend's young one is given
treatment for her wrongdoing and it works well. She understands that if she misbehaves, she might have to address the severity of elders.
, in spite of handling them harshly, we can prolong and repeat a few simple punishments to discipline them.
To sum up, according to me, punishment is a must so as to guide and nurture future adults to some extent.
, severe behaviour might affect their mental development. | <urn:uuid:e0cd7cbb-46b8-4c53-bb3b-f56a195eb974> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://writing9.com/text/62eccd2c0562ec00182a0d6f-present-a-written-argument-or-case-to-an-educated-reader | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.975573 | 391 | 3.03125 | 3 |
The Gasworks, located at Newstead Riverpark, is an extensive, master-planned, mixed-use development with the heritage listed Brisbane landmark, The Gasometer, at its core. This transformative urban renewal project, undertaken by AVEO (formerly FKP), includes retail shops, commercial offices, bars, restaurants as well as a very unique public space, the Gas Works Plaza, set around and within the Gasometer structure itself.
JFP has had the privilege of taking a lead role in the transformation of the entire Gasworks precinct; particularly for its centrepiece, the Gasworks Plaza. As would be expected for a site which contains one of Brisbane’s most prominent heritage landmarks, the design brief for the project was extraordinarily challenging.
The 19th century structure would have been seen as an exemplar of the times. It sat within 22 acres of coal yards, rail, wharves and warehouses, rising and falling, like an industrial heart pumping energy into the city. This was prior to mass produced electricity and gas was the life source of Brisbane homes, streets and industry.
To facilitate renewable experiences for users of the space, JFP envisaged that The Gasworks Plaza would function as a modern agora; a gathering place in this part of the city surrounded by commerce and housing. Whilst the heritage listed Gasometer structure formed a physical constraint to how the space can be used, the view was always taken that the landscape should be sufficiently adaptable to be able to be altered over time to suit ever-changing community needs. This is a response to the ever-increasing pressure modern society places on the need to have choice and variety in all aspects of life. | <urn:uuid:abceb7a7-c0f9-43df-ae75-a486e537dadc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jfp.com.au/project/gasworks-plaza-gasometer-park/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.9671 | 339 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Early in July, I shared a little project on my Instagram that I made using one of my favourite patterns, a classic granny square. It was a simple project and was my first time using Scheepjes Catona yarn. I thought it might be a good opportunity to provide a little crochet tutorial on how I made it and put it together.
If you aren’t familiar with how to make a classic granny square, you can find my tutorial here: Granny Square Tutorial
To begin, you will need:
– 2 colours of Scheepjes Catona yarn (this piece took less than 2 skeins). Skeins will be referred to as “Colour A” and “Colour B”
– 3.5mm crochet hook
– Yarn needle for weaving in ends
This centrepiece contains a total of 16 little squares. Each square has 3 rounds. Rounds 1 and 2 are the main granny square cluster design. Round 3 is a simple single crochet border between the stitches.
Make two groups of 8 granny squares:
Group 1 (Round 1 – colour A. Round 2 – colour B. Round 3 – colour A)
Group 2 (Round 1 – colour B. Round 2 – colour A. Round 3 – colour B)
When your 16 squares are complete, arrange them by alternating the colour patterns in each row so that the same group lines up diagonally.
Use your preferred method to stitch the squares together. I used an invisible seam for mine.
Once your squares are stitched together, choose either colour A or colour B to begin your border. Create one single crochet round. around the entire piece with 3 single crochet stitches in each corner. When you get back to the beginning, ss into your beginning sc and ch 1. Complete another single crochet round. In your corners, create 3 single crochet stitches in the 2nd stitch of the previous round’s corner single crochet. Slip stitch into your beginning single crochet. Fasten off.
With your alternating yarn colour, attach your yarn and create one more single crochet round on all edges. In your corners, create 3 single crochet stitches in the 2nd stitch of the previous round’s corner single crochet. Slip stitch into your beginning single crochet. Fasten off.
Weave in your ends and block if required. Once completed and depending on your tension, your finished piece should measure approximately 9×9 inches.
Scheepjes Catona works wonderfully for a project like this. You could use your new centrepiece for a variety of decor purpose; I have mine on my patio table for a nice pop of colour when I’m on the deck.
I hope you found this little walk through helpful in laying out a simple granny square centrepiece. | <urn:uuid:5877f13a-3de2-41b3-8062-9fa3c78fd35b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sweetbeecrochet.com/2020/07/27/centrepiecetutorial/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.896057 | 584 | 1.664063 | 2 |
In recent weeks, a United Nations assessment found that several million Venezuelans are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, while a UN fact-finding mission concluded that the Maduro regime has committed crimes against humanity in an effort to quash its political opposition. While a political solution in Venezuela remains stubbornly elusive, advocates, diplomats, and public officials have sought creative means to respond to the systematic human rights abuses and complex humanitarian emergency in the country. These include the UN independent fact-finding mission and a successful initiative to use frozen Venezuelan state assets to fund Covid-19 response efforts.
To discuss these developments and the potential for additional creative responses in Venezuela, the Dialogue is pleased to present “Venezuela’s Humanitarian and Human Rights Crises: The Search for Innovative Responses.” The panel discussion will include the presentation of a major new report to be published on September 30 by the Dialogue’s Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program, Corruption and Crisis in Venezuela: Asset Repatriation for Humanitarian Relief. The report includes detailed proposals for using the recovered proceeds of Venezuelan corruption to address the humanitarian emergency in the country.
We invite participants to submit questions using the Q&A function in Zoom, the event hashtag on Twitter OR to email questions to firstname.lastname@example.org.
Please note that this conversation will be held in English. Simultaneous translation in Spanish is available for those who join the event online through the RSVP.
WATCH THE EVENT HERE:
LISTEN TO THE EVENT RECORDING HERE (AUDIO ONLY):
President, Inter-American Dialogue (@MichaelShifter)
Senior Human Rights Officer, Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (@Elisabeth7892)
Venezuelan National Assembly member and Commissioner of the Guaidó government for the United Nations (@Miguel_Pizarro)
Director, Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program, Inter-American Dialogue (@camillerimj) | <urn:uuid:7c5c2ccb-0e19-4edd-a66d-5d66bddb1972> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thedialogue.org/events/online-event-venezuelas-humanitarian-and-human-rights-crises-the-search-for-innovative-responses/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.897282 | 411 | 1.9375 | 2 |
Modify Waiting Time for Candidates Affected by Race-Inclusive Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR) Calculations At a glance Current policy In June of 2022, the Board of Directors approved Establish OPTN Requirement for Race-Neutral eGFR Calculations, which prohibits the use of race-inclusive calculations. A race-inclusive calculation can overestimate a Black candidates’ eGFR value and result in a delayed start of waiting time accrual to receive a kidney transplant. Current OPTN policy does not provide a pathway for registered candidates who have been impacted by a race-inclusive eGFR calculation to regain waiting time they could have received if a race-neutral calculation was used to estimate their GFRs. Supporting media Presentation View presentation Proposed changes Provide transplant programs a 365-day timeframe to assess their waiting lists, gather required documentation, and submit eGFR waiting time modifications for the affected Black candidates on their waiting lists Transplant program participation is encouraged, but not mandatory Anticipated impact What it's expected to do Waiting time will be restored to registered Black kidney candidates whose waiting time was affected by race-inclusive eGFR calculations that meet documentation and timeframe criteria Increase equity in access to transplantation by providing programs the opportunity to request eGFR waiting time modifications for affected registered candidates What it won't do Mandate transplant program participation Terms to know Estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR): A tool used to measure how well a patient’s kidneys are functioning Race-neutral eGFR calculation: A tool that calculates eGFR without the use of a race variable Click here to search the OPTN glossary Provide feedback Comments LifeGift | 08/11/2022 Important step to address / adjust for previous disparities in waiting times based on race. Should be mandatory application, not optional by program. Milton Mitchell | 08/11/2022 In support of this change. More importantly, mandatory requirement of all transplant centers is necessary - Please include. Thank you. Nicole Seefeldt | 08/08/2022 It’s long past time to treat this long standing disparity. I’m for any policy that increases equality for marginalized groups due to racism, stigma and bias. This issue needs attention. It’s been a glaring problem for years. People have died and been harmed by lack of action on this issue. Medical racism needs to be abolished. Kenny Laferriere | 08/08/2022 I support this change but I believe it should be a mandatory requirement of all transplant centers. I am unsure why it would be optional. How can we provide equity for all patients across the country if centers can choose to not participate. Rebecca Baranoff | 08/07/2022 I support this proposal however I think it should be mandatory for all transplant programs to participate. I do not however support the idea of participating programs being responsible for assessing their waiting list for qualifying candidates. If this is the only way to modify the candidates waiting time, then there should be guidelines for a program to follow so that all possible candidates are viewed and reviewed to ensure all those affected by the Race-inclusive eGFR are given a fair opportunity for a modified waiting time. My additional questions are: 1. How will the candidates time be updated? What method will be used? Kidney Donor Conversations | 08/04/2022 Support this measure to regain waiting time for Blacks with revisions: - Make it mandatory for all centers and allow ALL Patients to benefit. - If OPTN is not going to mandate, in order to be transparent, provide this information to all Black patients on the waiting list so they can be informed of this change and advocate for themselves to have the transplant center submit the necessary information. | <urn:uuid:b74c2587-3ca8-494c-9087-29a7613b7330> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/policies-bylaws/public-comment/modify-waiting-time-for-candidates-affected-by-race-inclusive-estimated-glomerular-filtration-rate-egfr-calculations/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.914758 | 775 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Covid-19 Paediatric Intensive Care Unit Contingency Plan (753)
exp date isn't null, but text field is
The requirement to increase critical care capacity, and to initiate other changes in critical care practices/organisation, will vary according to the type and severity of the incident. These will be activated in a stepwise fashion in response to clinical pressure.
At present the Paediatric Critical Care Department is commissioned to provide 17 intensive care beds and has 22 physical bed-spaces. There is capacity to expand PICU into Ward 1E thus providing another 14 beds. This will bring PICU bed capacity from 17 to 36 beds. In addition the Neonatal Unit has 50 equipped intensive care beds.
NOTE: this guideline is hosted on the NHSGGC Paediatrics Guidelines website. Clicking on the link below will open the guideline in a new window.
Use the button below to access this resource item.Access this resource | <urn:uuid:c5438e0c-d8d8-4180-b192-3017c19e6eb0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://covid19app.nhsggc.org.uk/paediatrics/intensive-and-critical-care-paediatric/covid-19-paediatric-intensive-care-unit-contingency-plan-753/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.876146 | 202 | 1.875 | 2 |
New initiative to support social work and teaching students
The SSSC and the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) have launched an innovative new guidance kit to help disabled social work and teaching students to achieve their full potential. The guidance helps lecturers, tutors and others involved with students to provide vital learning support.
The ‘Learning support for disabled social work and teaching students: a guide’ was developed in response to the then Disability Rights Commission recommendation in its Maintaining Standards: Promoting Equality report which asked that all regulatory bodies provide guidance on reasonable adjustments and consider what other guidance is required to encourage others, such as universities, to adopt an enabling approach to disabled people.
Jess Alexander, SSSC Education and Workforce Development Advisor and co-author explains, “The guide is based around six scenarios which highlight some of the common issues which require consideration when providing learning support. Each scenario is followed by a range of issues or questions that may be raised by the disabled student and those involved in supporting them. Our intention is to update the guide regularly with new scenarios, advice, guidance and references. We’d really like more real-life examples and would love to hear of more examples or experiences people would like to share.”
GTCS Chief Executive, Anthony Finn said: “All student teachers are expected to reach the Standard for Full Registration before they gain the right to teach in Scotland. However, we wish to ensure a level playing field which helps all teachers to reach their full potential. Consequently, it is important that teachers with disabilities have the same access to learning as other teachers.
“We work closely with the SSSC in a number of areas but we are particularly pleased to have worked with them to provide this useful and robust guidance that will help to ensure that our teaching workforce is as diverse as possible, giving our young people a rich and varied learning experience.”
Anna Fowlie, SSSC Chief Executive said: “Students affected by a disability are entitled to receive the right support when learning and is important that each person is treated uniquely. The guide reflects real situations and has been developed with the involvement of many different people. The guide is a true reflection of commitment made from the SSSC and the GTCS in supporting our future workforce in Scotland.”
Laura Carse, Student Social Worker said: “As a visually impaired student who has recently undertaken social work training I was excited about getting involved with the work of the SSSC and the GTCS in producing the guide. The guide is one of the first documents I have read that is jargon free and easy to understand. It was refreshing to be able to consult a proactive guide that offers information and practical advice to overcome the difficulties that many disabled students and practitioners feel. The guide really demonstrates that both the SSSC and the GTCS understand that disabled people are the real experts for providing the depth of knowledge and examples.”
Sophie Galloway is a secondary school teacher in Modern Languages. She has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair.
“My teacher induction experience could not have been more positive. I was open with the Local Authority and the school regarding my disability. I felt welcomed whole-heartedly by all staff. There were no physical barriers to my development. I felt valued and supported, whilst being assessed fairly against all areas of the Standard for Full Registration, which is exactly how it should be. I was lucky enough not only to meet wonderful colleagues but friends also.”
To read the full guide please visit http://www.sssc.uk.com/component/option,com_docman/Itemid,486/gid,2095/task,doc_details/ | <urn:uuid:50b34f7e-d4a4-4a8e-8131-240fe369cb85> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://careappointments.com/care-news/scotland/90181/new-initiative-to-support-social-work-and-teaching-students/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.968781 | 769 | 2.25 | 2 |
Automotive, aerospace, military, general industrial, MRO, facilities management, transportation, marine
Lane marking, floor marking, safety coding, hazard marking, identifying, sealing, color coding, paint masking, protecting, bundling, OSHA color coding, sealing.
Maintains vivid color even when exposed to abrasion and solvents
Ideal for floor marking and safety identification
Allows fast and easy application to a variety of surfaces
Easy removal with no adhesive transfer makes cleanups efficient
Available in many distinctive colors
Yellow Floor Tape ideal for masking, wrapping or sealing many curved or irregular surfaces, excellent for many lane and safety marking applications, floor protection ideal for color coding, abrasion protection, masking, sealing, decoration and splicing and other general purpose applications.
1. The work area extending marks
2. Can be used in the area for hazard warning
3. Fire fighting equipment identification marks
4. Emergency outfit in the guide to action purposes
5. Widely used in factory, warehouse, hospitals and other places, as mark, regional division, route mark line and adornment line, and so on. | <urn:uuid:a2908f61-a31b-4404-891c-2c3e704ef6cf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.opstape.com/Yellow-Floor-Tape-p.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.846735 | 241 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Attention to the details of putatively obvious examples of philosophy-as-worldview within Latin America give us reasons to be skeptical about the taxonomy that gives us the category of philosophy-as-worldview. Among the examples that suggest difficulties for this way of thinking about the philosophical enterprise are 19th century Mexican ethnolinguistics, contemporary efforts to reconstruct historical and contemporary Indigenous thought, and 20th century efforts to articulate regional ontologies within Latin America. However, reflection on these cases also point to a different project worth considering, namely, a taxonomy of wisdom- and knowledge-focused practices that might allow a different way of drawing distinctions between kinds of “philosophies”.
"Comparative What? Latin American Challenges to Philosophy-as-Worldview,"
Comparative Philosophy: Vol. 13:
2, Article 10.
Available at: https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/comparativephilosophy/vol13/iss2/10 | <urn:uuid:fbe598e5-bf6e-41d2-a226-e52a9bb4af22> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/comparativephilosophy/vol13/iss2/10/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.872065 | 223 | 2.484375 | 2 |
- This event has passed.
For The Wise, The Rebellious, The Curious, And The One Who Does Not Yet Understand: An Online Second Night Seder With SAJ-Judaism That Stands For All
March 28, 2021 @ 5:15 pm - 8:00 pm EDT
The wise, the rebellious, curious, and ones who do not know what questions to ask — are welcome at our online Second Night Seder. Through traditional liturgy, music, community participation, exploration and conversation, we will seek to, as our tradition invites, “see ourselves as if we went free from Egypt.” We will explore themes of narrow places, freedom, joy and justice as we move through the evening. All are welcome to join, though content will be geared for teens to adults. | <urn:uuid:e62ac158-b4a6-4768-8283-cf133abfc2f7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://saj.nyc/event/for-the-wise-the-rebellious-the-curious-and-the-one-who-does-not-yet-understand-an-online-second-night-seder-with-saj-judaism-that-stands-for-all/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.904499 | 165 | 1.570313 | 2 |
The Brazilian Place Agency (AEB) and Amazon World wide web Products and services (AWS) signed a Expression of Strategic Intent and Cooperation. The initiative, with which the Brazilian Embassy in Washington also collaborated, is the very first of its variety for AWS in Latin The usa and will support innovation and continued advancement in the country’s area industry.
AEB plays an crucial position in the Latin American context, getting dependable for a large wide variety of house functions relevant to room transportation, satellites, research and applications. AEB has supported the strengthening of the Brazilian infrastructure for rocket launch, production and exploration of house techniques. It also supports educational and research things to do in astronautical and connected sciences. In addition, AEB is a bilateral spouse of NASA in ionospheric research and a signatory to the Artemis Agreements for the joint exploration of the Moon.
The cooperation involving AEB and AWS outlines 3 precise spots of collaboration created to help the Agency’s aims for very long-expression economic and technological growth. These academic, financial and political initiatives will profit the Brazilian government, Brazilian industrial area corporations and place-focused startups.
1. The Brazil/AWS Area Collaboration for Economics and Growth (B/ASCEnD). Through this initiative, the Brazilian Room Company and AWS will do the job alongside one another to promote the development of the Brazilian room sector by developing national area exploration and growth (R&D) programs, furnishing coaching assets and boosting startups. Specifically, AWS will provide intrigued events access to the AWS Activate Plan and the AWS Activate Founders System, each of which provide credits, complex schooling, and company aid to suitable startups. This work also gives experts entry to AWS education and certification programs.
The initiative also makes an possibility for AEB and AWS to determine promising space technological innovation initiatives that can guidance the objectives of other authorities companies. The objective at the rear of this collaboration is to foster innovation for long term missions related to science, house exploration and national safety.
2. The AWS Open Knowledge Sponsorship Software. This initiative aims to persuade collaboration involving the Brazilian Room Company and its partners, building a centralized repository of spatial info. This will make it possible for stakeholders to conveniently obtain and review area facts, making use of cloud resources and systems, in guidance of a range of Brazilian space endeavors.
3. Policy, System and Regulatory Help for Spatial Improvement. The Brazilian Place Agency and AWS will interact in conversations on national policies, methods and regulatory steps in aid of Brazil’s civil, industrial and countrywide security room objectives.
“The arrangement in between the Brazilian Place Company and Amazon Website Companies is a concrete initiative toward better integration of the Brazilian private sector and our aerospace sector with the American innovation ecosystem, the most sophisticated in the planet in the house area”, said the ambassador. of Brazil in Washington, Nestor Forster Jr. “The Embassy will continue to be committed to strengthening place cooperation with the United States, which generates final results for Brazil in the economic and technological spheres”, he added.
“The arrangement with AWS is an important action toward promoting our house market, at a time when Brazil aims to enter more strongly in the room current market, this sort of as, for example, in the house accessibility phase, with the Alcântara spaceport” , said Carlos Augusto Teixeira de Moura, president of the Brazilian House Agency.
The CLA is also regarded as the Brazilian Window to Area. Its spot, on the north Atlantic coastline of Brazil, is thought of excellent for launching satellites and rockets, as it is located just 2 levels south of the equator. Earth’s faster rotational speed near the equator enables spacecraft to attain the pace desired to enter orbit utilizing fewer propellant. The locale of the CLA is also fantastic many thanks to the absence of excessive weather situations and lower air traffic density. CLA is used for actions that consist of spacecraft integration, last payload screening, rocket launches, mission logistical assistance, climate forecasting, tracking, command and handle, and telemetry.
This Assertion of Strategic Intent is the hottest move in AWS’ extended-term commitment to Brazil and Latin The usa, uniting the public and personal sectors via the electric power of cloud computing services to endorse IT modernization, innovation , financial progress, education and learning and generation of the workforce and work. In 2020, AWS declared an financial commitment of BRL 1 billion to develop details centers in São Paulo and strengthen infrastructure in South The usa. That identical yr, Brazil was the 1st region in Latin The us and the next in the Western Hemisphere to present AWS EdStart, the AWS Educational Technological innovation (EdTech) software that assists EdTech startups construct instructing and studying solutions on the AWS cloud.
“AWS is proud to assistance Brazil’s mission to travel innovation and growth in the place industry,” explained Jeff Kratz, standard manager for the Latin The united states, Canada and Caribbean locations and the world wide general public sector at AWS. “This agreement presents applications, teaching and training that will help assure that Brazil continues to be a space chief in Latin The usa for generations to come.” | <urn:uuid:07010793-55ef-4b87-99e2-7416de28adef> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://lenduckworthsfishandchips.com/brazilian-place-company-and-amazon-internet-support-signal-strategic-intent-statement/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.926573 | 1,076 | 1.664063 | 2 |
More than a year and a half ago, Congress passed and the president signed legislation intended to help small businesses more easily navigate the federal contracting arena and win more government work.
However, most of the rules have yet to be adopted — and until they are, life for some small contractors has instead become even more complicated.
“It’s unfathomable for me to understand why it’s taking so long when many of these are minor regulatory changes,” Angela Styles, a former White House administrator and now partner at Crowell & Moring in Washington, said this week during a congressional hearing.
Currently in limbo are several rule changes included in the defense budget authorization law signed by President Obama at the very start of 2013. Among them, Styles says that one of the most important was a revision to the rules outlining the share of work a company awarded a government contract reserved for small businesses could turn around and subcontract out to another company.
Under longstanding rules — which are meant to prevent large firms from using small ones to win set-aside contracts and then performing the majority of the work itself — small businesses that win such contracts are required to use a complex formula based on labor hours and wages to determine exactly how much work can be passed along to subcontractors.
“In practice, the rule has been absolutely impossible to understand or implement,” said Styles, who works with firms to navigate federal contracting laws. She previously served as administrator for federal procurement policy within the budget office at the White House.
“Nobody knows how to administer this correctly, and the uncertainty has led to many disputes with the government and between prime and subcontractors,” she added.
Many of her small-business clients therefore cheered when the president signed the law last year switching to what she described as a “simple, easy-to-use” formula for set-aside subcontracting limits. Under the new rules, small firms that win set-aside awards cannot pass along more than half of the money paid by the federal government to other businesses.
Problem is, the Small Business Administration, which oversees the small-business set-aside program and must implement the rule changes authorized by Congress, has yet to revise its contracting regulations to reflect that adjustment.
John Shokora, the SBA’s associate administrator for government contracting and business development, said that the agency has pitched the rule change to other departments for approval and plans to release an interim rule for public comment soon. He said his team is being careful to “get the rulemaking process right the first time around.”
Moreover, he noted that the agency has “made significant strides” toward implementing other changes included in the same law, such as eliminating caps on contracts that can be awarded under the agency’s women-owned business programs and revising some of its small-business size standards. Shokora said the agency has tried to first tackle some of the rules that were easiest to adopt before moving on to more complicated reforms.
Rep. Richard Hanna (R-N.Y.), chair of the House Small Business Committee’s panel on contracting and workforce that held the hearing, shot back, saying it feels “like you are addressing those you like and ignoring those you don’t.” He added that, by his count, the agency has yet to implement about 40 of the 56 changes mandated last January.
“Nineteen months is a long time,” Hanna added.
Among the other outstanding rules are changes that would allow similar small businesses to team together to compete for more government contracts, improve the SBA’s suspension and debarment process for small-business programs, and expand the department’s mentor-protege program (which pairs large contractors with new and small firms looking to break into the market). Shokora says the agency is in the process of adopting those provisions of the law but did not provide estimated timetables.
Styles says the wait is particularly painful for small businesses coping with the set-aside subcontracting limits. That’s because business owners are required to follow both the laws enacted by Congress and the regulations issued by the SBA. Consequently, she said, this period of limbo has left them in an even more difficult position than before, scrambling to “comply with two inconsistent provisions — one in the regulation and one in the statute.”
Styles added that she has already started to see a “dramatic increase in compliance questions” as a result, which has likely added millions of dollars in legal costs for small contractors. In many cases, those contractors then pass the added costs along to the government in the form of higher prices.
“SBA’s failure to act is crippling the very small businesses it is supposed to protect and to assist... and resulting in lost opportunity for economic growth,” Styles said. | <urn:uuid:ec04fe04-634d-44db-aa7d-9efa2ee19f00> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/on-small-business/congress-tried-to-help-small-business-contractors-heres-why-its-backfiring/2014/07/16/a8866b88-0d03-11e4-8341-b8072b1e7348_story.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.972538 | 1,012 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Home > Andrew Carnegie donates to the libraries...
Show image list »
Andrew Carnegie donates to the libraries...
Item # 611659
Currently Unavailable. Contact us if you would like to be placed on a want list or to be notified if a similar item is available.
July 07, 1914
THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, Atlanta, Georgia, July 7, 1914 The front page has a column-wide, three-line headline "Carnegie Willing To Endow Library In Every Country" with subheads "U. S. Commissioner of Education Claxton Tells the Teachers of the Plan of the Iron Master" "Gift of $100,000,000" "Carnegie Is Bent on Giving Away His Money and Wants to Furnish Libraries for Rural Districts". "...Philander P. Claxton, United States commissioner of education, at a meeting of state superintendents, announced that Andrew Carnegie has under consideration a plan for the establishment of libraries in country districts that would call for a contribution of between $75,000,000 and $100,000,000 by the steel magnate... He is determined to give his money away and die poor, and here is an opportunity. Seventy per cent of the people of the United States still are without access to good libraries...".
Other news, sports and advertisements are within the issue.
This is complete in 14 pages with some binding slits along the left spine, some chipping at the corners, otherwise is in good condition.
Category: The 20th Century | <urn:uuid:b5d16dd1-4831-411b-a23b-8f35612f00a7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rarenewspapers.com/view/611659?acl=838586455&rc=blog | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.922283 | 320 | 2.109375 | 2 |
The good folks at Sawtooth Lodge were more than happy to rent us two horses and the gear to pack up our iron skillets, canned food, blankets, Coleman stove, and whatever it takes to keep a family of five clothed and reasonably comfortable for a week. And we kids once again found ourselves watching Mom and Dad balancing pack boxes and cinching the whole kit and caboodle high on the backs of those huge beasts.
I remember the long, long walk up the south fork of Payette River and Baron Creek. They are narrow valleys with steep slopes rising above tree line to towering granite peaks. Every time we stopped and looked back the valleys seemed more immense, an expanding crevice opening into the distance.
On the steep slopes between the towering stone tops of the mountains and the base of the valleys were all variety of growth. Scrub pine barely hanging on at tree line gave way to aspen and brush with open spaces of grasses and moss. Areas of grey stones lay where they had tumbled from on high. Slicing through the vegetation were avalanche trails. Only low brush grew in the avalanche trails, saved by remaining under snowpack while the power of sliding snow roared above.
Mom spotted a bear with her cubs on our side of the valley, but a goodly distance from us. She and Dad seemed to agree this was a good opportunity to point out “a goodly distance” is just the right place for spotting bears in the wild.
They got no argument from me. | <urn:uuid:4e88710e-7494-4844-875f-f24f0b82dc41> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://deansgreatwahoo.com/tag/horse-camping/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.967399 | 310 | 1.5 | 2 |
I am partway through Step 4 of John Climacus’ (Saint of the Week here) Ladder. Not being a monk, I find a lot of his wisdom wasted on me. Still …
A lot of people these days are really stoked about “narrative” and “narrative theology” and suchlike things. I remember once at a party a guy who worked for the Canadian Bible Society remarking that the Gospel could never be put into propositional statements because Jesus taught in parables. Given that that was a propositional statement, I was amused. Given also that the content of the Gospel is not Jesus’ parables but his life, I was a bit irked.
A lot of people try to pit narrative against proposition, though. This is wrongheaded, as Edith M. Humphrey (once Anglican, now Orthodox [yes, I’ll mention that every time I mention her]) notes in her book Ecstasy and Intimacy. We need both. We need balance. In Step 4, about obedience, St. John Climacus, Father of the Church, demonstrates the usefulness of both ways of presenting truth.
Approximately half of this Step on the ladder to paradise is occupied with stories about a monastery John once visited in Alexandria. He was filled with wonder at what he saw there. The monks lived in obedience to their abbot to a very high degree. To test them, he would make them lie on the ground for undetermined lengths of time just to see if they would do it. Once, to see if a postulant was worthy of admission, he made this man, a former fornicator (with both humans and animals), thief, and liar confess in detail his deeds before all the brothers at Divine Liturgy. Brothers who were disobedient enough were cast out or sent into the Prison where they only got bread and raw vegetables for food.
The monks were also obedient to one another and sought to outdo each other in virtue and in bearing one another’s burdens, claiming the sins of others for themselves to help brothers avoid punishment.
The result of this radical obedience was great virtue. John writes, “If they had to speak, what they talked about all the time was the remembrance of death and the thought of everlasting judgment.” (95, Classics of Western Spirituality translation) The advanced brothers were so humble that, when asked about hesychia by John, they claimed to be merely corporeal men with no knowledge of such things.
These men were calm of heart, humble, meek, pure. The longer they lived in the monastery, they less they were involved in backbiting and prideful actions.
Now, I’m not sure if I can handle such radical obedience. But imagine if we tried to do things for people without grumbling or complaining (cf. Philippians!). Imagine if we tried to be the servant of all (cf. Mark!). Imagine if, when asked to do something that is largely indifferent, we did it, seeing it as a way of learning humility. Imagine if we saw everyone around us as Kings and Queens. Or, to take another image, imagine if we saw them as Christs (cf. Matthew! Also, John of Ephesus, Lives of Eastern Saints, Chapter 5 about Simeon & Sergius, Patrologia Orientalis 17, pp. 84-89) rather than as nuisances.
Anyway, Climacus pairs this narrative teaching technique with propositional statements such as this:
Obedience is a total renunciation of our own life, and it shows up clearly in the way we act. Or, again, obedience is the mortification of the members while the mind remains alive. Obedience is unquestioned movement, death freely accepted, a simple life, danger faced without worry, and unprepared defense before God, fearlessness before death, a safe voyage, a sleeper’s journey. Obedience is the burial place of the will and the resurrection of lowliness. (91-92)
I like this technique, this balance between narrative and proposition. Western preaching has swung too far to the propositional, but I do not think it should be lost. We should find, however, a place for deep and meaningful storytelling in our teaching, as we see St. John Climacus doing in Step 4.
In the words of my friend Fr. Ioannis, “How clever the ancients were!” | <urn:uuid:3e02bf80-285d-41ae-af4b-67d8cedc3e5b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thepocketscroll.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/thoughts-on-climacus-ladder-step-4/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.973071 | 924 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Our European friends at the ORSI Academy and OLV Hospital in Aalst, Belgium have finished their initial study of five robot assisted radical prostatectomy cases done using the newly-approved Medtronic HUGO RAS robotic surgical system. Online medical news service 'urotoday.com' has published their report.
Here is an excerpt from their Abstract: "All procedures were completed, with no need for conversion or for placement of additional ports. No intraoperative complication or technical failure of the system was recorded. The median operative time was 170 min (interquartile range [IQR]: 140-180) and the median console time was 120 min (IQR: 110-150). Median length of stay was 3 d (IQR: 2-4). System start-up and docking of the robotic arms were straightforward and rapid processes for a properly trained surgical team. Awaiting future investigations in larger series, this study proves the safety and feasibility of RARP with the Hugo RAS system and provides relevant data that may be of help to early adopters of this surgical platform."
In this excellent article, the authors describe some minor glitches- and fixe. They also provideexperience-based suggestions for surgical teams on how they have learned to efficiently set up this new system. | <urn:uuid:64cbd199-ba6e-46e3-8919-bb1e67e987f6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vattikutifoundation.com/2022/07/08/medtronic-hugo-robot-patient-study-released/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.951638 | 262 | 1.671875 | 2 |
U.S. - While Hurricane Dorian was originally expected to slam the East Coast as a major storm this week, the very latest prediction models have shown something amazing - even miraculous.
As more and more Christians specifically used the term "hedge of protection" in their prayers for the Eastern Seaboard, a mystical, invisible hedge appeared off the coast, and the hurricane is now expected to ricochet harmlessly off into the ocean.
"It seems that when Christians use the exact term 'hedge of protection' as they ask God to protect people, a literal hedge appears in the world's weather system," one analyst at the National Weather Service said Monday. "Hurricanes, tornadoes, runoff from the polar ice caps: all these things can be prevented by Christianese terms like 'hedge of protection' and even ' traveling mercies.'"
Upon seeing the success of their prayers, the nation's Christians began to pray a hedge of protection around Washington, D.C., in hopes that the country's politicians would be totally hemmed in and unable to affect the nation in any way. | <urn:uuid:65d81a27-fc45-407b-9564-b2e7e0966023> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://babylonbee.com/news/hurricane-florence-now-expected-to-ricochet-off-nations-hedge-of-protection/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.956944 | 223 | 1.90625 | 2 |
When first meeting a beginner knitter they often say their ultimate goal is to knit a sweater. It’s the reason they picked up the knitting needles and signed up for a class; it’s the motivation that keeps them working through dropped stitches, decoding knitting terms and yarn tangles. The journey of a knitter’s first project ever to knitting a sweater may be long or short but one important thing is required: confidence.
How does one build confidence in knitting? By creating a solid foundation of skills and knowledge while working on patterns that are well written, with good tools and lots of practice. New knitters can quickly become discouraged by picking a pattern that is not suited to their knitting ability or pairing a project with a difficult to work with yarn. New students can forget what it feels like to be in the learning seat and may expect knitting to be easy, their stitches to be perfect and to not make any mistakes. The fact is that learning a new skill takes time and patience plus willingness to make mistakes. A beginner knitter can feel vulnerable, unsure and uncoordinated when trying to maneuver yarn, needles, pattern and notions. A new knitter can also feel brave and like a magician as they take two sticks and a ball of yarn and make fabric that transforms into something they can wear. Build your skills with classes, projects and practice and knitting a sweater becomes possible.
Learning to knit is a series of steps. Casting on and the knit stitch come before the purl stitch and casting off. Each skill learned unlocks the next step. If you’re a beginner knitter with the goal of knitting your own sweaters, here is one way to get there: Taste of Knitting Series that takes you from cowl to sweater. Beginning with the My First Cowl Class, you learn to cast on, the knit and purl stitch and how to cast off with straight needles and bulky yarn. You learn Garter stitch, Stockinette Stitch, Rib Stitch and what all those terms mean. Plus steam blocking, whip stitch seaming and weaving in ends. It can sound like a lot to the absolute beginner knitter but it’s broken into digestible bits with lots of support along the way. When the 3 series class is over, I encourage the knitter to frog (unravel) and start again or cast on a whole new cowl. Practice is what cements newly acquired techniques.
Once the knitter feels solid with knit/purl, casting on/off, learning to knit a hat is a great next step. In My First Hat Class, the knitter learns how to use circular needles to knit in the round, two types of decrease stitches plus how to knit the crown of a hat with double pointed needles. It reinforces what the knitter already knows while introducing a few new skills. Another step closer to knitting a sweater.
The next step is becoming familiar with practicing all the techniques learned in the cowl and hat class with smaller needles and lighter yarn. Starting with larger needles and bulky yarn helps the knitter see stitches (and mistakes) easily and finish projects quickly. Working with smaller needles and lighter yarn pushes the knitter to work on a smaller canvas. Here the knitter begins to determine more concretely what kind of yarn and needles they like to work with: straight or circular needles, bulky down to fingering weight yarn. In My First Shawl Class knitters learn a new increase stitch and cast on method, get loads of practice with knit and purl stitches, following a pattern, fixing mistakes, how to track your knitting and be introduced to gauge and blocking. Taking this class sets the knitter up for successful sweater knitting. While a knitter can most definitely go from the My First Hat to My First Sweater, the learning curve will be steeper but not impossible. After completing the shawl class, the new knitter is an adventurous beginner or intermediate knitter and ready to knit a sweater.
Knitting a sweater is so much fun and it takes an investment in time and resources. It’s important to begin with a well written pattern, good tools and yarn that is a joy to knit. In My First Sweater Class, the knitter learns all about gauge, a new cast on method, how to do a new increase stitch and short rows at the same time, employ the increase tracking methods they liked from previous projects or pick up ideas for new ways. Plus ways to customize the fit of the sweater are introduced. Confidence builds with each stitch as you knit the collar, the yoke, the body and the sleeves.
The goal with each class is to build confident knitters with a solid knit knowledge foundation and that takes time and attention. The Taste of Knitting Series is one path a knitter can take from their first stitch to their first sweater. Where the knitter goes from here? Who knows? The possibilities are endless!
All classes are listed here and updated for fall, winter and spring. Sign up for the newsletter at the bottom of the home page to keep up to date on all that’s happening at My Casa Azul. | <urn:uuid:a0f8182f-a876-45a5-a44f-28a076022ce7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mycasaazul.com/blog/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.929711 | 1,050 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Last night I watched It’s a Wonderful Life for the first time this year. I was at the part when George Bailey breaks down and says he wishes he were never born. It was at this moment that I began to hear loud sirens in front of my home. What is going on outside? I wondered. After a few minutes it dawned on me and I rushed to the door. Santa was waving from the top of a decorated fire engine in the cold, dark night with streets still covered in snow.
I started yelling to my husband upstairs that Santa was here! And then I began to cry. I could not stop crying.
Since I’m not Christian and have never sat on Santa’s lap, I wondered what touched me so deeply.
I cried because I was overcome with gratitude, with the spirit of kindness. The fire department, after working a long day, still knew how important it was to drive Santa through town to give the children (and adults!) something to look forward to.
I also cried for those I miss seeing so much, and for the hugs I miss giving and receiving.
But I think the reason I cried most is, as someone who has been a nurse for almost 40 years, I see light at the end of the tunnel. I am hopeful.
We are entering a time that may be the hardest we have seen in over a hundred years. Millions of people around the world are sick, and thousands are dying each day.
History has shown us we will get through this incredibly challenging period.
How? We will take it one moment at a time. That is how you summit any great mountain, by taking it one step at a time.
Mindfulness is not about being happy, it is about being authentic.
I invite you to feel your feelings. Cry if you want. Then pause and ask yourself why you are crying. What has this moment revealed to you?
Someday, hopefully soon, we will once again gather in person and be able to clearly see each other’s smiles. But for now, I invite you to continue your practice of patience. Look how far you have already come!
One of my favorite days of the year is the winter solstice on December 21st. Some see this as the beginning of winter and cold, dark times. However, I know that the longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere is followed each day by more light.
I invite you to look up to the sky and notice every day how we are experiencing more daylight than darkness. The little things really are important. Just ask George Bailey!
Mindfulness is now being incorporated by organizations to lower healthcare costs, support employees in staying focused which improves their performance, and reduce levels of stress.
Harriet Stein of Big Toe in the Water brings Mindfulness Programs to organizations of all sizes to transform employee productivity, engagement, and satisfaction. | <urn:uuid:be459ab0-7a3e-4cc2-9379-71cdbfc83fe5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bigtoeinthewater.com/the-little-things-the-little-moments-they-arent-little/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.976691 | 597 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Brainstorming: piensa en vocabulario relacionado con el tema de las compras: buy, purchase, items, department store, shop windows, sales, price, cheap, expensive...
Puedes dar una conclusión final basándote en los contenidos del texto que has leÃdo.
Write about 100 to 150 words in the following topic:Do you ever buy things that you don´t need? Why?
I must admit that I sometimes buy things that I do not need but, who doesn´t? Generally and throughout the year, I only purchase those items that I need, but when summer arrives and the shop windows are invaded with the "sales" signs, I cannot help but go shopping for clothes with my friends.
And it is true that I do not need many of the things that I buy during sales season but I think that temptation is hard to resist when you see a beautiful skirt or blouse half the price that it used to cost.
On the whole, I think that overspending is a mistake, but it does not hurt to indulge oneself every now and then in buying something you do not need but you can enjoy. | <urn:uuid:92086b50-c75e-4739-bd1f-299e2ac46d2b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.selectividad.tv/S_I_1_5_41_S_do_you_ever_buy_things_that_you_don't_need?.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.930569 | 261 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Everyday Leadership™ They're Both Older
Leading Through Generational Biases
Our workplace is full of employees from multiple generations. It is important to recognize and appreciate the knowledge, perspectives, and experiences that each generation brings to the table. Everyone has value, no matter their age. Creating a respectful workplace means leading others through biases and focusing on including others.
Learning Path & Details
Suggested Industry Usage
- Leading a Culturally Diverse Workforce
- Leading and Managing for Peak Performance
Training Files (10)
|Video Vignette||01:54 min||English||Demo|
|Workshop Material||7 pages||English||Preview|
|Workshop Material||2 pages||English||Preview|
|Workshop Material||3 pages||English||Preview|
All members of our team have value, no matter their age. By including these various perspectives, we can draw on the strengths of ALL team members to create a plan that works for everyone. This type of inclusion creates a respectful and innovative workplace.
Explore the Program: Everyday Leadership™ (The Complete Series) | <urn:uuid:2200fc03-5c04-4623-9a9e-912adc9bac28> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sollahlibrary.com/assets/search/everyday-leadership-theyre-both-older-2717 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.861934 | 254 | 2.75 | 3 |
- UNA CORDA is a series of 19 familar folk and patriotic tunes fingered to be played ALL ON ONE STRING.
- Players shift up and down the fingerboard without crossing strings and without clef changes.
- High ledger lines and spaces are avoided for now.
- In a few bass examples some string crossings are required.
- All materials are designed for use by violin, viola, cello and bass in any combination from a single player to a large string orchestra.
- Files are in pdf format which can be read by Acrobat Reader (free download) or several similar utilities.
- All instruments use high positions; no instrument has been dumbed down.
- Tunes used are familiar, public domain melodies. Learning them should be painless and enjoyable. Accompaniments in midi files are provided. These can be opened using Quicktime or Media Player. With a dedicated midi player, tempos can be altered for practice purposes
|+||plus||=||extend (vn & va)||F||phi||=||thumb (vc & cb)|
|x||letter x||=||extend (vc)||<||=||pivot forward (cb)|
|>||=||pivot backward (cb)| | <urn:uuid:ee93c1cb-3a98-43d7-9017-f580efe63b6b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://stringskills.com/una-corda/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.805646 | 315 | 2.84375 | 3 |
But with seemingly incompatible expectations – and South Africa implying that it could take five years to fully establish peace – observers are not holding their breath for a quick settlement.
Rebel coalition Séléka halted its advance on the CAR capital Bangui less than 100km from the city, apparently in the face of a buffer zone bolstered by foreign troops, and agreed to negotiate. Although President François Bozizé has offered concessions, including not standing for a third term, his government has rejected outright any suggestion that he should step down. That is a demand the rebels have labelled as non-negotiable.
President Jacob Zuma authorised the deployment of 400 defence force members to the CAR, with a mandate to assist in disarmament and demobilisation up to March 2018, and a contingent of 200 South African troops was deployed to Bangui in recent weeks.
Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville and Cameroon have also dispatched troops to the country, taking the foreign contingent to more than 1 000.
Bozizé has accused the Sudanese regime of sponsoring Séléka – which Khartoum denies. The CAR also claims that Sudanese, Nigerian and Chadian mercenaries have joined Séléka.
South Africa, the African Union, the European Union, the United States and France have called on both sides to negotiate and spare civilians, and the Economic Community of Central African States has organised the peace talks. United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon and the security council have condemned the attacks and called on the rebels to halt hostilities.
Humanitarian groups have expressed alarm at the lack of access to more than 300 000 civilians who were caught up in fighting. Rebels have seized more than a dozen towns since the beginning of December, including four regional capitals.
The groups fear that another 700 000 people could be affected if Séléka should resume its push, and imperil Bangui.
Bozizé has offered to form a unity government and not run for a third term in the next presidential elections, scheduled for 2016. But he has rejected rebel demands to step down now.
He came to power in a rebellion backed by Chad in 2003 and has relied on foreign military help to face down a series of smaller insurgencies. He won elections in 2005 and 2011 despite complaints of fraud. | <urn:uuid:e2db4c03-c532-4578-9fbb-00ee005873b0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mg.co.za/article/2013-01-11-no-quick-fix-for-the-central-african-republic/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.965766 | 472 | 1.882813 | 2 |
Mitra Azar is an eclectic visual artist whose work spans over different technologies of human and machine-aided vision as traces of a new political aesthetic. At The Influencers 2019 he will introduce a new project, called DoppelGANger, whose first installment is the result of a collaboration between the festival and the renowned Fotomuseum Winterthur (Switzerland).
DoppelGANger is a research about human faces automatically generated by a GAN system, a field in artificial intelligence in which two neural networks compete against each other to learn and autonomously produce an output. This database of highly believable human faces is the starting point for potential subversive strategies to expose the techno-political forces behind the quantification and automatization of human life.
As a system, facial recognition is designed to work behind the scenes, hiding the rationale of control and human bias that come embedded in technologically obscure apparatuses where corporate power often blends into State power. DoppelGANger aims at making these issues artistically and politically accountable through reverse engineering and performance, possibly based on narratives and fiction that awkwardly resemble reality.
Artificial faces automatically generated by a GAN (https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/)
Mitra is currently part of the Geneve2020 think tank within the I.R.I (Institute of Research and Innovation, Pompidou Centre) run by Bernard Stiegler, and of the Ways of Machine Seeing think tank at Cambridge Digital Humanities Network. His theoretical and practice-based work has been featured in Cambridge, NYU, MOMI (Museum of Moving Image NYC), Spectacle cinema NYC, Hong Kong School of Creative Media, Goldsmith University London, the Havana Biennial, The Influencers, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Transmediale Festival, Macba [Sonia] Podcast, Berlinale Film Festival, and more. | <urn:uuid:0a838907-b4ee-456e-9ce6-4e4e48d3a2c8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theinfluencers.org/en/mitra-azar | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.912404 | 380 | 1.984375 | 2 |
How to break concrete floor
Repairing an apartment or house – a difficult task for everyone, especially for those who have decided to carry out overhaul on their own. During the overhaul, it may be necessary to repair or dismantle the floor screed. This undertaking is not cheap, so many are trying to do it with their own hands at the lowest cost.
Very often the old flooring needs to be completely replaced. Complete replacement does not mean partial replacement of the cladding, but a complete reconstruction of the base, namely the concrete screed.
But if there is no problem with lining, then how to make the dismantling of the floor without difficulty. It is about how to dismantle the screed, and we will tell you.
Why you need a floor screed
Floor screed is not a thick strong layer laid on the floor. It can be either monolithic from the cement-sand mixture or composite with the addition of expanded clay and other materials. It performs the following functions: floor leveling, protection of the floor from external influences, the perception of loads, heat distribution in floors with built-in heating, the basis for the floor covering.
Dismantling of the concrete screed is performed when it is necessary to lower the floor level, to repair the communications located under it, before the installation of underfloor heating, if the screed is heavily damaged (more than 30% of the area with defects). If the defects occupy a smaller area, you can get by with partial repairs. Sometimes a new layer is poured over the old one.
Dismantling the concrete floor
There are several methods:
- percussive (with a jackhammer) – the most accessible, but costly in terms of effort, noisy and unsafe
- the method of drilling and cutting – faster and less noisy
- the method of diamond cutting – suitable for couplers of any thickness.
In the absence of electricity, floor screed dismantling is done manually. If you still decided to dismantle the screed with your own hands, then we will tell you how to do it. To work you will need gloves, goggles, respirator, helmet, and overalls. Breaking concrete produces a lot of dust. You will need sturdy bags to remove pieces of concrete. Dismantling a concrete screed is a very noisy and rather long process, especially if you do it yourself, so warn your neighbors about the upcoming work and do it in due time. It is better not to perform the work alone, but with a helper.
First, remove the floor covering. Depending on its type use different tools: a crowbar, sledgehammer, the hammer will do. Then proceed to remove the screed itself. Whichever method is chosen, it must be divided into pieces. If there is electricity in the house, you should use power tools. Breaking concrete by hand is a long, hard, and noisy job, in addition, you can get injured as a result.
The tools that you will use to dismantle the old screed can be roughly divided into two groups: manual and electric. Disassembling a floor screed with electric tools will increase labor productivity.
Tools that successfully remove old floor screed include:
- concrete hammer;
- floor saw.
When working with percussion, they use rotary hammers, demolition hammers, and saws. These tools are extremely noisy.
The tools to dismantle the screed with your own hands are as follows:
Working by hand is necessary where there is no electricity, or the work is small in volume. This process is slow and noisy.
The percussion method (jackhammer) can ruin the slab, so it is better to choose other methods. In addition, it is not suitable for reinforced screeds.
It is best to use a floor saw. It can cut reinforced concrete up to 30 cm in thickness. The floor saw cuts the concrete into pieces measuring 0.5 square meters and removes them one by one.
Important: Before you begin, you must determine the thickness of the layer so you don’t cut too deep.
You can use a hole punch to remove the screed by drilling many holes in it. The areas drilled on all sides are then chipped away.
The disassembly process is carried out in several steps:
- First, do the necessary preparatory work. All garbage, furniture, old flooring must be removed from the room. The screed should be vacated.
- Evaluate the need for the process of disassembling the floor screed. In some cases, it can be saved, for example, if it is not covered with cracks, not destroyed. Small cracks can be caulked, and then the flooring can be laid again.
- You should hollow out a small part of the floor screed with a jackhammer. This is necessary to understand the thickness of the base, whether there are any communications in it. The dismantling should not affect the communications. At this stage, assess the possible amount of construction debris.
- The screed is gradually broken down with a jackhammer. The work should start from the area at the far wall opposite the exit from the room. The person begins to move from it toward the door, gradually destroying the floor screed. The work should be done carefully so as not to break the floors.
- The room is cleared of parts of the concrete and construction debris. All this is put in trash bags and thrown away. To remove the construction waste, you need to hire a truck.
- Now you can do a new floor screed. | <urn:uuid:60944c98-f394-451f-8155-dfd402ad8d14> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://toolsproper.com/how-to-break-concrete-floor/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.944601 | 1,182 | 2.203125 | 2 |
The latest Seafarers Happiness Index report, published yesterday by The Mission to Seafarers, reveals that small investments can make a tangible difference to the lives of seafarers.
The survey, undertaken with the support of the Shipowners’ Club and Wallem Group, reports on the experiences of seafarers between October and December 2020. The report highlights the continued struggle with crew changeovers and workload. However, it also reveals that the simple steps taken by some ship owners can make a huge difference to the day to day lives of seafarers, improving mental health on board and renewing passion for their work.
Small changes make a big difference
Many seafarers have reported that ship owners have started to make changes which have improved the quality of life onboard. Free data or free calls, more investment in food and new gym equipment have been appreciated according to the survey respondents. With the lack of shore leave and limited Wi-Fi as major concerns earlier in 2020, this appears to show that shipping companies are making an effort to improve the circumstances onboard, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Training improves mental mindset
Seafarer training is a divisive issue, with some receiving high quality training, but others receiving none at all. Where training does take place, it provides focus, important skills and positive learning for those onboard. However, some training seems to then be voided due to outdated equipment onboard. For example, the entry into force of Resolution MSC.428(98) IMO rules on cyber security was a catalyst for a rush of training at the end of 2020 to prepare crews for the imminent changes. However, the training was not supported by secure and updated systems and equipment, leaving seafarers feeling like the training was counter-productive.
Crew change challenges continue
The Q4 report shows that there are still huge challenges with crew changes, not only in the limitations of leaving or joining a ship, but also the treatment and facilities provided during quarantine. Seafarers highlighted that they are subjected to degrading and frustrating treatment, making it clear that the entire process needs to be reviewed and improved.
“We were made to queue up and felt like criminals, then taken to a facility more like a prison camp than a hotel,” commented one respondent.
The impact of the crew change crisis is being acutely felt, and some senior officers said this was the worst situation they have known for decades in the industry. The effect on morale and on the mental health of crew was evident, with calls for broader industry progress, particularly as the pandemic continues.
Andrew Wright, Secretary General of The Mission to Seafarers, said: “The Seafarers Happiness Index for Q4 has demonstrated the ongoing need for real action. Countries, organizations and governments have had plenty of time to facilitate crew change programmes and arrange logistics, and yet we continue to see a lack of shore leave, challenges with crew changes and unsupported seafarers. The positive news we see within these results is from those ship owners who have invested in onboard WiFi and gym equipment or facilitated shore leave. They are due credit for these steps and would encourage all owners to take action to improve life onboard.
“The uncertainty of timely crew reliefs that has been experienced during the Covid crisis is clearly reflected in the resignation and antipathy that was seen in the responses. Timely crew reliefs is not just a humanitarian issue, but can also be a safety issue. The governments must start to walk the talk when it comes to “key worker” status for crews and the facilitation of crew changes.”
The publication of the latest Seafarers Happiness Index yesterday coincided with the launch of the Neptune Declaration on Seafarer Wellbeing and Crew Change, which has seen 300 companies and organizations come together to resolve the crew change crisis.
As hard as it is to imagine, the crew change crisis lingers on into 2021. | <urn:uuid:69a6111d-b55b-4525-8381-7a9e81577887> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://maritimemag.com/en/un-autre-appel-au-soutien-des-gens-de-mer-et-a-la-necessite-de-changer-dequipage-en-toute-securite-en-anglais/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.972446 | 787 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Close your eyes. Imagine words as people in an office setting. The verbs scurry about, active and animated, getting things done. The adjectives and adverbs conjure ideas and images in the marketing department. But there’s always that one guy. See him? He’s over by the water cooler, leaning against the wall. He’s omnipresent, and yet nobody really knows what he does. He may be hanging around, but he sure doesn’t seem to be pulling his weight. That One Guy could represent any word or phrase that always shows up in our writing but doesn’t contribute anything. Here’s a list of thirty-one words and phrases you need to take off your payroll this year.
(Contributed by Karen Hertzberg)
Slacker Words and Phrases
At all times
Watch out for flabby phrases at all times.
Each and every
Look for filler words in your writing each and every day daily.
We don’t know as yet whether we’ll succeed.
Eliminate excess verbiage in order to clean up your writing.
These words basically don’t add value. They’re essentially useless.
Totally, completely, absolutely, literally, actually
Without filler words, your writing will be totally fabulous.
Very, really, quite, rather, extremely
These very common words are really not useful. They’re rather dull.
Simply Simply Don’t use this word often.
It’s a pretty good idea to use this one sparingly, too.
If your sentence works without it, you just don’t need this word.
This is a word that you should only use when you need it for clarity.
We don’t care whether you stand up or sit down to write, just write cleanly!
In the process of
We’re in the process of learning to remove wordiness.
As a matter of fact
As a matter of fact, Your skills have improved.
All of Your readers will enjoy reading cleaner copy.
You’ll be known as being a proficient writer!
Being that Because you’re the best writer in your class, you’re sure to get good grades.
During the course of
During the course of the writing lesson, we learned some new tricks!
For all intents and purposes, For the most part
For all intents and purposes, Our writing has improved.
Point in time
You don’t need to use filler words at this point in time now.
Every word needs to have a purpose in your writing, and there are plenty that don’t contribute anything but clutter. Now that you have a list of common offenders, how many more can you think of? | <urn:uuid:13d7a5af-5db4-4fb2-94e0-aecfcf88f6e8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://realinterface.com/31-words-and-phrases-you-no-longer-need/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.91851 | 655 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Naryn Region is a region and administrative district in Kyrgyzstan.
- 1 Naryn – A city right up in the Tian Shan, near Lake Song Kul, the gateway to the entire southeastern region, its ruins, mountains, and high alpine lakes.
- 2 Ak Kul (village) – A remote and cosy village, with a good dozen inhabitants, right next to the lake of the same name, picturesque in between the surrounding and impressive mountain peaks. The ruins of the former mental institution and lead mine can still be admired here, as well as the old Soviet-style wooden sheds of the people. A great hub for hikes into the surrounding mountain ranges.
- 3 At-Bashy
- 4 Baetov - Ak-Talaa District
- 5 Chaek (Чаек) – A town along the main road from east to west in the region with several sights.
- 6 Kochkor – A town with a park containing various Soviet structures, and a local animal bazaar, as well as an entry of point for Song Kul and launch pad for treks up into the Tian Shan Mountains.
- 7 Kazarman
- 1 Lake Song Kul – A beautiful yet rather inaccessible alpine lake; trips there are only feasible during summer months.
- 2 Lake Chatyr Kul – A scenic alpine lake with a high level of biodiversity.
- 3 Lake Kol'ukok – A picturesque mountain lake 20 km from Kochkor.
- 4 Lake Köl-Suu Lake (Көлсуу) – A breathtaking lake framed by sheer walls in a very remote section of Kyrgyzstan. Requires a special border permit due to its proximity to the border with China. About 4 hours of rough driving requiring a 4x4 vehicle, to the south of Naryn. Tours available.
- 5 Jamgal Valley – A remote valley in the center but almost cut off from the rest of the country with a still lively population and vast agriculture.
- 6 Eki-Naryn Valley (Eki Bala) – Where two tributaries merge to form the Naryn River: a picturesque canyon where you can go horseback riding or stay at Akel's Yurt Camp. Probably have to arrange it through the CBT Naryn office.
Naryn Region is the largest, poorest, most remote but also most typically Kyrgyz region. Boasting so many superlatives it has beautiful mountains, alpine pastures and the picturesque Son-Kul Lake which attracts large herds of sheep and horses with their herders and their yurts in summer, since the region is dominated by animal herding.
To get to Naryn, you might have to rely on shared taxis.
From the west there are virtually no regular connections, but starting in the Suusamyr Valley (in the Northwest) the road towards Kochkor allows travel by car, taxi and thumb into the region.
To get around, you might have to rely on your own car or shared taxis. But frequent traffic in form of trucks exists between Kochkor, Naryn and the 1 Torugart Pass, which allows for easy hitchhiking.
East to west
A convenient way to travel through this region (or between the Northwest and the Issyk Kul and the Tian Shan region in the east) is the road between Kochkor and 2 Suusamyr (Valley). It seems to be very easy to hitch-hike on this road along inside the impressive Jumgal Valley, because there is a huge number of trucks using it. Truck drivers do not even want money for a ride, and up to four or five people can fit inside a truck.
Behind the city of Kochkor there is a crossroad, with the road splinting into two, one leading towards Kyzart Pass and the other towards Naryn. This crossroad is an excellent place to catch a ride.
See Jalal-Abad#Get in.
- 1 Tash Rabat (use Naryn as a hub). An ancient caravanserai on the Silk Road, close to Torugart Pass to China. One of the top destinations of Kyrgyzstan but a little remote.
As of 2018 both local taxi drivers and CBT quote a price of 2,000 soms for a return trip, including the driver waiting. The drive to Tash Rabat takes 2 hr. It's also possible to sleep there at a handful of yurt camps in the summer season, which is highly recommended if you plan on going hiking the following day. The 2018 price list by CBT charges the following: B&B 600 som per person per night, horse rental 800 som per horse per day, a guide 1,600 som per day, lunch or dinner 400 som per meal. It might be possible to negotiate a lower price with locals when not booking through CBT.
- 2 Baizak Baatyr Mausoleum (8 km east of Chaek along the highway). Dedicated to Baizak Baatyr, who apparently convinced, others say tricked, the then existing China into moving its border from this region far far east to where it is today.
- 3 Jumgal Regional History Museum, Matiev 108, Chaek, ☏ . Weekdays 09:00-18:00. 100 som.
- 4 Forest swastika (Tash-Bashat). The mirror-image fir tree swastika is about 200 m across. Myths and legends abound about how and when the swastika came to be planted in Soviet territory. The entrance of the road leads to the forest 500 m farther. Taxi drivers pretend that this is a bad road in order to charge extra fees, but the gravel road is flat and nice.
- 5 Pik Dankova. A 5,982 m (19,626 ft) high mountain peak which allows furthest view on the Earth. At 483 km (300 mi), Kunlun Mountains are visible and at 538 km (334 mi) a mountain peak Hindu Tagh.
- 6 Saimaluu Tash. Prehistoric rock art from 3000 BC to 2000 BC at the top of a mountain by Neolithic and Bronze Age peoples. This would really probably take a guide to see. | <urn:uuid:76675290-b2d7-4392-a368-02c47db9c133> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Naryn_Region | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.910327 | 1,395 | 1.835938 | 2 |
This video is called Surrounded by Oceanic White Tipped Sharks – Planet Earth – BBC wildlife.
From Wildlife Extra:
Pew applauds French Polynesia for creating the world’s largest shark sanctuary
December 2012. French Polynesia has announced the creation of the world’s largest shark sanctuary. They have banned fishing for all shark species in more than 1.5 million square miles of ocean.
Josh Reichert, managing director of the The Pew Environment Group, issued the following statement in response to French Polynesia announcing comprehensive and permanent shark protections. “We applaud the government of French Polynesia for its bold decision to establish the world’s largest shark sanctuary by banning fishing for all shark species in the country’s entire exclusive economic zone. At more than 4.7 million square kilometres (1.5 million square miles) of ocean, this designation doubles the size of the area already protected by all six existing shark sanctuaries.
“There is growing awareness around the world of the threats facing sharks and the need to protect them. In the past few months alone, American Samoa and the Micronesian state of Kosrae have put an end to shark fishing, and the European Union and Venezuela have banned shark finning. Even yesterday, we saw landmark protections for whale sharks through the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission.
“However, as sharks are threatened throughout much of the world’s oceans and there is a great need to protect them before they slip below levels from which they may never recover. It’s now up to countries around the world to build on this recent success and ensure a sustainable future for sharks.”
Each year, up to 73 million sharks are killed, primarily to support the global shark fin trade. One-third of sharks species are threatened or near threatened with extinction. Sharks play an important role in traditional Polynesian culture.
21 species of sharks
More than 21 species of sharks can be found in French Polynesia, including several species that have been assessed by the IUCN Red List as being Threatened or Near Threatened with extinction, and are currently being proposed for protection under the Convention on the International Trade of Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora (CITES): great hammerheads and oceanic whitetips.
Courtesy of The Pew Environment Group | <urn:uuid:7f74c644-9c99-4312-a659-661a4e751ac9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dearkitty1.wordpress.com/2012/12/18/french-polynesia-worlds-largest-shark-sanctuary/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.930174 | 482 | 3 | 3 |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.