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The Jerusalem municipality is expected to erect for the first time a cemetery designated for secular burial, after the project, initiated by Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski shortly after taking office in 2003, was approved Thursday.
All burials conducted in the city until today have been carried out in accordance with Jewish law.
The area designated for secular burials will be located inside the new cemetery at Har HaMenuchot. The project encompasses an area of 350 dunams on which a new cemetery will be built in Givat Shaul, and a part of this cemetery will be specifically designated for secular burials.
In this designated area, which will be operated by the "Menucha Nechona" organization, citizens will be able to bury their loved ones without a religious ceremony, or alternately in a Jewish ceremony that is not Orthodox. The secular cemetery will also be available for people who, according to Jewish law (Halakha), cannot be buried in a Jewish cemetery.
In response to the approval of his plan, Lupolianski said Thursday that "Jerusalem is a pluralistic city, committed to allowing every person choose his own way of life and to choose how he is buried without anything being forced upon him in any way."
Meanwhile, Meretz faction chair in the Jerusalem municipal council Pepe Alalo said that presenting the project as Lupolianski's initiative was a "bluff."
"The mayor is obligated to building a secular plot by law. Meretz and the Menucha Nechona organization have been working for years on this initiative, and Lupolianski has no choice but to erect the cemetery," Alalo added.
The new cemetery aims to battle Jerusalem's burial space crisis and will offer a plethora of burial methods - joint burial, vertical burial, burial in crypts and multi-level burial. In the lot adjacent to the cemetery, the municipality plans to build centers for eulogies and purification, an information center and upwards of 800 parking spaces for private and public vehicles.
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A good water bottle will fit your child’s hand comfortably, but make sure you choose a dishwasher-safe one. Also, look for spouts and valves that do not come off easily. Some bottles have been recalled due to choking hazards involving the silicone valves and spouts. Check with the Consumer Product Safety Commission to see if the bottle is recalled or has any choking hazards.
Glass or stainless steel bottles are the safest options
While many parents consider aluminum a safer choice, it’s a misconception: children are not exposed to the same toxic substances in plastic as they are in aluminum. While aluminum doesn’t emit toxic gasses, it can break down easily and expose children to harmful acidic and neurotoxins. Furthermore, aluminum bottles must be lined with an epoxy or enamel, which can leach harmful chemicals into the liquid. Additionally, aluminum bottles can dent easily and are not dishwasher safe.
If you are worried about BPA or phthalates in plastics, opt for stainless steel bottles. You’ll be glad you did. While they may not be leak-proof, stainless steel bottles won’t retain the water for as long. Additionally, these bottles can fit in most cup holders. However, you’ll have to worry about the spills, especially if you’re using the water bottle in a car.
When it comes to choosing the right plastic water bottles for your kids, you have a lot of options. You can choose from a wide range of bright colors, a variety of fun designs, and even stainless steel water bottles. Stainless steel bottles are generally a safer option than plastic ones, especially for young children. And because of their food grade status, they are often used with double-walled insulated bottles, which help keep the contents cool and fresh.
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If you’re looking for a water bottle for your child, consider one with a soft straw spout. A softer straw means less risk of accidentally hurting a toddler’s developing teeth. It’s also nice for younger children, who often walk around with their bottles in their hands. And because softer straws are also kinder on teeth, they are safer for young children to use. But if your child is more likely to chew on their bottles, you might want to consider a water bottle with a hard straw spout, as they will last longer.
Kids water bottles are available with different mouthpieces, including straws, spouts, and twist-off caps. While straws are great for younger kids, spouts are better for older ones. Some have hard straws that flip back when they’re closed and are leakproof. Others are equipped with “bite-and-sip” soft straws.
A good water bottle is one with a lid that is screwed on and not a straw. A child will often be on the go, so it’s vital to get a bottle that will fit comfortably in their hands. Moreover, a screw on and a screw off lid will prevent spills. These bottles also prevent leaks. Many have a convenient cup-like lid that fits in standard car cup holders.
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Sometimes, deleted files can still be recovered from the computer, despite the fact that they’ve been erased through traditional methods. If you want to permanently get rid of useless files, then a specialized tool is necessary.
Prevent Restore is an app that was designed to make the deleted files and folders unrecoverable by other software. The program is easy to use, thanks to the step-by-step wizard it comes with.
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The “Complete” mode makes the deleted files unrecoverable by any type of programs. While this option provides a thorough job, it’s not recommended for frequent use.
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About the Project
A storm that blew through southern British Columbia on November 14 and 15, 2021 dropped a month’s worth of rain in just 48 hours. These fierce rains created extreme flooding and mudslides that caused catastrophic destruction and road closures throughout the region. Among the extensive damage was the complete wash out of a 100-metre stretch on the Trans-Canada Highway at the Tank Hill underpass that destroyed existing road and Canadian Pacific (CP) rail infrastructure. A portion of the roadway had collapsed and much of the rail bridge fill east of the bridge had completely washed away. The bridge however stayed in place on what remained of the exposed and battered piles.
Following the storm, on Saturday November 20, AECOM was called on to provide emergency assistance to help reinstate the washed-out grade of the highway and to design an interim road and at-grade rail-road crossing to replace the unsalvageable grade separation structure. That day, AECOM began assembling its team and by the following morning design work had begun. By Monday, AECOM staff were on site and in just a short time, a diverse AECOM team of more than 70 specialists from 10 different offices was hard at work on repairing this vital road link between Vancouver and the rest of Canada.
The following Tuesday morning, the team presented to the BC Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure two design options, complete with plan and profile, ready for their review. By this time AECOM staff were on-site supporting the reconstruction and working collaboratively with multiple contractors.
Our team was focussed on developing an interim alignment to produce a functional highway and new at-grade railway crossing. Work included highway geometrics design, hydrology analysis and drainage updates, traffic engineering including railway pre-emption timing for new highway signals, riverbank protection design, and engineering services during construction.
To meet the unusual demands of this project, AECOM mobilized a team of specialists and senior staff from across western Canada. This talented team had the specific skills needed to respond to on-site issues as they occurred to reinstate the corridor as quickly and as safely as possible.
While work progressed, project challenges continued to emerge including complex drainage and hydrology requirements, as well as the need to manage surrounding grade instabilities during construction.
Streamlined processes and emergency response guidelines were implemented to facilitate immediate review and resolution of issues as they were identified. Staff worked on-site in 24-hour shifts, seven days per week through rain and snow, amid the coldest weather conditions to hit British Columbia in many years. Work that would have typically taken several months was executed in just eight weeks, including over the Christmas break.
Hydrotechnical and climate specialists were engaged from BC, Quebec, Manitoba and Ontario to support our staff in British Columbia and on-site. Our team also included project managers, field staff, geotechnical, road engineers, and rail specialists from the local region and from across Canada.
This portion of the Trans-Canada Highway opened on January 14. In an accompanying news release Rob Fleming, Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure said:
“We all owe a huge debt of gratitude to all of the crews and staff who have put in long hours to make the repairs necessary to reopen Highway 1 through the Fraser Canyon. The construction and engineering accomplishments to get people and goods moving again after the highway sustained such heavy damage are nothing short of remarkable.”
Highway geometrics design
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Great Northern Engineering Consultants Ltd.
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Granada, Spain conjures up visions of the fabled history of Andalusia, the breath-taking magnificence of the Alhambra, the Moorish conquerors turned overlords.
But Granada, Nicaragua? Before our Nicaragua sojourn our conversations with travelers suggested to us that we would prefer Leon, Granada’s sister city on Lake Managua, which is the larger of the two cities, the liberal bastion, the university town. Granada is smaller, more commercial, more conservative, favored by tourists seeking more amenities. We were fully prepared to be drawn more to Leon; so it came as somewhat of a surprise that we were captivated by Granada, Nicaragua.
In Granada the colonial architecture around the city is being refurbished and upgraded; its charm enhanced with each renovation. The city has begun to effectively lure the tourist – the more affluent class beyond the transient, back-packer crowd.
Avenida Calzada, jutting out of Parque Central, is a vital, bustling, pedestrian thoroughfare crowded with restaurants catering to many tastes. The adjoining streets offer more eateries, watering holes, souvenir shops selling traditional handicrafts and shops seeking to accommodate the needs of a growing city.
Scattered around the historic city center are the cathedrals and churches which lend an air of dignity and accentuate the beauty of the skyline. Breezes blowing off Lake Nicaragua help cool the air, in all but the dry season, vitalizing the city.
The physical expression of a city is fundamentally important; it’s the first impression, it’s what keeps you wanting to dig deeper, to know more. And what began to emerge, what drew us back for the third and extended stay was the relaxed feel and hospitality exerted by the expat community of varying backgrounds and nationalities. There is an eclectic mix of full-time residents, part-time residents and visitors driven by a multitude of personal motivations. The mix includes retirees, entrepreneurs, gap-year students, NGO professionals, volunteers, vagabonds and thrill-seekers. And most have those ex-pat qualities of gregariousness and affability. It is the norm to run into acquaintances on any short journey as we walk about the city and, since shank’s mare is the preferred mode of travel, social contact is amplified.
To augment the welcoming ambiance provided by the architecture and the expats, there is also the availability of world-class medical care and international transportation options found in the capital, Managua, just a short drive north of Granada. Vivian Pellas Medical Center, a newly constructed facility and private hospital, offers exceptional health care services at extremely affordable costs; it’s possible to ensure medical coverage through a monthly payment option. International flights are readily available at the Augusto C. Sandino International Airport to whisk tourists and expats to the States, Canada or any onward destination. Tica Bus Line has daily routes to all the capital cities in Central America and Mexico, so low-cost modes of transport are available for shorter jaunts.
So it’s hard to leave a city that we have come to appreciate and friends with whom we’ve had great conversations and with whom we could develop deeper bonds given more time. But we both agree that it’s time for new experiences and locations; time to leave a city and a country that have imprinted themselves upon us and move south, leaving Granada in the rear view.
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Description: Croton plants produce intense colors. There are many croton varieties with an array of many leaf shapes and they make excellent additions to a patio, deck or terrace as planted or as potted specimens. Indoors crotons need lots of light to keep their color. Indoors the croton needs lots of light to keep their color.
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While the recent push toward remote work has been out of necessity, this new trend isn’t without potential issues. More people working from home means home networks will be targeted for cyberattacks. It can also mean rising costs for businesses who need to provide laptops and mobile devices to their employees so they can do their jobs remotely. Thankfully, one of the solutions available to meet these challenges is virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).
What is VDI?
VDI is the name given to virtual desktop PC environments that are hosted on a server (whether on premises or in the cloud). Essentially, end users can access any desktop environment you can think of via virtual machines (VM) and a network connection. While VDI is a type of desktop virtualization, they are not the same thing. VDI specifically relies on a host-based virtual machine architecture and doesn’t include local desktop virtualization or hosted shared virtualization.
How does it work?
Every VDI instance must meet certain criteria:
What are the benefits of VDI?
- Virtual desktop images have to be hosted on a centralized server.
- All VMs must be host-based.
- End clients all have to be connected to the central server.
- Once a connection is established, a virtual desktop is automatically located from the available pool.
- The host machine VMs that make up each environment are overseen by a virtual machine monitor (VMM) or hypervisor, and VMMs create, manage and run the VDI VMs.
In today’s climate of remote work and workforce mobility, VDI can be a game changer for businesses that implement it at scale. Allowing users to connect from anywhere to a specific desktop environment can make all the difference, especially for companies with limited office access or in instances where providing laptops for employees’ home use isn’t feasible. VDI can also provide cost savings because advanced hardware isn’t necessary to run virtual environments. Security is also improved since data isn’t stored locally on the computers used to connect to the VMs. In fact, the VDI can be controlled from a single point, making monitoring traffic or applying security patches much simpler.
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Free drop-in session at the Nillumbik Repair Cafe
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Learn basic hand-sewing skills in this fun, supportive session. Held in conjunction with the Nillumbik Repair Cafe!
Call by the Nillumbik Repair Cafe on 13th August, and the team from A Fitting Connection will show you simple techniques for mending your own clothes at home: whether it’s patching a hole, adjusting a hem, or covering a stain. You’ll learn to make easy alterations and extend the life of your wardrobe. For some this will mean learning to sew on a button, and for others it might be tackling decorative techniques like visible mending.
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KSR1 is overexpressed in endometrial carcinoma and regulates proliferation and TRAIL-induced apoptosis by modulating FLIP levels
Llobet Navàs, David
Bergadà Bertran, Laura
Mirantes Barbeito, Cristina
Santacana Espasa, Maria
Lewis, Robert E.
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The Raf/MEK/extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) pathway participates in many processes altered in development and progression of cancer in human beings such as proliferation, transformation, differentiation, and apoptosis. Kinase suppressor of Ras 1 (KSR1) can interact with various kinases of the Raf/ MEK/extracellular signal-regulated kinase pathway to enhance its activation. The role of KSR1 in endometrial carcinogenesis was investigated. cDNA and tissue microarrays demonstrated that expression of KSR1 was up-regulated in endometrial carcinoma. Furthermore, inhibition of KSR1 expression by specific small hairpin RNA resulted in reduction of both proliferation and anchorage-independent cell growth properties of endometrial cancer cells. Because inhibition of apoptosis has a pivotal role in endometrial carcinogenesis, the effects of KSR1 in regulation of tumor necrosis factor–related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL)–induced apoptosis were investigated. KSR1 knock-down sensitized resistant endometrial cell lines to both TRAIL- and Fas-induced apoptosis. Sensitization to TRAIL and agonistic anti-Fas antibody was caused by down-regulation of FLIP (FLICE-inhibitory protein). Also investigated was the molecular mechanism by which KSR1 regulates FLIP protein levels. It was demonstrated that KSR1 small hairpin RNA did not affect FLIP transcription or degradation. Rather, FLIP down-regulation was caused by Fas-associated death domain protein–dependent inhibition of FLIP translation triggered after TRAIL stimulation in KSR1-silenced cells. Re-expression of heterologous KSR1 in cells with down-regulated endogenous KSR1 restored FLIP protein levels and TRAIL resistance. In conclusion, KSR1 regulates endometrial sensitivity to TRAIL by regulating FLIP levels.
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One year after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, the end of that pandemic is within reach.
The big picture: The death and suffering caused by the coronavirus have been much worse than many people expected a year ago — but the vaccines have been much better.
Flashback: “Bottom line, it’s going to get worse,” Anthony Fauci told a congressional panel on March 11, 2020, the day the WHO formally declared COVID-19 to be a global pandemic.
- A year ago today, the U.S. had confirmed 1,000 coronavirus infections. Now we’re approaching 30 million.
- In the earliest days of the pandemic, Americans were terrified by the White House’s projections — informed by well-respected modeling — that 100,000 to 240,000 Americans could die from the virus. That actual number now sits at just under 530,000.
- Many models at the time thought the virus would peak last May. It was nowhere close to its height by then. The deadliest month of the pandemic was January.
Yes, but: Last March, even the sunniest optimists didn’t expect the U.S. to have a vaccine by now.
- They certainly didn’t anticipate that over 300 million shots would already be in arms worldwide, and they didn’t think the eventual vaccines, whenever they arrived, would be anywhere near as effective as these shots turned out to be.
Where it stands: President Biden has said every American adult who wants a vaccine will be able to get one by the end of May, and the country is on track to meet that target.
- The U.S. is administering over 2 million shots per day, on average. Roughly 25% of the adult population has gotten at least one shot.
- The federal government has purchased more doses than this country will be able to use: 300 million from Pfizer, 300 million from Moderna and 200 million from Johnson & Johnson.
- The Pfizer and Moderna orders alone would be more than enough to fully vaccinate every American adult. (The vaccines aren’t yet authorized for use in children.)
Yes, millions of Americans are still anxiously awaiting their first shot — and navigating signup websites that are often frustrating and awful.
- But the supply of available vaccines is expected to surge this month, and the companies say the bulk of those doses should be available by the end of May.
- Cases, hospitalizations and deaths are all falling sharply at the same time vaccinations are ramping up.
The bottom line: Measured in death, loss, isolation and financial ruin, one year has felt like an eternity. Measured as the time between the declaration of a pandemic and vaccinating 60 million Americans, one year is an instant.
- The virus hasn’t been defeated, and may never fully go away. Getting back to “normal” will be a moving target. Nothing’s over yet. But the end of the worst of it — the long, brutal nightmare of death and suffering — is getting close. | <urn:uuid:1159d4f4-83a7-4cb8-b3fa-aaf478d420e8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://henrykotula.com/2021/03/11/americas-nightmarish-year-is-finally-ending/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.958397 | 658 | 2.859375 | 3 |
A touching photo of Thai couple and their son on a motorcycle has proved to everyone that a parent’s love knows no boundaries.
What looks like a normal ride of parents with their child on the road turns out to be a touching story that will break anyone’s heart.
One netizen first caught the sight of the couple when they were riding their motorcycle on the road but turned curious when he saw the toddler whom the mother was carrying.
The toddler, swaddled in a cloth that was wrapped around the mother’s body had oxygen tubes placed in his nostril.
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Apparently, there was an oxygen tank at the back of the motorcycle which was connected to the boy.
According to the netizen, the father would ensure that the oxygen tank was in place every time he stopped at a red light and adjust it accordingly.
After the post about the Thai family went viral on social media, many news portals went to investigate.
It turns out that the toddler was born with lung disease and suffered from asthma at just six months old.
According to TNews, the boy’s lungs had progressively weakened that he needed an oxygen tank to breathe since he was six months old.
Unfortunately, the oxygen tank did not come cheap as one tank cost the parents 200 baht (US$ 6.48) and it needed to be replaced every two days.
The father only makes 300 baht (US$ 9.72) a day and he has spent over 100,000 baht (US$ 3,239) for his son’s treatment.
However, as the family lives in Mae Sai, the northernmost district of Chiang Rai, they have to travel 120 km (75 miles) every two days from their house to the hospital so that they can replace the oxygen tank for their sick son.
The father also said that they had to ride a motorcycle as he did not have a car and that taking public transportation was not possible as the driver was afraid that the oxygen tank might explode and became an inconvenience to other passengers.
That left the family with the only option — to ride the distance with their motorcycle every two days for the sake of the son’s life.
We do hope that the parents will get the help that they deserve and for the boy to get well so he will not have to depend on the oxygen tank anymore. | <urn:uuid:4308a225-65cf-44aa-98ef-4ee00e557335> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://en.goodtimes.my/2019/07/16/couple-travel-75-miles-every-2-days-to-replace-sons-oxygen-tank-for-his-survival/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.971159 | 705 | 1.585938 | 2 |
How do we stop being so lonely?
On a cold, moonless night, the co-owner of Macy’s department store and his wife were aboard the sinking Titanic. Mrs. Straus distributed blankets to the women and children in Life Boat No. 8. But, when asked to enter the lifeboat herself, she refused to leave Mr. Straus’s side. “All these years we have traveled together, and shall we part now? No, our fate is one,” she explained. Two sailors tried to force her in, and she wrangled herself free, looking at her husband. “Where you go, I go,” she said. The couple was last seen arm in arm on the deck, the finale of their forty years together.
Today, a different sentiment dominates. It’s closer to, “Where you go, I might consider visiting.” The individual comes first.
A few weeks ago, I wrote about why millennials are lonely. In short, it’s because loneliness is contagious (literally), and the internet exacerbates it. Our “infectious isolation,” I concluded, is mounting.
This is problematic for lots of reasons: In animals, social isolation shortens lifespan, promotes obesity and diabetes, hinders psychosexual development, and increases cortisol levels. In humans, social isolation has, according to Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection, “an impact on health comparable to the effect of high blood pressure, lack of exercise, obesity or smoking.” Socially isolated people are more than twice as likely to die of heart disease. They’re also more stressed, less creative, have lower self-esteem, and feel less in control of their lives than non-lonely people.
So how do we stop being lonely?
I think the answer starts with priorities. Social connection has become less important to us. One large cross-sectional study found that subjective loneliness actually declined slightly between 1978 and 2009 in adolescents, while objective social isolation increased. High school students in 2009, the study’s authors write, “reported fewer friends with whom to interact, but less desire for more friends.” Meanwhile, empathy decreased, and insecure attachments increased.
This is consistent with my own experience. Since graduating college, I’ve put friendships on the back burner. I even emailed someone wanting to grab coffee a couple months ago that “I’m just incapable of making friends right now. There’s a little too much going on with work.” The fact that today many people’s best friends are from college may attest to the amount of effort we put into friendships after college.
When I was suffering from a bout of loneliness last year, my boyfriend told me to just go out and meet people. Well, I’m not that lonely, I thought. But recovering from our society-wide isolation will require effort.
Just meeting people, however, isn’t enough. We also need to sacrifice for them. In response to my last article, several readers pointed out that trust is missing from many modern friendships. I think trust is the feeling that someone has your back no matter what. And, today, the truth is very few people do.
In a 2012 op-ed for the New York Times, Sherry Turkle wrote that we’re “increasingly drawn to technologies that provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of relationship.” Millennials may be lonely not just from insufficient social interaction, but also due to insufficient social obligation.
Generational researcher Jean Twenge has found that millennials are significantly more likely than adolescents in the 1970s to describe themselves using traits like “independent” and “assertive.” The resulting gains from this attitude are real, and shouldn’t be discounted — particularly for women. But it’s also, in a way, too bad.
My friends and I have talked about how you never know whether to stay in a city, because your friends could leave soon for some better job somewhere else. If you stayed, hoping they’d stick around, you’re SOL. (Even the prospect that you’d consider them before your career is embarrassing.) Our solution to get everyone to stay put, we joke, is to build a commune. But we know that will never happen. And we know, if we get a better opportunity elsewhere, we’ll leave.
Our commune dream is for something quasi-contractual to keep us together. This is also why, though millennials are marrying later, many of us quietly crave a ring. But marriage, indeed, is a perfect example of our stubborn determination to be a, or at least give, the bird: we’re marrying later — by an average of six years since 1960 — to extend our geographic and professional autonomy.
Amazingly, research has found that attachment to even just a place reduces loneliness. If everyone decided to remain in the same city or town for a lifetime, as they did for centuries before now, we’d receive the two best remedies for loneliness: a home and a community.
I know that’s unrealistic. But before genuine connection sinks altogether, it’s worth thinking about what such a loss would actually mean. Seventeenth-century English poet John Donne wrote that, “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.” We like to believe we’re floating free. But we need each other, and acting otherwise results more in isolation than true independence. | <urn:uuid:152a1dcd-e75f-4872-b8ba-04064e013ff7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://healthierlife.ca/index.php/2017/08/19/the-solution-to-millennial-loneliness/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.961492 | 1,169 | 2.46875 | 2 |
Phenologit – Spatial Data Analysis and mobile learning for schools
Period: 2015-09-01 – 2018-08-31 (36 months).
Funded by: Comisión Europea
PhenoloGIT will design, build and test a collaboratively created educational environmental information platform, supported by state-of-the-art mobile technology and Geographical Information Technologies (GIT), to be used by teachers and students in primary and secondary schools. The platform will allow them not only to make scientific observations in their local environment and gather new data in an intuitive and engaging way, but also to acquire complex knowledge by collaboratively creating and sharing new information using open-source tailored educational tools to analyse and reflect on graphical, spatial and mathematical data sets.
These tools and resources will be based – and released – as open source/free license resources, to promote their use and evolution in the following years and so offer great potential benefits in the longer term for schools across Europe.
The project will have three main phases:
Firstly, needs and possibilities will be analysed and tools, learning-teaching strategies and contents identified and developed.
In the second stage these tools will be tested in real situations in pilot schools, and training given to a group of pilot teachers.
The final stage of the project will be devoted to the design and implementation of a social learning network of GIT based school projects, “Open School Learning Network “ not limited to phenology, but including other subjects identified by teachers in the first phase. This stage will multiply the benefits from the project, generating online resources for teachers, as well as an active community of schools working and learning with GIT and related technologies. | <urn:uuid:8b8ae46e-ca81-4a5e-959b-d55bf4ca70fb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cesga.es/en/portfolio-items/phenologit-spatial-data-analysis-and-mobile-learning-for-schools-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.937461 | 357 | 2.25 | 2 |
Examines characteristics, causes, and social and economic consequences of the epidemic of AIDS in Africa, assesses adequacy of responses to the epidemic, analyzes AIDS treatment issues, and reviews U.S. policy and pending legislation relating to AIDS in Africa.
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Which Construction Jobs Are the Most Difficult?
Nobody works in the construction industry because it’s “easy.” Your workers might find physically demanding work enjoyable, but anyone that suggests that construction work is easy is either lying, joking, or has never worked a day in the field. There are over a dozen unique construction jobs, which can be divided into the following categories according to a survey published by CraftJack:
- Cabinets and Countertops
- Carpet Cleaning
- Drywall and Insulation
- Junk Removal
- Painting and Staining
- Stone and Tile
The survey also includes a category simply labeled as “other,” but for the purpose of this article, our Brandon construction attorneys will be focusing solely on clear-cut construction jobs to determine which are the most difficult. Remember, the more strenuous a job is, the more chances there are for things to go wrong. If one of your workers has been injured on the project site, consult a Brandon construction attorney for assistance.
Which Jobs Are the Most Physically Demanding?
According to the survey, 13 percent of surveyed contractors believe that roofing is the most physically demanding job. For those within the roofing industry, this hardly comes as a surprise. Roofers are tasked with lifting heavy objects, climbing, bending, and kneeling all throughout a project. They also experience the most prolonged exposure to sunlight, which can be exhausting in itself. Roofing professionals also work a lot of overtime hours, with the average worker earning as much as $6,000 in overtime per year. According to surveyed contractors, demolition, carpentry, and drywall and insulation were the next most physically demanding industries — 11 percent, 7 percent, and 7 percent, respectively.
Which Jobs Are the Hardest to Become Adept At?
While physically demanding jobs are inherently difficult, that doesn’t necessarily mean they are difficult to master. Other trades which require more specialized knowledge, such as electrical work or carpentry, were considered some of the hardest jobs to become adept at based on the same survey. According to the survey, the seven hardest-to-master jobs in the construction industry are electrical work, carpentry, HVAC, cabinets and countertops, masonry, plumbing, and drywall and insulation.
No matter how difficult the types of jobs your construction business takes on, you need to protect yourself against defects and delays. Rely on a Brandon construction lawyer for assistance with maintaining legal compliance, avoiding costly citations, and protecting your business.
If you would like to speak with a Brandon construction lawyer, please contact us today.
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Good Oral Health for Babies
Baby teeth, also known as primary teeth, are just as important as permanent teeth. The primary teeth help your child speak and chew. They also act as placeholders for the permanent teeth. Good oral health is important and should start as soon as solid food is introduced. Here are some basics:
Baby oral health (pre teeth)
- Before a tooth breaks the surface make sure to wipe your baby’s gums with a finger brush, washcloth, or piece of gauze.
- Baby teeth generally arrive between 3 and 12 months. A newly erupting tooth can cause some discoloration in the gum where the tooth is going to pop up. Before a tooth completely breaks the surface, there may be a small opening where bacteria can begin to grow and cause a cavity. It is especially important that you continue to wipe your baby’s gums with a finger brush/washcloth/gauze during this time to prevent a cavity before the tooth appears.
The first tooth
- Tooth decay can occur as soon as your child’s first tooth arrives so it is important that you begin to brush your child’s teeth twice per day.
- To brush the tooth/teeth you can use a wet washcloth or gauze to clean your baby’s teeth and gums. Start using a baby toothbrush and a small dab of fluoride free toothpaste when your baby is between 1 year old and 18 months.
- Schedule your first child’s first dental visit within 6 months after the baby’s first tooth appears.
You scheduled you child’s first dental visit by their first birthday, now what?
Packing for the visit
- To help your child know that the dental office is a safe and comfortable place it is important to bring some items that will make it feel more like home. A favorite toy or blanket, snack, and an extra diaper just in case.
- Fill out and bring any forms needed by the dentist.
What to expect at the office
- The dentist or hygienist will review your child’s overall health, focusing on oral health. This includes your child’s development, bite, soft tissue (gums and cheeks), teething, oral habits such as sucking, diet and hygiene practices that could affect the risk of cavities.
- The dentist will preform a short exam, generally with the child on your lap, and his or her head in the dentists lap. This way both of you can see clearly into your child’s mouth and your child can look up at you. The dentist will check all of your child’s existing teeth for decay, examine the gums, jaw and oral tissues for any potential issues, and examine your child’s bite.
- The dentist will brief you on proper nutrition, good oral hygiene practices for your child’s teeth and gums, cavity prevention, developmental milestones, teething, fluoride needs, as well as give you the opportunity to ask any questions.
After the visit
- Most dentists like to schedule the next visit within 6 months to track the development of teeth and build up the child’s comfort and confidence levels.
Start using a child’s soft-bristle toothbrush and skip the toothpaste or use a fluoride free toddle brand. Make sure to let your child help with the brushing! | <urn:uuid:f3ce8d63-1076-4269-a4e5-391e09543a22> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.spaceshipdentist.com/good-oral-health-for-babies/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.941551 | 710 | 3.640625 | 4 |
By now, it’s no secret that oil companies have been long aware of the risks of climate change from burning fossil fuels. Exxon had “no doubt” that carbon dioxide was a global threat by the late 1970s, and Shell wrote in 1988 that the resulting climate change might lead to “the greatest [changes] in recorded history.”
But decades before, the oil industry was already privy to — and giving its own internal warnings about — the climate threats of carbon pollution from burning its products. In fact, as one science-and-art collaboration illustrated this week, that was happening before humans even landed on the Moon in 1969.
“Today much is being discovered about the history of fossil fuel producers, their knowledge of climate science, and their promulgation of disinformation to the public and policymakers,” Stanford researcher Benjamin Franta told DeSmog. “That information is crucial for understanding how the climate catastrophe was knowingly created and how to fight back — but much of it is in reports and academic articles not read by many.”
However, thanks to Stanford student Nathan Chael, who heard Franta speak about his doctoral research in this area, that information is taking a more artistic and accessible form. Chael suggested that Franta translate his academic work into an illustration and connected him with sustainability consultant and illustrator Alexandre Magnin.
The result of Franta and Magnin’s collaboration is a three-part series of illustrations giving a narrative timeline of Big Oil’s knowledge of the human impact on the climate and its decisions about what to do with that information.
Posted here with permission is episode one in the series, which starts with the oil industry’s early knowledge of fossil fuels’ impacts on the environment in the 1950s and ‘60s. One notable event the pair highlighted in this comic was the 1965 speech by American Petroleum Institute CEO Frank Ikard on the “catastrophic consequence” of carbon pollution.
Magnin will post episodes two and three on his website Sustainability Illustrated in the coming months.
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-Portland Cement Only
Lehigh Portland Cement I/II is 1 of key components in making concrete and portland/lime mortars. When mixed with sand and coarse aggregate it produces concrete. When mixed with lime and mason sand it produces mortar. Build or repair walks, floors, footings, patios, setting posts and poles.
- Create custom concrete mixes for both concrete slabs or for repairs where the concrete will be at least 2 in. (51 mm) thick
- Meets ASTM C 150 for Portland cement
- Use where 2 in. thickness or more is needed
- For mixing concrete: mix 1 part portland cement, 2 parts coarse sand and 3 parts aggregate
- For mixing mortar: mix 1 parts portland cement, 1/4 part lime and 3 parts mason sand
- For thicknesses less than 2 in. (51 mm) and toppings, use: 1 part of portland cement with 3 to 4 parts of concrete sand or general purpose sand | <urn:uuid:70c21c53-911d-4226-ac03-c00d30dda299> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.flssupply.com/products/lehigh-portland-cement-type-i-94lb-bag | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.838349 | 218 | 2.4375 | 2 |
[Dan Julio]’s gCore (short for Gadget Core) is aimed at making GUI-based portable and rechargeable gadgets much easier to develop. gCore is the result of [Dan]’s own need for a less tiresome way to develop such hardware.
[Dan] found that he seemed to always be hacking a lot of extra circuitry into development boards just to get decent power management and charge control. To solve this, he designed his own common hardware platform for portable gadgets and the gCore was born.
While the color touchscreen is an eye-catching and useful addition, the real star of his design is the power management and charging features. Unlike most development hardware, the gCore intelligently shares load power with charging power. Power on and power off are also all under software control.
Sound intriguing? That’s not all the gCore has to offer, and you can learn more from the project page at hackaday.io (which has a more in-depth discussion of the design decisions and concept.) There are also some additional photos and details on [Dan]’s website.
[Dan] is no stranger to developing hardware. The tcam-mini thermal imager (and much more) is his work, and we have no doubt the gCore’s design and features are informed directly by [Dan]’s actual, practical development needs.
One of the most useful features of the Universal Serial Bus is its hot-plugging capability. You simply plug in your device, use it, and unplug it when you’re done. But what if you’ve got a huge number of USB devices? You might not want to use all of them all of the time, but repeatedly unplugging and re-plugging them is inconvenient and wears out the connectors. [Matt G] fixed this problem by building the RUNBOX: a USB hub that can be controlled through a touchscreen.
The USB hub part consists of a Yepkit YKUSH 3, which is a USB 3.1 hub that support software-controlled disconnecting of devices. [Matt] hooked up a Raspberry Pi to its ports so that it could switch devices on and off through a software command. To make it more user-friendly he added a touch screen controller and created an app using the Electron framework. This allowed him to enable or disable separate devices with a single touch: turn on the mic and webcam for video-conferencing, or fire up the VR headset and game controller for a gaming session.
The modified USB hub is housed in a laser-cut enclosure with plenty of space to hook up a variety of USB devices. The touchscreen neatly fits just above [Matt]’s keyboard; this setup was inspired by head-down displays used in aircraft which similarly use a small additional screen for peripheral functions.
[Jared Holladay] is a computer engineering student at the University of Cincinnati and a life-long roller coaster fanatic. A lot of people look at roller coasters as an exciting example of physics, like potential energy versus kinetic energy or inertia, and rightly so. [Jared] looks at them and wonders about the controls. Video also below and there is a feature-length explanation with more details. Some Hackaday readers and writers can identify the components, so we think his coaster model belongs here.
Like many folks in this field, he’s built K’nex models to get a handle on construction. He’s toured STEM shows with the tracks and undoubtedly wowed kids, adults, and physics teachers, but since he can speak to the programming, he is a triple threat. Now, he’s growing out of the toy construction plastic and moving into 3D printed parts with needle-fine tolerances.
His latest base is extruded aluminum, like what you’d want in a rigid CNC or printer. In addition to the industrial-grade surface, Rockwell Automation sent him a safety programmable logic controller, PLC, and a touchscreen HMI. Our fellows in the industry tell us those are far beyond the price scope of regular hobbyists. But fear not; your Arduino clones will suffice until you get your first grant.
The point of all the ruggedized hardware, aside from authenticity, is to implement safety features the same way you would in the industry. The redundant PLC connects to inductive prox sensors to check train speed and location. Other moving parts, like friction brakes, have sensors to report if there is a jam. After all, it’s no good if you can’t stop a train full of people. There are hundreds of things that can go wrong. Just ask [Jared] because he programmed on-screen indicators for all of them and classified them to let an operator know if they can keep the ride moving or if they need to call maintenance.
Since the Raspberry Pi arrived back in 2012, we’ve seen no end of interesting and creative designs for portable versions of the little computer. They often have problems in interfacing with their screens, either on the very cheap models using the expansion port or on more expensive ones using an HDMI screen with associated controller and cabling. The official Raspberry Pi touchscreen has made life easier with its DSI convector, but as [jrberendt] shows us with this neat little tablet, there are other DSI-based options. This one uses a 5″ DSI touchscreen available through Amazon as well as a Pi UPS board to make a tablet that is both diminutive and self-contained.
Having fooled around ourselves in the world of Pi tablets we like this one for its clean look and a bezel that is little bigger than the screen itself. As is the case with so many Pi tablets though it has to contend with the bulk of a full-sized Model B board on its behind, making it more of a chunky brick than a svelte tablet. The screen has potential though, and we can’t help wondering whether there’s any mileage in pairing it with a much thinner Pi Zero board and a LiPo board for a slimmer alternative.
Before we forget — it’s cool; this one was already broken. The Merlin Pi camera’s wizardry works on two levels — [Mister M] can take still pictures and record video through the GUI he built for the touchscreen, or go retro and use the little push buttons nestled in the Merlin control panel. [Mister M] worked a Dropbox uploader into the GUI, so he doesn’t have to worry about filling up the SD card with backyard bird movies in the middle of filming them.
[Mister M] says he accidentally warped the Merlin’s battery cover while trying to soak away the sticker and had to use a piece of acrylic. Although it’s unfortunate, we think it may have been for the better given the huge hole necessitated by the camera lens. Check out the build video after the break.
The Mostly Printed CNC (MPCNC) is an impressive project in its own right, allowing anyone with a 3D printer and some electrical conduit to build their own fairly heavy-duty CNC platform perfect for routing. Customization is the name of the game with the MPCNC, and few machines will look the same when they’re done. But even fewer will feature a control interface nearly as slick as the wireless handset that [Steve Croot] has put together for his.
On the hardware side, the project is fairly straightforward. Inside the 3D printed enclosure is a 4.3″ Nextion touchscreen, a Mega 2560 PRO microcontroller, a nRF24L01 2.4 GHz transceiver, and a 4000 mAh 3.7 V LiPo battery with appropriate charging circuit. Besides the physical toggle switch to turn the handheld on and off, all of the device’s functions are touch controlled. For the receiver side, [Steve] is using another nRF24L01 radio and microcontroller pair to toggle relays and shuffle the appropriate G-code commands around.
But what really makes this project shine is the software. As you can see in the video after the break, [Steve] has done an absolutely phenomenal job with the user interface on this controller. The themed boot screen and concise iconography give the controller a very professional look, and the ability to jog the machine around using taps on a virtual workspace helps keep the touch interface from being a gimmick.
We’ve seen some impressive custom-built CNC controllers over the years, but between the mostly off-the-shelf hardware used and impressive UI, we think [Steve] has created something unique. It looks like he’s keeping the source code to himself for the time being, but hopefully he sees fit to release it in the future; a project of this caliber deserves to become more than a one-off creation.
Researchers have demonstrated a new vulnerability in NFC, a feature built-in to many smartphones sold today. The vulnerability allows the attacker to to generate ‘ghost taps’ against a device, effectively allowing an attacker to tap your phone without you looking.
The 18-page paper released by a team of three researchers based out of Waseda University in Japan consists of two techniques: an attack against NFC-enabled smartphones and an attack against capacitive touchscreens. It should be noted that nearly all phones have NFC, and nearly every phone released in the last decade has a capacitive touchscreen. Vunlnerable devices include, but are not limited to the Xperia Z4, the Galaxy S6 Edge, the Galaxy S4, Aquos Zeta SH-04F, Nexus 9, and Nexus 7.
The experimental setup consists of a signal generator, high-speed bipolar amplifier, a small transformer (taken from a toy plasma ball), a copper sheet, oscilloscope with high-voltage probe, and an NFC card emulator. No other special equipment is required. When the victim places their smartphone on a table top, the phone is fingerprinted, giving the attacker the make and model of phone. A dialog box then pops up and the phone connects to a network.
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The “United Nations Security Council,” also known as the “UNSC,” has always been one of the foremost bodies that provides solutions to extreme security issues and fights to prevent wars in Europe and many other parts of the world. For decades, it existed primarily as one of the six known bodies that make up the United Nations, and its primary purpose is to provide or ensure international peace. While it has 15 members, only five of them are referred to or regarded as permanent members. These permanent members are sometimes said to have “veto power” in the UN’s sub-organization. China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States are among them.
The above-mentioned countries are referred to as permanent members because, unlike the ten other countries elected for two-year terms, they are always present regardless of the situation or time. As previously stated, they have veto power over any resolution that is to be passed or any conclusion that is to be reached in the security council. This veto power applies regardless of the level of international support the draft being discussed at the time, and its terms never expire. When these words are carefully examined, they tend to present the impression that the world appears to be strategically placed under the wings of these nations in terms of security. When it comes to security issues, the world’s nations rely heavily on these five countries.
The existence of these countries as permanent members has no bearing on the position of other countries that have been elected multiple times. Because of the number of times they have been elected, countries such as Japan and Brazil appear to be permanent members at first glance. Brazil, for example, has been elected to the council at least ten times, while Japan has been elected eleven times in recent years. The number of years these countries use does not necessarily make them permanent; there are still only five permanent members, as explained below.
To understand why these five countries are permanent members and how this position came about, we must first look at the history of the council itself. It all began after the events of World War II, after millions of people died and Europe’s empires had crumbled, and new countries were constantly on the rise, with existing ones seeking independence. Several ideologies began to emerge, particularly the presence of political ideas such as communism, which quickly caused a schism between nations who loved what it meant and those who simply couldn’t stand it. This divide and its escalating issues necessitated the establishment of a council, one that would include international or global superpowers (great nations), that would come together in defense of international peace and oversee the security of nations.
Of course, the famous “League of Nations” had already been established at the time, but they desired something different because the world was divided in ways that they believed could lead to another gruesome war. They devised a strategy and settled on adding only four members: the United States, the United Kingdom, Soviet Russia, and the Republic of China. These nations appeared to be the best options at the time, until the USSR began to express its reservations. It claimed at the time that the countries involved were mostly allies of the United States of America, a country with which it was constantly at odds due to ideological differences. As a result, it requested that at least one neutral member be present in the council. Initially, they wanted to add Brazil as the fifth member, but this was rejected because Brazil was too closely aligned with the West, as well as the fact that Brazil didn’t want to join in the first place.
On the other hand, the USSR was not the only nation in the council that had disagreements with the other nations. The United Kingdom expressed its concerns as well, stating that it was the only member from Western Europe, which seems like a logical reason to be skeptical because it would imply that they would always be the ones to settle the bills to protect their entire continent, which could lead to them going bankrupt. France, on the other hand, was unable to join or even be considered because of the ease with which the Germans occupied it during the war. It was thought that it was too weak to be in charge of the world’s security if it couldn’t even protect its own borders. However, due to UK complaints, the US was forced to consider France. The United Kingdom proposed that France be reinstated as a major power and admitted to the UN Security Council as such. Thankfully, France’s involvement also calmed the USSR, which believed at the time that France was the only European country that wasn’t completely aligned with the US. As a result, the United Nations Security Council of five permanent members was established.
Despite the fact that significant changes are said to be taking place in the council. The first was when China was kicked out until it resolved its civil war issues, and the second was when the USSR disintegrated and Russia took its place. It is easy to see why there are five permanent members, given that these powers are regarded as superpowers with exceptional ability to secure their borders. One of the criteria appears to be that a country must be a security behemoth, and the five permanent members are exactly that. | <urn:uuid:2a51ebe3-2e6b-4e97-8807-6e6858eb7301> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ecjionline.com/2022/02/27/5-permanent-members-of-united-nations-security-council/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.985084 | 1,068 | 3.375 | 3 |
Canada is teetering on the edge of a recession.
The country’s GDP has fallen for five straight months, the latest numbers coming in at a 0.2 percent contraction in May. And economists say Canada is about to hit its second-straight quarter of declining GDP, the technical definition of a recession.
Contributing to Canada’s problems include plunging commodities prices, slowing exports and a falling Canadian dollar. The tumble in crude oil, which has fallen more than 15 percent year to date, has hit Canada hard as a commodities-heavy economy.
According to TD Bank’s deputy chief economist, Derek Burleton, investor concerns about the Canadian economy date back to last year, when oil prices first began to fall.
“They’re worried about Canada; they’re still short Canada,” Burleton said. “There’s not a lot of upside to growth.”
An unexpected lag in exports this year has also pulled down GDP. However, Burleton pointed to trade numbers released Wednesday that showed a 6.3 percent jump in May exports, as the beginning of a turnaround.
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Subverting assumptions that American musical theater is steeped in nostalgia, cheap sentiment, misogyny, and homophobia, this book shows how musicals of the 1950s and early 1960s celebrated strong women characters who defied the era's gender expectations. A Problem Like Maria reexamines the roles, careers, and performances of four of musical theater's greatest stars-Mary Martin, Ethel Merman, Julie Andrews, and Barbra Streisand-through a lesbian feminist lens. Focusing on both star persona and performance, Stacy Wolf argues that each of her subjects deftly crafted characters (both on and offstage) whose defiance of the norms of mid-twentiethcentury femininity had immediate appeal to spectators on the ideological and sexual margins, yet could still play in Peoria.
Chapter by chapter, the book analyzes the stars' best-known and best-loved roles, including Martin as Nellie in South Pacific, Merman as Momma Rose in GypsyAndrews as Eliza in My Fair Lady and Guinevere in Camelot, and Streisand as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl. The final chapter scrutinizes the Broadway and film versions of The Sound of Music, illuminating its place in the hearts of lesbian spectators and the "delicious queerness" of Andrews's troublesome nun. As the first feminist and lesbian study of the American Broadway musical, A Problem Like Maria is a groundbreaking contribution to feminist studies, queer studies, and American studies and a delight for fans of musical theater.
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CHESAPEAKE, Va. — Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius drove home the point about the importance of getting a flu vaccination this season by receiving her annual shot at Walgreen Co.’s health and daily living pilot store in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood earlier this month.
“It’s very exciting to see stores like these built on the principle that good health starts with steps we can all take to avoid getting sick in the first place,” said Sebelius about the role community pharmacies such as Walgreens play in offering convenient health care services.
“A perfect example of preventive care is getting your annual flu shot to protect yourself and your loved ones,” she said. “So we’re working closely with pharmacies like Walgreens to make the vaccine widely available in communities across the country.”
After receiving her shot, Sebelius toured the new store with Walgreens president and chief executive officer Greg Wasson, who highlighted the outlet’s ability to offer accessible, preventive health services such as flu vaccinations and diabetes care in underserved communities.
“We appreciate Secretary Sebelius recognizing the important role of community pharmacists in health care,” Wasson said. “With this pilot store we are advancing the profession of pharmacy by providing greater accessibility to pharmacists for medication counseling, answering questions and providing additional clinical services.”
Sebelius said the Walgreens health and daily living store, which features nurse practitioners and offers vaccines and physicals, provides an insight into the role community pharmacies can play in the nation’s evolving health care system. At its 20 pilot stores in the Chicago area Walgreens is positioning the pharmacy as a neighborhood health center.
“One of the goals is to really have people be able to access preventive care in an easy fashion without a lot of barriers,” she said.
Walgreens executives noted that pharmacists are playing an increasingly vital role in patients’ health care — especially in medically underserved communities, where they provide access to health care services that often go beyond dispensing medication.
Flu vaccines, the company said, have been among the services that patients have taken advantage of the most. For instance, the company’s recently released Walgreens Flu Impact Report finds that influenza affects every part of a person’s life.
“The one constant when it comes to flu season is that it’s unpredictable, and flu activity can generally peak anytime between October and April in the U.S.,” chief medical officer Dr. Cheryl Pegus said. “There’s no planning for an ill-timed illness, and these findings from last year’s typical flu season reinforce the importance of getting a flu shot each year.”
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 13% of the country’s population gets the flu every year, with the most severe flu seasons seeing closer to 20%, or more than 62 million Americans, get sick.
The Walgreens Flu Impact Report finds that bouts of the flu resulted in 100 million lost workdays last year, along with nearly $7 billion in lost wages and 32 million missed school days. Taking into account missed workdays, all or parts of vacations, child care costs, doctor visits and other related costs, nearly one-third of respondents to the poll said they spent between $251 and $1,000 on treating the flu last season.
“When it comes to the flu and your own personal calendar, there’s no planning for the many things it could impact,” Walgreens president of pharmacy, health and wellness Kermit Crawford said.
“Immunization rates have climbed, and last season more than 40% of the U.S. population received flu shots,” he said. “This report helps to reinforce the importance of getting a flu shot and how that small step toward protection can provide peace of mind when it comes to other important aspects of our lives.” | <urn:uuid:14b6e283-2acb-45ac-8966-db96b5fa8dac> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.chaindrugreview.com/hhs-secretary-visits-walgreens/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.956415 | 844 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Injection Mold Making: Types of Molds
Mold is a piece of block used in the injection molding process to mold various plastic components. It might be the most expensive component used along with the injection molding machine due to its complex design, precise characteristics, and manufacturing methods. In other words, mold is a hollow metal block where the molten plastic gets injected to manufacture the desired shape. Usually, tooling is done by CNC machines.
Molds are fastened to the platens of the injection molding machine. They have drilled holes and channels responsible for controlling the temperature of the mold by circulating hot water. As far as the mold's working is concerned, molten material flows into molds through a sprue and fills the cavities. After a calculated time, the molten material adopts the shape of the mold and solidifies. Then the injection molding machine pushes the ejector plate of the mold to repeat the process for further manufacturing.
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Types of Molds Used in Plastic Injection Molding
Mold materials must be wear-resistant and withstand many cycles, the clamping force required to hold the material set up, and the high-pressure forces to shape the liquid plastic and achieve close tolerances. While considering the materials, molds can get divided into two categories: aluminum molds and steel molds. Molds made up of these materials have their specified applications.
Aluminum has been on the cards for mold manufacturing for the last few years. While being less expensive solutions of P20-tools, automotive industries are shifting molds to aluminum. Usually, aluminum molds manufacture low-volume tools or prototypes since molds are malleable and softer than conventional steel material. Consequently, wear and tear are more pronounced, and continuous use might cause marks on the manufactured product.
Steel molds have been a conventional approach in the field of injection molding. Nonetheless, molds made up of steel are highly suitable for high-volume production because steel has a more remarkable ability to withstand internal and external stresses and remains invincible against wear and tear for a longer run. Additionally, the steel molds are highly durable with expanded options of use even after maintenance, though they cost heavily compared to aluminum molds.
Advantages of Aluminum Molds
Here are some of the most substantial advantages of aluminum:
1. Lower Tooling Cost
If compared to the molds of steel, the tooling cost for aluminum molds is much lower. Some aluminum tooling is as more economical as half of the cost of steel tooling. Although the return on investment for steel mold and aluminum mold may vary greatly depending upon their use, aluminum mold requires a meager initial investment compared to steel.
2. Reduced Heating and Cooling Times
Aluminum has much higher dissipation rates than steel, so aluminum can instantly turn hot to cool and vice versa. Thus, the cycle time of aluminum mold is 20-30% better than steel molds. Keep in mind that an improved heat dissipation rate is not only appropriate to abstain from cooling and heating lines, but it also diminishes the intricacy of mold and maintenance costs.
3. Ease of Modification
Aluminum is suitable for low-volume production since it is relatively softer than steel and gets worn sooner than steel. However, the quality of being soft allows engineers and manufacturers to modify and optimize the design according to advanced needs.
Disadvantages of Aluminum Molds
Aluminum has some disadvantages too that might cause its replacement with steels molds:
1. Less Compatibility with Materials
Unlike steel molds, aluminum has compatibility issues with complex injection molding resins. For example, polymers with fiberglass cannot be used with aluminum molds even for a very few cycles. Moreover, aluminum molds are softer and gentler and more inclined to scratches/damages brought about by some special resins.
2. Low-Volume Production Runs
Manufacturers must keep in mind that they cannot depend on aluminum molds for high-volume production runs due to their ability to be more delicate than steel molds. Otherwise, the quality of the eventual product gets badly affected and damaged.
Advantages of Steel Molds
Steel has been the focus of injection molding owners for a long time. Here are its reasons:
1. Perfect for Detailed Features
The prominent feature of steel is its ability to be suitable for high-volume production because of its resistance against wear and tear and higher hardness and strength. At the same time, this is the reason that helps manufacturers achieve detailed features of mold. For example, steel molds tightly follow thin, non-uniform walls and rounded angles to bring a better shape to the final product.
2. Improved Durability
Though steel is more expensive than aluminum, steel molds offer more comprehensive and durable services than aluminum. In addition, steel with a better ability to sustain stresses does not fall for repairing or early retirement. Also, steel is ideal for long production runs and frequent utilization of the mold throughout the long term.
3. Higher Compatibility
Steel molds are highly suitable for complex and advanced injection molding resins since steel can stick to even hard-featured products, which is usually challenging with the aluminum product. Likewise, steel molds are compatible with resins reinforced with additives such as glass fiber.
Disadvantages of Steel Molds
Apart from its advantages, here are some of the disadvantages of steel molds:
1. Higher Tooling and Repairing Cost
Steel is highly reliable and durable, but it possesses excelling costs that are not justified compared to aluminum or its other counterparts. Given that, for making the steel mold ready, there needs a higher tooling investment. Equally, steel molds, if fall for warping or some other defects, the repairing costs are higher due to their increased hardness.
2. High-Volume Production Runs
Since steel molds are expansive in tooling and repair, they will be suitable and economical only for high-volume production runs. On the other hand, as mentioned earlier, aluminum molds are preferable for low-volume production runs.
The Process of Mold Making
The mold manufacturing for injection molding is a multi-staged process. Throughout the process, it is inevitable to consider the required dimensions of the final product. Plus, risk management to avoid mold failure and ensure its accuracy, tightness, and ventilation is also necessary.
Things to Consider about Mold Making
Mold manufacturing entails accuracy and techniques and may involve block molds, glove molds, blanket molds, poured molds, and then some. The time may differ with various strategies regarding creating easy to complex geometry. The types of molds, like single or multiple cavities, can be picked as per requirements. Additionally, ensure access to adequate materials, provisions, and tools & equipment. Diverse material alternatives, such as aluminum and steel, are available, and each has specific features, capacities, and suitability. Nevertheless, the budget of the project is also one of the key things to consider, since mold making cost highly affects the final cost of injection molding.
Primary Operations like Milling and Turning
Typically, the drawing of the final product gets prepared before mold manufacturing. This design of the final product further leads to mold making. Metal blocks of required sizes are taken and aligned on a CNC machine. Before starting the secondary operations, CNC performs primary functions like milling, turning, and heat-treating on the metal block. During the mold making process, a selection of cutting tools gets made considering the material of molds. For steel, carbide tools get widely used because they are among the hardest cutting tools.
Secondary Operations like Mold Construction and Peripheral
After completing the primary operations, the metal block is all ready to go under the secondary process, which ensures the mold-making process's success. These operations may include mold construction and mold peripheral. Mold construction provides closing and clamping of molds, mold wall thickness and centering for proper heat absorption and dissipation, and mold surfaces through grinding, polishing, sandblasting, or shot peening. Besides, mold peripheral comprises ensuring mold venting, non-permanent release agents to get applied to the mold surface for improved demolding properties, permanent release coatings for better flow properties and gradient blend, and threaded inserts such as snap inserts or magnetic holders.
Injection mold making is a highly technical and skill-required task, such as process control and troubleshooting of quality defects. It needs to eliminate loopholes that may cause potential losses throughout the process. For now, the molds are revolving around two materials: steel and aluminum. Molds made up of these materials have their specified advantages and disadvantages along with their specific costs. And choosing the mold material depends on many factors, such as the cost-efficiency and product specifications to be achieved.
But remember, even though the innovation has been around for a long time, the field of injection mold making keeps on developing, considering new technological improvements, market disruptions, and different social and economic aspects. Accordingly, the five key industry trends that shape the heading of injection mold manufacturing include moving towards sustainability, exploring various substitute materials, automation, machine learning, and advanced analytics.
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Could Los Angeles Or San Francisco Be The Next Detroit?
Few would have imagined in 1950, when Detroit was the country’s fifth-largest city, the undisputed car capital of the world and one of the most important cities of its era, that it would become synonymous with urban decay. Yet it happened there. Which means it can happen anywhere, even California.
Steep taxes, smothering regulation and a hostile business climate are leaving businesses with little choice but to escape from California. Residents, particularly from the middle class, are fleeing too.
But “progressive” economic and regulatory policies – identified by economist Thomas Sowell as “increasing taxes, harassing businesses, and pandering to unions” – were not the only factors in Detroit’s decline. The Motor City was hollowed out in part by the flight of residents who’d had enough of the crime. Sowell said the riot of 1967, which killed 43, injured nearly 1,200 and damaged more than 2,000 buildings, “marked the beginning of the decline of Detroit to its current state of despair.”
Today, more than a half-century later, “Detroit’s violent crime leads the nation,” according to The Detroit News.
It’s vital at any time to recognize how crime can destroy a city. It’s even more so today, given that the elected prosecutors in Los Angeles and San Francisco have clearly indicated that the peace and tranquility of their constituents is secondary to the political left’s social justice agenda.
Chesa Boudin was elected San Francisco district attorney in 2019 on an anti-incarceration platform that included a promise to end gang enhancements – increased prison time for gang-related crimes – the use of cash bail to ensure that defendants appear in court and application of the state’s three-strikes law.
Boudin, the son of Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, members of the Weather Underground, a domestic terrorist group responsible for bombings and murders, according to the FBI, is a former deputy public defender who had never prosecuted a case. From the beginning, Boudin announced that he would not prosecute quality-of-life crimes such as “public camping, offering or soliciting sex, public urination, blocking a sidewalk, etc.”
Other crimes seem to be low on his prosecutorial list, as well. Through August, homicides were up 23% over 2019, burglary increased 43%, and car theft went up 34%. By December, home and commercial burglaries had soared by about 46%.
Authorities suspect the surge “is being driven in part by chronic offenders,” according to the San Francisco Examiner.
“Boudin’s lack of prosecutions is fueling a burglary epidemic,” the Marina Times reported in September. “Boudin’s term started with a 23% leap in robberies and upticks in burglaries and car break-ins. After the March 16 Covid-19 shutdown, with retail stores closing and tourists and rental cars disappearing, criminals transitioned to stealing cars, starting fires, and committing burglaries.”
Boudin took office after beating interim District Attorney Suzy Loftus, appointed after former District Attorney George Gascon stepped down, in a tight race. Gascon was next seen running for, and then winning in November 2020, the prosecutor’s job in Los Angeles County. Gascon doesn’t have a record in his new office, but he did leave behind a trail in San Francisco. Like his successor, he didn’t believe quality-of-life crimes should be prosecuted. Apparently, they are merely a “nuisance” to residents. Seems he didn’t think it worthwhile to separate criminals from society, either. Under Gascon, San Francisco incarceration rates were one-fourth of those in Los Angeles.
When Gascon announced his resignation, the San Francisco Police Officers Association’s response was “good riddance.” While “happy” he was leaving, officers still felt “horrible” he was “taking his record of failure to an even larger county where he can cause even more harm to public safety.”
Gascon, a former Los Angeles police officer and San Francisco chief, quickly introduced “reforms” at his new post. On the first day, he eliminated cash bail, told his prosecutors they are to no longer seek enhanced prison sentences, and are to show “leniency to many low-level offenders.” His deputies responded by asking a judge to relieve them of the limitations Gascon has placed on them, which they say are in conflict with state law.
To be fair, crime increased in a number of urban areas during the pandemic. But not all prosecutors have publicly declared they were going easy on crime, nor have all taken campaign cash from George Soros, the billionaire who is determined to disrupt American society. Boudin and Gascon have done both. And now they are part of the “progressive” movement that’s driving businesses and residents out of California.
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Friday 21 January 2022
In this online conversation, Justin Keene presented his ongoing project ‘Walls in the Riverbed’.
Based in the UK, Justin Keene (b. 1989) directs his photographic lens on South Africa, where his parents lived. Across his lyrical and poetic imagery, Keene explores concepts of identity and representation, as well as his conflicting relationship with this country, its colonial legacy and the so-called ‘born free’ generation. His current body of work, ‘Walls in the Riverbed’, examines colonial archives depicting South Africa’s early diamond mining industry — using his personal connection with the topic to interpret the representation of imperial legacies.
A selection of photographs by Justin Keene and Nii Obodai will feature in Resonances, Messums London’s first contemporary photography show. Through a selection of delicately composed and elusive images, this exhibition encourages us to ponder our relationship with nature and read cultural history through the environment. | <urn:uuid:f819aebd-aa63-4f5b-b643-1f37fb0d9676> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://messumslondon.com/exhibitions/online-talk-with-photographer-justin-keene/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.96345 | 206 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Did you know about 74 percent of young girls express interest in STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) and computer science? Did you know 57 percent (aka the majority) of women participate in the workforce in the US? These large numbers make me so happy until I’m smacked with the realization that women only make up 26 percent of the tech industry and only 19 percent are sysadmins. Additionally, women are more than twice as likely to quit an IT career than men. There is an obvious disconnect at play here; why aren’t more women in tech, particularly in IT?
I have spent most of my working career in male-dominated, computer-related fields, and I know how challenging, frustrating, yet very fun and rewarding it can be. In response to these grim statistics, I’ve put together this handy survival guide to working in IT for all us ladies out there. (Oh, and of course you guys are more than welcome to read it too.)
Refuse to accept that you are less than those around you. Don’t ever forget the hoops you had to jump through to get to where you are. I’m sure it was not an easy feat since you may also have added domestic responsibilities on your plate. Don’t let the gender gap in tech dictate thoughts about yourself. You deserve your career just as much as the next person. Remind yourself daily that many others would likely collapse with all you have to do.
As women, we are often trained from an early age to be meek and not brag. This thought process can lead to women downplaying their abilities. In several studies men and women were given the same task and asked to self-assess the results. Women gave themselves an average score lower than their actual score while men gave themselves an average score higher than their actual score. To survive in a minority role, you must have the confidence in your skills and your abilities. This is especially important for those that already hold a bias towards your level of expertise and women in tech in general. Do not allow yourself to be intimidated by a roomful of men.
“Be confident in both verbal and written conversations. Anything less will be immediately interpreted that you have no idea what you’re talking about.”
–Mary McIntosh, Desktop Support Technician
“I know a lot of ‘Millennial’ women (myself included) suffer from impostor syndrome with thoughts of “I can’t believe they chose me for this job,” or “I don’t think I’m worth my salary.” Being self-confident, even if you have to fake it until you make it, is probably the most important way you can get people to take you seriously. At least, it worked for me. Wicked shoes might have helped a little, too. ;-)”
–Monica King Von Holtum, Systems Support Specialist
“Do not downplay your efforts or accomplishments. We are socialized to be humble, and this can be a detriment in the work environment. When a project you’ve completed is acknowledged, instead of saying things like, “it wasn’t a big deal,” or “it was no problem,” say instead “thank you” and “I learned a lot about X while working on that.” Use this as a time to reflect on what you’ve accomplished.”
–Kathleen Firth, Desktop Support Technician
While I hope this never happens to you, there may be times others will ask you to do tasks that are not your responsibility. Tasks that are rarely, if ever, asked of men. For example, ordering food, getting coffee, and making copies to name a few. Learn how to say no, or suggest others also share these tasks. Avoid passive language and stand up for yourself.
“Exercise your ability to say NO to people in person, on the phone, and via email.”
–Monica King Von Holtum
I would hope this goes without saying, but I too often fall into this trap myself, so this is as much for me as it is for you. Stop before apologizing and ask yourself, did I actually do something wrong? If the answer is no, then don’t say sorry. Remove that word from your vocabulary unless it truly needed to be said.Don’t ever be sorry for coming up with an idea, speaking your mind, creating a better solution, or even ensuring something is done right the first time.
You might be wondering why I added this since you likely already stand out like a sore thumb, however, that’s not what I’m referring to. Stand out by having great abilities, for being yourself, and not conforming to some ideal or stereotype. Don’t ever let yourself be put in a corner. Luckily, the IT industry generally operates as a meritocracy where better performing employees receive favorable treatment regardless of gender. Work hard so your job performance can speak for itself and achieve the recognition you so richly deserve.
“Always, always, always voice your opinions and make sure your resolutions for things are heard, even when others try to drown you out.”
It can be discouraging not to have other women in tech to talk to, so be sure you find other women with which to relate. Even if you are the only woman in your company, there are many resources online to connect with women in the same field. Find a dedicated support network.
“If it’s possible, befriend the other females in your department and form a solid working relationship with each other. It could almost be called a ‘Girl’s Club’….”
“You need work allies. Other women in IT may be a good source for them. (The two other women at my company are wonderful and supportive, and we get along like a house on fire.) What you’re looking for here is not someone to coddle you, but someone to make sure that you don’t get pushed aside and minimized in meetings. One good tactic that I read is to reiterate each other’s ideas, making sure to acknowledge the person who said them. e.g. “I think Mary’s idea to look into FOG instead of MDT for image management made a lot of sense.” Remember to be a good ally in return to them.”
This might seem daunting at first, but a professional mentor that understands your circumstances can go a long way in advancing your career. Look for women that you want to be most like. Recognize what makes a good mentor, find a good fit, and come prepared to each meeting to make the most of the time.
As we are all aware, the tech industry is changing at a phenomenal pace. Stay on the cutting edge by following tech blogs (cough cough, this one), watching your favorite tech YouTube channels, and so on. Seek out opportunities for training and development within your company; if that is not available, look outside for it. Never lose that drive to learn. Plus, you will always be the go-to person for the latest information.
If your work does not allow you to wear jeans or pants, due to strict dress code, be sure to invest in some good bike shorts. You are likely to end up crawling behind computers, or having to stand on a ladder. Oh, and don’t forget the shoes.
“Good shoes go a long way, both mentally and physically.”
–Monica King Von Holtum
As controversial as this next statement may be, I’m going to say it. Yes, men and women have different strengths and weaknesses and always will. This does not mean that you need to change who you are to conform to something you are not. We are meant to have differences and complement one another like yin and yang. Neither side is inherently better than the other and the whole is stronger than its individual parts. Women bring different perspectives and skill sets to the workforce, embrace that. All that said there may still be times that you find yourself feeling out of place. While you don’t need to change, brushing up on some possible unfamiliar “dude-facts” also never hurt anyone. Some examples are sports, animated adult cartoons like Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy, Rick and Morty, American Dad, comics, super heroes, Star Trek, Star Wars, Dr. Who, and video games, to name a few.
While not always the case, you may find yourself working with, shall we say, the more socially awkward type, male and female alike. However, I’ve found that these types usually have some of the best senses of humor. You may have fewer work parties to attend. Get away with less makeup. Be able to skip that one extra step while doing your hair. There is good to be had in every situation, even gender diversity in tech. Enjoy every one of them. Also, there is something incredibly satisfying to see the look on someone’s face who was expecting a man when you show up.
Everyone needs to have tricks up their sleeves. You know, those couple shortcuts that make you into an absolute rock star to others? You, my friend, need some of those tricks. I would be remiss if I failed to mention how PDQ Deploy and PDQ Inventory can be those tricks for you. (You could use other programs, but really… why?) Knock the socks off your boss and coworkers with how fast you can complete deployments and magically have your organization’s computer information at your fingertips. You can even set up deployments of new versions of applications while you’re away from your desk.
There is hope out there that women may one day dominate tech and we will be reading a man’s survival guide. Heck, it could happen, we saw it with school teachers. However, until women in tech are the majority, do not forget we are Wonder Women and we are not alone!
Special shout out to Kathleen, Mary, and Monica; current PDQ users who supplied me with great insight and quotes for this topic.
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The clear takeaway from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s first annual report to Congress on enforcement of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act is that debt collection will be a major focus of both the CFPB and the Federal Trade Commission in 2012.
In addition to giving FDCPA enforcement and rulemaking authority to the CFPB, the Dodd-Frank Act transferred from the FTC to the CFPB responsibility for preparing the annual FDCPA report. Submitted to Congress on March 20, 2012, the CFPB’s report incorporates information from (and includes as an appendix) a letter dated March 13, 2012, sent by the FTC to the CFPB summarizing the FTC’s debt collection activities in 2011 and early 2012.
Highlights of the CFPB report and FTC letter include the following items:
- Debt collection continues to be a leading subject of the consumer complaints submitted to the FTC, with the FTC receiving more complaints about the debt collection industry than any other specific industry. Of the FDCPA complaints received by the FTC in 2011, complaints about third-party debt collectors increased in absolute numbers and as a percentage of all complaints.
- Before the end of 2012, the CFPB plans to add debt collection to the nonbank products and services covered by its complaint system.
- The CFPB’s reach into the debt collection industry will extend much further than the debt collectors with more than $10 million in annual receipts that the CFPB has proposed to define as “larger participants.” (We summarized the CFPB’s proposal in a recent legal alert.) The CFPB report observes that Dodd-Frank gives the CFPB supervisory authority over service providers to large insured depository institutions as well as service providers to mortgage originators, payday lenders, and student lenders. Some service providers to smaller depository institutions are also subject to CFPB supervisory authority. Those service providers can include third-party debt collectors regardless of the collector’s size.
- The CFPB is currently conducting “non-public investigations of debt collection practices to determine whether they violate the FDCPA or the Dodd-Frank Act.”
- The FTC expects to issue a report in 2012 with findings and recommendations, if appropriate, on the debt-buying industry. Presumably this report will use information obtained by the FTC pursuant to the order it issued in 2009 to nine of the nation’s largest debt buying companies requiring them to produce “extensive and detailed information about their practices in buying and selling consumer debt.” The FTC also expects to issue a report in 2012 relating to debt collection technologies.
- The FTC noted in its letter that, to improve deterrence, it has focused in recent years “on bringing a greater number of cases and obtaining stronger monetary and injunctive remedies against debt collectors that violate the law.” According to the FTC, the seven debt collection cases it brought or resolved in the past year represent the highest number of debt collection cases it has brought or resolved in any single year. The FTC also highlighted its willingness in five of these cases to use its authority under Section 13(b) of the FTC Act to obtain preliminary or permanent injunctive relief, with the preliminary relief in several of these cases including ex parte temporary restraining orders with asset freezes, immediate FTC access to business premises, and the appointment of receivers to run the collection business.
- Both the CFPB report and the FTC letter describe recent FTC enforcement actions that “represent an extensive and concerted effort by the FTC to target debt collection practices that pose substantial risks to consumers.” The practices identified include collection activity undertaken by debt collectors based on information that is deficient in quantity and quality, collection of time-barred debts, and improper tactics used in the collection of payday loans. The FTC letter also references the FTC’s continued concerns about certain aspects of collection litigation and requirements for consumers to resolve debt collection through binding arbitration.
Alan S. Kaplinsky is a senior partner in the Business and Finance Department at Ballard Spahr LLP and Chair of the Consumer Financial Services Group. He is also a member of the Higher Education, Mortgage Banking, and Bank Regulation and Supervision Groups.
The debt collection industry, and creditors attempting to collect their own debts, are currently facing a rash of documentation-related challenges that have spread from mortgage foreclosures to encompass all manner of collection actions, including those involving credit card, student loan, and other types of non-mortgage debt. To assist clients in responding proactively to such challenges, Ballard Spahr’s Consumer Financial Services Group’s recently formed Collection Documentation Task Force conducts extensive reviews of collection procedures and counsels on best documentation practices. The task force brings together litigators in the group with experience defending mortgage lenders and other consumer lenders in documentation-related lawsuits nationwide and regulatory lawyers in the group with deep knowledge of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s national bank foreclosure review process and federal and state debt collection laws.
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Taking Bold Steps
“No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what Gas has prepared for those who love Him.” 1 Corinthians 2:9 NIV
I never imagined that making a bar of soap could represent taking a bold step of faith. When the idea to make goat milk soap first materialized in my head, I was thinking that it would be a cool STEM project to teach kids about chemistry. The more I researched the benefits of goat milk and goat milk soap, I started to think about how the soap itself could represent sustainability and self-sufficiency for families living in developing countries. I started to think about how one goat could change the life of a family living in Kratie Province, Cambodia. One milk goat can produce up to 90 liters of milk per month. Goat milk is higher in protein and lower in fat content than cow milk. And goats are smaller than cows. They take up less space. The more I researched goats and goat milk soap, the more I realized that I wanted to learn how to make it. Pretty quickly, my kitchen had become a soap making factory.
Making the soap was fun. I tried to make a soap I would want to use: only natural ingredients and essential oils with some oatmeal to make it exfoliating. My friend Johanne Wilson from COOL Creative designed a label that I really liked. The creative process was exhilarating.
But when my friends and I set up the Kid Power Organics table at Girlfriends Conference on January 15th, I almost froze with anxiety. I thought, “What in the world am I doing right now?” I was so far outside of my personal comfort zone that I felt disoriented.
What I learned from the Girlfriends Conference weekend is this: a step in a new direction is not a step of faith if you feel no discomfort. A bold step of faith takes you beyond your skills, abilities, and experience into an uncharted space filled only with possibilities.
Once the Girlfriends Conference began, I was swept up in the excitement of the weekend. I am so grateful to my friends who participated in our Community Development Panel Discussion on Saturday morning: Pastor Leigh Ramsey, Founder of SHE Rescue Home, Steve Stirling, CEO of MAP International, Silvia Torres, Executive Director of His House Children’s Home, and Thamara Labrousse, Program Director for Live Healthy Miami Gardens. Their insight into sustainable community development added richness to the conference.
And yes! We had real, live goats at Girlfriends Conference! They helped us highlight the importance of agriculture in developing countries, our upcoming projects in Kratie Province with Cambodia Care Ministries, and of course, goat milk soap.
What bold steps do you plan to take in 2016?
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How to Copy Volume [MiniTool Wiki]
About Copy Volume
Data saved in dynamic volumes are not absolutely safe. For example, it may get lost due to mistaken deletion/formatting, virus attack, and hardware damage. Thus, it is very necessary to make a backup for important files.
Nevertheless, copying files one by one will cost much time especially when there are so many files to backup. Fortunately, Copy Volume feature in MiniTool Partition Wizard can clone the entire dynamic volume effectively, saving a lot of time. And the copy can be used directly as the source.
How to Copy Volume
Step 1. Launch MiniTool Partition Wizard to get its main interface. Then, select the volume which needs copying and click Copy Volume feature from the left pane or from right-click menu.
Step 2. Select a volume on dynamic disk or unallocated space on basic disk as the target location to save the copy of the source volume and click Next.
Step 3. Resize volume by changing the length of volume handle and move volume location by changing the position of the entire handle. Alternatively, users can type exact volume size in MB. Then, click Finish button.
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Everyone knows all about low back pain. This is probably by virtue of the fact that most of us have or will experience it at some stage. Everyone is an expert, clinicians and patients alike and there are a whole host of accepted truths about back pain that we all cling on to. Ideas that replicate themselves successfully across populations have been called memes. Successful memes spread like wildfire and become deeply entrenched. But truth is not necessarily a requirement for the successful meme….
A good example of one of these is that prolonged sitting can cause back pain. For years we have believed that the load placed on the spine may damage intervertebral discs (and other structures) and be a cause of pain. The evidence for this appears not to stack up, and it would seem that even our ideas of an ideal sitting posture are not entirely realistic. But to really kick this particular meme into the bin of back pain myths comes a cracking systematic review published in the Spine journal by Darren Roffey and his colleagues from Ottawa. They found strong and consistent evidence of no association between occupational sitting and low back pain and reasonable evidence that there is no dose-response relationship between sitting at work and back pain. In a separate review they found pretty much the same thing for occupational walking and sitting.
So perhaps it is time to stop fussing about sitting posture in back pain or many of the other biomechanical obsessions that we tend to embrace. At a conference a hung-over colleague of mine once grumbled that the mountain of back pain research hasn’t got us very far. I think that’s not quite right; we have learned loads about what isn’t true and the great thing about deconstructing what we think we know is that it opens the doors to developing fresh models of back pain to test.
So I have a challenge for the Body in Mind readership: what back pain myths can you think of that are ripe for some critical attention? I think this discussion could be a lively affair!
Claus A, Hides J, Moseley GL, & Hodges P (2008). Sitting versus standing: does the intradiscal pressure cause disc degeneration or low back pain? Journal of electromyography and kinesiology, 18 (4), 550-8 PMID: 17346987
Claus AP, Hides JA, Moseley GL, & Hodges PW (2009). Is ‘ideal’ sitting posture real? Measurement of spinal curves in four sitting postures. Manual therapy, 14 (4), 404-8 PMID: 18793867
Roffey DM, Wai EK, Bishop P, Kwon BK, & Dagenais S (2010). Causal assessment of occupational sitting and low back pain: results of a systematic review. The spine journal , 10 (3), 252-61 PMID: 20097618
Roffey DM, Wai EK, Bishop P, Kwon BK, & Dagenais S (2010). Causal assessment of occupational standing or walking and low back pain: results of a systematic review. The spine journal , 10 (3), 262-72 PMID: 20207335
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WASHINGTON -- Pictures of sensuously ingrown arm hair are coming to the DC Arts Center.
Local artist Stephanie Williams' first solo show, "Emerging from the Curious: Common Place Anomalies," features drawings, paintings and sculpture sensuously representing the natural world -- both what Williams knows of it and the myths she makes up to fill in the gaps. Some of these depictions involve He-Man and Barbie. Some involve Williams' Roman Catholic upbringing.
What gaps? Which myths? Why He-Man and Barbie? HuffPost DC caught up with Williams to find out more about the upcoming exhibition.
HuffPost DC: What are "common place anomalies"? What does that phrase mean?
Stephanie Williams: My work is very much about the odd stories that people often tell themselves in order to understand the world around them -- accurate or not. For example, "Skin Patch" is a piece that pays homage to all the missing skin detail of the toys I grew up playing with. I would wonder I have arm hair, He-Man does not. My nose has pores where Barbie does not, etc. I feel that's where rich mythology comes from -- one person's interpretation of a reality. Or sometimes, and more interestingly, intentionally seeing things inaccurately.
I often take stories that I hear from friends, stories about my misunderstandings from childhood, etc and turn them into these amalgams with hair, appendages, crevices, etc. Because these "anomalies" are inspired by misunderstandings from the everyday I feel it's important to place an emphasis on the commonality of the occurrence.
HuffPost DC: It seems like you're really inspired by human organs. Is that right? If so, what do you find compelling about them?
Williams: Not just organs but by bodies. Maybe this has something to do with growing up in a Roman Catholic household, where the implications of body are some deeply ingrained. Catholicism is all about the body; body and blood, stigmata, hair shirts, fasting.
When doing research I found letters of saints describing their enlightenment through sensuality, and bodily consequence. It only seemed appropriate to look to visceral things. If you sit and really think about your experience in your own body, it can actually be kind of disgusting, seemingly silly because we all digest, excrete, flake, consume, etc. The things I'm trying to figure out and give portraiture too end up quite literally have flesh and ingrown hairs.
HuffPost DC: You fill in your knowledge about nature with myths that you make up. Can you tell me about some of those myths? How do they play out in your artwork?
Williams: The wax slides (wax mount on glass) idea started by hearing one of my friends describe floaters (in the eye). When they were little they would look up to the sky and see these seemingly autonomous beings crawling around on the surface of eye. The anomaly paintings are illustrations of different close-up views of the body and creating a characters from that view be it a hairy knee or knuckle, a close inspection of the tongue, underneath a nail-bed, etc. "Inert Space" is a painting about how bacteria was once explained to me when I was little and I imagined a whole city of beings living inside my bellybutton. | <urn:uuid:ceabd29d-bed2-49b6-99c3-709a98aad6e1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/emerging-from-the-curious_n_1250624 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.960038 | 680 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Vehicles are becoming more and more complex today. On the one hand, the advanced technologies integrated into modern vehicles are aimed to make driving safer and more comfortable providing better control over the traffic situation. However, there might be a significant pitfall: drivers are getting used to relying on those systems on the road. In case one of them is not calibrated correctly, it may lead to an accident.
The terms alignment and calibration are often used as interchangeable matters. However, it is not entirely true. However, they are intercorrelated since, after any kind of alignments, it is crucial to make sure that all the pre-collision systems have been properly calibrated.
This step is crucial and should be considered by the mechanic or insurance estimator. In case there is any impact to the chassis or grille or the vehicle had to be realigned, all the pre-collision systems and cruise radar should be checked and recalibrated thoroughly.
Which sensors require specific attention after realignment?
There are two crucial systems that may be compromised by any impact to the chassis or grille:
- Dynamic radar cruise control;
- Pre-collision systems.
The Dynamic Radar Cruise Control allows a driver to maintain the pre-set distance from a vehicle that is moving in the front. It is responsible for slowing the vehicle down and resuming the speed, so your vehicle can constantly maintain the traffic velocity. Due to the fact that most accidents happen because drivers tend to fail to maintain a safe distance and cannot react at sudden stops due to various reasons, the dynamic radar cruise control has become one of the most efficient dynamic features to prevent collisions.
Pre-collision systems are aimed at the drivers` and passengers` safety mostly. Not only that detect obstacles on the way and adjust breaks so the vehicle could stop on time, but they are also responsible for such features as seatbelts adjustment, making the most efficient in case of collision or sudden stop. More advanced PCS incorporate cameras that are able to detect and determine certain objects on the car’s way, predicting the course of events.
Alignment and sensors position
In most modern vehicles, the sensors mentioned above are placed behind the grille. In some models, they are even attached to the grille. It is crucial for a sensor to be placed at a specific place as its position determines the proper work and the system’s adequate response.
With any kind of manipulation with the grille or chassis, especially alignment, there is a big possibility that the sensor’s placement can be altered. Therefore thorough inspection and calibration is an integral part of the service.
The sensors are designed to point precisely down the centerline of the vehicle’s movement. It means that once the chassis is not aligned properly, the sensors` accuracy and efficiency will be compromised, making the vehicle unsafe to drive.
In other words, calibration and alignment are not interchangeable matters, but they come hand in hand once we talk about any kind of impact on the vehicle’s grill or chassis. That is why both procedures should be included in the estimation, as one never comes without another.
Here at OHS Body Shop, we provide high-quality service to each customer taking care of your comfort and safety. Appreciating your time, we provide thorough vehicle examination, qualified repair, and recommendations that correspond to the most advanced safety requirements.
Visit our branches all over Montana’s Greater Flathead Valley, located in Kalispell, Whitefish, Columbia Falls and Polson. Here our qualified mechanics will answer all your questions, provide a fair and detailed estimate and consider all the necessary procedures to return your vehicle back on the road as soon as possible and in the best technical condition, it can be. | <urn:uuid:da50c572-a638-488e-b9d0-c8301de35188> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ohsbodyshop.com/alignment-calibration/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.949197 | 766 | 2.78125 | 3 |
- 1 What does Burts Bees do for your lips?
- 2 Can you get high from Burts Bees lip balm?
- 3 Is Burts Bees a good brand?
- 4 Is Burt’s Bees lip balm safe to eat?
- 5 What happens if u put Burts Bees on your eyelids?
- 6 Does putting lip balm on your eyes make you high?
- 7 How long does it take for Burt’s Bees to make you high?
- 8 Is Burts Bees 100% Natural?
- 9 Is Burts Bees really natural?
- 10 Do dermatologists recommend Burt’s Bees?
- 11 What happens if you eat Burts Bees?
- 12 Is it OK to swallow lip balm?
- 13 Is lip balm edible?
What does Burts Bees do for your lips?
Burt’s Bees™ Overnight Intensive Lip Treatment provides long lasting moisturization for soft, smooth, healthy looking lips. The intense lip moisturizing treatment with natural emollients, waxes and oils shields your lips from dryness while hydrating when you sleep and gets them ready for your favorite lip color.
Can you get high from Burts Bees lip balm?
Teens are using Burt’s Bees Beeswax Lip Balm on their eyelids in an effort get high. Those who have taken part in beezin’ say the peppermint oil causes a tingling and burning sensation, which creates a sensation of being drunk or high.
Is Burts Bees a good brand?
We feel specifically drawn to this line as it is one of the few all-natural, real and healthy options on the market, and it’s been around for a while, meaning, it has staying power. All of their products are void of harmful ingredients like parabens, pthalates, SLS, petrolatum, talc, synthetic fragrances and silicones.
Is Burt’s Bees lip balm safe to eat?
Lip products, like ChapStick, lip balm, lip liner, or lipstick are usually nontoxic. If your child ate any of these products, give them a few sips of water and watch for symptoms.
What happens if u put Burts Bees on your eyelids?
It’s called “Beezin,” and it involves rubbing Burt’s Bees lip balm on their eyelids. The peppermint oil found in the balm creates a tingling sensation that some teens say enhances the feeling when they are already drunk or high. Others say its a way to keep them alert after a long night.
Does putting lip balm on your eyes make you high?
Oklahoma City’s Fox-25 reports that teens are now getting a new kind of “buzz” by applying Burt’s Bees lip balm to their eyelids. Naturally, they’re calling it “ Beezin ” and apparently it adds to the experience of already being drunk or high by adding an additional tingling sensation. Others say it keeps them alert.
How long does it take for Burt’s Bees to make you high?
It takes about 15 seconds to notice the effects of beezin’, but after that it’s a trip, man.
Is Burts Bees 100% Natural?
Depending on one’s view of the definition of “natural,” Burt’s Bees is on an impressive agenda. The company touts its entire portfolio to be comprised of 99% natural ingredients and of those, 57% of its 170 different items earned the 100% “natural” label.
Is Burts Bees really natural?
The majority of fragrances in Burt’s Bees products are natural, composed of proprietary blends of essential oils and natural extracts. Some of our heritage and other products contain partially synthetic fragrances. Please call (800)849-7112 or contact us online if you have an inquiry about a specific product.
Do dermatologists recommend Burt’s Bees?
Burt’s Bees Nature-Based Sensitive Skin Care Outperforms MD-Recommended Regimen. Burt’s Bees nature-based sensitive skin regimen is well-tolerated as well as clinically and statistically superior to a leading dermatologist-recommended synthetic regimen, according to a study in the Journal of Drugs in Dermatology.
What happens if you eat Burts Bees?
There is nothing toxic to be concerned about with this product that would need a visit to the veterinarian. There is an ingredient that has a mild laxative effect, but given the small amount of what was swallowed, this is not usually observed. You would want to monitor for vomiting or diarrhea though.
Is it OK to swallow lip balm?
“While there have been no cases of ingested lip balm harming anyone beyond maybe a minor stomach upset, these ingredients are not meant to be eaten regularly or in large amounts,” explains Arleen K. Lamba, M.D., medical director at Maryland’s Blush Med Institute.
Is lip balm edible?
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Victron 300Ah 12V LiFePO4 Lithium Iron Battery
Pick up only
Lithium-iron-phosphate (LiFePO4 or LFP) is the safest of the mainstream li-ion battery types. The nominal voltage of a LFP cell is 3,2V (lead-acid: 2V/cell). A 12,8V LFP battery therefore consists of 4 cells connected in series; and a 25,6V battery consists of 8 cells connected in series.
A lead-acid battery will fail prematurely due to sulfation:
• If it operates in deficit mode during long periods of time (i.e. if the battery is rarely, or never at all, fully charged).
• If it is left partially charged or worse, fully discharged (yacht or mobile home during wintertime). A LFP battery does not need to be fully charged. Service life even slightly improves in case of partial charge instead of a full charge. This is a major advantage of LFP compared to lead-acid. Other advantages are the wide operating temperature range, excellent cycling performance, low internal resistance and high efficiency (see below). LFP is therefore the chemistry of choice for demanding applications.
In several applications (especially off-grid solar and/or wind), energy efficiency can be of crucial importance. The round-trip energy efficiency (discharge from 100% to 0% and back to 100% charged) of the average leadacid battery is 80%. The round-trip energy efficiency of a LFP battery is 92%. The charge process of lead-acid batteries becomes particularly inefficient when the 80% state of charge has been reached, resulting in efficiencies of 50% or even less in solar systems where several days of reserve energy is required (battery operating in 70% to 100% charged state). In contrast, a LFP battery will still achieve 90% efficiency under shallow discharge conditions.
- Saves up to 70% in space
- Saves up to 70% in weight
Victron LFP batteries are expensive when compared to lead-acid. But in demanding applications, the high initial cost will be more than compensated by longer service life, superior reliability and excellent efficiency.
With Bluetooth cell voltages, temperature and alarm status can be monitored. Very useful to localize a (potential) problem, such as cell imbalance. | <urn:uuid:5b4df7ac-a6d7-4ba4-a548-522ededac6ab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.access12voltwarehouse.com.au/battery-victron-300ah-lifepo4.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.918786 | 484 | 2.390625 | 2 |
HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU HAVE COMMON SENSE?
Safe Homes Smart Parties
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Safe Homes, Smart Parties is a statewide initiative developed by Informed Families and implemented by parents of teens and preteens to ensure that drugs, alcohol and cigarettes will not be permitted at parties held in their homes and discouraged at parties in the community.
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Take the Safe Homes, Smart Parties® pledge promising that no alcohol or drugs will be present at parties you host and that you will take a stand against underage drinking.
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TAKE THE PLEDGE
I pledge to do the following:
Do not allow underage youth to drink alcoholic beverages or use tobacco or other drugs in our home or place of business
Be present at all pre-teen and teenage parties held in their homes to ensure that no drugs, alcohol or tobacco are present
Encourage future drug and alcohol free activities for underage youth
Spread the message to family and friends
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Nearly 5,000 young people die each year from poisoning due to alcohol consumption.
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“PackageKit aims to take the pain out of the package management on GNU/Linux systems and create a system that can compete with Windows and Mac. Development is proceeding at a rapid pace and it is set to be available in Fedora 9.” – Interview with Richard Hughes (of Gnome Power Manager fame), and Robin Norwood.
PackageKit’s implementation will be an abstraction of the diverse culture of package management interfaces that seem to all suck. Have you ever shown someone new to Linux the program Synaptic? Or worse, KDE’s Adept installer? Lets hope not. Progress is being made in Ubuntu in the “gnome-app-install” (aka Add/Remove) program to clean up the crud. It has made several important decisions eliminating some verbosity to make it easier to use. Even if this becomes the perfect interface, it is arbitrary to Ubuntu’s distribution. What about OpenSuSE users, Gentoo, or Fedora? Double the problem by looking at different desktop environments on the same distributions. Its quite a mess.
PackageKit proposes to unify the GUI by offering a distribution, and DE agnostic interface to the underlying packaging systems. Simply put, you would install software in Fedora 9 exactly the same way you would install software in OpenSolaris, Kubuntu, or Gentoo. Cool concept, but is the differing software management interfaces really the problem? I think not. While a standardized interface would certainly help the Linux culture move into mainstream, its issues lie outside of where to point and what to click.
Ian Murdock argues that the diversity of the different package formats is the real problem and I agree. As an entity that develops software (an individual, a corporation, etc), the fewer specific things you have to support the better. The reason is that writing/maintaining code is expensive. The bigger the audience you can support without making changes to code – the better. As it stands, Windows has the ubiquitous “.exe” package format. Apple has its “.dmg” format, and Linux has “.rpm, .deb, .ebuild, .tgz, .pkg”. An ISV’s solution to the mess on Linux so far has been avoidance.
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- Male condor #374 paired with #462’s earlier mate, female condor #594 over the 2021 breeding season and their nest was last year’s live streamed Condor Cam in Huttons Bowl.
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While Yemeni politicians have failed to produce binding political solutions to help the country emerge from its grinding civil war, academic and intellectual circles have been actively debating and putting forth policies that could move the country forward. However, their contributions to public discourse have been limited by outside censorship and fear of reprisal from powerful interest groups. In response, some have turned to fiction writing as a way to share their thoughts with less risk of retaliation.
Yemen has the second most heavily armed population in the world, second only to the United States. In part because of this reputation, and even prior to the current civil war, global media frequently portray the country as awash with violence and conflict. But, of course, Yemeni society is much more diverse, complex and sophisticated than this depiction. For instance, intellectuals, poets and creative thinkers have been the backbone of Yemen’s major political and social movements. Particularly in the decades that followed the 1930s, these figures championed some of the more egalitarian ideas that eventually shaped the Republic of Yemen in the North. In South Yemen, intellectuals also pushed socialist and internationalist ideals that molded this region. Despite a ruling elite that attempted to silence these voices, Yemeni writers and intellectuals —both male and female— also influenced the political landscape following the unification of the North and South in 1990. Academics and scholars were also a centerpiece of the country’s 2011 uprising, engendering public debates within protest circles.
Even today, despite an ongoing war that powerful groups have used to severely limit the freedom of expression, Yemeni writers are using their literary imaginations to push the boundaries of political discourse and bring new voices to the forefront. These voices, unlike Yemen’s political leaders, enter into dialogue with one another, creating opportunities for cooperation and peaceful co-existence. At the same time, in an attempt to understand the country’s leaders, Yemeni authors reflect on how ideology drives the powerful to commit crimes against humanity.
While politicians are busy propagating war, writers and thinkers are working to imagine and advocate for peace. Though their stories, they seek expanded dialogue and constructive solutions to a war that is dividing neighbors. These authors retain hope that fighting will end, and a new generation of Yemenis will enact governmental reform. Writers, academics and dreamers are crafting a path that politicians, activists, civil society organizations, and even the international community can follow. Because the current climate of violence has limited the spaces where these types of self-expression are possible, some are turning to creative and fiction writing as a platform to share their social and political ideas.
Writers, thinkers and academics helped inform public opinion in Yemen throughout the 20th century. For example, from the 1930s to the 1960s, discussions about the legitimacy of the autocratic Zaidi imamate were popular among intellectuals in the North. Well-known poets, such as Mohammad al-Zubayri, described an aspirational republican system long before this form of government replaced the imamate in the 1960s. In South Yemen, the literary agendas of writers such as Abdullah Abdurazzaq Badhib included Marxist and internationalist sentiments, ideals that shaped the formerly independent nation. Moreover, long before North and South Yemen merged in 1990, literary writing explored the idea of a national identity for a unified country.
However, quickly following unification, southern intellectual leaders also began to once again write about the need for self-determination in the South. Much of philosophy professor Abubakr al-Saqqaf’s writing is focused on this. He coined now commonly used terms such as ‘internal colonialism,’ the ‘elimination of the Southern identity,’ the ‘Sana’a Regime,’ and the ‘political system of annexation, not unification.’ These phrases became central to the Southern Movement’s discourse, which began emerging in Aden in 2007. Many of these ideas found their way from book pages to banners and protest squares, where they became rallying cries for southern independence.
In addition to helping form rhetoric and themes around national identity, Yemen’s writers also devote time to considering the role of leadership in governance. Rather than focusing on how political systems or norms shape politics, they largely believe the country’s political fate is in the hands of empowered leaders. This was evident during the 2011 country-wide protests.
During sit-ins, protestors, intellectuals and writers often discussed desirable qualities of a new president. Popular preferences included a civilian, rather than a tribal leader or military officer. They also placed high value on education and benevolent leadership.
The production of novels and short stories in Yemen has increased dramatically since 2011, and even more so since war broke out in 2015. Although Yemen’s publishing industry is modest compared to international standards, according to Abdulhakim Baqais, a professor of literary criticism at Aden University, the rate of publication over the last 10 years, is the highest it’s ever been. Following the 2011 uprising and a subsequent failed transition to democratic elections, Yemeni authors found that fiction writing was a useful medium to talk about politics. These new novels and stories began reflecting a shared concern about the ascent of military leaders and warmongers to power. Using allegorical allusions some of these newer narratives warn against the long-term consequences of allowing leaders who have taken part in human rights violations to remain in power. This growth in fiction writing is also a platform for writers and intellectuals to publicly share their visions for a post-war Yemen.
Politics is often described as ‘the art of the possible,’ which also applies to writers in war-torn Yemen. While, most would prefer to overtly and openly express their ideas, a crackdown on dissent has forced many to retreat from the spotlight. But, through fiction writing—because it’s open to interpretation and relies on fictitious scenarios—many have found a way to express themselves in a manner that authorities cannot as easily object to or censor. Still, national reform agendas are at the heart of these narratives.
An example of this style of literature is “Saghira’s Laws” by prominent Yemeni author, Wajdi al-Ahdal. This short story describes an alternative path for Yemen following the 2011 political uprising. It explores what could have happened had Yemen adopted a democratic political system rooted in human rights.
The story begins with a fictitious, successful conclusion of the National Dialogue Conference in January 2014, followed by a search for a new president. The author describes in often humorous detail the enormous obstacles candidates face for the new position. Drawing parallels to the biblical story of the Exodus, the author describes the fantastical wanderings of the presidential candidates in a desert.
“They were to cross the desert on foot until they reached the Temple of Barran,
the throne of Bilqis, where there was to be found a black square stone. Whoever
was the first to sit upon it would win the position of President of the Republic.”
At the end, Saghira, the woman who ultimately becomes president, elevates Yemen’s global standing through good governance. It’s notable that it’s a woman who is Yemen’s first leader after the revolution, an idea that garnered popular support during the uprising. Her character also proves that the country can prosper under the leadership of someone with a less privileged background. One of the story’s largest themes is that historical country-wide change requires endurance. The novel demonstrates that the goals of the 2011 popular uprising require strenuous work, patience and difficult decisions to achieve.
Optimistic stories like these create hope and can generate a new vision for Yemen, one that is free from armed conflict and violence. These narratives also serve to counter pro-war propaganda that armed groups peddle.
While fiction writing has increased in Yemen in recent years, access to independent online platforms, news networks and magazines to publish the work has been curtailed by the warring parties who block sites or censor publications. In contrast, the public receives messaging from groups supportive of the war effort all the time, including on the radio, television or in print form. More opportunities and venues are needed for those with altering viewpoints to share their ideas in order to counteract this pro-violence propaganda.
One publication that has created space for writers and activists from all across Yemen to showcase their work is al-Madaniya Magazine. The magazine includes pieces about literature, music, folklore, culture and historical figures. Al-Madaniya also notably includes work from female writers and civil society activists,which gives them a platform to share their thoughts on peacebuilding outside of the formal, internationally-sponsored negotiations. Still, more publications like al-Madaniya are needed to further discussions about political reform, religion and social causes.
Authors are in need of more outlets that are accessible and safe to showcase their work. Given that the Yemeni media landscape cannot currently support independent media institutions, international assistance should target the creation and sustainment of autonomous outlets. At the same time, Yemenis who own or intend to create internet platforms, TV stations and cultural clubs—either inside or outside the country—should set aside some of their programming for emerging and diverse voices.
Author bio: Abdulsalam al-Rubaidi holds a PhD in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Bonn, Germany, and a master in Arabic Language and Literature from Sana’a University, Yemen. He is a lecturer at the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Faculty of Education at al-Baydha’ University, and a lecturer at the Gender Development Research and Studies Center (GDRSC) at Sana’a University, Yemen. He is also a founding member of the Academic Forum Muhammad Ali Luqman.He is currently the editor of the Arabic publications at al-Madaniya Magazine and the Yemen Policy Center.
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It’s been smooth sailing (relatively) as Leslie and I head for Europe the old-fashioned way — by ship. One of those random thoughts I’ve had on this trip is about people like my ancestor John Rogers who left his home in Laugharne, Wales, in 1635 and sailed west to find his fortune in Surrey County, Virginia.
He sailed on a ship called George. I’m sure it was quite small, probably less than one-quarter the size of Celebrity’s Reflection, and I’ll bet the North Atlantic waves bounced that little ship around fairly well. We started out in five- to eight-foot waves, but for the last two days and nights it’s been more like 11- to 18-foot waves. The captain promises that will change tomorrow. This is a huge ship, but there are some big waves out there that sometimes make passengers (crew, too) walk like drunken sailors. So far, my motion-sickness patch is working perfectly.
I doubt my ancestor’s ship had a huge international crew, as this one does, to serve the passengers and meet all their needs. I’m willing to bet the facilities were quite limited: No pool, no library, no fitness center or jogging track, no shore excursion options, and likely no restaurants. In some cases, passengers on 17th century ships sailing to and from the New World had to bring their own food for the journey, which could take a month or longer. Our ship has 15 different restaurants, and we’ll be in Europe in less than two weeks. Plus, we have all the amenities mentioned — and then some.
It’s quite possible John Rogers didn’t have a private stateroom with his own bath, and he most certainly didn’t get room service for any meals. We not only have a nice stateroom, we opted for one with a king-size bed and a private veranda, from which we can see the Atlantic Ocean — and nothing else. A few days ago we had breakfast on our veranda, which seemed decadent. But we’ll just ignore that and do it again soon.
There’s a pool and a solarium, with deck chairs and lounges on all the upper decks. Leslie and I have both gotten haircuts, and she’s made use of something called “The Persian Garden” several times. They have a room full of tiled chaise-like loungers that are heated. Great place to meditate or nap. Crew members are from many different countries. We’ve been served by crew from Mexico, Jamaica, Honduras, Philippines, Serbia, Ukraine, Macedonia, Malaysia, St. Lucia and South Africa. They all smile and say “good morning,” and they do a great job.
If we had a complaint it would be that we are required to reset our watches one hour ahead almost every night during the passage. That means we lose an hour of sleep, but it also means we gradually adjust to European time. I think we have one more “spring forward” to put us seven hours ahead of Chicago time. We’ll be in that time zone until we head back to the U.S. in mid-July.
Celebrity tries to keep the passengers entertained. There’s a show every night in Reflection Theater and musicians perform at various spots around the ship, mostly near the bars. There are games, lectures and special sales in the many shops that line Decks 3 and 4. Leslie and I enjoyed a wine tasting a few days ago. We tried reds and whites from the U.S., Austria, Spain, South Africa, Argentina, Chile, Australia and New Zealand. A few were just okay, but two or three of them are now on our list of, “buy this wine whenever you can find it.”
It’s interesting that many of our fellow passengers are from Europe. We met a lovely British couple at dinner a few nights ago, and we’ve encountered people from Canada, France and Italy. That gave me a second weird thought: I wonder how many of these folks are just going home from a long vacation and they’re afraid of flying? Hmmm.
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The FCC said before they passed the net neutrality rules that they were going to very lightly regulate broadband providers using Title II. And now, just a few weeks after the new net neutrality rules are in place, we already see the FCC wading into broadband CPNI (customer proprietary network information).
CPNI rules have been around for a few decades in the telephony world. These rules play a dual purpose of providing customer confidentiality (meaning that phone companies aren’t supposed to do things like sell lists of their customers). They also provide protection of customer calling information by requiring a customer’s explicit permission to use their data. Of course, we have to wonder if these rules ever had any teeth at all since the large telcos shared everything they had with the NSA. But I guess that is a different topic and it’s obvious that the Patriot Act trumps FCC rules.
The CPNI rules for telephone service are empowered by Section 222 of Title II. It turns out that this is one of the sections of Title II for which the FCC didn’t choose to forebear for broadband, and so now the FCC has opened an investigation into whether they should apply the same, or similar, rules for broadband customers.
It probably is necessary for them to do this, because once Title II went into effect for broadband this gave authority in this area to the FCC. Until now, customer protection for broadband has been under the jurisdiction of the Federal Trade Commission.
There clearly is some cost for complying with CPNI rules, and those costs are not insignificant, especially for smaller carriers. Today any company that sells voice service must maintain, and file with the FCC, a manual showing how they comply with CPNI rules. Further, they have to periodically show that their staff has been trained to protect customer data. If the FCC applies the same rules to ISPs, then every ISPs that sells data services is going to incur similar costs.
But one has to wonder if the FCC is going to go further with protecting customer data. In the telephone world usually the only information the carriers save is a record of long distance calls made from and to a given telephone number. Most phone companies don’t track local calls made or received. I also don’t know of any telcos that record the contents of calls, except in those circumstances when a law enforcement subpoena asks them to do so.
But ISPs know everything a customer does in the data world. They know every web site you have visited, every email you have written, everything that you do on line. They certainly know more about you than any other party on the web. And so the ISPs have possession of data about customers that most people would not want shared with anybody else. One might think that in the area of protecting customer confidentiality the FCC might make it illegal for an ISP to share this data with anybody else, or perhaps only allow sharing if a customer gives explicit permission.
I have no idea if the larger telcos use or sell this data today. There is nothing currently stopping them from doing so, but I can’t ever recall hearing of companies like Comcast or AT&T selling raw customer data or even metadata. But it’s unnerving to think that they can, and so I personally hope that the FCC CPNI rules explicitly prohibit ISPs from using our data. I further hope that if they need a customer’s permission to use their data that this is not one of those things that can be buried on page 12 of the terms of service you are required to approve in order to use your data service.
What would be even more interesting is if the FCC takes this one step further and doesn’t allow any web company to use your data without getting explicit permission to do so. I don’t have idea if they even have that authority, but it sure would be a huge shock to the industry if they tried to impose it. | <urn:uuid:1199403f-e563-4696-bd98-d7934eeb2ebf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://potsandpansbyccg.com/2015/06/22/broadband-cpni/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.963027 | 803 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Editor’s note: The following is a translation by Ibn Warraq and Robert Kerr of Michel Onfray’s L’Art d’Etre Francais (The Art of Being French, Bouquins, 2021), published here for the first time. Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. Part 3 is here. Part 4 is here. Part 5 is here. Part 6 is here. Part 7 is here. Part 8 is here. Part 9 is here.
Let’s have a few laughs when we read the rest of the paragraph in which, on the subject of “the visibility of Muslims in the public space”, Edwy Plenel castigates “recurring polemics, made up of media exaggerations in which a journalism of opinion rather than of information flourishes” (p. 107). Indeed, everyone knows that our author is a news journalist who obviously has nothing to do, but really nothing at all, with opinion journalism!
Fifth: denial. Plenel writes: “Between money and terrorism, the wealth of obscurantist regimes and the violence of fundamentalist radicals, the Muslims of France are caught in a universal reprobation, made guilty of misdeeds and crimes that are distant and foreign to them, simply because of their sense of belonging, origin or belief” (p. 64). Duly noted.
But where and when, by whom and with whom, in what circumstances and on what occasions did Edwy Plenel see that “the Muslims of France,” a new essentialization, were “caught in a universal reprobation,” that they were “made guilty of misdeeds and crimes”? What allows him to assert that the crimes of Muslims, claimed as such at the time they were committed by their perpetrators, who are closely followed by the Islamic State, would have nothing at all to do, nowhere, never, no way, with a certain type of Islam that Plenel encompasses in his plea for Muslims?
There is no universal disapproval of these acts – just go to Iran, the Gaza Strip, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and many other countries; not even French disapproval! Anti-Semitic crimes committed by Muslims who claim their religion to legitimize their acts are numerous, as we know. The list is impressive. What macabre catalogue could an Islamophile produce that would include the crimes and murders committed in France against Muslims on the sole pretext that they are Muslims?
Elsewhere, Plenel goes even further and writes that “never have the crimes been committed by so-called [sic] Muslims” (p. 129) – etc. The title of the journalist’s book is clear: he chose “the” and not “of”, thus “all”. What to do then with those who are undeniably Muslims, observant, who perform the obligations of Islam, do their five daily prayers, respect the prohibitions and practice the rituals, live the observances and have chosen warlike, conquering, military, murderous Islam? What about jihadism? It’s simple: in the eyes of Edwy Plenel, they are not Muslims… The matter is thus easily settled. In my place, on the other side of the fence, Edwy Plenel would probably speak of “revisionism” or “negationism” to describe such a cover-up.
In this vein, in connection with 9/11 and its aftermath, Plenel speaks of “terrorism identified with Islam” (p. 133) – not of Islamic terrorism. To name things, or not to name them, is food for thought. The fact that no mention is made of jihadism in a book devoted to defending “the” Muslims is significant, because if there is a problem, it is not with the Muslims, but only with some Muslims – a minority that besmirches the rest of the community, and it is a serious political and ethical sin, if not a religious and theological one, not to make this distinction.
Sixth, and this will be my conclusion: amalgamation. In the same way that Edwy Plenel rejects essentialization but practices it to excess, he also rejects amalgam (p. 164) but practices it with the same ardor… These are probably the mysteries of neo-Trotskyite dialectics! For our author combats only the amalgam that consists in lumping all Muslims together in order to make the entire community pay for a crime (which, incidentally, he does not recognize…) committed by only a handful. With Islam, he does not separate the peaceful wheat from the terroristic chaff – which is a journalist’s pure ideological bias that is tantamount to a discreet blessing of the terrorist cause.
For it is another amalgam to imagine that those who assert that Muslims are all guilty of the crimes of a minority are wrong, whereas he would be right when he asserts that none are. For there are at least among “Muslims” those who perpetrate terrorist attacks and those who do not see anything wrong with them, and even some who support them and who are not a negligible quantity.
This is the danger and the trap of essentialization: if we speak of Muslim as an indivisible whole, they must be either all good or all bad. And Plenel has chosen: they are all good. Consequently, what appears to be bad cannot be Muslim. How then can we still have a debate?
It is quite common in French newspapers and magazines to warn readers after each terrorist attack to refrain from automatically associating Islam with Terrorism, by adding the phrase “pas d’amalgam.”
[Onfray’s footnote]:An ICM poll published by Newsweek reveals that 16% of French Muslims support the Islamic State. This support rises to 27% among 18-24 year olds. A Pew Research Center poll shows that 42% of young Muslims in France support suicide bombings.
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Why the First 5 Years?
Prenatal through the first five years of a child's life are the foundation for their future physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing.
Through a body of multidisciplinary studies over the course of more than a decade, there is now a consensus among clinicians and researchers that prenatal through the first 5 years of a child’s development are crucial to determining wellness, future health outcomes, and even lifespan. This brief developmental period will determine their baseline ability to cope with stress, how well a person can focus their attention, regulate their emotions, plan for the future, and have empathy for others.
When children are raised in a well-resourced family and community, these early experiences interact with genetics to provide the best opportunity for them to thrive, first in school and then in life.
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The advantages of SD-WAN are clear. They improve agility, resilience, and bandwidth efficiency. But before we get into the details of SD-WAN systems, let us briefly discuss why they are necessary. In addition to enabling better security, SD-WAN helps improve agility, resilience, and bandwidth efficiency. And, of course, this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Cloud-Delivered SD-WAN improves agility, resilience, and bandwidth efficiency.
For IT departments, cloud-delivered SD-WAN (SD-WAN) offers significant benefits, including path control, automatic configuration, and application optimization. These benefits can help organizations reduce infrastructure investment, improve security, and maximize user experience. Further, cloud-delivered SD-WAN can be deployed in just a few clicks, reducing the time and effort required. With zero-touch deployment, IT teams can reduce deployment time and the overall cost of ownership.
Despite its promise, traditional WAN is often prone to complexity, requiring IT teams to invest in expensive hardware and inflexible software. Fortunately, the capabilities of SD-WAN extend well beyond bandwidth and security. Organizations can reduce costs by 90 percent and improve agility, resilience, and bandwidth efficiency without tearing down existing networks. While a complex hardware infrastructure limits traditional WANs, Cloud-Delivered SD-WAN is a highly flexible solution that works with existing networks, regardless of age, type, or size.
Cloud-Delivered SD-WAN allows you to delegate network management to the cloud, which frees up in-house IT staff to focus on strategic initiatives. Cloud-delivered SD-WAN also will enable you to layer mission-critical applications over the network for greater visibility, performance, and analysis. As a result, SD-WAN improves agility, resilience, and bandwidth efficiency while facilitating business objectives.
Segmentation is an essential component of SD-WAN security.
SD-WAN provides the flexibility to segment networks and implements application-aware routing. Network segmentation helps to limit the attack surface of sensitive data and systems and allows organizations to create risk domains. Network segmentation also reduces the impact of successful security incursions by preventing them from propagating beyond the boundaries of the network segments. However, it is essential to remember that network segmentation is not a solution in and of itself.
Network engineers must consider the resources within each segment when designing security policies. They then need to configure network devices based on the policies they create. Implementing this process is time-consuming and error-prone and can be impossible in some complex networks. The problem with network segmentation is that it assumes that all devices on the web are trustworthy, which limits the visibility of security policies and makes it difficult to implement consistent security policies.
With the increase in enterprise network connections, the threat surface is increasing. By using network segmentation, networks can be divided into subnetworks to limit access to sensitive corporate data. Segmentation is essential for regulatory compliance and helps contain attacks within the most defined area. However, extending network segmentation across the WAN has traditionally been a challenge. In contrast, SD-WAN includes innate segmentation capabilities and can enforce security policies across multiple sites.
Benefits of SD-WAN systems
The implementation of SD-WAN is a lot simpler than traditional routers and gateways. Once a network engineer has designed a node on the central management console, he can ship the appliance to a branch office. That person can plug it in and connect to the central SD-WAN controller. Once connected, zero-touch provisioning is enabled, making adding new equipment easy without needing to call in an expert.
The main benefits of SD-WAN include the ability to route traffic according to source and destination and application optimization. In addition, SD-WAN gateways can monitor the WAN link health and rapidly reroute traffic if a link fails or becomes congested. These features increase application availability and improve performance. And the best part is that these features can be used selectively, depending on the needs of the business. So it’s a win-win situation for businesses of all sizes.
One of the most significant benefits of SD-WAN is that they allow network administrators to program parameters for WAN performance. As a result, SD-WAN software delivers flexible steering and intelligent path control. It’s possible to configure network parameters for each service in real-time, and SD-WAN software will automatically route traffic based on those requirements. This means that administrators won’t spend hours or days monitoring and troubleshooting the network. | <urn:uuid:c0236d12-9727-49f3-8567-1ce4efb35f25> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.generalposting.com/what-are-sd-wan-systems/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.919154 | 947 | 2.15625 | 2 |
“I felt they showed more of me than they’d said they were going to,” Catherine Deneuve remarked to Pascal Bonitzer in 2004, about the making of Luis Buñuel’s 1967 Belle de jour. “There were moments when I felt totally used. I was very unhappy.” The story of Séverine, a deeply disenchanted haut bourgeois Paris housewife who finds erotic liberation through byzantine psychosexual fantasies and part-time work at an upscale brothel, Belle de jour certainly made extreme demands of Deneuve: her character is flogged, raped, and pelted with muck, among other assaults. But despite her objections to the way she was treated and her difficulties with Buñuel, Deneuve’s performance in Belle de jour turned out to be one of her most iconic.
Deneuve, who had become a star only three years earlier, as the melancholy jeune fille in Jacques Demy’s 1964 all-sung musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, was just twenty-three when Belle de jour came out; notably, Buñuel’s film was released in France less than three months after Demy’s radiant, MGM-inspired musical The Young Girls of Rochefort, starring Deneuve and her real-life sister Françoise Dorléac. But Belle de jour, more than any other film from the first decade of her career, defined what would become one of the actress’s most notorious personae: the exquisite blank slate lost in her own masochistic fantasies and onto whom all sorts of perversions could be projected. (Deneuve as deviant tabula rasa was first seen in Roman Polanski’s 1965 Repulsion, in which she plays a damaged beauty plummeting into psychosis; but Belle de jour doesn’t portray its heroine as mad, instead remaining deliberately ambiguous about the origins of her unconventional desires—and presaging the bizarre libertines she would later play in such films as Marco Ferreri’s Liza, 1972, and Tony Scott’s The Hunger, 1983.)
Buñuel was at a very different stage of his career from his young star, but Belle de jour represented a peak for him as well, the greatest—and most successful—film of his extremely rich late period. These works, bookended by 1964’s Diary of a Chambermaid and 1977’s That Obscure Object of Desire (his final film), were made mostly in France—where Buñuel had begun his filmmaking career with the incendiary, surrealist Un chien andalou (1929)—following the exiled Spanish director’s two decades in Mexico. Many of these late projects were cowritten with Jean-Claude Carrière and focus intensely on sexual perversion (a theme that recurs throughout Buñuel’s work). Belle de jour certainly falls into that category, and also, typically, skewers the entitled classes. Yet it stands out as the director’s most intricate character study—but of a protagonist who resists definition; the heroine, frequently trussed up and mussed up, retains an odd, opaque dignity in her debauchery.
In that same interview with Bonitzer, Deneuve was judicious enough to distinguish her experience of making Belle de jour from the final product, calling it a “wonderful film.” But her first meetings with Buñuel hinted at the duress that was to follow. According to John Baxter’s 1994 biography, Buñuel, it took time for the director to “warm to” his star: “He felt, with some justice, that she had been foisted on him, first by the Hakims [Belle de jour’s producers], then by her lover of the time, François Truffaut.” After dining with Buñuel at his house, the book recounts, Deneuve “left with little more than an impression that he disliked actors in general and was reserving his decision about her. The only advice he offered was the advice he had always given actors: ‘Don’t do anything. And above all, don’t . . . perform.’”
Though Deneuve deferred to her director, she was no puppet; Belle de jour is as much hers as Buñuel’s. The filmmaker, famously resistant to “psychological” interpretations of his work, stuffs Belle de jour with his trademarks, confounding any attempt to parse meaning: the surrealist blurring of fantasy and reality, fetishism, sexual perversion, blasphemy. But as Séverine, Deneuve, despite operating in the nebulous realm between dream and waking, imbues the film with irresistible and very real lust—and luster. Sporting the chicest Yves Saint Laurent finery, Deneuve revels in the peculiar desires of her character while always inviting our own. As Buñuel himself acknowledges in his 1984 autobiography, My Last Sigh (published a year after his death), Belle de jour “was my biggest commercial success, which I attribute more to the marvelous whores than to my direction.” (Per Baxter, after the filming of Belle de jour, he would finally admit of his star, “She’s really a very good actress.”) Deneuve’s gift was to update the world’s oldest profession for her still-expanding résumé.
The director had some modifying to do as well. Buñuel, who adapted Joseph Kessel’s 1928 novel with Carrière, assessed the source material dryly in My Last Sigh: “The novel is very melodramatic, but well constructed, and it offered me the chance to translate Séverine’s fantasies into pictorial images as well as to draw a serious portrait of a young female bourgeois masochist. I was also able to indulge myself in the faithful description of some interesting sexual perversions.”
He wastes no time in establishing those bizarre erotic proclivities. In Belle de jour’s opening scene, Séverine and her doting husband of one year, Pierre Serizy (Jean Sorel), a handsome, dutiful surgeon, are snuggled close in a horse-drawn carriage; he interrupts the tender moment with the lament “If only you weren’t so cold.” She pulls away, defensive. The sound of horse bells, which has been increasing in volume from the film’s first shot—and will indicate Séverine’s dreams or fantasies throughout—stops. Pierre orders his wife out of the cab; when she refuses, he and the two drivers remove her by force. She is gagged, bound to a tree, and whipped by the coachmen, who are then instructed by Pierre to rape her. When one begins to ravish her, Séverine appears to be in ecstasy.
This carnal reverie is soon interrupted by the Serizys at home, preparing for their usual chaste bedtime ritual. Pierre, in white pajamas, asks his pale-pink-nightie-clad wife, under the covers in a separate bed, what she’s thinking about: “I was thinking about you . . . and us. We were out for a ride in a carriage”—a scenario Pierre has heard before.
The fantasy clearly belongs to Séverine alone; she finds erotic thrills in her secret thoughts of debasement and humiliation, her florid imagination compensating for her sterile, sexless existence. Her most private desires will soon be realized at 11, cité Jean de Saumur, the address of the boutique bordello run by Madame Anaïs (Geneviève Page), given to Séverine by Pierre’s louche friend Husson (Michel Piccoli).
At Madame Anaïs’s, Séverine—now going by the nom de pute Belle de jour, a reference to her two-to-five shift (she insists on being home when Pierre returns from his workday at the hospital)—is horrified at first but proves to be a quick study. A burly Asian client scares off her two seasoned colleagues with his mysterious, buzzing lacquered box, but she is absolutely transfixed; after the john leaves, she, lying prone on the bed, lifts her head, her luxuriant mane of blonde hair disheveled, to reveal a woman still drunk on orgasmic pleasure.
The contents of the box are one of the film’s many mysteries (when asked what is inside, Buñuel would reply, “Whatever you want there to be”). Yet the greatest enigma is Séverine herself: why does she recoil from the slightest sexual advance from her husband yet lose herself, both in fantasy and in her new line of work, in elaborate masochistic tableaux? “Pierre, it’s your fault too. I can explain everything,” Séverine insists to her husband in the opening fantasy sequence, as she’s being forcibly removed from the landau. But of course, she can’t—and won’t. As in Repulsion, there are flashbacks to possible childhood trauma in Belle de jour. In one, a man appears to touch a young Séverine inappropriately; in another, she stubbornly refuses the Blessed Sacrament. But unlike in Repulsion, whose final, prolonged shot of a menacing family photo is offered as the root of Carole’s pathology, these scenes in Buñuel’s film are almost non sequiturs, presented not as psychological explanation but as blips in a baroque sexual surrealism.
As Séverine’s reveries and job demands become stranger and more mysterious—in one daydream, she is pelted with thick black mud by Pierre and Husson, who call her “tramp” and “slut”; a ducal client solicits her in the bois de Boulogne to perform in a necrophilic rite—Deneuve retains her porcelain, celestial inscrutability, while simultaneously transforming into an earthbound debauchee, delighting in her own defilement. Madame Anaïs (whose early, shameless flirtation with Séverine—who eventually reciprocates—is the first of the many moments in Deneuve’s filmography that would cement her status as a lesbian icon) touts her new employee’s regal bearing to prospective customers: “[She’s] a little shy, perhaps, but a real aristocrat.” Séverine’s coworkers, Charlotte (Françoise Fabian) and Mathilde (Maria Latour), are constantly remarking on the impeccable cut and style of her ensembles. Yet what this seemingly untouchable goddess craves most is the brutality of her latest john, the thug Marcel (Pierre Clémenti), a rough with metal teeth, a walking stick that doubles as a shiv, and fetishwear (shiny boots of leather with matching overcoat) that could have been dreamed up in an atelier overseen by Kenneth Anger and Pierre Cardin.
Séverine’s relationship with Marcel will lead to Pierre’s ruin—or does it? The ambiguous ending of Belle de jour suggests that everything that preceded it may have existed only in the heroine’s cracked dreamscape. Like the buzzing box, the film’s final scene is whatever you want it to be. Yet one thing is certain: Deneuve transcends kink. And despite her misery during the Belle de jour shoot, she would return for even more bizarre treatment three years later in Buñuel’s Tristana, losing both her virtue and a leg. | <urn:uuid:89a44160-ca58-4726-a08e-218fd4e95f8e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/2121-belle-de-jour-tough-love | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.956325 | 2,513 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Building associations is an important business skill. It may look like an totally obvious concept, however you would womenasian.org review be shocked how many people fail to do so. A lot of do excellent keeping their heads straight down and only poke out when the office home has a free of charge cake. In spite of your situation, they have crucial that you make the effort to build human relationships with fellow workers, clients, and perhaps strangers. Using these steps, you may increase your chances of establishing lasting business relations.
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Helping Your Son & Daughter Settle into College: A Parent Guide
When your child heads off to college, they’re signing up for a career-enhancing education, for a chance to meet like-minded people, and an experience that will secure their independence and help them properly cross the threshold to adulthood. They’re going to have to learn how to take care of themselves, and as a parent, it’s only natural for you to worry.
When your child is 18, they will more than likely think that they’re ready to handle the big, bad world – but, in reality, it’s their first time making properly adult decisions, so the chances are that they’ll need a little bit of support from you. That said, it can be difficult providing that support without stepping on their toes.
Here’s how you can help them settle into college without making them feel that you’re taking away their newfound independence.
When your child goes off to study their degree, they will have to learn how to manage their money properly, and it won’t take long for them to run out of cash if they don’t learn quickly. They have to pay for accommodation, food, and other student essentials – oh, and let’s not forget the money needed for all those exciting social events!
Before they head off, you can help them out by putting together a money-management plan. Your child will probably yawn at the thought of a budgeting plan, but they will soon learn to use it when they see their funds start to dwindle in their bank-balance. Take a look at their incoming loan payments, help them apply for part-time jobs in advance, and calculate how much money they’ll need to comfortably get by.
Now, it can be difficult for a student to say no to a night out – especially if all their friends are going – and this might distract them from the plan that you put in place, but as long as they roughly follow it, they should be okay.
THE BORING BITS
Your child will find out their results (congrats to them, by the way), and instantly enter student mode. Their mind may start racing away at this point – thinking about all the nights out and the general student experience – causing them to forget about all the boring organisational bits that need to happen in between.
There’s plenty to arrange before they head off to college, and it can be easy to forget about the important paperwork that needs to be done beforehand. You can make their life that little bit easier by helping them fill out all of the tricky accommodation and university enrolment forms – they probably won’t mind having a hand with this bit.
GET A STUDENT BANK ACCOUNT
Your child probably has a bank account already, but it definitely won’t have all the benefits that a student bank account has. Once your child is enrolled on a course, they will be entitled to sign up for a student account, and each bank will offer different incentives to lure them in (we recommend one that offers a rail discount so that they’ve got no excuse not to come home and visit you).
Because you’re an adult, you’ll know more about bank accounts and how they work, and you can find them the best deal by shopping around.
IMPROVE THEIR CULINARY SKILLS
Your child might already be able to cook. If they can, great! But if they can’t, they will need to learn quickly. When they’re looking after themselves, they’ll have to know how to make some basic, nutritious meals while keeping waste to a minimum. If they know how to make the most out of certain foods, they’ll throw away less and save some money in the process.
Give them a couple of demonstrations on how to make the most out of certain ingredients, then tie this into their budgeting plan so that they know they can always fall back on some core money-saving meals if they need to.
JUST BE THERE
College is a time when your child will start to become a proper adult, and it’s up to them to make sure that they take care of themselves. Once they are off, the best thing that you can do is make sure that you are there to support them when they need you, but let them have the freedom to learn from their own mistakes and manage adult life.
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It’s been a huge year for information security in the public eye. Security was constantly in the news and has popped up in ways we never expected. Who could have guessed that phishing attacks and a private email server would help derail a US presidential campaign? We had Apple vs the FBI. Much like the…
There’s an on-going battle to influence public opinion about the balance between privacy and surveillance. Law enforcement officials tell us we’re in danger. Security experts offer commentary. A movie is coming out about Snowden. Some participants in the debate are trying to help inform the public. Others are polluting the debate by cynically exploiting people’s…
It’s been a huge year for security awareness. Terrorist attacks, corporate security breaches and ongoing concerns about government surveillance have meant that people are more aware of information security than ever before. Everyone from politicians to pensioners has been talking about who has access to their data. The beginning of the year saw a lively…
I had a very strange encounter with a PCI auditor recently. On viewing my client’s security awareness portfolio he refused to sign it off as meeting PCI requirements because it didn’t cover ‘everything’. It got me thinking. There are two schools of thought when it comes to communicating risk. The first is the comprehensive approach where all the facts are presented. As part of this mindset, most organisations require their staff to read and agree to a security policy which is usually long and written in formal, contractual language. The majority of employees probably only skim their security policies and even if they did read them in full, would they understand them? Information security can be difficult to understand at the best of times without adding the additional complexity of overly formal and legalese phrasing. The Paretto Principle, or 80/20 rule, suggests that only a small percentage of content really matters but comprehensive approach usually means hiding it
Have security professionals helped make the privacy of citizens around the world ‘collateral damage’ in the hunt for terrorists?
Due to Edward Snowden’s disclosures we are now aware that millions of people have been unwittingly monitored by systems of indiscriminate surveillance. Many of these systems, having been developed in secret, were only possible due to the support of a large number of security professionals. We can suppose that the creators and operators of these systems are attempting to achieve legitimate objectives on behalf of their respective societies. What is less clear is if these systems do more harm than good or if the costs and risks of these activities have been fully understood, let alone accepted by the societies that bear the costs. Do the costs and potential harms of indiscriminate systems outweigh the benefits? Has privacy been compromised without due cause? If so, is it ethical for security professionals to support such systems?
A common objective of information security awareness is to encourage whistleblowers to use internal mechanisms to report their concerns. External whistleblowing and the airing of concerns in public view risks brand damage and exposure of sensitive information. The Snowden affair has shown how divided we are on the ethics of external whistleblowing. To date, much of the debate has been speculation about Snowden’s character flaws. Sometimes when trying to understand a controversial decision such as Snowden’s it helps to understand the chain of events leading up to the decision since failures in complex systems can rarely be given justice in a single newsbyte. In this case there are a series of failures that occurred prior to the employee of a subcontractor deciding to flee the country and leak sensitive information to foreign journalists:
Trust is an incredibly important concept in information security and a vital component of influencing an audience. We know from safety risk communication research that it’s not enough to be an expert in your field. It’s not enough to be correct. You also need to be trusted by your audience. Otherwise your level of influence will be reduced and people may decide to act in ways that challenge your mission objectives.
When I wrote the July column as satire imagining what a GCHQ letter to a supportive member of the public might look like I was poking fun at the unrealistic expectations about our intelligence services that were being perpetuated. That as ‘big brother’ they knew better and were always looking out for our best interests. I recognize now that what I was also doing was challenging the notion that intelligence services innately deserved a high level of trust.
Dear Michael Burgess of Tunbridge Wells in the UK, we in the GCHQ read with interest your recent letter to the Guardian Newspaper in which you state that you’re not bothered if the Government knows what web sites you’ve been visiting. It is refreshing sir, (and we know you are from the scanners at Heathrow airport) to find a true patriot who welcomes the state’s determination to know everything about everyone. Corporate security awareness programs have been advising for years that personal privacy is something that can’t be ‘fixed’ once lost so your willingness to permanently surrender your privacy (and the privacy of anyone you communicate with) is appreciated. | <urn:uuid:4a3cdb1a-3250-400b-b036-b0a3c0ffae76> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.risk-intelligence.co.uk/category/privacy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.967733 | 1,033 | 1.726563 | 2 |
The clocks have gone back, it’s getting colder and we are losing the light. This doesn’t help the motivation levels for training over winter and often puts a lot of people off. But remember this – staying motivated during the winter season requires a change to only one thing: your mind set.
We are well aware the conditions encourage comfort eating and doing less, but the foundation of motivation is based on two things:
- The first is having a goal or target to aim for
- The second is understanding the positive effects your actions will have on your life.
Keep in mind these two foundations and you will always be inspired. Here are a few other winter training tips to keep you motivated.
Train for an event
There is nothing like having a short-term goal to work towards to keep you focused and on track with your training. Have a look at your local sporting calendar and see what events you could be training for during winter.
Set a goal
Not everyone is into running or weightlifting, this is no problem. Set another goal, such as a few pound weight loss or a five percent reduction in body fat. Motivate yourself by sticking a photo of that bikini you want to buy, terrific shape you want achieve or a great outfit you want to wear on the fridge. When you see this you are going to be keen to close that fridge door and work out. Whatever image works for you, stick it up where you’ll see it every day.
Focus on the benefits
We are all fully aware of the gravitational pull of the bed at 6am, especially when it is cold and dark outside. That’s why you need to remind yourself of the benefits exercise brings you. You want to manage your stress levels, build lean muscle mass, have an abundance of energy and feel good about yourself rather than falling asleep at your desk, feeling overwhelmed and overweight. Remind yourself the ways exercise adds to the quality of your life.
Embrace the weather
Instead of avoiding the cold, embrace it. Getting outside for some fresh air and open space will be good for your mind as well as your body. If it rains? You toughen up!
Get a trainer or gym partner
Personal trainers are great for motivation and winter season could be a great time to invest in one to push you through those cold winter months. If you can’t afford a personal trainer, you could always work with a gym partner to push each other or join a group class to help get motivated.
This is something people often forget but when you reach your goal, reward yourself. We are not talking about buying a big cake, but with something special like a new outfit for your new body. There’s nothing like working towards a goal, achieving it, and then showing it off.
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New guidance on relevant work experience for medical school
The Medical Schools Council Selection Alliance has published an updated guide on what constitutes relevant work experience for applying to medical school.
Work experience is an essential part of the medical school application and allows applicants to evidence their understanding of what a career in medicine involves.
This guidance aims to make clear the definition of work experience in the context of applying to medical school, explain how it is used in the selection process and dispel any myths about what relevant work experience looks like.
The guidance can be accessed here.
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Photographer Anna Radchenko explores this theme in her project “Reverse Side of a Mother’s Love,” where mother love becomes more than just mother-daughter relationship and causes some strange feelings. She visualizes, sadly, typical psychological problems in parent-child relationship: unrealized wishes of the parents, excessive strictness, total control and overprotection.
The mother will force you to be too timid and shy in order to look better alongside with you.
The mother can protect your from "this violent world" and she will never let anybody to approach you. She will say you that the world is cruel and you'll be afraid of it constantly.
It can be the desire to replay your unhappened life in the life of your child. The girl's become a ballerina because her mother has never had courage to do that.
The mother will chain you to one place in order you won't explore this world and become independent.
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Microsoft has made changes to Microsoft Windows Media Player to help with security when users visit social networking sites. These changes are introduced after you install security update 936782 (security bulletin MS07-047).
936782 MS07-047: Vulnerability in Windows Media Player could allow remote code execution
One change is that you must have Adobe Flash 9 installed to play Flash content through Windows Media Player. If Flash 9 is not installed, a dialog box that contains the following text prompts you to install Flash 9:
To play the selected item, you must install a later version of the Macromedia Flash Player. To download the Macromedia Flash Player, see the Macromedia Web site.
Additionally, after you install the security update, the following parameters are automatically passed to Flash to make Flash more secure when Windows Media Player hosts Flash content:
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However, you may want to override these default changes in Windows Media Player.
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Important This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
322756 How to back up and restore the registry in WindowsNote By default, this new behavior is enabled. To disable this new behavior, follow these steps to change the registry to allow Flash content to use script from other domains:
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New York will be the first U.S. city to implement a congestion pricing program under the state budget put before lawmakers on Sunday — but how much drivers will pay and it exactly how it will be implemented is unclear.
Cars and trucks will be tolled when they enter Manhattan at 60th St. and points south, with some notable exceptions.
The West Side Highway and the FDR Drive will be exempt from the toll under the agreement unveiled Sunday. Emergency vehicles and some cars transporting folks with disabilities will be exempt from the charge.
The new law also allows people living in the congestion zone who make less than $60,000 a year to deduct the cost of the tolls from their tax bills — essentially exempting them from the charges.
The exact cost of the tolls and other possible carve-outs for motorists will be ironed out in the coming months by the MTA’s Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority. The implementation will be advised by a state-mandated Traffic Mobility Review Board, a new six-person panel that will operate within the MTA.
The members of the new board will be nominated by a collection of city, state and suburban officials, and will be confirmed by the MTA board. The mayor will recommend one seat on the board, while suburban districts recommend two.
“The state has taken over the toll policy for the city,” said transportation consultant Bruce Schaller.
The composition of the board may not matter much, Schaller said. “I don’t think it’s so much as one seat versus two seats," he said. "It’s about the TBTA and MTA setting the toll.”
Schaller noted that the legislation gives the TBTA a significantly expanded role in building new tolling infrastructure streets now overseen by the city Department of Transportation.
The MTA has already been making moves on establishing a congestion pricing infrastructure. The agency on Thursday asked vendors to submit proposals for technology to run the network.
The state budget agreement requires the panel to implement congestion pricing no earlier than December 31, 2020. An estimated 731,000 cars travel daily into Manhattan’s central business district at 60th St. and points south.
Though the amount of the congestion charge isn’t known yet, both 2013’s advocate-authored Move NY Fair plan and 2018’s Cuomo-commissioned Fix NYC Panel proposed a toll of $11.52 on cars entering the congestion zone.
Fix NYC’s proposal also floated an option for a variable pricing structure, which would allow the cost of the tolls to dip as low as $5.50 during off-peak hours. The budget requires that a variable toll and fee structure be implemented, but does not specify exact rates.
The revenue generated from congestion pricing will be allocated to the MTA’s capital budget. A new internet sales tax and a tax on mansion sales exceeding $25 million will also be allocated to the MTA. One-tenth of the money generated from the program will be allocated to the Metro-North Railroad and Long Island Rail Road capital budgets, a concession that helped get suburban lawmakers on board.
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Killer Video of Ethernet Speeds
By Scott Kipp, President, Ethernet Alliance
The Ethernet Alliance is pleased to present our new animated video presenting the long and winding Ethernet road to terabit speeds. Check it out here: www.ethernetalliance.org/roadmap/.
Our new video highlights the six historic speeds of Ethernet and the six speeds that are expected over the next few years. It tells the story of the standardization of the first six initial Ethernet speeds (10M, 100M, 1G, 10G, 40G and 100G) from the 1980s to 2010, and how the next six speeds (2.5G, 5G, 25G, 50G, 200G and 400G) will be standardized between 2016 and 2020. Think about that for a minute. The IEEE standardized six speeds over a span of 30 years and its next six speeds in less than five years. That is accelerated change.
Let’s peel back the layers of the Ethernet onion a little more. What has changed over the 40 years of Ethernet’s existence?
Ethernet was originally used to connect personal computers to other computers and shared resources like printers in an office. Ethernet continued to grow to cover campuses and data centers and then to connect these over metropolitan and wide area networks. This evolution of connectivity followed the 10X speed jumps pretty well until we reached 100GbE. When the industry saw the challenges of making 100GbE affordable in the 2010 timeframe, the industry developed 40GbE as an interim, lower-cost step. 40GbE has taken off and is expected to sell over 6 million switch ports in 2015 according to Dell’Oro.
40GbE opened the door for non-10X steps in speed and thus the camel’s nose was under the tent. Pretty soon everyone was sitting out under the stars. With this open air thinking, many people saw opportunities to standardize 25GbE and 2.5GbE. Why wait for 100GbE SFP+ when you’ll have to wait at least 5 years? Why not use a 25GbE SFP28 and how about 50GbE?
IEEE will try to start standardizing 50GbE, 100GbE (2X50G) and 200GbE (4X50GbE) in November in IEEE. Why should we only run our Cat 6 infrastructure at GbE when it can support 2.5G? Start another standard for 2.5 and 5GBASE-T. Hard disk drives (HDD) want something between GbE and 10GbE. OK, give them 2.5 and 5GbE as a backplane interface and change the cold storage market.
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A Day of Rest: Learning about Shabbat from Rabbi Schadick
On Wednesday, February 5th, Beacon Hill welcomed Rabbi Schadick from Temple Emanuel to present on the Jewish practice of Shabbat (or Sabbath).
Shabbat is a day of rest. It is an opportunity to “sanctify the time,” as Schadick put it. It’s an oasis of rest in the midst of the rat race of life. It begins 20 minutes before sunset on Fridays and is marked by the lighting of two candles. The first candle is a reminder of God’s creating work and how the story of Genesis speaks of a God who makes time for rest. The second candle is a reminder of the Jewish people’s slavery in Egypt to Pharaoh—a reminder that the Jewish people have not always had the freedom to observe Shabbat. For many Jewish families, Shabbat is a time to gather together for connection and conversation. A glass of wine is often lifted up in celebration and challah bread is eaten. Therefore, Shabbat creates space for celebration, joy, neighborliness, and inclusion.
Temple Emanuel is the fifth oldest Reform Synagogue in America. It was founded in 1857 and is the largest congregation in West Michigan. Despite its size, the Jewish community remains a minority in the city of Grand Rapids. Being a religious minority in a community with a majority Christian culture has historically had some challenges for the practice of Shabbat. For instance, during the era of “blue laws” in Michigan, there was a ban on businesses opening their doors on Sundays. Therefore, in order to fully celebrate Shabbat, Jewish owned businesses needed to be closed on Saturdays, but were required by law to be closed on Sundays too. With Saturdays being the busiest shopping day of the week, most Jewish-owned businesses could not afford to close. As a result, many Jews were unable to practice a full day of rest on Shabbat. They also had to change their Shabbat service time from Saturday mornings to Friday evenings, so that they could accommodate for the majority culture. In Jerusalem, however, Shabbat is a way of life. If you are walking the streets in Jerusalem on a Friday afternoon, shops begin to close around 2pm so that the owners can prepare for Shabbat. They go home, eat dinner with their families, and begin their day of rest. On Saturday, they go to synagogue to attend the Shabbat service and celebrate the God who makes time for a break.
If you’re anything like me, making time for rest does not come naturally; but for the Jewish people, it is a high point of their week. I think we tend to focus on what we will miss out on when we take a break, but the Jewish practice of Shabbat teaches us that there is so much to gain by engaging in intentional rest from the busyness of life. Shabbat also teaches us that rest provides space—not only for oneself, but also for the other. When we step out of the rat race of life, we no longer see people as competitors, but as neighbors. So, the next time you raise a glass of wine (or whatever you drink), may you be reminded of the restful practice of Shabbat and may you be drawn into practices that provide a break for you and for others.
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K-Pop fans go great lengths to make sure that their favorite idols know the amount of love and support they are getting. That sometimes includes showering them with little trinkets and gifts as souvenirs of such affection. Unfortunately, some don’t quite understand where to draw the line and take it too far. Here are 8 times when K-Pop fans put their biases in danger by chucking things at them on stage.
While stuffed animal plushies may sound harmless, if thrown from a distance and with force, they can be quite dangerous. And because such “fans” will often aim the plushies at the idols’ faces too, only to get some reaction and attention – it can be a lot more frightening and threatening than it seems.
Some fans toss their bras and undies on to the stage. Aside from the obvious fact that they ruin the aesthetics of the stage and performance, bras can be dangerous as idols can step on them, get tangled in the straps, and/or slip on them.
Flowers being thrown on to the stage isn’t a K-Pop exclusive thing. While it can be a sign of celebration and appreciation of an excellent performance, single stems of flowers can be risky – because they do have pointy ends. If thrown from a right distance at the right speed, these can actually lead to serious injuries!
Unlike the three previous ones, fans are mostly made of plastic and can really be lethal when thrown from afar. With sharp edges and substantial weight, these fans are too dangerous to be thrown at anyone – especially at the face.
5. Water Bottles
Water bottles, especially containing water, are completely dangerous when aimed directly at the head. Should an unopened water bottle hit an idol in the head or anywhere on the body, it can lead to open wounds, bruises, internal bleeding, concussions, and many more serious potential injuries.
6. Glass Bottles
For very obvious reasons, glass bottles are extremely dangerous. Not only are they hazardous being thrown aimed at a person, they become even more threatening once they land on a hard surface and break into pieces. While some venues prohibit the use of glass in general, some extreme fans will always find a way to sneak a bottle in.
While cellphones don’t have any sharp edges, they have their weight and size and they can cause critical injuries when aimed and hit anywhere on the body.
8. LED Boards
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Most planning rests on the assumption that tomorrow will be like yesterday. We are seeing signs that the very basis for our economy may change rapidly. Signals urges strategists to pay attention to the interface between land functioning – ongoing changes, the nature of the firm, and where money is being invested. Careful consideration of these factors will help your firm navigate the future.
DOUBTS CAPITALISM CAN PERFORM
Is the basic paradigm of capitalism – the stock market listed firm – ceasing to perform properly?
Economist Micheal Roberts highlights the large percentage of corporations that are acting like zombies. That is to say they are just about servicing their debts but there is nothing left over for growth or shareholder dividends. Read his blog here: Beware of the Zombies.
An earlier signal came from the IMF who have entertained the notion that neoliberal policies have increased inequality and stunted economic growth. Read the FORTUNE Article here or go straight to the report.
The economic risks in the US are not to be underestimated. So too the other aspect of current capitalism, assets like stock or houses becoming with many more times than their earning capacity or replacement value. Sooner or later the value might collapse.
Added to the economic risks of the system itself is the ongoing oil depletion scenario where oil supplies will diminish faster than renewable solutions (including killing transport demand) can be implemented. If your organization has not yet implemented an oil policy you should consider putting this into your risk management even if you do not agree with all the warning signs laid out by the Irish FEASTA organisation.
ALTERNATIVES BEING FORMULATED
Indeed, as the IMF are questioning neoliberalism, thinkers are coming up with radically new ideas to serve our needs ones that do not require capital-heavy corporations. One such is the idea of John Boik: Solving Problems That Matter Could Be the Next Big Thing.
The Swedish Sustainable Economy Foundation base in Stockholm is calling for an urgent re-think of one of the worlds most polluted seas. It believes the sea can be saved and the fossil-free economy kicked off at the same time.
The Natural Step has formulated a scoring system for firms called Future Fit.
A CLIMATE AND LAND SYSTEM NOT FUNCTIONING
Land functioning, indeed the functioning of the Earth system seems to be faltering at the edges, and many scientist are blaming mankind’s influence. you will probably be hearing more of the Anthropocene… the age when man affected the hole natural system. Witness the aptly-titled Guardian UK article “ Goodbye forever, friendly Holocene“.
This change in the climate system is affecting the food system. The world is about to see another famine, the first since 2011, spreading to four countries.
WE SHOULD INVEST IN LAND RESTORATION — PUTTING PEACE FIRST
Initiatives of Change, the Caux Foundation and the Swedish Sustainable Economy Foundation are coming together to offer a conference on Investing in peace through land restoration in Switzerland, 13-115th July.
JOIN THE CONFERENCE
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About The College
Torpoint Community College (TCC) is situated in South-East Cornwall and is very much a part of the local community. Due to its proximity, it also enjoys close links with the urban area of Plymouth city. This results in a rich mix of urban and rural, village and city-based students and the College is very much an economic driver for the area.
The majority of students attending the College live in Torpoint or on the Rame Peninsula. It also has students from Plymouth who travel from Plymouth via the chain ferry over the River Tamar. The current number on roll is approximately 720, including 50 in the Sixth Form. The College’s Post 16 provision offers a small, but thriving, learning environment for its students with a wide range of A Level subjects on offer.
The College works closely with our partner and feeder schools. Our designated primary schools are from the Torpoint and Rame Peninsula:
- Carbeile Junior School, Torpoint
- Fourlanesend Community Primary School, Cawsand
- St Nicolas C of E VA School, Downderry
- Millbrook C of E VA Primary School, Millbrook
- Antony C of E Primary School, Antony
It also enjoy links with Torpoint Nursery and Infant School, St Germans Primary School and many other primary schools in Plymouth.
Message From The Headteacher
Welcome to Torpoint Community College
I am delighted that you are taking the time to view the College website.
Everything we do at Torpoint Community College is about giving our students an excellent education which will transform their lives. The first thing you will notice when we welcome you to TCC is the vibrant, happy and calm environment which inspires students to learn “deeply” and helps them to discover their unique talents.
We value all our students as valuable members of our College community and as citizens in a larger local, national and international community. With approximately 720 students on our roll (50 in the Sixth Form), we are a small, caring and successful 11-19 co-educational foundation school. You can read our most recent Ofsted report here which highlights all the very good aspects of the College.
Through inspirational teaching, a genuine concern for health & wellbeing, a broad and balanced “STEAM” curriculum and a rich abundance of learning opportunities within and outside the College, we nurture high aspirations in our young people for themselves, their College and their community. Our students understand they are responsible for the choices they make. They know that making the right choices, self -belief, high expectations and working hard will empower them to shape the future they want. We expect them to respect themselves, their peers, their College and their community. In turn, each one knows they are valued.
Our College motto is “Inspiring Optimistic Learners” and the 3 values we follow are “Respect, Prepare and Focus”.
If you would like to see what makes our students so special, you are welcome to join us during one of our successful ‘in action’ Open Mornings or Afternoons or should you want further information about the College, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Dr Jeremy Plumb
Vision, Values & Aims
Values & Aims
Our aim is for all young people who attend Torpoint Community College to leave us aspiring to be the best they can be. We are committed to recognising and realising the potential in each student: of nurturing curiosity, creativity and leadership, of achieving the very highest of standards and of instilling respect and care for ourselves, each other and our environment. We aim to harness the innate drive, energy and enthusiasm of young people so they leave our College confident, knowledgeable and successful citizens, capable of learning and adapting to an uncertain future. In a nutshell – promoting ‘emotional health and wellbeing’.
The word ‘optimism’ is originally derived from the Latin ‘optimum’, meaning ‘best’.
- An optimistic learner is happy and healthy, confident and resourceful, resilient and successful, able to work independently and in teams, and;
- An inspired learner is motivated to learn and radiates a sense of purpose that in turn inspires others.
At the College, we believe an inspiring optimistic learner has the skills, knowledge and positive values to make the most of the changes and challenges facing us in the 21st century. We aim for our students to talk about enjoying their deep learning experience. The results our students achieve are a reflection of our care, support and guidance and of the opportunities students are encouraged to lead and participate in. This applies equally to those students challenged by disadvantages, but we do not allow any issue to be a barrier to success (see Pupil Premium and Catch Up Premium).
We believe strongly that personal growth occurs through adventure and we work hard to provide broad learning opportunities for students’ well-being as well as academic progress and attainment. As a College we work with, on your behalf and in partnership with you. We place a strong emphasis on working with and supporting our community – local, national and global – celebrating our community champions, regularly supporting charities and being ambassadors in other countries so that our students understand they need to be responsible global citizens.
This is all part covered by respecting the rights of all students (pupils) under the UNCRC. Trips include Nepal, a teacher and student exchange with Sri Lanka, discussion at the New York United Nations headquarters, Barcelona and camping on the Isles of Scilly. We also excel in offering a range of extra-curricular activities that benefit from unique links with our environment; Ten Tors Challenges, local, regional and national sporting events, drama productions, plays and our annual fashion show.
We offer a broad and balance curriculum journey from Year 7 to 13 with the opportunity to experience or specialise in the performance arts, sciences, sports and physical education, design and technology, computing, languages, humanities, religious education, media, literature and psychology.
We have vocational courses as well as formal academic courses, we work closely with parents to identify the best combination for each individual through a robust and effective options process and strategic careers strategy. We have a strong focus heath and wellbeing, relationships and sex education and Fundamental British Values (see Policies page).
Our high quality pastoral care is widely recognised as an example of best practice. Students are organised into year groups. Behaviour across the College is underpinned by our positive learning ethos and with just under 720 learners, 60 of which are in our excellent Sixth Form at TCC, we are recognised for the high level of individual care given to each student; our staff going the extra mile to support.
Becoming a Foundation School with a Co-operative Trust on 31st December 2011, was a natural next step for the College. We already worked closely in partnership with a large number of other schools, higher education providers, organisations and businesses so formalising links with key partners enables us to bring even better opportunities and improvements. Harnessing their strengths for the benefit of our learners in College and in schools across Torpoint and the Rame Peninsula is an exciting and rewarding journey.
Inspiring optimistic learners
In short, every member of Torpoint Community College will have:
- Ambition, commitment, resilience & perseverance
- Confidence to take risks
- An ability to organise and present themselves effectively
- Intellectual curiosity
- Imagination and creativity
- Initiative and self-motivation to learn independently and with others
- Optimism for a future in a rapidly changing world
Our Vision Statement is based on the fact that for children and adults to be inspired to learn it is our fundamental belief that TCC provides:
- A curriculum that responds to the needs of each and every individual irrespective of their age and aptitude
- Learning experiences that are diverse, flexible, rich, experiential and active
- Positive, effective relationships within a collaborative and sustainable community
- Academic, social and emotional intelligence
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Major Studies on ECT for Depression: What Have We Learned?
October 01, 2007
Early relapse is a limiting defect in electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Although more than 80% of patients with a severe depressive illness who complete an acute course of ECT are relieved within three weeks, up to 60% relapse within six months, despite continuation treatments with antidepressant medications.1,2 In a large, government-supported, collaborative study led by the Columbia University Consortium (CUC), patients with unipolar major depression that had failed to respond to multiple trials of medications were treated with ECT to clinical remission and then randomly assigned to one of three continuation treatments--placebo, nortriptyline (Aventyl, Pamelor) alone, or the combination of nortriptyline and lithium (Eskalith, Lithobid). The patients were monitored for adequacy of blood levels.1 Within the six-month follow-up period, 84% of patients treated with placebo, 60% of patients treated with nortriptyline, and 39% of patients treated with the combination medications had relapsed. | <urn:uuid:90469b88-3042-4e69-8e67-f6adb8f18f1d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/journals/psychiatric-times/psychiatric-times-vol-24-no-12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.936435 | 226 | 2.3125 | 2 |
What is Nanoblading?
Nanoblading is a revolutionary treatment that uses ultra-fine nanoneedles to stimulate the diameter and dimension of genuine hair in the skin.
It’s a sort of cosmetic tattooing that only gets into the upper dermis via the top layer of the skin, thus it’s not as deep as a typical tattoo. We can also regard it as a permanent makeup treatment.
Nano Blading for Eyebrows
Nano Blading for eyebrows involves creating hair-like tattoo strokes with colored ink and an extremely fine needle. These strokes resemble real hair. Nanoblading fills in sparse, thin eyebrows to give them a fuller appearance
Not only can this procedure thicken your brows, but it can also modify the curve of your brows.
Comparison of Microblading with Nano Blading
Both Microblading with Nano Blading provide natural-looking, but accentuated brows that endure a long time. The equipment and the procedures are the key differences between microblading and nanoblading.
The most major distinction between nanoblading and microblading, and the primary reason why many clients prefer nanoblading over microblading eyebrows, is that nanoneedles inflict substantially less skin harm than the microblading instrument.
The thin diameter of the nanoneedle keeps the pigment from penetrating too deep into the skin. However, with microblading the cuts are exceedingly narrow because the nanoneedle is so thin.
The Procedure of Nano blading
In Nano blading, a thin, single-needle tattoo machine is used to inject pigment into the skin more deeply than microblading.
Nano brows, compared to microblading, are a little softer on the skin and the pain is quite bearable. This is because it employs ultra-small needles, it causes less stress to the skin, and is more mobile. When compared to microblading, it’s also easier to apply.
Nano blading is also said to be less painful, with a quicker recovery time. After the treatment, you will notice some swelling, but it will subside in one night.
Nano brows usually stay longer than microbladed brows because the pigment is infused deeper with nano blading. Depending on your complexion and life activities, nano brows can last anywhere from two to three years.
This procedure is suitable for all skin types, although if you have oily or textured skin, nano blading is usually the better option. This is because nano brows are designed to remain longer. Other biological factors, such as hormone imbalance and pre-existing medical disorders, can still affect longevity.
The only disadvantage of a longer nano brow lifespan is that you won’t be able to modify it for a few years.
Cost for Nano Blading
The cost of a method starts at $500 and can cost up to $2,000 (depending on other factors). Because no blading is a more labor-intensive process than microblading, it can be slightly more expensive (about $100 to $200).
Lower pricing or special offers can still be found, but they are not always genuine. The most likely explanation for low rates is inexperience, and it’s advisable not to take any chances with such a sensitive procedure on your face.
- Maintain your new brows by keeping them clean and dirt-free.
- Avoid the use of creams, soaps, or make-up as their cruel ingredients can harm your brows.
- Excessive heat or cold should not be applied to the treated regions until the healing process is complete.
- Take proper sun protection. Avoid unnecessary sun exposure.
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If you are a small business owner or entrepreneur, you need to make sure that your web content is vital. After all, the content on your website will be the deciding factor for many potential clients. It can catch their attention, believe in your product, and finally clinch the sale. You may be concerned about the quality of the copy you create, or perhaps you feel that you do not have the needed time to write. This is where skilled, professional copywriters come in. Here are 10 facts that most people either don’t know or have forgotten about copywriting.
Research is a Must
Copywriters need to know how to research effectively, and they have to be able to do so quickly. Whichever business you are in, copywriters are committed to providing copies that show a deep understanding of your company.
If you run an embroidery business, a copywriter can create a content explaining how to make a french knot quickly. Regardless of how specialized your work may be, copywriters can provide vital statistics and pitch your product effectively.
The best copywriters know how to make search engine optimization work for you. Suppose you do not have any keywords in mind. In that case, they can help you generate successful words or phrases to reach your target audience effectively.
SEO can make the difference between you clinching a client from your target audience or losing out to a competitor. With the right keywords and distribution, your ads and posts will show up earlier in search results and be found more easily by the customers you want.
Copywriters are also skilled at generating effective headlines. If your article has a boring headline, your potential viewers will breeze on by. However, the right words will hook them in, drawing them toward you and away from the competition.
Understanding The Audience
A good copywriter knows how to reach your target audience. While this skill may be apparent through their skilled use of keywords, there’s a little more to it than that.
Copywriters are also talented at understanding what you need as a client. They will work their hardest to provide you with content and imagery that fit your business sense and match well with what you are trying to convey.
Therefore, these writers work to ensure that both you and your potential customers get what you need from the posts and ads they help to generate. They will show your audience the problem in their lives that can be solved by the service you provide or the goods you have to offer.
Copywriting is not only about filling in the blanks the business owner provides. Writers must know how to translate the information you give into a significant piece of copy. They can adeptly transform a one-sentence direction into a full article.
This ability comes from strong communication skills. If your writers need more information, they will ask for it. Still, they have learned how to convey the facts you want to be shared quickly and efficiently through years of experience.
Put merely; copywriters know how to talk to people. They will do so for you in a way that gets your message across well while showcasing your skills effectively.
In this profession, writers need to have a good grasp of the right words to use. More than that, however, they also require a masterful understanding of the English language. The stories they use will reflect on your business, so they must populate their orders with diction specifically tailored to your audience.
Your customers need to know that the author of the blog post or ad they are reading knows their subject. To establish confidence and credibility, vocabulary is everything.
Copywriters are skilled at switching between writing styles based on what you need, reflecting through the kinds of words and sentence structure they choose. If you want to relate to all people regardless of their knowledge of your genre, your writers will choose their stance accordingly. If you’re going to reflect a specialist understanding of the work you do, they will adapt to that need.
Consistent Delivery Time
When you want to get content out quickly and stay relevant through current trends, copywriters can help. Not only do they write well, but they are also trained to present content for you quickly.
Therefore, if you are hoping to write four blog posts a month, copywriters can make that happen for you. They can produce copies in a short amount of time and according to the schedule. They will work efficiently, providing you with longer orders in a fraction of the time that it would have taken you to create the content alone. In a matter of days, you could have the first article of many sitting in your inbox, ready to be shown off for your potential customers.
Quality and Quantity
When you are trying to appeal to consumers, what you say, and the time you take to convey your message are critical. Your readers will lose interest if the majority of your article provides fluff instead of facts.
Copywriters have learned to be concise in their sentence structure and create paragraphs. This makes readers maintain their interest throughout blog posts and quickest glance through a marketing ad.
They also translate that skill into longer articles. Even a 2000-word piece will be chock full of facts and relevant information, with no padding to make the article longer than it needs to be.
Understanding of Social Media
Your marketing style needs to reflect the demands of the social media services you work with. Copywriters understand how to market your ads on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and any other social media platforms you are interested in using.
Just like choosing the right keywords, copywriters can utilize hashtags and focus on providing the best SEO content to cater to your target audience. They will help you create a consistent web presence that understands each platform and how consumers usually interact with them.
Working With Mobile
The internet is no longer tethered to laptops and desktop computers. Because many of today’s consumers use their phones to access apps and web pages, you need to optimize your work for mobile viewing.
Writers keep in mind the need for their content to be viewable on small screens, and they format their work accordingly. Headlines and section headers still stand out. They space paragraphs so that they are always easy to read, no matter what. No zooming in on the screen is required!
Some copywriters can also help you optimize your website for mobile viewing. After all, the vast majority of mobile users go to search engines for their online needs, so this is a perfect opportunity for more SEO engagement.
Understanding Your Voice
Every person has a writing “voice” that makes their work unique and allows their readers to pick up on their personality. Voice and tone will enable a piece of copy to shine and help establish credibility and emotional engagement.
Copywriters have a mastery of vocabulary and are skilled in communication. They are in a unique position to pick up on your writing style and voice.
This skill means that if you have articles already on your website that you want copywriters to work with, they can emulate your voice and present similar content. While it may not always be a perfect match, they can often get pretty close.
Seek Out Copywriters Today
Now that you’ve learned some of the skills that copywriters have at their disposal, it is time to decide how they can work for you. If you are looking for fresh content for your website or need to breathe new life into your current marketing ads, start brainstorming now and get ready to reach out.
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Gratitude Expert: Lori Saitz
When was the last time you received a thank you card or gift delivered to your door?
Conversely, when was the last time you sent one? It feels fantastic when someone recognizes and acknowledges kindness.
How Do You Start Your Day?
“The goal is to share with you a simple way to incorporate thankfulness into your day in only five minutes.”
There are plenty of studies on how gratitude boosts your health and overall well-being. But then we get busy with life and we don’t implement all our good intentions. The purpose of this article is not to berate you.
I sheepishly admit that my attempts to be more grateful for all the situations and circumstances in my life often fall short too. Above all, the goal is to share with you a simple way to incorporate thankfulness into your day in only five minutes.
How do you start your day? Is it with a hot cuppa? As a tea snob, I use my love of tea as an impetus for gratitude. (My favorite at the moment is an Orange Sencha green tea.) Admittedly though, it’s not really the tea that improves your feelings of gratitude. You can use coffee or whatever your morning beverage of choice is.
Here Are Two Ways To Recognize And Acknowledge The Blessings In Your Life:
- Firstly, every time you make a cup of tea, in the 3-5 minutes you’re waiting for it to steep, take a few deep breaths and recall three things that happened in the past 24 hours for which you are grateful. No matter how bad or whiny a mood you’re in, and especially if you live in a first-world country, you most certainly can find three things in your life that you appreciate.You can start with you have tea! Did you sleep in a nice, warm bed last night? There’s #2. Are you wearing clothes? Are you heating your water over an open fire or with an appliance? Do you have reliable electricity or gas? Do you have even one good friend? A cat? A dog? I’m sure you can come up with all kinds of amazing blessings. And be thankful. In addition, no need to write them down in a special journal with a magic pen (of course you can if you’d like). Simply take a few moments of your wait and use them productively. See how much better your tea tastes now? Back to the question of sending thank yous. Someone does something nice for you and you mean to send a gift or a card. But somehow weeks go by, you don’t get to it. As a result, It feels embarrassing. I’ve found that if you plan ahead, you are ready when the opportunity to show gratitude arises. That’s the time you’ll be able to take action in just a few moments.
- Secondly, writing thank-you notes. It seems to have become a lost art. If one is inclined to say thank you at all, typically It’s by shooting off a quick email. Sure, it’s better than not even acknowledging kindness. But there’s a different level of satisfaction, for both the sender and recipient, when there’s a more tangible exchange of appreciation. Moreover, make it easy on yourself. Try keeping a few cute notecards on hand. There are some beautiful ones right here on this website. Get a book of forever stamps and a pen in your favorite color. Put them together in your office or wherever you’re most likely to sit down and write. Now, you’re ready to go when you find an occasion.
It Doesn’t Need To Be Extravagant:
“Gratitude reigns and in a very important way, you’ve made the world a better place.”
If you’re moved to send more than a card, that’s great. You may find it convenient to have a go-to gift that’s suitable for everyone. It doesn’t need to be extravagant and you don’t have to spend a lot. Just make an impression.
In other words, you won’t be surprised to learn I recommend tea as a great appreciation gift – for friends, colleagues or clients. It’s easy to keep a few packages of loose leaf tea and a teacup/infuser or flask on hand. You won’t need to think about what to get or keep adding “get a gift” to your to-do list every day. Therefore, you can easily write a two-sentence note and drop the package in the mail!
Sharing The Gratitude:
What’s your favorite go-to gratitude gift? Leave a comment in the section below and let’s compare notes! You’ll feel good for sharing your gratitude. Your recipient will feel appreciated when receiving and opening the package and again every time they use and enjoy your gift. Gratitude reigns and in a very important way, you’ve made the world a better place.
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Belarus IT sector hit by exodus after post-vote crackdown
Jun 28, 2021 - 03:19 AM
KIEV, UKRAINE — Like thousands of others in Belarus, IT specialist Aliaksandr Charnavoki took to the streets of Minsk last year for unprecedented protests against strongman Alexander Lukashenko’s 26-year rule.
Arrested, struck by police and held in detention for four days, Charnavoki eventually fled to neighbouring Ukraine — joining an exodus of fellow tech workers that has left the future of a booming IT sector in doubt.
It was not the “violence and lawlessness” that made him leave, Charnavoki, 39, told AFP in an interview on messenger Telegram.
It was the sense that nothing would ever change.
“The fight against the regime has become meaningless,” he said.
If ex-Soviet Belarus is known for producing anything, it is more likely to be tractors, fertiliser and oil products than software and tech services.
But in recent years its capital Minsk has become a regional high-tech hub, especially after 2017 when Lukashenko signed a decree allowing tech companies not to pay most taxes, including income tax.
The country’s Hi-Tech Park (HTP) scheme has seen more than 1,000 tech companies register to operate in Belarus, with over 70,000 workers.
Gaming giant Wargaming — maker of “World of Tanks” and its multiple spin-offs — was founded in Minsk and maintains its central development studio in the city.
Calling app Viber was another success story from the HTP, with its early development done in offices in Belarus, until the company was bought by Japanese tech giant Rakuten in 2014 for $900 million.
Much of the work is less glamourous — like outsourced custom software design for corporate clients — but very profitable.
The HTP says the Belarusian tech sector’s exports of products and services hit a record $2.7 billion in 2020, up 25 percent from the year before, and accounting for four percent of the country’s gross domestic product.
But now the industry is facing deep uncertainty after thousands of its workers — many of them liberal-minded opposition supporters like Charnavoki — decided to leave.
Last year’s wave of demonstrations over a disputed August 9 election was met with an intense crackdown. Thousands were jailed as reports of torture and ill-treatment at the hands of police circulated widely.
Backed by ally Moscow, Lukashenko has weathered the protest storm despite fierce Western condemnation and several rounds of new sanctions.
The sanctions have not targeted the IT sector, but Sergei Lavrinenko, a Minsk-based IT expert, said he expected its growth to stall because of the exodus.
He estimated that up to 15,000 IT workers have already fled Belarus because of the crackdown.
Some companies have shuttered their operations entirely.
Founded in Minsk in 2011, PandaDoc, a sales process software provider, closed its office in the city and relocated dozens of staff to neighbouring countries after coming under pressure from authorities.
Its founder Mikita Mikado is a prominent Lukashenko opponent and during the protest movement offered financial aid and re-training in the tech sector to police who turned against the government.
The company’s offices were raided and four employees were arrested, with three still under house arrest and one behind bars.
Ivan, a 28-year-old IT specialist, told AFP by phone from Minsk that the atmosphere among young tech workers in the city turned sour after the crackdown.
“The places where IT geeks went to party emptied, cafes there are empty, some of them have gone bankrupt,” said Ivan, who did not want his last name published, fearing repercussions. “The mood is no fun.”
Some of Belarus’s neighbours see an opportunity, with countries like Ukraine, Poland and the Baltic states looking to attract disaffected IT specialists.
Ukraine is offering simplified migration procedures and tax breaks for Belarusian IT specialists who want to work in the country.
Charnavoki, who left Minsk in October, quickly found a position as a software developer at a Ukrainian IT company.
He said that while he had the chance to get out of Belarus, others in IT — especially those with children — had found it more difficult to leave.
IT expert Lavrinenko said it may take time, but “if the situation does not change” it is unlikely the sector will continue to thrive.
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While a bear encounter is a special treat for any visitor to a national park, it can be a more dire experience for investors of all ages. Just like in the wild, each bear market and personal response is unique; there is no single strategy that will work in all situations and that guarantees physical or financial safety.
While remarkably most bear encounters end without injury, many investors end up making poor decisions in the short term that help to create adverse outcomes. While your safety in the wild can depend on your ability to calm a bear, your ability to navigate through a bear market may depend more on your emotional IQ and strategy.
As bears can run as fast as a racehorse and chase you up a tree, the National Park Services basic guidelines to implement when confronted with a bear amazingly include (1) stay calm and talk quietly (2) move slowly away sideways and do not turn your back. (3) If attacked, play dead. Seriously, do nothing! Lay flat on your stomach with your hands clasped behind your neck. Spread your legs to make it harder for the bear to turn you over. Eventually it will leave.
Following are 3 basic rules for investors to follow in the face of a bear (market) attack:
1. Stay Calm: Being rational, calm and unemotional can be difficult when it comes to managing money while being inundated by the terrifying headline news and thousand-point daily market gyrations. In a perfect world, every investor could “buy low and sell high”- however, the realities of markets, behavior and investing “know-how” often prove more complex and require a more measured approach.
Stress can leave a lasting, negative impact on your health and brain while affecting your sleep to your short-term memory and decision-making capability. The answer to this dilemma may be to consume less headline news and spend more time on a hobby or activity that actually brings calmness and happiness to your life.
2. Stay Liquid: Maintain at least 12 months in your “cash reserves bucket” of essential expenses for when inclement weather hits. Also ensure your home equity and credit lines are in order whether you are a family or small business. Avoid “retail therapy” as an emotional outlet. While you may have extra time and money on your hands, now is not the time to go on a major online spending spree to help reduce stress while increasing your obligations.
If you lose your job or are forced into an early retirement, you do not want to have to sell stocks at a low point during a bear market or take a taxable distribution (or expensive loan) from your 401(K) account or IRA because you are cash poor. If you are under 59 ½ you may also end up paying a steep 10% penalty on top of taxes for any retirement account distributions.
3. Stay Diversified: If you are properly diversified and know your portfolio “risk budget” matches your time frame and financial goals, “doing nothing” if properly diversified may provide a better outcome for your investing and retirement goals than making a lot of unnecessary changes or executing a “fire sale” during an ugly bear market.
Market timing is a fool’s game. Investor studies indicate that the human brain is not a rational economic actor. When faced with uncertainty, even the best investing minds may throw good money after bad, sell at the first sign of trouble or make all manner of jumbled financial decisions when stress and volatility hits.
For the past two decades since the Clinton era, the average US investor has returned only 3.88%/yr and greatly lower than the 10% /year US markets based on Dalbar studies.
This 6% “behavior gap” indicates many people of all ages are guilty of a combination of poor market timing and lack of a disciplined investment process.
For long-term, disciplined investors, the answer to market volatility isn’t to jump in and out of the market. Instead, it’s to stick with a well-balanced portfolio that can weather upcoming bear attacks. Sound Investing truly is about your “time in the market” and not “timing” the market.
Bear Market Perspective
In these historic times, it’s important for long-term investors to maintain perspective and clarity. Having perspective is not an assurance that markets always go up or bounce back immediately. It doesn’t mean that there aren’t serious issues affecting public health or the economy. It does not guarantee that the financial journey will be easy.
Instead, just as having the right perspective on a problem can help to solve it, having perspective in investing is about addressing the right issues while knowing what we can and cannot control as individuals.
At the public health level, we cannot control the nature of the coronavirus or change how far it has already spread. At the economic level, we cannot change the fact that growth will slow for several months or even quarters, nor can we directly control the response of governments and central banks. At the market level, we cannot change the fact that there is significant uncertainty and that volatility has increased.
What we can do is react to each of these appropriately. We can heed the advice of public health experts and practice social distancing and proper hygiene. We can keep a close eye on the economic data to assess whether this is a transitory event or whether there are structural implications. And, most importantly, we can maintain discipline in our investment portfolios by staying diversified, maintaining a long-time horizon, and not overreacting. Being reminded of this when the situation seems most uncertain is perhaps the greatest value of investment education and the right financial guidance.
Given recent events, it’s natural to draw parallels to past crises. At the moment, there are two primary reasons that some investors are drawing comparisons to the 2008 financial crisis.
The more superficial reason is simply that markets have fallen into bear market territory with large swings, both positive and negative, on any given day. Last year, the average daily move in either direction was about half of a percent for the S&P 500. This year, the average swing is almost 2%. 12 trading days have been above plus or minus 3%, 9 days above 4%, and two days larger than 9%. Not only are these swings larger than investors have experienced in twelve years, they are some of the largest since the Great Depression.
The second and more substantive reason for investors to draw comparisons to 2008 is the fear of financial contagion. While this is still not the most likely outcome, there are scenarios in which short-term liquidity problems can cascade into long-term solvency ones. For instance, it’s one thing for an individual to go without a paycheck for a couple weeks because their small business is closed. It’s quite another if this spans months and the individual faces a cash crunch.
Multiply this problem across the economy and scale it up for large companies who rely on bond markets for funding, and it can become a serious problem. Credit spreads have spiked in recent weeks and bond market volatility has risen significantly as well. The MOVE index, essentially the bond market’s counterpart to the VIX, has risen to its highest levels since the global financial crisis.
However, the federal government and the Federal Reserve understand this and have begun to act. Economic stimulus and liquidity provisions have been implemented in recent days alongside public health measures. These go hand-in-hand, since one of the main side effects of slowing the virus is an economic slowdown. Thus, a key difference with 2008 is that the Federal Reserve and federal government have playbooks that were developed during the last crisis and can be implemented quickly.
Below are three charts that help to put recent government stimulus actions in perspective.
1. The Fed has implemented emergency stimulus measures
The Fed made an emergency rate cut to the zero lower bound just days before its next scheduled meeting. This is the first time rates have been at zero since 2015, and is the largest cut since the 2008 financial crisis. The Fed will release new economic projects at its next meeting which should reflect its latest decision.
In addition, the Fed also announced $700 billion in asset purchases, a resumption of the post-crisis quantitative easing program, in addition to dollar swap lines with other central banks. This is to prevent a short-term crisis from harming the plumbing of the financial system.
2. Credit spreads have widened as volatility has risen
Bond yields have jumped in recent weeks in response to the coronavirus, although this should be put in perspective relative to the 2008 financial crisis and the 2014-2016 oil price collapse. Still, volatility in the bond market has also spiked to its highest level since the 2008 financial crisis. While the plumbing of the financial system still appears to be orderly, the Fed’s emergency actions along with the government’s public health and fiscal stimulus are an attempt to preempt problems down the line.
3. While this is a challenging time for investors, it’s important to maintain a long-term perspective
While investors can’t directly control government actions or the spread of the coronavirus, they can maintain the right perspective and focus on what they can control: staying disciplined and maintaining appropriate portfolios. The chart above shows that markets have pulled back at many points across history – sometimes for extended periods. However, those with the right perspective are better able to achieve their financial goals.
The bottom line? The history of the market is filled with manias, panics and crashes which, viewed in hindsight, could have been handled better by investors. While each episode may have its own unique circumstances, the fact remains that staying disciplined and not overreacting to backward-looking market moves is the best way to achieve long-term financial goals.
Investors are facing significant uncertainty due to the nature of the coronavirus. However, staying balanced and disciplined has been the best course of action across all types of bear markets.
You cannot invest directly in an index. Past performance is no guarantee of future returns. Diversification does not ensure a profit or guarantee against loss.
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Just weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court said it would revisit the question of affirmative action in higher education, a new report sheds light on how widespread the use of race in admissions remains.
The report from the American Council on Education, a key Washington-based umbrella group for higher education, paints a picture of university leaders and admissions officers striving to form racially and socioeconomically diverse entering classes in the face of legal constraints and other challenges.
The heart of the report is a survey of 338 four-year colleges and universities that responded to the research request. Of that number, 92 institutions (or 27.2 percent) still consider race in admissions; 19 (5.6 percent) do not consider race, but used to do so; and 227 (67.2 percent) have never considered race.
The issue is as salient as ever because the Supreme Court announced late last month that it will once again examine race-conscious college admissions, in a return to the high court of a case known as Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin.
In its 7-1 ruling in Fisher in 2013, the Supreme Court confirmed that there was a compelling interest in diversity in higher education. But it suggested that universities had to consider race-neutral strategies for diversity and that it was up to reviewing courts, not the universities themselves, to decide whether no workable race-neutral alternatives existed so that a race-conscious plan could be upheld.
A federal appeals court last year again upheld the “holistic review” program at the University of Texas, which involves a review of an applicant’s full admissions file and potentially takes the applicant’s race into account for roughly one-quarter of the places in the entering freshman class.
The Supreme Court agreed to hear the appeal of that decision by Abigail Fisher, a white applicant who was denied admission to UT-Austin. The case will be heard during the court’s next term, which starts in October.
The ACE survey found that only 13 percent of institutions that used race-conscious strategies altered their admissions programs after the Fisher decision. The report notes that many who advise colleges and universities on their legal obligations, including the U.S. Department of Education, reminded institutions that the ruling did not outlaw the use of race in admissions or efforts to pursue campus diversity.
Many institutions may have concluded that their race-conscious plans pass muster under Fisher, or they may be waiting for the legal dust to finally settle in that case, the report says.
Many Diversity Strategies in Use
The ACE report is titled “Race, Class & College Access: Achieving Diversity in a Shifting Legal Landscape.” It was written by Lorelle L. Espinosa, assistant vice president at ACE’s Center for Policy Research and Strategy; Matthew N. Gaertner, a senior research scientist with the educational publisher Pearson Inc.; and Gary Orfield, a professor and co-director of the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles.
A key reminder in the report is that race-conscious admissions strategies include much more than the holistic review at issue in the Fisher case, although that type of plan is used by 97 percent of the institutions in the survey that consider race.
For example, 93 percent of institutions that consider race employ targeted recruitment and outreach activities to encourage prospective minority students to apply, the report says. Other categories that rank high in use among race-conscious institutions include targeted yield initiatives, which involve convincing those minority group members admitted to actually enroll, and recruitment of community college transfer students, among many others.
The survey shows that diversity strategies are more common and perceived as more effective at institutions where race is considered. This brings the authors “to an interesting contradiction in the argument for dismantling the use of race,” they write.
“Those who support banning the consideration of race in admissions often suggest that when race is not an option, institutions will be more likely to employ more creative and less divisive measures to diversify their student bodies,” the authors say. “Our data cast doubt on that argument. Among the 338 institutions in our study, those that do not consider race are also less likely to use a broad array of diversity strategies, a finding that holds across level of selectivity. “
Many of these other diversity strategies are not as controversial to opponents of race-conscious admissions as holistic review, which these opponents often view as thinly disguised racial quotas.
The report suggests there were some subtle changes after the Fisher decision in the holistic review calculus at institutions that consider race. For example, 11 percent of such institutions boosted the significance of socioeconomic disadvantage in their formulas, and 9 percent boosted the importance of international diversity, the report says.
“Now more than ever, institutions are wise to explore all racial and ethnic diversity strategies at their disposal,” the report says. “This includes steps institutions can take outside of the admissions decision-making process—like redoubling recruitment efforts—that may in fact be more appropriate and effective responses to Fisher.”
A daylong conference on the report was scheduled for Tuesday, July 21, at the ACE’s offices in Washington.
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8,200 PEOPLE IN AUSTRALIA SLEEP ROUGH EACH NIGHT
Let’s be honest, no one on the street gets a good nights sleep. Even us, with a roof over our head, sleeping in a queen size bed with an en-suite struggle. Can you just imagine how quickly things can spiral out of control without sleep?
Access to a safe, comfortable place to sleep means better mental and physical health and ultimately, a chance to take a breath to work on a pathway out of homelessness.
Sleep plays a vital role in good health and wellbeing; and getting enough quality sleep can help protect a person’s mental and, physical health, and ultimately their safety. For those sleeping rough, getting a good nights sleep is virtually impossible and can contribute to long-term homelessness and more.
Sleep deficiency can harm a person’s mental health over time; Low self-esteem, social isolation, and the exacerbation or development of specific mental health disorders including schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Sleep deficiency can harm a person’s physical health over time. For example, ongoing sleep deficiency can raise the risk for some chronic health problems such as, Diabetes, Heart Health, Breathing Problems and Breast Cancer.
Many sleeping on the street are subjected to terrible weather, harassment, bullying, being robbed and worse. Those sleeping on the street also run a high risk of drug and alcohol abuse, further affecting their safety and wellbeing.
At sleepbus® we have a simple focus; provide safe, temporary overnight accommodation to those sleeping rough in Australia. Our aim is to get people off the street and keep them safe and healthy until they can get back on their feet.
Our accommodation is not a long term solution, but what we do provide is a safe , temporary and comfortable place to sleep for the night.
sleepbus® is distinct, yet complementary to existing efforts from other organisations supporting Australians experiencing, or at risk of homelessness. Our work aims to fill a ‘gap’ rather than overlapping or replicating activities that support the urgent needs of people in Australia.
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Walk your dog in the early morning or late in the evening when temperatures are cooler. This will reduce their risk of heatstroke.
1. Provide shade and water - Make sure your dog has access to shade and plenty of fresh water throughout the day.
2. Plan your walkies - Walk your dog in the early morning or late in the evening when temperatures are cooler. This will reduce their risk of heatstroke. Be particularly careful if your dog is old, overweight or suffers from breathing difficulties.
3. Do the five second tarmac test - Tarmac can get very hot in the sun and could burn your dog’s paws. Check the pavement with your hand before letting your dog walk on it — hold your hand down for five seconds, if it's too hot for you, then it's too hot for your dog's paws.
4. Don't let them get burnt - Keep your dog out of direct sunlight where you can. Use pet-safe sun cream on exposed parts of your dog’s skin, like the tips of their ears and nose. Ask your vet for more advice if needed.
5. Check ahead for adventures - If you're planning a day out somewhere, check whether dogs are welcome. Some public parks and beaches may have Public Space Protection Orders or Dog Control Orders at certain times of year.
What to do if your dog overheats
If dogs are too hot and can’t reduce their body temperature by panting, they may develop heatstroke which can be fatal.
Heatstroke can affect any type of dog, but certain breeds and types of dog are at increased risk, including brachycephalic or flat-faced breeds such as English Bulldogs, Pugs and French Bulldogs. According to recent research*, English Bulldogs are fourteen times more likely to suffer heat-related illness compared to Labrador Retrievers. Over a third of owners of flat-faced dogs reported that heat regulation is a problem for their pet.
Symptoms of heatstroke in dogs
Appears lethargic, drowsy or uncoordinated
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If you’re struggling to decide how to choose your destination and how to control your pre-travel emotions, then this article is for you! Vicky and I have written 5 Key Tips that will help guide you through to your trip.
- Choose five destinations you want to go to. Then, research those places. Best way to do this is use social media, google images, travel books (The Lonely Planet), travel agents, etc.. to identify activities and tourist places you want to visit. This will provide clarity on where to go and hopefully whittle down the five destinations to the most desired one. On the other hand, if you do not have no idea on where to go, then get a map of the world, close your eyes and then point your finger anywhere on the map. Then, open your eyes and the place your finger is pointing too is the place you are going too. AWESOME!
- If you choose to travel with somebody else, make sure you sell your destination to them like there is no tomorrow! This is because you will end up in a confrontation, as big as the one between Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader, or worse Harry Potter and He Who Must Not Be Named. This is because if you regard Taiwan as a country, then there are 196 countries in the world. As a result, the likely chance you and your fellow traveller choosing the same desired destination will be extremely unlikely. Although, if you come armed with facts, images, and any other bulls**t you can think of to sell your desired travel destination, then you’re more likely to get the result you want.
- Well done for reaching this step, especially to those travelling with others, we salute you! At this stage, you should have chosen your awesome destination. What normally happens now, is that you usually get advised to go into a travel agent and get a brochure to help you identify what to do and see. For us, this method is completely outdated. Let us explain why. Well, in 2016 statistics show that 2.22 billion people around the world use social media to inform us of all of their amazing adventures through images and text. This means if you haven’t of guessed it yet, that you can save trees that are needed to make travel brochures, by a few touches on your phone, laptop, tablet and computer. As you can have access to an unprecedented number of images of the destination you want to go to. You also, have incredible access to other similar budding travellers’ person reviews and feedbacks all for free. C.T.I.V.I.T.Y. A.L.E.R.T. Go ahead and type in the name of the place you’re going to on any social media sites and check out all the amazing pictures, blogs and reviews people have posted. This will give you a clearer view on where to go in that country and what to do and see.
- It’s near the trip of your lifetime, the excitement is overwhelming, and the clock is ticking far too slowly. But, you may be experiencing sudden emotions of feeling anxious, scared, nervous, and the feeling of homesickness. How can this be? Relax, this is normal even to the most experience of travellers. Your about to voyage across many miles to a place you have never been to before, you may not even speak the language, and may never been away from your family or outside the country of your birth, these feelings are completely understandable. THIS IS NORMAL!!!! Remember, we live in a globalised world now. If you find it too much abroad, it’s ok, your one phone call or click away from returning back home or speaking to someone. Furthermore, it may be good to talk to your family and close friends and tell them about your fears and nerves. This then lets them know how you’re feeling and allows them to give you comforting advice.
- “I’m going on an Adventure” (Guess the quoteJ). Your prepared, you’re emotional, and ready to experience the big beautiful world. Enjoy your trip, make it your own, do the things you want to do, and learn the culture of the place your visiting. If you have social media, then go berserk and post all the cool things you have done and seen. This way, you are helping others in their travel decision-making process.
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Now that the fall season is starting, the leaves are beginning to change. There are many beautiful colours on the trees, and amongst the vegetables available in the market. Featuring spaghetti squash, and bell peppers, this dish is bursting with the colours of autumn. This is a seasonal fall frittata recipe.
Frittatas are a simple dish to make, and is easy to adapt. Once you have made your first frittata, you will see how easy they are to make, and adapt. You can add different cheeses and vegetables changing the taste to your family’s tastes.
If you are cooking for a vegetarian, or someone following a low carb or keto diet, this is the perfect dish to serve.
With bright yellows, oranges, and reds, the fall frittata is a great dish to make and serve now that autumn has begun.
You can find my guide here on how to cook a spaghetti squash.
Here is a link to other frittata ideas and recipes.
fall spaghetti squash frittata
Now that the fall season is starting, the leaves are beginning to change. There are many beautiful colours on the trees, and amongst the vegetables available in the market. Featuring spaghetti squash, and bell peppers, this dish is bursting with the colours of autumn.
Assemble all of the ingredients, so you don't have to look for things while cooking.
Preparing the Spaghetti squash
Cut the spaghetti squash in half length wise.
Using a spoon, scrap out all of the seeds, and the sides around the seeds. You can discard the seeds.
With all the seeds removed, place the spaghetti squash in a baking dish, with the cut side down. Add enough water to come up a quarter to half an inch up the side of the squash.
Bake in oven for 45 minutes to an hour, until the skin of the squash is easily pierced with a fork.Be careful when you open the oven, a cloud of steam may come out, keep back from the oven while opening it.
Remove from oven, and allow to cool until you can easily handle the squash.
Once cooled, use a fork to scrape the inside of the squash, pulling away strands that appear similar to spaghetti. (This is where the Spaghetti squash gets its name from.)You can put the scraped squash into a colander and allow it to drain until you are ready to use it.
Preparing the peppers
Remove the stems of the peppers, and slice in half. Remove the ribs, and any seeds in the pepper.
Slice the peppers into strips, and then cut across the steps to dice the peppers.
Heat a pan over medium heat, and add the olive oil to the pan. and allow it to heat up.
Sauté the peppers until they begin to soften and start to turn brown. This should only take 5 minutes. Don't overcook the peppers until they are completely soft and mushy, they should still be firm, and slightly crunchy.
Once the peppers have begun to soften, and are starting to brown, move them to a work bowl, and allow them to cool down.
Building the Frittata
Crack the eggs into a large work bowl, and whisk with a fork.
Add the drained spaghetti squash, sautéed peppers, and chopped parsley and oregano. Add half of the grated Parmesan cheese to the bowl, and mix thoroughly.
Pour the contents of the work bowl into a greased 8 inch by 11 inch casserole dish, and cover with foil.
The frittata is ready to bake now, but can be kept in the fridge for a day until you are ready to bake it.
Baking the Frittatta
Preheat the oven to 350°F
Add the foil covered frittata, and bake for 45 minutes.
Remove the foil, and spread remaining cheese over the top of the frittata. Continue to bake for 15 more minutes, or until the cheese begins to brown.
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In this step-by-step guide, J. C. Amberlyn combines her love of cats with her beautiful, detailed drawing style in order to teach beginning artists to draw many different breeds of cats and kittens in pencil and pen-and-ink.
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Topic Scripture: Mark 9:14-29
A group of visiting ministers from America came to tour Charles Spurgeon’s church buildings. Spurgeon graciously showed them around the facilities—the massive sanctuary, the children’s homes, the Bible college rooms, and all the rest. Toward the end of the tour, he asked his guests if they would like to see the boiler room. They respectfully declined, with the wry comment that boiler rooms must be the same everywhere and there could be little different about those at the Tabernacle.
Spurgeon begged to differ, and insisted that they see his boiler room. Finally they agreed. Spurgeon took the group down a long flight of stairs to the basement beneath the sanctuary. There they found over one hundred men and women on their faces before God in prayer. Pointing to these fervent intercessors, Spurgeon said, “This is my boiler room.”
We all need such a “boiler room” in our lives—a source of spiritual power which sustains and strengthens all we do. But such a power is tied directly to our faith. As Spurgeon demonstrated, if we would pray in power, we must pray in faith.
Andrew Murray said, “Most churches don’t know that God rules the world by the prayers of his saints.” John Wesley was even more specific: “God does nothing but in answer to prayer.” And E. M. Bounds claimed, “The church upon its knees would bring heaven upon the earth.”
The best way to know Christ is in prayer. We know any person best by spending time with him or her, talking together, listening to each other, being with each other. So it is with Jesus. The more time we spend together in prayer, the more we grow to know him and be like him.
And this focus is especially urgent in our day, because the greatest way we can serve the cause of Spiritual Awakening is to pray. To pray for our nation, for her leaders, her people, her spiritual life and God’s divine blessing.
So this morning we’ll look at the life of prayer, and focus that life on our nation and her needs this day.
Pay the price to pray with power
We’ve explored Jesus’ miraculous healing of this demon-possessed boy. His disciples could not help, but Jesus did. Remember the story: “When Jesus saw that a crowd was running to the scene, he rebuked the evil spirit. ‘You deaf and mute spirit,’ he said, ‘I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.’ The spirit shrieked, convulsed him violently and came out. The boy looked so much like a corpse that many said, ‘He’s dead.’ But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him to his feet, and he stood up” (vs. 25-27).
Now we come to the part of the story for us today: “After Jesus had gone indoors, his disciples asked him privately, ‘Why couldn’t we drive it out?’ He replied, ‘This kind can come out only by prayer'” (vs. 28-29).
Jesus had been with the Father in prayer on the Mount of Transfiguration. Meanwhile, the three disciples with him were asleep and the nine below were arguing with the crowds. Only he had been in prayer.
Such a commitment was the pattern of his life. He began his public ministry by spending 40 days in solitude for fasting and prayer. After his first Sabbath in ministry, he got up a great while before day, went to a solitary place, and prayed (Mark 1:35). He prayed all night before selecting his disciples. He prayed before feeding the 5,000. He prayed before raising Lazarus from the dead. He prayed before dying on our cross. He prayed from the cross. He is praying for us right now at the right of the Father in glory (Romans 8:34).
- Abraham built altars for prayer wherever he went.
- Moses’ ministry began in an encounter with God in prayer. He spent days and weeks alone with God in prayer.
- David was such a man of prayer that we have the Psalms as a result.
- The church was birthed in the Upper Room, where they went to pray before Pentecost fell.
- Gentiles came into the church when Cornelius and Peter prayed.
- The gospel came to the Western world when Paul prayed and received the Macedonian vision.
- Lydia became the first European convert when she went to a place of prayer.
- The Revelation was given to John when he prayed.
Do you see a pattern?
Spiritual awakening examples:
The first great awakening began in the heart of Theodore Frelinghuysen, a Dutch Reformed pastor who prayed seven years before all his deacons became Christians, then prayed until others joined him and the Awakening fell.
The second great awakening began with Isaac Baccus, a Baptist minister who called for a massive prayer movement.
The third began when a group of laymen began meeting for prayer on Wednesday, September 23, 1857 at the Old North Dutch Church in New York City. They were led by a Presbyterian businessman named Jeremiah Lamphier. The first day, six people came to his prayer meeting. The next week there were 14; then 23; then the group began to meet daily. They outgrew the church and began filling other churches and meeting halls throughout the city. Such meetings spread across the country. In a nation of 30 million, a million came to Christ in a single year.
The Fourth Great Awakening began in Wales in 1904 in the heart of a coal miner named Evan Roberts. He was convicted of his sins by the Spirit, and turned to God in prayer and repentance. He then began preaching to the young people in his church, calling them to prayer and repentance. Prayer meetings broke out all over Wales. Social conditions were affected dramatically. Tavern owners went bankrupt; police formed gospel quartets because they had no one to arrest. Coal mines shut down for a time because the miners stopped using profanity and the mules no longer understood them.
The revival spread to America, where ministers in Atlantic City, NJ reported that out of 50,000 people, only 50 adults were left unconverted. In Portland, Oregon, more than 200 stores closed daily from 11 to 2 so people could attend prayer meetings. In 1896, only 2,000 students were engaged in missionary studies; by 1906, 11,000 were enrolled. All because a group prayed for the power of God to extend the Kingdom of God in their Jerusalem and around the world.
Pray to receive the power of God
But why? Why pray to an all-knowing, all-loving, all-powerful God? He already knows our problems (Matthew 6:8). He wants to help; we cannot manipulate him with our words. So, why is prayer the key to the power of God?
My problem looks like this: does my prayer convince God to do something he would not otherwise do? If so, then am I talking God into doing the right thing? Am I better than he, and must convince him to do what is right? On the other hand, if my prayer does not change God and his work, then why pray?
I know that some say, “Prayer doesn’t change God, prayer changes me.” It’s true that prayer changes me, but what do we do when what needs changing is not us? A child to be healed? A lost person to be saved? A nation in need?
If I pray, do I convince God to do something good? If I don’t, why should I pray? Do you see the problem?
James said that we have not because we ask not (James 4:2). I think one of the chief reasons we don’t ask more urgently, pray more passionately, is that we’re not sure why we should. Why it matters. Why it changes things. And when we do pray, were’ not sure our praying really makes a significant difference.
We pray for rain, but do we bring our umbrellas? We pray for healing, but do we really believe it will happen?
A young man once asked Spurgeon why he was seeing so few respond to his preaching. Spurgeon asked, “Well, you don’t expect someone to come every time you preach, do you?” “No, of course not.” “That’s why they don’t,” Spurgeon concluded.
This is even more true of praying. The obvious problem of prayer is that the modern church does so little of it. The underlying problem is that we’re not sure why we should.
Here’s the answer which has helped me enormously: prayer doesn’t change God, it positions me to receive what he already wanted me to have. When we ask God to move, we give him permission to move. When we ask him to heal us, we admit that we need him to heal us and we want him to. Then he can.
Every parent here knows what it’s like to want to help your children more than they will let you. You can solve their math problem, or fix their toy, or help them decide where to go to school, but they must let you. Their request for help doesn’t change your heart, but theirs. Then you can give what you already wanted them to have.
This is why we pray: to know God. To know his heart, his mind, his Spirit. And to receive from him what he already wanted us to have. Not because our prayer earns God’s favor—it simply receives it. It receives what Almighty God, our heavenly Father, wants us to have.
If you agree that America needs God’s favor, God’s power, God’s help, then you must ask. Not to change God, but us.
I once heard Chuck Swindoll say at a Texas Baptist Evangelism Conference, “You can do great things for God after you pray. But you cannot do anything for God until you pray.” He’s right. When we pray we will receive God’s power. Power to work, to witness, to minister, to evangelize. Power to touch America. Power to touch the world.
Jonathan Edwards, the leader of one of America’s Great Awakenings, was asked the secret. He said, “Promote explicit agreement and visible union of God’s people in extraordinary prayer.” Andrew Murray explains why: “The man who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will make the greatest contribution to the world’s evangelization in history.”
Do you agree?
What’s your prayer life like today? How close are you to Jesus right now? How committed to the life of prayer, of communion with him? Is prayer an activity or a relationship for you?
Do you pray regularly for your country? For your president and other leaders, as Scripture commands us? For the salvation of our people?
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Pathology and autopsy studies have demonstrated that sudden disruption of vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque is responsible for most acute coronary syndromes. These plaques are characterized by a lipid-rich core with abundant inflammatory cells and a thin fibrous cap. Thermal strain imaging (TSI) using intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) has been proposed for high-risk arterial plaque detection, in which image contrast results from the temperature dependence of sound speed. It has the potential to distinguish a lipid-laden lesion from the arterial vascular wall due to its strong contrast between water-bearing and lipid-bearing tissue. Initial simulations indicate plaque identification is possible for a 1°C temperature rise. A phantom experiment using an IVUS imaging array further supports the concept, and results agree reasonably well with prediction.
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|Number of pages||7|
|Journal||IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control|
|State||Published - May 2005|
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- Acoustics and Ultrasonics
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Christian Gerber (born 24 May, 1952, in Switzerland) is an orthopedic surgeon, physician, scientist and medical teacher in orthopedic surgery. He is the current Chairman of the Department of Orthopedics at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. After studying medicine at the University of Berne, he was trained in orthopedic surgery in several Swiss hospitals, including the Davos Hospital and the University Hospital of Berne. He specialized in shoulder surgery at the University of Texas, San Antonio in 1984 and subsequently trained on tumor foot and ankle surgery as well as pediatric orthopedics in Paris in 1985. From 1985 to 1991 he served as a consultant at the Department of Orthopedics at the University of Berne, where in 1991 he was promoted to associate professor in orthopedic surgery. In 1992, he was appointed chief of the Department of Orthopedics in Fribourg and since 1995 he has worked in the Balgrist University Hospital in Zürich, where he holds the position of medical director and Chairman of the Department of Orthopedics. Christian Gerber created the RESORTHO foundation for research and education in musculoskeletal disorders to support the academic development of residents and junior staff. He also founded the international Harvard–Balgrist shoulder fellowship. He also established the Balgrist Campus, a privately funded musculoskeletal research and development institution based in Zürich. Beside his continuous clinical activity, he has also described novel surgical procedures such as the Latisimus dorsi transfer for a pseudoparalytic shoulder and he has described several important pathologies, such as the isolated rupture of the subscapularis tendon. As a result of his clinical experience, he developed clinical tests, such as the Gerber Lift Off test for a subscapular insufficiency. He is author of >300 scientific articles that were cited over 15000 times (as per Feb. 2014). He has received many awards for his clinical and research work including the Neer Award of the American Shoulder And Elbow Surgeons (ASES) on four occasions. In 2007 he received the Kappa Delta OREF Clinical Research award Award for the lifetime work “Rotator Cuff Disease: From Scientific Understanding to Patient Care”. In 2014, he received the ORS Arthur Steindler Award. | <urn:uuid:14764be6-f271-4cc7-b6c0-c803927fe32a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://biography.omicsonline.org/switzerland/surgery/christian-1401629 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.974194 | 515 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Experiencing positive and negative emotions together (i.e., co-occurrence) has been described as a marker of positive adaptation during stress and a strength of socioemotional aging. Using data from daily diary (N = 2,022; ages 33-84) and ecological momentary assessment (N = 190; ages 20-80) studies, we evaluate the utility of a common operationalization of co-occurrence, the within-person correlation between positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA). Then we test competing predictions regarding when co-occurrence will be observed and whether age differences will be present. Results indicate that the correlation is not an informative indicator of co-occurrence. Although correlations were stronger and more negative when stressors occurred (typically interpreted as lower co-occurrence), objective counts of emotion reports indicated that positive and negative emotions were 3 to 4 times more likely to co-occur when stressors were reported. This suggests that co-occurrence reflects the extent to which negative emotions intrude on typically positive emotional states, rather than the extent to which people maintain positive emotions during stress. The variances of both PA and NA increased at stressor reports, indicating that individuals reported a broader not narrower range of emotion during stress. Finally, older age was associated with less variability in NA and a lower likelihood of co-occurring positive and negative emotions. In sum, these findings cast doubt on the utility of the PA-NA correlation as an index of emotional co-occurrence, and question notion that greater emotional co-occurrence represents either a typical or adaptive emotional state in adults.
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- Social Psychology
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Cornelia Betsch is professor of health communication at the University of Erfurt, Germany. She is a trained psychologist. Her work aims at understanding principles of health behavior by applying a judgment and decision-making and strategic-interaction perspective to infectious disease control – especially with regard to the vaccination decision, emerging infections and prudent use of antibiotics. Her team, the Psychology and infectious Diseases Lab, develops techniques and tools to improve an unbiased vaccination decision, for example by debunking vaccination myths or countering vocal vaccine deniers. Cornelia’s credo is that research should aim at high understanding of the issue and, at the same time, high usability of the results. Therefore, she works with national and international health organizations to transfer research into practice and to foster evidence-based, behavioural insights-related decisions. Her research is funded by independent bodies.
International Conference on Social Dilemmas
An interdisciplinary meeting of social dilemma researchers.
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November 2 : The Chhath festival observed as a common cultural symbol of Tarai/Madhes is beginning today.
The festive fanfare has been seen in different parts including Ranipokhari, Gaurighat, Kupondole of Kathmandu Valley as well.
The festival is dedicated to the Sun God, with offerings made to the rising and setting Sun. It is observed for four days, from Kartik Shukala Chaturthi to Kartik Shukla Saptami as per the lunar calendar.
It usually falls between October and November in the Gregorian calendar. The Sun considered as the God of energy and of the life-force, is worshiped during the Chhath festival to promote well-being, prosperity and progress.
The ritual of Chhath festival includes taking holy bath, fasting and worshiping the Sun for a long time and offering prasad and argha (curd) to the ‘Rising and Setting Sun’.
Chhath is a festival of bathing and worshipping that follows a period of abstinence and segregation of the worshiper from the main household for four days. During this period, the worshiper observes purity, and sleeps on the floor on a single blanket. This is the only holy festival which has no involvement of any pandit (priest).
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Let as assume that we have a binary classification problem. We also have several classifiers. Instead of assigning a vector to a class (0 or 1) each classifier returns a probability that a given vector belongs to class 1. It means that for each input vector, that has to be classified we get a vector of real number between 0 and 1. For example:
(0.81, 0.67, 0.43, 0.99, 0.53)
where the number of components (probabilities) is equal to the number of classifiers. Now we want to "combine" these "weak" classifiers to get on "strong" classifier. In other words we need to find a way to map a given vector of probabilities into one number (probability).
So, my questions is: What is the "correct" way to do it? Of course I can train another classifier that uses the vector of probabilities and returns one probability. In other words we can find out how to combine the "weak" probabilities in an empirical way. However, I assume, that we can use the fact that the components of the vector are not just "some numbers" (or features) they are probabilities, they are already predictions and, as a consequence, they have to be combined in a corresponding appropriate way.
In comments it has been proposed to average the "weak" probabilities. But what if it is possible to estimate quality (power) of each "weak" classifier (and it should be possible), doesn't it make sense to suppress "bad" classifier (for example by using their predictions (probabilities) with smaller weights or by ignoring them completely)? Does it makes sense to use just one (the best) weak classifier? Does it make sense to check correlation between the weak classifiers. For example what should we do if two "weak" classifiers always give the same result. Shouldn't we through one of them out as not having any additional value? | <urn:uuid:75b9d0e5-c8fd-479c-821e-518558d6c354> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/150995/how-to-combine-weak-classfiers-to-get-a-strong-one | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.95167 | 414 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Moving hives two feet
If you want to move a hive two feet, just stack the boxes off onto some kind of board (top, bottom etc.) and restack on the new location. Stacking them off and then restacking is so they are in the right order.
Moving hives two miles
If you want to move a hive two miles or more, you need to anchor the hive together for the trip and you need to load it. Since I am usually doing this by myself I will give instructions from that view.
I do this when the bees are flying. First I put my transportation as close as I can get to the hive. Directly behind it is best. I have a small trailer I often use, but a pickup would work too. I put a bottom board in the trailer where I think I want the hive to be. I put a strap under it so I can strap the hive together. You can buy small ones at the hardware store but they also sell them at bee supply places. I stack the boxes on the bottom board as I take them off. This leaves the hive in reverse order which will get reversed back when we unload. After all the boxes are on you need to nail all of the boxes together somehow. They sell 2" wide staples that can be used, or you can cut small (2 ½") squares of plywood and nail it between the parts of the hive to attach it all together. Cut a piece of #8 hardware cloth the length of the entrance and fold it into a 90 degree. It should fit tight enough to keep the bees in. Leave the entrance open until you are ready to leave.
Strap it together tightly and tie it anyway you need to or wedge it with empty bee boxes so that the hive can't shift or tip over on a curve or a sudden stop.
Next, you need to take into account your situation. If you have other hives at this location and the hive you are moving could lose a few foragers without hurting it much, just close it up and go. The returning foragers will find another hive. If this is your only hive or you are really concerned about losing foragers, then wait for dark and then close it up and go.
When you get to the new location, if it's already daylight, just unload the hive by putting a bottom board on the new location, removing the staples or plywood and stacking the boxes off onto it. If it's dark, wait for daylight and do the same thing.
Put a branch in front of the entrance so any bee leaving notices it. A green sapling with some leaves is nice so they have to fly through the middle of it. It causes them to stop and pay attention and reorient. This is useful at any distance of moving.
Other variations on this are a board (as mentioned in Dadant's the Hive and the Honey Bee) or grass plugging the entrance as mentioned many places.
"Bees moved less than a mile are likely to return in considerable numbers to their old location. This can be minimized by throwing grass or straw over their entrances to force them to take note of the change when they emerge for the first time from the hive at its new location" --The How-To-Do-It book of Beekeeping, Richard Taylor
Moving beehives more than 2 feet and less than 2 miles
This is a subject apparently full of controversy. There is an old saying that you move a hive 2 feet or two miles. I often need to move them 100 yards more or less. I've never seen that it was a problem. I move hives as seldom as I need to because anytime you move a hive even two feet, it disrupts the hive for a day. But if I need to, I move them. I didn't invent all of the concepts here, but some of them I refined for my uses. Here is my technique.
It occurs to me that a lot of detail that is intuitively obvious to me may not be to a newbie. So here is a detailed description of how I usually move hives single handedly. This is assuming the hive is too heavy to move in one piece or I lack the help to do so. But it works so well, I don't even think about using other methods. But if you have help and can lift it, you can block the entrance and move it all at once at night and put a branch in front. I know every time I tell any version of this method, someone quotes the "2 feet or 2 miles" rule and says you can't do it and you can only move them two feet or you'll lose all your bees. I've done this many times with no noticeable loss of workforce and no bees clustering at the old location by the next night.
Moving hives 100 yards or less by yourself.
When bees fly out of the hive, normally, they pay no attention to where they are. They know where they live and don’t even consider it. When they fly back they look for familiar landmarks and follow them home. They orient when they first leave the hive but only certain conditions cause them to reorient after that. One is confinement. Any confinement will cause some. 72 hours causes about the maximum reorientation. After that it’s difficult to tell the difference. A blockage of the exit causes reorientation. People sometime stuff the entrance with grass. This combines the act of removing it, which sets off reorientation, with some confinement, which causes some reorientation. An obvious obstruction that causes them to deviate from their normal exit will set off reorientation. A branch or a board in front of the entrance that causes them to have to fly around it, will cause them to pay attention to where they are
When a bee is returning to the hive they tend to be on “autopilot”. It’s like you driving home from work. You don’t think about where the turns are, you just make them. If they have done no reorientation, they will see landmarks and return to the old hive and have no idea where to go. If they have reoriented, they will still fly back to the old location, but when they see the hive isn’t there, they think back to when they left and remember
Finding the new hive
Assuming they did not reorient and they have to figure out where the new hive is, then they have to do increasing spirals out until they smell the hive. Odds are they will move into the first hive they find doing this. How long it takes to find the new location is exponential to the distance. In other words if it’s twice as far away it will take them four times as long to find it.
Keep in mind that cold weather can complicate things in odd contradictory ways. On the one hand if they have been confined for 72 hours and you move them, they are most likely to reorient. On the other hand if they fly back to the old location they have to find the hive again before they get too chilled or they will die.
Leaving a box
Leaving a box at the old location is another of those complicated things. If you leave one from the start they all return and just stay there. If you leave nothing at the old location they will look for the new location, but some may get stuck at the old location. If you wait until just before dark to put a box there you will motivate them to find the new location, but still give them somewhere to go. You can move that to the new location, and in warm weather, just set it beside the hive. In cold weather you may need to put this box on top, but that’s not a pleasant thing to do in the dark.
Second bottom board. If you don't have one, some board big enough to set the hives on will do.
Third bottom board. A cover cloth is useful but not necessary. If you don't have one, some board big enough to set the hives on will do.
Second lid. If you don't have one, any board big enough to put on top of the hive will work.
Gloves (optional but nice)
Bee Suit (optional but nice)
An old branch that will stick up nicely and disrupt the flight of the bees leaving the hive.
Suit up to your comfort level. Remember we will not be manipulating frames so the gloves are not a big disadvantage.
I usually put a puff of smoke in the entrance, then pull off the lid and put a puff in the inner cover (unless you don't have an inner cover).
Then I put four or five good strong puffs of smoke in the entrance and wait a minute. Then repeat four or five puffs and wait a minute. I do this until I see just a whiff of smoke out the top. This is more smoke than I usually use, but we will be rearranging this hive twice and I need it calm all the way through. If they are getting irate or you are moving an exceptionally strong and large hive and it is taking some time, feel free to smoke some more from time to time.
Wait about three minutes before opening the hive.
Set the second bottom board next to the hive. Take the top box off, lid and all and put it on the bottom board. Remove the lid and move each box from the old location to the new bottom board until you reach the last box. You don't need to restack the last one because we are moving it first. You now have reversed the order of the boxes so when we move them to the new location they will be in the correct order.
Put the second lid on the stack of boxes to keep the bees calm and the lid on the last brood box so they won't fly in your face. Carry the last brood box, with the lid and bottom board to the new location.
Put the branch in front of the entrance so that the bees have to fly through the branch. It doesn't have to be so thick they have trouble getting through it, just enough that they can't miss seeing it. This is to cause them to reorient when they leave. If you watch them they will start by circling the hive, then make larger circles until they have placed the hive in their mental map of their world. Since you have moved the hive to a new place and that place is within their known world they do this fairly quickly.
Remove the lid, if you want to use a cloth cover, put it on the brood box. It will help keep the bees calm, but you have to get it off with a box in your hands when you come back. That is why I like a cloth instead of a cover. Take the lid back to the old location. Take the top box and lid off and put in on the third bottom board. Put the lid you that you brought back on the stack of boxes. Again this is so there is always a lid on the stack of boxes and a lid on the box you are moving. This helps keep the bees calm. You may be thinking, that the bottom is exposed while you're carrying it. Yes, but the bees don't move down when they are getting jostled, they move up. Not that I'd wear shorts while moving the boxes.
Carry the second box over to the new location and catch the cloth (if you used one) with one finger while still holding the box and lift the cloth off and set the box down. Remove the lid and replace it with the cloth.
Go back to the old location with the lid and repeat until all of the boxes but one are at the new location. When you do the next to the last box, leave the lid on it at the new location.
When you get to the last box, leave it at the old location. Leave the inner cover on, put on the second lid. If you didn't have a real bottom board, then put a stick between the box and the board you have it on to leave room for the bees to get in.
After dark, block the entrance, or pull out the stick and carry it to the new location with the bottom in place. Just set it beside the hive with the branches in front of its entrance. Open the entrance or replace the stick. Do not try to put this box on the hive in the dark! If you have never opened a hive in the dark, consider yourself wise or fortunate and don't. The bees can be very defensive after dark and will attack and cling and crawl on you looking for a way to sting.
The next morning you can put the last box on top of the hive. Remove any equipment from the old site so they don't start clustering there.
Some field bees will return to the old location. Most will not. The ones that do will circle until they find the new location and then will be fine after that.
You can check in the evening before dark and see if any are clustering at the old location. If so, put a super there and they will move into it and you can move them after dark again. I have never had any clustered there by the next day and seldom had any at all.
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The Boeing 737-800 is one of the most popular choices for passenger transport on the market today priced in at 82 million dollars. It sports its powerful crew and passenger carrying abilities elegantly as it takes flight. This airliner can hold either 162 first class seats, 175 business class or 189 economy seats in total. In reality, most models will operate in a combination of classes.
Boeing set out to increase production output and began development on the Boeing 737-800. The 800 was developed to replace the 727 on short routes. Based on the 737-400 the 800 variant would improve upon seating capacity over its 400 variant. This narrow body jet airliner had first rolled out on June 30, 1997 and shortly after was had its first test flight with he pilot Jim McRoberts in the cockpit. The 800 variant is the stretched version of the 737-700. Since development and production Boeing has built 10,574 737-800s.
Production has run from 1998 to present day. The Boeing 737-800 to date has around 5000 units produced and 2019 saw 138 of the 800 roll of the production line. It is produced in the Renton plant in Washington by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. In the 90s Boeing produced 80% of components in house including the wings, fuselage and tall assemblies. Later on Boeing contracted out such production to other suppliers.
Orders and Delivery
Boeing’s 737-800 isn’t called the most popular airliner for no reason. It’s sales cant be matched. Boeing supplied 10,574 since initial development as of 2020. Boeing has its 737 in almost every single developed nation. The 737-800 is used in airlines such as Aircal, Delta Air Lines, New York Air and United Airlines just to name a few.
The design of the 737-800 lends itself to the sleek size and prowess of this aircraft. The design of the 800 comes from studying the pitfalls of the 727. The 800 being based of the 400 is designed for short routes. The initial concept included podded engines and a T-tail as seen on the 727. However engineers designing the 737 opted to lighten the structure with the engines underneath he wings and allow for the fuselage to be widened for six-abreast seating.
Cockpit / Flight Deck
Boeing uses Rockwell Collins avionics for the 737-800. The cockpit is a dual seat design. There aren’t to many differences between each variant. Most of the differences comes from lighting in the overhead giving clear readings of digital gauges. Two panels control the displays one either side of the cabin.
Cabin / Seating
Seating in the 737 was a result of the design when moving the engines underneath the wings. As mentioned this allowed the fuselage to be expanded and have six-abreast seating. The total capacity is 526 seats broken down to 162 first class seats, 175 business class and 189 economy seats.
The massive 800 variant is powered by two 2Snecma / CFM56-7B27 underwing turbofans putting out a respectable 27,300 pound-force. They move the 800 along at a max cruise speed of 473 knots. The 747-800 can climb to 40,000 feet and will burn 0.44 nautical mile per gallon. It also boasts a 3,060 Nautical Mile or 5,667 Kilometers travel range.
The Boeing 737-800 variant has as mentioned 27300 pound-force delivered by two turbo fans. It requires a 2316 meter or 7,598.33 feet of take off distance. For land the 800 needs 1372 meters or 4,501.26 feet. The service ceiling is 41,000 feet.
Versions / Variants
There are many variants of the 737. The 800 shares a lineage with the 300, 400, and 500. It is notably more stretched than and based off of the original 400. Each version in the 737 family fills a differ role. A unique variant in the 737 family is the 737 Convertible which is both a passenger and cargo airliner.
The Boeing 737-800 fills the role upping the capacity of the 300 up the line tot the 500 version. The 800 is mainly used for passenger transport with its 526 seating capacity. And the 800 has shown to be one of the most popular models for filling this role.
Notable accidents or incidents
Some accidents involving the Boeing 737-800 have resulted in the death or injury of passengers aboard. In one insistence a 737-800 on a route from Istanbul crashing in a field near the Polderbaan. The airliner was attempting to land at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. The aircraft broke into 3 pieces after crashing. Out of the 135 passengers on board there were 9 fatalities and 84 suffered injuries. The cause of the accident was determined to be a malfunctioning left radar altimeter.
737-800 Direct competitors
Boeing’s main competitor is with Airbus. Their version of the Boeing 737-800 is the Airbus A220. Airbus has come to dethrone the 737 as the leader of the industry. A previous model which had success was Airbuses A320. Although successful the A320 could not take on the Boeing 737’s success. | <urn:uuid:fb8cc2ca-f6bc-41e1-99b5-204d1bbf6bb3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aerocorner.com/aircraft/boeing-737-800/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.942855 | 1,093 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Arie M. Dubnov is a Senior Lecturer at the School of History at the University of Haifa, Israel. He is the author of Isaiah Berlin: The Journey of a Jewish Liberal (2012), and the editor of Zionism – A View from the Outside (2010 [in Hebrew]), seeking to put Zionist history in a larger comparative trajectory. In addition, Dubnov has published essays in journals such as Nations & Nationalism, Review of Politics, Modern Intellectual History, History of European Ideas, The Journal of Israeli History. Currently, Dubnov is involved in two research projects. The first seeks to trace the genealogy of the idea of partition in the British interwar Imperial context, and to uncover other alternative, neglected federalist political schemes that were circulating at the time. The second, putting Hannah Arendt’s political philosophy and analysis of antisemitism in historical context, examines her writings from the 1940s and 1950s and her unique relationships with Salo W. Baron and the New York intellectuals of that time. | <urn:uuid:480b82d5-b866-43ed-bb45-514882c6a323> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jewishstudies.stanford.edu/people/arie-dubnov | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.928289 | 213 | 1.90625 | 2 |
Hey, everybody! Get out your wallets and check your friendships at the door! Home-party selling is back!
And no one is safe.
Looking slick and very pricey, direct sale products are lurking again in the suburbs of our land, where stay-at-home moms hungry for adult contact and extra income now push bakeware, educational toys and other products to friends and neighbors.
Working on a commission-only system, the women are bringing huge profits to a group of companies that use a pyramid-like sales structure to keep them supplied with fresh, unsalaried labor despite rapid turnover.
While statistics show that the odds of financial success for the women who sell are slim, the promise of cash and "a life" remains seductive. These days it is hard to find a mother at home who isn't selling or being pestered to buy Discovery Toys, DK Books or the baking stones, apple peelers and marble rolling pins of the Pampered Chef, which employs an army of "independent kitchen consultants" to sell in living rooms across the nation.
For companies that sell this way, business has "been on a steady rise" for the past decade, says Amy Robinson, a spokeswoman for the Direct Selling Association, whose 150 members include the Pampered Chef; Creative Memories, a scrapbook company; and Discovery Toys; as well as Amway Corp. and Tupperware Corp.
Direct sales in the United States totaled about $23 billion in 1998, says Robinson, up from $22.1 billion in 1997. There were 9.7 million people -- 73 percent of them female -- selling directly to consumers in 1998, up from 9.3 million in 1997.
While there are no figures on the exact percentage of stay-at-home mothers in the direct-sales workforce, they are believed to constitute a majority. Nearly four decades after Betty Friedan urged middle-class women to find fulfilling work outside the home -- whether or not it was financially necessary -- stalwarts of the stay-at-home camp are digging in deeper, looking to supplement family finances while keeping a commitment to be at home with the children.
Direct-sales companies are keenly aware of this dilemma and have made "home business" more attractive than ever, especially to women strapped not only for cash but for a challenge of greater complexity than doing the laundry. The companies talk up fun, friendship and financial independence, and the system they rely on is familiar to anyone (perhaps everyone, at this point) who has had a brush with Tupperware.
Here's how it works: A group of women -- usually stay-at-home mothers -- gathers for a "party" at one of the women's houses, where a "consultant," trained by tapes from her network marketing firm, demonstrates sample products and makes a presentation.
Her show begins with a pitch to her friends to host similar parties. It is a fervent request, often in the form of a testimonial about the benefits of working for the company, that is inspired by the fact that the consultant can only hope to make decent money if she gets a lot of women to sell for her, at which point she gets a percentage of their sales.
Next comes a demonstration of the product (a Pampered Chef consultant will whip up a few dishes using the company's equipment, for example) and a catalog is passed around in an atmosphere of guilt disguised by cheerfulness. Orders -- and checks -- are given to the consultant, who has the goods shipped to the party hostess for sorting and distribution.
The hostess, in return for her trouble, gets a discount on the products she orders. The more the guests order, the more merchandise she gets -- so there's an unspoken agreement that everyone has to buy something. For the consultants -- and the companies -- the real money comes from referrals. If a party attendee hosts her own party, with new friends, the company gets more potential customers.
"It's hardest when you have a friend who's selling these goods, because then you can't just buy something and be done," says one veteran of the circuit who has been to five of the parties in the past year and declined invitations to another two. "You feel totally obligated to have a party, and then you just pray that your saleswoman friend isn't too pushy to your other friends and neighbors. And then you feel bad for inviting the others, since you know they'll feel like they have to buy something."
The products don't come cheap. Pampered Chef, for instance, sells items comparable to those found in Williams Sonoma and major department stores. "I really think I could find virtually everything these parties sell for less in the regular retail market," says party veteran Michelle Cortez of Maple Grove, Minn. (At one party, a DK Books consultant was at a loss when asked to explain why Price Club was selling the same books for half the price. The answer: Price Club doesn't carry the full line.)
How much money does the average part-time consultant make, based on the amount of time and effort spent on the company's behalf? It's not easy to quantify. While the number of hours spent preparing for and presenting at events might be few, the job also involves making telephone calls and sending invitations and thank-you notes, in addition to bookkeeping, order management and fielding requests for small orders.
"Those are much harder to cost out," says Bundeep Rau, chairman of the marketing department at George Washington University's business school. "The average person doesn't make huge sums."
In fact, the average gross income for a person in a so-called multilevel-marketing venture is less than $100 a month, according to Paul and Sarah Edwards, authors of 10 books on running a business.
Then there's the problem of running out of people to buy the products once friends and friends of friends have been tapped out. "Every one of those [companies'] markets has a saturation point," says Barbara Bird, a professor of management at American University in Washington. "Those things make money for the early people who aggressively seek out subordinate sales agents," but "if there are enough people out there selling the product, I imagine it becomes difficult to be a direct salesperson."
Making money by pressuring friends and relatives is "one of the nasty little realities" of the direct-sales business, says Edwards. To make real money, he said, "you have to market" the product -- which takes time and energy. And marketing isn't what most women have in mind when they decide to get into the home-party selling business. They figure they can get by selling to friends, co-workers and other acquaintances.
It's easy to see how the list of potential customers could grow as friends and acquaintances lean on their friends and acquaintances to buy the products and hold their own parties. But it's not easy to gauge the earnings potential of a company's compensation plan, as different levels of consultants earn different percentages based on different types of sales. "They can be very intricate," says Edwards. "You almost need to be an economist and a lawyer to understand these plans."
"By the time you add up your expenses -- stamps, copying, paper, travel, gas, etc., etc., etc. -- the profit is gone," says one former Creative Memories consultant, who gave up after three years of failing to make money. "The real way to make big bucks was to sign up new consultants under you," said the consultant, who didn't want her name used. "Because I just depended on my product sales for money, I didn't make a profit."
Creative Memories spokeswoman Susan Iida-Pederson said the majority of the company's 45,000 U.S. and Canadian sales "consultants" are stay-at-home mothers. "Many of them have second jobs," she said. Many don't realize that their selling gigs are real jobs, requiring a contract that obligates them to host a certain number of shows or, in some cases, buy some of the products to keep as inventory.
That was the "biggest profit-eating monster," according to the ex-Creative Memories consultant. "By contract, I was required to make a minimum purchase of $300 in commissionable inventory per quarter," she said. "That doesn't sound like a lot, but if you are having a really slow quarter and have only sold $200 -- which is about $50 in profit -- and you have to turn around and order $300 in new products that you don't really need at the time, it gets to be quite frustrating."
"I also felt that I was putting in a lot of time and effort on the phone and preparing for workshops, doing mailings, attending meetings and then the customers were not showing up for workshops," she says. "Their interest and excitement for their projects would diminish. I have a family to take care of and didn't find the work I was doing paying off."
Even hosting a party can be costly. While the hostess can get cheap or even free merchandise as a reward for her effort, she has to buy refreshments and party supplies. The Pampered Chef asks hostesses to pick up the tab for the demonstration dishes prepared by the consultant.
Yet the companies themselves are doing very well. Sales for the Pampered Chef were about $600 million last year, the company says. That's up from $418 million in 1997 and $324 million in 1996. The company, like most of the other home-selling firms, is privately held and doesn't release income figures.
The "independent consultant" arrangement benefits the companies in several ways, making it profitable even as individual consultants exhaust their networks of friends and relatives. "The overhead is extremely low," said Bird. "They don't have to pay people to manage." They also avoid the "slotting fees" stores charge for displaying products, said Edwards. "The cost of entry into the national marketplace is much lower," he said.
Most consultants don't last very long in the business, but the arrangement does work for some. It has to work for others, who are trying to supplement a single income and stay out of debt. In a survey of consultants this year, 57 percent said they planned to continue selling, said the Direct Selling Association's Robinson.
Eleni Scheidt of Potomac, Md., who works as a "kitchen consultant" for Pampered Chef, figures she makes $50 an hour at her job, working as many -- or as few -- hours as she wants. As a former executive in the corporate sales and marketing world, she is better prepared than most to tease some money out of the process.
She says she doesn't pressure people at her parties to buy anything or to hold their own parties. "I'm of the belief that adults can say no," she says. But what about friends, who happen to be adults?
"I always feel like I have to buy something when I go to these parties," says Cortez.
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What is an ankle sprain?
A sprained ankle is a very common ankle injury. A sprain involves stretching or tearing of the ankle ligaments. The most common is an inversion injury where the ankle turns inward, injuring the ligaments on the outside of the ankle.
The most common injury sustained in a sprained ankle is to the anterior talo-fibula ligament (ATFL). (See figure) If the sprain is severe there might also be damage to the calcaneo-fibula ligament (CFL) (See figure). In addition to the ligament injury there may also be injury to tendons, bone and other joint tissues, which is why it is important to get an accurate diagnosis of your ankle sprain. Severe ankle sprains may be associated with a fracture.
Ankle Sprain Treatment
Establishing an accurate diagnosis from the start is important. The treatment will be different if there are associated fractures or other injuries.
RICE (Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation) as soon as possible.
R is for rest. It is important to rest the injury to reduce pain and prevent further damage. Crutches may be needed if there is severe pain when putting weight on the injured side.
I is for ICE. Applying ice and compression can ease the pain and reduce swelling. Apply an ice pack wrapped in a towel immediately following injury for 15 minutes. Repeat this every 4 hours.
C is for compression - This reduces bleeding and helps reduce swelling. Elastic bandaging is excellent for providing support and compression.
E is for Elevation - Uses gravity to reduce bleeding and swelling by allowing fluids to flow away from the site of injury.
Protect the injured ankle with an ankle support. Tape can also be used during the rehabilitation phase to protect the joint and give proprioceptive feedback to the ankle to decrease further injury.
What we can do?
A sports medicine physician can assess the injury to establish an accurate diagnosis. Pain medications can be prescribed to help with pain and swelling.
Sports physiotherapist can help with:
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The incidence of primary tuberculosis of the skin relative to that of other forms of primary tuberculosis has been estimated from postmortem studies. Of 2,114 cases of tuberculosis reported by various investigators in which the site of the primary involvement was determined, Ghon and Kudlich1 found three (0.14 per cent) to be instances of primary tuberculosis of the skin.
Relatively few cases of undoubted primary tuberculosis of the skin have been reported, exclusive of tuberculosis following circumcision and primary tuberculosis of the skin produced by BCG. Krantz2 in 1931 collected reports of thirty-four cases of primary tuberculosis of the skin from the literature. Histologic or bacteriologic proof of tuberculosis of the skin was reported in fifteen of the cases and postmortem evidence in four, while in the remaining fifteen only clinical data were mentioned. In addition, Krantz2 listed eight other cases which in his opinion were probably
KERESZTURI C, SIEGEL M. PRIMARY TUBERCULOSIS OF THE SKIN: REPORT OF TWO CASES. Am J Dis Child. 1936;51(4):847–855. doi:10.1001/archpedi.1936.01970160085008
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How to Remove Tartar From Teeth at Home
Opting for a regular dental cleaning gives your teeth that sparkly white look. However, they might become discolored and appear dull no sooner than later.
Even if you floss or brush regularly, the color of your teeth will change by the day. And this is because food particles mix with bacteria produced in the mouth, leading to a sticky film commonly known as tartar or plaque.
Not to worry, there are homemade remedies that can help you get rid of tartar. They include:
- Baking Soda: This helps to neutralize harmful acids from the things you eat, hence eliminating bacteria and leaving your teeth whiter. To use it: put baking soda on a wet toothbrush, leave for 10 to 15 minutes, and then rinse. Repeat this daily.
- White Vinegar: This is an acetic acid, which means that it is effective in preventing infections and killing bacteria in the mouth. To use: mix two tablespoons of white vinegar and a cup of warm water. This water should contain salt. Gargle the result once a day to eliminate tartar between your gum and teeth.
- Aloe Vera and Glycerine: Add half a cup of baking soda in a cup of water that has a tablespoon of aloe vera gel. Also include lemon essential oils, 3 tablespoons of vegetable glycerine, and then scrub your teeth with the mixture.
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The ubuntu principles are part of a South African philosophy that people all over the world could use a little more of. Simply put, ubuntu is a Zulu or Xhosa word that means humanity. It’s the belief that “I” cannot be made without “we” and that we are not in competition with one another, but rather we rely on community and togetherness for our own personhood.
Perhaps you’ve heard of ubuntu from the popular fable of an anthropologist in Africa who perfectly illustrated the concept of ubuntu using a simple game. It’s said that the anthropologist wanted to treat the children of a tribe in Africa and decided to buy them a basket of sweets. The anthropologist set the basket next to a tree and told all the children that they could race to the basket and the first person to make it won the treats. The children then grabbed each others? hands and ran to the basket so they could share their treats together. When the anthropologist asked why, they replied “Ubuntu! How could one of us be happy if all the others are sad?”
True or not, this is a great illustration of ubuntu principles. Rather than strict individualism which is popular in Western societies, or the thinking that you can “claw your way to the top” by competing with others, ubuntu relies on human interdependence and togetherness so no one is left behind. It’s not “I think therefore I am”, it’s “I am because you are.”
Want a more concrete definition? Take this quote from a book by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, ubuntu theologist, Nobel Prize winner, and former chairman of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC):
“A person with Ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, based from a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.”
These are the heart warming stories that we all cling to and the things we need more of in the world. They’re the things that WORK to end inequality and suffering (as proven by the TRC) and yet, we’re conditioned to hold on to what we have in anticipation of a future rainy day while ignoring all the storms coming down over other people’s heads.
Ubuntu does not mean letting others “walk all over you” or putting yourself on the back burner. Perhaps this is where some people tend to jump ship. Empathy, trust, and community are among the most important pillars of ubuntu. It’s about strengthening relationships, making connections, responsibility, togetherness, and sharing acts of kindness. Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in every moment, for everyone, wherever we are.
Here we are, getting our footing in the new year after nearly a year of living in a global pandemic. Now more than ever people are realizing how important community and togetherness was and is to their mental and physical well-being. We’ve also endured a tumultuous year of political and social justice movements. We’ve experienced a division like never before, both geographically and socially. It’s time to really give these ubuntu principles a try.
When we brighten someone else’s day with a kind word or gesture or put their needs above our own, both parties benefit. We can check in on our friends to remind them that they are not alone and that the community is still strong as well. We can perform balcony concerts or karaoke together to share creativity and light. We can share words of kindness on social media to remind others that connection really is possible, even if through a screen. Most importantly, we can lead an example for our children to become empathetic, resilient, and caring adults. We can even learn from them too.
The spirit of those children who joined hands to share their simple delight of candy were such a powerful metaphor. That candy must have tasted so much sweeter for so much longer because it was tied to a memory of togetherness and friendship – of shared joy. Those are the feelings and skills we want to foster in our young ones through the HAPPÉ program.
HAPPÉ and the ubuntu principles have many different parallels:
HAPPɒs Mission I’m Possible challenges encourage kids to find and cherish happy moments, like sharing a smile or kind word with a friend or stranger. They challenge children to make a positive difference in someone’s life and to measure their impact both physically and emotionally for the “giver” and the “receiver”. Our goal is to help children become aware of their own emotions while building empathy and an understanding of the different feelings and walks of life their peers have. Happiness, community, and kindness come first and productivity comes second, not the other way around.
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The future of cryptocurrencies in the 50th US state Hawaii looks bright after a recent revelation. According to a press release posted on Tuesday, Hawaii has introduced a new digital currency sandbox initiative aimed at winning over cryptocurrency companies. The state also hopes to become the bellwether of cryptocurrency adoption in the United States.
Hawaii Introduces Sandbox Initiative To Entice Cryptocurrency Businesses
On March 17, Governor David Ige of Hawaii revealed that the state will soon be open for crypto business following a sandbox initiative dubbed “Digital Currency Innovation Lab”. The initiative is a collaborative effort between the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Division of Financial Institutions (DFI) and Hawaii Technology Development Corporation (HTDC).
The pilot program is expected to run for approximately two years and the profound knowledge acquired during this time will lay the groundwork for future crypto-friendly regulations in the state.
Moreover, during the 2-year period, cryptocurrency businesses will be allowed to go on their normal operations without being required to apply for a state money transmitter license.
It should be noted that the crypto companies selected for this initiative will undergo rigorous review to make sure that they uphold the rights of consumers in Hawaii and they have enough capital and expertise to set up shop in the state.
The application window for the crypto companies interested in the program will close on May 1. These companies will be expected to pay a $500 non-refundable application fee and an additional $1000 participation fee for every term.
Hopes Of Becoming An Early Cryptocurrency Adopter
Although the state of Hawaii had not particularly banned crypto businesses in the past, prominent companies like Coinbase had been forced to terminate their services to their Hawaii customers due to ridiculous cryptocurrency policies. In particular, the state demanded that crypto companies adhere to the policy of holding cash, equivalent to the crypto holdings of their customers.
This requirement proved to be too unbearable with several other crypto-centric businesses steering clear of Hawaii. However, the acting executive director of HTDC, Len Higashi, is optimistic that the state will implement the lessons learned during the pilot program and lead the country to become “an early adopter” of cryptocurrencies.
“By spearheading the Digital Currency Innovation Lab, Hawaii can position itself on the forefront of financial technology and potentially, reap the economic benefits that accompany the leadership stance taken.“
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Google Analytics is a powerful tool when it comes to assessing the performance of a website. It allows e-businesses and web designers to get a clearer picture of how website users interact with their products and services. They can then establish which pages are the most successful and which need work. But in order to make the most of the facts and figures that Google Analytics provides, you need to be able to interpret the information with confidence. Only then can you start to use it to implement effective change.
A great place to start is your landing pages. This is where visitors enter your site and, contrary to popular belief, this is not always the home page. Learning where users enter your site and what they do from their point of entry is a great way to evaluate the effectiveness of each page and user pathway. For those still getting grips on the basics, check out this easy-to-use Google Analytics guide from SimplyBusiness, and then read on.
In Google Analytics, go to Content Pages => Site Content => Landing Pages to find your landing statistics. You’ll see which pages are most frequently landed on, the average time spent on the site, the number of pages viewed per visit, the percentage of new visitors and bounce rates.
Landing Pages and Navigation
Identifying the pages that are most likely to be landed on may illuminate navigational problems. If users are most likely to enter your site on a blog page, for example, you need to show them quickly and clearly what else your site has to offer. Your site needs to be easy to navigate from every single port of entry. Even on static content pages – things like blog pages or points of further information – should include a call to action and intuitive direction to the rest of the site.
A ‘bounce’ occurs when a user leaves a site immediately upon entering, taking no follow up actions such as clicking to view another page, completing a site registration form or making a purchase. The ‘bounce rate’ is the percentage of visitors who ‘bounce.’ If bounce rates are high, consider these four things:
- Are the keywords taking visitors to your site relevant to your services? Think about modifying your onsite content to optimize relevant search terms.
- Does the landing page encourage further use? If your design isn’t sufficiently intuitive or fails to follow a logical eye path, visitors may be confused and leave. Web users don’t have the patience to learn to navigate a complicated site. Keep things simple and direct users in the clearest, simplest way.
- Does the page load quickly? Most estimates assume that the average visitor will “bounce” if the page they land on has not loaded within four seconds. Run your site through a website speed tester to get some hard numbers detailing out load times from various regions.
- Does the landing page include a clear call to action? If it is not obvious your users what the site does and why it’s there as soon as they land they won’t stick around to find out.
Use your bounce rates to help identify problem pages and build creative solutions accordingly. See the DeftCreative site for 20 ways to improve your bounce rate
Customize Your Statistics
For confident users of Google Analytics, the possibilities are endless. If you really want the lowdown on your landing pages you can set up custom reports to show you which routes through your site produce the most conversions and work to increase this for every page. The dimension of the report will be ‘landing pages’ and the metrics will be something like ‘entrances,’ ‘abandonment rate,’ ‘goals completed,’ and ‘value in $.’ (See here for a comprehensive dictionary of dimensions and metrics in Google Analytics).
You can then begin to look at advanced segments, to zoom in on particular search terms on landing pages or a certain stream of traffic (i.e. traffic from Twitter or a linked site). Certain terms or pathways will provide better conversion rates. Once you have got this information at your disposal, you can start to think carefully about why this is and then get creative thinking about solutions to up the performance of particular segments. The Google Analytics blogsite has a great introduction to advanced segments.
There’s always a reason for people’s actions on your website. Tracking the numbers behind these actions will benefit any webmaster, from beginner to pro. Testing, and subsequently recording how any site change affects user interaction will prove valuable in the never-ending quest for landing page optimization.
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WE HAVE moved a step closer to finding cosmic monopoles – magnetic poles without their opposite. Two experiments using strange stuff called spin ice have provided the best evidence yet that monopoles really are out there.
Nearly 80 years ago, physicist Paul Dirac said it must be possible for magnetic north and south poles to exist separately. But despite decades of searching, not one has been found. Last year, researchers demonstrated that certain states of the crystalline material spin ice would create monopoles that rove about the crystal (New Scientist, 9 May, p 28). They would be seen as disturbances …
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This article about espionage, covert operations, the just war tradition, and “dirty hands” first appeared in the Winter 2018 issue of Providence’s print edition. To read the original in a PDF format, click here. To receive future issues as soon as they are published, you can subscribe for as little as $12 a year.
Russia’s attempt to tamper with the United States Presidential election in 2016 has generated an enormous amount of controversy, and rightly so. Tampering with another nation’s elections is an act of force against that country’s sovereignty. As such, doing so is forbidden in peacetime by international law. Nevertheless, what has been absent in most media coverage is a reckoning with both America’s own attempts, some of them quite successful, to tamper with the elections of other countries, as well as with whether or not such actions are ever justifiable. In any case, most heads of state, including the President of the United States, have the legal authority, and in the US case constitutional responsibility, to ensure national security, including through the utilization of secret operations in support of foreign policy objectives. Covert operations that seek regime change in adversary nations can, under certain conditions, find legal sanction under this mandate.
In figuring the ethics of such an endeavor, two primary Christian schools of thought that might support covert operations, albeit in very different ways, include the just war tradition and a kind of “dirty hands” moralism. The latter holds that, given the way the world is, all those in political power must unavoidably resort to evil for the common good. Against this allowance, the just war tradition places more exacting moral constraints on acts of force. Thus, when it comes to considering the justifiability of covert operations, a great deal rides on which moral scheme we choose to guide our action.
The term “dirty hands” first came into being as the title of a Jean-Paul Sartre play, but it didn’t become the philosophical coin of the realm until the publication of political theorist Michael Walzer’s essay Political Action: The Problem of Dirty Hands. Walzer argues that political office unavoidably involves struggling against adversaries whose malevolent tactics make it necessary to do evil that good might come. When political leaders and those who carry out their orders do evil in a good cause, they incur moral guilt and so need to repent of it. But they did the right thing.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer is a famous example. Bonhoeffer, a theologian and an agent for German counter-intelligence in World War II, also acted as a courier for those involved in the plot to assassinate Hitler—so Bonhoeffer knew what it meant to justify illegal activities for a greater good. He also knew what was morally at stake. Following just war thinkers like Augustine and Luther, Bonhoeffer ground Christian political action in love of neighbor. But he departs from them when he insists that responsible Christian action, in moments of real crisis, requires being free from all normal ethical criteria.
In such circumstances, human action becomes a kind of ultima ratio—ultimate necessity—bound by no law and in which doing the right thing makes us guilty of evil. Of course, there are limits even here. Dirty hands justifications must be constrained by considerations of justice and love. For instance, even when necessary to protect our interests, we must dirty our hands only to the degree proportionately necessary to achieve our goals. Still, while it is neighbor love that compels the limited use of evil in the defense of the common good, Bonhoeffer insists (as the dirty hands moralist must) on the real nature of the resulting guilt—the actor really is guilty of doing moral evil. While a tragedy, because the moral actor takes the tragedy upon himself, it is a heroic tragedy.
The presence of guilt reminds us that we have committed an exceptional act that can never become a normative standard of ordinary action. A follower of Bonhoeffer might therefore reason that if a covert operation is really necessary to protect vital national interests then we should carry it out but, after doing so, admit we have crossed a line and committed a moral wrong. We then must do something to reaffirm the threshold we have crossed. Bonhoeffer himself does not specify exactly what the heroic actor’s reaffirmation of the law would look like. It would probably resemble Winston Churchill’s decision at the conclusion of WWII not to honor the architect of indiscriminate area bombing Sir Arthur Harris—pejoratively nicknamed “Bomber” and sometimes “Butcher”—despite the fact that Churchill had approved of Harris’ policy as the right and efficacious thing to do. Similarly, nation-state leaders who initiate certain kinds of covert operations would have to come clean, at least post-facto, with a public admission of guilt and give their justifications for why they had to get their hands dirty.
This justification of dirty hands moralism is what just war thinkers like Augustine and Luther take pains to deny. The Augustinian stream of the just war tradition holds that force can be deployed to protect the common good. We ought never do moral evil that good may come. Luther, for example, was adamant about this in his famous treatise Whether Soldiers, Too, Can Be Saved. In his typically blunt manner, Luther insists that when we have right authority, a just cause, and good intentions, we can be righteous before God and have a clean conscience—and hands—even when we are “stabbing and killing, robbing and burning.” Luther was claiming nothing extraordinary here. Augustine and Aquinas, standing at the headwaters of the tradition, had said much the same thing.
While dirty hands moralists like Bonhoeffer believe an act can be both rooted in love and morally evil at the same time, the traditional just war position—also based upon love of neighbor—holds, as ethicist Paul Ramsey put it, that Christian political action motivated by love of neighbor is incompatible with doing moral evil. Not even love can detach from our comprehensive understanding of what it means to do good. Love cannot somehow operate freely and compel its own abandonment—love cannot overrule love. It is not enough to say that love, when it compels us to take off our gloves and dirty our hands, will also qualify our evildoing—restricting its dimensions only to what’s necessary, what’s proportional, and by a gauzy commitment to avoid tactical overkill.
Luther set the right course in thinking about how just war reasoning may necessitate an illegal act when he pointed out the impossibility of formulating laws to cover all circumstances. There must always be room for the exceptional act. But the exception here is to the positive law, not moral norms. Luther helpfully refers to the just war criterion of right intention as a guide. Legality may be pitted against morality in certain circumstances, but there is no circumstance in which the morally right act should be pitted against the very moral principles that define what right action is in the first place. Put differently, it makes no moral sense to violate moral principles.
We should avoid the impression that dirty hands moralists like Walzer are entirely at odds with the just war tradition. Indeed, Walzer has made valuable contributions to the tradition. Moreover, the just war defender can agree with the dirty hands moralist that we live in a world in which we may have to achieve justice by doing what we would rather not do. But the just war defender holds that the commitment to use force for the common good is not the same thing as a commitment to do anything necessary in order to preserve that good. The just war criteria draw boundary markers around the decision to use force, and covert operations must conform to them. These include the primary requirements of rightful authority, just cause, and right intention, as well as prudential considerations such as likelihood of success and due diligence in seeking peaceful alternatives. Once a covert operation is sanctioned, two additional criteria guide its execution: proportionality and discrimination (noncombatant immunity).
When acts of force are the right thing to do, we ought to be able to offer good, rational reasons for doing them. The just war criteria help us do so. We may be acting in the arena of the ultima ratio, but ultima, rightly understood, does not mean “out of” but only “at the edges” of normative morality. In other words, when we use force against others, we are at the very limits of a rational act, but it is still rational because we can offer good, moral reasons for doing so. A covert operation may be illegal, but it may also be the just and morally good thing to do. We will know when it is because it will conform to the just war criteria.
The ability to demonstrate right intention with a covert operation is very tricky because we are faced with strongly conflicting moral obligations, one of which we must forgo for the other: the duty to protect our own national interests and the duty to obey international law. When we are trying to justify why one moral obligation trumps another, we need more than a bare assertion that our intentions are pure. Right intention demands that we be able to demonstrate—by what we do—that we are seeking the common good of peace. Additional moral checks that support right intention are helpful when our obligations conflict. We would also want to be reasonably certain that this infringement of the law has a realistic prospect of achieving its objective, that there are no morally preferable alternatives, that we have chosen the least severe law-breaking act to get the job done, and that we have sought to minimize the negative effects that come with breaking the law. When we have done all these things, we can demonstrate right intention and carry out the operation with a clear conscience.
Let’s now turn to two famous US covert operations in order to draw the contours around what sorts of operations are morally licit and what sorts are not. First is the notorious 1970 Track II operation in Chile to prevent a communist government from taking power, and second is the 1980s effort in Poland to undermine the Soviet Union’s hold on the country and region.
President John F. Kennedy first authorized covert action in Chile in 1961 (Track I) to back a center Chilean Christian Democratic Party candidate against the Soviet-influenced Communist Party candidate. The Kennedy administration argued that the operation preserved Chilean constitutional order from extremists on the left and right and promoted the growth of democratic institutions in the region. The CIA initially rejected any plan to carry out a coup or use other means of overt force. Instead, it funneled in money and used propaganda and political influence. However, by 1970, the Christian Democratic Party was in trouble, and the Communist Party candidate won a new election. Fearing that Chile would quickly become a haven for communist operatives and undermine democratic institutions in the area, the Nixon administration wanted to prevent the candidate from taking office. Nixon ordered the CIA to assist in a military coup. CIA head Richard Helms balked but in the end agreed to an operation (Track II) that encouraged Chilean military officers to revolt. As a result, an extreme right-wing party took control, and it had little regard for Chilean democratically conceived constitutional order.
Let us assume for the sake of argument that the Nixon administration, like the Kennedy administration before it, could legitimately claim just cause—grounded in its justified Cold War fight against Soviet-backed communist influence in the region. Even so, the requirement of right intention is suspect, given the obvious disregard for the possible costs the Chilean people might pay depending on the kind of government they would get in place of the communists. Indeed, the prior-action CIA estimate doubted the operation afforded any real prospect of achieving its objective of encouraging and supporting democratic institutions in the region. As it happened, the Chilean people ended up with an extreme right-wing group that proved every bit as oppressive as the communists.
In short, Track II was either so disastrously incompetent or it was never really conceived or executed as a means to return Chile to a more justly ordered government. It was a way of preventing the communists from coming to power. In ignoring intelligence community concerns, the Nixon administration acted irrationally. US Cold War interests might have been met, but justice was not done to Chile. Everyone got their hands dirty. Nevertheless, dirty hands moralists would argue that, if truly necessary to protect our own narrow Cold War interests, an operation like Track II was the right thing to do.
In sharp contrast to the injustice of Track II, let us consider the Reagan administration’s decision to provide covert aid to Poland’s Solidarity movement in an effort to strengthen the movement’s political hand and diminish the Soviet Union’s influence in Poland and the entire Eastern Bloc. The covert operation called for the CIA to provide Solidarity with the means to wage an underground political war, mainly with printing materials and communications equipment. The CIA also used tactics such as smuggling in postcards with a photograph of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko—a Polish Roman Catholic murdered by the communist security services—and copies of the infamous map used by Hitler and Stalin to divide up Poland between them. It also arranged a pro-Solidarity demonstration at a soccer match and made sure the cameras got a good view of the pro-Solidarity banners. It even transmitted speeches made by Solidarity leaders over the radio.
All of this was in violation of international law. But was justice done? It can be argued that Poland’s sovereignty had already been compromised by the Soviet Union, so Poland was not a fully self-determining nation at that point. On this view, what the US did was a kind of counter-intervention to put right what the USSR had earlier compromised. The Solidarity movement was pro-democratic and popular with a majority of Poles. Thus, the US broke the law of non-interference in order to restore to Poland to a state of non-interference. Here the very act of breaking the law achieves what the broken law was meant to achieve but could not, given the circumstances. This is precisely what Luther was getting at when he pointed out how exceptions to the law must be made in order to preserve the justice the law is meant to achieve but cannot.
The Reagan administration possessed reliable intelligence (much of it arriving courtesy of Pope John Paul II, who was in touch with all the major players) that gave them good reasons to believe that the Solidarity movement would prevail with adequate help. There was no alternative short of armed hostilities with the Soviet Union. In this case, the decision to avoid an open fight with the Soviet Union is an indication that the US chose the least infringement on the freedom of Poland in the circumstance. The US also chose the least possible infringement when it decided to aid the Solidarity movement rather than right-wing parties that might have been more malleable in US hands. Thus, the US can make a plausible case both that justice was done and that it was done with the right intent. The operation was a moral good. No one who ordered or carried it out need have a guilty conscience. No one got their hands dirty.
What about when innocent people are harmed in covert operations? Solidarity’s actions could have garnered a brutal response from the Soviet-backed security forces. Innocent family members of Solidarity agents, even those merely suspected of being Solidarity agents, would be placed in harm’s way. How can we avoid getting our hands dirty when we foresee that harm could come to them?
The question comes down to whether or not we are intentionally targeting the innocent. Here the classic moral principle of double-effect gives us guidance, for it enables us to clarify when the foreseen consequences of our actions are intentional—and thus morally imputable to us—and when they are unintended—and therefore not morally imputable to us. Put as simply as possible, double-effect recognizes the obvious reality that our intentional act may have an effect we do not actively desire, though we may foresee it.
In Poland, the US intended to gain more political power for Solidarity and to loosen the Soviet stranglehold on the country. Washington knew, but did not desire, that the Soviet-backed response might be horrifically brutal. Whether the US could be held responsible for these unintended effects depends, first, on whether or not it took due diligence to mitigate violent response. Carelessness in planning or in carrying out even just plans can mar the justice of an operation. Second, the foreseen but unintended bad effect must not be the means by which we achieve the intended good effect. So, the US could not plan actions in which success depended upon innocent people being brutalized. Clearly, if the bad effect is the means, then we desire that bad effect.
I wish to end with a hypothetical case that may one day present itself to the US or any state concerned about the Middle East. Let us suppose that it was possible to tamper with elections in Iran (the US and the United Kingdom did it once before in 1951). Assume the goal would be to achieve a more democratic Iran, free from the oppressive rule of clerics, friendlier to the West, less likely to seek nuclear capabilities, and less likely to support terrorism. The operation would involve aiding a candidate (or candidates) who is likely to work toward these goals. The methods would be financial aid, spreading unfavorable but factual reports about the current government’s methods of governing, and fomenting disruption of the current President’s speeches and unrest in the Iranian military. Is there a just war case to be made for such an operation?
The just war moralist would recognize from the beginning that such an operation is likely illegal, though, as with Poland, this might be complicated by questions regarding the legitimacy of the Iranian regime and whether it is meeting its sovereign responsibilities for the Iranian people. This, in turn, would partially depend on whether the majority of the Iranian people desire the current regime.
Beyond equivocations regarding legality, all the primary just war criteria would next have to be met. The requirement of right authority can be satisfied if a lawfully elected sovereign governing body orders the operation. Just cause can be met because it is clearly in the interest of the region and of many nation states around the world to have a freer, less belligerent Iran that does not continually disrupt the region, seek nuclear weapons capabilities, or harbor and provide aid to terrorists. Right intention can be demonstrated by aiming at the justice, order, and peace of the Iranian people and wider region.
Secondary concerns can be satisfied if alternative lawful means, such as diplomacy, are not viable. Proportionality can be met if more good than harm comes from the operation—as is likely if a covert operation can avoid invasion or large-scale air strikes—and discrimination can be met if innocent people are not targeted with violence. The infringement has a real chance of succeeding if the Iranian people and—crucially—the Iranian military really want the change. Having the popular support, the proposed operation—while an infringement—would be the smallest possible infringement commensurate with achieving the goal. By not needing to avail itself of other possible infringements that would have been more severe—such as stuffing ballot boxes, using smear tactics against the current President, or using force to prevent pro-President voters from voting—the interfering nation can prove itself in support of the will of the people. The negative effects of the infringement are lessened if the candidates backed by the operation are truly popular among the people and not perceived as puppets of an external power.
If the US (or any other nation-state) could achieve the goal of a more ordered and peaceful Iran, a covert operation that could bring about that goal would be illegal but just. As a just act, those involved in the operation would not dirty their hands so far as the actions performed to carry out the operation are themselves just. In such a case, the actors are morally praiseworthy. There is no call for regret or repentance.
None of this is to say that we expect moral purity, which is impossible to achieve for fallen creatures. But such an operation could be attempted in a way that the people involved need not get their hands dirty. It should be obvious that the just war criteria place tight restrictions on such operations and, therefore, could make them less likely to succeed. But that is how it should be. That is what we expect from effective moral principles.
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Higher, Original, Outstanding: Poet Pure Like H2O, Nat Nye.
Humble man, authentic and deep poet.
As he says « the ideas were always flowing around [his] head »
Until the day he eventually trusted his given gift in 2009
And got involved in writing, and got into one brand new skin
Deeper and deeper, into this feeling of bathing in a pure water.
This must be the reason why Nat Nye says » [he] writes like [he’s] been baptized in a fountain of miracles »;
His art is full of philosophy, history, and other concepts that fills your brain.
Even what he always carries around his neck says a lot about his inspirations and aspirations:
The Ankh, The Key of Life. The Kemetic Pyramid makes his cypher complete.
And, his cypher shall keep rolling On and On like in Erykah Badu’s song.
Nat Nye vows a particular attention to this Kemetic (Egyptian) civilisation, core of his art,
Taking the Ankh, Pyramids and Hieroglyphs as the actual roots of his inspirations, in plus of music (hip-hop);
As Pyramids stand for the representations of the greatness of (Kemetic) Ancestors
Nat Nye strives for emulating this idea with his verse and poetry. Much more than this, by interviewing him, Nat Nye reveals how deep and complex is his isnpired mind:
« When I began to see human interaction in sequences of syllables, this is the process of decoding the matrix, it was then that I decided to make sense of the chaotic nature of the nebula that exists in my mind, a multitude of ideas structured like atoms, clashing and smashing causing the creation of poetry to happen. »
His universe is kind of complex. Still little connections can be made to help visualize his concept:
Indeed, he kind of reminds of that Kendrick Lamar’s verse:
And, by listening to songs like The Healer by Erykah Badu, again, whose universe is at least as deep and complex and philosophic.
Hopefully, you’ll all enjoy his pieces of work as much as I did when I met him at an open mic night (Jam Tart Session).
Hopefully, that’ll awaken the desire to feel higher with what you’d write down.
This extract, Poetic Temple, describes well enough his global universe, his philosophy, his poetry.
This is pure spoken word, this is pure spoken poetry
This is raw material, this is precious material.
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July 12, 2022
Economic incentives for deploying carbon capture, sequestration in Wyoming
University of Wyoming researchers recently published a policy analysis article in an environmental research journal that examines the potential role of economic and policy incentives to facilitate carbon capture and storage (CCS) deployment in the state.
Haibo Zhai, the Roy and Caryl Cline Chair of Engineering, Environment and Natural Resources and an associate professor in the UW College of Engineering and Applied Science, led the study. The research, titled "Policy-Driven Potential for Deploying Carbon Capture and Sequestration in a Fossil-Rich Power Sector," was published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.
The study analyzes Wyoming as a fossil-rich power state seeking to generate reliable low-carbon electricity by 2030. The article examines the potential role of economic and policy incentives to facilitate CCS deployment for compliance with Wyoming law on reliable and dispatchable low-carbon energy standards.
The study suggests that CCS technology can be employed to deeply decarbonize some existing fossil fuel-fired power plants and provide firm generating capacity in a low-carbon power grid.
"The major objectives of this study are to assess the economic viability of CCS deployment in the state of Wyoming's power sector to meet state-level low-carbon energy standards," Zhai says. "We want to further evaluate the role of the federal tax credit for carbon sequestration in improving the retrofit viability."
Zhai, postdoctoral Research Associate Abdallah Dindi and doctoral student Wanying Wu conducted the analysis in Zhai's Laboratory for Low-Carbon Energy and Environmental Sustainability. SER Senior Adviser Kipp Coddington and Center for Energy Regulation and Policy Analysis (CERPA) Research Scientist Jada Garofalo collaborated on the project.
"It was a privilege for CERPA to collaborate with Dr. Zhai and his research team in this analysis, which included key energy policy aspects," Coddington says. "CCS is a topic of great importance for the state of Wyoming, and we are hopeful that this paper contributes to advancing the technology here."
While focused on Wyoming, the study will have wider impacts for other fossil-rich states hoping to use existing resources by highlighting the joint role of CCS-oriented federal and state regulations in improving retrofit viability while transiting to a low- or zero-carbon energy future, Zhai says.
"An electric power grid with high penetration of intermittent renewables will require other firm capacity to make electric power reliable, flexible and affordable," Zhai adds. "A certain level of abated fossil fuels with CCS can play a firm role in the transition to a carbon-neutral power sector. Abated fossil fuels should not be excluded in climate action plans toward net-zero emissions, especially in fossil-rich states or regions."
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The Oxfam Scandal and Why It Is Bad News for All NGO's
The Charities commission has just delivered a damning report on its investigation into one of our largest NGO’s, Oxfam.
In 2018 The Times newspaper published a story under the headline; Top Oxfam staff paid Haiti survivors for sex". The main allegations were:
- that Oxfam covered up claims that senior staff working in Haiti in the wake of the 2010 earthquake used prostitutes.
- some may have been underage.
- Oxfam's director of operations in Haiti, Roland Van Hauwermeiren is alleged to have used prostitutes at a villa rented for him by the charity.
- there was a cover up.
Further revelations were to follow; allegations of bullying, harassment and “colonial” behaviour emerged and it became apparent that Oxfam senior management were either ignorant of the situation or incapable of confronting it.
It later transpired that some senior officers implicated in the scandal were allowed to resign rather than be dismissed, and that Oxfam failed to inform prospective employers of those officials of the allegations against them. Major donors were also kept in the dark.
This eventually triggered the investigation, and its findings are alarming. In its report it finds “that the charity repeatedly fell below standards expected, had a culture of tolerating poor behaviour, and concludes that it failed to meet promises made on safeguarding, ultimately letting everyone down.”
The charity commission said the incidents in Haiti identified in 2011 were not "one-offs", with evidence of behavioural issues as early as June 2010 and in Chad before that.
There were also issues at some of the charity's UK shops - the report highlighted 16 serious incidents involving volunteers under the age of 18.
The impact on Oxfam has been severe:
- In 2017/18 income from public donations fell by £3.8 million.
- Over the past year it has lost 7000 regular donors (£14 million annually).
- It has lost £20 million in government support and is barred from bidding for new funding.
- The Swedish government has stopped its funding to the charity.
- The Charities commission has issued an Official Warning Notice; to clean up its act.
- The charity now faces cuts of £16 million which will affect staffing levels as well as its aid programmes.
Issues of Trust
So how big a problem is this for the sector? It all comes down to trust, to the belief that the money we donate will be used to benefit those in need and that the officers of the NGO’s will behave in ways consistent with the trust the public has in them.
But trust is a fragile commodity and there is evidence that in the UK it is slipping away as the Edeleman Trust Barometer suggests. Overall since 2013 levels of trust in the major charities have been slipping helped along by the allegations of fraud at Age Concern the closure of The Kids Company, and of course the problems at Oxfam.
Inevitably, the increasing negativity surrounding the credibility of our major charities is reflected in a general decline in the levels of public donations.
Percentage of people who donated money to an organisation focused on international poverty and development in the last 12 months.
This is bad news for two reasons:
- Charities like Oxfam will have to cut their programmes even more
- They will become reliant increasingly on government funding, which leaves them open to increasing political interference and influence on where money should be spent
And bad publicity hits all UK NGO’s. Already many large donors, including large financial institutions like UBS are having second thoughts about channelling money into the large NGO’s
Angela Fail of New Philanthropy Capital predicts that the Oxfam scandal would have longer-term fallout on the way that rich donors gave to charity. (Financial Times) Whilst Kevin Watkins of Save the Children Fund writing in the Guardian is concerned that:
“The toxic effects of poor practice in any one of our agencies can weaken the entire sector. That’s why we need to work together to stamp out abuse in all its forms and make sure the perpetrators are held to account.”
There are clear issues of accountability and transparency which all NGO’s will need to confront if they are to win back public trust.
Press Release; Charities Commission
gives a good summary of the findings.
For the full report click here
By Phil Brighty
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