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New Ransomware Demands Ransom in Bitcoins to Get Your Files Back
With a new year comes new challenges, new hopes, new resolutions, and of course, new ransomware. The newest discovered ransomware called Cryptojoker proves to be anything but amusing to its victims, and although it doesn’t appear to have been widely distributed as of yet, it is an entirely functional ransomware that could see increased distribution in the future.
Beware of unknown emails
IT security experts cannot stress enough how important it is NOT to open emails from unknown sources, but sometimes, the curiosity of these mystery emails is just too much for us to resist. That being said, it is thought that because this ransomware is being disguised as a PDF file, it is more than likely that CryptoJoker is being distributed via email phishing campaign, and you can bet that the subject is not “the PDF file attached to this email is just ransomware in disguise”. Unfortunately, these cybercriminals are a lot smarter than that.
How it works
CryptoJoker uses AES-256 encryption that demands a ransom in bitcoins to get your files back, and once the installer is executed, it will download or generate several executables in the%APPData% folder and %TEMP% folder. Each of these files will perform several tasks that include:
- Sending your information to the Command and Control server
- Polling for active Regedit or Taskmgr processes and terminating them
- Ensuring that the lock screen remains visibly located on the top of other active Windows
As soon as CryptoJoker encrypts your data, it will scan all of your drives. This includes mapped network drives on your computer for files with certain extensions. When it finds targeted extensions, it will encrypt the file and change the filename so it has a ‘.crjoker’ extension appended to it. For example, Vacatio.jpg would become Vacation.jpg.crjoker.
While CryptoJoker is encrypting your data, it will also send your information to the Command & Control server located at server6.thcservers.com. This information includes the date, your hostname, username, and machine name.
Currently, there is not a known free method to decrypt files that have been encrypted by CryptoJoker. You must simply keep all of your files backed up and ready to recover, in order to avoid losing access and having to pay the ransom fee.
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Updated 8 Mar 2021
Neurons are complex dynamical machines and you can read all about the amazing ways in which they work in a textbook. But how do we know this? How did the scientists who discovered this figure it out? In this six week project, we will don the hat of the intrepid explorer and discover for ourselves the secrets of neurons and spikes using in-silico cells that we can play with on our computers. Our neuron, like many other seemingly mysterious things in the universe, is an Oracle, and will answer any question we ask of it. Like the Oracle of Delphi, its answers can be cryptic and apparently contradictory, and we will learn the art of asking carefully worded questions that will compel the sibylline cell to reveal to us beautiful and intricate mechanisms at the heart of how it behaves.
Because neurons don’t speak English (or Greek), our questions to it will have to be posed as experiments and manipulations, and we will have to learn to interpret its responses correctly. Each week, we’ll do a new set of experiments to fill in the blank spaces in our mental map of how this neuron works. We’ll learn not just the secrets of this particular neuron, but also general principles in neuroscience and physics, and we will arm ourselves with the tools to crack open other knotty problems as we encounter them in the future.
Srinivas Gorur Shandilya (2022). BlackBoxNeuron (https://github.com/sg-s/black-box-neuron-public/releases/tag/v21.3.8), GitHub. Retrieved .
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If you’re a regular Apple user, you’ll know that it’s difficult to use Apple products on non – iOS devices (devices with a different operating system, like Windows). These compatibility issues happen frequently.
Does this mean you can’t use Apple headphones on a PC? Is that an issue?
No, you can. We said it was difficult, not impossible. So, how to use Apple headphones with a mic on a PC?
In this post, we’re going into detail to help you use your Apple earbuds on your PC or laptop.
We’ll clarify which devices you can use your Apple headphone on. Moreover, we’ll highlight a few things you’ll need to connect your Apple headphones to your computer. We’ll take you step-by-step through the whole process.
Once you’re through reading, you’ll have a good idea of how to use your Apple headphones on your PC.
Can Apple Headphones Be Used on PCs?
A question arises: Can you use Apple headphones on your computer? It can be iPhone earbuds, Mac headphones, etc.
As mentioned earlier, Apple products are designed to be explicitly used on iPhone or iOS devices. If you’re having a hard time using your Apple earbuds on your PC, it’s pretty standard.
Simply plugging in your Apple earbuds may not work. Are there options?
You will need to change some settings to make it work. There are a few tricks that you can use to connect your Apple headphone to work on your PC.
Keep in mind that these tricks may not work depending on your PC, its hardware, and sound functionality. We’ve listed a few tips further ahead in this post, so be sure to test them out before you give up.
Using Apple Headphones as a Mic on PCs
So, how to use Apple headphones as a mic on your PC?
A few tricks can help you use your headphones as a mic, but you may need a few other things to assist you through the process.
Earpods with a 3.5 mm Jack
This is one of the simplest methods. If you have EarPods with a 3.5 mm headphone jack, you’re all set to go.
Lightning to USB-A Convertor
If your Apple headphone doesn’t have a 3.5 mm jack, don’t worry. You can get a lightning port to USB-A cable connector. Given the recent shift in Apple headphones towards jack-less and wireless headphones, this may be the best option for you.
This product is for those users whose computer has a different port for audio jack and a different port for microphone jack. The audio splitter helps divide a single audio signal into two separate signals, one for incoming audio and the other for outgoing audio.
How to Use Apple Headphones with Mic on PC
Now that we have all the required items, it’s time to connect your headphones to your PC or other devices. We know you’ve got two options.
Some of you may have wired Apple headphones, while some of you may have wireless earbuds. Don’t worry; we’ll be covering both wired and wireless headphones.
So, regardless of the type of headphones you have, you’ll be able to connect them to your personal computer.
Connecting A Wired Apple Headphone with Mic on PC
For ease of understanding, we’ve simplified the process into four main steps.
Step One: Connecting Apple Headphones to PC
The first step is pretty simple. You need to connect your headphones to your PC. You need first to identify which port is designed for audio input.
Recent PC and laptop models come with a single port for incoming and outgoing audio. However, if you have an older model, you may see two ports for audio.
One port is meant for incoming audio, i.e., the sounds you hear, while the other port is for outgoing audio, i.e., what you speak into the mic.
If your PC has two ports, then you may want to use the audio splitter.
Before you plug in the earphones, be sure you are inserting each jack in the correct port. Usually, the mic slot is either pink in color or has a mic symbol on it. The earphone slot is either green in color or has an earphone symbol on it.
Once you’ve figured out the correct slots, plug in your Apple earphones. Depending on your device, you might get a notification that the headphones are connected to your PC.
Step Two: Opening Control Panel or Settings App
If you didn’t receive a notification and you still can’t hear any sound, then you’ll have to do a little more work than just plugging in the headphones. You will need to change a few settings to ensure your PC can read the new device you’ve connected.
To start the configuration process, you need first to open the Control Panel or Settings. There are four ways you can go about this process:
- Start by clicking on the Windows icon on your toolbar. Alternatively, you can also press the Windows key on your keyboard.
- When the pop-up screen opens, type “Control Panel” in the search box. For Windows 10 users, you can also open and type “Settings.”
- Once the Control Panel or Settings app shows up in the suggestions, click on it or Open.
Another way to access the control panel is by using the Quick Access menu. Here’s how:
- You can use a shortcut by pressing the Windows key + X or right-click on the windows icon.
- A drop-down menu will open up.
- Select the Control Panel or Settings to open it.
The third way to access Control Panel / Settings is by using the Run function.
- To open the Run search box, press the Windows key and the R key on your keyboard.
- When the Run window pops open, type in “control panel.” For devices with Windows 10, type in “ms-settings:” and press enter.
- The control panel or settings window should open up immediately.
Step Three: Sound Setting
Once the Control Panel / Settings is open, it’s time to adjust the Sound settings. Now there are two ways to change your sound settings. One way is through the Control Panel, while the other method is through Settings.
Let’s go over both methods.
- On the control panel window, you need to find and select Hardware and Sound.
- Next, click on Sound or Manage audio devices. A small pop-up screen will open up.
If you’ve opened Settings instead of the Control Panel, then you need to follow these steps:
- Find and select System.
- From the menu on the left, select Sound.
- Scroll down until you find the Sound Control Panel and click on it. A small pop-up window will appear.
Step Four: Recording Devices Settings
Once the pop-up menu appears, you’ll need to adjust the recording settings.
- In the Sound window, select the Recording tab on the top.
- Locate your headphones in the list of devices. Usually, they’re named “High Definition Audio device.”
- After locating your headphones, right-click on them.
- From the drop-down menu, select Set Default.
- If you see a green checkmark on your headphones, it means your laptop or PC reads or detects your headphones.
- Next, select your headphones and click on Properties. Alternatively, you can double-click on your headphones to open Microphone Properties.
- When the Microphone Properties window opens, open the Levels tab.
- Adjust the levels for Microphone and Microphone boost according to your preferences.
- Click on Apply and then okay to save the settings.
This should do the trick for you.
PC is Not Recognizing Apple Headphones
If your PC is still not recognizing your Apple headphones, don’t lose hope just yet. There’s one more thing you can still do.
- Start by going to Setting. You can do this by pressing the Windows key on your keyboard or clicking on the toolbar’s Windows icon.
- Type “settings” in the search box.
- Open the Settings window and find System.
- From the menu on the left side, select Sound.
- Under Input settings, you’ll see the option to “Choose your input device.”
- Click on the downward arrow and select your Apple device from the list.
Both your earphones and mic should work once you’ve adjusted the settings.
Connecting Wireless Apple Headphones to PC
Compared to wired Apple headphones, wireless Apple headphones are more difficult to connect to a PC. One way to connect wireless headphones is by using Bluetooth.
There are two ways you can connect to Bluetooth.
You can access Bluetooth by using Settings.
- To open Settings, you can press the Windows key or click on the Windows icon.
- Type “settings” in the search box.
- When the Settings window appears, click on Devices.
- From the menu on the left select Bluetooth and other devices.
- Then click on Add Bluetooth or other device.
- A pop-up screen will appear; select Bluetooth from the options.
- Ensure that your Apple wireless headphones are powered on and ready to be paired.
- When your PC detects the headphones, click on them to pair the two devices.
Once both devices are connected, you can use the method mentioned above to configure the audio settings.
You can also access Bluetooth using the Control Panel.
- To open the Control Panel, press the Windows key or click on the Windows icon on the toolbar.
- Type “control panel” in the search box.
- When the Control Panel opens up, type “Bluetooth” in the search box in the upper right corner of the window.
- First, click on Change Bluetooth settings.
- A Bluetooth Settings window will appear. Check the box beside Allow Bluetooth devices to find this PC.
- Click on Okay and then Apply to save changes.
- Next, go to the Control Panel again and select Add a Bluetooth device.
- Make sure your Apple wireless headphones are ready to connect.
- When your headphones appear in the list of available devices, click on them to connect.
Once connected, go over the configuration settings we mentioned above to ensure a stable connection.
Keep in mind that the success or failure of the methods mentioned above depends on the model of your PC and its functionality.
Connecting Apple headphones to non-Apple devices can be a difficult task. Depending on your device, you may need to adjust a few settings on your PC.
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It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.
Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.
Money doesn't buy happiness. Some people say it's a heck of a down payment, though.
It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.
Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.
Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.
The best things in life aren't things.
Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
The best things in life are free
Money cannot buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.
Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop
Money can't buy happiness—but it can buy beer.
It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.
... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.
Money can't buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves.
They say money doesn't buy happiness. That phrase should end with 'just kidding'.
Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.
Best things in life aren't things.
Money doesn`t buy happiness. But happiness isn`t everything.
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The peduncles of the Othonna coronopifolia flowerheads on this plant are of moderate length only and not naked. They bear small, narrow leaves. Some plants of the species have no leaves on peduncles that may also be longer than seen here.
Although differently shaped, these peduncle leaves alternate and ascend, similar to the normal leaves of the plant, but they reduce in size rapidly upwards and disapppear close to the involucre, where the peduncle is bare.
The bases of the ray florets in picture lie upon the red-brown, pointed tips of the bracts and are forced outwards.
The flowerheads of this plant often grow solitary, occasionally appearing in small groups.
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2020 may have been the year of establishing remote connectivity and addressing the cybersecurity skills gap, but 2021 presented security experts, government officials and businesses with a series of unprecedented challenges. The increased reliance on decentralized connection and the continued rapid expansion of digital transformation by enterprises, small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and individuals, provided cybercriminals with many opportunities to exploit and capitalize on unsuspecting businesses and individuals. With nothing short of a major financial windfall waiting in the midst, numerous organizations and individuals fell victim to the mischievous efforts of malicious actors.
Threats abound in 2021
In 2021, we witnessed so many competing shifts, many of which we detailed early on in our 2021 BrightCloud® Threat Report. In particular, we witnessed an increase in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and a surge in the usage of the internet of things (IoT). For enterprises, SMBs and individuals that entrust IoT devices for work and entertainment, this opens up vulnerabilities to malicious vectors that take advantage of unprotected blind spots and wreak havoc. | <urn:uuid:35c878cb-f8eb-4b24-ac4d-fe4950dbeabe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.varinsights.com/doc/the-threat-landscape-is-paved-with-faster-and-more-complex-attacks-with-no-signs-of-stopping-0001 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.920552 | 215 | 2.046875 | 2 |
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Building an AR Experience in Unity and Vuforia
Augmented reality (AR) is forecast to be a multibillion-dollar industry within a few years. This course will teach you everything you need to create your own AR apps, which can be launched on any Android device. Software required: Unity, Vuforia, and 3DS Max.
What you'll learn
Have you ever had a client ask about augmented reality (AR)? Are you interested in AR, which is forecast to be a multibillion-dollar industry within a few years? In this course, Building an AR Experience with Unity and Vuforia, you'll learn how to create three unique AR projects, each enabling you to gain the necessary knowledge and confidence to produce AR apps independently. First, you'll learn the basics of the Vuforia AR software, and how to create an Android app featuring an animated haunted house and a pesky ghost. Next, you'll learn how to create an Android app that creates skeletons that will dance around a real 3D object. If your character walks behind this object, you'll learn how to occlude the parts of the augmented character that cross behind real objects. You'll also write a very simple C# script to lock shadows onto the skeletons to anchor them visually into the scene. Finally, you'll create a large-scale AR scene of a 12-foot monster made of particles. When you're finished with this course, you'll not only feel confident about creating augmented reality apps, but will also be prepared for the coming AR industry and business opportunities. Software required: Unity, Vuforia, and 3DS Max. | <urn:uuid:ba996cfc-712f-469a-bb3f-6bad5af2b8bd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/unity-vuforia-building-ar-experience | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.942117 | 331 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Plants 1-7 dm. Inflorescences , excluding peduncle, 3-7 cm; bracteoles 1/2 to nearly as long as pedicels. Flowers : pedicel straight and ascending in fruit, ca. 3 mm; corolla 6-9.5 mm, spur ca. 2.5 mm; petals purplish pink or white near base, deep reddish purple to maroon apically. Capsules subglobose, sometimes slightly depressed, 1.5-2 mm diam., ± warty or pebbled. 2 n = 32, 48. Flowering spring. Waste places, cultivated or fallow fields, thin woods, ditches, roadsides; 0-2100 m; introduced, scattered localities; St. Pierre et Miquelon; Alta., B.C., Man., N.B., Nfld., N.S., Ont., P.E.I., Que., Sask; Ala., Calif., Colo., Conn., D.C., Fla., Ga., Idaho, Ill., Ind., Kans., La., Maine, Mass., Mich., Minn., Mo., Mont., N.H., N.J., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Oreg., Pa., S.C., Tex., Utah, Vt., Va., W.Va., Wyo.; Europe; n Africa. Some plants in North America have conspicuously warty capsules with persistent styles. Similar plants in Europe were treated by M. Lidén (1986) as Fumaria officinalis subsp. wirtgenii (Koch) P. D. Sell. In all other characters, those plants are not significantly different from other members of the species, and they are not distinguished formally in this treatment. Weaker, somewhat scandent plants with smaller, perhaps cleistogamous, white flowers and smaller fruits seem to be correlated with shaded situations. They are otherwise indistinguishable from other members of the species.
Plant: annual herb; from taproots, erect or sprawling, diffusely branched Leaves: 2-3 times compound, coarsely dissected INFLORESCENCE: racemes Flowers: 8-12 mm long, inconspicuous; sepals round attached near base, mucronate, whitish, sepals ca. 3 mm long; petals 5-7 mm long; stamens ca. 4 mm long, petals purple; style deciduous Fruit: FRUITS globose, smooth, indehiscent; SEEDS 1, brown, without aril Misc: Grasslands, potentially weedy species of disturbed sites; 1100 m (3300 ft) REFERENCES: Holiay, Susan, and Abril Perez. 2001. Commelinaceae. J. Ariz. - Nev. Acad. Sci. Volume 33(1).
Lax but rather robust, diffusely branched, 2-8 dm; racemes dense, many- fld, 2-4 cm; cor 8 mm, the tube red-purple, the summit dark red; fr 2.5 mm. Native of Europe, intr. in waste ground here and there in our range; 2n=32. May-Aug.
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
©The New York Botanical Garden. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Indiana Coefficient of Conservatism: C = null, non-native
Wetland Indicator Status: N/A
Citation: The vPlants Project. vPlants: A Virtual Herbarium of the Chicago Region. http://www.vplants.org
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Experts Offer Heating and Cooking Safety Tips for the Coming Holiday Season
ARLINGTON, VA. (November 12, 2019) — The winter holiday season is a festive and eventful time, yet statistics show that home fires and electrical incidents increase during this time of year. The Electrical Safety Foundation International (ESFI) is providing safety tips and free resources to prevent household fires and accidents caused by improper cooking and heating practices.
Nearly 900 people die in home fires each year during the winter season, according to the U.S. Fire Administration. Thirty percent of all home fires and nearly four-in-ten home fire deaths take place from December through February. With cooking tasks responsible for two of every reported home fire, it is critical that holiday hosts cook and heat their homes safely.
“Entertaining during the holidays can be stressful, but statistics suggest simple cooking and heating safety practices can ensure everyone enjoys the celebration,” said ESFI President Brett Brenner. “This includes taking proactive measures to make sure our homes are free of electrical hazards, as well as making sure we follow basic safety guidelines during our holiday celebrations.”
Follow these simple tips from ESFI to ensure that your home is ready to safely celebrate the holidays:
- Have your heating system inspected annually by a qualified professional.
- Keep space heaters out of high-traffic and exit areas, and at least three feet from anything that can burn.
- Do not leave a space heater running unattended. Turn off and unplug when you leave the room or go to sleep.
- Never plug a space heater into an extension cord.
- Place space heaters on level, flat surfaces. Never place heaters on top of furniture.
- Never leave an open flame, including the fireplace, unattended.
- Have a qualified professional install heating equipment according to the local codes and manufacturer’s instructions.
Fast Fact: Cooking is the leading cause of home fires and fire injuries. Ranges or cooktops cause 62 percent of home fires according to the National Fire Protection Association. Learn how to stay safe with these tips:
- Stay in the kitchen when frying, grilling, or broiling.
- Keep children at least three feet away from cooking appliances.
- Wear short or close-fitting sleeves.
- Make sure your stovetop and oven are clean and free of grease and dust.
- Keep the cooking area clear of combustibles, such as towels, napkins, and potholders.
- To protect from spills and burns, use the back burners and turn the pot handles in.
- Locate all appliances away from the sink.
- Plug countertop appliances into ground-fault circuit interrupter (GFCI) protected outlets.
- Unplug the toaster and other countertop appliances when not in use.
- Keep appliance cords away from hot surfaces.
- Turn off all appliances when cooking is completed.
- It’s easy to forget about something that’s cooking, especially when you’re entertaining guests.
- Test GFCIs and arc-fault circuit interrupters (AFCIs) monthly to ensure that they are working properly.
- Outdoor outlets should be protected with GFCI technology to reduce the risk of electric shock.
- Multi-outlet power strips and extension cords are handy for decorations, phones, cooking gear and new gift gadgetry, but plugging in too many things can overtax your home’s electrical capacity.
- Never use an extension cord or power strip for heaters as this could cause cords to overheat and result in a fire.
- Do not use extension cords on a permanent basis, and never use them with major appliances.
- Look and listen for warning signs of an electrical problem such as outlets and switches that are warm or make crackling, sizzling, or buzzing noises.
- The best decorations are safe decorations. When you’re decorating make sure not to run cords under rugs or furniture.
- Give lit decorations a holiday break. Reduce the likelihood of fire by simply shutting everything off when there’s no one home (or awake) to enjoy them.
- More Christmas tree, more water. If you put up a real tree, make sure you water it daily. A dried-up pine tree is nothing but kindling. On average, an unfortunate 260 home fires in the U.S. start with Christmas trees each year.
- Only use electronics in dry areas.
Visit ESFI’s holiday safety website, www.holidaysafety.org which provides all of the safety tips and tools needed to Make Safety a Tradition for your family this holiday season.
The Electrical Safety Foundation International (ESFI) sponsors National Electrical Safety Month each May to increase public awareness of the electrical hazards around us at home, work, school, and play. ESFI is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated exclusively to promoting electrical safety. For more information about ESFI and electrical safety, visit www.esfi.org.
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P. (only perfect tense in , -vav/arta-) A1.-vartate- (Aorist 3. sg./āvṛtsata-; infinitive mood-v/ṛte-) to turn or draw round or back or near ; to turn or go towards ; to turn round or back, return, revolve etc.: CausalP.-vartayati- (Ved. subjunctive-vav/artati-Potential-vavṛtyāt-,etc.) A1.-vartayate- (Ved. Potential-vavṛtīta-,etc.) to cause to turn, roll ; to draw or turn towards ; to lead near or towards ; to bring back ; to turn round or back etc. ; to repeat, recite, say repeatedly ; to pray etc.: Intensive-varīvartti- , to move quickly or repeatedly.
A1.-vartate- (Epic also ti-; ind.p.-vṛtya-,or parī-vartam-), to turn round, revolve, move in a circle or to and fro, roll or wheel or wander about, circumambulate (accusative) etc. ; (with hṛdi-or hṛdaye-) to run in a person's mind ; to return, go or come back to (accusative) ; to be reborn in (locative case) ; (also with anyathā-) to change, turn out different ; to abide, stay, remain etc. ; to act, proceed, behave : Causal-vartayati-, to cause to turn or move round or back or to and fro etc. ; (A1.) to roll or bring near (subjunctive-vartayāte-) ; to overthrow, upset (a carriage) ; to invert, put in a reverse order (read -vartya-for -vṛtya-) ; to change, barter, exchange etc. ; to renew (an agreement) ; to understand or explain wrongly (words etc.) ; to turn topsy-turvy id est search thoroughly ; to destroy, annihilate ; to straiten, contract ; (A1.) to cause one's self to be turned round (in having one's head shaved all round) (see-vartana-): Intensive-v/avartti-, to turn (intrans.) continually
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The Importance Of Torsion Springs
Up and over garage doors remain a steadfast favourite amongst many garage owners across South Wales and the UK as they are simple to operate and require little to no physical effort. At the centre of a functioning garage door there are two things: the garage door curtain (which provides the physical barrier between the outside world), and the torsion spring which provides extra upwards lifting force. Having provided garage door repair in Newport for a number of years, we find that the torsion spring is still largely misunderstood by many homeowners even though it is a critical component of their garage door! There are also huge safety implications when springs are not treated with care or wound correctly.
We wanted to have a lengthy talk on torsion springs in order to clarify just how important they are and why calling a professional garage door specialist should be your first port of call when dealing with a worn out or broken torsion spring.
What Are Torsion Springs?
The primary job of a torsion spring is to produce torque which is basically a term to describe rotational force of an object on a stable axis. When we think about the weight of up and over or sectional garage doors, the actual door panels would be unmovable with the force of a single hand along. To assist with lifting the garage door from the ground upwards the minute force of that human pulling action must be supplemented with additional upwards force which is where torsion springs come in. The springs themselves are coiled on very tightly around a torsion tube which then transfers tension to the spring shaft, cable drums and ultimately doors.
So we know that torsion springs essentially provide a helping hand but some garage doors are bigger than others and therefore require more power. The level of torque in a torsion spring is determined by a number of different factors. Spring length for instance will determine the width ways application of torque force and is therefore ideal for wide garage doors. The inside diameter of the spring is also significant as this is responsible for the overall strength of the wind whilst the thicker the wire size, the more energy and tension can be stored. Wind is also a major factor as the more winds a spring has, the more stress it can take. In our experience, a vast proportion of clients looking for garage door repair in Newport have issues with their torsion springs and we’ll explain why this is.
Why Do Torsion Springs Need Replacing?
When a garage door is shut, the torsion spring is under the maximum amount of tension as it is fully retracted and waiting to lift the weight of a full garage door. Conversely, when the garage door is open and up over the spring is in its natural state with no tension. When you think about the duration of time that torsion springs spend under pressure, it is inevitable that they will start to loose torque after a certain number of rotations. If your garage door seems a lot more heavy and requires more physical effort to open, then this is a sure sign that the torsion springs have had their day.
We must also not forget the wear and tears that come with time and that fact that in the UK we are not blessed with the kindest of weather. Sometimes the cold and moisture-rich environments found in most garages can take their toll on torsion springs resulting in rust which can cause extra friction and slowing limiting of the spring’s pull capacity. In addition, the often cold Welsh winters that we experience can also have a negative impact on torsion springs as colder temperatures have been known to make steel brittle and weaker.
Commercially available garage door torsion springs are manufactured with a set number of rotations in them with the standard number being about 10,000 torsion rotations. When you consider the average open and closes per day then even a standard spring will last for round about 8 or so years.
Garage Door Repair In Newport – Why Do I Need It?
There are many articles and videos available that talk about the replacement and calibration of torsion springs as if it was like changing a lightbulb. This is simply not the case and dealing with torsion springs when you are not qualified can lead to serious injury and at times lethal outcomes.
You must not forget that a torsion spring pretty much lifts about 63 kgs of a 69kg garage door with your own pull fronting the remaining weight. This is a tremendous amount of force and the spring is under an intense amount of tension to achieve this. You can freely purchase torsion springs from a number of different shops or online but installation is hazardous if you are not sure what you’re doing.
Over winding is often the biggest cause of injury in DIY installations and occurs because individuals have locked in too many winds for their spring or have bought the wrong spring all together, resulting in a break. When a torsion spring breaks, it’s not as understated as it sounds: We are essentially talking about a small localised force that is capable of lifting a 69kg or more garage door overwhelming the spring and sending out fragments as it snaps. These can cause blindness and serious trauma to a human. In addition to this a common cause of injury is when the torsion winding bar (tool used to adjust spring tension) gets flung out at high speed and hits the individual.
At Access Garage Doors we have been providing torsion spring replacement and garage door repair in Newport for many years and are experts in what we do. It’s simply not worth risking injury and even death in the name of saving a small amount of money.
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Gas stations were a common sight in Noe Valley in the 1960s. Can you guess the location of this one? See question #1. Photo courtesy Bill Yenne
WE’VE GOT QUESTIONS:
1. Where in Noe Valley did a Standard Gas Station once stand, as seen in the 1967 photograph to your right? You will find the answer at the end of this column. But before you go there, here are some more history riddles for all you Noe Valley trivia buffs.
2. Before Bernie’s, there was Tully’s. What was in that spot before Tully’s?
3. When, in 1852, John Meirs Horner bought more than 5,000 acres in the future Noe Valley to develop as housing, he mapped out a grid with his own street names, including John Street, Horner Street, and Park Street. What names were those streets changed to in 1861, when “Horner’s Addition” was incorporated into the City and County of San Francisco?
4. What was the name of Noe Valley’s first grammar school? Where and when was it built?
5. What is the name of Noe Valley’s most famous graffiti fighter? This man was so notorious for painting out tags that, according to the March 2002 Noe Valley Voice, “one devilish youngster sprayed a message on a Church Street wall: ‘Don’t paint this out, old man!’”
6. True or False: Don Jose de Jesus Noe, for whom our valley is named, is buried in the family crypt beneath Mission Dolores.
Okay, put down your pencils. Did you get them all right?
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THE PHANTOM PLANS: Another question we’d like to have answered is: Why has the Real Food Company space, in the heart of our commercial strip at 3939 24th St., sat empty for almost nine years? You’ll recall that Nutraceutical Corporation, which owns the grocery (now called Fresh Organics) and also the building, abruptly closed the store the day before Labor Day 2003.
We may never know the answer to that question. But last month, an agent within the Noe Valley Bureau of Investigation (NVBI) leaked a report that had a Real answer to another.
The agent, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that in May, when he made his semi-annual call to Sergio Diaz, vice president for development of Nutraceutical, to ask if the company had any plans to reopen the Noe Valley store, Mr. Diaz actually answered the phone, throwing him for a loop. “It was the first time in four years that I’d gotten a live response,” said the salivating agent.
He said Diaz apologized for not returning past calls and explained that Nutraceutical had abandoned plans to build a new development on the property. Instead, Diaz told him, “we are currently working with our architects on plans that will be a simple project of making the existing space functional and suitable to operate, and will resolve all the building issues,” such as a poor foundation and a failing roof.
Diaz added he was “cautiously optimistic that plans will be submitted in the next few weeks, and the approval process will go as quickly as possible.”
To see if others had heard the same news, the NVBI agent called Supervisor Scott Wiener’s office, but spokesperson Andres Power said he had not received any word from the Nutraceutical people.
However, when the NVBI contacted Downtown Noe Valley activist and former president of the Noe Valley Merchants and Professionals Association Carol Yenne, who has been trying to get the company to rebuild, sell, do anything for many years, she said she had recently had contact with Diaz.
Yenne explained that she had sent an email to Diaz in April telling him that “as a small business and property owner, it is so discouraging to know that my customers have to walk by your abandoned building to get to my business to shop.... During these last few years, it has affected the bottom line of every single small store in our neighborhood each and every day since you closed the store,” she said.
“I even tried to arrange a meeting with them last month at their Utah headquarters, since I was traveling to Salt Lake City to research work on a project, but I had no response [on the meeting idea].”
Yenne did get a response from Diaz, who wrote: “Following your concerns, we continue working on getting a prompt solution. Hopefully, the new city authorities will be receptive of the future proposal, and the approval process will go as quickly as possible. We are working on developing a much simpler project that resolves the building issues, making it functional and suitable to operate.”
However, Yenne said she checked with City Planning, “and they are not aware of any plans that have been submitted for that location, so I tend not to believe what Mr. Diaz has been telling us.”
Hopefully, the NVBI will be able to update us next month, and if the company’s plans materialize and are approved quickly and construction starts soon, the store will reopen by Dec. 25, 2012. Wait, am I dreaming?
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JUST FOR FUNDS: There was good news for Residents for Noe Valley Town Square last month. Spokesperson Todd David reports that as part of the Residents’ efforts to raise $3 million to acquire the Noe Valley Ministry parking lot at 24th and Vicksburg, the group has received over $100,000 in pledges and is hoping to reach $500,000 soon.
“We were very encouraged when a Google employee in the neighborhood pledged $10,000 to the project, which means because of our 501c3 status that Google will be matching that pledge,” David said.
David said no large sponsor had stepped forward with the nearly $2 million needed for naming rights to the square, but “we are getting pledges in the mail, online, and at our table in front of the Noe Valley Farmers Market every Saturday, from 10 dollars to many hundreds, and some in the thousands.”
There was also good news related to increased police attention to bicycle thefts during the past several months. The SFPD’s Dan Mahoney, who is captain of Ingleside Station, posted a message saying that “as a result of more excellent investigative work on the part of Sergeant Josh Kumli, we have recovered over 115 bicycles from a residence in the Bayview and two storage lockers in Oakland.”
If you’ve had your bike stolen lately, you might want to check in with the captain. Call 415-404-4030. Good luck!
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A LITTLE NOE MUSIC: A Noe Valley–based band, Steer the Stars, had its debut as a headliner at the Great American Music Hall on May 26. The group also was recently nominated as “artist of the month” by the Deli online music magazine and has a new CD release titledLight Life Sleep and the Sea.
Band co-founders and longtime 24th Street residents are Eric Jonasson (piano, guitar, and vocals) and Naomi Husaruk (accordion, synthesizer, and vocals). With Alle Emershaw, who plays banjo, flute, and vocals, they’ve been performing as the group Bay to Boulders at the Noe Valley Farmers Market and at Friends of Noe Valley and Noe Valley Association events. In Steer the Stars, they’ve hooked up with Logan Barrier (drums), Chris Erbacher (pedal steel guitar), and Victoria Perenyi, Eva Trigueros, and David Boyden (violins).
The music on the new CD is described as “sleepy folk Americana,” but it’s pretty sophisticated with intelligent songwriting backed up by strong vocal harmonies.
Well-versed congrats also go out to Athena Kashyap, whose poems about Noe Valley first appeared on the Last Page of the May 2009 Voice. Kashyap has published a book of poetry, Crossing Black Waters, that includes some of the poems set in the neighborhood. Many of you might have seen her at the Odd Mondays series at Phoenix Books at the end of April.
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VALLEY OF THE HUNGRY: For all those out there who think they can cook, the NVBI reports that two restaurants in Downtown Noe Valley are for sale, although it is withholding the names of the restaurants as “confidential,” out of respect for the owners who feel it will hurt their business.
It appears both are on 24th Street, with one offered at $150,000 and the other at $250,000. The listing for the latter appeared at Restaurant Realty Company through broker Steve Zimmerman, whose description says, “This is located in one of the most desirable locations in Noe Valley, one of San Francisco’s most popular neighborhoods,” and continues, “the current concept is outdated [the name and menu are not included], and a new concept could maximize this opportunity.” Ouch.
However, this “outdated concept” currently has a gross monthly revenue of $40,000 and pays a monthly rent of $5,200 for the 1,400-square-foot space, although “a new long-term lease is negotiable.” Zimmerman can be reached at 945-9701, but you will have to sign a confidentiality agreement as to who is selling.
As for the $150,000 eaterie, the owner wants to retire and has actually reduced the asking price. If you are interested, contact his/her broker, Jim Appenrodt, at Noe Valley’s Laurel Realty, 641-1500.
One new restaurant, Saru Sushi Bar at 3856 24th, which was featured in the Voice Store Trek for April 2012, is on a roll. Saru Sushi has received rave reviews and many are lining up to squeeze into the very small restaurant. And Philz Coffee on the northeast corner of 24th and Douglass is jammed in the mornings—many cars are seen double-parked with blinking lights as their drivers rush in and out for their Philz phix.
Everybody is waiting for the grand opening of DNV’s new frozen yogurt shop, Easy Breezy (at 4028 24th), by Noe Valleyans Ariel and Durand Ford. According to Ariel, the shop will have a “soft opening”—so to speak—toward the end of June, and will feature frozen yogurts, custards, as well as some non-dairy options.
World-famous chef Chris Cosentino of Noe Valley’s Incanto Restaurant on Church Street will talk about his first cookbook, Beginnings: My Way to Start a Meal, on Monday night, June 4, 6 p.m., at Omnivore Books on Cesar Chavez. The book came out in early May, and focuses on what tasty things he recommends for first courses. You’ll find his trademark Italian salumi showing up in the recipes.
Noe Valley foodies probably already know that Chloe’s Café will be having a party on June 15, from 7 to 9 p.m., to celebrate the 25th year of its very popular breakfasts and lunches at the corner of Church and 26th streets. Refreshments will be served and entertainment provided by operatic star Christie Springer, a Chloe’s regular for the past 25 years, and 80-year-old jazz legend Frank Jackson.
Pre-1987, owners Melanie Kang and Steven Baker had been caterers in the motion picture industry. “Our last movie was Dirty Dancing,” says Baker, “and we wanted to get off the road and settle down.”
“We found this little café that had been opened as Bernhard’s Bistro,” recalls Baker, “it had no stove and the rent was $470 a month, but we loved the neighborhood and put together a menu and hired fabulous people to help us, and have had a great run.”
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ON THE BANKS OF NOE VALLEY: Just as you mightexpect, some resistance has formed to First Republic Bank, which stated last fall it wanted to open a branch on the corner of 24th and Sanchez streets in Tuttimelon’s old spot (see September 2011 Rumors).
After getting approvals from federal and state agencies, the bank was hoping for a green light from the city’s Planning Commission last month. But after the neighborhood started buzzing, the May 17 hearing on First Republic’s application for a conditional use permit was continued until June 14 at noon at City Hall.
Although the Planning Department has recommended approval, there is an ad hoc group of Noe Valley residents and merchants who are voicing their opposition to another bank opening in Downtown Noe Valley. For the record, there are now five financial institutions on 24th Street: Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Chase, Sterling, and Circle Bank.
“We are very concerned about 24th Street becoming too sterile by having six banks in a three-block stretch of 24th Street,” says longtime Elizabeth Street resident Peter Gabel, “and another bank is not necessary and does not contribute...to a lively spirit on the street…and [will] not [be] good for foot traffic.”
“I am against all of these high-end lotto stores moving into our neighborhood,” says 24th Street resident Leslie Crawford. “We are collecting letters of opposition and will be presenting them to the planning commission at the next public hearing.”
Just for Fun owner David Eiland says he opposes any application for any commercial use permits other than for retail stores. “We need more retail stores, plain and simple.”
Gabel says he expects about 20 people to show up at the hearing in June.
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SHORT SHRIFTS: Sorry to see the closing of La Sirena Botanica, which had been at 1509 Church St. for more than 15 years, selling mystical crystals, charms, incense, and oils to friends of the occult… Next door, the storefront at 1513 Church (recently vacated by Loft 1513, which moved to 24th Street) is now occupied by a real estate company, Blue Property Group, Inc., operated by Michael Young. It is affiliated with Realty World, and according to Young, has about 30 working agents… Closing abruptly at the end of May was the Kohler-Jones furniture and design store on Church Street at Day.
And a final shrift: In a May 17 story in the L.A. Times about the spending boom expected after the Facebook IPO, journalist Jessica Guynn wrote, “Finding a home listed under $2 million is becoming a challenge in the San Francisco neighborhood of Noe Valley, whose sunny microclimate and historic character are attracting techies in T-shirts and jeans carrying fat wallets.”
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YOU’VE GOT ANSWERS: 1. The gas station was located on the southeast corner of 24th and Diamond streets. The picture was taken in 1967 looking north up Diamond Street toward St. Philip’s Church.
2. The answer is Spinelli’s Coffee, which opened its flagship store in Noe Valley in 1986, and grew to 14 stores, which were all sold to Tully’s in 1998. Bernadette Melvin’s coffee shop Bernie’s replaced Tully’s in 2007.
3. John Street became 22nd Street, Horner became 23rd Street, and Park became 24th Street. Note that Horner, whose wife was named Elizabeth (hence Elizabeth Street), came from New Jersey to San Francisco in 1846 via a Mormon farm settlement in Nauvoo, Ill.
4. James Lick Elementary School opened on the southwest corner of Noe and 25th streets in 1874. The current structure, James Lick Middle School, was built in 1932.
5. The graffiti fighter was Fred Methner (1907-1991), a Jersey Street resident whose tenure as secretary of the East & West of Castro Street Improvement Club spanned 30 years.
6. False (probably). According to historian Mae Silver (see September 2001 Voice), it is unlikely that Jose de Jesus Noe is buried beneath Mission Dolores because his name is not carved on the floor stone, as those of Jose Noe’s wife and two children are. But evidence has not been found of an alternative place of burial. | <urn:uuid:a18b57e6-4efd-4038-9f9c-9f1dd280228c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://noevalleyvoice.com/2012/June/Rumo.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.975242 | 3,572 | 2.28125 | 2 |
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Wednesday, August 14, 2019
Gasoline prices averaged $2.679 a gallon in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell area in July 2019, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Janet S. Rankin noted that area gasoline prices were 6.5 cents less than last July when they averaged $2.744 per gallon. Atlanta area households paid an average of 14.3 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) of electricity in July 2019, similar to the 14.2 cents per kWh paid in July 2018. The average cost of utility (piped) gas at $1.745 per therm in July was higher than the $1.613 per therm spent last year. (Data in this report are not seasonally adjusted. Accordingly, month-to-month changes July reflect the impact of seasonal influences.)
Atlanta area consumers paid $2.679 a gallon for gasoline in July 2019, 5.5 percent less than the $2.836 paid nationally. A year earlier, consumers in the Atlanta area paid 6.3 percent less than the national average for a gallon of gasoline. The local price of gasoline in the Atlanta area has been lower than the national average by more than 5 percent in the month of July in 4 of the past 5 years. (See chart 1.)
The 14.3 cents per kWh Atlanta households paid for electricity in July 2019 was similar to the nationwide average of 14.0 cents per kWh. Last July, electricity costs in Atlanta were also similar to the U.S. average. In 3 of the past 5 years, electricity costs in July for Atlanta households were comparable to the U.S. average. (See chart 2.)
Prices paid by Atlanta area consumers for utility (piped) gas, commonly referred to as natural gas, were $1.745 per therm, or 69.6 percent higher than the national average in July 2019 ($1.029 per therm). A year earlier, area consumers paid 55.4 percent more per therm for natural gas compared to the nation. In each of the last 5 years, the per therm cost for natural gas in July for Atlanta households was at least 53 percent more than the U.S. average. (See chart 3.)
The Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Core Based Statistical Area consists of Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, Dawson, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Haralson, Heard, Henry, Jasper, Lamar, Meriwether, Morgan, Newton, Paulding, Pickens, Pike, Rockdale, Spalding, and Walton Counties in Georgia.
The Consumer Price Index for August 2019 is scheduled to be released on Thursday, September 12, 2019.
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Be it for ecological, ethical or health reasons: More and more people are choosing to eat less meat. The supply of protein is not a problem for them either, there are enough plant-based alternatives, including tofu. Many do not even know how the meat replacement comes about.
Vegetarian alternatives to meat
Vegetarian and vegan foods have experienced a real boom in recent years. More and more meat eaters are also increasingly using vegetable products. Tofu is the main vegetarian alternative to meat. This is low in calories and contains many valuable nutrients such as magnesium, potassium and iron as well as B vitamins and E vitamins. But above all, it is very high in protein.
Tofu as an important source of protein
"Tofu is popular with many vegans and vegetarians as an important source of protein," wrote the Bavarian Consumer Agency in a recent message. Most people know that tofu is a white, relatively tasteless block, but how it comes about is unknown to many.
For tofu, crushed soybeans are boiled with water and filtered, the experts explain. Calcium sulfate or magnesium chloride is added to the soy milk so obtained that it coagulates. The excess liquid is then removed by pressing.
Silk tofu has more residual moisture
"We have to differentiate between firm and soft tofu," explains Silke Noll, nutrition expert at the Bavarian consumer center. Soft tofu, also known as silk tofu, still has a lot of residual moisture. You can spoon it like pudding. It is well suited for making desserts. Solid, dry tofu, on the other hand, is cut-resistant and resembles cooked meat in its consistency. It is used more for hearty dishes.
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Beware stem cell claims
Stem cells, and their ability to mature into different cell types, are real; the miraculous healing powers that have been attributed to them are not. And anyway, it is only embryonic stem cells that can turn into any cell type. Amniotic stem cells and stem cells from umbilical cord blood, which are the stem cell types that mothers can donate, are much more limited. Read more here.
This is important for you because if you are thinking about donating amniotic stem cells, think carefully. If someone tries to pressure you into it as you are giving birth, remember that stem cell treatments are neither tested nor regulated, so may not achieve the noble ends you will be promised that they will achieve.
Is it safe to take that?
Pregnant and lactating women and their doctors often don’t know if medications are safe for fetuses and babies largely because, for ethical concerns, most of them were never tested. Now, the FDA has provided two new drafts on how to include pregnant and lactating women in drug trials. Read more here.
This is important for you because more information can make new and existing drugs safer for everyone.
The power of the placenta
The placenta is the only temporary human organ, grown specifically to manage the intersection between mother and fetus. Many ancient cultures have rituals surrounding how it is discarded, to show respect and gratitude for the amazing things it does. None of them seem to eat it, though – that practice seems to be reserved to modern Western cultures, and mammals other than humans. Read more here.
This is important for you because whatever you do with your placenta after birth, at least acknowledge its essential and remarkable function.
Baby’s first flu
The NIH has just funded two long term, large studies to assess how the first flu strain to which a baby is exposed shapes her growing immune system. Ideally, the data they generate could help develop a universal flu vaccine instead of the suboptimal vaccines we have now, which target only certain flu strains and thus must be administered annually. Read more here.
This is important for you because we know that pathogen exposures in babyhood shape the immune system, but we don’t yet know exactly how. These studies could start to get at that.
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Microsoft Corp., one of the world’s biggest tech companies, sells personal computing devices, cloud systems and services, software and other products. Microsoft is listed on the Nasdaq exchange under the ticker symbol, MSFT.
The company was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in a garage in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Five years later, Gates and Allen were hired to provide the operating system for IBM’s first personal computer, followed in 1985 by Microsoft’s launch of its now ubiquitous Windows software product. In 1986, the company raised $61 million in an initial public offering (IPO) that some analysts referred to as “the deal of the year.” By the late 1980s, Microsoft became the world’s largest personal-computer software company. The Redmond, Washington-based company’s stock rose more than a hundred-fold in the ten years after the IPO, and today it’s one of the world’s largest companies by market value.
With products geared toward both consumers and businesses, Microsoft competes in a broad range of industries against companies including Apple, Inc. (AAPL), Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN), International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), and Oracle Corp. (ORCL).
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Microsoft’s Latest Developments
- On June 11, 2021 five draft antitrust bills were introduced into the House of Representatives. While they have not passed committee hearings yet, the passage of any of the bills would likely mean substantial changes for the way Microsoft does business. The bills are the Ending Platform Monopolies Act, the American Choice and Innovation Online Act, Platform Competition and Opportunity Act, the Augmenting Compatibility and Competition by Enabling Service Switching (ACCESS) Act, and the Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act. Examples of major antitrust changes these bill introduce include forcing dominant online platforms to prove that their acquisitions are not monopolistic, rather than the FTC proving they are not and making it harder for platforms to advantage their own products or services.
- On June 2, 2021, Microsoft announced scheduled for June 24, 2021, at 11 a.m. EST to debut “what’s next,” for its windows operating system.” In addition to this, an end date of October 14, 2025 was announced for support for its Windows 10 operating system, which it had previously said would be the last. This created speculation Microsoft was announcing a “Windows 11” operating system. This speculation was seemingly confirmed when what appears to be a beta version of Windows 11 leaked on June 15, 2021 on Chinese discussion forum Baidu Tieba.
- On May 27, 2021, Microsoft announced that they “observed cyberattacks by the threat actor Nobelium targeting government agencies, think tanks, consultants, and non-governmental organizations. This wave of attacks targeted approximately 3,000 email accounts at more than 150 different organizations.” Nobelium is the name Microsoft has given to the entity involved in the Solarwinds hack last year, who appears to originate in Russia. The hackers got into the Constant Contact account (an email marketing service), of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and used the account to send out phishing emails that appeared to come from USAID. Nobelium is believed to be associated with the Russian foreign intelligence service SVR.
- On May 19, 2021, Microsoft announced that it would be retiring Internet Explorer on June 15, 2022, in favor of Microsoft Edge.
- On May 10, 2021, The Wall Street Journal reported that officials at the Defense Department are considering dropping the $10 billion contract for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) that was given to Microsoft in 2019. The contract is currently stuck in a protracted court case as Amazon, one of the original contenders for the contract, claims that Microsoft was awarded the deal unfairly based on political influence. The case doesn’t seem like it will be going anywhere soon as a federal judge rejected the Pentagon’s motion to dismiss the case in April 2021.
- On April 27, 2021, Microsoft reported earnings for Q3 FY 21, the quarter ending on March 31, 2021. It reported revenue of $41.7 billion and adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of $1.95. Both of these figures were higher than analysts’ expected. Revenue from Microsoft’s key Azure cloud computing platform grew by 50% year-over-year (YOY), more than the 46.3% analysts had predicted.
- On April 19, 2021, the Prime Minister of Malaysia announced that Microsoft would invest $1 billion in the country over the next five years. The investment would come in the form of building multiple data centers and helping up to 1 million Malaysians to acquire digital job skills.
- On April 12, 2021, Microsoft announced it was acquiring AI and voice recognition software firm Nuance Communications for $19.7 billion, including debt. Microsoft says it intends to use the acquisition to, among other things, help further its efforts to push Microsoft Cloud services for the healthcare industry, which is has been a major market for Nuance. The two companies intend to close the deal later this year.
- On March 8, 2021, the European Commission approved Microsoft’s $7.5 billion purchase of videogame company ZeniMax Media, clearing the largest antitrust hurdle to the acquisition. ZeniMax is the parent company of videogame publisher Bethesda Softworks.
- On March 2, 2021, Microsoft announced that there was a state-sponsored cybersecurity threat they had dubbed “Hafnium,” who was based out of China. Halfnium’s attacks targeted a Microsoft product called Microsoft Exchange Servers, an email and calendar server product. Microsoft released a series of patches for Microsoft Exchange Servers. However, there has been a major issue with the patches, if you try to install the patch without running it as administrator, the patch won’t fully update the correct files, but no error message indicating the patch isn’t working will show up, making it seem as though it installed properly even though it didn’t work. Bloomberg reported that there are “at least 60,000 known victims globally.”
Frequently Asked Questions
How Profitable Is Microsoft?
Microsoft made over $15.5 billion in net income for the quarter that ended March 31, 2021, a 44% increase over the year before, according to its most recent quarterly report. The report, released on April 27, 2021, showed that Microsoft’s revenue for the quarter was $41.7 billion, a 19% year-over-year (YOY) increase; its earnings per share (EPS) was $2.03, a 34% YOY increase; and its adjusted EPS was $1.95, a 39% increase. Revenue for its key Azure cloud computing service grew 50% YOY.
Who Owns the Most Microsoft Stock?
The biggest individual insider shareholder of Microsoft is Satya Nadella, who owns 1,337,768 shares of Microsoft stock at last count, representing 0.02% of total shares outstanding. Nadella has served as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Microsoft since 2014, and first joined Microsoft in 1992.
The biggest institutional shareholder of Apple is Vanguard Group, which owns 640.2 million shares of Microsoft, representing 8.4% of total shares outstanding, according to the company’s most recent 13F filing for the period ending March 31, 2020.
Who Invented Microsoft Windows?
Bill Gates, co-founder and former chair and CEO of Microsoft Corp., created Windows with his team at Microsoft in the 1980s. The original Windows 1 was released in November of 1985. It was the company’s first major attempt at a graphical user interface in 16-bit. The operating system ran on top of MS-DOS, which relied on command-line input. | <urn:uuid:c696a409-4ab6-4ec2-bcaf-58eb0cbd8fa7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tradermacks.com/2021/07/02/investing-in-microsoft-stock-msft/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.961273 | 1,650 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Department of Business Administration, Sonoma State University
Keywords: wine innovation, wine marketing, family business, wine value, wine quality, wine emotions.
Despite the importance of innovation for survival and success of wineries around the world, research in wine industry innovation is limited. This editorial note discusses recent developments in the research of innovation in the wine industry. Special attention is given to the intersectoral nature of the wine industry, which involves agricultural, manufacturing, and marketing/sales activities. The implications of widespread family ownership and management in the wine industry for the innovation process are reviewed. Differences in how experts and consumers measure and define wine quality and value are discussed.
Despite facing severe losses and disruption from wildfires and pandemic lockdowns, the wine industry has been surprisingly resilient. According to a Silicon Valley Bank survey, 33 percent of winery owners identified the year 2020 as one of the most challenging years in their history. By the end of the year 2021, it was evident that a large segment of the industry had adapted to the new industry environment, as 29 percent of winery owners reported that 2021 was their best year ever, marking a reversal in perceived conditions relative to the prior year (McMillan, 2022). The ability of the wine industry to innovate and adapt in recent years is proof of its ability to lead through innovation in the face of increasingly volatile and hostile external conditions (Sacchelli, Fabbrizzi, & Menghini, 2016; Galbreath, Charles, & Oczkowski, 2016; Stasi et al., 2016).
Given the importance and ubiquity of innovation in the wine industry, a large stream of research has attempted to analyze the types of innovation that exist (Gault, 2018), how to define it, and how it manifests itself, in the context of the wine industry (Porto-Gómez, Larreina, & Gaviria-de-la-Puerta, 2020). In a pioneering effort to take stock of the existing literature on wine industry innovation, Dogru and Peyrefitte (2022) identified 76 research studies through a systematic search in academic journals and research databases. In addition to conducting a systematic literature review, Dogru and Peyrefitte (2022) are the first to use meta-analysis to aggregate the empirical evidence accumulated to date on wine industry innovation.
Textual analysis indicated that the most widely studied types of innovation (in order of frequency) are (1) “green” or eco-innovation, (2) product innovation, (3) marketing innovation, (4) process innovation, and (5) conventional [as opposed to eco-] innovation. The most common keywords in wine innovation studies are (1) wine, (2) sustainability, (3) innovation, (4) information, and (5) performance. These findings are consistent with the bibliometric review of the wine innovation literature by Porto-Gómez et al. (2020) which identified sustainable innovation as the most central type of innovation in the context of the wine industry. However, drawing inferences about a stream of studies by counting the number of studies that report a negative, positive, and insignificant correlation is incorrect and can lead to erroneous conclusions about the correlation between variables (Hunter & Schmidt, 2004). As a statistical method to aggregate the findings of multiple studies, meta-analysis can provide more robust and conclusive results regarding the magnitude and direction of the relationship between two variables (Hunter & Schmidt, 2004).
Dogru and Peyrefitte (2022) use meta-analysis to estimate the mean weighted average correlation between (a) innovation and (b) absorptive capacity, (c) technology adoption, (d) sustainable practices, and (e) export orientation across 41 studies. Regarding the mean correlations (r) with winery innovation, the strongest correlation is with sustainable practices (i.e. environmental policies, data collection, eco-labeling, renewable energy use) (r = 0.54). This finding provides further support for the claim that innovation in the wine industry is mainly related to innovations in winegrowing (agriculture) and winemaking (production). There is also a high degree of overlap between, on the one hand, innovation, and on the other hand, absorptive capacity (i.e. R&D, HR quality, patents) (r = 0.34) and technology adoption (i.e. winemaking machinery, automation, sensors) (r = 0.28). This provides additional support for the hypothesis that innovation in the wine industry is focused on process improvements in agriculture and production. The fact that wineries’ export orientation (i.e. firm exports as a percentage of total sales) has the weakest correlation with innovation (r = 0.11) suggests that innovations in sales and marketing are the least relevant innovation type in the wine industry. The results of this meta-analysis also suggest a moderate correlation between winery innovation and financial performance (r = 0.29).
A simple, yet powerful approach to conceptualize the intersectoral nature of innovation in the wine industry is the distinction between (1) front-end, or consumer-facing innovation (i.e. marketing/sales innovations), and (2) back-end, or agricultural and production innovations (Dressler, 2022). The multi-case study of four wine industry establishments in Germany by Dressler (2022) concludes that wineries commonly excel in either (1) front-end or (2) back-end innovation, but seldom excel in both areas. The results suggest that German wineries are able to overcome the tradeoff between (1) front-end and (2) back-end innovations through collaboration with industry associations and nonprofit organizations that can link different industry actors and thereby help wineries access the knowledge needed to obtain a balance between front-end and back-end innovation (Dressler, 2013).
The wine industry’s disproportionate focus on innovations in agriculture (winegrowing) and production (winemaking) at the expense of innovations in sales and marketing is reflected in the disconnect between how (a) experts and (b) consumers determine wine quality and value. Wine experts’ preferences in terms of varietals, tanning, aromas, and flavors tend to be correlated with those of other experts (Hopfer & Heymann, 2014) but not with consumers’ preferences (Machado, 2009). Whether the criteria used by expert raters to assess wine quality such as flavor, aroma intensity, texture, viscosity, and sugar-to-acid ratio is relevant for the sales performance of wines is questionable (Francis & Williamson, 2015). For example, recent studies find no relationship between wine prices and wine quality as assessed by wine experts (Culvert et al., 2018; for contradictory findings see Culvert et al., 2017; Oczkowski & Doucouliagos, 2015). Similarly, a study by Hopfer and Heymann (2014) concluded that “some consumers’ liking patterns are opposite to experts’ quality perceptions” (p. 231).
The importance of understanding how consumers assess the quality of the firm’s wines depends on the importance management places on market success relative to its adherence to the industry’s traditional standards of wine quality. A review of wine sensory evaluation research studies concluded that, regarding the “relationship between consumer liking and the quality or preference judgements of experts…. no correlation has been reported between the responses of the two groups” (Francis & Williamson, 2015, p. 562). The discrepancy between wine experts’ preferences and consumer preferences deserves further examination by wine industry managers and researchers.
The use of emotions as a measure of wine quality holds great potential for improving the relevance and accuracy of wine business research. For example, the use of self-reported, explicit measures of wine quality commonly introduces respondent bias into the survey data used by wine business research studies. Data on consumers’ emotional responses to wine consumption collected through the use of implicit measures such as heart rate alterations, facial expressions, and changes in brain activity are automatic and often unconscious, which restricts the influence of respondent biases (Pedroza & Herrell, 2022). As a novel development in wine business research methods, the use of implicit measures of wine quality provides opportunities for researchers to make empirical and theoretical contributions. Despite the benefits of implicit measures of emotions relative to explicit measures, standards and approaches for measuring and interpreting physiological responses to wine related stimuli are less established than measurement instruments for explicit measures of emotions. Thus, a mixture of both explicit and implicit measures of wine quality is recommended (Pedroza & Herrell, 2022).
Managers can individualize wine tasting experiences and allow customers both on-site and remotely to learn more about their emotional reaction to the firms’ wines through explicit measures of their emotional responses (i.e. surveys). Managers can also use implicit measures of wine quality to take advantage of the mass adoption of technologies that can be used to measure customers’ physiological responses to wine stimuli. For example, wearable devices, tablets, and smartphones facilitate the measurement of physiological responses such as assessing facial expressions, for wineries looking to engage consumers in innovative ways by helping them learn more about how the firm’s wines interact with their emotions. Of course, sensory experiences can involve more than one sense such as when customers engage their sight, smell, and taste senses during wine tastings. Wineries can proactively seek to engage additional senses through altering the research setting. For example, wineries can examine the potential effect of music or other sounds on customer engagement and purchase patterns. Data about customers’ emotions before, during, and after drinking the firm’s wines can be a rich source of real-world data that can help wineries be more responsive to customer needs.
When firms collect data about the preferences and feedback of customers in their industry to be more responsive to customers’ needs, they can be said to engage in market-driven innovation. In comparison, market-driving innovations represent efforts to restructure the existing relationships and value configurations to envision new value propositions. A value proposition consists of creating a gain, eliminating a pain, meeting a need, or fulfilling a want or desire for a specific group of customers. Whether a segment of customers finds the value proposition(s) of the firm’s products or services valuable or not depends on the unique characteristics of that group of customers and what jobs or tasks they want or need to do. Through a market-driving approach, wine industry actors can shape consumer preferences, the criteria used to determine wine value, and create new sources of value for wine consumers (Humphreys & Carpenter, 2018).
An (2022) describes the transition from a product-dominant to a service-dominant logic in wine consumption and the role that wine documentary films played in this transition. Wine documentary films represent a form of market-driving innovation because they created new value configurations that encouraged customers to evaluate the wine consumption process through the lenses of a service-dominant logic (An, 2022). Wine documentary films encouraged a paradigm shift from perceiving wine buying as a physical experience to conceptualizing wine consumption as an experiential purchase. In the product-dominant view, wine value disappears as consumers drink the wine, while in the service-dominant view, producers and other actors in the value chain are seen as co-creating wine value in collaboration with consumers.
Viewing wine as a service places the focus on its value-in-use during the consumer experience as opposed to its value-in-exchange, which is the traditional way of assessing wine quality through its commercial value (i.e. price). Perhaps the faltering relationship between wine experts’ wine quality ratings and wines prices signals that what consumers value in the wine drinking experience bears no relationship to wine experts’ valuation criteria and methods. It is likely that consumers’ perceptions of the value-in-use of wine can be best measured through implicit and explicit measurements of customer emotional responses during the wine drinking experience. A framework to study consumers’ wine experiences within a service-logic is the 4Es framework which emphasizes the importance of Esthetics, Escape, Education, and Entertainment as the sources of value for wine consumers (An, 2022; Joy, Yoon, Grohmann, & LaTour, 2021).
While wine output and sales revenue declined during the year 2020, other alcoholic beverages such as cider saw a growth in demand and sales in the same year, including a 9 percent growth in US industry revenues (McGrath, 2021). Using a sample of 433 French participants, Le Fur and Outreville (2022) examine the preferences and drivers of cider value of young consumers. Respondents reported a preference for cider rose, suggesting young cider consumers are likely to respond favorably to new alcoholic beverages with novel flavors such as exotic fruits, vanilla, or cherry (Le Fur & Outreville, 2022). Few young consumers know one or more cider brands, which reiterates the huge opportunities available to alcoholic beverage producers to grow through innovations in marketing and sales. The behavior of cider consumers evolves as they become more experienced and knowledgeable of cider products and brands, as respondents that are familiar with more than one cider brand are willing to pay a higher price for cider beverages of higher quality (Le Fur & Outreville, 2022). This suggests that the traditional standards that alcoholic beverage experts use to assess quality and value may only play a significant role in shaping the preferences and purchasing behavior of highly experienced consumers, which represent only a small segment of the alcoholic beverages market.
Given that about 90 percent of wineries are family-owned and/or managed, no overview of innovation in the winery industry would be complete without a discussion of how family dynamics interact with the innovation process in this context. Woodfield and Husted (2022) criticize the traditional conceptualization of knowledge transfer in family wineries as unidirectional flowing from the senior generation (SG) to the new generation (NG). The authors argued that knowledge transfer in family firms is bidirectional because in addition to knowledge flowing from the SG to the NG, knowledge also flows from the NG to the SG. Woodfield and Husted (2022) distinguish between explicit knowledge, which can be passed on through education and codified in books and written documents, and tacit knowledge, which represents knowledge gained through experience and is difficult to capture in writing and transmit through education. An example of explicit knowledge being transferred into existing explicit knowledge occurs when the NG gains new knowledge through education and later incorporates this knowledge into the firm’s existing documents and manuals in the form of training manuals, procedural documents, and formal contracts. According to Woodfield and Husted (2022), only the transfer of explicit knowledge into explicit knowledge and from tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge from the NG to the SG is likely to lead to radical innovation.
The advances in wine business theory and practice described above are encouraging, yet much work remains to be done in order to properly understand innovation in the wine industry. Despite consumer behavior and marketing being the most studied fields in the wine business literature, innovations in wine marketing and sales have received insufficient attention in comparison to innovations in winegrowing or winemaking which have received a greater deal of attention. The topic of innovation has not received enough attention in the wine business literature, which creates promising research opportunities for future studies. Furthermore, future research that synthesizes and cumulates the large number of research studies published to date in the field of wine business will help increase the relevance of wine business research for industry executives as well as for researchers in other disciplines.
About the ‘Ron Rubin Leading through Innovation’ Special Issue
The ‘Ron Rubin Leading through Innovation’ special issue was created by the Wine Business Journal to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Wine Business Institute at Sonoma State University. Special thanks to Gary Heck whose leadership 25 years ago made the creation of the Wine Business Institute possible. This special issue is named after Ron Rubin because of his extensive and relentless commitment to advancing research, education, and awareness of the wine industry. Our advisory editors, Edwin Adams, Vicky Farrow, Anisya Fritz, and Jon Moramarco, invested countless hours to provide direction and vision for this special issue.
We conclude by recognizing the exceptional efforts of the authors and reviewers who contributed to this special issue. While only six studies were published, we are grateful to the authors of all 15 submissions to this special issue. We are glad to announce that the board of directors of the Wine Business Institute selected the study titled “Investigation of Innovation in Wine Industry via Meta-Analysis” (Dogru & Peyrefitte, 2022) as the winner of the best paper award for this special issue. In addition, the editorial board of the Wine Business Journal is proud to recognize the manuscript titled “Exploring Emotions as a New Quality Parameter in Wine” (Pedroza & Herrell, 2022) as a groundbreaking contribution that will influence the discussion of wine quality measurement in the near future. The editorial board also selected the study titled “Innovation Management in Wine Business – Need to Address Front-End, Back-End, or Both?” (Dressler, 2022) as the best international submission to this special issue. This special issue was made possible by the vision and leadership of Ray Johnson, director of the Wine Business Institute and associate editor Matthew Bauman. We close this special issue introduction by recognizing the effort and dedication of the reviewers who invested countless hours to provide invaluable feedback for the manuscripts submitted to the special issue. In particular, we would like to recognize Jean Dodson Peterson as the best reviewer of 2021 for her outstanding effort to submit countless rigorous reviews in a most timely fashion.
The researchers and wine industry experts who served as reviewers for the manuscripts submitted to this special issue are listed below:
- Jared Allen, Texas Tech University
- Tom Atkin, Sonoma State University
- Mary Barrett, University of Wollongong
- Xian Cao, Ball State University
- Adam Carmer, University of South Florida
- Armando Corsi, University of Adelaide
- James Crick, University of Leicester
- Jean Dodson Peterson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
- Hannah DeYoung, Sonoma State University
- Marc Dressler, Hochschule Ludwigshafen
- Vicky Farrow, Amista Vineyards
- Anisya Fritz, Lynmar Estate
- Robert Harrington, Washington State University
- Jean Hertzman, New Mexico State University
- Dirk Libaers, University of South Florida
- Matthew McSweeney, Acadia University
- Sandra Newton, Sonoma State University
- Ivan Paunovic, Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University
- Miguel A. Pedroza, California State University, Fresno
- Dennis Reynolds, University of Houston
- Emiliano Villanueva, Eastern Connecticut State University
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Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.(Leviticus 19:36) KJV
When you use a computer to analyze data it has to be coded in a form that the computer can understand. This is where personal bias and circular reasoning starts: not in the analysis, in the coding.
When it comes to specimens of fossilized plants, animals or human remains we have to describe them to the computer in a way that the computer can work with. The simplest computer language is binary. Every entry has to be either a or , it’s the basis of how computers work.
If we want a computer to analyze human skulls and give us an output which shows us how they compare to each other, then we have to encode each specimen as a series of characters in a binary matrix. This is called a character state matrix. The computer can’t tell us how the specimens relate to each other until after we’ve coded our matrix. A character could be something like the size of the cranium. The character state is: large or small? The bias is, which state is primitive and which state is advanced ? The difference between what we code as and what we code as is based our belief about the relationships between the specimens.
A good example of how personal bias affects cladistic phylogenetic analysis is the supposed evolution of the Hominid series. How are we going to code data if we believe in the evolutionary origin of humanity?
If we believe that humans evolved then we’re going to encode the skull of Homo sapiens as the advanced state: . Anything else is less advanced and so it will have an increasing number of s in the character state matrix depending on how primitive we think it is. Our decision about how to code the specimens is based on our belief that humans evolved. The output from the computer is going to be that humans evolved. In computer lingo it’s called garbage in = garbage out.
If, on the other hand, we believe that humans were created, then Homo sapiens is the ancestral condition and would be coded . Everything else, including the Neanderthal, is derived from it because of how human groups split up and spread out after the tower of Babel. As such, our character state matrix will be the exact opposite of the one coded by someone who believes that we evolved. The computer will give us an output confirming our hypothesis that H. sapiens is the ancestral state.
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Hack the Capitol may sound ominous given the January 6 riots that saw the halls of power in our nation breached by a mob of angry protesters, but Hack the Capitol 4.0 isn’t meant to do damage to our democratic institutions. Rather it is a multi-track event designed to educate congressional staffers, scholars, and even the media on some of the critical cybersecurity challenges that our nation faces today.
HACK THE CAPITOL 4.0
This year’s event will be held virtually on Tuesday, May 4 from 9am to 5:30pm ET.
Hack the Capitol 4.0 is being presented by ICS village in a partnership with the R Street Institute, the Cyber Bytes Foundation and the National Security Institute (NSI). The day-long, multi-track event will feature three programming tracks including: Policy Panels and Presentations, including keynotes and fireside chats from leading government officials; “Technical Talks,” which are designed to offer a deep dive into leading issues in cybersecurity; and an online Exhibition Hall, which will feature demonstrations of industrial control systems.
Confirmed speakers include, among others: Dr. Reem Al-Shammari, chief information security officer for the Kuwait Oil Company; Tatyana Bolton, policy director for R Street Institute’s Cybersecurity & Emerging Threats team; Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wisconsin), co-chair of the Cybersecurity Solarium Commission; Rep. Jim Langevin (R-Rhode Island), co-chair of the House Cybersecurity Caucus, which he help to found; Rep. Ted Lieu (D-California), one of the sponsors of the 2018 Hack the Department of Homeland Security Act; and Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Virginia), the vice ranking member of House Armed Services Committee.
AN ANNUAL EVENT
When ICS Village organized the first two-day Hack the Capitol event, it was meant to address the dangers presented by the threats from various Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and how these could be employed to breach cyber networks. It also focused on Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and security.
As with the upcoming event, it was mean to provide hands-on education and awareness to members of the public, as well as to Congress, think tanks, and the press.
“The ICS Village is a non-profit that provides education and awareness on critical infrastructure security,” explained Bryson Bort, R Street Institute senior fellow and an advisor to the Army Cyber Institute. He is also the founder and CEO of SCYTHE, a start-up building a next-generation attack emulation platform, and GRIMM, a boutique cybersecurity consultancy.
“We have traveled the U.S. advancing this mission for years,” Bort told ClearanceJobs. “It occurred to us a few years ago, we’re based in D.C. – why not put together a conference focused on the policymakers? They could really benefit from hands-on exposure with real equipment and a chance to meet and learn from the practitioners on the front-lines keeping us safe every day.”
With each conference, Hack the Capitol has expanded, and now has become an event that has attracted lawmakers as speakers, while it continues to bring together like-minded forward thinkers from the cybersecurity community to help discuss the threats – and solutions to those to threats – facing the nation.
“NSI is proud to co-host the Hack the Capitol event, now in its fourth year,” said Jamil N. Jaffer, founder and executive director of the National Security Institute at George Mason University.
“Hack the Capitol consistently brings real technical expertise to the cybersecurity and industrial security conversation,” Jaffer told ClearanceJobs. “It provides policymakers and the general public a more nuanced understanding of the key challenges facing American critical infrastructure providers and ideas about how to address these threats.”
TAKING CYBERSECURITY VIRTUAL
While this year’s event has to be held virtual, due to the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic, it has continued to grow in stature, even as it was reduced to a single day-long event with multiple tracks and presentations.
“We couldn’t be more excited to partner with ICS Village and R Street for another year supporting Hack the Capital,” said Joel Scharlat, director of operations at the Cyber Bytes Foundation, which provides cybersecurity education, innovation, and outreach programs.
“This event aligns well with our goals,” Scharlat told ClearanceJobs. “Hack the Capital directly supports collaboration among security researchers and congressional members and their staff which promotes the security of our nation and its critical infrastructure.”
FOCUS ON CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
And while critical infrastructure is not a new buzz word, there is much greater focus on it, and why it is important to ensure that it isn’t the target of a cyber attack.
“Critical infrastructure (CI) is so often forgotten and we at R Street are excited to partner with ICS Village to co-host an event that puts CI security front and center,” R Street Institute’s Tatyana Bolton told ClearanceJobs. The nonprofit, nonpartisan, public policy research organization has worked to stress the importance of CI in policy research. Summed up by Bolton, “Education is key to strong cybersecurity – and I’m so happy Hack the Capitol has taken off so well.” | <urn:uuid:3059f49d-316e-40a8-a383-ffaacc83c533> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cyberbytesfoundation.org/news/hack-the-capitol-event-planned-to-address-critical-cybersecurity-challenges/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.951001 | 1,158 | 1.789063 | 2 |
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4.1 Socio-Demographic Characteristics
Ten local council leaders in charge of six villages from three districts, viz; Sironko, Bulambuli, and Butalejja, in Eastern Uganda participated in this study. Most of the participants were males since top the leadership of village councils in Uganda is exclusive to men. Most participants (50%) fell in the age category of ≥ 60. Though 60% of the participants attended primary education, none of the respondents completed an ordinary level of education to attain the Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE).
4.2 Knowledge and perceptions about the COVID-19 pandemic
Though all the respondents reported having received some information about the existence of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was generally low knowledge and awareness about some crucial aspects of the pandemic. The majority (70%) of the respondents did not know the meaning of COVID-19, while 100% were unaware of some common symptoms such as; headache, sore throat, nausea, vomiting, malaise, muscle pain, diarrhea, loss of taste & smell among others(18). Low knowledge levels about COVID-19 might be partly attributed to the high illiteracy levels among the respondents, since none of them attained the ordinary Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE). Elsewhere, low education levels have been associated with limited ability to comprehend health information, hence predisposing communities to a higher risk of disease transmission (21). Similar to prior research (22–24), our study revealed that radio (9; 90%) was the main source of health information used by the respondents. The scarcity of hydroelectricity power might explain why some information sources such as televisions and the internet were uncommon. Our findings were however in discrepancy with some recent studies conducted in Nigeria and in the United States of America (USA) where other sources of health information besides radio were utilized more(25, 26). In the USA, majority of respondents reported reliance on health professionals as sources of health information, and that age, income and education influenced people’s choice of health information sources (26).
Some clients (10%) falsely believed that the COVID-19 pandemic was a fallacy in Uganda. This misconception may be attributed to the scarcity of genuine COVID-19 information which has created room for the spread of wrong information about the pandemic, especially in rural settings. Most of the participants believed that; hygiene, accessibility to health information, belief that COVID-19 truly exists, contact tracing, and access to sanitizers (100%, 80%, 90%, 100%, and 70%) were very important in influencing the control of COVID-19; while 10% did not know whether high prevalence rates, willingness to adhere to health guidelines and people’s desire to exercise freedom of association & work, could have significant impacts on control of COVID-19. Failure to appreciate the importance of these crucial epidemiological factors poses a threat to the effective prevention of the pandemic.
4.3 Roles of village leaders in the management and control of community transmission of COVID-9.
Participants who confirmed to be formally involved in the fight against COVID-19 in the villages they administer were eighty percent (8; 80%). Similarly, in Thailand, the enormous role of Village Health Volunteers (VHVs), particularly local people or village leaders, in community-based surveillance (CBS) and reporting of highly contagious viral infections has been reported (27). In Thailand, the VHVs were subjected to basic training on how to recognize disease occurrence prior to their engagement in the CBS.
Most participants reported that they respond to alert cases by inviting the concerned government officials and health professionals to manage the cases. This action is appropriate since it rhythms with the Ugandan Ministry of Health’s guidelines (14). Some respondents (10%) reported that they offer first aid to COVID-19suspects, while others reported “taking no action”. The former may accelerate the spread of the pandemic because local council leaders do not have the expertise and mandate to administer any treatment to COVID-19 suspects, while the latter incurs a public health threat since village council leaders are potentially the most immediate government officials available in remote rural settings, and owe to respond appropriately to COVID-19 notification. This is authenticated by the COVID-19 gazette of the government of Uganda (14).
The commonest approaches employed by most respondents to engage in the fight against COVID-19 were; dissemination of COVID-19 information by word of mouth through door-to-door meetings, regulation of public ceremonies such as burials and weddings, and monitoring of visitors that come from distant places. Though these approaches are generally tedious in the event that the personnel lack adequate financing, they have reportedly been employed in other countries(25, 28). For example, a study by Anna Biley et al., 2000 in the United Kingdom reported word of mouth as a commonly used avenue of conveying health information, followed by leaflets, television, and newspapers (28).
Most respondents reported that residents in the villages where this study was conducted had not yet received any aid in form of masks, soap, sanitizers or food, to enhance effective prevention of COVI-19 as reported in some urban parts of Uganda (29), except for some villages in Butalejja district where the residents had received minimal aid in form of soap from a non-government organization called CHLORINE. Generally, the deficiency of materials that are essential in preventing COVID-19 among rural communities was evident.
4.4 Opinions of local leaders about the COVID-19 pandemic
The respondents believed that in the areas where this study was conducted, the degree of community compliance to COVID-19 preventive guidelines was declining drastically at both the household level and in public places. This could be explained by low awareness, inadequate anti-COVID-19 campaigns, and falsified belief of some residents in these rural villages about the non-existence of COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda. The implication is that rural communities in Eastern Uganda are potential candidates for a drastic upsurge of COVID-19 and hence severer damage. Though the respondents were certain about factors that favored their effective participation in the fight against this pandemic, they iterated that their contribution to the fight against COVID-19 was hampered mostly by limited access to COVID-19 information, the inadequacy of communication resources accessible to the rural communities such as radios, high levels of illiteracy among the communities, long-distance to COVID-19 treatment and isolation centers, plus the fact that some of their subjects believed that the village council leaders were not suitable to engage in matters of critical public health importance such as COVID-19.
The respondents opined that the COVID-19 pandemic had incurred negative impacts on both rural and urban communities, with some of the notable cases being; loss of wages and income, loss of human capital, straining of the health sector as well as disruption of social wellbeing and liberty to associate. These opinions are in tandem with several reports which have assessed or projected the adverse socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 on several countries including Uganda, Kenya, United Arab Emirates, and Mexico among others (30, 31).
The respondents also mentioned interventions that may improve preparedness and response to COVID-19 in rural settings, and hence minimize the damage incurred by the pandemic. These included; provision of aid in form of materials necessary for COVID-19 control such as soap and masks, scaling up the water supply and health systems, routine surveys to identify potential asymptomatic COVID-19 cases, and improving health awareness creation.
4.5 Potential risk of community transmission of COVID-19 in rural districts in Eastern Uganda.
The key geographical factors that potentially posed a risk of COVID-19 upsurge to the areas included in this study were: proximity to the porous Kenya-Uganda border(32), hence increased susceptibility to imported COVID-19 cases; tapping water from open sources such as river Mpologoma by a section of the population; and the presence of a mountainous terrain which complicates accessibility hence straining case management. Regarding the porous borders, the potential contribution of people entering Uganda from Kenya, possibly via informal entry points, to the rise of COVID-19 cases in Uganda has been acknowledged previously(8). Also, challenges related to mountainous terrain have been implicated in impeding health service delivery in other countries such as Britain(33). Further, the fact that some of the community members in Butalejja district fetch water from river Mpologoma creates public health concerns with regard to COVID-19 spread. This river receives its water supply from various streams especially from Mountain Elgon; and it flows through several districts in Eastern Uganda, including COVID-19 hotspots such as Mbale district and Tororo district (34, 35). Pollution of river Mpologoma, including sewerage discharge by humans in these hotspots, has been reported (36). This poses a threat to rural communities that use this water downstream since the COVID-19 pathogen (SARS-Cov.2) has been proved to survive in sewerage and in untreated waters in some places (37, 38).
With regard to social factors, breaching of the WHO public health guidelines and the Ugandan government directives set to fight COVID-19 was observed in public places such as markets, streets, sports grounds and all other community gatherings. Commonest indicators included scarcity of mask-wearing & hand-washing resources, and lack of social distancing. This may partly be attributed to the inadequacy of COVID-19 awareness campaigns that would rather be implemented in avenues such as songs, posters, banners, and billboards in the rural communities. In Nigeria, low health awareness was associated with an increased risk of disease spread and decline of the overall public health quality (39).
Economically, we observed the undue presence of commercial perishable agricultural produce such as bananas and tomatoes in rural communities. This could be explained by financial constraints and transportation challenges incurred by COVID-19 restrictions on the traders who deal in conveyance of agricultural merchandise from rural villages to urban markets. The consequence is a potential risk of financial losses incurred to the farmers, and hence impairing their ability to meet the monetary demands of COVID-19 prevention and treatment.
At the homestead level, the availability of locally innovated handwashing gadgets (Fig. 7), was the major and sole indicator of community responsiveness to the COVID-19 pandemic. Though these gadgets were scarcely present, and with no soap availed in some cases, they rather exhibited a positive attitude towards alleviation of this pandemic by the rural communities amidst resource constraints. We also observed that in most cases, the sizes of houses were not commensurate to the large families, in light of the high populations situated in Uganda’s rural settings as compared to urban places (11). The consequence is a potential risk of inhouse accelerated COVID-19 in-house spread in rural communities. Also, we observed the scarcity in homesteads, of food staffs which have been recommended in boosting the body’s ability to fight respiratory viruses such as SARS-Cov.2 (20). This may pose treatment challenges in the case of COVID-19upsurge in these remote rural villages.
4.6 Conclusion and recommendations
Rural communities in Eastern Uganda are vulnerable to the explosive spread of COVID-19, due to challenges related to; low awareness of COVID-19, reluctance in complying with preventive guidelines, finance, technology, terrain, porous borders, scarcity of protective wear and hygiene resources, and Illiteracy. Awareness creation, material aid, execution of preventive rules, and more research on COVID-19 are warranted. | <urn:uuid:f2586adf-d819-4531-807d-b365eb4bab73> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-123401/v1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.957419 | 2,427 | 3.015625 | 3 |
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Retirement accounts aren’t always known for their flexibility, which is why the relaxed rules that apply to a Roth IRA early withdrawal stand out: Because these accounts are funded with after-tax dollars, you’re free to pull out contributions at any time.
You can tap a Roth IRA, up to the amount you’ve contributed, for any reason, ranging from the responsible (there’s a hole in your roof and your kitchen is now a swimming pool) to the frivolous (you want to build a rooftop swimming pool above your kitchen).
That doesn't mean you should tap the account. The following quiz will give you the quick answer to whether your Roth IRA early withdrawal will be taxed — or read on for more details below.
Quick rundown: the Roth IRA early withdrawal
If you want to withdraw contributions: After-tax contributions — commonly called "basis" — can be withdrawn at any time, for any reason, with no taxes or withdrawal penalties.
If you want to withdraw earnings: You must satisfy two requirements for a qualified distribution to avoid both taxes and the 10% early withdrawal penalty. First, you must have held a Roth IRA account for at least five years, a clock that starts ticking at the beginning of the year of your first contribution. Second, you must be at least 59½, disabled, dead (the distribution is taken by heirs) or using up to $10,000 toward a first-home purchase.
» Read more: Everything you need to know about Roth IRA withdrawals
If you don’t satisfy both points, a withdrawal of earnings is likely to come with income taxes and penalties. Some exceptions, outlined below, allow you to avoid the 10% early withdrawal penalty — but not taxes — on certain early distributions that aren’t qualified.
Early withdrawals of Roth IRA contributions
It might give you peace of mind to know Roth IRA contributions can be tapped in a pinch. They’re not a replacement for an emergency fund or an excuse to live above your means, but if things get dire, they can be a source of quick cash.
If you take a Roth IRA early withdrawal, contributions come out first, which is a rare move by the IRS to make things easier on you. You don’t have to worry about taxes — or about accounting for which portion of your distribution comes from earnings, and which from contributions — unless you pull out more than you’ve contributed.
Amounts converted into the Roth IRA come out next, on a first-in, first-out basis, and earnings come out last.
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Early withdrawals of Roth IRA earnings
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You get to take qualified distributions tax-free. Trouble is, the IRS’s definition of a qualified distribution is narrow, and a distribution of earnings before age 59½ probably won’t meet it.
Early distributions of earnings for these reasons are considered qualified: not subject to taxes or the 10% penalty
Early distributions of earnings for these reasons are considered exceptions: taxable as income, but not subject to the 10% penalty
You've held a Roth IRA for at least five years AND you are taking the distribution in one of the following circumstances:
First, to avoid both income taxes and the 10% early withdrawal penalty, you must have held a Roth IRA for at least five years. This condition is satisfied if five years have passed since you first made a contribution to any Roth IRA, not necessarily the one you plan to tap. (There is an exception, however: If you’ve converted assets from a traditional IRA or 401(k) into a Roth IRA, each converted amount has its own five-year clock. Here's more on the Roth five-year rules.)
Second, you must be age 59½ or older, permanently and totally disabled or using the money for a first-time home purchase (and for that last one, there’s a $10,000 lifetime limit). Beneficiaries are also able to take qualified distributions after the death of the account owner.
If you don’t meet both rules for qualified distributions, the IRS will waive the penalty (but not taxes) if you take a distribution for one of these reasons:
Qualified education expenses
Unreimbursed medical expenses that exceed 7.5% of your adjusted gross income for the year
You withdraw up to $5,000 in the year after the birth or adoption of your child
Health insurance premiums while you are unemployed
Qualified reservist distributions (for members of the military reserve called to active duty)
A series of substantially equal periodic payments — recurring distributions designed to help you weather prolonged financial hardships before retirement age — which generally require that you take at least one distribution each year for five years or until you turn 59½, whichever comes later
Outside of those criteria, you may be taxed and penalized on an early withdrawal of earnings. Depending on your tax rate, that could eat a third to half of the taxable portion of your distribution.
In other words: With the exception of rare and dire circumstances, a Roth IRA early withdrawal isn't worth it.
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Have you ever walked to a meeting or the restroom and passed a coworker who literally avoided eye contact? This is very common in today’s world of looking at cell phones and being passive to human interaction. But it still confuses me why this is the new norm.
In my last job, if I was running a little late, flustered in the morning, or woke up on the wrong side of the bed I would often not say good morning to coworkers. My manager would ask what was wrong or disappointedly point out that I wasn’t being friendly and setting the right example. Quickly I adopted the mentality on how important it was to say hello, smile, and always be friendly to coworkers (and shockingly, strangers!). This mindset has served me well in my business life and is something others should adopt as well.
Here are some of the reasons you should embrace a friendlier mantra during the day-to-day grind at your place of work:
- It makes you happier. I mean, we spend a third of our day (at least) at work. That doesn’t include that another third is typically spent sleeping. Who wants to miserably go through a day without genuine human interaction?
- It shows character. In honesty, I think it shows more negative character when you are the person that does not say ‘good morning’, ‘how are you’, or ‘have a good night.’
- It makes a good impression. The people I think the most highly of at my work place are the ones who look up from their computer to say hello, take 30 seconds of their day to ask how things are going, or are welcoming.
- It forms relationships. Building relationships is the number one key to success.
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Hundreds of fires light up Central Africa as a thick blanket of smoke shrouds the sky in late July 2021. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired this true-color image on July 30.
Each red “hot spot” marks an area where the thermal bands on the MODIS instrument detected high temperatures. When combined with typical smoke, as in this image, such hot spots mark actively burning fire. Countries captured in this image, all speckled with hot spots, include Angola, Zambia, and Malawi in the south and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in the north. The shroud of smoke over DRC is so thick that in many areas it completely obscures the land from view.
While it is not possible to determine how a fire has started from a satellite image, the widespread nature of these fires, their location and the time of year suggests that these are fires that people have intentionally set for agricultural purposes.
Farmers in this region have used fire for thousands of years to clear fields of old crops, prepare fields for new plantings, clear underbrush, and renew pasture or savanna grasslands. While fire is a cheap and efficient way to manage land, especially in the African savanna lands where the ecosystem depends on periodic fires for health, fire also creates hazards, such as pollution from the smoke, release of greenhouse gasses, and degradation of ecosystems. In Central Africa, the fire season typically begins by May and peaks in August. | <urn:uuid:6e4402aa-21bd-4d7a-b0e0-d85bc3076a31> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2021-08-02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.932093 | 316 | 4.40625 | 4 |
The National Science Foundation (NSF) previously expressed concern this could happen, which is why it decided last month the dish would be demolished rather than repaired. Gravity took care of that a bit quicker than expected as the 900-ton suspended platform plummeted into the dish overnight, completely destroying the iconic instrument.
The Arecibo telescope has been a landmark observatory for 50 years, but limited funding could see the facility shut down in the near future.
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With the passionate affair between Englishman Stephen Wraysford and the married Isabelle Azaire, sex is prominently displayed—and explicitly described—within Sabastian Faulks’ Birdsong. When Stephen goes abroad to France to study textile manufacturing, he falls in love with the wife of his preceptor. Isabelle, neglected in her arranged marriage and stifled by a patriarchal society, eagerly enters into the affair. Her own marriage is completely lacking in sexual satisfaction, and her husband, René, approaches her in “a businesslike and predatory manner,” which she receives with “submissive indifference.” Isabelle is empowered by the carnal nature of her relationship with Stephen, and in a strange paradox, she finds strength in the very thing that oppresses her. Sex also plays an important role during Stephen’s experiences in World War I; from the prostitutes who serve the frontline soldiers to the intimacy of the men who share a foxhole, Faulks dismantles traditional stereotypes regarding sex and gender, challenging popular assumptions of what it means to be a man or a woman.
Faulks’ initial description of sex and gender early in the novel reflects popular stereotypes, which makes the effect of dismantling them later in the text all the more powerful. When Isabelle is introduced as a young girl in Rouen, she is described as the youngest of three daughters, and it is “assumed that when the other girls leave home Isabelle will stay and look after her parents.” As a woman, Isabelle has little control over the course of her life. Isabelle’s father, “a man bored by his houseful of women,” forces her to marry René Azaire as punishment for falling in love with a young man of lesser social status whom he does not approve of. Isabelle’s father asserts his patriarchal power to ensure that she does not marry beneath her class—and in the process, he breaks her heart. Isabelle’s marriage to René proves miserable, and when his own unhappiness manifests in impotence, he begins to beat Isabelle in lieu of a sexual release. René’s inability to perform sexually is emasculating, and because of his impotence, “he subsequently experiences a kind of emotional powerlessness towards [Isabelle].” René’s abuse is his attempt to tip the scales in his favor, and this reflects the sexist nature of society.
Beginning with Stephen and Isabelle’s affair, Faulks begins to upend common stereotypes regarding sex and gender by depicting Isabelle as a sensual woman with a voracious sexual appetite. When Isabelle and Stephen’s love is finally realized, they begin their affair in “the red room,” a deserted bedroom in the staff quarters of the Azaires’ home that has been long forgotten by René. Isabelle decorates the room a crimson color symbolic of her and Stephen’s racy affair, and they escape to the room as often as possible. In the isolation of “the red room,” Stephen tears the clothes from Isabelle’s body and does things to her that her older sister never told her about. Isabelle refuses to feel guilty for indulging her desires, despite acknowledging that the act is “surely not the way of the Catholic church.” Isabelle is expected by society and her religion to be chaste and pure, and this runs counter to her actual desires and actions. Ultimately, despite her initial love for him, Isabelle leaves Stephen and returns to her abusive husband. While she challenges society’s expectations with her affair, she eventually succumbs to the pressure and returns to her violent and loveless marriage. However, when the Germans occupy France during World War I and René is led away with the other men, Isabelle quickly falls in love with a German soldier. Again, Faulks challenges popular gender stereotypes by representing Isabelle as a woman with multiple love affairs. Instead of a demure woman, she is depicted as sexual and desirous.
Birdsong also challenges sex and gender stereotypes of men. Faulks depicts several of the men in his novel with tenderness and vulnerability, lending a certain femininity to their description. In the trenches of World War I, Englishman Jack Firebrace reflects on the importance of comradery, and he describes his closest wartime friend, Arthur Shaw, as “handsome” with “level eyes” and a “muscular back.” Faulks writes, “Jack could almost feel the supple shape of Shaw’s body as it curved to accommodate him in the narrow, stinking dugouts where they slept.” The intimate and vaguely sexual description of the two men challenges popular assumptions about men and masculinity, especially of soldiers. Faulks describes Stephen’s closest wartime comrade, Michael Weir, as a virgin who never finds the courage to seduce a woman. Stephen dedicates most of his off time to finding Michael a prostitute, and at the door of a brothel, Michael cries, “Christ, Wraysford, just let me get out of here. Let me go home. I don’t want this.” Weir’s inexperience and fear of the opposite sex (and perhaps his fear of sex itself) strips him of his expected virility, and because of this, he appears less masculine. Neither Jack, Shaw, nor Weir are described in traditional terms of sex or gender, and because of this paradox, Faulks’ attempt to dismantle popular stereotypes is much more effective. Images of women have long since been manipulated in literature to make them appear more masculine; however, the addition of men described in nearly womanlike terms is much rarer—as even metaphorical implications of femininity can be viewed as a threat to patriarchal society. Faulks’ representation of the men in Birdsong is unexpected and powerful, and as such, it serves to better disrupt stereotypes involving sex and gender.
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Sex and Gender Quotes in Birdsong
“This morning I was out doing some errands in the town. There was a window open in a house near the cathedral and someone was playing the piano.”
Madame Azaire’s voice was cool and low […].
Monsieur and Madame Bérard looked startled. It was evidently not the kind of thing they had expected. Azaire spoke with the soothing voice of one use to such fancies. “And what was the tune, my dear?”
“I don’t know. I had never heard it before. It was just a tune like Beethoven or Chopin.”
“I doubt it was Beethoven if you failed to recognize it, Madame,” said Bérard
gallantly. “It was one of those folksongs, I’ll bet you anything.”
“Madame,” said Azaire, “I assure you that Isabelle has no fever. She is a woman of a nervous temperament. She suffers from headaches and various minor maladies. It signifies nothing. Believe me, I know her very well and I have learned how to live with her little ways.” He gave a glace of complicity toward Bérard who chuckled. “You yourself are fortunate in having a robust constitution.”
Yet despite her formality toward him and her punctilious ease of manner, Stephen sensed some other element in what he had termed the pulse of her. It was impossible to say through which sense he had the impression, but somehow, perhaps only in the tiny white hairs on the skin of her bare arm or the blood he had seen rise beneath the light freckles of her cheekbones, he felt certain there was some keener physical life than she was actually living in the calm, restrictive rooms of her husband’s house with its oval door handles of polished china and its neatly inlaid parquet floors.
Azaire’s gaze had filled with something like amusement. “I don’t’ like to think of you having some kind of fit. I could easily—.”
“For goodness’ sake, René,” said Madame Azaire. “He’s told you there’s nothing to worry about. Why don’t you just leave him alone?”
Azaire’s fork made a loud clatter as he laid it down on his plate. For a moment his face had an expression of panic, like that of the schoolboy who suffers a sudden reverse and can’t understand the rules of behaviour by which his rival has won approval. Then he began to smile sardonically, as though to indicate that really he knew best and that his decision not to argue further was temporary indulgence he was granting his juniors. He turned to his wife with a teasing lightness of manner.
“And have you heard your minstrel again in your wanderings in the town, my dear?”
She looked down at her plate. “I was not wandering, René. I was doing errands.”
“Of course, my dear. My wife is a mysterious creature, Monsieur,” he said to Stephen. “No one knows—like the little stream in the song—whither she flows or where her end will be.”
She was the only one who did not respond to Bérard’s promptings. She barely contributed when he invited her to do so, but would speak, unbidden, on a subject of her own choice. This appeared to leave Bérard no choice but to cut her off. He would apologize with a small bow of his head, though not for some minutes, and not until he had taken the conversation safely down the path he wanted. Madame Azaire would shrug lightly or smile at his belated apology as though to suggest that what she had been about to say was unimportant.
Sometimes from the safety of the sitting room he would fix his eyes on the group and the vital, unspeaking figure of Madame Azaire. He didn’t ask himself if she was beautiful, because the physical effect of her presence made the question insignificant. Perhaps in the harshest judgement of the term she was not. While everything was feminine about her face, her nose was slightly larger than fashion prescribed; her hair had more different shades of brown and gold and red than most women would have wanted. For all the lightness of her face, its obvious strength of character overpowered conventional prettiness. But Stephen made no judgements; he was motivated by compulsion.
[René] saw the production of further children as important proof of his standing in society and a confirmation that this was a balanced match in which his age and the difference in tastes were not important. He approached his wife in a businesslike and predatory manner; she reacted with the submissive indifference which was the only response he left open to her. He made love to her each night, though, once embarked on it, he seemed to want it to be over quickly. Afterward he never referred to what they had done together. Madame Azaire, who was initially frightened and ashamed, slowly became frustrated by her husband’s attitude; she could not understand why this aspect of their lives, which seemed to mean so much to him, was something he would not talk about, nor why the startling intimacy of the act opened no doors in her mind, made no connections with the deeper feelings and aspirations that had grown in her since childhood.
René Azaire had no suspicions of what was happening in his house. He had allowed his feelings toward Isabelle to become dominated by anger and frustration at his physical impotence and by what he subsequently experienced as a kind of emotional powerlessness toward her. He did not love her, but he wanted her to more responsive toward him. He sensed that she felt sorry for him and this infuriated him further; if she could not love him then at least she should be frightened of him.
[René] remembered the pleasure he had taken in being the first man to invade that body, much younger than him, and the thrill he could not deny himself when she had cried out in pain. He remembered the puzzled look in her eyes when she gazed up at him. He could feel that she, more than his first wife, had the capacity to respond to the physical act, but when he saw the bewildered expression in her face he was determined to subdue it rather than to win her by patience. At that time Isabelle, though too willful for the father’s taste, was still docile and innocent enough to have been won over by a man who showed consideration and love, but with Azaire these things were not forthcoming. Her emotional and physical appetites were awakened but then left suspended as her husband turned his energy toward a long, unnecessary battle with his own shortcomings.
“I don’t want this.” Isabelle shook her head. The words came from her mouth without thought or calculation in their purity of feeling. “I don’t know what to do or how to behave now. I could be happy in the simplest way, like any other woman with a family of her own, without this terrible pain I’ve caused. I won’t listen to ether of you. Why should I? How do I know that you love me, Stephen? How can I tell?” Her voice fell to the low, soft note Stephen had heard when she spoke on his first evening in the house. It was a beautiful sound to his ears: pleading and vulnerable, but with a sense of strength in its own rightness. “And you, René, why should I trust you when you have given me so little reason even to like you?”
In good humour, braving the barely understood the jeers of the washerwoman who stood by to take their clothes, the men queued naked for the baths that been set up in a long barn. Jack stood behind Shaw, admiring his huge back, with the muscles slabbed and spread out across his shoulder blades, so that his waist, though in fact substantial enough, looked like a nipped-in funnel by comparison, above the dimple of the coccyx and fatty swell of his hair-covered buttocks.
“What do you do?” he said to Elizabeth.
“I run a clothing company.” She disliked being asked this question, thinking people ought to ask new acquaintances who they were rather than what they did, as though their job defined them.
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Saturday marked the 71st anniversary of U.S. President Harry Truman’s atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. The atomic bombing of Nagasaki took place three days later in 1945. Some 90,000-166,000 individuals were killed in Hiroshima. The Nagasaki bombing killed 39,000-80,000 human beings. (It has come to my attention that the U.S. military bombed Tokyo on Aug. 14 – after destroying Hiroshima and Nagasaki and after Emperor Hirohito expressed his readiness to surrender.)
There isn’t much to be said about those unspeakable atrocities against civilians that hasn’t been said many times before. The U.S. government never needed atomic bombs to commit mass murder, but it dropped them anyway. (Remember this when judging the official U.S. moralistic stance toward Iran.) Its “conventional” weapons have been potent enough. (See the earlier firebombing of Tokyo.) Nor did it need the bombs to persuade Japan to surrender; the Japanese government had been suing for peace. The U.S. government may not have used atomic weapons since 1945, but it has not yet given up mass murder as a political/military tactic. Presidents and presidential candidates are still expected to say that, with respect to nuclear weapons, “no options are off the table.”
Mario Rizzo has pointed out that Americans were upset by the murder of 3,000 people on 9/11 yet seem not to be bothered that “their” government murdered many more Japanese civilians in two days. Many more died as a consequence of the bombings. Conservatives, ironically, were among the earliest critics of Truman’s mass murder. It’s also worth noting that the top military leaders of the day opposed the use of atomic bombs.
As Harry Truman once said, “I don’t give ’em hell. I just drop A-bombs on their cities and they think it’s hell.” (Okay, he didn’t really say that, but he might as well have.)
Some people still see the A-bombs as the only alternative to invasion, which would have cost many more civilian lives. Now there’s the fallacy of the false alternative in dying color. Why couldn’t the U.S. military have called it a day and gone home? Why the assumption that the state must destroy and conquer its “enemy”? Why demand unconditional surrender? (To back up a step, why go to war against Japan at all? Pearl Harbor was the result of systematic, intentional provocation – as Herbert Hoover and others pointed out at the time) – perhaps with Roosevelt’s foreknowledge. A government less concerned with a rival for its and its allies’ colonial possessions might have not gotten involved.)
Rad Geek People’s Daily has a poignant post here. Rad says: “As far as I am aware, the atomic bombing of the Hiroshima city center, which deliberately targeted a civilian center and killed over half of the people living in the city, remains the deadliest act of terrorism in the history of the world.”
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Of all the challenges posed by the implementation of the Common Core State Standards, this may be the greatest: if we are truly to be a nation of college-goers, we must not only raise the bar on what students learn but we must also leverage an understanding of noncognitive factors to teach adolescents how to become effective learners. In the absence of developing students as learners, current reform efforts are unlikely to succeed at increasing students’ readiness for college.UCHICAGO CCSR Literature Review, Teaching Adolescents To Become Learners
This excerpt, from a report that describes the impact of noncognitive factors on student learning, achievement, and college readiness, has always resonated with me as a classroom teacher. I knew early on that many of the students I served struggled academically for no other reason than they had never had the opportunity to develop as learners. When students gain regular practice with the skills and habits that are the foundation for learning they approach their education with strategy, confidence, and resilience.
Organized Binder evolved out of my practice because I wanted to instill that academic dexterity in my students. I cared more about this work and less about the content I was charged to teach because it was clear to me that if I was to increase the rigor of my course without also developing them as learners, my efforts would fall short. Clearly we are not getting this right in classrooms around the country. A report from California Community Colleges found that,
“More than 70 percent of community college students who enter the system are under prepared to do college-level work with the majority being first generation college students, low-income and/or minority."Recommendations from the Student Success Task Force for Community Colleges
It does not have to be this way. Change is possible. Students can graduate from their K12 journey equipped for college or to pursue a career. The key is for teachers to embed the teaching of skills and habits into the teaching of content. The report from the University of Chicago cited above goes on to say that, "To make this shift, educators need to understand how best to help adolescents develop as learners in their classes. This should not be framed as an additional task for teachers, though for many it may mean teaching in new ways." When teachers see the teaching of noncognitive factors as one more thing they need to do or teach, they become overwhelmed because there is rarely enough time in the school day, the class period, the semester, or the school year to teach all of the content in their course in the first place.
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A powerful vote of confidence in Gryphon Sciences Inc.’s chemically synthesized proteins came in the form of a deal worth up to $155 million with F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. for a red blood cell booster that the latter will develop for chemotherapy and hemodialysis patients.
“It’s the normal kind of deal, and it’s important because Gryphon has had a long history which was not too straightforward,” said Friedhelm Blobel, president and CEO of South San Francisco-based Gryphon.
Blobel said the firm, founded in late 1993, “always had chemical protein synthesis [as a focus], but really not a clear business model. They tried all kinds of things in genomics, proteomics and biochemicals. None of these led anywhere.”
Gryphon was restructured in July 2000, after Blobel helped write a new business plan.
The drug at the center of the Roche deal, dubbed Synthetic Erythropoiesis Protein (SEP), is made by using chemical protein synthesis to create the backbone of the molecule. It incorporates well-defined polymers in order to increase the circulating half-life, and has been shown in animal tests to increase hematocrit for long periods.
“We completed the preclinical, and that certainly helped [close the deal],” Blobel said.
Basel, Switzerland-based Roche gets all rights exclusively worldwide, and will make up-front and milestone payments to Gryphon, as well as pay royalties.
Privately held Gryphon and its technology, which is focused on cytokines and growth factors, start with the predicted protein sequence from gene sequence data, a known protein sequence or just the goal of creating a novel, site-specifically modified derivative or other analogue of a natural protein. The company makes the protein backbone by linking peptides through chemical protein synthesis. Included in that process are polyethylene glycol-like molecules, intended to boost pharmacokinetics.
“It’s really key that we have not only chemical protein synthesis, but also polymer technology,” Blobel told BioWorld Today. “That’s what gives us the chance to play in the space of protein drugs. A naked protein would not make it.”
Among blood boosters, the best known is Thousand Oaks, Calif.-based Amgen Inc.’s blockbuster Epogen (epoetin alfa), and Gryphon’s different technology is what allows Roche to have confidence in the synthetic drug, Blobel noted.
“The Epogen market is certainly the biggest, and still very strongly growing, and there is a well-protected U.S. franchise for the Amgen family of products,” he acknowledged. If the SEP drug can “hit the market in 2007, that would be very aggressive,” Blobel said. “But why not be aggressive?”
In January, Gryphon raised $26 million in a Series B financing led by the Sprout Group, of Menlo Park, Calif., and said proceeds would lift its first potential product into clinical trials early this year, push drug candidates through Phase I/II studies and target still more candidates for development. (See BioWorld Today, Jan. 29, 2002.)
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PUTTING YOURSELF IN ANOTHER’S SHOES…LITERALLY
The inspirations for these ventures were almost as varied as the needs they address. Before joining the the University of Virginia’s McIntire School, Marc-Anthony Larco grew up in Haiti — a place he returns to often. Inspired by his grandfather’s admonition to back up his words, Larco started Tech for Underprivileged Students, which is raising money to build computer labs in Haiti. The motivation behind Telo was equally personal, as co-founder Steven Bleau’s dad suffers from multiple sclerosis.
“[The National MS Society] ran a youth camp every year for children to learn about their parent’s condition,” Morgan Kerfeld writes. “One of the activities they did every year was an empathy exercise where they had the kids simulate common MS symptoms by having them wear things like weighted shoes, vaseline, covered glasses, and thick gloves while doing a series of tasks aided by a wide range of assistive devices. Not only did these exercises give Steven a better understanding of the challenges this community faced, but they also showed how assistive products can greatly improve a person’s quality of life but also lack a lot of innovation. This led Steven to study product design at the University of Minnesota.”
Other student entrepreneurs witnessed an opening…and capitalized. That was the case for Samay Bansal, Daniel Jones, and JJ Li. At Cornell University, they started 2 Stay 2 Go, a hospitality concept that began as a pop up restaurant last fall.
“We saw an opportunity to apply the skills to the real world acquired at the Cornell Nolan School of Hotel Administration,” Bansal notes. “There was a need for high-quality food in the Ithaca Collegetown market and a supply of students willing and able to produce high-quality food items. By applying our in-class learnings such as brand marketing, operations management, and culinary design — coupled with the supply of eager students looking to work in segmented departments — we created the perfect opportunity to launch 2 Stay 2 Go amidst a global pandemic.”
THE DREAM: ACQUISITION
In other cases, disruptive startups were rooted in happy collisions. Rishi Nair, a NYU Stern junior, bonded with his co-founders over their shared desire to make finance more equitable and effective. More than that, they agreed that DeFi (Decentralized Finance) and Blockchain technologies were key to building this bridge. In response, they formed Sencha, which provides an application programming interface (API) for financial institutions to easily tap into the world of DeFi.
“We discussed our interests and learned that all of us had a distinct interest in the blockchain space and its incredible power to promote a more equitable financial system,” Nair recalls. “Everyone here at Sencha wants to build the financial system of the future—providing a DeFi bridge is the first step in our plans to augment and grow the financial industry.”
Ankush Bikkasani’s startup, Deep Word, was a response to his frustration with the status quo. For a decade, Bikkasanti has freelanced in video production. He describes it as an “incredibly repetitive process involving the same people talking about very similar things over and over again.” Along with that, it is a costly and time-intensive process, with Bikkasanti estimating that companies spend four hours creating every minute of video at a cost of $500-$1,000. That’s why he introduced a solution where companies can upload copy and choose video actors to deliver their message — in any language they choose.
Thus far, Bikkasanti has raised $175,000 in seed funding though competitions and investors. At the same time, his customer base has grown to 31,000 users in the past year, with clients currently generating 4,300 videos per week. So what’s Bikkasanti’s long-term vision? Think scale…and reward.
“Our goal is to seek acquisition after the next 3-5 years,” he tells P&Q.
ALREADY CLOSING SALES
For some, the rewards are already rolling in. Telo made it to the semi-finals of the MN Coup, the largest state-wide startup competition in the competition. The United Nations invited Marc-Anthony Larco to join the Youth Forum in Geneva to speak about his philanthropy. Of course, there is the biggest reward of all: sales.
“Our biggest accomplishment has been securing over $30,000 in pre-orders on an extremely limited marketing budget,” explains Notre Dame Mendoza’s Thomas Issa, whose modular monitor mount is the centerpiece of his Rigg startup. “It was great to see consumers identify with and validate the problems we were trying to solve.”
As business majors, these startup founders learned how to operate in the black and identify prospects who fit their profile. For many, the differentiator has been the business school network that has been more than happy to come to their aid. Ankush Bikkasani, for one, is quick to credit the Indiana Kelley community for Deep Word’s success.
“Countless students and organizations I’ve come across have gone out of their way to leverage their skills and networks to help and guide our startup when we were first starting out, he writes. “Students and professors alike have introduced me to countless advisors, mentors, similar startups, and investors over the last 12 months alone.”
BE FAST, NOT PERFECT
In fact, many business courses encourage this dynamic. Exhibit A: The Hatchery — where Washington University students produce a market analysis, financial projections, operations plans, and an investor presentation for their prospective startup. This course, says Ayana Klein, enabled her to identify opportunities and gaps from entirely different vantage points.
“On the first day of class, every student has the opportunity to pitch a business idea, so I pitched 3Dux and proceeded to network with my class peers and built a group where we would put together a full-length, formal business plan and investor pitch throughout the semester,” she notes. “I thought this course was one of the most valuable business courses I have taken as I was able to experience 3DuxDesign from a new dimension. As a sibling-run company, my brother and I are often working inside our own bubble. Learning to work with other students and professionals and take constructive feedback from my peers, professors, and industry experts has been invaluable.”
Several business courses made an impression on this year’s disruptive founders. In Introduction To Entrepreneurship, Tepper students are given $60 and expected to turn a higher profit than their classmates. The course taught Nadia Susanto to “get into the weeds” and “think outside of the box and not just do the basic types of selling.” At the University of Illinois, Jonathan Politzki learned how to interpret the kind of data he receives to measure the functionality of his medical device. At the same time, Rishi Nair absorbed perhaps the most valuable entrepreneurship lesson from Professor Cynthia Franklin’s Getting to Launch: The Lean Startup.
This class highlighted the need to move fast and put your product out instead of focusing on perfection over the timing.”
THE REAL DIFFERENTIATOR: FACULTY
Franklin is among the unsung heroes of startup success: the professors who guide and support student entrepreneurs. To Nair, Franklin’s biggest contributions to NYU Stern founders cannot be measured in traditional metrics.
“She always believed in us as founders from the start and trusted our intellect. Allowing us to just be ourselves and not deal with the doubt that we face from the start of most conversations due to our age was incredibly helpful and helped us come into our own as founders.”
The same could be said for Professor Dave Roberts at Cornell University’s Nolan School. A former senior vice president at Marriott, Roberts can pull from three decades of leadership, finance, and analytics experience to make student ventures successful.
“He saw many restaurant concepts fail and succeed and used his experiences to help 2 Stay 2 Go operate effectively,” Samay Bansal explains. “He also helped us with finding the right products and pricing them correctly and contributed as a personal mentor. Professor Roberts explained how he believed it was possible to balance being a full-time student and starting a business. His tips for balancing recruiting for internships, studying for exams, being present at the storefront, and training employees were extremely valuable as a student-entrepreneur.”
Maybe the biggest compliment a professor can receive from a student-entrepreneur: We wouldn’t be where we are without him. That’s exactly how the founders of Telo feel about John Stavig, the director of the Holmes Center for Entrepreneurship at the Carlson School, who was a contributor as much as a cheerleader…even after graduation day.
“He has walked alongside our company since the beginning, constantly encouraging us to shoot for the moon while still being “business smart.” He has always taught us to not shy away from risks and that it is better to fail than to not have tried. As we have grown and all now graduated from the University of Minnesota, John has continued to support us by reviewing business plans and answering panicked emails, texts, and phone calls, while also making incredible connections for us in the start-up space. We cannot thank John enough for the role he has played in making Telo a reality.”
What are the most innovative solutions being built by current business majors and new grads? How did their schools help them grow their enterprises? What do they see in store for their ventures in the coming years? Click on the links below to learn more about this year’s most disruptive startups.
|Impact Food||University of California-Berkeley (Haas)||Kelly Pan, BS 22, (Haas); Adrian Miranda, Stephanie Claudino Daffara||Food|
|NoFores||Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)||Nadia Susanto and Michael Lim||Golf/Virtual Reality|
|2 Stay 2 Go||Cornell University (Nolan)||Samay Bansal, Daniel Jones, and JJ Li||Hospitality|
|Robotics For All||Georgetown University (McDonough)||Maximilian Goetz||Education|
|Nephra||University of Illinois (Gies)||Jonathan Politzki (Gies), Mary Cook, Amartya Dave, Maya Miriyala, Al Smith||Medical Device|
|Deep Word||Indiana University (Kelley)||Ankush Bikkasani||Artificial Intelligence/Sales & Marketing|
|Tour.video and LeaseMagnets||University of Michigan (Ross)||Amulya Parmar||Marketing Tech, Property Tech, Video, SaaS, B2B|
|Telo||University of Minnesota (Carlson)||Steven Bleau, Morgan Kerfeld, Rick Pradhan, Beth Urbanski||Health/Medical Devices|
|QUVI||University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)||Harshul Makwana, Kush Jain, Alekhya Majety||Healthcare Technology|
|Rigg||Notre Dame (Mendoza)||Thomas Issa (University of Notre Dame), Josh Gilligan||Consumer Products|
|Sencha||New York University (Stern)||Rishi Nair (NYU) Christopher Lamarre, Kristian Lamarre||Decentralized Finance/Blockchain|
|El Maletín||University of Texas (McCombs)||Fabrizio Mata||Business Media|
|Technology for Underprivileged Students Foundation||University of Virginia (McIntire)||Marc-Anthony Larco||Nonprofit|
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Under the Old Testament administration of the Covenant of Grace, the covenant was largely a physical covenant with a spiritual remnant imbibing in promises and blessings. Under the New Testament administration of the Covenant of Grace, the covenant is not primarily physical with a spiritual component, but primarily spiritual with a physical component (Hodge 130). Hebrews 8 and Jeremiah 31 are very descriptive as to the nature of the New Covenant in contrast with the status quo,
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. (Jeremiah 31:31–34)
Obviously there was a change of administration in the New Covenant as well as a change of emphasis. The Covenant of Grace today is so overtly spiritual; one can almost speak of it exclusively in ethereal terms. Indeed the Westminster Confession of Faith does so by insisting that the Covenant of Grace is made with the elect only (Chapter 7; LC 30, 31, 32). Yet the Westminster Standards also speak of a secondary and subordinate sense of the Covenant of Grace that is objective and physical. Larger Catechism Q & A 166 says,
Q: Unto whom is Baptism to be administered?
A: Baptism is not to be administered to any that are out of the visible church, and so strangers from the covenant of promise, till they profess their faith in Christ, and obedience to him, but infants descending from parents, either both, or but one of them, professing faith in Christ, and obedience to him, are in that respect within the covenant, and to be baptized. [Emphasis mine] (Westminster Larger Catechism, 256).
Some have contended that the Westminster Larger Catechism holds within itself a tension regarding with whom the Covenant of Grace is made (Baldwin). It is argued that in Larger Catechism Q & A 31, the Covenant of Grace is made with the elect only, while Q & A 166 teaches that the Covenant of Grace is made with the members of the Visible Church. One can see the apparent contradiction.
But is this a valid criticism and a real tension? Or is it the case that the Larger Catechism is speaking about two different aspects of the Covenant of Grace, one spiritual and unbreakable, the other conditional and breakable? To answer this question we may turn to one of the greatest of all Westminster Divines, Samuel Rutherford.
In his monumental and rarely read book The Covenant of Life Opened (1654), Rutherford discuses the Covenant of Grace in two important ways. First he insists that the Covenant of Grace is only made with the elect in Christ, and that the Covenant is manifestly to be understood in such terms (94). After establishing this indisputable fact, Rutherford opens up the Covenant in a twofold way; first in abstracto by visible profession, in which the covenant is “professed, visible, and conditional,” and then in concreto, where the covenant is, “internal, real, and absolute” (94). It is for this reason Rutherford finds no tension in the Larger Catechism and has no problem saying that the unregenerate, in one way, are in the Covenant of Grace:
It is no inconvenient [sic] that the Reprobate in the Visible Church, be so under the Covenant of Grace, as some promises are made to them, and some promised to them conditionally, and some reserved special promises, of a new heart, and of perseverance belong not to them. For all the promises belong not the same way, to the parties visibly and externally, and the parties internally and personally in Covenant with God. (94)
By in abstracto Rutherford means, “ formally, in the letter as a simple way of saving sinners”, in which contains only “the will of precept”. Rutherford argues for an external and breakable Covenant that is made by baptism and profession only. This is not the true spiritual, real, and unbreakable Covenant of Grace; it is a temporary perceptive membership that is not savingly covenantal (94). Under the marginal heading, “How visible professors are really within the Covenant, & not really within it”, Rutherford Writes,
The adverb (really) relates to the real fruit of the fulfilled covenant, and so such as are only externally within the Covenant, are not really within the Covenant, for God never directed, nor intended to bestow the blessing Covenanted, nor grace to perform the condition of the Covenant upon them. But they are really Covenanted and engaged by their confessed profession to fulfill the Covenant. And as the commands and threatenings of the Covenant of Grace lay on a real obligation, upon such as are only externally in Covenant, either to obey or suffer, so the promises of the Covenant imposes an engagement and obligation on such to believe the promise, but some times, we say the promises of the Covenant of Grace are not really made to the reprobate within the Visible Church, because God intends and decrees to, and for them, neither the blessing promised, nor the saving grace to fulfill the condition to believe. (92)
In this way says Rutherford, “all within the Visible Church are in the Covenant of Grace” (94). It is in this same way Rutherford can speak of a Federal Holiness that allows for Larger Catechism 166 to remain non-contradictory with Larger Catechism 31. Federal holiness is not necessarily a saving holiness but a setting apart by covenant promise. Rutherford is very clear that true holiness while set in the context of a federal promise, is truly predicated upon God’s secret decree. Observe:
But as touching real holiness, it is not derived from a believing father, or to make the son a believer, Scripture and experience say the contraire. Nor is internal and effectual confederacie with God, that, by which one is a son of promise. 1. For no man is chosen to life in his father, because the father is chosen. A chosen father may have a reprobate son. 2. Election to life is not of nations, or houses, or societies, but of single person. (85)
Needless to say, Rutherford believes that mere Federal Holiness is no true holiness unless regeneration has taken place. Yes, there is a physical aspect to the Covenant of Grace which has blessings and cursing; however, for it to carry any lasting benefit, it must be a personal work wrought by the effectual converting power of the Holy Spirit in a one-to-one correlation between election and regeneration.
Another great Presbyterian who wrote extensively on the nature of the Church (and the Covenant) also found no tension in the Westminster Standard’s regarding the Covenant of Grace. In his two volume work, The Church of Christ, James Bannerman, taught an important contrast between the members of the Church visible and invisible. “The Church invisible stands, with respect to its members, in an inward and spiritual relationship to Christ, whereas the Church visible stands to Him in outward relationship only” (Bannerman 29).
The visible/invisible distinction according to Bannerman cannot go unnoticed. Observe how he uses visible Church and external covenant synonymously.
The external relationship in which the members of the visible Church stand to Christ, as having been brought into a Church state from out of the world, has been often spoken of by theologians under the name of an external covenant or federal relationship. Whatever name may be given to it, there is no doubt there is a real and important relationship into which the members of the visible Church have entered… (30)
Later he reinforces this same idea when he states, “This relation of the mere formal professor and member of the visible Church to Christ may be called an external covenant and an outward federal union, or not. But under whatever name, it is important to bear in mind that there is such a relationship involving both real responsibilities and real privileges. (Emphasis mine)(32)
Bannerman is equally clear as Rutherford insisting the true, vital, saving, unbreakable nature of the Covenant of Grace as it stands in eternity, is made with the elect alone.
In so far as the Church invisible is concerned, the truth of this statement will be admitted by all. There can be no difference of opinion on this point. The proper party with whom the covenant of grace is made, and to whom its promises and privileged belongs is the invisible Church of real believers. It is this Church for whom Christ died. (30-31)
He goes on to say, “The case is all together different for with the visible Church. It stands not in an inward and saving relationship to Christ, but in an outward relationship only, involving no more than the promise and enjoyment of outward privileges” (31).
In this regard, to suggest that the Covenant of Grace has a works component upon its entry is to misunderstand its function entirely. Every good Presbyterian will agree that salvation is by grace through faith alone, apart from any works of the law. This federal and outward separation that is called “sanctified” and “holy” in 1 Corinthians 7:14, “broken off branches” in John 15;1–8, and “unwise virgins” in Matthew 25, is meant to convey how God sets aside certain people to be objects of physical, covenantal blessings. These outward blessings (which are not saving), such as hearing the Word preached, observing or participating in the sacraments, and involvement in the fellowship of the covenant community, are the means by which God brings the unregenerate soul within earshot of the call of the Gospel; inviting all to come from darkness to light; from the temporal covenant into the Everlasting Covenant. Bannerman says, “To the external privileges of that visible society even sinners are invited,- not that they may rest there, but that they may go on to the invisible and spiritual society within.” The visible covenant blessings are meant to cause the sinner to “seek for something higher and more blessed” (33).
The spiritual blessings and promises of the Covenant of Grace must be the dominant theme in all federalist teaching and preaching. Bannerman reminds us that in the separation between Rome and Protestantism, the visible/invisible Church distinction, “…lies at the very foundation of the controversy between them. The strong desire and tenancy with Popish controversialists is to deny the existence of the invisible Church; or when they are not bold enough to do that, at least to give the decided precedence to the Church visible”(37).
This should be avoided at all costs. The invisible Church is the true Church, it is the “glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish” (Eph 5:27).
When we speak of Federal Holiness it should always be in light of its goal- a saving relationship with Jesus Christ, the Elect One. To simply think of Church members as being in confederacy with Christ by baptism and profession is to forget the most vital portion of the equation. Indeed many today are so emphasizing the mere federal element of the Covenant of Grace they are (practically speaking), omitting the weightier matters of the Covenant. Inward union is the only true union with Christ. Any substitution of Church-ism in place of the internal operation of the Spirit is to supplant the role of the Visible Church and turn the gospel on its head. We must be diligent in both our understanding and application of every aspect of Christ’s Church and of His gracious covenant.
Bannerman’s conclusion is a good one:
[N]othing but a clear discernment of the principles that connect any yet distinguish the Church invisible from the Church visible, and a right application of these to explain the statements of the Word of God on the point, will save us from mistakes fraught with the most ruinous consequences both in doctrine and practice. (40)
1. Baldwin, Bill. Several Quick Arguments That The Covenant of Works is Not Gracious. <http://www.upper-register.com/ ct_gospel/several_quick.html> 2002. 3. Hodge, Archibald. Commentary on the Westminster Confession of Faith. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 1965. 2. Rutherford, Samuel. The Covenant of Life Opened. Edinburgh: 1654. 3. Bannerman, James. The Church of Christ. London: Banner of Truth Trust, 1960. 4. Westminster Divines. Westminster Larger Catechism. Glasgow: Free Presbyterian Publications, 1995.
Mr. Jerrold Lewis is a third year divinity student under the care of the Canadian Presbytery of the Associated Presbyterian Church of Canada. He is a student at Whitefield College and Theological Seminary and is doing graduate work at Haddington Divinity School in Prince Edward Island. | <urn:uuid:6ffd2f28-db1e-49cb-9c87-66eff5849b5e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://outlook.reformedfellowship.net/sermons/presbyterian-federal-holiness/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.943557 | 2,898 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Q: What is the absolute value of the number 9,227,463?
A: | 9,227,463 |
The absolute value of a number is how far away the number is from zero. The absolute value is ALWAYS positive.
The negative version of the number is also | 9,227,463 |
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India adds 20,408 fresh cases of COVID-19 infection, 54 deaths to its tally
New Delhi, July 30, 2022
India on Saturday added 20,408 fresh cases of COVID-19 infection and 54 deaths to its tally.
The country had on Friday logged 20,409 new cases of COVID-19 infection and 32 deaths.
The number of new cases in a single day remained above 20,000 for the third consecutive day today after staying below that level for three days.
Karnataka accounted for 2,130 of the new cases reported today, followed by 1,997 cases in Maharashtra, 1,624 in Tamil Nadu, 1,609 in Kerala, 1,245 in Delhi, 1,128 in Gujarat, 1,020 in Odisha, 930 in Himachal Pradesh, 923 in Telangana, 726 in Jammu & Kashmir, 689 in Haryana, 670 in Assam, 525 in Punjab, 508 in Uttar Pradesh and 479 in Chhattisgarh.
The number of 54 deaths registered today included 10 backlog cases in Kerala.
Not counting those, the 44 deaths posted in the last 24 hours included six deaths each in Maharashtra and West Bengal, four each in Haryana and Karnataka, three each in Gujarat, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, two each in Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jammu & Kashmir and Madhya Pradesh, and one each in Chandigarh, Delhi, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Odisha and Sikkim.
With the latest data released by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare this morning, the death toll in the country from COVID-19 so far has gone up to 526,312. The total does not incude the 2,563 backlog deaths reported in Punjab last week.
The total number of cases of infection till now, since the first cases of COVID-19 were reported in India in late January 2020, crossed 44 million at 44,000,138 today.
The number of those who have recovered from COVID-19 in the country rose to 43,330,442 today, up 20,958 from yesterday. The recovery rate stood at 98.48%.
The number of active cases decreased by 604 to 143,384 today.
Meanwhile, the number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the country has crossed 203.94 crore today, including 33.87 lakh doses given in the last 24 hours.
The Daily Positivity Rate stood at 5.05% and the Weekly Positivity Rate at 4.92% today.
A total of 87.48 crore COVID-19 tests have been conducted so far in the country, including 4.04 lakh tests done in the last 24 hours. | <urn:uuid:1dc8636f-9944-461b-abaf-2c98ac7c02ab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.netindian.in/news/national/india-adds-20408-fresh-cases-of-covid-19-infection-54-deaths-to-its-tally | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.924257 | 578 | 1.75 | 2 |
of Cu and Al at cryogenic temperatures: lss.fnal.gov
- Strong field hampers much the high conductivity obtained by cold.
- Aluminium is abnormally insensitive to the field.
- The cyclotron coil remains valid, the 30T electromagnet is much affected.
In the more favourable transverse effect, the induction is perpendicular to the current. It happens at electromagnets like here.
========== Cyclotron coil
For 2t in the gap, each coil provides 176kA that create up to 0.7T or 7kOe in the 0.3m wide slit hosting the coil. From fig.1 in the pdf, the magnetoresistance would add 1.4× the zero-field resistivity of Al.
The 0.7T appear only near the open end of the slit, so the 1.4× is reduced by /3 as a mean, or rather by /2 as the current redistributes.
The pillars carrying the return flux cover only half of 360°. Where they're absent, the induction is around /3 and the 1.4× drops even more. Almost a factor /2 gained over 360°.
The pillars can stand farther away to reduce the induction through the coils. Improve easily /2. They can also be thicker and narrower to improve the gain over 360°.
So the magnetoresistance adds rather 0.35× at the sketched cyclotron coil, and with minimal optimization 0.1×
========== 30T electromagnet
The field reaches 30T or 300kOe at the coil's inner face and almost as much at the outer face. Fig.2 shows Cu
up to 100kOe, so if Kohler's law holds, the magnetoresistance adds up to 170× to the cold resistivity, ouch. Fig.1 shows Al
measured up to 40kOe: if daring to extrapolate linearly the curve of 2100 residual resistivity ratio (RRR) to 300kOe, the magnetoresistance adds up to 6.2× to the cold resistivity, provided that the current distribution is stable.
The field increases linearly from zero at the section's centre point but decreases beyond a half-thickness, so we can count 2/3 of the 6.2×, that is 4.1×.Purer Al
can rescue the chiller consumption. Increasing the RRR from 2100 to 28200 worsens by 2.8 the magnetoresistance but it's relative to the zero-field cold resistivity which drops by 4 to 5, providing a net 1.6 gain.
Together, magnetoresistance makes the ohmic loss and chiller power 3.6× worse than I estimated in the previous message: 1.9MW instead of 10MW lukewarm
. Still interesting. Reooptimize the temperature?
========== Laminar flow
I supposed a laminar helium flow, but η=35µP=3.5µPa×s doesn't help the intuition. ν=η/ρ=1.4mm2
/s and 13mm/s in 100µm channel width define Reynolds Re=u×h/ν ~1 <<2000 so the flow is laminar.
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Top 12 Ways to Check Indexing of a Website in Google for SEO in 2020
When any users have to publish a new blog on the website, the first questions arise when Google has to give ranking to it in the top pages of the search engine optimization. Here you can get the best ways of checking your websites that have to be indexed by Google algorithms. To accomplish this goal of how to check the indexing of websites, here you find several tips & tricks that make your task easier.
Is my site already indexed on the search engine Google?
Perfect 12 ways that describe how to index your website on Google:
- Here for this purpose, Webmasters can use the URL inspection tools. In the new search console, this is a new tool for indexing your page in Google. It works as fetch & renders means you have to submit the URL of the page then click on fetch. After that click on render for indexing your page. URL inspection tool permits you to submit your URL then Google crawls it, it helps your page to get indexed faster & faster.
- Sitemaps are the perfect way to index your website in the top pages of Google. In Google webmaster, there is an option of site map you have to just submit the URL of the website in the form of index files.
- Google will surely index your website if your site performs loading fastly & shortly. To index all pages of your websites it is more important than your website content pages open fastly & users find your content more interesting. After reading the content, return it to it. Goggle prefers to rank & index only those pages fastly on SERP that are loading fast usually.
- Next, it is more important than the linking between pages must be perfect to index all pages of your websites. Internal & external backlinks in your website drive more traffic towards your websites & it indexed as soon as possible.
- It is essential that to index your pages in search engine optimization, you have to connect it with Google analytics where you can easily see your track conversions, ranking keywords, site speed & other factors. So Google Analytics is the perfect way to improve your website ranking in Google.
- To index your pages well in the top pages of Google your all web pages must have a unique title & Meta description with inserting exact keywords.
- Your content of all pages must be unique. No kind of duplicity exists in it. If the content quality is good then Google ranks this page in the top pages of search engine optimization.
- The architecture of your site should be in the most logical way to rank well in SERP. Your site should be mobile-friendly. This means it should be in a responsive format & opened on all platforms.
- You should make outbound links with other websites. If you follow these strategies then you can easily rank your websites in the top pages of Google.
- Google has a better understanding of natural & longer keywords. So choosing keywords is a perfect way to rank well.
- You can upload some videos on the website in order to index as soon as possible in the top pages of Google.
- If you want Google to index all of your pages then it is essential that you should share most of the pages on social networking sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and so on.
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Reagan: Obama's lost legacy
The Obamas have said their goodbyes to America.
The president and first lady have made their rounds on the late-night shows.
President Obama delivered his farewell speech the other night on national TV.
It was one of his best. The man knows how to write and deliver a speech. No one can ever deny that he's good with words.
Unfortunately, what President Obama actually accomplished as president is another story.
For the past few weeks his liberal friends in the media have been desperately trying to come up with a list of his lasting accomplishments.
Obamacare, "saving" the economy from the Great Recession by spending trillions of federal dollars and issuing executive orders to please liberal voting blocs top the list of his domestic legacy.
But if Donald Trump and the Republicans keep their word, Obama's domestic "triumphs" won't last more than a few months.
Obamacare will soon go the way of HillaryCare, President Trump will trump Obama's executive orders and a semblance of fiscal sanity will return to Washington.
President Obama's real legacy is the bloody mess his foreign policy left us in the Middle East.
His teary-eyed friends don't like to bring up the civil wars, the Syrian bloodbath, the rise of Isis, the global threat of radical Islamic terrorism or the shabby treatment of Israel when they review his record.
No wonder. The Middle East — a mess Obama inherited but made much worse — will cause the United States and future presidents trouble for decades.
No one can deny that President Obama and the First Family have been tremendous role models for the entire country.
The president has shown what it means to be a good father and husband.
First Lady Michelle Obama has charmed the pants off everyone with her grace and strength and she and her husband have raised their two daughters into fine young women.
But during the last eight years, one of the things that has been most disappointing to me was that President Obama didn't use his own life and his family as examples to be emulated by blacks in the inner cities.
For more than half a century the federal government's harmful social welfare policies have done serious damage to the black family, allowing fatherless "families" to exist and making drug gangs places where many black boys find their male role models.
As the president, as a respected hero to every black person in America, as a good father and family man, President Obama was in a unique position.
He should have constantly sent the message of the importance of strong families to the inner cities.
He should have worked tirelessly and publicly to end the deadly black-on-black gang violence in Chicago and other cities.
But our first black president said and did virtually nothing to address the serious social, economic and law enforcement troubles of the inner cities.
It's a shame he didn't spend more of his spare time working to solve the problems of the cities and less time screwing up the Middle East and playing golf.
I remember the night he was elected in 2008. I was watching the celebration on TV when a reporter asked a young black teenager what he had learned from Obama's victory.
The kid — who was dressed almost like a gang member —— said, "what I learned tonight is that if I put on a suit and tie and get an education I can grow up to be anything I want to be."
That kid got the message. But eight years later thousands of black kids are still shooting each other in Chicago, St. Louis and Baltimore and elsewhere.
If President Obama had paid more attention to the inner cities, things might be better today —— and he'd have a lasting legacy to be proud of.
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In my post, Where the wild things are I wrote about the worrying fact that teenagers between the age of 15 and 19 are Australia’s most violent people, with boys making up 90 per cent of this figure. I questioned if we were doing the best we could to bring up our boys and how our culture could better support teenage boys. There are many factors; increased access to drugs and alcohol, changing family structures or exposure to violent electronic games.
It triggered a story of a boy I have gotten to know over the past six months and I want to share his story here. For the purpose of this story, let’s call him Gary.
Gary is a rough sleeper most of the time. Sometimes he sleeps near the police station or on the park bench near the fountain or he finds somewhere to sleep for a few hours in the day so he doesn’t have to risk sleeping at night. Other times, he sleeps on a friends couch – known as couch surfing – but the company he keeps means the houses he stays in are generally overcrowded and there is easy access to alcohol and drugs. He is a bright boy and has a loving heart.
I spoke to Gary every few days and it became clear whether he was on a high or a low. A few weeks ago, he was clearly on a high. He bounded up to me to tell me why he was so happy. He was living with some other boys in a tent on the beaches and was full of hope. Rather than spending his time on the street, he was surfing every day with his mates, working out how to cook dinner together and was part of a group of friends. He felt connected with his mates and was hopeful about his future. Connectedness and proximity with other boys had been achieved. He even talked of going up North and doing some fruit picking to get out of the cycle.
Each morning Gary and his friends would go for a surf and come back and have breakfast in their tent. They would plan their day and it would consist of more surfing and being together – a little like a pack. This particular morning, they were coming back up the beach from an early morning surf and they saw the Council were pulling down their tent. The boys watched as the Council put the remains of their tent and belonging into their truck.
The general rule is that when Council picks up the ‘stuff’ left around the streets or on crown land, it is disposed of. If you challenge them, you are fined and it is a much worse situation than loosing your belongings. Imagine for one second that if you are were a rough sleeper and wanted to go up the street to get breakfast, it would be easier to leave your bag, pillow and blanket rolled up somewhere, rather than carrying it all with you. Or indeed if you want to go surfing, you wouldn’t take your bedding to the beach. So there you go. It was easier for the group to watch their tent and belongings being loaded into the council truck. Admittedly, the land they camped on was crown land and it was illegal to camp there. So yet again, Gary was homeless and faced uncertainty. He had lost all his possessions and his youthfulness again.
While this was all going on, I saw him a couple of days in a row and he had clearly hit a low. He was sitting, slumped on a chair drinking coke. We tried to talk, but each time he started talking, someone came in or walked by and he would stop. This particular day, Gary and I spoke for some time. He talked in-depth about his immediate need – to get money to eat. He lives from pay to pay from the Newstart allowance, however because all his possessions were taken by the Council, he had no wallet (as it was in the side of the tent because of course you can’t take it surfing), no credit card to get money out and no ID to go into the bank and get the money. He had no parent to say, here is $50 to get yourself back on track or to give him his birth certificate to prove who he was. He was meant to go to a meeting with his Centrelink supervisor at 3pm the day before and he didn’t make it. He said he couldn’t get the money together for his train ticket. He also couldn’t muster the energy to go. On top of all this, he battles with depression and addiction. Holding down a job is a dream.
While we talked, he phoned Centrelink and was put on hold. He explained he had already spoken with them the day before and was met with resistance and today was pay day. Because he had missed his meeting, he wasn’t going to be paid. He was going to explain himself again and see how he got on but was dirty with council and services and felt failed by the system. As we talked the hold music played and every few minutes he wanted to hang up. Rolling a drunk on the streets or stealing from a corner store were other more viable options at this stage.
He is 19 years old and a prime candidate for crime and violence. He has been subject to the crime and violence on the streets but is not a criminal himself. He is constantly judged for being in the situation he is in and is trying to fill in his days His depression and addiction don’t help. Centrelink answered, I wished him luck and left. I haven’t seen him around for a few weeks and can only assume he is in a safe place.
He is one of many young people who pass in and out of homelessness and have lost hope. The latest figures from the ABS Census of Housing and Population show that in 2011, 42 per cent of the 105,000 homeless people in Australia on any given night, are under 24 years of age and 27 per cent are under 18 years. After hearing Steve Biddulph and Brendan Cowell speak last week, has our culture and society failed this boy? Maybe he didn’t have the role models in his life to learn the rights and wrongs. Was his upbringing stable and was he taught empathy on his mother’s knee between the age of 0 and 3 years? Was he given the best opportunity in the education system? Was Gary given a chance to build resilience as a child and taught there are consequences for his actions? One of the most obvious traits Gary lacks is self-esteem.
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The Covid-19 outbreak has reasserted our need for expertise and for leadership that protects the most vulnerable in society, says
THE coronavirus pandemic will expose economic weaknesses. But the crisis also reminds us that we live in an interconnected world. If the pandemic has any silver lining, it is a much-needed resetting of focus on the most vulnerable in society, on the need for global cooperation, and on the importance of professional leadership and expertise.
Apart from the direct impact on public health, a crisis of this magnitude can trigger at least two economic shocks.
The first is a shock to production, owing to disrupted global supply chains. Suspending the production of basic pharmaceutical chemicals in China disrupts the production of generic drugs in India, which reduces drug shipments.
The second shock is to demand: As people and governments take steps to slow the spread of the coronavirus, spending in restaurants, shops, and tourist destinations collapses.
As these and other shocks propagate, already-stressed small- and medium-sized businesses could be forced to shut down, leading to layoffs, lost consumer confidence, and further reductions in consumption and aggregate demand.
Moreover, downgrades to, or defaults by, highly leveraged entities (shale-energy producers in the US; commodity-dependent developing countries) could lead to wider losses in the global financial system. That would curtail liquidity and credit, and trigger a dramatic tightening of the financial conditions that have hitherto been so supportive of growth.
The parade of horrible possibilities could go on. The more fundamental point is that the world economy had not fully recovered from the 2008 global financial crisis, nor were the underlying problems addressed. On the contrary, governments, businesses, and households have piled on more debt, and policymakers have undermined trust in the global trading and investment system.
And our response to the Covid-19 crisis could be far better than it has been. The immediate task is to limit the spread of the virus, through widespread testing, rigorous quarantines, and social-distancing. Most developed countries should be able to implement such measures; yet, Italy has been overwhelmed by the epidemic, and the US response has not inspired confidence.
Unless the coronavirus is eradicated globally, it could become a seasonal disruption. If a treatment is not discovered soon (Gilead’s antiviral drug, remdesivir, shows some promise), all countries will face a choice between walling themselves off and pushing for a global effort to eradicate the virus. Given that the former is an impossibility, the latter seems the natural choice. But it would require a degree of global leadership and co-operation that is sorely lacking.
The presidency of the G20 is currently held by Saudi Arabia, which is mired in internal and external disputes; and US president Donald Trump’s administration has repudiated multilateral action from the outset.
Still, some key countries could step up to lead a global response, including by persuading more countries of the value of co-operation. For example, countries that have been relatively successful in managing the epidemic, such as China and South Korea, could share best practices. As countries bring the coronavirus under control within their own borders, they could dispatch spare resources to countries that need more experienced medical personnel, respirators, testing kits, masks, and so on.
Moreover, China and the US might finally be cajoled into reversing recent tariff increases and dispensing with threats of new ones (such as on cars). While a temporary reduction in tariffs would do little to enhance cross-border investment, it would offer a slight boost to trade. Moreover, an accord could enhance business sentiment about the post-pandemic recovery.
Within countries, the immediate task — after implementing measures to contain the virus — is to support those in the gig economy, whose livelihoods will be disrupted by quarantines and social-distancing. Those who are most vulnerable economically also tend to lack access to medical care. Governments should offer cash transfers to these individuals — or to everyone, if vulnerable populations are hard to identify — as well as coverage for virus-related medical expenses. Similarly, a moratorium on some tax payments may be necessary to help small- and medium-sized businesses, as would partial loan guarantees and other measures to keep credit flowing.
In developed countries, the pandemic will soon reveal just how many people have joined the ranks of the precariat in recent years. This cohort skews towards the young and includes many of those living in ‘left-behind’ places. The precariat’s members lack the skills or education to secure stable jobs with benefits, and thus have little stake in ‘the system.’
Cash transfers would send a message that the system still cares. But far more will need to be done to expand the social safety net and extend new opportunities to the economically marginalised.
Populist parties and leaders have capitalised politically on the plight of the precariat, but they have failed to live up to their promises. The pandemic may have a silver lining here, too.
Governments that have undermined established disaster-preparedness agencies and early-warning protocols are now finding they need the experts after all. Covid-19 has exposed incompetence. If the professionals are allowed do their jobs, they can restore some of the public’s lost trust in the establishment. In the political arena, a more credible professional establishment will have an opportunity to advance sensible policies that address the problems facing the precariat. If the professionals fail to capitalise on them, the pandemic will offer only more division, chaos, and misery. | <urn:uuid:2186c66f-e75f-4379-836b-1dd4fc1527a4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-30988070.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.955231 | 1,154 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Overview: Homeschooling high school math doesn’t have to be scary when you know everything about it! Read for all the details so you can be confident. Note: There are referral links present.
Math is everyone’s favorite subject! Um, NOT.
It’s been years since you had to do anything more math-y than figure out how much you’ll save with a 20% discount off the price of that cute sweater on the clearance rack. Now your teen is entering high school, and things are about to get real.
How can you teach your kid what you don’t remember? How can you make sure they are learning it? What do you need to know to get through this high school math thing in one piece?
That’s where I come in. Not only have I homeschooled five kids through high school math, but I used to be a math teacher in a public school back in the day. In this article my goal is to give you ALL the information you need (or to tell you where to find it!) to feel confident about homeschooling high school math with your teen.
As with everything else homeschooling high school, it’s really not as scary as you think it will be. Grab your favorite warm beverage and be prepared to de-stress!
Here’s what we will discuss today:
- The High School Math Sequence
- When Your Teen is Behind in Math
- Daily Math Procedures
- Grading High School Math
- Math for College Entrance Exams
- Math Curriculum Choices (with links to my reviews)
So let’s get going!
It all starts with the high school math sequence.
There are certain math courses that are considered high school level, and these are what colleges are looking for. That doesn’t mean your teen can’t do other math during high school, but be aware that colleges won’t count those other courses as meeting admissions requirements. Let’s talk about the traditional pattern first, then we’ll get into variations.
The first math course that colleges consider as worthy of high school credit is Algebra 1. This is usually taken in 9th grade but a couple of my kids were able to handle it in 8th grade.
The thing to remember about Algebra is that it’s the first math course that requires abstract thought, and kids aren’t always ready for that. The abstract part of their brain is newly developing right around ages 13-15 or so, and many kids who can do great at all the math that comes before Algebra still struggle with Algebra itself.
If your kid is on the young side of this age range, then your best solution if they are struggling is to put the Algebra away and bring the general math back out for a year or two, then try again. Most likely it will go better when they are a little older.
Not every kid has to take Pre-Algebra, but it can be a great fit for many kids who are in this inbetween stage and need something to tide them over until they are ready for Algebra. Colleges will not count pre-Algebra towards their admissions requirements, but that doesn’t mean you can’t count it for your own graduation requirements.
Want to know what colleges require? See this post: How to KNOW What Your Teen NEEDS to Get into College.
Want to know what you “should” require for graduation? See this post: What You Need to Know about Homeschool Graduation Requirements.
After Algebra 1, you can choose between Geometry or Algebra 2 as the next course — and then whichever one you didn’t do second is what you will do third.
Many colleges expect three credits of high school math, so once you’ve done these, you’re generally gucci. (But do your own research on that based on where your kid wants to go — especially if they are planning on majoring in something STEM or are Ivy League bound. My kids were all more ordinary and definitely NON-stem, LOL, so we looked at average schools.)
My recommendation: I personally suggest doing Geometry first, then Algebra 2. The main reason is that Geometry only uses Algebra 1 level concepts, so your teen might forget a bunch of Algebra 2 while doing Geometry if they’ve done Algebra 2 first. Yet the college entrance exams like the ACT, SAT, and CLT all include Algebra 2, so you’ll want that fresh in your kid’s mind when they go to take those tests.
After Algebra 2 comes Pre-Calculus and then Calculus. Most kids don’t get this far. Save it for your kid who wants to go into math or science or be an engineer. And even then they will take Calculus in college, so don’t feel pressured to get it done in high school.
Here is a listing (and mini reviews) of the curriculum that we used with my older kids: Our Homeschool Math Curriculum Sequence from K-12.
Can your kid take a personal finance course and get math credit? Sure, but again, it might not be counted towards college admissions requirements. Here is one example of a great option for a personal finance curriculum: Personal Finance Illustrated®.
What if you are behind the traditional high school math sequence?
First let’s get clear what “behind” means for homeschoolers. There is really only one time that a teen can be “behind,” and that is if they haven’t completed college admissions requirements by the time they graduate. That means, if the college requires three credits of high school math, and the teen has only completed two or less — and they want to go to college — then we can legitimately say they are “behind.”
This doesn’t actually apply to many kids. Usually if a teen is struggling with math to the point of not completing enough high school credits, then often they don’t want to go to college anyway. If they aren’t trying to go to college, then they aren’t behind!
One of the beauties of homeschooling is we can tailor the education to the individual child. If your teen has serious math struggles and has no desire to continue their education after high school, then YOU can decide what level they need to get to, and it can be whatever is the best they can do. (As long as they do complete whatever your state homeschool law says to do, which in most states doesn’t specify a minimum level of attainment.)
But if your teen wants to go to college and doesn’t have the requirements done, there is still hope. Here are some options:
a) If it’s just a matter of squeezing the coursework in, then take Geometry and Algebra 2 simultaneously for senior year. They don’t depend on each other, so this is doable — if your teen can stand that much math at one time.
b) If courses were started but not completed, try Learn Math Fast as a way to finish quickly. Use code ANNIE for 10% off!
c) Start at community college; get the high school math courses there at the same time as taking college level Gen Ed requirements, then transfer to a four-year.
d) If math is the only subject that they are behind getting the requirements, try applying to the four-year college anyway. Perhaps the college will grant admittance as long as remedial math is taken freshman year.
One thing I would like to point out here is that in my opinion, often the math frustration can be addressed with one simple fix, which I detail in this article: Why Your Kid Hates Math (no matter which age or grade). I think this applies to MANY kids, and while there are exceptions, it’s worth trying my idea.
Also, here is some great encouragement about being “behind” in high school: When You Fear that Your Homeschooled Teen is Behind.
More help specifically about math difficulties here: Episode 57 – What to Do about High School Math Struggles.
How to handle high school math on the daily
I have two major tips for getting through the everyday slog of high school math:
1) Don’t grade daily work — because that is when they are still learning and practicing. It would be like grading them on their driving practice, when they are still trying to figure out how to use the turn signal and the brakes. Practice should be practice, with no threat of a bad grade hanging over their head.
2) Math is a great subject for them to start to learn independently. Have them read (or view) the lesson, do the daily problems, then check those daily problems for themselves. Then it is also their job to figure out why they got anything wrong, and to redo if necessary.
Those are my two main tips, but I have more here: Sanity-Saving Homeschool High School Math Tips.
What does get graded? Their chapter tests. These they hand over to you, and you check them and mark things wrong — and if you’re the type of parent who likes to give them a second chance, then you hand the test back for correction — and then you give them a grade on that test.
Not grading daily work, and having your kid work independently until it’s time to grade the test — these practices make math go much more smoothly for everyone. YOU don’t have to spend time every day correcting practice problems; THEY can proceed at their own pace, and they are actually learning BETTER because they are handling it on their own.
And this solves the whole problem of you having to remember what you learned in math class 20+ years ago. All you need is the answer key — no math knowledge required!
If you’d like to LISTEN to me discussing high school math logistics, you can do so here: Episode 56 – How to Homeschool High School Math with Less Stress.
More details about grading high school math
One topic that comes up when it comes to grading high school math tests is that of whether or not to give partial credit. Sometimes your kid makes a silly mistake on a multiplication fact early in the problem, and then that snowballs the whole rest of the way, so their answer is wrong. They knew HOW to do the problem, but because of that small error early on, their answer doesn’t match the one in the answer key.
If your teacher’s manual includes a solutions guide, or if you are a mathy person, you can certainly decide to try to determine if the reason for their wrong answer is a small error or a larger one. Did they miss something tiny, like a negative sign, or a math fact, or a decimal point — or did they really not know how to do the problem at all?
If the problem was executed with the correct procedure but there is a small mistake which affects the answer, then it is definitely nice to not count the problem completely wrong, but maybe to take off only a small portion of the points. For instance, if the problem is worth five points on the test, you might only take one point off for that multiplication mistake.
But this is NOT necessary. If you are unable to dive down into this level of detail, then no worries. Just count the whole thing wrong and move on. One great result from this method is it might teach your teen to pay better attention to the little things!
In any classroom, the teacher decides how grading happens. If they want to grant partial credit, they do. If they don’t want to, for any reason, they don’t have to. Guess what? You get the same privilege of choice.
One way to avoid the whole grading hassle is to use an online math curriculum, so the grading is done for you. This can be an amazing thing! My thoughts about doing online math here: Using an Online Math Curriculum.
What about the ACT, SAT, or CLT?
As mentioned earlier, all of these exams include math content up through Algebra 2. So the further your teen is in the math sequence, the better they will do on the exams, theoretically. YRMV, of course, LOL.
But two caveats here:
1) Don’t make them wait until they are in the midst of Algebra 2 to start taking these. I recommend they take the test (whichever one they are focusing on) as many times as reasonable, starting at about spring of sophomore year. Most kids will not even have finished Geometry by that point.
Part of getting a good score on the test is being confident taking the test, and that happens in large measure through repetition. As they gain math knowledge, they will be able to attempt more of the problems — but in the beginning, just get used to the idea that they won’t know how to do them all. That’s OK, because the practice taking the test is important, and the score will hopefully increase as they get further along in their math coursework.
2) Not all of their math score will depend on how much content they have covered. A large part of taking these tests is knowing the tips and tricks of moving quickly, narrowing down possible answers, knowing shortcuts for certain types of problems, and in general being well-versed in test-taking strategies.
This requires additional instruction, and I recommend making sure test prep is part of their homeschool schedule. This can be math-focused, as is the case with Mr. D’s SAT/ACT Prep courses, or it can be more generalized, like College Prep Genius.
Since these tests can determine scholarships for college, it’s definitely a good idea to take them seriously and prepare as much as possible.
One great way to tell if your teen is progressing sufficiently in high school math is to take the CLT10, which is a free test for sophomores that can be taken online in the comfort of your own home. More info here: High School Assessment.
If your teen is headed to community college (or not headed to college at all), then you might decide not to take any of these tests. I frankly still do advise taking one at least once — but you gotta do what is best for YOUR teen.
Finally, here are the math curriculum options I am familiar with (with more being added all the time!)
Since I used to be a math teacher, I still have a soft spot for math; so I’ve set a goal of reviewing literally every homeschool high school math curriculum out there. I haven’t accomplished it yet, but I’ve looked at quite a few! Click on the curriculum name to be taken to their website (if there is one); click on “Review” to read my review.
NOTE: For more information about the pros/cons of the different types of curriculum, with additional blurbs about the curriculum options mentioned here, read: How to Choose the BEST Homeschool Math Curriculum for Your Teen.
Online (not live) Curriculum:
Jacobs Algebra and Geometry (Review)
Lial Algebra 2 and Pre-Calculus (Review)
Phew! I honestly have word-barfed basically everything I have to say about high school math onto this page (and/or the links I direct you to from here). If you have a question I haven’t answered, then please leave a comment so I can not only answer it but also add it to this content!
Do you feel better? You don’t have to teach high school math, nor even grade high school math, if you don’t want to. Hopefully all the information in this article will help you decide what is the best way to do math for YOUR teen!
Remember, you don’t have to follow a list of “shoulds” given to you by so-called experts. You have the freedom to determine what requirements you think are important, depending on your specific goals. No one can tell you what those are — only you know what is best for YOUR kid. Use the information on this page to do just that. I have confidence in YOU!
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Employees at the U.S. division of JBS SA, JBSAY -1.20% the world’s largest meat company, noticed something wrong in their computer systems over Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial kickoff for the busy summer grilling season.
The culprit, a ransomware attack, didn’t just hit its target—it roiled the U.S. food industry, from hog farms in Iowa to small-town processing plants and New York restaurants. The hack set off a domino effect that drove up wholesale meat prices, backed up animals in barns and forced food distributors to hurriedly search for new suppliers.
The attack was the latest clash between cybercriminals and companies integral to the functioning of the U.S. economy. It was another disruption to the U.S. food industry after the Covid-19 pandemic last year forced weeks of plant shutdowns, and this year, an economic rebound has stretched suppliers’ ability to meet demand. | <urn:uuid:ea12d619-7e16-49bb-b9ec-d4d945a7801a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.highgrounddairy.com/ransomware-attack-roiled-meat-giant-jbs-then-spilled-over-to-farmers-and-restaurants/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.937257 | 202 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Kinesiology and natural therapy can help in a wide range of areas, including
What is a typical session like?
The processes involved in kinesiology, Neuro-training (NT), and Resolve therapy are non-intrusive and you don’t have to disclose secrets or personal details. You can just relax!
The core discipline of kinesiology involves muscle monitoring, which employs gentle touch to the hands, arms, and shoulders in gauging the body and mind’s response to particular conditions. Neuro-training and Resolve expand the discipline to take in techniques from a much wider range of natural therapies from the East and West.
In a sense, there is no typical session, as the treatment is tailored specifically for you.
The usual consultation time is one hour. I suggest allowing an hour and a half for the first appointment, as you may have a range of questions and matters to discuss when we are starting out.
Kinesiology and the related disciplines of Resolve and Neuro-training involve restoring your nervous system to its natural, optimum level of functioning.
During our lives, we’ll often encounter situations that disturb our natural function, leaving us in need of some way to get it back. Here’s a snapshot of the process.
But when you’re stressed, which means you are overloaded and under-resourced, your neurology responds to your experiences in a very different way. Let’s look at the stressed brain…
These two programs are vastly different, and affect your thinking, emotions, behaviours, and your physical health in ways that are worlds apart.
When you are under stress, your brain runs the surviving program. That’s where the flight or fight response comes in. Let’s take a look at how it affects you…
Your brain is genetically programmed to activate your survival mechanisms whenever it interprets an experience as threatening. But fight or flight isn’t just about big traumas—bushfires, earthquakes, wars, fights, and animals chasing you. The response is also triggered by the more subtle challenges of modern life.
Smaller traumas that you can’t move on from, such as conflict with your parents or children, put-downs from your peers, bullying, car accidents, emotional shocks, relationship failures, and grief, don’t threaten to end your life, but they do threaten your ability to live it as you want to.
When faced with any kind of trauma, big or small, your brain occupies itself with these questions until it can reach a solution:
- Given this experience, how can I live without fear or anxiety?
- How can I make decisions and plan for my future with clarity?
- How does this affect who I am?
If your fight or flight response is triggered but these questions are left unresolved, you will get stuck in survival mode. This is only meant to be a short-term response to extreme threats, and staying in it can have devastating effects that disrupt your body, mind, emotions, and energy. This leads to a wide array of troubling and unwanted symptoms, typically including loss of self-esteem, identity, self-trust, and ultimately the loss of your health. | <urn:uuid:65bfa2f2-275e-4804-a08a-679dccec3ff9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://ynaturaltherapyclinic.com.au/our-process/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.939492 | 670 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Agenda 2030 has put together an equality index from 2019 by looking at 51 indicators for 14 of the 17 official Global category goals for sustainable development. 129 countries in the world were compared on a scale from 0 to 100. The higher the value, the more gender equality in the country. Denmark holds the highest ranking and Tchad the lowest. Sweden came in third place. So with that great numbers, will every woman in Sweden be content, happy and feel secure in any industry?
After 30+ years in the IT-industry, I would say no. In this blog I will generalize a bit, but you will get the picture. In 2017 #meetoo hit the world like a bomb. Everyone was shocked over the behaviour of quite a few men. I know that I discussed it with a friend of mine, who like me started in the industry around the late 90s. We put some thought into “have we ever felt used”? Or, “have we ever been treated without respect”?
The short answer is that of course we’ve been used and treated disrespectfully over the years, and faced tricky situations when you really don’t know how to react or respond to comments or behaviour. We have the advantage of being pretty strong in our beliefs and faith in our own capacity. Also, we’ve seldom been afraid of saying NO. I think this was , and is, a very important movement. But what do you do when society and your own thoughts still put extra pressure on you, just because you’re a woman? It’s not an actual person, it’s years and generations putting a norm for how we should behave, act and express ourselves. And why do we take upon ourselves to do and accept things that’s not ok, because we think that we have to? I see this all the time, in my daughters, young women at work, or any women for that matter. We sometimes take the world upon our shoulders, thinking that everything is our responsibility even if it means that we have to compromise with our feelings or beliefs.
Every time we succeed. We are grateful. Grateful for being lucky, for other people that let us step in, for someone that believed in us. But we are rarely grateful for our own knowledge, capacity or strength. What I also see is that a woman’s success is never about luck, or that someone else is “giving” her the space, it is always hard work, frustration and capacity beyond what can be expected from any person.
That’s why I started #TIQQE-lionesses. It’s an internal group where all women that are employed by us are members. The goal with the group is for us to build trust among us and grow with the motto that “weakness is a good thing”. The more personal we dare to be, the more we will actually get to know each other. The more we will trust, understand and support each other. I held the first session a couple of months ago and we set the structure for how to do this together. We’re meeting once a month, doing things together that we’ve on our to-do list.
For now it’s an internal thing, but we also think that there might be a time when we invite other women outside TIQQE when we feel ready for it. And I can tell you already, this is a kick-ass group. Brave, smart, fearless and really really fun to hang out with. So if you ever get the chance to join, don’t hesitate to do it. The worst thing that can happen is that you get more friends. | <urn:uuid:111b1be1-89ee-4804-9d6a-a9ae4f5cedb8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tiqqe.com/tiqqe-lionesses/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.961093 | 770 | 1.710938 | 2 |
In AfterShock Comics’ latest futuristic drama, Scout’s Honor, a new world order has been built on an archaic belief system. This new series flings the reader into the distant future and asks the question on everybody’s mind, What happened to the Ranger Scouts of America? The comic is a character driven thriller from the writer of Going to the Chapel, David Pepose, and artist Luca Casalanguida.
Badge of Honor
A group of survivors fight to stay alive in a world that has turned against them. The remnants of a civilisation long since destroyed has grown up on the beliefs and teachings of one man, the true profit, Doctor Jefferson Hancock. With a problematic system of trial and reward, the new religion is based on the Ranger Scouts of America, with the worship of bravery and honor. But as the plot unfolds, age old corruption and greed are shown to have survived along with the hierarchy of power.
Scout’s Honor is a story told through character moments. David Pepose has crafted an elaborate world but it is presented to the reader by defining the people Pepose introduces. A dramatic opening plants the seed for the future environment before jumping forward in time to introduce Dez and Kit, the central characters. A battle with a radioactive boar is a chance to shape the environment and cement the characteristics of Dez and Kit but the moment is quickly over. The boar itself is a plot device to establish the dangers of the world and highlight the bravery of the two boys before the plot moves on.
Pepose plans each scene as a way of expanding the reader’s understanding of Kit and leaves the difficult world building to Luca Casalanguida. The art work is detailed and portrays an uninviting world where the only warmth is indicated through the orange glow around the uncomfortable religion. The contrast between the words the Scout Master says and the realities depicted across the pages is a scathing indictment of religion. The written words of a childhood organisation have been twisted to form a misogynist gang of reward seekers. It’s like the Cat Religion from Red Dwarf but without the jokes, or the assimilation of Church and Military in certain episodes of Doctor Who. Pepose has deconstructed two modern institutions and turned them into a hellish nightmare world.
The atmosphere created in the opening of Scout’s Honor is reminiscent of The Last American published by Marvel in the 1990’s. John Wagner and Alan Grants dystopian future has a single character walk through the detritus of American culture in a burnt out, forgotten world. Casalanguida appears to be channelling Mike McMahon’s style in the opening pages of Scout’s Honor before he populates his world with a host of survivors. The sense of dissolution within the landscape is forefront in the art even as the action sequences swirl through the panels like miniature whirlwinds blowing up dust. It is clear that the actions of these survivors have no great impact on the world and this gives the entire book a solemn feel, punctuated only by the brightness of the central character.
Kit is bold and beautiful throughout. Written as a true hero, Casalanguida imbues Kit with a dynamic element that it’s impossible to ignore. The coloring throughout the book is reflective of the locations but Kit’s bright orange hair is both a reminder of the all consuming religion and a way to make Kit stand out on the page. Matt Milla makes sure that the reader can find the hero at all times. His use of lighting within the panels is cinematic at times but goes beyond this, creating a hyper-realistic setting. The emotional charge of the story is brought out through the ever changing emphasis on light and shadow. Returning to the character as the central theme of the comic, the lighting is a representation of Kit’s many emotional aspects, changing as the character’s situation changes.
Throughout the comic there are a number of overlapping voices. At some points the caption boxes relate to a church service while the panels follow Kit through the, mostly unseen settlement. Three different voices speaking together, overlaid across the panels. Carlos M Mangual gives each voice a distinctive color. He changes the intensity of the color in the caption boxes to represent the strength of the voice or voices that are speaking so that you can easily distinguish between preacher and congregation.
Scout’s Honor is packed with twists and turns. Pepose leads the reader through this world in the wake of Kit’s adventures, always one step behind and playing catch up. This story format never lets you take a breath so that by the end you find yourself totally engrossed in the world. It’s difficult not to be swept up in the action and, before you know it, you’re on the final page, eager to turn back to the start and retrace your steps at a slower pace. You will find yourself wanting to take in the majesty of the art work and the complexity of the storytelling.
The comic contains some big themes that it has only just begun to explore but because these fit snugly into the plot it never becomes preachy. The characters are engaging and the art work is superb. AfterShock Comics have a successful track record with thrilling and intriguing stories, check out Bad Reception and Undone by Blood as perfect examples. And with Scout’s Honor they have another surefire hit on their hands. | <urn:uuid:604167b2-40ad-4aa0-a649-4ccd9f1d4b4b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://monkeysfightingrobots.co/review-scouts-honor-1-throws-you-directly-into-the-superb-action/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.938425 | 1,113 | 1.726563 | 2 |
At Bua Financial Services, we offer practical and unbiased advice on how to properly plan for the future.
Financial planning is the process of identifying and preparing for certain events and opportunities that may occur throughout your life in order to ensure that you have the resources and finances available if these events occur. Financial planning is important no matter what stage of life you are at.
We can assist you with budgeting, saving goals, loan advice and payments, mortgage applications and more. No matter what your financial situation may be, It can be improved by taking action and preparing for the future.
Life events that require financial resources and planning can include:
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Bua Financial Services offers reliable, knowledgeable, and trustworthy advice when it comes to your individual situation. When it comes to financial planning, there are always ways to improve your current situation. We provide a personal service to guide you through the various products on offer which can help ensure that your finances are safe and secure no matter what life throws at you.
At Bua Financial Services we will assess your current financial position, your future objectives and any current plans or products you have in place. We will then make the necessary recommendations to get your finances to where they need to be in order to achieve your goals. Once you have chosen your financial plan we will help you take action and implement these changes into your life and finances.
It is important to continually monitor and review your financial circumstances and needs. As you move through life your financial situation will inevitably change, as will your goals. We will help you change your financial strategies in line with these changes in your life. This way your financial plan will remain up to date and continue to work towards your objectives.
Important points to consider with regards to financial planning:
Are you confident that you have the most appropriate financial products at the best market price?
Are you setting aside enough funds for your retirement?
Are you maximising the returns from your savings and deposits?
How can you reduce the amount and term of your mortgage?
How much will you get paid by your employer in the event of an illness or accident?
Have you thought about the financial consequences of a serious accident, long-term illness or premature death?
Financial Planning – Frequently Asked Questions
Why Is Financial Planning Important?
Financial planning will identify your short and long term goals and ensure that you're financially able to achieve these goals. Whether you wish to save for a mortgage or planning for your retirement, having a financial plan in place makes it easier to work towards these objectives.
How Can I Improve My Financial Plan?
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Similarly, What is the best source for breaking news?
One of the finest possibilities is Reuters, the wire agency that serves as the news source for most news sources. Google News and other news aggregation sites are also useful options.
Also, it is asked, What is the most reliable news paper?
The New York Times is a newspaper based in New York City. In my opinion, this is the most important newspaper in the United States. The Wall Street Journal is a newspaper published in the United States. The Washington Post is a news organization based in the United States. BBC. The Economist is a publication that focuses on economic issues. The New Yorker is a magazine published in New York City. The Associated Press, Reuters, and Bloomberg News are wire services. Foreign Policy.
Secondly, What type of journalism is most reliable?
Why Newspapers Are the Most Trustworthy News Source Newspaper journalists, according to the Institute for Public Relations’ most current Disinformation in Society Report, are the least biased and most trustworthy news source in the perspective of the American public.
Also, What makes a news source credible or trustworthy?
The most often mentioned criteria of trust are accuracy and completeness. According to previous study, credibility or confidence in the news is built on four or five primary elements, the most important of which are accuracy, balance, and fairness.
People also ask, What is the best news channel?
The world’s top ten news networks Fox News is a cable news network. Fox News (FNC) is a cable and satellite television network based in the United States. News from MSNBC. MSNBC is a news channel established in New York City that broadcasts in the United States. News from the BBC. Sky News is a television news channel. CNN is a news organization. Al Arabiya is a news channel based in the United Arab Emirates. Al Jazeera is a news organization that broadcasts in Arabic. News from Europe.
Related Questions and Answers
Who said all the news that’s fit to print?
Ochs, Adolph S.
Is BBC a trustworthy source?
It is widely regarded as trustworthy. BBC News, BBC documentaries, and the BBC History website are all included (on BBC Online).
Who owns CNN?
Turner Broadcasting System is a television network owned by Turner Broadcasting System CNN / The parent company Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. was a media and television corporation based in the United States. Ted Turner founded it in Atlanta, Georgia, and it merged with Time Warner in October. Warner Bros. Discovery currently owns its assets as of April 2022. Wikipedia
What is an independent news source?
Any medium, such as television, newspapers, or Internet-based publications, that is free of government or corporate interference is referred to as independent media. The phrase may be used in a variety of ways.
How can a good journalist become more reliable and not biased in giving news and information to the public?
When possible, use original sources. Remember that error is not excused by speed or format. Set the scene. When advertising, previewing, or summarizing a news, take great care not to mislead or oversimplify.
Should you read the news?
Reading the news allows you to learn something new every day while also slowing down the aging process. Reading the news may help you discern between fact and fiction. Reading the news might help you be more creative. Reading the news may lead to encounters with notable individuals and events.
What is an alternative news source?
In terms of content, production, or delivery, alternative media are media sources that vary from established or dominant kinds of media (such as mainstream media or mass media).
Is the New York Times a scholarly source?
Newspapers are not academic sources, but neither are they necessarily popular.
What is the reliable source?
A trustworthy source is one that offers a well-thought-out, well-supported hypothesis, argument, or debate based on solid facts. Articles or books created by researchers for students and researchers that have been peer-reviewed. Original research and a large bibliography are included.
Who is the most respected news anchor?
The most talented newscasters CNN’s Anderson Cooper. Anderson Cooper, a New York Times bestselling book and current CNN anchor, is one of the most well-known news reporters in the United States. CNBC-Shereen TV18’s Bhan. ABC’s Robin Roberts. CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.
What is the best TV news in USA?
Fox, CNN, and MSNBC are commonly referred to as the “big three” since they are among the most widely accessible networks, with FOX having the greatest audience and ratings.
Which is the No 1 channel in world?
BBC World News is number one. The BBC’s worldwide news and current affairs television station is known as BBC World News. It attracts the most viewers of any BBC channel.
What is The New York Times considered?
The New York Times is a New York City-based American daily newspaper with a global circulation.
What is the NY Times motto Print?
All the News That Fits on a Page
Is Wikipedia reliable?
For citations elsewhere on Wikipedia, Wikipedia is not a reputable source. It may be altered by anybody at any moment since it is a user-generated source, and whatever information it includes at any one time might be vandalism, a work in progress, or just inaccurate.
Who has more viewers CNN or Fox?
Fox News is a cable news network.
What is the number 1 news network?
The Fox News Channel is a television network that broadcasts news
What is the most watched news network in America?
TOTAL DAYFox NewsCNN Total Viewers:1,511,000586,000 A25-54:238,000135,000 TOTAL DAYFox NewsCNN Total Viewers:1,511,000586,000 TOTAL DAYFox NewsCNN Total Viewers:1,511,00058
Is WSJ or NYT better?
The Wall Street Journal has won 37 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, with the most recent one coming in 2019. The New York Times, on the other hand, has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper. The most recent one took place in 2021.
Who is The Wall Street Journal target audience?
Across print, internet, mobile, social, video, event, and bespoke experience platforms, our product offerings reach an audience of rich and influential readers. WSJ is the world’s top business magazine, with a national print viewership of 4.3 million.
Why is the media far from independence?
Because of the government’s grip over the media, it is far from independent. Censorship occurs when the government restricts certain news articles, movie sequences, or song lyrics from being disseminated with the general public.
How do we know that media is not independent?
Because of two factors, the media is not really independent: 1) The government sometimes prevents the media from sharing important information with the general audience. This is referred to as censoring. It was carried out in India during the 1975–1977 emergency.
Are journalists supposed to be unbiased?
Essentially, reporters should examine matters not just objectively, but also dispassionately and without emotion. Stories may be presented in a sensible and calm way using this method, allowing the audience to make their own decisions without the influence of the media.
What are the 4 types of journalism?
There are several sorts of journalism, each with a distinct aim and target audience. Investigative, news, reviews, essays, and feature writing are the five genres.
What does neutral bias mean?
In everyday speech, neutral may be interchanged with impartial. Bias, on the other hand, is a preference for one side over another, as opposed to the proclivity to act on that preference. Apathy, ignorance, indifference, doublethink, equality, agreement, and objectivity are all different (but not exclusive) from neutrality.
Why is news mostly negative?
It was discovered that when participants were given a choice of news items to read (negative, favorable, or neutral), they overwhelmingly preferred negative tales about corruption, setbacks, hypocrisy, and other similar topics. It also revealed that those who were most engaged in politics and current events were more inclined to choose negative news.
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The “unbiased news channel in usa” is a question that has been asked many times. The most neutral news agency is the one that does not have an agenda or bias.
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Improvement of Investment Performance and Evolution of Capital Stock
IMPROVEMENT OF INVESTMENT PERFORMANCE AND EVOLUTION OF CAPITAL STOCK
Overview of Investment
Investment is the key indicator in determining the potential production in the future. Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF) being an important indicator for investment measures the value of fixed assets in the economy of a country. Recently, investment in fixed assets shows a remarkable expansion reinforced by higher capital spending mainly on infrastructure.
Investment by Public and Private Sector
In 2012, investment grew to 19.9 per cent with a value at constant 2005 prices of RM201.7 billion supported by higher public and private capital spending. Private investment was particularly robust, recording a double-digit growth of 21.9 per cent. Public investment also strengthened to 17.1 per cent driven by higher capital spending by public enterprises.
Investment by Type of Asset
In terms of investment by type of asset, Structures contributed 46.9 per cent to the overall investment in 2012 while Machinery and Equipment recorded 44.6 per cent.
Investment in Structure namely residential & non-residential buildings and other construction such as highway surged to 25.1 per cent in 2012 as against 5.4 per cent in 2011. Meanwhile, capital spending in Machinery and Equipment increased to 16.9 per cent in 2012 (2011: 3.9 per cent). The increase was supported by transport equipment with 25.5 per cent in 2012 as compared to a negative 3.7 per cent in the previous year, other machinery equipment (2012: 17.3 per cent; 2011: 4.9 per cent) and ICT equipment and software (2012: 8.4 per cent; 2011: 10.7 per cent). Other assets registered RM17.1 billion in 2012, an increase from RM15.6 billion in 2011. In spite of the increase, the annual percentage change reduced from 25.0 per cent in 2011 to 9.1 per cent in 2012.
Accumulated Investment Increased 587 Times Since 1955
Accumulated investment in terms of fixed assets which is still operating in the country since 1955 is measured by capital stock statistics. Net capital stock which reflects the market value of the stock of fixed assets in the economy at constant 2005 prices evolved from RM2.3 billion in 1955 to RM1.3 trillion in 2011.
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In the case regarding the legal recognition of a family of a same-sex couple, the Senate applies to the Constitutional Court
7 June, 2021
The Department of Administrative Cases of the Supreme Court (Senate) applied to the Constitutional Court and thus suspended the proceedings in a case in which two persons of the same sex wish to have their family relations recognized and registered.
The Constitutional Court has already acknowledged that the first sentence of Article 110 of the Satversme (Constitution) of the Republic of Latvia imposes an obligation on the legislator to ensure legal protection of a same-sex family or to determine the legal framework of family relations; and the legal framework of family relations means the regulation of personal and property relations between family members, which must also ensure the possibility for persons to legally consolidate their family relations and be recognized by the state as a family. The obligation to provide legal protection for same-sex families also follows from the principle of human dignity, which requires the recognition of the equality of all human beings.
In the opinion of the Senate, one of the elements of this obligation is that the state has to ensure the registration of family relations of same-sex couple in a single state register. Taking into account the definition of a civil status act specified in Section 2 of the Law on Registration of Civil Status Documents, the legal consolidation of a family of same-sex couple is, by its nature, a civil status act, which is therefore to be registered as such. However, the legislator has not fulfilled this obligation by failing to provide for the right of a same-sex couple to be registered in the civil status register; and it cannot be established that there is any overriding competitive public interest that could justify failure to ensure recognition and protection of such relations.
In view of the above, the Senate considers that Section 3, Paragraphs one and three of the Law on Registration of Civil Status Documents, insofar as it does not provide for such a type of civil status act that would allow registration of family relations of a same-sex couple, does not comply with Article 1 (principle of human dignity) and the first sentence of Article 110 of the Satversme (Constitution) of the Republic of Latvia.
See the decision of the Senate here (in Latvian)
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Presently (Q3 2022), four Novel Food authorisations have entered into force for edible insects.
At the beginning of 2022, the European Commission has published the second of frozen, dried and powder yellow mealworm (Tenebrio molitor) and the first authorisation of dried, ground and frozen house cricket (Acheta domesticus) respectively on the 8th and 11th of February (following the 3rd and 4th EFSA opinions in August 2021). The authorisations entered into force respectively on the 28th of February and on the 2nd of March 2022. Read more about it in the IPIFF Press Statement.
In May 2022, the Parma-based Agency (EFSA) published the 5th opinion on edible insects, namely on the partially defatted house cricket (Acheta domesticus). The authorisation is expected soon.
On the 4th of July 2022, EFSA published the 6th opinion on edible insects, namely on the safety of frozen and freeze-dried formulations of the lesser mealworm (Alphitobius diaperinus larva). A final authorisation could be expected by early 2023. Read more about it in the IPIFF Press Statement.
Following the 1st EFSA opinion covering an insect species (January 2021), dried yellow mealworm (Tenebrio molitor) has been authorised on EU level as the first insect food product and the Novel Food Regulation entered into force in June 2021 (more in the IPIFF Press Release).
Following the 2nd positive opinion (July 2021), on the 15th of November 2021, the European Commission has authorised dried and frozen migratory locust (Locusta migratoria) as Novel Food. For more information, please refer to the IPIFF Press Statement.
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Are you concerned about the content your kids get exposed to on Google Hangouts? Wondering how your employees handle Hangouts conversations with your clients or customers? Worried about how your kids or employees utilize their Android phones and mobile apps?
Google Hangouts offers instant messaging and calling with any user across the globe. The app allows group chats and video conferences, making it one of the most widely used communication platforms. The platform’s popularity, however, is the same reason why several cybercriminals utilize it for their malicious intentions.
Tracking and monitoring Hangouts activities can greatly help in preventing phishing, social engineering, malware hacking, and the like. Google Hangouts phone recording spy apps provide real-time access, making it easier to detect and address such threats. Read on to learn about the best Android Google Hangouts spying and tracking tools.
What Can You Find Out About A Person By Getting Information From Hangouts?
Can Google Hangouts monitoring apps be useful in tracking messages and calls? Can such apps help you acquire the information you need from your target Android device? The short answer to both questions is Yes. Certain factors may affect the outcome, of course; both on the side of the monitoring software and the user.
We made a list of the Best Hangouts Spy Apps For Android in 2022 to help you decide which one would best work for you. Each application or software has its strengths that make it for great tracking. Your choice should primarily depend on what kinds of data you’d want to get and what Android device you’ll be tracking.
All of the monitoring apps that made it on our list will certainly allow you to keep track of Google Hangouts activities including the following:
- Hangouts chats and messages
- Contacts lists on Hangouts
- Email Address
- Documents and other files sent and received
- User Status
On top of tracking Google Hangouts, the best apps will also allow you to monitor the following:
- GPS location
- Phone Contacts
- Text Messages
- Call logs
- Photos and Videos
Why Is It Useful To Monitor Hangouts Messages on Android?
Are Hangouts monitoring and tracking apps as useful as they are hyped to be? If you choose to pay for a Hangouts spy app for Android, will it be worth it?
First off, the answer to both questions would depend on what you want to do using such apps. Hangouts spy apps for Android devices, as the name implies, will be useful in tracking Google Hangouts activities. However, these apps can monitor other information as well.
We believe it’s also worth mentioning that using a spy app for Android devices is subject to various laws depending on which state you’re from. It is therefore important to use this technology properly and only for the right purposes. Such applications are most useful in the following instances:
Tracking Your Family’s Hangouts Activities
It’s always a priority to keep your family safe from any possible threat. Hangouts, like other messaging applications, could be used by online strangers to take advantage of your loved ones. Monitoring applications will help you keep track of their contacts and conversations and allow you to intercept possible dangers.
Tracking Employees’ Hangouts Activities
Hangouts is also a useful tool for work. Employees may use the platform for personal, inappropriate, and/or compromising conversations. Keep track of employees’ Hangouts activities on company-owned Android devices to prevent misuse.
What Do I Need To Do To Start Tracking Hangouts On Android With Spy Apps?
Is it difficult to install a Google Hangouts phone recording spy app for Android? Well, most record Hangouts call spy software can be installed in three easy steps.
Step 1: Download
Most software can be downloaded via OTA links on the vendor’s website. Pay the subscription fee and create an account.
Step 2: Activate
Follow the steps to initiate installation on the target device. Use the activation key that will be provided, following the company’s instructions to a T.
Step 3: Monitor
Start receiving reports on the target phone’s activity. Access such reports on your control panel about Hangouts.
5 Best Spy Apps for Tracking Hangouts Messages and Calls
Do you need to spy Hangouts on Android and monitor all conversations and activities? Do you wish to install a Google Hangouts tracking and monitoring tool to spy on an Android device?
We, at safeguarde.com, are on the constant hunt for newly released apps. We thoroughly inspect every Android device or software we come across. Recently, we identified the most efficient Android Google Hangouts spy software. Choose the tracking tool that best suits your needs from our list of monitoring apps and spy on Hangouts message online today.
This tracking tool is compatible with all Androids. Auto Forward offers remote tracking and hassle-free monitoring. Without having physical access to the target device, users can spy on its activities including messages and call logs on Hangouts.
Like most tracking apps, this enables you to read conversations within third-party messaging apps like Google Hangouts. Highster Mobile captures every sent and received message, including those deleted texts.
This Android spy software can monitor activities on the target device without being detected. It silently extracts information and uploads it to your personal dashboard. DDI Utilities can even retrieve lost or damaged data.
Like most Google Hangouts monitoring apps, you get to enjoy all of this software’s tracking features for one-time payment only. The package comes with free lifetime upgrades and access to customer support.
This Android monitoring tool is easy to use and easy to navigate. Easy Spy displays on your dashboard the exact copies of files and conversations from the device being monitored. It spies and logs data while in stealth mode. | <urn:uuid:960e931c-f4bf-4ff0-9fce-02a7625115e3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://sonersworld.com/index-39.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.895938 | 1,209 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Citizen–the crime tracker app that originated in New York City–announced in a blog post that it has expanded to Baltimore.
The app allows users to receive real-time crime and emergency notifications in their communities. The app churns out nearly 2 million safety alerts each day to its users, and now with Baltimore added to its list of cities, those numbers are expected to grow.
Citizen, formerly known as Vigilante, currently has 600,000 active users. Last year, the app took its talents to San Francisco. Although there have been instances where the app has helped people avoid danger and find missing family members, some are worried that the app will amplify racial biases, especially in the Baltimore area.
Citizen works to prevent this by excluding information that would identify victims or complainants in notifications. When information in unconfirmed, Citizen notes the alerts as an “unconfirmed report.” The alert does not include generic suspect descriptions.
“For example, Citizen would not include a suspect description of three Asian men wanted for a burglary in the past,” a spokesperson for Citizen said. “We would include a description of a White man, 6’4, with a gray vest and orange hat, carrying a rifle, because that is a specific description of an individual [that] members of the public can use to stay safe.”
Ben Jealous, an advisor for Citizen and a former NAACP president, said there’s no worries of “sketch” or suspicious person reports on the app.
” It’s the best thing to happen to urban missing person reports I have ever seen,” Jealous said in a statement to AfroTech. “[It] literally saving lives from infants to age 103.”
Citizen also refrains from posting alerts about suicides in private places and panhandling and other happenings that are not necessarily dangers to the public.
Citizen users receive alerts of incidents happening within a quarter of a mile. They can also choose to get notifications about neighborhoods that they frequent, even if they are not in that particular location.
Baltimore has one of the heaviest populations of Black people in the nation. According to the United States Census Bureau, Black residents make up 63 percent of the population. Crimes rates in Baltimore are also some of the highest in the nation, making the city an ideal location for apps like Citizen.
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I have to read and export into a csv or excel file a table contained into a Bucket S3.
I have used these nodes to connect to the bucket and I have found correctly the bucket but I do not know the next node in order to see the content of this bucket and then export into a CSV or excel. The excel writer node does not work:
How can I export the content of this bucket?
Thanks! I cannot understand the node before download:
I have the list files but now I need to download only one of these… The download node does not work after List remote files node
If you need just one file, I would use a row filter and filter by name.
The node before download is a group of nodes, this is a simpler version:
You will have to use a variable with the download node. There is a quick tutorial on how to use variables: https://youtu.be/EvcRiQea3FA
what kind of file you have on S3? Do you need (guess you do but just checking) to perform some manipulations over data from it before saving it as CSV or Excel? Downloading it and then reading into KNIME is one way but also some readers feature additional connection port which enables you to read data directly into KNIME without need to download it first.
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Brief synopsis of the readings: We begin in the 2nd Book of Kings where Naaman followed Elisha’s instructions to immerse himself seven times in the Jordan River. When he did he was cured of leprosy. Naaman then attempted to pay Elisha for his cure. Naaman then promised to no longer sacrifice to any other god and worship only God. In Luke’s Gospel we see Jesus approached by ten lepers who asked for healing. Jesus told them to show themselves to the priests (who could declare them cured). On the way they were cured and were declared so by the priests. Of the ten, only one returned to thank Jesus. Jesus asked about the location of the other nine, but told the one: “Stand up and go on your way. Your faith as saved you.”
Anyone with a casual relationship with the Bible knows about leprosy (now known as Hanson’s Disease). Today we recognize that it’s a bacterial infection that can be cured with several doses of antibiotics, but at the time it was seen as a curse from God and those who suffered from this disease were ordered not to go near anyone else. The ten lepers who approached Jesus called from a long way off because they knew they were forbidden to approach anyone. To be fair, their lack of understanding of bacterial infection informed their fear.
And while we don’t fear Hanson’s Disease anymore, we continue to fear diseases we don’t understand. In the Middle Ages Bubonic Plague killed fully 30% of the European population. We later learned that it was caused by fleas that rode in on the backs of rats. In the early 1980s we learned that gay men in San Francisco and New York suffered from diseases that attacked only those with compromised immune disease. At first we called it GRID (Gay Related Immune Deficiency) and only later did we settled on AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome).
And while leprosy commands a fair amount of the Gospels that wasn’t the message most of us were told. When I was a child I heard about this Gospel a lot. I was told, and even warned about, thank you notes. At Christmas and my birthday I regularly received envelopes of money from grandparents and one of my uncles (who ironically died last month). I was instructed that I should save this money for my college education, but (more to the point) I should not let the sun go down on my obligation to write them a thank you note.
And when this reading came up I was told that Jesus was behind my obligation. After all, Jesus was approached by ten lepers and cured all of them, but only one returned to thank him. Only one wrote him a thank you note.
As an adult I’ve found great amusement with this interpretation. My younger sister has two sons that I love dearly. When they were growing up I often sent them presents for Christmas and birthdays. Sometimes they wrote back to thank me and sometimes they didn’t.
My generosity to them didn’t depend on their response. I love them and wanted to do well by them and their response to me was my sister’s burden, not mine. But if you read Dear Abby or other advice columnists, they say that if you don’t get thanked, you shouldn’t be generous.
But that’s not what Jesus did. Presumably if Jesus had the power to cure leprosy he had the power to withdraw his cure. While he noticed that only one came back to recognize Jesus’ power, he didn’t take Dear Abby’s advice and withdraw their cures.
I believe this leads to a deeper truth of who will be saved. Nearly from our first days we’ve asked what it takes to be saved. Some claim it’s what we do (feed the hungry, welcome the stranger, etc.) and others claim it’s what we believe (accepting Jesus as our personal lord and savior).
But what if it’s larger? What if Jesus’ redemption isn’t for some, but for all? What if salvation isn’t reserved for those who do well or believe well, but for everyone?
As I thought about this I began to focus on “the whole world.” The phrase “the whole world” appears time and again in Scripture. When we think about the whole world we think of our planet: the North Pole, the South Pole, and the Western Hemisphere, the Eastern Hemisphere.
In Genesis 7 we read about Noah’s Ark. We learn that the flood encompassed the whole world. Did the flood include New Zealand, Hawaii, and all the world we know that they didn’t? A few years ago I heard an evangelical Christian argue that he had “scientific proof” that it did. As proof he claimed that while there have been localized floods (think about Hurricane Katrina), there has not been a worldwide flood. I don’t think it’s scientific proof and I don’t think localized flooding means our entire world was flooded.
Noah’s Ark doesn’t give us the only reference to the whole world. The second chapter of Luke’s Gospel describes the order from Caesar Augustus to order a census of “the whole world.” Clearly there wasn’t a census of the whole world, only the part of the world that was controlled by the Roman Empire.
But what if God does think of our whole world? What if Jesus’ salvation isn’t for only those who do well or believe well?
Most of us Christians believe we’ll be saved. We do well and believe well. But does out salvation suffer if salvation is offered to everyone? Is Heaven a finite place where our place shrinks because our share decreases by the number of people who populate it? Is Heaven on Zillow?
I hope not. I hope God’s generosity means that there is room for all of us. I hope Heaven includes both Democrats and Republicans. I hope it includes all people, regardless of skin color, sexual orientation, immigration status, and work ethic.
We no longer fear leprosy but we still fear what we don’t know and that fear often translates into prejudicee. Let’s make our prejudices history. Let’s celebrate that all ten lepers were saved if only one recognized Jesus’ role.
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What makes Australia a unique country to travel to?
Australia is a highly developed, stable democracy with a federal-state system. Tourist facilities are widely available.
Although U.S citizens are not specifically targeted for crime, travelers should be aware that robberies, burglaries, assault, and auto theft are common in Australia’s larger cities. Weapons are increasingly used in such crimes, which also may be associated with drug trafficking, gang activities, and drug or alcohol usage. Foreign visitors in popular tourist areas are targets for pickpockets, purse-snatchers, and petty thieves. Be careful when consuming alcohol with unfamiliar people, as drink spiking can occur; appropriate security precautions should be taken, especially at night, to avoid becoming a target of opportunity.
Do not buy counterfeit and pirated goods, even if they are widely available. Not only are the bootlegs illegal in the United States, but if you purchase them you may also be breaking local law.
While you are traveling in Australia, you are subject to its laws even if you are a U.S. citizen. Foreign laws and legal systems can be vastly different than our own. You may be taken in for questioning if you don’t have your passport with you. In some places, it is illegal to take pictures of certain buildings, such as inside certain areas of Australian airports, near prisons, and at military bases. If you break local laws, your U.S. passport won’t help. It’s very important to know what’s legal and what’s not where you are going. In Australia, driving under the influence could land you immediately in jail. If you violate Australian laws, even unknowingly, you may be expelled, arrested, or imprisoned. There are also some things that might be legal in the country you visit, but still illegal in the United States. You can be prosecuted under U.S. law if you buy pirated goods. Engaging in sexual conduct with children or using or disseminating child pornography in a foreign country is a crime prosecutable in the United States. If you break local laws in Australia, your U.S. passport won’t help you avoid arrest or prosecution. Penalties for possessing, using, or trafficking illegal drugs in Australia are severe, and convicted offenders can expect long jail sentences and heavy fines. Please be aware that all objectionable material is subject to declaration and inspection and may be illegal in Australia. Objectionable material includes child pornography, bestiality, explicit sexual violence, and graphic degradation, as well as terrorism-related material and anything providing instruction in or encouraging drug use, crime, or violence. It’s very important to know what’s legal and what’s not wherever you go.
While some countries will automatically notify the nearest U.S. embassy or consulate if a U.S. citizen is detained or arrested in a foreign country, that might not always be the case. To ensure that the United States is aware of your circumstances, request that the police and prison officials notify the nearest U.S. embassy or consulate as soon as you are arrested or detained overseas.
Medical Facilities and Health Information
Excellent medical care is available in Australia. Serious medical problems requiring hospitalization and/or medical evacuation to the United States can cost tens of thousands of dollars. Most doctors and hospitals expect immediate cash/credit card payments for health services. We recommend travel insurance.
Safety and Security
Australia has an alert system for possible terrorist attacks. The threat levels range from “low” to “high.” The Australian Attorney General's Office website has up-to-date information regarding the current terrorism threat level. Depending on the alert, you should maintain a high level of vigilance and take appropriate steps to increase your security awareness. Travelers may also contact the Australian National Security Hotline at 61-1-800-123-400.
Traffic Safety and Road Conditions
While in Australia, you may encounter road conditions that differ significantly from those in the United States. The information below concerning driving in Australia is provided for general reference only and may not be totally accurate in a particular location or circumstance.
Traffic operates on the left side of the road, and all vehicles use right-hand drive. Please use caution when crossing streets and when driving. When crossing roads on foot, make sure you look carefully in all directions. Wearing a seat belt is mandatory, and fines apply for not wearing them. Speed limits and laws regarding driving while intoxicated are rigorously enforced, and random breath testing of a driver's blood alcohol limit is a common occurrence. Roads and streets are frequently narrower and less graded than U.S. highways. Outside major metropolitan areas, most highways are two-lane roads with significant distances between destinations. Speed limits vary throughout Australia and are measured in kilometers, not miles. Be aware that speed cameras are everywhere and you will be ticketed for driving over the speed limit.
When driving in Australia, exercise caution while passing or merging with adjacent traffic. If driving in rural areas, be cautious of free-roaming animals, such as kangaroos, and "road-trains" (several semi-truck trailers connected together). Passing road trains is dangerous, and you should pull over to allow on-coming road trains to pass to avoid being sideswiped. A number of fatalities have occurred in the Northern Territory where vehicles driven at high rates of speed have skidded and overturned after hitting loose gravel on the shoulder of the road. If you have no experience with a 4-wheel drive vehicle, you should exercise common sense when driving in the Australian outback.
Texting or holding your phone while driving is against the law, but you can use a hands-free system to communicate while driving. For specific information concerning Australian driving permits, vehicle inspection, road tax, mandatory insurance, and the rental and operation of motor vehicles in Australia, visit the Australian Tourist Commission website.
Each state/territory has different rules about using a foreign driver’s license and the conditions under which a visitor might have to get an international driver’s license. In some cases, you can apply for a driver’s license from the state in Australia where you intend to remain for the duration of your stay in Australia. | <urn:uuid:1a3230d0-b365-4f95-9a81-a06cb01b4ce9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.countryreports.org/country/australia.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.941775 | 1,304 | 1.9375 | 2 |
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Implementation of MANRS Actions
- Action 1: Prevent propagation of incorrect routing information
- Action 2: Prevent traffic with spoofed source IP addresses Is very important apply BCOP for harden configuration in routers.
- Action 3: Facilitate global operational communication and coordination
- Action 4: Facilitate validation of routing information on a global scale
Why Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán Supports MANRS
The Autonomous University of Yucatan (UADY) considers it essential to provide reliable and secure computer services to its users, and as part of the adoption of standards of good practices for the management of information security to counteract attacks and the problems they generate. The adoption of MANS is of great importance for UADY to collaborate in strengthening the security of routing on the Internet. Juan Antonio Herrera Correa, CIO, UADY. | <urn:uuid:fa9a3c27-5081-43f9-aa95-e383162c59b4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.manrs.org/participant/1446/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.841805 | 195 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Skateboard Bans: The “Get Off My Lawn” of Transportation Policies
The municipal skateboard ban is the “get off my lawn” of transportation policies.
Outright prohibitions of this healthy, cheap, and environmentally friendly form of transportation are common. These laws — enacted in towns including Lakewood, Ohio, and Atlanta, Georgia — seem based at least in part on stereotypes applied to people who skateboard, particularly boys and young men. For all that cyclists and pedestrians have to deal with, skateboarding is arguably the most marginalized mode of active transportation.
Network blog Decatur Metro says that’s the case in this relatively progressive, inner-ring suburb of Atlanta. An ordinance passed in 2010 not only bans skateboarding but in-line skating and roller skating — yes, roller skating.
Decatur Metro explains:
Back in 2010, the Decatur City Commission outlawed riding skateboards, kick scooters, rollerskates/blades in downtown Decatur after receiving resident complaints “about skateboarders who disregard pedestrians and cause unsafe conditions on crowded sidewalks and in crowded public areas,” along with damage that was done to the Celebration Statue on the MARTA plaza.
And while the damage to public and private property is inexcusable, the ordinance went far beyond that, making it illegal to ride any of these vehicles in the downtown “pedestrian zone,” which is basically most of downtown Decatur.
Four years hence, there’s a resurgence in these alternative forms of transportation around the U.S., as urban populations increase and folks are looking for car-alternatives (you’re welcome that I didn’t write “car-ternatives”). The Wall Street Journal recently reviewed a slew of electric skateboards aimed at “yuppie commuters.” A recent post on The Atlantic’s City Lab website featured a video that argues “Skateboarding is Transportation, Too.” In the densest cities, like NYC and San Fran, more commuters are choosing kick scooters to get around. (On top of all that, I saw a guy riding a scooter through Emory Village a few weeks back and thought, “man you can’t do that in Decatur!” That’s a data point!)
This seems a relevant discussion for Decatur, which has mainly focused on accommodating pedestrians and cyclists. While walking and cycling are certainly the most popular forms of alt-commuting, Decatur’s downtown MARTA train station would seem a good reason to take a second look at this broad ordinance. Taking a legal form of transportation — like a bike — on a MARTA train is certainly more cumbersome than taking a kick scooter (aka Razor scooter), a skateboard or a pair of rollerblades on the train. But to do so, you’d only be able to ride the board/scooter/blades to the outer limits of the pedestrian zone and then walk to the station from there.
Elsewhere on the Network today: Greater Greater Washington reports that as Arlington, Virginia, has grown over the last few decades, traffic has actually declined thanks to smart planning. Human Transit explains the danger of putting too much emphasis on travel times in transit planning. And Better! Cities & Towns says an exciting initiative funded by Southwest Airlines promotes place-making in the American Southwest. | <urn:uuid:e87423d1-72e3-49a7-81fb-a14699897eca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://usa.streetsblog.org/2014/07/01/skateboard-bans-the-get-off-my-lawn-of-transportation-policies/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.928329 | 701 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Have you ever encountered an experience where you went to pay for something with cash anywhere in the world while traveling — only to be told that the money is no good because it is considered counterfeit?
Hopefully not; but currency from the United States is arguably amongst the most popular in the world — at least, when it is strong against other currencies. There was a point not so long ago where fewer places were willing to accept currency from the United States — even when the money was genuine…
…but what about when the money is fake? Nicholas Wells wrote this article for CNBC about an experience where he handed over a ten dollar bill to a cashier at a laundromat. “She took one look at it and handed it back saying, ‘It’s fake.’”
According to that article, approximately 40 percent of the estimated counterfeit United States currency is outside of the United States; but take heart: approximately one out of every 10,000 bills are fake. Chances are excellent that of the 1.2 trillion dollars in genuine United States currency, the bills you are currently holding are indeed good. You have a much better chance of dying from heart disease or being involved in an automobile accident than procuring counterfeit currency.
Merchants can usually quickly tell if currency is real or fake — but how can you tell for yourself?
The Secret Service of the United States offers tips and illustrations on how to compare counterfeit paper currency with the real thing and the methods on how fake paper money is created; as well as tips on how to detect counterfeit coins — which I would think is not as prevalent, given the lower denomination amounts as well as the greater difficulty in creating fake coins versus fake paper money.
For example, did you know that genuine currency paper contains tiny red and blue fibers embedded throughout the bill? Also, blurred or uneven features of the money likely indicate that it is counterfeit paper currency.
If you do suspect that a paper note may not be genuine, here is some advice on what to do as offered by the Secret Service of the United States:
- Do not return it to the passer.
- Delay the passer if possible.
- Observe the passer’s description, as well as that of any companions, and the license plate numbers of any vehicles used.
- Contact your local police department or United States Secret Service field office. These numbers can be found on the inside front page of your local telephone directory.
- Write your initials and the date in the white border areas of the suspect note.
- Limit the handling of the note. Carefully place it in a protective covering, such as an envelope.
- Surrender the note or coin only to a properly identified police officer or a United States Secret Service special agent.
- If possible, complete this official form and submit it along with the counterfeit currency only to a properly identified police officer or a United States Secret Service special agent.
Manufacturing counterfeit United States currency in any denomination of five cents or more is a violation of Title 18, Section 471 of the United States Code; and is punishable by a fine or imprisonment for up to 15 years, or both.
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Three-Phase and Single-Phase Power
Shop owners discuss running a single-phase motor using two legs of a three-phase power source. May 28, 2006
We have a 240 3 phase service. I was wondering if I can run a 240 single phase motor off of 2 legs of the three phase panel? Also, what if the motor is rated at 220 single phase - will using 2 legs of a 240 3 phase feed hurt it?
(Solid Wood Machining Forum)
From contributor B:
Yes, you can run a 240v single phase motor on two legs of a 240v three phase service. You will actually be running on 208 volts, but that is within range of the motor tolerances.
From contributor L:
If he's in Europe, he may actually have a 240 VAC 3 PH system. Still using two legs and a neutral of the 3 ph system will yield 240 single phase. Most motors can tolerate a 10% voltage swing without harm. If it is rated for 220 VAC, then you can operate it in a range of 200-242 VAC without too many problems. If this motor is to be operated at full load all the time, like a compressor, I would suggest getting a buck/boost transformer to change the voltage to the proper range.
From contributor H:
I disagree. If he actually has a 240 volt three phase service (a delta bank), there will be 240 volts between any two legs, however if you check between the line and ground, one leg will be "wild," that is it will have about 175 volts on it. He would use the two stable lines and have 240 volts, not 208. A motor rated for 220 volt three phase would run on the 240 volts. Depends on your power source as to how dirty this might be. Voltage fluxes can be common, so what is 240 today might be 237 tomorrow. 208 three phase is different in that each leg is equal in voltage and usually more stable (not dirty) - between any two there is 208 volts. Usually this is used for lighting such as in a large department store but can be used for industrial, providing your motors are rated for such. This may require that you change the motor leads as per the wiring diagram in each motor. Most three phase motors can be configured to run on 208, 220/240 and 440/480. The current draw will be different at each setting, requiring different wire sizes to work properly.
From contributor B:
Thanks for the additional details. I simply based my comments on my experience. Years ago I lived in a place where we had either 220v or 240v 3-phase (way too long ago to remember which) power. When we used any 2 legs we ended up with 208v. Over the years I've seen that configuration again and so described the situation as I did.
I'm surprised that all 3 legs in a 240v service are not balanced by the transformer on the pole. I have a very good friend who is a high voltage industrial electrician. I'm going to ask him to explain to me why that would occur. Electricity can be a very basic and also an extremely complex topic. It took my friend several attempts to get me to understand shared neutrals in single phase circuitry as an example. I never would have imagined such a thing.
From contributor S:
Are you in Britain or Europe? If so, the 3-phase supply is measured phase to phase - 415 volts @ 50Hz in the UK/Ireland or 380 volts @ 50Hz in most of mainland Europe. In that case, any single phase to neutral will measure 240 volts in the UK/Ireland, which is how we wire things here.
From contributor R:
Two things come to mind in this situation: use of terminology, and Delta vs Wye configuration. I have 240v three phase Delta config at my shop, with no neutral (I cannot get 120v from it). Between any two legs, I get 208v IIRC. Re my terminology comment, it's been a while since I had the discussion with my electrician, but I *think* the two flavors of 2**v power are 208v three phase Wye, and 240v three phase Delta. A quick phone call to your power company would clarify exactly what voltage and which configuration you have.
From contributor H:
The interesting thing is that in this article, the delta system is not the norm. Around here it is what you would get unless you requested wye transformers. I run single phase 120v, 220v and three phase from the same panel. I just have to be careful not to use the wild leg in a single phase application. Therefore I have a lot of open single slots in my electric panel. Doing it over I would split my panels so that I had one for single phase in which I could use all the slots and one for three phase in which I also could use all the slots.
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As I often say in this column .. "knowledge is power".
The rather ugly looking cut to shape Tasmania (Van Dieman's Land) 1854 4d
"Courier" shown nearby is worth about $10 normally. This one appears to have a
very large tear or crease through it - neither mentioned in the lot description.
As most collectors know this stamp (along with the GB 1854 "embossed" issue) is
largely valueless if the corners are "cut-to-shape" as this one is.
Nonetheless, and despite being cut into the design at side it auctioned May 15th
at Prestige Philately in Melbourne for way above estimate - at $1,811, when the
"buyer fees" and taxes were added.
"Why does a $10 stamp become $1,800 more valuable" you might well be asking. And
so you should.
The postmark is the key here, as it has a clear strike of the Tasmanian barred
numeral "72". Not that this is so easy to see when the stamp is turned the
"correct" way up.
stamp sells for $1,811!
I went and looked a full page offering them. I went to the
Australia Post website, and the same items were featured there in glorious
colour as a “special offer”.
This is where the "knowledge" comes into play. "72" was allocated to Norfolk
Island, when the harsh penal colony was set up there, and administered initially
from Hobart Tasmania.
The "72" canceller finally arrived on Norfolk in July 1854. The government brig
carrying it - the "Lady Franklin" initially sailed December 16, 1853, but was
forced to turn back owing to a mutiny of the convicts on board. This cancel had
only a short working life on Norfolk Island.
In May 1855 the last convicts were removed and Norfolk was presumably
uninhabited until the descendants of the mutineers from the "Bounty" arrived
April 8 1856 from Pitcairn Island. Norfolk Island was removed from Tasmanian
postal administration in October 1856, and reverted to New South Wales control.
How does one know all this? Well there are 2 excellent large handbooks on the
"Postal History and Postal Markings of Tasmania", authored by Bill Purves et al.
I typed a set into my current internet listing for $85, and to my mind these are
absolutely essential books to own if you have any interest in Tasmania postmarks
Many circular postmarks on the common 1899 "Pictorial" series are worth several
$100s each - some possibly into the 4 figure region. Likewise often very
valuable are the many manuscript cancels of wavy lines, squiggles, wiggles,
cross hatching, signature scrawls and graffiti tags which many folks assume are
worthless fiscal cancels. Not forgetting also the "2nd allocation" of numerals
that are mainly found of the small QV heads issues.
Collecting Tasmanian postmarks is a great passion for many, and many a time I
have plucked a cancel worth $100s from childhood albums or junk lots. Generally
on very common letter rate stamps otherwise valued at literally pennies each. It
takes a little practice and study to remember the scarce ones, but having books
like these makes it quick and easy to check against.
Luckily I have always had a retentive memory for postmarks of this state as they
have always fascinated me. The only serious collection I was ever tempted to
form was a complete showing of all the Tasmania circular datestamps and
instructional markings of this period. I made some decent headway, and then sold
it when made an "offer I could not refuse"! My sideline collection of $100
banknotes did however swell considerably from this transaction.
I once visited a very glamorous stamp shop in Copenhagen. Leather lounges, and
coffee machine, and very genteel and up-market surroundings and fittings.
Virtually the only thing Australasian in the store (indeed the city!) was a
large stockbook or two of 1000's of Tassie pictorials all neatly arranged into
little lines sorted per value. And all priced at about full catalogue, which I
think was about 10c-20c each.
I nonchalantly selected about 30 pictorials with nice strikes. I guessed wrong
on a few of them of course, but about 15-20 of those postmarks paid for my round
trip airfare from Australia. And a few hotel nights as well! I remember there
being a few nice examples of classics like "Springs", "Lady Bay" or "Honeywood"
among them. Clearly I was the only person in 100 years to glance through these
stamps who had any clue about Tasmania postmark rarity.
If you ever see unremarkable sounding circular Tasmanian datestamp names like
"Ridgeway" or "Bronte" or "North Franklin" or "Scottsdale West" etc on the low
value Tasmanian Pictorials in a junk lot or dealer bulk stock - each will be
worth several $100s to you for nice clear strikes. It would be just like finding
a used £2 Roo for 10c in a junk box or circuit book.
sold for $820.
Other State postmarks pricey too
The examples given above
from Tasmania are by no means isolated cases. The same May 15th Prestige
Philately auction obtained excellent prices for a range of Victoria and NSW
Illustrated nearby is a barred numeral "156" from "Running Stream" on a 2d
Diadem that otherwise would be worth a couple of dollars. This stamp sold for
$820 on an estimate of $400.
Much more modern .. and much more valuable - is the 1935 cover also shown
nearby. Many collectors and dealers would not place much importance or value on
A 2d red KGV head on cover is quite unremarkable, being the letter rate at the
time, and billions of these 2d red stamps were used for that purpose.
It sold for $2,037 based on an estimate of only $300. Nearly 7 times the fairly
sensible (to me!) looking pre-sale estimate.
Why? Well clearly the "Quarantine" cancel is unusual. I will readily own up to
my own enormous ignorance here and admit if it were in my stock and you offered
me $50 for it a month back you'd be the new owner. And I would have had a large
grin on my face at the same time. Most other dealers would if they were honest,
admit the same - in my opinion.
The sale catalogue advises only 3 other covers are recorded with this cancel.
"RMS Aorangi" arrived with cases of smallpox aboard and this cover - indeed all
mail on board was fumigated, hence the small corner clips.
Like many things publicised in this column, many other examples may exist out
there and come on to the market as the owners have no idea of their real value
until they see the prices obtained in the present market. Keep your eyes open
for anything from NSW with "Quarantine" cancels!
Why is this worth over $2000?
I have not had a chance before to comment on another superb book released in
fairly recent times on Victoria State postmarks. "Numeral Cancellations of
Victoria" by Hugh Freeman & Geoff White is volume #17 in the superb R.P.S.V. "J.R.W.
Purves Memorial Series".
This is a massive and very heavy hardbound book, weighing in at 420 large size
A4 pages. It is without doubt in my mind THE most comprehensive and easy to
follow book on any of the state's postmarks. Bill Purves would indeed by
immensely proud to see this issued in "his" series.
For any reader looking for an exciting new challenge this is one to take up.
These postmarks are found in 99% of cases on cheap letter rate stamps. They also
are widely found on Australian Kangaroo and KGV stamps up until 1917, when the
PO reprimanded Postmasters (again) for still using them but they were in fact
used right up until 1935.
Many common 1d stamps have cancels that sell for $100s. The 1d orange "1697"
illustrated nearby was in the same auction as the Tasmania and NSW and sold for
over $400. And that is only "RRR" rated. The "RRRRR" are clearly much tougher
and a "NNR" rating ("number not recorded") obviously trumps that again. Value
without that cancel - about 2¢!
Victoria issued 2100 numeral postmarkers, between #1 (Melbourne) and #2100 (King
Valley - issued November 1906). Of these 2100 numbers - despite an army of
collectors scouring the earth over several generations - some 74 different
numbers have never been sighted.
Many numbers of course exist in a myriad of styles, variants, designs and
sub-types. All are clearly illustrated and rarity rated in this book. Even some
from Melbourne #1 that most of us would regard as "common as muck are rated "RRRR"
as they are unusual designs or sub-types.
Hugh Freeman certainly has had a mass of material to sift through in his decades
long search. I first met him 25 years back when he ran Status Stamp Auctions
along with Barry Cooper. He had owned Auctions in Sydney well before that time
as well. Hugh later went on to manage Stanley Gibbons Auctions in Australia for
many years, and still calls their public auctions.
Despite handling probably many millions of stamps from Victoria the fact 74
numbers still are unseen to Hugh Freeman and other specialists offers a
challenge to all readers of this article. Hugh used to run large ads in overseas
magazines advertising to buy the elusive numerals he still sought. I recall
seeing his ads in Stanley Gibbons Part 1 catalogues for this material.
This book illustrates around 2000 actual cancels on stamps and covers - not
drawings as other state handbooks have used. The central section is in full
colour. Reproduction quality of illustrations is quite superb, and the detail
and background to the listings is exhaustive. All cancels are rated in 8
specific rarity classes - or "non-rated" meaning they are reasonably to very
This 1d stamp realised over $400.
The book also rarity rates and illustrates the earlier
"Butterfly" and "Barred Oval" cancels - also a very useful data base on it own.
EVERY dealer in the world should own this book, and it goes without saying ALL
collectors of Victoria need to have one too. Stumble across even one half decent
cancel in your lifetime and it is more than paid for.
The hard-bound A4 book comprises over 420 pages, with eight colour plates. Price
is $A150, and a deluxe limited edition (maximum 50) half-bound in leather, with
raised spine and corners and hand-marbled end papers is also available for $250.
Stamp dealer literature stockists should have copies or contact - Publications
Manager, Royal Philatelic Society of Victoria, PO Box 642, Toorak 3142. email
1956 cover gets $1,825
This possible FDC illustrated has just sold for more than a fine used £1 Brown
and Blue Kangaroo will cost you.
The cover was offered on eBay and sold May 312 for $US1,259.56. The winner
bidder was "austcovers". The underbidder at $US1234.56 was a collector using the
eBay handle "blackwood-inn". Seller was "wbarr" from San Jose California. Who
must be a very happy chappie as the first bid was a paltry 99¢!
I have showed this scan to 4 large dealers and all agree they would have gladly
taken $100 or less for it had they had it in stock. One said $10 and he'd have
Sold for more than a used £1
is Melbourne collector Frank Pauer ... co-author of a massive FDC catalogue to
be released very soon with 1000s of colour images.
I asked Frank why he had paid such an astounding sum for this item. He replied:
"It is the only one recorded to date for the 3½d No Watermark Booklet pane.
There was no official release date but Brusden White has it as July 1956."
Pauer continued: "This FDC was done by Haywood Parish, who was working in the
and there is no other 3½d booklet pane on FDC out there. This is the first
anyone has seen. Haywood Parish has done most of the no watermark stamps on
cover of which I have 7 and no other covers exist for those FDC either. There
could be one out there for the booklet pane but you think we would have seen it
by now. If an earlier FDC does come out in the open then this one is worthless".
From the eBay scan it appears to me to be an August 1 postmark, so I just hope
the ACSC is incorrect with their "July" issue date! The eBay seller did not
describe the item as a "FDC" at any time. The ACSC says that the earliest known
date of use for the 3½d no watermark was July 2, 1956. I am curious that with a
franking of 1/9d already on the cover that the sender did not send it registered
Rosenblum is even vaguer saying only "in July". And whether booklets were issued
at same time as sheet stock no-one seems to know, and that clearly is important
This is the dilemma with much peripheral material such as booklet panes and
coils etc - the precise issue date was not always announced, and keen collectors
play Russian Roulette buying such pieces. The "pioneer" collectors in any field
face many problems. If any reader has any info to shed on this matter of dates
please contact me.
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The character of Superman presents a challenge in the post-9/11 era of superheroes.
By Noah Gittell
The character of Superman presents a challenge in the post-9/11 era of superheroes. We like our superheroes tortured and conflicted now, as a reflection of our uncertain place on the world stage. But historically, Superman has never had any inner conflict. He is more of a hokey do-gooder than a tortured soul. This could be one reason why 2006’s “Superman Returns” – not a reboot but a continuation in spirit of the sunny Christopher Reeve movies of the late 1970s and 1980s – failed to resonate with the American public.
But the Hollywood hit machine offers endless chances for redemption. “Man in Steel” is Superman by way of “The Dark Knight,” and not coincidentally, produced by Christopher Nolan, who helmed all three recent Batman movies. Nolan, director Zack Snyder, and writer David Goyer have found a clever and organic way to make the iconic American superhero conflicted: by framing him as a man stuck between two worlds, his native Krypton and his adopted home, America.
The film functions as a clean reboot, retelling the original story with a few new twists. We start with a long sequence on Krypton, where Kal-El (as he is known on his native planet) is already an anomaly – a baby born of a natural childbirth, instead of the “Matrix”-like pods in which Kryptonians are typically spawned. Moments before the planet explodes, his father Jor-El fights off General Zod (Michael Shannon), a military man gone mad with power, and sends his son into the outer reaches of space.
For the sake of brevity, the filmmakers cut between the alien child’s life as a young adult, drifting from job to job and preventing tragedies, and his upbringing in the heartland. If the film’s sequences on Krypton are jarring to fans of the Superman mythology, the scenes in Smallville will be deeply comforting. Kevin Costner anchors these scenes with a powerful performance as Clark’s father, committed to protecting him from those who might fear him for being different. After saving a school bus full of children from drowning and exposing himself in the process, Clark tearfully asks his father, “What was I supposed to do, let them die?” “Maybe,” his father replies.
It’s a shocking bit of dialogue because Superman is famous for avoiding death at all costs – he won’t even kill his enemies — and it’s only one of many reversals of typical Superman mythology. There is no Lex Luthor, no glasses, no Jimmy Olsen, very little of The Daily Planet at all. Lois Lane does show up, but she’s a redhead (Amy Adams), and since this is a 21st- century superhero film, she is no longer just a helpless victim. She gets to do a little fighting of her own.
Instead of Luthor, the film gives us General Zod, a Kryptonian general-turned-rebel who escaped his home planet and now plans to rebuild Krypton on Earth. It is around this point that the film starts to feel a bit of an allegory for our ongoing debate over immigration, with Superman forced to destroy his old culture in order to be accepted by his adopted home. But for that discourse to truly have value, we need to understand Zod’s motivations and maybe even sympathize with them a little, and despite some good, hard acting by Michael Shannon, Zod never comes across as anything more substantive than a reckless, genocidal maniac. There are no stakes for Superman or for us: we know which side he’ll be on, and we know he’ll win.
Luckily, Snyder gets a lot of the rest right. Despite the awfully big shoes of the late Christopher Reeve, Henry Cavill acquits himself well as both Clark Kent and Superman. The changes in mythology prohibit him from having to play the bumbling reporter that Reeve mastered, but Clark’s goodness still comes off as nerdy in the dark, troubled world of the film. The supporting cast has little to work with in terms of characterization, but Adams, Laurence Fishburne as Perry White, and Russell Crowe as Jor-El all leave lasting impressions.
It’s just enough to make you see what “Man of Steel” could have been, had Snyder cut a few of the endless action sequences and found a more interesting villain. The film’s final scene teases a far better sequel, and with this franchise’s record ticket sales, you can be sure that we’re going to see one. Looks like there will be yet another chance for redemption.
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Consumers don’t want to buy everything online
There are product groups that consumers would be reluctant to buy online. The Nuremberg market research company Concept & Analysis and the online panel operator Respondi asked a thousand consumers about their willingness to buy certain goods online.
The result: groceries (30 percent), prescription drugs (27 percent), life insurance (26 percent) and fitted kitchens (18 percent) are goods that very few Germans want to purchase via the World Wide Web. Software (81 percent), fashion (75 percent), electronics (75 percent), travel (69 percent) and digital cameras (67 percent), on the other hand, are the five product groups that consumers are most likely to buy online.
For most goods, the market researchers observe an equal willingness to buy online among male and female consumers. Men and women show clear differences in fashion (men: 69 percent, women: 82 percent), consumer electronics (men: 78 percent, women: 68 percent), computers (men: 68 percent, women: 54 percent), over-the-counter medicines (men : 53 percent, women: 62 percent), erotic articles (men: 57 percent, women: 48 percent) and large furniture (men: 32 percent, women: 42 percent).
The results at a glance (question: which of the following items would you buy online? Top box (1 = yes, I would buy): software: 81 percent, fashion: 75 percent, electrical goods (small electrical appliances: 77 percent/consumer electronics: 73 percent): 75 percent, vacation travel: 69 percent, digital cameras: 67 percent, computers: 61 percent, over-the-counter medications: 57 percent, household appliances: 56 percent, small furniture: 56 percent, erotic items: 52 percent, vitamins/minerals: 38 percent, Wine/spirits: 37 percent Furniture: 37 percent Deli: 33 percent Auto insurance: 32 percent Grocery: 30 percent Prescription drugs: 27 percent Life insurance: 19 percent Kitchens: 18 percent. | <urn:uuid:a4dfbbc1-74e3-4c56-a869-a9f339927657> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bestygame.com/en/consumers-dont-want-to-buy-everything-online/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.899777 | 429 | 1.585938 | 2 |
What is the difference between a notary public and a lawyer? While notaries are held to the highest standards of ethics, their training is far different than that of a lawyer. They must have an undergraduate degree with a B average, complete an 18 month course and write exams, and then do 6 weeks of practical training with the Society of Notaries.
As for lawyers, most have an undergraduate degree and are then required to complete 3 years of law school, followed by a 1 year articling program which includes a 9 week professional legal training course, and then pass the rigorous bar exam.
Interestingly, lawyers in British Columbia are automatically awarded the designation of notary once they are called to bar.
What services can notaries offer? Most commonly notaries take oaths on affidavits or statutory declarations, prepare residential real estate transfers, and mortgage documents, draft powers of attorney, and prepare simple wills.
It is the drafting of wills that has been the subject of discontent among notaries, who recently brought a court challenge, seeking to expand their will repetoire to include the preparation of wills that contain life estates and trusts.
In a court decision dated December 21, 2017, The Society of Notaries Public of British Columbia v. The Law Society of British Columbia 2017 BCCA 448, the BC Court of Appeal dismissed the notaries action. The restriction on notaries regarding wills is found in the Notaries Act RSBC 1996 c.344:
s. 18 “A member enrolled and in good standing may do the following:
(b) draw and supervise the execution of wills
(i) by which the will-maker directs the will-maker’s estate to be distributed immediately on death,
(ii) that provide that if the beneficiaries named in the will predecease the will-maker, there is a gift over to alternative beneficiaries vesting immediately on the death of the will-maker, or
(iii) that provide for the assets of the deceased to vest in the beneficiary or beneficiaries as members of a class not later than the date when the beneficiary or beneficiaries or the youngest of the class attains majority;”
The Court of Appeal held that the legislation did not contemplate the drafting of wills that included trusts or life estates. They summarized and rejected the following argument made on behalf of the notaries:
“For example, they say that when a will-maker leaves real property to A subject to B having a life interest in that property, since A’s interest vests immediately, the property has been “distributed immediately” to A, notwithstanding the fact that A is not entitled to possession or use of the property until B dies. I am unable to accept this argument.”
This is not the first time notaries have sought to increase the services they may provide. In an earlier British Columbia decision, The Law Society of British Columbia v. MacDonald 2013 BCSC 1204, the Law Society successfully sued notary public Ms. Macdonald and sought an injunction against her for the unauthorized practice of law. She had prepared a will that included a trust and a life estate.
The expansion of legal services to professional who are not lawyers remains controversial, but where access to justice has become critical right across Canada, it is in the public’s interest to expand the expertise of those trained to provide legal assistance. With respect to the notaries, their court overtures have been rebuffed. Perhaps they should now focus on lobbying the provincial government to amend the Notaries Act and legislate additional training to accommodate expanded legal services.
In other jurisdictions, like Ontario, paralegals have been given enhanced status and are licensed and regulated through Ontario’s Law Society. They can practice independently, without supervision by a lawyer, if they meet the educational requirements and practice standards. Notably, licensed paralegals can represent clients in Small Claims Court, and handle matters under the Provincial Offences Act and summary convictions where the penalty is not more than 6 months imprisonment. They may also give advice and act for clients in residential tenancy matters and worker’s compensation matters.
My view is that the public needs more legal services from qualified individuals, not less. Lawyers who are good at what they do need not be threatened by notaries public or licensed paralegals.
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There has been much debate in recent years as to whether electronic cigarettes, or ecigs are a healthier alternative to smoking. Ecig developers contest that not only are ecigs a healthier option, but they can also help a person eventually quit smoking. On the other hand, the FDA strongly encourages consumers to err on the side of caution until more research has been conducted. Whether or not electronic cigarette indeed prove to be better for you than traditional cigarettes, another question remains—are they better for the environment?
If the average smoker goes through 15 to 25 cigarettes on any given day, and there are roughly 1.3 billion smokers out there, the number of discarded cigarette butts adds up pretty quickly. Cigarette butts take about 5 years in a landfill to completely break down. However, the majority of these cigarette butts are not even disposed of properly (nearly 4.5 trillion annually). These small plastic tubes are the most littered object in the world. Furthermore, the majority of these cigarette butts still contain toxins and chemicals that are harmful to wildlife and eco-systems. When not properly disposed of, cigarette butts can be washed down storm drains and ingested by marine life. They can even affect our water source.
One advantage the electronic cigarette has over traditional cigarettes is that it significantly reduces waste. While traditional cigarettes are disposable, electronic cigarettes are reusable. The only waste associated with ecigs are used-up batteries (though some models are rechargeable) and empty nicotine liquid cartridges (which can also be filled multiple times if you choose). Ecigs also require less packaging, as each nicotine cartridge lasts about as long as a full pack of cigarettes, and are often sold in bulk.
Smoke from traditional cigarettes produces nearly 10 times the amount of air pollution as diesel engine exhaust. This is largely due to the more than 4,000 chemicals found in a single cloud of smoke, including carbon monoxide, tar, ammonia and formaldehyde. These harmful airborne chemicals not only affect the environment, but they also have a negative impact on human health. Secondhand smoke contributes to roughly 42,000 deaths each year.
While researchers are still determining the effects of “secondhand vapor” emitted from ecigs, some studies revealed no harmful substances in ecig vapor, including nicotine. A comparative study conducted by Clearstream Air measured the discharge of 19 cigarettes against the vapor from 1.5mL of nicotine liquid. While several pollutants were detected in the cigarette smoke, none were found in the ecig vapor. However, this is just one study, and more research needs to be done.
In conclusion, while it is unclear as to whether electronic cigarettes are a healthier choice than traditional cigarette, their relative impact on the environment is a bit more certain. If you have been considering making the switch to electronic cigarettes, remember that not all models are created equal. Some require more maintenance than others, and the nicer models can cost a few hundred dollars. In any case, adopting a “vaping” lifestyle, as opposed to smoking, is a simple and effective way to help the environment—and maybe save you a few dollars in the process.
Drew Kobb, in addition to studying civil law, loves long distance running and considers himself a health and fitness enthusiast. His interests range all over the medical field, and Drew highlights that range on his blog, Dr. Ouch. He also has a passion for the environment. | <urn:uuid:86dafa18-b5d6-43e5-9f71-03f973ce9629> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thehempcloud.com/blog/2013/09/ecigs-the-green-alternative/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.955591 | 701 | 3.296875 | 3 |
An increase in the emergence of CRE, including Enterobacter spp. leaving limited treatment options, therefore are related to high morbidity and mortality [3, 4, 8]. In the current study, we determined antimicrobial resistance pattern and the presence of integrase and oxacillinase genes among 90 Enterobacter clinical isolates obtained from a tertiary care hospital from south of Iran. According literature, E. cloacae and E. aerogenes are the most prevalent clinical isolates of Enterobacter . In consistent with literature, in our survey E. aerogenes and E. cloacae were also the most common species with frequencies 45.6 and 30%, respectively. On the contrary, in the study of Khashei et al., E. gergoviae (54.2%) was found the most frequently isolated species . Enterobacter isolates have been the leading cause of nosocomial infections all over the world [1, 2]. In our work, most of isolates (37.8%) were recovered from respiratory tract samples. In agreement with our survey, in two study from China and Germany 91 and 37.8% of isolates were obtained from RTIs, respectively [10, 26]. In contrast, in several investigations blood and abdominal samples were the most frequent sites of Enterobacter isolation [8, 27, 28]. In this study, 64.4% of isolates were recovered from ICU ward. Likewise, some studies nationwide shared similar findings [26, 29]. This issue indicates the importance of long-term hospitalization for acquisition of these infections.
In susceptibility testing, all isolates were resistant to all of the tested antimicrobials, with 93% of strains showing MDR phenotype, making them a major therapeutic treat in our area. Based on CLSI, resistance to one or more carbapenems is considered as carbapenem resistance . Hence, 27.8% our isolates were non-susceptible to imipenem (carbapenem resistant). The result is coinciding with two previously reported works from Iran and China with prevalence’s of 29.2 and 25.7%, respectively [16, 30]. Moreover, among carbapenem-resistant isolates, 96% were phenotypically carbapenemase producers by mCIM test. The mCIM is a reliable and simple method and has a sensitivity of 98–100% in comparison with the modified Hodge test and the carbapenemase Nordmann-Poirel (carba NP) test with sensitivities of 93–98% and 73–100%, respectively. Furthermore, due to being expensive of PCR, mCIM could be a suitable alternative method for detecting of carbapenemase producers [12, 31–33].
In addition to rapid phenotypic tests, genotypic identification of carbapenemases among Gram-negative rods is an important step for infection control and prevention. The major mechanism of resistance to carbapenems among Enterobacter isolates is carbapenemase production, mainly OXA-type carbapenemases, including blaoxa−1, blaoxa−2, blaoxa−10 and blaoxa−48 -like genes and metallobetalactamases with a less prevalence . In the current work, the presence of blaoxa−1, blaoxa−2, blaoxa−10 and blaoxa−48 -like genes were diagnosed with frequencies 6.7, 5.6, 20, and 20%, respectively. The presence of oxacillinase genes in Enterobacter spp. are less than other Enterobacteriaceae members and their prevalence varies across the world. The blaoxa−48 first time identified among Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates in 2004 from Turkey. Afterward, the gene reported in some other Enterobacterales, including E. cloacae in Middle East, Africa and Europe [34, 35]. But this gene along with other oxacillinase genes such as blaoxa−10-like has not been reported among Enterobacter isolates in our region, yet. To the best of our knowledge, this will be the first reporting on Enterobacter spp. harboring blaoxa−10 and blaoxa−48-like genes from Iran.
In three studies conducted in Russia, Turkey and Germany, the prevalence of blaoxa−48 among Enterobacter isolates was reported as 20, 34.8 and 10.7%, respectively [36–38]. In addition, our results revealed that 6.7% and 5.6% of isolates were positive for blaoxa−1 and blaoxa−2-like genes, correspondingly. The result was less slightly than those observed by Ramezanzadeh and colleague with prevalence’s of 7.7% (blaoxa−1) and 11.8% (blaoxa−2) . In this survey, we found only 16.6% of mCIM positive isolates were carried blaoxa−48 -like gene, indicating other mechanisms such as metallobetalactamases or OmpK gene that regulates expression of mutated efflux pump are involved in carbapenem resistance. These discrepancies on phenotypic and genotypic results are also cited by some authors [13, 33, 40–42].
On the other hand, we identified the presence of class 1, 2 and 3 integrons among our isolates. Carbapenemase genes are harbored on mobile genetic elements and can be disseminated to other bacteria, therefore contributing to the origin of antimicrobial resistance among Enterobacteriaceae members . It is reported that class 1 integron is found in 40–70% of Gram-negative pathogens and has had a major role in widespread of antibiotic resistance [14, 15]. In consistent with literature, intI1 was found in the highest rate (55.6%), followed by intI2 (13.3%) and 8.9% of isolates were positive for both classes of integron genes, simultaneously. However, a significant difference was determined between isolates harboring intI2 gene and higher rate of drug resistance with only two antibiotics (Table 3). In accordance to our results, Mortazavi et al. showed that 58.3% of E. cloacae isolates, harbored class I integron; however, none of them had class II integron . In the present work, the intI3 gene was not detected in any of the isolates. It is mentioned that distribution of class 3 integron has been limited within a few Gram-negative bacteria, with the exception of Enterobacter spp. ranged from 0–10%, which is according to our findings .
This investigation had several limitations. First, the sample size was relatively small. Second, due to lack of temocillin disk (30 µg) we could not phenotypically diagnose OXA-48-producing isolates. Third, we could not evaluate the presence of more OXA-type carbapenemase genes to better assess of oxacillinase resistance among our isolates. | <urn:uuid:4d738fff-2303-46d2-b6f5-9abc7e097bab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-673753/v1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.94749 | 1,531 | 2.3125 | 2 |
It is hard not to notice the commentary amassing online about the video from Invisible Children titled KONY 2012. As of this morning, the video had been watched on YouTube and Vimeo more than 80 million times in the last five days and had received more than 400,000 comments on YouTube alone.
Media outlets, from newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post to broadcast media such as CNN and Msnbc, all have featured at least one news story or commentary on the piece. Even White House Press Secretary Jay Carney fielded a question about the video in
a March 8 briefing. Critiques of the video and the organization abound (See here, here and here, and the official defense here) . Either way, what started as a viral video now has become an epidemic.
The basic point of the 30-minute video is a very specific call to action: Make Lord’s Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony famous so that he might be caught and so that the forced drafting of children into his army would end. In addition to the forced drafting, the atrocities unfold from there: People maimed and murdered by these soldiers, girls forced into sex slavery, and children forced to kill their parents. The International Criminal Court even seeks to prosecute Kony for crimes against humanity.
This goal of making Kony famous is meant to attract the attention of two general audiences. One audience is the U.S. federal government, which in October 2011 sent 100 troops to Uganda in an advisory capacity. If Kony remains famous and people support his capture, then the government will keep the troops there and maybe even send further assistance, or so the video asserts. The other audience is a more general one, one willing to don a bracelet, slap up a poster, share on Facebook, and hopefully open a wallet.
Invisible Children labels KONY 2012 a documentary, and it is one that falls squarely into the propaganda/persuasion traditions developed in the work of Frank Capra, Leni Riefenstahl, and Pare Lorentz. But KONY 2012 pushes the boundaries of these traditions. It attempts to go for the heart strings and not just tickle them but instead rip them out and stomp on them. The emotional appeals throughout this piece often overwhelm, and they run the risk of alienating a more questioning audience.
KONY 2012 is told from the point of view of Jason Russell, a Man with a Mission. He wants to stop the LRA from taking anymore children. Through voiceover, he explains the inspiration for his mission with the story of Jacob Acaye, a Ugandan boy he met in 2003 who had survived attacks from the army and who tragically had seen his own brother killed by the soldiers. Further footage shows Jacob expressing his wish to die. Between these sequences Russell shares his promise to stop those horrors from happening. Footage shows Russell giving speeches, talking with people, leading rallies, and recording video in order to establish his efforts toward keeping that promise.
So with the voiceover, the footage, and the promise, this piece quickly becomes more about Russell than about Acaye.
It is not a new technique for a filmmaker to place him or herself at the center of an issue and as the force behind a push for a change — consider Roger and Me, Supersize Me, and even Sherman’s March. The ability of these titles to resonate with audiences depends largely on that audience’s identification with that primary presence. Often this technique proves rather divisive, as some audiences prefer their documentaries more detached or they simply don’t like the person. For evidence, just consider how Michael Moore has managed to divide audiences over his films.
Part of that audience acceptance, then, comes back to the acceptance of the maker in a certain role — as an advocate, ally, outsider, or even insider. In the last 70 years, we have come to prefer the individual’s story from the individual, in the individual’s voice and words, not from another person telling us about it. We also have come to value these stories as having political weight — depending on how they are told, of course.
Russell positions himself as an advocate, but even in that role he definitely remains an outsider. Instead of trying to connect us more with Acaye, Russell tries to force us to become part of his sense of advocacy. The result is a patronizing tone that only reinforces his privilege and overshadows the importance of Acaye’s harrowing experiences.
One way that Russell attempts to force our identification with him is through his son, Gavin. Discourses about leaving the world a better place for the next generations are common. Few want to leave the world in worse shape for children, either others’ children or their own. We see the video of Gavin’s birth, pictures of him growing up, and videos of him making up stories, acting, and even making his own videos. We get the point — Gavin’s a cute kid.
So I was horrified to see Gavin become part of this piece’s rhetoric. Russell conducts a Q&A with Gavin. Russell asks Gavin about his father’s profession, and Gavin replies, “You stop the bad guys from being mean.” (Aww.) The Q&A continues with questions about identifying the bad guys, with reference to Star Wars (again, aww.) and with Russell explaining (very generally) who Kony is. But this entire sequence seems more about building up Russell’s role than about explaining the importance of the mission and the horrors behind what is happening, particularly with Acaye’s story buried just a few minutes before. Russell even comments, “The truth is, Kony abducts children just like Gavin.” A truth is, Gavin is adorable, but this sequence is condescending and insulting not only to viewers but also to the victims.
Another way Russell attempts to force this identification is through his use of all-inclusive statements. For example, he often refers to “we.” To wit: “If we succeed, we change the course of human history.” And: “We’ve come so far, but Kony is still out there.” While a sense of belonging and identification is key to mobilization, that use of “we” also can highlight who belongs and who does not. Another problem with the attempts to be inclusive is that they result in overgeneralization. One claim is that Kony remains unknown to 99 percent of the world, but if that 99 percent did know, they would do something about it. Really? Those kinds of bandwagon statements offer nothing but empty, unsupported rhetoric. In doing so, they also reinforce Russell’s speaking from a position of privilege.
A third way of generalization comes back to the “almighty” Facebook. The video features several sequences with Facebook interactions, including the new timeline, video posts, and likes. The video suggests that the forms of power have been inverted, with new media helping to shift that balance of power back to the masses. It rests part of that claim on the influence of Facebook. Recent stats put Facebook at around 750 million users, but are all those users looking to change the world or are their intentions more toward connecting with friends and playing Farmville? And what happens when that advocacy begins to undercut Facebook’s profits? And again, by heralding Facebook and social media as harbingers of power and change, the video demonstrates its own privilege. Not everyone has access to Facebook, let alone the technology or even the electricity to get to it.
In the process of all this overgeneralizing and melodrama, this video posits a rather innovative solution to whom the organization seems to believe is the problem, but this solution is an irresponsible and a misguided one. It negates the enormous complexities behind the violence in Africa. The abduction of children, their integration into an army, and the violence at their hands are just part of the surface of much deeper, long-term problems plaguing the countries of the African continent. Some of the poorest countries in the world are on the African continent. AIDS is an epidemic. Basic rights such as food, clean water, and even healthcare remain unavailable. Natural resources get mined through forced labor. Violence is an everyday reality for people in many countries there, and it forces massive displacement in populations and it even results in the killings of entire groups of people. Now, I am not discounting the horrors of children forced into a violent life as soldiers here, but I do want reinforce the point that these child soldiers are part of a much larger set of horrible and interconnected issues facing some countries there. By shining a spotlight on Kony and calling him the problem and his arrest the solution, this video discounts all the other contexts surrounding this army’s development in the first place. Arresting one man doesn’t mean the problem will end, and all will be magically solved. Far from it.
Revolutionary events such as this arrest might become the stuff of history, but true change comes and stays from small actions applied, adapted, and expanded consistently over time. The video mentions how the organization works with building schools and employing people in Uganda. Instead of spending all this money to make a film and rent a headquarters in San Francisco, why not channel funds toward changes that show proven benefits for people like Acaye instead of addressing an audience that might be moved by the message? And instead of wallpapering the world with posters, why not bring in more healthcare, subsidize AIDS medication, build more schools, create more jobs, fund more wells, and even underwrite programs to help the people who need it? Further, why not work with the people there to help them figure out how best to address their problems and find solutions, instead of trying to solve the problem from here? | <urn:uuid:53f642e1-dc6d-45d4-a0b7-b02bf1f72d3e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://archive.pov.org/blog/news/2012/03/kony-2012-analyzing-the-viral-documentary-video/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.965008 | 2,026 | 1.679688 | 2 |
On October 28, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a joint advisory to organizations in the healthcare and public health sector. The alert was issued to address a rapidly rising threat to healthcare organizations and warned of “an increased and imminent cybercrime threat to U.S. hospitals and healthcare providers.” The agencies cite “credible information” that malicious groups of cybercriminals are actively targeting hospitals and healthcare providers.
How the healthcare cybersecurity attacks are delivered
The specific vectors used in recent healthcare cybersecurity attacks (the methods cybercriminals use to gain unauthorized access to data and systems) mentioned in the CISA/FBI/HHS advisory are not new. They include Trickbot, a digital infrastructure used by a cybercriminal enterprise to distribute malware, including ransomware. Trickbot has been known to the security industry since 2016. You’ll also see mention of a type of ransomware called Ryuk, which was first spotted in 2018. According to data released today by SonicWall, Ryuk ransomware is responsible for one-third of all ransomware attacks detected to date in 2020.
Healthcare organizations are being specifically targeted
Healthcare organizations are particularly vulnerable to ransomware attacks, loss of data and disruption to the vital services they provide. The industry is heavily reliant on technology, including computer-controlled treatments and electronic health records, that any disruption can potentially increase the likelihood of a victim paying the ransom.
According to the Associated Press, there have been several successful ransomware attacks against U.S. healthcare organizations this week. As with any type of cyberattack, the impacts have ranged widely. However, in some cases, they have led to hospitals having to turn away patients – a frightening prospect to consider. Reportedly, ransoms of up to $1 million have been demanded to unlock the encrypted data.
Ransomware attacks may include extortion
An alarming trend in ransomware attacks goes beyond simply encrypting data and now involves the threat of releasing said encrypted data to the public. Think about that in the context of hospital and healthcare providers, organizations that store some of the most private and personal data we have to share, and you can see why this tactic might be effective – and lucrative – for cybercriminals. However, paying the ransom can have consequences beyond the immediate financial impact.
Facilitating ransomware payments may result in sanctions
On October 1, 2020, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued an advisory to raise awareness of the sanctions that may be taken against organizations that “facilitate ransomware payments to cyber actors on behalf of victims, including financial institutions, cyber insurance firms, and companies involved in digital forensics and incident response.” While the advisory acknowledges the increased threat of ransomware in 2020, it states that companies involved in these payments “not only encourage future ransomware payment demands but also may risk violating OFAC regulations.”
The best defenses against ransomware
Considering all potential consequences, there have never been more reasons to avoid having your systems affected by ransomware.
ADNET recommends all organizations, including hospitals and healthcare providers, take the following steps to guard against cyberattacks:
Having solid backups – that have at least one copy that is isolated from the network – is a critical thing that needs to be in place. This allows the organization to recover in the case the worst does happen.
Keep patches up to date
It’s important to patch all devices, including computers, network equipment, operating systems and firmware as soon as possible after manufacturers release updates, which often address critical security vulnerabilities.
Train and test your users
One of the easiest and most affordable ways to prevent a cybersecurity event is by educating your employees. Security awareness training can help your employees go from a potential target to a key part of your defense strategy.
Consider reinforcing your security awareness training by leveraging software that safely simulates a phishing attack. These campaigns can be used to pinpoint where your biggest vulnerabilities are and convert them to a teaching opportunity for your team.
Use good password practices
Set strong passwords that are changed regularly, and please, don’t re-use passwords. It’s bad enough if one password gets compromised, but you don’t want a cybercriminal to be able to access other systems because you use the same password for everything. Having trouble remembering all your complex, unique passwords? Try a password manager application.
Use Multi-factor Authentication (MFA)
Usernames and passwords, even strong passwords, are not enough. MFA combines something you know (like a password or PIN), something you have (like a cell phone or smart card), or something you are (like fingerprinting or retinal scans) and requires evidence from at least two of those categories to log in. When you do add MFA to your systems, pay attention to the prompts – we have seen false MFA prompts coming in as an attempt to bypass security measures.
Endpoint Detection & Response
The days when security meant anti-virus and a firewall are long gone. While those solutions are still needed, they’re insufficient against today’s threats. Anti-virus, for example, uses signatures to identify known threats. The keyword here is “known” – it does nothing against new threats.
Endpoint detection and response solutions (EDR) are behavior based – they analyze the activity on your network and look for changes that are out of the ordinary. ADNET’s Foundations Detect + Respond, a comprehensive EDR solution, has the ability to stop active threats like ransomware but if something does get past it, it can roll your system back to a pre-infected state. See that process in action here.
Disable externally facing ports that aren’t needed
One of the best practices is to continually review what port/services are exposed to the Internet. Only services that are actually active should be Internet facing. As systems are retired, it is important that the firewall rules that allow for this access are shut down.
How the ADNET Cybersecurity Team can help with Healthcare Cybersecurity Attacks
ADNET is prepared to serve our clients during times like this. As always, we continue to monitor the latest threat intelligence and advise our clients accordingly. Our dedicated team of cybersecurity professionals are here to help. We can assess your current cybersecurity risk, deploy appropriate security solutions backed by support from our 24×7 Security Operations Center. Our team can also train your organization on security awareness.
Have you been a victim of any healthcare cybersecurity attacks? We’re also here to help organizations that have experienced a security event to identify the issues and prevent further damage. My hope, however, is that you never need to work with a company like ADNET on security incident response. That’s why we spend so much time increasing security awareness through sharing content like this. ADNET wants to help as many people as possible avoid becoming the next victim of cyberattacks. | <urn:uuid:a45e31ee-f55b-42f7-bddd-2dc40306d467> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thinkadnet.com/2020/10/us-federal-agencies-warn-of-increased-healthcare-cybersecurity-attacks/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.954164 | 1,447 | 2.28125 | 2 |
The name Amaia comes from the Basque origin. In Basque The meaning of the name Amaia is End/Resulution. There is also a villiage & a mountain in Spain called Amaia. I've also read that it means Night rain in Japanese.
Amaia is baby girl name mainly popular in Christian religion and its main origin is Basque. Amaia name meanings is Ending.
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Amaia has the numerology 8. The gender of this name Amaia is Girl. They are also thought to be practical endeavors. These people do not keep themselves in fascinating things rather they keep a practical approach towards everything.
Those who have the numerology 8 are not thought to be extremely positive because of some of their qualities. The meaning of this name is Ending. These people are always seeking power, and they also have some really high goals but all are related to materialistic things.
These are the people who are very status-oriented and they also do not believe in coming out of that bubble for anyone. The religion is Christian. These people look at the status of the other person before knowing their personalities because that is how they are built. | <urn:uuid:68ade171-6c6d-469a-9d1a-50cf14492218> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kidpaw.com/names/amaia | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.966102 | 310 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Inside a sprawling recycling center in Florida, as bottles, cans, boxes, and other recyclables move down conveyor belts, 14 different robots use artificial intelligence to identify each material and automatically sort it, moving twice as quickly as humans doing the same job. The center, called Single Stream Recyclers, is one of the latest to install technology from Amp Robotics, a Colorado-based startup that wants to help the recycling industry deal with its current challenges.
“We think that this will be transformative technology for the recycling industry, because for the first time, you can see and understand all of these different consumer packaged goods, and if you can see and sense that and record what’s going on, that opens up all kinds of automation,” says Matanya Horowitz, founder and chief executive officer at AMP Robotics. The company announced today that it has raised $16 million in a series A round of funding led by Sequoia Capital, which is investing in the circular economy for the first time.
The recycling industry in the U.S. is still in crisis nearly two years after China banned imports of low-value recycling—a ban that made sense, since some shipments were so poorly sorted or contaminated with garbage that they were nearly worthless. American recycling infrastructure wasn’t working well, in part because it had previously been easy to outsource the quality challenges to China. As U.S. recyclers struggled to find buyers without China, some cities started sending some recyclables to landfills or incinerators; many cities have cut back on the types of material that they accept, or even canceled curbside recycling completely.
Now, new recycling infrastructure is being built in the U.S. to help fill the gap. But the challenge of sorting out high-value materials still remains. One piece of the problem is what happens at recycling bins, since consumers are often confused about what’s actually recyclable. The next problem is what happens at the centers that sort through truckloads of recycling waste from cities.
AMP’s robots can sort 80 items per minute, roughly twice as much as a human picker averages, and can do the work more accurately. The software that runs the robots uses machine learning to recognize each object. “We show the system literally millions of examples of different objects, and it figures out the different patterns in this data,” says Horowitz. “It begins to learn things like logos, different shapes, and textures.” A particular logo might be correlated with #1 plastic; a particular shape might be correlated with a cereal box.
Until now, most sorting facilities, called “material recovery facilities” or MRFs, have used equipment from the mining industry that can help identify materials by density or shape. But it’s an imprecise system, and a bale of paper might end up including plastic bottles or aluminum cans. Workers separating out waste manually can find those contaminants, but facilities now are often understaffed because the work is monotonous, smelly, and otherwise unpleasant.
It’s a good job for robots because it’s not really a job that humans want, and turnover is high. (For now, human workers work side by side with the robots, helping remove larger contaminants—like pieces of wood, or tricycles—that the robot can’t yet grab.) As the technology develops, the company says that the robots will get even faster. The equipment can be installed along with a facility’s existing machinery.
By sorting precisely, it’s possible to end up with high-value materials that a recycling facility can sell at a profit, even in today’s more complicated recycling market. It’s also possible to pull out materials that haven’t been commonly recycled in the past, like coffee cups, which use high-value paper but have been too difficult to sort. “We were able to teach the robots what coffee cups were, and they can separate them out in industrial volumes,” says Horowitz. “The recycling facilities, through a software update, had access to a new material stream and could sort them out and divert them from the landfill effectively.” The same technology can also be used to sort electronic waste and waste from the construction industry.
At the moment, only around 5% of municipal recycling facilities use robots to sort materials. Amp says that the cost of its system isn’t really an issue, since it rents out the equipment to facilities that can’t afford the capital expense, and those that buy the technology can get a return on investment fairly quickly, depending on the volumes they process and market prices. The next step to more adoption, Horowitz says, is for his company to use the success of early installations to convince more facilities that the technology works. The new round of funding will also help the company scale up. | <urn:uuid:58dfae84-b886-4fd8-a559-d93ae231ad2f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fastcompany.com/90430489/meet-the-tireless-robots-that-are-helping-to-tackle-the-recycling-crisis?partner=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&utm_content=rss?cid=search | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.959846 | 1,010 | 2.5 | 2 |
The council has credited a “huge effort” from its Housing Needs team for achieving this.
Latest figures from November show that there were just five households placed in hotels or B&Bs, compared to 138 in January last year.
The big push to find alternative accommodation for homeless families followed the introduction of the Government’s ‘Everybody In’ initiative at the start of the pandemic in March 2020. This saw councils asked to make provision available for all rough sleepers to come in off the streets and be provided shelter to minimise the risk of greater spread of Covid.
At the time, the council was able to source hotel accommodation, and with the support of a number of Safer off the Streets partners from the faith and voluntary sector, organisations set up a rough sleeper rest centre accommodating 50 people in the first weekend, made up of people who could no longer stay in night shelters because of shared sleeping spaces and rough sleepers.
Over the following 15 months all services rallied to provide support, advice, advocacy, food and shelter to those being accommodated, with a number of local businesses going above and beyond to provide hot food to residents every night of the week.
However, as Covid lockdowns came and went access to accommodation became difficult and the number of people accommodated grew to a peak in January 2021 of 138 households.
Since that time, though, the council’s Housing Needs team and its partners have been working hard to resettle many of the individuals they have been supporting which has resulted in the number of households accommodated in hotel or B&B accommodation reduced to just five in November.
The ‘Everybody In’ initiative has now ended, but the council continues to offer accommodation and support for all eligible rough sleepers.
Cllr Steve Allen, cabinet member for housing, culture and communities, said: “Throughout the pandemic there has been an incredible push from the council, partners and organisations to get rough sleepers off the streets and give them access to a wide range of support.
“Despite rising numbers of households needing our help our Housing Needs team has done a superb job in making sure only a handful remain in B&B and hotel accommodation, with the others being placed elsewhere.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – France, Germany and Italy backed an EU threat to tighten COVID-19 vaccine exports as rifts over scarcity of the shots deepened and the 27-nation bloc struggled to obtain more deliveries.
The European Commission threatened on Wednesday to ban exports to countries like Britain that have higher vaccination rates but do not export shots to the EU. The aim is to safeguard supplies for the bloc’s own citizens as they face a third wave of the pandemic.
Germany, Italy, France and Denmark were among those supporting tougher export controls, according to three diplomats and officials who attended an EU ambassadors’ meeting shortly after the Commission’s threat.
But, in a sign of discord, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Ireland were more cautious, two of the officials said, adding that a discussion on the matter will be held at an EU summit next week.
Vaccine producer AstraZeneca has attracted a good deal of criticism in the EU, which says it is not meeting its supply obligations.
“It’s all stemming from a growing frustration with AstraZeneca and being under increased pressure to do something about it. We don’t have enough vaccines, we export like crazy without getting anything,” said one of the diplomats who participated in the discussions.
The Commission said on Thursday it was sending a letter to AstraZeneca in what could be the first step in a legal fight against the Anglo-Swedish firm.
The company said last week it aimed to deliver to the EU 100 million doses of its vaccine by the end of June, instead of 300 million envisaged under its EU contract, citing production problems and export restrictions.
Separately, six EU countries including Latvia, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic demanded that the bloc reallocate the vaccines it is buying collectively to make up for their shortfalls in shots from AstraZeneca.
They hope to agree a “correction mechanism” to the usual distribution scheme based on the size of every country’s population, in order to get a larger share of 10 million extra doses promised by Pfizer for the second quarter.
Without extra deliveries, they say their reliance on AstraZeneca means they would fall further behind the rest of the EU on vaccination as the bloc struggles to meet its target of inoculating 70% adults this summer.
But Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Luxembourg and others pushed back, diplomatic sources said, saying eastern European states have themselves to blame for banking on the cheaper AstraZeneca vaccine in the first place, and that reducing deliveries at home to give them more doses would be a hard political sell.
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By Dr. Akshata Bhat, Psychiatry
Getting angry is a totally healthy emotion. However, it gets unhealthy when a person cannot control his anger. It starts affecting one’s health, relationships, and state of mind. Anger is an emotion to convey that someone is upset or unhappy about something. It is a reaction to a situation which is upsetting. So, there is no harm in expressing emotion, but it should be to a certain extent. Regular anger explosion hurts the person and the people around.
Symptoms of Anger Related Problems
- Heart palpitations or tightening of the chest
- Increased blood pressure
- Pressure on the head or sinus cavities
How Does Anger Management Help?
There is a misconception about anger management that it teaches to suppress anger. Not getting angry ever is not the desired goal. The real goal is to understand the reason behind the anger and convey it in a healthy way. Understanding oneself better and knowing what triggers a person and managing those feelings.
Anger management is a long process. It is an art which requires mastery. It comes with regular practice. The benefits of anger management are huge. It improves relationships and a person learns how to express his feelings in a healthy manner.
When Is the Right Time to Take Anger Management?
There are a few warning signs to know that someone requires anger management. Everyone should keep an eye on these signs:
- Problem in Compromising: It becomes difficult for a person with anger issues to understand other’s perspective. And also, despite understanding others’ point of view, they get loud. They treat compromising as a defeat, hence they never agree to it.
- Difficulty in Expressing Emotions: People often confuse not expressing their emotion and being strong as one thing. There is no pride in being a person who finds it difficult to express their emotion. Instead, they try to cover it with anger.
- Fragile Ego: If a person has anger issues, it is most likely that he has a fragile ego. A fragile ego doesn’t let a person get someone else’s point of view. And, works as a fuel in the argument.
- Body Signs: The body starts to react differently if someone has an anger issue. For example, knots start to form in the stomach, shoulders get tense, jaw clenches, a person starts to pace, heart starts pounding, etc.
Tips to Control Anger:
These are a few tips which can be followed. If someone recognizes their anger issues and wants to work on it, here are some tips that should be followed:
- Exercise: If someone realizes that they are about to explode due to anger, a quick walk will help. A walk around the block or in a park will help in realizing the pent-up anger.
- Deep Breaths: Taking a few deep breaths helps in realizing the tension. The idea is to take as much fresh air into the lungs as possible. It helps in calming down the anger.
- Massage: Tension generally builds on the shoulders and starts stretching them. A gentle massage of the neck and scalp helps in releasing the build-up tension.
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In today’s world, when we think of a problem with plastic, we always contemplate pollution, waste, and plastic strewn oceans causing difficulties for marine life. The thought is always, how can we get rid of the plastic or repurpose it into something else, like a pair of shoes. One issue that the average person does not contemplate, but which is at the forefront of the minds of conservators is, how do we preserve items of our cultural history that are made of plastics?
A fascinating piece in the New York Times looks at the historical preservation implications of creating materials from plastic. Everyday items can help paint a picture about life during a certain time period. Metal, stone, and ceramic have helped tell the story of times that came before us and remain hundreds or thousands of years later. Unfortunately, plastics are disintegrating before our eyes and conservators are having to develop ways to preserve artifacts of everyday life for posterity.
One of the main issues for conservators is first determining what the item is made from. Plastic is a nonspecific term that means something is moldable. In order to discover how to preserve something that is plastic, the conservators need to discover what polymers the item is made from and what additives are included. Early plastics were made from natural polymers like cellulose, while today’s plastics are generally synthetic. Much of the preservation work involves slowing down the aging process, whether it be by controlling the temperature, keeping an item out of oxygen, or eliminating UV rays. Controlling for these conditions may mean building special display cases to ensure stable conditions.
One of the pieces discussed in the article is the spacesuit worn by Neil Armstrong when he went to the moon. The suit is made of 21 layers of different plastics including neoprene, nylon, Mylar, and Teflon. The neoprene layer, although buried within other layers is cause for concern since it will harden with age and make the suit brittle. To protect the spacesuit, the Air and Space Museum took it off display in January 2006 in order to slow the degradation process since other spacesuits with the neoprene layer shattered. The chief conservator at the museum is working to build a special display case for the spacesuit that will store it at 63 Fahrenheit, 30% humidity, and with filters to remove contaminants.
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When thinking about optimizing your website for search engines the 3 top factors to consider are:
1. Unique page titles
The ‘Page Title’ or ‘Title Tag’ is the clickable title of a search page that appears with the result on the SERP (Search Engine Results Page). To set a page title, generally, you can use the <title> tag in the HTML around your text but most content management systems like WordPress have forms to automatically set <title> tags around the page titles on your website when creating new pages.
Unique page titles offer one of the most effective means to classify a page, and are strongly weighted ranking factors.
Titles are critical to giving users a quick insight into the content of a search engine result and why it’s relevant to their query. It’s often the primary piece of information used to decide which result to click on. For this reason, page titles should be as accurate as possible and relevant to the page’s content.
2. Meta Descriptions
A meta description is an HTML tag used to describe the content of a web page. This description will show up below the title and URL of your page as it appears in the search engine results. Your meta description’s objective is to provide a summary for people searching on Google (or other search engines) of what your page’s content covers and to get them to click your link. In other words, meta descriptions are there to generate click-throughs from search engines.
Meta descriptions are seen on the SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages) and when well-worded, they assist in increasing your CTR (click through rate).
Search engines like Google say they don’t use meta descriptions in their ranking algorithm. But there is a huge indirect benefit, Google uses click-through-rate (CTR) as a way of working out whether you’re a good result. So, If more people click on your page when searching for something, Google considers your website to be a good result and will move you up the ranks.
- Always keep in mind that the best way to make your meta descriptions SEO-friendly is to write them with the intention of getting more clicks. Think of it as a micro-pitch for your website. Use active language and write a description that conveys your website’s unique selling proposition (USP).
- Use this simple 3 point hack: Add a clear call to action, address an emotional pain point, or offer a specific benefit to visitors.
- Write a unique meta description for each page, no duplicates!
- Keep them about 1-2 sentences (140-160 characters) long
- Include keywords from your keyword research.
3. Heading Tags
Heading tags are HTML tags used to identify headings and subheadings within your content from other types of text, such as, paragraph text.
HTML has six different heading tags — H1,H2, and so on. The H1 is considered the most important tag, and the H6 is the least important. The tags are often formatted from large (or most important) to smallest (or least important).
H1 has always been a major SEO ranking factor, plus, H1s are usually the most visually notable content on the page. While H2-H6 tags are considered not as important to search engines, proper usage of H1 tags has been emphasized in many studies. As well as clumsy usage of H1s may keep a site from major rankings and traffic improvements – so not a good place to get creative with your copywriting, stick to clear language directed by your keyword research.
Headings hierarchy are especially important when it comes to articles and blog posts. It is also important that you optimize your headings on all other pages to ensure they are SEO friendly. Correctly coded headings help break up your content and theme significant areas of content. They also assist search engine algorithms determine relevance.
Here are some best practices on how to write and implement heading tags:
1. Use H1 tags to structure your website: each heading should give the reader an idea of what they can find on the page.
Here is a great tip from the Search Engine Journal: a helpful way to think of header tags is by comparing them to a table of contents for a non-fiction book:
Your H1 introduces the topic your page is all about, just as a title tells a reader what a book is all about.
The H2s are akin to book chapters, describing the main topics you’ll cover in sections of the article.
Subsequent headers, H3-H6s, serve as additional subheadings within each section, just as a book chapter may be split up by multiple sub-topics.
We don’t recommend you getting caught up trying to format your content to match H3 to H6. If you are a beginner, keep it simple.
2. Use headers to break up text. As previously mentioned in the CRO toolkit, you need to create a flow for your readers and help them find relevant information. People simply like scannable content. According to research, an article that’s scannable is 58 percent more likely to perform better with readers.
3. Include your keywords in your headings. Pull up your keyword research and try to use as many single keywords with high search volume as you can.
4. Only use one H1 per page. H1s are big, and they look like titles to readers. Use multiple H1s on your page, and it starts to look a little out of control.
5. Your H1 tag is not the same as your title tag. In terms of content, they can be similar, but make sure you display H1 headings when appropriate. Read more about the difference here.
Want to make sure you are not utilizing H1 tags already or that you don’t have any multiple H1s lingering on your site? Run your domain through SEOptimer. | <urn:uuid:a19a53ba-78fa-4c4e-8add-5e0af40d1b6e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.withsmallbusiness.com/best-practices/search-engine-optimization/on-page-seo-factors/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.905663 | 1,253 | 1.640625 | 2 |
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Coming from the world of bobsled, the paratroopers fascinate and amaze me. Grandpa was the kindest grandfather a young boy could ever ask for, and he always supported my life's endeavors, including my pursuit of the Olympics, my college education, my Christian mission to Honduras and Belize, etc. But when I started to dig into his experiences as a paratrooper in World War II, my hero grew even taller in my eyes.
How I miss him. He was a man amongst men all his life, but in the war he served as a Platoon Leader and Executive Officer in Company D of the 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR). I asked him once which he thought was crazier, bobsled or parachuting out of a plane into combat. He just smiled that bright smile of his and said, "Bobsled!"
I'm not sure I agree with him on that, but Grandpa and the other troopers told me about an even crazier group of paratroopers known as Pathfinders whose main job was to go in before the main body dropped and mark the Drop Zone (DZ) for the transports' crews. This lead to increased accuracy in jumps as well as greater odds of mission success.
Now, I have been a student of military history since my early teens, so I knew all about Pathfinders and their roles in airborne operations such as Paestum in September 1943, Overlord on D-Day June 6, 1944, Dragoon in August 1944 or Market Garden in September 1944. Pathfinders parachute, ride or hike into the DZs which are frequently and often dangerously behind enemy lines, to guide the incoming main drops using radio beacons (Eureka), luminescent Holophane lights, ground-marking panels, colored smoke grenades/pots, etc. Grandpa and his fellow buddies were accustomed to perilous circumstances as paratroopers, but pathfinders were often the only invaders surrounded by enemy units for hours until the main drops occurred. Their official motto for decades has been, SEMPER PRIMUS, or "ALWAYS FIRST."
We need to remember that in World War II, parachute troops were new and as the "elite of the elite", some Allied soldiers considered them crazy for jumping out of airplanes "on purpose" which I smile about since people often call us bobsled athletes crazy for racing down icy tracks at high speeds "on purpose."
The pathfinders of the 11th Airborne Division were unique "on purpose" triple-volunteers. They first enlisted/volunteered for military service, then volunteered for the parachute troops and then volunteered to join the division's Recon Platoon, or "Ghost Platoon". Given their frequent patrols and pathfinding missions behind enemy lines, the other Angels in the 11th Airborne nicknamed them "Snoopers."
I have often thought about the "guiding" nature of those pathfinders. In their simplest form, the Angels' pathfinders were there to "show the way to an objective." Their bravery, esprit-de-corps and professional skill were the hallmark of the 11th Airborne Division's recon men, and when I look out into the world today, I applaud the "pathfinders" whose courage, passion and example are leading the way for those around them.
I don't mean in a military sense; no, I am referring to the dreamers, the inventors, and the entrepreneurs, pioneers, goal-chasers, visionaries, lovers, fighters, travelers, explorers, adventurers, artists, musicians, etc. I grew up surrounded by Olympians and race care drivers and innovators who pushed forward towards incredible goals and I learned that the truth is, we need more of them. We need more Walter Mittys, Teslas, Edisons, Wright brothers, Michelangos, Blys, and Hillarys.
God bless those who find the strength to build a foundation of dreams, goals, visions and work. From a community changing non-profit to a world-spanning company, a first novel to a new album, our world is made greater and more beautiful each and every day by those who contribute to it. Think of your favorite musician(s) or painter or entrepreneur or blogger, author, actor/actress, inventor, etc. It isn't just what they produce that we appreciate; its that they're producing and adding to our world.
They're pathfinders, showing the way through their example, creativity and grit and by their light, we are given opportunities every day to do the same. That's why so many people have told me that they love watching the Olympics: because as athletes we give others, via our example, hope for their own lives.
It is a principle that was so superbly expressed by author Marianne Williamson when she wrote is her highly-recommended book, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles":
"We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
God bless the pathfinders in this world, those who "let (their) own light shine,... (to) unconsciously give other people permission to do the same." What would the world be like if all of us had the courage and strength to follow our dreams, to set high goals, to use our time and talents to create and give something good to our families, our communities, our nations, even the whole earth?
That's why I like the invitation extended by Austin Kleon in his book, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative, "Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use – do the work you want to see done.”
Or as Walt Whitman so eloquently stated in his poem, "O Me! O Life!":
The powerful play of life and this world goes on, will YOU contribute a verse? I love Whitman's implication that everyone MAY contribute a verse, but only IF they choose to do so.
So God bless those who choose to do so, who choose to be pathfinders in the world. God bless those who are up at 4am to hit the gym or up late working on their podcast. God bless the student pouring over their notes and the aspiring writer working on the 50th draft. God bless the non-profit dreamer working out of their garage to make a difference and the teenagers rocking out in their parents' basement in the hopes of making it big someday.
But what about you, what is holding YOU back from being a pathfinder in your own life? Fear? Regret? Shame? Lack of confidence? MAY I encourage you to do some soul-searching to see 1. what dreams you've been holding on the backburner and then 2. ask yourself what is stopping you from doing all the great things that we both know you're capable of.
Make a list and then do the work. There is no time like the present to start building the future you truly want!
As the lyrics to one of my favorite songs, "Renegades" by X Ambassadors, declares:
Long live the pioneers
Rebels and mutineers
Go forth and have no fear
Come close and lend an ear
As I picture my grandfather as a young 20 year old paratrooper standing in the door of his C-47 in World War II, waiting to jump out into the unknown of combat, I imagine the concern on his face as he looks over his men, the "stick" which would follow him out the door. As a 1st Lieutenant and as a Platoon Leader, he would jump out first. He would lead the way, would have to conquer his fears first in line, would have to show the other troopers the way.
He wasn't assigned as a pathfinder in the military, but he was a "pathfinder" for his men and for me in my life.
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Best Bird Movies Films And Documentaries
Whether you are an energetic birder, yard bird viewer or simply like finding out about birds, you have actually pertained to the right area! There are Bird Movies films as well as documentaries on this list for everybody! I included all of my favorites; from the most effective bird documentaries to youngsters motion pictures to include length motion pictures regarding birds.
Feature Length Motion Pictures Concerning Birds:
Unfortunately, there are few bird films that have appeared in theaters. Anyone good friends with Spielberg? We need him to become a birder! Here are the bird films that I have seen as well as taken pleasure in:
A Birder’s Guide to Everything
This is an independent movie that very few people have actually seen or even become aware of, yet I highly suggest it to anybody (no matter if you’re curious about birds!).
It follows the tale of teen kids that go on a life-altering trip in search of the Labrador Duck. It’s a wonderful coming-of-age motion picture.
Intriguing Truth: Kenn Kaufmann (AKA Birding Legend) was a specialist in the film as well as even makes an appearance throughout the motion picture.
Bird Movies Films – Fly Away Home
This is an excellent family members film to enjoy with each other.
After her mama dies, a girl has to go cope with her father and it’s not going well! That’s till they are forced to embrace an orphaned group of Canada Geese.
Without their mommy, the geese have no one to show them out to migrate south for the winter. Enter the girl and also her dad that educates them to follow their small ultralight aircraft!
There is a great deal of science behind this principle, and it was the basis for exactly how a lot of “Winged Movement” (see Bird Documentary below) was filmed.
Bird Movies Films – The Big Year
With actors of celebrities such as Jack Black, Steve Martin and also Owen Wilson, The Large Year is one of the most well-known movies concerning birds and also birding in the world.
Although it really did not get the most effective ratings from film doubters and is not the funniest comedy ever made, I believe the movie is quite amusing and also a wonderful motion picture to watch with your family.
It likewise does an excellent task of clarifying what a “Large Year” is all about, which is the yearly North American competitors among birders to see who can see the most different species of birds.
This bird movie is not excellent, yet it does reveal a peek right into the birding neighborhood that no other movie has actually ever discovered!
Kids Movies Concerning Birds:
It’s never prematurely to begin sparking a passion in your child regarding birds as well as nature.
One of the very best means to order their focus is to begin playing these bird motion pictures as well as animes in your home.
Be careful. As any parent recognizes, when your child likes a flick it has the opportunity of being played loads of times. Before you understand it, you can virtually state the whole flick from memory!
An enjoyable youngsters motion picture that includes lots of attractive birds.
Rio complies with the tale as well as the experience of Blu, who is the last male Spix’s macaw and not able to fly.
The original was released in 2011 as well as was a box office hit. The sequel, Rio 2 was released in 2014 and was additionally very popular.
This movie includes my preferred bird– > Penguins!
Delighted Feet was launched in 2006, and I still bear in mind most likely to the theater to enjoy it with great deals of buddies while in college.
It’s a fun kids movie. As with many movies, Robin Williams swipes the program as a singing Adelie Penguin.
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’hoole
Owls, owls and afterward more owls !!
” Tale of the Guardians” is an amusing movie and also has a darker tone to it than most youngster’s movies. The graphics of owls flying all over and also combat each other is a great deal of enjoyment. I appreciated it even as an adult!
This is most likely my preferred area of bird films. I like a great bird documentary or really feel an excellent tale.
These documentaries regarding birds need to do at the very least one of the complying with; inform, influence or entertain.
Take pleasure in!
The Life of Birds.
Now almost 20 years old, this 10 part docudrama is composed as well as presented by tale Sir David Attenborough. It took 3 years to make while checking out 42 various nations!
The whole collection is a look into the advancement and also routines of birds, with each episode focusing on various varieties as well as their adaptations needed to survive.
It is extremely interesting, amusing and also places most other bird docudramas to embarrassment when it pertains to learning facts and also seeing birds in their natural surroundings.
This bird movie will certainly keep you hectic for a while with almost 9 hours of web content!
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
A docudrama that shows the bond that can create in between individuals and also birds.
This bird movie chronicles the partnership between an unemployed artist and a group of wild parrots (Cherry-headed Conjures as well as Blue-crowned Conjures).
For one reason or another, I really did not have high assumptions for this documentary however I was happily stunned. Very advised for birders and non-birders!
The Eagle Huntress
This may be the most effective bird docudrama you have actually never ever become aware of!
It follows a 13 years of age lady from Mongolia as she comes to be the initial women eagle seeker to contend in the Golden Eagle Event.
After ultimately winning the festival, she heads right into the hills (in winter) with her Golden Eagle and also dad to hunt foxes. This is when the actual examination starts!
This docudrama is remarkable and had me hooked from an initial couple of moments. I liked learning about an additional society as well as their practice of eagle hunting. It’s amusing as well as beautifully shot.
Birders: The Central Park Effect
Birders: The Central Park Impact was filmed in Central Park (New York City) as well as concentrates on individuals that see birds throughout the park.
This bird documentary does an excellent job of showing what brings in people to birding in the first place as well as the unusual obsession that can happen. It seems a lot of us birders are a bit odd, unpopular, compulsive, enjoyable, caring as well as smart.
Remarkably, it’s individuals that make this bird film enjoyable to view, not the birds.
March of the Penguins
This bird docudrama will certainly always hold a special location in my heart. It is the motion picture that aided spark my passion and appreciation of penguins.
It’s fascinating to take a look at the lives of Emperor Penguins as well as the difficulties they have to go through simply to endure as well as recreate.
I see it each year on World Penguin Day (April 25th) and also have bourbon to commemorate.
Crimson Wing – The Mystery of the Flamingo
Created by Disneynature, this bird documentary includes the enormous events of Lesser Flamingos in Tanzania.
” Crimson Wing” is an actual consideration the life and also struggles with these flamingos. Don’t be deceived that this film is associated with Disney; there are some actually depressing components! As an example, prepare yourself to see some cute baby flamingos battle …
And how come hyenas constantly get a bum rap in Disney movies?
This bird motion picture is visually stunning and attractive. I assume you will appreciate these pink birds a lot more after enjoying “The Crimson Wing.”.
When it involves the best bird movies or docudramas, the “Winged Movement” is possibly one of the most well known.
Initially launched in 2003, it was fired over 4 years on 7 continents. They shot over 590 miles of film to create this 89-minute feature.
” Winged Migration” is visually stunning. The birds are intriguing and also fired from angles and perspectives that are unbelievable.
The most remarkable shots will constantly be the birds flying right beside the electronic camera. “Just how did they do that?” was my initial thought as well as right away researched.
It ends up that people raised those birds from chicks. They inscribed on the movie staff and then were trained to fly together with tiny airplanes (ultralights, paragliders).
This film is simply about the charm and awe of birds as well as birds on the trip. There is very little talking as well as don’t intend on learning anything. Simply appreciate!
I wish you were able to discover something brand-new to view.
Because let’s be straightforward.
There are not a lot of bird movies or bird films available.
It was pretty tough creating this checklist.
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CORVALLIS, Ore. – Living near a protected area can improve aspects of human well-being across the developing world, new research published today in Science Advances suggests.
Protected areas are defined geographic spaces such as national parks, nature reserves or wilderness areas that are managed with the goal of long-term conservation. They are one of the chief tools used to conserve biodiversity around the world.
But questions remain about how the establishment of protected areas affects the residents who live nearby and rely on the resources found in the newly protected space, said Drew Gerkey, an environmental anthropologist at Oregon State University and a co-author of the paper.
“Although people living near a protected area may benefit from long-term conservation, studies have also shown that protected areas sometimes deny people access to resources they depend on,” said Gerkey, an assistant professor of anthropology in OSU’s College of Liberal Arts. “Our study examines this dilemma at a global scale and suggests these protected areas have overall positive impacts on the people living nearby, under certain kinds of conditions.”
Some protected areas are essentially off-limits to local people while others are multiple-use protected areas that permit limited harvests of natural resources. The study showed that those residents who stood to benefit most from their proximity to a protected area were those who lived near the multiple-use areas, Gerkey said.
Similarly, tourism associated with protected areas may provide a range of benefits to people living nearby. Many of the positive impacts of protected areas in this study were found in protected areas with established tourism.
Gerkey began working on the research as a post-doctoral researcher at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center at the University of Maryland. One of the missions of the center is to examine environmental and social problems by synthesizing existing data to better understand how environmental and social initiatives intersect.
The research team, led by corresponding author Robin Naidoo of the World Wildlife Fund and the University of British Columbia, included conservation scientists, health experts, demographers, environmental economists, ecologists, geographers and anthropologists. The study is part of a broader project organized by Brendan Fisher and Taylor Ricketts of the University of Vermont.
The researchers compiled one of the largest and most comprehensive socioeconomic and environmental data sets to analyze impacts of protected areas on human well-being around the world. The data included environmental and socioeconomic data from about 87,000 children in 60,000 households either near – within 10 kilometers - or far from 600 protected areas in 34 developing countries around the world.
In their analysis, the researchers found:
“The multiple-use areas are where you see a lot of the positive impacts for people’s health and wealth,” Gerkey said. “The boundaries are relaxed in a way that allows local people to access resources but doesn’t impinge on the larger goal of conservation.”
The findings provide important context to the ongoing debate over the benefits and drawbacks of protected areas, for both people and nature. But the results also raise more questions for future research, Gerkey said.
“Our study supports the idea that protected areas can benefit local people when they allow people some of level of access and support tourism,” Gerkey explained. “But we need to know more about the conditions that allow multiple-use and tourism to improve people’s well-being, and that will take more research on the ground as well as comparative studies like ours.”
Other institutions contributing to the paper included Conservation International; Duke Clinical Research Institute; Duke University Environmental Defense Fund; Harvard School of Public Health; King’s College London; University of Vermont; and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID.)
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There are over 23000 million small and medium-sized businesses in Africa. Most of these businesses are either just at the beginning of making money, seeking to expand, or looking for better ways of having investors. Whereas the businesses operate differently, some have physical shops and others operate virtually, all these businesses need to keep proper records.
This is because these businesses can only be able to make money, expand or get investors with proper business records which show accountability, performance of the business to mention but a few. These businesses find it hard to achieve their goals of development because they don’t have proper records about their businesses.
Most of these businesses use books to keep records which is cumbersome because one has to have different books for everything which may often not be safe. This system has made it hard for businesses to develop from where they started, precisely because they are unable to keep track and proper record of all the books of the business. This kind of system is not secure because of the so many risks associated with keeping books.
On the other hand, some businesses don’t keep any of their records anywhere. Consequently, these businesses are likely to find it hard to expand and make money, acquire loans or investors because of no guarantee of how the business is running making it hard for them to develop.
Nevertheless, all these hitches can be solved by Kippa bookkeeping App. Kippa is a startup company whose aim is to help small and medium-sized business owners across Africa manage their business records. Kippa Bookkeeping app doesn’t only look at keeping records of expenditure and profits, but also has features that help a business keep records of their creditors and debtors, employees’ performance, an inventory feature to mention but a few. The app makes credit and debt collection easy.
This startup makes it easy for businesses to grow bigger as it lessens the burden of keeping records in several books, making it easy to track how the business is running. The bookkeeping app also offsets the risk of safety of the business books records as it retains all the business records virtually in one place and makes them easily accessible.
Business owners can easily acquire investors for their business since it makes it easier for them to have guarantee of growth of these businesses in case of investments made. Acquiring loans is also made easy as financial institutions have a guarantee of the creditability of the businesses. This is made possible because Kippa is easily accessible and has a clear track record of one’s business.
Kippa has over one thousand small and medium-sized businesses that are currently using it to keep their business records. These businesses are now able to run smoothly and adventure into all options growing bigger because Kippa has made it easy for them to keep their records that they would use to venture into other means of getting more income inflow as loans and investors.
Kippa bookkeeping app is an application every small or medium-sized business owner needs. If you intend to start a business and want it to run smoothly, you will need Kippa Bookkeeping App. The reason is quite precise because it lessens the burden of record-keeping of the business which makes the business development more guaranteed contrary to pen and book system of keeping business records that is cumbersome and highly unsafe.
Anyone can download Kippa for their for business bookkeeping via Android and Apple App-stores. The application is completely free and gives a lot of features that can be used by your business to grow.
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GOALS OF THE FILM FESTIVAL
The International Children's Film Festival “Cinema kids” is held with the aim of developing creative initiatives and abilities of the younger generation, expanding citywide, intercity and international exchange of experience in the field of children's film and video creation. The film festival is designed to develop, inspire and support young filmmakers, to develop an aesthetic taste among a wide range of viewers.
TASKS OF THE FILM FESTIVAL
The main tasks of the Film Festival are:
- the formation of a children's cultural community based on core interests;
- preservation of the domestic and world cultural traditions;
- creation of a platform for communication and exchange of experience between film authors, teachers;
- acquaintance with the work of professionals from the field of cinema to enhance the professional level of participants;
- identification of talented beginner filmmakers.
AUDIENCE: PARTICIPANTS AND GUESTS OF THE FILM FESTIVAL
The audience of the Film Festival is adults and children: everyone who is interested in modern children's cinema, and those who make films for children and with the participation of children:
- film schools, video studios, creative associations (commercial and non-commercial),
- educational institutions and adolescent clubs,
- teachers, heads of film schools, associations and studios;
- individual enthusiasts in the field of cinema and video creation.
- viewers and everyone who is not indifferent to the cinema.
Winners are awarded with diplomas and prizes. All participants are awarded with certificates.
It is possible to have additional prizes and diplomas from sponsors and partners of the festival, as well as from other organizations.
TERMS OF PARTICIPATION AND THE PROCEDURE OF THE FESTIVAL
World premiere required.
Jury and Organizers
The jury of the Film Festival is formed by the organizers of the Film Festival. The jury of the Film Festival includes: movie and television figures, producers and directors. A professional jury evaluates the submitted work by meeting and voting. Winners are determined by the largest number of votes of the jury. The chairman of the jury has 2 (two) votes. | <urn:uuid:0108dd5b-d314-4dbd-a3fb-356289f72ac8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://festagent.com/en/festivals/cinemakids | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.930332 | 466 | 2.5 | 2 |
The presence of moisture and warm temperatures such as the humid, tropical conditions seen across Hong Kong and Macau can encourage mould to thrive. Mould spores establish themselves in hidden areas throughout our homes and can cause a variety of health hazards to us and our pets, including allergic reactions or respiratory illnesses.
Inspection and reporting
Prior to treatment, our professional service technicians will carry out an assessment to determine the level of infestation and the best course of action. Our technical experts can then provide a detailed report showing the risks and recommended actions.
Areas of harsh infestation will be treated with a liquid mould remover to eliminate the toughest infestations. At Initial, we take pride in using safe chemicals to protect you and your home.
Our team will then use the steam for hard, non pourus surfaces and manual scrubbing for removal of mould residues.
Our team will apply our EPA registered disinfectant throughout the premise through misting to ensure even the hard to reach areas are treated. This is an all natural product and contains no harsh chemicals. It is extremely effective against mould, mildew and fungi, as well as bacteria and viruses.
We will apply our unique probiotic formulation to provide a microbial barrier against mould. The combination of enzymes in helps to prevent mould colonisation and offensive odours in all indoor areas such as carpets, fabrics and other soft furnishings. It leaves an invisible barrier that encapsulates mould-fighting natural enzymes and probiotics. The probiotics remain dormant during the dry season. When growth conditions are favourable probiotics out-compete the mould.
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19 Oct 2015
International Dialogue on Migration No. 19 - Economic Cycles, Demographic Change and Migration
On 12 and 13 September 2011, IOM held a workshop on “Economic Cycles, Demographic Change and Migration” in Geneva, Switzerland as part of its annual International Dialogue on Migration (IDM). The IOM membership had selected this workshop topic as part of the 2011 IDM theme, The Future of Migration: Building Capacities for Change. The workshop was attended by government representatives from around the world, non-governmental and international organizations, academics and other experts.
A guiding theme of the workshop was the notion that migration is inevitable and essential for economic growth and competitiveness given the global and regional labour market and demographic trends. Effective governance of migration in this context must not only reconcile short- and long-term priorities, but also balance the interests, needs and rights of migrants, countries of origin, and countries of destination.
The present report categorizes the experiences, policies and practices highlighted by participants at the workshop into five areas for capacity-building which received particular emphasis during the course of the discussions: 1) Capacities to align migration policy with priorities in other policy domains; 2) Capacities and policy options to promote circular and temporary forms of mobility; 3) Migrant-centred approaches, focussing on rights, skills and human capital; 4) Knowledge, data, monitoring and evaluation capacities in regard to labour markets, economic cycles and demographic trends; 5) Capacities to enhance cooperation and migration governance.
- Chair’s Summary
- Workshop Report
- Scope and purpose of the workshop
- Deliberations and recommendations of the workshop
- Migrant’s Voice
- Agenda and Background Paper
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Post Graduate Courses in Gujarat
Post graduation in Gujarat is treated as the basic level of education especially if one wants to pursue a job after that or appear for competitive exams. If one wants to pursue a doctor degree then post graduation is the minimum qualification.
Universities like Gujarat Technological University, Gujarat University, Saurashtra University, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Open University, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda are considered as some of the best universities in India to offer post graduate courses. The universities conduct Post Graduate entrance exam for its various courses such as M.Sc / MA /M.Tech/ M.Com/M.S/ M.LISc, etc. Candidates seeking admission to said courses under various universities must submit their application form before schedule date.
Post-graduation can be pursued in any stream - Science, Humanities, Commerce. Students studying engineering can also pursue postgraduation or MTech after their BTech and doctors too can pursue MD after MBBS, which is a postgraduate degree.
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Being pregnant is an exciting time for expecting moms. However, it can also come with aches and pains for some women – and understandably so, as our bodies go through many changes over a short period of time.
One of the most common areas of pain and dysfunction is the pelvis. Symptoms may be felt in the low back, tail bone, buttocks, front of the pelvis or into the groin and they often worsen with lifting, twisting, straining or changing positions. Pregnancy causes additional stress to our joints, muscles and ligaments. Our posture changes, as our base of support shifts due to growing baby. Our pelvis can become unstable as our ligaments and joints become lax due to the hormone relaxin. Our back, abdominal and pelvic muscles often become weak and underactive, contributing to pelvic instability. Trauma to the pelvis and/or pelvic muscles during labor may also cause pain and symptoms.
Now fast forward to when you take your little bundle of joy home and continue doing all the things that moms do, while caring for a newborn. The repetitive bending, lifting, carrying, feeding and changing baby while having weak pelvic floor and core muscles and lax ligaments often aggravates pre-existing pain and/or contributes to postpartum back and pelvic pain.
How Physiotherapy can help
The good news? CAMPT-certified physiotherapists can help you during pregnancy and postpartum. A thorough and detailed physiotherapy assessment will determine the specific cause of your symptoms, which will then guide your focused treatment plan. Treatments are variable, but may include education for management of pain, proper ergonomics and positioning and lifting techniques. Hands-on manual therapy can help restore normal joint and soft tissue mobility and function. Exercises can be prescribed to address pelvic instability caused by muscle weakness and ligament laxity. More specifically, improving the strength and function of your pelvic floor and inner core muscles not only helps to provide spinal and pelvic stability, but also helps to maintain good alignment, circulation, respiration, continence and support of your internal organs.
Effective exercises for postpartum women
Retraining pelvic floor and core function is especially important and beneficial for postpartum women. Initial, but effective exercises can be as easy as working on your alignment and breathing. Proper alignment places the pelvis at the best angle to support the entire abdominal wall and pelvic floor, making it easier for these muscles to fire naturally. For instance, tucking/nodding your chin down (ideal), versus poking your chin out with a forward head posture (not ideal), can help align your spine and pelvis.
Working on retraining your breathing pattern can also help improve your pelvic floor and inner core function. Your diaphragm and pelvic floor muscles should coordinate and move together. When we inhale, our diaphragm contracts and moves downward while our pelvic floor relaxes. You want your entire thorax to expand ‘360 degrees’ with each inhale to optimize the movement of your diaphragm. When we exhale our diaphragm relaxes and moves upward naturally, while our pelvic floor gently contracts and lifts. (It is important to note that we may require different breathing patterns during different activities – we need variety)!
Your physiotherapist can work with you to create an exercise program that is both appropriately challenging for your pelvic floor and core and individualized for you to meet your unique needs. Slowly progressing your exercises to improve your overall strength and function is important prior to safely returning to your activities and sports after baby.
If you experience any pain and symptoms during or after pregnancy, consult with your CAMPT-certified physiotherapist to help keep you moving safely and effectively!
About Haley Carrier
Haley is a Physiotherapist in Okotoks, Alberta at Pinnacle Health Physiotherapy. She enjoys working with people of all ages to help them move better and feel better. In her practice, she treats a wide variety of sport and orthopaedic injuries, conditions, and pain. Being a mother herself, she has a special interest in working with pregnant and postpartum women. Haley provides individualized treatments to help her clients achieve their unique rehabilitation and physical activity goals. She strives to promote health and wellness for all in and around her community! Find out more about Haley on her Website, Instagram & Facebook. | <urn:uuid:f8786c81-364a-4608-b39c-8bc64021d546> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://manippt.org/physiotherapy-for-pregnant-and-postpartum-women/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.941826 | 896 | 2.140625 | 2 |
If you spend any time talking to those who oppose vaccines, you will likely hear them cite the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), vaccine package inserts, and the national Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) as evidence that vaccines are dangerous. These three arguments are extremely prevalent among anti-vaccers, and many well-intentioned parents are duped by them. In many ways, this is entirely understandable. I think that most parents who refuse to vaccinate are truly trying to do what is best for their children, and I understand why parents are concerned when they see a long list of symptoms that have been reported after a vaccine. However, if you really want to do what is best for your child, then it is important to fact check, use good sources, and use those sources in the way that they are intended to be used. It is on that last point that these three arguments fail. Indeed, none of these three sources are intended to provide evidence of causation, and anyone who cites them as evidence that vaccines are dangerous is misusing them. As I will explain, the fact that an adverse event was reported in one of these three sources does not actually indicate that vaccines caused that event; therefore, you cannot present these sources as evidence that vaccines are dangerous.
Before I talk about these three topics specifically, I want to make some very general comments about anecdotes, because that is what all three of these sources report. As I explained in detail here, anecdotes do not provide evidence of causation. Coincidences do happen, and the fact that two things occurred together does not mean that one caused the other. In fact, it is a logical fallacy to say “X happened before Y, therefore X caused Y” (in technical terms, this is a post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy). This is especially true with very common events such as vaccines. So many children receive vaccines that, statistically, we expect there to be lots of cases where some form of injury/debility closely follows vaccination just by chance. This is a crucially important point: the fact that an adverse event followed the administration of a vaccine does not mean that the vaccine caused it. This is often difficult for people to accept because our brains are wired to see patterns, but the reality is that we often see patterns that aren’t really there.
Look, for example, at “lucky” items. Does Bob’s “lucky shirt” really help his favorite sports team win? No, obviously it doesn’t. It’s just a coincidence that the team won several games while he was wearing the shirt. Nevertheless, our brains are wired to see associations even when there aren’t actually causal relationships. Further, we are prone to confirmation biases. For example, every time that Bob’s team wins while he is wearing the shirt, his confidence in the lucky nature of his shirt will grow; whereas if the team loses while wearing the shirt, his brain will tend to downplay that or invent an excuse for why the shirt didn’t work for that particular game.
The exact same thing happens with medicines like vaccines. We are pattern recognition machines. So when we see SIDS, autism, etc. follow a vaccination, our brains latch onto that association, when the reality is that those two events might be total coincidences (just as Bob wearing his shirt and the team winning are coincidences). Further, confirmation biases can really skew things. If, for example, you suspect that a vaccine might be dangerous, it is extremely easy to find lots of cases of parents reporting an adverse event after a vaccination, and that will inevitably bolster your belief, but, because of the way that confirmation biases work, you will tend to ignore all of the times that the given event occurred without a vaccination or didn’t occur following a vaccination. As you will see, this is one of the big problems with VAERS, package inserts, and the VICP. They make it very easy to bolster an existing suspicion, but they are actually only showing you part of the story. They give your brain enough information to form a pattern, but not enough information to form an accurate pattern.
Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System VAERS
Let’s begin with the VAERS database. This is a self-reported database of adverse events that followed vaccination. There are several very important things to note there. First, the fact that it is self-reported means that the quality of data is highly variable and often low. Anyone, regardless of medical training, background knowledge, biases, etc. can report an adverse event. So there is very little in the way of quality control on the reported information. To quote the VAERS website, “Reports vary in quality and completeness. They often lack details and sometimes can have information that contains errors.”
Self-reported databases like this are problematic for a number of reasons, not the least of which is recall bias. Our memories are imperfect and easily biased, and we tend to fixate on some events more than others. Imagine, for example, that a child becomes very ill. His/her parents will naturally want to know the cause, and events like vaccinations tend to stand out in our memories. In other words, we naturally focus on them more than on other seemingly less significant events which may actually have been very important. Thus, parents may attribute the illness to a vaccination that happened a month ago simply because they are looking for answers, and that stands out in their memories.
In addition to the problems associated with self-reporting, it is extremely important to realize that VAERS is simply a collection of events that happened after a vaccination. It is not a collection of events that were caused by a vaccination. Again, remember that the fact that event X happened before event Y does not mean that event X caused event Y. So you can’t actually use VAERS as evidence of causation. You don’t, of course, have to take my word for this, because VAERS explicitly says this. If you go to the VAERS data page, the very first sentence says the following (my emphasis):
“When evaluating data from VAERS, it is important to note that for any reported event, no cause-and-effect relationship has been established. Reports of all possible associations between vaccines and adverse events (possible side effects) are filed in VAERS. Therefore, VAERS collects data on any adverse event following vaccination, be it coincidental or truly caused by a vaccine. The report of an adverse event to VAERS is not documentation that a vaccine caused the event.”
Later on that same page they state (again my emphasis):
“A report to VAERS generally does not prove that the identified vaccine(s) caused the adverse event described. It only confirms that the reported event occurred sometime after vaccine was given. No proof that the event was caused by the vaccine is required in order for VAERS to accept the report. VAERS accepts all reports without judging whether the event was caused by the vaccine.”
It doesn’t get any clearer than that. According to the VAERS website itself, the database does not prove that vaccines were responsible, it does not establish causation, and it is not documentation that vaccines are dangerous. So you absolutely cannot use this database as evidence that vaccines are harmful and are causing injuries. That is a gross misuse of this database.
What this database is useful for, and what it is intended for, is to provide an “early warning system” that identifies potential problems that should be studied. In other words, scientists look at databases like this to identify topics that need to be examined more closely. Then, they do large, controlled studies on those topics to determine whether or not the vaccine is actually causing the problem. I cannot overstate the importance of this point. The database simply identifies topics to be studied, and the actual studies determine whether or not a causal relationship exists. You need to know the rate of the event in question with and without vaccines, while controlling all of the other variables before you can reach a causal conclusion, and VAERS simply does not provide those data.
Finally, it is worth mentioning that a number of anti-vaccine scientists (particularly the Geiers) have tried to mine VAERS for evidence that vaccines are dangerous, but that is an extremely problematic statistical design. Being systematic and carefully controlling potential confounding factors is essential in science, but because of the completely unsystematic and totally uncontrolled nature of databases like VAERS, it is really hard to get reliable, high-quality data out of them. In other words, these databases do not contain the controls that are necessary for assessing causal relationships or even for accurately assessing trends over time. As such, you should be extremely skeptical of any paper that is basing conclusions on VAERS.
Vaccine package inserts
Another anti-vaccine favorite is the package inserts. The Skeptical Raptor wrote an excellent and detailed post on these, so I will just hit the highlights. These package inserts contain a variety of information about the vaccine, but the part that anti-vaccers focus on is the list of adverse reactions. These contain a wide range of ailments, including things like autism. The situation is, however, very similar to the reports in VAERS.
The lists of adverse reactions in vaccine inserts simply contain any adverse events that were reported during clinical trials for the vaccine (sometimes they also include post-approval reports). To be fair, these are usually limited to events that were severe or were reported multiple times. In other words, the point of these lists is to provide information that is potentially clinically useful, thus they include any reactions which were either severe enough to be potentially concerning, or common enough that it is plausible that the vaccine was causing them. They do not, however, actually demonstrate that they vaccine caused the reaction (with the exception of reactions for which properly controlled trials were conducted). Just like the VAERs database, these lists are simply intended to guide doctors and future researchers, rather than providing evidence of causation.
In other words, if several of the test subjects in a clinical trial became ill and vomited several days after receiving the vaccine, then nausea would be reported as an adverse reaction, but that clearly does not mean that the vaccine causes nausea. It is entirely possible (even likely) that, during the trials, some patients would become sick from things that are completely unrelated to the vaccine. Similarly, if patients experienced headaches, those would get reported regardless of whether or not the vaccine actually caused the headaches. So, just as with VAERs, the fact that something is on the vaccine insert does not mean that the vaccine causes it.
Also, as with VAERs, you don’t have to take my word for this, because the package inserts often explicitly state that they do not provide evidence of causation. For example, here is an excerpt from the Tripedia DTaP vaccine insert (this is an insert that is often cited for including autism in the list; my emphasis).
“Events were included in this list because of the seriousness or frequency of reporting. Because these events are reported voluntarily from a population of uncertain size, it is not always possible to reliably estimate their frequencies or to establish a causal relationship to components of Tripedia vaccine.”
Also, note the fact that the adverse reactions were self-reported. This, once again, makes it very difficult to establish causation or accurate rates.
Finally, even if all of the events were causally related, you need to know their rate with and without vaccines before that information is useful. Everything has risks (including the decision not to vaccinate), so you always have to weigh the risks associated with taking an action against the risks associated with not taking that action. In other words, if a vaccine has a deadly side effect, but that side effect only occurs in 1 in every ten million injections, then the risks associated with avoiding the vaccine will far outweigh the risks associated with taking the vaccine. So you absolutely have to know the rates before you can make a properly informed decision. Simply showing that X causes Y is not sufficient.
National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP)
Finally, we arrive at the VICP. This is a no-fault system that was set up to compensate families for injuries caused by vaccines, and anti-vaccers often cite its mere existence as evidence that vaccines are dangerous. There are several important points that need to be made here. First, vaccines do have side effects (as do all real medications). No one denies that, but the side effects are generally minor, and serious side effects are quite rare. So, the benefits outweigh the risks. Thus, simply showing that vaccine-injuries exist does not prove that vaccines are dangerous. As I explained in the package inserts section, you need to take the rate of side effects into account when assessing risk.
Second, the program was established because pharmaceutical companies were being bogged down with lawsuits, and there was concern that the vaccine supply would be jeopardized. Therefore, since settling is often cheaper than fighting a lawsuit, the government set up this program as a means of protecting the vaccine supply, and they set it up to be very generous to the public. As the Skeptical Raptor explained in detail in this post, the requirements for getting money from the VICP are greatly relaxed compared to traditional courts. Applications don’t have to prove that the vaccine manufacturer was at fault, nor do they have to prove that the vaccine caused the damage. Rather, they generally just have to show that it is plausible that the vaccine caused the damage, and this can often be accomplished by something as simple as having an “expert” testify and say that it is plausible (i.e., you often don’t need actual studies showing that vaccines can cause the side effect in question). In other words, the system is set up to give the benefit of doubt to the applicant. So the fact that someone received money from the VICP is not an admission that the vaccine actually caused the injury (i.e., this is a very different situation from being found guilty or liable in a traditional court).
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, even in situations where a particular court claimed that a vaccine actually caused an injury, that still does not count as valid scientific evidence, because lawyers, judges, etc. can easily reach incorrect conclusions. In other words, the fact that a particular judge awarded money for a claim of vaccine injury only shows that the judge in question thought that the vaccine caused the injury. It does not, however, indicate that the scientific evidence shows that the vaccine caused the injury (i.e., this argument is a form of the appeal to authority fallacy).
In short, neither VAERS, nor the package inserts, nor the VICP provide evidence that vaccines are dangerous. VAERS and package inserts simply show adverse events that were reported following a vaccination, but they do not actually demonstrate that the vaccine caused the event in question. Indeed, both sources even state that the fact that an adverse event was included in them does not mean that the vaccine actually causes that event. Similarly, the VICP is a no-fault system, and applicants do not have to demonstrate that a vaccine caused the injury for which they are seeking compensation. Rather, they simply have to provide some evidence (such as expert testimony) that it is plausible that a vaccine caused the injury. Thus, none of these sources provide evidence of causation, so none of them can be used as evidence against vaccines. To be clear, vaccines do have side effects, as do essentially all real medications; however, to actually know which side effects are caused by vaccines, you need properly controlled studies, not glorified anecdotes. Further, even when a causal relationship has been demonstrated, you also have to consider the rate at which the injury occurs. Every decision has risks (including the decision not to vaccinate), and although vaccines do have complications, serious side effects are extremely rare and the benefits are extremely high. Therefore, the benefits of vaccinating outweigh the risks, and vaccinating your children will give them the best chance of living long, healthy lives.
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Dorit Rubinstein Reiss. 2015. National vaccine injury compensation program facts. Skepticalraptor.com. Accessed 25-July-2016.
VAERS Data. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. vaers.hhs.gov/data/index. Accessed 25-July-2016.
Skeptical Raptor. 2016. Argument by vaccine package inserts — debunking myths. Skepticalraptor.com. Accessed 25-July-2016,
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Saqba: In a town outside the Syrian capital, Abu Suleiman dusts off his work table and pulls cobwebs from a cupboard he started making before the war.
Prior to the outbreak of the seven-year conflict, his hometown of Saqba near Damascus was famed for its carpenters and their handmade furniture.
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Temperature evolution during magma ascent in basaltic effusive eruptions: A numerical application to Stromboli volcano
La Spina G., M. Burton, M. de’ Michieli Vitturi (2015).
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 15, 89-100, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.06.015.
The dynamics of magma ascent are controlled by the complex, interdependent processes of crystallisation, rheological evolution, gas exsolution, outgassing, non-ideal gas expansion and temperature evolution. Temperature changes within the conduit, in particular, play a key role on ascent dynamics, since temperature strongly controls the crystallisation process, which in turn has an impact on viscosity and thus on magma ascent rate. The cooling produced by gas expansion is opposed by the heat produced by crystallisation, and therefore the temperature profile within the conduit is quite complex. This complexity means that unravelling the dynamics controlling magma ascent requires a numerical model. Unfortunately, comprehensive, integrated models with full thermodynamic treatment of multiple phases and rheological evolution are challenging to produce, due to the numerical challenges involved. Until now, models have tended to focus on aspects of the problem, without a holistic approach in which petrological, thermodynamic, rheological and degassing processes, and their interactions, were all explicitly addressed and quantified.
Here, we present a new, multiphase steady-state model for magma ascent in which the main physical and chemical processes, such as crystallisation, degassing, outgassing, rheological evolution and temperature variations, are quantitatively calculated. Basaltic magma’s crystallisation and flow are sensitive to initial temperature and volatile content, and therefore we investigate temperature variations during magma ascent in a basaltic system with a range of volatile contents. As a test case, we use one of the most well-studied recent basaltic effusive eruptions: the 2007 eruption of Stromboli, Italy.
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The definition of a « typical » primality radius of leads to the following assumption:
the following ratio:
is asymptotically equal to the ratio:
Hence, for large enough, the quantity should be « close » to the expression above times .
This implies , as one can easily figure out replacing by its exact expression given by:
in the following limit:
We will show in the next article that one might even get: | <urn:uuid:fd8f5ad4-0b60-4502-b225-28a8923434e6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ideasfornumbertheory.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.900165 | 465 | 1.804688 | 2 |
U.S. Supreme Court Wades into Fl-Georgia Water Battle
After years of battling between Florida and Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it will consider a lawsuit about increasing the amount of freshwater flowing into Northwest Florida's Apalachicola Bay.
The decision was at least an initial victory for Florida and for Franklin County residents, who argue that the area's economically vital oyster industry has been damaged by Georgia siphoning too much water upstream from a river system that flows to the bay.
With the backing of Gov. Rick Scott, Attorney General Pam Bondi last year asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the dispute between the states --- an idea that drew fierce objections from Georgia. Justices on Monday issued a two-sentence order indicating they will proceed with the case, though they gave no indication how they might ultimately rule.
"We are pleased with the United States Supreme Court's decision to grant Florida's motion and to allow the lawsuit against Georgia to move forward,'' Bondi said in a prepared statement. "Georgia has delayed long enough, and this lawsuit is essential to protect Florida from the environmental and economic harms caused by Georgia's over-consumption of water."
The dispute, which has involved more than two decades of litigation, focuses on a system of water that flows into the Apalachicola River from the Chattahoochee and Flint rivers in Georgia. Ultimately, the water flows downstream to Apalachicola Bay on the Gulf of Mexico.
Florida has long contended that Georgia takes too much water from the Chattahoochee to meet the demands of the Atlanta area. In the middle of the fight is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which controls flows and has relied on a 2011 ruling from a federal appeals court that said Georgia has a legal right to water from Lake Lanier, at the top of the river system.
In the lawsuit filed with the Supreme Court, Florida asked for what it described as an "equitable apportionment" of water from the river system. Filing the case in the U.S. Supreme Court is a somewhat-unusual process that can be used in disputes between states.
"Florida has exhausted all other reasonable means to arrest Georgia's unchecked use of water and halt the continuing degradation of the Apalachicola region,'' the lawsuit said. "Florida now, of necessity, invokes the court’s original jurisdiction seeking an appropriate apportionment to redress existing harm and to avert additional harmful depletions caused by uses in Georgia. There is no other forum in which Florida may vindicate its interests and obtain the requisite relief against Georgia."
But Georgia argued in legal briefs that the Supreme Court should not move forward with the case, saying the lawsuit is "at best premature."
"The allegations and materials relied upon by Florida fall far short of indicating imminent and substantial harm to Florida’s sovereign rights," Georgia said in a brief filed in January. "Florida mischaracterizes its own evidence about Georgia's consumption of water and wildly overstates the effect of that consumption on flow at the state line and any harm that might result from any slightly reduced flow. And Florida fails to acknowledge that most of its alleged harms have been extensively evaluated and rejected by expert federal agencies."
The oyster industry is a major economic driver in the Franklin County area and has been hard hit during the past couple of years by factors such as drought and reduced flows of freshwater. Oysters have traditionally thrived in the bay because of a mixture of saltwater and freshwater.
As a sign of the severity of the problems, the area has been declared a fishery-resource disaster by the federal government since August 2013. In a prepared statement Monday after the Supreme Court order, Scott said Florida officials are "fighting for the future of this region."
"For 20 years, Florida has tried to work with Georgia, and families have continued to see their fisheries suffer from the lack of water," Scott said "The Supreme Court takes up so few cases, and their willingness to hear Florida's demonstrates the merits of our case before the court."
Justices early this year asked U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli to file a brief about the federal government's position on the lawsuit. Verrilli argued in a September brief that that Supreme Court should deny Florida's request to move forward with the case, pointing to the ongoing process of the Army Corps updating what is known as a "master water control manual" for the river system.
As an alternative, however, Verrilli, wrote that the Supreme Court could grant Florida's request to take up the matter but issue a stay or tailor the legal process until the Army Corps has issued its revised manual. The manual is expected to be complete in September 2015, according to Verrilli's filing, with final implementation and approval slated for March 2017.
The Supreme Court order Monday did not provide details about how it would proceed, other than to give Georgia 30 days to file an answer to the complaint.
The fight with Georgia has become a political rallying point in Northwest Florida, particularly in a hard-fought campaign between U.S. Rep. Steve Southerland, R-Fla., and Democratic challenger Gwen Graham. They are running Tuesday in Congressional District 2, which includes the Apalachicola Bay area.
Graham said Monday that after the solicitor general issued his recommendation to delay the case, she wrote to the justices urging them to take it up "immediately, because of the urgency of this issue that the oystermen and women and the heritage of North Florida and the economy of Franklin County (don't) have time to wait for a lengthy Supreme Court case matter to work its way through the system."
Southerland recalled that he'd been with Scott when the governor announced the filing of the lawsuit, immediately following a U.S. Senate field hearing in Apalachicola in August 2013.
"And I've been in support of this action from the very beginning," Southerland said. "It is a big day for people that are affected by the ACF (Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint) and the flow of water down the Apalachicola River, and so we're thrilled about this action and this announcement today." | <urn:uuid:7428ffd9-1404-4333-a3ce-de2b15562a6c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/environment/2014-11-03/u-s-supreme-court-wades-into-fl-georgia-water-battle | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.96871 | 1,289 | 2.5 | 2 |
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