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At home or on the road, it’s important to take care of yourself and know what impacts your health.
Did you know about these three things which can impact your heart health?
1. Family History
If a parent, sibling or relative has had a heart attack, stroke or another type of heart disease, then you’re at a higher risk for heart problems. Tell your doctor about your family history because the more details you give, the better.
LDL (bad cholesterol) can clog the arteries and increase your risk of a heart attack or stroke. A low-fat diet can help decrease your LDL cholesterol, and when paired with regular exercise, can increase your HDL (good cholesterol). Don’t know your numbers? Ask your doctor to perform a blood test to measure cholesterol levels.
3. High Blood Pressure
High blood pressure is any blood pressure reading over 130 for the top number, and above 80 for the bottom number. It’s important to know your numbers because high blood pressure puts you at an increased risk for stroke, heart attack and heart failure. Measure your blood pressure regularly with an at-home monitor or at the doctor’s office.
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The focal point of this essay is to prepare a reaction paper for the book May God Have Mercy: A True Story of Crime and Punishment by John C. Tucker. This 368 page paperback was written by the author to look into the death penalty of Roger Coleman in 1992 who was convicted for a murder case in spite of the evidences being placed on a soft ground. As a defense attorney of criminal activities John C. Tucker indulges himself in investigation and analyzes and criticizes the loopholes of the judiciary system and the prevailing criminal justice process.
Wanda Fay McCoy, a young woman of 19 years of age, was found raped and murdered in her bedroom in March 1981. The prime suspect was Roger Coleman, brother-in-law of the victim. Roger Coleman had a history of sexual assaults in past thus he was the logical suspect for the small town police officials who were investigating the case. This was a perfect example of the ‘catch first, prove later’ fallacy rather than the rational approach to the case. The Grundy police suspected Roger Coleman for the rape and murder, caught him and them tried to arrange the case in accordance to prove Roger Coleman guilty.
The entire approach was a short cut to success for the investigating cops and the entire scenario was close to an act of travesty. Therefore, as a result, though there was not much evidence against Roger Coleman to prove him guilty the convict was tried in a double quick manner and was thus found guilty. The verdict against him was death penalty.
May God Have Mercy: A True Story of Crime and Punishment by John C. Tucker narrates the buildup and eventual conclusion of this legal battle and a man’s struggle to be free against legal system’s strangling notions. The author presents the documentations in a chilling mode where it becomes evident that something was going wrong somewhere. The defense lawyers knew this. The media knew this and so was the general mass. But for the judicial system Roger Coleman was guilty without doubt.
The case of Roger Coleman as narrated by John C. Tucker appears to us as a frightening denunciation of political affairs as customary that is clear to confront the conjectures of a person who considers that the justice system of America is concerned first and foremost with righteousness. Roger Coleman’s account is convincing, distressing, and awesomely wearisome.
While reading May God Have Mercy: A True Story of Crime and Punishment by John C. Tucker it is virtually impossible for a person to be move away completely unaffected. This is because the author has done a remarkable job by presenting the rules and the process of multifaceted legal conceptions in a simple and clear language. Otherwise any such proceedings would have been bound to be confusing and rather dull. Tucker also incorporates many stories dealing with the personal parameters of the convict’s life to present a moving and powerful humane account.
As for the settings of the case it should be mentioned that in general the judiciary system is arranged in such a manner that an innocent person is hardly ever convicted especially in the circumstances of a possible death penalty. But it was proved wrong in case of Roger Coleman’s account of trial. It is not that Tucker advocates blindly with irrational suspicion that Roger Coleman’s case was not guilty. But he simply points at the sustainable evidences that indicated that the convict was not to be blamed. Substantial evidence is what tucker is more concerned about and he tends to follow the proceedings of the law and identifies the evidences hardly proved the convict guilty with a full proof assurance.
It is true that any judicial system should be rigid in some way or the other to pursue criminals into justice but it should always be remembered that justice as an individual objective is extremely volatile if it is not handled with proper care and common human sense of truth and rightfulness. Roger Coleman’s account of a mishandled human being is the prime example of justice becoming a curse for the society and failing to follow the basic norms of a civilized human society.
This basic norm of a society is undoubtedly a profound humane approach to any problem where solutions would be acquired with benevolent advance towards rational behaviors and accomplishments. It is not about the fact that whether truly Roger Coleman actually guilty or not but the main concern over here is the nature of the proceedings that were followed. This is the main issue of the book and the author has incorporated that needful doubt within the readers that should have been present within the faiths of judicial personnel in the first place.
It is evident that if anybody commits to memory about the case not so far away from the media coverage it is obvious that he or she would be traumatized and horror struck at this chronicle with its deficiency of concern, ordinary logical conclusions and fundamental compassion towards human values of the legal system American government can acquire.
Tucker, John C; August 10, 1998; May God Have Mercy: A True Story of Crime and Punishment; Delta Publications
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Ann Arbor elementary students raise nearly $3,000 for local animals in need
ANN ARBOR – “They pitched the idea to me and I said let’s go,” said Martin Luther King Elementary School principal Koren Clinkscale.
In May, elementary school students on the east side of Ann Arbor raised $2,942.67 for the Humane Society of Huron Valley.
Fundraising was led by the King Student Council, which has representatives from grades 3 through 5 and emphasizes community service.
The board chose HSHV from a list of area organizations because many of the school’s students have pets that use the services offered by the pet nonprofit, Clinkscale said by email.
Student council leaders, teachers Jillian O’Leary and Tess Peck, then pitched the idea to Clinkscale, and the school got to work raising funds.
King students were inspired to help raise funds by a game called Penny Wars, in which different grade levels competed against each other.
While many students contributed with their own money, others asked family members to donate to the cause.
“I have heard many funny stories of students cycling to the bank to collect their own funds to donate to the organization. Our students were very dedicated to the cause,” Clinkscale said.
When the grand total was added up, Clinkscale said the first reaction from students and faculty was “Wow!”
“We were so excited that we, as a collective organization, could work together to raise so much money for an organization close to our hearts,” she said.
Learn more about King Elementary School here and the Humane Society of Huron Valley here.
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As Americans unravel the insanity surrounding another series of mass shootings, the gun rights debate intensifies once again.
Much of the contentiousness surrounding these arguments stem from the liberal left’s immediate attack on lawful gun ownership.
In typical liberal fashion, Democrats immediately attack the gun, not the crazed shooter. Millions of law-abiding Americans own firearms, but the majority are not out shooting into crowds, killing innocent people. Millions of Americans own guns legally and use them properly.
It’s not about the guns; it’s about the mentally unstable people who kill people with guns. It doesn’t matter what kind of gun it is. If a lunatic is intent on killing people, the type of firearm will not prevent them from following through with their intentions.
One such exaggerated response came from Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh. The Democrat insists that military-style firearms “pose grave risks to public safety, as recent mass shootings in other states have made clear.” What about handgun violence across America?
Like the majority of the liberal left, Frosh thinks that guns themselves kill people. They do not. Crazy people, most of whom should not own a firearm, kill people.
Since one landmark ruling on a case from New York, The U.S. Supreme Court continues to uphold the Second Amendment.
In a June 23 ruling, the Supreme Court recognized that it’s a constitutional right to carry firearms for public self-defense.
Another series of rulings further supported this opinion. The Court’s decisions are based on the foundation that the Second Amendment is more than just a right.
The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution clearly specifies, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” The key point here is “shall not be infringed.”
As Justice Clarence Thomas wrote, “It makes no sense to recognize Americans’ right to defend themselves in their homes while denying them the ability to defend themselves outside their homes.” Thomas insisted that “confrontation can surely take place outside the home.”
The Supreme Court’s rulings state that these laws cross a legal line and constitute infringement. The Hawaii requirement to show cause was struck down as unconstitutional. Hawaii requires lawful gun owners keep their weapons at their business, home, or sojourn.
To receive a legal concealed-carry permit, the applicant had to prove they “feared injury to themselves or to their property.” The law for open carry permits is equally murky. The law reads, “where the urgency or the need has been sufficiently indicated.”
Again, the Court’s rulings strike down laws that clearly “infringe” on gun ownership rights. A law-abiding citizen does not need to prove they have a “need to own and carry a firearm.”
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I was over 40 years of age before I realized in a rational sense that God had a plan for my life. This was something I had not been taught even though I had attended church all my life. I found that when we follow God’s plan, He receives the glory.
As I reflected on my life, I could see where the Holy Spirit had guided me just like a shepherd would guide sheep. The Lord had closed and opened doors for me when I was not aware of His plan. As I follow God’s plan, He receives the glory. God had been very patient with me from the beginning. He had a plan for my life from the very beginning and He certainly receives the glory for directing me even when I was not aware of it.
The Lord Received the Glory for Gideon’s Battle Plan
To the natural mind, God’s plans seem unusual and unlikely to result in success. Noah built an ark to save his family from a flood when it had not rained to that time. Sarah, wife of Abraham, had a child when she was ninety. Israel defeated Jericho by marching around the city for seven days. When on the seventh day, they circled the city seven times and blew the shofars, the wall fell.
All these plans appear to be laughable. How many people would have laughed at Noah? Sarah laughed when she first heard God’s plan. Yet amazingly, all these plans were successful, and God received the glory for them. It was God who saved Noah, gave Sarah a child in her old age, and defeated Jericho.
The Lord had a plan to defeat Midian with a small army of 300. It would take great faith to carry out this plan because the Midianite arm was so big. Through God’s plan, Gideon would win the victory and God would receive the credit and the glory.
Judges 7: 7 The Lord told Gideon, “With these 300 men I will rescue you and give you victory over the Midianites. Send all the others home.” 8 So Gideon collected the provisions and rams’ horns of the other warriors and sent them home. But he kept the 300 men with him.
Give the Lord Glory for Your Life
God has a plan for you that most likely has many twists and turns. Take courage and seek Him for what it might be but also trust Him as He lays it out for you. He may have the same destination that is on your heart, but more than likely will take a different route to get there. His plan for you will always include your well-being, protection, and future. Be faithful in what He has given you right now and be patient as everything unfolds.
God has already written in your book of life. Psalm 139: 16 You (God) saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.
The day of your birth and the day of your death are written in permanent ink in God’s book. Nobody comes into this world one second before God’s plan or leaves this world one second after God’s plan. Our lifespan is a part of God’s plan and He desires to receive the glory for it.
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If you ride a motorcycle, you know that it’s important to take care of your leather motorcycle gloves. Not only are they a beautiful part of your motorcycle outfit, but they protect your hands during a crash. However, washing them can be a bit of a challenge. Here are a few tips on how to wash motorcycle gloves the right way.
Why Should You Wash Your Gloves?
Washing your gloves is important because it:
- It keeps them clean. Dirt and grime can get lodged in the fabric of your gloves, which will wear down the materials over time.
- It keeps them sanitary. You don’t want to grab a dirty glove and touch your face or food with it, do you?
- Keeps them in good shape. If they’re dirty, they’ll lose their shape faster than if they were clean from day one.
- Removes odors (or prevents them from forming). You don’t want a stinky pair of gloves that makes everyone around you gag when they ride behind you on a motorcycle ride through town. Or maybe we do, but either way, it’s gross, and we need to wash our hands before continuing this article together.
Overview: Why It’s Important to Wash Motorcycle Gloves and Its Benefits
Motorcycle gloves are among the most important pieces of equipment you’ll wear on your bike. They protect your hands from the elements, keep them comfortable, and help you stay safe in adverse conditions.
But even the best motorcycle gloves won’t last forever if they’re not properly maintained. It would help if you washed your motorcycle gloves regularly to help keep them clean, sanitary, and in good shape.
It’s important to wash motorcycle gloves in order to maintain sanitary conditions and prolong their lifespan. The inside lining of the gloves will accumulate dirt depending on the weather, ventilation, and other factors. Washing the gloves regularly will improve sanitary conditions and prolong their lifespan.
It’s important to wash your motorcycle gloves because they can get dirty and smelly. The benefits of washing motorcycle gloves include keeping them clean and smelling nice.
How To Wash Motorcycle Gloves?
There are a few ways to wash your motorcycle gloves. Here are the steps:
Fill a Sink with Cold Water and Add a Bit of Soap
Rub the gloves together under running water? Place the gloves in the bowl of soapy water and rinse them off? Hang up the gloves to dry?
When washing motorcycle gloves, it is important to consider their construction. The materials used in motorcycle gloves are designed to be waterproof and tear-resistant, so it is important not to wet them down excessively or scrub them too hard.
Some people recommend filling a sink with cold water and adding a bit of soap before rubbing the gloves together under running water. They should then be placed in a bowl of soapy water and rinsed off. Motorcycle gloves should then be hung up to dry.
Soak Your Motorcycle Gloves in the Sink for a Few Minutes
If you want to clean your motorcycle gloves, you should first soak them in a sink for a few minutes. Then, you can remove any dirt or debris on the gloves. You can then use a mild dish detergent and water to clean them. Be sure to rinse them off thoroughly before putting them back on.
Rinse Your Motorcycle Gloves in the Sink
If your motorcycle gloves are dirty, you can rinse them off in the sink. Make sure to get all of the dirt and dust off of them. If your gloves are still dirty after rinsing, you can try using a hand sanitizer or a washcloth with soap to clean them.
Hang Your Motorcycle Gloves to Dry
Drying your motorcycle gloves can be done in a few different ways. Some people hang their gloves on a line or take them outside to the sun. If you have a washing machine, you can put them in the machine and wash them like any other piece of clothing. Just be sure to add some detergent and hot water so that they are clean and free of debris.
- Use a mild soap that is safe for leather.
The first step in washing motorcycle gloves is to find a mild, gentle detergent that will clean the gloves without leaving any residue or damaging the material. Many people recommend using a product called Lexol leather cleaner/conditioner.
This product uses a combination of lubricants and emollients to clean gently. It conditions your motorcycle gear while offering UV protection as well. You can also use other mild soaps, such as Castile soap or baby shampoo, but keep in mind that these may leave behind suds or residue if they’re not rinsed out properly.
- Use warm water
Warm water will allow you to clean off dirt more effectively without harming any of the materials in your glove (or causing them to dry out). To help prevent this from happening, always rinse out both sides of each item before drying it thoroughly with paper towels (no fabric ones.).
Once all excess moisture has been removed from each piece by handwashing it with warm water, please place all items on top of an old towel so they don’t sit directly against anything else while drying; this will help prevent any discoloration from occurring over time due to contact between different fabrics/textures being too close together while still wet.
Leather Cleaner and Conditioner
The best way to clean and condition your leather motorcycle gloves is by using a special cleaner and conditioner. Leather cleaner and conditioner can be purchased at any motorcycle store. You can make your own by mixing 1 part white vinegar with five parts water in a spray bottle.
To use this method for washing, first, fill a sink or bucket with warm water and add about two tablespoons of the vinegar solution per quart. Soak the gloves in this solution for about 20 minutes before washing them as usual.
This will loosen any dirt that has built up on the glove’s surface, making it easier for dirt to wash off during the handwashing process. After soaking your gloves in this solution, you should also apply some leather conditioner onto them before drying them off (more on how to do this below).
Suppose you don’t apply any leather conditioner after washing your gloves in this way. In that case, they may dry out over time due to exposure to air or sunlight while being exposed outside without protection from UV rays.
- Use a deodorizing spray.
- Make a baking soda paste.
- Use vinegar and water solution.
- Look for commercial odor removers, which often have a citrus scent, in pet stores or online.
Drying Motorcycle Gloves
The best way to dry motorcycle gloves is to use a hair dryer. You can also hang them outside to dry, but you should avoid putting them in the washing machine or dishwasher, as these methods can damage the glove’s leather.
In addition, don’t put your gloves into the microwave: doing so may cause melting and even burning of the plastic parts that keep your hands warm.
How Often Should You Wash Your Gloves?
When it comes to washing gloves, it depends on how often you use them. If you’re riding every day for hours and sweating profusely, then your gloves will need more frequent washing than if you’re just doing short rides in the city every once in a while.
In general, if you ride regularly, say two to three times per week, your gloves shouldn’t be too dirty by the end of each ride (and therefore don’t need to be washed immediately). If they get sweaty or muddy after several days of riding without being washed beforehand, give them a quick wipe down with soap and water before putting them on again.
It’s best not to wait until they’re gross before taking off their protective film layer, or else they’ll have trouble shedding excess dirt later during washing.
Washing your motorcycle gloves regularly will help keep them clean, sanitary, and in good shape.
Washing your motorcycle gloves regularly is important for keeping them clean, sanitary, and in good shape. Not only will this help them remain in their best condition, but it can also save you money in the long run by making sure that they last as long as possible.
When washing your gloves, taking care of the leather and stitching is important, so don’t just throw everything into the washing machine at once. For this reason, we recommend washing each piece separately: first, the textile parts (the outer shell), followed by any leather pieces (the inner lining).
How to Clean Leather Motorcycle Gloves?
Motorcycle gloves are essential gear for riding a motorcycle. But like any other piece of gear, they need to be taken care of properly. Firstly, never use harsh chemicals on your gloves as this may damage them permanently clean motorcycle gloves with a mild soap and water mixture.
Use a leather cleaner or cream to clean the glove surface if dirt or grease is present. Dry the gloves immediately to prevent water damage. In summary, follow these simple tips and take good care of your motorcycle gloves.
How to Clean Waterproof Motorcycle Gloves?
Motorcycle gloves are essential for riding in inclement weather. Still, they must be kept clean and debris-free to prevent water damage. To clean them, first, soak them in a bucket of warm water for about 10 minutes. After rinsing them thoroughly, let them air dry.
Once they’re dry, washing them will remove dirt, oil, and other contaminants. If you want to keep them water-resistant, be sure to launder them as often as necessary to avoid water damage.
How to Clean the Inside of the Motorcycle Gloves?
Motorcycle gloves are essential for riding a motorcycle, but they must be kept clean and free of debris. To do this, first, soak the gloves in a bowl or container filled with warm water and soap. Next, rinse them off in cool water and let them air dry.
Finally, use them again. Keep in mind that removing all dirt and dust with a brush or cloth before putting them back on is important. Motorcycle gloves are special because they need to be kept clean and debris-free to avoid accidents. So, make sure to keep them clean and free of dirt and dust, and you’ll be riding in style.
Frequently Asked Questions
How Often Should I Wash My Motorcycle Gloves?
Washing motorcycle gloves should be done at least once a week.
What Are Some Tips for Drying My Motorcycle Gloves Quickly and Efficiently?
Some tips for drying motorcycle gloves quickly and efficiently include airing them out completely before storing, washing them in cool water with a mild soap, and air-drying them.
Which Soap Is Best for Washing Motorcycle Gloves?
The washing machine detergent you choose should be specific to motorcycle gloves. Some motorcycle-specific detergents are specifically formulated to clean and protect motorcycle gloves.
What Is the Best Way to Clean Leather Gloves?
Soak gloves in lukewarm water and soap for several minutes. Hang to dry.
How Can You Clean the Inside of Your Motorcycle Gloves?
Motorcycle gloves can be cleaned with soap and water.
Should I Use a Detergent or Plain Water to Wash My Motorcycle Gloves?
Detergent is typically recommended when washing motorcycle gloves because of the materials used in the gloves. Water can be used to wash gloves without damaging the materials, provided that the gloves are rinsed completely and allowed to dry.
Washing motorcycle gloves is an important task that needs to be done regularly to keep them in good condition. Follow our tips, and you’ll be able to wash motorcycle gloves in no time. Make sure also to check out our other blog posts on how to clean various items in your home.
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It’s March, and whether you are a seasoned gardener or just starting your journey into this wonderful hobby, one thing is for sure. Luck favors the prepared! I like to approach my garden with a strategy. Taking a soil sample and having it tested can give you a wealth of information on the type of fertilizer you should use.
These tasks may sound routine, but are very important to the success of any garden. Prepare to attack those weeds early on as they can strangle new growth. At the same time, you can clear your garden of leaves and debris that has accumulated over the winter. As you do that, look at the layout of your land and begin to choose the vibrant, show stopping colors that you want to see this season.
You will want to make sure you have all of your lawn and gardening equipment in working order and accounted for. Did you lend your shears to your neighbor? It’s time to get them back. While you do this, consider taking time to tend to your perennials as well. You can begin by cutting back old growth. Consider creating a compost pile. Using organic matter not only saves money, but helps the environment and your plants.
When choosing what to plant first, I have always leaned towards some beautiful pansies. They provide eye popping color in beautiful shades. Sure, in the winter they may not look their best, especially when they are buried under 8 inches of snow, rest assured they are just biding their time until Spring. Pansies are not difficult to grow. Good soil, steady moisture, and at least partial sun will provide the results you’re looking for. What they don’t tolerate is heat and humidity, which is why they thrive in spring and fall.
Plant pansies 6 to 8 inches apart. They can be used as borders, or in larger masses, but don’t count on a solid ground cover. The plants are more clumping than spreading.
Pansies respond well to regular deadheading. As often as possible, every couple of days if you can, pinch off faded blooms and any fruit (small green seed capsules) that may be forming. This will spur plants to continue blooming.
Pansies best qualities are that their early Spring bloom is very robust and pleasing to the eyes, and nose after they have been in the ground since the previous Fall. Make sure that the area where you plant has plenty of drainage and proper lighting.
Lastly, clean out any bird baths or wipe down other garden ornaments. Remember that gardening is a wonderful family tradition for many. If you have children, consider including them in this seasons planting. Remember to take pictures of your garden for Facebook and show it off to your friends.
Either way, have fun. Happy Gardening!
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Proceedings Vol. 14 (2008)
ENGINEERING MECHANICS 2008
May 12 – 15, 2008, Svratka, Czech Republic
Copyright © 2008 Institute of Thermomechanics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i., Prague
ISSN 1805-8248 (printed)
ISSN 1805-8256 (electronic)
list of papers scientific commitee
pages 226 - +5p., full text
It was demonstrate in the previous author’s paper, that the gyroscopic stabilization on vibroisolation system of ambulance couch is possible and useful. But this conclusion was made by assumption, that the kinematic excitation does not include any vertical rotation. In the case, when this assumption is not satisfied, it is possible substitute every gyroscopes which are connected by antiparallelogram and the vertical rotation will be practically compensated.
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India Bharat Stage VI emission standards
On February 19, 2016, the Indian Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) issued a draft notification of Bharat Stage (BS) VI emission standards for all major on-road vehicle categories in India. The standards apply to light- and heavy duty vehicles, as well as two- and three-wheeled vehicles. As proposed, the BS VI standards will go into effect for all vehicles in these categories manufactured on or after April 1, 2020. The draft BS VI proposal specifies mass emission standards, type approval requirements, and on-board diagnostic (OBD) system and durability levels for each vehicle category and sub-classes therein. In addition, reference and commercial fuel specifications are included in the BS VI proposal. The adoption of the proposed BS VI emission standards will essentially bring Indian motor vehicle regulations into alignment with European Union regulations for light-duty passenger cars and commercial vehicles, heavy-duty trucks and buses, and two-wheeled vehicles. While not yet reaching European levels, more stringent emission standards are also set for three-wheeled vehicles.
With this proposal, the Indian Government has confirmed its intent to leapfrog BS V level emission standards and move directly to the more stringent and robust BS VI level. The proposed BS VI standards are far-reaching in scope and incorporate substantial changes to existing Bharat Stage III and IV emission standards. Of particular note is the tightening of particulate matter (PM) mass emission limits and the introduction of particle number (PN) limits for light- and heavy-duty vehicles (LDV, HDV) fitted with gasoline direct injection (GDI) and compression ignition (CI), or diesel, engines. As evidenced by the adoption of nominally equivalent PM and PN standards in Europe, this step will likely lead to the near-universal application of diesel particulate filters (DPF) to control PM emissions from new diesel LDVs and HDVs. A second important component of the BS VI standards is the expansion of type approval and in-service conformity test requirements for LDVs and HDVs. For LDVs, provisions are included in the BS VI proposal for real-world driving cycle emission measurements using portable emissions measurement systems (PEMS). For HDVs, the European Stationary Cycle (ESC) and European Transient Cycle (ETC) used for BS III and IV type approval are replaced with the World Harmonized Steady-State Cycle (WHSC) and World Harmonized Transient Cycle (WHTC), respectively. The WHSC and WHTC are more representative of real-world driving conditions and better capture driving modes in which pollutant emissions can be elevated. In addition, off-cycle emissions testing requirements and in-service conformity testing for type approval and in-service vehicles using PEMS are introduced for HDVs in the BS VI proposal. For both LDVs and HDVs, these requirements will help to ensure that emissions performance demonstrated in laboratory testing is also maintained under real-world driving conditions.
Additional noteworthy aspects of the BS VI proposal include enhanced OBD requirements for all vehicle classes, with first-ever OBD specifications for two- and three-wheeled vehicles, and the introduction of emission limits on nitrogen oxides (NOX), carbon monoxide (CO), and hydrocarbon (HC) for two-wheelers that are equivalent to proposed BS VI norms for light-duty gasoline passenger vehicles. This step will ensure that BS VI two-wheelers will be as clean as BS VI gasoline passenger vehicles on a per-kilometer-driven basis. | <urn:uuid:15bf9929-6f3d-48e6-a3a6-7aea26c84ee0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theicct.org/publication/india-bharat-stage-vi-emission-standards/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.921595 | 723 | 2.125 | 2 |
Tennessee Technological University has a student health service which provides medical services for minor illnesses or injuries for any student enrolled at the University on an appointment basis during hours of operation. The health service staff includes nurses, nurse practitioner, physician, and pharmacist who plan and implement care for students during daytime hours Monday through Friday. Students are responsible for charges due to supplies, laboratory testing, treatments, and medications.
The student is responsible for expenses incurred for ambulance service, calls at a local physician’s office, emergency services, and other services provided at Cookeville Regional Medical Center.
Prior to registration all students must fill out the Meningitis/Hepatitis B form https://www.tntech.edu/healthservices/pdf/Meningitis_Hepatitis_Form.pdf and the Tuberculosis (TB) Screening form https://www.tntech.edu/healthservices/pdf/Tuberculosis_Screening_Form.pdf
You are required to submit an immunization health history form and/or official record of immunization prior to enrolling. These are:
Full-Time Registration Requirement: Students must provide proof of two (2) MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccinations. Proof of immunity to measles, mumps, and rubella may be provided by meeting one of the following 3 criteria:
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- Documentation of blood test (titer-serology) showing immunity to measles, mumps, and rubella. If any one of the three is negative, proof of 2 doses of vaccine must be provided to Health Services.
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The way we live and work has changed. While we might not know exactly what normal looks like anymore, we know we need to act now to tackle the climate crisis. And that includes everyone in every industry.
Great design isn’t enough. We need homes and offices that will get us to net-zero. Construction work accounts for 36 per cent of global energy use and 39 per cent of CO2 emissions. It’s therefore crucial to future-proof buildings and make them green. That includes changing the way we design, power and heat our homes and offices.
Until now, most of the gains we’ve made in tackling the climate crisis haven’t affected people’s daily lives. Thanks to the massive increase in renewable energy, which now powers around 30 per cent of UK homes compared to just one per cent in 2015, many countries have been able to reduce emissions without disrupting the way we live.
The gains we’ve made in tackling the climate crisis haven’t affected people’s daily lives
The next stage will require more personal change, and governments have an important role to play in setting the policy and financial incentives. To reach the Paris Agreement goals by 2050, existing homes will need deep retrofits including better insulation, upgraded windows, heat pumps, solar panels and electric vehicle chargers. New homes will feature these as standard.
This means that homes will look different in future, requiring different design approaches. Designers will need to think creatively about how to integrate these new products.
In the UK, from 2025, no new gas boilers will be installed in new UK homes; instead, we’ll move towards using electricity for heating. Heat pumps, popular in several Nordic countries as well as the US, will become commonplace. It’s important to factor this in when drawing up new plans for properties.
We’ll see more people generating their own electricity using solar panels, and storing it in electric car batteries, or home batteries. More people will sell electricity back to power grids when demand is highest. At Bulb, we’re trialling home battery technology for our members with solar panels. Designs will need to incorporate ways for people to generate, manage and store their own power.
Globally, heat accounts for nearly half of all energy consumption
Insulation will have to get better. Without good insulation, heat escapes from roofs, floors and walls, increasing the amount of energy needed to heat buildings. Globally, heat accounts for nearly half of all energy consumption and almost 40 per cent of carbon emissions from energy. While insulation can be incorporated into new buildings, retrofitting older homes is costly and disruptive, so governments need to provide better financial incentives, like scrapping VAT on green products. For new builds, designs should optimise energy efficiency and maximise insulation.
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Switching to renewable energy is the fastest and cheapest way to lower your CO2 impact at home or in the office. It could lower your carbon emissions by 3.2 tonnes of carbon a year at home and reduce your business’ emissions by around 40 per cent.
Next, ask your energy supplier if you’re eligible to have a smart meter installed at home or in the office. Smart meters help lower bills and reduce carbon emissions. Smart meters show where you use the most energy, so you can take steps to reduce it.
The simple act of turning down the thermostat act could lower your bills and your carbon emissions
When restyling an interior, it’s important to configure spaces that’ll mean you’re able to cut down on carbon and do your bit for the planet. Having your desk near a window away from the sun in the summer will mean you don’t have to use fans or air conditioning; positioning sofas and chairs away from radiators in the winter will allow the heat from your radiator to warm the room as a whole, rather than just the back of furniture.
And installing insulation will keep your home or office warm in the winter and cool in the summer, as well as reducing your energy bills and cutting your carbon emissions. You can also look at replacing windows and doors, or switching to a heat pump.
Whether at home or the office, the simple act of turning down the thermostat act could lower your bills and your carbon emissions. Turning an office thermostat down by just two degrees would save £140 on a £1,000 bill, and by turning your thermostat at home down by one degree, you could save around £90 per year. Or get a smart thermostat, which will adapt to how you like to heat your home and show you the most efficient temperature.
When choosing lighting, there’s a trick to ensure you’re not wasting energy and being inefficient with your lighting choice: LED bulbs are up to 65 per cent more efficient than standard lighting. You can also avoid lighting empty rooms by using occupancy sensors. Install daylight sensors to dim lights automatically in bright or outdoor spaces, and if you’re thinking about renovations, consider splitting lights onto smaller circuits with more switches. This gives you more flexibility to split your space into different zones, and have fewer lights on.
To achieve net-zero, all industry bodies need to come together and play their part
If you’ve already switched from a diesel or petrol car to an electric one then well done – you’re already doing your bit to reduce your carbon footprint. You can go one step further by charging your car at the cheapest, greenest time of the day. At Bulb, we’re trialling EV technology that allows you to order a stylish home charger, connect your car to our app, and automatically charge when demand is lowest on the grid.
To achieve net-zero, all industry bodies need to come together and play their part. In the design world, there’s an opportunity to balance great design with energy efficiency to future-proof buildings. The future of homes and buildings will be different, but for the better. We’re at a crucial time now where designers need to get on board. In today’s world, it’s not just about having a beautiful interior; sustainability should be taking priority.
Geraldine de Boisse is vice president of innovation at UK renewable energy supplier Bulb. She has a MSc from ESCP Europe and an MBA from INSEAD.
This article is part of Dezeen’s carbon revolution series, which explores how this miracle material could be removed from the atmosphere and put to use on earth. Read all the content at: www.dezeen.com/carbon.
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About Merlen Ransomware
Merlen Ransomware is regarded as a dangerous infection, known as ransomware or file-encrypting malicious software. You might not necessarily have heard of or came across it before, and to find out what it does might be particularly shocking. You will not be able to access your data if they have been encoded by ransomware, which usually uses strong encryption algorithms. Because file decryption is not always possible, not to mention the time and effort it takes to return everything back to normal, ransomware is considered to be one of the most dangerous malware you could encounter.
Cyber crooks will give you the option of recovering files by paying the ransom, but that isn’t the recommended option. Firstly, you might end up just spending your money because crooks do not always restore data after payment. Why would people to blame for your file encryption help you restore them when they could just take the money you pay them. In addition, your money would go towards future file encrypting malicious program and malware. Data encoding malware is already costing a lot of money to businesses, do you really want to support that. When victims give into the demands, file encrypting malware increasingly becomes more profitable, thus increasingly more people are attracted to it. Investing the amount that is demanded of you into reliable backup would be better because if you are ever put in this kind of situation again, you wouldn’t need to worry about data loss because you could just restore them from backup. You could then restore data from backup after you erase Merlen Ransomware virus or related threats. Information about the most frequent spreads methods will be provided in the below paragraph, in case you’re unsure about how the ransomware managed to infect your computer.
How to avoid Merlen Ransomware infection
A file encrypting malware can infect pretty easily, commonly using such basic methods as attaching infected files to emails, using exploit kits and hosting contaminated files on dubious download platforms. A lot of ransomware rely on users hastily opening email attachments and do not have to use more sophisticated methods. It is also possible that a more sophisticated method was used for infection, as some ransomware do use them. Cyber criminals simply have to add an infected file to an email, write a plausible text, and pretend to be from a trustworthy company/organization. Those emails often mention money because that’s a delicate topic and users are more likely to be abrupt when opening emails talking about money. If cyber criminals used the name of a company like Amazon, people may open the attachment without thinking if cyber criminals just say there has been questionable activity in the account or a purchase was made and the receipt is added. You have to look out for certain signs when dealing with emails if you want to shield your computer. Before opening the attachment, look into the sender of the email. You will still need to investigate the email address, even if you know the sender. Grammar errors are also quite frequent. The way you’re greeted might also be a hint, as real companies whose email is important enough to open would use your name, instead of greetings like Dear Customer/Member. The ransomware could also get in by using certain vulnerabilities found in computer programs. Those vulnerabilities are usually found by security researchers, and when vendors find out about them, they release fixes to repair them so that malevolent parties can’t take advantage of them to infect computers with malware. As has been proven by WannaCry, however, not everyone is that quick to install those updates for their programs. Situations where malicious software uses weak spots to enter is why it’s important that you regularly update your software. You could also select to install patches automatically.
What does Merlen Ransomware do
When a file encrypting malicious program infects your device, it’ll scan for certain files types and soon after they are located, they’ll be encrypted. Initially, it may be confusing as to what is going on, but when your files can not be opened as normal, you’ll at least know something is wrong. Files that have been affected will have an extension attached to them, which commonly assist people in identifying which ransomware they are dealing with. Unfortunately, files might be permanently encoded if a strong encryption algorithm was used. If you are still uncertain about what’s going on, the ransom note ought to clear everything up. The proposed decryptor will not come free, obviously. If the ransom amount isn’t specified, you would have to use the given email address to contact the criminals to see the amount, which may depend on how important your data is. Buying the decryptor isn’t the recommended option, for reasons we have already mentioned. Giving into the demands should be a last resort. Try to remember whether you have ever made backup, your files could be stored somewhere. A free decryption program might also be an option. A free decryptors might be available, if someone was able to decrypt the data encrypting malware. Before you make a decision to pay, look into a decryption program. You would not face possible data loss if you ever end up in this situation again if you invested some of that money into backup. If you have saved your files somewhere, you can go recover them after you eliminate Merlen Ransomware virus. Become aware of how a file encoding malware spreads so that you can avoid it in the future. Make sure your software is updated whenever an update becomes available, you don’t open random files added to emails, and you only trust trustworthy sources with your downloads.
Ways to fix Merlen Ransomware
If the ransomware remains on your device, you’ll have to download an anti-malware utility to get rid of it. It may be tricky to manually fix Merlen Ransomware virus because you might end up accidentally harming your computer. In order to avoid causing more damage, go with the automatic method, aka an anti-malware program. This tool is beneficial to have on the system because it might not only get rid of this infection but also put a stop to similar ones who try to get in. Find which anti-malware program best matches what you require, install it and allow it to perform a scan of your computer to locate the threat. Sadly, such a utility will not help to recover files. After the file encoding malware is fully terminated, it’s safe to use your computer again.
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Step 1. Delete Merlen Ransomware using Safe Mode with Networking.
Remove Merlen Ransomware from Windows 7/Windows Vista/Windows XP
- Click on Start and select Shutdown.
- Choose Restart and click OK.
- Start tapping F8 when your PC starts loading.
- Under Advanced Boot Options, choose Safe Mode with Networking.
- Open your browser and download the anti-malware utility.
- Use the utility to remove Merlen Ransomware
Remove Merlen Ransomware from Windows 8/Windows 10
- On the Windows login screen, press the Power button.
- Tap and hold Shift and select Restart.
- Go to Troubleshoot → Advanced options → Start Settings.
- Choose Enable Safe Mode or Safe Mode with Networking under Startup Settings.
- Click Restart.
- Open your web browser and download the malware remover.
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Step 2. Restore Your Files using System Restore
Delete Merlen Ransomware from Windows 7/Windows Vista/Windows XP
- Click Start and choose Shutdown.
- Select Restart and OK
- When your PC starts loading, press F8 repeatedly to open Advanced Boot Options
- Choose Command Prompt from the list.
- Type in cd restore and tap Enter.
- Type in rstrui.exe and press Enter.
- Click Next in the new window and select the restore point prior to the infection.
- Click Next again and click Yes to begin the system restore.
Delete Merlen Ransomware from Windows 8/Windows 10
- Click the Power button on the Windows login screen.
- Press and hold Shift and click Restart.
- Choose Troubleshoot and go to Advanced options.
- Select Command Prompt and click Restart.
- In Command Prompt, input cd restore and tap Enter.
- Type in rstrui.exe and tap Enter again.
- Click Next in the new System Restore window.
- Choose the restore point prior to the infection.
- Click Next and then click Yes to restore your system.
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Rinnoji Temple in Aoba-ku, Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, is a temple of the Soto sect of Buddhism It was founded in Somekawa in present Fukushima Prefecture in 1441 by Date Mochimune, the 11th head of the Date clan, to respond to the plea by the nun Rantei Meigyoku, the wife of the late 9th head.
Rinnoji Temple is famous for its beautiful Japanese garden named “Rinnoji Zen Garden.” It is a pond stroll garden, which is said to be one of the most wonderful gardens in the Tohoku district. The garden was designed by the priest Fukusada Mugai (1881-1943), who restored the temple after it had declined in the Meiji period.
The pond with the backdrop of red pine and cedar trees reflect the images of weeping cherry blossoms and the three-story pagoda in the middle of April. White and violet flowers of Japanese irises in late June are especially impressive. Walking across bridges over the pond to view the scenery that changes by season, you will have a really relaxing time.
Sanmyoji Temple is said to have been established at the beginning of the 8th century. Its principal image worshipped at the main hall is Benzaiten (the goddess Saraswati). During the period of the Genpei Wars (1180-1185), a priest at this temple, Mochizuki Chugen, fought with Minamoto no Noriyori’s forces and was defeated. When Noriyori became a lord of Mikawa province later, he ordered one of his retainers, Kawai Goro, to burn the temple down, from which the temple was destroyed. The temple was restored by a Zen monk Mumon, a son of Emperor Godaigo, in the 14th century. The 15 m three-story pagoda built in 1531 is well-known for its beautiful shape. It is an eclectic-styled building; the 1st and 2nd floors are built in Japanese style, while the 3rd floor in Chinese style. As architectural styles in the Muromachi period (1336-1573) varied form region to region, the pagoda is a precious building structure to know the architecture in the late Muromachi period. The pagoda and Guden Hall (the main hall) are designated as National Important Cultural Properties.
At Anrakuji Temple, there is a three-storied octagonal pagoda among the pine trees lining the road from Mt. Ogami in Ueda Shinshu.
Anrakuji Temple is said to have been established in the early Heian period, but its history before the Kamakura period is vague. This pagoda is the oldest building in the temple complex of Anrakuji. In addition, it is the only existing octagonal pagoda in Japan and also a very rare example of a Zen three-storied pagoda.
The pagoda is 18.75m tall. Its Zen architectural features include the connections between the pillars and the radial baulks that decorate the impressive octagonal roof. Even the Buddhist altar is octagonal. There is a Dainichi-Nyorai statue, which is very rarely seen in a Zen structure. The pagoda looks four-storied but the lowest roof is, in fact, a line of eaves called 'mokoshi'.
In 1947, the pagoda and Nagano Castle were the first buildings in Nagano prefecture to be designated National Treasures.
Yusanji Temple located in Muramatsu, Fukuroi City, Shizuoka Pref. is a temple belonging to Chizan school of the Shingon sect. The principal object of worship is Yakushi Nyorai. The temple name “Yusan (the mountain of oil)” originates in the episode that in 701, when the master monk Gyoki established the temple and placed the statue of Yakushi Nyorai to pray for national peace and people’s health, oil gushed from the ground.
Legend has it that in 749, when Empress Koken, who had suffered from an eye disease, prayed for curing of the disease at this temple and washed her eyes with water taken from the Ruri Waterfall in the precinct, she was completely cured. Thereafter the empress visited the temple as the Imperial prayer temple. The temple is believed to have the power to cure diseases, especially the ones in eyes. The guardian deity of the temple, Gunzenbo Daigongen, has been worshipped as the deity of strong legs by travelers along the Tokaido Road.
The temple gate, the vermillion three-story pagoda, the zushi (miniature Buddhist shrine) to enshrine Yakushi Nyorai in the main hall are all designated important cultural properties.
The three-story pagoda at Kojoji Temple in Onomichi City, Hiroshima Pref. was built in 1432 by the donation of two local merchants named Nobumoto and Nobumasa. This is a 3 x 3 bay three-story pagoda with a tile roof, which is 19 m tall to the tip of the vertical shaft at the top. Its well-balance shape and detailed decorations in Chinese styles are worth seeing. Especially beautiful are the fine carvings given to the end of bracket arms, the bracket complex under the corner rafters and the decorative metal pieces attached to the final on the pagoda. It is very rare that the upside-down lotus design is used to decorate the four corner pillars supporting the balustrades of each story and that the main pillars supporting the railing of the altar has a ball shape decorative objects (“hoju”) placed in Chinese style double-blossom lotus. The decorative struts set in the bracket complex take the shape of hanging petals. These gorgeous decorative designs were distinctive to the Seto Inland Sea area in those days. This pagoda is a fine example that shows a high cultural level of the Muromachi-period architecture.
Itabashi Fudo-son, or formally named Seian-san Ganjoji Fudoin Temple, is a temple of Shingon Sect. The temple was established by the great priest Kukai in 808. It had been burnt down by several fires, and in the 16th century, the temple was rebuilt by a high ranked Shingon Sect priest. The Fudo-son (the Buddhist divinity of fire) at this temple is worshipped by a lot of people for his power of bringing about easy delivery and successful childcare. There are a lot of cultural properties at this temple including National Important Cultural Properties of the statues of Fudo Myoo and Ryo-doji, both of which were carved by Kukai himself, and prefectural Important Cultural Properties of the Main Hall, Sakura-Gate, and the 3-story Pagoda. The 3-story Pagoda was renovated in 1996. This is one of the few temples in the prefecture which are composed of seven major buildings.
Hase Temple is the headquarters of the Shingon-Buzan sect and is located in Sakurai, Nara Prefecture. The name of the mountain on which it is located is Buzan-Kagurain (or Hatsuse or Buzan). The temple is the 8th of Saikoku's 33 Kannon spiritual spots.
In the 1st year of the Shucho period (686), Domyo Shonin built a three-storied tower to pray for the recovery of the Shomu Emperor. In the 4th year of the Jinki period (727), Tokudo Shonin set an 11-faced Kannon statue at the east and founded this temple.
The main statue is the wooden 11-faced Kannon-bosatsu statue. It was made in the 7th year of the Tenbun period (1538). At about 10m tall, it is the biggest wooden Buddha statue in Japan. The butai-style main building is tile-roofed and half-hipped roofed and was built in the 3rd year of the Keian period (1650).
The temple has many Buddhist scriptures and statues such as the Bronze Plaque of the Hokke Sesso-zu, and a 'makie' box for scriptures, which are national treasures. They give a sense of sincere faith.
Nara Hase Temple is also well known as a flower spot, which please visitors through each of the four seasons.
Hokiji is a temple of the Shotoku sect and is located in Ikaruga Town, Ikoma County, Nara Prefecture. It is a world heritage site.
There are several old temples related to Prince Shotoku such as Horyuji, Horinji and Chuguji in Ikaruga. This place is a traditional Buddhist place.
The site of Hokiji was originally the Okamoto-no-miya palace, where Prince Shotoku lectured on the Lotus Sutra. In the 10th year of the Jomei period (638), Prince Shotoku's son, Yamashiro-no-oeno, changed Okamoto into a temple according to Shotoku's will.
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House Democrats Introduce TRUMP IMPEACHMENT Resolution Claiming President Incited 'INSURRECTION'
The article states Trump's conduct 'followed his prior efforts to subvert and obstruct the certification of the 2020 Presidential election'
House Democrats introduced an impeachment resolution against President Trump on Monday for incitement of an insurrection, just days after the Capitol riot, saying he warrants impeachment, trial and "removal from office."
Democratic Reps. Ted Lieu, David Cicilline, Jamie Raskin and Jerrold Nadler introduced the resolution, charging the president with violating his oath of office.
"In his conduct while President of the United States—and in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States, and to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, Donald John Trump engaged in high Crimes and Misdemeanors by inciting violence against the Government of the United States," the article reads.
The article alleges that before Jan. 6, the joint session of Congress to certify the presidential election results, Trump "repeatedly issued false statements asserting that the presidential election results were the product of widespread fraud and should not be accepted by the American people or certified by State or Federal officials."
The article claims that before the Jan. 6 joint session the president addressed a crowd in Washington where he "reiterated false claims that 'we won this election, and we won it by a landslide,' and "willfully made statements that, in context, encouraged--and forseeably resulted in--lawless action at the Capitol."
The article refers to Trump's statement: "If you don't fight like hell you're not going to have a country anymore."
"Thus incited by President Trump, members of the crowd he had addressed, in an attempt to, among other objectives, interfere with the Joint Session's solemn constitutional duty to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election, unlawfully breached and vandalized the Capitol, injured and killed law enforcement personnel, menaced Members of Congress, the Vice President and Congressional personnel, and engaged in other violent, deadlym, destructive, and seditious acts," the article states.
The article adds that Trump's conduct "followed his prior efforts to subvert and obstruct the certification of the 2020 Presidential election," referring to his phone call earlier this month with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, where he pressured him to "find" enough votes to overturn the state's election results.
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The article adds that he "betrayed his trust as President, to the manifest injury of the people of the United States."
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Diagnosing why your batch file prints a garbage character, one character, and nothing more
You’ve written a batch file, and you try to execute it, but instead of running, it just prints some weird garbage character, then the first character of the batch file, and then that’s it.
Here’s the batch file:
@echo off echo Hello, world.
And here’s what happens when you run it:
C:\>■@ '■@' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. C:\>
What’s going on here?
Put on your thinking cap.
The file was saved in UTF-16LE format with a byte order mark. The leading garbage character was the byte order mark being interpreted in the ANSI code page.
But wait, you say. The UTF-16LE byte order mark is two characters long: 0xFF and 0xFE. Why did only one garbage character print?
Because character 0xFF is invisible.
The next Unicode character in the batch file is the at-sign, which in UTF-16LE is encoded as a @ followed by a null byte. The @ is read from the batch file, but the null causes the command processor to think it reached the end of the file.
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To secure personal information in any PDF, you can password protect it from anywhere by using a few simple steps from Adobe Acrobat online services.
There are numerous reasons why you may need to protect the contents of a PDF. Perhaps you have a legal document, financial contract, or rental lease to share. In those particular cases and many others, you can specify who can view your private information. Acrobat online makes it easy to password protect any PDF, creating a secure, encrypted file.
How to password protect a PDF on an iPhone.
Be sure you know the location of your file, whether it’s stored on your iPhone or on a cloud-based service. Click Select A File to navigate to the file and upload it. Once you’re in, create a strong and unique password, and then retype it to confirm. Click Set Password. After your new password is set, you can download the file. You can also sign in to Adobe or another service, such as Apple or Google, to share it with others over email or via a link.
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Model history in multi-user mode
Tekla Structures collects model history on the actions that have taken place in the a model. In a multi-user model, the model history shows when the model has been changed, how the model has changed, who has made the changes, and the model revision comments.
Collect model history in multi-user mode
View model history in multi-user mode
To view model history, do one of the following:
On the ribbon, click and select an object in the model.
The model history is shown in the Inquire object dialog box.
Create a model history report.
On the Drawings & reports tab, click Reports.
Select a report template that shows model history from the list. The name of the report template may vary in different environments.
In the Default environment, the report template is called Q_Model_History_Report.
Click Create from all to create a report on all the objects in a model, or select one or more objects in the model and click Create from selected to create a report from the selected objects.
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You can save model revision comments when working with multi-user models. This means that all objects which have been changed during the last save interval include the revision information in them. You can use this information in filtering and reports. You can also use it to examine which users have modified the objects.
The Owner is the user, who has added the object into the model.
History shows when the model has been changed, how the model has changed, who has made the changes, and the model revision comments.
Before you can save model revision comments, check the following:
When you have set the advanced options mentioned above to
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With an unsettling clarity on the peculiarities of human behavior (once removed), Wireless proposes that privacy is an invention without a future.
Created by Lisa Wilson (Co-Director/ Choreographer) and Paul Charlier (Co-Director/ Composer/Software Designer), this poly-media dance piece explores ideas around the desire for connection and loss of trust; ‘We’ve lived with surveillance for thousands of years. Our ideas about privacy, on the other hand are relatively recent.’
Inspired by the revelation that Apple was storing iPhone user location history, these creatives set about exploring just how that could impact presence by choreographing dancers with smart devices attached. Using in-built motion sensors to trigger and control music, the resulting emanating light (the type that keeps you awake at night) becomes the trigger and the proof of existence. Such a marvelously complex idea produces a stunning yet simple result as if the light particles have been dancing around in front of us all this time just waiting for us to notice. The flowing control of professional dancers (Craig Bary, Joshua Thomson, Gabriel Comerford, and Storm Helmore) belies the great strength and skill of their form.
“A lot of people don’t understand the potential of what they’ve got in their pocket.”
Wireless, takes the mechanisms of our ‘reality’ obsession and turns it into a visually stunning and evocative multimedia performance with the creative assistance of Bruce McKinven (Designer), Nathan Sibthorpe (Video Artist), Jennifer Flowers (Dramaturge,) and Ben (Bosco) Shaw (Lighting Designer). Keep your eyes on Charlier and Wilson, operating in a wholly unique creative space that balances somewhere between art and science. Hopefully we get to see more from them very soon.
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East Frisia or Eastern Friesland (German: Ostfriesland; East Frisian Low Saxon: Oostfreesland; Dutch: Oost-Friesland) is a coastal region in the northwest of the German federal state of Lower Saxony. It is the section of Frisia in between West Frisia and Middle Frisia in the Netherlands and North Frisia in Schleswig-Holstein.
There is a chain of islands off the coast, called the East Frisian Islands (Ostfriesische Inseln). These islands are (from west to east) Borkum, Juist, Norderney, Baltrum, Langeoog, Spiekeroog and Wangerooge.
The geographical region of East Frisia was inhabited in Paleolithic times by reindeer hunters of the Hamburg culture. Later there were Mesolithic and Neolithic settlements of various cultures. The period after prehistory can only be reconstructed from archaeological evidence. Access to the early history of East Frisia is possible in part through archaeology and in part through the studying of external sources such as Roman documents. The first proven historical event was the arrival of a Roman fleet under Drusus in 12 BC; the ships sailed into the course of the Ems river and returned.
The earlier settlements, known solely through material remnants but whose people's name for themselves remains unknown, led up to the invasion of Germanic tribes belonging to the Ingvaeonic group. Those were Chauci mentioned by Tacitus, and Frisians. The region between the rivers Ems and Weser was thereupon inhabited by the Chauci; however, after the second century AD there is no mention of the Chauci. They were partly displaced by Frisian expansion after about 500, and were later partially absorbed into the Frisian society.
Saxons also settled the region and the East Frisian population of medieval times is based on a mixture of Frisian and Saxon elements. Nevertheless, the Frisian element is predominant in the coastal area, while the population of the higher Geest area expresses more Saxon influence.
Historical information becomes clearer by early Carolingian time, when a Frisian kingdom united the whole area from present-day West Frisia (the Dutch provinces of Friesland and Groningen and part of North Holland) throughout East Frisia up to the river Weser. It was ruled by kings like the famous Radbod whose known names were still mentioned in folk tales until recent times. Frisia was a short-lived kingdom, and it was crushed by Pippin of Herstal in 689. East Frisia then became part of the Frankish Empire. Charles the Great then divided East Frisia into two counties. At this time, Christianization by the missionaries Liudger and Willehad started; one part of East Frisia became a part of the diocese of Bremen, the other the diocese of Münster.
With the decay of the Carolingian empire, East Frisia lost its former bindings, and a unity of independent self-governed districts was established. Their elections were held every year to choose the "Redjeven" (councillors), who had to be judges as well as administrators or governors. This system prevented the establishment of a feudalistic system in East Frisia during medieval times. Frisians regarded themselves as free people not obliged to any foreign authority. This period is called the time of the "Friesische Freiheit" (Frisian freedom) and is represented by the still well-known salute "Eala Frya Fresena" (Get Up, Free Frisian!) that affirmed the non-existence of any feudality. Frisian representatives of the many districts of the seven coastal areas of Frisia met once a year at the Upstalsboom, located at Rahe (near Aurich).
In the early Middle Ages, people could only settle on the higher situated Geest areas or by erecting in the marsh-areas "Warften", artificial hills to protect the settlement, whether a single farming estate or a whole village, against the North Sea floods.
In about 1000 AD the Frisians started building large dikes along the North Sea shore. This had a great effect on establishing a feeling of national identity and independence. Until the late Middle Ages Ostfriesland resisted the attempts of German states to conquer the coasts.
During the 14th century adherence to the Redjeven constitution decayed. Catastrophes and epidemics such as pestilence intensified the process of destabilization. This provided an opportunity for influential family-clans to establish a new rule. As chieftains (in Low German: "hovedlinge"; in standard German: "Häuptlinge") they took control over villages, cities, and regions in East Frisia; however, they still did not establish a feudal system as it was known in the rest of Europe. Instead, the system implemented in Frisia was a system of followship which has some similarity to older forms of rule known from Germanic cultures of the North. There was a specific relation of dependence between the inhabitants of the ruled area and the chieftain, but the people retained their individual freedom and could move where they wanted.
The Frisians controlled the mouth of the Ems river and threatened the ships coming down the river. For this reason the state of Oldenburg made several attempts to subjugate East Frisia during the 12th century. Thanks to the swampy terrain, the Frisian peasants defeated the Oldenburgian armies every time. In 1156 even Henry the Lion failed to conquer the region. The conflicts lasted for the next few centuries. In the 14th century Oldenburg gave up on plans to conquer Ostfriesland, restricting their attacks to irregular invasions, killing livestock then leaving.
The East Frisian chieftains used to provide shelter for pirates such as the famous Klaus Störtebeker and Goedeke Michel, who were a threat to the ships of the powerful Hanseatic League which they attacked and robbed. In 1400 a punitive expedition of the Hanseatic League against East Frisia succeeded. The chieftains had to promise to discontinue their support for the pirates. In 1402 Störtebeker, who was not a Frisian by birth, was captured and executed in Hamburg.
The range of power and influence differed between the chieftains. Some clans achieved a predominant state. One of these was the Tom Broks from the Brokmerland (nowadays: Brookmerland) who ruled a large part of Eastern Friesland over several generations until a former follower, Focko Ukena from Leer, defeated the last Tom Brok. But a party of opposing chieftains under the leadership of the Cirksenas from Greetsiel defeated and expelled Fokko, who later died near Groningen.
After 1465 one of the last chieftains from the house of Cirksena was made a count by Emperor Frederick III and accepted the sovereignty of the Holy Roman Empire. However, in 1514 the emperor ordered that a duke of Saxony should be the heir to the count of East Frisia. Count Edzard of East Frisia refused to accept this order and was outlawed. Twenty-four German dukes and princes invaded Frisia with their armies. Despite their numerical superiority they failed to defeat Edzard, and in 1517 the emperor had to accept Edzard and his descendants as counts of East Frisia.
In 1654 the counts of East Frisia, seated at Aurich, were elevated to the rank of princes. Their power, however, remained limited because of a number of factors. Externally East Frisia became a satellite of the Netherlands, Dutch garrisons being stationed in different cities permanently. Important cities like Emden were autonomously administrated by their citizens, the Prince not having much influence on them. A Frisian Parliament, the Ostfreesk Landschaft, was an assembly of different social groups of East Frisia, jealously protecting the traditional rights and freedoms of the Frisians against the Prince. East Frisian independence ended in 1744, when the region was taken over by Prussia after the last Cirksena prince had died without issue. There was no resistance to this takeover, since it had been arranged by contract beforehand. Prussia respected the traditional autonomy of the Frisians, governed by the Frisian chancellor Sebastian Homfeld.
In 1806 East Frisia (now called Oostfreesland) was annexed by the Napoleonic Kingdom of Holland and later became part of the French Empire. Most of East Frisia was renamed the Département Ems-Oriental, while a small strip of land, the Rheiderland, became part of the Dutch Département Ems-Occidental. The French Emperor Napoléon I undertook the greatest reform of Frisian society in history: He introduced mayors, where the local administration was still in the hands of autonomous groups of elders (like the Diekgreven, Kerkenolderlings etc.), introduced the Code Civil and reformed the ancient Frisian naming system by newly introducing family names in 1811. In the following years the East Frisians registered their family names, often depending on their father's name, area or (if unfree) master.
After the Napoleonic Wars East Frisia occupied first by Prussian and the Russian soldiers in 1813 was re-annexed by Prussia. However, in 1815, Prussia had to cede East Frisia to the Kingdom of Hanover, which itself was annexed by Prussia in 1866.
The landscape is influenced by its proximity to the North Sea. The East Frisian Islands stretch for 90 kilometres along the coast. They offer dunes and sand beaches, though in their center they have grass and woods as well. The area between the islands and the coast is unique in the world: the tide leaves a broad stretch of mudflat with creeks that attract an extraordinary number of species, worms and crabs as well as birds or seals. For this reason, the UNESCO World Heritage Fund declared the Wadden Sea, which had already been a national park, a global heritage site. Away from the coastal area, much of the physical geography is "Geest" and Heathland.
The original language of East Frisia was East Frisian, which now is almost extinct, largely replaced by East Frisian Low Saxon. Original East Frisian survived somewhat longer in several remote places as for example in the islands, such as Wangerooge. Today a modern variant of East Frisian can be found in the Saterland, a district near East Frisia. In former times people from East Frisia who left their homes under pressure had settled in that remote area surrounded by moors and kept their inherited language alive. This language which forms the smallest language-island in Europe is called Saterland Frisian or, by its own name, Seeltersk. It is spoken by about 1000 people.
East Frisian Low Saxon (or Eastern Friesland Low Saxon, as some people prefer to say for a better distinction from East Frisian, which is Frisian but not Low Saxon) is a variant of Low German with many of its own features due to the Frisian substrate and some other influences originating in the varied history of East Frisia. It is similar to the Gronings dialect spoken in the adjacent Netherlands province of Groningen.
In modern Germany, East Frisians in general are the traditional butt of ethnic jokes similar to Polish jokes in the United States. This is mainly the case in the North.
In an otherwise coffee drinking country, East Frisia is noted for its consumption of tea and its tea culture. Per capita, the East Frisian people drink more tea than any other people group, about 300 litres per person every year. Strong black tea is served whenever there are visitors to an East Frisian home or other gathering, as well as with breakfast, in mid-afternoon and mid-evening. The tea is sweetened with kluntjes, a rock candy sugar that melts slowly, allowing multiple cups to be sweetened. Heavy cream is also used to flavour the tea. The tea is generally served in traditional small cups, with little cookies during the week and cake during special occasions or on weekends as a special treat. Brown rum, mixed with kluntjes and left for several months, is also added to black tea in the winter. The tea is alleged to cure headaches, stomach problems, and stress, among many other ailments. The tea is not only a kind of beverage for the population, but also part of its cultural tradition. Over the years the region developed a unique tea ceremony that can be strictly observed in older households. As a part of these rules, the oldest woman in the round has to serve the other guests with tea, starting with the second oldest and then going down in age regardless of gender. The "kluntje" must be placed inside the teacup before the tea is poured right on top of it. After that some heavy cream is added carefully just as a top layer so it can make "clouds" (wulkjes) that swim on the tea itself. It's then forbidden to stir the tea, so the layers stay mild, strong and then sweet from top to bottom. Depending on the area of East Frisia, the tea can also be poured out of the cup into its saucer and drunk from there. If you don't want any more tea, you have to put your spoon into the cup or else the host will refill your cup immediately after everyone in the round finished their current cup of tea.
East Frisia is predominantly Protestant. In Rheiderland, Krummhörn and around Emden, the Reformed Church (Calvinism) is the dominant church, while in Leer, Norden and Aurich the Lutherans are the dominant church. However, the main church of the Reformed Christians is in Leer. There are 266,000 Lutherans and about 80,000 Reformed – so about 346,000 of the approximately 465,000 citizens of East Frisia profess one of the two denominations. The Concordat of Emden in 1599 set rules for the cooperation of Lutherans and Calvinists in the county of East Frisia. Since then it is a special feature of the protestant Landeskirchen in East Frisia, that Lutherans and Calvinists are members of each others local church communities in places, where only one of both exists.
East Frisia is a rural area. However, there are some industrial sites such as the Volkswagen car factory in Emden and the Enercon (windturbine) company in Aurich. Leer is, after Hamburg, the second most important location for shipping companies in Germany. Although just on the other side of the border to Emsland, the Meyer Werft is an important employer for East Frisians as well. Main industrial sites are the harbours of Emden and Leer, and Wilhelmshaven east of East Frisia.
Around 1900, many people left East Frisia due to lack of jobs and emigrated to the United States or elsewhere. Today the region is again suffering from the loss of young educated people, who go away to find better employment in, for example, southern Germany. Many communities face a rising number of aged people, creating structural problems in the future. There are few academic jobs in the area, and those are focused on engineering. The closest universities are in Oldenburg and Groningen.
The people of East Frisia have close cultural ties to those of West Frisia, in the Netherlands, and of North Frisia, on the Jutland peninsula. The Frisians migrated to Germany from the coast of Holland in the 12th century.
- Satzung der Ostfriesischen Landschaft, Artikel I (Grundsätze), Absatz 2: „Ostfriesland umfaßt die kommunalen Gebietskörperschaften Landkreise Aurich, Leer und Wittmund sowie Stadt Emden.“
- Homepage des Interfriesischens Rats: Das östliche Friesland innerhalb des deutschen Bundeslandes Niedersachsen von der niederländischen Grenze bis jenseits der Wesermündung. Es wird häufig Ost-Friesland genannt oder insgesamt (nicht ganz korrekt) als Ostfriesland bezeichnet. Es umfasst das eigentliche Ostfriesland, das oldenburger Friesland (Friesische Wehde, Jeverland, Wilhelmshaven), das ehemalige Rüstringen (Butjadingen u.a.), das Land Wursten und andere Gebiete. (Hervorhebungen nachträglich für das Zitat)
- A German verse to remember the first letters of the islands from east to west is Welcher Seemann liegt bei Nanni im Bett (which seaman lies with Nanny in bed).
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Social interactions that lack a genuine connection may be playing a part in rising infertility rates.
A recent Lancet study predicted the global population will peak by 2064, followed by a "remarkable drop".
Sperm counts are said to have halved over the past 50 years. Pollution often gets the blame, however, one scientist has argued "less meaningful social interactions" could be triggering dangerous levels of stress.
These poor-quality connections may be down to overpopulation, which also causes people to "withdraw" socially.
Read more: Men have a biological clock too
The quality and quantity of sperm is known to decline when a man is stressed. Feeling frazzled can also affect ovulation in women and leave both sexes less willing to be intimate.
"Rising population numbers contribute to less meaningful social interactions, social withdrawal and chronic stress, which subsequently suppresses reproduction," said study author Dr Alexander Suvorov.
"Changes in reproductive behaviour that contribute to the population drop include more young couples choosing to be 'child-free', people having fewer children and couples waiting longer to start families."
The predicted population decline "will be almost exclusively caused by decreased reproduction, rather than factors that increase rates of mortality".
Writing in the journal Endocrinology, Dr Suvorov has called this a "unique" scenario, noting "unlike previous centuries, today, limited reproduction is hardly due to a shortage in resources".
Changes in reproductive behaviour – like couples choosing not to become parents – and "reproductive physiology" – such as a reduction in sperm count – may therefore be to blame.
Read more: Freeze-dried sperm delivered on a 'postcard'
Many point the finger at hormone-disrupting chemicals. Dr Suvorov set out to create a "complementary/alternative hypothesis" that "connects reproductive trends with population densities".
Watch: Do coronavirus vaccines affect fertility?
After analysing several studies, Dr Suvorov concluded that a decline in reproduction may be due to stress from poor-quality social interactions.
"Numerous wildlife and laboratory studies demonstrated that population peaks are always followed by increased stress and suppressed reproduction," he said.
"This review provides evidence from multiple disciplines that the same mechanisms previously observed in wildlife species may work in humans as well."
In many animal species, reproduction is thought to be controlled by signals within the hormonal and nervous systems in response to "increasing population densities".
"Although not fully understood", this is said to be "activated in response to increasing stress of social interactions".
Better understanding this chain of events may enable experts to develop "interventions to treat infertility and other reproductive conditions".
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Before we start collecting voice data for your speech recognition project, you have choices to make.
While it’s possible that a client comes to us knowing exactly how they’d like their voice data to be structured, the wide majority come to us with fairly loose requirements, either because their requirements are flexible, or they haven’t considered all the possible variables yet.
As a speech data provider, it’s our role to highlight all the ways in which your speech dataset can be customized, while also steering you towards the most effective and price-conscious collection option for your solution.
In this blog, we’ll cover how speech data collection can be customized by:
- languages and demographics
- collection size
- script structure
- audio requirements and formats
- delivery and processing requirements
Why does it matter? These customizations or requirements will ultimately impact:
- how the data is collected
- how participants are recruited
- how files are delivered
- the delivery timeline
- the total cost
Let’s dive into 15 different ways a speech data collection project can be customized to suit your needs.
Linguistic & Demographic Variables
Every project starts with specifying who you want to collect speech data from.
1. Target Language(s)
For which languages do you intend to collect speech data? And for each language, are the participants expected to be native, non-native, or both?
Example: Native British English speakers
2. Dialects and Non-Native Accents
Do you require a specific dialect or non-native accent? You can structure your collection to record a distribution of participants across dialects.
For example, you may want to intentionally target a range of dialects to avoid introducing systematic biases to your speech recognition algorithm.
Example: 25% Northwest US speakers, 25% Northeast US speakers, 25% Southwest US speakers, 25% Southeast US speakers
Example: Mexican Spanish-accented speakers
3. Primary Countries
For each language of the collection, should the participants be from specific countries? If not, are all countries where the language is an official language acceptable?
Example: There will be a big difference between Spanish speakers from Mexico and Spain.
For each language of the collection, should the participants currently live in a specific country?
Example: A native-Brazilian Portuguese speaker may have a different accent after spending 20 years abroad.
On top of geographic location, you can also customize your data collection project by demographic variables.
You can target a specific distribution between males vs. females or children vs. adults.
Example: 50% between 18-35 years old, 50% over 35 years old
Example: 25% male children, 25% female children, 25% male adults, 25% female adults
These linguistic and demographic variables can usually be summed up by a short statement about your target demographic(s).
Example: Indian children speaking English, split evenly by gender.
Example: German native speakers, currently living in Germany.
Example: Native and non-native English speakers worldwide.
How much speech data you need to train your recognition algorithms will impact the number of participants you need to recruit, plus the number of utterances per participant.
5. Number of participants
How many total speakers will you need?
If the collection includes several languages, how many participants will you need per target language? And if your collection includes several demographics, what is the desired breakdown per demographic group?
Example: 50 American English speakers, 50 British English speakers
6. Number of utterances and repetitions
You’ll also need to consider the number of utterances you need per participant, or the total number of utterances needed for the collection as a whole.
Example: 20 participants x 50 utterances per participant = 1000 total repetitions
You can tailor the collection’s script and workflow to the type of speech recognition data you need.
7. Scripted vs. Natural Language
Do you require scripted or natural language?
In scripted speech, each participant reads aloud what they see on a screen. This method is used to record specific voice commands or utterances.
Example: Participant reads “Alexa, turn off my music” off the screen
In unscripted speech, or natural language, participants may be given a particular scenario in which they are asked to form their own sentences. Or, they may just be asked to speak freely.
Example: Participant is asked to come up with a command to turn off the music and says “Alexa, please turn the music off now”
8. Script structure
If your collection is scripted, how many different scripts does it include? Is it one unique script read by each participant, or are there several scripts read by several subsets of the participant pool? Is it a unique script for each participant?
Example: Half of the female participants read one script, the other half read a different script.
Does the script combine combination sentences (e.g. a wake word + a command) and regular sentences?
Example: A combination of all wake words and all commands:
[Alexa] Play songs by the Beatles
[Okay Google] Play songs by the Beatles
[Hey Siri] Play Songs by the Beatles
[Alexa] What time is it?
[Okay Google] What time is it?
[Hey Siri] What time is it?
9. Special script instructions
Are specific background noises targeted as the script is being read?
Example: Recordings should take place in a crowded shopping mall with lots of noise in the background.
Do the special instructions relate to how the utterances must be read by participants? If so, we’ll need to specify the distribution of these special instructions in the script.
Example: “Read this sentence more quickly than usual” or “Read this sentence louder than usual”
Audio requirements have a big impact on how we collect speech recognition data.
If you require studio-quality speech recordings, we typically turn to in-field collections or a voiceover artist, which typically increases costs.
If you have looser audio requirements (or requirements that are more easily achievable through a phone or headset), it’s likely that remote data collection through our online data collection platform can achieve your collection goals at a more affordable cost.
10. Audio Quality
Is background noise acceptable in your speech data? And do you have any sampling/bit rate, peak amplitude, or SNR (signal-to-noise ratio) requirements?
Example: If you need to control background noise, your collection will be better suited for an in-person collection, as opposed to remotely through an app.
11. Audio Formats
Do you have audio channel requirements? As in, do you require stereo or mono recordings?
Example: Cell phones can only record audio in mono, so recording in stereo requires an in-person collection.
Do you have any file format and compression requirements?
Example: Are you looking for 8kHz/8-bit phone conversations or higher quality audio at 16-bits/16kHz?
File output requirements usually depend on the end audio that the model needs to recognize. If you are training a model for phone conversations, you will likely need an audio output sampled in 8kHz to train on the lower-quality of phone lines.
If the end product requires higher-quality audio, then it also makes sense to train the system on that same audio quality.
12. Audio Structure
Do you have any structure or post-processing requirements for the recordings or files?
For example, do you require any leading or trailing silences? Do noises like taps or clicks need to be removed? Do files need to be stitched together?
You can also customize how the audio files are delivered to you.
13. Transcription or labeling requirements
Do you require speech data transcription before delivery? Do you have particular labeling, noise-marking, or segmentation rules?
14. File naming conventions
Do you have a specific file naming convention that needs to be followed? If yes, do you expect your data provider to deliver files in that format?
Depending on the complexity, requiring a particular file naming convention could require extra development and therefore could result in higher costs.
15. Delivery method & cadence
Do you have a specific delivery method (platform or process) to be followed? Do you have specific security requirements?
Example: Delivery over cloud storage vs. an SFTP server
Do you want the data delivered in milestones, or all the data delivered at once?
Example: 25% of the data is delivered on a bi-weekly basis over a period of 2 months
Choosing a Custom Speech Data Provider
When looking for a speech data provider, it’s highly recommended that you choose a data vendor that offers a customizable, flexible setup.
Because even if your speech data collection needs are fairly cookie cutter to start, they may evolve in complexity over time.
And if you’ve handcuffed yourself to an inflexible data provider with limited abilities to innovate, you could end up losing time and money when switching over to another provider or trying to customize your setup in-house.
As innovators in the speech collection space, Summa Linguae Technologies offers flexible, customizable data services that evolve with your needs.
To see how we can help you with your data collection project, learn more about our speech data collection services here.
More Data Collection Resources
Looking for resources to assist with your data collection project? Check out these helpful resources:
- The Ultimate Guide to Data Collection – Learn how to collect data for emerging technology.
- Building an Advanced Smart Home AI – What data collection is necessary to build a modern smart home AI system?
Sample Dataset Downloads
- Alexa Wake Word Dataset – 24 custom multilingual Alexa wake word samples to hear the difference data variance makes for your voice assistant.
- Eye Gaze Sample Set – Get a sample of high-quality eye gaze data.
- Road, Car, and People Dataset – Training a system that requires road image data? Download our sample dataset.
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A 17-year-old German student contends PayPal has denied him a reward for finding a vulnerability in its website.
Robert Kugler said he notified PayPal of the vulnerability on May 19. He said he was informed by email that because he is under 18 years old, he did not qualify for its Bug Bounty Program. He will turn 18 next March.
PayPal, which is owned by auction site eBay, outlines the terms and conditions for its Bug Bounty Program on its website, but does not appear to have an age guideline. PayPal officials did not have an immediate comment.
Many companies such as Google and Facebook have reward programs. The programs are intended to create an incentive for researchers to privately report issues and allow vendors to release fixes before hackers take advantage of flaws.
Facebook pays a minimum of US$500 for qualifying bugs, while Google pays from $100 up to $20,000 depending on the severity of the issue. Neither has an age restriction listed on their websites. Microsoft does not pay for security vulnerability information, but instead publicly acknowledges the work. PayPal does not list what it will pay a researcher for a bug.
Kugler is listed as a contributor in a Microsoft list from April of security researchers. He said he received rewards for finding vulnerabilities in the past. Mozilla paid him US$1,500 for finding a problem in the Firefox browser last year and $3,000 earlier this year for another bug.
PayPal requires that those reporting bugs have a verified PayPal account. Kugler said he asked PayPal that any bounty be paid into his parent's account.
At minimum, Kugler would like PayPal to acknowledge his finding and send him some documentation "that I can use in a job application," he wrote via email. So far, he hasn't received anything.
The details of the vulnerability, a cross-site scripting flaw (XSS), is posted on Full Disclosure section Seclists.org, a forum for disclosing security vulnerabilities.
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The magnetic field directly penetrates the metal in the coil, making the electrons inside the metal active, thereby achieving the effect of rapidly heating the metal itself.
Using this principle, people have invented a new equipment that can smelt metal more quickly, which is an induction furnace.
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A classical school laboratory experiment is to heat hydrated copper sulfate in a crucible to determine the percent by mass of water of hydration, and x in the formula CuSO4·xH2O.
Enter your values and then click Calculations:
The percent by mass of water of hydration is calculated as the mass of water of hydration divided by the mass of hydrated copper sulfate.
In the formula CuSO4·xH2O, x is calculated as the amount of water of hydration divided by the amount of anhydrous copper sulfate.
Molar masses were calculated using Molar Mass Calculator and rounded to four significant figures.
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Having an online presence is an essential part of any business’s marketing strategy, but sometimes creating a website falls pretty far down the to-do list. Perhaps you’re among the 59 percent of Canadian small businesses that don’t have a website. With a typical Canadian spending 45 hours online per month (more than any other nation) and 63 percent of consumers saying that having a website makes a business look more credible, now is the perfect time to hire a website designer or developer to help you get going and set up an online store.
What is a website designer or developer?
The two titles bring two different skill sets to the table. As the name suggests, website designers focus on the visual design of websites and developers are more involved on the coding side, often working in collaboration with graphic designers to build sites.
Some website designers are also good coders, but this isn’t always a given since their focus is on the design aspect of the website. Many of them specialize in hosted eCommerce website builders such as WooCommerce or BigCommerce, or drag-and-drop code-free website builders like Wix and Weebly. Visit Square App Marketplace to find out more about code-free websites that work in partnership with your Square Dashboard.
Website developers (or coders) are engineers that create websites from scratch — using coding — so they can build more detailed functionalities on your website. Developers usually focus on functionality more than design, so it’s a good idea to also hire a graphic designer to create compelling visuals for your website.
How to find a website developer or designer
Word-of-mouth and personal recommendations are a great way to find a website developer or designer, but here are a couple of ways you can search for one from scratch:
- Assess websites in your industry Look at other businesses’ websites to find a style that you like, and then contact the owner to find out which developer or designer was used.
- Look for themes at the footer of websites If someone used a drag-and-drop website builder, then the name of the app and the theme will probably be on the bottom of the home page — this means that a website designer will be able to find the same theme or style for your site.
- Check local job listings Search online for local website developers and designers. Try websites such as LinkedIn, Upwork, Fiverr for budget projects, 99 Designs for graphic design and BigCommerce for certified experts.
- Ask for previous work Always ask for examples of work and present a clear brief with an expectation of the scope of work to be done. Some freelancers ask for a 50 percent deposit up front. If that’s the case, it’s important to get testimonials from other satisfied customers before making a financial commitment.
The cost of hiring a website developer or designer
Have a clear idea of what you want and what you need from your website. Do you only need a website designer to create a simple site through a drag-and-drop website builder? Or do you need a developer to fully code your site from scratch?
Website developers and designers can work remotely (so you’re not limited by geographical location), but it’s worth bearing in mind that cheaper rates can sometimes mean sacrificing the convenience of having someone local that can meet with you face to face to run through the details of your project.
Website designers and developers may offer project or hourly rates. Here’s a general idea of costs, ultimately, the only way to estimate costs is to talk to a developer or designer.
Website developer costs:
|Type of Design||Description||Average Hourly Rate|
|Basic Site||One page of simple coding for a simple landing page||$19–$50+|
|CMS Code Customization||Simple customization of your page’s Drupal or WordPress code to increase functionality||$40–$95+|
|Fully Customized Site Code||Large project (usually for a big brand), that builds a website from code||$95–$195|
Website designer costs:
|Type of Design||Description||Average Hourly Rate|
|Basic Site||A one-page site with few elements, basic layout and UI||$19–$50+|
|CMS Website||Themes and designs that work directly with your CMS, such as WordPress or Drupal||$25–$65+|
|Customized Website||Customized, designed website with added functionality||$60–$95|
Discuss hours needed beforehand in a creative brief or project outline that lays out exactly what you need and when you need it; expect even a small project to take at least 10 hours.
Creative briefs should also include some background about your business, target market information and any other data and visuals that will help your website builder. Here’s a [list] (https://www.canva.com/learn/effective-design-brief/) of what website designers need to know, plus a template for your own creative brief to get you started.
The benefits of hiring a website developer or designer
Having a professional online presence is an important marketing tool, whether it’s a literal shop front for an online business or a portfolio of your experience.
Website designers know how to produce eye-catching but user-friendly designs, and website developers can create customized functions for your business — from online ordering for a coffee shop to an appointment calendar for a salon, or even an animated visual for a dog-walking service.
While it’s possible to create your own drag-and-drop website, hiring a website designer takes the stress out of trying to DIY a design and gives you back valuable time to spend on other aspects of your business. Website developers can help you take your ideas for a website and turn them into a reality.
Integrating apps into your website
Square sellers can choose from a range of customizable apps that website designers and developers use to create eCommerce sites and add-ons to existing websites. You can even build your own online store using integrated apps such as Wix, Weebly, WooCommerce and BigCommerce. Make a mobile-friendly online store using GoCentral, integrate in-person and online shopping with Magento for Square or create cross-platform online stores with Ecwid. Work with a website developer or designer to use customizable eCommerce apps such as Drupal Commerce, OpenCart, 3dcart or Zen Cart, and create custom native iOS and Android apps that integrate with your Square hardware using Unbound Commerce.
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Nikola Motor Company has chosen Nel ASA as the sole equipment supplier to create the largest hydrogen network in the world that will cover over 2,000 miles and include 16 stations. Nikola says it has already kicked off two of the 16 stations and 14 more will follow immediately after installation.
“Nikola Motor Company is leading the way for hydrogen in the world,” says Nikola CEO Trevor Milton. “Nikola has issued Nel a purchase order for the first two stations, based on Nel’s alkaline electrolysers and H2Station technology. Our teams have decided to double our initial station number to 16 by reducing the size of the stations and create more hydrogen lanes.”
“We have thousands of trucks that have been reserved and need to be delivered. The stations are the first step to completing that process,” says Scott Perry, Nikola’s chief operating officer. “Nel has delivered over 3,500 hydrogen solutions in over 80 countries since 1927. We are confident they can deliver.”
Nikola says each station is anticipated to have the following specifications:
- Nel ASA to provide engineering, electrolysis, and fueling equipment. Nikola will provide the balance of plant, construction, dispensers and other station equipment.
- Hydrogen stations will initially produce up to eight tons daily, but can also be expanded up to 32 tons per day
- Each Nikola truck is anticipated to consume around 50-75 kgs per day
- Each Nikola truck will store between two and three megawatt hours (mWh) of energy.
- Each station will have around 4,000 kgs of backup storage for redundancy
- Each station is anticipated to produce hydrogen at 700 bar (10,000 psi) and 350 bar (5,000 psi)
- Nikola will allow all hydrogen vehicles to fill at our stations
Nikola’s objective is to produce hydrogen through zero emission methods whenever possible by using wind, solar and hydro-electricity. Milton recently spoke at the Zero Conference in Norway about the company’s plans to reduce the emission from production to consumption. Nikola says it is also exploring partnerships in Europe. | <urn:uuid:8d16c306-304d-4ad6-85b4-8eda2cf1e8fc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.truckpartsandservice.com/economic-trends/indicators/article/14987264/nikola-motor-company-chooses-nationwide-hydrogen-supplier | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.958278 | 445 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Columbia University at New York is one of the most esteemed universities in the United States and provides full scholarships to the deserving candidate.
Columbia University is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City. Established in 1754, Columbia is the oldest institution of higher education in New York and additionally, it is the fifth oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.
Moreover, Columbia ranks 5th in National Universities in the 2018 edition of Best Colleges. Additionally, as of 2018, it ranks 16th in the QS World Universities Ranking.
Primarily, Columbia is comprised of three undergraduate schools – Columbia College, The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the School of General Studies.
Furthermore, Columbia offers more than 80 areas of study with some number of disciplines.
Columbia University Scholarship Award
- Columbia is need-blind for both domestic and international applicants.
- It meets the full demonstrated need of every admitted student.
Columbia University Eligibility
Columbia is one of the most selective colleges in the whole United States. It has an acceptance rate of only 6%.
Considering this, the eligibility for admission and scholarship is highly competitive. However, few deserving candidates may get full scholarships at Columbia University.
- Applicant should be able to demonstrate high academic competitiveness.
- High GPA and SAT’s score may bolster the chance of getting in.
- Demonstration of own’s personality through their application essay.
- Active participation in extra-curricular activities.
- Involvement in community service and leadership enabling platforms.
- Passionate about world problems and eager to solve them.
Columbia University Financial Aid Details
- Admission office makes the decision regarding one’s admission regardless of the financial situation of the applicant.
- Furthermore, Columbia has probably the best scholarship budget with over $160 million each year.
- Total financial aid awarded to international students was $17 million.
Columbia University Application Process
All applicants apply through the Common Application portal.
Additionally, applicants need to submit the following documents:
- Columbia Writing Supplement different application portal.
- Guidance Counselor Evaluation
- High School Transcripts
- Mid-year Report
- Teacher’s recommendation (at least 2)
- SAT scores
- English Proficiency Test Scores i.e. TOEFL/IELTS
For Early Decision: 1 November
Notification: Mid December
For Regular Decision: January 1
Notification: Late March
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Fit Body, Fit Brain and Other Fitness Trends
For those of you who thought working out was just good for your waistline and general condition there is now another very good reason to consider adding that fitness goal to your new year’s resolutions, read on to discover how your brain performance will benefit from you being fit!
The most persistent theme in exercise science in 2015 was that to live long, age well and maintain both a nimble mind and shapely brain, we must be physically active, but not for as long as many of us might fear or in the ways that many of us might guess.
Certainly the most encouraging exercise research this year focused on the links between regular exercise and improvements in our thinking and the structure of our brains. I’ve often written in past years about how exercise — usually running, especially in animal studies — increases the number of new neurons in the brain and sharpens thinking skills and mood, especially as we age.
But this year, interest among scientists in exercise and brain health seemed to reach a critical mass. Many of the new studies highlighted previously unexplored ways in which exercise changes our brains and minds. One of my favorites was a brain-scan study in which Japanese scientists found that the brains of fit older men were almost as efficient as the brains of young people.
This finding meant, in practice, that the aerobically fit older men’s brains used fewer resources during thinking than the brains of out-of-shape men of the same age, much as a fit body can use less energy to perform the same physical task as one that is less fit. This study introduced me to a cautionary scientific acronym, Harold, for hemispheric asymmetry reduction in older adults, a weakening of the function of aging brains that I now fervently hope to avoid or lessen by regularly working out… | <urn:uuid:e5f1f614-89fe-4ad9-9ef7-3e4e87092fc4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.betterhealthsolutions.org/fit-body-fit-brain-and-other-fitness-trends/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.971523 | 375 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Although blood group studies cannot be used to prove paternity, they can provide unequivocal evidence that a male is not the father of a particular child. Since the red cell antigens are inherited as dominant traits, a child cannot have a blood group antigen that is not present in one or both parents. For example, if the child in question belongs to group A and both the mother and the putative father are group O, the man is excluded from paternity. The table shows the phenotypes (observed characters) of the offspring that can and cannot be produced in the matings on the ABO system, considering only the three alleles (alternative genes) A, B, and O. Similar inheritance patterns are seen in all blood group systems. Furthermore, if one parent is genetically homozygous for a particular antigen—that is, has inherited the gene for it from both the grandfather and grandmother of the child—then that antigen must appear in the blood of the child. For example, on the MN system, a father whose phenotype is M and whose genotype is MM (in other words, a man who is of blood type M and has inherited the characteristic from both parents) will transmit an M allele to all his progeny.
|matings||possible children||impossible children|
|O × O||O||A, B, AB|
|O × A||O, A||B, AB|
|O × B||O, B||A, AB|
|O × AB||A, B||O, AB|
|A × A||O, A||B, AB|
|A × B||O, A, B, AB|
|A × AB||A, B, AB||O|
|B × B||O, B||A, AB|
|B × AB||A, B, AB||O|
|AB × AB||A, B, AB||O|
In medicolegal work it is important that the blood samples are properly identified. By using multiple red cell antigen systems and adding additional studies on other blood types (HLA [human leukocyte antigen], red cell enzymes, and plasma proteins), it is possible to state with a high degree of statistical certainty that a particular male is the father.
Blood groups and disease
In some cases an increased incidence of a particular antigen seems to be associated with a certain disease. Stomach cancer is more common in people of group A than in those of groups O and B. Duodenal ulceration is more common in nonsecretors of ABH substances than in secretors. For practical purposes, however, these statistical correlations are unimportant. There are other examples that illustrate the importance of blood groups to the normal functions of red cells.
In persons who lack all Rh antigens, red cells of altered shape (stomatocytes) and a mild compensated hemolytic anemia are present. The McLeod phenotype (weak Kell antigens and no Kx antigen) is associated with acanthocytosis (a condition in which red cells have thorny projections) and a compensated hemolytic anemia. There is evidence that Duffy-negative human red cells are resistant to infection by Plasmodium knowlesi, a simian malaria parasite. Other studies indicate that P. falciparum receptors may reside on glycophorin A and may be related to the Wrb antigen.
Blood group incompatibility between mother and child can cause erythroblastosis fetalis (hemolytic disease of the newborn). In this disease IgG blood group antibody molecules cross the placenta, enter the fetal circulation, react with the fetal red cells, and destroy them. Only certain blood group systems cause erythroblastosis fetalis, and the severity of the disease in the fetus varies greatly. ABO incompatibility usually leads to mild disease. Rh, or D antigen, incompatibility is now largely preventable by treating Rh-negative mothers with Rh immunoglobulin, which prevents immunization (forming antibodies) to the D antigen. Many other Rh antigens, as well as other red cell group antigens, cause erythroblastosis fetalis. The baby may be anemic at birth, which can be treated by transfusion with antigen-negative red cells. Even total exchange transfusion may be necessary. In some cases, transfusions may be given while the fetus is still within the uterus (intrauterine transfusion). Hyperbilirubinemia (an increased amount of bilirubin, a breakdown product of hemoglobin, in the blood) may lead to neurological deficits. Exchange transfusion eliminates most of the hemolysis by providing red cells, which do not react with the antibody. It also decreases the amount of antibody and allows the child to recover from the disease. Once the antibody disappears, the child’s own red cells survive normally. | <urn:uuid:1984f63c-7dfd-4470-b8c5-9fae13a5b7fb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.britannica.com/science/blood-group/Paternity-testing | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.911548 | 1,020 | 3.75 | 4 |
Strategic interaction in fiction
What unites the HBO's Succession, Trump's The Apprentice, Venkat's Gervais Principle, and Jane Austen's novels? They're about strategic interaction. Specifically, strategic interaction in either high society, business, or the blurry confluence of both.
I'm a big believer that a lot of art and fiction is about mapping the human predicament, and a lot of the human predicament is 1) social, 2) strategic. Hence how we got here. This is the place to break down fictional show-downs, dramatic battles of wits, and Dale Carnegie-style maneuvers. Impression management, careful language, powertalk, and keeping upwind.
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S1E1, Succession. Tom and Shiv, fiance and fiancee, are chatting about Shiv's dad's (Logan) upcoming birthday.
Tom: Shiv, it's a fucking disaster. I need to strategize my gift. What can I get him he'll love?
Shiv: I don't know, my dad doesn't really like things.
Tom: It needs to say I respect you, but I'm not awed by you. And that I like you, but I need you to like me before I can love you.
Shiv: Look everything you get him will mean equal amount of nothing, so make sure it looks like ten to fifteen grand's worth and you're good.
Jane Austen, as we'll see, believes that couples are the ultimate strategic units: at their best, marked by deep trust, shared exposure/experience, and united in joint interest. Tom and Shiv's problem, as we'll also come to see, is that they're not exactly united in interest or trust. But Tom, at least at this stage, believes they are, hence the strategizing.
The other thing I like about this excerpt is that Tom explicitly frames the gift as a communication. "It needs to say" X and Y. It has a purpose, and that purpose is manipulating their relationship (Tom and Logan's). Tom's longterm goal, as future seasons reveal, is to take over the company as CEO, a position Logan currently holds, and thus their relationship—specfically, Logan's impression and opinion of Tom—is crucial.
Here's one of the great scenes from House of Games, whose motto could be "Everybody gets something out of every transaction."
Here's our setup: Margaret is a best-selling psychiatrist so overwhelmed by work, so frustrated by her helplessness to meaningfully improve her patients’ lives, that she enters a manic state, shows up in a pool hall across town and starts threatening a loanshark who is pressuring a patient of hers. It’s no coincidence that a literal financial debt is the MacGuffin that makes this plot run.
The loanshark, Mike, turns out to be more petty conman than gangster; Margaret’s intrigued. His bluffing and persuasion tactics sound like a great idea for her next bestseller. She asks him to show her his moves. It’s clear what she’s getting out of it—another book, excitement in her life, a model of masculine assertiveness. (Mike: “I think what draws you to me is this: I’m not afraid to examine the rules and to assert myself.”) But it’s not clear what he’s getting out of it, and Margaret never stops to ask. This is her first major error.
Mike takes her to the Western Union pictured, pulls a con on a wholesome, off-duty marine who needs a bus ticket to Camp Pendleton. The con works by presenting false information—after all, values are hard to alter, but it's priors that regulate action. At the last minute, when the marine’s practically begging Mike to take his money, Mike walks away, tells him to keep it. Remember Schelling: small series of trust-building exchanges are “practice” for the real thing. Why would Mike skip out on the money; he’s a criminal. Because he doesn’t want to appear that way, as a bad guy. He’s gaining Margaret’s confidence. The marine’s not the real mark. She is.
Eventually and predictably, the bestselling psychiatrist (hat-tip to Game A) gets scammed out of $80k in cash, believing, under false pretenses, that it’s a mob payoff—that the payment, in cash, handed over to Mike, will save her life. How could she be so gullible? He told her what she wanted, then he gave it to her. She was getting everything she ever wanted. The real question is: Why would she ask questions?
This is exploitative manipulation, in the "all communication is manipulation, but some is mutually advantageous and some is exploitative" sense. It isn’t exploitative because he lied to her, or because his intentions were “bad.” It’s exploitative because their relationship took more from her than it delivered in turn, and because it was designed, deceptively, to do so. The final scene, where (spoilers) Margaret shoots Mike to death in an abandoned airport hanger, marks the end of their ongoing transaction—the part where they “settle up.” The final scenes show her so healthy and self-contented she’s practically glowing. She’s taken life into her own hands—asserted herself. It’s a comedy because it ends happy, and it ends happy because she walks away from it better than she started.
Venkat's "Gervais Principle" speculates that an org tends to have three kinds of employees: sociopaths, the clueless, and losers. Sociopaths are in a constant battle for power and dominance. The clueless are "company men" who genuinely believe in the organization and are too stupid to think critically about their situation. Losers are those at the bottom who make a straightforward exchange of time for money while still looking out for their self-interest, they tend to find meaning outside the organization, and the most enlightened among them do the minimum work possible to keep coasting.
These three groups talk to each other in different dialects: powertalk, posturetalk, babytalk, and straight-talk. Powertalk occurs whenever sociopaths encounter each other. Sociopaths see power in every interaction, and thus every conversation and exchange of information between them leads to power shifts, and must be controlled meticulously to maintain maximum power.
What distinguishes Powertalk is that with every word uttered, the power equation between the two speakers shifts just a little. Sometimes both gain slightly, at the expense of some poor schmuck. Sometimes one yields ground to the other. Powertalk in other words, is a consequential language.
Babytalk is equally manipulative, but is done asymmetrically, to those clueless who are unable to speak powertalk or detect when babytalk is being spoken to them. Enlightened losers and high-up sociopaths both speak babytalk to clueless managers.
Posturetalk is a clueless attempt at powertalk. Straight talk—what @amirism might call a straightforward discussion of the "rules of the game"—can only occur between individuals who have nothing to lose or gain: "It is the ordinary (if rare) utilitarian language of the sane, with no ulterior motives flying around. The mean-what-you-say-and-say-what-you-mean stuff between two people in a fixed, asymmetric power relationship, who don’t want or need to play real or fake power games."
Venkat goes on to give an example from The Office of fluent powertalk, here between enlightened loser Jim and sociopathic powerhouse David Wallace.
At a Dunder-Mifflin management party, shortly after Michael and Jan disclose their affair to David Wallace, per HR requirements, Wallace casually invites Jim to blow off the party for a while and shoot hoops in the backyard. Once outside, Wallace nonchalantly asks, “So what’s up with Jan and Michael?” He is clearly fishing for information, having observed the bizarre couple dynamics at the party.
Jim replies, “I wouldn’t know…(pregnant pause)…where to begin.” (slight laugh)
David Wallace laughs in return. This is as eloquent as such a short fragment of Powertalk can get. Here are just some of the messages being communicated by the six words and the meaningful pause and laugh.
- Message 1: It is a complex situation (literal).
- Message 2: I understand you think something bizarre is going on. I am confirming your suspicion. It is a bizarre mess, and you should be concerned.
- Message 3: This is the first significant conversation between us, and I am signaling to you that I am fluent in Powertalk.
- Message 4: I know how to communicate useful information while maintaining plausible deniability.
- Message 5: I am not so gratified at this sign of attention from you that I am going to say foolish things that could backfire on me.
- Message 6: I am aware of my situational leverage and the fact that you need me. I am not so overawed that I am giving it all up for free.
- Message 7: I am being non-committal enough that you can pull back or steer this conversation to safer matters if you like. I know how to give others wiggle room, safe outs and exits.
- Message 8: You still have to earn my trust. But let’s keep talking. What do you have that I could use?
Crucially in powertalk, you play with real table stakes; "the currency is most often reality-information." (i.e. epistemic capital, as valuable as symbolic capital) The other dialects (Venkat claims) play without stakes. I don't quite understand this, because posturetalk and babytalk both seem to attempt, manipulatively, to bring about realities (i.e. there are stakes, the speakers are trying to make something happen). They're just performed by, or received by, the incompetents/clueless.
(Sidenote: I've been wondering if it'd be useful to drag in Carse's finite vs infinite games, because it doesn't seem like a coincidence that this kind of interaction happens so much in business and high society (that is, over literal and symbolic capital). There are ways of being that seem more cooperative and less full of conflict, where strategic interaction looks very very different—more like improv, less like warfare.)
Theory of mind is one of the biggest skills that makes a sociopath a sociopath—though, as Jane Austen illustrates in her fiction, there is a blindspot insofar as high status people do not actively model the mentalities of low status people, which leads them to misunderstand their subordinates' motivations. So is context-sensitivity: the clueless, in Venkat/Ricky Gervais's formulation, fail in part by following "formulas" for behavior, without an artfulness in deploying them. Thus, in a salary negotiation, Michael Scott "prints off negotiation tactics from Wikipedia and attempts to use a series of recommended formulaic tactics. First he tries switching chairs and rooms to disorient Darryl. He merely disorients himself. Next he tries to follow a rule 'not to be the first to speak.' Sadly, he can't stand the tension, and oblivious to the irony, breaks the silence with 'I will not be the first to speak.' At which point Darryl calmly comes back with, 'Alright, I can start.'" In other words, like all human social assessments (cf flirting), the symbols or metonyms that can encode or signal deeper qualities, the markers of power must either be hard-to-fake, either by being costly or being anti-inductive.
Why can’t you learn Sociopath tactics from a book or Wikipedia? It is not that the tactics themselves are misguided, but that their application by non-Sociopaths is usually useless, for three reasons.The first is that you have to decide what tactics to use and when, based on a real sense of the relative power and alignment of interests with the other party, which the Losers and Clueless typically lack. This real-world information is what makes for tactical surprise. Otherwise your application of even the most subtle textbook tactics can be predicted and easily countered by any Sociopath who has also read the same book. Null information advantage. The second reason is that tactics make sense only in the context of an entire narrative (including mutual assessments of personality, strengths, weaknesses and history) of a given interpersonal relationship. The Clueless have no sense of narrative rationality, and the Losers are too trapped in their own stories to play to other scripts. Both the Clueless and Losers are too self-absorbed to put in much work developing accurate and usable mental models of others. The result is one-size-fits-all-situations tactical choices which are easily anticipated and deflected.
Note: both of these reasons can be summed up by "context-sensitivity." This is a real cognitive skill! It takes serious computation! In that vein, I'm tempted to say that winning in anti-inductive games is not so much a costly signal as it is an indice, much like the depth of an elephant seal's roar is directly, causally, and unfakeably correlated with body size.
Also interesting from "Gervais Principle," on spirit vs letter:
So effective Sociopaths stick with steadfast discipline to the letter of the law, internal and external, because the stupidest way to trip yourself up is in the realm of rules where the Clueless and Losers get to be judges and jury members. What they violate is its spirit, by taking advantage of its ambiguities. Whether this makes them evil or good depends on the situation.
(Some of the ideas here come from Michael Suk-Young Chwe; I'll just add a MSC citation after those lines.)
Austen has a number of names, in her novels, for different parts of strategic interaction: "foresight" (in the sense of prediction and simulation), "sagacity," and "penetration" (in the sense of seeing through appearances, to reality) [MSC]. Sense and Sensibility's Elinor "possessed a strength of understanding, and coolness of judgment"—clear perception, unbiased by emotions, being two of the "gamesman" qualities Goffman singles out in his own Strategic Interaction.
And strategic maneuvering, especially in matters of courtship and finance (tied up as they are in matters of inheritance and dowry), is the foundation of Austen's drama. MSC:
Lucy Steele, a distant cousin of Lady Middleton, confides in Elinor [who has had somewhat of a tryst with Edward] that she has been secretly engaged with Edward for four years. Elinor easily understands Lucy's strategic objective in telling her so: "it required no other consideration of probabilities to make it natural that Lucy should be jealous; and that she was so, her very confidence was a proof. What other reason for the disclosure of the affair could there be, but that Elinor might be informed by it of Lucy's superior claims on Edward, and be taught to avoid him in the future?"
Later, Elinor reveals to her sister Marianne that, on receiving this information, she realized quickly that Lucy's "suspicions" had to be "opposed," principally by "endeavouring to appear indifferent where [she was in actuality] most deeply interested." MSC calls this "self-command" on Elinor's part, a strategic ("sensible") restraint in contrast with Marianne's cult of "sensual" sensibility, her romantic inclination toward emotional expression at all times. Austen, as I read her, takes the side not of authenticity—as romantic worldviews do, with their worship of "sincerity" and self-expression as ends in themselves—but rather sees authenticity or inauthenticity as instruments which can be used productively or unproductively as ends.
One of the principle biases affecting characters in Austen's novels is that of "eagerness of mind" (as S&S's Marianne is attributed). It is an overactive imagination [MSC] and a desire to believe some preferred state of affairs rather than face reality. The two other primary strategic impediments are what MSC calls being a "strategic sophomore"—in short, being overly confident in one's strategic abilities—and being naive or "clueless," in the same sense Venkat intends, of uncritically taking public appearances as genuine reality. MSC:
Mrs. Dashwood's belief in Willoughby is based largely on his manner and appearance: "Has not his behaviour to Marianne and to all of us, for at least the last fortnight, declared that he loved and considered her as his future wife?"
When an overactive imagination and sophomoric overconfidence combine, we see characters like Emma Woodhouse or Marianne Dashwood making inappropriately sized inferential/abductive leaps from their observed information. Thus, when Colonel Brandon in S&S tells a story of a woman of whom Marianne reminds him, Elinor (Austen's ideal strategist) "connect[s] his emotion with the tender recollection of past regard," but does not attempt—since she has no evidence to base it on—any further speculation as to in what way he tenderly regards this woman, or the specifics of their history. It is enough, for her, to have firm reasons for believing only that the regard is tender, and their history meaningful. Marianne, meanwhile, "would not have done so little," Austen writes—"The whole story would have been speedily formed under her active imagination." This is a species of epistemic humility that we might call abductive humility, perhaps somewhat related to Sarah's concept of "indexical geniuses," who refuse to speculate into generalizations. (We might say Elinor is in a Goldilocks zone of abductive ambition, whereas Marianne is too hot and Sarah's indexical geniuses are too cold.)
Who is Greg, in Succession? A cousin of the primary family, strategically clueless, hopelessly naive, and somehow promoted up the ranks of the family company by upper exec Tom. Here's a good portrait of his personality (watch him posturetalk Logan ninety seconds in):
What do we already know about him, without getting into details? From Goffman comes the concept of players, parties, and pawns. Players play on behalf of a party (e.g. an ambassador plays for a country) but may also be their own party in a given situation. Pawns also work on behalf of a party, but their participation is more passive than active: they are used, often at personal cost and harm, to further the party’s goals. Players typically act on a party’s behalf because it is also, simultaneously, in their own interest (up to a point). No similar alignment exists for pawns, although they may be tricked into believing it does.
From Venkatesh Rao we get the phenomenon by which sociopaths, that is, strategic, selfish powerplayers, at high levels of organizations, promote “clueless” (strategically incompetent) players to middle management positions, so that they can be manipulated and, if a project goes south, take the fall on behalf of the sociopath. This is a kind of cronyism, the cronyism of sociopaths to the clueless: the sociopath gains cronies who will support him unconditionally, and uncritically implement or further his agendas, while also gaining a fall-guy.
And we get a similar dynamic in Jane Austen’s Emma. Wealthy, high-class protagonist Emma Woodhouse rears orphan Harriet Smith, hoping to give her some necessary cultural and etiquette instruction and improve her marriageability. The relationship isn’t quite as exploitative as the sociopaths’ toward clueless cronies, but there is a similar logic: Emma gives Harriet greater power and agency, and since they are allies, this increases Emma’s power in turn, since Harriet is now both more indebted to her and more powerful.
Greg ends up taking the hit so hard he has to testify in front of Congress:
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Bad boy builds beastly Bash bug botnet, boxen battered
DDoS zombie army found in the wild hours after flaw surfaces
Mere hours after its discovery, the Shell Shock Bash vulnerability was exploited by an attacker to build a botnet.
The bot was discovered by researcher known as Yinette, who reported it on her Github account and said it appeared to be remotely controlled by miscreants.
Rapid 7 researcher Jen Ellis noted in a blog the discovery of the distributed denial of service bot, and described the Shellshock bug in detail.
"The vulnerability looks pretty awful at first glance, but most systems with Bash installed will NOT be remotely exploitable as a result of this issue," Ellis said.
"In order to exploit this flaw, an attacker would need the ability to send a malicious environment variable to a program interacting with the network and this program would have to be implemented in Bash, or spawn a sub-command using Bash.
"The most commonly exposed vector is likely going to be legacy web applications that use the standard CGI implementation. On multi-user systems, setuid applications that spawn 'safe' commands on behalf of the user may also be subverted using this flaw."
Attackers that could achieve exploitation would gain the ability to execute arbitrary commands at the same privilege level as the affected process, she said.
Ellis like other security researchers said there was not enough detail yet available to determine the scope of the impact, but the discovery of a botnet hours after news of Shell Shock broke was a concerning sign.
Well, that was fast. Already an IRC bot in the wild using the bash bug: https://t.co/ODYmtnVfTN— HD Moore (@hdmoore) September 25, 2014
She said the simplest action was to roll out Bash patches as soon as they were released including any partial fixes, and to stuff end-of-life wares behind secure firewalls.
News of the bot comes as a fix released by Red Hat was found to be incomplete – although people are urged to apply the patch to thwart most attacks on at-risk systems, another patch is expected soon to close up the hole for good.
Red Hat security engineer Huzaifa Sidhpurwala said Red Hat became aware of the problem with the initial fix, an issue that was also raised by infosec bods on Twitter.
"Red Hat has become aware that the patches shipped for this issue are incomplete. An attacker can provide specially-crafted environment variables containing arbitrary commands that will be executed on vulnerable systems under certain conditions," Sidhpurwala said, noting details of a workaround.
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Since the last decade, Agile software development has emerged as a widely utilized software development method keeping in view the developing countries of South Asia. The literature reports significant challenges and barriers for agile in software industry and thus the area still has significant problems when considered with this domain. This study reports an industrial survey in Pakistani software industry practices and practitioners to elicit the indigenous motivator and demotivators of agile paradigm in Pakistan. This study provides a concrete ranking of motivator and demotivator factors which influence the agile paradigm. A lack of proper training and other identified issues indicate that the adoption of agile is in preliminary phases and serious effort is required to set the direction right for success of agile paradigm and its adopting institutions. The survey is conducted in 23 companies practicing agile organizations and involves 90 agile practitioners. Reports of 67 practitioners were finally selected after careful selection against selection criteria for this study. The results indicate various alarming factors which are different from reported literature on the subject. Tolerance to work is the most important motivating factor among Pakistan agile practitioners, likewise lack of resources is the highest demotivating factor. A detailed ranking list of motivators and demotivators and comprehensive data analysis has been provided in this paper which influences strongly the agile software development issues in Pakistan.
|Number of pages||14|
|Journal||INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED COMPUTER SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS|
|Publication status||Published - 1 Jul 2018|
- Agile software development
- success factors
- agile methods
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XML processing instruction survey
jtauber at jtauber.com
Wed Dec 1 01:55:06 GMT 1999
> I'm interested in the extent to which people are actually using the XML
> processing instruction ( <?xml ) in their XML files, and the extent to
> they find it useful.
You mean the XML Declaration?
It is clearly useful if you use a different character encoding to UTF-8
(hence also US-ASCII) or UTF-16.
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According to the latest annual report by Reporters Without Borders, press freedom and safety for journalists around the world is deteriorating.
The 2019 World Press Freedom Index, compiled by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), shows that the number of countries regarded as safe for journalists has continued to decline while authoritarian regimes strengthen their grip over the media.
After evaluating the state of journalism in 180 countries and territories, only 24% of the countries studied in the RSF Index were classified as “good” for the practice of a free press, a decline when compared to the 2018 ranking of 26%, showing that there exists a substantial climate of fear throughout the industry.
Norway recorded the best score for press freedom, followed by Finland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland, New Zealand, Jamaica, Belgium, and Costa Rica, while Eritrea, North Korea, and Turkmenistan ranked lowest, countries where the level of violence used to persecute journalists who cross authorities appears to know no limits.
Of all the world’s regions, it is the Americas (North and South) that has suffered the greatest deterioration (3.6%) in its regional score measuring the level of press freedom, constraints, and violations in the past year.
An increasingly hostile climate in the United States, which includes yet also goes beyond Donald Trump’s social media comments, saw the US placed 48th, falling three places in this year’s Index, with the media climate classified as “problematic.”
Never before have US journalists been subjected to so many death threats or turned so often to private security firms for protection. Disdain for the media is now such that a man walked into the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis, Maryland, in June 2018 and opened fire, killing four journalists and one other member of the newspaper’s staff. The gunman had repeatedly expressed his hatred for the paper on social networks before carrying out the act.
As for other regions, Eastern Europe and Central Asia continue to rank second-from-last in the Index, the same position they have held for a number of years, while the European Union and Balkans registered the second biggest deterioration (1.7%) in its regional score.
Although the deterioration in its regional score was smaller, the Middle East and North Africa continues to be the most dangerous region for journalists. Africa registered the smallest deterioration in its regional score in the 2019 Index, but also some of the biggest fluctuations in individual country rankings. | <urn:uuid:e5b0509b-9f83-47e1-be8d-7d0bd21e533d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ceo-na.com/opinion/the-state-of-world-press-freedom-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.947553 | 506 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Focus towards Obtain Things Done
It includes to be just one of mankind’s greatest problems; getting centered in just the instant paced, technologies run world we are residing inside of. Articles overload, a common phenomenon, do the job overload another. However getting focused is probably the ideal course for us in direction of get hold of factors done and transfer ahead with our lives and our work. Hence how do we maintain our eye on the ball Though it’s accustomed toward bouncing around in opposition to court towards courtroom?
Focus upon a person thing
Wise words in opposition to a good guy, still maximum of us will relate toward chasing quite possibly a dozen rabbits at the similar period and a pair of elephants. However if we are toward adhere to the sensible words and phrases of Confucius we will consider extra finished and accomplish our goals suddenly. Doing the job upon additional than one particular thing at a period will waste beneficial season. While we substitute against just one activity in direction of a different, it will take our mind season towards readjust and concentration on the minute activity and important season is misplaced within just the transition. The truth remaining that multitasking is a efficiency nightmare.
Eliminate identified distractions
Last week I advised an content material detox in direction of assist us recognise the volume of content that we take in is avoidable. A detox too can help us in the direction of relax and loosen up, an significant portion of awareness and focus. If yourself need toward take get the job done completed, disconnect in opposition to technologies. Flip off all notifications and reminders of e-mails and tweets etcetera. Acquire regulate of all communication and social media and only transfer to them Whilst on your own are geared up in the direction of pay out season there. It’s not very good in direction of just take notifications – human beings are not impressive sufficient in direction of forget about these types of teasers.
Calm the mind
One of our major distractions is not as oneself might contain concept – Facebook – it is our private head racing throughout our minds anytime we are hoping in direction of receive everything completed. People cheeky issues sometimes tempt us away in opposition to the undertaking that requirements performing, or they annoyingly and constantly convey to though we are operating upon endeavor A that endeavor B, C and D continue to be unfinished. Don’t listen, get deal with of your queries and redirect them in direction of the task at hand. A very good path in direction of still the mind is meditation. It can guidance towards silence the continual converse we all experience in opposition to year towards season. It can be a outstanding tips in the direction of attention.
De-cluttering is an additional way in the direction of take out interruptions, if your desk, business office and head are crystal clear, your self are minimising the options for distractions. I constantly begin my 7 days through cleaning my office, nearly anything that was still left lying over against the last week specifications toward be dealt with, your self have to have towards know that there is absolutely nothing oneself have neglected over or left undone. If you obtain into the habit of accomplishing a weekly de-clutter or inside of GTD words and phrases a weekly overview, you can get started the week comfy, focused and prepared for action.
We all comprehend health produces energy; it is moreover a impressive route towards remove tension, as endorphins are unveiled via the pituitary gland in direction of block out emotions of soreness or irritation. Serotonin, a further chemical introduced though exercising, boosts our temper and our really feel of joy. Health and fitness is as well trustworthy for the production of fresh new neurons in the thoughts which allow us to method and retail store content material extra smoothly.
Clarification of Goals
Being distinct concerning our aims and plans will assist us consideration and remain on keep track of. It motivates us to progress and persist Although we are lacking the enthusiasm. If your plans is in the direction of de-clutter your dwelling and be extra organised, your purpose possibly in direction of eradicate strain and bring about serene. For an additional particular person the intent may perhaps be considering the fact that they are putting their home up for sale and will need the Area looking favourable and appealing. It’s substantial in the direction of explain your goals inside invest in towards continue to keep the drive and be certain that what on your own are functioning on is becoming yourself closer to that goal.
The extra we simplify our lives and our careers, the a lot more effort we attain accomplished. Yet we don’t precisely require towards buy function accomplished, we need toward just take the essential assignments carried out, the assignments that generate a difference towards the substantial imagine. A great number of of us busy ourselves undertaking assignments that are unnecessary, losing period upon components that aren’t introducing really worth in direction of our lives or our work opportunities. If on your own can simplify and take away the pointless in opposition to your life oneself will include more time to attention upon what is considerable, and it will moreover become a lot less complicated in the direction of maintain this attention.
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[This post originally went up in September 2014, when it was stuck to the front page, and now that I have reached that point in my backlog it’s time to unstick it and let it go free into the flow. You may also like to be reminded that I wrote something that might interest you… or you may not, in which case stay tuned for new content about global history some time fairly soon.]
Second of the 2014 outputs now! In 2011, as you may remember, I went to a conference in Naples about digital study of charter material. It’s been a long time coming but the proceedings of that conference are now published, in the Beihefte of the Archiv für Diplomatik, and my paper is in there, the last in the volume indeed. It’s called “Poor Tools to Think With: the human space in digital diplomatics” and it’s about database techniques that try not to over-determine structure. Let me put that another way by exemplifying with a paragraph. Taking a data search from the Casserres material as an example, I write:
“I think that, where I have been prepared to deduce here, the deductions are all reasonable, but of course they are not certain. This is not a failing of the database, however; it is an accurate result. There is not enough information to make those judgements, and the data returned from the query accurately reflects that. This design is set up to require the human user to make the final decision, or not. This subset is small enough that I can, even without a computer, establish accurately that we cannot tell which of these [homonymous people] are the same on a logical basis, and I ought not, therefore, to entertain data schemas that would make me do so. We do not, in fact, have to make technical solutions for these problems, because the historian can do as much with the information presented this way as he or she can with it anchored to look-up tables and so on.”
This is coming out of the problem of building a structured database whose purpose is to allow one to identify people without having to identify them to build the database. If this sounds like a problem you too have faced, or expect to, I may have something to say to you! It’s probably as close to a publication of ‘my’ database method as there will be, and on a first read-through possibly actually free of typos, which I have never before managed. I humbly put it before you all.
Grim statistics: this was written in September 2011, revised and submitted in November 2011 and revised after editor’s comments in March 2012 and then again in April 2013. Proofs arrived in December 2013 and it’s taken 9 months to come to press, not what I expect from the Archiv which, last time I dealt with it, went through the whole submission process in that time. From first submission to press would thus be 2 years 11 months, rather below even my long average. But, fortunately indeed for a technical paper, my methods are so low-tech that they remain useful I think…
Full citation: J. Jarrett, “Poor tools to think with. The human space in digital diplomatics” in Antonella Ambrosio, Sébastien Barret & Georg Vogeler (edd.), Digital Diplomatics 2011: the computer as a tool for the diplomatist?, Archiv für Diplomatik Beihefte 14 (Köln 2014), pp. 291-302. | <urn:uuid:5ac6323d-897d-4b02-b0ad-7414fa7cbb0c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tenthmedieval.wordpress.com/2015/08/16/name-in-print-xiv/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.964946 | 748 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Reading In the Dark: Improving Night-time Reading Performance of Tablets and E-readers
Every day, it seems like there’s a new battle in the patent war between smart phone, tablet, and e-reader manufactures. Whether it’s Apple, Samsung, Google, or others, efforts are always underway to remain on top of the technology fight. Often times this is good for consumers, as these companies battle to offer the latest technology innovation to aid their customers.
One innovation that has recently been released addresses a potential health problem that many people never even knew existed. The problem is the light that is emitted by tablets and e-readers and the effect it has one health. Natural light from the sun is important for maintaining one’s biological clock, or their circadian rhythm. Artificial light, especially at night, can have an adverse health effect on various people. This effect may be magnified by the widespread use of tablets or e-readers at night.
Various studies have shown a link between artificial light at night to disruptions in sleep patterns and other types of health problems. One potential cause is that the exposure to light suppresses the secretion of melatonin, a hormone the can affect circadian rhythms. Blue light, in particular, has been shown to have adverse affects. In one major study published by the National Academy of Sciences, “Evening use of light-emitting e-Readers negatively affects sleep, circadian timing, and next-morning alertness.” This could be bad news for many people who have adopted tablets or e-readers instead of books for night-time reading. Teenagers, who find these gadgets indispensable, may be especially vulnerable to these light effects.
The manufacturers of portable devices have been aware of this problem and are starting to come out with interesting solutions. Amazon has released a feature in their recent Fire OS upgrade, called Blue Shade. “Blue Shade is an exclusive Fire OS “Bellini” feature that works behind the scenes to automatically adjust and optimize the backlight for a more comfortable nighttime reading experience.” Blue Shade will utilize specialized filters to limit blue light exposure and allow users to easily add warmer filters and modify brightness for reading at night. As the Kindle Fire is closely tied to the Amazon ecosystem, this feature may be especially important, as Amazon’s customer e-book experience is critical.
Not to be outdone, Apple has been testing its new feature and officially rolled it out in iOS 9.3 in its March product event this week. Night Shift is the new feature that automatically shifts the light created by your iOS display from a bright blue to a warmer tone at night, making it easier to fall asleep. Apple says iOS 9.3 will know when to switch each night based on your location and the clock app.
The Night Shift feature sounds like a great function, but may be the subject of future IP controversies. For example, a third party, F.lux already had released an app for iOS with similar features. F.lux has been working on their technology since 2009 and their technology, according to their website, is “patent pending.” Apple soon banned this app (after F.flux received 200,000 hits in less than 24 hours). F.lux wasn’t too happy and publically called for Apple to reconsider their decision. Perhaps this relationship will yield some sort of licensing deal or may be the source of some future litigation. Both Amazon and Apple are likely pursuing their own patent activities in this area, as well.
Night Shift and Blue Shade both appear to be meaningful additions to their respective Apple and Amazon product families. Their goals are to enhance the user experience and improve on the health and sleep behavior of night-time users. Hopefully these companies won’t be kept up at night worrying about IP matters relating to this useful feature. | <urn:uuid:f8434fe7-7705-49ef-a0d8-879d5420e9fa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.techpats.com/reading-dark-improving-night-time-reading-performance-tablets-e-readers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.953381 | 791 | 2.84375 | 3 |
by Johannes Eulen
Those of us who are above a certain age can remember a time in which, apart from the telegraph and telephone, a connection had to made physically in some way; or someone had to go from point A to point B in person. Now, as the late Stephen Hawking said: “We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain”. This may still be an exaggeration for effect, but it edges ever closer to being the truth.
In a world in which people can be killed remotely by those thousands of miles away, your fridge can tell you that you are out of milk, or your exercise habits can be plotted in real time, the concept of connection has moved from the realm of the metaphysical to an ever-expanding reality.
Undoubtedly, the level and diversity of available connectivity have brought many benefits and enriched lives, and there is clearly no going back. However, a connected world is, in many ways, a more dangerous one, in which scope for creating mayhem increases all the time.
It is “old news” that, for example, power grids can be hacked and disabled; and any government with any foresight (including Bermuda’s) has compiled a list of critical infrastructures and is trying to “harden” it against those with malicious intent. But what if connectivity means that the definition of “critical” is greatly underestimated?
Consider some scenarios.
Autonomous cars become prevalent on the roads, and are convoyed to improve efficient use of road space. But what if the front vehicle, to which all the others are connected, is suddenly seized remotely and stalls? What if the entire network created to enable such traffic management is hacked, and all the autonomous vehicles it controls are disabled, or re-purposed as weapons?
Or imagine that you are the general contractor on a major building site, who has improved your business’s capital efficiency by dispensing with human drivers and operators, and is now using remotely controlled machinery such as excavators, borers and robotic crews. What if the network which controls it all is hacked and the equipment runs amok in a crowded city?
Perhaps you rely, as much of modern life does, on the continuing existence of a reliable GPS network of satellites. What if, rather than being taken out, the system is subtly re-programmed to be slightly “off”. The potential consequences will give a whole new meaning to off-kilter.
Of course, by then you will have all “mod cons” in your home (apart from the seemingly telepathic fridge) –– the electronic access system; the Nest “smart” thermostat; your friend “Alexa”; and that wonderful Roomba. Ironically, the so-called Internet of Things is, in reality, a system of networks and connections. That is what ultimately makes it both powerful and very dangerous.
Next, your hospital is so advanced, with the latest in AI-based diagnostic systems and remote-operated access to the world’s best surgeons. Would you rather have a false positive or a false negative when the system is hacked? Will the theatre nurses realise quickly enough that something is wrong with the surgical procedure under way before you are maimed, disfigured or dead?
Bear in mind that these are all scenarios that one can imagine now, and many, if not most, already carry an inherent threat.
Looking at the issues from a business viewpoint, risk managers are going to have to step up their game when it comes to formulating and evaluating “emerging” risks or threats, many of which will be potentially existential; and, as with existing cyber risks, there is going to be an escalating battle between the black and the white hats- and we should all hope that the white hats and the counter-cyber experts are better and better-resourced than their opponents, many of whom will be state actors, or those backed by states but allowing plausible deniability. If they are not, the consequences will be unpleasant.
Our society is now advanced, complex and inter-connected. In reality, it is not that far from chaos and disorder. What if some malevolent actor persistently hacks into the navigation systems of the container ships which act as Bermuda’s lifeline so that they steam around in circles, unable to deliver essential supplies? Someone would have to mount the Bermuda Airlift, at least for a time. Dystopian, yes. Fantasy? Perhaps. Impossible? No.
We are quite sure that the (re)insurance companies, whose presence underpins much of Bermuda’s economy, are already employing their best minds on understanding the impact of “connectivity” in order, firstly, to assess what is insurable; secondly, how it impacts their existing policy design; and, thirdly, how to design an effective way to map and aggregate the outcomes of a vast range of potential scenarios.
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|Media type||Magneto-optical disc|
|Encoding||ATRAC, linear PCM (with Hi-MD)|
|Capacity||80 min (standard MiniDisc), up to 45 hours of audio (1 GB capacity) (with Hi-MD)|
|Read mechanism||780 nm laser|
|Write mechanism||Magnetic field modulation|
|Usage||Audio storage, Data storage (with Hi-MD)|
MiniDisc (MD) is a magneto-optical disc-based data storage format offering a capacity of 60, 74 minutes and, later, 80 minutes, of digitized audio or 1 gigabyte of Hi-MD data. Sony brand audio players were on the market in September 1992.
Sony announced the MiniDisc in September 1992 and released it in November of that year for sale in Japan and in December in Europe, Canada, the USA and other countries. The music format was originally based on ATRAC audio data compression, but the option of linear PCM digital recording was later introduced to meet audio quality comparable to that of a compact disc. MiniDiscs were very popular in Japan and found moderate success in Europe.
Sony has ceased development of MD devices, with the last of the players sold by March 2013.
In January 2004, Sony announced the Hi-MD media storage format as a further development of the MiniDisc format. With its release in later 2004, came the ability to use newly developed, high-capacity 1 gigabyte Hi-MD discs, sporting the same dimensions as regular MiniDiscs. The Hi-MD format can be considered obsolete as the last recorder/player was discontinued in 2011. The discs themselves were withdrawn from sale in September 2012.
- Sony history via archive.org
- Music On The Move: MiniDisc
- Sony says sayonara to MiniDisc, will sell its last players in March
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The 68-year-old woman died on Sunday afternoon at her home in Sorgues, not far from Avignon in southeastern France.
She was reportedly closing her window shutters at the time, when a 110 km/hr gust of wind slammed the shutters into her head.
One of the shutters, known as volets in French “smashed the woman's skull”, the local prosecutor said according to the Dauphiné Libéré newspaper.
Emergency crews were unable to revive the woman, who died at the scene.
The strong winds over the weekend saw around 30 calls to emergency services in the area, mostly for structural damages and fallen trees.
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Best Strength Training Workouts for Fat Loss and Endurance
Strength training is not only practiced for losing weight and building muscles. It is also practiced for increasing body endurance and immunity power. Certified gym trainers in almost every multigym of Kolkata suggest learning the steps of each exercise properly before performing that because wrong workouts may lead to injury and even muscle or joint pain.
Remember, you have to pair the strength exercises by creating a proper fitness regime where a set of strength training workouts will be practiced.
How to Lose Fat & Build Muscles with the Strength Training Workouts?
Strength training workouts need a proper diet to follow, so that you can feel light. This will also help you in balancing your body and lifting dumbbell weight without any trouble. Experts recommend some fat loss strength training workouts that you can practice at early morning to cut out the extra flab from each part of your body.
1. Chest Exercises
You may ask, why it is needed to increase the strength of your chest by practicing strength training. The answer is simple: if you want to increase the flexibility and endurance of your body, strength training is needed. Moreover, strength training helps in balancing your upper body muscles and improves your posture by giving a good shape to your chest. Some exercises for chest are:
- Bench Press – Bench Press is always a good fat loss strength training exercise that will help in cutting the fat from your arms, shaping your shoulder and arms, building muscles of the upper body and increase the strength of your chest portion.
- Cable Crossovers – This exercise helps in defining the muscles of the upper body and strengthen the chest and arms. Practicing this workout will also help you boost up the energy of your body.
- Inclined Dumbbell Press – This is one of the best strength training for fat loss that works on the sternocostal and clavicular head muscles. This dumbbell workout helps in building your posture and giving you the correct shape by lifting weight as per experts. This exercise also helps in developing the pectoral muscles of your upper portion.
2. Back Exercises
Strength training increases the bone density, manage your weight and reduce the risk of osteoporosis and back pain. The bones, ligament and muscle pain can be relieved by back strength training exercises. Moreover, these workouts burn calories and increase metabolism. Here are a few strength training back exercises:
- Hyperextension – If you are an athlete or a sportsman then Hyperextension is one of the best strength training workouts which provide you a strong back. Even this exercise can help you manage your back pain. Moreover, it will give support to your spine and will improve your posture.
- Seated Cable Row – This is a pulling exercise which works on the forearm muscles and upper arm muscles like triceps and biceps. Moreover, stabilizes your body and increases dynamism to the back portion of your body like shoulder, neck and upper back portion. You will also able to cut fat from the back portion with the help of this workout.
- Dumbbell Rows – This is one of the dumbbell exercises that strengthen the muscles of upper-back portion, rear deltoids, lats, forearm, and even biceps.
- Lat Pulldowns – This strength training alleviates tension and pain in the back portion of your body. It also develops the muscle of your arms.
3. Shoulder Exercise
Strength training strengthens your muscle and enhances your posture in the shoulder area. It also increases the stability in the shoulder joint. You can try some strength training workouts for your shoulder:
- Bent Over Laterals – If you don’t have a proper shape in your neck and extra fat on your shoulder then this exercise can really work. Along with posture correction, this workout adds upper body strength and reduces the problem of spondylosis.
- Dumbbell Military Press – If you want a masculine body and wide shoulders then Dumbbell Military Press is an appropriate exercise. You can also emphasize your deltoids with the help of this exercise.
- Cable Laterals – This is a good fat loss strength training exercise that helps you reduce your weight and reduce the shoulder muscle tension. Not only the upper portion, but this exercise also helps control the weight of your whole body.
- Side Laterals – Side Laterals help in achieving muscle hypertrophy or growth. You can grow muscles of your lateral deltoid. This workout also helps in broadening your shoulder and the biceps.
4. Thigh Exercise
The strength training workouts also help in strengthening your glutes, legs, and lower body. It also helps muscle mobility. Along with thigh, the core muscles are also endured if you practice strength training. Some exercises for thigh are:
- Lunges – Lunges can strengthen the tissues of your legs and buttocks. Moreover, this workout helps in circulating the blood in your lower body properly.
- Leg Extension – If you are affected by severe joint and knee pain then Leg Extension is a great therapy. This workout also focuses on strengthening your knee joint, patellar ligament and quadriceps.
- Machine Hack Squats – This exercise helps in strengthening the lower foot, glutes, and quads. It also helps in cutting down the fat of the thigh.
5. Calves Exercise
A strong calf has multiple benefits. It will help you stabilize the feet and ankle. It also strengthens the hips and butts along with the entire calf. Practice these workouts to get a strong calf muscle:
- Seated Calf Raise – This exercise prevents shin splints. Seated Calf Raise also cut out the fat of your calves.
- Standing Calf Raise – This workout increases the ankle strength, reduce calf pain and also help in achieving bigger calves. If you’re prepping for the marathon and you want to run long start practicing Standing Calf raise regularly.
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In pharmaceutical and related industries, glass vials are the favorite choice for certain manufacturers and products. The vials have unique qualities that make them indispensable to some products. In the same manner, glass bottles with dropper is also useful in medicinal packaging and in other areas.
Depending on their closure systems, this glass can be:
o screw vials that are closed with a screw cap or dropper/pipette
o lip vials that are closed with a cork or plastic stopper
o crimp vials that are closed with a rubber stopper and a metal cap
A leading manufacturer reveals it has colored glass vials for medicines used in homeopathy and naturopathy. It also has clear glass for perfume samplers. Different manufacturers have several options, including differentiating on color, such as:
Glass bottles and bottles can be a blessing in this era of global warming and environmental degradation. They can be reused or recycled almost indefinitely without losing their strength, purity and quality. A well-known environmental organization says that glass production requires less energy than PET plastics. Glass manufacturing saves 1100% energy compared to polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastics.
Another area where glass is unstable compared to other material edges to maintain temperature. Long-term use of glass does not shrink due to heat or cold.
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Tree up to 20 m or more, diameter 30 cm or more. Leaves: Inflorescence composed of ± corymbiform arranged racemes, 4-5 cm long. Flowers: Stamens to c. 50 mm long, tube shorter than the corolla. Seeds narrowly ellipsoid, c. 17 by 6.5 mm, areole narrowly elliptic, c. 15 by 4 mm, pleurogram open towards the hilum.
Ambon present, Asia-Tropical: Maluku (Maluku present), Ceram present
Malesia: Moluccas (Ambon, Ceram).
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Thermofill as material
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As part of their 25th anniversary collection, Nature Biotechnology invited us to tell the personal story behind our manuscript: Spatial reconstruction of single-cell gene expression data.
How the project first started
Jeff: I was introduced to Aviv Regev and Rahul shortly after I joined Alex Schier’s lab at Harvard; the two labs had already collaborated on previous projects, and Alex suggested that it might be interesting for me to see what we could do together. “You know, now it’s possible to RNA-seq individual cells. What do you think we might learn from that in the embryo?” I was somewhat resistant at first, because I had trained very much as a reductionist during my PhD, but after going over to the Broad to hear some seminars, I was hooked. It seemed like an incredibly powerful approach that was still in its infancy, and not much of the discussion around the Broad was focused on its application to developmental biology. Historically, every time researchers had used a new way to observe development, they had learned new things, and it was clear that this was such an opportunity. Plus, as I got to know Rahul, it quickly became obvious how much fun it was going to be to work together.
Rahul: As a postdoc in Aviv’s lab, I had been working with single-cell RNA-seq for a couple of years, but mostly with in vitro systems. I was excited about the possibility of generating in vivo data, especially as I had spent part of my PhD dissertation working on Drosophila embryogenesis. It was clear that applying single-cell sequencing to understand development and gastrulation was a great opportunity. Also, Schier lab members had a well-deserved reputation of being incredibly fun people who were great to work with. They hosted great lab parties, and I had been looking for opportunities to collaborate with them, with an additional hidden motive of hoping to present at (or at least, be invited to) the Schier lab annual ski retreat.
Focusing on spatial location
Jeff: Spatial information is a crucial determinant of cell fate during development. Commonly in development, cells are instructed by extracellular signals that are produced in different locations. Based on where a cell is, it sees different signals and thereby generates different downstream transcriptional responses. In zebrafish embryos, for example, localized BMP, Nodal, FGF, and Wnt signals determine gene expression patterns and specify the germ layers in the first few hours of development. It was clear that if we could probe the relationship between cells’ spatial position and their gene expression, it was going to be hugely informative.
The first time that Rahul and I met, we spent quite a while talking about what kinds of questions would be interesting to study, and what we might learn from profiling zebrafish embryos. I mentioned this strong dependence on spatial information and showed him a bunch of images of gene expression from the early embryo. I thought it would be amazing to work on more deeply profiling the spatial dependence on gene expression in the embryo. He was immediately on board, because he had already been thinking about ways to combine diverse sources of information for scRNA-seq data (which is now a major focus of his lab) and was excited to try this for spatial information.
Rahul: I do remember that Jeff had produced some astonishing images profiling the early stages of zebrafish gastrulation. Jeff’s excitement for studying this system was contagious as well, and he easily convinced me that to understand fate decisions in early development, we needed to resolve spatial gene expression patterns. At the time, methods for generating transcriptome-wide spatial profiles were in early stages, so mapping single cell RNA-seq profiles seemed like it might be an interesting approach.
Data collection and initial results
Rahul: Given the complexity of cell types in early development, we thought that we’d likely need to profile close to 1,000 cells to get a reasonable spatial map. This was still a major undertaking in 2014 – both for costs and experimental work. I had been working, with the assistance of a Regev Lab research associate Dave Gennert, to automate Rickard Sandberg’s SMART-Seq2 protocol in 96-well plates on an Agilent Bravo liquid handler. The first time we really got the setup to work was all the data that Jeff and Dave collected for this project. On one hand, the robotic setup was invaluable for generating high-throughput data. On the other hand, we had some hiccups.
Jeff: We started with just 8 cells that I had taken from defined locations in the embryo as a pilot. I remember having a couple of slides in one lab meeting just comparing gene expression between them to confirm that what we saw made sense. The title was completely understated — “Single-cell RNAseq: data looks alright.” But even those first 8 cells revealed some localized gene expression that we had not known before. And so, it was off to the races. Aviv’s lab essentially adopted me in a display of incredible generosity – Dave trained me in the protocol he and Rahul had worked out, and I spent many evenings working on spare benches around the lab, making plenty of friends in the process. It was a really exciting and vibrant place to join.
The most experimentally challenging aspect of the project was that we decided to isolate and sequence cells from defined locations in the embryo. At the developmental stage when I would collect the cells, there are no visible characteristics along the dorsal-ventral axis, so I had to label the embryo to keep track of where the cells came from until I could visualize it later. I would transplant a small clump of fluorescent cells into each embryo, place the tip of my transplantation capillary into the embryo and photograph its location relative to the labeled cells, pipette out a few unlabeled cells from nearby, disaggregate them, and lyse one, then image the embryo again later to see where the fluorescent cells were once the dorsal side became apparent. It was a little like being a one-man band: left hand moving the dish with embryos, right hand holding the capillary needle, foot on a pedal to trigger the microscope to take a picture, and of course, the end of the transplantation suction tube in my mouth (it’s a pretty common way to control transplantations among zebrafish researchers). I still remember Rahul’s face when I described this process: “You’re mouth pipetting?!”
Rahul: Most of the data we generated was from dissociated embryos, where we lost all information about the cell’s spatial location and had to infer it computationally. Jeff could dissociate and pick hundreds of cells quickly, and the sequencing experiments for these plates worked beautifully. Some of the most exciting moments for this project involved looking through the early data on these cells, we were thrilled at how much information was in there.
Jeff had also generated one 96-well plate of cells where we knew exactly where the cells came from (‘reference cells’). As described above, this was incredibly tedious work for him — I think he spent more than a week doing nothing else but just isolating and picking these cells, so that we could sequence them and benchmark our algorithm. By far the worst part of this project was the day I had to tell Jeff that the robotic pipeline failed on that specific plate, and he had to go back and collect more reference cells. Even now I’m still afraid when we process a set of rare or irreplaceable samples, and that experience made me even more grateful for experimental collaborators who go through incredible lengths to collect precious samples.
Computational and experimental collaboration
Jeff: I started the project with very little computational experience, and I was devouring online courses in R programming and statistics in my spare time to catch up. I must have driven Rahul crazy with the number of naïve programming and statistics questions I asked him! Still, he was incredibly patient, and I ended up learning so much from working with him. Sometimes he was practically clairvoyant – I once called to ask him about a differential expression test we were using, and before I had even finished asking the question, he was already answering: it was sensitive to the proportion of cells expressing a gene as well as the expression level within non-zero cells.
I tried to turn my programming exercises into useful code for the project; for me, an early highlight of the project was debuting the 3D embryo in situ plotting functions I had written to Rahul and Aviv – it made our preliminary results feel very real, and I think we really all got fired up in that moment to see how far the project can go. By the time we got reviews back on the paper, I had learned so much from working with Rahul that I was able to do many of the revision analyses myself, including the spatial marker bootstrapping. Honestly, it was a collaboration that forever changed my life and my career, as that time spent laid the foundation for the work I would do in the rest of my post-doc on developmental trajectories.
Rahul: There’s something about the nature of single-cell sequencing datasets that makes you want to analyze it yourself. I think by now, there are probably hundreds if not thousands of people who have taught themselves R or python in order to analyze their own scRNA-seq datasets. Jeff learned to program while we were developing Seurat, and as a result, we always aimed to make it accessible and fun to use. Even in writing the first vignettes and tutorials for spatial mapping, we were thinking about how other people would interact with them and utilize our functions in their analysis. Having such a close collaboration with Jeff really helped me with that perspective, and I think that’s had a substantial impact on our documentation and the accessibility of our tools.
New methods and discoveries
Jeff: Understanding gene expression patterns during zebrafish embryogenesis had been a major effort in the community—the Thisse lab had conducted a monumental in situ hybridization screen that identified thousands of gene expression patterns. Our work extended this — it agreed with the published patterns and identified several thousand more, including a catalog of excellent new markers for several tissues. We also identified an unexpected blastula-specific stress response that incorporates developmental regulators in the data; while the stochastic, scattered expression of several of the involved genes had previously been remarked on, it was not clear until our work that they were a coherent program and actually co-expressed in the same cells. Studying this response is actually an effort that is ongoing in my laboratory. We made a huge effort to make the data as available as possible and also very detailed vignettes to demonstrate how we had analyzed the data and how others could do the same. The work paved the way for generating similar catalogs in organisms that had not had the benefit of decades of community input, accelerating research in non-model organisms.
Rahul: One of the interesting analytical challenges for our spatial mapping strategy involved matching up two very different data types: single-cell RNA-seq profiles and in-situ hybridization measurements for 47 ‘landmark’ genes. They had very different noise profiles - in particular due to the extensive sparsity in scRNA-seq for lowly expressed genes - and different statistical properties as well. We developed a regression-based strategy to improve the robustness of the scRNA-seq ‘landmark’ gene measurements based on the overall correlation structure in the data, and fit Gaussian mixture models to identify correspondences between sequencing / FISH profiles. These steps were essential for obtaining accurate spatial maps in our project, but they also represented early strategies for scRNA-seq imputation (i.e. ‘denoising’) and data integration. Those problems have generated enormous interest - and progress - from the computational biology community.
Co-publication with the Marioni Lab
Rahul: While we were generating data, I was invited to EMBL/EBI to give a guest lecture and met John Marioni for the first time. In fact, the chance to meet John was the reason I accepted the invitation in the first place, and we had a great conversation about recently published papers and statistical methods for scRNA-seq. I remember that just before he had to leave, he opened up a paper he was currently writing and proceeded to show me a method to map single-cell RNA-seq profiles to a spatial annelid brain atlas. While the biological system was different, conceptually it was exactly the same idea that we were pursuing in zebrafish. This led to my first experience with manuscript co-submission.
While I was quite nervous at the onset, we learned an enormous amount as Aviv, Alex, and John guided us through the process. John was very generous – even though his manuscript was at a more advanced stage, he waited for over a month for us to finish ours so that we could submit together. Later — when John’s reviews took longer to come back — we delayed formal publication of our manuscript in order to allow the papers to come out together. Even though our papers were on the same topic, it never felt like we were competing, and the co-published stories generated even more interest from the community. This was really a formative experience for me, and my lab has repeatedly co-submitted manuscripts since then, including a second back-to-back publication with the Marioni lab on batch-correction and integration methods.
Jeff: Actually, the co-submission I think lit a fire under us when it was time to write because we were the ones who were behind and holding up the works. We wrote the entire first draft in one sitting. It was a little bit stressful, but surprisingly fun sitting next to each other passing the draft back and forth. It probably also dramatically improved the writing, since our fields of expertise were totally different, and we kept editing down each other’s jargon. We worked through the night and I think met with Aviv and Alex straight away in the morning to show them the draft. Actually, a highlight of the project was getting a very sleep-deprived beer together for lunch after that meeting.
Outlook and impact
Jeff: This work, along with the back-to-back paper from John Marioni’s lab, and the Tomo-seq approach that was published around the same time were some of the very first work in the field of spatial single-cell genomics. It’s a field that has since grown tremendously. It inspired several computational methods for integrating different modalities of data with scRNAseq data (including, but not limited to spatial data) — a field that Rahul’s lab has contributed to significantly. Additionally, the work contained one of the first examples of scRNAseq data that was isolated from defined spatial locations; methods to do this have become very sophisticated, with a number of approaches that use some variation of a slide containing spatial barcodes now in use across the field. Finally, this was an early example of a cell atlas that described a developing organism, an approach that has now become commonplace in developmental biology, and has dramatically accelerated discovery across numerous animals and made characterizing non-model organisms significantly higher throughput.
Rahul: It’s been incredible to see the rapid development of spatial transcriptomics over the past few years, along with computational methods to integrate these data with single-cell RNA-seq. For both Jeff and myself, this project really helped to define our interests and shape our research programs for our future labs. I think I also learned about how I most enjoy working as a scientist, and the importance of identifying collaborators like Jeff and Alex. In New York, I’ve been very fortunate to have close biological collaborations (in particular with Gord Fishell, Dan Littman, Lionel Christiaen, and Peter Smibert), that have been both productive and enormous fun.
After we submitted the paper, Jeff and I were exhausted, and I was very much looking forward to taking some time off to recover. Instead, a couple days later I got an e-mail from another postdoc, Evan Macosko from Steve McCarroll’s lab, who asked if I might be interested to look at some data from a new technology he was developing together with Oni Basu in Aviv’s and Dave Weitz’s lab called Drop-seq. Their astonishing datasets precluded any possibility of rest or skiing, but were a good lesson on how quickly the single-cell sequencing field could (and continues to) rapidly innovate. | <urn:uuid:c3ecf6bb-3932-44d4-9551-21c582667819> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bioengineeringcommunity.nature.com/posts/spatial-reconstruction-of-single-cell-gene-expression-data?user_id=jeff-farrell-and-rahul-satija | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.978877 | 3,434 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Nawa Raj Subba
To cite the article: Nawa Raj Subba. (2013). Delivery Practices among Rajbanshi. Researcher. I, II, July-December, 2013. pp63-71.
Corresponding Author: Nawa Raj Subba, E-mail: [email protected]
This is a cross-sectional study with the objective of uncovering home and hospital delivery practices among Rajbansi of Nepal. Quantitative tools semi-structured questionnaires, checklists were used covering 375 samples of its resident districts Morang, Jhapa, and Sunsari districts. Among the Rajbanshi population, 69.33% has done hospital delivery and 30.67% has home delivery. Home delivery is practiced by economic condition very poor (18.87%), poor (8.8%) and rich (4%). Hospital delivery is practiced by economic condition very poor (20.53%), poor (20.27%) and rich (28.53%). Similarly, home delivery is higher by occupation labor (24.27%), by education illiterate (10.67%), by geography rural (34.28%). Hospital delivery is increasing and home delivery is in decreasing trend in the community. Status of hospital delivery of Rajbanshi is better than the average Morang district and of country Nepal. But it is significantly lower among very poor, illiterate, labor and rural Rajbanshi population. | <urn:uuid:3be76663-43e7-4dd6-8fee-ee9d64a31f1c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nrsubba.com.np/research-articles/delivery-practices-among-rajbanshi/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.932065 | 296 | 1.828125 | 2 |
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CAIRO – 10 September 2018: Egypt’s Administrative Prosecution banned a teacher from practicing any kind of educational work over accusations of insulting and abusing a number of female students in Minya governorate.
According to a statement issued by the Prosecution on Monday, the decision came to protect all students from the teacher’s abnormal behavior.
According to several students’ testimonies regarding the teacher’s behavior, he used to abuse young females, insult them, slap and kick them. Moreover, the teacher was seen more than once using the females' bathroom at school.
Several incidents were proved by eye witnesses and upon official complaints issued by abused female students, the teacher was punished and banned from practicing educational work in all institutions.
Other teachers all over Egypt were banned or suspended over practicing abnormal behaviors which harm students and affect their mental health.
Last November, a teacher was temporarily suspended after allowing students to simulate Al-Rawdah Mosque terrorist attack in Arish city, which was a massive terrorist attack where 300 civilians were killed during Friday prayer.
Aya Rabee Abdel Hamid, a kindergarten teacher in a school South of Beni Suef named Al-Shaheed Yahya al-Adgham (Martyr Yahya al-Adgham), was accused of negatively affecting students’ mental health at a young and vulnerable age, after she allowed them to embody the shocking attack.
Several photos for children dressing like Al-Rawdah Mosque victims and armed group members went viral on social media and raised concern. | <urn:uuid:fb08bc7c-4d3f-4db7-a2bb-6c268c47be78> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/57367/Teacher-suspended-over-abusing-female-students-in-Minya | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.968439 | 324 | 1.539063 | 2 |
“All right, let’s do Ridgway’s Rail. Repeat after me: ¡El!” I shout. “El,” reply the dozen fourth-grade students crowded around the bench. “Rascón,” I say, pointing to a laminated sign. “Rascón,” they chant back. “¡De California!” “¡De CaliforniaI!” We’re in the middle of our “Wetland Exploration” activity along Adobe Creek Trail at the Palo Alto Baylands, which at first glance would seem like an unusual spot for a Spanish lesson. But it represents one of Save The Bay’s first steps toward making its educational programs more inclusive to all of the Bay Area’s students, including the many students who are immigrants and children of immigrants who don’t speak English at home. As Save The Bay’s Temporary Spanish Language Project Specialist, I’ve helped Save The Bay take those first steps, specifically by translating and redesigning our key educational materials into Spanish. Save The Bay currently runs educational programs at three restoration sites: Eden Landing Ecological Reserve in Hayward, Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline in East Oakland, and Palo Alto Baylands in East Palo Alto. All three of these sites are in neighborhoods where a majority of residents are working-class people of color. Students from all over the Bay Area visit our sites for field trips, and our programs reflect our region’s great diversity. Providing Spanish-language materials is one of the many ways we are working to make Save The Bay’s programs more meaningful, inclusive, and accountable to the students and communities with whom we work with. I’m honored to have been a part of it. It’s been especially fun teaching our key wetland vocabulary in both languages, as some students fluent in Spanish are excited at the chance to teach their classmates. When I hold up a handful of Bay mud, teeming with microbial and invertebrate life, and ask who knows how to say “mud” in Spanish, a few students yell out “¡Lodo!” Then, while I talk about how the mud is the base of the salt marsh food web, the group gets the chance to stick their hands in a bucket and finger-paint it on their faces.
Translating some of our educational cards of endangered animals, native plants, and invasive species presented some interesting linguistic challenges I hadn’t expected. Some species have well-used Spanish common names because they are also found in Latin America, like salt grass (la grama salada) whose range extends as far south as Argentina. Other species have names from Spain, such as yarrow (la milenrama) with its circumpolar distribution; and invasive species from the Mediterranean, such as fennel (el hinojo). However, some of our California endemics have no widely-used contemporary Spanish name as far as I can tell. A few plants have beautifully descriptive old Californio Spanish names though, like marsh gumplant (la flor de agosto, literally “the flower of August”) and California buckwheat (la patita de venado, literally “deer’s paw”), so I used those names in our translations. But for a couple of secretive endemic animals who escaped the eyes of the Californios, I was left to simply translate their English names literally. Now we can all know our beloved salt marsh harvest mouse by another name: el ratón campestre de la marisma salina. It’s a bit unwieldy, but the fourth graders still have a fun time yelling it. Save The Bay was founded by three outstanding women over fifty years ago, and we are still living with the legacy of a Bay that’s only been made healthier and better-protected since then. But we must also recognize that these three women were white and had means, and that many other voices tell different stories about their relationship to the Bay and what it means to save it. As long as the Bay has existed there have been people of color who have stewarded it, and developing partnerships with the many marginalized communities who work to make the Bay beautiful and livable is tantamount in an age of environmental injustice. As this place we call home faces a new generation of environmental challenges, we will only be able to meet them if we consciously make space for everyone to develop a relationship with the Bay and save it. So in Tagalog or Cantonese, Arabic or Farsi, Chochenyo Ohlone or any of the other languages that we speak: how would you say “It takes all of us to protect and restore the Bay”? | <urn:uuid:0a7497a3-7103-44f3-8bba-eb36cc39986c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://savesfbay.org/bilingual-learning-at-the-baylands/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.953308 | 999 | 3.265625 | 3 |
Most of us struggle with ongoing pressures and demands from our work, family, and personal life. How we interpret and perceive stress contributes to how we react to it. Some people view stress as positive or negative, but in reality it is an energy force that can enhance or break down our health and performance. In this course, participants will learn how stress works, understand their sources of stress through an assessment, understand the effects of stress, develop coping strategies, and create an action plan to contribute to stress reduction and improve productivity. The stress assessment in this class, StressMap®, is a powerful assessment covering four distinct areas and 21 different scales.
- Define stress.
- Discuss how stress works.
- Describe the three-step process to manage stress.
- Identify stress levels in four distinct categories: environmental, coping responses, inner world thoughts and feelings, and signals of distress.
- Learn effective stress-coping strategies.
- Create an action plan to reduce stress and improve personal productivity.
- A three-step model for understanding and managing stress
- An understanding of personal sources of stress
- An action plan for coping with stressors
- Stress Map®
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What is vector drawing? It is a way to create and save digital imaging information. The edges are crisp, the colors are flat and the artwork you create is editable. In other words, you can go back to a graphic that you have created and easily modify its outline, color, etc. Getting to know the drawing Tools and all the different mark making possibilities in the program, is the first step towards developing your own original style in Flash.
At a Glance Guide to the Tools
The Drawing Tools
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ECONOMYNEXT – The International Monetary Fund is calling on young people between the ages of 20 and 32 around the world to participate in its annual Youth Fellowship Program for Annual Meetings.
It is open to young professionals working or leading civil society organizations, entrepreneurs, content creators (bloggers / vloggers), students and journalists.
“The 2021 IMF Youth Fellowship Program offers young participants the opportunity to be part of the global effort to progress better and to join the IMF at the forefront of crisis response,” said the agency.
“Program participants will experience first-hand the IMF’s virtual annual meetings from October 11 to 17.
Selected fellows will have the opportunity to participate in a 2-day virtual workshop on October 11-12 to meet IMF management and senior officials and discuss current global economic issues including inclusive growth, inequality, economy digital technology and climate change.
Selected participants will receive a certificate of completion from the IMF Youth Fellowship Program.
What: Share your ideas on how to tackle today’s most pressing economic challenges, including inclusive growth, inequality, the digital economy, and climate change.
When: Interested participants must apply before September 24, 2021
How? ‘Or’ What:
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A circular 7-person bike? You’re joking!
It’s no joke: the ConferenceBike is a revolutionary way to bring people together. The ConferenceBike is pedaled by 7 riders sitting in a circle. One person steers while the other 6 pedal (or not) as the bike moves effortlessly along. More than 300 ConferenceBikes are now being enjoyed by a wide variety of groups in 18 countries. It is a tour bike in Berlin, Baltimore and San Francisco; a tool for corporate team-building in Copenhagen and San Diego, a way for blind people to bike in Dublin and Florida.
They have been used for fund-raising events and by biking advocacy groups worldwide. ConferenceBikes are being used to transport employees on the Google campus in California; and as ice-breakers at Vincennes, Stony Brook and Alfred Universities. Every group you can think of can use a ‘CoBi’ as a TOOL and a SYMBOL for bringing people together. | <urn:uuid:572292ab-a794-4892-82be-0c01359ec3b4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://conferencebike.com/about/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.95122 | 206 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Morning Minutes, Sept. 28
Word of the Day, This Day in History, Number to Know, Website of the Day, Today’s Featured Birthday and Daily Quote.
Word of the Day
indigence \ IN-dih-juhn(t)s \ noun; A state of extreme poverty or destitution. — Dictionary.com
This Day in History
Sept. 28, 1928: Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
Number to Know
100: Alexander Fleming was named as one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th Century by Time Magazine in 1999.
Website of the Day: Nobel Prize
Official site of the Nobel Prize, with information for every Nobel Prize since 1901, including the Nobel Laureates’ biographies, Nobel Lectures, interviews, photos, articles, video clips, press releases, educational games and more.
Today’s Featured Birthday
Moon Zappa, American actress, author and singer, best known for her vocals in father Frank Zappa’s 1982 hit song “Valley Girl,” 47.
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Ryan Avent joined The Economist in 2009 as Online Economics Editor. In 2011 he became Economics Correspondent, covering global economic issues for the newspaper and writing the Free Exchange economics blog. In 2015 he was named The Economist’s News Editor. Ryan is the author of The Gated City, and The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-first Century.
Geraldine Bedell interviews Ryan Avent, whose new book, The Wealth of Humans: Work and its Absence in the Twenty-First Century, argues that massive technological change requires a corresponding shift in the way we think about work and remuneration.
Geraldine Bedell: The Wealth of Humans is essentially an argument for the redistribution of profits and savings from the 1 per cent to those whose wages are flatlining, or who are increasingly being made redundant by technology. What might be the mechanism for that? And can it be enacted peacefully?
Ryan Avent: At the moment people are thinking about the specific means: tax, a universal basic income… I think that’s actually getting a bit ahead of ourselves. Two other big things have to happen first. One is a change of mindset in society about what an appropriate level of redistribution is, who deserves it, and what the government’s role ought to be – just as, following the Industrial Revolution, there had to be an evolution in the way people saw government before you could get the massive welfare states that we saw in the 20th century.
The second is the political mobilisation to get these things passed. Again, there’s a parallel with the 19th century, where you couldn’t get big changes until you had trade unions, an extension in the franchise, and the rise of labour parties – really big institutional reforms. The process of building those sorts of institutions is going to take a long time and I suspect will tend to come in response to crisis, unfortunately.
GB: You anticipate a world with many fewer jobs. You also cite evidence that people who are currently workless tend to sleep more, play a lot of computer games, and suffer from drug and alcohol addiction and high rates of suicide. Do you think human society can function without work and the kinds of challenge and sense of identity that come with it?
RA: I think it is possible. It is within our capacity as human beings to build societies where even without cues from the market, people spend their time in useful ways and are satisfied. But, again, it requires a big change in the way society thinks about work. We do have institutions that encourage non-market work – not least families – and you can imagine social cues developing to encourage volunteering or self-enrichment through taking courses.
The problem at the moment is that the people who are stuck without jobs have grown up at a time when there was a very different set of priorities about what it meant to contribute to society and be a valuable individual – and in the span of a generation it’s hard to rewrite those things, to imagine how individuals brought up with those cues could feel satisfied without work.
GB: But you can foresee an era in which human beings might be engaged in artistic production and care work, in tending our gardens and our minds?
RA: If you imagine someone 200 years ago looking at the way we spend our time now – the amount of time we all spend sitting inside, huddled over screens – then it might look quite unpleasant to them: they might think it’s no way to live. Of course, we find quite a lot of satisfaction in it – so it could be that in the future, engagement in certain kinds of video games is seen as quite a good way to spend time, particularly if those games are very social or mentally stimulating.
One interesting thing to think about – as societies age and as life expectancy increases – is how retirees with decades of healthy life outside of work are exploring what to do with their time. You find more and more people doing adult education after they retire, developing new skill sets, maybe starting their own business – not something that could support them, but something that they can do while collecting a pension. In a way, looking to how pensioners are spending their time could be a guide to what a future world with much less work would look like.
GB: Cities have done pretty well so far out of globalisation and the digital revolution. To what extent can London afford to be complacent?
RA: Cities have done well for a few reasons. One is that knowledge-oriented work tends to be located in places like London or the Bay Area – you need coding to run all the machinery that’s going to automate driving and warehouses, and put other people out of work.
I also think that the more complex the world becomes, the greater the importance of social capital. It’s within cities that you develop groups of people who can figure out how to make technology and everything else work – sometimes within companies, sometimes across companies – and that’s why cities have thrived.
That creates a whole set of problems: the more people want to crowd into these places, the harder it is to afford a home there, especially when the rich people don’t want to allow a lot of building – so you get very segregated societies in which the people who are being displaced from jobs in one part of the country can’t easily move to the places that are generating a lot of wealth. That contributes to the sense of almost class conflict that is driving a lot of the political difficulties we’ve seen.
We also need to be aware that increasingly, technology is able to replace work done by professionals. We have a lot of algorithmic trading now. It could be that more and more of the work that’s done in big banks can be automated – and then suddenly, the value of a place like London looks a lot different. But I suspect it could be the political ructions occurring as a result of technological transformations that end up dealing a blow to cities before the automation of professions does. In other words, Brexit is more of an imminent threat to London.
GB: You talk in the book about a failure to invest the wealth of cities back into their infrastructure. Do you see city authorities as failing in their responsibilities?
RA: Yes, it is certainly within the ability of San Francisco or London to permit much more housing and to invest in the sorts of infrastructure that would limit the congestion costs associated with that. But I don’t think it’s just the cities; it’s a broader societal failure. Part of it stems from this industrial-economy-era idea of a scarcity that isn’t there, that we have too little capital to invest, so if we devote too much to infrastructure then we won’t have as much left over for other important private sector things – and I don’t think that’s right.
Investing in new infrastructure would crowd in a lot of new economic activity and private investment, and there would be more of a surplus to go around. New technologies need physical infrastructure to thrive – new broadband, roadways, housing for skilled workers – but one of the constraints on rich economies is the fact that so much income is flowing to the very rich who tend to save and not spend. That leads us to this world where economies tend to bump along in near-slump conditions the whole time and no one feels that good about anything.
GB: Are certain types of jobs going to be protected at least for the medium term? If you were a parent advising your child, would you urge them to think about education, healthcare, government?
RA: I am a parent, though my children are some way from making university decisions – but I do think about this. They’ll want the capacity to teach themselves, to learn new skills and be flexible – so they might develop particular engineering skills that become obsolete, but they’ll also have learned other things along the way that will allow them to adapt. I think there are going to be opportunities for highly skilled and intelligent people over the next few decades to try to figure out how to make all these new technologies work in society.
There’s a whole artisanal class of jobs where the fact that the work done by a person is crucial – from theatre to artisanal brewing. I don’t think it’s going to provide mass employment, but it’s there. The big question is the care occupations – and there’s this sense that these are going to be the things that save us, that everyone is going to be a nurse or a teacher. Certainly those sectors have provided the lion’s share of new employment growth over recent decades and for a variety of reasons are going to be relatively insulated over the next few decades – but I think it’s easy to overstate how good a thing that is.
If you’re a 40-year-old male who doesn’t have a college education and you were hoping to work in a factory, but the factory job goes, it’s quite a lot to ask that you retrain to work in a care occupation – particularly since you may have grown up with one idea about what it means to be a male breadwinner, and that didn’t include changing someone’s bedpan. The other issue is that education and healthcare are very expensive – if not for private individuals then for the government – partly because they’re so labour intensive. And if you could have a computer do a lot of the basic diagnostic work, helping more people afford better healthcare, then I think that’s a good thing. But that means cutting jobs, so there’s a tradeoff. I think for the next 10 or 20 years, probably the employment side will win out but, after that, I’m not sure that it would be a good thing more broadly if those sectors continued to absorb more and more people.
GB: You make the point in the book that unions in Sweden and Germany have had some success in managing the transition to the digital economy. How important do you see unions being in all this? And do British unions need to change?
RA: I think something along the lines of the labour movement is going to have to happen to make the digital revolution work for most people. The fundamental problem we’ve got is that there’s an abundance of labour, and that new technology is only going to become better at replacing existing workers, increasing that glut, which means firms have a lot of different ways to displace labour whenever it tries to bargain for higher wages and more of a share from the gains from growth.
In Germany, part of the process has been to say “We’re not just going to bargain for more of a share of the gains from growth, we’re also going to share work”. And you can imagine that kind of thing working across the whole of society, where people work shorter weeks and get paid more per hour or are given a share of the profits. But getting there is very tricky. You can see hints of it in movements around things like Uber, but I almost wonder if it’s too little too late – because it’s now so easy to use technology to frustrate these moments and displace workers as they’re beginning to organise.
I wonder if it’s going to happen outside of a particular industry context. Essentially, over the last 30 years, we’ve switched to this mode of thinking where it’s all about the individual boosting their own bargaining power by developing particular skills and networks. And we’re realising that’s not going to cut it now and we have to go back to a model of solidarity – but the old labour union model is not, I think going to work, outside of places where you have big encompassing unions, like the Nordics.
GB: Should we look to governments to help distribute the social capital? I am not sure how the UK government is able to give me a share of the profits of the social capital I am creating for US-based companies every time I go online.
RA: All day long, when we interact with an app or a website, we are providing our data to people – and for a company like Google, this is an incredibly valuable resource. They can use this data to train up their artificial intelligence operations and it’s a competitive advantage – and you could argue that really that’s a public resource that perhaps we should be getting some sort of property right over it. Or we could tax Google more. Some of these new digital tech companies look a little bit like natural monopolies. Much as, in the industrial era, government had to step in and heavily regulate these monopolies, to turn them into utilities or even to nationalise them, so I think governments will play an important role this time – but it’s kind of hard to anticipate what it’s going to look like.
There’s low-hanging economic fruit in cities, in the sense that a lot of the benefits that are generated end up being capitalised in land prices and house prices. When the city comes up with new ideas and generates wealth, a lot of it is social wealth, but it shows up in house prices. So if you were lucky enough to buy a home in central London in 1980, you’ve been a massive recipient of that social wealth. If the government could be better at tapping that, either through taxing land or building more homes, bringing down the cost of housing and redistributing that wealth, that would be a good way to do it – but there’s obviously a lot of resistance to that.
And before any of these big revolutionary changes can happen there has to be a change of mindset away from the conventional wisdom that it’s hard-working entrepreneurs who generate this value and if we don’t let them earn their billions and keep all of their billions, society will be worse off. We need to rethink that model because a lot of the wealth that’s being built up is a consequence of social institutions, and the social knowledge and public goods created to support them.
GB: To what extent do you think that politicians have recognised the scale of the impending crisis? You quote Mitt Romney, when he was a presidential candidate, famously disparaging the 47 per cent of Americans who pay no taxes.
RA: Mitt Romney’s comment is interesting because it does seem like the conversation has changed a lot over the last four years, even over the last year. There has been a recognition that a substantial proportion of the population of rich countries has been left behind, that they’re angry enough about that to vote for all sorts of things, some of which are not very good, and that’s woken up the establishment to the fact that they’d better do something about it. And having had the fear of God put into them, people are starting to wonder what’s the right approach here? Trade has been the focus so far – but you’re starting to see an acknowledgement that repatriating factories and trade barriers aren’t going to bring the jobs back – that, really, technology is the long-run issue here.
Politicians are still more likely to say it’s the fault of trade or immigrants than technology – and that might not change for a while, because trade and immigrants are much more convenient villains: people like their technology and also no one really knows what the right answer is to fix it. It’s a less politically comfortable position.
Over the last 50 years we haven’t seen the sort of massive structural change in our politics that we seem to need now, so we’ve forgotten that it’s even possible, which affects how people view the years ahead: they assume big changes can’t really happen, but I don’t think that’s right.
GB: How optimistic are you about Universal Basic Income?
RA: I think that’s the logical endpoint of the changes we’re going to see, that we end up in a world where that’s a key part of the welfare state. The existing social safety net assumes that if you’re a healthy adult, you’re going to try to work; UBI is a different bargain, which is that you’re a member of society and therefore you deserve some help, no matter what. I think it requires much more of a crisis of work in society to get to the point where people are OK with that, particularly in terms of funding it, because you’re going to end up with a situation where 30–40 per cent of the population are paying quite a lot in tax to support everyone else who’s not really working, and that’s a very difficult thing to have without a change of mindset.
GB: To what extent do you see the owners of capital – I’m thinking about the tech giants – recognising that there is a problem? Do you detect a growing sense of social responsibility, or is it all buying plots in New Zealand to sit out the revolution?
RA: It’s a mixed bag. You have a lot of interest in UBI from people in Silicon Valley, although it’s often naïve – an assumption that UBI is a quick fix and if they just slap it on society they can go back to doing their disruption and everyone will be OK with that – without their really thinking about all the different roles that work plays in society and how it’s going to be much more difficult to keep people happy in a world with less work.
And then I think they tend to be really optimistic about the ability of technology to solve the problems that it creates, an assumption that this is all overblown and eventually the new apps or whatever are going to create lots of new jobs and everyone will be happy: the gig economy will save us all. History suggests that technology doesn’t solve its own problems, that it needs a lot of help from society.
GB: Are you optimistic or pessimistic about the post-work world?
RA: I am long-run optimistic. The changes that we’re seeing in technology should allow us eventually to have a world in which no one has to face hunger, where people can live longer, more fulfilled lives, where they can spend their time doing things they want to do. I think technology will make our lives much better over the long run. But we’ve got to reform our institutions and change the way society thinks to get from point A to point B; that’s a really difficult process and there are a lot of pitfalls along the way.
If you were to pick a person at random in 1850, should that person have been optimistic about industrial technology? And over the long run, the answer is, yes, very much so. But were they going to benefit directly over their lifespan, or were their children or grandchildren going to benefit directly? No, it’s not clear that they would. So I think we’ll get there eventually, but it’s going to be a nerve-wracking process.
GB: It took a lot of violence to work out the tensions created by the industrial revolution. Can we possibly avoid that?
RA: As a result of the politics of the last 50–70 years we tend to assume that institutions are powerful enough to defend themselves; that peace is something we can expect; that the worst doesn’t happen any more. We are going to be reminded of the amount of social activity it takes to keep things from falling apart. I guess I’m hopeful that the history is there and all we need is a nudge – in 1910, people didn’t know that society might occasionally accidentally almost destroy itself with these crazy new technologies. So hopefully we will have learned some lessons and they are just sitting there waiting to be nudged into action. If there’s a reason to be optimistic, it’s that. | <urn:uuid:23ddd0e0-bf00-44e4-9fce-10a224a088a6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://essays.centreforlondon.org/issues/work/after-work/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.966638 | 4,162 | 2.078125 | 2 |
A foundational Christian belief is that Jesus Christ died on the Cross for our sins. For many, the most important result of this is that believers go to heaven when they die. Bestselling author, scholar and bishop, N. T. Wright, thinks we’re missing a critical aspect of what Jesus accomplished on the Cross if we limit our understanding just to this explanation. His latest book, The Day the Revolution Began, explores the Crucifixion and argues that the Protestant Reformation did not go far enough in tranforming our understanding of this event. Mike Bird, author of What Christians Ought To Believe, interviewed Wright about how Christians should view the Crucifixion.
Tom, you describe Jesus' death as the beginning of a "revolution." What was that revolution and why does it still matter today?
Most Western Christians have been taught that Jesus died so that they could escape the results of sin and go to heaven after they die. The New Testament, however, regularly speaks of Jesus’ death as the defeat of the powers of evil that have kept the world in captivity, with the implication that the world is actually going to change as a result—through the life and work and witness of those who believe this good news. Think of Revelation 5:9–10. Humans are rescued from their sin so that they can be “a kingdom and priests serving our God, and they will reign on earth.” That began at Easter and, in the power of the Spirit, has continued ever since. Of course, the “reign” of Jesus’ people, like that of Jesus himself, is the reign of suffering love . . . but that’s a whole other story. Suffice it to say that the vocation of God’s people today is to continue to implement that revolution.
Even as Western cultures grow more secular, we still find the Crucifixion presented in art and echoed in music. Plus the notion of sacrifice for others is still very much a Christian theme that novels like Harry Potter seem to borrow from. Why do you think the cross, its image and message, is so captivating?
It seems as though the world knows in its bones that the cross of Jesus was the ultimate revelation of true power and true love. Most people for some of their lives, and some people for most of their lives, nurse sorrows and wounds whether secret or open; and the thought or sight of Jesus on the cross, perhaps particularly when it’s painted beautifully or set to wonderful and appropriate music, speaks of the true God not as a distant, faceless bureaucrat, nor as a bullying boss, but as the one who has strangely come into the middle of the pains and sorrows of the world and taken their full force on himself. In a sense, all of Christian theology, certainly theology of the cross, is the attempt to explain, to give a wise and scriptural account of, that very immediate, personal, visceral impact.
We tend to think of the cross as a very churchy or religious symbol, like the Apple logo or the McDonald’s sign, but what did the Crucifixion mean for people in the first century?
Crucifixions were common in the first century. It was a fairly standard punishment for slaves or for rebel subjects. It was a way for the Roman Empire to say “We are in power, and this is what we do to people who get in our way.” Crucifixion was unspeakably horrible, with victims often left on crosses for several days, pecked at by birds and gnawed at by vermin. It was deliberately a very public execution, to warn others: When the Spartacus rebellion was put down, roughly 100 years before Jesus’ day, 6,000 of his followers were crucified all along the Appian Way between Rome and Capua, making it more or less one cross every 40 yards for 130 miles. Anybody, and especially any slave, walking anywhere on that road would get the point. But it wasn’t just (what we would call) a “political” point. In Jesus’ day Rome was “deifying” its emperors, at least after their deaths, making the present emperor “son of god.” Rebelling against Caesar’s empire was therefore a kind of blasphemy, and crucifixion a restatement of the theological “fact” that Caesar was “Lord.” That is the context for Mark’s statement that the centurion (a Roman army commander) at the foot of the cross looked at Jesus and said, “Truly, this man was the Son of God.’”
A lot of preaching and teaching about the cross takes the form of a syllogism along the lines: He is a holy God; we are sinful people; therefore, we need a God-man to die on cross to take our guilt away. However, you suggest that while there is a kind of logic to that, it really misses the main point. The cross is not the resolution of two opposing premises, but rather it is the climax to a grand story. How so?
I would much rather people believed that God was holy, that they were sinful, and that the cross resolved that problem, than that they either didn’t believe in God or didn’t believe that they were sinful! Let’s be clear about that. But the Bible tells a bigger story. The human problem isn’t just that God set us a moral exam and we all flunked it. It is that God gave humans a vocation: to reflect his image, to be (again, as in Revelation) a kingdom and priests, summing up the praises of creation and reflecting the creator’s wise rule into the world. Human rebellion and idolatry, then, doesn’t just mean that we are in trouble (though we are); it means that God’s larger purposes for creation are not going ahead as intended. So the long story of God’s plan to put things right, starting with Abraham, climaxing in Jesus and the Spirit, and looking ahead to the new heavens and new earth, isn’t the story of guilty humans being forgiven so they could go to heaven, but of idolatrous (and yes, therefore guilty) humans being rescued in order to be worshippers and workers in God’s restoration movement, God’s kingdom-project. The problem comes in three stages: 1) We have swapped our biblical heritage of new heavens and new earth for a form of Platonism (“going to heaven”—which you find in the first century in Plutarch, not in Paul!); 2) we have swapped the biblical vocation of humans (to be “a kingdom and priests”) for a moral contract in which the most important thing is whether or not we’ve passed the moral exam, and if we haven’t what can be done about it; and 3) we have therefore swapped the rich biblical account of what Jesus’ death achieved for a slimmed-down version which can easily be heard to say that an angry God took out his bad temper on his own Son . . . which is the sort of thing a pagan religion might say. So, as I say in the book, we have platonized our eschatology, as a result of which we have moralized our anthropology, and have therefore been in danger of paganizing our soteriology. Fortunately, the Bible itself will help us get back on track.
You provocatively say in the book that a lot of Reformation churches, including your own Anglican tradition, have often failed to know what to do with Easter. Well, what are we to do with Easter, in particular, Good Friday?
I’m amused by the way you put that, because clearly you are taking the word “Easter” to mean the whole weekend, whereas I was meaning specifically Easter Sunday! Actually, many churches, including my own, are quite good at the ways in which they commemorate, and so inhabit once again, the days from Palm Sunday to Good Friday. The various liturgies that have been developed can be excellent ways of slowing us down and enabling us to sense at several levels the dark horror of Jesus’ death. My problem comes on the Sunday (I wrote about this at more length in Surprised by Hope, by the way.) And actually it isn’t just a problem about the Reformation churches; it is a problem for the whole Christian West, Catholic and Protestant, liberal and charismatic, the lot. The Eastern Orthodox do all this much better. (They have other problems, perhaps, but at least they know what Easter is about.)
In the West we have been so seduced by the Platonic vision of ‘heaven’ that the resurrection of Jesus is seen simply as the “happy ending” after the crucifixion, and as the prelude to his “going to heaven” so that we can go and join him there later. This misses the central point that the resurrection of Jesus is the beginning of the new creation, in which we are to share already in the power of the Spirit. This affects everything, from prayer and the sacraments to mission and service to the poor. And yes, it ought to be reflected liturgically in whatever tradition we stand. Playing this back to the meaning of the cross, we realise that new creation is now happening because the dark powers that have kept the world enslaved to sin and death have been defeated. Perhaps there are themes there which could be brought more explicitly into our Good Friday commemorations as well. But the Christian life is meant to be a sustained and focused celebration of that achievement. Present suffering and struggle are held within the narrative of Jesus’ victory on the one hand and the final redemption of all creation on the other. That is what climactic passages like Romans 8 are all about. I would love to see churches trying out different ways of embodying all of this in the way we order our public worship.
We often focus on what Paul or John thought about Jesus' death. But what did Jesus think about his approaching death, how was it part of his messianic mission, and what did he think his death would achieve?
It is clear from all four gospels that Jesus believed, as many Jews believed, that the Jewish people were the bearers of the Creator God’s plan to overthrow the evil of the world and make a way through into new creation. It is also clear that he believed, as some other Jews seem to have believed, that this divine plan might come about through the intense suffering of a small number of faithful Jews (look at 2 Maccabees for an example, though the theme goes back into books like Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Daniel). I and others have argued in various places, including this new book, that Jesus believed that this intense suffering would be focused on one man; and that he would be that one man. He would take upon himself the suffering, shame and death of the world, in order to overcome the powers of the world and launch God’s long-intended project of new creation. Jesus seems to have understood all this as the proper outworking of Israel’s whole scriptural narrative, focused particularly on Passover. He chose Passover, after all, as the moment to do what had to be done, the freedom-festival that resonated with the great theme of God’s victory over the powers of evil and his rescue of his people to be his “royal priesthood” (Ex. 19.6). The idea of a “new exodus” had been around for a long time, and Jesus seems to have believed that it was his vocation, drawing to a point his announcement and inauguration of God’s kingdom, to make it happen, though in a way nobody else had seen coming. This personal Passover-vocation was then given particular shape by scriptural resources such as Isaiah, the Psalms, and Daniel. The Scriptures had to be fulfilled; not in some arbitrary manner, checking off a random list of things to do, but in the sense of a long narrative, much of which had been dark and unpromising, reaching an astonishing, shocking, startling climax. Only in retrospect did Jesus’ followers look back and figure it all out; but all the signs are that this was what Jesus had in mind all along.
In particular, the victory which Jesus believed he would win in this way was, in Israel’s Scriptures, the victory of God himself. That is a whole other theme, but an important one for us, in case we should imagine that this human vocation was all about twisting God’s arm to do something he might not otherwise have done. Jesus believed that, in being obedient to this human vocation, he was embodying or, if you like, incarnating the loving, rescuing God of whom Israel’s Scriptures had been speaking all along. Jesus’ own sense of vocation and (what we loosely call) “identity” lies at the heart of the church’s developed belief.
When the early church tried to explain why the Messiah had to die and what his death achieved, they naturally looked to the Old Testament. What biblical images or stories did they rehearse when it came to explaining the significance of Jesus' death?
The early church, exactly in line with Jesus’ own vocation and action, developed the theme of Passover, not as a miscellaneous metaphor but as a way of saying that the “new exodus” had now at last come to pass. But, as in Jewish Passover-celebrations, many other scriptural themes clustered around as well, not least the strange sufferings of the psalmists, the dramatic (and royal) image of Isaiah’s “suffering servant,” the dark figure of Zechariah’s dying shepherd, and, not least, Daniel’s image of “one like a son of man” who is exalted after the apparent dominance of the “monsters.”
All these together generated various major themes. Sacrifice is one; the law-court is another. But these, again, are not just miscellaneous images. They mean what they mean within the larger scriptural narrative in which God’s redemptive and restorative purposes for the world are fulfilled at last through Israel’s representative. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 15:3, quoting a very early gospel summary, that “the Messiah died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures.” In accordance with—in other words, along the line of, as the climax of, in fulfilment of the entire scriptural narrative. We in the West have been in danger of turning that into “The Messiah died for our sins in accordance with the story we have learned to tell”—the story, that is, of an angry God and endangered sinners—with a few scriptural proof-texts thrown in. Of course the wise Creator is angry with everything that defaces and destroys his good creation; of course we sinners are indeed endangered if we do not allow the gospel to embrace us. But to reduce the gospel to those two points is like reducing a great four-part hymn simply to the alto and tenor lines. We need the firm bass of the full scriptural narrative, and the glad tune, in the top line, of the kingdom-story told by the four gospels and Acts. We need the harmony of the inner parts, of course; but that means what it means in relation to the larger music.
When we say that Jesus died for us, what does the "for" mean?
The “for” is itself explained by “in accordance with the Scriptures.” In the Bible, Israel is God’s chosen people for the sake of the world; then various people, like prophets, priests, and kings are chosen for the sake of Israel; then, at the time of the exile, the remnant was chosen as a kind of “true Israel”—a concept we find in many writings of the time, such as the Dead Sea Scrolls. The point is that what happens to this group—and, in Jesus’ own vocation and the church’s perception, to this one man—happens on behalf of the whole world. So, as Paul puts it in Romans 8:1–4, there is “no condemnation” for those who are “in Messiah Jesus”—those who belong to him by faith and baptism—because in his death God “condemned sin in the flesh.” The millennia-old representation had narrowed down to one point, and the punishment of Sin itself—the dark force behind all our actual sins—took place once and for all. That is what we ought to mean when we say, as of course I do, that he died “in our place and on our behalf.” We should, however, beware of shorthand formulations (including my own!). In good biblical theology, the summaries mean what they mean within the larger story of the Bible as a whole and, not least, the Gospels as a whole.
There is a great hymn called “In Christ Alone,” which says that on the cross “the wrath of God was satisfied.” But you argue that we must not forget the love of God here either. So what does the cross have to do with the love of God?
I have often said that if a church wants to sing that hymn—and I agree that it is a great hymn in most other respects—then at least every second time they sing it they should sing “the love of God was satisfied” instead at that point. There is a deep and dark truth under what the writer said, and it’s the truth I just mentioned, as set out in Romans 8:1–4 and elsewhere. But people can all too easily hear that and sing it with a very different narrative in mind: the narrative according to which, in a parody of John 3:16, God so hated the world that he killed his only son. Yes, God hates sin. Yes, the death of Jesus is—because of his representative messianic role—the moment when sin is condemned. But the way most people hear it is taking a large step towards a pagan idea which, frankly, not only puts a lot of people off Christianity but quietly hints at a license for other forms of anger and brutality. From the very beginning, Jesus’ followers insisted that his crucifixion was the personal expression of the ultimate divine love: “the son of God loved me and gave himself for me,” said Paul in Galatians 2:20, and he and John return to this theme again and again (John 13:1 says “having loved his own in the world, he loved them to the uttermost”). Romans 8 is the great climax: Nothing in all creation shall separate us from the love of God in the Messiah, Jesus our Lord. To understand this, you need (of course) at least the beginnings of a doctrine of the Trinity, so that what the Son does is the full expression of the Father’s love and purpose. That is why—to revert to an earlier question—many people simply sense, whether they can articulate it or not, that the cross is the effective sign that the God who made the world is the God of powerful, rescuing love, a love that has come down to share the very depths of human tragedy and, by taking its weight on himself, to rescue us from it and enable us by his Spirit to share in his new creation as a result. This is a love that goes to work; a love that will not let us go.
Finally, if you had to preach one biblical text on the cross, what would it be, and roughly what would you say?
An impossible question, of course, but though I might well have gone for one of the Pauline texts I have quoted above, or indeed for Revelation 5:9–10, I would want to come back to the Gospels; and, despite strong claims from the other three, I would go for John’s story of the cross. One could focus on the final word, “finished,” in John 19:30. Many have expounded that in terms of a bill being “paid”; but the whole of John’s gospel is framed by the prologue, which looks back to Genesis 1, so that I think we must take it, at least primarily, in terms of the finishing of God’s work of redemption, parallel to the finishing of God’s work of creation in Genesis 2:2. It all fits: Jesus dies on the Friday, the sixth day of the week; on the seventh day he rests in the tomb; and on the eighth day . . . new creation begins.
Depending on how long the sermon was to be, I might well want to pan back a little to include two other themes from John 19. First, the almost unbearably tender moment with Mary and John in verses 25–27, expressive of the love spoken of in 3:16, 13:1, and elsewhere. Second, Pontius Pilate saying “What I have written I have written” in verse 22, expressive—after Jesus’ long argument with Pilate earlier on!—of the way in which Caesar’s official representative, rather like Caiaphas in John 11:49–52, was telling a truth far more than he knew when he wrote “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.” Jesus was dying as Israel’s representative Messiah, doing for Israel and the world what Israel could not do. And here is Caesar’s official representative recognizing, despite himself, the truth which will relativize Caesar and all other earthly rulers.
Of course, there is much more. There always is. But this would be enough for, perhaps, a 20-minute sermon at least. If it had to be shorter, I’d probably just stick with the Genesis echo.
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TKLN (Lake Nash)
The award winning TKLN Solar projects supply three of Australia's most remote aboriginal townships with essential power. TKLN provides high penetration solar power to maximise fuel savings at the existing diesel power stations, helping to minimise supply interruptions and mitigate energy price rises.
Epuron owns and operates the facility, with the power sold to Power and Water Corporation under a long term power purchase agreement.
Epuron’s TKLN Solar takes its name from an abbreviation of three Northern Territory communities – Ti Tree, Kalkarindji and Lake Nash (also known as Alpurrurulam) where three solar power stations have been installed.
TKLN Solar has a combined capacity of 1MW and has been contributing emission-free power to remote communities in the Northern Territory since January 1, 2013. The three solar power stations are capable of providing high instantaneous solar penetration (up to 80% of power demand at any instant) and up to 30% of the average daily electricity consumed at each community.
Each of the TKLN Solar power stations has a sophisticated battery backup Grid Stability System (GSS) which maximises solar energy input to the existing diesel grid without affecting the diesel generators or the continuous supply of power to the community. The large size of these systems and their high renewable energy contribution distinguishes them from other remote hybrid systems in Australia.
Epuron has integrated and is now using a CloudCAM cloud detection and short term solar forecasting system to help optimise the overall system management by predicting fluctuations in instantaneous solar power output. This allows better management of the energy storage system, increasing its lifetime as well as allowing improved performance.
Epuron designed, developed, financed, constructed and operates the project which was built with the assistance of grant funding from the Federal Government. TKLN Solar sells all of its output to the NT’s Power and Water Corporation.
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Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) applications are once again being accepted by USCIS, in compliance with a United States District Court order. Hopefully, the Biden Administration, working with Congress, will be able to replace DACA with a permanent law in the coming year. The program has always been premised on an exercise of discretion by the Administration, but it has been a constant source of litigation. Meanwhile, there are hundreds of thousands of individuals who have been granted temporary work authorization, and given some stability to their lives. Employers have benefited, and many DACA recipients have been front-line service and health care workers during the pandemic. Much more can and has been said. “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice,” goes the famous Martin Luther King quote. In law, justice usually considers the intention of the wrong-doer, and in the case of those meeting the criteria for DACA, there was never an intentional wrong-doing.
Here is the USCIS update on receiving applications:
In compliance with an order of a United States District Court, effective December 7, 2020, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is:
- Accepting first-time requests for consideration of deferred action under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) based on the terms of the DACA policy in effect prior to September 5, 2017, and in accordance with the Court’s December 4, 2020, order;
- Accepting DACA renewal requests based on the terms of the DACA policy in effect prior to September 5, 2017, and in accordance with the Court’s December 4, 2020, order;
- Accepting applications for advance parole documents based on the terms of the DACA policy prior to September 5, 2017, and in accordance with the Court’s December 4, 2020, order;
- Extending one-year grants of deferred action under DACA to two years; and
- Extending one-year employment authorization documents under DACA to two years.
USCIS will take appropriate steps to provide evidence of the one-year extensions of deferred action and employment authorization documents under DACA to individuals who were issued documentation on or after July 28, 2020, with a one-year validity period under the defunct policy.
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The electricity system regulator in the United States could help slash inflation and double the country’s renewable energy supply by encouraging technologies to reduce the “absurd” 3.5-year wait times delaying interconnections between regional power systems, the Rocky Mountain Institute argues in a new analysis.
“Inflation-busting technologies” like wind, solar, and energy storage can “help stabilize domestic energy prices and prevent future price spikes due to a reliance on volatile international fuel markets,” RMI analysts Russell Mendell, Mathias Einberger, and Katie Siegner argue in a recent blog post. “However, clogged interconnection queues pose an increasing challenge for renewable energy developers, slowing the integration of clean and cheap resources onto the grid.”
The authors point to more than 1,000 gigawatts (that’s one thousand billion watts) of solar and wind capacity and 400 GW of storage that are “awaiting construction once they can procure transmission capacity to bring the electricity to market.” Those projects represent “roughly 10 times the deployed capacity of solar PV and 60 times the deployed battery storage capacity on the grid today.”
The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has invited public comment on a new rule that could begin to tackle that problem, write Mendell, Einberger, and Siegner. “But to make significant headway, FERC needs to go further,” they write. That would mean speeding the introduction of grid-enhancing technologies (GETs) that can alleviate grid congestion “by optimizing the transfer capacity of existing power lines—thereby opening the door for more renewables to connect to the grid.”
The RMI blog post explains three specific grid techniques—dynamic line ratings, advanced power flow controls, and topology optimization—that would amount to “an energy efficiency retrofit for the grid,” costing less and taking less time to complete than expensive new transmission lines. By freeing up existing grid capacity, the various approaches would get more renewables in production faster and save ratepayers money, the authors say.
So far, FERC wants grid transmission providers to consider GETs as an alternative to traditional grid upgrades if a customer asks them to. A more complete approach, already proposed by one advocacy coalition, “is to require transmission operators to install GETs if the operators’ internal analysis shows that benefits outweigh the costs. Cost-benefit analysis could be required not only if requested by an interconnection customer, but also for regular operations and long-term planning.”
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By Erin Dale, Duxbury Clipper, eduxbury.com 11 May 2011
It might take a few more years, but wind power is on its way to Duxbury. The Alternative Energy Committee continues its quest for a suitable location for a wind turbine.
Members met on Tuesday, April 26 at the Senior Center to get the latest updates from Matt Vanderbrook of Sustainable Energy Development (SED), the company conducting the community wind program feasibility study administered by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC). SED has been hands on throughout the initial stages of the wind project, helping the town apply for the $65,000 grant it was awarded by MassCEC last year.
The project’s first stage is a site analysis.
“We go to the location, take a walk around and get a feel for the area,” said Vanderbrook. “We look at every element of the project to come up with ideas.”
Vanderbrook used Google Earth to show the committee members a bird’s-eye view of three possible turbine sites, which are all located between the DPW yard behind Town Hall and North Hill Golf Course. This was just a preview of what a turbine could look like in Duxbury; once an exact location is selected, SED will generate more detailed computer images of what the turbine will look like from certain vantage points.
When scouting possible locations, SED takes quite a few things into consideration, including the turbine’s aesthetics, sound and proximity to homes. SED is recommending a 900 kW, 330-foot tall turbine, which would have to be a minimum of 1,000 feet away from the nearest residence.
The site that the committee reacted to most favorably is located on the town-owned North Hill Golf Course and is over 1,000 feet from the nearest home and 180 feet from the property line. One of the advantages of this site is its easy accessibility. Also, at 23 meters, it is situated on one of the town’s highest elevations. The disadvantages? The committee could not help but wonder whether a wind turbine would be loud and potentially distracting for golfers.
According to Vanderbrook, state regulations require that a turbine cannot exceed over ten decibels at ambient level.
“This is about 40 decibels,” Vanderbrook said, referring to the sound of his voice at a conversational volume. “It’s not much. One thing we’ll be doing is a sound model, drawing rings around the turbine to show where the decibels are. We don’t want to do an expensive, full ambient study—it’s unnecessary.”
The course would also probably have to be closed during construction, but that could take place during the off season.
“We don’t know how golfers would feel having their turf ripped up for a bit,” said Vanderbrook, “or having a wind turbine right there.”
Once the exact location is selected and permissions are obtained from the Board of Selectmen, Vanderbrook anticipates that construction could happen quickly. The first steps – infrastructure, foundation and electrical – would take about a month to complete. Once the equipment is on-site, the turbine could be built in as a little as a week.
Vanderbook said a draft for construction could be ready by August. The committee hopes to have a presentation ready for next year’s Town Meeting at the latest, or possibly ready for a special meeting in October. SED would also help with presenting the project in public forums, which is part of the feasibility study, along with business planning and visual assessments.
“Best case scenario, if the stars align, construction could start in the fall of 2012,” said Vanderbrook. “Everything would have to be perfect. 2013 is more realistic.”
While the committee seemed pretty sold on the North Hill location, agreeing that a turbine on a golf course has a “coolness” and “wow factor,” no official decisions have been made.
Committee chair Jim Goldenberg said that they are not yet “putting our eggs in that basket” but that it’s a good idea to start the conversation now.
“Massachusetts is looked at as beacon of community wind energy at the moment,” Vanderbrook said.
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As of late, major companies have been showing significant interest in stablecoin. These stablecoins grab headlines and financial experts, politicians, and business owners show interest in them from time to time.
If you are interested in gaining exposure to cryptocurrency without experiencing rampant volatility, stablecoins might be worth your time.
What is stablecoin? Can it be the new eCommerce currency? This article will answer it for you!
What Are Stablecoins?
Stablecoins are digital currencies that link themselves to an underlying asset. This underlying asset can be precious metal or a national currency.
The primary types of stablecoins are commodity-backed stablecoins, fiat-backed stablecoins, and cryptocurrency-backed stable coins. These currencies have a design to maintain fixed values.
In this tech-driven economy, stablecoins are rapidly evolving to serve as the new asset class. There’s no denying that cryptocurrencies are prone to volatility. However, unlike traditional cryptocurrencies and bitcoin, stablecoins are created to manage the price swings.
TPR coin is one such stablecoin that latches itself to the last highest value of gold. Such cryptocurrencies are proving themselves to be less influenced by market conditions.
Investors can buy commodity-backed stablecoins and retain this asset for capital appreciation.
They’re Better Than Credit Cards
Crypto enthusiasts often point out how stablecoins enhance the reach and efficiency of eCommerce. But unfortunately, the existing financial currencies have their fair share of inefficiencies. For example, credit cards are heavily reliant on intermediaries, making them unfit in the long run.
Blockchain technology grants payments to occur directly between the buyers and the seller. Thus, it reduces the cost for merchants as well as the customers. Besides, blockchain also allows verification process automation.
Studies suggest that blockchain technologies can slash banks’ infrastructural costs by up to $20 billion a year. Also, stablecoin’s high efficiency can translate into a much wider reach than before.
In a nutshell, stablecoins have all the features to displace existing payment methods of eCommerce.
Will People Use Stablecoin As Alternate Currency?
For people to use these stablecoins actively, they’ll be major roadblocks. No matter the incentives, the payment of goods and services through stablecoins is restricted to specific niches.
Yes, some major retailers accept cryptocurrencies. However, for stablecoins to make a cut, it might take longer. Chainalysis, a blockchain research company, found that crypto accounts for less than 1.3% per cent of the merchant transactions were associated with crypto.
Three or four puzzle pieces are required for stable coins to make the transition into eCommerce. There should be corporate champions, appropriate technology, and consumer demand.
Regulation can change the scene for stablecoins. But, unfortunately, banks refrain from involving themselves in crypto projects which makes businesses suspicious of this technology. Hence, the slow rate of adoption.
Nevertheless, more and more businesses are trying to promote stablecoins due to their efficiency. Also, if key financial institutions give their approval stamp to stablecoins, you might witness a reduction in reliance on low fiat currency.
Retailers such as Amazon might even launch their crypto in the future. So, brace yourselves as cashless shopping is about to knock on our doors.
The Bottom Line
For some time now, stablecoins are enjoying the spotlight in the crypto industry. As a result, they are the current buzzword and jump in every conversation related to cryptocurrency.
However, these stablecoins are yet to become the new eCommerce currency. Don’t get us wrong, stablecoins are the future, but it still has a long way to travel, especially due to some roadblocks it faces today.
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What exactly is a credit that is bad and do I qualify?
It may seem that bad credit mortgages are an impractical to get but it is not the scenario – brand New begin Financial helps organize these mortgages daily. Following the 2008 вЂcredit crunch’, expert loan providers nearly disappeared sufficient reason for them bad credit mortgages. Luckily, there’s been a sluggish return of expert loan providers which is now feasible to have home financing with a credit that is bad, even though you have now been discharged from bankruptcy. Home mortgages for bad credit borrowers do surely exist – however you are not likely to get the right solution on the high-street.
A bad credit home loan (sub-prime, unfavorable credit home loan) is a home loan released to borrowers with low credit scores.
Credit rating vs credit historyCredit rating is exactly what most loan providers used to figure out your credit danger which can be consists of your past credit score, the dimensions of your deposit, task history in reality something that the financial institution feels will affects your credit history. Many loan providers make use of this system which could result in вЂthe puter claims scenario that is no. Professional loan providers tend though to consider each full instance separately evaluating your credit rating record in place of considering a rating. These are typically thinking about just what has occurred since your dilemmas and exactly how severe the problems that are previous.
Am I able to get a home loan with bad credit rating or credit score?
You will find many lenders that consider applicants with a whole selection of credit problems, however it depends upon your own personal circumstances as well as on the specific loan provider. Some street that is high may in exemplary circumstances think about smaller, historic problems in the event that other countries in the application looks sound, whereas for lots more severe problems they are planning to need use of a expert loan provider.
Do you know the many factors that are mon affect your credit rating?
Your payment history – whether you’ve got compensated your credit mitments on time. Never ever borrowing and for that reason maybe perhaps maybe not to be able to persuade loan providers that you’re reliableIf you’ve got never ever lent (especially real for more youthful individuals), you simply will not have much credit score meaning your score will be reduced.County Court Judgement (CCJ)A County Court Judgment (CCJ) is just a variety of court purchase that could be registered you fail to repay money you owe against you if.
Credit rating – the length of time will it influence me personally for?Bad credit is seen for 6 years. Loan providers should be able to see missed re re payments, County Court Judgments (CCJs) and defaults that will have an effect about what loan providers can be found for you in that duration.
Electoral Roll – manages to do it influence my credit score?If you’re maybe not currently in the electoral roll, you need to log titleloansusa.info/payday-loans-ar in to it. Loan providers make use of it to test you say you do and not being on an electoral roll affects your credit score that you live where. Registering in the electoral roll is free and you may do it online in the About My Vote internet site.
The other facets that will impact my credit history together with credit mortgage decision that is bad?
Age temporary credit (payday loan, door stop loan providers) Defaults on your own file If you’re in a Debt Management Arrange (DMP) them out) Household ine if you’re in or have been in an Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA) Debt Relief Order Re-possession Bankruptcy Being on the voter’s roll Financial Associates Number of credit applications Utilization of current credit cards (maxing
Why make use of a broker that is specialized?
Sub-prime mortgages are mortgages for borrowers that don’t fit standard criteria and require a bit more aid in choosing the solution that is right. After the recession expert loan providers nearly disappeared through the market and tall Street Lenders appetite for danger disappeared, so for a period of time candidates with unique requirements actually had no choices.
Now though while the tall Street remains firmly into the camp of credit rating financing there are certain professional or lenders that are niche earnestly like to provide to customers with failed credit rating borrowers with minor problem or вЂnear prime’ all of the way as much as more serious issues such as for instance having defaults, CCJ’s, pay check loans, missed payments, financial obligation administration schemes and bankruptcies.
An excellent professional agents makes it possible to find a very good solution for you personally predicated on your circumstances – in case your credit rating is damaged they are able to assist find that you loan provider that is suitable for you even although you have in all probability been declined by a top Street loan provider. a broker that is good have an in-depth understanding of industry and they’re going to manage to remend the best option home loan for your needs minimising the possibility of the job getting refused. | <urn:uuid:3fe661d5-d0b8-466e-b7cc-4bb9048d1daa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ravinyc.com/bad-credit-mortgage-what-is-just-a-credit-that-is-7/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.96398 | 1,102 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 18
By Umid Niayesh - Trend:
Iran has slowed down the development speed of its nuclear facilities, but the activities are not halted, expert on nuclear issues Reza Taghizadeh told Trend.
On November 17, French President Francois Hollande said at a joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Iran should meet four demands to reach an agreement over its nuclear energy programme in the upcoming talks with the world's six major powers in Geneva.
Putting all the Iranian nuclear installations under international supervision, suspending enrichment to 20 per cent, reducing the existing stock and halting construction of the Arak (heavy water) plant are conditions France as a member of P5+1 has put forward for reaching an agreement with Iran.
The last round of nuclear talks between Iran and the five United Nations with veto powers plus Germany, known as P5+1, ended on November 10 without any result.
Iranian officials blame France, claiming that the country's tough position caused the negotiations to fail.
Hollande`s conditions shows it would be harder for Iran to achieve an agreement with P5+1 during the next round of talks, scheduled to be held in Geneva on November 20 and 21. Resolving the Iran's nuclear issue is among the main priorities of the country's President Hassan Rouhani,
Taghizadeh said, adding that Rouhani is trying to keep Iran's nuclear activities at the current slow status, without passing the west's redlines such as keeping 20 per cent enriched uranium reserves under 200 kilogrammes.
According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)`s latest report released on November 14, Iran continues to convert its 19.75 percent uranium hexafluoride into uranium oxide, but it has increased its stockpile of near 20 per cent low enriched uranium hexafluoride by 10 kg to 196 kg total.
It shows that Rouhani is continuing ex-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's policy and paying attention to security considerations on keeping 20 per cent enriched uranium under 200 kilogrammes, Taghizadeh argued.
He went on to note that, Netanyahu has earlier underlined that if Iran's 20 per cent enriched uranium increases up to 245 kilogrammes, the country will be able to test a nuclear weapon.
Since then, Iran converted its surplus 20 per cent of enriched uranium production in excess of 200 kg to uranium oxide, claiming to produce fuel to avoid passing the West's red line, Taghizadeh added.
While putting all the Iranian nuclear installations under international supervision is amongst Francois Hollande`s conditions, Iran continues to prevent supervision of the Arak Heavy Water Reactor as well as the alleged Parchin high explosives test site, the expert said.
"During the last visit of the Director General of IAEA, Yukiya Amano to Iran, Iranian officials allowed IAEA to inspect the Gachin uranium mine in the south of the country which has no importance and is not included among Iran's obligations, instead Parchin," Tagizadeh said.
"Iran also announced its agreement with inspections on Arak`s heavy water production plant, not on the Arak`s heavy-water reactor."
Iran's heavy water production plant and heavy water reactor which remains under construction is located near the city of Arak.
The start date of the Arak IR-40 Heavy Water Reactor is difficult to determine. If operating optimally, the IR-40 would produce about nine kilogrammes of plutonium annually or enough for about two nuclear weapons each year. Intermittently, Iran has allowed the IAEA access to the IR-40 reactor at Arak, but in recent years, has not allowed the Agency full access.
Amano`s latest report indicates that the installation activity at the Arak IR-40 Heavy Water Reactor almost halted, Thagizadeh said, adding that it may be due to Iran's political considerations.
Iran's heavy water production plant was commissioned in August 2006. By United Nations Security Council resolution 1737 (2006), Iran was ordered to suspend all work on heavy water related projects. However, the country has not halted this work and maintains that it has no legal obligation to do so. Though Iran granted IAEA inspectors access on August 17, 2011, they were not permitted to obtain samples of Iran's heavy water. The IAEA monitors the status of the facility via satellite imagery.
The slow progress speed of Iran's nuclear programme has also technical as well as political reasons, he added.
Ahmadinejad tried to use the country's nuclear programme for promotional targets, Taghizadeh said, adding that, during the last months of the previous administration, Iranian officials announced incomplete nuclear projects as achievements. They tried to show all technical capacities as practical power.
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Famous Forest of India | List of India’s Forest
India is blessed with a precious environmental resource and forests in the world. It is not only famous for its diverse wildlife and culture, but also for its dense and vast forest cover. Its thick and dense forests ranging from the mountain pastures in Ladakh to the tropical forests in Kerela, from the extensive lush forests in Arunachal Pradesh to the thorn forests in Rajasthan.
Madhya Pradesh bags the largest one from the names of forests in India with 25.11 percent of the geographical area, constituting the Van Vihar National Park in the state. It is subsequently followed by Arunachal Pradesh, Chattisgarh, and Odisha. The smallest forest in India is of the state Haryana with 6.79 percent of the geographical area.
1. The Sundarbans National Park, West Bengal
The Sunderbans forest in India is a UNESCO World Heritage site. It was declared as a national park on 4th May 1984. The park stands on the banks of the Ganges Delta in West Bengal. The vast Sundarbans National park is part of the Sundarbans delta which covers close to 10,000 square kilometers and is the largest deltas in the world.
2. Gir Forest, Gujarat
The best place to spot the Asiatic Lion, Gir forest in Gujarat is a delight for wildlife lovers. The Gir National Park has spread over 1,412 sq km in the Junagadh district of Gujarat. The Gir Forest also homes more than 400 species of Flora, primarily divided into Savannah forests and dry deciduous forests.
3. Jim Corbett National Park, Uttarakhand
Uttarakhand’s Jim Corbett National Park is one of India’s most popular tourist attractions, especially for wildlife lovers. Home to around 650 birds including residents and some migratory birds, it shelters the view of over 50 species of raptors. The Jungle safaris with overnight stays, and its rich diversity of wildlife and bird hotspots.
4. Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, Tamil Nadu
The Nilgiri Biosphere reserve established in 1986, is the first Biosphere Reserve in India. It is located amid the enchanting Nilgiri Hills and western ghats of Southern India spread over 1280 kilometers of area. The reserve homes over 370 species of birds, 100 species of mammals, 300 species of butterflies, 80 species of reptiles, along with some species of fishes and amphibians.
5. Namdapha National Park, Arunachal Pradesh
The Namdapha National Park in Arunachal Pradesh is the third-largest national park in the world. It is spanning over an area of around 1985 sq.km., with the 177 sq. km. in the buffer zone and around the 1808 sq. km. This park is the home to a snow leopard, clouded leopards, common leopards, tigers, dholes, wolves, Asiatic black bears, red panda, red fox, yellow-throated marten, Slow Loris, Hoolock Gibbons, Capped Langurs, Assamese Macaques, and the Rhesus Macaques. | <urn:uuid:dcd4b152-0df2-4e22-83bc-ff4ea7ad6d05> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://whatsanswer.com/famous-forest-of-india/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.902096 | 738 | 3.375 | 3 |
Double entry bookkeeping is the definitive way of ensuring that every transaction is captured and entered into your bookkeeping. It ensures that nothing is missed. It was designed and used in the Middle-Ages in Italy and became widespread. No system has ever replaced it. How does it work?
There are only 6 types of transactions in bookkeeping, so you need to understand the following formula:
P – Purchases (items to be re-sold in a retail business)
E – Expenses (overheads or indirect expenses)
A – Assets (machinery, cash, vehicles, customers, etc.)
R – Revenue (sales)
L – Liabilities (money the business owes)
S – Source of Funds (what’s left belongs to the business owner)
As long as you understand the above types of transactions, you should be able to do double entry bookkeeping.
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In our area, you may have noticed that air conditioning units are either placed on top of a roof or in the yard, usually a side yard, of a house. While rooftop units may be more common in commercial buildings and side yard units in residential buildings, you will see both types of units in both places. It may have led you to wonder about the differences in these type of air conditioning units and whether one of them is better for your home or business. In this article, we will let you know whether there is a difference between them and what that difference is so that you can make a decision about the best type of system for you.
Rooftop AC units use ductwork to direct cool air throughout your house. This is known as central air conditioning. Other than the ductwork, which will generally have parts located inside of the home, all of the components of a rooftop system are on the roof, which can make it easier to access for maintenance and repair. They may also be more efficient systems. Because warm air rises and cool air falls, these systems can use physics to help them distribute air more efficiently throughout a building. All of these features make rooftop air conditioners a smart choice for places like Phoenix and the surrounding areas, where summer temperatures demand a responsive and efficient cooling system. However, many older rooftop air conditioners were large and unattractive, which made home owners shy away from them, resulting in them being primarily used in commercial settings.
Side yard air conditioners also use ductwork to transport cool air throughout the home. These systems, also known as split systems, have some of the components outside, usually in a side yard, while other components are located in the house. This can make service and repair more difficult. However, they are also the standard, especially for residential applications, which means that homeowners have many more options when they are selecting a side yard system. The biggest benefit of this increased selection is size. The size of an air conditioning unit is important, not just in terms of efficiency, but also in terms of overall cooling. Units that are too small or too large can result in air that just does not get cool enough. For many customers, the biggest complaint about side yard systems is that they are noisy, but newer models are considerably quieter than older models. | <urn:uuid:f82b0dc0-36a9-454f-965b-17b5e1fe972a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.worlockair.com/air-conditioning/is-there-a-difference-between-a-rooftop-ac-unit-and-a-side-yard-air-conditioner/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.977906 | 466 | 1.929688 | 2 |
Donald Trump said bringing Syrian refugees to the U.S. could result in "one of the great military coups of all time"
"This could be like a Trojan horse," he said
Donald Trump said Saturday that bringing Syrian refugees to the U.S. could result in “one of the great military coups of all time.”
“This could be one of the great military coups of all time if they send them to our country – young, strong people and they turn out to be ISIS,” he told Fox News’ Eric Bolling. “Now, probably that won’t happen, but some of them definitely in my opinion will be ISIS.”
Trump said later Saturday that bringing in more refugees could have long-term effects.
“This could be the ultimate Trojan horse. This one could be written about for a long time,” he said at a campaign event in Franklin, Tennessee. “They probably think, ‘This is going to be easy. We will send all these ISIS people.’ So a big percentage could be them.”
The Republican front-runner said President Barack Obama wants to take up to 200,000 Syrian refugees.
“Obama wants to – listen to this – he wants to take in 200,000,” he added. “You know, 200,000. That’s like an army. Now I’m looking the other day. It’s all men. Like, where are the women? They’re very strong men. Why aren’t they back there fighting for their country?”
It was unclear where Trump got the 200,000 figure, and a message left with the Trump campaign Saturday afternoon was not immediately returned.
Trump also said the U.S. is “totally unprepared” to handle the possible challenges. He also reiterated his pledge to send the refugees back to Syria if elected president.
“If they come in, and if I win, they’re going back. They’re going back,” Trump said to applause. He called for the creation of a “safe zone” in Syria where the refugees could settle.
“We have to help them in that sense, but we don’t have to help them by taking them into our country,” Trump said.
Last month, Obama ordered his administration to “scale up” the number of Syrian refugees admitted to the United States, directing his team to prepare for at least 10,000 for this fiscal year, which began on Thursday. The 10,000 Syrian refugees would be allocated out of a U.S. quota of 75,000 refugee admissions from around the world.
A Senate aide last month said Secretary of State John Kerry told senators that the administration would “seek an additional increase beyond” the worldwide total, potentially as high as 100,000.
In all, about 1,500 Syrian refugees have been admitted to the United States since the start of the Syrian conflict in 2011, the vast majority of them in the fiscal year that just ended.
Also in Saturday’s Fox News interview, Trump cited areas where he could cut spending, citing the Department of Education and the Environmental Protection Agency in particular. He said Hillary Clinton, who he’s criticized recently on the campaign trail over the controversy surrounding her use of a private email server while leading the State Department, has “become very mean, very nasty.”
“She’s become a very different type of person,” Trump said.
But despite the attacks from Clinton and other candidates, Trump told Bolling that he’s having fun on the campaign trail.
“I’m having a good time, but I think a lot of other people aren’t,” he said.
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Convener(s): Professor Roger Goodman, Professor Takehiko Kariya, and Dr. Natalia Doan
Speaker(s): Professor Sandra Wilson, Academic Chair of History, Murdoch University
These seminars will occur live and will not be recorded. Unauthorized recording is strictly prohibited.
Please click on the seminar title to register in advance and receive the meeting details.
Military Discipline and Japanese War Crimes, 1941-45
This seminar is in memory of Ann Waswo
During the Second World War, Japanese troops occupying Southeast Asia and large areas of China and the Pacific committed crimes against prisoners of war and civilians in the occupied territories on a large scale. The crimes included massacres, individual murders, torture and beatings, neglect of the health and welfare of detainees, forced marches, rape, cannibalism, theft and wanton destruction of property. After the war, explanations for these atrocities, offered both by Japanese military personnel accused of war crimes and by Allied investigators and prosecutors, emphasised the supposedly rigid hierarchy of the Japanese military and the requirement for absolute obedience to superiors. Issues of command and hierarchy took a central place in the thousands of Allied military prosecutions of Japanese war crimes suspects. This paper challenges the idea that hierarchy and obedience were ubiquitous in the wartime Japanese military and constitute the major explanation for war crimes. Japanese troops in the field typically lacked adequate logistical support and were stretched thinly over large territories. Such circumstances helped to create both the opportunity and the necessity for individual decisions by mid-ranking soldiers, some of which led to atrocities against prisoners and local civilians in occupied areas.
Sandra Wilson (Academic Chair of History. Murdoch University)
Do you have a question you would like to ask the guest speaker? Please email questions at least three hours in advance to Dr Natalia Doan (natalia.doan at wadham.ox.ac.uk) or during the webinar using the Q&A feature.
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Over the last few weeks I’ve been trying to get started on a new novel. My usual strategy is to create a quick list of scenes that get me from beginning to end and then I start writing.
BUT, invariably, as I get to know the characters and the story-line better, I go off plan. My narrative goes around the houses and there’s a lot of wasted time and much re-writing. This time I want to avoid all that. So, I’ve been using a couple of resources to help me create a proper story structure and character arcs before I get too deep into the writing.
The Snowflake Method
The Snowflake Method was pioneered by Randy Ingermanson and was recommended to me by children’s author Lorraine Hellier.
This method dictates that the writer should start with the simplest premise possible and gradually expand to create plot and character details. For example, step one is ‘Write a one sentence summary of the story’. Step two is ‘Expand to a one paragraph summary.’ By following all six steps, the writer ends up with character bibles, a four-page synopsis and a scene list. The Reedsy website explains how to use The Snowflake Method in an easy to follow way. In addition, there are lots of useful resources on Reedsy such as character and story structure templates to download, which I found useful.
5 Secrets of Story Structure: How to Write a Novel That Stands Out
At time of writing this is a free e-book by KM Weiland. It’s short and easy to read. Most of us will be familiar with the three-act structure but this book provides more plot points on which to hang the story. For example it talks about pinch points which are small turning points between the main plot points.
I found the book very useful.
If you’re looking for more reading on the subject of novel structure, have a look at the five recommendations in this blog post by Rachel McCollin.
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You will prepare and submit a term paper on Shot and Reverse Shot Technique. Your paper should be a minimum of 2000 words in length. This paper will analyze a particular technique that is used in cinema, namely shot/reverse shot, and examine its peculiarities on the example of a scene from The Bourne Identity.
To begin with, it may be particularly important to pay attention to the fundamental elements which make the above-mentioned technique. Thus, it primarily focuses on depicting characters who are having a conversation in turns, focusing on the person who is talking rather than the one who is listening. The latter might be shown fully, partially (from the over the shoulder point of view) and disappear from the screen (Bordwell 2007, p. 58). In other words, shot/reserve shot structures the narration in a way so that the audience would be able to see only the person who is talking rather which makes one more important than the other.
Another important element of the technique in question is portraying the character looking at each other. Indeed, in spite of the fact that the camera changes its location constantly, the position of the people who are engaged in a conversation should remain looking at each other. Indeed, if the viewer does not see this, then the interaction of the characters will lose their contextual value. What is more important is that if two people face each other and are portrayed simultaneously then this will not be aesthetically pleasing with as, on the one hand, the audience will be looking at them from a side, not seeing their faces, and, on the other hand, if a face of a person is shown fully, there is no way but to show the other person’s back which ruins the face to face atmosphere.
Finally, a significant part of the shot/reserve shot technique lies in the fact that there are no transitions between moments when the camera shows a different person talking. In other words, there is no fade out, fade in or other elements of editing.
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Namespace prefixes optional?
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rev-bob at gotc.com
Sun Jan 9 22:52:58 GMT 2000
> David Megginson wrote:
> > Here are the tricky points about Namespaces:
> > 1. Namespace URIs are just unique identifiers, like Java or Perl
> > package names; they don't (necessarily) point to anything.
> > 2. There can be a default Namespace for element names but not for
> > attribute names.
> > 3. Not withstanding #2, some apps may treat unprefixed attribute names
> > as if they belong to the same Namespace as the corresponding
> > element name.
Seems from here that a simple containment-based default scheme would avoid a lot of
headaches in this matter. That is, unless X has an explicit namespace, X defaults to the
namespace of its parent - whether X is an attribute (parent = element) or an element
(parent = containing element). That certainly seemed to be what the XHTML spec
implied; define the namespace for <html>, and everything contained within the html
element defaults to the html namespace unless otherwise noted.
As it stands, I really don't like the idea of having to prefix each and every element name
and attribute name with a namespace prefix just to ensure that the intent is clear.
Defining the deltas ("here's where the namespace changes") seems *much* more
logical...not to mention being easier to maintain and easier to read. (Yeah, tacking a
namespace onto every token may not seem like a big deal when generating a document
- but have you ever tried to *modify* such a monstrosity?)
For a basic example of what I mean, in hopes of making my intentions clearer, take this
fragment - assuming that all referenced namespaces have been defined, of course.
<rbns:fragment name="Fred" creator="Rev. Bob">
<htmlns:p align="left">Here's a bit of <b bubbans:foo="bar">XHTML</b> thrown into
What I am proposing would make that equal to this namespace-explicit fragment:
<rbns:fragment rbns:name="Fred" rbns:creator="Rev. Bob">
<htmlns:p htmlns:align="left">Here's a bit of <htmlns:b
bubbans:foo="bar">XHTML</htmlns:b> thrown into the mix.</htmlns:p>
That is, by defining "fragment" as belonging to namespace rbns, I am defining the
attributes of "fragment" and the children of "fragment" as belonging to the same
namespace by default. With the "p" element, I declare that it belongs to the htmlns
namespace, along with (by default) its children and attributes. With the "b" element, for
some reason, I need to attach an attribute from the bubbans namespace - so I mark just
that attribute as belonging to a different space. When "p" closes, so does the htmlns
fragment, and the default namespace reverts back to rbns.
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Feast: November 14
Bishop of London, died about 690. He belonged to the princely family of the East Anglian Offa, and devoted a considerable portion of his patrimony to founding two monasteries, one for monks at Chertsey, and the other for nuns at Barking in Essex. Over the latter he placed his sister, St. Ethelburga, as abbess. He himself discharged the duties of superior at Chertsey. Erconwald continued his monastic life till the death of Bishop Wini in 675, when he was called to the See of London, at the instance of King Sebbi and Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury. As monk and bishop he was renowned for his holiness of life, and miracles were wrought in attestation of his sanctity. The sick were cured by contact with the litter on which he had been carried; this we have on the testimony of Venerable Bede. He was present in 686 at the reconciliation between Archbishop Theodore and Wilfrith. King Ini in the preface to his laws calls Erconwald "my bishop". During his episcopate he enlarged his church, augmented its revenues, and obtained for it special privileges from the king.
According to an ancient epitaph, Erconwald ruled the Diocese of London for eleven years. He is said to have eventually retired to the convent of his sister in Barking, where he died 30 April. He was buried in St. Paul s, and his tomb became renowned for miracles. The citizens of London had a special devotion to him, and they regarded with pride the magnificence of his shrine. During the burning of the cathedral in 1087 it is related that the shrine and its silken coverings remained intact. A solemn translation of St. Erconwald's body took place 14 Nov., 1148, when it was raised above the high altar. The shrine was robbed of its jewels and ornaments in the sixteenth century; and the bones of the saint are said to have been then buried at the east end of the choir. His feast is observed by English Catholics on 14 November. Prior to the Reformation, the anniversaries of St. Erconwald's death and translation of his relics were observed at St. Paul's as feasts of the first class, according to an ordinance of Bishop Braybroke in 1386.
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Written by Codekeeper | Published on December 10, 2021
Data Escrow, Saas Escrow, Source Code Escrow, it can all get a little confusing, this is why we accumulated all the frequently asked questions straight.
What is Data Escrow?
Without the necessary data, it is immensely hard to bring and keep a software application in a usable and useful state. Data escrow is an effective way of ensuring that any data created and managed by a business-critical software application is never at risk of being lost or inaccessible.
Specifically, by deploying data escrow, the application's end-user (licensee) ensures they are always able to access the most up-to-date copy of the data they need to operate critical functions and ensure business continuity. The data in escrow can only be released to the licensee under predefined (and verified) conditions, such as in the event of a natural disaster or their licensor running out of business.
What does Data Escrow mean?
Data escrow is a specialized data protection solution designed to maintain the safety and integrity of data essential to the proper functioning of a mission-critical software application.
Who is data escrow for?
Any company that builds software applications and their clients. While data escrow is not intended to replace operational backups, security-minded companies that commission software use data escrow to bolster their risk mitigation. Software developers, on the other hand, use it to boost sales by strengthening their business case and providing more value to their clients.
Why do people use data escrow?
When you build and use a software application, you create data. There is no way around it. And this data can be stored in environments where software is deployed and executed, including databases in different physical locations, asset stores like AWS S3 and Microsoft Azure, in-memory databases, and many others. In case critical data suddenly becomes inaccessible for any reason, your software application would lose its normal functionality.
What can cause data loss?
Data loss occurs when data is accidentally deleted or something causes it to become corrupted. Viruses, physical damage, formatting errors, or a combination of these can render data unreadable by both humans and software, posing a risk to the financial health of businesses of all sizes.
What is SaaS escrow?
In simple terms, SaaS escrow secures access to a running instance of a third-party cloud application that is critical to ensuring a company’s business continuity. As such, it helps avoid both temporary and long-term disruption to the end-user’s regular business operations — and consequently, prevents financial loss — regardless of their developer’s or supplier’s operational status.
In addition to the application’s ever-evolving source code, SaaS escrow can also contain data, virtual machines, manuals, credentials, and any other assets or information needed to ensure its continued viability or quick recovery, depending on the licensee’s required configuration.
What does SaaS escrow mean?
SaaS escrow is a specialized software protection solution designed to protect cloud-native software applications from internal and external threats, critical errors, or incorrect configurations that can adversely affect business functions.
Who is SaaS escrow for?
It is intended for all software developers and suppliers who ship Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications as part of service level and license agreements, as well as their clients (end-users).
SaaS escrow typically secures root access to the application's live environment or any assets necessary for virtualizing the application in a new one. Alternatively, a risk-averse company may also deploy a standby, running copy to ensure minimal to no downtime in emergencies.
Why do developers use SaaS escrow?
Modern SaaS escrow easily integrates with agile workflows, providing software developers an easy way to meet licensing obligations, achieve compliance, and protect intellectual property (IP). It acts as a point of differentiation and gives software suppliers a competitive advantage in an oversaturated market, allowing them to provide extra value (and peace of mind) to their clients and ultimately boost profits.
Why do end-users use SaaS escrow?
Licensees (i.e., companies whose operations rely on third-party, cloud-based software applications) use SaaS escrow to protect their software in case the developer undergoes acquisition, runs out of business, or fails to meet their contractual obligations in any other way. By securing access to source code, data, and other critical assets, licensees mitigate risk and prevent disruption to critical systems.
Source Code Escrow
What is source code?
Source code escrow puts a contractual obligation on a software developer or supplier (licensor) to store the complete and up-to-date source code — and sometimes also object code — of a business-critical application in a format readable by humans with a trusted escrow agent such as Codekeeper.
In particular, by escrowing the source code of a critical application, the end-user (licensee) protects their software investment by means of ensuring they can maintain and update it irrespective of the developer or supplier's operational statuses. Such circumstances include the software developer discontinuing maintenance and support, running out of business, or breaching the licensing agreement in any other way.
What does source code escrow mean?
Source code escrow is a specialized software protection solution designed to store the source code of a critical software application, ensuring access in case the software's maintenance cannot otherwise be assured, as defined in agreed-upon conditions.
Who is source code escrow for?
It is intended for all software developers and suppliers who deploy business-critical, on-site software applications as part of service level and license agreements, as well as their clients (end-users). Though source code escrow is most commonly used for traditional on-site software licenses, it’s a versatile software protection solution that can also be employed for development agreements, software acquisition agreements, and other transactions involving software.
Why do developers use source code escrow?
Successful software developers and suppliers leverage source code escrow during licensing negotiations to offer more value to their clients and stand out from competitors, which is why some business development executives refer to it as “the great sales enabler.” By storing source code in a secure location, developers also deploy source code escrow to increase security and protect intellectual property.
Why do end-users use source code escrow?
Licensees — companies whose operations rely on third-party software applications — primarily use it to mitigate risk. With the ability and documented right to maintain and update essential parts of a critical software product, end-users reduce the chance of interruption or damage to their business and ensure business continuity in case their software supplier undergoes acquisition, runs out of business, fails to provide adequate maintenance, or otherwise breaches the agreement.
What is information escrow?
Information escrow allows companies to transmit sensitive information via a trusted intermediary — typically an escrow agent such as Codekeeper — to prevent the risk of disclosing critical, classified information to unauthorized parties.
Specifically, in the business context, information escrow assists companies with securing access keys, encryption keys, patents, and all other sensitive assets. The escrow agent attests to the ownership, content, and creation date of the escrowed materials, releasing them to the designated beneficiary only under specific, predefined, contractually agreed-upon conditions.
What does information escrow mean?
Information escrow is a specialized solution designed to protect intellectual property, sensitive information, and other critical assets from being accessed by unauthorized or malicious parties that may seek to violate IP rights or formulate an attack.
What is information escrow used for?
Information escrow is most commonly used when one or more parts of the product development process are outsourced to a third-party. It is, however, a versatile solution that is employed in different scenarios where there is a transaction taking place and a trusted third party is required to secure critical information until certain milestones are met. It holds intellectual property and a wide array of other confidential information that can be stored physically, electronically, or in the cloud.
What kind of information is or can be stored?
Examples of the types of information that are stored in information escrow include but are not limited to:
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• Engineering or manufacturing designs
• Industrial specifications
• Chemical formulas
• Encryption keys
• Branding campaigns
• Advertising campaigns
• Title deeds
• Trademark assignment
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One who throws silk for the weaver: to throw about, to scatter: to throw away, to lose by neglect or folly; to reject: to throw back, to retort; to reject; to refuse; to throw by, to lay aside as useless: to throw down, to overturn; to destroy; to depress: to throw in, to put in; to deposit with others; to join in or with: to throw off, to expel; to reject or discard: to throw one's self down, to lie down: to throw one's self on or upon, to resign one's self to the favour, clemency, or power of: to throw our, to reject; to exple; to reject; to utter carelessly or insidiously: to throw up, to resign; to vomit: to throw silk, to twist singles into a cord: thrown-silk, silk consisting of two or more singles twisted into a cord.
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The deal, which provisionally comes into effect September 21, would limit access of EU cheeses to the Canadian market, the EDA said.
The organization said several reports have stated Canadian authorities would give 60% of the cheese TRQ agreed under CETA to the Canadian cheese manufacturers.
This would threaten the access of EU cheeses to the Canadian market, the EDA argued.
Against CETA principles
Alexander Anton, EDA secretary general, said the CETA Declaration on TRQ administration states that: ‘the general principle is that tariff rate quota administration should be as conducive to trade as possible. More specifically, it must not impair or nullify the market access commitments negotiated by the Parties; it must be transparent, predictable, minimise transactional costs for traders, maximise fill rates and aim to avoid potential speculation.’
Anton said the allocation of the TRQ to the Canadian cheese manufacturers would not be in accordance with these principles.
Anton said the EDA was aware there has been a lot of internal pressure in Canada from cheese manufacturers to administer the cheese quota.
“However, we do not find it acceptable that the quota would be used as compensation to the Canadian dairy sector for the market opening agreed under the CETA,” Anton said.
The EDA said a better system would be a combination of allocation to historical importers, while offering also opportunities for new importers, based on strict eligibility criteria combined with a fair and accurate activity test and on a request of import license for the TRQ.
Anton said there have been more technical barriers raised, such as the implementation of the Class 7 pricing system, “which changes the spirit we thought we were engaging in with the CETA.”
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Disneyland’s reopening may have to wait even longer as coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths continue to spike in Orange County.
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The multinational entertainment giant was trying to reopen Disneyland July 17, but thousands of theme park and resort workers rallied together to raise their health concerns to Gov. Gavin Newsom leading up to Disney’s Wednesday announcement.
Those concerns, and the rising virus cases in Orange County and the state, led Newsom’s decision on Wednesday to pause theme park reopening plans.
“That Disney has not now decided to move forward next month opening up their theme park, I want to just compliment Disney and their team for making that determination. It was referenced in their press release that the state of California has paused on providing guidelines in that space. That is an example of the data informing decision making. And that is exactly what we’ll be doing moving forward,” Newsom said at a Thursday news conference.
He said reopening plans, like theme parks, will be “based upon the data and based upon local conditions.”
Thursday saw one of the highest daily totals for people being hospitalized with the virus in Orange County, with 394, including 147 people in intensive care units, according to County numbers.
The virus has now killed 306 people, including seven deaths reported Thursday, out of 11,511 confirmed cases.
Just over 5,300 people have recovered and nearly 232,000 tests have been conducted throughout OC, which is home to roughly 3.2 million people.
Newsom said trends are going up statewide, especially hospitalizations, which increased 32 percent over the past 14 days.
It wasn’t just employees pushing back against Disneyland’s reopening.
There’s also been local pushback community against plans to reopen July 17, with over 50,000 people — and counting — signing an online petition urging Disney to delay the reopening of its two Anaheim theme parks.
Some residents and employees have emailed Anaheim City Councilmembers, urging them to delay the Disneyland reopening because of the virus.
Dr. Daniel Chow, an associate professor at University of California, Irvine, said many of the new cases he’s seeing come through UCI hospital are from low-income neighborhoods.
“Increasingly, patients are coming from areas of low income,” Chow said. “These are people taking care of us in grocery stores, in the restaurants — the front facing employees. So in my opinion it’s creating the perfect storm for maxing the amount of harm.”
Chow, who’s also co-director for UCI’s Center for Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostic Medicine, mapped out a graph showing how it’s quickly spread through neighborhoods in West Anaheim and Santa Ana, along with Garden Grove and other areas surrounding Disneyland.
While he didn’t have access to all County data, he used UCI’s hospital data, which accounts for about 10 percent of the total virus data. Chow said it’s representative of the overall data.
Anaheim makes up about 11 percent of OC’s total population, yet has 19 percent of the virus cases as of Thursday, according to County data.
Much of those cases are clustered in working-class West Anaheim, around the Disneyland-area resort district, according to data presented by Anaheim City Councilman Jose Moreno at Tuesday’s council meeting.
City officials said they were told by County officials to not share the zip-code specific data because it was still being reviewed by county lawyers.
County CEO Frank Kim said the Health Care Agency has been moving to release that data.
“That’s what’s going to be up in our new website that’s going to be up tomorrow. We’re going to show all the zip code data. It’s not secret info, the reason we asked them not to share it publicly is we wanted to make sure we were okay in sharing that level of data with our compliance officer and county counsel,” Kim said.
“Now the dataset is going to be available to all communities.”
Chow’s data also showed cases coming out of areas like West Anaheim and the demographics of virus patients UCI Hospital has been treating are increasingly poor people as the virus continues to spread.
Interim County health officer Dr. Clayton Chau previously said he’s forming a task force to examine Anaheim and Santa Ana to address the disproportionate virus impacts.
The two cities make up about 20 percent of the population, but have about 40 percent of the confirmed cases.
“We engaged some trusted community partners like Latino Health Access,” Kim said. “Now we’re going to do some deep dives and engage the community directly through trusted community partners.”
He said heavy community outreach is ongoing in Spanish and Vietnamese. Kim also said by engaging community organizations, it will help alleviate some government distrust communities harbor and help them to participate in contact tracing.
Chow said the virus situation is getting worse, and pushed back against criticism that more cases are only due to more testing.
“That’s half true — yes we’re having more cases because there’s more testing. But, we also have more hospital and emergency room visits,” Chow said. “People really need to take this seriously.”
Kim said he expects to see virus increases because more businesses are opening up.
“As we reopen our economy and we interact with each other more and more, we’re going to see a rise of infections. So it’s more important than ever that individuals follow social distancing, frequent handwashing, as well as face coverings — it’s a requirement.”
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Today in American history…William Henry Harrison was born in on February 9, 1773 in Charles City County, Virginia.
Some of his lifetime achievements were:
First Governor of the Indiana Territory January 10, 1801 – December 28, 1812
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio‘s First District October 8, 1816 – March 3, 1819
Member of the Ohio Senate (Hamilton County) 1819–1821
U.S. Senator from Ohio March 4, 1825 – May 20, 1828
U.S. Minister to Gran Colombia May 24, 1828 – September 26, 1829
He was our 9th US President and unfortunately has the distinction of serving the shortest Presidency (March 4 – April 4, 1841) due to becoming ill and passing away shortly after his inauguration.
He was the very first President to die in office.
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Energy or protein bars, muesli, granola, mixed fruits and vegetables, chocolates, lean meats, and many other “superfoods”—those are the “eating do’s” you’ll meet every day when it comes to exercising or doing fitnesses. Yet, is it okay to eat them? When is the “okay” time to consume them?
Most people say energy or protein bars are great to fuel your stamina during your exercise or fitness sessions. This is because of their natures that are best consumed before your exercising or fitness sessions. This especially applies when you’re weightlifting or doing other forms of exercise or fitness activities that involves on “heavy” exercise menus.
At the same time, you should be wary of some energy or protein bars that contain sweeteners of any kinds, especially artificial sweeteners. This is why you should seek health professionals’ advices before you consume energy or protein bars before your sessions. Also read https://divinefitnesspgh.com/physiotherapy-dos-and-donts-in-using-tools-and-drinking-before-and-after-sessions/
Some energy or protein bars also contain preservatives that have potentials to cause severe diseases as in many types of cancers. Also, the bigger the energy or protein bars’ sizes are, the more likely they are to fuel your stamina before your sessions.
It’s always best to eat muesli or granola around 8 to 10 a.m. Granola bars are also great to consume before your training sessions as well as satisfying your tummy in a healthy way around 10-15 minutes after your sessions.
There are times when you need energy in a healthy way when consuming mix fruits and vegetables salads. Or, there are times when you need to burn more calories while exercising or doing fitnesses.
In such cases, adding some lean meats to your salads can be a great choice. Other than enhancing the salads’ flavors in a natural way, lean meats become a great source of protein to keep you going while you are exercising or doing fitnesses.
To add natural flavors that are also healthy for weight loss and other health benefits. You can always add oil-based dressings to your salad such as olive oil or balsamic vinaigrette. Sometimes, dressings as in the sesame sauces are also great.
You can also eat milk chocolates in moderate amounts if you don’t have access to dark chocolates with around 60-70% cacao. Chocolates with fillings are also okay, as long as the fillings are fruits as in cherries, oranges, and many other more. | <urn:uuid:dc246a8b-fc93-497e-9b6b-dde7b0dcdd5f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://divinefitnesspgh.com/protein-bars/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.949117 | 579 | 2.296875 | 2 |
To create a fixed user group for your school with Edulink One’s administration settings, you need to log in to your Edulink One account and select Administration from the cog at the top of the homepage. Fixed user groups are helpful because they can ensure that only a select group of employees, learners or parents can view specific content. Then, locate the User Groups tab in the Edulink One Setup area and click on it.
You can create a group based on three types: Employees, Learners and Parents. The total members of your group are located in the table, in addition to the pen icon for editing your group and the bin for deleting your group.
To create a new user group, click + Create New User Group.
Select the Group Type you would like to create from the dropdown menu.
Once you have selected the group type, Employee, Learner or Parent, Name your group and select the Members.
Click Save Group to save your new group or click Cancel to abandon your group changes and return to the User Groups tab.
If you intend to cancel your group creation, a confirmation message will appear, prompting you to confirm that you wish to abandon the group changes.
Where Can I Use Custom User Groups?
You can use custom user groups in the following settings:
|Analytics||All user settings|
|Attendance||Show today’s attendance to Statutory attendance data to Statutory attendance embargo user types|
|Behaviour||All user settings|
|Calendar||Enable calendar screen for|
|Class Dashboard||Enable class dashboard screen for|
|Communicator||Employees allowed to bulk message|
|Data collection||Enable data collection|
|Exams||All user settings|
|General||Hide learner photos for |
Enable account info screen for
Enable learners screen for
Enable assessment screen for
Enable cashless catering screen for
Enable contacts screen for
Enable medical screen for Show medical events to
Enable SEN screen for
Enable SEN events to
Show SEN documents to
Enable SEN strategies for
|Homework||Enable Homework screen for|
|Links||Enable links screen for|
|Parent Event||Enable parent event for|
|Payments||Enable iPayimpact payments for|
|Seating plans||View all plans for a learner|
|Security||All user settings|
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Chinese technology giant Xiaomi has received a new patent, which will be available for a smartphone with an under-screen rotatable camera that can serve the dual purpose of the main camera and the selfie camera. The rotation technology to be used in the camera setup of the phone will enable the camera to rotate 180 degrees and act as both a selfie camera and a rear-facing camera.
Xiaomi is not the only company working on innovative curved screens and under-display camera technology. However, as the patent application to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) shows, the company is making great strides in the development of a rotating under-display camera module.
According to the WIPO documents detected by LetsGoDigital; The patent application was filed in February 2020 for a “Terminal device” with an under-screen camera Flip camera module is placed on the back of the device. It has a rotatable top lens in the triple camera setup. In addition, the patent reports that a magnetic drive module can be used to operate the camera, which is rotated internally under the screen.
The screen is adjusted to match the activated camera module and provides an equally powerful shooting capability. There are claims that the first Xiaomi smartphone with an under-screen camera that can be rotated to act as a selfie camera will be the Mi Mix 4. However, there is no clear information about when to use it.
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Google announced Wednesday that it is offering free calls via Hangouts to Belgium and Turkey, after a series of blasts rocked Brussels killing at least 34 people. Users around the world can take advantage of Google's service to call their loved ones in the affected areas using Hangouts, Hangouts Dialer, or Google Voice.
"We are deeply saddened and appalled by the bombings in Brussels today, and by the recent violence in Turkey," Google said in a Google+ post. "Our thoughts are with the victims of these attacks, and their families."
Users can make free calls to Belgium's major mobile carriers, including Lycamobile, Mobistar, Proximus and Telenet, and all landlines in Turkey, which was hit by similar attacks killing at least four people last week. Google is also updating its Google Now cards to provide transit information within Brussels and a direct link to the Government Crisis Centre.
Google's offering comes shortly after Facebook activated its safety check feature for people in Brussels Tuesday. The congested mobile networks in the Belgium's capital thwarted the communication lines significantly and the authorities have advised people to use services like Facebook and WhatsApp.
Twitter users are using the platform to show support and offer help to the people in Brussels. The hashtag #BrusselsLift is widely used to ask for rides and get car spaces in the city.
There were a series of explosions in the Brussels airport and the city's metro Tuesday morning. The Islamic State group has reportedly claimed responsibility for the attacks. One of the key suspects of the Paris attacks, Salah Abdeslam, was captured Friday following several raids in Brussels, which some reports have speculated to be the prime reason behind the Brussels blasts.
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The Rash Guard is originally from Australia and were called ‘rashies’. Nowadays, different kinds of Rash Guards exist and are used in various sports. The Rash Guard owes its name to the function of the suit. The shirt, vest or suit protects your body against rashes and irritations. A Rash Guard also protects the person who wears it from the sun and prevents him/her from burning.
A Rash Guard can be worn at scuba diving, snorkelling, free-diving and many more water sports. When diving, a Rash Guard is often worn under a wetsuit with colder water temperatures. But you can also wear it without a wetsuit.
The Rash Guard can also be worn separately while diving or surfing when it is too hot for a wetsuit. A Rash Guard is very popular among surfers because it helps against irritation and rash of sliding and slipping on a surfboard.
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“It tastes like chicken”- how any times have you heard that? The implication of course is that chicken is so tasteless that any bland tasting meat (rabbit, squab, etc) could be easily substituted for it. Just take a look at the chicken sausages that populate the supermarket with their array of strong seasonings (basil garlic, Gouda apple, teriyaki). This runs counter to the principle of a good chicken soup. A good soup tastes definitively like chicken. My question was could I create a sausage that tasted that much like chicken that there would be no mistake about what it was made from. | <urn:uuid:2dae83d2-a01b-495c-a7c4-d61dc445b5a8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jewishfood.wordpress.com/tag/jewish-chicken-sausage/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.974179 | 131 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Jordy Mullers will discuss how criminal procedural law regulates the investigation of cybercrime by law enforcement officials. Mullers will argue that the rules sometimes hinder law enforcement as a result of the rapid development of information and communication technology which has not been taken into consideration by legislators. Mullers will also argue that, from an international perspective, the cross-border unilateral application of digital investigation methods may violate territorial sovereignty of states. Finally, Mullers will analyse the new law that allows for hacking as an investigation method.
Jordy Mullers is legal advisor & policy officer Internet and Communication Technologies and Cybercrime at the National Police of the Netherlands and Judge at the District Court of Zeeland-West Brabant.
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The annual Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS), released by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), has served as an invaluable tool for federal government since 2010. The FEVS measures government employees’ perceptions of whether, and to what extent, conditions characterizing successful organizations are present in their agencies.
The survey assesses perceptions of the work environment through a number of indices: levels of employee engagement and satisfaction; perceptions of rewards and recognition based on merit; opportunities for professional development and growth; and other factors that can influence recruitment and retention.
Because these questions are centered on the experiences and opinions of employees, these results can help agency leaders address the aspects of their organizations and leadership that might impede productive and effective workplaces. The FEVS provides valuable insight into the various challenges faced by federal agencies, highlights government-wide trends and identifies areas of improvement. For people interested in entering the federal workforce, these results can also help determine which agencies might be the best fit.
The 2017 survey results, released on October 12, reveal an overall positive snapshot of federal government. More than 486,000 employees participated in the survey, representing 80 federal agencies. Results were up (rated more positive) in nearly every survey item and index from the preceding year. The main highlights from this year’s FEVS include:
The Employee Engagement Index (EEI) is made up of three sub-factors: Leaders Lead (employees’ perceptions of integrity of leadership and leadership behaviors such as communication and workforce motivation), Supervisors (interpersonal relationship between worker and supervisor) and Intrinsic Work Experience (employees’ feelings of motivation and competency relating to their roles in the workplace). The overall EEI score increased two percentage points government-wide from 2016, for a score of 67 — the highest level since 2011.
The New Inclusion Quotient (New IQ) measures the inclusivity of the work environment, with questions grouped into 5 Habits of Inclusion:
- Fair – Are all employees treated equitably?
- Open – Does management support diversity in all ways?
- Cooperative – Does management encourage communication and collaboration?
- Supportive – Do supervisors value employees?
- Empowering – Do employees have the resources and support needed to excel?
The overall New IQ score increased two percentage points to 60, the highest level since the index was first reported.
As of September 2016, the majority of federal civilian employees were men (56.7 percent). In light of the ongoing fight to make federal government more representative and gender-inclusive, agencies’ New IQ score becomes especially salient and suggests the most supportive work environment for women.
So, which agencies score best on inclusivity in 2017?
- Among “Very Large Agencies” (more than 75,000 employees), the top two scoring agencies for this year were the Department of Health and Human Services (66) and the Department of Agriculture (63).
- For “Large Agencies” (10,000–74,999 employees), the top two scoring agencies were National Aeronautics and Space Administration (78) and General Services Administration (70).
- For “Medium Agencies” (1,000–9,999 employees), the top two scoring agencies were the Federal Trade Commission (78) and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (74).
- Among “Small Agencies” (100-999 employees), the highest-scoring agencies were the National Endowment for the Arts (75) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (74).
- Finally, for “Very Small Agencies” (less than 100 employees), the most inclusive places to work are the Marine Mammal Commission (97) and the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (81).
For women interested in starting a career in federal government or switching to a different federal agency, this survey can be a great place to look through your options. Though diversity and inclusion indices have been improving government-wide, these top-scoring agencies (based on self-reporting from current employees) are likely to offer more opportunities for women to succeed and feel empowered and valued in the workplace.
These data are a good starting point, but there are a number of other criteria or demographics you can examine as well (e.g. the percentage of female employees at each agency, women in supervisory positions, women making over $80,000 per year, etc.). Check out OPM’s Fedscope database, or look at the annual Best Places to Work in the Federal Government rankings, produced by the Partnership for Public Service. The latter resource is especially helpful if you want to compare agencies by demographic information or mission- or environment-related categories (for example, the Best Places to Work for female employees and employees with disabilities, or rankings for best work-life balance and support for diversity). | <urn:uuid:d1907c3e-81f8-43e4-a288-6a4ec3db1f4a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.govloop.com/measuring-work-environment-inclusivity-federal-agencies/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.943771 | 1,003 | 2.21875 | 2 |
An op-ed piece by Wellington C. Ramos for Caribbean News Now.
Centuries before the Europeans and the British came to this part of the world our Garifuna people had their own nation by the name of “Yurumein”, now known as St Vincent and the Grenadines. We had a government that was headed by a paramount chief and other chiefs that had jurisdiction over their local regional areas. There was a treaty among all the Galinagu and Kalingu people that if any of their territory was attacked they would all come together and fight against that foreign nation.
The Spanish under the leadership of Christopher Columbus were the first Europeans to attempt to take over the island of St Vincent in the 1400s but our people fought back and defended our territory. Columbus and his crew left the island and warned all European countries from making the same mistake. He referred to our people as cannibals because he and his men were used to meeting and engaging the peaceful Arawak Indians.
After Columbus left, about 200 years later, around 1640, the French came with the intention to do the same thing. They started by taking over our people’s lands in Martinique then they went to Dominica, killing all of our people who fought in defence of their homeland. On their arrival in St Vincent they met the real fighting force and were defeated so they had to ask for a ceasefire. They signed a peace treaty with our people in which they acknowledged our rights to all of our lands.
Yet, they were still trying to devise ways and means to take our land from us through religious and other acculturative measures. The French went to war against the British afterwards and they were defeated by them. Surprisingly, they had the nerve to cede St Vincent and the Grenadines in the Treaty of Paris despite the fact that they had already signed a treaty with us acknowledging our rights to our lands.
The British then came to exercise their rights to our lands that they obtained from the French unlawfully. We resisted the British takeover of our lands from the time they landed on our shores in the 1700s. On March 11, 1796, after a series of battles with the British, we lost the war. Some of our freedom fighters were killed, some surrendered and others escaped into the jungles of St Vincent and the Grenadines and were never captured. Those who surrendered and captured were taken to Dorchester Hill, where they were imprisoned and tortured.
They were later taken to the island of Baliceaux as prisoners of war, where the torturing continued while they were awaiting further instructions from King George III as to what to do with them. Many of our Garifuna people died on this island and their skeletal remains are still there up to this day, left unattended. The British Crown made a decision to remove the survivors permanently from their homeland and in 1797 about 5,000 of the Garifuna who survived were placed on some ships and sent to Roatan, a British colony which is now a part of Honduras.
In 1801, about 100 of the Garifuna people left Roatan due to the conditions on the island, to settle in Dangriga, Belize, where their descendants live currently. Some migrated to the mainland of Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Belize. Due to a civil war in Honduras in 1832 in which some Garifuna people fought with the Spanish Crown, many of them were killed and as a result of the massacre some of them migrated to Belize in large numbers. Later on some migrated to the United States of America, which now has the second largest population to Honduras. It is estimated that there are about 600,000 Garinagu people in the world.
Reasons why we should oppose the sale of Baliceaux
1. “Yurumein” now known as St Vincent and the Grenadines is our ancestral homeland.
2. The French and British committed an act of genocide against us by waging an unjustifiable war against us for our territory, then subsequently removing us from our homeland permanently.
3. Any land or lands obtained by a person or a group of persons through unlawful means cannot lead to the person or persons acquiring “clear title” to that land or those lands. Such is the case in the way Baliceaux and all the lands were acquired in St Vincent and the Grenadines. Crown lands were even given to the British soldiers who invaded the nation of St Vincent and the Grenadines and committed atrocities against our people.
4. The nation of St Vincent and the Grenadines was colonized by the British for hundreds of years until it achieved independence in 1979. Upon the people and nation of St Vincent and the Grenadines acquiring their independence from Great Britain, they were supposed to make it clear to the British and the world that all the descendants of the Garifuna people who were removed from St Vincent and the Grenadines in 1797 are entitled to become citizens of the nation of St Vincent and the Grenadines by “descent”.
5. The Garifuna people living in St Vincent and the Grenadines and the diaspora countries of Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Belize, the United States and elsewhere need to come together and make this justifiable demand.
6. Baliceaux should be used as a national memorial and cultural reconnection site for the Garifuna people in St Vincent and their brothers and sisters in the diaspora to reconnect, heal their wounds and pay tribute to their dead ancestors whose remains lie beneath the ground. Public accommodations for guests, a museum and other habitable structures should be built on the island for Garifuna people, Vincentians, tourists and people from the entire world to come and witness the Garifuna people and their culture first hand. This will bring revenues to the people and nation of St Vincent and the Grenadines for generations to come.
7. We are a nation of people living in several nations in the world and it is the responsibility of the people and nation of St Vincent and the Grenadines to seek justice on behalf of the great-grandchildren of their nation “Yurumein’s” citizens who were removed. Failure to act is in violation of the constitution of the nation they swear to defend and carry out.
8. If the people and nation of St Vincent and the Grenadines fail to act in our best interest as our “Motherland”, then we the Garifuna people in the diaspora countries, have no other choice but to bring a legal action against all the people and nations that have and continue to commit gross human rights violations against our people to seek justice. Now is the time to see how many of us can stand up like the way our ancestors stood up and shed their blood and died in the past for us to be alive and maintain our Garifuna culture.
It is for these reasons why I vehemently oppose the sale of Baliceaux. We will be far better off if the people and government of St Vincent and the Grenadines were to make the island a “national landmark and burial memorial” for the atrocities, sufferings and killings that our ancestors endured on the island before the survivors were removed and sent to a distant isolated island. Also, to have an ongoing cultural exchange program between the Garifuna people of St Vincent and the Grenadines and their brothers and sisters who live in the diaspora countries to reconnect and regain their religion, language and culture. | <urn:uuid:8d3a1812-b94c-4f65-af0d-86abea934227> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://repeatingislands.com/2017/05/08/commentary-all-garifuna-must-oppose-the-sale-of-baliceaux/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.979605 | 1,547 | 3.3125 | 3 |
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Write 13 pages thesis on the topic how has the zapatista army of national liberation contributed to democracy in mexico. They started out as a small group of progressive Indians which eventually grew into thousands. They organized themselves in the jungle, away from the prying eyes of the government and its ruthless military. The EZLN’s history did not happen overnight. It was the product of careful and clandestine planning and organizing. “We did that for many years, and we did it in secret, without making a stir. . In other words, we joined forces in silence.3” After ten years of organizing and training in the jungles of Chiapas, The Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion or EZLN was born, otherwise known as the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. They took the name of Emiliano Zapata, a Mexican Revolution hero who championed land reform in Mexico and is also celebrated as the champion of the indigenous people in Southern Mexico.4 EZLN is a revolutionary group that adheres to the ideals of non-violence. Throughout their history, the only instance of violence on record is the 12 days of armed fighting following the January 1, 1994 takeover of four municipalities in Chiapas, namely, San Cristobal de las Casas, las Margaritas, Altamiro, and Ocosingo.5 Almost apologetic to the affected citizens and civilians, they put great emphasis on their declaration that the armed struggle was a measure of last resort because their previous nonviolent actions received little to no government attention and response.6 After 12 days of armed fighting and bloodshed on both sides, the Mexican government and the Zapatista entered into a ceasefire to make way for a peace process. Since then, the EZLN have successfully continued on the fight without shedding blood, combatant or civilians although they have continued with their member’s training in the handling of weapons and arsenals. Nevertheless, the Zapatista is still a military movement. Oxymoron as it may sound, but the Zapatista is an armed movement that carries its struggle in nonviolent ways.7 In the very same way that the EZLN seem to contradict itself on its position on the issues of violence and rebellion, their ideology is also a subject of debate. This confusion is brought by the lack of a categorical statement from the Zapatistas themselves as to their specific ideology. Their enumeration of goals and demands which could be identified with the ideals and ends sought by groups from both ends, including those in between of the political spectrum does little to no help either. In their various declarations, they merely refer to themselves as the “simple and humble” “Zapatistas of the EZLN.”8 On the one hand, there are some who observes that the EZLN rose out of the ranks of the leftist movements that espouse Marxist-Leninist ideals. It is argued that their demands enumerated in the First Declaration of the Lancandon Jungle are in accord with the leftist sentiments.
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A new PBS Frontline documentary looks at the morass of accusations — about anthrax terrorism — aimed at two US government scientists, Bruce Ivins and Steven Hatfill, who worked at Fort Dietrick, Maryland. The case against either man has turned out to be less than clear. In all the media discussion of this case, almost no one has discussed the role of facial hair.
Hatfield and Ivins both sported mustaches at times, as the photos here document. Ivins is the one wearing a tie.
Here’s how facial hair enters the picture.
In the 1960s, three scientists at Fort Dietrick’s Industrial Health and Safety Office did an experiment. Manuel Barbeito, Charles Mathews, and Larry Taylor determined by experiment that microbes cling to bearded scientists.
Their published study (which is available online, to anyone) is “Microbiological Laboratory Hazard of Bearded Men,” Manuel S. Barbeito, Charles T. Mathews, and Larry A. Taylor, Applied Microbiology, vol. 15, no. 4, July 1967, pp. 899–906. (The team was awarded the 2010 Ig Nobel Prize in public health for this.)
We do not know how — or even whether — Ivins’s and Hatfill’s mustaches enter into the ever-muddling anthrax investigation picture. (We do not know what facial hair either wore during his time at Fort Dietrick.) But at the least (which could be quite miniscule), it raises questions no one has asked publicly about how carefully Fort Dietrick has lived up to its own, pioneering, microbial safety standards. Those standards became the basis for safety standards now used in laboratories around the world that handle microbes known to be dangerous to humans.
And if those safety standards were followed iffily, what of other standards?
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A dramatic video depicting the Coast Guard’s seizure of a drug-smuggling semi-submersible vehicle back in June has since gone viral.
The operation resulted in the confiscation of more than 16,000 pounds of cocaine after a Coast Guardsman leaped onto the submarine in choppy eastern Pacific Ocean waters.
Vice President Mike Pence applauded the success of “this momentous occasion and this historic offload.” The video has drawn attention to a unique issue facing U.S. efforts to combat drug smuggling—namely, low-profile vessels.
In recent years, the Coast Guard has reported an increase in the use of semi-submersible vessels in drug-smuggling operations. That particular style of vessel rests just below the water, hidden from view, and is difficult to track as they are built to deter detection by radar, sonar, and infrared systems.
The Coast Guard reported the seizure of seven of these vessels between the months of June and September of 2017. However, it’s estimated that it only detects and intercepts 11% that pass through the eastern Pacific, most in known drug-transit zones off the coasts of Central and South America.
Most originate with Colombian drug cartels, which build them in the jungles to avoid detection. They are thought to cost about $2 million to build, are typically constructed of fiberglass, and are propelled by a diesel engine. Most take upwards of a year to build.
Successes like the interception depicted in the video are only possible when the Coast Guard has sufficient numbers of ships, aerial assets, and other tools. All of these things require long-term, consistently adequate funding, and that’s something that has not always been the case for the Coast Guard.
Unlike the other branches of the military, the Coast Guard is not funded within the Department of Defense, but rather through the Department of Homeland Security. That poses certain challenges, including a lack of pay for employees during government shutdowns.
Additionally, requests for appropriations to build the bare-minimum fleet—the so-called program of record—were often denied in the past decade, constricting the Coast Guard’s ability to revamp its aging fleet and perform its duties to the highest degree of efficiency.
Thankfully, the past few years have seen a start to the reversal of this trend, but even then, Coast Guard studies have shown that the program of record encompasses just the absolute essentials. There are many missions that require more resources than the program of record provides if we are to address today’s threats.
The Coast Guard is trained and prepared to carry out its mission, such as that drug bust, but the lack of sufficient resources can limit the frequency and scope of such operations.
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