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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 48 million people get sick from foodborne illnesses every year. That’s 1 for every 6 people in the United States. Another 128,000 are hospitalized and 3,000 die annually from foodborne illnesses.
However, of the 48 million people who get sick, the CDC says the cause of the majority of the illnesses is “unspecified agents.” A whopping 39.9 million are “due to agents not yet described, unrecognized foodborne agents, and noninfectious agents.”
With foodborne illnesses in the news constantly from the Chipotle Restaurant chain to the local farmers, it’s worth asking about food safety. It’s a reasonable assumption that the food that comes from channels such as chain restaurants and grocery stores is safe to eat.
The challenge becomes that many people either purposefully or (in the process of cooking) accidentally remove dangerous bacteria in their food. “Much of the food safety burden falls on the consumer when it comes to meat, poultry, and eggs. Since those are all things we cook, we have it in our power to eliminate dangerous bacteria like Salmonella, E. coli, Staphylococcus, and Clostridium,” as reported in Popular Science. “By cooking to a hot enough temperature, you can nearly eliminate your risk—even though a significant fraction of poultry is contaminated.”
However, when it comes to salad, it’s not so easy. “Most of the produce you buy at the supermarket won’t make you sick, but the stuff that is contaminated probably won’t get cooked. Lots of salad fixings have bacteria and viruses on them, and rinsing with water won’t remove the little buggers. Cooking would kill them, but when was the last time you sauteed a papaya?” asked Popular Science.
Causes of Food Poisoning
In many cases, food poisoning is caused by bacteria, viruses, and parasites that are on the food before ingesting it. Failure to properly clean or cook the food can cause a whole host of foodborne illnesses.
Aside from undercooked meats or improperly prepared meats, vegetables can be breeding grounds for such microbes. For example, Botulism can be caused by improperly canned foods, home-canned vegetables, and baked potatoes in aluminum foil. Botulism can cause vomiting, diarrhea, blurred vision, difficulty swallowing, muscle weakness and even death. E.coli is often in the news when it comes to salad foods such as lettuce. It can be caused by undercooked beef, but can also come from raw fruits and vegetables. Severe and bloody diarrhea, abdominal pain and vomiting are usually a sign of E. coli poisoning.
Salmonella causes similar gastrointestinal symptoms and can contaminate raw fruits and vegetables. Most symptoms pass on their own, but the CDC warns if anyone suffers severe symptoms they should see their doctor.
Avoiding Food Poisoning from Vegetables
“If you fail to cook your chicken to 165 degrees Fahrenheit and get sick, that’s arguably your own fault. But if you don’t heat up your lettuce—that’s on the farmers. Produce often acquires its bacterial sheen from the water it’s showered with, which can be contaminated with fecal matter from nearby animal farms. Industrial-strength chemicals kill a lot of potential pathogens (though sometimes not all) but you have no idea what type of disinfecting procedure your tomatoes went through,” according to Popular Science.
Besides keeping abreast of any announcement of possible contaminations or food recalls, there isn’t much that can be done to prevent foodborne illnesses, besides cooking the vegetables – which isn’t always possible, desired, or particularly healthy.
“Unfortunately, there’s not a helpful set of tips that can help you eliminate your produce-associated risk,” said Popular Science. “You should always store cut up fruits and veggies in the refrigerator to minimize any bacterial growth, and for the love of all that is holy do not chop them just after you cubed some chicken. Beyond that, just rest assured that the benefit of a diet full of fresh produce far outweighs the risks of a foodborne illness.”
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“It started with the trees,” says Melissa Linkous, an ioby Leader in Richmond, Virginia. “There were these beautiful mature oak trees I could see from my kitchen window, but they were being choked by poison ivy. So initially I was just trying to save the trees, and that’s how I discovered we had a cemetery.”
Melissa’s project, Preserving Forest View Cemetery, aims to restore this neglected historic site so it can once again serve as a place of peace, remembrance, and beauty for the community. She’s doing it with the help of her neighbors and friends, some city employees, a local archaeologist, and… a herd of goats.
Forest View Cemetery was founded sometime before 1898; Melissa has a map from that year that features it. As recently as the 1950s, it was still recognizable as a graveyard: some of her neighbors remember playing among its headstones as kids. But in the years since, the land fell into neglect and became blanketed in poison ivy and brush piles, and strewn with trash and junk like old air conditioners and machine parts. “Most of my neighbors didn’t know it was a cemetery, either,” Melissa says. “I don’t think people were trying to bring the neighborhood down, but it just looked like an abandoned lot. We didn’t want to breathe too heavily when we walked by—we were afraid of getting poison ivy in our lungs! It was that covered.”
Last year, Melissa founded Friends of Forest View Cemetery to spearhead restoration efforts. “We’ve had neighborhood meetings, and I’ve used social media and walked door to door to pass out flyers and talk to people,” she says. “I’d start telling them about the project and they’d say, ‘Hey, you’re the girl with the goats! I’ve heard about you!’”
Ah yes, the goats. “I’ve learned a lot about goats lately,” Melissa says. “For one, they love poison ivy. It’s like candy to them. I didn’t want to use herbicides to take down the overgrowth, and my neighbors agreed.” She explains that goats also tread lightly, and can get to places big machines can’t, making them ideal for clearing historic areas. In addition, machines can remove plants that are already growing, but they leave the seeds, whereas goats eat the seeds, too, preventing regrowth. “And they’re cute,” Melissa says.
This past winter, the first phase of Preserving Forest View Cemetery kicked off with a team of 10 munchers from RVA Goats and Honey (and their human helpers) clearing about a quarter of the property. “There’s something very zen about watching goats,” Melissa says. “It’s very meditative. Plus they brought a lot of awareness to the project.” Friends of Forest View Cemetery invited neighbors to come out and watch the goats do their thing for a few days shortly before Christmas. The group’s efforts were covered by local news outlets, and they raised all the money they needed through their ioby campaign.
Phase two of the project is slated to commence in mid-April, when a bigger herd of goats will be brought in to clear the remainder of the cemetery. Melissa is also working with the city’s preservation planner and attorney’s office on a plan to transfer the land to Richmond’s parks department. “When I started looking into the history, I found that the land is owned by the cemetery itself, and its mailing address is the actual cemetery—so that explains in part why it’s been forgotten for so long,” she says. “It’s been tax delinquent for many years. Luckily the city has been very helpful and responsive; they care about the project, which is wonderful. So now we’re working with them to see how best to protect this place in perpetuity.”
A woman who works in preservation and planning for the city knew of a local archaeologist who wanted to assist with the project. “Just by observing the land, he was able to identify several burial sites,” Melissa says. “Once we clear the entire cemetery, we can use ground-penetrating radar and lift the topsoil to study the soil patterns and find other graves.”
“There’s neighborhood lore that tells us this may have been a slave cemetery, and that a Native American man lived there and tended the well, and that he’s buried there, too,” Melissa says. “Right now, we don’t know how many people are there, or who they were. We just know they were people, and they need to be honored.”
Melissa’s long-term goal is to get proper fencing around the cemetery, populate it with native plants and a butterfly garden, and provide “places to sit and just be among the trees—without a lick of poison ivy!” She envisions a haven visitors can turn to for calm and contemplation, and where wildlife from the nearby James River can thrive. “You’ll hear great horned owls, choruses of barred owls,” she says. “We see rabbits, raccoons, falcons, hawks, great blue herons, chipmunks, possums. We want this restoration to happen for them, too!”
“A cemetery is a place where people bury their people,” Melissa says. “A place where love is felt and grief is felt. It’s not just a grassy spot with some trees. It should remain still, but preserved. Ours has been covered up for decades. I’m glad the trees told me about it.”
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In his 2015 State of the Union Address, President Obama said, “I want Americans to win the race for the kinds of discoveries that unleash new jobs—converting sunlight into liquid fuel; creating revolutionary prosthetics, so that a veteran who gave his arms for his country can play catch with his kids again. Pushing out into the solar system not just to visit, but to stay.” And NASA is leading the way for this push with plans to send humans to Mars in the 2030s. Recently, NASA announced that they plan to dedicate up to $30 million over the next five years to support university-led research institutes to more rapidly develop two game changing capabilities needed to make this happen: ultra-high strength, lightweight materials and bio-manufacturing for deep space exploration.
Visiting other places in the solar system will be hard; staying will be even harder. The energy required to escape Earth’s gravity makes it imperative to get maximum value out of every gram we launch, find ways to use the materials that already exist in space, and re-use as much as possible. Reducing the mass by developing new, ultra-high strength, lightweight materials won’t be enough: these new materials must also function under harsh conditions not found on Earth, including extremely low temperatures, wide swings in temperature, intense cosmic ray radiation, and micrometeorite impacts. And because the consequences of failure are so high, any new materials must be extremely reliable.
There are many promising new technologies for creating the kind of materials needed, such as composites incorporating carbon nanotubes. But, historically, it has taken decades to develop, optimize, test, and qualify new materials for use in space. For example, although carbon nanotubes offer potentially transformative mechanical, electrical, and thermal properties, manufacturing products that live up to that potential has been difficult. If we are to journey to Mars in the 2030s, new materials will have to be developed and rigorously tested for use in space much faster.
Fortunately, President Obama’s Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) launched five years ago this month can help NASA slash the time and cost needed to develop advanced materials by combining experimental and computational approaches. As described in last week’s announcement, NASA plans to support a university-led institute to develop ultra-high strength, lightweight structural materials using an MGI-inspired approach, integrating advanced modeling throughout the entire materials development lifecycle.
Developing new materials to take to space is only one part of the solution. We also need to find innovative and efficient ways to manufacture (and re-manufacture) needed supplies using the materials on other planets. That is where the second topic in NASA’s announcement, bio-manufacturing, comes into play. To be affordable and sustainable, future long-duration missions to Mars could use organisms that can turn the carbon dioxide of the Martian atmosphere, supplemented with other available resources such as mission wastes and planetary materials, into food, nutritional supplements, pharmaceuticals, building materials, fuels, plastics, and various other chemicals.
NASA is particularly interested in using biological manufacturing methods in space because they offer the possibility of creating many different products using simple raw materials. Moreover, new biological engineering techniques are rapidly emerging with the potential to design custom microbes and plants from which needed supplies might be sustainably harvested, ranging from fuels to food.
If you are a familiar with the book or motion picture The Martian, you may recall that stranded astronaut Mark Watney spent much of his time on excursions attempting to collect material previously delivered to Mars from Earth, locally sourcing only carbon dioxide and soil. Although the story might not be as interesting, if he had the new materials and bio-manufacturing methods on Mars that NASA is setting out to develop, he might not only have enjoyed his Mars visit more, but chosen to stay. | <urn:uuid:1e335d7c-e623-4a3f-9528-7e9cb6ea087f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2016/06/06/developing-technology-push-out-solar-system-not-just-visit-stay | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.944572 | 791 | 3.546875 | 4 |
As an English teacher at the Conte Arts Magnet School, I am always looking for ways to broaden and strengthen the reading experiences of my students. With a class of good readers, I try to challenge and stimulate them by introducing them to a wider range of books and exposing them to some “classic” literature. I have found that when my students are allowed to select their own books their reading taste is wide and varied, although sometimes predictable. The boys tend to read science fiction fantasy or Tolkien-like fantasy adventure—both violent and non-violent, and mystery, while the girls seek out mystery, non-threatening adventure, problem-teen stories and romance. However, most of my “good” readers read enthusiastically and are eager to expand their literary experiences.
I have traditionally used a mythology unit with my sixth grade English class. The students have always enjoyed this unit, and most of them find they are not as familiar with the stories as they thought they were. We begin by reading creation mythology of various cultures, because I want the students to understand and appreciate the universality of mythology. The students then have a long exposure to Greek mythology and finally Greek hero myths. Although the students have always been enthusiastic, I have felt a missing element in this unit, that the hero myths were not enough.
The exploits and antics of the gods and goddesses are fun, and the quests of heroes like Jason and Theseus are fascinating, but I think the students are ready for the literature that combines the whims of the gods and the real heroics of men: the story of Odysseus, his fight in the Trojan War, and his long journey home. The story is complicated and difficult, but full of energy and excitement. It involves young readers. The story has everything—heroics, jealousy, love, hate, revenge, anger, loyalty, patience and fortitude.
The story of Odysseus is the ultimate family story, a tale of a man trying to return home from a long bloody war to his wife and child. I shall use this homecoming desire as the theme and focus for the students—homecoming and reunion. The students can follow this idea and compare and contrast the actions of the central characters in
with the other characters they have met.
For introduction and background my students will begin by reading
A Fair Wind for Troy
by Doris Gates. Other books contain the stories that form the background for the war but most of these books retell only one or two of these tales. This book relates all of the stories and legends that trace the beginning of the Trojan War.
Students are first introduced to the legendary beauty, Helen and the wooing of Helen by rich, powerful Greek suitors. We meet the young Odysseus, a clever young king without a great kingdom to support or interest in such a beauty. He advises Helen’s father, creates the compromise, the oath each suitor must take to support the choice of Helen and her father, the oath that each king will rally his men and ships if Helen is ever kidnapped. Students can see that even a rich, powerful king like Helen’s father is apprehensive about the anger of rejected suitors. This can perhaps make the plight of Telemachus more understandable.
The book also details the marriage of Thetis and Peleus, the golden apple of discord, the prophecy about Paris the firebrand and the subsequent abandonment of Paris by his parents. The King and Queen of Troy are willing to sacrifice their son for the greater good of the city. Paris makes the fateful choice of Aphrodite as the fairest, earning the eternal enmity of Hera and Athena, and goes to Sparta to meet Helen.
Helen is now married to the wealthy king Menelaus, but falls in love with Paris and runs away to Troy. The outraged Greeks assemble to get her back. The cleverness of Odysseus now comes back to haunt him. The former suitors of Helen have been recalled by their oath. Odysseus is now happily married to Penelope and does not want to leave her and their infant son. Students see that Odysseus puts family before war and glory—at least at this point. He does not want to go. He even tries to pretend he is mad to keep from going, although his ruse doesn’t work.
The book also gives the background of the great hero of the Trojan War, Achilles, the son of Thetis and Peleus, a nymph and a mortal. Thetis tries to protect her son Achilles, fated to be a glorious but short-lived hero. Students are fascinated by the story of the dipping of Achilles into the River Styx by his heel, leaving him vulnerable only in his Achilles’ heel. They are further fascinated by the next attempt to protect him by sending him to a court dressed as a woman of the court. Achilles, of course, is found out by the clever Odysseus, who, once involved in the war, is in it heart and soul.
The last background story contained in the book involves Agamemnon, brother of Menelaus, and leader of the Greeks. Because of his great wealth and power, he has been chosen as the leader of the expedition. The Greek expedition has been becalmed. There is no wind to sail. Agamemnon has offended the goddess Artemis, and to appease her must sacrifice his daughter. Only then will there be wind to sail. To keep his command, to keep the war going, he will sacrifice his daughter. It should be pointed out to students that this is a very rare demand by the gods. The Greeks did not sacrifice to their gods. This demand by Artemis should illustrate the enormity of the arrogance of Agamemnon, and his intense desire to begin the war. He can be sharply contrasted to Odysseus, who puts his family first. Agamemnon puts the war to avenge his brother’s honor first. His pride, his feeling for family honor, is greater than his love for his daughter. Like Priam and Hecuba, he is willing to sacrifice a child for his own interests.
The reading of
A Fair Wind for Troy
introduced the students to the main characters and to some of the conflicts within family relationships. Some of the family relationships which the students notice and focus on:
Agamemnon and Iphigenia—Why does he sacrifice her? Why does he tell her she is going to marry Achilles? What about his wife Clytemnestra, the sister of Helen? What is the effect on her? What will be the long range effect?
Helen and Menelaus—Why did Helen leave her family? What do you think of her?
Odysseus and Penelope—Why does Odysseus not want to go? Does this make him a coward? Why do you think he pick madness as his disguise?
The protection that Thetis desperately tries to find for Achilles contrasts sharply with the actions of Agamemnon and with Priam and Hecuba. Odysseus, also, admits his play-acting, rather than injure his son, and therefore has to go to war.
The emphasis in
A Fair Wind for Troy
is on getting to Troy to begin the war. The book introduces and establishes the personalities of the major Greek characters, and the students feel sympathy and antipathy towards them. They despise Agamemnon; dislike Helen; pitylphigenia and admire Odysseus and Achilles.
The Trojan War itself is summarized in the last few pages of the book. It may be necessary to give the student more information on the war and the fates of the characters they have come to know so well. However, since the story of the war is found in flashbacks in the story of the voyage home of Odysseus, the students may understand and follow the sequence.
The story of the Odyssey takes place twenty years later. The longing of Odysseus to get home, the sorrowing of his son and the patience of his wife show much more feeling than the heroic actions of the Greek and Trojan warriors.
Sixth grade students cannot be expected to read the regular adult translations of
. However, there are some fine versions written for students in which the authors have tried to capture the flavor and authenticity of the original. The most notable are
The Tales of
Troy and Greece
, by Andrew Lang, which contains versions of both
as well as some hero myths, and
Children’s Homer—The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of
by Padraic Colum. My personal choice would be
, because it follows
more completely, whereas the Lang book puts more emphasis on the Trojan War. Both books, however, are excellent for sixth graders. Wherever possible students should be given a chance to read, understand and appreciate the poetic translation, especially the version by Robert Fitzgerald. I think several chapters can be read and discussed in class, especially Book Six, the story of Nausicaa, and the story of Odysseus’ trip to the underworld. This particular episode is omitted in the Colum version, and I think this trip in the Odyssey is too important to be ignored.
As the students begin reading the story of the long trip, they will see the characters and their personalities emerge. Telemachus, for example, has no memory of his father. He is alone and powerless, watching the suitors for his mother’s hand eat, drink and waste his father’s stores. Frustrated, he needs to learn more about his father, or to get away for a while, to go on an odyssey of his own. His actions at the beginning—defying the suitors, calling the Council in Ithaka, and leaving for Pylos—show a young man ready to come into his own, to make the leap into adulthood. When Telemachus returns from his odyssey, his quest to learn about his father, he is a young man, ready for action.
Penelope and Helen, the primary women in the story, are interesting to compare. The students look at Helen as the source of evil, as the person who caused the war and the death of so many heroes. She is the unfaithful wife, a woman who has left her child and her people. Usually students don’t like her and feel she should be punished, and not be allowed to get away with her behavior. However, it should be pointed out to the students that neither the Trojans nor the Greeks blame Helen. The gods get the blame for Helen’s actions. Aphrodite blinded Helen’s mind and heart and led her astray. Helen was not responsible, because she could not help it. At the end of the war, she goes back to Sparta as the Queen, where she is honored and treasured. No one ever blames her except perhaps herself.
By contrast, her cousin Penelope is seen as the constant faithful wife, fending off ardent suitors even though she has lost hope of seeing Odysseus again. We see so little of Penelope that it is hard for students to get a sense of her. The students see her through the longings of Odysseus to return to her. Yet she seems the perfect wife for Odysseus especially with her clever strategy of weaving by day and unweaving by night—a strategy that works for three years. Odysseus wants to return to her. He could stay with Circe or Calypso, and remain young forever with eternally beautiful goddesses. Instead he yearns for his mortal, aging wife. Why does he wish to return to Penelope? Why doesn’t she recognize Odysseus when she talks to him? Why does it take so long to recognize him, to accept him? Does she really recognize him and not admit it? She has been alone a very long time and is used to not confiding. Does she suspect when she devises the contest with the bow of Odysseus that no one else can bend it? How else does she test Odysseus? Why does she need to be sure? When does it begin to change? What shows the change in the attitude of Telemachus towards his mother? Is Penelope an independent character or is she a puppet? These are some of the questions that can start discussions of Penelope as wife and mother.
Odysseus is the most interesting and likeable of the Greek heroes. As the story unfolds, and as the tale of the great war is told, we see many times just how heroic he is. He does not, because he can not, rely on superior strength or wealth. However, he is certainly as brave as any of the heroes, if not braver. He shows himself to be wily and resourceful, as well as courageous and strong. His escapades intrigue the students, capturing their admiration. In the past, my students have been particularly impressed by the tale of the theft of the Luck of Troy. Just as Odysseus fooled the Greeks and the Trojans, he fooled my students. They didn’t realize the beggar being whipped by the gates of Troy was Odysseus. They were fascinated with his ability to make his disguise so authentic and without the help of Athena. Odysseus shows his worth so completely, that the students consider him, not Achilles, to be the hero of the Trojan War.
The Greek and Trojan heroes are sometimes looked at as puppets of the gods. Hector had no chance against armor made by the gods for Achilles, against a fate that already had been determined. This kind of determinism can be frustrating for students.
With Odysseus, one senses a little more control. Certainly Odysseus causes his own problems as well. On the trip home, after the fateful trip to the cave of Cyclops, who blinded Polyphemus? Noman . . . .but what does Odysseus do? When his ship is almost safely out of range, he bellows up to the giant, “I am Odysseus, son of Laertes.” Thus he gives Cyclops a chance to pray to his father Poseidon to keep Odysseus from reaching home. It is the anger of Poseidon which keeps Odysseus from getting home for ten years. What made Odysseus identify himself? Was it pride-pride that must be punished? His self-aggrandizement brings about his own misfortunes.
One of the difficulties in reading the stories of the war and the homecoming can be sequence, because so many of the stories are flash-backs, and from very different time spans. Since students can get confused very easily, they might work on time lines and murals to keep the story line logical and understandable. A large chart or map of Odysseus’ voyage might also help to keep the story of his trip home clear.
There are three great family reunions in the story: father-son, son-father, and husband-wife.
Athena, who is prominent in this book as the mentor of both Odysseus and Telemachus, has disguised Odysseus well. He must reveal himself to the two people, wife and father, who could and maybe should recognize him. Only his nurse and his dying hunting dog know him under his disguise. All the others are or seem to be blinded by the rags and bearing of a beggar.
The Odysseus-Telemachus meeting is moving and straight-forward. The young man looks at his father in awe, almost as a god, yet he accepts him immediately and wholeheartedly. Father and son embrace and talk about the past and plan the future. Odysseus tells his son he, the wily one, will devise a plan and Telemachus, trusting, is ready to carry it out.
The meeting between Laertes and Odysseus is very moving. The old man has given up all hope, and works in his vineyard, almost as a servant. Why doesn’t Odysseus reveal himself immediately? Why doesn’t Laertes recognize Odysseus? Odysseus finally comforts his father as he would a child as he proves his identity.
The reunion between Penelope and Odysseus is a powerful and puzzling scene. Two strong people need to test each other. Does Penelope really know who Odysseus is already? Why does she test him? Why does she move him to anger as she makes him prove himself? This scene, and the other two scenes, are ideal for reenacting by the students. The students can try the scene from different points of view. In one scene Penelope has known who Odysseus is and in another, she is still unsure and needs to test him. Which one do they like better? Which one seems to make more sense?
Once Odysseus finally reaches Ithaka, his troubles are not over. The suitors will not leave merely because the king is back. He has been gone too long. They are many and he is one. The students have trouble understanding this. They feel that because Odysseus is king, his subjects should welcome him and leave his wife and property alone. The students can be reminded of Helen’s father who feared the wrath of rejected suitors. To remain a king, a king must be powerful. Odysseus, once more, must rely on his cleverness (and Athena) to catch the suitors off-guard. He must rely on his son, an untested young man, and two old loyal men. Tactics of surprise and guile must defeat the overwhelming numbers of suitors.
Comparison can be made with the homecoming of Agamemnon, who arrives home a victor and is soon a victim, killed by an unloving wife. Is this the result of the sacrifice of his daughter? Does Clytemnestra not wish to hand over the rule of the kingdom that she has had? She, unlike Penelope, has not been a loyal wife. She has allowed a “suitor” to rule the kingdom with her, taking Agamemnon’s place. Why would a queen kill her husband? Do the students see any justice in or excuse for her actions? What about the subsequent actions of Orestes, her son? He, like Telemachus, is a loyal son. He must avenge his father. But to avenge his father he must kill his mother. Is this the act of a loyal son? Would Telemachus act the same way?
After the wrongs have been righted,
ends on a note of peace and harmony. All is right in the world and family of Odysseus. He has one more task to perform, but it should be peaceful and appease the god, and not take him away from his family. He has come home. I hope my students will sense the fitness of the ending, the just slaying of the suitors, the happiness of Penelope and the young manhood of Telemachus. I look forward to teaching this unit. I think my students will enjoy reading and understanding the experiences of Odysseus and his family. | <urn:uuid:aebe8d99-989d-4412-8623-616fc6b1ae39> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://teachersinstitute.yale.edu/curriculum/units/1986/1/86.01.02.x.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.97752 | 4,081 | 3.28125 | 3 |
We need to reverse the long-term trend that lead to the financialisation of housing. They are not investments but homes. Cost-rental model delivered by councils and the Housing Agency.
Again cost-rental model. For this to work it will need unused land in the city to brought into use. This will need more urgent approach to vacant sites and greater use of compulsary purchase orders.
Levies need to be increased and greater use of compulsary purchase orders. We are in the middle of a housing crisis and the balance between private property and public good is unbalanced.
More investment. New flat fare structures. Biggest obstacle to improving public transport though is congestion due to sharing road space with cars. Dublin City Development Plan 2022 needs to move us towards a carless city.
Transport and housing are big areas where carbon reduction can happen as are commercial buildings. Passive standard for new build needs to be implemented, mandatory use of energy-recovery systems. Move from private cars to public transport as norm. Dublin City Council's Climate Action Plan should be at heart of next city development plan.
I am in favour of councils being responsible for waste collection and support the #morepowertoyou campaign. I believe that charges for waste collection has led to needed behavioural change but that a purely commercial approach is neither fair nor produces the best result. Also there needs to be greater pressure on producers to eliminate packaging .
Illegal dumping or the threat of same has lead to dog poo bins being withdrawn in some places due to misuse. More bins needed. However only lasting solution is change in dog owners' behaviour. Just as it is now unthinkable for most people to smoke in proximity of babies, same social change needs to happen re: letting dogs foul in streets and parks.
When derelict sites are being developed , a "greening" provision should be introduced. In many cases this may be relatively small strips, in others larger. Good recent examples of both e.g. Weaver Park and strips of land at North King Street and at Dolphins Barn.
Firstly the public spaces that are there need to be reclaimed from the profusion of clutter (junction boxes, unnecessary signage, overspill from shops etc) that make them unattractive and also hamper easy mobility. Biggest available land bank for public space is roads. As we move to reduce car usage we need to reclaim road space as public space and develop it in an attractive way. | <urn:uuid:e28a3796-a90d-4590-93b7-6fa17b98fdf4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dublininquirer.com/projects/elections/2019-local/candidates/michael-o-sullivan | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.950333 | 507 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Words & photos: Mark Stevenson
This plot of land in 1844 was in fact two plots. The lower half (next to what is left of Stonebridge Avenue) was owned by Charles Faber Junior and occupied by Samuel Waite and Company.
The upper half (next to Bawn Avenue) was owned by Jeremiah Bateson and occupied by John Stephenson.
Around 1900 it was part of some allotments with a small ‘shed’ in what had, up to then, just been fields.
It was not until around 1933 that Birkdale (as the house was known then) appeared on the map.
Around 1970 the house appears on the maps as Tree Tops. Judging by the state it is in now I think a name change might be in the offing. | <urn:uuid:21c913a5-151e-4d8a-b83d-f28ec34e07c1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://westleedsdispatch.com/marks-history-the-demise-of-farnleys-derelict-house/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.988318 | 161 | 1.664063 | 2 |
The Ministry of Health announced on Friday that support service workers will return to be employed by Island Health at health-care facilities on Vancouver Island, after almost 20 years of these services being contracted to private companies.
This means, various health care workers in housekeeping, food services and mixed service roles will be brought back in-house rather than being contracted out.
According to Island Health, health care staff under this change will now benefit from stable, consistent and supportive patient care as support service workers.
A total of 235 workers will be repatriated to the following facilities: Saanich Peninsula Hospital, Queen Alexandra Centre for Children’s Health, Glengarry Hospital, Aberdeen Hospital, Gorge Road Hospital and Priory (Hiscock and Heritage Woods) long-term care.
“To the people who kept Vancouver Island’s hospitals clean, long-term care homes safe and patients well fed, I say, ‘Welcome back!’,” said Premier John Horgan.
“Our government is righting wrongs committed nearly 20 years ago to improve wages, working conditions and job security for health-care workers. It is long past time for you to once again be treated like the valued members of the team that you are.”
The move to this change began when the BC Government brought Bill 47 (Health Sector Statutes Repeal Act) into force in 2019.
The bill repealed the Health and Social Services Delivery Improvement Act (Bill 29) and the Health Sector Partnerships Agreement Act (Bill 94) which facilitated contracting out various jobs in the health sector to private companies.
“We’re now putting workers back where they belong – in house, within our health authorities,” said Adrian Dix, Health Minister.
“I’m proud to see Island Health lead the way and look forward to more workers receiving the compensation, working conditions and benefits they deserve for doing the essential and life-saving work of keeping British Columbians well cared for in our facilities,”said Dix.
This is just the beginning.
According to the Ministry of Health, health authorities across the province will continue to repatriate workers under Bill 47 for the next two years.
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Power Inverter Ensures Stable Current
Power inverters are small devices that provide 300 Watts continuous DC to AC power. The 700 Watts instantaneous power, features 2 AC outlets and 2 USB ports. Also, the two 110V AC outlets are there for charging larger devices such as laptops and tablets. Again, you can use 2 USB charging ports (0-2.4A) for powering USB compatible devices. Besides that, it is Ultra-Compact and Lightweight. Furthermore, the iPhone-sized design ideal for use on vacations, work trips, and camping. Further, the 24-inch cigarette lighter plug makes the power inverter can be plugged into almost any vehicle.
Moreover, it has built-in 40 amps fuse to protect your device. Besides that, the durable metal housing provides advanced protection from drops and bumps. Again, the smart cooling fan system makes the car power inverter very silent when operating. The fan runs faster when the device gets warmer.
Power Inverter comes with 2 USB ports and 2 AC outlets. However, the product is only for DC 12V and Car and not applied for DC 24V and airplane use. Therefore, for charging your iPad, please use the 2.1A USB port and keep the other USB port free. It’s normal for the inverter to become warm to the touch while you are using it. Thus, you can avoid placing the inverter in direct sunlight or next to heat-sensitive materials. Do not use high power electric devices such as hair dryers, electric heaters, which might blow a fuse. Along with that, the lighter socket is resistant to up to 5000 times of insertion and extraction. You can enjoy a safe, reliable charger on the go—secure plug-in buckle design with a stable current.
It can power on your LED Lights anywhere for Christmas and other festivals to create a great atmosphere. Inverters can also be useful for emergency electricity during a power failure. During a power outage, get a long extension cord and run from your house into your Car. Then you may now have a power supply in your home. You may plug in the radio to tune in for some important alerts, lights. They are also helpful for camping, beaches, or park outings wherein formal energy lacks. Thus you can use a power inverter as an excellent source of power. | <urn:uuid:f8502054-cd23-419a-b7c8-ce05526dc4ba> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.viralgads.com/bestek-power-inverter/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.930145 | 479 | 1.835938 | 2 |
The world of medical stats is just as confusing – and seductive – as political stats. The raw value of a stat is often left out of the equation.
For example, a study of 1,000 people finds that 6 people get a particular cancer and 4 of them die. Taking drug A as opposed to old drug B reduces that number from 4 to 3. 1/6 = roughly 16%. Since 15% is the benchmark of statistical significance in science (and many disciplines), the study can promote the finding that deaths are significantly reduced with new drug A. Never mind that the news is irrelevant for 994 study participants and in real numbers, we’re talking about one person.
I believe even one person is certainly worth saving, but I use this example to highlight a very real problem with statistics. It’s all in your perspective, and when you view new drugs from a less popular statistic – the number needed to treat, or NNT – the picture sometimes changes.
To use a real-world example I recently read in Time magazine, let’s look at statins. Statins have become a commonplace Rx for the post-40 crowd, and they’re especially popular for men. (By the way, this gender skewing is something I have a problem with, as just as many women have cardiovascular health issues and 1 in 3 women – period – die from heart disease.)
Statins are used to reduce bad cholesterol, in the hopes that heart disease and subsequent heart attacks will be prevented. We’ve all seen the “30% reduced risk” in statin ads. But this isn’t 30% across the board – although that’s the perception and that’s why everyone’s on statins. Enter NNT.
This 30% number is the number of people in one of the study’s control groups (there’s a statin-taking group and a placebo-taking group). Moreover, this is 30% in real numbers – meaning, of men who would have had the heart attacks anyway (a very small number), that number was reduced by 30%. It’s not a 30% reduction in total.
But millions of men are taking statins. To prevent one heart attack, thousands of men who likely wouldn’t have a heart attack are taking statins. This is the number needed to treat. According to Time, 50 people have to take this drug to stop one heart attack (which, as Time points out, is not likely to be fatal). That’s 50 people needlessly popping a daily pill with untold side effects. Now, of those 50 people taking a drug to stop one heart attack that probably won’t be fatal, I wonder how many face serious, expensive and possibly life-threatening health problems.
Of course, on the scale of the total population, 50:1 becomes many thousands of heart attacks prevented – but many hundreds of thousands facing unnecessary and dangerous side effects (and spending a lot of extra cash).
That’s NNT, and that’s the true measure of a drug’s effectiveness and value.
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Double extrauterine pregnancy; lithopædion - "stonechild"
"Litho is Greek for "stone," and Pedia means "child." The fetus is from an extrauterine pregnancy. They were enclosed together in the same membrane, but the second was much younger. By accident the second fetus was not preserved.
"One year after marriage the mother became pregnant; ceased menstruating and noticed the enlargement of the abdomen. Five weeks before the expected time of labor, the abdomen became smaller.
"Following this, she had four miscarriages and two living children. Twenty-four years after marriage she died of diarrhoea and general debility. The specimen was removed post mortem, from attachments at the superior strait of the pelvis, and to the right of the fallopian tube."
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Tracking the Faceless Killers who Mutilated and Executed a Ukrainian POW
Editor’s note: this article contains descriptions of sexual violence and murder which readers may find disturbing.
On July 28, a series of horrifying videos circulated on pro-Russian social media which depicted an act of sexual violence and execution of what appeared to be a Ukrainian prisoner of war. Bellingcat has not linked to these videos due to their extremely graphic nature.
The three videos (hereafter ‘the violent videos’) were initially posted on a Russian telegram channel whose name translates as ‘Cargo 200, death to Ukrainians’, which extolls casualties among Ukrainian armed forces. The videos were subsequently reposted on the popular Rosich Telegram channel run by a nationalist Russian mercenary group.
The videos were initially celebrated by the channel administrators and most of the commenting users, until several hours later they were suddenly disowned by the same as “likely forgeries”, allegedly planted in the pro-Russian channels by agents of Ukraine aiming to discredit the Russian army.
A description of the act in the videos, which each show a part of the same sequence of events, follows in the closed drop-down box below.
In recent days, journalists and open source researchers have sought to identify the culprits of this apparent war crime, with mixed success. Several incorrect identifications of the man who committed the act – a soldier wearing a cowboy-style hat – were made by various media outlets and individuals online.
Bellingcat researchers have reviewed the footage, which does not contain visible signs of editing or tampering. However, the authenticity of the videos cannot be validated with purely technical means due to the low resolution of the video and the absence of metadata.
Bellingcat’s investigation into visual clues in the videos using the available open source evidence corroborates the authenticity of the three violent videos and indicates that fighters from ‘Akhmat’, a Chechen paramilitary formation serving with the Russian armed forces in Ukraine, were present at the scene of the murder.
The link to ‘Akhmat’ was uncovered while investigating a man who appeared in multiple news broadcasts about the group who wore the same distinctive hat, bracelet and military fatigues as seen worn by one individual in the mutilation video. Several visual clues in these news broadcasts also suggested that they could have been filmed near, and in the same time frame, as the murder videos, including one filmed at the same location in July of this year.
The identity of the individual who wears the cowboy hat in the videos of the ‘Akhmat’ fighters is known to Bellingcat. However, Bellingcat has obscured his image and name as while there are numerous commonalities, the face of the alleged perpetrator cannot be clearly seen in the videos of the act itself.
Bellingcat contacted this individual to offer him a right of reply. In a conversation with reporters, he acknowledged that he had been deployed to Ukraine as a member of the ‘Akhmat’ group, and that he was “the man in the cowboy hat” seen in the news broadcasts. While he denied that he appeared in the mutilation and execution videos, he did confirm that he had been detained and questioned by the Russian security services over the footage, who had told him that it actually depicted Ukrainian soldiers mutilating one of their own comrades.
Geolocation of the Footage
Using evidence from the three violent videos and additional footage of the ‘Akhmat’ fighters, Bellingcat was able to geolocate the footage to the Pryvillya Sanatorium in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine. A key clue was provided by the ‘Akhmat’ fighter in the cowboy hat contacted by Bellingcat, who stated that the FSB had told him that the violent videos had been filmed in Pryvillia, a town near Lysychansk in Ukraine’s Luhansk Region. The general area came under Russian control in early July.
YouTube footage of an October 2021 motorcycle ride through the sanatorium grounds showed specific details which were distinctly visible in the violent videos.
Firstly, a tree which split into two main branches was another important detail to confirm the location. This tree, as well as its position relative to a nearby manhole, matched with the background of the violent videos.
Furthermore, both the violent videos and the reference footage showed the same elevated structure with a manhole cover, distinctive rocks and uniquely shaped and damaged curbs. One curb was particularly noticeable due to its triangular shape.
Although blurry in the violent videos, the building in the background matched reference images of the section of the sanatorium with its grey base, pinkish hue, and window type. A stitched image made up of frames from the execution video showed that the building could be seen down the pathway in the wooded area which separates the two roads running behind the sanatorium complex.
The ‘Akhmat’ group and a man with a cowboy hat were previously filmed at the sanatorium in a video uploaded to “Investigations and Portraits”, a YouTube channel run by the Russian journalist Andrey Guselnikov on July 11. In this video, the man wearing a cowboy hat posed in front of the sign at the entrance to the facility.
At one point in the video, the camera displays a location that is approximately just 90 metres from the site of the execution.
The Man in the Cowboy Hat
The alleged perpetrator’s face can be partially seen for a few frames in the execution video – however, given the poor quality, this image cannot be used for identification.
But these frames do contain a number of other crucial clues, from vehicles in the background to items of clothing. Some of these details can be seen here, as collected and sanitised by the Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT), an independent collective of researchers focusing on the Russian military.
For example, this man wears a cowboy hat decorated with strings and seashells. Bellingcat was able to find the same model of hat, albeit in different colours, available for sale by a Russian online vendor.
As he mutilates the prisoner while wearing surgical gloves, a bracelet can be seen wrapped twice around his left wrist connected with a metal lock.
In the subsequent video showing the execution of the prisoner, a shot is fired from the right of the camera’s perspective. Shortly after, a man holding a gun in his right hand and wearing the same shoes as the alleged perpetrator is visible to the right of the camera for a brief moment. When he reappears in the frame with his cowboy hat and partially-visible face, the alleged perpetrator is not holding the gun.
A white car with a hand-drawn black ‘Z’ – the ubiquitous symbol of Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine – spray painted on its passenger door can also be seen in the background of the video. The car model appears to be a Peugeot 405 or an IKCO Samand, an Iranian-made derivative of the Peugeot 405 design.
Of the alleged perpetrators visible in the three violent videos, there is only one man who wears this hat and distinctive bracelet.
Six ‘Akhmat’ Videos
Users on Twitter were quick to point out that a man had appeared in two videos from Russian state media in June (RT, RIA Novosti) wearing a hat identical to that worn by the man who mutilated the Ukrainian prisoner.
Злили відео де українському військовому в полоні відрізають канцелярським ножем яйца
Ріже ось цей ліворуч в чорній шляпі
Може хтось знає що це за сюжет, треба знайти pic.twitter.com/1ygnaO4x8k
— Your Kotek Gganbu (@justkotekmeme) July 28, 2022
These two videos, released on June 27, were taken at the Azot chemical plant in the Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk. The facility, which housed hundreds of civilians fleeing the attack, had come under the control of the Russian-backed ‘Luhansk People’s Republic’ (LNR) on June 25.
This fact was announced by pro-Kremlin Chechen ruler Ramzan Kadyrov on his Telegram channel. Indeed, a Chechen armed group known as ‘Akhmat’ – named for Kadyrov’s father, the former ruler of the North Caucasus republic – had played a role in conquering the city.
As an ‘Akhmat’ fighter wearing a Chechen flag shoulder patch speaks to the camera, a man in a dark cowboy hat can be seen in the background picking munitions out of the rubble.
A comparison with the violent videos shows that the hat is identical.
Moreover, this man in the hat wears what appears to be the same black bracelet as the man in the mutilation videos — this time, with a black digital watch.
Researchers then discovered this man’s presence – wearing the same cowboy hat and bracelet – in four further videos (Patrick Lancaster, Investigations and Portraits, Kadyrov 95, Zhdanov) which also show Russian soldiers and paramilitaries in eastern Ukraine.
A video filmed in Severodonetsk and published on June 28 by pro-Russian US blogger Patrick Lancaster showed the same group of ‘Akhmat’ fighters filmed in the aforementioned RT and RIA Novosti videos escorting him around Severodonetsk.
In this footage, the group used a white car with darkened tail lights and spray painted black Zs painted on – seemingly the same one captured in the execution video. The man with the cowboy hat can be seen standing next to this car.
While it has no licence plate, the car is of the same colour, make, and model. An identical spraypainted ‘Z’ is visible in the same location on the rear passenger door, which in this video is closed.
The series of screenshots below compare the same white car as seen in the violent videos (left) and a video filmed by Patrick Lancaster (right). The same hand-drawn letter ‘Z’ can be seen drawn across the passenger side in both videos. Note that the bottom horizontal line of the letter ‘Z’ curves at the same angle in both videos.
A video published on the Kadyrov95 Telegram channel from June 29th shows the same scene as the RIA Novosti and RT videos – fighters from the ‘Akhmat’ group touring the Azot plant. At one point, the man with the hat is seen rummaging for munitions just as he did in the RIA Novosti clip.
A video published by RT correspondent Igor Zhdanov on June 26 shows the man in the hat and the ‘Akhmat’ group at the Azot plant in Severodonetsk.
In the half-hour long July 11 video from ‘Investigations and Portraits’, mentioned earlier in this article, the journalist accompanies the group of ‘Akhmat’ fighters across the Donets river into an area west of Lysychansk, a nearby city which was also conquered by ‘LNR’ and Russian forces at the beginning of the month.
Throughout the video, the man with the hat can be seen multiple times with the ‘Akhmat’ group. At one point, he is shown holding his rifle during an operation at the Pryvillya Sanatorium, and amongst other ‘Akhmat’ fighters while they are eating.
This footage, as mentioned earlier, was filmed approximately 90 metres east of the execution site.
In this footage, additional details emerged about the man in the dark cowboy hat. Firstly, a clearer view of his bracelet showed a high degree of similarity to the one in the mutilation video. Secondly, he was now wearing the same type of combat shirt as he is seen wearing in the violent videos.
The camouflage pattern also appeared to be the same when they were compared to each other. However, it is important to remember that while uncommon, camouflage patterns can remain identical across individual uniforms.
Additionally, a Saint George ribbon – long a widespread pro-Kremlin symbol – is wrapped around this man’s arm in the same location. While the camouflage pattern of the shirts in these videos appears to be Ukrainian in origin, there are cases of ‘Akhmat’ fighters to using captured Ukrainian equipment and items of uniforms, as can be seen in other open source imagery.
Finding a Face
The aforementioned videos with the ‘Akhmat’ group offer a wealth of higher quality imagery of the face of the man wearing the cowboy hat and bracelet.
The man’s skin tone is unlike all the other soldiers in the six videos with ‘Akhmat’ fighters – indicating that he may be a member of an ethnic group from Siberia or Russia’s Far East. Judging from the many videos and photos published by the ‘Akhmat’ group from their training and operational activities, the great majority of the fighters in the ‘Akhmat’ group are ethnic Russian or from the North Caucasus.
An extensive review of open source images of ‘Akhmat’ members across dozens of videos found just three men with similar facial features out of 85 fighters. No other man could be seen wearing the same hat and bracelet.
The ‘Akhmat’ footage has already allowed other open source researchers to narrow down their search for the presumed culprit in the violent videos on the same basis. However, not all of their attempts have been successful. One erroneously-identified man was widely doxxed on Twitter, but the platform has since removed tweets revealing his personal information, including his address, passport number and phone number.
Bellingcat attempted identification of the group members in the “Investigations and Portraits” half-hour video with the help of facial recognition tools.
These led researchers to the VK account of a man whose friends included self-confessed fighters with ‘Akhmat’ in Ukraine. While exploring this man’s broader network, Bellingcat came across a profile with group pictures, uploaded on 26 July 2022, of ‘Akhmat’ fighters at an excursion in Chechnya.
A man with similar facial features to the man wearing the cowboy hat in the ‘Akhmat’ videos could be seen in this group photograph.
Many members of the group either had locked profiles or could not be identified. Using the face of the main person of interest, the website search4faces returned a profile on Odnoklassniki, a Russian social network, which contained this individual’s name.
This, in turn, allowed researchers to discover a Facebook profile linked to this individual which contained more photographs – these were useful, given that most images of this individual on his other social media profiles were at least six years old. A search on PimEyes using a photograph from this Facebook account returned frames from the aforementioned RIA and RT videos in which the person of interest was visible.
As seen in the perils of widely-spread misidentification on Twitter, Russian-created facial recognition algorithms perform poorly with non-Caucasian faces. While the algorithms used by these tools are not openly accessible and verifiable, it is plausible that this poor performance is due to the ethnic and racial bias within the user bases of large Russian social networks such as VKontakte and Odnoklassniki. A 2020 Harvard study revealed facial recognition algorithms’ biased results when working with non-white faces, though most of these studies have focused on American examples and Black faces.
An additional data point came in the form of a public post from 2019 in a VK group for residents of this individual’s city of residence in Russia, in which he announced that he has lost an identity document and provided two phone numbers by which he could be contacted.
We then searched for these two phone numbers on Telegram bots that aggregate leaked Russian data, including from government records and a number of websites, such as VK and Avito. This search led to additional phone numbers and links to two VK profiles used by this individual, which linked back to two VK accounts which contained further images of him.
These numbers also allowed Bellingcat to contact this individual.
‘I Didn’t Even Fire a Single Shot’
Bellingcat contacted this individual on August 2 to offer a right of reply. Even after our reporter identified himself as a journalist, the man provided a detailed account of how he was indeed the man with the cowboy hat serving with ‘Akhmat’ and was in Severodonetsk in June of this year. However, he denied being the man in the violent videos where a man seen wearing a similar hat, bracelet and uniform can be seen carrying out the mutilation of an apparent Ukrainian captive.
He also recounted how he was filmed taking an inventory of Ukrainian weapons, as he was seen doing in footage from the Azot plant near Lysychansk.
The fighter told Bellingcat that he had returned to Russia “more than a month ago” after serving with ‘Akhmat’ in Ukraine. He said that Russian journalists he had met in Ukraine had sent him the violent videos shortly after they were widely published, saying “look at the crap that’s been filmed about you” urging him to make a statement at an office of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB).
He said that he was detained for two days at the FSB office while the security agency allegedly studied the violent videos, finding them to be inauthentic and releasing him. He also insisted that the FSB officers told him the violent incident from the videos took place in Pryvillya but involved Ukrainian and not Russian soldiers and were filmed after he had left Ukraine.
“The FSB officers told me that they found this video in vehicles of Ukrainian soldiers. When I was with them on the second day, they realised that it was not me, and explained that Ukrainian soldiers did this themselves because the person who was being mutilated raped a ten-year-old girl. They found him, punished him, and then somebody found this [spliced-together] video and led to all of this nonsense. (…) The FSB officers suddenly understood everything and let me go after two days.”
“The photos [from Azot] are 100% me, but the others are not… I’m not prepared to do that kind of nonsense, I didn’t even fire a single shot from the weapons they gave me”, he remarked. “This doesn’t smell like Akhmat’s work”, he concluded of the violent videos.
However, some inconsistencies were apparent in his responses.
Despite the fact that this man was filmed in multiple places holding a long rifle, he claimed that he was not a soldier and was merely escorting the journalists who filmed the ‘Akhmat’ videos, in five of which he claims he appears.
If it was Ukrainian soldiers in the video, as he states the FSB told him, he did not offer any explanation as to how these soldiers came to be wearing a strikingly similar hat, bracelet, ribbon and uniform as he was seen wearing in other videos. He also claimed that he never saw, and that ‘Akhmat’ did not use, a white car such as that filmed in the execution footage, despite the fact that he is standing directly next to it in Patrick Lancaster’s video.
Christo Grozev, Aric Toler, Michael Sheldon and Carlos Gonzales contributed to this report.
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The annual Terry Fox Runs is days away, and our students are gearing up to raise money for cancer research and help keep Terry Fox’s dream alive.
Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope might have ended in 1980 but the spark he lit in the hearts and minds of Canadians ignited into a campaign of hope that has lasted more than three decades. Once again this September hundreds of thousands of Terry Fox supporters will participate in their favourite Canadian fall tradition at one of more than 700 Terry Fox Runs from coast to coast to coast to ensure that cancer research continues to forge ahead.
The students and staff at the Near North District School Board appreciate your support with this important initiative.
Terry Fox had a single dream: a world without cancer. Come and join us as we work together in pursuit of this dream. For more information on the Terry Fox Run and Foundation, visit www.terryfox.org | <urn:uuid:ba9d2fe7-8f02-4c27-92dc-62ee8f497c5c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nearnorthschools.ca/blog/support-nndsb-students-in-annual-terry-fox-walk-run-events/16459/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.949508 | 182 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world?
1. the population of China 中国的人口 2. one of the oldest countries 最古老的国家之一
3. feel free to do sth. 随意地做某事 4. as far as I know 据我所知
as you can see 正如你所看见的,…
5. mountain climbing/ climbing mountains 登山运动 6.live up to 活到……
7.higher than any other mountain 比其他任何一座山高 8. of all… 在所有的….中
9. run along 绵延，横亘… … 10. another 200 or so 还有大约200左右
11.one of the world’s most dangerous sports 最危险的运动之一 12.one of the most popular places 最受欢迎的地方之一 13.risk their lives 冒着他们的生命危险 14. challenge oneself 挑战自我 15. in the face of difficulties 面临困难 16. take in air 呼吸空气 17. the first people to do sth. 第一个做某事的人 18. achieve one’ s dream 实现某人的梦想 = make one’s dream come true
19. the forces of nature 自然界的力量 20. reach the top 到达顶峰 21. even though 虽然;尽管
22. at birth 在出生的时候 23. be awake 醒着 24. run over with excitement 兴奋地跑过去 25. walk into sb. 撞到某人 26.die from…… 死于…… 27. fall over 被…绊倒 28. take care of 照顾;照料
29. every two years 每两年 30. cut down the forests 砍伐林木
31. endangered animals 濒危动物 32. fewer and fewer pandas 大熊猫越来越少
33. be in danger 处于危险之中
34. the importance of saving these animals 拯救这些动物的重要性 35.wild animals野生动物 sea life海洋生物
36.water pollution 水污染
37.only live for a short time because of illnesses由于疾病仅活很短的时间
38. make more homes for the pandas为大熊猫建造更多的家园 39.stop putting rubbish into the sea停止往大海里丢垃圾 40.protect … from…保护…免于…的伤害
e.g. protect children from catching a cold. 保护孩子免于感冒 41.in the remaining forests在剩下的森林里
1. The elephant weights many times more than this panda. 这头大象的重量是这只熊猫的很多倍。 【解析1】weigh v 称……的重量 → weight n 重量
【记】 She weighs herself every day and wants to lose weight. 【解析2】time ①“是......的几倍”
主语 + 数词 + times + as +形容词+ as +被比较的内容 Our new school is four times as big as the old one.
②“次数” 一次 once 两次 twice 三次及三次以上 ：
基数词 + times three times 三次 three or four times 三到四次
【短语】many times 很多倍 last time (在)上次……时 every time 每次/每回…… each time 每当……时
the first time 第一次……时 next time (当)下次……时 【句型 】
It’s time for sth . 或 It’s time ( for sb . ) to do sth . 意为：该是……的时候了 e.g. It’s time for dinner .
It’s time for children to go to bed .
【2012浙江杭州2】We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen _____ we speak.
A. as twice much as B. twice as much as C. as much as twice D. as much twice as
2.At birth, a baby panda is about ___ to ____ kilos. 【解析】at birth 出生时 （用作时间状语） give birth ( to sb/ sth) 生孩子；产仔
3.A panda can live up to ___ to ____ years. 【解析】up to 高达
up to +数量词 达到 （某数量、程度等）；至多 e.g. I can take up to four people in my car. 直到 （现在） be up to sb. “由某人决定”
e.g. — Shall we go out or stay in ? — It’s up to you.
4. Lin Wei and the other panda keepers are preparing the milk for the baby pandas’ breakfast. 【解析】prepare…for… 为……准备……
1). prepare sth.表示\准备......\，后接名词或代词作宾语。
Our English teacher was preparing the lessons when I came into the office. 2). prepare to do sth.表示\准备做......\。
They were preparing to cross the river when it began to rain. 3). prepare for sth.表示\为......做准备\。
The students are busy preparing for the final exam.
5. At 9:00 a.m, they find that most of the babies are already awake and hungry. 【解析】awake adj. 醒来 （反义词）asleep 睡着的 She was awak all night. V. 唤醒；使醒来 = wake up The noise awak me.
【2013江苏苏州】 Do you lie __________ (醒着的）at night，worrying about things？ ( ) He fell ____ early last night, and he was ___ early this morning.
A. sleep; wake B. asleep; wake C. asleep; awake D. sleep ; awake
6. When the babies see the keepers, they run over with excitement and some of them even walk into their friends and fall down! 【解析1】run over 撞倒 run →ran→ run→ running → runner 赛跑的人 【短语】run after 追逐,追求 run away from 从……跑掉;逃避 run out (某物)被用完 run out of 用完(某物)
run into 无意间碰到,和……相撞 【解析2】excitement 激动；兴奋
He told us an exciting story yesterday. excite v \使)兴奋\→excitement n 激动；兴奋
Are you excited about going to Beijing?
be excited about 对……感到激动 对......感到兴奋，是（主动地感到）兴奋的 to one’s excitement 使某人兴奋的是
【2013遂宁2】Everyone was _______when they heard the ______ news.
A．exciting，exciting B．excited，exciting C．exciting．excited 【解析3】fall down 跌倒 fall “落下，跌落，降落”，指在重力的作用下落下，或失去平衡而跌落 The leaves fall in the autumn. fall down强调的是“滑倒、倒下”，后接宾语时应加上介词from The book fell down from the table to the floor.
【短语】 fall down 倒下 fall over 落在...之上, 脸朝下跌倒 fall off 下降, 跌落 fall over“向前摔倒、跌倒”。
【2013四川凉山】— What happened to Mare — He fell ____ the bike ___ a snowy morning. A.off; in B.down; at C.off; on
7. The baby often die from illness and do not live very long.熊猫幼崽常死于疾病，并且活不久。
【解析1】die v. →（延续性动词） be dead 死，死亡 → death n. 死，死亡→dead adj. 死的 → dying adj. 将死的
①Lucy’s dog’s __________(die) yesterday. Its_______ made her sad. ②His grandpa ____________(die) for five years .
( )③He _____ for two years. We are still sad about his _____.
A. died; dead B. died; death C. has been dead; dead D. has been dead; death ( )④The doctor ____a ___ boy yesterday.
A. saved; dying B. saved; dead C. has saved; dead 【解析2】illness 疾病；病
ill /sick 共同点：\生病的；有病的\
不同点：ill adj.\生病的；有病的\作表语，不能作定语 be ill in hospital
sick 作表语/作定语，\病人\或the sick,
She is ill / sick in bed. 她卧病在床。She is looking after her sick father . 【拓展】sick \恶心的；厌倦的\ The smell makes me sick.
【2013甘肃白银】25. He can’t even move because of his (ill).
8. Adult pandas spend more than 12 hours a day eating about 10 kilos of bamboo. 【解析】spend … (in) doing 花时间做某事 【】spend/pay/cost/take 花费
(1)spend→spent→spent v 花费,主语是人 ◆ sb.+ spend +时间/钱+on sth
◆sb. +spend +时间/钱+（in） doing sth ◆spend on= pay for 支付
【解析2】He spends too much time on the computer games.
( ) Remember to spend some time __ your loved ones, because they’re not going to be around forever. A. from B. with C. in D. on (2) pay →paid →paid v 支付，主语是人
◆sb.+ pay + 钱+for sth I pay 10 yuan for the book.
( ) — How much did you ____ for this computer? — Five hundred dollars. A. cost B. take C. spend D. pay
(3) cost→ cost→ cost v 花费，主语是某物或某事
◆sth cost sb. +钱 某物花费某人多少钱 A new computer costs me a lot of money. 【2012广西贵港】 I bought a new sweater last weekend. It ____ me 120 yuan. A. paid B. take C. cost D. spend (4)take→took → taken v 花费
◆It takes /took sb. some time to do sth. 做某事花费某人多长时间 【解析2】 It takes him 3 hours to do his homework.
【2013黑龙江绥化】10. It will ________ them several years to learn English well. A. cost B. take C. spend
【2012曲靖中考】--Are you always online? --Yes. It ____ me a lot of time to read the web pages I likes.
It’s the best way to kill time. A. takes B. spends C. uses D. pays 【2013鞍山】 It only_______ him 20 minutes __________to his office every day. A. takes, to drive B. took, drive C. takes, drive D. took, to drive
【2013湖北荆州】22. It usually Mum about half an hour to cook supper. A. pays B. takes C. spends D. costs 【2013四川雅安】4. I spent $5 this book. A. in B. to buy C. buying D. buy
9. Scientists say there are now fewer than 2000 pandas living in the remaining forests. 【解析】 There be + 名词（短语） + ving. 某处有某人或某物在做某事 Thee is a truck collecting rubbish outside. | <urn:uuid:bb7f83f4-af97-4016-849d-1de4a6558c8a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.china-audit.com/lhd_6ahd92x73u3fmdy9ul8q7b8vd538ce00y4c_1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.723813 | 4,062 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Vol. 14 No. 9 (2019): School Districts’ Contributions to Students’ Math and Language Achievement
Conducted in British Columbia, this mixed-methods study tested the effects of nine district characteristics on student achievement, explored conditions that mediate the effects of such characteristics, and contributed to understandings about the role school-level leaders play in district efforts to improve achievement. Semistructured interview data from 37 school administrators provided qualitative data. Quantitative data were provided by the responses of 998 school and district leaders’ in 21 districts to two surveys. Student achievement data were district-level results of elementary and secondary student provincial math and language test scores. All nine district characteristics contributed significantly to student achievement. Three conditions served as especially powerful mediators of such district effects. The same conditions, as well as others, acted as significant mediators of school-level leader effects on achievement. This is among the few large-scale mixed-methods studies identifying characteristics of districts explaining variation in student achievement. | <urn:uuid:5c2dff38-dd07-4d87-b0b4-18a1b8548042> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://journals.sfu.ca/ijepl/index.php/ijepl/issue/view/133 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.94389 | 217 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Frequently Asked Questions
Helium Miners are tiny computers (the size of a network router) that can transmit data received by radio waves to the internet, and from one miner to another. The purpose is to create a worldwide network that can be used by Internet of Things devices.
The amount of HNT that can be earned depends on several factors. First, the strength of the antenna, which plays a big role in the number of other miners that can be communicated with. Secondly, the location of the miner. It needs to be close to other helium miners so that they are within range and can communicate with each other. Third, how often your hotspot is used to transmit data from Internet of Things devices.
By comparing the earnings of existing miners, you can make an estimate of how much HNT you will earn.
Check out the Helium Coverage Map to see the earnings of other miners in Europe to compare.
HNT is the native coin of the Helium network (along with Data Credits, more on that in the next question). HNT is mined by Helium hotspot miners and sent to hotspot owners as a reward for providing coverage and data transfer on the network. HNT can be exchanged to Euros.
Helium Data Credits are used by end users of the Helium network to pay for sending data through the network. Unlike HNT, Data Credits are not exchangeable and are tied to the purchaser until used.
The purchase of Data Credits is comparable to the purchase of prepaid phone credit. A user pays only for the actual use of the network. As with prepaid phone credit, the credit is not transferable.
Data Credits can only be purchased by converting HNT to DC. Any Helium Token converted to DC in this way will be permanently burned and thus removed from the overall HNT circuit.
1 Data Credit can be used to send 24 bytes of data, rounded up to the next 24 bytes.
A Helium Miner consumes between 1 and 2 GB of data per day, which is not a problem with an unlimited data subscription. You can compare it to having another person in the house who watches a few hours of Netflix every day.
A helium miner consumes hardly any energy. On an annual basis, it’s about €9-10. That’s around €0.026 per day. Compared to a Bitcoin miner, the amount is negligible. The reason that the power is so low is that this miner does not have to perform complex calculations like Bitcoin miners.
All Helium Hotspot miners operate the same way. The biggest difference between the various Helium miners can be found in the stock antenna that is provided. As Bobcat comes with a 4 dBi stock antenna, this hotspot can be considered the best Helium Miner.
The cheapest Helium Miner is the Linxdot Helium Miner. This is because the shipping and tax costs are much lower than other hotspots, as this miner comes from within Europe.
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Get Outdoors and Explore Nature
For those who’ve never slept under the stars, you should know that camping is so much more than dirt and bugs. It’s a chance to be in touch with nature, something most city-dwellers don’t even think about, but love once they do it.
If you’re interested in taking the camping plunge, here are a few tips to help make sure your first time camping isn’t your last.
- Get Crocs
They may not be your city-wear, but crocs are invaluable when you’re out in the woods. They are easy to slip on and off when nature calls in the middle of the night. They’re hygienic when you’re in the campground showers or swimming pools. They wear well in canoes, kayaks and hanging around the edge of the lake. They dry fast, don’t hold bacteria, and are inexpensive enough that you don’t have to worry about losing one.
- Put A Tarp Under Your Tent
Inexperienced campers often set up their tents right on the ground, and learn quickly that there is a better option. A simple, lightweight tarp underneath will keep the bottom of your tent dry, and insulate it from getting cut by rocks and twigs. Make sure to fold the edges under so water doesn’t pool between the tarp and tent if it rains.
- A Sleeping Pad Is A Must
Something soft to sleep on can make all the difference in your camping experience. A sleeping pad isn’t only more comfortable to sleep on, but it will keep you warmer and protect you from any moisture on the bottom of your tent.
- Lanterns Light Your Way
If you’ve never been camping, you may not be prepared for how dark it can get in nature. It gets dark. Very, very, dark. Having a headlamp is great for walking around your campsite, cooking and bathroom breaks. A campfire will provide minimal light a few feet around. But a few inexpensive, LED lanterns will go a long way in helping you find your way around your campsite at night. Pack a couple of ropes so you can hang them from nearby trees.
- Pick A Roomy Tent
A two-person tent is only just big enough for two people to sleep in. Most first-time campers will want a bigger tent. Remember that your tent isn’t just for sleeping. It’s where you’ll put your gear, where you might store valuables, and where you’ll hang out when it’s raining. Dome roofs and tents with vestibules add to the roominess of your space.
- Bring Dryer Lint For Starting Fires
Better than twigs, woodchips and leaves, (all of which may not even be useful if it’s been raining) dryer lint is every campers dream fire starter. It’s cheap, lightweight, and free. Collect it for a few weeks before, and make starting your campfire quick and easy.
- Comfortable Camp Chairs
First-time campers may picture themselves sitting on logs, roasting marshmallows over campfires on sticks they whittled themselves. And while the campfire, marshmallows and sticks are all easy enough, that log will get very uncomfortable very quickly. Simple, foldable camp chairs are inexpensive, easy to put in your car, and will keep you comfortable around your campfire for hours. Bonus: Most new ones come with cup holders. | <urn:uuid:8be5ff85-cb02-41ef-a542-ccedb8a7e84b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://old.fusia.ca/7-essential-tips-for-first-time-campers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.931558 | 756 | 1.9375 | 2 |
A global food crisis is developing far faster than climate change. With the population predicted to reach 10 billion by 2050, we will have to grow more food in the next 40 years than in the previous 8000 years. In addition, food from supermarkets can travel thousands of miles and sit in many cooling fridges before it reaches your plate, all the while losing important nutrients and causing carbon emissions. To address these issues, a massive shift from consumer to producer is needed.
The Coop empowers urban residents to grow their own nutritious and delicious food close to home in shipping container micro-farms. By harnessing solar energy, aeroponic and hydroponic technology, users can grow food 365 days a year in a simple, more productive, and non-labor-intensive way whilst using 95% less water than a traditional farm. Located around the city in underused urban spaces, members can rent plots in the farms near them and grow a wide variety of produce such as leafy veg, rooted veg, vine fruit, citrus fruit, honey, and eggs themselves.
A key point for my design was that it should not have the imagery of a traditional farm. Instead, I wanted it to be fun, fresh, and contemporary. As one is growing food within a steel container, I wanted the design to have a sense of simplicity, trustworthiness, transparency, and a scientific approach as well. As such, the visual language is a blend of authoritative type, technical icons, and bold, colourful graphic food. The Website and the container exterior inform the public about The Coop farms and how they work whilst the app reminds members of tasks and helps monitor their plants, poultry, and bee’s individual needs.
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This scene has been accelerated from time to time by other world powers, progressing in innovation, the rise of the buyer from the working class, and growing tastes in the same way as the demands of individuals.
It is easy to mark our nation as a widespread English-speaking nation by transnational corporations, taking into account their cooperation and impressions associated with a specific location of people and urban communities. This is the place where language, culture, eating habits, subculture, customs, taste, etc., change every few kilometers. Currently, this diversity is extrapolated to all states, dialects, and religions that exist in the country.
To top it all off, the meaning of local dialects and limited touch just never gets blurred. Surveys continue to remind you that whenever 40 to 50 percent of customers find that they receive data in their language, it spends additional costs. This trend can also spread to new situations where customers from 60 to 70 percent see the likelihood of receiving a subject web extension when part of the data is combined in their language.
When in 2011, a Gallup survey of linguistic tendencies among web clients in 23 countries of the European Union indicated that 42 percent of people never buy objects and administrations in different dialects; it was only the initial stage to link the long and deep connection between generality and brand inclinations.
Nature also understands comfort, stay time, believability, experimentation, and in some places, even reliability for a client in another market.
From numerous points of view, the use of administrations to interpret the language entails another touch, namely that the fashion creates long-term relationships and not temporary or based on the value of the transaction between the organization and the other client.
The specialty and the new crowd cannot ignore the part that the business thinks of them, and this is what the administrations are trying to do in interpreting.
They understand the closeness of fragrance and local assets along with muama enence übersetzer translators who firmly understand the intricacies of each area. They complement this advantage with an assortment of articles on websites, leaflets, voice, vision and sound, authoritative reports, intellectual scenes for clients, and much more.
It is also apparent that for some time, the interpretation was assigned to low-maintenance work as not a genuine calling in the country. In any case, the emergence of tent firms began to change the script for two clients, only as translators, which subsequently led the administration to deviate from its abilities/rewards for good translators.
At a time when only a little less than 10% of the region’s population speaks and works in English, and when the possibilities of the English language go beyond the foggy field, in this case, interpretation and limitation take on more prominent work. Language interpretation administrations are becoming a paste that unites various phonetic, provincial, and socially heterogeneous client meetings. | <urn:uuid:959f4af5-d9c6-4715-b543-b14b81ddb39d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://getserialkey.com/technik/how-to-make-the-potential-of-translation-services.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.949472 | 589 | 1.9375 | 2 |
A high court in Malawi has ruled ordering the government to allow Rastafarian students with dreadlocks to attend school.
Though a temporary order, it has been a decision many Rastafarians in Malawi have been hoping for as they complain of discrimination.
The court said students with dreadlocks should be allowed to attend school while it considers a case relating to dreadlocks.
The case was filed by a schoolgirl who was denied admission to a primary school because of her dreadlocks.
According to Malawian media report, she was told to cut off dreadlocks by the school’s management.
The judge sitting on the girl’s case has ordered the school to take in the schoolgirl.
— Habiba Rezwana Osman (@HabibaRezwana) November 21, 2018
The school has been ordered to also organize extra classes for her to make up for the days she missed until the final judgement on her case is made.
Like in many African countries, Rastafarians are discriminated based on their looks including their dreadlocks.
They sometimes get sacked or denied jobs for that and denied many services as people consider them unpleasant.
In 2019, a Kenyan school in Nairobi was sued for banning a Rastafarian girl from attending classes because of her hair.
Despite wrapping her hair in a wrap, the girl was told only Muslims are allowed to wrap their hair while in school. | <urn:uuid:fdec19b1-6534-40f6-92c2-0beb24879141> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://africafeeds.com/2020/01/15/malawian-court-rules-to-allow-dreadlocks-in-schools/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.984165 | 303 | 1.820313 | 2 |
The Butte County Child Abuse Prevention Council is a coalition dedicated to the prevention, intervention and treatment of child abuse. Its objectives are to increase public awareness of child abuse and neglect, strengthen families and provide education and professional training.
Established in 1975, the Council consists of individuals from public and private agencies and concerned members of our community.
Butte County CAPC'S Mission
We aspire to stop the cycle of child abuse and promote healthy families through education, advocacy and collaboration by providing services as Butte County's Child Abuse Prevention Council.
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New and more virulent strains of ransomware have targeted U.S. healthcare facilities and other victims in the last few weeks, prompting the FBI to investigate and issue a call for help to security experts.
One of the ransomware strains, called PowerWare, is especially worrisome because it targets entire networks using the Windows PowerShell administration software. PowerWare infects PCs by inserting malicious code into Word documents and using a PowerShell script and Office macros to encrypt folders once a user opens the rigged documents.
Filling seemingly benign Microsoft Office documents with malicious code is not a new attack method, but coupled with PowerWare’s novel approach to encrypting files, it’s a powerful and dangerous combination, security experts said.
“Ransomware authors are always trying to evolve to avoid detection, and using built-in Windows capabilities makes the malicious activity less noticeable,” Tim Erlin, director of IT security and risk strategy for Tripwire, said in a statement to PCMag. “[PowerWare] may change its encryption technique, but it still requires an entry point onto the system. Malicious Word files sent through emails and the use of Microsoft Office macros is a very old vector for this new malware.”
It’s likely that PowerWare or similar ransomware strains were responsible foryesterday’s attack on MedStar Health and two other recent high-profile attacks on medical centers in California and Kentucky. The FBI, which is investigating all three attacks, asked security researchers for immediate assistance last week.
Reuters said it obtained a confidential FBI advisory dated March 25 and sent to IT security firms that said, “We need your help!” That advisory was focused on a strain of ransomware similar to PowerWare that encrypts entire networks at once, rather than one PC at a time.
Ransomware attackers focus on the healthcare industry because they have sensitive data and have shown a willingness to pay the ransoms rather than spend extended amounts of time trying to unlock the data themselves.
“Such targets are particularly vulnerable because they cannot afford to be paralyzed for a long time (either because their data has been encrypted or because they shut down the system to avoid spreading the infection) and prefer to pay the ransom,” David Melamed, a research engineer at CloudLock, said in a statement to PCMag.
Ultimately, there’s little IT administrators can do to recover from or prevent these attacks until the security community learns more about them and their perpetrators are discovered. In the meantime, hospitals and other high-risk targets will have to rely on traditional security measures to prevent and mitigate attacks, said Jack Danahy, a co-founder of the IT security start-up Barkly.
“It will be interesting to see the outcome of law enforcement action in this attack,” he said in a statement emailed to PCMag. “Hospitals who have remained unscathed to this point should be double-checking their protection, their backups, and their logs.”
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Food-guilt aside, let’s start 2016 out right with a recipe I’ve attempted to perfect numerous times in 2015, but took me until now to truly make well: Wild Boar Ragu with Cheesey Polenta.
The two main complaints of ragu created prior to 2016 were 1) ragu lacking in depth of flavor, and 2) the meat being too chewy and not fall-apart tender.
The secrets? A little anchovy, a little nutmeg, and a whole lot of time in the oven. I’m talking a 4 hour time-commitment to braising these delicious little hunks of meat (you could even go longer, but Dave and I were hungry and the daylight was fast deserting me…)The resulting dish was, in my opinion, ragu perfection – softly shredded tendrils of slow-cooked boar meat surrounded by a highly flavored tomato and wine based sauce.
Serving it mounded over polenta or pappardelle are classic ways to serve ragu, and I chose to serve it over pecorino-and-thyme-seasoned cheesey polenta.
(Oh. my. YUM.)Ragu has a unique history, being that it is a classic Italian dish, but doesn’t seem to have made an appearance in Italy until Napoleon invaded Italy in the 18th century. The hypothesis is that ragu is an Italian-ized version of the French Ragout, which is a braised meat stew.
The Italian Ragu varies regionally, and employs a variety of ingredients, including vegetables, tomatoes, wine, anchovy, and sometimes even milk. (Note- I’ve included milk in past ragu attempts, but couldn’t figure out the importance of this ingredient, so decided to omit it here).
What makes ragu ragu is the principal ingredient being meat, and the tomato (or other) ingredients taking a backseat to the braised whole or ground protein. There are other Italian sauces that include tomatoes seasoned with small amounts of meat, which are quite delicious as well, but they are are not a true ragu. As you might expect, ragu can vary extensively from cook to cook; typically depending on season and availability of ingredients. In keeping with this tradition, I seasoned the meaty tomato stew with thyme, bay leaves, anchovy, and nutmeg.
Probably the weirder ingredients are the anchovy and nutmeg, but never fear- the anchovy works like fish sauce in thai food- necessary for awesome flavor, but without making everything taste like fish. And the nutmeg adds a subtle little “wow, what is that that makes it taste so good?” to the dish without making you say “woah… I can definitely taste the nutmeg.”
(Also I’d just like to point out that swapping boar stew meat for pork or beef shoulder should work just fine, if you don’t have access to wild boar).So- do you have 4 hours to spare this New Year’s weekend for comforting home-cooked Italian food? Let this be your recipe.
Wild Boar Ragu with Cheesey Polenta
- 1 lb wild boar stew meat cut into 2 inch pieces
- 1 medium spanish onion diced
- 2 carrots peeled and diced
- 2 celery stalks diced
- 5 cloves of garlic minced
- 1 tablespoon anchovy paste alternatively- 4-5 whole anchovy fillets, minced and mashed with side of chef's knife
- 4 thyme sprigs
- 2 dried bay leaves
- 28 oz can diced tomatoes with juices
- 1 cup beef stock
- 1 cup dry red wine I used Toscana
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- Salt and pepper to taste
_For the Cheesey Polenta_
- 1 cup polenta also called corn grits, or yellow cornmeal
- 5 cups water
- 1 ½ cups freshly grated pecorino romano cheese
- 2 teaspoons minced fresh thyme optional
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a cast iron, or non-reactive oven-safe stock pot, heat olive oil over high heat.
- Add boar pieces, and sear on all sides, until browned. Remove from pot and set aside.
- Reduce heat to medium and add a little extra oil to pot as needed. Add onion, carrot, and celery. Season with salt and pepper. Saute until vegetables begin to soften and onion is translucent.
- Add garlic, anchovy, thyme, and bay leaves. Saute for 1-2 minutes more.
- Next add tomatoes, beef stock, red wine, and nutmeg. Stir well, scraping up any browned bits from bottom of the pan.
- Bring mixture to a simmer.
- Cover, and bake in oven for 4 hours, or until meat is very tender and easily falls apart. Check periodically to monitor liquid level; if ragu is getting too dry, add extra wine, water, or beef stock.
- After ragu is out of the oven, remove thyme stems (leaves should have all fallen off), and bay leaves. Using spoon or fork mash and shred the meat until no large pieces remain.
- Stir in tomato paste. Add water if mixture appears too thick.
- Taste and season with additional salt and pepper as needed.
To make the Cheesey Polenta
- In a medium saucepan bring polenta and water to a boil. When mixture begins to spit, turn down to medium low heat and continue to cook, stirring often, until mixture thickens. This will take about 45-50 minutes.
- Stir in cheese and thyme (if using). Season with salt and pepper, to taste.
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My latest roundup of links and tools…
I read blocked blogs
- I’m gettin’ me some of these super-cool buttons (made by Stephanie Sandifer; inspired by Bud Hunt). What a great thing to hand out to administrators!
Are you up to the challenge?
Why K-12 educators shake their heads at academia
- Rick Hess perfectly captures one of my primary complaints about academia, which is that much of what we do is completely inaccessible (and/or meaningless) to K-12 educators
No hand-held electronics in front of the kids!
I was incredulous to read … the decision by the London Catholic School Board in Ontario banning hand held electronic devices in schools. . . . Even more bizarrely … school board employees are only allowed to use these devices "in areas from which students are excluded." Taken to its logical extent then this includes staff also being unable to use digital cameras to record student work or projects, create and listen to podcasts and so on.
– Gareth Long
New tools I’m finding quite useful
The impetus is on us, not them
Help a teacher develop an integrated lesson [that] … focuses on a local issue of real importance, in which they, their families, and/or others in their community have a genuine stake and interest. If their learning is situated in that type of context, I think you’ll find the impact of their learning experiences will be far greater, and many more of them will learn digital literacy skills alongside traditional literacy skills. Teaching in a problem-based learning environment is a lot more work than simply lecturing and delivering content to students, but it is the type of learning environment our students need to remain engaged in school work. Too many kids today are BORED by school. As the adults running our schools, it is our responsibility to remedy this situation.
– Wesley Fryer
A couple of gems from Clay Burell…
- Muhammad Ali: A D- student or an F- school?
- Education as pretense: Schooly “speeches” versus real “talks”
And a couple more from Gerald Bracey
- Proficient readers: Dear Strong American Schools (be wary of those NAEP proficiency levels!)
- A test everyone will fail
We are a little egocentric, aren’t we?
- Fujitsu’s world map (thanks, Brett!)
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Dandelions are popping up in a lot of yards; now is the time to start spraying. Experts say spraying the flower with weed killer is pretty good, but it's better to get them before they flower, when they are still small and green. Home owners should "spot spray" weeds; walk your yard with a bottle of weed killer and just spray individual Dandelions. This is enviromentally better than "broadcast" spraying. If the Dandelion is still very small, one can pull them out of the ground. However, if the pesky weed is quite large, pulling them will only result in more Dandelions in the future because their tap root is so large and deep, it can be difficult to get the whole root out of the ground. | <urn:uuid:80389454-4a88-49c8-a766-1a64e123bba3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kxly.com/category/spokane/page/1038/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.973943 | 158 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Last year’s Texas Trail Roundup missed the grand opening of Confluence Park by two weeks.. This is your chance to see this amazing park that just won one of the architecture industry’s highest honors, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Institute Honor Awards for Architecture, one of only nine awarded this year. The award recognizes design achievement in “sense of place and purpose, ecology, environmental sustainability, and history” in contemporary architecture.
It’s nearby Mission Conception and you’ll be able to see it on all but the 5km walks on Saturday.The location on Mitchell St. is at the confluence of San Pedro Creek and the San Antonio River.
The five-acre park, took more than 18 months and $13.7 million in design and construction costs to complete. It replaced a former construction storage yard. It’s most striking feature is its pavilion, which consists of concrete “petals” that stand 20 to 29 feet tall and act as rainwater catchers, funneling water into native plants and soil to irrigate the landscape. This is part of a A site-wide water catchment system which collects all the rainwater that falls on the site and feeds this water into an underground water storage tank. The concrete for each 40,000-pound petal was poured on-site. The building off to the side is an education center featuring a green roof that provides thermal mass for passive heating and cooling. The entire site is powered by a photovoltaic array providing 100% of on-site energy with extra power that turned back to the grid.
Native grasses, plants and trees are used throughout the park, which is divided into various ecosystems that include Texas Live Oak Savannah, Grassland, Trans Pecos/Chihuahuan Desert and the Mission Reach Restoration, which mimics what you see along the Mission Reach.
“Confluence Park is here to tell the story of why this place matters. Why water and resource education matters. Why telling stories to our children matters,” said Robert Amerman, executive director of the San Antonio River Foundation, which spearheaded the project.
More tha 14,000 students have attended educational programs at the park since it opened less than a year ago and events — such as yoga in the park — are regularly scheduled. | <urn:uuid:c6d9b83b-0d22-4072-8609-635580aea421> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://texastrailroundup.org/stop-by-the-award-winning-confluence-park/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.954256 | 481 | 2.03125 | 2 |
There are definitely as many methods to care for a American Akita puppy as there are to rearing a kid. In fact, one method per household at minimum! However most of us agree that when it comes to kids, some things are universal and indisputable. Here are three things that a great deal of people just do not consider when it comes to raising their American Akitas, however. I can’t count how many times have we heard, “My American Akita simply will not listen to me”, or “He just won’t act!”
American Akitas don’t understand English till we teach them.
The thing all of us enjoy about American Akita puppies the most is the way they live for us, the way they focus all they have on us, the way our lives become theirs. In the beginning, they study us to learn our body movement, our expressions and our language. Up until we teach them the English language, it’s all they have. If we state, “Need to go out?” one day, “Have to go potty?” the next day, and, “Hafta pee?” the 3rd day, if they DO find out what we want, it is because we have gotten the leash and moved toward the door with a pleased face! If you wish to speed up his training by three-fold, teach him YOUR language. Choose a command for EACH action and stay with it. Teach all in your household to use the same words and commands, and your American Akita puppy will amaze you at just how much quicker he figures it out.
A young American Akita puppy’s metabolic process is racing along faster than we think.
The more youthful your American Akita is, the more quickly he is growing, the more food and water he requires to sustain his metabolism, and the more frequently he needs to go potty. Do not penalize your puppy when he makes a house-breaking mistake. These are YOUR fault. The age of your American Akita in weeks and his size establish how often he needs to head out. One time an hour is not too often for a large 6-week old puppy, especially if it is summertime. American Akitas love the interesting smells outdoors, so there is no reason to not have him housebroken by 7-8 weeks old. Right after a nap, after he eats and after grooming are the essential times, and he will alert you. If he is gladly chewing a toy and gets up all of a sudden with his nose to the flooring, let him out quickly! And every time he goes potty outside, applaud him to high heaven! “What a good BOY!”, “EXCELLENT go potty!” and so on. American Akitas like our delighted faces, and they will do anything to get it.
American Akitas live for our facial expressions and body movement.
Given this, the worst penalty you ever can provide your American Akita is a grimace and to turn away from him. You can see his tail fall down and his face get so unhappy. He will learn the lesson, I ensure it. However his attention span is just 3-5 minutes, so do not chastise him any further. Love him up and give him your pleased face once again. Physical penalty is never ever essential. Work with consistent commands and loving appreciation and he will know what you want of him prior to you understand. He will end up being a master of your body movement and expressions in no time at all.
Naturally there are numerous aspects of training your American Akita puppy well. Loving generosity works just as well for American Akita pups as it does with kids, producing a happy, well-adjusted and loyal dog for life. These three crucial tips, utilized regularly with confidence, will start him well on his way.
Don’t forget to check out these other articles about American Akitas
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The content of the article well describes the subject except for some minor points. My main criticism concerns the references and complete absence of the chronological timeline - which, I think, is indispensable for this kind of publication.
Let me list my comments paragraph by paragraph.
1. Maximizing entropy.
- It is not clear why in the case of topological entropy the reference to KH95 is accompanied with a reference to the original publication, and in the case of metric entropy it is not. I think that it would be reasonable in both cases just refer to the corresponding articles of Scholarpedia.
- There is no special article on "Variational principle". I think that in this case references to a contemoprary exposition in KH95 must be accompanied with references to original publications (and, of course, the names of the people who obtained the corresponding results).
- The last sentence is misleading. Bowen's construction does not shed any light on the inequality between the topological and metric entropies and the fact that the topological entropy is the supremum of metric ones. This part should be properly referenced (maybe, with a reference to the fact that the measure of maximal entropy need not exist in general).
2. Bowen measure.
- What exactly is the claim? It should say something like: for an expansive homeomeorphism the limit exists and is a measure of maximal entropy. What exactly is the scope of the definition of the Bowen measure? Is it still called this way when the maximal entropy is not unique?
3. Margulis measure.
- It might be better to choose the chronological sequence and put Margulis' measure first.
- Where for the first time appears the fact that Bowen's and Margulis' measures coincide? Was Bowen aware of Margulis' construction when writing his own paper?
- The definition of a conditional measure is misleading. However, it is not necessary for the construction of Margulis - as the latter goes in the opposite direction. Instead of decomposing a measure he first obtains his leafwise measures from a topological consideration (so that they are defined everywhere and not a.e. as would be the case with properly defined conditional measures), and then obtaines the global measure by "multiplying" these leafwise measures in stable and unstable directions.
4. The Patterson-Sullivan construction.
- No references are given whatsoever. I suggest that the original papers by Patterson and Sullivan (definition of this measure in the constant curvature case) and Kaimanovich (relation of the PS construction with the BM measure) should be quoted.
5. Hausdorff measures.
- Ones again, no references. The original paper by Hamenstadt should be quoted.
- I am not sure whether it is worth giving here the definition of the Hausdorff measure.
6. Periodic orbits.
- Counting is just one particular application of the BM measure. I am not sure it is appropriate to discuss just one aspect in such a detailed way.
7. Generalizations of the Bowen construction.
- Again no references at all
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Too many people. Too few people. Capitalism is always in crisis.
China's gross domestic product has increased at an average annual rate of about 8 per cent since 2000. The equivalent figure for the US has been a bit less than 2 per cent. As things stand,
China will contribute more than one-fifth of the total increase in global GDP in the five years through 2026, according to Bloomberg calculations based on International Monetary Fund forecasts published April.
The US will account for 14.8 per cent, with India and Japan chipping in 8.4 per cent and 3.5 per cent, respectively. Anemic population growth, or an outright drop, is likely to mean slower overall expansion, even if GDP per capita may continue to climb.
The working-age population in China dropped to 63.4 per cent from more than 70 per cent a decade ago, while the share of residents aged 60 and above has risen.
Japan’s population peaked in 2010 and South Korea logged its first dip in 2020. Singapore reported its first decline since 2003 last year.
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Food charity The Felix Project has cooked up a cultural summer lunch for hundreds of primary school children in east London.
The London-based food distribution charity marked the end-of-term at Manorfield Primary School by catering for 700 pupils at the celebratory luncheon this week.
Culturally familiar dishes were prepared for the party, with Halal meat and meals provided by Islamic Relief UK.
The Felix Project, which has launched past appeals with the Evening Standard, used surplus food supply to fix up the festive feast to celebrate the summer holidays – including Eid al-Adha, a three-day observance where Muslims give a sacrifice of meat to those in need.
To minimise food waste, it regularly collects fresh excess produce from supermarkets as well as farms and wholesalers to deliver free of charge to families in need.
Anne Elkins, Head of Special Projects at the Felix Project, said: “To be able to use surplus food to create such wonderful moments that bring the community together in a celebration of food, culture and the planet is so special. Something that I hope Felix continues to do for many years yet.”
Manorfield Primary, Poplar, which has seen an increase in the level of needs, has been supporting children over the last year with 40 families accessing their Food Pantry distribution programme.
Head Teacher of Manorfield Primary School, Paul Jackson, said: “The last two years have highlighted the levels of food poverty and need in our local community. The profile of good waste and climate change has also been raised hugely through this period.
“Working with partners such as the Felix project help us achieve amazing things and today has shown the power of partnership to make a difference to the children and families we work with and a hope for bigger change for a better world in the future.”
Since July 2021, the Felix Project’s kitchen service has been providing a variety of meals at an average of 3500 per day.
Local home cooks and guest chefs backed the scheme by sharing authentic cultural recipes taught to the charity’s kitchen staff.
The Felix Project CEO Charlotte Hill OBE said: “The Felix Project is all about working in partnership and today is a perfect example of that. We have a fantastic partnership with our local community around each of our depots, and that partnership shines through with Manorfield Primary School in east London today.
“We have a partnership with many wonderful supporters, such as Islamic Relief who are donating an amazing amount of food to support our work today, and have also supported us with funds to do our vital work.
“And of course our partnership with our amazing volunteers, who keep our depots moving and vans on the road getting surplus food to where it is needed most. We are so grateful for all this support at a time when Londoners need it most.”
Head of Felix’s Kitchen Leon Aarts told the Standard about the meaning a day like this brings to the local community and The Felix Project’s plans for the future.
He said: “From the morning assembly to the lessons they were talking about healthy food, surplus food and what does it mean for the climate and the planet. Then they explained what The Felix Project does and this afternoon they got the meal. So it’s not just a meal, it’s a whole day that the school did a great job of organising and we support them in that.
“This is the last school day for them so we wanted to send them off with a nice memory with what I call a feast. We want to do more of these events now we have the kitchen. Bringing people together around the table, sharing a meal with each other is very powerful.
“There is a lot of beauty in surplus food which we get at The Felix Project and the quality of it is truly amazing and we can do so much with it.”
Islamic Relief UK has partnered with Felix Project to provide 2,300 cooked meals in London as part of their biggest ever Qurbani food distribution.
Shazia Arshad, Head of Communications at Islamic Relief, said: “This event is part of our wider charity drive that we work on around the country and as part of that we are doing Qurbani distributions to mark the festival of Eid al-Adha, which is a moment of sacrifice and an opportunity for us to provide meat distributions to vulnerable people around the country.
“It’s been so lovely to see the children appreciate all of this wonderful food and be so excited. They’ve been really enjoying the meals - some of the kids have told me they really liked the lamb and they kept asking ‘Can we have more?’.
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Since 1975, worldwide obesity has tripled. In 2016, the number of adults who were obese reached an estimated 650 million people. That accounts for about 13 percent of the world’s adult population. (1)
It’s a bit scary.
As we work toward losing weight through eating according to the ketogenic diet and intermittent fasting, many people reach for supplements like MCT oils to boost their ketone levels.
You might be among them. You might wonder how to use MCT oil while intermittent fasting.
Studies are ongoing, and a lot of the research is new. However, there are answers for people who want to know how to use MCT oil while intermittent fasting.
We’ve pulled these into some simple steps you can follow to boost your fat-burning power, increase your overall health and slow your aging process. (2)
Step One: Decide on the type of intermittent fasting you’re going to do.
Intermittent fasting is an approach to losing weight and increasing health by restricting calories. Preliminary studies indicate it has strong possibilities for helping with weight loss and for preventing type 2 diabetes.
Rather than focusing on a daily constriction of calories, you restrict caloric intake a few days each week. Intermittent fasting is often done for one to three days a week.
There are a few different ways to do intermittent fasting. One method is an alternate-day fasting. With alternate day fasting, you’ll eat about 75% less calories every other day. When it was studied, this method indicated that risks for developing diabetes decreased. (3)
That’s not the only option, though. Here are a few others to consider:
- Eat for five days, fast for two days. On the fast days, you’ll only consume 500-600 calories per day. You can eat normally on the other two days.
- 24-hour fasts, done once or twice a week—on your fasting days, you would only have light beverages. No solid food allowed.
- Fast for 16 hours out of every day and allow yourself to eat during the other eight hours
- Snack on fresh, raw fruits and veggies through the day, and eat one decent meal at night.
- Skip meals. If you’re just too busy to eat, turn it into a spontaneous fast. Just make sure you eat normally when you do finally get to a meal, and don’t overdo the calories.
While intermittent fasting isn’t an easy form of dieting, it does have some significant benefits. It reduces inflammation and can help your body fight off disease. Along with that, you lose weight. (4)
Step Two: Settle on an MCT oil supplement
As you learn how to use MCT oil while intermittent fasting, you might find out several surprising benefits.
Before you start looking seriously at the types of supplements out there, quickly review what you’re getting into:
- For starters, you’ll burn fat faster when you use MCT oil. (5)
- You’ll also store less fat. Also, since your body temperature rises when you take MCT oil, you’ll be using more energy. This is an indication that you’re probably burning fat. (6)
- Taking MCT oil might also change the way you expend energy, which could result in a different body composition. (7)
So how do you go about choosing an MCT oil to take when you’re looking at how to use MCT oil while intermittent fasting?
Not all MCT oils work the same in your body
For example, there’s a difference between an MCT oil supplement and MCT oils.
It’s the form you take them in that makes the difference.
MCT oil supplements, on the other hand, are derived from these natural sources. They’re pure MCT oils, though, so they’re more potent.
Now that you know this, you can choose whether you want to consume the whole-food sources of MCT oils or whether you want to go to the potent MCT oil supplements.
If you choose a whole-food source, you might find it at a local health food store or order it online. Finding a good MCT oil supplement, an exogenous ketone supplement and other keto-handy tools requires more research.
How do you want to take your MCT oil supplement?
MCT oil supplements can come in pill form, powder form or as oil in a bottle. There are benefits to each. Pills are easy to take. You can cook with the oils, and the MCT oil powder is easy to add to a variety of foods and to take on the go.
If you’ve decided on the type of product you like best, you can start shopping. Choose the best MCT oil for your lifestyle and make a purchase.
Step three: figure out your routine and build up your doses of MCT oil
MCT oils can have some side effects, including stomach cramps and diarrhea. One way to avoid the negative side effects of MCT oil is to start with small doses and work up to larger ones. Start with about a teaspoon a day. Work up to taking two tablespoons or more of your MCT oil supplement each day.
Dovetailing MCT oils and intermittent fasting
If you’ve built up your ability to take a decent amount of MCT oil, you can combine it with intermittent fasting to boost your fat-burning ability. Taking a dose as you start your fast can give you the burst of energy you need as well as push your body into fat-burning mode.
Conclusion on how to use MCT oil while intermittent fasting
Discovering how to use MCT oil while intermittent fasting is mostly about understanding what goes into both intermittent fasting and how MCT oil works in your body.
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Microsoft KB Archive/168977
Time Suffix Appears Distorted in Windows 95 Clock
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Windows 95
When you view the Windows 95 clock, or view files with the time stamp displayed, you may see characters other than AM or PM. For example, the clock may look like this:
If you view a file with the time stamp displayed, the file may look like this:
Morning.txt 123k 9:00 yiu
The regional settings have been changed or become damaged.
To resolve this issue, follow these steps:
- Click the Start button, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
- Double-click Regional Settings, and then click the Time tab.
- In the AM Symbol box, type AM.
- In the PM Symbol box, type PM.
- Click OK.
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Today marks Turkey’s National Sovereignty and Children’s Day. The day commemorates the formation of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in 1920 during the Turkish War of Independence – when the Turks initially formed militias and eventually regrouped into a new standing army and kept on fighting after the end of World War I. It resulted ultimately in the removal of the imperialist Allied invasion forces and their proxies from the country.
Two days later on April 25 each year is Anzac Day, commemorating the heroism, honor, courage, friendship and sacrifice of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC), or shortly Anzacs, at Gallipoli, which was also a battle that forms the basis of the Australian national legend.
Interestingly, as with the closeness of the dates, the Gallipoli battle also laid the groundwork for Turkey’s War of Independence and the establishment of the Republic of Turkey.
Akin to how diamonds are formed under extreme pressure, the horrific trench warfare laid the foundations of Turkey, Australia and New Zealand.
Accordingly, this background makes the Gallipoli battle important for the national identity of the three countries, who have cultivated this connection with mutual respect for over 100 years.
Despite the deep mutual political connections at the fundamental level of nationhood, and together with a long military alignment since the Korean War, the potential commercial relationship between the countries is arguably underutilized when compared to Australia’s commercial relationships with the United Kingdom or the United States, and previously, with China.
The most significant large-scale commercial activity between the countries includes Turkish white goods company Beko-Arçelik, which dominates the European Union and U.K. markets, and in Australia could potentially contribute to its fledgling manufacturing industry; likewise, an Australian investment firm made an AU$1 billion ($770 million) investment in Turkey’s Port of Mersin.
The rest of the annual $770 million trade volume between the countries is mainly due to the connections between the countries provided by Australians of Turkish descent.
Otherwise, the relationship is severely underutilized given the military and political solidarity between the countries and that Australia and Turkey are both in the G-20, having the top 20 economies in the world.
The countries are also members of MIKTA, the seemingly low profile grouping of influential, multi-civilizational and economically growing middle-power countries comprising of Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea, Turkey and Australia.
Nevertheless, there is huge potential for improvement in commercial relations, especially given that Turkey is now a major high-tech weapons producer and exporter – interestingly co-producing an indigenous light tank with Australia’s neighbor Indonesia, which also sports a British turret.
This is important because historically the development of a country’s manufacturing industry is based on its defense industry.
The Turkish defense industry is now a major world player with seven companies listed in the top 100 weapons companies globally. It has indigenously developed and produced NATO-grade – and better – missiles, machine guns, multiple hand grenade launchers, short-to-medium range air defense systems, smart missiles, guidance systems, radars, electronic warfare tools, armored vehicles, the fuselage and other major parts for the F-35 and indigenous attack helicopters.
It has also recently fired up its own indigenously developed prototype helicopter turbofan engine, builds and exports battleships, and battle-changing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with extremely accurate and devastating missiles.
These are some of the weapons systems that Turkey builds and exports today. There are also other weapons development programs including the Hürjet, a light jet fighter, the TF-X, a fifth-generation indigenous stealth fighter program and a space program, among other big-ticket items.
The people-to-people relations in terms of the military seem to be at the best level possible given the special exceptions provided by each country to one another, including allowing descendants of Turkish forces to march in the Anzac Day Parade together with the Australian Returned Services League (RSL) – an honor not even officially permitted for descendants of Australia’s fellow Western nations of Italy and Germany, the current close cooperation between the three countries at Gallipoli, and the Atatürk Monument at Anzac Parade, Canberra, the only one in Australia dedicated to an enemy commander.
This closeness, however, sometimes does not trickle down to day-to-day interactions between average citizens.
Unfortunately, as indicated by the U.N. recently, the world is experiencing a generalized trend of rising global polarization and intolerance. According to the University of South Australia International Center for Muslim and Non-Muslim Understanding, which was the brainchild of the late Bob Hawke – an Oxford University Rhodes scholar and one of the longest-serving and most loved Australian prime ministers to serve in the post – found in a 2018 study that Australian Muslims are severely discriminated against in the labor market, are less likely to be called for a job interview, earn less and are more likely to be unemployed or under-employed, despite having equal to higher rates of education levels than mainstream Australia.
The study found that: “Despite their high levels of educational achievement, Muslims are less likely to work in professional fields. All these indicators suggest that a significant proportion of Muslim Australians occupy a relatively marginal position in Australian society, both socially and economically.”
The study concluded that: “The discrimination that Muslims are experiencing in the labor and employment markets, in particular, pose important public policy challenges for Australia. They require appropriate remedial policies to promote social and economic inclusion,” and that the matter is “urgent.”
Furthermore, in terms of “social distance,” which the report defines as “the relationships that exist between people of different ethnic, racial or religious backgrounds that coexist within the same society,” the study found that despite 70% of respondents saying they would accept Muslims as family members, they were last on the list of religious groups they would accept as family members.
Contrast this with the attitudes of the Anzacs on the battlefield in Gallipoli.
The reality-check of this study is difficult to digest. It does not quite fit into the humanistic and close actions displayed toward each other by the Anzac and Turkish soldiers at Gallipoli, despite the extremely horrific conditions.
As the Spanish Inquisition and other widespread persecutions have shown, bigotry targeting Muslims is like the proverbial canary in the mine – it ultimately indicates the beginnings of, or accompanies, widespread and institutionalized persecution of the “other.”
Ultimately, no one is safe, and this herd mentality will eventually affect all parts of society, similar to how the Spanish Inquisition eventually did. Subsequently, this will soon be a major problem for Australia given that it is home to people originating from 150 different countries.
One of the best ways to commemorate the Turkish and Anzac soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice for us could be to proactively stop people in society, especially the mainstream media, from accepting and normalizing Islamophobia and any kind of discrimination based on ethnic or religious differences.
Considering the overwhelming evidence of the extreme humanity, honor and respect for the individual and human life shown by the Anzac and Ottoman soldiers in the most horrific conditions imaginable – which usually bring out the worst in people – it is safe to say that they would not believe in the world’s, and perhaps Australia’s, current trajectory.
Despite this, the relationship between the countries is unparalleled, especially given that both countries are members of two separate civilizations as identified by the highly influential academic Samuel P. Huntington – the Islamic and the non-Orthodox-Christian Western civilizations.
At the Gallipoli Battle, the Turkish and Anzac soldiers did not let their cultural differences disrupt their humanity, dignity and principled mutual respect as humans and warriors. Two of their many acts exemplifying this, which are etched in Australian, New Zealand and Turkish history, included exchanging cigarettes and pausing the battle to bury the fallen, as well as friendly interactions during this cease-fire.
These actions were rarely seen in the past nor in the present day anywhere in the world. This is no doubt a shining example of the good things humans are capable of, and the Anzacs and Turkish soldiers hold a special place in world history.
Although both the Anzacs and the Turks fought against each other in one of the most devastating, harsh and brutal battles in history, remarkably neither side developed enmity toward the other at the time or after Gallipoli – another example to the world.
The interactions between the Anzac and Turkish soldiers, who represent the Western and the Islamic civilizations, should be remembered, honored and replicated. Their conduct in such desperate conditions is a model for how to fight against today’s increasingly polarized world.
In an inspiring speech, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, said in tribute to the Anzacs: “Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives ... You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours ... You, the mothers who sent their sons from faraway countries, wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.”
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1Again the Israelis did things that Yahweh said were very evil. So he allowed the people of Midian to conquer them and rule them for seven years.
2The people of Midian treated the Israelis so cruelly that the Israelis fled to the mountains. There they made places to live in caves and animal dens.
3Whenever the Israelis planted things in their fields, the people of Midian and Amalek and other groups from the east invaded Israel.
4They set up tents in the area, and then destroyed the crops as far south as Gaza. They did not leave anything for the Israelis' sheep or cattle or donkeys to eat.
5They came into Israel with their tents and their livestock like a swarm of locusts. There were so many of them that arrived riding on their camels that no one could count them. They stayed and ruined the Israelis' crops.
6The people of Midian took almost everything the Israelis owned. So finally the Israelis pleaded for Yahweh to help them.
7When the Israelis pleaded with Yahweh to help them because of what the people from Midian were doing to them,
8he sent to them a prophet, who said, “Yahweh, the God we Israelis worship, says this: ‘Your ancestors were slaves in Egypt.
9But I rescued them from the leaders of Egypt and from all the others who oppressed them. I expelled their enemies from this land, and gave it to your ancestors.
10I told you all, “I am Yahweh, your God. You are now in the land where the descendants of Amor live, but you must not worship the gods whom they worship.” But you did not pay attention to me.’”
11One day Yahweh appeared in the form of an angel and sat underneath a big oak tree at Ophrah town. That tree belonged to Joash, who was from the clan of Abiezer. Joash's son Gideon was threshing wheat in the pit where they pressed grapes to make wine. He was threshing the grain there in order to hide it from the people of Midian.
12Yahweh went over to Gideon and said to him, “You mighty warrior, Yahweh is helping you!”
13Gideon replied, “Sir, if Yahweh is helping us, why have all these bad things happened to us? We heard about RHQ all the miracles that Yahweh performed for our ancestors. We heard people tell us about how he rescued them from being slaves in Egypt. But now Yahweh has abandoned us, and we are ruled by the people from Midian.”
14Then Yahweh turned toward him and said, “I will give you strength to enable you to rescue the Israelis from the people of Midian. I am sending you to do that!”
15Gideon replied, “But Yahweh, how can I rescue the Israelis? My clan is the least significant in the whole tribe descended from Manasseh, and I am the least significant person in my whole family!”
16Yahweh said to him, “I will help you. So you will defeat the army of Midian as easily as if you were fighting only one man!”
17Gideon replied, “If you are truly pleased with me, do something which will prove that you who are speaking to me are really Yahweh.
18But do not go away until I go and bring back an offering to you.” Yahweh answered, “Okay, I will stay here until you return.”
19Gideon hurried to his home. He killed a young goat and cooked it. Then he took ◄a half a bushel/18 liters► of flour and baked some bread without yeast. Then he put the cooked meat in a basket, and put the broth from the meat in a pot, and took it to Yahweh, who was sitting under the tree.
20Then Yahweh said to him, “Put the meat and the bread on this rock. Then pour the broth on top of it.” So Gideon did that.
21Then Yahweh touched the meat and bread with the walking stick that was in his hand. A fire flamed up from the rock and burned up everything that Gideon had brought! And then Yahweh disappeared.
22When Gideon realized that it was really Yahweh who had appeared in the form of an angel and talked with him, he exclaimed, “O, Yahweh, I have seen you face-to-face when you had the form of an angel! So I will surely die!”
23But Yahweh called to him and said, “Do not be afraid! You will not die because of seeing me!”
24Then Gideon built an altar to worship Yahweh there. He named it ❛Yahweh gives us peace❜. That altar is still there in Ophrah town, in the land that belongs to the descendants of Abiezer.
25That night Yahweh said to Gideon, “Take the second-best/oldest bull from your father's herd, the bull that is seven years old. Kill it. Then tear down the altar that your father built to worship the god Baal. Also cut down the pole for worshipping the goddess Astarte that is there beside it.
26Then build a stone altar to worship me, your God Yahweh, here on this hill. Take the wood from the pole you cut down and make a fire to cook the meat of the bull as a burnt offering to me.”
27So Gideon and his servants did what Yahweh commanded. But they did it at night, because he was afraid what the other members of his family and the other men in town would do to him if they found out that he had done that.
28Early the next morning, as soon as the men got up, they saw that the altar to Baal had been torn down, and the pole for worshiping Astarte was gone. They saw that there was a new altar there, and on it was what remained from the bull they had sacrificed.
29The people asked each other, “Who did this?” After they investigated, someone told them that it was Gideon, the son of Joash, who had done it.
30They went to Joash and said to him, “Bring your son out here! ◄He must be executed/We must kill him►, because he destroyed our god Baal's altar and cut down the pole for our goddess Astarte!”
31But Joash replied, “Are you trying to defend Baal? Are you trying to argue his case? Anyone who tries to defend Baal should be executed by tomorrow morning! If Baal is truly a god, he ought to be able to defend himself, and to get rid of the person who tore down his altar!”
32From that time, people called Gideon Jerub-Baal, which means ❛Baal should defend himself❜, because he tore down Baal's altar.
33Soon after that, the armies of the people of Midian and of Amalek and the people from the east gathered together. They crossed the Jordan River to attack the Israelis. They set up their tents in Jezreel Valley.
34Then Yahweh's Spirit took control of Gideon. He blew a ram's horn to summon the men to prepare to fight. So the men of the clan of Abiezer came to him.
35He also sent messengers throughout the tribes descended from the four tribes of Manasseh, Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali to tell their soldiers to come, and all of them came.
36Then Gideon said to God, “If you are truly going to enable me to rescue the Israeli people as you promised,
37confirm it by doing this: Tonight I will put a dry wool fleece on the ground where I thresh the grain. Tomorrow morning, if the fleece is wet with dew but the ground is dry, then I will know that I am the one you will enable to rescue the people of Israel as you promised.”
38And that is what happened. When Gideon got up the next morning, he picked up the fleece, and squeezed out a whole bowlful of water!
39Then Gideon said to God, “Do not be angry with me, but let me ask you to do one more thing. Tonight I will put the fleece out again. This time, let the fleece remain dry, while the ground is wet with the dew.”
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Characterization and management of the commercial sector of the Pohnpei coral reef fishery, Micronesia
- Commercial coral reef fisheries in Pohnpei (Micronesia) extract approximately 1,521 kg of reef fish daily (~500 MT year-1) from 152 km2 of surrounding reef. More than 153 species were represented during surveys, with 25 species very common or common within combined-gear catch. Acanthurids contributed the greatest to catch volume, with bluespine unicornfish, Naso unicornis, and orangespine unicornfish, Naso lituratus, among the most frequently observed herbivores. Nighttime spearfishing was the dominant fishing method and inner lagoon areas were primarily targeted. A seasonal sales ban (March–April), intended to reduce pressure on reproductively active serranids, significantly increased the capture volume of other families. Catch was significantly greater during periods of low lunar illumination, suggesting higher fishing success or greater effort, or both. The marketed catch was dominated by juveniles and small adults, based on fishes of known size at sexual maturity. Artificially depressed market prices appear to be catalyzing (potential or realized) overfishing by increasing the volume of fish needed to offset rising fuel prices. These results support the need for comprehensive fisheries management that produces sustainable fishing and marketing practices and promotes shared management and enforced responsibilities between communities and the state. To be effective, management should prohibit nighttime spearfishing.
- External link to download this item: https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs00338-007-0331-x
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[PAST EVENT] 15-Minute Teaching Workshop
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Join us for 15 minutes to share instructional strategies and questions related to teaching. We will host a 15-minute session every other week to discuss teaching topics from the book Visible Learning and The Science of How We Learn. In our first session, Paul Heideman will facilitate our talk on chapter 10 of the book: "Just what does expertise look like?" Registration is required to receive Zoom link and eBook.
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Formworkers make temporary structures from metal or wood, which are used to mould concrete. Wet cement is poured into the casts and left to set, before being removed to leave shaped pieces, such as beams and staircases, for use in constructions.
You could be:
working from a technical drawing or plan to work out the required materials
precisely measuring and cutting pieces of wood or metal
shaping the pieces as required for the design
building a metal frame or wooden structure, that the concrete gets poured into
positioning the structure and using rods or stakes for support
assisting with the pouring of the concrete into the structure
dismantling and cleaning the structure carefully after the concrete is set so that it can be reused
ensuring that you meet all required standards of health and safety.
The figures below are only a guide. Actual pay rates may vary, depending on:
where you work
the size of the company or organisation you work for
the demand for the job.
There is a minimum wage for apprentices in Scotland. As of June 2022 the Building and Allied Trades Joint Industrial Council (BATJIC) rates for a 2-year apprenticeship based on a 39-hour week are:
Year 1 – £219.87 (£5.64 an hour)
Year 2 – £292.61 (£7.50 an hour).
Please note these rates may vary if the Apprentice is 21 years old or over and has completed the first year of their apprenticeship. National Minimum Wage (NMW) and National Living Wage (NLW) will apply.
Once qualified and with experience the rate can rise to around £19 an hour.
You are based on a construction site, where you work outside in all weathers.
The job involves bending, stretching and some heavy lifting.
You would work around 40 hours a week, sometimes doing overtime in the evenings and at weekends.
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What is Ham Radio? ------- How can you get into Ham Radio?
In it’s simplest form, amateur radio is about communicating with other people via radio frequencies. However, as a hobby, ham radio covers many aspects of communications. Everything from talking across the street with an inexpensive handie talkie (HT) to bouncing signals off of satellites and the moon and all that lies between those two extremes.
In addition, there are contests, fox hunts, social activities, emergency preparedness, and any number of other activities within the hobby. Amateur Radio is a very diverse hobby considering that it’s about communicating via radio waves.
Ask a group of 20 hams why they got into the hobby and you’ll likely get 20 different answers – there’s just so much to do and try. That is probably why most people that get into the hobby do so over their lifetime depending on how young they were when they got their first license. Just like life, interest in ham radio grows and declines depending on a person’s life experience. It’s not uncommon to find ham radio operators just getting back into the hobby after an absence of years or even decades.
These days, one of the most common motivations to get into the hobby is disaster or emergency preparedness. In the event of a major emergency situation, oftentimes, normal communications such as cell phones and the Internet become compromised. It is in these types of situations that ham radio operators are able to set up radios, establish communications with entities outside of the affected area as well as within the affected area, and provide needed essential communications and health and welfare communications. All of this is done by volunteers from within the amateur radio community.
Why should I get into Ham Radio?
The reasons for getting into the hobby are as diverse as the people that are involved. Some people want to help their local community by supporting emergency communications or getting involved helping with local events such as parades and sporting events. Others are more interested in the competitive aspects of contesting and fox hunting, others are intrigued by the satisfaction of exercising their technical skills by building some or all of their own equipment. Whatever the need or desire, there is usually a way to satisfy it by participating in the hobby.
What is HiDARG?
HiDARG is the High Desert Amateur Radio Group – a local non-profit organization dedicated to promoting ham radio and educational outreach to the local community. HiDARG supports other local organizations such as Deschutes County ARES (Amateur Radio Emergency Services), the COARECT group in the LaPine area, and the Region 7 Hospital Preparedness Program(R7HPP) to name just a few. HiDARG supports and maintains a linked repeater system that covers a large part of central and eastern Oregon. The repeater system is used to support member activities and also allows us to provide direct communications support to the R7HPP as well as Deschutes County ARES and the local communities that make up Central Oregon.
History – Central Oregon Radio Amateurs (CORA) was the first local ham radio organization and existed for decades. Two other organizations were birthed by CORA in the late 80’ early 90’s – Central Oregon DX Club(CODXC), and the High Desert Amateur Radio Group(HiDARG). About 8 or 9 years ago, CORA was merged into HiDARG and became part of our history. Initially, HiDARG was called the High Desert Emergency Radio Group (HiDERG), however, when the founders went to apply for non-profit status they were told that having the word “emergency” in their name would prevent the insurance companies from wanting to provide coverage for the group. So the name was changed and it became HiDARG.
How do I get Licensed?
Getting an amateur radio license is easy. These days there are 3 different class licenses you can get: Technician, General, and Extra. The tests were originally administered by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and a small fee is charged. Now the FCC has allowed the ham radio community to administrate the testing process and turn the results over to them to issue the actual license.
Technician is the beginner level license, but don’t let the term beginner throw you. Technicians can communicate worldwide just like the higher class licenses, they just do it a little differently than Generals and Extras.
The General license gives you most of what you would get with an Extra license minus some sections in the band plan that are reserved exclusively for the Extra licenses. The traditional model or understanding of what ham radio is about revolves around the General and Extra licenses access to the HF or High Frequency bands. This activity is what has traditionally defined ham radio for the general public – HF operations. Technicians have limited access to the HF bands but they have full access to everything above 50 MHz or the 6m band.
The highest license class gives you ALL of the access that amateur radio offers in the United States – that is the Extra license. The Extra licensee is considered the most knowledgeable about amateur radio and as a result of that knowledge is granted ALL of the access that is available to ham radio operators including specific sections of the HF band plan that are reserved for Extra's exclusive use. In years past, the Extra licensee also had to demonstrate advanced skill in the use of Morse code to get that coveted license
To get licensed involves taking and passing a multiple choice test for each license class. The Technician license and the General license tests both use a 35 question test, the Extra license test requires 50 questions and each license level requires more knowledge and math. The questions are standardized and there is a pool of questions to draw from for each license.
The process is to contact the local testing authority, determine when the next test session is, study, and take the test. Testing is $15 per session whether you take just one element test or all 3 which would allow you to go from no license to Extra in one testing session. We don’t usually recommend that, but if you have the knowledge and confidence, you are certainly welcome to try and pass all three elements at once. Most people will content themselves with doing one at a time with a delay of weeks, months, or even years in between. The process also used to require a Morse code test for each license class, but over the last 10 years or so the Morse code requirement has been done away with.
How Can HiDARG help?
One of HiDARG’s members (Joe Barry – K7SQ), is responsible for organizing the FCC test sessions locally. Joe has set up a regular test schedule with testing about every 6 weeks or so. Joe can also accommodate testing that doesn’t fit in the schedule if you are unable to attend one of the scheduled test sessions. In addition to helping with the testing, HiDARG is also making resources available to anyone wanting to get licensed. In the past we have offered classes and we are now looking at also offering tutoring sessions, and other options for getting any interested parties licensed in a timely manner. | <urn:uuid:6db75bc0-18b6-4671-86fe-f7ae7fcda565> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hidarg.org/index.php/newsletters/16-public-articles/18-what-is-ham-radio | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.960084 | 1,481 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Hurricane Delta is rapidly strengthening as it heads to Cancun, Mexico. Delta has strengthened into a Category 3 hurricane in the western Caribbean Sea. The Hurricane is forecasted to be a Category 4 hurricane by the time it slams into Cancun. Forecast predict landfall Tuesday night into early Wednesday morning.
Delta is expected to lose intensity after landfall in Mexico. Only to regain strength and head towards the northern U.S. Gulf coast for the weekend.
Delta’s intensification was due to an environment of the highest ocean heat content anywhere in the tropical Atlantic basin, low wind shear and sufficiently moist air, in a region notorious for rapid intensification in October, according to Sam Lillo, a NOAA scientist based in Boulder, Colorado.
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Logical vs. Syntactical Errors in Code
What are Coding Errors?
Coding errors are problems or mistakes in code that prevent the program’s proper execution. These errors can take many forms and can prevent a program from either working as intended or from working at all. Coding errors are unavoidable in coding that programmers of all skill levels and experience levels will run into. Two of the most common types of errors that programmers experience are known as syntactical/syntax errors and logic errors.
Like any of the hundreds of different languages in use around the world, every coding language has its own set of rules that must be followed for its contents to make sense and have meaning. These rules are known as syntax. Unlike how human languages can still accurately convey their message despite grammatical flaws, coding languages have little to no room for errors. A syntax error such as a missing parenthesis or comma usually causes the program to fail to finish parsing or compile and halt in its tracks at the site of the error because it doesn’t know what to do due to the invalid instructions was handed.
Logic errors, like syntax errors, also prevent a program from running in its intended fashion, but a program with a logic error is capable of running until completion. Generally, a program with a logic error creates an incorrect or undesirable output. This is because the code has proper instructions that follow syntax rules, but the programmer supplied it with instructions that do not accomplish the program’s intended purpose. Logical errors can be pretty difficult to detect because there isn’t a specific point of failure in the program that it can see itself. The programmer must scour the code to find the location of the error.
Examples of Coding Errors
Syntax Error Example in Python:
In this example, two variables named num_1 and num_2 are initialized with values of 23 and 4. A sum variable is then initialized with the sum of the previous two numbers, but one variable name is misspelled. This program wouldn’t run to completion because the num variable isn’t defined, and the program does not know what to do with the improper instructions it has been given, so it stops the program and sends to the console a NameError.
Logic Error Example in Python:
The program gets the user’s age by assigning the variable age to input in this example. The age is then evaluated in an if else statement to find if the age is above or below 18. Yet if this code is run, it outputs the opposite of what is intended. Inputting age as 12 results in an output of “You are an adult”, and inputting age as 45 outputs “You are not an adult”. This is due to a logic error on line 2. Instead of checking if the age variable is greater than or equal, it checks if age is less than or equal. By reversing the sign, the program can easily be fixed.
The program above runs to completion because it is devoid of syntax errors; however, it does not output the correct average calculation. In this case, it outputs nine instead of the correct answer, 8. The logic error here is due to the order of mathematical operations, often called PEMDAS. When computing the variable’s value, “average” division happens before addition. Instead of dividing the sum of x and y by 2, it divided y by 2 and then adds x. This logic error can be solved by adding parenthesis around x and y: (x + y) / 2. This signifies that the sum of x and y should be divided.
Common Types of Syntactical and Logic Errors
Common Syntactical Errors
- Misspelling variable or function names.
- Missing or extra brackets/parenthesis/quotation marks.
- Using a variable before it has been declared.
- Incorrect usage of commas when separating different items in a list/array or dictionary/object.
- Using syntax rules for the wrong coding language
- Using = instead of == when checking if two things are equal.
- Doing math with a string that hasn’t been converted to a number.
Common Logic Errors
- Using incorrect operators.
- Using a greater than (>) sign instead of less than (<), or vice versa.
- Using the wrong variable for a calculation.
- Leaving a possibility of having an infinite loop that breaks the program.
- Using the same variable name more than once.
- Doing addition with strings consisting of numbers.
How to Avoid Programming Errors
Because errors are an unavoidable part of coding, finding and correcting them, also known as debugging, is a significant part of the building and upkeep of programs. The first step to avoiding errors starts during the program’s planning process. A programmer can pseudocode the program by identifying the inputs, processes, and outputs the program will be dealing with. Breaking the processes down into steps makes the code much easier to write and less prone to errors.
Additionally, code must be tested as it is being written. Instead of writing a whole program and testing it at the end, test the program every few lines, only to find that it doesn’t work properly or at all. By ensuring that the program is initializing variables and doing the intended math properly as often as possible, programmers can avoid the headache of searching for and correcting multiple errors stacked onto each other. An extension of this is running programs through debuggers or linters occasionally to find syntactical mistakes and track down the root causes of logic errors.
Coding in the global scope, which makes variables available to other programs, can make a program conflict with other programs that share variable or function names, also called name collision. This can produce errors by causing an undesired function or variable to be used and can be avoided by coding in block scope and function scope or checking that there are no identical function or variable names.
Methods of Finding and Correcting Errors
Because syntax errors cause a program to halt in its tracks, the cause of the error is usually returned to the console with a basic explanation of what caused the error.
Syntax errors are easy to solve because the information is handed to the programmer. If a program’s syntax error is a missing colon after a function declaration, the console will return “line 7 SyntaxError: expected ‘:’”. The program can be fixed by checking line 7 and adding a colon after the function declaration. Depending on the situation and type of error, the console entry may not be as specific in telling the cause of the error. However, the console will still return the line and sometimes the character position of the error. One must manually read the code to determine where the fault is in these situations.
A program’s logical errors can be significantly harder to discover. Unlike syntax errors, the console will not tell where things went wrong because the code is working flawlessly from its perspective.
There are many ways of finding logical errors in code. Starting by analyzing the program’s output for clues that would lead to the part of the program that isn’t working as intended is usually the first step. For example, if a program does some arbitrary math with a few variables and finishes by printing a statement of “Your number is ‘NaN’” then one can identify that the value that is being printed isn’t recognized as a number by the program and check to see if the variables are numbers or were mistakenly turned into strings at some point. If the program prints “Your number is: 1” and the output is supposed to be a different number, then that information can be used to identify where the program’s math went wrong manually.
The best method for finding logical errors for smaller programs is to dry run the code. Dry running code is where a programmer manually runs through the program, keeping track of the values of variables along the way until they come across the location of the error or errors.
There also exist tools and software to assist programmers in tracking down logic errors. Many integrated development environments (IDEs) come packaged with a debugger that lets programmers walk through a program step-by-step and automates parts of dry running, such as automatically keeping track of variable values.
If all else fails, the rubber duck method is an option that can help programmers think through code differently. This debugging method is when a programmer talks to an inanimate object such as a rubber duck or teddy bear and explains in detail the problem they’re experiencing and the code’s overall objective, going line-by-line. Verbally describing the problem forces the programmer using this method to think about their program in greater detail, often eventually realizing their mistake.
Additional Types of Coding Errors
A runtime error is a type of error where a successfully compiled, syntactically correct program suddenly terminates while running due to a mistake that is only detected when the program is run. Common types of runtime errors are dividing a number by 0, accessing non-existent indexes of arrays, and inputting non-number characters into an integer variable.
This type of error occurs when a computer’s allotment of resources has been exceeded and will not lend any more resources to a program. This can often be caused by running out of available random-access memory (RAM) or disk space. An infinite loop that creates a new array element every loop cycle would eventually create so many index locations that the computer has no more resources to develop more, causing a termination of the program.
In programming, errors are entirely unavoidable and happen to all skill and experience levels. Though there are many different types of errors that can be broken down into many subcategories, the two most common types are syntax and logical errors. These errors can range from simple typos of variable names to accidental infinite loops or math with words rather than numbers. While these errors become less common with experience, a good programmer should ideally know of several methods to deal with programs that have unknown mistakes in them. Whether utilizing the information, the console returns to them or learning how to use a debugger to track down a program’s logical errors efficiently. | <urn:uuid:ee362fbb-694b-4ef6-b7dd-cd556f385329> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://webdesignseattle.medium.com/logical-vs-syntactical-errors-in-code-31f492247952 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.913271 | 2,282 | 4.03125 | 4 |
Dr. Kornegay is Professor, Departments of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences and Veterinary Pathobiology, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M Institute for Neuroscience; nnd Director, Texas A&M Institute for Preclinical Studies (TIPS).
After receiving his veterinary degree from Texas A&M, Dr. Kornegay spent three years in private practice in Ohio and Texas, followed by six years in residency (neurology and pathology) and graduate (Masters and PhD) training at the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine. Upon completion of this training, he served on the faculty at North Carolina State University for 11 years before moving to the University of Missouri. At Missouri, Dr. Kornegay principally served as an administrator, first as a department chair and later as dean. He moved to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2006 and to his current position at Texas A&M University in 2012. Dr. Kornegay is a diplomate and past president of the neurology specialty of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM) and currently serves as the Chair of ACVIM’s Board of Regents.
Throughout his career as an academic clinician, he had responsibilities in both medical neurology and neurosurgery and also consulted in neuropathology. For the past 30-plus years, Dr. Kornegay has studied a spontaneous canine disease termed golden retriever muscular dystrophy (GRMD), which serves as an animal model for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) of humans. Both conditions are X-linked, occurring due to mutations in the DMD gene. His research has defined key clinical and pathologic features of GRMD to both better understand disease pathogenesis and to also utilize these parameters in assessing treatment efficacy. In recent years, Dr. Kornegay’s laboratory and collaborators have studied various treatments (cell, molecular, and pharmacologic approaches) in affected dogs. Results of these preclinical studies should guide use of similar treatment strategies in DMD patients. | <urn:uuid:26e15db7-063e-4d2f-b244-19144f4c0352> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.solidbio.com/about/solid-team/joe-kornegay-ph-d-consultant | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.954219 | 423 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Critical Illness Insurance In Kitchener
After recovering from any critical illness like stroke, heart attack or cancer you and your family members feel relived but have you ever thought of the other consequences? You have to pay for the medical bills, the visits fees to doctors and along with that continue with normal household expense. At Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge and Guelph there are government medical plans but do they cover all the expenses that you have to bear during any critical illness?
The truth is that a critical illness does not just affect your physical and emotional health but also on your financial situation. The best way to face such contingencies is by getting Critical Illness Kitchener Insurance. Be prepared for any untold harsh story with the help of a good insurance policy.
Features of Critical Illness Insurance
The Critical illness insurance is for those people who are suffering from any critical illness as mentioned below and has survived for 30 days. Different illness that are considered as critical and gets coverage under this insurance are
Coma, Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery, Deafness, Loss of Speech, Major Burns, Major Organ Transplant, Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer, Blindness, Heart Attack, Stroke, Lou Gehrig’s disease, Life Threatening Cancer, Parkinson’s disease, Paralysis, Renal Failure.
The benefit derived from this insurance can also be utilized for meeting other liabilities that you face during the tenure of critical illness.
Also, get to know about Health and Dental Plans Kitchener.
Benefits derived from Critical illness Woodstock insurance
As you get a lump sum amount from this insurance it helps your and your family in a lot of ways. Different benefits that you can derive are
- Helps to meet your financial burden and thus ease you financially.
- It also supports you for maintaining your independence. With the amount you can hire a domestic help, fund for your leave of absence, or improve your mobility by modifying your home or vehicle.
- While you are in Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge and Guelph you get the benefits of paying off your medications bills that are not covered by government health plans.
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When you look for Critical Illness Woodstock insurance plans make sure that you have checked out how you can get the claims. Also ensure that it supports you totally while you are ill.
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Title: A multi-criteria decision model for the selection of professional service innovative organisation
Authors: Gunjan Soni; Kalluri Vinayak; Aditya Tyagi
Addresses: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan-302017, India ' Department of Mechanical Engineering, BML University, 67th KM Stone, NH-8, Dist. Gurgaon, 123413 Haryana, India ' Tata Consulting Engineers Ltd., Jamshedpur, Jharkhand – 831001, India
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate an application of a multi-criteria decision model (MCDM) for the selection of best professional service organisation (PSO) from a number of available alternatives based on service innovation elements. For that purpose, a conceptual model for MCDM has been adopted. Different service innovation elements are classified into critical, objective and subjective factors in the evaluation process and the selection procedure is demonstrated with a hypothetical case. The decision to select a particular professional service organisation is very important when multiple professional service organisations are available. A quantitative basis for comparison and selection of the professional service organisation among a host of alternative professional service organisation could greatly impact on the eventual organisations brand image. Thus, an algorithm - performance value analysis (PVA), for the selection of PSO has been developed from literature. The study expands the scope for managers in selecting the best professional service organisation.
Keywords: service; professional service organisation; PSO; multi-criteria decision model; MCDM; selection; attribute.
International Journal of Services and Operations Management, 2017 Vol.27 No.2, pp.167 - 189
Received: 03 Jul 2015
Accepted: 24 Oct 2015
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Snapchat took the world by a tornado back in 2012. Simply a year after it was introduced, Snapchat flaunted an individual base of 10 million active users. Its fast surge in popularity could be credited to the reality that it changed the method individuals interact, verifying that ephemeral web content fits in the disorderly realm of social applications.
Who would’ve thought that self-destructing content would certainly be a huge hit? Snapchat headed the trend, and many applications have actually given that followed suit. The majority of the preferred messaging apps currently have their own variation of Snapchat Stories. But Snapchat additionally influenced the creation of thousands of face filter applications.
It comes as no surprise that the application closest to Snapchat is Instagram. While it’s best known for being an image and video clip-sharing app, Instagram has introduced lots of attributes that make it the Pocket knife of social networks applications. You can currently access the built-in face filters on Instagram in just a few faucets on your display. These filteringed system images can be shared as Stories or with straight messages.
While you may be seeking apps that aren’t as mainstream as Instagram, it provides you the quickest accessibility to face filters considering that you and your friends are most likely utilizing the application currently.
Facebook kept an eye on Snapchat considering that its creation. The social media sites giant recognized that Snapchat found a new way to captivate individuals as well as keep them involved. And when Snapchat was getting increasingly more preferred, Facebook was obtaining a little bit stale. Facebook used to purchase Snapchat, however when the last declined, Facebook went on to include Snapchat-like attributes in their items, including Instagram and Facebook Carrier.
3D masks, face filters, and also special results came to be primary tourist attractions for Carrier users, and they just got better for many years. They also added the “My Day” feature in 2017, which was relabelled to Facebook Stories a couple of months later on. Similar to Snapchat, this allowed individuals to share ephemeral material.
That does not make use of TikTok nowadays? The growth of TikTok is nothing except astounding, and also it isn’t unusual either. Now, everybody knows how on the internet individuals like watching video clips. TikTok profits from this by creating an application that proves to be the supreme location for consuming and sharing short-form video clips.
It’s easy to believe that TikTok is just for individuals who hop on the latest dance trend, however common people additionally enjoy utilizing the platform to share arbitrary points taking place in their day. It might not be the very best option to Snapchat, however it’s definitely equally as fun to use.
4. Sweet Break
As stated earlier, Snapchat made face filters a thing. And also if you’re just trying to find a face filter application, after that be sure to look into Dessert Break. Over 100 million people use this app, to make sure that need to tell you a lot concerning exactly how excellent the application is.
Pleasant Break makes it less complicated than ever before to take selfies and embellish them with special filters, stickers, and appeal effects. You wouldn’t run out of selections, so be prepared to spend lots of time looking through their countless option of special results and filters. You can even create GIFs if you wish.
When it pertains to charm effects and filters, you can not miss B612. It is among the most preferred applications for taking images and also turning them right into works of art. B612 includes greater than 1,500 unique sticker labels that utilize facial acknowledgment technology, enabling the application to turn your face into an adorable animal or misshape it right into all sizes and shapes. You can also mess around its real-time elegance impacts for that glass-skin skin tone or to locate the excellent face form.
B612 additionally has a ton of filters to choose from. Whether you want filters for your selfies or your landscape shots, you’ll undoubtedly discover something that fits your demands. The app likewise makes it feasible to develop music videos through their collection of exciting tunes.
6. Bigo Live
You may have tried every one of the social networks applications around, yet it seems that every one of them lacks certain features you need. Bigo Live could confirm to be the exemption. Beware since this application seems the following large thing. As its name recommends, Bigo Live is largely tailored towards users who want to live-stream as well as share their daily minutes, abilities, and also passions to the whole globe.
With more than 200 million individuals, Bigo Live is one of the most secondhand live streaming systems right now. This is just one of the most appealing applications like Snapchat, specifically when you discover all of its features. Individuals can go live to share anything they desire, acquire fans, make money, receive gifts, or simply delight in engaging with other individuals. It’s also prominent amongst gamers who intend to show off their abilities.
7. Wickr Me
If you desire an application that resembles Snapchat yet worth privacy, after that you should consider using Wickr Me. It can not complete against the similarity Snapchat, Messenger, and WhatsApp in terms of appeal, but it greater than offsets it with its security attributes. You do not require a telephone number or email address to use the application, and also your contacts aren’t kept on their web servers.
Wickr Me permits individuals to send and also obtain encrypted messages, pictures, as well as videos. If you love the self-vanishing web content that Snapchat made preferred, then you must recognize that this application comes with a shredder function, which irreversibly gets rid of messages, images, as well as video clips. You can also tailor your photos as well as video clips with filters, sticker labels, and also graffiti, though the choices aren’t as comprehensive as those in Snapchat.
8. Marco Polo
Right here’s an additional sleeper worldwide of messaging applications. Marco Polo makes texting as well as video clip calling fun as well as easy while incorporating social aspects to provide an app you ‘d want the rest of your family and friends to use. One of the most effective features of Marco Polo is that they do not sell customer data for marketing objectives. If personal privacy is a top priority for you, after that this app needs to absolutely make it to your must-try checklist.
Marco Polo enables you to send video clip messages which the recipient can view at a later time. Naturally, you can still make routine video clip calls for real-time interaction. Simply keep in mind that the video clip messages do no disappear after 24 hours as they do in Snapchat.
If you’re a fan of AR makeup functions, after that look no further than the SNOW camera application. It’s made use of by over 200 million individuals around the world, thanks to its effective yet easy-to-use functions. SNOW offers you accessibility to countless sticker labels, yet what makes it absolutely unique is its capacity to locate your ideal shot via AR-driven appeal and also makeup results.
The various results allow you to highlight special moments of your day, attempt face-lifts with various make-ups, and also create visually-engaging pictures with its integrated innovative tools. There’s additionally a video clip editing tool to make your videos even more attractive for your social media followers.
10. YouCam Perfect
Need an app to edit your selfies? YouCam Perfect need to be your go-to application. 300 million individuals have actually utilized this electronic camera and also picture modifying app, and also this number remains to expand. YouCam Perfect offers you all of the tools you need to create share-worthy photos. From amusing camera filters and stickers to simple image effects as well as face repair, YouCam Perfect is tough to beat.
Utilizing the different photo editing and enhancing attributes of YouCam Perfect is straightforward. You may have to invest a long time to learn how to utilize each function to its maximum, once you do, you’ll be surprised how easy it is to turn an or else boring picture into something you would certainly really feel ecstatic to share with your fans on social media. There’s an option to upgrade to YouCam Perfect Costs which unlocks a lot more face filters, stickers, as well as improving tools. | <urn:uuid:36ae119f-9b9c-4012-8783-a50d87cbf44b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://techvercity.com/mobile-guides/apps-like-snapchat/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.952873 | 1,746 | 1.8125 | 2 |
David B. D'Ambrosio, Joel Lehman, Sebastian Risi, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2011)
Task Switching in Multiagent Learning through Indirect Encoding
In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2011, San Francisco, CA). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE (8 pages).
Note: This article is accompanied by a demonstration video at http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/patrolling.html
Multirobot domains are a challenge for learning algorithms because they require robots to learn to cooperate to achieve a common goal. The challenge only becomes greater when robots must perform heterogeneous tasks to reach that goal. Multiagent HyperNEAT is a neuroevolutionary method (i.e. a method that evolves neural networks) that has proven successful in several cooperative multiagent domains by exploiting the concept of policy geometry, which means the policies of team members are learned as a function of how they relate to each other based on canonical starting positions. This paper extends the multiagent HyperNEAT algorithm by introducing situational policy geometry, which allows each agent to encode multiple policies that can be switched depending on the agent’s state. This concept is demonstrated both in simulation and in real Khepera III robots in a patrol and return task, where robots must cooperate to cover an area and return home when called. Robot teams that are trained with situational policy geometry are compared to teams that are not and shown to find solutions more consistently that are also able to transfer to the real world. | <urn:uuid:3fed2de6-73e9-47f9-ba9b-035b2238da15> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/publications/2011/106-dambrosio-iros11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.927524 | 319 | 1.867188 | 2 |
Can you eat fried seafood when pregnant?
When you are pregnant, aim to eat a variety of cooked seafood 2-3 times each week. Eating seafood during pregnancy is a good way to get the nutrients you and your baby need. Seafood is one of the only foods rich in a healthy oil called omega-3 DHA.
What does shrimp do to a pregnant woman?
Eating Shrimp During Pregnancy
Cooked shrimp is a nutritious protein to consume during pregnancy. It is rich in vitamin B2 and B12 which are important for overall health while pregnant. 1 It also contains DHA, an omega-3 fat that is important to both the pregnant parent’s health as well as the health of the baby.
Can you have cooked shrimp when pregnant?
Yes, shrimp is safe to consume in pregnancy
According to Schaffir, there is not a hard limit for how much shrimp you can eat, as long as the shrimp is fully cooked. Shrimp is actually one of the safest seafood options for pregnant women, since they have low mercury content compared to other types of seafood.
Can I eat fried food while pregnant?
Here’s Why Women Should Avoid Fried Food Before Pregnancy
So much for those burger-and-fries cravings. A new study published in Diabetologia found that women who eat more fried food before conceiving are at greater risk for developing gestational diabetes—the kind that starts or is first noticed during pregnancy.
Can I have lobster while pregnant?
Seafood is a great source of protein and omega-3 fatty acids, which are good for your heart. But if you’re pregnant, you’ve probably heard that you should avoid some types of sushi and seafood. The good news is that most types of seafood, including crab and lobster, are safe to eat while you’re pregnant.
Are you allowed prawns when pregnant?
Yes, as long as they’ve been thoroughly cooked, prawns are safe to eat during pregnancy3. Prawns turn from grey to pinky-red when they have been cooked, so this is how you can tell whether they are safe to eat.
Can pregnant eat prawns?
You can also eat prawns and other shellfish when pregnant if they are fully cooked. Sushi is fine to eat, just make sure the filling is safely prepared. For example, if you’re sure the fish was frozen beforehand, it’s fine to eat sushi filled with raw or lightly cooked fish.
Can you have shrimp tempura roll while pregnant?
The good news? There are plenty of sushi alternatives you can eat while pregnant, like vegetarian sushi or sushi rolls made with cooked fish or seafood, like shrimp tempura.
Can I eat shrimp cooked in lemon while pregnant?
You may have read or heard somewhere that the lime or lemon juice in ceviche “cooks” the fish and makes it safe. This is not true. The fish in ceviche is uncooked. Raw fish can lead to food poisoning and pregnant women are much more likely to get sick than anyone else. | <urn:uuid:2054e980-a81c-4d19-ab2e-b7f7b890e0ed> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://healthyjoyfulparenting.com/newborn/frequent-question-is-fried-shrimp-okay-during-pregnancy.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.968732 | 652 | 1.875 | 2 |
简要描述：The Bronze Chariots and Horses of Emperor Qin Shihuangs Mausoleum秦始皇陵铜车马In December 1980,two sets of large painted bronze chariots and horses were unearthed 20 meters west of the mount of Emperor Qin Shihuangs Mausoleum. They were listed a...
The Bronze Chariots and Horses of Emperor Qin Shihuangs Mausoleum秦始皇陵铜车马In December 1980,two sets of large painted bronze chariots and horses were unearthed 20 meters west of the mount of Emperor Qin Shihuangs Mausoleum. They were listed as No. 1 and No. 2 respectively according to their discovery. They were then enclosed in a wooden coffin and buried in a pit seven meters deep. When excavated, the chariots and horses were seriously damaged due to the decayed wooden coffin and the collapse of earthen layers. No. 2 bronze chariot and horses were found broken int0 1,555 pieces when excavated .After two and a half years of careful and painstaking restoration by archaeologists and other experts, they were formally open to the public on October l, 1983. No. 1 bronze chariot and horses were also open to the public in 1988. The bronze chariots drawn by four horses, with a single shaft, were placed one before the other vertically. The front chariot, i. e. No. 1 Chariot, was supposed to be High Chariot in the ancient time. The back chariot, i. e. No. 2 Chariot, was named Security Chariot. It has a front room and a rear room, between which there is a partition. The front room is for the charioteer and the rear one for the master. In the rear compartment, there is a window on either side of the carriage as well as in the front with a door at the back. The windows and doors could close and open easily. The small holes on the windows were used for ventilation. On top of the chariot, there was an elliptical umbrella-like canopy. The chariot was colour-painted against a white background. No. 2 Chariot was fitted with more than l,500 pieces of silver and gold and other ornaments, looking luxurious, splendid and graceful. Probably it was used for Emperor Qin Shihuangs soul to go out on inspection. No.1 Chariot was equipped with crossbows, arrow heads, shields and the charioteer wore a hat, which shows that this chariot was employed to protect the No. 2 Chariot be- hind. The bronze chariots and horses were the earliest and most exquisitely made bronze valuables. They enjoy the highest class and have the most complete harnessing wares. They are also the largest bronze ware discovered in the history of world archaeology. The excavation of the bronze chariots and horses provides extremely valuable material and data for the textual research of the metallurgical technique, mechanism of chariots and technological modeling of the Qin Dynasty.1980年12月在秦始皇陵西侧20米处，考古发掘出了两乘大型彩绘铜车马，按照找到的顺序，被编入一号和二号铜车马。当时均被挖出在7米浅的坑里，外面用一个木椁装有着。发掘出时，因木椁腐化，土层坍塌，两辆铜车马都破败相当严重，其中二号铜车马已碎成1555片，经过考古工作者和各方面专家两年半细心艰难的修缮，二号铜车马于1983年10月1日月对外展览，一号铜车马也于1988年月展览。
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Your Customers Are Talking. Are You Listening?
Customer research can be yours for the asking, if you're willing to pay attention.
While marketing tools and technologies have evolved, one golden rule of marketing has not: Brand loyalty and reputation are still based on the quality of the customer experience. And there's no better source to tell us how we're doing than the customers themselves.
What has changed are the many ways customers can tell us -- and one another -- what they think of our products and services. Customers who readily use social media -- sometimes called "social consumers" -- are gleefully sharing their experiences and airing their views, louder than ever. They are blunt and up-front, posting raving thumbs-ups and scathing thumbs-downs on multiple channels.
Whether on social media, consumer review sites, directories and retail sites, customers are likely talking (or squawking) somewhere about your business. Are you listening? The following four steps can help you engage your customers more effectively.
1. Learn where you stand.
Gain a sense of what's already being said about your business online now. Start searching.
- Comb the Internet. Do a web search of your business name plus the word "reviews."
- Check consumer review sites like Yelp, YellowPages.com, Insider Pages and Angie's List, and other service and retail sites that might list your business, such as Open Table, Merchant.com and Groupon.
- Explore directory and mapping sites like Yahoo Local, Bing Local, Google Places, Citysearch, and Local.com for your business name and reviews.
2. Get people talking.
If there isn't much buzz about your business yet, stir up some. Engage customers in a two-way conversation by asking for their opinion.
- Ask customers to review your company on the sites that matter in your industry.
- Request feedback in your email newsletter and across various social media.
- Start, monitor and participate in conversations about your business or a related topic on Twitter.
- Find out what's on your fans' minds by using Facebook's Questions feature.
- Survey and poll customers to learn what your company does well and where it falls short, as well as anything else on their minds.
- Solicit feedback at the close of sales and client projects. Place links with a phrase like "Tell us what you think" on your website and in e-mail newsletter so customers can offer their opinion at any time.
Remember: Phone and in-person contact still matter. Pay attention to what customers and others tell you when you speak to them by phone, in your store, or at the office and events.
3. Actively monitor and listen.
Entrepreneurs who care what their customers think make listening part of their marketing. Ask for consumer opinion and feedback while also tracking everyday conversations about your business:
- Monitor mentions of your brand on Twitter using Twitter's search tool.
- Stay on top of comments, questions, and other consumer posts on your Facebook page's wall. Use Facebook search to find other pages with mentions of y our brand.
- Set up search queries related to your business on Google Alerts or Social Mention and receive the results by email.
- View all the social media activity concerning your company via a web-based dashboard like HootSuite or an email tool like NutshellMail.
4. Respond to feedback.
They've talked. You've listened. Use that customer feedback to take action:
- Make improvements and adjustments to your business.
- Introduce new products or services.
- Identify niche audiences.
Then be sure to communicate to customers what you're doing with their feedback.
- Share those stories across media channels, with links on Twitter to your Facebook page, blog, website, and email newsletter's sign-up page.
- Recruit your company's most enthusiastic fans to be in customer testimonials, so their story becomes part of your story -- in video, web and print media.
- Thank individuals who go out of their way to give you feedback, even if it is hard to hear.
While you can't control everything consumers say about your business, you can control the quality of your products and services -- and the customer experience. Be open to the comments offered by clients, wherever you engage them. Successful businesses walk the walk and listen to the talk.
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In mid-July, a cyberattack on the Albanian government knocked out state websites and public services for hours. With Russia’s war raging in Ukraine, the Kremlin might seem like the likeliest suspect. But research published on Thursday by the threat intelligence firm Mandiant attributes the attack to Iran. And while Tehran’s espionage operations and digital meddling have shown up all over the world, Mandiant researchers say that a disruptive attack from Iran on a NATO member is a noteworthy escalation.
The digital attacks targeting Albania on July 17 came ahead of the “World
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4th grade science venture ideas are pretty easy to do and might be a number of fun for the category. It’s OK to let youngsters know that scientists do not know all the things about how the world works, and that there are some scientific questions that also should be answered. 2: Science has modified the individuals and their residing, life type, meals habits, sleeping preparations, earning strategies, the best way of communication between people and leisure actions.
Science fair tasks are a lot like a thriller where you are the detective on the lookout for the solutions to your question. To understand the that means of empirical, you should perceive the scientific method and be capable to examine empirical knowledge, or empirical knowledge, to another to theoretical knowledge or theoretical data.
Many successful in this world who’ve performed nice contributions to science and humanities have been really inspired by it they usually felt fun at any time when they studied it. A person who finds fun when studying science is the person who will really find himself profitable in it. These days students find science as a boring topic especially maths.
Science in autofellating relies on the data of the human body and what it takes to encourage it to permit the autofellationist to perform this act. On this straightforward elementary science projects we are going to see how substances change and then we’re going to reverse the bodily changes.
The youngsters clarify their fourth grade science honest projects, while the others watch these projects and be taught. For other scientists, when validity is compromised in some experiments or science tasks, it sends a destructive signal that they were not critical about their mission. | <urn:uuid:0c5e632c-0472-404f-8b7c-c1f3f6ab2057> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://microsoft-certification-test.com/science-education-centre.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.953914 | 330 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Jessica McGregor Johnson explains why going with the flow makes life so much easier – and more exciting!
Switzerland, being landlocked, makes the most of its lakes and rivers. Everyday, past our office in Zurich, people are either in little boats, floats or simply swimming downstream. It is one of the most fun things to swim in the river and be taken by the current – it is also a lesson in letting go.
Last year I went with some friends on a three-hour river float. Up until that weekend I had only ever swum in the lake or the river, never done a long float, and this river was a fast-flowing river – and it had rapids! (not as in white water rafting rapids I hasten to add!) As we turned the first corner there was the white water churned up by the rocks below and for a moment I felt a frisson of fear. But we were moving so fast I did not have time to do anything but go with the flow and relax and let the river take me through.
As we went downstream the front floater would point out hidden rocks and we would navigate our way around them and we continued like this for three hours. It was such fun, and taught me a lot about going with the flow and letting go.
Almost everyone I speak with experiences some kind of challenge around letting go. Letting go of expectation, letting go of outcomes, letting go of an image of themselves, letting go of doing things in a certain way or like myself, letting go of being the doer. So, as I contemplated my float down the river I began to see that it had some valuable lessons about letting go.
1. There is simply no point in paddling upstream, fighting with ‘what is’. It gets us nowhere and is simply exhausting. Instead save your energy for when you need it.
For example when we were approaching the rapids we needed to position ourselves, that was the time to expend our energy and give ourselves the best possible ride through the rapids. However even in that situation there was a letting go too, once we had done all that we could we had to simply let the river do the rest. How often in life do we try to over control the outcome rather than trust that all the effort we have put in has positioned us in the best possible place?
2. It was useful to have a front-runner – the first one of our group pointed out any rocks under the surface so we could navigate our way safely down the river. This ‘front runner’ changed and we all played that role for each other. It made our journey so much easier and showed how important it is to have others on the journey of life with you. Sometimes you will be the one supporting the group and other times you will be supported. Do you need to identify your front runner? Who would you like it to be?
3. Don’t try to hold onto the side and stop the flow – you won’t be able to and even if you do catch a branch it will probably hurt you. Before you get into the river it looks scary as it is flowing so fast. However, once you are in it you are travelling at the same pace as the river and so you can relax and enjoy the ride. Even in the rapids we learnt that they might look like a rough ride but in fact they were fun to go through. Things are not always what they look like.
Whatever is happening in your life if you try to hold onto the side it will hurt, so instead trust yourself and the river and go with it. When you do that you become one with life and you will navigate it with so much more ease. It is only the ego which wants to grab back control – the inner you, that part of you that is unchanging, loves being in the flow of life, so tap into that part of you and enjoy the ride. | <urn:uuid:9e7c5ff3-4aae-4737-9372-9677a05bd1cb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://executivesupportmagazine.com/tales-from-the-river/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.982654 | 812 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Getting a Degree, Masters or Ph.D isn’t easy. But for a lot of us, it’s not just about hitting the books; it’s about getting the cash to pay off our tuition fees, rent, books, living expenses…
We all have different situations. That’s why we’ve compiled this list of the different ways campaigners on Skolafund.com pay for their studies – take a look and see which one you are.
1. Help From Parents
Our parents all want the best for us – which is why these results from HSBC’s Foundations for the Future study are not surprising.
All of the parents in the study considered university education for their child. At the same time, almost 7 out of every 10 parents admitted that paying for their children’s education “makes it difficult to keep up with other financial commitments” like planning for their own retirement, paying the household bills and fulfilling rent payments. This gets even harder in unfortunate cases, such as deaths, sickness or sudden unemployment in the family.
Our parents might never ask for anything in return, but we will always owe so much to them.
2. Our Own Income/Savings
Some of us take gap years to earn some savings. Others work part-time in between classes or on the weekends. Another group run their own business, whether online or offline. Taking responsibility to pay for your own university studies is something we respect greatly, but it definitely is extremely tough.
Juggling assignments, mid-terms, presentations and practicals is already difficult for most of us, but spending your free time giving tuition and running an online hijab buisness at the same time?
Add to that students with stellar achievements like leading fundraising events and winning national competitions in International Humanitarian Law and all we can say is respect, bro.
The truth is that there are many loans available out there in Malaysia: from PTPTN, Skim Pinjaman Pelajaran MARA, KOJADI Education Loan Schemes and MIED Study Loans. (For a really good summary of the above four loans, check out this article by our friends over at afterschool.my!) Alternatively, various banks like OCBC and Maybank also offer loans.
While many may benefit from taking these loans, a large number of us either 1) do not qualify, 2) do not get enough to cover all our expenses or 3) are unable to pay our debts. Loan policies might change suddenly, leaving those who no longer qualify at risk of being forced to give up on their dreams. The burden of debt is also painful – as shown in the 2016 report of more than RM5 Billion of unpaid debt from those who had graduated, but still owed money to PTPTN. That’s more than 120 THOUSAND brand new Myvis.
Loans are definitely one way to pay off your university fees, and 6 out of 10 parents surveyed are willing to do so for their children. Just make sure you know what you’re getting into.
4. Scholarships or Financial Assistance
These are lifesavers for many of us; you get funds but usually don’t have to pay it back! These are also based entirely on need or merit. Often, universities offer various schemes to support deserving students by sponsoring a % of their fees and/or providing allowances for accommodation, books, laptops or other expenses.
Not sure if you qualify? The easiest way is to visit your Finance Office and simply ask. For example, Sunway University offers scholarships for their own students. You can also check out the scholarship portal MalaysiaScholarships.my. It never hurts to try!
Bonus Recommendation: do you want to set up your very own scholarship? Make sure you keep your eyes on this awesome blog you’re reading right now because we’ll be telling you how to do so very soon.
Finally, many of us have also been able to fund our studies… through the crowd! Even before crowdfunding platforms existed, some students whose stories were highlighted through the media or went viral have managed to pay for their education with the kind donations of hundreds, if not thousands of kind people out there. The latest example is of Farah Marcella Bandie, whose story made the whole of Malaysia shed tears.
Farah raised RM8,000 in a few days – that’s the power of emotional stories, generous Malaysians and the Internet. Crowdfunding is a way for you to have the same impact, whether you are looking to fund your own studies, or help out a fellow student with even RM1 of your spare change. If you’re considering crowdfunding to pay for your university education, check out the platform we’ve built that does just that!
When your education was paid for by a group of generous donors, you’ll definitely feel motivated to work hard and contribute back to the society. There’s more kindness out there than we think.
So which one are you?
How are you paying for your university education? What tips and tricks can you share for all of us students out there? If you’ve graduated, what are some of the memories that you had of #hustling to fund your studies?
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Switzerland is a haven for internet piracy, the Obama Administration's global trade rep says. The European nation famous for Swiss Alps, Swiss Cheese, Fondue, and being a long-term U.S. political ally since WWII is now on America's annual intellectual property shitlist.
"The Office of the United States Trade Representative [USTR] has published its annual Special 301 Report calling out other nations for failing to live up to U.S. IP enforcement standards," reports Andy at TorrentFreak. "This year, European ally Switzerland has been placed on the Watch List for protecting file-sharers and playing host to many pirate sites."
The yearly report highlights countries around the world which, says the USTR, aren't doing enough to protect the intellectual property rights of American companies.
China, Russia, India and Ukraine are on the Priority List again this year. But just like when USTR added U.S. ally Canada a few years ago, there's another friendly nation on the list this year: Switzerland.
"Generally speaking, Switzerland broadly provides high-levels of IPR protection and enforcement in its territory. Switzerland makes important contributions to promoting such protection and enforcement internationally, including in bilateral and multilateral contexts, which are welcomed by the United States," reads the 2016 USTR assessment.
"However, the decision to place Switzerland on the Watch List this year is premised on U.S. concerns regarding specific difficulties in Switzerland's system of online copyright protection and enforcement."
Snip from torrentfreak's report:
Although the USTR doesn't go into much detail, the key problem that the United States has with Switzerland surrounds the so-called 'Logistep Decision'. Anti-piracy outfit Logistep built a reputation in the latter half of the last decade for providing tracking services for copyright trolls operating in Europe and the UK. However, things didn't go entirely to plan.
In 2010 following several years of legal action, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court ordered Logistep to stop harvesting the IP addresses of file-sharers. The Court ruled that IP addresses amount to private data, a decision that effectively outlawed the tracking of file-sharers in privacy-conscious Switzerland.
And by the way, Canada didn't do enough in 2015 to get back into the US Trade Rep's favor. They're still on the USTR's intellectual property shitlist this year, too.
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Moksha is beyond time, beyond space. It means cutting the umbilical cord that connects a person to samsara (material world). Mere death is not moksha; the body perishes but the jiva (soul) is reborn in a new body. For a Jain, attaining moksha is to escape the constant cycle of birth and death, for eternity. Hence, Jainism is also known as mokshamarga (path to liberation).
The quest for moksha is a journey in the metaphysical sense, but it can also be undertaken within a sacred geography. Such journeys of spiritual enlightenment are called tirtha-yatra (journey to a sacred space). A place becomes a tirtha-sthan (sacred space) because of its connection with a jina or tirthankara (Jain ford maker) who may have been born, given sermons or attained moksha at such a place. The physical rigour of a tirtha-yatra is a qualification in the pursuit of moksha, as much as spiritual devotion and earning karmic merit is. Sadhus and yatris (pilgrims) undertake tirtha-yatras throughout the Indian subcontinent, often in remote places and difficult terrains such as mountains. However, tirtha-yatras are not mandatory in Jainism and not all Jains perform them.
One of the major Jain tirtha-yatras (pilgrimages) in Gujarat is the Navanu Yatra (99 yatras), undertaken from Palitana in Bhavnagar district. From Palitana, yatris ascend Shatrunjaya Hill (altitude 580 m), considered to be tirthadhiraja (the king of all yatras), whose summit has hundreds of temples built over several centuries. The objective of the Navanu Yatra is to ascend Shatrunjaya 99 times, hence the name navanu, which is a re-enactment of the number of times Adinatha (the first Jain tirthankara) is believed to have ascended the hill. Jains believe, 23 out of 24 tirthankaras attained moksha on Shatrunjaya Hill, on the summit of which under a banyan tree, Adinatha (locally known as Dada Adishvara) is believed to have given his first sermon. Because of this association, the cynosure of Navanu Yatra is the Adishvara temple (popularly called Dadanu Derashar), where the yatra culminates. Along the way, the yatra not only re-enacts the experience of previous tirthankaras but the Shatrunjaya Hill itself is venerated, as the mountain is considered shashvat (eternal and indestructible).
The Navanu Yatra can be undertaken any time of the year, except the four rainy months, called chaturmas, as it is a time of rest and discourse, when all movement is restricted to avoid killing microscopic lifeforms residing in waterbodies. The direct route starts from Jay Taleti (foothill) and covers a distance of 3.5 km uphill. Yatris climb 3,750 stairs to reach the top, then descend, and repeat the process two to three times each day, in order to finish the task within 45 days. If done with intervals, the yatra may take two to three months to complete. Apart from the 99 yatras prescribed by Jainism, yatris usually perform nine more journeys to the top, making it a total of 108 yatras; however, there is no restriction on the number of yatras that can be undertaken and many continue well beyond that figure. In addition, yatris are expected to trek six alternative routes, which cover other remote parts of the Shatrunjaya mountain range and take longer to complete.
I first visited Shatrunjaya with my family when I was 14. I remember seeing sadhus undertake this yatra, wearing white robes and walking barefoot. I was fascinated by the energy of the yatras and returned to shoot the yatra after 14 years, in 2018–19. This time, I stayed with yatris at Rajendra Bhawan, one of the many dharamshalas in Palitana. As a solo yatri, I was an exception, as in usual cases yatris visit in large groups, organised and sponsored by a sanghapati (wealthy patron of the community), whose duty is to bear the expenses of all participants.
Literally, shatrunjaya means ‘which conquers enemies’, an allusion to the conquest of the ego. This is why yatris must abandon the comfort of urban life and live the mendicant life of ascetics, before and during the yatra. They must abandon all material comforts and sleep on the floor, and avoid entertainment and all mechanised means of transportation. The food intake of the yatris is limited to once a day, usually in the evening, after they return from Shatrunjaya Hill. The food served is a basic Jain meal (a strictly vegetarian meal which excludes root vegetables like potato, onion and garlic), specially prepared for the yatris. All yatris must live a chaste life and abstain from sexual thoughts or mixing with persons from the opposite gender. All yatris are supervised by at least one acharya and his disciples, who belong to the ascetic branch affiliated with the respective local community. The acharya conducts pratikramana (introspection) ritual twice a day, once early morning and in the evening after yatris return from the yatra.
Traditionally, yatris commence first of the 108 yatras on the poornima (full moon day) of the month of Kartik (October–November of the Gregorian calendar). Yatris leave hours before sunrise as an early morning start makes the climb easier. I used to wake up at 4:30 am to start the daily yatra. Photography is not allowed and I had to hide my camera under my shawl. Being a Jain myself, it was easy to understand the rituals and interact with other yatris. Eventually, I familiarised with the yatris and they allowed me to take their photographs.
Performing the yatra is exhausting, particularly after sunrise, when the ground gets very hot. Walking barefoot can cut the skin and lead to blisters on the feet, adding to the suffering. The arid vegetation offers little shade and all yatris must observe strict rules when it comes to drinking water. They must abstain from drinking water until they have completed at least one yatra and can drink only boiled water, which is provided from water kiosks at regular intervals. If they perform more yatras on the same day, they may only drink water two more times before returning to their hostel. The yatra gets even more strenuous as yatris are also supposed to abstain from all food and drink for at least two consecutive days, called chhath. Chhath is a complete fast, and must be undertaken without halting their daily yatras. To overcome dehydration, yatris put a wet cloth on their head, wipe themselves with wet towels, and splash water on their faces. Some of the exhausted yatris hire locals who help them by pulling or pushing them along the way. During this difficult period, the reciprocal support between the yatris and their constant verbal encouragement to one another form an enduring experience of the yatra. On the route to Adishvara temple, yatris halt to perform obligatory rituals at five sacred sites. During the yatra, many yatris experience a ‘vision’ of Dada Adishvara and credit him for the successful completion of the task.
Because Navanu yatris arrive in batches and their stay is sponsored by a patron, they also leave together, at a designated time, which is about 45 days to two months after the arrival. The last yatra is marked by special observances: yatris collectively perform giri-puja,cleaning and worshiping every single of the 3,750 steps of the main route to the Adishvara temple. This is done as prayaschit (penance) in order to ask for forgiveness for any ashatna (ritual fault) which a yatri might have committed by accidentally trespassing the rules and regulations while performing the yatras.
For yatris, who successfully complete the yatra, the suffering is a positive and transformative experience. It is said that if one dies on Mt Shatrunjaya, they will surely attain moksha and get out of the cycle of life and death. Moksha though is a philosophical concept with inherent subjective interpretations. Through my work, I intend to find answers to questions related to personal interpretations of moksha and the various paths leading to it. | <urn:uuid:33505f77-be86-4156-bab8-e97b825cb66d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sahapedia.org/journey-moksha-navanu-yatra-shatrunjaya-hill | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.955197 | 1,902 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Connected Workpapers allow two-way referencing between the Index Page and your Excel worksheets.
- A 'Reconciliation Field' is added to a cell in an individual worksheet that allows the Index Page to reconcile to that field (generally a closing balance or a summed total amount).
- A 'Reference Formula' is added to a cell in an individual worksheet and imports the value from the Index Page into that worksheet.
Adding a reconciliation field
To add a reconciliation field, go to the Workpapers tab in the Excel ribbon in the worksheet you want to add the reconciliation field to. Select the relevant cell and click on the Add Reconciliation Field button.
A dialogue will appear. Enter a name for this reconciliation field and click OK. Return to the Index, and on the row of the relevant worksheet click in the Reconcile To column. A dropdown menu will appear. Select the reconciliation field created for this worksheet.
Once selected, Reportance will compare the balance of the account to the value of the reconciliation field. If the values disagree, the Go to workpaper button (in the Links column) will go red in colour. If the balances agree, the button will go green in colour.
Note: You can add multiple reconciliation fields to the one worksheet.
Adding a reference formula
Normally, in an excel workpaper you could simply create a formula and reference a value in the Index (by using the = function). However, this formula will break when you reload the Index. This is because the reload function strips and recreates the entire trial balance in the Index, which in turn destroys any references. To overcome this, you will need to create a reference formula.
To add a reference formula, go to the Index and select the relevant cell to be referenced (e.g. the balance of an account). Then navigate to the Workpapers tab in the Excel ribbon and click on the Add Reference Formula button. A dialogue will appear alerting you to the fact that the reference formula has been copied, select OK.
Navigate to the relevant worksheet and specific cell that you would like the value to link to, and right-click Paste (or Ctrl-V) to paste the newly created formula into that cell.
This formula (a v-lookup) will continue to reference the correct value on the Index Page even after a trial balance refresh.
Note: A new reference formula needs to be created for every cell you wish to reference.
Go to source
Various worksheets allow you to inspect a balance calculation or go directly to the source worksheet. This allows you to identify the origin of a figure from another worksheet easily.
To use this function, click on the blue arrow located next to the figure in a worksheet.
Depending on the balance, there may a number of worksheets linked making up the resultant balance:
- No worksheets: If no worksheet has been inserted into the file which the amount relies on, a blank popup box will appear.
- One worksheet: If there is just one worksheet in relation to the amount, clicking on the arrow will take you to the amount and show you which worksheet the amount originated from.
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California show explores Warhol’s social, tech foreshadowing
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Before Instagram and Facebook, before selfies and filters that perfect selfies, there was Andy Warhol, using his art to imbue friends, family, celebrities — even himself — with a certain mystique.
A retrospective of Warhol’s work on display in San Francisco captures the artist’s ability to use paintings, drawings, photographs and other mediums to create buzz-worthy personas the way people do now using social media.
The idea of personal branding, “of how we can be who we want to be,” was something Warhol was trading on more than a half-century ago, said Donna De Salvo, deputy director for international initiatives and senior curator at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art, where the exhibit originated . “He had a real understanding of something about American culture, which is now more global.”
“Andy Warhol — From A to B and Back Again” opened this week at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and runs through Sept. 2. It includes more than 300 works spanning Warhol’s 40-year career.
The show features some of the artist’s most iconic creations — depictions of Campbell’s soup cans and Brillo boxes, for instance, and silkscreen portraits of Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and others — along with lesser-known pieces from his early and later years. It next travels to the Art Institute of Chicago.
“Warhol is constantly labeled a pop artist, but all that happened within three or four years, and then he moved on and the work goes quite dark and explores questions of gender and sexual identity, fame, subcultures,” said Gary Garrels, Elise S. Haas senior curator of painting and sculpture for the San Francisco museum.
The show’s title comes from Warhol’s 1975 memoir in which he touches on key themes from his work, such as celebrity, money and love. The artist died in 1987 at age 58.
De Salvo said the San Francisco museum’s team “really enlightened me in terms of thinking about Warhol through the lens of social media.”
It’s a common thread throughout the show.
“When you see some of the rooms, particularly the portraits, we really conceptualized it in a way of thinking about Facebook,” she said.
Warhol’s understanding of the power of images to create identity and aura can be traced to his early years, after he moved to New York in 1949 and got a job as a commercial illustrator. He did work for publications such as Mademoiselle and Glamour magazine.
“That idea of marketing and all the things we take for granted was just something Warhol was immersed in,” De Salvo said. “And he was just such a sponge in his capacity to absorb things.”
In 1963, he was commissioned to do his first portrait, of modern-art collector Ethel Redner Scull.
The artist took Scull to a photo booth in New York, gave her a stack of coins and said, “Pose,” Garrels said. She took 300 pictures, looking playful, pensive and everything in between.
“From that, he makes this painting,” De Salvo said: “Ethel Scull 36 Times,” a brightly colored montage of images that anticipated modern-day selfies and Instagram posts.
“You feel each moment,” De Salvo said. “I think it’s really one of Warhol’s great commissioned portraits.”
Warhol went on to do hundreds of portraits. They provide a window into his social network, which included friends, family members, lovers, musicians, actors, athletes and world leaders.
De Salvo also notes the “multiplicity of images” in Warhol’s work.
“This is where he’s such a genius of permutation — that he could create so many iterations of an image in an analog way, where now there’s a software program to do that,” she said. “There’s so many different ways. There’s a ‘Warholizer.’ He so anticipated what technology would bring about.” | <urn:uuid:606aac4a-c2e2-4237-81aa-b11258d38001> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://apnews.com/870c0360e19c482faf8b1a482e548d8a | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.955756 | 933 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Active European Citizen (AEKS) is a non-profit organisation based in Finland in December 2015. The aim of AEKS is to encourage active and democratic participation of European citizens, by developing and promoting opportunities for societal and intercultural engagement and volunteering among the European citizens as well as to contribute to the policy making at EU level.
AEKS aims in particular to promote active European cooperation in welfare services, education, culture and other fields of relevance to the European civil society. AEKS works in cooperation with European partners by encouraging in European project activities, organizing events for exchange and discussion as well as engaging in research and publishing activities pertinent to the development of the European civil society.
AEKS vision is to actively promote European cooperation in welfare services, education, culture and other fields and to engage citizens and communities to build up a modern European civil society.
AEKS aims to achieve the vision with the following activities:
- Engaging in European and international projects
- Organizing events for exchange and discussion
- Conducting research, information and publishing activities
- Networking and collaborating with other organisations to develop the European civil society.
AEKS welcomes members to engage in its activities to build up a modern European society. The membership consists of individual persons and organizations.
- Individual 10 €
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Calibration should be performed at least once every 6 months and whenever any of the following occur:
- A complete change of reagents for a procedure is introduced, unless the laboratory can demonstrate that changing reagent lot numbers does not affect the range used to report patient test results, and control values are not adversely affected by reagent lot number changes.
- There is a major preventive maintenance or replacement of critical parts that may influence test performance.
- Control material reflect an unusual trend or shift, or are outside of the laboratory’s acceptable limits, and other means of assessing and correcting unacceptable control values fail to identify and correct the problem.
- The laboratory’s established schedule for verifying the reportable range for patient test results requires more frequent calibration verification.
- Good laboratory practice includes the assaying controls at regular intervals. Depending on the laboratory’s SOP, one each of the high and low control may be used per run. The two-level GlycoMark Controls (“Low” and “High”) are recommended.
- Users should also follow applicable Federal, state, and local requirements for quality control testing.
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||5 mL x 3 vials
||2 mL x 6 vials (3 high and 3 low controls)
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Bouquet holder with gilded brass and mirror vase and bone handle. The vase of the bouquet holder is designed with four eighteenth-century style panels, each of which contains a small oval mirror. Sometimes called flirting mirrors, allowed the lady to check her face or spy on what was happening behind her. The mirrors are surrounded by elaborate ‘S' and ‘C' scrolls in gilded brass. The top of the vase incorporates an open design of feather-like motifs and is punctuated with a feather atop each mirror that extends above the lip. A clip on one of the vase panels suggest that this bouquet holder may have been attached to the user's dress. The vase connects to the handle at an ornately decorated bulbous neck band made from two stampings. A flat "O"-shaped ladder chain ending connecting to a floral pin is connected to the base. The pin is meant to be inserted into the vase through a small hole and by piercing the stems of the bouquet would secure the flowers in the holder. The straight handle is made of carved bone. A series of small openings with glass insets are deeply cut into the shaft. The bottom-most opening contains a small likeness of Narragansett Pier behind a magnifier. At one time, the other spaces may have contained other drawings or photographs.
Flowers used for personal adornment were a popular fashion accessory throughout the 1800s up to the mid-1900s. Carrying or wearing fresh flowers was an important aspect of not only fashion but of good breeding and refined tastes. Corsages worn by women and boutonnieres worn by men were essential elements of dress for the tasteful upper- and middle-class Americans and Europeans at social functions. Many wore flowers whenever they were in public, including President McKinley, who wore a carnation in his lapel every day. In 1840, Queen Adelaide, wife of King William IV of the Great Britain and Hanover, introduced the fashion of tucking a small posy into a high waistband or sash, and Queen Victoria popularized the bouquet holder as seen in her portrait at the opera painted by E.T. Parris in 1838. By the 1830s carrying and wearing small bouquets of flowers in decorative holders was an established fashion accessory of the upper class and royalty of Europe. These small accessories, also known as posy holders, ‘porte-bouquets,’ and ‘bouquetiers’ were both decorative as well as useful. By providing a water source in the bottom of the receptacle, they were able to keep the flowers fresh throughout an occasion, and they also protected the wearer’s gloves or clothing from being stained by the plant pigments. Some had a pin or clip attachment that allowed it to be worn on the clothing. These bouquet holders were usually light weight, so not to strain the garment. Similar holders were made for men to attach to their lapels and are often referred to as a boutonniere vase. Bouquet holders were copied and mass produced in a variety of sizes, materials, and embellishments. During the second half of the nineteenth century, holders might be commissioned or purchased from the stock at a jeweler or florist shop. Few were made in the United States, instead they were usually imported from Europe and Asia. They were often given as a commemorative memento of historic encounters or events by the royalty and courts of Europe, but they were also used to celebrate and commemorate important, though less prestigious, events of the wealthy and middle class. Bouquet holders reached the peak of their popularity between the 1830s and 1880s, but it began to dwindle as bouquets of long-stemmed flowers (the latest horticultural development) loosely tied with ribbons surpassed the posy bouquet style. They were not totally out of fashion until the “Roaring Twenties,” when such objects became regarded as trivial and useless. The diversity of styles and mechanisms of bouquet holders is evidence of their longevity as a fashion accessory. | <urn:uuid:1b7a320c-7a44-491b-bd4a-0018c8a2494e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://collections.si.edu/search/detail/edanmdm:hac_FJP.1987.046?print=yes | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.981238 | 849 | 2.6875 | 3 |
In your case report 6, you were asked to create a recommendation report for risk assessment of your client. You were also asked to specifically align all of those recommendations with the ethics guidelines of forensic psychologists.
For this milestone, take the feedback you were given and revise the risk assessment report and ethics portions of your case report. Additionally, add material—a code of ethics and a risk assessment—to your existing work as you move toward the summative assignment
Question # 1
What were the main tenets that leaders of the Humanistic Psychology Movement presented to the American Psychological Association in order to justify becoming its own Division? Why might these tenets have been chosen as significant to the justification of a separate division?
The First Old Saybrook Conference (1964) was a significant event in the history of psychology. Attendees such as Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, Rollo May, and Gordon Allport represented several major schools of thought in the budding humanistic psychology movement. What did Maslow, Rogers, May, and Allport express as necessary components of the Humanistic Psychology Movement? In what ways did the schools of thought expressed by these conference attendees contribute to humanistic psychology’s place in America? Explain.
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Welcome to Year 2, Week 27, Lesson 2.27.1. Today we will work on your English Vocabulary. We begin with Fry Sight Words English Vocabulary 9th Hundred, Lesson 2. Please follow the directions and do your best.
Part 1 – DIRECTIONS: Please watch the vocabulary video below two or three times:
Part 2 – Please read aloud the following words and sentences in English, then translate them and read them into your primary language using the translator on this page.
Fry’s List 9 Lesson 2
guess, silent, trade, rather, compare, crowd, poem, enjoy, elements, indicate, except, expect, flat, seven, interesting, sense, string, blow, famous, value
Can you guess how much I weigh?
Try to guess the meaning of this word.
Students need to be silent while completing their tests.
The man remained silent although we asked him questions.
The man wants to trade his car.
The trade of a carpenter is difficult.
What would you rather do?
She would rather learn online than in a classroom.
Can you compare this store with that store and tell us which one is the best?
This shirt doesn’t compare with that one, it’s much better.
There was a large crowd gathered in front of the building.
The crowd of protesters was loud and unruly.
She wrote a poem about love.
That poet wrote a famous poem about death.
Try to enjoy all that you do.
I hope that you will greatly enjoy your vacation.
Have you learned about chemical elements yet?
Earth, water, air, and fire are considered elements of the material universe.
You must indicate the rules and regulations to your employees.
Doctors indicate that people must use masks indoors to prevent Covid-19.
Every student was present except Maria.
I paid all my bills except rent.
His parents expect that he completes his studies.
All teachers expect their students to study hard.
That house has a flat roof.
This car has a flat tire.
Number seven follows number six.
Two plus five equals seven.
She is reading an interesting story.
They are having an interesting conversation.
He lost his sense of smell when he got Covid-19.
The teacher isn’t making any sense.
The police are investigating a string of robberies.
Martha is wearing a string of pearls.
Losing his job was a major blow to him.
He suffered a blow to the head.
He used to be a famous singer many years ago.
She is a famous actress from Nigeria.
His car increased in value since he bought it.
A quality education has great value.
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Irma Moss vividly remembers five or six communist soldiers invading her family’s home in Cuba and whisking her father off to jail in the wake of the Cuban Revolution. That was more than 60 years ago.
It was a traumatic, life-changing experience for the frightened 8-year-old girl and her family.
Fast forward to 2021 and Moss’ life journey eventually led to her current leadership role as state Woman’s Missionary Union president for Florida Baptists — but more on that in a moment.
Incredibly, the day after her father’s arrest, he was released from custody. He told his wife and two young daughters that they had less than 12 hours to leave their house, abandon most of their possessions and find shelter elsewhere. Her father, a successful businessman in Cuba whose assets were immediately frozen by the communist officials, made arrangements to immigrate to the United States and found work as a restaurant busboy.
Moss, her mother and sister took refuge in her aunt’s one-room apartment in Havana. Her family eventually reunited in Florida several months later.
Recounting their departure from Havana, Moss said flights to the U.S. were on the verge of being halted, and the plane they hoped to board was overbooked by 13 passengers.
“That was the beginning of the journey where my mom taught me that prayer changes things,” Moss recalled. She said her mom began praying that they would be able to get on the flight “and 13 people did not show up. God saved the last three seats for my mom, my sister and me.”
That also was the start of Moss’ new life in the U.S.
“God was in control,” she affirmed. “My mom and my dad always looked to do God’s will. The doors closed for us in Cuba, but the doors opened in America, and I bleed red, white and blue. I have lived the American dream.”
After learning English and completing elementary, middle and high school in Orlando, Florida, Moss went to college where she sensed God calling her to full-time Christian service. She earned her master’s degree at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, and was involved in education and youth ministry for several years.
A family of her own
Along the way, she met and married her American husband, Tony, and they raised their son, Jonathan.
Moss said the Lord eventually led her to “the missions field of public education” where she served as a teacher, principal and director of bilingual English as a Second Language for Orange County Public Schools in Florida.
“In the school system, God gave me the opportunity to share Jesus Christ by my witness and my life,” Moss noted. “That’s what missions is all about.”
Connecting that belief to her WMU involvement, she said, “That’s why I love WMU so much because WMU is about prayer. My mama taught me to pray for everything and God will answer your prayer.
“The other thing I love about WMU is that we’re teaching people about the best answer in life and that’s Jesus Christ — He is the way, the only way.”
Telling the story
Describing WMU as “the wonderful ministry that unites the church” amid today’s chaotic world, Moss said, “Missions will never grow old because missions is telling the story of Jesus. It’s telling the lost world that God loves them and He died for them — and the only hope we have for our sin is Jesus.”
In her role as Florida Baptist WMU president, she added, “This is what the Lord was calling me to do, and I needed to do it and to do it enthusiastically and do it to the best of my ability to glorify Him.”
Cindy Bradley, executive director of Florida WMU, admitted it is “difficult to sum up the impact of Irma’s leadership and friendship over these past few years.” She said words that come to mind when she thinks of Moss include faithful, enthusiastic, prayerful, humble and discerning.
“Her commitment to our God and to His kingdom is unswerving,” Bradley affirmed. “She is a faithful student of God’s word and is a faithful prayer warrior. When you ask Irma to pray about something, you know she really will.”
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To mask or not to mask is a query that has no easy answers as we sit huddled in our homes, waiting for the COVID-19 curve to bend. Just how that vital graph will begin to show progress in the U.S. is unclear. Some say Americans can and should do more, and the viability of mask usage is a hot topic.
Though it remains voluntary, the White House – acting upon a CDC recommendation – now suggests that Americans should wear “face barriers” in public. The administration is avoiding the use of the word “mask” in its new guidelines as it does not wish to encourage the general public to use actual masks, which are so badly needed by first responders and health care workers. People are encouraged, therefore, to improvise coverings for the nose and mouth. The change has been inspired by new concerns that a larger number of people than previously thought could be asymptomatic; infected but unaware because they have no symptoms.
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Clutter everywhere is the cause of stress. Let it be in the form of usable and other items at your home or in the form of negative thoughts in your mind. Decluttering leads a way of positivity and joy in your home as well as your body.
The free space always has room for innovation and peace. If you want to know why decluttering is important to your life read the entire article which details you about the pros of decluttering.
How Decluttering Is Helpful For Healthy Living?
Having a clutter around yourself affects your physical and mental health. So having a declutter is highly essential, just rent dumpster and initiate removing of unnecessary things from your home. Some of the advantages of decluttering are:
- Reduced Stress:
Disorganized, untidy and filled up spaces give way to chaos all around your place. You feel like arranging things but you yourself are not aware of where and when to start. It results in complete mismanagement all around. Decluttering gives a new way to your home and then it is easy to be managed.
- Sound Sleep:
Having a sound sleep full of peace without having any disturbance can help you achieve complete relaxation. If you have things striking your mind continuously about cleaning your bedroom, arranging wardrobe, keeping your storeroom in order or any other before going to bed you can never attain the quality of sleep. On the contrary, if you hit the bed without any worries you can have an improved sleep and it is possible only with decluttering your home. Fewer things are less stressful to manage.
- It Can Give You More Free Time:
Being a homemaker or a working woman your schedule is always tight. You cannot make up free time for yourself. Being at home all your time goes in the kitchen and then clearing up and rearranging of the clutter of things all over your place. You hardly have any time to go out or pursue your interest. If you are not happy about it, you can easily give yourself time by decluttering your home. You can work and also have leisure time for yourself.
- Improved Productivity:
When you are free from stress and in a happy state of mind you can focus on any work in a better way. Being at your home doing your work without any peer pressure and disturbance you can give better output but only when you are highly comfortable at home and the environment of your home is peaceful and pleasant with all the things intact at their places. Once you enter your home it should give you a complete soothing experience. Decluttering your home gives you the desired atmosphere and you can think of various solutions to a single assignment. You can be highly creative and give outstanding results.
- More Cleanliness And Proper Budgeting:
When there are limited things it is easy to maintain them. There is no haphazard throughout the house. The house is automatically arranged with very fewer efforts. When the house is free from clutter there will be no hugs and just have to carry on the regular basic cleaning. Your home will always possess a fresh feel. When there are fewer requirements the list of shopping is highly reduced. You are out of the habit of unnecessary purchase and filling up your home with unwanted things, it actually is a great savage to your pocket.
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A recent survey has found that 98% of businesses have reported a positive experience with their Exeter College apprentices, with 95% believing their involvement with apprentices has positively impacted their business.
The College’s good news, coupled with statistics that place the city of Exeter ahead for apprenticeship starts nationally, highlights the success of work-based training in the region. Feedback from the business community suggests that the record number of apprentices entering the local workforce are proving their worth and forging a positive reputation for the initiative.
Exeter College’s Director of Apprenticeships and Employer Engagement, Mike Blakely, said, “I was blown away by the fantastic feedback. This reinforces how apprenticeships are providing a great benefit for both individuals and businesses.”
“We place great importance on working in partnership with companies in order to deliver the very best outcomes – together shaping courses that nurture the skills needed to benefit their business.”
In addition, employers surveyed acknowledged that the initiative has enabled them to fill skills gaps in their business and utilise training for new and existing members of staff in a cost-effective way.
Mike added, “Small to medium businesses, which form the backbone of the local economy, find that the support in recruitment, training and administration we are able to provide relieves the burden on their in-house functions and makes the apprenticeship route a feasible and sustainable approach to growth.”
With full funding provided by the government for 16-18 year olds and a slash in small employer contributions towards course fees for those aged 19+ (halved from 10% to 5% in April), businesses across the region can take advantage of apprenticeship training at little or no cost to themselves, providing their workforce with fresh ideas and creativity. | <urn:uuid:010aee29-5972-46ea-b6f4-c73a5a5fe5b0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.inexeter.com/survey-shows-local-businesses-benefitting-from-apprenticeship-scheme/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.963886 | 361 | 1.648438 | 2 |
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Baldwin, M. W. (ed.) / Volume I: The first hundred years
Gazetteer and note on maps, pp. 626-666 PDF (1.3 MB)
GAZETTEER 633 Bergen: city — see Mons. Beroea: city — see Aleppo. Berry (French): region of central France — Ec, i. Berytus: port — see Beirut. Besançon (French): town 45 miles east of Dijon. Besni: fortress, now town — see Behesni. Bessan: town — see Baisan. Betenoble: village — see Bait Nüba. Beth Gibelin: town — see Bait Jibrin. Bethlehem; Bait Lahm (Arabic: house of flesh): town — Lif4, 6, 7, 9. Bethsan or Bethshan: town — see Baisan. Beyoghlu: port — see Pera. Biandrate (Italian): village io miles north of Vercelli. Bibol (Turkish), Bebou (West Armenian), Bãbalü (Arabic): fortress — L5e2, 10. Bieda: village — see Blera. Bijayah: port — see Bougie. Bilbais or Bilbis (Arabic): town — K2f5, 3. Binkath: city — see Tashkent. al_Biqac (Arabic: the hollow), Coele-Syria (classical): district of central Lebanon —L1f2, 5,6. Bir (Arabic: colloquial for BPr: well): village — L3e4, 5. Bira; al-Birah (Arabic), Birtha (classical), Bir (West Armenian), Birejik (Turkish): town —L3e3, 3,5,9, 10, 12. Bisanthe: port — see Rodosto. Biscay, Bay of— Dcd, i. Bithynia (classical): region of NW Anatolia JKd, 2. Bitolj: town — see Monastir. Bivar: town — see Vivar. Black Sea — KLd, 2, 3. Blancfort or Blanquefort (French): town 6 miles NW of Bordeaux. Blanche Garde (medieval), at-Tall a~-~ãflyah (Arabic: the glittering hill): crusader castle — K5f4, 6, 10. Blera (classical), Bieda (Italian): village 5 miles ssw of Vetralla. Blois (French): town 34 miles ENE of Tours. Bogen (German): village z8 miles east of Regensburg. Bohemia; ~echy (Czech): region between upper Elbe and Austria — Gb, i, 2. Bokhãrã: city — see Bukhara. Bologna (Italian): town — G2d1, I, 2. Bolvadin: town — see Polybotus. Bona (medieval), Hippo Regius (classical), Bflnah (Arabic): port — F3e4, I, 2. Bordeaux (French): city, port — D5di, i. Borysthenes: river — see Dnieper. Bosporus (classical), Karadeniz Boghazi (Turkish):. strait — J5d4, 3. Botron or Botrys: town — see al-BatrUn. Boudantë: town — see Podandus. Bougie (French), Saldae (classical), Bijayah (Arabic): port — Fie4, i. Bouillon (French): town 6o miles NE of Rheims. Boulogne-sur-Mer (French): port 6o miles NW of Arras. Bourbon (French): town 50 miles SE of Bourges. Bourges (French): town — E3c3, I. Bourgogne: region — see Burgundy. Brad: island — see Brazza. Braga (Portuguese), Braqarah (Arabic): town — Cad4, i.
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YUCCA MOUNTAIN, SACRED TO THE SHOSHONE & MAJOR FAULT ZONE, IN IMMINENT
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY MOVES PLANS FORWARD TO TURN YUCCA MOUNTAIN INTO NUCLEAR
PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD DEADLINE JANUARY 10, 2008.
Public hearings have not been well attended, statements mostly in favor of the plan to put all of the nuclear waste in the country in this one sacred place. Activists were told that if we do not go on record with a statement,
we will have no legal recourse later on. Local papers & media spin have
recently stated that opposition to the nuke dump had dropped off since the
passing of Corbin Harney. The nuclear reps are confident to the point of
acting like it’s a done deal.
LETS PROVE THEM WRONG! MAKE YOUR COMMENT NOW
& TAKE ACTION!!
Yucca Mountain is sacred to the Shoshone as an herb gathering site, for
rituals, and as a part of their stories. Yucca Mountain is known in Shoshone
language as Snake Mountain. Indeed it looks like a snake. It is said that
the snake was headed north when it froze where it is. Further more it is
said that it will move again and “flip around”. Geologists say that there
are thirteen different fault lines running through it.
Citizens can make an oral statement at the scheduled public hearings or
fill out a form and mail it in to EIS Office U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Mgmt, 1551 Hillshire dr. Las Vegas,
NV, 89195-7308 or by e-mail at
EIS_Office AT ymp.gov.
HERE ARE TALKING POINTS:
“The eyes of the elders are on us. The fate of the unborn is rolling
toward the cliff, the voice of Corbin Harney is ringing in my ears, “It’s on
your shoulders now…”. Info from Bear Dyken.
mdyken AT goldrush.com.
Inyo County CA- Excellent Draft
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Throughout the economic crisis of the last two years Spain’s Socialist Party (PSOE) prime minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, insisted, “My government will never make workers pay the consequences of this crisis.”
But on 12 May he announced government spending cuts. Unemployment has already been climbing. It has officially reached 5 million (20 percent), the highest figure in the European Union (EU), with some areas even higher (30 percent in Andalusia).
Spain suffered no bank collapses in Autumn 2008. Surreptitious state support for banks and bankrupt property companies concealed the problem. According to Spain’s leading investment bank, Goldman Sachs, Spanish property companies’ debts amount to €445 billion, a staggering 40 percent of Spain’s gross domestic product. These losses may bring down some institutions.
Despite this dire situation, Zapatero kept the two main union federations in line by refusing pressure from the employers’ federation and the conservative opposition to reform labour legislation (to make sacking cheaper) and introduce spending cuts. The cuts announced on 12 May abruptly ended Zapatero’s pretensions to be the “workers’ friend”. He announced a 5 percent pay cut for all public employees, the removal of the “baby cheque” (€2,500 given on the birth of a child), a freeze on pensions (with a proposal to raise the retirement age to 67) and a general reduction in public spending.
After a coordinated campaign, led by the European Central Bank and the IMF which included (leaks revealed) personal phone calls from Barack Obama to Zapatero, the government now says it is “essential” to reduce the deficit. This was running at 11.2 percent at the end of 2009 and the aim is to bring it down to the “permitted” EU level of 3 percent by 2013. The government calculates that the cuts will save €5 billion in 2010 and €10 billion in 2011. There is already a VAT increase from 16 to 18 percent next month. The cuts do not affect finance for the Catholic church or Spanish troops in Afghanistan. Instead, they are being made in social spending, which already runs at the lowest levels in Western Europe.
Faced with this, the General Union of Workers (UGT) and Workers’ Commissions (CCOO), the two main union federations, had to react. The UGT promised “maximum punishment” for the government and CCOO leader Ignacio Toxo wrote an open letter to the government threatening “general action”. They organised a small protest on 20 May and called a one-day public sector strike for 8 June.
Faced with such lukewarm action (which received the “understanding” of Zapatero), the question for the left is whether pressure can be built up to force union leaders to call a general strike. If resistance is not built, these cuts (insufficient from the capitalists’ point of view) will be followed by further attacks.
The trade union left is fragmented into a number of small unions. Despite the dynamism and size of the anti-capitalist movement from 2001 to 2004, this generation of activists has yet to make its presence felt in the workplaces. Nor is there any anti-capitalist party with the weight to lead resistance. Nevertheless, the radical nationalist union LAB in the Basque Country and SAT in Andalusia called successful one-day general strikes this year, showing hard work and organisation at the base can gain a response.
In November of last year, there was a brief moment of light amid the darkness that was 2020. Scotland became the first country in the world to make period products free for all. Just as the weekend and the eight-hour-day are now regarded by many as a given, future generations may be in disbelief that...
On 4 November last year, when many of us were watching the aftermath of the American presidential election, the US formally left the Paris Climate Agreement. Written in 2015 at the United Nations’ COP21 climate conference in Paris, the agreement is often considered to be the most significant document of international climate cooperation. Back then,...
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One day in early December 1974 a crowd of passengers lined up to board the cruise ship Renaissance docked in Fort Lauderdale’s Port Everglades. Typically there would be nothing exceptional about this sight.
By 1974 Fort Lauderdale’s was one of the main American cruise ship ports with over 260,000 people departing the port that year for a typical 7-10 day Caribbean vacation cruise.
But in contrast to the typical cruise ship crowd, this one had over 300 men and a small number of women. Most of them were under 35, white and came from New York, California and Florida.
They took part in what the New York Times would later call in a front-page story in its Sunday travel section “The All-Gay Cruise: Prejudice and Pride.”
Obviously prior to this, gay men and lesbians had gone on cruises. However typically, they were as closeted as they were in the cities and towns from where they came. As they did back home, they shared space with others as “roommates.”
However this cruise trip was put together and marketed specifically to the gay and lesbian community. It was organized by the Islanders Club, a gay-owned business in New York which for the past seven years ran weekend shuttle buses to Fire Island. They came up with the idea of an all-gay cruise and were able to interest Paquet Cruises, a subsidiary of a French-owned travel conglomerate that provided the ship Renaissance and its crew.
For a gay man in the mid-1970s, going on a “gay” cruise was a risky thing. Even though Stonewall was a very recent memory and vibrant gay culture were emerging in places like San Francisco and New York, “being in the closet” was still the modus operandi of most gay men and lesbians. Being associated with a “gay” cruise could easily mean the loss of family and friends and the end of one’s career.
Also, for the younger generation of gay men more connected to a post Stonewall sensibility, the prospect of being stuck on a boat for seven days with an older generation of gay men, who bore the psyche wounds and self-hatred inflicted on them by a homophobic society, was not an appealing one. The campy humor and meanness these pre-Stonewall older gay men often threw at each other — à la the 1970 film “Boys in the Band” — would seem more like an extended stay in hell with endless screaming Bette Davis and Joan Crawford imitators than a vacation.
But in the mid-70s various businesses were beginning to wake up to the potential of the gay market. At this point gay group travel was a new thing. The organizers handed out publicity for the cruise at Fire Island that summer. Through both word of mouth and mailed cruise folders the news spread. But the organizers were very concerned that publicity about the cruise would get out to the general public. The over 5,000 cruise folders sent out to people all across the country asked them to remember that “discretion is the better part of folic.”
Fortunately there was no publicity and when the cruise took off and almost all the cabins were sold. A number of travelers' friends came to see the boat off. Amid the usual confetti and streamers, three women at the dockside waved to a pair of bearded men at the rail, “S’ long, Georgie and Michael. Happy Honeymoon!”
The dining room that evening had, in the words of the writer Cliff Jahr, “The exotic air of a Kiwanis Club father-and-son banquet: penny loafers and baggy slacks, cotton pullovers and army fatigues, even Johnny Carson double-knits.”
Notably absent among them were the “‘queens,’ those dyed and cosmetic symbols of homosexuality.” Signs of mid-70s intergenerational tensions were reflected in that “the gay world’s old guard was politely excluded. Effeminacy, seen by the younger gays as a symptom of needless guilt feelings, [was] considered embarrassing and old-fashioned.”
Soon, the mixture of sea-air, six-course dining, pampered loafing and causal mating began to loosen the crowd up. The presence of scores of good looking men was commented on. “I don’t know where to start,” noted one passenger sipping his Tequila Sunrise, “I’ve met three Mr. Rights before lunch.”
The next evening at dinner near the captain’s table sat a group of “leather-men” in black cowhide dress, trimmed with chains, zippers and metal studs. Later at one of the dances, a young man showed up in blond curls wearing a crepe dress and a silver fox clutch cape. At a Hawaiian luau party, one man appeared in a sarong wearing $20,000 worth of jewels.
“They’re always just sitting in the goddam vault,” he said to his table mates.
The theme of each evenings’ dinner was devoted to a celebration of an upcoming 1975 holiday: New Year’s Eve, Valentine’s Day, Bastille Day and Halloween. Afterward, the entertainment ranged from gay comedians (“Did you notice the boat lisping to one side?”) to various singers. After the entertainment was over the grand salon quickly became a discotheque, with cigarette smoke wafting through the flashing lights. Many passengers stayed to “bugaloo” but others went to their rooms, often as couples or regrouped into small pot parties. Although rumors of “flash orgies” circulated, it was clear the action was in the cabins.
Typically the evening partying lasted past 4 a.m. and in the morning passengers sleepily came out and looked for deckchairs where they would collapse into sleep. Photo-taking, particularly on the sun-deck, was limited. Passengers trusted the discretion of the photographer employed by the ship and others with cameras.
The afternoons were spent with the typical cruise ship diversion: movies, cooking classes, jogging, bingo and calisthenics. However there were other diversions one would never find on the typical cruise.
One was a quiz show You Bet Your Aft based on the popular The Dating Game. A contestant selected a partner by sizing-up the answers given by the three “bachelors” standing unseen behind a screen. Typical question: “Bachelor Number Two — If you were to suddenly become a great American monument which one would you be 1) Old Faithful, 2) Death Valley or 3) The Grand Canyon?” To help the contestant “size-up” the bachelors, there were three valentine-shaped holes cut in the screen to reveal a strategic part of the bachelors’ lower anatomy.
Another was an SM/Leather fashion show with men modeling harnesses, tit-clamps and G-strings and a background tape-recording of the shrieks and moans of someone being savagely whipped. Against this tableaux the announcer narrated: “John is wearing a lovely two-piece vest and matching chaps combination. What lines. If the evening gets warm, he can slip out of his top … those chaps slip off pretty easily too.” Noticing that the captain was watching from the bridge, the announcer went on, “Of course these clothes have no interest for the crew — they’re all STRAIGHT.” To which the captain smiled and shook his head.
On the last afternoon of the cruise, the passengers assembled to select “Mr. Renaissance,” not so much a muscle contest but a Mr. Congeniality award.
Out of 25 contestants, a well-known soap opera actor was selected, who blushed when a red satin robe was draped over his shoulders. Stepping up to the microphone, he flashed a smile and said, “A moment ago I thought this spelled the end of my career. But I am really proud to be part of the cruise.” And speaking to the bad self-image the typical gay man had at that time, he said, “It’s nice we can do something that also lets us feel righteous and good about doing it.”
Many of the men expected that a cruise of 300 gay men would sink into a week bitchery, pretensions and bad manners — the extended stay in hell many feared. Instead the week passed in a warm spirit of moderation, mutual respect and new-found friendships. As one of the organizers of the cruise noted, “Something happened out there on the Renaissance — everyone keeps telling me. While we were having the laughs, we were sort of changing our minds about each other.”
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‘Tis the time of year when everything has pumpkin. Well at Baby Bloom Nutrition, it’s no different. Pumpkin is delicious and reminds us of warm holidays in front of a fireplace- or in sunny Arizona, maybe warm holidays in front of an electrical fireplace with that fake fire video going. Anyway, there is more to pumpkin than the delicious taste and warm-fuzzies.
Pumpkin, actually a fruit, is very high in beta carotene and vitamin and C. Beta carotene is the precursor to Vitamin A, which is key in vision, immune function, reproduction and fetal development, bone and skin health, and is also an antioxidant.
We are all pretty familiar with the role of vitamin C in immunity. Vitamin C is also a powerful antioxidant, helping to prevent cancer, stroke, and other neurodegenerative diseases.
Research shows that young kids don’t know what they want to eat until it’s right in front of them and sometimes not even then, but my 2 year old twins wake up demanding pumpkin oatmeal. And the way they scarf it, they obviously know what they want.
Here is a nice picture of my Pumpkin Pie Oatmeal. OK, this is the bowl 10 minutes after announcing that breakfast is ready. It had been a double portion. I didn’t get one bite.
I’m all for giving credit where credit is due. I made some changes to this recipe, but not enough changes to claim it as my own. Here
is the original recipe.
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Dry conditions and excessive moisture: Why risk management is important
FCC Ag Economics’ sector-specific Economic Snapshot series forecast a healthy Canadian agriculture sector into 2018. The series provides a broad overview however, saying nothing about individual producer margins, which will vary from the national average – sometimes significantly.
2017 growing conditions to-date have challenged regional production. There’s still significant uncertainty around yields according to AAFC’s August 2017 outlook for principal field crops. Dry conditions in Western Canada and excessive moisture conditions in Eastern Canada have reduced projections of overall crop production by 2.7%. The dry weather this year has also exacted a toll on livestock producers’ forage production and pasture conditions.
Weather’s impact on margins expected to be high in 2017
It’s possible some producers will experience a yield loss as much as 20% below provincial 5-year averages in the current year. With market conditions currently soft, the added pressure of lower production will push weather-challenged producers’ profit margins to near the break-even point (based on average costs of production and yields from the 2017 Saskatchewan Crop Planning Guide and the Ontario Field Crop Budgets). Nobody wants to be in that situation, but if you’ve been there before, you know the importance of risk management strategies.
Risk management and marketing decisions can make the difference in a tough year
The money’s already been spent to grow the 2017 crop.
It’s now up to savvy marketing to get you the best price on crop not already locked up through forward pricing, future and option contracts. It’s not unusual for spot prices to vary 15% or more in a crop year; sound marketing helps mitigate the impact of that price risk on the bottom line.
Risk management isn’t easy – but it is essential
Include all likely sources of risk to assess what you need to protect your profitability. Revenue insurance can guard against both production and price volatility, but if harvest doesn’t bring you the expected volumes, crop insurance can mitigate production risk from either low yields or poor quality. It pays to invest the time and effort to properly evaluate all possible scenarios and assess how the different tools will work on your own operation.
But you manage risk year-round, long before each crop year begins. It’s now time to familiarize yourself with private insurance tools and the Canadian Agricultural Partnership (CAP). Canada’s latest agricultural policy framework, will introduce a few modifications to the 2018 business risk management programs.
Leigh joined FCC in 2015 as a Senior Agricultural Economist, specializing in monitoring and analyzing FCC’s portfolio, industry health, and providing industry risk analysis. Prior to FCC, he worked in the policy branch of the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture. He holds a Master of Agricultural Economics degree from the University of Saskatchewan. | <urn:uuid:2781ef39-3623-4100-b1fa-57c18b88c65c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fcc-fac.ca/en/knowledge/economics/dry-conditions-and-excessive-moisture.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.923862 | 587 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Chris Rieger, an EE student at the University of Queensland, built this light that both levitates and gets its power wirelessly.
This is a project I’ve been working on for about 6 months now next to my regular studies. It is a levitating light bulb. This project came to life when i saw Jeff Lieberman’s implementation of it a few months before starting. I was fascinated and started research on building my own, reading many academic papers and spending long nights reading up on pretty much every project which included wireless power transfer or magnetic leviation. What I found is that there are many many existing projects of both, but only a few have combined both these technologies. Once you have both working it’s really just a matter of overlaying them. The high frequency magnetic field generated from the wireless power transfer circuit does not effect the leviation aspect of the build. | <urn:uuid:c0980adf-11fb-41fc-acc0-0bdf8d415450> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://makezine.com/article/technology/levitating-light-with-wireless-power-transfer/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.968311 | 188 | 2.5 | 2 |
Engaging your Catholic Faith
Engaging Your Catholic Faith is a series of short sessions offering an opportunity to explore your faith through a variety of topics including: Meditation and Prayer, Spirituality, Women in the Early Church, Interfaith Relations, Reading the Church Classics, Eucharist, Science and Religion.
All topics are presented by lecturers of Catholic Theological College.
For the full list of topics and presenters see link above.
Choose one, choose all, choose what interests you and all for just $20 per session, running 14 September to 31 October.
The Annual Mary MacKillop Catholic Regional College Walkathon is our major fundraising event for the year. Any monies raised are directed towards appropriate charities.
Charity: Vinnies Leongatha
The St Vincent de Paul Society envisions an Australia that prides itself on its strong sense of justice and compassion. Vinnies stand in solidarity with people who are living in poverty and experiencing disadvantage. They assist people who are unemployed or underemployed by conducting home visits and helping with food and utility bills.
Charity: MacKillop Today
Mary MacKillop Today works with the poorest communities in Australia and internationally, in Timor Leste, Peru, Papua New Guinea, and Fiji to support and empower local communities. In the spirit of Saint Mary of the Cross, Mary MacKillop Today's focus is on building dignity through education, health, financial inclusion and livelihoods
Charity: Trinity Families
Trinity Families is a charitable fund, which operates to serve other charities supporting families in the Greater Gippsland area. It does not run programs itself but operates like a philanthropic trust to provide funding. | <urn:uuid:1b371237-c39b-4ab8-b184-d4f85e55a05c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://newsletters.naavi.com/i/pNaaGkN/issue-4/page/2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.927652 | 356 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Healthy Entrepreneurs offers fundamental health there where nobody else will go. In actual fact, 2013 research revealed in the Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care confirmed that people who recurrently ate full-fats dairy merchandise had a lower danger of developing harmful stomach fats than those that opted for low-fat dairy instead. If you happen to’re making an attempt to rid your self of these extra pounds, including filling, fiber-wealthy meals to your diet—like fruits, vegetables, and complete grains—will aid you obtain your purpose a whole lot quicker than depriving yourself.
In the event you’re looking for inspiration of the place to get started with some healthier eating ideas, try our recipes below. Nevertheless it actually did not win any categories and truly tied with Atkins (which most individuals settle for is a dangerous plan) and Weight Watchers for fasted weight loss eating regimen. Polyunsaturated fats are essential nutrients, so it is important to frequently select some meals rich in these fats.
However vegetables are packed with essential nutrients that keep your physique healthy, and their fiber content material additionally helps fill you up. So if you do not love a plain salad, discover methods to make your veggies interesting: roast them with a bit olive oil, salt and pepper, toss them in a flavorful stir fry or blend them into a juice so you do not even know they’re there.
In case your weight loss program may do with some enchancment, there’s never a nasty time to make some healthy modifications. In keeping with U.S. Division of Agriculture estimates, 32 percent of our calories comes from animal meals, fifty seven percent from processed plant meals, and only eleven percent from entire grains, beans, fruits, greens, and nuts. Combined with bodily exercise, your weight loss plan can help you to achieve and keep a healthy weight, cut back your threat of persistent ailments (like heart illness and cancer), and promote your total health.
Nonetheless, fashions exist that search to scale back problems with coordinated, applicable health care with the potential to improve the ways during which health care providers strategy their sufferers with disabilities. Eat Smart Meet Good assets may help you plan meetings, occasions and conferences which can be healthy in your individuals – and healthy to your organization. | <urn:uuid:d4901f6d-7e97-4e1c-8df9-bc662976834b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://eurorscglondon.co.uk/health-and-fitness-professional.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.942986 | 466 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Duty cycle refers to the robustness of a printer or copier. It’s the absolute maximum number (or range) of pages your device can print.
- 1 What is maximum printer monthly duty cycle?
- 2 What is maximum duty cycle?
- 3 How long does a printer work?
- 4 How do I run a printer cycle?
- 5 What is a 100% duty cycle?
- 6 What is the meaning of duty cycle?
- 7 What is a laser printer monthly duty cycle mean?
- 8 How do you calculate duty cycle?
- 9 How do I find duty cycle?
- 10 What is the average life of an inkjet printer?
- 11 What is the best time of year to buy a printer?
- 12 Does Windows 10 have printer maintenance?
- 13 Can I use isopropyl alcohol to clean printer heads?
What is maximum printer monthly duty cycle?
In general, the Maximum Monthly Duty Cycle is the maximum number of pages a device could deliver in a month. The Recommended Monthly Print Volume would be the amount to print to keep your machine in optimal condition.
What is maximum duty cycle?
In a welding power supply, the maximum duty cycle is defined as the percentage of time in a 10-minute period that it can be operated continuously before overheating.
How long does a printer work?
Frequently, manufacturers like to say a printer should last around seven years, give or take, depending on the specific model. However, as with most things in life, it’s a little more complicated than that.
How do I run a printer cycle?
Access the Print or Page Setup dialog box and click the Utility icon button, then click the Head Cleaning button. Follow the on-screen instructions. The power light and the ink lights flash while the printer performs the cleaning cycle.
What is a 100% duty cycle?
A 100% duty cycle simply means the compressor will deliver a consistent CFM and PSI the entire time the compressor is in use, which is different than being able to run continuously.
What is the meaning of duty cycle?
Duty cycle is the ratio of time a load or circuit is ON compared to the time the load or circuit is OFF. Duty cycle, sometimes called “duty factor,” is expressed as a percentage of ON time. A 60% duty cycle is a signal that is ON 60% of the time and OFF the other 40%.
What is a laser printer monthly duty cycle mean?
The monthly duty cycle is the maximum number of pages a printer can print per month without breaking down. Going beyond your printer’s monthly duty cycle may lead to worn out parts and eventually, shorten the lifespan of your printer.
How do you calculate duty cycle?
Determine the duty cycle, represented by “D,” through the formula D = PW/T. As an example, if PW is 0.02 seconds and T is 0.05 seconds, then D = 0.02/0.05 = 0.4, or 40%.
How do I find duty cycle?
Duty Cycle = Pulse Width (sec) * Repetition Frequency (Hz) * 100.
What is the average life of an inkjet printer?
Generally, expect an inkjet printer to last at least three years, and a laser printer to last at least five years. These numbers change depending on build quality – a professional, graphic design-quality inkjet printer will likely last a lot longer than a cheap laser printer – but are a good guide for home users.
What is the best time of year to buy a printer?
Companies hold sales at predictable times of the year. For example, September is the ideal time to buy a desktop and laptop computers, digital cameras, paint, printers, big appliances, and more.
Does Windows 10 have printer maintenance?
To get to the printer maintenance settings in Windows 10:
- From the Start Menu select Settings.
- Then Devices, Bluetooth, Printers, Mouse.
- Scroll to the bottom of the screen!!!!
- Double-click Devices and Printers.
- Your printers should be listed (just like the old days:-)
- Double-click the printer you wish to maintain.
Can I use isopropyl alcohol to clean printer heads?
The sponge end of a blocked printer head can be cleaned with only one liquid other than water. This liquid is isopropyl alcohol. Isopropyl alcohol isn’t strong enough to melt the sponge but is still strong enough to dissolve the ink inside the blocked printer head. | <urn:uuid:571a3d69-0b47-4348-9025-16c3ee822345> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://brotheronlinehelp.com/interesting/readers-ask-what-is-a-printer-duty-cycle.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.898535 | 961 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Is Split Over Israel a Luxury Restricted to Countries With No Anti-Semitism?
The most surprising thing about Dov Waxman’s new book, is that nobody has published a book like it before. True, my 2014 book, “Uncivil War: The Israel Conflict in the Jewish Community,” covered the same basic issue, but it focused more on the United Kingdom’s Jewish community than it did on the situation in the United States.
The lack of books on divisions over Israel in the United States and elsewhere is surprising, because coping with these divisions is one of the most pressing issues in Jewish communal life today. As Waxman argues, fragmentation over Israel has been building up since the late 1970s, and in recent years it has erupted into open conflict. The creation of new organizations such as J Street is both a product of and a stimulus to the emergence of a plurality of Jewish voices. This has caused considerable disquiet in some quarters, as Jewish leaders and institutions are less and less able to claim that they represent Jewish opinion on Israel. The emotional intensity of these divisions isn’t limited to the elite few; anecdotal evidence suggests that synagogues and other institutions avoid talking about Israel for fear of causing arguments.
As someone who has worked intensely as both a scholar and an activist to try to understand and ameliorate the conflict over Israel in my own community, I was eager to read Waxman’s book in order to compare the U.K. and U.S. experiences. Much of “Trouble in the Tribe” confirmed my own suspicion that the increasing fragmentation over Israel is common to both communities. There are differences, of course — the right wing has a much more prominent presence in the United States with groups such as the Zionist Organization of America, and the U.K. community is much more centralized than the United States — but the basic issues are the same.
The question that intrigues me now is to what extent division over Israel has become a universal Diaspora phenomenon. I know that in Canada and Australia, at least, the situation is broadly comparable with that of the United States and the United Kingdom, albeit with some local differences. But when we consider the non-English-speaking Diaspora, things get more complicated — and that, I think, tells us something important.
Take France, for example. A couple of years ago I sat on a panel with the respected French-based writer Diano Pinto at London’s Pears Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism. In my talk I argued that there were now considerable Jewish divisions over what anti-Semitism is and that these divisions were connected to divisions over Israel. In her response, Pinto said that the situation used to be similar in France, but not anymore. Faced with rising levels of violent anti-Semitism, French Jews are increasingly insecure and, therefore, much more inclined to maintain communal unity and to look to Israel for security. This isn’t to say that all French Jews have become diehard supporters of whatever Israel does, but at the very least it has muted the kinds of infighting over Israel that we know so well elsewhere.
Certainly, France and other Jewish communities in Europe, the former Soviet Union and South America do not seem to harbor the degree of intercommunal conflict over Israel seen in the English-speaking world (although that doesn’t mean that Jews in these places do not contain a wide spectrum of views, and latent divisions).
So, is open conflict over the Jewish state more likely to emerge in countries with a high degree of security? Put another way: Is division over Israel a luxury restricted to countries that are mostly free of anti-Semitism?
Waxman, for his part, names security as one of the reasons for the increasing divisions in the American Jewish community:
American Jews are also more secure about their place in society, and less fearful than they were in the past, due to the decline of anti-Semitism in the United States and their successful integration into American society. The diminished sense of threat means that they feel less of a need for solidarity with each other or with Israel. Hence, they are quicker to “break ranks” and voice dissent. This is particularly true for younger American Jews who do not feel at all vulnerable in the United States, and see no reason not to freely voice their own opinions about Israel.
There’s something paradoxical in the notion that security provides the basis for Jewish conflict. One of the common complaints of Jews who are supportive of Israel’s current political direction is that Jews who are more critical of the state are “undermining” both Israel itself and the security of Diaspora Jewry. There is a common assumption that unity is strength.
This view is correct in one respect: Treating divisions as a source of weakness can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. When we refuse to accept the inevitability of Jews holding diverse opinions in a free society, we spend a huge amount of energy on futile attempts to censor and marginalize. Where the fact of pluralism is treated as a threat, communities can turn inward and lose sight of the real challenges of maintaining communal life in societies in which Jews have multiple other options.
What “Trouble in the Tribe” captures is a Diaspora Jewish community that could go either way. Divisions over Israel have emerged, in part as a consequence of the secure integration within the United States, the United Kingdom and other countries. Those divisions may, over time, become accepted — albeit rarely liked — as a sign of the freedom of Jews to find their own path. Or they may result in balkanization and mutual suspicion.
I look forward to reading another book in a couple of decades, one that will show which path U.S. Jewry chooses.
Keith Kahn-Harris, a London-based sociologist and the author of four books, teaches at Leo Baeck College and is a fellow of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research. Follow him on Twitter @KeithKahnHarris | <urn:uuid:6018910e-d31d-4462-afe0-584ed6b53d92> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://forward.com/opinion/338034/is-split-over-israel-a-luxury-restricted-to-countries-with-no-anti-semitism/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.962354 | 1,250 | 1.851563 | 2 |
LYMPHOGRAPHY IN SURGICALLY UNRESECTABLE ADENOCARCINOMA OF THE EXOCRINE PANCREAS
- NR Dunnick
- K Horvath
- G Head
- R Bender
Bipedal lymphograms were performed on 28 consecutive previously untreated patients with biopsy proven and surgically unresectable carcinoma of the pancreas. Four of these patients had findings indicating lymph node metastases. In three of these 4 patients, the lymphogram provided the only evidence of metastatic disease. The information provided by bipedal lymphography may be useful in treatment planning.
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Dunnick, N. & Horvath, K. & Head, G. & Bender, R., (1978) “LYMPHOGRAPHY IN SURGICALLY UNRESECTABLE ADENOCARCINOMA OF THE EXOCRINE PANCREAS”, Lymphology 11(3), p.85-88. | <urn:uuid:7fc2bae5-e1e5-4db8-8e73-9e07b80b00f5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/lymph/article/id/4535/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.794443 | 214 | 1.875 | 2 |
Russia has poured nearly 75% of the combat power it assembled across its border into Ukraine, but Russian military advance remained bogged down Monday by a stiffer-than-expected resistance and what military experts say are some self-inflicted strategic wounds.
On Monday, the fifth day since President Vladimir Putin ordered his tanks and troops into Ukraine, heavy fighting was continuing around Kharkiv, a city in the northeast section of the country. Russian commanders have targeted the city, along with the port of Mariupol, in a bid to slice off the eastern part of Ukraine from the central government in Kyiv, a senior Defense Department official said.
But a separate offensive targeting the capital is also making only slow progress, despite the manpower and firepower advantage enjoyed by the Russian forces.
“We estimate that the Russian main advance on Kyiv remains slowed,” the Defense Department official told reporters. “Their advance on Kyiv still appears to be their main line of effort. We expect that they’re going to want to continue to move forward and try to encircle the city in the coming days. They are not there yet.”
Western military experts say they are surprised that, almost a week into the war, Russia has yet to achieve air dominance in the skies over Ukraine. Pentagon officials said the Ukrainians have been able to keep a credible air and missile force flying even after five days of heavy fighting. Ukrainian videos show heavy damage to Russian tanks and armored vehicles and Ukraine has also employed Turkish-made drones to harry Russian columns of troops as they advance.
“The airspace is contested. The Russians have not been able to dominate the airspace,” the Defense Department official said.
Pentagon officials are also expressing caution about anecdotal reports that Belarusian and Chechen troops have entered Ukraine and are fighting on behalf of Moscow. “Our best information is that the forces inside Ukraine are all Russian,” the U.S. official said, even though at least part of the Russian offensive crossed into Ukraine from neighboring Belarus.
Russian military leaders appear to be having problems keeping their tanks topped off with fuel, suggesting they didn’t adequately prepare for an extended massed ground invasion or their execution of a logistics plan was flawed. Intelligence indicates they had to dip into their supplies earlier than they had intended, officials said.
“They’re running out of gas and they’re having logistics problems. Our assessment was that they did not believe that they would be having those kinds of problems that early on,” the U.S. official said.
If the advance into Ukraine continues to be stymied by a more robust defense than Moscow was expecting, the invading army may pause and readjust their basic plan of attack, Pentagon officials said.
“It’s possible that they could change their plans in how they want to go after Kyiv — to be less discriminate than they have been thus far,” the Defense Department official said.
Analysts say Ukraine still faces a monumental challenge in holding off the larger Russian invading force and that Russian commanders can be expected to learn from the campaign’s early reverses and adjust their strategy in the coming days.
• Mike Glenn can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Statement published by No Cold War following the COP26 conference.
By focusing only on coal and not including oil and gas, the COP26 text disproportionately impacts certain developing countries like China and India. All fossil fuels must be phased down, in an equitable manner.
The country-by-country league table from the latest Carbon Change Performance Index, which covers 64 countries responsible for 92% of global greenhouse gas emissions, shows that the US is at 55 – 9th worst.
The US’s cold war propaganda offensive into the Cop26 has centred on attempting to position itself as the world’s “climate leader” and to shift the blame for the climate crisis onto developing countries, particularly China and India.
US aggression against China is not only a threat to world peace and prosperity, it is also a major obstacle in the way of humanity coming together to tackle climate change.
Tragically, the COP26 process has been swept into the matrix of dangerous geopolitical tensions, driven largely by the United States in its quest to prevent China’s scientific and technological advancement. Rather than focus on the necessary energy transition, developed countries have taken to crude propaganda against a handful of developing states such as China and India.
It is likely that COP26 will be a failure.
An article on the greenwashing of nuclear power, based on an interview with French socialist leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon. | <urn:uuid:37b1c378-7693-4864-81a0-726f4947c063> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.socialistaction.net/tag/cop26/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.928742 | 287 | 2.25 | 2 |
It is important to add more protein to your diet when it comes to weight loss or muscle gain.
Getting enough protein keeps you feeling full longer, especially when you are in a caloric deficit.
Calculate how much protein your body needs and divide that into the number of meals you eat daily. By doing so, it will be so much easier to get all the necessary daily protein. The recommended daily amount of protein is .8 grams per lbs. of body weight a day.
If you are more active or looking into increasing your muscle mass, you will require more.
Add more protein into all your meals with these options:
- Lean Beef
- Cottage cheese
- Protein pancakes
- Pork chops
When planning your meals, plan your meals around protein. Instead of just grabbing a bowl of pasta, add chicken or shrimp.
Something I love doing to get enough protein into my diet is recreating my meals. I switched out regular pancakes for protein pancakes. I also add protein to my oats to increase the protein.
If you getting enough protein from whole foods, incorporate protein powders into your meal plan. Protein powders are convenient, you can have a shake for breakfast, or after your workouts.
These are my favorite protein powder supplements if I am on the go, I like having Premier protein shake, and when I am making an at-home shake, I love Designer Whey. I love the taste, and it doesn’t leave a chalky aftertaste. Here is my favorite breakfast protein shake recipe Nutty oats protein shake.Nutty oats protein shake
Here are simple ways to make meals higher in protein:
- Add extra egg whites to your scrambles
- cheese to your meals
- Add greek yogurt to meals that require sour cream or heavy cream.
- Powder peanut butter
- Protein powders
- snack on lunch meat
- Chia seeds
A way to keep track of your protein intake, start using a food scale and an app if you are looking to lose weight or gain muscle. And if using a tool or tracking your food is too overwhelming, you can use this food guide to make sure you are adding enough protein to all your meals. | <urn:uuid:c104142c-29c6-412e-b413-a5cfde064e5e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bennysfitness.com/how-to-add-more-protein-to-your-diet/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.931413 | 489 | 1.75 | 2 |
Should New Writers Write High Concept Movies? by Kathie Fong Yoneda
Film Courage: Kathie, what is the difference between a low and high-concept movie? And which one favors new writers?
Kathie Fong Yoneda: I think that the low-concept favors new writers only because I think studios in general are more willing to take a chance on something that maybe is lower in budget. But concept and budget are two different things.
A high-concept movie usually means a higher-concept budget in general and that would be like your action pictures, your super-hero pictures, things like STAR WARS. Things that have what they call the “tentpole” (you’ve probably heard that term before) a tentpole effect…it’s just a lot different.
And most of them you’ll notice are based on something that has been adapted from another piece of material like comics, a book, novels, that kind of thing.
But for new people (new writers coming in), writing a nice project that is in another arena that doesn’t require a huge budget and a lot of special effects, that’s a way to really get a sense of can they develop characters? Can they carry a story all the way through for 90 minutes to 100 minutes? And can they give us good roles that actors want?
So I think that is better, if you try and do a lower-budget, lower-concept in terms of genre. That’s the way to do it.
Film Courage: Just a reminder, what is the definition of high-concept and low-concept again?
Kathie Fong Yoneda: Well high-concept usually means something that you can do a lot more with it in terms of whether it can be sequels or prequels. Those tend to be more high-budget and more high-concept in terms of it’s a larger world, more characters and they can do (like I said) more with it. They can continue on an adventure with all of those characters. So that’s why a lot of them you’ll see are adapted from other pieces of material.
Film Courage: What’s a good test if someone thinks their script is high-concept? How can they run it through some tests because maybe they’ll find out it’s actually low-concept and they’re just not aware?
Kathie Fong Yoneda: I think genre is one way. If you look at the ones that usually make the most money or that are based on other pieces of material, a lot of times they fall into science-fiction, horror, fantasy or sci-fi fantasy. Those are the most popular genres for that. Certainly if you look at things that are action-adventure like THE BOURNE IDENTITY, that’s another one that you can do a lot with because there is always going to be a new adventure as this guy [Jason Bourne] is trying to find out his real identity.
Question for the Viewers: Should new writers focus on high-concept or low-concept?
CONNECT WITH KATHIE FONG YONEDA
With over 25 years of industry experience, Kathie Fong Yoneda has worked for such prestigious studios as Paramount, Columbia, MGM, Universal, 20th Century Fox, and Disney, specializing in story analysis and development of live action and animated projects. Her career includes executive positions with Walt Disney, Touchstone, Island Pictures and Walt Disney TV Animation where she has evaluated more than 18,000 submissions (Read more here).
THE BEAT OF THE BAT is a full-length documentary that tells the story of the music of the 1966 “Batman” Television Series and how composers Neal Hefti, Nelson Riddle & Billy May gave Batman his first real musical identity- and one that has remained inexorably tied to the character for over 50 years!
In fact, if you saw the just released “Lego Batman Movie” you might have noticed the numerous references to the music of the TV series.
And face it, you can go up to anyone, anywhere in the world and sing “Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na!” and they will instantly know what you are talking about!
The music was as important to the show as the bright colors, campy dialogue and tongue-in-cheek performances. Yet, strangely, the story of how it came to be has never been told… Until now.
EXODUS documents the journey of Syrian refugees as they cross the Aegean Sea from Turkey into Greece. In the winter of 2015, over three thousand refugees attempted this treacherous crossing everyday, all in hope of seeking asylum in the European Union. It’s a life and death gamble that they are willing to take, all for a chance at a new life away from their war-torn homeland.
FREAK OUT: Matan, a soldier in the IDF, sets off for a week of patrolling in a remote base in the north of Israel with three soldiers whom he doesn’t know. As the week progresses, the soldiers begin to question whether they will come out of this experience alive.
THE HOLLY KANE EXPERIMENT: An obsessive psychologist attempts to reprogram her subconscious mind, but when her actions become increasingly uncharacteristic she fears her experiment is dangerously out of control.
AMERICAN TRIAL seeks to discover what a trial in the Eric Garner case might have taught us. How is our legal system designed to handle cases such as Garner’s? What verdict may have been returned after all the evidence was presented? More importantly, what conversations, perspectives and emotions went unexamined because of the grand jury’s decision?
Similarly to fiction courtroom dramas, the lead characters of this documentary will be the attorneys leading the prosecution and the defense. Our camera will capture them as they develop their public arguments and individual positions. How do they decide which witnesses to summon? How do they prepare for their court appearance? Are there any discrepancies between their systemic role and their true feelings regarding the case?
The film will also follow a news crews covering the trial and reporting on race relations in America within the context of the trial and the movement for black lives. They will travel across America to discover what public figures, intellectuals and activists think about the Eric Garner case, as well as other similar cases through the prism of racial relations in the United States. | <urn:uuid:00ceefe3-b418-4afc-90c1-4c19757b22a9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://filmcourage.com/2017/04/18/new-writers-write-high-concept-movies-kathie-fong-yoneda/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.957945 | 1,373 | 1.5 | 2 |
Day 3: Draw Your Favorite Album Art
Hi. My name is Kate Bingman-Burt and this is 28 to Make. For this project, we are going to be drawing album art. Kind of like fan art, I guess, in a way. I know that when I was in high school I loved drawing my cd covers but now that I'm a little bit older, I still love drawing music. It's a hard thing to kind of break. We all have a lot of emotional connections that we place on music and songs and memories, and drawing your favorite album art is a really wonderful way to think about your relationship to the songs that you are loving and also help get better at drawing as well. And you don't have to have an album or a record album to do this project. You can look at the artwork that's on your iTunes if you want to, Apple music, or if you happen to have the vinyl, it's a really wonderful kind of touchpoint to draw from. So, for example, all you're going to need for this project, again, is your favorite drawing tool and some paper. This is an example of when I was trying...
to collect all of the Talking Heads albums. I was drawing them as I was getting them. So this is just an example of a black and white line drawing and then a little kind of statement that says closer to owning all of the Talking Heads on vinyl. Another example of what you can do with this is to add color. So this is Built to Spill and then my notation at the bottom is one of my favorite lyric lines from one of their songs. So it says no one wants to hear what you dreamt about unless you dreamt about them. And that's really true. Don't tell other people your dreams unless it's about them because it's kind of boring. Another thing that you can do to kind of kick it up even a little bit more is to draw a collection and add some color. So this actually ended up turning into more of a visual diary entry where I went through a record collection and I picked out albums that had specific memories at different points of my life and this didn't take long to do, but it was just a different way to execute the concept of drawing album art. So, again, each project should only take about 20 minutes, and I'm really excited to see what type of music you're listening to and what type of music you have chosen to commemorate in a drawing. Remember to share it with the hashtag 28 to Make. Thank you. (lively music) | <urn:uuid:808ac997-4471-4aca-aec0-9880af2777dc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://firehose.creativelive.com/class/28-to-make/lessons/day-3-draw-your-favorite-album-art | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.980997 | 537 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Love and hope inspire a tale of the Goldfields
Choice and destiny are the underlying themes woven through the pages of a riveting tale of love and hope set in Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
Kalgoorlie-Boulder raised author Shirley Patton’s burning desire to move from her academic career as a published researcher to a fiction writer caused the Tasmanian-based author to delve back into her Goldfields roots.
Patton, who had not been to Kalgoorlie-Boulder for about a decade, has returned to WA’s gold mining hub to launch her debut novel, The Secrets We Keep, at Collins Booksellers on Wilson Street tonight.
Speaking with the Kalgoorlie Miner, Patton said she was inspired to base the story in Kalgoorlie-Boulder because of a lifelong connection with the area.
“When I started writing this book, I was feeling quite nostalgic,” she said.
“I was looking where I wanted to set the novel and I realised I had a lot of positive memories and I knew every building and every street — it was almost imprinted on my skin.
“When I was writing it, it felt as if I was walking the streets ... I was looking at the buildings and I could see the bush. “Thank goodness that it has come out as a sense of place, which the publisher felt was almost like another character in the book.”
The Secrets We Keep follows social worker Aimee, who arrives in Kalgoorlie-Boulder in pursuit of a fresh start.
She quickly realises a dark secret she holds close is somehow connected to the Goldfields.
Patton attributes beloved WA writer Tim Winton’s 1991 multi-award winning novel Cloudstreet, based in Perth, as her motivation to weave her story around Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
“Readers are going to find themselves in it,” she said.
“When I found somebody wrote a book about a place where I had walked or where I’d been, I got so excited.
“I am hoping that people that read it will feel that same connection in knowing ‘that’s my street, that’s my town and that’s where I went to school’.
“I hope people feel a sense that I’ve honoured the town.
“People are really strong and resilient in Kalgoorlie and they are in this book.”
Patton invited Kalgoorlie-Boulder residents to tonight’s launch at Collins Booksellers from 5.30pm.
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I am giving a talk next week to one of the state governments in India on how new technologies (like low-cost PCs, open-source software, WiFi) can make a difference in eGovernance. Was wondering if any of you have any ideas on this topic – basically, the state is looking for a strategy for eGovernance. Here are my thoughts as of now.
The key objective
– “intelligent, real-time government” (just like a real-time enterprise).
The focus should be on 3 set of areas:
– eServices: for citizens and business, to reduce pain points in government interactions
– Intranet: information flow in and out for government staff
– enablement: in three key areas – Education, Healthcare, Employment
The building blocks for these:
– low-cost PCs (building on my ideas of the 5KPC Ecosystem)
– Linux and open-source software
– WiFi for connectivity
– local language support
– weblogs for knowledge sharing – within govt, between citizens
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We have become a society that tries to conform nature, much like we do to our children, to fit our needs. We build up walls to keep them contained. When they act up, we control them to fit society’s expectations. When they stray the wrong way, we force them to conform. As we progress, they are objects of neglect. This is what has happened to the Los Angeles River.
The Los Angeles River once flowed free throughout Los Angeles County. It would flow in S-shapes and change which direction its curve went seasonally. When it rained, the river would swell and take out all homes and farms in its path toward the ocean. The City basically considered this river a terrorist and enclosed it in concrete in the 1930s.
This series shows the Los Angeles River as it exists in 2014. The rocks in the river are all made of concrete. Life is finding a way to exist in this concrete habitation. Though a disrespect for Mother Nature, mankind has made its mark and it will take centuries for Nature to return to its natural state. Living in close proximity to the Los Angeles River, I feel as though I can relate to this river. Life in the City puts a lot of restrictions on you. There are laws and ordinances conforming your living quarters to set parameters. At what cost must we keep sacrificing our freedoms for the sake of greed?
When I began photographing, I wanted to document how people were disrespecting Mother Nature by spray painting trees. The more I began to photograph, the more I realized how we as a society have disrespected Nature. We have imprisoned a river and because of it have suffered due to the ground water going straight to the ocean. I learned about the history of the Los Angeles River. It all seems like a waste of good water mixed with beautiful architecture. I began photographing mankind’s art build to cage the river. There are dams, tunnels, walls, and well-constructed bridges. Occasionally, you can see plants growing through the concrete barriers. The water follows the path it was forced in to.
I toned all of the images a lifeless, depressing blue. This is somewhat of a digital cyanotype. It helps show the sorrow the river would feel if it could express its emotions. It is also, poetically, a blueprint documentation of the river as it exits in this moment. !!These images are framed to rely on form. Lines lead the viewer’s eyes to repetition and in the direction of the river. The River is shown as separate, a forgotten feature of Los Angeles. There are barriers all around. It is a prison or a tomb to bring on the timely death of the river. | <urn:uuid:b546b540-5050-43b4-ae4a-ded9c2439864> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cathyimmordino.com/l_a_river | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.968891 | 549 | 2.046875 | 2 |
According to a Consumer Reports survey, 93 percent of respondents “support increased fuel efficiency.” People want greener cars as is evidenced by the fact that 77 percent are in favor of car manufacturers producing more fuel-efficient vehicles, and 80 percent agreeing with fuel economy standards requiring fleet averages to top 55 miles per gallon by 2025.
A total of 56 percent of those surveyed claim to be considering a hybrid or EV, with fuel costs cited as a primary motivation. Correspondingly, 81 percent of consumers indicate that they would be willing to pay extra for a vehicle if it was cheaper to operate.
The Consumer Reports National Research Center conducted telephone interviews with 1,008 people over the age of 18 who were chosen as a “nationally representative probability sample.”
Mark Cooper, Director of Research at the Consumer Federation of America, said in a statement, “These results reflect the strongest support for higher fuel economy standards and willingness to adopt new fuel savings technologies we have seen to date.”
This sends a clear message to automakers who have long claimed that Americans’ do not want to pay more for fuel economy.
© 2012, Richard Matthews. All rights reserved.
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Consumer Groups Push for a US Vehicle Standard of 60 mpg by 2025
America’s New Fuel Efficiency Standards
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In a Monday interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper, one member of the Pittsburgh synagogue explained how his experience in the Holocaust reminds him of the hate he saw Saturday.
Judah Samet was just seven years old when he and his mother were in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. He pulled his car into a parking spot in front of the Tree of Life synagogue Saturday morning for early Shabbat services. He was running late that morning and those four minutes saved his life.
When speaking with Cooper, Samet described how his mother's fluency in German helped save them in 1940s Germany. He described how his mother's tiny stature was not a reflection on her bravery.
"Did you ever think you would be faced with that kind of hate here in Pittsburgh?" Cooper asked.
"Well, I know that you have all of those white supremacists organizations," Samet began. "In fact, the Liberty paper is published right here in West Virginia, within maybe 50 miles or so from here. And -- I was always wondering, if nothing happened here, maybe they didn't want to do it here near their homes."
He went on to quote scripture about hate as well as James Orwell talking about anti-Semitism and what it exists.
"So, why are they hated so much? And it says, 'I think it's in their DNA.' Hatred is in their DNA," he said. "People ask me sometimes, you know, I lost a brother in one of the wars in Israel. I remember when he died, I came home and my mother said, 'At least he didn't die in Bergen Belsen, he died for the state of Israel.' It was somewhat of a pride in her. But they -- I remember I was asked, do you hate the Arabs? And I said, 'Jews don't have hatred in their DNA. They don't know how to hate.' In fact, they feel sorry for --"
Cooper cut him off to ask if he hated the shooter that killed the 11 members of the synagogue.
"I don't know. I hate what he did, but I don't know the guy," Samet explained.
All Cooper could say was, "wow."
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Background. Short-term outcomes of liver transplantation are well reported. Little is known, however, about long-term results in liver recipients surviving ≥5 years. We sought to analyze long-term complications in liver recipients surviving ≥5 years after transplant, to assess their medical condition and to compare findings to the general population. Methods. We analyzed the chart and database records of all patients (n=139) who underwent liver transplantation at a major transplant center before January 1, 1991. Outcome measures included the presence of diabetes, hypertension, heart, renal or neurological disease, osteoporosis, incidence of de novo malignancy or fracture, or other pathology, body mass index, serum cholesterol and glucose, liver function, blood pressure, frequency of laboratory and clinic follow-up, current pharmacological regimen, and late rejection episodes. Results. Ninety-six patients (70%) survived ≥5 years. Compared to numbers expected based on U.S. population rates, transplant recipients had significantly higher overall prevalences of hypertension (standardized prevalence ratio [SPR]=3.07, 95% confidence interval [CI], 2.35-3.93) and diabetes (SPR=5.99, 95% CI, 4.15-8.38), and higher incidences of de novo malignancy (standardized incidence ratio [SIR]=3.94, 95% CI, 2.09- 6.73), non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (SIR=28.56, 95% CI, 7.68-73.11), non-melanoma skin cancer (estimated SIR≥3.16) and fractures in women (SIR=2.05, 95% CI, 1.12-3.43). Forty-one of 87 (47.1%) patients were obese, and 23 patients (27.4%) had elevated serum cholesterol levels (≥240 mg/dl, 6.22 mmol/L), compared to 33% and 19.5% of U.S. adults, respectively. Prevalences of heart or peptic ulcer disease were not significantly higher. Conclusions. Liver transplantation is being performed with excellent 5-year survival. Significant comorbidities exist, however, which appear to be related to long- term immunosuppression.
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In this chapter, we looked at the fundamentals of lumped modeling elements such as masses, springs, and dashpots. The important concept of driving-point impedance was defined and discussed, and electrical equivalent circuits were developed, along with associated elementary (circuit) network theory. Finally, we looked at basic ways of digitizing lumped elements and more complex ODEs and PDEs, including a first glance at some nonlinear methods.
Practical examples of lumped models begin in §9.3.1. In particular, piano-like models require a ``hammer'' to strike the string, and §9.3.1 explicates the simplest case of an ideal point-mass striking an ideal vibrating string. In that model, when the mass is in contact with the string, it creates a scattering junction on the string having reflection and transmission coefficients that are first-order filters. These filters are then digitized via the bilinear transform. The ideal string itself is of course modeled as a digital waveguide. A detailed development of wave scattering at impedance-discontinuities is presented for digital waveguide models in §C.8, and for wave digital filters in Appendix F. | <urn:uuid:69437fe5-a337-4a57-827b-4c56a3fa93bd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/pasp04/Summary_Lumped_Modeling.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.93468 | 245 | 3.953125 | 4 |
After the mini-heat wave of last Friday and Saturday when temperatures soared to 41 degrees, the Met Office is forecasting some respite, with lower temperatures, scattered cloud, isolated showers and the possibility of storms over the next few days.
Increased clouds on Monday afternoon may lead to scattered showers and/or storms, particularly in the mountains, inland and south east. Temperatures will be 34 degrees inland, around 30 on the south and east coast, 28 west and north and 23 in the mountains.
Tuesday will start off sunny, but clouds in the afternoon are expected to bring local showers and isolated storms, which may be accompanied by hail.
Wednesday and Thursday, the weather will be mainly sunny with cloudy spells. Local rain and isolated showers are expected in the afternoon in the mountains, inland and the south coast. Storms may be accompanied hail. Temperatures will be higher on Wednesday, particularly inland and in the mountains. No significant change in temperatures is expected on Thursday.
Friday will be mainly clear with increased clouds locally from noon on. Temperatures will rise slightly. | <urn:uuid:081c2efc-516f-40c3-bbe1-01b4be9b8079> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://in-cyprus.philenews.com/news/local/some-respite-from-heat-scattered-showers-and-possible-storms-through-to-thursday/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.943092 | 216 | 1.875 | 2 |
We use devise gem for authentication in one of our applications. This application provides an API which uses token authentication provided by the devise gem.
We were authenticating the user using auth token for every API call.
1class Api::V1::BaseController < ApplicationController 2 before_action :authenticate_user_using_x_auth_token 3 before_action :authenticate_user! 4 5 def authenticate_user_using_x_auth_token 6 user_email = params[:email].presence || request.headers['X-Auth-Email'] 7 auth_token = request.headers['X-Auth-Token'].presence 8 9 @user = user_email && User.find_by(email: user_email) 10 11 if @user && Devise.secure_compare(@user.authentication_token, auth_token) 12 sign_in @user, store: false 13 else 14 render_errors('Could not authenticate with the provided credentials', 401) 15 end 16 end 17end
Everything was working smoothly initially, but we started noticing significant reduction in the response times during peak hours after a few months.
Because of the nature of the business, the application gets API calls for every user after every minute. Sometimes the application also get concurrent API calls for the same user. We noticed that in such cases, the users table was getting locked during the authentication process. This was resulting into cascading holdups and timeouts as it was affecting other API calls which were also accessing the users table.
After looking at the monitoring information, we found that the problem was happening due to the trackable module of devise gem. The trackable module keeps track of the user by storing the sign in time, sign in count and IP address information. Following queries were running for every API call and were resulting into exclusive locks on the users table.
1UPDATE users SET last_sign_in_at = '2018-01-09 04:55:04', 2current_sign_in_at = '2018-01-09 04:55:05', 3sign_in_count = 323, 4updated_at = '2018-01-09 04:55:05' 5WHERE users.id = $1
To fix this issue, we decided to skip the user tracking for the API calls. We don't need to track the user as every call is stateless and every request authenticates the user.
Devise provides a hook to achieve this for certain requests through the environment of the request. As we were already using a separate base controller for API requests, it was easy to skip it for all API calls at once.
1class Api::V1::BaseController < ApplicationController 2 before_action :skip_trackable 3 before_action :authenticate_user_using_x_auth_token 4 before_action :authenticate_user! 5 6 def skip_trackable 7 request.env['warden'].request.env['devise.skip_trackable'] = '1' 8 end 9end
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RUSSIA is set to issue a complete ban on all cryptocurrency trading and mining - essentially freezing $92billion worth of digital assets.
Moscow's central bank has proposed a blanket ban on the use and creation of all cryptocurrencies within the borders of Russia.
Russia is the third biggest crypto mining nation in the world - and currently has $92billion of assets held in 17 million crypto wallets.
Vladimir Putin's security services have reportedly complained that they consider cryptocurrency a problem.
In a new report, Russia's central bank said they consider crypto currency as "bearing the hallmarks of a pyramid scheme".
And it warned the bankers believe crypto poses a "threat to the Russian financial system" and undermines the country's economic sovereignty.
The central bank insisted it will not outlaw ownership of the crypto for citizens - but trades using the digital cash will be banned.
It is unclear how big an impact this will have on the already struggling and highly volatile crypto markets.
Bitcoin - the world's biggest cryptocurrency - has sagged, down 35.2 per cent since its record highs.
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However there had been signs of recovery as it peaked above $40,000 per coin earlier in the week.
The extreme volatility and sudden market falls are one of the reasons that investing in cryptocurrency is a very risky business.
You should never invest in something you don’t understand and make sure you don't put in money that you can't afford to lose.
Putin's central bank also claimed that crypto mining - which sees computer systems running to solve mathematical problems to get the coins - hurts the country's "green agenda".
"Potential financial stability risks associated with cryptocurrencies are much higher for emerging markets, including in Russia,” said the report by the Bank of Russia.
“This is due to the traditionally higher propensity for saving in foreign currency and an insufficient level of financial literacy.”
Bitcoin's price was sent crashing earlier this year after Russia's neighbour Kazakhstan cut the internet amid a wave of unrest.
Kazakhstan - which is the second-largest Bitcoin mining hub behind the US- accounted for 17 per cent of global Bitcoin output power.
It is likely the proposed ban in Russia on mining and trades will impact the value of crypto.
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) had lobbied for a blanket ban on crypto as it was increasingly used by opposition groups and undesirable media, reports Bloomberg.
However, Elizaveta Danilova, a director at the bank, insisted the new crackdown was not a total ban on owning crypto.
"We note that we are not proposing a ban on the ownership of cryptocurrencies by citizens,” she said.
Russia became the world’s third biggest crypto-miner last year, according to data Cambridge University.
Crypto mines exist in the country's north and in Siberia where temperatures are low and the power is cheap.
And this week, Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of Russia's lower parliamentary house, said there will create a regulatory plan established for crypto.
Putin's biggest rival Alexei Navalny accepted donations in crypto, with his office holding up to $4million in Bitcoin.
And the Meduza news site, which was labelled as a "foreign agent", has also received by cash in the form of crypto.
Meanwhile, it comes as its feared Russia may be on the verge of invading its neighbour Ukraine.
It would be a move that would likely rock the markets and potentially trigger a large war in Eastern Europe.
The risks of buying with cryptocurrencies
Investing and making a purchase in cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin is risky .
Their value is highly volatile and City watchdog the Financial Conduct Authority has warned investors should be prepared to lose all their money.
Investing in cryptocurrencies is not a guaranteed way to make money.
You should also think carefully about making purchases with a cryptocurrency.
For example, Bitcoin has had wild price fluctuations in recent months and the price can change on an almost hourly basis.
The price of a Bitcoin was at $40,258 on January 9, according to Coindesk, but fell to $34,214 just three days later.
That's a 15% drop.
These price swings are risky for a business as you could sell an item for a Bitcoin at one price and the value may drop soon after, leaving you with less money from a sale.
Similarly, the price of Bitcoin has soared by more than 21% since the start of this week so it can be hard for a shopper to get an accurate idea of the price of an item if its value changes on a daily basis. | <urn:uuid:50e261bf-2917-4a18-bc94-12eaee009a70> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.the-sun.com/money/4502351/russia-ban-cryptocurrency-trades-mining/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.960532 | 963 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Brake for DC Motor & Servo Motor
In motion systems, Brakes are used to stop motor rotation immediately in order to achieve precise position control. Assun manufactures brakes that deploy a mechanical braking system across both power-off and power-on brakes. Different classes of brake torque can be chosen depending on different motor and application conditions.
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CDC Updates Operational Strategy for K-12 Schools to Reflect New Evidence on Physical Distance in Classrooms
Embargoed Until: Friday, March 19, 2021, 12 p.m. ET
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is updating K–12 school guidance to reflect the latest science on physical distance between students in classrooms. CDC now recommends that, with universal masking, students should maintain a distance of at least 3 feet in classroom settings. CDC has updated its operational strategy to say:
- In elementary schools, CDC recommends all students remain at least 3 feet apart in classrooms where mask use is universal — regardless of whether community transmission is low, moderate, substantial, or high.
- In middle and high schools, CDC also recommends students should be at least 3 feet apart in classrooms where mask use is universal and in communities where transmission is low, moderate, or substantial.
- Middle school students and high school students should be at least 6 feet apart in communities where transmission is high, if cohorting is not possible. Cohorting is when groups of students are kept together with the same peers and staff throughout the school day to reduce the risk for spread throughout the school. This recommendation is because COVID-19 transmission dynamics are different in older students – that is, they are more likely to be exposed to SARS-CoV-2 and spread it than younger children.
The updated Operational Strategy for K-12 Schools through Phased Prevention is part of CDC’s existing resources for K–12 schools to open and remain open for in-person instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since release of the Operational Strategy on February 12, 2021, CDC has continually reviewed the evolving evidence on SARS-CoV-2 transmission in K–12 schools, as well as the latest science on the effectiveness of different prevention strategies within schools. The updated guidance complements CDC’s existing guidance, resources, and tools for K–12 schools.
Three studies, published in today’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), also address spread of SARS-CoV-2 in schools. Taken together, these studies build on evidence that physical distancing of at least 3 feet between students can safely be adopted in classroom settings where mask use is universal and other prevention measures are taken.
“CDC is committed to leading with science and updating our guidance as new evidence emerges,” said CDC Director Rochelle P. Walensky. “Safe in-person instruction gives our kids access to critical social and mental health services that prepare them for the future, in addition to the education they need to succeed. These updated recommendations provide the evidence-based roadmap to help schools reopen safely, and remain open, for in-person instruction.”
These updated recommendations are specific to students in classrooms with universal mask wearing.
CDC continues to recommend at least 6 feet of distance:
- Between adults in the school building and between adults and students.
- In common areas, such as school lobbies and auditoriums.
- When masks can’t be worn, such as when eating.
- During activities when increased exhalation occurs, such as singing, shouting, band practice, sports, or exercise. These activities should be moved outdoors or to large, well-ventilated spaces whenever possible.
- In community settings outside of the classroom.
Given the crucial services schools offer and the benefits of in-person learning, it is critical for K–12 schools to open and remain open for in-person instruction, as safely and as soon as possible. Schools should be the last settings to close because of COVID-19 and the first to reopen when they can do so safely. Working together, school leaders and community members can take actions to keep schools open for in-person learning by protecting students, teachers, and school staff where they live, work, learn, and play.
Vaccines are an important tool to help stop the COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier this month, as part of ongoing efforts to reopen K–12 schools, President Biden directed all states to prioritize K–12 teachers, school staff, and childcare workers for COVID-19 vaccination,pdf iconexternal icon and he challenged states to give these educators their first shots by the end of March. CDC is taking a leading role in helping to achieve the President’s goal through its Federal Retail Pharmacy Program, which has over 9,000 participating pharmacies nationwide prioritizing K-12 teachers, school staff, and childcare workers for vaccination appointments throughout the month of March. Additional information is available on the CDC website.
CDC works 24/7 protecting America’s health, safety and security. Whether disease start at home or abroad, are curable or preventable, chronic or acute, or from human activity or deliberate attack, CDC responds to America’s most pressing health threats. CDC is headquartered in Atlanta and has experts located throughout the United States and the world. | <urn:uuid:280a4d31-a62e-4f7e-a0d6-3544e98a159c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/p0319-new-evidence-classroom-physical-distance.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.950244 | 1,042 | 2.625 | 3 |
Emirate airline will no pay income tax which means this also provides tax gain to it. As more desire of item trading affected essential oil prices due to brokers weren't revealing the actual figure of scarcity of raw material.
British Airways was considered the largest UK airline by passenger numbers from its creation in untilwhen it was displaced by low-cost rival Easy Jet. In addition, the airline industry has witnessed the mergers and strategic alliances between airlines to strengthen their position in the market.
Neil Marquardt, Popular Essays. The slowdown of both the UK and US economies has affected Uk Airways as the company is becoming very vulnerable to financial instability.
The task might be intricate, but British Airways must try to convert the first time customers in to loyal customers.
British Airways is actually prepared to the change based on the environment which alo shows in their course of prepared action.
Also there are sufficient and strict barriers for exit which in reality kills the chance of any new entrant. BA take pride in their strong brand, high quality service and offer prestigious first class airport lounges to ensure that their customers are taken care of to the standard they expect for the prices they are paying.
Another important element of strategic planning is to position the business in a way that it thrives for a longer period of time. BA also use personal advertising techniques with their advert: Strategic planning is the process that an organization undertakes to ascertain its mission and way forward.
The company also needs to see a pastime of customers towards new places and develop new routes wherever possible. It is a member of the one world alliance together with Iberia, American Airlines and others.
This has surfaced up as a feature that can facilitate the organization to expand the competitive advantage. Uk Airways is also outlined in stock market of London. But after this move around in the aviation industry, British Airways took the right decisions like purchasing of Lavion Paris Airline, which was a noiseless successful for BA.
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It is a member of the one world alliance together with Iberia, American Airlines and others. These range from a mid-air collision ina pilot being sucked out of the aircraft when a windscreen exploded and in a BA plane at Heathrow missed the runway and crash-landed.
Presently, British Airways BA protects more than vacation spots. Their mission statement also retells their aim to achieve the status of the best airline universally. SWOT research is utilized as tool to clarify the difference between your both airlines. One of the main advantages of emirates flight is having its' focus on varied market and the entrance in to the cargo shipping proven very good for the company.
They must make sure that all the employees channelize their effort for the identical objective, i. This can be illustrated in the following figure.
British Airways Business Performance since The travel and tourism industry is moving towards including more renewable practices. The world going through severe crisis, so in order to manage fluently the BA should have cost cutting measures in place like reducing company travel to cover the loses also it is in a poor light with regards to the weak exchange rate of Pounds against Euro.
Following this, BA has been forced to cancel their entire summer season of flight programmes. As good performance at Heathrow drives good performance across the network, BA delivered its highest ever network-wide Ready to Go performance of 53 per cent.
Group structure of IAG 2. The UK has an ageing population as stated in 21st century challenges, which gives BA the chance to tap in as older people has more time in hand to travel and for leisure. The Threat to substitute is also Low, in view of the fact that it has very limited substitutes for long haul flights however for short haul flights there is a substitute available i.
The SWOT analysis of British Airways makes some critical points with regards to its placement as well as the threat of government regulations on BA.
Their principal place of business is London with significant presence at Heathrow, Gatwick & London City in UK but they also fly to other locations worldwide.
British isles airways Plc and many other subsidiaries companies make the complete Uk Airways group. Presently, British Airways(BA) protects more than vacation spots.
According to the data of the year /09, more than 34 million passengers have travelled through English Airways. A business analysis of British Airways PLC, an international airline, is provided, focusing on its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities for improvement and threats to the company. Market leader in UK with huge fleet size: British Airways reported the highest scheduled departures around 86, this August, along with American Airlines which accounts to around 45, of the scheduled departures, which also is an alliance of the British Airways.
British Airways. British Airways: Latest news and analysis about British Airways flights and strikes, as well as financial information for the merged International Consolidated Airlines. British Airways strategic initiative is a vital element in the idea of budding a business uniqueness of British Airways.
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What are your short term life goals?
Here are some examples of short-term goals to incorporate in your answer to this interview question: Learn a new set of skills. Advance into a supervisory role. Gain experience in team-building.
What are some good long term goals?
40 Long Term Goal Examples
- Become a Leader in your Field.
- Be Your Own Boss.
- Find a Career You Love.
- Get a Degree.
- Buy a House.
- Save Enough to Retire.
- Finding a Life Partner.
- Fund Your Children’s Education.
What are the example of short term goals?
A short term goal is a goal you can achieve in 12 months or less. Examples include: Take a class. Buy a new television.
What are some good short term goals?
Here are examples of some of the most relevant professional short-term objectives:
- Earn a new certificate or degree.
- Improve your performance numbers.
- Improve your networking and communication skills.
- Change your job.
- Improve your work-life balance.
- Waste less time during work hours.
- Make a website for yourself.
What are examples of academic goals?
10 educational goals examples
- Think positive to stay focused.
- Stay resilient.
- Make time to read.
- Manage your time.
- Find time to relax.
- Strive for excellence.
- Build a strong network.
- Build good study habits.
What is a smart long-term goal?
SMART goals are goals which are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. This specific criteria is easily remembered by using the acronym S-M-A-R-T. You should also know: We’ll also look at how SMART goals can be used to improve both your personal and professional life.
What are personal and academic goals?
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We are pleased to announce that the annual Spring labor history series sponsored by N.C. Triad Jobs with Justice returns for 2013! This year the theme will be “In the Current Crisis – The U.S. Labor Movement Fights Back!”
August 26, 2011
The Triad chapter of Jobs with Justice labor history classes return as a film series for Fall 2011. Screenings will be held Sunday afternoons from September 11 to October 16.
March 25, 2011
100 years ago today in New York City, 146 workers, mostly young immigrant girls, jumped to their deaths from the 10-story building, unable to escape a fire because factory foremen had locked all the doors. The owners, Isaac Harris and Max Blanck, worried the workers would steal from the company.
October 1, 2010
If you don’t know your history… North Carolina Triad Jobs with Justice is sponsoring a U.S. labor history class on five Sunday afternoons in a row beginning on October 24th and ending on November 21st. The title of the class is: “The Historical Struggle for Working Class Unity in the USA and the Way Forward […] | <urn:uuid:355b86c4-68d1-45be-b32d-6d07e062d4a0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aflcionc.org/tag/u-s-labor-history/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.939341 | 250 | 1.726563 | 2 |
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