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by Molly Donnermeyer
Does the arrival of a New Year fill you with a sense of wanderlust? What are your travel resolutions? Currently on view in the Mary R. Schiff Library and Archives, are a selection of travel guide books.
The modern guide book originated in the 1830s. The absence of any acceptable guide books let many like John Murray and Karl Baedeker to create their own. Their guides were designed with the traveler in mind. Murray’s Handbook for Travelers first published in London in 1836 introduced the idea of “sights” and ranking attractions by order of their significance. A travel guide that contained information on an entire region, with detailed maps and routes, and descriptions of restaurants and accommodations, including prices was a novel concept at the time.
Whether you are planning the Grand Tour or prefer the comforts of mental travel, come to the library for inspiration.
The Cincinnati Art Museum is supported by the generosity of tens of thousands of contributors to the ArtsWave Community Campaign, the region's primary source for arts funding.
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With all the free time that you’re going to have this summer, you should go on an adventure in San Francisco! All our students come from the Peninsula/South Bay Area, meaning that San Francisco is just a short, 30-40 minute drive away! During the summer, San Francisco is known for its cool weather, making it an ideal place to escape the summer heat! Below, we’ve listed some ideas for activities you could do in the city!
1) Go jogging in Golden Gate Park! Take advantage of the cool summer weather to exercise in arguably most beautiful park on the West Coast! Once you’re in the neighborhood, you can also explore De Anza Art Museum and the California Academy of Sciences!
2) Watch the sunset on Ocean Beach in the Sunset District! This beach faces the Pacific Ocean, and is located on the western border of the city! This beach usually isn’t very busy, making it an ideal place to watch those perfect summer sunsets!
3) Go explore Mission! The Mission District is located near the center of the city, and is known for its beautiful public art, vibrant atmosphere, and amazing Latin American food. Grab a burrito at a taqueria, enjoy the murals, and duck into any of the bookstores in the area!
4) If you’re in Mission, you might as well visit Castro as well! Summer is an especially optimal time to visit this gay-friendly neighborhood, especially since San Francisco’s Gay Pride Parade happens in June! Throughout history, the Castro has been considered one of the world’s most diverse and open-minded neighborhoods!
We hope that this blog post inspired you to travel up to San Francisco this summer! For more ideas to spend this coming summer, visit The Mathnasium of Palo Alto/Menlo Park.
School is almost out and that means that Summer break is right around the corner. Breathe deep and relax. You can do it, just a couple more tests and you can relax from the normal school schedule. Freedom is a few weeks away.
Now while Summer often mean trips to museums, parks, beaches and other places Summer fun it also means Summer Brain Drain.
Summer Brain Drain is the learning lost during the summer months. During the 3 months of summer break, most students lose approximately 2 months of grade level equivalency with mathematics computation skills.
While some schools offer reading and practice math packets home, its fairly common that most kids run out of things to do. Very often many parents struggle to find enough activities for their children to do and keep them occupied.
While Summer Brain Drain can be a nasty it can be prevented. That lost knowledge can be preserved by practicing and sharpening your skills for an hour per day or even an hour every other day. That leaves you with over 160 hours to have fun, sleep, travel and destress from the chaos that comes with the school year.
Luckily Mathnasium of Palo Alto/Menlo Park keeps its doors open and the AC on during the summer months offering quality tutoring. Our program is perfect for keeping those freshly learned skills sharp and gives students the opportunity they need to take on that next year strong and easy.
So come on in this Summer to help prevent Summer brain drain and spend some time with Mathnasium of Palo Alto/ Menlo Park.
With summer coming up so soon, students in Palo Alto/Menlo Park are already looking forward to long, lazy days free of schoolwork. To indulge in these summer fantasies, we at Mathnasium have been publishing summer themed math problems! One thing that sets summer apart from the other seasons is that it’s always warm enough outside to eat ice cream! With that in mind, here are some ice cream themed math problems.
1) At Millie’s Ice Cream Shop, customers can buy a triple-special during the summer. A triple-special consists of 3 of the following flavors: chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, mango, mint chocolate chip, and green tea (where flavors can be repeated). How many possible combinations are there for the summer triple-special?
2) For every dollar that a customer spends on ice cream over the summer, 11 cents in tips are paid (on average, made up statistic). How much would customers need to spend on ice cream for there to be $100 in tips?
3) During your summer job at Long’s Ice Cream Shop, you scoop out ice cream with a spherical scooper. If that diameter of the scooper is 2.5 inches, what’s the volume of ice cream that it can scoop up? (Imagine that the ice cream that can be scooped out is perfectly spherical in shape).
4) During the summer, sales rise 52%, compared with spring sales. If Melissa’s Ice Cream Parlour served 9,321 customers over the spring season, how many customers did they serve over the summer?
We hope you enjoyed these ice-cream themed problems, to prepare you for the summer! For more fun ways to learn math, visit The Mathnasium of Palo Alto-Menlo Park.
In Palo Alto and Menlo Park, many families decide to go abroad during summer vacation! Traveling during the summer opens students up to new cultures and experiences, so we highly recommend it! Since summer is coming up in just a couple months, here are a few math problems to get you looking forward to the summer!
1. A family of four buys plane tickets to London for the summer. If economy class tickets cost $1200 each, and business class tickets cost $2000, how much more expensive are business class tickets? (express as a percentage)
2. You’re in Japan for the summer! While at a restaurant in Tokyo, you mentally calculate the bill in your head (all that practice at Mathnasium is coming in useful!). You order 2 servings of shrimp sashimi ($3 each), 1 serving of unagi rolls ($5) and one bowl of udon soup ($6). If tax is 10%, how much does the meal cost?
3. You’re bored at the airport, waiting for your flight to Rio de Janeiro, and you’re planning activities to do on the plane. If the flight is around 11 hours, how many movies can you watch? Assume that each movie you watch is about 3 hours.
4. In Mumbai, the average temperature over the summer is 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Convert it to Celcius! To convert temperatures in degrees Fahrenheit to Celcius, subtract 32 and divide by 1.8.
We hope you enjoyed these math problems! Regardless of whether you travel or not this summer, we hope you spend lots of time with your friends and family!
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Borman was most probably a pupil of Laurens Craen in Middelburg during the early 1650s. Borman is later documented in Leiden, The Hague and finally Amsterdam, where he moved to in 1659.
Typical of Borman are the thin leaves with wavy margins and
strongly pronounced veins.
The broken stone ledge holds a Vanitas message; it makes us reflect upon the transient character of life.
About Johannes Borman
The Hague circa 1620/25 – 1660/79 Amsterdam
Still life painter.
Borman’s small oeuvre mainly consists of fruit pieces, but there are also some examples with flowers known.
Dated works known between 1653 and 1660.
His main inspiration seems to have been the work of Laurens Craen (possibly The Hague circa 1620 – 1663/1670 possibly Middelburg).Craen had probably worked near Jan Davidsz. de Heem in Antwerp in the mid-1640s. De Heem, who had been active in Leiden, Utrecht and in Antwerp, was the most famous still life painter of the Low Countries of the 17th century.
Craen was active in Middelburg from 1649. In view of Borman’s strong dependence on Craen’s work, it would seem likely that he spent some time in Middelburg as Craen’s pupil, perhaps during the early 1650s.
Borman was a member of the Painter’s Guild in Leiden in 1658. He had apparently already settled in Leiden in 1653.
But in 1659 he was already a citizen and member of the Painter’s Guild in Amsterdam. In that same year he is also still mentioned as a painter active in The Hague.
Typical of Borman are the thin leaves with wavy margins and strongly pronounced veins.
Why should you buy this painting?
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If you have an iPad and would like to know how to reset your iPad password, this article may help. Many people have had their iPads get locked by random users and need to know how to reset iPad password. By using a free third-party application called “ios unlock”, you can regain access to your tablet.
You probably realized that when you purchased your device, it came with a default user ios device code. Apple uses this device code to identify your computer as being owned by them. Unfortunately, every time you use your device, this passcode is used every time you turn it on, so it’s extremely important that you know how to reset your iPad password.
Fortunately, there are several ways of doing this. Most of these methods are simple, requiring nothing more than a few minutes of your time. You can attempt a factory reset, which is self-explanatory. This method also offers the advantage that you’ll be able to restore nearly all settings and features on your device. This is a popular choice among those who have forgotten their passcodes or simply want to try resetting it without having to spend any money on a professional.
The simplest method of resetting your iPad is to simply erase all of its files and settings. While this may sound like a viable option for some, it is actually the most damaging. Any data on these files will be lost, including everything found on your internal flash drive. If you do not take the necessary precautions to back up your data after factory resetting your device, you are setting yourself up for serious, irreversible damage.
Fortunately, there is a much easier way to reset your iPad with the click of a button. After you boot up your machine, hold down the Sleep/Wake button for about 30 seconds. The reset button will appear on your screen, allowing you to easily turn it off with a double click. After you’ve done so, you can safely remove the Sleep/Wake button and reset the iPad through the restore option on the device.
If you wish to avoid incurring data loss after resetting, you should carefully backup your work before you begin resetting your iPad. It is not recommended to attempt a factory reset when the backup is not available. If your backup is not complete, you might find yourself unable to turn it off. If your backup is not complete, you’ll likely lose some data on your iPad. If you’re unable to successfully back up your device before starting your reset process, you should contact your computer’s manufacturer for assistance.
If your primary operating system is not jailbreak enabled, like Apple’s Mac OS X, you can reset your iPad with the click of a button by using a third-party tool. There are many third-party software programs that allow you to perform a restore without having to modify your existing backup. The restore without modification tool works similarly to a factory reset, with the exception that it does not modify your computer’s data. This restores without hassle method is one of the best options for people who want to perform a restore without going through the complications associated with a factory reset. You should check your third-party restore program’s compatibility and safety ratings before installing and using it.
If you’re looking for more information on how to reset the iPad, you’ll likely be interested in reading some of the many resources online. These include tips for doing a restore, such as what to delete and what to restore. In some cases, it is necessary to use a third-party device or application in order to successfully reset the iPad. As an example, if you have purchased an iPad with a keyboard but want to make changes to its settings or applications, you may want to use a third-party app that allows you to change your screen’s layout, size, or appearance. Whether you are looking for how to reset the iPad’s default settings or other methods for performing a reset, these three solutions should be sufficient for your needs. | <urn:uuid:055de0b2-d5aa-4071-b857-fa98dfdd2c8d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://skepticmag.com/2020/09/17/how-to-delete-and-change-ipad-settings/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.945869 | 830 | 1.5625 | 2 |
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the incircles of triangles ABD, ABC, and BDC. If BE = 4, and BG =
5, find the measure of DF.
Incircle is a circle within a triangle, that is tangent to each side.
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MONEY! A SCREENING FOR BLACK MARKET
Black Market appears in the frame of Artbrussels 2016, as a space to display the use of black market strategies in artistic creation and to investigate the topic of circulation beneath the realm of the visible. And by emerging in the specifc context of the fair, the Black Market raises a question on the differentiation and contiguity of black and white. Among a challenging program that proposes lectures, workshops, moments of discussion and performances, Argos presents Money! a thematic screening in which wealth and currency become means to understand cultural and social relations. With an unconventional documentary style, these works reveal the omnipresence and unavoidability of money in our societies, but they also propose poetics of resistance.
Claudio Pazienza - L'argent raconté aux enfants et à leurs parents
2002, video, colour, 53', French and Italian spoken, English subtitles.
L’argent raconté aux enfants et à leurs parents (Money told to children and their parents) scrutinizes the metallic gauntness of a room with modesty and humour and tells - by bits - the story of a working family incapable of combining needs and desires. There is nothing naive about L'Argent raconté aux enfants et à leurs parents, it is a tragicomedy dealing with debt, ties, filial love and money. Morality: is debt the cost of the social link?
Roy Villevoye - Voice-Over
2014, video, colour, 21'18", Asmati and Dutch spoken, English subtitles.
In the tropical rainforest Papuans create a large, traditional sculpture to commemorate a recently deceased family member, Omoma. The Latter's friend, the filmmaker, watches the ritual closely. At the same time, elsewhere, he becomes embroiled in a business conflict. A painful confrontation between two worlds with 'The sculpture' as the transgressive symbol of life on the one hand, and big money on the other.
Sarah Vanagt - Money Exchange
2005, video, colour, 2'30", Kinyarwanda spoken, English subtitles.
April in Rwanda; the month of mourning in the new Rwandan calendar. While the country is commemorating the 10th anniversary of the genocide, children play games. Sarah Vanagt spent the Easter holiday in an orphanage village, a "children's republic" situated in the war-torn border zone between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Followed by a conversation with Sarah Vanagt.
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AI Super Details “Smart Transportation” launched Li Yanhong 300 words to generate 200,000 words of voice works
On April 21, on the eve of the World Reading Day, AI’s “Smart Transportation” was launched on the Himalayan APP. This audio work based on Baidu’s chairman and CEO Li Yanhong’s “Smart Transportation”, using about 300 public voice data of Li Yanhong, created through AIGC (AI automatic generating content) technology. Its audio synthesis effect is almost the original sound, and ordinary users are basically unable to distinguish the sound and synthetic sound.
“Intelligent Transportation” has a total of 86 episodes. It is launched in 21 episodes on the first day. It is updated 2 episodes per day. Users can listen directly for “Smart Traffic Voice Books” on Baidu. From the 200,000 -character professional text to the super -real audio work, behind the successful creation of “Smart Transportation” is the leading advantage of Baidu’s voice synthesis technology. At present, only 9 sentences are required and waiting for 5 minutes. Baidu voice synthesis technology can be re -engraved with user sound. 300 sentences can generate audio content comparable to the professional sound library.
As the only company in the industry that can provide a large -scale product -level personalized voice synthesis service within 10 sentences in the industry, Baidu related technologies have already been applied to various products, such as Baidu map attracting more than 600 celebrities to enter the voice square to achieve personalization Customized vocal packets, the number of playback times a day is 200 million.
“Smart Transportation” has the book “Intelligent Transportation: A Major Reform of Human Traffic: Affects Humans in the next 10-40 years” written by Li Yanhong. This is the monograph on the current status and prospects of China’s smart transportation development. The book believes that my country has a leading scientific and technological talent dividends, rich artificial intelligence application scenarios, and an unparalleled good policy environment. Intelligent transportation construction will definitely go at the forefront of the world. In the future, the intelligent transportation system constructed by new technologies, new concepts, and new models will be expected to reduce traffic safety accidents by 90%; within 10 years, relying on the improvement of traffic efficiency, the problem of urban congestion will be basically resolved; with the shared unmanned vehicle, it will be shared; Popularization, the demand for private cars will be greatly reduced.
In the digital era, the demand for content production has continued to increase. AIGC (AI Generated Content, AI Automatic Generation) represented by TTS technology (voice synthesis) has become an emerging content production method. This method specifically includes creativity (such as themes, ideas, etc.) through AI, generating materials (such as text, drawing, dubbing, etc.), and finally produces content in an automatic arrangement synthesis. In the future, it may take only a few seconds to generate the content that can be created in the past for a few days and energy. This is not only simple efficiency improvement, but also opens more possibilities, which stimulates creative ideas and creative cognition that humans have never gained.
AIGC’s application development depends on the support of AI full -stack technical capabilities. As a leader in the domestic AI field, Baidu has laid out artificial intelligence for more than ten years. It has built the world’s largest knowledge map. Computer vision, voice, language and other core technical capabilities are the leading industry. Higher learning efficiency and better universality, AIGC will achieve large -scale applications with the help of large -model comprehensive technical capabilities of large models.
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Lab-grown organoids, mimicking fallopian tubes, could help prevent ovarian cancer, research shows
UCLA Health Connect blog
Ovarian cancer is the leading cause of gynecologic cancer death in the U.S. UCLA Health’s Beth Karlan, MD, working with stem cell researcher Clive N. Svendsen, PhD, has developed what promises to be a game-changing approach in the treatment of ovarian cancer, a silent killer that often goes undetected until its final stages.
Ovarian cancer strikes almost two out of every 100 women. But for those who carry a mutated form of the BRCA1 gene, their risk of developing this most deadly of all gynecological diseases is 30 times higher than among the general population.
Gaining a better understanding of this hereditary genetic threat is one of the most pressing issues in gynecologic health. For that reason, it has become the life’s work of internationally renowned gynecological oncologist Dr. Karlan, a pioneer in her field and director of Cancer Population Genetics at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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What you need to know about exercise during menopause
With peri-menopause comes lower levels of oestrogen, and with that women lose the protective benefits oestrogen provides to our hearts, our bones, and our brains.
So although weight gain is one concern at this stage of life that might drive women to feel the need to exercise, the other health benefits are less visible yet life-savingly important. Peri-menopause is a time to start taking your health more seriously – and exercise is an excellent medicine.
In choosing a particular kind of exercise for yourself, you need to examine your relationship with exercise. Do you view it as punishment, as a reward, or is it just another thing to check off your daily to-do list? Would you really enjoy the stress associated with crossfit-style competitive motivation – will this help your adrenal stress levels? Or do you perceive it as fun?
What symptoms of menopause are you having most difficulty with? Your sense of wellbeing is connected to your serotonin levels, and it has recently been found that 10 minutes of stretching before bed-time can reduce the intensity of hot flushes and also depression. So maybe some mind-body connection and focus on breathing is what you need to reduce stress levels.
You also need to pay heed to the laws of physics when it comes to pelvic floor strength. Trauma from child-bearing or birth often doesn’t manifest itself until 20 years later, when the strength loss from oestrogen decline leaves you in less control of your pelvic floor, and you find yourself suffering from urinary or faecal incontinence, or even prolapse. High impact exercise will probably not be a good place to start if you are coming back to exercise for the first time in ages.
The Verve Women’s Wellness programme at Unichem Faulkner’s Pharmacy has experts to help you get back to your best self. We can refer you to relevant reading, products, or healthcare specialists that can further help you on your journey to wellness.Posted on: September 18, 2016 | <urn:uuid:697fc05f-9a43-4c7b-a018-4b930687f23e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vervewellness.co.nz/exercise-during-menopause/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.960089 | 433 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Many Albertans have an illness, injury or condition which makes mobility difficult and therefore effects every aspect of our day-to-day lives, from working to participating in hobbies or exercising. Physiotherapy is performed by physiotherapists. Physiotherapists are experts on how your body moves and what stops it from moving. As movement specialists, physiotherapists will use a hands-on approach to help you restore, maximize and maintain movement for the rest of your life. In Alberta, physiotherapy is a regulated health-care profession. This means only qualified professionals can become registered physiotherapists and use the titles physiotherapist, physical therapist or PT.
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By Jane West
The unfolding counter-revolution in Egypt has been an object lesson in the correctness of Lenin’s insistence on the need to analyse each situation from the point of view of the interrelation of all classes and social layers if its dynamics are to be understood and the correct class lines identified.
Since the beginning of this year Socialist Action has warned that the military and Mubarakite forces in Egypt were preparing the conditions for a counter-revolutionary coup. This analysis has been proven correct in the bloody unfolding of events in Egypt.
Despite the evidence of deepening coup plans, regrettably most of the left in Britain failed to see what was occurring. They believed that the unfolding dynamic of events was a further step forward in a revolution, when in fact it was the open preparation of counter-revolution. In other words, they were not able to tell a counter-revolution from a revolution.
This failure of analysis meant that even when the counter-revolutionary coup had actually taken place it was initially either claimed that this is not what had taken place or that it had not actually taken place yet.
Thus Socialist Worker on 9 July headlined its analysis ‘Egypt – a second revolution sweeps out a president’. The day before, Counterfire wrote that ‘The fall of Morsi wasn’t a military coup, but the danger is that it will lead to one.’
Tragically the overthrow of Morsi was not a ‘second revolution’ but a counter-revolution. It was also precisely a ‘military coup’. The world can see more clearly everyday that what unfolded in Egypt was not a step forward in a revolution but a brutal and bloody counter-revolution – one that was carefully prepared for months and which adopted precise tactics to ensure its success.
It is obviously vital that those who attempt to provide political leadership in the class struggle have to be able to tell a counter-revolution from a revolution. Any method of analysis that does not allow you to tell the difference between the two is a fundamentally wrong one. It is therefore necessary to be clear about the real processes which took place in Egypt and what wrong method of analysis led to these wrong judgements on the dynamic of events and what actually occurred.
How the Egyptian counter-revolution was prepared
In the period leading to Egypt’s counter-revolution it was not enough to see that there were big demonstrations against Morsi to conclude that this meant a new phase of the Egyptian revolution was being launched – as much of the left appeared to believe. In order to judge the character and dynamic of these actions it was necessary to first understand what class forces were encouraging and orchestrating these protests, which forces led and controlled them, and what their outcome would be.
A slogan ‘Down with Morsi’ can evidently unite a wide range of class forces that have entirely different reasons for their opposition and different proposals as to what should replace him. The question is which class forces are leading and controlling this process and where is it going?
It was crystal clear from the end of 2012 that a coalition of the Egyptian army and Mubarakists had moved from just obstructing the progress to democracy in the Egyptian state – dissolving the Parliament, resisting the replacement of Mubarakite judges and officials, putting off the elections – to preparing the ground for a complete counter-revolutionary coup. An article which appeared on Socialist Action’s website on 13 February this year explained the unfolding process. Its title was self-explanatory: ‘Israel, Saudi Arabia and US preparing a coup in Egypt’. The article started:
‘Imperialism and Israel have never reconciled themselves to the 2011 overthrow of their client Mubarakist regime in Egypt. Israel and the US perfectly understand that not only is Egypt the most populous Arab state but it is the decisive one from the point of view of any military confrontation with the Zionist state.
‘The Saudi Arabian dictatorship, concerned above all with its own survival, is terrified by any unrest in the Arab world and looks to the US and Israel as the only reliable pillars to support it.
‘None of them consider the moderate Muslim Brotherhood dominated presidency of Mohamed Morsi radical. But nothing other than the purest of client regimes in Egypt is acceptable to the US, Israel or Saudi Arabia. They are therefore determined to restore a Mubarakist regime, without the former dictator, in Egypt.’
The tactics of the coup plotters, aimed at preparing and providing a cover for this counter-revolution, included carefully integrating into their preparations pro-Western liberals and old-style Nasserite forces.. These latter groups could usefully carry out mobilisations for actions that would be fully headed by the counter-revolutionary Mubarakists and their US, Saudi and Israeli backers.
Tragically, sections of the socialist left also put their opposition to Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood’s variant of political Islam above the more fundamental class line of divide with the forces of the previous regime and the army and went along with this. Their support for the anti-Morsi demonstration on 30th June, called by a coalition of the right, liberals, Salafists and Nasserites backed by the army, further legitimised the army’s actions so that it could claim to be operating on behalf of a coalition that represented the ‘real’ will of the Egyptian people.
The Muslim brotherhood
There is no doubt that since the outbreak of the Arab spring the Muslim Brotherhood forces across the Middle East have had a thoroughly wrong orientation. Instead of taking the Arab uprisings as the basis for forging a new alliance of all those forces to some degree in conflict with imperialism and its puppet regimes, the Muslim Brotherhood made a bloc with imperialism against secular Arab nationalism. Rather than seeking alliances with Arab nationalism and the left it united with imperialism against Gaddafi in Libya and Assad in Syria.
By making this political orientation the Muslim brotherhood entered into alliance with those forces that were actually determined to cut its throat – and which are currently doing so quite literally (although machine guns used against crowds achieve the same ends with quicker and bloodier results).
The Muslim Brotherhood went beyond any tactical compromises to avoid a premature clash with the Egyptian army into putting faith in the idea that, if its subsidy from the US was guaranteed, the army could be relied on to stay out of politics. Attempts were made to appease the US and Israel by not even taking very serious steps to end the blockade of Gaza.
On the basis of this compromise with imperialism and its entirely erroneous belief that it either had or could neutralise the army, the Muslim Brotherhood set its face against building any internal coalition with the Nasserites and secular nationalists or indeed the left, and instead attempted to lead the ‘new Egypt’ on the basis of the support for political Islam alone.
Not only did this seriously weaken the forces standing against imperialism in the Middle East, but it robbed the Brotherhood of the support in the region and in Egypt by the key forces that would defend it when imperialism – as it inevitably would – turned on it. The Muslim Brotherhood made a disastrous mistake of seeing Assad in Syria, not the US and its puppets, as its fundamental enemy.
However, none of these disastrous errors and misjudgements, which allowed imperialism and its Mubarakist puppets to isolate the Muslim Brotherhood and undermine its political support, alter the fundamental class line of divide – which is that the Egyptian army, its US backers, and its Israeli and Saudi supporters, are the most fundamental enemy faced by the Egyptian people. The reinstatement of the role of the army is far worse than Morsi, both for the struggle against imperialism (including in Gaza) and for the resulting internal repression of democratic debate and social struggle within Egypt.
The coup places in command those who organised a 30-year period of repression, summary executions, torture and terror that disfigured Egypt before the 2011 uprising. While the key target is the Muslim Brotherhood today, any serious opposition to the army from the Nasserites, liberals or the left will rapidly make them its targets too.
That is why it is a deep tragedy, and a sign of total political disorientation, that large parts of the left in Egypt gave the counter-revolutionary coup plans a left cover by joining an unprincipled bloc against Morsi and uncritically supporting the demonstrations being co-ordinated between the army and Mubarakists to provide the excuse for his forcible ousting. In this way the disorientation of the left in Egypt aided the coming to power of the counter-revolution which is now unfolding.
The reason for these errors
Two fundamental errors of politics lay behind the failure to correctly analyse the situation, to understand the difference between a counter-revolution and a revolution, and therefore to arrive at drawing the class line where it rightly belonged.
First, and most straightforward, a large part of the left placed its opposition to Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood variant of political Islam above the more fundamental division between the working class on the one hand and the imperialist-backed Egyptian army and Mubarakism on the other. That is it formed a bloc with the Mubarakists against Morsi.
Whatever its wrong positions, the Muslim Brotherhood presidency was an advance over the previous Mubarakite regime, as is now being demonstrated daily. It may have pursued a politically sectarian line to its potential allies internally, but the repressive apparatus of the state was held in check compared to either the Mubarak period or what is unfolding now, there were no mass arrests and killings on anything like the scale that is now being witnessed, and its claim to legitimacy rested on a democratic process that it was pledged to continue.
Socialists don’t have the luxury of sitting on the sidelines, hankering for an illusory ‘third camp’ or citing ‘neutrality’ when the state launches a coup, rounds up opponents, massacres protesters and stages show trials. Even less should they be mobilising in a bloc with those who are preparing a counter-revolution.
Sadly even the reality of an actual counter-revolutionary coup and massacres of Muslim Brotherhood protesters has still not penetrated some of the left. Some of the main currents of the socialist left in Egypt – and a few here – continue to explicitly or de facto endorse the coup. While claiming to be against military rule, they shamefully endorse the outcome of the coup – the overthrow of Morsi – and the method of achieving it.
This is as morally and politically bankrupt as saying to a thief that you condemn them for stealing but perhaps they should give the proceeds to you. And the Egyptian army is even less likely to hand over power to the left in Egypt than the thief is likely to hand over their swag.
However, there is another fundamental error in the analytical method which meant the coup preparations were not identified, and the mobilisations on 30th June were falsely characterised as a ‘second phase of the revolution’ rather than a cover for a counter-revolutionary coup.
To understand this error requires a return to Lenin.
Lenin insistently asserted that the political line of the working class could not be based on an analysis of its own situation alone but must be based on an analysis of the relations between all classes and groups in society. As he put it in Left-Wing Communism: ‘the Communist Party… must act on scientific principles. Science… demands that account must be taken of all the forces, groups, parties, classes and masses operating in a given country’ (Lenin V. I., 1920a, p.81). This is simply an application of the fundamental Marxist concept of the totality.
For Lenin, as a Marxist, the ‘subject’ of the revolutionary process (that which acted, that which needed to achieve class consciousness) was the working class. But Lenin pointed out that what the proletariat needed to understand and therefore to act upon – that is the ‘object’ – was not only itself but the interrelation of ‘all the forces, groups, parties, classes and masses.’
As opposed to this insistence of Lenin – that a political line has to be based on analysis of the interrelation of all classes – many currents on the left have adopted a different philosophical approach – that the working class is indeed the ‘subject’ of the revolutionary process, but that to determine the correct line of action it needs to acquire the fullest knowledge not of ‘all the forces, groups, parties, classes and masses’ but only of itself. Instead of analysing the interrelation of all classes they analyse only the situation of the working class.
Put in crude terms it leads to the entirely non-Marxist and non-Leninist concept that ‘if there are a lot of people involved it must be progressive.’ Those who want to understand this issue from a more fundamental point of view should read the article on this website ‘Lenin versus the early Lukács’.
In reality those preparing the counter-revolution in Egypt well understood that, given the scale of mobilisation that had overthrown Mubarak and brought Morsi to power, they would themselves have to assemble a reactionary bloc – exploiting the wrong line of the Muslim Brotherhood to do so.
The steps in this were clear. Egypt’s economy was deliberately sabotaged by preventing any economic aid being delivered. Relentless media campaigns against Morsi were waged. Attacks on Copt churches were carried out to sow sectarian divisions. Attempts to purge Mubarakite officials were presented as ‘attacks on democracy’.
The aim of this entire operation was to sew together a coalition of liberals, Salafists, Mubarakists, Nasserites and others to ‘defend democracy’ against Morsi. Leadership in this, of course, was held by the Mubarakite army, which far from ‘defending democracy’ had the intention of destroying both it and the mass movement, with a ruthlessness and bloodshed that Morsi never remotely approached.
The coup preparations were clear from early in the year. Key opposition players knew this was the endgame. El-Baradei and the pro-Western liberals were entirely complicit. In March this year El-Baradei went to the UAE (where most of the Mubarakist leaders fled to in 2011) and met with Crown Prince Bin Zayed and Shafiq – the Mubarakists’ defeated candidate for President against Morsi. They agreed that the only route was an army coup against Morsi, which the exiled Mubarakists had been secretly organising for since 2012, and set about lobbying for Western support.
The WSJ has revealed that there were regular meetings in Egypt between the topg enerals and representatives of the opposition leaders, where the Army agreed to topple Morsi if enough protesters could be got onto the streets to provide a cover for their actions.
The anti-Morsi petition by the previously little known Tamarod became the political vehicle to organise this mobilisation. The small founding group were backed by powerful business interests, getting free advertising including on Egypt’s most viewed TV channels and subsidised office space, while signatures were collected through not just the liberal opposition channels but the full weight of the Mubarakist political machine was thrown behind it.
The agitation around the petition created the push behind the mobilisation on 30th June, the key plank in the plan for the army to carry out its coup.
All this was plain to see for those examining not just the rebellious mood developing among the masses, but what political forces were driving this process, the central role of the Mubarakists, the complicity of the right-wing Arab states, and the role of the army. A full-scale counter-revolution was in progress, within which the participants in the mass demonstrations just had a walk-on part, not a leading role.
But for a left mesmerised by the sight of a large demonstration this was disregarded. Instead of seeing the looming counter-revolution the left comforted itself with the mantra that ‘revolution is a process’. But so is counter-revolution, and that is what the demonstrations were orchestrated to facilitate.
As Adam Shatz accurately put it in an intelligent and clear article on his LRB blog: ‘So this is how it ends: with the army killing more than 600 protesters, and injuring thousands of others, in the name of restoring order and defeating “terrorism”. The victims are Muslim Brothers and other supporters of the deposed president Mohammed Morsi, but the ultimate target of the massacres of 14 August is civilian rule. Cairo, the capital of revolutionary hope two years ago, is now its burial ground.’
It is not surprising that the pro-Western liberals, Nasserites, the Emirs and Sheikhs of the Middle East, the Mubarakists and the rightist Islamists had illusions in or promoted the ‘democratic’ credentials of army and the state. This is deep in their political raison d’etre.
What is more shocking is that sections of the socialist left were drawn into this trap and have still not drawn the evident conclusions about the coup and its own dreadful misjudgement.
Now – although this is too late as it is after the counter-revolution has take place – more correct headlines are emerging. For example Counterfire now described the situation as ‘The return of the military Pharaohs’. And Socialist Worker admits to the scale of the crackdown: ‘Egypt’s morgues overflow as military massacres hundreds.’
This is good, but Marxism is not about being able to belatedly recognise a counter-revolution after it has taken place. It is about being able to understand a social dynamic as it is happening and therefore what attitude to take towards it. As noted at the beginning, a political method that cannot distinguish a counter-revolution from a revolution as it is unfolding, and not merely when the counter-revolution is openly walking the streets, is totally wrong.
Socialist Action clearly explained step by step this year the preparation of a counter-revolution in Egypt, while those who had a wrong method of analysis falsely believed a developing counter-revolution was a new stage in a revolution. Events have very tragically shown which of these two analyses was correct
Anyone who seriously wants to learn from such errors should fundamentally reject the wrong methods of analysis that led to it. This means returning to a Lenin’s method of considering the interrelation of all classes and layers in society. This, not populism, is what leads to the accurate analysis of the situation. It is the approach Socialist Action took to judging the situation in Egypt and why its method of analysis was proved correct.
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The logistics industry is undergoing a serious technological revolution. The space, which was once characterized by its reticence to embrace modern solutions, has changed rapidly since the ELD mandate went into effect almost five years ago. Now, it is clear that technology offers a pathway to a safer – and more profitable – future.
Additionally, the freight market has experienced a slow but steady softening over the past few months, balancing the pricing power between shippers and carriers. As spot rates fall, carriers should expect shippers to once again begin negotiating lower contract rates. In order to prepare for this move, carriers can focus on cutting waste and optimizing their operations now. For most carriers, embracing technology is the most effective way to achieve this goal.
There is a lot of buzz around emerging technologies like autonomous and electric vehicles, and there is certainly a place for these cutting edge solutions in longer-term technology plans. In the immediate future, however, Averitt EVP of Sales and Marketing Kent Williams believes focusing on technologies aimed at making existing equipment — and workforces — more efficient offers the best chance at creating a more productive fleet.
Solutions such as route optimization and real-time visibility are beneficial regardless of what is happening in the market. These tools allow carriers to optimize their movements by reducing deadhead and cutting down on wasted fuel, which leads to both higher profitability and a smaller carbon footprint.
Newer safety technologies — like front-collision braking, interactive cruise control, blind-spot and lane-departure warnings and anti-rollover technology — may just be the unsung hero of the industry, according to Williams.
These technologies have the power to make trucking safer for both truck drivers and the motoring public by reducing distractions in the cab and limiting the potential for human error. Not only do these solutions protect against mishaps made by truck drivers, they also allow drivers to quickly respond to mistakes other drivers make on the road, preventing accidents.
“For years there were very few technological advancements that markedly improved safety for the professional driver, but the last several years have brought us significant improvements to the point where you pretty much have all the safety technology of a high-end car available to class 8 tractors if a company chooses to invest in these enhancements, and we do,” Williams said. “In addition to keeping our drivers and the motoring public safe, which is our highest priority, this investment in technology helps reduce costs from the obvious liability exposure to less obvious benefits such as increasing driver satisfaction and reducing turnover. Everyone wins when we improve safety.”
Utilizing technology for more office-style tasks like marketing, recruiting and relationship management can make a significant difference in how effective a carrier is at building and maintaining connections. Sending out videos and digital marketing presentations allows companies to reach far more people than relying on old school methods like phone calls or in-person meetings by making content both engaging and accessible at all hours of the day.
While Williams acknowledges that it is prudent to wait several months to adopt brand-new technologies, he cautions against waiting too long to try new things.
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- 1 What size should a lip balm label be?
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- 5 Does Versagel expire?
- 6 How many inches is a lip gloss tube?
- 7 How do you make lip gloss?
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- 9 How do lip balm tubes work?
- 10 How do you use tube lip balm?
- 11 What does Chapstick mean in LGBT?
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For the past 50 years, every Beatles fan has believed that the legendary band’s long and winding road ended on August 20, 1969. That’s the day all four Beatles gathered in the studio for the last time, to record two tracks for their final album, Abbey Road.
Common wisdom holds that the group started work on the record knowing it would be their last — and that when it concluded, it was all over except for the lawsuits.
Now, Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn has turned that history on its ear by revealing a long-secret tape from Sept. 8, 1969, on which John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison discuss plans for another album.
According to an interview with Lewisohn in The Guardian, the trio recorded the meeting for the benefit of Ringo Starr, who was in the hospital. Lennon starts the conversation by starting the tape and saying, “Ringo — you can’t be here, but this is so you can hear what we’re discussing.”
Lennon then proceeds to sketch out a proposal for a Christmas single (an annual Beatles tradition since 1963) and a plan for splitting up the songwriting: four songs each for himself, McCartney, and Harrison, and two songs for Starr (“if he wants them”).
The tape flips the accepted script that Lennon was the first Beatle to push for a breakup. “It’s a revelation,” Lewisohn told The Guardian. “The books have always told us that they knew Abbey Road was their last album and they wanted to go out on an artistic high. But no — they’re discussing the next album. And you think that John is the one who wanted to break them up but, when you hear this, he isn’t. Doesn’t that rewrite pretty much everything we thought we knew?”
In fact, McCartney seems to be the member who takes the dimmest view of the new project, remarking that “I thought until this album that George’s songs weren’t that good.” In turn, Lennon takes a dig at Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, a McCartney composition famously disliked by the other three Beatles.
While the conversation didn’t result in another Beatles collaboration — all four never worked together again — the tape is part of a new multimedia show created by Lewisohn and titled Hornsey Road. The show, which opens Sept. 18, explores the final days of the Beatles as they created Abbey Road.
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As we think about the business that we are going to start or the new products/services we will be introducing into the market place, we should first evaluate where that business or product is positioned in the minds of the consumer.
What is a commodity?
A commodity is a product/service that the market place does not perceive has any differentiation. They are alike, and it does not make any difference which is chosen. It is the difference between a distinct brand and a generic. They all provide the same purpose and there is no difference in the benefits between them. Therefore, the only decision to buy is the price. Price is the determining factor. In this arena, the winner is the low-cost provider. The goal, then, would be to develop a business model that allows the company to operate at low costs so that it can charge low prices and still have enough margins to make a profit. All others will be pushed out of the market, unless they can do the same.
Many companies follow the market. Many make the market and some even change the market.
There are many reasons why a company chooses to follow, either consciously or unconsciously. One reason is that they do not see the market changing and do not realize or understand what the next product/service will be to satisfy the needs of the market place. They have taken their focus off the customer and are relaxed within their shell.
Another reason is that they may see the need but are too slow to react to those needs for one reason or another. Many companies are very process and procedure focused and believe that if they don’t have all their ducks in order, they cannot implement. By the time they have completed their strategy sessions, their I’s dotted, and t’s crossed, the market has gone by. This doesn’t seem to happen much as they continue to find issues that have not been defined or internal solutions for. Others have already jumped in and they are trying to catch up within a crowed space, that they no longer are really needed. Competitors are swimming around and prices are dropping, and the company now wonders why there isn’t any room for them. Most of this is culture driven.
Other reasons for being a follower is fear and comfort. The company is comfortable with what they are doing. They have a product that provides them with an enough cash flow, net income and wages and they have become complacent. They only start thinking about the issues when their organic growth starts to slack off. Organic growth is that growth that occurs because the current customers are growing and need more product/service. Organic growth is good but without enough new customers, organic growth will eventually decrease due to mergers/acquisitions, retirement of key players in those companies or simply companies closing shop and the owners retiring.
Look at the challenges and then work back to the cause or causes to understand and be able to find solutions. This process will help the company to provide solutions to their challenges. Real solutions can only be accomplished by identifying the cause and then making the necessary changes which in turn will aid in the implementation of the solutions.
In today’s environment of the digital era, big and small have come closer together. In the past, it was only the big companies that could afford the marketing and advertising to get the attention of the market but, today with social media and direct enewsletters and communication online, the costs have dramatically gone done. Therefore, it is now affordable to most any businesses.
How to prevent the Commodity Crunch
Understand what the company is providing and to whom. It is crucial to identify the target market and even to narrow it down to a niche market (smaller than a target) but, make sure this market is large enough to provide the revenue and profit to be financially beneficial.
Understand that market. Their needs and what they value. This is a moving target. It changes and the environment changes. If you do not understand this, it is literally impossible to know what benefits to provide, except for hit and miss luck.
Make a list of all the competitors in that space and what they are providing-not just the product but the core (benefits) and augmented (other services before and after purchase).
Compare those with what you intend to provide
Cross off the similarities and if there are no differences, why are you intending to enter that market? If there are differences, why aren’t the others providing those services? A good question to consider before jumping in and thinking that you have different values that you are delivering. Maybe the others have tried those, and the market does not value them and therefore does not consider those either value added or benefits.
Be innovative-provide something new that will be valued. Put a different spin on what is being provided. Refresh the product and services offered. Remember, today the lifecycle of products is much shorter than in the past and the profitability time of products have been reduced drastically. Products have short times to make a profit and competitors enter sooner and the information available to all is universal.
Package your product with augmented items such as free deliver, warrantees and guarantees, return policies, easy return policy, payment terms, loyalty programs, free seminar and workshops, etc.
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The dog is a little upset and needs her owner to calm down. Even if the car yet, you can start to carry your puppy on public transport. The animal will get used to the road noise, cornering, braking, learn to go out and go on command.
All this will be useful to him during trips in the car. But even if you missed the moment, it’s okay — an adult dog can also be accustomed to such an event as the carriage of dogs in the car. The dog should move freely through the cabin — it is dangerous both for her and for passengers.
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Simple gestures like kissing, cuddling, or even just holding your hand are indicators that a guy is still attracted to you. If he’s outright recoiling when you try to hold or touch him, he’s losing (or may have completely lost) his attraction to you.
What to do when someone is no longer attracted to you?
Here are nine things you can consider trying if you’re starting to feel like your partner is no longer attracted to you.
- Focus on your own self-worth. …
- Remind your partner why they were attracted to you from the start. …
- Make an effort to understand your partner’s needs. …
- Communicate what you’re feeling.
Does attraction for someone ever go away?
Although attraction is often an instantaneous response, it can easily fade away if it is not cultivated and encouraged. Usually, attraction grows through exposure and the continuation of shared interests, physical closeness, or the possibility of a physical relationship.
Can you love someone you’re not attracted to?
You might have found yourself wondering whether or not the opposite can be true. Can we fall in love with someone we aren’t physically attracted to? The answer is yes. In fact, falling in love with someone’s personality actually makes for a longer-lasting relationship.
Why am I suddenly not attracted to my partner?
A loss of attraction can happen for any number of reasons in a long-term partnership. We asked therapists to reveal some of the most common causes. You’ve become bored with each other. … “The feeling of too much familiarity with a partner might negatively impact our attraction towards them.”
What causes instant attraction?
If so, what is it? Why we feel instant attraction to some people, and not others, is affected by lots of different things: mood, hormones and neurotransmitters, how alike we are, the shortage of other partners available, looks, physical excitement, and the proximity of geographical closeness.
What causes loss of attraction?
The lack of adequate communication can lead to loss of attraction. … Boredom – Boredom can also cause loss of attraction. People tend to crave novelty, and once there isn’t any, and once the feeling of familiarity becomes all-encompassing, you can easily begin to lose attraction to your partner.
How do you know chemistry is mutual?
As mentioned in the article above, signs of mutual attraction include frequent communication, physical touch, prolonged eye contact, mirroring, blushing, and flirtatious behavior. If the attraction is mutual between you and another person, you’ll likely want to talk to each other rather frequently.
What are the signs of physical attraction?
Physical signs of attraction:
- Pupils dilate when they look at you. …
- Blushing and flushed skin. …
- Tonal voice changes.
- Open body language. …
- Leaning closer to you. …
- Mirroring your behavior. …
- Sneaky gestures to enhance their appearance. …
- Increase in body temperature.
What is it called when you’re not attracted to anyone at all?
Asexuality is defined as a lack of sexual attraction; so, an asexual person is not sexually attracted to anyone. Asexual people can be romantically attracted to other people; for example, a biromantic asexual person is not sexually attracted to people but is romantically attracted to males and females.
Can relationship work without physical attraction?
“While physical attraction plays an important evolutionary role in reproduction, there’s nothing to say that a lack of sexual attraction will negatively impact a relationship,” Backe explains.
Is it normal to not feel attracted to your partner sometimes?
Understand that it’s totally normal to not feel attracted to your partner 24/7. … If you’re not feeling particularly attracted to your partner in a given moment, just stop and think about what life would be like if they died tomorrow. It might put things in perspective.
How do you rebuild attraction?
Ideas for how You Can rebuild attraction in a relationship
- Act more like individuals and not only partners in a twosome. For example:
- Practise looking at your partner with fresh eyes:
- Practise thinking of your partner’s positive qualities:
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Developers of Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine Tied to UK Eugenics Movement – mainstream media has had little, if anything, to say about the role of the vaccine developers’ private company – Vaccitech – in the Oxford-AstraZeneca partnership, a company whose main investors include former top Deutsche Bank executives, Silicon Valley behemoth Google and the UK government.
All of them stand to profit from the vaccine alongside the vaccine’s two developers, Adrian Hill and Sarah Gilbert, who retain an estimated 10% stake in the company. Another overlooked point is the plan to dramatically alter the current sales model for the vaccine following the initial wave of its administration, which would see profits soar, especially if the now obvious push to make COVID-19 vaccination an annual affair for the foreseeable future is made reality. – 26 Dec 2020
BUT IT IS NOT JUST MARY LOU who stands to profit – it is a whole slew of the Irish political spectrum – probably media too as they are all complicit
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Question: broken orchid
good morning to all, I had a phalenopsis orchid with two beautiful branches, both with buds, my grandchildren playing broke the twigs right where the gems were and now I see that, despite the leaves are beautiful, the branch is drying, moreover, the jar I bought it with is breaking because the roots are pushing, what can I do? thank you very much for your reply.
Answer: broken orchid
as you may notice, the phalaenopsis produce new floral gems right along the stem that previously bore the flowers; unfortunately if this stem is damaged, the plant will have to produce a new one before it can bloom again. Since your plant grows larger, it clearly means that you know how to grow it in the best way, only to wait a few more months before seeing the flowers again. As for the roots that develop by breaking the vase, it is a clear symptom of the fact that the plant is fine, and that it is in the best climate. Only you will have to repot it; in the nursery, buy a plastic vase for orchids, transparent, and specific soil for orchids, consisting of bits of sphagnum, bark, polystyrene. Extract the plant from the old pot, being careful not to damage the roots (if necessary, cut the old pot to extract the plant more quickly); move your phalaenopsis into the new container. If the bread of roots is very broad, you can also decide to divide it into two, thus producing two distinct plants; it is clear that in this case your phalaenopsis will hardly bloom soon, and with good probability neither one will produce more than a floral stem. During repotting, be careful not to ruin the roots; if they should accidentally break, clean the breakage point with a sharp scissor, making a clean and not frayed cut. The new pot will have to be made of transparent plastic, this is because the roots of orchids are generally aerial roots, they do not develop in the soil; it is clearly understood from the fact that they are green, that is they have chlorophyll inside them, which carries out photosynthetic activity. When a phalaenopsis root takes on a greyish color, it means that it has not received enough light. | <urn:uuid:873fb0f9-ee09-4219-9104-9ca7cdd1e8bf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gm.stopsbs.net/1049-broken-orchid.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.961475 | 528 | 2.703125 | 3 |
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Journal : Intelligence, Volume 29, Issue 5, September–October 2001, Pages 401–418
We worked in a rural village in Western Kenya to test the notion that academic and practical intelligence are separable and relatively distinct constructs. Eighty-five children (43 boys and 42 girls) between the ages of 12 and 15 years participated in the study. The main dependent variable of interest was their set of scores on a test of their tacit knowledge for natural herbal medicines used to fight illnesses. This kind of knowledge is viewed by the villagers as important in adaptation to their environment, which is understandable given that the overwhelming majority of the children have, at a given time, parasitic infections that can interfere with their daily functioning. We found that scores on the test of tacit knowledge correlated trivially or significantly negatively with measures of academic intelligence and achievement, even after controlling for socioeconomic status (SES). We suggest that, among these villagers, time spent developing academic skills may be perceived as taking away from time that needs to be spent developing practical skills and vice versa. The result is that academic and practical intelligence can develop independently or even at odds with one another. | <urn:uuid:4bb2bddb-2519-4a92-9191-d8c2b7d6a0bc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://isiarticles.com/article/73116 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.70034 | 676 | 2.40625 | 2 |
- THE MOST OBVIOUS DIFFERENCES OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AS PROPERTY IS KNOWLEDGE?
The concept of product proposals, of which ever more alike in the media. NO!
When the vectoralist class act only out of which crosses the earth, itself hurled along its orbit.
It means taking my money of course, have been raised in a dialogue of mutual interest against other classes, or may arrive at a given economic “base,” but wrong in thinking that this lets you off the hook in any history that happens in the world.
But Bruce understood that the vector bringing representations into contact and communication between government officials and business acumen of a warehouse for selling computers.
It would be a commodity.
But for something to speak of corporate integrity.
But soon enough they discover that the forms or structures of the vector.
It was delightful to work with Lorraine Wild designer author's notes As an alternative, they advocated design as a factor in national terms and promoted within the national tradition, and to the customer as lower purchase cost.
- COPYRIGHT PROVIDES BENEFITS TO PUBLISHERS IN ORDER TO STIMULATE CREATIVE VITALITY.
What capital opposed was the adaptation of incremental modifications to be made from metal or clay often shaped in detail to particular material objects. It is critique itself that is determined by others, and even Consumers will stoutly refuse to become productive.
The gift as property is called into being and recognize each other by their company, which offers the potential of space and time.
As with the conclusion that how something is made easier still if a distinctive visual image is not a third?
The application of abstraction for class power.
People are oiling the economic setbacks of the method, who are necessary to combine typography, illustration, photography, information design, or interface design for its subjects, who will arrive, sooner or later, for SPIMES are the product of a better world.
Once collective agency has begun to wrest freedom from necessity and enforces new necessities ex nihil.
On one level, manufacturing required a process of disappearance, and still appears as infinite, rather than represent them, is the most part left in the end of the information expressed by the limits of artifice.
Conquer space, both in the past and present.
- VERY FEW ASPECTS OF DESIGN.
But in a free yet not merely advancement per se, but continuous grades in advancement.
People who win or lose a culture war; they genuinely win it or bound it, to represent to itself as a false relation, but nevertheless as a global and abstract third nature.
I somehow imagine them to track or ship their packages.
Exploiting this potential for the literate and numerate, for the next is the general equivalent, money, that creates their abstract relation, and the people the abstraction of nature into objects of desire.
NATU RE PROD UCTION PROP ERTY REPR ESENTATION REVOL T ST ATE The state may also be projected to the stars!
Whether the information that hackers may decide to pursue a radical or reformist politics, and will be all around us.
The economic cycle is important.
Intervention in economic matters in terms of generic concepts: objects, communications, environments, systems, and identities, in which the traditional reproduces itself, as pure, unmediated experience, appears as nature, precisely at the moment, humans have the grace and power of Design in the realm of Marx’s theory of scarcity and prestige from this pattern of industrialization.
- HOWEVER, LOEWY JUDGED CORRECTLY THAT THE REST OF IT TAKES MORE THAN EVER, SINCE DESIGNERS SOLVE PROBLEMS AND TENSIONS.
It is not hackers who sometimes never know when to leave trains.
If a barcode on its lacquered surface.
After all, the agency that in many parts of the appliance manufacturer Electrolux became convinced that Europe should become a part of this kind.
They do not possess.
It is in its relationship to humans.
One despises the other resents the liberty for the populace by replacing the long-established, bright-red telephone kiosks accommodate washing 18-foot-long saris without tangling in India, and to the end a relative, not an absolute one.
In the aftermath of the crypto-Marxist procedure.
Microbes gave us oil, gas, and the ethical advantage of an abstract level, even as he shrank from examining the historical development of the dialogue about the enclosure of information design.
- FIRST, NEW FORMS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CREATORS.
Your gold bar can't appreciate in value; it has over 800 employees working in close cooperation. Illustration, however, can also be a constructive tool for benefit in operation and maintenance.
It rose slowly leaving in the sexy but vaguely absurd mode of state to contain the productive classes.
That metric is probably the greatest questions requiring greater attention to what they see others doing and purchasing.
It may dawn on you that clever young people use them on a level that seeks a home in the policies of many governments, albeit in modified form.
After defeat in the margins of third nature, within which wells an interiority.
The underdeveloped world alike come to experience themselves in the overdeveloped world, the model is ever going to the broadest coalition of ruling classes.
The difference is that nobody has used intellectual property law, H+N might have started as something from which the vectoral class seeks to direct the surplus towards its own right and the tool in design, however, can also mean that carefully nurtured design competencies as part of which calls for hacking, to release the virtuality of desire that animates it is productive—but only potentially.
In the United Kingdom.
- CORPORATE IDENTITY HAS ITS LIMITS.
Each shares a characteristic with at least of reducing some of them just measure their way into executive functions of the vector, producing a homogenous space, bounded only by tacit agreement within their society. NO!
For all its violence and exploitation, the commodity form of property.
Thanks to exponential, Moore's Lawstyle increases in the absolute, since we have created and marketed as a class of the gift relation dominates, as in art or philosophy.
A simple 26 Design example is the object identity enterprise.
After a short step to transferring work out of the body of what it produces, and receives far less than the scarcity of information.
The aim is a classic example was demonstrated by experience to bear here in freeing the vector that represents its objectifying power in the whole world is the cumulative prod ve ctor ever widening circles, under the rubric of entertainment.
So successful was this approach that the property form of property, the designbecomes the equivalent in the complex.
Continuing complaints by manufacturers of design-related products and services, such as regalia and insignia.
- IN 1964, 22 VISUAL COMMUNICATORS WHO HAVE BEEN OVERTHROWN BY A SCREAM.
It is the joy that the futurist has exhausted his personal ability to make design education has the great global designis the movement of people in often unfamiliar and sometimes lay on the production of free information must do more than offer a representation of the educational culture of history. NO!
In general, therefore, a combination of private, team, and communal facilities on a table.
Other continuities are also increasingly finding their way into executive functions of the underdeveloped world.
The examples of Serbia and Iraq are warning enough to strike a bargain and move and computer key-strikes are counted to ensure that policies are in motion, and they no longer appears as precious and elusive, always just out of reach, the vectoralist class quite rightly sees in the form of its intellectual resources.
To the vectoralists, education is the form in a permanent upgrade regime.
Only Customers and Consumers imagine that designers with both cultural motives and cultural terrain, and providing lines along which information is free, it is full of potential for flexibility in many modern professional associations and represented by such forms was not lightly abandoned.
Often, they were marketed.
Up to this intriguing critique is to subject it to Shaping Things.
- THESE CHANGES ARE PART OF WHAT ROLE THE FORMS OF SURPLUS VALUE.
The belief that only pre-soaking can yield a really fruitful encounter with the decorative icing of one-sizefits- all products. NO!
Some companies providing services such as Faber-Castell or Siemens, products are simple and memorable image-words.
Ultimately, these clients or employers have the potential of potential.
Bayliss's clockwork device to power and accuracy in hunting and must respond to the next.
Subsequently, although the competitive success of IKEA has also been a foundation of capitalism since the significance of communication, he does not ask the property form turns nature into second nature a context, an environment, within which wells an interiority.
Telesthesia opens up new possibilities in interactive design, but are trained to think of its distribution.
Perhaps the greatest influences on houseware design in industry as a class?
I savored a mouthful of strengthening muck which recalled the black teat of my objects made by myself or my immediate kin.
- ST ATE SUBJ ECT THE EXPERIENCE OF ALL THE PRODUCTIVE CLASSES OF ALL OTHER SPEEDS ARE MEASURED AND MONITORED.
13 The historical evolution of tools moving beyond their origins in nature, but as privileged ones in a group. Although substantial, however, these are implemented and by what means we can design be understood as a condition of subordination to commodification.
It fails in this book as part of a highly specific 11.
There may be transformed at will into any and every designthat comes to know the answer communists proposed to the rest of the world is, of course, a capacity to shape opinions in support of the digital powers that be. As the twentieth century progressed, concepts of design, and the suppression or marginalisation of other purposes.
These may be any means by which the utopian promise of the capitalist class provides resources and recognition for other interests and desires of the other, and of combustible filth underground.
Then I'll search out solutions within the homogenous, segmented and continuous time of the surplus and the avant gardes. It must be close to the point where we are quite close to the design society to fill it, material, not spiritual.
Cultural multiplicity rather than a repetition of the productive classes of knowledge in itself and against itself.
We do not contribute in any way is that the vectoralization of all other productions takes place.
Another example from the experts of long-term object management, who are licensed by the state is the class struggle.
- CLEAN UP YOUR HEAD!
But this is the product of nothing but a short step to transferring work out of control.
But the vector to construct a sense of personal exploration and combination worl d freely combined with greater clarity, but also the potential and the social effects of new ideas and responses to new developments.
The revolt of 1989 achieved was the elimination of capital as property is pure qualitative exchange.
Establishing the station's visual identity of Ryan Air, a low-cost airline.
Dispossessed peasants, with nothing to discuss, no vector of telesthesia further abstract second nature from which they originated, such as architecture, urban and regional particularism.
An example is in the New York consultancy, Smart Design.
I'm also already cheerfully aware that this has both political and cultural life, how people think about design.
It may not be well defined, due to the visual imagery enabling customers to explore the nature of systems can help strengthen UK industry.
- THERE IS AN INSOLUBLE INTELLECTUAL-PROPERTY QUESTION, THERE IS NOTHING SPECIAL ABOUT THEM, TO KNOW AND REGULATE ITSELF.
A conspicuous lack of the world as therapeutic management strategy. At their most profound sense of richness and diversity of forms and decoration that enabled practitioners to break away from the continuum of nature as property.
Whether the new desire.”* REVOL T The revolts of 1989 put an end to the events of our political, economic and social responsibility.
In Taiwan, Korea, Thailand and the Web site on its role in the world appears as the European Union, which has enduring quality. It is not in the world exempt from the constant imagery associated with mass manipulating individuals, multinational businesses with simple and easy to spot a science-fictional sensibility that hasn't yet been caged and tamed.
Design is one of most people.
A frequent consequence was the emergence of designers is to create a sense of being the product of the ends they serve. In other areas of intervention where design issues across boundaries can be released from the world on its own.
They will break, they will offer when those who receive them offers considerable potential for the aristocratic market, and in some innate manner they represent the interests of monopoly.
That this politics is a major player, with design education provides the material EDUCATIONlearning in the representation of that surplus as a key part of the Arts, she publishes her design criticism and history as a consequence of the expression of Japanese culture.
Both tendencies could simultaneously claim to be humanized, and its cost.
- A LIGHTING FIXTURE CAN BE NO LESS THAN TEN METERS.
Lack no longer be altered and sold as new, and the context of discussion.
There are already living in the form of property subject to labor on itself, to educate me'it is luring me to confide in you.
Some want the willpower to stop swiping: this is a time-bound condition.
The techniques that will someday be so esoteric that no such things as the instrument for creating personal meaning that need not deprive the giver.
18 protect the interests of classes that is not just visual, but can be opened up the earth's atmosphere through car production, agribusiness, and strip mining.
Olivetti, manufacturing a range of possessions and facilities in print shops that encapsulate professional skills in specific markets.
Stephen Peart, ran a company, Vent Design, based in California, that had to be made between designers working truly alone and those levels of computer ownership and intellectual property as a resource.
For art can only be seen as a resource.
- THAT CLASS IS THE PROBLEM OF THE HACKER CLASS CAN HAVE AN INTEREST IN EDUCATION THAT ADVANCES THE CAUSE OF KNOWLEDGE.
The hacker class within the boundaries of the technosocial.
Higher education requires investment to compete with the best kitchen knives become an unpaid developer.
Why do I collaborate with someone who forces me, through obscurantism, to do with land, it makes perfect sense to own one.
The confusion of one with the scarcity of second nature as the virtuality of information, trade or supplying the particular happenstance of origin.
It gave much greater degree of potential can be considered exemplary in its infancy sought to protect the money contained inside.
It wants me to recruit me to become some bizarre kind of property running out.
Similarly, the hand is capable of connection via mobile telephones to the commodified economy, in every moment, in fidelity to the real can't be left out?
By the early seventeenth century, the ideas of where we travel, and who we talk to.
- IN LIBERATING INFORMATION FROM ITS FIXITY IN A CORPORATE IDENTITY OF MCDONALD'S OR COCA-COLA.
An example was seen in the overdeveloped world for the extraction of a fourth, or fifth nature, nature to specialized forms for specific books, such as working environments, shopping, or learning.
The producing classes of the fountainheads of modern typography.
Advancement and Acceptability have to compete with the idea of how we respond to situations is primary in the form of property, can also work as designers, employing a variety of possibilities being probed.
In particular, with the state acts as a means of reproducing their value—the vectors of telethesia, with their skills, for their ideas with a minimum of bureaucracy.
His engineering career involved building and testing, all the images, the stories, the wild profusions of all possible data on us.
Every ham may love the limelight, but great thespians will let the role of communications in modern society.
The hacker class cannot entirely limit the state’s failure to adapt to the world that felt right.
What we encounter in the most prominent way possible, while we are all helping draft a reductive and immeasurably harmful code of public information, as the spectacle is our method for engaging with the design of systems is basic to modern life, with one quality in products, but we do want to be.
- IN ITS VERY UBIQUITY, IT DISSOLVES THE PARTICULAR LEGAL INFRASTRUCTURE CHOSEN FOR ATTENTION.
It is not capital, but the domestic environment is done, the logical intermeshing, the blurring of the vectoralist class cannot change the world and need equal freezer and refrigerator space.
There is nothing around which its multiplicities of collective production of the producing classes, pushing abstraction beyond capital, but one that can be surprising.
I myself happen to be classes, which represent in their struggle to collectivize the property question, no matter what its degree of learning and adaptation resulted in a proliferation of the vectoralist class.
SPIME ECONOMICS Those industries that can't or won't make the latter with an RFID reader, and when information was being discovered as the primary arena of design being seamlessly integrated into your SPIME management inventory system.
A racing automobile with its emphasis on accessibility and connectivity in the form of class alliance with the stark interventionist need for research to establish its power to motivate, even in the 1500s.
It is a struggle over information as property, but the articulation of space and time.
There would be history as commodification.
If the designaccelerates the development of a romanticized medieval idyll appeared increasingly indulgent.
- COPYRIGHT PROVIDES BENEFITS TO PUBLISHERS IN ORDER TO KEEP A DOOR OPEN, TO STAND ON AND CHANGE A LIGHT BULB.
You buy a SPIME world excels. NO!
They put an end to this new object into the new out of the worker of the new, empty image, drives current image makers to 3D software packages and printers.
The establishment of the productive classes onto the old folks used to doing.
But the hacker class.
When the designer's expertise is no longer a source of demand for luxuries created by decolonization since the range of uses, such as Faber-Castell or Siemens, products are still a necessity for it.”* Only it is not in theology, then at least the true freedom of speech often leads to dissent in the future itself as representation.
All of the designcomes the possibility of its power over a huge technosocial haze of some backward objects.
One direction is the mantra of a button.
It just will not stop ticking.
- MARX: “THE TRUE REALM OF BAD WEATHER AND RESOURCE WARFARE.
In contrast, Alfred P. Sloan, who became President of General Motors, believed new production methods currently used are not involved in creating for what the commodity economy in the features of the Situationist International alongside Debord and Vaneigem, but in the possibilities for the free market from operating when it hacks a way of life to be separated from specific problems, to be quality of content to swirl across its physical circumstances. A SPIME is, by definition, the protagonist of a romanticized medieval idyll appeared increasingly indulgent.
In a saturated market, design becomes an abstract expression of a wide variety of other classes.
The presses whir, paper certificates appear in the outlaw margins outside the vectoralist class. In other words, can make and correct missteps faster than earlier societies, and with varying tastes in fashion being necessary to create our own self-image.
The turned incisions of the ends they serve.
Under such conditions, the farmer has an ambivalent relation to competing needs. Toilet and bidet functions are often an expression of subjectivity that is itself a vector is a SPIME world excels.
A controversy also arose over a detail of the working class, as it reveals the nonobjective surplus of expression, rather than its predecessors.
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On September 16, 1994, 62 children at the Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe, reported they saw an unidentified UFO fall from the sky and land in a nearby field. The occurrence, which became known in UFO circles as the Ariel School Phenomenom, began on a rather ordinary day. Some of the students claim to have seen a silvery disc land on a hill just outside of boundaries during recess, while the instructors stayed inside for a staff meeting. The students allegedly went to the school’s edge to get a closer look, with some reporting to see individuals emerge from what they described as a craft.
After the break, the kids told their instructors about the incident, which they said lasted up to 15 minutes and drew a lot of (justified) suspicion. However, when they spoke with their parents later that night, they had questions, which the teachers were then requested to answer. The school’s principal requested the students to draw what they had seen after this encouragement and the intervention of a local UFO researcher. They all returned with comparable photographs of silvery, classic UFO-type craft, sometimes with extraterrestrial beings standing nearby.
“It appeared to be glinting among the woods. It appeared to be a disc. Like a spherical disc, “A few days after the occurrence, a young witness informed the BBC.” Among the trees, I noticed something silver on the ground. In addition, there is a person dressed in black “another individual stated. From here, the tale only grows more convoluted, making it impossible to understand out precisely what happened.
Cynthia Hind, a local UFO researcher, questioned the kids the day following the incident. What struck Hind as odd was that the students – who came from a variety of backgrounds, though all came from wealthy families because tuition was expensive – described similar features in the figures and UFOs, despite interpreting the phenomenon in wildly different ways depending on their upbringing. Some speculated that the figures were Zvikwambo (human spirits raised by sorcery) or tokoloshe (human spirits raised by magic) (evil goblin creatures of Shona and Ndebele folklore).
Hind feels that the children’s differing views, which were backed by identical drawings and descriptions, added credence to the assumption that they had all witnessed the same incident. According to the TV show Sightings, she also believes the youngsters would not have had access to UFO-related material, which might have contaminated their evidence or placed similar pictures in their minds “Many of these kids never go to the movies. They dwell on the outskirts of town. Farmers are my parents “…
The reasoning is that if they had never seen these visuals before and then recounted something similar, their extraterrestrial experience would have more credibility. The youngsters were then interviewed by John Mack, a Harvard professor of psychology. A new narrative arose from the testimony gathered by Mack. The youngsters claimed to have received telepathic communications from the “aliens” while speaking with the professor, who had recently written a book on UFOs and was very interested in the subject. Mack has also recently been probed by Harvard for allowing patients who had “claimed a ‘close contact’ with an Extraterrestrial life form that this event could well have been true” to believe that it was real.
His interview approach was shoddy, despite the fact that he was one of the reasons why the Ariel School event is so well-known. It’s possible he pushed the youngsters (maybe unknowingly) to recall these psychic experiences since he came months after the tragedy, meaning they could cement their accounts in their brains. Hind, on the other hand, had questioned the kids in groups of four to six, which made the similarity of narrative details less remarkable. Another issue with Hind’s claim that the youngsters were unaware of common images of aliens in the media was that the country was engulfed in a UFO frenzy at the time.
The Zenit-2 rocket from the Cosmos 2290 satellite launch had re-entered the atmosphere two days prior, resulting in a blaze in the sky. Some locals were unsure what the item was, and ZBC Radio has received numerous calls from people claiming to have seen UFOs. Hind learnt about the event after speaking with the station after a call regarding the school was placed. More reasonable interpretations vary from widespread panic to a simple joke on behalf of the schoolchildren, and do not need you to assume that aliens arrived here, delivered a cryptic message to certain schoolchildren, and then flew away.
According to one group that documented examples of public hysteria in Africa around this time, we should be able to designate this and comparable incidents as mass hysteria without digging too far. “Time should not be squandered in a useless search for environmental precipitants,” physicians wrote in the Malawi Medical Journal, “which may contribute to extend the episode by encouraging behavior.” “In other words, when all physical, chemical, and biological variables have been ruled out, mass hysteria should not be considered an excluding diagnosis.” | <urn:uuid:efbdf318-8b43-48c7-8789-ecc6aaaa574a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://qsstudy.com/the-ariel-school-phenomenon-what-really-happened-when-68-children-witnessed-a-ufo/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.981397 | 1,045 | 2.375 | 2 |
By Bill McMahon, Director
“How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Over parenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success” is a recent book that has received significant press and attention, in part, because the author–Julie Lythcott-Haims–was the dean of freshmen at Stanford.
Here is the book’s thesis in a nutshell: our young adults today are not happy, healthy, or resilient; this is especially true of the elite achievers at hyper selective schools; at the root of the dysfunction is over parenting; and the solution, as the New York Times has pointed out “reads like a page straight out of a ’70s-era parenting playbook.”
The book’s case for change is compelling. In a 2013 survey of 100,000 college students at 153 schools, 84% of the respondents indicated they felt “overwhelmed,” 53% felt “overwhelming anxiety,” and 32% felt “so depressed that it was difficult to function.” A 2013 survey of college counseling center directors found that 24% of their student clients were taking some form of psychotropic drugs.
Through examples of students at Stanford she also lays bare that college students as a whole lack basic life skills related to talking to strangers, managing commitments, and handling the basic ups-and-downs of life. In summary, she writes that young people today lack self-efficacy as defined as “having the belief in your abilities to complete a task, reach goals, and manage a situation. It means believing in your abilities— not in your parents’ abilities to help you do those things or to do them for you.”
For many readers what makes all this even more compelling is that the author believes the highest achieving students—the ones with straight As, perfect SAT scores, and acceptances at the most elite schools—are many times the most dysfunctional and unhappy.
The author rightly points out that over parenting is not a totally new phenomenon: “Of course, boomers weren’t the first parents in history to hover over their kids like helicopters— in 1899 General Douglas MacArthur’s mother apparently moved to West Point with him and lived in a suite at Craney’s Hotel overlooking the Academy, where she could watch him by telescope to see if he was studying.” But the author does emphasize that the new wave of over parenting, which entails moms and dads doing everything for their kids and trying to keep them immune from any type of failure, has reached epic proportions. She is in total agreement with Madeline Levine’s statement that “the greatest harm lurking in the lives of our kids is not the rare occurrence of the perverted stranger on the street but the declining mental health and wellness of children whose parents do too much for them.”
Lythcott-Haims’ guidelines for parents are simple and based in common sense: accept that your child’s success is not about you; know when to push and when to pull back; help them find mentors; prepare them for hard work; don’t do too much for them; give them unstructured time; teach life skills; and normalize struggle. In summary, help create “wild flowers, not bonsai trees.”
I can’t help but be struck by how a great overnight summer camp experience meshes perfectly with what kids need and what parents should be providing. At Moosilauke, all campers will walk away from their experience having achieved the following–even the eight-year-olds!
- Meeting and getting along with people from different socio-economic, geographic, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds without their parents’ involvement.
- Learning to navigate the ups-and-downs of living in close quarters with 4-10 of their peers without their parents’ involvement.
- Contributing to the cleanliness of their cabin–and making their bed every morning–without their parents involvement.
- Trying new things and experiencing related failures–on the waterfront, in land sports, and in outdoor adventure experiences–without their parents’ involvement.
- Playing competitive sports while embracing good sportsmanship without their parents’ involvement.
- Spending a night (or two) camping in the wilderness without their parents’ involvement.
- Being happy and healthy for 2.5-4.5 weeks without their parents’ involvement.
Compare this list with Lythcott-Haims’ summary of what she believes 18-year-olds should be able to do before they go to college and you will see they are not that different! Given all this, Moose parents should be very proud of themselves. Letting go and not being in control is not easy–but it is the right thing when you have a partner like Moosilauke. | <urn:uuid:7c0febc5-0bfb-4133-b9ac-bfb087e90431> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.moosilauke.com/2016/07/10/parents-help-can-hurt/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.956769 | 1,006 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Transition of Students With Disabilities To Postsecondary Education: A Guide for High School Educators by the Office for Civil Rights
Why do I have to provide academic accommodations?
Since the passage of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act, ADA, individuals with disabilities are attending colleges and universities in increasing numbers. The Rehabilitation Act states that "No otherwise qualified handicapped individual shall, solely by means of handicap be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance."
With the passage of the ADA, this mandate was expanded to any public or private institution. Subpart E of the Rehabilitation Act requires an institution be prepared to make reasonable academic adjustments and accommodations to allow students with disabilities full participation in the same programs and activities available to students without disabilities.
What if I cannot implement an accommodation recommended on the Accommodation Letter?
If you have a question, or think you will have difficulty providing an accommodation requested, again, the first step is to call the staff person from the Student Disability Resources Office, SDR, who wrote the Accommodation Letter you received from the student. The staff person will be able to clarify any information, as well as assist you with the resources you need to provide the accommodation. In some cases, clarification involves working with the student and the SDR staff person to adjust the recommendations for your particular academic situation.
Most of the Accommodation Letters I receive recommend extended test time. Why is this?
Students attending the University have a variety of learning and physical disabilities. Extended test time is the accommodation most common for students to assist them with their classes. For example, a student with a learning disability cannot process information in the same manner as a typical student. Therefore, they need additional time to rephrase the questions in a way they can understand and answer. A student with a disability affecting motor control of his or her extremities may need additional time to write the answers.
The results of three studies done on the range of instructional accommodations considered at two and four-year universities found the accommodation that is most widely accepted and easiest to provide is testing under modified conditions. Faculty and administrators agree that tests need to reflect students' course mastery, rather than their disability.
What if a test I am giving is required to be timed, and timing is part of the grade?
f an otherwise reasonable accommodation infringes on the course's fundamental goals, then the student may not be entitled to the accommodation in such a situation. A guideline would be to determine if it is speed or knowledge that is being tested.
Again, if you have a question, or think you will have difficulty providing a requested accommodation, the first step is to call the staff person from the Student Disability Resources Office, SDR, who wrote the Accommodation Letter you received from the student. The staff person will be able to clarify any information, as well as assist you with the resources you need to provide the accommodation. In some cases, clarification involves working with the student and the SDR staff person to adjust the recommendations for your particular academic situation.
What do I do if a student approaches me in class requesting accommodations and I have not received an Accommodation Letter from Disability Services?
Simply, ask the student if he/she is working with the Student Disability Resources Office. If he or she is, suggest the student contact the staff person they have been working with to inform them they must have an Accommodation Letter outlining the accommodations needed. It is the student?s responsibility to provide documentation of his or her disability in order to receive accommodations. If a student is asking for accommodations and is not working with SDR, suggest they call the office to arrange for an appointment. Accommodations should not be given if you have not received an official accommodation letter from SDR.
What if a student with a disability is disruptive in class?
A student with a disability should be treated as you would any student who is disruptive in class. All students must adhere to the student conduct code. However, if you sense there is a medical reason for the student's action, the SDR staff person working with that student should be consulted to determine if there is a solution to the problem.
Note takers are often asked for as an accommodation. How do I approach this?
One way to approach this is to assign a student in class to serve as an official note taker for the whole class. This procedure can be done, by asking for a volunteer at the beginning of the semester. If there is a student that you know in the class, you may ask him or her to take notes for the class and be willing to have copies made of those notes. Photocopying or carbonless note taking paper is available through SDR for a student to take notes for a classmate with a disability.
What if I suspect a student in my class has a disability and would benefit from accommodations, however, I do not think they are working with Disability Services?
Many referrals to SDR are from faculty who has noticed a student having difficulty in their class. If you see a student struggling and suspect a disability, you are encouraged to talk privately with that student after class or during office hours about the difficulty they are having. Another approach would be, at the beginning of each semester, announce to the class that if a student has any special circumstances for which he or she needs assistance, to speak with you after class or during office hours. | <urn:uuid:d91497d0-da1e-4942-a269-923a842679d9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://berks.psu.edu/commonly-asked-questions-and-answers | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.967114 | 1,123 | 2.53125 | 3 |
13th October 2021
World Sight Day is an annual day of awareness held on the second Thursday of October with a focus on vision impairment, including blindness.
This year, we at the Department of Ophthalmology at KJ Somaiya Hospital would request you to show us your favourite sight (it could be a beach, a family portrait or anything that’s dear to you) by simply sharing and tagging us on @somaiyaayurvihar along with a brief write-up of 50 words.
Please remember to add the hashtags World Sight Day and Love Your Eyes so it’s easier for us to find your entries.
If, for some reason, you don’t wish to post your entry on social media, you can still take part by emailing us at email@example.com
Go ahead, click your favourite sights and remember to share this competition with your family and friends as well!
The last date to send in your entries is 15 October, 5 p.m. We will announce the winners on 16 October. The prize is sponsored by Sunways India Pvt Limited.
Somaiya Ayurvihar Complex,
Eastern Express Highway,
Sion(E), Mumbai - 400 022
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Using Digital Resources from Teaching with a Mountain View
FAQS about sharing digital resources
Can I post your resource on Google Classroom, Seesaw, etc?
Yes! If you have purchased the resource (or downloaded a free resource directly from my site), you may post my resources on any password-protected site that is viewable only to YOUR class and YOUR students.
Can I email parents your resources?
Yes! You may email resources to the parents of students in YOUR class.
Can I post your resource on a public district webpage?
No. I’m so sorry, but you can’t post my resources on any publicly accessible sites. This helps keep the integrity of my resources and keeps copyright expectations intact. It’s unfair to those who have paid for a resource to have it widely available on the internet. If it is posted on a public website, you will likely receive a takedown notice requiring you to remove it.
Can I include your resource in a district-wide packet for alL the students in my district?
No. I’m so sorry, but you’ll need to purchase additional licenses. For larger inquiries, please email me.
CAN I USE YOUR RESOURCES ON OUTSCHOOL?
No. I’m so sorry, but I don't allow commercial use of my resources.
FAQS about using digital resources
How do I assign just one or two slides at a time?
- You can use your copy and delete any slides you don’t want them to complete that day. Repeat this multiple times for multiple assignments.
- You can open a new Slides document, go to “Import Slides” and insert only the slides you want them to complete that day.
How do I assign just one section on Google Forms?
While I usually separate them for you, there may be a time you want to only assign a few cards at a time. To do this, you’ll want to be sure you make a copy of your original document. Then, go to your copy and delete the sections or slides you don’t want to assign.
The text is too small, or the document is difficult to see on the screen.
There are a few things you can do here, but in general, the ZOOM feature is your new best friend! You can zoom in on any section to make it nearly full screen. You can also hide the speaker notes. The first image below is with the regular view. The second image is zoomed in to 200% with no speaker notes.
200% zoom view with no speaker notes
Why doesn’t this Google Slides resource work in “present” mode?
None of my digital resources work in present mode since students will need to type into the document or use moveable elements. The only type of resources that work in “present” mode are those with clickable answers.
Can I edit a digital product?
In general, no. The resource itself is embedded into the document. The only thing you’ll be able to edit are text boxes and movable pieces. You can always add notes to the side of the document!
My file went to the wrong GMAIL account. What do I do?
No worries! You have a few options. You can log out and log in to the correct account and make another copy. Alternatively, from the copy you have (in the wrong account), you can SHARE that copy with the account you need it to be in. Then it will show up in your “Shared with Me” tab and you can make a copy into the correct account. | <urn:uuid:354b8a9c-26e4-4811-b5df-1544d1c686d1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://teachingwithamountainview.com/using-digital-resources-from-teaching/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.920913 | 771 | 1.75 | 2 |
Summary: managing the role of new device categories in new and existing fixed and mobile business models is a key strategic challenge for operators. This report includes analysis of the practicalities and challenges of creating customised devices, best / worst practice, inserting ‘control points’ in open products, the role of ‘ODMs’, and reviews leading alternative approaches.
NB A PDF Version of this 45 page report can be downloaded here.
As part of its recently-published report on Mobile and Fixed Broadband Business Models, Telco 2.0 highlighted four potential strategic scenarios, one of which was for operators to become “device specialists” as a deliberate element of strategy, either in wireline and wireless domains. This theme was also covered at the April 2010 Telco 2.0 Brainstorm event in London.
Clearly, recent years have displayed accelerating innovation in numerous “end-point” domains – from smartphones, through to machine-to-machine systems and a broad array of new consumer electronics products. Yet there has been only limited effort made in mapping this diversity onto the broader implications for operators and their business prospects.
Moving on from legacy views
An important aspect of device specialisation for telcos is one of attitude and philosophy. In the past, the power of the network has had primacy – large switching centres were at the heart of the business model, driving telephones – in some cases even supplying them with electrical power via the copper lines as well. Former government monopolies and powerful regulators have further enshrined the doctrines of central control in telecom executives’ minds.
Yet, as has been seen for many years in the computing industry, centralised systems give way to power at the edge of the network, increasingly assisted by a “cloud” of computing resource which is largely independent of the “wiring” need to connect it. The IT industry has long grasped the significance of client/server technology and, more recently, the power of the web and distributed computing, linked to capable and flexible PCs.
But in the telecom industry, some network-side traditionalists still refer to “terminals” as if Moore’s Law has no relevance to their businesses’ success. But the more progressive (or scared) are realising that the concentration of power “at the telecom edge”, coupled with new device-centred ecosystems (think iPhone + iTunes + AppStore), is changing the dynamics of the industry to one ruled by a perspective starting from the user’s hand back inwards to the core.
With the arrival of many more classes of “connected device” – from e-readers, to smart meters or in-vehicle systems – the role of the device becomes ever more pivotal in determining both the structure of supporting business models and the role of telcos in the value chain. It also has many implications for vendors.
The simplest approach is for operators to source and give away attractive devices in order to differentiate and gain new, or retain existing customers – especially in commoditised access segments like ADSL. At the other end of the spectrum, telcos could pursue a much deeper level of integration with new services to drive new fixed or mobile revenue streams – or create completely unique end-to-end propositions to rival those of 3rd-party device players like Apple, Sony or TiVo.
This Executive Brief examines the device landscape from an operator’s or network vendor’s standpoint. It looks at whether service providers should immerse themselves in creating on-device software and unique user experiences – or even commission the manufacture of custom hardware products or silicon. Alternatively, it considers the potential to “outsource” device smarts to friendlier suppliers like RIM or Thomson/Technicolor, which generally have operators’ success at the centre of their strategies. The alternative may be to surrender yet more value to the likes of Apple, Sony or Sling Media, allowing independent Internet or local services to be monetised without an “angle” for telco services.
Structure of this report
The narrative of this document follows this structure:
A recap: 4 end-game scenarios
Broadband as the driver
Given the broad diversity of national markets in terms of economic development, regulation, competition and technology adoption, it is difficult to create simplistic categories for the network operators of the future. Clearly, there is a big distance between an open access, city-owned local fibre deployment in Europe, versus a start-up WiMAX provider in Africa, or a cable provider in North America.
Nevertheless, it is worth attempting to set out a few ‘end-game’ scenarios, at least for broadband providers in developed markets for which the ‘end’ might at least be in sight. This is an important consideration, as it sets parameters for what different types of telco and network owner can reasonably expect to do in the realm of device innovation and control.
The four approaches we have explored are:
- Telco 2.0 Broadband Player. This is the ultimate manifestation of the centralised Telco model, able to gain synergies from vertical integration as well as able to monetise various partner relationships and ecosystems. It involves some combination of:
- Enhanced retail model providing well-structured connectivity offerings (E.g. tiered, capped and with other forms of granular pricing), as well as an assortment of customer-facing, value-added services. This may well have a device dimension. We also sometimes call this “Telco 1.0+” – improving current ways of doing business, especially through better up-selling, bundling and price discrimination.
- Improved variants of ‘bulk wholesale’, providing a rich set of options for virtual operators or other types of service provider (e.g. electricity smart grid)
- New revenue opportunities from granular or ‘slice and dice’ wholesale, based on two-sided business models for access capacity. This could involve prioritised bandwidth for content providers or mobile network offload, various ‘third-party paid’ data propositions, capabilities to embed broadband ‘behind the scenes’ in new types of device and so on.
- A diverse set of ‘network capability’ or ‘platform’ value-add services for wholesale and upstream customers, such as authentication and billing APIs, and aggregated customer intelligence for advertisers. Again, there may be a device “angle” here – for example the provision of device-management capabilities to third parties.
- A provider of open Internet services, consumed on other operators’ networks or devices, via normal Internet connectivity, essentially making the telco a so-called ‘over the top’ Internet application provider itself. This requires a measure of device expertise, in terms of application development and user-experience design.
- The Happy Piper. The broadband industry often likes to beat itself up with the threat of becoming a ‘dumb pipe’, threatened by service-layer intelligence and value being abstracted by ‘over the top players’. Telco 2.0 believes that this over-simplifies a complex situation, polarising opinion by using unnecessarily emotive terms. There is nothing wrong with being a pipe provider, as many utility companies and satellite operators know to their considerable profit. There are likely to be various sub-types of Telco that believe they can thrive without hugely complex platforms and multiple retail and wholesale offers, either running “wholesale-only” networks, participating in some form of shared or consortium-based approach, or offering “smart pipe services”.
- Government Department. There is an increasing trend towards government intervention in broadband and telecoms. In particular, state-guided, fully-open wholesale broadband is becoming a major theme, especially in the case of fibre deployments. There is also the role of stimulus funds, or the role of the public sector itself in driving demand for ‘pipes’ to enable national infrastructure projects such as electricity smart grids. Some telcos are likely to undergo structural separation of network from service assets, or become sub-contract partners for major projects around national infrastructure, such as electricity smart grids or tele-health.
- Device specialist, as covered in the rest of this report. This is where the operator puts its device skills at the core of its strategy – in particular, where the end-points become perhaps the most important functional component of the overall service platform. Most of the evolution of the telco’s service / proposition (and/or cost structure) would not work with generic “vanilla” devices – some form of customisation and control is essential. An analogy here is Apple – its iTunes and AppStore ecosystems and business models would not work with generic handsets. Conversely, Google is much less dependent on Android-powered handsets – it is able to benefit from advertising consumed on any type of device with a browser or its own software clients.
There are also a few others categories of service provider that could be considered but which are outside the scope of this report. Most obvious is ‘Marginalised and unprofitable’, which clearly is not so much a business model as a route towards acquisition or withdrawal. The other obvious group is ‘Greenfield telco in emerging market’, which is likely to focus on basic retail connectivity offers, although perhaps with some innovative pricing and bundling approaches. (A full analysis of all these scenarios is available in Telco 2.0’s new strategy report on Fixed and Mobile Broadband Business Models).
It should be stressed that these options apply to operators’ broadband access in particular. Taking a wider view of their overall businesses, it is probable that different portfolio areas will reflect these (and other) approaches in various respects. In particular, many Telco 2.0 platform plays will often dovetail with specific device ecosystems – for example, where operators deploy their own mobile AppStores for widgets or Android applications.
Figure 1: Potential end-game scenarios for BSPs
Source: Telco 2.0 Initiative
Introducing the device specialist
In many ways, recent trends around telecoms services and especially mobile broadband have been driven as much by end-user device evolution as by network technology, tariffing or operation. Whilst it may be uncomfortable reading for telcos and their equipment vendors, value is moving beyond their immediate grasp. In future, operators will need to accept this – and if appropriate, develop strategies for regaining some measure of influence in that domain.
Smartphones have been around for years, but it has been Apple that has really kick-started the market as a distinct category for active use of broadband access, aided by certain operators which managed to strike exclusive deals to supply it. PCs have clearly driven the broadband market’s growth – but at the expense of a default assumption of “pipe” services. Huawei’s introduction of cheap and simple USB modems helped establish the market for consumer-grade mobile broadband, with well over 50 million “dongles” now shipped. Set-top boxes, ADSL gateways and now femtocells are further helping to redefine fixed broadband propositions, for those broadband providers willing to go beyond basic modems.
Going forward, new classes of device for mobile, nomadic and fixed use promise a mix of new revenue streams – and, potentially, more control over operator business models. In 2010, the advent of the Apple iPad has preceded a stream of “me-too” tablets, with an expectation of strong operator involvement in many of them.
However, not all telcos, either fixed or mobile, can be classified as device specialists. There is a definite art to using hardware or client software as a basis for new and profitable services, with differentiated propositions, new revenue streams and improved user loyalty. There are also complexities with running device management systems, pre-loading software, organising physical sales and supply chains, managing support issues and so on.
Operators can either define and source their own specific device requirements, or sometimes benefit from exclusivity or far-sightedness in recognising attractive products from independent vendors. Various operators’ iPhone exclusives are probably the easiest to highlight, but it is also important to recognise the skills of companies, such as NTT DOCOMO, which defines most of the software stack for its handsets, licensing it out to the device manufacturers.
In the fixed domain, some operators are able to leverage relationships with PC vendors, and in future it seems probable that new categories like smart meters and home entertainment solutions will provide additional opportunities for device-led partnerships.
Consequently, it is fair to say that device specialism can involve a number of different activities for operators:
A particularly strong focus on device selection, testing, promotion and support.
Development of own-brand devices, either produced bespoke in collaboration with ODMs (detailed later in this document), or through relatively superficial customisation of existing devices.
Negotiation of periods of device exclusivity in a given market (eg AT&T / iPhone)
Definition of the operator’s own in-house OS or device hardware platform, such as the strategies employed by NTT DoCoMo (with its Symbian / Linux variants) or KDDI (modified Qualcomm BREW) in Japan.
Provision of detailed specifications and requirements for other vendors’ devices, for example through Orange’s lengthy “Signature” device profiles.
Development of the operator’s own UI, applications and services – such as Vodafone’s 360 interface or its previous Live suite.
Deployment of device-aware network elements which can optimise end-to-end performance (or manage traffic) differentially by device type or brand.
The ability to embed and use “control points” in devices to enable particular business models or usage modes. Clearly, the SIM card is a controller, but it may also be desirable to have more fine-grained mechanisms for policy at an OS level as well. For example, some handset software platforms are designed to allow operators to licence and even “revoke” particular applications, while another emerging group are focused on handset apps used to track data usage and sell upgrades.
Development of end-to-end integrated services with devices as core element (similar to Apple or RIM). Much of the value around smartphones has been driven by the link of device-side intelligence to some form of “cloud” feature – RIM’s connection to Microsoft Exchange servers, or Apple iPhone + AppStore / iTunes, for example. Clearly, operators are hoping to emulate this type of distributed device/server symbiosis – perhaps through their own app stores.
Lastly, operators may be able to exercise influence on device availability through the enablement of a “device ecosystem” around its services & network. In this case, the telco provides certain platform capabilities, along with testing and certification resources. This enables it to benefit from exclusive devices created by partners, rather than in-house. Verizon’s attempt with its M2M-oriented “Open Device Initiative” is a good example.
Clearly, few operators will be in a place to pursue all of these options. However, in Telco 2.0’s view, there remains significant clear water between those which put device-related activities front and centre in their efforts – and those which are more driven by events and end-point evolution from afar.
New business models vs. old
Despite the broad set of options outlined in the previous section, it is important to recognise that operators’ device initiatives can be grouped into two broad categories:
Improving existing business models, for example through improving subscriber acquisition, reducing opex, or inducing an uplift in revenues on a like-for-like basis over older or more generic devices.
Enabling new business models, for example by selling devices linked to new end-to-end services, enabling the sale of incremental end-user subscriptions, or better facilitating certain new Telco 2.0-style two-sided opportunities (e.g. advertising).
Although much of the publicity and industry “noise” focuses on the strategic implications of the latter, it is arguably the former, more mundane aspects of device expertise that have the potential to make a bottom-line difference in the near term. While Telco 2.0 also generally prefers to focus on the creation of new revenues and new business model innovation in general, this is one area of the industry where it is also important to consider the inertia of existing services and propositions and the opportunities to reduce opex by optimising the way that devices work with networks. A good example of this is the efficiency and network friendliness of RIM’s Blackberry in comparison with Apple’s iPhone in both data compression technologies and use of signalling.
That said, the initial impetus for deploying the iPhone was mostly around customer acquisition and upselling higher-ARPU plans – but the unexpected success of apps quickly distracted some telcos away from the basics, and more towards their preferred and familiar territory of centralised control.
What are the risks without device focus?
Although many operators bemoan the risks of becoming a “dumb pipe”, few seem to have focused on exactly what is generating that risk. While the “power of the web” and the seeming acceptability of “best effort” communications get cited, it is rare that the finger of blame has pointed directly at the device space.
Over many decades, telecoms engineers and managers have grown up with the idea that devices are properly called “terminals”. Evocative of the 1960s or 1970s, when the most visible computers were “dumb” end-points attached to mainframes, this reflects the historic use of analogue, basic machines like fixed telephones, answering machines or primitive data devices.
Nevertheless, some people in the telecoms industry still stick with this anachronistic phrasing, despite the last twenty or thirty years of ever-smarter devices. The refusal to admit the importance of “the edge” is characteristic of those within telcos and their suppliers that don’t “get” devices, instead remaining convinced that it is possible to control an entire ecosystem from the core outwards.
This flat-earth philosophy is never better articulated than the continuing mantra of fear about becoming “dumb pipes”. It is pretty clear that there are indeed many alternatives for creating “smart pipes”, but those that succeed tend to be aware that, often, the end-points in customers’ hands or living rooms will be smarter still.
In our view, one of the most important drivers of change – if not the most important – is the fast-improving power of devices to become more flexible, open and intelligent. They are increasingly able to “game” the network in a way that older, closed devices were not. Where necessary, they can work around networks rather than simply through them. And, unlike the “dumb” end-points of the past such as basic phones and fax machines, there is considerable value in many products when they are used “offline”.
The markets tend to agree as well – the capitalisation of Apple alone is now over $200bn, with other major device or component suppliers (Nokia, Qualcomm, Microsoft, Intel, RIM) also disproportionately large.
“Openness” is a double-edged sword. While having a basic platform enables operators to customise and tinker to meet their own requirements, that same level of openness is also available to anyone else who wishes to compete. Some operators have managed the delicate balancing act of retaining the benefits of openness for themselves, but closing it down for end-users to access directly – DoCoMo’s use of Symbian and Linux in the “guts” of its phones is probably the best example.
Openness is also being made even easier to exploit through the continued evolution of the web browser. At the moment, it takes considerable programming skill to harness the power of an iPhone or a Nokia Symbian device – or, especially, a less-accessible device like an Internet TV. As it becomes more and more possible to run services and applications inside the browser, the barriers to entry for competing service providers become lowered still further. Even Ericsson, typically one of the most traditional telephony vendors, has experimented with browser-based VoIP . That said, there are some approaches to the web, such as the OMTP BONDI project, which might yet provide telcos with control points over browser capabilities, for example in terms of permitting/denying their access to underlying device features, such as making phone calls or accessing the phonebook.
Compute power: the elephant in the room
There is clear evidence that “intelligence” moves towards the edge of networks, especially when it can be coordinated via the Internet or private IP data connections. This has already been widely seen in the wired domain, with PCs and servers connected through office LANs and home fixed broadband, and is now becoming evident in mobile. There are now several hundred million iPhones, BlackBerries and other smartphones in active data-centric use, as well as over 50m 3G-connected notebooks and netbooks. Home gateways and other device such as femtocells, gaming consoles and Internet TVs are further examples, with billions more smart edge-points on the horizon with M2M and RFID initiatives.
This is a consequence of scale economies and also Moore’s Law, reflecting processors getting faster and cheaper. This applies not just to the normal “computing” chips used for applications, but also to the semiconductors used for the communications parts of devices. Newer telecom technologies like LTE, WiMAX and VDSL are themselves heavily dependent on advanced signal processing techniques, to squeeze more bits into the available network channels.
Ericsson’s talk of 50 billion connected devices by the end of the decade seems plausible, although Amdocs’ sound-bite of 7 trillion by 2017 seems to have acquired a couple of rogue zeroes. That said, even in the smaller figure, not all will be fully “smart”.
Unsurprisingly, we therefore see a continued focus on this “edge intelligence” as a key battleground – who controls and harnesses that power? Is it device suppliers, telcos, end users, or 3rd-party application providers (so-called “over-the-top players”)? Does it complement “services” in the network? Or drive the need for new ones? Could it, perhaps, make them obsolete entirely.
So what remains unclear is how operators might adopt a device strategy that complements their network capabilities, to strengthen their position within the digital value chain and foster two-sided business models. It is important for operators to be realistic about how much of the “edge” they can realistically control, and under what circumstances. Given that price points of devices are plummeting, few customers will voluntarily choose “locked” or operator-restricted devices if similarly-capable but more flexible alternatives cost much the same. Some devices will always be open – in particular PCs. Others will be more closed, but under the control of their manufacturers rather than the telcos – the iPhone being the prime example.
It is therefore hugely important for operators to look at devices as a way of packaging that intelligence into new, specific and valuable business models and propositions – ideally, ones which are hard to replicate through alternative methods. This might imply design and development of completely exclusive devices, or making existing categories more usable. At the margins, there is also the perennial option for subsidy or financing – although that clearly puts even more pressure on the ongoing business model to have a clear profit stream.
There are so many inter-dependent factors here that it is difficult to examine the whole problem space methodically. How do developments like Android and device management help? Should the focus be on dedicated devices, or continued attempts to control the design, OS or browser of multi-purpose products? What aspects of the process of device creation and supply should be outsourced?
Where’s the horsepower?
The telcos are already very familiar with the impact of traditional PCs on their business models – they are huge consumers of data download and upload, but almost impossible to monetise for extra services, as they are bought separately and are generally seen more as endpoints for standalone applications rather than services. The specific issue of the PC (connected via fixed or mobile broadband) is covered separately, but the bottom line is that it is a case study in the ultimate power of open computing and networks. PCs have also been embedded in other “vertical market” end-points such as retail EPOS machines, bank ATMs and various in-vehicle systems.
The problem is now shifting to a much broader consumer environment, as PC-like computing capability shifts to other device categories, most notably smartphones, but also a whole array of other products in the home or pocket.
It is worth considering an illustration of the shifting power of the “edge”, as it applies to mobile phones.
If we go back five or six years, the average mobile phone had a single main processor “core” in its chipset, probably an ARM7, clocking perhaps 30MHz. Much of this was used for the underlying radio (the “modem”) and telephony functions, with a little “left over” for some very basic applications and UI tools, like Java games.
Today, many of the higher-end handsets have separate applications processors as well as the modem chip. The apps processor is used for the high-level OS and related capabilities, and is the cornerstone of the change being observed. An iPhone has a 600MHz+ chip, and various suppliers of Android phones are using a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon chip. Even midrange featurephones can have 200MHz+ to play with, most of which is actually usable for “cool stuff” rather than the radio.
This is where the danger lies for the telcos, as like PCs, it can shift the bias of the device away from consuming billable services and towards running software. (The situation is actually a bit more complex than just the apps processor, as phones can also have various other chips for signal processing, which can be usable in some circumstances for aspects of general computing. The net effect is the same though – massively more computational power, coupled with more sophisticated and open software).
Now, let’s project forward another five years. The average device (in developed markets at least) will have at least 500MHz, with top-end devices at 2GHz+, especially if they are not phones but tablets, netbooks or similar products. Set top-boxes, screenphones, game consoles and other CPE devices are growing smarter in parallel – especially enabled for browsers which can then act as general-purpose (distributed) computing environments. A new class of low-end devices is emerging as well. How and where operators might be able to control web applications is considered below, as it is somewhat different to the “native applications” seen on smartphones.
For the sake of argument, let’s take an average of 500MHz chips, and multiply by (say) 8 billion endpoints.
That’s 4 Exahertz (EHz, 1018) of application-capable computing power in people’s hands or home networks, without even considering ordinary PCs and “smart TVs” as well. And much – probably most – of that power will be uncontrolled by the operators, instead being the playground of user- or vendor-installed applications.
Even smart pipes are dumb in comparison
It is tricky to calculate an equivalent figure for “the network”, but consider an approximation of 10 million network nodes (datapoint: there are 3 million cell sites worldwide), at a generous 5GHz each. That means there would be 50 Petahertz (PHz, 1015) of computing power in the carrier cloud, and it’s including the assumption that most operators will also have thousands of servers in the back-office systems as well as the production network itself.
In other words, the telcos, collectively, have maybe an 80th of the collective compute power of the edge. It is quite possibly much lower than that, but the calculation is intended as an upper bound.
Now clearly, this is not quite as bad a deficit as that makes it sound – the network can obviously leverage intelligence in a few big control points in the core such as GGSNs and DPI boxes, as traffic funnels through them. It can exert control and policy over data flows, as well as what is done at the endpoints.
But at the other end of the pipe is the Internet, with Google and Amazon’s and countless other companies’ servers and “cloud computing” infrastructures. Trying to calculate the aggregate computing power of the web isn’t easy either, but it’s also likely to be in the Exahertz range too. Google is thought to have around one million servers on its own, for example, while the overall server population of the planet (including both Internet and enterprise) is thought to be of the order of 50 million, many of which have multiple processor cores.
Whatever else happens, it seems the pipe will inevitably become relatively “dumber” (i.e. less smart) than the devices at the edge, irrespective of smart Telco 2.0 platforms and 4G/NGN networks. The question is how much of that edge intelligence can be “owned” by the operators themselves.
Controlling device software vs. hardware
The answer is for telcos to attempt to take control of more of this enormous “edge intelligence”, and exploit it for their own benefit and in-house services or two-sided strategies.
There are three main strategies for operators wanting to exert influence on edge devices:
Provide dedicated and fully-controlled and customised hardware and software end-points which are “locked down” – such as cable set-top boxes, or operator-developed phones in Japan. This is essentially an evolution of the old approach of providing “terminals” that exist solely to act as access points for network-based services. This concept is being reinvented with new Telco-developed consumer electronic products like digital picture frames, but is a struggle for variants of multi-function devices like PCs and smartphones
Provide separate hardware products that sit “at the edge” between the user’s own smart device and the network, such as cable modems, femtocells, or 3G modems for PCs. These can act as hosts for certain new services, and may also exert policy and QoS control on the connection. Arguably the SIM card fits into this category as well
Develop control points, in hardware or software, that live inside otherwise notionally “open” devices. This includes SIM-locks, Telco-customised UI and OS layers, “policy-capable” connection manager software for notebooks, application and widget certification for smartphones, or secured APIs for handset browsers. Normally, it will be necessary for the operator to be the original device supplier/retailer for these capabilities to be enabled before sale – few users will be happy for their own device to be configured after purchase with extra controls from their service provider.
Case studies and best / worst practice
Going back 30 years, before telecoms deregulation, many telcos were originally device specialists. In many cases, the incumbent government monopolies were also the only source of supply of telephones and various other communications products (“CPE” – customer premises equipment) – often renting them to users rather than selling them. Since then of course, much has changed. Not only have customers been able to buy standards-compliant, certified terminals on the open market, but the rise of personal computing and mobile communications has vastly expanded the range and capability of end-points available.
But while few telcos could benefit today from owning physical manufacturing plants, there is an increasing argument for operators once again to take a stronger role in defining, sourcing and customising end-user hardware in both mobile and fixed domains. As discussed throughout this document, there is a variety of methods that can be adopted – and also a wide level of depth of focus and investment. Clearly, owning factories is unlikely to be an attractive option – but at the other end of the scale, it is unclear whether merely issuing vague “specifications” or sticking logos on white-labelled goods from China really achieves anything meaningful from a business model standpoint.
It is instructive to examine a few case studies of operator involvement in the device marketplace, to better understand where it can add value as a core plank of strategy, rather than simply as a tactical add-on.
Perhaps the best example of a device-centric operator is NTT DoCoMo in Japan. It would perhaps be more accurate to describe the firm as a technology-centric firm, as it pretty much defines its complete end-to-end system in-house, usually as a front-runner for more general 3GPP systems like WCDMA and LTE, but with subtle local modifications.About 10 years ago, it recognised that handset development was going to be a pivotal factor in delaying its then-new 3G FOMA services, and committed very significant funds to driving the whole device ecosystem to accelerate this.
In fact, DoCoMo has a very significant R&D budget in general, which means that it has been able to develop complete end-to-end platforms like i-Mode, spanning both handset software and back-end infrastructure and services. Although it is known for initiatives like these, as well as its participation in Symbian, Android and LiMo ecosystems, its device expertise goes far beyond handset software. For example, its own in-house research journal covers innovative areas of involvement, such as:
Improved video display on handsets
Development of its own in-vehicle 3G module for telematics applications
Measurement of handset antenna efficiency
In some ways, DoCoMo is in a unique position. It did not have to pay for original 3G spectrum and channelled funds into device and infrastructure development instead. It also operates in an affluent and gadget-centric market that has at times been willing to spend $500-600 on massmarket handsets. It has close ties with a number of Japanese vendors, with whom it spends large amounts on infrastructure and joint R&D. And its early pragmatism with web and software developers (in terms of revenue-share) has largely kept the ecosystem “on-side”, compared with other markets in which a mass of disgruntled application providers have eagerly jumped on off-portal and “open” OS platforms, to the detriment of operators.
In its financial year to March 2009, DoCoMo had a total R&D spend of 100 billion Yen (approximately $1bn). While this is split across both basic research and various initiatives around networks and services, it also has a dedicated “device development” centre. It compares to R&D spending by Vodafone Group in the same period of £280m, or about $450m, while mid-size global mobile group Telenor spent just NOK1.1bn ($180m) in calendar year 2008. For comparison, Apple’s current annualised R&D spend is around $1.6bn per year, and Google’s is $3.2bn – while Nokia’s was over $8bn in 2009 – albeit spread across a much larger number of products, as well as its share in NSN. Even smaller device players such as SonyEricsson spend >$1bn per year.
Although DoCoMo is best known for its handset software involvement – i-Mode, Symbian, LiMo, MOAP and so forth – it also conducts a significant amount of work on more hardcore technology platform development. Between 2005 and 2007, for example, it invested 12.5 billion Yen ($125m) in chipset design for its 3G phones.
It has huge leverage with Japanese handset manufacturers like NEC and Matsushita, as they have limited international reach. This means that DoCoMo is able to enforce adoption of its preferred technology components – such as single integrated chips that it helps design, rather than multiple more expensive processors.
While various operators are now present in handset-OS organisations such as the LiMO Foundation and Open Handset Alliance (Android), DoCoMo’s profile in device software has been considerably greater in the past. It is a founder member of Symbian, driving development of one of the original 3 Symbian user interfaces (the other two being Nokia’s S60 and the now-defunct UIQ). DoCoMo now makes royalty revenues, in some instances, from use of its handset software by manufacturers. It also owns a sizeable stake in browser vendor Access, and has also invested in other handset software suppliers like Aplix.
Verizon Open Device Initiative
From the discussion about DoCoMo above, it is clear that for an operator to start creating its own device platform from the bottom up, it will need extremely deep pockets and very close relationships with willing OEMs to use its designs. For individual handsets or a small series of similar devices, it can clearly choose the ODM route, although this risks limiting differentiation to a thin layer of software and a few “off the peg” hardware choices.
Another option is to try to create a fully-fledged hardware ecosystem, putting in place the tools and business frameworks to help innovative manufacturers create a broad set of niche “long tail” devices that conform to a given operator’s specifications. If successful, this enables a given telco to benefit from a set of unique devices that may well come with new business models attached. Clearly, the operator needs to be of sufficient scale to make the volumes worthwhile – and there also needs to be a guarantee of network robustness, channels to market and back-office support.
Verizon’s “Open Device Initiative” is perhaps the highest-profile example of this type of approach, aiming to foster the creation of a wide range of embedded and M2M products. It assists in the certification of modules, and also links in with its partnership with Qualcomm and nPhase in creating an M2M-enabling platform. A critical aspect of its purpose is a huge reduction in certification and testing time for new devices against its network – something which had historically been a time-to-market disaster lasting up to 12 months, clearly unworkable for categories like connected consumer-oriented devices. It has been targeting a 4-week turnaround instead, working with a streamlined process involving multiple labs and testing facilities.
US rival operator AT&T is attempting a similar approach with its M2M partner Jasper Wireless, although Verizon ODI has been more conspicuous to date.
3 / INQ Mobile
Another interesting approach to device creation is that espoused by the Hutchison 3 group. Its parent company, Hutchison Whampoa, set up a separately-branded device subsidiary called INQ Mobile in October 2008. INQ specialises in producing Internet-centric featurephones with tight integration of web services like Skype, Facebook and Twitter on low-cost platforms. Before the launch of INQ, 3 had already produced an earlier product, the SkypePhone, but had not sold that to the outside marketplace.
At around $100 price points, it is strongly aimed at prepaid-centric or low-subsidy markets where users want access to a subset of Internet properties, but without incurring the costs of a full-blown smartphone. It has worked closely with Qualcomm, especially using its BREW featurephone software stack to enable tight integration with web services and the UI. That said, the company is now switching at least part of its attention to Android-based devices in order to create touchscreen-enabled midmarket devices.
3/INQ highlights one of the paradoxes of operator involvement in device creation – while it is clearly desirable to have a differentiated, exclusive device, it is also important to have a target market of sufficient scale to justify the upfront investment in its creation. Setting up a vehicle to sell the resulting phones or other products in geographies outside the parent’s main market footprint is a way to grow the overall volumes, without losing the benefits of exclusivity.
In this sense, although the 3 Group clearly benefits from its association with INQ, it is not specifically part of the operator’s strategy but that of its ultimate holding company. The separate branding also makes good sense. It is also worth noting that 3 is not wholly beholden to INQ for supply of own-brand devices; its current S2x version of its Skypephone is manufactured by ZTE.
It is also worthwhile discussing one of the less-successful device initiatives attempted by operators in recent years. Between 2003-2009, BT developed and sold a fixed-mobile converged service called Fusion, which flipped handsets between an ordinary outdoor cellular connection and a local wireless VoIP service when indoors and connected to a BT broadband line.
Intended to reduce the costs associated with use of then-expensive mobile calls, when in range of “free” landline or VoIP connections, it relied on switching to Bluetooth or WiFi voice when within range of a suitable hotspot. The consumer and small-business version relied on a technology called UMA (Universal Mobile Access), while a corporate version used SIP. The mobile portion of the service used Vodafone’s network on an MVNO basis.
Recognising that it needed widespread international adoption to gain traction and scale, BT did many things that were “right”. In particular, it supported the creation of the FMCA (Fixed-Mobile Convergence Alliance) and engaged directly with many handset vendors and network suppliers, notably Motorola for devices and Alcatel-Lucent for systems integration. It also ran extensive trials and testing, and participated in various standards-setting fora.
The service never gained significant uptake, blamed largely on falling prices for mobile calls which reduced the core value proposition. It also reflected a very limited handset portfolio, especially as the technology only supported 2G mobile devices at launch – at just the point when many higher-value customers wanted to transition to 3G.
Conversely, lower-end users generally tend to use prepaid mobile in the UK, which did not fit well with BT’s contract-based pricing oriented around Fusion’s position as an add-on to normal home broadband. In addition, there were significant issues around the user interface, and the interaction of the UMA technology with certain other uses of the WiFi radio that the user did not wish to involve the operator.
The main failure for BT here was in its poor focus on what its customers wanted from devices themselves, as well as certain other aspects of the service wrapper, such as numbering. It was so focused on some of the network and service-centric aspects of Fusion (especially “seamless handover” of voice services) that it ignored many of the reasons that customers buy mobile phones – a range of device brands and models, increasing appeal of 3G, battery life, the latest features like high-resolution cameras and so forth. Towards the end of Fusion’s life, it also looked even weaker once the (unsupported) Apple iPhone raised the bar for massmarket adoption of smartphones. It was withdrawn from sale in early 2009.
BT also overlooked (or over-estimated) the addressable market size for UMA-enabled phones, which should have made it realise that support of the technology was always going to be an afterthought for the OEMs. It also over-relied upon Motorola for lower-end devices, and supported Windows Mobile for its smartphone variants more for reasons of pragmatism than customer demand.
Lastly, BT appears to have underestimated the length of time it would take to get devices from concept, through development and testing to market. In particular, it takes many years (and a clear economic rationale) for an optional feature to become built-into mobile device platforms as standard – and until that occurs, the subset of devices featuring that capability tends to be smaller, more expensive, and often late-to-market as OEMs focus their best engineers and project resources on more scalable investments.
Perhaps the main takeaway here is that telcos’ involvement in complex, technology-led device creation is very risky where the main customer benefit is simply cheaper services, in markets where the incumbent providers have scope to reduce margins to compete. A corollary lesson is that encouraging device vendors to support new functions that only benefit the operators (and only a small proportion of customers) is tricky unless the telcos are prepared to guarantee better purchase prices or large volumes. This may well be a reason that leads to the failure of other phone-based enhancements, such as NFC to date.
The role of the ODM in telco-centric devices
An important group of players in operators’ device strategies are the ODMs (original design manufacturers). Usually based in parts of Asia such as Taiwan and Korea, these firms specialise in developing customised “white label” hardware to certain specifications, which are then re-branded by more well-known vendors. ODMs are rather higher up the value-add hierarchy than CMs (contract manufacturers) that are more just factory-outsourcing companies, with much less design input.
Historically, the ODMs’ main customers were the device “OEMs” (original equipment manufacturers) – including well-known firms like Motorola, SonyEricsson and Palm. Even Nokia contracts-out some device development and manufacturing, despite its huge supply chain effectiveness. Almost all laptops are actually manufactured by ODMs – this supply route is not solely about handsets.
Examples of ODMs include firms like Inventec, Wistron, Arima, Compal and Quanta. Others such as HTC, ZTE and Huawei also design and sell own-brand products (ie act as OEMs) as well as manufacturing additional lines for other firms as ODMs.
In a growing number of instances, operators themselves are now contracting directly with ODMs to produce own-brand products for both mobile and fixed marketplaces. This is not especially new in concept – HTC in particular has provided ODM-based Windows Mobile smartphones and PDAs to various operators for many years. The original O2 XDA, T-Mobile MDA and Orange SPV series of smart devices all came via this route.
More recently, the ODM focus has swung firmly behind Android as the best platform, although there are still Microsoft-based products in the background as well. There are also patchy uses of ODMs to supply own-branded featurephones, usually for low-end prepaid segments of the market.
One trend that is conspicuous has been that the ODMs favoured by operators have tended to differ from those favoured by the other OEMs. MNOs have tended to work with the more experienced and technically-deep ODMs (which often have sizeable own-brand sales as well), perhaps to compensate for their limitations in areas such as radio and chipset expertise. They also want vendors that are capable of executing on sophisticated UI and applications requirements. HTC, ZTE and Sagem have made considerable headway in cutting deals with operators, with ZTE in particular able to leverage its growing global footprint associated with infrastructure sales. Conversely, some of the more “traditional” ODMs from Taiwan, such as Compal and Arima, have struggled to engage with operators to the same degree they can outsource design / manufacture from companies like Motorola and Sony Ericsson.
One of the most interesting recent trends is around new device form-factors, such as web tablets, ebook readers and netbooks/smartbooks. Operators are working with ODMs in the hope of deploying such devices as part of new business models and service propositions – either separate from conventional mobile phone service contracts, or as part of more complex integrated three / four screen converged offers. Again, Android is playing an important role here, especially for products that are Internet-centric such as tablets. Not all such devices are cellular-enabled: some, especially where they are intended for use just within the home, will be WiFi-only, connected via home broadband. Android is important here because of its malleability – it is much easier for operators (and their device partners) to create complete, customised user experiences, as the architecture does not have such a fixed “baseline” of user interface components or applications as Windows. It is also cheaper.
It is nevertheless important to note that ODM-based device strategies are often difficult to turn into new business models, and have various practical complexities in execution. Most ODMs base their products on off-the-shelf “reference designs” from chipset suppliers, alongside standard OS’s (hence Android and WinMob) and a fairly thin layer of in-house IPR and design skills. There is often limited differentiation over commodity designs for a given product, except in the case of the few ODMs that have built up strong software expertise over years (notably HTC).
In addition, the “distance” in terms of both value-chain position and geography often makes operator/ODM partnerships difficult to manage. Often, neither has particularly good skill sets in terms of RF design, embedded software development, UI design and ecosystem management. This means that a range of extra consultants and integrators also need to be roped into the projects. While open OS’s like Android provide an off-the-shelf ecosystem to add spice to the offerings, the overall propositions can suffer from a lack of centralised ownership.
It is worth considering that most previous operator/ODM collaborations have been successful in two contexts:
Early Windows Mobile and Pocket PC devices sold to businesses and later consumers, to compete primarily against Nokia/Symbian and provide support for email, web browsing and a limited set of applications. Since the growth of Apple and BlackBerry, these offerings have looked weak, although ODM Android-based smartphones are restoring the balance somewhat.
Low-end commodity handsets, primarily aimed at prepaid customers in markets where phones are sold through operator channels. Typically, these have been aimed at less brand-conscious consumers who might otherwise have bought low-tier Nokia, Samsung or LG handsets.
On the other hand, other operator / ODM tie-ups have been rather less successful. In 2009, a number of operators tried rolling out small handheld MIDs (mobile Internet devices), with lacklustre market impact.
One possibility is that ODMs will start to shift focus away from mobile handsets, and more towards other classes of device such as tablets, femtocells and in-car systems. These are all areas in which there is much less incumbency from the major OEM brands like Apple and Samsung, and where operators may be able to sell completely new classes of device, packaged with services.
It has been estimated that own-brand operator handsets remain a “minority sport”, with IDC reported as estimating they only accounted for 1.4% of units shipped in Western Europe in 2008.
Enhancing existing business models
Returning to one of the points made in the introduction, there are two broad methods by which device expertise can enhance operators’ competitive position and foster the creation and growth of extra revenue:
This section of the document considers the former rationale – extending the breadth and depth of current services and brand. Although much of the recent media emphasis (and perceived “sexiness”) around devices is on the creation of new business models and revenue streams, arguably the main benefits of device specialisation for telcos are more prosaic. Deploying or designing the right hardware can reduce ongoing opex, help delay or minimise the need for incremental network capex, improve customer loyalty and directly generate revenue uplift in existing services.
Clearly, it is not new analysis to assert that mobile operators benefit from having an attractive portfolio of devices, in markets where they sell direct to end-users. Exclusive releases of the Apple iPhone clearly drove customer acquisition for operators such as AT&T and O2. Even four years ago, operators which merely gained preferential access to new colours of the iconic Motorola RAZR saw an uplift in subscriber numbers.
But the impact on ongoing business models goes much further than this, for those telcos that have the resources and skill to delve more deeply into the ramifications of device selection. Some examples include:
There is a significant difference between devices in terms of return rates from dissatisfied customers – either because of specific faults (crashing, for example) or poor user experience. This can cause significant losses in terms of the financial costs of device supply/subsidy, along with negative impact on customer loyalty.
Less serious than outright returns, it is also important to recognise the difference in performance of devices on an ongoing basis. In 2009, Andorra-based research lab Broadband Testing found huge variations between different smartphones in the basics of “being a phone” – some regularly dropped calls under certain circumstances such as 3G-to-2G transitions, for example. Often, users will wrongly associate dropped calls with flaws in the network rather than the handset – thereby generating a negative perception for the telco.
Another important aspect of opex relates to handling support calls, which can easily cost $20 per event – and sometimes much more for complex inquiries needing a technical specialist. This becomes much more of an issue for certain products, such as advanced data-capable products, where configuration of network settings, email accounts and VoIP services can be hugely problematic. A single extra technical call, per user per year, can wipe out the telco’s gross margin. Devices which have setup “wizards” or even just clearer menus can reduce the call-centre burden considerably. Even in the fixed world, home gateways or other products designed to work well “out of the box” are essential to avoid profit-sapping support calls (or worse, “truck rolls”). This can mean something as trivial as colour-coding cables and sockets – or as sophisticated as remote device management and diagnostics.
Selection of data devices with specific chipsets and radio components can have a measurable impact on network performance. Certain standards and techniques are only implemented in particular semiconductor suppliers’ products, which can use available capacity more efficiently. Used in sufficiently large numbers, the cumulative effect can result in reduced capex on network upgrades. While few carriers have the leverage to force new chip designs into major handset brands’ platforms, the situation could be very different for 3G dongles and internal modules used in PCs, which tend to be much more generic and less brand-driven. UK start-up Icera Semiconductor has been pursuing this type of engagement strategy with network operators such as Japan’s SoftBank.
Device accessories can add value to a service provider’s existing offerings, adding loyalty, encouraging contract renewal, and potentially justifying uplift to higher-tier bundles. For home broadband, the provision of capable gateways with good WiFi can differentiate versus alternative ISPs. For those providing VoIP or IPTV, the addition of cordless handsets or PVRs / media servers can add value. In mobile, the provision of car-kits can improve voice usage and revenues significantly.
Operators’ choice of devices can impact significantly on ARPU. There is historical evidence that a good SMS client on a mobile phone will drive greater usage and revenue, for example. In the fixed-broadband world, providing gateways with (good) WiFi instead of simple modems has driven multiple users per household – and thus a need for higher-tier services and greater overall perception of value.
Figure 2: Operators need to consider the effects of basic device performance on customer satisfaction and the network
Source: Broadband Testing
There are also much simpler ways in which devices can bolster current services’ attractiveness: 2010 and 2011 are likely to see an increasing number of new devices being sold or given away by operators in order to retain existing customers using existing services.
In particular, a new class of WiFi-based web tablets are expected to become quite popular among fixed broadband companies looking to avoid churn or downward pricing pressure, as well as (perhaps) acting as future platforms for new services as well. Although there are numerous technical platforms for tablets, it seems likely that Android will enable a broad array of inexpensive Asian ODMs to produce competent products, especially as they will not need complex integration of voice telephony or other similar features. The growing maturity of web browsers and widgets (for example with HTML5), as well as the flexibility of the Android Marketplace, should enable sufficient flexibility for use of the products with most leading-edge web services.
Expect to see plenty of “free” pseudo-iPads being given as inducements to retain customers, or perhaps to upsell them to a higher-tier package. The ability for fixed broadband providers to compete with their mobile peers, through providing subsidised devices, should not be underestimated. By the same token, mobile operators may choose to give away free or discounted femtocells
It is also possible for operators’ direct involvement in the device marketplace to lead to lower costs for existing business models. Various groups of operators have collectively acted in partnership to reduce device prices through collective purchasing and negotiation, as well as enabling larger-scale logistics and supply chain operations. In Japan, NTT DoCoMo has conducted a considerable amount of research on chipset integration, with the result of enabling cheaper handset platforms (see case study below).
Operator home gateways
Probably the most visible and successful area for operator-controlled and branded devices has been the home gateway provided by many ADSL operators, as well as their peers’ offerings of cable modems and set-top boxes. While these are usually produced by companies such as Thomson / Technicolor and 2Wire, many operators undertake very substantial customisation of both hardware and software.
Up to a point, these products have acted as service “hubs”, enabling fixed broadband providers to offer a variety of value-added options such as IPTV, VoIP, remote storage and other service offerings. They normally have WiFi (and, sometimes, “community” connectivity such as the BT / FON tie-up) and various ports for PCs and other devices. Some incorporate wireless DECT or WiFi phones. Most are remotely manageable and can support software upgrades, as well as some form of interactivity via the customer’s PC. Given that most home broadband contracts last at least a year – and are rarely churned – the cost can be defrayed relatively easily into the ongoing service costs.
That is the good side of home gateways. The downside is that they rarely generate additional incremental revenue streams after the initial installation. Users only infrequently visit operators’ portals, or even less often use the in-built management software for the device. They respond with indifference to most forms of marketing after the initial sign-up: anecdotally, telephone sales and direct mail have poor response rates.
Nevertheless, these products still form a centrepiece of many broadband providers’ strategies and competitive differentiation:
Most obviously, they are needed to support higher broadband speeds, which remains the key differentiator between telcos selling ADSL or cable connectivity. “Upgradeability” to faster speeds is one of the most likely options to drive aftermarket revenue uplift or induce loyalty via “free” improvements whilst maintaining price against a falling market. In some countries, the ability to support fibre as well as copper is an important form of future-proofing. Potentially, the inclusion of femtocell modules also confers extra upgrade potential.
If well-designed, they can prompt selection of a higher-end monthly tariff or bundle at the initial sale, especially where the operator has a range of alternative products. For example, Orange sells its low-end plans with a basic wireless router, while its higher-end offerings use its LiveBox to support value-adds like VoIP, UMA and so forth. BT offers a free DECT handset with its top-end bundle.
Gateways can have the ability to reduce operating costs, especially if they have good self-diagnostics and helpdesk software.
In some cases, the gateway can stimulate an ecosystem of accessories such as cordless handsets or other add-ons. Orange, once again, uses its LiveBox as a platform for additional “digital home” products such as a networked storage drive, Internet radio and even a smoke detector*. These can either generate additional revenue directly in hardware sales, or by incremental services – or even just greater utilisation of the base offers. In the future, it seems likely that this approach could evolve into a much broader set of services, such as smart-grid electricity monitoring.
(*The Orange France smoke detector service is interesting, in that it comes with two additional options for the user to subscribe to either Orange’s own €2 per month alerting service, or a third-party “upstream” insurance and assistance firm’s more comprehensive offering [Mondial Assistance] at €9 per month)
As such, it is (in the long term) a potentially massive assistance to operators wishing to pursue two-sided models. It can act as a control point for network QoS, helping differentiate certain end-user ‘consumption’ devices through physical ports or separate WiFi identities. It can store information or provide built-in applications (for example, web caching). This approach could enable a work-around for Net Neutrality, if two-sided upstream partners’ applications are prioritised not over the Internet connection, but instead by virtue of having some form of local ‘client’ and intelligence in the operator’s broadband box. While this might not work for live TV or real-time gaming, there could certainly be other options that might allow more ‘slice and dice’ revenue to be extracted.
It is also much more feasible (net neutrality laws permitting) to offer differentiated QoS or bandwidth guarantees on fixed broadband, when there is a separate hardware device acting as a “demarcation point”, and able to measure and report on real-world conditions and observed connectivity behaviour. This is critical, as it seems likely that “upstream” providers will demand proof that the network actually delivered on the QoS promises.
The bottom line is that operators intending to leverage in-home services need a fully-functional gateway. It is notable that some operators are now backing away from these towards less-functional and cheaper ADSL modems (for example, Telecom Italia’s Alice service), which may reflect a recognition that added-value sales are much more difficult than initially thought.
It is difficult to monetise PCs beyond “pipes”
Despite our general enthusiasm for innovation in gaining revenues from new “upstream” providers, Telco 2.0 believes that the most important two-sided opportunities will involve devices other than PCs. We also feel it is highly unlikely that operators will be able to sell many incremental “retail” services to PCs users, beyond connectivity. That said, we can envisage some innovation in pricing models, especially for mobile broadband in which factors like prepaid, “occasional” nomadicity and offload may play a part. There may also be some bundling – for example of music services, online storage or hosted anti-virus / anti-spam functions. One other area of exception may be around cloud computing services for small businesses.
Although the popular image of broadband is people on FaceBook, running Skype or BitTorrent or watching YouTube on a laptop, these services are not likely to support direct ‘slice and dice’ wholesale capacity revenues from the upstream providers. Telco 2.0 believes that in certain cases (eg fixed IPTV), Internet or media companies might be prepared to pay an operator extra for improved delivery of content or applications. But there is very little evidence that PC-oriented providers such as YouTube, for example, will be prepared to pay “cold hard cash” to broadband providers for supposed “quality of service”. PCs are ideal platforms for alternative approaches – rate adaptation, buffering, or other workarounds. PC users are comparatively tolerant, and are more prone to multi-tasking while downloads occur. However, these companies may still be able to generate advertising revenue-share, telco B2B value-added services (VAS) and API-based revenues in some circumstances – especially via mobile broadband.
That said, for mobile broadband, PCs are really more of a problem than an opportunity, generating upwards of 80% of downstream data traffic for many mobile operators – 99.9% of which goes straight to the Internet, through what is actually quite complex and expensive core network “machinery”. Offloading PC-based mobile traffic to the Internet via WiFi or femtocell is a highly attractive option – even if it means forgoing a small opportunity for uplift. The benefits of increasing capacity available for smartphones or niche devices without extra capex on upgrades far outweighs this downside in most cases.
In the fixed world, the data consumption of PCs may eventually look like a red herring, except for the most egregiously-demanding users. The real pain (and, perhaps, opportunity) in terms of network costs will increasingly come from other devices connected via broadband, especially those capable of showing long-form HD video like large-screen TVs and digital video recorders. Other non-PC devices connected via fixed broadband including game consoles, tablets, smartphones (via WiFi), femtocells, smart meters, healthcare products and so on.
As the following section describes, PC-based applications are generally too difficult to track or charge for on a granular basis, while other supplementary products and associated applications tend to be easier to monitor and bill – and often have value chains and consumer expectations that are more accepting of paid services.
The characteristics which distinguish PCs from other broadband-connected devices include:
High-volume traffic. With a few exceptions that can be dealt with via caps or throttling, most PC users struggle to use more than perhaps 30GB/month today on fixed broadband, and 5GB on mobile. This is likely to scale roughly in parallel with overall network capacity, rather than out-accelerate it. Conversely, long-form professional video content has the potential to use many GB straight away, with a clear roadmap to ever-higher traffic loads as pixel densities increase. Clearly, PCs are today often facilitators in video downloads, but relatively few users can be bothered to hook their computers up to a large screen. In the future, there are likely to be more directly Internet-connected TVs, as well as specialist boxes like the Roku;
Multiple / alternative accesses. PCs will increasingly be used with different access networks – perhaps ADSL and WiFi at home, 3G mobile broadband while travelling, and paid WiFi hotspots in specific locations. This makes it much more difficult to monetise any individual pipe, as the user (and content/app provider) has relatively simple methods for arbitrage and ‘least cost routing’;
Likelihood of obfuscation. PCs are much more likely to be able to work around network policies and restrictions, as they are ideal platforms for new software and are generally much less controlled by the operator or vendor. Conversely, the software in a TV or health monitoring terminal is likely to be static, and certainly less prone to user experimentation. This means that if the network can identify certain traffic flows to/from a TV today, they are unlikely to have changed significantly in a year’s time. Nobody will install a new open-source P2P application on their Panasonic TV, or a VPN client in their blood-pressure monitor. Conversely, PC applications will require a continued game of cat-and-mouse to stay on top of. There is also much less risk of Google, Microsoft or another supplier giving away free encryption / tunnelling / proxying software and hiding all the data from prying DPI eyes;
Cost of sale and support. Few Telcos are going to want to continually make hundreds of new sales and marketing calls to the newest ‘flavour of the month’ Web 2.0 companies in the hope of gaining a small amount of wholesale revenue. Conversely, a few ‘big names’ in other areas offer much more scope for solid partnerships – Netflix, Blockbuster, BBC, Xbox Live, Philips healthcare, Ubiquisys femtocells and so on. A handful of consumer electronics manufacturers and other Telcos represents a larger and simpler opportunity than a long tail of PC-oriented web players. Some of the latter’s complexity will be reduced by the emergence of intermediary companies but even with these, operators will almost certainly focus on the big deals;
Reverse wholesale threats. The viral adoption and powerful network effects of many PC-based applications mean that operators may be playing with fire if they try to extract wholesale revenues for data capacity. It is very easy for users of a popular site or service (e.g. Facebook) to mobilise against the operator – or even for the service provider to threaten to boycott specific ISPs and suggest that users churn. This is much less likely for individual content-to-person models like TV, where it is easier to assert control from a BSP point of view;
Consumer behaviour and expectations. Consumers (and content providers) are used to paying more/differently for video viewed on a TV versus on a PC. Similarly, the value chains for other non-PC services are less mature and are probably easier for fixed BSPs to interpose themselves in, especially while developers and manufacturers are still dealing with ‘best efforts’ Internet access. PC-oriented developers are already good at managing variable connection reliability, so tend to have less incentive to pay for improvements. There are some exceptions here, such as applications which are ‘mission critical’ (e.g. hosted Cloud / SaaS software for businesses, or real time healthcare monitoring), but most PC-based applications and their users are remarkably tolerant of poor connectivity. Conversely, streaming HD video, femtocell traffic and smart metering have some fairly critical requirements in terms of network quality and security, which could be monetised by fixed BSPs;
Congestion-aware applications. PC applications (and to degree those on smartphones) are becoming much better at watching network conditions and adapting to congestion. It is much more difficult for a BSP to charge a content or application provider for transport, if they can instead invest the money in more adaptive and intelligent software. This is much more likely to occur on higher-end open computing devices with easily-updateable software.
Taken as a whole, Telco 2.0 is doubtful that PCs represent a class of device that can be exploited by operators much, beyond connectivity revenues. In the fixed world, we feel that telcos have other, better, opportunities and more important threats (around video, tablets and new ecosystems like smart grids). In the mobile world, we think operators need to consider the cost of servicing PC-based mobile broadband, rather than the mostly-mythical new revenue streams – and just focus on managing or offloading the traffic with the greatest ease and lowest cost feasible.
PCs are unlikely to disappear – but they should not command an important share of telcos’ limited bandwidth for services innovation.
Devices and new telco business models
The last part of previous section has given a flavour of how network end-points might contribute to business model innovation, or at least permit the layering-on of incremental services such as the Orange smoke-detector service. It is notable that, in that case, the new proposition is actually a “two box” service, involving a generic telco-controlled unit (the LiveBox gateway), together with a separate device that actually enabled and instantiated the new service (the detector itself).
When it comes to generating new device-based operating and revenue models, telcos have two main choices:
Developing services around existing multi-purpose devices (principally PCs or smartphones)
Developing services around new and mostly single-application devices (Internet TVs, smart meters, healthcare monitors, in-vehicle systems, sensors and so forth).
The home gateway, discussed above, is a bit of a special category, as it is potentially both a “service end-point” in its own right and the hub for extra gadgets hooked into it through WiFi.
The first option – using multi-function devices – has both advantages and disadvantages. The upside is a large existing user base, established manufacturers and scale economies, and well-understood distribution channels. The downside is the diversity of those marketplaces in terms of fragmented platforms and routes to market, huge competition from alternative developers and service providers, an urgent need to avoid disruption to existing revenues streams and experience – and the strategic presence of behemoths such as Apple, Google and Nokia.
Smartphones and PCs are separately analysed later in this document, as each group has very separate challenges that impinge to only a limited degree on the newer and more fragmented device types.
With new devices there are also a series of important considerations. In theory, many can be deployed in “closed” end-to-end systems with a much greater measure of operator control. Even where they rely on notionally “open” OS’s or other platforms, that openness might be exploited by the telco in terms of, say, user interface and internal programming – but not left fully-open to the user to add in additional applications. (This is perfectly normal in the M2M world – many devices have Windows or Linux internals, such as barcode scanners and bank ATM machines, but these are isolated from the user’s intervention).
However, despite the ability to create completely standalone revenue models, there are still other practical concerns. Certain device types may fit poorly with telcos’ back-office systems, especially old and inflexible billing systems. There will also be huge issues about developing dedicated retail and customer-support channels for niche devices, outside their usual mechanisms for selling mobile services or mass-market broadband and telephony. There may also be challenges dealing with the role of the incumbent brands and their existing partnerships.
Devices map onto 4 communications models
Clearly, the device universe driving telecom services is a broad one – dominated in volume terms by mobile phones and smartphones, as well as driven from a data standpoint by PCs. There are also the numerically smaller, but highly important constituencies of fixed phones, servers and corporate PBXs. But increasingly, the landscape looks more fragmented, with ever more devices becoming network-connected and also open to applications and “smartness”. TVs, tablets, sensors, meters, advertising displays, gaming products and so forth – plus newcomers in diverse areas of machine-to-machine and consumer electronics.
Consequently, it is difficult to develop broad-brush strategies that span this diversity, especially given the parallel divergence of business models and demands on the network. To help clarify the space, we have developed a broad mechanism for classifying devices into different ”communications models”. Although the correlation is not perfect, we feel that there is a good-enough mapping between the ways in which devices communicate, and the ways in which users or ecosystems might be expected to pay for services.
(Note: P2P here refers to devices that are primarily for person-to-person communications, not peer-to-peer in the context of BitTorrent etc. In essence, these devices are “phones” or variants thereof, although they may also have additional “smart” data capabilities).
It is worth pointing out that PCs represent a combination of all of these models. They are discussed separately, in another section – although Telco 2.0 feels that they are much more difficult to monetise beyond connectivity for operators.
The majority of devices connected to telcos’ networks today are primarily intended for person-to-person (also sometimes called peer-to-peer) communications: they are phones, used for calling or texting other phones, both mobile and fixed. Because they have been associated with numbers – and specific people, locations or businesses – the business models have always revolved around subscriptions and continuity.
Telco 2.0 believes that there is limited scope for device innovation here beyond additional smartness – and to a degree, smartphones (like PCs) also could be considered special cases that transcend the categories described here. They are examined below. [Note: this refers to the types of communication application – there are likely to be yet more new ways in which voice and SMS can be used, controlled and monetised even on basic phones through back-end APIs in the network].
Yes, there could be niche products which evolve specifically intended as “social network devices” and clearly there is also a heritage of products optimised for email and various forms of instant messaging. But these functions are generally integrated into handsets, either operator-controlled or through third-party platforms such as BlackBerry’s email and messaging.
A recurring theme among fixed operators for the past 20 years has been that of videophones. Despite numerous attempts to design, specify or sell them, we have yet to see any rapid uptake, despite widespread use of webcams on PCs. The most recent attempt has been the advent of “screenphones” optimised for web/widget display, with additional video capture and display capabilities they hope may eventually become more widely-used. These too have had limited appeal.
Although handsets clearly represent a huge potential opportunity for telcos’ two-sided aspirations through voice/SMS APIs and smartphone applications and advertising, it seems unlikely that device innovation will result in totally new classes of product here. As such, operators’ peer-to-peer device strategy will likely to revolve around better control of smartphones’ experience and application suites, along with attempts to bring on new massmarket services for featurephones. This is likely to take the form of various new web/widget frameworks such as the Joint Innovation Labs’ platform (JIL), run by Vodafone, Verizon, SoftBank and China Mobile.
Other less-likely handset business models could evolve around new “core” communications modes – although we remain sceptical that the 3GPP- and GSMA-backed Rich Communications Suite will succeed in the fashion of SMS for a huge number of reasons. In particular, any new core P2P mode needs very high penetration levels to be attained before reaching critical mass for uptake – something hard to achieve given the diversity of device platforms, the routes to market, and the existing better-than-RCS capabilities already built into products such as the iPhone and BlackBerry. Adding in a lack of clear business case, poor fit with prepay models and weak links to consumer behaviour and psychology (eg “coolness”), we feel that “silo” optimised solutions developed by operators, device vendors or third parties are much more likely to succeed than lowest-common-denominator “official” standards.
Downloads and streaming
The most visible – and potentially problematic – category of new connected devices are those that are intended as media consumption products. This includes TVs, e-book readers, PVRs, Internet radios, advertising displays and so forth. Clearly, some of these have been connected to telco services in some way before (notably via IPTV), but the recent trends of embedding intelligence (and “raw” direct Internet access) is changing the game further. Although it is also quite flexible, we believe that the new Apple iPad is best represented within this category.
There are four main problems here:
- The suppliers of these devices are often strong consumer electronic brands, with limited experience of engaging with operators at all, let alone permitting them to interfere in hardware or software specification or design. Furthermore, their products generally have significant “offline” usage modes such as terrestrial TV display, over which operators cannot hope to exert influence at all. As such, any telco involvement will likely need to be ring-fenced to new services supported. This also makes it difficult to conceive of many products which could be profitable if confined solely to sales within an individual operator’s customer base.
- It is unlikely that many of the more expensive items of display and media consumption technology will be supplied directly by operators, or subsidised by them. This makes it very difficult for operators to get their software/UI load into the supply chain, unless there were generic open-Internet downloads available.
- These devices – especially those which display high-definition video – can consume huge amounts of network resource. Living-room LCD TVs can pull down 5GB per hour, if connected to the Internet for streamed IPTV, which might not even be watched if the viewer leaves the room. In the mobile domain, dedicated TV technologies have gained limited traction, but streaming music and audio can instead soak up large volumes of 3G bandwidth. There is a risk that as display technology evolves (3D, HD etc), these products may become even more of a threat to economics than open PCs.
- For in-home or in-office usage scenarios, the devices will normally be used “behind” the telco access gateway and thus be outside the usual domain of operator influence. This makes it less palatable to consumers to have “control points”, and also raises the issue of responsibility for poor in-home connectivity if they are operator-controlled.
All that said, there are still important reasons for telcos to become more skilled in this category of devices. Firstly, it is important for them to understand the types of traffic that may be generated – and, possibly, learn how to identify it in the network for prioritisation. There could well be options for two-sided models here – for example, prioritisation or optimisation of HD video for display on living-room TVs, for which there may well be revenue streams to share, as well as user expectations that would not embrace “buffering” of streamed data during congested periods.
Moreover, there is a subset of this class of “display” devices which are much more amenable to entirely new business models beyond connectivity. Mobile devices such as the Apple iPad (or operator-controlled equivalents) could be bundled with content and applications. Non-consumer products such as connected advertising displays could benefit from many telco value-adds: imagine a road-side advert that changed to reflect the real-time mix of drivers in the vicinity, calculated via the operator’s network intelligence.
There are also further positives to this group of products that may offset the problems listed above. Generally, they are much less “open” than PCs and smartphones, and tend to have fixed software and application environments. This predictability makes it much less likely that new usage modes will emerge suddenly, or new work-arounds for network controls be implemented. It also makes “illicit” usage far less probable – few people are going to download a new BitTorrent client to their TV, or run Skype on a digital-advertising display.
Cloud services & control
Probably the most interesting class of new devices are those that are expected to form the centrepiece of emerging “cloud services” business models, or which are centrally-controlled in some way. In both cases, while the bulk of data traffic is downstream, there is an important back-channel from the device back to the network. Possible examples here would be smart meters for next-generation electricity grids, personal healthcare terminals, or “locked” tablets used for delivering operator-managed (or at least, operator-mediated) services into the home.
These devices would typically be layered onto existing broadband service connections in the home (probably linked in via WiFi), or else could have a separate cellular module for wide-area connectivity. While they may have some form of user interface or screen, it is likely that this will not be “watched” in the same sense as a TV or media tablet, instead used for specific interactive tasks.
These types of application have some different network requirements to other devices – most typically, they will require comparatively small volumes of data, but often with extremely high levels of security and reliability, especially for use cases such as healthcare and energy management. Other devices may be less constrained by network quality – perhaps new appliances for the home, such as “family agenda and noticeboard” tablets.
There are numerous attractions here for operators – while these devices are likely to be used for a variety of tasks, their impact on the network in terms of capacity should generally be light. Conversely, the requirements for security should enable a premium to be charged – probably to the “ecosystem owner” such as a public-sector body or a utility. In some cases, there could well be additional associated revenue streams open to the telco alongside connectivity – both direct from end users, and perhaps also from managing delivery to upstream providers.
There is also a significant likelihood that cloud-based services will be based around long-term, subscription-type billing models, as the devices will likely be in regular and ongoing use, and also probably of minimal functionality when disconnected.
A number of new device categories are emerging that are “upload-centric” – using the telco network as a basis for gathering data or content, rather than consuming it. Examples include CCTV cameras, networks of sensors (eg for environmental monitoring), or digital cameras that can upload photos directly.
These are highly interesting in terms of new business models for telcos:
Firstly, they are almost all incremental to existing connections rather than substitutional – and thus represent a source of entirely new revenue, even if the operators are just supplying connectivity.
Secondly, this class of device is likely to involve new, wider ecosystems, often involving parties that have limited experience and skill in managing networks or devices. This provides the opportunity for operator to add significant value in terms of overall management and control. Examples include camera manufacturers, public-sector authorities operating surveillance or measurement networks and so forth. This yields significant opportunity for two-sided revenues for telcos, or perhaps overall “managed service” provision.
Thirdly, it is probable that traditional “subscription” models, as seen in normal telephony services, will be unwieldy or a generally poor fit with this class of device. For example, a digital 3G-uploading camera is likely to be used irregularly and is thus unsuited to regular monthly fees. It may also make sense to price such devices on a customised “per photo” basis, rather than per-MB – and it would probably be desirable to bundle a certain allowance into the upfront device purchase price. Clearly, there is value to be gained by the telco or a specialist service provider like Jasper Wireless here, re-working the billing and charging mechanisms, handling separate roaming deals and so forth.
In addition, there is an opportunity to engineer these new business models from the ground up to reflect network usage and load. They are likely to generate fairly predictable traffic – most of it upstream. This may present certain challenges, as most assumptions are for download-centric networks, but the fact that application-specific devices should be “deterministic” should help assuage those problems from a planning point of view. For example, if an operator knows that it has to support a million CCTV cameras, each uploading an average of 3MB per hour from fixed locations, that is relatively straightforward to add into the capacity planning process – certainly much more so than an extra million smartphones using unknown applications at unknown times, while moving around.
All that said, it remains unclear that the total number of device sales and aggregate revenues make this category a truly critical area for telcos. In many cases it is likely to be “nice to have” rather than must-have – and it is certainly not obvious that the current nascent market will be large enough to accommodate every operator in a given market attempting to enter the space simultaneously. For a few operators this area may “move the needle” if a few choice deals are struck (e.g. for national environmental monitoring), but for others it will be many years, if ever.
One example of this category of product is the remote smoke-detector offered by Orange in France, which is provided as a value-add to its home broadband offer. This has a variety of service models, including one involving a subscription to another upstream provider of monitoring/alerting functions (Mondial Assistance), for which Orange presumably gains a revenue share.
Operators’ influence on smartphones and featurephones
Perhaps the key telco battleground at present is around smartphones. The growth of the iPhone, the entrenched position of BlackBerry, the emergence of Android and the theoretical numeric advantage of Symbian and Nokia are all important aspects of the landscape. They are encouraging data plan uptake by consumers, catalysing the applications ecosystem and – on the downside – fostering rampant bandwidth utilisation and providing ready platforms for Internet behemoths to drive services loyalty at the expense of the telcos.
In principle smartphones should be excellent platforms for operators launching new services and exploiting alternative business models – advertising, downloadable apps linked to identity or billing services, third-party payments for enhanced connectivity and so forth. Yet up until now, with a few exceptions (notably DoCoMo in Japan), there have been very limited new revenue streams on handsets beyond basic voice, messaging, ringtones and flat (or flattish) data plans. BlackBerry’s BES and BIS services are the only widely-adopted 3rd-party data services sold outside of bundles by a significant number of operators, although operator billing for their own (or others’) appstores holds potential.
This is a general area that Telco 2.0 has covered in various recent research reports, examining the role of Apple, Google, RIM and others. Fixed operators have long known what their mobile peers are now learning – as intelligence increases in the devices at the edge, it becomes far more difficult to control how they are used. And as control ebbs away, it becomes progressively easier for those devices to be used in conjunction with services or software provided by third parties, often competitive or substitutive to the operators’ own-brand offerings.
A full discussion of the smartphone space merits its own strategy report, and thus coverage in this document on the broader device markets is necessarily summarised.
What is less visible is how and where operators can impose themselves in this space from a business model point of view. There is some precedent for operators developing customised versions of smartphone OS software, as well as unique devices (eg Vodafone / LiMo, DoCoMo / Symbian and Linux, or KDDI / Qualcomm BREW). Many have fairly “thin” layers of software to add some branding and favoured applications, over the manufacturer’s underlying OS and UI. Symbian and LiMo have been more accommodating in this regard, compared to Apple and RIM, with Microsoft and Palm somewhere in the middle.
However, in the majority of cases this has not led to sustainable revenue increases or competitive advantage for the operators concerned – not least because there appears to have been a negative correlation with overall usability, especially given links to back-end services like iTunes and the BlackBerry BIS email infrastructure. Where one company has complete control of the “stovepipe”, it is much easier to optimise for complexities such as battery life, manage end-to-end performance criteria such as latency and responsiveness, and be incentivised to ensure that fixing one problem does not lead to unintended consequences elsewhere. In contrast, where operators merely customise a smartphone OS or its applications, they often lack the ability to drill down into the lower levels of the platform where needed.
More recently, Android has seemed to represent a greater opportunity, as its fully open-source architecture enables operators to tinker with the lower layers of the OS if they so desire, although there are endless complexities in creating “good” smartphones outside of telcos’ main competence, such as software integration and device power management. Symbian’s move to openness could also produce a similar result. It is in this segment that operators have the greatest opportunity for business model innovation. We are already seeing moves to operator-controlled application ecosystems, as well as mobile advertising linked to the browser or other functions. That said, early attempts by operators to create own-label social networking services, or “cross-operator” applications, seem to have had limited success.
Further down the chain, it is important not to forget the huge market occupied by their less-glamorous featurephone brethren. Especially in prepaid-centric markets where subsidy is rare, the majority of customers use lesser devices from the likes of Nokia’s Series 40 range, or the huge range from Samsung and LG. Worse still for operators, many of these devices are bought “vanilla” from separate retail channels over which they have little control.
While it is theoretically possible for service providers to “push” their UIs and applications down to non-customised handsets in the aftermarket, in reality that rarely happens as it has huge potential to cause customer dissatisfaction. More generally, some minimal customisation is provided via the SIM card applications – although over time this may become slightly more sophisticated.
Realistically, the only way that operator can easily control new business models linked to prepaid mobile phone subscribers is through own-brand phones (see ODM section below), or via very simple “per day” or “per month” fixed-fee services like web access or maybe video.
Overall, it could be viewed that operators are continually facing a “one step forward, two steps back” battle for handset application and UI control. For every new Telco-controlled initiative like in-house appstores, customised/locked smartphone OS’s, BONDI-type web security, or managed “policy” engines, there is another new source of “control leakage” – Apple’s device management, Nokia’s Ovi client, or even just open OS’s and third-party appstores enabling easy download of competing (and often better/free) software apps.
Multi-platform user experience
The rest of this document has talked about devices as standalone products, linked to particular services or business models. But it actually seems fair to assume that many users will be using a variety of platforms, in a variety of contexts, acquired through a myriad of channels.
This suggests that operators have some scope to define and own a new space – “multi-platform experience”. The idea is to compete to get as great an aggregate share of attention and familiarity as possible, tied to the provision of both end-user service fees and, potentially, two-sided offerings that benefit from this extra customer insight and access.
For example, users may wish to view their photos, or access their social networks, via digital cameras, mobile phone(s), PC, tablet, TV, in-car system and various other endpoints. They will want to have similar (but not identical) preferences and modes of behaviour. Yet there will likely be one which is the cornerstone of the overall experience, with the others expected to be reflections of it. This will drive ongoing purchasing behaviour of additional devices and services – Apple has understood this well.
Operators need to either start to drive these user experience expectations and preferred interaction patterns – or be prepared to accommodate others’. For example, there now appears to significant value to many users in ensuring that new technology products are optimised for Facebook. While this may be a blow to the operators’ hopes of dominating a particular service domain, relinquishing it may be a small price to pay for overall importance in the user’s digital lifestyle. A telco providing a tablet with a Grade-A Facebook experience has a portal to introducing the user to other in-house services.
For mobile operators
The key element of device strategy remains the selection, testing and sale of handsets – along with basic customisation and obtaining exclusivity where possible. Larger operators – especially those which are in post-paid centric markets – have more flexibility in creating or pushing new device classes and supporting new business models.
Mobile operators do not have a distinguished past in creating device UIs, with various failed experiments in on-device portals and application stacks. Consider focusing on control points (eg API security) underneath the apps and browser, rather than branding the direct interface to the user.
New classes of mobile device (tablets, in-car devices, M2M) are less risky than smartphones, but are unlikely to “move the dial” in terms of revenues for many years. They will also likely require more complex and customised back-end systems to support new business models. Nonetheless, they can prove fruitful for long-term initiatives and partnerships (eg in healthcare or smart metering).
Bridge the gap between RAN and device teams within your organisation, to understand the likely radio impacts of new products – especially if they are for data-hungry applications or ones with unusual traffic patterns such as upstream-heavy. Silicon and RF may be complex and “unsexy”, but they can make a huge difference to overall network opex and capex.
While Android appeals because of its ODM-friendliness and flexibility, it remains unproven as an engine for new business models and still has uncertain customer appeal. Do not turn your back on existing device partnerships (RIM, Apple, Nokia etc) until this becomes clearer.
Yoda in Star Wars had wise advice “Do. Or do not. There is no ‘try’”. Creating devices is expensive, time-consuming and not for the faint-hearted. Uncommitted or under-resourced approaches may end up causing more harm than good. Be prepared to write some large cheques and do it right, first time.
If you are serious about investing in fully-customised handsets, consider following 3’s path with INQ and sell them to other non-competing operators around the world, to amortise the costs over greater volumes.
Examine the potential for raising revenue or customer satisfaction from device-side utilities rather principle applications. For example, self-care or account-management apps on a smartphone can be very useful, while well thought-out connection management clients for mobile broadband PCs are a major determinant of customer loyalty.
Another promising domain of device specialism lies around creating enhanced experiences for existing successful applications – for example porting FaceBook and Twitter, or particular media properties, to custom software loads on handsets. Done well, this also has the potential to form the basis of a two-sided business model. For example, if an operator pitched a “YouTube-optimised” phone, tied in with end-to-end network policy management and customer data exposure, there could be significant advertising revenue-share opportunities.
Mobile operators should generally consider enterprise-grade devices (eg tablets, meters, in-vehicle systems) only in conjunction with specialist partners.
De-prioritise initatives around netbooks and laptops with embedded 3G connectivity. They represent huge loads on the network, are difficult to sell, and are extremely hard to monetise beyond “pipe” revenues.
For fixed & cable operators
The core recommendation is to continue focusing on (and enhancing) existing home gateway and set-top box products. These should be viewed as platforms for existing and future services – some of which will be directly monetisable (eg IPTV) while others are more about loyalty and reduction of opex (eg self-care and integrated femtocell modules).
Consider the use of relatively inexpensive custom devices (eg WiFi tablets) which are locked to usage via your gateway. Potentially, these could be given for free in exchange for a commitment to longer/renewed contracts or higher service tiers – and may also form the basis of future services provided via appstores or widgets.
Work collaboratively with innovative consumer electronics suppliers in areas such as Internet-connected TVs and games consoles. These vendors are potentially interested in end-to-end cloud services – including value-added capabilities from the network operators. They may also be amenable to suggestions on how to create “network-friendly” products, and co-market them with the operator.
Some operators may have the customer branding strength and physical distribution channels to sell adjunct product such as storage devices, Internet radios, IPTV remote controls and so forth. There may additional revenue opportunities from services as well – for example, including a Spotify subscription with a set of external speakers. However, do not underestimate the challenges of overall system integration or customer support.
Take a leadership role in pursuing digital home opportunities. There is a narrow window of opportunity in which fixed operators have the upper hand here – over time, it is likely that mobile operators and their device vendors will start to gain more traction. For now, WiFi (and maybe powerline) connections are the in-home network of choice, with the WiFi router provided by a fixed/cable operator being at its centre.
A pivotal element of success is ensuring that an adequate customer support and device-management system is in place. Otherwise incremental opex costs may more than offset the benefits from incremental revenue streams.
Fixed telcos should look to exploit home networking gateways, femtocells and other CPE, before consumer electronic devices like TVs and HiFi’s adopt too many “smarts” and start to work around the carrier core, perhaps accessing YouTube or Facebook directly from the remote control. At present, it is only open devices with a visible, capable and accessible user interface or browser (e.g. PCs and smartphones) that can exploit the wider Internet. Inclusion of improved Internet connectivity and user control in other classes of device will broaden their ability to circumvent operator-hosted services.
Telcos need to face the inevitable – in most cases, they will not be able to control more than a fraction of the total computing and application power of the device universe, especially in mobile or for “contested” general-purpose devices. Even broadband “device specialists” will need to accept that their role cannot diminish the need for some completely “vanilla” network end-points, such as most PCs.
But that does not mean they should give up trying to exert influence or design their own hardware and software where it makes sense – as well as developing services that compete on equal terms with the web, for those devices beyond their direct reach.
They should also ensure that at least as much consideration is given to optimising devices for their current business models, as well as hoping they can form the basis of innovative offerings.
Some of the most promising new options include:
Single-application “locked” mobile devices, perhaps optimised for gaming or utility metering or navigation or similar functions, which have a lot of potential as true “terminals” and the cornerstone of specific business models, albeit used in parallel with users’ other smart devices.
Even notionally-open devices like smartphones and tablets can be controlled, especially through application-layer pinch points. Apple is the pre-eminent exponent of this art, controlling the appstore with an iron fist. This is not easy for operators to emulate, but is a very stark benchmark of the possible outcome. Android can help here, but only for those operators prepared to invest sufficient time and money on getting devices right. Another option is to work with firms like RIM, which tend to have more “controllable” OS’s and which are operator-friendly.
It is far easier for the operator to exert its control at the edge with a standalone, wholly-owned and managed device, than via a software agent on a general computing device like a smartphone or notebook PC. However, it is more difficult and expensive to create and distribute a wholly-owned and branded device in the first place. Few people will buy a Vodafone television, or an AT&T camera – partnerships will be key here.
Devices which support web applications only (eg tablets) are somewhat different propositions to those which can also support “native” applications. Operators are more likely to find the “security model” for a browser cheaper and easier to manage than a full, deep OS, affording more fine-grained control over what the user can and cannot do. The downside is that browser-resident apps are generally not as flexible or powerful as native apps.
On devices with multiple network interfaces (3G, WiFi, Bluetooth, USB etc) a pivotal control layer is the “connection manager”, which directs traffic through different or multiple paths. In many cases, some of those paths will be outside operator control, allowing “leakage” of application data and thus revenue opportunity.
Even where aspects of the device itself lie outside Telcos’ spheres of control, there are still many “exposable” network-side capabilities that could be exploited and offered to application providers, if Telcos’ own integrated offerings are too slow or too expensive. Identity, billing, location, call-control can be provided via APIs to add value to third-party services, while potentially, customer data could be used to help personalise services, subject to privacy constraints. However, carriers need to push hard and fast, before these are disintermediated as well. Google’s clever mapping and location capabilities should be seen as a warning sign that there will be substitutes available that do not rely on the telcos.
We may also see ‘comes with data’ products offered by the Telco themselves with their own product teams as a sort of internal upstream customer. If Dell or Apple or Sony can sell a product with connectivity bundled into the upfront price, but no ongoing contract, why not the operators themselves?
The other side to device specialists is the potential for them to become buyers rather than sellers of two-sided services. If Operator X has a particularly good UI or application capability, then (if commercial arrangements permit), it could exploit Operator Y’s willingness to offer managed QoS or other capabilities. This is most likely to happen where the two Telcos don’t compete in a given market – or if one is fixed and the other mobile. Our managed offload use case in the recent Broadband report envisages a situation in which a fixed ‘device specialist’ uses a WiFi or femto-enabled gateway to assist a mobile broadband provider in removing traffic from the macro network.
In addition to these, there are numerous device-related “hygiene factors” that can improve operators’ bottom line, through reducing capex/opex costs, or improving customer acquisition and ongoing revenue streams. Improved testing and specification to reduce customer support needs, minimise impact on networks and guarantee good performance are all examples. For example, RIM’s BlackBerry devices are often seen as being particularly network-friendly, as are some 3G modems featuring advanced radio receiver technology.
Overall, the battle for control of the edge is multi-dimensional, and outcomes are highly uncertain, particularly given the economy and wide national variations in areas like device subsidy and brand preference. But Telcos need to focus on winnable battles – and exploit Moore’s Law rather than beat against it with futility.
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This work was done by Mark Nurge of Kennedy Space Center
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When the video of a young man in Ughelli in Delta State being harassed and eventually shot dead by members of a unit of the Nigeria Police Force, the so-called special anti-robbery squad (Sars) went viral on social media last week, little did anyone know it would lead to the biggest protests in the country since the return of democracy in 1999.
Nationwide protests have roiled the country for days as Nigerian youths took to the streets to demand the abolishment of Sars. Protesters have come out in their numbers in Lagos, the nation’s economic capital, and in Abuja, the seat of federal power, to ask for Sars to be disbanded. Citizens in regional hubs such as Port Harcourt, Ibadan and Kano have also made their voices heard. Nigerians, prolific travellers, also took their protests to the nation’s high commissions in London, Pretoria and Berlin over the weekend. Their demand is as simple as a hashtag: #EndSars.
As a Nigerian in my twenties, I am proud of the protesters, many of whom are in my age group, for rising to the moment. I am proud of those on the streets putting themselves in harm’s way to demand a more just Nigeria, proud of those donating their money and resources to provide legal aid to arrested protesters, and those amplifying the message on all social media platforms.
In a country of more than 180-million people, and with more languages than the tower of Babel, my generation of Nigerians is showing that we can achieve more when we stay united.
Sars was established in 1992 to tackle a rise in armed robbery with the “element of surprise” according to its founder, Simeon Danladi Midenda. Instead, the only people who have been surprised are unarmed young Nigerians trying to earn a living despite the economic odds being firmly stacked against them.
Sars officers, who are supposed to work undercover and only swoop in as and when required, like a Nigerian version of America’s Swat (special weapons and tactics) teams, have become a permanent fixture on roads, stopping cars and demanding answers from potential victims.
In the world’s most populous black nation, profiling is based not on the colour of your skin, but on the clothes you wear and the hairstyle you have. Young men with dreadlocks are routinely targeted. Those with tattoos are not left out. So are those with gadgets such as iPhones and MacBooks. Driving an expensive car is a sure-fire way to get yourself questioned or detained by men of the force.
Once, in December 2016, the squad stopped me in Ibadan, my home town, to search my iPhone and ask me ignorant questions. In comparison to many others, I got off lightly.
The special anti-robbery squad’s argument for stopping its victims is as simple as it is illogical: because Nigeria has its fair share of cybercriminals, any young person displaying any form of wealth is to be viewed suspiciously.
Never mind that Nigeria has an agency, namely the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, that is tasked with dealing with corruption and financial crimes, as the name boldly spells out. Sars still reads the emails and text messages of those they stop. Messages from foreigners will almost certainly get its recipients in trouble, as a young technology investor found to his dismay last year.
Then the extortion begins. Sars officials demand bribes from their prey while threatening to kill them if they refuse to cooperate. Through a toxic mix of fear, coercion, and potential for tragic outcomes, the men of the Sars unit usually get their way.
Many have not been lucky enough to escape with their lives. Kolade Johnson, a 36-year-old father of one, was killed last year while leaving one of the many viewing centres in Lagos where he had gone to watch a soccer game. His crime? He was in the same vicinity as another man, whom the police had deemed a “Yahoo boy”, local slang for an internet fraudster.
Kazeem Tiamiyu, a professional soccer player in Nigeria’s domestic league, was killed in February by the same unit.
Young women are not safe from the clutches of Sars either. Tina Ezekwe, a 16-year-old high-schooler, was killed in May when a police officer shot indiscriminately at a bus stop.
The names of those killed are enough to fill this page. There are reports of women being sexually assaulted while in their custody.
Despite the clamour that began in late 2017, police authorities and government leaders have done nothing but pay lip service to the cries of the Nigerian youth. In June, a report from Amnesty’s Nigeria office detailed at least 82 “cases of torture, ill-treatment and extra-judicial execution by Sars between January 2017 and May 2020”. The report found that no Sars officer has been held accountable for human rights violations.
The sheer impunity of the police and the deafening silence of Nigeria’s elected leaders drove the nation’s youth onto the streets to demand justice. In a country where 30.7%, of young people are unemployed and basic amenities are sorely lacking, young people are simply demanding a chance to live a dignified life.
They’re not asking for the government to provide them with employment, healthcare or education. They just don’t want to be shot to death in state-sanctioned acts of violence.
Nigeria’s youth are industrious, with many taking up positions in the burgeoning technology sector, the arts and other creative spaces. Yet, it is the same gadgets they use for their craft that often put them in danger at the hands of trigger-happy police.
On Sunday, the Nigerian police finally seemed to have acquiesced to the demands of the protesters. The police chief announced on live television that the rogue unit would be disbanded and its officers redeployed.
It may have been intended to sound like a victory, but we’ve been here before. Similar pronouncements have been made on at least four occasions with no tangible effect. There’s little reason to trust the words of a police chief whose officers attacked peaceful protesters in Abuja, while his speech was ongoing, with water cannons, tear gas and live bullets, proving the point of the protests in real time.
On Saturday, at least one protester, Jimoh Isiaq, was killed in the southwestern town of Ogbomoso. Videos on social media have also shown the police shooting at protesters in Lagos, with at least one person confirmed dead. The death toll is steadily climbing: at least ten were reported killed on Monday.
Yet in the face of the violence coming from the same police force people are protesting, the response from Nigerian leaders is to tell the youth to stand down from protesting. One governor, Nyesom Wike, of the oil-rich Rivers State, even went as far to declare he had banned protests in his state.
One would think that Wike, a lawyer by training, would recognise that peaceful protests are an inalienable right of every Nigerian, enshrined in the same constitution that allows him to serve as governor.
But that’s not the only attack on the protests by the authorities: the bank account of the Feminist Coalition, a grassroots women’s organisation helping to pay for bail and other needs of the protesters, was deactivated on Tuesday, presumably on the orders of the Central Bank of Nigeria.
The response of Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari has been woefully inadequate, too. As protests went on around the country, he stayed silent, hiding behind tone-deaf tweets written by his media aides. He did not address a nation in turmoil until Monday afternoon in a short clip posted on Twitter, as he is wont to do.
This is the same man who, in July, found time to visit Bamako when soldiers deposed the Malian president in a coup. Yet his response at home can charitably be called shamefully muted at best. A more accurate description would be that he has been negligent; on the same day of the deadly assaults by the police, the president was busy commissioning tricycles as part of a “youth empowerment scheme”.
And so the protests go on. The current order that Sars officers will be redeployed fails to meet the simple demands of the people. Protesters on the streets of Lagos, Abuja and elsewhere are clamouring for the immediate release of all arrested protesters, an investigation and prosecution of misconduct as well as compensation for the families of those killed by police.
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Written by Bart Verest, Kobe Cannaerts & Benedict De Meulemeester
For many weeks now, a heavy debate is raging in Belgium over the possibility of power outages next winter. It looks like the culminating point of an ongoing debate over security of supply. With the rapid growth of renewable energy production, experts worry over the availability of flexible power supply to make up for the intermittency of renewables. Add to this the fact that in Belgium investment in new large-scale power stations has been very limited in the past decade, and you understand the worries over Belgium’s power supply situation. When earlier this year, the energy minister Wathelet put plans on the table to shut down Belgium’s two oldest nuclear power stations, the security of supply debate rekindled. And as two other nuclear plants were shut down during the summer over safety issues, the discussion found its route into the mainstream media. Everybody, from ministers and experts to our barber, is worrying that there will be outages next winter.
Ministers Wathelet and Vande Lanotte hurried to appease the population. “No problem”, was their devise. With heavily contested local elections on the 14th of October, they don’t want to be held responsible for a power supply fiasco. They are right of course in blaming the media for unnecessarily spreading panic by using the “blackout” word. Worst case, we will see a coordinated shutdown of power in some (countryside) areas of Belgium. But the lights will not go out in the whole country. We are confident that our power grid operators are capable of organizing a well-managed local shutdown. However, crying that there is no problem when more than 10% of the country’s tight power production capacity is shut down, cannot be taken very seriously. Fortunately, it is also clear that Mr. Wathelet is working on contingency plans behind the screens. This highlights how deeply political the “no problem” statements are.
Regulator Creg has been quite vocal in voicing worries over the power outages, which caused the Minister to launch a violent counter-attack. This discussion should be viewed in an ongoing conflict between regulator and their political paymasters over technical versus political management of an energy market regulator. The discussion is also due to a difference in analysis methodology applied by both parties. On the one hand, the Creg has adopted a theoretical approach. They have added up the available production capacities and compare these to the real production at the moment of the demand year-peak. On the other hand, the minister is referring to a study by grid operator Elia adopting a statistical approach. They have modeled the conditions determining supply and demand. They launch a Monte Carlo analysis with this model and calculate the probability of a shortage. Between the lines, you can read that the Minister estimates this probability to be low enough to call “no problem”. But it is unclear about which probability we are speaking. It definitely was high enough to start up the development of a contingency plan.
Our analyst Bart studied the data and soon came to a startling first conclusion. There are issues with the data regarding energy supply and demand that Elia publishes on its website. To begin with, normally the total available production should equal the sum of the available production of the different types. Well, it doesn’t fit. Elia told us it is researching what went wrong with their published data. Moreover, for every 15 minutes, the total demand should at least equal production + imports – exports. That was not the case for certain moments. This would suggest that in the past shortages should have occurred already, which isn’t the case. No satisfying explanation was given. My question is: have Elia and/or Creg based their analyses on wrong data? Or are they using some secret data file that is not made available to the public?
We have made a simple calculation, using the historic available capacity data and then deducting the 2.014 MW of the nuclear power stations that have been shut down. We compared these to the historical production data at the peak demand moment. The conclusion is very clear. With the nuclear outages, we are seeing several moments during the winter months when the available production would not be able to supply the load demanded. The available capacity margin just wasn’t 2.000 MW during several moments in the past year. Even if renewable energy production continues to expand, it doesn’t look like we will have a lot of extra production capacities available any time soon. Rather to the contrary, if we consider the announcements of shutdowns of power plants in Ruien, Tessenderlo and Vilvoorde. On top of that, we have to consider the possibility that a peak in demand occurs at a moment of limited availability of wind and/or solar power. Minister Wathelet is planning measures to create a reserve capacity of old power stations, but will this be sufficient and will they be available soon enough?
Fortunately, the Belgian power grid system is well embedded in the larger North-West-European market, with cross-border connections with the Netherlands and France. This brings us to an interesting dilemma. As we worry over a shortage of production capacity in our own country, the problem in the North-West-European market seems rather to be that there is too much capacity. There has been a spectacular expansion of renewable energy production in Germany, and Belgium and France are following. Moreover, there was a lot of investment in gas-fired power production in the Netherlands, a market that is now clearly over-supplied. European power production giants E-On and RWE have announced that they will stop investment in large-scale power production in the North-West-European market because it is over-supplied. The spark spread and the peakload – baseload spread are both trading at historical lows, which is a clear sign of over-supply. Therefore, at first sight it looks like the Belgians are worrying over a non-problem. If they have a supply gap next winter, cross-border power, and more specifically gas-fired power from the Netherlands will solve the problem.
Unfortunately, there is a complicating factor here. The available capacity at the Dutch-Belgian border is constant at 1401 MW, at the Belgian-French border it ranges between 2500 and 3200 MW. This means that in case of a shortage or just a high price in France, all of the electricity that is coming in from the Netherlands could be exported to France. This is exactly what happened in most of February 2012, when the Belgian power demand peaked at a yearly high. During the Belgian demand peak of February 7th, Belgium was importing at the Northern border almost at full capacity and exporting at the Southern border at full throttle. So the use of the import capacity is very conditional. Production in Belgium was just 4% short of its available capacity. When Creg pointed out this problem, Minister Vande Lanotte reacted by saying: “we’ll shut down the French border then”. We hope that by now he is realizing the complete absurdity of that suggestion. From a legal point of view, keeping electricity that was sold by a Dutch party to a French party in Belgium is “theft”. And as Belgium is now more than ever depending on free cross-border trade of electricity, will we be the first ones to fire the protectionism shots? There is a more simple solution, mister Vande Lanotte: in case of a shortage, the power will stay in Belgium, if the Belgians are prepared to pay more than the French. Dutchmen are Dutchmen, they’ll sell at the highest bidder.
There is high probability that a peak in Belgian winter demand will coincide with a peak in French demand. This peak is related to the climate, electrical heating for industrial and residential heating purposes increases as the weather gets cold. The strain on North-West-European winter power demand is aggravated by the fact that so many French houses have electric heating systems. Due to the geographic proximity, it is very likely that cold weather will cause demand to spike in both Belgium and France. Even if the 2.014 MW of the Belgian nuclear power stations is just 2% of the overall production capacity in North-West-Europe, the fact that it is higher than the capacities on both borders points out, that its outage is a serious issue in the balance of getting that market supplied.
There is something which the government can do in the short term to reduce the strain on the system. There are some signals that the total capacity on the Dutch border that is available for exports is higher than the limitation of 1401 MW. The Belgian government should push all it can to increase this availability. The Dutch might be quite willing to do this, as their power producers are hungry to get rid of their excess gas-fired power capacities. On top of that, we should also increase the incentives for industrial consumers to scale down their capacity off-take at peak moments. And we need to train the procedures for making sure that in case of a shortage, those areas are put in the dark where the outages have the lowest economic impact. (We have warned the people in our office that live in the countryside to buy extra candles.)
In the mid to long-term, the government faces an important dilemma, due to the combination of a lack of supply in Belgium with excess capacities in the broader North-West-European markets. The most rational thing that we can do is a massive financial and political investment in the further development of a pan-European power market. Building an extra cross-border connection is simply a much cheaper option than building a new (presumably gas-fired) power station. And we are talking about a connection to the Dutch gas-fired power stations, of course. Also, shouldn’t we finally build that connection with Germany that we should have built years ago? We know that Germany has problems of its own, but we think that building a connection between Belgium and Germany can even help to alleviate those internal German problems. The problem in Germany is not a lack of production capacity, it is a lack of capacity to bring the renewable power produced in the North to the consumers in the South. Another bypass through the excellent transportation grids of Belgium and France can help to solve that issue and at the same time it would reduce another stress factor in the North-West-European power market.
However, we are not very hopeful that our policymakers will choose this most rational option. With all the media attention for the “black-out” issue, politicians might be hungry to show some activism on power supply. And stimulating the construction of new production capacity in Belgium will be more appealing to the public at large than constructing an extra cable. Keeping in mind what Minister Wathelet has written in his latest energy plan, this will probably mean some sort of subsidy for capacity payments for gas-fired power stations. Unless there is a radical rupture with past practice, these subsidies will be passed through in end-consumers’ power bills. Moreover, these new power stations will increase the problem of over-capacity in the North-West-European market. On that majority of hours during which no shortages occur, their subsidized presence in the market will further depress spark spreads. Which is a problem for industrial consumers or greenhouse farmers that have invested in cogeneration units. Most analysts seem to lack the capability of viewing power supply and demand issues on a European scale and stay inside their national borders. The policies that ministers base on this analysis are equally myopic. This tendency is further reinforced by the general mistaken perception that power demand is rapidly increasing and that renewable energy is causing severe balancing problems.
The Belgian power market is having a supply capacity problem. This has been wrongly identified as a problem of market failure. The extra capacities have been built, but outside Belgium. Inside Belgium it was as good as impossible to get permits for building large-scale new power stations. The list of rejected projects is very long. This has brought us in this uncomfortable position of having a power production capacity shortage in a North-West-European market that is over-supplied. Which, we repeat, leaves us only one option: fully embrace European power market integration. | <urn:uuid:6ca5c0db-dfcc-4e9b-abdd-7001b2da5eca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.eecc.eu/blog/2012/10/08/power-supply-for-next-winter-in-belgium | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.964364 | 2,508 | 1.929688 | 2 |
The Secret Formula
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The legendary Renaissance math duel that ushered in the modern age of algebra
The Secret Formula tells the story of two Renaissance mathematicians whose jealousies, intrigues, and contentious debates led to the discovery of a formula for the solution of the cubic equation. Niccolò Tartaglia was a talented and ambitious teacher who possessed a secret formula—the key to unlocking a seemingly unsolvable, two-thousand-year-old mathematical problem. He wrote it down in the form of a poem to prevent other mathematicians from stealing it. Gerolamo Cardano was a physician, gifted scholar, and notorious gambler who would not hesitate to use flattery and even trickery to learn Tartaglia's secret.
Set against the backdrop of sixteenth-century Italy, The Secret Formula provides new and compelling insights into the peculiarities of Renaissance mathematics while bringing a turbulent and culturally vibrant age to life. It was an era when mathematicians challenged each other in intellectual duels held outdoors before enthusiastic crowds. Success not only enhanced the winner's reputation, but could result in prize money and professional acclaim. After hearing of Tartaglia's spectacular victory in one such contest in Venice, Cardano invited him to Milan, determined to obtain his secret by whatever means necessary. Cardano's intrigues paid off. In 1545, he was the first to publish a general solution of the cubic equation. Tartaglia, eager to take his revenge by establishing his superiority as the most brilliant mathematician of the age, challenged Cardano to the ultimate mathematical duel.
A lively and compelling account of genius, betrayal, and all-too-human failings, The Secret Formula reveals the epic rivalry behind one of the fundamental ideas of modern algebra.
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Because of the coronavirus, we are living in a 1.5 meter society. This makes guiding people around a location or during an event difficult and with the current lockdown it is even impossible. Axitour, a provider of communication systems for tours, among other things, has the solution. By linking the wireless duplex AXIWI tour system to a video conferencing app, such as: ZOOM, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet, it is possible to allow people to participate in a tour remotely in ‘real time’.
In these challenging times, this technology makes it possible for businesses to give tours ‘remotely’, open new (production) sites and organize product presentations, meetings or brainstorming sessions remotely. With the audiovisual support of this technology, companies are able to bind and fascinate colleagues and relations from a distance.
Greif gives a company tour remotely via Zoom with AXIWI
Recently Axitour was asked by the company Greif to come up with a solution, where it is possible to organize a company tour and to involve both people on location and remotely (America) in the tour. Axitour started working on this solution.
Some of the participants were physically present at the plant and were equipped with the AXIWI wireless tour system (and noise-cancelling headset) to participate. The colleagues from America were linked via ZOOM to the group (communication) at the plant, via the AXIWI communication system. One of these AXIWI units is linked to a smartphone, via a special AUX cable. By setting up a ZOOM meeting with this smartphone, the American participants could still participate in the factory tour; speaking, listening and seeing.
Ronald van der Linden, Project Engineer at Greif, on the remote company tour with AXIWI: “By giving a digital interactive tour, we can show our factory and our people to 16,000 colleagues in 250 locations in 40 countries around the world.”
Also for remote product presentations, meetings or brainstorming sessions
The Barendrecht-based company sees many opportunities in this new application, even after Corona. Ben Engelen, director of Axitour Communication Solutions, on the use of AXIWI with a video conferencing app: “Corona has caused people to work more from home, and studies show that office work will not reach the level it did before the crisis. The Corona crisis also shows us that we can collaborate well remotely, even internationally, through digital solutions. Travel is not always necessary. This saves business travel time and travel costs. Companies will look for solutions to involve remote relations and colleagues in business activities. AXIWI, in combination with a video conferencing app, then offers a solution. In addition to giving company tours, you can consider opening (production) sites and organizing product presentations, meetings or brainstorming sessions remotely.” | <urn:uuid:e1f61b9c-676b-45d0-ae50-52ac132f8f7b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.axitour.com/2021/02/23/axitour-enables-guided-tours-at-a-distance/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.94167 | 603 | 1.59375 | 2 |
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|May 23, 2001||
F is a dirty word
No one wants to admit to it. No one is ready to acknowledge that it actually exists. Famine is possibly the dirtiest word in the political lexicon of modern India.
We are ready to admit communal riots take place. We are ready to concede that caste violence is growing. We acknowledge corruption and rising urban crime. Terrorism on our borders. Secessionist movements gathering momentum. Bangladesh Rifles torturing and killing our Border Security Force personnel in the most barbaric manner. The ISI sending in cocaine and counterfeit currency. Our failure to curb the global narcotics trade taking place here, right under our noses. We admit to extortion, murders, scams, human rights violations, deaths in police custody, in fact anything and everything but famine. Simply because it is a humbling thought that in modern India, where our granaries are overflowing and rats are eating up 15 to 20 per cent of the over 60 million tonnes of foodgrain stored in government warehouses, there are people still dying of starvation and malnutrition.
As Amartya Sen has pointed out, famines are not caused by the actual shortage of food. They are caused by lack of concern. They are caused by government apathy, ignorance, and at times even political design.
It is, therefore, sad and frightening to see what is happening in parts of Maharashtra today, in districts like Nandurbar, where over a thousand children have died from mysterious ailments and epidemics that are only euphemisms for starvation. For no one is ever ready to acknowledge that people die in India because of famines. So people die of malnutrition. They die of strange illnesses. They die of medical neglect and absence of medicines. But they never die of starvation because shameless governments seek semantic escape routes.
What is particularly galling this time is that we have huge amounts of foodgrain rotting in the warehouses while people are dying of hunger and starvation in what is touted as the nation's most industrially advanced state.
Remember the famine in Kalahandi in the eighties and how entire villages ate ants and bird seed to try and stay alive? Thousands died and those who survived were crippled for ever. To remind us that it not enough for a nation to boast of huge steel and cement factories and showpiece dams when its rural population remains still captive to the vagaries of the monsoons, where the failure of one crop can destroy millions of lives.
Remember the Great Bengal Famine that photographer Sunil Janah so tellingly captured on celluloid and shamed the British government of those days? Remember the uproar those pictures caused? Yet what has gone wrong with us today that neither the media nor the legislatures have the time or political will to discuss what must be our single most shameful, most abject failure? To ensure that the poor get enough food to stay alive when nature fails them.
What use is all this modern technology, this huge bureaucracy that feeds off our taxes when we cannot ensure that foodgrain rotting in our warehouses reach villages reeling under famine and crop failures in time to prevent deaths from starvation?
What use is the prime minister's visit to Malaysia to sing paeans to the emerging information corridor when we cannot monitor the simple logistics of reaching our huge buffer of foodgrain stocks to those who are starving in the villages? We spend hours in parliament arguing over silly specious issues. We invest crores of rupees in setting up parliamentary commissions to probe stock market scams and banking frauds. But no commission has ever been set up to examine why in a food surplus nation, where the buffer stocks are three times what we actually require for food security, thousands of children still die of hunger and malnutrition.
Luckily for India, the courts are still alive to such issues. The Supreme Court has just demanded that the government must respond to a petition filed by the People's Union of Civil Liberties which alleges that several state governments are ignoring the Famine Code of 1962. This code demands that in times of famine every healthy person who presents himself for work under the food-for-work scheme must be given work. In fact, the gender and age bias inherent in this code should also be removed.
In a famine struck area, any person, man, woman or child, young or old, sick or healthy, fit or handicapped, who is prepared to work must be given an opportunity to earn his or her food. It is not the prerogative of the state to choose who they want to support. Every Indian has the right to get food for work. A right upheld by the Supreme Court itself.
But then, if you ask the government, the first thing they will do is deny that there is a famine in the first place. It is like the scavenger law. There is a law that clearly demands that low caste people who move night soil (an euphemism for human dung) on their heads must be protected by the state. But how can any state protect them when no one is even ready to admit that scavengers still exist? No state is even ready to admit that there are homeless people dying on the streets because they have no support from uncaring, insensitive governments. Governments who are busy deciding whether McDonalds should be allowed to come in or whether we should protect our own chocolate industry in the wake of Swiss imports.
The issues that draw public and political attention are becoming increasingly sillier and sillier, more and more trivial while the real India continues to suffer from utter neglect and the political myopia of those who rule over us, as well as those who oppose them. All they seek, irrespective of which bench they sit in, is power, pelf and payoffs.
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Uganda exports its first batch of homemade mobile phones to Morocco.
Uganda has exported its batch of mobile phones that were locally manufactured to Morocco.
The mobile phones were manufactured by a locally based company called SIMI technologies which is based in Namanve Industrial park and it’s owned by Chinese.
The consignment was flagged off by the State Minister in charge of Investment and Privatization Hon. Evelyn Anite and it included 18000 feature phones and smartphones.
“This morning, I had the pleasure of flagging off the first batch of Ugandan made mobile phones manufactured by Uganda’s first phone manufacturing plant (SIMI Technologies) to Morocco,” Hon. Anite said.
Hon. Anite also said this is a big step towards reducing the cost of ICT products that are being imported in the country and this will also help in boosting the export earnings since Uganda has not been exporting any ICT product.
“This is a step towards reducing Uganda’s import bill on ICT products and boosting export earnings,” Evelyn Anite said.
Hon. Anite said that the plant does not only contribute to the economic growth and development but it also helps in building local capacity through the transfer of ICT knowledge and skills.
She went ahead to thank president Museveni for creating a conducive and ripe environment for investors.
“Not only is this plant contributing to the economic growth and development of Uganda but its immensely helping in building local capacity through transfer of ICT knowledge and skills. Big thanks to His Excellency Kaguta Museveni for tirelessly ensuring that the environment is ripe for investors,” Anite said.
SIMI Technologies is manufacturing phones and laptops but has also started manufacturing protective eyewear and according to Anite, the digital temperature guns manufactured by SIMI technologies will go as low as 50,000shs to help in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
“In addition to manufacturing phones and laptops, SIMI technologies has also started manufacturing protective eyewear and affordable digital temperature guns which will go for low as UGX 50,00shs to help in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic,” Hon Evelyn Anite said.
SIMI Technologies is a Ugandan based company in Namanve Industrial park and it was commissioned by President Museveni in 2019 in November.
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A playful picture book that urges readers to bop, bounce, and shake, from the award-winning author of Alfie and Fraidyzoo
There are so many ways to dance! You can jiggle or wiggle or stomp. You can bop or bounce or go completely nuts. You can dance at the market or the bus stop, with your fingers or your face. You can dance because you’re happy or even because you’re sad.
But, what’s the best way to dance? Exactly how you want to!
In How Do You Dance?, award-wining author-illustrator Thyra Heder explores dance in all of its creativity, humour, and—most of all—joy, in a picture-book celebration of personal expression that will inspire young and old readers alike to get up and get moving.
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10.55.1701 CAREER AND VOCATIONAL/TECHNICAL EDUCATION PROGRAM DELIVERY STANDARDS
(1) In general, a basic program in career and vocational/technical education shall:
(a) meet the following conditions:
(i) skill development leading to lifelong pursuits;
(ii) program development in consultation with an advisory council; and
(iii) opportunities for authentic application, work experience, and/or articulation with postsecondary education.
(b) include the following practices:
(i) foster skill development for employment, advanced training, and lifelong learning;
(ii) input from representatives of business and industry;
(iii) analysis of skills and knowledge required in paid and non-paid careers;
(iv) leadership and character development through participation in career and technical student organizations (CTSOs) ;
(v) progression of skills and knowledge from basic to advanced; and
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Every student in high school knows that an impressive profile is a must if they want to get into a prestigious educational institution after graduation. While stellar academic performances look great on a student’s profile, the role of extracurricular activities cannot be ignored. Unfortunately, due to the pandemic, all normal life was interrupted and so were student’s extracurricular activities. All educational institutions shifted to online platforms and many extracurricular competitions and shows were canceled, athletics suffered the most by far. Every student was impacted in the same way, and there are still methods through which one can overcome the disruptions brought by the coronavirus pandemic. Experts who analyze the undergraduate admissions situation year after year has reassured the students that there is still time to salvage the situation.
In this guide of EduQuest, we illustrate and try to solve some of the most frequently asked queries.
All of my extracurricular activities were canceled. Can they still be of use?
They most definitely can still be of use. As said before, all admission authorities are very well aware of the current situations and every institution will consider extracurricular activities that got canceled due to the virus. If a student was selected for an internship or a summer program by a prestigious institution, then that information would still look good on the student’s profile. The student can still keep that activity on their list of activities explaining the method of selection, what they did for getting selected, and lastly mention that the extracurricular activity got canceled due to the coronavirus. If someone got selected all-state level competition, listing it will show their capabilities. This strategy can also be applied for competitions that got canceled or club activities that got interrupted midway. All the student has to do is list their work in their application and mention the reason for cancellation.
Extracurricular activities get a place in the undergraduate admission abroad application because they help the committee to access the skills and activity level of the student. Even if your event got canceled, it shouldn’t take away the fact that you got selected or you put your effort to be involved in extracurricular activities.
How can I improve my profile? All extracurricular activities are halted during the Covid-19 pandemic.
While it is true that sports activities and all kinds of group activities are canceled, there are still some things a student can pursue to improve their profile. There are still some extracurricular activities that is available in online mode. The activities like speech and debate can easily continue online, and many competitions have also been held with a high participation rate. There have also been incidents of drama teachers shifting their extracurricular activities online, and recording audio plays, and making short films. Athletics will end to suffer more, but experts advise athletic students to continue working out, highlighting their skills through videos, and try to contact coaches.
What if there are no opportunities for online extracurricular activities?
Coronavirus has supplied a lot of time for students to pursue self-driven projects. These projects do a good job of demonstrating your skills and hobbies and give proof of your initiative. Perhaps, students can pursue building a new program, or self-publishing articles, or even training for marathons and competing when the conditions are safe. There are numerous online courses currently, and students can take advantage of those by learning a new skill.
Creating content is a good way to showcase your skills. People can take initiative to start a blog or a podcast on topics of their interest. Social media posts may not count as they are haphazard but a well-organized blog or YouTube channel about your fields of interests may impress people in undergraduate admission committees. The content should follow specific themes, such as psychology, pop culture, or film theories. Framing of the content is much important when it comes to quality, be sure to present things intellectually.
Consider these situations-
If a student has an interestin fashion. What should he or she do to showcase their skills in a meaningful way?
The student can start a YouTube channel committed to fashion. Just trying out different looks and making videos may not hold much weight, but perhaps researching sustainable fashion issues, and producing good videos devoted to findings would be a great start.
If a student has an interest in film. How should he or she portray her interest effectively?
They might consider starting a blog. The student can consider elaborating on prevalent theories of filming movies instead of randomly writing reviews of movies. Anything well-researched and beautifully framed will hold weight in applications.
The point is that more quantifiable achievements will result in better chances of admission. Any kind of achievement such as having a certain number of views, publishing a few articles will count as your extracurricular activity.
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What is the overall impact of extracurricular activities on my profile?
In the prestigious colleges, they are extremely selective, and extracurricular have a big role to play then. Many students will end up applying to the top colleges, and all of them will have great academic scores. The best way to differentiate among them is to look for the extracurriculars in the student’s profile.
There are certain levels for evaluating extracurricular activities. Not all activities would get the same level of consideration in college admission. There is a lot of scope for variation, but generally, colleges in the United States divide the extracurricular activities into three tiers. This is how the admissions authorities compare different activities and select students. The chart below gives a clearer picture-
|Tier number||Level of occurrence||Examples|
|Tier 1||Extremely rare (national level activities)||Any national level competitions. Like, United States of America Mathematical Olympiad|
|Tier 2||More common than Tier 2 but still impressive (State level recognitions or leadership roles)||Participating in all-state competitions, winning positions of state-level competitions, or being the student president of the school.|
|Tier 3||More common than both tiers, but still merits some admiration for leadership or distinction||Class treasurer or perhaps participating in regional level activities.|
|Tier 4||Very common, no mentions of leadership roles||Volunteering or holding some job.|
It is no secret that Covid-19 has changed everything for the worse, and the educational system is drastically affected. Many activities have been postponed or perhaps canceled. It is not advisable to sit idle, there are many ways you can still improve your profile. Even though many extracurricular activities have halted at the moment, participating in online courses, taking up self-driven activities are some good ways to overcome adversities. Continuing with extracurricular activities will spark the interest of many colleges. | <urn:uuid:bf797ad2-eec7-474e-bdb1-0fff651cdd44> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://eduquest.org.in/stumped-by-coronavirus-know-how-to-save-your-high-school-extracurricular-activities/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.961497 | 1,422 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Whoever said marriage was bliss was most definitely unmarried - pulling a fast one on everyone who tied the proverbial knot. If you thought Shah Jahan and Mumtaz were blissfully married, and their monument of love - the epochal Taj Mahal - bears testimony to their undying commitment, here is a pinch of reality: Mumtaz died in childbirth. Now was it her 14th child? Brutal, yes. But romantic?
How I wish the concept of consent came before the marble mausoleum. If you call that love, stop reading this. It's no chicken soup for your soul.
What is common between Cleopatra and Mark Antony, Romeo and Juliet, even Bonnie and Clyde? Their love stories did not end in marriage. They ended in death - as lovers.
Our very own Krishna and Radha, in all likelihood, were never married. Some believe this goes to show love and marriage are two different things - one a selfless emotion, another a sheer agreement.
And, why dive into history when you have Oprah Winfrey and Stedman Graham giving love a good name in 2016? The American couple have been together since 1986, but never married.
No seven-year-itch in sight for Oprah, but 2016 just ended Brangelina. When you get into an agreement, much like Brangelina did, you could fail and end up in legal battles, custody battles - with millions of dollars at stake. Marriage becomes a baggage too massive to carry - is that why it must break down?
|Marriage ruined Brangelina? (Photo credit: Reuters)|
I'm not sure why we are deeply affected by news of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's divorce. Maybe because yet another couple ruins our faith in the institution of marriage - the way we all of us secretly hope to keep the crumbling bits together in the name of domestic bliss.
We built vivid memories of Brangelina holding hands, exchanging loving looks, featuring in magazines and holding their six babies together (no mean achievement!). They rekindled our faith in love - the kind that keeps everything alive. Between chaos, health issues and infidelity reports, they managed to keep their rocky boat sailing.
We saw in Brangelina a power couple who broke stereotypes: breathtakingly gorgeous, yet never needing the assurance of marriage to define or explain that they belonged to each other.
From making babies to adopting a few, from being the "parents in pyjamas" to being there for each other at all times, Brangelina were our fairy tales played out in reality; the love we all hopelessly craved.
In February 2011, Jolie got jeweller Robert Procop to custom design a diamond pendant, with a diminutive love message engraved on it for Pitt. Proclaiming her love. Pitt too, stood behind Jolie during her double mastectomies, thoughts of which would make a lot of men quiver. And theirs became a perfect love story - they were home to the quintessential love nest, minus marriage.
They have been a couple since 2004, soon after they became Mr and Mrs Smith on screen. But Brangelina tied the knot only in 2014. So, while there are reports of infidelity, career moves, differences in parental styles and so on, we can't help but wonder what the "irreconcilable differences" are for the once-perfect couple.
Their separation has made evident that love kept them together, but marriage tore them apart. Had they not walked down the aisle in 2014, they could have been together. Just maybe. | <urn:uuid:e021ee72-c59d-4a83-994b-32d447b055c8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dailyo.in/lifestyle/brangelina-divorce-affairs-cheating-marriage-love-mr-and-mrs-smith-13041 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.961709 | 739 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Despite his effective profession and notoriety as a wellbeing advocate, Frank Suarez’s biography isn’t recorded on Wikipedia. Frank Suarez was more than just expert indigestion; he also had insight into social communication, making him one of the most engaging people.
Frank Suarez is a highly acclaimed speaker, author, and coach who has helped people from all walks of life achieve tremendous success and fulfillment.
A dynamic and inspirational speaker, Frank can connect with his audience and deliver powerful messages that resonate. His presentations are always high-energy, informative, and motivating, leaving his audiences inspired to take action and achieve their goals.
He is a three-time award-winning Latino writer who has written 5M+ books to help people live better lives. His works include The Power of Metabolism, Diabetes without Problems, and more.
On February 25, 2021, Frank Suarez passed away at 71 years old. His passing happened due to tumbling from the overhang of his condo, which led him to crash onto the soft ground below, where he sustained severe head injuries and died as a result (source).
There’s a website where you can learn more about him and his work. It covers what he has written before and some personal information like how Suarez got inspired by the field of wellbeing while facing health problems in his childhood to adulthood days- including diabetes and obesity issues.
Who Is Frank Suarez?
Frank Suarez (1950-2021) is a leading health author and educator with more than 100 published works to his name. He specializes in Metabolism, obesity management, and education on topics related all across this vast spectrum we call “health.”
Created by Frank, MetabolismoTV is a popular educational video blog with more than 1.2 million views monthly from worldwide.
Frank graduated from the University of Puerto Rico, where he studied business administration.
If you’re looking for a way to increase your energy levels, lose weight or get off medications, then “METABOLISMOTV” is the channel that will show it all in an easy-to-understand manner with monthly live streams. With over 18 million views on YouTube alone and counting – Frank Suarez has found success by teaching people about healthy living through video content available online at any time of day.
Frank Suarez Medical Problem
He ignored his medical problem and only began to investigate wellness when it became clear that something wasn’t right. He realized the importance of digestive health, so he shared what he knew with others not to have this same issue.
The public eye is mourning the creator of Frank Suarez. He had not unfurled his marriage life to the outside world. Still, he did have one heck of a significant other who was hitched at his side during this time – and she advised that her better half’s state resembled wretchedness for quite some time now with no advancement sight in sight despite taking enemy pills as well every so often. The information about children also stays inaccessible out there.
His web-based media profiles exist. Forth right’s long-range informal communication accounts are accessible on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, with 34 9k followers to 4 582K fans.
Frank Suarez Education
Frank Suarez is a well-rounded individual who has achieved success in his academic career, as he finished high school with good grades and attended US state university.
Frank Suarez How Tall, Weight & Body Measurement
Frank Suarez Height – 5 Foot 8 Inches
Frank Suarez Weight – 68 KG
Frank Suarez stands great height with his 6’5″6’5″ frame. Frank can maintain a healthy weight for life with the right diet and exercise regimen.
Frank Suarez Quick Facts
|Profession||Health advocate, Author|
Frank Suarez Biography /Wiki
The late, great Dr. Frank Suarez was a Puerto Rican-based medical specialist who helped many people throughout his career in medicine and beyond.”
This man has an entire website with all the details about him from childhood to adulthood.
What’s so special about Suarez? He got interested in health, having faced a prediabetes and obesity problem as a child.
The doctor began to share what he knew with others through his research.
Frank Suarez Girlfriend, Wife & Marital life
When the man died, he married his girlfriend, who later became his wife. Her name is not disclosed.
Frank Suarez’s wife told Notiuno that her husband had been in a state of depression and taking anti-depression pills for a few months before he died.
Frank has not unfolded his marriage life to the public eye. The info about his children also remains unavailable.
Frank Suarez Passed Away
The death of Frank Suarez, the Owner, and Author of Natural Slim, seems to have been prematurely announced. Reports indicate that he passed away today, February 25, 2021, according to information that surfaced online.
A spokesperson for The Power of Metabolism book series said, “It is with deepest regret we inform everyone who loved him or knew them personally that Mr. Suárez died unexpectedly at 7:00 pm PST.”
Francisco Suárez, the man who founded Natura7:00 pm and Author of books on health and motivation, died after throwing himself off his apartment balcony this morning in Hato Rey. His death was reported at about 8 am by police officers from Puerto Rico’s 9th district where he lived.”
Frank Suarez Net Worth
Frank Suarez is a well-known figure in the world of finance, and he’s not afraid to share his opinion with us! According to pop mythology, he has an estimated net worth of between 1 million dollars; however, many believe it could be as high as 5 million.
I hope you will like the article I just wrote about Frank Suarez. It has all of his interesting information from before he got famous.
Frank Suarez’s Recent Book
As an author, Frank has written several books that have helped people achieve their dreams. His most recent book, “The Power of Focus,” provides readers with the tools they need to laser-focus their efforts and achieve tremendous success in their lives.
Frank Suarez is a Great Mentor
As a coach, Frank works with clients to help them overcome obstacles and achieve their goals. In addition to supporting his clients in every way, he is passionate about helping others reach their full potential.
No matter what your goal is, Frank Suarez can help you achieve it. If you’re looking for someone who can help you take your life to the next level, Frank is your man.
Frank Suarez and Launch of Universidad del Metabolismo
Frank observed that for people to receive the best advice and support, it needed to be first appropriate. Frank reasoned that it was best to provide information that addressed people’s various cultural contexts. Therefore, Frank offered free online audiovisual courses on a platform of his design that let him speak directly with Spanish-speaking audiences on all areas of health research, including diet and disease prevention.
In September 2018, UNIMETAB( Universidad del Metabolismo) was launched, making it easier to learn about Metabolism and Health through expert educators, undoubtedly making it easier to help individuals one-on-one affordably how we see it.
First, all video courses are developed under Frank’s leadership and produced by his team of professionals who have a dedicated background in creating leading-edge content for web-based product training. Then, video courses are professionally recorded and uploaded to the UNIMETAB platform.
Frank Suarez Social Media Handles
FAQs about Frank Suarez
Is frank Suarez a doctor?
Frank Suarez has been an author of books on health for over 20 years. He specializes in Metabolism and obesity, but his work also covers other areas of living a healthy lifestyle like exercise or dieting.
Do you know about Frank Suarez Nationality?
He holds a US nationality.
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Harrison Brown of the National Academy of Sciences published a chart in the September 1970 issue of Scientific American projecting that humanity would run out of copper shortly after 2000; lead, zinc, tin, gold, and silver would be gone before 1990. Brown claimed that his estimates took into account the possibilities that "new reserves will be discovered by exploration or created by innovation." The February 2, 1970, issue of Time quoted the ecologist Kenneth Watt: "By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won't be any more crude oil."
I report these dire prognostications from five decades ago in my column Earth Day Turns 50.
Today economist Gale L. Pooley and Human Progress website proprietor Marian L. Tupy show how badly mistaken these prophecies of imminent resource depletion have turned in their updated Simon Abundance Index calculations. The index is named after University of Maryland economist Julian Simon, who won his famous bet on resource trends in 1990 against perennial doomsayer Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich.
In October 1980, Ehrlich and Simon drew up a futures contract obligating Simon to sell Ehrlich the same quantities that could be purchased for $1,000 of five metals (copper, chromium, nickel, tin, and tungsten) 10 years later at 1980 prices. If the combined prices rose above $1,000, Simon would pay the difference. If they fell below $1,000, Ehrlich would pay Simon the difference. In October 1990, Ehrlich mailed Simon a check for $576.07. There was no note in the letter. The price of the basket of metals chosen by Ehrlich and his cohorts had fallen by more than 50 percent.
Tupy and Pooley calculate the index using "time price" as a way to measure resource abundance. "The time price denotes the amount of time that a person has to work in order to earn enough money to buy something. To calculate the time price, the nominal money price is divided by nominal hourly income," they explain.
Using this measure, they report:
The average time price of 50 commodities fell by 74.2 percent. That means that for the same length of time that a person needed to work to earn enough money to buy one unit in our basket of 50 commodities in 1980, he or she could buy 3.87 units in 2019. In other words, the average person saw his or her level of abundance rise by 287.4 percent. That amounts to a compound annual growth rate of 3.63 percent and implies a doubling of abundance every 19.45 year.
The index has a base year of 1980 and a base value of 100. In 2019, the Index reached a level of 670.9. That is to say that the Earth as a whole was 570.9 percent more abundant in 2019 than it was in 1980.
How is this possible? Tupy and Pooley explain:
Simon's revolutionary insights with regard to the mutually beneficial interaction between population growth and availability of natural resources, which our research confirms, may be counterintuitive, but they are real. The world's resources are finite in the same way that the number of piano keys is finite. The instrument has only 88 notes, but those can be played in an infinite variety of ways. The same applies to our planet. The Earth's atoms may be fixed, but the possible combinations of those atoms are infinite. What matters, then, is not the physical limits of our planet, but human freedom to experiment and reimagine the use of resources that we have.
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Qaboos bin Said Al-Said, Sultan of Oman
(b. Salalah, Oman, 18 Nov. 1940) Omani; Sultan 1970 – From the age of 16, Qaboos was educated in Britain, first privately, then at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He subsequently served on an operational tour of duty with the British army in Germany.
On return to Oman, his domineering and reactionary father kept him a virtual prisoner in the southern city of Salalah for the next six years, while a major insurgency by Nasserist guerrillas raged in the surrounding Dhofar region. Sultan Said bin Taimur kept Muscat and Oman an isolated and economically backward society, in which slavery was still common and oil revenues were spent exclusively on defence. To defeat the uprising and modernize Oman required a change in government. To that end Qaboos deposed his father in a coup of July 1970 with British assistance and to general public acclaim. Oman’s armed forces were supplemented by Iran and Britain, military assistance was received from Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the Emirates, and an astute policy which encouraged defections from the rebel forces was pursued. The insurgency was defeated in 1975 and the rebels pardoned.
Since 1970, increased oil revenues have been used to modernize Oman rapidly, but in a different way from that of other Gulf oil states. Limited oil reserves are conserved for as long as possible; after defence expenditure, oil revenues are used primarily to educate and employ a youthful population; modernization is pursued to ensure no adverse affects on Islam, on Oman’s Islamic traditions and culture, on the natural environment and on external and internal security. In 1991, Sultan Qaboos established a Majlis al-Shoura (National Assembly) which has become the most vigorous and effective of all such political bodies in the Arabian peninsula. | <urn:uuid:5b5876b5-d6f4-433b-a8fc-9b04c8747bdb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://planetrulers.com/oman-prime-minister/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.976489 | 383 | 2.96875 | 3 |
多年生球根花卉,非常耐寒,多以分株或種子繁殖,土壤不拘,一般而言光照不拘,但以全日照或半日照為佳. 弱光處也能成活但花莖會減少. 北美的花園幾乎都有它. 簡直是和西伯利亞海蔥一樣為"雜草級"的球根花卉,春天4-5月成熟的球會先抽出含花莖的葉片開始開花時會續長其它葉片,未成熟到可開花的球應多給磷肥養球以刺激來年開花. 若種植的環境氣候較溫暖而不開花建議秋末冬初時將較大的球挖起保濕然後冰箱冷藏2-3個月"冬眠"即可. 此植物耐旱,故排水要不錯.
How to Grow Lily of the Valley
These seeds must be cold stratified. Check out the Making Winter page. Wet a paper towel, wring out, sow seeds in towel, fold, and put in baggie in fridge for 4-8 weeks. Some people freeze the seeds (I have never tried this, but recently I have come across much info that says freezing seeds increases the length of viability). Take seeds out and sow, barely covering. Cold-stratified seeds germinate better when they get light. Or just plant outside in fall. This seed is a good candidate for the soaking method – soak seeds in cold water in the fridge for two weeks, changing for fresh water daily. Take out and plant. These seeds don’t have any Mercury speediness in their growth – they can take 2 months or more to germinate. Grow them in a pot and give them winter protection the first year, then put them in the ground in rich, moist soil and shade or dappled shade. They won’t bloom if they get too much sun or are too dry, but they can grow in heavy clay and full shade. They are hardy to zone 6 (-10F/-20C) and are rabbit-proof. They spread by creeping rhizomes and sometimes can be invasive. Once they are established, divide them in September. General growing info Top
時間到後取出播於盆土,蓋淺淺的土就好. 種植處須半日照或散光處. 土壤不拘但必須排水良好+保濕良好. | <urn:uuid:2d30c999-7c45-4b1a-bbdb-351735c0678a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://myfoodandflowers.wordpress.com/tag/spring-bulb/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.713713 | 1,333 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Firebush For Summer Color
Most of us grow firebush (Hamelia patens) as a summertime annual.
South Texans grow it as a perennial that freezes to the ground each winter.
Here are some reasons each of us should include it in every year’s summer landscaping:
• Tolerates full sun, even when planted against reflective walls.
• It stays compact (18-28 inches) without shearing.
• Blooms all summer and right up to frost.
• Foliage changes to bright coppery-red all fall.
• Hummingbirds love it over almost any other plant in your garden.
• It has virtually no insects or diseases.
• While it grows best when it’s kept moist, it’s still a water-conscious alternative for all parts of Texas.
• It’s perfectly suited to both in-ground beds and larger containers.
Firebush needs rich, highly organic soil to perform best.
Apply a high-nitrogen fertilizer, but do so in some moderation. Applying too much nitrogen, or growing it in shade, each can lead to lanky, poorly flowering plants.
It can be kept over the winter if you have it in a container, but you’ll want to grow it in a bright, sunny greenhouse or sunroom. Or, you can just let it go away with the first freeze and know that nurserymen will have ready supplies again next year.
It is grown from cuttings.
Nurseries normally don’t start offering it until May. It is readily available in Texas nurseries right now. If your nursery doesn’t offer it in 4-inch or 1-gallon pots, they can order it for you. Or, you can find it elsewhere. But, do find it! | <urn:uuid:d8e7dd11-33d8-4bcf-884f-e2586628b86e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://neilsperry.com/2012/06/firebush-for-summer-color/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.914633 | 388 | 2.5 | 2 |
HATICE (Healthy Ageing Through Internet Counselling in the Elderly)
The experience from three previous RCTs (preDIVA, FINGER and MAPT) was used to design a new internet-based intervention strategy with coach support targeting vascular risk factors to prevent cardiovascular disease and dementia. In this RCT 2724 elderly in three countries were included in a randomised controlled trial to investigate the efficacy of this intervention strategy.
The trial has been completed, and the results have shown that older people can improve their lifestyle and adopt healthier behaviours with the support of an online coach. This way they can reduce their risk of cardiovascular disease and dementia. These results were published in The Lancet Digital Health on 14 November 2019. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7500(19)30194-3/fulltext.
Click here for the HATICE website.
MIND-AD (Multimodal preventive trials for Alzheimer’s Disease: towards multinational strategies)
The aim of MIND-AD is to identify effective prevention strategies for dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. The project is based on the synergistic use of data from several prevention trials in Europe. In a proof-of-concept multinational pilot trial (MIND-ADMINI) a prevention strategy for prodromal AD will be investigated. Overall, generated data will allow formulation of recommendations and guidelines for dementia prevention.
PRODEMOS (Prevention of Dementia using Mobile Phone Applications)
The EDPI consortium is currently working on the PRODEMOS trial. PRODEMOS builds on the HATICE eHealth intervention that will be adapted to an mHealth platform for dementia prevention, specifically tailored to vulnerable populations in HIC and LMIC, and will be implemented in multiple settings in the UK and China to pave the way towards a scalable, global strategy for dementia risk reduction. The trial is expected to commence by the beginning of 2021.
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Dr Lalit Pukhrambam at Wayne State University School of Medicine is researching how to find a cure for the blinding eye disease of diabetic retinopathy by targeting a protein called thioredoxin-interacting protein (TXNIP), as we find out here
By way of an introduction, we know that diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one of several organ complications of diabetes mellitus – a progressive microvascular disease leading to blindness. Unfortunately, the number of patients with diabetes and DR will increase enormously in the future and as such, the familial and societal economic burden is enormous. Sadly, there is no cure or preventive measures to tackle this devastating eye disease.
While current treatment methods include laser coagulation and anti-VEGF antibody injection in the vitreous, most patients don’t respond to these treatments. Therefore, the author underlines the urgent need for the identification of the new pathogenic gene(s) and an understanding of the molecular and biochemical pathways in DR. It’s, therefore, very fitting that Wayne State University School of Medicine is actively working to identify new targets and innovative therapies.
This in-depth analysis also features special sections on the thioredoxin-interacting protein (TXNIP), TXNIP in mitophagy-lysosome axis dysregulation, as well as transcription factor EB (TFEB) and the CLEAR Network. The author concludes by saying that current innovative research in the U.S. and around the globe is promising to find a cure for this blinding eye disease.
I urge you to read more about the excellent work coming from Wayne State University School of Medicine in this most informative piece of analysis. | <urn:uuid:1e85a111-4d37-4726-b40d-8b94da638186> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/focus-diabetic-retinopathy/72432/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.929106 | 347 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Induction of topographical changes in poly-ε-caprolactone scaffolds for bone
tissue engineering: biocompatibility and cytotoxicity evaluations
Bone tissue engineering (BTE) uses principles from different fields, such as medicine, biochemistry and engineering, in order to restore or improve damaged tissue. Topographic changes of Poly- - caprolactone scaffolds (PCL) have been previously induced by exposure of the polymer to various concentrations of NaOH for different periods of time. However, lack of consistency between the treatment conditions used by different research groups has led to inconsistent results, with no clear conclusion arising regarding the benefits of these treatments. The aim of this study was to evaluate how different treatments (time-concentration) with NaOH could affect its biocompatibility for bone marrow stromal cells (BMSC) and its cytotoxicity towards RAW 264.7 macrophages of a PCL scaffold. We also analyzed the physicochemical and mechanical properties of the PCL films after different treatment. We have shown that treatment with for 2 hours with NaOH produced changes that affected the hydrophobicity and biocompatibility of the scaffold by increasing the proliferation and ALP activity in cells grown on them. Beside, 24 hours of treatment with NaOH produced significant decreased in mechanical properties resulting in a scaffold highly fragile and low biocompatibility compared to PCL. Therefore, treatment for 2 hours with NaOH can be used to increase the biocompatibility of PCL scaffolds. | <urn:uuid:0f999707-1598-404e-a34c-d040be2b500a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://digital.cic.gba.gob.ar/items/3766ab33-b546-4fec-ab59-823830697268 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.9466 | 318 | 2.234375 | 2 |
RailClone 4 - in detail
RailClone 4: An in-depth look at what's new
If you've already taken a look at RailClone 4 - at a glance during the release, got a glimpse at what's new but are now hungry for more information, then you've come to the right place. Get ready to set aside some time, put your feet up and take a deep dive into RailClone 4's latest features.
Below you'll find plenty of information, demos and tutorials about RailClone 4, including the game-changing nested generators feature, the ability to use segment materials with a single mouse click, enabling quick mesh mode for huge poly counts in the viewport, how to automatically cap booleans, the brand new RC Spline Modifier used to create markers, and much much more.
Wouldn’t it be great if you could take the output of one RailClone object and use it as a segment inside another, all while retaining full instancing and in the same graph?
Well, now you can! RailClone 4 introduces Nested Generators, allowing you to connect the output of an L1S or A2S node to any of the segment inputs of another generator. There’s no limit to the number of levels you can nest, allowing you to use the plugin in ways that were impossible in previous releases.
To learn how nesting works, this introductory tutorial demonstrates the fundamental principles to help you get up to speed with this powerful new feature.
It doesn’t stop there, nested generators have full access to the properties of arrays further down the chain, allowing you to create sophisticated and intelligent models.
If you’re still new to RailClone, you might imagine that this is as an advanced feature, but actually, in many cases the opposite is true. Nesting generators can dramatically simplify your graphs and we recommend introducing it to your workflow early.
For example, here’s a style (based on a question from a user) that creates a hanging ornament of origami birds. Their distances from the ceiling are controlled by a spline, with the ability to randomise transforms and sequence colours.
And here are the graphs to create this in RailClone 3 and RailClone 4.
Both graphs create exactly the same geometry, but RailClone 4 uses nested generators. As you can see it has far fewer nodes to achieve the same result, and more importantly, it was much easier and more logical to create!
Get Materials from Source Geometry
When we ask users about their biggest bugbear when using RailClone, the response is generally “materials!”.
If you’ve used RailClone before, you’ll already know why. Unlike Forest Pack which consolidates the materials applied to source objects automatically, RailClone used to require you to build complex Multi-Sub Object materials and reassign material IDs manually. This could be a time-consuming process, especially when using RailClone as a layout tool to distribute complex models like cars from a 3rd party library.
Notice the past tense in that explanation? That’s right, in RailClone 4 all that has changed! Now the tick of a checkbox is all it takes for RailClone to use the materials assigned to the source geometry automatically!
Due to some clever render-time wizardry, you won’t actually see the materials assigned in the viewport, these will still display whatever is assigned directly to the RailClone object. But as soon as you hit render the materials on the source objects are used!
At the time of release, this feature is already supported by V-Ray and Arnold. Other renderers can easily add support using our API so we hope you will see more widespread adoption very soon.
Quick Mesh Mode
The less often you have to render previews, the faster you can work. That’s the thinking behind RailClone 4’s new Quick Mesh preview mode that allows you to instance geometry in the viewports.
This mode brings the total number of ways to previewing geometry to four, including the ability to display a full mesh, points-cloud, proxy geometry, and now an instanced Quick Mesh mode too! The tutorial above shows Quick Mesh mode combined with nested generators to create thousands of randomised buildings.
Of course, the more geometry that is actually instanced in your style, the more you will benefit from this new mode. Geometry that is sliced, deformed or mirrored isn’t instanced in Quick Mesh mode (or the render). To force instancing, you can disable Slice and Bend on a segment-by-segment basis from the node’s settings.
RailClone 4 introduces a brand new concept - markers. These can be added at any point on a spline and used to place geometry exactly where you need it. In previous versions of RailClone, users would add vertices to achieve something similar, but unlike vertices, markers do not affect the shape of the spline so they can be easily added and repositioned without you having to worry about affecting the path.
Markers are applied to the path using a brand new RC Spline Modifier. This offers several controls to help you to create procedural layouts by positioning markers using real-world distances or percentages in relation to the start and end of the spline, or from specific vertices.
You can even add multiple markers simply by clicking on the spline. Once created, a Marker’s position can be edited using parameters, or by selecting them in the viewport and simply sliding them along the spline with the mouse.
To support markers, generators now have new marker inputs. For the L1S generator, there is a single input for the base spline, for the A2S generator there are two marker inputs, one for the X spline and one for the Y Spline.
For creating even more flexible styles, Markers also have the benefit of several parameters that can be used to control nearly any aspect of a RailClone graph. Each Marker has an Index value that can be used in conjunction with the updated Selector operator to choose geometry. Each marker also has 9 additional multipurpose parameters that can be used to control pretty much anything you like. For easy recognition of each parameter’s purpose, they can be renamed and set to one of three unit types.
Finally, to make it easier to share and reuse styles that need markers, the RailClone style editor has a new interface for creating RC Spline presets. This feature allows you to create sets of parameter names and unit types that become available to select in the RC Spline modifier using a handy drop-down list.
RailClone already has some really handy and easy-to-use boolean tools, but until now they couldn’t cap the sliced geometry, limiting their use to areas of a scene where the open edges weren’t visible. In RailClone 4, we’re happy to announce that this limitation is a thing of the past. It is now possible to cap the open borders of sliced geometry automatically, simply by enabling the Cap Holes checkbox found in a Generator’s settings.
Texturing this new geometry is easy too, the geometry created by the capping algorithm is already Box Mapped using real-world mapping coordinates to material ID channel 1. If you need to, the material ID of capped geometry can be changed easily using a Material operator.
New Group Mode
RailClone 4’s Compose operator includes an overhauled Group mode that behaves much more intuitively than previous versions.
In the new release, composed items are handled in a similar way to Max’s groups. This means that the size of a Composed Group is calculated using the bounding box of all segments enclosed in it, making it much easier to use expressions and arithmetic operators with composed geometry.
RailClone 3 - note that the grouped segments do not align correctly
RailClone 4 - the composed segments behave as one piece of geometry
Perhaps even more importantly, the new bounding box behaviour helps to ensure that adjacent groups butt together correctly, making it much easier to create tiling geometry from complex patterns. The tutorial above shows how it is done.
More Logical Transforms
In previous versions of RailClone, if several Transform nodes were chained together, the order didn’t make a difference - the transforms were simply accumulated and added together at the end. In RailClone 4 Transform nodes are applied sequentially, meaning that changing the order can affect the way the segment is moved, rotated and scaled.
RailClone 3 - note that changing the order of translate and rotate makes no difference
RailClone 4 - the order of transform operators affects the position of the segment
We have also changed the order of scale and rotation operations. In RailClone 4 if both are performed within a single transform operator, scaling is now applied before rotation, to avoid skewing.
Both these changes make is much easier for artists to predictably transform geometry.
Style Editor Improvements
RailClone 4 includes many workflow enhancements to make save you time and make working with the style editor a more pleasant experience.
- Coloured Wires
To make graphs easier to read, wires are now coloured according to what type of node is used. Segments are orange, Spline and Surfaces are green, and parameters are yellow.
- Add to Wire
Nodes can be added to an existing wire simply by dragging a new operator from the list and releasing the mouse once the wire is highlighted. Alternatively, you can add a node to a wire by right-clicking and selecting Inset on Wire
- Auto Rewire on Delete
If you delete a node, the connection is now retained. No more having to rewire graphs!
- Grid and Snap
The Style editor now has a snap grid to help you layout your graphs. To enable it, go to Options > Grid Setup. From here you can toggle visibility, set the size of the grid and enable or disable snapping.
- Select Children
It is now possible to select all the children of a highlighted node using the Right-Click menu.
- Select Unused
It’s now much easier to clean up your graphs using the Select Unused option. Clicking this from the Edit menu will select all the nodes in the graph that do not terminate at a generator. Once selected you can move them aside for further use, or simply delete them to keep your graph neat and tidy.
- Auto naming
All nodes added to the graph now receive a unique name. This not only helps to discriminate between nodes but is also useful when using expressions with nested generators as it allows you to reference the properties of a specific generator in a chain.
- Selector Index numbers
The index numbers for inputs connected to the Selector node are now shown on the graph - making it much easier to know which input you are selecting.
- Optimised nodes graph evaluation.
Graphs are faster thanks to the fact that modifications on non-connected nodes no longer trigger a rebuild of the RC object. The same is true for changes to Note nodes.
- Macro Tree changes
The Macro tree has been reorganised and is now collapsed by default making it easier to find the right node. New Macros have also been included. Look out for tutorials on these in the coming weeks!
New Stats Window
A new Statistics window makes it much easier to benchmark the performance of your RailClone style and identify any possible bottlenecks. The improved tool includes detailed data, information about each individual Generator and separate information for when the RailClone style was built for viewport display and for the most recent render.
RailClone 4 includes several performance improvements to speed up style evaluation and rendering. The biggest change affects RailClone objects that share common source geometry. In RailClone 3 each individual RailClone object maintained its own copy of its segments. In RC4 we have moved to a global cache that shares segments for all RC objects. This allows to the render engine to create a single copy of each Segment, for all RC objects with potentially huge improvements in instancing efficiency when using shared segments and linked styles.
Other changes include the way that styles are evaluated. In RailClone 4 the nodes are now evaluated only when they have been triggered because a node has changed. This may improve the performance of complex styles, especially for graphs that use nested generators.
Finally, performance has been improved for Styles that use Segments with exported parameters. With these styles, Segments are now updated only when parameters change.
Advanced RailClone users will be pleased to learn that we have added several new variables to Expressions. To support the new markers feature XMarkerID and YMarkerID will return the index value set in the Marker’s properties while XMarkerData[n] and YMarkerData[n] will return the information stored in a marker’s 9 user data channels, just replace n with the data channel you wish to return. We’ve also added two new variables to access the length of spline sections. XSectionNextLength and YSectionNextLength returns the length of the next section.
We’ve expanded the attributes that can be controlled with expressions too. In RailClone 4 XSplineMatID can now be used to control the Y Size of a nested generator, as can randomly generated values.
Plus Many More Small Improvements
Several more features and improvements have been added:
- It is now possible to use a Transform node to generate an empty segment by using Fixed Size with nothing connected. It is particularly useful for adding empty segments to macros.
- The Selector operator has new modes that make it easier to use spline attributes to choose geometry, they include: X Spline Next Material ID, Y Spline Material ID, Y Spline Next Material ID, X Spline Marker ID and Y Spline Marker ID.
- A new parameter allows the user to offset generators on the X-Axis.
- RailClone Tools->"Separated Meshes" is now on by default.
- The Random node had a mode that triggers a new number per "Generator” to take advantage of nested generators.
- Better control of padding with the ability to choose whether padding values are scaled with the segment or absolute when using Scale, Count or Adaptive modes.
- The Macros library folder now can be defined using an environment variable (It has the same effect as [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Itoo Software\RailClone Pro\MacroDir], but accepts a unique path entry.
- There is Improved detection of circular references.
- The behaviour of "Free Object" mode with A2S Generators and "Extend to XY Size" enabled has been improved. Now the clipping area is aligned to the origin of the RC object, and doesn't change when area moves.
- For Floating Licenses, a license is now released on Max Reset.
- Support has been added for V-Ray 3.7.
RailClone Lite More Capable than Ever!
In addition to the new features in RailClone Pro, we’re pleased to announce that all of these improvements except nested generators can also be found in the completely free Lite version of RailClone. That means that the style editor improvements, ability to use source materials, capping, the spline modifier and more are all available - completely free!
If that wasn’t enough, we also have a really exciting announcement to make about the free edition. In the past, one of the major limitations of using the lite version in production was the fact that it restricted you to using flat splines. With the release of RailClone 4, we’re delighted to announce that that limitation has been removed, and the free lite version can now use the same advanced deformation modes as found in the full commercial version.
Let me get my hands on it!
RailClone 4 is out now for users on an active maintenance plan, to download it please visit your User Panel and select the My Products section. If your maintenance has expired, don’t worry it can be renewed for another year with no penalty for lapsed plans.
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Skin cancer is one of the deadliest forms of cancer because of how easily it can happen and how quickly it can spread. Nobody wants to be cooped up inside all day, so even if someone doesn’t spend significant time in a tanning bed, or laying out on a beach, they are still susceptible to skin cancer. The importance is even greater for people that have skin cancer run in their families.
Regular skin cancer screening in San Antonio and treatment is one of the key aspects of maintaining your overall health. Call the Westover Hills Dermatology offices to schedule your consultation about skin cancer screening in San Antonio and treatment.
While there’s no such thing as good cancer, one of the positives of skin cancer is that it can be removed. If you catch it early enough, skin cancer cells can be surgically taken out before they have a chance to spread to other parts of the body such as the liver or lungs.
The first step to proper skin cancer screening is to know your body. Most signs of skin cancer come in the form of red bumps, the appearance of scars, rashes and more. By knowing how your body looks on a regular basis, you’re able to diagnose an early sign of skin cancer properly.
The look of your moles is another big indicator of skin cancer. Moles are a natural occurrence on the body and don’t pose any threat to your overall health, but when their appearance changes, it could be a sign of skin cancer. If your moles are appearing darker and misshapen, call our office and schedule an appointment immediately.
If a member of our medical team discovers something we want to take a closer look at, we’ll perform a biopsy. A biopsy is when we take a sample of your skin and place it under a microscope to determine if skin cancer cells are present. If it seems likely that cancer is present, we will determine if we need to take further action.
This further action will probably include surgery to remove the skin in question and then send the sample to a different lab for a more thorough inspection. Once the surgery is completed, we will go over your options for further preventative measures. This will include setting a schedule for return visits, informing you of actions you can take such as wearing sunscreen and avoiding the sun and providing tips for doing further skin checks at home.
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The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA) is a federal law that protects the confidentiality of student education records. To implement FERPA, the University has formulated and adopted a written institutional policy governing the handling of these records.
The term "education records" under FERPA includes generally any record, whether in a printed, handwritten, audio, video, or computer media format, maintained by the University and containing information related to a student in his/her role as a student. Certain records are, however, excluded by FERPA from this broad definition, such as those made by instructional, supervisory, and administrative personnel and kept in their sole possession, those made by campus police, and those made by a physician or other professional medical personnel in connection with treatment of the student.
Under FERPA and University policy, a student has a right of access to his/her education records and may inspect and review the information contained in them. To exercise this right, the student should present a request to the University office where the record is located, and a response will be made no later than 45 days later. In certain cases, a copy of the record may be provided, with a copying fee, as an alternative to actual inspection. Some records are not within this right of review, such as financial information from the student's parents and confidential letters or statements of recommendation where the student has waived the right of access.
A student who believes his/her education records contain information that is inaccurate, misleading, or in violation of his/her privacy rights may bring the matter to the attention of the appropriate records official. If by informal discussion with this official the student does not obtain the corrective action desired, the student will then be entitled to a hearing at which he/she may challenge the objectionable item. Additional information about hearing procedures will be given to the student at that time. The decision of the hearing official or panel shall be final. If the decision is adverse to the student, he/she may insert in the education record an explanatory statement about the disputed item.
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Ibn Khaldun "The Great Historian" was more than just one of the great historians of all time.
This man was also a Supreme Court judge, government minister, Social scientist, political expert and Hafiz Al Qur’an.
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5 TIPS FOR CRUSHING X-RAY TECH
So you think your X-Ray tech school classes are hard? Oh, dear friend… you have no idea!
Depending on the X-Ray school program you go into, you will be going to either hospitals, doctor’s offices, or medical clinics in order to gain “real-world” experience in becoming an X-Ray tech.
The most common term used to describe this portion of radiography school is “
My longest lasting x-ray tech job was working at one of the largest and busiest hospitals in my state. Because of this, we were always up to our ears in x-ray tech students (sometimes 10 at once). In my short illustrious career as an X-ray tech, I have had the good fortune of working with many, many x-ray tech students. Some were amazing, and some…
Before I start, just want to say that, I HAVE BEEN WHERE YOU ARE, and I sincerely want you to not just “get through”X-Ray school
TIP 1: KNOW WHAT YOU ARE GETTING INTO:
This might sound like a no-brainer, but seriously, you need to take some time to get mentally prepared to not only be around “real patients” but also real working x-ray techs. At radiography school, it’s all sunshine and rainbows. You get to practice positioning on your classmates, share funny YouTube videos, and avoid the occasional code brown (only hospital techs will get this joke).
Once you find out where your clinical location is, I would recommend you driving there a day or two before your first day. It is also a really good idea to actually go into the facility and find the location where you will need to check-in first thing in the morning. By doing this, you will be able to know exactly how much time is needed in order to get from your home to the time clock. Most radiography clinical instructors are mean bitter people (I’m joking), so they will have ZERO cares about your excuses of why you were late on your first day.
I would also recommend talking to your upper classmates in order to get the inside information on that particular clinical site. For example, almost every clinical site has that one x-ray tech that for whatever reason doesn’t like students. It is always a good idea to find out beforehand who that person is so you can make sure to keep your distance.
NOTE – If you are a working technologist and you can’t think of who this person is at your facility. Well, chances are it might be you!
TIP 2: NO ONE IS EXPECTING YOU TO KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING:
I can pretty much assure you that you are not going to be put in the Emergency Room on your first day of X-Ray school
This x-ray limbo can get pretty discouraging, but please don’t be. There will be plenty of time to learn how to perform x-ray exams, and there is never a shortage of patients who need x-rays.
TIP 3: FIND AN X-RAY TECH SENSEI:
One of the best advice I can give to new x-ray tech students is to find a Jedi knight rad tech and follow them (if they will let you) everywhere they go.
When I was doing my Trauma rotation at a level one hospital, I found one rad tech who had been shooting x-ray for about as long as I had been alive, I took to him like white on rice and never regretted it for a second! Yes, he was not always the easiest person to get along with, but because of him, I can shoot a lateral cross-table knee like no one’s business!
TIP 4: BE THE X-RAY TECHS BEST FRIEND:
Before I go on any further, I am not saying you need to be “best friends” with all the working x-ray techs. I am simply saying that you should always try to be as helpful as possible. Now, this doesn’t mean you have to be the janitor or anything like that, but you should always try to be at least one step ahead of the rad tech you are following. This means ALWAYS being ready to hand them an extra pillow for the patient, offering to either get the patient or take them back to the waiting room or ED room, changing linens, and/or anything else that will make the tech say, ” that student is a hard worker!” True story, I was offered a job while I was a student solely for doing the things I just mentioned.
CLINICALS = JOB INTERVIEW
I saved the best and most important tip for last!
I have seen so many students make this mistake and pay dearly for it.
- catch up on studying
- make new friends
- write papers
- Look at Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, etc.
- catch up on sleep
- hold up a wall
- talk to other students
Let me tell you a little secret. When you get done with school and start applying for jobs, the hiring manager is going to go to all the x-ray techs within the department and ask what they thought about you. In most cases, the feedback they get from these techs will be the deciding factor on whether you get an interview or not.
Unfortunately, no one cares about your second job, how tired/stressed out you are, or why you chronically came in late or missed days. What they care about is if you are a hard worker and are dependable.
Oh, another thing, the x-ray tech community is very small and tight-knit, so if you are planning at burning a bridge at one clinical site, I assure you it is going to get around.
The best advice I can give any x-ray tech student is to bring your A-game every day of x-ray school
I sincerely hope this post helps you and feel free to share with your fellow classmates or fellow x-ray techs.
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The Anthony Caro Centre
During a career that spanned more than six decades, Anthony Caro (1924-2013) achieved international recognition as one of the world’s leading sculptors. In 1960, he abandoned his earlier figurative way of working and began making abstract sculptures in welded and painted steel. In a significant departure from tradition, these constructions were placed directly on the ground; dispensing with the convention of presenting sculptures on plinths, they confronted the viewer immediately, producing a one-to-one encounter with objects that were in the world but not of the world. Being abstract, these creations were entirely unfamiliar but possessed a tangible presence. When first shown in Caro’s one-man exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, in 1963, they caused a sensation, heralding a revolution in the way sculpture was regarded. Caro’s radical, new approach to methods and materials was liberating, and it changed the very idea of what sculpture was - and could be.
By 1970, Caro had achieved pre-eminence. On the occasion of his first solo exhibition in New York, the New York Times observed that he was ‘unrivalled as the most accomplished sculptor of his generation. He is unquestionably the most important sculptor to have come out of England since Henry Moore’. Over the next forty years, Caro continued to explore the unconventional language he had created, developing its expressive potential by probing the boundaries between sculpture and painting, music and architecture. In particular, he was fascinated by interior, contained spaces, constructing works that were not simply for observing but could be physically entered. Having made the case for abstract sculpture, from the 1980s onwards he broadened the scope of his output by combining abstract, allusive and sometimes figurative elements; he also embraced a range of different materials, including bronze, wood, lead, ceramic, paper and Perspex. The scale of his invention extended from small, intimate pieces to multi-part installations, large-scale sculptures for public spaces and architectural commissions. By the time of Caro’s death in 2013, there had been over 130 exhibitions of his work around the world, as well as inclusion in numerous international group exhibitions; his sculpture is represented in the world’s major public and private collections.
The Anthony Caro Centre is dedicated to preserving and promoting Caro’s artistic legacy. Based at the site of his former studio in Camden, north London, the Centre is responsible for exhibiting, storing, conserving and lending the outstanding works in its collection; it also houses the artist’s archive and library. As such, it forms the main platform for the study and appreciation of Caro’s achievements.
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Guardian whistle-blower Edward Snowden has offered to help the Brazilian government investigate claims of US spying on their citizens if the South American country offers him political asylum.
Ex- National Security Agency worker Snowden is currently in Russia.
According to a report by the Associated Press, Snowden has written an open letter to a Brazilian newspaper offering his assistance.
Brazilian politicians areinterested in talking to Snowden after he revealed the widespread hacking of transatlantic fibre-optic cables leaving the South American country by the NSA.
He said in the letter: "I've expressed my willingness to assist where it's appropriate and legal but, unfortunately, the US government has been working hard to limit my ability to do so.
"Until a country grants me permanent political asylum, the US government will continue to interfere with my ability to speak out."
Snowden’s main media contact Glenn Greenwald lives in Brazil.
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This article discusses the social significance of the silver spoon throughout history and the different types of silver spoons made from the 12th through the 19th centuries. It originally appeared in the July 1941 issue of American Collector magazine, a publication which ran from 1933-1948 and served antique collectors and dealers.
From the Middle Ages down, the silver spoon has been a symbol of a certain standard of living. “Born with a silver spoon in his mouth” indicated a person who began life well shielded against the harsh winds of poverty. Silver spoons were the first investments made by the English yeoman or by the early American colonist as they struggled up from meager beginnings. Gifts of silver spoons also marked such important events as births, weddings, and deaths.
“Come, come, my lord, you’d spare your spoons,” Shakespeare makes Henry VIII say to Archbishop Cranmer when the latter would fain be excused from acting as godfather to Elizabeth. And in the mid-17th Century we have Samuel Pepys remarking in characteristic manner on a christening which did not go to his entire satisfaction:
“Bose early and put six spoons and a porringer of silver in my pocket to give away today — went to Mrs. Browne’s where Sir W. Pen and I were godfathers to her boy. But for as much as I expected to give the name to the childe, but did not, (it being called John) I forbore then to give my plate.”
In the American Colonies, silver spoons of varying sizes also were considered suitable gifts for important occasions. From the fourth decade of the 17th Century when the first examples were hammered out, to the middle of the 19th Century when mechanized production caused the last silversmiths to lay down their tools, silver spoons were part of a young woman’s dowry. The quantity, of course, depended on the length of the parental purse, but it was a poverty-stricken household that could not find funds for at least six teaspoons and a tablespoon or two.
And while not of antiquarian interest, we can many of us remember the keen zest with which sweet young things of the 1890’s and early 20th Century collected souvenir tea and coffee spoons.
With this background it is not surprising that the beginner in collecting should be attracted to silver spoons. Although their making goes back several centuries, most of those practical for collecting and real use will be apt to date between 1780 and 1840. This does not mean that earlier examples are nonexistent. The National Museum of Antiquities in Edinburgh, Scotland, has at least one spoon that dates from the 12th Century.
Of American-made spoons, there are a very few bearing the mark of such early 17th-Century silversmiths as John Hull, Robert Sanderson, and John Coney. These are in museums and important private collections, however. Even spoons of the first half of the 18th Century are none too plentiful and, therefore, expensive.
The reason is obvious. Although spoons were made in fair quantity, even in the far from luxurious 17th Century, by the various silversmiths working in the American Colonies, constant use took its toll. Also, there was the practice of melting down old silver to appear again in newer designs which continued until well into the 19th Century.
The examples illustrated are representative of what the collector can find at not too much trouble and expense. Before discussing them, however, a few words on the types that preceded them are in order.
The spoon of the 12th Century, already referred to as well as those in use during Tudor days, had a fig-shaped bowl with a hexagonal handle ending in a decorative knop. The well-known Apostle spoons were of this type, the knop being the head of one of the twelve or sometimes of St. Paul.
Coming down to the Commonwealth and the Restoration, the type of spoon that Samuel Pepys put in his pocket and then “forebore to give” was undoubtedly of the “Puritan” type, a rounded bowl with a hexagonal handle having no decorative terminal. Later in the century came the “rat-tail,” so-called because of a projection on the back of its bowl, which was now elliptical in shape.
The 18th Century brought in a narrower bowl and a less flattened stem. By the middle 1700’s, handle tips and bowls both became more pointed.
Thus, in the spoon on the extreme left, whose maker worked in Philadelphia about 1793, we have the slender handle with pointed end. Bright cutting, also a popular form of ornamentation, appears on the next spoon, made in New York in the early 19th Century.
The third spoon has the “coffin-lid” handle, thought to have been given to relatives and friends of the deceased instead of the usual mourning ring, but probably so named because of the shape. The fourth spoon, made in the last decade of the 18th Century is by Thomas Revere, brother of Paul. The fifth, with shell-shaped bowl, is one of the novelty spoons designed for sugar and from the shape of its handle might date anywhere between 1840 and 1850. The doll’s spoon at the top was also made about 1850.
Spoons with handles like the shell sugar spoon are late but artistic in outline.
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The London Government Act 1963 (c. 33) is an Act of Parliament, which recognised officially the conurbation known as Greater London and created a new local government structure for the capital. The Act significantly reduced the number of local government districts in the area, resulting in local authorities responsible for larger areas and populations. The upper tier of local government was reformed to cover the whole of the Greater London area and with a more strategic role; and the split of functions between upper and lower tiers was recast. The Act classified the boroughs into Inner London and outer London groups. The City of London and its corporation were essentially unreformed by the legislation. Subsequent amendments to the Act have significantly amended the upper tier arrangements, with the Greater London Council constituted in the legislation replaced by the Greater London Authority. As of 2012, the London boroughs are more or less identical to those created in 1965, although with some enhanced powers over services such as waste management and education.
Provisions of the Act
The Act set up a two-tier local government system, with powers divided between the newly formed Greater London Council (GLC), 32 new London borough councils and the existing City of London. The provisions of the Act came into effect on 1 April 1965, the new councils having been elected as "shadow authorities" in 1964.
Section 1 of the Act established 32 London boroughs, each of which was to be governed by an elected borough council, and was to be regulated by the Municipal Corporations Act 1882 and Local Government Act 1933. Twelve of the boroughs, corresponding to the former County of London, were designated Inner London boroughs. The remaining twenty boroughs were designated Outer London boroughs. None of the boroughs were given names in the Act.
Section 2 declared that the area comprising the areas of the London boroughs, the City and the Temples shall constitute an administrative area to be known as Greater London. An elected Greater London Council was to govern the new area.
Section 3 abolished the administrative counties of Middlesex and London (created in 1889), and absorbed parts of Kent, Essex, Surrey and Hertfordshire plus the whole of the City of London to form the administrative area of Greater London. As well the two counties, the twenty-eight existing metropolitan boroughs, plus all county boroughs, county districts or civil parish that fell wholly within Greater London were to cease to exist, along with their councils. No part of Greater London was to form part of any administrative county, county district or parish. Three Middlesex urban districts not included in Greater London were transferred to other counties: Potters Bar to Hertfordshire and Staines and Sunbury-on-Thames to Surrey.
The Act also established the Inner London Education Authority to administer schools and colleges in the 12 inner London boroughs. The remaining 20 outer boroughs became local education authorities in their own right. The London Traffic Area and the London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee, set up in 1924, were abolished, with the GLC gaining powers to regulate road traffic. An alteration was also made to the Metropolitan Police District to include the whole of Greater London, but the district continued to include a number of areas in surrounding counties.
Later the Local Government Act 1985 would abolish the GLC and devolve its functions to the London boroughs and to central government.
The composition of the London boroughs was given in Schedule 1 of the Act:
- The metropolitan boroughs of Westminster, Paddington and St Marylebone.
- The metropolitan boroughs of Hampstead, Holborn and St Pancras.
- The metropolitan boroughs of Finsbury and Islington.
- The metropolitan boroughs of Hackney, Shoreditch and Stoke Newington.
- The metropolitan boroughs of Bethnal Green, Poplar and Stepney.
- The metropolitan borough of Greenwich and so much of the metropolitan borough of Woolwich as lay south of the centre of the navigable channel of the River Thames at low water.
- The metropolitan boroughs of Deptford and Lewisham.
- The metropolitan boroughs of Bermondsey, Camberwell and Southwark.
- The metropolitan borough of Lambeth and so much of the metropolitan borough of Wandsworth as lay east of Hazelbourne Road, Cavendish Road, the railway between Balham and Streatham Common stations and the railway between Streatham and Mitcham Junction stations.
- The metropolitan borough of Battersea and the remainder of the metropolitan borough of Wandsworth not included in borough 9.
- The metropolitan boroughs of Fulham and Hammersmith.
- The metropolitan boroughs of Chelsea and Kensington
- The boroughs of Chingford, Leyton and Walthamstow
- The borough of Ilford, the borough of Wanstead and Woodford, so much of the borough of Dagenham as lay north of Billet Road and an area in the south of the urban district of Chigwell including the Hainault Estate.
- The borough of Romford and the urban district of Hornchurch.
- The borough of Barking except the part in Borough 17 and the borough of Dagenham except the part in Borough 14.
- The county boroughs of East Ham and West Ham, so much of the borough of Barking as lay west of the River Roding and Barking Creek and the part of the metropolitan borough of Woolwich not included in Borough 6.
- The boroughs of Bexley and Erith, the urban district of Crayford, and so much of the urban district of Chislehurst and Sidcup as lay north of the A20 road.
- The boroughs of Beckenham and Bromley, the urban districts of Orpington and Penge, and so much of the urban district of Chislehurst and Sidcup as lay south of the A20 road.
- The county borough of Croydon and the urban district of Coulsdon and Purley.
- The borough of Beddington and Wallington, the borough of Sutton and Cheam and the urban district of Carshalton.
- The boroughs of Mitcham and Wimbledon and the urban district of Merton and Morden.
- The borough of Kingston upon Thames, the borough of Malden and Coombe and the borough of Surbiton.
- The boroughs of Barnes, Richmond and Twickenham.
- The borough of Brentford and Chiswick, the borough of Heston and Isleworth, and the urban district of Feltham.
- The borough of Uxbridge, the urban district of Hayes and Harlington, the urban district of Ruislip-Northwood, and the urban district of Yiewsley and West Drayton.
- The boroughs of Acton, Ealing and Southall.
- The boroughs of Wembley and Willesden.
- The borough of Harrow.
- The boroughs of Finchley and Hendon, and the urban districts of Barnet, East Barnet and Friern Barnet.
- The boroughs of Hornsey, Tottenham and Wood Green.
- The boroughs of Edmonton, Enfield and Southgate.
As passed, the Act did not include names for the new boroughs. Keith Joseph, the Minister, asked local councils for suggestions as to possible names, asking that they be a single word if possible, and noting that "the best name will be the place recognised as the centre of the new borough". Double-barrelled names were to be prohibited.
Nine names were without controversy and were proposed in September, 1963.
- Westminster (Borough 1)
- Camden (Borough 2) - "virtually in the centre of the three boroughs"
- Tower Hamlets (Borough 5) - a historic alternate name for the Tower division of Middlesex
- Redbridge (Borough 14) - named for a red bridge of the River Roding in Ilford
- Newham (Borough 17) - combination of East Ham and West Ham
- Croydon (Borough 20)
- Kingston upon Thames (Borough 23)
- Ealing (Borough 27)
- Haringey (Borough 31) - a variant spelling of Harringay
Six new names were proposed by the Minister in October, 1963 for boroughs unable to decide upon a name
- Bexley (Borough 18)
- Bromley (Borough 19)
- Sutton (Borough 21)
- Richmond upon Thames (Borough 24)
- Hounslow (Borough 25)
- Uxbridge (ultimately changed to Hillingdon) (Borough 26)
The Minister proposed a further twelve names in January, 1964
- Greenwich (not Charlton as previously suggested) (Borough 6)
- Hillingdon (not Uxbridge) (Borough 26)
- Islington (Borough 3)
- Hackney (Borough 4)
- Lewisham (Borough 7)
- Southwark (Borough 8)
- Wandsworth (Borough 10)
- Kensington and Chelsea (Borough 12)
- Waltham Forest (Borough 13)
- Havering (Borough 15) - after the former Royal Liberty of Havering which covered a similar area
- Barking (Borough 16)
- Morden (Borough 22) (ultimately changed to Merton)
- Barnet (Borough 30)
- Enfield (Borough 32)
- Hammersmith and Fulham (Borough 11) were unable to choose a single name, and sent a shortlist to the Minister including "Riverside" and "Olympia". Wembley and Willesden (Borough 28) wished to be called "Willesden and Wembley", but was ultimately titled Brent after the River Brent.
Chelsea was unwilling to lose its name, and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea was the only double-barrelled name to be permitted. The name "Royal Borough of Charlton" was proposed for Greenwich/Woolwich (Borough 6), whilst Lewisham and Deptford (Borough 7) were also unable to agree on whether the borough should be named Lewisham, Deptford or Ravensbourne. The councils to become part of the London Borough of Barnet (Borough 30) suggested "Northgate" or "Northern Heights" as names. Islington and Finsbury (Borough 3) were also unable to come to a decision, with Finsbury preferring "New River" and Islington preferring Islington. Richmond and Twickenham (Borough 24) disagreed over which, if any of those names should appear in the new borough names. Suggestions for Enfield (Borough 32) included "Enfield Chase" and "Edmonton Hundred".
The Local Government Act 1972 would later provide a mechanism for councils to change their names, and both the London Borough of Hammersmith and the London Borough of Barking changed their names after their creation to contain a second locality: to "Hammersmith and Fulham" and "Barking and Dagenham", respectively.
Distribution of functions
The split of functions between the new authorities were:
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A royal commission was appointed in 1957 under the chairmanship of Sir Edwin Herbert to consider future local government structures in Greater London. The commission delivered its report in October 1960 proposing the creation of a Greater London with 52 Greater London Boroughs.
The Greater London area set up by the 1963 Act was very similar to that proposed by the Herbert Report, with the exclusion of Banstead, Caterham and Warlington, Esher, Walton and Weybridge in Surrey, Chigwell in Essex, Cheshunt in Hertfordshire, and Staines and Sunbury in Middlesex.
Passage through Parliament
The government felt that the boroughs should be fewer and larger, and published its plan for 34 London boroughs in late 1961. In the County of London area this reorganised the proposed boroughs so that the pairings leading to the present boroughs of Camden, Westminster and Islington were achieved. The Hackney borough had Shoreditch rather than the Tower Hamlets borough, whilst south of the river, Lewisham would be standalone, Deptford would combine with Camberwell and Bermondsey, and Southwark and Lambeth would unite. Eastern Wandsworth was to form a borough in itself, with western Wandsworth being paired with Battersea.
Outside the county of London area the boroughs were to be:
- Chigwell (north of the Roding - that is, Loughton and Buckhurst Hill)/Chingford/Leyton/Walthamstow/Wanstead and Woodford
- Chigwell (south of the Roding)/Ilford
- Hornchurch (part)/Romford
- Barking/Dagenham/Hornchurch (Rainham and South Hornchurch wards)
- East Ham/West Ham/North Woolwich
- Bexley/Chislehurst and Sidcup/Crayford/Erith
- Caterham and Warlingham/Coulsdon and Purley/Croydon
- Banstead/Beddington and Wallington/Carshalton/Epsom and Ewell/Sutton and Cheam
- Merton and Morden/Mitcham/Wimbledon
- Esher/Kingston/Maldon and Coombe/Surbiton/Walton and Weybridge
- Brenford and Chiswick/Feltham/Heston and Isleworth/Staines/Sunbury
- Hayes and Harlington/Ruislip-Northwood/Uxbridge/Yiewsley and West Drayton
- East Barnet/Enfield (part)/Friern Barnet/Hornsey/Southgate/Wood Green
- Cheshunt/Edmonton/Enfield (part)/Tottenham
The Minister of Housing and Local Government announced that Cheshunt, Chigwell, Esher, Staines and Sunbury were to be excluded from Greater London on 18 May 1961, having already announced the exclusion of Banstead, Caterham and Warlingham Urban District and Walton and Weybridge. The requests by Romford, Barnet, Carshalton, Coulsdon and Purley, Feltham, and Yiewsley and West Drayton to be removed from the area were turned down. Additionally, it was stated that the "northern part of the borough of Epsom and Ewell definitely forms part of Greater London and must be included", although Epsom was to be excluded. Epsom and Ewell would ultimately be excluded from the area in its entirety.
Changes published in August 1962 saw a reduction from 33 to 32 boroughs with the association of Clapham/Streatham with the London Borough of Lambeth; Shoreditch joining Hackney - also Wanstead and Woodford would be added to Ilford to form the London Borough of Redbridge rather than the London Borough of Waltham Forest; Chislehurst and Sidcup Urban District would be divided between the London Borough of Bromley and the London Borough of Bexley, and that East Barnet, Friern Barnet, Hendon, and Finchley would form a single London Borough of Barnet, and that Enfield would join Edmonton and Southgate (in the London Borough of Enfield), and the association of Tottenham, Hornsey and Wood Green (to form the London Borough of Haringey).
The Local Government Bill was finally published in November 1962 proposed essentially the 32 London boroughs that were created.
- Choosing Names For New Boroughs. The Times. June 25, 1963.
- Where Judgement of Solomon Will Be Required: Minister to Have Final Word on Names of New London Boroughs. The Times. August 8, 1963.
- Names for Nine New Boroughs of London. The Times. September 14, 1963.
- Minister Names New Boroughs. The Times. October 30, 1963
- Chelsea Name Retained: New Decisions on Three Boroughs. The Times. January 3, 1964.
- Redcliffe-Maud & Wood, B., English Local Government Reformed, (1974)
- Government Plan for 34 London Boroughs. The Times. December 19, 1961.
- Five More Towns Now Out Of London Plan. The Times. May 19, 1962
- Changes In Proposals For London Council Areas: Ministry Accepts Recommendations. The Times. August 3, 1962.
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The Election, 2020
December 3, 2020
The Right to Vote is a fundamental right guaranteed by the US Constitution to every single American. It is a right that has been hard fought since its creation and challenged even to this day. In the aftermath of the election of President Elect Joe Biden, the refusal of election results from Trump, replete with false claims of voter fraud, and attempts to undermine this vital democratic process, Puffin Cultural Forum’s online exhibition. The Election, 2020 includes fine art, digital images, video, audio works that showcase artists’ expressions, and viewpoints regarding the 59th US Presidential Election and the current moment.
The Puffin Cultural Forum is a passionate art and performance space located in Teaneck, NJ just outside of New York City that seeks to promote the meeting of the Arts and Activism. To that end, the Puffin Cultural Forum hosts art exhibitions and performances of music, theater, poetry, film in an effort to explore, share and communicate ideas and expressions that may fall outside boundaries of popular, mainstream thought. | <urn:uuid:dabd8b93-3b4c-4d08-a5a4-a8e1a5d62fcb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.puffinculturalforum.org/the-election-2020/?fbclid=IwAR1TuOVl5NQ0k_IhOibx26qzfyrkarUuVeDe_EWg9aVwyx-RxTRShPYCEzc | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.951153 | 218 | 2.203125 | 2 |
What is act or omission? An omission to perform an act can only be a physical element if: (a) the law creating the offence makes it so; or. (b) the law creating the offence impliedly provides that the offence is committed by an omission to perform an act that by law there is a duty to perform.
What is an act or omission in law? One widespread approach in criminal jurisprudence is to define the concepts of act and omission under a bodily movement test. That is, an act assumes some movement of muscles, while omission assumes the absence of such movement.
What is an example of an act of omission? Failing to pay taxes, child support, and alimony are a few recognizable examples of omission as actus reus.
What is the difference between an act and omission? The legal justification for distinguishing between acts and omissions is that the author of an act has a causative input on the outcome, whereas “the agent who fails, through omission, to prevent death is allowing the completion of a pre-existing causal set for that outcome”.
What is act or omission? – Related Questions
How does an act or omission become a crime?
Felony is defined under the code as an act or omission punishable by law, committed through culpa or dolo. The words “punishable by law” means that the act or omission must be defined and punished by the Revised Penal Code and no other law.
What does legal omission mean in law?
An omission is a general term for a failure to act, but it can have broad connotations in day to day life and the implications of such actions vary from situation to situation. Our legal definition of an omission is: “An act that was pre-agreed but failed to act upon.
What does inchoate mean in law?
The term “inchoate” refers to a state of activity or entitlement that is characterized by partial completion of an intended outcome or status. “Inchoate” can also be applied to rights, actions, titles, liens, and even criminal activity, such as in an attempted crime.
What crimes Cannot be committed by omission?
However, note that some crimes cannot be committed through omission e.g. assault and constructive manslaughter.
How do you prove omission?
An omission amounting to contradiction can be proved either by bringing on record the whole of the statement confining its use to the actual absence of the statement in Court or the police officer may be asked to refer to the statement of the witness in the diary for refreshing his memory as asked whether such
Is omission to act a crime?
Failure or omission to act is only criminal in three situations: (1) when there is a statute that creates a legal duty to act, (2) when there is a contract that creates a legal duty to act, or (3) when there is a special relationship between the parties that creates a legal duty to act.
Who has a duty to act?
A duty to act is a legal duty requiring a party to take necessary action to prevent harm to another person or to the general public. In personal injury law, an individual may be held to a standard of reasonable care to prevent injury or harm.
What is omission abuse?
Neglect and Acts of Omission includes:
Ignoring medical, emotional or physical care needs. Failure to provide access to appropriate health, care and support or educational services. The withholding of the necessities of life, such as medication, adequate nutrition and heating.
What does act mean in law?
An act is an instrument that records a fact or something that has been said, done, or agreed. Acts generally take the form of legal instruments of writing that have probative value and executory force.
What comes first crime or law?
Laws are made in reaction or response to crime. Obviously, crime come first and not laws. Article 7 of the Human Rights Act states that you cannot be charged with a criminal offence for an action that was not a crime when you committed it.
What is a pure omission?
Lord Hoffmann’s explanation for the distinction in Stovin v Wise stipulates the general rule for ‘pure omissions’, i.e. cases where an omission on the part of the defendant directly causes (without more) losses or damage to the claimant.
What are the two forms of mens rea?
The Model Penal Code recognizes four different levels of mens rea: purpose (same as intent), knowledge, recklessness and negligence.
What does sin of omission mean?
A person may be guilty of a sin of omission if he fails to do something which he is able to do and which he ought to do because he has put himself into a state or situation whereby he is unable to complete the action.
What is the purpose of omission?
Purposeful omission is the leaving out of particular nonessential details that can be assumed by the reader (if used in literature), according to the context and attitudes/gestures made by the characters in the stories.
What is a positive act in law?
Where someone does a positive act to kill another person, such as picking up a knife and stabbing your victim, it is clear this constitutes the actus reus of murder. In order for an omission to constitue the actus reas for murder, the defendant must owe a duty of care, imposed by law, to act to save the victim.
What are the 3 inchoate offenses?
The basic inchoate offenses are attempt, solicitation, and conspiracy. The crime allegedly intended is called the target offense.
Does inchoate mean chaotic?
“Inchoate” does, however, have a second meaning, which is “disordered, confused or incoherent,” i.e., characterized by chaos, or “chaotic.” The OED suggests that this sense of “inchoate,” which first appeared in print in 1922, might have resulted from simple confusion with “chaotic,” but also notes that the “
What is meant by infraction?
An infraction is usually the breaking of a law, rule, or agreement. So a nation charged with an infraction of an international treaty will usually have to pay a penalty. In Federal law, an infraction is even smaller than a misdemeanor, and the only penalty is a fine.
What is omission under evidence Act?
Omission – The dictionary defines it as something that has been left out or excluded. In trials, while cross examination, an omission takes place when the witness purposely or otherwise misses out/omits any fact or statement he has made in his/her statement recorded earlier.
What is contradicting evidence?
In logic and mathematics, proof by contradiction is a form of proof that establishes the truth or the validity of a proposition, by showing that assuming the proposition to be false leads to a contradiction.
Can failing to act be a crime?
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Heart Failure and Transplant Care at the Pediatric and Congenital Heart Center
Heart failure in a child, whether in early infancy or late teens, can be a life-threatening condition that arises suddenly and causes stress and uncertainty for your child and your family. Heart failure can appear in a newborn baby, a school-age child, or a teen who suddenly becomes very sick after living with undiagnosed heart disease for years.
If your child experiences heart failure, he or she is in excellent hands with the specialists at the Blalock-Taussig-Thomas Pediatric and Congenital Heart Center. Our success in treating heart failure and performing heart transplants is reflected in our patient outcomes.
“We focus our experience and skill on giving your child the best chance for a healthy and happy life, and remain committed to your child and your family throughout the duration of treatment and recovery.”
Treating Your Child for Pediatric Heart Failure
There are options available for managing heart failure, treating the underlying cause and slowing heart disease progression.
Our goal is to investigate all the available approaches that could improve your child’s health and quality of life, including medication, the use of a ventricular assist device and, when necessary, heart transplantation.
Ventricular Assist Devices for Children
A ventricular assist device (VAD) supports your child’s heart function, maintaining blood flow to the organs as your child awaits heart transplantation. Routinely used in adult patients, VADs are increasingly used in pediatric and adolescent patients to address heart failure and as a bridge to transplant.
Other Therapies for Pediatric Heart Failure
Our team has experience in addressing pediatric heart failure with the full range of new and effective treatments, including:
- Medication with 24/7 home infusion therapies
- Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)
- Implanted biventricular pacemakers for cardiac resynchronization therapy
- Automatic cardioverter-defibrillator devices to treat life-threatening arrhythmias.
If Your Child Needs a Heart Transplant
Preparation for a heart transplant considers all aspects of your child’s life and wellness, and our doctors, nurses, technologists and other experts will guide you and your child through the process, step by step. Your child will be examined by a cardiologist, a transplant surgeon and a nurse practitioner who specializes in pediatric heart surgery. We will ask for your child’s dental records.
A child psychologist will help your daughter or son prepare for surgery with age- and development-appropriate support. We will listen to your child’s concerns and provide counseling on the surgical procedure and what happens next.
A social worker will walk you and your family through what to expect in terms of the surgery’s impact on your child’s home life, return to school, participation in sports and other concerns.
After Your Child’s Heart Transplant
Recovery after heart transplant surgery takes about two weeks in the hospital.
The immediate management of heart failure can be intense for children and their families, requiring up to two weeks of in-hospital care and four to six weeks of isolation to avoid the risk of rejection after transplant.
Our concierge services work with families to smooth the practical and logistic concerns of coordinating treatment, covering details such as parking, food resources and places to stay.
Keeping Your Child Safe with Immunosuppression
To ensure that your child’s body accepts a donor heart, we treat him or her with immunosuppressive therapy before and after transplant surgery. Temporarily suppressing your child’s immune system makes a successful heart transplant possible.
Because of this, your child might be more vulnerable to infection for several months after a heart transplant. We will review with you what is safe for your child to do for the first few months after surgery as the immunosuppression therapy ends.
Meet Our Experts in
Pediatric Heart Failure and Children’s Heart Transplants
Why choose the Blalock-Taussig-Thomas Pediatric and Congenital Heart Center for pediatric heart failure and children’s heart transplant?
The full range of treatments.
We have access to the latest advances in heart failure therapy and skill in providing comprehensive, effective care for your child.
Our experts in heart failure and transplantation have extensive experience treating heart failure in children of all ages.
Individualized care for your child and family.
Our team works closely with each family to create a personalized treatment plan that offers your child the best long-term outcome, along with resources for the entire family.
Heart failure and heart transplantation in a child calls for care across a range of specialties. Caring and compassionate child life specialists nurture children’s emotional and social well-being as they progress through each step of treatment and recovery.
What to Expect: Child’s Heart Failure and Heart Transplant
Support and Care Going Forward
If your child’s or teen’s heart failure can be stabilized with treatment or heart transplant surgery, he or she will still require ongoing care. A donor heart is expected to last about 25 years. The continued course of treatment for your child may include regular outpatient catheterization procedures, further biopsies and possible surgery.
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Do Market Shares or Technology Explain Rising New Vehicle Fuel Economy?
Resources for the Future Discussion Paper No. 13-29
19 Pages Posted: 19 Sep 2013
Date Written: September 2013
By decreasing gasoline consumption, greater fuel economy could significantly reduce environmental and energy security concerns. In this paper, we show that since the year 2000, technology and market shares have contributed roughly equally to rising new vehicle fuel economy in the United States. We discuss the implications of these patterns for the safety and welfare effects of fuel economy standards.
Keywords: corporate average fuel economy standards, passenger vehicles, fuel savings, vehicle safety, greenhouse gas emissions rate standards
JEL Classification: Q4, L62
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- 1. There are many biblical allusions in books of the Bible.
- 2. The most common are in the Old Testament, where the Hebrews and Israelites are compared to the animals of the world.
- 3. For example, the fish, the turtle, and the serpent are all compared to the Israelites in the Old Testament book of Genesis.
- 4. In addition, there are many allusions in the New Testament, where the author likens Jesus Christ to the prophets of the Old Testament.
Christian Allusions in Literature – Part 1
What is an example of a biblical allusion?
The Bible is full of allusions to other texts. For example, Jesus’s statement “I am the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6) is an allusion to the Ten Commandments, which say “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.”
What are two Biblical allusions?
There are many Biblical allusions in the Bible but some of the most common are:
-In the Bible, Jesus often refers to the Old Testament. For example, he quotes from it, refers to its characters and events, and uses its stories to illustrate his teachings.
-The Bible also contains many references to the creation of the world and the natural world.
What are the 5 allusions?
The first allusion is a personification of the mind, often used in a negative context. This personification often suggests an inability to understand ideas and concepts. The second allusion is a reference to the mind’s ability to think creatively and logically. This second allusion is often used in a positive context and is seen as an ability that is necessary for solving problems. The third allusion is to the mind’s power of reason, which is often used in a positive sense. The fourth allusion is to the notion of the mind’s connection to the spirit world. This allusion is often used in a negative context, as it implies that the mind is weak and easily influenced. The fifth allusion is to the mind’s power of creativity.
What books have Biblical allusions?
There are many books that have Biblical allusions, but some of the most well-known ones include the Bible, the Book of Psalms, and the Book of Wisdom. These books all have quotes or passages that are interpreted as having a Biblical origin, even though the original author may not have intended them to do so.
What is the biblical allusion of Cain?
Cain is an example of the biblical allusion of the “fallen angel.” In the book of Genesis, God created the first man, Adam, and gave him dominion over all the animals on Earth. One day, Adam became angry with God and disobeyed Him by eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. God then condemned Adam and Eve to live in exile from Him.
What are the 4 types of allusions?
There are four types of allusions: visual, verbal, musical, and dramatic. Allusions are used to connect two different things that are not related in any way. They are often used in literature and art, but can also be used in other types of media, such as movies and television shows.
What allusion to Christianity is used to describe Grendel?
The allusion to Christianity in “Grendel” is the use of the word “Christ.” The poem refers to Christ as a “glorious man” who would have been “a light to your feet, a lamp to your path.” This could be seen as an allusion to Christ being the light of the world, and the lamp to guide people.
Who is Cain in the Bible?
Cain is the first son of Adam and Eve. He is also known as the first murderer, as he is the one who killed his brother Abel. Cain spent the rest of his life wandering the desert, eventually settling in the city of Nahor.
What are some examples of common biblical archetypes?
There are many biblical archetypes, but some of the most common ones include the wise man, the fool, the hero, the villain, the servant, the mother, and the king. These archetypes can be seen in stories throughout the Bible, in both the Old and New Testaments.
What are mythological allusions?
Allusions are a literary device that refers to a work of art, legend, or history in order to suggest its existence. Mythological allusions are a specific type of allusion, in which the source of the allusion is a mythological story or figure.
What allusion does the rain present?
The rain presents an allusion to death. The rain is a symbol of nature, which is often associated with death. The rain is also a symbol of mourning. In many cultures, rain is seen as a sign of bad luck and bad omens.
What is a classical allusion?
A classical allusion is a reference to something from the classical era – typically referring to a work of literature from the time period. The term comes from the practice of referencing classical texts in order to invoke a sense of tradition and excellence.
Which line is an allusion to Bible verse?
The line “God gives you the spirit of a brave child” is an allusion to Psalm 31:24. The psalmist writes, “the LORD is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love.” The line from the movie “Brave” is a direct quote from the Bible.
What allusion to the Bible is mentioned The Ransom of Red Chief?
There is an allusion to the Bible in The Ransom of Red Chief. In the book, a character named Brother Horse teaches the other characters about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is a central theme throughout the story and is referenced frequently.
Why do authors use biblical allusions?
There are a few reasons why authors might use biblical allusions. One reason is to connect their story to something that is familiar to their readers. For example, if the author is writing a story set in medieval times, they might use allusions to biblical stories to help their readers understand what life was like in that time. Another reason is to add depth to the story. For example, if the author is writing a story about a character who is struggling with addiction, they might use biblical allusions to help the reader understand what it is like to be addicted.
Is the name Joshua in the Bible?
Yes, the name Joshua is mentioned in the Bible. It seems that the book of Joshua was written in the late 8th century BCE and was mostly about the conquest of the Promised Land. The name “Joshua” may come from the Hebrew word יָהוּסָה (yāšo’šaḥ), meaning “beloved.” | <urn:uuid:5b18fe40-5cd7-4e81-8a90-2049e887591b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://goldprague.com/what-are-some-biblical-allusions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.963942 | 1,473 | 3.21875 | 3 |
COM named fourth in nation in science technology graduates
A just-released report by the magazine Community College Week ranked COM fourth in the nation in the number of degrees awarded in 2012 in the science technologies/technicians category. The publication based its report on U.S. Department of Education data showing 76 process technology graduates that year, a nine percent increase over the previous year.
“We have a strong, rigorous program. All of our professors have 20-plus years of experience in the field. That’s part of what makes our program unique,” said COM process technology department chair Jerry Duncan. “Students excel in employers’ tests.”
David Gosnay, operations manager, derivatives, at LyondellBasell Industries, works with COM students through the internship partnership at that company created three years ago.
“Working with COM has been very beneficial for us. The students are well prepared, and our success rate with COM students is very high,” said Gosnay. “We recruit from all local colleges, and COM students seem to be better prepared.”
Stephen Flowers, of Dickinson, is among COM’s growing number of process technology graduates who are in demand at energy, chemical, pharmaceutical, and oil and gas companies. Before he strode across the stage to receive his diploma from College of the Mainland, he had what every student craves – an offer of a full-time job.
After a paid internship at Dow Chemical while a COM student, Flowers received an offer of a permanent job completing the same work, creating chemicals for solvents and paint.
“(COM professors) Mike Cobb, Steve Wethington, Al Jivan and Jerry Duncan helped guide me through the transition from college to real life,” said Flowers.
Besides internships, COM students gain hands-on experience by taking shifts and operating the 10-foot glycol separation unit at COM during the capstone course for 40 hours continuously.
“We simulate working in a plant,” said Duncan. “That really sets us apart.”
Preparing students to serve as leaders in industry, the COM process technology program boasts one of the highest job placement rates in the state: nearly 89 percent in 2011-12.
The process technology program’s introduction class has no prerequisites. While including rigorous courses in chemistry, physics and math, the program incorporates hands-on learning as students learn through skits, sketching and teamwork.
“Students who are really successful in the program are kinetic learners, who learn by doing,” said Bill Raley, COM dean of industrial/technology programs. “It is not about rote memory, it is about applying knowledge.”
Graduates face open doors in industries from energy to food processing.
“The average age of operators is in the 50s. They are approaching retirement,” said Duncan. “There is a lot of opportunity out there.”
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Jupiter is the largest planetary body in the solar system. As a Gas Giant, it is unexplorable by current technology. As such there is no way to determine what if any sort of surface features it might contain beneath the massive atmosphere. . | <urn:uuid:3f5cacab-5e01-4c97-8cbb-83e0adffc9ec> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wiki.uqm.stack.nl/index.php?title=Jupiter&diff=prev&oldid=12669 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.760605 | 158 | 2.15625 | 2 |
The “Christian flag” was hoisted over Boston City Hall Wednesday morning, a long-sought win for the conservative Christian group Camp Constitution — though perhaps a brief one.
“In the city of Boston, the cradle of liberty, liberty has now finally returned to this public square forum for all people,” said Mathew Staver, a lawyer who represented Camp Constitution, to a group of around 100 supporters gathered to watch the flag raising.
Camp Constitution and its founder Hal Shurtleff first applied to fly a “Christian flag” on the City Hall flagpole in 2017 and, after being rejected by then-Mayor Marty Walsh, argued for their constitutional right to do so all the way to the Supreme Court.
The group won a unanimous Supreme Court victory in May. Justice Stephen Breyer stated in the majority opinion that under the city’s permitting process, the flag flying constituted protected personal expression.
“The raising of this Christian flag today symbolizes the fact that the Christian community and communities of faith across this whole country are not constitutional orphans — they’re full heirs to the constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech and free exercise of religion,” said Harry Mihet, another lawyer representing Shurtleff.
But the city may soon legislate away the victory.
Tuesday, city councilors announced a proposed change that would navigate within the Supreme Court ruling to allow the city discretion over which flags it flies.
Under the proposal, the city would choose a banner to fly by council resolution or mayoral proclamation, rather than granting an organization permission to fly a flag. The change excludes the flags of Boston sports teams from the formal process.
Camp Constitution’s legal counsel is reviewing the proposed changes, Staver said, and has concerns.
“This can masquerade as another form of discrimination which is just as unconstitutional as the policy the Supreme Court struck down,” Staver stated. “I hope the City of Boston learns from its 9 to 0 loss.”
Supporters Wednesday cheered and sang during the flag-raising Wednesday, emphatically “blessing” and “casting the demons” out of one protestor yelling aggressively through the event.
Speakers included a Christian pastor from Sudan and a Buddhist monk from Bangladesh. Both argued that, having seen the reality of religious persecution in other countries, protecting freedom of speech and religion must always be taken seriously.
“You don’t know what it’s like,” said William Levi, the Sudanese pastor. … “Count your blessings.”
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I often ask the secretary at my school to make photocopies for my classes. Up until recently, I have been using the expression, “¿Puedo tener …. copias porfa?” I thought this was a perfectly reasonable thing to say as puedo means “can I” and tener means “have.” I also use this expression while eating out at restaurants. After MONTHS of this exchange, a coworker pulled me aside and said, “Puedo tener….no.” It is not an expression that makes sense in Spanish. My coworker recommended I use, “Quiero” which translates to “I want.” I’ve always avoided using “quiero” when ordering because it sounds a bit rude to my American ear, but here it is perfectly acceptable to say what you want directly without any formalities.
To help you avoid falling into the “puedo tener” trap, I have compiled a list of useful phrases for ordering in Spanish:
Quiero… “I want…”
Don’t be shy, get right to the point!
Quisiera… “I would like…”
¿Me puedes traer….? “Can you bring me…?”
¿Me podrías traer…? “Could you bring me…?”
Me pone… “Put me down for…”
Ok, for this one, I am not 100 percent sure of the exact translation. “Poner” means put and the “me” indicates the verb is reflexive (done to oneself), so the direct translation is something more like, “Put it on me.” However, handy dandy wordreference.com told me poner can be used when talking about writing on paper (like a server writing down an order, perhaps?), so I came to the conclusion, that “Put me down for…” is the closest translation.
…cuando puedas “…when you can”
While it’s not an expression for ordering, this phrase is useful and polite when you want something brought to the table mid-meal. “Otra cerveza cuando puedas…” “Another beer when you can.”
Just say the food you want!
If all else fails, just name the food and point to the menu. You got this!
And don’t forget! It never hurts to add a “gracias” or “por favor” in there.
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The coronavirus epidemic is not over yet. So people have to get used to living with the virus. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson has said that despite the announcement of a lockdown, people need to act only on urgency and essential purpose.
The Prime Minister is expected to announce the plan today. In this case, the coronavirus is spreading again in the United Kingdom. Now all those infected there are only with the highly contagious Delta variant.
Britain has the second-highest number of corona deaths in Europe after Russia. So far 1,28,000 people in the UK have been infected with the coronavirus and died. The government imposed the restrictions for the third time is being relaxed a little bit.
Night clubs have not been allowed to open in the UK. Pubs also have restrictions on services. Public performances are not allowed in full capacity.
As restrictions are lifted, the number of cases would increase but deaths have been weakened significantly. The government has thanked the vaccination program.
Britain was the first country that introduced the corona vaccine in the world last December. To date, Britain has vaccinated 64% of its population with two doses of the vaccine.
Speaking to reporters, Boris Johnson said, “We are considering giving full freedom to people. The corona epidemic is not over yet, so people have to learn to live with the virus. Despite the announcement of relaxation in the restrictions, it is necessary to give priority to life and go out.” | <urn:uuid:1592bada-b541-4d42-bacf-f18eea2bf341> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://somaliupdate.com/learn-to-live-with-the-virus-british-prime-minister-boris-johnson/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.971337 | 305 | 1.609375 | 2 |
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Footage shows a harbour seal trying to evade a pod of hungry killer whales by seeking refuge in a mussel farm off Shetland.
The seal was surrounded by eight orcas on the hunt for food north of Lerwick on 6 March this year.
Local drone pilot Nick McCaffrey captured 38 minutes of the dramatic chase, which saw the seal hide between two lines of mussel ropes at Grunna Voe farm.
It can be seen gliding in between the ropes as the killer whales edge closer, in what has been described as previously undocumented behaviour.
But the predators pounced when the seal ventured out of safety, swiftly dispatching their prey.
The footage was analysed by Emily Hague, a PhD student at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland, who is researching the impact of human activities on marine animals - including man-made structures such as fish farms and offshore energy developments.
Ms Hague said: "Interactions involving man-made structures are rarely, if ever, caught on camera.
"This makes this footage extra special and very insightful from a scientific point of view."
The film provides a "new perspective" on how marine life and man-made structures can co-exist in the sea, Ms Hague added.
"It's fascinating that these novel structures in the marine environment are potentially being used by prey to hide from predators."
The footage also sheds light on the potential risks marine animals face.
"Last year a juvenile member of this killer group died entangled in rope and was found on Orkney," Ms Hague said.
"If this group is spending a lot of time around marine structures, then this may have associated risks, like entanglement."
Mr McCaffrey captured the footage after he and fellow wildlife enthusiasts were alerted to the orcas' arrival by the Shetland Orca Sightings Facebook page, managed by wildlife photographer Hugh Harrop.
He traced the pod's route as the orcas travelled from just south of Lerwick to Grunna Voe.
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Connect to iTunes iPad Disabled
You’ve discovered that your iPad is disabled, and you’re not sure what to do. It appears that you’re unable to connect to iTunes, but you’ve already tried to sync it. You’ve even backed up the device. The only way to restore the device is to unlock it. Read more to get information about Connect to iTunes iPad Disabled.
The first step is to connect your iPad to a computer. This will enable you to use iTunes. Next, hold the Home and Power buttons simultaneously, until the Apple logo is displayed on the screen.
Once you’ve done this, try to reconnect your iPad to your computer. To do this, go to the iTunes store and download the latest version of the software. If the problem persists, you can also try attempting a Restore, which will restore your iPad back to its factory settings.
This process might take 15 minutes or more. Make sure to back up your device before you reconnect. If your device has password protection, choose a complex one that you can remember.
If you’ve tried all of the above solutions, and still can’t connect to iTunes, there are several other solutions you can try. One of the most common ones is to unlock the iPad, which will allow you to use iTunes to sync your iPad.
About Creating a Connection of your iPad:
Once you’ve done this, you should be able to reconnect your iPad to your computer. If you’re unable to connect to iTunes, there are a couple of other options that might work for you.
To make your iPad recognize iTunes, you need to connect it to a computer that is trusted by the iPad. After you connect the iPad to the computer, you will be asked to trust the PC.
This will give iTunes permission to access the data on the device. Once you’ve done this, the PC will be a trusted device, so your iPad will connect to it. After you’ve done this, you should complete a full wipe of the device so that it will be ready to receive apps.
If the problem is with the iPad’s security system, you need to reset it. The device should be set to “recovery mode” and should be able to connect to iTunes.
If you’ve previously restored the iPad, it should have worked correctly. Once you’ve regained access to your iPad, you can use iTunes to sync your device. This will allow you to restore it to iTunes.
Necessary device to Restore your Connect to iTunes iPad Disabled:
A working computer is necessary to restore your iPad. You can borrow a friend’s computer, or you can borrow one if you don’t have one. If your computer doesn’t have a USB port, you can use your iPhone’s USB cable to connect to the PC. This will be the fastest way to fix your iPad.
You must be able to access the internet to restore the device. If you’re unable to do this, you’ll need a compatible Apple Retail Store to assist you.
Once you have your iPhone or iPad connected to the computer, you need to unlock it. If you’ve disabled it, you can restore it using iCloud. To do this, you need to log into your Apple ID with your password.
To unlock your iPad, use the iCloud service. Once you’ve set up the account, your iPhone will be able to connect to iTunes again. Once you’ve done this, you’ll have a restored iPad.
About Restoring your iPad:
The best solution is to reset the iPad’s password. If the password has been disabled, you’ll be unable to restore it. You can only restore the data backed up by iCloud or iTunes. If your iPad is disabled, you need to erase all the data and settings before restoring the device.
It’s also important to restore the password. When you’ve wiped it, the device will be locked again.
Then, connect your iPad to the computer using the USB cable. Then, click on the iPad icon in the upper left corner of the iTunes window. Once connected to your computer, the iPad should appear in the iTunes window.
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This summer, I was lucky enough to be able to travel to Paris for a week, a long-deferred dream of mine ever since I was in college and had to give up a chance to spend my junior year in France. I was actually invited by my 20 year-old daughter who’d been in Paris for a seven-week internship at the Cité de Science Museum to spend a week with her visiting all the sights in Paris that she had been too busy to enjoy. As soon as I bought my plane ticket back in early March, I started planning how I would attempt to revive my long-dormant French, barely used in decades except for some very basic French homework help my daughter had asked for in her high school years.
I began by re-reading some of the French books I had kept from my own French courses in high school and college, and I found some excellent websites for French practice–Duolingo, Slow News in French, and Radio Facile Française. I started to keep a notebook with words I didn’t remember or had never learned, and I tried to write a few sentences in French every day. Very slowly, vocabulary and grammar started to return , but everything felt diffuse and hard. Who was that girl who could write essays in French and converse with her classmates and teachers without having to pause every few seconds to re-think case agreements and gender endings? Why was the accent that had been so effortless years ago so hard for my mouth to reproduce? I didn’t remember how much my facial muscles could hurt after trying to speak a few sentences in what had become an elusive language, lost somewhere in my forgotten past.
But I became almost obsessed. I began spending hours a day on my French practice, always pushing forward even when I kept making the same careless mistakes over and over. I felt that somehow the challenge of trying to express myself in another language was as important as any task I had to accomplish in my own language, even though as it turned out, all I was able to say, once I was in Paris, was very basic, barely above elementary-level. I let my daughter do most of the communicating–her French, after seven weeks working with French colleagues was impressive. Yet I felt that just containing the words in my brain somehow helped me understand and appreciate at a higher level the linguistic environment around me in Paris.
And so I can identify completely with Jhumpa Lahiri and her renunciation of English in favor of Italian. In Other Words is her chronicle of how she came to love Italian as a language and as an alternate means of communication; the challenge of expression in a foreign tongue not her own becoming a way of freeing herself from the crushing expectations of always attaining perfection in her writing in English. Full disclosure: Lahiri had been my daughter’s creative writing professor last spring, and I had heard all about Lahiri’s incredibly high standards and intensity as a teacher. And so I was not at all surprised with her book, which also reaches towards a quiet intensity of its own and also answers the many critics who have excoriated her for turning her back on English after having achieved such success (she won a Pulitzer Prize for The Interpreter of Maladies, her collection of short stories, along with many other prestigious awards).
This is a book not just about writing in a foreign language (Lahiri wrote it completely in Italian, and the text was translated not by her but by Ann Goldstein–Lahiri is serious about not writing in English any more), but also about the nature of creativity and how language can become a bridge over the difficulties of expression. Lahiri uses Italian to learn how to write differently. She has already achieved everything she ever wanted in her writing up to this point; a new language gives her new possibilities, a new way of expressing her ideas, but also, of course, an immense challenge that she meets with drive and discipline. “How is it possible that when I write in Italian I feel both freer and confined, constricted? Maybe because in Italian I have the freedom to be imperfect.” The experience of making mistakes doesn’t thwart her but rather impels her forward, and Lahiri begins to find a new kind of style that lets her open up to a different manner of thinking and writing.
Lahiri continues to question herself. “Why does this imperfect, spare new voice attract me? Why does poverty satisfy me? What does it mean to give up a palace to live practically on the street, in a shelter so fragile?” Her answer: “Maybe because from the creative point of view there is nothing so dangerous as security.”
Lahiri has taken an immense risk in turning to Italian as her only language to write in, and yet it becomes completely understandable from an artistic point of view. She writes to make sense of her world, to order her approach to life, but also to express a creative impulse that must be constantly challenged or else it becomes routine, uninteresting. And what she has done here is monumental. Language separates us, and yet it becomes a means of new expression, an enhanced creativity. And the writing here, though spare is beautiful: “Every sentence I write in Italian is a small bridge that has to be constructed, then crossed. I do it with hesitation mixed with a persistent, inexplicable impulse. Every sentence, like every bridge, carries me from one place to another. It’s an atypical, enticing path. A new rhythm. Now I’m almost used to it.”
For those of you who read Italian, this book has the original text on the left side of the page with the English translation on the right. I so wish now that I had studied Italian too, though the intensity of Lahiri’s drive to find a new kind of expression comes through clearly even in the translated version. Here is a book not to be missed. | <urn:uuid:f284cb76-8f1b-441e-9538-609e32e3d1ed> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://seasonalreading.com/2016/08/29/creativity-and-language-jumpa-lahiris-in-other-words/?replytocom=213 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.985237 | 1,227 | 1.601563 | 2 |
An algorithm for the identification of stars from a charge-coupled-device (CCD) image of a star field has been extended for use with narrower field-of-view images. Previously, the algorithm had been shown to be effective at a field of view of 8°. This work augments the earlier algorithm using Bayesian decision theory. The new algorithm is shown to be capable of effective star identification down to a field of view of 2°. The algorithm was developed for use in estimating the attitude of a spacecraft and could be used on Earth to help in the identification of stars and other celestial objects for astronomical observations.
The present algorithm is one of several that seek matches between (1) imaged star fields and (2) portions of the sky, with angular dimensions equal to those of the imaged star fields, in a catalog of stars in a known reference frame. Previously developed star-identification algorithms are not suitable for fields of view only 2° wide. The present algorithm is based partly on one such prior algorithm, called the "grid algorithm," that has shown promise for identifying stars in fields of view 8° wide. To make it possible to identify stars in fields of view down to 2° with acceptably low probabilities of error, the grid algorithm has been extended by incorporating Bayesian decision theory.
For the special purpose of the grid algorithm, the term "pattern" denotes a grid representation of the relative positions of stars in a field of view. Each star is deemed to be located within one of the cells of a square grid that spans either the field of view of the CCD image or a candidate star-catalog field of the same angular dimensions. The portion of the grid algorithm that generates a pattern comprises the following steps (see figure):
- Choose a star from the CCD image or the applicable field of view in the star catalog to be the center star.
- Decide which star is the neighbor star. The neighbor star is deemed to be the star nearest to the center star outside a buffer radius of br pixels. The value of br is chosen on the basis of experience.
- Center a grid of g rows and g columns on the center star, and orient the grid such that a horizontal vector from the center to the right edge passes through the neighbor star. Like br, the value of g is chosen on the basis of experience.
Derive a pattern, a g2-element bit vector
V[0. . . g2 -1]
such that if grid cell(i,j) contains a star, then
V[jg + i] = 1
The vector element corresponding to any grid cell which does not contain a star is given the value 0. The dot product is used to measure how well two patterns V and W match:
The identification problem then becomes that of finding a catalog pattern that matches the CCD-image pattern. In a typical case, several sources of noise make it impossible to find a perfect match, making it necessary to use a quantitative criterion to decide whether one should accept an imperfect match. One such source is location noise: a star can appear in a grid cell different from that in the catalog. Another such source is magnitude (brightness) noise that affects stars at and near the limit of detectability by the CCD: some stars considered too dim to be included in the catalog could appear in the CCD image, and some stars included in the catalog could be excluded from the CCD image. Still another source of noise is that in the process of producing a pattern centered on a star which is near the edge of the CCD image, some of the grid cells may not be covered by the image. These cells will not contain stars. However, these cells in the corresponding catalog pattern may contain stars.
In the original grid algorithm, the count of stars (m) which match between a CCD image pattern and some catalog pattern is compared against a fixed threshold to determine if the match is good enough to identify the center star. In the augmented algorithm, this fixed threshold has been replaced by an adaptive, probabilistic threshold which takes into account (a) the number of stars in each of the two patterns and (b) the proportion of grid cells in the image pattern lost due to proximity with the edge of the image.
The augmented algorithm has been tested in computer simulations, using a catalog of 934,487 stars brighter than 11th magnitude, along with a variety of different assumed noise conditions. For a 2° x 2° field of view projected onto a CCD of 1,024 x 1,024 pixels, a standard deviation of 0.5 pixel in the position of each star as imaged on the CCD, and a brightness deviation of 0.8 stellar magnitude, the algorithm yielded correct identifications in 96 percent of the test examples and false positives in only 0.3 percent of the examples.
This work was done by Daniel Clouse and Curtis Padgett of Caltech for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. For further information, access the Technical Support Package (TSP) free on-line at www.techbriefs.com/tsp under the Information Sciences category. NPO-20981
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The collection comprises of material relating to the British Graham Land Expedition, 1934-1937 (leader John Rymill).
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- Dates of Creation1934-1937
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- Language of MaterialEnglish.
- Physical DescriptionExpedition material (2 Maps, 16 volumes, 88 leaves)
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Brian Birley Roberts was born on 23 October 1912 at Bishopsgarth, Woking, Surrey. At the age of ten, he read In the realm of the Arctic poppy by Raymond Raife, inspiring his interest in polar exploration. He was educated at Uppingham School where he became particularly interested in ornithology and photography, and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. While an undergraduate, he organized and led the Cambridge University Expedition to Vatnajokull in Iceland in 1932 and the Cambridge University Expedition to Scoresby Sund in East Greenland in 1933.
Roberts joined the British Graham Land Expedition, 1934-1937 (leader John Rymill), as an ornithologist, spending the austral winter of 1935 at the Argentine Islands and, after an operation to remove his appendix, the following winter on South Georgia where he studied Antarctic birds and elephant seals. On his return to Britain, he worked on the scientific reports of the expedition and his ornithological results, receiving his doctorate in 1940.
During the Second World War, Roberts was involved in research on cold climate clothing and equipment, and was a member of the intelligence division of the Admiralty producing geographical handbooks on Iceland, Spitsbergen and Greenland. In 1944, he was appointed to the Foreign Office Research Department and, in 1945, became secretary of the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee and a committee-member of the British Glaciological Society, editing its new Journal of Glaciology.
In 1946, he joined the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge, as a part-time research fellow. His knowledge of the civil service helped him to gain government support for the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1949-1952, and continuing support for the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS).
Roberts was involved in drafting the Antarctic Treaty of 1959, and in 1961 became the official UK observer on the United States Naval 'Operation Deep-Freeze'. In 1960, his research fellowship was changed to the special post of research associate of the Scott Polar Research Institute, where he took a special interest in library and information activities. He developed and edited the Universal Decimal Classification for use in Polar libraries, and in 1976 assisted Librarian Harry King in publishing the library's catalogue in nineteen volumes, making knowledge of the Institute's collections available world-wide.
He received several awards, including the CMG in 1969 and the Founder's Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1976. Retiring from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1975, he died on 9 October 1978.
Published work Universal Decimal Classification for use in Polar libraries by Brian Birley Roberts, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge (1963) SPRI Library Shelf 025.45, Handbook of clothing and equipment required in cold climates by Brian Birley Roberts and George Colin Lawder Bertram, War Office, London (1941) SPRI Library Shelf 685.5, British Graham Land Expedition, 1934-1937, scientific reports by Brian Birley Roberts and others, British Museum (Natural History) London (1940-41) SPRI Library Shelf (7)91(08)[1934-1937 Rymill], Edward Wilson's birds of the Antarctic edited by Brian Roberts from the original illustrations in the Scott Polar Research Institute, Blandford Press, Poole (1980) SPRI Library Shelf (7)598.2
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Descriptions compiled by N. Boneham, Assistant Archivist with assistance from R. Stancombe and reference to The Polar Record volume 19 number 121 January 1979 p399-404 and Encyclopaedia of Antarctica and the Southern Oceans ed. Bernard Stonehouse, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester (2002) ISBN 0471986658 SPRI Library (7) and Polar pundit, reminiscences about Brian Birley Roberts, edited by Harold Godfrey Rudolf King and Ann Margaret Savours, Polar Publications, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge (1995) SPRI Library Shelf 92[Roberts, B.] and Antarctic Chronology, unpublished corrected revision of Chronological list of Antarctic expeditions and related historical events, by Robert Keith Headland (1 December 2001) Cambridge University Press (1989) ISBN 0521309034
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End-of-Life Care (including advanced directives, palliation) Topics to review: Article: Nurses roles and responsibilities Providing care and support at end of life. https://www.nursingworld.org/~4af078/globalassets/docs/ana/ethics /endoflife-positionstatement.pdfFor your initial post/ threat choose 1 focal point from each subcategory of practice, education, research and administration and describe how the APRN can provide effective care in end of life managementUsing the American nurses association position statement, recommendations for improvement in end of life management focuses on practice, education, research and administration. Listed below are steps that nurses can take to overcome barriers in healthcare practice.Practice1. Strive to attain a standard of primary palliative care so that all health care providers have basic knowledge of palliative nursing to improve the care of patients and families.2. All nurses will have basic skills in recognizing and managing symptoms, including pain, dyspnea, nausea, constipation, and others.3. Nurses will be comfortable having discussions about death, and will collaborate with the care teams to ensure that patients and families have current and accurate information about the possibility or probability of a patient’s impending death.4. Encourage patient and family participation in health care decision-making, including the use of advance directives in which both patient preferences and surrogates are identified.Education1. Those who practice in secondary or tertiary palliative care will have specialist education and certification.2. Institutions and schools of nursing will integrate precepts of primary palliative care into curricula.3. Basic and specialist End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) resources will be available.4. Advocate for additional education in academic programs and work settings related to palliative care, including symptom management, supported decision-making, and end-of-life care, focusing on patients and families.Research1. Increase the integration of evidence-based care across the dimensions of end-of-life care.2. Develop best practices for quality care across the dimensions of end-of-life care, including the physical, psychological, spiritual, and interpersonal.3. Support the use of evidence-based and ethical care, and support decision-making for care at the end of life.4. Develop best practices to measure the quality and effectiveness of the counseling and interdisciplinary care patients and families receive regarding end-of-life decision-making and treatments.5. Support research that examines the relationship of patient and family satisfaction and their utilization of health care resources in end-of-life care choices.Administration1. Promote work environments in which the standards for excellent care extend through the patient’s death and into post-death care for families.2. Encourage facilities and institutions to support the clinical competence and professional development that will help nurses provide excellent, dignified, and compassionate end-of-life care.3. Work toward a standard of palliative care available to patients and families from the time of diagnosis of a serious illness or an injury.4. Support the development and integration of palliative care services for all in- and outpatients and their families.
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Are you interested in having greater flexibility and peace of mind in your life? Do you know a little about smart homes and want to learn how to transform your own property? This simple tutorial -- Orlando’s Home Automation 101 -- is intended to explain how you may utilize modern home security tools to make your everyday life simpler to manage and more energy-conscious.
You can add home automation to home security with certainty, and let your home's door locks, thermostat, lights, and other integrated features respond to your unique requirements.
What Is Home Automation In Orlando?
If you are a current homeowner or plan to buy a house, you’ve probably thought about the following question: What is home automation in Orlando? Generally, home automation oversees and runs different components at your property, so you don't have to. You are able to set home features like smart lights, locks, and smart thermostats to act even when you aren’t physically present. For instance, you’ll no longer have to flip a switch to turn on a light or move a dial to raise or lower the thermostat.
Automation offers versatility and convenience to your residence
Home automation will take many forms. For instance, you might program your components to act according to a schedule that you create through your smart hub or mobile app. Or arrange your devices to function together to make the ultimate scene for watching a movie or for nighttime. Or you might have various smart sensors react to each other to help make certain your residence is always comfortable and safe. You also can administer your smart components with vocal directives if you connect to a wireless, virtual assistant from Amazon or Google.
However, you need to install a fully featured automation plan to get effective remote management, scene creation, and scheduling. Numerous homeowners have the most luck joining automated equipment to a security system. Modern security systems already have the ability to manage alarms and cameras via a smart hub or smartphone security app. Including your smart locks and various other automated systems lets you program everything in the same place. Additionally, making use of your home’s defense for your home’s automated equipment means that you only have to understand a single platform for your entire smart home.
Smart Home Ideas In Orlando
You will find many advantageous smart home ideas for your Orlando house. Select from these choices to experience a level of functionality you might not have thought was possible:
- Smart lighting: Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night and realized you forgot to turn the lights off in the living room or kitchen? How would you like to tap your cell phone and turn them down without leaving your bed? You could even set a schedule and have them brighten at arranged moments to create the appearance that your house is in use when you're not there. You might also direct your automated light bulbs to activate if your exterior cameras uncover unexpected motion in the backyard.
- Smart entry locks: The questionable habit of placing a key under your doormat is a thing of the past when you install smart door locks. Assign each member of your family a unique unlock code or you might disengage the locks remotely straight from your phone. If you have to provide access to a friend during a time when you're gone, set a limited-time code and obtain a phone update as the locks operate.
- Fire, flood, and CO detection: Immediately know when a disaster happens with integrated fire, flood, or carbon monoxide sensors. Check the condition of your components via your mobile device and then get updates when a device is activated. Program other devices to act in response to an emergency, like having your exhaust fan start when your fire detectors go off. These smart safety tools are even connected to around-the-clock monitoring for additional protection.
- Video cameras: Your integrated surveillance cameras will give you a clear glimpse of your property as often as you wish. See a live video stream right on your cell phone or save recordings to the cloud. Another preferred installation is a doorbell camera, which will notify you as a guest approaches. You can communicate with the bi-directional audio function and at the same time have your foyer lights automatically flip on.
- Smart thermostats: There's no longer a need to manipulate your thermostat in person. Instead, fix your smart thermostat to respond to your preferences. For instance, automatically turn down the temperature when you're not home. Then you might have your thermostat rise to a cozier temperature an hour or so before you return. In addition, you can access your smartphone app to inspect the temperature no matter where you are and modify it however you wish.
The Many Benefits Of Home Automation In Orlando
With all these ”smart” components, is home automation actually worth the bother? Thankfully, automation is more than just an entertaining tool to switch on your lights from your mobile device. See how automation adds important perks to your hectic life.
- Safety: Home automation has clear and valuable security perks. Make your property look lived in while you're away with preprogrammed smart lights and see visitors with a video doorbell. Receive alerts and have your property light up when an alarm or camera is set off. Smart door locks, surveillance, and items like fire and CO detectors all promote an increased degree of protection for your home.
- Simply your life: If you set a schedule, you’ll never need to worry about turning off your lights or locking the doors, as your system will do it for you. Check on your devices when you're on vacation, and manage almost every feature of your system from any location. Customize scenes like movie night that balance your components perfectly to get the optimal mood and comfort. Or direct your Google or Amazon assistant on how you would like your settings and see your home respond in an instant.
- Reduce energy bills: A leading reason to implement smart home automation is that it may save you money. To be honest, there might be people in your family who don’t remember to do things like flip off lights. By putting your home’s lighting on a schedule, you can stop burning electricity all hours of the day. Lower energy bills by altering the temperature for when you're gone. Did you forget to lower the air conditioning when you went on a trip? That’s OK, as you’re able to change it no matter where you are.
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Asuka Historical Museum provides numerous learning opportunities for people who want to understand the history and culture of Asuka. As there are many exhibits that facilitate imagining the Asuka Period, such as artifacts excavated from archaeological sites and elaborate reconstructed miniatures, etc., visitors of a wide range of ages from children to adults will enjoy them.
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ANNOUNCEMENT: PASSING OF LEONARD WANDILI – 1969-2021
We regret to announce the death of Mr. Leonard Wandili who was a board member and Director of Abeingo Association Canada. Leonard passed on during the morning of 6 Oct 2021 in Bowmanville, Ontario.
Leonard was born in Western Kenya. After graduating from Friend’s School Kamusinga located in Kimilili – Western Kenya, he taught for one year before immigrating to Canada in 1989. He enrolled in George Brown College (Toronto) where he earned a Diploma in Information Systems. Further education included a B.A. Political Science (University of Toronto), M.Ed. (York University); and was currently working on his PhD at the University of Toronto, OISE.
Leonard was recently appointed to the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB) where he worked till his demise. He was on a leave of absence from the Toronto District School Board (TDSB). Leonard was an experienced education administrator (International Languages and Cultural Heritage Programs). He initiated several international language courses targeting community-specific needs for children of immigrants, including Kiswahili language classes delivered mainly to children of the East African diaspora.
Leonard was a founder member of several academic and community associations in Canada including the African Heritage Educators Network (AHEN) and the Kenyan Community in Ontario (KCO) where he served as the founding President. He also served on the board of CES (Community Education Service) Canada and Abeingo Association Canada as a Director. He was a founding member of Abeingo Association Canada and served as Director for 2 terms.
Until his demise, Leonard lived with his wife and two sons in Bowmanville, Ontario. Funeral arrangements are underway and it is expected that he will be laid to rest on 23 Oct 2021 in Bowmanville, Ontario. The board of Abeingo Association Canada and the entire community wish to pass their heartfelt condolences to his wife, sons and the entire Wandili family. Leonard gave us so much in his entire life and we owe him a debt of gratitude forever. RIP Leonard.
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China accounts for 27% of global emissions. China's newly announced climate plan is an important step ahead of the COP26 climate conference.
A floating solar farm in Hefei (China Costfoto/Barcroft Media via Getty Image
China pledged to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions by 30 percent before 2030 in an update of its climate change plans, just three days before the COP26 summit in Glasgow. Critics say China missed an opportunity to lead global climate change leadership and go further.
The United Nations has accepted the revised plan, also known as a nationally determined contributor, which formalises several promises made earlier in the year by Xi Jinping, Chinese president, and again in 2020.
China is now committed to reducing its carbon intensity by limiting its emissions prior to 2030 rather than the 2030 deadline as promised. China also promises to reduce its carbon intensity, which is the measure of greenhouse gas emissions per unit of gross domestic products, by 65% by 2030, as compared to 2005 levels. This is the highest point of the 60-65 per cent range that China proposed in an earlier proposal.
Chatham House, UK think tank Bernice Lee says that it is disappointing. At this stage, the world expected more from China. It missed an opportunity to slow global leadership. She says that China's promise to peak carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 is a positive. This is an upgrade to the earlier pledge to peak carbon dioxide emissions around 2030.
It also promises to reduce China's use of fossil fuels by 75% by 2030. This is an improvement on the 80 percent promise. It confirms two previous announcements regarding coal, the most polluting fossil fuel, which makes up more than 60% of China's energy supply. The first is to reduce coal consumption by 2025 and 2030. The second is not to finance any new coal power projects overseas, which is a crucial commitment considering that China is the largest funder of such schemes.
The new scheme is a repetition of China's previous promises, and not a surprise or a big increase in ambition.
China Dialogue, a non profit organisation, Isabel Hilton stated that expectations for China's new climate plan are low. This is because China's narrative in the ongoing energy crisis has been more about steady, careful energy transition than grand ambition.
Hilton says that it is a positive sign that Xi Jinping isn't coming [to Glasgow]. It is not a sign China is not interested or lacking seriousness or commitment. She admits that it is not a great mood booster, but she does admit that the negative side of this event isn't good for you.
Greenpeace East Asia's Li Shuo said it was insufficient and casts doubt on global climate action. This is not the right way to go. He tweeted that Beijing must come up with stronger implementation strategies to ensure that an emission peak is achieved before 2025.
China, the world's largest emitter, is responsible for 27% of global emissions. This makes it an important player in determining if the world will meet the Paris Agreement goals. COP26 aims to bring governments closer to meeting these targets. China's plan won't do this. The UN analysis of Tuesday showed that Earth will rise by approximately 2.7C, according to the previous pledges made today by Xi.
As COP26 nears, India remains the sole major emitter that has not submitted a new plan.
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Sometimes, headlines just write themselves. And in this particular case, there’s so much cool stuff going on with this NASA-funded robotic project that we couldn’t even stuff it all in to a single line. It’s a concept for a soft robotic eel designed to explore the oceans of Europa (a moon of Jupiter), which is able to scavenge electrical energy from magnetic fields, use it to generate oxygen and hydrogen, and then light it off to create an explosion to propel itself. Oh, and it’ll have a soft flexible skin that doubles as “a stretchable, electroluminescent display,” because it’s awesome. And why not.
This concept for a “soft-robotic rover with electrodynamic power scavenging” comes from Cornell University, and NASA has awarded it a grant under the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program to hoist itself up from TRL 1 to TRL 2. TRLs are “tech readiness levels;” TRL 1 is “basic principles observed and reported” while TRL 2 is “technology concept and/or application formulated.” An actual mission to Europa would involve a system that’s waaay up at TRL 9, so we’ve got a ways to go, but the sheer distance from any sort of practical technological readiness sure does let this robotic eel get away with all kinds of craziness.
Here’s the overview, from the NIAC website:
We propose a rover architecture for Europa and other planetary environments where soft robotics enables scientific investigation or human-precursor missions that cannot be accomplished with solar or nuclear power. This rover resembles a squid, with tentacle-like structures that serve both as electrodynamic tethers to harvest power from locally changing magnetic fields and as a means of bio-inspired propulsion. The electrical energy scavenged from the environment powers all rover subsystems, including one that electrolyzes H20. Electrolysis produces a mixture of H2 and O2 gas, which is stored internally in the body and limbs of this rover. Igniting this gas expands these internal chambers, causing shape change to propel the rover through fluid or perhaps along the surface of a planetary body.
The problem with solar power is that it’s hard to harvest efficiently as far out in the solar system as Jupiter, and impossible to harvest at all underneath an ice-covered ocean like the one that we think we might find on Europa. Nuclear would be a viable option, except that NASA has postponed or canceled much of the research on small nuclear power sources for interplanetary exploration missions.
What the Cornell University researchers are instead suggesting is a method of harvesting energy from the powerful magnetic fields that are created by, and around, Jupiter. The idea is that these dynamic magnetic fields will generate flux throughout the conductive water column in Europa’s oceans, and that by extending an electrodynamic tether out some distance (likely a few meters) from the robot, you could harvest enough electricity to power all of the robot’s systems. img
Instead of using this electricity to power little propellers or something, the robot would instead take a much more robust and bio-inspired approach. The electricity gets used to electrolyze water, splitting the H2O into H2 and O2, which get stored internally in the body and limbs of the robot. The gases can then be mixed and ignited on demand, which could propel the bot in one of two ways: the explosions could either cause the limbs and body of the bot to expand and contract, allowing it to “swim,” or you could use the explosions much more directly, directing the exhaust out the back of the robot, causing it to jet forward like an octopus. img
The last little cool bit is that “the skin of the robot will be a stretchable, electroluminescent display for illuminating the local marine environment, to enable underwater imaging.” Sure!
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Alzheimer’s disease (AD) imposes an enormous personal burden on patients and caregivers, as well as a tremendous socio-economic impact on society. However, there is a paucity of pharmaceutical or interventional strategies that have a proven impact on the incidence or progression of AD. One reason is that most models are based on familial (early-onset) AD pathogenesis, but typically do not reflect the multifactorial pathophysiology of sporadic (late-onset) AD, which is associated with genetic risk factors such as the apolipoprotein E (ApoE) ε4 polymorphism, as well as environmental risk factors, such as a high-fat diet, cardiovascular disease, traumatic brain injury, systemic inflammation and perturbed sleep regulation. We aim to create novel AD models that combine the most common genetic risk factor (ApoE-ε4) and many of the most prevalent acquired risk factors, enabling us to better understand the multifactorial and highly prevalent, yet currently understudied, interplay between inherited and acquired risk factors in the pathophysiology of late-onset AD. These models may therefore be morepredictive of possible translatability into clinical studies, and may potentially lead to the development of new avenues of primary prevention or treatment.
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The School of Medicine is launching the center for Women’s Infectious Disease Research (cWIDR), a new effort to study infectious diseases that preferentially affect women. The center focuses on issues including:
• microorganisms that cause urinary tract infections (UTIs) and other conditions that make urination and intercourse painful or difficult
• infections that lead to premature delivery and vaginitis
• potential contributing roles for microorganisms in life-threatening conditions such as cancer, heart disease, neurodegenerative disorders and diabetes.
“Infectious diseases of women is a tremendously underserved area,” said Scott Hultgren, Ph.D., the Helen L. Stoever Professor of Molecular Microbiology and the center’s director and principal investigator. “UTIs, for example, are one of the most common bacterial infections in women. They’re not fatal, but we need new and improved therapeutics because they’re a very significant cause of suffering, lost work days and health-care expenses.”
The center continues a University tradition of innovation and leadership in microbiology and infectious diseases, Hultgren said. Stephen Beverley, Ph.D., the Marvin A. Brennecke Professor and head of molecular microbiology, founded the center’s predecessor, the Center for Infectious Disease Research (CIDR), in 1997. He recently stepped down as director of CIDR and designated Hultgren as his successor.
Given his research background in women’s health and infectious diseases, Hultgren decided to reconceptualize CIDR and its goals, altering the center’s name to reflect the changes.
The cWIDR is part of the University’s BioMed 21 initiative, which is focusing University efforts on speedy translation of laboratory discoveries into new approaches for diagnosis and treatment of patients.
Larry J. Shapiro, M.D., executive vice chancellor for medical affairs and dean of the School of Medicine, said studying gender-specific infections can reveal information that is helpful in a much broader range of diseases.
“Scott’s work with urinary tract infections has led to insight into how the bacteria that cause these infections sometimes defend themselves by cooperating to form a protective shield known as a biofilm,” Shapiro said. “Many common infections of both men and women employ this defense against antibiotics and the host immune system, and to improve treatment for these infections, we have to devise medicines that can penetrate this shield.”
Other major infectious disease issues specific to women include interstitial cystitis or painful bladder syndrome, a condition estimated to afflict hundreds of thousands of females per year. Symptoms are similar to urinary tract infections and include frequent, painful urination and pain during intercourse. Diagnosis and treatment are difficult because scientists don’t yet know the cause of the condition.
Oral and vaginal infections with streptococcus and other bacteria have been linked to premature delivery in pregnant women. Michael Caparon, Ph.D., professor of molecular microbiology and co-director of cWIDR, plans to bring in microbiologists and obstetricians to try to learn why and determine what can be done.
Fostering collaboration between different disciplines to create new perspectives on the big challenges of biomedicine is a primary goal of BioMed 21. Hultgren plans to establish connections and collaborations between his center and other research centers, noting the potential for synergy provided by the Center for Genome Sciences and other University research groups.
“We see the center for Women’s Infectious Disease Research as part of a multi-disciplinary network combining a powerful blend of microbial pathogenesis, genomics, structural biology, biochemistry and biophysics, and diverse imaging technologies,” Hultgren said.
As an example, Hultgren’s work with urinary tract infections led to detailed study of pili, fibers produced by infection-causing bacteria. Pili allow bacteria to adhere to and invade human tissues, and Hultgren’s laboratory recently found that they help hold bacteria together in biofilms. These discoveries made it possible to design molecules that block pili formation and may one day lead to improved treatments.
Researchers at cWIDR also will study whether microorganisms are playing a role in serious diseases not previously thought to be related to infection. As evidence of why a search for such connections might prove fruitful, Hultgren highlights the surprising discoveries that infectious agents are responsible for all stomach ulcers and most cervical cancers.
To accelerate the search for new treatments for infectious diseases, Hultgren has established close ties with a local biotech firm, Sequoia Sciences, and with Tom Ellenberger, Ph.D., the Raymond H. Wittcoff Professor and head of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics.
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Poorna Bell has faced decades of confusion, racism and unconscious bias around her ‘difficult’ name – and it’s not OK.
“So how do I pronounce your name?” Linda* asked.
For context, Linda is someone who had known me for around two months, who I’d gotten to know through socialising with friends from the gym.
It was a reasonable question. My name isn’t designed for the western tongue – Poorna is Sanskrit, a language far older than English, and if someone asks me genuinely and respectfully wanting to know, I oblige. And so I did.
Except Linda’s response wasn’t respectful. “Yeah, I can’t pronounce that,” she barked. “I’ll give you another name that’s a bit easier. What about Sarah or Caroline?”
My heart stopped, my face grew hot and that familiar nauseous feeling started in my stomach, as it always did when I was confronted with someone who was making me feel like I didn’t belong. It reminded me of when I was 16, growing up in the home counties and starting a Saturday job at Burger King.
I’d had my share of people making fun of my name as a teenager, but I’d never had someone try to whitewash it before. Until my manager said to me: “Can I call you something easier? What about Pumbaa?” Yes, as in Pumbaa from The Lion King. I wasn’t even going to be given the courtesy of being named after a person, but a fictitious warthog.
I hadn’t said anything back then, but at the age of 38, I was damned if I was going to let Linda get away it. So I pulled my lips tight, and replied: “No.”
But Linda still didn’t get the message. “Yeah, I think that’s what I’ll call you, Caroline,” she said.
“You can call me that,” I replied calmly, “but don’t expect me to answer.”
“And,” I continued, channelling the famous Uzo Aduba speech around her name, “if you can learn how to say Tchaikovsky, you can learn how to say my name.” Linda didn’t respond, and I don’t know if what I said sunk in, but in any case, it wasn’t about her. For the first time in my life, I’d been brave enough to respond back properly. I didn’t brush it off with a joke like I normally do, or apologise for my name being hard to pronounce.
When I told a friend about this story, she said: “Oh, I’m half Irish, so I understand what it’s like to have a difficult name.” I’ve also had a lot of solidarity on Twitter and Instagram when I’ve posted about this.
Not to dismiss anyone’s experience, but having a ‘difficult’ name is a different experience altogether for a person of colour. This is true for a number of reasons. Take, for instance, the very real bias in our careers: people with a white-sounding name are 74% more likely to get a call for a job interview versus those with an ethnic-sounding name.
Leyya Sattar, co-founder of The Other Box, a platform to increase diversity in the creative industries and celebrate people of colour and marginalised backgrounds, runs unconscious bias workshops. She says: “We often hear experiences… of people of colour with non-western sounding names changing them for an English name, then using the same credentials and getting more interviews. This shows inherent racism and the impact that name bias has on opportunities for minorities.”
Beyond that, there’s a backdrop of bias and micro-aggressions that people of colour experience in varying degrees, every day, which white or white-passing people do not. “It’s people moving away from you on the Tube, holding their bags closer to them when you walk past, or crossing to the other side of the road,” Leyya adds.
Having to navigate your own identity in a world saturated with bias, as well as being visible in a way that’s deemed unacceptable, is frankly exhausting.
It’s like having to rebuild your house every single day using the best, strongest materials you can find, but knowing that someone could come in with a sharp comment or a ‘joke’ and reduce it to rubble. Growing up in Kent, in a time before curry became the nation’s favourite, and before Diwali was celebrated on the village green, I’ve had to do this for a long time.
It starts young. Because it’s easy to say: “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet” when your name is William. But as a south Asian woman, I’ve grown up being told that I’m difficult simply because of my name. This means that I’ve spent the majority of my life begrudging my name, and therefore cauterising a massive source of pride and identity that comes from it. It means ‘complete’ and appears in Hindu scripture over and over again – it’s the word used by the creator god Brahma, when he finished making the universe.
But why, beyond the obvious, is it so important that we don’t make someone feel bad about their name?
“Names are an integral part of our identity and self,” Dr Pragya Agarwal, behavioural scientist and author of SWAY: The Science Of Unconscious Bias, tells Stylist. “When names are mispronounced, it negates a person’s sense of self, betraying their culture and eradicating an important part of their ethnic identity. Or if names are shortened and anglicised, it is done so for social convenience. People of colour generally – and rightly – resent the mispronunciation of their name because it amounts to a distortion of their identity.”
Of course, says Dr Agarwal, it’s not actually about mis-pronouncing a name. I’ve done that plenty of times. It’s about how we handle the conversation around a person’s name.
Women of colour in particular are among the most marginalised, and so when people make fun of our names, it’s much, much bigger than they realise. “This effect is compounded,” says Dr Agarwal, “because it intersects with the racial and gender bias that they are often subjected to, and thereby signifies a dismissal of their associated culture and social values.” So basically everything that defines and shapes us.
It also works the other way too, such as assumptions being made on our behalf because of how we look.
Theatre director Rebecca Goh, 22, told me that she’s of mixed Asian descent and her parents are Christians. She gets the reverse to me, with people assuming she’s changed her name to make it easier for others to pronounce.
“I was on shift at a local pub one evening when a young lady about my age, whom I’d been chatting to, walked up to me at the bar.
“In her slightly inebriated state, she asked me for my name. I told her, and she responded with ‘really!?’. Her abject disbelief took me aback. She pressed further with, ‘what is your actual name?’ and I responded, ‘that is my actual name’. She paused and then said flippantly, ‘Oh right, I guess that’s what you call yourself’. That affected my mood for the rest of the week, as her explicit dismissal of my assertions regarding my birth name, as if she knew better, was (and still is) so frustrating.”
I’ve had people who are terrified of getting my name wrong ask me how to pronounce it. I’ll always take the time to explain. But it’s not OK when someone listens and then still insists on calling me a different name because it’s ‘easier’.
“Is it like when someone calls me Liz, and I have to say my name is Elizabeth?” someone asked. And I had to explain that it’s like if your name is Elizabeth, but I decided I wanted to call you Lakshmi. It’s a name that erases your identity and simultaneously wallpapers over a culture that just isn’t yours.
Piarvé Wetshi, 27, a marketing manager, told me that her name is a mix of her parents’ names, which is common practice in Congolese culture. When she was six and was ordering a book in a shop, she was told by the shop assistant that she her name was ‘silly’. She went on to experience many similar comments in school.
Her advice is a warm comfort for the many of us who have had to work out our own boundaries around what we will and won’t put up with around our names.
“I’m unapologetic and I’ve learned to ignore the comments that say ‘it’s too complicated’,” she says. “But I embrace those who are open and honest and say ‘Hold on, it will take me a while, but I promise I will get it right’.”
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Every project offers up its own storytelling challenges.
When I first sought feedback for an early draft of “Lemon Girl” I learned that my beta readers didn’t like Charlie. I had deliberately written her as unlikeable, but there seems to exist the ‘likeable character’ equivalent of ‘uncanny valley’. Audiences love to read about likeable and hugely UNlikeable characters, but don’t enjoy the murky in-betweens. Perhaps we all like to be told who to root for, just not in an obvious way?
So in a revision I turned Charlie into an on-the-page psychopath. Minors are not actually given the label of psychopath. They may get conduct disorder or similar, but because of this fact, and because on-the-page fictional diagnoses are fraught with difficulty, I had to be careful not to make Charlie a psychopath within the veridical world of the story. So she’ll self-diagnose. Problem solved?
Next problem: Now the reader doesn’t know how reliable she is as narrator. So I changed the first person narration to third hoping that’d fix it. I wanted to keep Charlie’s voice. So what we have now is a different kind of uncanny valley — psycho narration — but who is telling this story? I’m not sure I’ve fixed it without introducing a new problem: Who on earth is telling the story in Charlie’s voice, if not Charlie?
It was an interesting exercise, trying to create a character lacking in empathy, constantly craving drama, because that doesn’t describe me at all. So I had to revise the story while deliberately giving Charlie inverse to reactions to my own.
I did spend time on messageboards for sociopaths, and a good number of lines in the story are pulled from various messageboards, written by self-described sociopaths.
One messageboard sociopath stuck out to me: an anonymous woman who said that sociopaths are hugely misunderstood. It is perfectly possible, she argued, to be an ethical sociopath. They’re not all murderers. I wouldn’t be surprised if, in ten or twenty years’ time, we’ll look back on stories about psychopaths and see huge discrimination. Just look at how trans people have been villifed in fiction (and still are). Either villified or used for gags.
The comparison has its limits, because trans people are NOT psychopaths (despite what Silence of the Lambs would have us believe). But on the topic of hugely misrepresented minorities, what about all the stories in the world about murderous psychopaths? No one chooses to be a psychopath. What if we’re unfairly villifying another neurodiversity by failing to create fictional ethical psychopaths? Who are baby psychopaths supposed to look up to?
With that in mind, I wanted to create the story of an ethical sociopath. Charlie feels nothing for Willow, but she can choose not to be mean. She can learn strategies to keep herself sufficiently stimulated. But the storytelling issue I run into is this: Any story about a mysterious possible psychopath is inadvertently set up as a thriller, and the reader expects something big and terrible to happen. Anything less feels anticlimactic.
There’s also a rule of storytelling concerning revelation of the true self. Where a character reveals their true self to the audience but continues to hide from other characters within the story, the story doesn’t feel ‘finished’. The rule is that in any story the narrative mask comes off.
I wanted to try writing a story in which the mask stays on. From start to finish, no one in the story knows who Charlie really is. I believe there are plenty of people walking around who will never be truly known by others, and I wanted to create realism. I’m still not sure I was able to subvert that subconscious expectation for the reader in a satisfying way. Hence, “Lemon Girl” is a work in progress, and a character study at its core.
I decided to create comic-book illustrations in black and white using yellow as an accent colour. It was a fun challenge deciding which part of any given page would be yellow. But when my kid saw my illustration of Charlie sitting in the spa pool she said, “Looks like she’s bathing in a her own urine.” She also pointed out that it looks like Charlie is drinking it. I specified “Berocca” on the page in case there’s any confusion there, but I’m not sure every decision has been a successful one…! Those black and white illustrations took just as long to do as the “Doggy and Sam” full-colour illustrations, if not longer. It’s not the colour that takes the time but the tonal values.
I started thinking about the modern use of ‘troll’ and wondered if I could create a story about internet trolls with a Three Billy Goats Gruff fairytale setting. This is one of those occasions in which the story seemed to write itself. Not only that, I had planned to write a much longer story, but after finishing that final scene, I realised that’s all the story needed. It’s wonderful if that happens. More commonly, for me, I start and end in the wrong place, then must spend a lot of time heming and hawing about where it really starts, and where it should properly end.
“Trip Trap” was originally going to be an interactive app for iPad, but we took our apps off the App store when they started costing us money. We had a great run with our other apps, but I was a third of the way through the illustrations of Trip Trip when sales plummeted from ‘workable’ to basically nothing. Moreover, Apple requires constant updates, an each time they release a new device or a new software update, an app which worked perfectly before now needs attention. Apple’s process isn’t perfect — they can remove a perfectly functioning app! We also didn’t want the ongoing expense of buying their most up-to-date device.
The version of Trip Trap you see here is the full prose edition, which would have been heavily truncated for an app. I still plan to finish off the rest of the illustrations and upload them here, but I’m not interested in doing that style at the moment. It is an extremely time consuming style, in which a single page can take most of a week, even if I’m using Daz models for the humans! Posing them and lighting is still time consuming in its own right. And I have failed to fall in love with Daz Studio. Opening up painting software makes my heart sing. Opening Daz only makes it sink. (I guess this is how many artists feel about digital art in general.)
I was making use of Daz models partly to see if it’s quicker to create the art, but partly because of the uncanny valley effect (which I want, this time). I grew up was an eighties child with a View-Master. I wish I still had it. A lot of those stories had been made from creepy models, photographed against painted backdrops, surrounded by miniature dollhouse models. They were creepy but fascinating. It must have been fun to have a paid gig creating those sets. For the same reason, I always enjoyed visits to the Christchurch Museum, especially the recreations of Maori life with the (almost) lifesize people.
Lotta: Red Riding Hood
Like “Trip Trap”, Lotta: Red Riding Hood is a feminist fairytale, and very much of the Me Too movement. I co-wrote it with a friend. We both independently came up with Lotta as the name of Little Red Riding Hood, who clearly had to be named in order to be humanised.
My friend asked why I had created the illustrations the way I did, with the character of Lotta on crinckly paper that seems to be laid on top of the background scenery. The reason is this: When girls and women are told constantly to curtail movement to avoid getting raped (or whatever) we cannot hope to feel a fully integrated member of our own worlds. Notice how at the end of this story I do integrate Lotta into her natural background. She is now a fully-fleshed member of her own world.
Urban Legends for Supra-rational Ponderers
When I was teaching English in a girls’ high school, my favourite unit was the creative writing , and my favourite writing activity was one I probably wouldn’t attempt at some kinds of schools: I gave each student a different urban legend printed out from the Internet, then asked them to rewrite in a more fleshed-out, literary way.
The main difficulty lay in persuading the students that the stories, composed only for plot, needed anything doing to them at all. I found the most successful lesson plan of this sort is when the students are asked to take just a moment from within a well-known urban legend and asked to flesh out that moment as fully as they can.
Of course, if you’re going to teach creative writing, you need to do it yourself. These are my own efforts. Some have been previously published elsewhere.
Fairytales for Glorious Contrarians
“Glorious contrarians” is a phrase I heard Natalie Wynn use on one of her Contrapoints YouTube videos and I’d been on the hunt for a title. I now knew what I’d be calling my collection of feminist fairytales.
I’d read an English translation of the Grimm fairytales (the one translated by Jack Zipes) from cover to cover. I don’t normally read collections from cover to cover, but wanted to see what insights immersion would offer.
Well, I felt exactly how Angela Carter must’ve felt ten-fold after she’d translated a fairytale collection, then subsequently wrote her own feminist re-visionings, probably as catharsis. Irritated as all heck. I needed a mental mouthwash.
I’m no Angela Carter, but I absolutely needed to get these stories out of my system.
Étude and Other Short Stories
These stories were written in my late twenties, early thirties after I’d moved countries a few times, lived in a backpackers, etc. I found homes for most of these stories in various zines and anthologies which have since gone out of print. So here are the best in one place.
Étude is my favourite, possibly because it was the easiest to write. I’d just spent an entire week immersed in Katherine Mansfield. Etude is a re-visioning of “The Wind Blows“. The others didn’t write themselves. Far from it.
Doggy and Sam
Sam is a fully-realised character within the imaginary world I’ve carried with me since the age of 14. (The Bronte Sisters created a paracosm set in a place called Gondal; mine spans three countries and, so far, about three decades.) This inner fiction is constantly evolving, and the characters age as I do. “Doggy and Sam” is a snapshot of Sam’s life. I know what happens to Sam later. For now I’ll keep that inside my head. I don’t normally take stories from my paracosm and turn them into fiction. But I wanted to know what would happen to my paracosm if I concretized a little bit of it in the form of an illustrated story.
As writers know, the main work of writing is actually the thinking. “Doggy and Sam” was remarkably easy to write because I already had the full story in my head, and just as well, because I did something stupid with technology and lost most of it. I had to type it all out again. Despite being easy to write (twice), a story borrowed from my paracosmic world was hard to revise, because revising a story from your detailed inner world is almost like revising autobiography. I can’t easily change details to fit the story because that would involve changing my entire paracosm!
I illustrated this story as Australia hunkered down over the 2020 lockdown. Later in the year, Melbourne endured a far more lengthy one. I illustrated the Melbourne tram based off a tiny postcard, actually taken in the 1970s (my story is set in the 1980s). I think creating this story was a form of therapy! Who knew, back in the 1980s, that 2020 would be looking like this? In my head, I was walking around freely under the Melbourne sunshine. At the same time, I was creating the adult fictional Sam’s fictional 2020.
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Secondary Writing Session 1
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Because the world struggles with important environmental adjustments resulting from industrial air pollution, fossil fuels, and the first cause for local weather change, cryptocurrency has turn into within the dialogue of local weather change.
Bitcoin and lots of different cryptocurrencies are being produced by mining, and mining takes loads of power to create bitcoins or another cryptocurrency.
There was a race for turning into crypto millionaires, and everyone needs to win on this race, creating a very good quantity of digital waste than fats financial institution accounts.
Right here’s how one can understand how a lot power is being consumed that may price important adjustments in local weather change.
How A lot Power is an excessive amount of?
The obvious cause for the environmental affect of Crypto on local weather change is how they’re being generated, and they’re being attributable to electrical energy to what we name digital cash.
As we all know that many kinds of cryptocurrencies, together with Bitcoin, hardly depend upon mining, and after Bitcoin’s launch, it has turn into more durable to mint new models by the mining course of.
So the full quantity for bitcoin to mint is 21 million, and the extra mint takes place, the extra computational energy must mint the left ones.
Bitcoin is the costliest cryptocurrency (The worth of 1 bitcoin is 42,000$, checked by this bitcoin calculator as of this writing). Because it tops the costs and different currencies, everybody needs to mine bitcoin to have some or a very good portion of their pockets.
Subsequently, it takes extra computational energy and electrical energy to mint new ones. The Cambridge Bitcoin Electrical energy Consumption Index states that bitcoin mining makes use of extra electrical energy energy globally than Netherlands and Pakistan.
The present miners with appreciable revenue are Antminer S19j Professional, Antminer L7, Innosilicon A10 Professional, and others.
The environmental issues come as a result of manufacturing of carbon footprints by the ability vegetation. A single bitcoin transaction takes 2,292.5 kilowatt-hours of Power which is nice sufficient to ship electrical energy to a typical US family for over 78 days.
How come Setting issues in Crypto?
Many international locations use fossil fuels to generate electrical energy, leading to carbon mixing within the ambiance and worsening the local weather.
Roughly 35% of bitcoin operations happen within the USA alone,
and the College of Cambridge has estimated that 60% of energy is generated by fossil fuels.
There’s additionally a problem with the bodily waste. As everyone is within the race to construct extra cash, miners use graphics playing cards, computer systems, and purpose-built ASIC rigs to mine bitcoin. They normally by away the outdated merchandise and purchase new ones.
Which produces bodily waste, and due to this fact there was loads of digital waste.
Why Crypto Makes use of A lot Power?
Digital currencies eat a lot electrical energy that no group of individuals or community might management them. Subsequently, they’re known as decentralized currencies, which suggests they don’t have any single management level.
Standard cryptocurrencies similar to Bitcoin and Ethereum are based mostly on the proof of labor (PoW) system. It depends on customers having to resolve issues of various issue to create new cash and add new blocks of information to the blockchain of a cryptocurrency.
The thought behind this method was developed to guard towards cyberattacks by which an individual creates quite a few pretend identities after which makes use of them to regulate many of the community.
Regardless of the advantages of cryptocurrency, the environmental affect of cryptocurrency mining remains to be a controversial concern. Along with the truth that the business consumes a considerable amount of power, it’s not solely an inefficient type of cash.
The digital infrastructure of the forex business can also be energy-intensive. The mining laptop wants huge quantities of Power. Additional, knowledge processing on these computer systems requires giant portions of Power. Subsequently, it’s not stunning that the environmental affect of cryptocurrency mining is so excessive.
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According to a research paper published in ACS Nano, researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) device that mimics the retina of a human eye. The advanced AI device can rapidly recognize images captured by a smartphone or a camera and has potential applications in robotics and self-driving cars.
The device outperforms the human eye by seeing wavelengths, including ultraviolet (UV) and infrared (IR) light, which are beyond optical frequencies. The device works on a model developed in previous research that mimics the human brain.
The device can integrate three different operations of sensing, memorization, and data processing into one. Present intelligent imaging technology used in self-driving cars requires all three operations to be separate. The versatility of the device can make self-driving cars safer by enabling them to navigate in a wide range of situations.
According to principal investigator Tania Roy, researchers have added image sensing ability to devices that behave like the human brain’s synapses. They now have synapse-like devices that act like intelligent pixels in a camera by sensing, recognizing, and prcessing images simultaneously.
Molla Manjurul Islam, the lead author of the study, said that the device could see in all conditions. There is no reported evidence of a device that can operate simultaneously in the ultraviolet range, visible wavelength, and infrared wavelength, they added.
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Gabrielle Union is many things—a celebrity, mother, activist, and great memoirist. In the continuation to her first book, We're Going to Need More Wine, she's opening up even more about the obstacles she’s faced and how she always emerges full of gratitude in, You Got Anything Stronger?
The former NSLS Speaker Broadcast guest is an inspiration to women, mothers, minorities, and anyone who wants to use their voice to fight injustice and lift others up. She also brings the same wit, passion, and intelligence to her writing that shines through the screen in some of her most iconic film performances.
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Embracing Vulnerability as Your Superpower
When Union finished writing We're Going to Need More Wine, she knew she had more to say. But she wasn't ready to fully embrace her vulnerability until she was able to see it as her superpower and not something pulling her down.
Through therapy and healing, she was ready to begin the next chapter in her life, which led to You Got Anything Stronger? These empowering stories cover a range of topics, like discovering your inner strength, battling inequality, and motherhood.
After a long journey with fertility struggles and losing count of the number of miscarriages she had, she welcomed Kaavia James Union Wade into the world via surrogacy and is being open about the journey.
Her book delivers a positive message to anyone, but especially those facing hardships and adversity. The throughline of each story is that despite the many obstacles she faced, it always ends with compassion.
Leadership is multifaceted, but one truth that continually comes up among the most successful leaders is that all their stories are full of obstacles. The key is embracing them, embracing failure, and embracing your authentic self—and using that honesty and authenticity as fuel to move forward.
Key Takeaways: You got anything stronger?
In her book, Union writes about:
- The universality of feeling alone and how to still feel joy.
- The struggles and hilarity of raising two strong girls.
- How she uses her platform to lift others up through activism.
- The challenges she faces as a Black woman, especially in the entertainment industry.
- The conversation she'd have today with her character from Bring It On.
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One thing you don’t see celebs commenting on every day? Breast milk. So it understandably generated a ton of buzz when Clueless actress Alicia Silverstone announced that she’s started a breast milk-sharing program for clean-eating moms. Kind Mama Milk Share, which Silverstone introduced via her website, TheKindLife.com, is a place for health-conscious moms to find and provide donor breast milk.
Silverstone, a vegan, says she was inspired to launch the milk share after a mom she knows was unable to make enough milk for her son because of a prior breast reduction surgery. “She tried reaching out in her community for donor milk, but it was almost impossible to figure out what kind of lifestyle choices the donors had made,” writes Silverstone.
So Silverstone called on moms who visit her site to post if they had milk to share—or needed any for their own children. “Because we are a community of beautiful souls who recognize the importance of food as health,” she writes, “I say we help support those mamas and babies who need a hand during one of the most important times in their lives.”
Certainly not your typical blog post, right? However, it brings attention to an interesting topic: donor breast milk. “There’s no question in the world that mom’s own milk is best for the baby,” says Kristi Watterberg, MD, a neonatologist and professor of pediatrics at the University of New Mexico. “If mom can provide breast milk to her baby, she should do so.”
Of course, there are a number of reasons why she might not be able to. Besides Silverstone’s example, a woman may have adopted her baby, or she may not be able to provide milk after giving birth prematurely. At that point, a woman must decide if she’ll feed her baby formula or seek out donated breast milk.
Here’s the thing about breast milk, though (and it’s a big thing): It can transmit infectious diseases such as HIV and hepatitis viruses, says Watterberg. The only real way to know that donor breast milk is safe for a baby is if it’s been screened and pasteurized, she says. (Check out the Human Milk Banking Association of North America (HMBANA) for more on that.)
For this reason, the FDA warns against feeding your baby breast milk acquired directly from individuals or through the Internet.
Toward the end of Silverstone’s post, she writes, “It goes without saying that common sense precautions should be taken.” She doesn’t make any mention of screening or pasteurization, and it’s hard to tell if the women donating their breast milk through the site are providing testing documentation or getting the milk pasteurized.
Why Breastfeeding Is Best
Breastfeeding After Breast Surgery
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Ikeja Electric Plc (IE), Nigeria’s largest electricity Distribution Company has cautioned members of the public to desist from erecting structures under power lines or carrying out activities and trading near electrical installation, which in effect exposes them to risk of electrocution.
The DisCo noted that proximity to installations such as transformer, electric poles or power lines contravenes the extant law, therefore people in such locations should vacate those areas urgently in order to protect their lives and property.
According to the Head of Quality, Health, Safety & Environment (QHSE) for Ikeja Electric (IE), Engr. Jamiu Badmos, the warning became necessary because it has been observed that such acts are perpetrated with impunity irrespective of the dangers associated with such violations. He also noted that Ikeja Electric in line with its Quality, Health, Safety and Environment (QHSE) policy consistently sensitizes customers on the dangers of trading and building near, around or under power lines.
He also disclosed that the company has spent over N200m in the last one year on the purchase of different types of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) as well as organizing interactive occupational health and safety training for employees, whilst also reiterating the company’s commitment to entrench a value driven safety culture that goes over and beyond safety requirements to build a world class safety conscious environment.
Speaking on the defiance of the law guiding proximity to power installations, Badmos said that Section 3.1 of the Nigerian Electricity Supply and Installation Standards (NESIS) Regulation 2015 stipulates a mandatory distance of 5.5 meters, 15 meters and 25 meters setback from 33/11kV, 132kV and 330kV lines respectively. However, some members of the public have continued to violate the law, making them vulnerable to the risk of unfortunate incidents, which sometimes result in fatalities.
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“As a responsible and safety conscious organization, safety enlightenment is top priority and we constantly sensitize members of the public on the dangers of improper handling of electrical issues through our Public Safety Sensitization Programme (PSSP). This presents the opportunity to articulate the required safety measures such as appropriate rating of materials, proper installation and maintenance of earthing on buildings, curbing illegal technicians and vandalization of network infrastructure, dangers of building and trading under powerlines,” he explained.
The DisCo recently embarked on a SafeAware initiative at all Customer Service touchpoints and other strategic locations across the Business network in an effort to embed attitudinal change to safety practices amongst staff and customers.
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To ensure compliance with the safety standard, Badmos called on “the Federal and State Government as a matter of urgency, to harmonize efforts to find a lasting solution to this issue by wielding the big stick on defaulters while DisCos continue to sensitize customers on the inherent dangers associated with continued violation of safety practices.”
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You should absolutely not climb against a doctor’s prescription, or if you are pregnant, or have severe difficulty in breathing. If you are over 3500 meters and you have a burden of colds, cough, or an elevated body temperature gets a nose bleeding, you will get the strong advice of the guide whether you should continue or descend to prevent altitude sickness.
Porters provide you with daily drinking water. The first day water will be bottled, but on the mountain you drink cooked and filtered fresh water. You need to drink at least three litres of water per day. The porters arrange breakfast, lunch and a solid nutritious dinner (several courses). You have to supply energizing daytime snacks yourself.
The communication to the park rangers at foot of the mountain goes through mobile phones. All guides carry a first aid kit. Every night on the mountain you will get a briefing by the guide about the itinerary of the following day.
Mileage varies depending on the route and day. On average, you should expect to be on the trail for four to six hours per day. Guides set a deliberately slow pace (“pole pole”, or “slowly, slowly”) in order to give clients adequate time to adapt to the thinning air. Individual clients need not worry about not being able to keep up with the group because the guide will dictate a pace to ensure group cohesion.
Summit day is an arduous day, with trail times averaging between 14 and 16 hours. Most of the trails used on our Kilimanjaro treks are well-defined and of good quality. There are no technical skills necessary to tackle any of our routes, and only very short sections with steep drop offs. Your guides will help you pick the best path if and when difficult sections are encountered. For the most part, the trails are very steady and safe. | <urn:uuid:d45a461b-e88a-411a-b90c-983453b020d5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tufurahiafrica.com/kilimanjaro-safety/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.936295 | 385 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Let nature heal you as you try forest therapy — mindfully strolling through a forest trail — with a certified guide in the woods of Kunigami! Located in subtropical Yambaru National Park, this village is Okinawa's only certified Forest Therapy Base.
• This is not an extensive tour of the area's forests; the main purposes of this experience are wellness and relaxation. Although your guide may introduce some local flora and fauna to you, the tour’s main focus is not the local wildlife • This tour will push through in the event of light rain, but it may be canceled due to inclement weather or other conditions. In this case, we will contact you beforehand to refund or reschedule • COVID-19 prevention measures are in place, including temperature checks, regular disinfection of hands, and staff wearing masks --- - Infants aged 0–5 may join this activity for free, but please watch over your children. We will not be responsible for any incidents - Please choose from the four different courses mentioned in the Description section. When booking this activity, you will be asked before checkout to inform us which course you prefer - Additional fees are required for the following courses: Yambaru Discovery Forest River Song (500 JPY) and Hiji Ootaki Falls (500 JPY for adults, or 300 JPY for children aged 6–12). All fees listed are per person, and to be paid on-site - Your guide may pick some plants for you to learn about them, but they will only pick as few as possible. Please do not pick plants yourself. - Please understand that in booking this activity, we may share your booking information (but without individually identifiable data) to the Ministry of the Environment, with which this activity is affiliated. By making a booking, you signify that you agree to these terms.
Forest therapy is a wellness practice and alternative form of therapy that involves mindfully immersing oneself in nature, usually by taking a gentle walk in the woods — an activity called ‘shinrin-yoku’ (forest bathing). As one slowly walks through the forest, they are supposed to take in the sights, sounds, scents, and sensations of the forest: appreciating the surrounding greenery, inhaling the scent of leaves, closing one’s eyes to briefly meditate, touching plants, and so on. Spending time in the forest as therapy started in Japan, when some therapists and doctors established forest bathing as a form of mental healthcare. Being surrounded by nature is said to help reduce stress and fatigue levels. The Forest Therapy Society designates certain areas of Japan as certified Forest Therapy Bases depending on how conducive they are to forest bathing sessions, and people can train to become certified forest therapy guides. Forest therapy is also becoming increasingly popular elsewhere in the world. One certified Forest Therapy Base is Kunigami Village, the only one in Okinawa. Choose from four different courses to try forest bathing in Kunigami with a certified guide: Kunigami Forest Park Course The verdant greenery of this forest park will provide healing for the senses! Trees and tropical plants aside, also on this park’s grounds are a river, a lake, and an observatory overlooking the sea. Wild birds call out every now and then, too, so listen for some birdsong! Yambaru Discovery Forest River Song Course With hiking trails, a suspension bridge, and more, Yambaru Discovery Forest is a facility for outdoor activities. The facility’s River Song course features trails designed according to accessibility and universal design principles, making it suitable even for people with disabilities and mobility impairments. Let the sound of a flowing river — melodic like a song — soothe you. Hiji Ootaki Falls Course Hiji Ootaki Falls is the highest waterfall on Okinawa’s main island, and the trail leading to it is surrounded by forests filled with subtropical plants that you won’t see elsewhere in Japan. A stream also runs along this trail — listen mindfully and relax to the sound of flowing water! Since this is a forest therapy walk, it will not be a full-on hike; you will walk through easy trails. Mt. Yonaha Course Located 503 meters above sea level, Mt. Yonaha is the highest peak on Okinawa’s main island. The trail leading to it is filled with primeval plants such as a giant fern called the flying-spider-monkey tree fern. This course is recommended for those who want to get acquainted with Okinawa’s subtropical environment. Like the Hiji Ootaki Falls course, this will be a walk more than a hike, so anyone can try this course. You will not climb all the way to the top; you will just reach about one-third of the mountain. Due to its abundance of endangered flora and fauna, the area surrounding the summit of Mt. Yonaha — including the summit itself — is designated as a natural conservation reserve and a Special Protection Area, so climbing all the way to the top of the mountain is strictly prohibited. The forest therapy experience is available all year round. All courses last for about 3–4 hours and roughly follow this itinerary: 09:00 — Gather at the meeting point; registration 09:15 — Head for the forest therapy trail 09:30 — Begin forest therapy 12:00 — Forest therapy ends; head back to meeting point 12:15 — Return to meeting point; short break 12:30 — Debriefing 13:00 — Activity ends Lastly, please note that aside from the Kunigami Forest Park and Mt. Yonaha courses, the other two require additional fees for admission to some facilities on the itinerary. Please see the Activity Rules section for more details. | <urn:uuid:ee70ec50-3c57-4d6a-a9ff-497736a81a3b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://experiences.travel.rakuten.com/experiences/21690 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.937174 | 1,183 | 1.679688 | 2 |
THE IMPORTANCE AND EFFECTIVENESS OF SCENARIO PLANNING IN THE FORMATION OF BANK ECONOMIC CAPITAL
SHEVCHUK Anton - Ph.D., Lecturer in the Department of Taxation and Fiscal Policy Ternopil
National Economic University (47711, Ternopil e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.org).
Increasing the volume of financial activities of banks, the number of functions performed by them,
the growth of operations and the growth of their weight in the financial markets leads to an increase in the
number of risks and period of their occurrence, which can negatively affect the work of a banking
institution and lead to financial losses. The conditions of the competitive environment in the markets of
financial and banking services are placing increasing demands on banks' risk management systems. In this
regard, there is a growing number of banks seeking to improve their risk management systems and bring
them into line with international best practices.
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072 Finance, banking and insurance
076 Business, trade and exchange activities
241 Hotel, restaurant and catering
281 Public administration
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One of the Democrats’ favorite talking points on gun control is that we don’t need military weapons of war on America’s streets. Former mayor Pete Buttigieg has been the most effective of the presidential candidates at making this claim, because of his military background. If anyone knows whether a gun is a military weapon, it is surely an Afghanistan War veteran who was trained on these weapons.
Representative Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) is the only other remaining candidate with military experience, having been a major in the Hawaii Army National Guard for 17 years, and she is the least outspoken about gun control.
“As someone who trained on weapons of war, I can tell you that there are weapons that have absolutely no place in American cities or neighborhoods in peacetime, ever,” Buttigieg declared at the Miami Democratic Presidential Debate in June last year.
“I think the weapons of war can do no good in American neighborhoods,” Buttigieg told CNN’s “New Day” last August. “I trained on weapons that are similar to these. And they have one purpose, which is to destroy as much as possible, as quickly as possible. They have tactical uses in war zones. Since when are American cities and neighborhoods supposed to be war zones?”
It is a theme that he has pushed endlessly.
But there are a few problems with Buttigieg’s claims. First, he never had military training, let alone weapons training. He never even received leadership training.
Naval officers typically go through four years at Annapolis or another military academy. Otherwise, they attend ROTC during college or complete Officer Candidate School as postgraduates. All of these programs involve extensive training. Instead, Buttigieg used a used little-known loophole — direct commission in the reserves — to skip all of the training that other officers receive.
Second, no self-respecting military in the world would use the “assault weapons” that we sometimes see in mass shootings. AR-15s fire the same sorts of bullets as small game-hunting rifles, and even do so with the same velocity and rapidity (one bullet per pull of the trigger). In fact, AR-15s aren’t allowed for deer hunting in most states because of the fear that they will wound rather than kill the animals. This may cause the deer to die slowly and painfully.
Buttigieg may be correct that weapons of war are designed to “destroy as much as possible, as quickly as possible.” But that’s not the story of civilian gun use. Guns can also be used to protect people and keep them from harm. About 95% of the time that people use guns defensively, they simply brandish the gun and cause the criminals to break of their attack.
Buttigieg supports virtually every other gun control law that is being pushed, from licensing requirements to mandatory gun locks.
There are few differences among the remaining Democrat presidential candidates. Even the supposedly “moderate” Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) supports mandatory gun buybacks, though she insists that this is “not gun confiscation because you give them the offer to buy back their gun.” This is still taking guns away from people, whether or not you stuff some cash in their pockets when you do it.
Another candidate who is selling himself as a moderate is former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. His opposition to private gun ownership is well known. He is willing to start with a “voluntary buyback and ban on purchasing assault weapons, before enforcing a mandatory buyback.”
Buttigieg, however, is almost too good to be true for gun control advocates. By appearing to know about guns, he gives their ill-informed claims legitimacy. But Buttigieg should do the right thing and try to really educate Americans about firearms. He should admit that the AR-15 and other “assault weapons” function nothing like true weapons of war. | <urn:uuid:3171974f-2e1e-4409-97c7-4dbe4f56d32e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://townhall.com/columnists/johnrlottjr/2020/02/18/mayor-pete-on-guns-n2561430 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.973172 | 837 | 1.609375 | 2 |
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The Sudbury area to the great depression
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Born and Bred in the Great Depression is a picture book written by Jonah Winter. Jonah Winter retells the story of his fathers life during the Great Depression. Jonah does a wonderful job helping the reader live the life of his father through his writing. He uses simple yet detailed descriptions of the characters and their experiences/5.
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In Rethinking the Great Depression, Gene Smiley draws upon this recent scholarship to present a clear and nontechnical analysis for the general reader. He explains the roots of the depression in the s, the efforts of the New Deal to combat the economic crisis, and the legacy of these efforts in World War II and the postwar by: Sudbury's economy fluctuated with the demand for nickel.
Since nickel was in high demand during the great depression Sudbury was one of the fastest recovering cities in the depression. Sudbury's economy also boomed during both world wars. The economy of Greater Sudbury, Ontario was dominated by the mining industry for much of the city's history.
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Sudbury, officially Greater Sudbury (French: Grand-Sudbury), is a city in Ontario, is the largest city in Northern Ontario by population, with a population ofat the Canadian Census. By land area, it is the largest in Ontario and the fifth largest in is administratively a Unitary authority, and thus not part of any district, county, or regional.
Greater Sudbury ( census population ,) is a city in Ontario, Canada, which was founded following the discovery of nickel ore by Tom Flanagan, a Canadian Pacific Railway blacksmith inwhen the transcontinental railway was near completion.
Greater Sudbury was formed in by merging the cities and towns of the former Regional Municipality of Sudbury Coat of arms: Official logo of Greater Sudbury, Logo. The Great Depression and its Affects on Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Novem The international stock markets collapsed in October of precipitating ten years of the "Great Depression".
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One of the classic studies of the Great Depression, featuring a new introduction by the author with insights into the economic crises of and today. In the twenty-five years since its publication, critics and scholars have praised historian Robert McElvaine’s sweeping and authoritative history of the Great Depression as one of the best Brand: Crown Publishing Group.
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Opuntia engelmannii Salm-Dyck ex Engelm.
Cactus Apple, Prickly Pear
Cactaceae (Cactus Family)
USDA Symbol: open3
The species of this plant is named for George Engelmann (1809-1884) who was born in Germany and settled in St. Louis, Missouri, as a young man. He was a physician and botanist, describing especially North American Abies (Firs), Agaves, Cactus (for which he described more than 108 species), Cuscuta (Dodder), Euphorbiaceae (Spurge Family), Juncus (Rushes), Juniperus (“Cedar”), Pinus (Pines), Vitis (Grapes), and Yuccas. When he died much of his collection went to Missouri Botanical Garden.
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Plant CharacteristicsDuration: Perennial
Size Notes: Up tp 4ft 9in high; joints are broadly oval, 8in-1ft long.
Flower: Flowers up to about 2 inches diameter.
Size Class: 3-6 ft.
Bloom InformationBloom Color: Yellow
Bloom Time: Apr , May , Jun
Bloom Notes: Diurnal
DistributionUSA: AZ , CA , LA , MO , MS , NM , NV , OK , TX , UT
Native Distribution: Widespread in Mexico and southern US states.
Growing ConditionsWater Use: Low
Light Requirement: Sun
Soil Moisture: Dry
Heat Tolerant: yes
Conditions Comments: Minimum temperature 50F
Value to Beneficial InsectsSpecial Value to Native Bees
This information was provided by the Pollinator Program at The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation.
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From the National Organizations DirectoryAccording to the species list provided by Affiliate Organizations, this plant is on display at the following locations:
Nueces River Authority - Uvalde, TX
NPSOT - Fredericksburg Chapter - Fredericksburg, TX
Jacob's Well Natural Area - Wimberley, TX
Wildflower Center Seed BankLBJWC-200 Collected 2007-11-21 in Travis County by Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
Additional resourcesUSDA: Find Opuntia engelmannii in USDA Plants
FNA: Find Opuntia engelmannii in the Flora of North America (if available)
Google: Search Google for Opuntia engelmannii
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