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British military officers will join the Prime Minister for talks later, to discuss the UK’s response to last week’s chemical weapons attack in Syria.
The National Security Council, which also includes the Defence Secretary and intelligence chiefs, will meet at 12.
David Cameron set out the options he is considering for action against Syria in a telephone call to United States president Barack Obama last night, ahead of a meeting with military chiefs.
In the last hour he said Britain will ask the UN security council for backing.
US forces “are ready to go” and the UK’s National Security Council (NSC) will today consider military plans drawn up in response to last week’s chemical weapons attack that is claimed to have killed more than 350 Syrians.
The Prime Minister warned yesterday that the world cannot stand idly by and announced he was recalling Parliament to vote on Britain’s response.
But he faces opposition to intervention from a number of his own backbenchers and polling shows the public is deeply reluctant for the UK to become embroiled in military action. Former military chiefs have also issued stark warnings about the direction Mr Cameron is taking, warning that even a “surgical” missile strike could end up dragging the UK into deeper action. The Archbishop of Canterbury has urged MPs not to rush their decision, warning of the “unforeseeable ramifications”.
Mr Cameron and Mr Obama are in no doubt that Bashar Assad’s regime was responsible for the toxic assault on the outskirts of Damascus, Downing Street said.
A No 10 spokesman said: “The PM spoke to President Obama last night to further discuss the serious response to last week’s chemical weapons attack in Syria. Ahead of today’s NSC, it was an opportunity for the PM to hear the latest US thinking on the issue and to set out the options being considered by the Government. Both leaders agreed that all the information available confirmed a chemical weapons attack had taken place, noting that even the Iranian president and Syrian regime had conceded this. And they both agreed they were in no doubt that the Assad regime was responsible.
“Regime forces were carrying out a military operation to regain that area from the opposition at the time, and there is no evidence that the opposition has the capability to deliver such a chemical weapons attack. The PM confirmed that the Government had not yet taken a decision on the specific nature of our response, but that it would be legal and specific to the chemical weapons attack.”
Mr Cameron has insisted that any intervention in Syria would not be about the conflict itself, but preventing the use of chemical weapons by any regime and would be “proportionate, have to be legal, would have to specifically be about deterring the use of chemical weapons”. He said: “Let me stress to people, this is not about getting involved in a Middle Eastern war or changing our stance in Syria, or going further into that conflict. It’s about chemical weapons. Their use is wrong and the world should not stand idly by.”
The NSC includes Defence Secretary Philip Hammond, Home Secretary Theresa May and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg among its members. Foreign Secretary William Hague has warned that Britain cannot let the use of chemical weapons to go unchallenged, saying Britain “cannot allow diplomatic paralysis to be a shield” for Assad.
Labour leader Ed Miliband indicated yesterday that his party would consider supporting international action, “but only on the basis that it was legal, that it was specifically limited to deterring the future use of chemical weapons, and that any actions contemplated had clear and achievable goals”. The Opposition has made clear to Mr Cameron that its support depends on assurances that fresh efforts will be made to secure United Nations backing. A senior source said: “As part of that legal justification, Labour is seeking the direct involvement of the UN through evidence from the weapons inspectors and consideration by the security council.”
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The mobile and web development industry is advancing at a fast pace, with new tools and methods being made available to developers to create better applications.
To succeed, businesses and developers must stay current on software development life cycles and technologies. Software development life cycles have helped companies deliver high-quality products efficiently and with fewer errors.
This beginner-friendly article explains iterative development, a typical software development life cycle.
Here's what we covered in this article:
What Is Iterative Development?
History of Iterative Development
Iterative Development Vs Incremental Development
Difference Between Agile Vs. Iterative Development
Iterative Development: The Process
The Iterative Model: An Illustration
Applications of the Iterative Model: When To Use
Merits of Iterative Process
Demerits of Iterative Process
Iterative development is the process of streamlining the software development process by dividing it down into smaller portions.
The code for the feature is developed and tested in multiple iterations or cycles.
The iterative development methodology is based on the systematic repetition of iterations, which are tiny software development cycles.
The procedure begins with the specification and implementation of a software component. With each iteration, a new version of the programme is produced. This process is done until the final result is achieved. Therefore, the iterative methodology does not aim to begin with a comprehensive requirements specification.
In simple terms, Iterative development is a technique for partitioning the software development of an extensive application into smaller portions.
Iterative development uses smaller, more manageable project iterations. Agile techniques like Scrum use iterations to produce deliverable products.
Otherwise known as Sprints, which are time-limited and are used to refer to shorter development cycles.
This implies that the developer has a set amount of time to complete a given development cycle. The developer's job isn't done until they have produced usable code.
Iterative development allows developers to incorporate modifications into the final product.
If traditional procedures are applied, unforeseen difficulties may only be discovered in the development stage. As long as the project is broken down into phases and the team can assess the progress or modifications made at each step before moving on to the next, this can be avoided by working iteratively.
In the 1950s, introducing the 'Kanban method' carved ways to create iterative SDLC models. The method's core ideas were from lean production, which focuses on efficiency, fast delivery, and iterative improvements. So it wasn't tough to improve it into the iterative methodology.
It was also applied to some other SDLC methodologies which are not part of this article.
An iterative process was studied adequately in 1999.
Incidentally, the process of human learning was thought to be an iterative trial and error process.
Following this hypothesis, it was considered that the same approach could be applied to develop software faster and with fewer mistakes.
The same approach was considered relevant to developing better software.
As a result, Microsoft adopted the iterative strategy for software development in 2004, and this inspired more developers to come on board.
In the following years, there has been further development in this strategy. For example, agile and Lean methodology in software development uses the iterative model to ensure faster and more efficient product development processes.
Iterative and incremental development is an approach that combines iterative design and incremental development models. It is utilised by software engineers to aid in project management.
The primary distinction between an iterative and incremental life cycle is that an iterative process advances by continual refinement, whereas an incremental process advances in small increments.
For better understanding of these strategies, let's break them down into its two components:
An incremental strategy divides the software development process into small, manageable chunks known as increments.
Each iteration builds on the preceding one so that incremental gains are made.
Iterative: An iterative paradigm involves the systematic repetition of software development cycles known as iterations. After each iteration, a new program version is created until the optimal product is achieved.
Iterative and incremental development models are complementary, which is why they are frequently employed in tandem to increase their efficacy and provide project deliverables.
Agile development refers to the product lifecycle method in which product value is continuously supplied. Contrary to the project approach in which the product is developed from the beginning to the conclusion, this is not the case. Instead, in Agile development, each Product Increment is viewed as a discrete stage in the ongoing evolution of the product.
It is one of the most prevalent software development methodologies. Agile development is the mix of incremental and iterative work sequences that prioritise customer satisfaction and process adaptability by swiftly providing a working product.
Here are the differences between Iterative and Agile Development:
The Iterative Model is a type of model for software development in which implementation begins with minor pieces and progresses iteratively to the final solution through the participation of functional teams.
The Agile Methodology of software development is a model in which specifications and solutions improve through functional teams' ongoing cooperation.
In this paradigm, the development process is referred to as Sprint.
In this paradigm, the development process is referred to as an Iteration.
During a Sprint, collaborating teams can review products.
Collaborating teams can review iteration baseline products.
There are two primary roles in this paradigm: Scrum Master and Team Member.
In this paradigm, there are two roles: project manager and team member.
The Scrum Master is accountable for the facilities while team members perform estimating.
The Project Manager is accountable for each iteration's estimation and completion.
Team members are responsible for preparing, identifying, and executing test cases.
Testers are responsible for creating, identifying, and executing test cases.
In contrast to the waterfall method, the iterative development process does not follow a predetermined path. Instead, to achieve the overall deployment stage, you must complete your initial planning, which does not need to be very well-defined, and then repeat the remainder of the stages for each iteration with rigorous testing in between.
Software and system integration are tested at the beginning of each iterative cycle. At each stage, a decision is made irrespective of the result being saved or thrown away for the following cycle.
In addition, smaller portions of the software are worked on throughout each iteration, referred to as incremental prototyping.
With this model of SDLC, the iterative concept allows developers to review and modify prior cycles until all the requirements have been completed and they have delivered a finished product.
To help you better, let's go through the stages more elaborately:
In the planning phase, developers and customers determine software requirements in accordance with the needs of the business and stakeholders. As this process will be repeated in the subsequent iteration, it is unnecessary to determine risks and quality at this point.
However, this phase will be repeated in the subsequent iteration, guaranteeing that risks are mitigated and quality is maintained.
After establishing all needs, analysis is performed to expedite the development process, such as identifying database models.
For Instance, say you need to build a time-sensitive e-commerce application.
You must initially incorporate the home page, the shopping cart, and the checkout/payment infrastructure.
Once you've completed the initial planning for each requirement, in which you'll define the overall project requirements, your target audience, the client's needs, etc., you'll proceed to the next step.
You will begin with your first iteration, which will focus on the homepage, shopping cart, and payment system templates.
You will only proceed to move on to the next level once you have completed this one. As a result of the iterative process, this is what happens.
In iterative development, the design is comparatively less significant than other processes. Nevertheless, it makes sense to proceed with this phase to establish the software's architecture. In this section, the design team develops technical needs such as services, languages, data layers, etc.
Concerning the e-commerce marketplace instance previously stated, in this stage of iterative development, the designers describe the business rules, database, data layers, languages, etc., needed to build a basic version of the three functionalities.
When you're done, go on to execution.
In this stage, the development team begins writing the code for the first version of the software. The developers design the technical architecture, database, and programmes for the first iteration module under the coding principles.
To write the code, you will adhere to the coding principles and utilise a set of back-end and front-end technologies, such as compilers, interpreters, and debuggers.
During this phase, you will construct your first iteration module's technical architecture, database, and programmes.
Remember that implementation and testing are sometimes repeated concurrently to guarantee no defects re-occurs.
Consequently, if you suspect you mistakenly wrote a portion of the code, you can modify it and continue to the next iteration.
In the phase of testing, potential defects in the code are examined. Individual code units are examined during unit testing. Integration testing confirms that the units of code function correctly when combined, whereas user acceptance testing verifies that the system meets the user requirements for that iteration.
The testing team additionally evaluates the security of the iteration module against potential attacks utilising various approaches, including black box (no access to source code), grey box (partial access to source code), and white box (full access to source code).
After each iteration, you'll evaluate the project. The client will examine the project's efficiency and authenticity.
After testing, your audience or even you as a developer may have encountered issues with functionality, UI design, UX design, etc.
At this stage, you'll collect feedback and start your next iteration with planning.
You will also supply weekly or monthly maintenance to the client if they want to take advantage of the maintenance option.
Make a prototype and market research before moving on to the next stage. Again, stakeholder and end-user feedback should be sought after for this phase.
Create a foam or 3D-printed prototype of your idea and test it with stakeholders and end-users to see if it meets their needs.
Making more complicated product versions is possible with prototype technologies like CNC machines and 3D printers. In addition, prototypes can now be made from the materials used in the final product.
Quality control tests are performed on the final prototype that was created. At this point, engineers begin making decisions on the larger-scale manufacturing process.
A limited number of individuals will be able to test out the product. Request user input and note any areas that could use work.
Based on the pilot study's findings, you can move on to manufacturing or take a few steps back to prototyping.
In the first year of manufacture, any design flaws that have not yet been discovered will become apparent.
Even after your product is released, you can preserve a record of all of its earlier revisions in a database. This is a valuable tool to keep improving your product over time.
It is appealing to utilise an iterative method to develop anything and everything due to its flexibility, but it is not perfect for every type of project. Now that we understand the science underlying the iterative process model, the crucial question is when to employ it.
The following can help you decide if your project requires an iterative development strategy after assessing the pros and cons.
The software application is large.
Although requirements are not well-defined, they are understandable.
There is a need to modify future requirements.
Few iterations' resources are unavailable at the usage time but can be utilised in a subsequent iteration.
During iterative development, scrum teams repeatedly design, build, and test their code or product. The group collects user and stakeholder feedback after each iteration and uses those insights to design the subsequent iteration of the product.
Iterative development permits teams to examine and modify their methods, resulting in ongoing improvement (Kaizen).
Coding occurs after the software application's design is complete, and testing begins after coding passes phase gate reviews.
Iterative work increases changeability. Iterative development has pros and cons.
Now that we have understood the meaning uses, and model of iterative development in software development, it is important that we look into the advantages of using this SLDC:
Increases consumer satisfaction to the maximum level.
Enhances the worth of the product or service.
Allows for expedited delivery of software, services, or products.
Contributes to ongoing progress (Kaizen)
Potential issues and flaws are detected early on.
Functional prototypes are developed early on in the project life cycle.
Progress is simple to quantify.
Spend less time recording and more time designing.
Changes to the project are more straightforward and less expensive to implement.
During iteration, most risks may be identified, and the handling of more significant risks can be prioritised.
The duration of the operation is drastically decreased.
Each iteration culminates in the delivery of a tangible product.
Customer feedback is based on the functionality of actual items, not simply technical specifications.
In the just concluded section of this article, we highlighted the merits of using the iterative development process. Moving on, we would also learn about the disadvantages of this SDLC:
Additional resources may be necessary.
Sequential phases that do not overlap.
Intensive project management might be necessary.
Due to the lack of comprehensive requirement definitions for the entire system, system architecture concerns may become a limitation.
Due to the project's repeated iterations, it may be impossible to determine a conclusion date.
Finding highly competent individuals for risk assessments could be difficult and time-consuming.
In conclusion, iterative development is a software development life cycle paradigm that operates in tiny phases and iterations. This strategy is implemented to assure the effectiveness of the team and processes, as well as the quality of the software. Therefore, this strategy is suitable for huge software that requires changes based on feedback and reviews periodically instead of at the end.
Following every step of the iterative development strategy correctly with the required technical skills will result in a high-quality product with the intended functionality.
Iterative software development doesn't cling to one design or idea throughout the process. In waterfall development, each step is "gated."
Once you grab this development concept, you can decide if your business should adopt iterative development.
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The death of Osama bin Laden is no doubt a historic event, but it is not a game changer in the broader war on terrorism. The operational effectiveness of bin Laden was highly questionable in the last several years, although documentation and videos recovered in the raid do reveal his participation in plans for a new attack.
But ideas are cheap. Recent terrorist attacks such as the Christmas Day bomber to the recent Marrakesh market bombing, for example, required neither guidance nor resources from bin Laden’s Afghanistan and Pakistan-based Al-Qaeda cell. Terrorism is a far more global problem, as my PolicyMic colleague Nathan Lean described in a recent column.
The death of one man will not end the global terrorism threat. But who then is the next bin Laden? Conventional wisdom points to Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden’s long-time number two, or Anwar al-Awlaki, the leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. But others could rise up and take a leading role. There are also informal links with a network or other terrorist groups like Jemaah Islamiya in Southeast Asia and the Islamic Army of Aden in Yemen. These groups and others could become the next Al-Qaeda with a charismatic and effective bin Laden-like figure.
Predicting the rise of such a leader is impossible, but there is one interesting pattern that arises when analyzing terrorist leadership: location. The same small handful of countries appears repeatedly. Both bin Laden and al-Zawahiri found refuge in Sudan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Other Al-Qaeda cells have popped up in Yemen, Iraq, and North Africa, among other locations.
To analyze these countries in more detail, I did some quick back-of-the-envelope number crunching in an analysis of the various factors shared by countries hospitable to terrorist networks. I looked at factors including Islam, corruption (the Transparency International Perceived Corruption Ratings), poor governance (the Foreign Policy/Fund for Peace Failed State Index), and recent violent conflict (from various news sources and the CIA’s World Factbook). I used this data to compile a list of Muslim-majority countries that are in the top 50 of both the Perceived Corruption Ratings Report and Failed State Index and that have experienced recent violent conflict, coups, or ethnic violence. Admittedly, this is a somewhat informal methodology, but it provides an interesting glance into some of the political characteristics of countries that harbor terrorist organizations.
Nine countries made my list. Not surprisingly, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and Iraq are all highly corrupt countries with recent violent conflict and are high on the ranks of the Failed State Index (FSI). Somalia, whose pirates disrupt international shipping routes, ranks first in both corruption and the FSI. Afghanistan is second in corruption and sixth in the FSI; Iraq ranks fourth and seventh; Yemen 26th and 15th; and Pakistan 36th and 10th. Sudan, which once hosted bin Laden and al-Zawahiri, ranks seventh and third. But also on the list are Guinea, Tajikistan, and Mauritania, countries that rarely, if ever, receive mention from mainstream media sources. Niger just missed the cut off by ranking 56th and 19th.
The point is that terrorist networks are not going to be toppled by assassination. While the capture or killing of leadership will aid in the war against terrorism, the impact is minimal. The real correlates of terrorism are failed governments, corruption, and violent conflict in Muslim majority countries, and together these factors foster safe havens for terrorist operations. The only long-term solution to terrorism is to create stable governments (not necessarily democracies) with the capacity to shut down terrorist cells. Until then, the conditions exist for rise of the next bin Laden.
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The term “System for Mobility and Access to Rough Terrain” (SMART) denotes a theoretical framework, a control architecture, and an algorithm that implements the framework and architecture, for enabling a land-mobile robot to adapt to changing conditions. SMART is intended to enable the robot to recognize adverse terrain conditions beyond its optimal operational envelope, and, in response, to intelligently reconfigure itself (e.g., adjust suspension heights or baseline distances between suspension points) or adapt its driving techniques (e.g., engage in a crabbing motion as a switchback technique for ascending steep terrain). Conceived for original application aboard Mars rovers and similar autonomous or semi-autonomous mobile robots used in exploration of remote planets, SMART could also be applied to autonomous terrestrial vehicles to be used for search, rescue, and/or exploration on rough terrain.
In SMART, controlling the motion of the robot, managing the “health” of the robot, and managing resources are considered as parts of a free-flow behavior hierarchy that autonomously adapts to changing conditions. Tasks that must be performed in the continuing development of SMART are to provide for safe, adaptive mobility on highly sloped terrain include:
- Determination of strategies for adaptive reconfiguration and driving that are nearly optimal with respect to safety and are computationally feasible for on-board implementation,
- Determination of a representation for uncertainty in sensing and prediction of the state of the robot and its environment, and
- Determination of resource-management strategies that mitigate such risks as those of the loss of battery power and/or drive motors.
SMART is based largely on a prior architecture denoted Biologically Inspired System for Map-based Autonomous Rover Control (BISMARC), which, in turn is based on a modified free-flow hierarchy. BISMARC has been used with success in a number of different simulated mission scenarios, wherein it has been demonstrated to afford capabilities for retrieving objects cached at multiple locations, fault tolerance on missions of long duration, and preparing terrain sites for habitation by humans. BISMARC includes provisions for all aspects of safety, self-maintenance, and achievement of goals, as needed to support a sustained presence on the surface of a remote planet.
BISMARC is organized as a two-level system. From stereoscopic images acquired by cameras aboard the robot, the first level generates hypotheses of motor actions. The second level processes these hypotheses, coupled with external and internal inputs, to generate control signals to drive the actuators on the robot.
The figure illustrates the free-flow action-selection hierarchy of BISMARC and SMART. The rectangular boxes represent behaviors, while the ovals represent sensory inputs (either fixed, direct, or derived). At the top are the high-level behaviors, including Don’t Tip Over, Go to Goal, Avoid Obstacles, Preserve Motors, Warm Up, Get Power, and Sleep at Night. The intermediate-level behaviors (Change Center of Gravity, Avoid Obstacles, Rest, and Sleep) are designed to interact with both the short-term memory (which corresponds to perceived sensory stimuli), and the long-term memory (which encodes remembered sensory information). Control loops are prevented by use of temporal penalties, which constrain the system to repeat a given behavior no more than a predetermined number of times. The bottom-level behaviors (Tilt Arm, Change Shoulder Angles, Move, Rest, Stop, Sleep) fuse the sensory inputs and the activations of the higher-level behaviors in order to select appropriate actions for safety and achieving goals.
Inputs to the behavioral nodes are calculated as weighted sums. In BISMARC, the weights are fixed; consequently, BISMARC is not capable of adaptation to changing conditions or to environments outside an original world model. In contrast, SMART includes a learning mechanism that adapts the weights to changing and previously unanticipated conditions: An algorithm, known in the art as the maximize collective happiness (MCH) algorithm, adjusts the weights in such a manner as to maintain the health of the robot while ensuring progress toward the goal.
This work was done by Terrance Huntsberger of Caltech for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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The Department of Health and Social Care has drafted in big tech companies to help deliver coronavirus testing and data management.
Amazon and Delloitte are among the companies who will help the department deliver testing kits and collate patient data, according to privacy guidance published by Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).
The department will remain the data controller but “at different points in the process, other organisations may also have data controller status, depending on what they are doing with your information”, the guidance states.
“Other organisations will also carry out parts of the virus testing programme on behalf of DHSC but can only act on instructions provided to them by DHSC. These organisations are known as data processors. An example of such an organisation is Amazon, who will support the actions involved with delivering test kits.”
Currently three home testing kits, provided by Randox, Thermofisher and Medical Wire, are available. The tests will be delivered by Amazon.
All data gathered from the tests will be shared with government labs and National Pathology Exchange (NPEX), hosted by Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust.
Those who are asked to take part in the voluntary testing scheme will also be asked to provide their first and last name; date of birth; sex; mobile phone number; email address; address; NHS number; National Insurance Number; and other household members names.
The government has pledged to do 100,000 coronavirus tests a day by the end of April, but has faced repeated criticism for its slow response to the need for testing. Currently, around 20,000 tests are carried out and Dominic Raab, who is filling in for the Prime Minister, has said current capacity is 40,000.
Collecting data on sex is an important step for any future research on the virus. The government has faced criticism for failing to collect sex disaggregated Covid-19 data in its online data collection tool.
The Coronavirus Status Checker, launched by Health Secretary Matt Hancock on 4 April, asks people to with potential coronavirus symptoms to answer a series of questions about their experience but fails to ask for their sex – a data gap that campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez said “needs to be addressed immediately”.
Current evidence suggests Covid-19 has a higher death rate among men.
Role of data processors:
- registration of tests
- delivery of your testing kit – the data processor is Amazon
- schedule appointments and capture information at the point of testing
- certify identity at the regional test
- link personal details to the test result
- send test results via email
- forward test results, email address and phone number to NHS Business Services Authority to send test results. NHS BSA will provide results to all UK residents
- receive data to enable results, and supporting information, to be communicated by text and email
Amazon has also been called up to help NHS England and NHSX develop a data platform to better inform the national response to the outbreak.
The company, alongside Microsoft and Google, was drafted in to help ensure the platform is secure, as have Palantir Technologies, a UK-based data processing company and Faculty, a London-based AI specialist.
The platform, hosted on NHS Futures, brings together multiple NHS and social care data sets into a single location. It will include data such as 111 online and call centre data from NHS Digital, as well as Covid-19 test result data from Public Health England.
Requests to view the data will be reviewed on an individual basis by NHS England and NHSX.
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Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) is a national, volunteer-based, nonprofit organization that recruits, trains and supervises community volunteers, CASAs, to represent the best interests of child victims of abuse and neglect that are currently in the judicial system. CASA Volunteers are ordinary citizens, like you, doing extraordinary work. They establish stable relationships with abused and neglected children, getting to know their unique history and making informed recommendations to the courts.
In Colorado, there are many children without a CASA Volunteer to be their voice and speak up for them in court. With the help and support of the entire community, CASA can continue to provide crucial advocacy for abused and neglected children in our community.
For each child that ages out of the foster care system, the direct future cost to the community is $300,000. The cost to recruit, train and support one CASA Volunteer for one year is $1,200. With a CASA Volunteer by a child’s side, they are more likely to find a safe and permanent home.
Please consider supporting CASA of Adams & Broomfield Counties at their virtual Light of Hope fundraising event on March 25, 2021 from 12-1 pm. Learn about the impact CASA Volunteers are making in the community, and how you can make a difference in a child’s life. Find details here
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Oliver and Thomas are going to presentation their work and also the methods and processes they use in practice and in teaching. Over to you Thomas.
We love the city, we love streets, we love squares, façades, we love rich and complex interiors, but paradoxically whenever we build or design a project we almost always end up in places that are neither urban or rural, but an undifferentiated fragmented in-between. This dilemma is central to our work. In 1980 the architect Steven Holl published a small pamphlet titled The Alphabetical City. In this pamphlet he assembled a beautiful collection of apartment building plans from the cities of Chicago and New York and he isolated them in this pamphlet from their context, and yet when we looked at the pamphlet we were stunned by the qualities of these plans. We were surprised that while these plans were taken out of their context they still retained very strong urban qualities as urban buildings. The first project that we’re going to show is a competition in Geneva. It was for three hundred units of low-income housing on the outskirts of Geneva. The site is in an old Siedlung with the repetition of a house, a green space, a house, and so on. The client wanted to tear the Siedlung down to get triple the amount of units on the site. When we entered the competition we knew that the client wanted to have exactly the same plan as the existing, but we wanted something urban.
Our plan is T shaped. It’s a building that has a façade toward the street. It has a division in the façade, a very high base, big windows toward the street space and one central entrance. When you go through the common entrance hall you end up in an arcade that connects to the back of the garden. Along this arcade are the staircases that lead up into the apartments. The building has a face back to the graveyard. The urban problem was how to build large urban buildings that have a connection to the street, that have a public face, in a structure that is very heterogeneous, that is very mixed, where there’s no apparent rule of how the fabric of the city could continue. We intended these three T’s to form a moment of urbanity in an otherwise very blurry context, a possibility to continue to build the city but without establishing a rule that needed to be followed in the future.
La Fontenette model
The apartment plans are very efficient. It’s the lowest level of social housing that we do in Switzerland, so it has to be tight. It’s a structural plan, so every wall carries the building. The apartments have a very clear room to room to room sequence and the staircase is also one of those rooms. Then right after completing this housing competition we received a commission for a house. The clients were businessmen who worked together in a big corporation in Zürich and had seen a piece of land in Rüschlikon on the lake of Zürich that they really liked. It’s quite a privileged site, which they had to bid for it, and they asked us if we could build a house for two families because they couldn’t afford it individually. We said: “Yes it’s possible.” And within one week we made a design. After five days what we had was a volumetric study from which they could decide what side of the house they wanted to live in, which family would look in which direction, and who would claim which part of the garden. What we had at that time was not a design for a building, but a volume that was mostly an expression of the building laws, and now the main work was to turn a volume into a building. We found two buildings to help us: the Müller House by Adolf Loos and the Vanna Venturi House by Robert Venturi.
The volume that the building laws created looked a bit like Villa Müller, but even though we really loved this building, we realised that we couldn’t make it as heavy and muscular as the Müller House. Robert Venturi showed us how you can make a building that refers to the full history of architecture using a modest palate, and in a very thin and delicate way. The problem was really the question of scale. The piece of land was so expensive and so small that you could barely fit a semi-detached house on it. It was important to give it an expression that would at the same time make it monumental and delicate. We spent a long time on the façades. Because the building volume was so difficult and so complicated, we only looked at the façades in planar. Each façade was executed separately. All of the façades have a primary central axis, and balancing elements that you can see most clearly in the main façade.
Semi-detached house model
It’s first and foremost a classical composition. You have a base, a Piano Nobile with a three-axis composition, but then the second house at the back of the building totally imbalances this classical composition. We needed modern elements to counterbalance this and added a patch of stone and a bay window that tilts out of the main facade, and through these elements we think we achieved a composition as a Gesamt-Gestalt (complete form). It took a long time to find the right solution. It looks simple, these three rows of windows and then this bay, but when we looked at it, it always looked old in bad way, it looked stale, so we had to create things to transform it, and this folding out was the key. The back façade was much simpler and easier. It has similar elements as the front but for instance the windows that go around the building are ten centimetres narrower on the front. It makes the front façade a bit more elegant and the back façade a bit more relaxed. Because the house is on a slope the Piano Nobile is high with the other house with the view, but on the other side the house is actually in the garden. But the difficulty with the plan was that it was only seventy-five square meters per house, so it was just like a modest row house, so by moving the two staircases into each other we generate zones that are narrower and others that are wider and make it less like one room.
This is the room and we added this pattern on the floor, which is actually like a floor of a much bigger building, of a much bigger room, and wherever you stand in this room you never see the end of this floor.
Semi-detached house staircase
Photograph by Walter Mair
When you come down the stair there’s this pattern that suggests that you can stand on it, it has a certain presence and heaviness, but then when you stand on it you just feel that it continues but you don’t know where it continues to. While you work on a project you can make it richer and richer. You don’t need to know everything from the start, and if a client allows you to do certain things and doesn’t allow you to do other things, then you should always be flexible in exploring ideas in the areas where you can. The site was expensive and the building structure was also expensive because it’s built in a hill, so the façades had to be really cheap and thin. And so the cheapest way to build in Switzerland is with a layer of outer insulation, you have a loadbearing wall made of brick and then you put an outer insulation on it and then stucco, and we kind of embraced that. We were always taught that construction was really important, everything had to be real, and so it was very refreshing to be totally fake about everything. It’s a foam building, and the area of stone is just two centimetres thick and glued on to the insulation. But it’s important because it provides this point of gravity and also marks the entrance that’s on the side. But on the side you see the two-centimetre edge of the stone. You also see that the window sills are very thin but they project as far as we could make them, like long fingernails, they give these openings a real delicacy. Then railings and two colour anodised window frames, with a silver line in the middle and then the actual window frames are black like mascara around the eyes. The frieze around the building that we needed in terms of proportion also binds together the rather messy pavilions on top of the roof. While we always designed these façades in planar we in the end still enjoyed the very volumetric sides that the building has as well.
The next project is in the outskirts of Basel where the main inspiration was the Palazzo di Carlo Borromeo by Pirro Ligorio, a Renaissance palazzo on the edge of Rome.
Palazzo di Carlo Borromeo, Pirro Ligorio
We were fascinated by the idea of having a central element that creates a kind of cross motif with a cornice that separates the building into two portions, one upper and one lower portion, and that you would be able to create with such simple means an extremely expressive Gestalt for the building. It’s a building with three apartments in a suburban area surrounded by family houses that are now increasingly being replaced by small apartment buildings. The problem with this design was how you could give a small apartment building with two levels an expression of the collective character, because in a two-storey building there is no repetition; there isn’t enough repetition to create a grand or anonymous kind of impression. What we decided to do was to differentiate between the upper level and the lower level of the building, even though the apartments inside are very similar, using a window motif on the upper level that creates the impression of a piano nobile, the classical idea of having the main floor on the first floor, and to bind, almost suspend the lower floor from this upper floor.
Binningen 1 model
It’s a very small building. We used to call it a mixture between OMA’s Dutch House and a Palladio villa. Every façade was completely individually. There’s one apartment per floor. With this plan we made a discovery. With a very small apartment, a kitchen dining living area, one bedroom with a bathroom, a workspace, plus the loggia, which is an outdoor space, we felt that we needed to open it up without losing the different private zones in the apartment. So we introduced a central pillar.
Binningen 1 plan
It does two things; it separates the dining area from the living area, and also from the workspace and it creates a central axis around which all the spaces rotate. We got the building permit. It took the authorities less than six weeks. Five days later we received a letter from the municipality saying: “we’re terribly sorry, five years ago, when we digitised it, we put the wrong colour on the zoning plan.” The client called us and asked what was going on: “is this good news or bad news?” And we told him it’s good news because we could build more. Everyone was happy. But we were disappointed because we really liked the original design, and it took us a very long time to figure out how to make a much bigger building on the same site that was already small.
The new project is similar to the first. It has a façade facing the street, it has a façade toward the garden but the garden became rather small, the parking garage had to move to the side, so the building almost occupies the whole site. But when you start to develop the façades you realise that when you move from a three unit to a five unit building, when the size and the volume increases, you suddenly have to apply different orders, different rules to achieve an expression for the building. This became so clear because we had to do the same project in different sizes. But we also copied the old elements. What used to be the main façade for the garden moved to the street and the motif multiplied. Whereas on the other façade it’s still about this cross balance thing, which makes a centre, this motif of a big window with a small window hanging below it moved around the whole building and the cornice became the most important line in the project with the figural windows hanging from it. Like the first project, the budget was not small but had its constraints, so again outer insulation and stucco, and the material we could also choose to use was metal. Everything other than the stucco façade was made of folded sheet metal. The coping, the frames around the windows that conceal the blinds on both levels, binds together the motif of the two windows, and also the pipes for the rainwater. So we like to think of the tectonics of the building, of how it’s put together as a kind of origami. Everything just got bigger. There are two apartments per floor. The idea of the pillar reappears in a different guise. Now the pillar has the purpose of unifying different spaces within the perimeter of the building. All the outside spaces, like the loggia and the winter gardens lie within the perimeter of the building, and these pillars allow for a second reading, they allow the inclusion of all the different spaces, inside and out, into the interior communal space of the building. Álvaro Siza says that good houses have ugly plans, and we are very proud of this ugly plan.
Binningen 2 plan
The plan is composed of angular walls and columns that are rythmatised or ordered by windows that are all the same. It has a lot of interior windows and some object-like kitchens. We learned in architecture school that there’s a unity between interior structure of the building and its expression. That’s not really the case here, and we are very interested in exploring this fact. When we work on the apartments and when we work on the façade we have very different constraints that somehow relate to each other without ever really fitting. We also feel that the façade with its regular openings of course gives an order to the outside, but it also gives an order to the interior spaces.
The Laurentian Library by Michelangelo in Florence is volumetric and it has force. But then you see how it’s built; you see the difference between architecture and construction. You see the columns, which are architecture; you see the niches, these plastic elements but with very thin dividing walls between the rooms. He put everything into making the architecture powerful to the limit of what was possible within his constraints. We want to talk about the relationship between construction and architectural form, to ask questions about honesty, truth, directness, or perhaps another relationship demonstrated by Michelangelo. The Laurentian also had an effect on how we thought about the interior spaces, the big living rooms of the apartments. In this space things are in order, there’s a repetition of sets but there are bays that are narrower, wider, things are breathing, they’re freely positioned and yet they are all autonomous. The pillars stand closely together but there is a gap between them, another gap between the window frame and the pillar and so on. At the same time we received a postcard of two art works by Richard Artschwager, an artist that died in 2012.
Richard Artschwager, Door } (1983-84)
C/O Kerstin Hiller, Helmut Schmelzer
Photograph by Annette Kradisch
He was somewhere between pop and conceptual art, but we really liked this strangely proportioned door with its oddly proportioned grain. We really enjoyed the clumsiness of the doors and tried to make our interior windows in a similarly comfortable way.
The windows on the exterior and the windows on the interior have exactly the same width, always the same size, and between these we put plastic wooden elements, with gaps, so like in the Laurentian Library every element stands on its own. There’s a cat waiting in front of the building.
Binningen 2 entrance cat
It’s a cat that once belonged to the American architect and educator John Hejduk. It’s the post-boxes, but also when you approach the building and ring the bell the cat listens to you, you have to speak into the cat’s ear, and he’ll speak back to you in the voice of the tenant or the owner. We like the idea of different scales. We are interested in relating the small scale to the big scale of the building. Here the plastic elements of the building are very clear with the canopy, the cat and the threshold all in this folded powder-coated metal.
The next project is a competition we won for low-income social housing in Zürich. It’s a site near the Siedlung structures from the 1950s. There are single-family houses but also houses with flats. One of the buildings is being replaced. Between the buildings on either side of the site there’s a jump in scale, and the problem was how to design a building that wouldn’t destroy the spaces that are very characteristic of this neighbourhood. We decided, instead of designing a very simple volume, like a rectangle that would have an incredible volumetric presence and would dominate the surrounding, we would conceive a building that is like a series of independent walls that create a demarcation line around an area in which a plan of an apartment building is being inserted. So despite the angles, this building is not meant to be an expressive or aggressive building, quite the opposite, it defines certain outdoor spaces that are somehow already there because of the beautiful trees on the site. It sits in a context, which is like a garden city, and we wanted the building to sit on the street and to create the longest façade onto the street, so it hangs from the street façade and develops more freely in the garden space. The structure of the building is very rectilinear and the building form is as if you had a fence around a plot. We also like to think of it as if you were to cut out the shape of a building from a city map.
We felt that there were two different necessities in this project. One necessity was clearly the urbanistic, the form of the building in relation to the exterior spaces, and we were very sure about what we wanted in terms of the shape of the building, but at the same time we had to accommodate all the apartments that, because they were rather small, had to be very economical and therefore rectangular. There was an incredible pressure in our design process between the needs of the interior spaces and our stubbornness to keep the volume as perfect as possible in its urbanistic expression. The client was special. They wanted to provide relatively cheap apartments that could be occupied by a lot of people, something that would be flexible. Much of the new apartments designed and built in Zürich at the moment have big open living spaces where you dine and cook and have your TV and so on. Our client wanted all these to be separate, so we had to invent something new. You enter the apartment directly into a big hall where you eat and where there’s a kitchen, and from there you can enter a living room, which you can separate into a bedroom, and a big loggia connecting the two, and in the centre of the three spaces there is a column. It’s a bit rural; you come in to the apartment into the kitchen first.
Our inspiration for the façade came from Renaissance and modern sources. One was from Brunelleschi, the early Renaissance master from Florence. It’s the Foundling’s House; a delicate plastered façade with very fine delicate grey stone mouldings that somehow create a balance, the separations and the rhythms, and the surface quality.
Photograph by Eugenio Battisti
The other inspiration was by Robert Venturi, one of our favourite architects, the Lieb House with its lightness and casualness, where you can see that it’s clearly put together with elements that have cracks and air between them.
The Lieb House
New Jersey 1969
C/O the University of Pennsylvania
The white façade elements are Eternit, a fibre cement board, which are lapped over each other, and then grey is painted wood. The way this façade is structured, it doesn’t have a base or a top, it has a central line that goes along the building, and from this line there are thin vertical strips going up and down. It was necessary because the site is not flat, so if we had chosen to have a base level, that base level would gradually sink into the ground on one side. So in order to suspend the building visually above the ground we created that central line that we find creates an effect of the building slightly hovering above the ground. The vertical strips divide the façade into different elements that resemble row houses.
This building has one big entrance from which you enter the apartments, but on the ground floor it also has laundries with separate entrances. You can imagine that in summer the parents are doing the washing and the children are playing outdoor in the garden or washing the car, and then it also has another entrance for the biggest apartment in the building, which is in the corner. We think this could be an apartment for students so they can have their parties separate from the others. Again it’s about scale, a bigger entrance and a smaller entrance, being as far apart as possible to create a tension over the façade.
The third project is a multi-family house in Zürich. It’s at a very particular point in the city, the last street of urban buildings in the city. On one side there’s the 19th and 20th century urban structure, and on the other the landscape opens up and you have single-family houses, the slaughterhouse, the stadium, and the city basically disperses from there. It’s the edge of the compact city of Zürich. We tend to think that this façade is more Spartan than Greek.
Herdernstrasse model front
It’s tough. The building is part of a block where the existing buildings are all the same and form a continuous façade, and there’s a competition to design the other side of the block, so we will always be the only single building in this block. Because of that, but also because we face the slaughterhouse and the stadium, we needed a more monumental strong façade. However, since it’s a non-monumental programme we think the façade should be delicate with a fibre-cement façade with panels cast as plates with open joints. It’s a ventilated façade, and the fibre-cement panels are two centimetres thick, so it’s really thin, and the square pattern on the panels stand out, like rustication. The idea for the surface of the building is somewhere between these two examples; the Immeuble locatif à la porte Molitor in Paris by Le Corbusier, an urban building where Corbusier actually lived on the top floor, he had a kind of penthouse apartment, which is also next to a stadium by the way. We really admire the expression of this modernist masterpiece. How Corbusier managed to layer the building in a very simple yet complex order, with the development from below, up. And the other inspiration for us is the Palazzo Rucellai by Leon Battista Alberti. It’s basically the starting point of Renaissance architecture and has a very abstract, very designed, flat relief façade, which has an incredible tension, and has unlike other later Renaissance façades, no naturalism. In other words, every line is designed. We really like that this façade almost resembles a drawing. In the section you see the building is in movement. In the lower part, there’s a part projecting into the back of the site, and in the upper part there’s something projecting into the street space.
The back façade is much simpler.
Herdernstrasse model rear
It’s an outer insulation plaster façade, but then we try to make them look like plates that are placed in front of the structure by making an inverted corner, and it has this gap in-between, not to make it a massive bulky building but something that has flat surfaces. We like to think of this building as a modern building that has somehow thought of in a traditional sense, in a sense that the main street façade is more expensive, more ornate, and that the façade on the garden side is simpler and humble. In elevation and expression the building is more symmetrical, but then in plan the building is actually asymmetrical. The reason for the symmetry is only the dividing wall and the core, so therefore we tried to make a spatial arrangement that is freer and that unifies the whole building. We tried to think of the interior space of the building as an echo of the urban condition outside. Toward the street and the opening urban landscape the loadbearing pillars are somehow protecting or are parallel to the façade, while when you go into the depth of the building in the courtyard, the pillars don’t stand in the way, so there is a briefing of the interior plan in relationship to the urban situation. The pillars at the front also allow for a very beautiful view of the landscape because the window frame is hidden behind them. It’s similar to the impression you get at John Soane’s famous house in London where he added a bay window on to the existing building, maybe only a meter wide, and when you look from the main saloon through the bay window to the outside, the spatial edges of the bay windows cannot be seen. The plan oscillates between being a plan-libre, a flowing space, and a plan with defined spaces that can be closed off with doors. The intention is that every element has its own identity. You have the columns, the walls, kitchens and cupboards that are painted in different colours. You can go from the bathroom to the kitchen, and at the same time you can see through the whole building in that very private area of the apartment. There’s almost a separate situation that is inscribed into the main space of the apartment. You can walk through the whole apartment along the façade.
It’s about spatially opening the restraints of a normal apartment plan, but still providing privacy.
This is the last project we’re going to show. It’s an object for an exhibition about density called 2048. The object is figural but abstract. Its grid embodies openness and infinity, and yet it’s not aligned, it’s defined by planes.
The volumetric operation to create this was fairly simple and yet it looks different from every side.
Thank you both. Neil, you look like you have an urgent question.
That was an incredibly elegant presentation. Your Siza quote about the ugly plan fascinated me. I’m going to stray off the subject here, we’ve just got a kitten in our household at home, and I thought your presentation was very cat like and elegant, and this is where the kitten comes in. It was the Hejduk cat that made me think of this. The kitten that we’ve got is capable of the most elegant movement and then she’ll do the most amazing turn, which is not elegant but there’s something about it that is incredibly beguiling, it draws you in, you almost laugh out loud. But she can only do that because she’s capable of this very elegant movement. You can see that when she walks along the edge of a table. I thought your presentation was a bit like that walk along the edge of the table, and so I’m really interested in the notion that you’re attracted to an ugly plan, and I wonder if ugly is the right word, because I’m attracted to this view of complexity or the fact that Venturi’s buildings aren’t the most beautiful buildings, but there’s something about them that’s intriguing. I just wonder if you could say a little bit more about what you mean when you say an ugly plan, because your plans are incredibly attractive.
We both worked for Roger Diener in Basel and he became famous for his capacity to draw very simple plans and very simple buildings where the structure of the plan would create an incredible unity with the bodily quality of the building. And then he would do urban designs that would continue somehow and arrange these very coherent buildings into urban situations. Our work is somehow a break from this because we realised that we have so many different ways of thinking about life today, so the idea of a coherent typology of an apartment that has value to all is impossible today. We find that there is no stability in the building plan anymore, a stability that in former times would create a type and even entire cities, where urbanism, building plans and façades would be one. We see an incredible fracture between those, which is maybe a result of the independent search between the plan, the façade, the urban plan and how they still have to come together and relate. This is where we see the cracks in the idea of unity in architecture. We don’t believe in the Gesamtkunstwerk, in the total piece of art. It has something to do with that.
It’s also about having a contradictory openness in the project. You want a lot of things at the same time, and you work on all of these things at the same time, and that’s why, yes, in the end it looks a bit messy, but it has these spatial or facial qualities that we’re looking for. But it’s a constant balancing act and also keeping it a bit open.
It has to do with the hermetic qualities that we don’t like in buildings. There are architects that admire when construction and expression become one, but we think that given the constraints it’s firstly impossible for us to achieve, but we also don’t think it’s an expression of how we feel culturally about building. We wouldn’t like to build a building and draw every piece of furniture, the tablecloth, the curtains, the silverware, we wouldn’t like that, I don’t think anyone in our age could do it, I mean seriously do it successfully.
Are there any questions from the audience?
Yes, you say that you’re not interested in designing the furniture or the kettles or attempting to personalise the design for everybody because it’s not possible, and yet you seem comfortable to add a certain level of decoration that has a very strong stylistic attitude toward a building that you can’t ignore. Could you talk a little about that? You seem quite prepared to provide a style for the building that the person then moving into it has to adopt.
With the first house it was private clients so it was a conversation with them. It depends on the client. I mean if you look at Tony Fretton’s Red House where everything is designed, and it’s a fantastic house, and you don’t feel like it’s hermetic in a way. I say that because it’s a contemporary piece, but also with Adolf Loos houses of course, everything is designed and it doesn’t feel hermetic.
But I think there’s another point to it. I think what you’re saying is very true of past attitudes, at a time when most people would completely decorate their house as a living environment they somehow needed a certain degree of neutrality as a backdrop. Today people live with fewer and fewer belongings, less furniture, and with this the question of neutrality becomes really tricky, because it can be emptiness, or the lack of affection and feeling, instead of being neutral. I think it has a lot to do with the changes in how we like to furnish our living environment.
There’s a lot of housing being built in Switzerland at the moment, that’s why young architects like us get to win competitions and build them. But most architects focus on the apartment plans themselves and don’t think about the façade or the urban situation. So there’s an incredible neutrality in the apartments being produced, cheap parquet floors, white wall and white kitchens, and that’s it, and the windows always basically look the same as well, and we try to fight against that neutrality, first by being specific about the site and about the character of the building, but then also for instance with these pillars we try to add at least one element that isn’t so neutral, which is a piece that is always there and which adds character to the apartments.
I think architecture is a strange thing. The taste, the lifestyle and the spirit of the time can change, but we can still inhabit good spaces happily. Architecture is strange; it can be adapted, reused and cherished in different and sometimes unpredictable ways.
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Purpose. the phosphorylation of ERK1/2 and Akt leading to dietary fiber differentiation in the presence or absence of selective receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) inhibitors. Results. Much like vitreous FGF induced a sustained ERK1/2 signaling profile unlike IGF PDGF and EGF which induced a more transient GDC-0349 (shorter) activation of ERK1/2. For Akt activation IGF was the only element that induced a profile much like vitreous. IGF PDGF and EGF potentiated the effects of a low dose of FGF on lens dietary fiber differentiation by extending the duration of ERK1/2 phosphorylation. In the presence of selective RTK inhibitors even though sustained vitreous-induced ERK1/2 signaling profile and subsequent dietary fiber differentiation was perturbed the GDC-0349 results also showed that although long term ERK1/2 phosphorylation was necessary it was not sufficient for dietary fiber differentiation to continue. Conclusions. These results are consistent with FGF’s becoming the key growth factor involved in vitreous-induced signaling leading to lens dietary fiber differentiation; however they also show that additional vitreal growth factors such as IGF may be involved in fine-tuning ERK1/2- and Akt-phosphorylation to the level that is necessary for initiation and/or maintenance of lens dietary fiber differentiation in vivo. The lens has a special architecture with an anterior monolayer of lens epithelial cells overlying a mass of elongated fiber cells. The lens grows as lens epithelial cells proliferate in the lens equator and differentiate into secondary fiber cells. The surrounding ocular press the aqueous humor that bathes the lens epithelial cells and the vitreous humor that bathes the lens dietary fiber cells have been shown to be important in the maintenance of this special polarity and architecture of the lens.1 The ocular press contain users of several growth element families (observe Ref. 2) including insulin-like growth element (IGF) ADAMTS1 3 fibroblast growth element (FGF) 4 platelet-derived growth element (PDGF) 5 epidermal growth element (EGF) 6 hepatocyte growth element (HGF) 7 and vascular endothelial growth element (VEGF).8 9 Studies over the past two decades have linked these growth factors in various ways to the process of lens dietary fiber differentiation. Considerable experiments with lens epithelial explants have shown that FGF induces lens dietary fiber cell differentiation.10 In vitro FGF offers been shown to induce many of the morphologic and molecular changes associated with fiber differentiation including cell elongation the loss of cytoplasmic organelles denucleation and the accumulation of fiber-specific β- and γ-crystallins.11-13 Of interest these experiments showed that FGF could also induce lens epithelial cell proliferation with a low dose of FGF inducing cell proliferation and a much higher concentration required to induce fiber differentiation.14 Based on this and together with studies examining the distribution of FGF in the eye it was proposed that an anteroposterior gradient of FGF in the eye may determine lens polarity 10 15 with a low concentration of FGF in aqueous stimulating proliferation and a higher concentration of FGF in the vitreous inducing lens dietary fiber GDC-0349 differentiation. In situ GDC-0349 experiments using transgenic mice to misexpress FGFs and/or FGF receptors were also shown to impair the normal development and growth of the lens 16 further underpinning the important and essential part for FGF in lens differentiation. To day FGF has been demonstrated to be the only growth factor able to induce lens dietary fiber differentiation; however additional growth factors such as IGF and/or PDGF and Wnts have been shown to potentiate FGF-induced lens dietary fiber differentiation in vitro.23-26 In transgenic mice that overexpressed IGF in the lens the germinative and transitional zones were shown to expand but no improper differentiation of lens epithelial cells was observed.27 Overexpression of PDGF in the lens resulted in enlarged lenses that developed cataracts.28 The lens epithelium of these mice became multilayered with some evidence of dietary fiber differentiation changes28; however subsequent in vitro experiments confirmed that PDGF cannot induce this dietary fiber differentiation process without FGF.25 Taken together these in vitro and in vivo experiments suggest that IGF or PDGF do. | <urn:uuid:69b4fdf2-1f14-47ef-8bad-e450a41b4d04> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://cancerhugs.com/2016/07/29/purpose-the-phosphorylation-of-erk12-and-akt-leading-to-dietary-fiber/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.936335 | 932 | 1.570313 | 2 |
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* The law of the wise is the fountain of life." -PROVERBS.
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RITICS poke fun at authors by saying that the Preface is
the author's apology for his unsolicited appearance before the public. But, why is it thereby implied that authors are more than likely to be mistaken in their view that they will supply a public want, when we consider that wants follow created, as well as existing, needs?
We begin the customary apology by remarking that there is among educated persons a generally confessed need of popular instruction as to matters of health, and of all things indirectly appertaining thereto; and this, in effect, is the concession of the existence of a considerable public need. There can be no dissent from the conclusion that the want arising from this need can be increased by perceptions aroused by such treatment of the subject of well-being as we have here endeavored to employ; that, in a word, supply will increase the public demand for instruction in this branch of knowledge. If, therefore, this work prove satisfactorily to have accomplished the purpose in view, it will be gratifying, not otherwise, to find it secure of a lease of life.
There are three points touched upon, the discussion of which, it is hoped, may prove not uninteresting even to members of the medical profession. These are comprehended by the Introduction and the chapters on the complexion and the hair. Consideration of the value of August Weismann's conclusions touches at present the extremes of discussion by scientific and agricultural societies, and those conclusions, relating to questions as to the transmission of both healthy and morbid conditions, deeply concern the physician. 1519 WALNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA, October, 1890. | <urn:uuid:d545d775-ae81-4287-9ccf-0808d348fe51> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://books.google.com.qa/books?id=oSxTHxSE3IAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:OCLC316864082&hl=ru&output=html_text&vq=%22opportunity+of+remarking+that+my+critics+frequently+assume+that+I+attribute+all+changes+of+corporeal+structure+and+mental+power+exclusively%22&source=gbs_quotes | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.928372 | 547 | 2.125 | 2 |
Citizen or subject?
The future King has just married his divorced former mistress, and the Government is floating the idea of introducing citizenship ceremonies for all 18 year-olds, in which they would be required to take an oath of allegiance to the Queen.
What better time to take a snapshot of young peoples attitudes to the Royal Family? What is the meaning of Royalty to Britains 18-24 year-olds? How does Royalty relate to their sense of themselves as British? Do they distinguish between the status of subject and citizen and is this important to them? How do they see their contemporaries, Princes William and Harry?
To answer these questions, I conducted some group discussions with young people to gain an in-depth understanding of how they really think and why.
In talking about Royalty we quickly come across the issue of whether were refering to it as an institution, or them as individual Royals. This duality is critical to any understanding of perceptions of Royalty. And if we are seeking a monarchy that is relevant to the 21st Century we need to understand fully the differences between the institution and the individuals and why one is valued while the other is not.
The institution resides in a material presence that symbolises the great history and traditions of Britain. It is in the palaces and the pageantry of state occasions; the coaches, the tunics; the fanfares. The protocol is formidable, the military music is evocative, the tiaras glisten.
Most of the people we have interviewed have never attended State events and, really, have no great desire to do so. State events are more for tourists. However, they are conscious that such state-events form part of the culture of Britain and have seen them on TV. They readily express the received wisdom that this is something of which the country can be proud. It is a spectacle admired by foreigners and consequently has alpha-ambassadorial significance. More rationally, the common assumption is that this is one way of balancing the cost to the taxpayer of the Royal Family because it both draws in the tourist dollar and promotes trade.
At a deeper and perhaps more significant level, the apparent out-datedness of such ceremony is something our young respondents relish. A more logical people would have abolished it as embarrassingly anachronistic but the British are both sentimentally attached and bloodymindedly determined to be different.
Paradoxically, the survival of monarchy is seen as an example of national values of tolerance, individual freedom, broad mindedness and defiance of outside interference. It demonstrates a national confidence in our political stability.
Monarchy is contextualised as a refusal to conform. It is a metaphor that only a subject knows intimately enough to properly decode. At a personal level, attachment to the institution of monarchy takes on an ironic representation. It allows us to feel superior to other nations. It is a show for foreigners, especially simpleminded Americans who are in awe of our traditions. Simultaneously, it cocks a snook at foreigners, especially Europeans, who are perceived to be mentally less flexible and misread British irony. It is about both our separate identity and also a cloak to conceal any closer knowledge of our discreet British selves.
Our interviewees even went as far as to say that our Royal family is, in fact, a barrier to both federalism and globalism.
In the normal course of their lives they rarely give citizen or subject status a second thought. On the whole, they have grown up in a multicultural society where respect for individual differences in culture, lifestyle or opinion is second nature. It is clear that their sense of themselves is as citizens not as subjects.
They were unaware that immigrants applying for British citizenship are compelled to take an oath of allegiance to the Queen and most were outraged at the idea that they themselves could be required to do so, irrespective of their attitude to monarchy. Making a formal declaration contradicts the principles of free speech and independent thought that are at the core of their British identity.
Most of our respondents assume the continued existence of Royalty throughout their lifetime but this does not encompass any personal sense of deference, precisely because of the issues surrounding Royals as individuals.
In a society geared to personal achievement, the Royals are uniquely disadvantaged because, by birthright, they have the best of everything and therefore there is scant personal acclaim in any achievement. For the inner circle of Royalty, the long practised solution is to earn their right to privilege and riches by quietly and conscientiously doing their duty. The main arena for this is in bringing attention to worthwhile charities and good causes. In doing this, symbolically, they represent Britain as a generous, fair-minded and a concerned nation, qualities that our sample strongly uphold.
This strategy has served the Royal family well but two contemporary developments make a re-think of this strategy essential for the Royals.
Firstly, it is increasingly difficult, in the communications age, to bring attention to charities in a quiet way. Charity fund-raising, in a context of media fragmentation, remains a big draw in mass entertainment and has become a magnet for celebrities. The Royals are uncomfortable with their status as media celebrities but they need to resolve this dilemma if they are to continue to use charities to express their legitimacy, let alone their personalities.
Secondly, the Royals are being redefined in the age of celebrity as another reality show, with the media glorifying in scrutinising all aspects of their lives. Reality TV shows deconstruct participants characters and show us the layers of anxiety and insecurity underneath the public bravado. The Royals desire to shun attention in order to avoid a celebrity cult leaves a vacuum. They simultaneously appear to be remote and detached from ordinary people and fail to influence positively the images that are created of them.
What has happened is that young people readily ascribe caricatures to the Royals more commonly associated with classic story-telling. The Duke of Edinburgh is a buffoon who never thinks before he speaks. Prince Charles is a wimp, foiled by the domineering and status-obsessed Queen. Diana was the classic saviour goddess, which gives the unfortunate Camilla the role of the wicked witch. There is currently a stronger sense of real personality in the younger princes but, archetypally, Harry is the teenage rebel and William the golden boy.
Despite the riches and privileges, few young people — certainly in our qualitative enquiry — have any desire to swap places with Royalty. The irony is that the Royals are now our subjects. They are imprisoned in an unreal bubble from which they need our consent to escape.
This article was first published in InBrief magazine, May 2005
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Deeply conventional however for ever and ever surprising, India is one of those destinations that finally ends up on each visitor’s bucket list at some point. They might also dream of traveling Agra to peer the Taj Mahal in all its glory, or exploring the royal palaces scattered all through Rajasthan. Others find themselves charmed by the jaw-dropping landscapes in Darjeeling and Rishikesh or the postcard-perfect seashores in Goa.
India also has big cities—New Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata—each with its own wonderful personality. It is not possible to lose interest exploring the temples, markets and colorful streets of India’s biggest urban centres. The hardest part of travelling to India is identifying what to see to your ride.
Whether you are going on an epic backpacking journey or a luxurious excursion, plan your journey with this list of the great places to go to in India.
Taj Mahal in Agra
If there has been most effective one symbol to represent the whole of India, it might be the Taj Mahal. The monument conjures up tens of millions of travelers to go to Agra each 12 months, waking up before dawn to peer the fantastic structure at dawn.
But Agra tops the list of satisfactory places to go to in India for motives that pass past India’s maximum well-known sights.
The city of Uttar Pradesh is filled with fantastic Mughal monuments, inclusive of the Tomb of Itimad-ud-Daulah and the tomb of Akbar, decked from pinnacle to backside in hypnotic inlaid marble designs. Also, travelers can go to some other UNESCO World Heritage Site: Agra Fort. With so many wonders at simply one area, Agra is a need to visit metropolis for travelers in India.
Despite its crowds and chaos, New Delhi gives tourists lots to love. The colorful capital of India is the precise amalgamation of background and modernity. Old Delhi homes a number of the united states’s most valuable points of interest, which includes the Jama Masjid, the Red Fort, and the Chandni Chowk shopping mall. But at some point of the sprawling town, tourists can explore endless other sites of spiritual and cultural significance.
Top tourist attractions in New Delhi consist of Lotus Temple; India Gate; Humayun’s Tomb; and the tallest tower in India, the Qutub Minar. Fill your day exploring those spell binding attractions, and refuel on the roadside tea stalls and upscale eating places.
Want to peer a greater cosmopolitan facet of India? Mumbai’s lively, coastal city is home to the leading-edge extremely-wealthy marketers and Bollywood’s maximum popular actors. Tourists are in no way a ways from 5 celebrity motels or gourmand eating places in this luxurious town.
And despite the fact that the ones sports are out of price range, a cruise down loved Marine Drive will make you experience like royalty as you trap a glimpse of the beautiful waterfront and glamorous Art Deco homes.
You also can see a more genuine, neighborhood facet of Mumbai on the crowded “Thieves Market” or Churchgate railway station, where loads of thousands of selfmade lunches are packed for shipping to the metropolis’s workplace people each day.
Make certain you commit a day to checking out the Sanjay Gandhi National Park and exploring the 2,000-12 months-vintage Kanheri cave carvings.
Gadi Sagar Temple in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan
Translated to “Land of Kings”, Rajasthan is plagued by the stays of kings and queens of beyond centuries.
Amidst its incredible palaces, stately forts and vibrant gala’s, this western state deserves an important role in your experience to India.
Jaipur, a part of the Golden Triangle traveler circuit that also includes Agra and New Delhi, is one of the pinnacle places to visit in Rajasthan. Called the “Paris of India”, it’s far regarded for its distinctive crimson homes, the opulent City Palace and jewelry stores.
The “Blue City,” Jodhpur, gives vacationers an similarly unforgettable enjoy in its hilltop Mehrangarh Fort.
Udaipur is brimming with romance with its flower-coated streets and the incredible City Palace complicated, in which the royal own family nevertheless is living.
And Jaisalmer looks as if an Arabian Nights fairy tale introduced to existence with its yellow sandstone systems and historical havelis (havelis). No matter in which you arrive in this barren region state, you may be captivated via the magic of Rajasthan.
Rishikesh has been on the radar for spiritually-minded tourists because the past due 1960s, whilst the Beatles frolicked at Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s ashram. There is an abandoned website online that has become an off-the-overwhelmed-traveller enchantment for fanatics. Has been.
The town is located at the foothills of the Himalayas at the banks of the holy river Ganges.And serves as a middle of yoga and pilgrimage.
Take part in the action, or experience the sound of temple bells and sightseeing from Rishikesh’s suspension bridges, which can be often guarded via vocal households of monkeys. Keep a distance.
A holy man on the river Ganges in Varanasi
One of the oldest constantly inhabited towns within the world, Varanasi is arguably the holiest region in India.
Spiritual activities take place alongside the banks of the holy Ganges River, wherein pilgrims shower and carry out last rites of these days deceased loved ones in the front of mourning passersby.
Tourists, alternatively, discover their own taste of spiritualism by way of taking a sunrise boat experience, leaving blessings of flowers floating at the river, and watching Hindu chanting ceremonies packed with fire from steep ghats.
Away from the water, the streets of the old metropolis twist and flip like an infinite maze. Legend has it that there is nonetheless no precise map of Varanasi, and once you revel in the labyrinthine metropolis for your self, you’ll be extra than willing to trust it.
Golden Temple in Amritsar
The “Jewel of Punjab” Amritsar has claimed reputation with its tremendous Golden Temple. One of the holiest places in the international for Sikhs, the gilded structure is a sight to behold, gleaming within the sun and contemplated inside the large pool that surrounds it.
The enchantment additionally homes the world’s biggest network kitchen, serving up to 100,000 diners (which includes curious vacationers!) lentils and curries each day.
While in Amritsar, plan to spend the afternoon on the Pakistan border to witness the Beating Retreat Ceremony. The goose-stepping guards of long-status opponents India and Pakistan open and close the border gates in an over-the-pinnacle rite you may never forget. Arrive early to bounce with the locals inside the streets to the blazing Bollywood track.
Palolem Beach, South Goa
India isn’t only full of massive towns and holy sites – it also has first rate beaches in Goa to its south.
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Using video in Medical Simulation & Clinical Skills with Codimg analysis software
The use of video within medical simulation to enhance clinical and non-clinical skills allows you to use video to give 100% objective, evidence-based feedback from an assessor to a practitioner. It’s a powerful tool to easily and quickly observe key moments of the practice.
This video will show you some cost sensible, easy ways to achieve your ideal Audio-Visual (AV) setups for medical simulation, whatever pathway you wish to take!
We start by simply using an iPad to film. The Codimg View iPad app allows us to use a customised template of Categories and Descriptor buttons to live clip important moments for instant feedback or post event debriefing.
With its portability and ease of use, it’s an ideal way to start your AV journey, but can also add value to an existing medical simulation set up. The video file and data can be shared straight into the Codimg video analysis software and even shared into other timeline-based software.
Codimg View is a perfect option for live training analysis and debriefing and only costs £105 (+vat) per licence!
We then show you the setups for using both conventional cameras and IP cameras, with either a single or dual capture of the video live into your Codimg Software on your PC. We use a mouse or hotkeys to code the event using an on-screen buttons template, easily clipping those all-important moments and creating a timeline of events with a number of powerful tools at your fingertips to easily review, understand and debrief the event.
Dual capture could enable live review of two different angles and/or a combination of essential information provided by a monitor for example – making it easily viewable beside the main capture.
Wherever you stand with using video in your medical simulations, a clever choice of hardware combined with the Codimg video analysis tools can make for seamless work; from the more comprehensive use of video capture and analysis tools to the simple live capture for post event review. At AnalysisPro, we can customise and provide solutions to suit your requirements and needs.
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Biogeochemical Controls over Corrinoid Bioavailability to Organohalide-Respiring Chloroflexi
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Nitrous Oxide Halts Breakdown of Chlorinated Compounds
Research Brief - April 2019
A new Superfund Research Program (SRP) study showed that nitrous oxide (N2O), a groundwater contaminant commonly generated from agricultural runoff, inhibits bacterial degradation of certain chlorinated contaminants, including tetrachloroethene (PCE). The study may explain why bioremediation, or the use of bacteria to break down compounds, can stall at some hazardous waste sites.
Novel Cobamide Structure May Hold Clues for More Effective Biological Degradation of Chlorinated Compounds
Research Brief - December 2017
Researchers at the University of Tennessee have discovered a crucial compound that helps specific bacteria degrade pollutants like tetrachloroethene (PCE). This compound, called purinyl-cobamide, assists enzymes during degradation reactions.
The Effect of Corrinoid Co-factors on Bioremediation of Chlorinated Compounds
Research Brief - March 2016
Specific modifications to helper molecules, or co-factors, play an important role in how efficiently some bacteria can degrade toxic chlorinated pollutants. In a new study, researchers from the University of Tennessee found that specific chemical modifications to corrinoid co-factors, a group of molecules that includes vitamin B12, can affect how well bacteria degrade chlorinated pollutants such as tetrachloroethene (PCE) and trichloroethene (TCE). | <urn:uuid:e98236ac-af48-4f67-a15d-ac3a987437c8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tools.niehs.nih.gov/srp/news/index.cfm?Project_ID=R01ES024294 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.864776 | 340 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Whether you are in search for new content management system or optimizing internal processes related to the content - one very useful thing you could do is to design your content delivery tree.
The diagram of content delivery gives clear view on many important features that the CMS should support.
I'm sure you know very well your platform, the point is that you have to make analysis with the digital content in mind. Like identifying integration points, content usage, common data between the catalog and the CMS ... This post is focused of the delivery tree in the context of eCommerce.
Identify your delivery tree
Let's start with the global view on the eCommerce platform from digital content perspective. How you going to organise you digital content, split it, use and reuse it.
First characteristics I check are the once below:
This is the first characteristic you should understand for your shop platform. A company can own and manage multiple brands. They can be totally different for ex. a company has shop for digital equipment and another one for selling music instruments online. Or they can be very close a good example are specialized shops created from a set of products from the "mother" shop.
Get more info on how they are managed: on organizational level and operational level. This should tell you how close are the brands between each other. The multiband concept should be built in from the start.
If you are lucky and your company has only one brand and no plans to introduce new one, then maybe you can put away the "brands" feature from the list. This is clearly a bet and you should sync with your business people before making the decision.
One brand can have multiple sites. Usually the sites are on country level. They tend to have the same look and feel. From digital content aspect you should be able to make clear distinction in the content organization.
Some system handles it in the content organizational tree, some with meta data in the content ...Independently how it's solved, if you are in a multinational business make sure you mark this as mandatory feature.
This one is important if you provide different locales on the same site. Maybe you have site (or mobile app) in Switzerland - providing localizations on the German, Italian and French. Be careful with this one, many platforms tend to handle multi-site feature with the localization functionality.
That means if you have two sites you can just take two different locales and support them. I find it as better solution to have the multi-site feature separately. I want to be able to have two sites with the same locale. For example, you want to provide English version in the German site or just take the Spanish language as an example which is used in many countries.
The channels (web/mobile/other) give another dimension to the digital content structure. Which means you need to keep separate and different content depending on the channel.
Please don't mix it with the responsive design principles. You should be able to deliver totally different experience on different channels. It's not a must but it's better for you to stay flexible.
Make sure that your potential system supports content delivery based on the channel.
You should build similar tree for your system. The characteristics should give you global view on your platform and also criteria for the potential CMS. All criteria that you identified for your eCommerce platform must be fulfilled from the CMS candidates.
Please don't make compromise on these features. Making workarounds or adding additional external tools can cost you a lot of time and headache.
Digital Content Reusability
As you probably noticed as you go down the tree the reusability is higher.
The brands barely share content, maybe some metadata and info for the company itself. As you move down, there is also good possibility to have reuse between some sites. It's more specific cases then a rule. I’ve seen this case for German and Austrian sites also for France and Belgium.
- Identify how to organise the content to fit your business. In our case main players are brands, sites, localization and channels
- Mark the shared content cases
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The majority of scholars say it is not permitted to make up the missed prayer of the dead. They back up their opinion by a statement of Abdullah ibn Umar (ra):
عبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنَ عُمَرَ كَانَ يُسْأَلُ هَلْ يَصُومُ أَحَدٌ عَنْ أَحَدٍ أَوْ يُصَلِّي أَحَدٌ عَنْ أَحَدٍ، فَيَقُولُ لَا يَصُومُ أَحَدٌ عَنْ أَحَدٍ وَلَا يُصَلِّي أَحَدٌ عَنْ أَحَدٍ
Abdullah ibn Umar used to be asked, "can someone fast for someone else, or do the prayer for someone else?" and he would reply, "No one can fast or do the prayer for anyone else." (Book 18, Hadith 674.) an-Nasa'i narrated a similar statement by ibn Abas.
The stipulation of fasting has been conditioned by hadiths that permit it (quoted below).
Imam al-Qurtubi said:
وَأَجْمَعُوا أَنَهُ لَا يُصَلِي أَحَدٌ عَنْ أَحَدٍ
"There is a consensus of scholars that it is not allowed to make up the prayer of another." (Tafsir al-Qurtubi, Vol. 17, pp. 114.)
Few scholars allowed a Fiyah (ransom) for each day/prayer, as the case of fasting such as al-Butty and as-Sarkhasi.
As-Sarkhasi, a Hanafi scholar said:
إِذَا مَاتَ وَعَلَيْهِ صَلَوَاتٍ يُطْعَمُ عَنْهُ لِكُلِ صَلَاةٍ نِصْفُ صَاعٍ مِنَ حِنْطَة.
"If a person died and he had missed a prayer, his inheritors can feed (it'am) the poor for each prayer half sa' (weight scale - a standard measure that equals 3kg) of wheat." (as-Sarkhasi, al-Mabsut, Vol. 3, p. 90.)
It is better to adhere to the majority view here and do the following mandub deeds and offer them their reward to the dead.
What good deed could we do for the dead? Does the thawab reach the dead?
Most scholars agree, except narrations in Shafi'i and Hanbali schools of law who allowed in only in nadhr, the reward (thawab) does not reach the dead except the reward of sadaqah, 'Ilm, good offspring, fasting, Hajj, reading the Quran. They based their opinion on the following:
وَأَنْ لَيْسَ لِلْإِنْسَانِ إِلَا مَا سَعَى
"And that man shall have nothing but what he strives for." (Surat an-Najm, 53: 39.)
But this verse is conditioned to other narrations that permit certain deeds, so most scholars allowed it only in the mentioned deeds. Such as the following:
يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ هَلْ بَقِيَ مِنْ بِرِّ أَبَوَىَّ شَىْءٌ أَبَرُّهُمَا بِهِ بَعْدَ مَوْتِهِمَا قَالَ: "نَعَمِ الصَّلاَةُ عَلَيْهِمَا وَالاِسْتِغْفَارُ لَهُمَا وَإِنْفَاذُ عَهْدِهِمَا مِنْ بَعْدِهِمَا وَصِلَةُ الرَّحِمِ الَّتِي لاَ تُوصَلُ إِلاَّ بِهِمَا وَإِكْرَامُ صَدِيقِهِمَا "
Messenger of Allah is there any kindness left that I can do to my parents after their death? He replied: Yes, you can invoke blessings on them, forgiveness for them, carry out their final instructions after their death, join ties of relationship which are dependent on them, and honour their friends." (Sunan Abi Dawud 5142.)
إِذَا مَاتَ الإِنْسَانُ انْقَطَعَ عَنْهُ عَمَلُهُ إِلاَّ مِنْ ثَلاَثَةٍ إِلاَّ مِنْ صَدَقَةٍ جَارِيَةٍ أَوْ عِلْمٍ يُنْتَفَعُ بِهِ أَوْ وَلَدٍ صَالِحٍ يَدْعُو لَهُ
"When a man dies, his deeds come to an end, except for three: A continuous charity, knowledge by which people derive benefit, pious son who prays for him." (Muslim, Book 7, Hadith 949.)
جَاءَ رَجُلٌ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ أُمِّي مَاتَتْ وَعَلَيْهَا صَوْمُ شَهْرٍ أَفَأَقْضِيهِ عَنْهَا فَقَالَ " لَوْ كَانَ عَلَى أُمِّكَ دَيْنٌ أَكُنْتَ قَاضِيَهُ عَنْهَا " . قَالَ نَعَمْ . قَالَ " فَدَيْنُ اللَّهِ أَحَقُّ أَنْ يُقْضَى "
"A man came to the Messenger of Allah (saw) and said: Messenger of Allah, my mother has died (in a state) that she had to observe fasts of a month (of Ramadan). Should I complete (them) on her behalf? thereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: Would you not pay the debt if your mother had died (without paying it)? He said: Yes. He (the Holy Prophet) said: The debt of Allah deserves more that it should he paid." (Sahih Muslim 1148 b. al-Bukhari.)
جَاءَتْ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم فَقَالَتْ إِنَّ أُمِّي نَذَرَتْ أَنْ تَحُجَّ، فَلَمْ تَحُجَّ حَتَّى مَاتَتْ أَفَأَحُجُّ عَنْهَا قَالَ " نَعَمْ. حُجِّي عَنْهَا، أَرَأَيْتِ لَوْ كَانَ عَلَى أُمِّكِ دَيْنٌ أَكُنْتِ قَاضِيَةً اقْضُوا اللَّهَ، فَاللَّهُ أَحَقُّ بِالْوَفَاءِ
A woman from the tribe of Juhaina came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said, "My mother had vowed to perform Hajj but she died before performing it. May I perform Hajj on my mother's behalf?" The Prophet (ﷺ) replied, "Perform Hajj on her behalf. Had there been a debt on your mother, would you have paid it or not? So, pay Allah's debt as He has more right to be paid." (Sahih al-Bukhari 1852.)
The shari'a permits us to do istighfar, charity, Hajj, fasting, supplications, clear debts and other good deeds for our dead relatives and friends. However, there is no evidence in any authentic or established Sunnah where the Prophet (saw) permitted the believers to offer prayers or even fast for another or transfer its rewards to another.
The scholars generally agree it is not permitted to make up a prayer they missed before death, but we could do the above rewardful acts instead.
May Allah have mercy on Muslims who have passed away and forgive us when we accompany them. Ameen.
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How can I reduce the MB of a video without losing quality?
Whether it's to fit onto an email or for uploading to YouTube, there are times when we want to compress our videos. But how many ways is that possible? Veed takes care of all those situations so you don't have to worry about the quality of your video after you've compressed it.
It also comes with an easy-to-use interface, which makes this process super simple. Here's what you need to know.
How can I make a video smaller without losing quality in mobile?
When you're working from home, chances are you only have one internet connection available at any given time. That means if you were to download something large like a TV show, movie, etc., then you could be waiting hours just to watch it! This is where streaming services come into play -- they allow you to stream content over Wi-Fi instead of downloading it locally. However, sometimes when using these platforms, the resolution gets reduced to 360p, 480p, 720p, 1080p, whatever your device supports. You might not even notice this happening because most people aren't watching their shows as close up as they would while sitting in front of a computer screen. For example, Netflix recommends its users use Ultra HD 4K whenever possible. So why does the platform automatically lower resolutions?
This isn't necessarily bad but rather a way to save space and bandwidth. If you plan on sharing your videos online, it doesn't matter whether you watched them fullscreen or not. The same goes for social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter, especially when posting pictures and other things. If you want to keep the original resolution, however, here are some free tools you can try before paying money:
ResizeMe: Resizing images has never been easier than with ResizeMe. Simply choose the source image, set the width/height ratio, and click "Create Image." It'll create a new image based off of the first image's aspect ratio. Then crop the picture by dragging out side borders until you get the desired height and width. Save the final product to disk once you see the preview window pop up.
VideoLama Video Converter: Another great option is converting videos to different formats. As long as you enter the right dimensions for each format, you should end up with the perfect version for wherever you intend to view it next. To begin, go to File & Open Source Folder... After doing that, find the.avi/.mp4 file you'd like to convert. Once selected, you can adjust the various fields under Output Settings. Choose either Standard Definition (.mpeg), High Quality (.divx), or Best Quality (.mkv).
One thing worth noting is that if you decide to resize a high definition video, you may lose color depth. A lossless codec provides higher quality output than standard defintion. When choosing between H.264 and MPEG-2 encoders, you must take into account what type of devices you plan on viewing the converted files on. Although H.264 is able to provide better performance overall, MPEG-2 tends to work well across more systems due to its widespread compatibility.
Hence, unless you really want to shrink your footage down dramatically, consider keeping the resolution and frame rate as-is during conversion. Also, remember to check "Convert All" if you're looking to perform multiple conversions simultaneously.
Now let's look at how to quickly reduce the size of a video on Windows 10.
How do I reduce the MB of a video on Mac OS X?
If you're running macOS, you probably already know how to trim videos. Go to Edit " Trim... Click Set start point(s)... Enter the starting position... Select End Point... Hit OK and wait for the editor to finish processing your clip. And now you can enjoy your newly trimmed clips.
But what happens if you want to actually reduce the size of a video without sacrificing quality? Well, Apple didn't help us out very much there. We recommend checking out Avidemux 2 [No Longer Available]. With this tool, you can easily scale your video without dropping frames. Additionally, you can apply filters and effects to further enhance your masterpiece.
For instance, say you want to cut your video down to half speed but still maintain sharpness. In that case, you could add another filter called Speed Overlay. By adjusting sliders along the timeline, you can control how fast the audio plays relative to the visual portion.
Another neat feature is Audio Normalization. Essentially, you can adjust the volume levels of individual tracks within the video itself. There are several presets to choose from, including normal, loud, soft, and silent.
You can access these features via the main menu bar. From there, simply double-click a track and drag through the timeline. Press the green Record button (or hit R) and your changes will appear in real-time.
Here's how to do the same task on Linux.
How do I reduce the size of a video on iOS?
On iPhone 8 Plus models, reducing the video size is pretty straightforward. Just tap the Share icon located in the bottom-right corner, scroll down, and tap Reduce Resolution. Now pick the smallest setting supported by your camera—1080p is generally good enough. Lastly, tap Done.
However, older iPhones and iPads require slightly more effort. First, open QuickTime Player. Next, locate the file you'd like to modify. Right below the playback controls, press CMD+T and navigate to Effects " Compress Media.... Then, change the Destination dropdown box to Original Size. Finally, click Apply Changes, and voilà! Your video should now display properly.
The same principles apply to iPad owners too. Except this time around, you'll need to head over to Photos App. Locate the video you wish to alter and select Adjust Size. Pick Smallest Supported Resolution followed by Done.
Unfortunately, no app exists specifically designed to handle scaling videos on Android since Google Play Store currently offers limited functionality. Luckily, there is a workaround. One user discovered that this problem only occurs when shrinking video files down to less than 1MB in size. Therefore, if your goal is to squeeze every last ounce of storage capacity out of your smartphone, you can always follow this method:
Download MP3 Cutter Free. Cut your video down to 320kbps mp3 format. Then turn the video back into an actual video.
Doesn't sound like fun, right? Fortunately, there are plenty of apps capable of helping you achieve similar results. Some examples include:
Reduce Videos: Allows you to compress your media into a variety of formats. You can manually adjust the settings for each category or use preset profiles, depending on your needs.
Cut Down Files: Offering hundreds of compression ratios, you can customize your settings according to your preferences.
Scalr: Very efficient at compressing both static and dynamic elements. Can be used for editing purposes as well.
How do I reduce the size of a video without losing quality on Android?
There are numerous methods to accomplish this feat, but none of them are exactly ideal. If you run into problems trying to get Android Studio installed, consider giving MX Player a shot. Not only is it compatible with almost everything, but it also allows you to shrink videos without sacrificing quality.
To perform said action, launch the program and browse to My Apps " MX Video Player. Find the video file you wish to edit and select it. On the top left section of the player, you'll see two icons labeled Reducing and Increasing. Drag the slider alongside these icons to increase or decrease the video's length. Alternatively, hold CTRL + Shift keys and move the mouse cursor towards or away from the center of the screen. Doing so increases or decreases the duration proportionally.
A note regarding increasing the framerate: Due to differences between smartphones and computers, changing the fps value can result in unexpected consequences. Thus, it's recommended that you leave it alone and avoid altering it altogether. Nevertheless, if you insist on doing so, you can utilize the following formula:
[video_width] / 2 = target_fps
That being said, if you're shooting in 16:9 mode, you should aim for 24 fps. Otherwise, stick to 30 fps.
How do I downscale a video without losing quality?
In short, yes…but it depends upon what kind of hardware you're using. Generally speaking, if you have a relatively powerful PC, you shouldn't encounter any issues regardless of the amount of data involved. Only reason you'd ever run into trouble is if you're encoding extremely low quality videos for web browsers or mobiles.
As previously mentioned, if you shoot in 720p, expect to receive roughly 50% fewer megabytes per minute compared to shooting in 1080p. Why? Because the former requires far less information to represent. Furthermore, if you're planning on sending your video to someone else who uses an inferior system, you might run into trouble.
When you have hundreds or thousands of photos on Facebook that are all taking up gigabytes in storage space, it's probably time to start looking for ways to compress those images down into something more manageable.
One way is through Facebook itself. If you choose to post them as regular pictures rather than videos, then they'll be compressed automatically when uploaded by Facebook's servers instead of going straight to your hard drive. But if you'd prefer to use videos in place of stills, there are plenty of tools out there to help with this task too. Here we take a look at some of the most popular methods for compressing both audio and video files so that they're easier to manage online.
How do I reduce the MB of an MP4?
If you've got a bunch of high-definition videos that you want to share via social media but don't need to watch immediately after downloading from somewhere like YouTube, Dropbox, etc., reducing their overall file sizes first may not be necessary. After all, once you download these videos to your computer, you should only view them using one of two devices -- either on your TV using HDMI or perhaps connected over USB to your laptop, desktop PC, tablet, smartphone, or another device. In other words, unless you plan on sharing them directly on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+, Snapchat, Tumblr, Pinterest, Dribbble, or elsewhere, you might just stick with standard definition resolution or even lower. You could also consider uploading videos to sites such as TinyPNG where they get converted down to web standards which typically results in much larger file sizes.
But what about the actual video content itself? You could try cutting off unnecessary portions such as titles, credits, watermarks, logos, captions, and similar. This approach has its limits though because sometimes, especially with longer clips, certain sections must remain intact if you ever wish to edit them further later. The same goes for things like chapter markers or subtitles. For example, you can remove unwanted footage from a movie trailer before posting it onto YouTube, but doing this kind of editing would require extensive knowledge of how the final product was made. However, if you were creating your own movie trailers, you could always crop out parts that didn't work well enough.
Another option is to simply cut the clip down to around 5 minutes maximum length while leaving any relevant scenes unedited. Then, add music or sound effects to enhance the mood and ambiance of whatever remains. Finally, turn everything off except for the main subject(s). Now you've got yourself a short attention span teaser!
How do I reduce file size of MP4?
The same principles apply here whether you're dealing with a raw camera recording, photo, or video file. First, ask yourself if you really need the original version in full HD or higher. As mentioned above, maybe you could settle for a "smaller" format like 720p or 1080p depending on the context. Second, think about any edits you'd like to perform. Perhaps you could trim down long silences or bits of unusable background noise. Thirdly, if possible, convert your video file to one of several different formats. There are lots of free apps available that allow users to easily change video codecs on Windows 7, 8, 10, Mac OS X, iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, and many others. Lastly, there's Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2014 and newer versions [Broken URL Removed]which allows users to quickly and efficiently encode various types of files to multiple output resolutions including H.264/MPEG-4 AVC (basically anything Apple supports), MPEG2 Video (.mov), HEVC Videos (.mp4), WebVTT Text Track (.vtt), QuickTime (.qtv), AVI Files (.avi), MOV Files (.mov), 3GP Files (.3gp), Animated GIF Images (.gif), JPEG Still Image Frames (.jpg), PNG Bitmap Animation (.png), TIFF Bounding Boxes (.tiff), Flash Animations (.fla), and FLV Format (.FLV).
It's worth noting that you can actually accomplish this process within Photoshop by opening up the Edit menu and choosing Encode Movie File... which opens up a window allowing you to specify the desired destination type. From there, you can export your project as.AVI,.MKV,.MPG,.OGG,.RMVB,.TS,.WebM,.WMV,.WMA,.ASF,.AAC, or.AMR.
How do I decrease the MB of a video?
As previously discussed, if you already know exactly how the finished piece will be used, chances are good that you won't need to shrink down the entire thing. Most likely, you'll end up needing to do less cutting and cropping than normal. It's easy enough to adjust the video frame rate down to a point where the result isn't noticeable. And yes, you can do this natively in almost every mainstream video editor today.
However, if you're planning to use your edited video for streaming purposes, meaning that people will be watching it live on websites like Twitch, Ustream, Periscope, Facebook Live, or anywhere else, you definitely should keep the original resolution as close as possible. Otherwise, you risk dropping viewers right out of the action due to low bandwidth issues.
Lastly, remember that the amount of data consumed per second depends upon the resolution being streamed or downloaded. So if someone's trying to open up a 100MB 4K video, it's going to consume roughly four times more bandwidth than a 1GB 2D video stream. When viewing over Wi-Fi, however, there's no difference between the two since each pixel takes up the same amount of information regardless of dimensionality. Also note that you shouldn't worry about sending large amounts of data over cellular connections unless you're specifically paying extra for mobile plans that support specific bandwidth caps.
How do I make a MP4 file smaller?
This last question is pretty straightforward. Simply find a tool that converts video files between supported formats, then upload your source file to the website. Some examples include Zamzar, Uploading.io, ConvertKit, Mp3tkr, OnlineConvert, MediaFire, Dropzone, WeTransfer, Sendspace, ShareX, CloudConvert, Jumpshare, SendAnywhere, Blip, WideoCam, Imgur, Keka, Filedrop, SaveFrom, GoToMyPC, Rapidshare, PutFile, ZebraHosted, Yousendit, MulticastCast, PnchStream, and StreamTransport. Once you receive your conversion, you should be able to save it locally for playback on virtually any modern device. Note that there are numerous services that offer file conversions, but unfortunately, most of them aren't very trustworthy. Be sure to read reviews and check customer feedback prior to making any major purchases.
Do you have any additional tips for saving space when hosting videos online? Let us know below!
Video is ubiquitous online—YouTube alone has 1 billion users per month! That means that there are plenty of people who want to send videos via email or SMS message but don't have enough space for them. With this in mind, here's how you compress an MP4 so it takes up less room without sacrificing quality.
The process is straightforward: just tell Video Encoder Express which quality setting you'd like to use, then adjust other parameters. It'll automatically choose the best option based on your choices. You can also set your own custom values if preferred. Let's take a closer look at what each field does.
MPEG-2 vs MPEG-4 encoding
When sending big files over the internet, two different types of codecs exist. The older MPEG-2 standard was used from 1987 until 2000 when it was superseded by the more modern H.264/AVC format. Unlike its successor, MPEG-4 Part 10, known as AVC / H.264, MPEG-2 supports greater resolutions while maintaining similar quality. However, MP4s encoded with the newer technology tend to be smaller than those using the older method. This makes MPEG-2 ideal for streaming media services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.
If you're looking to save some storage space, however, we recommend converting any existing MPEG-2 clips into MP4s using Apple QuickTime Player Pro 7.3.1 [No Longer Available]. Simply drag one or multiple.MPG files onto the app window, and it'll create an equivalent MP4 clip. In many cases, the resulting file won’t require much extra work. As long as you keep everything above 640x480 resolution and under 5GB total size, they should play back fine.
This isn’t always true, though, especially if you’re working with high definition footage. If you must convert between formats, you might need to first export your original source material as an uncompressed AVI container. For maximum compatibility across devices, consider exporting in HEVC rather than MP4.
How do I lower the MB on a video?
To begin reducing the amount of data required to view a movie, simply open the main menu bar located next to the time indicator. Click File " Save Project… or press Cmd + S. Select your desired destination folder and hit Choose Files. Navigate through all of your assets, then locate the relevant file(s). Once selected, click Open and watch the magic happen before your eyes.
Keep in mind that you can only change certain properties within the Settings panel. Changing the Bit Rate directly results in lossy compression, meaning your video may not meet HD standards after editing. Instead, try adjusting Resolution, Frame rate (also called frame rate), Width & Height, and Quality instead. To see the difference, compare 1080p60 versus 720p30 below.
Note: When choosing the target width and height, make sure you leave at least 2MB per pixel available. Otherwise, you risk getting black bars during playback.
How do I reduce the MB size of a video?
You can manually resize images and movies using the same steps outlined earlier. Alternatively, just double-click the asset to bring up the Properties panel. Here, you’ll find several useful fields related to your selection, including Size, Resolution, Dimensions, and Pixels Per Line. By changing these numbers, you can specify exactly where your image or video starts showing pixels.
For example, let’s say you plan to shrink down a 4K 60fps video from 25GB to 20 GB. Begin by opening the video in Finder and selecting Edit " Trim. Then highlight the beginning and end points of the clip. Now hold Shift + Option + Left Arrow keys. Drag the blue markers further apart to extend the length of the clip. Repeat this step for the right side, keeping careful track of your progress in real-time. Don’t worry about accidentally deleting the wrong portion of your clip in the middle of things.
Once you reach your goal, your final product should look something like the following GIF. Although it doesn't show very well due to low bandwidth, you can clearly see the transition occurring seamlessly.
How do I reduce mobile video size without losing quality?
On iOS, you can perform manual edits using iMovie '09 ($9.99) or Final Cut Pro X ($19.95 & $29.95 for Premier version). On Android, meanwhile, Avidemux ($0.99) allows you to trim clips and apply filters for free. Both apps offer full versions that cost around $20-$40 depending on whether you pay monthly or annually. Unfortunately, none support multi-track recording yet.
Alternatively, you could opt for Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram, or Mailbox. Each service comes with their own built-in tools for compressing video messages.
Google Photos lets you encode videos with either High Efficiency Low Delay (HELLP) or High Profile Baseline (HPME) profiles. These provide better visual fidelity compared to Standard Definition, while still being far more efficient in terms of megabytes saved.
Facebook Messenger uses the VP8 codec for optimized transmission, which offers higher efficiency than WebM. The downside is that users cannot download the content themselves unless they upgrade to Premium.
WhatsApp relies on MJPEG compression, which reduces size considerably while retaining excellent quality. After uploading a new clip to WhatsApp, tap More " Compress Media. Finally, Microsoft Outlook utilizes Windows Live Messaging's proprietary protocol for sharing videos. All you need to do is add your recipient's email address and start typing. From there, select Send Message " Attachment, then browse to the location containing your clip. Once loaded, the recipient should receive a notification whenever your message arrives.
And remember, you can stream live audio and video directly to YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Skype, Snapchat, etc., allowing you to share anything with anyone, anywhere.
How can I reduce the MB of a video?
Veed is a handy tool for quickly shrinking large videos, regardless of platform. Using the webapp, you can import a video URL or locally stored file, enter your desired dimensions, and define other technical details such as the bitrate and frame rate. Afterwards, pick a preset or configure your own.
A few examples include Lossless, Medium, Mobile, and Mobile - No Watermark. If you decide to go this route, you can easily tweak the output yourself using the controls found on the left sidebar. Note that the actual compression ratio depends on the input footage. Videos shot at 30 fps generally yield better results than ones captured at 24 fps. And similarly, 720p produces much larger files relative to 1080p.
In addition to saving space, VEED provides a wide range of features meant to improve the overall viewing experience. Users can enjoy reduced CPU usage thanks to hardware acceleration and optimize performance according to device specifications. They can even enable auto-scaling based on screen orientation. Furthermore, VEED offers customizable subtitles as well as integration with cloud providers like iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Box, Evernote, Salesforce, Office 365, SharePoint Online, Zoho, SugarSync, Flickr, Smug Mug, Fiverr Marketplace, LinkedIn, and others.
As mentioned previously, VEED works perfectly with both HTTP and FTP protocols. So feel free to use whichever suits your needs. Other noteworthy features include:
Live preview mode
Support for various audio tracks
Temporal masking effects
Scene access rights management
Screen overlay capability
Built-in subtitle editor
Transcoding speed optimization
Real-time transcoding monitoring
Ability to schedule jobs remotely
Integration with third party APIs
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As we have become more and more skilled at marketing and PR have we forgotten that people judge us on what we do, not what we say?
That thin veneer of promises and beautifully crafted messages is a skinny and fragile veneer glued on top of the deep substance of what we actually and consistently do. My thought was triggered by the conservative party senior management reaction to thumping loss in a by-election that took them by surprise. Co-chairman of the party, Amanda Milling, said “the Conservatives would look at how they could regain their trust”, and “ministers needed to “shout louder” about Boris Johnson’s promise to “level up” the UK”.
Those of you that know me will be aware of my lack of enthusiasm for the party but putting that to one side, the assumptions made here are telling. “Regaining trust” is a major, long term exercise requiring consistency and a change in behaviours, and we all know changing behaviours is more than a decision; it is hard work that has to be supported by those around us to keep us on track. Then, “needing to shout out about promises” suggests an assumption that it is the message, not the substance, that matters.
I thought this reaction was an excellent example of a broader issue, from responses to reports on corruption and social care to corporate tax avoidance to policies on global warming. People in head offices remote from those affected by their reactions treating surprises that are, in reality, no surprise as a technical issue that a change in the message can correct.
In a series of conversations this week, we talked about the subject of “micro rebellions”. These rebellions seem unlikely to be about big revolution and placards on the street, but rather many, many small actions taken by people affected by broken promises and consistent egregious action.
Many small actions about many things eventually join together. But, whether it is politics, or business, or “working from home”, a tipping point will be reached where the people affected will disregard those carefully crafted messages and stop turning up.
Our actions matter. It signals character. Character and consistency are the foundations of trust. If we do not maintain them, we can hardly be surprised when the building we occupy in society starts to crack visibly.
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Dan Izenberg, Jerusalem Post, December 26, 2005
The Bialik-Rogozin school in south Tel Aviv is one of the most unusual educational institutions in the country.
For one thing, the school includes a kindergarten, primary school and high school under one roof and one management.
For another, it has a unique demographic composition. Thirty-two percent of its students are the children of foreign workers, 19% are children of immigrants from the former Soviet Union and 7% are Israeli Arabs.
Another peculiarity, to say the least, is that Bialik-Rogozin must be the only school in Israel that stands to lose about 30% of its student body before the end of the school year.
In accordance with a government decision passed on June 26, all children of foreign workers and their families will be deported from Israel as of March 31, 2006 unless they meet each of the following criteria:
• The child was born in Israel, is at least 10 years old and has lived here continuously.
• His parents entered Israel legally with a visa and permit according to the Entry to Israel Law before the child was born.
• The child is studying in an Israeli school or graduated from one, speaks Hebrew and his deportation would involve “cultural exile” to a country to which he has no cultural connection.
In its June decision, the government endorsed a proposal originally approved by the Interministerial Committee for Population Registration headed by then-interior minister Ophir Paz-Pines (Labor).
Paz-Pines’s proposal was a more draconian version of the one made by his predecessor, Avraham Poraz (Shinui), two years earlier.
According to Poraz, children of foreign workers who had lived in Israel for at least 10 years and who were in high school or who were high school graduates would receive permanent residency status. Children who had lived in Israel for at least five years and were in the 11th or 12th grade would be eligible for temporary status if a special committee concluded that they had a strong connection to Israel.
Poraz did not make residential status for the children of foreign workers and their immediate families conditional on the birth of the child in Israel or whether their parents originally entered the country legally.
In accordance with the more restrictive criteria established by Paz-Pines, only 27 of the 225 children of foreign workers studying at Rogozin were eligible to remain here.
On August 24, two months after the government endorsed Paz-Pines’s proposal, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) and the Hotline for Migrant Workers petitioned the High Court of Justice, asking it to declare that the two conditions Paz-Pines added to Poraz’s proposal — Israeli birth and legal entry by the parents — were improper.
These conditions, wrote ACRI attorney Michal Pinchuk, “are arbitrary and do injustice to the aim of the arrangement, which is to find a solution on the basis of humanitarian principles, to the problem of the children of foreign workers. These children have integrated into Israeli society. Their deportation would mean taking them to an alien country with which they have no cultural or emotional ties.” Pinchuk argued that these conditions had nothing to do with the children’s existential plight. The children had no responsibility for the nature of their parents’ entry into Israel or where they were born, and neither of these matters determined their own ties to Israel, the country in which they had been raised.
Even if the High Court accepts the petition, many of the pupils at Bialik-Rogozin will be forced to leave Israel as of next Sunday (January 1, 2006.) More than half the children of foreign workers, 120 out of the 225, are younger than 10 years of age and are not covered by the petition. Another 27 meet all four criteria. That leaves less than 80 pupils and their immediate families who will in fact be affected by the High Court decision.
On November 27, dozens of these children piled into a school bus to attend a hearing on the petition before seven High Court justices, headed by Supreme Court President Aharon Barak.
Aside from some obvious physical differences, like the color of their skin or the shape of their cheekbones, the children looked and dressed like any Israeli youth of the same age. Those who were here from a young enough age talked with exactly the same accent and slang as their Israeli contemporaries.
At the end of the hearing, the petitioners won the round but not the battle. The court extended the deportation deadline for children of foreign workers aged 10-18 until March 31, regardless of how their parents entered the country or where the children were born.
A FEW weeks later, I met a few of them in the teachers’ lounge at Bialik-Rogozin. Earlier, the principle, Karen Tal, had told me that although they might look the same as ordinary Israeli children, they did not live the same way.
“These children sleep with one eye open,” said Tal. “They’ve heard the door close in the middle of the night when police took away their father or uncle. They don’t have the privilege of deep sleep.”
The children were quiet, polite and soft-spoken. Maybe it was because of the subject at hand, but none of them laughed, played around or even smiled throughout the discussion. They said a few, sparse, commonplace words about why they wanted to stay in Israel, and spoke with almost no passion until they described some of their experiences with the immigration authorities.
Among them were: Grade 8 pupil Robert Bronstein, 13, who came to Israel from Moldavia at age seven; Grade 8 pupil Richard Suarez, 14, who came to Israel from Colombia at age 14; Grade 12 pupil Jose Escobar, 17, who came to Israel from Ecuador five years ago; and Grade 12 pupil Laura Diaz, 16, who came to Israel from Colombia more than three years ago.
“I grew up here,” Bronstein said. “I won’t know the language, I won’t know anything [in Moldavia]. It’s better here. I have Israeli friends.”
Escobar has already written some of his matriculation exams and is considered an outstanding pupil. “It was very hard for me [to acclimatize] at first,” he said. “After a couple of years here, I began to settle in and concentrate on my studies. I have friends here, play soccer and basketball with them. It will take me a long time to find myself in Ecuador. I will finish my matriculation by the end of the year. If they expel me, I’ll have nothing to show for my schooling here.”
Escobar hopes to work in computers in the army and then study computer science at university.
Diaz is a Messianic Jew, Escobar a Seventh-Day Adventist, while Suarez and Bronstein are Roman Catholics. All of them say they are not concerned by Israel’s being a Jewish state.
“It doesn’t bother me,” said Suarez. “I visit my Jewish friends on their holidays and they visit me on mine.”
Despite the anxiety and uncertainty with which these children live, they are temporarily better off on a day-to-day basis than they ever were in all their years here. The parents of at least three of the four children entered Israel illegally and from the day the Immigration Authority was established five years ago, they faced the threat of deportation every moment of the day. It was only when Poraz issued an order to the police not to expel families with children until the government decided what to do about them that they found themselves out of immediate danger. But this did not mean that their parents were not arrested or that they did not witness deportations of family members and friends.
“My mother was arrested by the immigration police,” recalled 14-year-old Suarez. “I had to bring our passports to the station and translate for her. The police threatened her.”
“The police are very violent,” interjected Diaz.
Escobar said that four policemen and two Interior Ministry representatives knocked on his door at 3 a.m. to arrest an illegal worker who was sleeping in his family’s home.
“Downstairs, there were two more policemen flanking the entrance with a Doberman Pinscher,” he added with a note of bitterness.
Diaz said she was home alone one day while her mother was out working. “I didn’t want to open the door,” she recalled. “The policeman banged on the door and shouted. I started to cry. He left but returned at night. We decided to move. They think we’re not people, that we’re animals.”
After such experiences, why would anyone want to make their life here? “Just because one Jew does something bad does not mean that everyone is bad, said Suarez. “There are many good people here.”
“Most Israelis don’t like to behave like that,” added Diaz. “Even many policemen.”
TO A large extent, the government decision of June 26 was based on an error. Paz-Pines’s political aid, Gilead Heiman, told The Jerusalem Post that the minister had received figures from the Population Authority stating that his decision would enable 2,500 children of foreign workers and their families to settle in Israel. However, Education Ministry figures indicated that only about 600 foreign workers’ children were registered in school, and these apparently included children below the age of 10.
According to Heiman, Paz-Pines said at the time that he himself had been skeptical about the Population Registry data, but that he had had no choice but to act on them, since they were the official government figures. He said he had intended to examine how many children were actually granted residency by the end of the year. If the figures were low, he would lower the threshold of eligibility.
In the event, only about 150 children have proven eligible for residency status according to Paz-Pines’ criteria, including 27 pupils at Rogozin-Bialik. This is a far cry from the hordes of non-Jews that Interior Ministry officials feared would flood the country, adversely affect the demographic balance and threaten the Jewish character of the state.
Paz-Pines said he would not have changed the two conditions in dispute in the High Court but would have lowered the eligibility age barrier to six years instead of 10. Unfortunately for the dozens of children who would have benefited from the change, he did not remain in office.
Tal said she was ashamed of the government for its attitude towards the kids.
“I don’t have a problem with Israel closing its skies to foreigners,” she said. “But we cannot slough our responsibility to the children who are already here. Israel signed the UN Covenant on the Rights of the Child, in which it undertook to grant every child the right to education, development and health.” | <urn:uuid:462bad52-4b8c-4280-aa50-b661b4590c78> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.amren.com/news/2005/12/adieu_to_you_and_you_and_you/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.983848 | 2,343 | 1.945313 | 2 |
A big step has been made in the quest for limitless clean energy. Scientists working on the development of the W7-X stellarator at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Germany have tested its 'star in a jar' magnetic field contained containment chamber and judge it to be working as planned. Such containment is necessary to withstand the temperatures upwards of 80 million degrees Celsius generated by the 'star in a jar', here on earth.
As explained on Space.com (via HardOCP) a traditional nuclear fission reactor splits heavy elements to generate large amounts of energy but "a fusion reactor works by fusing the nuclei of lighter atoms into heavier atoms." Benefits of fusion include a plentiful natural supply of the lighter elements used (such as hydrogen from sea water), massive amounts of energy released to power our homes, vehicles and devices, and "no radioactive waste" by-products (Helium gas).
The W7-X stellarator has been built to confine the incredibly hot hydrogen plasma necessary for this fusion process. If the 80 million degrees Celsius plasma wasn't confined in the magnetic field 'jar' it would instantly burn anything that was made to contain it. Thus it is a significant step forward.
In testing at the Max Planck Institute the stellarator generated its first batch of hydrogen plasma earlier this year. Now these latest tests with the 'star in a jar' confirm it can be contained in its 'magnetic cage', as theory suggested. "This lays the groundwork for the exciting high-performance plasma operations expected in the near future," said one of the project's lead physicists, David Gates. | <urn:uuid:00f235a7-0ccf-4970-9b08-589cb523070a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hexus.net/tech/news/industry/100282-star-jar-limitless-clean-energy-one-step-closer/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.940025 | 328 | 3.46875 | 3 |
Prevention is the effort we make to eliminate the causes that can potentially lead to the presence of a problem, so as to prevent its occurrence. In the field of health, Prevention consists of the actions we take and all other necessary measures, with the ultimate goal of protecting an individual from the risk of developing various diseases.
The main goal of Prevention, in essence, is to avoid premature death and to extend life expectancy in combination with a healthy life. So the saying of Hippocrates “it is better to prevent than to cure”, remains relevant, emphasizing the importance of prevention for good health and longevity.
Advances in the Field of Disease Prevention and Management
In recent years, more and more people have embraced Prevention and reasonably prioritize regular visits to their doctor, because they are fully aware that good health is the foundation on which moments with friends and relatives can be built safely and happily and the goals of our lives realized.
However, preventive check-ups, diagnostic tests and routine haematological and biochemical tests, which have been carried out en masse for the last 50 years, are the classic but already outdated components of Prevention, as they do not provide the ability to detect deficiencies and imbalances of the human body at a deeper level.
Fortunately, over the last 20 years, medical science has evolved rapidly in the field of Prevention, as methods have been found to aid in the detection of an impending disease or in the characterization of an ongoing disease.
Genetic Tests and Precision Medicine
Genetic testing is a non-invasive and highly accurate diagnostic test for genetic determination, with the help of which it is possible to decipher the possibility of the development of a pathological condition or a disease before its clinical manifestation and/or the pathophysiology of a disease, when the symptoms have already been expressed. This is achieved through the analysis of genetic variants in genes that have been scientifically proven to be associated with each disease.
In the age of Precision Medicine, sequencing of specific genes with clinically important information and the epigenetic profile of each organism are included in the available technologies of clinical genetics. Thus, each patient has the opportunity to gain access to the information that makes up his individual biological programming.
Personalized Therapeutic Protocols
Access to this kind of information implies the possibility of intervention and control of the results of genetic analyzes, by taking appropriate initiatives, performing the appropriate manipulations and performing certain structured actions that enable the individual to reduce and / or prevent the onset of a disease.
The diagnostic findings of the genetic analyzes, therefore, directly affect the treatment options and make possible the development of strictly individualized care models for each patient individually.
Disease predisposition through Genetic Tests
Genetic tests have enabled the analysis of predisposition for a number of medical conditions, such as:
- Autoimmune Diseases
- Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Prostate cancer
- Cardiovascular diseases
- Gynecological Diseases
- Various forms of Rheumatic Diseases
- Breast cancer
- Disorders Related to Endocrine System Function
- Gastrointestinal disorders
With these methods, the manifestation of a disease can be predicted early, even when no symptoms have occurred.
Genetic analysis is a huge leap and achievement of Precision Medicine, thanks to which the necessary knowledge for more effective prevention and targeted and strictly personalized treatment of a disease is now available in the quiver of Doctors. Prevention is now far better supported and can provide people with valuable information for a healthy Longevity,
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The World Day of War Orphans is marked on 6 January to create awareness about the plight of children who have lost their parents due to conflict. In any conflict, children are one of the most disadvantaged and vulnerable groups present.
World Day of War Orphans was started by the French organisation SOS Enfants en Detresses, which aimed to help children affected by conflict. According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), an orphan is defined as a "child under 18 years of age who has lost one or both parents to any cause of death".
According to the UNICEF, approximately 140 million orphaned children existed in the year 2015. For the period between 1990-2001, the number of orphaned children increased. However, 2001 onwards, the count has been declining at a rate of 0.7 percent, as per news reports.
In any conflict, children endure malnutrition, lack of access of education, displacement and physical and mental trauma. According to a recent press release by the UNICEF, in the year 2020, 26,425 violations against children’s rights due to conflict were recorded.
As conflict continues in countries such as Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Syria and so on, children have faced increasing levels of insecurity, inter-communal violence and denial of access to health and sanitation facilities.
On World Day of War Orphans, several awareness programmes are organised to create awareness about the trauma endured by orphaned children. The coronavirus pandemic has further led to issues like food insecurity and access to basic health and sanitation facilities for many children worldwide.
World Day of War Orphans is marked as a reminder of the issues faced by such children and to remind the world of its responsibility to ensure that such kids also get equal access to health and educational opportunities.
The pandemic has also exacerbated the strain on many developing countries which are already grappling with climate change, conflicts and natural disasters such as famine. These countries now face increased pressure to take care of orphaned children as well to create conditions conducive to their well-rounded development. | <urn:uuid:35fd6320-8041-4336-864c-5b3b23e2e6f4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.asenews.page/2022/01/world-day-of-war-orphans-2022-history.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.973809 | 429 | 3.828125 | 4 |
Searing statements in this week’s landmark Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Transform (IPCC) report are especially alarming, taking into consideration the characteristically careful language of science. The very first consensus of the document’s 234 authors: it is “unequivocal” that humanity’s burning of fossil fuels has prompted climate modify. In simple fact, information reconstructions in the report point out that Earth’s typical surface area temperature has possible not been this warm around a lengthy period of time in about 125,000 many years [see “Change in Global Surface Temperature”].
The most current IPCC report pulls no punches in describing the effects of rising greenhouse gas emissions, noted Kim Cobb, a local weather scientist at the Ga Institute of Technological know-how and 1 of the assessment’s lead authors, at a prerelease briefing for journalists. With additional certainty than earlier IPCC experiences, Cobb and her co-authors conclude that local weather adjust is already driving excessive heat waves, droughts, significant rainfalls and tropical cyclones throughout the world. In all doable emissions eventualities studied, temperatures will rise right up until at least 2050 and are probable to surpass 1.5 levels Celsius by 2040. But if emissions are introduced to web zero by 2050—meaning that any released greenhouse gases are well balanced by the quantities eliminated from the atmosphere—warming can even now be constrained to 1.5 degrees C about the training course of this century.
The just about 4,000-page document, which cites additional than 14,000 research, is the IPCC’s initial big assessment of the state of local weather science because 2013. The report’s certainty is based not only on a much better comprehending of Earth’s climate technique but also on investigations into its climatic previous. Data from corals, tree rings, cores extracted from ice or marine sediments, and other resources enable paleoclimate scientists this sort of as Cobb to peer outside of modern information and into historic worlds, building very important insights for local weather science and forecasts today. Scientific American spoke with Cobb about the purpose of paleoclimate details in refining the IPCC’s new report and the value of delivering context for Earth’s existing warming.
[An edited transcript of the interview follows.]
Why is it important to look at our climatic past?
Presented that climate data from instrumental measurements often only go again 50 years—sometimes it’s possible 100 or 150—we are not able to really capture the full breadth of pure variability in Earth’s climate procedure. What we can do with paleoclimate archives is increase that history back again in time. Now we have sufficient documents across lots of web sites in the environment to make large-scale averages—the form that permit us to instantly make comparisons with what is going on now across the earth. It is important to supply that context for just how rapidly points are switching nowadays and how unconventional this is.
How was paleoclimate investigation set to use in this new report?
Paleoclimate study has been section of each individual IPCC evaluation because the initially just one in 1990. The variation below is that fairly than currently being relegated to its possess chapter, there is an attempt to integrate these strains of proof into every aspect of the report. Local weather scientists across every single willpower now have an understanding of the richness of information and facts out there from paleoclimate resources. The industry has matured in recent decades to supply quantitative data that lends alone to the styles of quantitative analyses that are most typical in experiments of recent local weather change.
Do any precedents exist in the geologic record for the climatic improvements we are viewing today?
It is attention-grabbing to glance at a time about 125,000 decades in the past, throughout the final interglacial time period. Our greatest estimates of temperature increases during that interval are about just one to two levels Celsius—not compared with where by we’re parked these days, at approximately one diploma C warmer than preindustrial instances. Again then, the will increase have been pushed by improvements in Earth’s orbit with regard to the sunshine, and the warming was sustained for very long adequate around numerous hundreds of yrs to elicit melting of the Greenland ice sheet, driving world sea levels five to 10 meters bigger. These figures are massive exclamation marks on the place our planet has been in the not-way too-distant geologic past and on where by we’re headed in the extended term as Earth thoroughly responds to the amounts of warming we’re previously at.
None of Earth’s past warm periods is an appropriate analogue for what we’re viewing now, even so. The costs of what we’re enterprise right now have a tendency to distinguish present climate improve from past variations of this magnitude that have transpired above much extended timescales and are caused by purely natural weather drivers.
Weather sensitivity is primarily how considerably warming takes place for every device of carbon dioxide enhance in the environment. Larger climate sensitivity means additional warming for a presented CO2 maximize, and vice versa. It is a person of the uncertainties of upcoming emissions impacts, but this report has narrowed its variety noticeably, relative to past reviews.
Paleoclimate science can lead to this discussion all over climate sensitivity by looking into the temperature reaction to previous adjustments in CO2, grounded in info describing the planet’s earlier climatic conditions.
For instance, my colleague Jessica Tierney at the University of Arizona has worked really hard to compile a world-wide databases of temperatures from the last glacial interval, all over 20,000 years in the past, and used it to occur up with estimates for world wide cooling throughout that time. We know CO2 incredibly well, so with all those two numbers, she and her co-authors have been ready to estimate estimates for climate sensitivity.
The report forecasts that even if we thrive in restricting warming to 1.5 levels C, sea amounts will keep on to increase by way of 2050. Why is that?
This heating we have baked into the atmosphere to date has presently permeated into the interior of the ice sheets. The adjustment to the surplus heat that we have caused—and will however cause—is heading to be imprinted into the continued sluggish melting of these huge ice sheets for generations and perhaps millennia to come.
The great news is that if we do enact deep and sustained reductions in greenhouse gasoline emissions appropriate now, we’ll see the rewards of that afterwards this century in the kind of reduced premiums or magnitudes of sea-stage increase. Wherever do we want the sea level to land? And do we want to grant as a great deal time as achievable to future generations to adapt? All those are thoughts we encounter this decade and the subsequent.
Are any other processes now essentially “locked in” for long timescales?
In basic, ocean impacts are heading to choose for a longer time to reverse. Just one critical impact is ocean acidification—the signature of stored carbon in the ocean. We’ve now altered the chemistry of the higher ocean down to 2,000 meters—almost half its depth in some locations. The carbon will not magically arrive out all at once it will occur out as these significant-CO2 waters are exposed at the surface area to an ambiance decrease in CO2. We have to wait for that trade to occur because deep waters need to be brought to the area once more. It will be a relatively sluggish system.
That doesn’t conflict with just one of the core messages of the report, which is that when we reach internet zero emissions, we’ll start off to see an pretty much instant and discernible stabilization—if not a reversal—in world warming itself. A lot of impacts that are directly related to world-wide surface temperatures, this sort of as warmth waves, might be some of the earliest to respond.
How could possibly paleoclimate exploration go on to insert to our knowledge of local climate change?
Peering again into the paleoclimate record can support us fully grasp how teams of extremes or cycles have progressed in the current earlier and how they may possibly be modifying in response to climate adjust. It’s getting progressively clear that these ways are really related for our climate future. We can change to archives of past extremes—whether it’s droughts, severe rainfall, tropical cyclones—or pure weather cycles to recognize far more about their normal variability about the past centuries to millennia. One example is El Niño situations, the warm phases of a organic climate cycle that takes place in the tropical Pacific Ocean. In the previous 70 yrs, we have genuinely only viewed a handful—10, give or take. But by on the lookout into the paleoclimate archive of El Niño occasions, we can examine hundreds more than the previous millennia. Just previous calendar year, we published a paper documenting an boost in El Niño intensity in excess of the latest many years, in comparison with the preindustrial period of time.
Are there insights that we can draw on for local weather optimism these days?
I’m considerably relieved to see that the relaxation of the world can appear to a stage of recognition that I have experienced over the earlier five to 8 years. When you have to maintain up with the science for your working day occupation, you digest it in serious time. Now it feels like a minor bit of fat has lifted—that at minimum the relaxation of the environment is aware of what I do at this instant. Which is a large relief.
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Volume 39, Issue 2, Summer 2020
You Can Bluff but You Should Not Spoof
Spoofing is the act of placing orders to buy or sell a financial contract without the intention to have those orders fulfilled in order to create the impression that there is a large demand for that contract at that price. In this article, I deny the view that spoofing in financial markets should be viewed as morally permissible analogously to the way bluffing is permissible in poker. I argue for the pro tanto moral impermissibility of spoofing and make the case that spoofing is disanalogous from bluffing in at least one important regard—speculative trading serves an important economic role, whereas poker does not. | <urn:uuid:fea67889-c08b-440f-bf3a-8ae1ff3ac302> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pdcnet.org/bpej/content/bpej_2020_0039_0002_0207_0224 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.934215 | 155 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Bananas are one of the most readily available fruits in the world, they are priced fairly cheap and provide energy and nutrition for next to nothing. In fact, when I was living in Costa Rica (and when I go back) i’ll be paying just 6 cents per banana! How incredible is that? you can buy nutrition for 6 cents! Still in America, a bunch of organic bananas is under 2 bucks for five bananas or so.
Bananas are rich in fiber, potassium, manganese, vitamin C and more. Learn how these benefit your health, well-being and energy levels in this video:
Here’s the nutritional profile of Bananas Based on eating one banana:
Vitamin B6: 25% of Daily value
Manganese: 16% of Daily value
Vitamin C: 13% of Daily value
Fiber: 12% of Daily value
Potassium: 12% of Daily Value
Biotin: 10% of Daily Value
Copper: 10% of Daily Value
As you can see, bananas are rich in B-Vitamins and minerals beneficial for your health and well-being! Consume more bananas, they’re a great food for nutrition at a great price! Live Healthy Wild And Free! | <urn:uuid:7790d295-190c-4a07-b850-b1f433405c95> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://healthywildandfree.com/bananas-boost-energy-levels-optimize-metabolism-fats-proteins/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.888827 | 277 | 2.421875 | 2 |
for the production of liquid soil is any type of excavated soil or other mineral substances. Liquid soil can be produced not only from any excavated soil, but also from selected recycling material without residual hydraulic components or components that change the moisture balance in an unplanned manner, and from other suitable bulk materials.
for liquid soil are specific plasticizers, accelerators, specific stabilizers, which can be described as soil-like, as they consist of materials that also occur naturally in the soil (eg clay minerals), as well as mixing water and, if necessary, special lime.Types and quantities of additives are unsuitable when they force the formation of macroscopic, rigid, cross-linked, solid foreign structures in the soil,and when they superimpose the properties of the source material and thus lead to rigid foreign bodies in the surrounding soil.
An additive that further reduces the plasticity of the already placed liquid soil already reduced by an accelerator and thereby promotes re-solidification with the initial properties of the soil is referred to as a stabilizer. Cements and other hydraulic binding agents are not suitable as stabilizers as they lead to the formation of rigid foreign structures in the soil. An area backfilled with such a material behaves like a foreign body (eg under a road), which causes the known damage patterns of damaged roads. Only liquid soil as a soil-like backfilling material makes it possible to avoid such damage.
The additive that allows the temporary flowability of a backfill material from soil etc. is called a plasticizer. The purpose of a plasticizer is to keep the mixing water in the soil matrix during the flowable state of the liquid soil (retention capacity).A plasticizer thus also enables the formation of a water film or sliding layers between the soil particles and thus the temporary flowability of the corresponding soil matrix.Plasticizers can be cellulose derivatives, bentonite suspensions, chemical superplasticizers, and special layer minerals. Their suitability must be examined and verified in each individual case.As plasticizers for liquid soil, specifically modified layer minerals have proven to be suitable.Even small quantities of these minerals can absorb rather large quantities of water in a soil and keep it stably and permanently under placement conditions.
Special lime is used for conditioning extremely clayey or moist and non-free-flowing soils. Its special properties prevent uncontrolled post-hardening (pozzolanic reaction), as can be observed again and again in soils treated with conventional lime
At present, hydraulic accelerators are mostly used as accelerators. Hydraulic accelerators are cements with a suitable and specially required hydration process.They withdraw mixing water from the added plasticizer quickly and at a defined point in time.As a result, the sliding layers are degraded and frictional force is generated on the soil particles of the liquid soil matrix.Consequently, the previously flowable material becomes plastic. Afterwards, the remaining mixing water is permanently absorbed and bound by the "stabilizer", which is also added to the process.As a result of the plasticizing process, which can be controlled within specified time limits, the early load-bearing capacity of a liquid soil can be specifically adjusted and, if necessary, changed within certain limits.
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Listen to The Grizzly Bear Outreach Project’s (predecessor to WWO) 60, 30, and 15 second radio Bear Smart PSAs. Co-Director Chris Morgan narrates the PSAs and informs residents that they can play an important role in reducing encounters by taking simple steps when living and recreating in bear country.
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife – Preventing Conflict with Black Bears – 1:59
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Thomas Gainsborough’s prints, like the paintings and drawings for which he is better known, reflect the artist’s lifelong fascination with techniques and materials. Although not a prolific printmaker, he played an important role in the development of the processes of aquatint and soft-ground etching in the late eighteenth century. This book, a companion volume to Mr. Hayes’s The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, enables us to assess Gainsborough’s achievement as a printmaker and sheds new light on his total work.
Except for some early etchings and projected engravings, Gainsborough turned to printmaking solely as a means of reproducing his drawings. This step, unprecedented for a first-rank artist, explains the close connection between his print style and his drawing style, and establishes the basis for an accurate chronology of the prints. The originality and power of his last aquatints anticipate a rich tradition in British printmaking which includes the work of Blake, Constable and Turner.
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Instagram’s Impact on Indonesian Businesses
Peran Instagram terhadap Perkembangan Bisnis di Indonesia - With Instagram’s global influence of bringing consumers closer to the things they love, which includes, Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs), the platform has grown to be one of the most widely-used business platforms in Indonesia.
The Numbers Game: Measuring Audiences in the Data Age
People who fear numbers are said to suffer from numerophobia or arithmophobia. There are even those who fear specific numbers like number 7 (heptaphobics) or number 13 (triskaidekaphobics). Audience measurement is a discipline swimming in numbers and, with the emergence of Big Data to supplement or even replace more traditional survey approaches in many cases, now throws out even more numbers.
Audience Measurement 5.0 - Pushing the Boundaries
We are entering the Fifth Age of Audience Measurement. It is an age where methodologies are being re-calibrated in response to a fast-changing media environment and where the quest for total understanding of audiences is higher than it has ever been. It is also an era where politics and economics are far greater barriers to progress than technical concerns. | <urn:uuid:ae771f0e-030b-4054-957e-90b7cd2f0aba> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ipsos.com/en-id/flair-collection/knowledge/media-brand-communication | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.894078 | 259 | 1.773438 | 2 |
There does not need to be a label associated to the reason you decide to quit drinking. In fact, I think labels are quite damaging, in the sense that if you don't fit into a certain "category" you may not believe you have enough reason to give up drinking. The thing about "rock bottom"is that it always has a trap door. Provided you aren't in jail or dead, things can always get worse. That may sound extreme, but talk to any number of problem drinkers and they will most likely agree.
Another concept that has crossed my mind, is that we consider "rock bottom" to be job loss, relationship/marriage failure, DUI or other extreme scenarios. Another way to view a rock bottom, is the process in which you decide not to give up drinking because nothing "extreme" has occured and over time it affects the overall well being of your life. Your relationship is affected, your general mental health declines because you are in a constant state of shame/blame and anxiety. Or perhaps those hangovers last a little longer than they used to and you are missing out on moments with your kids because you'd rather lay down for an extra couple of hours. Instead of story time with your kids, you are fixated on that glass of wine and you skip reading that story or blow through it as fast as you can, and you may not notice it, but your kids sure do. The thing is, we think kids don't notice or that we are hiding our habits from them, when we really aren't. I do not have children but I was a child of a mother with Alcohol Use Disorder and believe me, I noticed. When I was young I wasn't angry, I lacked understanding, but overall it just made my heart feel incredibly sad.
In general, I think the idea that you need to hit a "rock bottom" before you change is an outdated concept. I also think if you even consider the fact that there could be a rock bottom in your future, maybe you should re-evaluate your relationship with alcohol. Instead of shaming yourself, just get curious about the idea of potentially giving up alcohol or challenging yourself to 30 days alcohol free to see how you feel. I'm not saying quit, I'm not saying do anything extreme, I am just saying that maybe educating yourself around what alcohol actually is would be beneficial. Books and communities like "This Naked Mind" by Annie Grace are incredibly supportive, compassion based and eye opening.
The fact that people think you need to be an "alcoholic" to give up alcohol is another incredibly damaging concept. Problem drinking is a progressive concept, it gets worse, it doesn't get better. Prolonged use over time can put anyone at risk of addiction and to think you are an exception because no one in your family struggles or "it couldn't happen to me" is a very dangerous mindset. Rock bottom doesn't have to be an overnight extreme scenario, rock bottom can be a long dragged out concept where alcohol literally robs you of living your authentic and best life. Alcohol numbs our receptors, which means it numbs the bad AND the good, you may drink to numb the bad, but you are numbing the joy right alongside it. And the loved ones in your life are collateral damage throughout the struggle. Be open minded to education surrounding alcohol. Do not create hard lines and instead be curious about the concept of change. Instead of focusing on what you are "giving up," focus on what there is to gain instead. Which, by the way, giving up sleepless nights and the shame/blame and anxiety cycle is something I have NEVER missed! I have never woken up and thought "dang I should have drank last night!" Throw out the idea of rock bottom and instead visualize how your life might improve if you were to quit drinking or reduce your alcohol consumption.
From someone who hit more than one rock bottom, I urge you not to wait. I can genuinely say I have never felt more grounded, fulfilled or happier and I have never questioned the decision.
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Come join us for a friendly introduction to the longest and most intimidating of sutras, the Avatamsaka Sutra.
Teacher: Zen Master Bon Hae (Judy Roitman)
Description: The Avatamsaka Sutra is at the heart of Mahayana Buddhism, and a major root of Zen teaching. It is also one of the most ornate, complex and mystical of texts, and the longest of the Mahayana sutras. For that reason, it can be challenging for us to read fully. Join Zen Master Bon Hae (Judy Roitman) for the opportunity to taste the vastness and depth of this sutra as we read excerpts together, and as she outlines its structure and discusses some of the major aspects that help form our Kwan Um teaching.
About the teacher: Judy Roitman began practicing Zen with Zen Master Seung Sahn in 1976. One of the founders of the Kansas Zen Center in 1978, she received inka (full authorization to teach) from Zen Master Seung Sahn in 1998 and transmission from Zen Master Dae Kwang in April 2013. She is currently the guiding teacher of the Kansas Zen Center.
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John B. Bisceglia
Social worker, teacher, pastor, scholar, civic leader—if ever Kansas City produced a Renaissance man it was the Reverend John B. Bisceglia.
He was born Giovanni Battista Bisceglia on November 1, 1891, in Foggia province of the Puglia region of Italy. He immigrated to America in 1905 with his parents and seven brothers and sisters. The family lived for a short time in New York before settling in Pittsburgh.
Giovanni was studying medicine at the University of Pittsburgh when he experienced a self-described “born-again conversion.” Convinced that God had called him to preach, Bisceglia enrolled at Western Theological Seminary and graduated with a Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree in 1918. Having already shocked his family by leaving the Roman Catholic Church, he must have convinced them that he was completely mad when he accepted a position in the rough, far-away town of Kansas City, Missouri, as Assistant Pastor at Central Presbyterian Church and director of their Italian Mission. Isabella Fragale, whom he had met in her father’s Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, apparently did not think he was mad, as they were married in 1919, and she joined him in Kansas City.
John B. Bisceglia, as he now was known, faced a daunting task in Kansas City. Central Presbyterian’s ministry to the Italian community in the North End had been started by a few volunteers in 1908. The Central Chapel and Settlement House at 505 Forest Avenue resembled other such efforts to improve the lives of new immigrants. The project faced formidable obstacles, however, and by 1918 it was foundering. A series of Home Missionaries had directed it for short periods. Most of the wave of Italian immigrants who arrived in Kansas City in the early twentieth century were Sicilians who had come to work on the railroads. Most were illiterate in their own language and were overwhelmed by the strangeness of their new country. Protestantism was a hard sell among a traditionally Roman Catholic group. Bisceglia “inherited a church without a congregation and a social work without a constituency.”
The energetic, young pastor immediately swung into action, starting programs and ministering to his flock. A kindergarten came first, then a free nursery school for working mothers. Sports teams and organizations like Boy Scouts and Campfire Girls followed. A free clinic was established, as well as adult education programs and mothers clubs. He instituted a Sunday evening service in Italian. Isabella Bisceglia was a talented musician who played the organ and piano, directed choirs, taught Sunday school and led scout troops while raising their four children.
The Italian Institute’s programs eventually expanded to the wider community in northeast Kansas City, and in 1941 the new Northeast Community Center, at Independence Avenue and Wabash Boulevard, opened. Christ Presbyterian Church opened next door as an independent congregation in 1946. Bisceglia’s ministry started with six families; by the time he retired in 1965, it served more than 1,000.
Bisceglia was a scholar as well as a man of action. His sermons, in both Italian and English, were famous for their eloquence, clarity, and sincerity. He was the author of numerous articles, tracts, and books on theology, Italy, and Italian Americans. He received several awards for his work and was in demand as a speaker and preacher.
In 1924, he started publishing Il Piccolo Messagero, later shortened to Il Messagero. This bi-weekly newspaper was initially almost entirely in Italian. It included news of the Italian community, literary pieces, poetry, and Italian and American history.
When it became evident that the free clinic needed a pharmacist assistant, he returned to college and earned a degree in pharmacy at the University of Kansas City. He also received his Doctorate of Theology from Central Baptist Seminary in Kansas City. He served as Moderator of the Presbyterian Synod of Missouri in 1939.
If all this weren’t enough, Bisceglia also taught Italian from his time in seminary until well into retirement. He taught at the Music Conservatory and the University of Missouri-Kansas City for 30 years and, in his later years, held Italian classes in his apartment at The Sulgrave. His students were captivated by his obvious love of his native language and culture and the enthusiasm which he passed along to them.
The many people whose lives he touched—as pastor, social service provider, teacher or friend—all described generosity and love as his most essential characteristics. “His kindness,” wrote his son-in-law, “was inseparable from his being.”
John B. Bisceglia died December 1, 1988, at age 97. In 1996 the Bisceglia Cultural Center, in the Northeast Community Center, was opened to carry on his mission of bringing Italian language and culture to the Kansas City community.
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Pope Francis continued his catechesis on the Our Father during his weekly General Audience. In Wednesday’s reflection, the Pope focused on the petition: “Give us this day our daily bread.”
During the General Audience on Wednesday, Pope Francis began a series of reflections on the second part of the “Our Father”, where, he said, we present our needs to God.
Prayer begins with concrete needs
The first of these petitions, “Give us this day our daily bread,” reminds us that we are not self-sufficient. Prayer, the Pope said, begins with our daily concerns, our most pressing, concrete necessities of life. Pope Francis invited us to consider this prayer from the point of view of those who are in real need: “How many mothers, and how many fathers, even today, go to sleep with the anguish of not having sufficient bread for their children for the next day?” he asked. Seen from this perspective, “the words of Jesus take on new force.”
Pope Francis emphasised that prayer begins not in a form of abstract mysticism, but with our daily needs. Here, he said, “our daily bread” means not just food, but also all the necessities of life, such as water, medicine, a home, a job. Moreover, he continued, in the “Our Father” we are reminded that we must pray not just for our own needs, but for the needs of everyone. “If it is not prayed in this way,” the Pope said, “the ‘Our Father’ ceases to be a Christian prayer.”
“Our Father” includes an attitude of solidarity
With the request for “our daily bread,” rather than my daily bread, the “Our Father” includes in itself an “attitude of empathy, an attitude of solidarity,” Pope Francis said. In this way, Jesus teaches us to present the needs of everyone to the Father.
Pope Francis called to mind the biblical passage read at the beginning of the Audience, which tells the story of the feeding of the five thousand, from the Gospel of St Matthew. The multiplication of the loaves and fishes was a true miracle, the Pope said; but the greater miracle was the sharing. The young boy who shared his bread and fish “had understood the lesson of the ‘Our Father,’ Pope Francis explained: “That food is not private property… but providence to be shared, with the grace of God.”
Only the Eucharist can satisfy hunger for the infinite
In this miracle, the Pope said in conclusion, Jesus anticipated the offering of Himself in the Holy Eucharist: “Only the Eucharist,” he said, “is able to satisfy the hunger for the infinite and the desire for God that animates every human person, even in the search for daily bread.”
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WASHINGTON — House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., is threatening to subpoena Attorney General William Barr, who has told the committee he may refuse to appear at a hearing Thursday unless members abandon their plan to have him questioned by staff lawyers.
So what practical options does Congress have to enforce its wishes?
No easy ones, as it turns out.
Congress has three methods at its disposal to seek compliance with a subpoena by holding a witness in contempt, according the Congressional Research Service. Each has problems.
Under the doctrine of "inherent contempt," the House or Senate could send members of its security force to arrest and detain the witness. There is precedent for this in U.S. history, but not recent precedent — it hasn't been used since 1935.
In the modern world, the House sergeant-at-arms isn't going to be able to arrest the attorney general, who is protected by an armed FBI security detail. As one former White House official once put it, only half in jest, "They have a lot of guns over there."
The second method involves seeking to hold a witness in criminal contempt under federal criminal statutes 2 U.S.C. §§192 and 194. The statutes make it a crime to fail to comply with a lawful congressional subpoena, and call for the House or Senate to refer a criminal contempt citation to the office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, which can seek an indictment from a grand jury.
The problem with this in the current case: All federal prosecutors, including all 90-plus U.S. attorneys, work for Barr, and would be under no obligation to pursue a contempt charge.
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That leaves a third option — Congress can seek a civil contempt citation from a judge. The Judiciary Committee, for example, could sue Barr in district court, providing a simple majority of the full House voted to authorize such an action.
"If the individual still refuses to comply, he may be tried by the court in summary proceedings for contempt of court, with sanctions being imposed to coerce their compliance," the Congressional Research Service said in a 2017 paper.
A recent precedent for this happens to involve the House Judiciary Committee, then controlled by Democrats under the George W. Bush administration.
At issue was a congressional investigation into the firing of several U.S. attorneys.
The committee subpoenaed former White House counsel Harriet Miers, and the White House instructed her not to comply, citing executive privilege. It made the same instruction regarding a document subpoena to Josh Bolten, the White House chief of staff.
Both were held in contempt of Congress, and the speaker of the House asked the U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., to pursue the matter.
But the federal prosecutor declined to do that, citing a Justice Department policy of not prosecuting a White House official for criminal contempt of Congress if that official had invoked executive privilege at the behest of the president.
Congress sued, and a district court judge sided with lawmakers. The Bush administration appealed and President Barack Obama took office while the case was still pending. The new administration settled the case, granting Congress access to some of the documents it sought and allowing sworn testimony from Miers.
By then, a year and a half after Congress issued the subpoena, the oversight issue largely was moot.
Much the same thing happened when the Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee sought to subpoena Attorney General Eric Holder in 2012 over a scandal involving a gun investigation known as Operation Fast and Furious.
This time, the Obama Justice Department refused to prosecute a congressional contempt citation against the attorney general. A court battle dragged on, and it wasn't until January 2016 that a court ordered the Justice Department to produce some documents. The Obama administration appealed, and the case lingered until President Donald Trump took office.
In March of last year, the Trump Justice Department settled the case by agreeing to release some records.
"The Department of Justice under my watch is committed to transparency and the rule of law," then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a statement.
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U.S. President Obama traveled to China and met with China President Xi Jinping to effect a reciprocal visa validity arrangement to broaden and fortify economic and people-to-people ties. Both countries mutually agreed to increase the validity of short-term tourist and business visas issued to each other’s citizens from one to ten years – the longest validity possible under U.S. law – and increase the validity of student and exchange visas from one to five years. The U.S began issuing visas in accordance with the new reciprocal agreement on November 12, 2014. The visa accord will enhance trade, investment, and business ties by facilitating travel and ease access to both economies. Extended validity visas for students and exchange visitors will foster the bonds between U.S. and China and facilitate travel for outstanding students from around the world who attend U.S. institutions of higher education. As a result of this arrangement, the U.S. hopes to welcome a growing share of eligible Chinese travelers, inject billions in the U.S. economy and create demand to support hundreds of thousands of additional U.S. jobs.
Welcoming a Growing Share of Chinese Travelers
- China is the fastest-growing outbound tourism market in the world, and in 2013, 1.8 million Chinese travelers visited the U.S., contributing $21.1 billion to the U.S. economy and supporting more than 109,000 American jobs
- Chinese travelers consistently rank the United States as their most-desired travel destination, yet less than 2 percent of total Chinese travelers come to the U.S.
- Chinese travelers cite ease of visa policies as the second most important factor in deciding where to travel, behind only cost
- A competitive visa policy will help U.S. meet projections that suggest as many as 7.3 million Chinese travelers will come to the U.S. by 2021, contributing nearly $85 billion a year to the economy and supporting up to 440,000 U.S. jobs
Strengthening Bonds Between Chinese and American Students
- 28 percent of all foreign students and exchange visitors in the U.S. originate from China
- Chinese students in the U.S. spent $8 billion in 2013, an increase of nearly 24 percent over the previous year
- Visa accord will allow American and Chinese students to more easily travel back and forth, making foreign study a more attractive option, increasing opportunities for people-to-people ties, and boosting mutual understanding
Extending Visa Validity to Increase the Number of Chinese Travelers Coming to the U.S. and Support American Jobs. In order to support America’s most important and largest services export – tourism. Chinese travelers persistently rank the U.S. as their top desired travel destination, but only slightly more than 1.8 percent of total outbound travelers go to the U.S. Chinese travelers cite ease of visa policies as the second most important factor in deciding where to travel, behind only cost. A competitive visa policy is needed to secure the U.S. as the chosen destination for millions of Chinese travelers
Global growth of outbound travel from China represents an unprecedented opportunity to foster job creation across the country. China is the fastest growing outbound tourism market in the world, and Chinese visitors have accounted for 20 percent of the growth in overseas travel to the U.S. since 2008. In 2013, 1.8 million Chinese travelers visited the U.S., contributing $21.1 billion to the American economy and supporting more than 109,000 U.S. jobs. As incomes in China continue to rise, the number of Chinese citizens able to afford international travel and tourism is projected to more than double over the next few years, reaching the hundreds of millions. Close to 7.3 million Chinese are projected to travel to the U.S. by 2021, contributing nearly $85 billion a year to the economy and supporting 440,000 jobs.
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The graph below lists the top 14 beverages globally, in terms of volume consumed during 2016 (taken from Euromonitor International). As you can see, wine comes 9th, way behind beer and a little bit ahead of spirits. Should we be happy that wine is in the top 10, or sad that it is 9th out of 14?
That tea is number 1, ahead of bottled water, might surprise you; but it has long been known to be The world’s top drink. The list of the top countries by overall tea-consuming volume is pretty much what you would expect (Ranked: top 15 tea-drinking countries), with the two biggest countries on Earth out in front (China and India), but Russia is right behind, and then Pakistan. The latter is actually the world’s biggest tea importer, and that has become problematic recently (Pakistanis told to drink less tea as nation grapples with economic crisis).
However, the situation changes pretty dramatically when looking at tea consumption per person (List of countries by tea consumption per capita), with Turkey and Ireland out in front, and Russia relegated to 5th place, China to 20th and India to 28th. Even Australia and Germany drink more tea per person than do China or India! Indian tea-growing is, of course, also having trouble with climate change, just like everyone else (Why climate change is bad news for India tea producers).
Moving on, the fact that wine is also behind other non-alcoholic beverages such as coffee and fruit juices is also not much of a surprise. This is in spite of the fact that coffee is the most labor-intensive beverage to produce, and coffee plants are among the thirstiest (These California farmers want you to think about coffee the way you do wine).
That wine should be behind beer is no surprise, either, as it has long been behind in most parts of the world. Beer is usually treated as a lower alcohol beverage, which can thus be drunk on any occasion. However, we should remember that beer making and drinking can be just as esoteric as for wines (Why modern brewers are embracing centuries-old technology).
The position of wine relative to other drinks is not expected to improve in the near future, either. It has been endlessly reported (e.g. the State of the Wine Industry Report 2022) that younger generations, particularly Millennials (now aged 25–40), who are currently setting the tends for the alcohol industries, are far less interested in wine than were older generations (such as Baby Boomers like myself). Wine has therefore been losing significant share among these younger drinkers to other choices, including spirits, seltzers, and RTDs. Indeed, as drinking habits adjusted during the current Covid-19 pandemic, RTDs have apparently been the stand-out category for at-home consumption (Soft drink giants cosy up to spirits brands as canned cocktails soar).
Even worse, abstainers have apparently increased in number during the pandemic, along with a reduction in the general frequency of wine drinking (Survey further confirms market fight). Indeed, it has also been noted that beer drinkers prefer spirits (not wine) as their alternative drink, and that spirits drinkers prefer beer (not wine) as their alternative drink (A silver lining beneath wine’s dark cloud). Even more depressing: Alcohol-free wine presents challenges in filtration and quality assurance, so that this will not be a simple way forward for the wine industry.
On the other hand, we are also told that Americans are drinking less but better. That is, Millennials, in particular, tend to purchase more premium products than did their predecessors, but less often (Global alcoholic drinks value growth significantly outpaces volume growth). They are also reported to be amongst the highest spenders on wine in markets such as Australia, Sweden, the USA, and the UK. So, all is not lost (see my post: The wine industry is asking the wrong question).
Anyway, the wine industry is the XS size compared to the XXL of most other beverage categories; so that being in the wine industry currently requires a lot of optimism. One has to be in it because one likes it, not because the public see wine as a highly valued beverage. As the economist John Maynard Keynes once put it (The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money):
If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance, no satisfaction (profit apart) in constructing a factory, a railway, a mine or a farm, there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.Money isn’t everything. *
* I have been reading the book Angel Customers and Demon Customers, which starts with the basic (unquestioned) assumption that the principal objective of any company is to raise it's stock price for it's shareholders, rather than do anything productive (due, I guess, to Milton Friedman). The authors arrive at the conclusion that the way to do this is to be customer—centered, which means that they arrive at a good conclusion but in completely the wrong way. Similarly, there are literally hundreds of Youtube videos telling poker players "what they are doing wrong" by not making money when they play, which misses the point that the players are there to have fun, first, not make a profit. They can't all make a profit, now can they, since all they are doing is taking money from each other. | <urn:uuid:cb3420b2-b335-4f03-b580-1b7d5b09ff06> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://winegourd.blogspot.com/2022/07/putting-wine-industry-it-its-place.html?utm_source=AfternoonBrief&utm_medium=newsletter | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.9715 | 1,109 | 2.078125 | 2 |
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The recording you’re about to hear is from 1967, and it talks about current events in the news today.
Myron Coureval Fagan (October 31, 1887 – May 12, 1972) was a Jewish American writer, producer and director for film and theatre. He is noted as being an opponent against communism in Hollywood and Zionism in the Middle East. To this end Myron Fagan wrote dozens of pamphlets exposing these twin conspiracies. He made these recordings about the iLLUMiNATi in 1967 and 1968.
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The Regulatory Affairs department is charged with upholding a medicine’s compliance – throughout its life cycle – with regulatory standards laid down by national and supranational health authorities.
For a medicinal product to be placed on the market, it must first be granted a Marketing Authorization (MA) issued by national or supranational competent authorities. The product is then subject to regulatory monitoring throughout its life cycle.
Regulatory Affairs are therefore vital to the development of a new medicine. They work closely with R&D and Industry teams to provide support with dossier registration procedures. They are the preferred go-to contacts of the health authorities, especially when it comes to arranging scientific advisory services with local agencies.
Once on the market, a medicinal product remains under strict surveillance. Consequently, its benefit-risk ratio is continually assessed to take account of any known or newly identified adverse reactions and to update information provided to healthcare professionals and patients.
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Posting every Friday at noon is how I act in solidarity with young climate strikers all over the world who want their elders to save their future.
Every day my Twitter feed has at least a few people adding this to their #climateaction tweet: “None of this matters until we eradicate the fossil fuel industry!”
Climate action advocates tend to be a testy bunch, like my inspiration, Greta Thunberg. Many of them are so appalled at the foot-draggers who are not reducing emissions NOW they have a lot of negative things to offer to the conversation!
Keep an eye out for wonder
But people are trying — maybe we should look concentrate on how great they are! After all, Proverbs 17:22 says, “A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.”
So let’s talk about SpinLaunch. There is a bit of wonder out there in Long Beach. This company has been in the news all month because they had their first test launch out of SpacePort in New Mexico late last year. (Yes, SpacePort exists).
Space flight is a pollution nightmare and hugely expensive. SpinLaunch is trying to figure out how to use sun power electricity to spin a projectile so fast in their vacuum chamber it can make it out of the atmosphere, pin a satellite into space, and return to Earth for re-use. They have a much greener and cheaper approach. Although space is going to start looking like a beach on Eleuthera pretty soon with all the trash we throw out there. But let’s try to stay positive.
Here is an excited video about SpinLaunch’s accomplishments. They are the first of fifteen technologies these YouTubers applaud:
Will this wonder work?
Barnard doubts SpinLaunch will create a full-size launcher and doubts their idea will be found necessary until space gets more profitable. But we are looking at possibilities here.
In October, SpinLaunch threw a 10-meter projectile over six miles into the sky and retrieved it. They did it using electricity instead of rocket fuel. And they did it in a novel way that might eventually prove useful.
Their “launcher is a giant solid sling inside a vacuum chamber. It has a big counterweight on a short arm at one end, and a long end that holds the payload at the other. Over 90 minutes or so, it uses electricity to bring the rotating arm with the dart on it up to absurd revolutions per second, about 10,000 gravities of centripetal force. Then, at exactly the right microsecond, they let the dart go. It goes up through a tube with a light plastic sheet keeping the vacuum in and air out, and continues upward under its own inertia for 10 kilometers right now.”
The launcher won’t be too useful until it can throw satellites with final stage rockets into orbit. They have not made something that can do that yet. But their idea was interesting enough to warrant $75 million in funding. $38 million of that went to build the sub-scale prototype, which is the biggest vacuum chamber in the world to date. Their successful test opens the ways for more investment (and the Pentagon has been knocking at their door).
Their intention is to craft a sabot — a surrounding aerodynamic shell — which wraps around a thruster, fuel tanks, and payload. Up in orbit, or near orbit, the sabot will pop apart, leaving the simple space vehicle to deliver the payload to its final orbit before it presumably has its own orbit degrade and becomes a brief flash of light in the sky somewhere.
Here are several Barnard listed:
- The small prototype was an amazing piece of engineering. But the much bigger system is a huge risk to fund.
- The sabot and payload have to be able to survive 10,000G lateral forces, and then the orbital vehicle and payload have to manage the rocket forces when they kick in.
- The gripping component of the spinning arm has to be able to support the sabot at 10,000Gs and also release it in a microsecond without causing any wobble. That’s an extreme engineering feat.
- The rotating arm’s moment of inertia is going to change radically and instantly at release. The buildup of velocity takes 90 minutes, so it’s easy to balance, but the release is instant, with a couple of tons of mass at 10,000Gs disappearing at the long end of the arm. Getting the mechanics of that right is another extreme engineering feat.
- The bottom parts of Earth’s atmosphere are really hard. When the sabot supersonically speeds through them there will be some sonic booms. They won’t be a good neighbor to have. The whole thing might work better on the moon or Mars. But since no one is planning to mine the moon or Mars any time soon, this big idea might sit on the shelf.
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Controlling color is one of the most important things you can do as an artist… as well as the most difficult.
I am currently teaching an 8-week Color and Composition class. This means no “painting” in the class, but rather deep thoughts and planning about design, structure and color. What I feel most artists miss out on seriously thinking about. So when I teach about these important elements, I like to think about stripping away any thought about what is in the painting and only think about composing the picture plane and how to get colors to “talk” to each other. This week I was teaching about color dominances and how to get a painting to be primarily one color. In other words, the largest percentage of a painting would be that one color. I like to think of color hierarchy in color chords as a family- the “Papa, Mama and Baby” hierarchy of colors in a piece.
Below is a demo I did of a live model in a workshop in New Mexico from years ago. I have the class pick out a color chord for my painting as I work and so the chord they picked this time was a split complementary. They then picked the orange-red hue as dominant.
I put the chord next to my easel with the orange-red hue at the “top” of the wheel so I can remember to keep that color dominant as I work along. In the first painting on the left below you can see how this color is the dominant color in the painting and how it runs through everything, not just the background, and how red-violet acts as the next “momma” color and the green is then the tiniest percentage and acts as my “baby” color.
Then as the painting was considered “finished” I took the wheel and rotated it so now the same chord is still being used along with the same colors, but I wanted to show how a different dominance can be set up. Like this…
The color at the “top” is now red-violet and after a quick demo of working across the painting I changed which color now dominants the painting. Without changing anything else except HOW MUCH of each color was used in the scarf and background, I shifted the dominance to red-violet so that the red-orange color now acts as the accent color, or my “baby” relationship.
Yes, this is the exact same painting below. Note the different mood in each of them. Color is amazing how it ties into emotion… it is a great way to think about and loosen up about color, especially for artists that are scared to move past their photo references.
Cool huh? So don’t be frightened of color… move it around, smack it upside the head and show it who’s boss.
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As if the harsh winter air and weather weren’t enough for your skin, colds and flus can make things worse. Constant sneezing and teary eyes could irritate your skin. And if you’ve got a terribly sniffly nose that has you shoving tissues into your face all day? Your nose isn’t going to come out unscathed. Say hello to dry, flaky skin.
Luckily, there are ways to deal with irritating cold and flu symptoms, and even ways to prevent them altogether.
Our Immune System Is All We Need
Despite the fact that colds and flus seem like seasonal viruses, we’re not destined to catch one each winter. Whether or not we catch a cold or flu depends on the state of our immune system. That’s our immune system’s job, after all. To keep us from getting sick. So long as we keep our immune system in tip-top shape, we don’t have to worry about catching annoying colds and flus, or other illnesses.
A healthy immune system fends off disease. But the immune system can’t work very well if it’s spread too thin and weakened by allergies, toxins, stress, lack of rest, and other factors.
Here are some simple things you can do to this winter to protect yourself from cold and flu viruses:
- Wash your hands. By keeping your hands clean, you lower your chance of spreading a virus to your nose or mouth. You also lower your chance of spreading a virus to surfaces or other people. You don’t need antibacterial soap, either. Non-antibacterial soap will be enough.
- Cough and sneeze into the crook of your elbow instead of into your hands. You’re less likely to spread viruses with your elbow than you are with your hands.
- If you can, avoid close contact with people who are sick whether you’re sick or not.
- Stay away from hospitals unless necessary. Recovering in the comfort of home is usually all you need.
- Get enough rest. If your body is too tired, your immune system won’t be able to perform the way it needs to. It’s important to get quality sleep.
- Manage your stress levels. Stress can be incredibly damaging to your body and your immune system. If your immune system is under too much stress, it won’t function properly.
- Exercise. Exercising improves the circulation of immune cells in your body, making it easier for your immune system to find and eliminate viruses and other pathogens.
- Stay hydrated. Your body needs water to function optimally.
You could also change up your diet to support your immune system and protect yourself from colds, flus, and other diseases. Since 70% of your immune system is located in your gut, wouldn’t you think your diet would be the simplest way to support your immune system?
- Cut sugars and processed foods out of your diet. Sugar throws off your gut flora by promoting the growth of bad bacteria. Since most of your immune system is located in your gut, having too much bad bacteria in your gut could throw off your immune system, making you more susceptible to disease.
- Eat fermented foods like kimchee, miso, pickles, raw kefir, or sauerkraut. Fermented foods are high in probiotics. They would introduce plenty of good bacteria to your gut, potentially strengthening your immune system.
- Eat only raw, organic foods whenever possible. Opt for grass-fed beef, as well.
- Spices like cinnamon, cloves, oregano, and turmeric could support your immune system. So could maitake, reishi, and shiitake mushrooms.
- Fresh, organic, raw garlic (crushed or chopped) has antibacterial, antiviral, and antifungal properties. A clove a day could be an excellent way to support your immune system
You could also use these supplements with immune-supportive properties to give your immune system a boost:
- Ginger-TussinTM Syrup
- ImmunoBerryTM Liquid
- Oil of Oregano
- OmegAvailTM Liquid
- Probiotic SynergyTM
- Quercetin + Nettles
- Tegricel® Colostrum
- Vitamin C Buffered Powder
- Vitamin D Synergy
- Zinc SupremeTM
Your Skin Doesn’t Have to Suffer
Sometimes symptoms of allergic reactions could be mistaken for a cold or flu. Avoid allergens in dairy, food, or even your cosmetics, and see if your symptoms improve.
If it turns out that you do have a cold or flu, you should still support your immune system with the things listed above. Your skin, however, may need some extra TLC.
If your skin needs more support because of a cold or flu:
- Stay hydrated. This was already mentioned above, but keeping yourself well-hydrated will also support your skin and keep it from drying out.
- Moisturize with non-toxic moisturizers. If you can, also use a humidifier at home to keep the air from drying out your skin. Just be sure to clean your humidifier often to prevent mold or mildew from building up.
- Protect your skin when you go out. Use hats, gloves, scarves, and sunscreen. Even though the sun isn’t as strong as it is in the summer months, excessive sun exposure could still damage your skin in the winter.
- Avoid taking long, hot showers and baths. They may feel nice, and they may even clear some stuffiness, but they’re an easy way to dry out your skin. Keep your showers short and use warm water.
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Making a career for yourself in a creative industry can be a daunting and intimidating challenge. Where do you start? How do you get your foot in the door? These are common concerns for young would-be professionals. The music industry is a perfect example of all of these concerns. There’s no coursebook to read or curriculum to follow when it comes to learning to be a studio engineer.
A studio engineer isn’t just someone who understands the acoustics of music, or the scientific principles of mic placement, or what a compressor does. This knowledge is only part of it. Studio engineers don’t just know how the gear works. They also know how to solve problems; they know how to plan for the unexpected; they know how to work with clients; they know how to organize and run recording sessions; they know how to identify problem areas in the mix, and they know how to fix them.
A studio engineer also has a highly trained ear that can hear little problems in the audio many people can’t detect, but which can make the all difference between a professional-sounding recording and a mediocre one.
The Best Sound Engineer Schooling
All of this is to say that if you really want to learn to be a studio engineer, it’s going to take more than just studying the textbook and doing your assignments—it’s going to take spending time in the studio, watching your mentor carefully, and learning by doing. You need the hands-on experience of working with actual recording professionals and learning how to develop an ear that truly understands what it’s doing. You’re going to need to be boots on the ground, doing the work, if you want to really know if you have what it takes.
This is exactly why the Recording Connection insists that you be trained in a real recording studio, not in a classroom. We pair you with a working professional producer and you will learn the craft and trade of being a studio engineer from someone who has been in the game for years. These individuals have been around the block, have seen the industry shift repeatedly, and have adapted. They’ll teach you the ins and the outs of what it takes to not only be a great engineer but also how to have longevity.
MAKING THE MOST OF THE OPPORTUNITY
Obviously, we’ve provided a quality curriculum that you need to study—but the real work is going to happen in the studio as you assist in recording sessions with your mentor. Here are some tips for making the most of that opportunity:
- Spend lots of time in the studio. Don’t just go to class. Be in the studio as often as your mentor allows, and as often as your schedule allows. The more you’re around when recording sessions are happening, the more quickly you’ll pick things up.
- Watch, learn, and ask. Don’t just read about what a preamp does: watch how your mentor uses it, and if he doesn’t explain it, ask him why he chose that particular preamp for that sound. Pay attention to how the engineer responds to certain sounds, and how he makes adjustments on the board or on the DAW. Ask about things you don’t understand. Remember, you’re there to learn, and your mentor wants you to understand.
- Take the initiative. As you get more comfortable in the studio, when you see something that needs to be done, don’t wait to be asked. Become part of the process. Get your hands dirty. This is a hands-on learning experience. The more you make yourself useful, the more your mentor will involve you in the process, and the more you’ll learn the tricks of the trade.
- Make connections. This is going to be a pivotal time for you. You’re going to be learning and working to make a name for yourself. But you’re also going to be meeting a ton of people. Make the most of this. You’re going to have the chance to make loads of connections, don’t be shy. Put your best foot forward.
- Work towards your goals. This is a perfect time to make headway in whatever direction you want to go. If you’re shooting to be a producer eventually then this is a great time to start producing tracks and trying to get them into the hands of artists. You need to be thinking about the angles. Yes, this time period should be you learning, but it’s also a time for laying the tracks for your future.
Ultimately, learning to be a studio engineer means learning by doing. No one learns this trade by reading a textbook. It takes many hours of watching, practicing, and even sometimes making mistakes. So, that’s exactly what you should be doing. This isn’t a theoretical situation. This is the actual thing. You’re actually literally going to be in the studio. Making music. Make the most of it. Really milk it for every ounce of experience you can take away from it. There’s no better place to learn than in the studio, and no better way to learn than by getting involved. | <urn:uuid:cae87be0-712d-4617-b183-552cf9821254> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://recordingconnection.com/reference-library/learning-to-be-a-studio-engineer/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.964801 | 1,083 | 2.5625 | 3 |
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CHRMP Competency Mapping
Certifications Partner :
Competency Mapping is essential for enabling the employees of an organisation. By identifying weaknesses, strengths, and areas of improvement, an HR professional can assist with this critical skill. This will lead to career development and organisational growth.
Identify competencies required for various job roles
Design and develop the Competency Matrix
Create positive and negative Competency indicators for different Competency area
Distinguish between Job Description/Job Specifications and Competency Matrix
Evaluate the significance of different methods for conducting Job Analysis
Demonstrate an in-depth understanding of the Job Analysis implementation
Use Competency Matrix for various HR functions in an organization
Articulate and apply the stages of the Competency Mapping process
The CHRMP Competency Mapping certification program is designed for HR Professionals working in organisations already deploying competency-based HR or planning to transition into being competency focussed. Those desiring to fast track their career in HR through cutting edge knowledge and the application of Competency Mapping in HR processes would benefit immensely from the certification. There are no prerequisites for taking this course.
Exam & Certification
CHRMP is validated with the best-in-the-world-testing standards, delivered in partnership with Mercer Mettl. The CHRMP Competency Mapping Exam is made up of 50 multiple-choice questions to be answered in 60 minutes. The questions are a mix of conceptual and practical case study type.
One can take the exam at any designated Mercer Mettl Center or via web proctored in the comfort of one’s own home.
You Also Get…
1 Months Free CHRMP CPD Membership
Blended & Flexible Learning Options
Fee & Plan
Self-Paced Platform Walkthrough
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There’s games afoot. If you’re a parent, or even just someone who bought a Nintendo Switch prepare for a new wave of perishables, which we’ll all look foolish using.
This week gaming giant, Nintendo, announced Nintendo Labo, a new line of interactive build-and-play experiences designed to inspire kids and those who are kids-at-heart. The announcement video (you can see below) showed off adults and kids using the portable hybrid Nintendo Switch gaming console in a variety of new but odd ways.
One instance saw someone build a tiny cardboard piano where players can remove the joy-con controllers from the system and dock them in cardboard Labo slots latched into your creation while the screen itself rests in the center. This estimated $1.13 cents worth of cardboard is not only supporting your $299 gaming machine, it’s actually getting it to emit piano sounds when you press down on the paper keys. As you play, the IR Motion Camera in the Right Joy-Con detects which keys are pressed and translates them into unique notes that are heard through the console. You can even take control of your very own motorbike by constructing a functioning set of handlebars, with a Joy-Con inserted in each side and the Nintendo Switch console cradled in the middle. Simply hit the ignition button, turn the right handle to engage the accelerator and watch it happen on the Nintendo Switch screen, as you race to new destinations. Other ways the Labo will be used involve mounting a cardboard shell to people and turning them into some kind of awful cosplaying Transformers punching robot, it appears we’ll also get more musical applications as a drum kick pedal was shown off, even a fishing rod was built that actually has yarn to reel in and out of the cardboard contraption.
There are different pricing tiers when it comes to what you’ll pay to try these experiences:
Variety Kit ($69.99MSRP*)
- Toy-Con RC Car: Insert the Left and Right Joy-Con into your newly built RC Car and control its movement using touch screen controls on the Nintendo Switch console. The HD Rumble feature in the Joy-Con controllers will cause vibrations that move the car in the direction you choose. Materials to construct two RC Cars are included.
- Toy-Con Fishing Rod: Construct the Fishing Rod with an active, rotating reel that is attached by string to a cradle holding the Nintendo Switch console. Catch one of many exotic fish shown swimming on the Nintendo Switch screen by casting your Fishing Rod and unwinding the reel to lower the hook. Once you feel a vibration from the Joy-Con inserted in the reel, you must tug the Fishing Rod upward and crank the reel quickly to try and complete the catch!
- Toy-Con House: By inserting various assembled blocks into openings in the sides and bottom of the House, you can interact with, play games with and feed a cute creature on the front-facing Nintendo Switch screen. Each differently shaped block is detected by the IR Motion Camera on the Right Joy-Con inserted on top of the House.
- Toy-Con Motorbike: Insert each Joy-Con into an assembled set of handlebars to drive a motorbike on the Nintendo Switch screen. Pressing the ignition button starts the engine, while twisting the right handle activates the throttle. Leaning your body or turning the handlebars left and right controls the motorbike.
- Toy-Con Piano: After assembling a beautifully crafted 13-key piano and inserting the Nintendo Switch console and Joy-Con, you can experiment with your own musical creations by pressing different keys. You can even insert different assembled knobs to create new sound effects and tones!Robot Kit ($79.99MSRP*)
- Toy-Con Robot: Create a wearable Robot suit, and insert the Left and Right Joy-Con into the designated slots on the backpack and visor to assume control of the robot, which is shown on the TV when the Nintendo Switch console is docked. Enjoy a variety of fun game-play experiences, including Robot mode, in which you can destroy in-game buildings and UFOs.
To say the least, Nintendo Labo will be for those who want to blend their real-life crafting hobbies with the digital world of video games. That’s far from a bad thing in an industry oversaturated by guns and online competition. It’s hard to deny these Labo things are cute and could very well be the next evolution from the plastic toys of Disney Infinity and Lego. Though in a way it’s going backwards. What’s hard to swallow is this product’s pricing. Unlike the Toys to life genre of games, you don’t pay for one starter kit with one piece of universal software then begin collecting every Labo. Each kit comes with its own software you’ll need to use the cardboard toys and even though no demos are yet available, it doesn’t appear as though the software is a full experience. It suffers from a similar issue “1-2 Switch” did when the system launched. It was a full-sized price tag for a piece of software that was nothing more than a glorified tech demo. I’m likely in the minority on this new concept. As the day after Labo was announced, the company’s stock price rose by 4.2% giving it one of its highest prices of the decade. Much of that spike was attributed to the unexpectedly positive social reaction from fans Labo was not intentionally marketed to.
No matter what claims of durability in the product Nintendo is making, the bottom line is their still pieces of cardboard. They can be broken or lose their integrity from normal wear and tear. For those with children or curious dogs, it could cost you around $10 a pop to replace parts.
Speaking ill or being wary of a Nintendo product doesn’t mean I dislike the company as a brand. Like many, I value its contribution to an industry which shaped many lives. However, I don’t think cardboard was the way to go on this. Had these been created from something more comparable to 3D printed material it might be worth paying a little bit more for. I don’t know what “special Nintendo cardboard” is, but I’m not convinced it could be as sturdy as Nintendo would like us to believe.
Labo is an interesting idea, but not something original. Remember years ago when kids could entertain themselves with nothing more than a few boxes to build a fort with or dig holes with a spoon. Nintendo is essentially selling you the experience of stealing from the UPS man, they’re just packaging it in a novelty that sparks our curiosity. There’s certainly nothing wrong with Nintendo trying to make money but between using one of the most fragile substances on the planet and packaging it with something that could end up being overpriced demoware; it seems a bit greedy.
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Inhalation with the Ellipta
Only open the protective cap of the inhaler when you are ready to inhale. Do not shake the inhaler.
Please slide the cover to the side to expose the mouthpiece until you hear a click. Your medication is now ready to inhale. This is confirmed by the number displayed in the counter being reduced by one unit.
Please sit upright. Hold the inhaler away from your mouth and breathe out as deeply as possible. Do not breathe into the mouthpiece.
Put the mouthpiece into your mouth and enclose your lips tightly around in. Do not block the air vent with your fingers. Take one long, steady, deep breath.
Remove the inhaler from your mouth and hold your breath for as long as possible, at last for 5 seconds. Then breathe out gently and slowly.
If you want to clean the mouthpiece, use a dry cloth before you replace the protective cap.
Close the inhaler. If possible, rinse your mouth. This helps to prevent the development of a sore mouth or throat as side effect.
If you open and close the cover without inhaling, this dose is lost. The lost dose remains safely in the inhaler. It is thus not possible to inhale too much medication or a double dose.
The counter shows how many doses of medication are still in the inhaler. This is exactly 30 doses prior to the first use of the inhaler. Every time the cover is opened, the number is reduced by one. When there are less than 10 doses left, half of the counter is red. The number 0 appears once the last dose has been used. The inhaler is now empty. If you open the cover after that, the colour indicator changes from half-red to entirely red.
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NASA is monitoring Tropical Storm Harvey as it moves back into the Gulf of Mexico this morning (Aug. 28) after causing heavy rains and severe flooding across Texas and Louisiana this past weekend.
Harvey initially hit the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane on Friday (Aug. 25). NASA's aptly named Aqua satellite — "aqua" is Latin for "water" — has been gathering data that has helped scientists identify the clouds within the tropical storm that are capable of generating heavy rainfall.
On Sunday (Aug. 27), NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston was closed to everyone except mission-critical staff due to the flooding. JSC is home to Mission Control, which is responsible for NASA's operation of the International Space Station. The massive rainfall has flooded many of the roads surrounding JSC. [How to Donate to Harvey Victims Online]
The Aqua spacecraft made readings using one of its instruments, known as the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS). The instrument detected the temperature of the clouds in the storm using infrared light, and scientists used that information to find out how large — and therefore how powerful — the storm clouds were in any given area the satellite surveyed, according to a NASA statement.
"The higher the cloud tops, the colder and the stronger they are," officials wrote in the statement. "So, infrared light … gathered by the AIRS instrument can identify the strongest storms within a tropical cyclone."
On Sunday morning, AIRS discovered that Harvey's coldest clouds — those capable of dropping the heaviest rainfall — were near the tropical storm's center and east-of-center, which corresponded to areas extending from southeastern Texas into southeastern Louisiana. The cold clouds have temperatures as low as minus 63 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 53 degrees Celsius).
Today, NASA responded via Twitter to the outpouring of public concern for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which is currently housed at JSC and is set to launch in 2018. The agency confirmed that the "personnel and hardware are safe and everyone is taking appropriate precautions." [Hurricane Harvey: Photos of the Massive Storm from Space]
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Aikido is a non-violent yet effective traditional martial art.
Our training is fun and will enhance your fitness, flexibility, and assertiveness. Aikido is often only available in larger cities so Louisa is blessed to have a good program offered via Louisa County Parks Recreation and Tourism.
Aikido in Louisa offers twice a week classes for youths and adults at the Betty J. Queen Center. Classes are Mondays and Wednesday evenings.
In Aikido we learn to redirect attacks to remove you from harm and thus safely end the conflict for everyone involved. Aikido is not only a means of defense but is a useful tool for everyday life. Using the peace and harmony learned through Aikido can help you cope with daily stresses and improve your overall well-being.
Aikido was developed by Morihei Ueshiba (1883-1969), known as O-Sensei (“Great Teacher”). O-Sensei was disenchanted with the competition and violence of other martial arts of the day and moved to Iwama, Japan, in the 1940s to develop Aikido as it is practiced today.
One of O-Sensei’s students, Morihiro Saito Sensei, took O-Sensei’s teachings and made Iwama Style Aikido known worldwide. This is the style of Aikido that is practiced at Aikido in Louisa. Through our affiliation with Aikido in Fredericksburg, we have a direct link back to Saito Shihan and O-Sensei.
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Keeping you up to date on the progress of the Named Person scheme and the NO2NP campaign.
Leading sociologist and supporter of the NO2NP campaign, Dr Stuart Waiton, has strongly criticised the Named Person scheme and the Scottish Government’s GIRFEC approach.
He cautioned that “every single professional who comes into contact with children is being trained to be suspicious of parents”.
“Rather than using their common sense, their professional judgment and their basic humanity to recognise problems they are being educated to be risk averse, to think ‘safety’, and danger, and to intervene in a family’s life based on minor issues”, he added.
Dr Waiton, a senior lecturer at Abertay University, raised concerns that “the potential for gross interference” by Named Persons was “extraordinary”, and could “destroy” conventional rights to family privacy because the legislation makes a blanket assumption that all parents need state support.
His comments came as MSPs debated the Named Person scheme in Holyrood yesterday in response to a Conservative motion opposing it. Labour expressed some reservations around implementation, but largely endorsed the Government’s approach.
Liz Smith MSP, the Conservative’s Spokesperson on Culture, Sport and Young People, made the case to oppose the scheme, saying some police officers “feared by making it compulsory for every child, it will be much less possible to direct sufficient attention to those who need it most”.
Read more from Dr Stuart Waiton:
Submission to the Education and Culture Committee
NAMED PERSON LAW ‘DEGRADES THE VERY MEANING OF PRIVACY’
TESS ARTICLE: “UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL”
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When John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr first appeared on a record – in October 1960
Wally Eymond, whose stage name was Lu Walters, was the bass player and second vocalist from Rory Storm and The Hurricanes. Walters was an accomplished ballad singer with the group and the opportunity to commit his voice to record was too tempting to resist.
During his band’s eight-week residency at the Kaiserkeller in Hamburg, Allan Williams arranged a recording session for Saturday 15 October 1960 at the Akustik Studio, which was a small booth on the fifth floor of 57, Kirchenalle (The Klockmann-House). Williams asked John, Paul and George from The Beatles to play and sing harmonies for Walters on the recording.
Pete Best was in town supposedly buying drumsticks, so Ringo played drums, which was the first time John, Paul, George and Ringo played and recorded together. There are conflicting reports as to which songs were recorded and these may never be resolved as the documentation and the original discs have long since vanished. Beatles historian and author Hans Olof Gottfridson has studied the evidence for that day.
In a 1963 edition of Mersey Beat, it is claimed that three separate acetates with the individual songs “Fever”, “September Song” and “Summertime” were recorded. Gottfridson concluded that “Fever” was probably recorded at the session, but there is no evidence that it made it onto disc. However, there is a photograph in Allan Williams’ book, The Man Who Gave The Beatles Away, which shows a 78 rpm record with the words “Beatles and Wally Demo” and “Summertime” across the label. In Mersey Beat, both Lu Walters and Johnny “Guitar” Byrne from the Hurricanes supported the claim that “September Song” was also recorded.
Bill Harry, writing in Mersey Beat, recalled that, to his knowledge, John, Paul and George only backed Lu on “Summertime”, whereas Johnny “Guitar” Byrne and fellow Hurricane members Ty O’Brien and Ringo Starr backed Lu on “September Song” and “Fever”.
“The B-side of the acetate contained no music,” observed Gottfridson. “Instead, it comprised commercials for goods sold by the Klockmann Company who had a leather bag store in the bottom floor of the building.”
Investigating these early recordings often means relying on the memories of men who were swept up in the craziest times of their young lives. They had neither the time nor the desire to maintain extensive diary notes for the benefit of inquisitive fans over fifty years later. Johnny “Guitar”, who kept a brief day-to-day diary, simply recorded on 14 October 1960: ‘Wally and Beatles going to make a test recording tomorrow.’ At least this confirms the date of the recording. Sadly, Byrne’s diary entries cease on that day until the end of December 1960.
In March 1962, Lu left Rory Storm to join Derry and The Seniors, but by September of that year, he had rejoined the group when the Seniors split up. His time with the Hurricanes lasted until February 1965 when he finally quit the group for good to concentrate on his career as a psychiatric nurse.
Wally (Lu) still lives in the Merseyside area and is a frequent visitor at local rock ‘n’ roll nights.
So, for the first time, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr appeared on record for the first time. If only we still had the record!
the beatles at EMI Studios, Abbey Road – How Did They Do It?
Ringo was now The Beatles’ drummer. But that was just the start to his career with the group. All was going smoothly until the first EMI recording session on 4th September 1962, just after his debut. The new Fab Four headed to the EMI Studios in Abbey Road to record their first single.
Brian Epstein reported for Mersey Beat, and his story, carried anonymously at his request. He told how they had met together at Liverpool Airport at 8.15am for their flight to London. Neil drove the equipment van on that long journey to the capital, though not in the midst of a snowstorm. This time, it was just torrential rain, but still not for the faint-hearted. Brian even had his “boys” pose for a group photograph on the tarmac, but none of them looked impressed.
Ringo sported his now-famous grey streak and George tried to appear oblivious to his black eye. The flight was not very smooth due to the weather, which did little to comfort George. He had a aversion to flying. They eventually arrived in London and checked into their hotel in Chelsea before heading to EMI Studios in Abbey Road.
Beatles! How Did You Do With It?
There was an important aim for the day, and it wasn’t to make a record. After the June session, it wasn’t just Pete’s drumming George Martin didn’t like. He wasn’t impressed with the songs or the arrangements, and the overall quality from the group was below-par. George Martin had told The Beatles to work over the summer on “How Do You Do It?”. (The Mitch Murray song George had sent them in late July) and “Love Me Do”.
Was This A Recording Session?
The normal practice was that a session drummer would only be hired when a song was ready to record. On 4th September, The Beatles were nowhere near ready to record! It therefore made no economic sense to pay for a session drummer to stand around all day. Session drummers usually worked on three-hour sessions and, in that time, they could learn and record up to four songs. For producer Martin, there was still a lot of work to do with the group; they weren’t ready to record the songs yet: they didn’t even know which songs they were going to record.
Possibly of more importance was the fact that Dezo Hoffman had been booked to photograph The Beatles. Irrespective of Ringo turning up, George Martin would still be hiring a session drummer for the record. It wouldn’t matter how well Ringo performed. The evidence therefore suggests that this was not a recording session from which a record would result.
How Should We Do It?
The Beatles walked into the studio and were met by their trusted roadie ‘Nell’. There was also their ‘headmaster’ George Martin and producer Ron Richards, the latter two having contributed to Pete Best’s downfall. The Beatles must have been nervous as they readied themselves for the session. “And so the moment came when all was set to make a first disc. A first disc with the world’s greatest recording organization,” said a proud Brian Epstein. No pressure on the boys, then.
The afternoon session, a three-hour rehearsal slot which ran from 2pm to 5pm. This was followed by another three hours of recording between 7pm and 10pm. According to Brian, it wasn’t an easy afternoon for The Beatles. “The rehearsal part of the session began,” he recalled. “It was a long and hard afternoon’s work. Six numbers were considered and eventually two were selected for the actual recording session in the evening.” They definitely would have rehearsed “How Do You Do It?” and “Love Me Do”, though the identity of the other four songs was not noted. They are thought to be “Ask Me Why”, “P.S. I Love You”, “Please Please Me” and a new original song in their repertoire, “Tip of My Tongue”. All apart from the first song were Lennon/McCartney originals. Their mission was clear: record their own songs. And this is where the conflict arose.
“how do you do it?”
George Martin wanted them to release the Mitch Murray song “How Do You Do It?”, which the group had been working on over the summer. But they were equally intent on recording only their own songs. They had been working on “Love Me Do” as Martin had asked them to do. Plus, they had “Love Me Do”, which had been recorded in June, but was now improved. What resulted was a much brighter, more marketable song. But there were other songs in contention, too, which they wanted to perform for Martin.
the beatles session in june 1962
The June session had to be scrubbed as far as making a record was concerned. However, George Martin still included those four songs in their total of six to record per the contract. This explains why no session drummer was present that day. They only had two songs left to fulfil the terms of the contract. He wasn’t going to squander money for a session drummer when they hadn’t even decided which songs they were going to release.
George Martin knew he had to start again and Ringo seemed to confirm this. “The response to us at EMI was okay, because we’d done the auditions and George Martin was willing to take a chance. On my first visit in September, we just ran through some tracks for George Martin. We even did ‘Please Please Me’”. Norman ‘John Lennon called me Normal’ Smith, who had been involved in the June session, returned for this session. He remembers that “it was really all John and George and Paul. Ringo had just joined and was put right at the back, being used rather like a puppet.” What mattered at this session was having John, Paul and George up to speed on the songs. George Martin was still planning to hire a session drummer.
who was andy white replacing?
Was Andy White booked to replace Pete Best? No. White confirmed that he was only called in after the 4th September session. This 4th September was a test session, and George Martin probably had a plan for a final recording date. That is when the session drummer would be employed. That date became 11th September. In Martin’s mind, the session drummer was still going to be brought in to replace Pete. However, it was suddenly Ringo, not Pete, who was the problem. As it turned out, Andy White was booked to replace Ringo. However, just as Pete was kept in the dark about the Decca failure, nobody thought to inform Ringo when he was being replaced.
First Rehearsal Session: 2pm – 5pm
As the clock headed towards 2pm, they were ready to start rehearsing. The afternoon session of six songs included “How Do You Do It?” and “Love Me Do”, plus “Please, Please Me” as Ringo had mentioned, “P.S. I Love You” and probably “Ask Me Why” and “Tip Of My Tongue”. They were intent on winning over George Martin, especially with their own songs.
But despite their efforts, Martin was still not impressed with “Love Me Do”, even with their changes. He didn’t hold back in his judgment of “Please Please Me” either. “They played me ‘Please Please Me’ but it was very slow and rather dreary. I told them if they doubled the speed it might be interesting”. And so George Martin’s influential role with The Beatles had begun. “I told them what beginning and what ending to put on it,” Martin added.
How Did We Do It?
After the three hours of rehearsal, George Martin took The Beatles out for a meal. He got to know them better as people. More than their songs, he liked their personalities, and regaled them with tales about recording the Goons. But there was still work to be done on the four songs set to be recorded. However, Martin considered only two songs sufficiently progressed enough for recording: “How Do You Do It?” and “Love Me Do”.
The recording of “How Do You Do It?” was completed quite quickly, in only a couple of takes. Though it was a good performance, it lacks enthusiasm and belief. There is no soul in the singing and playing, and they are clearly not interested in the song.
“LOVE ME DO”
“Love Me Do” was a different matter, Brian observed, as the song was “no simple matter. Everyone was anxious to attain a perfect sound, which would reproduce The Beatles’ unique qualities exactly”. As in June, this Lennon/McCartney original was causing problems for the recording engineers. Brian recalled it took around 15 takes to record, and that “John’s mouth (on harmonica) was numb with playing”. In fact, there were more than 15 takes for just the rhythm track, with the vocals added separately.
Why Should We Do It?
Once they had completed several takes of “Love Me Do”, there was a confrontation which has been remembered in different ways by those present.
It was Lennon, as group leader, who confronted George Martin. “Look, George, I have to tell you, we really think that song is crap”. Martin’s face was obviously shocked, so John qualified his statement. “I mean, it may be all right, but it’s just not the kind of thing we want to do”. George Martin quickly responded: “Well, exactly what is it you want to do?” Lennon realised this was his chance. “We want to record our own material, not some soft bit of fluff written by someone else”. Martin, who was obviously fond of the Liverpudlians, gave a wry smile. “I’ll tell you what, John,” he replied. “When you can write a song as good as that one, then I’ll record it.”
They’ve Got some cheek
What could Lennon say? Norman Smith was obviously amused by it all. “They’ve got some cheek, that lot,” he said. “I reckon that’s what got them this far, though?”
Paul and John were later to tell US journalist Larry Kane, what they felt about their choice. “‘Love Me Do,’ Larry, wasn’t the best song we ever wrote. But it really put us out front,” McCartney told Kane on the 1965 Beatles tour. John was also emphatic. “In Hamburg we clicked. At the Cavern we clicked. But if you want to know when we knew we’d arrived,” Lennon said, “it was getting in the charts with ‘Love Me Do.’ That was the one. It gave us somewhere to go.”
“Um, Without Ringo”
Norman Smith remembered the session, too. “They started to do ‘Love Me Do’ again, this time with George Martin”. Smith looked back at the session from June, and the problem again was the drummer. “Ringo Starr’s drumming did not impress. And so Ringo was taken off and replaced by a session drummer.” This explained why it took more than 15 attempts to record “Love Me Do”.
george martin didn’t like ringo
Paul explained what happened. “Horror of horrors! George Martin didn’t like Ringo. Ringo at that point was not that steady on time.” Were they in a better place than with Pete? “Now he (Ringo) is rock steady,” Paul stated some thirty years later. “It’s always been his greatest attribute. But, to George (Martin), he was not as pinpoint as a session guy would be. So, Ringo got blown off the first record.” Actually, no he didn’t!
Paul continued: “George (Martin) did the ‘Can I see you for a moment, boys?’ ‘Yeah?’ ‘Um… without Ringo’. He said, ‘I would like to bring another drummer in for this record’. George got his way and Ringo didn’t drum on the first single.” Norman Smith said: “I’ve a feeling that Paul wasn’t too happy with Ringo’s drumming, and felt that it could be better. He didn’t make too good a job of it. I remember too that there was a fair bit of editing to be done.”
“paul was starting to get annoyed with him”
Geoff Emerick remembered the problems surrounding the recording of “Love Me Do”. “The Beatles seemed to have a lot of trouble getting this one (“Love Me Do”) right, though,” he said. They obviously hadn’t rehearsed it as much as the other song. “Ringo was having difficulty maintaining a steady beat”. More telling was the dissention in the group, as “Paul was starting get annoyed with him”. They hoped that each take they finished would be good enough for George Martin. However, Emerick witnessed the conversations between Martin and Smith, where Martin criticized Ringo’s “unsteady drumming.”
When the session was finally over, George Martin appeared to be frustrated. Norman Smith then turned to Geoff Emerick to discuss the session. Smith said, “George has decided to bring in a session drummer when they come in again next week, so we shouldn’t have those problems again.”
“i didn’t rate ringo very highly”
George Martin’s opinion was based on what he had seen and heard. “I didn’t rate Ringo very highly,” he said. “He couldn’t do a drum roll – and still can’t – though he’s improved a lot since. Andy was the kind of drummer I needed. Ringo was only used to ballrooms. It was obviously best to use someone with experience.”
Ron Richards and George Martin hadn’t liked Pete Best’s drumming in June. Now, three months later, Martin and Norman Smith cared little for Ringo’s drumming. The Beatles knew there was one more recording session in which they could make their debut single. However, it would be without Ringo on drums. Was this really due to Ringo’s drumming quality? Or because it was record company practice to use session drummers at first? George Martin’s mind was made that he would be using a session drummer.
We shouldn’t be too harsh on Pete or Ringo, even if the producer had reservations about both drummers.
Ringo was in for a shock
After the 4th September session, there were two important decisions to address. First, a session drummer was still needed to make the record. And second, another Lennon/McCartney original was needed to replace “How Do You Do It?”. They had a week to prepare for their final session, but nobody thought to inform Ringo of George Martin’s decision. He was in for a very big shock.
Were The Beatles and the Fab Four different? Much has been made of the drumming skills of Pete Best and Ringo Starr, and opinions are often at odds. Each has been praised for his talent, or criticized for his lack of it.
Pete Best was removed from The Beatles because of George Martin’s comments at the end of their June 1962 audition. Was it a clash of personalities, haircuts and the myriad other reasons given for Pete’s “dismissal”? Or was there something more fundamental going on which may have gone unnoticed? David Harris, Brian Epstein’s lawyer, confirmed that when Pete Best left, The Beatles effectively disbanded and then re-formed with Ringo. Was this more than just a legal sleight of hand that happened in the blink of an eye?
There are certain crisis points in Beatles history where the evolution of the group required a personnel change.
John lennon needs paul mccartney
On 6th July 1957, Paul McCartney watched The Quarrymen perform a mixture of country, rock ‘n’ roll and skiffle. Yet rock ‘n’ roll would always remain John’s first love. The Quarrymen lacked the expertise to make that musical leap from a skiffle group to rock ‘n’ roll. John knew that if they were going to become a rock ‘n’ roll group, they needed more skilled musicians. Thankfully, Ivan Vaughan introduced him to his mutual friend Paul McCartney. All John had to decide was whether they would continue playing just for fun, or take themselves more seriously. Should they bring in a musician who had the talent to improve them?
By inviting Paul to join The Quarrymen, John knew that most of his friends would soon be leaving. Rock ‘n’ roll bands didn’t need a banjo, washboard or tea-chest bass. That reality hastened the departures of Rod Davis, Pete Shotton and Len Garry.
john and paul need George harrison
What John and Paul realised after Paul botched his solo on “Guitar Boogie” was that they needed a lead guitarist. Thankfully, Paul knew someone who could amply assume the role: George Harrison. Five months after John met Paul, George had replaced Eric Griffiths, and Rod, Pete and Len had departed. Only Colin Hanton, the drummer, remained. The nucleus of The Beatles was in place; John, Paul and George were now together.
The Quarrymen Are Dead: Long Live The Silver Beatles/Silver Beats/The Beatals
John, Paul and George were desperate to have their own rock ‘n’ roll group. They offered a spot in the band to Rod Murray or Stu Sutcliffe, depending on who could get a bass. Stu joined the group when he purchased a bass with the proceeds from the sale of one of his paintings.
john, paul, George and stu need a drummer
As they ditched the Quarrymen name, John, Paul, George and Stu needed a drummer. Their new manager, Allan Williams, recruited Tommy Moore, and, at long last, they were a rock ‘n’ roll group. Through Tommy first, then Norman Chapman, the boys were able to convince Williams to get them bookings. Later, with new drummer Pete Best on board, to send them to Hamburg.
The Silver Beatles/Silver Beats/The Beatals Are Dead: Long Live The Beatles
With Pete now in the group, The Beatles became the greatest rock ‘n’ roll group Liverpool or Hamburg had seen. As Beatles promoter Sam Leach observed; “When The Beatles came back from Hamburg, they were the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band anyone had seen. Only those of us on the scene then saw The Beatles at their best: they were pure rock. They lost some of that when Brian put them in suits, but it worked, and you can’t argue with it.”
there was nobody to touch us in britain
As John Lennon said: “We were four guys. I met Paul and said, do you want to join my band, and then George joined and Ringo joined. We were just a band who made it very, very big; that’s all. Our best work was never recorded. In Liverpool, Hamburg and around the dance halls, and what we generated was fantastic when we played straight rock. There was nobody to touch us in Britain, but as soon as we made it, the edges were knocked off. Brian put us in suits and all that, and we were very successful, but we sold out. Our music was dead before we even went on the theatre tour of Britain.” (Rolling Stone Interview).
The Beatles did their best work in Liverpool and Hamburg. John is acknowledging that the group was at its best with Pete on drums. This is a point easily confirmed by any fan who saw the band perform in Liverpool or Hamburg. There was no one to touch them. However, John’s comments need to be taken in context. He loved those early days playing rock ‘n’ roll, but his words shouldn’t be viewed as a criticism of Ringo.
john, paul, George and pete don’t need stu
This transitional period also saw a crucial change on bass guitar. Although Stu Sutcliffe was a decent rock ‘n’ roll bassist, they needed Paul McCartney. With Paul on bass, they could take it up a notch.
1962: Rocked in: Popped Out – The Beatles Are Dead: Long Live The Fab Four
What we witnessed during the summer of 1962 was the end of The Beatles. They were the great rock ‘n’ roll group that had conquered Liverpool and Hamburg. Through Pete Best’s driving beat, Paul’s thumping bass, John’s fiery rhythm and George’s infectious rock ‘n’ roll guitar licks. What we then witnessed, with the introduction of Ringo, was the birth of the Fab Four. This new pop group would conquer the world. In 1962, they rocked in the year, but ‘popped’ it out in the charts with their new brand of music. They were at last achieving Brian Epstein’s vision of a polished, theatrically-astute and aesthetic pop group.
When Brian first saw them on at the Cavern, they were scruffy rebels in black leather. They were rocking the joint while eating, drinking, smoking and clowning around. When they were presented to the music press in 1962, they were four polite, cheeky, suited Liverpool lads. Brian’s vision of musical theatre was coming to fruition. His “boys” were now presentable in stage costumes with a rehearsed script and a set list. They even bowed at the end of their performances, much like a curtain call for a play. Their shows became carefully-crafted pieces of musical theatre. This was a huge leap into the unknown for the band, but one fully-orchestrated by Brian. The Beatles had evolved into the Fab Four. We couldn’t have both; one of them had to go, and the old style Beatles took the fall.
Whatever magic potion he possessed, Ringo fit in perfectly with John, Paul and George, and it worked; history confirms that. As with any team, The Beatles proved that the whole was greater than the sum of its parts. All that mattered was how they worked together. The group would always be greater than the individuals, regardless of talent. None of the Beatles was considered to be the best at his chosen instrument in Liverpool. Together they were greater than any musical team had even been, and likely will ever be.
john, paul and George ask ringo
“Pete Best was good, but a bit limited,” said Paul. “You can hear the difference on the Anthology tapes. When Ringo joins us, we get a bit more kick, a few more imaginative breaks, and the band settles. So the new combination was perfect: Ringo with his very solid beat, laconic wit and Buster Keaton-like charm; John with his sharp wit and his rock ‘n’ rolliness, but also his other, quite soft side; George, with his great instrumental ability and who could sing some good rock ‘n’ roll. And then I could do a bit of singing and playing some rock ‘n’ roll and some softer numbers.” (Anthology).
Was Pete Best a Good Drummer?
In “Finding the Fourth Beatle“, we have analysed Pete’s drumming on the Tony Sheridan recordings from June 1961. On the accompanying CD, you can also hear the Decca audition from January 1962. Pete was a more-than-capable player. Extensive research conducted with various Merseybeat drummers about Pete’s drumming resulted in high praise from so many of them.
pete was a great drummer
Billy Kinsley played in the Pete Best Band. He is adamant that they didn’t get rid of Pete because he was a poor drummer. “You ask drummers who were around at the time,” said Billy, “and they say that Pete was a great drummer. I never had a problem at all with Pete. He was great, absolutely superb. Nothing against Ringo, but there was nothing wrong with Pete. However, John, Paul and George knew nothing about the recording business, and nor did Brian. If you saw any of those gigs at the Cavern , all the girls were screaming for Pete. That’s what The Beatles was all about; those three crazy guys and the moody guy who didn’t smile or was quiet, but it worked. Getting rid of him didn’t make sense to us.
From You To Me
So if fellow musicians didn’t see a problem with Pete, what was it? Was there a power shift within The Beatles from John to Paul. Paul’s repertoire and more eclectic song choices would appeal to a wider variety of audiences. Theywere better suited to a group who wanted to make, and sell, records. When it came to covering some of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll and R&B songs, The Beatles with Pete were second to none. John admitted that.
from rock to pop, beatles to fab four
However, for a group writing its own commercial pop songs, a change of direction was needed, and that meant a drummer who was used to playing a more varied song selection. They found that drummer in Ringo Starr, who had performed with Rory Storm and The Hurricanes at the Butlin’s holiday camps, entertaining audiences other than those at the Cavern and the clubs of Liverpool. Brian Epstein was desperately trying to get The Beatles away from those clubs, and John, Paul and George knew that.
So, when Ringo joined the group, they went from being The Beatles, the rock ‘n’ roll kings, to the Fab Four, the greatest-ever pop group. It is possible that, by changing drummers, John was trying to suggest that The Beatles were dead; long live the Fab Four. Both were great bands in their own right, and each had a great drummer in his own right. Pete Best helped The Beatles conquer Liverpool and Hamburg, and also secure Brian Epstein, the manager who would make them famous and attain the record deal they craved. For his contributions, Pete Best should be celebrated and thanked.
“it don’t come easy”: how ringo’s debut with The beatles happened
August 1962 was a turbulent month for The Beatles. In trying to find a replacement for Pete Best, Brian had approached Bobby Graham, Ritchie Galvin and Johnny Hutchinson. Ringo, the drummer from Rory Storm and the Hurricanes with whom they had played before, agreed to join The Beatles. His debut was at Hulme Hall in the Victorian Model Village of Port Sunlight, Wirral, on 18th August 1962. The Fab Four was born.
how the beatles got to Hulme hall
In an interview for The Fab one hundred and Four, Ian Hackett had suggested The Beatles for a previous dance. His father, Harry, booked the group for that legendary debut appearance of the first Fab Four line-up in August 1962. “Our home overlooked the Dell, a particularly lovely landscaped part of the village,” recalled Ian. “It was just a few yards from Hulme Hall, the Bridge Inn and the Men’s Club. While selling the Liverpool Echo outside Lever’s, Monty Lister, one of my customers, approached me. He was the editor of the Port Sunlight News, with an offer I couldn’t refuse.
“Back in the spring of 1962, Harry, as Captain of the Golf Club, organised the Club’s annual dance. He chose Hulme Hall as the venue, July 7th as the date and The Modernaires, as the main band. Then he asked me if I could think of a band to fill in during the Modernaires’ break. I suggested The Beatles.
“On 7 July 1962, the Golf Club Dance came,” recalled Hackett, the first of four appearances by The Beatles.
“They went down really well with my friends, although dad got some complaints about The Beatles.” In spite of those complaints, they booked The Beatles to appear again on 18th August 1962. Little did they know how significant this day would be.
“we want pete”
“By having The Beatles headliners at Hulme Hall on August 18th, this showed that not all the adults were hostile. But there was a mass female chanting of ‘We want Pete!’ when they introduced their new drummer.
“The make-up of the audience was different for this show,” recalled Ian, “as there were more young people than locals. The problem was that the local people were angry as the young interlopers wanted to show support for Pete Best. The Beatles never stood a chance. I was glad for this one that my dad took the flak, and not me!”
In spite of the audience reaction, Ian was impressed with The Beatles that night. “I loved their treatments of ‘Twist and Shout’ and ‘Besame Mucho’” he said. “John’s harmonica in general was great, but especially on Bruce Chanel’s ‘Hey Baby’. At that stage, they weren’t playing that many original songs.”
No photos are known to exist of The Beatles at Hulme Hall. However, I discovered a photo of Gerry and the Pacemakers performing there later in 1962.
ringo in the toilet!
Ringo, because of the animosity in the crowd, was not enjoying the night of his debut. “I ran into a miserable-looking Ringo in the gent’s toilet during the break,” recalled Ian. “I tried to cheer him up with a smile and an optimistic comment: ‘Don’t worry about tonight. Things can only get better.’ And it was not long before they did.” (David Bedford interview in The Fab one hundred and Four)
You can still visit the hall, though the stage is no longer there.
When John, Paul and George decided that they needed to replace Pete Best, following the Parlophone audition, they asked Brian Epstein to find a replacement. The first drummer approached was Bobby Graham, who turned Brian down. Brian Epstein then spoke to Ritchie Galvin, who also said no to The Beatles. Johnny Hutchinson became the third drummer to decline the offer.
The Beatles introduced Brian to Ringo Starr at the Blue Angel Club. Epstein then offered Ringo the opportunity to replace Pete. Brian said that he would confirm the appointment on 14th August 1962. However, Brian then offered Johnny “Hutch” Hutchinson the job of Beatles drummer the day that Brian got rid of original Beatles drummer Pete Best. (see Why Pete Best was not sacked)
16th august 1962: brian Epstein asks johnny Hutchinson to be the beatles drummer
On the afternoon of 16th August 1962, Brian told Pete Best the bad news that the other Beatles wanted him out. Pete initially agreed to fulfil the Beatles gigs until Ringo was due to arrive on Saturday. An obvious choice for drummer was Johnny “Hutch” Hutchinson. Hutch had sat in, albeit grudgingly, with The Silver Beatles at the Larry Parnes audition in May 1960. Johnny Hutchinson was the driving force behind The Big Three and the best drummer in the Liverpool. Considering that The Big Three had just signed a management contract with Brian on 1st July 1962, it made sense to approach him to help The Beatles out at short notice.
The Big Three had been playing in Hamburg for most of July before returning to Liverpool in time to appear at the Tower Ballroom on 27th July. Brian asked Hutch to join The Beatles after he returned from Hamburg, and not just for the three upcoming appearances when Pete Best didn’t show up.
I was playing with the beatles
I interviewed Johnny for Finding the Fourth Beatle. “I was playing with The Beatles in Chester. With the Big Three playing on the same bill, Brian asked him to sit in with The Beatles. “I had to set up my drums and get dressed for our set with The Big Three, and then go and get changed and go back on stage with The Beatles.” Brian was there and kept looking at me strange. I got off stage after the gig and had to zoom off. Brian said, ‘I was looking at you to see how you’d fit with The Beatles’. I joked, ‘I don’t really.’” Little did he know what Brian was about to say to him.
“I think John would suit The Beatles down to the ground”
Johnny Hutchinson was honest; “I don’t remember dates, but I remember exactly where we were,” Hutch recalled. “I was in the Grosvenor Hotel in Chester,” after playing at the Riverpark Ballroom in Chester with The Beatles. “We sat down, and Brian Epstein and Bob Wooler were just looking at me. So I said, ‘What the f##k do you two want?’ And they looked at each other, and Brian said to Bob, ‘What do you think?’ Bob said, ‘Well, Brian, I think John would suit The Beatles down to the ground.’ Then Brian said, ‘I do, too. John, I want you to be The Beatles’ drummer.’
“I wouldn’t join The Beatles for a big clock”(Johnny Hutchinson)
“I told him that ‘I wouldn’t join The Beatles for a big clock. The Beatles couldn’t make as good a sound as the Big Three. My group is ten times better than The Beatles!’ And Brian said, ‘I know, but the Big Three are limited. The Beatles? The world is their oyster.’
I Like the beatles
“By that, I think he meant that I was the only one in the group who was grafting, really working hard. I was the drummer, doing the singing too, and with only three of us, there was only so much we could do. That’s what I reckon he meant. Brian also said that he had been ‘everywhere to get a drummer and that he couldn’t get one.’ And I said there must be another drummer out there, but Eppy said, ‘there isn’t anyone to suit The Beatles.’ You see, it is often said that I hated The Beatles, but I didn’t. I liked The Beatles, but hated the music. It wasn’t for me, but it suited lots of people. That’s why I wanted to stay with my band.”
johnny hutch recommended ringo to brian
Hutch recommended Ringo to Brian. “Yes I did. I told him to go and get Ringo. He’s a bum, he’ll join anyone for a few bob.” Johnny Hutch hasn’t for one minute ever regretted his decision to turn down The Beatles.
almost the fourth beatle
Johnny Hutchinson became the third drummer to turn down the opportunity to replace Pete Best in The Beatles. Sadly, Johnny died after a short illness in April 2019. He had become a good friend, and always good company, with some incredible stories. He was never one to make anything up – he always told the truth, which is a rarity.
Since 1962, one of the hottest debates has centered around Brian Epstein’s dismissal of Pete Best from The Beatles. The controversy has inspired articles, chapters and even entire books, all speculating on the reasons why the band booted Pete from the group as they were on the cusp of stardom. However, we have been looking at this most well-known chapter in Beatles history the wrong way. To being with, let’s go back to the infamous head-to-head meeting that took place on this day in 1962.
Brian Epstein summoned Pete Best to NEMS on 16th August 1962. Although Pete thought it was to be a routine meeting, it would in fact go on to define his life thereafter. Even though we will demonstrate that Brian did not dismiss Pete, this does not mean that either Pete or Brian have ever lied about what went on that day. Both of them have since given consistent accounts over the years. After nervously exchanging some small talk, Brian then uttered those fateful words:
“the boys want you out”
“I don’t know how to tell you this, but the boys want you out and it has already been agreed that Ringo is joining on Saturday.”
Pete recalled what happened next. “Only one echoed through my mind. Why, why, why? ‘They don’t think you’re a good enough drummer, Pete,’ Brian went on. ‘And George Martin doesn’t think you’re a good enough drummer.’ ‘I consider myself as good, if not better, than Ringo,’ I could hear myself saying.
does ringo know yet?
“Then I asked: ‘Does Ringo knew about this yet?’ ‘He’s joining on Saturday,’ Eppy said.
” A conspiracy had clearly been going on for some time behind my back, but not one of the other Beatles could find the courage to tell me. The stab in the back had been left to Brian, and it had been left until almost the last minute. Even Ringo had been a party to it, someone else I had considered to be a pal until this momentous day.”
The meeting continued. “Epstein went on to what for him was simply next business at this shattering meeting. ‘We still have a couple of venues left before Ringo joins – will you play?’ ‘Yes,’ I nodded, not really knowing what I was saying, for my mind was in a turmoil. How could this happen to me? “
“Why had it taken two years for John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison to decide that my drumming was not of a high enough standard for them? Dazed, I made my way out of Brian’s office. Downstairs, Neil was waiting for me. ‘What’s happened?’ he asked as soon as he saw me, ‘you look as if you’ve seen a ghost.’” Pete walked straight past Billy Kinsley and Tony Crane of The Merseybeats, the group Brian was hoping Pete would join.”
Delving into the technicalities
We have to carefully look at, and challenge, every piece of available evidence, and consider the following statements:
Brian Epstein sacked Pete Best – the accepted truth since 1962
John, Paul, and George had hired Pete in the first place, and therefore they could fire him too
Definition of Dismissal: “Dismissal (referred to informally as firing or sacking) is the termination of employment by an employer against the will of an employee.”
Pete Best was not an employee, so Brian couldn’t sack him. John, Paul and George couldn’t sack him either. In fact, Pete was a self-employed musician, so couldn’t be sacked by anybody.
Brian had to choose his words carefully
Now we know that Brian didn’t sack Pete, we have to examine what really happened.
The reason Brian used those exact words, “the boys want you out and it has already been agreed that Ringo is joining on Saturday” was not accidental; he chose those words very carefully.
Brian, as we know, was terribly nervous about the meeting, as Pete Best observed. It was because Brian knew he had to get the wording right, or it could have had dire consequences. Brian had to communicate Pete that he was sacking and replacing him, without saying those words.
Getting rid of Pete was not an easy matter. When he joined The Beatles, it was as an equal member, and therefore they became a partnership. The Beatles of John, Paul, George and Pete signed that Partnership Agreement at the end of 1961.
Another notable piece of evidence is the management contract that John, Paul, George and Pete signed as members of The Beatles. Brian hadn’t signed the contract. If Pete Best was simply a “hired hand”, then the contract would not have included him. The four Beatles were performing as a group, as a partnership.
No member of that partnership could fire another member. There needed to be a complex examination of the legal partnership among The Beatles and that management contract. Epstein needed the help of his solicitor, David Harris, to find a way to follow the instructions of John, Paul and George to get rid of Pete Best from The Beatles.
interview with Brian Epstein’s lawyer
“Best wasn’t employed by Brian,” said Harris, “he was in partnership with the other three Beatles, and they had a partnership as a group known as ‘The Beatles’. Their partnership didn’t have to be in writing – not all contracts have to be in writing – but in general terms, a contract doesn’t have to be in writing. It can be verbal, like buying something in a shop. Same with this informal partnership agreement where they would work together as a group and share their profits. They could have agreed among themselves that they could divide the profits between themselves in any way they wanted.” What Harris didn’t know at the time is that The Beatles had a formal partnership agreement arranged in December 1961.
Brian had no authority to get rid of Pete
“The problem was,” said Harris, “that it was a Partnership. Brian had no authority to get rid of Pete. They (the other three Beatles) had to get rid of him, and dissolve the partnership. Brian could say that Ringo was replacing Pete.
I wrote a letter saying Brian would happily place him (Pete) in another group, as that was in his character anyway. He couldn’t sack him. The personal relationships didn’t suggest it, but the legal relationship did, that Pete was engaging Brian to provide work for him.” Pete and the other Beatles, in a legal context, employed Brian Epstein.
Finding the Fourth Beatle
Brian Epstein, on behalf of The Beatles, had already approached Bobby Graham, Ritchie Galvin and would also ask Johnny Hutchinson later this same day, but he had already lined up the young Ringo Starr. The rest, as they say, is history.
Over the years, the story of how Ringo Starr became The Beatles drummer has been told in so many ways. It has taken on mythical proportions and so created an amalgam of scenarios that, if you look hard enough, is the truth. We have to investigate and piece the events together as best we can with exact times and dates. As more “facts” emerge, it retells more versions of the events, confusing the story even further.
Ringo sits in with The Beatles for Pete Best
No evidence exists to show that The Beatles offered Ringo the drumming job in The Beatles before August 1962. On the few occasions when Pete Best couldn’t make it, Ringo was their go-to drummer. This meant that they got to know each other a little better, musically. They first made a record together in Hamburg back in October 1960. Ringo next sat in with The Beatles was at their Christmas Party on 27th December 1961. On this occasion, Best had asked him to play in his place.
Ringo also played on 5th February at the Cavern, plus 26th March at The Cavern at lunchtime. He then joined them at the Kingsway Club in Southport in the evening. They knew what he was like to play with, and enjoyed playing with him in the group. This must have been a significant factor.
Examining The Evidence
Although some suggest that it would always be Ringo, the evidence says otherwise. Whatever transpired before Ringo Starr became The Beatles drummer, he was the right choice.
How did it happen? How did Ringo become the Beatles drummer? The Fourth Beatle? There are countless stories and multiple, often conflicting, versions of events. What does the evidence tell us?
Ringo explains how he joined The Beatles
In November 1962, Ringo told music journalist Chris Hutchins of the New Musical Express how he became The Beatles drummer. This interview, complete with relevant times, dates and locations, took place just three months after Ringo had joined the group. This interview appeared in my book, The Fab One Hundred and Four: The Evolution of The Beatles.
Ringo sat in with The Beatles on four occasions over the previous year, with conversations about him joining the group. There is no evidence that The Beatles offered Ringo the job before the weekend of 10th August 1962. In the interview, Ringo made no allusions to this, even a short time after joining them. The evidence only supports Ringo’s version.
Friday, 10th August 1962: 10, Admiral Grove
John and Paul asked George to contact Ringo to invite him to join The Beatles.
In an interview with Mersey Beat, Ringo’s mother Elsie recalled this as the first time she had met George Harrison. She explained why he had called. “Ringo was at Butlins when George came up to the house—I hadn’t met him before—and asked if Ritchie was home,” she said. “I told him he wasn’t, and he said, ‘Tell him we’re trying to get him to join us.’”
George Harrison explains
George corroborated this. “I went round to Ringo’s house when he was playing at Butlins, sat and had some tea with his mother and said, ‘Next time, tell your Ringo to call me up because I want him to be in our group’.”
Elsie’s comments confirm that she hadn’t met George before, so there is no evidence of a close friendship between George and Ringo at that point.
Ringo seems to verify this: “I found it harder to get close to George Harrison. As the youngest Beatle, he backed off rather than try to compete for the limelight with the extrovert John and Paul. George was the original Little Boy Lost.”
Saturday, 11th August 1962: The Odd Spot Club and The Blue Angel
Ringo had returned to Liverpool from Butlin’s and later recalled how The Beatles asked him to join on this day. “One Saturday morning,” Ringo said, “Elsie said that George Harrison had called and would I go down to see them at the Hot Spot (sic)?” This was actually The Odd Spot in Bold Street, Liverpool.
“It was my night off and I couldn’t think of a better way to spend it. During the break, John, Paul, and George invited me to join them at the Blue Angel later on. Pete Best wasn’t coming, they said. At the Blue Angel, they introduced me to Brian Epstein. We shook hands, and he seemed a bit surprised by my appearance. I had a beard and a gray streak in my hair then.”
Ringo, as he always did, discussed the offer with his best friend, Roy Trafford. “When Ringo was asked to join The Beatles, it was a surprise to him and he didn’t know which way to go,” Roy related, “so he asked me, ‘What do you think?’ I told him ‘what have you got to lose? Have a go. I don’t know whether I made a difference to his decision, but it definitely worked out for the best’.” (Read David’s full interview with Roy in Finding the Fourth Beatle) The key phrase is that ‘it was a surprise’ to Ringo showing that he had no expectation of joining The Beatles.
Tuesday, 14th August 1962: The Drive To Butlin’s?
Did Paul and John drive to Butlin’s to see Ringo? It is possible, but it was a long way—around 180 miles each way, and before there were motorways—with very little time to spare. We can’t be sure if they made the trip.
johnny guitar remembers
There are eyewitnesses though as Johnny Guitar from the Hurricanes remembers seeing them there. “John and Paul knocked on the door to our caravan about ten o’clock one morning, and I was very surprised because John hated Butlin’s. Paul said, ‘We’ve come to ask Ringo to join us.’ We went into the camp and Rory said, ‘What are we going to do because this is mid-season and we can’t work without a drummer?’ Paul said, ‘Mr. Epstein would like Pete Best to play with you.’ We couldn’t stand in Ringo’s way ‘cause we knew The Beatles would be big. We went back to Liverpool and saw Pete, but he was so upset that he didn’t want to play with anybody’.”
Spencer Leigh verified with Johnny Guitar that John and Paul visited Butlin’s, Skegness. “Yes, Rory got a big shock when Ringo said he would leave, and so did I,” Johnny said. “It is possible that Ringo had been tipped the wink on his last visit to Liverpool, but we had no inkling of what was going on.” This would fit with the visit to Liverpool the previous weekend, as Ringo described.
ringo doesn’t remember
However, Ringo denied seeing them at Butlin’s. “I don’t remember John coming over, which was in somebody’s book.” John hasn’t mentioned it, and Paul doesn’t have any clear recollection of it either. Neil Aspinall told author Mark Lewisohn that Paul McCartney The Beatles’ van to see Ringo at Butlin’s, Skegness, though this couldn’t be verified. If it happened, then this was a follow-up to the conversation that John, Paul, George and Ringo had on Saturday 11th August when they took him to meet Brian. If this was the case, then the only day for this drive was 14th August when they were not playing during the day.
waiting for brian Epstein to call
So Ringo was on standby now to receive a phone call from Brian Epstein, and to join The Beatles.
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Labeled Driver Alert Control (DAC), the new system monitors the car rather than the actual driver, looking at the vehicle’s movements and assessing whether it’s being driven in a controlled, consistent manner. In this way, DAC can also detect other distractions such as mobile phone use or from passengers in the car. It works by using a windscreen-mounted camera and a number of motion-detecting sensors.
Volvo is also launching a new lane departure warning system. Both systems will be available as options on the new V70, XC70 and S80 models at the end of the year, and will be on display at the upcoming Frankfurt Motor Show.
Our reliance on automotive technology to improve our driving skills is simply going to increase in the years to come. What happened to decent driver education? | <urn:uuid:e9c16c16-a8d2-43ee-be59-f817447760db> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1026575_volvo-launches-new-driver-alert-system | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.929811 | 169 | 2.203125 | 2 |
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Enable Viacam is a facial recognition program. It allows you to control your mouse by using a webcam. The way the application works is quite simple. You turn on your web camera and fire up the application. There will be a light-blue square at the center of the image. If you place your head there, the application will detect the tiniest movement. So, if you move your head left or right, the mouse pointer will follow. If you tilt your head up or down, the pointer will go up or down likewise.
Actually, I am trying it right now, and even moving my eyes (wide open) slightly to any direction triggers some mouse movement. I couldn't help saying "WOW" when I first saw how well this application worked. And I am anything but easily impressed.
Clicking is done by leaving the pointer stationary somewhere on the screen. So you just move it where you want and leave it there for a couple of seconds. You can also configure this to require less time. At the top of the screen, there is a bar that allows you to select a mouse button to work with. So, by default, the click is done with the left button, but if you change it to the right one, you will be able to right-click on something with your "mind", if you will. This is an open-source project and its capabilities are endless. I am sure this could help a big deal in applications for the handicapped. Kudoz to the entire team.
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Introducing a New Living-Learning Community
Based on the success of the Environment Living-Learning Community, where Environment students receive mentoring and academic support while living together with other Environment students, St. Paul's has decided to introduce a new community - one that should appeal to first-year students who were involved in social change efforts in high school and wish to continue being change-makers at university. The Social Impact Living-Learning Community is open to students from any Faculty.
Students will live together and be supported by an upper-year Peer Leader who will help them succeed in their first year while keeping their passion for social or environmental issues burning strong. Through events and activities, students will learn how to break down complex social and environmental issues, connect with design thinking principles, and better understand the growing fields and opportunities within social innovation and social entrepreneurship.
The GreenTeam Steps it Up
St. Paul's GreenTeam, a student leadership group focused on promoting sustainability initiatives throughout the College, is now in its third year, and had many great successes! The group is composed of around 20 students who are passionate about various environmental initiatives. This year, the team launched a "Choose Meatless Mondays" in Watson's Eatery, piloted an extended blue bin program in the residence wings, and most notably, hosted the first annual "EcoSTP."
This event was aimed at motivating and educating students on how to increase their individual sustainability on a daily basis. EcoSTP hosted booths from many on-campus groups, including the Sustainable Campus Initiative, the Ecology Lab, as well as St. Paul's groups such as GreenHouse and Watson's Eatery.
The event also hosted two guest speakers, a professor from the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development, and an alumna from St. Paul's GreenHouse.
The event was a great success, and the team is looking forward to scaling up the event in future years, with a greater focus on education and promoting behaviour change.
St. Paul's Welcomes Refugee Student from Congo
Among the many new students who started classes at UWaterloo last fall is Leonard Honore (pictured below in red), a refugee student from the Democratic Republic of Congo who is living at St. Paul's. He is being sponsored through the University of Waterloo's and World University Service of Canada's (WUSC) Student Refugee Program.
All Waterloo students contribute to the program through a dollar-per-term levy administered by the Federation of Students. St. Paul's students also help cover the sponsored students' accommodation and meals through a $30 voluntary levy.
To gain sponsorship, students must have official refugee status and be academically eligible for admission to Waterloo. Once they arrive in Canada, the federal government grants them permanent resident status and they are eligible for Canadian citizenship within three years.
The competition to get sponsorship for the Student Refugee Program is stiff. Leonard was not successful in his first two attempts, but his volunteer work at his refugee camp's high school and adult education centre - along with his grades - helped him eventually achieve his goal. For now, he is completing two terms in the Bridge to Academic success program at Renison and will then proceed to full-time study in Arts. | <urn:uuid:261ecc34-939f-4157-9d29-98a4f4108f82> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://uwaterloo.ca/stpauls-community-notes/spring-2016/student-life/student-life | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.970037 | 654 | 1.960938 | 2 |
“If I could do it, I’d do no writing at all here. It would be photographs; the rest would be fragments of cloth, bits of cotton, lumps of earth, records of speech, pieces of wood and iron, phials of odors, plates of food and of excrement. […] A piece of the body torn out by the roots might be more to the point.”
—James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
We can safely assume that when Fortune magazine sent James Agee from the Chrysler Building to the cotton fields of Alabama, at the height of the Great Depression, they did not expect him to return with a piece of writing they would never publish, and which would become, for nearly 80 years, a lacuna in the realm of American letters. In that time, what we have had of Agee’s immersive journey into the lives of cotton tenants—then the poorest white American families caught in the champing maw of our capitalist machinery—is Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, an exhilarating, exhaustive, inspired account of three families’ humanity, with photographs by Walker Evans, who had joined him on the trip.
Agee cherished photography, which, around the time that his writing career commenced in 1934, was burgeoning as a medium for art and reportage. In his preface to Praise, Agee describes the camera as “the central instrument of our time,” second only to “unassisted and weaponless consciousness,” and he felt “rage at its misuse: which has spread so nearly universal a corruption of sight.” He claimed to trust fewer than a dozen pairs of eyes beyond his own, and one pair must have belonged to Evans, a friend who was working for the Resettlement Administration of the WPA. When Agee received this Southern assignment from Fortune in 1936, he insisted that Evans accompany him, and was elated when the magazine agreed.
Then an excitable young poet masquerading as a journalist, Agee called this assignment “the best break [he] ever had” at Fortune. He felt a “terrific personal responsibility toward the story” and “suffered considerable doubts of [his] ability to bring it off [and] considerable more of Fortune’s willingness to use it.” On this last point, he was prescient: for reasons unclear (but often guessed at), Fortune refused to publish the piece Agee presented to them. They held it for a year, into 1937, but did nothing with it; Agee, busy with myriad projects and a messy personal life, eventually published Praise in 1941. It sold around six hundred copies and fell out of print, where it would remain until years after Agee’s death of a heart attack at 45, in the back of a New York City taxicab, on his way to a doctor’s appointment.
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men has since gained status as a seminal work of American literature, and for good reason. It is remarkable for its aim, which was “an independent inquiry into certain normal predicaments of human divinity,” and for its form, in which Agee, unshackled, employs by turn, and often simultaneously, the journalist’s investigative curiosity, the preacher’s fervor, the artist’s probity, the pupil’s diligence, the scientist’s exactitude, the critic’s discernment, and the poet’s joyful heartbreak. Agee lays scorn upon the altars of art and journalism, and declares the work “a book only by necessity. More seriously, it is an effort in human actuality.” Evans’s nearly five-dozen photographs, arresting in their raw and simple elegance, are “not illustrative. They, and the text, are coequal, mutually independent, and fully collaborative.” Praise is an act of humanity, executed through photography and prose.
Absorbing Praise can be a bit of an act of humanity itself. Its structure is somewhat fragmentary, and full of thematic leaps as Agee follows his thoughts across the world he had studied for eight hot weeks in Alabama, and the book extends to nearly five hundred pages. But his objectives necessitate it, and “if it must be slow going, so be it.” A reader’s effort is rewarded: Agee’s ability to isolate and articulate nodes of intersecting objects, moods, persons, memories, and emotions provides multiple breathless whoops of self-recognition, and the plainness and fragility of human worth is everywhere laid bare: “The furniture in general and the eating implements are all at or very near the bottom of their scale: broken, insecure, uncomfortable, ill-smelling, all that a man without money must constantly accept when he can get it, and be glad of, or make do.” Praise could rightly be regarded as a secular scripture for humanist values.
It is impossible to imagine how Agee might have applied the same passion, fury, and ambition to a piece for Fortune magazine, given the physical limitations of a paper magazine, never mind the political interests and moods of a moneyed readership with its eyes drifting overseas as the world came nearer to war. Fortunately, there is no longer need to imagine, for that old lacuna appears to have been filled: in 2003, archivists discovered among Agee’s writing an undated manuscript, heavily marked with his hand, entitled Cotton Tenants. There is little reason to doubt that this short work represents the unpublished article. In 2013 the piece was released in a sleek, glossy print, inclusive of Agee’s edits, and with a new selection of Evans’s photographs, as Cotton Tenants: Three Families. This title was borrowed from an early draft of Praise that was considered and dropped by Harper’s in 1939.
For those unfamiliar with Praise, Cotton Tenants is an excellent introduction. There is no less of Agee’s raw honesty here, no diminishment to his largeness of spirit, and it bursts with passion and quiet outrage at the deprivations suffered by these families who are imprisoned by weather, sickness, ill education, and cruel cycles of debt to the landowners for whom they toil. Evans’s photographs speak for themselves, and Agee, who is forced into an economy of language, manages, as a poet might, to concisely illustrate the hardships and joys of these humans’ lives. In Cotton Tenants, he gives an approximation of one family’s pinewood shelter, which is “stitched with nails into as rude a garment against the hostile year as a human family can wear.”
In Praise, with room to expand, Agee further enriches and humanizes this picture. The same house is:
[...] put together out of the cheapest available pine lumber, and the least of this is used which shall stretch a skin of one thickness alone against the earth and air; and this is all done according to one of the three or four simplest, stingiest, and thus most classical plans contrivable, which are all traditional to that country: and the work is done by half-skilled, half-paid men under no need to do well, who therefore take such vengeance on the world as they may in a cynical and part willful apathy, and this is what comes of it: Most naïve, most massive symmetry and simpleness. […] A look of being earnestly hand-made, as a child’s drawing, a thing created out of need, love, patience, and strained skill […]
In one paragraph, anthropological observation, socioeconomic consideration, and psychological understanding amount to an indictment of conditions that suppress the underclass, and all this as a mere introduction to one of the three family’s houses.
For admirers of Praise, Cotton Tenants offers more than just a fascinating treatment of familiar material: it contains passages on three subjects that receive little focus in the longer work. Two of these come in the form of appendices: “On Negroes” provides a brief look at the one subset of tenants worse off than their white counterparts, and “Landowners,” who oversee both black and white tenants, and who Agee allows to speak for themselves at length, to devastating effect: “You hear all this talk of bad treatment. Now I ask you: would a good farmer mistreat his mules?” The third is a brief but instructive look at local religious services.
Cotton Tenants cannot be faulted for being the shorter piece of writing, even if certain references within bring a yearning for the full-throated Agee of Praise. And its discovery is worthy of celebration. But in addition to the relative shallowness that results from its brevity, Cotton Tenants fails, if beautifully, to accomplish Agee’s objective of presenting, as fully as possible, the reality of these human lives. Praise fails too, and also because of the limitations of its form, but especially because the undertaking was corrupted from the start. What was crucial to Agee, as he wrote in the first chapter of Praise, was that he wrote of “human beings, living in this world […] [who are] dwelt among, investigated, spied on, revered, and loved, by other quite monstrously alien human beings, in the employment of others still more alien.” Agee despaired at the knowledge that his effort, however noble, reduced these people to tokens whose lives would be “looked into by still others, who have picked up [the tenants’ lives] as casually” as they would any book. Writing about them was insufficient: Agee would prefer to mash our faces into the thin, uncased, hair-stained, bug-ridden pillows these humans rested their weary heads upon. “Above all else,” Agee instructs us, “don’t think of it as Art.” To do so would only further the corruption.
Cotton Tenants is short and very well written; it reads smoothly and quickly, and its pages are so glossy that they sometimes require physical manipulation to reduce glare on the page. (Agee first asked his publisher of Praise to produce the book on newsprint, so that cotton tenants themselves could afford it. When told that “in fifty years newsprint will crumble away to dust,” Agee answered, “That’s what I mean.”) By virtue of these qualities—its brevity and gloss—the appeal of Cotton Tenants seems particularly modern, and precisely the artful reduction Agee warns against. Agee found “considerable value (to say nothing of joy) in the attempt to see or convey even some single thing as nearly as possible as that thing is.” This speaks to the power he saw in photography, and, 20 years after its publication, Agee’s friend and contemporary John Hersey wrote that in Praise, Agee “strove through the sounds and meaning of words to mimic—no, more than mimic, achieve—photography, worthy of being set beside that of his collaborator, Walker Evans.” Hence Praise’s length, with its extraordinary scrutiny of detail and relationships, and the author’s insistence that the book not be considered “a work of art or of entertainment […] [but] a human effort which must require human co-operation.” In Cotton Tenants, art and form trump the larger truths for which Agee strived.
And yet, photography is also inherently reductive. It captures the immensity of the lived experience differently than words can, and perhaps more directly, but both photographs and prose can be manipulated, distorted, misinterpreted, and thus damaged. It is impossible to know what Agee might think of today’s proliferation of cameras, or the fact that we live in a world saturated with facsimiles of itself and its populace, or, further, that the manipulation of modern imagery is so endemic that it is generally accepted, and with little objection. And because Cotton Tenants went unpublished in his lifetime, and Praise gained acclaim after his passing, we can only guess at how he might view the two in relation to each other. But while Cotton Tenants sheds new light on the people who populate Praise, it is, in a distinct manner, a thumbnail for the larger image.
In Cotton Tenants’ brevity, Praise’s language is reduced, constrained, and compacted, through capitulation to journalism. Cotton Tenants is thus a thinner account of these lives, a lesser attempt by Agee “to make a number of physical entities as plain and vivid as possible,” and to leave us, his readers, “the burden of realizing” that “particularities, and matters ordinary and obvious, are exactly themselves beyond designation of words.”
The greatest truths stand outside of photography and prose; Agee never suggests otherwise. And while the humanity of these white cotton tenants is not diminished by their description on paper, nor their depiction on film, nor the passage of time, it is crucial that we grasp how far from truth Agee was, even in the longer volume. In this, we can take warning. Between Praise and Cotton Tenants, we can see how the reductive nature of photography, journalism, click-bait, and listicles take us further and further from the lived experience. The inherent flaws of the shorter work can alert us to the danger of thinking that we have gained understanding or knowledge when, instead, we have gained information. To shun, or, at least, to properly qualify such information will permit us to live as Agee encourages us to live in Praise:
For in the immediate world, everything is to be discerned […] centrally and simply, without dissection into science, or digestion into art, but with the whole of consciousness, seeking to perceive it as it stands.
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Cannabis Genetic Testing
Cannabis genetic testing is important for breeders and growers who want to produce the best end-result for their clients. Without a firm grasp of cannabis genetics, it is virtually impossible to provide the medicinal compounds and properties end-users desire. A plant with poor genetics can only be so good, even when everything else is of the utmost quality. Solid genetics are the foundation of any decent cannabis product, which is why genetic testing of cannabis continues to be one of our top services here at Modern Canna.
Other factors affecting a cannabis strain’s quality include:
- Growing techniques
- Harvesting methods
- Curing processes
Cannabis genetic testing for genotype
Cannabis genetic testing at Modern Canna includes the genotype – the plant’s genetic makeup inherited from its parents, and its blueprint for growth. The genotype details the entire spectrum of possibilities for a particular cannabis strain. In human biology, one has no control over the inherited genotype. Plant breeders and growers have a heavier hand in what gets passed from parent plants down to offspring, but the reality is that no two genotypes will be identical, even if purchased from the same family – unless a plant is cloned.
The decision to clone can produce greater reliability, though cloned genetics have a way of deteriorating after replicating for multiple generations. Knowing precisely what defined characteristics you’re working with will help you make the best decisions in the production of your strain.
Marijuana genetic testing for phenotype
Marijuana genetic testing at Modern Canna also includes the phenotype – the visible traits that emerge based on environment. The phenotype can be thought of as the observable smell, taste, color, shape, resin production, and potency of the marijuana. In human biology, you can think of phenotype as the way a person dresses, speaks, and acts based on the subculture they identify with, the career path selected, and the events that have unfolded over the years. Phenotypes explain why children with the same mother and father look slightly different.
A thorough understanding of marijuana phenotyping helps cultivators explain the different varieties within a strain and breed for the characteristics they value most. The best breeders will hunt the phenotypes of thousands of seeds until they find one or two phenotypes they prefer to pass onto their growers.
What cannabis sequencing can do for you
Cannabis sequencing can help you:
- Unlock the mystery of your cannabis strains to assess stability and uniqueness.
- Determine closest relatives, clonal relationships, population origin, and ancestral links among your plants.
- Reduce variety and unpredictability in subsequent generations of plants you produce.
- Cultivate new, stable, unique strains with the beneficial traits you value most.
- Understand how to cross certain plants to get shorter grow times and larger harvests.
- Take advantage of physical structure to create a variety suited to grow in a specific environment.
- Protect yourself against false patent claims and other legal controversies that may arise.
- Gather promotional information for marketing materials to highlight what makes your product special.
- Confirm your beliefs with scientific fact and make more informed business decisions.
How marijuana sequencing works
Modern Canna employs a staff of highly experienced analysts to oversee your marijuana sequencing projects. We use state-of-the-art sequencing technology to quickly and accurately generate quality data. We then analyze all sequence data using our proprietary bioinformatics system to determine the DNA fingerprint, agricultural yield, genetic relationships, and medicinal qualities of your samples.
Contact us for more information on cannabis genetic testing
Modern Canna has been Florida’s preeminent medical marijuana testing laboratory since 2014. We are capable of performing a full range of analytical tests to determine genetics, purity, and potency. We work with clients across the state of Florida to deliver prompt and accurate results.
We believe through sampling and testing, breeders and growers can produce high-quality results that will assist patients who are relying on medicinal marijuana, as well as satisfy the needs of recreational users at the same time. Contact Modern Canna for a free quote on cannabis genetics testing.
LeafWorks Cannabis & Hemp DNA Sex Test
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- Turnkey collection and submission kit is provided for every order
- Simply mail your cannabis or hemp plant samples using the collection cards provided
- Up to 4 plants collected per card
- National and international orders accepted
- Tests available for licensing
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LeafWorks only accepts samples through the LeafWorks DNA submission kit. We will not test or receive Schedule I tissue.
Cannabis Seeds Authentication by Chloroplast and Nuclear DNA Analysis Coupled with High-Resolution Melting Method for Quality Control Purposes
Background: Cannabis plants and their seed have been used in many cultures as a source of medicine and feeding during history. Today, there is an increasing demand for cannabis seeds for medical use. Moreover, a seed sales market with no legal regulations has also grown. This may pose some issues if a quality control is not set in place. Identification of cannabis strains is important for quality control purposes in a nonregulated growing market and in cases of illegal traffic and medical use. Owing to the high price as a pharmacological drug, commercial products of cannabis plants and seeds for medical users are often subjected to adulterations, either when packing or distributing certified seeds in the market. Materials and Methods: Cannabis commercial seeds and cannabis seeds for medical use were analyzed with high-resolution melting (HRM) analysis using barcoding markers. Humulus lupulus L. plants from a local market were used as outgroup control. DNA barcoding uses specific regions of the genome to identify differences in the genetic sequence of conserved regions such as internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and rbcL. DNA barcoding data can be generated with real-time polymerase chain reaction combined with HRM analysis to distinguish specific conserved DNA regions of closely related species. HRM analysis is the method of choice for rapid analysis of sequence variation. Results: The melting temperature (Tm) of homogeneous packages was consistent with single genotypes. However, packages containing contaminating seeds showed Tm differences of 0.2°C on average. Conclusions: An effective, rapid, and low-cost method based on ITS nuclear DNA and on chloroplast rbcL regions for screening and detection of contamination in commercial cannabis seeds was developed and applied for the analysis of different samples. This approach can be used as a quality control tool for cannabis seeds or other plant material.
Keywords: HRM; barcode; cannabis; genetic authentication.
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Web Application Development – A Guide to Success
From the fantastic old days of the label, to the XML-savvy Internet services of today, implemented Internet language has come a long way. And nowhere is that more evident than in the field of internet application development.
As the Internet grew into a significant player on the international economic front, so did the variety of investors who were interested in its growth. So, you might wonder, how does the Internet continue to play a significant role in communications, media and news? The key words are: Internet Application Projects.
Web applications are business strategies and policies implemented on the internet via the use of User, Business and Information services. These instruments are where the future lies. In the following article, I will take you through the essential stages in the life span of a Web application project, describe what options you have, and help you formulate a plan for successful Internet application projects of your own. First, however, let us take a brief summary of php development.
Who Wants Web Applications and Why?
There are many entities that require applications for your Web-one example would be Business-to-Business interaction. Many businesses in the world today need to conduct business with each other over secure and private networks. This process is becoming increasingly popular with a lot of overseas businesses who outsource jobs to each other. By the simple process of moving funds into a bank account, to deploying a large scale Internet services system which updates pricing information internationally, the adoption of a Internet applications infrastructure is essential for many companies.
The Internet Application Model
The Internet application version, such as many software development versions, is assembled upon 3 tiers: User Services, Business Services and Data Services. This version divides a program into a community of consumers and providers of services.
The User Service tier creates a visual gateway for the consumer to interact with the program. This can range from basic HTML and DHTML to complex COM components and Java applets.
The consumer services then grab business logic and procedures from the Business Services.
The last tier is your Data Service layer. Databases, record systems, and writeable media are examples of Data storage and retrieval devices. For Internet applications, however, databases are practical. Databases allow programmers to store, retrieve, add to, and upgrade categorical information in a systematic and organized fashion.
Picking the Right Project
Choosing the right types of jobs to utilize is an very significant part the internet application development plan.
Assessing your resources, technical abilities, and publishing capabilities should be your first objective. Taking the 3 tiers into account, devise a listing of available resources which can be categorically assigned to each tier.
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If there’s one thing all CEOs can agree on as a collective whole, it’s that running a business is no easy feat. It is STRESSFUL to oversee all aspects of a company — from marketing to budgeting to team management, sometimes the amount of responsibility can feel downright impossible to navigate. This is especially true for new business owners who are still getting used to the ins and outs of CEO life.
However, there’s a solution that doesn’t include wasting precious resources (specifically, your time, energy, and money) for months or years while you try to “figure things out.” And it’s as simple as bringing on a business consultant to help you forge a clear path towards achieving your goals!
For those of you who have never worked with a consultant before, allow me to explain. (As a business and marketing consultant myself, this is sort of my area of expertise!)
A business consultant is somebody who works closely alongside you or a designated member of your team to identify, address, and overcome obstacles that are preventing you from reaching your company’s goals. A business consultant may help you…
Determine what changes need to be made and implement said changes
Come up with new and exciting ideas that speak to your audience
Assist in business planning and start-up stages
Assist with product/service development
Design and implement marketing strategies
Design and implement launch strategies
Analyse your budget, suggest adjustments, and put those adjustments in place
- Scale your business to a new income level
As you can see, there are so many different reasons why you might seek the expertise of a business consultant. And this isn’t solely limited to new business owners! No matter where you are in your business, a consultant is a valuable asset. At start-up, a consultant can help you complete planning and get started on the right foot. If your business has been around for a while, a consultant can help you gain a fresh perspective surrounding your business vision and goals. You can also hire a consultant to help with specific goals. For example, if your business isn’t meeting your financial goals, you can work alongside a consultant that specialises in accounting and revenue boosting.
Most importantly, however, is the fact that a business consultant can help you save thousands of dollars and hours. Your money and time are two of your most valuable assets — do you really want to spend both on strategies that might work? Or would you rather invest that money and time into working alongside somebody who can provide you with the expert recommendations that they know work?
I think you know what the answer is…but if you aren’t 100% sold yet, don’t worry. In today’s blog post, we’ll be diving much deeper into why it’s so beneficial to bring a business consultant on board.
Reason #1: A good business consultant will save you money.
One of the biggest reasons I see businesses hesitate to begin working with a consultant, even when they really need to, is the initial expense. And yes, I won’t lie to you — hiring a business consultant can be expensive upfront, but over time, it’s a decision that will actually save you thousands of dollars. This is because a well-rounded business consultant will be able to advise you on how to properly execute strategies that lead to big financial returns in your business — such as marketing campaigns, product development and launches, pricing, and more. Business consultants can also assist you with your overall business finances and budget (within reason — for deeper financial assistance, it’s always a good idea to work with a professional accountant or bookkeeper) and point you away from potentially expensive mistakes.
Reason #2: A good business consultant will save you time.
The biggest time suck as a business owner is “trial and error.” When you spend months or years trying out different strategies to see what works, you are actually wasting tons of time that you could be spending on a proven strategy that will help you achieve your goals much sooner. A good consultant will be able to look at your business from a bird’s eye perspective and identify clear actions for you to take towards improving your business.
And then there’s the research side of things. Trying to keep up with the latest business trends, tools, and “best practices” within your given industry is a full-time job outside of your usual day-to-day work responsibilities. When you hire a consultant, you save an abundance of time that would have been spent trying to research all of the above. Instead, you can focus on your customers and business goals.
Reason #3: A good business consultant will expose you to a fresh perspective.
Chances are, as CEO, you spend a LOT of time thinking about your business: what to do next, how to improve, your big-picture vision…the list goes on and on. The thing is, spending too much time thinking about your business can actually cloud your judgment and decision-making, making it difficult for you to actually know what the “right” next move is. When you hire a business consultant to advise you, you no longer have to wonder what you should be working on to reach your desired goals, because your consultant will tell you! Getting to hear a fresh perspective from an expert can expose major flaws in your approach while unearthing new opportunities and ways to move forward.
Reason #4: A good business consultant will help you make connections.
“Who you know” can sometimes be just as important as “what you do.” Forming the right connections — whether it be with potential clients or customers, team members, mentors or coaches, fellow leaders or brands in your industry, influencers, etc — can be integral in your business gaining traction. A good consultant will be able to spot prime opportunities for these collaborations and make the initial introduction so you don’t have to seek them out yourself.
And there you have it! Whether you’re still in the start-up stage or are on your way to 7 figures, working with a business consultant is never a bad idea if you want to fast-track your way to achieving your goals.
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Falling Fruit, a massive collaborative mapping project, provides fruity foragers with the tools they need to track down a nutritious snack.
Sourced through Scoop.it from: inhabitat.com
There has been quite a bit of debate in New Zealand recently about what should be planted on the side of roads and highways. In some places there are fruit trees, even olive trees on the side of the road and people can help themselves, but those sites are rare.
The biggest challenge is that the space a lot of people are talking about is the berm between the sidewalk and the road, and fruit trees, especially laden with fruit then become a safety hazard and we have had plenty of serious incidents where cars have hit people or other vehicles as they back out of obscured driveways.
This map is very cool and while I’m not into dumpsters, I love the concept of knowing there is free fruit out in the wild. When I was younger there was quite a lot of free fruit around (legally) such as berries, banana passion-fruit and even shrubs with really nice sour leaves, as long as you picked them above dog peeing height. Our native bush was full of food if you knew what you were looking for.
As long as the free fruit is not abused by people looking to buy and sell the fruit, I think this is an awesome idea. When I see companies like Honda go out and plant trees, I wonder what if we all had places where we were allowed to plant fruit trees on public land for public good?
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In less than 24 hours, voters will elect 435 Members of the House of Representatives and 34 Senators. Up until last week it appeared that Democrats were poised to gain five to seven seats in the Senate, giving the Democratic Party control of the Senate. Now that some of the Senate races have tightened up it is more likely that Democrats may pick up only four to six seats, still enough to wrest control of the Senate from the Republicans. While Democrats are expected to pick up some seats in the House of Representatives, the Republican Party is expected to remain in control of the House.
Until last week, it also looked increasingly likely that Hillary Clinton would defeat Donald Trump for the presidency. Trump’s outrageous, insulting comments about women, Hispanics, Muslims and the mentally and physically impaired have caused irreparable damage to the GOP in key states where many candidates have distanced themselves from Trump. Yet, Clinton’s victory is not yet assured. The announcement last week by FBI Director Comey that he will reopen the investigation into Clinton’s e-mails (even though these are not e-mails sent by Clinton) has narrowed her lead, and may affect the down-ballot Democrats. Similarly, it remains unclear just how significantly Trump’s recent upswing in the polls will affect the down-ballot candidates. These races are hard to predict. The simple theory of “coattails”, i.e., the further behind Trump goes, or the further ahead Clinton goes, the worse – or better – it is for candidates down the ballot. This theory may apply in an ordinary election, but this year has been anything but ordinary.
Who ends up controlling the Senate – Democrats or Republicans – is likely to be a “nail biter” right up until election day. Both parties are pouring money into the “toss up” races. Republicans, fearing the loss of the Senate, are pouring $25 million into seven races in a desperate attempt to stop Trump from dragging the entire Republican Party down with him. The infusion of cash comes from the Senate Leadership Fund, a powerful super PAC with ties to the Republican leadership. Republicans realize they have a difficult road ahead to keep its Senate majority but Trump’s recent surge has given Republicans hopes of keeping the Senate.
For their part, Democrats have shifted their resources from Hillary Clinton’s seeming victory to down-ballot contests in the hope of giving her a Senate majority. Assuming Clinton wins the presidency, Democrats need a net gain of four seats for control of the Senate; five seats in the unlikely event she does not win. Democrats still believe they are on track to win a majority in the Senate, and are continuing to tie down-ballot Republicans to Trump, in the hope he will pull down other Republican candidates with him.
Seven races remain in the “toss up” column: Indiana; Missouri, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Nevada and Wisconsin. Republican-held seats in Arizona, Florida and Ohio – once considered toss up races – are “leaning Republican”, meaning Democrats could win these states, but the trend is toward supporting the incumbents. A Democratic upset appears unlikely.
It also appears that Democrats are poised to pick up the Republican-held seat in Illinois which means they need to pick up four of the toss up races. Traditionally, races that are “toss ups” rarely split evenly; one party tends to win the majority of votes. According to the Cook Political Report, no party has won less than 67 percent of the seats in “toss up” races.
While the Senate map remains a toss-up, it is likely that Democrats will pick up the four to six seats, giving them a slim majority. There is always the possibility of a tied Senate, but at present that seems unlikely. In the event of a tied Senate, the Vice President would be responsible for breaking any tie vote in the Senate.
Indiana (Open Seat) — Former Senator Evan Bayh (D) vs. Representative Todd Young (R)
Bayh, a former US Senator and former governor of Indiana is considered Indiana royalty. His entry into the Senate race was considered a sure thing with a lead of over 20 points. His father Birch Bayh served in the Senate and had an unsuccessful presidential run. Bayh has a very narrow 2-point lead over Young, which is diminishing according to the latest polls. Monmouth University poll shows the two candidates now tied at 45 percent among likely voters.
Missouri: Incumbent Senator Roy Blunt (R) vs. attorney Jason Kander (D)
Blunt is ahead of Kander by less than 1 percentage point making Missouri one of the tightest Senate races this election cycle. Democrats hope Kander can win despite Trump’s lead in this solid red state. In 2012 Mitt Romney beat President Obama by almost 20 percentage points. The virtual tie could work to Kander’s advantage. Missouri is a must win for the Republicans.
New Hampshire: Incumbent Senator Kelly Ayotte (R) vs. New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan (D)
Incumbent Ayotte has backed off from her earlier comment that she considered Trump a role model for her children and renounced her support for Trump. According to the WBZ/University of Massachusetts poll, Ayotte has a narrow 3-point lead over challenger Governor Hassan. However, according to Real Clear Politics, taken before the WBZ poll, Hassan has a 2-point lead over Ayotte. New Hampshire is a presidential battleground state and whether Ayotte or Hassan wins will depend on how Clinton and Trump fare in the Granite State.
North Carolina: Incumbent Senator Richard Burr (R) vs. attorney Deborah Ross (D)
North Carolina is one of the more interesting Senate races. Contests for the Senate, the governorship and the White House are highly competitive. The Republican Party is having a difficult time competing with the Democrats who are outspending Republicans, while the Trump campaign has only recently become engaged in the race. Republicans are painting Ross, a former Executive Director of the State chapter of the ACLU as too liberal. Burr, however, has less than a one point lead over Ross according to the most recent Quinnipiac poll. But, Burr has the advantage of incumbency and could eke out a victory. If Clinton wins North Carolina it could help Ross.
Pennsylvania: Incumbent Senator Patrick Toomey vs. former Chief of Staff to Pennsylvanian Governor Wolf Katie McGinty (D)
Incumbent Toomey faces a formidable challenge from McGinty. Polls have consistently shown McGinty ahead of Toomey in this battleground state where Clinton is leading. A November 1 CNN/Opinion Research Poll has McGinty up by 6 points; other polls have her lead between 2 and 6 points. The consensus is that McGinty has a good chance of winning the Keystone state. Toomey, who may be considered too conservative for Pennsylvania which has been trending “blue” has tried to distance himself from Trump by not endorsing him, but neither has he ruled out voting for him.
Nevada (Open Seat): Physician Joe Heck (R) vs. former Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez-Masto (D)
The Democratic-held seat in Nevada could flip to the Republicans as Nevada is the only state where Republicans have a good chance of winning. Senate Minority Harry Reid (D) has held this seat for 30 years and a Republican win would be an enormous embarrassment for Reid and the Democratic Party. Democratic candidate Cortez-Masto was hand-picked by Reid and the state Democratic machine is solidly behind her. Heck has a very slight but consistent lead over Cortez-Masto. He has backed off from his early statement of support for Trump which has hurt Heck with the more conservative Republicans in the state who support Trump. Nevada is a must win state for the Democrats.
Wisconsin: Incumbent Senator Ron Johnson (R) vs. former Senator Russ Feingold (D)
Since Feingold’s announcement a year ago that he would run to reclaim his Senate seat, he has been well ahead of Johnson and Democrats were certain of flipping this seat. A year later Feingold finds his lead significantly diminished, causing pollsters to move this race from Likely Democrat to Toss Up.
Last week Democratic Senate Majority PAC, a Super PAC, poured $2 million into Feingold’s race, indicating concern about Feingold’s standing. Not to be outdone Republican Super Pac Senate Leadership Fund matched the Democrats’ amount and mounted TV ads attacking Feingold. Feingold’s lead has shrunk to one percent. A win by Johnson, considered unlikely a few months ago, now looks achievable. Democrats need this state for control of the Senate.
These races remain too close to call. However, if Clinton wins the presidency with more than 270 electoral votes, e.g., 300 plus, Democrats could win the four to six seats needed for control of the Senate. Keep in mind, incumbents tend to do well in elections, and defeating incumbent Republicans in Missouri, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin may prove difficult for Democrats. Still, polls have been all over the place and the winners in these toss up races are anyone’s guess.
Florida Senate Race: There is one other race worth watching and that is the Florida Senate contest where incumbent Senator Marco Rubio (R) if fending off a challenge from Representative Patrick Murphy (D). Once considered a “toss up” race, Rubio appears to have the advantage. He is well known and -more significantly- has a base in Democrat-heavy Miami-Dade County. His endorsement of Trump has not hurt his standing.
Murphy has been beset by several damaging stories, giving Democrats little chance of winning Florida. The most recent allegation, reported in The Hill Newspaper was that his campaign is under an FBI investigation for an alleged illegal donation scheme involving a wealthy Saudi family. Given Murphy’s dwindling prospects, the Democratic Party has pulled funding, indicating Democrats have accepted Rubio’s likely victory.
Not to be forgotten are the 435 House seats that will be decided next week. Republicans currently hold the largest majority in the House since 1928. The current House lineup is 246 Republicans to 186 Democrats with 3 vacancies. According to the Cook Political Report, 178 Democrats and 200 Republican seats are considered safe. Twenty-two Republican-held seats are considered Toss Up or Leaning Democrat/Likely Democrat versus only 4 Democrat-held seats considered as Toss Up or Leaning Republican/Likely Republican. Although Democrats are on track to pick up between 5 and 20 seats in the House, it is far short of the 35 seats needed to gain control of the House.
The following races are only a few of the current toss ups, but they present an interesting cross section of the state of the 2016 House elections.
California (49): Incumbent Darrell Issa (R) vs. Retired Marine Colonel Doug Applegate (D)
Issa, the wealthiest member of Congress, has consistently won re-election for over a decade, but his support for Donald Trump appears to have hurt him, Trump named Issa to his national security advisory council. A late September poll taken by Tulchin Research for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) showed Applegate ahead 46 percent to 42 percent. Issa’s campaign released an October Public Opinion Strategies poll showing him up 48 percent to 39 percent, but any number below 50 percent is a poor showing for a long-time incumbent
Florida (07): Incumbent: John Mica (R) vs. former National Security Specialist Stephanie Murphy (D)
The Supreme Court’s order for the redrawing of John Mica’s district has put the twelve-term republican in a position to be one of the most vulnerable House Republicans in this election year. The Republican legislature’s best efforts to maintain this as a safe district while appeasing the will of the Supreme Court has resulted in a district with high demographic cleavages between Democrats and Republicans. The DCCC has spent millions on negative television aid attempting to tie Mica to Trump.
Maine (02): Incumbent Bruce Poliquin (R) vs. Emily Cain (D)
Poliquin and Cain are both tied at 45 percent in a Democratic poll published in Roll Call. The poll shows similar results to a June poll that had the race tied. Maine has traditionally favored Republican candidates, but it appears Cain is presenting a real challenge. Both Clinton and Trump are unpopular in Maine’s second district. Poliquin has refused to answer whether he supports Trump, while Cain has endorsed Clinton.
Nebraska (02): Incumbent Brad Ashford (D) vs. Retired Brig. General Don Bacon (R)
Ashford is running for a second term in the Republican state. He is the first Democratic member of the House since 1994. Nebraska’s second congressional district has favored Republicans in the past and Ashford is competing with Republican Bacon, whose party views the district as rightfully theirs. Bacon has publicly called for Trump to drop out, though he has said he will still vote for him indicating that Trump’s approval in Nebraska may have a larger impact on Bacon’s success or failure. A win for Ashford will be a good bellwether for how Democrats fare in the upcoming election.
New Jersey (05): Incumbent: Scott Garrett (R) vs. former White House Speechwriter James Gottheimer (D)
Democratic Challenger Gottheimer achieved a record fundraising total of $4 million in his hard-fought campaign to unseat seven term incumbent Scott Garrett. Garret ran into some recent controversy during his race when he said that he would not give money to the Republican Congressional Committee because it backed LGBT candidates. The drop in popularity of New Jersey Republican governor Chris Christie may have also harmed Garret.
No doubt, this year’s presidential election will impact the down-ballot congressional races. There is no shortage of disaffected voters. For example, many traditional Republicans are unhappy with the Republican Party’s new brand and no longer recognize their party as the Party of Lincoln. At issue is how these disaffected Republicans will vote. Will they vote for Clinton and down-ballot Republicans or not vote at all? It remains to be seen if fear of – or support for – a Trump presidency is a major factor in increasing voter turnout and thus affecting congressional election. The nuances of voter behavior notwithstanding, the party that wins the presidential race almost always wins a net gain in the House and the consensus is that 2016 will be no exception. | <urn:uuid:04ff7ecd-63e9-46cd-a740-958f27bbdddf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/congressional-update-election-edition/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.964023 | 3,050 | 2.203125 | 2 |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
OCA Calls for Administration to Preserve MOU with Vietnam
13 December 2018
Contact: Thu Nguyen | Senior Communications Associate
202.223.5500 | firstname.lastname@example.org
Washington, DC – OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates condemns the Trump Administration’s reinterpretation of a 2008 agreement signed by the Bush Administration that bars the deportation of Vietnamese people who arrived in the United States before July 12, 1995.
The Trump Administration had first reinterpreted this agreement in 2017 and began deporting Vietnamese immigrants, then pulled back from this effort in August of 2018. Despite being recognized by all, the Administration is back on track with its intent to deport Vietnamese refugees as they enter talks with the Embassy of Vietnam. If the memorandum is modified, thousands of Vietnamese Americans will be immediately subject to deportation. Some of which are children of those who fought with American and South Vietnamese forces during the war, seen as the opposition to the current regime in Hanoi.
“It is deplorable and inhumane to force refugees of war to return toa country they originally fled from, creating a displaced, stateless population,” said Vicki Shu, OCA Vice President of Public Affairs. “The United States has a moral imperative to honor these asylum seekers who sought freedom and a chance to build a productive, new and better life here. This is an egregious policy that mirrors the disturbing trend of anti-immigrant proposals. OCA calls on the Administration to reconsider their interpretation of the agreement with humanity and stop the deportation of war refugees that include Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian, and other Southeast Asian communities.”
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Clean and renewable energy is slowly (but surely) establishing itself in the United States. Having said that, a transition of this magnitude inevitably comes with its fair share of growing pains and blunders. One such mishap has occurred in the community of Sandpoint, Idaho where a solar road was installed that hasn’t come close to reaching expectations. More than $4 million was invested in the project that took 6.5 years to complete.
The first signs of this fiasco surfaced back in October, when the road was in its prototype stage. Not only did 25 out of the 30 solar panels malfunction within the first week, but 75 percent of the panels were already broken before even being installed due to a manufacturing failure. In addition to the panels that were broken on arrival, four more failed after they were rained on, which only left five properly functioning panels.
The prototype of the solar roadway was faced with several drainage issues, faulty manufacturing controls, and major design flaws that further attributed to its defunct state. Some engineers described the roadway as a “total and epic failure,” which would have had enough power to fuel a water fountain and restroom lights of a nearby structure if the operation was working properly.
Fast-forward to today, months after these initial flaws were identified. Despite the roadway being up and running, more disappointment followed as the solar-powered lane has only provided enough power to barely run one microwave. On average, the roadway has generated an average of .62 kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity per day since its power data began to be publically posted online in late March.
To put this in perspective, the average microwave or blow-drier uses about one kWh of electricity per day. The roadway’s daily average of .62 kWh does not reflect the volatile nature of its daily power intake. On March 29, for example, the roadway only generated .26 kWh, whereas on March 31, the roadway consumed 1.06 kWh, almost three times the amount as the previous day.
As discouraging as engineering mishaps of this nature can be, they shouldn’t discourage the energy sector or general public. Consider Sandpoint’s solar-powered roadway as a mere growing pain whose errors engineers and researchers can learn from moving forward. | <urn:uuid:7bfbb990-85f8-43ab-8c4c-c64cb58aecfa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.eeworldonline.com/idaho-solar-powered-roadway-a-total-and-epic-failure/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.978708 | 464 | 2.484375 | 2 |
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Out of the Blue provides high quality bespoke trauma sensitive training for organisations and people working in public health provision and emergency services sector.
Our staff have years of experience of working in these areas and implicitly understand the stresses and strains of the job. They are skilled in delivering effective well-being services including mindfulness yoga trauma therapies and explaining the neuroscience of stress and trauma.
Participants will learn how to develop life long techniques and self care interventions to calm the nervous system down, feel safe in their own skin and feel the weight lift from their shoulders. 1 in 4 people in the UK will experience mental health problems, however people who work in the emergency services are more likely than this to suffer mental health problems, but are less likely to seek help.
We are in a unique position where we directly understand the pressures and stresses of working in a demanding front line service and therefore can deliver effective and proven training techniques to help promote emotional health and wellbeing.
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Ovarian cysts are fluid-filled sacs or pockets in an ovary or on its surface. Women have two ovaries — each about the size and shape of an almond — on each side of the uterus. Eggs (ova), which develop and mature in the ovaries, are released in monthly cycles during the childbearing years.
Many women have ovarian cysts at some time. Most ovarian cysts present little or no discomfort and are harmless. The majority disappears without treatment within a few months.
However, ovarian cysts — especially those that have ruptured — can cause serious symptoms. To protect your health, get regular pelvic exams and know the symptoms that can signal a potentially serious problem.
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“I hope my musical drama about Theresienstadt will encourage audience members to educate themselves on the obvious parallels with the current genocide in Darfur.”
Composing and playing music while waiting for death by disease, starvation, or gas—this was the daily life of many talented musicians and composers imprisoned at Theresienstadt, the Nazi concentration camp just outside Prague.
In response to pressure from the International Red Cross, which was investigating allegations of abuse, the Nazi’s developed the Theresienstadt camp with the intent to deceive the outside world. Prisoners were allowed to keep their instruments and were encouraged to form orchestras, quartets, and choirs. Operas were produced, works were composed, and performances were given. Then, after being forced to participate in a propaganda film, those musicians and composers who remained alive were transported to Auschwitz.
To study the music and lives of the musicians imprisoned at Theresienstadt, David Brown, a junior majoring in Music Composition, has been granted the Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Award. Monies attached to the award have enabled him to perform research in Prague.
Incorporating musical elements gleaned from his research, David and a Rollins College Theatre professor are working together to “create a musical drama that will bring light to this amazing story.”
“Important world issues” concern David. While studying at the University of Central Florida, he led efforts to spread awareness on the situation in Darfur, and he managed to raise nearly $50,000 for the refugees. He says, “I hope my musical drama about Theresienstadt will encourage audience members to educate themselves on the obvious parallels with the current genocide in Darfur.”
A superb student (he maintains status on the Dean’s list), David has been inducted into several honor societies, including Phi Eta Sigma and the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. He’s pleased he chose to transfer to Florida State, which has “one of the best music schools in the country, a world-class music library, plenty of practice rooms, great ensembles, and perhaps most importantly, an enormous faculty of experts in just about every musical field.”
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Skills for Children Entering Kindergarten
Play is an important part of learning.
Your child learns best when he or she is spending time with you and doing activities that are interesting and fun.
Practice these skills at home with your child. If an activity is difficult, provide opportunities to practice in many short sessions to decrease frustration. Every child learns at his or her own rate. Providing multiple opportunities to learn and practice these skills is important.
The Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend a minimum of 60-120 minutes total each day of exercise for children. Exercise time should include some activities that are a moderate to vigorous intensity level including running, jumping, hopping, etc. for bone and muscle strengthening.
Gross Motor Skills
Unstructured activities are child directed and may include:
- exploring play with balls
- riding a tricycle and scooter and using hippity-hop
- chasing and popping bubbles
- exploring play with a large box
- using toys that encourage independent movement
Structured activities are planned and guided by an adult and may include:
- activities with songs such as Ring Around the Rosy, Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes
- chase games or freeze dance to music
- obstacle courses that include movement in different positions for example belly or army crawl, crawling, knee walking
- create a parade with different movements including marching, jumping, hopping, galloping, jumping in/out/over objects low to the ground such as a hula hoop or yardstick
- animal walks including frog jumps, bear walk (hands and feet on the floor with stomach towards floor), crab walk (hands and feet on floor with stomach toward ceiling), pretend to be a dog or cat, scurry like a mouse (walk on tiptoes), hold child’s legs and have them wheelbarrow walk on their hands
- balance activities such as stand on 1 foot and count seeing who can stand the longest, stand on 1 foot with arms in different positions, hold animal positions for as long as possible, walk on a line or beam
- ball activities can include throwing rolled socks (fit a child’s hand size), throwing and catching small foam balls, bean bags, and playground balls, kicking balls of various sizes
- play games such as red light/green light or Simon Says
- practice put on, take off, and zip coat independently
- expose to tying shoes
- carry heavy objects or bags of groceries
- yoga poses (google “yoga poses for children” for examples of poses and pictures/videos)
- See list of Community Resources for other activities
Fine Motor Skills
- practice writing/drawing with a variety of utensils including chalk, markers, crayons, paint brushes on flat and vertical surfaces. Use an easel, tape paper to wall or use blackboard paint on a wall.
- practice writing and recognizing name
- practice writing letters with pointer finger in sand, salt, rice, or shaving cream on a tray or cookie sheet
- use blunt scissors to snip and cut straight and curved lines on paper
- put a 10-12 piece puzzle together
- use play-doh and roll, shape and cut the doh
- squeeze cells of bubble wrap
- use tweezers or tongs to pick up and move items into container
- use clothespins and attach to can, rope etc.
- songs with finger movements
- wring out wet sponges and wipe a table
- play with Lego and Duplo building blocks
- string beads and macaroni
- tear paper
- play games/activities with small pieces requiring hand skills
- help with cooking, including mixing and stirring, and fold clothes
- use language with all of the above mentioned activities – jump 3 times and count, talk about the color beads stringing, etc.
- speak in full sentences
- use please and thank you
- follow 2-3 step directions ex. Put the trash in the basket and then put your plate in the dishwasher or go to your room, get the blue jacket, and then meet me at the door, etc.
- practice rhyming words
- listen to a story, makes simple predictions and comments about the story, and be able to retell the basic facts
- understand vocabulary related to position, direction, size and comparison including: like/different, top/bottom, first/last, big/little, up/down
- recite/participate/join in repeating a familiar song/poem/finger play/nursery rhyme
- practice saying and recognizing letters
- practice recognizing sounds in words – first sound is easiest. What sound does ball start with?
Sutton Community Resources
Beginning Years Family Network
13 Providence Rd.
Sutton, Ma. phone: 508-865-5920
Resources and play groups
Sutton Youth Baseball League
T-Ball ages 4-6
Sutton Youth Soccer
Programs for children ages 3-6
1. Sutton Public Schools
409 Boston Road
2. Purgatory Chasm State Reservation Playground and Hiking Trails
198 Purgatory Rd.
Sutton MA 01590
phone: 508 234-3733
Restroom and picnic facilities available
Sutton Free Public Library Programs
4 Uxbridge Road
Sutton, Ma. 01590 phone: 508-865-8752
Swim Lessons (summer)
1. Marion’s Camp Tuttle Road Sutton, Ma. phone: 508-865-8725
Sponsored by the Town offering 3 2-week sessions with a 1 adult to 5 student ratio $60.00/session at 11:00 AM. Private lessons available. Beach passes available for a fee.
Red Cross Program
Private teacher at her pool. Ratio 1 teacher to six students. Three 2-week sessions available. $75.00/session. Times throughout the day.
Red Cross Program. Teacher is certified in Adaptive aquatics and works as the kindergarten physical education teacher and adaptive physical education teacher in the Sutton Public Schools.
There are pages to describe the facilities at each park. Local libraries, including Sutton Library, have a pass for the parks.
Federal Recreation areas for New England
Local parks include:
1. Buffumville Lake 229 Oxford Road
Charlton MA 01507 phone: 508-248-5697
2. West Hill Dam
518 East Hartford Avenue
Uxbridge, MA 01569
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the persecution of mithraists : Sarrebourg, France
[…] Of all the Mithraic artifacts found, probably none compares to what was discovered at Sarrebourg, in Lorraine, France, when a shrine to Mithras was uncovered- with the skeleton of a man chained to the altar, and the door to the sacred room bricked up; Nabarz speculates [p. 52] that the man was a priest to Mithras who refused Christian conversion- and so was fastened to the altar of his Pagan God, walled up Edgar Allen Poe-like in the temple, and left to his Pagan fate.
[…] It was not long before the imperial government legislated formally and directly against the disgraced sect. In the provinces, popular uprisings frequently anticipated the interference of the magistrates. Mobs sacked the temples and committed them to the flames, with the complicity of the authorities. The ruins of the mithræums bear witness to the violence of their devastating fury. Even at Rome, in 377 A.D., the prefect Gracchus, seeking the privilege of baptism, offered as a pledge of the sincerity of his conversion the “destruction, shattering, and shivering,” of a Mithraic crypt, with all the statues that it contained.
Frequently, in order to protect their grottoes from pillage by making, them inaccessible, the priests walled up the entrances, or conveyed their sacred images to well-protected hiding-places, convinced that the tempest that had burst upon them was momentary only, and that after their days of trial their god would cause again to shine forth the light of final triumph.
On the other hand, the Christians, in order to render places contaminated by the presence of a dead body ever afterward unfit for worship, sometimes slew the refractory priests of Mithra and buried them in the ruins of their sanctuaries, now forever profaned (Fig. 46).
The hope of restoration was especially tenacious at Rome, which remained the capital of paganism. The aristocracy, still faithful to the traditions of their ancestors, supported the religion with their wealth and prestige. Its members loved to deck themselves with the titles of “Father and Herald of Mithra Invincible,” and multiplied the offerings and the foundations.
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Assistance for reliable control and delay devices
Electrical control and delay devices are an essential element of gas extinguishing systems. The German institute VdS has now compactly consolidated its requirements for this important component – and makes the new Guidelines VdS 3844 available free of charge.
Cologne/Germany, March 4th, 2021: Automatic gas extinguishing systems put out fire immediately. The control processes required for this, such as alarming or delaying the activation of triggering, are carried out by electrical automatic control and delay devices – which are also the link to the control and indicating equipment. Manufacturers and installers asked for precise assistance from VdS for these techniques, so Europe's largest fire protection institute has now produced its own Guidelines on the subject.
„Developers, users, insurers and authorities wanted to simplify their processes with more transparency for these components“, explains Ulrich Rabe, deputy head of the VdS laboratories for fire protection technology. „Together with our partners in the German Association for Technical Fire Protection bvfa, we were more than happy to implement these wishes. Among other things, safe monitoring mechanisms, special instructions for multi-zone systems and the new feature 'indication of degraded transmission paths' are now specified in compact form. In addition, we list all interface parameters in a clear table. VdS provides manufacturers of electrical control devices with an important aid to also meet the requirements of the associated European standard, in this case EN 12094-1.”
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Our team of experts has spent considerable time researching and analyzing the adhesive for paper crafts. So, if you want detailed insights, make sure you read the entire article carefully in the end.
We always take the extra step when listing and reviewing products, so that our visitors are comes in contact with the best and most reliable adhesive for paper crafts. After hours of analysis and research, we conclude that Art Institute Glitter Designer Dries Clear Adhesive Clear Glue Kit Bundle-3 Items 8oz,2oz and Metal Tip, Multicolored may be the best one for your needs. But, if you are still looking for something cheaper and more reliable, you can go to Elmer’s CraftBond Extra Strength Glue Sticks, 0.21 Ounces, 4 Count, Clear .
The table below provides a quick overview of the best adhesive for paper crafts. You can check out the design before reading a full review. Also, features that make each product stand out from the crowd are highlighted in order to save your valuable time.
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To help you make a pleasure buying decision, we have prepared the following section with some key features of each of these adhesive for paper crafts. Take a look at the products below and pick the best one that fulfills your needs:
Art Institute Glitter Designer Dries Clear Adhesive Clear Glue Kit Bundle-3 Items 8oz,2oz and Metal Tip, Multicolored
- Glitter Glue is permanent and dries clear.When applied correctly, glitter does not come off
- It will adhere to the following: paper art, acetate transparency, cling vinyl, acrylic, leather, leather, suede, ceramics, feather quills, wood, metal, polymer clay, shrink plastic, artificial and dried floral's, glass, beads, rocks, shells, non-washable fibers, leaves, concrete and most surfaces except those that are waxy, silicone or UV treated
- Water base and acid free. Make sure to close lid to avoid drying of glitter glue.
- Bundle comes with one bottle of 8oz, one bottle of 2 oz and a metal tip for easy application.
Elmer's CraftBond Extra Strength Glue Sticks, 0.21 Ounces, 4 Count, Clear
1 used from $2.35
- Bonds to paper, photos, and lightweight fabrics
- Nontoxic, acid-free, and photo-safe
- Applies smoothly without clumps
- Dries colorlessly for a polished look
- Creates a permanent bond
Elmer's E431 Craft Bond Fabric and Paper Glue, 4 oz, Clear
- They are ideal for home decor projects, holiday ornaments and decorations, or handmade gifts that will add charm
- Good item for making many types of arts and crafts projects
- Manufactured in united states
- Package dimensions : 1.61 inches (H) x 5.71 inches (L) x 1.61 inches (W)
- The no-run formula makes for a drip-free gluing experience that lets you focus on your craft
Aleene's Tacky 16 fl oz, Glue, 16 FL OZ, Craft Supplies, School Supplies, 16 FL OZ
- 16 fl oz bottle
- Dries clear and flexible
- Cleans up with water
- #1 glue choice of crafters
Bearly Art Precision Craft Glue - The Original - 4fl oz - Tip Kit Included - Dries Clear - Metal Tip - Wrinkle Resistant - Flexible and Crack Resistant - Strong Hold Adhesive - Made in USA
- CLEAR-DRYING PREMIUM ART & CRAFT GLUE: Create a professional-level look for all styles of crafts. Best art glitter glue available.
- MULTIPLE-SIZED TIPS: Provides more choices in application! Get better accuracy, freedom, and control with precision tips that twist and snap into place!
- WRINKLE & CLUMP RESISTANT: Specially formulated to stay smooth and minimize warping or wrinkling. When highly desiring no warping or wrinkling be conservative with application of glue.
- MADE IN USA: Proudly made in USA and safe to use on a variety of projects with an industrial strength bond. 1 Year Shelf Life.
- FREEZE/THAW STABLE: Can ship year ‘round and has been tested to be freeze/thaw stable for 5 freeze/thaw cycles. Perfect arts & crafts glue for the holidays!
3 otters Glitter Foam Sheet, 30PCS Adhesive Foam Sheets Glitter Foam Paper Craft Foam Sheet 11.8 x 7.8 inches, 15 Colors
- PACKAGE INCLUDED - 30PCS Glitter Foam Sheets, for DIY creations, office and home decor, suited for both kids and adults.
- VALUABLE PACKS - There are 15 different colors in this 30 sheets of glitter paper set featuring black, blue, orange, gold, rose, dark red, silver, pink, light pink, grey, green, dark green, bronze, dark blue and brown. Can meet for different crafts projects and needs. Every sheet measures 11.8 x 7.8 x 0.1inches, suitable for kids' art class demands.
- PREMIUM QUALITY - Our glitter paper is made of high-quality EVA material, easy to cut, can perfectly design the cut-out pattern you want. No rough edges and burrs after cutting. Every sheet is covered with a layer of flash powder in different colors, vivid and bright, a total visual feast to your eyes. Good texture and suitable for cricut. It can't go wrong with our glitter paper sheets.
- NEVER LEAVE A MESS - All of our glitter foam sheets are self-adhesive, the background paper layer is sticky and thick, hard to peel off from the glitter layer. You will never leave your cricut machine a mess when cutting the paper. Can perfectly compatible with most kinds of Cricut mats. You just need to set a standard blade to cut. The cutting edge will be sharp and tidy. Will never fail to you and your kids.
- WIDE APPLICATIONS - Our adhesive foam sheets are perfect parent-kid activity tools, great parent-kid bond booster. Suitable for kindergarten crafts, kids art class. Also for birthday gift making, party decorations, holiday present, card making, home decor, wedding party. Can improve kids' hands-on ability, enhance their focus and promote their logic thinking.
Craft Glue 4fl oz / 120ml, Art Precision Craft Glue, Dries Clear Adhesive with 5 Tips Kit Applicator for Paper Crafts Postcard DIY Glitter Fabric (4 oz)
- 【Dries Clear Craft Glue】After the art glue dries, it will become completely transparent which made it do a good job in all styles of craft. It can be used for bonding paper, dried floral, fabric, wood, plastic, glass and most materials.
- 【5 Sized Tips Kit】Each glue comes with 5 precision tips to precisely control the amount of glue needed for each place. Just twist and snap into the tips to get a smooth using experience.
- 【Wrinkle and Clump Resistant】Specially formulated to stay smooth and minimize warping or wrinkling paper or other crafts, make your crafts more refined from details.
- 【Safe and non-toxic】We insist on the production of exclusive craft glue formula, which has passed MSDS, SGS and various safety reports. Non-irritating to skin.
- 【Tips】1.This art precision craft glue dries within 20 minutes with normal usage and always remain viscous. If you need an extra thick glue application, it may take longer for the glue to dry. 2. Please keep the glue sealed at room temperature. 3. We provide 30 days money-back warranty. Please feel free to contact us with any question.
UCEC Glitter Paper, 50 Sheets Self-Adhesive Sparkle Paper for DIY Children's Craft Activities Valentine's Day Party Supplies Scrapbooking Gift Box Wrapping, A4, 10 Colors, 80gsm
- GLITTER & COLORFUL --- The Sticky back paper has 10 different flash colors, meet the different needs of your hand-made, make crafts more dazzling and beautiful, enjoy the fun DIY time and enrich your life with colors
- EASY TO PASTE --- The paper is self-adhesive, tear off the back protective film, you can paste it anywhere, such as doors, windows, signs, cars, frames, invitations, etc.
- GOOD MATERIAL --- The mulitcolored cardstock is made of quality paper, safe and eco-friendly, colorful printing and not easy to fade, the glitter is not easy to fall off
- EASY TO USE & CUT --- DIY craft paper is easy to peel off and stick, free to cut or punch to get various shapes you like
- VERSATILE USES --- Ideal for indoor and outdoor applications, such as home decor,car decals, wedding, lettering, signs, signage, scrapbooking, window graphics, glass, DIY, coffee cups, mugs, yeti cups, stickers, phone covers, water bottles, and more
Tombow MONO Permanent Adhesive Applicator, 1/3-Inch by 472-Inch (62106)
- Bonds instantly, cleanly and wrinkle free
- Safe to use on paper, photos, cardstock, etc.
- Permanent bond, Acid free; refillable-Easy to refill with snap-in refill cartridge
- Approved Photographic Activity Test (PAT)
- 1/3 in x 472 in
OBSEDE Art Precision Craft Glue, Dries Clear Adhesive 4fl oz/120ml with Fine Metal Tip Bottle Applicator Kit for DIY Crafts Glitter Paper Card Decoupage Scrapbooking
- 【Best Storage Condition】Temperature from 39.2℉ ~ 122℉ with lid. The lower the temperature, the slower the glue will solidify. Warning: Craft Glue cannot be used normally if the ambient temperature lower than 39.2℉.
- 【Updated Dried Clear Craft Glue】Do you still find a perfect glue for crafts? Updated Drieds Clear Craft Glue is the best choice, which includes 4oz craft glue, 1pc 50ml flexible plastic bottle, 1pc ultra fine tip, 1pc fine tip, 1pc tip cap and 1pc cleaning pin.
- 【Multiple-sized Tips Bottle Applicator Kit】Precision Needle Tip Glue Bottle Applicator kit provides more choices in application! Get better accuracy and control with 3 sizes precision tips that twist and snap into place for the small parts.
- 【Wrinkle Resistant and Dried Clear】Specially formulated to stay smooth and minimize warping or wrinkling paper or other crafts. Dried clear and environmental friendly features make crafts more delicate for children. Dry time is about 30s to 5Hs depending on the amount of glue and temperature. It's suggested to use just a little for adhesion. If glue diameter is below 2mm, dries quicker about 30s to 10mins; if between 3mm and 5mm, dries about 10 to 60mins; if beyond 5mm, dries about 1 to 5Hs.
- 【Wide Application】Great for paper craft,stampers and scrapbookers. Can adheres to a variety of surfaces such as paper, card, cake toppers, photos, foam, acrylic, leather, suede, feather and leaves. Besides, a good craft glue for glitter.
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We have gone a long way in terms of the components we use for our computers. Nowadays, the solid state drive or SSD is becoming the standard drive used for the storage in our laptops and desktops as it is steadily taking the place of hard disk drives or HDD as it is the faster of the two. But are laptop and desktop SSDs actually the same?
Yes, there are no differences between an SSD used for a laptop and the ones used for desktops because there is no such thing as a laptop SSD or a desktop SSD. Solid state drives are generally the same and are made to have the same form factor regardless of where they are used for.
Because laptop and desktop SSDs are generally the same, that means that you can basically interchange the drive you use for your laptop and the one you use for your desktop. This makes it easy for you to transition from your laptop or desktop or vice versa as you can simply use the same drive on the laptop or the desktop.
What is an SSD?
When it comes to our computers regardless of whether we are talking about our laptops or our desktops, we have to make use of storage devices where we basically store the files that our computer needs to function on a regular basis. These are often called storage drives, and they contain all of the necessary files that the computer needs such as the software it requires to run its hardware.
In that regard, the hard disk drive or HDD has long been the standard for storage drives for many years as most of the standard laptops and desktops make use of the HDD for storing their files. And during the HDD’s lifetime, we never even thought that it would get replaced until the rise of a faster and better counterpart.
Today, the rising standard in storage drives is the solid state drive or the SSD. Technically, the SSD has the same function as the HDD in the sense that it is supposed to serve as a main or a backup storage device for a laptop or a desktop. However, the SSD does not come with moving parts and is smaller and faster compared to its HDD counterpart. The fact that it is smaller and faster is what has made it a popular storage device for laptops and desktops alike.
Also, because the SSD is smaller, quieter, and not as power-hungry as the HDD, it has become the ideal storage drive for most laptops today because laptops are supposed to be compact and small enough for you to be able to carry them around. Moreover, because laptops run on battery power most of the time, it becomes important for them to have a drive that doesn’t consume as much power as the HDD. This is why the SSD is becoming quite popular for laptops but is also becoming just as popular for desktops, especially for hardcore gaming due to how it operates at cooler temperatures and has faster loading speeds.
Are laptop and desktop SSDs the same?
At this point, you already have an idea of what an SSD is and why it is becoming quite popular for laptops and desktops alike. However, you might be wondering if there are any differences between the SSDs that you use for laptops and the ones that are used in desktops. That said, are laptop and desktop SSDs actually the same?
Yes, laptop and desktop SSDs are actually just the same because there are no SSDs that are primarily designed to be used for either a laptop or a desktop. All SSDs are made to be the same in terms of form factor and purpose, which is to serve as a primary or backup storage device. In that regard, there are no differences between laptop and desktop SSDs.
This is something that has also made the SSD a more favored storage device compared to the HDD. While you can also use laptop HDDs for desktops, the problem here is that they are not always interchangeable. That’s because most desktops use a 3.5-inch HDD form factor because this allows the HDD to have more space for the different moving parts that it uses to function such as the disk platters and motors.
The fact that a desktop HDD is larger than a laptop HDD is also the reason why most desktop computers have larger storage spaces compared to laptops. And because HDDs in desktops are large, it becomes difficult for you to fit them into laptops unless you want a bulky laptop.
This is where the SSD stands out as all SSDs are made to be 2.5 inches (while there are more powerful 3.5 SSDs out there). The reason why SSDs can afford to be smaller is the fact that they don’t need the extra space for moving parts, which they don’t have. So, in that regard, it doesn’t matter whether you are using a laptop or a desktop because the SSDs you use in either of those computers are actually just the same.
Can you use a desktop SSD on a laptop?
Now that you know that a laptop and desktop SSDs are similar to one another, does that mean that you can actually use a desktop SSD on a laptop? After all, this isn’t something that you could always do with desktop HDDs, which are generally larger than the ones you find in laptops.
The good news is that, yes, you can the SSD you use for your desktop computer for your laptop computer because of the very fact that the form factor of a desktop SSD is just the same as the storage devices that are used for laptops. Regardless of how large the desktop computer might be, it will still be using a 2.5-inch SSD, which should be able to fit most laptops nowadays.
It is also worthy to note that the connectors that are used for laptop and desktop SSDs have been standardized. This means that it is now easier for you to use any kind of SSD for your laptop or desktop as they are generally just the same.
The fact that you can interchange your SSD between your desktop and laptop also means that it will be easier for you to switch the drives. For example, if you have a laptop with an SSD and you are planning to use a desktop primarily, you can now take apart your laptop and use its SSD for your desktop. The same can be said if you have a desktop with an SSD and you want to upgrade the drive used by your laptop.
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Church bells in Springfield will ring for two minutes and 34 seconds at 3 p.m. on Sept. 17, celebrating the 234th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution. St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Central Baptist Church and Westminster Presbyterian Church are some of the participating churches. The Rees Memorial Carillon bells will also ring.
Springfield-area chapters of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) are leading this, joining other chapters nationwide in ringing Bells Across America to commemorate U.S. Constitution Week. Springfield, Chatham and Petersburg DAR chapters will also ring handbells 234 times near the Carillon at Washington Park.
DAR petitioned Congress in 1955 to dedicate Sept. 17-23 of each year as Constitution Week. President Dwight D. Eisenhower made this official on Aug. 2, 1956. The goals of this celebration are to encourage study of the historical events that led to the framing of the Constitution in September 1787, to remind the public that the Constitution is the basis of America's great heritage and the foundation for its way of life, and to emphasize U.S. citizens' responsibility to protect, defend and preserve the U.S. Constitution.
The National Constitution Center in Philadelphia and National Archives are resources to learn more. Leading scholars with diverse perspectives provide information on the text, history and meaning of the U.S. Constitution through the Constitution Center's Interactive Constitution https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution. Add your name virtually to become a signer of the U.S. Constitution on the National Archives website https://www.archives.gov/news/topics/constitution-day.
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Shijiazhuang China Music
On Tuesday, Wanneng Qingnian Lu Dian, known in English as Omnipotent Youth Society and in Chinese as "Omnipotential Youth Society" (Shijiazhuang), released their second full-length album after disappearing from the music scene following their first hit "Shiji" in 2010. The 2010 album is considered one of the best Chinese records to have been released recently and is best known for its poetic songs depicting life in the lower cities. It became the band's most popular song and tells the story of the struggles of people in industrial cities on the way to a planned economy and a market economy. That's 2010 and ends in 2020, followed by the release of her third album in 2015 and her fourth in 2016.
It refers to the struggles of the people in the lower cities and their struggles against the policies of the government, adding to social defiance.
The Congshen is an octagonal Chinese brick pagoda built during the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty. There are many different types of pagodas in Shijiazhuang City, some highlights are the Great Pagoda, the Ming Dynasty Pagoda and the Qing Dynasty Pagoda.
Judging by the number of concerts at Redstar Music Hall in Shijiazhuang City, it is certain to grow in the not-too-distant future. Red Star hosts a variety of live music events such as concerts, shows and festivals. Although the number of visitors is small, the venue has still attracted some of China's most popular bands.
Over the next five years, Hand - to - Hand wants to bring cool bands and kids from 10 countries to over 100 Chinese cities throughout China. So far, the musicians have travelled to Shenzhen and played to over 20,000 people. The music map also features some of China's most popular bands, such as Shijiazhuang's own Zhiyuan, and such as Zhejiang's Zhaotong and Guangdong's Hubei.
In the following cities, open-air music festivals have been held in recent years, they have been part of national tours of Chinese bands and have shown most of the activities on youth-oriented promotion and review portals. Qingdao has developed its own live music scene, though it still has a long way to go to become one of China's most popular cities for rock and pop music, but it has slowly - so it has - established itself on the map of Chinese rock music, attracting some of its biggest bands to the city. If you want to see one of the local bands in Shijiazhuang like Zhiyuan or Zhaotong, you should definitely visit the venues.
Chinese indie bands playing on the biggest stage will be queasy, but some groups are better suited for the honor.
Harper is pretty familiar to me, but what struck me most was that they really love the sound of the didgeridoo. I remember Harper's first experience with the instrument in the mid-1990s, and while living in Australia and the US, he devoted himself to introducing his sounds to more people and to engaging with mainstream English music around the world.
He has been performing in China since he was five years old, and this is perhaps the first time he has performed outside his home country of China.
Although spring has only just begun, Harper and his band will embark on a 12-day tour that arrives in Beijing in March, when the north of China is still cold and spring is just beginning, and then continues to Tianjin and then heads south to two other metropolises, Wuhan and Shanghai. The city is served by many expressways, including the Shijiazhuang expressway, the Beijing-Shanghai-Tianjin expressway and the Shenzhen-Guangdong expressway. Long-distance buses are also an option, and train stations connect the city to more than 50 destinations in China, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenyang, Chengdu, Hebei, Jilin, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Liaoning, Hubei and Guangxi.
Tianjin is home to Tianjin University, a popular art university in China, and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. With more than 1,000 members and students, it is one of the largest and most prestigious universities in the country.
This is a theme of pride and identity that is different from anything produced by their male counterparts in China, with a strong emphasis on gender equality and the importance of the female body.
Many others have followed a similar path, most recently Wu Tiao Ren, a Southern folk band who rocked the Chinese Internet with their songwriting that was nowhere else to be found. Wanneng Qingnian (Lu Dian) was released in 2005, the band debuted their first single in 2006 and recorded an EP three years later, but it wasn't until 2010 that the rock quartet made an indelible mark. Their self-titled debut album stands out as a towering achievement, ending a decade of songwriting that could not have been written anywhere else. | <urn:uuid:e7ba6a44-4eed-42da-9bcf-b88ae712ef3e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.helloshijiazhuang.com/local_articles/music/25936/shijiazhuang-china-music | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.976754 | 1,057 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Make an Infographic
You want to make an infographic and need the useful and convenient drawing tools for this? In this case the ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software extended with Education Infographics Solution is a real godsend for you.
Example 1. Make an Infographic - International Education Infogram
ConceptDraw DIAGRAM lets the possibility to make an infographics in new blank document or use the predesigned template or sample as the base.
If you choose the first variant, you need create the new document and fill it - type the text, set the colorful background and add the ready clipart objects from the Education Infographics Solution libraries:
- Education Backgrounds
- Education Callout
- Education Charts
- Education Connectors
- Education Diagram
- Education Indicators
- Education List Blocks
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If you want to use the predesigned template or sample, choose it from the offered set in ConceptDraw STORE. You are able to use it as is or change for your needs.
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Data storage is a fundamental aspect of the cloud platform. Microsoft offers scalable, durable and elastic cloud Azure Storage which can be available from any type of application whether it’s running in the cloud and anywhere in the world.
ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software extended with Azure Architecture Solution from the Computer and Networks area of ConceptDraw Solution Park provides a lot of useful tools which give you the possibility effectively illustrate Microsoft Azure cloud system, Azure services, Azure storage and its components.
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Food courts are very popular places. You want to increase attendance, advertise and invite attention to your food court? Make interesting design and create pictorial and bright food art posters and signboards, and don't forget to decorate your menu with images of tasty treats!
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How to make a Histogram quick and easy? ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software extended with Histograms solution from the Graphs and Charts area will effectively help you in Histogram drawing.
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When searching for a diagramming tool, we look for a powerful and reliable software that would be easy to use. To mention one, ConceptDraw DIAGRAM has all the necessary features to create cross-functional flowcharts (Swim Lanes) quick and effortlessly. You can draw swim lane diagrams in both vertical and horizontal ways.
This cross-functional flowchart displays a payroll process. It explains to each participant his role in the process depending on the category, represented with swimlanes. Using this flowchart, every employee can easily find out what he can expect in terms of salary. Generally a cross-functional diagram enables one to take a look at processes with a wider scope and with more precision than simple flowchart. Business process capturing using cross-functional flowcharts can be useful for stakeholders and managers to define clearly the staff's roles and responsibilities.
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Crook County Wyoming
I have to drive about 10 miles to get to this location viewing the Devils Tower/Missouri Butte Volcanic Neck Complex. This is a rare sunset early golden hour photon hunt. I’m not usually headed this direction in the afternoon with a tendency to go deep backcountry. This hunt was a road trip mostly watching the storm move through. My bucket list is to get a rainbow against this scene….
Devils Tower was the nations first National Monument is on the left. The “Three Sisters” (right) as they were known to the wagon train pioneers, are related to the Devil’s Tower. Related in space and time and are all remnants of ancient volcanic necks. Exposed by eroding the material away from above/around them.
Formerly deeply buried, these volcanic necks have been exposed on sand grain at a time. The “Little Missouri River” washed away thousands of feet of sediment down to the Gulf of Mexico a little at a time. Rivers very slowly but surely move miles of thicknesses of sediment to expose structures of very deep origin. The 3 Missouri Buttes the real name) is about 30 miles drive from my cameras vantage. The tower is closer to 45 miles out. View from the Northwest (the side the tourists NEVER see).
The lighting this evening was spectacular. I find you are where you are when the “Golden Hour” hits with it’s long shadows and rich earthy tones. This is big country here in the borderlands of Wyoming and Montana (looking southeasterly into Wyoming). Thousands of square miles of less than 2 people per mile population density.
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Install certificates into Outlook 2010-2013 (Step by step guide)
Here is a description in detail, how to install certificates into Outlook 2010-2013.
Before you can digitally sign and encrypt e-mails, you need a client certificate from CAcert.
Then, you have to configure your e-mail client Outlook 2010 to use your certificate. For other e-mail clients, see FAQ/eMailClients.
Install your CAcert certifcate on your computer. For further details see Tutorials - How to import the CAcert Root Certificates to Windows systems, and Client certificates.
Attention! If you used Firefox/Palemoon to generate client certificates, then you probably DO NOT have certificates installed in the Windows repository, where Outlook expects them! In this case, you must export your valid client certificate from the browser's internal storage to a P12 file with a .p12 extension. With the client certificate, the private key and root certificates are also exported to the backup file. Then import its contents into the system - just double-click the file.
- Once you have your certificate installed, you should open Outlook.
Once Outlook is opened, click on the orange File tab at the top left.
On the left hand set of options, click on the Options button.
A window entitled Outlook Options will appear.
On the left-hand pane, click on the Trust Center button at the bottom of the list.
- The right side of the window will change.
Click on the Trust Center Settings button on the bottom right hand side.
A window named, Trust Center will appear.
- On the left hand side you shall see selectable options.
Click on the E-mail Security option on the left hand pane.
Upon clicking on the E-mail Security button, in the right hand pane, you will see a drop down field next to Default Setting:.
Click on the Settings button next to this field.
A new window will appear named Change Security Settings.
In this window, you will see two Choose buttons under the Certificates and Algorithms section.
Choose the certificate
In the Certificates and Algorithms section of the Change Security Settings window, you should see the heading, Signing Certificate:.
Click on the Choose button directly to the right of this heading.
A new window will appear named, Select Certificate.
In this window, you will choose the CAcert certificate you would like to sign with from a list of certificates installed on this computer. If you are unsure which certificate to choose, you can always highlight a certificate and click on the View Certificate button to see the details for that certificate.
When you have selected the certificate, click on the OK button at the bottom.
When you return to the Change Security Settings window, you should see that the certificate you have chosen has appeared greyed out in the Signing Certificate field.
Next you will choose the encryption certificate. This is the certificate that other users will use when attempting to encrypt an e-mail to you; that means: send end recieve e-mails in an envelope. In typical use, you will use the same CAcert certificate for both signing and encryption (the exception is for Qualified certificates which are only able to digitally sign e-mails). You can still decrypt an e-mail with an expired certificate.
In the Certificates and Algorithms section of the Change Security Settings window, you should see the heading, Encryption Certificate:. Click on the Choose button directly right of this heading.
- Follow steps two, three and four from above.
When you return to the Change Security Settings window, you should see that the certificate you have chosen has appeared greyed out in the Encryption Certificate field.
When you have finished selecting your Digital Certificate, you can press the OK button at the bottom.
Back in the Trust Center window, you can further configure Outlook 2010 with the way that it uses your certificate. Under the Encrypted e-mail heading, you should see 4 check boxes. These check boxes add various features when using Outlook 2010 and certificates.
- Encrypt contents and attachments for outgoing messages - This will try to encrypt every outgoing message. In order to encrypt to a user, you must have a copy of their public key/certificate in your address book.
Add digital signature to outgoing messages - This will digitally sign every outgoing message using your certificate (recommended).
- Send clear text signed message when sending signed message - This sends a digitally signed message to a recipient who does not use S/MIME.
- Request S/MIME receipt for all S/MIME signed messages - This will request confirmation that a message was received unaltered. Outlook will automatically do this.
Once you have followed this guide and selected a certificate for both the Signing Certificate: and the Encryption Certificate: headings, you will be able to use them while composing an e-mail.
When you have an e-mail open, click on the Options tab at the top of the e-mail.
In the Permission section, directly underneath the top tabs, you should see two buttons named Sign and Encrypt.
Click on the Sign button to depress it to digitally sign this e-mail.
Click on the Encrypt button to depress it to encrypt this e-mail. Note: You must have the recipients public key in order to encrypt an e-mail.
Click on both buttons, Sign and Encrypt to digitally sign and encrypt the message.
After you have finished typing the new e-mail, or the reply/forward, press the Send' button.
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Bury Mount facts for kids
Bury Mount Motte is the remains of an earthwork motte and bailey fortification or ancient castle, and has been designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument. The Motte probably dates back to the 11th Century when it was a Norman fortification but over time was subject to neglect.
The Motte is in Moat Lane in the Roman town of Towcester, England, located on the Roman Road of Watling Street now the A5 trunk road which runs from Dover to Wroxeter via London. It is similar to other local Mottes located at Northampton, Buckingham, Little Houghton and Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire. It would have been strategically placed to control primary transport routes and river crossings. The Towcester Motte controlled the junction of Watling Street and long distance route from Southampton to Stamford which went through Winchester, Oxford, Brackley and Northampton, now the A34 and A43 trunk roads. The Motte is located in Towcester on the north-east side of the A5 in Moat Lane, at the side of Towcester Town Hall next to St Lawrence Church and near the Forum Building which is the Home of South Northamptonshire Council; the mount also lays east of the market square. Bury Mount can also be reached by walking down Castle Lane which is off of Watling Street.
It comprised a small bailey and a tall motte surrounded by a large ditch. The motte may not have been of the standard conical mound form. More historical details are described on the South Northant's Council's website including the restoration project for the motte and all the Moat Lane area.
The most likely period for its construction was the Great Anarchy period (1135–1152), when England was divided between the supporters of King Stephen and Empress Maud. It was about the time that the Manor of Towcester passed from the Crown to the St. Hiliary family. The castle would have been used as a symbol of power, been the residence of the lord of the manor's bailiff or reeve, an encampment for troops and cavalry raised during periods of hostility and offer hospitality to the lord and his retinue whilst travelling. It was to be dominated by a large motte surrounded by a ditch and topped by a tower which created both a stronghold and a watchtower.
Documentary evidence shows that in the 15th century there was a gate at the junction of the two lanes leading into the bailey. In this area would be living quarters for the constable of the castle and the small permanent garrison, detached kitchens, a brewhouse, barns and sheds for storage of food and equipment, stabling, privies, a well and accommodation for livestock. It would have been tightly packed with buildings and would have bustled with activity when fully garrisoned.
The traditional view is that earth mottes had palisades around the summit of the motte which was approached by a flying bridge or ladder and within this well defended upper section would have been a tall timber tower. The few excavations of mottes that have occurred show they varied considerably in form. There is the possibility that Bury Mount does not follow the standard form. In 1392 it was described as a mound tower within a moat, which suggests that it would have had a stone tower as a wooden tower is unlikely at that date. Shortly before 1824, possibly whilst they were excavating away the south-west section of the mount to construct a cottage, a "subterraeneous arched passage fifteen yards in length" was found. These two documentary sources suggest that the motte may have been of a similar type to the motte excavated at South Mimms, Hertfordshire in the 1960s. Although the South Mimms motte looked like a typical castle earthwork they found that "the tower was set within the motte, and the entrance to the castle was gained via a tunnel through the motte into the tower". Most of the mound at South Mimms had been revetted so that little of the motte was visible. It was probably built around 1141 by the Earl of Essex. If the Towcester motte is of this form then it would be rare survival.
In 1392, during the ownership of Reginald de Grey, Baron Grey of Ruthyn, a record of the manor in Towcester was made. Within the castle site was the manorial hall aligned north-south, which would have housed the bailiff and important guests and also be the place where the manorial court was held. It had chambers at both ends. The southern chamber, facing towards the gate appears to have been principal first-floor chamber, usually called a solar, which like the Hall had a stone slated roof. The other chamber was thatched, suggesting that it may have been the bailiff's accommodation. Adjacent was a detached kitchen which with a stable attached. Both were thatched with straw. There were two great barns which were "at a distance" plus an oxhouse with stable and carthouse under one roof, a dovecote and a sheepfold for 200 sheep.
In the late 15th century the Manor castle appears to have been vacated and a new Manor House constructed in Park Street Towcester. Part of this building still survives and is known as the Mint House.
In the winter of 1643/4 Towcester became the winter headquarters of the Royalist cavalry under Prince Rupert. The town was re-fortified and Bury Mount was converted into a platform for 2 cannon which was probably slighted when the Royalists left in the spring of 1644. From then on Bury Mount was used as an orchard and then as gardens for a cottage built at the foot of the mound. The cottages have now been demolished.
The remains were restored in 2008 with an access ramp, landscaping around the River Tove and mill stream and explanatory plaques. During 2013-2016 South Northamptonshire Council implemented the Moat Lane Regeneration Scheme which centred on the Mount. This saw the building of the Forum to which the district council relocated in early 2015, plus homes and small retail units. There is also renovation of other older historic buildings in the area and empty cottages which are in Moat Lane.
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Optical Sensors & Switches
What are an Optical Sensor and an Optical Switch?
An optical sensor converts light rays into electronic signals. It measures the physical quantity of light and then translates it into a form that is readable by an instrument. An optical sensor is generally part of a larger system that integrates a source of light, a measuring device and the optical sensor. This is often connected to an electrical trigger. The trigger reacts to a change in the signal within the light sensor. An optical sensor can measure the changes from one or several light beams. When a change occurs, the light sensor operates as a photoelectric trigger and therefore either increases or decreases the electrical output.
An optical switch enables signals in optical fibers or integrated optical circuits to be switched selectively from one circuit to another. An optical switch can operate by mechanical means or by electro-optic effects, magneto-optic effects as well as by other methods. Optical switches are optoelectronic devices which can be integrated with integrated or discrete microelectronic circuits.
Types of Optical Sensors & Switches:
There are many different kinds of optical sensors & switches and at Future Electronics we stock many of the most common types categorized by type, wavelength, forward (drive) current, range, power dissipation, packaging type and maximum CE voltage. The parametric filters on our website can help refine your search results depending on the required specifications.
The most common sizes for wavelength are 640 nm, 700 nm, 800 nm, 940 nm and 950 nm. The maximum CE voltage can range from 5 V to 70 V, with the most common optical sensor & switch chips having a maximum CE voltage of 30 V.
Optical Sensors & Switches from Future Electronics:
Future Electronics has a full selection of optical sensors & switches from several manufacturers that can be used for a digital optical switch, MEMS optical switch, optical proximity sensor, HDMI optical switch, reflective optical sensor, optical position sensor, 1x2 optical switch, high speed optical switch or any other optical sensor & switch circuit. Simply choose from the optical sensor & switch technical attributes below and your search results will quickly be narrowed to match your specific optical sensor & switch application needs.
If you have a preferred brand, we deal with several. You can easily refine your optical sensor & switch product search results by clicking your preferred optical sensor & switch brand below from our list of manufacturers.
Applications for Optical Sensors & Switches:
Optical sensors can be found in the energy field to monitor structures that generate, produce, distribute, and convert electrical power. The distributed and nonconductive nature of optical fibres makes optical sensors perfect for oil and gas applications, including pipeline monitoring. They can also be found in wind turbine blade monitoring, offshore platform monitoring, power line monitoring and downhole monitoring. Other applications include the civil and transportation fields such as bridge, airport landing strip, dam, railway, airplane, wing, fuel tank and ship hull monitoring.
Among other applications, optical switches can be found in thermal methods which vary the refraction index in one leg of an interferometer in order to switch the signal, MEMS approaches involving arrays of micromirrors that can deflect an optical signal to the appropriate receiver, piezoelectric beam steering liquid crystals which rotate polarized light depending on the applied electric field and acousto-optic methods which change the refraction index as a result of strain induced by an acoustic field to deflect light.
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Crimean War: Florence Nightingale at Scutari Hospital. Coloured lithograph by E. Walker, 1856, after W. Simpson.
- Simpson, William, 1823-1899
- 21 April 1856
Selected images from this work
About this work
[London] (13 & 14 Pall Mall East) : Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co. ; Paris : Goupil & Cie. ; Leipzig : Otto Weigel, 21 April 1856 (Day & Son, lithrs. to the Queen)
1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 28 x 44 cm
One of the wards of the Hospital at Scutari. E. Walker lith. ; W. Simpson del.
Bears number: 34
Wellcome Library no. 21465i
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A total of 800 Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) city buses which are 11 years or older and have run for over 8.5 lakh kilometres, would be scrapped by this financial year, The Hindu has reported.
This comes after a total of 1,406 new buses were inducted into the fleet in the financial year 2017-18. Due to lack of funds and legal hurdles, only 298 buses were added between 2014-15 and 2015-16. The total bus strength now stands at 6,634.
The number of breakdown cases of buses on the road has gradually come down over the years according to recent data from BMTC. The number of breakdowns has come down to 2,024 in 2017-18 from 3,488 in 2012-13.
A BMTC official said: “There are various factors for a reduced breakdown, which include removal of old buses from the fleet, induction of new buses and periodic maintenance. In the coming days, the number of breakdowns will reduce further provided more new buses are added to the fleet.”
The report claims that BMTC is plans to induct 1,000 new buses, but the plan would depend on the National Green Tribunal’s decision about putting diesel buses into service.
V Ponnuraj, Managing Director of BMTC, said, “We are planning to induct 1,000 new buses in the coming days. However, everything will depend on the outcome of the NGT order.”
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Stopping California's Downward Spiral Into Progressivism Madness
Today’s California represents most everything wrong with today’s Progressivism movement. In retrospect, California’s progressive mistakes provide an incubator and testing ground to show America and prove to the world, why it’s not in the best interest of the overwhelming number of Californians and Americans.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, California was the destination for those seeking a better place to live. For most of its history, the state enacted sensible policies that created one of the wealthiest and most innovative economies in human history. California realized the American dream—but better—fostering a huge middle class that, for the most part, owned their homes, sent their kids to public schools, and found meaningful work connected to the state’s amazingly diverse, innovative economy.
In the middle of the 20th century, the leadership of Governor Pat Brown and his practical Democrats made California, the Golden State, the envy of all others. These were the sapient leaders with old school Democrats values, ideas and policies that helped create the California dream.
However, since the dawn of the 21st century, the dream has been evaporating. Between 2003 and 2007, California state and local government spending grew 31 percent, even as the state’s population grew just 5 percent. The overall tax burden as a percentage of state income, once middling among the states, has risen to the sixth-highest in the nation, says the Tax Foundation.
Since 1990, according to an analysis by California Lutheran University, the state’s share of overall U.S. employment has dropped a remarkable 10 percent. When the state economy has done well, it has usually been the result of asset inflation—first during the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s, and then during the housing boom, which was responsible for nearly half of all jobs created earlier in this decade, and big tech most recently.
Guiding the agenda of California’s Democrats are a ruling elite, small in number, but wielding incredible power. Among these elites are government union leaders, liberal billionaires from Hollywood to Silicon Valley, extreme environmentalists, and the social justice vanguard. The money and influence these elites bring to California politics cannot possibly be matched by the opposition. But all the money in the world cannot make up for the fact that their policies have made life miserable for millions of ordinary Californians.
We’ve heard all this before. Much of what Californians face are challenges confronting everyone in America. But California, the biggest state, and the bluest state, is a powerful trendsetter. California is broken, hijacked by opportunists wielding overwhelming financial and political power. How does this change?
Fixing California: The Themes That Make Anything Possible
For conservatives across America, California has become the cautionary tale for the rest of the country. Anyone who actually lives in the Golden State, and enjoys the best weather and the most beautiful, diverse scenery on earth, knows there are two sides to the story of this captivating place. Nevertheless, the story keeps getting worse.
For every essential—homes, rent, tuition, gasoline, electricity, and water—Californians pay the among the highest prices in the continental United States. Californians endure the most hostile business climate in America, and pay the highest taxes. The public schools are failing, crime is soaring, electricity is unreliable, water is rationed, and the mismanaged forests are burning like hell.
Yet all of this can be fixed. The solutions aren’t mysteries and consist of the following:
• Deregulate housing permits.
• End the disastrous “housing-first” policies and instead give the homeless safe housing in inexpensive barracks where sobriety is a condition of entry.
• Repeal Proposition 47, which downgraded property and drug crimes.
• Build reservoirs, desalination, and wastewater recycling plants.
• Build nuclear power plants and develop California’s abundant natural gas reserves.
• Recognize that the common road is the future of transportation, not the past, and widen California’s freeways and highways.
• Let the timber companies harvest more lumber in exchange for maintaining the fire roads and power line corridors.
• Implement school choice and make public schools compete with private schools on the basis of excellence.
This isn’t just about ideology. The politicians who governed California during what arguably were its greatest yesteryears were Democrats. Old-timers refer to them as the Pat Brown Democrats (not to be confused with his son Jerry Brown and his progressive Democrat constituents), leaders whose approach to politics was pragmatic and focused on serving the people.
During that heyday, homes were affordable, and freeways weren’t crowded. Public schools were good, and the University of California campuses offered the best public higher education in the country. The California Water Project, taking barely more than a decade to construct, remains the most successful feat of interbasin water transfers in the world.
The Coalition That Will Realign California
Across several areas of policy, the Democratic party, led by Gavin Newsom, has not merely alienated, but enraged millions of Californians.
The key to political realignment in California is not only to offer these groups a political agenda that incorporates solutions to all their grievances, but does so in a manner so coherent, so practical, and so promising, that a common solidarity is generated which transcends all the ways California’s ruling class has thus far divided them.
Hardcore populist support for Democrats in California comes primarily from millions of white liberals, living in inherited homes, who pay minimal property taxes and are hence immune from the consequences of an out-of-control public sector bureaucracy, along with the government employees that work in that bureaucracy.
The critical swing constituency, currently solidly in the Democratic camp, are black, Latino, and Asian voters—and the battle to turn back California’s progressive downward spiral is in the hands of these critical groups.
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In this post we’ll look at how to Install Nginx Proxy Manager on a Raspberry Pi 4.
We’re going to use the setup from nginxproxymanager.com, but we’re going to change one thing: the database.
The database that is being used in the docker-compose file on the site isn’t compatible with ARM processors, so we’ll need to change that in a bit.
But first, we need to get logged in to our Raspberry Pi via SSH. This tutorial assumes that you already have Docker and Portainer installed, most likely via OpenMediaVault.
Once you’re logged in via SSH, create a folder called nginx and a new file called docker-compose.yml.
Then head over to https://nginxproxymanager.com/ and find the section on the home page called “Quick Setup”.
Copy the contents of the code block from there into your docker-compose.yml file and make any changes you need for your volume locations.
Save and close the file.
Then, to deploy the new container, you can enter the following in your terminal:
sudo docker-compose up -d
Normally we wouldn’t run this as sudo, but there have been incidents where an error comes up about Docker being installed in a non-standard location and running this as sudo seems to get around that.
Once everything has deployed in the terminal screen, you can jump over to Portainer and take a look at the logs for the nginx_app (or similarly named) and make sure that everything has completed.
If the last line of the logs is this:
Creating a new JWT key pair...
Then you need to wait a bit longer for things to finish up.
Once everything has finished, you can go to http://your-server-address:81
The default login credentials are:
Username: [email protected] Password: changeme
Once you’re logged in, you’ll be prompted to change the username and password.
That’s it! Now you’ve got NGINX Proxy Manager installed on a Raspberry Pi 4!
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Gordon Stein – Personal Finance Speaker
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How did we get here?
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These money saving ideas can also help financial firms enable their clients to build more wealth, to help organizations improve the financial wellness of their employees and to help young people get started financially.
In between events as a personal finance speaker, I am a proud dad, skier, sailor, gym rat, investor, and not yet great (or even good) guitar player.
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A Thorough Guide for writing a Cause and Effect Essay
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What is the Cause and Effect essay?
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Before we research the methodology of writing a cause and effect essay, we should see its definition. It is a class of essay that demands an essay writer to address the causes just, or the effects just or both the causes and effects of a particular subject. It is besides proposed as reasons and results in an essay. Additionally, there is a horrendous condition for a writer's sentiments and feelings in this essay. Considering, it wires barbarous numbers as they say. On the off chance that these means don't help your essay, by then select an essay writer from a college essay writing service and make your essay awesome.
Notwithstanding the way that understanding the opportunity of this class of paper writing is as fundamental as ABC, yet some students fight to score top-grades. To cover this impediment, students need to present the substance alluringly and awesomely. The introduction segment is the foremost bit of writing a cause and effect essay. In this segment, an essay writer needs to put down an unbelievably confounding truth or number concerning the subject. This first sentence is known as the fundamental statement.
The mentioned guaranteed factors must falter and stand-out for a reader. This statement is usually called genuine catch statement. Next, portraying the topic unnecessarily is fundamental. Therefore, writing a pleasing and memorable at any rate short thesis statement is fundamental. It must be extreme enough to bring a brand name up in the reader's cerebrum with the objective that it looks flabbergasting to him.
It is outstanding here that a writer needs to tell the reader that whether he will write about causes, effects, or both related to the conveyed subject.
In this segment, a writer needs to write a few paragraphs. He needs to address a cause, its effect, present a particular model, and produce legitimate demand to show his point of view. Each cause should be mentioned in a substitute paragraph. There must be a smooth transition between different paragraphs. Making the paragraphs understandable is the most extreme commitment of a student.
A scribbler can mention the causes basically close to the effects legitimately associated with a particular cause. In contrast, he can other than write down all the causes immediately and then domain the effects as requirements be. The two methodologies can adopt.
In this segment, a writer needs to sum up the whole discussion that happened in the above zones. He should not present any new cause or effect in this bit of the essay. Obviously a student should not recommend or propose any idea. It is up to the reader what he takes after forward to a specific issue or subject. In the event that students are beginning not far in the past perplexed, they can get college essay writing services from professional experts for tremendous outcomes.
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- Active Learning: Participants learn more effectively when they are actively involved and are provided opportunities to learn by doing. When participants have an opportunity to apply their learning, they retain this knowledge longer.
- Motivation: Participants learn more quickly when they are motivated to change. Understanding the importance of the change to them, their local area and the national organization accelerates their motivation to apply their learning.
- Introductions/Advance Organizers: Learning is enhanced when topics are introduced so learners have a framework to organize their new knowledge. Instructional objectives focus learners on what they should be able to do at the end of a topic.
- Association: Learners integrate new information with their existing knowledge base. Comparisons with existing knowledge, experiences and references increase learning.
- Examples: Examples help learners remember important information. Actual stories are especially easy to remember.
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- Feedback: Learning is a two-way dialogue. Instructors need feedback on whether the learners’ needs are being met. Learners need immediate feedback on how they are progressing.
- Summaries: Repetition and summarization of important information increase retention.
- On-the-Job Reinforcement: Job aids that provide on-the-job reinforcement of important or difficult content are very useful in accelerating the effective use of the new system and processes.
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We run two holiday clubs during each school holiday. One provides courses in specialist subjects such as STEM, music, performing arts and sport, and the other offers a range of craft, sport and ICT activities. All courses are run by familiar, experienced teachers.
We also run a water sports week during the summer break for children aged seven and over. Here the children learn to sail, wall climb, kayak, canoe, and raft build. Our popular holiday clubs give children a structured day within a fun, safe environment, where they can relax and make new friends. Holiday Club runs 9.00am-3.30pm, Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays and School INSET days). Please note that you can drop your child off at 8.30am and collect him/her up to 4.00pm. A late collection charge will apply if children are not collected by 4.00pm. There is also an option for children to have cooked lunches whilst at the Holiday Club.
Please note: Holiday club communications will be sent to all parents in the lead up to the next holiday club (during term time) – this will include the cost per day, specific dates around when to book and guarantee your place(s), and the last day that you or the school can cancel the course by.
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27 July 2022, Wetzlar, Germany – Leica Microsystems, a leader in microscopy and scientific instrumentation, has released a new version of its AI-powered image analysis solution, Aivia. The new Aivia 11 features a new deep learning-based cell segmentation algorithm that offers advanced insight creation capabilities for all levels of users. Aivia 11 is based on the innovative Cellpose deep learning segmentation algorithm, which offers several pretrained models for the precise detection of cells from a wide range of image types.
“The key purpose of Aivia is to empower researchers to focus on insights and discovery through radically simplified image segmentation and analysis,” says Luciano Lucas, Director Data and Analysis Life Science at Leica Microsystems. “With the integration of Cellpose’s core technology for object segmentation and CytoMAP’s spatial biology tool charts, Aivia 11 expands its range of solutions thus empowering its users to simplify and accelerate their work.”
“Automated cellular segmentation of microscopy images is a critical task for many researchers, and one that typically requires definitions to be set manually to help the system recognize the difference between cellular areas and borders,” says Won Yung Choi, Product Manager for Leica Aivia. “Users can now harness the power of deep learning-based cell segmentation by using Aivia 11’s intuitive AI tools to bypass time-consuming parameter optimization process and rapidly produce robust and reproducible segmentation results.”
Cellpose 2.0 is now wholly integrated into Aivia’s image analysis recipe with improved 3D handling capabilities to support 3D datasets from within Aivia’s intuitive user interface. This robust 3D segmentation offers improved processing speeds and higher accuracy compared to the publicly available version.
Aivia 11 has several additional new features to cut down the time needed for image analysis and limits human error, allowing scientists to get to insights and publication faster, including a new batch analysis workflow for multi-well plate data and other multi-image data, as well as the ability to export analyzed data into CytoMAP, for advanced spatial biology charting and data aggregation options.
Aivia 11 is optionally available with a new version of AiviaWeb, which offers all the image analysis capabilities of Aivia 11 directly from the browser of any internet-connected device. The new version of AiviaWeb now features secure, permanent cloud-based storage with automatic archiving, ensuring users can utilize the power of the latest version of Aivia from anywhere regardless of the operating system and without the need to invest in powerful workstations.
Aivia subscribers get immediate access to Aivia 11 as part of their subscription plan. More information about Aivia’s subscription plans are available here.
Intestine organoid with nuclei (DAPI, blue), plasma membrane (green), and smFISH probe (magenta) labeling imaged with a THUNDER 3D tissue imager system and analyzed with Aivia’s new integrated Cellpose and 3D Cell Analysis recipe.
About Leica Microsystems
Leica Microsystems develops and manufactures microscopes and scientific instruments for the analysis of microstructures and nanostructures. Ever since the company started as a family business in the nineteenth century, its instruments have been widely recognized for their optical precision and innovative technology. It is one of the market leaders in compound and stereo microscopy, digital microscopy, confocal laser scanning microscopy with related imaging systems, electron microscopy sample preparation, and surgical microscopes.
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The visual impact is something that first comes to your mind when you think of a roofing style. Apart from the appearance, what also matters is the utility and durability. Deciding on the shape of your roof is a very exhaustive process. The market is full of different varieties of a roof, and they have multiple properties based on usage. Some variations are:
It is a popular type of roof that is easy to build is also perfect for ventilation. Most of the houses use this type of roof because it disposes-off the water well. Many roofing contractors love it because they can use any material. The only drawback of this type of roof is that they might peel off under the pressure of strong winds.
It is a type of rooftop that is slightly more difficult to build. Builders and contractors use it in those areas which frequently face windy conditions as it reduces ventilation. Roofing contractors find it difficult to match materials towards the sides and ends. The steeper the pitch of the roof, it is less likely to give in to the winds.
It comes under the family of the French design of shelters and is quite challenging to build. There are two slopes in this type of roof style, one on each side. This style also creates extra space inside and is quite a popular type of roof as it is low on maintenance. It looks less like a roof and more like a hat adorning your house.
As the name suggests, it appears flat, but it is not 100% flat. It has a slight slope for the natural flow of rainwater.
The saltbox style roof
This roofing style is similar to old salt boxes. It looks unique in appearance, but the utility is very low for tall people.
Dormer style of roof
It is not an independent style of the roof, but it is added to an existing form.
Some contractors use it to add more elegance. The functionality of this type of style is quite low. Builders use the same materials for making the roof and in the construction of the house. Homeowners can enjoy the morning sunshine with these roofs.
It is a type of roof that comes with artistic and unique designs. The only drawback is the drainage problem, which you must note. There is ample room for light and ventilation in this style.
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Cephalanthus ‘Magical Moonlight’
Button bush ‘Magical Moonlight’, Buttonbush ‘Magical Moonlight’
Variety or Cultivar
‘Magical Moonlight’ _ ‘Magical Moonlight’ is a compact, upright to rounded, deciduous shrub with glossy, ovate, mid-green leaves and spherical clusters of fragrant, tubular, creamy-white flowers in mid- to late summer.
Flowers are fragrant
Leaves are toxic if ingested
Cream in Summer
Green in Summer
Pruning group 6.
Layering, Semi-ripe cuttings
Cephalanthus ‘Magical Moonlight’ (Button bush ‘Magical Moonlight’) will reach a height of 1.5m and a spread of 1.5m after 10-20 years.
Banks and Slopes, Beds and borders, Bees (attract & feed bees), Butterflies, Bog garden, City, Cottage/Informal, Waterside, Wildlife
Plant in fertile, humus-rich, neutral to acid, moist but well-drained soil in full sun.
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The Camphor Tree of Sumatra.—Among the most luxuriant and valuable trees of the island of Sumatra, the first place belongs to the Dryobalanops camphora. The tree is straight, extraordinarily tall, and has a gigantic crown, which often overtops the other woody giants by one hundred feet or so. The stem is sometimes twenty feet thick. According to the natives, there are three kinds of camphor tree, which they name "mailenguan," "marbin tungan," and "marbin targan," from the outward color of the bark, which is sometimes yellow, sometimes black, and often red. The bark is round and grooved, and is overgrown with moss. The leaves are of a dark green, oblong oval in shape and pointed. The outward form of the fruit is very like that of the acorn, but it has five round petals. These are placed somewhat apart from each other, and the whole form much resembles a lily. The fruit is also impregnated with camphor, and is eaten by the natives when it is well ripened and fresh.
The amazing height of the tree hinders the regular gathering, but when the tree yields its fruit, which takes place in March, April and May, the population go out to collect it, which they speedily effect, as, if the fruit be allowed to remain four days on the ground, it sends forth a root about the length of a finger, and becomes unfit to be eaten. Among other things, the fruit prepared with sugar furnishes a tasty comfit or article of confectionery. It is said that it is very unhealthy to remain near the camphor tree during the flowering season, because of the extraordinary hot exhalations from it during that period. The greater the age of the tree the more camphor it contains. Usually the order of the rajah is given for a number of men, say thirty, to gather camphor in the bush belonging to territory which he claims.
The men appointed then seek for a place where many trees grow together; there they construct rude huts. The tree is cut down just above the roots, after which it is divided into small pieces, and these are afterward split, upon which the camphor, which is found in hollows and crevices in the body of the tree, and, above all, in the knots and swellings of branches from the trunk, becomes visible in the form of granules or grains. The quantity of camphor yielded by a single tree seldom amounts to more than half a pound, and if we take into account the great and long continued labor requisite in gathering it, we have the natural reply to the question why it fetches so high a price. At the same time that the camphor is gathered—that is, during the cutting down of the tree—the oil that then drips from the cuttings is caught in considerable quantity. It is seldom brought to market, because, probably, the price, considering the trouble of carriage, is not sufficiently remunerative.
When the oil is offered for sale at Baros, the usual price is one guilder for an ordinary quart wine-bottleful. The production of Baros camphor lessens yearly, and the profitable operations of former times—say in the year 1853, when fully 1,250 pounds were sent from Padang to Batavia—will never return. Since time out of mind the beautiful clumps and clusters of camphor trees have been destroyed in a ruthless manner. Young and old have been felled, and as no planting or means of renewal has taken place, but the growth of the trees has been left to nature, it is not improbable that this noble species will ere long wholly disappear from Sumatra.—Chem. and Drug., Lond., Jan. 14, 1871.
Pharmacy in Paris during the Insurrection.—The advantages possessed by iron revolving shutters have generally been admitted, but few, I think, ever found them more useful than did the shopkeepers and pharmacists in the neighborhood of the Place Vendôme on Wednesday last. Since the horrors of the siege, Paris had been gradually sliding into the old grooves; strangers reappeared, letters and telegrams seemed no longer a strange and new pleasure, and commerce had reinstated herself. It was unfortunately but the lull before the storm. Three days before, the Place Vendôme had been occupied by the insurgent battalions of the National Guard, the pretending friends of order, who, at the approach of a peaceful unarmed deputation headed by the journalist Henri de Pène, discharged more than 500 shots into the crowd, killing over twenty and wounding about sixty persons. In an instant the pavement was red with blood, and the dead and dying were carried into the neighboring pharmacies, to receive what attention could be given to them, awaiting the arrival of the surgeons. Ambulance stretchers were soon procured, and mournful processions, headed by men bearing large white flags with the Geneva cross, traversed the streets of Paris, exciting the hate and loathing with which all orderly citizens regard the resumption of a new reign of terror at the hands of the Belleville insurgents. All business, except the mournful duty of staunching death-wounds, is over for the present in this usually gay quarter of Paris. Half a dozen blood-stained mattresses piled in a corner of nearly every pharmacy tell their own sad tale, and the once white marble floors are variegated and slippery as the pavement of the Piazza San Marco, at Venice, on a rainy day. All the shops are closed, and peremptory commands to shut all windows fronting the street are issued in loud tones, accompanied by menaces from loaded chassepots. In comparison with this, the siege was quite enviable then, at all events, shops were open, and one could walk about the central parts of the city in perfect safety.
And then a certain amount of business was done—business of the pathetic kind. Wives, sisters and sweethearts came and bought pocket pharmacies, little stocks of lint and plaster, perchloride of iron, etc., for their dear friends about to start for the fields of battle. Many a tear was shed over the purchase, many a wish uttered that those dear to them should never require the sad appliances of modern civilization to heal the wounds caused by the destructive engines of modern barbarity. Alas! how many hopes have been scattered to the wind! How many pale, weeping figures, clothed in black, are daily to be seen carrying in pious hands wreaths of "immortelles," to deck the rude crosses, that lie thick at Montretout and for miles around. The past was dreadful enough, gilded over by a coating of patriotism; the present is doubly fearful—brother against brother, and no canopy of glory, but one reeking shroud of vengeance, hatred and bloodshed.
The siege, by provoking the appetite, instigated curious researches among the edibles generally found in pharmacies. As long as a few tins of concentrated milk remained, we fared luxuriously on arrowroot puddings and oatmeal gruel; in fact, a tolerable pharmaceutical dinner, save the monotony, was daily procurable, and consisted of a soup of Liebig's extract thickened with tapioca or pearl-barley. A hors d'oevre of anchovy paste or olives; then a pièce de resistance, such as curried horseflesh, or a cat's thigh strong with garlic, a salad of mustard and young flax, which we grew in boxes in the cellars, a dessert of Jordan almonds and conserve of hips, and a strong cup of coffee with which to wash all down. When the bread became almost uneatable, Hard's food was brought into requisition—the dough was cleanly made in a large pestle and mortar, with a due proportion of bicarbonate of soda and hydrochloric acid, and baked into light little loaves, or rather cakes, of surpassing delicacy of flavor. Our distaste for horseflesh induced us to invent sundry bouquets, the success of which was so great in imparting a really pleasant flavor to the insipid meat, that I am sure no cordon bleu should ignore their utility. The favorite consisted of a clove of garlic and a pinch of peppercorns, corianders, cloves, parsley-seed, dried thyme and ginger, bruised together and tied in a piece of muslin.
The only article for which an extraordinary demand existed was extract of meat. Tonics were much taken, and resulted in several new specialities, rather more ingenious than tasty, such as a combined essence of calisaya and Liebig prepared with Cognac!
ERNEST J. T. AGNEW.
232 Rue de Rivoli, March 22nd, 1871.—Pharm. Journ., Lond., April 1, 1871.
Will Snake-Poison Kill a Snake?—Dr. Fayrer, in India, has been experimenting to correct the popular error that a snake cannot kill a snake. He took a young and very lively cobra, fourteen inches long, and which was bitten in the muscular part of the body by a krait forty-eight inches long. The krait had not bitten for some days before. From a detailed report by Dr. Fayrer, it appears that the cobra was bitten at 12.50 P.M. At 1 P. M. it was very sluggish, at 1.3 P.M. so sluggish that it moved with difficulty, could be easily handled, and made no effort at resistance. At 1.20 it was apparently dying, and its movements were scarcely perceptible, and at 1.22 it died, thirty-two minutes after the attack. Dr. Fayrer has found that the water-snakes of India are deadly poisonous. In the Bay of Bengal they swarm, and it is noted as ominous that lately it was proposed to erect a sea-bathing establishment for Calcutta at Barwar, under the assurance that there were no sharks. It is remarked that sharks need not be noticed when a bather may have deadly water-snakes swimming after him.—Pharm. Journ., Lond., April 1, 1871, from Nature.
Sandal-Wood.—This valuable wood was formerly obtained by the East India Company in large quantities from the Fejee Islands. As many as seven large Indiamen have been known to be lying at anchor in one of the bays at once, waiting for cargoes of the precious wood. The trees have been felled with such reckless improvidence, that, on the shores of this same bay, a solitary sapling, planted by a missionary, is now the only living sandal-tree for many miles around.—Technologist, May, 1871. | <urn:uuid:0c2b13fa-06f5-490a-8c43-0539ffa1b10a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.henriettes-herb.com/eclectic/journals/ajp/ajp1871/06-varieties.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.970712 | 2,266 | 3.515625 | 4 |
Zo Kutpui Festival (Mizoram)
The Mizoram government is organising Zo Kutpui (festival) in at least 10 states across India and countries such as US, Myanmar and Bangladesh.
About Zo Kutpui Festival
• The Zo Kutpui festival is an attempt to unify and strengthen the brotherhood among various Mizo tribes living in different parts of the world.
• The first edition of the festival will start in Tripura and then move to other states which have significant Mizo population.
• The festival will witness various cultural programmes by different Mizo tribes, besides performance by various artistes belonging to Zo ethnic tribes of Mizoram and the Northeast.
About Mizo Tribe
Mizo have settled in the states of Tripura, Assam, Manipur, and Nagaland, as well as in adjacent areas of Myanmar (Burma) and Bangladesh.
The Mizo are agriculturists. They practice jhum cultivation; slashing of trees and forest, burning the left over to cultivate the land for their livelihood. They are also a hunting and warring tribe.
Among the most prominent of the Mizo groups are the Lushai (whose name is often mistakenly applied to the entire Mizo community), Pawi (Lai), Lakher (Mara), and Hmar.
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Are you aware of the importance of movement for your health this lockdown?
Okay so it’s another lockdown and life is now starting to feel a little tougher than normal during these uncertain COVID times. It’s winter, gyms are closed and the barriers to getting outside to exercise are at an all-time high. We all know that moving more is going to positively impact our health, but it’s hard, very hard.
It is totally understandable, trust me, I get it.
Many of us will be working high stress, sedentary jobs requiring large periods of time seated. Before we know it, it is 7pm at night and you’ve not moved from the one spot all day. The neck is sore, the lower back is aching and the couch is calling. Rather than sit down and watch all the 1%’ers perform amazing workouts on Instagram, let’s get moving!
I want to share with you some amazing health benefits that even the smallest amount of movement can provide and some strategies to implement in order to do this.
Exercise & Mentality
When it comes to exercising, we can too easily get caught up in the ‘all or nothing’ mentality. This can prevent us from starting to move because we have these basic conditions that need to be met.
Common barriers to exercise include:
- ‘There’s no weights so there’s no point exercising.’
- ‘It’s raining, I’ll start tomorrow when it is sunny.’
- ‘I didn’t get enough sleep last night, tomorrow I will have more energy’
We’ve forgotten to celebrate the little victories, the minor changes we’ve made to our daily routine that benefit our health. We play down positive aspects of our health and focus mostly on the negative.
This is wrong.
It is wrong because health and wellbeing are far more than just performing reps of a weight or running a certain distance. Health is the small, easy, almost unnoticeable habits that can provide the biggest return in the long run.
Any movement is good movement.
The Importance of Movement
Let’s focus on the previous statement:
“Any movement is good movement”
What is movement you might say?
Well, movement can literally be anything. A recurring issue I see is the perception of what constitutes movement. Focusing solely on one type of movement prevents us from seeing the bigger picture.
If you like a particular movement that’s great!
However, if you don’t have access to being able to that particular type of movement, or if you don’t have the energy to perform a tough workout it’s likely that nothing will be done.
Movement can be as simple as a slow walk (the long way) to the coffee shop, a stretch routine in-between meetings or picking the kids up and doing some squats while you’re waiting for the jug to boil for your morning tea.
All of the above examples of movement will do wonders for your health in lockdown and can all be incorporated in to your day with (relative) ease.
By increasing how much and how often we move we can improve our physical and our mental health. This is by creating distance between ourselves and the things that can cause us stress. It gives us something to celebrate and feel accomplished even if it’s only minor.
Let’s start celebrating the small victories and begin to build a healthier routine.
Health Benefits Of Movement In Lockdown
Some of the health benefits of increased movement in lockdown include:
- Mental clarity
- Improves mobility
- Increased energy
- Increased blood flow
- Happier mood
All of the above are incredibly important in every day life, let alone lockdown life. Everyone is under a lot of pressure at the moment, there is a lot of stress from factors outside of our control. One thing that we do have control over at the moment however, is how much we can move on a daily basis.
How Can I Move More Every Day?
We know we need to move a bit more, it is a great idea. But how can we actually do it? Sometimes putting the answer into practice can seem much harder.
To help you on your way to moving more I’ve come up with 5 top tips:
Scheduling time regularly throughout the day to move is key to ongoing success. If we’ve committed to ourselves and put time aside to move it’s far more likely to be done. Set a 2 hour timer and get up from the desk. While you’re up do some squats or lunges, perhaps walk up and down your stairs (if you have any) or even do some stretching.
Call a friend or loved one
Times are tough and we’ve never been more disconnected (yet connected) to our friends or family. We’re lucky to live in an age where technology allows us to speak to people either via phone call or video call. While you’re on the call, walk around the house or go outside and speak to them whilst getting your steps up and some fresh air at the same time.
Drink water from a small glass
This is a great idea. Whilst also reminding you to drink more water (8 glasses a day keeps the doctor away) it also prompts you to get up from what you’re doing to refill. Again, a great distraction from the task at hand.
Try something new
There’s plenty of different forms of exercise out there. It’s a great time to separate ourselves from our normal exercise routine and try something new. Put a yoga video on and get the family involved or try a dance workout from YouTube. It doesn’t have to be hard. You don’t have to be good at it, but it might just be a little bit of fun.
Go for a walk
I’m sure many of us have been for plenty of these recently but let’s make ‘a walk’ the next big thing. We can still interact with others whilst exercising after all. Going for a walk with a friend could be the best thing you do for yourself that day. It’s a time to not only exercise and increase the heart rate but to get out of home. Share some stories about work or plot your revenge against your partner for leaving the toilet seat up or the sink full of dirty dishes.
Moving more may seem like the most difficult thing at the moment. If we start small and take it one step at a time, we can create a good routine which will positively impact our health.
Good luck this lockdown, remember movement is wonderful for health. Although it’s winter, a favourite quote of mine is ‘a swim if for your health, but a dip is for the soul’.
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When Planning & Uncertainty Collide
As project managers, we like planning. There are degrees, of course, as in all things. Some of us plan the general themes of our week. Others would like to micromanage very detail of every resource allocation.
Regardless of where you personally live on this spectrum, there is a plan. On some level, you expect it to be followed. And that's wonderful, right up to the point where reality happens.
One of Eisenhower's more famous quotes was, "In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." There is a great deal to love about that quote. For starters, it values the action, not the result. In Eisenhower's view, the plan that is the physical result of the planning process isn't worth the paper it's printed on, but the actions that led up to the creation of that plan have huge relevance and value.
What tends to be true of most project plans is that they don't predict reality in any meaningful way for any meaningful amount of time. Even a week into a project, you may deal with some activities not progressing, others starting early or finishing late, and new activities appearing out of the ether that no one had identified or considered. Trying to ride herd on all of that is pretty analogous to rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic; it also has about as much relevance and usefulness.
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Contrary to the common phrase, fire and water actually do mix – and there’s often a direct connection between the two.
This year in particular, wildfires have gripped Colorado with historic magnitude. And while we often think of property damage and air quality as the most immediate consequences of severe wildfire, rivers and drinking water supplies are often wildfire casualties as well.
2020 was Colorado’s third-driest water year on record and one of our warmest, with the hottest August since record-keeping began in 1895. Models show that climate change and historic drought will continue to affect the Colorado River Basin and increase the severity and frequency of wildfires.
To combat this, we must strive to bolster the resiliency of both land and water, including our rivers and streams, to support our communities that rely upon them.
The good news is that Coloradans across the state recognize the need to invest in our rivers.
Voters this year approved two ballot measures that will generate additional funding to support the St. Vrain and Left Hand Water Conservancy District as well as the Colorado River Water Conservation District. The measures will generate a combined $8 million per year to support healthy rivers, local agriculture, watershed health and water quality across both districts.
That local funding will support the types of solutions and water-management projects outlined in Colorado’s Water Plan. The plan, finalized in 2015, provides a blueprint to address the gap between water supply and demand across the state.
And now we have a critical opportunity to build on that work – and voters’ recent mandates – by making updates to the Water Plan. These updates will provide a chance to identify and recommend a path towards a healthy, secure water future.
“From extreme drought to extreme fires, 2020 highlights the need for us to build our climate resilience and protect the watersheds that sustain our streams, farms and cities. Finding these opportunities and identifying the state of the science is at the heart of the Colorado Water Plan Update,” says Colorado Water Conservation Board Director Rebecca Mitchell.
Wildfire-related impacts on river health are significant, including post-fire floods, debris flows, erosion, and the threat of toxic debris flowing into our rivers and water supply. Laurie Rink of the Middle Colorado Watershed Council says that key stakeholders have expressed the need for coordinated planning and response to Colorado’s wildfires.
“Immediate focus will be on post-fire recovery and rehabilitation to reduce post-fire hazards, such as flooding and erosion. Longer-term efforts can turn towards planning for and implementing future fire risk mitigation throughout the watershed,” Rink says.
Healthy rivers flow from healthy watersheds. We must broaden the river health conversation beyond the river channel itself, to include the entire “riverscape,” comprised of the streams, floodplain, and vegetation surrounding them.
Riverscapes support bird and wildlife habitat, as well as ecological services that directly influence water quality and quantity. Nearly 80% of Colorado’s clean, reliable drinking water comes from these forested watersheds. But significant data gaps exist around watershed health, and without current science, the effort to create projects and management plans to protect Colorado’s rivers is daunting.
Ensuring that Colorado’s riverscapes and forests can recover from future wildfires at a landscape scale is crucial. Implementing proven wildfire mitigation strategies such as forest treatments and prescribed fires, as well as investing in the health of our rivers and streams, will promote increased resilience to climate change and mitigate the effects of wildfires on water supplies and communities.
Colorado’s Water Plan strives to develop stream management plans for at least 80% of rivers and streams across the state, as well as 80% of critical watersheds with watershed protection plans, all by 2030.
Current, accurate, scientific data is crucial for the development of these stream management and watershed plans. Fortunately, river health assessments can inform locally driven projects to protect or improve conditions and empower communities to develop tailored resilience strategies and track river health over time.
It’s essential that an updated Water Plan provide funding and guidance for addressing river health information gaps.
While rivers connect all Coloradans, so does drought and wildfire in 2020. When we invest in the health of our rivers, we are also investing in future resilience to climate change and associated disruptions to our rural heritage and Colorado lifestyle.
Abby Burk is the Western Rivers Regional Program Manager for Audubon Rockies.
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Origins of Modern Day Power Structures in Europe
G. William Domhoff (based on the sociological power analysis ideas of Michael Mann):
"To understand the American power structure, we first have to consider briefly the power structures in the European civilizations that created colonies in what is now the United States.
The modern era of state and class relations in Europe had its origins in the first few centuries after the disintegration of the Roman Empire between 337 and 476 A.D. The institution of private property developed in the context of a system of numerous small, weak states that struggled along in the territory previously dominated by the militarized Roman state. This economic development was made possible by the "normative pacification" provided by the Catholic Church, which increased greatly in its power, and by the predominance of military techniques that rendered armored knights on horseback ascendant over serfs and peasants (Mann, 1986, pp. 376-378, 390-391).
In this context, it is important to note, feudal lords did not need "states" to protect their private property and increase the exploitation of producing classes. They dominated the peasantry through their own military capabilities in a context where religion played a role in sustaining and justifying hierarchy. Moreover, the weakness of the many small states was one factor that allowed the system of private property to take deeper root without the danger of state appropriation, and for an independent merchant class to develop. The result was a growing independence for the economic network in general: "By the time trade was really buoyant (1150 to 1250 A.D.)," claims Mann (1986, p. 397), "it was accompanied by merchant and artisan institutions with an autonomy unparalleled in other civilizations."
Put more strongly, weak states and a common religious ideology made it possible for economic networks in Europe to obtain a degree of independence that is not found elsewhere. The history of China, for example, is a history of states fighting back and forth to gain the upper hand. First, there were many small states, then one big state that eventually overextended itself, followed by hundreds of years of many smaller states, and then the cycle repeated itself into the 20th century, when the Chinese Communist Party created an extremely strong state after its 1949 triumph. The ideology network is always at the service of the state -- no independent religious organizations developed in China. And the means of organized violence are controlled by states, except when militarized outsiders march in and conquer the Chinese state or states. Then these warlords monopolize violence for themselves as the new state rulers, and become assimilated into Chinese society.
Where are the economic networks in Chinese history? Well, agricultural surpluses and trading networks were important in making it all possible, but they were always under the thumb of the state. There was no significant period, let alone a 1000-year time span, as during the Middle Ages in Europe, when economic networks had a fair degree of independence. This comparison does not make European history any less hierarchical and brutal for the great mass of people, but it does make it different.
During Europe's Middle Ages, to repeat, the state had very few functions. It consisted primarily of the king and his retainers, and the bulk of its revenues came from the king's own lands and judicial fees. It tried to guard its borders and control armies in its territory, and it had a role in settling some types of disputes within its confines, but it was not a major player. Strikingly, any increases in its budget were directly tied to warfare and war debts. That continued to be the case even after the state began to gain some importance as a regulator of economic activity within its boundaries (Mann, 1986, pp. 486, 511) and to supplant the Church as the primary means of normative pacification. As late as 1505, the powers of the state were minimal:
Paying the expenses of his household, buying the political advice of a few counselors, administering supreme justice, regulating trade across territorial boundaries, issuing a coinage, and waging occasional war with the help of loyal barons -- that was the sum of state functions, which almost certainly involved less than one percent of national wealth and were marginal to the lives of most of the state's subjects. (Mann, 1986, p. 452.)
Although private property and the first stages of capitalism developed without strong states, the situation began to change in the 12th and 13th centuries for a number of reasons. As markets grew within state boundaries, there was more and more need for state regulation. As merchants increased the scope of their trade into larger and larger territories, they needed more protection against bandits and the petty rulers of small territories (Mann, 1986, pp. 423-424, 431-32). Merchants also developed an interest in aggressive wars that would widen the territory in which they could operate: "From now on commercial motivations, the conquest of markets as well as land, were to play a part in wars" (Mann, 1986, p. 432). Merchants thus quietly encouraged the growth of the state, lending it the money necessary to raise a larger army.
Moreover, dramatic -- and, of course, unanticipated -- developments in the military network also triggered changes in the relationship between private property and the state. The sudden emergence of the disciplined military phalanx, that is, spear-armed infantry in close formation, quickly led to the defeat of nobles on horseback in a series of dramatic battles between 1302 and 1315 (Mann, 1986, pp. 18-19, 428). In this new context, the nobility had to turn increasingly to the state to raise a standing army of full-time foot soldiers to protect its lands. Now it started to be the case that the state was an "instrument of domination" in the service of the economic elites in general.
There soon followed a series of technological innovations that added up to a "military revolution" (Mann, 1986, pp. 453-454). In particular, large artillery guns made it possible to destroy castles. The arms race among states was on. It didn't begin after World War II ended in 1945. To the contrary, there have been few peaceful interludes between 1300 and the present. Only states with large armies could survive, and only states that could gain the loyalty of lords and merchants could afford large armies.
So, from that point forward capitalism and the nation-state gradually grew powerful together because they needed and aided each other. As the alliance between these two power networks solidified, they subordinated the previously independent ideological and military networks. States now began to fit the usual sociological definition: the organization that controls the military and police within a given geographical area. And when a state extended its regulatory powers over a new territory, so too did capitalism diffuse more fully into that territory. Contrary to the oft-expressed view that classes and states are antagonistic, they became closely intertwined in Western history.
True enough, the class system generated by capitalism was segmented into a small number of "class-nations" of roughly equal power that together formed a multi-state system. And, yes, from the start there was also tension within each state between the top bananas in the two dominant networks of modern Western civilization -- between economic elites and political elites. Feudal lords wanted protection for their lands, and merchants wanted protection and regulation for their goods and markets, but both feared the taxing power of the state elites (Mann, 1986, p. 433). Conversely, state elites tried to gain as much autonomy as they could. Much of Western history from this time forward is about the deadly bickering between economic and political elites, with an occasional time-out to deal with peasants or artisans who tried to take advantage of the divisions in elite circles.
As the power of the market system developed, merchants, lords, and rich peasants gradually merged into a capitalist class in many of these countries. However, there were some differences from country to country. Constitutional regimes fostered the unity of a property-owning class. Absolutist regimes tended to preserve the social structure of feudalism. Either way, these European states were not very powerful in relation to the dominant class or classes:
Thus constitutional and absolutist regimes were subtypes of a single form of state: a weak state in relation to the powerful groups of civil society, but a state that increasingly coordinated those groups' activities to the point where we may begin to talk of an organic class-nation whose central point was either the court or the court/parliament of the state. (Mann, 1986, p. 481.)
Gradually, but only gradually, the relationship between dominant classes and the state became even closer and their interests began to merge. "In the 17th and 18th centuries," concludes Mann (1986, p. 516), "it begins to make sense to describe the state -- paraphrasing Marx -- as an executive committee for managing the common affairs of the capitalist class." This is because the state had no distributive power over the classes of "civil society" and because power flowed "primarily from economic power relations to the state" (Mann, 1986, p. 516). Within this general framework, there were large differences among European countries between 1760 and 1914, as Mann (1993) also documents with unique data sets and many historical comparisons.
Although Mann's Four Networks theory and Marxism come to somewhat similar conclusions for the years after, say, 1790, this does not mean that Marx's analyses of key historical events in Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries were necessarily correct. In fact, there is reason to believe from historical studies that they were not. Generally speaking, Marx overstated the importance of industrial capitalists as compared to landed elites within the ruling circles of the 19th century, and of urban workers as compared to other urban dwellers and peasants (Hamilton, 1991).
Based on this history, it's clear to me that questions about the relative power of states and social classes cannot be answered in the abstract for any time period, including the modern era. States may become relatively autonomous by playing nobles off against merchants, or one set of capitalists against another. But they also can be dominated by a coalition of social classes, or by a single dominant class. They can become so powerful militarily that they can extract resources from civil society. And they even can be dominated by a fervent ideological network under the right circumstances (Iran since 1979, for example). None of these possibilities should be precluded beforehand." (https://whorulesamerica.ucsc.edu/theory/four_networks.html?) | <urn:uuid:9d272020-afd8-49de-8999-547ef55c41cd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Origins_of_Modern_Day_Power_Structures_in_Europe | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.968989 | 2,191 | 3.296875 | 3 |
In parallel to his sculptural works Hirst worked on an unlimited series of dot paintings under the generic title The Pharmaceutical Paintings. He has referred to these as "A scientific approach to painting in a similar way to the drug companies’ scientific approach to life”.
Hirst’s spot paintings are among the most distinctive in contemporary art, a symbol that is recognised universally, cutting across boundaries of culture and language.
For his first major body of prints, The Last Supper, a series of thirteen screenprints made in 1999, Hirst based the designs on specific pharmaceutical packets but with the original drug names replaced by everyday British café food.
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Amphiphilic copolymers under geometrical confinement
The confinement effects complicate significantly the polymer behavior, however they simultaneously provide opportunities to generate novel nanostructures useful for advanced applications such as nanocontainers or molecular templates. Detailed knowledge of the conformational behavior and self-assembly is necessary also for correct interpretation of separation techniques which employ slow flow of copolymer solutions through microporous media and assume the establishment of thermodynamic equilibria. In our recent studies, inspired by experiments of our collaborators we found that the interaction of copolymers with confining wall modifies the conformational behavior and has an important feedback effect on their sorption and separation.
The image is a snapshot of the simulation box which illustrates the separation of mixtures of linear and H-shaped polymers by Monte Carlo simulations. For more details see: Wang at al Polymer 104 (2016) 10-21.
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Tree Felling Process
Once a tree has been identified as dying or posing a threat, the tree felling process can begin. The first step is to assess the tree and determine the best way to fell it. This includes considering the size of the tree, the direction it is leaning, and any obstacles in its path.
Once the plan is in place, the next step is to cut into the tree. This is done using a chainsaw or other power saw. The goal is to make a clean cut that will allow the tree to fall in the desired direction.
After the initial cut is made, additional cuts may be needed to help guide the tree as it falls. Finally, once all cuts are complete, the tree will be allowed to fall.
If you have a tree that needs to be felled, contact Luton Tree Services for professional assistance. We have the experience and equipment needed to safely and efficiently fell your tree.
Identifying Which Tree Needs Felling
The decision to fell a tree is not one that should be made lightly. Trees are an important part of the environment and should only be removed when absolutely necessary.
There are several reasons why you might need to fell a tree. If the tree is dying or poses a threat to life or property, then it may need to be removed. Additionally, if the tree is blocking a view or interfering with power lines, it may also need to be removed.
Once you have decided that a tree needs to be removed, the next step is to assess the tree and develop a plan for how to fell it. This plan will take into account the size of the tree, the direction it is leaning, and any obstacles in its path. Once the plan is in place, the tree can be felled.
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In response to a government EI-reform proposal that only applies to very small companies and has a major structural flaw, Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau has proposed an alternative. Instead of reinventing the wheel, the Liberals are suggesting bring back a policy from the 1990s, one that avoided the unintended consequences of the current government proposal where firms receive benefits by firing workers.
The policy the Liberals wish to resurrect was called the New Hires Program (NHP). It was announced in November, 1996 and lasted for two years. The program guide listed the relatively straight-forward criteria for eligibility:
- Your share of 1996 EI premiums, including the premiums for all employers with whom you were associated on December 31, 1996, was less than $60,000.
- Your share of 1997 EI premiums, including the premiums for all employers with whom you were associated in 1997, was at least $250 more than the amount of 1996 EI premiums for you and all associated employers.
Eligible firms that saw their EI payments rise in 1997 (either through hiring or increasing the wages of their workers) had any increase in EI payments returned back to them (minus $250) as a rebate, up to $10,000. This program was better designed than the current government program in three distinct ways:
- Far more firms were eligible, as the $60,000 eligibility cap greatly exceeded the $15,000 cap of the government’s recent proposal, even after accounting for inflation.
- Firms only received benefits if they increased their payrolls. Under the current proposal companies can hold steady or reduce their payrolls and still receive a rebate.
- Under the New Hires Program, companies cannot make themselves ineligible for the rebate by hiring too much, since the eligibility criteria was backward looking. Under the current government proposal, eligible firms can make themselves ineligible by hiring too much, causing them to lose their tax credit. As well, ineligible firms can make themselves eligible for the program by firing workers and cutting salaries, giving them a $2200 tax credit they would not have otherwise receive.
The Liberals have not released details of their plan, so we do not know how closely it would resemble the New Hires Program. As such, we cannot fully evaluate claims to the cost of the program or the effect it will have on employment. According to the 1997 Budget, the cost in Year 1 of the New Hires Program was $250 million, so Liberal claims that could build a 2nd generation NHP for $225 million seem reasonable. As far as the effects on employment, I do not believe any economist has published a study on the effect the NHP had on job growth. If they had, the number would likely have been far more modest than what politicians would claim, as a significant portion of the increase in payrolls would have happened even without the tax rebate. Economists and politicians will always be at loggerheads when it comes to job growth claims, with economists continually stating that the benefits are overstated and politicians will respond like William Shatner at a Star Trek convention.
The New Hires Program provides a great framework for a new Small Business Job Credit. I hope the government will take Mr. Trudeau’s suggestion seriously and correct the flaws in their current proposal. | <urn:uuid:426e1e36-b12e-4a0c-8fd9-77bcca8158a1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://archive.canadianbusiness.com/blogs-and-comment/small-business-jobs-credit-vs-new-hires-program/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.977734 | 669 | 1.71875 | 2 |
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