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Ways to back up or protect your files
Your photos, music, documents, and software are important. There are several easy ways to protect them.
Time Machine backs up photos, music, movies, and documents that are stored on your Mac. After you set up Time Machine, it regularly backs up your Mac without any more effort on your part. See Connect a new backup disk to your Mac.
You can use iCloud Drive to safely store documents in iCloud, so you can retrieve them when needed and access them from all of your computers, as well as iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices. If you like, you can have all the files in your desktop and documents folders stored automatically in iCloud Drive. See Use iCloud Drive to store documents.
You can use iCloud Photos to safely store all the photos and videos in your photo library in iCloud, so you can retrieve them when needed and access them from all of your computers, iOS and iPadOS devices, and Apple TV, and on iCloud.com. See Use iCloud Photos to store photos in iCloud.
CDs and DVDs
You can create a burn folder that contains all your important files. Whenever you want to back up the latest versions of those files to a CD or DVD, simply open that burn folder, then click Burn. See Create and use a burn folder.
If you have a second hard disk, you can back up files by copying them from one disk to the other. To save space, compress an item before copying it to a backup disk; just select it, then choose File > Compress.
If your hard disk is divided into partitions, you can back up files from one partition to another. This solution isn’t as safe as other options because your backup may be lost along with the original files if your hard disk is damaged. For information about partitioning a disk, see Partition a physical disk.
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Police ethnic profiling can mean that a police officer uses their police powers on an individual primarily or only due to that person’s skin colour, ethnic origin, religion or language. It can be prevalent within cases of stopping and asking for identity papers or detention.
When can ethnic profiling occur?
- In Finland, it is suspected ethnic profiling occurs during immigration control procedures. During immigration control, police check that foreigners present in Finland have valid residence permits. This task is set out in Finnish law. Police officers conduct these controls in part by stopping people and asking them to identify themselves. Controls are also carried out during normal police work, when the police interact with foreigners.
- Ethnic profiling also encompasses situations in which assumed members of a certain ethnic or racialised group are stopped and searched, because a different individual of the assumed same background is being searched in connection to a crime.
- Other officials such as border guards and customs officials can also be guilty of ethnic profiling if they check people on the basis of their ethnic background, skin colour, religion, nationality or language.
- Private security guards might practice ethnic profiling if they discriminate against people on the basis of their ethnic background, skin colour, religion, nationality or language.
Ethnic profiling is forbidden
Ethnic profiling is a form of discrimination. Discrimination is forbidden by Finnish law and international conventions. The UN human rights committee has deemed that police controls based on a person’s physical traits or ethnic background violate the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the most central international human rights treaty.
- Ethnic profiling is also forbidden during immigration controls in Finland. According to Finnish law, controls “should not be motivated solely or mainly by virtue of a person’s real or assumed ethnic origin”. In practice this means that the police are forbidden to ask for identity papers solely due to a person’s black skin colour or dark hair, for example. The police need to have an alternate primary reason for enacting controls, e.g. police analysis or information that allows them to suspect you are an undocumented foreign citizen. However, it is unclear what in practice counts as police analysis or information within this context.
- It is possible to file a criminal complaint or an administrative complaint regarding ethnic profiling via one of multiple complaint mechanisms.
Ethnic profiling abroad and in Finland
According to research, ethnic profiling is common in the USA and many European countries. For example in the UK, official statistics confirm that the police stop black people significantly more than white people.
The Open Society Foundation’s Justice Initiative, a broad research project that focused on ethnic profiling in several European countries, found that profiling of muslims had increased in recent years in the name of anti-terrorism measures. In 2010, the Fundamental Rights Agency of the EU conducted a broad survey on minority profiling in EU member states and subsequently produced a handbook for police officers. The survey found that minorities were stopped by the police more often than the majority groups living in the same neighbourhoods in Belgium, Germany, Greece, Spain, France and Hungary. According to the report, majority respondents tend to feel that the police treat them with respect, whereas more minority respondents said that the police are disrespectful.
In France, in a landmark court ruling in June 2015, the Paris Court of Appeals ordered the French government to pay damages to people subjected to unwarranted identity checks, ruling that discriminatory ID checks are illegal. However, the court found no violations when checks occurred in neighborhoods said to be dangerous, even if the police had no objective grounds for stopping the individuals.
Does ethnic profiling occur in Finland?
It is not simple to recognise and prove cases of ethnic profiling. In Finland there are no court rulings stating that officials have committed discriminatory acts that amount to ethnic profiling.
The Non-Discrimination Ombudsman has on repeated occasions commented on immigration controls procedures and suspected that methods currently used incur a significant risk of ethnic profiling. The European Comission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), a Council of Europe body, has expressed concern at Finland’s immigration control procedures. It has also advocated for years for the establishment of an independent body to investigate complaints of police misconduct and racial discrimination, but in nearly a decade one has not been founded.
It is probable that ethnic profiling does occur in Finland. In many research projects that deal with discrimination or the situation of immigrants in Finland, members of both old (Finnish Roma) and newer minorities (especially people of African descent) have reported police misconduct and being stopped based on skin colour or assumed membership of an ethnic group.
In 2012, The Migrant Health and Wellbeing Study found that 25 per cent of respondents of Kurdish background, 15 per cent of respondents of Somali background and 7 per cent of respondents of Russian background had experienced discrimination when transacting with the police.
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When the government of Brazil declared war on Hitler's Germany
on August 22, 1942, they became the 32nd nation to join the Allies:
"Brazilians are fighting mad. When Brazil joined the United Nations in war on August 22nd, the formal declaration was a climax to the democratic action of its citizens who began, months ago, to let the world know how they felt about the Axis."
"The pent-up rage of a sorely-tried nation burst in earnest when war was declared. With unanimous enthusiasm, the people mobbed the streets, cheering everything that was part of the Allied cause...Day after day, anti-fascist demonstrations, and pageants choked the streets of Rio de Janiero, where the pictures on this page were taken."
The Brazilian Army deployed on the Italian Front in 1944, click here to read about them...
Click here to read articles about the spread of Fascism to 1930s Portugal.
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The Delegated State and the Politics of Federal Grants
38 Pages Posted: 22 Aug 2013
Date Written: 2013
The lens of “pork barrel politics” dominates the scholarly literature on federal grant making. Researchers typically use congressional districts as the unit of analysis, and consider the relationship between the partisan or ideological orientation of members of Congress, federal bureaucrats, or the President and the amount of grant dollars awarded to congressional districts with similar ideological preferences. Although “pork” is a common frame of reference for the distribution of federal grant dollars, it is a narrow conception of the way federal grant dollars are allocated to state and local governments, non-governmental organizations, and private institutions. Studies of federal policy show that the federal budget is shaped by long-term changes in the size and role of government. These changes may have much broader and stronger impacts on the distribution of federal grant dollars to communities than partisan politics. In particular, the rise of the delegated state — the federal government’s reliance on state and local governments as well as nonprofits for policy implementation — is likely to shape grant allocation. I assess the role of the delegated state, including nonprofit density, state capitals, and local government structure, in the distribution of federal grants to metropolitan areas from 1991 to 2010. I show that the delegated state plays a large role in explaining which places get a large share of federal grants and which places get fewer grants. The importance of the delegated state for federal grant allocation is particularly evident during the federal stimulus in 2009 and 2010.
Keywords: federal grants, federalism, nonprofits, stimulus, ARRA, metropolitan, delegated state
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We’ve been so excited to see the steady stream of youth members coming in to our branches this month as we celebrate National Credit Union Youth Savings Month. It’s always fun to see our youngest (and often most excited) members, but that’s not the only reason we love greeting your kids at the teller station.
Did you know that having a savings account helps even younger children learn about savings and spending? Getting your kiddos used to visiting the credit union and managing their money in age-appropriate ways will help set them on a path to a healthy financial future.
According to a study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, students who have a bank account were more likely to earn money from a part time job and save gifts of money from friends or relatives. At Clackamas, we’re happy to offer our Student Saver accounts for members age 10-17 to help our teens learn savings skills.
Before the Student Saver, our younger members can open (with a parent or responsible adult as a co-owner) a Cub Account, which includes activity books and other fun bonuses featuring the Berenstain Bears! Many of us learned important life lessons from Brother Bear and Sister Bear growing up, and now the Bear Family can help teach your little ones about building good saving, spending, and sharing habits.
Bring in your current Cub members during the month of April and receive a special Berenstain Bears book and a tasty treat. Thinking about signing your little one up for an account? April is a great time for that, too- new Cub members will receive a special welcome kit loaded with fun activities.
Want some other tips that can help your kids get off on the right financial foot?
- Set age-appropriate savings goals. Create a visual way to track your kids’ saving progress, and celebrate when they reach their goal.
- Regularly talk about money. That famous “I want this!” at the grocery store? Explain why you will or will not buy it in money-related terms, or discuss how much money you want to spend on the shopping trip ahead of time. That way, your kids can help make decisions about what you buy and what you save for next time- this also leads into a great way to:
- Talk about Needs versus Wants. Helping your kids understand needs versus wants can help you explain why you can’t buy a teddy bear or special snack right then.
- Make money fun. Keep conversations about money positive, and help them have good experiences with money- our Cub accounts and visits to your favorite Clackamas branch can help!
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Under the Builders Lien Act, contractors, sub-contractors, workers, and material suppliers are provided with two distinct types of liens. The first type of lien, known as a “builders lien” or a “lien against land”, is a lien against the land and buildings to which the construction professional have contributed labour or materials. The second type of lien, known as the Shimco lien (named after the case that first recognized such a lien in British Columbia) or the “holdback lien”, provides construction professionals with a lien against the holdback funds that should be retained by the person that is next highest in the construction pyramid (i.e. the funds that arise from the required deduction of 10% of the value or material as they are actually provided, or 10% of the amount of any payment made on account of the contract or subcontract).
The rights which flow from both the lien against land and the Shimco lien are powerful tools which enable unpaid construction professionals to seek compensation directly from the owner of the land to which they contributed labour or materials. However, there is a crucial catch: time limits must be respected in order for a construction professional to exercise these lien rights. If the time limits are not respected, lien rights are extinguished.
The Time Limits:
As a practical matter, if a construction professional has not provided any labour or materials to a construction site in 30 days, and payment has not yet been made by the owner, contractor, or subcontractor, that construction professional should consider having a conversation with his lawyer. As discussed below, for both legal and practical reasons, the process needed to exercise both a lien against land or a Shimco lien should be commenced as quickly as possible, as lien rights expire very quickly.
With respect to a traditonal builders lien / lien against land, the timelines that must be respected depend on whether the owner had hired a head contractor (meaning, a contractor that is engaged to perform substantially all of the construction work, or, in other words, a general contractor), whether there is an owner-developer or construction management relationship (i.e. the owner has direct contracts with all construction professionals), and whether the construction project is on a strata lot.
For contracts where the owner had hired a head contractor, construction professionals must file a document, entitled, “claim of lien”, with British Columbia’s Land Title Office, with respect to the land where materials or services were provided. The claim of lien document must be filed 45 days after the earliest of:
1. substantial completion of the head contract;
2. termination of the head contract;
3. abandonment of the head contract;
4. issuance of a certificate of completion for the head contract or any subcontract under which the construction professional had been retained; or
5. for strata lots, the date the strata lot is conveyed to the purchaser or the date that strata unit is occupied.
Similarly, where there is there is an owner-developer or construction management relationship, the claim of lien document must be filed 45 days after the earliest of:
1. substantial completion of the construction project;
2. abandonment of the construction project;
3. issuance of a certificate of completion for any contract or subcontract under which the construction professional had been retained; or
4. for strata lots, the date the strata lot is conveyed to the purchaser or the date that strata unit is occupied.
Though there are a variety of complications that arise from these timelines, the practical questions that should be asked are:
i) has a certificate of completion been issued (this will invariably be issued by a third party engineer or architect) with respect to any part of the project?
ii) has the general contractor completed, abandoned, or terminated its contract with the owner?
iii) has the construction project been completed or abandoned? and
iv) if dealing with a strata lot, has someone bought the lot is living in the unit?
If the answer to any of these questions is “yes”, and, as a construction professional, you are unpaid, your lien rights may be on the way to expiring, and you should quickly seek to speak with your lawyer.
Finally, even after a claim of lien document is filed, an action to enforce that claim of lien, along with an associated certificate of pending litigation, must be filed within one year of the filing of the claim of lien.
With respect to the Shimco lien, the Builders Lien Act provides no express timelines that must be satisfied. However, from a practical perspective, swiftness of foot in advancing the Shimco lien is critical, because the Shimco lien can only be advanced before holdback funds have been dispersed, and the strategic usefulness of the Shimco lien lies in the fact that it can be advanced even when the typical builders lien / lien against land has expired.
The law is quite clear that the Shimco lien is extinguished if the holdback funds have been disbursed before the lien is advanced. As stated by the British Columbia Court of Appeal, in Wah Fai Plumbing & Heating Inc. v. Ma, 2011 BCCA 26:
Shimco does not deal with these circumstances. Nor can the Act be interpreted to provide that where there is no holdback, or a holdback has been wrongfully paid out, a person whose land lien has been extinguished may later commence proceedings to enforce a lien against a nonexistent holdback.
The appellant argues there is no limitation in the Act for enforcing a lien against the holdback. It claims that proceedings to enforce a lien against a holdback may be commenced any time before the holdback is paid out, subject only to the six-year limitation period provided in s. 3(5) of the Limitation Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 266. It argues further, citing s. 4(4) of the Limitation Act, that the amendment to the statement of claim in August 2006 to claim the holdback lien did not have the effect of commencing a new action, and its claim against the holdback should be considered to have arisen when it originally filed the writ and statement of claim in August 2002.
The appellant cites no authority for its suggestion that s. 4(4) of the Limitation Act should be given retroactive effect, and I see no basis in principle to so find in this case. In any event, it would not change the result: the appellant is not entitled to claim a lien against a nonexistent holdback.
Or, in other words, once the holdback funds are gone, they’re gone: The claim associated with the Shimco lien must be advanced before the holdback funds are paid out.
Considered together, the time limits associated with the liens provided under the Builders Lien Act are traps for the unwary. Whether considering a typical builders lien, or whether considering a Shimco lien, construction professionals have limited time to act to ensure that lien rights are not extinguished.
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DEARBORN — This week, U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell introduced legislation in the U.S. House inspired by the story of a Dearborn family in the 1980s.
The legislation, named the Samier Amer Foster Care Improvement Act of 2021, requires state foster care programs to ensure children are prioritized for placement with their relatives and puts additional requirements in place for a fairer decision-making process when an agency places a child.
In 1985, Rehab and Ahmed Amer lost two of their children to Michigan’s foster care system after the accidental death of their son. Although cleared of any wrongdoing, the state refused to return the Amers’ children to their custody or allow a relative to care for the children.
When Rehab’s brother petitioned to be a foster parent to the Amers’ children he was denied, even though he had previously served as a foster parent for other children. Since then the Amer family has advocated tirelessly for improving foster care policies for all children.
A similar legislation was previously introduced as the Rehab and Ahmed Amer Foster Care Improvement Act of 2019.
In 2010, former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm signed the AMER Bill into Law. The law makes the state give adoption priority to foster children’s relatives and, if a relative isn’t capable, give special consideration for the placement into a family of the same religion as the child’s immediate family.
Rahab Amer spoke to The Arab American News in 2019 about her work building a strong non-profit organization that protects children and empowers parents, especially when an unprecedented number of refugees were arriving in the state. She also spoke of a need for Muslims to become licensed foster parents to ensure that the ethnic and cultural backgrounds of foster children are cared for and maintained, especially if asked by biological families.
“There is a need for more Muslim foster parents to be licensed,” she said. “I took the orientation through an approved agency myself in order to be licensed. We need others in the community to be there for those children who become wards of the state and do not have a Muslim next of kin that can foster the child.”
She also strongly urged the nation’s Muslim community to to reach out to their state representatives and request their support of Dingell’s legislation.
The new legislation requires that within 30 days after the removal of a child from the custody of the parent or parents, “the state shall exercise due diligence to identify and provide notice to all adult grandparents and other adult relatives of the child (including any other adult relatives suggested by the parents), subject to exceptions due to family or domestic violence.”
It also requires that the agency explain the relative has under federal, state and local law to participate in the care and placement of the child, including any options that may be lost by failing to respond to the notice.
“The well-being and safety of children must be a top priority across the board, but especially when a child in foster care is being matched with a family,” Dingell told The Arab American News. “Whenever possible, we must keep families together and ensure children are placed into a safe and nurturing environment with relatives they know and love.
“Michigan now has the laws that make this possible, but only after the Amer family lost their children to the state’s foster care system. The Samier Amer Foster Care Improvement Act would ensure the federal government follows Michigan’s example so future children or families don’t have to go through this painful experience.”
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Rachel Siegel reported on the front page of today's Washington Post that, "Inflation soared in June, continuing to climb at the fastest pace in 40 years across many sectors of…
Bloomberg writer Megan Durisin reported on Thursday that, “Global food prices declined from near a record high at the end of last year, offering some respite to consumers and governments facing a wave of inflationary pressures.
“A United Nations index tracking everything from grains to meat fell 0.9% in December, potentially helping to ease the run-up in prices of grocery store products.
Still, the gauge remains near 2011’s all-time high and average prices jumped about 28% in 2021, the most in 14 years.
The Bloomberg article noted that, “Food costs are unlikely to stabilize for a while yet, according to Abdolreza Abbassian, a senior economist at the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization.
“‘Nothing fundamentally changed over the last two to three months to make us feel any degree of optimism that the food market is going to resettle at more steady or even lower prices,’ he said. ‘All of the uncertainties are right there, they haven’t disappeared, which means that anything is still possible.'”
Durisin added that, “The recent energy crunch has sent fertilizer prices higher too, threatening to further add to food-production costs. There are already signs that farmers are cutting back on nutrient purchases or shifting from grains to less fertilizer-intensive crops.”
In 2021 the FAO Vegetable Oil Price Index hit an all-time high, up nearly 66 percent from 2020. https://t.co/ZZ9kUlaJhQ— Abdolreza Abbassian (@Abbassian_A) January 6, 2022
And Reuters News reported on Thursday that, “World food prices jumped 28% in 2021 to their highest level in a decade and hopes for a return to more stable market conditions this year are slim, the U.N.’s food agency said on Thursday.
“The Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) food price index, which tracks the most globally traded food commodities, averaged 125.7 points in 2021, the highest since 131.9 in 2011.”
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In a chart, you can use Holistics Expressions to make a custom discipline for Business Calculations. These fields characterize the valuations generated from your calculation you control, so that you can create better quality visualizations with them. Unit Field Expressions can be used again across multiple reports and datasets. Organization Calculations are limited to a single report, although Model Field Expressions can be reused throughout multiple reviews and datasets. You should make sure that you model the relationships between the fields in your models just before using them within a spreadsheet.
The cost-to-profit proportion (P/E) is a simple way to ascertain how much earnings an enterprise needs to help to make in order to break even. This is commonly calculated applying dollars, however you can also use additional currencies and units of revenue. You will find three key element components to the calculation: fixed costs, revenue price, and variable cost per unit. The fixed costs are your rent and salary, when variable costs are the supplies and labor you need to make your products or services.
Seller’s discretionary income (SDE) https://businessrating.pro/how-to-determine-enterprise-value-using-business-calculation-methods/ is another beneficial method of organization valuation. This kind of measure can be described as similar to EBITDA, but also contains the owner’s salary and benefits. SDE starts with pre-tax earnings and adds in expenses such as charitable shawls by hoda donates and staff excursions. If your business is successful and producing profits, you can utilize the SDE method to determine its benefit. If you’re taking into consideration selling your company, you may want to cash an SDE calculator. | <urn:uuid:5bb7c953-45b4-459b-ae3f-7a3b86be7744> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://eneed-venezuela.org/how-to-use-business-computations-in-a-schedule/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.935386 | 357 | 2.15625 | 2 |
glGetActiveUniformBlockName - retrieve the name of an active uniform block
void glGetActiveUniformBlockName(GLuint program, GLuint uniformBlockIndex, GLsizei bufSize, GLsizei *length, GLchar *uniformBlockName);
glGetActiveUniformBlockName retrieves the name of the active uniform block at uniformBlockIndex within program.
program must be the name of a program object for which the command glLinkProgram() must have been called in the past, although it is not required that glLinkProgram() must have succeeded. The link could have failed because the number of active uniforms exceeded the limit.
uniformBlockIndex is an active uniform block index of program, and must be less than the value of GL_ACTIVE_UNIFORM_BLOCKS.
Upon success, the name of the uniform block identified by unifomBlockIndex is returned into uniformBlockName. The name is nul-terminated. The actual number of characters written into uniformBlockName, excluding the nul terminator, is returned in length. If length is NULL, no length is returned.
bufSize contains the maximum number of characters (including the nul terminator) that will be written into uniformBlockName.
If an error occurs, nothing will be written to uniformBlockName or length.
GL_INVALID_OPERATION is generated if program is not the name of a program object for which glLinkProgram() has been called in the past.
GL_INVALID_VALUE is generated if uniformBlockIndex is greater than or equal to the value of GL_ACTIVE_UNIFORM_BLOCKS or is not the index of an active uniform block in program.
glGetActiveUniformBlockName is available only if the GL version is 3.1 or greater.
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MATLAB Guide, Second Edition
Desmond J. Higham and Nicholas J. Higham
M-files and errata are available at The MATLAB Guide Website.
What Readers Say
“MATLAB Guide, Second Edition, is my new favorite MATLAB reference because it not only teaches MATLAB, it fosters a love for all things related to scientific computation. This well-written book features top notch examples, the latest MATLAB features, and offers MATLAB insights that can't be found anywhere else!”
--Steven H. Frankel, Purdue University
MATLAB Guide is an excellent reference book for MATLAB programming. This new version of MATLAB Guide contains material on important changes introduced in MATLAB 7, including single precision arithmetic and anonymous and nested functions. The new edition also contains many more examples; readers will have the advantage of learning MATLAB by essentially looking over the shoulder of two experts. This is a book that all users, new and experienced, will find valuable.
-- James Nagy, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Emory University
I think MATLAB Guide is much better than the MATLAB User's Guide for getting started and for looking for help or tricks. It is written in a clear and concise style and it is well adapted for students in mathematics.
-- Salim Meddahi, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain.
MATLAB Guide gives an excellent overview of the possibilities of MATLAB. Everything is clearly explained and illustrated by examples.
-- Guido De Roeck, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
I think this book is the best reference I own. The students in my undergraduate MATLAB course find it essential. This book will have a special place on the shelf of our local bookseller.
-- Joao B. R. do Val, Campinas State University (CAMPINAS).
This book is written by people who know MATLAB inside and out. It is both a lively introduction and a compact reference for the most popular and important features in the latest version of MATLAB. I would enthusiastically recommend it to anyone who has been using MATLAB for years or who is just starting to use it. It is definitely the best MATLAB guide.
-- Zhaojun Bai, Professor, Departments of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of California, Davis.
I consider myself quite proficient in MATLAB but still I was able to learn a lot of new tricks. I will recommend this book as a MATLAB tutorial in my numerical analysis classes.
-- Zdzislaw Jackiewicz, Arizona State University.
Upon opening MATLAB Guide, I can only think of the irresistible force versus the immovable object! What a paradox: MATLAB requires little explanation; who needs a guide? It is the easiest computer thing to jump straight into headfirst. Yet, Higham and Higham make everything easier, even MATLAB. MATLAB Guide contains super examples, which makes it a terrific guide for anyone who wants to quickly become a MATLAB expert. It is also perfect as a text in any number of classes in numerical analysis, linear algebra, and all shades of science and engineering involving numerical computation. This guide, by two authors who are true MATLAB experts, captures the spirit of MATLAB.
-- Alan Edelman, Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics Laboratory for Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
This introduction is perfect for many classroom needs. I love the choice of topics and the examples. I see now that the only thing better than Higham or Higham is Higham and Higham!
-- Charles Van Loan, Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University.
A comprehensive yet lively guide to MATLAB.
-- Linda Petzold, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara.
My copy of this special book will live on the little shelf next to my keyboard, my little book cache, where I can reach it at any time.
-- Nick Trefethen, Oxford University.
What a charming book! I like to think of myself as an adequately skilled MATLAB user, but I learned a lot from it.
-- Kathryn A. Moler, Assistant Professor of Applied Physics, Stanford University.
MATLAB, true to its name, is the computational scientist’s workbench. It provides numerous tools and makes them easy to use… MATLAB can be used to write simple and efficient programs to handle large problems… Almost every example in this book shows how sophisticated mathematics can become a few lines of MATLAB.
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Algorithms are taking a lot of flak from those in financial circles. They’ve been blamed for a recent flash crash in the British pound and the greatest fall in the Dow in decades. They’ve been called a cancer and linked to insider trading.
Government agencies are taking notice and are investigating ways to regulate algorithms. But the story is not simple, and telling the “good” algorithms from the “bad” isn’t either. Before we start regulating we need a clearer picture of what’s going on.
The ins and outs of trading algorithms
Taken in the widest sense, algorithms are responsible for the vast majority of activity on modern stock markets. Apart from the “mum and dad” investors, whose transactions account for about 15 to 20% of Australian share trades, almost every trade on the stock markets is initiated or managed by an algorithm.
There are many different types of algorithms at play, with different intentions and impacts.
Institutional investors such as super funds and insurance companies rely on execution algorithms to transact their orders. These slice up a large order into many small pieces, gradually and strategically submitting them to the market. The intention is to minimise transaction costs and to receive a good price – if a large order were submitted in one go it might adversely move the entire market.
Human market makers used to provide quotes to buy or sell a given stock and were responsible for maintaining an orderly market. They have been replaced by algorithms that automatically post and adjust quotes in response to changing market conditions.
Algorithms drove the human market makers out of business by being smarter and faster. Most market-making algorithms, however, don’t have an obligation to maintain an orderly market. When the market gets shaky, algorithms can (and do) pull out, which is where the potential for “flash crashes” starts to appear – a sudden drop and then recovery of a securities market.
Further concerns about algorithmic trading are focused on another kind – proprietary trading algorithms. Hedge funds, investment banks and trading firms use these to profit from momentary price differentials, by trading on statistical patterns or exploiting speed advantages.
Rather than merely optimising a buy or sell decision of a human trader to minimise transaction costs, proprietary algorithms themselves are responsible for the choice of what to buy or sell, seeking to profit from their decisions. These algorithms have the potential to trigger flash crashes.
Fast vs. slow algorithms
Proprietary algorithmic traders are often further divided, between “slow” and “fast” (the latter also referred to as “high-frequency” or “low-latency”).
Many traditional portfolio managers use mathematical models to inform their trading. Nowadays such strategies are often implemented using algorithms, drawing on large datasets. Although these algorithms are often faster than human portfolio managers, they are “slow” in comparison to other algorithmic traders.
High-frequency algorithmic trading (HFT) is on the other end of the spectrum, where speed is fundamental to the strategy. These algorithms operate at the microsecond scale, making decisions and racing each other to the market using an array of different strategies. Winning this race can be highly profitable – fast traders can exploit slower traders that are yet to receive, digest or act on new information.
Proponents of HFT argue that they increase efficiency and liquidity because market prices are faster to reflect new information and fast market makers are better at managing risks. Many institutional investors, on the other hand, argue that HFTs are predatory and parasitic in nature. According to these detractors, HFTs actually reduce the effective liquidity of the stock market and increase transaction costs, profiting at the expense of institutional investors such as superannuation funds.
The effects of algorithms are complicated
A recent study by Talis Putnins from UTS and Joseph Barbara from the Australian Securities and Exchange Commission (ASIC) investigated some of these concerns. Using ASIC’s unique regulatory data to analyse institutional investor transaction costs and quantify the impacts of proprietary algorithmic traders on these, the study found considerable diversity across algorithmic traders.
While some algorithms are harmful to institutional investors, causing higher transaction costs, others have the opposite effect. Algorithms that are harmful, as a group, increase the cost of executing large institutional orders by around 0.1%. This ends up costing around A$437 million per year for all large institutional orders in the S&P/ASX 200 stocks.
But these effects are offset by a group of traders that significantly decrease those costs by approximately the same amount. The beneficial algorithms provide liquidity to institutional investors by taking the other side of their trades.
They do so not out of the goodness of their little algorithmic hearts, but rather because they earn a “fee” for this service (for example, the difference between the prices at which they buy and sell). What makes these algorithms beneficial to institutions, is that “fee” they charge is lower than the “fee” institutions would face if these algorithmic traders were not present and instead had to trade with less competitive or less efficient liquidity providers, such as humans. The ability for algorithms to provide liquidity more cheaply comes from the use of technology, as well as increased competition.
What distinguishes the algorithms is that the beneficial ones trade against institutional investors (serving as their counterparties), whereas the harmful ones trade with the institutions, competing with them to buy or sell. In doing so, the beneficial algorithms reduce the market impact of institutional trading. This allows institutions to get into or out of positions at more favourable prices.
The study also found that high-frequency algorithms are not more likely to harm institutional investors than slower algorithms. This suggests institutional investor concerns about HFT may be misdirected.
We shouldn’t stamp out the ‘good’ algorithms
ASIC is now using the tools developed in the Putnins and Barbara study to detect harmful algorithms in its surveillance activities. These are identified by looking for statistical patterns in the trading activity of individual algorithmic traders and the variation in institutional transaction costs. The result is an estimated “toxicity” score for every algorithmic trader, with the highest-scoring traders attracting the spotlight.
So, we know the affect of algorithms is complicated and we can start to tell the harmful apart from the beneficial. Regulators need to be mindful of this diversity and avoid blanket regulations that impact all algorithmic traders, including the good guys. Instead, they should opt for more targeted measures and sharper surveillance tools that place true misconduct in the cross-hairs. | <urn:uuid:27f5e0c3-6ea3-4968-8ea7-f675882700f3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theconversation.com/explainer-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-of-algorithmic-trading-68477 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.94701 | 1,358 | 2.46875 | 2 |
We were trying to increase the conflict that was already happening... we felt that we would take the conflict to so high a level that some change had to come.more Huey P. Newton quotes
All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf -- that book I abhor -- then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.more Katherine Patterson quotes
We live in a world that has popularized Black people showing the same hate towards white people that people like Martin Luther King Jr. died fighting to overcome. It’s sad. Sad as hell.more CJ Pearson quotes
To the students and faculty of our high school:
I am your new principal, and honored to be so. There is no greater calling than to teach young people.
I would like to apprise you of some important changes coming to our school. I am making these changes because I am convinced that most of the ideas that have dominated public education in America have worked against you, against your teachers and against our country.
First, this school will no longer honor race or ethnicity. I could not care less if your racial makeup is black, brown, red, yellow or white. I could not care less if your origins are African, Latin American, Asian or European, or if your ancestors arrived here on the Mayflower or on slave ships.
The only identity I care about, the only one this school will recognize, is your individual identity -- your character, your scholarship, your humanity. And the only national identity this school will care about is American. This is an American public school, and American public schools were created to make better Americans.
If you wish to affirm an ethnic, racial or religious identity through school, you will have to go elsewhere. We will end all ethnicity-, race- and non-American nationality-based celebrations. They undermine the motto of America, one of its three central values -- e pluribus unum, "from many, one." And this school will be guided by America's values.
This includes all after-school clubs. I will not authorize clubs that divide students based on any identities. This includes race, language, religion, sexual orientation or whatever else may become in vogue in a society divided by political correctness.
Your clubs will be based on interests and passions, not blood, ethnic, racial or other physically defined ties. Those clubs just cultivate narcissism -- an unhealthy preoccupation with the self -- while the purpose of education is to get you to think beyond yourself. So we will have clubs that transport you to the wonders and glories of art, music, astronomy, languages you do not already speak, carpentry and more. If the only extracurricular activities you can imagine being interesting in are those based on ethnic, racial or sexual identity, that means that little outside of yourself really interests you.
Second, I am uninterested in whether English is your native language. My only interest in terms of language is that you leave this school speaking and writing English as fluently as possible. The English language has united America's citizens for over 200 years, and it will unite us at this school. It is one of the indispensable reasons this country of immigrants has always come to be one country. And if you leave this school without excellent English language skills, I would be remiss in my duty to ensure that you will be prepared to successfully compete in the American job market. We will learn other languages here -- it is deplorable that most Americans only speak English -- but if you want classes taught in your native language rather than in English, this is not your school.
Third, because I regard learning as a sacred endeavor, everything in this school will reflect learning's elevated status. This means, among other things, that you and your teachers will dress accordingly. Many people in our society dress more formally for Hollywood events than for church or school. These people have their priorities backward. Therefore, there will be a formal dress code at this school.
Fourth, no obscene language will be tolerated anywhere on this school's property -- whether in class, in the hallways or at athletic events. If you can't speak without using the f-word, you can't speak. By obscene language I mean the words banned by the Federal Communications Commission, plus epithets such as [the 'N' word], even when used by one black student to address another black, or 'bitch,' even when addressed by a girl to a girlfriend. It is my intent that by the time you leave this school, you will be among the few your age to instinctively distinguish between the elevated and the degraded, the holy and the obscene.
Fifth, we will end all self-esteem programs. In this school, self-esteem will be attained in only one way -- the way people attained it until decided otherwise a generation ago -- by earning it. One immediate consequence is that there will be one valedictorian, not eight.
Sixth, and last, I am reorienting the school toward academics and away from politics and propaganda. No more time will be devoted to scaring you about smoking and caffeine, or terrifying you about sexual harassment or global warming. No more semesters will be devoted to condom wearing and teaching you to regard sexual relations as only or primarily a health issue. There will be no more attempts to convince you that you are a victim because you are not white, or not male, or not heterosexual or not Christian. We will have failed if any one of you graduates this school and does not consider him or herself inordinately lucky -- to be alive and to be an American.
Now, please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of our country. As many of you do not know the words, your teachers will hand them out to you.more Dennis Prager quotes
If a government were trying to squeeze as much money as possible out of a population, what would it do?
1. The use of indirect rather than direct taxes, so that the tax is hidden in the price of goods.
2. Inflation, by which the state reduces the value of everyone else's currency.
3. Borrowing, so as to postpone the necessary taxation.
4. Gift and luxury taxes, where the tax accompanies the receipt or purchase of something special, lessening the annoyance of the tax.
5. “Temporary” taxes, which somehow never get repealed when the emergency passes.
6. Taxes that exploit social conflict, by placing higher taxes on unpopular groups.
7. The threat of social collapse or withholding monopoly government services if taxes are reduced.
8. Collection of the total tax burden in relatively small increments over time, rather than in a yearly lump sum.
9. Taxes whose exact incidence cannot be predicted in advance, thus keeping the taxpayer unaware of just how much he is paying.
10. Extraordinary budget complexity to hide the budget process from public understanding.
11. The use of generalized expenditure categories to make it difficult for outsiders to assess the individual components of the budget.
more Amilcare Puviani quotes
Collectivism is a doctrine that holds that the individual has no rights, and the ultimate standard of value is the group to which 'he belongs.' Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage—the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors. Racism claims that the content of a man’s mind (not his cognitive apparatus, but its content) is inherited; that a man’s convictions, values and character are determined before he is born, by physical factors beyond his control. This is the caveman’s version of the doctrine of innate ideas -- or of inherited knowledge -- which has been thoroughly refuted by philosophy and science. Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes. It is a barnyard or stock-farm version of collectivism, appropriate to a mentality that differentiates between various breeds of animals, but not between animals and men. Like every form of determinism, racism invalidates the specific attribute which distinguishes man from all other living species: his rational faculty. Racism negates two aspects of man’s life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination.more Ayn Rand quotes
Any man who tries to incite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he may affect to do so in the interest of the class he is addressing, is in the long run with absolute certainty that class’s own worst enemy.more Theodore Roosevelt quotes
The core of racism is the notion that the individual is meaningless and that membership in the collective -- the race -- is the source of his identity and value. ... The notion of 'diversity' entails exactly the same premises as racism -- that one's ideas are determined by one's race and that the source of an individual's identity is his ethnic heritage.more Peter Schwartz quotes
The cause of anger is the belief that we are injured; this belief, therefore, should not be lightly entertained. We ought not to fly into a rage even when the injury appears to be open and distinct: for some false things bear the semblance of truth. We should always allow some time to elapse, for time discloses the truth.more Lucius Annaeus Seneca quotes
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is a proof against all argument, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance – that principle is condemnation before investigation.more Herbert Spencer quotes
Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. That [affirmative action] programs may have been motivated, in part, by good intentions cannot provide refuge from the principle that under our Constitution, the government may not make distinctions on the basis of race.more Justice Clarence Thomas quotes
I believe that there is a moral and constitutional equivalence between laws designed to subjugate a race and those that distribute benefits on the basis of race in order to foster some current notion of equality.... In my mind, government-sponsored racial discrimination based on benign prejudice is just as noxious as discrimination inspired by malicious prejudice.more Justice Clarence Thomas quotes
Let no Negroe or mulattoe be cabable of taking, holding, or exercising any public office, freehold, franchise or privilege. ... Nor of keeping, or bearing arms, unless authorized to do by some act of the general assembly, whose duration shall be limited to three years.more St. George Tucker quotes
There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who do not want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.more Booker T. Washington quotes
There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well.more Booker T. Washington quotes
Too often when we talk about racial healing, we make the old assumption that government can heal the racial divide. … Republicans and Democrats – red, yellow, black and white – have to understand that we must individually, all of us, accept our share of responsibility. … It does not happen by dividing us into racial groups. It does not happen by trying to turn rich against poor or by using the politics of fear. It does not happen by reducing our values to the lowest common denominator. And friends, it does not happen by asking Americans to accept what’s immoral and wrong in the name of tolerance. more J. C. Watts, Jr. quotes
Remind students that one of the central missions of the university, which justifies its existence, is to get at the truth. That requires honest debate, patience, intellectual honesty, investigation, and a lot of hard work. But it also is not for the faint of heart. And that is a lesson that is almost never transmitted today. That offense, bruising thoughts, and unpleasant facts simply go with the territory. They are an intrinsic feature of an open society, and they never can be entirely avoided.more Amy Wax quotes
I am not a conservative but I have spoken out for years against the staggering amount of blind hatred directed at black conservatives by liberals.
Liberals are shockingly quick to demean and dismiss brilliant black people like Rice, Carson, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), Professor Walter E. Williams and economist Thomas Sowell because they don’t fit into the role they have carved out for a black person in America.
Black Americans must be obedient liberals on all things or risk being called a race traitor or an Uncle Tom.more Juan Williams quotes
Liberalism is a moral manipulation that exaggerates inequity and unfairness in American life in order to justify overreaching public policies and programs. Liberalism undermines the spirit of self-help and individual responsibility. For liberals in academia, the fact that black college students earn lower grades and have a higher dropout rate than any group besides reservation Indians means that blacks remain stymied and victimized by white racism. Thus, their push for affirmative action and other race-based programs is to assuage their guilt and shame for America’s past by having people around with black skin color. The heck with the human being inside that skin.more Walter E. Williams quotes
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In the wake of the recent violence in cities across England, the police have been releasing photographs of individuals in an appeal to the public for assistance in identifying them and bringing them to justice.
As the crisis has developed, politicians and the police have professed a strong intention to ensure that all the rioters and looters face the consequences of their actions. At the time of writing, in London alone 922 people had been arrested and 401 charged with offences relating to their involvement in the riots. Courts in London, Manchester and Solihull have been remaining open through the night to process these cases as swiftly as possible. With the number of people involved likely to be in the thousands, there are many more who remain unidentified.
To assist with identification, the police have been posting photographs and CCTV images of people they would like to talk to. In a statement, Commander Simon Foy of the Metropolitan police said:
"Those who have or intend to go out and commit violent, criminal acts should be warned. We will have photographs and evidence that we will use to identify you and bring you to justice."
Operation Withern, which is tasked with investigating the disorder in London, has set up a webpage containing images and appealing for information. It has also made use of the photo-sharing website Flickr.
It raises the question of whether or not it is compatible with article 8 of the European convention of human rights, which calls for respect for private life but also permits infringement of that right if in accordance with the law and, for example, to protect the public. It is an issue that has periodically arisen, particularly when convicted criminals have been released from prison. In 2007 police in Suffolk attracted the scorn of the Daily Mail when they refused to provide details and pictures of three "career criminals" who had completed their sentences and were about to be released.
In regard to the current disorder, David Cameron, the prime minister, has made his view on the issue clear:
"Picture by picture these criminals are being identified and arrested and we will not let any phony concerns about human rights get in the way of the publication of these pictures and the arrest of these individuals."
We set out some of the legal background to this issue in a previous post about the rights of burglars. As it explained, pictures of individuals might well constitute private information, the release of which could breach confidence or their human rights, but the law also allows for the reasonable use of such information for the detection and prevention of crime.
In Hellewell v Chief Constable of Derbyshire 1 WLR 804, Justice Sir John Laws considered a police practice of providing photos to shopkeepers of individuals known to be causing trouble in the area so that they could recognise them. The traders were told not to display the photographs and to show them only to staff. He said at page 810:
"In my judgment, the use which the police may make of a photograph such as this is limited by their obligations to the photograph's subject as follows. They may make reasonable use of it for the purpose of the prevention and detection of crime, the investigation of alleged offences and the apprehension of suspects or persons unlawfully at large. They may do so whether or not the photograph is of any person they seek to arrest or of a suspected accomplice or of anyone else. The key is that they must have these and only these purposes in mind and must, as I have said, make no more than reasonable use of the picture in seeking to accomplish them."
This is a nice and succinct summary of the legal position, and it is important to note that the decision predates the Human Rights Act 1998 and was based upon an assessment of UK domestic law. It is therefore to be hoped that if any questions are asked about the human rights compatibility of publishing these photographs, the HRA is not unfairly maligned.
Given the scale of the unrest and the nature of the photographs, it would be difficult to argue that posting these pictures for the purpose of identification would infringe the human rights of the photo subjects. Publishing such images might be the only way of identifying many of the culprits.
In any event the police are not alone in their efforts. Members of the public and community groups, who unlike the police are not bound by the provisions of the Human Rights Act, have been endeavouring to identify rioters through the publication of photos on websites such as Catch a Looter and Identify the London Rioters. In this way social media, which has been identified as a key tool used by the rioters to co-ordinate their activities, is also being used to help clean up the mess. | <urn:uuid:6ddfde7c-b8f0-4a6c-8df4-27714d6c6b8d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theguardian.com/law/2011/aug/11/photos-rioters-infringe-human-rights | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.971454 | 943 | 1.773438 | 2 |
With hot weather forecast across much of its region this week, South East Coast Ambulance Service, (SECAmb), is reminding people to take additional care and precautions to stay safe in the sun.
Temperatures are expected to reach 30 degrees in some parts of the south east. While this will be welcomed by many, it can bring with it an increase in certain calls for the ambulance service.
Calls relating to dehydration and heat stroke typically increase, and higher temperatures can also seriously affect people with long-term health conditions such as heart conditions or high blood pressure. Increased temperatures can also adversely affect older people and the very young. These groups, and those who care for them, are urged to take particular care during the hot weather.
Those who are able to enjoy the sun are urged to be sensible and stick to rules regarding social distancing to control the spread of COVID-19.
SECAmb Executive Director of Operations, Joe Garcia, said: “For most, an increase in temperature is welcomed but we want people to realise the impact this can have on our service. We need the public to help us be available for those who really need us and may see an existing health condition exacerbated by the hotter days. We are asking people to be sensible and not place unnecessary additional pressure on our service as we are already having to manage additional pressures as part of our response to the pandemic.
“Of course, we want people to enjoy the sun if they can but we also need people to use their common sense. This means covering up and using sun screen, drinking plenty of water and following the latest rules around social distancing.
People are also reminded to make use of speaking to GP, pharmacies or NHS 111 for advice and to only dial 999 when facing an emergency.
Joe added: “I would also like to thank all our staff and volunteers for everything they are doing. Responding to patients at this time, especially in warmer weather wearing PPE is hard work and challenging in the heat. I am extremely proud of the way everyone, in whatever role they are in, has risen to the ongoing challenge.”
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SECAmb tips for staying safe and cool in the sun
• Stay in the shade or indoors. The sun is at its most dangerous between 11am and 3pm. Find shade under umbrellas, trees or canopies.
• Use sunscreen and cover up. If you can’t avoid being out in the sun apply a high-factor sunscreen and wear a t-shirt, hat and sunglasses
• Increase your fluid intake. The normal recommended daily intake of fluid is 2.5 litres or 8 glasses per day. In extreme heat experts recommend you drink more and include a range of different fluids
• Keep your home cool. Keep windows closed while the room is cooler than it is outside. Open them when the temperature inside rises, and at night for ventilation
• Look after the elderly. Older people are more prone to the effects of heat. If you have older relatives or neighbours, you can help simply by checking on them and reminding them to drink plenty and often. Also help them to keep their house as cool as possible, using a fan if necessary
• Protect children. Keep a close eye on young children, who need plenty of fluids. A good way to check if they are drinking enough is that they are passing urine regularly and that it is not too dark. You should check nappies regularly. Babies and the very young must be kept out of the sun
• Act safely around water and follow lifeguard advice. Avoid excessive physical exertion. If you are taking physical exercise you need to drink half a litre of fluid at least half an hour beforehand and continue to replenish your fluids during and after exercising
• Be sensible with alcohol. Hot weather speeds up the effects of alcohol so extra care should be taken when drinking. Alcohol will lead to dehydration so make sure that you alternate alcoholic drinks with water or fruit juice
• Know the perils of outdoor eating. Warm summer weather is a perfect breeding ground for bacteria so it is especially important to keep hot foods hot and cold foods cold until you are ready to eat them. When barbecuing always make sure you cook meat until it is piping hot, none of it is pink and all juices run clear
• Keep cool if you’re at work. The office is often the coolest place to be in a heat wave. Ask your boss for air-conditioning or fans and open windows where possible. Keep windows shaded with blinds and if possible move your working position out of direct sunlight. Have plenty of breaks during the day to get cold drinks and cool down
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Pipeline Safety: 811 - Call Before Digging
Western Midstream is committed to the safety of our people, our neighbors, and the environment where we operate. We take our responsibility seriously to ensure the safe and reliable operation of our pipelines. We are dedicated to the continuous improvement of our operations as we continue towards our goal of zero incidents.
The leading cause of pipeline accidents is damage that occurs when people unintentionally strike a pipeline while digging. We educate community members on pipeline safety, including our outreach to remind them about the “811 – Call Before You Dig” line location program.
811 is the national call-before-you-dig phone number. You should call 811 or use your state 811 center’s website a few business days before you begin any digging, including common projects like planting trees and shrubs or installing fences and mailboxes.
If Western Midstream operates a pipeline in the vicinity, we will be notified and will locate and mark our pipeline with temporary flags or spray paint before you dig. Respect the marks (either temporary flags or spray paint) and dig with care.
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Is your Netflix account being used without your knowledge? Here’s how to avoid the latest Netflix scam. Also see:
How to avoid being scammed – popular scams in the UK right now.
According to internet-security firm
Symantec, Netflix users are falling victim to a new scam. Hackers are using Trojans and phishing campaigns to steal their login details, then sell them on via the black market (also see:
What is the grey market?). New users are then given cheaper access to Netflix without paying the monthly subscription fee.
Are you a victim of the Netflix account scam?
It should be fairly obvious if your Netflix account is being used without your knowledge. Not only will random shows and movies appear in the Continue watching field, but you’ll likely start to receive some random recommendations of what to watch next.
You can also check a list of content that has recently been watched on your account via the Netflix website. Sign in at
Netflix.com, then tap on the downward-facing triangle beside your account name at the top right of the screen. Choose Your Account.
On the next screen, under My Profile, choose Viewing Activity.
Are there any films or TV shows here that you know you haven’t watched?
Click the ‘See recent account access’ link at the top of the page to also see which devices have checked in. If you are based in the UK, any locations listed here that are not the UK will serve as a warning sign (unless you have
used a VPN to get access to US Netflix).
How to avoid the Netflix account scam
There is an option on your Netflix account page to ‘Sign out of all devices’, but if they have your password there is nothing to stop them logging back in.
The only way to lock them out is to change your password. As before, sign in at
Netflix.com, then click the downward-facing triangle beside your account name at the top right of the screen. Choose Your Account, then click on Change your password under Membership & Billing.
You will be required to enter your old password and new password, then confirm your new password. Tick the box to ‘Require all devices to sign in again with the new password’, then click Save.
To avoid becoming a victim of the Netflix account scam in the first place, be sure to access Netflix content through only the dedicated Netflix apps or Netflix.com website. Don’t click on any advertisements that appear to offer Netflix for free or at a reduced price. And always ensure your
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New Technology to Find Flaws in Aerospace Composites
Headed up by QinetiQ, the UK consortium of Southampton University and the University College London along with four companies in ProjectCAN brings together leaders from academia, aerospace and X-ray equipment manufacture.
As part of the government’s Aerospace Technology Institute, Innovate UK, the agency has provided the team with a large amount of funding to develop two new non-destructive testing processes for the detection of flaws in composite aerospace components.
The University of Southampton’s µ-VIS Centre for Computed Tomography is to host the first part of this three year project. Along with Nikon Metrology UK it aims to create and test methods for scanning and visualising the inside of large, flat composite components using X-rays. The team will create both the system for acquiring the scan data and the software to rebuild it into a 3D volume image, allowing for manipulation and visualisation.
Dr Thomas Blumensath, of the University of Southampton said;
Conventional computed tomography (CT) techniques are widely used but are not well suited to image extended flat objects. We will be developing an alternative technique, which applies computed laminography (CL) techniques, to overcome the limitations of conventional CT for large, flat components. This will enhance our ability to find defects in large composite parts, such as those which are increasingly used in modern aircraft.
Traditional computed tomography requires the scanned object to be fully rotated, and will only produce the best results when the X-ray attenuation for each angle is broadly similar. It is impossible to scan larger parts due to space restrictions and when scanning smaller flat panels, the variation of attenuation across the angles can become too large for optimal imaging. Computed laminography on the other hand, uses a different motion, such such as linear translation or limited-angle rotation, to scan components where computed tomography is impossible.
A laminography system has the hardware that positions the sample, source and detector to acquire 2D projection data, as well as an algorithm to reconstruct a 3D volume image from the data. ProjectCAN will develop both this hardware and software to allow laminographic imaging within the custom Nikon Metrology 225/450kV X-ray scanner already in service in the µ-VIS centre at Southampton.
At the same time, the team at Axi-Tek and the University college London will be developing a new backscatter x-ray inspection technique to inspect large areas of composite structures such as wing sections, engine cowlings and fuselage components. Backscatter will let the x-ray investigate the structural integrity of the composite materials from a single side of the component. To enhance this technique, the team also intend to combine the backscatter x-ray with more conventional optical surface inspection. | <urn:uuid:76f056da-0c5f-45cc-b98b-7c038ae61542> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.compositestoday.com/2015/02/new-technology-to-find-flaws-in-aerospace-composites/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.912957 | 578 | 2.21875 | 2 |
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A steel pile, assembled from sheet piles to form a hollow box in cross section.
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Switchbacks addresses the vital yet often taboo issue of male mental health, through the poignant story of a family in which three generations of men have taken their own lives.
The novel opens like an upbeat road movie with a father and son driving from Berlin to Baden-Württemberg, on their way to revisit places from the father’s childhood. The reason for their journey is disclosed via flashbacks: the man’s own father hanged himself while he, then a child of around seven, was the only other person in the house. His grandfather, a carpenter, shot himself, and his great-grandfather drowned himself. Now the father wonders whether he can escape what appears to be his destiny. All the men in the family have displayed anger or violence towards their children. The central question explored in the novel is whether mental illness is pre-determined or whether the cycle can be broken by intervention or by a total change of surroundings. The father, a successful sociologist, wants to find out if he can break the cycle, and is even willing to sacrifice the next generation if necessary…
The consequences seem inevitable when the father turns off his mobile phone to avoid being located and places a pillow over his sleeping son’s face. In that moment, the father believes that killing his son is the only way to spare him from having to witness his own father’s suicide. He doesn’t carry out the plan, however, and instead wakes the boy and takes him on a hike. After a couple of beers, the father becomes aggressive and the boy climbs up into a tree, crying. He wraps a climbing rope around his neck to shock his father, but then accidentally slips off the branch.
In the tense scenes that follow, the father is in custody, answering questions as to why he took the son away from Berlin without his mother’s consent. None of the police officers reveal whether the boy is still alive. When he eventually talks to the boy’s mother on the phone, we find out that their son only broke his arm. She is furious and wants them to return to Berlin.
Bov Bjerg manages to connect the personal experience of depression with the bigger picture of trauma, inheritance and legacy in Germany. He creates a multi-layered story that is told through the eyes of the narrator, including inner monologues and flashbacks, alongside nuanced and relatable depictions of central and supporting characters, opening up the story to a wider audience. With men being three times more likely to take their own lives than women in the UK – and 3.5 times more likely in the US – this is a novel that is all too relevant. | <urn:uuid:6c153643-cb13-4552-8b1b-c5bab23fc9e7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.new-books-in-german.com/recommendations/switchbacks/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.979362 | 549 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Common pests found within homes are:
Residents are responsible for managing pests within their own homes, and we have listed below the actions you should follow should a problem occur.
Prevention is better than a cure, and to discourage pests follow these simple actions:
If you find Evidence of rodents in your home, you should contact Glasgow City Council’s Environmental Health. GCC will investigate and treat issues with mice or rats when the pests occur indoors at domestic properties – this service is provided free of charge. They will liaise with PHA to resolve issues such as filling in access holes.
If you have issues with any of the above it is your responsibility to deal with them.
Products to deal with these pests are widely available from DIY and Hardware shops including the local Poundshop which has a good selection.
Information of how to deal with them is widely available online.
In centrally heated warm homes moths in particular can be particularly tricky to tackle, and to successfully treat them a high level of hygiene must be maintained to eradicate them including;
If you follow all of these simple measures, you can quickly tackle problems before they become bigger more expensive problems which require professional help.
We will liaise with the council following Rodent control, and we will fill and block any holes in the fabric of the building, both internal and external to prevent further access.
We will engage with tenants to ensure that there are no lifestyle issues that may encourage rodent activity.
We will also work with our contractors to ensure regular and thorough cleaning of common areas wherever appropriate.
Our Pest Control and Management Policy is available here
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Fourteen years ago, the famous Lego brand introduced a 69-piece set modeled after the Sears Tower in Chicago. It was small but sleek, targeted at ages 10 and up. This seemingly small set became the inspiration for the Lego Architecture series, which now has over 30 available sets for consumers. Although Lego has upped its game, graduating from 69 pieces to over 9,000, the spirit of the original Sears Tower remains. The Architecture series successfully captured some of the world’s most jaw-dropping landmarks, adding a new sense of realism to the toys. After all, what’s a better introduction to your mini Lego city than a real-world structure?
What Is Lego Architecture?
The Architecture series offers tons of options for sets, bringing in masterful pieces of architecture from all over the world. Some famous locations the sets are modeled after are the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Empire State Building, The White House, The United Nations, The Great Wall of China and so many more. Each set is beautifully sleek and well designed, even going as far as adding interior designs to each set.
Over the years, I’ve completed four different sets: The United Nations Headquarters, the White House (a smaller set than the recently remodeled version, unfortunately), Sungnyemun and Trafalgar Square. I received the Trafalgar Square set for Christmas, which retires soon, so get it while supplies last. The model had many intricate details that made it fun to build. For example, there are removable doors and walls behind the model that open up to different rooms with quaint sets of furniture. The model feels personable and authentic, taking the fantasy realm of Legos and bringing it closer to reality.
The big downfall for these sets is their availability. For starters, the best selection is online. This is mostly due to Lego retiring certain models that have become outdated. It makes sense, as the first models were released in 2008, but losing access to certain models is extremely disappointing. Awesome sets like The Brandenburg Gate, The Sydney Opera House and Fallingwater are no longer in production but are still available in some places for purchase.
Surprisingly enough, the Lego website is one of the worst places to buy architecture sets, from both a financial and diversity standpoint. Their prices are far higher than Amazon’s or Brick Owl’s and Lego also offers far fewer sets than its counterparts. Plus, most of the models are out of stock, so good luck ordering them anyway.
The coolest sets are pricey — not just relative to other Lego sets, but in general. Spending $100 is never a small feat, so getting access to these sets can be tricky. Of course, there are a few landmarks that haven’t made the Architecture series. For example, I would love to see Mount Rushmore replicated as a Lego set. The complex design and intricate details would make for a difficult but rewarding project. It would probably cost hundreds of dollars, but it’s a fair price to pay.
Rival Lego Set Themes
Unfortunately, there are other themes that compete with the Architecture series’s intricate style, providing yet another downside to the series. Lego claims its Creator Expert series is the “ultimate Lego building challenge” that provides hours of entertainment. The series has modular houses, TV show replicas, vehicles and more.
The Creator Expert series offers a different kind of architecture, bringing sports into the mix. My personal favorite swings between the Manchester United’s stadium, Old Trafford, and a replica of James Bond’s Aston Martin. The series also has a “Fab Five Loft” set, bringing the beloved and popular show “Queer Eye” to Lego collections. I’m a sucker for recreating real-life structures, especially those relevant in pop culture, so this theme definitely rivals the Architecture series.
All of them are rather pricey ($300, $150 and $100) on the Lego website, but it’s possible to find both the Creator Expert and Architecture sets on different platforms. Of course, Amazon is a fine place to look, but sometimes their options are limited. Brick Owl offers various retired Lego Architecture sets that are no longer offered on Lego’s official site.
Architecture’s Shining Points
Despite my critiques, the Lego Architecture series is still one of my favorites. The challenge it presents is generally higher than other Lego series, making each set a time-consuming project. Legos are also commonly advertised to a younger audience, so having some sets targeted to adults is definitely a win. In fact, Lego even has an “adults welcome” page on their website, inviting adults to “unbox and unwind” with their “premium Lego sets.” Broadening their target demographic is definitely a good move because I know too many people who love constructing monstrous sets like the retired Lego Death Star.
Another striking point of the Architecture series is its difficulty. While the original sets released in 2008 were a depressing 60 to 100 pieces, consumers now have access to many difficulty levels. The largest set is at a whopping 9,036 pieces, adding up to create a beautiful and sizable replica of the Roman Colosseum. Comparing such an intimidating project to the original model is almost humorous, especially considering how fast the 2008 models could be finished.
My favorite part of building Legos is amassing a mighty collection of different sets and projects. This isn’t easy financially, but feasting your eyes on an entire room of mini cities and landmarks is worth it. Collecting the whole Architecture series would take a lot of time since some of the best models are retired. As mentioned earlier, Brick Owl is a great place to find tons of these sets, even the retired ones. They also have thousands of other Lego sets with all kinds of different themes. I cannot speak for the quality of the sets they’re offering or the reliability of their website, so proceed with some caution.
Lego Architecture’s Future
While its future is still undetermined, the Architecture series is far from being discontinued. There recently has been some stir about a revelation regarding the theme’s packaging coming up in the new year. Ever since the Singapore skyline set, consumers now have even cooler designs and models to look forward to. Whatever Lego decides, they’ve earned my trust at this point. If their sets retain the same sense of difficulty and realism, it’s easy to imagine 2022 as a revolutionary year for the Lego Architecture series. | <urn:uuid:27ea7725-c429-4bc0-aafd-dcf4ae6a4eb1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://studybreaks.com/thoughts/lego-architecture-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.95398 | 1,360 | 1.820313 | 2 |
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NEWPORT BEACH, CA — Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian announced the launch of NurtureVR, a first-of-its-kind program for expectant mothers that uses virtual reality (VR) to augment prenatal education, pain management related to pregnancy, mindfulness and support women through postpartum care.
By combining accessible, immersive technology with compassionate, mindful care, NurtureVR bridges innovation with a deep support of women as they journey through pregnancy and into motherhood.
Designed in partnership with VR digital wellness leader BehaVR based in Nashville, NurtureVR will be available in a pilot program involving 30 pregnant women next month.
“The goal is to nurture the relationship of the mother with her growing baby. We have incorporated the insights of women who are pregnant, were recently pregnant or are trying to become pregnant to ensure that no matter what kind of pregnancy you are experiencing, Hoag is going to take care of you the way only Hoag can,” said Allyson Brooks, M.D., the Ginny Ueberroth Executive Medical Director Endowed Chair of Hoag Women’s Health Institute. “How a woman experiences pregnancy, delivery and the postpartum period is highly personal. NurtureVR was designed to meet each woman where she is.”
Beginning at 27 weeks, Hoag maternity patients in Newport Beach and Irvine will use VR headsets to access 14 weeks’ worth of educational material, meditation capabilities and other immersive experiences. This includes the ability to upload women’s own 3D ultrasound images for more personalized experiences. After the baby is born, the program continues for an additional eight weeks, with topics that cover maternal-baby bonding, partner intimacy, stress and hormonal and emotional changes.
NurtureVR is built upon decades of research into VR’s ability to mitigate pain, create experiential learning environments, lower stress and improve wellbeing.
“Hoag has incorporated VR technology to assist surgeons with operations since 2015, and the hospital remains a leader in using VR with patients for pain management, patient education and mindfulness” said Robert Louis, M.D, Chief of Neurosurgery and the Empower360 Endowed Chair for Skull Base and Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery, Pickup Family Neurosciences Institute at Hoag.
“We can see on functional MRIs that VR decreases a patient’s focus on the pain, eases the emotional unpleasantness of pain and even diminishes the physical sensation of pain, itself,” he said. “When you see the before and after, it’s amazing.”
NurtureVR goes far beyond pain management to supporting a woman’s relationship with her baby and her own wellness, Dr. Louis said.
“Our approach is unlike anything else we’re seeing in therapeutic VR or in women’s health. The idea is that VR can serve as a lifelong tool, something women can take with them through the ‘fourth trimester,’ that eight-week period after a baby is born, and beyond,” Dr. Louis said. “They can draw on the meditation mindfulness, stress management and education they experienced through VR throughout their motherhood experience.”
VR engages all four systems of learning in the brain:
The cognitive system, involved in processing information in the pre-frontal cortex
The experiential system, including vision, touch and hearing
The emotional system, for empathy, love and bonding
The behavioral system, which helps support feelings of reward and motivation
“By engaging all four systems of learning synchronously, VR has been proven a highly effective tool for patient education, pain management and mental health and wellness,” said Peter Buecker, MD, Chief Medical Officer of BehaVR. “We are excited to partner with Hoag to bring this tool to women as they journey through pregnancy and into early motherhood.”
Because the VR experience can be customized and individualized for each woman, expectant mothers will experience different environments, sounds and visual experiences, based on their preferences and input. The individual journey is continuously refined and personalized with BehaVR’s Dynamic Experience Engine. This includes everything from a mother’s and baby’s skin tones, to the landscapes a woman sees, to the way a woman chooses to hold her baby while breastfeeding.
“The process of being pregnant is universal but how a woman experiences pregnancy, delivery and the postpartum period is individual, and this was designed to honor that,” Dr. Brooks said. “As you invest time in these modules, you’re ‘feeding’ your baby through your thoughts, so you actually see the umbilical cord lighting up as you progress over time. You’re creating this relationship with your baby that is in sync with the baby’s development.”
“This is a truly exciting time at Hoag,” said Walter Greenleaf, Ph.D., of Stanford University and Member of Hoag’s VR Advisory Board. “With the convergence of technologies today, Hoag is accelerating the advancement of VR for patients and now are able to make accurate and objective assessments of an individual’s mood state and stress level, instead of relying on inaccurate, subjective self-reported measurements. This approach allows us to develop new and powerful therapies for patients at Hoag that provide very effective solutions for many of the complex challenges in women’s health.”
Hoag physician leaders anticipate that VR will become the standard for maternal education, pain management, emotional health and support for the coming generation of parents.
“I envision mothers developing a relationship with the VR experience that allows them to feel better about themselves as people, to reduce feelings of angst and confusion and to remind them to take care of themselves,” Dr. Brooks said. “That is one of the reasons we named the program ‘Nurture,’ to underscore the benefits of early relational health and why taking care of mom is so important. We recognize that healthy moms lead to healthy babies which leads to healthy communities, and VR is an exciting new tool to help get us there.”
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In Soviet Russia, movies watch you!
Okay, so much for the cheap joke...
Here’s everything you need to know about the Russian Revolution of 1905. Here’s how the town of Odessa factored into the revolution as a result of the pogroms against its Jewish population. And here’s the reality behind the mutiny on the Russian navy’s flagship that inspired the breathtaking film Battleship Potemkin. Pay attention because there’ll be a quiz later.
And as an aside: much, much better writers than Yours Truly have discussed the pros and cons of communism. I’m not interested in going down that path. Leave discussion of Lenin and Marx (not that one) on the table. My only concern is the movie.
Wow, what can I say? It’s unlike anything ever made in the entire silent era, and while it may be dated as a piece of political propaganda, as a work of world cinema you better believe it still holds up. It is ballsy: absolutely unafraid to appeal to emotion while visually stunning at the same time. How does one storyboard a movie like this, and then how does one conceive the vision necessary to edit it in such a frenetic manner, in a time when the visual language of film was still being shaped?
Let’s start with the scene everybody still talks about, almost a century later: the Odessa Steps scene. Now the place is called the Potemkin Stairs. There are 192 of them, it was completed in 1841, and it stretches 28 meters in height. Here’s a nice shot of it today, and don’t worry, if you can’t climb all those stairs, there’s a funicular off to the side.
The scene has been analyzed to death and been paid tribute to in lots of movies, one notable example being The Untouchables. Here’s an analysis of De Palma’s homage. Now that I’ve seen the original, I gotta say, De Palma’s version is great but I think the use of slow motion dulls the impact somewhat in comparison.
I understand why he used it—the crowd-pleasing moment when Andy Garcia flips Kevin Costner the gun wouldn’t be as effective otherwise—but his version is more about suspense as opposed to cathartic emotion; can Eliot Ness take out the gangsters and save the baby at the same time? You know he will, but it’s the how of it that’s what makes that moment thrilling. That’s why the action is slowed down.
The original is more about horror, the atrocity of the Cossacks gunning down innocent people; the loss of hope instead of salvation. You feel that when the mother carries the child’s body up toward the soldiers; they won’t stop for her, they feel no pity for her, and what should be a heroic moment turns into tragedy.
Showing it in slo-mo (if it had been around in 1925) wouldn’t have been the same; the soldiers are relentless, so the action is too. The cross-cutting with the shocked looks on the women’s faces underlines that relentlessness: quick, sudden, no time to think about it. One minute they’re alive; the next they’re dead. Like I said, ballsy.
And not only was this just the second feature-length film by the director, the guy was only 27 years old when he made it. Sergei Eisenstein was born in what is now Latvia and was part of the Red Army, supporting the Bolsheviks. In 1920, three years after the second big revolt in Russian history, he was in Moscow working in the field of radical working-class art. By 1923 he had begun writing down his ideas on the emerging Soviet idea of montage in film and became one of its leading proponents.
In a nutshell, the idea was that by cutting seemingly random images and putting them together in a sequence, meaning can emerge. Today you can see this technique in commercials, in music videos, lots of common places, but back then filmmakers like Eisenstein and Lev Kuleshov and Dziga Vertov were interested in putting forth the rhetoric of the revolution to the people. This video goes into more detail (warning: the critic talks fast).
Potemkin isn’t one long montage; the technique is used selectively, at certain critical moments—and in conjunction with the right music, the effect can be overwhelming. Edmund Meisel composed the original score for the film. The version I watched used music from the famous Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich.
And as if all of this weren’t enough, Potemkin has a history of censorship in various countries, including its own.
Eisenstein made more films at home, toured Europe for awhile, had a brief sojourn in Hollywood (with Paramount, specifically), met socialist writer Upton Sinclair and teamed up with him for some movies in Mexico, came back to the Soviet Union and made more movies and taught filmmaking. Today he’s regarded as one of the giants of early cinema.
So yeah, if you consider yourself any kind of cinephile, you really gotta watch this movie at some point. Much of the modern visual aesthetic of film owes a debt to Eisenstein and Potemkin.
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Downside of Dwelling
Do you ever experience upsetting thoughts that kept repeating, repeating and repeating?
You might be on the downside of dwelling. Pretty easy thing to do nowadays.
Too much time dwelling is actually called rumination; the state of repeating the same thought. It’s when problem-solving or clinging to a circumstance turns into worrying about the future or feeling regret about the past. This state causes excessive anxiety and depressive moods. We become miserable. Sound familiar?
There is a solution; it’s called mindful rumination. And, all it takes practice.
- When you catch yourself dwelling STOP.
- Notice what’s happening.
- Then choose a meaningful activity that occupies and distracts your mind.
- Read, write, draw, move, you choose.
- Repeat as often as needed.
Daydreaming and rumination are all part of the default mode network of our brain. They are both natural processes. The more we become aware of what our brain is capable of, the more power we have to change how we think and act.
Remember this motto; Danger of dwelling? try distraction.
Let the neuroscience of your brain and body do the rest.
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Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Towards Food Security
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Global concern on climate change has created awareness on its potential impacts on the fisheries sector. Climate change already affects Southeast Asia through apparent increase in frequency and intensity of extreme weather conditions with huge consequences that include: flooding and sea water level rise, seawater acidification, change of water temperature, change in species composition and distribution, coral bleaching, increased frequency of storms and cyclones. Southeast Asia one of the world’s most vulnerable regions to climate change due to its long coastlines, high density of population and economic activity in coastal areas, and heavy reliance on agriculture, fisheries, forestry and other natural resources.
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First hydrogen fuel cell car in India completes trials successfullyNovember 2, 2020
Trials were conducted by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and KPIT.
KPIT and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) collaborated on trials for battery electric passenger vehicles retrofitted into an indigenously developed hydrogen fuel cell car.
KPIT is a pure based multinational Corporation and worked with CSIR on these Indian trials.
The hydrogen fuel cell car trials were successful. The vehicle featured a low temperature PEM (Proton Exchange Membrane) type fuel cell developed in India. The fuel cells stack was developed jointly between KPIT and CSIR. It was a 10 kWe automotive grade LT-PEMFC unit combining the expertise at CSIR and membrane electrode assembly and the stack engineering experience at KPIT.
This included the lightweight metal bipolar plate as well as the design of the gasket, control software, system integration, and electric powertrain. This fuel cell stack was unique in its use of exceptionally thin metal bipolar plates. As a result, the engineers were able to reduce the weight of the stack by approximately two thirds. Moreover, it operated at 65 to 75 degrees Celsius, which is appropriate for vehicular applications.
Both KPIT and CSIR joined this partnership for the purpose of developing a viable hydrogen fuel cell car technology.
The collaboration between CSIR and KPIT had a specific goal to develop an automotive grade PEM fuel cell technology. This partnership began in 2016. The organizations came together under the New Millennium Indian Technology Leadership Initiative (NMITLI). The NMITLI is an initiative created to build public to private partnerships within the research and development field.
The trials were carried out on a battery electric passenger car platform which was retrofitted to the fuel cell stack. The hydrogen fuel cell car was equipped with the Type III commercial H2 tank. The tanks capacity was approximately 1.75 kilograms of H2 stored at a pressure of 350 bar. This emission free vehicle has a range of approximately 250 kilometers under typical road conditions in India at average driving speeds of 60 to 65 kilometers per hour. | <urn:uuid:158e6574-3cd3-48d1-89bc-304d5603fda1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/first-hydrogen-fuel-cell-car-in-india-completes-trials-successfully/8540791/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.969153 | 431 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Radio? I Love it .. Many take it for granted, The Radio. Not Me .. It’s amazing, the Radio .. Believe me, when the Radio first came out, people did not take it for granted .. It was the marvel of the day. The first major use of the Radio to the American general public began in the early 1920’s .. America’s first radio stations popped up in the year 1920, but it took a couple years for the general population to get and use them in any great numbers. But once the radio did kick in, it was the greatest thing of the day. People could listen to music, news, skits, and comedic programming. The Radio was a Big and instant Success, and the American Public just loved it.
The 1930’s were a grand hey-day of Radio as it didn’t have TV to contend with. Some popular Radio Shows of the day, were; Roy Rogers and Hop AlongCassidy (Western),Jack Benny (Comedy), Batman, Flash Gordon and Superman, all Super Heroes.
For me, I remember always loving Radio as a very young child, ever since I could remember anything. I especially loved listening to it as we would drive in one of my dads cars; a Plymouth Fury, Packard (The Last Packard ever made), or Fabulous 1958 Cadillac Eldorado. back Then, I especially loved; The Beatles, The Supremes, and The Four Seasons of nearby Bellville, New Jersey, “Sherry! Sherry Baby!”
All these years, Radio has never wavered. It’s always there, still and always great. Always providing great news, info, and Great Music. Well Great Music that is, if you listen to great music and not a station that plays “Horrible Crap Rap hip Hop.” Now that’s not good, and unfortunately it’s out there on some radio stations that cater too those with the God Awful Taste who enjoy listening to “Crap” Rap.
Well, let’s get off that subject, and on to all the Good and great Music that Radio has given us over the years: Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, R&B, Pop, Jazz, Classical and more. Before TV it was a big thing to listen to Boxing Matches on the Radio, The Preakness, Kentucky Derby, Baseball, Basketball, and Football games, and listening to sports on the radio is still pretty big.
Yes radio gives us a lot. It’s quite versatile, and with sports, Talk Radio, and the News, it’s biggest source and popularity is through music. Still, you ride in your car, you’ve got the radio on, it enhances the experience, of driving that is. Music on the radio has enhanced millions of experiences over the years, especially for lovers, young and old who have Necked (Made Out), and Fallen in Love with Music from the Radio, and please “No Rap.”
to be CONTINUED
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During the first day of the Climate Adaptation Summit, both Dutch Prime Minister Rutte and Minister Kaag of Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation showcased the Dutch Fund for Climate and Development (DFCD) as an example of concrete action that can move climate adaptation forward, and urged other governments with the financial and political means to follow suit.
In his opening speech, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte highlighted the urgency of climate change and the need to invest in climate adaptation projects: “Climate change is happening as we speak. It is already affecting the lives of hundreds of millions of people. If we don’t adapt, the consequences will be disastrous.”
He went on to explaining how the Global Commission on Adaptation’s flagship report Adapt Now shows how investing in climate adaptation can deliver many positive returns. Returns in terms of climate safety, resilience, innovation, economic growth, and o the protection of ecosystems. Rutte: “An investment of $ 1.8 trillion to scale up climate adaptation over the decades could deliver $ 7.1 trillion in net benefits. So climate adaptation is the right thing to do. And it is the smart thing to do. It’s good value for money, which is why it makes sense to put climate adaptation at the heart of the COVID-19 response as economic recovery will be, I believe, more resilient and more effective with climate adaptation build in.”
Rutte added: “In 2019 we launched the Dutch Fund for Climate and Development which is using over 160 million euros in public funding to mobilize private investment worth half a billion euros. It even has a target of 65% for climate adaptation finance.” In conclusion, Rutte expressed the hope that more countries will raise their finance for climate adaptation to match their financing for mitigation.
You can watch the full opening speech (just over 6 minutes, DFCD at 3.56) here:
Similarly, Minister Sigrid Kaag of Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation of the Netherlands urged other governments that have the financial capital to follow the Dutch government’s example of the Dutch Fund for Climate and Development. “We need to help partners develop bankable projects”, she said as Chair of the two-hour session ‘Accelerating African Adaptation’.
One of her key takeaways from the debate with African leaders was that ‘we need to discuss forcefully the issue of the integrity of climate finance, that means access to finance and the availability of large-scale financing that is sustainable’. Additionally, Kaag noted that more public finance needs to be allocated to climate adaptation projects. “This is the future. And we need to take action now.”
Her third point on climate finance focused on the need for more bankable projects. “We might have identified the problem, and know what to do, but if there are no bankable programs or projects available, partners cannot really account for this. There is often a gap. Through the Dutch Fund for Climate and Development, which I’ve launched, we try to bridge between communities, partners, and the big finance institutions. We can help by building the bankable projects, and also provide bridging financing. I would urge more partner countries that have the financial and political means to follow suit.”
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Anyone who claims to know how the economy works, with a high degree of confidence, is lying. So says Lord Turner, who now serves on the $50m think-tank funded by billionaire hedge fund operator George Soros.
So am I a liar?
That is the implication of the pronouncement by Adair Turner at a meeting in London that was convened to explore the need to change the way banks create money.
Adair Turner speaks with authority – you would think – when pronouncing on the economy.
- Chairman of the UK Financial Services Authority as the financial crisis broke in September 2008.
- He helped to redesign the global banking and shadow banking regulation as Chairman of the International Financial Stability Board’s major policy committee.
- Now a Senior Fellow of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, and at the Centre for Financial Studies in Frankfurt.
- Visiting Professorships at the London School of Economics and at Cass Business School, City University.
Before 2008, Lord Turner was a non-executive Director at Standard Chartered Bank; Vice Chairman of Merrill Lynch Europe; and, in the 1990s, Director General of the Confederation of British Industry.
Now comes the problem.
In his new book, Between Debt and the Devil, Lord Turner confesses that he did not see the 2008 crisis coming. And if he couldn’t see it coming, that must mean there is something wrong with economics as a social science, right? He learnt his economics at Cambridge, where he was not equipped with the knowledge to anticipate major events like a looming global depression.
So as born-again researcher/reformer/educator, his lordship declared on September 7, at a meeting in Central Hall, London, that it was necessary to inform the public that economics does not have definitive, certain answers. It’s a subject for continual exploration under conditions of uncertainty. “We must not propagate that we have got all the answers,” he declared. If we did so, “we are lying”.
So I am a liar?
In 1997, 10 years before the peak in house prices, I provided a forecast to the New Labour government. I wrote to each of its top politicians: Blair, Brown, Darling and Mandelson; and, for good measure, to the new media guru in Downing Street, Alastair Campbell, with whom I worked for a short period in Fleet Street.
With utter confidence I warned them that house prices would peak in 2007 (they did), and that this would be followed by a depression (into which the global economy is still locked). They could have taken my advice and adopted pre-emptive reforms that would have softened the blows. They didn’t, as a result of which, millions lost their homes and jobs.
I am a critic of the way economics is practised; it’s a social science abused by its practitioners. People like Lord Turner, who has left his fingerprints all over the western economy (to say nothing of post-Soviet Russia, which he presumed to advise in the 1990s).
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The April edition of Global Village Space (GVS) magazine is out! This edition focuses on multiple issues. This issue starts with giving a brief overview of the domestic political front and continues to look at key elements from Pakistan’s national security policy and encourage debate on its inputs.
Islamabad hosted the 48th Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers on 22-23 March 2022, themed "Partnering for Unity, Justice and Development." The gathering for the first time saw the attendance of China's foreign minister, Wang Yi, as a special guest.
America – perhaps for the first time in Pakistan’s history – is about to become a domestic political issue in a highly contested election campaign. This is unfortunate for both Pakistan and the United States and many in Islamabad wonder how to fix this Shakespearean tragedy – with Imran Khan as its unexpected hero.
The letter immediately sparked a debate among the public, with some taking the words of PM Khan for it while others are totally denying the existence of any such letter, including some seasoned journalists.
Recent days have highlighted the need for all of us to become Constitutional experts if we want to understand what is happening on the ground in Pakistan.
International Humanitarian Law (IHL), or the law of war as it was called earlier, remains applicable in such conflicts. The Geneva Conventions (1949) and their Additional Protocols (1977) oblige the parties to the conflict to only target military targets.
The number of accounts has also been increased from 365,182 in February to 388,494 in March 2022, which means some 23,312 new accounts were opened in March.
Three of the largest startups in 2022 were: Bazaar ($70m), Retailo’s ($36m), and Jugnu ($22.5m).
In wake of the gruesome beheading of Safoora Bibi, Humaira Zia Mufti, highlights in a hard-hitting piece how the absence of constructive debate on blasphemy laws has increased incidents of public vigilantism in Pakistan. Such events undermine the country’s international campaign to end Islamophobia.
Accomplished academician argues that world history has never witnessed such irresponsibility by a nuclear state. Unfortunately, it strengthens the argument that every state does not have the capacity to handle nuclear arsenals.
As a founding member of the OIC, Pakistan has always been at the forefront of the OIC’s efforts for the Muslim cause whether the Palestine issue, Iran-Iraq war, Kuwait-Iraq war, the Afghanistan issue, and the challenges faced by the Muslim minorities anywhere in the world.
India's entire weaponry, about 85 percent, comes from Russia. Although our dependence is now reduced quite a bit, having said that, we still require all kinds of support. If we have a two-front war if we do not have a supply of weapons from Russia.
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Virgin Media is giving its network a boost, pumping £3 billion into upgrading its existing hardware -- a plan that the network says will bring broadband speeds of 152Mbps to 4 million more UK homes.
The provider's strategy, called "Project Lightning", will be enacted with the support of Virgin Media's parent company Liberty Global. Virgin Media says the scheme will add £8 billion of value to the UK's economy, with 6,000 new jobs and 1,000 apprenticeships to be created over the next five years.
Virgin Media is asking citizens who'd like faster Internet in their area to register interest in the expansion plans online in a scheme dubbed "Cable my Street". But as Virgin Media says its investment will focus "in areas closest to its existing network and will be planning expansion based on consumer and business demand," experts are warning that rural residents could be left out of the upcoming upgrade.
"This could mean rural customers are knocked down the priority list if there aren't enough residents in remote areas to convince Virgin to 'Cable My Street'," Ewan Taylor-Gibson, broadband analyst at uSwitch said.
"Virgin Media is in a competitive market. It makes absolute sense that they focus on the areas they feel will generate the best return," Oliver Johnson, broadband analyst at Point Topic said. "Unfortunately in this context that means that those in rural areas are unlikely to be in Virgin Media's footprint, although there are some instances where properties or villages on the route of the cable run get a node just by being in the right place."
"This still doesn't address the 'digital divide' as the provider has clearly indicated that investment will focus on areas that are close to its existing infrastructure," Dominic Baliszewski, telecoms analyst at broadbandchoices said.
"This means that already well-connected areas will get a wider selection of services to choose from, while rural dwellers are left in the cold again."
Another analyst noted that Virgin's plans were in line with its previously-stated plans. "While the roll-out is not going to help those in the rural areas, there is no pressure or commercial benefit to Virgin Media if it was to do so," Andrew Ferguson, analyst at thinkbroadband said. "It has already highlighted that if the return on investment is below expectations during this expansion, they may stop before the completed level of coverage is finished. This expansion fits into the jointly declared vision that both BT and Virgin Media made to the Public Accounts Committee some years ago, when they said their fibre based broadband networks would reach around two thirds of the UK."
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As we head into the last few months of the year, it’s time to start planning for 2022 summer reading programs! The Collaborative Summer Library Program has chosen “Oceans of Possibilities” as its 2022 summer reading theme.
All Indiana public libraries are members of CSLP because the Indiana State Library pays the membership fee for the entire state using LSTA/IMLS funding. That means the slogan and artwork are available for libraries to use; however, individual libraries may decide whether they want to use the CSLP theme each year. The State Library also purchases access to the CSLP online catalog for all Indiana public libraries. The online catalog contains both the artwork for 2022 and program ideas that work with the “oceans” theme.
The online manual access code was sent to directors via email on Sept.15. If your director did not receive the code, please have them or their designee to contact me, Beth Yates, via email. View a tutorial here on how to access the manual. Currently available incentive items can be viewed in the online store.
The oceanography theme creates, well, “Oceans of Possibilities” for programming. Here’s just a few general topics to get you started:
- Ocean life – General ocean plants and animals, endangered animals, conservation.
- History – Shipwrecks like the Titanic, explorers.
- Geography – Maps, bodies of water.
- Astronomy – Navigation/wayfinding, moon and tides.
- Beaches – Summer fun, beach parties, sand and sandcastles, swimming and safety, the sun.
- Geology/Paleontology – The fossil record shows Indiana was once underwater!
- Weather – The water cycle connects us to oceans even in landlocked Indiana.
- Jobs – Marine biologist, diving/SCUBA, ecologist, fishing, ship captain, lifeguard, geo scientist.
Don’t be afraid to include Indiana’s own lakes, rivers and parks. While they are certainly not oceans, the water cycle connects it all. And as always, it’s more important to offer programs your patrons will be interested in than it is to connect every program to the theme.
Indiana Training Opportunities
This year, I will be offering one webinar that contains news, updates and resources for the summer 2022 program. This webinar will be recorded and posted on the Indiana State Library’s Archived Training page within two weeks of the live session on Dec. 9, and it will be available there through the summer. Unlike in past years, this training will NOT include a roundtable discussion of program ideas. Roundtables will take place separately; all dates and times are listed below.
National Training Opportunity
As the Collaborative Summer Library Program president-elect, membership committee chair and Indiana’s state representative, I am thrilled to announce that CSLP is offering our very first national, virtual summer reading conference!
The CSLP Summer Symposium will take place on Thursday, Dec. 2 from 11:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Eastern time. Session topics include program ideas, outreach ideas/community asset mapping and publicity ideas. You can attend any or all of the sessions FREE of charge using just one link, which you will be sent after you register. While “Oceans of Possibilities” will be a focus, all libraries are welcome, even if you don’t plan to use the 2022 CSLP theme. Sessions will be recorded and made available and will also be eligible for LEUs.
View the full session line up and descriptions on the CSLP Summer Symposium website. You can register from there, or via this link.
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Health Insurance Claims
The health insurance tends to cover overall risk estimation of the health care. This includes test reports, hospital bed charges, food that comes under the health care benefits accordance to the insurance agreement. You can regulate the benefits by your insurance provider.
How Are You Going to Claim for the Health Insurance Policy??
You have to provide cashless card in network hospitals provided by insurance company .
- Submit Insurance ID number provided by your Insurance provider to claims department in hospital.
- Submit a copy of policy.
- Check if the pre-authorization form is sent to Insurance company/TPA by hospital’s claim department.
- Provide other details as per Insurance companies queries for verification and approval.
- In case hospitals ask for claim number, you may call on toll-free number for which you should know your(Policy number, name of person admitted, nature of illness).
- The claim number will be informed to you and insurance claim department of the hospital and further process will be carried out by the hospital professionals in claim department.
In cases like Tonsillitis surgery,appendix removal, Ear surgery or any other planned treatment which can be done after getting approved by insurer/TPA.
- In cases like Tonsillitis surgery,appendix removal, Ear surgery or any other planned treatment which can be done after getting approved by insurer/TPA.
- A copy of policy and ID card in the hospital’s claims department.
- Check if the pre-authorization form and other documents are sent to Insurance company/TPA by hospital’s claim department.
- In few cases reimburse is denied due to terms and condition that fall under claims policy.
There may be some hospitals that may not have the cashless facility. In such cases the Insured/claimant has to make a reimbursement claim. The following procedure is to be followed
- Notify to your Insurance provider.
- Correctly fill the claims form and attach it with original test reports and bills which be submitted to Insurance company.
- Collect all original reports and bills, like( ECG,X-RAY,Blood test reports,MRI,CT scan etc.).
- Insurance company might deny to proceed with claims in case if it doesn’t fall in any exclusions like disease not payable in 1st year/2nd year / pre-existing diseases.
- Pre-existing disease should complete 4 years for any claims.
- Some expenses has to be borne by the claimant, which Insurance company would not pay as per the policy agreement.
- Notify this to Insurance company/Third-Party Agent(TPA).
- If there is no response in 15 days then inform about the same to Grievance cell.
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The mobile communications networks in Germany have improved. Since the first Mobile Communications Summit (12. July 2018), 18,000 masts have been erected or upgraded by the companies involved at the time. A better network for more than 15 million people. Today, more than 99 percent of households have LTE reception, and during the Covid-19 pandemic one thing has become clear: the safety and stability of the German networks was never jeopardised, although the user behaviour of people and businesses changed significantly.
The major challenges remain, and we must continue to address them. In rural areas in particular, there are white spots and households without coverage. In order to identify dead spots, the Federal Government presented a strong package of measures back in November last year with the mobile communications strategy. By agreeing on the key elements of mobile communications funding, among other things, a major step has been taken today towards implementing these measures.
Federal Minister Andreas Scheuer:
I want no one to be without a connection – mobile surfing and telephone calls must be possible any time and anywhere. We must not lose time. That is why we want to provide funds to companies that erect masts and establish the corresponding connections in the future. These companies can then make the masts available to the mobile service providers on a non-discriminatory basis – or, put simply, let them at a low cost. In doing so, we have struck a balance between the interests of all those involved. If we combine this with fast approval procedures of just three months and provide information in a transparent as well as neutral manner, we will succeed in creating a better network throughout Germany.
Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer:
The Corona pandemic has shown how important mobile communications are to all of us. Like water, electricity and heat, nationwide mobile communications coverage is a key component of our modern society. This applies not only to people in cities, but especially also in rural areas. Mobile communications coverage for all – without dead spots and without white spots – is a central prerequisite for the convergence of living standards throughout Germany. All those involved – policymakers, network operators, federal, state and local authorities – are working hard to achieve rapid progress here. As Minister of Community, this is a key structural policy concern to me.
Federal Minister of Agriculture Julia Klöckner:
Unfortunately, if you go to the countryside today you still end up in a dead spot far too often. However, high-capacity digital infrastructure is crucial for the future of rural regions. The possibility of working, learning or consulting the doctor online from home will become increasingly important in the future – especially for life far away from the conurbations. And this is not just about providing coverage to every household – we need 5G on every field, in every forest and every barn. Farmers who want to invest in new machines need fast mobile communications now if they want to be able to work more precisely and thus in a more resource-saving and efficient manner. This is in everyone's interest but is not conceivable without digital technology.
Federal Minister Svenja Schulze:
The digital transformation and nationwide communications networks also offer many opportunities for environmental protection and climate change mitigation. This is another reason why the 5G roll-out is a good thing. What is important is that the high level of preventive health protection, i.e. the effective protection against electromagnetic fields from mobile phones that already exists, be maintained. Mobile communications networks can also have environmental impacts. With the Digital Environmental Agenda, the Federal Ministry of the Environment is focusing on the energy and raw materials needs of the 5G networks and seeking to reduce their environmental impact. Not least, nature conservation standards must be observed during network roll-out.
Minister of State to the Federal Chancellor and Federal Government Coordinator for Digital Affairs Dorothee Bär:
It is important to me that you can not only make calls anywhere in Germany, but that you can also use your smartphone and apps on the go. Dead spots must finally become a thing of the past. I am pleased that, as the Federal Government, we share this goal with the federal states, the local government associations and the mobile network operators, and that we are moving forward together in this matter.
Thomas Jarzombek, Commissioner for the Digital Industry and Start-ups of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy:
High-performance and nationwide mobile communications are essential for the infrastructure in Germany. In order to close the remaining gaps in mobile communications coverage, network operators, the Federal Network Agency, the planned mobile communications infrastructure company, the federal states and the local authorities will work closely together. Lean structures in the organisation are important, so that the construction of the new transmitters can start in a timely manner.
Verena Göppert, Deputy Managing Director of the German Association of Cities for the local government associations:
The common goals and projects agreed today will advance mobile communications networks in Germany. If we join forces, we can establish nationwide networks in no time. We must succeed in eliminating dead spots and developing the network capacities that are needed in rural and urban areas. The demand for mobile communications data continues to rise. The local authorities are supporting the telecommunications companies in their search for suitable locations for the required transmitters.
Markus Haas, CEO of Teléfonica Deutschland | O2:
Teléfonica Deutschland|O2 has installed thousands of new mobile communications units since the last summit, thereby significantly improving the network quality. As a result, high-speed mobile data connections have been made available to millions of additional citizens. We are working hard to close the last 4G gaps. In 2020 we will also launch 5G.
Dirk Wössner, Member of the Board of Management of Deutsche Telekom AG:
We need the active involvement of all relevant parties for nationwide mobile communications networks. Faster authorisations for new masts are exactly the right way forward, as is the cooperation between network operators in the development of inadequately covered areas. We are sticking to our commitment: By the end of 2020, 99 percent of households in Germany will enjoy LTE coverage from Deutsche Telekom. In addition, we will provide 5G coverage to half of the population by the end of 2020.
Hannes Ametsreiter, Vodafone CEO for Germany:
Corona has shown that Germany’s digital infrastructure is the lifeblood of the Republic. In order for the crisis to be followed by a drive of the digital revolution, even more coverage is needed in even more places. And we need a climate in which operators can continue to invest in their networks. The support programme adopted at the summit is very helpful for this.
Ralph Dommermuth, CEO of United Internet AG:
The Mobile Communications Summit has once again demonstrated the importance of cooperation in the development of digital infrastructure. This principle was set out in the conditions of the 5G frequency auction, including the use of national roaming during the construction of a new mobile communications network. As newcomers, we hope that today’s summit has brought us closer to finding a solution to this controversial issue.
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When I worked for Save the Children I had, from time to time, to speak to local groups about the Vietnamese resettlement programme, a tricky task because we wanted them to support what we were doing without actually descending on our reception centres and patronising the refugees.
After one such sortie into blue-
I arrived in the SCF office one morning to be asked why I wasn’t at the Royal Festival Hall for the annual backslapping ceremony. Nobody had told me I was required there. An hour later Emma was presenting me to Princess Anne. Not only was I sporting sandals but also jeans and a sweater, and Emma couldn’t hide the sort of face one makes on discovering something nasty in the woodshed. To add injury to insult, I joked with the Princess for twice the time allocated on the clipboard, and Emma’s foot and pencil tapped out her impatience. I have a photo of the encounter somewhere in a box under the bed. Royalty and I face each other smiling, our hands clasped in front of our genitals. Odd!
Emma later became our Conservative MP and with her husband visited the Small School. Whether it was his influence or close-
I must put in a good word for the now elevated lady. She has since done mighty good work on behalf of the Kurds and others.
I had had another run-
Many people seem quite bothered by exposed feet. They ask why I don’t wear socks and I usually say that it is because they are unhealthy, which they are. I also reassure them that my feet are not cold, and a few of the more heroic ones accept my invitation to feel their temperature and are surprised.
In a land of shoes and socks the naked foot expresses vulnerability. ‘How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of one who brings good news, who heralds peace’ sings the prophet Isaiah. The naked foot is my constant reminder that I am a witness to the Good News, that I am committed to nonviolence and to peacemaking. The naked foot expresses humility, contact with the earth, with frost, with dew.
When I decided to wear sandals it was as a protection from a tendency to gravitate upwards, towards respectability, towards fame and fortune and to remind me that the place of a witness to the Good News is alongside the poor, the dispossessed, the hungry and the lame.
Life is so generous that it is a constant struggle to live simply. The Greens exhort us to cut down on consumption for the sake of the planet and the future but that is not why I seek simplicity. Nor is it because there is beauty to be found in it, though there is, as those who treasure Shaker furniture know. It is because we are of real use to others only if they have more than we have. It is out of voluntary poverty that the true word is spoken.
Of course it is solely within our shoe shuffling society that socklessness can carry such a meaning. In India and Japan, for instance, sandals pass without remark. In a country where East and West meet there can be an interesting confusion in interpretation. I once was one of a group of clergy who attended a peace conference in Moscow (the British government tried to discourage us and wrote us off as victims of Soviet propaganda). With my long hair, beard and sandals I spelt Western hippy, not a species of which the Soviet authorities were enamoured, and even some of my black and grey clad companions may have been slightly embarrassed by my appearance.
Towards the end of our stay we were invited to dine at the monastery of Zagorsk as guests of the Orthodox Church. I donned the only respectable garment I had, my cassock. Instant transformation! I now looked like a Russian monk, my sandals no problem. The white plastic collars and black stocks and socks of the rest of our party were far more alien to our clerical hosts. However, as the Orthodox Church was merely tolerated I was still a persona hardly grata as far as the conference organisers were concerned.
Somehow I seem to have strayed from footwear to clerical dress. When I was at theological college there was a general reaction against collars and stocks. More appealing was the black shirt and white tie introduced by the Rev. Dr. Alec Vidler, Dean of King’s College, Cambridge. However, after a year in a parish I went back and told my former ordinand colleagues that we should wear dog collars and, by doing so, change the public’s perception of them. But when I experienced shopkeepers serving the clergyman before others in the queue I did a Vicar of Bray-
Dress cannot avoid being a public statement. Gandhi’s dhoti of self-
I once shared a workshop with a nicely turned-
Ultimately, though it is always a statement, dress is unimportant. ‘Do not worry about your life and what you are to eat, nor your body and how you are to clothe it. Surely life means more than food, and the body more than clothing!…And why worry about clothing? Think of the flowers growing in the fields; they do not work or spin; yet I assure you that not even Solomon in all his regalia was robed like one of these.’ That is how Matthew reports it in the Sermon on the Mount.
Nevertheless, though I wish it otherwise, it seems that it will always be my feet, with their bits of flaking pink skin, cracked heels and veined ankles, which excite attention and provoke comment. On the rare occasions when I wear socks, in my organ shoes, for instance, that too is remarked on. Is all the world a foot fetishist? Possibly not, for no one yet has tried to kiss them, socked, sandaled or bare. | <urn:uuid:024ecc31-9f92-4478-bdf7-8ba3965a3986> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://colinhodgetts.co.uk/sandal.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.976149 | 1,221 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Here at High Point Events, we don’t go in much for friggatriskaidekaphobia.* With Friday the 13th approaching rapidly, however, it does seem a fine time to consider some superstitions about food. For instance:
- If you spill salt, do you always throw a pinch of it over your left shoulder to ward off evil, because that’s where the Devil sits?
- If you crack an egg and find a double yolk, do you consider yourself lucky? Similarly if you find nine peas in a pod?
- Do you take home a piece of cake from the wedding and sleep with it under your pillow so that you dream of the person you’ll marry?
- Do you eat black eyed peas every New Year’s day to bring luck and fortune in the coming year?
- Did you throw rice at weddings to ensure the couple much prosperity and many progeny?
- Have you stuffed fennel in all the keyholes in your house to protect against witches?
The United States is not the only country with superstitions about food. The Internet abounds with lists of international superstitions, at least some of which might be accurate.
- In Mexico, dropping a tortilla on the floor is one way to ensure good luck…and lots of visitors.
- Palestinians believe that, if you eat cherries with the seeds in, you’ll get appendicitis. (Presumably, that’s even if you don’t eat the pit!)
- Panamanians never, ever eat watermelon if there’s any liquor nearby. Even bringing the two near one another causes spasms.
- If an Austrian gets a cold, the surefire cure is to eat raw sliced garlic mixed with yogurt. And in case an Austrian gets carpal tunnel syndrome, perhaps from slicing all that garlic, the cure is to soak the aching wrist in Topfen (the Austrian equivalent of cottage cheese).
- In China, it’s serious bad luck to transfer food directly from one set of chopsticks to another set. (Kind of like in Spain, where you never hand someone a salt shaker directly but put it on the table for the other person to pick up.)
- Indonesia has several food-related superstitions. For instance, children who want to travel overseas someday should eat lots of chicken wings. Someone who eats rice from a small plate causes relatives to spurn him/her. And finally, someone who chews gum at night…that one is probably best left to the imagination.
That stuffed fennel doesn’t look so crazy now, huh?
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The author was initially misdiagnosed as schizophrenic. Instead, she had autoimmune encephalitis, an organic brain disorder often called The Great Pretender for its ability to mimic the signs of psychiatric disease. Even though she was labeled as a mental patient for only a week, wondering what would have happened if the initial diagnosis wasn’t overturned compels her to investigate the US mental health care system. In fact, she finds someone who spent years in the mental health system before being correctly diagnosed with the author’s disease with unfortunate consequences.
“The brain is a physical organ and physical disease occurs within the brain. Why does that make it a ‘ psychiatric condition’ instead of a physical ‘ disease’?”—from a father of a son diagnosed with psychosis quoted in the book
The Great Pretender makes an excellent case that psychiatry is the study of neurological disease for which we have no cause or cure…yet. Both autoimmune encephalitis and syphilis were originally diagnosed as mental disorders. Once a cause and cure were found, they were moved to neurology.
Originally all mental diseases were thought to be caused by the devil. Next, medical science thought it was a weakness in the person’s character, which could be solved by drastic measures like lobotomy and shock therapy. Now, a person’s history is blamed with talk therapy and strong drugs as cures. Who is to say that that is the final solution to psychiatric disease.
The heart of the book concerns the landmark study in 1973 by Stanford professor David Rosenhan, On Being Sane in Insane Places. He and seven of his students and colleagues self-reported symptoms of psychosis to get placed in one of the facilities. Once there, they acted normally until someone released them. The average time to get out was fifteen days. The study’s conclusion was that psychiatry had no clear way to diagnose or cure mental illness. It was unable to separate the sane from the insane. The author finds additional notes from the study’s now-deceased author. She finds one of the living pseudopatients and interviews him. The author also finds a ninth pseudopatient who is mentioned only in a footnote within the study. His story is told in the book.
Currently, four percent of the US have serious mental illnesses. Many will have their lives shortened by ten to twenty years because of their condition. If you, or someone in your life, have one of these issues, you must read this book for a different perspective. Even if you are just interested in psychology, like me, The Great Pretender is highly recommended. 5 stars!
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Five week family programme
This summer Bristol Rovers Football in the Community will be working on another healthy weight programme.
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Alive ’N’ Kicking has proven to be a great success for families that want to lose weight and maintain a healthy lifestyle. The programme supports and empowers all family members to achieve their goals, alongside other families doing exactly the same – the success is infectious!
100% of parents said their child’s eating habits had improved since starting the Alive ‘N’ Kicking programme.
The programme is being delivered over the school summer holidays for 5 weeks.
There will be 2 sessions a week for the children which include fun, games and activities with our Community Coaches as well as healthy eating workshops.
The sessions will run on Tuesdays and Thursdays 1.30pm-4.30pm. Parents will be invited to the last session to review their child’s progress on the programme with Programme Leaders.
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Relations. WHEN several different parts contribute to one effect; or, which is the same thing, when an effect is produced by the joint action of different instruments; the fitness of such parts or instruments to one another, for the purpose of producing, by their united action, the effect, is what I call relation : and wherever this is observed in the works of nature or of man, it appears to me to carry along with it decisive evidence of understanding, intention, art. In examining, for instance, the several parts of a watch, the spring, the barrel, the chain, the fusee, the balance, the wheels of various sizes, forms, and positions, what is it which would take an observer's attention, as most plainly evincing a construction, directed by thought, deliberation, and contrivance? It is the suitableness of these parts to one another ; first, in the succession and order in which they act; and secondly, with a view to the effect finally produced. Thus referring the spring to the wheels, our observer sees in it, that which originates and upholds their motion ; in the chain, that which transmits the motion to the fusee; in the fusee, that which communicates it to the wheels; in the conical figure of the fusee, if he refer to the spring, he sees that which corrects the inequality of its force. Referring the wheels to one another, he notices, first, their teeth, which would have been without use or meaning, if there had been only one wheel, or if the wheels had had no connexion between themselves, or common bearing upon some joint effect; secondly, the correspondency of their position, so that the teeth of one wheel catch into the teeth of another; thirdly, the proportion observed in the number of teeth of each wheel, which determines the rate of going. Referring the balance to the rest of the works, he saw, when he came to understand its action, that which rendered their motions equable. Lastly, in looking upon the index and face the watch, he saw the use and conclusion of the mechanism, viz. marking the succession of minutes and hours ; but all depending upon the motions within, all upon the system of intermediate actions between the spring and the pointer. What thus struck his attention in the several parts of the watch, he might probably designate by one general name of “relation ;” and observing with respect to all cases whatever, in which the origin and formation of a thing could be ascertained by evidence, that these relations were found in things produced by art and design, and in no other things, he would rightly deem of them as characteristic of such productions.-To apply the reasoning here described to the works of nature.
T animal economy is full, is made up, of these relations:
I. There are, first, what, in one form or other, belong to all animals, the parts and powers which successively act upon their food. Compare this action with the process of a manufactory. In men and quadrupeds, the aliment is, first, broken and bruised by mechanical instruments of mastication, viz. sharp spikes or hard knobs, pressing against or rubbing upon one another : thus ground and comminuted, it is carried by a pipe into the stomach, where it waits to undergo a great chymical action, which we call digestion : when digested, it is delivered through an orifice, which opens and shuts as there is occasion, into the first intestine: there, after being mixed with certain proper ingredients, poured through a hole in the side of the vessel, it is farther dissolved : in this state, the milk, chyle, or part which is wanted, and which is suited for animal nourishment, is strained off by the mouths of very small tubes, opening into the cavity of the intestines : thus freed from its grosser parts, the percolated fluid is carried by a long, winding, but trace. able course, into the main stream of the old circula. tion; which conveys it, in its progress, to every part of the body. Now I say again, compare this with the process of a manufactory; with the making of cider, for example; with the bruising of the apples in the mill, the squeezing of them when so bruised in the press, the fermentation in the vat, the bestowing of the liquor thus fermented in the hogsheads, the drawing off into bottles, the pouring out for use into the glass. Let any one shew me any difference between these two cases, as to the point of contrivance. That which is at present under our consideration, the “ relation" of the parts successively employed, is not more clear in the last case than in the first. The aptness of the jaws and teeth to prepare the food for the stomach, is, at least, as manifest as that of the cider-mill to crush the apples for the press. The concoction of the food in the stomach is as necessary for its future use, as the fermentation of the stum in the vat is to the perfection of the liquor. The disposal of the aliment afterward; the action and change which it undergoes; the route which it is made to take, in order that, and until that, it arrive at its destination, is more complex indeed and intricate, but in the midst of complication and intricacy, as evident and certain, as is the apparatus of cocks, pipes, tunnels, for transferring the cider from one vessel to another; of barrels and bottles for preserving it till fit for use; or of cups and glasses for bringing it, when wanted, to the lip of the consumer. The character of the machinery is in both cases this; that one part answers to another part, and every part to the final result.
This parallel between the alimentary operation and some of the processes of art, might be carried farther into detail. Spallanzani has remarked* a circumstantial resemblance between the stomachs of gallinaceous fowls and the structure of corn-mills. Whilst the two sides of the gizzard perform the office of the millstones, the craw or crop supplies the place of the hopper.
When our fowls are abundantly supplied with meat, they soon fill their craw: but it does not immediately pass thence into the gizzard; it always enters in very small quantities, in proportion to the progress of trituration; in like manner as, in a mill, a receiver is fixed above the two large stones which serve for grinding the corn; which receiver, although the corn be put into it by bushels, allows the grain to dribble only in small quan. tities, into the central hole in the upper millstone.
But we have not done with the alimentary history. There subsists a general relation between the external
* Dis. I. sect. liv.
organs of an animal by which it procures its food, and the internal powers by which it digests it. Birds of prey, by their talons and beaks, are qualified to seize and devour many species, both of other birds, and of quadrupeds. The constitution of the stomach agrees exactly with the form of the members. The gastric juice of a bird of prey, of an owl, a falcon, or a kite, aets upon the animal fibre alone; it will not act upon seeds or grasses at all. On the other hand, the conformation of the mouth of the sheep or the ox is suited for browsing upon herbage. Nothing about these animals is fitted for the pursuit of living prey. Accordingly it has been found by experiments, tried not many years ago, with perforated balls, that the gastric juice of ruminating animals, such as the sheep and the ox, speedily dissolves vegetables, but makes no impression upon animal bodies. This accordancy is still more particular. The gastric juice, even of granivorous birds, will not act upon the grain, whilst whole and entire. In performing the experiment of digestion with the gastric juice in vessels, the grain must be crushed and bruised, before it be submitted to the menstruum, that is to say, must undergo by art without the body, the preparatory action which the gizzard exerts upon it within the body; or no digestion will take place. So strict, in this case, is the relation between the offices assigned to the digestive organ, between the mechanical operation and the chymical process.
II. The relation of the kidneys to the bladder, and of the ureters to both, i, e. of the secreting organ to the vessel receiving the secreted liquor, and the pipe laid from one to the other for the purpose of conveying it from one to the other, is as manifest as it is amongst the different vessels employed in a distillery, or in the communications between them. The animal structure, in this case, being simple, and the parts easily separated, it forms an instance of correlation which may be presented by dissection to every eye, or which, indeed, without dissection, is capable of being apprehended by every understanding. This correlation of instruments to one another fixes intention somewhere.
Especially when every other solution is negatived by the conformation. If the bladder had been merely an expansion of the ureter, produced by retention of the fluid, there ought to have been a bladder for each ureter. One receptacle, fed by two pipes, issuing from different sides of the body, yet from both conveying the same fluid, is not to be accounted for by any such supposition as this.
III. Relation of parts to one another accompanies us throughout the whole animal economy. Can any relation be more simple, yet more convincing, than this, that the eyes are so placed as to look in the direction in which the legs move and the hands work ? It might have happened very differently, if it had been left to chance. There were, at least, three quarters of the compass out of four to have erred in. Any considerable alteration in the position of the eye, or the figure of the joints, would have disturbed the line, and destroyed the alliance between the sense and the limbs.
IV. But relation perhaps is never so striking as when it subsists, not between different parts of the same thing, but between different things. The relation between a lock and a key is more obvious, than it is between different parts of the lock. A bow was designed for an arrow, and an arrow for a bow: and the design is more evident for their being separate implements.
Nor do the work of the Deity want this clearest species of relation. The sexes are manifestly made for each other. They form the grand relation of animated nature; universal, organic, mechanical: subsisting like the clearest relations of art, in different individuals ; unequivocal, inexplicable without design.
So much so, that, were every other proof of contrivance in nature dubious or obscure, this alone would be sufficient. The example is complete. Nothing is wanting to the argument. I sue no way whatever of getting over it.
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UN Women is at the forefront of the global drive to remove gender barriers because we believe in a world of justice and human rights for everyone. Towards that end, and as the only United Nations entity dedicated to gender equality, we marshal the world’s best gender expertise and the considerable resources of the United Nations. We connect people in many realms, the national and international, the public and private, activists and officials. Together, our efforts are more than any of us could pursue alone.
With thanks to the Government of Japan, who generously funded the regional ‘Women's Leadership, Empowerment, Access, and Protection (LEAP) project as well as the resilience monitoring efforts in 2020 and 2020, UN Women in Yemen was able to roll-out the gender-sensitive resilience capacity index in Al Hodaidah, Aden and Hadramout through its implementing partners, the Yemeni Women Union (YWU), Women Charity Association for Combating Poverty (WACP) and Youth Leadership Development Institute (YLDF).
This report aims to amplify the voices and experiences of Syrian, Yemeni and Iraqi women who make significant contributions to the stability and security of their communities through resolving and managing local conflict, yet whose efforts are often marginalized, dismissed and misrepresented as insignificant. Presented as a series of case studies, the report examines how women in the region engage, influence and shape local processes for conflict and dispute resolution. | <urn:uuid:a4ca4384-6fe1-43a9-acc0-606da260bee7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://arabstates.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications?Topic=84c115615e9945d0bb1829be0ff67a35&f%5B0%5D=country_publications%3A1618&f%5B1%5D=country_publications%3A1735&f%5B2%5D=subject_area_publications%3A1300 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.946113 | 302 | 2.109375 | 2 |
United we shall heal
We are still not accepted as Americans
October 4, 2001
As the shock wears down on such a catastrophic occurrence, I am filled
with anguish. So many lives are lost so many families torn apart. The
pain in my heart deepens because I look further into the horizon and see
an even darker picture. This is not something that will go away tomorrow.
This tragedy of all tragedies can never be forgotten. As I try to understand
the motives behind such a horrendous act against humanity, I am overcome
with even more sorrow.
These madmen, criminals against the human race, are not here to pick
up the pieces of what they have shattered. They are not here to see what
a furious tornado they have unleashed. They have wreaked havoc, destroying
so much. And, here we are; left to clean, to make amends, to right the wrong,
to purify the evil that they have poured into our world.
We as Iranian-Americans are feeling the agony and sheer grief for all
the people who have died. These people could have been family members,
friends, acquaintances, or even strangers. Yet, their absence is vividly
felt in the heart of every one of us. However, not only are we consumed
by this tremendous loss, but we are also faced with another horror: the
blame and hatred of others.
I came to this country twenty years ago. During that time, the hostage
crisis was still fresh on the minds of all Americans. I remember as a child,
being warned not say that I am Iranian, because people would think the worst
of me and my family, assimilating all of us to savage terrorists.
Through the many years, my family and I, along with every other Iranian
living in America, have strived and struggled through hard work, perseverance,
and dedication, to make a place for ourselves in this country.
We are now Americans, just like all other immigrants who have come to
this land, throughout the centuries. Yet now I look around, and see that
once again, we are faced with the same prejudices and injustices thrown
at us because of our ethnicity.
We have worked so hard. We have endured every ounce of sweat, tear,
and pain to become part of this united land. However, now, our years of
struggles appear to be for naught. We are still not accepted as Americans.
My sense of utter devastation is two-fold. I grieve for all the precious
human lives lost because of this monstrous tragedy. Yet, I also grieve
for my fellow Middle Eastern Americans, (be they of Afghan, Iranian, Palestinian,
Egyptian, or other descent) who are wrongly hated and discriminated against
solely because their heritage.
We as a nation are made up of one race, the human race. United we stand,
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When you’ve always wanted to learn more about tune writing and the structure of music, but do not know the place to begin, this free online ebook is stuffed to the brim with pages that make understanding music theory easy. In Europe and North America, there is typically a divide between what sorts of music are seen as a ” high tradition ” and ” low tradition” “High culture” forms of music typically embrace Western art music corresponding to Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and fashionable-era symphonies, concertos, and solo works, and are typically heard in formal concerts in live performance halls and church buildings, with the viewers sitting quietly in seats.
Many varieties of music, corresponding to conventional blues and people music were not written down in sheet music ; as an alternative, they had been originally preserved in the memory of performers, and the songs had been handed down orally , from one musician or singer to a different, or aurally, through which a performer learns a track ” by ear “. When the composer of a music or piece is no longer identified, this music is commonly classified as “traditional” or as a “folk tune”.
Rock music is a style of popular music that developed within the Sixties from Fifties rock and roll , rockabilly , blues , and country music 53 The sound of rock usually revolves around the electrical guitar or acoustic guitar, and it makes use of a robust again beat laid down by a rhythm part of electrical bass guitar, drums, and keyboard instruments such as organ, piano, or, since the Seventies, analog synthesizers and digital ones and computers since the Nineteen Nineties.
The music that composers make can be heard by a number of media; probably the most traditional way is to hear it stay, in the presence of the musicians (or as one of many musicians), in an outdoor or indoor area equivalent to an amphitheatre, concert hall , cabaret room or theatre For the reason that twentieth century, reside music can be broadcast over the radio, tv or the Web, or recorded and listened to on a CD player or Mp3 participant.
Performers, together with singers and instrumentalists, can add musical expression to a song or piece by including phrasing , by adding effects such as vibrato (with voice and a few devices, similar to guitar, violin, brass instruments and woodwinds), dynamics (the loudness or softness of piece or a bit of it), tempo fluctuations (e.g., ritardando or accelerando , which are, respectively slowing down and speeding up the tempo), by adding pauses or fermatas on a cadence , and by changing the articulation of the notes (e.g., making notes more pronounced or accented, by making notes more legato , which implies easily related, or by making notes shorter). | <urn:uuid:74dea553-dbf4-40fb-ae40-8807b0098c3e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.shadowsinthedarkradio.com/an-introduction-to-the-philosophy-of-music.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.960319 | 594 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Overhead crane is a type of crane commonly found in industry. An overhead crane consists of parallel runways with a traveling bridge. A hoist, the lifting component of the crane, travels along the bridge.
They are commonly used in the refinement of steel and other metals such as copper and aluminum. At every step of the manufacturing process, until it leaves a factory as a finished product, metal is handled by an overhead crane. As other examples, they are also used in industries such as automobile industry to move raw material or paper mills for heavy cast iron paper drying drums maintenance.
Overhead cranes have two independent movements which are called trolley (for horizontal movements) and hoist (for vertical movements). Travel and hoist movement can be performed independently or combined. Especially critical is the hoisting movement, inverter requires a strong overload capability for handling without problem load during acceleration and deceleration.
Application example: Steel sheet factory
In the other hand, a good speed control accuracy and speed response is needed in order to, especially at very low speed, control the load. Most of the cases, in order to get the best precision at positioning, speed loop needs to be closed by means of an encoder. Crane must have different speeds in order to move fast along the factory, or slowly to position the load. Also maximum speed may be limited depending on the hoist load. Because load is moving upwards and downwards, motor is driving the load in up direction and braking the load in down direction. In case of braking condition, inverter which drives the motor must be able to burn the energy in a braking resistor. Also a regenerative unit is available in case that returning energy to the mains is needed
FUJI ELECTRIC SOLUTION
Fuji Electric has a full range of frequency inverter’s suitable for this application. Starting from the basic inverters, specially designed to move theload in vertical movements in open loop, such as FRENIC-Mini and FRENIC-Multi. And ending with the most performance inverters in the market called FRENIC-MEGA and FRENIC-VG, specially designed to move vertical loads in closed loop.
Depending on the requirements of overhead crane, and functions needed, different family of Fuji Electric products can be chosen. Different motor maps can be programmed in same inverter, in other words, an inverter can control up to four motors. In case that a single movement is performed by morethan one motor, Fuji Electric has a specific function called droop control. Droop control is balancing the load by modifying the speed of the motor. By means of this, inverter prevents that a motor is working against the other one.
ADVANTAGES OF FUJI ELECTRIC SOLUTION
• Full range from 0,4 kW up to 3 MW three phases 400VAC power supply.
• 200% overload during 3 seconds and 150% during 1 minute.
• Built-in EMC filter up to 630 kW compliant to industry standards.
• Built-in braking circuit up to 160 kW.
• Excellent vector control with speed sensor.
• Powerful dynamic torque vector control for open loop applications.
• For big capacities, stack type topology is available.
• Adaptable speed depending on the load function (load adaptive control).
• Up to four motor maps can be selectable in same inverter. Same inverter can control
up to four motors for different movements.
• Flux forcing function to pre-magnetize the motor.
• Braking control signal.
• Droop control function.
• Regenerative solution also available with an excellent efficiency and power factor.
• Compatible with most common field buses (T-link, SX and E-SX bus, PROFINET-IRT, PROFIBUS-DP, DeviceNet)
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Blockchain, smart contracts & decentralized autonomous organisations
- Aron Fischer
- Monday 9 April 2018
2311 GW Leiden
The Future Business Structures project team - a research group within the Business & Liability Research Network (BLRN) - proudly presents an interactive seminar with Aron Fischer, lead researcher of both the Ethereum Foundation's Swarm team, which is responsible for developing a decentralized storage platform, and Colony, a platform for open, blockchain-based organisations which facilitates decentralized collaboration.
About the seminar
Have you always wanted to learn from, and ask questions to, someone who is at the heart of developments relating to Ethereum and Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs)?
In this seminar, Aron Fischer introduces you to the idea of a blockchain running arbitrary computer code. He will explain why such code is often called a "smart contract" and discuss with the participants the relationship between smart contracts and legal contracts, addressing the problems with the "code is law" paradigm. He will sketch how this technology allows us to imagine entirely new form of organisations - Decentralised Autonomous Organisations - running on a blockchain based world computer, not controlled by any individual but largely governed by the smart contracts that define them. If time permits, Colony will be explained as a specific example of a new form of collective governance.
For law students, this seminar offers a great opportunity to learn from an Ethereum thought leader and an experienced engineer who is able to transition from legal issues to the technological possibilities of the blockchain and back.
About the speaker
Aron Fischer received his PhD in Mathematics in New York City in 2015, writing about Algebraic Topology. Ever since then he has been working on the Ethereum blockchain both as a member of the Ethereum Foundation and as a member of Colony. He was involved in writing the Colony whitepaper and the Ethereum Swarm "orange papers"; co-designing the structures within the Swarm and Colony networks and providing economic and game-theoretic analysis of the built-in incentive systems. He is a regular speaker at events concerning the future of blockchain and has been involved with academia for a substantial amount of time.
Students or colleagues who wish to participate are kindly requested to send a registration e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.org. Please include in the e-mail a reference to the education programme you are following (bachelor, master specialty, advanced master, exchange) or the department you are working at. | <urn:uuid:867aa213-8509-4fb2-9486-86b8c63d6694> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2018/04/blockchain-smart-contracts-decentralized-autonomous-organisations | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.931929 | 541 | 1.710938 | 2 |
7 staff at Nelson and Colne College Sixth Form have completed Heartstart training, an initiative started by the British Heart Foundation.
Heartstart training teaches people what to do in a life-threatening emergency – it provides them with simple skills that save lives. Learning Emergency Life Support (ELS) skills can help to keep someone alive until professional help arrives. Heartstart schemes are run by people in local communities. They’re independent of the British Heart Foundation and provide free training in the community and schools. To date 2.6 million people have been trained through Heartstart and Nelson and Colne College hopes to boost this number by up to 500 per year by offering the training to both staff and students.
To kick start this process, Richie Watts, who is the Quality and School Links Coordinator at the College has been assessed by the British Heart Foundation and North West Ambulance Service and approved to provide the necessary training to others. So far, 6 members of staff have completed the Heartstart training meaning they are qualified to guide others through the process and the plan is to offer the training to others around College.
Quality and School Links Coordinator, Richie Watts said, “Heartstart is a fantastic initiative, as it is something that can have a really positive impact on people and the wider community. This sort of training is so successful because it means that even someone who is physically unable to offer the first aid, can assist and advise someone else – the potential for savings lives is huge! We are really excited in College to take up this scheme and I’m confident that both students and staff will be keen to learn these vital skills.” | <urn:uuid:6e6592cd-1685-42ba-9c41-28326cb81979> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nelson.ac.uk/sixth-form/helping-hearts-at-nelson-and-colne-college/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.965083 | 332 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Pakistani authorities have banned the use of virtual private networks in a crackdown on internet access.
Pakistanis are banned from accessing social networking sites and all ordinary internet traffic is been monitored.
The use of virtual private networks (VPNs), however, has enabled internet users to connect to the web undetected to access banned websites and send e-mails without detection and interception by authorities.
The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority has ordered all internet service providers (ISPs) to alert authorities if any customers use VPNs, according to the Guardian.
Banks and other businesses that use encrypted connections to protect sensitive data - such as account numbers and passwords - will have to apply for special permission from the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority.
The official explanation for the ban is that it prevents the use of secret communication channels by terrorist organisations. The ban on VPNs in Pakistan follows similar crackdowns on encrypted communications in neighbouring India and in China.
In the past year, Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has been in talks with India, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates over providing effective ways of monitoring encrypted mobile communication channels.
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Let’s cut to the chase.
Here are five reasons why California needs solutions to end oil offshore drilling now.
Transforming Rigs to Reef
On September 30, 2010, Governor Schwarzenneger signed AB 2503 into law. The law allows certain oil rigs off the coast of California that are proven to be productive habitats to be left intact once they are decommissioned. The program will identify rigs of high biological benefit and cut them off at 85 feet below the surface of the water for navigational safety. Of the money saved by not removing the entire rig, 65%-85% will be paid to the State towards a fund for coastal marine restoration.
When the law passed, we knew there were some unworkable timelines and liability issues in the language but we had high hopes that the legislature would adjust it in the years to come. Senator Bob Hertzberg has tried on several occasions to improve the law to no avail. In the 10+ years since AB 2503 passed, no advancements have been made.
Despite years of independent scientifically-backed research by the Ocean Science Trust, the idea of converting decommissioned oil rigs into artificial reefs has caused uproar in the past. When AB 2503 passed, some of our colleagues in the environmental community feared that “rigs to reefs” gave oil companies too much credit for unintentionally building structures that support marine life. While we do not sympathize with the oil companies that created the offshore oil problem in California, we understand that we must work with them collaboratively to achieve a solidified solution.
Unfortunately, no. There are several factors that are taken into account with considering artificial reef enhancement. Without extensive research and testing, we do not know how many of the 27 platforms off the California coast would qualify. The others would be fully removed.
Imagine a clear horizon without an oil rig in sight.
Complete Rig Removal
Oil platforms that do not meet the qualifications for artificial reef enhancement will instead be capped and fully removed. Despite most oil companies losing money by operating offshore platforms, they are more incentivized to operate at a loss than look for a way out under the current process. See below for problems that plague decommissioning.
AB 2503 was never implemented by the State due to specified timeframes that were not realistic for decommissioning and liability issues that were not adequately addressed for acceptance by the oil companies. Both issues need to be addressed and agreement attained for a workable plan to reef platform structures.
The policies currently in place make it easy for operators to abandon their platforms and cause insane costs for Californian taxpayers.
In 2017, the operator of platform Holly, Veneco, filed for bankruptcy. This resulted in the upkeep and decommissioning efforts of Holly falling under the responsibility of the state. Since the state took responsibility for the platform, just standard upkeep without oil production is costing taxpayers roughly $1 million every month. The long-term estimate for complete decommissioning and removal is somewhere around $300 million.
It is estimated that California will have a budget surplus of $31 billion in 2022. There has never been a better time for the state to become a financial partner in ridding California of offshore oil. In the 1960s, when the platforms were constructed, the operators all promised to pay 100% of the decommissioning cost, return the sea bottom to its natural state, and take responsibility for the wellheads in perpetuity.
Where are they now? Most of the large oil companies who made those promises no longer operate the platforms they built. The current operators are much smaller “marginal” companies that can quickly go bankrupt if faced with an oil spill catastrophe. Regardless of promises made 60 years ago, the current operators do not have the financial capability to fund total removal or even artificial reef enhancement.
It is apparent that if we want these platforms removed, the state must become a financial partner in decommissioning. Each platform should be evaluated individually, and the operator charged the fullest amount of costs. However, the fullest amount may not be enough to pay the total cost of decommissioning. Therefore, the state is in the best possible position to become a financial partner in ensuring platforms are removed or reefed.
Californians must understand that the financial promises made by oil companies in the 1960s will not be actualized. We can either wait for eventual decommissioning and suffer more catastrophic oil spills or develop a viable solution to rid our coastal waters in the coming years.
- A Citizen’s Guide to Offshore Oil and Gas Decommissioning in Federal Waters Off California by The Interagency Decommissioning Working Group (2019)
- Evaluating Alternative for Decommissioning California’s Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms by The Ocean Science Trust (2015)
- California State Lands Commission’s Oil & Gas Webpage
- Pamphlets from the 2007 and 2010 Rigs to Reefs Conferences
- Los Angeles Times Article: “Millions of sea creatures lived on the Elly platform: Will they survive the oil spill?”
- PEW’s Stateline Article: “California Oil Spill Prompts New Push to Ban Offshore Drilling”
- California Marine Resources Legacy Act Text
- Oiled Wildlife Care Network Pipeline P00547 Incident
- California Artificial Reef Enhancement Program Website
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Members of the Auburn Tigers college basketball team tour the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem as part of their trip to Israel.
Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan shares with the team from Alabama his experiences visiting the Civil Rights Trail in the US South when he served as Israel’s Consul General in New York.
“Like my trip in the footsteps of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., your visit today to Yad Vashem is a journey through history,” Dayan says.
“The Holocaust is the representation of humanity’s lowest point, at time when all morality and justice was lost to an ideology that deemed Jews subhuman. Today we must fight hatred and antisemitism in all its forms, in order to ensure that history is never allowed to repeat itself.”
The 1st Division NCAA team from Auburn University is on a 10-day tour of Israel.
During the trip they will play three games: against the Israel U-20 National Team, against an Israel select all-star team and against the Israel National Team. | <urn:uuid:9fdc701d-5826-4b32-af7b-8d78034c35eb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/auburn-tigers-basketball-team-tours-yad-vashem-holocaust-memorial/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.943395 | 220 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Tagged: temperature CPU cooling
Let’s get some cooling fan discussion going!
Note: temp sensors in /sys one can just cat for degrees Celsius are located at:
/sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone1/temp /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone2/temp
My experience so far with a 80mm, 12V, 350mA, 4800RPM fan is mixed. Fan does its job well – it keeps the sensors at not much above 40C when CPUs are busy at 2GHz and DDR4 is at 2400, but it’s the loudest thing in the room by far (45-ish dB).
Any quieter solutions are welcome.
I came across another 80mm candidate for a cooling fan for the macchiatobin:
CoolerMaster A8015-20CB-3BN-F1 (a leftover part from a CoolerMaster mini-ITX box) – 12V, 120mA – an extremely quiet specimen! My macchiatobin is finally quieter than my desktop ; )
But most importantly, temp stays in the low 40s C under various stress tests @ 1.3GHz (same tests otherwise can go to 80C without active cooling).
Some of the easily overlooked heat conditions are:
– Prompted wait of u-boot.
– UART BOOT fallback of on-die BootROM.
Indeed, that u-boot prompt is a real heat hazard on the macchiatobin. The highest temp I’ve ever read on the mcbin was in the u-boot prompt – tsen reported 89C, after I had left u-boot prompt unattended for some time, under passive cooling.
I’ve just ordered a cooling fan myself. I found that the passive cooling simply was not sufficient.
I’m running Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS (as per the macchiatobin wiki) and my system is quite hot even when idle:
thermal_zone0 = 70 c
thermal_zone1 = 66 c
thermal_zone2 = 66 c
I’m concerned to run anything heavy as I do see the temperature go up very rapidly when there is anything CPU/memory intensive for example. Of course heat is the enemy in this case – so want to avoid damaging this board.
Any suggestions? I hope to have the cooling fan in the next few days.
Apparently board’s passive cooling was designed for ambient-t-controlled environments, and most developers’ workbenches clearly do not qualify. So active cooling is the way to go, and the purpose of this thread ; )
Re fans, in my experience 80mm-diameter fans are perfect for positioning right by the edge of the board, blowing at the SoC’s heatsink (incoming ascii art warning):
--N-N-N-N-N---- | I | | I | F->| . ### | F->| . ### | F->| | | DDDDDDDDDDD | --------------- Legend: N - network connectors I - PCIe3.0 x4 slot . - missing JTAG connector F - 80mm fan D - DIMM # - SoC -> - airflow
Clearly, a solution where the fan is positioned right on top of the heatsink would be optimal, but the board does not provide any attachment means for such contraptions.
Thanks for your reply. I have a fan on order and will scale back the tests I started performing – which led to:
kernel: armada_thermal f06f808c.thermal: Overheat critical high threshold temperature reached
FWIW they seem to be shipping with an actual little cpu fan on top of the heat sink.
Sadly the fan is *incredibly* noisy, and I think mine is failing after a few days of running. Will need to measure and get a replacement somewhere.
I had one of these laying around. It’s a drop-in replacement for the stock fan and is nearly silent.
To stress test, I’ve set my MacchiatoBIN to run at 2GHz and have four instances of this cpuburn running
After 60 minutes the temperature hovers around 67C (up from 50C at idle) in a room that is 23C. Power consumption is 19W (including 4GB RAM, 120GB SATA SSD, and 1Gb ethernet). There’s been no thermal throttling.
I ordered a nice little silent 40mm fan for mine, a ‘Fractal Design Silent Series R3 Black/White Silence-Optimized 40mm Case Fan’ from newegg.
Almost imperceptibly quiet and keeps the thermals just as well as the stock fan.
BTW, Gabor, I just came across your blog, and I’m super jealous of your benchtable : )
For comparison, this is what I’m working with (cooling turned out quite adequate, though).
Also, perhaps unsurprisingly, GEMM was among the first things I ran on my MacchiatoBin after powerup, but mine was of the home-variety SP one. Curiously enough, the combined results from your DGEMM and my SGEMM are very close to the ideal SP FLOPS = 2x DP FLOPS: yours: 17.5 DP GFLOPS, mine: https://github.com/blu/gemm#results, 6.52 SP flop/clock/core * 4 cores * 1.3GHz ~= 34 SP GFLOPS).
Opened here a thread asking what’s a suitable chassi for running the MacchiatoBin with an M.2 NVMe SSD and automatically powered on/off fan, http://macchiatobin.net/forums/topic/slim-macchiatobin-with-m-2-nvme-ssd-chassi-where-order/ .
I like to use the MacchiatoBin as a home/office server for stable operation in low and high loads.
The MacchiatoBin with its support for 16GB RAM, 10Gbit ethernet, high-IOPS SSD via the PCIe, and slim form factor, is I think the best option for a small ARM64 home/offie server today, so I just need the right chassi and fans – and a confirmation that the MacchiatoBin has the logics built-in to detect temperature and switch on/off fan accordingly, maybe I need to script that myself e.g. when above 55 centegrades, turn on the fan for the next 60 seconds.
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An electric vehicle uses an engine that is battery powered. It also has fewer parts that are moving.
This means that you can expect great performance as well as low costs related to maintenance. Despite how effective EVe are, they do need to be inspected from time to time.
By getting your electric vehicle inspected, you can ensure that your vehicle stays safe and reliable. Those inspecting your electric vehicle should look at the essential components of your vehicle.
They must also inspect its structure as well as lighting. The body condition needs to be checked, as does the braking as well as the wheel systems.
Does Tesla Need Inspection Sticker NJ?
If you’re wondering about electric vehicles and inspections, then you may need to consider whether your state requires you to have inspection stickers.
There are certain states, such as New Jersey, where 100% electric vehicles don’t need to have inspection stickers. This means that if you own a Tesla in New Jersey, you should be fine even without an inspection sticker.
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How Old Does A Car Have To Be To Not Be Inspected?
A car will need to be inspected from time to time, to ensure that it is safe and reliable for use. Within the US, different states decide what their rules regarding vehicle safety inspection are.
In New Jersey, for example, you would need to get safety and emissions testing done every two years. If your car is a brand name car, then you can get by without getting your vehicle inspected for the first four years.
If your car is an for one, or if it’s registered as an antique, then you don’t need to get emissions testing done. In Texas, emission tests are done every year.
These are done in large urban areas which 7nclude Dallas Metroplex, Houston Metro, San Antonio, Austin and El Paso.
There are also states, like California, where you only need to fo federally mandated inspections every two years.
If your car is at least twenty years old, then it may be considered a collector vehicle. How many years this has to be may vary from state to state.
In New Jersey, your car needs to be at least twenty five years old. But if your car is at least twenty years or older, then you may not need to get inspections done.
What Cars In NJ Do Not Need To Be Inspected
There are different kinds of vehicles that are exempt from inspection in the state of New Jersey. These include:
- 100% electric vehicles
- Motorized bicycles
- Farm tractors as well as traction equipment
- Historic vehicles, that are at least 25 years old
- Collector vehicles that has less than 3000 yearly mileage
Bought a New Car Without Inspection Sticker – What Should I Do?
Inspection stickers are important for cars. If you drive around without an inspection sticker, then you could get a ticket.
If you find that the car you’ve bought doesn’t have an inspection sticker, then get in touch with your local police station. Let them know what happened and ask them what you can go to get legal insurance for your car, as well as get an electric vehicle inspection done.
You can alternatively also go online to find out what your state’s requirements are. Ultimately however, you will need to get your car inspected.
NJ Car Inspection Requirements 2022
In the state of New Jersey, you will need to get your vehicle inspected every two years. This will help ensure that your vehicle is safe for use, and that it’s emissions meet the state standards.
When you get your inspection done, an inspection sticker will be attached to inside your windshield. This inspection sticker will also show the month it will expire in.
Ensure that you get your vehicle inspected at least two weeks before the deadline. In case your car is new, then you can wait five years before you get your car inspected for the first time.
Following this, you need to get it inspected every two years. When you go to get your car inspected, you’ll need to carry your driver’s license, as well as your car registration papers. You will also need proof of insurance.
Vehicles have been inspected in New Jersey from as early as 1938. Emissions testing on the other hand was started in the year 1974.
These days, it’s mainly the emissions of your vehicle, as well as its gas cap, that is checked. If your vehicle is a commercial vehicle, then you’ll need to get safety inspections done as well.
Testing protocol in New Jersey can vary, depending on the make and model of your car. However, for every emission test, there needs to be a pressure check of the gas cap.
This helps ensure that the gas cap is efficient in preventing fuel vapors from entering the environment. When the vehicle inspection is over, you’ll be provided with a brand new inspection sticker that is valid for a period of around two years.
The inspection of electric vehicles is important as well, to ensure that the car stays safe and reliable.
FAQ Relating to Electric Vehicle Inspections
By now you should know that a part of maintaining electric vehicles includes ensuring that they get inspected timely. A lot of people have questions when it comes to getting their electric vehicles inspected.
These are the most common questions that people have regarding the inspection of electric vehicles.
Do Electric Cars Need Inspection In Texas?
In the state of Texas, all vehicles, including electric vehicles, are required to take a safety test. There is one kind of test that an electric vehicle doesn’t need to take, and that’s an emissions test.
Your electric vehicle needs to have an inspection sticker in the state of Texas. And you also need to ensure that the registration sticker is updated as well.
Some Texas counties allow electric vehicles on the road without emissions testing. This is as these vehicles are designed to have 0 carbon emissions.
This makes this test unnecessary. However, ensure that you do your research to find out whether your Texas county needs you to get an emissions test for your electric vehicle or not.
Do Electric Cars Require Regular Maintenance?
Yes, if you own an electric car, then youll need to ensure that it gets maintained on a regular basis. Many people opt for an electric vehicle because maintaining it is easy
There are fewer mechanical elements in an electric car, when compared to a traditional gas driven car. It’s mainly the tires, the brake pads, the windshield washer fluid and the air conditioning filters that need to be regularly maintained.
The manufacturer will also ensure that every part of your electric car is carefully inspected. They’ll also need to look at both the braking systems in your EV.
The first of these is the regenerative braking, and then there’s also the standard braking. Maintainence work will also be done on the car’s chassis, tires as well as steering. The suspension will be checked, as will the body work.
It’s important to get these inspections done to ensure that the car stays safe to use. Finally, the levels of brake fluid as well as coolant fluid will need to be checked.
The tire pressure of your car should also be monitored on a daily basis. If you plan on taking your electric vehicle on a vacation, then ensure that it gets checked first.
As for your battery, it usually has a life of around ten years. For many electric car owners, their batteries continue to operate efficiently for another ten years or so.
There are many factors affecting the performance of your battery, including how frequently you use your car. Ideally, you should get your electric vehicle checked for every 30,000 kilometers that you travel.
Do Electric Cars Need NYS Inspection?
Safety exemptions are not granted in New York City, for any car. This means that even your electric vehicle will need to be taken in for a safety inspection.
You should get a safety inspection for your car every twelve months. When the inspection is done, you’ll receive an inspection sticker that is valid for two years.
However, it’s possible for your electric vehicle to be exempt from emissions inspections. Check your local laws to find out more about your vehicle being exempt.
What Servicing Is Required For An EV?
You should ideally get your electric vehicle serviced for every 30,000 kms that it’s traveled. But there are other inspections that have to be done on a more regular basis.
This includes rotating the tires of your car, as well as ensuring all the fluids, such as the brake fluid, are at the level they need to be in.
The different parts of the car will also be carefully inspected, such as the brake pads and the suspension.
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By Dennis Thompson
MONDAY, Dec. 20, 2021 (HealthDay Information) — Individuals within the prime of their lives are frightened concerning the kilos they packed on in the course of the pandemic and plan to do one thing About it within the new 12 months, a brand new Harris Ballot/HealthDay survey finds.
Almost 2 of each 3 U.S. adults (63%) plan to vary up their weight-reduction plan in 2022, both by consuming much less or reducing again on particular meals, ballot outcomes reveal.
Adults between the ages of 18 and 44 are essentially the most frightened concerning the well being results of their pandemic weight gain, in line with ballot outcomes.
People in that age vary usually tend to say they're scuffling with weight-reduction plan and weight administration. They're additionally extra frightened that the hit their well being took in the course of the pandemic will have an effect on them in years to return.
"These youthful adults usually tend to be employed, they usually're additionally extra more likely to be dad and mom of kids underneath 18. That most likely means these people usually tend to have been harassed in the course of the pandemic," stated Harris Ballot Vice President Kathy Steinberg.
"In case you're an grownup who's 55-plus or 65-plus, sure, it sucks that you simply haven't been capable of go to household and also you've been quarantined, however perhaps your life hasn't modified that a lot when it comes to what you're doing," Steinberg continued. "Whereas in the event you're a mother or father and also you used to ship your youngsters to highschool and also you used to commute to work, your entire life has modified."
Total, greater than 2 in 5 adults (43%) stated they gained weight in the course of the pandemic.
Of these, 7 in 10 (71%) are involved concerning the weight they gained, together with 1 in 4 (26%) who strongly agree.
A deeper dive into the ballot numbers help Steinberg's rivalry that the busier lives of youthful adults make them extra more likely to be harassed concerning the well being results of the pandemic.
Stressors have dad and mom frightened about well being
Employed people had been extra more likely to say the pandemic has made it harder to handle their weight (46% vs. 38% for unemployed) and that the unfavorable well being results of the pandemic will have an effect on them for years to return (49% vs. 42%).
Mother and father of youngsters underneath 18 had even stronger worries about how the pandemic had harmed their weight and their well being, in comparison with adults with out youngsters that age. They had been extra more likely to:
- Fear about struggling long-term unfavorable well being impacts from the pandemic (55% vs. 41%)
- Say the pandemic has made it harder to handle their weight (53% vs. 37%).
- Fret that they'll ever have the ability to lose the load they gained in the course of the pandemic (48% vs. 34%).
- Wrestle extra now sticking to a weight-reduction plan than they did previous to the pandemic (46% vs. 33%)
"They’ve busier lives. They’ve extra occurring of their lives with employment and children, and they also've simply had much more to handle in the course of the pandemic," Steinberg defined. "If you're making an attempt to handle youngster care and dealing from dwelling, private well being and weight could be the factor that type of falls to the again burner."
Calorie counting is the most well-liked weight-reduction plan pattern amongst individuals who plan to observe what they eat in 2022, the ballot discovered.
Almost 20% of all adults plan to depend energy within the new 12 months, together with 29% of people that tried to weight-reduction plan in the course of the pandemic and 32% of those that plan to do one thing about their weight in 2022.
Fasting takes off
About 16% of individuals plan to attempt intermittent fasting, in line with the ballot. With intermittent fasting, you're solely allowed to eat throughout a selected window of time every day, or you have to stick with a restricted quantity of energy on sure days of the week.
"The commonest one we are inclined to see is the 16-hour window of fasting that leaves an eight-hour window of consuming," stated Caroline Susie, a Dallas-based registered dietitian and nationwide spokeswoman for the Academy of Diet and Dietetics.
Intermittent fasting has been round for hundreds of years, and is even a part of some long-standing spiritual practices, Susie stated in an interview with HealthDay Now.
This consuming sample is now having its "quarter-hour of fame," Susie stated, probably as a result of it's simpler for folks to undertake than diets that require you to chop out carbs, fat or particular varieties of meals.
"What's good is it doesn't inform you what to eat. It tells you when to eat," Susie stated. "In case you're any person who isn't a giant fan of lists or what's on my plan or not on my plan, this could possibly be an choice for you."
Some ballot respondents do plan to attempt a extra restrictive weight-reduction plan, nonetheless. About 16% plan to attempt a low-fat weight-reduction plan in 2022, and 15% a low-carb weight-reduction plan.
These kinds of weight-loss diets are a lot tougher to stay with than an consuming sample like intermittent fasting, stated Dr. Lawrence Cheskin, chair of diet and meals research at George Mason College in Fairfax, Va.
"If it’s important to 100% of the time adhere to a really strict dietary plan, everyone knows most individuals are usually not going to do this for lengthy they usually're not going to get pleasure from it," Cheskin instructed HealthDay Now.
The Academy of Diet and Dietetics has extra about fad diets.
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The Federal Government on Monday took delivery of another tranche of COVID-19 vaccine doses.
The latest tranche, over four million doses of the Moderna vaccine, was donated by the US government.
Representatives from UNICEF and USAID officially presented the vaccine at a ceremony in Abuja.
According to AFP, the vaccines had arrived Nigeria on Sunday via two planes.
Nigeria had earlier kicked off its COVID-19 vaccination program in April after receiving 3.9 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine from the COVAX initiative.
Covax was set up to ensure the equitable distribution of vaccines, particularly to low-income countries, and has already delivered more than 80 million doses to 129 territories.
The Moderna vaccines, which were approved by NAFDAC in July, are expected to boost the country’s vaccination programme.
The virus has killed 2,149 people and infected nearly 174,000 in Nigeria, but the real figures are believed to be much higher, in part because of low testing rates.
Last month, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control said it had detected the Delta variant, putting officials on alert for a third wave of infections in the country.
In June, Nigeria barred passengers who are not citizens or permanent residents from entering the country if they have been in South Africa in the past 14 days.
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What Makes a Great Personal Statement? (Part 1 of 3)
A personal statement can be approached from many different angles. However, all personal statements should answer the basic question of why the applicant is pursuing the profession, while shedding light on their personal qualities that can’t be evaluated from test scores. The best statements concisely answer these questions using specific life experiences that provide insight into the applicant’s background and personality to the admissions committee.
Let’s evaluate a personal statement and show you how to turn an average essay into an excellent one.
Sample Personal Statement:
When you evaluate a personal statement, it can be broken down into ten main components:
- organization / flow
We’ll be taking a look at the bolded components for part one.
We start an evaluation by reviewing grammar. Are there obvious grammar errors such as improper spelling, punctuation usage, or formatting? Multiple grammar errors and typos in a personal statement shows the admissions committee the applicant does not care enough to have their statement reviewed and edited. If the applicant can’t take the time to fix simple errors, how can the admissions committee believe the applicant will put in the time and effort to pursue the dental profession? Correcting grammar errors is an easy fix that every applicant must do.
2. Organization and Flow
We follow grammar review by evaluating the statement’s organization and flow; an incredibly important component of every personal statement. In the sample statement, the applicant follows a logical timeline, referencing life experiences that have led him to dentistry. However, there is no thesis or mission statement that gives the reader a sense of direction. In the context of a personal statement, a thesis statement lets the admissions committee know why and how you have chosen the dental profession. The thesis statement should be written first so that the remaining essay can be written and structured based on it. In the sample statement, the applicant references a mission trip and working at various clinics as how they learned they were interested in using their hands through dentistry to treat underprivileged patients. While mentioned in places throughout the statement, it needs to be stated in the beginning.
I would recommend the following thesis statement for the sample:
“After having gone on a dental mission trip to Mexico and working in various dental clinics, I have learned that dentistry will allow me to combine my manual dexterity with my desire to treat the underprivileged while constantly being challenged to improve myself professionally and as a person.”
This sentence encompasses the main idea of the statement, but more importantly, gives the admissions committee a general idea of who the applicant is as a person.
The clarity of a personal statement is dependent on its organization and thesis statement. One of the most common mistakes made while writing a personal statement is distracting the reader with topics that are not found in the thesis. Unfortunately, this only serves the purpose of “fluff.” Keeping your personal statement concise is especially important because of the limited character count. Organization and flow help maintain an easy-to-follow timeline that creates clarity. Each paragraph should have a clear purpose, and should not deviate too far from that purpose.
When reading an article, you sometimes conjure up a mental image of the article author – this is your perception of the author. A statement’s perception is one of the most important components an admissions officer considers. An applicant should ask themselves the following questions when revising their essay:
- Does the essay portray a future physician or dentist?
- Does the essay portray an intelligent and well-informed medical or dental student?
- Does the essay portray the applicant’s true personality while being positive?
Perception can be interpreted differently depending on who is reading the essay. It’s important that the statement portrays the applicant’s personality while maintaining a professional tone. The medical and dental professions are combinations of elements from different professions. There is a balance between multiple different aspects, but a few of the major elements are treating patients, learning the biomedical sciences, and being a leader in the field. It’s important not to overemphasize one component without addressing the others. The statement should not make the reader believe that another profession is more suitable for the applicant. For example, overemphasizing the desire to serve people without mentioning an interest in science and medicine would have the reader believe that ministry or social work is a better professional match.
When you are done writing a draft of your personal statement, one of the most important things you can do is to review the vocabulary you used. You may be tempted to add "big" and "fancy" words to your essay because you want to impress the reader. However, remember that the goal of a personal statement is to "write to express, not to impress". Avoid trying to use words that you would not typically use on a day-to-day basis (for example, don't say "I was zealous to pursue dentistry" when you could just "I was passionate about dentistry"). Part of being a great dentist is to be able to communicate clearly to patients by speaking in a clear, easy-to-understand way. | <urn:uuid:11b26fbe-876f-4dbd-af5f-0d706df0c5d2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bootcamp.com/blog/what-makes-a-great-personal-statement-part-1-of-3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.941582 | 1,125 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Getting an equal deal on super
Recent discussions of marriage equality for same sex couples have highlighted the difference that marriage can make, especially for issues like child custody. But when it comes to super, couples don’t need to officially tie the knot.
On 1 July 2008, the Australian government made sweeping changes to the law affecting the rights of couples and families, including in relation to superannuation. As a result, heterosexual and same-sex couples in a de facto relationship now have the same entitlements regarding superannuation as married couples (note that family law amendments relating to de facto relationships do not currently apply in WA).
Defining a de facto relationship
In the Family Law Act, a de facto relationship is defined as two people living together on a genuine domestic basis, having regard to all the circumstances of the relationship – in other words, as a married couple would. Generally, the couple needs to be together for two years or more. For taxation purposes, the relevant definition is ‘spouse’. This includes persons of the same or different sex in relationships registered under State or Territory law, and persons living on a genuine domestic basis as a couple.
Superannuation and de facto relationships before 2009
However, until 1 March 2009, de facto couples had different superannuation rights than people who were officially married. For example, if you were in a de facto relationship that broke down, you couldn’t divide superannuation entitlements as married couples could, potentially leaving the lower earning partner much worse off.
Also, if you were in a same sex de facto relationship and your partner passed away, you could only receive a death benefit from a private sector superannuation fund as your de facto’s beneficiary if you could prove that you were either financially dependent on them or that you were in an interdependent relationship.
If the death benefit were paid to the estate the tax could be higher than if paid to a dependant, potentially leaving the surviving partner (and any children) financially disadvantaged.
A broader definition of ‘spouse’
This all changed from 1 July 2008, when the definition of the word ‘spouse’ was amended. Since that date, ‘spouse’ for both super and tax refers to either:
– A person you are married to,
– Someone you are in a heterosexual or same-sex relationship with, and the relationship is registered under a State or Territory law,
– A person you are living with on a genuine domestic basis in a relationship as a couple – in other words, a de facto.
What does this mean for de facto couples?
This change has some important implications for de facto couples. Now, if you and your partner separate:
– Any property disputes will be heard in the Family Court and the Federal Magistrates’ Court.
– Your superannuation, property and debts will be divided considering what each of you contributed to the relationship, both financially and in terms of caring for the family and household.
– Your future needs will be taken into account – including taking care of children, your capacity to earn and the financial resources you already have (before 1 March 2009, only married couples had this option).
Importantly, if you are in a de facto relationship you can now split your superannuation entitlements too if the relationship breaks down, as married couples can, giving you more ways to divide your property fairly.
De facto couples are also eligible for death benefits in private sector superannuation funds, and receive the same death benefit tax concessions as married couples and their children.
From 1 March 2009, same-sex partners and their children can also be beneficiaries of superannuation payouts and receive equal access to death benefits and pensions within a Commonwealth superannuation scheme.
Find out more
To find out more about your financial rights in a de facto relationship, talk to your financial adviser today.
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NCERT Solutions for Class 6 English Honeysuckle Poem The Quarrel is given here. These Solutions covers answers for all the questions given in the chapter. These solutions will help students to prepare well and face the English exam with full confidence. You can also download the PDF of these solutions for free.
Class 6 English Poem The Quarrel Questions and Answers
Working with the poem
Question 1: With your partner try to guess the meaning of the underlined phrases.
(i) And somehow we fell out.
(ii) The afternoon turned black.
Answer: fell out – quarrelled or argued.
turned black – was spoiled or wasted due to bad or tensed mood.
Question 2: Read these lines from the poem:
(i) One thing led to another
(ii) The start of it was slight
(iii) The end of it was strong
(iv) The afternoon turned black
(v) Thumped me on the back
Discuss with your partner what these lines mean.
Answer: (i) The quarrel began from a certain point and then they quarrelled on some other point and so on.
(ii) The start and cause of the quarrel was petty and small.
(iii) The quarrel ended on a sour note which had a long lasting effect.
(iv) The quarrel spoiled the mood of the quarrelling persons and the afternoon became intolerably sad.
(v) Patted on the back in an amiable manner.
Question 3: Describe a recent quarrel that you have had with your brother, sister or friend. How did it start? What did you quarrel about? How did it end?
Answer: Recently, I had a quarrel with my best friend Ramesh. It was over a small thing. I had asked Ramesh to accompany me to the Railway Station where I had to go to receive a visitor. Ramesh refused. I went alone but later on I did not speak to Ramesh in the class. He needed my help in his homework but I refused to help him. He was very angry and he too stopped talking to me.
Two days passed, we were on the playground playing cricket. Suddenly a ball hit me and I fell down. Ramesh ran, took me on his scooter to the doctor and then brought me home. I thanked Ramesh and we were friends again.
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Cords and braids have been common details in Viking age clothing. They have been used along the upper edges of smokks, along the front edges of women’s coats and caps and probably in several other places even if we don’t have any evidence. Interesting is that in all known cases where a tablet woven braid has been sewn on top of the upper edge of a smokk, there has been a cord along the upper edge of the tablet weaving.
We don’t know how the wider braids were used, but a possible interpretation is that they were used as garters. Their flexibility makes them suitable for that, and such braids have been used as garters in later times.
All the cords and braids that I have found have been made in wool yarn of different thicknesses. In most cases we know nothing of the colours, but we can guass that adorning details often had more and stronger colours than the rest.
Finger-Loop Braids from Birka
Interpretation of several cord finds with triangular cross-sections from Birka. Have been used to adorn the clothing; along the upper edge of smokks and the front edge of open women’s jackets. Finger-loop braids have a triangularish cross-section, but other interpretations are also possible. No remains of colours were left.
After two finds from Gotland, and several finds of knitting spools from e.g. Sigtuna and Lund, from the 11th century. May have been used for pulling a purse opening together and as a pearl cord. Spool-knitted/lucet cords have a square cross-section. No remains of colours were left.
Three-Strand Braid from Dublin
Sex-Strand Braid from Haithabu
Inga Hägg’s interpretation of a find from Haithabut where it was sewn along the edge of a fitting seam on the back of a smokk. The braid was made of three red and three yellow strands, but I have not found any information about how they were distributed.
After finds from Mammen and Birka. No remains of colours were left; the picture shows a single-colour braid, but patterns are also possible. Unknown use, but a possible interpretation is that it was used as a garter.
Narrow Sprang from Birka
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Diane Arbus Books
Diane Arbus was an American photographer. Arbus explored gender issues. Her imagery helped to normalize marginalized groups and highlight the importance of proper representation of all people.
A great book to own as a Diane Arbus fan is Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph.
Buy collectable and new photography books and prints by Diane Arbus here
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9 Nov 2018 Posted in Press releases
Facebook has declined to take down a post that is clearly false, defamatory and attacks Singapore, using falsehoods.
This shows why we need legislation to protect us from deliberate online falsehoods.
Many Malaysian publications, including China Press, that had initially reported STR’s malicious post, took it down after our High Commission in Malaysia issued a clarification to say the post was false and libellous.
Sarawak Report and its editor Ms Clare Rewcastle Brown have issued two statements to say STR’s claim that the Report had declared Singapore to be the next target of the 1MDB investigation was false.
But Facebook does not feel all this is sufficient grounds for it to remove the post. FB cannot be relied upon to filter falsehoods or protect Singapore from a false information campaign.
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Residential Treatment Centers for Teens from Missouri
WinGate is a premier Treatment Center that offers help for teens from Missouri in need of treatment for behavioral, emotional and mental health concerns through our Treatment Center. We receive referrals from Residential Treatment Centers all over the country. Our goal is to guide troubled teenagers in overcoming their substance abuse and addiction problems so they can start a new life of sobriety. Though WinGate may be located outside of Missouri, we enroll teens from any state in the US.
Although WinGate is not a Residential Treatment Center, we provide many of the same services, only in an outdoor setting. Our Wilderness Therapy Program takes struggling adolescents away from their peers in Missouri and places them in the beautiful surroundings of the outdoors. With no outside distractions, teens can focus fully on recovery and changing their negative behaviors into positive ones.
Many parents have a difficult time fully understanding the issues their teen is facing. Depression, addictions, behavioral concerns, failure in school, and sexual promiscuity are often complicated by underlying mental health concerns. We work to address what is causing the behavior and then focus on gaining insight into helping adolescents change their habits.
We have found the best approach to bringing positive, lasting changes in a teen’s life is through honor, respect, and understanding, rather than confrontation. With the beautiful surroundings of nature, we nurture teens from Missouri, and help them identify and focus on their strengths.
Parents who are searching for Treatment Centers for their troubled teenager should contact our WinGate representatives to learn how the outdoors can completely change a struggling teen’s perspective in life.
We are here to offer guidance, understanding and help so parents of teens in Missouri can decide if our Wilderness Therapy Program will be right for their child. Call WinGate Wilderness Therapy at (800) 560-1599 and speak with one of our consultants today!
Substance Abuse Treatment Center for Teens From Missouri
WinGate is a Wilderness Therapy Program for teens from Missouri who are dealing with all types of addictions, behaviors, and mental health concerns. Through our Substance Abuse Treatment Program, teens can learn the valuable skills they must have for lifetime sobriety. Our adventure therapy program is a proudly affiliated member of the National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs.
Frequently, adolescents become embroiled in pressures from their peers to try drugs and alcohol. At first, they may agree simply because they want to be accepted. Unfortunately, it does not take long for a teen to become addicted which further complicates any mental or emotional health issues they may be suffering from.
Through our Treatment Center, we instruct teens in Missouri on gaining perspective on their substance abuse and addiction. We give them the key tools they need to embrace so they can live a sober life even when they return to Missouri. Wilderness Therapy has been proven successful in treating troubled adolescents because it allows them the unique opportunity of getting away from it all and simply focusing on turning their lives around.
Parents are amazed as they watch their teen from Missouri transform. As teens progress through our program, they soon learn they have the inner strength to face life’s challenges without succumbing to the defeatist behaviors that have held them back in the past. Suddenly, their eyes are opened, and they realize they can achieve their goals and live a sober life with meaning and purpose.
WinGate gives hope to the hopeless and challenges struggling teens from Missouri to rise above their current issues and embrace learning new skills and nurturing new relationships. As they work with their peers and therapeutic staff, strong bonds are formed that help to strengthen the changes taking place in their life.
Adventure Therapy Program
WinGate offers Adventure Therapy through our Wilderness Therapy Program for teens in Missouri. Based on the philosophies of the Arbinger Institute, we focus on identifying strengths and helping teens from Missouri to understand there are natural consequences for every decision they make, whether positive or negative. Through our Adventure Therapy Program, adolescents can overcome their substance abuse and addiction, so they are ready to set course on their new sober life.
WinGate’s Adventure Therapy Program allows teens from Missouri to work side by side with their peers and therapeutic staff to reach their goals. The relationships they foster during treatment enable them to learn effective and appropriate communication skills.
Through our wilderness therapy program, teens can learn survival skills while being surrounded by the immense and calming beauty of nature. The adolescents that go through our program suffer from addictions and mental health issues that are holding them back from living a healthy and fulfilling life. Unfortunately, teens can become addicted to many drugs, both legal and illegal which often stems from substance abuse.
While in our program, teens are not exposed to cell phones, computers, social media, television or video games. They are truly able to clear their minds and gain a greater level of focus and understanding. The outdoors offers a natural openness that allows teenagers to feel comfortable sharing their thoughts, fears and issues with their peers and their therapeutic staff members. Through both individual and group therapy, teens in Missouri begin to transform their mind and body.
Parents of adolescents in Missouri are urged to contact one of our counselors who are standing by to help. We are here to offer help to those parents who feel there is no hope. Allow us to shine a light on the issues teens are facing so we can help parents make informed decisions for their child’s treatment.
National Resources for Parents and Teens
Mental Health America (MHA) – The purpose of this organization is to work for the mental health, wellness and victory over substance use and mental conditions through developing a coordinated citizens’ voluntary movement. They advocate for the improved treatment and care of people with addiction and mental conditions, and also advocate for improved methods in prevention, research, diagnosis, detection and treatment of substance use and mental conditions.
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The Metropolis of the Western Reserve Reclaims its Urbanity
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Cleveland has long been ridiculed as a dysfunctional city bisected by the once-infamous Cuyahoga River, where oil-soaked debris caught fire in 1969. Yet today more than 40 species of fish live in the far cleaner Cuyahoga, crew teams ply its curves, and the $250 million Flats East Bank development, with an 18-story office tower, hotel, nightclubs, and apartments, is rising amid the numerous bridges that link the city's halves. Burning River, meanwhile, is the name of a pale ale made by the local Great Lakes Brewing Company'a signal of counterintuitive pride in the city's big moment of shame, and a measure of how far it's come since then.
Though its population has shrunk to just below 400,000 from nearly 1 million in the 1950s, Cleveland is experiencing a $6 billion burst of development that includes everything from big downtown projects to the fine-grained revival of a half-dozen neighborhoods. An influx of young professionals, drawn by jobs in tech, digital media, marketing, and biomedical companies, has led to a tight downtown rental market with a residential population of about 10,000 and growing, and an occupancy rate of nearly 96 percent.
Michael Christoff, a 30-year-old architectural designer who grew up in rural Canfield, Ohio, says he decided to stick around Cleveland after graduating from Kent State University in 2004 with a bachelor's degree in architecture because he saw new opportunities in a city young people once fled. 'If you've got ideas and you're passionate enough to put the work into doing them, people in Cleveland will support you,' he says. 'You can engage and get traction.'
The change in Cleveland is readily visible four miles east of downtown in the University Circle neighborhood, the fast-growing cultural and educational hub, which is also home to University Hospitals and the world-famous Cleveland Clinic, the city's largest employers, with a combined staff of nearly 30,000. To stand there on Euclid Avenue, once notable for its Millionaires' Row mansions, is to catch a glimpse of a city capitalizing on one square mile of legacy institutions set among greenways designed a century ago by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. Fresh investments in the district include a $350 million expansion of the Cleveland Museum of Art, designed by Rafael Vi'oly, and the new home of the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), a shiny gemstone in black, reflective stainless steel by Farshid Moussavi. MOCA anchors the eight-acre Uptown development, on the flank of Case Western Reserve University, which includes apartments, a bookstore, a supermarket, nightclubs, and restaurants wrapped in crisply geometric, aluminum-clad buildings designed by Stanley Saitowitz/Natoma Architects of San Francisco.
Such projects raise the possibility that other shrinking cities across the industrial Great Lakes could build a brighter future on similarly rich assets such as medical and cultural institutions, universities, specialized manufacturing, and handsome early-20th-century neighborhoods. Also key is a relatively low cost of living and a vast supply of Great Lakes water, now much improved in quality after decades of environmental regulation originally inspired by a certain burning river.
State and federal historic-preservation tax credits and other forms of public-sector leverage, including large-scale mass-transit improvements, have triggered many of the new projects. The Regional Transit Authority's new $200 million rapid bus line on Euclid Avenue, modeled on an award-winning fast-boarding system in Curitiba, Brazil, has boosted ridership with faster headways and shiny silver buses. It also provided the impetus to rebuild crumbling Euclid Avenue. That investment'80 percent of it in federal funds'has reinforced or leveraged more than $1 billion in development in University Circle alone, says Chris Ronayne, director of University Circle Inc., the area's nonprofit community-development corporation. 'This was an intentional effort to bring back our historic Main Street,' he says.
To be sure, Cleveland still struggles with poverty, racial tension, and poor public schools. Its shrinking population means the city is losing political clout in Congress and in the politically fragmented northeast Ohio region, where most of the 3.8 million residents live in sprawl suburbs and rarely go downtown. Yet several decades of patient stewardship by its cultural institutions, universities, foundations, and developers is paying off in selected parts of the city.
Efforts to improve social equity are part of the package. The Cleveland Foundation, the nation's oldest community foundation, with assets of over $1 billion, persuaded University Hospitals and the Cleveland Clinic to spread their wealth into the surrounding poor, predominantly African-American neighborhoods by patronizing local employee-owned cooperatives such as laundries and urban greenhouses.
The Cleveland Foundation also cajoled the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District to work with Kent State University's Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative and others on a $3 billion project to cut pollution from the aging combined storm and sewer systems. The collaboration is part of KSU's 'Reimagining Cleveland,' an influential study of how the city could reuse neighborhoods hollowed out by population loss and foreclosures for parks, agriculture, constructed wetlands, and trails. 'It's about nothing less than creating a sustainable framework for reviving the city,' says Terry Schwarz, who heads the KSU program. 'Rather than let the voids dilute the city, we have to think about putting vacant land back into productive but nontraditional uses.'
The new projects across Cleveland are adding a fresh layer of architecture and landscape to the handsome civic armature established during the late 19th and early 20th centuries by industrial barons who built immense fortunes in oil, steel, mining, and banking, including John D. Rockefeller, industrial magnate John Long Severance, and Jeptha H. Wade, a founder of the Western Union Telegraph Company. 'We inherited incredible bones, then we figured out how to take these wonderful old buildings and give them new uses,' says the developer Ari Maron of MRN Ltd. Outside the historic core, prior attempts at revitalization include the less-than-successful Erieview urban-renewal district, conceived in 1961 by a young I.M. Pei. The project erased 200 acres of downtown density and filled the ensuing voids with bland Modernist towers now struggling to keep tenants.
Though considered the Midwest, Cleveland clings to its New England roots as part of a territory once termed the Western Reserve of Connecticut, first surveyed by Moses Cleaveland in 1796. He laid the plans for a 10-acre public square and downtown grid atop a 70-foot-high bluff that rises above Lake Erie and the Cuyahoga River. Downtown is still dominated by landmarks, such as the Neoclassical 1931 Terminal Tower, and by one of the largest intact City Beautiful districts in the country, designed in 1903 by Daniel Burnham. Part of the district will be relandscaped by Gustafson Guthrie Nichol of Seattle atop a new, below-grade convention center, designed by LMN Architects, also of Seattle. The $465 million project includes the nation's first Medical Mart, a showroom for advanced medical devices, set to open next year. Almost 20 years ago, Cleveland pegged its hopes for rebirth on such big, taxpayer-bankrolled projects as the Browns stadium and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a mediocre building designed by an older I.M. Pei, plopped on the drab lakefront. The projects ensured that the city retained its major-league teams and attracted tourists, but did nothing to improve streetscapes or the poorly planned Lake Erie shoreline, cut off from downtown by a railroad and an interstate highway.
That once-elegant downtown, its broad streets nearly empty of shops, is still quiet these days, but there are pockets of vibrancy. Along East Fourth Street, in the shadow of the Gateway ballpark and basketball arena, also built in the 1990s, MRN Ltd. gentrified a dingy block of wig shops and greasy spoons, turning it into a regional hotspot for nightlife. Anchors on the street include Lola Bistro, one piece of a growing restaurant empire conceived by Iron Chef Michael Symon'part of the city's booming locavore gourmet movement'and the House of Blues, where you might catch one of the regular Pecha Kucha nights. In those alcohol-fueled networking events, young creatives strut their ideas in successive six-minute-and-40-second presentations on everything from art and fashion design to comedy, ceramics, and community redevelopment. 'The energy is pretty awesome,' says designer Christoff, an organizer of the events. If at least some of those twenty- or thirtysomethings stick around to grow new companies and raise families, Cleveland just might achieve its dream: a self-sustaining wave of reinvestment that leads the way to an even bigger rejuvenation.
Steven Litt is the architecture critic of the Plain Dealer in Cleveland.
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Hospitality Design: The Creative Craftsmanship of Pierre-Yves Rochon ⇒ Since 1979, Rochon and his team have been able to enhance the guest experience by providing the most luxurious hospitality interiors!
Pierre-Yves Rochon has long been regarded as a pioneer when it comes to developing the hospitality sector. By virtue of such, PYR has designed, over the years, cutting-edge solutions in hospitality design as well as the residential sector. The creative authenticity and craftsmanship of PYR are undeniable and his influence has spread all around the world, and today, PullCast Blog takes a look at some of the designer’s most outstanding hospitality design projects.
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Hospitality Design: Top Interior Design Projects
PYR has an impressive assortment of design achievements having designed for award-winning hospitality chains such as Four Seasons, Waldorf Astoria, Peninsula, Shangri-La, among countless other boutique hotels. Below, you can take a look at five of Rochon’s most outstanding hotel interior designs!
The Four Seasons George V hotel was completely redesigned in the classical Louis XVI style with some of the most highlighting features being marble floors, trompe l’oeil ceilings, crystal chandeliers, original ironwork, among others. All of the hotel suites and guestrooms also benefit from classic elements which are also combined with modern-day technologies.
When designing the interiors of the Shangri-La hotel, Rochon made sure to maintain its classical French roots while adding the international flair that the hotel chain is so known for. High ceilings, tall windows, and old-world elegance give the 81 guestrooms a stately atmosphere of centuries past while integrating the latest in-room technologies.
In the Peninsula Shanghai, Art Deco styles blend perfectly with traditional Chinese elements; rich colors and hand-crafted details bring the hotel’s restaurants and bars to life. Furthermore, contemporary design features can be seen throughout the hotel.
At Waldorf Austria Beverly Hills, you can sense a combination of the Southern California spirit and Old Hollywood glamours. While the exterior of this hospitality design is rather modern, the interiors are light-filled and Art Deco styled. Other outstanding design elements found in the hotel’s areas are Italian marbles, French crystal, and hand-blow glass chandeliers, all of which bring a distinctive European flair to the luxury hotel.
Reminiscent of a bygone era, the hotel’s authentic English Neoclassical interiors reflect the port city’s dual heritage, blending a classical European aesthetic with Chinese architectural and decorative elements.
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You have likely heard the old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words. You may have also heard the claim by Dr. James McQuivey of Forrester Research that one minute of video is worth 1.8 million words. While both of these are only figures of speech meant to provide a tangible scope of reference, the reality is that multimodal communication does have the ability to communicate messages more effectively.
One of my areas of interest is assessment and feedback—specifically feedback literacy. Feedback literacy, as noted by Carless and Boud (2018), involves equipping learners with the skills to identify feedback and implement it meaningfully in order to improve their work and engage more fully in the assessment process. That is, of course, if they even open the feedback instructors provide. In an attempt to make feedback more accessible, some have experimented with non-textual forms of feedback such as audio and video feedback formats (Henderson & Phillips, 2015; Mahoney et al., 2019). Last year, I decided to try the video feedback tool in Blackboard. I wanted to provide my students with feedback that (a) they would choose to view, and (b) feedback they might use. The experience quickly led to an ongoing scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) project.
In the remainder of this post, I will outline three treasures (positive aspects) and three trials (negative aspects) of my use of video feedback.
- Students watched the feedback. I believe that building connections with my students is important, so I thought that presenting feedback to them in video format might help strengthen that rapport. The next class after I released the first instance (of 11) of video feedback, there was a buzz in the classroom. When I asked what the students were excited about, one spoke up and said, “We just realized that you recorded video feedback for ALL OF US! That’s so cool!” Another student approached me after that same class to tell me that they appreciated the personal nature of the feedback and how it was different than anything they had experienced. They even showed their parents!
- Students used the feedback to improve their work. In my courses, I often employ a variety of assessments. In my Digital Technology course I had two recurring assignments: (a) Flipgrid video responses and (b) group concept maps. In the three years prior to last, I found that students would make the same errors and neglect the same aspects of the assignments despite me providing a completed marking rubric and textual comments. When using video feedback, however, I found that far fewer students made the same subsequent errors on their Flipgrid responses. Interestingly, during the second group concept map, I could hear students chatting about how their first group’s feedback was “to include more connections to the course” and “to make sure all relationships are labeled.” Although my SoTL project was not designed to assess whether the video feedback resulted in a statistically significant increase in grades based on video feedback, students noted that it led to deeper learning.
- The feedback I provided was more deliberate, constructive, and personal. I’d like to think that my feedback has typically been useful to students. However, it is easy to fall into using “canned” comments when providing textual feedback. I found that the feedback I provided to students in the videos addressed their work in greater detail and explained not only error but how those errors could be improved. The whole flow of the feedback was more natural than pithy comments interspersed throughout their work. I also found myself paying closer attention to their work and focusing more on the details of their work in addition to overall structure and content.
- Giving video feedback was exhausting. If you have been teaching online this year, you might have experienced the phenomenon of Zoom fatigue. I experienced a similar effect after providing video feedback to 64 students for 11 assignments each (704 videos). Just as video allows you to communicate using facial gestures and fluctuations in your voice, so too does video show every instance of exhaustion, fatigue, and monotony. In my haste to try video feedback, I neglected to use it strategically.
- Video feedback was not faster. The time it takes to write textual feedback and complete rubrics can quickly add up. I expected that video feedback would save some time marking, or at very least equal out to the time that textual feedback took. This was not the case. For larger assignments, including large written assignments, the five-minute maximum allowance of the blackboard tool meant I saved some time per paper. However, I found that I recorded between 2-3 minutes per Flipgrid response—an assignment that in years past had taken less than a minute to mark per video. Factor in lag time between clicks to open the video recorder and video processing time, and the process slows down significantly. Not to mention that marking needed to be done in a place where I could record video (quieter than the typical coffee shop), which meant that marking time needed to be scheduled more deliberately than in the past.
- Not all students were ready for video feedback. For feedback to be effective, students need to know what to do with it (Carless & Boud, 2018). Even though I spent some time explaining my video feedback and why I did it (especially as a way to integrate technology into assessment), not all students were prepared to use it. Few students actually made note of my suggestions in the video feedback, resulting in the videos being a source of entertainment and not instruction as I had intended.
So, should you incorporate video feedback? Yes!
In the end, using video feedback was more effective than textual feedback. Students unanimously identified that the video feedback was not only more interesting, but also led to a deeper connection to course material and the purpose of feedback in the teaching and learning process. In hindsight, I should have been more selective in my use of video feedback. Video feedback can be especially effective for iterative assignments or larger assignments, but for lower weighted assessments, textual feedback is likely enough. Had I considered this, I think I could have minimized the fatigue I felt. Regardless of your approach, I recommend that if you are going to use video feedback, you take time to explicitly address its purpose and how students can use it.
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The Sound of Music
Thursday, March 12 at 7:30 pm Friday, March 13 at 7:30 pm Saturday, March 14 at 2:00 pm & 7:30 pm
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|Music by Richard Rodgers Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II Book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse |
Suggested by “The Trapp Family Singers” by Maria Augusta Trapp
ABOUT THE SOUND OF MUSIC (from the Rodgers & Hammerstein website):
The final collaboration between Rodgers & Hammerstein was destined to become the world’s most beloved musical. When a postulant proves too high-spirited for the religious life, she is dispatched to serve as governess for the seven children of a widowed naval Captain. Her growing rapport with the youngsters, coupled with her generosity of spirit, gradually captures the heart of the stern Captain, and they marry. Upon returning from their honeymoon they discover that Austria has been invaded by the Nazis, who demand the Captain’s immediate service in their navy. The family’s narrow escape over the mountains to Switzerland on the eve of World War II provides one of the most thrilling and inspirational finales ever presented in the theatre. The motion picture version remains the most popular movie musical of all time.AWARDSThe original Broadway show opened in 1959 and won the following Tony Awards:
Best Actress in a Musical (Mary Martin)
Best Featured Actress in a Musical (Patricia Neway)
Best Scenic Design
Best Conductor and Musical Director
The 1965 movie won the following Academy Awards:
Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Music Score, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best CinematographyBACK STORY…Mary Martin, star of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s SOUTH PACIFIC on Broadway and London, and star of the Rodgers & Hammerstein-produced national tour of ANNIE GET YOUR GUN, approached the team in 1958 with the proposal that they write an Austrian-style folk song for inclusion in a stage adaptation that she and husband Richard Halliday were planning of a German-language film based on the true-life story of the von Trapp family singers. Rodgers & Hammerstein suggested that rather than write one song for the play-with-music, why not let them write the entire score for the story as a musical? That is, if Martin and Halliday wouldn’t mind waiting for a year, since at the time they were in the throes of FLOWER DRUM SONG. The response from Martin and Halliday: “We’ll wait.” The result was THE SOUND OF MUSIC.
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Housatonic Musical Theatre Society (HMTS)
HMTS is a theatre organization based at Housatonic Valley Regional High School (Falls Village, CT) where students of all levels of experience are encouraged to participate, either onstage or backstage, in the annual musical. Founded in 2003 by Lori Belter and Michael Berkeley, HMTS is proudly entering its 17th year of producing musicals at the high school.
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The inventor of the Ubuntu Baba baby carrier, Shannon McLaughlin, is encouraging other business owners to speak out about unethical practices at the hands of retailers. Picture: AAP/Dan Himbrechts The corporate identity for Woolworths replaces the more formal design that features a line of coloured bars but is only for the ASX-parent company and does not replace the traditional Woolworths . Each branch employed a mixture of full time and part time employees, and there was a distinct hierarchy apparent. Innovation - pushing to give our customers new products, processes and ideas. Innovation - discover the difference. Founded in 1924, Woolworths today is Australia's biggest supermarket chain with a market share of 33% as of 2019.
Woolworths (colloquially known in Australia as " Woolies ") is an Australian chain of supermarkets and grocery stores owned by Woolworths Group. The company operates around 1000 stores across Australia out of which 17 are convenience stores and 976 are supermarkets.
Woolworths Ltd Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy The Woolworth is an Australian retail giant that has for years continued to grow and make use of ideal corporate social responsibilities strategies. In late 2008, Woolworths entered administration, and subsequently closed in 2009. Below the line promotion options are- catalogues . In south Africa Woolworth runs stores like Marks N Spencer. Breaches of the code of conduct may lead to disciplinary action - including termination of employment.
October 30, 2019 4 mins read. How Woolworths Achieved Key Business Improvements Everyone knows Woolworths. The business entity Woolworths Limited has developed its own Code of Conduct to help enhance the Company's reputation by explaining how its legal, moral and ethical standards can be achieved every day through its employee's behaviours and choices. Woolworths was included for its uniquely ingrained sustainability principles across the business. The massive jump to its statutory profit was impacted by one-off occurrences including the $1.1 billion sale of its petrol business and a $371 million impairment related to the Big W chain and distribution centre closures. The first responsibility of the HR manager is to perform a Woolworth's human resource evolution of the organization's current HR policies and guidelines. Woolworths Online and Everyday Market from Woolworths Terms and Conditions for Business To shop for your business you have to agree to Woolworths Online and Everyday Market from Woolworths Terms and Conditions for Business by creating a dedicated business account. Protect Woolworths' Information Protect Woolworths' customers, Team Members and business information from misuse and loss. The alleged conduct, first revealed by Fairfax Media, included Woolworths seeking to reduce its expected profit shortfall by seeking about $60 million in payments from hundreds of suppliers. Part 1: Goodwill and Discontinued Operations. Strategic HR Management. They now take a combined 48% of Australian petrol sales - 24% each. Each branch employed a mixture of full time and part time employees, and there was a distinct hierarchy apparent. Woolworths Case Study Draft. This condition, which we formally called the 'local ownership condition,' was the one in which we removed all the safety processes, procedures, checklists and rules that were not specifically required by state or federal law. Show all financial metrics Woolworths Cybersecurity Score Woolworths strives to conduct business in a manner that reflects its core brand values i.e. Woolworths Ltd is a public owned company with its shareholders base exceeding 420,000 people, 40,000 of whom are directly employed by the company (Woolworths Supermarkets 2011). If you are a supplier to retailers or wholesalers who have signed up to the Food and Grocery Code of Conduct (signatories), we have outlined key things that you should know when conducting business, negotiating terms or trying to raise a complaint or resolve a dispute. Woolworths. The retail chains using the name of this brand are located in Mexico, Austria, Germany and also United Kingdoms. It has 840 supermarkets across Australia, 156 supermarkets in New Zealand, and also 22 retail stores in India which are the joint venture agreement with Indian supermarket chain Tata. Nestle has stopped supplying its market-leading Uncle Tobys oats and Vita Brits to Woolworths after Australia's largest supermarket chain refused to pass on a 6 per cent price rise late last month . Value and ethics include respect, responsibility, integrity, trust and fairness. Supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths are facing pressure to boycott suppliers linked to the exploitation of migrant workers, amid a desperate push to address ongoing issues within the labour hire industry. Activity-based costing (ABC) is an accounting technique that enables Woolworths Holdings to assign overhead activities costs of the firm to the specific products and services it produces & delivers. Woolworths believes that it needs to be socially responsible across multiple areas within the framework of People, Planet, and Prosperity. The ACCC has announced today that it intends to oppose the proposed acquisition by B P Australia Pty Ltd of Woolworths Limited's (ASX:WOW) network of retail service station sites. Woolworths outperforms the industry average on Net Promoter Score (NPS) at 46,8%, which measures the likelihood of a person recommending a brand, while Pick n Pay has the lowest NPS score which . ), but also sells magazines, DVDs, health and beauty . WOOLWORTHS is launching a new 'battle plan' to take on rivals Coles and Aldi. The retailer chain deals in a multiple of goods and services including food, liquor, hotel services, among many others. Step 3 - Marketing Plan. All people to whom this Code of Ethics applies shall observe their ethical obligations in such a way as to carry on business by fair commercial competitive practices, and without causing harm. "We don't use any form of facial recognition . "This landmark report points to the unconscionable conduct of Woolworths in pursuing this store in the face of large community opposition and the way in which the Northern Territory government . Customers cannot use their personal profile for business orders. Energy. SWOT analysis is a vital strategic planning tool that can be used by Woolworths managers to do a situational analysis of the company . Woolworths existing Supplier Code of Business Principles, against which all suppliers are regularly audited, has been bolstered by Woolworths sharing and encouraging initiatives across the supply chain in critical areas, and encouraging customers to use their purchasing power where it can make a difference to South Africa as a whole. Step 1 - Marketing Research & Analysis. It also aims at maximizing its profit. The supermarket giant Woolworths is to be investigated by the Fair Work Ombudsman in what is believed to be Australia's biggest wage underpayment case after admitting it owes staff as much as. Woolworths is committed to ensuring that, in all its business interactions including sourcing, franchising and commercial operations, it only deals with legal It has recently launched its updated app on Android and iOS with new functions and more security benefits.
Woolworths chief executive Grant O'Brien has joined forces with Wesfarmers managing director Richard Goyder in urging rivals Aldi, Costco and IGA to sign the landmark grocery code of conduct with . The large size had made the company complacent in its operations leading to loss of major market share. Key points: Woolworths says the underpayment of staff dates back to 2010 and may involve up to $300 million in unpaid wages and entitlements "They brag about ethical . Woolworths Limited is a retail company based in Australia and whose operations spread across the borders to the neighbouring New Zealand. After liquor came petrol. Woolworths was a high-street retail chain, which at its height operated more than 800 stores nationwide, and employed more than 30,000 staff. The five stages of Marketing Strategy Process of Woolworths Africa are -. The company employs approximately 210,000 people, operates in Australia and New Zealand, and is administered from its head office in Bella Vista, New South Wales. Mr Dower said extra cash paid was simply part of "ongoing commercial negotiations", which had been Woolworths' practice for years. They were identified from the MSCI ACWI and based on CDP's 2015 modelled and reported emissions data. Specifically, Woolworths will sell its liquor stores, pubs, and hotel division, which operates poker machines, The Conversation reports.To clarify, poker machines are what Americans call slot machines and British . Colloquially known as "Woolies" there, the company has extensive retail interests in the Oceania region . Ethical Practice towards consumers. Woolworths appears to remain on top of its arch rival Coles. Pick n Pay Opportunities. The former commercial director of Woolworths, Alex Dower, told the court on Tuesday that Woolworths never demanded anything from its suppliers, but that "asks" of cash to address profit margin problems was "normal". This is one of the most important elements of Woolworths Marketing Strategy. Pick 'n Pay addresses a range of socio-economic issues like education, poverty, the environment and diseases, Spur focuses on the upliftment of children in South Africa. Its main aim is to increase customer satisfaction. Woolworths (colloquially known in Australia as "Woolies") is an Australian chain of supermarkets and grocery stores owned by Woolworths Group.Founded in 1924, Woolworths today is Australia's biggest supermarket chain with a market share of 33% as of 2019. An hourly rate for a checkout operator ranges from $7.50 - $18.48.
Spur corporations only uses sport to promote CSR where as Pick 'n Pay has a comprehensive list of different CSR programs they are involved in.
Woolworths entered the petrol and convenience-store business in 1996, Coles in 1997. The Australian conglomerate has set 2020 as the deadline to achieve goals across three areas that comprise its Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy 2020. It is a handy technique to understand the present Strengths (S), Weakness (W), Opportunities (O) & Threats (T) Woolworths is facing in its current business environment.
The first Woolworths store was opened in downtown Sydney on December 5 th, 1924 with a nominal capital of just 25,000. Woolworths has focused efforts into installing solar arrays and LED lighting for 10-15 per cent more energy efficiency in all of its buildings. Ethics are important if an organization wants to stay in the market for a long period of time. It is not intended to be a detailed description of behaviour norms. Step 4 - Designing a Marketing Mix using 4Ps - Product, Price, Place & Promotion. How Woolworths Group deals with payments is captured in the supply agreements. In this article, a detailed discussion of how Woolworths obtains a competitive advantage by adopting generic and intensive growth strategies is made. Integrity. Night-fill manager of Woolworths earns $47 986 per annum and a night-filler earns $16.09 per hour.
Compare to the traditional technique, ABC assigns the overheads and indirect costs less arbitrarily and focuses on true relationship between costs . Woolworths Group (referred to as 'Woolworths', 'we' or 'us') includes Woolworths Group Limited ABN 88 000 014 675 and its subsidiaries, including businesses such as Woolworths Supermarkets, Metro, Everyday Rewards, Cartology, WooliesX and BIG W. The aforementioned brands are subsidiaries of the group in addition to Australia Food that has 1052 stores. Woolworths Group is a voluntary signatory to the ACCC's Food and Grocery Code of Conduct and the Business Council of Australia's Supplier Payments Code. The 100kW solar system, shaped like the Woolworths logo, is made up of 357 high-efficiency solar panels spanning around . business ethic, and give them confidence in their dealings with the Group. It recently just completed its 100 th supermarket solar installation in Orange. Step 2 - Segmentation, Targeting & Positioning Decisions. 2.1. a) Carrying value of goodwill 24 June 2012. When Woolworths got ahead through its BWS and Dan Murphy's large-format liquor stores, Coles tried to keep pace with Vintage Cellars and First Choice. Woolworth's public relations has identified Australia to have a strategic position and isolated the Australian businesses from expanding internationally due to the lack of immediate neighbours on its borderlines which increases the pressure on the businesses to reconsider international expansions due to the logistical limitations involved. The data will then need to be evaluated using static . Australia's largest grocer Woolworths Group Limited (OTCMKTS: WOLWF), plans to stop selling liquor and sell its gambling operations.. In the current dynamic and competitive environment, it is very important for an organization to follow ethics. Woolworths can blend above and below the line promotional strategies to achieve its marketing objectives. It makes sure that it is able to fulfil the global needs without harming the society and environment.
The ACCC's allegations related to the design and implementation of the Woolworths scheme known as "Mind the Gap," rather than its dealings with individual suppliers . It aims at providing the best ever range of products, services, price, value and quality to its customers. Every organisation must conduct a macro and micro environment analysis. Woolworths was a high-street retail chain, which at its height operated more than 800 stores nationwide, and employed more than 30,000 staff. Every organisation must conduct a macro and micro environment analysis. The Woolworths is one of the leading firms . Woolworths is also investing in the latest technology. A large energy company tried to cover up an oil spill in public waters.
Energy. The company's headquarters is in Bella Vista in New South Wales, a southeastern Australian state. Executive summary: Woolworths is the major supermarket grocery store chain in Australia, owned by Woolworths Limited. Woolworths has admitted underpaying thousands of its workers as much as $300 million over the past decade, in what is believed to be the biggest such case on record in Australia. The Woolworths brand is founded on 7 values : Quality & Style - giving the best and not ever compromising on quality. The findings and recommendations of the Harper competition review are a mixed bag and likely to meet with a correspondingly mixed reaction from stakeholders in the retail grocery sector . A shopping trolley is pushed through an aisle at a . It is one of the monopoly companies in Australia with market share of 34 percent in the grocery selling that shows an increase of 1. Strengths in the SWOT analysis of Woolworths Strengths are defined as what each business does best in its gamut of operations which can give it an upper hand over its competitors. 'Plus list' companies represent over 60 . Woolworths is an incorporated public company, listed on the Australian stock exchange. The ACCC alleged that Woolworths had sought up to $60 million from its suppliers in the lead up to Christmas 2014, to help the company reduce its $53 million shortfall in half year profits. Woolworths Group has admitted underpaying around 5700 staff up to $300 million, in a salary blunder that could date back as far as 2010. The Code was amended on 3 October 2020 .
Woolworths limited is the market leader in New Zealand and Australia because of the ethical considerations which it follows. 5 pages, 2369 words. Woolworths Group is committed to making it simpler for suppliers when working with the Group. The retail giant has more than 200,000 workers and a spokesperson said it took its code of conduct very seriously. This shows that the organisation have high reputation in the market that helps it to attract more customers. Because the focus in each of these areas is . In New Zealand it trades Countdown. Service- always think customer. Woolworths' conduct. The following are the strengths of Woolworths: Service - putting others ahead of you and exceeding expectations. Woolworths currently operates 531 sites and has 12 sites in development. 2. After all, the mega-retailer accounts for some 80 percent of market share, a fixture in Australia's (and New Zealand's) cities, towns, and rural communities. The model was launched in 2009 and implemented across all Woolworths suppliers, though of course on a voluntary basis. Solutions for Chapter IC Problem 2WSCQ: Woolworths' Corporate Responsibility StrategyThe Woolworths Group (woolworthsgroup.com.au) is an Australian conglomerate founded in 1924. Unveiling its response to Graeme Samuel's September 2018 report into the Food and Grocery Code of Conduct yesterday, Assistant Treasurer Stuart Robert said the government will accept 13 of the . Woolworths is turning its payments platform, Wpay, into a standalone fintech every merchant can use Supermarket giant Woolworths is creating its own fintech startup by spinning out its payments business, Wpay, as a stand-alone venture offering end-to-end payment solutions to merchants outside the group. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is taking Woolworths to the federal court, alleging the company engaged in unconscionable conduct after developing a strategy to "urgently. 4 percent as a comparison to a decrease of 1.6 percent in the share of Coles (foodnavigator-asia.com, 2019). This figure is included within 'intangible assets . The intensive growth strategies adopted by Woolworths to achieve growth targets include- market penetration, product development, market development and diversification. The above the line promotion options for Woolworths are- television, radio and print advertising. Value - simple and fair deal. Woolworths gets out of liquor and gambling. BP supplies fuel to approximately 1,400 BP-branded service stations throughout Australia, setting fuel prices at roughly 350 of them. Woolworths confirmed that the slide was real, but denied it is using either artificial intelligence or facial recognition to prevent theft. FOCUS COMPANY TYPE. This company has incomplete permissible responsibility through its shareholders and lies in the tertiary industry and retail sectors. Compare to the traditional technique, ABC assigns the overheads and indirect costs less arbitrarily and focuses on true relationship between costs . Service- always think customer. "Coles and Woolworths urged to boycott suppliers linked to the exploitation of migrant workers", 3 May 2019. Woolworths confirmed to 7NEWS.com.au that they were aware of the incident and an investigation was underway. Salaries for Woolworths employees differ according to working hours, working days and job types. 2. Events: 1. Sustainability. In the Woolworths experiment, we devised three conditions: Take everything out. But readers say the supermarket giant needs to do more. Woolworth places customers at first place. They have following private label brands-Woolworth Homebrand, Woolworth Select, Woolworths gold, Woolworths Fresh. 1.4 Promotion. With the inclusion of the stores of BigW, Endeavor Drinks, New Zealand Food, and the hotels held by the group, Woolworths has 3357 outlets in total. The retailer should charge a fair price for the products they sell to consumers. +. An hourly rate for a customer service assistance is $20.03. Value - simple and fair deal. Sustainability. Woolworths Group Limited is a locally owned listed public company, deriving revenue from the retail sale of supermarket food and general merchandise. A company is located in Monaco, where it conducts its business, and does not pay any taxes since Monaco has no . Food and Grocery Code of Conduct. conduct a one-year pilot project with 40 of Woolworths' suppliers. Innovation - discover the difference. The rules exist to ensure that employee's: "We . The carrying value of goodwill in Woolworth's consolidated financial statements was $3221.8 Million (M) at 24 June 2012. Across all these stores and partner brands, the Woolworths group has 215,000 employees. This will help determine precise approaches currently being followed by organizations like Woolworths. In late 2008, Woolworths entered administration, and subsequently closed in 2009. Domingo said the union would now approach the Department of Labour and Woolworths to conduct an inspection and investigation into the company's labour relations and working conditions . quality and style, value, service, integrity, energy, innovation and sustainability. Then came . It's no overstatement to say that Woolworths is synonymous with the Australian supermarket. It is your responsibility to: Only collect, use, store and disclose Woolworths' information that is required for your role. A review by Woolworths which commenced earlier this year, following the implementation of a new Enterprise Agreement, found an "inconsistency in pay" between salaried store . Woolworths specialises in groceries (vegetables, fruit, meat, packaged foods, etc. Here are the weaknesses in the Pick n Pay SWOT Analysis: 1. Woolworths has an office in Cape Town Open Map View Cape Town, ZA (HQ) 93 Longmarket St, Cape Town City Centre Show all (1) Report incorrect company information Woolworths Financials and Metrics Woolworths Revenue Summary Woolworths's current market capitalization is $3.4 b. Woolworths. The company has made the impact on the Australian economy through its social responsibilities strategies by donating a fraction of their proceeds to local and international charity . Step 5 - Sustaining Value through Post Purchase Services.
3.Slower rollout into emerging markets. This resulted in a 166 per cent growth in app registrations for 2017. Woolworths responds. It aims at providing the best shopping experience ever to its customers (Woolworths Online 2016). Activity-based costing (ABC) is an accounting technique that enables Woolworths Holdings to assign overhead activities costs of the firm to the specific products and services it produces & delivers. Woolworths conducts its operation on these values: Quality and style - delivering the best. Less marketing communication to public about their image.
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The Making of World Class Research Universities in an Age of Globalization - Components and Challenges
Dr. Lu Mu-lin Vice Minister of Education Nov 06, 2003
It is a pleasure to be here this morning with our other panelists in order to discuss research universities. As you are aware, "leadership" is now synonymous with "challenge", especially when it is viewed in the context of higher education and research universities. They also mean that we are being called upon to respond and be accountable to those who look to us for leadership. In order to be successful, we must encourage our institutions of higher education to continue to progress and make changes based on innovation, effective adjustments, planning and a willingness to become involved with meaningful visions for their futures.
Taiwan’s ten years of Educational Reform movement has resulted in the prolific creation and development of higher education institutions, allowing universities and colleges to assume more autonomy by relaxing higher education legal restrictions, promoting a diversified system for admission into universities and supporting universities to utilize their resources, so as to establish learning environments for internationalization.
In spite of these achievements, there remains an imbalance. This imbalance has to do with an increase in quantity over a decrease in quality. Currently, in Taiwan there are 1,240,292 students enrolled in some form of higher education programs. Additionally, there are 168 institutions of higher learning, which includes universities, colleges and junior colleges. This rapid development of higher educational institutions and the availability of education for all segments of the population, not just the elite, have affected the quality of higher education.
Other challenges facing our universities include a lack of diversification or development of specialty areas within their university environment, declining student enrollment due to the society's shrinking birthrate, overseas competition, especially from Mainland China, with attractive study packages, as a result of WTO and globalization.
On a global scale, we face challenges with our internationalization process for higher education. Given the fact that we have made progress with regard to educational and cultural exchanges between our universities and universities abroad, we still need to work at upgrading our universities so that they meet international standards.
Since our entry into WTO, we have been given a way to maximize our market opportunities and to change our current crisis into one of opportunity. We have been given a chance to have our universities develop their own specialty areas, so that they can distinguish themselves internationally, especially in the areas of research, training and development.
However, other countries realize this, too. As they grabble with their own challenges with internationalization, they are also aware of the tremendous opportunities that await them. Therefore, it is crucial that our universities realize the significance of our immediate situation. If they do not begin to upgrade their university systems and infrastructures, they will lose out on a unique international economic opportunity and they will not be able to sustain themselves, on a domestic level, because other international universities will attract their students from them.
Currently, in the U.S., Hong Kong, Australia and Mainland China, these countries have intensified their recruitment activities of overseas students. In Europe, the European Commission has created a new program entitled "Erasmus World", which has been designed to enhance and strengthen international links in higher education by enabling students and visiting scholars from around the world to engage in postgraduate study at European universities, as well as by encouraging the international mobility of European students and scholars.
Developing and Promoting Higher University Education
The Ministry of Education has two goals. The Ministry would like at least one of its universities to be ranked among the top 100 leading international institutions of higher education, within the next ten years and to have at least one university ranked as number one, within Asia by the next five years. In order to encourage and motivate the universities, a Taiwan scholarship will be established.
Four areas of classification have been established for our universities to choose from. These classification areas are research, teaching, profession and community and new development.
Universities will also be required to establish a system of evaluation utilizing such methods as the SCI, SSCI and the EI, or be in accordance with standards that meet international recognition for awards, achievements and contributions within their fields of expertise. Although to the criteria above, the Ministry selected 7 universities to be part of a three group pilot program. The National Taiwan University has been selected to represent northern Taiwan. It is an example of a comprehensive academic university, which has integrated and organized its departmental academic resources, to fully benefit the university and its administration.
For central Taiwan, Tsinghua University, Chao-Tung University, Central University and Yang-Ming University have formed an alliance. All four universities are well known for their different specialty areas and their potential for growth and development. They represent what can be accomplished when they share a vision and willingness to come together for the mutual benefit of their association.
Cheng Kung University and Sun Yat-Sen University are located in southern Taiwan. Their focus, targets of the forming of departmental alliances have the same field of expertise, so that a single research center can be established.
For the past several years, the ministry of Education has provided extra budget for these seven universities to help our universities to pursue excellence. Furthermore, the ministry has earmarked $50 billion NT dollars, which is to be distributed over a five-year period.
To receive funding the universities must decide which classification they are going to follow. Monies will be dispersed in stages and according to whether the universities have reached their intended goals. For example, for research universities, they must complete a five-stage process ranging over a period of five years, in order to receive maximum funding. In the 1st year, 3 to 5 universities will be selected to receive funding. Then, in the second year, an evaluation process will take place eliminating two or three universities who do not meet the necessary standards. In the third year, another evaluation will take place to rank those remaining universities to see if they qualify to be among the top 10 leading Asian institutions, within the five-year qualifying period. Once they have received this preferred international status, they must maintain their ranking for the following two years, in order to receive funding.
A similar proposed monetary plan, with slight variations, has been devised for university department centers that would like to be ranked as number one within Asia by the year of 2008. For the first stage, there will be five to ten university departments selected to receive funding. These departments will be evaluated at the end of the first year and only 3 to 5 departments will be selected for the second year phase. The third year will produce the top ranking university department for Asia. This department must maintain its rank for the next two years, in order to continue to receive funding from the Ministry of Education.
Supporting and Encouraging Cooperation for a More Inclusive Internationalized Environment
Our universities are being encouraged to establish substantive academic exchanges with overseas universities, R&D institutions, and scholars renowned for academic excellence. They are also being asked to explore options for establishing international networks, which would support our exposure and connections within the global community.
The Ministry of Education would like to recognize the importance of its own renowned professors, in Taiwan. It realizes that in order to do this, it must make adjustments to the existing salary system, in order to make it more flexible.
Foreign students are also our high priority. Beginning next year, a special Taiwan scholarship fund will be established for $219,670,000NT dollars. A total of 797 students will be able to pursue their studies, as a result of this scholarship fund.
The strength of first-class universities in Taiwan depends on the strength of their relationships with leading research organizations and centers. Establishing high-caliber research centers will support Taiwan's universities in their quest to successfully compete with other international universities and not be left behind.
With challenge comes opportunity and with opportunity comes success. Our success depends upon the strategies that we create and how these strategies are implemented. If we are to fully realize our opportunities we must join together in the true spirit of these modern times.
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According to various estimates, over 30% of all existing websites have been created on WordPress (estimated at over 22 million active websites). In addition, WordPress is an independent leader with a 60% market share in the popularity ranking of Content Management Systems (CMS), while no other solution approaches a double-digit number. These two numbers in themselves speak about how popular WordPress is.
What is CMS?
And what exactly is WordPress? Originally, it was a platform for running your own blog on the Internet. And on this, WordPress built its recognition, but over time it was noticed that its mechanisms (including easy content editing, subpage management, functionality extensions using plugins, etc.) can be used to create "ordinary" websites, not blogs only.
They began to create ready-made templates that could simply be uploaded to WordPress and we immediately had a nice and simply created website that we could adapt to our needs. That's how WordPress's hegemony and its popularity were born.
And what exactly is CMS? It is a system that allows managing a website. Of course, a website can exist without a CMS, but it would be practically uneditable (unless someone is a programmer), i.e. any change on the site will require the help of a programmer.
That is why CMSs are so necessary and important for any business - not to be dependent on an IT service provider. On the other hand, no CMS (even WordPress) will allow 100% management of every element of the page.
However, the popularity of WordPress has one drawback, which is quite vividly described by the well-known saying: "I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail." (Abraham H. Maslow). If we know WordPress and are able to use it, we want to use it in every situation, even if it is completely unsuitable. And this will be the further part of this article.
What to use WordPress for?
As I mentioned, WordPress has been created as a platform to run your own blog and in this is great, perhaps even the best. New solutions are emerging, but none at the moment seems to threaten the position of WordPress.
WordPress is also a great solution to create a simple website that looks attractive, easy to edit and does not have any advanced functionality (not including the photo gallery, contact form and integration with social media). In this case, both the cost and time of execution will be the most optimal.
Also if we want to start the adventure with e-commerce and start selling the first products - the WooCommerce plugin will extend WordPress functionality to a simple store.
These are three examples when we always recommend WordPress and we recommend to everyone the services of our partner specializing in this solution - WP Partner (part of MTA Digital).
What NOT to use WordPress for?
Since I mentioned only three examples of WordPress applications, it means that there are many situations when this solution will not work. Below are some tips to learn that for more advanced needs, we should use a dedicated solution:
- we need a customer panel or even different panels for different user groups
- the site must load very quickly
- we want to have a unique graphic design
- in the future, we want to strongly develop website functionalities
- we want to be able to manage content on the website very easily and clearly
- we have to integrate with other systems
We need a customer panel or even different panels for different user groups
WordPress is by definition a blog platform, i.e. a website with one-way communication, possibly extended with a comment module. However, it does not have any mechanisms supporting the operation of multiple accounts, because it was simply not created for this.
Therefore, if we need the user to be able to log in and perform the desired operations there - it will be necessary to create a tailor-made solution.
We often encounter the situation that company policy says that all websites should be created in WordPress (which is perfectly OK and this approach has its advantages), and suddenly there is a need to create a complex platform with several types of user accounts and advanced functionality. The whole project clue is inside the platform after users log in, and WordPress would only facilitate the management of the start page while hindering the creation of 95% of other functionalities.
We had such a situation on the occasion of creating an international platform connecting dietitians and parents of children with drug-resistant epilepsy. The policy of the Danish branch of this corporation only recommended using WordPress as the basis for every website created for them. Fortunately, we managed to convince decision-makers that it would be a very bad decision and using the arguments from this article and the second article in which we directly described the pros and cons of using WordPress and a dedicated CMS. The project was a great success, about which we wrote more in the case study of this project.
Do you need a user panel? WordPress is not for you.
The page must load very quickly
The speed of website loading is very important for many reasons. The first and most important is user retention on the site. If the page loads for more than a few seconds, they will start to leave before it fully loads. And this is a big loss for our business, and it can also be expensive if we use paid PPC advertising.
The second important aspect in this matter is the fact that Google takes into account the page loading speed in its ranking, so the slower the page loads, the lower the chances of a high position in search results.
Data were taken from Kinsta.
That is why it is so important to optimize the page and load speed (which of course depends on the type of page and the number of graphics that are on it). Unfortunately, WordPress is not a "speed demon" and you have to invest a lot in its correct optimization so that the loading speed is decent. And it will always be a slower solution than specially prepared by a professional software house.
Do you want a fast loading website? WordPress is not for you.
We want to have a unique graphic design
WordPress's great advantage is the countless set of ready-made graphics themes, which you only need to buy (they are also free) and install with a few clicks. For $ 50- $ 100 we can have a great-looking graphic design, with many animations, endless configuration options. When we need a website quickly and cheaply - this is the best choice.
Unfortunately, most of these graphics templates look very similar to each other (or use similar solutions) and it is very easy to notice that this is another page based on WordPress, which can be perceived as saving on image issues or even unprofessionalism.
That is why graphics designed especially for us, taking into account the target group, the positioning of the company, its character - will not only better reflect us, but we will also stand out from the crowd. Do you remember that practically every third page is similar because it stands on WordPress?
Do you want to stand out from the crowd and not be similar to others? WordPress is not for you.
In the future, we want to strongly develop website functionalities
If we are just starting our adventure with business or are just introducing a given business concept to the market, a website on WordPress will be a good choice, because we will not incur costs that are not known whether they will pay off. And in the case of success and development of the company, we can afford to invest in a professional dedicated website.
However, if our business is already stable, placing a page on WordPress is associated with the risk that it will limit us in the development of the site or if we want to add advanced functionalities (such as the order form with its support) then it will require creating another page from zero.
Therefore, it is not worth prematurely optimizing in times of instability, but when we have certain plans for the future, we should take them into account when choosing a solution so that it does not limit us.
Do you want to develop your website in the future with advanced functionalities? WordPress is not for you.
We want to be able to manage the content on the website very easily and clearly
The WordPress administration panel is very user-friendly, editing content is incredibly easy, but it is still adapted to be a blogging platform. Therefore, there are positions in it that only darken the image and make it difficult to use.
When we create a CMS panel for any page - there are only those tabs that are needed to manage the page or content on it. There is not a single unnecessary link on the menu, no ambiguous functions that most people will never use.
If someone knows WordPress will always find it easy using it and it is certainly a big advantage of its popularity. However, we did research showing that people who do not know WordPress need much more time (and counted in hours) to feel at ease in it, compared to the dedicated CMS panel, which has nothing superfluous.
Do you want to have an easy to use and transparent administration panel? WordPress is not for you.
We must integrate with other systems
The last tip worth remembering is the issue of integration with other systems. It is often the case now that we need to integrate the contact form with the CRM system, insert an event from a calendar or other system, display information from another system or display statistics and reports in the administration panel.
All the above-described things will be more difficult to programmatically add to WordPress than to a dedicated solution that is designed with ease of development.
Do you need to integrate with other systems? WordPress is not for you.
What if not WordPress?
An alternative to WordPress (and any other CMS system like Drupal, Joomla) is to create a dedicated CMS panel together with the created website.
For example, such an advanced website as the Ludzka Strona Zarządzania Page not only required individually designed graphics for each subpage to take into account business goals but to be able to manage content, schedule and be able to easily develop the service further, a dedicated CMS panel was also necessary.
And where this individualisation was not needed - the website with the knowledge base and the other related to the conference organized by the client are created on WordPress, due to the costs, preparation time and the fact that WordPress is the perfect solution for such websites.
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What does EMBRACE offer?
EMBRACE offers advisory services, capacity building and knowledge transfer throughout all stages of the project cycle, in line with the policy goals of the InvestEU programme, JASPERS and fi-compass initiatives.
Each EMBRACE advisory assignment is tailored to the specific needs of the projects to integrate the refugee population and may include:
Identification and generation of projects
- Pre-feasibility, demand and option analysis based on the growth in the population;
- Identification of special characteristics required for a specific population cohort;
- Identification of the most appropriate solutions for social investment planning via municipal infrastructure investments.
Project preparation, development and implementation support
Needs assessment to integrate refugees in multiple schemes, such as:
- education and integration of refugee children in host schools,
- support to women, children and other vulnerable groups,
- health services and strategies for the progressive integration of migrants, and,
- health outbreak prevention measures, etc
Studies and project documentation, such as:
- Feasibility studies, technical design and specification, project restructuring, risk assessments and financial viability advice to respond to population increase;
- Cost-benefit analysis, value for money project design and delivery
- Environmental/social impact assessment (including gender analysis and plans), climate risk and vulnerability assessment
- Project preparation for financing requests, assessment and optimisation of EU funding sources,
- Advice on financing structures, project aggregation and risk allocation;
- Support to procurement strategies including the use of PPP models; project control systems including contract management and technical assistance in monitoring the progress of the projects.
Capacity building and awareness raising
- Training, workshops and bilateral training sessions to help public project promoters, in particular municipalities and regions, to plan, develop and implement investment projects and build project pipelines.
- Workshops and training sessions for financial intermediaries to strengthen internal capacities to support operations and deal flow generation including understanding the different business models and sectors.
- Development of IT tools to check project eligibility, measure impact and monitor/reporting on investments.
Financial instrument and investment platform advisory support
- Microfinance support including personal loans for refugees to find housing and employment; and business loans to support entrepreneurship.
- Impact investment schemes for social enterprises to extend their services targeting the healthcare and social needs of the migrant population.
- SME finance schemes to help businesses working with Russian and Belarusian counterparts to address liquidity issues generated by the sanctions.
- Blending opportunities where the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) resources may be used via grants to support projects financed by EU shared management financial instruments or by International Financial Institutions (IFIs), such as the EIB Group and/or the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB).
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March 5, 2009— -- President Obama formally launched his administration's health care reform effort today, calling the issue one of the greatest threats to the foundation of the nation's economy that can no longer be ignored.
Obama dismissed criticism that his administration is taking on too much at once and that now is not the time to tackle health care reform, because of the nation's struggling economy.
"When times were good, we didn't get it done," he said. "When we had mild recessions, we didn't get it done. When we were in peacetime, we did not get it done. We were at war, we did not get it done," Obama said. "There is always a reason not to do it. And it strikes me that now is exactly the time for us to deal with this problem."
The goal of the day was not to develop a concrete proposal, but rather bring all of the key players on this issue together in one room. Obama addressed an audience of 150 participants, including Democrats, Republicans and advocates for doctors, nurses, patients, labor unions and business groups.
"Nothing is harder in politics than doing something now that costs money in order to gain benefits 20 years from now," he said. "It's the single hardest thing to do in politics, and that's part of the reason why health care reform has consistently broken down."
In attendance at the White House was Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., who was in town for the first time since voting on the stimulus bill last month. He was greeted with warm applause from the summit participants.
"To Sir Edward Kennedy. That's the kind of greeting a knight deserves," Obama said to laughter and more applause, referring to Britain's plan to bestow a knighthood on Kennedy.
Kennedy, who has campaigned for decades for health care reform, said this effort will not fail.
"I think most of us who have been in this room before have seen other times when the House and the Senate have made efforts, but they haven't been the kind of serious effort that I think that we're seeing right now," said Kennedy, chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
Obama acknowledged that there will be some who doubt whether Washington can actually bring about change after so many failed attempts in the past. To those critics, Obama said that this time, the reform effort is different because it is more inclusive and starts outside of the West Wing.
"This time, the call for reform is coming from the bottom up, from all across the spectrum – from doctors, nurses and patients; unions and businesses; hospitals, health care providers and community groups. It's coming from mayors, governors and legislatures – Democrats and Republicans – who are racing ahead of Washington to pass bold health care initiatives on their own," Obama said.
The administration feels that there are two key reasons why this will work: first, health care costs have skyrocketed since the 1990s, to the degree that "everyone now knows the current path is unsustainable," a White House official tells ABC News.
The other reason? Call it the un-Hillary approach to health care.
As a candidate last year, Obama said the Clinton approach in 1993 was wrong because it was behind closed doors and kept in the White House.
"I respect that Sen. Clinton and President Clinton tried to get healthcare fixed in 1993," then-Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill, said in Henderson, Nev., in January 2008. "But they went about it the wrong way." He pledged to bring together medical professionals, drug companies and insurers to sit at a table and work out a plan.
The Obama Administration has outlined a set of principles that it wants in the legislation and is prepared to let Congress work its will – as opposed to just handing over a big binder and saying, "Here, pass this," a senior administration official says.
The White House invited to the summit people who opposed the Hillary Clinton health care reform, including Charles "Chip" N. Kahn III, president of the Federation of American Hospitals, and Karen M. Ignagni, president of America's Health Insurance Plans, a successor group to the Health Insurance Association of America, which launched the "Harry and Louise" TV ads that helped sink the Clinton health care proposal.
President Obama invited Ignagni to speak at the final session of the summit and she pledged that her organization will work with the White House.
"We hear the American people about what's not working," Ignagni said. "We've taken that seriously. You have our commitment to play, to contribute, and to help pass health care reform this year."
In a smaller discussion session today, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., argued that the health care situation in this nation is so urgent that this is not a "Harry and Louise" moment but a "Thelma and Louise" moment, referencing the 1991 movie in which the title characters drive their car off of a cliff.
Obama, contrasting his goal with Thelma's and Louise's demise, said, "So, I just want to be clear, that's not our intention here."
Earlier in the day, Obama said that now is the time to make investments in reform, tying it to his efforts to bring down the federal deficit.
"Well, let's be clear: The same soaring costs that are straining our families' budgets are sinking our businesses and eating up our government's budget too," the president said. "Making ... investments that will dramatically lower costs won't add to our budget deficits in the long-term. Rather, it is one of the best ways to reduce them."
Obama said his goal is to enact comprehensive reform by the end of this year, and White House officials say he is serious about the need to make reforms quickly.
Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, one of the key congressional committees that the president is entrusting to draft the legislation, says his goal is to begin writing the legislation at the beginning of the summer, with a bill hitting the floor of the Senate for a vote before the August recess.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the ranking member on the Finance Committee, echoed that timeline to the president. "We expect to have work on this in the committee in June," he said. "Maybe it will sound a little ambitious, but if you aren't ambitious on a major problem like this that the country decides needs to be done, it'll never get done."
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said today that it is feasible to get a bill because of the urgency of the issue and noted that it may be easier to do because it is not an election year.
"Obviously, in even-numbered years, there's a bit of a silly season here, in terms of getting things done," he said. "I think everyone would recognize that."
Baucus told ABC News that he wants this effort to be truly bipartisan, in contrast to the approach taken to the stimulus bill earlier this year.
He said he will work with his Republican counterpart, ranking member Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, in drafting the legislation.
"No, no, stimulus has been different," Baucus admitted. "In fact at the end of the stimulus debate and after the vote, Grassley stood up and said 'you know, this might have been a bit partisan, but the next big effort is healthcare reform and I don't want that to be partisan, I want to work together,' and he meant it and I deeply appreciate that."
Baucus, told ABC News this week that he was "concerned" about the president's proposal to help pay for health care reform by reducing the amount in itemized deductions that those earning more than $250,000 a year can claim on their taxes.
"It's an issue," Baucus said, "but there are lots of different ways to solve this one, there's always a solution ... you just have to look hard enough and carefully enough and creatively enough to find a solution and if not that tax provision, there may be some other."
Participants broke into five discussion groups this afternoon, moderated by Domestic Policy Council Director Melody Barnes, Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag, National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers and newly named White House healthcare czar Nancy-Ann DeParle. Obama joked prior to the sessions that he expected the issue solved by the time the end of the day.
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Dealing with writer’s block is frustrating and aggravating no matter what level of writing you find yourself at. Staring at a blank piece of paper or the blinking cursor for what seems like days can becoming overwhelming. As a writer, you may have bursts of inspiration and you find that you can’t stop yourself from typing up a frenzy. Then, just as fast at it may have come, it stops.
You can spend all day thinking of your topic, but your head just builds up that impenetrable wall. Conquering it seems impossible, but don’t get discouraged. Sometimes you need a break or a different view of how to approach your work or manuscript. The following are some ways to finally smash down that wall and find your muse.
What causes writer’s block?
Everyone’s obstacles in their writing are different, as are the situations going on around them. There are a variety of reasons you may be having difficulty continuing a piece. One issue can be stress. In 2016, a study showed that work, school, and finances were some of the leading causes of people feeling stressed. If you are a professional writer, writer’s block is not just frustrating, but can hold back that important paycheck. You may be annoyed at the subject matter you are writing about which can cause that wall to come up.
There is no one answer to find a way around not being able to write. If you have been hunched over your computer for a while, you should get up and stretch. Yoga can be a great way to calm your mind and practice gentle breathing techniques. A healthy body can influence a healthy and fresh mind. Those who do yoga feel that certain asanas or poses can help you focus. Lotus and corpse pose help teach you to channel what may worry or concern you.
Another idea is to seek out some some help. For example, if you’ve been working on your thesis for months, you might benefit from hiring a dissertation writing service specialist to offer you their input. If you’ve been writing a fiction manuscript, look for a critique partner to help you see plot holes or details you may have been missing. Sometimes, new perspectives and insights can breathe life into a project that might have worn you off, inspiring you to dive into your project with a whole new energy.
Journaling can also encourage you to express feelings of frustration. You can experiment with different writing implements such modern quills and ink, glitter markers, or felt tip markers to add a different physical feel when writing. Perhaps scouring the internet for an old typewriter and ribbon to get a feel for a different way the greats such as Hemingway use to write helps you, though lugging it to the local coffee joint may not be the best idea. Utilizing a beautifully crafted notebook can add a special spark such as a handmade journal created from elephant dung. But don’t worry, the pages are cleaned before sold.
Sometimes, too much of the same thing can introduce and overwhelming feelings into the work. Therefore, removing yourself from writing all together may help. A different kind of creative activity is sculpting with clay. If you don’t want to venture to a studio, you can go to your local craft store and buy it yourself or other types of modeling clay. While you are there, you may want to grab a loom and knit a scarf for yourself, or for your editor, perhaps. Working it with your fingers can also help release any cramping you have from the countless hours of typing or writing.
Keeping your mind occupied with other activities or forms of writing encourages your creative spark to ignite not just something else, but to be given a moment to build. You may even discover a new hobby you love just as much as writing. Next time you experience a form of writer’s block, keep these tips in mind. | <urn:uuid:1a79a035-7b22-4d1e-be2a-43736bc430da> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://foreignpolicyi.org/tips-to-overcome-the-dreaded-writers-block/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.952841 | 811 | 1.945313 | 2 |
InventHelp Invention Stories https://penzu.com/p/06c51ddb; Knowing how to evident an invention is as opposed to easy for a first time inventor. One product that has to come to be told is not to listen to all within those scam artists. Recently there are plenty of makers and individuals that advertize that they can help you obtain a patent for your invention. That this only cost is a slice of the profits and inventions a small moderate fee. There is no way reason why you should give away part of most your profits since a person will did all the show good results on inventing this innovative product or piece associated with equipment.
Filing for the perfect patent is some same process, number matter what them is. This could well only be done by filling off an application so submitting it to finally the US Certain and Trademark Health care business or the USPTO. To help establish sure your application is accepted and therefore you receive that patent, it is just advisable to search the patent data base to see if there is simply already a cream like yours.
The search is going to be a necessary step because not each inventions are presented very well. Individuals inventions are known so check to see the USPTO data base. If the case similar product can found, then this is time to proceed with the paperwork.
The word paperwork is just your own word today time for describe the old process. The absorb today is accomplished all electronically. You see, the application that is considered to be filled out right now is a fillable PDF file where it is submitted and as a consequence automatically placed onto the patent office’s database.
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The powers of the communes are very extensive and cover everything that is in the "communal interest", in other words the collective needs of the inhabitants. In theory, a commune can do anything that it is not prohibited from doing, ranging from building a sports centre to road-building.
The communes have powers relating to public works, social welfare, maintaining public order, housing, education, etc.
In its plans, it is naturally subject to the supervision of the higher authorities, specifically the Federal State, the Communities, the Regions and the provinces.
The communes must also perform the tasks imposed on them by higher authorities.
They are mainly charged with the police forces, maintaining the registers of births, deaths and marriages, plus the registers of the population. The Mayor is the head of the local police in performing administrative police tasks.
It is also at communal level that the Public Centre for Social Assistance operates, providing social services.
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About this website
The Virtual Valve Museum is the online presentation of my personal collection.
This collection has been assembled over a number of years, more seriously from around
1998 onwards, with the decision to share images of it with the world being taken in 1999.
The first version this website, then called JMH's Virtual Valve Museum went online during
1999 and I have maintained a web presence since then.
The collection is made up of items purchased over the years, and of valves which
people have very kindly given me. In each case where a valve has been donated you will
find this noted at the bottom of the web page.
The museum is entirely virtual - I do not have the space to arrange valves on shelving
and anyway it is not really a museum. It represents my physical collection. Where I can
I add data and a small amount of detail.
What I collect
I used to collect just about everything but it got out of hand when the collection reached 3,000 types,
some of which were huge beasts. So now I only collect CV types with almost all of the non-CV valves - about 1,500
gone off to the National Valve Museum, which is almost as old as my own. A few remain for use as trades or where they are
I first became interested in valves, and electronics in general when I was about 8.
My grandad drew a sine wave on the wall to try to explain the difference between ac and
dc - I forget why but I can still picture that drawing. He had a few old radios including
one he built himself, all laid out on a baseboard and looking like a well-made cupboard.
He showed me the valves in an old radio he gave me and then told me off as I took each
valve out and popped it on the concrete to see what was inside! This started my
collection, and soon after I took a battery box out of my Lego set plus two 425PEN's
into school and showed the teacher as they lit up.
Myself and a friend often frequented the local TV repair shop, and after a number of
years and many visits, the people running the shop retired. My friend phoned me, we were
about 12 at the time, and told me they wanted to see us. So off we went. When we got
there, all their remaining unsold stock was all on display in various boxes, and with
words which have become immortalized we were told 'take anything you want'. Being 12
I guess I didn't really know what to make of this and hurriedly studied the boxes of
valves for any that I might find useful, but it all became clear when I extracted a few
and was told to take all the boxes of valves rather than one or two! There must have
been a couple of hundred radio/TV valves there. There were a few other bits of kit we
wanted and we took the first load back to our house in bags, went back with a
wheelbarrow (imagine two 12 year olds carting old radios along the road in a
wheelbarrow), and finally my grandad took us for the last trip in his car.
At secondary school I discovered three things. I forget how or in what order, but
they were an electronics shop in the city centre that had loads of old test kit and all
sorts of goodies, a TV repair shop near the school, and a house clearance dealer, also
near the school.
A number of old radios came from the house clearance shop, and were either pulled
apart or sold. I also expanded my valve collection with about 20 old valves from this
shop. The TV repair shop owner was a good source of generic white valve boxes, plus he
had a small collection himself. The electronics shop was the source of several heavy
items of test gear that left their marks on the city busses as I brought them home!
My grandad had made me a workshop in the basement and I could be seen regularly
carrying heavy bits of test gear home on the bus after school. The workshop went
through many phases as my interests changed between test kit, radios, radio teletype,
and at one stage had a wall of test kit, plus Admiralty (Murphy) B40 and B41 receivers
(and I could lift both at once back then - just!), a Creed 7E teletype, several
readers and perforators, and associated kit. I went through a phase of buying scrap
teleprinters, rebuilding them and selling them to local radio amateurs for some extra
I have been involved with the web since almost the very beginning. My first website
(for work, not valves) was way back in 1992 and we knew just about every other website
operator in the world at that time. So it was natural that my collection would end up
online, beginning in 1999 on a bit of webspace located at work. From there it moved
about a few times, first to some commercial webspace provided free by a friend who
owns a (now high) ISP, then to our house, then past three other ISPs to it's current
home on a dedicated physical server which I rent.
The site has changed a few times but I am no designer so it is pretty basic. It uses
very little CSS and my design colleagues would lynch me if they realised that most
layout is done by tables!
I am no photographer either. The first photographs of valves were awful (and some
are still there), not necessarily the fault of the then flashless Cassio QV-200 or me
taking wet film pictures and scanning them in. I later used Kodak DC280 camera with a
couple of macro lenses that would attach to the front. Later I switched to a Canon
Powershot 480 which would focus down to 1cm.
Now that additions to the museum are quite rare I simply use a smartphone.
And so here we are. The collection used to live almost entirely in the loft, out of
touch. It has now completely moved to a more acessible location and into
plastic storage boxes,
all indexed so I can actually find everything. There is still much to do as I am
shrinking the collection, and several valves have gone missing during the move,
hopefully because I forgot to write down which box they are in!
The website has changed a bit technically too. The original site was just a
collection of HTML pages and hand-made indexes. This progressed via some PHP and a flat
index file to the current MySQL driven site. I had also integrated Wordpress into the
site such that Wordpress drove the About, news and updates. However this has been
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The New Year and start of a new decade opens opportunities for not just yearlong goal-setting but creating a larger vision for the future. Within Montana, the new decade brings a chance to create an expanded vision and commitment to the safety of drivers and wildlife on the roadways.
During the last decade, the National Parks Conservation Association worked within Montana to expand habitat access for Yellowstone pronghorn as they migrate to and from the park. By partnering with private landowners and public land managers, and working alongside volunteers, we removed or modified dozens of miles of fences that previously blocked the animals from reaching winter habitat and other herds in the region. In many cases, the simple act of spending a morning removing old fencing opened migration corridors that blocked Yellowstone pronghorn for more than a century. While this work continues, our larger vision includes a future where roadways are no longer a barrier for migrating pronghorn and provide safer passage for wildlife and drivers.
Wildlife-vehicle collisions are a significant threat to human safety and the health of wildlife and their connections to habitat in Montana and across the country. And the numbers are striking. The Federal Highway Administration reports more than 26,000 human injuries and over 200 human deaths occur from the one to two million large animal-vehicle collisions around the country each year. Such collisions cost $8 billion annually to taxpayers and does not include the value of our lost wildlife.
Montana continues to rank second in the country for wildlife and vehicle collisions, with a likelihood of one in 48.
The impacts of wildlife vehicle collisions and the safety of both the public and animals are growing concerns for many of us in Montana, including those who live, work and recreate within and adjacent to Yellowstone National Park. Nearly half of the vehicle collisions along US 89 between Gardiner and Livingston on the way to Yellowstone involve wildlife.
Recognizing these communities’ concerns, a little more than a year ago Gov. Bullock convened the first Montana Wildlife and Transportation Summit. The gathering brought together officials from Montana Department of Transportation, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks along with local, federal, and tribal governments, non-profit organizations, and scientists to address wildlife-vehicle collisions in Montana. The summit led to a commitment to work together to reduce this threat, and the development of strategies to reduce animal-vehicle collisions and protect wildlife and their movement across state highways.
Beyond Montana, there is increasing momentum for innovative, community-driven solutions to address the safety and wildlife concerns related to collisions. Wyoming most recently secured a $14.5 million dollar grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation for wildlife underpasses along a critical mule deer corridor in the western part of the state. And in Teton County, residents recently voted overwhelmingly to fund wildlife crossings to the tune of $10 million through their first Specific Purpose Excise Tax.
On a national scale, members of Congress have also prioritized this issue, with a Senate bill on surface transportation and infrastructure that includes new funding for a pilot program to encourage innovative solutions to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions. The funding would be available to states, tribes, local governments, foundations, regional transportation authorities, universities and many other eligible entities. The legislation also requires 60% of the funding to support projects in rural areas, such as the Paradise Valley and other Montana communities. The bill passed the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, chaired by Wyoming’s Sen. Barrasso, unanimously. Now, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is working on their own bill, which will hopefully include similar wildlife-vehicle collision funding.
As Montana builds its vision and commitment to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions, there is no better time for Montana’s Congressional delegation of Rep. Gianforte and Sens. Daines and Tester to support the federal surface transportation bill. Studies have shown up to an 80% or greater success rate in reducing such conflicts when systems such as wildlife underpasses and overpasses are used. Montanans are building a vision for safer roadways for drivers and wildlife alike. The federal transportation bill is a way forward to making this vision a reality.
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In late June 1973, Republican Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee earned his place in history by asking the essential question of the Watergate hearings: “What did the president know and when did he know it?”
Baker had been a Nixon ally. In February 1973, he told Nixon, “I’m your friend. I’m going to see that your interests are protected.” But that was before the revelation that Nixon had recorded Oval Office conversations, and before White House Counsel John Dean diagnosed the presidency with “cancer.” The changing Watergate dynamics changed Baker.
You don’t need to be an oncologist to figure out that the country is suffering from a recurrence of the same disease. We have another president under investigation, one accused of high crimes, misdemeanors, and everything in between. What we don’t have is another Baker. No one in the GOP has shown readiness, as the saying goes, to put country before party.
John McCain is dead. Lindsey Graham has gone MAGA. Susan Collins never lives up to liberal fantasies. And Mitt Romney is Mitt Romney; his naked ambition and political opportunism make him a less-than-ideal protagonist. But Democrats can’t take on the president alone. A recent ABC News/Washington Post poll found that although a majority of Americans support investigating President Donald Trump, a significant portion—46 percent—believe that any process conducted by House Democrats would be unfair.
Only one Republican senator might shift from protector to prosecutor, as Baker did, and bridge the trust gap: Baker’s protégé, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee.
As Alexander’s former student and speechwriter, I can attest to the senator’s rectitude. Democrats set on impeachment should realize that Alexander is their pressure point. He was made for this moment, in part because he made his career in Baker’s image.
Alexander served as Baker’s first legislative aide, in 1966, and worked again for him in the late ’70s. Like Baker, Alexander has unassailable party bona fides. He is regularly endorsed by the National Rifle Association, the National Federation of Independent Business, and the National Right to Life Committee. And he has bipartisan credentials, too. He and the Democratic Senator Patty Murray of Washington worked on medical research, education, and opioid addiction as the Senate leaders of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. The two made a valiant attempt at fixing the Affordable Care Act. Murray, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and other Democrats have spent time at Alexander’s cabin in the Smoky Mountains.
This way of doing business descends directly from Baker, who liked to quote his father as saying, “You should always listen to the other fella. He might just be right.” Alexander shares Baker’s talent for “eloquent listening,” a phrase Alexander used when he eulogized his mentor in 2014.
For all their similarities, Alexander has eclipsed Baker. Alexander was a popular two-term governor, university president, U.S. secretary of education, and presidential candidate. But his ability to talk about the country with the country is what truly separates him from other political leaders. A jaded Harvard grad student, I was surprised to find myself inspired when a conservative from East Tennessee connected the intricacies of election reform to the national narrative and the strengths of the American character. With candid optimism, he bridged our differences.
Alexander has the stature to help Congress and the country navigate through possible impeachment and removal proceedings. And, as luck would have it, he’s retiring at the end of his term, so he doesn’t have to worry about repercussions from the still Trump-infatuated Republican base.
Of course, the fact that Alexander is right for the job doesn’t mean he wants it. In recent interviews, he has dismissed the idea that retirement offers a chance to play a mediating role in Washington. “They took Trump and they didn’t take me,” he told Vox.
Democrats looking for an ally should ignore that quip, which undersells his five decades of service. Instead, they should look to Lamar Alexander’s Little Plaid Book, the paperback he published in 1998 that describes his 311 rules for living.
In it, he tells a story about a Dwight D. Eisenhower Cabinet meeting. It was rife with indecision. Each secretary was protecting his particular interest. Ike nearly lost his cool. The president finally boiled the chaos down to one essential question, which became Alexander’s Rule 151.
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How is tolerance reflected in urban space? Which urban actors are involved in the practices and narratives of tolerance? What are the limits of tolerance? Doing Tolerance: Urban Interventions and Forms of Participation by Maríado Mar Castro Varela and Barış Ülker (eds.) answers these questions by considering different forms of urban in/exclusion and participatory citizenship. By drawing together disparate yet critical writings, the volume examines the production of space, urban struggles and tactics of power from an interdisciplinary perspective. Illustrating the paradoxes within diverse interactions, the authors focus on the conflict between heterogeneous groups of the governed, on the one hand, and the governing in urban spaces, on the other. Above all, the volume explores the divergences and convergences of participatory citizenship, as they are revealed in urban space through political, socio-economic and cultural conditions and the entanglements of social mobilities.
Maríado Mar Castro Varela and Barış Ülker, the editors of Doing Tolerance: Urban Interventions and Forms of Participation, took the time to answer our 5 questions.
Barış Ülker received his Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Anthropology from the Central European University in 2012. He was a visiting scholar at the Humboldt University Berlin, Howard University, Washington DC, and Columbia University, New York, during his studies. Currently, he is a research fellow at the Center for Metropolitan Studies, Technical University Berlin, and the Head of the Research Institute at the Berlin International University of Applied Sciences. His major research interests focus on governmental subjectivities, the anthropology of state, colonial and postcolonial relations, and urban spatial restructuring.
María do Mar Castro Varela is a professor of Pedagogy and Social Work at the Alice Salomon University in Berlin and lectured amongst others at the University of Basel, the Zurich Academy of Arts and the University of Innsbruck. She holds a double degree in Psychology and Pedagogy and a Ph.D. in Political Science. Her research interests besides Postcolonial Theory lies in Gender and Queer Studies, Critical Migration Studies, Critical (Adult-)Education and Trauma Studies.
1) What will be the main challenge for your research field in the coming years?
Uneven distribution of wealth and resources, conflicts deriving from colonial and post-colonial constellations, racism, discrimination against migrants and social minorities, and unconstrained consumption culture continue to challenge societies all around the world more and more. Within this framework, one of the main goals in migration research and postcolonial studies is to explore the power relationships among different actors in different geographies. By looking at the convergences and divergences of various examples, one can develop an interdisciplinary scientific approach that can provide analysis going beyond binary oppositions and essentialized understandings.
2) Why would anyone want to pursue research in your field?
Migration research and postcolonial studies bring together extensive field work and archival work. In this way, it is interested in daily practices and narratives, as much as historical ruptures and continuities regarding social phenomena. The intersection of class, race and gender in different geographies is one of the most interesting and central aspects of research.
3) Why did you choose your research field? What motivates you in your field in particular?
Migration research and postcolonial studies still provide the ground to challenge the Nation-state based analysis and open up new dimensions and insights, since it is a very dynamic field. Therefore, it is full of new inspirations and difficulties, both of which enable the researcher to go beyond their comfort zones and look for new thinking strategies.
4) Which (academic) book has influenced you the most?
B.Ü.: Michel Foucault. The Hermeneutics of the Subject, Lectures at the College de France, 1981-82. Edited by Frederic Gros (Palgrave MacMillan, 2005).
M.C.V.: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Outside in the Teaching Machine. (Routledge, 1993).
5) This is why we are authors with Barbara Budrich:
Barbara Budrich is open to communication, helpful to deal with different problems, flexible and trustful.
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We all love Golden Gate Park and Dolores Park, but did you know San Francisco has over 220 parks and open spaces? Curbed SF wants to bring fame and glory to some of the smaller, lesser-known parks, and we're doing so with our series Park Life. Each week, we'll spotlight a different San Francisco park or open space, and bring you all the details you need to plan a visit.[Photo via Patricia Chang]
Located off the beaten path in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood, Warm Water Cove is a well manicured waterfront park and part of the Bay Trail, an eventual continuous path around the San Francisco Bay shoreline. But this park wasn't always a model citizen. Once known as "Toxic Beach" or "Tire Beach" for it's abundance of discarded rubber, this park played host to impromptu punk shows and the like until the late 2000s. So beloved for its grime by a select few, one Yelp reviewer puts it best: "Nasty and gross and exploding with riotous color, it was the best park in SF. Fed on toxins, the plants were pitiful drooping things; the only thriving flora were the traces left by the graffiti artists." Where it's located: Where 24th Street terminates at the Central Waterfront in Dogpatch.
What it features: Walking paths, landscaped lawns, benches, scenic vistas of the bay. Adjacent to dilapidated piers and warehouses, for those who don't mind a little history in their park scenes.
How to get there: Besides driving, your only real public transportation option is taking the T light rail to 23rd and 3rd streets and walking the last few blocks.
Dog's allowed?: A great place for dog's on leashes.
Don't miss: A chance to see the park before all of it's gritty glory disappears. The park is no longer grimy, graffiti-ridden or dangerous, but it still holds some of the post-industrial charm of the past due to its rugged neighbors. That may all change soon, as the Dogpatch/Central Waterfront is gentrifying faster than any other San Francisco 'hood right now.
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[Enter GLOUCESTER, with his Serving-men in blue coats]
- Duke of Gloucester. I am come to survey the Tower this day:
Since Henry's death, I fear, there is conveyance.
Where be these warders, that they wait not here?
Open the gates; 'tis Gloucester that calls.
- First Warder. [Within] Who's there that knocks so imperiously?
- First Warder. [Within] The Lord protect him! so we answer him:
We do no otherwise than we are will'd.
- Duke of Gloucester. Who willed you? or whose will stands but mine?
There's none protector of the realm but I.
Break up the gates, I'll be your warrantize.
Shall I be flouted thus by dunghill grooms?
[Gloucester's men rush at the Tower Gates, and]
WOODVILE the Lieutenant speaks within]
- Woodvile. What noise is this? what traitors have we here?
- Duke of Gloucester. Lieutenant, is it you whose voice I hear?
Open the gates; here's Gloucester that would enter.
- Woodvile. Have patience, noble duke; I may not open;
The Cardinal of Winchester forbids:
From him I have express commandment
That thou nor none of thine shall be let in.
- Duke of Gloucester. Faint-hearted Woodvile, prizest him 'fore me?
Arrogant Winchester, that haughty prelate,
Whom Henry, our late sovereign, ne'er could brook?
Thou art no friend to God or to the king:
Open the gates, or I'll shut thee out shortly.
- Serving-Men. Open the gates unto the lord protector,
Or we'll burst them open, if that you come not quickly.
[Enter to the Protector at the Tower Gates BISHOP]
OF WINCHESTER and his men in tawny coats]
- Winchester. How now, ambitious Humphry! what means this?
- Winchester. I do, thou most usurping proditor,
And not protector, of the king or realm.
- Duke of Gloucester. Stand back, thou manifest conspirator,
Thou that contrivedst to murder our dead lord;
Thou that givest whores indulgences to sin:
I'll canvass thee in thy broad cardinal's hat,
If thou proceed in this thy insolence.
- Winchester. Nay, stand thou back, I will not budge a foot:
This be Damascus, be thou cursed Cain,
To slay thy brother Abel, if thou wilt.
- Duke of Gloucester. I will not slay thee, but I'll drive thee back:
Thy scarlet robes as a child's bearing-cloth
I'll use to carry thee out of this place.
- Winchester. Do what thou darest; I beard thee to thy face.
- Duke of Gloucester. What! am I dared and bearded to my face?
Draw, men, for all this privileged place;
Blue coats to tawny coats. Priest, beware your beard,
I mean to tug it and to cuff you soundly:
Under my feet I stamp thy cardinal's hat:
In spite of pope or dignities of church,
Here by the cheeks I'll drag thee up and down.
- Winchester. Gloucester, thou wilt answer this before the pope.
- Duke of Gloucester. Winchester goose, I cry, a rope! a rope!
Now beat them hence; why do you let them stay?
Thee I'll chase hence, thou wolf in sheep's array.
Out, tawny coats! out, scarlet hypocrite!
[Here GLOUCESTER's men beat out BISHOP OF]
WINCHESTER's men, and enter in the hurly-
burly the Mayor of London and his Officers]
- Lord Mayor of London. Fie, lords! that you, being supreme magistrates,
Thus contumeliously should break the peace!
- Duke of Gloucester. Peace, mayor! thou know'st little of my wrongs:
Here's Beaufort, that regards nor God nor king,
Hath here distrain'd the Tower to his use.
- Winchester. Here's Gloucester, a foe to citizens,
One that still motions war and never peace,
O'ercharging your free purses with large fines,
That seeks to overthrow religion,
Because he is protector of the realm,
And would have armour here out of the Tower,
To crown himself king and suppress the prince.
[Here they skirmish again]
- Lord Mayor of London. Naught rests for me in this tumultuous strife
But to make open proclamation:
Come, officer; as loud as e'er thou canst,
- Officer. All manner of men assembled here in arms this day
against God's peace and the king's, we charge and
command you, in his highness' name, to repair to
your several dwelling-places; and not to wear,
handle, or use any sword, weapon, or dagger,
henceforward, upon pain of death.
- Duke of Gloucester. Cardinal, I'll be no breaker of the law:
But we shall meet, and break our minds at large.
- Winchester. Gloucester, we will meet; to thy cost, be sure:
Thy heart-blood I will have for this day's work.
- Lord Mayor of London. I'll call for clubs, if you will not away.
This cardinal's more haughty than the devil.
- Winchester. Abominable Gloucester, guard thy head;
For I intend to have it ere long.
[Exeunt, severally, GLOUCESTER and BISHOP OF]
WINCHESTER with their Serving-men]
- Lord Mayor of London. See the coast clear'd, and then we will depart.
Good God, these nobles should such stomachs bear!
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Major Town Houses
The Major Town Houses of the Architect Victor Horta (Brussels) are pioneering works of architecture in the Art Nouveau-style.
The site consists of four houses: Hôtel Tassel, Hôtel Solvay, Hôtel van Eetvelde, and Maison & Atelier Horta.
Victor Horta was born in Ghent and lived between 1861 and 1947. He was one of the most prominent men in the Art Nouveau-movement, a new decorative style that developed in the late 19th century. Characteristics are for example the use of industrial materials like steel and iron in the visible parts of houses, new decorations inspired by nature, decorative façades of houses.
Most of these principles can be seen in the house that Victor Horta built for himself in the late 1890's. This house now is a museum.
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Hôtel Solvay is a late 19th-century city villa in Brussels by the design of the Belgian architect Victor Horta. It is 1 of his 4 Major Town Houses. I visited it two weeks ago on a special tour in Dutch. They want to keep it exclusive: the tours are only once a month and a ticket costs 40 EUR. You must also book well in advance online. In 2002 I already had been to one of the other locations (the Horta House & Atelier Museum), which has no such visitor limitations. It lies only 500m away from the Solvay and a third location (Hôtel Tassel) is also just around the corner.
At noon, around 25 visitors gathered in front of the imposing façade of the Hotel Solvay at the Avenue Louise number 224. We were given solid plastic covers for our shoes so that we would not tarnish the interior. This is now a busy neighbourhood, with a lot of traffic, embassies, shops and restaurants. The 19th-century house is wedged between two ugly office buildings. When the house was built it was free-standing and occupied a large piece of land: 15 meters wide and 20 meters deep on the main avenue between the city center and the surrounding forests of Brussels.
The tour started with an explanation about the Solvay family, who had this house built in 1894. They had become rich in the chemical production of soda and gave Victor Horta a free hand to design a winter residence (they also had an estate outside the city borders). Later the house came into the hands of another rich family (Wittamer) who used it as a bridal fashion studio. Nowadays it is still in private possession of that family and that is also given as the reason that you are not allowed to take photos of the interior. But this is not an inhabited house: except for guided tours like the one I joined, it is also rented out for meetings and other gatherings.
The most spectacular part of the house is located right behind the front door: a double, openwork staircase ending at a huge impressionist painting on the first floor. Horta was known for using visible metal structures in his designs for houses, materials that until then had been used mainly for stations and factories. Various expensive types of wood (including from Congo) and marble have also been processed into this house. Through skylights and many windows, there is a lot of light in the house. On this gloomy afternoon in December however, lights were needed to illuminate it a bit extra.
The interior of this house is still completely intact, including furniture designed by Horta himself and works of art coming from artist friends of his. In every room, the chairs are of different designs and there are many frivolous details such as sliding doors and hidden toilets.
The bottom 2 floors were used to receive guests, the family lived at the top floors. The latter spaces were also more soberly decorated. Here you can see at the ceilings that even in this house not everything is in perfect condition: the layer of paint is coming off. The owners also had staff living and working in the house: they could move completely out of sight of the guests 'behind the scenes' via their own corridors and stairs.
Hôtel Solvay is considered the best kept of the houses designed by Horta in Brussels – both by the ICOMOS advisors and the guide that showed us around. It surely is an advantage that it receives relatively few visitors, so the carpets, etc (all original!) do not suffer too much. When you’re interested in Art Nouveau it is certainly worth this splurge. Next to Dutch, tours are also available in French but not in English as far as I have gathered from the website of Explore Brussels.
Here is another World Heritage Site in Brussels that has been listed but is difficult for the public to access. Three of the four houses are really difficult, although there are some limited opening times for one of them..
Unlike the other three Victor Horta houses in Brussels that are part of the World Heritage Site, the Horta Museum does give you the opportunity to go inside one of the original buildings and get a sense of the design and layout.
Rather than just read about the influence on Art Nouveau architecture, you can see it for yourself. Rather than just look at each element in books or online, you can feel how they merge together. The opening hours are still somewhat limited, though.
Read more from Michael Turtle here.
During my summer vacation in Brussels I visited the four inscribed Horta houses. The Horta Museum is lovely and nicely overwhelming. An absolut must. Since the other three houses are not open I booked a tour on Arau.org. They make an Art Nouveau tour every saturday and visit two houses (not necessarily by Horta). In our tour we visited the Maison Autriche and the Maison Eetvelde, both by Horta. The first one is a museum that you can visit independently but the second is a privat house with a very nice interior. In general though I would not really recommend this tour. The group was very big and the tour was given in French and English by one guide. She was decently knowledgable but she often made mistakes and she gave all the explanation in both languages. Sometimes the group was split and entered the house in turns. All of this meant a lot of waiting, lots of repeats. And in the end it was a three hour tour and only ten minutes in the Maison Eetvelde, that you couldn't enter normally. If you know a little about Art Nouveau the only reason to take the tour is to get inside one of the private houses but be sure to check beforehand which houses are on the schedule.
Otherwise I recommend to visit the Horta Museum and the other Horta houses that are open to the public like the Maison Autriche and the comic museum. The Maison Tassel and Solvay are also impressive from the outside. But as important Horta is there are a great many other brilliant Art Nouveau buildings by other architects in Bruxelles and in some areas like Ixelles, Saint-Gilles or Schaerbeek you can wander for hours and discover one gem after the other. Some of them are covered by the nice map Bruxelles Art Nouveau by ARAU which is available at many Art Nouveau museums in several languages. Some very nice and open Art Nouveau houses are the Hotel Hannon (Espace photographique Contretype), the Old England (Museum of Musical Instruments) and (as far as I have heard) the Maison Cauchie. In addition there are very nice displays of Art Nouveau furniture and art in the Musée des beaux-arts and the Musée d'art et d'histoire. I have certainly never visited a city with so much Art Nouveau. There is a lot to explore even beyond Horta and a much of it is quite wonderful.
Now that Spring is in the air, I decided to go for a stroll round Brussels to view the exterior facades of the 4 inscribed town houses of Horta and other main Art Nouveau sites in Brussels. The only town house that is open on a regular basis is the Horta Museum, however when there is the Art Nouveau Biennale, the other town houses are opened to the public and can also be visited with the Biennale registered tour guides (like I did in 2011 when I visited Hotel Tassel and Hotel Solvay). Here are a few addresses that might come in handy should you be in Brussels:
- Maison & Atelier Horta Museum (open from 14:00 to 17:30) = Rue Americaine 25, 1060 Brussels
- Hotel Tassel = Rue Paul Emile Janson 6, 1050 Brussels
- Hotel Solvay = Avenue Louise 224, 1050 Brussels
- Hotel Van Eetvelde = Avenue Palmerston 2-6, 1040 Brussels
Top Art Nouveau sites in Brussels worth visiting:
- Maison St. Cyr = Ambroix Square 11, 1000 Brussels
- Musical Instruments Museum (MIM) = Rue Montagne de la Cour 2, 1000 Bruxelles
- Maison Max Hallet = Avenue Louise 346, 1050 Brussels
- Maison Ciamberlani = Rue Defacqz 48, 1050 Brussels
- Place Saint Boniface = several Art Nouveau buildings
I was lucky enough to visit some of the Horta houses in October 2011 when they were opened to the public. I can see a Horta house from my window since I'm lucky to live close to one of them. The trail by walk or by bike is really worth it!
Visited only the House and atelier - this is site is absolutely beautiful. One of the best I have seen!
Would be great if other Houses could be accessible for public too (Stocklet house included!)
These four houses are some of the finest city residences in Europe, and in my view the finest works of the Art Nouveau movement. The main problem is that the incredible interiors are mostly out of bounds for mere mortals. The exception is Musée Horta, which is my ‘Must See’ sight in Brussels. It is a fairly small museum but the incredible detail of design can be seen on every surface, even the most functional aspects of the interior, such as the door handles have been laboured over. The canopy at the top of the staircase is incredible.
Though they may look twee and escapist the buildings were actually at the forefront of technological advancement, using iron as the frame of the buildings and actually exposing it, as it was a revolutionary technique at the time.
Of the façades that can be seen Hotel Van Eetvelde is perhaps the finest, Hotel Solvay has some great details the ornament of the door and the numbers are great. Hotel Tassel from the outside looks pretty uninspiring, however inside lies perhaps the finest piece of Horta’s work, the mosaic floor and painted walls of the staircase are sublime. On two occasions I have even chosen to stand outside having a cup of coffee in the hope that the owner would walk by, take pity on me and allow me a quick glimpse, needless to say this has never happened.
There are many great Art Nouveau buildings in Brussels, my favourite is the Old England Building which now houses the Museum of Musical instruments. If you are keen on this style it is worth looking at ARAU.org as they run tours of the main buildings in both French and English, which sometimes allow you to see the impressive interior of Hotel Van Eetvelde.
There are many cities with great Art Nouveau flourishes; (Paris, Vienna, Chicago, Prague) however Brussels is the finest and it is right that Horta’s major works should be highlighted by their place on the list, hopefully this broader heritage can receive the same protection and attention, including the incredible Palace Stoclet which is on the tentative list but is facing the threat of its interior being broken up and sold.
I really love these buildings and a trip to Brussels would really not be complete unless you get to see something of these incredible works of art.
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Here is a treasure in the history of the pro-capitalist novel. Garet Garrett, author of The People's Pottage, is the story of an upstart Wall Street speculator financier, Henry Galt, a shadowy figure who stays out of the limelight as much as possible until he unleashes a plan that had been years in the marking: he uses his extraordinary entrepreneurial talent to acquire control of a failing railroad.
Through outstanding management sense, good pricing, excellent service, and overall business savvy, he out competes all the big names in the business, while making a fortune in the process. Garrett has a way of illustrating just what it takes to be a businessman of this sort, and how his mind alone becomes the source of a fantastic revenue stream.
But his successes breed trouble. The government conspires with envious competitors to regulate him using the Sherman Antitrust Act, calling him a monopolist who is exploiting the public.
This book tells the dramatic story of his success and his fight. A reoccurring literary motif through the book has people asking: ""Who is Henry Galt?""
In one of many asides, this book contains one of the best explanations of the stupidity of ""bi-metallism"" that fixed the relationship between silver and gold. Indeed, the book is overall very sound on the money question, showing the inflationist populist movement of the late 19th century to be a pack of fools. Galt himself delivers some fantastic defenses of hard money and free markets, in both conversation and in front of the US Congress.
"The author, Garet Garrett, had the ability to make economic, financial, and management processes come alive in novel form,"" writes Edward Younkins. "Not only is The Driver a novel of high finance and Wall Street methods, it also paints a portrait of an efficacious and visionary man who uses reason to focus his enthusiasm on reality in his efforts to attain his goals."
“I’ll tell you what it means,” he shouted. “Wall Street has sucked the country dry. People may perish, but Wall Street will have its profit and interest. Labor may starve, but the banking power will keep money sound. Money in itself is nothing, - merely a convenience, a token by means of which useful things are exchanged. Is that so? Not at all. Money no longer exists for the sake of money. There is plenty everywhere, but people cannot buy because they are unemployed and have no money. Coxey says, “Create the money. Make it abundant. Then people may work and be prosperous.”
Garet Garrett (1878–1954), born Edward Peter Garrett, was an American journalist and author who was noted for his criticisms of the New Deal and U.S. involvement in the Second World War.
In 1911, he wrote a fairly successful book, Where the Money Grows and Anatomy of the Bubble. In 1916, at the age of 38, Garrett became the executive editor of the New York Tribune, after having worked as a financial writer for The New York Times, the Saturday Evening Post, and The Wall Street Journal. From 1920 to 1933, his primary focus was on writing books.
Between 1920 and 1932 Garrett wrote eight books, including The American Omen in 1928 and A Bubble That Broke the World in 1932.
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Do part-time workers qualify for workers’ compensation benefits?
Yes, part-time workers are generally eligible to receive workers’ compensation benefits in Texas. Even though part-time workers only receive part-time wages, they are still entitled to workers’ compensation benefits. However, this is only true if their employer has opted to participate in the workers’ compensation program.
It does not matter how many days or hours per week an employee works. Any employee, whether he is full-time, part-time, or seasonal, is eligible to receive workers’ compensation benefits after a workplace injury. The injury must occur while you are performing your required employment duties, and it must be serious enough to require professional medical attention.
Generally, the only workers not eligible for workers’ compensation include:
- Sole proprietors with no employees.
- The spouse, parent, or child of the employer.
- Volunteers who work without compensation.
- Independent contractors.
Texas is the only state in the nation that doesn’t require private employers to provide workers’ compensation insurance (although public employers and employers who have a building or construction contract with a governmental entity must provide workers’ compensation). The result is that millions of Texas employees are covered by their company’s privately-issued policy, rather than workers’ compensation insurance.
Unlike employers covered by workers’ compensation, employers with non-subscriber plans face the possibility of personal injury lawsuits if employees are hurt while on the job. Under the law, a worker can sue a non-subscriber to recover his medical expenses, payments for pain and suffering, and compensation for permanent disability. Furthermore, any employer who fails to provide workers’ compensation may be held liable for the full amount of damages if the company is at fault for the employee’s injuries.
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November 3, 2018 was a landmark in the history of Garanhuns, in the state of Pernambuco, in northeastern Brazil. For the first time a reception of the novices of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary took place in this region. After a year of preparation, which intensified as the young women moved to Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, the big day finally arrived. The five novices, their novice mistress and provincial leadership formed a true pilgrimage that traveled 3,800 kilometers (about 2,400miles) from the extreme south of the country to this region of northeastern Brazil.
Family members, friends and members of the Schoenstatt communities, priests, members of religious orders and seminarians from five dioceses of the Northeast also set out to participate in this procession at the “Tabor Shrine of Labor Day Saints”. As a result, more than 1,500 people from all over the world attended this celebration, but many in Brazil and other parts of the world had the opportunity to watch a live broadcast made possible by the Pastoral of Communication of the Garanhun diocese, PASCOM. Dom Paulo Jackson Nóbrega de Souza, diocesan Bishop of the Diocese of Garanhuns, officiated at the reception ceremony accompanied by 20 priests, 2 deacons and 14 seminarians.
The big day speaks to us
… of a joyful and unreserved yes,
of a totally dedicated yes, a brave yes, able to risk everything for the one who called her.
In the morning, punctually at 9 o’clock, the novices in their white dress stepped out of the house of the Sisters of Mary and went to the shrine where the bishop expected them. There they consecrated themselves to the Mother and Queen of Schoenstatt and requested the blessing for the beginning of their journey as Sisters of Mary. The parents of the novices accompanied the solemn entrance and led them to the place of the Holy Mass. The father of a novice admitted, deeply moved: “I was allowed to escort a bride to the altar and give her to the divine bridegroom, the best son-in-law which a father can ever have!”
… of a Marian dress given to those who “found mercy before God”.
A dress that speaks of the Eternal;
that announces the beginning of a new life and victory over the world;
a world whose interests no longer appeal to people.
The dress is a symbol of the inner attitude, of being the bearer of a divine mission for which it is worth offering one’s own life.
In his address, the bishop, Dom Paulo Jackson, indicated the symbol of dress in the Holy Scriptures and in various sectors of society. Clothes say something about the mission of the one who wears it. In this way, the dress received by the novices on this day testifies to their mission as Sisters of Mary to be living images of Mary in the world. Dom Paulo referred to the image in the Apocalypse, which speaks of the elect who made their “vestments white in the blood of the Lamb.”
And he emphasized the preconditions necessary to consecrate one’s life to God: first, it is necessary to solve the humanly fundamental questions of charity, love, dignity and reverence in one’s own life; the second step is to secure the Christian duties, to love the church and to be ready to serve it. Only then is it possible to take the third and most daring step: to give one’s life and devote this life fully to the service of God and his kingdom.
… of the veil of a virgin, a mother and a bride – the crown of a noble royal child. It is a veil that marks the forehead with the seal of total dedication: eternally given away, accepted unconditionally, and answered in totality.
The shining of the eyes and the joy of the smile testify to the certainty that the chosen path and the spoken yes are the grace of God, who selects the weak and small to reveal himself to the world. “I have experienced the heavens here!” a woman, who had traveled far, said of this celebration.
… of a covenant promise that contains an eloquent language in itself: “Yours forever, my Lord!” To belong completely to someone is what a noble heart seeks.
“I choose the MTA and Schoenstatt as my way of holiness”.
This motto that the novices have chosen for this day is an expression of the need to take the risk of love, but not alone, for our human weakness constantly surprises us on the sidelines. They have decided to join this path in community, as a family, therefore they speak their yes of love and dedication to the community of Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary and are fully committed to their mission:
The new names of the novices:
Sr. M. Antônia Menezes – Archdiocese of Fortaleza, State of Ceará
Sr. M. Driene Viana da Silva – Diocese of Garanhuns, Pernambuco
Sr. Maria Jaci Silva de Morais – Archdiocese of Olinda-Recife, state of Pernambuco
Sr. Mariana Macedo – Archdiocese of Maceió, State of Alagoas
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Every once in a while I take some flak for not using nails or screws in my joinery, and for using pocket holes to join face frames. Let’s debunk a few myths.
Today’s glues are stronger than the wood you’re putting together, provided the joinery is good. When you have good joinery, meaning no slop or gaps between the mating parts, you’re going to get an incredibly strong joint. Let’s look specifically at cabinet construction; dadoes, rabbets and face frames.
Pocket holes have been used on face frames for a long time. Long time use doesn’t necessarily prove that something is a good method. But in this case, it is. Pocket holes, coupled with glue in the joint, make a VERY strong face frame.
The Science Experiment
We did destructive testing in this video. The test cabinet is 8” x 18” x 28”, and was built using very typical construction methods. Dado and rabbet joinery, pocket holes on the face frame, no mechanical fasteners anywhere, except for the pocket holes.
The test? See what it takes to fracture the cabinet. You may be surprised by just how much force is required. After the cabinet is in pieces we look at forensics. Where did the fractures happen? This tells us about the strength of the joint, versus the strength of the material.
If You Need More Proof…
I’ve done a gazillion edge to edge glue ups, and often get questions about adding biscuits, dowels, or other devices to these joints to add strength. Watch our edge-to-edge glue joint test and you’ll see that, again, the wood fractures before the joint.
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Our government and, in fact, our society derives heavily from the premise that an individual needs to surrender some of his rights/powers and bestow them onto an appointed/elected few. For instance, someone living in a city implicitly agrees to grant only law enforcement officials of that city the power to arrest and charge a person with a crime. In the case of government, citizens forego their individual voice in law making and entrust it to an elected representative.
There is an implicit trust that those elected will conduct themselves honorably and fulfil the requirements of their jobs to the best of their abilities. When elected officials fail to meet these demands, it is the responsibility of their fellow lawmakers to speak up and remove the offending individuals from office.
David Jaye was entrusted with the task of representing Macomb County in the Michigan Senate in 1997. In spite of his two drunk-driving convictions, Jaye won the election with 2,000 votes, defeating Democratic challenger Becky Higbie. Since becoming a senator, Jaye has been convicted of a third drunk-driving charge.
His other alleged acts of misconduct include verbal abuse and profanity directed at his staff and more recently, domestic violence directed against his fiance. Jaye spent a night in a Florida jail after police responded to a 911 call about an alleged dispute with his fiance.
Jaye, who was active in the anti-affirmative action lawsuits against the University of Michigan, is currently facing the possibility of disciplinary action from his colleagues. Article IV, Section 16 of the Michigan Constitution states that “Each house shall be the sole judge of the qualifications, elections and returns of its members, and may, with the occurrence of two-thirds of all members elected thereto and serving therein, expel a member.”
In light of his recent run-in with the law, there is currently a six-member panel assigned the task of determining what disciplinary action to take. This senate committee could recommend that Jaye merely be reprimanded or it could expel him from office.
Senate Majority Leader Dan DeGrow has predicted that Jaye will likely be ousted. Jaye will have a chance to defend himself to the committee and has expressed his intent to sue to get his get his job back if forced to leave it. If the committee decides to expel him from office, Jaye will be the first senator to be expelled in Macomb County history.
Jaye is detrimental to lawmaking in Michigan and should be expelled. His presence in government despite his continued misconduct demonstrates a double standard for law-breakers: If you break the law you will be penalized, but if your job is to make those laws, your penalties will be lighter. The implication is that lawmakers don”t have to obey the laws like everyone else.
Jaye”s presence in the Senate undermines the integrity of the institution and he should be removed immediately. Michigan citizens deserve to be represented by lawmakers who respect the laws of the land.
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iePlexus has the latest headlines in the social media world in today’s Social Media News Brief…
Blippy’s Security Breach
Last week more than 125 Blippy users’ credit card numbers were exposed in Google search results. Blippy addressed security concerns with the following statement on its website:
“Blippy is very concerned about safeguarding the confidentiality of your personally identifiable information. We employ administrative, physical and electronic measures designed to protect your information from unauthorized access.”
Blippy immediately attempted to fix the issue, but Mashable.com reported that at least one other user had their information posted on a Google search. Online security experts have suggested that Blippy users revoke access from the site to their bank account and credit card information.
Hugo Chavez Joins Twitter
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez joined Twitter late Tuesday night. The news was a bit shocking to most since, just a few months ago, Chavez openly announced he was against the use of social media and called it “a tool of terrorism.” In March, he told Sky News that he will use Twitter as a way to share information and respond to his enemies. Today, fellow tweeters can find Chavez under the name @Chavezcandanga; so far, he has obtained more than 63,000 followers within the first 12 hours of creating an account.
Floppy Disk Sales Come to an End
Sony announced this week that they no longer produce floppy disks in the United States begining in March 2011. It seems the use of this old-school technology has come to an end as they were the only remaining manufacturer of the disks in the U.S.
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Today we’re visiting Amy Birdsong’s garden in Virginia.
Two years ago I became serious about restoring and improving our property, which up until then my husband had valiantly been taking care of with little to no input or help from me. As a kitchen and bath designer I am well versed in space planning, but I had zero knowledge on how to create a true garden. So like all good students, I went all in on research. I began visiting gardens, buying an embarrassing amount of garden books, obsessively combed the internet for information, popped into any and all nurseries within a 50-mile range, asked a ton of questions of people whose gardens I admire, and consulted a landscape designer. My quick-hits list of rules are highlighted by our July garden, which is breathtaking right now in all its summer glory.
Pruning hydrangeas correctly is a challenge, but they are tough, so just keep trying. This border is actually five years old with a new Empress of China dogwood (Cornus elptica ‘Elsbry’, Zones 6–9). Every year I pruned the ‘Little Lime’ hydrangeas (Hydrangea paniculata ‘Little Lime’, Zones 4–8), but they would end up scraggly and floppy by midsummer. This year I utilized Fine Gardening’s pruning tutorial and finally found success.
Move plants that aren’t happy, even if it’s not recommended. This Guara ‘Whirling Butterflies’ (Zones 5–9) was thin and covered in aphids. Several online sources said you couldn’t move Gaura easily due to their long taproots, but it was so pitiful there was nothing to lose. Now on the edge of the driveway where the soil is thin, it has exploded and is self-seeding like crazy.
A tree stump is an opportunity for a specimen plant. We lost a pine tree here and were left with a stump at ground level. The spot needed something with height. An inexpensive cask fits the woodland vibe of the area, and this ‘Spider’s Web’ fatsia (Fatsia japonica ‘Spider’s Web’, Zones 7–10) is a wonderful pop of color all year long.
Herb gardens can be beautiful. While herbs are messy and can be invasive, they are also often evergreen and provide lots of interesting contrasts of texture and color. A landscape designer suggested the tuteur, which elevates the space. I’ve planted a David Austin rose, which has already started blooming. Unfortunately, the Japanese beetles have found it.
Closer look at the herb garden
Create little vignettes. This is a spot by our back door planted with jasmine (Jasminum officinalis, Zones 7–10), a ‘Steeds’ Japanese holly (Ilex crenata ‘Steeds’, Zones 5–8), lambs’ ears (Stachys byzantina, Zones 4–9), and snowhill salvia (Salvia nemorosa ‘Snowhill’, Zones 4–9). I’ve cut back one of the salvias and left the other to see how they compare in a few months.
Variegated plants are everything, and you can mix them! For years I disliked variegated plants (which I read is common with new gardeners). I just wanted green on green on green. Last fall a friend shared a blog post that featured a flower border called the “Black and White” garden. In it the owner used all types of variegation from silver, chartreuse, white, and sage. It was magical, so I embraced the idea and am happy with the results. The key seems to be having enough deep green to offset the variegated plants, but also repetition so it doesn’t look accidental. Here a golden yellow Euphorbia ‘Ascot Rainbow’ (Zones 5–9) glows with the darker greens around it.
Use evergreen plants to provide structure and backdrops for flowering plants. A border of all flowers can be beautiful, but it can also be messy and only fully shines during peak flowering season. In addition, like in interior design, the eye needs places to rest, and things stand out when there is a neutral backdrop. Evergreens don’t have to be shrubs; carex, lirope, ground covers such as ajuga and lambs’ ears, and sedums come in a variety of colors and textures. Like variegated plants, they can happily comingle for an English garden look.
Lastly, mix heights within the border. When you look at pictures where everything is lined up like soldiers with ground covers in front and very strictly getting progressively taller, it looks unnatural. Obviously you don’t want 6-foot-tall shrubs or flowers at the very front, but a garden or border is more interesting if it reveals different views as you walk toward, beside, or even within it.
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Greetings from the Maine woods, where I’ve escaped for the week. An unintended consequence of my effort to unplug from the internet for a few days is that I completely forgot that today is a federal holiday, honoring (one day later, which is why I forgot), Juneteenth, “the celebration of the announcement on June 19th, 1865, in Texas that enslaved Americans were free,” as historian Heather Cox Richardson explains. Therefore, my observations in Sunday’s Whether Forecast re: a possible SCOTUS ruling on Roe v. Wade today (Monday) were clearly not going to become reality, no matter how activated the horoscope for the 1973 landmark decision happened to be (today’s Third Quarter Moon at 29 Pisces is right on the chart’s 29 Pisces Ascendant).
Here’s how the week goes:
- MONDAY: Third Quarter Moon at 29 Pisces at 11:10 PM ET. Chill for 26 minutes, and then hold onto your horses (suggests Beth Owl’s Daughter’s Tarot Card of the Week), as the Moon zooms into Aries at 11:37 PM ET. Moon in Aries needs to lead – courageously – and often impulsively – and always passionately, as fire signs are wont to do. Emotional depth and power plays (possibly involving women, values, arts and money) may manifest on…
- TUESDAY: …reflecting the 4:23 AM ET trine between Venus — close to the verrrrry end of Taurus — and Pluto in Establishment Capricorn. Meanwhile, news involving leaders of heads of state and business may also demand our attention, reflecting the Sun’s ingress into Cancer. Happy Summer Solstice (in the Northern Hemisphere)! Happy birthday to all your favorite crabs!
Here’s what you need to know about equinoxes and solstices — from an astrological point of view. In the Northern Hemisphere, the first day of Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter corresponds with the start of Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn, respectively. Got that? Good.
These four signs are called cardinal signs. Cardinal signs initiate. They come up with the idea and put it into action, which leads to necessary change. “Cardinal” suggests (from the Latin root of the word), “that on which something turns or depends.” So the first day of a Cardinal sign — which is also the first day of a season — is a turning point. Pay attention!
If you were born with the Sun in Cancer, you’re here to create and maintain emotional security. Cancer is ruled by the Moon, which changes signs faster than any other celestial body. Moon refers to emotional response. The keywords for Cancer are: I FEEL. If you are a Cancer born between July 17th – 21st my money says you’ve been feeling a lot these days – and some of it may be cathartic and transforming. Maybe you’d like to talk about it with your astrologer?
Here is what the Summer Solstice looks like, set in Washington, D.C.
- For those familiar with midpoint pictures, it’s fascinating to see the Cancer Sun at the Jupiter/Neptune midpoint (Sun = Jupiter/Neptune is the astrological notation). Avid Readers will recall that one of the dominant patterns of 2022 is the Jupiter-Neptune conjunction in Pisces, which happened on April 12th. For the next three months, we can expect Jupiter-Neptune themes to become even more prominent, especially with respect to leaders. Here’s the 411 on Jupiter-Neptune in Pisces — and what was going on in mid-April.
- Moon, Mars and Jupiter in Aries suggest fiery crusades, especially with warrior Mars running wild in the cosmic sandbox. For that matter, rebel Uranus is also running wild. Have you heard about the Texas Republican Party’s new platform? Let Heather Cox Richardson explain.
- Moon rules the 2nd house — of money, worth and values — from its position in the 11th house — of rewards, benefactors and love received. Who’s going to make the cut?
Back to the Forecast:
- TUESDAY (cont.): Exuberance, expansion and plenty of chatter are suggested by the Aries Moon’s meeting with Jupiter at 11:36 AM ET, followed by a cooperative connection to Mercury at 2:34 PM ET.
- WEDNESDAY: An assertive focus can be yours around 2:58 PM ET, as Moon meets up with Mars in Aries. Meanwhile, at 8:34 PM ET, Venus – which refers to who, what and how we need to love – leaves Taurus and enters Gemini, where it will be until July 17th. Venus in Gemini may have difficulty choosing between two or more things it loves — and needs to talk up a storm in the process. But at least the talk is entertaining — although it may have a twinge of gravitas around 10:18 PM ET, as the Moon sextiles Saturn.
- THURSDAY: Night owls in the Americas may experience a power play or a catharsis, as the Aries Moon squares Pluto at 4:02 AM ET — and then goes void for four hours. At 7:57 PM ET, Moon enters Taurus. A Taurus Moon seeks to preserve the status quo whilst enjoying a few simple sensual delights. A sextile between the Cancer Sun and Taurus Moon at 12:11 PM ET strives for balance, nourishment and emotional support. The steady, earthy pace continues into…
- FRIDAY: …with no exact aspects to the Moon until 6:14 PM ET, when Moon meets up with rebel Uranus. Surprise?
- SATURDAY: Adjustments may be required — to whatever authoritative structures and/or wet blankets landed overnight, reflecting the Moon’s square to Saturn at 9:01 AM ET. The mood softens over the next hour, as Moon sextiles Neptune — and maybe inspires a bit more sleep. The rest of the afternoon facilitates calling on power and resources for the sake of material comfort and security, as the Moon trines Pluto at 3:02 PM ET. Chill during the ensuing four-hour void — and no impulse shopping, if you please. At 7:13 PM ET, Moon enters Gemini, seeking to be the smartest kid in the room, armed with a double batch of convincing sweet-talk as it approaches Venus at 3:02 AM ET on…
- SUNDAY. This day is pleasant enough, as Moon sextiles Jupiter at 9:26 AM ET and buzzes through the rest of the day. Humming in the background are a several noteworthy patterns that are exact next week. First, on Monday, Mars sextiles Saturn — and this practical constructive flow of energy can support your equally practical Moon-in-Taurus/Sun-in-Cancer weekend home improvement projects. Second, Tuesday offers a bonanza, as Jupiter squares the Sun and sextiles Venus. Expansive and/or expensive — but what a potentially delightful indulgence. Third, Neptune will turn retrograde just before the New Moon in Cancer. Avid Readers will recall that when a planet changes direction (from our perspective on planet Earth), whatever it symbolizes may blare for several days, as if a driver is leaning on the horn of their car. Neptune symbolizes refugees, music, spirits of all kind, oil, victims, fantasies, dreams (note yours all this week!), drugs, delusions, oceans, glamour, scandal, etc. etc.
Finally, not only is this week a turning point – marked by the Summer Solstice – but it may be another tipping point. I say this because as you can see, after the Solstice there are no exact aspects among the planets for the rest of the week — other than to the Moon. I don’t know why these apparent breaks in the planetary action coincide with events that seem like the collapse of an ice shelf into the ocean, but that’s what I’ve observed over the years. We live in such interesting times!
And now, the news.
Last week’s headlines reflected the Sun (leaders) and Venus (women, social expression, money) as they connected with Saturn (reality, streamlining, controls) and Neptune (bewilderment, victims, wipeout, illusion, conspiracies). Last Monday’s Full Moon suggested illumination involving the former guy and his VP, Mike Pence. How interesting that Thursday’s J6 hearing (which was NOT scheduled to start at a time with Uranus squaring the Ascendant & thus actually happened as scheduled) was all about…Mike Pence, as Heather Cox Richardson reports.
We also expected illuminating news involving Governor Gavin Newsom, and we were not disappointed:
- “Gavin Newsom joins Truth Social to ‘call out Republican lies;’ perceived ‘red-state murder problem”
- “Alexei Navalny reportedly moved to high-security prison in Russia,” but his official status is unknown. He’s “disappeared.”
- Dom Phillips, a former music journalist who was a “leading chronicler of deforestation in the Amazon,” went missing — and was later found murdered, along with indigenous advocate Bruno Pereira. They were found in an area of Brazil where “illegal fishing and poaching has become rife…is also a well-known trafficking route for cocaine.”
- “WTO strikes major trade deal” that includes “commitments on fish.”
- Record flooding and mudslides force closures in Yellowstone Park
- “Biden sends letter warning oil companies on historically high refinery profits”
- Dr. Fauci tests positive for Covid.
In other news, reflecting Venus square Saturn’s joyless potential:
- Markets were down (as anticipated), as the Fed increased interest rates (biggest increase since 1994)
- “Saudis ban rainbow-colored toys in crackdown on homosexuality” (shall we file this under delusional Neptune, too?)
- Seven members of a production crew for The Late Show w/Stephen Colbert were arrested and charged with unlawful entry while filming a segment (with Triumph the Insult Dog) in the U.S. Capitol
- Elon Musk’s transgender daughter seeks name change to sever ties with father
- Brittney Griner’s wife says U.S. Embassy failed to patch through call from the detained WNBA star on the couple’s 4th anniversary
On the other hand, Venus-Saturn patterns could simply reflect a mature woman, and with Venus in Taurus, her focus might be on simple pleasures. Toss in a little Neptune for fantasy and healing, and it adds up to an apt time for the release…of Emma Thompson’s latest film, “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande,” now streaming on Hulu.
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- Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs unit has secured conditional approval to move forward with building a smart city in Toronto.
- This means the project will go through a formal evaluation and further public consultation before a final vote on March 31, 2020.
- The project has been a point of controversy over data privacy concerns and whether the initiative will benefit local businesses.
The directors of Waterfront Toronto met on Thursday to consider "alignment on critical issues" between Waterfront and Sidewalk Labs on the company's proposal to build a futuristic urban development project along Toronto's water front.
The approval means the project will go through a formal evaluation and further public consultation before a final vote on March 31, 2020 by Waterfront Toronto, a corporation funded by the city, provincial and federal governments.
"We are encouraged by today's decision by the Waterfront Toronto board and are pleased to have reached alignment on critical issues with Waterfront Toronto," Sidewalk Labs CEO Dan Doctoroff wrote in a statement. "We want to be a partner with Waterfront Toronto and governments to build an innovative and inclusive neighborhood."
Waterfront Toronto has a mandate to approve projects, although some aspects — including sales of government land — will still have to be approved by the relevant level of government. While the Waterfront Toronto board vote is not the final hurdle Alphabet faces in the approval process, a no vote from the board may have ended the project.
"After two years in Toronto and engaging and planning with over 21,000 Toronto residents, we are looking forward to the next round of public consultations, entering the evaluation process, and continuing to develop a plan to build the most innovative neighbourhood in the world," Doctoroff said. "We are working to demonstrate an inclusive neighborhood here in Toronto where we can shorten commute times, make housing more affordable, create new jobs, and set a new standard for a healthier planet."
In June, Sidewalk Labs submitted its 1,524-page proposal for the project on Toronto's eastern waterfront. The proposal showed that the Google sister company was reigning back some of its involvement, amid local pushback. The company said it aimed to spend a total of $3.9 billion in the areas that will make up the "smart" district.
"The proposal represents our best thinking to date on the path to creating the most innovative place in the world, right here in Toronto," Sidewalk Labs said in a blog post Thursday. "Our proposal was bold, but it was also a draft— subject to additional public consultations, further refinement and government approvals."
The project has faced hurdles, as critics said Sidewalk Labs' proposals for data usage and storage took too much from individuals, and did not create enough opportunities for Canadian businesses. Sidewalk and Waterfront Toronto had until Thursday to resolve "threshold issues," as Waterfront termed them, including data usage and scope, that would satisfy both parties and allowed the project to move forward toward final approval.
"Let me be clear: this is not a done deal. There is still much work to do before a final decision," wrote Chair of the Waterfront Toronto Board of Directors Stephen Diamond in a letter to the public. "While a final Board decision whether or not to proceed has yet to be made, we are pleased that we are now able to move to the evaluation stage on a project that has the potential to create new jobs and economic development opportunities, a create carbon-neutral neighbourhood, and more affordable housing units"
Diamond highlighted a number of issues on which the board and Sidewalk Labs were able to agree, including a reduction in the amount of land involved in the deal and that all personal data will be stored in Canada. Diamond also emphasized a number of topics on which there has been discussion such as land valuation and a potential revenue share.
"Sidewalk Labs listened to our concerns, and those of the public, and has confirmed that it will make significant changes to its proposal..."
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Meditation apps are not shy about scraping user data in the name of alleviating stress. But between Calm and Headspace, which app is less likely to compromise your privacy and sensitive mental health data?
Based on our analysis, Headspace edges out Calm when it comes to privacy and security, but Headspace isn’t perfect either. Both apps collect reams of data on users, and the personalization component of each app means that, any way you cut it, these meditation and sleep apps thrive on having as much data as possible to personalize your anxiety and stress reduction plans — and they send that info to advertisers, too. While that may be alarming, Headspace’s “My Data” hub allows users to review what data the app has collected, a lesson that might be helpful for Calm to learn too. Read on for more info.
The pandemic has galvanized users to seek out meditation and mindfulness apps to restore tranquility and equanimity in their lives; however, not all mental health apps are equal in how they treat your data or respect your privacy. Two of the most popular apps — Calm and Headspace — cater to groups looking to alleviate stress, deepen relaxation, and address chronic sleep problems.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 70 million Americans struggle with sleep, a problem which can exacerbate mental illness, poor workplace productivity, chronic diseases and contribute to a lower quality of life and shorter lifespan. To that end, both Calm and Headspace provide a salve for those suffering from insufficient or poor quality sleep. Calm lets users in over 190 countries tune into hours of “sleep stories” in seven languages, read by celebrities like Matthew McConaughey, Harry Styles, and LeBron James. Rival app Headspace provides sleep aids in the form of meditation exercises, along with “soothing soundscapes” to lull an insomniac into their long-sought-after slumber.
Additionally, Headspace and Calm both offer mindfulness techniques to help users reduce anxiety, stress, and general unease in their everyday lives. Through a library of mindfulness techniques that help improve psychological wellbeing, users can seek out the tranquilizing sounds of birdsong, or hear a soothing voice to reach better sleep or a better peace of mind.
But to achieve that, it’s important to understand what these apps extract in terms of data and privacy. Calm and Headspace are both personalized apps that depend on users sharing mental health data — in Calm’s case, the app collects highly-sensitive health information on moods, emotions, and physical and mental health — so, how they protect that data is essential.
Like many meditation apps, Calm collects personally identifiable information like geolocation data, sensitive biometric data and health data. Headspace also obtains personal data like a user’s name, email address, app usage, and their Facebook account ID.
Both Headspace and Calm do not track precise locations. The apps say they rely on IP addresses to determine an approximate location, with Headspace saying that it relies on a user’s geolocation instead of their exact longitude or latitude. Headspace says it collects this data to serve specific content, develop analytics on users based on location, and prevent fraudulent sign-ons. Calm tells Mozilla it uses this information for business decisions and to understand where users are located.
Headspace obtains information about you from trackers like cookies, scripts, and web “beacons” (the company uses these web beacons to understand user preferences and determine how visitors are navigating the site, along with information like which pages generate the most traffic). It does this to see how customers use its app and says it does not comply with do-not-track signals. Although Headspace says it only applies trackers if given consent — and offers users an opt-out option — it does not provide a handy and straightforward method to do so.
While Calm says it does not have access to a user’s camera or microphone, the app records data related to which videos users watch or which sleep stories users listen to. With permission from users, the app also records phone and video calls during coaching sessions or market research sessions. The company says it logs a user’s IP address, the time and date a person visited a page or video, and information related to their web browser, prior webpages visited, hardware models and operating systems of devices, and carrier types.
Headspace, meanwhile, says it does not have access to a user’s cameras or microphones and appears to be telling the truth, given that we did not see either activated while using the app.
Meditation and mindfulness apps are increasingly able to obtain sensitive health data that may paint a detailed picture into a user’s physical or mental health. Namely, Calm says this trove of health data can be collected by the app when users directly send feedback or messages to the company.
Given that individually identifiable health information can be accessed by both Calm and Headspace, it is imperative that users gain a right to access, amend, or delete this data if they wish. Consumers should also be alarmed that both apps may have access to information related to poor moods or poor emotional regulation, as revealed through questions asking about a user’s mood and state of relaxation.
So, how and where is information stored? In short, this round goes to Headspace. Here are the details:
Headspace says it stores user data in the U.S. on “secure servers” — but does not explicitly mention data encryption. The company also says payment information is never stored by the company. The company keeps data from cookies and data trackers for a year. Headspace says after a two-year inactivity period, a user’s account data will become permanently anonymous, but users can directly ask the company to anonymize information within 30 days of an email to [email protected]
Importantly, the company says deleting a Headspace account would result in the deletion of all linked data.
In contrast to this, Calm says sensitive data submitted by forms is encrypted, but the company says there is no promise of “absolute security” and says it does not have liability for “unintentional disclosure.” It also does not explicitly mention where data is stored. Payment information like time and date of purchase are stored by Calm, and the company also gets payment information from third-party app stores.
Alarmingly, Calm’s data retention policies do not define a clear length of time after which data, cookies, or data trackers are deleted. The app says it maintains both cached and archived data on users for an ambiguous, undefined timespan after users delete their account. Likewise, there is no information about inactivity periods leading to data deletion.
Nevertheless, Calm says that all users, regardless of geography, have the right to delete their data by directly emailing [email protected] While this option to delete all data is welcome, there should be a more user-friendly way to do it built into the app.
Both apps permit third parties to access data. Here are some examples of what that looks like:
Headspace is not much better here. It takes data and shares it with third-party platforms like Facebook, Apple, Spotify, and Google for things like targeted ads. For this reason, it might be better to unlink these accounts from the app. Although Headspace does not take data and sell it to other platforms, it still shares a user’s cookies — meaning you can expect information related to your browser, computer, and IP addresses to be shared with the company.
Headspace says that information can be shared with third parties like Facebook or Google for ads, as well as companies offering similar goods or services in order to improve user experiences or provide combined services. The app also reserves a right to advertise to users through other websites and apps on a user’s phone or computer using the personal data they provide.
If a user links their Facebook account with Headspace, the company collects information like their name, email address, and ID. Additionally, Headspace also says it shares user data with other companies for helping fight fraud and reduce credit risks, but does not disclose what that data looks like.
Conveniently, Headspace offers users a central hub for reviewing their collected personal data in the “My Data” tab of the app, displaying the user’s country, user ID, first and last names, email address, language choice, and time zone. The “permissions” tab allows users to disable personalized ads across Facebook, Instagram, Google and Twitter. It’s important to note that customers cannot edit or change their information in the “My Data” section, except for their country.
Calm does not have a central hub for users to access or review their personal data or edit it, except for updating a user’s email address or name in the app.
Headspace says it uses personal data to send targeted emails and ads, but it provides users with the option to opt in or out of these services through the “My Data” section of its app. It’s relatively easy to access this on both the app and website. Deleting an account also erases all the data linked to the account.
Calm says it shares some personally identifiable data with marketers, such as device identifiers, and requires marketers not to transmit the data to others. Users can opt out by directly contacting the company, but there is no direct link for opting out or a dedicated section for this. Given Calm’s inclination to share data with third parties, it is important to wonder if the companies it grants data to uphold the same security protocols (like data encryption), and question what level of security users can reasonably expect to find at Calm itself, particularly in terms of data encryption.
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Catechism of the Catholic Church
144 To obey (from the Latin ob-audire, to "hear or listen to") in faith is to submit freely to the word that has been heard, because its truth is guaranteed by God, who is Truth itself. Abraham is the model of such obedience offered us by Sacred Scripture. The Virgin Mary is its most perfect embodiment.
145 The Letter to the Hebrews, in its great eulogy of the faith of Israel's ancestors, lays special emphasis on Abraham's faith: "By faith, Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place which he was to receive as an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was to go." 4 By faith, he lived as a stranger and pilgrim in the promised land. 5 By faith, Sarah was given to conceive the son of the promise. And by faith Abraham offered his only son in sacrifice. 6
146 Abraham thus fulfils the definition of faith in Hebrews 11:1: "Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen": 7 "Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness." 8 Because he was "strong in his faith", Abraham became the "father of all who believe". 9
147 The Old Testament is rich in witnesses to this faith. The Letter to the Hebrews proclaims its eulogy of the exemplary faith of the ancestors who "received divine approval". 10 Yet "God had foreseen something better for us": the grace of believing in his Son Jesus, "the pioneer and perfecter of our faith". 11
148 The Virgin Mary most perfectly embodies the obedience of faith. By faith Mary welcomes the tidings and promise brought by the angel Gabriel, believing that "with God nothing will be impossible" and so giving her assent: "Behold I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be [done] to me according to your word." 12 Elizabeth greeted her: "Blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfilment of what was spoken to her from the Lord." 13 It is for this faith that all generations have called Mary blessed. 14
149 Throughout her life and until her last ordeal 15 when Jesus her son died on the cross, Mary's faith never wavered. She never ceased to believe in the fulfilment of God's word. And so the Church venerates in Mary the purest realization of faith.
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