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I’ve been writing stories since middle school. They weren’t any good (and some of mine now still aren’t) but I was writing. I didn’t start caring about the craft of writing until I had stories of my own I needed to tell. My drive to master the mechanics, conventions, and forms of writing came when I had a reason to learn them.
I now write a ton: short stories, novel projects, poetry, blog posts, random snippets, essays for my masters degree, etc. A few weeks ago, I wrote an in-class essay with my AP students just to remind myself how hard it is to craft coherent thoughts in such a short space of time. In the past when I’ve come into busy times that necessitate less time writing, those muscles atrophied.
Occasionally, I’ve spoken to people that consider themselves writers but admit that they don’t read books. This is baffling; how can someone write if they don’t read? Even if their focus is screen writing, or they’re mainly interested in television-style storytelling, their output is still in words. Understanding the craft of writing is twofold: writing practice and reading input.
It occurred to me that this translates in the other direction as well. How can someone teach writing or the analysis of literature if they don’t write themselves? Not that it’s impossible, but the depth of understanding isn’t the same. When my students ask me about how I know that the author put that symbol in intentionally, I can knowledgeably say that there’s no way to accidentally put in that many cohesive references to the same object, all tied to a particular idea or theme. Strong writing does not happen by accident.
Similarly, my understanding of poetry has grown proportionally with how much poetry I’ve written. It shows me the depth of thought, the understanding of rhythm, and the dedication to word-smithing of each poet and how far I am from writing like a Mary Oliver or a Gerard Manley Hopkins. My admiration and appreciation for their work has grown because of my own fumbled attempts.
I don’t actually think it makes that much difference what we write. The process of getting thoughts, images, ideas, emotions onto paper is hard. Authors, poets, playwrights, they frequently discuss in interviews or essays how time-consuming and difficult the process is. It can be agonizing. When we only receive the end-product, we don’t appreciate the process. By experiencing the process ourselves, we better understand the magnitude of the task undergone in writing a work as seemingly simple as The Old Man and the Sea. The language is not hard, the plot is straight forward, structure is almost simplistic. My 10th grade self thought it was the dumbest book I’d ever read.
I’ve started engaging in a practice called ‘copywork’. This time-honored process was quite a common way of teaching writing. Essentially, one copies the works of great writers by hand, a few pages at a time. I was somewhat skeptical at first and skipped through the works of various science fiction authors I admired. I’d copy out a page here and another there, really getting a feel for their language. Then I started copying out The Old Man and the Sea in full. It’s spectacular. I teach it every year, I’ve spent time with this text, I’ve read it many times. And now, in copying it out, I have a whole new appreciation for how Hemingway writes. Even just a few pages in, I’ve noticed details, structures, individual words that had slipped me by in all my previous readings.
So yes, all English teachers should write. Create a short story, a poem, write an essay along with students, write an analytical piece on a work of fiction, etc. I’m most excited to teach writing when I’m fired up about my own plans. When my 10th grade Honors class participates in NaNoWriMo each year, I do it right along with them and find that this not only inspires them, but I’m simultaneously driven forward by their engagement. I can guide them in writing fiction precisely because I’ve worked on my own craft for so long. I can show them how to do great research, how to incorporate their sources well, how to analyze a quote, because that’s what I’m needing to do in my own writing.
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It’s the outstanding natural beauty of Queen Elizabeth National Park that made it one of the prime tourism destinations in Uganda. Visitors flock here to see wildlife, track chimpanzees, sails on the Kazinga channel and also take a clear glance at tree climbing lions that rest up in tree branches all day. The people of Uganda are too proud with their natural wonder of paradise and they welcome guests to feel the beauty of nature and conservation. The wonderful views of Rwenzori Mountain and the savanna plain is another feature that put a smile on every ones face while exploring the park.
Where to Find Queen Elizabeth National Park
Find this incredible park in western Uganda in districts of Kasese, Bushenyi and Bundibugyo.Its easily accessed by road and its 5-6 hour drive from Kampala via Mbarara town another famous town in western Uganda From Bwindi Forest national Park, it’s still accessed by road on a short drive distance of about 2-3 hours that is you from Buhoma sector of Bwindi.However, the drive is more long for those coming from other sectors of Bwindi like Rushaga, Nkuringo and Ruhija.Most of Queen Elizabeth is made up of sprawling savanna plains, lakes,wetlands,humid forests which make it a perfect place for big game, primate viewing and bird watching.
This is a popular spot with visitors because of the wildlife spectacle. It is found in the confines of Queen Elizabeth National Park. At the channel’s shorelines a profusion of animals and birds converge, and their variety adds to the channel’s attraction. These are best viewed on a launch trip up the channel where hippos and pelicans besides other animals and birds can be seen. The channel is definitely worth visiting and the launch trip one worth taking.
Queen Elizabeth Wildlife
The park is Uganda’s most popular game viewing ground and it hosts an amazing number of tree climbing lions. You will definitely see your favorite wildlife including lions, elephants, Buffaloes, leopard, Warthogs, kobs, topis, waterbucks and of course hippos and crocodiles in the Kazinga Channel.
The best time to go is all year January to December because wildlife and other park habitats roam in plenty. All Queen Elizabeth tour adventures are exciting no matter when you visit.
Things to do in Queen Elizabeth National Park
This is the most done tour adventure by all visitors to Queen Elizabeth National park especially in mornings and evening though others find it fan to view some wildlife under the hot sun as they get to the park in either ishasha sector or Kasenyi where wildlife roams in huge numbers. You need to move around with a park rangers who know where to find particular wildlife species that are hard to find when doing the drive alone. However, it’s game drives are superb in morning hours when the weather is calm and late evenings during just after sunset. Among what will impress you are the elephants as they make way down the waters on a hot day and the beautiful views of the volcanoes carters at the foothills of mountain Rwenzori also known as the mountain of the moon.
Since Queen Elizabeth is a home of ten primate species with chimpanzees as the main, visitors to the park enjoy tracking chimpanzees in mornings and afternoons in Kyambura gorge or Kalinzu forest reserve that shares borders with Kyambura.The humid forests are habitants to chimpanzees, Black and white colobus monkeys, olive baboons, birds, snakes and many other primates. A trip to either Kyambura gorge or Kalinzu offers rewarding chimpanzee safari experience an activity you will cherish if you a primate fan.
Another exciting tour adventure experienced on the channel that joins Lake George and Edward. Don’t miss to relax in leisure under fresh winds as you feeds eyes on high concentration of hippos, crocodiles, birds and wildlife. Others to enjoy are the beautiful views of the channel and the surrounding. The park guides are very informed and they make the experience even more exclusive. This is the best adventure to take on on a free afternoon in Queen Elizabeth National Park.
Safari Lodges in Queen Elizabeth National Park
Queen Elizabeth offers variety of accommodation facilities catering for both budget and luxury tourists all year.The park safari lodges include Mweya safari Lodge, Katara lodge, Jacana safari lodge, Ishasha wilderness camp, Kyambara lodge, baboon lodge, Enganzi lodge, Bush lodge, Simba safari camp, Pumba cottages, Mweya hostels and UWA Bandas.
- Check out the Queen Elizabeth Game Park website
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In this work, a variety of layered materials are considered for their potential technologic applications and the role of structure on the physical properties of the material system as a whole. Transition metal dichalcogenides form the core of the work discussed here, with additional results from an iron pnictide-based superconductor and for a biologically-sourced proton conductor. Here, a commercial scanning tunneling microscope (STM) with liquid cryogenic cooling provides information about both the atomic-scale structure of the surface and the local electronic density of states (LDOS) as a function of position. The interplay of superconducting and charge-density wave states is discussed with regards to the iron pnictide superconductors, whereas the role of interlayer hybridization and moire periodicity provides the focus for the transition metal dichalcogenide works. Finally, a brief discussion of biological and ionic analogs to charge transport properties will be highlighted in the case of shrimp-shell derived chitosan biofilm. These materials are the subject of ongoing, interdisciplinary study for their myriad properties, and an understanding of their nanoscopic characteristics, microscopic characteristics, and the role of extrinsic factors is sought after to rationally inform their potential uses in next-generation electronics, sensors, catalysis, and more.
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Fulton County reports 14 new COVID cases; Illinois cases up 7.7%
New coronavirus cases increased 7.7% in Illinois in the week ending Sunday as the state added 8,039 cases. The previous week had 7,467 new cases of the virus that causes COVID-19.
Illinois ranked 18th among the states where coronavirus was spreading the fastest on a per-person basis, a USA TODAY Network analysis of Johns Hopkins University data shows. In the latest week coronavirus cases in the United States increased 5% from the week before, with 219,630 cases reported. With 3.81% of the country's population, Illinois had 3.66% of the country's cases in the last week. Across the country, 16 states had more cases in the latest week than they did in the week before.
Fulton County reported 14 cases and zero deaths in the latest week. A week earlier, it had reported 26 cases and zero deaths. Throughout the pandemic it has reported 10,028 cases and 126 deaths.
Within Illinois, the worst weekly outbreaks on a per-person basis were in Edgar County with 146 cases per 100,000 per week; Champaign County with 117; and DuPage County with 104. The Centers for Disease Control says high levels of community transmission begin at 100 cases per 100,000 per week.
Adding the most new cases overall were Cook County, with 3,765 cases; DuPage County, with 958 cases; and Will County, with 437. Weekly case counts rose in 47 counties from the previous week. The worst increases from the prior week's pace were in Cook, Champaign and Kane counties.
Illinois ranked 21st among states in share of people receiving at least one shot, with 76.4% of its residents at least partially vaccinated. The national rate is 76.9%, a USA TODAY analysis of CDC data shows. The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, which are the most used in the United States, require two doses administered a few weeks apart.
In the week ending Sunday, Illinois reported administering another 74,955 vaccine doses, including 17,226 first doses. In the previous week, the state administered 53,169 vaccine doses, including 4,962 first doses. In all, Illinois reported it has administered 22,036,308 total doses.
Across Illinois, cases fell in 47 counties, with the best declines in St. Clair County, with 43 cases from 100 a week earlier; in Lake County, with 427 cases from 470; and in LaSalle County, with 42 cases from 68.
In Illinois, 109 people were reported dead of COVID-19 in the week ending Sunday. In the week before that, 123 people were reported dead.
A total of 3,061,224 people in Illinois have tested positive for the coronavirus since the pandemic began, and 35,740 people have died from the disease, Johns Hopkins University data shows. In the United States 79,954,418 people have tested positive and 976,702 people have died.
Illinois's COVID-19 hospital admissions rising
USA TODAY analyzed federal hospital data as of Sunday, March 27.
Likely COVID patients admitted in the state:
- Last week: 2,321
- The week before that: 2,245
- Four weeks ago: 2,790
Likely COVID patients admitted in the nation:
- Last week: 39,713
- The week before that: 41,915
- Four weeks ago: 66,508
Hospitals in three states reported more COVID-19 patients than a week earlier, while hospitals in six states had more COVID-19 patients in intensive-care beds. Hospitals in 16 states admitted more COVID-19 patients in the latest week than a week prior, the USA TODAY analysis of U.S. Health and Human Services data shows.
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25 Benefits of Drip Irrigation and Tree Bubblers
Isn’t it time to add drip irrigation and tree bubblers to your property to help you conserve water as well as save money on utility bills? These no-nonsense irrigation products emit small amounts of water at the root zone in landscaped areas and under trees.
A dripline or tree bubbler emits constant water to plants’ root systems for the length of time you set on the drip irrigation’s timer. If there’s an area with dense shrubbery, for instance, drip irrigation will slowly emit small amounts of water to the roots.
In this blog post, we’ll explore the many benefits of drip irrigation systems, including tree bubblers.
How Tree Bubblers and Other Driplines Conserve Water, Save You Money, Maintain Plant Health
There are many benefits to installing a drip line and/or tree bubblers. These micro-irrigation tools output small amounts of water. Drip irrigation and tree bubblers are measured in gallons per hour rather than gallons per minute.
Here are 25 benefits of drip irrigation and tree bubblers:1. Micro-irrigation saves you, the homeowner, up to 70% more water than conventional sprinkler systems.
2. Drip irrigation and tree bubblers target water directly where it needs to go rather than over spraying a small area.
3. Micro-irrigation has a slower flow than typical irrigation systems.
4. Drip irrigation and tree bubblers are more efficient than other sprinkler systems as long as they’re correctly installed.
5. Water is directly emitted to the plant’s root zones. There is no water wasted due to evaporation, wind, or overspray mist.
6. Driplines prevent plant diseases because the water isn’t laying on the plant’s leaves. Drip irrigation and tree bubblers are set up to go directly to the plant’s root systems.
7. Driplines prevent erosion and runoff, making them great environmental products.
8. Tree bubblers precisely emit water to right to where it belongs, the tree’s root ball.
9. You won’t forget about your drip sprinkler system like you would with your lawn sprinkler. When you add a timer to your dripline system, it’ll automatically shut-off.
10. There will be no accidental spray on your home, wood fences, and concrete.
11. Driplines and tree bubblers are easy to install. While you’ll still need to dig a trench, it’ll be smaller and less time consuming as a regular outdoor sprinkler system would demand.
12. Tree bubblers are more durable and less likely to get clogged like other emitters.
13. Drip irrigation and tree bubblers improve plant growth. The slower water flow percolates into the soil and into the plant’s root zone. This precision leads to healthy plant growth because the shrubbery, trees or landscaped areas are getting the right amount of water at the right flow.
14. Drip irrigation extends watering times for plants so that the plant materials get enough water.
15. Fertilizers and other soil amendments stay in the ground where they belong. There’s no erosion to wash away nutrients.
16. Water penetrates deeply into the soil to produce longer root hairs to improve plant health throughout the year including the winter.
17. Drip irrigation or tree bubblers reduce the number of weeds popping up in your flowerbeds and landscaped areas. The moisture only goes to your landscape plants and trees.
18. You save time with a dripline and bubblers because you don’t need to stand by your flowerbeds and gardens to water them with a garden hose for an hour or more.
19. Automatic watering by a touch of your mobile device as well as not having to move sprinkler heads anymore save you even more time.
20. Driplines and tree bubblers eliminate fungal diseases because water is not landing nor sitting on leaves overnight.
21. You can modify your drip irrigation to meet the changing needs and growth of your shrubbery beds, trees, and gardens. You can also modify how long your dripline runs according to plant needs during the late spring through early fall.
22. Drip irrigation doesn’t wash mulch away. Instead, it percolates through the mulch to the root zone.
23. You can designate one zone with tree bubblers instead of having to run different driplines.
24. You should notice a reduction on your water bills because you use less water over the summer months compared to hand watering or using a garden hose. Plus, you save money because you don’t need to constantly buy new plants to replace the ones that died due to too much water or not enough of it.
25. You have a choice with your tree bubblers’ flow rate. You can have a fixed flow rate that adjusts to water pressure, or you can install an adjustable flow rate.
Investing in a Dripline and Tree Bubblers
If you’re a DIY homeowner, you can install your own dripline and tree bubblers. It does take some time, but you’ll be grateful for the lower water bills and the healthier plants on your property.
If you have a small urban yard, you may have mostly landscaped and hardscaped areas with a small space dedicated to lawn grass. Driplines and bubblers help you keep your plants healthy and well-watered—especially during the summer.
Conversely, if you have a large property that’s divided into hydrozones, your trees will benefit from tree bubblers, and the dripline would be perfect for groundcovers, shrubbery beds, and flowers. Some homeowners use driplines in their planters and container plants to keep them moist.
If your municipality or city has water restrictions, you can still have a beautiful landscape and trees with drip irrigation. You may only water your plants on certain days, but on those watering days, your dripline will be efficiently irrigating your plants.
Plus, some municipalities give water-saving rebates when homeowners install drip irrigation and tree bubblers on their property.
K-Rain provides dripline and tree bubblers for DIY homeowners. Our pressure compensating bubblers ensure your plants get consistent flow rates during lower water pressure. K-Rain’s tree bubblers are perfect for watering trees and large shrubs.
Our dripline systems provide you with irrigation efficiency and trouble-free operation. You can install our driplines above- or underground, depending on your property’s needs and your preference.
You’ll find that our drip irrigation system will deliver uniform output across the entire length of your dripline run. K-Rain’s in-line emitter prevents drainage from the dripline when water pressure drops below 2.5 psi, protecting against siphoning of small sentiment and soil particles.
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It seems fun if you and the kids can be creative every day at home. Besides being able to hone your baby’s creativity, you can also establish intimacy. You can do this in many ways, one of which is having a chalkboard wall or a blackboard wall. How to make it? Check out the following information.
How to Make a Chalkboard Wall at Home
Before making it, first prepare some materials and tools as follows:
- Powdered grout
- Latex paint in desired color (black or other dark color)
- Bucket for mixing ingredients
- Brush or roller
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- Previously, first make a mixture of latex paint with the color of choice with water according to the composition contained in the paint package.
- After that, mix the powdered grout into the liquid paint into a bucket with a ratio of 1 grout: 8 paint.
- Stir the grout and paint mixture thoroughly so that there are no lumps or gritty surfaces on the walls later on.
- If the amount of mixture is large enough, use a paint mixer to make the job easier.
- The next step is to prepare the walls.
- Clean the surface of the wall to be coated from dust, dirt, liquid, stain, or oil. If necessary, use detergent or soap to clean the walls optimally.
- Once clean and dry, apply the paint mix with powdered grout on the walls using a roller or large brush.
- For maximum results, do two times polishing on the wall.
- For the edges, use a brush with a small size so that the wall is completely painted.
- After the painting process is complete, wait for the wall to dry.
- The drying process for the walls to be painted a second layer is a minimum of 3 hours, while the drying process to be ready for use or decoration is at least 3 days.
- After three days, the chalkboard wall is ready to use.
- You can also decorate the wall with a border like a picture frame and add a chalk storage box and an eraser on the edge of the wall.
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Cut from the same cloth
The same piece of fabric filled with stars
And Time’s just been biding herself
To see God stitch us back together.”
I’m taking a micro-break from my frenzied novel-writing adventure this month to share this little tidbit with you all.
This blog is (theoretically) all about “reframing wonder” into our everyday framework, and being able to appreciate the magic of the little things in our sometimes mundane grown-upness. The most powerful magic to me will always be love, simply because I have never seen a force operate with so much power.
You are free to interpret that how you wish, but I will tell you that for me, I see this magical love stuff in its most amazing form when it comes from God, who pours out His love extravagantly upon his people, who have done nothing to deserve it. I believe this love is transformative; I have seen it change people’s lives – it has changed mine completely.
When we love others, we get to experience that transformative power, and there is nothing like it in the universe. I think this is part of the reason (especially in our modern culture, but it’s been seen over and over throughout history) that we spend so much time dreaming about love, chasing after love, making it into this ideal that we can’t get enough of in our stories.
For centuries, poets and artists have been seeking to capture the essence of love in their work. As I currently find myself in the middle of writing someone else’s love story in novel form for NaNoWriMo, and as this post is brought to you by one of my favorite poets, William Butler Yeats, I thought I would share a poem of his that struck me from the first moment my college literature professor recited it during a lecture. I found it in a collection of Yeats poems titled, “A Poet to His Beloved.” Even in the titles of things we can’t get away from the stuff. I think it’s worth considering, wondering at, and pursuing.
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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Most people simply work on their facet challenge while they nonetheless have a job after which if it takes off or at the least becomes ramen worthwhile” (the place you are able to at the very least feed yourself along with your facet hustle earnings) then they create an organization (register an official business).
Listed here are a few low-threat ideas to jumpstart your entrepreneurship or assist fund your current venture. In case you are simply beginning out as a tax preparer, most tax franchises offer instructional programs, seminars, and training to get you prepared to work for them.
Enterprise Ideas For Development
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If you wish to discover new enterprise ideas which can be value pursuing, it is best to change your perspective, your viewpoint on things: let emerge hidden features, unknown details and see what different do not usually have a look at. Small and medium businesses usually do not have a separate division for packing their products.
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There are not any magic formulation to create profitable startups. Whereas your on-line store would not must sell exclusively cat-eye sun shades, you need to put an emphasis on these merchandise. However there are a variety of on-line companies concepts to pursue that let you take stock and shipping off your arms. I’ve made money with Amazon FBA, Shopify Dropshipping, Affiliate Advertising but I still discover this lead gen biz to be the most lucrative & stable longterm.
The good news: Beginning a home-based mostly enterprise is throughout the reach of just about anybody who needs to take a threat and work arduous, as are a plethora of different low-value ideas. On Etsy , it’s easy to create an internet store and get your product in front of a large viewers.
However, if you’re keen to place a while into constructing an audience, it’s potential to become profitable running a blog as a side enterprise. It’s so superb just what number of businesses you can begin these days. In case you construct a successful business as a WordPress website consultant, you’ll be able to even rework your enterprise right into a full-fledged digital marketing agency.
Direct sales alternatives exist throughout all sectors and continents providing the producers the prospect to bypass shops with all of their overheads, and providing sellers the chance to build their own business with their own working hours.
New Enterprise Concepts
Business ideas should be chosen prudently. In response to , beginning a flower store has relatively few prices compared to other retail companies. After that, begin driving people toward your product web page. Service-primarily based businesses often require numerous networking and word of mouth referrals to search out suitable shoppers, but happy shoppers will likely retain your companies over time and continue to provide you their business.
I’ve determined to lump a number of on-line retailing ideas collectively since they’re extremely comparable. With this foolproof 5-step methodology, you can generate and validate a whole bunch of enterprise concepts and figure out whether or not or not you may have a worthwhile business on your arms, or only a dud.
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If you wish to get began with this enterprise concept, listed below are the necessities and steps you have to consider in the US. Dropshipping is a technique the place you can promote third-social gathering merchandise from a Drop Shipping Firm with out ever seeing or delivery the merchandise.
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The Social Brain is a New York State non-profit organization that provides individuals with brain injuries an opportunity to build friendships through socialization and reduce isolation.
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Families of individuals with brain injury started to get together in September 2018 and shared their ideas about how to start a nonprofit organization that would offer the opportunity allowing individuals and their family members to gather in a social setting and build friendships. The purpose was to reduce isolation of those individuals with a brain injury to participate in recreational activities to improve the quality of life for those with a brain injury.
The Social Brain was developed to enhance the Brain Injury Community through recreation, socialization and networking opportunities with others. The emotional connections through friendships is just as important, if not more to some as the rehabilitation they endure.
The Social Brain allows survivors and their families to engage in monthly events of interests such as sports programs, bowling, baseball games, art paint nights, nature walks and picnics. As more activities are planned and developed, so are friendships.
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Americaa has a crisis that much of philanthropy and the social sector writ large isn’t registering. Our job creation machine, largely built after World War II, is broken. It turns out that it is really hard to get un- and under-employed people into good jobs—even if they are trained for them—if those jobs don’t exist.
For the past 40 years, the entities that create 90 percent of all new jobs—start-up companies less than five years old—have been on a steady downward trajectory. A recent Economic Innovation Group (EIG) report, “Dynamism in Retreat,” paints a frightening picture of this long-term decline.
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Retro Tandy Handheld Games: What Ever Happened to Radio Shack?
At the tail end of the end of the mall era, one retail lich belatedly heaved its labored last. Radio Shack finally closed, after filing chapter 11 in 2015. The general public reacted as if they had just discovered that Yahoo is still in business (which it is, by the way): “How has it lived this long?” It was even like a prophecy in their previous year’s Superbowl commercial:
Only the first half of that prophecy became fulfilled. There just wasn’t any new Radio Shack. The 80s took their store back… and kept it. But it’s important to sift through the wreckage of the once-iconic retailer, because it teaches us important lessons about capitalism, culture, and especially society’s relationship with STEM geeks.
You see, your Humble Author has been a proud member of the STEM community since before people called it that. And my response, along with many other geeks’ responses, to the closing of Radio Shack was to climb onto its grave and tell it the same kind of message Tyler Durden delivered to Wall Street bankers.
Now, if you’re out of this loop, you must be asking, “What, Radio Shack? I thought geeks loved that place!” Yes… emphasis on “loved,” past tense. There’s a lot of business articles on why Radio Shack closed, but they all miss an important detail.
Radio Shack Was Once Geek Valhalla
Radio Shack was first founded in 1921, just shy of a century ago, with the first store in Boston, Massachusetts. This put it in the lap of the Roaring Twenties and Harvard University, just down the street from MIT – much more important to what would become called “hacker culture.” The first tech geeks played with radio, being HAM radio hobbyists, hence the name.
There Radio Shack stayed until it was bought up in 1963 by a Texas leather retailer with a company name of “Tandy.” What a Texas leather company was doing jumping into the technology market is still anybody’s guess. It wasn’t long after that that they sold their first electronic handheld calculator, just a couple years into the start of consumer-level electric calculator history. Texas, if you can believe it now, was once a “Silicon Prairie” tech center too, home to Dell, Inc., Texas Instruments, and AT&T.
In 1977 came the almighty milestone of computing history, the TRS-80. Affectionately called the “Trash 80,” it was one of the earliest home computers available. The TRS-80 is worth a whole post on its own someday, but suffice to say it’s still revered, its launch was concurrent with the earliest issues of Dr. Dobb’s Journal, and its operating system was designed in response to Microsoft founder Bill Gates writing a very, very angry letter. The TRS-80’s TinyBASIC system was built with the reasoning that if you write an operating system and give it away for free, nobody has to steal it.
Was that what Bill Gates wanted? No, that was the opposite of what he wanted; he wanted to make money writing operating systems and selling them. Thus began the first salvo of the Desktop Wars, of which I am a front-trench veteran and my battle scars are exhibited here for your gruesome fascination.
The Point Is That Radio Shack Picked The Hacker’s Side
Even though the TRS-80 series, up to Model 4, only stuck around until the mid-80s, Radio Shack threw its lot firmly in with the STEM geeks.
“You got questions? We got answers!” That was their motto. Motherboards, breadboards, circuit parts, soldering irons? Yep, all right here. Radio Shack is still remembered as the “iconic store of the Maker movement.” Bought my first computer programming language manual there in 1983:
Hey, if the Godfather of science fiction, Isaac Asimov, touted the TRS-80, you knew it had to be good:
But we’ll not dwell on the Tandy’s place in vintage computing history today. The point is that along with marketing to the home computer market, Radio Shack was a wonderland of electronic toys of every description:
Radio Shack Was Also Santa’s Electronic Workshop
This era is the beloved, friendly Radio Shack, the one that drew every kid visiting the mall in the 1980s into its blinkenlights embrace. Check the Radio Shack catalog archive and look over the catalogs and non-embeddable TV commercial videos there.
Early handheld electronic games were very limited. They were noisy, primitive by any standard today, and powered by gobbling fistfuls of batteries for a few hours’ play at a time. They were also constantly innovative, or at least if they couldn’t build it, they would license it from another game company and slap their Tandy logo on it anyway.
Sports games were a standard, of course. Tandy’s Championship Football version was not that different from others in the genre:
Every now and then Tandy got hold of a minor hit. Caveman was a well-beloved classic:
These games all look primitive to our modern eyes, but back then, if you found one in your Christmas stocking, you officially had yourself a gnarly Christmas. Kids took them to school to show off. They played them at bus stops and McDonald’s. Young whippersnappers now complain about too much DLC pay-to-play on their consoles, but back in *MY* day, we had four different kinds of Pong! It was awesome!
You have to remember this was well before the era of mobile phones, before even the Nintendo Game Boy (released in 1989). Can you smell the dinosaur coming? The one that was going to stomp Radio Shack’s eggs? Here is Radio Shack at the end of the ’80s:
Sensing some desperation there? Almost like single-game handhelds were for ol’ grandpa rather than the kids, who would be busy swapping cartridges in their Game Boy around the corner.
Oh How The Mighty Have Fallen!
Radio Shack was already rebranding itself “the technology store,” but it was learning a painful lesson right about then: Technology has a short shelf life. At the beginning of the 1980s, the best home game console was the Atari 2600. By the middle of the 1980s, it was the Nintendo NES. By the beginning of the 1990s, it was the SNES.
Radio Shack stores were mostly crowded into malls. One problem with a mall location is that you have a small amount of floor space. This prevents you from housing large amounts of stock. If corporate sent you a case of gizmos to move, and they didn’t sell, they became one more dusty box in the back room. By 1990, Radio Shack had had enough. Once the industry leader, it found itself shoved into the margins by Apple, IBM, and Microsoft on the home computer front, and by the great Japanese invasion on the gadget front.
That’s when Radio Shack management sold its soul to Cthulhu, drank the Kool-Aid, and went on its Scarface-proportions downward spiral. The solution to all its problems, it decided, was phones, PHONES, PHOOOONES!
We all love our mobile phones, but there’s one demographic they exclude: STEM geeks. Hackers, makers, doers, people who get stuff done using technology. Those of us who use computers to make things still need laptops and desktops. We still need soldering irons and circuitry to build stuff. We still have to write and design and program, none of which is efficiently accomplished on a pocket-sized screen with an on-screen keyboard.
Radio Shack mutated into The Shack:
See what’s wrong with this picture? There’s no toys. Not only that, there’s no customers. If you were a hacker / maker / STEM geek / any kind of tinker whose favorite show was Mythbusters, and set foot in a Radio Shack any time after about 1995 or so, you were met with a completely transformed store. Not only that, but you would actually get chased out of the place if you dared to ask for cables, computer peripherals, tools, software, books, anything but an overpriced phone plan or their overpriced batteries.
Radio Shack got slaughtered in the phone market. And the harder it took a pounding through the 1990s and 2000s, the more it doubled down. It got meaner and meaner. Store employees (who filed class action lawsuits against the company later for its rotten treatment) took out their frustration on the hobbyists who formed their core market for some seventy years. It was all out fault! So get out of here, we’re selling phones now!
You’d have to imagine if you grew up with Willy Wonka and then one day he blew up the factory, shot all the Oompah Loompahs, quit selling candy, and started stocking stores exclusively with 900 varieties of castor oil. And then squatted like that bellowing at you in rage because you weren’t buying his overpriced crap. That was what watching Radio Shack’s decline was like.
In the final years, Radio Shack tried to correct course and start setting up hobbyist kiosk huts, trying to make up with the geeks. But it was too late now. None of us would speak to Radio Shack by then if they were giving stuff away.
A More Innocent Time
Perhaps the mobile phone is the forbidden apple that killed retail. Sure, nobody would buy a handheld game now except as a novelty or for the nostalgia value. But had Radio Shack simply been a bit more patient, it would have survived as a downscaled version of its former self. We still have hackers, makers, tinkerers, and STEMers today. We just have nowhere to shop but online now. But we do have a computer store in every major city.
Wal-Mart and Target still have an electronics section. Can you imagine, geeks looking more favorably on Wal-Mart in comparison to Radio Shack?
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Homeowners today have the luxury of owning HVAC systems to improve the overall functionality of their homes. While it is nice to own such systems, they cannot perform well unless they are adequately maintained and repaired when necessary.
Below we can look at the most frequently asked questions about air conditioners to help you understand more about maintenance and repairs on your existing system. If you need maintenance or want to learn more about repairs on your HVAC unit, then be sure to contact us at True Climate Heat + Air.
If you have air coming out of your vents but it’s not cold, you should turn your thermostat off completely. One common problem we run into is that customers think they can keep their AC turned on when it’s not blowing out cold. This can cause your unit to freeze up in addition to causing potential further damage to whatever has gone wrong with your condenser. If our technician arrives and the unit is frozen, there isn’t much we can do until it thaws out, leaving you stranded in a hot home longer and having to reschedule your service call.
There are several factors that can cause airflow issues. Some helpful things you can do are to change your filters; a dirty filter can cause not only airflow restriction but also cause damage to your unit. Rinse off your outside condenser. Outside condensers can accumulate dust, dirt, and other debris that can restrict airflow. Keeping your condenser rinsed off and free of debris can help airflow and extend your condenser’s life. Have a licensed technician do an air balance. Sometimes doing some minor changes to the ductwork or adding some dampers can help with the airflow as well.
Some filters require change every month, however, some pleated filters can be changed once every 4 months. There are larger filters for allergy defenders that do not need to be changed but once every six months or every year. Suppose you have pets or issues with dust/allergies. In that case, it may be a good habit to change your filters more often than the suggested manufacturer’s guidelines but check your manufacturing guidelines or one of our knowledgeable technicians on recommended change.
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Bats can get into your home or property in a variety of ways. Chimneys, attics and vents are common ways, but even a crack in your wall or an open window can be inviting for a bat looking for a home. Unless you are trying to live a bat-cave fantasy or live in an actual cave ,you probably want them out of your home. Bat removal services is one of many pest removal services we offer.
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They can knock over trash cans, dig through your garbage, become nuisance animals, cause havoc in your attic, and become aggressive if provoked. In additional to this, raccoons can also chew electrical wiring in and outside of your home resulting in expensive damages, have their babies and potentially, if left unsolved for too long can make your home unlivable.
Signs of a bat living on or in your property
You see a bat in your home or close to your property
Bat Droppings (Guano)
Bat droppings are quite easily distinguishable. They look like dark brown grains of rice and are more or less uniform in size. They have a very distinguishable Oder and tend to pile up in the center of a space, unlike raccoons or squirrels who leave droppings of to the side and corners.
High pitched squeaking sounds
Bats see and communicate with high pitched squeaking sounds. Hearing these at night in or around your property is a good sign that you may have a bat infestation. If you hear these in wooded areas around your property you are probably ok as this is normal outside. The sound or pitch of the squeaking can vary based on the species.
Scratching in the walls
Do you hear scratching or scurrying in your attic, chimney or inside your walls? It may not be a bat,but it is a good sign that some kind of pest is in your property. We advise that you don’t wait for it to leave as your problems will only escalate. Call for effective pest control to get effective, humane pest control.
You see them flying in and out of your home
It may be a mesmerizing scene at sunset ,but seeing bats fly in and out of your home is not a good sign. It means they’ve gotten comfortable and may be bringing more of their friends to your house. They can usually be seen leaving at around sunset. This combined with the signs listed above are a cause for concern
Brown or black stains around holes
When bats use a smaller entry point on an ongoing basis, they tend to leave a greasy residue around the entry point. It comes from their coats. Seeing these around smaller cracks in your walls or on your roof you can bet on a bat infestation. The stains can be cleaned, but they also need to be sterilized.
Dead bats around your property
Although not a definite sign of a bat infestation, seeing dead bats around your property can be a sign that your home has become popular amongst bats in the area. If you see dead bats on your property and other signs listed here, you should have a technician give your property a thorough inspection.
Pungent Oder coming from your attic
As mentioned earlier guano can create an unpleasant smell, especially when it builds up. Any type of strange Oder should be looked at whether you think it’s a bat or not.
Bat guano tends to smell somewhat like ammonia, so if that’s what you smell you most likely do have one to many bats living in your attic. Calling a bat removal technician is the safest step to take at this point, as there are health risks related to a build-up of bat droppings (guano) which are explained later on.
Now that you are aware of some of the signs of a bat in your home, take a look at some potential entry points. If you think you do have a bat problem, give our bat removal technicians a call immediately!
Big Brown Bat
Big brown rats are larger than the average bat. They have brown to glossy copper-colored fur on their Bat removalback, and usually have lighter fur in their belly’s. They have small, rounded, black ears and wing membranes and tails. They have fleshy lips and broad noses.
They are considered quite common and have no preservation status. T hey can live to be 18-20 years old and are faster than most bats.
Mexican Free tailed bat
The Mexican free-tailed bat is about medium sized, has reddish to dark brown or grey fur. They have broad ,black, forward pointing ears and wrinkly lips. They have longer tails than most Bat removalbats and their wings are long and narrow. They tend to be more common in warmer areas and in warmer times of the year as warm weather is essential to their survival.
Big Eared Bat
The big eared bat is a medium sized bat with ,as the name implys, big ears. In fact its ear are long enough to reach down to the middle of its body. They have pale grey, or brown fur with buff color on its underside. Its face has 2 glandular lumps of either side of its nose. They look for places with low, stable temperatures.
The big eared bat is listed as an endangered species in parts of the US. The babies tend to be born between May and July.
How you can get rid of bats in your home
How you can get rid of bats in your home.Fortunately, bat control is easy to do! Below are a few simple solutions you can follow to keep your home clean and bat free.
- Seal any cracks, holes or gaps in your home that can serve as possible entry points for bats to enter and exit through. Focus on your roof and attic, as those are the most common household areas to find bats roosting.
According to the “Critter Gitter”, there are 3 main things that lure animals towards humans: food, water and shelter. To avoid attracting unwanted bats to your property, ensure that entry and access points to shelter, food and water are all covered.
- Install a bat house on your property. This provides home-seeking bats with the shelter they need while keeping the inside of your home bat free. If your bat house eventually becomes the home to a nursery of baby bats, be sure to install a pup catcher as well. This prevents the young from falling out of the bat house.
- Contact SOS Wildlife Control for effective wildlife and pest management and bat removal services at 289-301-5906!
If you notice signs of pests in your house give us a call. At SOS Wildlife Control Inc., we provide wildlife and pest control services for residential, commercial, and industrial clients, guaranteeing effective results every single time. Let us help you solve your pest problems. Taking action before it’s too late will help eliminate animal damage repair costs. We are available 24/7, 365 days a year for emergency services, and can easily be reached at 1-800-981-0330. Don’t wait, call us to schedule an appointment for a thorough inspection, removal and prevention to help evacuate all your unwanted wildlife guests in the most humane way possible.
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Problems bats can cause to humans
The dangers to humans from a bat infestation are quiet serious. Problems range from nuisances like scratching and squeaking sounds to serious health risks from droppings or smells:
Histoplasmosis is a lung infection caused by breathing in the spores that grow on bat guano. Although it its easily treatable ,people with weaker immune systems can experience serious problems. Skin lesions are reported in a minority of sufferers.
Common Symptoms are:
- Dry Cough
- Chest Pain
- Joint Pain
- Red bumps on lower legs
In severe cases, symptoms may include:
- excessive sweating
- shortness of breath
- coughing up blood
Widespread histoplasmosis causes inflammation and irritation. Symptoms may include:
- chest pain, caused by swelling around the heart
- high fever
- stiff neck and headaches, from swelling around the brain and spinal cord
Bats that have rabies can be hard to spot but if you see one out and in places it wouldn’t normally be at times it wouldn’t normally be out you can probably assume it has rabies. Rabies is a disease that attacks the nervous system and are transmitted via bites and/or scratches.
Some symptoms of rabies are:
- Muscle Weakness
- Burning feeling at spot of bite or scratch
Symptoms of furious rabies include:
- excess salivation
- problems swallowing
- fear of water
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There are about 2 000 lakes in Kyrgyzstan, in the combination they give 6 836 km2. Out of this amount, most of them are small lakes, at the altitude of 2500 and 4000 meter above sea level, appeared in the result of glaciation in Kyrgyzstan. Out of 2000 lakes only 16 have the area of 1km2.
In Kyrgyz language "kul" means lake - as in Issyk Kul, Son Kul and Chatyr Kul.
The major lakes in Kyrgyzstan are:
The pearl of the Tian Shan is lake Issyk Kul that you can visit during your tour in Kyrgzstan, the name of it means "warm lake", as it never freezes lying at the bottom of a draining basin. The freeing point is lowered by salty of the lake. Issyk Kul is located in Kyrgyzstan at 1600 m above sea level at the bottom of mountain range. It is 180 km long and 60 km wide, the depth is 700 m.
It is the second largest high altitude lake in Kyrgyzstan after Lake Titicaca in South America and transparent, after Lake Baykal, visible at 20m.
Son Kul is the second largest lake of fresh water in Kyrgyzstan, located 3016 m above sea level on greenish flat with meadows for summer pastures. The water flows from Kajyrty River and into Naryn River.
Chayr Kul is the highest lake in Kyrgyzstan, located at 3530 m. It is fed by Kok Aygyr River without outflows and fish in it.
The Merzbacher Lake appears and disappears every summer. These lakes have the greatest extent in Kyrgyzstan, about 4 km by 1 km, and 40-80 m in depth.
Sary Chelek is a flooded mountain valley in Kyrgyzstan. There arewood places, mountain streams in the southwest of Kyrgyzstan. The National Park is in the center of it, the access to it is controlled.
Due to the fact that Kyrgyzstan is a mountain country there are a lot of lakes here. Every visitor starting for a tour in Kyrgyzstan has an opportunity to be near these lakes. Hot weather makes people to have desires for swimming and having rest on the shores of Issyk Kul Lake, for example. Our managers are ready to create the greatest tour in Kyrgyzstan especially for you. You will not regret! Our team welcomes you to Kyrgyzstan! | <urn:uuid:e2d5e586-0849-47e7-a0fd-816a24aef032> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://travel-experts.kg/kyrgyzstan-faq/lakes-in-kyrgyzstan.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.943886 | 520 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Probiotics have actually been ensured as favorable to our health and wellness, generally by enhancing or even strengthening the digestive tract flora, which is the component of the invulnerable system that makes antibodies as well as various other defenses against infesting organisms. Some worries have been actually elevated about launching antibiotics to the digestive tract flora; having said that, many pressures of probiotics carry out certainly not require such procedures.
Probiotics possess a result on the health of the intestinal tract. They induce the development of both the really good and poor micro-organisms in the gut. There are lots of aspects that impact the harmony between the two populaces of microorganisms. For instance, making use of anti-biotics and also other drugs that kill micro-organisms may upset the equilibrium of the environment. On top of that, ecological factors, such as excess heat and also moisture, might add to the growth of unsafe fungus species that are actually currently existing in the bowel.
Probiotic supplements are accessible both as nutritional supplements and as a pill, tablet, or even powder . They could be purchased from an organic food store or online. The typical probiotic supplement consists of live cultures and prebiotics. Once it has been actually reduced by excessive consumption of meals and also beverages that have carbs or glucoses, the objective of a probiotic supplement is actually to restore the intestinal vegetation. Probiotic supplements are commonly enjoyed combination along with an antibiotic procedure for some of many factors: To restore the appropriate levels of the beneficial bacteria in the intestinal tract after antibiotic treatment has been actually suggested or to handle a digestive disease.
Probiotic wellness advantages might be good for certain illness and health and wellness conditions, consisting of inflamed bowel illness, IBD, contagious diarrhea, acne, diverticulitis, weak resistance, and a lot more. It may also help prevent the beginning of several various other conditions, including diabetes, Crohn’s illness, ulcerative colitis, short-tempered digestive tract syndrome (IBS), celiac ailment, diverticulitis, and also others. Probiotics can easily likewise boost a person’s energy and also wellness.
When utilized combined with other health and wellness items, probiotic supplements can help to raise the good microorganisms in the gut. They help to reintroduce the excellent micro-organisms that was originally eliminated when the negative bacteria overtook the “good” germs. Because the bad microorganisms were actually likewise not able to consume food items due to their lack of nutrients, the end result was an increase in toxic substances in the body system.
If antibiotics are actually used in combination with probiotics, they may eliminate both the excellent germs as well as the poor. This may create the development of unsafe toxins in the intestine, which is where the bulk of the bacteria in the human body system reside.
The perks of probiotics go beyond the short condition. There have actually been actually many research studies done on the relationship between the germs in the GI tract as well as cancer. It has been actually found that the micro organisms help to moderate the immune system, fight swelling, as well as prevent contaminations. These very same microbes also help to preserve the physical body’s acidity level, control the development of electricity, and sustain the security of blood sugar amounts in the blood flow. The research is actually still on-going; however, the makeup of probiotics in our GI system makes it clear that they participate in a considerable job in sustaining the wellness of our entire body.
Probiotic make use of should always be taken into consideration as a natural supplement. It is actually consistently review that a particular pH level, suitable amount of nourishment, as well as proper supplementation are actually necessary to acquiring the very most out of probiotic use.
Prebiotics, which are actually not part of the Probiotic family, are actually found in particular milk products like dairy, cheese and yogurt and also might also be derived from some vegetables, grains, seeds and also almonds. Most prebiotics originate from plants, and many have lactase and a type of the B vitamin (niacin). Very most essentially, probiotic meals assist to produce brief establishment fats that are actually key for preserving the acidity and also alkalinity of the digestive tract. These homes produce them good for nearly all facets of health.
Anti-biotics eliminate off both the excellent and also poor germs in the gastrointestinal system, leading in the manufacturing of unsafe antibiotic insusceptible tensions of microorganisms. Numerous of these bacteria come to be insusceptible to other prescription antibiotics as well, leading to increased danger of allergic reactions and infections.
Probiotic supplements may assist to recover the levels of the great microorganisms necessary to generate well-balanced mucus in the cellular lining of the bowel, a health condition that happens when the really good germs are exhausted. Probiotic products might likewise enhance the immune feedback and also the immune system function, both of which participate in a necessary role in a healthy immune body. biofit reviews
Probiotic breeds vary, relying on the dirt where they grow and the varieties of living things included. Probiotics do not consist of food items, so the volume is typically low and you do certainly not possess to hang around or bring in a special diet plan for a symptom to appear before taking all of them. | <urn:uuid:04aa7851-fa64-4dd4-8cc9-503339b1a636> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.imagineartphoto.com/2021/05/17/heres-what-folks-are-actually-mentioning-regarding-probiotic/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.960489 | 1,096 | 2.1875 | 2 |
A vest and moccasins presented to the Mennonite Church Canada director of Indigenous-settler relations symbolized the ongoing work of Indigenous relations in B.C.
During an Oct. 27 meeting of the regional church’s volunteer Indigenous Relations Group, Lorne Brandt, chair of Mennonite Church B.C.’s Service, Peace and Justice Committee, honoured Steve Heinrichs with the gift of a beaded moose-hide vest and high-top moccasins. Brandt had acquired them while working at a federal nursing station at South Indian Lake, Man., in 1974. As these are Cree crafts, Brandt said he believed it was more important for Heinrichs to wear these in Manitoba than for him to keep them in non-Cree territory in B.C. In his presentation, Brandt also specifically mentioned the six valuable book resources Heinrichs had edited, as a reason for the gift., 2018,
In previous years, MC B.C. had a part-time staff person for Indigenous relations work. As of this year, though, a staffer is no longer employed, so the work is continuing under the leadership of a team of interested volunteers.
In an effort to engage more regional church members in the ongoing work, the group arranged a half-day workshop on Oct. 27 at Emmanuel Mennonite Church, which some 30 people from Vancouver to Yarrow attended.
Bridget Findlay of Mennonite Central Committee B.C.’s Aboriginal Neighbours program began by acknowledging the meeting took place on Indigenous territory. A welcome and address by Shirley Hardman of the Stó:lō Nation and University of the Fraser Valley followed.
As a sign of honour and respect for the work of Steve Heinrichs, left, Mennonite Church Canada’s director of Indigenous-settler relations, Lorne Brandt, the chair of Mennonite Church B.C.’s Service, Peace and Justice Committee, presents his vest and moccasins, that were made by Cree craftspeople in Manitoba in 1974, to him at a meeting of the regional church’s Indigenous Relations Group. (Photo by Henry Krause) | <urn:uuid:243f282e-7c09-47fa-9a24-6eb6f75408ba> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://canadianmennonite.org/stories/gifts-symbolize-indigenous-relations | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.960708 | 458 | 1.929688 | 2 |
Myung-Hwan Cho, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Konkuk University, South Korea (*email address protected*)
The introduction of the Triple Helix model of university-industry-government interactions to explicate structural developments in knowledge-based economies has led to the emergence of a rich body of theoretical and empirical research discoursing new methods for knowledge creation. Many academics, administrators and entrepreneurs have since endeavored to extend/operationalize the model in various contexts, including in emerging market settings where entrepreneurial universities may be missing. While significant research attention has been given to understanding the role of universities in business incubation, much is left to be explored in relation to the role of enterprises as incubators of universities. Understanding the role of both Industry and Government in this context proves pertinent as the University would depend on a different kind of platform to enable its independent participation in the technological innovation and economic development of the country as it transitions from a catch -up paradigm mode to an innovation-paradigm mode.
The papers in this track are expected to:
- Introduce new cases or extend research that offers alternative pathways for Business-Led Triple Helix and the university incubation process while taking into consideration development or economic contexts.
- Present/highlight initial trends, roots and advocates for business-led university incubation in country-specific settings in line with existing objectives and underlying principles.
- Focus on specific evolutionary stages in the business-led university incubation process while highlighting alignment of organisational structures and adoption of pioneering management strategies/techniques.
- Introduce state-of-the-art financing models for structural intervention of industry in the university incubation process that are considered applicable to countries with limited resources and weak infrastructures.
- Highlight configuration and introduction of innovative programmes and pedagogics as a result of the business-led university incubation process.
- Highlight critical roles of stakeholders and local community in the business-led university incubation process while noting challenges and lessons learned.
- Introduce new forms of Government intervention policies and programmes that have proven effective in assisting the role of enterprises as incubators of universities.
- Identification of trends for engagement of government and corporate sectors through Business-Led Triple Helix interventions for enabling the independent participation of the University in the technological catch-up process.
- Establishment of possible road maps for utilizing innovative financing through partnership building between government, industry and universities.
- Utilizing shared knowledge and lessons learned to address existing loopholes in current systems and practices that inhibit the potential entrepreneurial growth and development of the University as an autonomous player for technological catch-up.
- ENTREPRENEURIAL UNIVERSITY AND ITS SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACT
- SCIENCE PARKS AND INCUBATORS – NEW FRONTIERS
- MEASURING SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PARKS
- REGIONAL DIMENSIONS OF TRIPLE HELIX? CLUSTERS, CITIES AND GEOGRAPHIC BOUNDARIES
- INDIVIDUALS IN THE TRIPLE HELIX
- BUSINESS LED TRIPLE HELIX AND THE NEW ROLE OF GOVERNMENT
- THE IMPACT OF GLOBAL INFORMATION FLOWS ON TRIPLE HELIX INTERACTIONS UNIVERSITY – INDUSTRY INTERACTIONS
- ARE WE FACING A NEW GENERATION OF NATIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEMS?
- THE TRIPLE HELIX MODEL AND KNOWLEDGE CREATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
- TRIPLE HELIX: GENDER, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND DIVERSITY
- ADVANCING NEW MODELS AND TOOLS FOR KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER
- BOOSTING INNOVATION AND GROWTH THROUGH UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY CO-CREATION
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Avast Ant-virus is mostly a home pc security instrument but contrary to many similar products, it can be designed with reliability as the main goal. That’s why it was created, in order to preserve your PC against malware and viruses. Normally, many identical products will offer a free search within of your computer but generally after you purchase the product. That is fine when you are just examining up on your pc for problems or malware, but if you may need some actual protection, you will discover other goods that offer a free download with full variety of the software installed on your PC. These other programs are a lot more powerful and may manage to keep your PC virus free of charge than a free program can while even now being a great deal less expensive than paying for an entire shopify vs squarespace version license.
Avast Antivirus does not offer pathogen scanning software, but that feature has become included due to high demand from consumers. Avast provides a incredibly solid residence system protection that features malware and spyware detection as well as a easy to customize user interface that offers various extra features as well including custom scan habits and different marketing options. If you would like an all in one remedy that does a little bit of the whole thing and costs very little, Avast Antivirus happens to be an option you may want to experience.
Overall, this kind of antivirus alternative is quite very good. It is able to perform well when it comes to uncovering threats and performing basic system have a look at but the genuine test of performance comes during a complete system fill. This feature tests the length of time your PC will require to load a arbitrary file devoid of running any kind of system check so should your PC gets a lot of traffic (i. y. free net surfing), it may take longer in scanning and load the file. | <urn:uuid:bc28da4e-e40d-4d4f-adea-fd780a57e40e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sociusrd.com/2021/10/24/efficiency-test-avast-anti-virus/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.966158 | 374 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Education adviser positions have been cropping up all over the world but in Malaysia things are distinct. You won’t see too many of these jobs popping up in regular employment advertisements. That is because education is a specialized field in Malaysia. So when looking for education consultant jobs in Malaysia, you need to understand a couple of things .
Education is a complex procedure in Malaysia. It begins with birth, goes through grades, gets elegant through graduate college and then on to certification and training. If this entire procedure was condensed into one instructional term, it would take forever. In Malaysia, schooling is viewed as a holistic system which incorporates all facets of life – physical, psychological, social and spiritual. This may seem far-fetched for an American education advisor, but it’s an understanding that lots of education consultant Malaysian have.
An education consultant Malaysia would need to comprehend this notion if he or she were to really serve well the education system in that country. One of the vital roles of education advisers in Malaysia is to help teachers in their field. Education advisers help improve the quality of education, figure out ways to make learning more interesting and help students retain information. Education in Malaysia is frequently taught alongside basic learning such as English. Consultants help educators design classes and give feedback on how courses are being taught.
However, education consultant work in Malaysia are not just about teaching pupils. A highly creative education consultant in Malaysia could also be requested to assess the execution of a new management application. For instance, a new education policy could be implemented in Malaysia whereby pupils who excel in Math have their names entered in a national talent search. Those with a top score in Math will be set in a particular talent hunt conducted by the Malaysian authorities. The winner of this talent search will be announced in a ceremony, and the winning students will get a number of benefits, which they will need to exchange for having the ability to pursue an education in Malaysia.
So what does it take to become an education consultant in Malaysia? Well, education adviser places in Malaysia generally require some level of education. Consultants need to be able to analyze complex problems and solutions. They must have the ability to plan courses and evaluate the efficiency of teachers in their respective areas of study. Education consultants may also should know how to communicate effectively with individuals from various backgrounds. It is important education advisers in Malaysia understand the basic principles and social context of each region they serve.
Education Consultant Jobs in Malaysia is available all over the globe. If you are interested in operating in Malaysia, you can get in touch with a number of the top education consultancy companies based there. They will be able to steer you to any education consultant job in Malaysia. You may even get in contact with recruiting firms which focus on the placement of education consultant professionals in Malaysia. | <urn:uuid:d7ef3410-b9e7-43c5-a850-77883e2057cc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://majesticmidway.com/education-consultant-jobs-in-malaysia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.965516 | 563 | 1.921875 | 2 |
A study has shown that arrival of plants on land played a major role in climate regulation on Earth.
The study found out that plants first time appeared on Earth about 400 million years ago. This made drastic changes in atmosphere of earth.
The carbon cycle has managed to expand and strengthen after their arrival on land. The movement of carbon between atmosphere, living organisms and ground is termed carbon cycle.
The heat and temperature of earth is maintained by carbon. It traps heat and allows organisms to prosper.
The clay formed in oceans emitted carbon dioxide into atmosphere whereas those formed on land absorbed carbon dioxide.
The existence of plants prevented clay from being washed into the oceans. As a result the balance between carbon dioxide emission and absorption was maintained.
Before plants, carbon concentration in atmosphere was higher, which was responsible for greenhouse climate. The plants allowed absorption of excessive carbon.
The changes in climate by cycle of warming and cooling helped in evolution process of organisms. This would not have been possible if carbon dioxide was in excess.
The low carbon atmosphere is sensitive to change. It can be influenced easily by external factors such as burning of fossil fuels. | <urn:uuid:2c2b4469-7950-43f2-b9a9-b70d0af68932> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://currentaffairs.studyiq.com/daily/22-07-2021/role-plants-regulating-earths-climate | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.960307 | 237 | 3.984375 | 4 |
November 27, 2008
Weak currency hits Ireland's beef exports to Britain
A 20 percent weakening in sterling compared to this time last year is undercutting the value of Irish beef sales to the British market, which accounts for 55 percent of total Irish export.
Meat Industry Ireland (MII), which represents processors, made the claims yesterday (Nov 26) when pointing out that the recession is hitting the Irish beef sector.
MII said negative comments on Irish processors ignore the fact that Irish processors have delivered cattle prices year-to-date that are 17 percent up on 2007.
It said this increase in Irish cattle prices compares very favourably with an 8 percent increase in cattle prices on the continent and 8 percent and 11 percent increases in prices in Britain and Northern Ireland respectively.
It added that this has been achieved in an extremely difficult market environment, with difficulties caused by falling sterling values compounded by sharp declines in consumer spending due to the credit crunch.
Further, it pointed out that the majority of Irish beef sales to Britain has to operate in a far more competitive and price sensitive segment of the market than domestic prime beef. | <urn:uuid:0692cd71-5712-48a3-bffe-690e8ab4ef82> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.efeedlink.com/contents/11-27-2008/0fe7a28a-b92a-4be5-bd59-dbd31478243b-a001.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.953685 | 226 | 1.671875 | 2 |
The Ancient Egyptian Hemu (priestcraft) had varied levels of practice from part time to full-time temple work. Some priests and priestesses also worked with the general population and others exclusively in the temple as what would be called Monks today. The high mysteries are a practice within the inner recesses of the temple and as such are conducted there and not in the practice of extreme asceticism. The practice of itinerant wandering ascetics occurred in the late period of Ancient Egyptian history. when the society started to disintegrate due to the damage done from external warrior cultures. So it was a practice that developed out of circumstances and not out of a age old proven temple discipline. Later the Christians in Egypt started their first monastic order but based primarily only on prayer and contemplation and not high mysticism. However, it is likely that this practice of asceticism in India is derived from Ancient Egypt. But it was not prevalent in ancient times and so we do not advocate it as it is liable to misunderstanding and excesses that are counterproductive. | <urn:uuid:8af8fe37-f519-4003-8290-cd3e8940e759> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.asarucollege.org/forums/reply/3518/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.976119 | 218 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Bread improvers are generally compound food additives composed of emulsifiers, oxidants, enzymes, inorganic salts and fillers. When used in bread making, they can promote bread softness, increase bread baking elasticity, and effectively delay bread aging.
In the process of using bread improver, you should pay attention to the ingredients and the amount used, because some ingredients are illegal health products, and excessive use will cause side effects.
Introduction of the modifier:
Bread improver is a kind of auxiliary material for bread production which is compounded by enzyme preparation, emulsifier and gluten agent. Simply put, bread improver is a kind of baking raw material used in bread making, which can promote bread softness and increase bread baking elasticity, and effectively delay bread aging and prolong shelf life. The bread improvers produced by regular manufacturers are refined from a variety of food-grade high-quality raw materials. They are guaranteed by strong scientific research strength and advanced production technology. They are safe and efficient.
Bread improvers can effectively improve the stability of the dough in the production process, such as improving the mixing resistance of the dough and improving the stability of the dough during the fermentation process. In terms of the volume of the bread, it can improve the uniformity of the internal organization of the bread; thirdly, the bread improver will maintain the softness of the bread for a long time, that is, delay the aging and retrogradation of starch, etc. For example, Jiang Xiaoling’s research on the formula of bread improver found that active wheat Protein, fungal alpha-amylase and konjac flour as raw materials to make bread improver, the best formula is 2% active wheat protein, 0.0005% fungus only-amylase and 0.4% konjac flour; , Fungal α-amylase, konjac flour as raw materials to make bread improver can improve the nutritional value of bread, and at the same time can increase the water holding capacity of bread to a certain extent, delay aging, can appropriately extend the shelf life of the product, and the cost is low, The process is simple, can meet the growing demand for multi-functional food at home and abroad, and has broad market prospects.
Reason for use:
Bread is a popular convenience food. With the improvement of people’s living standards and the continuous improvement of dietary structure, people are more and more interested in bread. Good quality bread should be safe to eat, soft and delicious, nutritious, easy to digest, and easy to carry. To produce good bread, the quality index of the final dough must meet the following requirements: the water absorption of the flour is about 60%, the dough stability time is 10~12min, the softening degree is less than 50Bu, and the tensile resistance of the dough is 600~700Bu , The ratio of tensile resistance to extensibility is 3~5, and the energy value of dough is 120~180cm2. Before the bread improver is not added, the general bread flour only meets the requirements of gluten content, water absorption, stabilization time, softening degree and other indicators. The disadvantages of the dough are: the dough has strong elasticity, high hardness, easy to break, large expansion resistance during dough fermentation, and long fermentation time; the bread produced by it is small in size, compact in organization, poor in looseness, and easy to break in the skin. Therefore, it must be improved by adding a bread improver.
Bread improvers are generally compound food additives composed of emulsifiers, oxidants, enzymes, inorganic salts and fillers.
Commonly used emulsifiers are ionic emulsifier SSL, CSL, glycerol monostearate, soybean lecithin, calcium (sodium) stearoyl lactylate, diacetyl tartaric acid monoglyceride, sorbitol ester, etc.
Commonly used oxidants are potassium bromate, potassium iodate, Vc, calcium peroxide, azocarboxamide, ammonium persulfate, chlorine dioxide, phosphate, etc.
The enzymes used in bread include maltose alpha-amylase, fungal alpha-amylase, glucose oxidase, fungal xylanase, lipase, fungal lipase, and hemicellulase.
Some natural substances also have the effect of improving bread, such as wild artemisia seeds, active soybean flour, gluten and so on.
The above types of substances have corresponding effects on increasing the volume of bread, improving the internal structure and prolonging the fresh-keeping period. In addition, inorganic salts are added to some improvers, such as ammonium chloride, calcium sulfate, ammonium phosphate, calcium dihydrogen phosphate, etc., which are mainly used as nutrients for yeast or to adjust the hardness of water and adjust the pH value. There are also some improvers added with vitamin B1, B2, iron, calcium, wheat germ powder, niacin, etc., which mainly play a role in nutritional enhancement.
1. Improve the rheological properties of the dough, improve the operating performance and mechanical processing performance of the dough (beating resistance, preventing the collapse of the frame before and after entering the furnace, etc.).
2. Improve the rapid expansion of the furnace, so that the crown shape is upright and full.
3. Significantly increase the volume of the finished product, 30-100% (depending on the specific powder and formula).
4. Improve the internal organizational structure of the finished product to make it uniform, dense, white and well-layered.
5. Improve the taste, make the bread gluten and sweet.
6. Improve the water holding capacity of bread, delay the aging of finished products, and prolong the shelf life
When choosing a bread improver, first read the instruction manual of each bread improver in detail, and clearly understand the performance, main function, addition amount and usage method of the selected bread improver, and pay special attention to observe the composition of each bread improver. ingredients, and whether their main purpose is consistent with the purpose of choosing a bread improver. Be aware of it, if the amount added is too small, the effect will not be achieved; if the amount added is too much, it will cause side effects. Improper use methods, such as uneven mixing with other ingredients when mixing the dough, will not achieve the effect of use. Another example is that there are enzymes in bread improvers. It is cold in northern winter. When mixing dough, water should be heated before adding improvers. | <urn:uuid:738f6022-aa9b-4b65-99cc-5e2f90e87fec> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://justlonghealth.com/introduce-what-is-bread-improver/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.923887 | 1,401 | 2.359375 | 2 |
As political instability challenges China’s growing interests in the Mediterranean region, the European Union might prove to be the right partner for Beijing. This essay assesses the prospects for EU-Chinese security cooperation in the region. A shared doctrinal concern with nontraditional security provides a solid foundation, as proved by antipiracy efforts in the Gulf of Aden. This paves the way for nontraditional security cooperation in the Mediterranean region, for instance in the field of noncombatant evacuation. Yet a crucial precondition is that the EU behaves more coherently, in order to be perceived by China as a reliable partner.
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Research Article| March 01 2015
Simone Dossi; The EU, China, and Nontraditional Security: Prospects for Cooperation in the Mediterranean Region. Mediterranean Quarterly 1 March 2015; 26 (1): 77–96. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10474552-2872988
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Zanzibar Island, along with Pemba Island to the north, are referred to as the Spice Islands. Zanzibar is best known as a tropical beach paradise, which is easily combined with a safari in Tanzania or Kenya. The history here harks back to ancient trade routes. In Stone Town, Indo-Arabic influences intertwine with African Swahili origins to create a heady fusion of sights, sounds and scents. Whether you're looking for the culture and bustle of historic cobbled streets in Stone Town or the peaceful beaches and the warm Indian Ocean with its dhow trips and excellent diving, Zanzibar is simply paradise.
- Stone Town with cobbled streets and romantic, multicultural history
- Palm-fringed, sandy white beaches
- Warm, inviting turquoise Indian Ocean
- Watersports galore
- Spectacular coral reefs, perfect for snorkelling and scuba diving
- Range of accommodation, from large hotels to small private lodges
- White-sail dhow trips
- Spice farm visits
Zanzibar is one of those idyllic holiday destinations where you can spend your days lazing around on perfect white beaches. There is plenty to see and do if you're the active type. However, all the activity is set in a beautiful, relaxed island atmosphere so if you're wanting to sit back and enjoy the view, it's perfect for that too! The weather is balmy, the sea is warm, Stone Town's bustling activity is perfectly complemented by the aromatic spice farms and laidback sandy white beaches. Seriously, it's paradise.
The history of the islands is fascinating and is still evident in the crazy, cobbled streets of Stone Town. The island is known as the birthplace of Swahili and it became a major port for traders from Persia, Arabia, Indonesia, India, China, Malaysia and, later, Portugal. It is this mix of cultures that brought about the melting pot of architecture and tradition that still fills Zanzibar with an exotic sense of romance.
In the early 1500s, after Vasco da Gama's visit in 1498, Zanzibar became a colony of Portugal. The islands have a chequered history of rule from Arab sultans in the slave trade to British protectorate to full self-governance by Zanzibar in 1963. It was briefly ruled by Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah until he was deposed. In 1964, Zanzibar and Tanganyika merged to form the United Republic of Tanzania, of which Zanzibar is a semi-autonomous region.
The biggest of the fifty islands that make up the archipelago, Zanzibar Island, is known by locals as Unguja. This island holds the capital with the historic city of Stone Town on its western shore. A little to the northeast is the second biggest island, Pemba, with all the rest of the islands being smaller.
The island beach resorts range from small, secluded boutique hotels and houses with private beaches to larger hotel resorts offering a range of activities. There is something to suit every person's ideal beach holiday on this archipelago. On many of the smaller islands, more exclusive, private holidays are offered, each one with its own charm and wonderful beaches, making it ideal for honeymooners.
On the islands, the rich and fertile soil provides for Zanzibar's spice and raffia farms which are major contributors to the island economy. The heady scent of cloves, cinnamon and vanilla float on the sea breeze and a farm is well worth visiting!
This historic city is where most people land after catching a 75- to 90-minute ferry from Dar es Salaam. It is noisy and busy and fascinating. Arabic influences mix with African flair in the ancient winding streets where mosques stand shoulder-to-shoulder with sultan palaces and bustling markets. There is so much to see, including the old, ornate, intricately-carved wooden doors for which Zanzibar is renowned.
A couple of days in Stone Town makes for a wonderful experience, especially when coupled with a few days to relax at the beach. You'll be pleased to leave the hustle behind and enjoy the peace and relaxation of tropical island living.
Things to see and do in Zanzibar
There is no shortage of adventures and activities in Zanzibar. Whether it's relaxation or action you're looking for, it's available on Zanzibar. This is the ideal spot to lie back on a lounger and read a book on the beach while you listen to the gentle sounds of the Indian Ocean lapping at the shore. Look up every now and again, to see a traditional white sail dhow float by. If you're looking for more action, Zanzibar offers a range of watersports from kayaking, sailing, windsurfing, paddle boarding and snorkelling to some of the best reef diving in the world.
On land, there are beach activities like volleyball and bikes can be hired to ride around exploring. Need a gift to take home? Visit the markets in Stone Town or along the coast and support local traders by buying beautiful carvings or aromatic spices.
A Spice Tour is a must-do. Visit the coconut and spice plantations where the aromas of cloves, cinnamon and vanilla intermingle with the scent of oranges, limes, coconut and the more exotic custard apples and breadfruit. Depending on the season, you'll be able to sample these delights. There is plenty to do from a cultural point of view, too. Ancient ruins whisper secrets of long-forgotten times and there are a number of museums chronicling Zanzibar's rich history.
Best time to visit
Situated slightly below the equator, the coolest months in Zanzibar coincide with the northern hemisphere's summer months. However, its weather is pleasant and comfortable all year round with two distinct rainy seasons, the long rains and the short rains interspersed with dry periods.
The island of Zanzibar can have its own distinct weather patterns separate from the mainland. That said, the weather is generally similar. The long rainy season can stretch from mid-March until the end of May, bringing heavy early morning showers which often clear by midday. Many lodges close at this time.
The best months to visit are during the dry, winter months from June through to October when daily temperatures average a balmy 25ºC. The short rains occur erratically during November and December often with showers early morning and late afternoon. Summer stretches from December to March, with hot sunny days and often cloudless skies. Temperatures range from mid 20ºC to low 30ºC and the evenings are balmy and comfortable.
By air - A number of international airlines offer flights to Dar es Salaam and some directly to Zanzibar. Domestic flights are available from Tanzania's main cities to Zanzibar. Mango Airlines offer 3 flights a week from OR Tambo in Johannesburg to Zanzibar Airport near Stone Town.
By sea - Several ferries run between the mainland and Zanzibar.
The Sultan's Palace, or Beit el Sahel, is a museum in Stone Town about the Zanzibari royal family and history.
Situated in Zanzibar on a spectacular, long beach with pristine white sands, Breezes Beach Club and Spa gives guests everything they could desire of a holiday in paradise. Being a large hotel, they offer a wide range of activities, from all the watersports and a diving school to a number of restaurants, swimming pool and tennis courts, including an incredible spa. Whether you want to relax, be active, or combine the two, Breezes Beach Club and Spa is a good place to do it all.
Tanzania in East Africa is one of the top safari destinations in Africa. Tanzania's vast Serengeti National Park is the scene of the annual Great Migration, a breathtaking wildlife spectacle that every serious safari enthusiast should experience at least once in a lifetime. Equally unique is the famous Ngorongoro Crater, home to unparalleled numbers of wild animals. It is easy to combine a safari in northern Tanzania with a tropical beach holiday on Zanzibar. And for the serious traveller, the wild and remote southern region offers beautiful national parks which are relatively untouched by development and human settlement, with huge game reserves such as Selous Game Reserve and Ruaha National Park.
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Eileen began teaching dance in 1965. During her amateur dance career, Eileen was a champion dancer winning many awards, scholarships and bursaries. To this day is the only Cape Breton dancer to win the prestigious Mary Dundas Memorial award for the most proficient sword dance three consecutive years. Mary Dundas was a former world-class champion who took an interest in Eileen & instructed her many times.
She has trained over 50 teachers of dance, some of whom now have their own schools of dance, both locally and abroad.
Her professional credentials include:
Fellow of the British Association of Teachers of Dance,
Member of the Scottish Dance Teachers' Alliance,
Scottish Official Board of Highland Dancing Adjudicator’s Panel,
ScotDance Canada, and
Dance Nova Scotia.
Dr. Eileen (Pottie) Forrester
A dancer and teacher for 61 years, Dr. Eileen Pottie Forrester is a true ambassador for the Scottish culture and heritage of Cape Breton Island.
At age 9, Eileen won an audition for commercials that were broadcast during the NHL "Hockey Night In Canada" and sponsored by Imperial Esso. She also did commercials for Hamilton's Biscuits. Some of her early performances were on the popular television shows "Down Cape Breton Way" with the late Lloyd McInnis, "Cape Breton Ceilidh", as well as the national show "Ceilidh" with Allistar McInnis of Scotland.
In 1967, Eileen performed at Expo '67 and then went on to Parliament for a solo dance performance. She also represented Nova Scotia that same year in Newfoundland for "Centennial Celebrations". In 1973, Eileen and her dancers were invited by then Minister of States office to partake in the first Multicultural Festival ever held in Canada which took place in Ottawa. It proved to be a wonderful event and Cape Breton's own, Rita MacNeil was also a performer during this festival.
Eileen’s early teachers were her two older sisters, Sandra (a highland dancer and Pipe band drummer), and Faye (a highland dancer and bagpiper). The Pottie sisters carried on the tradition of passing on the Celtic dance culture on Cape Breton Island for over 70 years. Much of Eileen’s professional dancing has been guided by former world Highland dance champion, Sandra Bald Jones, Scotland, now living in Ontario. Eileen’s mother, the late Eileen Pottie, was instrumental behind the scenes, instilling and promoting the love of Scottish dance. This same love, Eileen tries to pass on to each and every one of her dancers that have come and gone throughout the years.
To My Mother
"It was when I had my first child, that I understood how much she loved me. Thank you mom for instilling in me the love and pride in our culture and first & foremost always striving to ensure that every time I performed......I had fun!!"
- Eileen Forrester
Eileen was the first officially licensed teacher of dance on Cape Breton Island as well as the first Scottish Official Board of Highland Dancing Adjudicator on the Island, which enables her to adjudicate highland dance competitions worldwide, which has included across Canada, the United States and the Commonwealth Championships in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Much of what the Forrester School of Dance has become today has been influenced by the memory of Eileen’s mother, the late Eileen Pottie. The honor and pride of Scottish heritage is evident in every aspect of not only the company, but also in its dancers.
In 2015, Eileen received an Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, from Cape Breton University for her significant contribution to the Scottish Culture and heritage of Cape Breton Island. Today, Eileen teaches alongside her daughter Shannon Forrester who is carrying on the family tradition of teaching dance which has now existed for over 70 years. | <urn:uuid:365f378b-7276-497b-85b9-ae25266a3065> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.forresterdancers.com/eileen | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.973314 | 842 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Five Steps for Designing Lessons that Prioritize the Student Experience
Teachers: Whether you’re engaging in virtual, in-person, or hybrid instruction this year, one thing you know for sure is that you still have to prepare for how your students will participate in lesson activities and retain what they learn. While there are many ways to design lessons, few put the student experience at the center of the learning. In the rest of this article, we’re going to show you exactly how to design lessons that prioritize the student experience.
Regardless of learning scenario, lessons designed for student experiences must (1) promote student agency and independence through discussion and collaboration activities, and (2) allow teachers to provide quick and actionable feedback to students.
Here are five steps you can take to design for student experience—be sure to watch the video at the end of the post to see the steps in action.
Five key steps for designing lessons that prioritize the student experience
Pre-work: Internalize the lesson
Before designing the student experience, you must first internalize the lesson—including identifying the standards addressed, naming key takeaways, doing the work of the lesson, and planning for anticipated misconceptions. As you internalize the lesson, you’ll strategically choose activities that ensure students glean those key takeaways.
Step 1: Name the purpose of each lesson activity
Ask yourself: What are my students supposed to gain from this activity? What are they supposed to walk away from this activity being able to do?
Step 2: Plan for interactions during each activity
After you consider the purpose, consider what type of interactions students need to maintain the integrity of the activity. Do they need student-to-student interaction, or student-to-teacher? Should they work independently, or should there be a group discussion?
Step 3: Identify platforms and features for each activity
Once you know the type of interactions students need to have, determine the tools you will use to facilitate those interactions. For example, if you are planning a synchronous virtual lesson and you want to check your students’ work in real time while they work in pairs, you might use Jamboard; if you want to let students work independently to check their understanding, you could use a Nearpod’s “Draw It” feature to collect students’ individual responses and check them before sharing with the class.
Step 4: Prepare to deliver the lesson
Now that you know the platforms you’re using, you can prepare your lesson’s slides and activity boards.
Step 5: Anticipate your response to “what if” scenarios
One thing that we’ve learned over the last six months is to expect the unexpected. When we’re planning virtual lessons, that means being very thoughtful about the instructional decisions you’ll make if you find yourself in a “what if” scenario. “What if the note catcher isn’t working?” “What if Jamboard goes out?” You can’t anticipate every possible scenario, but, if you plan for some issues before they arise, you’ll be able to maximize instructional time and provide students with a great experience.
VIDEO: Designing the student experience—grade 6 Illustrative Math lesson
The following video walks you through how I considered each of the five key steps of designing for student experience using a sixth-grade Illustrative Math lesson. You can find the lesson materials shared in the video here.
With the number of uncertainties in the world today, teachers and students have had to make considerable sacrifices; quality instruction should not be one of them. Ultimately, children deserve high-quality instruction and teachers deserve a framework for making it possible.
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Photo caption: Participants share about the life moments that ignited their civil resistance stories.
Summer Institute participants wear many ‘hats’ – activists, educators, researchers, journalists – sometimes several at the same time. They come to the institute from around the world to deepen their understanding of the subject of civil resistance, and explore issues and challenges they face in the struggles that are being waged in their countries. Participants acquire analytical and planning tools, and familiarize themselves with the latest data and research in the field: preparation and planning are key to a successful civil resistance campaign.
But involvement in a struggle for rights and justice is also a personal journey that demands intense dedication, strength, and resilience, and often includes pain and sacrifice.
This year, the Institute dedicated an evening to these stories, featuring key moments that changed everything for their protagonists: Transformative moments of realization that turned people into activists and the disenfranchised into community organizers. Moments in which a child discovered the power to stand against terror, when a judge turned down a promising career refusing to be part of a corrupt system, and encounters that made a journalist persevere against mounting threats, because there are stories that must be told.
The stories shared came from Madagascar, Tunisia, Singapore, Kenya, Ethiopia, South Africa, the Philippines and Afghanistan, but transcend geography, cultures and all other context. In the words of Xavier Alpasa from the Philippines, who shared his story:
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That is a great sketch of the naval brigade. The men in the picture are from HMS Shah, which was diverted by her Captain (Bradshaw) while on their way back to England from service in the Pacific. They suddenly found their time away from home and loved ones extended, and had to make last minute preparations for service ashore.
On 2 March, 1879 one of the Shah's men, Henry Eason, wrote the following in his diary:
“We are expecting by next week at this time to be on the way to the relief of our comrades or brother blue jackets who are hemmed in by the enemy at Ekowe. Great preparations are being made on board here. Last night soda water bottles were served out to all the landing party with a piece of Fearnot to cover them, and today notwithstanding it being Sunday, all the sail makers were at work making tents for our men, and 29 blue jackets are making canvas leggings as fast as possible for all that land.” (From THE NAVAL MISCELLANY, VOLUME VII, THE DIARY OF SIGNAL BOSUN HENRY EASON: THE NAVAL BRIGADE IN THE ZULU WAR, 1879)
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After Europe, the Anglosphere
Several recent books see the end coming. John Birmingham’s “After
America”: Fighter bombers rushing at us on the cover. You get the
picture. Paul Starobin’s “After America: Narratives for the Next Global
Age”: Planet of the Apes with nerds instead of apes. Be afraid. But not
that afraid. Mark Steyn’s “After America: Get Ready for Armageddon”:
Self-explanatory. Andrew Breitbart said, “May puke I’m so happy.”
Meaning he liked it.
These books see America as an idea rather than a place because the
authors don’t understand place and have probably never been to an
American place they were inclined to stay in. They would get a rash in
real places like Tobaccoville, N.C., Haverhill, N.H. or Luckenbach,
Texas, where Waylon, Willie and the boys hang.
But The Wall Street Journal’s Bret Stephens this morning makes a masterful case for the decline of Europe in his essay “What Comes after ‘Europe’?” Possibly nothing. Possibly nothing — Sartre’s La Nausée comes to mind — has long settled there.
Stephens well makes the case that there is no Europe; that is, there has been no such thing in the post-war world. It was a figment of the “Western” imagination. (But there is no “West” either.) Quoting Bismarck, he says, “Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong. Europe is a geographical expression.”
Folkloric history like the great movie “Phantom of the Opera” (the Joel Schumacher version) makes the case that Europe, as it was known in Christendom, died in 1914-1917, or thereabouts. Its fate was sealed not by war but by electricity. I don’t see that it has ever recovered, except as a pale rider in the shadow of America.
“What comes next is the explosion of the European project,” writes Stephens, and it’s not an altogether bad thing. “But it will come at a massive cost. The riots of Athens will become those of Milan, Madrid and Marseilles. Parties of the fringe will gain greater sway. Border checkpoints will return. Currencies will be resurrected, then devalued. Countries will choose decay over reform. It’s a long, likely parade of horribles.”
America will survive because America is a state, he says. Exactly! It is a place! It is a lot of places! This is the essence of Jefferson’s heroic vision, yet untried.
And America will be better off without the burden of European history on it back. But how will the U.N. fare in this climate? NATO, SEATO and all of the other post-war abstractions? Not good. Irrelevant.
The big question is what will England do? The EU has always been her problem. Because England is not a European country. The subtle since 1914 and before asked, where do we belong, with Europe or with America? The answer came on June 6, 1944, when America and England together invaded Nazi-occupied Europe. Gene Kelly may have done the victory dance in Paris and Ernest Hemingway may have liberated the Ritz, but this joint venture reawakened the Anglosphere.
It changed everything. England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, America and England became a unified culture, one that spoke the same language and hailed from the same traditions. Anglosphere became the package of like places. If my kids today visit Australia or London they feel kinship and common ground. When they travel to China or Ukraine, they feel they are going “someplace else.”
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Dental Care – Why is it so important?
We have intermittently discussed dental care over the last 11 years with regard to oral health as well as systemic health. There was an excellent podcast between Dr. Peter Attia and Dr. Patricia Corby two weeks ago looking at all things oral health. I am going to distill the 2 hour podcast down into a manageable audio recording of the newsletter with some more information on dental anthropology and the oral microbiome.
Dr. Corby is an oral health researcher from Penn Dental Medicine in Pennsylvania and she is a wealth of research information in the oral space. Read more here – https://www.salisburypediatrics.com/patient-education/dr-magryta-s-newsletter/973-volume-11-letter-30
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I would answer ‘I don’t know’. If I was being less trite, I would add that I’m more confident saying that it was between 100k and 10M – whichever way you look at it, vast numbers that are growing larger, and which require action on multiple fronts.
The authors of the study ‘Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis’ (also called ‘the GRAM study’) have actually attempted to estimate this. Their paper was published a couple of weeks ago, and you can read it here: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)02724-0.
The authors of this study combine a lot of data from many sources (which I am sure was very difficult to collect); run a complex series of regression models, chaining their outputs together; predict DALYs lost, and run counterfactuals vs no-AMR to make predictions of the global burden of AMR. Ultimately they estimated that in 2019 ‘1·27 million (95% UI 0·911–1·71) deaths attributable to bacterial AMR’, which is unfortunately at the upper end of extrapolations from the 2016 O’Neill report.
I really want to make one criticism here: there is no way it was possible to estimate this to three significant figures, and the uncertainty interval is almost certainly too narrow. These UIs are generated from the model used, and only reflect uncertainty from the data, if the given model is true (and which probably explains the tight and smooth UIs in figure 2).
The authors themselves offer reflection on uncertainties, assumptions and approximations used in the discussion, and have a whole table in the appendix listing known modelling limitations. It’s easy to identify more than are explicitly addressed (e.g. not modelling vaccine replacement in S. pneumoniae) – some which would suggest an overestimate, some which would suggest an underestimate. This analysis is incredibly complex and tries to account for so many factors that I’m at a loss to guess whether this is more likely over- or under-estimated – but I am confident in saying the result is more uncertain than reported.
A related gripe is that reporting this level of precision makes the study accuracy look higher than it actually was. Various credulous press coverage then report only the central estimate with no UIs at all, which really does make it look like someone counted all of these deaths, and got exactly 1.27M (which was then rounded down to 3sf).
Perhaps just saying about 1-2 million deaths would have been clearer?
Ok, maybe more than one criticism
I’m an outsider to global burden of disease estimates, and economic modelling in general, so realise that I might be missing the point with some of these questions, but I also wondered:
- Won’t the errors from each source/regression, and especially by chaining results together, compound? Was this taken into account?
- Will this result and model’s accuracy ever be checked retrospectively (e.g. when we have better data)? Hopefully at least for some regions, and then we could see what the major sources of error in the model where. But, could we do this now for a region with lots of data, by adding errors and sparsity into it? Or for one species/disease?
- The sensitivity analysis (section 4.7 of the appendix, ‘model validation’) reports 0.7-1 AUC, which isn’t exactly stunning, but it also looked like there wasn’t any real validation set used, just a random 20% subsample of all of the data.
- One press release I saw mentioned ‘celebrating the global collaboration and 100’s of data partnerships that made this study possible’ which I’m sure is a great thing to come out of this.
But, where is the data? Can anyone else use it? Has any effort been made to provide it to researchers through an access committee?
- Relatedly, where is the model code? After a bit of searching I found this repo, but I’m not sure it’s a) the right one or b) that it’s able to be reused at all.
- This is very minor, but what’s the ‘grand total’ in table 1? How does it make sense to sum sample sizes and study years from totally different sources? Seems like it’s to impress us with the figure 471300319 (which is only useful for estimating how much memory you’re likely to need to load the data). | <urn:uuid:9a03d08c-4fec-4bca-9118-2b31970ffb40> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.johnlees.me/blog/2022/02/07/did-1-27m-people-die-from-amr-in-2019/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.950027 | 990 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Predictive Maintenance for Wind & Photovoltaic plants
Minimize risk with a proactive management
In a global scenario of decreasing electricity prices, minimizing lost production due to downtimes is key to deliver the targeted returns on renewable asset investments.
To help renewable asset owners to mitigate the risk of asset failure, Nispera has developed together with the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), a Predictive Maintenance module for wind and photovoltaic plants. Leveraging the readily available operational data generated by the assets, thus avoiding the installation of additional sensors, our Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based models can identify the failure patterns of the assets’ components and release alarms at an early stage. Thanks to its technologically innovative nature, the project has been selected for funding by Innosuisse, the Swiss Innovation Agency.
Learning from all the inputs received over a statistically relevant period, the AI-powered algorithm can replicate a reference behaviour of the components under different operational and ambient conditions. Deviations from the predicted reference are then analysed and ranked according to their likelihood to lead to a failure. In doing so, the AI-algorithm becomes more accurate the more data it can employ for learning. Real time notifications are triggered as soon as an asset’s component is showing an alarming trend. In addition, the Nispera web-platform offers different tools to support a deeper analysis of the suspect behaviour. In a few clicks, the user has all the information to plan corrective maintenance actions or to raise the awareness of the other actors involved in the asset management about the emerging issue. While the severity of some deviations signals an imminent failure and requires immediate actions, other malfunctions develop over a longer time and can be easily fixed by prioritizing inspections on the component during routine maintenance activities.
“As former asset managers, we are aware that analysing data from the assets is a good starting point but it is not enough ” says Gianmarco Pizza, CEO of Nispera. “In our daily information overload, it is equally important to have tools cutting through the noise and able to provide immediate, clear suggestions on the next actions to take. We want our clients to spend less time on data crunching and free up resources to dedicate on initiatives that drive the actual improvement ”.
While the focus has always been on creating an intuitive and user-friendly solution, we also wanted to make sure the Users could rely on the insights offered by the most advanced analytics crunching the wealth of data available from the assets. As a tangible proof of our commitment, the results of our applied research activity on Predictive Maintenance together with ZHAW University have led to the preparation of several scientific papers, some already accepted for publication (selected to be presented at major scientific events in the Predictive Maintenance field*).
The alarming trends, clustered by asset and component, are reported in our cockpit in a clear and intuitive manner.
A key input to our endeavour has come from our industry partner EKZ, the utility of Zurich canton, a leading player in the renewable energy sector owning and operating a large asset portfolio of wind and photovoltaic plants distributed across Europe. The involvement of EKZ from the beginning, was crucial to ensure the development of a tool able to offer a great user experience while living up to the requirements of the most advanced users. “We have followed the development and provided suggestions over the course of this exciting project, leading to an excellent solution which we have started using in our daily operations. The insights from Nispera’s Predictive Maintenance module have already helped us to detect real cases that otherwise would have gone unnoticed, avoiding the costs of component replacement and the related downtimes. Even if today most of the assets are still covered by full-scope O&M agreements, predictive tools are essential to minimize operational risks, and with the gradual shift to partial scope O&M agreements, such tools will become essential ” says Christian Hürlimann, Managing Director of EKZ Renewables.
If you would like to know more about how we can help to improve the performance of your renewable assets, get in touch with us to schedule a demo.
*Early Fault Detection Based on Wind Turbine SCADA Data Using CNNs, Eskil Jarlskog, Gianmarco Pizza, Jaakko Manninen, Lilach Goren Huber, Markus Ulmer, to be presented at the 33 rd International Conference on Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management (COMADEM 2020), 26-28 May 2020, Luleå, Sweden.
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As any parent knows, there’s a lot to juggle when it comes to our kids’ lives. Throw homeschooling into the mix and there’s even more to balance between school and life: proper paperwork for the state, researching curriculum, planning lessons (sometimes for more than one student and grade level!), organizing field trips, gathering materials, teaching and grading, doctor’s appointments, vacations, extracurriculars, and more! That’s why — as great as the flexibility of homeschool is — it’s essential to have some sort of organizational system in place.
Why is it important to be organized? Well, it can help better facilitate learning, lessen distractions, create more peace and calmness, and separate “school” life from “home” life.
Here are 4 tips to help organize your homeschool.
1) Start with “structured flexibility.”
One of the joys of homeschool is the flexibility it provides in terms of schedule. And while your schooling can fit around your schedule, it’s also important to remember to schedule it! At the start of each year (or quarter, or semester), sit down and plan out your lessons. See when you have vacations and holidays already scheduled. Figure out how much material you have to cover and how many days you have to complete it. Then, set a rough daily schedule that includes what will be taught each day. We say “rough” because, again, homeschool is flexible and you might find that you need more time than you had allotted for a certain topic, so you need to adjust lessons a bit. But having that tentative schedule will help make sure you stay on track! In case the opposite happens and you finish materials faster than anticipated, have a plan for what you’ll do with that extra time. Will you move on to next week’s work? Will you do extra activities centered around the lesson? Will it be free time? Set your schedule for how it works for you and your learner — maybe you don’t do math every day but do it 2 days a week in larger chunks, maybe you prefer hourly schedules — and know that things may change, and that’s okay.
2) Determine your plan, objectives, and goals.
Figure out what you want to accomplish this week, month, semester, and year. Get your kids involved, too! At the start of each week, sit down and discuss the plan, see what questions your kids have, and ask what they want to accomplish. Having a plan will help you stay on track, and goals give you and your children something to work toward. Is there anything better than that sense of accomplishment you get when you meet — and exceed — those goals?
3) Have a dedicated school room.
When you homeschool, it can be difficult to transition from “school” time to “home” time. And as tempting as it can be to want to sit on the living room couch and “do school,” it can bring some unwanted and unnecessary distractions. If you’re able to, we suggest having a dedicated “school” room to use when it’s time for lessons each day. Set it up like a classroom. Have a desk for each student and yourself. Hang up a whiteboard in the front of the room and use it to teach from. Create a reading nook in one corner with books, comfy chairs or pillows, and blankets. Hang posters of multiplication tables, the periodic table, anatomy — whatever topics your learner will cover that year.
In your school room, you should keep all the supplies your child will need. Assign each learner a cubby or bin, in which they can keep pens, pencils, paper, tablets (if you use one for school), workbooks, lessons, and assignments. This way, everyone knows where they need to go to find their work. Keep that list of goals in there too, as a reminder of what they’re working toward.
If you can’t have a whole separate room dedicated to school, designate an area of a room as the “school area,” or put a desk in your child’s room for school work. Those bins will really come in handy in this case, ensuring school-related items don’t end up all over your house!
4) Organizational procedures are your friend.
So, your student completed their lesson, and now where does it go? Back in his bin or cubby where you’ll never see it? On your desk for review and grading? Set up procedures so that at the end of a unit lesson or term, you aren’t scrambling to grade assignments that got lost in the shuffle and never made their way to you. You could have a folder for each student, where they put completed assignments, that then goes into a tray on your desk for review. Is the work that they’re doing on a computer? Make sure they know whether or not you should see it before they submit or complete it! Those bins and cubbies we discussed above? Have each student return items to their assigned cubby at the end of each day so things are ready to go the next day. Even little things, like knowing when to let you know if they are running low on supplies from their cubby or bin, can be helpful for making your day run more smoothly. Set calendar reminders for things like assessment testing (if your state requires it), grade-reporting deadlines, and anything that has a set date, for a few weeks before the deadline so you have everything you need when the time comes, and it doesn’t sneak up on you.
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London’s most notorious bad boy Jack the Ripper is the subject of a major new exhibition which opens at the Museum in Docklands next month.
Running from 15th May until 2nd November 2008 Jack the Ripper and the East End will include police files and photographs as well as letters from the public and the supposed Ripper himself and will allow visitors to examine surviving documents and artefacts from the investigation and follow the crimes as they unfolded.
Step back in time to the labyrinth of late Victorian Whitechapel, and uncover the human stories behind the sensational reports and explore the lives of the victims, witnesses, suspects and police, and the world they lived in.
Julia Hoffbrand, curator of the exhibition says the exhibition “will reveal the lives of those who inhabited the streets and courts where the murders took place – lives which are obscured in so many accounts of the Ripper murders.”
Despite no-one knowing who is Jack the Rippers legend still shapes the way London and the East End are imagined and has been the subject of numerous TV and film projects.
Full of objects attesting to the never-ending public appetite for this story, the exhibition will ask why the tale of the Whitechapel murders continues to resonate 120 years on and why this one unknown figure has become so iconic, and so much a part of London.
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My boys have been in the kitchen since they could hold a spoon. My little one, who is almost 8, is so excited that he can do more on his own and keeps requesting to help me cook.
Always an encouraging mom, we purchased Williams-Sonoma’s Cooking Together. Written by an award winning food stylist and her young daughter, and aimed at the 4 – 8 year old set, it’s full of yummy, family-friendly recipes that features steps written just for kids so they can follow along with a little help from you. We all know that kids who help prepare food are more likely to eat it, and this book is full of new twists on old favorites as well as classic recipes.
It’s broken up into four sections: Rise & Shine, Snacktime, Supper, and Sweets and is full of colorful photos and ideas on fun variations of each recipe. From Little Frittatas to Breakfast Pinwheels, Hummus & Veggies Cones, and Snowball Cupcakes, there are so many delicious, healthy dishes made from scratch.
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My favorite part is every recipe includes steps made for the grownups like using knives and has call outs for kids, they have to keep their eye out for the special text for what they can do. Everyone gets a part!
We are working our way through the book; we’ve made Mini Burgers With Sweet Potato Fries, Crispy Chicken Bites, and Inside-Out Apple Crisps, just to name a few.
In fact, here is the Chicken Potpies, and in honor of Valentine’s Day we used a heart cookie cutter instead of the star cutter pictured in the recipe. He was so proud of himself, from peeling the potatoes to rolling out the puff pastry tops.
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The story of The Pirate Bay’s server drones echoes the saga of Sealand and HavenCo, so James Grimmalmann’s story in Ars Technica–“Death of a data haven: cypherpunks, WikiLeaks, and the world’s smallest nation”–is timely, entertaining, and informative.
Here’s a brief summary of last Friday’s federal government offensive against online gambling.
- Federal prosecutors brought fraud and-money laundering charges against the three largest online poker sites: Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars, and Absolute Poker. The government also seized their domain names, terminating their presence online–until they obtain another domain name.
- All three sites are located outside the U.S. Full Tilt is based in Alderney (an island in the English Channel and part of the U.K., ) PokerStars is on the Isle of Man, and Absolute Poker is in Costa Rica.
- According to the Wall Street Journal online poker sites last year took in about $16 billion in wagers from about 1.8 million U.S. residents who play poker online.
- The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 made it a crime for U.S. financial institutions to process payments for online gaming businesses. The NY Times reports “[t]he online poker operators sought to avoid detection by banks and legal authorities by funneling payments through fictitious online businesses that purported to sell jewelry, golf balls and other items, according to the indictment. It says that when some banks processed the payments, they were unaware of the real nature of the business, but the site operators also bribed banks into accepting the payments.”
- The legal environment is online poker is hardly clear. Disagreement exists over whether poker and blackjack are even illegal under federal anti-gaming laws, since some argue they are games of skill, not chance.
- The NY Times again:
- “Prosecutors seemed to skirt the issue. They based parts of their prosecution on state laws in New York and elsewhere that prohibited unlicensed gambling, including poker. Legal experts said the prosecutors needed to rely on such prohibitions as a foundation for going after the claims of money laundering and fraud. But Mr. Walters [a lawyer whose clients include other online gaming sites] said this strategy might face challenges. He said it was not clear that the state laws applied to foreign-based gambling operations, given that under federal law, international commerce was regulated at the federal level.”
- According to the WS Journal the sudden enforcement action surprised the sites’ customers, quoting a professional poker player who said “we understood there were issues. We never assumed there’d be some type of black-out overnight.”
PC World reports that a draft treaty leaked from the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement talks would make ISPs liable for civil damages for user-generated uploads and downloads of copyrighted content. According to PC World, the draft treaty would require ISPs to take affirmative steps, such as terminating violators’ accounts, to avoid being liable for their users’ copyright infringement. France last year enacted a “three-strikes” law requiring ISPs to terminate an account after a user’s second warning for copyright violations. Participating in the ACTA talks are the U.S., the E.U., Australia, Canada, Jordan, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, and the United Arab Emirates. If adopted by the U.S the draft proposal would change current law. Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act U.S. based ISPs can avoid liability for users’ copyright infringement by adhering to the DMCA’s notice and take-down procedures. A U.S. ISP has no duty to monitor its site for user-posted copyright-infringing material, but if a copyright holder notifies the ISP of the presence of its copyrighted material on the site then the ISP must “expeditiously remove or disable access to” the targeted content to maintain the liability safe harbor. (See DMCA §512 for the complete text of the safe harbor requirements and procedures.)
In another European case I’ve blogged about before (here, here, and here), yesterday an Italian court convicted three Google executives of criminal privacy violations in a case arising out of a 2006 YouTube video of the bullying of an autistic boy, posted to YouTube by his abusers. The court imposed suspended three- to six-month sentences on three of the executives charged, acquitting them of defamation along with another executive facing only the defamation charge. Google, which said it plans to appeal, called the result “astonishing.” One of the convicted defendants–who is Google’s global privacy counsel–said “[t]he judge has decided I’m primarily responsible for the actions of some teenagers who uploaded a reprehensible video to Google video.” Google’s senior vice president and chief legal officer and its chief financial officer were also convicted. The Wall Street Journal article stated “[t]he trial could help define whether the Internet in Italy is an open, self-regulating platform or if content must be better monitored for abusive material.”
U.S. law, specifically Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, would shield Google from liability because the actionable video was created and posted online by a third party. To put it in the language of Section 230, Google would not be liable because it was not the video’s information content provider; it was not “responsible, in whole or in part, for the creation or development of” the video. U.S. law recognizes the impracticability–or impossibility–of screening tens of thousands of posts and other items created by Internet users. This case, and the French case discussed in the prior post, show how far the Internet has come from that described in John Perry Barlow’s Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace:
Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind . . . You have no sovereignty where we gather . . . I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear.
Or, eBay Loses Again in France. Last week the Paris District Court held eBay liable for using LVM’s trademarks as AdWords to, according to an eBay spokesperson, “direct buyers’ listings for authentic goods from eBay sellers.” The court ordered eBay to pay 230,000 € for damages and LVM’s legal fees and 1,000 € for every future violation. LVM and eBay have duked it out before; in June 2008 LVM won a suit against eBay over auctions of counterfeit Louis Vuitton handbags, the court holding that eBay did not employ adequate measures to prevent the sale of fake goods. Last year the Paris District Court fined eBay for continuing violations of the 2008 order.
Other luxury retailers have sued eBay for similar claims on both sides of the Atlantic. In August 2008 a Belgian court ruled for eBay in a suit over the sale of counterfeit Lancome perfumes. The court held “that eBay is a passive provider of ‘host’ services, as that term is defined in a European Community policy directive, and that it’s therefore entitled to more legal leeway than a brick-and-mortor auctioneer would receive if counterfeit goods were being sold on his premises,” reasoning that echoes what one would expect to be the outcome of the same claim under U.S. law. In July 2008 (eBay had a busy summer) Tiffany and Company lost a suit in federal court in New York City for trademark claims arising from eBay auctions of counterfeit trademarked goods. That court held “to the extent that eBay may have possessed general knowledge of infringement and dilution by sellers on its Web site, eBay did not possess knowledge or a reason to know of specific instances of trademark infringement or dilution as required under the law”–a clear expression of the difference between U.S. and French law on website liability.
In a speech a few weeks ago Hillary Clinton criticized China and other nations for their Internet censorship, warning that what she called an “information curtain” might prevent the citizens of such countries from the free flow of information. Her speech came shortly after Google reported it was the victim of computer hacking that it believed originated in China, announced that it would no longer censor references to the Tiananmen Square Massacre and other taboo topics from its Chinese search engine, and said it might withdraw from China altogether. Clinton said “[i]n an interconnected world, an attack on one nation’s networks can be an attack on all. Countries or individuals that engage in cyber attacks should face consequences and international condemnation.” China responded the next day, saying “the Chinese Internet is open” and the U.S. should “respect the truth and to stop using the so-called Internet freedom question to level baseless accusations.” Most interesting to me was China’s characterization of “[t]he American demand for an unfettered Internet” as “information imperialism:” “[t]he U.S. campaign for uncensored and free flow of information on an unrestricted Internet is a disguised attempt to impose its values on other cultures in the name of democracy.”
One might dismiss China’s rhetoric but this diplomatic fray involves a fundamental problem of Internet governance, which is whose law should apply to resolve Internet disputes? In the U.S. we often regard First Amendment rights to speech, press, assembly, religion, and petition as the manifestation of natural human rights that are fundamental to human dignity and liberty. (That is, we often talk about First Amendment rights in such terms. In practice we are woefully ignorant of the scope of legal protection these rights. Legislatures, with little apparent awareness, pass laws that violate the First Amendment, citizens urge legal sanctions against unpopular ideas, and religious fundamentalists denounce non-believers.) We believe benighted citizens of nations without free-speech traditions await liberation. That may certainly be true, but it is not inevitably, universally true. Imagining how we would react as a nation if another nation prosyletized about its superior beliefs can help one understand China’s reference to information imperialism. Indeed France has been saying much the same thing for years about the effect of American language and culture on French culture. I am not defending moral relativism. I believe that transparency and the free flow of information are better politically, socially, economically, and ethically than secrecy and censorship, but we cannot impose those values and expect cultures in which they have no foothold to embrace them at once.
Here’s the First Commandment for the Study of Internet Law: What the Internet was is not what the Internet shall always be. A few more stories echoing the last post’s theme:
- France’s Constitutional Council rejected the legislature’s attempt to thwart digital piracy by terminating Internet access for alleged illegal downloaders. Under the legislative proposal “a newly created agency, acting on the recommendations of copyright owners, would have been able to order Internet service providers to shut down the accounts of copyright cheats who ignored two warnings to stop.” The Council held the proposal violated French constitutional principles including the presumption of innocence and freedom of speech.
- The on-again, off-again Italian trial of four Google executives on criminal defamation and privacy charges arising from Google’s failure to remove a YouTube video of the bullying of an autistic boy in Turin started again this week–and then stopped after one day, when a translator failed to appear. The prosecution claims “that Google should have acted to prevent the broadcast of the footage and that by failing to do so it breached the disabled boy’s privacy.” Google, in turn, claims it has no legal liability to monitor content posted by third-parties and that “seeking to hold neutral platforms liable for content posted on them is a direct attack on a free, open internet.” The charges, which carry potential prison terms of three years, underscore the profound difference between U.S. and European Union privacy law and the importance of ISP liability immunity provided by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
- NetChoice published its Internet Advocates Watchlist for Ugly Laws–“iAwful” to publicize “ the top ten worst proposed laws affecting ecommerce and open communications. . . . [The list’s] primary focus is on laws that will affect business, particularly by increasing taxes or dictating standards and practices that the group thinks are unworkable.”
Despite domestic and international opposition (e.g. “China Faces Criticism Over New Software Censor“) China is proceeding with its requirement that the Green Dam Youth Escort content-filtering software be installed on, or included on a compact disc accompanying the purchase of, all new computers sold in the country as of July 1. The name “Green Dam Youth Escort” conjures an image of a responsible elder guiding a youngster through a landscape dotted with levees holding back reservoirs of Internet yuckiness–or perhaps an image of an escort service that caters to minors. China’s ostensible purpose is to stem exposure to violent and pornographic content. Some critics fear the software is a vehicle for greater government monitoring of and control over dissident or other politically-unacceptable speech. Manufacturers are concerned the new software won’t play nice with operating systems and other software. The Beijing News reported the software is both over- and under-inclusive, blocking content it should permit and permitting content it should block. Computer scientists have said the software contains flaws that third parties could exploit. China, nevertheless, continues to say that July 1 compliance deadline is firm.
I’m following this story because it is interesting on its merits and because of what it says about the state of Internet law. I’m pointing my Internet law course in a new direction for the coming academic year, reducing its emphasis on theories of regulation. Current events, like this story, reflect powerful forces contending over the future of the Internet. I want students to understand these forces and what is at stake. “Code is law” continues to be an important message, but the playing field of 2009 is far more complex than that of a decade ago.
The Internet Safety Technical Task Force recently released its final report, titled “Enhancing Child Safety and Online Technologies.” The Task Force prepared the report at the request of 50 state Attorneys General “to determine the extent to which today’s technologies could help to address . . . online safety risks” including “the dangers of sexual solicitation, online harassment, and bullying, and exposure to problematic and illegal content.” The Task Force concluded “the risks minors face online are complex and multifaceted and are in most cases not significantly different than those they face offline, and that as they get older, minors themselves contribute to some of the problems.” (Today’s class discussion about cyberbullying, involving students far closer to the problem than me, echoed this conclusion.” Cherry-picking from the 278-page report’s Executive Summary:
- The Internet increases the availability of harmful, problematic and illegal content, but does not always increase minors’ exposure. Unwanted exposure to pornography does occur online, but those most likely to be exposed are those seeking it out, such as older male minors.
- Social network sites are not the most common space for solicitation and unwanted exposure to problematic content, but are frequently used in peer-to-peer harassment, most likely because they are broadly adopted by minors and are used primarily to reinforce pre-existing social relations.
- [Minors] who are most at risk often engage in risky behaviors and have difficulties in other parts of their lives. The psychosocial makeup of and family dynamics surrounding particular minors are better predictors of risk than the use of specific media or technologies.
The Task Force reviewed numerous technologies intended to protect child safety online “including age verification and identity authentication, filtering and auditing, text analysis, and biometrics,” a review that produced “a state of cautious optimism.” The report did “note that almost all technologies submitted present privacy and security issues that should be weighed against any potential benefits. Additionally, because some technologies carry an economic cost and some require involvement by parents and teachers, relying on them may not protect society’s most vulnerable minors.” The Task Force “cautions against overreliance on technology in isolation or on a single technological approach.”
Inspired in part by concerns raised by the Conficker worm the New York Times posed a question in Sunday’s Week in Review: Do We Need a New Internet? The issues are not new to anyone who has read Larry Lessig’s Code (either the original or Code 2.0) or Jonathan Zittrain’s The Future of the Internet–And How to Stop it, or anyone who has taken my Internet law course. The Internet was built to facilate sharing research among scientists, academics, and defense researchers. It valued openness, decentralization, and ease of use over security. Then the world discovered this wonderful communications network and brought to it all of the best and all of the worst humans can offer. John Markoff wrote in the Times that
there is a growing belief among engineers and security experts that Internet security and privacy have become so maddeningly elusive that the only way to fix the problem is to start over. What a new Internet might look like is still widely debated, but one alternative would, in effect, create a “gated community” where users would give up their anonymity and certain freedoms in return for safety. Today that is already the case for many corporate and government Internet users. As a new and more secure network becomes widely adopted, the current Internet might end up as the bad neighborhood of cyberspace. You would enter at your own risk and keep an eye over your shoulder while you were there.
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George MacDonald (1824–1905) was writing at a time of Evangelical unease. In a society ravaged by Asiatic cholera, numbed by levels of infant mortality, and fearful of revolution and the toxicity of industry (to name but a few of the many challenges), the ‘gospel’ proclaiming eternal damnation for unbelievers was hardly good news; rather, Christianity was increasingly viewed as the source of bad news and a tool of state oppression. MacDonald agreed: in his view, the church had become a vampire, sucking the blood of her children instead of offering them Eucharistic life.
In contrast, like Christ, MacDonald offered a child. Although at first sight a familiar Romantic incarnation, in MacDonald’s theology ‘the child’ becomes an unlikely icon challenging the vampire’s kingdom and confronting the foundations of much of Western theology. John R. de Jong’s meticulously researched study of MacDonald’s work – especially his ‘realist’ and fantasy novels – in its Victorian context is of more than historical interest. In light of the growth of fundamentalist expressions of Christianity, we are encouraged to consider embrace MacDonald’s radical solution to religious vampirism: becoming children.
1. The Context of George MacDonald’s Work
2. The Victorian Child – Social and Theological Attitudes
3. George MacDonald’s Contribution to Childhood
4. The Child in MacDonald’s Realist Fiction
5. An Overview of George MacDonald’s Theology
6. The View of Evangelicalism from Fairyland
7. The Child Against the Vampire – A Reading of Lilith
8. Lilith – A Summary of George MacDonald’s Theology
9. The Implications of George MacDonald’s Theology
Endorsements and Reviews
A study not only of the nineteenth century, de Jong’s book on George MacDonald is also a warning for our own time and its religious tendencies. MacDonald is often known for little more than his influence on C. S. Lewis and Tolkien, but here he emerges as a serious voice, not a theologian but through literature an explorer of central theological ideas and their influence for good and, too often, ill. John de Jong’s knowing and informed revisiting of the theme of the child after Wordsworth and Romanticism is a welcome reminder of its continuing importance today, of the importance of literature, and of the dangers of the vampire of fundamentalism.
David Jasper, Emeritus Professor, University of Glasgow
This book is a scholarly achievement of the highest order, and all future work on MacDonald will have to take account of it.
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A new report from NHS Digital has found that mental health and behavioural conditions made up 31 per cent of all sick notes issued by GP practices in England between December 2014 and March this year.
During that period, nearly 1.8 million notes were issued by doctors where the diagnosis was mental health or behavioural concerns. And of these episodes, approximately one in five notes were for a period of absence of over 12 weeks.
Anxiety and stress-related conditions appear to be concerning, with the number of notes written for this climbing by about 14 per cent between 2015/2016 and 2016/2017. January of this year saw the highest number of notes handed out, with 556,000 issued by surveyed practices over the month.
Chief executive of NHS England Simon Stevens commented on the findings and was quoted by the BBC as saying: “These figures explain why the NHS is now putting mental health front and centre, in what was recently independently described as ‘the world’s most ambitious effort to treat depression, anxiety and other common mental illnesses’.”
And Jed Boardman of the Royal College of Psychiatrists made further comments, saying that more now needs to be done to help people get back to their jobs. This could include staggered work days or coming up with agreed goals for the person returning to work – which GPs will suggest on these fit notes.
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There are seven psychic senses.
First off, the most commonly known one is probably clairvoyance so clairvoyance means to see- to clearly see. Clair is a word derived from the French meaning clear. So clairvoyance means clear seeing so this means you get visions, images or pictures in your mind or you may see it with your real eyes. Either way, it is clairvoyance.
Next there is clairaudience. Clairaudience is hearing. This predominantly means you hear your spirit guides speak to you or you hear things outside that you need to know. For example, you may wake up and hear a song on the radio or hear a song in your mind or you may have a conversation with someone who unwittingly tells you something you needed to know. These are all examples of clairaudience working for you.
Another type of sense is clairsentience. This means that you sense and feel- so clear sensing. This means you predominantly work with your chakras and subtle bodies so you sense and feel the information around you. So this may mean, for example, when you walk into a room after an argument you may sense the lower vibration there or you meet up with a friend who you leave and notice you feel absolutely drained- this is clairsentience.
Next, we have claircognizance- clear knowing. This usually works by just your thoughts- they’re just your thoughts where you know things that you just shouldn’t know. This is what I find to be the type of sense that most people do not recognise as a psychic gift because it is predominantly your thoughts and therefore its hard to distinguish between your thoughts and what is, in fact, psychic information.
The other two senses are clairgustance (clear tasting) and clairalience (clear smelling). These senses are rarer than the rest. I have had information where I tasted cigarettes- this was not fun at all! And obviously, clairalience is where you smell the information.
So certain people if they’re lucky enough their senses all work together, some people have a dominant sense and others don’t care to understand it- they just work with it 🙂
Finally, we have empathy. This is just feeling the energy around you. This kind of ties into clairsentience, however, its a lot deeper and a lot more information can be gauged as you get the information from your mind rather than the physical surroundings.
So I hope that has helped you to clarify what psychic senses you may be aware of in yourself and I would be interested to hear your thoughts on your psychic development and what I have said in this blog!
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NAACP To Hold Annual Freedom Banquet
Published 7:37 pm Thursday, May 14, 2015
The Appomattox NAACP Branch will hold its Annual Freedom Fund Banquet on Saturday, May 16, 5 p.m., at the Carver-Price Cultural Center. Tickets are available at $20 each and may be purchased from members or at the CPCC.
Speaker for this year’s event is Dr. Amy Tillerson-Brown, Ph.D., associate professor of history with tenure at Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, where she also directs the African American Studies and Public History programs.
She earned both her B.A. and M.A. degrees from Virginia Tech and her Ph.D. in history from Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD. Before accepting her position at Mary Baldwin College, she was director of African American Heritage Program at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities at UVA. She has taught in the history departments at Virginia Tech., Morgan State and Piedmont Virginia Community College. She has also been a public school teacher and counselor in Roanoke City Public Schools and Baltimore City Public Schools.
For her dissertation, Tillerson-Brown researched the activism of Black women in Prince Edward County, between 1930 and 1965. Prince Edward County is most well-known for the school crisis that closed public schools for five years. Dr. Dillerson-Brown has published numerous articles, planned conference, written grants, lectured, and given speeches throughout Virginia and its surrounding area.
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On the Hudson River in New York City, hundreds of people from the corporate finance and sustainability, asset management and banking worlds gathered to discuss the state of sustainable finance and environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG). For two days in June, they took part in the first in-person GreenFin event.
Among the hundreds of attendees were nine students and young professionals of color who took part in the Emerging Leaders program, which aims to elevate, cultivate and support the next generation of sustainable finance and ESG leaders. (The program was sponsored by Bank of America during this cycle.)
The cohort was made up of corporate social responsibility analysts, undergraduate student and master’s candidates, an investor and more. They’re based in New York City, the San Francisco Bay Area, Toronto and other parts of the United States and Canada.
At the conclusion of GreenFin 22, we asked them, "If you were on a green investment team at a firm (venture capital, philanthropic organization, bank, etc.), what would you spend your money on/invest in?" Some of them also shared their experiences at the conference. Here are their responses in reverse alphabetical order by last name:
Corporate Social Responsibility Analyst and Assistant Vice President at Bank of the West
Attending GreenFin 22 as an Emerging Leader was an amazing experience — learning about the multiple ways to approach ESG investing and sustainable finance, such as through pension funds, private equity and venture capital. After the conference, I became more confident in the career path I am taking in ESG, and I have met people who have given me great advice about this career path.
Through the panels, one that stood out to me was the part of the keynote on "Visible Leadership on the Path to Net Zero." The panel reiterated the importance of carbon emissions reduction as a part of decarbonization. Throughout the conference, I also learned about the importance of data tracking in the context of Scope 3 carbon emissions. In order to track Scope 3 reduction targets, we need to have adequate data.
If I were on a green investment team at a firm, one of the technologies I would focus on is Internet of Things (IoT) because of its potential to better track data that is relevant to carbon emissions, such as energy efficiency and electricity usage. Companies can use IoT in its buildings, such as smart thermostats and lighting, to control and track energy consumption. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, buildings account for about 40 percent of U.S. energy consumption. I believe that through IoT, there is potential for collaboration, such as that of Salesforce’s Net Zero Cloud and AT&T IoT connectivity, to enable the direct monitoring of emissions causing activity.
Analyst at CPP Investments
I would invest my money in the renewable energy space, as it would help drive large-scale impact with rippling effects across all touch points from energy generation to energy usage. Currently, our society heavily relies on energy to function, and this reliance will only increase over time. To achieve a more sustainable future, we need to invest in the areas that have the biggest potential for impact. Investments in the renewable energy space can be used for research and development or informational knowledge campaigns. The possibilities are numerous.
Student, Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science (Social Science and Policy) at Emory University and Fellow at True Ventures
My interest has always been in climate tech, so being within that space I would say that my investment interest would be in protein alternatives, built environment and climate intelligence. I have always been fascinated by natural capital and the future of food and am personally excited for what will be the next frontier for food ecosystems as the climate drastically shifts as well as the large market potential. On the other side, the importance of climate intelligence for purposes such as measuring energy efficiency and risk mitigation is going to be vital in assisting companies in contextualizing what ESG actually means for a firm.
I would also consider, given the open-endedness of the question, that being within an ESG/green investment team also helps implement investments internally, improving stakeholder engagement through not only the C-Suite but the entirety of a company. Putting investment into resources such as better reporting and metric infrastructure, diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, and training for investment professionals are incredibly important.
Summer Associate, Morgan Stanley Global Sustainable Finance Division
The 2019 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report estimates that the total net GHG emissions from Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use between 2007 and 2016 represented 23 percent of total net anthropogenic emissions globally. Given its large and potentially growing contribution to global emissions, I would invest in funds with ties to natural capital aimed at protecting, restoring and enhancing ecosystem services.
Often overlooked, investing in natural capital is a strategic tool for reducing climate risks, biodiversity loss and improving the resilience of communities to natural disasters and food insecurity. Investment products such as sustainable bonds (municipal and green bonds), alternatives including private equity and private capital funds, public equities and commodities exist in the space. Some funds report on their impact, and my investment strategy would be to select funds with measurable targets and critically assess their goals and [projected] impact.
From an investment standpoint, the World Economic Forum estimates that over half of the world’s total GDP involves activities that are moderately or highly dependent on nature. This, in addition to rising regulations and policies such as the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures makes nature-based investments viable. There are several interdependencies between climate and nature. Investors can play their part in fighting climate change and preserving biodiversity by allocating their capital towards nature-based investments.
Master's Candidate at Bren School, University of California, Santa Barbara
After learning from and interacting with the many speakers and attendees at GreenFin 22, I left the conference with a better understanding of the importance of having a broadscale approach towards sustainable finance. Building a broad coalition of stakeholders who are engaged early and often throughout the investment process will ensure that the impacts of all externalities, both positive and negative, are assessed and understood. This holistic approach to green investment will broaden the arena and help bring critical innovations to market while engaging the communities that are impacted most strongly by climate change.
As proven in Cleantech 1.0, which refers to the first broadscale mobilization of capital towards technology-based climate innovations that aimed to address environmental issues, there will not be a silver bullet to address such a complex and intertwined issue as climate change. More importantly, the impacts of climate change will disproportionately impact disadvantaged communities and, as such, including those voices in the investment process will be a crucial step towards investing in meaningful innovations. These themes were frequently addressed by speakers and panelists at GreenFin and will only grow in importance as the sustainable finance space continues to evolve.
VC Investor and Kellogg MBA
What should I invest in? On my morning walk in Georgia’s record-level summer heat, this question was top of mind. I will be joining a VC investment team in the fall and hence, will soon look at thousands of startups to find the few to fund.
The International Energy Agency states that "almost half the [CO2 emission] reductions come from technologies […] currently at the demonstration or prototype phase." And that means that "major innovation efforts must take place this decade in order to bring these new technologies to market in time."
Luckily, that innovation is all around us — both nature-based and engineered — and I’m energized to collaborate with motivated founders to build something world-changing.
Climate change is an umbrella issue, meaning that climate technologies often develop at the intersection of multiple industries. Several areas that I’m drawn to are the overlaps of climate with built environment, agriculture and healthcare – specifically, women’s healthcare or femtech.
During GreenFin’s Investing in Gender and Climate session, it became clear to me that gender equity and climate are interwoven — we cannot invest in one without the other. Yet, when I looked around the room full of climate investors, I noticed mostly women — where were the men?
It is obvious that we need diverse expertise, leadership and purchasing power to sustain our society and advance our climate goals. That is, we need the 48 percent of our population that aren’t women to invest in the 52 percent that are.
Women-led startups generate 63 percent more value for investors and recover in half the time as men-led startups. Additionally, women-led teams generate 35 percent higher return on investment. Investing in women just makes sense. Yet only 2 percent of VC funding backs women today.
The reality is that we have a growing population and a warming planet. This mounting pressure comes at an inflection point in human history, challenging us to restructure our systems to enable future generations a habitable home. Investing in women is an investment in climate. As a VC, this is where I believe my dollars will really count.
Senior Associate at International Venture Philanthropy Center (IVPC)
Sustainable finance is rooted in equity. Therefore, if I were on a green finance team, I would prioritize investments in human capital.
The finance sector, as the largest provider of private capital, holds enormous power in advancing the transition to a net-zero, low-carbon economy. For investments to be truly sustainable, however, their decision-makers must reflect the makeup of the world in which we live and take into consideration voices across the entire value chain. The pandemic has shown us the interdependencies of people, planet and profit, and much remains to be done to bridge social, racial and gender gaps. For instance, women of color are consistently underrepresented in leadership roles across all facets of finance — especially within the nascent field of sustainable investing. Moreover, fostering a diverse workforce would allow institutions to be aware of how environmental issues affect different stakeholders and communities. By emphasizing the "S" in ESG and engaging a broader ecosystem, the financial industry can unlock the potential of green investments to mobilize more private capital to finance the climate crisis.
Social Impact MBA and MA in Sustainable International Development Candidate, The Heller School for Social Policy & Management, Brandeis University and Strategy & Development Intern at Humanity Cash
I would invest in scaling the production and distribution of biochar, which has the potential for large-scale carbon removal and storage. As someone who has long revered the regenerative magic of our planet, I’m drawn to nature-based approaches to carbon removal. Nature-based solutions are both abundant and scalable, but also provide tremendous opportunities to rebalance degraded ecosystems and incentivize environmental stewardship.
Biochar is technically a hybrid nature-based/engineered carbon solution since it captures carbon stored in plants, diverts biowaste from landfill, and is then produced via a mechanical heating process called pyrolysis. However, its production lifecycle is carbon negative and it has regenerative properties that improve soil health. I’m attracted to biochar’s potential to naturally scale circular agricultural practices and its diverse array of use cases. It can be applied to soil, used for cattle feed, or even integrated into roofing material, which expand the potential co-benefits that come along with the baseline carbon capture.
While parts of biochar production feel inorganic, its origins are rooted in indigenous knowledge and wisdom. The Indigenous people of the Amazon made terra preta through similar processes long before industrialization degraded global soil quality. It is abundantly clear that we cannot reach net zero by 2050 without active removal of carbon emissions from our atmosphere. I would invest in technology that brings us closer to regenerative ways of being with the land.
Former Graduate Capstone Consultant at Boston Consulting Group and recent Master of Public Administration Graduate
If I were in a green investment team within a bank, I would finance batteries in emerging markets close to the equator. Currently, solar panels are able to provide massive amounts of energy in these geographies. However, because of lack of energy storage, solar-heavy emerging markets are subject to a steep duck curve, where there is a surplus of energy by daytime and a lack of energy at nighttime. If such a duck curve were to even out, energy prices at peak hours would fall, making energy more accessible to the bottom of the pyramid, and thus increasing overall total energy consumption. As such, overall revenue for energy distributors would increase, making it feasible for them to pay back lenders.
This is a simple explanation for a more complex project, but batteries are a lesser known type of deal that many investors still see as "risky" but which have a huge potential for increasing access to energy in solar-heavy emerging economies.
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David Cameron promised that Britain would never surrender sovereignty of the Falklands against the wishes of the islanders. In his Christmas message to the islands on Friday, the prime minister said he could not accept challenges by Argentina to their right to self-determination.
He condemned what he described as "unjustified and counterproductive" efforts by Buenos Aires to disrupt shipping links to the islands. His intervention comes after Argentina led a group of South American countries in banning ships flying the Falklands flag from their ports.
In his message, Cameron declared: "Whatever challenges we face in the UK, the British government's commitment to the security and prosperity of the overseas territories, including the Falklands, remains undiminished.
"So let me be absolutely clear. We will always maintain our commitment to you on any question of sovereignty. Your right to self-determination is the cornerstone of our policy. We will never negotiate on the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands unless you, the Falkland islanders, so wish. No democracy could ever do otherwise."
The ban by the Mercosur bloc – which also includes Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay – is the latest flare-up between Britain and Argentina over the islands. Buenos Aires – which has long claimed sovereignty over the territory it calls the Malvinas – reacted angrily last year when Britain allowed offshore drilling for oil in the islands' waters. The Argentinians were also irritated by the recent announcement of Prince William's forthcoming RAF posting to the islands.
Cameron said he wanted a "constructive relationship" with Argentina, but its attitude to the Falklands was unacceptable. "Argentina continues its unjustified and counterproductive efforts to disrupt shipping around the islands and to deter business from engaging in legitimate commerce," he said.
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SIR—You say that Caio Koch-Weser is “manifestly not the best choice” for the IMF (“Picking winners”, February 19th) because of a “mediocre career” at the World Bank with “almost no management experience.” I beg to differ. He worked directly for me for ten years. I chose him as my personal assistant in the early 1970s because he was judged to be the ablest young man in the Bank.
Almost exactly 20 years ago, he was assigned the complex and delicate task of managing China's re-entry into the Bank including the preparation of the Bank's first economic report on China and its presentation to Deng Xiaoping. His work led to an immensely productive political and economic relationship between China and the Bank. He opened the way for a similar relationship between the Bank and the Middle East. It was these accomplishments that led Jim Wolfensohn, early in his career at the Bank, to appoint Mr Koch-Weser a managing director of the institution, the youngest person ever to hold such a post.
SIR—Your suggestions to improve the selection process at the IMF touch upon two fundamental complaints that critics have taken up with the IMF and other multilateral institutions: a penchant for back-door politics and parochialism. In fact, Germany's Caio Koch-Weser has made little headway because Gerhard Schröder's strong-arm tactics behind closed doors have failed to unnerve American sceptics. French support for his candidacy has come reluctantly as it does not want to lose the post to a non-European.
This process of wheeling-and-dealing is no longer typical of the IMF's decision-making which has become more transparent and accountable to its members. The IMF would be hard-pressed to continue with such a method when selecting future chiefs. Developing countries are frustrated with G7 dominance of international financial decision-making. IMFleaders have recently called for expansion of the G7 and increasing significance is now being assigned to the G20. The IMF should heed its own advice and establish a more inclusive selection process.
The Bretton Woods Committee
SIR—Your review of John Rawls's book, “The Law of Peoples”, (“Less original positions”, February 12th) is utterly uncomprehending. Mr Rawls uses his social contract device of the original position to advance standards for the interactions of liberal-democratic governments in a society of liberal-democratic peoples, and then to investigate the possibility of extending this society to include peoples who only partially share liberal-democratic values.
A central issue is, of course, the legitimate use of diplomatic pressure, economic sanctions and military force by liberal-democratic governments to alter the basic institutions of other societies. Mr Rawls makes no retreat from his previous criticisms of unjust institutions when he argues that liberal-democratic governments may not use these coercive means to foist liberal democracy on decent but illiberal peoples.
University of Pennsylvania
SIR—You champion the doctrine of “flexibility” for Britain in Europe (“The Good European”, February 19th) by arguing that “there is no point being at the [EU's] ‘top table', if you cannot bring yourself to eat what is on the menu.” By abandoning our place at the top table we would not avoid the European menu but merely defer our consumption of it.
Flexibility allows federalising member states to open the ground on to which they eventually force less enthusiastic ones. Witness the Schengen Agreement on open borders: once optional, the Amsterdam treaty holds that it “must be accepted in full by all [new member] states”—along with the rest of the acquis communautaire. The treaty also uses language assuming Britain will one day adopt Schengen, talking about “when” rather than “if” we join.
Your mistake is to confuse flexibility for an end state allowing diversity in Europe. In fact, it is a ratchet in the hands of federalising nations at its centre. For this reason we must renegotiate rather than step down from Europe's top table.
BILL CASH MP
SIR—Islam is fundamentally democratic and in a much more profound way than so-called modern democracies (“Iran, Islam and democracy”, February 19th). An Islamic territory is governed through shuras (teams at all levels of society), though members are not allowed to vote. A surprising form of democracy? Not really: modern management theory suggests that a team consensus is better than a brutal voting system.
SIR—Obviously a Muslim-majority country can have a democracy within its borders but this will not be an Islamic republic. According to the prophet, an Islamic republic cannot exist. The prophet foretold that for only 30 years after his demise there would be a caliphate form of state, in effect an Islamic republic. After that there would only be a monarchy. The foretelling is absolute and amounts almost to an order. Any attempt otherwise will only result in chaos: Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan are good examples.
Reckange Mersch, Luxembourg
SIR—You ask whether Islam and democracy are compatible. The answer, I suspect, would be the same as to the question: “Was 16th-century Christianity compatible with liberal politics?” At that time many changes were taking place in the structure and role of religion in European society. In pockets of Europe the answer to that question would be a definite “No”. In contrast, there was a patchwork of confusing changes underway which allowed for optimism about the development of democratic institutions.
Today, Islam is a widely divergent institution with no clear sense of direction, and with an equally confusing patchwork of reforms underway. We can only hope that history repeats itself.
SIR—You say that Japan's economy looks like following in the footsteps of the Grand Old Duke of York (“Up and down”, February 12th). The American economy is like the mouse in “Hickory Dickory Dock”. The clock will strike and the American stockmarket will run down. The only questions are when and how.
This article appeared in the Letters section of the print edition under the headline "Letters"
From the March 4th 2000 edition
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|Father||Pliny Sacket (1753-1830)|
|Mother||Elisabeth Kellogg (-1807)|
Pliny removed from Southwick, Massachusetts, to the far north-west of New York State, when a young man, and it may be assumed that he married there and that Nancy had their children there. Weygant, The Sacketts of America, records a further move west to Berrien County, Michigan, in 1838. Pliny returned to his birthplace in his last years.
Pliny was listed in the 1830 census as a householder in Sodus, Wayne County, New York StateG.8
In 1850 Pliny was living in Boston, Erie County, New York StateG, in the household of Daniel Pick, a tavern keeper, and was recorded in the census as Pliney Sackett, a laborer, aged 60 and born in Massachusetts.9
613. Pliny Sacket, 17__–18__, of Southwick, Mass., Boston Center, Erie County, N. Y., and Berien County, Mich., son of (192) Pliny and Elizabeth Kellogg Sacket, was married, in 1814, to Nancy Bartlett, daughter of Christopher Bartlett. The family removed from Boston Center, N. Y., to Berien County, Mich., in 1838, shipping their household goods by water from Buffalo to Chicago, and transporting them from thence in wagons to Berien Co., Mich., where Mrs. Sacket died in 1841, leaving surviving her husband and six of their seven
1383. Isaac Sacket, b. in 1817, d. in 1856.
1384. Samuel Sacket, b. in 1819, d. in 1838, unmarried.
1385. Maryette Sacket, b. in 1821; m. Hiram Roodrich.
1386. Edwin Sacket, b. 1823, d. in 1896; m. Elizabeth Hall.
1387. Chauncey Sacket, b. in 1826, d. in 1890; m. Widow Miles.
1388. Kirkland Sacket, b. in 1831; m. Nancy Henery.
Children of Pliny Sacket and Nancy Bartlett
Notes & Citations
- Charles Weygant, The Sacketts of America, "613. Pliny Sacket, d. in year 1853; m. Nancy Bartlett."
- Royal Sackett (1784–1859), Family Bible Records, "Plinney Sacket b. 5 Jul 1786."
- Death record.
- "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910", digital image, American Ancestors, Southwick, v84, p236, death, "Feb 11? 1854, Pliney Sackett, 68, at Southwick, male, laborer, b. Southwick, s. Pliney Sackett, [cause blank]."
- "Massachusetts, Town and Vital records, 1620–1988", digital image, Ancestry.com, "10 Feb 1854, Pliney Sackett, 68, laborer, bur. Southwick, typhoid fever, b. Southwick, [parents blank]."
- Springfield Republican (Springfield, Massachusetts), digital image, GenealogyBank, 16 Feb 1854, p 2, "Died. At Southwick, 11th, Pliny Sackett, 58."
- Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, Massachusetts), digital image, GenealogyBank, 21 Feb 1854, p 3, "Died. In Southwick, Feb. 11, Pliny Sackett, aged 58."
- 1830 US census, database, American Ancestors, "Pliny Sacket, Sodus, Wayne County, New York State."
- 1850 US census, digital image, Ancestry.com, Roll 500, p 17b
Boston, Erie, New York
Sackett, Pliney, 60, laborer, b. MA.
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NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (October 09, 2020) — The Department of Agriculture in Nevis will host a week of activities, from October 12 to 17 to celebrate World Food Day, October 16, 2020, under the theme “Grow, Nourish, Sustain. Together.”
Outlining the events planned, Mr. Randy Elliott, Director of the Department of Agriculture, said the activities are meant to highlight the sector and the importance of food production on Nevis.
On October 12 the department will host a promotion at the War Memorial in Charlestown. The general public is invited to meet and greet the technicians of the department and use the opportunity to ask the technicians about issues that relate to their farms or backyard gardens.
On October 13, the department will have its outreach day, with visits to retired farmers and retired staff. There will also be a farmers’ market at Beach Road from 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. with farmers, agro-processors and fishers. Director Elliott encouraged persons to support the event to get to know who is growing and supplying their food.
On October 14 there will be a similar farmers’ market at the top of Government Road from 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. The department’s staff will also be the guests on the “On the Mark” radio show from 8 p.m.
The department will move its activities to the Cultural Village and Cicely Grell-Hull Dora Stevens Netball Complex in Charlestown, on October 15, for Multicultural Day. Persons from at least eight nationalities will be on hand preparing dishes from their native countries.
Mr. Elliott noted that several crops including breadfruit, sweet potato and cassava will be showcased at the event.
“We are asking the public to visit the Cultural Village to enjoy food from across the region and to support the agriculture department. There will also be two master chef classes showing persons how to prepare some of those dishes,” he said.
On World Food Day, October 16, the department will host Grill and Beer Friday at the Cultural Village.
“On this day basically everything will be on the grill from local fish, to local beef, and local pork. There will also be a domino competition on that day and all domino players who are interested can reach out to the department to register. There will also be food preparation demonstrations for pork, fish and chicken and a master class for persons interested in preparing the dishes. The action will run from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.,” he said.
October 17, dubbed “Old Time Saturday,” will feature the sale of traditional foods from Nevis, a farmers’ market, mixology class, domino competition and Ministers’ cook-off between Hon. Mark Brantley, Premier of Nevis, and Hon. Alexis Jeffers, Minister of Agriculture in the Nevis Island Administration (NIA).
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The Netherlands today declared (opens in new tab) that, after conducting an investigation into the matter, it found several high-profile games' loot box systems to be illegal. If you're strongly against the randomized reward system so widely adopted in modern games, you might be tempted to do a little dance and sing like you're in the land of Oz. Ding dong, the wicked loot box is dead!
Not so fast.
While it's true that The Netherlands found 4 of 10 games it investigated to be in violation of the law, this isn't quite the Earth-shaking moment it may at first appear to be. Let us explain:
This wasn't a scientific study
The Netherlands began its investigation in November 2017, focusing on 10 games with loot boxes deemed to be the most popular. The exact methodology has not been revealed, but the Netherlands Gaming Authority claims in its initial news post that it more or less just pulled the 10 most popular games with loot boxes off an unnamed streaming site (I'm betting Twitch, but that's just speculation on my part). It then used a tool to evaluate how random the rewards were, and made decisions based on previously-penned literature on gambling and addiction.
In other words, there doesn't appear to have been rigorous testing, accounting for variables, or a control group like you would see in a scientific study - and that makes sense, because it was never supposed to be about that. This was not an effort to determine what effect loot boxes have on the brain, it was a government inquiry to see who, if anyone, was breaking the law. Be wary of anyone saying this proves something beyond "four games violated the law." Speaking of law...
These are not new laws
The Netherlands did not just make loot boxes illegal. It did not write new laws in the wake of fiascos like Star Wars Battlefront 2 or Middle-earth: Shadow of War. Instead, this investigation sought to determine if current video games were in violation of existing laws.
And, as the post itself declares (via Google Translate), "Coincidence determines the contents of these loot boxes. Moreover, the prizes can be traded outside the game: the prizes have economic value. It is forbidden to offer this type of games of chance without a license to the Dutch players."
In other words, any game of chance with economic value (which the investigation determined several loot boxes to be) require a license, and it's that lack of license that the NGA takes issue with. These laws are already on the books. All the loot box controversy did was bring light to the practice - it didn't cause new laws about what is and isn't legal.
This does not apply to all loot boxes
You may be wondering why only 4 out of 10 games investigated were found to be in violation of established law. Re-read the quote above; did you catch the bit about "economic value"? If the items contained within a game's loot box could be traded or sold outside of the game, that made them worth real-world money.
And according to the NGA, if you can sink real-world money into a game of chance and receive something worth real-world money in exchange (even if by default it is still a virtual item), that's gambling. And that requires a license.
So, games like Overwatch, which helped popularize the business model, would be exempt because nothing from an Overwatch loot box can be traded or sold outside of the game. However, since you can sell Dota 2's items via the Steam Marketplace, it could be in violation. Unfortunately...
We don't know who got in trouble
The NGA's report merely states that 4 of the investigated 10 games were found to be in violation of the law. No names, of either the games themselves or the developers and publishers, were released. Dutch website NOS (opens in new tab) singles out FIFA 18, Dota 2, PUBG, and Rocket League, but it's not clear if these are the confirmed culprits or merely suspects (translation via Reddit (opens in new tab)).
That said, the NGA said that the 10 games it investigated were pulled from a popular streaming platform, so one need only look at the trending games on services like Twitch to get an idea of whose wrists are getting the proverbial slap. Again, these aren't the confirmed four games mentioned by the report, but they fit the description.
The repercussions will be minor (for now)
Whoever is behind the four unnamed games found to be in violation of The Netherlands' gambling laws will have until June 20 to adjust their designs. If they do not, the government can impose fines or prohibit sales of the game.
The NGA also claimed that it found a potential link between loot boxes and addiction. Therefore, it requests that developers and publishers (even those not in violation of the law) remove "addiction-sensitive elements ('near-profit' effects, visual effects, the possibility to keep open loot boxes in quick succession and the like)". While The Netherlands is not enforcing these requests via law, it nonetheless sends a message.
You might think this would be a final nail in the coffin for loot boxes then, because now a government body has basically said 'this is gambling, and we're going to regulate it like gambling' (and indeed this could be a major precedent that other countries look to as they also figure out what to do about loot boxes). But there's some vindication for publishers looking to the monetization system too.
Remember, only games with loot boxes containing items that could be sold or traded for real-world money were found to be in violation of the law. So loot boxes themselves aren't actually in any major trouble, just a very specific type are.
That all being said, loot boxes are such a divisive topic that publishers have started shying away from the practice, if not removing them all together a la Battlefront 2 (opens in new tab) and Shadow of War (opens in new tab). So it's possible this will be the nudge that convinces publishers and developers to give up on loot boxes, or it could just be a warning shot. Time will tell.
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Ukraine is getting a loan worth €600 million (£519m) in total to help upgrade nuclear power plants in the country.
The European Atomic Energy Community and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will provide €300 million (£259m) each for the project. It is expected to help bring Ukraine’s fleet of nuclear plants in line with international standards and local regulations.
In a statement, the EBRD said: “It is of the utmost importance that the nuclear units are working to the highest, internationally recognised standards, as nuclear safety is clearly an issue that transcends border.
“Depending on the reactor type the upgrade will include up to 87 safety measures which will address design safety issues, improved instrumentation and control for safety relevant systems and organisational improvements for accident management… The upgrade will improve safety, reduce the probability of severe accidents and thus reduce the risks for workers, the local population and the environment.”
The total upgrade is expected to cost around €1.4 billion (£1.2bn) and is scheduled for completion by 2017.
Ukraine currently has 15 nuclear power units at four plants with a total capacity of 13,835MW and represented 45.5% of total electricity production in 2012. The nation is in the process of reviewing its energy strategy as its dependence on imports of oil and gas is believed to be three times higher than the European average. | <urn:uuid:203635df-fe4a-46b6-a81a-631312de8743> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://staging.energylivenews.com/2013/03/14/ukraine-gets-e600m-for-nuclear-safety-upgrade/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.94805 | 290 | 1.867188 | 2 |
Over a month has now passed since the Beirut explosion that shook Lebanon to its core and captured global attention. The French President, Emmanuel Macron, made 2 visits within 4 weeks, putting his political capital on the line in what he admits is a "risky bet." But even his ability to stabilize Lebanon’s already-fragile domestic political scene remains unclear.
A few days following the blast, interim Prime Minister Hassan Diab resigned, but he does not hold any place in the country’s real political power structure. So here are 5 possible scenarios for what might come next.
- Status Quo
- Political Chaos
- Military Escalation
- Foreign Intervention
- Positive Change
Should the country not hit rock bottom as described in options 3 and 4, accountability and progress could happen if the stars align. While elections appear very unlikely at present, a significant escalation by protesters could give pause to the political class.
In any case, a new election is not a referendum, but a choice between candidates. So for change to happen at the ballot box, credible new faces from the emerging popular opposition would need to put their egos aside and consolidate their strengths to take advantage of the provisions of the current electoral law. Under pre-explosion conditions, odds would be against the ability of civil society to get properly structured, raise enough money, and run a disciplined campaign to pull off a major upset. But the wrath in the wake of the blast puts significant wind in their sails if they can effectively channel their anger into political organization.
Establishment figures have had the audacity to shirk responsibility, arrogantly claiming that they didn’t know about the dangerous stockpile of ammonium nitrate being blamed for the blast. The Lebanese political elite, which has survived and prospered for decades despite myriad instances of corruption and malfeasance, will dig in its heels.
While they won’t go so far as to propose yet another unity government led by former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, the consensus Prime Minster emerging, a diplomat named Mustapha Adib, is just another Hassan Diab. (The anagram works in Arabic too.) This game of musical chairs may provoke the rage of protesters, but absent aggressive and sustainably violent methods that force a reckoning, the political elites will seek to preserve their chairs with impunity.
If street action does become violent and leads to clashes, the establishment’s grip may loosen. Faced with relentless and increasingly aggressive protests, security forces might lose control over key government buildings. In that case, a stalemate could develop, with the establishment unable to nominate and swear in a new cabinet but also unwilling to accommodate the demands of protesters for a government of technocrats backed by the popular opposition.
A similar 2008 stalemate required Qatari diplomacy of resolve. In 2020, France seems the most likely candidate to help resolve such an impasse, given the claim already staked by Macron. In this scenario, the anti-establishment forces would have to need the sophistication of an international lobby to earn the confidence of stakeholders abroad.
Parliament has declared a State of Emergency to empower the Army to crack down on protests, but this is a sword that can ultimately cut both ways. If public exasperation with the political elite becomes too much to bare and the popular opposition cannot get organized, a savior in military fatigues might be welcomed to break the cycle, as the Army remains the most popular institution in the country.
Predicting the evolution of such a scenario cannot be easily done because the personalities in the army are not as well known, nor are the allegiances of the officers to the current President Michael Aoun, himself a former Army commander. Additionally, the delicate sectarian balance within the army always carries the risk of splintering and dissolving into civil war.
The increased clout of Hezbollah’s arms in the case of disintegration further complicates this scenario. Thus far, their rhetoric has been a combination of veiled threats to their domestic enemies and support of the army’s role. We might expect them to relish a potential power grab, but such a move could just as easily lead to their demise. For now, it’s in Hezbollah’s interest to maintain the political status quo.
Lebanon has been no stranger over the decades to opportune encroachments and messy occupations by its neighbors, Syria and Israel. Each has violated writ large Lebanon’s sovereignty in the past and could make a case in the post-explosion chaos and desperation to "save" Lebanon through the barrel of a gun: Syria under the guise of "brotherly concern" and Israel to settle scores with Hezbollah.
The visits of Macron, however, probably preclude this worst-of-all cases from happening, at least in the short term. By placing the hand of France on its former mandate, Macron has effectively declared Lebanon hands off to any regional players with axes to grind. Israel and Syria will have to be content to observe and plan their moves depending on which of the other 4 scenarios is ultimately realized.
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This talk follows a round trip journey from the development of quantum theory to the high-point of its application, the semiconductor chip, and then back again to quantum theory, as the next revolution in information processing unfolds. Quantum computing uses untapped aspects of quantum mechanics to enable a new type of information processing. This technological revolution hasn’t happened yet. It is in progress right now. It will draw on condensed matter physics, computer science, materials science, and electrical engineering as it unfolds. | <urn:uuid:a646893d-cb4b-40e0-bd91-2438e9312f46> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://iramis.cea.fr/en/Phocea/Vie_des_labos/Seminaires/index.php?type=10&id=3376 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.916976 | 103 | 2.25 | 2 |
(CNN)If the 19th century belonged to iron and steel and the 20th century belonged to concrete, could timber be the building material of our age?
That is the question posed by architect Alison Brooks’
“The Smile,” which was on display at the Chelsea College of Art and Design as part of this year’s London Design Festival
Constructed out of tulipwood, “The Smile” is a 34-meter long, 3.5-meter high (111.5 feet by 11.5 feet) rectangular tube that curves at both ends into a huge Cheshire cat grin. Viewers could wander through the hollowed interior, while holes in the walls cast light patterns across the floor.
It is the most complex structure ever to be made out of cross-laminated timber (CLT) and, as such, was one of the most exciting installations at the UK’s largest design festival.
“It’s going to open up a whole new world of possibility,” says Brooks. “It reveals the possibility of buildings being completely fabricated in wood.”
The secret of strong wood
David Venables, European director of the American Hardwood Export Council, believes hardwood CLT could also help buildings be more sustainable.
“Over one billion cubic meters of this tulipwood material is standing in American forests right now,” he says. “If we want to be sustainable we have to use all the material that nature provides.”
“Timber construction is absolutely the future,” he adds. “‘The Smile’ is the beginning of something. This isn’t the end of the journey.”
“The Smile” was on display through October 12 at Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground, Chelsea College of Art and Design in London
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Adaptation of the Henry James novella retains the original's atmospheric frights; tickets and opera brunch packages are available now.
One of the unlikely charms of The Turn of the Screw is the fact that the 19th-century ghost story feels more timely—and more chilling—today than it might have at the time of its writing.
Henry James’ 1898 novella, about two orphaned children in the care of a governess in a remote English mansion, was adapted for the operatic stage by Benjamin Britten in 1954—a process through which the tale lost none of its creepy allure.
When frightening visions begin to appear around the manor, the governess grows increasingly concerned for the children’s safety—and for her own. As the children’s behavior grows ever more startling, an overwhelming sense of foreboding settles in.
Oberlin Opera Theater will present The Turn of the Screw, with libretto by Myfanwy Piper, for four performances at Hall Auditorium, March 7 through 11.
“The governess comes into this experience thinking that her innocence is going to be the standard that she can bear into battle that will shield her from the maliciousness of these spirits,” says director Jonathon Field. “She finds out that innocence in and of itself is not enough—she tries to save the children’s innocence at the cost of her own.”
Britten’s opera will be brought to life by Oberlin’s outstanding cast of student singers and by the Oberlin Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of Christopher Larkin.
The Turn of the Screw is the third work by Britten to be produced by Field and Oberlin Opera Theater in recent years, following the comedy Albert Herring (presented in 2014) and the tragedy The Rape of Lucretia (2015).
"The thing I love so much about Britten is that he is the master of theatrical style,” says Field. “He can write tragic pieces. He can write spooky horror-gothic pieces. He can write comedy. He can do Shakespeare. I’m always impressed that if you just do what Britten says on the page to do, it will come out right.”
The Turn of the Screw opens at 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 7. It continues with 8 p.m. performances Friday and Saturday, March 9 and 10, and concludes with a 2 p.m. show Sunday, March 11.
Tickets are $10 ($8 for students), available by calling 800-371-0178, online, or at Hall Auditorium’s Central Ticket Service from noon to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The March 11 matinee will be preceded by an “opera brunch” that begins at the Hotel at Oberlin. The $25 price per person includes brunch with a presentation about the production led by Field, an exclusive backstage tour of Hall Auditorium, and a ticket to either the Saturday night or Sunday performance.
Advance reservations are required and can be made by calling 440-775-7001, ext. 604. Additional details about packages that include a room at the hotel are available at the Hotel at Oberlin website.
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Hockey helmets are governed by three certifying bodies, HECC, CSA and CE for the US, Canadian and European markets respectively. They serve a valuable purpose in ensuring that hockey players have access to helmets that meet rigorous manufacturing standards and a minimum level of protection. All three bodies have similar requirements that specify areas of coverage, strap retention strength and shock absorption properties of the complete helmet. To have a certified helmet - a comprehensive set of documents specifying everything from materials utilized to manufacturing processes are reviewed and the production facilities audited by certified third parties.
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The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation is peculiar in the fact that it applies to organizations that may have little to do with the EU. For example, you may be a US web development company based in Denver, Colorado, selling websites mainly to Colorado businesses. But if you track and analyze EU visitors to your company’s website, then you may be subject to the provisions of the GDPR.
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The GDPR in a nutshell
The GDPR is an EU data privacy law that went into effect May 25, 2018. It is designed to give individuals more control over how their data are collected, used, and protected online. It also binds organizations to strict new rules about using and securing the personal data they collect from people, including the mandatory use of technical safeguards like encryption and higher legal thresholds to justify data collection. Organizations that don’t comply will face heavy penalties of up to 4 percent of their global annual revenue or €20 million, whichever is higher.
The GDPR does apply outside Europe
The whole point of the GDPR is to protect data belonging to EU citizens and residents. The law, therefore, applies to organizations that handle such data whether they are EU-based organizations or not, known as “extra-territorial effect.”
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1. This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data in the context of the activities of an establishment of a controller or a processor in the Union, regardless of whether the processing takes place in the Union or not.
2. This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data of data subjects who are in the Union by a controller or processor not established in the Union, where the processing activities are related to:
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Organic pioneer and farmer Fred Kirschenmann is hopeful for the future of food, but time is of the essence.
Organic pioneer and farmer Fred Kirschenmann is hopeful for the future of food, but time is of the essence.
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When it comes to farming organically and building resilient, sustainable agricultural systems, Fred Kirschenmann is a prominent and oft-awarded elder statesman. And while you might expect him to be reflective (he’ll be 85 on February 4), the pioneering organic farmer is firmly forward-thinking.
Kirshchenmann is president of the board at Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, a regenerative agriculture farm and educational center located about 30 miles north of New York City. During an interview with Civil Eats at the center’s 2019 Young Farmers Conference in early December, Kirshchenmann referenced authors to illustrate the future of agriculture. Jared Diamond, for example, studied past civilizations to find out what caused some to thrive while others collapsed.
“The conclusion he came to was that those civilizations that recognized that changes were on the way and got a head start preparing for those changes—they were the ones that thrived,” Kirschenmann said. “Those that failed in that exercise were the ones that tended to collapse. And when I read that, I thought, ‘That’s an important lesson for us, because we do know that changes are on the way.’”
But Kirschenmann is not just observing changes related to the economic and environmental viability of farming sustainably—he’s living them.
Over the past few years, political maneuvering in Iowa resulted in a major loss of state research funding for the pioneering Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture based out of Iowa State University, where he is the distinguished fellow.
At his 1,800-acre, certified organic grain farm in south-central North Dakota, he was forced to rethink the crop rotation system after the market for buckwheat collapsed. And at a time when farm succession is one of the biggest challenges facing agriculture, he’s working on transferring ownership of the farm to the family that’s been working the land for many years.
Most importantly, though, Kirschenmann is acutely attuned to the erratic weather patterns that increasingly affect the farm. In the past year, planting was significantly delayed due to unseasonably late snow. Later, intense rain destroyed some of the wheat.
And yet, the hopefulness he retains is focused squarely on a group he referred to, at one point, as the “regenerative generation”—the young farmers who descend on Stone Barns once a year to talk about how they’re restoring soil health, sequestering carbon, and creating sustainable, equitable markets.
In terms of building an agricultural system that can withstand and mitigate the existential threat of climate change, Kirschenmann said, “I always try to think, ‘Am I just kidding myself? Are these real possibilities?’ And you know, meeting with the young farmers in our regenerative fellows group, they own farms and have already made these kinds of transitions. And they’re demonstrating that it’s working.”
Kirschenmann sat down with Civil Eats to talk more about the current state of sustainable agriculture and what makes him both worried and hopeful for the future.
What are some of the biggest issues you see in the current food system that you speak to young farmers about?
The biggest issue right now is that we need to make a cultural shift. We can’t continue using this input-intensive system as the inputs get depleted, because all of those inputs are non-renewable. In David Montgomery’s book, Growing a Revolution, the subtitle is “Bringing Our Soil Back to Life.” He spent time on [eight] farms, and the thing that he points out is that each of these farmers have now begun to recognize that the input-intensive system is not working for them, because they’re losing money. The input costs keep going up as [the resources] get depleted and returns keep going down.
They all begin to realize they can’t do this anymore, so they make this transition to bringing soil back to life. Essentially what they do is reduce their tillage, they include cover crops to revitalize the soil, and they significantly diversify the production systems. And then generally, they market what they produce in their own region, and then each of them is now making a profit. He argues, based on his research, that none of these farmers are any longer interested in getting bigger, because that’s not the solution to anything. What they’re interested in is further enhancing the biological dynamics of their system, so it’s more self-renewing and self-regulating.
I see that as the early beginnings of the kind of transformation that we’re going to see in our agriculture system. Now, the big question for me is, are we going to make that transition in the timeframe that we have? Based on the IPCC [the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] report, we’ve only got 11 years to address climate change. It’s hard for me to imagine that we’ll make those kinds of changes significantly enough in 11 years to have the kind of culture shift that we need.
Do you think that many more farmers are making that culture shift today compared to in the past?
One of the reasons I’m excited about the regenerative farming fellows is they’re struggling with these kinds of things. They’re not only interested in figuring it out—they pretty much know what they can do and are doing it on their own farms—but [they’re also thinking about] how they can form a larger revolution that meets the future challenges for all of us.
I spend half of my time in Iowa, in commodity agriculture, and then the other half out here [in New York], and I’ve learned that young people who want to farm out here, they don’t want to raise commodities like corn and soybeans. They want to raise food for people and have that relationship. So that kind of new culture is emerging much more quickly here than it is in Iowa.
But even in Iowa, you have an organization like the Practical Farmers of Iowa. They’re not interested in getting farmers to raise more commodities; they’re interested in helping farmers understand how they can have an economically and ecologically sustainable system.
But even there, isn’t regenerative agriculture more of a niche movement? You’ve been doing this a long time, have you seen meaningful progress in Iowa?
Well, here’s the other restriction. The average age of our farmers now is almost 60, and that means that a lot of the farmers are in their 70s and 80s. These are all farmers who did exactly what we [the government] told them to do. We told them to get big or get out, to farm fencerow to fencerow. So that’s what they did, and now we want them to make these major changes. That’s probably not going to happen.
So, we really need to focus on this next generation of young people that are farming. Most of them recognize that their future depends on working with nature and not controlling nature and they’re starting to create systems to do that. But, of course, you have to have a marketing system and a cultural system that supports that. That’s what’s going to be the more difficult kind of transformation, but it’s starting to happen.
What about the Leopold Center losing its state funding?
Here again, we’ve got two cultures. From my point of view, one of the primary reasons that the Leopold Center lost its funding was that when the Republican party took over the politics in Iowa, they reached out to that culture that wants to keep the current system going. They wanted to support that, and that’s why they took funding away from the Leopold Center and gave it to a new organization that they call the Nutrient Reduction Center. Their view is that the system is fine, we just have to reduce the amount of inputs that we’re using, which I think from an ecological point of view is nonsense. But they were able to sell that concept.
We have a lot of people, like the students in [and graduates of] the graduate program for sustainable agriculture [at Iowa State], who are very adamant about restoring the Leopold Center’s funding. If the Democrats were to take over politics in Iowa again in 2020, they would have an avenue of promoting their view. Now, I’m hoping that if we get to that point that I’ll be able to help everybody understand that simply restoring the Leopold Center’s funding is not the solution. It’s only a piece of it.
We are now at a point that we can’t really make it happen as an individual institution anymore. We have to develop collaborative relationships with other institutions that share some of those values. The good news around that is that the Union of Concerned Scientists expressed interest in being part of that kind of collaborative action, and even the National Farmers Union expressed an interest.
One of the criticisms of the kinds of systems you advocate for is that they’re not scalable. Do organic, regenerative agricultural systems need to scale up, or do you think it’s possible to make the shift within more localized systems?
Well, Timothy Wise is an economist and he’s published a new book called Eating Tomorrow based on his travels around the world. And one of the things that he claims is that in many parts of the world, the industrial concept of food and agriculture systems—where you produce one or two things in one place throughout the world and you import most of what you use yourself—that that’s not a viable system anymore.
And so people are now transitioning from these corporate-controlled food systems to a much more social system in which the farmers play a much more important role in how the food gets produced. He claims, for example, that 70 percent of the people in the developing world get fed by farmers farming five acres or less. It’s these family-sized farms that are becoming the way we do agriculture in the future, and the industrial approach and the corporate control is gradually disappearing.
Now, that’s not happening in the United States on any major scale yet. But again, if you look at Practical Farmers of Iowa, etc., there are the beginnings of moving in that direction. And as the corporate system dependent on these inputs—which are becoming increasingly expensive—becomes economically inviable, I think we’re going to definitely move in that direction. Whether we’ll make that transformation in terms of the ecological benefits in time to prevent the kind of catastrophic results that the climate scientists are saying we are likely to see, that’s the big question.
This interview has been condensed and edited for length and clarity.
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What is suppressed eventually rebels: art history, rich in revolution, has seen many shake-ups over the centuries, but hardly any reached the intensity and impact of Expressionism which shook the clanking iron chains of the contemporary and often commercialised art world with such compelling force. This rebellion found its epochal climax where the severity of form in the shape of Wilhelminism and its omnipresent moral obligation was at its most oppressive: in Germany.
Although the revolution this time was German, the name stems from French: the expression indicates the emotional “expression” of art in contrast to the strict academically regulated naturalistic history painting; at the turn of the century, the entire European avant-garde was considered “expressionist”. The gallerist Herwarth Walden, who was innately dedicated to everything new in art, concretised the term Expressionism when he introduced the members of the artists’ association Der Blaue Reiter as “German Expressionists” at the “First German Autumn salon” in 1913. Whilst the term also temporarily included the French Fauves and Cubists, namely Pablo Picasso, as well as the Italian Futurists, the narrowing to German and a few Austrian artists gathered pace, not least through the book Der Expressionismus, published in 1914, whose author, the influential art critic Paul Fechter, restricted himself entirely to the Brücke and the Blaue Reiter. Both groups of avant-gardes were thereby named which, first and foremost, have given face and identity to Expressionism to this day. Regardless of German nationalisation, however, the important impulses of international painting must not be overlooked: Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne, Kees van Dongen, James Ensor or Edward Munch were formative role models.
The Brücke (bridge) over the gulf between the old and a new era of art was initially erected, fittingly, not by painting but by architecture. Despite the unifying name, it was a radical break with everything traditional, a fresh and free community that should be open to all artists who knew themselves to be committed solely to their creative impulse. Their founders and master builders were the Dresden architecture students Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Erich Heckel and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. The name was not to be a program, but rather to outline a vague departure, but there is also an echo of Friedrich Nietzsche and his talk of man as a bridge. In the search of new possibilities of expression, the group deliberately looked further afield to the equally primal and powerful language of form and colour of African and Polynesian art. Exaggeration and distortion characterised the group’s early work much more than realism and muted tones, with the woodcut as its chosen medium. Later, Emil Nolde, Otto Mueller and Max Pechstein also became notable members of the group. The move to Berlin in 1911 brought an increased dilution of the original community idea: the painters involved now strived for a personal style and their great patron, Walden, turned to abstraction. In 1913, Kirchner’s egocentric chronicle of the Brücke, in which he greatly exaggerated his own importance in the collective, caused the final rift.
Unlike the Brücke artists, the Blaue Reiter were not a tightly-knit group but a loose association that strove not for a uniform style but rather praised and encouraged independent artistic development. Whilst the foundation of the Blaue Reiter can be indisputably attributed to Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc - their mutual preference for the colour blue and the subject of horse and rider were the inspiration for the artist’s association and its famous agenda – it is much more difficult with the other members: August Macke, for example, often ascribed to the Blaue Reiter, took more of an outsider role and always went his own way. Karl Hofer is classed today as Expressionist, but he did not consider himself one. On the other hand, Gabriele Münter, Alexej von Jawlensky and Alfred Kubin can undoubtedly be counted among the Blaue Reiter, whilst Paul Klee, Heinrich Campendonk and the composer Arnold Schönberg featured occasionally in the group’s immediate circle. The loose association of various artists was united by the desire to break out of the traditional repertoire of painterly forms, to no longer orient art towards the outside, but towards the inside. The Blaue Reiter’s gallop, however, was short-lived: with the start of the First World War, only a few years after its foundation, the group disbanded.
Exaggeration and over-emphasis are the acknowledged lifeblood of Expressionist paining, yet it is still difficult within this framework to find uniform and, above all, distinctive characteristics. If the pictures of Expressionist artists are stood next to each other and compared, a single style would be barely recognisable. Accordingly, art history speaks less of an Expressionist style than – true to the original sense of the word – of an expressionistic expression. A great restlessness is inherent in Expressionist paintings that constantly pushes outwards, distorts shapes and surfaces, evokes contrasts, and culminates in nervously twitching peaks. In the depiction of figures, the painting sometimes takes on an almost caricatural form, landscapes become apocalyptic abysses though the breathless, almost hectic brushwork. Franz Marc’ painting Kämpfende Formen programmatically encapsulates the character of Expressionism – an inner struggle that pushes outwards, that feeds on the collision of irreconcilable differences, warmth against cold, light against darkness, life against death, dragging the viewer into the spiritual conflict of the ministering artist.
In the 1920s, the smoke of the revolution had gradually cleared, the oppressed artist’s soul had made itself heard, the power of the colours waned, the raging sensual frenzy gradually faded to the sharply observed and precisely modelled New Objectivity. The incoming disillusionment was also a result of the enthusiasm for the war that led the young artists by the dozen to their death or trauma: the followers of the Blaue Reiter, in particular, rose in an exaggerated expectation of salvation, in a need to purify the old world and also to subject art to a cleansing fire, so that the approaching First World War stood for them not as a horror, but as an opportunity. Important painters such as Ernst Barlach, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Lovis Corinth fell into the general war euphoria. Many, such as Oskar Kokoschka, Max Beckmann or Otto Dix, voluntarily signed up to the military, whilst some, such as Franz Marc, Wilhelm Morgner and August Macke, fell on the battlefield, and others, including Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, returned home traumatised and broken. In a way, the old portent applies also to Expressionism: the revolution eats its children.
The history of Expressionism does not end there though. In fact, it was first with modern art criticism that the unheard-of paradigm shift which accompanied the expressionist groupings was fully explored. Pictures by the Expressionist masters are regularly the subject of acclaimed and contested auctions. Mädchen in Südwester, in which Ernst Ludwig Kirchner charmingly immortalised his muse and future wife Erna Schilling in front of a coastal landscape with a lighthouse, sold for more than 1.5 million euro at Lempertz in December 2016. Further gems of Expressionist painting include Der Jäger by Emil Nolde and Häuser im Schnee, again from Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. The great themes of Expressionist art, the oversaturated, oppressive city, the longing for a paradisical-idealised life in nature and the desire for a radical renewal of the world, have gained relevance rather than lost – and Lempertz auction house has the necessary expertise to present the artistic treatment of these important motifs appropriately. | <urn:uuid:a26064c0-2dec-42ec-8a04-0c49a1dcf759> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lempertz.com/en/academy/expressionism.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.954212 | 1,686 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Vassar Hackathon Poster
Thanks to our dear friend Dr. Ray Polivka, Dan Baronet and I had the opportunity to travel to Vassar College to participate in their Community Hackathon held on 5-6 February 2016.
“What’s a hackathon?” you ask?
Well, we did too, as we’d never participated in one before. 🙂
According to the Hackathon’s announcement:
“CommunityHack is a way to bridge the gap between Vassar CS Majors and Vassar students in other departments as well as local high school and community college students in order to provide them with the opportunity to explore innovative applications of Computer Science. Dance, music, art, video games? CS can be incorporated into all of that and more!”
Students from Vassar as well as nearby colleges and high schools were invited to attend. In other words, it was a great opportunity to introduce APL to a new generation. As this was our first Hackathon, we had no idea what to expect. Laura, the Hackathon’s organizer, did a wonderful job organizing the event and making us feel welcome. We were invited to give an hour long presentation and Dyalog was listed as an event sponsor.
The Hackathon was a 24 hour event where students were encouraged to split up into groups and pick a problem to solve. During the course of the event, presentations were made on a variety of subjects including “Autonomous Robots Test Ideas About the Evolution of Brains”, “How to make games quick!”, “Virtual Reality”, and of course “Hacking with APL”. Friday evening started with introductions and ice-breakers. During our introduction, I was able to talk a bit about APL and the presentation we would be making on Saturday. Apparently this generated some interest as a number of students came up to Dan, Ray, Jon McGrew and me to ask about APL. We spent several hours showing them APL, to which they seemed eagerly receptive.
I had the pleasure of working with Grace, a CS sophomore, to implement APL (A Puppy Language) in APL. Her project idea was to write an application for potential puppy owners to use so they could get an idea of the responsibility of owning and caring for a puppy. We worked into the wee hours of the night and wound up implementing a multi-threaded domain-specific-language (DSL) where the “puppy”, running in a separate thread, would react to commands typed into the APL session. Negative actions and ignoring the puppy would cause the the puppy’s happiness points (PHPs) to decrease whereas positive actions would increase PHPs. Grace seemed to really enjoy working with APL and returned to the hackathon twice on Saturday as her schedule permitted to continue work on her project.
Saturday, I was slightly concerned that following a talk on virtual reality, APL might not seem all that “cool”, but my fears were allayed for, as I was waiting before my presentation, several students asked the person at the registration desk specifically about the APL presentation.
The presentation went rather well. Watching the jaw-dropping “Wow!” expressions on the faces of many of the students as we showed the power of APL notation made me reminisce back to the time when I first learned APL and was amazed at what I could do with a computer. It also reminded me how blessed I’ve been to have used APL throughout my career.
Our participation in the Hackathon was a great experience. We were able to show Dyalog to close to 100 students, promote the upcoming APL Problem Solving Competition, and encourage people to download and try Dyalog – we had 18 student downloads over the Hackathon weekend. This may have been our first Hackathon, but I’m certain it won’t be our last.
On a personal note, after Dan and I drove up to Montreal to spend the upcoming week working with the APL Tools Team, I received a very nice email from Grace where she wrote “I just wanted to thank you so much for taking the time to work with me on puppy.dws — it is currently my favorite thing that I have ever made.” and “It was really fun working in APL, and I will definitely check out the Dyalog competition.” | <urn:uuid:05a6790e-d2e8-4a51-98d5-3c5416f63d63> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dyalog.com/blog/2016/02/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.982166 | 927 | 1.875 | 2 |
From Amazon to Wal-Mart, companies are carving up the fast-growing market for direct digital delivery of movies to the living room.
It's a classic case of the disruptive entrants and a strategic inflexion point: New technology threatens the status quo, as streaming video propelled through the cloud by big data takes on the DVD and Blu-ray. Discs are a venerable golden goose egg for studios, which last year generated some $18 billion in sales and rentals.
The strategic technological shifts that are driving this business change are our old friends: cloud computing and big data.
Change is a Constant
With DVD sales declining and streaming services growing, it's already clear who's going to be the loser of this high-tech Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. But the sub-plots are tantalizing: Hollywood studios are hell-bent on retaining profits from movies after they leave the theater, while technology companies and online retailers jockey for supremacy in movie streaming.
To say that movie streaming has been a hit would be an understatement. According to Dan Cryan, senior director of digital media for market research firm IHS, "We've hit the point this year where by some measures, people are watching more movies online than physical discs."
Like the music CD before it, the DVD is under siege—and for a similar reason. Just as iTunes lets you download individual songs rather than entire CDs, streaming services, cable and satellite companies now allow customers to rent movies as well as buy them.
With rentals accounting for the vast majority of streaming business, Hollywood so far doesn't face a direct threat to DVDs. Yet there is an indirect threat: Every movie rented can mean one fewer DVD bought.
And the growth of streaming has irreparably damaged the traditional channels for DVD distribution, driving video rental stores out of business, and reducing shelf space for DVD sales. (Ironically, Dish Network scooped up the failing Blockbuster video store franchise and now streams its movies to Dish subscribers.)
What really caused the studios to prick up their ears was the emergence of cloud-based streaming services from Amazon and Wal-Mart's Vudu, which rent and sell movies soon after they appear on DVD. Moreover, both of those services are readily available via online menus of newer TVs and Blu-ray players, making it easy to find, pay for and view a movie without getting off the couch.
The growth of movie streaming could really kick into high gear if Apple gets into the integrated TV game. Right now, you can buy or rent a movie from the iTunes cloud, but not directly to your TV. Today's smart TV user-experience is generally pretty poor, which is why Apple is rumored to be developing an Apple HDTV.
But What Do I Want to Watch?
Whether a consumer is browsing the shelves of a traditional video rental store or choosing a movie from the cloud, discoverability is a huge user challenge.
That’s why many of the streaming services are investing in big-data analytics, to help give consumers suggestions of what movies they might want to watch. Amazon has long been the poster child for this type of feature, with its People who bought X also bought Y schtick.
Hollywood is determined not to follow the music industry down the path of inertia. The labels' failure to counter the move to digital downloads led to lost opportunities and a race to catch up to market realities. The big movie studios already have created new revenue models based on licensing agreements, and they're taking advantage of the competition among streaming services to get the most lucrative deals possible.
At the same time, several big studios are trying to beat the streamers at their own game. EPIX, the cable channel backed by Paramount, Lionsgate and MGM, offers streaming movies over Internet-connected TVs. And in an attempt to steer consumers away from movie rentals and back to DVDs, most big studios have banded together to support UltraViolet, which offers a cloud-based copy of certain discs, and lets anyone move their discs to the cloud for a couple of bucks each.
In the long run, however, you can always count on DVDs for beverage coasters.
So how can you capitalize on these disruptive changes? More from NetApp:
- Big Data in Law: Cloud Challenge, Analytics Opportunity
- Formula 1, Austin, and Big Data Analytics [F1 Infographic]
- Media and Entertainment Storage
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Polytechnic University of Turin
The Polytechnic University of Turin (Politecnico di Torino) is a partly-public engineering university based in Turin, Italy. Established in 1859, it is Italy’s oldest technical university. The university offers several courses in the fields of Engineering, Architecture and Industrial Design. According to ARWU Ranking 2013, Politecnico Di Torino is 1st in Italy and 8th in Europe for Engineering. and in the same year according to QS World University Rankings among the engineering universities it was ranked 68th in the world (in the top 15 in Europe).
Uppsala University (UU)> is a research university in Uppsala, Sweden, and is the oldest university in Sweden and all of the Nordic countries still in operation, founded in 1477. It ranks among the world’s 100 best universities in several high-profile international rankings. The university has nine faculties distributed over three « disciplinary domains »: Arts and Social Sciences , Medicine and Pharmacy, Science and Technology.
National University of Distance Education
The National University of Distance Education, known in Spanish as Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), is a distance learning and research university and is the only university run by the central government of Spain. It has headquarters in Madrid, Spain, with campuses in all Spanish autonomous communities. UNED combines traditional onsite education with distance learning programs. With over 260,000 students, UNED is the largest university in Spain and the second largest in Europe.
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VILNIUS TECH)
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VILNIUS TECH) is a public university in Vilnius, Lithuania. It currently has 10 faculties, 14 research institutes, 33 research laboratories, and four training centers. According to the QS World University Rankings, VILNIUS TECH is in the top four percent of world universities. Measuring student mobility in the ERASMUS exchange program, VILNIUS TECH is the most popular university in Lithuania for foreign students.
University of Montpellier
The University of Montpellier (UM) is a French public research university in Montpellier in south-east of France. Established in 1289, the University of Montpellier is one of the oldest universities in the world. UM is a world-class higher education institution which is dedicated to training innovators and leaders, at Bachelor and up to PhD level. It is a multidisciplinary university that federates 16 schools which are organized into two main complementary domains: Science, Technology, Health, Law, Economics and Management. UM’s strategy revolves around inter-disciplinary and multi-skill training programs. | <urn:uuid:85c53368-397d-46d4-9357-891494041787> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gecko.edu.umontpellier.fr/partnership/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.922447 | 581 | 1.773438 | 2 |
JEDDAH: Worshippers suffering from chronic diseases were on Monday urged to postpone planned Umrah pilgrimages to the Grand Mosque in Makkah due to the increased risks to their health should they contract the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
Saudi Ministry of Health officials said people with uncontrolled diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, cirrhosis, and coronary artery disease who had been admitted to hospital within the past six months, should put their visits on hold.
Those having attended hospital in the last 12 months for treatment related to cardiac insufficiency, immunodeficiency, and chronic chest diseases were also recommended to stay away for the time being, along with pregnant women.
The ministry’s advice came via an awareness infographic published on its Twitter page and Live Well platform.
Meanwhile, Dr. Mohammed Al-Abd Al-Aly, assistant minister of health and ministry spokesman, said the Kingdom had taken a pioneering role and made a major global contribution to clinical research and studies related to COVID-19 treatments.
Saudi Arabia ranks 25th in the world, second in the Middle East, and first among Arab countries for issuing scientific papers related to the virus, he added.
The Ministry of Health on Monday announced 348 new cases of COVID-19 in the country, meaning that 339,615 people had now contracted the disease. There were 8,708 active cases, and 842 patients were in a critical condition.
Of the new cases, 40 percent were women, 11 percent children, and 4 percent among the elderly.
The Kingdom also reported 25 new virus-related deaths taking the total number of people who had so far died from the disease in the country to 5,068.
In addition, another 593 patients had recovered from COVID-19, raising the total number of recoveries to 325,839.
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|all photos from M. Bankowsky|
There's nothing quite like fabric in the material world, but that doesn't mean it is inimitable. In fact, I collect or at least mentally record the instances I find other media that express the drapes and folds of textiles, so I'll start showing you some I've found.
I've admired this screen for several years, but I've just learned that the designer, Marc Bankowsky, had spent many years of his creative career weaving and making impressive textile installations . A true textilian, he participated for several years at the Biennale internationale de la tapisserie Laussane and has exhibited his textile sculptures at the Musée d'art moderne of Paris and the Centre Pompidou.
Bankowsky's work has been directed towards the decorative arts since the 1990s. He also sculpts and makes very appealingly fanciful furniture of bronze. You can find a full range of his work in bronze, plaster and polyester resin on his site.
Textiles clearly remain important for the artist.
This hinged screen has something of the drape and drama of Staff swags from the 30-40s as do
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WASHINGTON — SpaceX launched 60 of its personal Starlink broadband satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket Jan. 6, changing into the operator of the world’s largest industrial satellite tv for pc constellation.
The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 9:19 p.m. Japanese from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on SpaceX’s first launch of the yr. The corporate’s 60 Starlink satellites, constructed to supply high-speed web, separated from the rocket’s higher stage about an hour later.
SpaceX launched the satellites to a 290-kilometer orbit the place the corporate will carry out checkouts earlier than elevating them to their closing 550-kilometer orbit.
SpaceX’s fairing-catcher ship “Ms. Tree” was unsuccessful in netting a fairing half after the launch.
The rocket’s first stage landed on the drone ship “Of Course I Nonetheless Love You” within the Atlantic Ocean, finishing its fourth mission. SpaceX used this similar booster to launch 60 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit in Could 2019, 10 Iridium Subsequent satellites for Iridium in January 2019, and Telesat Canada’s Telstar 18 Vantage geostationary satellite tv for pc in September 2018.
SpaceX has now launched 182 satellites for Starlink, counting two prototypes the corporate orbited almost two years in the past.
It’s not clear if all 182 Starlink satellites can be a part of the constellation SpaceX expects to start service with later this yr. Some 10 satellites from SpaceX’s Could 2019 Starlink launch by no means reached their closing operational orbit, in line with a Jan. 2 report from Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer on the Harvard-Smithsonian Middle for Astrophysics who tracks satellite tv for pc actions.
SpaceX mentioned in July that three Starlink satellites had failed shortly after launch, and that one other two wholesome satellites can be deliberately deorbited as observe. The corporate didn’t reply to a table4 inquiry Jan. 6 as to why 10 satellites haven’t reached their goal orbit as a substitute of 5.
No matter if Starlink has 172 or 182 satellites, SpaceX nonetheless eclipses Planet, which has a constellation of 150 remote-sensing satellites, because the file holder for the world’s largest industrial satellite tv for pc constellation.
SpaceX is deploying its first 1,584 satellites at 550 kilometers to speed up service rollout and scale back the danger of making orbital particles. At that altitude, any Starlink satellites that fail would naturally deorbit from atmospheric drag inside 25 years — a suggestion urged by NASA and different house companies.
One of many 60 satellites launched tonight was given a “darkening therapy” to make it much less reflective. Shotwell informed reporters final month that SpaceX is experimenting with other ways to make Starlink satellites much less reflective in order that they don’t intervene with ground-based astronomy.
In December, the U.S. Federal Communications Fee authorised a SpaceX request to fan out its Starlink satellites in additional 550-kilometer orbits — a modification SpaceX says will allow the corporate to increase Starlink’s protection to populated areas extra quickly.
SpaceX anticipated conducting as much as six Starlink launches in 2019, however ended the yr having performed simply two. Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX’s president and chief working officer, mentioned in September that the corporate deliberate to do 24 Starlink launches in 2020, every presumably carrying 60 satellites.
SpaceX is constructing and launching as much as 12,000 Starlink satellites, and has filed regulatory paperwork with the United Nations’ Worldwide Telecommunications Union for an additional 30,000 satellites.
Different corporations are additionally planning massive constellations of web satellites, however none as massive as SpaceX. OneWeb is planning a constellation of 1,980 satellites, Amazon is making ready for a 3,236-satellite constellation, and Telesat is designing a roughly 300-satellite broadband community.
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Short Paper One
This paper will be about Social Classes and how American films represent them using the information found in this class and addressing the questions below. The paper should be 2 -3 pages, double space, 11-12 point font. Title pages, graphs, pictures and the “Films Mentioned” section will not count toward the length of the paper.
- Choose at least two American films that represents more than one class. One film should have been produced prior to 1960. One film should have been produced from 1980 to the present. They can be from any genre.
- Answer the following questions:
- What do you consider your own class standing to be and why?
- Do you see class representation in the movies you watched in ways that match accurately your own experience of class? Explain your answer.
- Do you see any stereotypes about class or certain members of a class in these movies?
- Create a “Films Mentioned” section at the end of your paper and use the “Style Guide” found in the Syllabus content.
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Bill and Lou, the now internationally famous oxen team who have worked the fields at Green Mountain College (GMC) for the last 10 years, will soon be available as hamburgers on the college’s cafeteria menu.
Despite more than 30,000 signatures delivered to the school asking for mercy for these life-long best friends, as well as an offer from Vine Animal Sanctuary to allow the oxen to live out their retirement there for free, the college has announced that after discussions with students and faculty, allowing Bill and Lou to live would go against the college’s ethical code.
Lou suffered an injury to his leg earlier in the year and was deemed unable to work any further. Because oxen work as a team and these two are so tight the college decided that it would be better to just send both to slaughter so poor Bill didn’t have to miss Lou.
GMC is a small liberal arts college that focuses on environmental sustainability. The argument goes that Bill and Lou could both provide close to a ton of hamburger meat to the school, meat which would otherwise come from a confined animal feed lot (CAFO), which, we can all agree are an environmental mess.
According to the college’s statement, “As a sustainable farm, we can’t just consider the responsible stewardship of the resources within our boundaries, but of all the earth’s resources.”
What I mean is, my grandmother uses up a lot of resources. And she’s no longer able to work. Family members would question my sanity after receiving my statement regarding the necessity of proving my dedication to an environmental code of ethics by euthanizing my unproductive grandma and freeing the resources she would otherwise be sucking up.
Following my environmental values with no regard to other issues still does not lead to the kind of world even my environmentalists would want to live in.
I question a school’s sustainability principles that claims if it doesn’t kill these two gentle animals to feed to people the animals considered friends, then CAFO meat must be used.
“If this meat doesn’t come from our animals, it likely will come from a factory farm setting which carries with it a significant amount of ecological impact,” the statement asserts.
Yes. We all know factory farms carry a significant ecological impact. If the school finds factory farming is at odds with its values, why would it sell meat from CAFO cows at all?
The college says it strives “to meet the dietary preferences of all students.” That’s fine, to a point. I’m hoping the working dogs don’t make their way into the cafeteria nuggets. And neither should two animals who see humans as their friends and who deserve a few years of retirement after many years of hard work and dedication.
Besides, arguing that killing Bill and Lou is somehow the environmentally ethical move completely skirts the real issue – that meat is an incredibly inefficient food delivery system. And the toll it is taking on our health exacerbates it impact as sick people are less productive and suck up more resources.
These decision makers want to eat their hamburgers and have them too. To really prove dedication to sustainability, the college should not serve hamburgers period, especially from factory farms. If this makes the burger more expensive all the better for the broke student, and for the environment he will someday raise his kids in.
But while the college has only to look ridiculous for using the lives of these animals to make an illogical point, Bill and Lou have to lose each other, and their lives.
They gave them names. They acknowledged them as individuals. How can they possibly convince themselves that the world they are striving for is one in which we sacrifice compassion and mercy to “meet the dietary preferences of all students?”
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D&D death can happen but the most important tips are to talk to the players, make sure there are no hard feelings and move forward.
Death in D&D. I will never forget my first Death in D&D. I was young, dumb, and a new DM trying to lead a group of grade-schoolers like myself through a dungeon. A player decided to check out a room filled with fireworks and it seemed fine until someone threw a lit firework into the room. The rest of the party closed the door and Johnny’s character died in a bang.
Johny died and it was hilarious! I didn’t know what to do so I told him to make a new character and we moved on.
Unfortunately, not every Death in D&D is hilarious. Players sometimes think that their deaths were caused by a vindictive Dungeon Master who wanted to see all the joy snuffed out from them.
Most Dm’s see Death in D&D as a cthulian nightmare. You see signs; a small questionable decision here, a fatal flaw in the player’s plan there, and finally a completely impulsive decision that leads to their own demise.
Sometimes Death in D&D isn’t as easily seen, but instead happens instantaneously. A player can all of a sudden make a completely unrelatable and stupid decision that kills their character. A great example is ‘don’t worry, guys, I have fire resistance so I can go swim in the lava.’ This is of course based on a character that doesn’t understand what resistance means, but there are many such examples.
You may then try to help the player avoid certain death by saying, ‘resistance doesn’t equal immunity.’ But then the player states, ‘oh I should be fine!’ And goes in anyway. There are many ways to help players avoid death, but at the end of the day, it is all up to the player.
When the player screws up and dies, even if it is not your fault, they can get angry. I am not going to give you 100 ways to stop Death in D&D since that is impossible, situational, and probably not why you are here. Someone has died, and they are angry at you. Instead, you are here to figure out what to do since someone has died and is angry.
Steps to follow if the session ended on a sour note.
1. Reference session 0
In session 0 make sure you address why a character will die. Can they die only by their own stupidity? Do They die for plot reasons? Can they die when the dice just land in a manner that kills them? These are all things that you need to address and decide for yourself.
When do you kill characters as a Dungeon Master? Think about when players die in your games and are honest when you tell your players.
If you did this, it will help players understand why their character died in step 4.
2. Talk to the player who is angry
This is obvious but rarely done. We as Dungeon Masters have this strange mentality to hide everything from the players since we are the god of the world! Hiding crucial information that their characters do not know is fine, but once the players know, talk to them if there is confusion.
Half the time these feelings are brought about by miscommunication, so reaching out and clearing up a misunderstanding is always helpful.
3. Hear their side
Dungeon Masters have a bad habit of brushing off their players and it causes alienation. If two people are angry but do not communicate what they are angry about, incorrect ideas can be formed. That is why we should genuinely hear their story. Listen first, and once their whole side has been told, think of a response.
Many times people listen and are not truly listening, but instead think about what to say next. This makes the response more hostile which causes the other person to get defensive, angry, and everything to go downhill.
Truly listening gives the person who is speaking a sense of satisfaction and respect towards the listener. Most people can tell when others are just in for a fight and don’t respond kindly so once again, genuinely listen to your player’s side.
4. Tell your side of the story
Now is the time to tell your side since the player is calm and more likely to listen to you.
If the player is mad that their character died due to the player’s stupid decisions, state things from your point of view in a calm tone. For example,
“I saw you go in alone with no backup, fail-safes, or escape routes. That was fine. You got the information you needed and pressed further, you rolled poorly triggering an alarm in the middle of an enemy base with no backups, fail-safes, or escape routes. At that point, what do you expect to happen?”
I did not accuse them of any wrongdoing, I merely stated what I saw from my point of view. Make sure to leave a pause after your story, and add an exasperated sigh. This shows the player that you honestly are asking them what to do since you had no idea what to do at this point and are separating the question from the story with a pause. Now the player will be less defensive and open to considering your position.
5. Give them time.
People can get emotional over their characters dying, and this makes sense after all the time, emotion, and love they put into these characters. If this happens and they will not even tell you their side, so give them some time to cool off.
Reach out to the player later when they are ready and go through the previous steps outlined above in the article.
Are you at fault?
What if the player still is angry?
If the player still has issues, you may be at fault if the other players are mad at you. This should be an easy thing to tell since they will all be glaring at you, mad at you, etc. If the other players are understanding, then that player either has to learn and grow or get out.
If a person cannot admit they are wrong and continue to hold a grudge when everyone else sees the truth, that player will most likely be a problem player. That is why you have to kick them from the group.
This also applies to you as a DM. You are not perfect and can make mistakes. Be honest with yourself and listen to your players. If everyone is unhappy, figure out how to be better. If everyone has a better idea of how to deal with that situation, listen to them.
Lastly for DM’s
I know I’m sounding like a broken record here, but we as Dms need to talk to and listen to our players.
If you are wondering how a player should deal with Death in D&D, then check this video out on YouTube.
If you are interested in theorizing about Dungeons and Dragons, here is an article about a D&D theory I made.
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Newly released data for 2019 reveals the loss of over 1.7 million hectares (4.3 million acres) of primary Amazon forest in our 5 country study area (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru).* That is twice the size of Yellowstone National Park.
Table 1 shows 2019 deforestation (red) in relation to 2018 (orange).
Primary forest loss in the Brazilian Amazon (1.29 million hectares) was over 3.5 times higher than the other four countries combined, with a slight increase in 2019 relative to 2018. Many of these areas were cleared in the first half of the year and then burned in August, generating international attention.
Primary forest loss rose sharply in the Bolivian Amazon (222,834 hectares), largely due to uncontrolled fires escaping into the dry forests of the southern Amazon.
Primary forest loss rose slightly in the Peruvian Amazon (161,625 hectares) despite a relatively successful crackdown on illegal gold mining, pointing to small-scale agriculture (and cattle) as the main driver.
On the positive side, primary forest loss decreased in the Colombian Amazon (91,400 hectares) following a major spike following the 2016 peace accords (between the government and FARC). It is worth noting, however, that we have now documented the loss of 444,000 hectares (over a million acres) of primary forest in the Colombian Amazon in the past four years since the peace agreement (see Annex).
*Two important points about the data. First, we use annual forest loss from the University of Maryland to have a consistent source across all five countries. Second, we applied a filter to only include loss of primary forest (see Methodology).
2019 Deforestation Hotspots Map
The Base Map below shows the major 2019 deforestation hotspots across the Amazon.
Many of the major deforestation hotspots were in Brazil. Early in the year, in March, there were uncontrolled fires up north in the state of Roraima. Further south, along the Trans-Amazonian Highway, much of the deforestation occurred in the first half of the year, followed by the high profile fires starting in late July. Note that many of these fires were burning recently deforested areas, and were not uncontrolled forest fires (MAAP #113).
The Brazilian Amazon also experienced escalating gold mining deforestation in indigenous territories (MAAP #116).
Bolivia also had an intense 2019 fire season. Unlike Brazil, many were uncontrolled fires, particularly in the Beni grasslands and Chiquitano dry forests of the southern Bolivian Amazon (MAAP #108).
In Peru, although illegal gold mining deforestation decreased (MAAP #121), small-scale agriculture (including cattle) continues to be a major driver in the central Amazon (MAAP #112) and an emerging driver in the south.
In Colombia, there is an “arc of deforestation” in the northwestern Amazon. This arc includes four protected areas (Tinigua, Chiribiquete and Macarena National Parks, and Nukak National Reserve) and two Indigenous Reserves (Resguardos Indígenas Nukak-Maku and Llanos del Yari-Yaguara II) experiencing substantial deforestation (MAAP #120). One of the main deforestation drivers in the region is conversion to pasture for land grabbing or cattle ranching.
Annex – Colombia peace accord trend
The baseline forest loss data presented in this report were generated by the Global Land Analysis and Discovery (GLAD) laboratory at the University of Maryland (Hansen et al 2013) and presented by Global Forest Watch. Our study area is strictly what is highlighted in the Base Map.
For our estimate of primary forest loss, we used the annual “forest cover loss” data with density >30% of the “tree cover” from the year 2001. Then we intersected the forest cover loss data with the additional dataset “primary humid tropical forests” as of 2001 (Turubanova et al 2018). For more details on this part of the methodology, see the Technical Blog from Global Forest Watch (Goldman and Weisse 2019).
For boundaries, we used the biogeographical limit (as defined by RAISG) for all countries except Bolivia, where we used the Amazon watershed limit (see Base Map).
All data were processed under the geographical coordinate system WGS 1984. To calculate the areas in metric units, the projection was: Peru and Ecuador UTM 18 South, Bolivia UTM 20 South, Colombia MAGNA-Bogotá, and Brazil Eckert IV.
Lastly, to identify the deforestation hotspots, we conducted a kernel density estimate. This type of analysis calculates the magnitude per unit area of a particular phenomenon, in this case forest cover loss. We conducted this analysis using the Kernel Density tool from Spatial Analyst Tool Box of ArcGIS. We used the following parameters:
Search Radius: 15000 layer units (meters)
Kernel Density Function: Quartic kernel function
Cell Size in the map: 200 x 200 meters (4 hectares)
Everything else was left to the default setting.
For the Base Map, we used the following concentration percentages: Medium: 7%-10%; High: 11%-20%; Very High: >20%.
Goldman L, Weisse M (2019) Explicación de la Actualización de Datos de 2018 de Global Forest Watch. https://blog.globalforestwatch.org/data-and-research/blog-tecnico-explicacion-de-la-actualizacion-de-datos-de-2018-de-global-forest-watch
Hansen, M. C., P. V. Potapov, R. Moore, M. Hancher, S. A. Turubanova, A. Tyukavina, D. Thau, S. V. Stehman, S. J. Goetz, T. R. Loveland, A. Kommareddy, A. Egorov, L. Chini, C. O. Justice, and J. R. G. Townshend. 2013. “High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change.” Science 342 (15 November): 850–53. Data available on-line from: http://earthenginepartners.appspot.com/science-2013-global-forest.
Turubanova S., Potapov P., Tyukavina, A., and Hansen M. (2018) Ongoing primary forest loss in Brazil, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Indonesia. Environmental Research Letters https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aacd1c
We thank G. Palacios for helpful comments to earlier versions of this report.
This work was supported by the following major funders: Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, International Conservation Fund of Canada (ICFC), Metabolic Studio, Erol Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and Global Forest Watch Small Grants Fund (WRI).
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It is not a steely-eyed
egret nor heft of pelican but just a singing bird that catches
from a balcony perched
across from pines lining the marina. Here I make watch of
shifting sky, distant buoy
sounding swells in the bay, common robin chiming in on the wind.
But this bird makes its
roost in the forked trunk, where branches droop heavy with
Like this robin, I try to
perfect a voice in the intimate language of birds, call back at
parroting the rise and fall
of its wistful warbling, practicing the melodic whistling.
Everything readies for
something - above, wide wings of dark crows fan the horizon.
a ray steers clear of a row.
A dog splashes into the water, his boy crying for a lost oar.
Twilight settles on tapping
riggings and masts, breeze in the tinny chimes, spring in the
“How do you know you
are going to die?”
I begged my
mother...With strange confidence she answered,
“When you can no
longer make a fist.”~Naomi
My mother, born into the
flapper era, never bobbed
her hair, never sported
drop waist dresses with a cloche,
nor did she cover her
face with pancake and rouge,
lifting her skirt above
her knees in speakeasies
or on Gatsby verandas.
She came of age in World War II.
Draped in white
coveralls, hair wrapped in a red scarf
under a hardhat, clear
goggles shielding her amber eyes,
she welded Pressed
Steel’s boxcars outside Pittsburgh
like women in Toledo hauling Jeep parts to Ford lines,
like those assembling fuselages on bombers in Long Beach
or for Boeing’s Flying Fortresses in Seattle,
like women filing bullets for the Army,
or building ships at California’s Richmond docks,
like those feeding blast furnaces in steel mills,
sparks flying at the giant cauldrons of molten steel.
women on railroads, in shipyards,
as pipe fitters and riggers, bus drivers and mechanics,
like those shooting riveting guns or ferrying planes,
ratcheting with wrenches or lighting torches,
arms linked across America with the plains women,
with the farm women, the desert and mountain women,
with the city women, even with Marilyn Monroe,
who as Norma Jean, attached propellors to planes.
My mother never jumped
drunken in her clothes
into a fountain like F.
Scott Fitzgerald’s new women,
but she did drop,
donning her mail order rayon sheath,
from a rowboat into the
lake, belting out the high notes
of Indian Love Call at a
USO picnic. She learned
to love the night shift
as a blackout air warden
and became the woman who
I would later blast
for not pulling free
from my father’s fierce grip.
I have become the woman who no longer wonders
how I dared knuckle into
my own fist, raise it high
for rights in rallies
and marches for reason and right
because I had a mother
who dared give up a job
as a nursemaid for the
rail yard and factory,
relinquish the girdle to
the rubber drive, who never
threw off the helmet for
the apron, and went on
living as if she could
~ Human Equity through Art
Women of the Fields
Dolores Huerte, UFW co-founder
declared her a born again Feminist at 83
The women of the
fields clip red bunches of grapes
in patches of
neatly tilled farmland in the San Joaquin,
globes they can no longer stand to taste -
miles shy of Santa Cruz beach babies
Pleasure Beach surfers on longboards,
all the cool
convertibles speeding the Cabrillo Highway
women line as
pickers, back bent over summer’s harvest.
The campesinas labor
without shade tents or water buffalos,
oversized shirts and baggie work pants, disguised
as what they are
not, faces masked in bandanas under cowboy hats
in fils de
the young one named Ester taken in the onion
with the field boss’ gardening shears at her
the older one called Felicia isolated in the
and pushed down into a doghouse. The pretty
without work papers, asked to bear a son in
for a room and a job in the pumpkin patch,
Isabel, ravaged napping under a tree at the
end of a dream
after a long morning picking pomegranates, violación
de un sueño.
Salome on the apple ranch forced up against
as the boss bellowed his ecstatic Ave, Ave
The promotoras flex
muscle in words, steal off into night
face-to-face to talk health care, pesticides,
meet to tally
accounts - forced to exchange panties for paychecks
in orchards, on
ranches, in fields, in truck beds - to speak out to
deportation to an old country, a new foreign soil.
Women of the
fields, like those before them, like those
who will trail
after - las Chinas, Japonesas, Filipinas -
to slave for
frozen food empires in pesticide drift,
along the skin, creeping into the nostrils
it ends as they hide from La Migra
in vines soaked
in toxins or crawl through sewer tunnels,
tracks, through fences to pick strawberries,
for this, this: la
fruta del diablo.
Center’s The New
About a Fight?
What is it that
balls a man’s fists into sudden rage,
blocking, body weaving and swaying -
a poker bet gone
bad, tiff over a last shot and beer,
wrong song on the
jukebox, something the other guy
said years ago to
the woman he didn’t marry anyway?
What is it, when the
brawl tumbles into the street,
honking horns, grunting OohRah!
even when one face
is already kissing the pavement?
No Sugar Ray or Ali,
what drives the everyday Joe,
digs in so deep,
courses across scarred knuckles,
the broken tooth,
blackened eye, flattened nose?
They say my father
liked a fight. Was it his old juvie record
determination or hope, his annulled marriage
to a bigamist
collecting veteran’s checks, or layoffs at the mill
just before benefits
kicked in, a monotony of existence?
What of those of us
who years later toss and turn over
brutal thoughts that
won’t abate, still hearing the screech
of a police car
hitting the curb, the smack of the body
asphalt? They say my father liked a fight.
And as they carted
him off to jail again, what of the wife -
my mother behind the
window’s bent blind slat
who, as the cruiser
takes off, she thinking I am not there
to hear her own
wounded spirit sigh, says:
“Finally, maybe now
I can get a good night’s sleep.”
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The Department for Education does not administer teacher training courses or appoint teachers, so we cannot help with individual applications to training providers or schools. You can get support and advice with your application.
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The summer season is usually fun-filled, as people enjoy the sunny days. Also, many people usually have holiday plans for this period. To make sure you have the best holiday ever, we recommend that you bring your electric bike. You will have many memories to keep, especially when you ride with family and friends.
Amidst packing for your summer journey, people who travel in cars may be worried about parking spaces and high gas fees. When you use an e-bike, you are less concerned about these things, and travellers can quickly navigate shortcuts and carry out errands. Also, the highlight of your summer experience is bonding with people. Riding e-bikes allow you to meet with other people and bond while on the journey. Thousands of travelers will also be on the journey to enjoy their summer, so you will not be alone. The only exception could surface when you ride through a deserted road or path.
Benefits of Summer Travel with E-bike
The summer season is a social period for people to bond with friends and family. You have several outdoor activities and spend more quality time with your loved ones. E-bikes are the perfect option because it allows every participant to be physically fit while consuming summer foods and drinks. You can ride to view nature while pedaling to exercise your arm and leg muscles.
Contrary to holidays like Christmas, you have more than the weekend for yourself during summer break. Traditional bikes are pretty good, but they are not the best option. The regular bikes could be lots of work, as most riders get sweaty before reaching their destination. E-bikes are the best option to relieve the end of the year stress. It boosts happy hormones and improves both physical and mental wellbeing. The fresh air improves lung performance and oxygen intake. Hence, riding e-bikes during summer is an excellent way to freshen for the next season.
Tips for Summer Travel with your E-bike
Remember the following tips when traveling with your e-bike for the summer season.
Make Sure your Batteries are Fully Charged
If your e-bike uses a dual battery, ensure they are fully charged. You do not want to be stuck on an unknown road due to a power outage. Always plan, and make sure your batteries are in place. You can also confirm from the picnic organizer or campground if the location has a charging area. If it lacks a charging spot, estimate the duration for which a fully charged battery can sustain you.
It is much easier to estimate durations with ebikes than with other transport modes. For instance, the updated Honbike HF01 has a power of 250W, which can cover a range of 40km. Hence, always plan duration based on your e-bike's capacity. Your summer will be free of unexpected scenarios or disappointments.
Always Keep Your E-bike Secured
Fortunately, it is much easier to secure your e-bike than a car, despite its smaller size. You can install a tracking device in your e-bike that alerts the security bodies during theft cases. Hence, this allows you to enjoy your summer without fear of theft. However, it is needed for users to implement extra security measures. Always put a lock on your e-bike whenever it is not in use. Also, keep the rack safe, so it will not be easily accessible by thieves.
Understanding the State Laws of your Prospective Area
Fortunately, the laws guiding e-bike usage are not as strict as other modes of transportation rules. However, you need to know the regulations to avoid legal charges during the summer holidays. Some countries do not allow e-bike riders to enter certain places, especially for wildlife conservation. You can get an e-bike with a removable throttle. This helps you to use only the pedal-assist features where the throttle is not allowed and vice versa.
Staying Hydrated Throughout the Journey
The importance of being hydrated throughout your adventure cannot be emphasized enough. It will help refuel your energy and cover a longer distance. Make sure you have excess water or fruit juice in your carriage. Interestingly, some e-bikes allow riders to clamp their water bottles to the handlebar, including Honbike products. Riders often lose a large amount of potassium and sodium electrolytes during summer. The best way to regain these electrolytes is to drink beverages with the needed content. However, avoid beverages that are high in calories.
Wearing the Right Pair of Summer Clothing: Enhances Riders Comfort
E-bikes are flexible and less rigid than most other modes of transportation. You can wear your summer cloth and be comfortable while on your e-bike. Meanwhile, light materials such as cotton are the most comfortable pair of clothing, among others. Make sure you can breathe well in your clothing material. You should also search the market for materials that absorb the body's sweat.
You can use a light glove material when you ride an e-bike with a flexible handle that enables you to grip it tightly. When your hand is messy with sweat, you may not enjoy serving your picnic dishes with your loved ones. Hence, an e-bike with the appropriate handle will amplify your summer travel experience.
Factors to Consider before Riding your E-bike in Summer Season
Before taking your e-bike to the road, you must consider certain factors. This article has discussed how you can amplify your summer experience, but you must also consider your safety. Hence, your safety should be paramount, regardless of the fun ahead of you.
- Make sure your body is not exposed to excess UV light. The skin being exposed to ultraviolet light may cause sunburn and other skin-related diseases. You can always postpone your adventure if the summer weather is too harsh.
- Confirm your e-bike is in proper condition before taking it to the road. The brake system and tire must function appropriately so as not to cause a sudden accident on the road.
- The road was possibly exposed to the ice during winter, so ensure it's in the best condition to ride on. The summer temperature should not be too high but moderate enough to accommodate your adventure.
Every adventurous person can amplify their summer experience by getting a durable and reliable e-bike. If you implement the tips above, your summer traveling experience will be stress-free. E-bikes are in high demand because they are suitable for commuting. Many e-bike users have recognized the transport mode as the best option for summer vacation. You can travel with an e-bike alone or use an additional transport mode, depending on the distance. Nevertheless, endeavor to always include e-bikes in your summer journey. | <urn:uuid:2bcf950b-16ff-4232-9276-d6f711380fa4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.honbike.com/blogs/news/tips-for-summer-e-bike-riding | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.953254 | 1,358 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), manager of Norway’s $1trn sovereign wealth fund, has revealed that its ethical exclusions have led to an “accumulated underperformance” of 1.3% compared with an unrestricted equity benchmark index over the last 13 years.
The disclosure is made in a 124-page report charting 20 years of responsible investment at the vast Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global, over which time it has by its own admission “evolved from a reluctant to an active owner”.
‘The cost of restricting ownership has been accepted as necessary to maintain this legitimacy’ – Norges Bank
Its exclusion-based underperformance translates to an average of 0.04% between its first exclusion in 2006 and the end of 2019. For contrast, the Oslo-based manager states that its annual management costs for the sovereign fund came to just under 0.05% in 2019.
The report is frank in outlining how Norges Bank has sought to negotiate its mandate to maximise financial return and the recognition by successive Norwegian governments that “there are limits to what the fund should own”.
“The cost of restricting ownership has been accepted as necessary to maintain this legitimacy”, it states.
At the end of 2019, 134 companies had been excluded, and this week three more companies were added to the list – Formosa Chemicals & Fibre Corp, Formosa Taffeta Co and Page Industries – over human rights concerns.
Norges Bank’s ethical advisor, The Council on Ethics, had also recommended the exclusion of PetroChina Ltd over corruption concerns, but the giant fund decided to continue with active ownership for now.
The new report covers three areas: investments, ownership and markets.
On investments, Norges Bank reveals that it has €17.2bn invested in environmental mandates. Those mandates have returned 7.3% since January 2010, compared to 9.6% for the benchmark, but Norges Bank adds that over the past five years the return on the environmental equity-related mandates has been significantly higher – 11.5% compared to 8.7% for the benchmark.
Investing in environmental companies is “not without challenges”, however, according to Norges Bank, which adds that it is an “area that is particularly suitable for active investment”.
“Deep analytical resources need to be deployed to avoid disadvantaged companies while uncovering disruptors and winners”, it writes.
Last year, Norges Bank was allowed to add renewable energy infrastructure as a new asset class to its environmental mandates and double the upper limit for the mandates to Kr120bn (€11.5bn) to accommodate the new asset class.
It says that it has “begun building in-house investment capacity and expertise to analyse and invest in renewable energy infrastructure”.
The focus will initially be on opportunities in European and North American wind and solar assets.
Norges Bank also confirmed that from 2021 it will publish its shareholder votes ahead of company annual meetings and explain any votes that go against board recommendations.
It states that it has “come a long way since it initially avoided using its voting rights for fear of getting involved in difficult decisions.”
Resolutions on sustainability issues are described in the report as “often the most difficult decisions”, requiring “individual analysis”.
Norges Bank relies on “a number of intermediaries” to carry out its voting wishes but acknowledges that in “most markets” it does “not receive any confirmation that our votes have been received by the company”.
It adds that it is “working with regulators and service providers to improve the voting process and ensure that our votes are registered.”
Roughly 87% of voting decisions have been automated since Norges Bank introduced voting guidelines.
On engagement, Norges Bank states that company board interactions have increased year on year, from 70 interactions in 2013 to 167 in 2019, but it also acknowledges that the “results of these dialogues would be difficult to measure”.
The Government Pension Fund Global – also known as the ‘Oil Fund’ – was established in 1990 to invest the surplus revenues of the Norwegian petroleum sector.
Since then it has grown to be the single largest owner in the world’s stock markets with an average stake of 1.5% in every listed company.
Norges Bank says that being a sovereign investor imposes “certain requirements” on its behaviour when it comes to engagement, and cites this as the reason it rarely joins investor coalitions or collaborative engagements, due to its “need to maintain control of the agenda and approach to interaction”.
It is not, for example, a member of Climate Action 100+, the multi-trillion investor engagement initiative targeting the world’s dirtiest companies.
Norges Bank also adds that it does not believe that it is “appropriate” for it to set deadlines for companies when engaging. “Such requirements could in practice end up as a form of positive screening or create pressure to divest, which would not be aligned with our investment mandate”, it states.
On sustainability reporting, Norges Bank highlights the “lack of standard units of accounting” and a reliance on “subjective narratives”, making it difficult to compare companies’ sustainability performance.
Norges Bank supports calls for the “harmonisation” of the countless sustainability reporting frameworks and urges investors to be more “proactive” in guiding companies “on what and how to report, down to the level of specific frameworks, standards and data points”.
“We have gone from being a small and reluctant owner to becoming a large and active owner in more than 9,000 companies”, reflects Norges Bank’s outgoing CEO Yngve Slyngstad. “I am proud of the work that has been done and what we have achieved over the last two decades.” | <urn:uuid:215f87ce-0e39-481a-9208-0eb381df922b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.responsible-investor.com/nbim-takes-1-3-hit-for-ethical-investments-but-says-exclusions-maintain-legitimacy-of-usd1trn-sovereign-fund/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.959572 | 1,268 | 1.554688 | 2 |
INDIAN FASHION DESIGNER WENDELL RODRICKS
Wendell Rodricks is a prominent fashion designer based in the western Indian region of Goa. He has been listed among one of India’s top ten designers.His work has involved a wide range of fashion—from lecturing on world costume history to fashion journalism and styling for international advertising campaigns.
He is openly gay.Rodricks started as a catering graduate but later moved to fashion designing.The Goa-based fashion designer is critical of attempts to make beauty pagents “more in line with our culture” and what he has termed a xenophobic attitude to even simple fund-raising events which are “not part of our culture”.
Rodricks has researched the theme of the history of the Goan costume for three years and interned at The National Costume Museum in Lisbon and the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York. | <urn:uuid:40420ed8-41c1-4299-a119-6dedc1b23346> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://infobharti.com/fashion-industrywebsites/indian-fashion-designer-wendell-rodricks-2.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.950633 | 205 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Salsa, to many Americans, can be described as a quintessential part of American party food. We love it for our football and hockey games, we love it for movie night with our loved ones. Further, it tastes amazing when dumped en masse over scrambled or fried eggs in the morning. It is hard to conceive of a food that would not be better with salsa lovingly dispersed all over it.
Of course, salsa is not American. Many ask “what is salsa“. Salsa, simply, is the Spanish word for “sauce”. However, it is so much more than that. This tasty, zippy, oftentimes spicy dip has roots tracing their way back to the soils of early-15th century Mexico, according to the Nibble.
The Aztecs ruled Mexico from 1428 to 1521 when they were conquered by the Hernan Cortes led Spanish expeditionary force. Their rule may have been cut short, but their impact on the culinary world can still be felt to this day. That’s right; salsa is thought to be nearly 600 years old.
Despite being around for nearly six centuries, classic mild salsa dip has not changed all that much for many people. However, for others, classic mild salsa dip needed to be updated. Here are three of the best takes on salsa for the modern age.
Classic Mild Salsa Dip
Classic mild salsa dip is simple and delicious. Emeril Lagasse of Food Network fame recommends taking fresh tomatoes, red onion, a jalapeno, and cilantro and mashing them all together. After getting the mixture to a consistency you like, squeeze in fresh lime juice, and add salt and pepper to taste. Mix well and enjoy with your favorite tortilla chips.
Southwestern salsa recipes are known for being more complex in flavor than their predecessors, the classic mild salsa dips. MyRecipes.com has a killer recipe for southwestern salsa that is not all that different from the classic, however. By adding cumin, garlic, and red pepper, you get a noticeably different flavor profile. Other variations include adding black beans and corn for sweetness, chipotle for some smoke, and a dash of cinnamon for added Mexican authenticity.
Pico de Gallo
Pico de gallo salsa dips, meaning “Beak of the Rooster”, according to Kitchen Savvy, differ from salsa in that they do not have to be made strictly out of tomato, onion, and chili peppers. Instead, they can incorporate sweet elements by using mango, pineapple, and other fresh fruits. Perhaps the most classic pico de gallo, however, is the most simple. Take tomatoes, cilantro, garlic, sea salt, chilis, and fresh chopped onions together to create a chunky, fresh salsa that will liven up any party.
No matter what recipe you decide to go with, you can be safe in the knowledge that fresh salsa calories are almost always low. If you add cheese, oils, or any meats, then that will, naturally, change. Salsa nutrition varies based on the contents but is generally high in natural vitamins, sugars, and fiber. Just be careful; store bought brands are jam packed with salt, but with these home-made varieties, we’re betting you will never use store-bought salsa again. Happy eating! Check out this site for more. | <urn:uuid:e3806ac8-a322-4654-8f7e-0595c355bc7a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blogempresarial.com/2013/10/three-amazing-recipes-for-every-salsa-lover/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.949321 | 703 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Silver has been a form of money and store of value for more than 4,000 years. Our nations founders used Spanish coinage AKA pieces of eight to anchor American currency. However, it lost its role as legal tender when the use of the silver standard came to a final end in 1935.
Currently, the main demand for silver is industrial uses including: appliances, electronics such as solar cells and RFID tags and medical uses such as silver-based bio-cide and nano-particles to deliver silver ions. Silver as an investment accounts for just over 10% of the world’s supply. Thus, investors must keep a close watch on industrial breakthroughs and seasonal peaks and valleys associated with buying jewelry.
Stability vs Volatility
These fluctuations affect the silver market much more than gold because it is smaller. A market’s size and scope determine it’s stability. For example, the price has spiked radically twice in recent years. Once in 1979, when sons of a Texas oil billionaire were accused of trying to corner the market and again after the 2008 crash during conflicts between President Obama and the Tea Party movement. In 1979, the price jumped 749%! Conversely, it fell 50% in four days in 1980.
Importantly, silver’s wide array of uses makes it a stable investment always. Somewhere, someone will need more and usually in very large quantities. The wide array of industrial uses also creates a mitigating factor to the whims of investors and love struck suitors. Increasingly, there will be more and more utilitarian applications. Likewise, as the demand and uses for silver increase, so will it’s value.
Looking through this, we can see that the same things that create volatility may also create stability. Industry can have a great effect but the causes are predictable. Most of the great technological innovations today are taking place in plain sight. Likewise, the human factor is not a fickle as it seems. Commodities brokers and traders often cite predictable trends similar to livestock and produce. Ultimately, trends can make a few bucks here or there but precious metals will likely survive as treasured investments…forever. | <urn:uuid:3139c206-85e5-4ebb-b67a-091407332f8e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sdcoinco.sagitarra.com/2020/07/23/silver-investing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.958417 | 440 | 2.25 | 2 |
Crash modification factors (CMFs) are listed in the Highway Safety Manual and other authoritative publications. This information does not allow the reader to distinguish between the predictions of safety effect that can be made confidently and are likely to lead to correct decisions and those that can easily be wrong. Nor can it be known how transferable past research results are to decisions about future actions to be implemented under different circumstances. The conceptual framework described in this paper aims to provide guidance for research about CMFs and for meta-analyses. The central claim is that CMFs are random variables and are not universal constants that apply everywhere at all times. The smaller the standard deviation of a CMF, the more confident the related decision making can be. Therefore, the aim of research into CMFs is to reduce their standard deviations. Ways to do so efficiently are indicated. The requisite theory and equations are provided. | <urn:uuid:47b7050c-91eb-4e2c-9e6a-64d92da7a888> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vivo.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n318471SE | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.948162 | 181 | 1.90625 | 2 |
How To Choose The Right Sunscreen For Your Skin
Sun Protection/Skincare damage
Summer is here, and with that comes the promise of sunshine and good vibes! We know that the sun often gets a bad rep for being the leading cause of premature aging, and skin cancer, and is much maligned by dermatologists. So, why is it that we are so drawn to being outside in the sunshine? Could it be that, actually, there are some bonafide benefits that our bodies intuitively know we need? Absolutely! Here’s just a few:
- Firstly, it’s the healthiest, easiest and most natural way to top your vitamin D levels; very important for healthy bones and teeth!
- Secondly, the sun has natural mood boosting effects for your mental wellbeing, as it helps your body produce serotonin (the “happy” hormone). Turns out a “sunny disposition” isn’t just a turn of phrase! Take a look around in summer- isn’t everyone just a little bit happier?!
- Finally, it can help with regulating your sleep cycles. Serotonin and melatonin (the “sleep” hormone) work in harmony, so by catching some early morning exposure to direct sunlight, it can actually help settle your circadian rhythm, meaning a better night’s sleep!
Pretty good, right?
So, the sweeping notion that the sun is bad and you must avoid it at all costs isn’t completely true, but, that said, the sun can indeed be harmful; it’s all about enjoying it safely, and protecting the skin you're in!
The skin is the largest organ of the body and it does a lot of heavy lifting as it’s your first barrier of protection, so it’s important to show it some love by wearing sunscreen!
With the myriad of endless choices of sun creams out there, you might find yourself wondering what to choose? “Is expensive better- or am I just paying for fancy packaging?” “I don’t like chemicals and wearing creams- is there a natural alternative?” “What about me? My skin is always breaking out. Won’t sunscreen make it worse?” “I don’t really tend to burn- do I really need it?”
To save you time and confusion, here’s what you need to know when choosing the best sunscreen for you. And, remember that, whether you're fairer or darker skinned, sunscreen is indeed vital!
Know Your Skin’s Needs.
Consider your skin type. If you’re prone to breakouts and acne (yes, the sun can help “dry them out”, but don’t ever skimp on sunscreen!), look for oil-free, non-comedogenic formulas. Suffer with those pesky brown patches (melasma) that darken in the sun? Then look for mineral (or physical) sunscreen active ingredients, not chemical ones. Do you do a lot of swimming, or get your glow on by working out outside? Then, you may want to look for waterproof, rather than water-resistant sunscreens.
Understand The Level Of Protection
The sun has two main types of Ultraviolet rays (UV), the easiest way to understand this is that UVA are the “Aging rays”. UVA has a longer wavelength, and these are the rays that “age” your skin and cause premature wrinkling. UVB are the “burning rays”. These are shorter length wavelengths and are the rays that cause your skin to burn - you can often, but not always, actually feel it happening! And it can happen fast - just 15 minutes in the sun can be all that it takes for your skin to burn.
Not all sunscreens are created equally, so even if they are deemed “safe” by the FDA. In order to keep your skin safe from both UVA and UVB, you need to look for “Broad Spectrum” skin protection. This means it has met the list of requirements by the FDA for protection from both UVA and UVB rays. This applies regardless of whether it is a natural or a chemical sunscreen.
SPF (Sun Protection Factor) is another key thing. You want to aim for sunscreen that has 30 SPF. If you’re aiming for a sunkissed glow, then you will be safer this way, and less likely to burn, than if you use a lower SPF.
Natural vs. Conventional
The obvious difference between natural and "regular" sunscreen is in the ingredients and how they work to shield you from the sun.
Natural sunscreen uses (mineral) physical UV filters like zinc oxide and titanium dioxide (literally just grounded up minerals), whereas chemical sunscreens opt for chemical UV filters like octocrylene, avobenzone, and helioplex.
The natural UV filters in mineral sunscreen work by reflecting the sun's rays, whereas chemical filters absorb sun rays into their compounds so your skin doesn't get burned.
If you have sensitive skin, or are prone to skin irritation and breakouts, then opt for mineral sunscreen, and be sure to use a hydrating aftersun, because sunscreen can dry your skin out.
We have a selection of reef friendly, natural sunscreens including for kids, and if you’re unsure, pop in store, or drop us a tweet if you’re buying online, and we can help you out!
We recommend our Mad Hippie's chemical-free, all natural Facial SPF 30+ Sunscreen which utilizes zinc oxide, the safest and most natural physical blocking agent available. And as a bonus, this one doesn’t dry out your skin!
Finally, remember the Golden Sunshine Safety Rules:
- If you’re basking by the pool or at the beach, avoid baking yourself in the midday sun between 12-3pm- you’re more likely to burn as the sun’s rays are at their strongest. Build up your exposure gradually, that way you’re less likely to burn and end up with peeling snake-skin a week later!
- Reapply your sunscreen regularly, even if you’re not swimming and don’t be stingy with it!
- Sunscreens are usually good to last for three years, but if you leave it in a hot car, or out in the sun, that will shorten its shelf life. If you’re in doubt, don’t use old sunscreens, especially on your face or sensitive areas.
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In respect to this, why does my stomach damage after apple juice?
Apples include the sugar fructose, which is a FODMAP – meals that are not simply digestible. Mixed with fibre, the fructose sits within the digestive system for longer. It ferments, creating further trapped fuel, which can cause bloating ache.
Moreover, can Apple Juice Give You Fuel? When micro organism break down undigested sweeteners within the colon, fuel can consequence. Many fruit drinks, together with pear and apple juice, include fructose. Sodas and another sugary drinks with high-fructose corn syrup can be culprits of fuel as effectively.
In order that, what occurs while you drink a whole lot of apple juice?
Juice was the least filling — even when fiber was added to it ( 20 ). For these causes, the danger of taking in too many energy and gaining weight from ingesting juice is larger, in comparison with consuming complete apples.
1. Might contribute to weight acquire.
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Can apples cause digestive issues?
Apples. Nonetheless, apples have additionally been recognized to cause bloating and different digestive points for some folks. The culprits are fructose (which is a FODMAP) and the excessive fiber content material. Fructose and fiber can each be fermented within the giant gut, and will cause fuel and bloating.
Is apple juice good for stomach ache?
Which juice reduces stomach ache?
Boil 4 sliced carrots, 4 cups of water, and one teaspoon of dried peppermint or one peppermint teabag.
Why do I really feel sick after ingesting juice?
Does apple juice Constipate?
Can ingesting too much orange juice make your stomach damage?
Can juicing offer you a stomach ache?
Some time we’re as regards to stomach upset, sure fruits and veggies are so highly effective that you could expertise some stomach misery if you drink too much of them. Too many leafy greens or wheatgrass can do that. For others, too much beet will do the identical.
Why does apple juice make you poop?
What causes stomach cramps?
Why do I really feel sick after ingesting apple juice?
Is 100% apple juice good for you?
Is apple juice good for acid reflux disorder?
Why is there arsenic in apple juice?
What drinks assist with bloating?
- Inexperienced tea.
- Water with lemon or cucumber.
- Watermelon smoothie.
- Peppermint tea.
- Pineapple frappé
How lengthy does stomach bloating final?
How do I do away with trapped fuel in my stomach?
- Let it out. Holding in fuel can cause bloating, discomfort, and ache.
- Cross stool. A bowel motion can relieve fuel.
- Eat slowly.
- Keep away from chewing gum.
- Say no to straws.
- Stop smoking.
- Select non-carbonated drinks.
- Remove problematic meals.
Why am I instantly so gassy?
How do you Debloat?
- 1 Eat potassium-rich meals. Getty Pictures.
- 2 And asparagus. Getty Pictures.
- 3 Go for a stroll. Getty Pictures.
- 4 Attempt dandelion root tea. Nikolay_Donetsk.
- 5 Take an Epsom salt tub. Getty Pictures.
- 6 Get out your foam curler.
- 7 Take into account taking a magnesium tablet.
- 8 Or, probably a digestive enzyme.
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◆◆ Program ◆◆
Remarks by Arigatou Foundation Keishi Miyamoto
13:15 First Session
“Ethics Education in a World of Religious and Cultural Diversity”
Opening Remarks: Hans Kung President, Global Ethic Foundation
Panelists: Kul Gautam Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF
A.T. Ariyaratne Founder and President, Sarvodaya Shramadana
Nour Ammari GNRC Youth, Fisher Program
Moderator: Mukengeshayi Matata Director, Oriens Institute for Religious Research
15:00 Second Session
“The Role of Religious People in Ethics Education”
Opening Remarks: Didi Talwalkar Swadhyaya Parivar
Panelists: Hasan Abu Nimah Director,
Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies,
Mamiko Okada Professor, University of Hyogo
Moderator: Soho Machida Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
16:25 Announcement of Statement
Interfaith Council on Ethics Education for Children
Abbreviated Biography of the Panelists
Dr. Hans Kung
President, Global Ethic Foundation
Dr. Kung was born in Sursee, Switzerland in 1928. He is a scholar of philosophy and theology, and the author of many books and articles. Professor Kung studied at the Gregorian University in Rome, the Sorbonne, and the Institut Catholique de Paris. He drafted “The Declaration Toward a Global Ethic” adopted by the Parliament of the World’s Religions in 1993, as well as the Proposal of the InterAction Council for a Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities in 1997.
Mr. Kul Gautam
Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF
Assistant Secretary General, United Nations
Born in Nepal in 1949, Mr. Gautam has had a long and distinguishing career with UNICEF since 1973. Mr. Gautam was the key senior UNICEF officer responsible for drafting the Declaration and Plan of Action of the 1990 World Summit for Children, and in 2002, the UN General Assembly Special Session on Children attended by 70 world leaders and thousands of child rights activists and civil society leaders, including celebrities and Nobel Prize Laureates.
Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne
Founder and President, Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement
Dr. Ariyaratne was born in Sri Lanka in 1931. He is founder of the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement, which has made enormous contributions to rural Sri Lanka through community development. Dr. Ariyaratne is a recipient of the Magsaysay Award, which is widely known as the “Asian Nobel Prize,” for his community leadership in establishing and guiding the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement. His work is done in pursuit of the ultimate ideal of “Sarvodaya” (universal awakening).
Miss Nour Ammari
GNRC Youth, Fisher Program
Miss Nour Ammari, born in Jordan in 1987, is a senior at Ahhliyyah School for Girls in Amman. She is a member of The Fisher Program, which provides youth with experiences in inter-faith dialogue, human and child rights advocacy, and peace-building and reconciliation. She is an active participation in GNRC activities at the local and regional levels. Miss Ammari is a member of her school choir and drama club, and her aim is to help show the world that compassion and kindness still exist in humanity.
Fr. Mukengeshayi Matata, CICM
Director, Oriens Institute for Religious Research
Fr. Mukengeshayi Matata, CICM, was born in Congo in 1960. He studied philosophy and theology in Kinshasa and in Cameroon before arriving in Japan in 1989. After becoming proficient in Japanese, he entered Sophia University in 1991, and received a Masters Degree in Theology there in 1995. He was appointed Director of Oriens Institute for Religious Research in 1998 and is President of UCIP East Asia Federation. He writes often on Christianity and Japanese culture.
Mrs. Dhanashree Shreenivas Talwalkar
Dhanashree Talwalkar, known as “Didi” (elder sister) to millions touched by the ideas of Swadhyaya (“study of the Self”), is the daughter of Revered Pandurangshastri Athavale, Swadhyaya’s founder. For nearly three decades, Didi has worked to create profound understanding of germinal ideas of Swadhyaya all over the world. She combines in her rare qualities of wisdom, love and activism to initiate, guide and motivate Swadhyayees towards selfless service to mankind.
Ambassador Hasan Abu Nimah
Director, Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, Jordan
Ambassador Hasan Abu Nimah was born in Batir, Palestine, in 1935. Most recently Jordan's ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations (1995-2000), Mr. Abu Nimah has served as ambassador to many European countries and to the European Community. He was a member of the Jordanian delegation to the peace talks between Jordan and Israel, which took place in Washington, DC. Mr. Abu Nimah is a prolific writer in English and Arabic, and lectures often at the Jordan Institute of Diplomacy.
Dr. Soho Machida
Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Dr. Machida was born in Japan in 1950. After 20 years as a Buddhist priest, he went to the U.S. and earned a Masters in Theology from Harvard Divinity School and a Doctorate in Asian Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. He was professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University from 1990 to 1998, and taught at the National University of Singapore from 1998 to 2000, when he returned to Japan. He is an expert in comparative religion, comparative civilizations, and bioethics.
Dr. Mamiko Okada
Professor, University of Hyogo
Dr. Mamiko Okada was born in Kyoto, Japan, and graduated from Tokyo University. After earning a Dr.Phil. from Bonn University, Germany, she taught at International Buddhist University and Kobe Women’s University. Dr. Okada is a trustee of the Japanese Association for Religious Studies, and a member of numerous committees. She is the director of the non-profit Senhime Project, and is on the Ethics Committee at Western Kobe Medical Center. She is an expert in environmental and religious studies, philosophy, networking, and regional currencies.
Interfaith Council on Ethics Education for Children
The Interfaith Council promotes ethics education in cooperation with all
sharing this vision, seeking partnerships and developing alliances with
religious communities, United Nations agencies, NGOs, and a broad range
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Social and Emotional Learning On-Line: Tips for Maintaining That Important Human Connection with Students and Sustaining Their Engagement Remotely
It feels weird doing online now what we would normally do with students in person every day. Academics can be hard enough in the classroom let alone tackling social and emotional learning remotely too.
Are you wondering, how am I going to have the same impact, make meaningful contact, know if I’m getting through or not if I can’t see my students’ faces? How do I use the technology available to me, make it my own, and really connect with students and parents?
You’re not alone. As an author and professional speaker who travels to schools doing anti-bullying work, I understand why these questions are important.
Below are some tips I hope you’ll find helpful. I’ve also provided some videos with guided practice.
- Find the camera lens on your device and put a small piece of tape next to it or a sticky note with an arrow pointing to it. This will help you maintain eye contact during the lesson.
- Make sure whatever room you’re doing your lesson from is well-lit.
- Before you begin, take a deep breath, hold it for a count of seven, exhale, and remind yourself that you and your students are connected in spirit.
- Always look into the camera lens. Even if you can see your students or a moderator on your screen, speak into the camera lens, otherwise it will appear as if you’re gazing off into the distance.
- Relax, smile, talk with your students as you always do and pretend the camera lens is your window to them. Imagine their faces as you’re giving the lesson, imagine them on the other side of that window, listening and engaging.
- You’re not on TV. You don’t have to be perfect. And even television’s most endearing moments are the bloopers. If you have a blooper moment, smile and keep going. Your students won’t remember the mistake. What they will remember is laughing with you at a time when laughter was more precious than ever.
- If the online teaching experience makes you feel self-conscious, practice just talking into the camera. Make a few videos and find your comfort level. Recite the lyrics of a favorite song or describe the weather outside. Just have fun with it.
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By Bethany Hayes
Winter squashes are one of the few foods that will last for months just the way that they are without any extra preservation method needed. To store squash for the months to come, you first have to try curing squash, which is a lot easier than you might think.
Growing up, I spent a lot of time reading Little House in the Big Woods, and one of the scenes that I remember well is Laura and Mary playing in the attic, surrounded by large pumpkins, squash, and other foods that their parents preserved. I was fascinated by that, and it influenced me as I grew.
Could you keep pumpkins, squash, and all kinds of other foods in an attic all winter long?
Yes, you sure can! It all starts with harvesting your squash correctly, and then you can cure it and store it for the months to come. Let’s take a look at how you can do this at your home!
What Does Winter Squash Include?
Some people get confused about what we mean when we say winter squash. These don’t include things such as zucchini, luffas, or gourds. Summer squashes, no matter the variety, cannot be stored for the long-term. When we say long-term, we mean an average of 4-6 months or potentially longer.
Winter squashes include:
When we saw winter squash, it’s the squashes that you plant after the danger of frost passes, and you don’t harvest until the fall for winter storage. They typically require a lot more days to reach maturity than summer squash.
For example, an average zucchini that I grow takes between 55-60 days to reach maturity, but winter squashes can take 90-120 days.
Some people are surprised that pumpkins are considered a winter squash, but they really are. There is a reason why the settlers and our ancestors devoted large portions of their gardens to pumpkins – they store incredibly well and are full of rich nutrients.
Average Squash Storage Life By Type
How long your squashes will last in storage depends on the type that you’re growing. Here are the average shelf life after proper curing.
|Acorn Squash||1-2 Months – Do NOT Cure|
|Spaghetti Squash||2 Months|
|Hubbard Types||3-6 Months|
How to Properly Harvest Winter Squashes
Harvesting occurs when the fruits are mature, but how do you know it’s time to harvest them? Here are some signs they’re ready to be picked.
- You kept track of your days to maturity and reached those on your calendar.
- The vines attaching to the squash are dried, allowing you to harvest with ease.
- Depending on the variety, the rind reached the proper color.
- You cannot scratch the rind with your thumbnail.
- Harvest before the nighttime temperatures dip into the 40’s and before the first frost. While they can survive a light frost and taste sweeter, it reduces how long they can stay in storage.
Once you know it’s time to harvest, you want to do so in the correct way. You’ll need pruners or a garden knife to cut through the vine cleanly. Don’t yank the vines! Make sure to cut 2-4 inches above the fruit, leaving some of the squash stems to cure as well. Also, broken or loose stems make the squash won’t store well, so take care!
Of course, there is always an exception to remember. Hubbard squash store best with the stem completely removed.
Curing Squash: What You Need to Do
Once you harvest the squash, you have to get it ready for curing and storage. The first step is to clean the fruits with a dry towel, removing dirt and debris. You shouldn’t use water to clean the skins; the squash needs to stay dry.
Inspect each one thoroughly. You want blemish-free squashes for storage; any bruises, punctures, or deep cuts will reduce how long they can store. Minor cuts or scratches will be healed with curing, but if it seems like it’s too deep, stay on the side of caution and plan to eat it sooner.
What Is Curing?
You might be wondering – what is curing, and why do I need to take the time to do so?
The preparation process for storage is called curing, and it truly doesn’t take much effort on your end at all. If you want the fruits for long storage, then curing is an essential step.
Curing is similar to a drying process. During this time, excess moisture evaporates, and the fruit’s respiration rate slows. These are two steps that must happen for storage. As evaporation takes place, it helps concentrate the natural sugars inside the fruit, leading to a delicious, sweet-tasting squash.
Simultaneously, the skin (or rind) will continue to get harder as respiration slows down. The respiration reduction reduces how vulnerable your squashes are to rot and collapse so that they can store for even longer.
Pretty cool, right?
How to Cure Squash for Storage
I promise; the steps are so easy. You don’t need any previous experience to cure squash correctly. Here are the steps you need to know.
- Squashes and pumpkins need to be stored for ten days between 80-85℉ and humidity levels between 80-85%.
- For 10-14 days, you need to leave your squash in a warm location with good air circulation. Ideally, you’ll have chicken wire underneath or a window screen, but it’s not a requirement.
- If you have significantly large fruits, you’ll need to make sure you rotate them unless you have a screen underneath. It could take up to 4 weeks in total for large pumpkins and other squashes to cure and harden.
- The fruits must be kept dry during the curing process.
- Ideally, you’ll cure outside, but if you don’t have an appropriate location, a small cabinet that has an electric heater works, as well as a warm shed or garage with a fan or the door left open for air circulation.
Sometimes, you have to be creative if you want to keep them outside, and remember, it’s only 10-14 days! You can move them if it’s going to rain and put them in a sheltered location. I put some of my squash inside my shed, and I also have a slatted table near a fence where I place a few. It’s right near my porch, so I can grab them if it starts to rain.
Once the fruits are cured, you can do one of two things before putting them into their final spot in storage. You can either polish the fruits with olive oil using a cheesecloth, creating a moisture-prevention finish. Another option is to use a water and bleach solution that wards off bacteria.
It’s important to note that you shouldn’t cure acorn squash. It actually reduces their storage life.
Storing Squash for the Months to Come
Once cured, you can move the winter squash into a cool, dry place for winter storage. They should be kept in a location that is around 50-55℉, with a relative humidity between 50-70 percent. You don’t want the humidity level much higher, or it’ll lead to the fruits rotting.
Keep your cured squash on a shelf or a rack rather than the floor, which might have bacteria or the dampness could cause rotting. The skins must always stay dry to reduce the risk of bacteria or fungi taking over.
Each week, take a quick look at your squashes. If you notice any spots developing, move them away from the other ones, and use them quickly. That could be a sign that it might start to rot.
The Best Time to Eat Each Type of Squash
Many are ready to eat when they’re mature at harvest time, but some do better with time in storage for the best flavor. Remember that the process increases the natural sweetness, so it’s typically recommended that you wait between 50 to 55 days before eating.
Here are some suggestions based on when their flavor is the best!
- Acorn Squash
These fruits can be eaten at harvest, and the best quality for eating is within 2.5 months after harvest.
- Spaghetti Squash
You can eat spaghetti squash as soon as you harvest them, and they store well for about 2.5 months. That tends to be the peak of their flavor.
This type of squash is often best consumed when you harvest them, and they maintain this quality for up to 3 months after harvesting.
- Hubbards & Smaller Kabocha
You could cook these right when you harvest them if you picked when they were mature and ready. However, you’ll find that the flavor stays consistent for up to 4 months.
- Larger Kabocha & Buttercup
You’ll find they have the best flavor after about 1.5-2 months in storage, but they store well for up to 6 months.
- Hubbard & Butternut
The best time to eat these squashes is two months into storage, but they’ll keep well for up to 6 months. You have plenty of time to enjoy these. Most save them for last!
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Throughout the play Shakespeare presents the audience with strong and sometimes conflicting views of these gender roles. What exactly defines being a man or a woman? How does an individual’s grasp of these roles effect their actions? Shakespeare shows that a clear and accurate understanding of the concept of masculinity is of critical importance in the success of a ruler.
In particular, he illustrates how Macbeth’s acceptance of a perverted, violent view of masculinity leads his kingdom into chaos and turmoil, and leads Macbeth to his inevitable demise. Moral order can only be restored when the kingdom is lead by a wiser king with a better understanding of what it is to be a man. As the most prominent female character in the play Lady Macbeth might be expected to be representative of the ideal 11th century woman, but this is not the case. At times she seems even more “masculine” than her husband.
Indeed, it is Lady Macbeth who most directly introduces and inspires the cruel and violent view of masculinity later adopted by Macbeth. She says, “Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty” (1. 5. 38-41). She quite literally asks that she lose her femininity and have it replaced by a masculinity she defines as being full of cruelty. She further emphasizes the point by saying, “Come to my woman’s breasts, and take my milk for gall” (1. 5. 45-46).
This type of language directly referencing the gendered female body would be necessary because the player Lady Macbeth would be a man. By presenting us with a Lady Macbeth that clashes so strikingly with the popularly accepted view of ideal femininity, Shakespeare shows the audience that women are capable of being just as cruel and vicious as men even if society wants to define them differently. The play goes on to demonstrate that women are also equally susceptible to the consequences of such behavior. The guilt over being a party to murder drives Lady Macbeth to madness and eventually suicide.
Furthermore, the use of Lady Macbeth in this way may be a reference to the Book of Genesis and the story of Adam and Eve. Macbeth is inspired to murder by his wife in the same way Eve convinced Adam to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Including the three witches and the goddess Hecate all the figures in the play who manipulate Macbeth are female. Perhaps this is reference to femininity as the origin of sin. Macbeth’s primary sin is his inability to successfully come to terms with his masculinity.
When he expresses his doubts about killing Duncan, Lady Macbeth is able to convince him by challenging his manhood. “When you durst do it, then you were a man; and to be more than what you were, you would be so much more the man” (1. 7. 49-51).
In this passage she plays on his masculine sense of ambition. Ironically, at this point she as the “feminine” character seems to be more in touch with her ambition than he is. Lady Macbeth even goes so far as to compare his willingness to kill Duncan with his ability to perform sexually. “From this time such I account thy love. Art thou afeard to be the same in thine own act and valour as thou art in desire? ” (1. 7. 38-41).
By emasculating her husband in this way she is able to manipulate him into killing Duncan as a way to prove his manhood. While Macbeth’s doubts about killing his King foreshadow the error of his path he eventually begins to embody his cruel and violent view of masculinity. However, embracing this new role only increases his problems. He fears that, “Upon my head they have placed a fruitless crown, and put a barren scepter in my grip, thence to be wrenched with an unlineal hand, no son of mine succeeding” (3. . 62-65).
Fearing that according to the prophesy Banquo’s heirs will seize his throne; Macbeth hires murderers to kill Banquo and his son. When Macbeth first heard the witches prophesize his rule he expressed misgivings at the possibility of having to kill to achieve it. At this point he has associated his masculinity with cruelty and violence to such an extent that he thinks nothing of ordering the murder of his best friend and his son. Ironically, he convinces the murderers to kill Banquo by asking if they are manly enough to take revenge upon him. Now, if you have a station in the file, not i’th’ worst rank of manhood, say’t, and I will put that business in your bosoms, whose execution takes your enemy off” (3. 1. 103-106).
The conspicuous similarity in the way he manipulates these men and the way he was manipulated by his wife earlier emphasize his acceptance of a cruel view of what it is to be a man. With the murder of Banquo, Macbeth’s concept of masculinity begins to tear apart his personal life and his kingdom. Macbeth held a banquet with all the nobles that should have been the high point of his new reign.
Instead, the ghost of the murdered Banquo appeared and sat at his place at the head of the table. Shakespeare does not make clear whether this is actually Banquo’s ghost or just a hallucination brought on by guilt over the murder. Either way the event had a significant impact on Macbeth and what the nobles thought of him. Speaking to the ghost, “Thou canst not say I did it. Never shake thy gory locks at me” (3. 4. 50), Macbeth appeared mad in eyes of his guests. Macbeth’s action brought on by a faulty view of his masculinity undercut him in what should have been a moment of great triumph.
On a less personal level, Macbeth’s rash murder of Banquo began to spread dissention throughout his kingdom. Lennox and another lord call Macbeth a tyrant and discuss their suspicions of his involvement in the murders of Duncan and Banquo. The murder even incites Macduff to join Malcolm in England in asking for King Edward’s help fighting Macbeth. This signals the beginning of the end for Macbeth. As Macbeth’s world falls apart around him he resorts more and more upon his convoluted view of masculinity and what type of action it takes to be a man.
Macbeth orders the murder of Macduff’s wife and children while he is away in England. This cruel manifestation of his concept of manhood indirectly leads to his death and the restoration of order in Scotland. In a test of Macduff’s loyalty Malcolm began to list off his own faults and suggested that he would be no better a king than Macbeth was. Upon hearing this Macduff said that Malcolm should not be king and should not even be fit to live. With such a response Malcolm knew Macduff was loyal to Scotland and retracted his statements about his vices.
Performing such a witty test of loyalty shows that Malcolm thought of himself as a wise and clever man. However, he did have one character flaw that would have lead him down the same path as Macbeth. He shared Macbeth’s cruel and violent view of the nature of masculinity. Ironically, it is the brutal murder of Macduff’s family perpetrated by Macbeth that allows Malcolm to avoid this fortune. When news reaches England about the fate of Macduff’s family, Malcolm responds by saying, “Dispute it like a man” (5. 1. 221).
He reacts automatically and immediately by turning to violence to remedy the situation, and associates that kind of solution with being a man. Macduff responds to this, “I shall do so, but I must also feel it as a man” (5. 1. 222-223). The effects of this remark are two-fold. The first part of this reply marks Macduff as the man who will kill Macbeth. Macbeth’s tainted view of masculinity spiraled out of control and created the enemy that would destroy him. Indeed, even when all the signs portending his doom came to pass Macbeth spared no time for thought.
He still clung to his violent masculine role, and died fighting with reckless abandon. In addition to identifying Macbeth’s killer, this dialogue shows how Macduff is not just an ally to Malcolm but also a teacher. He advises him that feeling and thinking are a necessary component to masculinity in addition to action. Learning this lesson means that Malcolm will be able to become the kind of wise, compassionate ruler that Duncan was, rather than the tyrant that Macbeth became.
Malcolm proves he has taken this lesson to heart in the last scene. After the battle is largely won Malcolm learns of the death of Siward’s son. Rather than trying to inspire him to fight as he had previously done with Macduff, Malcolm declares, “He’s worth more sorrow, and that I’ll spend for him” (5. 11. 17). This statement shows that Malcolm has come to a complete understanding of the concept of masculinity and what it means to a ruler. He can now be the man to restore order to Scotland and lead the country benevolently. | <urn:uuid:475a0afa-0722-43fb-9690-c469ccaa7b70> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://graduateway.com/the-roles-of-masculinity-and-femininity-in-macbeth/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.972885 | 2,020 | 3.65625 | 4 |
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Photograph Title: Western Wear Shop Sign
Caption: The parking lot for Alcala's Western wear shop in marked by its idiosyncratic neon signage. The shop was founded in 1972 by Luis Alcala and remains a family-owned enterprise. It is known for its selection of fitted hats (from wool to ten-gallon cowboy to chinchilla fur) and boots ($75 leather to $4, 000 alligator). In 2000, 28 years after its opening, the store was one of the largest retailers of Western wear in the region.
More pictures of Alcala's.
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Having dropped out of school at sixteen to pursue his career as a painter, Creme painted, drew and exhibited throughout his life. Originally working in landscapes and then an abstracted figurative style, in the 1960s Creme began a period of esoteric paintings, inspired by Malevich and others, many of which are reminiscent of Hilma af Klint. According to the gallery that represents him, England & Co., his works were once acquired by the British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum. In Los Angeles, his works have a home at the Benjamin Creme Museum, which seeks to promote his philosophical and artistic legacies.
This week, fans of his art got some good news, as the LAPD announced the recovery of $800,000 worth his artworks. An anonymous tipster was clearing out a deceased relative’s storage unit in San Fernando, California, when they discovered the trove of works. Consulting the National Stolen Art database, the realized the works had been missing since 2012 and contacted the police. | <urn:uuid:2e0696e3-1b0b-4431-a2d3-5f88d8882cfd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.artandobject.com/news/800000-stolen-esoteric-art-recovered | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.98789 | 206 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Can it really be true that our hospitals are worse than Estonia's? This fascinating dispatch reveals the shocking answer
Model system: Anneli Nikitina says doctors in Estonia work a strict 40-hour week
A grim Soviet tower-block, cheaply built just before the 1980 Moscow Olympics - presumably to further the grand illusion of caring, sharing Communism - the North Estonian Regional Hospital is hardly the most inviting place.
The frosted paintwork is grimy and peeling, and there is a liberal smattering of graffiti on the exterior wall.
We may be in the Baltic state of Estonia, but it appears much like many inner-city hospitals in Britain.
Step inside the Perspex doors, however, and a remarkable transformation occurs - for now you are in the model healthcare environment.
The first thing that strikes you is the smell: a wonderful fragrance that seems to be wafting from the flower shop in reception and mingles with a lemony detergent.
It is infused with the inviting aroma of home cooking from the restaurant. Next, you notice the spotlessly clean linoleum floor, which is buffed to such a shine that you really can see your reflection in it.
And then there is the calm, reassuring ambience in the waiting-room (where, in fact, there are very few people waiting) which is more like a theatre foyer, with a cloakroom attendant, huge pot-plants and eye-catching artwork on the walls.
By now, the contrast with most hospitals back home, with their depressing interiors, interminable queues and questionable hygiene, is palpable.
And, as a lifelong NHS user, seeing what can be done to improve even the most unprepossessing of hospitals this week - with limited resources but first rate management and properly-channelled effort - has made me angry and ashamed.
Last month, when the public health service in Estonia - which didn't even exist 15 years ago - was ranked two places higher than Britain's in a new league table of European healthcare systems, the news was greeted with a mixture of embarrassment and disbelief.
Of the 31 nations that were rated, Estonia was placed 11th, while the UK came 13th.
But in the 'bang for buck' category, which rates health systems according to their value for money, the result was even more humiliating.
Estonia came top and Britain languished in 17th position. In Britain, the shock was understandable: how far had the mighty NHS fallen that - in the very year that it marks its 60th anniversary - it had been trounced by a fledgling democracy which gained independence from the Soviet Union only in 1991.
A country whose older citizens can remember the dark days of command-economy medicine, where painful dentistry was performed without anaesthetic and queues could only be jumped by paying a bribe to one's doctor.
A country, moreover, whose population of 1.3million is less than the number of employees who work for our NHS, and which spends four times less per head of population than Britain on healthcare.
The staff were not exhausted or demoralised
Predictably, the Department of Health refused to accept that we had really lost to Estonia.
Health Minister Ben Bradshaw insisted that the league table - compiled by an independent Swedish-based research organisation partly funded by the EU - used 'flawed methodology and old data'.
Perhaps he is right, yet having spent a hugely impressive week in Estonia, visiting hospitals, clinics and family practices to examine this tale of two very different health systems, I would suggest that we have much to learn from this admirable little country on the roof of Europe.
Here, money is not wasted on endless tiers of bureaucrats. Instead, it is used to hire as many top quality doctors and nurses as possible, and arm them with the best affordable equipment and medicines.
In choosing which cases to prioritise, and which drugs to use, these highly motivated (and often very youthful) professionals are not hidebound by penny-pinching managers and bodies of outside 'experts'.
Refreshingly, they are trusted to judge their patients' best interests for themselves.
Perhaps more importantly, the hospital staff I met - though equally dedicated as our own - were not exhausted by ludicrously long hours and demoralised by low pay.
But the real difference I found was one of attitude at the very highest level. If Britain had done well in some international survey, the result would doubtless have been trumpeted from the rooftops.
Yet in Tallin, the satisfaction came with a degree of caution. 'Of course we are delighted about our little success,' Andres Tsakhna, adviser to the 34-year-old Social Affairs Minister, told me.
'But we still have our problems and there is so much more to do.'
Meanwhile, when I attempted to compare the performance and conditions at two hospitals with a similar number of beds - one in Estonia, the other in the UK - one was left to wonder which of them was formerly run by Soviet commissars.
Estonia: We have much to learn from the small country's health system
Media relations officials at St Helier Hospital in the London borough of Sutton refused to allow me to look around.
And when they were asked to supply easily accessible information such as the number of patients treated and how many staff it employs, they said we would have to use the Freedom of Information Act. A damning indictment.
No doubt there are many fine doctors and nurses at St Helier Hospital, battling to do their best in the face of the huge difficulties facing the NHS.
Yet how are we supposed to measure their effectiveness against that of their Estonian counterparts when we are not even allowed inside to take a look?
Compare this attitude with that in newly transparent Estonia, where the majority of facts about the health system are available online.
There, under a new e-health scheme, patients will soon be able to view their own medical records - and even make appointments - by entering their national identity card details into a computer.
Then again, remembering the criticism that has been levelled at the embattled trust which runs St Helier Hospital, their defensiveness becomes more understandable.
NHS campaigners last year branded it 'the meanest trust in Britain' after it set out to slash a £24million budget deficit by, among other measures, banning hot lunches for patients and removing alternate light bulbs from the corridors. Its deficit is now 'only' £8 million.
However, according to a pressure group, the trust's spending on external management consultants ('What are those?' one baffled Estonian administrator asked me) have almost trebled in three years, to a staggering £1,670,000.
This dubious use of funds surely provides one clue as to why, while every Estonian hospital patient I have met has praised the standard of care, one disgruntled St Helier patient was moved to write the following on the NHS Choices website: 'The ward was filthy. The wall above my bed was bubbling and plaster dust was falling into my face.
'Staff just do not care. They are very condescending, sometimes totally rude - I would not wish this hell-hole on my worst enemy.'
So the question persists, why is the Estonian system so different - and how have they done it?
Asked this very question, Andres Tsakhna unwittingly repeats a mantra that will be familiar to British TV viewers.
'The price is right!' he says with a wink and a shrug. He explains what this means.
Unlike the NHS, which is funded by an invisible proportion of income tax (this has increased from £903 per head in 2003/4 to £1,149 this year), Estonia's healthcare system is financed by a central insurance fund.
Each working citizen contributes 13 per cent of his or her salary, an amount deducted at source.
There are no private insurance schemes
The money is used to buy medical services at prices agreed annually by the fund, hospitals and Social Affairs Ministry.
There are no private insurance schemes in Estonia, so everyone receives the same standard of treatment - though it is sometimes possible to pay extra for a quicker operation or a better class of room.
Interestingly, there is one important proviso. To be eligible for treatment, you must register for work - making yourself available for employment training schemes and any job that is offered.
Excepting children and pensioners, if you don't work or are not registered to work, the hospital door remains firmly closed.
The very small percentage of the population who refuse to work or look for work are entitled only to emergency care.
St Helier Hospital, Sutton: The wards of the NHS hospital have been described as 'filthy'
The price the central insurance fund pays for drugs, operations and hospital accommodation is invariably 'right' in Estonia's healthcare marketplace, as it is in everyone's best interests to keep it that way.
'Our hospitals know they must include everything in the price they charge, and that there is no additional money coming if they go over budget,' Mr Tsakhna says. 'That is why they are so very efficient.'
The politicians also know they are under pressure to deliver. Two years ago, amid a public outcry, an Estonian cancer patient was denied expensive drugs.
But in a landmark court case, the decision was reversed - whereupon the law was immediately overturned to make these and other costly new treatments widely available.
There should be no surprise, then, that Estonia scored better than Britain in the category covering the speed and deployment of drugs.
There is also no nasty old drugs rationing organisation like Britain's NICE in Estonia.
Nor are Estonians, by nature patient people, prepared to tolerate ridiculously long waiting times.
To be fair, there are queues for some non-urgent operations here; just not as many as we have in Britain.
Cataract sufferers in Estonia can have to wait 18 months, for example, and for some orthopaedic conditions, two years is not uncommon.
It should also be pointed out that when it comes to treating some major diseases, notably diabetes and cancer, the NHS is still better than Estonia's system, according to the league table - though only just.
However, should an Estonian doctor fail to find an appointment for a patient within three days, he can expect to be fined.
Dr Eero Meriland, a GP who spent 18 months working in Kent, put it succinctly: 'If we had such long waiting lists in Estonia as I saw in England, there would soon be a change of government.'
During his time in Sittingbourne, Dr Meriland was impressed by some aspects of our primary healthcare system. One thing he strongly disliked, however, was the reluctance of GPs to refer patients to specialists - a habit he seemed to ascribe to arrogance, though he was far too polite to say so.
Referrals: GPs in Estonia are more likely to refer patients to specialists immediately
Later, in the university town of Tartu, where Estonia's best medical teaching hospital is based, I met a young urology surgeon named Mihhail Zharkovski, who has just witnessed the appalling dangers of this failing first-hand.
A few weeks ago, he examined a 51-year-old music teacher who had been living in London with her two children for more than ten years, but had returned home for medical treatment because she was unhappy with her GP there.
'Nothing is more important to us than cleanliness'
For some seven months she had been complaining of passing blood in her urine and low abdominal pain, yet this doctor had refused to send her for tests.
Instead he treated her for cystitis, without any success. In her desperation, she had gone back to Estonia, registered for work to become eligible for health insurance and gone to see Dr Zharkovski.
Though only 29 years old, he has already performed scores of operations, gaining invaluable experience that would be unthinkable at his age in the British medical system.
He immediately suspected bladder cancer and sadly his diagnosis was correct.
A scan revealed a tumour the size of a lemon, which he will remove next month in a process that will hopefully save the woman's life, though at an avoidable cost.
'If we had operated six months ago we might have been able to make a substitute pouch for the bladder, but now it's too late,' Dr Zharkovski told me.
'Now she will have to wear a bag for the rest of her life. So you can understand why she is angry.
'In Estonia, if you find blood in the urine you must always send the patient to hospital as an emergency, and they are seen by a specialist the same day. If an operation is needed, it takes place almost immediately.'
Had he thought of writing to the GP to inform him of his error? He smiled wistfully. 'How do you think a British GP would react if he received a letter from an Estonian surgeon, telling him he had made a mistake?'
The question needed no answer. That is a pity, as Estonia's vibrant, enthusiastic healthcare professionals clearly have much to teach us.
In the A&E department at East Tallinn Central, the matronly figure of Dr Helve Breiberg marched me round treatment rooms which positively sparkled.
'Nothing is more important to us than cleanliness,' she said, and she clearly meant it.
On the equally spick and span rehabilitation ward, youthful Dr Anneli Nikitina looked nonplussed when I told her how long and hard her British counterparts were forced to work.
'It would not be allowed here,' said the doctor, who works a strict 40-hour week. 'How can they do their job efficiently?'
- Additional reporting by Tim Stewart in London.
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A parliamentary report of 1777 recorded parish workhouses in operation at Alford, for up to 15 inmates, and at Bolingbroke, for up to 40.
Eden, in 1797, reported on poor-relief in Spilsby:
Eden also reported on the parish of Alford:
A workhouse was established at Winthorpe in about 1820. In 1824,
In 1829, a contractor was being sought to run the workhouse at Wainfleet, which served the parishes of Wainfleet St Mary, Wainfleet All Saints, Northolme, and several other adjoining parishes.
A workhouse stood on Workhouse Lane, off Wigg Lane, at Chapel St Leonards.
Spilsby Poor Law Union was formed on 13th April 1837. Its operation was overseen by an elected Board of Guardians, 69 in number, representing its 66 constituent parishes as listed below (figures in brackets indicate numbers of Guardians if more than one):
County of Lincoln:
Addlethorpe, Alford (2), Anderby, Ashby, Aswarby, Bilsby with Thurlby, Bolingbroke, Bratoft, Brinkill, Burgh in the Marsh, Calceby, Candlesby, Claxby, Croft, Cumberworth, Dalby-cum-Dexthorp, Driby, Farlesthorpe, Firsby, Friskney (2), Gunby, Hagnaby, Halton Holgate, Hareby, Harrington, Hogsthorpe, North Holme, Huttoft, Hundleby, Ingoldmells, Irby in the Marsh, East Kirkby, East Keal, West Keal, Langton by Spilsby, Markby, Mavis Enderby, Mumby with Chapel Mumby, Orby, South Ormsby with Ketby, Partney, Raithby, Rigsby with Ailsby, Sansthorpe, Scremby with Grebby, Skegness, Skendleby, Spilsby (2), Great Steeping, Little Steeping, Stickford, Stickney, Sutterby, Sutton in the Marsh, Thorpe, Toynton All Saints, Toynton St Peter's, Ulceby with Forthington, East Ville, Mid Ville, Wainfleet All Saints, Wainfleet St Mary, Well and Derthorpe, Welton in the Marsh with Boothby, Willoughby, Winthorpe.
Later additions: Chapel St Leonards (from 1896), New Leake (1894), Northholme (1837), West Fen (1880).
The population falling within the Union at the 1831 census had been 23,316 — ranging from Sutterby (population 31) to Alford (1,784) and Spilsby itself (1,384). The average annual poor-rate expenditure for the period 1834-36 had been £14,822 or 12s.9d. per head.
Spilsby Union workhouse was built in 1837 at the south side of the Hundleby Road to the west of Spilsby. Intended to accommodate 260 inmates, its construction cost £around £3,500. The architect was George Gilbert Scott who, together with his partner William Bonython Moffatt, designed the workhouses at Boston, Horncastle and Louth.
The Spilsby design followed Scott's typical plan with an arched single-storey entrance block, three-storey main accommodation block, and small infirmary and ancillary buildings to the rear. The workhouse layout can be seen on the 1904 map below.
After 1930, the former workhouse became a Public Assistance Institution. Its accommodation was supplemented by 35 places at West Keal Hall, located a couple of miles to the south-west pf Spilsby. After 1948, the hospital facilities became the Gables Hospital, which provided geriatric care.
All that now remains of the building is the central portion of the main block.
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- Lincolnshire Archives, St. Rumbold Street, Lincoln LN2 5AB. Relatively few records survive. Holdings include Guardians' minute books (1837-72, 1876-1930); Assessment committee minutes (1862-1927); etc.
- Higginbotham, Peter The Workhouse Encyclopedia (2014, The History Press)
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Central bankers around the world are lifting interest rates at an aggressive clip as rapid inflation persists and seeps into a broad array of goods and services, setting the global economy up for a lurch toward more expensive credit, lower stock and bond values and — potentially — a sharp pullback in economic activity.
It’s a moment unlike anything the international community has experienced in decades, as countries around the world try to bring rapid price increases under control before they become a more lasting part of the economy.
Inflation has surged across many advanced and developing economies since early 2021 as strong demand for goods collided with shortages brought on by the pandemic. Central banks spent months hoping that economies would reopen and shipping routes would unclog, easing supply constraints, and that consumer spending would return to normal. That hasn’t happened, and the war in Ukraine has only intensified the situation by disrupting oil and food supplies, pushing prices even higher.
Global economic policymakers began responding in earnest this year, with at least 75 central banks lifting interest rates, many from historically low levels. While policymakers cannot do much to contain high energy prices, higher borrowing costs could help slow consumer and business demand to give supply a chance to catch up across an array of goods and services so that inflation does not continue indefinitely.
The European Central Bank will meet this week and is expected to make its first rate increase since 2011, one that officials have signaled will most likely be only a quarter point but will probably be followed by a larger move in September.
Other central banks have begun moving more aggressively already, with officials from Canada to the Philippines picking up the pace of rate increases in recent weeks amid fears that consumers and investors are beginning to expect steadily higher prices — a shift that could make inflation a more permanent feature of the economic backdrop. Federal Reserve officials have also hastened their response. They lifted borrowing costs in June by the most since 1994 and suggested that an even bigger move is possible, though several in recent days have suggested that speeding up again is not their preferred plan for the upcoming July meeting and that a second three-quarter-point increase is most likely.
As interest rates jump around the world, making money that has been cheap for years more expensive to borrow, they are stoking fears among investors that the global economy could slow sharply — and that some countries could find themselves plunged into painful recessions. Commodity prices, some of which can serve as a barometer of expected consumer demand and global economic health, have dropped as investors grow jittery. International economic officials have warned that the path ahead could prove bumpy as central banks adjust policy and as the war in Ukraine heightens uncertainty.
“It is going to be a tough 2022 — and possibly an even tougher 2023, with increased risk of recession,” Kristalina Georgieva, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, said in a blog post on Wednesday. Ms. Georgieva argued that central banks need to react to inflation, saying that “acting now will hurt less than acting later.”
Ms. Georgieva pointed out that about three-quarters of the institutions the fund tracks have raised interest rates since July 2021. Developed economies have lifted them by 1.7 percentage points on average, while emerging economies have moved by more than 3 percentage points.
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In recent years, emerging markets have often raised interest rates in anticipation of the Fed’s slow and steady moves to avoid big swings in their currency values, which depend partly on interest rate differences across borders. But this set of rate increases is different: Inflation is running at its fastest pace in decades in many places, and a range of developed-economy central banks, including the European Central Bank, the Swiss National Bank, the Bank of Canada and the Reserve Bank of Australia, are joining — or may join — the Fed in pushing rates quickly higher.
“It’s not something we’ve seen in the last few decades,” said Bruce Kasman, chief economist and head of global economic research at JPMorgan Chase.
The last time so many major nations abruptly raised rates in tandem to fight such rapid inflation was in the 1980s, when the contours of global central banking were different: The 19-country euro currency bloc that the E.C.B. sets policy for did not exist yet, and global financial markets were less developed.
That so many central banks are now facing off against rapid inflation — and trying to control it by slowing their economies — increases the chance for market turmoil as an era of very low rates ends and as nations and companies try to adjust to changing capital flows. Those changing flows can influence whether countries and businesses are able to sell debt and other securities to raise money.
“Financial conditions have tightened due to rising, broad-based inflationary pressures, geopolitical uncertainty brought on by Russia’s war against Ukraine, and a slowdown in global growth,” Janet L. Yellen, the U.S. Treasury secretary, said in a speech last week. “Now, portfolio investment is beginning to flow out of emerging markets.”
For financial markets, the adjustment to higher interest rates could be “bumpy, there’s no way around that,” said George Goncalves, head of U.S. macro strategy at MUFG Securities Americas. And as rates move higher, stock and other asset prices may drift lower in a lasting way, as savers can receive higher paybacks on less-risky investments, like government debt.
“The incentive was to chase yield, and that would push markets to higher valuations than they would have had based on fundamentals,” Mr. Goncalves said.
The simultaneous action also ramps up the risk that some nations could fall into a recession as consumers and companies pull back their spending.
Mr. Kasman estimates that the United States and Western Europe have a 40 percent chance of a recession within the next year. That risk stems both from central bank moves and upheaval from Russia’s war in Ukraine, which shows no signs of ending. But if the recession can be averted now — leaving unemployment low, consumers still spending and inflation elevated — it could mean that the Fed and other central banks have to raise rates more later on to choke off growth and bring price increases down, he said.
Fed officials have said they still aspire to engineer what they often call a “soft landing,” in which hiring and spending cool down enough to allow wage growth and prices to moderate, but not so much that it plunges the economy into a deep and painful downturn.
But inflation has proved uncomfortably stubborn. The latest Consumer Price Index reading in the United States exceeded analyst expectations at 9.1 percent. In Canada, inflation is running at its fastest pace since 1983. In the United Kingdom, it is similarly at a 40-year-high.
That underscores that global factors, including a constrained supply of consumer goods like cars and clothing and a spike in oil and food costs, are prompting much of the price surge. It also explains why so many central banks are staging a similar — and faster — response, even if doing so increases the risk of a recession.
The Bank of England was the first major central bank to kick off rate increases back in December and has been steadily raising rates since. Policymakers are increasingly worried about inflation creating a cost-of-living crisis in Britain and worry that higher rates could compound economic pain. At the same time, they have signaled that they could act more forcefully, taking their cue from their global peers. There is a “willingness — should circumstances require — to adopt a faster pace of tightening,” Huw Pill, the chief economist of the Bank of England, said this month.
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“Many central banks are looking at this as a sort of existential question about getting inflation and inflation expectations down,” said Matthew Luzzetti, chief U.S. economist at Deutsche Bank.
The Fed raised rates by a quarter point in March, half a point in May, and three-quarters of a percentage point in June. While its officials have predicted that they will maintain that pace in July, they have also been clear that an even bigger rate increase is possible.
“Inflation has to be our focus, every meeting and every day,” Christopher Waller, a Fed governor, said during a speech last week. “The spending and pricing decisions people and businesses make every day depend on their expectations of future inflation, which in turn depend on whether they believe the Fed is sufficiently committed to its inflation target.”
The Bank of Canada has already gone for a full percentage point move, surprising investors last week with its largest move since 1998, while warning of more to come.
“With the economy clearly in excess demand, inflation high and broadening, and more businesses and consumers expecting high inflation to persist for longer, the Governing Council decided to front-load the path to higher interest rates,” the central bank’s policy-setting council said in a statement.
The central bank in the Philippines also surprised investors with a three-quarter point increase this month, and an array of other central banks have made big moves. More action is coming. Central banks around the world have been clear that they expect to keep moving borrowing costs higher into the autumn.
“I wouldn’t say we’re at peak tightening quite yet,” said Brendan McKenna, an economist at Wells Fargo. “We could go even more aggressive from here.”
A key question is what that will mean for the global economy. The World Bank in June projected in a report that global growth would slow sharply this year but remain positive. Still, there is “considerable” risk of a situation in which growth stagnates and inflation remains high, David Malpass, head of the World Bank, wrote.
If inflation does become entrenched, or even show signs of shifting expectations, central banks may have to respond even more aggressively than they are now, intentionally crushing growth.
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In February, the Reading Eagle published a letter from Dave Knudsen, who was complaining about a previous letter from someone who said they saved $6,300 a year in health insurance costs due to Obamacare. In his letter, Knudsen asked, “Who will cover that yearly difference of $6,300?” and suggested the only sources were either doctors or taxpayers.
I point this out because it is a common misconception. Most people don’t realize the complexity of our health care systems. First, the savings to the original letter writer don’t have to be “paid” by someone else. The excessive costs for health care for some people are due to the inequities and inadequacies of our overblown health care payment system. If you want to know where that excessive money is going, look to the profit lines of health care insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies and medical-device businesses.
This is not necessarily a bad thing. It is only because health care has moved into the for-profit world that we have achieved so many technological advances. In a capitalist society profit is the motivator for progress. And progress in health care is what has happened over the past 40 years. When people say that we in the United States have the best health care system in the world, it is this aspect of health care to which they refer. We have the best researchers, the best facilities, the best drugs and the best doctors.
But somewhere along the line, the system started going awry.
The cost for all that is high, but the number of people who benefitted was low, so various methods to recover those costs came into play. It is only when we review the whole picture, the entire health care system with all its components, that we see how complex it has become.
For years, health insurance was the fastest-rising expense for everyone, both employers and individuals. Health insurance companies would cut off coverage to anyone who lost their job or got too sick. Alternatively, they charged so much for health care that no one who needed to use it could afford it. But before we start blaming evil health insurance, we have to look at why those expenses were rising.
Pharmaceutical and medical-device companies were spending billions in research to find more drugs and devices they could sell to patients. Their huge sales force, which has plied doctors – indirectly, of course – with food, education, gifts and trips, along with prolific advertising, ensured a steady stream of customers. But before we start blaming evil pharmaceutical and medical-device companies, or their agents (doctors), we have to look at why so many patients were going to the doctor so often.
More than 30 percent of us are obese, and less than 20 percent of us exercise and eat right. According to the Institute of Medicine, chronic illnesses such as arthritis, cancer and diabetes are costing us $1.5 trillion every year. That amounts to three-quarters of all health care costs. In October, BMJ, a British health care journal, published an article that stated what many of us already know: Exercise is more effective in treating disease, especially chronic disease, than drugs. Researchers from Harvard University and Stanford University reviewed 305 studies involving 339,274 patients and concluded that nonmedical approaches to disease such as lifestyle changes were much more effective.
The bottom line: We are paying huge sums of money to many different agencies because we like to sit on the couch and eat potato chips rather than get up, exercise 45 minutes every day and eat only healthy, wholesome foods. The health care industry is not evil for accepting our money. But we should be smarter about how we spend it.
Financial analysis demonstrates that there is no profit in living healthy. Doctors, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, medical-device companies and, yes, even health insurance companies would be left high and dry if everyone lived a healthy lifestyle. As a nation, our health care costs would be cut by two-thirds.
We, the people, are the only ones who benefit financially by changing to a healthy lifestyle. So maybe we should consider the $6,300-a-year savings the money we pay ourselves to eat right and exercise. It’s worth a try.
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Computer Information Technology Applications
Graduates from this diploma program can now study the abilities that are essential in order to become certified computer technologists in main telecommunication firms, business administration, and computer design companies world over. The Bachelor of Computer Technology is a degree program whose curriculum is designed to equip college students with the best expertise and theoretical understanding on all technology points. Computer Technology offers a wide range of courses, certifications, and degrees that prepare people for careers within the Information Technology and the computer Computer & Technology subject. Information Technology, or IT, is a time period used to explain the business and the careers associated to computer software, hardware, and telecommunications. The IT business is a very massive area with many specializations within it. Specializations embrace software growth, programming, networking, info safety, web growth, PC support, and IT administration. Those who work in the IT area usually acquire their education in faculty degrees similar to Computer Information Systems with specializations.
Despite the increased hardware competition, Intel continued to dominate the microprocessor market. Intel’s Pentium chips combined with Microsoft’s Windows three.x operating system quickly expanded the PC market. Windows solely began supporting non-intel processors from Windows NT 3.51. Despite support for non-intel processors, the Intel/Windows alliance, dubbed “Wintel”, continued to shape the PC market. This ecosystem lock-in was basic to the success of the 2 entities, which deserves a separate discussion altogether.
Sample Programs For Masters Computer And Knowledge Technology Degrees
In the current establishment of technological development, we see the cloud and mobile networks dominating. However, this technology pattern has matured and companies are in the exploit part of centralized knowledge networks (in reference to the ‘knowledge industrial advanced’ and the monetization model enshrined therein). The mass production of computer systems brought about elevated demand by users for a standard working system that ran standardized software program. Microsoft identified this chance and captured the value by designing a proprietary working system and securing distribution rights with computer producers. Microsoft targeted on successful over builders, bringing all purposes into one working system.
What are the 5 uses of computer?
Uses of computersPlaying computer games.
Solving math problems.
Listening to music and audio.
Audio, Video and photo editing.
Creating sound or video.
Communicating with other people.
Being deaf is difficult in an academic setting because most information is relayed in an audible manner Computer. I grew up hearing and speaking in English, so having CART is superior.
Best Computer Technology Colleges In The U S. For 2021
Finally, full-time workers of some companies may be eligible for tuition reimbursement programs, which permit them to earn their computer and data technology degrees on their employer’s dime. One of crucial distinctions amongst computer information technology on-line applications is the matter of synchronous versus asynchronous content material supply. Schools that deliver their course content synchronously maintain their lessons in actual-time through teleconference and require college students to log in at a set time. Some computer data technology on-line packages provide a blend of synchronous and asynchronous programs. Bachelor’s degrees in computer info technology are among the many most popular kinds of computer and technology degrees as they supply entry into most of the careers in the area.
- Salaries for Web Developers with Associate’s levels, for instance, vary all the way in which from $35,390 to $119,550.
- The MacBook Air was the largest change in Apple’s laptop line for years, and invented a complete new category of computer systems called ‘ultrabooks’ by Intel.
Please full this reCAPTCHA to show that it’s you making the requests and never a robotic. If you might be having hassle seeing or finishing this problem, this web page could help. If you proceed to experience issues, you can contact JSTOR support. Through coursework and lab work centered on electrical security, medical gas safety and the clinical software of electronics and electromechanical gadgets, you’ll put together for a technical profession within the healthcare subject Technology. You can earn the Electronics Technician Fundamentals technical diploma on the way to completing this associate degree. Students who earn a Computer & Electronics Technology A.A.S. degree are ready for entry-level work in the electronics industry and technology-associated fields. Prepare students to conduct the analysis required to efficiently full computer and electronics-associated projects consistent with present business/industry practice at the apprentice level.
Careers With This Diploma
Get the arms on experience you should design, preserve and use totally different computing technologies. Understand and demonstrate the way to be an expert in an data technology work setting. Create and implement a plan to install, configure and troubleshoot multiple computer working techniques. Design, code and develop functions for a number of working systems to regulate operations inside and outside a pc system. This project-based course focuses on computer basics and multi-platform functions. Students in Computer Technology will learn to use Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and explore Photoshop basics, moviemaking, and computer coding. High-interest, in-depth research that embody a wide range of learning and embedded curriculum and evaluation are thought of the Project Approach.
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