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In real time tracking mode you will see your current location on the map, or the last position when your GPS device connection was active. When you click on the pointer of your icon on the map you will see extra information about it.
Our servers can generate and send you notifications via e-mail or notify with a pop-up window, when something happens. That kind of events might be when object enters or exits geofence area, violates speed limit, presses SOS button, GPS device loses connection.
With geofences you are able to make a virtual perimeter on geographic areas that have specific interest for you. The main reason to have Geofences is to control whether the units stays within it or not, so that when the geofencing unit enters or exits the area a notification is generated.
POI (Points of Interest) allow you to put markers at the locations that might be interesting or useful. You can also name the place, add short description, attach an image or even video to it.
Tracking history - reviews and reports
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Vickie Castillo has lived in Durham for nearly three decades. After failing to make one month’s rent in November, she faced the possibility of being evicted for the first time in her life.
“I felt scared. I was nervous. I didn’t know what was going to happen. I didn’t know if I was going to have all the money in time,” she said.
Eviction court is notoriously difficult for tenants to navigate. When they don’t have lawyers, tenants almost always lose and get kicked out of their homes.
They get evicted even when they have reasons for not paying such as losing a job, having a sick relative, or a broken-down car. And it doesn’t matter if they were purposely not paying rent to pressure the landlord to address issues with rodents, cockroaches, clogged plumbing, and more.
North Carolina doesn’t allow retaliatory action from tenants, and the court doesn’t have any leeway to give a tenant just a few more days to get the money together. If there’s unpaid rent, the landlord can seek an eviction judgment.
Castillo’s situation was unusual. She didn’t retaliate against her landlord, and she didn’t expect to come up short at the first of the month. She had been robbed, and had to scramble to make rent for November. She couldn’t and soon received the paperwork summoning her to the courthouse.
In court, the magistrate doles out eviction judgments every weekday. Tenants have 10 days to appeal their case to District Court. But to stay in their property in the meantime, the tenant will have to pay a bond, which includes the overdue rent and court costs.
Most evictions end here, in the magistrate’s hearing room. Tenants without representation rarely stand a chance of stopping the process. But Durham’s new eviction diversion program is, for some tenants, a fighting chance to stay in their homes.
The third floor of the courthouse is eviction headquarters. Tenants congregate around three magistrate hearing rooms. On the wall is a docket with nearly a dozen pages with green, blue, and pink highlighter marks trying to give order to the chaos. Cases are processed by the dozen—sometimes there will be over 100 before lunch.
About 20 steps away, sandwiched between a call for participants for a maternal incarceration study and an ad for the Bull City Chili Cook Off is a blue and green flyer that is easy to miss.
Are you interested in possibly preventing an eviction and possibly avoiding a judgment against you?
The flyer’s text can barely be seen from two feet away, let alone from the eviction docket where most tenants wait. On Wednesday afternoons, the lawyers from the program will meet downstairs, and tenants are invited to bring leases, late notices, and court paperwork for review.
Most tenants don’t see the flyer in time to get help. Some might see it on their way to the docket, but once they head into the courtroom, their fate is sealed. Eviction court doesn’t grant tenants an extension to pull together money for unpaid rent or find a lawyer.
The diversion program is supported by Duke Civil Justice Clinic, a partnership between Duke Law School and Legal Aid of North Carolina. Law students represent tenants in eviction cases with guidance from Jesse McCoy, the clinic’s supervising attorney. The clinic helps tenants pay rent and reviews their case to make sure tenants aren’t overlooking serious concerns with the property that could help them win.
Tenants “myopically focus on the rent that’s due as opposed to also talking about some of the conditions that they’ve been living in,” McCoy said. People often don’t focus on the condition of the property, which might help them build a defense against being evicted.
Even if the students can’t find a legal defense for the tenant, they’ll try to postpone the hearing so people can move out with dignity. The goal of the clinic is to avoid collateral damage of a judgment such as a bad credit report.
After she was robbed, Castillo knew that she wouldn’t be able to pay the rent. Desperate to work out a solution, she reached out to churches in the area. She thought she scraped together enough donations to piece together that month’s rent.
And yet it wasn’t enough. Up against an eviction case, she found herself just short of the money she needed to cover the unpaid rent. But one of the churches gave her something more valuable: information about the Duke Civil Justice Clinic.
“That was my last resort,” Castillo said. “I heard about them at the last minute. And I went, because I was just going everywhere, where people were pointing me to, and so then Legal Aid was my last resort.”
Castillo was given a four-week extension on her rent, and with the help of the Civil Justice Clinic’s fund, she was able to cover the remainder of November’s rent. But a December court date still loomed.
Sometimes, the money is enough—the landlord will collect what they’re owed, and no one has to lose their home. In some cases, though, the landlord still wants the tenant gone.
Castillo’s advocate from the clinic was able to get her case dismissed. That won’t be reflected on her credit report or in any public record that could come back to hurt her. She fared better than most tenants: in a sample of eviction cases from December 2017, just 9% of cases were dismissed.
Most tenants are doomed as soon as they’re served with the eviction case, but for Vickie Castillo, one-time assistance from Duke Civil Justice Clinic kept her finances from falling off the rails.
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“What if kids could build their own prosthesis according to their own needs while having fun?”
Answering this question led Carlos Arturo Torres Tovar of Umeå University in Sweden to build a prosthetic arm that’s compatible with Lego, allowing children with missing limbs to create their own new arms.
“IKO is a creative prosthetic system designed for children to explore and empower their creativity in a playful, social, and friendly way,” Tovar wrote. “What if kids could make their own prosthetics and have fun at the same time? Learning. Creating. Being kids.”
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“A diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids could reduce the number of headaches in people suffering from migraines, a new study finds.” [Source: nutraingredients.com]
Omega-3 fatty acids are far from being the only micronutrients that have been shown to be helpful in controlling migraine headaches. In the case of another such micronutrient, vitamin B2, you may be surprised to learn that evidence of its safety and effectiveness against migraine dates back over 70 YEARS now.
In a fascinating short paper published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal in June 1946, Clifford B. Smith M.D. described how he had successfully treated 19 migraine patients with vitamin B2. Of these people, 3 had been suffering from the condition for a period of between 2 to 5 years; 4 for between 5 and 10 years; and 12 for 10 years or longer. Impressively, not only did administration of vitamin B2 result in a marked improvement in general wellbeing for all 19 patients, the majority experienced a complete cessation of their attacks. And in a clear parallel with what we now know as Dr. Rath’s Cellular Medicine concept, whereby the primary cause of chronic diseases is a long-term deficiency of micronutrients, Smith wrote that he assumed all of their migraines arose from a common origin and that treatment was correcting the cause.
Any migraine sufferers wondering why they haven’t been told about this longstanding evidence of the efficacy of vitamin B2 as a treatment for their condition need look no further than the fact that painkillers are now one of the highest earning class of medications for the pharma business. Taking into account specialist migraine drugs such as triptans, which rake in still further revenue for drug makers, the low cost and non-patentability of vitamins means that pharmaceutical companies see them as a threat to their business model.
To learn more about the use of vitamin B2 against migraine headaches, read this article on our website.
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Is the fundamental working principle that all organizations like living organisms have a lifecycle and exhibit predictable and repetitive patterns of behavior as they grow and age.
At each new stage of development, every organization is faced with a unique set of challenges.
How well or poorly these issues are addressed and necessary changes made determines the success or failure of that organization.
Through lifecycle transitions is neither easy nor obvious.
Methods that produce success in one stage can create failure in the next.
Fundamental changes in leadership and management are required, and solutions are created with the active participation, understanding and support of the managers who implement them.
By Adizes Certified Associates who have gone through a rigorous training and certification process. Adizes Associates are not conventional management consultants who write reports and make recommendations.
Nor are they organizational development trainers or facilitators. Instead, they are change management experts who work side-by-side with clients to develop and implement needed changes.
We provide comprehensive long-term support to our clients, tailoring the diversity and duration of our services to meet their specific needs.
Adizes Associates implement one or more of 11 different phases.
These phases are a systematic approach designed to help a client accelerate their development from one Lifecycle phase to the next, on their path to Prime.
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HPRD – HIGH PRESSURE RUPTURE DISCS
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The new HPRD rupture discs provide long-term protection for processes with temperatures up to 752 °F and pressures up to 5000 barg and beyond.
They have already proved themselves under real process conditions and in a wide range of customer applications. These include reactors, autoclaves and compressors in a variety of high pressure processes, such as LDPE production.
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Cyanic Pollens, Isabel Galleymore
Guillemot Press, 2020 £6.00
Poetry of transformation
The pressure to look like myself would be, at this point, unbearable.
In the acknowledgements page of this pamphlet-length sequence, Galleymore notes that while ‘some species in the jungle are very much themselves [ ... ] other species are less straightforward’. ‘Names and events in this sequence,’ she adds, ‘resemble something of the latter.’
Throughout the publication, shape-shifting transformations underline different aspects of the rainforest — its extraordinary qualities, and its more sinister ones. Galleymore also explores how such a setting can affect a blurring of the lines between human and animal.
The sequence opens with a thin, squeezed poem of tiny lines. In this pressured space, a ‘flower’
is like the
to the rear
The domestic jars with the natural, tugging at its edges.
Elsewhere, language itself begins to mutate. A riff on ‘Nature’ takes the word through a series of transformations: from ‘Natter’ to ‘Neighbour’, then to ‘Nose hair’.
In one section, the speaker is warned that ‘Papaya’ is ‘a word used by men [ ... ] to refer to a vagina.’ She then dreams of ‘holy men climbing the trees to reach vaginas suspended high in the branches.’
Text is also positioned in such a way as to highlight more unsettling aspects of transformation. For example, a single line of poetry on one page describes how the guide ‘replicates the male’s want-sounds.’ On the facing page, the speaker tells a story of waking up to ‘three small, hard poos’ on her ‘bedside table’ after responding with discomfort to the same guide’s compliment about her appearance. Our sense of the guide as a sexually interested male animal takes on a darker undertone.
Erosion of the line between animal and human is omnipresent here — most strikingly, in a poem about pairs of monogamous birds. The descriptions of the birds and the tourists blur. When the speaker claims that ‘over breakfast, one couple are either ‘arguing’ or ‘flirting’, it is unclear which she’s referring to.
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Bringing relief from
I can’t leave my dog at home alone!
Separation anxiety is heart breaking and stressful for both owners and dogs. Some studies estimate that over 40% of our pet dogs suffer from this devastating condition. Dogs do all sorts of things when they are suffering from separation anxiety – they may just pant, pace, salivate, whine, run from room to room and go completely over the top when they greet you – this is distressing enough but other more obvious behaviours such as destroying furniture and doors becomes expensive, barking, whining and howling annoys the neighbours, peeing on the carpets is unpleasant to come home to and vets bills rise if your dog injures herself – but more than any of this it breaks our hearts to see our best friend suffer so much.
The Good News!
Some say separation anxiety in dogs is not resolvable because it isn’t easy to treat and treatment is not effective. NOT TRUE! – it does take time and patience but it is certainly treatable. The treatment is simple and with time it can hugely reduce or even resolve your dog’s separation anxiety.
What is Separation Anxiety in Dogs?
Separation anxiety is not something a dog chooses to do. It can be caused by a frightening experience she had when alone (such as burglary, fire alarm, noisy construction), moving home, being re-homed, losing a family member, a traumatic experience (car accident, dog attack) or regular and lengthy absences by her owners.
All those behaviours doesn’t mean she is angry, spiteful or naughty – dogs don’t think like that. She is terrified of being alone and is panicking – she barks and howls to try and make contact with you; scratches the door or breaks out of her crate to try and escape to find you; injures herself through fear and frustration; pees and poos because she is frightened. She has no control over any of this – it is simply blind panic.
Why doesn’t Separation Anxiety in Dogs get better on its own?
You would think that a dog will eventually get over separation anxiety – after all you always come home. Unfortunately it doesn’t work like that – just the opposite – most dogs with separation anxiety get worse over time.
Whenever she is alone your dog’s body is flooded with stress inducing chemicals brought on by panic and fear. This makes her even more alert and she is constantly watching for signs that you are leaving – putting on your shoes, make up, picking up your bag or keys and so on – all of these become predictors that you are leaving and even before you have left the house she is starting to become anxious and over time this anxiety builds. Almost every day your dog goes through a cycle of fear and panic which produces the stress chemicals which make it impossible for her to relax and learn that being at home alone is safe.
Will getting another dog help?
This sounds like it should make sense – after all, your dog won’t be alone. Unfortunately it very rarely is the answer as it is YOU your dog is missing. What often then happens is that the second dog also starts to become anxious and the sad result is two dogs with separation anxiety.
I can help help you to achieve all of this!
I am passionate about helping dogs and their owners get over this terrible condition. So much so that I have made treating separation cases my speciality and am a Certified Separation Anxiety Trainer. Using modern, scientific and up to date methods I get true insight into how you and your dog are progressing and can keep you motivated and on track throughout the training process until the problem has been resolved to everyone’s satisfaction.
I got my life back
The process can take a long time but that is all down to the individual dog and there is no telling how quickly they will respond. But if you commit and stick with it you will get the rewards. Ingrid is incredibly professional, an excellent communicator and guides you through the process with great clarity.
Home alone and happy
I really thought this would never happen and its true that it took time and hard work but Ingrid’s enthusiasm, support and expertise kept us going. It was like having my own personal trainer! She was with us every step of the way until finally our little Alfie can be left at home and our new sofa is safe from being ripped to shreds.Trina | <urn:uuid:eea35839-4a19-4272-81c9-fd90a1601bd5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://petswithproblems.co.uk/separation-anxiety-in-dogs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.968073 | 940 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Carolyn Winfrey Gillette wrote this hymn in celebration of Human Rights Day (December 10), the anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Seven years later, on Dec. 5, 1955, the Montgomery Bus Boycott began with 40,000 African-Americans walking, bicycling or car-pooling to pressure the bus company for change. The boycott ended in victory after 381 days. December is a good month to remember past work for justice and to work for it today as we celebrate the one who came “to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace" (Luke 1:79).
You Made Us in Your Image
AURELIA 18.104.22.168 D ("The Church's One Foundation")
You made us in your image, O God of love and grace;
You treasure every person in every time and place.
You call your world to follow—to see in every one
A person loved and cherished, your daughter or your son.
Your will is for your people to live in safety here,
With dignity and justice, and free from want or fear.
In families and nations, may all know freedom’s song;
May all enjoy the blessing to choose where they belong.
You warn against enslavement and things that would oppress.
You call for living wages, for times of welcome rest.
You call for education for all—not just a few;
You teach us: Welcome strangers, for so we welcome you.
You made us to be equal; you made us to be free—
To speak the truth with courage, to change society,
To follow our own conscience, to choose the words we pray.
O God, may all your children enjoy these gifts each day.
Biblical References: Genesis 1-2; Exodus 5:1-20; Nehemiah 5:1-13; Psalm 82:1-4; Proverbs 4:1-27; Isaiah 58:1-12; 65:17-25; Amos 5:21-24; Micah 4:1-5; 6:6-8; Matthew 25:31-46; Mark 12:28-34; John 3:16-17; Acts 10:34-36; Galatians 3:26-29; Hebrews 13:1-9a.
Tune: Samuel Sebastian Wesley, 1864.
Copyright © 2012 by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette. All rights reserved.
Web site: www.carolynshymns.com
Hymn Use Permission: Churches that support Sojourners have copyright permission to use “You Made Us in Your Image” in their local church. This hymn was written at the request of the PCUSA United Nations Office and is also available with the music on the United Methodist Worship Office website as free download file.
Carolyn Winfrey Gillette is the author of Songs of Grace: New Hymns for God and Neighbor (Discipleship Resources/Upper Room Books, 2009) and Gifts of Love: New Hymns for Today's Worship (Geneva Press, 2000) and the co-pastor of Limestone Presbyterian Church in Wilmington, Delaware. Sojourners' past postings by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette includes hymns for creation care, economic justice, Matthew 25/disaster relief, immigration, the Gulf oil spill, war in Iraq, and the 10th anniversary of September 11. A complete list of the 190+ hymns by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette, many with peace and justice themes, can be found at www.carolynshymns.com
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Billions in Change
A Film About Inventions with a Purpose
Whether we want to admit it or not, our world is facing more than a few huge problems. All the experts seem to have an idea about how to solve them, but most of what they say is just talk and we all know that talk doesn’t reduce pollution, grow food, or heal the sick. Solutions require action.
This film tells the story about a group of doers. These people have made simple inventions that have the potential to enhance and change billions of lives.
It all started when Manoj Bhargava had an idea for a product and within two months it was on the shelves near the checkout counters in supermarkets all over the world. We’ve all seen the little bottles of 5-Hour Energy Shot. He now has a net worth of $4 billion and he is using 99% of it to find solutions to problems concerning, energy, water, and health.
His estate has an invention shop called Stage Two where he encourages his employees to invent stuff that would make a difference in other people’s lives. According to Ravi Sajwan, the Chief Technical Officer, their goal is to deliver products that can directly impact humanity. A good invention is able to benefit the poorer half of the world. That is how Manoj gives back; his mantra is that if it doesn’t make a huge difference, then they need to do something else.
The largest areas of work for the future are energy and water. Solutions need to be found in those two areas to guarantee life. Half of the world either has no electricity or electricity for only a few hours per day. Yet human mechanical energy is so amazing that it can be used to provide electricity. Based on that they created a hybrid bicycle
that has to be pedaled for an hour and provides electricity for 24 hours. This enables about 3 billion people around the world to become part of a productive society. This invention also means that half of the world would never generate pollution from carbon dioxide. The health benefits of this system are obvious.
Manoj Bhargava inspires his inventors to come up with solutions. He believes that energy is the great equalizer because if it were available to everybody then the poor wouldn’t be poor. He’s not concerned with only making people rich, but instead he’s interested in getting them to make a livelihood, be healthy and have access to clean water.
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What if all Marvel movies were only targeted at men / boys? That's a sort of weird thing that we think about as we get into this week's topic: Fans of anime and manga "for girls" (aka: Shoujo and Josei). What is the most popular shoujo / josei title? Do men read / watch it? How successful is it? All this and more on this week's episode with special guest, Caitline Moore ([I Have a Heroine Problem](https://heroineproblem.com/), [Anime Feminist](https://www.animefeminist.com/author/caitlinmoore/))!
Next week, we'll overthrow a dystopian goverment (WAKE UP, MEEPLE!) and probably grow a bunch of fields to feed our family to _not_ die in some medieval time; that's right, we'll be talking about fans of board games!
## Where can I learn more about Caitlin Moore?
Caitlin is the author of [I Have a Heroine Problem](https://heroineproblem.com/), a blog about critically examining media (particularly, shoujo and other anime / manga) from a feminist perspective. Right now, she is running a column examining abusive relationships in Shoujo, which is on week eleven as of this writing.
She is also a contributor to the [Anime Feminist](https://www.animefeminist.com/author/caitlinmoore/) as a columnist and ocassional Chatty AF (the Anime Feminist's podcast) guest.
She is also a multiple-time panelist at a variety of conventions, tackling topics such as _Awesome Women Making Anime_, _Romance and Abuse in Shoujo Manga_, _Isekai Shoujo of the 1990s_, and _Is This Feminist or Not?_
AND, if that's not enough, you can find her on Twitter: [@alltsun_nodere](https://twitter.com/alltsun_nodere)
## Episode outline
### Fandom Facts
**Origins and history:**
Anime and manga (animation and comics) are very broad categories of media, originating in Japan. Shoujo (_young girl_) is one of four main categories of anime and manga targeted at different groups also including shounen (for boys), josei (for women) and seinin (for men). Shoujo and josei are not so much a genre unto themselves as they are target demographics for reader/viewership.
Shoujo dates back to the earliest 20th century when magazines specifically for girls first appeared in Japan. The wide-eyed look commonly associated with shoujo dates back to early illustrations in these magazines. Until the mid-1960s, men vastly outnumbered women in terms of mangaka, and between 1950 and 1969 large audiences for manga emerged in Japan, as did a flood of young female mangaka. ([Wikipedia - Shōjo manga](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Djo_manga))
Josei began to appear during the 1980s during a different manga boom when girls who grew up reading shoujo manga in the 50s and 60s wanted manga for adult women. ([Wikipedia - Josei manga](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josei_manga))
The history of shoujo and josei would be an episode in itself, so we'll leave it at that for now!
Broadly, shoujo _tends_ to focus on romance and interpersonal relationships, and includes titles that you may know of like _Revolutionary Girl Utena_, _Sailor Moon_, _Fushigi Yuugi_ and _Ouran Host Club_. Josei _tends_ to focus on slice-of-life stories and more realistic relationships (as compared to idealized ones) and includes titles like _Kuragehime / Princess Jellyfish_, _Loveless_, _Paradise Kiss_, and _Honey and Clover_.
[// I also saw Yuri on Ice listed as Josei on My Anime List?? ]: #
Anecdotally, it would be easy to say now-ish is the time that Shoujo and Josei fandoms are most active with shows like Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card, Sailor Moon Crystal, and the [boom of Josei titles being released in North America](http://www.animefeminist.com/feature-josei-renaissance/).
...And [Google Trends data](https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0751y) would mostly support that hypothesis. Interest in Shoujo and Josei manga by search volume had been mostly flat since 2004 until around 2013 where interest starting creeping up, with some large peaks around October 2014, May 2016, and April 2017.
**Size of Fandom:**
To give very rough approximations of size of the fandom (at varying levels of interest):
- The Sailor Moon series (highest selling shoujo series ever) has sold over 35 million copies worldwide
- In Japan, the top-selling Shoujo manga magazine has an average circulation of almost 1 000 000
- In Japan, the top-selling Josei manga magazine has an average circulation of almost 200 000
- In North America, Shojo Beat had an average circulation of almost 40 000 copies before being discontinued in 2009
We have limited demographic information this week due to the large surface area of the topic. That being said, we did manage to find some data on anime fans from the [International Anime Research Project](https://sites.google.com/site/animeresearch/past-results/2016-results). Of the more than 700 participants in the 2016 survey:
- 54.8% of participants identified as male
- The median age of participants was ~25
- Participants were fairly split on interest in interest in Josei: the largest group (~25%) did not know of the "genre", and roughly equal groups liked the genre and did not like the genre
- Participants overall liked Shoujo to some degree (~45%)
- Participants also indicated some of their other interest being: gamer (73.1%), sci-fi fan (50.1%), writer (38.1%), artist (33.2%), musician (23.3%), brony (7.9%), and furry (5.7%)
- The largest group preferred subtitles (49.5%), followed by folks who like both equally (40.4%)
[// interesting bit about significantly less hostile sexism and significantly less sexism ]: #
**Changes in Fandom:**
**Around the world:**
[Google Trends data](https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0751y) lists the following countries as the top ten by search volume: Japan, Taiwan, Macau, Hong Kong, Phillipines, Chile, El Salvador, Singapore, Malaysia, Peru (Canada is 36th, and the United States of America is 46th).
### [Last Episode's](http://fanthropological.com/e/53-tales-of-fans/) Famous Last Words
In Japan, is Josei / Shoujo (Anime / Manga for girls) regarded as something filled with aspirational messages, or as a cultural edifice that tries to teach more traditional values?
Sailor Moon is the most popular Shoujo / Josei series.
[// I WAS RIGHT; ON BOTH COUNTS. Shoujo is generally more popular than Josei, and by sales, Sailor moon is TOPS ]: #
Is there a notable portion of the audience who are grown men (similar to Bronies)? If so, what's their deal?
What is the ratio of success of shoujo / josei to shonen (male equivalent) (by whatever measure)?
[// Shonen and Seinen are signficantly more successful by metrics such as sales, or magazine readership: ~2.7:1 for shonen / shojo manga magazine circulation by top groups, ~5:2 seinen / josei, of manga that has sold over 100 million copies, none are shoujo OR josei, and only 2 crack the 50 - 100 million copies ]: #
I'm wondering if it's very well regarded or if it's seen as something silly and frivolous in Japanese culture.
[// Just as serious as anything else? Hard to verify ]: #
[// "In Clothes Called Fat", Fumi Oshinaga "Ooku" ]: #
[// "All My Darling Daughters" Fumi Oshinaga]: #
[// Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju ]: #
[// Yona of the Dawn ]: #
### The Verdict
**T is in. Has some reading to do, especially josei.**
**G is in. Character driven stories is appealing.**
**Z is out.**
**Caitlin is in. DEEP in. There is no way out. Forever.**
### This week's spotlight
[// Women in Sakuga Programme... wrapped up by now? ]: #
[// might want to find an alternative? Anime Feminist! ]: #
> Anime Feminist explores Japanese pop culture through a feminist lens. This includes interviews, roundtable discussions, and visual analysis, broaching topics like gender, sexuality and representation. We have regular discussion posts, links round-ups, features and podcasts. We review new anime premieres every season, making sure to highlight any potential dealbreakers we can see for a feminist audience.
> — [Anime Feminist - About](http://www.animefeminist.com/about/)
**[Anime for Humanity](http://animeforhumanity.org/about/)**
> The mission of Anime For Humanity is to expand the awareness of Japanese animation to inspire the community to create good.
> We use Anime and Cosplay as tools to make a change for a good cause. Through hospitals, orphanages and disability center visitations, we engage children to express themselves artistically by providing joyful experiences and entertainment.
> — [Anime for Humanity - About](http://animeforhumanity.org/about/)
[// Plugs go here ]: #
### Famous Last Words
This week's famous last words around *next week's* fandom, Board Games!
The boom in board game creation over the last decade comes from people remembering unsatisfying board game experiences with Life, Trouble and Monopoly as a kid.
What board game has the most detailed, complicated, esoteric rules?
What is the most expensive non-monopoly board game (that is commercially available)?
~~...The change occured when Monopoly became public domain (and we started having dumb -opoly games)~~
Board games help popularize kickstarter.
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Thanks again to Caitlin Moore for taking the time to chat with us and share her knowledge and experience with us about shoujo and josei! We definitely have some recommendations to follow-up on, and it was informative to get more details about the shoujo boom in North America in the early 2000s (among other things).
- [Wikipedia - Shōjo manga](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Djo_manga)
- [Wikipedia - Josei manga](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josei_manga)
- [Wikipedia - Sailor Moon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailor_Moon)
- [Wikipedia - List of best-selling manga](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_manga)
- [Fanlore - Shoujo](https://fanlore.org/wiki/Shoujo)
- [Fanlore - Josei](https://fanlore.org/wiki/Josei)
- [Kotaku - How to Identify the Basic Types of Anime and Manga](https://kotaku.com/how-to-identify-the-basic-types-of-anime-and-manga-1538285518)
- [Anime Feminist - (Feature) The Josei Renaissance](http://www.animefeminist.com/feature-josei-renaissance/)
- [International Anime Research Project - Anime Survey 2016 Preliminary Results](https://sites.google.com/site/animeresearch/past-results/2016-results)
- [r/anime - DAE prefer josei anime despite not being the target audience?](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/koftr/dae_prefer_josei_anime_despite_not_being_the/)
- [THAT SHOUJO MANGA BLOG - MAN UP! THE ROLE OF SHOUJO IN DEPICTING MEN, MASCULINITY AND RELATIONSHIPS](https://thatshoujomangablog.wordpress.com/2013/06/11/man-up-the-role-of-shoujo-in-depicting-men-masculinity-and-relationships/)
- [Black Nerd Problems - A Love Letter to Josei...](http://blacknerdproblems.com/a-love-letter-to-josei-manga/)
- [AnimeNewsNetwork - Why Are Anime Fans Obsessed with Steven Universe?](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2015-07-31/why-are-anime-fans-obsessed-with-steven-universe/.91130)
- [Wayback Machine - Sailormoon: Manga (Comics) and Anime (Cartoon) Superheroine Meets Barbie: Global Entertainment Commodity Comes to the United States](http://web.archive.org/web/20120617030124/http://www.yorku.ca/jjenson/4303/readings/comics/sailormoon.pdf)
- [Wikipedia - List of Best-Selling Manga](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_manga)
- [Goboiano - Here’s How Money Is Actually Made in Anime](http://goboiano.com/heres-money-actually-made-anime/)
- [Google Books - Shojo Manga and Its Acceptance: What Is the Power of Shojo Manga](https://books.google.ca/books?hl=en&lr=&id=tFLLCQAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PT45&dq=%22shojo+manga+and+its+acceptance%22+nozomi+masuda&ots=qFqPWZSk28&sig=DAa42xtF6kyxT32-yJtBwOeZSLc#v=onepage&q=%22shojo%20manga%20and%20its%20acceptance%22%20nozomi%20masuda&f=false)
- [IGN - Shojo Showdown](http://ca.ign.com/articles/2005/12/13/shojo-showdown)
- [The Japan Foundation - Japanese Book News (56): Shojo (Girls) Manga](www.jpf.go.jp/JF_Contents/GetImage/img_pdf/JBN56.pdf?ContentNo=9&SubsystemNo=1&FileName=img_pdf/JBN56.pdf)
- [Committee for the Revival & Promotion of Shojo Manga - The Magnificent Forty-Niners](https://www.en.matt-thorn.com/single-post/2017/05/31/The-Magnificent-Forty-Niners)
- [Chikushi U Repository - Problems of Gender in Shoujo Manga : A Critique of a Female Category](https://chikushi-u.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=811&item_no=1&attribute_id=21&file_no=1)
- [NECSUS - Representation or Misrepresentation?: British Media and Japanese Popular Culture](http://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/aup/necsus/2014/00000003/00000001/art00006?crawler=true)
- [OhioLINK Electronic Theses & Dissertations Center - Gender and Sexuality in Shoujo Manga: Undoing Heteronormative Expectations in Utena, Pet Shop of Horrors, and Angel Sanctuary](https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?accession=bgsu1250882984&disposition=inline)
### Music / Sound
- Outro music, [“Deep Space Ballet”](http://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_4.php?q=1338&Genre=Piano) by TeknoAXE, used under [CC BY 4.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
- All other music and sound for this week's episode were provided by Nick Green!
- ["Glasses"](https://thenounproject.com/term/glasses/132894) by [Anton Anuchin](https://thenounproject.com/antonwebium) used under [CC BY 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/)
- ["Business Women"](https://thenounproject.com/icon/751113/) by [zidney](https://thenounproject.com/zidney0721) used under [CC BY 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/)
- ["Manga"](https://thenounproject.com/icon/1285340/) by [Risa Nakajima](https://thenounproject.com/lsnk) used under [CC BY 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/) | <urn:uuid:6c9f9ae9-ac88-4aea-a19e-4327e6a4da21> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fanthropological.com/podcasts/28718/episodes/54-manga-anime-for-girls-3632cc480d81d6 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.875593 | 4,904 | 1.507813 | 2 |
What is the GSMA Mobile Innovation Hub?
The GSMA and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) share a common vision: To foster a sustainable and inclusive digital transformation that improves the livelihood of people and the sustainability of our planet worldwide.
To create impact on the ground, GSMA and GIZ established the Mobile Innovation Hub (MIH) in Tunisia and Indonesia to reap the benefits of the mobile economy and to reach the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by catalysing the digital and mobile local ecosystem for socio-economic, climate and environmental impacts in selected low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The Mobile Innovation Hubs are closely aligned with the local Digital Transformation Centers which are implemented by GIZ on behalf of BMZ. Until 2023, BMZ is aiming to expand its network to up to 32 Digital Transformation Centers globally.
The mission of the GSMA Mobile Innovation Hub is to assess opportunities for creating socio-economic impact through mobile digital innovations, foster partnerships among the local digital/mobile ecosystem players to provide capacity building on the role of digital for good, and advocate for enabling environments.
Our focus areas depend on the opportunities and needs of each country which the Mobile Innovation Hub operates in and so far, includes:
- Platform economy (Tunisia)
- Digital and financial inclusion (Tunisia)
- ClimateTech (Indonesia)
Across the focus areas, the Mobile Innovation Hub is providing a menu of support options including landscaping studies, technical assistance to the mobile ecosystem (including coaching, workshops, building partnership among stakeholders), national dialogue(s) between private and public sectors, and capacity building.
The GSMA Mobile Innovation Hub – Tunisia
In 2020, the GIZ partnered with the GSMA to create a Mobile Innovation Hub, as part of the Digital Transformation Center Tunisia, implemented by the GIZ. Together with the Tunisian government and the local digital ecosystem, GIZ and the GSMA collaborate on the development of mobile digital solutions and the promotion of the platform economy across various sectors, with specific emphasis on creating decent employment, improvement of job quality and livelihoods.
The primary focus areas of the Mobile Innovation Hub Tunisia are to:
- Stimulate the mobile platform economy as a new business model across relevant sectors in Tunisia, connecting supply with demand and in doing so, creating more employment opportunities, formalising the informal economy and creating decent work opportunities;
- Support the Tunisian government and society in the COVID-19 pandemic’s recovery phase and building its resilience to future crisis;
- Assist Tunisian operators and other ecosystem partners in reducing the mobile internet usage gap; and
- Support for the development of a thriving mobile financial services ecosystem.
The Mobile Innovation Hub in Tunisia has launched an acceleration programme ‘Platforms for Tomorrow‘. The programme will support innovators, from different sectors in Tunisia, that champion the platform economy business model. Learn more about the programme and apply here.
Applications are open until 25 September 2022.
The GSMA Mobile Innovation Hub – Indonesia
In 2021, the GSMA expanded the partnership with GIZ to Indonesia, to join the local Digital Transformation Center with a focus on Climate Action. The goal of this collaboration is to identify mobile enabled digital tech solutions and innovations that could support Indonesia‘s climate mitigation and adaptation ambitions. Together with the Indonesian government and local stakeholders, the Mobile Innovation Hub works across multiple focus areas that sit at the intersection of mobile, digital innovation, sustainable development, and climate action.
The primary focus areas of the Mobile Innovation Hub Indonesia are around:
- Sustainable energy and green economic development;
- Digitalisation of waste management (with a focus on plastic recycling and e-waste); and
- Natural resource management (NRM).
The Mobile Innovation Hub is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), and supported by the GSMA and its members.
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Exhibited for the first time, the Codice Trivulziano of Leonardo da Vinci, in the context of the production of books, manuscripts and prints of Milan during the reign of the Sforza.
The theme of the exhibition is the Codice Trivulziano of Leonardo da Vinci, in the context of the production of books, manuscripts and prints of Milan during the reign of the Sforza. Illuminated manuscripts, incunabula, art objects from the court of Ludovico il Moro accompany the display of the precious manuscript, which together with the Atlantic Codex represents one of the two codices of Leonardo still conserved in the city in which he lived for two decades. The year 2006 is the 500th anniversary of Leonardo’s return (in 1506) to the Lombard city, where he was to remain until 1513. The entire sequence of the pages, lists and spectacular drawings (studies for caricatures, for the cathedral of Milan, on military subjects, etc.) will be shown, and is included in the book and the CD-Rom. The exhibition and the catalogue stand out for their great scientific value, combined with an approach that meets the needs of a wide audience. Accessibility is also facilitated by the CD-Rom that comes with the catalogue, with texts in both Italian and English, complete texts of the exhibition catalogue, reproductions of the Codex with the possibility of mirror viewing, highlighting of drypoint drawings, transcriptions, comments and critical contributions, as well as stratigraphy, sources and bibliographic references. | <urn:uuid:295dbc39-1001-4882-8329-70997b026816> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.electa.it/en/product/il-codice-di-leonardo-da-vinci-nel-castello-sforzesco/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.938956 | 321 | 2.15625 | 2 |
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Senate OKs $100M to Everglades restoration effort
WASHINGTON - Environmental projects in Florida got a significant boost from the Senate this week, with votes approving more than $100 million for Everglades restoration along with additional recovery money for the Indian River Lagoon and other distressed estuaries.
Lawmakers voted 90-8 on Thursday to pass $37.5 billion Energy and Water Appropriations bill that includes roughly $6 billion for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. A similar bill is expected to reach the House floor in the coming weeks.
Congress can’t explicitly tell the agency where to spend the money. It would be up to the Corps to allocate the money to individual projects after Congress approves the spending.
But the agency lists Everglades projects among its top priorities for fiscal 2017, which begins Oct. 1.
The $37.5 billion spending bill includes $106 million for the South Florida Ecosystem, the multi-year program to restore the Everglades, partly by redirecting water flow from Lake Okeechobee south instead of east and west. Of that amount, $75 million would be allocated for projects under the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, including $59.5 million to continue work on the Indian River Lagoon.
The bulk of that – $53.3 million – would be used to continue building the C-44 Reservoir and Stormwater Treatment Area in western Martin County. The reservoir is designed to store and treat nutrient-laden water drawn from farmland so it doesn’t pollute the St. Lucie River and Indian River Lagoon.
There’s also $500,000 for construction oversight of the C-43 canal, which is designed to reduce water flows from the lake that carry farm-related nutrients into the Caloosahatchee River and befoul beaches in Southwest Florida.
The Corps of Engineers also plans to spend nearly $5 million continuing work restoring natural water flow across the Picayune Strand, an 85-square mile swath in western Collier County that was drained in the early 1960s in anticipation of extensive residential development.
The agency also says it wants to spend about $50 million to fix the decades-old Herbert Hoover Dike, a 143-mile earthen dam surrounding Lake Okeechobee that’s designed to reduce flooding from high lake levels but is increasingly prone to seepage.
Republican Sen. Marco Rubio said the bill is good news for Florida.
“It provides needed funding for several key Florida projects, such as critical Everglades restoration, the Herbert Hoover Dike and the operation and maintenance of our harbors and waterways,” he said in a statement. “This is the first time in several years the Senate has advanced a stand-alone Energy and Water Appropriations bill, and as these projects are incredibly important to the state of Florida.”
The Indian River Lagoon also could receive some much-needed relief from a bill the Senate also passed Thursday night. The measure, whose chief sponsors included Rep. Bill Posey, R-Rockledge, and Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Jupiter, now heads to President Obama for his signature.
The bill would authorize $26.5 million to help the nation’s 28 estuaries, and would provide extra funding to those in the worst shape. That would probably apply to Indian River Lagoon, a $3.7 billion annual economic engine that’s beset by algae blooms and suffered its worst fish kill two months ago.
Scientists say low levels of dissolved oxygen suffocated thousands of fish. More than 30 species died in the kill-off. The same scientists believe the recent “brown tide” of algae blooming in the lagoon is responsible for the low oxygen levels.
“This common-sense plan will help provide critical funding for our nation’s estuaries, and make available additional funding to estuaries that are experiencing urgent and challenging ecological problems, including our own Indian River Lagoon,” Posey said.
The bill only reauthorizes the program. Congress still has to approve the money for it.
Contributing: Jim Waymer, Florida Today
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The funding will increase access to jobs, education and food to strengthen families and reduce inequalities for a stronger, brighter Michigan.
Detroit, Oct. 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – The DTE Energy Foundation today announced that it has awarded grants to seven organizations based in West Michigan to improve access to jobs, education and to the basic needs of disadvantaged people. Grant recipients include Project After 26, Autism Alliance of Michigan, Feeding America West Michigan, Grand Rapids Urban League, Junior Achievement of the Michigan Great Lakes, Kids’ Food Basket, and West Michigan Asian American Association, Inc.
âSupporting these organizations will have a multiplier effect in developing the talents of our state and filling a void where families need it most,â said Lynette Dowler, President of the DTE Foundation. âOur partners strive to directly improve life through preparation for employment in their region, thereby enhancing the quality of life of communities. To ensure we have the next generation of skilled and professional workers, we need to provide students with excellent training, and the support of the DTE Foundation will create educational pathways for people to thrive.
This support will better position each organization to meet the specific needs of the people it serves through job preparation, education and equipping people with basic needs such as aid. food.
âWe are so grateful to the DTE Foundation for being one of seven amazing organizations that all do essential work for our community in Western Michigan,â said Bridget Clark Whitney, Founding CEO of Kids’ Food Basket. âAt Kids’ Food Basket, we are responding to an immediate need by providing nourishing, ready-to-eat evening meals to children and families every day. With opportunities like this, together, our collective community can take one step closer to achieving a hunger-free West Michigan for all. “
Grant recipients – and communities – will use their expertise to ensure that the DTE Foundation’s engagement has maximum positive impact:
Project After 26 – $ 26,000 grant to support Project After 26 in operating a successful coffee shop / gift shop in the community employing adults with special needs and coaches, cooks, waiters and managers .
Autism Alliance of Michigan – Grant of $ 125,000 to fund the efforts of the Autism Alliance of Michigan to raise expectations and expand education and employment opportunities for people with autism throughout their lives .
Feeding America West Michigan – A $ 50,000 grant to support Feeding America West Michigan’s work in collecting and distributing food to alleviate hunger and increase food security in West Michigan and the Upper Peninsula.
Grand Rapids Urban League – $ 10,000 grant for the Listen Up! program, which aims to bridge the STEM workforce by connecting industry to the classroom. With a focus on equity of access, the project aims to unite the private sector to accelerate the growth of the STEM pipeline for students of color in Grand Rapids and Kent County.
Junior Achievement of the Michigan Great Lakes – $ 30,000 grant to help Junior Achievement of the Michigan Great Lakes raise students’ awareness of STEM and other careers by demonstrating the actual application of skills and topics learned in the classroom.
Children’s Food Basket – $ 100,000 grant to find a community-based solution to child hunger by engaging everyone who cares about children reaching their full potential – in school and in life.
West Michigan Asian American Association, Inc. – $ 10,000 grant for the Pre-Literacy Program, which focuses on teaching basic reading and writing in English to those who have not taken a formal schooling in their mother tongue.
About the DTE Foundation
The DTE Foundation is the philanthropic arm of DTE Energy, continuing the legacy of community support and involvement of its electricity and natural gas utilities, which serve 2.2 million electricity customers in the South East of Michigan and 1.3 million natural gas customers in Michigan. In 2020, the DTE Energy Foundation provided more than $ 16 million in grants and approximately $ 21 million in COVID relief to nonprofits where the company has a presence. As one of Michigan’s premier corporate citizens, DTE Energy is a force for growth and prosperity in Michigan communities in a variety of ways, including philanthropy, volunteerism, and economic advancement. Visit DTEFoundation.com to learn more.
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Africa Beza College is a private university college in Ethiopia, founded on November 20, 2005 in Awassa, the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region state capital. It initially had an enrollment of 450 students. Shortly thereafter, ABC expanded to Shashemene and also opened Addis Ababa and Nekemte branches in October 1999 and January 2000, respectively. | <urn:uuid:28f94f93-05e8-4135-8b6a-8c918600fe79> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tzadmission.net/africa-beza-college-historical-background/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.937029 | 98 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Why Environmental Regulations Are Important to Fight Climate Change in Egypt
For centuries, in the lush green fields of Egypt’s fertile Delta Valley, Egyptian farmers have always carried a deep love for the land – growing popular crops such as wheat and cotton, and putting Egypt on the map of global agriculture.
Yet, today, Egypt is on the map as of one of the most water-scarce regions in the world, facing a multitude of challenges regarding water and food security, which are exacerbated by rapid population growth and climate change. It has been suggested that, in 2025, the UN predicts that Egypt will be approaching a state of “absolute water crisis” by 2025 and that the nation is already below the United Nations’ water poverty threshold.
While environmental regulations often do not gain enough attention or coverage as other climate issues, they play an important role in ensuring that all groups in society, whether a farmer or a factory owner, abide by the same standards and practices.
Since 1994, these regulations have been developed and implemented by the Environment Affairs Agency (EEAA), and have introduced regulations overtime to reflect the changing context. For instance, in 2014, the Egyptian government published the Renewable Energy Law (Decree Law 203/2014), which helped encourage the private sector to produce electricity from renewable energy sources, and led to more private companies to appear in the market, such as KarmSolar.
In the matrix of population growth and rising local clean water demand, there is another huge danger: pollution. There are several sources of pollution that can often go unnoticed and disregarded in environmental regulations, such as industrial wastewater discharge, agricultural water drainage, and other toxic chemicals. Environmental regulations can help in regulating wastewater reuse, as the reuse of treated wastewater for agricultural or even potable uses provides an alternative source of water.
Noura Abdou is an environmental engineer and a master’s candidate at Alexandria University, as well as founder and environmental expert at “Our Climate” – an Egyptian social enterprise for environmental solutions in wastewater and fresh water treatment through clean energy.
More specifically, her research is focused on the interrelation between climate change, water and food security, as well as the vulnerability of communities living in rural or impoverished areas, as they are more likely to be disproportionately affected and face more challenges in water pollution. Agriculture, which is the largest employer in rural areas, plays a major role in water pollution, as farms discharge agrochemicals, sediments, and saline drainage into water bodies.
Solving this issue is not just a matter of using new water technologies, but also about going deeper into the process of implementation: connecting stakeholders and introducing new regulations.
“Connecting all stakeholders in society is highly important. First, there is the ordinary citizen or farmer that faces challenges in water pollution and needs an environmental solution. To provide this solution, we need to connect them with NGOs from civil society in that specific area, as there are several different districts – from Giza to Sohag, Minya, and Qena – that have their own unique challenges in water pollution,” Abdou tells Egyptian Streets.
“Another important stakeholder is the academic and research community, which includes those who have policy ideas and solutions but do not know how to implement them. They are very important because they have the ability to conduct studies and experiments on new technologies to assess their true impact, and also to understand each district’s own unique challenges,” she adds.
The next crucial step is to ensure that implementation under Egyptian code abides by international guidelines and, at the same time, also addresses the Egyptian context.
“I’ve always been passionate about helping the villages and areas that are most impoverished, and how regulations in the Egyptian code are concerned with environmental issues,” Abdou says.
Abdou’s research is focused on a comparative analysis between Egyptian code, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines on wastewater reuse in agriculture, and the restrictions in implementing this process.
“There are a lot of things not being covered and it’s not being taken into full consideration in the Egyptian code, and this is the gap that needs to be worked on further and to focus more specifically on the communities that are affected by water pollution, as there are risks with regards to health and water scarcity. Climate change can affect water shortage in the future, especially as population increases and contamination increases, which is why it is important to strengthen the risk management system through stronger legal restrictions,” Abdou notes.
According to the Food Agriculture Organization (FAO)’s report, climate change disproportionately affects food-insecure regions, as well as jeopardizing crop and livestock production, such as Egypt’s sugar crops, and fruits and vegetables. Holistic approaches that take into consideration the implementation of regulations and policies, as well as the use of certain climate-smart technologies, ensure that the process is more efficient.
“Wastewater reuse has become increasingly important as a cost-efficient supply that decreases the stress on freshwater sources, provides nutrient-rich water for irrigation, and it can be used for recycling which is very important environmentally,” Abdou adds.
“Wastewater reuse has to follow certain regulations and a sequence of treatment procedures to reduce concentration of pollutants in it, which Egyptian code does not take into consideration. There are other criteria for polluted water other than pathogens, which the Egyptian code focuses on. It must also take into consideration the acidity of water, chemicals and other other industrial materials.”
The Egyptian code also faces challenges in assessing the quality of water during irrigation and soil salinity, Abdou adds, despite the fact that soil salinity affects food security as it is concerned with groundwater. “The Egyptian code does not address groundwater, yet this is going to be very important in the next coming years, as groundwater is the world’s largest freshwater resource.”
Another significant gap in Egyptian code is that it does not take into consideration the geographical and cultural aspects of water pollution and water scarcity, and how to address the different aspects of water quality in each district. “We need to include the different geographical considerations in the Egyptian code, because what we often do is we split people into categories, from farmers and field workers, but we have to treat all workers equally in the law as they all face and are exposed to the same dangers, so we must protect the public health of all,” she adds.
Egypt has been upgrading its water infrastructure projects over the years, as it is planning to construct 17 water desalination plants by 2025, and recently inaugurated the world’s largest water treatment plant of Bahr al-Baqar in the northern province of Port Said.
However, to solve the climate crisis, governments alone cannot shoulder the responsibility, as collective, grassroots mobilization with all stakeholders in society (civil society and academic community), paralleled with strong regulations, is needed to ensure effective and quick implementation.
Essentially, environmental regulations also play an important role in securing environmental justice for local vulnerable communities – those that are in most danger and are at risk from environmental pollution, and cannot hold anyone accountable for any of the environmental damages.
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Home loans for bad credit, Buying a home may be distressing. Assuming that you simply have awful credit, you may be stressed over whether or not you’ll even meet all requirements for a home advance. Many home equity credit banks altogether actuality do have severe prerequisites — yet homeownership is conceivable, no matter whether your credit isn’t within the best shape.
In the event that you’re looking for home loans for awful credit, you’ve got choices. Study where to trace down these home loans even as certain tips about how you’ll be able to work on your credit before purchasing a home.
What’s the base FICO rating to get a house?
Home loans for bad credit, Home purchasers are frequently amazed by the scope of low credit home loans accessible today.
Numerous banks will give government–supported FHA loans and VA loans to borrowers with FICO ratings as low as 580. Some even beginning at 500 for FHA (however these loan specialists are more enthusiastically to find).
With a FICO assessment over 600, your choices open up considerably more. Low–rate traditional home loans require just a 620 score to qualify. Also with a FICO assessment of 680 or higher, you’ll apply for just about any home advance.
7 Home Loans For Bad Credit For borrowers
Here are 7 Home loans for bad credit with a large explanation.
1. FHA Mortgage: Minimum financial assessment 500
In Home loans for bad credit, FHA loans – upheld by the Federal Housing services– have the foremost minimal financial assessment necessities of any significant home credit program.
Most banks offer FHA loans beginning at a 580 FICO rating. Assuming your score is 580 or higher, you actually want to pay just 3.5% down.
Those with lower credit (500–579) may in any case fit the bill for a FHA advance. In any case, you’d must put essentially 10% down, and it o.k. could also be more enthusiastically to watch banks that let a 500 least FICO rating.
One more engaging nature of a FHA advance is that, not normal for traditional mortgages, FHA–supported home loans don’t convey hazard based estimating. this is often otherwise called “credit level estimating changes” (LLPAs).
Hazard based evaluating is an expense surveyed to advance applications with lower financial assessments or other not great characteristics.
There may be some financing cost “hits” for lower–credit FHA borrowers, however they’re going to very often be altogether not precisely the rate increments on standard mortgages.
For FHA–upheld loans, this suggests helpless financial assessments don’t really want higher loan costs.
Remember, however, that FHA requires both a forthright and yearly home equity loan protection premium (MIP) which can boost the final expense of your advance.
2. VA Mortgage: Minimum financial assessment 580–620
In Home loans for bad credit, VA credits are well-known home equity loan loans offered uniquely to veterans, administration individuals, and a few qualified companions and military–subsidiary borrowers.
With support from the Department of Veterans Affairs, these loans don’t need an initial installment or any continuous equity credit line protection installments. (In spite of the very fact that there’s a one–time financing charge which most borrowers roll into the advance sum.)
VA credits likewise ordinarily have the foremost reduced loan fees available.
In fact, there is no base FICO assessment prerequisite for a VA advance. Nonetheless, most loan specialists force a base score of something like 580. What’s more many beginning at 620.
Like FHA credits, VA loans do not have hazard based evaluating changes. Candidates with low scores can regularly get rates like those for high–credit borrowers.
3. USDA home advance: Minimum financial assessment 640
In Home loans for bad credit, USDA credits are famous for his or her zero initial installment necessity and low rates.
You’d regularly need a 640 FICO score to suit the bill for this type of home equity credit, however least financial assessment necessities can change by moneylender.
These home loans are supported by the U.S. Division of Agriculture fully resolute expanding homeownership in rustic regions.
To present a home equity credit application for this type of credit, the house you’re purchasing should be situated in an exceedingly passing “rustic” region – however some rural areas twig done.
A USDA credit additionally won’t work on the off chance that you simply get lots of cash-flow. Your family pay cannot be in way over 115% of the center family pay in your space.
4. Standard mortgages: Minimum financial assessment 620
In Home loans for bad credit, Non–government ordinary loan loans charge higher financing costs and expenses for borrowers with low FICO ratings.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the organizations that regulate an outsized portion of the quality mortgages within the U.S., charge credit level value changes, or LLPAs.
These expenses rely on two credit factors:
- Credit to–esteem (LTV) – The proportion between the advance sum and residential estimation
- As your LTV rises and your financial assessment falls, your charge goes up.
For example, a borrower with 20% down and a 700 financial assessment pays 1.25% of the advance sum in LLPAs.
A candidate with a 640 score and 10% down are going to be charged an expense of two.75%.
These charges mean higher loan costs for borrowers. that suggests lower–FICO assessment candidates will have higher month to month Mortgage installments and can pay more interest over the existence of the credit.
Most of banks will expect property holders to possess a base financial assessment of 620 to suit the bill for a customary mortgage.
Standard mortgages are accessible to bring down credit candidates, however their expenses regularly mean FHA loans cost less for borrowers with awful FICO ratings.
5. FNMA HomeReady: Minimum FICO assessment 620
In Home loans for bad credit, Delivered in December 2015, HomeReady is a fantastic Fannie Mae credit program for low–to direct pay borrowers, with extended qualification for financing homes in low–pay networks.
Dissimilar to Freddie’s home loans for bad credit, you do not have to be a first–time homebuyer to satisfy all requirements for HomeReady.
Alongside its 3% least up front installment prerequisite, this advance kind has another alluring component: Underwriting can remember pay from others for your family, paying little heed surprisingly history.
Rather than basing your relationship of outstanding debt to require home pay just on your month to month pay and your co–borrower’s pay, the DTI proportion can incorporate the pay of your flat mates, grown-up kids, or guardians who find yourself residing with you.
Most loan specialists require a base FICO assessment of 620 to suit the bill for this kind of home loans for bad credit.
6. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Home Possible: Minimum FICO assessment 660
In Home loans for bad credit, Freddie Mac’s first–time home purchaser program, Home Possible, is assisting purchasers with moving into homes with an exceptionally abject installment and moderate credit.
Home loans for bad credit is low and moderate–pay borrowers and considers an initial installment of simply 3%. Furthermore, for borrowers who can’t put aside the up front installment, Home Possible permits an assortment of initial investment help programs.
To fit the bill for the house Possible advance with diminished private loan protection (PMI) rates, most banks would require a 660 or better financial assessment.
7. Non–qualified loan (Non–QM): Minimum financial assessment 500–580
In Home loans for bad credit, The certified home equity credit rule, otherwise called the QM Rule, came full circle in 2014.
The central government set the QM Rule to form safer loans by restricting or restricting specific high–hazard contract items.
This standard is that the explanation most loans require a base FICO rating during the 600s even as an up front installment also as private loan protection.
Yet, there are still some “non–QM” loans accessible that have more adaptable standards.
At the purpose when banks don’t offer their home loans to financial backers, they’re allowed to line their own rules – like lower least FICO assessment prerequisites.
In this manner, some non–QM loans are often found with FICO ratings as low as 500. Yet, like a FHA advance, you’re substantially more liable to observe a bank who will endorse you with a FICO score of 580 or higher.
The disadvantage is that non–QM loans as a rule home loans for bad credit have altogether higher rates than adjusting contracts. So within the event that your FICO rating is excessively low for a typical home advance, it okay may merit holding back to get until you’ll raise your financial assessment and lower your acquiring costs. | <urn:uuid:467dc5bb-005b-4670-a3cd-c35014d2e8f3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://einvestpedia.com/home-loans-for-bad-credit/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.935782 | 1,896 | 1.5 | 2 |
The public called him Scarface; the FBI called him Public Enemy Number One; his associates called him Snorky. But Capone is the name most remember. And John Kobler’s Capone is the definitive biography of this most brutal and flamboyant of the underground kings—an intimate and dramatic book that presents a complete view of Al Capone and his gaudy era. Here is Capone’s story: his violent childhood in Brooklyn, his lieutenancy to Johnny Torrio, his rise in the ranks of the underworld, the notorious St. Valentine Massacre, his eventual control of the entire city of Chicago, and his decline during his imprisonment in Alcatraz. Capone was the ultimate gangster, and Capone is the ultimate in gangster biographies—a classic in the literature of crime. | <urn:uuid:94fb2982-e990-4887-8fbb-d91515348dce> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bookwormr.com/book/capone-1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.973656 | 170 | 1.757813 | 2 |
There are a couple of reasons why many of us frequent fast food places. For one, they’re, er, fast. And for two, it’s fairly economical.
Here are some ways to make your dollar go even further at the drive-through window and other fast food joints like McDonald’s, Chipotle, Starbucks, Arby’s, Dominos, Burger King and more!
• Ask that your breakfast sandwich be made with a round egg, not the usual square one. The round egg is made in an egg ring on site free of charge, and is of a better quality and taste, according to The Krazy Coupon Lady.
• Instead of a Big Mac, save $2.30 by choosing a Double Cheeseburger without ketchup and mustard, but with the lettuce and special sauce. No sesame seed bun, but still, that’s a decent savings.
• Does your family love McNuggets? Get the 20-pack! Nuggets are 30 cents each when you order a four-pack, but the price drops to 25 cents each when you buy in bulk, according to The Krazy Coupon Lady.
• Several more Mickey D’s hacks here!
• Did you know that you can add extra rice to any order for free? True! And you can get guacamole added to your order for free when you skip the protein.
• Business Insider reports that you can get a full meal including a drink and side for under $5 by ordering from the kids menu. Pick from build-your-own tacos or a cheese quesadilla with meat or guacamole.
•Make two (or more!)meals out of one burrito bowl. Just ask for a free tortilla or taco shell on the side, as Krazy Coupon Lady recommends.
Then when going through the line, ask for extra rice, beans, and veggies. If you have lettuce at home, skip the greens (not only does this save room for the extra freebies, but you can reheat the goods later without making the lettuce wilt.)
When you get home, toss some fridge-lettuce on your plate and then add a nice serving of your Chipotle bowl. Eat half your burrito for the first meal, then put the rest in your extra tortilla or shell as a later meal. Voila!
• Save $2.10 by sharing a French press rather than ordering two Grande drip coffees. Thanks for the tip, Krazy Coupon Lady!
• Save 58 cents by asking for light ice in your iced coffee. More ice = less beverage in your cup.
• Need a morning jolt? (That’s why you’re there, after all.) Get a short latte instead of a tall and save 80 cents—they both have the same amount of caffeine.
• Save $1.19 by getting a pair of Junior Roast Beef Sandwiches rather than one Classic Roast Beef Sandwich.
And when you’ve got your order, take out your phone and call the number on the back of the receipt. Take their survey and write down the survey code. Hop back in line for a freebie Roast Beef Sandwich or a Beef ‘N Cheddar Sandwich.
• The Crazy Koupon Lady is on a roll. She says you can save $10 by ordering a large carryout three-topping pizza with pineapple, ham and bacon instead of a large Honolulu Hawaiian. Technically, the Honolulu Hawaiian also has shredded Parmesan and Asiago and roasted red peppers. But, even if you add those, you still save $7. Mahalo!
• Split a foot-long sub with friend, and you can each customize your half—it’s cheaper than ordering two six-inch subs. Both of you will get the same meat and bread, but the cheese, produce and condiments can be changed.
• Do you hate how all of the stuff inside the sandwich falls out? Hack the Menu has a way around that. Ask to have your sub prepared “old-cut style.” They make a V shape or trench in the bread rather than slicing along the side. This way, everything stays inside. Less waste means you got yourself a better deal.
• Back in the day, they had a slogan called “Have It Your Way“—and it’s still good advice at BK. If you order a burger with extra pickles, for example, you’re basically guaranteed a fresh one because, as The Krazy Coupon Lady explains, the served won’t want to unwrap a pre-made sandwich to throw on the extra pickles. Score!
• Ask for your sandwich to be done “OTB,” or “Off The Broiler.” They’ll take a fresh uncooked patty and run it through the conveyor. You’ll get a fresh burger instead of one that’s wrapped and warming under a lamp.
• Order the Triple Layer Nachos without beans or sauce for $1.10 instead of the Chips & Cheese for $1.30 to get more nachos with cheese already poured over them.
• Add guacamole to anything for an additional 35 cents.
• Ask for your fries to be unsalted. That means they’ll have to make them fresh. Then add your own salt to your piping hot fresh fries.
Steak ‘N Shake
- According to Business Insider, if you order a plain Double ‘n Cheese Steakburger with sourdough bread, Swiss cheese and Frisco sauce instead of a Frisco Melt, you’re getting the exact same thing for less money.
Just remember, if you’re asking the server to go out of his or her way, do it with a smile! You’ll be surprised at the results.
Get more great fast-food restaurant hacks (including a LOT of “Secret Menus”) here.
[h/t: The Crazy Koupon Lady]
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By Andrew Korybko
The Chinese government gave a befitting reply to its Western counterparts from the EU and NATO who recently accused China of carrying out far-reaching cyber espionage activities. The Chinese Mission in the EU struck back by calling them out for being the ones who’ve done exactly what they claim China’s guilty of. The Mission also shared details about the many such attacks that China has thwarted in the past. The message is simple but nevertheless one that the Western public should urgently become more aware that it’s Western governments that are gaslighting the world about cyber espionage.
This trend first began to take off during the rule of former US president Donald Trump. His administration accused China of spying on the world through Huawei and other tech companies. Not once did he or his country’s allies present even a single shred of evidence to back up this claim. All that they did was introduce a weaponized information warfare narrative into the global discourse, after which they expected it to naturally propagate and self-replicate. The end effect that they desired was that China’s dozens of partners across the world would replace Chinese companies with costlier and less effective Western competitors.
The latest accusations against China are slightly different since they revived the similarly debunked information warfare narrative that the country occasionally goes on cyber espionage offensives against highly sensitive targets. The purpose in pushing this particular angle of propaganda is to scare the Western public into supporting larger budgets for their own government’s supposed “cyber security” programs. In reality, those said programs are dishonestly described since they’re really fronts for the same cyber espionage operations that they accuse China of.
It might sound confusing and twisted, but that’s the reality of the shadowy intelligence world where the truth is often the opposite of whatever is being said in public. In this context, China is actually the victim, not the villain, while Western governments are the real villains, not the victims that they present themselves as. The only reason why this game is unfolding in the open is because the Western public needs to be indoctrinated with a false explanation for why more of their hard-earned taxes are being redirected toward cyber espionage programs that unconvincingly masquerade as “cyber security” ones instead of healthcare and infrastructure.
The military-industrial complex has evolved to the point where it now includes a technological component whose lobbyists are competing with the others for finite public funds. China is the most politically convenient target for them each to attack in this shadowy competition since the narrative has already been established in the public’s consciousness that the country purportedly poses the greatest-ever threat to the West. Russia used to be the primary villain in their mind but that’s gradually changing as a result of last month’s Geneva Summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Joe Biden which de-escalated mutual tensions.
Although Moscow is still ridiculously blamed for a lot of things, including those that never happened such as Putin supposedly exploiting Trump as his puppet, the overall trend is that Beijing is replacing it as the West’s top enemy. This was clearly hinted at during the EU and NATO Summits that Biden participated last month. China is more easily conceived of as a so-called threat to the West than Russia is since China has one of the world’s top economies and was the first to successfully recover from the global crisis catalyzed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Update makes Chrome for Android a bigger memory hog, but also more secure
If you ever look through Settings > Storage on your Android phone, you'll notice that most mobile browsers are memory hogs. And the Chrome browser is among the worst when it comes to this type of behavior. Unfortunately, a new update to Chrome for Android is going to make its memory grabbing tendencies even worse. But according to Android Authority, there is actually a good reason for Google's mobile browser to suck up 3% to 5% more of your handset's resources after the update.
The update to the Android version of the Chrome browser will make it more secure by adding improvements to a feature called Site Isolation. In a nutshell, this keeps different websites away from each other to prevent a malicious website from doing its thing and stealing data or corrupting another site. While Chrome on the desktop does this all of the time, offering this on an Android phone would be too taxing to the handset (especially those on the low-end of the smartphone spectrum). On an Android phone, Site Isolation is enabled only when a user is visiting a website that requires a password to log in. Once you sign in to this website, Site Isolation will be activated; Chrome will remember this so that the next time you visit this page, Site Isolation will be activated immediately.
here. The beta version of Chrome is currently running version 78 and can also be installed from the Play Store by clicking on this link. The beta version will give you the ability to test out new features and capabilities before Google decides whether to add them to the stable version of the app. And if you want in on the ground floor of new ideas, you can install the Chrome Canary app. Google warns that this is an unstable version of the browser and is suggested for developers and advanced users only. Chrome Canary can also be found in the Google Play Store.Site Isolation is available on Chrome 77 or Android phones with at least 2GB of RAM (which covers most Android handsets these days). And since it appears that Google is doing some A/B testing, the feature might not be found on a small number of Android phones with Chrome 77 installed. If you need the latest stable version of Chrome on your Android phone, you can install it from the Google Play Store by tapping right
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Myriam Sidibe, a changemaker, is well-known for assisting brands in making a genuine social effect.
She has become a significant voice in this sphere, having come from the Unilever school of thought, where the previous CEO Paul Polman coined the motto “corporates with a purpose.”
She also collaborates with organisations such as Millennium Villages, the World Bank, Population Service International (PSI), Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP), Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP), and United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
This is to help educate people about the importance of handwashing with soap. And furthermore to implement programs that will help people develop healthy handwashing habits for the rest of their lives.
Myriam is the Chief Mission Officer and Founder of Brands on a Mission. A B-corp that is spearheading a paradigm shift in how corporations and governments think about health, well-being, and sustainability.
Her mission is to get brands and enterprises to use their business models to drive an impact on health and wellbeing.
She is also the co-founder and Chair of Kenya’s National Business Compact on Coronavirus. As well as the creator of the multi-award-winning and UN-recognized Global Handwashing Day, which is currently observed in over 100 countries.
She started a drive within Unilever to improve one billion people’s handwashing habits, making it the world’s largest hygiene behaviour modification program.
Myriam is a Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government.
She is also an honorary Professor of Practice at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Myriam Sidibe Drive for Hand Hygiene
Myriam Sidibe TED talk, The Simple Power of Handwashing, which was aired in 2014, over a million views on YouTube.
In the video, Sidibe stated that she and her team have impacted 183 million people in 16 countries. She stated their ambition to reach 1 billion people by 2020.
The COVID-19 pandemic that ensued in 2020, caused people to wash and sanitise their hands always. One can say Sidibe has had her ambition achieved.
During that COVID-19 lockdowns, Sidibe said, “In parallel, the rest of everything else I am working on hasn’t stopped either.
“I am a public health worker. I have spent 20 plus years thinking about handwashing and most of it from the private sector, now is the time to accelerate these learnings to the world.”
She is the author of the best-selling book Brands on a Mission: How to Achieve Social Impact and Business Growth through Purpose.
Her movement, Brands on a Mission came as a result of the book, which is truly transforming corporate behaviour for the better.
She has been named one of the world’s 100 most influential Africans for her efforts to change global corporate behaviour.
Her advocacy for sustainability and doing both good and well has gained popularity around the world, particularly as corporations adapt to a new type of stakeholder capitalism.
Sidibe’s influence has grown significantly, and her movement is prodding, if not forcing, businesses large and small to prioritise sustainability in their plans.
More on Myriam Sidibe achievements
Myriam Sidibe is one of just a few people in the world with a doctorate in public health specialising in soap-free handwashing.
She has spent 14 years as the Global Social Mission Director for Lifebuoy soap. Where she worked with thousands of children to figure out the most efficient ways to convince them to wash their hands with soap before eating and after using the restroom.
She is a senior Fellow at the Mossavar Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School.
Sidibe oversees Social Mission activities in 55 countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America, with the goal of seeing more people stick to the habit of washing their hands. | <urn:uuid:fede4b98-e53e-4d39-9ecc-0c726b5de414> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://businesselitesafrica.com/2022/04/22/myriam-sidibe-an-african-health-activist-driving-global-change/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.955866 | 856 | 2 | 2 |
A fuse is the old fashion way to protect against overloading your circuits. A circuit breaker is a modern way to do the same thing with more accuracy. It also provides an easier way to restore power by simply flicking the switch. A safety switch, or RCD (residual current device) protects against current leaking to earth – such as the metal on appliances. It detects when there is an imbalance in the circuit – like electricity flowing through a human when it shouldn’t be. If you still have fuses, it is recommended that you get them replaced with circuit breakers and safety switches. Again, there are many options. | <urn:uuid:e70527e9-f69a-4ceb-9927-44344926753d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://markbrownelectrical.com.au/whats-the-difference-between-a-fuse-a-circuit-breaker-and-a-safety-switch/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.948437 | 130 | 3.296875 | 3 |
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who use aftermarket parts and those who use original equipment manufacturer parts. Although there may be some sociological or psychological implications one could make regarding these two kinds of folks, such discourse belongs to the realm of speculation. Here are some reasons why OEM parts should always be used on your Dodge vehicles.
The Cost of Cutting Corners
Vehicle negligence comes in many forms. Those who neglect to take care of their Dodge vehicles contribute to the $750 million each year in vehicle property damages paid out by Americans who fail to rotate their tires, change their oil, and regulate fluid levels — the total cost of neglect (not limited to property damage) is over $2 billion every year. There is a reason why the manufacturer recommends only using genuine Dodge parts; custom projects using aftermarket parts play a role in the nearly 100,000 disabling injuries and over 2,600 deaths that occur an annual basis due to vehicle neglect. Keep in mind the responsibly that comes with owning a Dodge; we all have a role in making the road a safer place for everyone.
The Advantage of Genuine Dodge Parts
Most automotive technicians who work on Dodges buy genuine Dodge parts directly from auto parts retailers if they can; warehouse distributers, jobbers, dealerships, and buying direct from the manufacturer are other ways techs get OEM Dodge parts quickly. Although professional technicians recommend using OEM parts, 21 states across the country (and the District of Columbia) do not require a body shop’s repair estimate to indicate whether or not aftermarket parts will be used — for this reason, many Dodge owners may be paying for repairs that use aftermarket parts that do not fit as well as OEM parts. Requesting that your Dodge be serviced using OEM parts can be more expensive, but OEM parts are easier to choose and are typically backed by a one-year warranty. In addition, by using genuine Dodge parts, Dodge owners can help to maintain a higher resale value in the long run. When it comes time to make vehicle repairs, don’t compromise your Dodge’s identity with less-than-perfect aftermarket parts. | <urn:uuid:0ff8e55c-c0bf-40ba-a9b6-7d0ae47e190a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fastcarvideo.net/taking-care-of-your-dodge-the-difference-original-equipment-manufacturer-parts-make/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.937691 | 438 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Relationships are the base of everything we have. We share a different kinds of relationships with people around us. Some are blood relations, some are enemies, some are friends, some are strangers we see every day and some are beneficial. Our whole foundation of life is build on these relations. We cherish them and make the source of goodness.
These relationships are also helpful in business world. You can’t say ‘I’m the king, I’ll order and everyone will obey’. No! Even the king has to build good relations with his ministers and servants as well. Otherwise it takes a spark to flame revolution. Building business relationships are very very important.
To even establish a business you need some trusted people around you. You need to have contacts to connect with when you need. To sell the products, you need to have connections with marketing people. Advertising agencies and social media experts will help you with that too. So as you can see, business is a team work. And to maintain its glory, loyalty and strength you need to build strong business relations.
Being an introvert may prove to be your minus point here. Cause you need to talk with strangers, your teammates, competitors and press and people. You need to keep talking and know where to shut up as well. Building effective business relationships need more than just talkativeness. It needs presence of mind and good communicational skills.
Sometimes the business relationships go long way benefiting both the parties. They grow with each other. Sometimes it takes time to realize the snake behind the smiling face. While building effective business relationships you need to see the right intentions of the other person. Being only a good talker won’t help here. You need to have something more than that.
So there are few things that would help you in building effective business relationships!
As said previously, communication is the key! While building effective business relationships you have to communicate. There will be times when you will have to communicate to put your brand in stores, to create website for it, to sell it by salesmen and even to resolve issues with it. You need to communicate with your customers to build effective business relationship. For this you need to be in contact with them.
Websites, social media handles are the ways to be in contact with your customers around the world. You communicate with them through your content and upgrades. That’s why we have the customer review or feedback section in our website. There customers can tell you their experience with your product. You can know the issues and resolve them in order to maintain the relationship.
With positive and negative feedbacks you can look into your own product with different point of view. It will help in making your product more user friendly. Eventually resulting in increasing sells!
Isn’t this the motto of everyone’s life? The thing that year 2020 has taught us is never losing hope. Being ‘positive’ gained a new meaning this year. But Optimism has helped us survive. This same optimistic attitude will help you building effective business relationships.
When you listen to big businessmen they sound positive and hope. Listening to them gives us a boost that we can do it too. No matter what you are going through, you have to keep positive attitude. While building effective business relationships this will help you a lot. People don’t want to be even near to negative person. Being positive will attract more people to you and your business.
A little personal touch to anything never hurts. It just states the uniqueness of your thoughts. Even your products have a personal touch to make them feel more relatable. That’s how you advertise it and that’s why customers buy it from the stores.
For building effective business relationships, you need to personalize it a bit. While working in corporate world, you will notice some traditions. The company celebrates festivals in different style, people send gifts on occasions especially on birthdays and anniversaries. These events are personal, but to build closer relationships you have to.
But getting too close can harm your business too. Professional relationships has to be professional. You can be close and loyal to each other, but affecting personal life with it isn’t ideal. That’s why people put limits to personalization as well. You need to be aware where to stop.
Knowledge never gets old neither useless. The more you share, the more you get. That’s the motto of knowledge and reason why we should share right information. This can be a perfect way to reach your customers or strangers and connect with them.
Through your website, you are already giving out information in your blogs. People read them and if it feels relatable share. This expands your viewership. This will help you building effective business relationships.
This is the important aspect of building any relationship. You have to keep your mind open to gain different point views. This helps in not only with the bigger view, but also in being honest. While building effective business relationships you need to open mind. What does that mean? Just that you need to keep the gates of your mind open for opinions different than you.
This means you need to show positive attitude towards criticism. You have to be honest about your opinions. You can’t keep sugar coating everything you say just to please someone else. People don’t appreciate over sweetness in professional matters. You need to be honest and frank with your opinions.
That doesn’t mean you can talk whatever you want about it. You need to know the difference between being honest and just being mean. For building effective business relationships you need to have all these. Practice them every-time and keep exploring the glory of it. | <urn:uuid:39798c07-6a27-42ef-a2dc-c32cbb8da3c2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.misbahwp.com/effective-business-relationships/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.96038 | 1,199 | 1.796875 | 2 |
IHC TaskForce Goal
To develop a community-wide implementation plan or road
map designed to coordinate and integrate social and
environmental determinants of health to reduce health disparities
and to close the gap on the technology digital divide.
Primary Program Objectives
- To address the digital divide to reduce health disparities of older adults, caregivers, other city residents and service providers.
- To develop a community-wide roadmap/conceptual framework for connecting the community to technology, community resources and the social determinants of health.
- To research systemic technological changes needed within and outside of the provider network to better integrate care and develop the community’s health care work force.
- To develop process and community impact methodology for evaluating implementation of the Inclusive Health Care-Metro Detroit initiative.
- To develop a final report and toolkit to support program expansion and replication including an Inclusive Health Care Summit.
IHC Taskforce Summit
Watch the Inclusive Healthcare Taskforce Summit to learn about the implementation plan, and upcoming IHC Taskforce initiatives. Watch Now
Committee Meeting Recordings
Watch the Launch Meeting of the Inclusive Health Care Taskforce to get more information about the goals and general overview of the IHC Taskforce. Additional subcommittee meeting videos are below for more information and details.
Journal Articles and Research
Find articles related to digital inclusion for older adults and how it relates to addressing the impact of the digital divide on health disparities and exclusion in telehealth and eHealth care settings.
- Predictors of eHealth Usage: Insights on The Digital Divide From the Health Information National Trends Survey 2012
- Telehealth, Rural America, and the Digital Divide
- The Future of Remote Care Technology and Older Adults Connection is Everything
- Focusing on Digital Health Equity
- Impact of the digital divide in the age of COVID-19
- A Tale of Two Divides: Technology Experiences Among Racially and Socioeconomically Diverse Older Adults
- Bridging the Digital Divide for Urban Seniors: Community Partnership
- Building Our Own Bridges: How a Distressed Urban Neighborhood Bridges the Digital Divide
- Digital inclusion as a social determinant of health
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Kingsley Ben-Adir, Aldris Hodge, Eli Goree and Leslie Odom Jnr have a passionate debate in One Night In Miami
What do they talk about? Along with some home truths, it’s mostly the state of America and the struggle for racial justice. Malcolm X – edgy and worried for his life – feels singer and businessman Sam Cooke has sold out by pandering to white audiences. Cooke angrily argues that building his own record label for himself and his black artists is beating the white man at his own game. Cassius is having last-minute doubts about converting to Islam. Jim Brown is pondering switching from sport to film-making: after all, what are he and Clay really but “gladiators”?
King’s film is passionate and directed with confidence, even if the film never really escapes from its heritage as a single-setting, one-act play. The action largely takes place in a single room – despite efforts to open it up by having our heroes visit the roof or pop out for supplies. It’s not a surprise that the best moments are also the most theatrical, not least the heated debates that allow the actors to shine.
These debates are so strong, I wish there were more of them. The heart of the film is that argument about the balance between pandering and creating something that will sell. Sam Cooke has had a lot of success – but is it at the cost of not singing about the things he really cares about? Or is he right that people like The Rolling Stones will always open doors he can’t – and if he and other artists can make fortunes from the Stones covering their songs, isn’t that a win for the black community? Malcolm X has no time for that possibility, accusing Cooke of a soft-pedal Uncle-Tomism, content to leave the sort of impassioned protest songs he could be singing to men like Bob Dylan.
Both Brown and Clay are largely left to play peacemaker and devil’s advocate. Hugely successful athletes, they balance justifiable pride with a determination to be their own men. But the film fails to really explore issues in their industries – is their success elevating their community, or just enriching rich white guys? It would have been interesting for Malcolm to turn some his fire on these two. After all an early scene with Brown shockingly demonstrates the limits of sporting success to truly change the opinions of some white Americans about their black neighbours. There would certainly have been plenty for him and Malcolm X to get into in a debate about the right way to progress civil rights. But it never quite happens.
Not that the film is afraid to turn some of its guns on Malcolm X. Kingsley Ben-Adir excels playing a far more fragile, anxious and gentler Malcolm than we expect (after all, it’s so hard not to immediately think of Denzel Washington). This is a Malcolm worried for his and his family’s safety, going through the turmoil of leaving the State of Islam and not sure where his life is heading, other than the fear it won’t be a long journey. Ben-Adir has the fire and passion, but also the nervous sense of being the youngest, least well-known (at the time) of the four, and he creates a successful ambiguity as to whether his friendship with Clay is at least partly based on self-interest.
There is some seriously rich material in this film for the four actors to sink their teeth into, and King’s direction allows each of them a showpiece, while expertly shuffling perspectives. Odom Jnr is superb – not least for his heart-rending and emotional performances of several Cooke songs – as a man who knows deep-down there’s truth to what he’s being accused of, while feeling his shared success is part of doing “his bit” and he’s being unfairly picked on.
Aldis Hodge’s Jim Brown is the most settled and content of the four, certain of his own destiny and comfortable with his life. In the hands of a lesser actor, his role could be potentially overlooked, but Hodge’s charisma keeps his careful performance compelling. Eli Goree perfectly captures Muhammad Ali’s exuberance, good-natured arrogance and restless energy and mixes it in with a sweet desire for everyone to get along. All four of these actors riff brilliantly off each other.
The film doesn’t let us forget the dangers of the time either. The opening sequence demonstrates the dangers and prejudices all of them face: from booing crowds to threats of physical harm. It’s something we return to time and time again – while Malcolm X’s fear about shadowy figures watching him is a constant reminder that his own death is so close.
But I feel there could have been more. Sam Cooke would also be dead by the end of 1964 – but you could watch this film and not have a clue that within 18 months half the people in it would be murdered. Away from the debates, the film takes a while to get going, and there gaps in issues of racial politics that you feel could have been richly explored.
For all that the film could have been a moment of time, it actually feels a bit disconnected from the rest of history. Where does this event – and the insights we gain about our characters – fit within the perspective of civil rights for the rest of the 1960s, let alone the rest of the century? The film doesn’t quite capture this. More ambition to expand the play beyond that one night into something more far-reaching (imagine what Spike Lee might have made of it) would have been fascinating. As it is, this is a brilliantly acted, well-made film – but still feels like an adaptation of a night at the theatre, a more reassuring rather than challenging film. | <urn:uuid:72b562a5-a247-4337-8d40-33b544ae903f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.moviemusings.co.uk/2021/03/one-night-in-miami-2020.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.973944 | 1,220 | 1.507813 | 2 |
The number of patients with COVID-19 in Victorian hospitals has risen to 644, as the state records 21,728 new cases and six further deaths.
The hospitalisations are the highest in the state since early November, and include 58 patients in ICU, 24 of whom are on ventilators.
A further 48 patients whose infections are no longer active are still receiving care in ICU.
There are now 69,680 active cases of the virus in Victoria, and 743 people have died during the current outbreak.
The new cases were detected from 68,202 test results processed yesterday, with the test positivity rate sitting around 32 per cent.
The true number of infections is much higher, with one in 50 Victorians estimated to be currently infected with the virus.
Around 13 per cent of Victorians aged 12 and older have received three doses of a COVID-19 vaccine.
There were 20,726 doses of vaccine administered at state-run sites yesterday, and more vaccinations at GP clinics and other venues.LIVE UPDATES: Read our blog for the latest news on the COVID-19 pandemic
From this afternoon, Victorians will be asked to lodge positive at-home rapid antigen test (RAT) results on the health department’s website.
A positive result on a RAT will be treated the same way as a positive laboratory PCR test result, with the person required to isolate for a week and notify close contacts. | <urn:uuid:3a9f31ca-8d12-42b2-9796-f697aef02efd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.greekmediagroup.com.au/victorian-covid-19-hospitalisations-rise-to-644-as-state-records-21728-cases-and-six-deaths/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.952873 | 307 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Angela Dewey, PhD, is a clinical neuropsychologist and a New York State licensed psychologist in the Learning and Development Center at the Child Mind Institute. Dr. Dewey’s training and background combine school psychology with neuropsychological assessment to inform her diagnosis of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders, including ADHD, learning disabilities, autism spectrum disorder, nonverbal learning disorder, anxiety, and depression. Dr. Dewey has extensive experience working with children, adolescents, and young adults at every level of education, from preschool through college. She has had the opportunity to work in a variety of settings including special education schools, day treatment centers, and outpatient clinics. With her background in school psychology, Dr. Dewey is adept at helping families understand their children’s learning and mental health needs, assisting parents in navigating the special education process, and consulting with teachers and other school personnel. Her goal is to help all students utilize their strengths to reach their full learning potential and achieve success in all aspects of their lives.
In addition to her assessment experience, Dr. Dewey also specializes in providing evidence-based treatments for individuals with neurodevelopmental disabilities and emotional and behavioral disorders. Through individual psychotherapy, executive functioning support, and academic remediation, Dr. Dewey provides support for students struggling with issues related to ADHD and learning disorders. Throughout her career, she has maintained a steadfast commitment to providing comprehensive clinical services and advocating for youth and their families.
Dr. Dewey is also an adjunct assistant professor of psychology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she teaches graduate-level coursework related to the empirical foundation for and clinical use of psychological assessments.
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Clinical Neuropsychology, The Brooklyn Learning Center
- Psychology Intern, Astor Services for Children and Families
- School Psychology Extern, Bronxville Union Free School District
- Psychology Extern, Children’s Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center (CERC), Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- School Psychology Practicum, Xavier High School
- School Psychology Practicum, Dean Hope Center for Educational and Psychological Services
- PhD, School Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University
- EdM, School Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University
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Recently, my colleague Katie Heaney made the argument that the most frightening physical sensation is having something small and fast run past your feet. “Fast things by your feet is the scariest thing in the world,” she wrote. “This is why you scream when a bug skitters by your shoes, even though you are about a million times bigger and more powerful than that bug.”
True — too true — although I would take this a step further and say that the reason we find tiny, skittering things so scary (okay, one of the reasons, in addition to them being disgusting, dangerous, and strange), is that they can fit into our bodily orifices.
Heaney was not overly persuaded by this theory, but I feel strongly about it, so I asked sociologist and fear expert Margee Kerr for her input.
“I’m not familiar with the specifics around bugs being smaller than our bodily orifices,” Kerr said, “but that is certainly a theory worth testing.” She acknowledged that this would be challenging to test without preemptively biasing everyone, however: “The minute the connection between ‘bug’ and ‘orifices’ hits the brain,” she said, “it’s a big no.”
Digging into that “no,” Kerr went on, “you find it’s really all about the uncertainty and lack of control — eating a chocolate-covered grasshopper is fine, and fried shrimp are delicious, but not if you look down to find them creeping where they shouldn’t be.”
Exactly. Maybe it’s all about Something Creeping Where It Shouldn’t Be. Which I will admit is somewhat similar to Heaney’s fast-by-feet theory. (The expert she spoke with mentioned bugs’ unique “capacity to invade,” which seems especially well put.)
Kerr also acknowledged the disgust factor, adding that the reason we end up with a unique set of aversions “is likely due mostly to learning and is culturally/individually specific.” She went on: “Many bugs and rodents are carriers of disease, but this does not translate exactly to what we are universally afraid of.” As an example, she said, “I know I grew more afraid of cockroaches only after moving to the city, where I learned (a), what attracts them (e.g., filth), and (b), the negative health consequences. Prior to that I considered cockroaches in the same way I considered crickets.” She and her wife also fall on different sides of the mouse-fear dividing line: “I have no hesitation in picking up a house mouse,” she said, “while my wife has a legitimate fear of them (I learned this when she really did freak out and have to clean the entire kitchen after one of our cats caught one — I thought it was just a ‘fun’ fear).”
She also mentioned the pain factor, noting, “If butterflies stung like bees, I doubt we’d be chasing them.”
Yes, although butterflies also could not fit into an ear …
In parting, here’s a National Geographic collection of “Creatures That Can Crawl Into Your Body.” Fortunately, “In most places, the odds of waking up with an insect inside you are slim.” | <urn:uuid:fba1ad77-441f-4a9c-97be-8d313a0670f7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thecut.com/2018/10/nothing-is-scarier-than-bugs-crawling-into-bodily-orifices.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.970847 | 743 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Macklin Name Meaning. English: unexplained. It occurs chiefly in Hampshire and Wiltshire. It is also established in Ireland, where it may be an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Eóin (see McLean).
Macklin is baby boy name mainly popular in Christian religion and its main origin is Celtic. Macklin name meanings is Son of Flann..
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|Numerology of name Macklin||1 (subtotal of 19)|
Macklin has the numerology 1 and this belong to the religion Christian. The people with numerology 1 are also thought to be extremely independent and they have an individualistic approach towards everything. They do not believe in working with others to get their work done rather they tend to deal with everything on their own.
The gender is Boy. The characteristic of the people with numerology 1 is that they are very leading means that they have the quality of a good leader.
They believe in only depending upon themselves rather than relying on anybody else.
They have the capability of attaining everything by themselves and they are also thought to be the pioneers for everything. The meaning of this Macklin is Son of Flann.. As we mentioned above that they are independent, so they also believe in starting everything on their own too. They do not depend upon anyone and are quite autonomous with everything. | <urn:uuid:28a5cff7-9dd7-4150-ab7f-399df76d7eb0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kidpaw.com/names/macklin | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.962925 | 347 | 2.1875 | 2 |
What do you mean when you talk about pronouns?
- A pronoun is a word that refers to either people talking ("I" or "you") or someone or something that is being talked about (like "she," "them," "it," and "this"). Personal pronouns ("he," "she," "they," "ze," etc) specifically refer to the pronoun that a person uses for themself.
What if I make a mistake and don't use the pronouns someone wants me to use when I refer to them?
- It's okay! Everyone slips up from time to time. The best thing to do if you use the wrong pronoun for someone is to say something right away, like "Sorry, I meant she." If you realize your mistake after the fact, apologize in private and move on.
- A lot of the time it can be tempting to go on and on about how bad you feel that you messed up or how hard it is for you to get it right. But please, don't! It is inappropriate and makes the person who was misgendered feel awkward and responsible for comforting you, which is absolutely not their job.
How do I ask someone what their pronouns are?
- Try asking: "What are your personal pronouns?" or "Which pronouns do you like to hear?" or "Can you remind me which pronouns you like for yourself?" It can feel awkward at first, but it is not half as awkward as getting it wrong or possibly making a hurtful assumption.
- If you are asking as part of an introduction exercise and you want to quickly explain what a personal pronoun is, you can try something like this: "Tell us your name, where you come from, and your personal pronouns, meaning the pronouns that you want others to use when they talk about you. For example, I'm Alex, I'm from North Carolina, US and I like to be identified using 'ze, hir, and hirs' pronouns. So you could say, 'Ze went to hir car' if you were talking about Alex."
Why are pronouns important?
- You can't always know what someone’s personal pronouns are by looking at them.
- Asking and correctly using someone's personal pronouns is one of the most basic ways to show your respect for their gender identity.
- When someone is referred to using the wrong pronoun, it can make them feel disrespected, invalidated, dismissed, alienated, or dysphoric (or, often, all of the above.)
What are the different pronoun options and how would I use them?
He, Him: "He is a writer and wrote that book himself. Those ideas are his. I like both him and his ideas."
No Pronouns (Use My Name): "Alex is a writer and wrote that book. Those ideas are Alex's. I like both Alex and Alex's ideas."
She, Her: "She is a writer and wrote that book herself. Those ideas are hers. I like both her and her ideas."
They, Them: "They are a writer and wrote that book themself. Those ideas are theirs. I like both them and their ideas."
Ze, Hir: "Ze is a writer and wrote that book hirself. Those ideas are hirs. I like both hir and hir ideas."
She/They or He/They: Some people have a fluid usage for their pronouns and alternate between them. See above for examples of how they are used individually.
Ask me: This option can be used if you do not want to enter in MySlice and would like to be asked what your Pronouns are. “Ask me” can also be selected if you use pronouns that are not listed in the current set, you use mixed sets of pronouns (for example, “she/they,” or “he/ze”), or have a fluid usage of pronouns.
Prefer Not to Say: This option can be used if you do not wish to share your pronouns with others or you do not wish to explicitly specify your pronouns. Please note that the pronoun field is initially defaulted to blank, but will need to have one of the drop-down options selected to save/update.
Can I create new pronouns?
How does a person update pronouns at Syracuse University?
- As of October 1, 2019, any Student, Faculty or Staff member will have the ability to update personal pronouns in the MySlice portal. If you click MySlice - MyProfile you will find instructions on how and where to update your pronouns, as well as other Profile information.
Where and how are pronouns used at Syracuse University?
- Socially, personal pronouns are to be used in a respectful manner upon learning the ones a person uses.
- There is no current system or place to search for the pronoun of any student, faculty, or staff. You will only see them in the systems that are using them. See the list in the next FAQ question.
- Technologically, pronouns will be used in various systems and software at Syracuse University as requests for them to be pulled from MySlice into the systems are received and reviewed by the Pronoun, Gender, and Preferred Name Advisory Council (PGPNAC). To make a request, please use this form: If you'd prefer, you can reach out directly via e-mail at email@example.com.
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Objective To examine the prevalence and features of patients with reactive haemophagocytic syndrome (RHS) complicating adult\onset Still’s disease (AOSD). presented with Dabrafenib coagulopathy. Treatment comprised corticosteroids (n?=?4) and intravenous immunoglobulins (n?=?3), whereas prednisone was unchanged in one case. One death due to pneumonia occurred 15?days after RHS. With a follow\up ranging from 2 to 7.5?years, the other patients were in remission with prednisone plus etanercept (n?=?1), prednisone plus methotrexate (n?=?1), low\dose prednisone (n?=?2) or without treatment (n?=?1). Conclusion RHS is not uncommon in AOSD. It should be evoked in a patient with AOSD in the absence of hyperleucocytosis, thrombocytopenia, lymphopenia and coagulopathy, or in the current presence Dabrafenib of great serum triglyceride and ferritin amounts. Haemophagocytic symptoms is certainly a uncommon but fatal condition possibly, which is certainly characterised by severe fever, hepatosplenomegaly, lymphadenopathy, pancytopenia, and elevated degrees of serum ferritin, liver and triglycerides enzymes. It may be caused by activation and uncontrolled non\malignant proliferation of T lymphocytes and macrophages, which lead to phagocytosis of haematopoietic cells in various organs, and by overproduction of cytokines.1,2,3 It can be primary or familialessentially in childhoodor secondary (reactive), related to various situations such as infections, malignancies, drugs (uncommonly) or systemic diseases.2,3,4 When it is secondary, it appears to belong to a spectrum ranging from contamination occurring mostly in inactive systemic diseases treated with immunosuppressive treatment to systemic disease\specific manifestation occurring during flare. Systemic lupus erythematosus and Still’s disease seem to be the main systemic diseases according to the definition of specific reactive haemophagocytic syndrome (RHS).3,4,5,6,7 RHS is recognised by paediatricians as the most severe complication of systemic onset juvenile idiopathic arthritis (SOJIA)also named childhood Still’s disease7,8but this complication was poorly studied in adult\onset Still’s disease (AOSD). RHS and AOSD share several clinical and laboratory features, including high fever, hepatosplenomegaly, lymphadenopathy, liver injury, hyperferritinaemia and coagulopathy, which may explain the difficulty in recognising RHS complicating the flare of AOSD. The main difference between the two diseases is usually cutaneous and articular involvement, which is present in more than 80% of AOSD and is uncommon in RHS.1,3,9,10 Most of the previous articles about AOSD\associated RHS were case reports. Hence, the course and treatment of RHS occurring in AOSD are not clearly described. The objective of this study was to analyse Dabrafenib retrospectively a series of six patients with RHS complicating AOSD and to compare their characteristics with those of 10 previously reported cases in the literature. This is the largest series of this complication reported to date. Patients and methods Patients We reviewed retrospectively the charts of six patients with AOSD (occurring at over 16 years of age) complicated with RHS and followed from 1985 to 2003 in our department of internal medicine. All patients fulfilled both Yamagushi11 and Fautrel12 criteria, regarded as one of the most particular and delicate requirements for the medical diagnosis of AOSD, after exclusion of infectious disease, malignancy or car\immune system disease. Because consensual medical diagnosis requirements for RHS in adulthood aren’t available,13 just sufferers with or histologically established RHS had been includedthat is certainly cytologically, those showing the current presence of macrophages without significant cytological abnormalities, delivering abnormal symptoms of energetic haemophagocytosis affecting crimson cells, platelets, or polymorphonuclear lymphocytes or leucocytes. One individual once was elsewhere reported without information.4 Clinical and lab data, treatment and training course were recorded. Data gathered included age group at starting point of Still’s disease with medical diagnosis of RHS, sex, nation of origin, health background, and clinical and lab features at the proper period of medical diagnosis of RHS. Cutaneous allergy was thought as transient maculo\papular lesions and severe respiratory distress symptoms (ARDS) due to severe dyspnoea connected with popular pulmonary opacities. Lab tests included bloodstream cell count, perseverance of serum ferritin level before transfusion of platelets or crimson blood cells, liver organ function tests, perseverance of lactate dehydrogenase level, haemostasis exams, perseverance of C reactive proteins, erythrocyte sedimentation price and serum triglyceride level. Disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (DIC) was defined as prolonged prothrombin time, hypofibrinogenaemia or increased fibrinogen degradation products. Literature evaluate The available literature in English was examined for cases of RHS reported as a specific complication of AOSD. 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We are currently between two major festivals in the Jewish calendar — the Exodus and the giving of the Torah. During this time, we relive the experience of our ancestors by counting 49 days to the big event.
Imagine you are homeless, living in a wretched state with no hope. Then, out of nowhere, a king comes and brings you to his private room in a magnificent palace, feeds you, gives you his time and a free pass to enter anytime. That is our past and our daily experience:
We were a people with no hope, trapped in Egypt, the lowest spiritual wasteland, then miraculously whisked away, brought to the mountain on Shavuot, given the opportunity to enter a holy environment and engage the Creator whenever we perform a mitzvah. It’s a simple meditation to awaken love and gratitude. It’s reflected before the act of each mitzvah, where we say a blessing “who has sanctified us with commandments.”
When reciting the daily Shema and thinking about the word echad, the soul is said to undergo a mini-Exodus, experiencing the above journey.
Two terms for one
The most fundamental verse and declaration of God’s unity is the Shema: “Hear O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One.” (Deuteronomy 6:4) The Hebrew word for “one” used here is echad, which connotes a compound unity, bringing together of parts to form a whole. There is another Hebrew word, yachid, which also implies oneness, but an absolute unity, something inherently indivisible.
Now you would think that the command to comprehend an infinite power would use the higher term rather than echad. But there is a greater accomplishment after Creation, when a person is able to look at the world and detect within the diversity and seemingly separate parts how everything is, in fact, being propelled by one force.
Indeed this is the deeper meaning of the statement “one nation on earth” — the capacity of our soul to recognize and reveal the oneness in the multiplicity of earthly things.
Tefillin and time
The main mitzvah — in action, not contemplation — to achieve this awareness of unity is tefillin. The Torah mentions it most explicitly by saying: “You shall tie them as a sign on your hand, and they should be for a reminder between your eyes.” Tefillin consist of two perfectly square black boxes containing specific Torah passages (including the Shema and leaving Egypt), inscribed on parchment, inserted inside each box, and attached with long leather straps.
These boxes (head and arm) are always worn together, but they are actually two distinct commandments. Following the order of the verse, the hand tefillah (singular for tefillin) is always put on first, even though the head is more holy. Scriptural wording offers another clue about their differences. The box must be “tied” on the arm (active) while the other box should simply “be” situated on the head (passive). This language has several practical implications and lessons.
There are certain mitzvahs, such as shaking the lulav, that involve a one-time action and they’re over. Other mitzvahs continue after the initial action, providing an opportunity for fulfillment, like sitting in the sukkah.
A similar distinction can be found between the head tefillah and that of the hand. In theory, once you tie the box to the arm, the mitzvah is complete and one can take it off. In contrast, the head tefillin fulfills a mitzvah every second that it rests there.
Indeed, there was a time period where it was common practice to wear tefillin throughout the entire day, whether in a synagogue, at home, or in the street.
Unity within the individual
One deeper lesson in the box resting on the head and placing the box against the heart has to do with the intellect and emotions. The above theme of unity in Judaism involves not only faith in one God and one Torah, but also unity within the individual person.
There are varying approaches with regard to the best pathway for human conduct: a) Our conduct must be dictated by the cold logic of the mind; b) we should follow our hearts, our lively feelings; and c) what we think and what we feel is not so important; the main thing is the deed — that we act properly.
The Torah’s approach is that a person must be complete and strive for perfection in all three areas. Unfortunately, there often exists a schism between the mind and the heart.
For example, someone may be very strong intellectually but lack emotional maturity, like a cold professor that knows a ton but feels little. Someone else may be deficient in the opposite sense, governed by their instincts and emotions. When the emotions control the mind the intellect is bribed, utilized merely to provide justification instead of striving to be objective.
The first message and meditation of the mitzvah of tefillin is that the head, heart and action must be attuned to each other in order to live a Jewish life. The second message is that the head — remembering the commandments — should penetrate and steer our emotions. We shouldn’t be like a stack of books; we should experience what we learn about. Finally, the tying around the hand symbolizes that knowledge and feelings should culminate in positive action.
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- 1 Tesla’s entry to India
- 2 India-Japan MoU to enhance cooperation in ICT
- 3 Radio Frequency Spectrum
- 4 Trains connectivity to Statue of Unity
- 5 Open Skies Treaty
- 6 Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan
- 7 Powerful earthquake in Indonesia’s Sulawesi
- 8 Flint Water Crisis
- 9 Indian Army personnel seem to be under severe stress
- 10 SEBI eases norms for follow-on public offers
Tesla’s entry to India
Elon Musk has confirmed Tesla Inc.’s plans to enter India, days after the electric car maker set up a local subsidiary and R&D unit in Bengaluru.
Tesla has registered its 100 per cent subsidiary, as – Tesla India Motors and Energy Pvt Ltd, according to disclosures with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. It is a private unlisted company with an authorised capital of Rs 15,00,000 and a paid-up capital of Rs 1,00,000, according to the MCA filings.
India-Japan MoU to enhance cooperation in ICT
India and Japan signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to enhance cooperation in the field of Information and Communications Technology (ICT), including 5G standardisation.
The Department of Telecom and Japan’s Ministry of Communications will enhance mutual cooperation in the field of 5G technologies, telecom security, submarine optical fiber cable system to islands of India, spectrum management, smart cities, high altitude platform for broadband in unconnected areas, disaster management and public safety etc.
Radio Frequency Spectrum
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has sought inputs from telcos and other industry experts on the sale and use of radio frequency spectrum over the next 10 years, including the 5G bands.
5G or fifth generation is the latest upgrade in the long-term evolution (LTE) mobile broadband networks. 5G mainly works in 3 bands, namely low, mid and high frequency spectrum — all of which have their own uses as well as limitations. While the low band spectrum has shown great promise in terms of coverage and speed of internet and data exchange, the maximum speed is limited to 100 Mbps (Megabits per second). The mid-band spectrum, on the other hand, offers higher speeds compared to the low band, but has limitations in terms of coverage area and penetration of signals.
Trains connectivity to Statue of Unity
Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off eight trains connecting different parts of the country to Kevadiya through video conferencing. The Vistadome coach is a state-of-the-art coach made by Indian Railways, designed to provide passengers with travel comfort as well as an enhanced viewing experience of their surroundings.
The Vistadome coach in the Janshatabdi Express has been manufactured at the Integral Coach Factory in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It is for the first time that the Vistadome coach has been made on the Linke Hofmann Busch (LHB) platform, made for passenger coaches for trains in India.
Open Skies Treaty
Russia was pulling out of the Open Skies treaty, saying that the pact, which allows unarmed surveillance flights over member countries, had been seriously compromised by the withdrawal of the United States.
First proposed in 1955 by former US President Dwight Eisenhower as a means to deescalate tensions during the Cold War, the landmark treaty was eventually signed in 1992 between NATO members and former Warsaw Pact countries following the demise of the Soviet Union. It went into effect in 2002 and had 35 signatories, including key players US and Russia, along with one non-ratifying member (Kyrgyzstan).
Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan
Legendary Indian classical musician and Padma Vibhushan awardee Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan died at the age of 89. Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan (1931 – 2021) was an Indian classical musician in the Hindustani classical music tradition, belonging to the Rampur-Sahaswan Gharana.
He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1991, followed by Padma Bhushan in 2006 and Padma Vibhushan in 2018. In 2003 he was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award.
Powerful earthquake in Indonesia’s Sulawesi
At least 42 people have died with hundreds more injured after a 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit Indonesia’s Sulawesi island. Sulawesi is an island in Indonesia.
It is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago. The Strait of Makassar runs along the western side of the island and separates the island from Borneo. Within Indonesia, it is smaller than Sumatra and larger than Java Island. Indonesia sits on the Pacific “Ring of Fire” where tectonic plates collide, and the country has a history of devastating earthquakes and tsunamis.
Flint Water Crisis
Nine former officials who served the state of Michigan in the US, including the state’s former governor Rick Snyder, were charged in connection with a criminal investigation into the Flint water crisis. The Flint water crisis is an ongoing public health crisis that began in 2014 when the City of Flint in Michigan changed its water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint river.
This switch caused the water distribution pipes to corrode, as a result of which lead and other contaminants were leached into the municipal drinking water. This led to an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease, a serious type of pneumonia caused by the Legionella bacteria and other health complications in thousands of its residents.
Indian Army personnel seem to be under severe stress
More than half of Indian Army personnel seem to be under severe stress, according to the findings of a study by United Service Institution of India (USI), a Service think tank. The research was undertaken during 2019-20 by Col. AK Mor, Senior Research Fellow at the USI.
The Army has been losing more personnel every year due to suicides, fratricides and untoward incidents than in response to any enemy or terrorist activities. There has been a significant increase in stress levels amongst Indian Army personnel during approximately last two decades due to operational and non-operational stressors.
SEBI eases norms for follow-on public offers
SEBI relaxed the framework for follow-on public offers (FPOs), a move that will help promoters of companies to raise funds more easily through this route. The applicability of minimum promoters’ contribution norm and the subsequent lock-in requirements for the issuers making the FPO have been done away with by the regulator, as per a notification.
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Ladies and gentlemen, gather ‘round. It’s story time! Today we’ll be taking a look at the long lost history of Oita Prefecture’s Usa Jingu. As far as I can tell, this is the first time the tragic tale of this amazing shrine has even been told in English. The reasons behind this obfuscation will become apparent by the end of the article, but suffice to say, this legend is for the hardcore history nerds out there. If you’re not interested in diving deep down the historical rabbit hole with me, I’m going to be frank and suggest that you check out one of my other articles instead. Don’t worry, you won’t hurt my feelings!
Still with me? Good. Let’s start by reviewing what exactly Usa Jingu is. I’ve briefly introduced this antediluvian shrine before in my area guide to Oita Prefecture yet a review is certainly in order. Simply stated, Usa Jingu is the head shrine of thousands of other establishments across the country that honor the god of war and archery. Known as Hachiman, this deity’s name translates literally to “God of the Eight Banners.” This is in reference to the eight heavenly banners that signaled the birth of the Emperor Ojin who is said to have been deified following his death as the god Hachiman.
What makes this deity so special is that Hachiman is said to be the divine protector of Japan, the Japanese people, and the Imperial household. Despite having dominion over the art of war though, Hachiman’s symbolic animal and messenger is the dove. This strange connection is likely due to his syncretic origins of his divinity. You see, Hachiman is one of the few gods who fully incorporates elements of both Shinto and Buddhism. In fact, evidence suggests that this symbiotic relation began at none other than Usa Jingu itself. Even today, the grounds are rife with many Buddhist elements that are not commonly found at wholly Shinto shrines.
How Buddhism and Shinto ultimately became intertwined is beyond the scope of this article. If you’re interested in learning more, this article is a good starting point. Still, since the two religion’s symbiosis is integral to understanding Usa Jingu, I’ll try to provide a very brief synopsis. Essentially, when Buddhism arrived in Japan during the Asuka period (538–710), it brought with it the summation of centuries of collective learning. The first monks to enter Japanese territory did so from the Korean Peninsula via Kyushu (where Usa Jingu and Oita Prefecture are located). When the two religions met, the Japanese tried to reconcile the two and assumed that Buddhism’s deities were just another depiction of Shinto’s.
As hinted, supposedly, Usa Jingu is one of the very first places where this mingling of Buddhism and Shinto occurred. Why you ask? Well, in 7th century, the Shinto priests held dominion over large swaths of the land but lacked necessary knowledge requiring writing and architecture. Here, the Buddhist monks armed with centuries of wisdom were more than happy to help in exchange for influence. This generosity was just what the Shinto priests needed and soon thereafter the two groups cooperated to combine their influence into a single ruling faction.
This “meeting of the minds” between Buddhism and Shinto at Usa Jingu eventually gave rise to a polity known as the Rokugo Manzan (lit. “Six Villages”). The term refers to the many valleys of Mt. Futago which radiate out from the 721 meter-high summit. Located on the now remote Kunisaki Peninsula, this area proved to be the perfect seat of power for the Rokugo Manzan elite to establish control. Even today, you’ll find remnants of their legacy scattered throughout the area. In fact, it is even said that through Usa Jingu, the polity controlled as much as two-thirds of all of the arable land in Kyushu!
How to Get There
OK, let’s pause our tale for a quick second and take a look at where Usa Jingu is located and how to get there. As mentioned, the shrine is located at the entrance to Oita Prefecture’s Kunisaki Peninsula. Unfortunately, this remote and bucolic area is plagued by poor access and even worse public transportation. While Usa Jingu can be reached with only a few minor headaches via a combination of the train and bus, the rest of the region is inaccessible. As such, if you want to see more of the remnants of the Rokugo Manzan culture, you’ll either need to hire a tour guide or rent a car and drive there yourself.
As for getting to Oita Prefecture itself, you have two options. The first of these is to simply fly down and is recommended for those coming from Tokyo or Osaka. Alternatively, Usa Jingu and the Kunisaki Peninsula can also be reached via the Ltd. Express Sonic trains from Fukuoka. This latter method allows for one to see more of Kyushu and therefore is recommended for those who enjoy a slower pace of travel. Just remember to check Hyperdia or a similar service for the best train connections.
Usa Jingu’s Sad Story
With the travel logistics handled, let’s now return to the tragic tale of Usa Jingu. To better understand where the story goes from here, we’ll next need to take a quick peek at the Hachiman branch shrine pictured above. Known as Iwashimizu Hachimangu, this shrine sits on the outskirts of Kyoto. It was erected back in 859 at the behest of Emperor Seiwa following the establishment of Kyoto as the capital (then called Heian-kyo). According to tradition, the emperor allegedly heard from a Buddhist monk that Hachiman himself expressed a desire to be nearer to Kyoto.
To accomplish this feat, the deity’s spirit was split between Usa Jingu in Kyushu and Iwashimizu Hachimangu in Kyoto. Thereafter, thanks in no small part to hosting a portion of the Hachiman’s divine essence, the Kyoto branch grew to great prominence. During the Heian period (794–1185), the shrine was patronized by the Imperial family as well as the powerful Minamoto clan who were said to be under Hachiman’s protection. While many other sanctums to the god of war began to appear around this time, only Usa Jingu and Iwashimizu Hachimangu officially housed Hachiman’s spirit.
A quick aside, Iwashimizu Hachimangu was not the first time that the spirit of Hachiman up and left Usa Jingu. In fact, during the 8th century when the giant Buddha of Todai-ji was being built, the deity was carried halfway across the country to from Kyushu to Nara. Historical evidence suggests this was the very first use of a mikoshi or portable shrine. By the early 10th century, this practice would become commonplace as a method for bringing the deity out for festivals. Next time you see a mikoshi during a celebration, remember that it all started at Usa Jingu!
The Genpei War & Usa Jingu’s Fate
Here is where our story gets a little complicated. For simplicity’s sake, I am going to brush over huge swaths of this important turning point in Japanese history. If you’re interested in learning more, I’ll again suggest you start with the Wikipedia entry for the Genpei War for a layman’s understanding. The CliffsNotes version of this epic struggle is the war was the culmination of a decades-long conflict between the Taira and the Minamoto. These illustrious clans were two of the four great clans that vied for dominance and control of the Imperial court during the Heian period (794–1185).
Anyway, the long and the short of it is that the Taira clan ended up losing the Genpei War following five years of vicious bloodshed. After achieving victory over their bitter rivals, the Minamoto clan would go on to establish the Kamakura shogunate far away from Kyoto in eastern Japan. Up until this point, Japan had been supposedly under direct control of the emperor (though he was often controlled by regents from behind the scenes). Therefore, this shift towards control by a military government ushered in a new era of history for Japan.
One of the first goals the shogunate accomplished in its infancy was to erect the famous Kamakura landmark, Tsurugaoka Hachimangu. After all, Hachiman is said to be the protector of the Minamoto clan and having the god of archery and war on the side of the shogunate would do wonders for legitimacy. When constructing Tsurugaoka Hachimangu, the Minamoto clan moved the spirit of Hachiman from Kyoto’s Iwashimizu Hachimangu to Kamakura. As the samurai class began to be codified as such during the Kamakura period (1185–1333), worship of Hachiman came to be the norm for these warriors.
How History Was Rewritten
Now, you may be wondering why the Kamakura shogunate chose to relocate the portion of Hachiman’s spirit enshrined at Iwashimizu Hachimangu instead of that at Usa Jingu. The reason behind this move is key to what comes next in our story. As can be seen in the above diagram, Iwashimizu Hachimangu supported the Minamoto clan, albeit through the threat of force (but that is a tale for another time). Usa Jingu on the other hand had ties to, you guessed it, the Taira clan. After being kicked out of the capital by the Minamoto clan, some of the Taira clan fled to present-day Oita Prefecture and sought the protection of the powerful Rokugo Manzan polity with whom they had strong familial ties.
Needless to say, the Minamoto clan was in no position to overlook this alliance with the Rokugo Manzan. In the throes of consolidating power, the last thing the fledgling shogunate in Kamakura needed was for their bitter rivals, the Taira clan, to hold sway over Usa Jingu. After all, Hachiman is supposed to be the protector of the Minamoto clan and having the enemy in control of the main shrine would decimate their legitimacy. Needing to settle things once and for all the Minamoto clan, under the command of Minamoto Yoritomo, again rallied their forces and marched on Kyushu.
The Wrath of the Minamoto
And now, we finally come to the lost tragedy of Usa Jingu. The military superior Minamoto clan brought the full might of their force to bear against the remnants of the Taira clan and their allies at Usa Jingu. Though the Rokugo Manzan polity did indeed hold sway over much of Kyushu, they were no match for the battle-hardened proto-samurai marching under the Minamoto banners. After demolishing the Taira-Rokugo Manzan alliance, the victors burned the entirety of Usa Jingu to the ground. Following this tragic event, the Minamoto clan continued on and incinerated all records of the Rokugo Manzan which effectively erased the polity from existence as far as history is concerned.
Houston, we have a problem. While the complete elimination Rokugo Manzan polity and Taira clan in Kyushu are understandable, there’s a major issue with the Minamoto clan destroying Usa Jingu. Remember, Hachiman is the god of war and the protector deity of the Minamoto clan itself. Furthermore, the newly established Tsurugaoka Hachimangu in Kamakura owed its lineage to Usa Jingu. Because of this, the Minamoto clan allowed the shrine’s priests to rebuilt, albeit it without the support of the public funds from the nearby lands. This harsh decree was the final nail in the coffin for the Rokugo Manzan collective and whatever remained soon thereafter began to disintegrate.
Now, you may be wondering how the hell I learned of this account given all the historical documents and records were destroyed. Well, here I owe a genuine thanks to Ono Tatsuhiro of the Usa Tourism Association who has been studying the Usa Jingu and the Rokugo Manzan polity for over twenty years. Along with a few others, Ono-san has painstakingly pieced together the broken fragments of history that remain. He was kind enough to help me baby step my way through this complex narrative and I sincerely hope that I’ve been able to distill his immense knowledge into a cohesive article.
Before closing, let me thank Yamasaki Yuko from Tourism Oita! None of this would have been possible without her help coordinating everything! Hopefully I can repay the favor by helping to get more foreign tourists to visit Oita Prefecture and Usa Jingu!
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Re: Amendment 1 to Making SRFI-170 less of a monster Lassi Kortela 09 Aug 2019 22:25 UTC
Thanks for not dismissing my rant outright :p >> There are not really many daemon-specific features in Unix that people >> should actually use :) Programmers want to be l33t by using daemon(), >> nohup, syslog, setuid() and stuff like that for their programs but it >> usually doesn't make any sense.... > > Syslog as in sending log messages to the system? I use that every day > in my backup scripts, which logwatch then displays to assure me that > my local to disk, local to tape, and offsite ones all ran. I'm not intimately familiar with how syslog works; it is probably convenient for some scenarios. The point is that daemons should not be written against the One True Logging Framework - whether that be syslog, rotated log files, a binary journal ala systemd, or something else. They should just write all their logs to stdout/stderr like normal programs, and the sysadmin can then set up a logger to collect those logs and route them to the appropriate place (disk files, logs-as-a-service sites, filter out critical messages and email the sysadmin about them, etc. etc.) Daemontools includes a logger that writes rotated text files, but that's just one of many possibilities. The daemontools remake "runit" has a logger that can also route the logs to a UDP socket. Since the supervisor just collects logs from stdout, it's easy to write custom routers as needed without reprogramming any daemons. For an idea of how far this architecture can be taken, see <https://12factor.net/logs>. The 12factor web app architecture is the backbone of Heroku's awesomeness. It's essentially just "web-scale daemontools". > nohup, I've read that systemd has done a number on it. But isn't it > in theory useful for starting a batch process and exiting that shell? It can be useful for one-off hacks, but daemons should not be started from a user shell at all. A random user login and shell session carries too much implicit environment that can cause heisenbugs for the daemon. At worst those bugs can be security holes. Modern supervisors such as daemontools and systemd (whose core tenets are also more or less copied from there) start a supervisor at system boot time, and all daemons are child processes of that supervisor. Since the supervisor process has a simple, predictable lineage starting from init (PID 1) - indeed, on some systems the supervisor process _is_ PID 1 - it lives in a predictable environment which it can pass on to the daemons. Under this system, daemons are started by sending a command to the supervisor to "please start daemon foo". So the sysadmin never spawns daemon processes directly. Again, Heroku is just an auto-scaled version of this system with a glitzy web GUI on top. It's simply great stuff. | <urn:uuid:10ca07f3-df44-4deb-b8cf-974c4b5eb900> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://srfi-email.schemers.org/srfi-170/msg/11921633/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.918737 | 650 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Figure 1 – 10 Tribal Teachings To Live By from an article by Nick Polizzi of “The Sacred Science”
When we read the ten simple teachings in the poster above, it seems inconceivable that we need to be reminded, all the time, that the Earth is our Mother, and that we must care for her. I remember listening to my Dad talk about how farmers are stewards of the land, and that the land must be treated with respect. He said he learned that from his father. What the memory says to me is that teachings like the “Ten Tribal Teachings to Guide Us” are to be passed down through the generations. The guidance no longer is passed down.
The teaching that is resonating the most for me, and for many in my circles of acquaintance, is teaching number 6 – Put the good of all before your own interests. What if the politicians and corporations and shareholders and other organizations used this idea as a guiding principle in all decisions. Imagine how different the world will be! A common topic of conversation amongst my peers is the topic that so many people feel entitled… that their needs are primary. It does seem, however, that the theme of entitlement has run its course, and will run down over the next five years.
Going forward, after reading this blog, take the Ten Tribal Teachings with you, and watch for the opportunities to practice one of the teachings. If you journal, record the event of practicing the teaching and watch how it starts changing your life.
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To prepare students for the future and educating them about the advanced technologies, schools across the world are now offering 3D printing courses to their students. The rapid adoption of 3D printers, polymer and metal alike, is an indication of the focus on teaching this new technology to students of all age.
This means that schools want their teachers to be educated in 3D printing so that they can teach the technology to their students.
To cater to this segment of students and educators, companies are offering targeted 3D printing courses. Manufactur3D brings you a list of the most popular 3D printing courses for students who are eager to learn the technology and for educators who want to teach 3D printing in their classrooms.
3D Printing Courses
1. MakerBot Education
Incorporating 3D printing into the curriculum is a significant undertaking. Because it is an evolving technology, educators must also keep up with it. As the technology is new and ever-evolving, new educators may struggle to create a quality 3D printing curriculum. As a result, integrating 3D printing into schools becomes a significant challenge.
This is where MakerBot Education comes in handy. MakerBot Education is a 3D printing certification program offered by MakerBot, a Stratasys company and manufacturer of desktop FDM 3D printers. It provides a plethora of tools to assist students and teachers, whether they are new to 3D printing or are experienced with the technology. The only drawback is that the resources are focused on MakerBot 3D printers and supplies.
MakerBot has two types of certification programs: those for students and those for educators.
The MakerBot Certification Program is an online training program that teaches middle and high school students about design thinking and 3D printing. The certification modules feature 3D printer operator, Design thinking, Applied Design Thinking, and Design for 3D Printing.
The content created by design educators and 3D printing professionals. Students learn the fundamentals of 3D printing and design, as well as how to improve their creativity, design thinking, and problem-solving skills. Students gain confidence in using a MakerBot 3D printer, applying learned skills to real-world applications, making strategic design decisions, and creating high-quality prototypes using advanced 3D printing techniques.
The MakerBot Educator Program is a community of outstanding educators who use 3D printing technology in novel and inspiring ways. These are the educators who work hard to push the boundaries of educational possibilities by incorporating new and creative technologies into the classroom, such as 3D printing. These educators provide constant feedback to MakerBot in order for it to create high-quality educational content and recognize outstanding projects and works completed in the classroom.
2. Tinkerine Platform
Tinkerine offers self-paced courses that have been curated and delivered by 3D printing experts. Tinkerine has simplified learning 3D printing by breaking down the courses into bite-sized videos that can easily fit into any busy schedule. The progress is automatically saved, so even if a video is interrupted in the middle, it can be resumed where it was left off.
These courses are designed for all types of users, including students, makers, entrepreneurs, and small businesses. Some of the courses available include common FFF materials, Intro to Fusion 360, 3D printing technologies, 3D Slicing, Reverse Engineering and many others. Students can also find a few Free courses to get started with the learning process and also assess the content quality and delivery.
PrintLab is a UK-based Startup that aims to educate educators by providing online 3D printing lesson plans. Lesson plans can be purchased by educators, schools, and even parents. PrintLab Classroom is a web-based platform that combines 3D printing lesson plans with a nationally recognized teacher training program. The program is aligned with a number of standards in a variety of subject areas and encourages students to create assistive technology, reusable packaging prototypes, hands-free virus remedies, and other projects.
The PrintLab team is constantly creating and publishing new and exciting lesson plans to keep kids up to date on technology and its capabilities. It is now available in more than five languages around the world, including Spanish, Dutch, and Polish.
The company offers a 7-day free trial to new customers who want to see how the lesson plans work before deciding whether or not to purchase.
PrintLab provides 3D printing courses for schools, makerspaces, and STEM businesses.
4. Learn by Layers
Learn By Layers is another UK-based Startup that develops 3D printing courses to help educators gain access to high-quality educational resources. Instructors can learn 3D printing and understand how it works, how to teach it to their students, and what works best with children.
Learn by Layers offers CAD Lessons, coding lessons for 3D printing, and courses on specialized design applications such as Onshape and Fusion360 in addition to the 3D printing curriculum. The courses are available not only for students in schools, but also for those who are homeschooled.
Learn by Layers offers a variety of plans for both students and educators. Educators and schools can purchase the 3D printing curriculum to use in their regular classrooms. It also offers homeschool teachers’ subscription plans. This is a niche offering that none of its competitors are targeting.
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Carpe Diem is Latin for “Seize the Day.” At last week’s Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA) 32nd Annual Research and Treatment Conference in Chicago, many of us were wearing buttons to “Seize Prevention” in recognition that prevention is key approach to end sexual violence.
While the most of most of the workshops dealt with the latest research and best practices in working with sexual abuse offenders, prevention was also a key theme. Opening day plenary speaker CureViolence’s Gary Slutkin challenged the audience to consider violence as a contagious disease. His approach (which has been used in Chicago to reduce gun violence as documented in the film The Interrupters) has three steps 1) Interrupt transmission, 2) Identify and change the thinking of highest potential transmitters, and 3) Change group norms. This discussion continued later that evening when Interrupter Eddie Bocanegra shared his insights on creating change in the community.
People attending this conference include sexual offender treatment providers, probation officers, researchers, victim advocates and sexual violence preventionists.
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University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers recently reported that they had developed a biofilm that could absorb evaporation energy and transform it into electricity.
The biofilm has a thin layer of bacterial cells with the thickness of a sheet of paper and is created spontaneously by a strain of the Geobacter sulfurreducens bacteria. Electric devices have been powered by “microbial batteries” made of G. sulfurreducens, which are known to create electricity. However, these batteries need G. sulfurreducens to be adequately cared for and provided a regular diet. By contrast, This novel biofilm, which can produce as much energy as a battery of comparable size, if not more, functions and produces energy continuously because it is dead. Additionally, since it is dead, feeding it is not necessary. This biofilm, which is a thin layer of bacterial cells the thickness of a sheet of paper, is created spontaneously by a strain of the Geobacter sulfurreducens bacteria. G.
“This is a very exciting technology,” says Xiaomeng Liu, a graduate student in electrical and computer engineering at UMass Amherst’s College of Engineering and the paper’s lead author. “It is real green energy, and unlike other so-called ‘green-energy’ sources, its production is totally green.”
Its ability to generate electricity from the moisture on your skin is the key behind this novel biofilm. Even though we hear about solar energy regularly, at least half of the solar energy that reaches the earth is used to evaporate water. The other senior author of the study and professor of electrical and computer engineering at UMass, Jun Yao, claims that this is a sizable untapped source of energy. The biofilm can “plug in” and transform the energy locked in evaporation into enough energy to power small gadgets because the surface of our skin is continually moist from sweat.
“Our next step is to increase the size of our films to power more sophisticated skin-wearable electronics,” says Yao, and Liu points out that one of the goals is to power entire electronic systems, rather than single devices.
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Planning applications and approval is probably the most important document you will need to obtain for your project. Quite simply, ALL new buildings require planning approval in one form or another. Many smaller buildings are covered by permitted development rights which are pre-approved planning permissions based on strict criteria.
If we conclude that your proposal fits this criteria, we apply for a certificate of Lawful Development, not a legal requirement but confirms that your local planning department accepts your proposal as Permitted development and offers you complete assurance that the criteria has not been misinterpreted in any way. This document is also essential if at any time in the future you decide to sell the property.
Larger home extensions will require full planning approval applied for with a house holder planning application for an extension. A new build will require full planning approval often starting with an application for outline permission. There are many local and national saved policies to adhere to and many lines of communication with your local planning. On many larger projects, we arrange for pre-application advice, a service offered by most boroughs to review a scheme and give an appraisal of the proposal and clearly set all issues on the right track prior to any formal applications.
We have a tremendous amount of experience with planning approvals. In fact, ALL images in our gallery obtained planning permission by PJH Design.
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Incredible Types Of Plants In The Ocean 2022. Seaweed is a type of algae that floats on the surface of the water and has been used by people for food, and material for housing, ropes, and baskets. 13 rows however, under the right conditions, it can be used to form a ground cover.
Ocean and coastal habitats can be created by species living in them. Few climbers plants names include pea plant, grapevine, sweet gourd, money plant, jasmine, runner beans, green peas, etc. Most are tiny algae called phytoplankton—and these microscopic plants have a big job.
Plants Such As Seagrass Are Similar To Land Plants—They Have Roots, Stems, And Leaves.
Climbers have a very thin, long and weak stem which cannot stand upright, but they can use external support to grow vertically and carry their weight. The types of ocean plants are kelp, seaweed, seagrass, red algae, phytoplankton, corals and algae. Ocean plants, unlike land plants, are able to live in saltwater.
Marine Plants Are Divided Into Three Types:
There are 23 species of angel sharks that differ in size, color, and type of habitat. Euphotic or sunli, disphotic or twilight and aphotic or midnight depending upon the. Bigger algae like seaweed and kelp also grow in the ocean and provide food and shelter for marine animals.
These Consist Of Three Groups.
Following are the adaptations shown by plants in. But ocean plants do not have extensive root systems, nor are they exposed to air. Oceanic plants are generally put into two categories:
Most Are Tiny Algae Called Phytoplankton—And These Microscopic Plants Have A Big Job.
An ocean plant called seaweed is a type of algae called phytoplankton. Seaweeds such as kelp are one ocean producer. Even though the open sea is the largest habitat, it is estimated that only five percent of the world's animal species live there.
The Types Of Ocean Plants Are Kelp, Seaweed, Seagrass, Red Algae, Phytoplankton, Corals And Algae.
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Welcome to the real world
I was all set to write a column about the growth of the Internet in these days of an uncertain economic future. Then I read today's news.
Apparently, while I was doing research on the growth of the Internet's audience, expansion of its ad base and predicting increased sales of computers later in the year, someone else decided to put out a story about how the technology sector is still gasping for breath. All weekend, I have been bombarded by the moans of those analysts and investors who still haven't realized the gains they saw in the late 1990s.
And, to those guys, I say get over it. Gee, stocks didn't double in value last quarter. My portfolio is only worth 5 percent more today than it was a year ago. I can't take a three-week cruise to Tahiti this year.
All I can say is welcome to the real world. The current market isn't going to die, despite the rumors of its imminent passing. In fact, as a result of some educational bruising and needed pruning, the technology sector is in a much more realistic position now than it was before the bottom fell out.
Instead of listening to the whining of the investment types, let's look at some measurable facts. According to Jupiter Media Metrix, Web portals are seeing another spurt in traffic, proving that some people out there - in fact, more people than ever - are still using the Internet. In another report, the firm reports that a quarter of those people still using dial-up connections to the Internet at home plan to go broadband within a year.
These two statistics alone don't translate into new cash for the technology sector. But the trends they point to should make investors very happy.
For starters, computers get old fast. No matter how many times they are upgraded, motherboards and chips go out of date. After the mass purchases to make the world compliant before Y2K, sales have slipped.
Now those systems are going to have to be brought up to speed. Additionally, if the nation's populace gets more wired, through either DSL or cable Internet connections, those slow-moving Pentiums and Pentium IIs will soon be getting the boot in favor of faster, less expensive machines.
It all comes back to basic supply and demand. There's a lot of great deals on systems in today's market. If people demand better service because they want faster Internet service, or if businesses are tired of trying to make 5-year-old versions of Word and Excel work with their clients, then they will have to upgrade.
And that time is coming. Fast.
Of course, I could be totally off base. Perhaps people will be perfectly happy trying to make all of their business practices backward-compatible with aging hardware. There may not be a groundswell of discontent with slow-moving, less-than-state-of-the-art computer. But I don't think so.
I'm even willing to go out on a limb and, based on the trends I have seen, say that the low-achieving NASDAQ and the key market leaders will rebound by Christmas. Each year the Internet sees growth from the boxes that Santa brings to us, and I predict a bumper crop of new computers across the board, not to mention across the boardrooms of America.
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WAR IN EUROPE
Putin’s triple backfire unites his enemies militarily, politically and economically
However Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine ends, one thing is sure: it has backfired in hugely strengthening and expanding the Western alliance ranged against him. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Germany. Peter Fabricius reports from Berlin.
Before 24 February, Germany was rather a pacifist outlier in Europe regarding Russia especially, constrained both by its post-World War 2 wariness about being seen as an aggressor and by its large reliance on Russian gas.
Germany’s ambivalence was embarrassingly personified by former chancellor Gerhard Schröder’s lucrative employment as an agent for Russia’s state gas corporations.
In January, Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s new coalition government prompted global ridicule by offering Ukraine no more than 5,000 helmets to help it fend off the expected Russian attack. Since Russia invaded, the government’s position has changed radically. It has donated 50 tank-mounted anti-aircraft guns and heavy-artillery howitzers.
It has also announced an extra €100-billion on top of its annual €50-billion defence budget to modernise its neglected military. It decided to increase its regular defence budget to the 2% of GDP that all Nato member states are supposed to spend.
Scholz also announced the suspension of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia and joined the rest of the EU in a commitment to wean itself off its energy dependence on Russia, by terminating coal imports in autumn, oil imports by the end of 2022 and gas imports – the most difficult – as soon as possible thereafter.
It’s been a major and crucial shift in Europe’s largest economy.
The German grinch that once stole Christmas loosens its purse strings
Less perceptibly, Berlin has shifted towards supporting a more expansive and integrated fiscal policy in the European Union. The two are related; a more integrative European fiscal policy is likely to be needed to support European rearmament against Russia.
Apart from being one of the most cautious countries in Europe militarily, Germany also used to be one of the most cautious fiscally. At the time of the global financial crisis in 2008/09 and the subsequent European debt crisis, Germany was widely seen as the grinch that stole Christmas, insisting that the EU demand austerity from troubled members like Greece and Italy that had plunged into debt.
But as European Central Bank official Gabriel Glöckler points out, by the time Covid-19 struck more than a decade later, Germany’s attitude had already changed markedly. “The biggest difference between the euro crisis and the corona crisis has been fiscal policy,” he notes.
The EU now understood that mutual support was needed, and had provided it through its Next Generation EU fund and through joint borrowing by the EU.
“At the same time, we’ve also learnt during our recent monetary policy strategy review that an active use of fiscal policy doesn’t immediately lead to large inflation,” he told Daily Maverick during a recent meeting with visiting international journalists in Berlin. “There were important insights in how we look at the economy and the role of fiscal policy to get countries like Greece, like Italy and others through a crisis.”
Glöckler recalled that the debate in the EU during the financial crisis was about the need for fiscal consolidation, austerity and structural reforms. “Now, when corona struck, [ECB president] Christine Lagarde said, ‘we’ll be there for the first wave, for the second wave, we’ll be there for EU citizens. We’ll help together with fiscal policy to weather this so that the recession doesn’t go deeper and doesn’t last longer than absolutely necessary.’
“This is a different approach you’ve seen, particularly in fiscal policymaking. We’ve seen an adjustment particularly in the German mindset, about the role of fiscal policy.”
He notes how quickly Germany’s new finance minister, Christian Lindner, had understood that this was the time for fiscal policy to be more supportive – by spending more, not only to tackle Covid but also to weather the Ukraine crisis, which is affecting German and wider European security.
“And it brings the German approach a bit more in line with the approach of other countries,” Glöckler said.
This means that, militarily and economically, Germany is now aligned with a more assertive, expansive and coordinated European response to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.
The war could also drive greater EU fiscal union
Germany’s more expansive fiscal policy comes at an opportune time because Europe is facing other large financial challenges, besides Covid and the war. As Claus Tigges of the Deutsche Bundesbank points out, digitalisation and the challenges of adapting to climate change – mainly through the EU’s Green Deal – demand huge investments too.
The Bundesbank is asking itself if all of these large new challenges can be mastered within the current tight fiscal framework of the Eurozone. “Or do we need fundamental reforms?”
That fiscal framework is founded on a set of rules called the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) which the 19 EU member states that use the euro are supposed to obey to keep their spending within manageable limits.
Essentially, the structural deficit of any member state should not exceed 0.5% of its GDP, if the country’s debt-to-GDP ratio exceeds 60%. If it is less than 60%, the structural deficit may rise to 1% of GDP. The SGP also sets a maximum fiscal deficit of 3% of GDP and a maximum public debt of 60% of GDP for Eurozone member states.
If either of these targets is not met, the EU ought to step in to bring the state back into line.
However, the EU permits higher deficits to finance structural or pension reforms, expansion of public investments and unavoidable expenditures incurred, such as by natural disasters.
The Bundesbank believes the present system of rules, with all its exceptions, has become too complex and is not being enforced. It should be simplified, but also then enforced.
The basic debt and deficit ceilings of the SGP should be maintained, though the limits may be stretched a little to allow for public spending. But this must be explicit and quantified.
So, if a country’s debt-to-GDP ratio is above 60%, its maximum structural deficit could rise to 0.5% of GDP. But only if public investment is at least 0.5% of GDP. Otherwise, no structural deficit should be allowed.
And if the debt-to-GDP ratio is less than 60%, the maximum structural deficit may rise to 1.5% of GDP – but again, only if public investment is at least 0.5% of GDP. Otherwise, it should not exceed 0.5% of GDP.
These more flexible rules on public investment could be used to finance increased defence spending, for instance.
The SGP could be a first step along the path to an envisaged fiscal union in the EU. The war in Ukraine might accelerate the process.
Some ideas on the table which are now being dusted off include creating an EU finance minister to manage joint budgets; granting the EU authority to issue Eurobonds; creating a borrowing facility for the European Commission and establishing a full banking union.
Germany is not opposed in principle to this direction, though Tigges points out that if all EU countries are going to share more financial burdens, they must be prepared also to surrender a corresponding amount of their national sovereignty over financial decisions.
Experts suggest an EU fiscal union could be created all at once or in phases.
In light of the war in Ukraine, one option for phasing in a fiscal union now could be to start by integrating defence spending because there is already common ground in the EU about defence policy and a common understanding that more financing is needed.
And the war may also accelerate EU expansion
Putin’s attack on Ukraine has likewise lent impetus not only for deepening the EU but also expanding it. At Davos last week, influential billionaire businessman and pro-democracy philanthropist George Soros punted a proposal by Enrico Letta, leader of Italy’s Democratic Party, for a wider EU “confederation” which would immediately admit aspirant EU members Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia.
This would allow them to “have their say in a common political platform and share the same strategic space” while their applications for full EU membership were being processed. This confederation would be an interim measure because Letta said the normal process of EU accession was slow and sometimes troublesome, citing particularly Hungary and Poland which have clashed with the EU over democracy issues. Soros said Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi has endorsed Letta’s proposal.
French President Emmanuel Macron floated a similar idea at the European Parliament earlier in May.
The idea is meeting some resistance though. Ukraine’s feisty foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, has voiced suspicion that the EU is trying to fob off his country with diluted membership. Questions have been raised about whether membership of this proposed confederation would include participation in the EU’s mutual defence clause.
Nevertheless, “Europe seems to be moving in the right direction”, Soros said at Davos. “It has responded to the invasion of Ukraine with greater speed, unity and vigour than ever before in its history.”
A shock to the system
But can the European economy bear the shockwave of the war, coming so soon after the impact of Covid-19?
Glöckler believes so. He grants that inflation across the Eurozone has risen – to 7.4% in March – well beyond the European Central Bank (ECB) target of 2%, largely pushed by energy inflation of 44.7%, a by-product of the war. Energy prices are likely to remain high.
Economic growth has also been dampened by business and consumer uncertainty over the war and Western sanctions. This compounded the effect of the bottlenecks in supply chains caused by the war and the strict new anti-Covid lockdowns in China.
But Glöckler said neither the Eurozone nor the wider EU were in a recession and the ECB did not predict one. The economy is being buoyed by a surge of post-Covid catch-up spending.
Unemployment was at its lowest since the creation of the Eurozone. Since people had jobs, they had money to spend and were doing so. Glöckler said the ECB did not see an upwards wage-price spiral which could entrench inflation. So, it forecast a drop in inflation to 4.3% this year and 2.8% next year.
Also, the impact of the sanctions on the financial sector had been manageable so far. It had shown some volatility “but no crisis”.
Glöckler did acknowledge that unexpected developments in the war could change these forecasts.
Indeed, the Bundesbank had just warned that if Russia slapped a total embargo on natural gas exports to Germany, that could slash growth by 5%, turning predicted 3% growth in 2022 into a 2% contraction.
And Germany has just embarked on gas rationing for industry, which will clearly have an economic impact.
Nevertheless, Germany and Europe seem to be weathering the economic impacts of the war and emerging stronger and more united militarily, politically and economically.
So, it’s looking like a triple backfire for Putin’s hopes of dividing and weakening his enemies. DM
Peter Fabricius recently visited Germany as a guest of the German government and the European Academy Berlin.
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Barack Obama marketed himself to the American people as penicillin to the nation’s racial woes. A vote for Obama was a vote for unity! How could you vote against that?
And so, a self-serving slice of the electorate indulged their virtuous exigencies, casting their ballot for what they perceived to be “something bigger.” Obama’s gleeful cry for “hope and change.”
Prior to the Obama presidency, President George W. Bush united Americans as… Americans through 9/11. He kept us safe, and unapologetically defended our common values of freedom and self-governance. But according to our national media, race relations prior to Obama’s presidency were like our healthcare system. Worse than Zimbabwe’s.
How successful was President Obama in mending these supposedly broken bonds? Here’s a comprehensive timeline of all the racial healing in the past eight years.
Obama’s first headline hobnob with race-in-America dates back to the early days of his presidency. In 2009, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates arrived home to find his front door lock jammed. He opted to force his way in through the back door. Worried neighbors weren’t sure what was happening, and in good faith alerted the police.
Upon arrival, the officers – one of whom was black – asked Gates for ID, to which Gates then infuriatingly exploded, accusing the officers of racial profiling. “This is what it means to be black in America! … Do you even know how many graduate degrees I have! Do you know who you’re dealing with here!? … I’m a professor at Harvard. CAN YOU EVEN SPELL HARVARD?”
The befuddled, browbeaten officer arrested Gates on charges of disorderly conduct for his shrieking tirade.
The newly elected President disregarded the facts, kicking off what would be a long 8 years of poisonous rhetoric aimed at law enforcement. Joining the Cambridge coterie in haranguing the white working-class officer, Obama said: “he acted stupidly.”
……In February of 2012, Hispanic-American George Zimmerman – leader of his community’s neighborhood watch – saw a young black man, Trayvon Martin, lurking around his community. Zimmerman called the police, reporting that the man appeared to be on drugs (autopsy confirmed this) and was urinating in front of a house.
After being instructed not to pursue the suspect, Zimmerman hung up. The initial confrontation between the two remains a mystery. However, all the available evidence aligned with Zimmerman’s claim that Martin attacked him, knocking him to the ground. Jumping on top of him, Martin allegedly began beating Zimmerman, pounding his head into the pavement. Zimmerman subsequently reached for his gun, and shot Martin, killing him.
America’s racial-healer-in-chief Barack Obama responded to the incident, saying “if I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.” Busy acting as the pillars for Obama’s skewed racial narrative, the media failed to ask why exactly the President’s son would be high, lurking around neighborhoods and beating heads onto pavements.
In November 2013, police officers shot and killed 16-year-old black teenager Kimani Gray in Brooklyn, New York. After observing suspicious behavior, the officers approached Gray, and he responded by drawing a firearm, pointing it squarely at the officers. (Not a good idea).
Despite the damning evidence that the officers were fully justified in shooting the suspect, riots ensued. Between 60 and 100 people took to the streets looting shops and smashing windows, allegedly chanting “NYPD, KKK, how many kids did you kill today”. Really all the hallmarks of a post-racial Obama America.
The next big moment for Obama’s post-racial era came in July of 2014. In a truly unfortunate incident, 43-year-old Eric Garner died after being placed under arrest by police officers. At a whopping 400 hundred pounds, Garner had a bevy of preexisting health conditions. After Garner resisted arrest, the officer – following standard protocol – administered a submission hold. This lead to Garner famously saying “I can’t breathe” – this line was like caviar to the fervid imaginations of liberal pundits. The autopsy showed however that Garner didn’t die of suffocation. The submission likely triggered Garner’s preexisting health conditions, killing him.
What should have led to a bipartisan effort to strike down useless laws prohibiting the sales of untaxed cigarettes, instead lead to violent race riots fueled by Obama’s mythical racist conspiracy against black Americans. He said, “And right now, unfortunately, we are seeing too many instances where people just do not have confidence that folks are being treated fairly. And in some cases, those may be misperceptions; but in some cases, that’s a reality.”
Next up is Ferguson, Missouri. August 2014. A name now synonymous with “black lives matter”. Eighteen-year-old black man Michael Brown robbed a convenience store. When pulled over by officer Darren Wilson, Brown tried to grab the officer’s gun. After it went off, Brown retreated until the officer exited his vehicle. At that point, Brown sprinted towards the officer, ignoring repeated pleas to stop. Officer Wilson shot Michael Brown, killing him. This was fully justified by all accounts, and Darren Wilson was fully acquitted by a grand jury. Nonetheless, this didn’t stop our divider-in-chief from coming out and exclaiming that the shooting “exposed the racial divide in the American justice system that stains the heart of black children.” Piling on, the national media took the contradicting reports of witnesses, with CNN hosts reporting that Brown had his hands up, exclaiming “don’t shoot”. This was a lie.
This led to protests lasting weeks, with looting and riots galore. A state of emergency was declared in Missouri. Had enough racial healing yet?
Obama’s reverse Midas-touch continued working its magic through 2015 when the national spotlight turned to Baltimore. After he was arrested for carrying an illegal switchblade, Freddie Gray died in the back of a police van as a result of spinal cord injuries. Despite the lack of evidence, liberals claimed Gray’s death to be a result of racism in policing. Adding fuel to the fire, racial-healing-monk Barack Obama stated, “This has been going on for a long time, this is not new, and we shouldn’t pretend that it’s new.”
Riots exploded across Baltimore, engulfing cars, businesses, and shops. A CVS Pharmacy was burned down, while the arsonists attacked firefighters trying to put the fire out.
Meanwhile, Baltimore’s Democrat mayor dumped a gallon of gasoline on the racial tensions, saying that she wanted to give space to those “who wished to destroy.”
In July of 2016, Philando Castile was driving with his girlfriend. Castile was pulled over by Jeronimo Yanez (A Chinese police officer). The vagaries of the traffic stop are unclear, but video shot after the altercation shows the officer shot and killed Castile.
Great-racial-healing-master Barack Obama was in Warsaw for a NATO summit at the time. Refusing to pass up an opportunity to chide America in a foreign nation, he addressed the shooting, “When incidents like this occur, there’s a big chunk of our citizenry that feels as if, because of the color of their skin, they are not being treated the same, and that hurts, and that should trouble all of us.”
Obama’s warm embrace of this fictional reality has demonstrably given leeway to radical race-baiters looking to riot and wreak havoc. Protests – albeit initially non-violent – quickly escalated into cinder blocks and fireworks tossed at police officers.
Despite Obama’s claims of unjust “systemic racism,” the criminal justice system did its job. The officer responsible for the shooting was charged with second-degree manslaughter. The damage, however, was already done. Private property had been destroyed, businesses driven out, and tribal divisions intensified.
In Milwaukee August 2016, 23-year-old black male Sylville Smith was shot and killed by a black police officer. Exact details of the situation were still unclear at the time the event was reported. The suspect may have been threatening the officer with a firearm. Nonetheless, this was held up by the liberal Obama coalition as another example of system racism.
Racial agitators took to the streets, rioting for two nights. They set private property, businesses, and cars aflame. Police cars were destroyed and vandalized as the demonstrators tossed bricks through windshields.
In December of the same year, the officer who shot Smith was charged with homicide. It wasn’t because the riots and unrest had pressured the criminal justice system to abnegate their usual racist selves. The justice system works.
So, here we are. Eight years of racial healing under Barrack Obama’s leftist ideology and the country is far more divided than ever.
Racial riots and hostile tribal divisions weren’t nearly as common-occurring under past presidential administrations in recent history. What happened? Police activity or the criminal justice system didn’t suddenly begin to wantonly target black people as Obama was sworn into office.
At every opportunity to quash racial division, Obama’s rhetoric instead amplified it. For eight years he continuously peddled the notion that America is a deeply racist, unjust vessel of oppression. While he would at times admit that some progress had been made in race relations, he consistently returned to his rhetoric about a country plagued by “systemic racism.” And so, race relations in America changed to reflect the vision Obama promulgated for 8 years. The media beloved racial unifier, Barack Obama presided over the deterioration of race relations in America. If you like your race relations, you’ll get to keep your race relations.
His commencement speech to students at Howard University was chock full of ‘black power’ shit and strong anti-white sentiment.
Never one to miss an opportunity to divide Americans into groups, the president urged the students at the traditionally black university to “Be confident in your heritage, be confident in your blackness.”
The statement left many white people to ask, “shall I be confident in my whiteness?”
Obama continued to beat the drum of black victimhood for his captive audience.……“Remember the tie that does bind us as African-Americans and that is our particular awareness of injustice and unfairness and struggle,” he told the new graduates.……“That’s a pet peeve of mine, people who’ve been successful and don’t realize they’ve been lucky, that God may have blessed them,” he continued. “It wasn’t nothing you did, so don’t have an attitude.”……“Harriet Tubman may be going on the 20, but we’ve still got a gender gap when a black woman working full-time still earns just 66 percent of what a white man gets paid,” he said.
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For a study, researchers sought to understand that the prevalence of nocturnal polyuria (NP), or nocturia brought on by excessive urination while sleeping, is mostly restricted to men and varies depending on how the condition was defined. This epidemiological study of men and women over 30 years old from the United States evaluated the prevalence of NP. Willing individuals completed the baseline EpiNP (Epidemiology of Nocturnal Polyuria) survey (e.g., Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Tool, comorbidities). Investigators invited 100 randomly chosen respondents who reported 0 or 1 void per night and everyone else who reported more than 2 voids/night to complete 3-day bladder diaries. Nocturnal polyuria index (NPI) of more than 0.33 (NPI33) and nocturnal urine production of more than 90 ml/hour were used to characterize NP (NUP90). Extrapolated prevalence was broken down into subgroups based on sex and idiopathic (without underlying reasons), overactive bladder (NPOAB), bladder outlet obstruction (NPBOO; men), and comorbidities. Each subgroup’s voiding patterns and timing were evaluated, including the start of unbroken sleep. The baseline survey was completed by 10,190 people, with a mean age (interquartile range) of 54.4 (30-95). A total of 3,938 people were invited to participate in the diary; 1,763 of them (49.5%) finished the 3-day version. Both men and women with idiopathic NP and comorbidities had increased pee production (maximum nighttime volume, total volume, nocturnal urine production, and nocturia score). NPBOO in males and NPOAB in women had the highest median number of nocturnal voids. Nighttime voiding-related anxiety varied by NP subgroup, but it was highest in NPBOO for males (NPI33: 69.6%; NUP90: 71.1%) and NPOAB for women (NPI33: 67.5%; NUP90: 66.0%). Focusing on factors impacting pee production as opposed to factors influencing bladder capacity, this population-based study on nocturia prevalence, which included both men and women, identifies nocturia subgroups and offers insights into nocturia treatment.
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On January 24-25, 2022, RDI held a workshop with the British Geological Survey (BGS) titled Understanding Geological Hazards to Support Disaster Risk Assessment in Indonesia. The two-day workshop marks the kick-off of a collaboration between RDI and BGS. This workshop was aimed to bridge further research, along to widen partnerships and connections between Indonesia and the UK agencies.
Several panelists joined the event to share the current progress of geological hazard mitigation. For the first da's workshop, the topics discussed were earthquake and landslide hazards. Each of the panelists presented their knowledge where they are expertised in the areas. The panelists for the first day of the workshop namely Dr. sc. Yoga Sendjaja (Padjadjaran University - Indonesia) as the keynote speaker, and Dr. Saut Sagala (RDI Senior Research Fellow, ITB), Dr. Ekbal Hussain (British Geological Survey - England), Dr. Ir. Dicky Muslim, M.Sc (Padjadjaran University - Indonesia), and Dr. Christian Arnhardt (British Geological Survey - England) as the presenters. Dr. Aria Mariany was also participating as the moderator for the workshop. Meanwhile, for the second day of the workshop, the topics discussed were volcano and tsunami hazards. The panelists that included the keynote speaker and presenters were as remarkable as the first day panelists. There were Ir. Andiani, M.T (Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation-Indonesia) as the keynote speaker, and the presenters namely Dr. Devy Kamil Syahbana (Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation-Indonesia), Dr. Samantha Engwell (British Geological Survey), Dr. Abdul Muhari, S.Si., M.T (National Agency for Disaster Management-Indonesia), and Prof. Dr. David Tappin (British Geological Survey) This workshop has been moderated by Dr. Nuraini Rahma Hanifa.
More than the usual workshop, this two-day workshop was also shaped with an interactive focus group discussion by the panelists and participants. After the presentation session by each panelist, they were divided into three breakout rooms to have an in-depth discussion and assess the opportunities, challenges, and gaps in managing and mitigating each hazard. Several issues are highlighted during the discussion, some of them are the concern about hazard assessment on the new capital of Indonesia, the risk communication, data sharing and data collection practice, compiling and integrating local wisdom in hazard management, technology application in hazard assessment, etc. All and all, this workshop was such an eye-opener to many more remarkable findings in geological hazards, and definitely has brought a lot of new perspectives for everyone who was interested in further studies in the area. These issues that were discussed will also be assessed furhter and potentially be used as research collaboration projects in the next meeting. | <urn:uuid:12e0a677-ebfb-47ac-81eb-92b4ecd996cd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rdi.or.id/news/post/2022/ca8a8795df0f4658a199bb1ceebf0c0d/rdi-british-geological-survey-bgs-workshop-understanding-geological-hazards-to-support-disasters-risk-assessment-in-indonesia%7D | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.951435 | 598 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Alistair Lexden (then Alistair Cooke) wrote to The Daily Telegraph about Afghanistan in September 2001. The paper asked him to reflect in a further letter on what he had said then in the light of the American decision to withdraw before the 20th anniversary of its invasion. Both letters were published online by the Telegraph on September 11.
Original letter - 12 Sep 2001
SIR – Although Britain’s interventions in Afghanistan met with reverses (report Sept. 15), Sir Frederisk Roberts mounted a triumphant expedition in 1878 which culminated in his famous march from Kabul to Kandahar.
Some 10,000 troops covered 313 miles without significant loss in the heat of August, before crushing the entire Afghan army. Disraeli wrote that “the march was the march of Xenophon, and the victory that of Alexander”.
Queen Victoria argued strongly that the country should be kept under British control. Others maintained “the place might be made a real emprium of trade”, according to Gladstone’s private secretary. If Gladstone had not rejected that advice, would Afghanistan today be a relatively stable Commonwealth country?
Letter in response - 11 Sep 2021
Dear Sir – Was I foolish to have suggested twenty years ago that Afghanistan could have achieved stability and prosperity under firm British control after 1880 in accordance with Queen Victoria’s wishes, pointing the way to a settled future?
As it was, the country made considerable progress over the next forty years in close alliance with the British Raj, only briefly interrupted by the two-month third Afghan War of 1919.
Yet the infinitely more determined efforts to create a stable, reasonably well-governed state since 2001, which I did not foresee, have ended in total disaster.
Does that prove I was wrong to reject the conventional wisdom that other countries should always keep out of Afghan affairs? I would counter that the West’s humiliation is the result of failing to learn from British experience.
Victoria insisted that in the process of change “the best local customs and traditions must be accorded full and lasting honour”, and her ministers agreed. The United States chose to impose Western values quickly with well-intentioned arrogance, and then abandoned the task.
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Undercoating is definitely one of the most effective ways to stop rust damage before it even starts. The undercoating, a protective layer applied to the under layer of the car, gives an extra measure of protection to parts susceptible to damage and rust. It can also provide the car with sound reducer that removes any unnecessary noise that comes underneath the car.
Undercoating Car Price
Undercoating cost will vary depending on the automobile, geographic setting and company performing the task. Generally, undercoating car price ranges from $150 and above.
The Hachey’s Auto Enhancing, for instance, provides comprehensive undercoating service with basic undercoating cost of $600 for cars and sport utility vehicles (SUVs) of a compact size.
The undercoating car price varies through sizes (such as midsize, full-size, full-size lifted, full-size XL, full-size XL lifted) and kinds (cars/suv’s and trucks). The said undercoating cost is already inclusive to labor, time, materials and taxes.
However, it will require extra prep work if any automobile has several undercarriages damages that cost additional $100 for compact and midsize automobiles alone.
For automobile-proficient individuals who can confidently do the job alone, undercoating products are actually available for purchase. Undercoating products can be purchased through local car dealers and stores or online.
Autozone, for example, sells undercoating products that are either rubberized or normal undercoating sprays for $10 and above depending on the quality of the product. This can significantly reduce the undercoating cost of a car as it subtracts the expenses for labor and will only be paying for the product itself.
Service included in undercoating cars
Undercoating services from your local car dealer or any undercoating car service provider already includes the labor, materials and taxes. This saves you from spending too much time in personally doing the job.
However, if you pursue doing the undercoating service on your own, the method usually starts by washing off the underneath of the automobile.
Metal sandpaper, grinder and degreaser are used in clearing off the automobile’s rusty parts. Once everything is clean, the automobile’s underneath is primed with a primer. Once it has dried, the area will be painted with black or yellow automotive paint. The actual undercoating is applied liberally once the paint has dried. It is best to leave it overnight or the next 24 hours to let the first coat dry and move on applying the second coating.
Extra costs of undercoating
It actually depends on you if you want to go an extra mile in protecting your automobile from any damage. The most common additional expense an owner incurs after undercoating his or her car is rust-proofing. Rust-proofing is seldom used confusedly with undercoating although they are both different methods of car protection. Rust-proofing protects the car from early rusting.
The Hachey’s Auto Enhancing, however, provides packages which includes both the undercoating and rust-proofing. The price starts from $400 for cars in compact size and varies depending on the quality of undercoating and rust-proofing product used, size of the automobiles, and severity of rust-damage. The most expensive undercoating and rust-proofing package the company offers ranges from $1400 to $2000 for trucks.
Factors that can affect undercoating car price
The factors that can affect the prices are the geographical location and company, size and kind of vehicle, severity of rust damage and quality of undercoating products used.
Geographical location and company
Prices of undercoating services can vary from places to places and from companies to companies. Metropolitan areas offer a cheaper price due to the extensive competition in the market. Companies that have established reputable image in car services will definitely offer a higher rate of undercoating service.
Size and kind of vehicle
The size whether compact, midsize, full-size, full-size lifted, full-size XL or full-size XL lifted can affect the cost of the undercoating service. This is because the larger the automobile, the more time, labor and materials especially undercoating products are going to be used. The larger the vehicle, the more expensive an undercoating service would cost. It will also depend what kind of vehicle it would be whether a car, sports utility vehicle or truck. This is because some kinds of vehicle have a more elaborate and complicated undercarriage parts making it more difficult for cleaning which require more extensive undercoating service.
Severity of rust damage
Car services providers will usually give additional charges the rustier the automobile is. This is because extra prep work is needed to be done.
Quality of undercoating products
The more high quality an undercoating product is, it is likely more expensive. Undercoating products comes in sprays, cans or gallons. The cheapest undercoat product in Amazon.com is the Rust-Oleum Automotive Undercoat Spray for only $4.29. Say a car servicing company uses this product, the expenses for your car’s undercoating service would definitely be much lower than those car servicing companies that uses a more expensive, high-quality undercoating product.
It is encouraged that the undercoating procedure should be done by an expert as it is a delicate task. When it is not done correctly, water drainage holes in the automobile can clog and accumulate water inside resulting to rusting and damaging metal parts. It is better to consult your car dealer or visit the nearest shop for automobile services. Annual check-up of the vehicle is advised as the undercoating only last for a year and to avoid further damage.
Ways to save money
Although car owners are encouraged to consult a professional, it is also an acceptable suggestion to perform the undercoating procedure on your own but only when you have the skills to do it. You can buy a good undercoating product at the nearest local car store or purchase it online so you can instantly start the job in your garage.
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The ScrapsBook is published by Ikea Canada, who worked with ten different North American chefs, including Craig Wong and Trevor Bird, to come up with the recipes. The aim is to help people rescue odds and ends of food that would otherwise be thrown out, and instead use them to make dinner.
Or, as Ikea puts it in the introduction to the cookbook: “Scrapcooking is about finding the beautiful possibilities in that banana peel, radish top, or even the chicken bones you’re about to toss, and make the most of everything available to you.”
Although the recipe book is aimed at Canada in particular – where, according to the company, two thirds of edible food scraps end up in the bin – it would work just as well here in the UK. It also has tips on how to make food last longer (hang baskets of veg over a bowl of water on the windowsill), and – being from Ikea – ideas on the best ways to store your leftovers.
It’s all part of Ikea’s effort to become a more sustainable business, and encourage its consumers to embrace more eco-friendly ways. At the start of this year, the homeware brand released an ad celebrating the frugal life and showing people which Ikea products could help them be more sustainable. The brand aims to be using only recycled or renewable plastic in its products by 2030, and hopes to help Canadians reduce food waste in their homes by the same date.
The book includes 50 recipes and is available to download for free, as well as via Apple Books and Google Books. Some of the contributing chefs will also be appearing on Ikea’s Instagram Live for #Scrapcooking Sundays, where they’ll share cooking tutorials.
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By Abigail Loop
World Hunger Relief Inc. is bringing a day filled with music, local vendors and farm-fresh food to the Waco community.
The free event, called Farm Day, will last from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the World Hunger Relief farm, located at 356 Spring Lake Road in Waco.
World Hunger Relief Inc. is an organization whose main purpose is to alleviate hunger around the world. It does this by training individuals in the art of agriculture to better improve the lives of others and also work with communities in El Salvador, Haiti and Liberia.
Waco junior Vanessa Baum, who works at World Hunger Relief Inc., said the purpose of the Farm Day is to inform the community about what World Hunger Relief is about.
“I think the best thing about this day is just raising awareness for our mission and our farm,” Baum said. “A lot of people don’t know about us. I urge Baylor students to come and see what we’re about and have a great experience.”
There will be many local and state vendors at Farm Day selling plants, food, ceramics, jewelry, and other crafts. Live music will be performed by local and student artists.
“There will be a lot of things to do for the family,” Baum said. “We will also have a petting zoo, a story time that will tell the history of World Hunger Relief Inc. and farm tours will also be available as well.”
Rebecca Mann, office manager at World Hunger Relief Inc., said that attendees will also be treated to a farm-fresh lunch.
“The lunch is going to come from our farm and we’re also getting some food from Baylor Campus Kitchens, who will be donating some food and vegetables,” Mann said. “Lunch is the only thing that is not free. It will be eight dollars for adults and four dollars for children.”
World Hunger Relief Inc. was started in 1976 and has had many Farm Days. Farm Day takes place twice a year, once in the fall and once in the spring. Matt Heff, executive director of World Hunger Relief, said the organization is expecting a large crowd this year.
“This is just a fun time to hang out and see what we do and learn about our food system,” said Heff. “We usually get around 1,000 people and so it’s looking great again; we have even more vendors.”
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Extracting Significant Words in Engineering Texts for Specialised Language Descriptions
Noorli Khamis1, Imran-Ho Abdullah2
1Noorli Khamis*, Pusat Bahasa dan Pembangunan Insan (PBPI), Centre for Technopreneurship Development (CTeD), Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM), Melaka, Malaysia.
2Imran-Ho Abdullah, School of Language Studies and Linguistics, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Bangi, Malaysia.
Manuscript received on October 11, 2019. | Revised Manuscript received on 26 October, 2019. | Manuscript published on November 10, 2019. | PP: 5862-5868 | Volume-8 Issue-12, October 2019. | Retrieval Number: L25171081219/2019©BEIESP | DOI: 10.35940/ijitee.L2517.1081219
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Abstract: The academic discourse of a specialised language is characterised by specialised and technical vocabulary, and lexicogrammar. Studies on language description suggest the need to explore and determine the specific characteristics of the academic discourse of each specialised language, to serve the language needs of the learners. This study demonstrates an exploration of this discipline specificity by looking at the nouns used in a specialised language – an Engineering English. It attempts to integrate a multivariate technique, i.e. the Correspondence Analysis (CA), as a tool to extract significant nouns in a specialised language for any further language use scrutiny. CA allows visual representations of the word interrelationships across different genres in a specialised language. To exemplify this, an Engineering English Corpus (E2C) was created. E2C is composed of two sub-corpora (genres): Engineering reference books (RBC) and online journals articles (EJC). The British National Corpus (BNC) was used as the reference corpus. 30 key-key-nouns were identified from the E2C, and the frequency lists of the words were retrieved from all the corpora to run the CA. The CA maps of the nouns display how these corpora are different from each other, as well as, which words characterise not only E2C from a general corpus (BNC), but also the different genres in E2C. Thus, CA proves to be a potential tool to display words which characterise not only a specialised corpus from a general corpus, but also the different genres in that specialised corpus. This study promises more informed descriptions of a specialised language can be made with the identification of specific and significant vocabulary for any academic discourse investigations.
Keywords: academic discourse, Correspondence Analysis, ESP, nouns, specialised corpus
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Many people across the globe are cooped up in their houses since self-isolation and social distancing have become the new normal. While we are trying almost everything in our power to avoid physical contact with the outside world to control the spread of coronavirus, outdoor items still pave their way in our houses.
Many people also have to leave their houses for vital activities like medical care, essential shopping, etc. You can reduce the risk of COVID-19 exposure by practising social distancing and frequent handwashing but shopping for groceries carries extra risk. Buying Indian groceries online in the UK or other countries can be an excellent option to maintain social distancing. However, many of the groceries you’re buying might have probably been handled by others and possibly coughed or sneezed on. Therefore, taking a little extra care is essential when handling your groceries. The below tips will help you sanitise groceries and prevent the spread of the virus to other people and surfaces in your home.
After you return home buying groceries, wash your hands with soap for at least 20 seconds. In the case of online shopping, consider spraying sanitiser over the package before opening it. In both cases, you must empty your bag or the box in a clean area and dump it in the trash. Do not dump your bags if they are not made of disposable materials. You can soak fabric made bags in a bucket of soap water to wash them properly.
You have to handle groceries at home very carefully regardless of the way you buy them. It will reduce the chance of spreading the virus to surfaces in your home or other persons in your family. You can consider cleaning cans and boxes of foods before storing them to reduce possible virus content. When you are done with grocery unpacking, clean the countertops, tables, or other surfaces that were touched by your grocery bags or groceries.
Please do not wash or clean fresh vegetables and meat with alcohol-based sanitiser or soap. You may experience nausea or diarrhoea if these substances enter your stomach. After grocery unpacking and storing, you must consider cleaning your hands with sanitiser or soap before touching other things.
Using Disposable Gloves
Latex made gloves are known for their disposable nature. You can consider wearing them while handling and storing groceries. Many companies offer Indian groceries home delivery services in the UK. You can order groceries from them, but consider wearing gloves to prevent direct contact when receiving the package.
These are the three tips you can follow to sanitise groceries and keep your family safe from coronavirus exposure. Finally, we will recommend buying groceries online as it will help you to avoid physical contact with the outside world.
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The Synphora solution
Synphora has investigated if one of the world leading treatments against glaucoma in the eye could be applied in Menière’s disease. The therapeutic rationale, the evacuation of fluid, would be the same.
It has been noticed that FP prostanoid receptor agonists appear to modify the tissue around the endolymphatic duct, i.e. the structure from which the endolymph is resorbed from the inner ear. In fact, the relevant tissue appears less dense after treatment with a prostaglandin FP receptor agonist suggesting that it may lower the resistance and therefore facilitate the diffusion of endolymph into the adjacent veins.
FP prostanoid receptor agonists may therefore have a beneficial effect on the pressure in the inner ear and as a consequence elicit an improvement in the three cardinal symptoms of Menière’s disease. It is noteworthy that Menière’s disease has also been called “glaucoma of the ear”.
Synphora has to date conducted two double-blind, randomized, cross-over, placebo controlled clinical trials using an FP prostanoid receptor agonist, comprising altogether 51 patients.
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Event: Photographing Architectural Interiors
Location: Center for Architecture, 02.08.10
Speakers: Thomas H. Kieren — Photographer, Custom Corporate Photography; Charles Linn, FAIA — Senior Managing Editor, Architectural Record; Michael Moran — Photographer, Moran Studios; Edward J. Wood, IIDA — Principal, Gensler
Moderator: Erica Stoller — Director, Esto Photographics, Inc.
Organizers: AIANY Interiors Committee; AIANY Marketing & PR Committees
Photograph by Michael Moran
For both designers and photographers, the art of documenting an architectural interior involves many people, many hours, and many compositions. According to photographer Michael Moran, of Moran Studios, his role is that of a movie director with the help of the architect as producer. Architects and interior designers assemble an interior with a specific aesthetic vision. However, it is the job of the photographer to assure designers that any necessary relocation of the furniture and accessories of a space will ultimately be beneficial to the final photo shoot. It is crucial that all parties be flexible and open to re-thinking the interior.
Erica Stoller, of Esto Photographics, encourages designers to trust photographers to create a series of successful images. Stoller espouses the premise that photographers “make” an image rather than “take” an image. By layering individual moments, a photograph becomes a narrative. Given the abilities to edit out distracting details or craft accents in an image, photographers can layer on their own aesthetic to a room’s natural state.
Some question whether the advent of digital photography has negatively compromised the boundaries of realistically portraying an environment. However, Charles Linn, FAIA, senior managing editor at Architectural Record, who looks for saturated color and a sense of scale when reviewing photography for his publication, said, “We all like to be seduced by an idealized space.”
Photography intrinsically involves multiple challenges — including weather, natural lighting, and the inclusion or exclusion of people. Edward Wood, IIDA, a principal at Gensler, has found scheduling photo shoots on weekends or in the evening can be beneficial when staging people in a space. Thomas Kieren, a photographer at Custom Corporate Photography, advises that the reconciliation of multiple client concerns — such as those of the architect, flooring manufacturer, and acoustic engineer — can be achieved in a single photograph. Stoller agreed that, if achievable, addressing the needs of multiple team members on a project can facilitate the shared cost of a photo shoot. All panelists emphasized that developing a trusting relationship with a photographer will beget a mutual understanding of need and intent, resulting in a photography portfolio that lends itself to a designer’s legacy. | <urn:uuid:a54eed8f-453e-4c6e-8e68-0d06fdf6aa9c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://eoculus-images.aiany.org/photographers-designers-on-how-to-make-a-picture/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.928878 | 569 | 1.625 | 2 |
Asthma and Freediving
Instructor course handout
Cristian Castaño Villa
Asthma is a chronic long term disease that affects the airways through inflaming and narrowing, making the process of breathing (bringing air into and out of the lungs) very difficult. Asthma then develops with symptoms such as coughing, wheezing (whistling sound when you breath), shortness of breath and chest tightness. The coughing generally occurs at night or early in the morning. These symptoms can develop into what is known as an asthma attack that can be controlled by bronchodilators (substances that open the airways) like salbutamol, ipratropium bromide, or in extreme cases adrenaline. In some cases, these attacks can be extremely serious requiring intubation (a tube down into the lungs) and artificial ventilation, leading to hospitalization.
The airways or air passages are tubes that carry air in and out of our lungs. People with asthma have inflamed and swollen airways, making this process very difficult or in extreme cases, impossible. The airways in an asthmatic are sensitive to certain substances such as dust or pollen. The muscles around the airways temporarily tighten, and substances in the air can also exacerbate mucus, therefore triggering the symptoms of asthma and thus reducing air flow in or out of the lungs. The symptoms can occur anytime the airways are inflamed. When these symptoms increase it’s called an asthma attack, asthma attacks are also known as exacerbations or flareups.
The prevalence of Asthma is increasing however as yet, there is no cure. There are treatments to reduce the symptoms and for some these treatments are highly effective. If you have asthma and it is well treated, normal life can be lived, however, if not then it can lead to multiple visits to the hospital, affecting your normal life at home and work and in extreme cases, the disease can even be fatal.
Types of asthma
There are different types of asthma that affect people in different ways. Medical advances have given us a better understanding of the different types of asthma and their causes. So in order to find the solution or the best treatment for the disease we need to understand what causes or triggers it. The following are the different asthma types:
Allergic Asthma: This is the most common type of asthma, and is caused by external agents. It can be triggered by something as minor as a smell, such as perfume or cleaning agents. Other triggers include pollen, dust, mites, mould and cold air. A trigger can be different for everyone, so it is important for an asthmatic to know their personal triggers, although in some cases the triggers are difficult to identify because the allergic reaction can take days to fully develop. Allergic rhinitis, also called hay fever, is the most common allergic disease. It creates inflammation of the inside lining of the nose. An allergy to a substance causes your body to react against it by activating immune cells. These cells release histamines which come into contact with the allergens, however, these histamines and other chemicals can produce the allergic symptoms which we commonly see when an allergic reaction happens such as running nose, ongoing sneezing, swollen nasal passages, excess mucus, weepy eyes, scratchy throat and cough.
Exercise-Induced Asthma: This is the type of asthma that is induced by strenuous exercise or physical exertion, almost every person who has asthma can be triggered just by exercising. Asthma symptoms can be experienced by non-asthmatic people temporarily while doing intense exercise. The peak of exercise-induced asthma can be reached at 20 minutes of performing a sport, making it very difficult to breathe. The symptoms in both asthmatic and non-asthmatic people can be shortness of breath, wheezing and coughing. These symptoms can be controlled by using an asthma inhaler or bronchodilator. Exercise-induced asthma it’s also called bronchoconstriction. For most, preventive measures and normal asthma medications are sufficient to allow them to continue doing exercise and remain physically active.
Cough-Variant Asthma (CVA): Dry severe coughing is the main and strongest symptom of this form of asthma. This condition is commonly underdiagnosed and undertreated as there are also other causes of coughing when you have asthma, like postnasal drip, chronic rhinitis, or sinusitis. The main causes of CVA are usually respiratory infections and exercise. People who have CVA do not necessarily have the other common symptoms of asthma, like wheezing, shortness of breath or chest tightness. One characteristic of CVA is that the cough does not produce mucus from the respiratory tract.
Occupational Asthma occurs in the workplace, where triggers are the results of the workplace environment. The symptoms are a runny nose, congestion, eye irritation and coughing instead of wheezing. Certain occupations have a higher propensity to cause this kind of asthma, such as animal breeders, farmers, painters, hairdressers, nurses and woodworkers. This form of asthma can be caused by inhaling fumes, gases, dust or other potentially harmful substances.
Nighttime (Nocturnal) Asthma: is one of the most common types of the disease and can give the strongest symptoms. This happens because asthma is influenced by the sleep-wake cycle (circadian rhythms). Symptoms such as trouble breathing, coughing or wheezing are more likely to manifest and be more dangerous at night. Most deaths related to asthma occur at late hours due to changes in air temperature, the reclining position of the body, as well as the hormonal releases from the body that follow a circadian pattern.
Other health conditions similar to asthma: There are some other illnesses that can mimic the symptoms of asthma, for example, cardiac asthma is a form of heart failure, or vocal cord dysfunction is a disease that can be mistaken for asthma because the abnormality of the vocal cords could cause wheezing. Furthermore, anxiety and stress can be diagnosed as asthma because of similar sensations such as tightness in the chest and breathlessness. In order to check if a person actually has asthma a spirometry test (a test that measures your vital capacity) or a peak flow test (a test that measures how fast you can breathe out) can be performed.
Scuba diving and asthma
Recreational diving with self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (scuba) is not recommended for people suffering from asthma as breathing compressed air could trigger an asthma attack. Also, depending on the type of asthma the person has, such as exercise-induced asthma, the chances of an attack happening can increase considerably.
While diving, an asthmatic could be exposed to environmental factors like aspiration of salt water, inhalation of aerosolized hypertonic saline from faulty regulators, or in rare cases, contamination of the air tank through the use of non-filtered air containing pollens. Any of the above situations could increase the risk of bronchospasm leading to an acute asthma attack as well as panic attacks or drowning.
The biggest concern with asthmatics diving is that they are more likely to suffer dive related illnesses such as embolism, which is when bubbles of air get into the blood due to damaged lung tissue. This scenario could also happen by the narrowing of the airways in an asthmatic diver. Furthermore, the use of asthma medication could cause the lungs to be less efficient at filtering the nitrogen bubbles that happen after diving, resulting in a risk of decompression sickness. When evaluating a diver candidate many factors should be considered, such as; how bad asthma the person has, what type of asthma it is, how often they have asthmatic episodes or how long ago was their last asthma attack. Each asthmatic candidate should be assessed individually, evaluating their asthma history and severity.
Several published guidelines include the recommendation that asthmatic people should be prevented from diving in the following circumstances; subjects with tremendous airway variability which could worsen without reason, those with poorly defined triggers and abnormal pulmonary function tests and asthmatics with exercise, cold or emotional induced asthma, other experts are more conservative suggesting that any person with asthma symptoms in the preceding 5 years should be advised against diving.
Reasons why people with asthma should not freedive
Freediving is an extreme sport which demands both physical and mental energy and effort and for this reason many of the above reasons opposing asthmatics to scuba, also apply to freediving. Similar environmental factors can also affect the freediver as in scuba due to the risks, such as; aspiration of salty water, dust that could be expelled from the boat engines, or other cells in the air could set off an asthma attack. An important factor to keep in mind if the diver has any variety of asthma is that it can make it much harder to perform rescue and resuscitation in the case of emergency. If the diver experiences a lung squeeze and/or blackout, the blood could act as a trigger and make the airways further constrict, making any attempt of resuscitation by ventilating the person externally very difficult or impossible.
It is believed the risk of having a lung squeeze could increase in people with asthma. Certain asthmatics, even if breathing normally and feeling well, could have excess mucus in the airways or some low-level inflammation, and this could mean higher chances of a squeeze happening with high levels of hypoxia. Also, the chances of air embolism are increased. This is due to the narrowing of the airways and little bubbles of air can become trapped, expanding on the way up due to Boyle’s law and then finding their way into the bloodstream. There’s also a risk that a mediastinal rupture can happen, also because of Boyle’s law, when the trapped air squeezes out of the lungs and goes to the space around heart, trachea and oesophagus, causing a lot of pain. Another issue that could occur is when experienced freedivers go to depths below 30m and their lungs compress below residual volume, this could act as a trigger in the asthmatic, and cause difficulty in recovery breathing or increased risk of a blackout.
As for scuba diving, there are some strong reasons why asthmatics should avoid or be especially careful when practising freediving, however it is also important to note that every case should be evaluated individually in order to decide if the person is fit or not to practice the sport.
Reasons why people with asthma should freedive
Just as there are similarities in the reasons why people shouldn’t scuba dive when they have asthma and why shouldn’t they freedive, there are also reasons to the contrary. Freediving does not involve breathing compressed air underwater, as freediving is performed using one single breath at the surface, and so the risks of compressed air as trigger to asthmatics is eliminated. Furthermore, an asthma attack during a scuba dive is more dangerous due to the requirement of the safety stop, while in freediving there’s no safety stop, and so in the case of an asthma attack the person can return immediately to the surface.
Just as medications can’t cure asthma only reduce the symptoms and severity, freediving has also not cured asthma. However, there are many cases of asthmatic freedivers drastically reducing their medication, as well as symptoms and attacks to the point of being symptom free. Examples of this are; the Dutch freediver Peter Wurschy who, after suffering from a lung infection that gave him severe asthma attacks, could manage to be completely free of symptoms after three years, and French freediver Florian Dagoury, who claimed to have reduced his asthma by 50% and hasn’t returned to the hospital, whereas previously he visited the hospital at least once a year before discovering freediving.
It has been proven that there are many benefits to slow, calm breathing in patients with asthma, and that is the foundation of breathing in freediving. When you breathe slowly and controlled you can increase the amount of carbon dioxide in both your lungs and blood vessels, and its effect is to expand the blood vessels which is beneficial. Carbon dioxide has the effect of naturally recalibrating the control centre of the breathing in the brain, thereby restarting normal breathing for people with asthma. Particular breathing techniques can assist this process such as hook recovery breathing. When we do hook breathing we hold our breath and then push the air out using our diaphragm and abdominal muscles, this increases the pressure in the lungs and the increased pressure in the lungs helps to dilate the airways, so it’s a natural way to help an asthma attack without the need for medications. There’s another gas molecule that helps to relax and dilate the blood vessels and that is called nitrogen oxide (NO), this molecule accumulates in our nostrils and sinuses, and by doing equalisation manoeuvres and holding the air for 20 – 30 seconds in our sinuses and nose (as in mouth-fill or constant equalisation), then it can be dragged to the lungs helping to dilate the blood vessels.
Practising freediving regularly provides more flexibility in the lungs, diaphragm, muscles and organs in the body and this can also assist to relieve tension and stiffness experienced with asthma attacks. The airways gain more flexibility through practising freediving, yoga and pranayama breathing, by allowing more air to flow in and out of the lungs even during an asthma attack.
In conclusion, freediving could definitely assist the asthmatic as long as they practice it within the safety limits and risk assessment, by being careful and responsible considering the type of asthma they have. While freediving may not cure asthma it could provide relieve of the symptoms in the long run.
Asthma is a chronic lung disease that affects a large part of the world’s population, it’s a growing disease which, as of yet, has no cure.
There are different types of asthma, not all of them should be treated the same, some affect people more when freediving than others.
People with asthma have often been discouraged from scuba diving, mainly because of the compressed air inhaled during scuba and this can be an asthma trigger. This principle does not apply to freediving.
Exercise-induced asthma could be a reason to discourage a person from freediving because while freediving it’s possible to reach the point of strenuous exercise or physical exertion that can lead to an asthma attack.
Performing a rescue in a person with any type of asthma could be more difficult in the case that the airways constrict, making it very hard to resuscitate or ventilate the person.
The chances of a lung squeeze, embolism or mediastinal rupture are higher in people with asthma.
Calm, slow breathing increases the amount of carbon dioxide in both the lungs and blood vessels, and carbon dioxide has the effect to expand the blood vessels which is beneficial for people with asthma.
Carbon dioxide has the effect of naturally recalibrating the control centre of the breathing in the brain, re establishing normal breathing for people with asthma.
Hook breathing increases the pressure in the lungs, and the increased pressure in the lungs helps to dilate the airways.
Nitrogen oxide (NO) has also the effect of dilating the blood vessels, and we can increase the levels of NO in our lungs when we equalise.
More flexibility in the lungs, diaphragm and airways can help to lower the intensity of an asthma attack.
Every case of a person with asthma should be analysed and evaluated individually in order to decide if the person is fit or not to practice freediving.
Freediving will not cure asthma but in the long term, it can help to reduce the medications a person has to use, as well as frequency of asthma attacks and hospital visits, thus leading to a better life.
For almost any patient with lung disease, the main medical recommendations are, calm, slow breathing, physical training and no smoking. All of this is part of a healthy freediving lifestyle.
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Welcome to the Clipper Heritage Trail, a series of self-guided history tours of Newburyport. Step back in time and walk in the footsteps of shipbuilders and sea captains; bakers, clam diggers and comb makers; silversmiths and soldiers; abolitionists and African Americans; and authors and artists. Explore the hidden corners of a destination where the first settlers of Newbury landed in 1635 on the northern shores of the Parker River.
The birthplace of the United States Coast Guard, the city of Newburyport was incorporated as a separate entity in 1764 and continues to look over the Merrimack River as a reflection of its rich past and enduring beauty. From its earliest settlement to the 1960s when Newburyport residents rallied to preserve its history in response to the threat of "urban renewal" that would have demolished much of this history, Newburyport tells a story of American history itself. Clues to the New England maritime trade, the history of the anti-slavery movement, the industrial movement, innovations and inventions and more await your discovery. | <urn:uuid:b2d54cb5-f4a9-4a84-b58c-08ef9c141f8c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://clipperheritagetrail.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.934201 | 223 | 2.09375 | 2 |
BEIJING — For participants, the Olympics are not taking place in China so much as within a tiny universe that happens to be inside China. Officials have labeled it a “closed loop.” People inside cannot go out, and people outside cannot go in. Visitors may observe the host city only at a remove, through the windows of their hotel room or moving buses. The Beijing Olympics are composed of Beijing and the Olympics, and the two are walled off from one another.
Much like their brethren in Tokyo last summer, Beijing 2022 organizers created a bubble system designed to prevent the spread of COVID 19, keep athletes healthy and their population separate from a flood of international visitors. Beijing officials, operating under China’s Zero-COVID policy, opted for a more tightly controlled environment. The closed loop is a network of buses, hotels, security checkpoints, practice facilities and competition venues that separates Olympic activities from everyday life.
“There’s two aspects to the Games for me: the cultural aspect and the athletics aspect,” said Bill Hancock, a United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee staff member attending his 15th Olympics. “Well, the athletics aspect will be the same as always. But culturally, this will be different. All of us knew that before we came here, that you can’t go to the noodle stand down the street. You get your noodles at the press center.”
Buses ferry athletes, journalists and other accredited participants through the city. No spectators are allowed except for media, coaches, trainers and select guests, most of whom have ties to major sponsors. Barricades block the entrance to hotels, with gates opening only for buses that transport journalists along the closed loop. Workers dressed in hazmat suits, goggles and masks mill about in lobbies. Each morning, participants receive a temperature check and take a coronavirus test in the form of a long swab down the throat.
“They are not shy,” Hancock said. “But I’m kind of getting used to it. I just think, do you want to be safe? Then you do what you have to do.”
Less than six months ago in Tokyo, Olympic visitors had no restrictions after they had spent 14 days in Japan. Even during those first two weeks, they could venture out to stores in 15-minute chunks and take walks without attracting notice. Here, the only venturing out is in a bus, taxi or train reserved for Olympic purposes.
“We can’t really mingle or do too much, which is unfortunate because a big part of going to a new place is feeling the culture and seeing the different things,” said American figure skater Vincent Zhou, whose parents are from Beijing. “It is what it is right now, and I understand the precautions are necessary. Even if village life is a little bit stunted, it’s still the Olympics. It’s still super exciting.”
No matter the restrictions, officials knew the spread of the omicron variant would make COVID cases inevitable. Beijing 2022 recorded 24 new positive tests Tuesday, 16 of them either athletes or other team officials. More than 466,000 tests have produced 200 positive cases. As expected, the number of Olympics-related cases has grown as more athletes have entered the country.
“Even though we have seen more positive cases, we didn’t have large-scale spread inside the closed loop,” said Huang Chun, Beijing 2022’s deputy director of pandemic prevention. “We think the situation is under control … We don’t think we are considering making major adjustments to the measures, because we think it is very effective so far.”
The United States became the latest country with a high-profile athlete who tested positive. Bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor, a three-time Olympic medalist at her fourth Games who entered as the world’s top-ranked monobob slider, tested positive on Saturday, two days after she arrived. Meyers Taylor is asymptomatic, she wrote in an Instagram post, and remained hopeful she could test negative two consecutive days — the requirement for an athlete to return — in time to compete. In the meantime, she is staying in an isolation hotel.
“And yes I am completely isolated,” Meyers Taylor wrote.
At the Tokyo Olympics last summer, athletes constantly discussed the stress of daily testing and distancing measures. Winter Olympians at least have the advantage of six additional months of training and competing through a pandemic, of the abnormal becoming normal.
“In the last two years, we’ve gotten really — I don’t even want to call it comfortable — but we’ve gotten really used to the protocols and adapting and trying to make the most of the situation,” U.S. figure skater Jason Brown said.
Still, they worried about an outside factor eliminating them from a competitive opportunity that arrives only once every four years.
“The stresses are incalculable,” U.S. women’s hockey coach Joel Johnson said. ” … We talked as a team just today [about] the fact that our team is going to be so close just because they’re the one group of people that can kind of stay in the same protocol together.”
Those protocols, unthinkable just two years ago, are now viewed as the necessary cost of making this competition viable.
“It’s the Olympics. You can’t not enjoy it, right?” said U.S. hockey star Hilary Knight, a four-time Olympian. ” … It’s not easy wearing a mask in practice, it’s not fun. But to have an opportunity to be a part of this group and be in that room is extremely special and is not one you can take for granted. So if it means wearing a mask on the ice for practice or in the room, you’re just going to do it.”
Pandemic signifiers predominate in Beijing, from Plexiglas at dining tables to the masks several figure skaters wore at practice Tuesday. But the majority of stress, athletes said, occurred before arriving. They had to take a battery of tests before boarding flights. At the airport upon arrival, they took one last coronavirus test, then waited in their hotel rooms before finding out whether they could continue last-minute training or would get sent to an isolation hotel, their competitive fate uncertain.
“The worst part was actually before you got here,” said Norwegian curler Kristin Skaslien, a reigning bronze medalist in mixed doubles. “All the testing up front. Arriving at the airport and waiting for the test results there. After coming here to the Olympic Village, it feels safe.”
Earlier this month, U.S. snowboard officials convened a virtual meeting to calm athletes who had misgivings about traveling out of fear they would test positive and get isolated in a Chinese hotel or hospital. Athletes from other sports felt similar tension, but they have worried less since arriving.
“I’m much calmer now being in the village,” Brown said. “Now it feels much more routine. Waking up in the morning, we get our coronavirus test, we go on with our day. But the last couple weeks have been really, really stressful.”
The arrival of athletes and journalists coincided with Lunar New Year, the biggest holiday of the year in China. The pandemic muted the celebration, but some locals attempted to provide visitors a sampling. At one hotel, greeters passed out tanghulu — sour apples glazed with sugar on a stick — and hung red flags on room doors.
In the coming days, athletes’ focus will shift. For many of them, the competition will serve as a relief, regardless of the result.
“We have talked a lot about it and talked about our feelings so we don’t lock things up in ourself,” Skaslien said. “It’s been very stressful. It has. But now we’re here, and it feels safe.”
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Development of communication science, computer science and cybernetics in the 1940s – 1950s
This publication presents the emergence of the new sciences that are most important for today’s world: communication science, cybernetics, the theory of information, and the theory of the noosphere in the 1940s – 1950s. The purpose of this article is to analyze the total scientific achievements in Eurasia at the time of the Second World War. This was a bright phenomenon in the formation of new revolutionary theories. Works of Chicago-based and Frankfurt-based schools of thought, the theoretical concepts of T. Adorno, M. Horkheimer, H. Lasswell, P. Lazarsfeld, аnd other researchers laid the foundations of the communication science and contributed to the breakthrough in a number of the key subject areas. A system approach to and a comparative analysis of the causes and subsequent consequences of the achievements at that time for today’s world served as a methodological basis for a comprehensive consideration of large-scale studies of the past. The scientific novelty of this historic study consists in the interdependence and complementarity of the theoretical and practical achievements in the 1940s and rethinking of their importance in the structure of concepts in the 20th century. Industrial and military goals associated with the automatic management and communication processes required fundamentally new approaches and achievements. When World War II broke out, N. Wiener worked on these problems aiming at creating a computer, which pushed him to the idea that the principles of managing biotic and abiotic systems are the same and to the cybernetic concept development. In the mid-1940s, J. von Neumann built the first digital computer. In 1945-1947, A. Turing worked, as an inventor of “a universal machine”, on the “electronic brain” project and was the first to develop a number of programs for it. In 1942, C. Shannon published his work dedicated to the theory of information permitting a constellation of researchers to lay the foundations of the theory of communication. V. Vernadsky’s noosphere concept proposed in 1944 was particularly important. At present, the ideas of that period are gaining new importance as a basis for the single planetary management system.
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The Neutral Islands during the Late Epoch of Reionization.
The large-scale structure of the ionization field during the epoch of reionization (EoR) can be modeled by the excursion set theory. While the growth of ionized regions during the early stage are described by the "bubble model", the shrinking process of neutral regions after the percolation of the ionized region calls for an "island model". An excursion set based analytical model and a semi-numerical code (islandFAST) have been developed. The ionizing background and the bubbles inside the islands are also included in the treatment. With two kinds of absorbers of ionizing photons, i.e. the large-scale under-dense neutral islands and the small-scale over-dense clumps, the ionizing background are self-consistently evolved in the model.
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As you consider the threats we face and the options available to you should the worst happen, you have no doubt played out numerous scenarios surrounding the effects of a total collapse event that would bring down the national power grid. Be it a cyber attack which DHS Secretary Napolitano says has a 100% likelihood of occurring, a super-EMP weapon being detonated in the skies of America, or a natural disaster involving a highly charged coronal mass ejection from the sun, the possibility is quite realistic.
Some have escaped major cities and headed for the hills, but considering that the majority of the U.S. population is centered in 146 of the country’s 3000 counties, chances are most of us will find ourselves in the middle of the worst that humanity has to offer.
Developing strategies that encompass everything from food preparation and water harvesting, to security and communications should be at the top of our lists.
Just how fragile is the national power grid and just how prepared are you when it fails. You can prepare all you want, but when (not if) the lights go out, the riots begin and people start getting crazy, what are your chances of survival???
Your chances of survival are fairly low if you’re in a major metropolitan area.
In a true grid down situation I recommend that you literally be prepared to hunker down for months.
Could you survive after an EMP attack? Would you be able to sustain your loved ones when all hell breaks loose? In this video, I will unearth a long-forgotten secret that helped our ancestors survive famines, wars, economic crises, diseases, droughts, and anything else life threw at them… a secret that will help you do the same for your loved ones when America crumbles into the ground. I’m also going to share with you three old lessons that will ensure your children will be well fed when others are rummaging through garbage bins. Click here to learn all about the 3 skills that will help you thrive in any crises situation.
Among other critical preparedness topics James Rawles discusses the effects and survival strategies for a grid down collapse in high population urban centers:
For someone in an urban area who plans to hunker down and doesn’t plan to bug out with country cousins, one thing that should be at the top of everyone’s list but that’s very much overlooked is… if you’re in a situation where you have power because you have photovoltaics but your neighbors don’t, you really should concentrate on black-out curtains for your windows. You need to black out your house completely, without any light leaks so that your house will look just as black as any other on your block.
Otherwise you’re going to be targeted as the rich guy. You don’t want to become a loot-me-beacon at night. That should be a fairly high priority for you.
There’s so many things that are gonna go into it. If we’re truly in a grid-down situation you’re going to have to think in terms of not just food storage, but where you can collect rainwater or surface water, whether it’s a pond or a creek, and how you’re going to transport that water home without access to a gas engine vehicle.
You’re gonna want to be able to cook without any spices whatsoever… From an efficiency standpoint… you’re going to want to use a special insulated cooker… It’s essentially like crock-pot cooking where you bring your water to a boil, add your rice, meat, vegetables, whatever… and you’re going to enclose it in a double-insulated container. With that cooking method you have a couple of advantages. One is you don’t have cooking odors escaping and the other is you have the absolute minimum energy input.
That’s just one example of the work-arounds that you can use in an urban or suburban environment if you literally can’t trust your ravenous neighbors.
For someone who has to hunker down you’re going to have think through each of those situations, whether it’s sanitation, cooking, home security, communications… the whole works. You’re going to have to think through each of those.
Unfortunately, in an urban environment, you can do everything right but if you’re neighbors can’t adapt you’re going to end up just as dead, because… the sanitation situation is going to be horrendous. And, if people are going door-to-door kicking in the front doors of houses, eventually they’re going to get to your house. If it’s that bad, if it’s a total worst case your chances are not that good hunkering down in place.
You may beat the odds, but I would rather be somewhere else, frankly.
[Living in the city] You’re in the same situation as probably 30% or 40% of my readership, so don’t feel like you’re alone. There are a lot of people that would love to relocate, but either for financial reasons, or family obligations, or work obligations, or health considerations… you’re not alone.
A level of planning that you’ll have to make is definitely a step up than your average suburbanite. You’re going to have to think everything through. You’re going to have to shepherd your funds, and prioritize your purchasing and your training with exactitude.
All it takes is one overlooked area and you’re another statistic.
We strongly encourage you to listen to James Rawles’ interview with SGT Report in full. It has tons of ideas, tips and situations that any serious prepper needs to consider – not tomorrow, today.
There are a variety of excellent resources available to help you insulate yourself for a long-term disaster scenario no matter where you find yourself when it goes down, starting with Rawles’ preparedness guidelines outlined in his book How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It where he details tactics, techniques, and technologies for uncertain times.
We encourage you to forward this to friends and family who may not be as convinced as you are about the possibility of an emergency that wipes out our electric grid.
The fact is, the U.S. government has been preparing for exactly such a scenario, and they’ll be launching nationwide simulations later this year. They’ve been stockpiling food, water treatment supplies, firearms, ammunition, and training personnel to deal with the aftermath.
If you’re not doing the same thing, then you haven’t been paying attention – or you’ve chosen to stick your hand in the sand and pretend that it’s not really happening.
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The rumor is true, NYC Resistor has a laser! Want to get in on the laser cutting action? You can take a class to learn to operate the laser yourself, or pay one of us to cut it for you. NOTE: if you’re looking for a service bureau, please check Google for “laser cutting nyc” to get a list of local commercial service providers.
Laser classes are generally from time to time, usually once a month. Check http://nycresistor.eventbrite.com/ for a schedule. In this two hour class, we’ll walk through all the steps from idea to pressing the “go” button on the laser. We’ll cover safety and basic design skills in Inkscape and you’ll learn how to do a burninate test to find out if something is laserable. After the two hours, you’ll have time to prototype something of your own! Bagels and cream cheese are even provided.
Laser Night and Craft Night
The best times to come use the laser are Laser Mondays from 7:30pm-10:30pm and Craft Night Thursdays from 6:30pm-9pm. You may be able to arrange other times if members are available, send us an email with a time that works for you. If you’re flexible, including a few different times will make it easier for us to schedule!
Please, if you have not made an explicit appointment with a member, come by on Laser Monday or Craft Night. Members are not staff and supervise laser cutting on a volunteer basis. We’re not set up to support walk-ins outside of these times!
The basic rate for a laser operator to help you is $75.00 per hour + $2 per minute for running the laser. If you have taken the laser class and are operating the laser yourself, the cost is $1.00 per minute and there are no additional operator fees!
We have a limited supply of materials available for sale at NYC Resistor. You’re also welcome to bring your own. If you plan on buying materials from us, please email us ahead of time so we can make sure we have it in stock. Here are some examples of what we’ll cut on the laser:
- Acrylic up to 1/4 inch
- Wood (not pressure treated)
- Aluminum (etch only)
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- Glass cutting. It etches OK, but we can’t cut it.
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In a show of cooperation and a joint commitment to health education, over 250 Village Health Volunteers spent a day away from regional communities to learn more about stroke in a training session at the City Beach Hotel Hua Hin on 12th June. This program was delivered by staff of the Bangkok Hospital Hua Hin and funded by the Hua Hin Municipality. Mr. Nopporn Vutikul, Hua Hin’s Mayor, with Doctor Veerasak Pongphatanaphun, Deputy Director of Bangkok Hospital Hua Hin were there to welcome the volunteers who had come from 35 villages in the region. The theme of the training was “First Aid for Stroke before Transferring to the Doctor”.
However as volunteers are also involved in helping villagers with the aftermath of a stroke, including an ongoing disability and a level of paralysis, Doctor Piphat Chumkasean, a specialist in stroke rehabilitation also addressed these issues of caring for victims in the community. Stroke is recognised as a growing concern in rural areas.
The role of Village health Volunteers in understanding risk factors, early signs and rapid responses is an important aspect of their community role. Village Health Volunteers – Providing Better Health Care in Thailand Villages for Over 50 Years Village Health Volunteers are credited with a significant role in health care moving forward in Thailand. The volunteer system has helped even out inequalities in a society where wealth and medical resources are heavily concentrated in cities. Volunteers spread awareness of disease and screen for chronic illnesses. According to the World Health Organization there is “convincing evidence” that the volunteer corps, which it called the backbone of one of the world’s most successful public health systems, has helped curb many including, dengue and malaria. In campaigns against SARS, they are credited with making Thailand one of the region’s least affected countries.
The Village Health Volunteers scheme has been in place for over 50 years and was established by a Thai civil servant returning from a stint at Harvard University. Eight times as many children died in infancy when the system of volunteers commenced. Thailand now has about 12 deaths per 1,000 births, considerably below most of its neighbours. Life expectancy in Thailand was just 55 years when the volunteer system began in 1962, it is now over 70. Volunteers are respected local residents who serve voluntarily as connectors between the community and the health care providers to promote health. There are about 750,000 volunteers nation-wide, each responsible for 5 to 15 households.
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A top-of-mind concern for virtually every first-time saltwater aquarium keeper is the high price tag that can accompany marine systems. And there’s no question that the saltwater aquarium hobby can get pricey.
Every piece of equipment you shop for produces a greater state of sticker shock than the last, especially if you’re setting up a reef system. And there seems to be no end to the equipment you need to buy for even a basic fish-only setup:
- Tank and stand
- Lighting fixture
- Protein skimmer
- Quarantine system
- Sump and return pump (potentially)
- DeLorean equipped with Flux Capacitor (so you can travel back in time to a period before you were ever seized by the crazy notion to set up a saltwater tank).
The cost of marine fish and other livestock can also come as quite a shock to the newly initiated hobbyist—particularly those accustomed to the relatively low cost of freshwater specimens. Let’s face it, if you’re used to paying somewhere in the vicinity of $5 or less for “bread-and-butter” freshwater fish, having to cough up $20, $30, $40 or more for a single marine specimen can be a tough pill to swallow.
Of course, when planning your new system, you have to keep in mind not only the initial setup costs, but also those unavoidable ongoing operating expenses for items such as synthetic sea salt mix, replacement light bulbs/tubes, filtration media, water test kits, the occasional replacement heater or water pump, utility costs, etc.
But don’t let all this talk of high prices discourage you! You can enjoy a thriving marine aquarium in your home without breaking the bank! Here are five tips for trimming your expenses:
1. Start small (but not too small!)
Chris and I are big proponents of starting off with larger aquariums for the stability and margin of error they afford. But that doesn’t mean your system needs to be in the hundreds of gallons. After all, larger systems are commensurately more expensive to set up, stock, and maintain than smaller systems. Something in the 30- to 55-gallon range will not only offer an adequate degree of stability, but will also be reasonably affordable to set up and maintain.
2. Go fish-only or FOWLR
Starting with a fish-only or FOWLR (fish only with live rock) system versus a reef tank can save you hundreds if not thousands of dollars in initial and ongoing costs. Reef systems come with some significant added expenses, such as the price of the special high-intensity lighting that corals and other photosynthetic invertebrates demand (which can really give you palpitations) and the ongoing supplementation of calcium and alkalinity.
3. Buy used (but with caution)
People who are upgrading their system or getting out of the hobby are often looking to sell their used equipment. You may be able to take advantage of these circumstances to get some pretty solid deals. Do proceed with caution, however, by purchasing used items only from trustworthy sources, such as a hobbyist friend, reliable local dealer, or reputable online auction site, so you can be fairly confident the equipment isn’t damaged beyond repair or contaminated.
4. Stick with essential equipment
If you plan to purchase every high-tech gadget available and automate your system to the greatest degree possible, you can expect to part with a lot more cash than someone who’s content with a simple, low-tech system and is willing to invest a little more “elbow grease” on maintenance tasks.
5. Buy the best equipment you can afford
This point might seem counterintuitive, but it’s probably the best piece of advice we can give with respect to cutting costs. Cheap equipment invariably underperforms and/or breaks down very quickly, which means you’ll ultimately have to spend more money to replace it. But that doesn’t mean you have to buy the most expensive gear on the market, either. Research various brands, and consult with fellow hobbyists to determine which products offer the best performance for a modest price.
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OAKLAND, Calif. (KTVU and wires) -- A non-standard valve turned the wrong way caused as much as 106 cubic yards of cement -- about 12 cement trucks worth -- to be pumped into an Oakland creek Wednesday morning, local and state officials said Thursday.
Glen Echo Creek has been left a gray, sludgy mess along Clarewood Drive to Broadway Terrace. Crews dammed storm drains about a half-mile downstream and redirected the water into a sewer for treatment, but some of the cement got through and did further damage to the creek bed in the nearby Claremont Country Club.
"There's a half-mile of creek that is virtually dead," state Department of Fish and Wildlife spokesman Andrew Hughan said.
The mix is not considered toxic to humans, but at least one bird has died and another was sickened by the spill.
"The great thing about watersheds is they regenerate themselves very quickly," Hughan said, adding that the impact was further reduced by the drought. The creek was flowing much more slowly than it normally would at this time of year.
The accident happened while the East Bay Municipal Utility District was working on replacing a 2-mile-long, 1930s-era pipeline that supplied water to 13,000 homes in the Oakland hills, district spokeswoman Abby Figueroa said.
The new pipeline has already been built and is in use. Before abandoning the existing, degraded pipe, the district planned to fill it with a lightweight cement to solidify it and prevent any structural issues in the future, particularly since the pipe runs underneath the nearby Lake Temescal dam, Figueroa said.
But despite an inspector reporting the more than a dozen valves along the 24-inch-wide pipe were closed, when a subcontractor began pouring the cement, it flowed from an open valve into the creek. The valve turned in an opposite direction than most of the district's 70,000 valves, so while the inspector thought it was closed, it was in fact wide open, Figueroa said.
A neighbor in the Clarewood Townhouses noticed the cement flowing into the creek and reported it at about 11 a.m., Figueroa said. The utility district responded, halted the pumping immediately, located the open valve and closed it off by about noon.
As much as 106 cubic yards of the cement might have gotten into the creek before it was shut off. District officials had estimated this morning that up to 170 cubic yards could have flowed into the creek, but revised the estimate downward after further investigation.
The substance -- a lightweight cement with a foaming agent called "cellular cement" that dries into a spongy material -- turned the creek into a light gray goop that crews today are scooping, shoveling and vacuuming from the creek bed. The cleanup is expected to last until Monday, Figueroa said.
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Statistical Criticality arises in Maximally Informative Representations.
We show that statistical criticality, i.e. the occurrence of power law frequency distributions, arises in samples that are most informative on the underlying generative process. In order to reach this conclusion, we first identify the frequency with which different outcomes occur in a sample, as the variable carrying useful information on the generative process. This differs from the entropy of the data, that we take as a measure of resolution. The entropy of the frequency, that we call relevance, provides an upper bound to the number of informative bits. Samples that maximise relevance at a given resolution - that we call most informative samples - exhibit statistical criticality. We show how this naturally arises from the concentration property of the Asymptotic Equipartition Property. Within a thermodynamic analogy, we find that most informative representations of high dimensional data arise from a principle of minimal entropy, at odds with equilibrium statistical mechanics where the entropy is maximised. This is why, contrary to statistical mechanics, statistical criticality requires no parameter fine tuning in most informative samples. In addition, Zipf's law arises at the optimal trade-off between resolution (i.e. compression) and relevance. As a byproduct, we derive an estimate of the maximal number of parameters that can be estimated from a dataset, in the absence of prior knowledge on the generative model. We finally show how our findings can be derived from an unsupervised version of the Information Bottleneck method.
Publisher URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00249
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Throughout Europe in the renaissance personal jewelry became more elaborate. Those who could afford it hired the best craftsmen to create fanciful ornaments and household items. New styles flourished, borrowing from both the ancient world, and the Far East.
Russian Hinged Cuffs
These silver sleeve cuffs hinge open, and are fixed with a pin on the end of a loop-in-loop chain. They were a custom order, and feature lots of decorative wire andengraving.
Sterling Silver and Carved Rock Crystal
In Scotland the wearing of the tartans became emblematic of national pride, and large brooches held up all that plaid. This one is over 100mm across, and is set with a beautifully carved, smokey colored rock crystal.
18K Gold and Pearl, set with Emerald and Garnet
In Southern Europe unusually shaped pearls were fashioned into fanciful jewels. This Triton is small, but uses its pearl to great effect.
22K Gold, Tahitian Black Pearl, and Carved Emeralds
The sad story of this piece is that it was purchased as a gift, and greatly loved by the recipient, and later stolen, along with her clothing and other jewelry. If anyone sees this jewel, please contact both me and the local authorities. I would very much like to see this returned to its owner.
If you have questions about any of my work, or want to see more detailed images of any of the things you see here do not hesitate to contact me.
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Why Devotion to the Immaculate Heart Is so Crucial for Our Days
Jun 02, 2013 / Written by: America Needs Fatima
Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary is at the very core of the Fatima message. The Blessed Mother presented it as the solution to the problems of the world and to save souls from going to Hell.
Jesus Wants Devotion to the Immaculate Heart
At the third apparition, in July 1917, after the terrible vision of Hell, Our Lady presented devotion to her Immaculate Heart, together with the Communion of Reparation of the First Five Saturdays and the consecration of Russia, as the means to avoid the perdition of souls, the chastisement of a new world war and the expansion of communism.
At an earlier apparition in June, Our Lady had told Lucia, "Jesus . . . wants to establish devotion to my Immaculate Heart in the world. To those who accept it, I promise salvation and those souls will be loved by God as flowers I have placed to embellish His Throne."
Devotion of Reparation
As recommended by the Blessed Mother, this devotion is intended to make reparation for the ongoing offenses suffered by the Immaculate Heart. At the June 1917 apparition, Our Lady opened her hands, which gave off an intense light: "In front of the palm of Our Lady's right hand was a heart surrounded with thorns that appeared to be piercing it. We understood it was the Immaculate Heart of Mary, insulted by the sins of humanity, which wanted reparation."
What is the meaning of this devotion? Why should we venerate the Immaculate Heart of Mary? Given our limited space, we will detail a few aspects, rich in meaning, of this admirable devotion.
A Symbol of Our Lady's Love
From time immemorial the heart has symbolized love, the most noble of all sentiments. In relation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, it represents the Savior's redeeming love to the point of delivering Himself for us and the co-redeeming love of Mary Most Holy that is united intimately with her Divine Son's sacrifice.
Thus, the object of devotion to the Sacred Hearts is His merciful love. This is why Pope Pius XII affirmed the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus—it is fundamental. Based on his argument, theologians say the same about the Immaculate Heart of Mary: it is well understood and it is the essence of all devotion to the Blessed Mother.
Devotion to the Persons of Jesus and Mary
In addition to their specific functions, the parts of the human body serve to symbolize an aspect of a person's most salient characteristics. Thus, a perspicacious person is said to have "eagle eyes" and a very courageous man has "a lion's heart."
The same happens with devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary: it emphasizes a body part to symbolize a salient aspect of the whole adorable Person of Jesus Christ and the venerable Person of His Most Holy Mother, which is their merciful love. Devotion to these Hearts addresses therefore to the Persons of Jesus and of Mary.1
Immaculate, Most Holy, Full of Grace
The absence of any sin in a creature implies a most abundant help of grace, which would not be possible without the extraordinary help from God. This is why the Angel Gabriel greeted Mary as being "full of grace."2 Likewise, the absence of all sin implies a high degree of perfection and sanctity. Therefore, the Immaculate Heart of Mary symbolizes the hallowed purity and sanctity of Mary Most Holy and her complete fidelity to God.
The Immaculate Heart of Mary is also a dolorous heart, pierced with sorrow. Soon after the joys of the Savior's birth, at the Presentation in the Temple, the old Simeon, turning to the Mother of God, prophesied, "Behold, this child is set for the ruin, and for the resurrection of many in Israel, and for a sign which shall be contradicted. And thy own soul a sword shall pierce, that, out of many hearts thoughts may be revealed."3
Maximo Peinador, a Spanish theologian, comments:
What were the feelings of Mary's heart upon hearing the words of Simeon? They are easily guessed: her admiration and joy before the manifestation of her Son suddenly turns into bitter sorrow. The words, not only about the future of her Son but her own, were clear and definitive. But the entire and definitive fulfillment of Simeon's announcement would be realized on Calvary . . . . There, as nowhere else, Christ crucified would be a sign of contradiction . . . . At the foot of the cross, His Mother would feel the announced sword in all the fibers of her motherly heart.4
A Wise Heart
Mary Most Holy is the Mother of the Incarnate Wisdom, Jesus Christ, and for this reason she is venerated as the Seat of Wisdom. Her Immaculate Heart also is, therefore, a Wise Heart, and Catholic liturgy has applied to her, since the 8th century, texts from the Sapiential books of Scripture.5
This sapiential aspect is emphasized in the two references that Saint Luke makes to the Heart of Mary. "Heart" here is a symbol of Our Lady's interior life and of her continuous contemplation of God's marvels, particularly as manifested in her Divine Son.
The first reference is to the scene of the shepherds visiting the newborn Savior. Saint Luke comments, "But Mary kept all these words, pondering them in her heart" (Luke 2:19). The second reference is about the loss and finding of the Child Jesus in the Temple. Saint Luke repeats the same comment, with a slight difference, maintaining the same sense, "And his mother kept all these words in her heart" (Luke 2:51).
A Maternal Heart, Full of Tenderness
It would be impossible in a short article to cover all aspects of the Immaculate Heart. But one cannot fail to recall that it is a motherly Heart filled with the tenderness that the best of all mothers had for the best of all sons. This tenderness is reflected in the love, full of mercy, that she has for us; which is why we invoke her as Mater Misericordiae.
A Devotion Suited to Our Days
We find ourselves today in a time when sentiment is dying and relationships between persons are increasingly dominated by brutality, cynicism, self-interest and sensuality.
Just think of abortion! Is this not the most cruel and brutal suppression of the most noble of all affections, which is motherly love? Isn't this love often shortchanged by the attachment for a professional career or a transitory promiscuous relationship?
Isn't something similar happening to fatherly love? Isn't this tragic egoism that destroys family relationships, and thus the family itself, spreading to all other types of human relationships? Thus one understands the Blessed Mother's 1917 prophetic wisdom in Fatima when men would witness the death of sentiment.
Hence the remedy for the immense crisis we find ourselves in is devotion to that venerable and most holy Heart capable of restoring true feelings of love, affection and mercy, and the purity of which our times are so needful. The Immaculate Heart is the source, overflowing with motherly love, of the one who is "full of grace."6
- 1 The Sacred Heart of Jesus can be the object of adoration. Indeed, Pope Pius XII taught: . . . His Heart, the noblest part of human nature, is hypostatically united to the Person of the divine Word. Consequently, there must be paid to it that worship of adoration with which the Church honors the Person of the Incarnate Son of God Himself. We are dealing here with an article of faith, for it has been solemnly defined in the general Council of Ephesus and the second Council of Constantinople. Haurietis Aquas, His Holiness Pope Pius XII. Encyclical on Devotion to the Sacred Heart, May 15, 1956, 21.
- 2 Luke 1:28
- 3 Luke 2:34–35
- 4 Maximo Peinador, C.M.F., Teologia Biblica Cordimariana (Madrid : Co. Cul. S.A., 1959), 125
- 5 The books of the Scripture that teach wisdom, known as Sapiential books, are Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Wisdom and Ecclesiasticus (or Sirach).
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LELAND STANFORD JR. UNIVERSITY.
AUG 27 1900
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• Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of New York ; from January term, 1799, to January term, 1803, both inclusive; together with Cases determined in the Court for the Correction of Errors, during that period. By William Johnson, Counsellor at Law. Legum interpretes, judices : legum denique idcirco omnes servi sumus, ut liberi esse possumus.-Cicero. Vol. III., containing the cases from January term, 1802, to January term, 1803, inclusive ; with an appendix.”
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JUDGES OF THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE
STATE OF NEW YORK,
DURING THE TIME OF THE THIRD VOLUME OF THESE REPORTS.
MORGAN Lewis, Esq. Chief Justice.
Josiah OGDEN HOFFMAN, Esq., Attorney General,
resigned January 29, 1802. AMBROSE SPENCER, Esq., appointed February 3, 1802.
PREFACE TO VOL. III.
An apology is due to the public for the delay in publishing the second and third volumes of this work, a delay which has however been caused in a great degree by the amplitude of the notes.
The editor has added to this volume a number of cases selected from the MSS. of the late Hon. Jacob Radcliff, many of which have never been published before.
When the annotation of this work was undertaken, it was designed to present at length those cases which were not already public, but it has been impossible to achieve this purpose. The eminent judges who sat in the Supreme Court during the period of these reports, have passed from their earthly labors, and their unpublished opinions are inaccessible to the editor, even if they are still in existence.
No apology is required for presenting the notes of Judge Radcliff. It is true they were prepared for private and not for public use—that they vary occasionally from reported cases-that they are sometimes deficient in fullness. Yet notwithstanding these objections, they will be considered eminently serviceable for a variety of purposes, not the least of which, is a clear statement of the principle settled or affirmed in each case, by an eminent judge and most accomplished lawyer who participated in the decision. | <urn:uuid:432e590c-02af-4bdd-a2b2-42ef104c89ca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://books.google.gr/books?id=yHU4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PR6&focus=viewport&vq=%22responsible+for+the+abuse+of+that+right+%3B+and+no+laws+shall+be%22&dq=editions:LCCN19018339&lr=&hl=el&output=html_text | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.954441 | 839 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Students were promised that paying higher tuition fees would be linked to teaching quality. After all, how many of us would want to shell out top dollar for a shoddy experience?
The first cohort of students who paid higher fees in England (up to £9,000 a year) left university last summer with an average £44,000 debt. People who graduated five years earlier carried £16,200 with them. Of those who left uni last year, 70 per cent are expected to never finish paying off their loans. The debt gets written off after 30 years, but makes home ownership a distant mirage for today’s grads.
The situation is easier for students outside England: at Scottish unis, Scottish students don’t pay fees. Welsh students pay £3,810, while in Northern Ireland, Northern Irish students see fees capped at £3,925.
When fees in England were trebled, I was among the critics who believed access for the poorest teenagers would suffer.
Applications did plummet by a record amount – but have since bounced back. The demand for quality higher education has, so far, survived hikes, although caution’s required.
Is it worth it?
When I go into sixth forms to talk to students, I’m often asked whether uni is “worth it”. It wasn’t a question my friends and I ever had to ask, and ambitious kids from poor backgrounds now think twice.
The universities minister, Jo Johnson, wants to give British unis confidence to invest in teaching and research, in a savagely competitive global market. To succeed, he must persuade Theresa May to rethink her “migration” crackdown on foreign students, who, as well as adding to the nation’s academic and cultural life, pay higher fees and subsidise their classmates and professors. | <urn:uuid:260979c8-4579-4758-869e-1e3242774ef3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://inews.co.uk/opinion/comment/i-editors-letter-lesson-finance-23705 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.975161 | 381 | 1.960938 | 2 |
As temperatures continue to rise, we talk with the California Independent System Operator, which manages 80% of the state’s electricity, about how they’re preparing the power grid for heatwaves and possible blackouts. Plus, a look at what it will take to get California’s energy supply to be carbon-free by 2045 and new workplace guidelines from Cal/OSHA.
- POLITICO Policy Reporter Alex Nieves explains the new workplace guidelines approved by Cal/OSHA and when they could take effect
- California Independent System Operator President and CEO Elliot Mainzer discusses how California’s power grid is prepared for the summer and what changes have been made to prevent outages
- University of California Berkeley economics professor and Board Member at the California Independent System Operator, Severin Borenstein, on the prospect of California meeting its lofty goal of being carbon-free by 2045
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China: one of the terrible ten worst countries for workers’ rights
China makes the top ten for widespread cases abuses, workers employed in precarious work and the country’s lack of due process. Strikes and pickets are illegal and workers involved in either face threats and harassment by both employers and government officials. There’s also widespread discrimination and the chance of arrest for speaking out.
Physical attacks and threats: Workers participating in strikes and pickets faced threats and harassment by both employers and government officials throughout the country. Wide-scale abuses can be explained by the fact that there is no explicit recognition of the right to strike. Therefore, protests and strike actions are often treated as public security issues.
Criminalisation of workers at Guangzhou Chinese medicine hospital: In February 2013, nearly 200 health workers and security guards employed at the First Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine through employment agency were dismissed without prior notice and severance pay. In June 2013, the workers organised a picket at the hospital demanding severance pay. As a result, health workers were offered RMB 20,000 compensation. However, the agency that employed the security guards continued to refuse to pay severance. During the protest, workers clashed with police and were arrested. Twelve security workers were prosecuted after 4 months’ detention for “assembling a crowd to disturb public order” under Article 290 of the Criminal Law. In April 2014, the district court found all workers guilty and sentenced three workers to a 9-month imprisonment and six workers to 8-month imprisonment. Charges against the remaining three workers were dropped and they were released.
The Terrible Ten:
At the ILO conference earlier this month, the International Trade Union Confederation launched its 2015 Global Rights Index, detailing the ten worst countries for workers’ rights abuses in the world, and reporting in detail violations in those and many more. Stronger Unions is profiling one of the terrible ten each day. | <urn:uuid:6c322287-894c-48e3-be13-03a449bb942f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://strongerunions.org/2015/06/15/china-one-of-the-terrible-ten-worst-countries-for-workers-rights-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.973238 | 396 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Deep vacuum method will require you to pull vacuum down to 500 microns or less (ideally less then 200 microns to ensure no moisture at all). 3 how to vacuum down and recharge an air conditioner?
How to use a vacuum pump.
How to vacuum ac system with pump. Once the valve is open, let your vacuum. Also, water 'boils' in a vacuum, so all the moisture is removed from the system. The pump pulls all of the air out of the system.
In order to accomplish this, several different styles of pumps are used in a typical system, each covering a portion of the pressure range, and operating in series at times. Hook up the refrigerant gauge manifold set. This applies to the newer r134a refrigerant systems as well as the older r12 systems.it is no.
Cleaning the system with a suction pump or installing another refrigerator in the ac system and reinstalling it. The hose is attached, in simplified terms, to the port that is found in the middle of the gauges. Yes, you have two options:
Repeat steps 2 and 3. Shutting off the vacuum pump. 1) firstly we need to ensure the unit already switch off before we start evacuation procedure.connect manifold gauge to the system.the low pressure hose ( blue hose ) connect to service port 3 way valve and service hose ( yellow hose ) connect to vacuum pump.
It’s very easy just follow some steps. Let your vacuum run at full operating speed for at least 15 minutes and up to 30 to completely pull the air out of your ac system. Air conditioning vacuum pump is used to remove unwanted air and water vapor from the air conditioning system when it is under service.
Get the pump and use the vacuum oil. Depress the access valves, lower the pressure on the low side, and close the high side access valve. An air powered ac vacuum pump can work as long as you pay attention to the pump’s cfm and psi requirements.
Safety tips for making a vacuum pump. Once the valve is open, let your vacuum run at full speed for 15 to 30 minutes to pull out as much air. Disconnect pressure from the high side valve.
Don’t think you can fill the tank and run it until the motor kicks in. The vacuum pump should be shut off as the next step. To use a vacuum pump on an air conditioner, first, turn the pump on and open the side gauge valve, which will allow the vacuum to start pulling air out of your system.
If you are working and you want vacuum your ac but you do not have vacuum pump so how can you vacuum without a vacuum pump? Create a hole on the case. Locate the low and high ends of the system, install an access valve on each, and charge it to 14 psi.
To use a vacuum pump on an air conditioner, first, turn the pump on and open the side gauge valve, which will allow the vacuum to start pulling air out of your system. The exact amount of time you will need to let your vacuum run will vary based on your manufacturer’s recommendations, so check any operational manuals you may have for both your ac system and vacuum pump. Discharge pipe connect with outdoor and suction pipe will be open and discharge l key valve will be open and suction l key valve will be close.
2 how to vacuum car ac system without pump. Attach pvc hose with barb. Depress the ac system’s access valves.
> atmosphere to 1 torr. Most air powered ac vacuum pumps require at least continuous 4.5 cfm at 90 psi to work properly. This step is very important in vacuuming the ac system.
2) switch on the vacuum pump and open the valve for low side of manifold gauge.we can see the needle at pressure gauge. A vacuum pump is connected to the yellow hose of a manifold gauge set. After you come to that point, you can use the same switch that you used to turn on and close.
When the air conditioner needs to be repaired, the first step taken is usually to recover the refrigerant from the system for reuse later. It can help if you do not take the vacuum option lightly but often clean the dust and moisture of the unit. Install an access valve on each end of the air conditioner system to vacuum it without a pump.
If it contains the vacuum, there are no leakages, turn the blue valve on the gauges closed, and refrigerant can be released to the system. It helps maintain the vacuum even after the pump shuts down. Safety tips for using a vacuum pump…
These vacuum pumps require a continuous supply of air at that cfm and psi rating the entire time you’re evacuating the system. You should do this when you are completely satisfied with the time duration that your system was able to hold the vacuum. Proper way to pull a vacuum from a discharged auto ac system.
Get the pump and use the vacuum oil. This is enough time period to get rid of moisture and dust inside the ac system. Connect your vacuum gauge as far from the vacuum pump as possible, preferably on the system.
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Marina Yurlova was born in a small village in the Caucasus mountains in 1901.
When she was fourteen years old she joined the Russian Army. At first she worked as a groom in Armenia but after two months was sent to fight the Turkish Army.
In 1916 she was wounded again and after suffering a complete mental breakdown, was placed in an asylum in Omsk. In 1919 she was released and managed to emigrate to the United States.
Marina Yurlova published two autobiographies, Cossack Girl (1934) and Russia Farewell (1936).
I am not exaggerating when I say that I felt no remorse and no fear. I was a Cossack. As with my companions, so with me it was a blind instinct to follow men to war. And beside that, to me - caught up in all this violence and carried helplessly along - here was an adventure, the sort of adventure I had dreamed about.
There is scarcely a town or school in Russia from which boys have not run away to the war. Hundreds of girls have gone off in boys' clothes and tried to pass themselves off as boys and enlist as volunteers, and several have got through, since the medical examination is only a negligible formality required in one place, forgotten in another; the Russians are so fit as a whole. So among the wounded in the battle of the Nieman was a broad-shouldered, vigorous girl from Zlato-Ust, only sixteen years old, and nobody had dreamed that she was other than the man whom she was passing herself off. But not only boys and girls of sixteen and seventeen, but children of eleven and twelve have contrived to have a hand either in the fighting or in the nursing. | <urn:uuid:82d75019-4e5f-496d-976f-bfa3d42d6e5e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://spartacus-educational.com/FWWyurlova.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.98646 | 358 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Virtual tubing model analysis optimizes catheter design to help engineers reach final design freeze faster and shorten time to market.
As medical procedures become more complex, engineers are challenged to develop smaller, thinner-walled catheters to keep pace with high-performance clinical demands. Conventional catheter prototyping relies on a manual, time-consuming trial-and-error process involving multiple rounds of material procurement, prototype assembly and bench testing. A virtual simulator simplifies the catheter design process but is still time-consuming and has resource challenges.
Using a virtual tubing model analysis – such as Integer’s proprietary Virtual Tubing Model software (VTM) – dramatically decreases the time and resources needed for physical prototyping. With VTM, complex multilayer braided composite tubes can be modeled in minutes, compared to using 3D CAD modeling programs that may take hours and consume valuable time.VTM is a fast, easy-to-use software modeling program that predicts the performance of catheter shafts for single lumen constructions with one or more material layers, and with or without braid reinforcement.
Here are three ways the Virtual Tubing Model software helps speed catheter design:
1. Rapid design modeling
With VTM, engineers can quickly model design options to predict kink radius, bending (lateral) stiffness, linear stiffness, torsional stiffness and hoop strength. Various design options can be modeled and overlaid in graphical form for each performance attribute, allowing engineers to analyze the graphs simultaneously to determine which design delivers optimal performance and any tradeoffs.
For example, an engineer may want to maximize kink response, but doing so may greatly reduce the torque response of the shaft. Knowing the tradeoffs in advance is crucial to developing a catheter shaft that delivers optimal performance.
2. Adaptable design optionsVTM allows engineers to model up to 10 unique layers, both braided and non-braided. The model can accommodate almost any polymer and braid material, requiring only the tensile modulus, Poisson’s ratio and ultimate tensile strength as inputs. Braid patterns from 4 to 48 wires can be modeled with almost any braid wire material, including stainless steel, nitinol, tungsten, platinum, non-metallic monofilaments and many other metals.
3. Design for Manufacturability (DFM) analysisUtilize VTM to run and graph a series of models at different pic counts to quickly determine which option delivers optimal manufacturability. In the flexural stiffness chart, check out how a catheter engineer created an initial design for a microcatheter and requested a pic count of 160 ppi to minimize the bending stiffness of the catheter shaft. A series of VTM models were run at different pic counts and graphed. The data showed that a pic count in the 120 ppi range delivered optimal flexibility. This lower pic count took less time to braid and required less braid wire. It enhanced overall manufacturability and helped save time and resources.
Based on a 20-year history of optimizing catheter designs, Virtual Tubing Model software is one of the most effective tools available today to predict prototype performance. The ability to create and overlay multiple reports for different design iterations allows engineers to identify performance patterns and pinpoint an optimal design more quickly. The result is significantly fewer prototype iterations to reach final design freeze and enhanced speed of new product delivery to market.
Michael Holt is technical solutions director at Integer (Frisco, Texas). Holt has more than 20 years experience in the design and development of complex catheter based devices. He holds a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from the University of Tennessee. | <urn:uuid:332fcbcd-19da-4798-b417-6331bc890ddc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com/virtual-tubing-model-analysis-integer/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.900572 | 751 | 2.140625 | 2 |
January 23, 2021
The city council has established the City of Lee’s Summit Commission for Diversity and Inclusion. Its 15 members will be meeting over the next 18 months to assess the current state of diversity and inclusion in Lee’s Summit – both actual and perceived – and draft a vision statement and five-year action plan that will be reviewed by the city council.
The commission’s vision statement and action plan are intended to help the city and Lee’s Summit community “fully realize the promise of equality provided by the principles espoused in our nation’s founding documents.” Their findings will also support the work of the city’s Human Relations Commission and their longer-term aims.
The initiative was first introduced by Mayor Bill Baird at his state of the city address in September 2019.Listen > Video
Since then, the council has discussed how to form the commission and what their specific goals should be at both legislative and work sessions.
Councilmembers had raised concerns about how broad the scope of the commission should be and about how to appoint members. The council agreed that only Lee’s Summit residents should be appointed to the commission and that they should equally represent all four council districts.
Baird said he was inspired to move forward with the commission in the second half of 2020 after George Floyd’s May 2020 death at the hands of police officers in Minneapolis and the protests that followed, hoping to get the city itself involved in broader community conversations about race.
But some councilmembers wondered whether the commission should also consider other facets of diversity and inclusion, such as sex, sexual orientation, disability, religion, or age.
The resolution establishing the commission includes the broader scope, stating that a diverse and inclusive community is welcome to all, “regardless of (including, but not limited to) race, sex, sexual identification or lack thereof, preference or orientation, familial status, disability, religion, age, color, national origin or ancestry.”
“We need help with these conversations,” Baird said at their Jan. 21 session.
The resolution was passed unanimously by the city council. Councilmember Diane Forte was absent.
The appointed members are all residents of Lee’s Summit and represent each of the city’s four council districts. They include Dale Beasley, Rachel Courtney, Allan Gray, Fred Grogan, Melanie Harding, Lorenzo Harrison, Barb Henson, Levi Holland, Sharon Ivy, Saadia Mahmood, Ben Martin, Claudia Meyer, Bryce Presley, Karen Schuler, and Susan Wilson. | <urn:uuid:df617e0c-12ae-4a03-81da-9d184146439e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lstribune.net/index.php/2021/01/23/diversity-and-inclusion-commission-created/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.943236 | 539 | 1.84375 | 2 |
In Pennsylvania, a contract is different from a normal agreement in that the parties to a contract intend their agreement to have legal effect. Contracts might be oral or written, as long as both parties have the same understanding of the terms of the agreement. A written contract is usually preferred by most businesses, because that make the agreements more reliable. Contracts may involve legal principles, so they are best formed with a clear understanding of the law.
Negotiating a Contract in Somerset
Along with particular clauses that should be included in every Somerset contract for it to be valid, it is important to adequately discuss each term to make sure that the intent of each party is understood by the other. Stating intentions clearly in the early stages of negotiations can lead to a contract that includes clearer terms. To conclude, the contracts that are easiest to enforce have clauses that decide how to handle disputes.
Using a Form Contract
If an agreement needs a good starting point, you may want to consider a form contract. An attorney in Somerset,Pennsylvania can add or remove clauses according to the intent of the parties, and even the specific language can be made more comprehensible so that expectations are clear. If the parties attempt to use a form contract without an attorney's advice, there may be risks. First, using a form contract makes it more likely that one of the parties will not have understood the clauses. This can lead to them being unaware of their duties under the contract. Second, form contracts will often contain language that is difficult to understand outside the legal community. This can cause disagreement over the meaning of a clause. Whether you decide to negotiate a contract or use a form contract, an attorney will be able to help you ensure that the written instrument matches your intent. Many lawyers practicing in Somerset are experts of Pennsylvania contract law. | <urn:uuid:5ece28d5-4a51-4c02-bf1f-f84a59ab277e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://businessattorneys.legalmatch.com/PA/Somerset/contract-drafting.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.964492 | 363 | 1.789063 | 2 |
A Seat at the Table
By Zach Mortice
February 3, 2020
To design affordable housing in African American neighborhoods, architects navigate class, race, identity, and community in a privatized system. But can things get better?
Early in the development of the Ruth Ellis Clairmount Center in Detroit, an LGBTQ+ affordable housing and outreach center that focuses on young people of color, Jack Schroeder, AIA, of Landon Bone Baker (LBB) knew there would be an arts component to the mostly residential project, but he wasn’t quite clear on what form it would take.
During these conversations, people kept talking about “balls.” “Debutante balls?” he wondered. Not quite. Instead, the community needed a space to prepare for and mount exhibitions that are fashion shows with elements of dance, where participants design and tailor their own clothes, and strut a runway in them. Emanating out of the minority LGBTQ+ community of New York City and documented by the 1991 movie “Paris is Burning”, these balls are radically creative expressions of identity and sexuality from an intensely marginalized people. “It was totally new to me,” says Schroeder. “It’s kind of amazing.”
So, the building LBB designed featured a large ground-floor town hall and lobby area, generous enough to work as a gathering and event space. There’s an in-house salon for balls (and job training), as well as an art and dance studio on the fourth floor.
Community members at the Ruth Ellis Clairmount Center understand that the wider neighborhood might not feel the same way about showcasing non-heteronormative identities as they do, and as such, the balls are often presented as private events for the community, and that has specific architectural requirements. The town hall is two stories tall, with a second-floor interior residential hall partially visible through the lobby. Here, the glass is treated with an opaque glazing from the bottom to top, making only silhouettes visible. The Ruth Ellis Clairmount Center wanted to broadcast activity and vitality, but perhaps not who was wearing what on their way to the runway, or their apartment. To obscure the identity of a taller trans woman in heels, for example, this section of glass “can’t be 5 foot 6 inches,” says Schroeder—it needs to be taller.
It’s one granular detail that addresses client and context with simple architectonic solutions, and its apparent novelty speaks to the extent to which these clients have been boxed out of development and investment cycles by racism and homophobia. It’s also a reminder that architects, especially when working with marginalized people, need to ask questions, listen, and push themselves beyond their own lived experiences in order to help grow communities organically, with deference to existing institutions, formal and informal. Developed by Full Circle Communities, the project will cost approximately $15 million and will provide 35 housing units.
The key community units at the Ruth Ellis Clairmount Center are what’s called “families of choice,” and they inform nearly every element of the facility’s architecture. One of the main goals of the project, to begin construction in the spring, is to address the incredible amount of housing insecurity LGBTQ+ youth face. (A recent University of Chicago study found that they’re more than twice as likely to be homeless as non-LGBTQ+ peers). The building will target people ages 18–25, most of whom will require a documented history of homelessness to get to move in; their rent will be deeply subsidized by tax credits. These “families of choice” are peer-based networks of support that step in when youth are estranged from their nuclear and extended families. “It’s literally a structured family, and the alliances within that family [are] intensely strong and fierce, also highly emotional and volatile, like any real family,” says Jerry Peterson, the center’s executive director. “You literally have aunties, mothers, grandmas, and uncles. If they have a space, they’re going to bring in 5–6 people from their family, and they’re going to get evicted.”
The project’s funding structures didn’t allow for purely communal living. So LBB designed small units with a just a few key shared community spaces, like the second-floor kitchen and community room, and the thirdfloor fitness area and lounge. The ground floor will also contain a health clinic, as well as a full commercial kitchen and entrepreneurship center, for job training programs.
Given the epidemic levels of violence that LGBTQ+ communities see, ensuring security was one of Schroeder’s primary design problems. (Nearly half of bisexual women have been raped, and 53% of transgender African Americans have been sexually assaulted, according to the Human Rights Campaign.)
The main entrance of the building is located as close to the street and public transit as possible, and circulation patterns allow for a series of security checkpoints and visual connection to the entries. From the main entrance, residents can immediately split off and access secure residential floors separately, away from more public functions on the ground floor. These considerations are a necessity, says Brandi Smith, a trans woman of color who grew up with the program as a teenager, and now works at Ruth Ellis Clairmount Center. People in her community “don’t have a safe haven to go if they have to do survival sex work,” she says. Fewer steps to a door that locks could save the lives of “girls that may have to run from a john.”
These aren’t concerns most architecture clients worry about, and it was an adjustment for Schroeder and his team. “There are moments where we haven’t gotten there along the way, and they’ve let us know, ‘That still doesn’t feel right,’ and after the fourth [or] fifth iteration, we’re getting to a point where it feels safe, but still open.”
For an anecdotal, but still typical, illustration of the need for affordable housing in African American neighborhoods, consider that developer Torrey Barrett received 1,000 applications for the 58 units at his KLEO Art Residences on Chicago’s South Side. Eighty percent of the units are subsidized, targeted to Chicagoans making 60% of the area median income, and they drew applicants from across the city, even the affluent North Side. Opened in September, the residences are an offshoot of founder Barrett’s KLEO Community Family Life Center, which focuses on anti-violence and education work. Its goal is to “eradicate violence by bringing opportunity to a population that’s less fortunate,” Barrett says.
Marketed to creative people (and developed by Brinshore), Barrett estimates that more than half of KLEO’s residents work in the arts. David Anthony Geary, a painter and muralist, was one of the lucky ones. Getting an apartment ended more than a year of couch-surfing and sleeping in his studio. “This made it possible to be able to keep my studio,” he says. “I couldn’t let go of my studio, because that’s my primary source of income.” His new apartment building also gave him a project. He painted a mural in the lobby depicting five inspirational South Side women who work in the arts, each in a neon hue.
The making and exhibition of art informs much of the building’s design, by local firm JGMA. Each floor is color coded, with elevator lobby furniture and art by local artists. (One photo collage posits legends of black liberation as 1980s-hip-hop b-boys: James Baldwin in an Adidas tracksuit, Frederick Douglas in Nikes). There are three ground-floor studios for artists, with plywood walls and glass garage doors. “It’s meant to be [a] street market, where you can put your art [outside] and sell it, and make the building more permeable,” says JGMA founder and president Juan Moreno, AIA.
Moreno hopes the crush of people from all over the city vying to get into KLEO might erode Chicago’s entrenched segregation a bit, but understands it’s also indicative of how little affordable housing there is. How much agency do architects really have to change this? “The truthful answer is, I don’t know,” says Moreno. “It’s such a complex and difficult question. As a designer, what I hope is that the buildings become an extension of what’s already there.”
Art, as a signifier of cultural ownership and history, is similarly the focus of Midtown Public Square in Seattle, a mixed-income residential development that will offer 428 units, 30% of which will be affordable, targeted at residents making 60% to 80% of the area median income. These subsidies are financed by tax exemptions that incentivize the development of affordable housing, deployed in the Central District neighborhood that’s been subject to severe gentrification and displacement. In the 1960s and ’70s, the Central District was more than 70% African American. Since then, tech money has flooded the entire city, pushing African Americans out, and today the Central District is less than 20% black.
The building is being developed by Lake Union Partners, which primarily focuses on market-rate housing, and designed by the Seattle-based Weinstein A+U. They’ve taken a strong interest in the Central District and have completed several projects in the area. Covering 4 acres and centered on the intersection of 23rd and Union, the projects are located at the historic heart of Seattle’s African American community, near where the first black-owned bank in the Pacific Northwest was founded.
Patrick Foley of Lake Union Partners says the question that guided this project was: “What little part can we do to help restore some of that lost culture?”
The answer has been to commission a building that best represents the community. Determining the best ways to curate and present this art took many rounds of sensitive community feedback. “There was a recognition early on that an all-white design team, even if we did our best to understand the community and respond thoughtfully, might be missing critical insight, [and] we weren’t going to be carrying much weight with the community,” says Weinstein A+U’s Davila Parker-Garcia, the building’s architect.
So her firm brought in African American architect Rico Quirindongo, AIA, of Seattle’s DLR Group to make sure the public had a conduit to the design team they felt comfortable with, and could advocate for their interests. “The community wanted to ensure that, while this property is being privately developed, it was a place [where] the public and the African American community would still have a seat at that table,” he says.
As such, much of the feedback the architects got from the public was focused on making its quasi-public spaces, like its courtyard, as public as possible, and accessible beyond residents of the building. “There was a worry that if the neighborhood wasn’t really allowed to stake a significant claim on that space, it could eventually just get gated off,” Parker-Garcia says.
Public art is used as a signpost to welcome people into the space, which will be filled with small black-owned businesses that get a discount on rent. Throughout, lighting installations and murals will beckon visitors into the courtyard. One series of murals will feature interpretative takes on “faces of the community,” stretched across five stories, says Quirindongo. “[That was] in response to the community saying they wanted to literally see themselves on this project.”
After initially purchasing a larger parcel for Midtown Public Square, Lake Union Partners sold 20% of the site to the Central District’s minority-owned Africatown Community Land Trust to develop more affordable housing, but that project still has not broken ground, though Midtown Public Square is already under construction. “The minority development immediately adjacent, which is one-fifth its size, only recently received funding, which puts it two years behind the development of the rest of the block. There is not parity, and it doesn’t speak well to how development is happening in the neighborhood.”
It’s a disparity that’s prompted him to ask: “What is the percentage of affordable units that should be a part of these developments? What is the public role in evaluation of projects? What’s the push-pull between public input and private developers being able to do what they need to get the value that they’re looking for? It’s a delicate balance.”
For Lake Union Partners, Foley says that few local developers or nonprofits make the sorts of voluntary commitments to affordability and cultural history that his firm is making. “We’re taking concrete steps to welcome people back to the neighborhood who left 10, 20, 30 years ago,” he says.
But there’s no reason to believe the hundreds of new market-rate units his company has brought online won’t further gentrify the area.
And that’s the contradiction that architects like Quirindongo face when trying to design and build affordable housing. They’re obligated to represent the community, but with the widespread and ongoing privatization of public housing, the community is not the ultimate client. “It’s not an easy thing to say ‘The community would like more open space,’ because open space does not necessarily create more cashflow for a developer,” says Kimberly Dowdell, AIA, 2019–2020 National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) president. Dowdell says successfully building affordable housing requires “tri-sector collaboration”: a public mandate, private money, and nonprofit administration and services. “In the current system, architects have agency to articulate solutions that a developer could take or not take,” she says. “We don’t want to see anyone get displaced, but unfortunately that’s the reality of the situation. The question becomes: How can we deploy tri-sector problem-solving to close those gaps as much as we can?”
For grassroots activists on the ground, that’s not good enough. Naomi Davis, founder of Blacks in Green, a sustainable community development nonprofit on Chicago’s South Side, decries how privatized development of affordable housing and the tax credit system hands responsibility to private companies. “That’s not working for black people,” she says.
One particular way the current system of affordable housing development fails marginalized communities, she says, is by focusing almost exclusively on rentals at the expense of ownership. “Black people need to own their own communities,” she says. “We’re here to build black wealth, period. If the federal government is paying $5,100 a month to rent an apartment, they could pay $5,100 dollars a month to pay a mortgage.”
Davis is working towards remedying this wealth gap in her own community of Woodlawn, which is subject to rising gentrification pressure as the completion of the Obama Presidential Center looms on the horizon. She’s been working with Michael Sorkin on his Greenfill: House as Garden model of infill housing. Davis intends to refine this model into an owner-occupied four-flat apartment building with three renters. Made from mass timber, and with deep setbacks for daylighting, Greenfill: House as Garden addresses wealth inequalities and resilience in the face of a climate change crisis that will imperil America’s most marginalized and vulnerable citizens first, namely Davis’s neighbors. It would offer a “homesteading” program, she says; orchards, vegetable gardens, and root cellars, “because we believe we are heading into a firestorm. We believe that there’s going to be a time when the truck don’t come.” For many African Americans, especially those struggling to find affordable housing, these kinds of structural deprivations are already here, and will increase as climate change destabilizes everything. For example, at least 14% of public housing units will be inundated and destroyed by climate change before the century is over, according to the Urban Institute and the Furman Center. The question at hand is how prepared our current system of housing development, with its compromises and diffused accountability, is to handle that.
And many architects working in affordable housing don’t think we can deal with today’s housing crisis—let alone tomorrow’s—in the current policy regime. One potential solution is the Green New Deal, whose proponents have seized on housing as a key lever, just as New Dealers did generations before. “I think that means there is a direct investment in housing by various levels of government, as it used to be,” Sorkin says. “A sensitive government working with good architects could definitely pull it off. We could do it.” | <urn:uuid:7f057dd4-eae8-4582-8636-6434285a20d8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fccommunities.org/a-seat-at-the-table/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.965964 | 3,639 | 1.929688 | 2 |
Kent faces another cold blast with snow expected to fall across the UK this week.
The UK has been battered by Storm Arwen in recent days, with gale-force winds and snow storms causing damage and disruption across the country.
Some parts of the UK - particularly in the north but also in parts of the south - were covered in snow on Saturday and Sunday (November 27 and 28).
The Met Office issued several yellow warnings for ice across the UK as the freezing conditions caused widespread havoc, according to the Express.
But any hopes of a return to warmer weather will be dashed with forecasters and weather charts revealing a freezing Arctic blast will send temperatures tumbling.
An area of North East Scotland will drop to a minimum temperatures of -3C on Wednesday (December 1), with much of the country also dropping below freezing.
This bitter snap quickly spreads throughout the UK during the course of the day, with lows of -2C in large parts of Northern England.
On Thursday morning, most of the UK map turns icy blue again as the mercury plunges to lows of -9C in Central Scotland and below freezing across nearly all of the rest of the UK.
The freezing Arctic blast smashing into the nation will also mark the return of snow.
This icy blast quickly spreads throughout the UK during the course of Thursday morning, with large parts of the nation set to be blanketed in snowfall.
The same area of Scotland is set to be covered in 9cm on snow, increasing to 10cm early on Friday.
Meanwhile, Central Scotland will see 4cm of snow on Thursday afternoon, up to 3cm falling between the Midlands and the North West, while northern and southern areas of England are also at high risk of snowfall.
The Weather Outlook's Brian Gaze said cold Arctic air will make a return southwards during Wednesday and Thursday, with a "widespread frost" likely and showers "increasingly" turning wintry.
He warned heading into Friday, weather fronts will rush in from the Atlantic that could trigger snow in central and northern parts of the UK.
Mr Gaze told the Express: "After a milder interlude cold Arctic air will return southwards during Wednesday and Thursday.
"Quite a widespread frost is likely on Thursday morning and showers increasingly turn wintry, particularly in the north.
"Through Thursday night and Friday it looks as though weather fronts will push in from the Atlantic bringing outbreaks of rain which could be preceded by a period of snow in central and northern parts of Britain.
"Over high ground there is the possibility of significant accumulations."
Netweather senior forecaster Jo Farrow said: "Colder air moves in from the northwest on Tuesday night to all but the far SE of Britain.
"It does turn colder here by day but much colder for Scotland by Wednesday evening and a widespread frost overnight.
"A real chill for Thursday morning with that north wind.
"The winds do ease through the day and again it turns very cold at night, more frost for Britain.
"An occluding front moves in from the west and will come up against that cold air, so that could be interesting by Friday morning, particularly for the high ground of NW England and Scotland but not exclusively
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49-2026 Nelson Mandela and the Anti-Apartheid Movement
There are times when specific people, places and moments in history capture the imagination of the world. This occurs when that specificity speaks volumes to the human condition and offers lessons that we all sense are important. Such has been the case with Nelson Mandela and South Africa. This course will use Mandela and the evolution of, and struggle against, apartheid as a window into some of the 20th century’s most complex issues such as colonialism, civil disobedience, cultural resistance, freedom, racial theories, election processes, post-war negotiations and social justice. Pre-Requisite: Composition I | <urn:uuid:20124991-7426-4cfa-9be6-d2c126a98c92> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://catalog.colum.edu/preview_course_nopop.php?catoid=5&coid=20430 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.92844 | 218 | 1.867188 | 2 |
AUSTIN, TX — Lawmakers in Austin are asking for public input ahead of redrawing voting district lines in 2021.
New state and federal voting district lines are drawn every 10 years, according to Census data.
However, due to a June Supreme Court decision, which bars challenges to partisan gerrymandering, legislators will draw new lines without Federal oversight.
In 2011, a Federal court ruled that Texas had unfairly drawn district lines disadvantaging racial minorities.
But, with Federal oversight removed from the process in 2021, A&M Central Texas Professor Dr. Jeffrey Dixon says that more district lines will be even more susceptible to political influence.
"For example, Austin is represented by six different districts. Many of which have large rural areas attached to them, so that the Austin vote is diluted considerably," Dr. Dixon said.
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Jerri James, CDT, a dentaltechnician at CenTex Dental Lab in Waco, Texas, can hardly remember a time before Wonderfill. Hard-pressed to say exactly how long she’s been using it in her lab, she can’t imagine going back to how things were before.
“We’ve been using it for at least 10 years,” she says. “I’m not really sure how long, because it’s just made the years since we began using it so much more treamlined. I would never go back to before.”
Priding herself on the quality of her work, James has found Wonderfill to be a reliable way to create perfect, well-fitting finished products. Premixed and easy to form, Wonderfill acts as a quick-use tongue-and-void filler that saves labs time and money, by quickly and easily creating more accurate and better-looking models—a huge departure from the days of alginate tongue fillers or plaster and stone models without a filler. Although Wonderfill can also be used for bleaching trays, James primarily uses it as a void filler for the lower tongue area and to fill in bubbles, air pockets, undercuts, and spaces left by missing teeth.
“The big benefit is we aren’t doing the old boxing method for models,” James says. “Wonderfill blocks out all undercuts and makes a neater looking model. It’s a complete turnaround from the years past. When I went to lab school to learn how to box a model, we didn’t have all this. All we had was boxing models with wax—and this is definitely the way to go over that.”
With the boxing technique, which required extra steps such as pouring wax, James found the process took 20 to 30 minutes. With Wonderfill, she says it takes maybe 5 minutes to get it prepped and ready to pour. After a lower impression is taken, the tongue area is filled with Wonderfill. Once the plaster is poured and set, Wonderfill is easily removed for a clean, generally residue-free model.
“Residue depends a bit on the consistency,” James says. “Occasionally, you’ll get a situation where it sticks to the model, but not very often. [Dental Creations] finally has it perfected where it rarely does. But, in the off chance it does, it is water soluble so it washes right off perfectly—no matter what.”
This also means less of a mess. There’s no messy alginate tongue filler to mix and clean up, and technicians won’t be faced with the dust caused by grinding out stone, as Wonderfill eliminates the need for both of those methods.
“It’s too easy not to use,” James says. “It’s less mess, because you don’t have the big cleanup that you would when you pour a regular model or are boxing a model.”
Another benefit James touts is Wonderfill’s cost-effectiveness. In addition to being inexpensive, James says, Wonderfill is reusable, should technicians want to reuse it. Because it comes premixed and has a long shelf life, a little bit can go a long way, which is especially important when a lab uses it as much as James does.
“To me, it’s a perfect add,” she says. “When we go out to doctor’s offices [for] a job there, we take a bucket of it with us so we have it there to use. We wouldn’t go without it.”
Overall, James is hard-pressed to come up with any Wonderfill shortcomings. She’s had a great experience with not only the product but also with Dental Creations, and she says the company is easy to work with and simple to get a hold of. For labs that haven’t used Wonderfill yet, James has 1 piece of advice.
“They need to try it,” she says. “ Once they try it, they’ll see it makes your product look so much nicer. It makes a better-looking product to send back to the doctor’s office. We care about what we send out, so we want our product to look nice. Wonderfill just makes a world of difference.”
Designed to work as a tongue and void filler to fill in bubbles, air pockets, missing teeth, and undercuts, Wonderfill can also be used with a bleaching tray. It reportedly eliminates grinding out stone from lower impressions and there is no need to mix alginate filler. Wonderfill holds up under heat when making heat-shrink retainers and is said to enhance the fit of appliances and bleaching trays.
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Most people have heard of natural healing and have at least a vague idea of what it’s about. Natural healers use herbs and vitamins, don’t they?
Not many are aware of the deep roots of naturopathic medicine, and its formal, ancient, time-proven basic principles.
Naturopathic Medicine is based on five ideas about the most healthy, lastingly effective way to treat the ailing human body.
- Naturopathic Medicine revolves around the idea that nature has its own healing power (known in Latin as Vis Medicatrix Naturae).
- Naturopathic medicine seeks to identify and treat the true underlying cause of an illness (Tolle Causam – “Treat the Cause [not only the symptoms]”).
- Naturopathic physicians are committed to do no harm (Primum Non Nocere – “Above All, Do Not Cause Harm”).
- The naturopathic physician is a teacher (Docere) who helps the patient understand the underlying causes and treatment of their ailment, so that they can take steps to prevent a recurrence.
- And finally, naturopathy treats the whole person.
These principles are fundamental to understanding naturopathic medicine as a system for healing and transforming our lives.
In an earlier article, I talked about the transformational power of Spirit, and the tremendous healing power of nature. It almost goes without saying that for transformation to occur, we must treat the whole person. For a very long time, Western medicine has leaned toward treating symptoms – if the patient has a headache, hand him a bottle of aspirin. Fortunately, that’s beginning to change, as medicine increasingly understands that headaches can have many causes, including generalized life stress, etc.
The principle I’d like to discuss today is Tolle Causam – treating the underlying causes of physical discomfort, malaise, and serious illness.
A fundamental flaw of conventional medicine as practiced today is the tendency to treat the headache without regard to the underlying cause (stress, diet, brain trauma, etc.) Within naturopathy, we are committed to looking for and treating the underlying cause of the disease, as the first step to achieving a lasting solution.
If a symptom is successfully addressed, but the underlying cause is left unattended, real transformation cannot occur.
Let’s consider some examples.
- If the underlying cause of a uterine fibroid is an issue with estrogen metabolism, the disease state cannot be transformed by surgically removing the fibroids. The estrogen excess or error in estrogen metabolism will simply cause new fibroids to grow, or will wreak havoc on other estrogen-sensitive tissues. The cause of the estrogen excess may be an inadvertent intake of exogenous hormones, or an inborn error of metabolism, or an interaction between other hormones and the ovarian hormones. This is what we need to discover and address if we would hope to achieve a lasting resolution.
- Treating a bacterial illness with an indicated antibiotic will possibly eradicate the bacteria, but it will not address the body’s susceptibility to the offending microorganism. The body’s receptivity to the microorganism may involve environmental factors, underlying food sensitivities or environmental allergies, iron or B12 anemia, subclinical thyroid function, low vitamin D, or a host of other issues, all of which must be addressed before we can transform the body into a less hospitable host for the undesirable microorganism.
- The conventional medical response to knee pain is often a prescription for a painkiller. However, the knee pain may be the result of a simple misalignment, possibly caused by postural issues, or overuse, or a reactivity to vegetables of the nightshade family, or an overly acidic body condition, or a lack of essential fatty acids in the diet. Addressing these causative factors can truly change the situation, resulting in lasting transformation.
- Prescribing iron supplementation without determining the cause of the iron-deficient anemia is a band-aid approach. Iron deficiency may be a result of insufficient intake, or lack of absorption, or loss of iron through an as-yet unidentified blood loss or disease process.
- Giving a statin prescription for high cholesterol ignores dietary and other lifestyle contributions to a disordered lipid profile. It also fails to address thyroid function and liver function, two major contributors to high lipids. (Never mind the side effects that are created when other bodily functions are disrupted by the medication given to change a lab value.)
It’s easy to find innumerable examples of medicines that are widely prescribed to suppress symptoms without addressing the true cause. Any of these medicines may provide welcome symptomatic relief. Which is not to say that symptomatic relief isn’t appropriate or indicated, but it is never transformational. And as naturopathic physicians, transformational medicine is what we’re about.
Find out more about Dr. Connie Hernandez’s work HERE.
To make an appointment at Pacific Naturopathic in Mountain View, CA, give us a call:
The Hernandez Center
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Middlebury recognizes that some members of our community use names other than their legal names to identify themselves.
One way Middlebury seeks to promote comfort and safety among those who wish to do this is through a name procedure in BannerWeb, where students, faculty, and staff may now indicate their lived/chosen first name regardless of whether or not they have legally changed their name.
Lived/chosen names are names people choose for themselves that feel more reflective of their identity. Legal names are also known as dead names, because people should no longer be addressed as such.
Individuals are free to update their lived/chosen names in the BannerWeb system provided that it is not for the purpose of misrepresentation (using inappropriate names or using the process to avoid a legal obligation). Lived/chosen first names that differ from an individual’s legal name will be used solely for Middlebury’s internal systems. In addition, individuals will be able to indicate their gender pronouns (he, she, they, he/they, she/they, etc.) and name prefix (Mr., Ms., Mx., etc.).
How It Works
Students can enter a chosen first name and gender pronoun to be used in select places on campus. Legal names will always appear on all external reports and official documents and will only be changed when students pursue a legal name change with their home state and/or federal authorities. Chosen names, gender pronouns, and name prefixes will appear on class rosters and advisee lists for students who specify them. Students who wish to do this are encouraged to do so early in the semester so that the correct information appears on the final course roster.
How to Indicate Your Chosen Name and/or Pronoun
Log into BannerWeb, and click on “Display/Update Your Chosen First Name and Pronoun” in the Personal Information tab at the top left of the page. Follow the instructions on the “Chosen First Name and Pronoun” form. Please remember to hit “save” to ensure that your changes are saved. Entering a chosen first name via BannerWeb will automatically change which name appears in many internal systems, including the Online Directory and your email Display Name. For some applications, the chosen name will immediately display. For others, there is a 24-hour waiting period before changes will appear in the system. Should you choose to list a pronoun, it will only appear on class rosters and advisor lists.
Please note: The Online Directory and email Display Names are also available externally (off-campus). If you choose to indicate a chosen first name but wish to communicate via email using your legal name, we recommend that you create a non-Middlebury email account (e.g., Gmail, Hotmail).
Staff with an administrative need (e.g., Public Safety, Registrar’s Office, and Deans) will see both legal and chosen names and gender pronouns. Similar to GPAs and other sensitive information, these staff are trained on the implications of this access. Report any issues with this process to the Office of the VP for Student Affairs and Dean of the College at Middlebury College.
Places Where Chosen First Name is Used
- MiddCard or MIIS ID Card (upon request)
- Class and Grade Rosters
- Advisee Lists
- Library sign-out process
- Course Hub
- Online Directory
- Athletics team rosters
- Middlebury College Parton Center for Health and Wellness
Places Where Legal First Name is Used
- Student Accounts
- Student Financial Services
- Accounts Payable
- Tax forms
- Responses to enrollment inquiries such as verification
- Official Transcripts
- International Student and Scholar Services
Changing Your MiddCard
Twenty-four hours after submitting the chosen name form in BannerWeb, your chosen name will appear in the ID card system and you can request a new MiddCard. Please note that if you request a new ID card your old one will be deactivated. You can still retain the old card for use as a second ID for the sole purpose of events that require two forms of ID as appropriate.
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to reach out to Janae Due, assistant director of the Anderson Freeman Resource Center at firstname.lastname@example.org.
Middlebury has made every effort to display chosen names where feasible and has made a good faith effort to update the reports, documents and systems that are designated to use a chosen name and pronoun. In the event that your chosen name is not displaying correctly, please contact the Office of the VP for Student Affairs and Dean of the College.
Chosen Name FAQ
No, entering a chosen first name is optional. Enter a name in the Chosen First Name field only if you commonly use a first name that is different from your legal first name.
A chosen first name is a name that someone wishes to go by other than their legal name. Sometimes, this is a person’s nickname or middle name.
- The chosen name procedure will benefit all students, staff, and faculty by promoting a more inclusive environment on campus.
- It enables any student, staff, or faculty to be addressed by the name that they actually use.
- The procedure will help with the safety and wellbeing of trans and gender non-conforming students, faculty, and staff, as they can be identified by the first name and pronoun they use.
- The chosen name procedure enables students, faculty and staff to use a chosen first name for certain purposes while studying or working at Middlebury.
- It allows the chosen first name to be used on one’s MiddCard, the Online Directory, and email.
- It is important to note that making a request to use a chosen first name at Middlebury does not change a person’s legal name on official records or records with government authorities.
You can enter your chosen first name in BannerWeb at any time. It does take up to 24 hours for the changes to take affect in most of our systems.
Students should keep in mind that the earlier you enter your chosen first name at the start of a new academic term, the more likely you will experience the consistent use of your chosen first name by professors, advisors, coaches, deans, etc. For example, some professors may print off a class list after the Add/Drop period has passed, and use it for the remainder of the semester. Changes made to your chosen first name after Add/Drop period would not be picked up by the professor in this case.
Students, faculty, and staff are free to determine the chosen first name that they want to be known by in Middlebury’s information systems, as long as they act in good faith.
Inappropriate use of the chosen first name procedure including attempts to avoid a legal obligation via misrepresentation, or the use of inappropriate language, will result in the denial and/or reversal of the request.
Gender Pronouns FAQ
A pronoun is a word that refers to either the people talking (I or you) or someone or something that is being talked about (he, she, them, and it).
A gender pronoun is a pronoun an individual identifies with and what others use when talking to or about that individual. It is the pronoun that a person uses for themself (he/him, she/her, they/them, ze/hir, etc).
Never refer to a person as “it” or “he-she,” unless the individual requests that you do so. These are offensive slurs used against trans and gender non-conforming individuals.
Yes! Transgender, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming (GNC) folx may use they/them pronouns for themselves (along with other pronouns). Singular they isn’t as uncommon as you think! Many people who use English already use singular they when talking about a single person with an unknown or unspecified gender. Now use the correct pronouns when someone specifies that they/them are the pronouns they use.
Fun fact: They, used as a singular pronoun, can now also be found in dictionaries. Merriam-Webster Dictionary chose they as the 2019 Word of the Year.
Try asking: “What is your pronoun?” or “Which pronouns do you use?” or “Can you remind me which pronouns you use for yourself?”
It can feel awkward at first, but asking for a pronoun can avoid hurtful assumptions. People will most likely appreciate your effort if you start off by asking what their pronoun is, and for those who aren’t familiar with pronouns, this is your chance to share what you know!
If you are asking as part of an introduction exercise and you want to quickly explain what a pronoun is, you can try something like this: “Tell us your name, where you come from, and your gender pronoun. That means the pronoun you like to be referred to with. For example, my pronouns are they, them, and theirs.”
When taking class attendance, one method is to call roll by last name, and have students respond with their chosen name and pronouns.
Yes! Gender pronouns are may or may not change over time. This is why it’s important to consistently share your pronouns with people and ask for others’ pronouns, even if it is with people you know.
It’s also good practice to use gender-neutral greetings to not assume people’s gender or pronouns. Try “everyone,” folks/folx,” and “y’all” instead of “ladies,” “gentlemen,” and “guys.”
Q Why is it important to respect gender pronouns as students, faculty, staff, administrators and allies?
When someone is referred to by the wrong pronoun, it can make them feel disrespected, invalidated, dismissed, or alienated. Asking and correctly using someone’s gender pronoun is one of the most basic ways to show your respect for their gender identity and to cultivate an environment that respects all gender identities. Making a commitment to this action sets an example for our community.
Everyone makes mistakes sometimes. If you use the wrong pronoun, apologize, correct it, and then move on. If you realize your mistake after the fact, apologize in private and move on. Avoid continually talking about how bad you feel for making the mistake, because it could make the person feel like they need to console you and/or create uncomfortable or unsafe environments for them if others are not aware of differences between their chosen name and pronouns and their legal/dead name/pronouns. The best apology is correcting your mistake and not doing it again.
Using correct pronouns takes intentional practice and effort. Using correct pronouns can help someone feel included, respected, and validated. This is a great way to practice intentional advocacy to transgender and gender non-conforming folx.
In your classes or elsewhere on campus you may hear students or colleagues using the wrong pronouns for someone. In most cases, it is appropriate to gently correct them without further embarrassing the individual for whom the incorrect pronoun was used.
- You can try saying something like “Actually, Frankie uses she/her pronouns,” and then move on.
- It might help to ask the individual who has been misidentified what, if anything, they would like you to do.
- You can say something like “I noticed that you were getting referred to with the wrong pronoun earlier, and I know that that can be really hurtful. Would you be okay with me speaking to them and reminding them about your personal pronoun? What can I do to make sure that this group is a safe space for you.” Follow up if necessary, but take your cues from the individual.
There are ways to advocate for pronoun usage and making the act of stating pronouns a routine one. Here are some ways:
- Introduce yourself with your pronouns with individuals and in large groups.
- “Hi, my name is John. I use he/him pronouns.”
- “My name is Natalie, and my pronouns are they/them.”
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These futuristic images by French architecture graduate Alice Labourel imagine a shape-shifting ballet school that alters its elaborate structure to react to the movements of dancers, trains and the river (+ slideshow).
"The building is constantly in motion and evolves through certain choreography," explains Alice Labourel, who developed the concept as her graduation project at the Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris. "Our imagination is triggered when we are facing a situation where we cannot see everything, like the frame of a movie for example, and this project aims at awakening people's imagination using movement."
Entitled The Hidden Orchestra, the building is designed specifically for a site over the river in Los Angeles, where it would be subjected to yearly flooding and would be frequently disturbed by trains speeding in and out of the city.
Labourel wanted the building to respond to both of these factors, as well as to the daily movements and dance routines of students at the school. This could be triggered using a system of motion detectors, but would also be created through details in the architecture.
For instance, during flooding the building would physically adapt to the presence of water using a series of mills and pumps. "The fact that the building is consuming the water is a way of showing that the river itself is necessary to make the built environment work," says the designer.
Other reactive devices would be added within the dance studios. "In ballet dancing, the dancer should never land on the floor too strongly," explains Labourel, "so the floor of the classroom contains small bags of red paint so that when a dancer hurts the floor they would then break the bags. When the bag breaks, the paint spreads and touches the fabric surrounding the spaces, which then also turns red, as if the building is sending a signal."
The school would comprise two wings - one for education and one for performance - and would be divided by a central recreation area. Both buildings would feature an organic structure, inspired by bones and other forms found in nature.
It wouldn't shelter its inhabitants like a traditional school, but would instead function as a performative structure. "The architecture is made to make people dance," concludes Labourel.
Other futuristic graduate proposals from recent years include a science-fiction world in which London grows a jungle of crops for fuel and a world conceptualised as a series of virtual interfaces. See more conceptual architecture.
Here's some more information from Alice Labourel:
This project is an attempt to render subjective experience as objective reality. It recreates so-called 'actual' / physical reality out of perceived reality - that is to build the Real from Experience. The architecture allows for the user to interact with the spaces, react to the spaces and be stimulated by the spaces. A child constructs a reality by filling in the gaps based on the information he has. This, in practice, is what everyone does in every aspect of their lives, whether acknowledged or not.
The project is a ballet school within a time-based architecture that evolves from the rhythm and movement from the outside (motorized vehicles, flows of water) and the inside (activities related to the people and the program) along the cinematic banks of the Los Angeles River.
The project evolves through 3 timescales: the 24 hours schedule of the school, the 19 seconds it takes for a train to go from one bridge to the other and the water of the river coming once a year. Each timescale influences the organisation and the evolution of the building.
Above: aerial plan - click for larger image
Timescale 1: School
The organisation of the school is based on the position of two main buildings. The pupils will go from one to the other throughout the day according to the different activities they do. One building is the education area, which include three dance class rooms, normal classrooms, lockers and a library. In between the two buildings, there is a recreation area. The second building is the show area and it includes a theater, a costume making room, a music room, a set room.
Timescale 2: Trains
I have studied the movements and timetable of each train that goes along the banks of the river (on my site) and I am trying to establish how they will then influence the timetable of the school but also how they will trigger the movements of the building. Each train has specific features as leaving or arriving to LA, the time when it passes by the site, the distance it has from the building (close up or general perception) or the location on the banks (facing vertical downtown or horizontal residential area). The building and the activities in it would then change each time a train passes. The passengers looking at the window would see the building as an illusion.
Above: section - click for larger image
Timescale 3: River
Because heavy rains occur once a year, the level of the river rises. The rest of the year, there is just a very narrow course of water. When the water comes, the building would keep some in order to use it as an engine. The movement of the water though the building would trigger the movements of the architecture. Since the water will be used for the school, the amount will decrease and we will see that the building will slowly (though the year) have difficulties to move until the next flood.
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Table of Contents
Introduction …. 5
Chapter 1: What Is Life Purpose? … 7
So What Is Life Purpose Really? .. 10
How Do You Measure Life Purpose? .. 11
Chapter 2: The Importance Of Finding Meaning In Life .. 15
Gives Clarity and Focus .. 17
Teaches What Defines You . 19
Keeps You Connected With The Present 20
Chapter 3: Why Is It Hard To Find Purpose In Life …. 24
Societal Influence 25
Low Self-Esteem/ Self-Worth . 26
Lack of Freedom to Dream . 28
Fear of the Dark Side 29
Chapter 4: Happiness Vs Fulfilment . 33
Fulfillment is Unique to You … 35
Fulfilment Gives Meaning To Success …. 37
Happiness is Just One Feeling 39
Chapter 5: Steering Clear of False Purpose . 42
Recognizing False Purpose . 45
Why You Need to Steer Clear of False Purpose 46
How Can You Steer Clear of False Purpose? …. 48
Chapter 6: Importance Of Defining Your Life Purpose … 52
Gives You Direction .. 54
Keeps You from Getting Distracted … 56
Keeps you Organized 57
Gives You Time for Experimentation 59
Chapter 7: How To Find Your Purpose And Passion .. 62
Find What Excites You .. 63
Ask Yourself Why 65
Explore Your Options …. 67
Don’t Suppress Your Doubts … 68
Chapter 8: Transitioning To Your Life Purpose 71
Set Your Goals . 71
The Fear Factor … 74
How to Make This Transition .. 76
Systems Are Important.. 77
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There can be a few determinants in this regard. For starters, there’s making sacrifices.
Achieving anything that’s worth achieving involves sacrifices. Everything comes at a cost and very few things are uplifting or pleasurable all the time.
The question that arises here is what sacrifice or struggle are you ready to make or tolerate? If you find yourself giving in at the slightest chance of pressure, then obviously this choice isn’t your life purpose.
But if you’re willing to ride through the rough patches and stick with it no matter what, then you may be on to something. This is because what ultimately determines your ability to commit to something shows how much you care about that thing and how much it means to you.
For instance, if you wish to become a successful entrepreneur, but aren’t good at handling failure, you won’t get far. Or, say your dream is to become a professional artist, but don’t like to see your work criticized or rejected, then there’s not much scope for you out there.
But if the same purposes keep you going despite unpleasant experiences, staying awake long nights, or riding out the bad days, then you may just have discovered what you’re really cut out for.
You can also determine if you’ve found your life purpose if you find sheer joy in doing something now that you also enjoyed doing as a child. Say you enjoyed writing as a child and only rediscovered the same joy of writing later on in life.
A lot of times people tend to lose touch with what they loved when they were younger. Oftentimes, it has a lot to do with the social pressure of adolescence or the professional pressure of young adulthood which wrings the passion right out of them.
Instead what remains behind is the lesson that the only reason to do anything is if there’s a tangible reward for it. But if you can look beyond the physical reward for something and learn to enjoy the experience instead, it could be your true calling.
Interestingly enough, vulnerability can also often point you in the direction of your real passion. If you’re passionate about something, then you risk making mistakes to improve yourself.
Making mistakes leads to embarrassment and if becoming embarrassed stops you from doing something that you really want to do, then you should re-think your life purpose.
Your real life purpose won’t let you care about getting embarrassed. It won’t concern itself with what others think of you but urge you to pursue it instead.
When people feel like they’ve got no sense of direction or any purpose in life, it’s because they don’t know what’s important to them. And when you don’t know what’s important to you, then you’re just taking on other people’s values and following their priorities instead of your own.
And this is exactly what this book aims to correct so that you can live your own life based on what’s important to you, not what others think is good for you.
Chapter 2: The Importance Of Finding Meaning In Life
Let’s re-visit the idea of a conscious life once more.
If you find meaning in your life, you’ll be able to learn your purpose in this world. Experts believe that you can live your life in two ways. The first says that if you’re conscious, you’ll live along the same lines as others. Yet, you’ll experience the same things differently.
The second way to live is to live unconsciously. Broadly speaking, if you live like that, life will just happen to you. Think of it as a giant wave that keeps pushing you forward. You have no control over where you’re going or why you’re going there. In fact the only thing certain about this situation is that you’re just going with the flow. This kind of life isn’t exactly ideal since you don’t have much say in it. Yet, many of us live this way.
When you learn the meaning of life, you have a better sense of purpose. You tend to understand why you’re in this world. Just like that, you will have a clearer view of how you can contribute to the world.
If you don’t know your purpose, you’ll hate getting out of bed. Your motivation to last through the week would be looking forward to the weekend. Put you in a challenging situation and you’ll feel burnout even before trying. On the other hand, if you lead a meaningful life, you’ll love the grind.
Here are some tips on why it’s important to find meaning in life:
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Look around yourself and you’ll see so many people running after a host of popular things. Common offenders include earning more money, getting a house, and then getting an even bigger house. Goals also include getting a car, the latest technology and everything along those lines. Incidentally, all these are also material gains and rewards.
And while they may seem very important to you right now, do they really matter that much in the long run? How about looking for something that you’re passionate about instead? Something that you thoroughly enjoy doing? Something that brings out the best in you?
It isn’t uncommon that while running after money and luxuries, you become side-tracked from your real purpose. Finding your life purpose will help you become aware of things that are important.
Once you learn to look past these common needs, you’ll see what’s important. It’ll help you set your goals and eliminate unimportant things from your life.Other Details
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Recorded in a wide variety of spellings including Niblo, Nibloe, Niblow, Nibley, Knoblay, and Knubley, this is an English locational surname. It originates from a place called Nibley in the county of Gloucestershire. This village is first recorded in the year 940 a.d. in the spelling of 'Hnibban lege', and some three centuries later in the more modern spelling of 'Nubbelieia'. These recording suggest that the name means 'the farm (leah) at the nib', the latter word indicating a hill. There are in fact three villages called Nibley in England, but it is generally accepted that the Gloucester one has produced most, if not all, the surnames.Locational surnames are generally 'from' names. That is to say that they were given to people by their new neighbours, after they moved from their original village, usually under the pressure of finding work. These moves by their very nature also created the variant spellings at a time when education was very limited. Then local dialects even village to village, were very thick, and spelling, erratic at best. Early examples of the name recording include John Nibley at Westbury upon Severn, Gloucestershire, on April 18th 1575, William Niblot of Standish, also Gloucestershire, on February 19th 1683, and in London, Thomas Knoblay, who married Judith Brough at St James church, Dukes Place, on June 30th 1685.
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In schools around the world, new digital platforms that link families, children, and teachers have gained widespread use. These platforms allow teachers and families to communicate in real time and across languages. Teachers use these technologies to send pictures of children; to convey comments about student behavior, achievements, or activities; and to share information about upcoming programs. They do all this, and more, via self-contained, online platforms and phone applications. Parents use the platforms to send messages to the teacher (not other parents), usually via smart phone.
Although these platforms seem to build on established forms of communication between teachers and parents, we argue that platforms like ClassDojo may entail undue – and currently under-researched – influences over the behavior of families and teachers. Educators and policymakers concerned about the future of U.S. education should carefully consider how interactions on these platforms reshape families’ relationships with schools. In particular, they should think carefully about the ways in which digital communications about students’ classroom behavior should influence or inform how parents treat students at home.
The Case of ClassDojo
We examined research and news about the well-known digital platform, ClassDojo. ClassDojo hosts over 3 million teacher and 35 million student users in over 180 countries. The ubiquitous use of this digital platform in schools is a relatively new phenomenon, one that appears not to be driven by empirical research on learning, but rather a perfect storm of popular psychology and market forces.
Founded in 2011, ClassDojo was created to help teachers manage classroom behavior. Today, ClassDojo’s mission is to “bring communities together and give them the tools, ideas, and energy to improve education for all kids.” In classrooms across the world, the platform provides a means for home-to-school communication, strategies for improving student behavior, and classroom management tools for diverse users: parents, teachers, and school administrators.
Teachers use it to monitor and manage student behavior and to communicate with parents quickly. On ClassDojo, each student has an avatar and the teacher tracks their behavior by assigning (or subtracting) points based on student performance. Through the app, teachers can decide what counts as good behavior and decide how often to communicate with parents using the platform. For example, if a teacher decides that raising one’s hand is good behavior, students’ avatars receive points for doing that. By contrast, if going to the bathroom out of turn is deemed bad behavior, then students’ avatars lose points for doing so. All these behaviors can be saved, monitored, and shared with parents (that is, for those parents who opt in to platform use).
School administrators, coaches, and counselors might use records from ClassDojo to refine student behavior plans. Parents’ may also use platform records to inform their choices about children’s non-school hours. For example, parents may reward children for accumulating ClassDojo points at home or coordinate supplemental education by targeting areas the platform suggests their child may be lagging. Other uses of ClassDojo’s associated data are still emerging. What seems clear, at present, is that an assumption of ClassDojo is that a student’s classroom behavior ought be the responsibility of more than just teachers.
Open Questions about Bringing Big Data to Schools
Platforms like ClassDojo raise important questions about the quantification and regulation of behavior. How can and should points accumulated on these platforms, or similar systems, come to track and evaluate learning? There is little research about how administrators are coping with data generated by online platforms, and even fewer studies about how best to train teachers to handle data generated through their classrooms.
What is more, the effects on family relationships of the day-to-day use of these platforms have not been studied. How do they influence attitudes towards schooling, attitudes towards teachers, and teacher–parent communication? Perhaps most concerning, potential hazards from third-party data use remain largely unknown.
Scholars have raised questions about the ownership and commodification of student data, control over that data, and related privacy issues – and rightly so. Such platforms may enable forms of compliance, surveillance, and control that go beyond the authority currently delegated to U.S. public schools.
The central premise of ClassDojo’s classroom behavior management system is that parents will reinforce teachers’ disciplinary control. But how do families actually understand the function of such platforms? Research is needed to understand better influences on norms for parental behavior and the ways these digital tools could unwittingly reshape family life. Schools frequently argue they are in a partnership with families, but such rhetoric may serve to disguise ways these platforms shift responsibility onto families to make schooling work.
If families are not equipped to understand the consequences of digital data collection and the long-term effects of quantified behavioral measures, so-called partnerships between schools and families will remain unequal and symbolic at best. Apps like ClassDojo hold great value for teachers, students, and parents. However, to ensure the costs do not overtake the benefits, these critical questions must be addressed.
Platforms like ClassDojo connect schools with homes, offering new opportunities to explore how learning takes place across digitally connected spaces. These platforms promise connection between education’s many stakeholders: parents, teachers, administrators, students, app designers, business entrepreneurs, and others. However, as in other areas of technological progress, unintended consequences always arise. To prepare, policymakers, educators, and parents should advocate for further research on the use and effects of these tools and start conversations about what the digital era can and should mean for the future of education.
Co-authored with Jessica Zacher Pandya, California State University-Long Beach, and Julian Sefton-Green, Deakin University.
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When young, we used to hear of Urdu mushairas and kavi sammelans happening often here and there; Poems suitable for oral rendering in “trannum” or in rhyme were popular. Mushairas and kavi sammelans are organised today too but they are I believe much fewer in number. However, the good news is that, nowadays, poetry festivals are being organised within the country and also internationally in different parts of the world, not merely in exclusive “academic” hubs, universities, etc but in cultural and community centres that bring poets from different languages together in the local environs of say, Kisii in Kenya or Quang Ninh province in Vietnam or then Bratislava of Slovakia.
I had the good fortune of participating in a few of these festivals which offered poetry not available in English generally. In these festivals, sounds and varied rhythms of different languages generally fall gently upon the ears before their English rendering. The sound of the original sets the stage for the building of effective bridges to poetry in translation.
At Ars Poetica 2016 in the beautiful and quiet East European city of Bratislava, Slovakia, India was in focus this year. Last year, it was China. This international poetry festival has been held annually for the last fourteen years and this year Ars Poetica to start with, showcased a stunning interactive presentation of Sangeeta Majumdar’s Kathak dance in consonance with Sonnet Mondal’s poetry. The audience was enthralled by the near mystical atmosphere created through mythical poetry knitted skillfully into the vibrant dance performance. The India evening then proceeded with readings of poems by my own self as well as by the Indian poet from the USA, Usha Akella. Each poem was first read in the original English followed by its translation in Slovakian language in the theatrical voice of the actress from Bratislava, Kristina Svarinska. Lubo Bukovy read Sonnet Mondal and Subodh Sarkar (in absentia) poems in Slovakian. The heart-warming response of the audience and the poets from ten other countries was immediate and overwhelming.
Intermediality in art seemed to come alive fully in this festival. Kudos to the thoughtful planning of the Director of Ars Poetica Martin Solotruk and the coordinator Martina Strakova, each day’s festival programme seamlessly knitted into poetry, musical concerts, “sound poems” as well as sensitively devised visual art. In the backdrop of each reading of a poem, the artist dynamic visuals designed by Andrea Labudova were continuously projected on the screen, in complete harmony with the temper of the poem.
At the get together in the University of Bratislava, poets from different languages were invited to share their thoughts on the creative process, inspiration, social commitment, and also on the award of the Noble prize to Bob Dylan this year. No matter what country or language, the discussion carried a strong note of authenticity even when there was disagreement: this was the gentle and persuasive language of poets seeped in creative experience and expression that always wishes to reach out.
The contours of national identities melt so effortlessly when communication is sought on the human plane. Writing poetry tends to perhaps make one reach out to that inner human domain common to all …but not without first complete apprehension of the specific socio-cultural and political context of one’s living condition! Interaction excelled despite linguistic and cultural differences amongst the poets from different countries, each one rooted and yet so human. Amongst others, I think fondly of Manfred Chobot (Vienna), Adam Horovitz (UK), Vladimir Martinovski (Macedonia), Jose Luis Peixoto (Portugal), Anne Waldman (USA), Dirk Hulstrunk (Germany), Irene Gayraud (France), Kacper Bartczak (Poland). Thank you poet-friends for creating synergy when the forces of racism, communalism, caste-ism, etc, insist on dividing us more and more world over.
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Spectacularly weird, anyhow.
"Sympathetic pregnancy," also known as "phantom pregnancy" and, clinically, "Couvade syndrome," is a medical mystery that's been baffling people since ancient times (when, allegedly, some cultures encouraged expectant fathers to take to their beds as a matter of course.) While the medical profession is still split on whether the condition is psychosomatic of a weird bit of evolutionarily-mysterious biology, it can't be denied that expectant fathers sometimes experience symptoms ranging from cramps to cravings to backache to morning sickness and cravings. Some have been known to feel labor pains. And a baby bump.
Of course, as we know from the "hysterical pregnancy" phenomenon, the body can mirror the symptoms of expectancy to an astonishing degree. But we'd always assumed that was limited to those bodes actually, y'know, capable of the real thing. And for actually pregnant women, a little healthy skepticism is not to be wondered at: this is likely not a time when most are in the mood to cater to hypochondria. Those researchers who subscribe to the "psychosomatic camp" have a whole raft of explanations. From PregnancyToday:
in a 1994 article, a group of Italian researchers wrote that Couvade appears "to be the psychosomatic equivalent of primitive rituals of initiation into paternity." And in a 1991 article, Dr. H. Klein of the University of Texas Medical Branch reviewed some of the possible causes of Couvade such as "somatized anxiety, psuedo-sibling rivalry, identification with the fetus, ambivalence about fatherhood or parturition envy."
Writes Laverne Antrobus, who recently completed a documentary on the subject. "I must admit I wondered initially if men were trying to elicit attention from wives bound up with the imminent arrival of a newborn." However, studies find that men who experience Couvade are those most likely to want to help their partners and, says one researcher, were unusually "attuned to their partners."
While I'm guessing most women would rather have that support come in the form of a foot massage or some extra help around the house, Antrobus says a new study, conducted at Kingston University, London, suggest that Couvade's could serve a valuable function: In her words, "they help to prepare the new father for his nurturing role." Of the 282 expectant fathers Dr Arthur Brennan studied, some 55 per cent were manifesting some pregnancy-like symptom. As Antrobus says in the Daily Mail, "Mr Brennan believes that this was caused by elevated levels of the mothering hormone prolactin. Customarily associated with breast-feeding mothers, it was also present in these fathers." There was also a drop in testosterone, visible when the fathers had contact with their new babies.
So, while medical science has still not recognized Couvade's as a legit biological condition, perhaps those men going through it shouldn't be dismissed out of hand: they're prepping for fatherhood. That said, the guy who claimed, of his wife's labor, "my pain was worse...Her contractions were fairly strong, but she couldn't push and as that was happening my stomach pain was building up and up and getting worse and worse" well, like that of the doctors in attendance, our attention's going to go elsewhere.
Men Suffer From Phantom Pregnancy [BBC]
The Male Pregnancy Experience [Pregnancy Today]
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Over at No Depression, the journal of roots music, In the Roots in the Archive column, which is at this link, read my musings about the 2021 inauguration, including Jennifer Lopez’s rendition of “This Land is Your Land.” I write about Lopez, but also about the song’s journey from its author Woody Guthrie to its performances at the Obama and Biden inaugurations. You’ll read about the song’s appearance at the 2009 inauguration, where it was led by Bruce Springsteen, Pete Seeger, and Tao Rodriguez-Seeger. We’ll also revisit a classic rendition of “This Land” by one of the unlikely stars of thousands of social media posts surrounding the 2021 inauguration: Senator Bernie Sanders.
Embedded throughout the piece you’ll find some video treasures from the AFC archive: three versions of “This Land is Your Land” sung entirely or partially in Spanish.
We’ll also take a side trip into the January 2021 sea shanty craze on social media, and hear Springsteen’s version of the classic shanty “Pay Me My Money Down,” which he learned from Pete Seeger. And, of course, we include the Alan Lomax field recording of the Georgia Sea Island Singers, an archival treasure which inspired Seeger, Springsteen, and hundreds more. | <urn:uuid:df1f7154-880d-4011-8f24-47ce78f67cc3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2021/02/jennifer-lopez-plus-pete-seeger-bernie-sanders-sea-shanties-and-more-at-no-depression/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.92713 | 287 | 1.695313 | 2 |
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Do you pay taxes on Black Friday?
Is Black Friday a business day? Black Friday is on the Day After Thanksgiving, which is a public holiday in more than 20 states. In these states, businesses may be closed. Schools and universities all over the United States are closed for the entire Thanksgiving weekend.
Does Black Friday make money? Each year the Black Friday shopping event dominates the news and breaks new sales records. The last quarter of the calendar year – which includes the period from Black Friday to New Year – is generally the most profitable for the majority of retailers.
What is the revenue for Black Friday? Black Friday hit a new record with consumers spending $9.0 billion, an increase of 21.6% year over year (online sales hit $7.4 billion on Black Friday in 2019), according to Adobe Analytics data. It was the second-largest online spending day in U.S. history, coming in behind Cyber Monday 2019.
Do you pay taxes on Black Friday? – Related Questions
Why it is called Black Friday?
The phrase “Black Friday” to signify a positive boost in retail sales didn’t grow nationwide until the late 1980s, when merchants started to spread the red-to-black profit narrative. Black Friday was described as the day stores began to turn a profit for the year and as the biggest shopping day in the United States.
Does Texas do tax-free weekend?
The holiday in Texas begins Friday, Aug. 6, and will go through midnight Sunday, Aug. 8, according to Texas government tax publication Comptroller. If you purchase an item with tax included during Tax-Free Weekend, you can ask the product seller for a refund of that tax.
Which countries does not participate in Black Friday?
Unsurprisingly, many countries that are vocal in their opposition of capitalism and consumerism do not support Black Friday (or any other shopping holidays). That includes countries like North Korea, Venezuela, Iran, and Afghanistan.
Why do stores set prices so low on some items that they lose money?
According to the text, why do stores set prices so low on some items that they lose money? They want people to enjoy the holidays. They hope people will buy other gifts while they are in the store. They are in a giving mood because the holiday season is just beginning.
Is Black Friday the busiest shopping day of the year?
21, 2019, CNN reported, far more than the $7.4 billion spent on Black Friday. The NRF forecasted 147.8 million U.S. customers for Super Saturday, far outpacing the numbers for Black Friday. Interestingly, for the first time, Black Friday topped Cyber Monday as the busiest day online in 2019, reported the NRF.
How much does Walmart make on Black Friday?
Black Friday 2020: $76M
For Black Friday alone, sales neared $76 million on the 2020 Friday after Thanksgiving, compared to $38 million in 2019, showing a 100% year-over-year increase for the day’s ecommerce sales.
Do companies lose money during Black Friday?
In short, the retailer can lose money on items being put on sale (either in the sense of a price below the cost of the item or in comparison to the price they might be able to get you to pay if they didn’t put the item on sale) and come out ahead if they increase the probability of getting you to buy other things that
How did Black Friday go this year 2020?
Most retailers abandoned efforts to hold doorbuster sales on Thanksgiving in 2020; large crowds have been forbidden under most circumstances since March due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, major retailers such as Walmart and Target had already reduced their hours and dropped 24/7 operations in response to the
How did Black Friday Go 2020?
Black Friday 2020 was always going to be different. Masks, socially distanced lines, limited foot traffic in stores — Black Friday this year was different both structurally and visually. This year, retailers collectively blew up the traditional start to the holiday shopping season.
How did Black Friday sales 2020?
Black Friday 2020 online shopping surges 22% to record $9 billion, Adobe says. Consumers spent $9 billion on the web the day after Thanksgiving, up 21.6% year over year, according to data from Adobe Analytics. Cyber Monday 2020 is expected to become the biggest digital sales day in history in the United States.
Why is it called Cyber Monday?
In late November 2005, The New York Times reported: “The name Cyber Monday grew out of the observation that millions of otherwise productive working Americans, fresh off a Thanksgiving weekend of window shopping, were returning to high-speed Internet connections at work Monday and buying what they liked.” At the time,
Is Black Friday Sale only one day?
Don’t be fooled by the name that suggests it’s a single day. It’s most definitely not. It’s more like a shopping season that begins in early November. Black Friday deals started days and weeks in advance of the actual shopping day last year and will continue on until a week after Cyber Monday.
Is Friday after Thanksgiving a holiday?
Celebrated on the last Friday in November in the United States, The Day after Thanksgiving is not a federal holiday but is a holiday in almost half the states in the U.S. and is given as a day off by most employers. Shops are open and this day has come to mark the start of the Christmas shopping period.
Is Black Friday a worldwide thing?
In recent years, this “retail phenomenon” has expanded to other countries around the world. Canada, Scandinavia, the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Australia, Brazil, Chile, China and Singapore all have some form of this event in November.
Which best explains why Costa Ricans call Black Friday Viernes Negro *?
Because Costa Rica is a Spanish speaking country and Viernes Negro is the Spanish word for Black Friday.
What is the day after Thanksgiving called?
Why is it called “Black Friday”? Most people know Black Friday as the day after Thanksgiving, when stores open early and offer various sales. These stores are often “in the black” (profitable) that day.
How do stores try to lure shoppers during Black Friday?
The stores are able to lure shoppers during Black Friday by offering great deal of discounts on items. Explanation: Black Friday is the day when store owners bring out great deal of discounts on their products and items for which people get into long cues to get the benefit.
Which best explains why Costa Ricans call Black Friday Viernes Negro A Costa Rican stores don’t want the shopping day associated with American violence B Viernes Negro sounds more exotic and exciting than Black Friday c Costa?
Costa Rican stores don’t want the shopping day associated with American violence. Viernes Negro sounds more exotic and exciting than Black Friday. Costa Ricans want to establish their own shopping tradition. This is how you say “Black Friday” in Spanish, the language of Costa Rica.
What is the biggest shopping day in the world?
Singles’ Day is a shopping holiday that’s held every year on November 11. It first started in China as a celebration of being single, and its date – 11/11, which consists of four ones – aptly reflects that.
What time does Walmart open Black Friday 2020?
What time does Walmart open on Black Friday 2020? Walmart will open at 5 a.m. on Black Friday, according to a report by BestBlackFriday.com.
Do prices go back up after Black Friday?
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Once upon a time, there was only one Ethereum Blockchain is a type of database storing an immutable set of data, verifiable to anyone with access to it —through..., with only one native token (ETH). Ethereum was the first big smart contract chain, and it’s still the leading one. However, in case you didn’t know, there’s another blockchain with his name and the same origins: Ethereum Classic (ETC). What happened there? What’s up with ETH, ETC, and probably others?
Ethereum was launched seven years ago, on July 30, 2015 —we recently passed its anniversary. Ethereum Classic was part of this network until a year later when the chain was split. A bad and big event was responsible for this back then. But, if very unlikely, it could happen again this year. Let’s explore what happened and what’s going on now.
The DAO incident
In 2016, the landscape inside Ethereum was very different. No Decentralized Finance (DeFi) apps or Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) yet, and only some Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) around. Only ETH, and not a clue of ETC. We currently have an awful lot of interesting projects running on this network, but back then there were just a few. The most notable was, probably, The DAO.
We’re not meaning just a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), that it was, but “The DAO” was the name of the project itself. Developed by the startup Slock.it, this was a smart contract platform designed to raise funds for different projects. If these projects could thrive, then the profits in ETH would be A distributed system is made of components that are running on different networked computers, which communicate and coordinate their actions... More among all investors.
In May 2016, their ICO raised 12.7 million ETH —around $150 million at the time and $20.6 billion today. It was the higher-grossing ICO of the time, surpassing Ethereum itself (which was also born from an ICO in 2014). There was a lot of enthusiasm around it, and a lot of eyes on it.
Several of those (expert) eyes warned about certain vulnerabilities that could be exploited on The DAO by malicious hackers. Slock.it didn’t listen on time, and the worst happened.
The hack and the split
A black hat hacker took advantage of an exploit during the withdrawal process. The latter wasn’t so easy for investors, indeed. It could last up to 48 days after the creation of a “Child DAO”, which was a copy with the same rights as the original.
The issue inside the code was that the funds in ETH were transferred to the Child DAO before updating the balance. So, the hacker made the same request again and again to the Child DAO, until they siphoned 3.6 million ETH (around $60 million at the time). As Laura Shin described, “It was as if the attacker had $101 in their bank account, withdrew $100 at a bank, then kept the bank teller from updating the balance to $1, and again requested and received another $100.”
The amount ($60 million) doesn’t sound amazing now when we’ve had hacks of over $600 million on Ethereum platforms. However, it was scandalous in 2016. Enough for everyone to panic, even the Ethereum Foundation itself. That’s why Vitalik Buterin proposed to carry out a hard fork (chain split) to recover the stolen funds.
This, put more simply, meant cloning Ethereum, erasing the history of the theft from the new blockchain’s record, and starting a new virtual history of transactions with only the “legit ones” included. New chain, clean slate.
Certainly, the proposal generated great controversy because it seemed to go against the ideals on which this platform was built: to modify what in theory cannot be modified. The fact that a centralized authority was able to change the network to that extent looked unacceptable. But everything was fixed with votes by the community, and this option won with 97% acceptance —at least from the 5.5% of ETH addresses that participated.
And ETC vs. ETH was born
After the split, the chain was divided into two, with their respective coins: the new Ethereum (ETH) and Ethereum Classic (ETC). Or the new chain and the original blockchain in which the terrible theft had occurred. At first, everyone was waiting for the second network to quickly die, since the miners would move to the new one. But that didn’t happen completely.
Instead, a lot of miners chose to stay on the old chain, keeping it alive. Several crypto exchanges joined soon. The old ETH users gained new ETC coins in a 1:1 ratio from their previous balances, thanks to the split. So, for example, if they had 50 ETH before the hard fork, they obtained an additional 50 ETC after the event. At a much lower price per token, though, since ETH is still considered more valuable. Something very similar to what happened more recently with Terra (LUNA and LUNC).
The new Ethereum is still maintained by Vitalik Buterin and the people behind the Ethereum Foundation. Meanwhile, Ethereum Classic is now maintained by several investors and miners worldwide, in a decentralized fashion. For instance, just recently, AntPool (one of the largest Thousands of miners compete on the reward which is only paid once per block. Miners who join a mining pool... More) invested $10 million in ETC.
On this blockchain, the code is the law. They voluntarily chose to keep the original Ethereum history, and don’t forget the failings. Their main website describes ETC as “The original, untampered, permissionless, decentralized, immutable, leaderless, uncensored Ethereum”. Also, and very important now, the Proof-of-Work (PoW) Ethereum.
In May 2018, Ethereum Classic deleted the difficulty bomb from its blockchain. This means that ETC will always be a PoW network, available to mine new coins. Beyond the ideals, that’s a key difference from its parent chain, which is changing to Proof-of-Stake (PoS).
ETH, ETC, and more? The Merge comes
We’ve already talked about Ethereum 2.0 and The Merge previously. These concepts boil down to a simple idea: making crypto mining impossible on Ethereum (ETH). For the next era of this blockchain, the selected system is Proof-of-Stake (PoS), which doesn’t require mining. Instead, there will be validators locking their coins and verifying transactions. Without any need for special machines (ASICs) or energy.
As expected, the current Ethereum miners aren’t very happy about it —despite they knew this was the plan since the beginning. There’s nothing they can do against it, though. They can sell their machines and become validators with the funds (since at least 32 ETH are needed) or migrate to another mining network. Like Ethereum Classic, of course, but there’s a last option.
ETC doesn’t have the same adoption and capabilities as ETH —at least, so far. They also handled some serious security issues, like 51% attacks to control the network. That’s maybe why several miners and investors, led by Chandler Guo, are currently lobbying to create a new fork of Ethereum after The Merge.
Dubbed “ETH POW”, this hypothetical chain would preserve the PoW system after The Merge. Beyond that, its features are unclear now. If it really happens, all the current ETH users will get some additional coins from that chain (like it happened before), and all the associated services and tokens on Ethereum would have to decide whether to support the new chain or not.
Tether (USDT), for instance, has already implied that they’ll only support the PoS Ethereum. Others may be ETH POW supportive, while a final portion may leave to Ethereum Classic. We’ll only know in the next months. For now, we can only see that ETC increased by over 157% since the last month [CMC]. Maybe that’s a signal.
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How to find it, get to it, and stay there.
You find it by finding the feeling-place of how it would feel to have that which you want.
Alignment means “coming together with who you really are” and who you really are is God/source/spirit etc; a perfect, whole and totally supported being. Already worthy of all good.
What we need is to have faith in that. There can be no doubt within us that what we want, wants us, and that we are now drawn/attracted to each other.
To get that kind of faith and trust is every persons individual journey of course, but I promise you, the “Kingdom within” (where all the goodies are:-) is already waiting for us, has always been and will always be there for us. We find it by looking within, by meditating and by the willingness to be open to another way of living. When we consciously chose thoughts that feels a little bit better, a little bit better on a continuous basis, we will guide ourselves to a better-feeling place. Look for thoughts that brings relief, and then another one. You can also ask God to remind you of how much loved you are in times of fear or worry, and he will.
When we pray for more money to pay the bills with, we must trust that the prayer is answered even when the bills begins to come in. Even when we don’t see any evidence of it yet.
It means to be only having our attention on the things we want and not on the things that we get frustrated and fearful about. We have to make that choice over and over again until our mind is instilled on our new way of thinking. By deciding to trust ourselves/God.
Stretch your arms up to the universe and say out loud: “I am open and receptive to all good Now!”. And don’t go about your life looking over your shoulder to see if it’s there yet; God is never late, and when you can relax into that knowing; you will find peace.
How to get to it:
By feeling appreciation for everything! This is the only thing we need to know if we don’t want to meditate or pray as not everyone is into that. To feel appreciation.
When we appreciate, we are automatically in alignment with who we are. Appreciation and love is the same vibration, and we can get there by for example writing a list about all the things we are grateful for in our life, that will bring us into alignment very quickly, and that is also the way to stay there. Keep finding things to feel grateful about.
Feel gratitude for everything; for the money you already have, for your health, friends, pets, the weather, and even the things we think is negative. “All things work together for good”. Say that to yourself over and over again; it will help you to have and keep the faith when things seem out of control.
How to stay there:
Do everything you can to keep your energy vibration high; listen to uplifting music, read inspirational books, go for walks; anything that makes you feel good even if it’s not in context with the thing you want. Feeling good is what we all want, so look for things to feel good about and others things that make you feel good will be attracted to you.
In fact, the more you can just relax and get your focus away from your “problem” the faster the manifestation can happen. And of course affirmative prayer, affirmations, meditation and contemplation is a very good way to raise your vibration 🙂
To summon up:
-Focus only on what it is you want, not the opposite.
-Feel grateful for what you already have.
-Relax more. Don’t drive yourself to tears trying to “fix” something.
-Let go of attachments to the desired outcome;
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