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As part of activity-based teaching &learning, Fifth Semester B.TechCivil Engineering students had a “Model Making Competition II on Footing” as part of Design of Concrete Structures on 9th November 2015.The students got an excellent chance to interact with site workers as well as with the practicing Engineers. Students were asked to form three groups and to prepare design documents along with model of an isolated footing. The models were evaluated by Prof. Dr. Babu T. Jose (Director/HoD CE), Prof. Dr. K. E. George (Principal), Prof. Vincent K. John (Vice Principal), Prof. Dr. Jimmy Thomas, Assistant Prof. Veena V., Dr. Renjitha Mary Varghese and other Civil Engg. faculty members. The event was organized by Assistant Prof. Divya L, who is handling Design of Concrete Structures-I.
The evaluation was done based upon the perfection of model, presentation of design concept and standard detailing practices. Winning team was announced and will be awarded in the coming AISAT Civil Engineering Association(ACEA) Day.If students are provided the opportunity to explore by their own and provided an optimum learning environment, then the learning process becomes joyful and long-lasting. This model making event was a proof for the same. | <urn:uuid:7844540d-3c4f-4382-9d12-b3eaf9666e02> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aisat.ac.in/2015/11/16/footing-model-making-competition-for-ce-students/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.971257 | 272 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Biblical wisdom isn’t knowing how to make half a dozen young children stand in a straight line, and sit in their chairs quietly while you get your hair cut. Wisdom isn’t the same thing as good advice from a godly friend. Biblical wisdom comes from God’s Word. In fact, Jesus reminds us that a wise mother is one who hears His Word and obeys it (Matthew 7:24-27).
I’m hoping to teach my children to value wisdom. For a description of the wisdom project, click here first.
One of the surprises of the wisdom project I’ve been doing is how much my older children (ages five and three) actually interact with me, instead of just me talking the whole time. This has been exciting.
Here are the questions they’ve asked me:
- Is wisdom when you are nice to people? Here David is trying to figure out what wisdom actually is. I smiled, because I remember wrestling with defining wisdom as a child, too. I said yes, because God tells us to be kind to others, and Jesus said wisdom is when we hear God’s Word and obey it.
- Will wisdom help people understand? This was one of the first times I’ve heard David ask a spontaneous question specifically related to something I’ve read in the Bible. He heard the word understanding as I read.
I suspect he was thinking about understanding wisdom, but maybe that’s just wistful thinking.
- Does wisdom make people go to church? This is an interesting question, because wise people want to learn (Proverbs 1:5), and they clearly understood and remembered this characteristic. My response was Some people go to church because they want to learn. They are wise. Some people go to church because they want other people to think they are wise, not because they want to learn.
- Is a fool someone who does not obey God? Again, David is trying to develop a definition. I told him that a fool is someone who does not even want to obey God.
One of the characteristics they caught on their own was that wisdom causes people not to be afraid (see Proverbs 3:24). Since children are often fearful at night, they easily recognized what a treasure wisdom is. Bethel observed that she is afraid of the dark when Daddy closes the door. I told her that wisdom will help her to trust that God will take care of her in the dark. Bethel isn’t grasping enough while I read to get the characteristics on her own, but when I plainly tell her, she understands and is eager to contribute. I wrote her comment down, too, even though it wasn’t a question.
“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.
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The domestic market has also been affected, according to Mohammad Ayoub, another trader…reports Asian Lite News.
Afghan merchants said that carpet exports to several countries, including India, have been significantly reduced due to the closure of air corridors, adding that there was also a decrease in domestic sales.
“We have products, but exports have stopped,” TOLO News quoted Mohibullah Kohi, a merchant, as saying.
“The air-corridor existed before, the ports were opened, and we exported products to Europe, the US, the UAE, and to India,” he added.
The domestic market has also been affected, according to Mohammad Ayoub, another trader.
“During the past 40 to 50 days, our business has been severed. We had customers outside… We sell the carpets but can’t transfer the money.”
Samira, who has been working in the carpet industry for more than four years, said: “The situation has changed more than ever because earlier the price of the carpets was good and the work we were doing was worth the money, but since the Islamic Emirate came, the carpets we are weaving are not being exported to foreign countries and the price has dropped.”
This comes as the chamber of commerce and investment said that if a substantial market is not found for the carpets, the industry will collapse.
“The air corridor has been closed for the last month and beyond one month,” said Khan Jan Alokozai, a member of the chamber of commerce and investment.
“This has caused big damage to our exports, our exports have not only been reduced, but have completely stopped.”
Afghan carpets recently comprised a billion-dollar-per-year industry.
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Four Innovators Awarded $600,000 from University City Science Center
Four researchers are sharing the hefty prize of $600,000.
It’s all part of the QED Proof-of-Concept Program from the University City Science Center that unites collegiate research from the Greater Philadelphia area with expertise that can bridge the gap between academic research and product commercialization.
Half of their $600,000 winnings are funded by the Science Center, while the researchers’ academic institutions contribute the other halves. Winners were chosen from a pool of 62 applicants from 12 universities throughout the region.
The winners included:
Amy Cowperthwait, University of Delaware
The qualified nurse is tackling deficiencies in mannequin simulation by developing a new method for approaching airway management in emergency situations.
Judith Deutsch, Rutgers University
The professor of rehabilitation and movement science produced an affordable physical therapy technology that tracks movement and heart rate in older adults and people with neurological and musculoskeletal conditions. The automation provides balance, mobility, coordination and fitness training for rehabilitation patients.
Melik Demirel, Penn State
The physician has made gene analysis possible from minuscule amounts of biological samples, like blood, by coating the surface of biomedical swabs with proteins, enhancing the capture of DNA from a sample.
KiBum Lee, Rutgers University
The associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology has revolutionized the traditional method of using viruses to modify a cell’s gene. In his approach towards stem-cell therapy, human patient-derived steam cells are used in people suffering from incurable and incapacitating conditions.
“The QED program excels at finding innovative, commercially relevant solutions for pressing problems in healthcare and life sciences,” said Stephen Tang, president & CEO of the Science Center in a statement. “Our latest round looked for innovative approaches to collaboration as it emphasized partnerships between two groups that don’t typically work together: medical professionals and engineers. Putting together these groups’ different skill sets and perspectives, as exemplified by Amy Cowperthwait’s and Judith Deutsch’s projects, creates another path to improving patient care. You can expect to see more of these special emphasis areas in the future.”
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The Norman Police Department celebrated its centennial anniversary in 2019. In its more than 100 years of existence, the men and women who have worn the uniform and worked within its ranks have left lasting impacts through continued innovation. In 2021, we are celebrating the many contributions of the department's innovators. Throughout the year, we will celebrate our own trailblazers and innovators.
NPD aims to feature the officers and stories that have impacted you as Norman citizens over the years. Share your pictures, stories, and any recommendations with our Historians at email@example.com.
Innovators of NPD
Chief Don Holyfield | Years of Service 1963-1986
Chief Don P. Holyfield, the 13th Chief of Police for the Norman Police Department, began his career as a police officer in 1963 walking a beat. In 1967, he was promoted to Sergeant and appointed to oversee personnel and training. It is in this position that Chief Holyfield began to leave his mark developing a recruitment and selection program for civilian and commissioned personnel, as well as the department's first Police Academy. He was promoted to Chief of Police at the age of 33 in 1975 and served in the position until his retirement in 1986.
Below are few of Chief Holyfield' key innovations that continue to positively impact the department and community today.
- Developed & Implemented Safety Town
- Implemented the Field Training Program
- Developed the Educational Incentive Program
- Started the Neighborhood Watch Program
- Started the Norman Crime Stoppers Program
- Created the Norman Police Academy
- Led the construction of the new police department and training facilities
- Introduced EMS to NPD
- Initiated the computerization of the department
Learn more about Chief Don Holyfield's career and longstanding contributions here.
MPO Lahoma Nelson | Years of Service 1972-1988
One of the department's first female officers, Master Police Officer Lahoma Nelson was a true law enforcement pioneer. Lahoma Nelson was the Norman Police Department's first female civilian employee. She began working for NPD in the 1960s as a clerk. In 1972, she became one of the department's first female officers after graduating from the police academy.
Lahoma is best known for her work in community outreach and public safety education. A founder of Safety Town, Lahoma worked closely with Sooner Mall to establish and create the curriculum for Safety Town. Safety Town has taught generations of children biking and pedestrian safety since its enactment in 1977. Today, more than44 years later, Safety Town remains a staple in the community educating hundreds of children each June. A true labor of love, Lahoma remained an active part of Safety Town for more than 30 years and continued as a volunteer even after her retirement.
A fixture in the classroom, Lahoma also taught safety classes in schools and daycares across Norman and in Little Axe. Community education and outreach remains a priority in Norman due to Lahoma's efforts nearly five decades ago.
Learn more about MPO Lahoma Nelson's career and longstanding contributions here.
MPO Booker Shackelford | Years of Service 1973-1979
Booker Shackelford began his career in Law Enforcement with the City of Norman in 1973; becoming the first African American Police Officer in the history of the department.
Shackelford was a graduate of the 10th Norman Police Academy in April of 1973. Shackelford rose to the rank of Master Police Officer and served as a member of the Norman Police Department Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT) for six years. Shackelford left NPD in 1979 when he was offered a job opportunity with General Motors.
Booker Shackelford would go to work for General Motors for over 20 years before returning to law enforcement. Upon his return to law enforcement, he was employed by the Cleveland County Sheriff's Office as a School Resource Officer. When the program was cut by the Sheriff's Office, Shackelford would go on to work for the Norman Public Schools Police Department where he continued his career until his passing in 2010. Shackelford loved his career as a School Resource Officer.
Shackelford was a man of faith and was active in his church serving in many capacities. Shackelford’s life exemplified service. In 2010, Shackelford was posthumously awarded the City of Norman’s Human Rights Award for his devoted service to his community.
Learn more about MPO Booker Shackelford's career and longstanding contributions here.
Chief David Boyett | Years of Service 1971-1995
Chief David Boyett, the 15th Chief of Police for the Norman Police Department, began his career as a police officer in 1971 walking a beat. Quickly working his way through the ranks of the department, Boyett's leadership and strategic vision yielded great department growth and development. In 1988, Boyett was appointed Chief of Police. A number of innovations that came to fruition during his tenure remain intact and success decades after implementation. Chief Boyett retired in 1995 after 24 years of service to the City of Norman.
Below are few of Chief Boyett's key innovations that continue to positively impact the department and community today.
- Brought Norman's Emergency Medical Services (EMS) to NPD
- Implemented the first Case Management System
- Established the first performance based indicators for NPD
- Implemented the community policing model
- Integrated the use of mobile and video audio recording technology to policing and crime scene processing
- Introduced the use of crime analysis for problem-solving and enforcement
- Developed the first Citizens Police Academy
Learn more about Chief David Boyett's career and longstanding contributions here.
Chief Phil Cotten | Years of Service 1973-2011
Chief Phil Cotten was the 16th and longest serving Chief of Police for the Norman Police Department. Boasting a 38-year tenure, Chief Cotten was well-known for his ability to initiate and build community partnerships. A champion of community-oriented policing, Chief Cotten led the department's unwavering commitment to community engagement, community partnerships, and a focus on community-centered public service. Chief Cotten retired on May 20, 2011.
Below are few of Chief Cotten's key innovations that continue to positively impact the department and community today.
- Continued emphasis on implementation of community-oriented policing
- Implementation of the department's forensic analyst positions
- Initiation of the drug interdiction team
- Implementation of significant technological improvements including advancements in crime scene processing, digital evidence analysis, and a fingerprint comparison database
- Led the transition to modern radio technology, records management software, dispatch CAD, as well as many other modern technological advancements
Learn more about Chief Phil Cotten's career and longstanding contributions here.
Lieutenant Lawrence Gordon Collett | Years of Service 1955-1975
Lieutenant Lawrence Gordon Collett began his career with the Norman Police Department later in life at the age of 34 on September 16, 1955. He was a department innovator in proactive policing and traffic enforcement yielding many firsts for NPD. Lt. Collett retired on March 15,1975.
Below are a few of Lt. Collett's key innovations that continue to positively impact the department and community today.
- First motorcycle officer
- Introduced the department's first K-9 officer and became the first to utilize a police dog for police service in Norman
- Led community outreach initiatives focused on security and crime prevention in Norman's business areas
Learn more about Lt. Collett's career and longstanding contributions here.
Chief Keith Humphrey | Years of Service 2011-2019
Chief Keith Humphrey was the 17th Chief of Police for the Norman Police Department and first Police Chief to come from an outside agency. Bringing years of outside policing experience, Humphrey generated new perspectives on law enforcement, leadership and community-oriented policing. Chief Humphrey served as the head of the department until 2019 when he was named the Chief of Police for the Little Rock Police Department in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Below are few of Chief Humphrey's key innovations that continue to positively impact the department and community today.
- Implemented philosophy of COMPSTAT and DDACTS to track, locate and reduce crime
- Incorporated the six pillar of 21st Century Policing into the agency's strategic plan
- Implemented officer training on diversity and inclusion
- RITE (Racial Intelligence Training and Engagement)
- Established regular forums for community and police dialog
- Partnership with Center for Policing Equity
- Increased the number of officers trained in CIT (Crisis Intervention Team)
- Creation and implementation of the School Resource Officer Program
- Evolved the department's organization structure
- Created the Norman Citizens Advisory Board
- Implemented Body-Worn Camera Program
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A water pump is any device for moving water. The water pump is one of the oldest and most widespread machines, and exists in an enormous variety of styles. The shaduf or shadoofW (bucket on counterweighted lever), a very primitive pump, is known to have existed since about 2000 BCE.
Some uses of water pumps include:
- Obtaining water from ground wells for drinking, cooking, and other purposes.
- Moving water in active solar heating systems.
Pumps may be powered by
- Human muscle power: hand-crank, foot-operated pedal power, reciprocating piston
- Animal power
- Mains electrical power, electric motor
- Battery power
- Solar-electric, photovoltaic collector powering electric motor
- On-site fuel-powered engine: diesel, gasoline; steam engine powered by coal, charcoal, or wood
- Wind power: Windpumps
- Water power: Ram pump, NoriaW
Related projects[edit | edit source]
Windpumps[edit | edit source]
A windpump is a windmill used for pumping water, either as a source of fresh water from wells, or for draining low-lying areas of land. Once a common fixture on farms in semi-arid areas, windpumps are still used today where electric power is not available or too expensive.
The first half of the 20th saw further development, particularly a move toward propeller type wind machines for electricity production. By the 1920's 6 million windpumps were being used in the USA alone and their manufacture and use had become commonplace on every continent.But the glory of the windpump was short-lived. With the advent of cheap fossil fuels in the 1950's and 1960's and the development of pumping technology the windpump became almost obsolete in the USA.
There are manufacturers in several developing countries now producing windpumps. The uptake of wind machines for water pumping, however, has been generally very slow even though the technology is well suited to the demand of many regions of Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Treadle pumps[edit | edit source]
A treadle pump is a human-powered Pump designed to lift water from a depth of seven meters or less. A treadleW is a lever device pressed by the foot to drive a machine, in this case a pump. The treadle pump can do most of the work of a motorized pump, but costs considerably less (75%) to purchase. Because it needs no fossil fuel (it is driven by the operator's body weight and leg muscles, it can also cost less (50%) to operate than a motorized pump. It can lift five to seven cubic meters of water per hour from wells and boreholesW up to seven meters deep and can also be used to draw water from water sources such as lakes and rivers. Many treadle pumps are manufactured locally, but they can be challenging to produce consistently without highly skilled welders and production hardware.
Compared to bucket irrigation, the treadle pump can greatly increase the income that farmers generate from their land by increasing the number of growing seasons, by expanding the types of crops that can be cultivated, and improving on the quality of grown crops.
Standard treadle pumps are Suction pumps, and were first developed in the early 1980s in Bangladesh and made popular by IDE. Since then pressure pumps, a modification to the original design that means water is forced out of the pump under pressure, have also been developed and are widely in use in East Africa though KickStart. Pressure treadle pumps allow farmers to spray water and run sprinklers - saving the need for an elevated water storage tank and suction pump system.
Hydraulic ram pumps[edit | edit source]
The Hydraulic Ram Pump, Hydram, or simply Ram Pump is an automatic pumping device that is capable of pumping water higher than its original source without using electricity or any other power source. It uses just two moving parts, and it is therefore mechanically very simple. This gives it very high reliability, minimal maintenance requirements and a long operation life.
The Hydraulic Ram Pump, Hydram, or simply a Ram Pump is a pump that uses the water hammerW effect from built up water pressure. Using this pressure that has been created by a water source above the pump, it is able to lift water to an elevation higher than the pump. Using just two moving parts, simple fluid mechanics and the energy within the water the Hydraulic Ram Pump is able to run without electricity or any other power source.
Papa ram pump[edit | edit source]
Handpumps[edit | edit source]
The choice of water lifters available is large and varied, making the selection of an appropriate device difficult. In America and Europe during the 19th century the design of mass-produced hand pumps evolved by trial and error rather than through scientific research and development. There are now a large number of adequate, rather than optimum, designs conceived by local manufacturers, and it is hard to know which pump is the best for each application. This brief presents an overview of the types of human-powered water-lifters available, the applications appropriate to them and their comparative advantages.
Water-lifters can be broken down into the following categories:
- Groundwater (open-well, shallow-well and deep-well pumps)
- Surface Water (shadouf, dhone, chain and washer and Archimedean screw)
Rope pumps[edit | edit source]
Industrial hand pumps, such as the Indian Mark II, for communal wells donated by development projects often break down after two years. If maintenance costs are the responsibility of the users, then this cost is too high when repairs prove necessary and the pump is left nonfunctional.
An alternative reliable hand pump is needed for communal and private use to supply clean drinking water and irrigation. These pumps will raise the standard of living if they are low cost, reliable and pump water effectively. Efficiency is critical to irrigate a garden in the dry season due to the relatively large amount of water involved. Such gardens provide food and increased income.
Local affordability, maintenance and good pump efficiency are required features. Local affordability means a twenty-to-hundred-fold cost reduction compared to imported industrial goods. Local maintenance is only possible when made with local resources and skills.
The pumping system should prevent contamination of drinking water by permitting the well to be sealed. This is especially true of communal wells. Industrial pumps need to be bolted onto a concrete slab positioned over the well. However, this makes the water inaccessible when the pump breaks down. Immediate maintenance on the pump or access to the well through an emergency hatch permits continuous access to life-giving water.
Coil pump[edit | edit source]
A coil pump is a low lift pump which is composed of a tube, shaped as a coil and mounted on a rotating axle powered by an engine or an animal capable of turning the axle around rapidly. Due to the rotation, water is then picked up by the tube and pumped upwards in the hose.
Noria[edit | edit source]
A noria (Arabic: ناعورة, nā‘ūra, plural نواعير nawāʿīr, from Syriac: ܢܥܘܪܐ, nā‘orā, lit. "growler") is a hydropowered scoop wheel used to lift water into a small aqueduct, either for the purpose of irrigation or to supply water to cities and villages.
Other designs[edit | edit source]
See also[edit | edit source]
- Optimization and CFD analysis of wind-powered water pump system
- Solar (PV) water-pumping
- Comparison of pumps
- Water wells
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An elated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu roared, “This is the biggest victory of my life!”—but that was Monday.
By Thursday, his voice hoarse, a tired Netanyahu growled, “We won’t let them steal the election!” In the words of Netanyahu’s centrist rival and Israel’s probable next prime minister, Benny Gantz, “Someone here celebrated too early.”
Even Netanyahu’s Dirty Tricks Couldn’t Quite Win Him a Majority
Then came a remarkable cascade of bad news for Netanyahu, Israel’s longest serving prime minister, and its first to be indicted while in office.
Avigdor Lieberman, his onetime defense minister and now a fearsome nemesis, announced his support for a law proposed by Gantz, a former army chief of staff, which would bar an indicted legislator from being appointed to form the government.
Such a law would eliminate any route to immediate political survival for Netanyahu, whose trial in three separate cases of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust is scheduled to open in Jerusalem District Court on March 17.
In an almost never seen instance of Israeli multi-partisanship that Israeli media call “the anti-Bibi coalition,” this law enjoys the support of 62 members of the 120-member Knesset, from the majority-Arab Joint List through the left-wing Labor Party, and now, unto Lieberman, a hardline secular right-winger.
Further, Lieberman, who holds seven potentially king-making Knesset seats, announced that he would recommend Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin choose Gantz to form the next government.
It is the third election in under a year in which Netanyahu—and Gantz—have failed to secure an operating majority of the Knesset, but for Netanyahu the stakes are higher.
Alon Pinkas, Israel’s former consul general in New York and adviser to former prime minister Ehud Barak, noted in an interview with The Daily Beast, that, “For the third time in one year, Netanyahu pushed for an election with one goal in mind: getting a 61-seat majority to grant him an immunity from prosecution over three severe indictments he is facing. For the third time he failed.”
Netanyahu “could not form a government in April 2019, September 2019 and he cannot and will not form a government following the March 2020 election,” said Pinkas. “Cut the electorate however you want, in all three instances a [slim] majority sent a resounding ‘no’ to his anti-democratic, anti-legal, it’s-all-about-me message.”
And Netanyahu was about to receive another blow.
Late Thursday, Moshe Yaalon, another former army chief of staff and the most hardline rightist in the Gantz centrist coalition, agreed to support a minority government led by Gantz, with the support of the Joint List, the Arab-majority party that leaped from 13 Knesset seats to 15 even as Netanyahu intensified his attack on Arab citizens, who form 21 percent of Israel’s population.
“Gantz is joining forces with terror supporters!” Netanyahu declared in a meeting of his coalition members. “Gantz’s move undermines the foundations of Israeli democracy and subverts the will of the voter. We’ll stand strong against it.”
Joint List chairman Ayman Odeh, 45, a Haifa attorney and one of the election’s biggest winners, replied, “Netanyahu wouldn’t recognize what democracy is.”
“Pack your things, Bibi,” Odeh tweeted. “You’re going home.”
As the situation unfolded Thursday night, Netanyahu asked his attorney general to “immediately” open a criminal investigation into alleged Lieberman electoral shenanigans a decade ago. Lieberman responded with a press release: seven laughing/crying emojis and not a single word.
By dawn on Friday, an increasingly cornered Netanyahu was accusing Supreme Court Justice Neal Hendel, who chairs Israel’s electoral commission, the body responsible for counting the votes, of criminal malfeasance. Netanyahu promised to petition the supreme court to investigate Hendel’s political affiliations.
The commission condemned any implication of impropriety, and Gantz posted that “counting all the votes, including those of citizens under quarantine due to fears of the coronavirus, is the basis of a democratic country, and one must respect the results and the voters’ choice—and no less the work of the Electoral Commission.”
Former Chief of Staff Yaalon noted darkly that “Netanyahu is refusing to respect the results of the election. His incitement could lead to a political assassination.”
Acknowledging Netanyahu’s “cult following of around 20 or 30 seats that thinks he’s a god-send and indispensable national treasure,” Pinkas said, “a majority thinks perhaps it’s time to go.”
How did this happen? Relying on exit polls, Monday’s Netanyahu believed that counting his own party’s votes and those of his coalition partners, he had secured 60 out of the Israeli parliament’s 120 seats, and would find a way to squeak by on a narrow majority.
One route appeared to be poaching wavering opposition legislators. In a television interview on Tuesday, Netanyahu spokesman Yonatan Orich foresaw that “the establishment of a government is a matter of a few days.”
“We’ve already spoken with four to six opposition Knesset members,” he said. But the targeted legislators each denied any chance of their possible defection. “Nonsense. It won’t happen,” tweeted Omer Yankelevich, a young rising star in Gantz’s Blue and White, whom Netanyahu’s Likud party threatened to blackmail by releasing videos of her that were of a “personal nature.”
As Netanyahu increasingly catered in recent years to the demands of religious-right-wing coalition partners who squeezed him for funding and favorable policies in exchange for their support, his base has shrunk from a once loose, big-tent alliance of conservative voters to a smaller clique of true believers.
The Nation-State Law, which he passed in July 2018 to satisfy the ultra-right-wingers in his cabinet, may have lost him the election.
The law has no practical effect, but by declaring that only Jews in Israel have “the right to exercise national self-determination,” and by downgrading Arabic from an official language to one with an undefined “special status,” Netanyahu alienated the last traditional rule-of-law Likud voters while kicking out of the tent conservative Arabs and the Druze, a minority group that traditionally supported the Likud.
Druze voters who once gave the party over 90 percent of their ballots have switched en masse to Gantz, whose first campaign promise was to amend the law. Fewer than 10 percent of Druze votes went to Netanyahu on Monday.
“The Druze vote should be seen as a protest against the Likud and against the right, who betrayed them with the Nation-State Law,” said Amal Asad, a retired Israeli army general and leader of the protest movement against the law told The Daily Beast. “With the cameras rolling, the Blue and White leadership promised us they would fix it. That is what the Druze voted for.”
Meanwhile, votes were being counted. Over two and a half days, the Likud’s coalition slipped from an high of 60 seats to 59 to 58, where it hovered for a day before the pollsters’ disbelieving eyes.
Odeh said his party gained 20,000 new ballots from leftwing Jewish voters “disgusted” by the right-wing establishment.
A generation of Israelis has known no other prime minister than Netanyahu, who has been in office for close to 12 years. As Israel’s political arena appeared to veer close to the danger zone, Gantz felt he had to reassure Israelis that “there will be no civil war.”
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con-, 强调。-nub, 婚姻，词源同nubile, nuptial.
- connubial: see nubile
- connubial (adj.)
- 1650s, from Latin connubialis, variant of conubialis "pertaining to wedlock," from conubium "marriage," from com- "together" (see com-) + nubere "to wed" (see nuptial).
- 1. She had brought about danger to Edward's connubial happiness.
- 2. Hogan told me he had tasted the joys of connubial bliss.
- 3. Her absence had brought about danger to Edward's connubial happiness.
- 4. The desolateness overcame all his connubial fears - he called loudly for his wife and children.
- 这种荒凉的感觉压倒了他的一切惧内心理 ― ―他大声喊他的老婆和孩子.
- 5. Connubial: Relating to marriage or the married state; conjugal.
- 婚姻的: 与婚姻或婚姻状况有关的; 夫妻间的.
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Chemistry is the science of the transformation of matter.
When making batch syntheses the final product is analyzed where after some parameters, such as temperature, synthesis time, pH, concentration etc. are changed in order observe how it affects the final product. It is possible to investigate how particle forms and growth as a function of time by doing an in situ study which is often done at synchrotron facilities.
With new synchrotron instrumentation and time resolution, the complexity of the reactions that can be studied will be improved. In-situ Powder X-Ray Diffraction (PXRD) has for the past decade been used extensively for studies of crystal-lization and solid state transformations and recently we introduced for the first time in-situ supercritical fluid reactors, which allow studies at high pressure and high temperature.
Supercritical fluid processes are ideal for synthesis of nanoparticles on a time scale of seconds rather than hours. This new field will provide novel insights about nanoparticle growth, formation and structure.
This is possible by monitoring the reaction with scattering measurements employing hard X-rays or neutrons. By measuring both Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) and Wide Angle X-ray Scattering (WAXS) information on particle size and aggregation can be obtained (from SAXS) at the same time as information on crystallite size, crystallinity and phase transformations (from WAXS)
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On your bike
Startups Magazine speaks to two cycle-tech startups, Beryl and JIVR, working on solutions to tackle urban congestion and pollution.
London is one of the most polluted areas in the UK, and as Emily Brooke MBE, Founder of Beryl said: "London was designed for people to live there and drive cars – but wasn't designed for this many people and this many cars." Since 2010 the city has in fact suffered from illegal levels of air pollution, and dangerous levels of nitrogen dioxide which mainly comes from diesel vehicles.
However, thankfully some people are taking action, there are a number of startups working to get more people travelling and commuting via bike, especially in large cities. Beryl's mission to make a better world through bikes is similar to that of JIVR, a startup that created the world's first electric, foldable and chainless bike with the aim to encourage commuters to change to a more economical way of travelling.
Beryl creates bike accessories to make people safer and feel more comfortable when cycling in large cities. Beryl believes that bikes have much to offer cities, as part of an enlightened transport system, and can allow transport to flow in the most clean, simple and sustainable way.
On another tack, Cycle.land developed out of the Oxford University Innovation incubator, is a bike sharing marketplace startup with the aim to unlock the assets of unused bikes to move towards globally sustainable urban transport. The idea is to make bikes readily available and affordable, because as cities grow at rapid speeds without sustainable infrastructure, there is a strain on transportation, congestion and pollution.
So simple but effective? Is the 202 year old bicycle the answer to some of our biggest pollution problems? Cycle.land strongly believes the simple but effective bicycle could be the disruptor we need in urban mobility. The startup has successfully raised over £200,000 in a second equity crowdfunding campaign through Seedrs, and has so far successfully completed the European launch and operation of billion-dollar mobility startups in bike sharing.
The message here is clear, bikes are the next big thing and not only are all these cycling startups encouraging us to save the planet, but they are also trying to save our health.
Exploring cities, cycling and safety solutions, Beryl addresses the frightening statistic that 79% of bikes are involved in accidents travelling straight ahead with someone turning into them.
When Emily Brooke, MBE and Founder of Beryl, decided to change university course from physics at Oxford to product design at Brighton she found herself behind the wheels of a bike in a big city and found it very stressful. "I was a student and I had never been on a road bike as an adult, and when I changed universities, I spent all summer learning to ride a bike in the countryside which was lovely, relaxing and beautiful but in the cities I found it exhausting, stressful and dangerous."
Brooke trained for four months and then cycled 1,000 miles from the tip of Cornwall to the tip of Scotland, which is where she essentially learnt how to properly ride a bike. Then the following week went into her final year project back at Uni, Brooke said: "Having just fallen in love with cycling I gave myself the theme of urban cycling, and wanted to identify and tackle the biggest problem for cyclists."
Safety is the biggest worry for people who cycle in the city, and the biggest barrier for people who don't, Brooke explained. "I spent six to eight months working with a driving psychologist researching and looking at the data and statistics of road accidents."
Brooke said one statistic in particular amazed her: 79% of bikes are involved in accidents travelling straight ahead with someone turning into them. Brooke said: "I was thinking about that problem, biking around town and I could see a white van in front of me and I remember thinking if I was just five yards ahead he would see me. I wish I had a virtual me warning him I was coming."
And this was the eureka moment! Brooke thought: "I can project myself in front of me," and from here the Laserlight was born, a device which projects a bright laser image on the road ahead of you to let drivers know you're there – even if you're in the blind spot!
The Laserlight was Beryl's first product launched on Kickstarter back in 2013 with the next generation, the Laserlight Core, launching last year. Both models include the same core functionalities; the quality of optics and lasers, they are both waterproof and have a high-quality battery. But the Laserlight Core does have a few key differences, it's lighter and also has a day flash mode and bracket which is removable in one movement.
The main mission for Beryl is to build a better world by getting more people in cities on bikes. Brooke said: "The Laserlight tackles one of the biggest barriers for personal safety. It's the number one reason people don't get on a bike in a city, so anything we can do to make people feel more visible and safer we will, and have."
Brooke explained further that they believe by getting more people on bikes it will mean less people in cars and on public transport, which will make a big difference to everyone in the city.
Beryl, has not always been known as Beryl, it was formerly called Blaze. But thanks to an American company and American trading laws Brooke had to change the name, which she described as extremely difficult. "Everything these days is a name that could sound like or be like something else, so finding something that isn't already taken or protected is near on impossible."
After two creative agencies, endless brainstorming, and almost a year of working on it the name Beryl was discovered. "A friend in America had the idea. Beryl Burton was this amazing British cyclist role model, she won 90 domestic championship medals, seven world championship medals, and set the MEN's 12 hour time track record, which she held for two years before it was broken."
Not only that, but the word Beryl also derives from an emerald which is of course, green. Brooke explained: "That iconic colour green you see on the streets of London, New York, Montreal and everywhere where there are cyclists – which links to the green gem, the emerald."
Beryl has a number of products that all relate to cycling and more importantly safety and visibility. She explained: "One of them in particular, the Pixel, is fantastic for runners, as it's a very small light."
The Pixel can be a front light or back light as it has both a red and white light, and can be clipped on to the front or back of your bike, on to your clothing, your helmet or even your dog when out running. Brooke said: "It's really versatile and ideal for runners because if you think about it the amount of people out this time of year training for marathons, getting up early before work, or even after work when its dark - you see very few with lights on."
Beryl has two sides to its business. There is the consumer side, but it has also integrated its technology into fleets of bikes, the latest of which are in London. Brooke said: "The 12,000 Santander bicycles have our lasers on them. We have done this twice, the first time we kitted out the fleet, and we actually co-designed the second release of Santander bicycles."
Beryl's lasers are also in the bikes of Montreal, Glasgow and New York, and Brooke said she loves travelling around the world. "We are obviously more successful in commuter cities, for example New York."
Brooke, at the age of 31, has received an MBE for services to transport and the economy back in 2017. "I have no idea how I got it – it's all very secret," Brooke exclaimed. "I was very very shocked, my mother was even more so. She thought I had got a speeding ticket, which is impossible as I sold my car for my bike, and put every penny towards the bike!" Brooke explained further: "To start with I felt quite embarrassed, I work with some very accomplished, often much older men in this sector, and it felt a bit uncomfortable to just pop up and get an award. But actually someone commented on my sister's Facebook page, 'if any young person out there has an idea and doesn't know whether they want to pursue it – this is the reason why you should'."
Brooke explained it can be tough in this industry, as it is a competitive space especially with all the cheaper products being made in China, but Brooke claims that Beryl is unique as the Laserlight is the only product in the world that projects a laser light metres in front of the rider. However she described her hardest challenge as: "Finding women to join the team, we have quite a big engineering team, and typically that has more male applicants." But she did assure me there are more women on the team now.
JIVR is the world's first electric, foldable and chainless bike – all in one package. Yes there are other electric foldable bikes and foldable chainless bikes, but JIVR is the first product that has all three.
You can fold it, charge it and there's no need to fix the chain. Headquartered in Poland, JIVR aims to help cut down the number of urban commuters on public transport, whilst aiding these commuters to deal with the traffic congestion that comes with city life. The company was founded back in 2011 by Marcin Piatkowski who was at the time studying in London. When meeting with Joseph Cardone, JIVR's UK Sales Representative, in the streets of London to test the bike out myself, he explained: "The goal is to get more people out of their cars and on bikes. Our product is saving the planet and encouraging more people to be more active."
What are the biggest reasons people put off cycling? We often hear commuters say they don't want to be sweaty or dirty by the time they get to work, or that they often take the tube or train so it's hard to take a bike, therefore JIVR designed this bike to answer these excuses.
The design includes the electric feature, yes you still have to pedal (it's a legal requirement for a bike to have pedals, otherwise it's a scooter!) But by just pedalling once, depending on which setting you select through the button on the handle, it will give you up to three times the power. "A lot less effort means a lot less sweat!" Cardone explained.
Of course the foldable feature is so that users can take the bike easily on and off trains, tubes and even in the back of a taxi if it's been a tough day. The foldable feature also means the bikes can be kept indoors, at home or at the office and take up half the space.
Finally the JIVR bike is chainless to prevent unnecessary mess, so you can get to work as clean as you left home. The company is also in the process of adding a mud flap to prevent dirt spreading and spraying up your back. The bike has been designed to be unisex, it includes a low bike frame on purpose with women in mind. Cardone explained: "Say for example if women are wearing a long skirt or dress, the low frame means they can just step over it without having to lift their leg right up." It also comes in a range of colours again to attract everyone, but also so the product looks more than just your 'typical bike'. "It interests people who are into their technology and like to be a bit different," explained Cardone.
Cardone said the warmer weather benefits the profits: "In the summer we had a big boom due to the weather, as people especially love riding a bike in the summer so we're hoping for the same again this year."
JIVR is currently in the process of fundraising and is looking to raise €850,000 on Seedrs, which will go towards the development of four new products. JIVR Senses is one of these new products which essentially is a project that aims to improve the rider's safety.
The rider's safety and security is an important issue for JIVR and JIVR Senses helps in making them more visible by delivering additional 'senses' and post-factum footage. JIVR Senses will consist of a set of sensors and recorders in order to monitor the environment around the cyclist. It will also include a black box to store the data, and an accelerometer to identify the cyclist's position and detect suspicious movements.
JIVR is currently being used across Germany and England with plans to expand to Spain. Martin Kasz, Product Marketing Lead, also commented and said JIVR consider themselves to be a disruptor in the market as it is completely reimagining the cycling experience, especially from the viewpoint of safety, by implementing technologies pioneered in the automotive industry that have become standard there but, for some reason, haven't migrated to e-bikes until now.
Kasz added: "Today's consumer is used to constant and useful technological enhancements in any number of areas in their lives but, when it's time to hop on a bike, their expectations are stuck in a time decades ago because manufacturers have not conditioned customers to expect a different bike, a better bike than what they used as a child. We're updating everything about the bike itself, how it's used and the ways it can improve the lives of riders." | <urn:uuid:e0a2823f-7a40-458b-a58f-948337a81969> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://startupsmagazine.co.uk/article-your-bike | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.977154 | 2,787 | 2.34375 | 2 |
During the 1880's there was a craze for canoes. One of the leading builders of the time was J. Henry Rushton. His most famous canoe was the Wee Lassie. He first built this boat for George Washington Sears, known as "Nessmuk" who called his boat the "Sairy Gamp". Sairy Gamp was about as minimal a boat imaginable weight about 10 lbs, but Nessmuk used her for long expeditions traveling through the Adirondacks.Nymph is a modern interpretation of the minimalist ideas originated by Sairy Gamp. Using modern cedar-strip construction encapsulated in fiberglass, this design is lightweight and robust. It has tucked in gunwales that make paddling comfortable while allowing enough waterline width for good stability.The construction of this boat is described starting in the November/December 2007 issue of WoodenBoat Magazine (issue #199 and 200).
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Dr Ellie Harrison
School of Biosciences
NERC Independent Research Fellow
- Independent P3 Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield, UK (2017‒present)
- ERC Postdoctoral Research Assistant on the ‘Coevolution of bacteria and conjugative plasmids’ at the University of York, UK (2012–2017)
- NERC Postdoctoral Research Assistant on ‘Host-symbiont coevolution: exploring the parasitism-mutualism continuum’ in the Institute for Integrative Biology at the University of Liverpool, UK (2010–2012)
- PhD ‘Evolution of a Selfish Genetic Element: The 2 Micron Plasmid of Saccharomyces spp.’ at the NERC Centre for Population Biology at Imperial College, London, UK (2006–2010)
- Research interests
I am interested in the ecology and evolution of microbial communities, particularly in the interactions between bacteria and the mobile genetic elements that infect them. Elements such as plasmids and phages play key roles in these communities; acting not only as agents of horizontal gene transfer by carrying with them bacterial genes when they move between hosts, but also as parasites as they exploit their bacterial hosts for their own replication.
In my work I explore how coevolution shapes these interactions and how they, in turn, impact the wider community.
This person does not have any publications available.
- Why are rhizobial symbiosis genes mobile?. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 377(1842).
- Introduction: the secret lives of microbial mobile genetic elements. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 377(1842).
- Why do plasmids manipulate the expression of bacterial phenotypes?. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 377(1842).
- Ecological and evolutionary solutions to the plasmid paradox. Trends in Microbiology.
- Introducing a novel, broad host range temperate phage family infecting Rhizobium leguminosarum and beyond. Frontiers in Microbiology, 12(11). View this article in WRRO
- Plasmid fitness costs are caused by specific genetic conflicts enabling resolution by compensatory mutation. PLoS Biology, 19(10).
- The dilution effect limits plasmid horizontal transmission in multispecies bacterial communities. Microbiology, 167(9).
- Genetic variation is associated with differences in facilitative and competitive interactions in the Rhizobium leguminosarum species complex. Environmental Microbiology. View this article in WRRO
- Positive selection inhibits plasmid coexistence in bacterial genomes. mBio, 12(3).
- The impact of intra-specific diversity in the rhizobia-legume symbiosis. Microbiology, 167(4).
- The impact of mercury selection and conjugative genetic elements on community structure and resistance gene transfer. Frontiers in Microbiology, 11.
- The ecology and evolution of pangenomes. Current Biology, 29(20), R1094-R1103. View this article in WRRO
- Extremely fast amelioration of plasmid fitness costs by multiple functionally diverse pathways. Microbiology. View this article in WRRO
- Assessing evolutionary risks of resistance for new antimicrobial therapies. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 3(4), 515-517. View this article in WRRO
- Mobile Compensatory Mutations Promote Plasmid Survival. mSystems, 4(1). View this article in WRRO
- Competitive species interactions constrain abiotic adaptation in a bacterial soil community. Evolution Letters, 2(6), 580-589. View this article in WRRO
- Migration promotes plasmid stability under spatially heterogeneous positive selection. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences, 285. View this article in WRRO
- Plasmid stability is enhanced by higher-frequency pulses of positive selection. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences. View this article in WRRO
- Variable plasmid fitness effects and mobile genetic element dynamics across Pseudomonas species. Fems Microbiology Ecology, 94(1). View this article in WRRO
- Sampling the mobile gene pool: innovation via horizontal gene transfer in bacteria.. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 372(1735).
- Ecological and Evolutionary Benefits of Temperate Phage: What Does or Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger. BioEssays, 39(12). View this article in WRRO
- Positive selection inhibits gene mobilization and transfer in soil bacterial communities. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 1, 1348-1353. View this article in WRRO
- The evolution of plasmid stability: Are infectious transmission and compensatory evolution competing evolutionary trajectories?. Plasmid, 91, 90-95. View this article in WRRO
- Conflicting selection alters the trajectory of molecular evolution in a tripartite bacteria–plasmid–phage interaction. Molecular Ecology, 26(10), 2757-2764. View this article in WRRO
- Gene mobility promotes the spread of resistance in bacterial populations. ISME Journal. View this article in WRRO
- Bacterial evolution: Resistance is a numbers game. Nature Microbiology. View this article in WRRO
- Ecological conditions determine extinction risk in co-evolving bacteria-phage populations. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 16(1), 227-227. View this article in WRRO
- Multi-host environments select for host-generalist conjugative plasmids. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 16(1). View this article in WRRO
- Source–sink plasmid transfer dynamics maintain gene mobility in soil bacterial communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(29), 8260-8265. View this article in WRRO
- Rapid compensatory evolution promotes the survival of conjugative plasmids. Mobile Genetic Elements, 6(3). View this article in WRRO
- Environmentally co-occurring mercury resistance plasmids are genetically and phenotypically diverse and confer variable context-dependent fitness effects. Environmental Microbiology, 17(12), 5008-5022. View this article in WRRO
- Parallel Compensatory Evolution Stabilizes Plasmids across the Parasitism-Mutualism Continuum. Current Biology, 25(15), 2034-2039. View this article in WRRO
- Polylysogeny magnifies competitiveness of a bacterial pathogenin vivo. Evolutionary Applications, 8(4), 346-351.
- Plasmid carriage can limit bacteria–phage coevolution. Biology Letters, 11(8), 20150361-20150361.
- Sex drives intracellular conflict in yeast. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 27(8), 1757-1763.
- Rapidly fluctuating environments constrain coevolutionary arms races by impeding selective sweeps. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280(1764). View this article in WRRO
- Viral host-adaptation: insights from evolution experiments with phages. Current Opinion in Virology, 3(5), 572-577.
- The cost of copy number in a selfish genetic element: the 2-μmplasmid ofSaccharomyces cerevisiae. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 25(11), 2348-2356.
- Plasmid-mediated horizontal gene transfer is a coevolutionary process. Trends in Microbiology, 20(6), 262-267.
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Has the time come for a professional data science body to create an accreditation system?
Being a data scientist involves a wide range of diverse skills, such as mathematics, statistics, programming, business knowledge, machine learning, and on and on. And there are a number of routes into the discipline, from university courses, on-the-job training, self-taught & online courses, and data-intense PhDs.
This jumble of skills and routes means no two data scientists look the same. Combined with the variety of domains that data scientists work in, and the innovative nature of the role, it is hard to definitively list the required skills of a data scientist.
Does this ambiguity create a problem? Would an accreditation system help, or would it stifle innovation? And who could possibly be the gatekeeper?
To what degree are data scientists accountable for the impact of their work?
The ethical significance of data science, and the implications for industries and the wider public, is constantly evolving. As data science methods become more common, there are both opportunities and challenges for individuals working in data science (‘practitioners’).
For example, managing privacy, fairness and bias can be difficult and complex when using algorithmic methods. Additionally, public perceptions are still developing around many aspects of data science, including the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in systems and decision making, and ‘big data’ sources about people, such as social media and mobile phone data.
Given this ethical maze, how should a data scientist regard their responsibility to wider society?
Join the discussion with our panel - confirmed so far:
- Danielle Belgrave - Principal Researcher, Machine Learning, Microsoft Research
- David Hoyle – Senior Research Data Scientist, Dunnhumby
- Giles Pavey – Global Director of Data Science, Unilever
- Graeme Phillipson – Senior Research & Development Engineer, BBC
- Magnus Rattray – Director, Institute of Data Science & AI, University of Manchester
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35 individuals across the country have fallen ill from an outbreak of salmonella, a bacterial pathogen. Of those individuals, 11 were hospitalized with a resulting infection. Food-borne illnesses, while accounting for a a lower percentage of deaths than other illnesses, are a particular concern given their random appearance and often preventable nature. The bacteria, like salmonella, causes what 1.2 million people per year experience as food poisoning. Given the common nature of these types of illnesses, you should know what to watch for, how to treat it, and how to prevent it.
Varieties of salmonella are bacteria that are found in many common food items along the supply chain. These bacteria originate inside humans and animals in most cases, so the problem is a lack of sanitation by workers somewhere between the farm and your table. The current outbreak, from North Carolina, has been traced to rodent activity at a production facility. Feces is a common vector for this bacteria. Dirty water, improperly butchered meat, and unsanitary facilities are among the sorts of factors that influence the spread of this bacteria.
It is common, with 1.2 million cases per year and of which 1 million of which are from food related causes. It is usually seen in patients as a classically unpleasant food poisoning: diarrhea, fever and stomach cramps that resolve in 4 to 7 days. Advanced cases may involve dehydration and hospitalization due to the infection spreading, requiring antibiotics. “Food-borne illness is one of the most unpleasant and common causes of intestinal distress that we see in our practice, but one which is treatable. However, the causes are preventable but very often not through the fault of the patient.”, notes Dr. Marc Pesa of Scioto Urgent Care in Columbus, OH. It may not be impossible to prevent in cases with unfamiliar foods or cooks, but there are steps you can take to drastically reduce your risk.
Outside the home, try to dine at restaurants known for their quality or fresh ingredients and a record of high standards. Properly cooked and prepared foods, cooked to the correct temperatures, are usually safe to eat and feel confident in. Where you have doubt, you may find that avoiding eggs and meat proteins may reduce your risk of bacterial contamination. The restaurants themselves can prevent the spread by having tight quality control of their suppliers, practicing proper hand sanitation and cooking items to proper temperatures.
At home, much of the same rules apply. Cook the food fully, wash your hands, and watch for particularly at-risk food items. If you’re buying from the grocery store it’s important to keep your ears out for any recalls or improperly stocked food items, such as past sell-by date items. While not directly related, it can reflect that stores commitment to quality.
Salmonella and similar functioning bacteria are a common risk, but not one that can not be mitigated or treated. Reports of large outbreaks at particular facilities are concerning, and you should pay attention just in case you are ever prevented. If you encounter symptoms that go beyond the standard boundaries of normal illness, please visit a medical facility like Scioto Urgent Care or visit a hospital for further treatment. These illnesses can be treated but should not be taken lightly.
About Scioto Urgent Care
Scioto Urgent Care is one of central Ohio’s leading urgent care facilities. Located on the Northwest side of Columbus (near Dublin & Upper Arlington) the urgent care center has been treating patients since early 2004. Scioto Urgent Care is a convenient health care alternative when your regular family physician is closed or you can’t get a timely appointment.
The Northwest Columbus urgent care location is open everyday, including weekends and holidays. You do not need to be a regular Scioto Urgent Care health care patient to enjoy our convenience and medical care. No appointment is necessary. Just walk in and receive care when you need it most.
Scioto Urgent Care
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Columbus, OH 43235
United States of America
Phone: (614) 789-9464
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By Alea Wittler
At first glance, it’s hard to think of commonwealth assets in my community, but there are actually a bunch! First, what is a Commonwealth Asset? There are twelve key Assets of Commonwealth that include; Education, Health, Leisure & Recreation, Spirituality, History, Sense of Place, Arts & Culture, Water Cycle, Wildlife & The Natural World, Soil & Mineral Cycle, Foodshed, and Renewable Energy. These assets are always present in any community and they are how Ogallala Commons focuses its energy, time, and resources on helping to revitalize small communities among the Ogallala Aquifer. Some assets in my own community (Baca County) include; five schools in the county along with healthcare in Springfield (a central location for everyone in the community), plenty of basketball courts, community centers, and lakes for recreation and leisure. My community also has a very strong spirituality asset as there are a bunch of churches sprinkled about my community. My area is FILLED with history, there are stories everywhere about how the towns were made and started, how some towns survived and others didn’t, and there is still a little of what seems like a grudge held between towns because some of the towns feel like the county seat was stolen from them! The sense of place is very strong in my community. A lot of people are very proud of their heritage and culture. Something that often represents this sense of pride is the beautiful sunsets we have here, and the many windmills the represent the area as well! Speaking of windmills, that and solar energy panels are how renewable energy is harnessed in my area. The water cycle is achieved with the rain and the water in the canyons we have here, the canyons also contribute to the wildlife asset as well as they are filled with animals! Since Baca County is a big farming area, the soil and mineral cycle is often used when farming and in the massive wind storms, we have when it blows around to a new place! In conclusion, there are many more assets in my community than might meet the eye and they are each vital to keeping the community healthy! | <urn:uuid:fcb799e8-4117-4e4c-98d5-ab91cadbad23> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ogallalacommons.org/common-wealth-assets-4/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.977015 | 447 | 2.484375 | 2 |
I’m sure that anyone living through the events of 2020 would agree, these are truly wild times. So, when I stumbled across some purple coneflowers that appeared to be growing flowers out of flowers, I thought to myself, “Of course! Why not!?!” The world is upside down. Anything is possible.
As it turns out, however, this phenomenon occurs more frequently than I was aware. But it’s not necessarily a good thing, particularly if you’re concerned about plant health. We’ll get to that in a minute. First, what’s going on with these flowers?
Flowers in the aster family are unique. They have the appearance of being a single flower but are actually a cluster of two types of much smaller flowers all packed in together. Purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) is a great example of this. Its flower heads are composed of dozens of disc flowers surrounded by a series of ray flowers. The minuscule disc flowers form the cone-like center of the inflorescence. The petals that surround the cone are individual ray flowers. This tight cluster of many small flowers (or florets) is known as a composite. Sunflowers are another example of this type of inflorescence.
Flowers are distinct organs. Not only are they the reproductive structures of flowering plants, but unlike the rest of the plant, they exhibit determinate growth. Flowers are, after all, plant shoots that have been “told” to stop growing like other shoots and instead modify themselves into reproductive organs and other associated structures. Unlike other shoots, which continue to grow (or at least have the potential to), a flower (and the fruit it produces) is the end result for this reproductive shoot. This is what is meant by determinate growth. However, sometimes things go awry, and the modified shoots and leaves that make up a flower don’t develop as expected, producing some bizarre looking structures as a result.
An example of this is a double flower. Plants with double flowers have mutations in their genes that cause disruptions during floral development. This means that their stamens and carpels (the reproductive organs of the flowers) don’t develop properly. Instead, they become additional petals or flowers, resulting in a flower composed of petals upon petals upon petals – a look that some people like, but that have virtually nothing to offer the pollinators that typically visit them. Because of their ornamental value, double-flowered varieties of numerous species – including purple coneflower – can be found in the horticultural trade.
Genetic mutations are one way that odd looking flowers come about. It is not the cause, however, of the freak flowers that I recently came across. What I witnessed was something called phyllody and was the result of an infection most likely introduced to the plant by a leafhopper or some other sap-sucking insect. Phyllody, which has a variety of causes, is a disruption in plant hormones that leads to leaves growing in place of flower parts. As a result, the flowers become sterile and green in color. In the case of purple coneflower, leafy structures are produced atop shoots arising from the middle of ray and/or disc florets. In other species, shoots aren’t visible and instead the inflorescence is just a cluster of leaves. In a sense, the reproductive shoot has returned to indeterminate growth, having switched back to shoot and leaf production.
Phyllody can have either biotic or abiotic causes. Biotic meaning infection by plant pathogens – including certain viruses, bacteria, and fungi – or damage by insects. Abiotic factors like hot weather and lack of water can result in a temporary case of phyllody in some plants. Phyllody plus a number of other symptoms made it clear that the purple coneflower I encountered had a fairly common disease known as aster yellows. This condition is caused by a bacterial parasite called a phytoplasma, and is introduced to the plant via a sap-sucking insect. It then spreads throughout the plant, infecting all parts. The phyllody was a dead give away, but even the flowers that weren’t alien-looking were discolored. The typical vibrant purple of the ray flowers was instead a faded pink color. The flowers that had advanced phyllody – along with the rest of the plant – were turning yellow-green.
Hundreds of plant species are susceptible to aster yellows, and not just those in the aster family. Once a plant is infected with aster yellows, it has it for good and will never grow or reproduce properly. For this reason, it is best to remove infected plants from the garden to avoid spreading the infection to other plants. As cool as the flowers may look, infected plants just aren’t worth saving.
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- Roeder, A.H.K and Yanofsky, M.F. 2001. Unraveling the mystery of double flowers. Developmental Cell 1:1, 4-6.
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The elves and the shoemaker
There was once a shoemaker, who worked very hard and was very honest: but still he could not earn enough to live upon; and at last all he had in the world was gone, save just leather enough to make one pair of shoes.
Then he cut his leather out, all ready to make up the next day, meaning to rise early in the morning to his work. His conscience was clear and his heart light amidst all his troubles; so he went peaceably to bed, left all his cares to Heaven, and soon fell asleep. In the morning after he had said his prayers, he sat himself down to his work; when, to his great wonder, there stood the shoes all ready made, upon the table. The good man knew not what to say or think at such an odd thing happening. He looked at the workmanship; there was not one false stitch in the whole job; all was so neat and true, that it was quite a masterpiece.
The same day a customer came in, and the shoes suited him so well that he willingly paid a price higher than usual for them; and the poor shoemaker, with the money, bought leather enough to make two pairs more. In the evening he cut out the work, and went to bed early, that he might get up and begin betimes next day; but he was saved all the trouble, for when he got up in the morning the work was done ready to his hand. Soon in came buyers, who paid him handsomely for his goods, so that he bought leather enough for four pair more. He cut out the work again overnight and found it done in the morning, as before; and so it went on for some time: what was got ready in the evening was always done by daybreak, and the good man soon became thriving and well off again.
One evening, about Christmas-time, as he and his wife were sitting over the fire chatting together, he said to her, 'I should like to sit up and watch tonight, that we may see who it is that comes and does my work for me.' The wife liked the thought; so they left a light burning, and hid themselves in a corner of the room, behind a curtain that was hung up there, and watched what would happen. | <urn:uuid:15c0a500-b710-4841-a54b-2508f312d930> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://english.skazk.ru/catalog/fairy-tale/all-authors/brothers-grimm/skazka-the-elves-and-the-shoemaker-1687/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.995087 | 473 | 2.21875 | 2 |
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (Christian Examiner)—As much of the nation turns its eyes this month to college basketball and March Madness, fans will watch a game its founder—an ordained Christian minister—intended, at least in part, as a missionary endeavor.
"Naismith's goals in life, as he stated on his application to the International YMCA Training School, were to try to help 'win men for the Master,' to build character and to be an example for the men," said Michael Zogby, a University of Kansas religion professor who has been doing research on the role of religion in the rise of basketball.
The game Naismith invented nearly 125 years ago at that YMCA has become nothing short of a global phenomenon.
The average NBA team is worth more than $1.5 billion. More than 400 million people globally follow the NBA, the highest professional level of the sport. The NCAA Basketball Championship tournament (aka "March Madness")—a 68-team, three-week maddening rush to crown a college champion— generated 350 million Twitter and Facebook impressions last year.
More than 60 million people—including President Barak Obama—filled out a bracket in an attempt to predict the eventual winner last year. An unimaginable 80.7 million people worldwide watched the tournament online last year through NCAA March Madness Live.
Yet the global Goliath that has become the game of basketball began with an unlikely, unassuming David.
Raised by his grandmother after he was orphaned at age 9, Naismith became a high-school dropout. After joining his uncle in the lumber industry, he became a regular patron at a local bar.
"Naismith’s goals in life, as he stated on his application to the International YMCA Training School, were to try to help 'win men for the Master,' to build character and to be an example for the men."
"The story in our family is he was at a bar on payday drinking too much," grandson Jim Naismith said of his now famous grandfather. "A man asked, 'Are you Margaret's son?' He said, 'Yes.' 'She'd roll over in her grave if she saw you now,' the man said."
That conversation became a transformational event for the Ontario, Canada, native. He went back to college and got a physical education degree and then a theological degree from Montreal's Presbyterian College.
Feeling like he could better serve God through physical education than a pulpit, Naismith moved to Springfield, Mass., in 1891 to become a graduate student and instructor at the International YMCA Training School.
When a blizzard rolled through New England in the winter of 1891, the school's students were stuck inside and acting out. The school's director asked Naismith to invent a game that could be played inside and would focus the energies of the school's young men.
"Something had to be done. One day I had an idea," Naismith told a New York radio station in 1939. "I called the boys to the gym and divided them into two teams of nine and gave them an old soccer ball. I showed them two peach baskets I had nailed at each end of the gym, and I told them the idea was to throw the ball into the other team's peach basket."
That part of the story is widely known. Zogby's research has shed light on the lesser-known religious connections to the story.
"Less well-known is that his game also was meant to help build Christian character and to inculcate certain values of the muscular Christian movement," Zogby said in a University of Kansas press release.
Made famous by President Teddy Roosevelt, "Muscular Christianity" was a movement particularly popular from 1880 to 1920 that tied physical health to "manliness" and spiritual health. At the core of Naismith's ministry was a commitment to developing the Christian character of young men.
"His approach was to put Christianity out there in front of people and try to influence them through positive character development, but he reserved his formal preaching for when he was a guest minister at area churches," Zogby said.
Seven years after he invented basketball, Naismith was hired by the University of Kansas, where he worked as its basketball coach, athletic director and teacher. To date he is the only University of Kansas coach with a losing record. Nearly all of the most significant coaches in 125 years of basketball history trace their coaching lineage back to Naismith, from Forest "Phog" Allen to Adolph Rupp to Dean Smith to Larry Brown to Greg Popovich.
Naismith also served as a U.S. Army chaplain during World War I, a service he continually placed at the top of his list of most significant accomplishments.
Late in life when Naismith penned the book "Basketball: Its Origin and Development" in 1941, Naismith appeared satisfied that the sport he invented a half century earlier had met the spiritual goals he originally set out for it.
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This essay discusses the National Geodetic Survey under various topics, such as its history, current application and use, challenges encountered now and expected in the future, the equipment that is needed for its operation and associated costs, latest news, among others. The National Geodetic Survey could be defined as a federal agency of the United States government that is tasked with the definition and management of the national coordinate system. The information garnered from this service is important and used by various departments and sectors of the government, such as transport and communication, engineering projects, mapping and many others. The National Geodetic Survey is a program that has been in existence for a long time, since it addresses an issue that has been important for ages. As an agency in the USA, it has existed for a long time, but under different names.
As has been stated earlier, the National Geodetic Survey has been in existence for many years. This year (2012) is the 205th year of its operation. The National Geodetic Survey was founded under a different name, the United States Coast Survey in 1807 by the U.S. Congress at that time. It was created in order to survey the coast (NOAA). At that time it promoted international trade and in its own way represented the administration of scientific interest. Its scope was increased during the administration of President Jackson (Howe, Daniel W). A large contribution to the development of the agency was made by F.R. Hassler after the First World War. He employed triangulation in his system. The U.S. Navy and the U.S. Army had been in charge of the program till 1832, when Hassler was reinstated as the agency’s head. A lot of progress was made by Professor Alexander Dallas Bache, whose term began in 1843 and involved expanding the survey work southwards to the Florida Keys and also the institution of a proper and organized method of studying the Gulf Stream and its tides. By this time the scope of the agency has been very broad involving several fields and the publication of articles by several people, such as the article by Charles S. Pierce on statistics (Pierce & Sanders). The Pillsbury current meter was invented during this time and has been still in use. One famous oceanography ship at the present time is named George S. Blake. During the American Civil War the agency leant more towards the Union providing valuable information in battles. In 1871 its mandate was expanded and included interior geodetic surveys. The agency’s name was changed into the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. In 1965 it was placed under the Environmental Science Services Administration, which later was changed into the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration with the National Geodetic Survey as a constituent part as it currently is.
The data gathered by the National Geodetic Survey have been used by both persons and the government. The use of this data varies widely and has to do with the parties that use it. One of the uses is in the form of Survey Mark Datasheets. This falls under the agency’s mission to provide information on survey control to the public. It includes information about features, such as latitudes and longitudes, gravity and height. Another use of these data is for GPS (Global Positioning System) both CORS and Real-Time. This particular use is increasingly becoming important, as time goes on and the popularity of personal GPS devices increases, especially during travelling. It also provides information in the form of aerial images in emergency situations, particularly during approaching storms as a part of Emergency Response Imagery. These data have been used in several occasions, such as Hurricane Irene, North Dakota Flooding, Hurricane Ike, Hurricane Rita to name but a few. Aerial images taken by the agency have other uses, such as the geographical visualization of the coast and other features, which are important for planning and navigation. It also provides aeronautical data. This is in agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration providing information on airport geodetic control obstruction, runway and navigation aid for the National Airspace Systems’ operation. These data are used as Antenna Calibration Data usually for navigation and broadcasting procedures. It could also be in the form of Gravity Data and Orbit Data for various purposes mainly in the aerospace industry (Schwarz).
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This month’s Postbag question comes in from Aideen Gibson, a learning designer at Falmouth University.
What is your preferred option for managing projects/tasks which are quite large and have a lot of people involved? Do you use Basecamp, Asana, Trello or any such tools? If so, would you recommend this approach?
To help answer this, we went to two of our ALTNI committee members. Dr Helen Dixon is Digital Transformation Programme Manager at Queen’s University Belfast, and Andy Jaffrey is Head of the Office for Digital Learning at Ulster University.
Andy: This is a really interesting question. Historically I was a huge fan of Basecamp for web development projects and we started using that for larger research projects within the University. It has worked very well particularly for projects without a formal project management structure. I have found that it is the most inclusive tool, with the lowest attrition for the widest group of people. The pricing structure has made the tool less accessible for HE but it would often be my recommended choice when we are asked for advice.
We do enjoy working with and learning from our commercial partners and we are currently participating in a project that uses SmartSheet. The UI, as a project participant, could not be more simple and is excellent for managing tasks. I have increasingly seen our commercial partners move towards products that start with simple to-do lists in a spreadsheet-style layout but provide much richer functionality that can be introduced as users become more comfortable. Our other largest partner is using Excel within Sharepoint and I do not think it is a particularly bad solution as the project manager communicates effectively and has a structured set of weekly meetings.
Our own team uses JIRA for managing tickets and distributing tasks amongst the more technical members of the team. Culturally we have struggled to bring less technical colleagues into projects when using this platform but we could not manage tasks without it as a team. It is an essential part of the workstreams we use when launching new tools and technologies to 33,000 users.
Increasingly I like the idea of integrated tools rather than adding an additional tool to the mix
For wider team project planning and management we have been using MS Teams extensively during the Pandemic, not just for project communication but for task allocation and documentation. Increasingly I like the idea of integrated tools rather than adding an additional tool to the mix.
Like everything we do, the people are the most important part of any project and having a dedicated Project Manager is instrumental. In a current live project the same tools (Smartsheet) are being used by a new person but the communication style is different and arguably less effective. Our internal projects rarely have a dedicated PM and therefore tools like Teams allow us to share that load, collaborate and collaborate in less structured ways. I would be loathed to introduce any different software without dedicated PM resource and embarrassingly we have many empty project shells in a various project management platforms from historical enthusiasm around a particular toolset.
Helen: At Queen’s University we are increasingly using Microsoft Teams to manage our projects. Our documentation is mainly comprised of Word documents, along with Excel spreadsheets for project plans and budgets, which can easily be created and managed within Teams. Other features like Whiteboard, OneNote and Forms can also be added as tabs within the Teams site, along with a range of add-ins such as Trello and Jira.
At Queen’s University we are increasingly using Microsoft Teams to manage our projects.
Some of the benefits I’ve found of using Teams over project management software are:
Keep project documents together – we have a separate Teams site for each major project with Channels being used for workstreams or smaller projects, where appropriate. This allows us to keep all our project documentation together, using folders to create a file structure and making sure the project team can easily access and collaborate on files.
Plan and track tasks – the Planner feature in Office (now known as Tasks by Planner and To Do) can be used as a handy project plan or RAID log to track risks, actions, issues, and decisions. Items are allocated to a project team member who receive notifications and reminders that they have actions. As actions are completed or issues resolved the Planner can be updated and the Chart view used to show a status summary of each bucket.
Make communication easier – projects require a lot of meetings which can easily be scheduled using the Calendar. During calls it is easy to share documents or the Whiteboard tool can be used for brainstorming. The Chat feature is also really popular, reducing the need for emails and allowing people to respond with a ‘thumbs up’ or other emoji.
Teams helps us make project management simpler and more collaborative.
Everyone can access it – as Teams is part of Office 365, all University staff have access to it and are increasingly familiar with it. We can also add external consultants to the Teams site. This helps us make project management simpler and more collaborative. The mobile app also means you can receive notifications, respond to messages and keep up to date with your projects when you’re on the go!
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Solar Panel Installation Markyate Hertfordshire (AL3): If you are thinking of installing solar panels, either for thermal (hot water) or electric generation, for your Markyate property, it is helpful to get a low-down on the pluses and minuses of what is involved. It definitely appears to be a great time to jump on the solar panel train, with Government grants and deals allowing you to help reduce the outlay, and on top of that the SEG (Smart Export Guarantee) scheme which gives you the opportunity to earn money from any unwanted power you generate through your system.
SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS
Solar Photovoltaic (PV) is the technical term for electricity production from the sun's rays. Good results and power generation can be achieved by solar panels installed on your home or property in Markyate. A correctly positioned solar power installation can reduce your power bills and even generate a modest income through the Smart Export Guarantee scheme.
There are also ways to lessen the initial outlay of any solar powered installation by sending in an application for a Green Homes Grant. This was announced in July 2020 by the Government, and provides vouchers of between £5,000 - £10,000 for energy saving improvements on your home. Pair this scheme with the SEG scheme and you can understand why this is the ideal time to seriously think about a solar energy installation for your Markyate property.
SOLAR THERMAL SYSTEMS
Regardless of what size your house is, the need for constant hot water is always there. The employment of a solar thermal system will see your water, even in mid-winter, being warmed, thus reducing the electricity or gas required to bring it up to temperature. As the months get warmer you'll realise that your energy bills lower even further, and summer time should see all of your hot water demands being fulfilled by a solar thermal system.
Solar thermal systems can be included on the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme. The RHI scheme was brought in for residential use in 2014 after its successful preliminary introduction in the commercial sector several years earlier. The support package offered lasts for 7 years for all anybody who switch to renewable heating systems. All qualified participants of the scheme will receive a three monthly cash disbursement for the length of the scheme.
CONSIDERATIONS FOR SOLAR
There are a handful of elements you will have to consider before you begin any solar panel installation on your Markyate home:
- Does your roof face south or south-west? - Solar PV panels need to face in this direction in the Northern Hemisphere to absorb the maximum amount of light from the sun's rays.
- Is the roof of your house shaded during the daytime by trees, buildings etc? - You need to have full sunlight for maximum efficiency, and any shade will reduce the energy generated by your solar panels.
- Does the installation of solar panels on my house have any effect on its market value? - As reported by the Homeowners Association, it is the case that positive and negative variations have been made in the past owing to solar energy installations on a property. As understanding grows regarding climate changes and the environment, it has been seen that the positive value impacts on property prices have increased.
- Is planning permission required for your area or home? - For a lot of properties and homes in Markyate, solar panels will be on the list of approved alterations that can be carried out. Your local council can offer advice and guidance on planning permission if your property have a flat roof, reside in a conservation area or own a listed building.
THE BENEFITS OF SOLAR
Noise Pollution - Solar panels and the associated equipment gives off no sound. Some people in Markyate are affected by the low frequency sounds that are made by wind turbines, even in small scale residential based examples. The fact that solar PV and thermal systems in Markyate haven't got any moving components during operation, there's no noise produced by the equipment or panels.
Maintenance - There's very little maintenance necessary for solar installations in Markyate. Apart from the odd clean, the panels can be left alone and will continue to work and generate electricity for at least 25 years. A solar panel installation with battery storage capacity will require more maintenance than a simple grid tie setup, but the efficiency, storage and life of batteries is improving as technology advances.
Low Carbon Footprint - Any kind of solar panel installations that you're considering, thermal or PV, will generate green, renewable energy for your family. The energy generated by solar panel installations creates no emissions or pollutants and could save around 2 tonnes of harmful carbon emissions from your Markyate property each year.
Generate Income - Any unneeded power your solar panels generate can be sold back to your utility provider using the SEG, Government endorsed scheme. This could be in the form of cash payments or as credit added to your utility bill every quarter. This Government endorsed scheme is a contract between the house owner and their utility provider. The short term contract is beneficial to property owners as it allows them to switch suppliers for the best tariffs when the contract comes to an end.
Reducing Bills - The largest source of free energy that we can reap the benefits of is obviously, the sun. So why don't you make good use of this energy in your home? As soon as the original outlay has been paid for your solar panels, you'll begin to detect a reduction in your quarterly energy bills. The size and extent of your solar installation will have an impact on the the amount of savings you can enjoy, but the typical solar energy system could save you ninety and three hundred and seventy pounds (dependant upon your situation) annually on your bills.
FINDING A CERTIFIED INSTALLER
Always obtain a minimum of 3 quotes from different sources in Markyate and do not be afraid to ask family members, neighbours and friends for advice if they've had solar panels installed on their home. When you are getting a price quote you should ask about grants and schemes which might help with the costs and make solar panels even more economical.
The surveyor will also be able to offer a way to see previous installations on similar homes for you to check out; either via a web page or through a catalogue. A quality solar installation company in Markyate will be proud to show off their history of clients and their experience in the installation industry, by offering a detailed portfolio for you to browse through.
A professional solar installation company in Markyate should have membership or affiliation with at least one green energy association. These offer qualifications, training and support on all equipment, health & safety and working practices for all elements of solar, and other alternative energy generation systems. Look out for membership of one of the following trade bodies when picking your solar installation company in Markyate.
STA (Solar Trade Association) - Offers cutting-edge technology training and solutions by working hand-in-hand with industry, Government agencies and local authorities, along with leading players in the low-carbon and solar energy sector. Its members range from localised residential installers to multi-national organisations, and all are highly esteemed within the solar generation industry.
MCS (Microgeneration Certification Scheme) - The Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS) is the mark that all solar products, and solar panel installers, ought to have in Great Britain. The Microgeneration Certification Scheme offers recognition in the solar energy sector, and is a benchmark of quality for any installation company, as well as all its supplied solar electricity generation equipment.
REA - In the British Isles, the REA is the primary trade organisation for professionals working in the clean technology and sustainable energy sector. It is focused on building a zero carbon economy by the provision of training to around five hundred member companies, and applying its influence to mould governmental policy towards alternative energy sources.
Solar panels can also be fitted in villages and towns around Markyate, for instance Clement's End, Holywell, Pepperstock, Jockey End, Gaddesden Row, Flamstead, Studham, Lower Woodside, Kensworth Common, Trowley Bottom, Redbourne, Aley Green, Harpenden, Slip End, Cheverell's Green, Kensworth and other regional villages. Verifying this should guarantee you are accessing local providers of solar panels. Markyate householders will be able to benefit from these and numerous other related services.
Solar Panel Cleaning Markyate
When you're considering the prospect of installing solar panels on your home or business in Markyate, I would imagine that how you are going to keep them clean is just about the last thing in your thoughts. However, it is wise for you to keep in mind precisely how you're going to keep them clean right from the beginning, because this can certainly impact on their efficacy. Although it will raise the cost of installation it's possible to get automatic cleaning systems for your solar panels, and it's better to have these put in concurrently with your solar panels.
It has been widely claimed that the action of rain will keep your panels acceptably clean, although you should not take this as gospel. When looking up from the ground, they may appear to be quite clean, but over time all solar panels will experience a build-up of grease and grime that will definitely have an impact on their functionality. You'll need to organise a routine panel cleaning schedule if you don't have an automatic cleaning system fitted (which to be fair, most people in Markyate don't). Nowadays, some of the better power washers (for instance Karcher) come with effective cleaning devices, so it may be possible for you to keep your own solar panels clean. If this isn't possible you could use the services of a local solar panel cleaning company in Markyate, or maybe a window cleaner offering this kind of service (which some do).
Is Your Household Ready For A Solar Power System?
The power of the sun has been with us from the beginning and it will be here till the end. Due to the high cost of energy bills, the interest in finding alternative energy has grown. Many people around the world have decided to use solar power. More homes are now making use of solar power as a result of the advances in technology, and improvements in the systems nearly every year. With merely several solar arrays, and even a small amount of sunshine, you can get plenty of electrical energy for your household.
Almost all homes are not positioned to take advantage of all the sun. Fortunately, a good number of the new systems can generate more electric power with less sun. Today's solar panel systems are constructed at a steeper angle, which allows for better generation of electrical energy, even when the house faces in the wrong direction. There is a rail system setup in many solar kits which allow the panels to be positioned to get the maximum amount of sun. In addition, it is set up for expansion at al ater time if you need it.
Before installing a solar panel system, you must know your electricity requirements. Once you know how much energy you use, you will be able to determine what size you need to have. Depending on your abilities and resources, it's a good idea to start small, and make room to expand later. Using this system as an alternative, in the succeeding months, you should be able to lower your expenses by 80%. A simple system could start off with powering the outside lights then moving into the house.
The inverter is the most crucial thing to consider when you are installing your solar panel system. The inverter will convert DC into AC, so you must be sure that you have the right size. If the size you choose is incorrect, then your solar panel system will not work. It's best to get a big inverter at the beginning so that expansion will be less complicated. The inverter has to be connected by a certified electrician, because electricity is dangerous, and you will need one to pass inspections. The most hazardous part of putting it in is correctly connecting your solar panel system to your electrical system. Do not attempt this by yourself unless you are a licensed electrician.
Today is a good time to have solar power for your home since governments are offering incentives. You can have your own environmentally friendly energy system without spending much of your own money. If you are trying to live green, this is a wonderful thing to do.
Markyate Solar Panel Tasks
Your chosen local Markyate solar panel technicians should be happy to help you out with a whole host of alternative energy services including things like solar thermal heating, solar panels for greenhouses Markyate, solar panel installations Markyate, solar water heating systems Markyate, renewable heat installations, solar panel installation quotes in Markyate, thermal solar panels Markyate, solar panel cleaning, the installation of solar panels Markyate, biomass boilers Markyate, solar system safety checks in Markyate, solar panels for shed Markyate, solar photovoltaic energy systems, green energy solutions, 100w solar panels Markyate, EV charging points, batteries & smart grids Markyate, shower heat recovery, solar PV inverters, solar panel bird proofing in Markyate, solar energy installations, the mounting of solar panels Markyate, solar panel maintenance, renewable heating solutions Markyate, solar panel surveys, Tesla Powerwall installation Markyate, solar panel repairs, installation, solar energy grants Markyate, solar thermal installations, solar panel mounting, solar panels for garages, solar panel replacement in Markyate, cheap solar panels Markyate, and other similar services in Markyate, Hertfordshire (AL3). Listed are just an example of the duties that are carried out by those specialising in solar panels. Markyate contractors will inform you of their full range of solar services.Markyate, roof
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Homeowners in the following Markyate locations have only recently asked about solar panels: Bartholomew Green, The Ridings, Caddington Common, Summer Walk, Pickford Road, Roman Way, Albert Street, Park View Drive, Church End, The Coppins, Sebright Road, Pipers Lane, London Road, Grange Close, Sharose Court, Cavendish Road, High View, Luton Road, Cowper Road, Millfield Lane, The Close, Park Close, and in these postcodes: AL3 8RG, AL3 8PP, AL3 8PU, AL3 8JL, AL3 8RQ, AL3 8LF, AL3 8RP, AL3 8PW, AL3 8RH, AL3 8HR. These areas recently saw activity by specialists in solar panels. Markyate residents were given dependable and top quality solar services in all cases.
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These days are the tenth anniversary of the biggest Minsky Moment since the Great Depression. While when it happened, most commentators mentioned Minsky and many even called it a “Minsky Moment,” most of the commentary now does not use that term and much does not even mention Minsky, much less Charles Kindleberger or Keynes. Rather much of the discussion has focused now on the failure of Lehman Brothers on September 15, 2017. A new book by Lawrence Ball has argued that the Fed could have bailed LB out as they did with Bear Stearns in February of that year, with Ball at least, and some others, suggesting that would have resolved everything, no big crash, no Great Recession, no angry populist movement more recently, heck, all hunky dory if only the Fed had been more responsible, although Ball especially points his finger at Bush’s Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson, for especially pressuring Bernanke and Geithner at the Fed not to repeat Bear Stearns. And indeed, when they decided not to support Lehman, the Fed received widespread praise in much of the media initially, before its fall blew out AIG and brought down most of the pyramid of highly leveraged derivatives of derivatives coming out of the US mortgage market, which had been declining for over two years.
Indeed, I agree with Dean Baker as I have on so many times regarding all this that while Lehman may have been the straw that broke the camel’s back, it was the camel’s back breaking that was the problem, and it was almost certainly going to blow big time reasonably soon then. It was not Lehman, it was going to be something else. Indeed, on July 12, 2008, I posted here on Econospeak a forecast of this, declaring “It looks like we might be finally reaching the big crash in the US mortgage market after a period of distress that started last August (if not earlier).”
I drew on Minsky’s argument (backed by Kindleberger in his Manias, Panics, and Crashes) that the vast majority of major speculative bubbles experience periods of gradual decline after their peaks prior to really seriously crashing during what Minsky labeled the “period of financial distress,” a term he adopted from the corporate finance literature. The US housing market had been falling since July, 2006. The bond markets had been declining since August, 2007, the stock market had been declining since October, 2007, and about the time I posted that, the oil market reached an all-time nominal peak of $147 per barrel and began a straight plunge that reached about $30 per barrel in November, 2008. This was a massively accelerating period of distress with the real economy also dropping, led by falling residential investment. In mid-September the Minsky Moment arrived, and the floor dropped out of not just these US markets, but pretty much all markets around the world, with the world economy then falling into the Great Recession.
Let me note something I have seen nobody commenting on in all this outpouring on this anniversary. This is how the immediate Minsky Moment ended. Many might say it was the TARP or the stress tests or the fiscal stimulus. All of these helped to turn around the broader slide that followed by the Minsky Moment. But there was a more immediate crisis that went on for several days following the Lehman collapse, peaking on Sept. 17 and 18, but with obscure reporting about what went down then. This was when nobody at the Board of Governors went home; cots made an appearance. This was the point when those at the Fed scrambled to keep the whole thing from turning into 1931 and largely succeeded. The immediate problem was that the collapse of AIG following the collapse of Lehman was putting massive pressure on top European banks, especially Deutsches Bank and BNP Paribas. Supposedly the European Central Bank (ECB) should have been able to handle this but along with all this the ECB was facing a massive run on the euro as money fled to the “safe haven” of the US dollar, so ironic given that the US markets generated this mess.
Anyway, as Neil Irwini The Alchemists (especially Chap. 11) documented, the crucial move that halted the collapse of the euro and the threat of a full out global collapse was a set of swaps the Fed pulled off that led to it taking about $600 billion of Eurojunk from the distressed European banks through the ECB onto the Fed balance sheet. These troubled assets were gradually and very quietly rolled off the Fed balance sheet over the next six months to be replaced by mortgage backed securities. This was the save the Fed pulled off at the worst moment of the Minsky Moment. The Fed policymakers can be criticized for not seeing what was coming (although several people there had spotted it earlier and issued warnings, including Janet Yellen in 2005 and Geithner in a prescient speech in Hong Kong in September, 2006, in which he recognized that the housing related financial markets were highly opaque and fragile). But this particular move was an absolute save, even though it remains today very little known, even to well-informed observers. | <urn:uuid:6ad3c340-7c92-4663-9802-560eb6f9d0c5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://angrybearblog.com/2018/09/the-minsky-moment-ten-years-after | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.978562 | 1,076 | 1.734375 | 2 |
There is a scene in the sixth episode of the first season of Mad Men where ad man Don Draper is approached by the Israeli government to come up with an effective tourism campaign for the Jewish state. Seeking some insight, he asks his Jewish client-cum-girlfriend to explain why Israel is important and why tourists would want to go there. She explains that Jews have lived in exile for such a long time that having a country seems very important, and that even though she has no desire to live there, Israel “just has to be” because of the idea that it represents. After Draper remarks that it sounds like utopia, she retorts that the Greek definition of utopia can mean either the good place or the place that cannot be. While the last exchange is meant to be a comment on their relationship, it captures the current wider context of the churning relationship between Israel and American Jews.
The surge in visible anti-Semitism in the U.S. over the past year has American Jews on edge, and for many it has reinforced the importance of Israel and why it “just has to be.” More than ever, Israel resonates as a safe harbor of last resort and as a refuge against a world that historically has not accepted Jews. I understand this sentiment not from a theoretical perspective, but from a personal one. As a kid growing up in New York, I never experienced a second of overtly detectable anti-Semitism. I had a recurring debate with my dad where I argued that the Jewish experience in America marked the end of history for the two thousand years of the Jewish Diaspora in which persecution and anti-Semitism were the defining features. And yet in the last two months, my kids’ Jewish schools have been subjected to multiple bomb threats, and my corner of Washington suburbia has seen an uptick in anti-Semitic graffiti and invective. Like Francis Fukuyama, I was wrong in allowing the exuberance of a brief moment to overtake the wider sweep of history, and despite being someone who never questioned the importance of Israel in the first place, that importance for me has now literally been driven home. Israel does indeed represent an idea for Jews around the world, and while we pray that it never has to transform for us from an idea into a practical imperative, it requires an absolute defense of Israel’s legitimacy and security.
But while the idea of Israel is of the good place, it is sliding dangerously close for American Jews into the place that cannot be. This is because Israel’s inviolable commitment to Jews, rather than only to Israelis, is in question, and once that emotional shift takes place, it will be impossible for many American Jews to identify with Israel in the same way. It will not be a place that they view as the ultimate oasis in the desert, but as a tantalizing mirage.
The first factor that threatens to cause this shift is the Israeli government’s treatment of anti-Semitism. In speaking about his decision to go to Paris after the terrorist attack on the Hyper Cacher grocery store to show solidarity with French Jews, Prime Minister Netanyahu described his role as not only representing Israel but as representing the entire Jewish people. This is not a role that has been claimed by previous Israeli prime ministers; David Ben-Gurion, for instance, clearly made a distinction between representing Israel and representing Jews outside of Israel in his exchange of letters with Simon Rawidowicz in 1954-55, in what began as an argument over the usage of the word “Israel” and other terminology and resulted in Ben-Gurion rejecting any uniformity between Israeli Jews and Diaspora Jews. It is a matter for wider debate whether Netanyahu can and should have a wider role beyond being a political leader, but if he wants to credibly make the argument, he must assume the expansive mantle consistently rather than only when it is politically expedient. To come to the U.S. in the midst of an outbreak of bomb threats against Jewish institutions and a maelstrom of angst from American Jews who have never felt personally threatened before and to essentially proclaim that all is well, not only negates any claim on Netanyahu’s part to represent Jews in danger wherever they are; it also calls into question Israel’s very commitment to Diaspora Jewry. For Jews who fervently support Israel as the ultimate Jewish project and as a powerful symbol against anti-Jewish repression, it is distressing to see an Israeli prime minister brush anti-Semitism aside and categorically declare that a president whom many American Jews view as part of the problem is actually the best friend that Jews have.
The second factor that threatens to perpetuate this shift is the attitude, encapsulated in Israel’s new travel ban against anyone publicly calling for boycotts of Israel or any area under its control, that views Israel not as a place for Jews but as a place for Jews who hold a certain ideology. I do not support BDS and am not even minimally sympathetic toward its aims, and I also do not support boycotts of settlers or settlements. Furthermore, Israel has an absolute right to determine what constitutes a threat to its security, and to screen people who enter its borders to guard against those threats. But what is justified is not always smart, and conflating tangible physical threats with amorphous ideological threats demonstrates the distinction. Keeping out the violent West Bank demonstrator is not the same as keeping out the middle-aged dad who loudly declares that he won’t buy Jordan Valley dates, and it is this latter action that will cause the break between many American Jews and Israel. Even if, like Rachel Menken in Mad Men, you are a Jew who wants to visit Israel but do not want to live there, being stopped at passport control in the Jewish state because of your political views is the fastest way to make sure that any affinity you had for Israel disappears. Israel in that situation becomes a place that cannot be, no longer a safe haven for Jews or even just a place for Jews, but a state that has abandoned its core function and reason for being. The central Zionist argument that Jews need a homeland only works if Israel is indeed a homeland based on Judaism rather than a homeland based on a set of political leanings. In elevating threat perception to absurd heights, the new anti-boycott legislation ignominiously creates a bigger threat to Israel’s existence than the boycotters it is combatting.
Israel can indeed be a utopia for Jews around the world; not a perfect place that must meet an impossible ideal, but an anchor to which Jews can gravitate in times of need. If it does not take this obligation seriously, however, it will become a different kind of utopia; a place that demands an impossible ideal and that sinks under the weight of its own expectations. | <urn:uuid:da848c7c-25c5-4e7d-a66c-e5d26718fd8c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://israelpolicyexchange.com/2017/03/what-type-of-utopia-will-israel-be/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.966538 | 1,389 | 2 | 2 |
What is the difference between accounting and bookkeeping?
Bookkeeping and accounting are both essential for businesses and overlap in many ways. The key difference is that bookkeeping tends to be more administrative – keeping track of each individual transaction and recording every penny spent or earnt. Think of it as the day-to-day stuff, tracking what goes in and what goes out.
Accounting is bigger picture – it’s about analysing the financial data and using it to plan and forecast.
Accounting is also about reporting and presenting data. That can be for internal use (to help with strategy), for compliance purposes (tax returns for HMRC), or to attract investors (or buyers if you plan on selling your business).
What exactly does a bookkeeper do?
Depending on the complexity of the business, a bookkeeper’s role will vary. A bookkeeper will usually track business expenses, record transactions, reconcile bank transactions, and maintain your financial records.
Other duties may include creating and sending invoices, taking care of credit control, managing your payroll, generating expense reports, overseeing accounts receivable and accounts payable, updating your bookkeeping software and assisting with tax returns.
If you are a small business, a single individual may be able to take care of all the above. However, larger businesses may need a team to take care of the different finance roles.
Can you do your own bookkeeping?
There is no legal requirement for businesses to use a dedicated bookkeeper. Many small businesses manage their own books or delegate it to a member of their team. Larger companies might hire an in-house finance person or outsource to a freelance bookkeeper.
However, with the many complexities of the construction industry, large firms find it more beneficial to work with a virtual finance team, such as Empowered by Cloud.
Rather than having one individual with a general knowledge of different finance functions, you have a team of people, each with specialist knowledge.
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Effects of receiver parameters on the optical performance of a fixed-focus Fresnel lens solar concentrator/cavity receiver system in solar cooker
Publication date: 1 March 2019
Source: Applied Energy, Volume 237
Author(s): Hai Wang, Jin Huang, Mengjie Song, Jian Yan
To facilitate building integration with solar cooker for household, a solar cooker based on a fixed-focus Fresnel lens solar concentrator/cavity receiver system was proposed. To increase the system optical efficiency, the cavity receiver with bottom reflective cone was used as a fixed receiver. Expecting to optimize the system and receiver of better optical performance, the effects of receiver parameters on it were studied. To evaluate the effects, a significance test of key factors was conducted. Comparative analysis of fixed-focus food cooking system was undertaken. The analysis shows that average optical efficiencies using cavity receiver with bottom reflective cone of spherical, cylindrical, conical are 72.23%, 68.37% and 76.40%, respectively, while that of their corresponding conventional cavity receivers are 68.49%, 31.91% and 74.61%. The former significantly increased 3.74%, 36.46% and 1.79%, respectively. Moreover, cavity receiver with bottom reflective cone angle 90° is able to hold a higher amount of incoming energy from concentrator, compared to other three angles. Increasing the bottom reflective cone reflectivity and cavity receiver surface absorptivity can improve optical efficiency. In addition, the cavity receiver surface absorptivity and concentrated sunlight incidence angle have the most significant influence on the optical efficiency and flux uniformity, respectively. The conical cavity receiver with bottom reflective cone is the most suitable one for system. This work is expected to be useful for further optimization of solar concentrator/cavity receiver system.
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Learning to Think in Wild New Ways with the Biomimicry Youth Design Challenge
By Gretchen Hooker, Program Manager, Biomimicry Institute
When two students in Kirstin Bullington’s clean energy engineering class decided to take on the challenge of designing a more efficient solar panel, they looked to a seemingly unlikely source for inspiration — the oriental hornet.
These students — both seniors at Richland Two Institute of Innovation, a student innovation center for public high school students in Columbia, South Carolina — were part of the Biomimicry Institute’s Youth Design Challenge (YDC), an education program and design competition that challenges middle and high school students to create solutions to climate change using biomimicry, or nature-inspired design.
After researching a wide range of living organisms, the Richland Two students discovered that the oriental hornet is a marvel of sustainable energy generation. It is able to capture sunlight and, via its outer layer (or epicuticle), convert it into electrical energy. The team first tried to mimic the hornet’s epicuticle color, putting filters over solar panels. This ended up restricting light, so they did more research and shifted gears. Their second approach was to mimic the shingle-like surface texture of the epicuticle to build a solar concentrator. Their design, in addition to their thorough research and testing process, so impressed the YDC judges that they awarded the team first place in the high school competition of the Challenge.
“The first time they tried their [new] prototype, they thought, ‘oh my gosh, it works!’,” said Bullington. “My students blew me away. They always amaze me and come up with better ideas than I could ever come up with.”
Biomimicry is the idea that we can emulate nature’s patterns and strategies to develop sustainable technologies that support healthy people and a healthy planet. Over millennia, living organisms have found ways to heat, cool, move, restore soil, sequester carbon and more, all without burning fossil fuels or using persistent toxic chemicals. By adapting these lessons, innovators are developing better, more regenerative alternatives to the typical “take, make, and waste” approaches to design.
The YDC was created to inspire students — our future innovators and entrepreneurs — to view nature as a model for sustainable design solutions. The program helps middle and high school educators incorporate biomimicry design experiences into their classrooms to support and integrate STEM, environmental literacy, and critical thinking and collaboration skills. The YDC also empowers students (and their teachers) to think differently about nature, engineering, and the future. At a time of grim climate and environmental predictions, the YDC presents a hopeful message that potential solutions are all around us.
The YDC was first pilot tested in Spring 2018 with 54 U.S. middle and high school teachers and more than 600 students — 50% of whom were girls. Feedback was extremely positive from teachers and students, with 93% of students showing a greater interest in nature and sustainability, 87% of students showing improved problem-solving skills, and 84% of students showing greater overall engagement in the learning process after the Challenge. The Institute is now moving forward with plans to expand the program and offer it for a full academic year.
For Laura Norman and Becca Parker, educators at Wilbur Wright Middle School in Munster, Indiana, one of the most valuable aspects of the YDC was the opportunity for students to carry out real-world scientific experiments as they tested their design ideas.
“That was one of the main things we were looking for — a real-world project that incorporated engineering into a semester-long project. This was a really big deal for us,” said Norman. “This kind of program is important for schools and kids to be part of.”
Three of Norman and Parker’s student teams ended up winning prizes or honorable mentions in the Challenge, including a second place win from a team who created a jackrabbit-inspired way to cool computer rooms in buildings without the need for air conditioning.
“I think [the students] felt like they can make a difference. A lot of them were strongly passionate and believed in their idea,” said Parker. “They feel like it’s on their generation to save the world and they’re enthusiastic about it.”
At the Harley School in Rochester, New York, math and science teacher Betsy Vinton said she noticed that her students now show a new appreciation for how nature can inform more sustainable design after participating in the Challenge.
“I teach three students [who participated in last year’s Challenge] now in AP biology and whenever we’re talking about the natural world, they chime in and think about how it can be used to solve a problem,” said Vinton. “They have more awareness of how these natural processes can be harnessed to solve problems. It gives them more of an appreciation of why we need to be better caretakers on the Earth. If we’re going to be looking to nature for solutions, we can’t be ruining the environment.”
Vinton says that the YDC helped her students learn how to take a big problem and break it into manageable pieces. Vinton’s team won third place for a mangrove-inspired solution to coastal erosion resulting from increased storm activity in a changing climate.
“Maybe you can’t solve the big problem all at once, but once you tease it apart, you can find aspects of the problem that you can solve,” said Vinton. “That will serve them well no matter what they do in life.”
Vinton is also working with last year’s participants as they help younger students at the school learn about biomimicry. One of last year’s participants is going to be working with a fourth-grade class to introduce them to biomimicry as part of a capstone course. Plus, the nine students who participated last year are going to help a middle school group with their entries in the middle school contest.
This kind of forward momentum is exactly what the Biomimicry Institute hopes to see as a result of the program. As the YDC grows, more students will learn how to look to nature for sustainable design clues, and see that biomimicry is something they can do, as a career path and a way to make their world better.
“We don’t give youth nearly enough credit that they do care very passionately about things like climate change and what kind of world they’re going to be growing up in,” said Bullington. “And that, given the opportunity to create a design, they can really amaze us.”
The 2018–2019 Challenge is open for registration! To learn more about and register for the Challenge, please visit youthchallenge.biomimicry.org.
About the Author
Gretchen Hooker is a program manager for the Biomimicry Institute where she oversees the Youth Design Challenge and contributes to many other projects that support biomimicry education. She has a background in sustainable design and holds a master’s degree in industrial design from the Rhode Island School of Design.
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The aim of this project is to develop the 25 Year Environment Plan Indicator on Functional Species.
This study will explore the following broad questions:
1. Which pollinators are the most important?
2. Which pollination services are important, e.g. crops, rare plants, plants (or species of principle importance, as listed under Section 41 of the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act), plants with a unique pollinator-plant relationship?
3. What metric(s) should be used for potential indicators of pollination services?
The short description of the D7 indicator is:
‘All species have a functional role within ecosystems such as photosynthesis, respiration, decomposition, nutrient cycling, predator-prey and symbiotic relationships such as pollination. plants, fungi, algae, invertebrates and soil micro-organisms are particularly important. The presence, abundance and diversity of species are key factors in determining the resilience of ecosystems to environmental changes, including climate change and disease, and the maintenance of ecosystem services. Further research is required to develop this indicator, building on the existing pollinator indicator and defining species groups and functions for inclusion.’ | <urn:uuid:ed7d4d97-41de-4057-90b2-02757f152a8b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://randd.defra.gov.uk/Default.aspx?Menu=Menu&Module=More&Location=None&Completed=0&ProjectID=20693 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.886956 | 244 | 3.65625 | 4 |
Underwater robot launched from Bermuda to cross Gulf Stream
A small autonomous underwater vehicle, or AUV, named Spray was launched yesterday about 12 miles southeast of Bermuda. The two-meter-(6-foot)-long orange glider with a four-foot wingspan will slowly make its way northwest, crossing the Gulf Stream and reaching the continental shelf on the other side before turning around and heading back to Bermuda, where it will be recovered in July.
The voyage will be the vehicle's second trip across the Gulf Stream.Spray made history last fall as the first AUV to cross the Gulf Stream, but this time it is making the trip from the other direction. The 112-pound vehicle was launched by researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution near a long-term research site known as Station S. Scientists Breck Owens from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Russ Davis and Jeff Sherman of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, will track its progress and are able to communicate with the vehicle via satellite during the mission to change course or alter the information it is collecting while at sea.
The vehicle, which looks like a model airplane with no visible moving parts, will proceed north at about one-half knot, roughly half a mile an hour or 12 miles per day, measuring various properties of the ocean as it glides up to the surface and then glides back down to 1,000-meters depth (3,300 feet) three times a day. Every seven hours Spray spends about 15 minutes on the surface to relay its position and information about ocean conditions, such as temperature, salinity and pressure, via satellite back to Woods Hole, Mass., and San Diego.
Spray has a range of 6,000 kilometers, or about 3,500 miles, which means it could potentially cross the Atlantic Ocean and other ocean basins. Owens, Davis and Sherman plan to send the vehicle on its first round trip between Woods Hole and Bermuda later this year-- marking another first for an underwater vehicle.The successful trip last fall proved the viability of self-propelled gliders for long-distance scientific missions and has opened new possibilities for studies of the oceans. Research missions are being planned using the vehicle once field testing is completed.
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Americans may be witnessing — and partaking in — the most unique and interesting presidential elections in the past century. It appears that no one can predict what quite will happen next.
In one of the most surprising developments yet, Sen. Bernie Sanders declared the Iowa caucus on Monday night to be a "virtual tie." On the other side, the Clinton campaign was characteristically confident, declaring victory despite the results being murky.
Clinton earned 22 delegates with 49.9 percent of the vote; Sanders received 21 delegates with 49.6 percent of the vote. In at least six precincts, Clinton earned an extra state delegate because she won a coin toss. She reportedly won all six coin tosses — a 1.6 percent probability.
The chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party called the results "the closest in Iowa Democratic caucus history."
Watching reports on the caucus felt much like beholding a fiery sports match. Viewers trembled with excitement as Sanders slowly and steadily caught up — until, in the last few moments, with the final 10 percent of the precincts being reported, Clinton lurched forward, and began to widen the gap. Then, with a few more percentage points coming in, Sanders leaped into a "virtual tie."
Iowa certainly had the tone of a sports match. The state was hit with a large storm Monday night, but it appeared to have little effect on caucus turnout.
Many of the attendees were first-time caucus-goers, and turnout rates were at a record high, especially among young Americans. The entrance polls also showed Sanders had overwhelming support among younger voters — with 84 percent of those aged 17-29 and 60 percent of those aged 30-44 supporting Sanders. Clinton had the majority of support from Americans aged 45 or over.
A Democratic precinct that had just six voters in 2012 expected 100, The New York Times reported.
Although there is no clear literal winner, a tie for Sanders is essentially a victory; Sanders comes out of Iowa as the effective political winner.
Virtually everything is against Sanders. He identifies as a democratic socialist in a country with a long and incredibly violent history of anti-communist fervor; he refuses to take corporate money and is the only campaign without a Super PAC; Bernie constantly excoriates Wall Street, the political establishment and the corporate media; he never ran as a Democrat until this campaign; and he is clearly non-religious and completely secular in a very religious country.
That is to say, Bernie is a social democrat in a nation that has little to no history of social democracy. He is a true underdog candidate, one that ardently refuses to kowtow to power; he is a stranger in that strange land of status quo politics — but this is precisely what so many Americans like about him, especially those who have been exploited by, rather than those who have benefited from, decades of neoliberalism, austerity and war.
This was made clear in how the caucus panned out. The support was clearly split on class and ideological lines. Rich, conservative and moderate Democrats were strongly in favor of Clinton, The New York Times reported. On the other hand, working-class and liberal Democrats overwhelmingly backed Sanders.
A majority of Iowans from households making more than $100,000 a year supported Clinton, according to polls conducted by Edison Research, whereas those making less than $50,000 annually backed Sanders.
Sanders understands this. In his speech after the caucus, the crowd roared with enthusiasm. Sanders' supporters shouted in joy, applauding his apologetically left-wing rhetoric.
"It is too late for establishment politics and establishment economics," Sanders said.
"We do not represent the interests of the billionaire class, of Wall Street," he insisted. Rather, he called for campaign reform, and pointed out that exemplifies the change he seeks, having broken records receiving millions of contributions from Americans at an average of $27.
"The American people are saying no to a rigged economy," Sanders bellowed, lambasting the system for allowing the 20 wealthiest Americans to own more wealth than the entire bottom half of the population.
He criticized mass incarceration, dubbing it a "disgrace" and condemning its structural racism. He called for schools, and not jails.
"What Iowa has begun tonight is a political revolution," Sanders said.
If Sanders has truly launched a revolution — and, in the U.S., social democracy is admittedly revolutionary politics — his success, or failure, will depend on whether he can continue to grow his mass base. Revolutions cannot succeed without a mass base. What happens next, then, depends on the grassroots.
The fundamental differences between Sanders' and Clinton's campaigns are not just ideological, but political, social, material. Sanders' campaign is predicated on the support from the grassroots, whereas Clinton's campaign has, to this point, largely depended on institutional inertia and fame to push it forward.
To put it simply, Sanders' fate lies with social movements. The masses are the makers of history, as it is said, and if the masses do not mobilize in support of him, his Wall Street-backed multimillionaire opponent will claim victory.
Sanders could potentially break the chokehold neoliberal politics and economics have held on the American people for decades — but only if record-high numbers of people continue coming out to his rallies; if working-class Americans organize in their communities more and more, building a stronger movement.
One should not adopt complete optimism in hope for a new left politics to emerge in the U.S., however. There are certainly reasons to be cautious.
The Sanders campaign was hoping a victory in Iowa could propel it forward. With the virtual tie, it may not lose momentum, but it may not gain much either.
If Sanders could not win in Iowa, where he has been campaigning for months, it is unlikely he can take many other states. He is leading Clinton by a large margin in New Hampshire, the site of the next primary election, but the state neighbors his home state of Vermont, and its demographics are not representative of the nation as a whole.
Sanders now has until Feb. 20 to campaign in Nevada, where he is unlikely to win, and until Feb. 27 for the primary in South Carolina.
Clinton is leading in the polls in South Carolina. Sanders — and the grassroots — will have to work extra hard to try to catch up. There are some reasons to suspect that these polls are rather conservative, in that they inevitably fail to consider the potentially unforeseen impacts of new young voters, but the Sanders campaign would need to really push hard to mobilize these groups.
If Sanders cannot gain large ground in these states, he will struggle on Super Tuesday, coming in just one month, March 1.
Winning a base of support in the South would be important for his campaign to succeed. If Sanders cannot mobilize the Southern working class, he is unlikely to take the nomination.
Moreover, the elephant in the room in all of this are the superdelegates.
The Sanders campaign has invested many of its resources in Iowa and New Hampshire, knowing that presidential candidates who do not take these first two primary states often lose in the overall election.
Even if Sanders were to win the primary election in terms of the sheer number of votes, it is hypothetically possible that the Democratic National Committee could still nominate Clinton, because of the superdelegate system — which is unique to the Democratic Party (the Republican party only has delegates, not both levels).
In short, the road before Sanders is rocky, and laden with obstacles. The growing support for the unlikely presidential candidate, however, shows that he has ignited something in the American public. Perhaps it is the seed for the political revolution he has called for.
Martin O'Malley is no longer a challenger. It was revealed during the caucus that O'Malley was suspending his campaign. He had gotten just a handful of votes.
The Democratic presidential election has narrowed; only Clinton and Sanders remain.
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Kroger Application Form Printable PDF
Kroger’s job application form is short. It is only 2 pages long.
On the first page, you should provide basic information such as your name and address.
Then, write the position you are applying for, choose your desired employment type, and indicate the date that you can start working. Then select the days that you will be able to work.
Next, fill in the table with some information about your education. The last part of the first page is a background check.
The second page starts with the Work Experience section. Provide requested information about two of your previous employments.
Then, list two references who should not be any of your relatives.
Read the Notification and Agreement text, then sign the form and write the date.
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Calvary Cemetery, located in the Ravenna neighborhood of Seattle (from present-day NE 50th to NE 55th streets and from NE 30th to NE 35th avenues) was the city's first major Catholic cemetery. The 40-acre cemetery was dedicated in 1889, the same year as the Great Seattle Fire. It remains active today. In all, more than 40,000 Catholics have been buried there.
In 1884, Father Emmanuel Demanez, chaplain of Providence Hospital, purchased the 40 acres from homesteader John J. Jordan who had homesteaded the property in 1872. The property was bought at the same time as the lot on Capitol Hill that became Holy Cross Cemetery. Holy Cross was the first Catholic cemetery in Seattle.
Calvary Cemetery was blessed December 1, 1889, making it ready to accept burials. Father Louis Schram, Vicar General for the Bishop of Nisqually in the Territory of Washington, dedicated it to serve the Seattle area. In 1904 the land was officially platted as a cemetery. Before streets were graded, caskets and mourners traveled by train to Ravenna Station on the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway to reach the burial ground.
The oldest burial at Calvary is that of William Boyd who died in 1859. Boyd's resting place, like that of many other Seattle pioneers, did not stay put. He was originally buried in the old Seattle Cemetery (now Denny Park at the foot of Queen Anne Hill). His body was then removed to the Holy Cross Cemetery on Capitol Hill (now the site of Seattle Prep High School). All Holy Cross burials, including that of Boyd, were removed to Calvary beginning in 1905.
Soldiers, Priests, Loggers
Burials at Calvary include persons active locally and worldwide as well as veterans of both sides of the Civil War, along with veterans of the Spanish-American War, World War I, and the Boxer Rebellion. Many pioneer loggers belonging to the Woodsmen of the World fraternal organization are buried here, with their motto dum tacit, clamat (While he is silent, he shouts) inscribed on their monuments.
Notable persons buried at Calvary Cemetery include:
- Lieutenant Governor John A. Cherberg (1911-1992);
- Michael J. "Moose" Heney (1864-1910), founder of the Alaska Pacific Railroad;
- William Pigott (1860-1929) founder of Pacific Car and Foundry Company;
- Dave Beck (1894-1993), president of the Teamsters union;
- Giglio N. Gai (1890-1953), founder of Gai's Seattle French Bakery;
- Edward L. Nordhoff (1859-1899), founder of Bon Marché Department Store.
A Resting Place for Catholics
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The new report by Expert Market Research titled, ‘Global Advanced Ceramic Market Report and Forecast 2021-2026’, gives an in-depth analysis of the Global Advanced Ceramic Market, assessing the market based on its segments like Source, Product, Industry, and major regions. The report tracks the latest trends in the industry and studies their impact on the overall market. It also assesses the market dynamics, covering the key demand and price indicators, along with analyzing the market based on the SWOT and Porter’s Five Forces models.
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The key highlights of the report include:
Market Overview (2016-2026)
Absorbed ceramics products are witnessing an increase in popularity owing to their increased strength, temperature resistance, toughness and relatively long life, with customizable characteristics. The eco-friendly properties of these materials and the increase in advanced ceramics to replace conventional metals are key factors driving the advanced ceramic market. Due to the rise in demand for ceramics in the medical industry, demand for advanced ceramics is expected to increase. The improvements in ceramics stimulate businesses to expand the production of advanced ceramics. In addition, easy raw material availability is expected to boost demand for advanced ceramics in the forecast period. It is expected that increasing demand from end-use industries such as medical & renewable energy and growing demand from the clean technology industry will drive the advanced ceramics market over the years forecast.
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Industry Definition and Major Segments
In the development and manufacture of ceramic materials, advanced ceramics, substances, and processes are used because they exhibit unique properties. Advanced ceramics are differentiated by their greater strength, higher operating temperatures, improved toughness, and customizable characteristics from traditional ceramics such as brick and porcelain. The nature of the bond between ceramic particles helps to distinguish ceramics from conventional ceramics in engineering. Consequently, ceramic products are now available that are as tough and electrically conductive as some metals.
Based type, the market is divided into:
Based on material, the industry can be segmented into:
By end-use market, the industry is categorised into:
By region, the industry is categorised into:
The demand for advanced ceramics is evolving rapidly, as new technologies generate new opportunities for industry players in a wide variety of industrial segments. However, it is expected that the brittle nature of advanced ceramics would slightly impede overall demand in the market. The high cost of these materials vis-à-vis other materials such as metals is also expected to hamper the global advanced ceramics market. Advanced ceramic properties, such as corrosion resistance, high-temperature stability, lightweight, and low thermal expansion, are expected to boost the market in the coming years. The advanced ceramics industry worldwide is seeing technical developments. Companies are actively working to produce modern and more complex ceramics. The production of new manufacturing processes and applications of advanced ceramics is estimated to propel the advanced ceramics industry. Over the projected period, rising demand from the end-use industries, including clean energy and medical industries, is expected to fuel market growth. Industry development will also be supported by increasing product demand from the renewable technology sectors. Items such as solid oxide fuel cells, for example, are entirely made from advanced ceramics. It is expected that their advantages will further expand their use in the industry by replacing single essential components such as insulation materials.
During the historical time, Asia Pacific dominated the global market. Increasing investments in the manufacturing sector of emerging economies, such as China, Japan, India, and Southeast Asia, are driving development in the region. Significant growth is anticipated in the region’s electronics industry, as prominent companies look forward to building their plants in these countries because of the easy availability of low-cost raw materials and labor. North America accounts for a significant share in the market. The growth of the market could be primarily attributed to advancements in the transportation and electronics industry in Europe and North America. Increasing demand for eco-friendly products coupled with technological advancements is projected to fuel the demand for advanced ceramics over the upcoming years globally.
Key Market Players
The major players in the market are 3M CO., KYOCERA Corporation, Corning Incorporated, Materion Corporation, Coors Tech Inc, International Ceramics Inc, among Others. The report covers the market shares, capacities, plant turnarounds, expansions, investments and mergers and acquisitions, among other latest developments of these market players.
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February is Psychology Awareness month and Heart Health Awareness month. To celebrate, Karunia Counselling of Leduc is offering free workshops for the community. Karunia Counselling is a small, local team of psychologists and counsellors trained to address the mental well-being of individuals, couples and families. Its collective track record is rich in success stories of wellbeing, happiness and restored relationships. Each course lasts for four weeks.
In September of 2004, Ms. Joanne Koopmans began work with the FCSS Family Counselling Clinic in Leduc. In June of 2006, she became a, ‘registered provisional psychologist.’ In September of the same year, she opened up a private practice, Karunia Counselling Service, in the City of Leduc.
In March of 2008, Karunia Counselling (KC) entered into a contract with the City of Leduc and Leduc County to provide counselling services to residents. Contracts for Beaumont and Devon were added when FCSS in these towns achieved a separate status.
In July of 2009, KC relocated with more counsellors to a newly renovated location in the City of Leduc’s downtown core. Following a growing need in that area, on March 1st, 2014, Karunia Counselling opened its Wetaskiwin office, with several counsellors on staff, some of them on short-term contracts.
The public is invited to these FREE Karunia Counselling Leduc classes for February:
“Couples” on Tuesdays, February 3-24, 7:30pm – 9pm.
“No Drama Parenting” on Wednesdays, on February 4-25, 6:30pm – 8:30pm.
“Boundaries/Not In My Backyard”, on Wednesdays, February 4-25, 10:30am – 12pm.
“Emotional Regulation” for ages 8+ on Thursdays, February 5-26, 6pm – 7:30pm.
“Getting through the Mundane to Gratitude” on Thursdays, February 5-26, 4pm – 5:30pm.
“What do I do with my Anger?” on Mondays, February 2 – March 9, 7:00 – 8:30pm.
For more information, interested individuals are encouraged to call Karunia’s Leduc office at 587-274-3939, email their request or question to firstname.lastname@example.org or visit its website, www.karunia.ca. Wetaskiwin residents wanting to take advantage of this great offer can dial 1-844-337-3939.
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15 WISDOM FOR LIFE QUOTES
This is the second instalment of our Wisdom for Life Quotes. You can see the first instalment here.
I have included the titles of the posts I extracted them from. You can check them out, if you wish, to see the context in which these maxims were coined and some graphics with these and similar sayings. I hope that these quotes provide food for thought and helpful guidance for you as you walk through life. You are richly blessed in Jesus’ name.
1. Life comes with a mixed bag of experiences. What matters is how you take it.
The Best New Year Resolution To Make
2. Don’t let anyone tell you you’re not good enough ’cause you’re fearfully and wonderfully made.
3. Beware of the pressure to prove how joyful you are. Remember- joy is a state of mind, not an activity or possession.
Lacking Joy This Christmas?
(Related: 10 Witty Quotes About God)
4. Talk with someone when you’re blue. That may help you see things through.
My Beautiful Neighbour #3
5. Do not prey on others or you will likely become a prey yourself in future.
5 Lessons On How Not To Live: The Story Of Abner (II)
6. We often do not consider ourselves blessed until we are confronted with those enduring a truly stark existence.
Either SUV Or Burst
7. He who works and rests today, lives to work another day.
(Adapted from a line in Bob Marley’s “The Heathen”)
Prerequisites For Discipline #2
8. Be as willing to take advice as you are to give it.
When Giving Advice Gets Tricky
9. When the waiting becomes intolerable, what you’re expecting is probably about to manifest.
Noah And The Flood: A Lesson In Patience
Do good everyday and add value wherever you are.
How Rich Is Your Bank Of Goodwill?
10. Constantly go for the best and pursue your purpose to the hilt.
You Will Always Be Blessed!
11. Those who unduly impute wrong motives to others tend to live in self-inflicted misery.
From Bait To Catch #4
(Related: Commentary On 10 Famous Paradoxical Quotes)
12. Wherever you find yourself – valley or mountaintop – be thankful and make the most of it.
Of Grainy Pictures And Imperfect Lives
13. Consuming too much of social media can leave you shallow, rude and envious.
3 Lessons From John Crists’s “If Bible Characters Had iPhones” Viral Comedy Video
14. Beauty is more than skin deep when gorgeousness is matched with virtuousness.
My Beautiful Neighbour #6
15. Do not toy with human lives. Always remember that life is sacred.
7 Lessons On How Not To Live: The Story of Abner (I)
Would love to know what you think of these quotes. You may also share some sayings that you know which address some of the issues raised in the ones above. May the Lord direct your steps unto peace and success in Jesus’ name.
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Once your bat house is constructed it’s important to choose an area for installation that has the best chance of attracting bats! How and where you mount your new bat roost depends on the style and size of bat house, average temperatures in your area in July, and other physical limitations.
Bat houses can be mounted on wooden posts, steel poles, pivot poles, or on the sides of buildings, but should not be mounted on trees for three reasons:
- They receive less sun among the branches
- Bat tenants are more vulnerable to predators sitting in trees
- Obstructions in the form of branches and surrounding vegetation make it more difficult for bats to drop into flight.
Bats find houses mounted on poles or buildings in less than half the time it takes them to find tree-mounted roosts. Houses mounted under the eaves on wood or stone buildings, but still exposed to the sun, tend to be better protected from rain and predators and have been especially successful.
Buildings offer good mounting sites almost everywhere, but they are essential in very cool or dry climates. In dry areas, where day-to-night temperatures may vary by more than 28° F, buffering from nighttime extremes is needed. Buildings are also the right choice if you are installing only one, single-chamber bat house; unless two are installed back-to-back, pole-mounted singled-chamber roosts don’t seem to offer enough options for bats to move about in response to temperature fluctuations.
Bat house installation tips
- Bat houses should be mounted in an area that gets 6-8 hours of direct sunlight (facing either East or South).
- To the extent possible, locate all houses 20 to 30 feet from tree branches or other obstacles and 12 to 20 feet above ground (or above the tallest vegetation beneath the bat house).
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Special Economic Zones Act, 2005
6. Processing and non-processing areas
The areas falling within the Special Economic Zones may be demarcated by the Central Government or any authority specified by it as-
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Mars is no longer better mapped than Alaska. The “most accurate digital elevation maps” ever created of the state have been released by The White House, the National Science Foundation, and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), according to a statement the government delivered Thursday.
Paul Morin, head of the University of Minnesota’s Polar Geospatial Center, said the United States is the only country that could have come up with such a “game-changing” data set, as reported by National Geographic. The newly released maps will help identify the rapid changes that are taking place in the topography of Alaska as a consequence of a warming climate.
The project has been named Arctic DEM and although it is being released with Alaska, it will cover 100 percent of the Arctic above 60º north latitude, meaning that Canada, Russia, and other Arctic countries will also by covered by the end of 2017. This will be possible thanks to a supercomputer in Illinois that will crunch all the satellite data.
Because the reaches of the Arctic are too big, it would be unaffordable to collect maps the way it is done with the lower 48 states of the U.S., where radar from low-flying aircraft collects most elevation data for topographic maps, as explained in the NatGeo article. Above the 60th parallel, there are about eight million square miles of remote wilderness that are too expensive to map with regular methods.
DigitalGlobe operates commercial satellites programmed to orbit the poles every hour and then release data for the new maps. The latest satellites have built-in, high-resolution cameras capable of detecting the smallest details in Alaska. In fact, researchers have been able to count emperor penguins thanks to these state-of-the-art satellites.
Morin explained that stereoscopic images of the same location are taken 45 seconds apart, which allows researchers to get the extremely accurate elevation maps. The National Science Foundation has received such imagery of the polar regions from the NGA for the last six years. NGA’s Brian Bates said the resulting maps have helped scientists find safe landing places for airplanes, as well as safe travel routes for snowcats, as reported by NatGeo.
Maps serve as planning tools to prevent damage caused by the warming climate
Everyone who works with the Earth’s surface has been dreaming of these data set, including biologists, geologists, geographers and many other scientists. Morin pointed out that the Arctic DEM is changing the way science will be done in the remote Arctic, according to NatGeo.
Additionally, Bates highlighted the fact that the DEMs serve as extremely useful planning tools for indigenous folks who are constantly struggling to keep their communities safe. He added that accurate topographic data are key to build new seawalls, roads, and airstrips.
Noah Naylor of Kotzebue is the planning director for Northwest Borough. The new maps could allow him to plan the future of his people by monitoring the threat. He told NatGeo he was eager to see the results. Kotzebue is located on a gravel peninsula about ten feet above the Chukchi Sea, which is the source of an increasing destruction.
For their part, folks in Shishmaref voted last week to relocate their flood-prone village, where they have been living for over four centuries. As much as 31 Alaskan villages are under threat of destruction caused by flooding and erosion, according to a study published in July 2015 by the nonprofit Arctic Institute.
Obama proposed to help people in the Arctic during a visit to Kotzebue
During a visit to the small town located on Alaska’s northwest coast, President Barack Obama became the first sitting president to stand on the Arctic Circle. He committed to launching additional efforts to work on geospatial mapping as part of his Executive Order.
“When the White House called for proposals last year to help people in the Arctic with climate resiliency, we thought this is something we can do efficiently and economically,” Bates said, as quoted by NatGeo.
A statement released by The White House Sept. 2, 2015, reads that elevation data and data products help improve land management, allows sustainable development, scientific research, and safe recreation. The document also states that the data can help tackle challenges associated with transportation, aviation, and defense industries, as well as imminent landscape changes resulting from climate change.
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The Society encourages interest in the County's history and archaeology.
Society members can expect a summer programme of visits and excursions, a winter programme of talks and lectures and printed copies of the Derbyshire Society Journal, Derbyshire Miscellany magazine and our Newsletter.
The Society has four sections that have a special interest in Archaeology, Architecture, Local History and Industrial Archaeology.
The Society has its own library located in the Strutts Centre, Belper with an online searchable catalogue of over 2,500 items.
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Digital age is rapidly evolving. With this evolution, the dilemma around the right use of Social Media and the Internet is emerging as one of the biggest challenges for us. We’re the first generation of parents, raising kids in the Internet Era and at times we are puzzled with this scary parenting.
What we as parents need to draft is the right mix and appropriate usage of the Internet for kids. Having said that, such plans can never be perfect, but it will always be a mix of responses based on our personal experiences and expert advice. When we are traveling, or on a family dinner, it always pains me to see that kids are often occupied with their iPads and Phones busy playing games or watching videos. And at times, even the parents are busy scrolling, reading e-mails and texting.
Have you pondered why kids are being diverted more and more to using the gadgets? I’ve seen kids howling, banging, and shouting when they are refused their tabs or phones. Have these gadgets become our lifelines? We’re all facing the aftermath of excess digital use and kids are in no way untouched.
Right from Cyber Bullying to behavioral changes as aggression, kid’s response in the form of fight, flight or freeze with parents is consistently increasing. The effects are also seen in the form of dissociation and detachment when kids feel the pangs of stress during face to face interactions. While kids choose their video plays over an outdoor play with friends, it does impact their overall social development. The lack of real interactions takes them away from the real challenges of life.
While online privacy and inappropriate content is a big challenge, the budding stress of FOMO (fear of missing out) on social media is gripping hard.
When we were kids, the access to technology was way limited, we had more real interactions and outdoor plays, more peaceful moments and calm environment. There were no consistent notifications and a child used to get perfect parental attention. Life was free of many such distractions, which cannot be overruled now.
It is time that we opt for a subtle approach while raising kids.
1. Do not ban Social media or Internet usage completely. This will not serve the purpose, as kids ought to be “digital ready” for their future. Set your Family screen time. Ensure that no one in the family is using phones while having dinner together while playing together and at least 30minutes before sleep.
2. Raise Socially responsible kids: Make kids understand how the Internet can be a boon as well as a bane. Guide them on the righteous ways of using the internet. Make them understand the criticality of “Terms & Conditions”. Help them understand fake and real sites.
3. Limit your access to gadgets and Social media: Kids imitate perfectly, rather than asking them flatly to shun the usage, you need to show them the right way. Try not to scroll Facebook, Instagram when you are spending time with kids.
4. Discuss Safety measure Online: Share with them about the Cyber Safety Rules and how to deal with Cyber Bullying. You need to help them understand the importance of passwords, the right language to be used and how to deal with their personal information.
5. Parental monitoring: It’s no shame to adopt to monitoring kids online history. Keep on monitoring the privacy policies of your child’s gadgets. Ensure Child locks are in the place. Set monthly data usage limit for your child. Have a discussion with your child and inform them if you are installing some monitoring apps like Family Link. This will keep channels of communication open and build trust.
6. Discuss news and stories around excess internet usage, its ill effects and the real life stories of dealing with it. This will ensure that kids know the problem is real and they also know they can talk to you, in case of any untoward incident.
Keep discussing with your kids about right and Responsible usage of the Internet. Prompt them to live their social life and provide them with opportunities for outdoor games and interactions. Build a loving relationship between you and your kid by these measures.
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Psychiatrists claim that up to 90 per cent of the Valley’s population of around six million has been affected by
post-traumatic or depressive disorder. Amsterdam-based Medecins Sans Frontiers estimates that 33 per cent of
Kashmiris suffer from psychological distress, the highest in the world. Doctors at the lone psychiatric hospital say that they would receive just one patient a day when the conflict began in 1989. Five years on, there was a 300 per cent jump in the that number.
Worse was to follow - from 1994 onwards, they started seeing 300 patients a day and around 80,000 patients a year. Each patient, of course, got no more than a two-minute appointment in the hospital’s outpatients’ department. Experts, however, say only a fraction of mental health patients have received psychiatric help. People from far-flung areas, which have taken the brunt of the conflict’s invisible casualty, don’t have the resources to seek psychiatric help.
The 20-year insurgency has left a deep psychological impact, with a large section of the population suffering from
An excerpt from a 26 June 2022 ‘Times of India Crest’ report
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The Institution Mixte Queensland (IMQ) is a Christian School founded in 1999 in Haiti by Jean-Claude Dorsainvil, with the objective and mission to develop the vision of Queensland Foundation for Children, Health and Education (QFCHE) www.qcfhaiti.org . The Institution Mixte Queensland (IMQ) is a part of Queensland University (UQ) founded in November 1996 by Dr. Jean-Claude Dorsainvil, in the objective to serve the Haitian population.
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In the 1960s, the brothers David and Roger Johnson, two professors at the University of Minnesota (United States), began to investigate and reflect on whether the individualistic learning approach typical of the time was beneficial for students and they defined cooperative learning: “It is a carefully designed system of interactions that organizes and induces reciprocal influence among team members.”
This methodology works on five essential elements:
1. Positive interdependence.
2. Individual responsibility.
3. Motor interaction.
4. Social skills.
5. Group procedure (when reflecting on the achieved goals).
This way, cooperative work promotes the establishment of a bound among the team members, fostering help, equitable participation, individual responsibility in each of the members, the analysis of the result by the group and the development of interpersonal skills related to encouragement, asking for help, give explanations, seek understanding, debating, solve problems or “criticize”ideas without criticizing people.
This learning approach gets students to work together (whether they want it or not) because their interaction is crucial to completing the task and achieving the common goal. That is, the goal is not only the final outcome, but also the process that leads to better learning.
The role of the teacher
In cooperative learning, teachers develop a proactive role. “They distribute students in groups, establish the rules and decide the roles that students will play. They also design the cooperative situation based on the elements that define this learning approach”, says Manso.Toe
5. Activities to get them started
Cooperative learning can be implemented from the earliest stages of learning and in all subjects. In a cooperative situation, the teacher will establish the cooperative group-class structures, as well as the working path and interactions that students will follow.
For example, a task could be related to writing: a letter written among several students. To carry this out through cooperative learning, the following steps could be proposed:
1. Prepare ideas separately. Each member prepares the ideas to be exposed in the letter, what fosters individual responsibility.
2.Share ideas and decide which ones are essential. By doing so, they share material and can get a collective reward when performing well. This fosters positive interdependence.
3. The role of the teacher. The teacher establishes the expected conducts within the group: participation of all members, not to leave the group, paraphrasing interesting ideas, etc., what promotes social skills.
4. Support among team members. The participants support and encourage each other and share impressions. They write the letter in turns, so motor interaction is used.
5. Final assessment. Finally, they check if all objectives have been achieved and they self-asses to find out improvement points, in a global group procedure.
These different steps and the interrelationship needs can be favoured with the creation of different spaces within the same classroom. The feeling of being in a safe space boosts confidence, acceptance and the commitment of each group member, and it fosters the skills and social maturing generated by cooperative learning.
Furniture as an ally
Understanding furniture as an enhancer of roles, interactions and experiences has helped boost these educational trends that are redefining the 21st century school.
Besides the comfort of a good structure, ergonomic design and high quality and sustainable materials, versatility is the main protagonist in the desks and tables proposed for cooperative learning.
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When it comes to martial arts there is a long-held precept that states, "learn the form, but seek the formless". As the predecessor to kung fu, the same concept holds true for Qigong. With that said, on the journey to achieve the pinnacle of Qigong training, a freeform Qigong program takes the top spot.
What do the movements of Qigong do for the body?
It's important to remember that the movements of Qigong exercise serve a specific purpose. Qigong exercises are specifically designed to stimulate the acupuncture meridians so to promote the movement of Qi throughout the body.
Qi moves blood and blood nourishes tissue. It is the smooth and effortless movements of Qi (energy) around the body that allows every organ system to work efficiently. The meridians or "rivers" of energy travel throughout the connective tissue layers of the fascia.
The fascia not only connects all, muscles, bones, tendons, and organs, but it is interwoven within them all. You can visualize fascia as an ever-growing spiderweb of connective tissue. Forever being torn down and rebuilt over and over again and we move through life.
Every time we stretch our body through large or different ranges of motion, we tear apart a fine layer of new fascia that has been built. This is a necessary process for our body to be healthy and to function properly. On the contrary, limited activity and movement allow for the build-up of successive layers of fascia.
As new fascial layers grow upon themselves they begin to take on a more rigid scaffold-like presentation. Over time our body begins to stiffen as our muscles lose their ability to pull and the joints lose their ability to bend. This is why sedentary lifestyles are damaging to health and why it is so important to keep moving in new and challenging ways as we age.
It is the total body connection that allows the fascia to act as a conduit of information exchange throughout the body. Traveling within the facia are trillions of microscopic nerve endings and blood vessels. It is through this complex network of electrically charged signals that the fascia acts as the internet of the body.
At certain locations within the body, the arrangement of fascia is organized in such a way as to clearly define a path or "river". By way of countless trials and errors on millions of people, over thousands of years, ancient Traditional Chinese Medical Practitioners mapped out 405 access points into this information network.
These access points stimulated by touch or with a needle came to be known as Acupuncture points. Through these access points, practitioners could improve communication between all organs muscles, and tissues of the body and bring the patient back into a state of health.
How does the mind affect the body?
Moving the body is vitally important to ensure not only the continual fascial remodeling process but also the stimulation of the acupuncture points and the meridians they lay within. This is where the mindful connection to movements becomes important.
It has long been said that "YI Dao, Qi Dao", "Where the mind goes, the Qi follows". So when it comes to Qigong practice, yes, the specific ways in which you move the body is important, but even more important, is the mental connection to the movements.
By mentally reviewing your grocery list or planning your weekend while engaged in your Qigong practice, you limit the powerful healing effect the practice can provide. With a focused mindful connection to the activation and stimulation of the tissues being used to perform each movement, a Qigong practitioner can literally give themselves a free acupressure treatment.
Now yes, knowing the course and path of the meridians would take the healing nature of your Qigong practice to the next level, but it is not necessary to receive the benefits. Connection to the moment by way of connection to the breath and body is enough to provide some well-deserved self-health care.
Simply moving one arm can be turned into a full-body sensory experience. Don't just lift your arm. Feel your arm lift. Feel where the shoulder tenses. Feel where pressure is exerted on the elbow joint. Feel the air press against the skin of your hand. Feel how your weight shifts and your core engage as your balance is challenged.
Every moment you are mindfully connected to the tissues of your arm you are also connected to and influencing the flow of Qi through the six different meridians that travel through it. In just the simple movement of lifting one arm, you can stimulate the lung, large intestine, heart, small intestine, san jiao, and pericardium meridians.
Movement is medicine!
Now take that concept and apply it to the rest of your body during the rest of your practice. It is one of the major reasons why Qigong is performed slowly. By moving slowly you allow your mind to connect to your movements in a way that fast explosive movement just doesn't allow for.
The rest of the external world falls away as you connect to your very own private internal world of your body. There are no pains of past emotions or anxieties of future events. There is only the feel of your body at the present moment. This is how Qigong practice becomes a moving meditation. It is also why connecting to the way you move rather than "how" you move is more important for healing both mind and body.
Why do we learn Qigong sets instead of just moving freely?
The simple answer is, most of us are just not mentally free enough to move freely, lol. Most of us are used to moving our bodies in limited ways. Unless we play a sport, dance, hike, do yoga or martial arts, most people's major physical activity is ...... well, walking. Not exactly a dynamic physical activity!
The specific movements incorporated into Qigong sets are designed to challenge the body in many ways.
- Slowly shifting the body weight from one foot to another challenges the balance and vestibular system.
- Activating the opposite arm and leg at the same time challenges coordination as well as activation of both hemispheres of the brain.
- Circular movements of the torso challenge the core muscles to stabilize the spinal column.
- deep diaphragmatic breathing challenges the lunges to exchange oxygen more efficiently.
- performing complex choreography challenges spacial perception and memory.
- dynamic movements challenge joints to move through large ranges of motion.
- unique motor movements challenge muscles to provide strength and stability.
However, at a certain point, the goal is to remove the limiting mental obstacle "our adult critic" and just move! We need to take a note from kids playing in the playground. Children do Qigong without ever giving it a thought. They twirl around, swing their arms in the air, balance on one foot, and walk on their tippy-toes.
With not a care in the world, there is only the moment they are in, and the fun they are having. At a certain point, this is the aim of Qigong.
"First learn the way, then find your own way!"
Don't get me wrong, there is a wonderful benefit in learning the long-taught specific movements of the Qigong sets that have been created over the history of the practice. I have spent decades doing just so. But at a certain point, the goal is to merge mind, body, breath, and intention and just move.
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A lot of men and women think that home solar energy systems are going to substitute fossil-fuel based energy resources as the manner in which the majority of people power their houses.
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Nevertheless, the most significant thing that you want to learn about home solar energy systems is that you’re able to carry on making electricity provided that the sun keeps shining.
Even though everyone had one of those wonderful systems, you would not run out of electricity. These systems aren’t readily available to homeowners in the kind of photovoltaic solar cells, which convert sunlight energy into power. The solar cells which most men and women use to their at-home solar energy systems are organized to a solar panel.
These solar abilities are set up in various manners based on the region where the homeowner resides and in which the panels are set up on the house.
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IRVINE, Calif. — Anderson Advanced Ingredients® commends the most recent draft guidance by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) titled “The Declaration of Allulose and Calories from Allulose on Nutrition and Supplement Facts Labels”. The draft guidance provides the FDA’s current view of the declaration of allulose under the newly modified U.S. Labeling Laws. The guidance is one of a series that has been released and it marks the first time the FDA has stated its intent to allow a sugar to not be included as part of the total or added sugars declarations on labels.
“Today, we’re taking such a step by issuing a draft guidance on the labeling of allulose, a sweetener that may be used as a substitute for certain sugars in foods, so that the information presented on Nutrition and Supplement Facts labels appropriately represents its unique properties,” said Susan Mayne, Ph.D., director of FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. “The latest data suggests that allulose is different from other sugars in that it is not metabolized by the human body in the same way as table sugar. It has fewer calories, produces only negligible increases in blood glucose or insulin levels, and does not promote dental decay. As such, we’ve issued guidance today stating that we intend to exercise enforcement discretion to allow allulose to be excluded from the total and added sugars declarations on the Nutrition Facts and Supplement Facts labels when allulose is used as an ingredient.”
The previous 2016 guidance from the FDA detailed that allulose should be counted at a full 4 calories per gram and declared under “added sugars”. The current guidance is a significant shift and specifies that the FDA intends to exercise enforcement discretion to allow manufacturers to use only 0.4 calories per gram of allulose when calculating the calories from allulose in a serving of a product. Manufacturers will still be required to include allulose in the total carbohydrates declaration.
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A crabby baby can have several causes. In the first instance, your baby may be teething. This stage of development can start at any age, although most babies begin teething around six months. Your baby may also be too overworked to fall asleep. Regardless of the cause, here are some solutions. A pacifier may help calm your baby down so they can sleep through the night.
If you’re wondering why your baby is acting fussy, it’s likely your child is sick. Common signs include fever, hives, rash, diarrhea, and vomiting. They can prescribe medicine. You can also try other ways to calm your baby, but the first thing to do is seek medical attention.
Read More: Why Does My Baby Spit Up So Much?
A food allergy may be a contributing cause to your baby’s agitation. A shrill or hoarse cry may indicate a food allergy, especially after eating a certain food. Other signs to watch include runny nose, congestion, hives, and difficulty breathing. It can be challenging to cope with a baby displaying unusually fussy behavior.
Understanding the reasons behind the fussiness can help you be a more sympathetic and compassionate parent as you support your baby through this time. And you can help your child feel better by offering gentle, supportive care. Other reasons your baby is fussy include growth spurts, food sensitivities, and diaper rash. Other reasons may include low milk supply, fatigue, loneliness, and other conditions. In addition to these conditions, your baby may be undergoing an adjustment period, such as beginning to use a pacifier.
Sometimes, your baby may be suffering from an ear infection. Over 80% of children will have one or more ear infections before they are three years old. A child’s ear is a common place for bacteria to grow, and inflammation in this area can cause pain and swelling. Symptoms of an infection may include clumsiness, fever, and gas. If you’re worried your baby may be suffering from an ear infection, you should consult a pediatrician to determine the cause of your baby’s discomfort. | <urn:uuid:a285c2c7-0426-4ae0-803b-e0378a95399f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://yourbabycareguide.com/why-is-my-baby-so-fussy-all-of-a-sudden/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.939215 | 441 | 2.546875 | 3 |
The Holy Scriptures
We believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the verbally and plenary inspired Word of God. The Scriptures are inerrant, infallible and God-breathed, and therefore are the final authority for faith and life. We believe that the original autographs were inspired and that reliable translations communicate the Word of God to us today.
We believe in one Triune God, eternally existing in three persons- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit- each co-eternal in being, co-identical in nature, co-equal in power and glory, and having the same attributes and perfections (Deut. 6:4; Matt. 28:19; 2 Cor. 13:14; John 14:10,26).
The Person and Work of Christ
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, became man, without ceasing to be God, having been conceived by the Holy Spirit, and born of the virgin Mary, in order that He might reveal God and redeem sinful men (Isa. 7:14; 9:6; Luke 1:35; John 1:1-2, 14:2; 2 Cor. 5:19-21; Gal. 4:4-5; Phil. 2:5-8).
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished our redemption through His death on the cross as a representative, vicarious, substitutionary sacrifice; and, that our justification is made sure by His literal, physical resurrection from the dead (Acts 2:18-26; Rom. 3:24-25; 1 Pet. 2:24; Eph. 1:7; 1 Pet. 1:3-5).
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ ascended to Heaven, and is now exalted at the right hand of God, where as our High Priest, He fulfills the ministry of Representative, Intercessor, and Advocate (Acts 1:9-10; Heb. 9:24; 7:25; Rom. 8:34; 1 John 2:1-2 ).
The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit
We believe that the Holy Spirit is a person who convicts the world of sin, convinces the believer that he is righteousness, and applies the judgment of the cross on Satan; and that He is the Supernatural Agent in regeneration, baptizing all believers into the body of Christ, indwelling and sealing them unto the day of redemption (John 16:8-11; Rom. 8:9; 1 Cor. 12:12-14; 2 Cor. 3:6; Eph. 1:13-14).
The Total Depravity of Man
We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God, but that in Adam’s sin the human race fell, inherited a sinful nature, and became alienated from God; and, that man is totally depraved, and, of himself, utterly unable to remedy his lost condition (Gen. 1:26-27; Rom. 3:22-23; 5:12; 6:23; Eph. 2:1-3; 4:17-19).
We believe that salvation is the gift of God brought to man by grace and received by personal faith and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, Whose precious blood was shed on Calvary for the forgiveness of our sins ( John 1:12; Eph. 1:7; 2:8-10; 1Peter 1:18-19).
The Eternal Security and Assurance of Believers
We believe that all the redeemed, once saved, are kept by God’s power and are thus secure in Christ forever (John 6:37-40; 10:27-30; Rom. 8:1,38-39; 1 Cor, 1:4-8; 1Peter1:4-5).
We believe that the local church, which is the body and the espoused bride of Christ is solely made up of born-again persons (1 Cor. 12:12-14; 2 Cor. 11:2; Eph.1:22-23; 5:25-27).
We recognize water baptism and the Lord’s Supper as the Scriptural ordinances of obedience for the Church in this age (Matt. 28:19-20; Acts 2:41-42; 18:18; 1 Cor. 11:23-26).
We believe that the local church should be submissive to local and state governments. The only exception being when civil governments attempt to limit or stop the preaching of the Word of God, or the activities of the church.
We believe that marriage consists of one man and one woman and we are opposed to homosexuality.
We are opposed to abortion, believing that it is the murder of the unborn.
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“The miracle isn’t that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.” – John Bingham
Several months ago, we wrote about the Coppell High School Solar Car team, which Treverity sponsored this year in their quest to complete the Solar Car Challenge – a seven day grueling road race from Texas to California, covering over 1300 miles. All powered by the sun. And, all in vehicles built and driven by high school students.
The race is coming up next week (July 17-23), and while many high school kids have been at camp, watching TV, and sleeping in this summer, the Coppell Solar team has been busy. Very busy. What started out as a dream and a basket of parts in January, has turned into a finely tuned team of young adults and an absolutely amazing vehicle.
The effort has been herculean. Since making the decision to compete in January, over 25 students (with the help of three teachers and numerous mentors) have logged over 5000 hours of effort and 800 miles of road testing. They’ve mastered the tools of modern engineering, including CAD, Labview, and Slack. They’ve built a complex telemetry system to collect data and monitor vehicle performance in real-time. They’ve built not one, but two vehicles – the car itself, and a portable solar charging station. They’ve developed a math-based race strategy designed to maximize battery performance and range. And along the way, they’ve had shattered solar panels, failed components, crashes, and various other setbacks. They’ve burned through over 50 batteries, many tires, hundreds of pounds of steel tubing, thousands of zip ties. And, of course, countless snacks and caffeinated beverages on their path to the starting line.
And, if that weren’t enough – they had to figure out how to pay for all of this. Fundraising was a major effort, and the team came through, raising over $75,000 in cash and in-kind donations, from great organizations like the Dallas Cowboys, SunPower (who donated the high efficiency solar panels shown above), and Treverity, to name just a few. 17 corporate sponsors and over 50 individuals helped make all of this possible.
Anyone who has ever shipped a product knows the feeling of excitement, fear, stress, and anticipation as that shipment date gets closer. For the Coppell Solar team, they are experiencing all that and more – many for the first time in their lives.
And if the race pressure wasn’t high enough, the team still needs to make it through “Scrutineering” (a term I just learned) – a brutal evaluation and test of your vehicle and your team to ensure that you have complied with all of the rules in the 30+ page race rule book and 46+ page, 200-part Scrutineering checklist. This review covers every detail of the vehicle, from the construction of the safety harnesses to the tightness of the electrical connections to the vehicle turning radius. In this process, the team is asked to “show their work” – defend the design decisions they made, demonstrate that they built the vehicle themselves, that it complies with all of the race rules, and that they are prepared for the brutal race ahead. Many teams to do not pass Scrutineering and never make it to the starting line, which is devastating. In my experience, most product companies don’t apply this level of rigour to their development process. They should.
Watching the team go through this process has reminded me of a quote from John “The Penguin” Bingham – a back-of-the-pack runner and writer for Runners World Magazine, who inspired a new generation of runners. John famously stated after a particularly tough race “The miracle isn’t that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.” Coppell Solar certainly has the courage to start. And, while victory in the race is certainly not guaranteed, we know that the team has already won. They’ve won the respect of their peers, their teachers, and their community. And they’ve won valuable skills and life lessons in design, engineering, fabrication, fundraising, marketing, teamwork, hardwork, and perseverance that will serve them well in life. We wish them good luck over the next week, but we know they don’t need it – they are prepared.
If you are interested in helping out the team this year, and in future years, I highly encourage it. I promise you will get back more than you put in. Contact me for more info @ firstname.lastname@example.org or you can donate to the team directly @ http://www.coppellsolar.org/donate.html. | <urn:uuid:42b9586b-f217-4406-bae0-6669a103e7c1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://treverity.com/start-line-finish-line-journey-2018-coppell-solar-car-team/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.968783 | 1,015 | 1.75 | 2 |
During this time of isolation, we are sharing prayers, poems, inspirational music, videos and quotes that uplift our spirits in a special email newsletter each Tuesday. Here is an excerpt from our January 19 edition.
Reflection on Living a Meaningful Life during Covid
What does it mean to live a meaningful life during the time of covid? When we are now under stricter stay-at-home orders, it seems to be getting increasingly challenging to carve out a daily existence that feels personally meaningful. “There’s an emptiness gnawing away at people and you don’t have to be clinically depressed to feel it,” says author Emily Esfahani Smith. Her research shows that what predicts this despair is a lack of meaning in one’s life. Meaning is about finding our “why” so that we can survive the “what.” Swiss psychologist, Carl Jung, said that “meaning makes a great many things endurable- perhaps everything.”
But how do we figure out our “why”? James Hollis, in his book “Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life”, defines it as “being in right relationship with your soul.” That sounds like a tall order. Fortunately, James Hollis gives us a good starting point that seems relevant and practical for right now. “When we are tracking right, the energy is there. When we’re not, we have to fabricate it.”
Applying that approach to my life in this time of covid, I decided to track my energy. For a week, I kept a journal noting my activities for each day under one of two columns:
Activities that energize me
Activities that diminish my energy
When I looked at my days through that lens, I was surprised to discover that I actually had more activities that raised my energy level than I had expected. They usually included a component of learning, or creative expression, or deep connection. They were tied in very closely to my values. I felt depleted when I watched the news and absorbed the messages of fear and hatred or when I had too much sameness in my days. As a result, I have started to modify my daily schedule. Being in right relationship with your soul takes commitment. I still find myself watching CNN, but I am also taking time for podcasts, connecting with the friends who listen and care, and venturing into poetry writing. Some days I even remember to open the “Purposeful” app on my phone and set an intention for what really matters to me.
Grief expert David Kessler says that in this time of collective grief, we need to create “meaningful moments.” I was reminded of that by Arlene Duncan who sent me a picture of her mother, Myrtle Nicholson, as she celebrated her 100th birthday last March. She marked the occasion by creating a snow angel. The look of joy on her face and the twinkle in her eye was unmistakeable. She had figured out how to live that moment and live it meaningfully. What an inspiration she is to me in this winter of covid lockdowns. | <urn:uuid:3391d1ce-2dee-4dbc-a396-bc19d8e30112> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://esgunited.org/we-are-not-alone-living-a-meaningful-life-during-covid/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.974044 | 664 | 1.75 | 2 |
(WXYZ) — Police and sheriff's offices across the state are kicking off July with a crackdown on impaired driving.
Beginning Monday, more police are expected on the road for a two-week enforcement campaign.
Police warn that if you drink over the Fourth of July holiday, get a driver.
Investigators say it's already a dangerous time of year, noting seven deaths linked to crashes during last year's holiday. At least one of those involved alcohol.
Reminder: Michigan is a zero-tolerance state when it comes to drugged driving. Anyone with a BAC at 0.08 or higher can be arrested in Michigan for drunk driving.
The Office of Highway Safety Planning says that the goal of this push is to keep all preventable deaths from happening on the roads. | <urn:uuid:e59166a2-e932-4d87-8233-ccbae8ce5224> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wxyz.com/news/expect-to-see-more-police-on-the-road-for-a-2-week-impaired-driving-crackdown | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.966799 | 161 | 1.539063 | 2 |
It is recommended that you research before selecting any verification services since there are several ways to validate. Here are a few easy tips for finding the best email verifier.
Selecting Email Validation Services is a difficult task since it must be available in real-time from any location, at any time, on any device. In the validation procedure, this method uses the IP address of the service rather than your own.
Email analytics from EmailOversight provide you with a real-time overview of metrics verification, with areas such as email efficiency and monitoring and particular priority for the symbolization approach.
An email validation service should allow you to access a single or a mass email validation list, depending on your needs. The ability to quickly use validation must be beneficial if the immediate output is delivered.
There should be a way to ensure that both the business and personal email addresses are compatible. The domains and private email carriers such as Gmail, Yahoo, and many more may be located using this method.
An authentication system that uses a variety of methods.
You should always be able to validate emails in various methods, such as a syntax check, a domain validation check, or an email ping server.
System of complete assistance
There should be a way to link additional tools modules that generate the validation process to one another. It is essential to create a strategy that creates email sending tools and manages tools and other services in an integrated manner.
Here’s how the company selects its candidates:
Email verification using regex
Regular expressions are employed in email ids to represent the sting or a character. However, even though they have several difficulties with regex, the problem they have in detecting emails is the symbols used before the @ sign. Not only does this regex fail to validate the presence of the domain, but it also has several additional issues.
Validation of the Email Sent
The user must confirm their email address by clicking on the link in the confirmation email given to their joined email address before further action can be taken.
When selecting an email verification tool, the syntactic process must be checked. Using EmailOversight’s user-friendly syntax, you can quickly customize your email system. It is critical to have the right tools in place to make sensible investments.
Email Verification in real-time
Real-time verification of an email address conveys a message of confidence to the recipient and improves the user experience. Real-time information may be received by checking the domain and receiving it in real-time.
Email cleaning in bulk
Invalid email addresses are removed from the database using this technique. If your dataset has never been verified, this verification form is excellent since it has a high probability of minimizing bounce rates and objections. Avoiding poor reputation and other problems in the future may be solved by using batch email verification from the start.
Isn’t it incredible how much money might be saved by running campaigns more often or sending to a more significant number of people? An ordinary company that sends out frequent email marketing may save $100-300 a month by validating their email lists. Not only are you saving money, but you’re also preserving another critical asset: your integrity and reputation as a sender in the process. Verifying emails and their conversation is the best way to determine how well your service provider is doing.
- Open Rate of Delivery
- Percentage of Visitors Who Click on a Link
- The conversion rate for replies
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Reconnect with the grounding element: EARTH
Nature provides everything we need to survive, but as urban dwellers it’s easy to turn our backs on the natural world. One of the most restorative elements for our body is the most simple – Earth.
On the daily, most of us don’t ingest the proper amount of nutrients necessary to promote a healthy immune system. Eating the recommended amount of fruits and vegetables can be overwhelming, that is, unless we juice.
Juicing concentrates the amount of vitamins, minerals, and enzymes found in produce by squeezing out the micronutrients and making them more bioavailable to our bodies.
Without having to work to digest fiber, our system is left with a quick and effective multivitamin liquid that is nourishing and enriching to our cells. | <urn:uuid:71f6fba0-96bd-4625-b77a-7ffb16e3cfcb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aquarianalchemy.org/treatment/juicing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.894977 | 168 | 2.171875 | 2 |
|17 Feb 2004 @ 08:24, by Christopher Harper|
I’m most impressed with this masterpiece of expression! Charles Krauthammer brings to all of us a in-depth look at the creation and expression of a foreign policy for Americans and the world at large – introducing what he calls “Democratic Realism”, which balances both the right and the left and offers the ultimate solution to peace in our world – through the uncompromising pursuit of freedom for all.
It’s filled with solutions that are hard to reason against otherwise…enjoy!
A Unipolar World
Americans have an healthy aversion to foreign policy. It stems from a sense of thrift: Who needs it? We’re protected by two great oceans, we have this continent practically to ourselves and we share it with just two neighbors, both friendly, one so friendly that its people seem intent upon moving in with us.
It took three giants of the twentieth century to drag us into its great battles: Wilson into World War I, Roosevelt into World War II, Truman into the Cold War. And then it ended with one of the great anti-climaxes in history. Without a shot fired, without a revolution, without so much as a press release, the Soviet Union simply gave up and disappeared.
It was the end of everything--the end of communism, of socialism, of the Cold War, of the European wars. But the end of everything was also a beginning. On December 26, 1991, the Soviet Union died and something new was born, something utterly new--a unipolar world dominated by a single superpower unchecked by any rival and with decisive reach in every corner of the globe.
This is a staggering new development in history, not seen since the fall of Rome. It is so new, so strange, that we have no idea how to deal with it. Our first reaction--the 1990s--was utter confusion. The next reaction was awe. When Paul Kennedy, who had once popularized the idea of American decline, saw what America did in the Afghan war--a display of fully mobilized, furiously concentrated unipolar power at a distance of 8,000 miles--he not only recanted, he stood in wonder: “Nothing has ever existed like this disparity of power;” he wrote, “nothing. . . . No other nation comes close. . . . Charlemagne’s empire was merely western European in its reach. The Roman empire stretched farther afield, but there was another great empire in Persia, and a larger one in China. There is, therefore, no comparison.”
Even Rome is no model for what America is today. First, because we do not have the imperial culture of Rome. We are an Athenian republic, even more republican and infinitely more democratic than Athens. And this American Republic has acquired the largest seeming empire in the history of the world--acquired it in a fit of absent-mindedness greater even than Britain’s. And it was not just absent-mindedness; it was sheer inadvertence. We got here because of Europe’s suicide in the world wars of the twentieth century, and then the death of its Eurasian successor, Soviet Russia, for having adopted a political and economic system so inhuman that, like a genetically defective organism, it simply expired in its sleep. Leaving us with global dominion.
Second, we are unlike Rome, unlike Britain and France and Spain and the other classical empires of modern times, in that we do not hunger for territory. The use of the word “empire” in the American context is ridiculous. It is absurd to apply the word to a people whose first instinct upon arriving on anyone’s soil is to demand an exit strategy. I can assure you that when the Romans went into Gaul and the British into India, they were not looking for exit strategies. They were looking for entry strategies.
In David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia, King Faisal says to Lawrence: “I think you are another of these desert-loving English. . . . The English have a great hunger for desolate places.” Indeed, for five centuries, the Europeans did hunger for deserts and jungles and oceans and new continents.
Americans do not. We like it here. We like our McDonalds. We like our football. We like our rock-and-roll. We’ve got the Grand Canyon and Graceland. We’ve got Silicon Valley and South Beach. We’ve got everything. And if that’s not enough, we’ve got Vegas--which is a facsimile of everything. What could we possibly need anywhere else? We don’t like exotic climates. We don’t like exotic languages--lots of declensions and moods. We don’t even know what a mood is. We like Iowa corn and New York hot dogs, and if we want Chinese or Indian or Italian, we go to the food court. We don’t send the Marines for takeout.
That’s because we are not an imperial power. We are a commercial republic. We don’t take food; we trade for it. Which makes us something unique in history, an anomaly, a hybrid: a commercial republic with overwhelming global power. A commercial republic that, by pure accident of history, has been designated custodian of the international system. The eyes of every supplicant from East Timor to Afghanistan, from Iraq to Liberia; Arab and Israeli, Irish and British, North and South Korean are upon us.
That is who we are. That is where we are.
Now the question is: What do we do? What is a unipolar power to do?
The oldest and most venerable answer is to hoard that power and retreat. This is known as isolationism. Of all the foreign policy schools in America, it has the oldest pedigree, not surprising in the only great power in history to be isolated by two vast oceans.
Isolationism originally sprang from a view of America as spiritually superior to the Old World. We were too good to be corrupted by its low intrigues, entangled by its cynical alliances.
Today, however, isolationism is an ideology of fear. Fear of trade. Fear of immigrants. Fear of the Other. Isolationists want to cut off trade and immigration, and withdraw from our military and strategic commitments around the world. Even isolationists, of course, did not oppose the war in Afghanistan, because it was so obviously an act of self-defense--only a fool or a knave or a Susan Sontag could oppose that. But anything beyond that, isolationists oppose. They are for a radical retrenchment of American power--for pulling up the drawbridge to Fortress America.
Isolationism is an important school of thought historically, but not today. Not just because of its brutal intellectual reductionism, but because it is so obviously inappropriate to the world of today--a world of export-driven economies, of massive population flows, and of 9/11, the definitive demonstration that the combination of modern technology and transnational primitivism has erased the barrier between “over there” and over here.
Classical isolationism is not just intellectually obsolete; it is politically bankrupt as well. Four years ago, its most public advocate, Pat Buchanan, ran for president of the United States, and carried Palm Beach. By accident.
Classic isolationism is moribund and marginalized. Who then rules America?
In the 1990s, it was liberal internationalism. Liberal internationalism is the foreign policy of the Democratic Party and the religion of the foreign policy elite. It has a peculiar history. It traces its pedigree to Woodrow Wilson’s utopianism, Harry Truman’s anticommunism, and John Kennedy’s militant universalism. But after the Vietnam War, it was transmuted into an ideology of passivity, acquiescence and almost reflexive anti-interventionism.
Liberals today proudly take credit for Truman’s and Kennedy’s roles in containing communism, but they prefer to forget that, for the last half of the Cold War, liberals used “cold warrior” as an epithet. In the early 1980s, they gave us the nuclear freeze movement, a form of unilateral disarmament in the face of Soviet nuclear advances. Today, John Kerry boasts of opposing, during the 1980s, what he calls Ronald Reagan’s “illegal war in Central America”--and oppose he did what was, in fact, an indigenous anticommunist rebellion that ultimately succeeded in bringing down Sandinista rule and ushering in democracy in all of Central America.
That boast reminds us how militant was liberal passivity in the last half of the Cold War. But that passivity outlived the Cold War. When Kuwait was invaded, the question was: Should the United States go to war to prevent the Persian Gulf from falling into hostile hands? The Democratic Party joined the Buchananite isolationists in saying No. The Democrats voted No overwhelmingly--two to one in the House, more than four to one in the Senate.
And yet, quite astonishingly, when liberal internationalism came to power just two years later in the form of the Clinton administration, it turned almost hyperinterventionist. It involved us four times in military action: deepening intervention in Somalia, invading Haiti, bombing Bosnia, and finally going to war over Kosovo.
How to explain the amazing transmutation of Cold War and Gulf War doves into Haiti and Balkan hawks? The crucial and obvious difference is this: Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo were humanitarian ventures--fights for right and good, devoid of raw national interest. And only humanitarian interventionism--disinterested interventionism devoid of national interest--is morally pristine enough to justify the use of force. The history of the 1990s refutes the lazy notion that liberals have an aversion to the use of force. They do not. They have an aversion to using force for reasons of pure national interest.
And by national interest I do not mean simple self-defense. Everyone believes in self-defense, as in Afghanistan. I am talking about national interest as defined by a Great Power: shaping the international environment by projecting power abroad to secure economic, political, and strategic goods. Intervening militarily for that kind of national interest, liberal internationalism finds unholy and unsupportable. It sees that kind of national interest as merely self-interest writ large, in effect, a form of grand national selfishness. Hence Kuwait, no; Kosovo, yes.
The other defining feature of the Clinton foreign policy was multilateralism, which expressed itself in a mania for treaties. The Clinton administration negotiated a dizzying succession of parchment promises on bioweapons, chemical weapons, nuclear testing, carbon emissions, anti-ballistic missiles, etc.
Why? No sentient being could believe that, say, the chemical or biological weapons treaties were anything more than transparently useless. Senator Joseph Biden once defended the Chemical Weapons Convention, which even its proponents admitted was unenforceable, on the grounds that it would “provide us with a valuable tool”--the “moral suasion of the entire international community.”
Moral suasion? Was it moral suasion that made Qaddafi see the wisdom of giving up his weapons of mass destruction? Or Iran agree for the first time to spot nuclear inspections? It was the suasion of the bayonet. It was the ignominious fall of Saddam--and the desire of interested spectators not to be next on the list. The whole point of this treaty was to keep rogue states from developing chemical weapons. Rogue states are, by definition, impervious to moral suasion.
Moral suasion is a farce. Why then this obsession with conventions, protocols, legalisms? Their obvious net effect is to temper American power. Who, after all, was really going to be most constrained by these treaties? The ABM amendments were aimed squarely at American advances and strategic defenses, not at Russia, which lags hopelessly behind. The Kyoto Protocol exempted India and China. The nuclear test ban would have seriously degraded the American nuclear arsenal. And the landmine treaty (which the Clinton administration spent months negotiating but, in the end, met so much Pentagon resistance that even Clinton could not initial it) would have had a devastating impact on U.S. conventional forces, particularly at the DMZ in Korea.
But that, you see, is the whole point of the multilateral enterprise: To reduce American freedom of action by making it subservient to, dependent on, constricted by the will--and interests--of other nations. To tie down Gulliver with a thousand strings. To domesticate the most undomesticated, most outsized, national interest on the planet--ours.
Today, multilateralism remains the overriding theme of liberal internationalism. When in power in the 1990s, multilateralism expressed itself as a mania for treaties. When out of power in this decade, multilateralism manifests itself in the slavish pursuit of “international legitimacy”--and opposition to any American action undertaken without universal foreign blessing.
Which is why the Democratic critique of the war in Iraq is so peculiarly one of process and not of policy. The problem was that we did not have the permission of the UN; we did not have a large enough coalition; we did not have a second Security Council resolution. Kofi Annan was unhappy and the French were cross.
The Democratic presidential candidates all say that we should have internationalized the conflict, brought in the UN, enlisted the allies. Why? Two reasons: assistance and legitimacy. First, they say, we could have used these other countries to help us in the reconstruction.
This is rich. Everyone would like to have more help in reconstruction. It would be lovely to have the Germans and the French helping reconstruct Baghdad. But the question is moot, and the argument is cynical: France and Germany made absolutely clear that they would never support the overthrow of Saddam. So, accommodating them was not a way to get them into the reconstruction, it was a way to ensure that there would never be any reconstruction, because Saddam would still be in power.
Of course it would be nice if we had more allies rather than fewer. It would also be nice to be able to fly. But when some nations are not with you on your enterprise, including them in your coalition is not a way to broaden it; it’s a way to abolish it.
At which point, liberal internationalists switch gears and appeal to legitimacy--on the grounds that multilateral action has a higher moral standing. I have always found this line of argument incomprehensible. By what possible moral calculus does an American intervention to liberate 25 million people forfeit moral legitimacy because it lacks the blessing of the butchers of Tiananmen Square or the cynics of the Quai d’Orsay?
Which is why it is hard to take these arguments at face value. Look: We know why liberal internationalists demanded UN sanction for the war in Iraq. It was a way to stop the war. It was the Gulliver effect. Call a committee meeting of countries with hostile or contrary interests--i.e., the Security Council--and you have guaranteed yourself another twelve years of inaction.
Historically, multilateralism is a way for weak countries to multiply their power by attaching themselves to stronger ones. But multilateralism imposed on Great Powers, and particularly on a unipolar power, is intended to restrain that power. Which is precisely why France is an ardent multilateralist. But why should America be?
Why, in the end, does liberal internationalism want to tie down Gulliver, to blunt the pursuit of American national interests by making them subordinate to a myriad of other interests?
In the immediate post-Vietnam era, this aversion to national interest might have been attributed to self-doubt and self-loathing. I don’t know. What I do know is that today it is a mistake to see liberal foreign policy as deriving from anti-Americanism or lack of patriotism or a late efflorescence of 1960s radicalism.
On the contrary. The liberal aversion to national interest stems from an idealism, a larger vision of country, a vision of some ambition and nobility--the ideal of a true international community. And that is: To transform the international system from the Hobbesian universe into a Lockean universe. To turn the state of nature into a norm-driven community. To turn the law of the jungle into the rule of law--of treaties and contracts and UN resolutions. In short, to remake the international system in the image of domestic civil society.
They dream of a new world, a world described in 1943 by Cordell Hull, FDR’s secretary of state--a world in which “there will no longer be need for spheres of influence, for alliances, for balance of power, or any other of the special arrangements by which, in the unhappy past, the nations strove to safeguard their security or promote their interests.”
And to create such a true international community, you have to temper, transcend, and, in the end, abolish the very idea of state power and national interest. Hence the antipathy to American hegemony and American power. If you are going to break the international arena to the mold of domestic society, you have to domesticate its single most powerful actor. You have to abolish American dominance, not only as an affront to fairness, but also as the greatest obstacle on the whole planet to a democratized international system where all live under self-governing international institutions and self-enforcing international norms.
This vision is all very nice. All very noble. And all very crazy. Which brings us to the third great foreign policy school: realism.
The realist looks at this great liberal project and sees a hopeless illusion. Because turning the Hobbesian world that has existed since long before the Peloponnesian Wars into a Lockean world, turning a jungle into a suburban subdivision, requires a revolution in human nature. Not just an erector set of new institutions, but a revolution in human nature. And realists do not believe in revolutions in human nature, much less stake their future, and the future of their nation, on them.
Realism recognizes the fundamental fallacy in the whole idea of the international system being modeled on domestic society.
First, what holds domestic society together is a supreme central authority wielding a monopoly of power and enforcing norms. In the international arena there is no such thing. Domestic society may look like a place of self-regulating norms, but if somebody breaks into your house, you call 911, and the police arrive with guns drawn. That’s not exactly self-enforcement. That’s law enforcement.
Second, domestic society rests on the shared goodwill, civility and common values of its individual members. What values are shared by, say, Britain, Cuba, Yemen and Zimbabwe--all nominal members of this fiction we call the “international community”?
Of course, you can have smaller communities of shared interests--NAFTA, ANZUS, or the European Union. But the European conceit that relations with all nations--regardless of ideology, regardless of culture, regardless even of open hostility--should be transacted on the EU model of suasion and norms and negotiations and solemn contractual agreements is an illusion. A fisheries treaty with Canada is something real. An Agreed Framework on plutonium processing with the likes of North Korea is not worth the paper it is written on.
The realist believes the definition of peace Ambrose Bierce offered in The Devil’s Dictionary: “Peace: noun, in international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.”
Hence the Realist axiom: The “international community” is a fiction. It is not a community, it is a cacophony--of straining ambitions, disparate values and contending power.
What does hold the international system together? What keeps it from degenerating into total anarchy? Not the phony security of treaties, not the best of goodwill among the nicer nations. In the unipolar world we inhabit, what stability we do enjoy today is owed to the overwhelming power and deterrent threat of the United States.
If someone invades your house, you call the cops. Who do you call if someone invades your country? You dial Washington. In the unipolar world, the closest thing to a centralized authority, to an enforcer of norms, is America--American power. And ironically, American power is precisely what liberal internationalism wants to constrain and tie down and subsume in pursuit of some brave new Lockean world.
Realists do not live just in America. I found one in Finland. During the 1997 negotiations in Oslo over the land mine treaty, one of the rare holdouts, interestingly enough, was Finland. The Finnish prime minister stoutly opposed the land mine ban. And for that he was scolded by his Scandinavian neighbors. To which he responded tartly that this was a “very convenient” pose for the “other Nordic countries”--after all, Finland is their land mine.
Finland is the land mine between Russia and Scandinavia. America is the land mine between barbarism and civilization.
Where would South Korea be without America and its landmines along the DMZ? Where would Europe--with its cozy arrogant community--be without America having saved it from the Soviet colossus? Where would the Middle East be had American power not stopped Saddam in 1991?
The land mine that protects civilization from barbarism is not parchment but power, and in a unipolar world, American power--wielded, if necessary, unilaterally. If necessary, preemptively,
Now, those uneasy with American power have made these two means of wielding it--preemption and unilateralism--the focus of unrelenting criticism. The doctrine of preemption, in particular, has been widely attacked for violating international norms.
What international norm? The one under which Israel was universally condemned--even the Reagan Administration joined the condemnation at the Security Council--for preemptively destroying Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981? Does anyone today doubt that it was the right thing to do, both strategically and morally?
In a world of terrorists, terrorist states and weapons of mass destruction, the option of preemption is especially necessary. In the bipolar world of the Cold War, with a stable non-suicidal adversary, deterrence could work. Deterrence does not work against people who ache for heaven. It does not work against undeterrables. And it does not work against undetectables: nonsuicidal enemy regimes that might attack through clandestine means--a suitcase nuke or anonymously delivered anthrax. Against both undeterrables and undetectables, preemption is the only possible strategy.
Moreover, the doctrine of preemption against openly hostile states pursuing weapons of mass destruction is an improvement on classical deterrence. Traditionally, we deterred the use of WMDs by the threat of retaliation after we’d been attacked--and that’s too late; the point of preemption is to deter the very acquisition of WMDs in the first place.
Whether or not Iraq had large stockpiles of WMDs, the very fact that the United States overthrew a hostile regime that repeatedly refused to come clean on its weapons has had precisely this deterrent effect. We are safer today not just because Saddam is gone, but because Libya and any others contemplating trafficking with WMDs, have--for the first time--seen that it carries a cost, a very high cost.
Yes, of course, imperfect intelligence makes preemption problematic. But that is not an objection on principle, it is an objection in practice. Indeed, the objection concedes the principle. We need good intelligence. But we remain defenseless if we abjure the option of preemption.
The other great objection to the way American unipolar power has been wielded is its unilateralism. I would dispute how unilateralist we have in fact been. Constructing ad hoc “coalitions of the willing” hardly qualifies as unilateralism just because they do not have a secretariat in Brussels or on the East River.
Moreover, unilateralism is often the very road to multilateralism. As we learned from the Gulf War, it is the leadership of the United States--indeed, its willingness to act unilaterally if necessary--that galvanized the Gulf War coalition into existence. Without the president of the United States declaring “This will not stand” about the invasion of Kuwait--and making it clear that America would go it alone if it had to--there never would have been the great wall-to-wall coalition that is now so retroactively applauded and held up as a model of multilateralism.
Of course one acts in concert with others if possible. It is nice when others join us in the breach. No one seeks to be unilateral. Unilateralism simply means that one does not allow oneself to be held hostage to the will of others.
Of course you build coalitions when possible. In 2003, we garnered a coalition of the willing for Iraq that included substantial allies like Britain, Australia, Spain, Italy and much of Eastern Europe. France and Germany made clear from the beginning that they would never join in the overthrow of Saddam. Therefore the choice was not a wide coalition versus a narrow one, but a narrow coalition versus none. There were serious arguments against war in Iraq--but the fact France did not approve was not one of them.
Irving Kristol once explained that he preferred the Organization of American States to the United Nations because in the OAS we can be voted down in only three languages, thereby saving translators’ fees. Realists choose not to be Gulliver. In an international system with no sovereign, no police, no protection--where power is the ultimate arbiter and history has bequeathed us unprecedented power--we should be vigilant in preserving that power. And our freedom of action to use it.
But here we come up against the limits of realism: you cannot live by power alone. Realism is a valuable antidote to the woolly internationalism of the 1990s. But realism can only take you so far.
Its basic problem lies in its definition of national interest as classically offered by its great theorist, Hans Morgenthau: Interest defined as power. Morgenthau postulated that what drives nations, what motivates their foreign policy, is the will to power--to keep it and expand it.
For most Americans, will to power might be a correct description of the world--of what motivates other countries--but it cannot be a prescription for America. It cannot be our purpose. America cannot and will not live by realpolitik alone. Our foreign policy must be driven by something beyond power. Unless conservatives present ideals to challenge the liberal ideal of a domesticated international community, they will lose the debate.
Which is why among American conservatives, another, more idealistic, school has arisen that sees America’s national interest as an expression of values.
It is this fourth school that has guided U.S. foreign policy in this decade. This conservative alternative to realism is often lazily and invidiously called neoconservatism, but that is a very odd name for a school whose major proponents in the world today are George W. Bush and Tony Blair--if they are neoconservatives, then Margaret Thatcher was a liberal. There’s nothing neo about Bush, and there’s nothing con about Blair.
Yet they are the principal proponents today of what might be called democratic globalism, a foreign policy that defines the national interest not as power but as values, and that identifies one supreme value, what John Kennedy called “the success of liberty.” As President Bush put it in his speech at Whitehall last November: “The United States and Great Britain share a mission in the world beyond the balance of power or the simple pursuit of interest. We seek the advance of freedom and the peace that freedom brings.”
Beyond power. Beyond interest. Beyond interest defined as power. That is the credo of democratic globalism. Which explains its political appeal: America is a nation uniquely built not on blood, race or consanguinity, but on a proposition--to which its sacred honor has been pledged for two centuries. This American exceptionalism explains why non-Americans find this foreign policy so difficult to credit; why Blair has had more difficulty garnering support for it in his country; and why Europe, in particular, finds this kind of value-driven foreign policy hopelessly and irritatingly moralistic.
Democratic globalism sees as the engine of history not the will to power but the will to freedom. And while it has been attacked as a dreamy, idealistic innovation, its inspiration comes from the Truman Doctrine of 1947, the Kennedy inaugural of 1961, and Reagan’s “evil empire” speech of 1983. They all sought to recast a struggle for power between two geopolitical titans into a struggle between freedom and unfreedom, and yes, good and evil.
Which is why the Truman Doctrine was heavily criticized by realists like Hans Morgenthau and George Kennan--and Reagan was vilified by the entire foreign policy establishment: for the sin of ideologizing the Cold War by injecting a moral overlay.
That was then. Today, post-9/11, we find ourselves in a similar existential struggle but with a different enemy: not Soviet communism, but Arab-Islamic totalitarianism, both secular and religious. Bush and Blair are similarly attacked for naïvely and crudely casting this struggle as one of freedom versus unfreedom, good versus evil.
Now, given the way not just freedom but human decency were suppressed in both Afghanistan and Iraq, the two major battles of this new war, you would have to give Bush and Blair’s moral claims the decided advantage of being obviously true.
Nonetheless, something can be true and still be dangerous. Many people are deeply uneasy with the Bush-Blair doctrine--many conservatives in particular. When Blair declares in his address to Congress: “The spread of freedom is . . . our last line of defense and our first line of attack,” they see a dangerously expansive, aggressively utopian foreign policy. In short, they see Woodrow Wilson.
Now, to a conservative, Woodrow Wilson is fightin’ words. Yes, this vision is expansive and perhaps utopian. But it ain’t Wilsonian. Wilson envisioned the spread of democratic values through as-yet-to-be invented international institutions. He could be forgiven for that. In 1918, there was no way to know how utterly corrupt and useless those international institutions would turn out to be. Eight decades of bitter experience later--with Libya chairing the UN Commission on Human Rights--there is no way not to know.
Democratic globalism is not Wilsonian. Its attractiveness is precisely that it shares realism’s insights about the centrality of power. Its attractiveness is precisely that it has appropriate contempt for the fictional legalisms of liberal internationalism.
Moreover, democratic globalism is an improvement over realism. What it can teach realism is that the spread of democracy is not just an end but a means, an indispensable means for securing American interests. The reason is simple. Democracies are inherently more friendly to the United States, less belligerent to their neighbors, and generally more inclined to peace. Realists are right that to protect your interests you often have to go around the world bashing bad guys over the head. But that technique, no matter how satisfying, has its limits. At some point, you have to implant something, something organic and self-developing. And that something is democracy.
But where? The danger of democratic globalism is its universalism, its open-ended commitment to human freedom, its temptation to plant the flag of democracy everywhere. It must learn to say no. And indeed, it does say no. But when it says no to Liberia, or Congo, or Burma, or countenances alliances with authoritarian rulers in places like Pakistan or, for that matter, Russia, it stands accused of hypocrisy. Which is why we must articulate criteria for saying yes.
Where to intervene? Where to bring democracy? Where to nation-build? I propose a single criterion: Where it counts.
Call it democratic realism. And this is its axiom: We will support democracy everywhere, but we will commit blood and treasure only in places where there is a strategic necessity--meaning, places central to the larger war against the existential enemy, the enemy that poses a global mortal threat to freedom.
Where does it count? Fifty years ago, Germany and Japan counted. Why? Because they were the seeds of the greatest global threat to freedom in midcentury--fascism--and then were turned, by nation building, into bulwarks against the next great threat to freedom, Soviet communism.
Where does it count today? Where the overthrow of radicalism and the beginnings of democracy can have a decisive effect in the war against the new global threat to freedom, the new existential enemy, the Arab-Islamic totalitarianism that has threatened us in both its secular and religious forms for the quarter-century since the Khomeini revolution of 1979.
Establishing civilized, decent, nonbelligerent, pro-Western polities in Afghanistan and Iraq and ultimately their key neighbors would, like the flipping of Germany and Japan in the 1940s, change the strategic balance in the fight against Arab-Islamic radicalism.
Yes, it may be a bridge too far. Realists have been warning against the hubris of thinking we can transform an alien culture because of some postulated natural and universal human will to freedom. And they may yet be right. But how do they know in advance? Half a century ago, we heard the same confident warnings about the imperviousness to democracy of Confucian culture. That proved stunningly wrong. Where is it written that Arabs are incapable of democracy?
Yes, as in Germany and Japan, the undertaking is enormous, ambitious and arrogant. It may yet fail. But we cannot afford not to try. There is not a single, remotely plausible, alternative strategy for attacking the monster behind 9/11. It’s not Osama bin Laden; it is the cauldron of political oppression, religious intolerance, and social ruin in the Arab-Islamic world--oppression transmuted and deflected by regimes with no legitimacy into virulent, murderous anti-Americanism. It’s not one man; it is a condition. It will be nice to find that man and hang him, but that’s the cops-and-robbers law-enforcement model of fighting terrorism that we tried for twenty years and that gave us 9/11. This is war, and in war arresting murderers is nice. But you win by taking territory—and leaving something behind.
We are the unipolar power and what do we do?
In August 1900, David Hilbert gave a speech to the International Congress of Mathematicians naming twenty-three still-unsolved mathematical problems bequeathed by the nineteenth century to the twentieth. Had he presented the great unsolved geopolitical problems bequeathed to the twentieth century, one would have stood out above all--the rise of Germany and its accommodation within the European state system.
Similarly today, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, we can see clearly the two great geopolitical challenges on the horizon: the inexorable rise of China and the coming demographic collapse of Europe, both of which will irrevocably disequilibrate the international system.
But those problems come later. They are for midcentury. They are for the next generation. And that generation will not even get to these problems unless we first deal with our problem.
And our problem is 9/11 and the roots of Arab-Islamic nihilism. September 11 felt like a new problem, but for all its shock and surprise, it is an old problem with a new face. September 11 felt like the initiation of a new history, but it was a return to history, the twentieth century history of radical ideologies and existential enemies.
The anomaly is not the world of today. The anomaly was the 1990s, our holiday from history. It felt like peace, but it was an interval of dreaming between two periods of reality.
From which 9/11 awoke us. It startled us into thinking everything was new. It’s not. What is new is what happened not on 9/11 but ten years earlier on December 26, 1991: the emergence of the United States as the world’s unipolar power. What is unique is our advantage in this struggle, an advantage we did not have during the struggles of the twentieth century. The question for our time is how to press this advantage, how to exploit our unipolar power, how to deploy it to win the old/new war that exploded upon us on 9/11.
What is the unipolar power to do?
Four schools, four answers.
The isolationists want simply to ignore unipolarity, pull up the drawbridge, and defend Fortress America. Alas, the Fortress has no moat--not after the airplane, the submarine, the ballistic missile--and as for the drawbridge, it was blown up on 9/11.
Then there are the liberal internationalists. They like to dream, and to the extent they are aware of our unipolar power, they don’t like it. They see its use for anything other than humanitarianism or reflexive self-defense as an expression of national selfishness. And they don’t just want us to ignore our unique power, they want us to yield it piece by piece, by subsuming ourselves in a new global architecture in which America becomes not the arbiter of international events, but a good and tame international citizen.
Then there is realism, which has the clearest understanding of the new unipolarity and its uses--unilateral and preemptive if necessary. But in the end, it fails because it offers no vision. It is all means and no ends. It cannot adequately define our mission.
Hence, the fourth school: democratic globalism. It has, in this decade, rallied the American people to a struggle over values. It seeks to vindicate the American idea by making the spread of democracy, the success of liberty, the ends and means of American foreign policy.
I support that. I applaud that. But I believe it must be tempered in its universalistic aspirations and rhetoric from a democratic globalism to a democratic realism. It must be targeted, focused and limited. We are friends to all, but we come ashore only where it really counts. And where it counts today is that Islamic crescent stretching from North Africa to Afghanistan.
In October 1962, during the Cuban Missile crisis, we came to the edge of the abyss. Then, accompanied by our equally shaken adversary, we both deliberately drew back. On September 11, 2001, we saw the face of Armageddon again, but this time with an enemy that does not draw back. This time the enemy knows no reason.
Were that the only difference between now and then, our situation would be hopeless. But there is a second difference between now and then: the uniqueness of our power, unrivaled, not just today but ever. That evens the odds. The rationality of the enemy is something beyond our control. But the use of our power is within our control. And if that power is used wisely, constrained not by illusions and fictions but only by the limits of our mission--which is to bring a modicum of freedom as an antidote to nihilism--we can prevail. | <urn:uuid:1d272409-1b3d-4fb7-b0b3-c45c8dc4fac2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www4.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v297/__show_article/_a000297-000004.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.947714 | 8,268 | 1.640625 | 2 |
What is ICSI?
Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) was developed in 1991 and the first baby conceived through ICSI was born the year after in 1992. ICSI was developed to assist fertilisation when sperm quality is particularly poor. Over the decades, ICSI has advanced into a more effective and reliable procedure. It is the preferred method for fertilisation in most ART centres around the world.
ICSI is a technique that involves the direct injection of a single sperm into an egg using a fine needle. ICSI is most useful for couples who suffer from severe male factor infertility as it bypasses the initial steps of gamete interaction.
As ICSI is a skill-based procedure, the expertise of the embryologist plays a significant role in ensuring good fertilisation. The entire process is done under microscopic visualization and micromanipulation using precision-based equipment. Healthy sperm is chosen and immobilised before being delivered into the egg’s cytoplasm.
When is ICSI used?
ICSI is often recommended if the patient:
- has poor sperm parameters (count, motility, morphology).
- has sperm that was surgically removed from the testicles or epididymis.
- has tried multiple cycles of IUI but was unsuccessful.
- has unexpectedly low fertilisation from previous IVF attempt.
What are the drawbacks of ICSI?
ICSI is a great tool to overcome issues with male factor infertility.
However, some of the disadvantages of ICSI are:
- damage to the eggs that may be incurred from the manipulation.
- overwriting the natural selection of “the-fittest” sperm that enters the egg.
Here in Alpha IVF Singapore, a technology called pulse-driven ICSI is used as our method of choice for fertilisation. Pulse-driven ICSI has been utilised in Alpha IVF Group since 2014.
As opposed to conventional ICSI, pulse-driven ICSI employs piezoelectric pulses to puncture the egg shell and membrane. Oocyte deformation during ICSI is avoided and the release of sperm into the egg is done more readily and securely. In this method, the needle is fine and has a blunt tip.
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Staff shortages are impeding the EPA’s court-ordered lead-paint analyses and its oversight of new chemicals, the agency’s top chemicals official told Bloomberg Law.
A dozen more toxicologists, biologists, and other staffers are needed to augment the nearly 70 employees in the Environmental Protection Agency’s new chemicals division, said Michal Ilana Freedhoff, assistant administrator for chemical safety and pollution prevention.
The single employee working on lead paint has other tasks to perform on top of the health and soil standards and lead-paint definition that a federal court ordered the agency to update, Freedhoff said. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in May sided with environmental groups who demanded the updates.
The EPA can’t hire staff because it and other agencies are operating under a continuing resolution that doesn’t expire until Feb. 18. And the chemicals office’s budget is frozen at 2016 levels because the Trump administration never sought additional money to implement new mandates in the 2016 amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act, Freedhoff said.
“Staff are running on fumes” after having worked for an administration that expected employees to cancel vacations and work nights and weekends, she said.
Despite staff shortages and many statutory deadlines, Freedhoff has directed staff to redo chemical risk evaluations completed before President Joe Biden took office. That means the agency expects to miss several chemical regulatory deadlines that she—as a senior aide to Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.)—fought for during the TSCA amendment negotiations.
It’s ironic to miss deadlines that she once championed, Freedhoff acknowledged. But if the EPA doesn’t develop scientifically and legally defensible rules, she said, it could repeat its early 1990s experience “when the agency proposed a big and protective rule that a court threw out because it didn’t meet the statutory requirements.”
Freedhoff referred to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s Corrosion Proof Fittings ruling that overturned the agency’s 1989 rule banning most uses of asbestos, a known carcinogen. The court said “the EPA failed to muster substantial evidence to support its rule.”
TSCA became “a broken law” after that ruling, Freedhoff said. The agency stopped restricting chemicals in commerce for more than 20 years even when it had evidence they could be harmful.
The law and the Biden administration’s decision to redo the first 10 chemical risk evaluations carried out under the statute were driven by the goal of protecting people, Freedhoff said. For example, the agency needed to examine risks communities near facilities might face from breathing or drinking an evaluated chemical, she said.
The Trump administration omitted those exposures, which could leave vulnerable people unprotected, she said.
Freedhoff anticipates soon getting more resources. The House Appropriations Committee approved (H.R. 4372) $109 million for the agency’s toxics risk review and prevention work in fiscal year 2022. That would be a $15.5 million increase above this year.
Still, it will take time to recruit, interview, hire, and train staff, she said.
PFAS Data Collection
Meanwhile, staff are evaluating the risks of 33 chemicals in commerce, working on more than a dozen proposed and final TSCA and Toxics Release Inventory rules, and reviewing hundreds of new chemicals to decide whether they can be made in or imported into the U.S.
Early this year, the EPA plans to release a proposed approach to examining the risks faced by people living near factories or other sites releasing chemicals. And it will share extensive information about the volume of chemicals in commerce, their uses, and the number of companies making them, Freedhoff said.
One major final rule would require companies that have made, imported—and possibly ones that have used—per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in any year since Jan. 1, 2011, to provide the agency information so it knows what’s been in commerce, including structural and other details about the chemicals.
Congress, which ordered the EPA to issue the rule, is concerned about the family of PFAS—often called “forever chemicals"—because some persist for decades in the environment and are linked with cancer and other illnesses.
Companies that use PFAS-containing parts will be challenged to comply with EPA’s proposed rule, because it would seek data even if only tiny amounts of the chemicals are used, Mark Bacchus, a senior manager with Toyota Motors North America, said at a chemicals conference last month.
The proposal also doesn’t list the chemicals for which the EPA will require information, but provides a chemical formula companies are to use to decide whether they’ve made or used a PFAS, he said.
The EPA plans to use webinars, listservs, and other outreach to alert industries to the regulation, and it welcomes suggestions to reach more stakeholders, Freedhoff said.
But “it’s not really supportable to say that you don’t have any idea what’s in your product, and you have no idea how you might go about finding out,” Freedhoff said.
New chemicals have been another challenging area since June 22, 2016, when the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act that amended TSCA became law. The amendments required the EPA, for the first time, to explain its reasoning for allowing new chemicals to be made or imported.
The new chemical requirements kicked in the day the statute became law even though implementing procedures didn’t exist, causing delays in agency decisions.
Since then, chemical manufacturers have reported continued delays, inconsistent reviews, and a dramatic increase in the amount of time and data needed to secure approval for a new chemical.
Environmental health groups have sued the agency for allegedly withholding information that the statute and EPA’s regulations say should be publicly available.
“In the last couple years, the agency really has made more information available more quickly about new chemicals” in a public database called ChemView, Freedhoff said.
Information often is posted within a couple of days of the agency receiving a pre-manufacture notice, in which a chemical manufacturer seeks approval of a new chemical, she said.
“But I absolutely agree that we can do better,” she said. “And, I hope that with additional resources, we will.”
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An international student asked a very good question in our class the other day.
He noted that because of federalism, states generally have the power to regulate marriage. When people get married in the United States, a state, not the national government, certifies the marriage.
But the student also noted that he learned that states may not prohibit a same-sex couple from getting married. That is, if two men or two women want to get married, the state must permit the marriage. How can this be if states regulate marriage within their borders? Under what authority can states be required to allow same-sex couples to get married?
The Constitution and the Supremacy Clause
No law is higher in the United States than the Constitution – – that is why the Constitution is called the Supreme Law of the United States. If any law violates the Constitution, a court can declare the law unconstitutional through its power of judicial review.
You can think of this like a card game. The Constitution is the highest card in the deck, the Ace of Spades. Any other card is weaker than the Ace of Spades. We’ll say a state law is the Queen is Hearts. Because the Ace of Spades is higher than the Queen, the Ace of Spades wins.
The Supreme Court Determines that Laws against Homosexual Marriage Violate the Constitution
In its 2015 decision, Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court held that homosexuals have a Constitutional right to marry. More specifically, the Court held, among other things, that the 14th Amendment’s Due Process Clause and Equal Protection Clause prohibit states from discriminating against homosexual couples by denying them the right to marry.
Remember, no law is above the Constitution. Therefore, because the Constitution guarantees homosexuals the right to marry, any state law that would deprive homsoexuals of the right to marry is unconstitutional.
Although states have the power to regulate marriage, states do not have the power to violate the Constitution. Because the Supreme Court found that homosexuals have a Constitutional right to marry, states cannot deprive same-sex couples of this right. | <urn:uuid:4500cd83-5efb-4349-95e5-747f723404c2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://uslawessentials.com/states-traditionally-regulate-marriage-cant-states-make-homosexual-marriage-illegal/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.942814 | 431 | 3.265625 | 3 |
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and Public Health
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) is a transmissible degenerative disease of the central nervous system. It belongs to a group of diseases which affect man and various kinds of animals and they have a similar histopathological appearance. The harmful agent of BSE and all the others spongiform encephalopathies have not been totally clarified. Today according to the predominant opinion this agent is consisted mainly or/and only of an abnormal protein, which is called prion. In various observations the harmful agent appears like proteinaceous cylinders which are consisted of aggregations or polymerized forms of the agent and it is called prion-protein (PrP). It has been proved that there are two isoforms of PrP. The first of them, called PrPc, is produced from many cells of man and animals and consists a cellular structural element. The second, called PrPs t, due to its specific properties, it is considered to be pathological and responsible for the spongiform encephalopathies. The replication of PrPsc seems to take place in the lysosomes of central nervous system cells, dendritic, and other reticular cells of the lymphatic organs through transformation of PrPc into PrPsc. It appears BSE caused by feeding meat and bone meals to cattle which were originated from scrapie infected sheep. Refering to the pathogenesis originating from experimental data it seems that initially the PrF* enters the body by food and afterwards is settled in various lymphoid organs where the first replication takes place. It is believed that BSE is transmitted through the nerves to the CNS, where it creates the characteristic lesions of vacuolar degeneration of the neurons and finally the spongiosis. Then the clinical signs are expressed. The nervous signs characterised by behavioural alterations of the animals and kinetic abnormalities. The diagnosis of the disease is made by the observation of the histopathological lesions, the detection of Scrapie Associated Fibrils-SAF by EM, the immunohistochemical detection of prpsc i n histological samples or by electrophoresis (Western blotting test). BSE was proved to be transmissible to other animals and there is a possibility that it could be done to man through the food chain. According to the above in these years, from the appearance of the disease until now, have been taken bans from Great Britain as well as from E.U. for the eradication of the disease and the protection of the public health. These instructions should be followed by the authorities and additionally the consumers ought to be informed for the possible danger of various animal products.
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KALDRYMIDOU (Ε. ΚΑΛΔΡΥΜΙΔΟΥ) E., KANAKOUDIS (Γ. ΚΑΝΑΚΟΥΔΗΣ) G., KATSARAS (Κ. ΚΑΤΣΑΡΑΣ) K., TSANGARIS (Θ. ΤΣΑΓΓΑΡΗΣ) T., & PAPAIOANNOU (Ν. ΠAΠΑΪΩΑNNOΥ) N. (2018). Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and Public Health. Journal of the Hellenic Veterinary Medical Society, 49(3), 171–181. https://doi.org/10.12681/jhvms.15768
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A well-functioning AC is vital in hot and humid areas to help overcome the scorching heat. However, your AC may start acting up at a time when you need it direly, resulting in an unbearable indoor atmosphere. Thus, you need to engage an AC technician for a system diagnostic call out to assess, detect, and repair the underlying malfunction. If damage to the system is extensive or the unit is irreparable, they are likely to suggest a replacement. The following are signs that you need to replace your air conditioner:
If you notice that the temperatures in your home vary from room to room, your unit could be due for replacement. Over time, the AC wears out, degrading components such as evaporator coils, which may consequently leak the coolant. Gradually, as the refrigerant escapes from its lines, you experience a limited airflow from the vents. Moreover, ducts may bend or collapse, and the fan motor may break down, impeding air distribution throughout your home. Therefore, you should hire an AC expert to install a new unit that delivers consistent cooling in your house.
Your air conditioner may break down frequently if the end of its service life is approaching. This is because normal wear and tear build up gradually during the AC's lifespan, making the components vulnerable to frequent breakdowns. As a result, you incur more expenses from increasingly costly repairs. As a rule of thumb, it is prudent to consider a replacement if repair costs exceed half the cost of a new unit. In such a case, contact an AC contractor for your appliance replacement, sparing yourself hassle and expenses.
An AC should typically release clean and neutral-smelling air. Therefore, if an odor emanates from your AC, it could be time to purchase a new unit. For instance, musty smells indicate the growth of mold in the drip pan or evaporator coils, while the smell of stinky socks points to clogged and used-up air filters. Furthermore, these smells may signify the imminent breakdown of a core component, such as an overheating motor, which produces a burning smell before burnout.
High Energy Bills
If your cooling costs suddenly spike without a corresponding increase in the AC's use, your unit could be due for replacement. This spike is due to the AC wearing out, causing the parts to strain in delivering consistent cooling throughout your home. Consequently, your system uses more energy, increasing your electric bills. Therefore, you should hire an air conditioning professional to replace your inefficient unit and help you save on energy costs by replacing it with an energy star certified AC.
Upgrading to a new AC unit saves you time and money that would otherwise go into trying to sustain an aging, inefficient unit. Engage an air conditioning installation service to install a new system for peak performance in cooling your home.Share
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Have you ever stopped to think about the general health of your air conditioner? Although it might seem like a silly thing to worry about, air conditioners need a little tender loving care just like any other home appliance. Unfortunately, it can be hard to detect issues until your system sputters to a halt one day. My blog is all about improving your HVAC experience by learning how to keep it on point. On my blog, you will learn how to check for air conditioning problems, troubleshoot your system, and even find the perfect replacement--should you need to upgrade your system. | <urn:uuid:cdce5bbb-b6d7-42c3-a624-387ba159e0f2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://lafalegnami.com/2022/08/02/4-signs-that-you-need-to-replace-your-ac-unit/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.935323 | 713 | 1.625 | 2 |
What to Do for a Water Leak in Your House
Water leaks are one of the worst things that could happen to your home. Water leaking your house has the potential to cause damage to your property. It can also cause health problems such as respiratory issues from the resulting mold growth. If you’re experiencing a water leak, you can always contact our emergency plumbing company in White Bear Lake. Below, our McQuillan Bros team explains what to do for a water leak in your house.
It is important to note, however, that any leak within your house should be taken seriously and should be handled as soon as possible. There are a number of things you can do if you notice a leak.
Shut Off the Water From the SourceThis should be the first step in order to prevent more water from leaking into your house and causing more damage. It also allows you to assess and address the situation without interference.
Assess the SituationIt is important to determine whether the leak you are dealing with is minor or major. This way, you will give the situation the right kind of remedy. Also, carrying out a proper assessment allows you to identify any damage the leak might have caused. Therefore, find out the source of the leak and the condition of the leaking pipe or fixture. This will also allow you to properly explain the situation to your plumber. A typical house is likely to encounter two types of water leaks.
- Major water leaks– These are usually big leaks that require immediate attention. Failure to address these leaks in time can lead to unwanted events such as flooding. Usually, major leaks are best handled by a professional plumber.
- Minor water leaks– These are equally serious because they can lead to major leaks. However, these are usually easily fixable, less costly, and might not require the attention of a professional plumber.
Check Your Water MeterThis is the best way to decide whether the kind of leak is minor or major. Shut down the water from the main so that no water is getting into your house. Then check whether the meter is changing. If it does, then you are dealing with a serious leak, says Tureks Plumbing, also known as Fox Valley plumbers. If it does not change, then give it some time, say two hours, and look at it again. Any change during this period is an indication of a slow leak.
Clean Up the MessDepending on the damage, you should try to clean up as much as you could. This reduces the chances of mold building up in your home. It also helps prevent the water from finding its way in unwanted places and causing more damage.
Talk to Your Water CompanyYou might, during your assessment, find out that the water leak is happening on the main water line or a blocked sewer. Such issues are fairly easy to spot because you might see some of the results in your yard. This requires the attention of your water company. Your plumber is your best option for handling a water leak. Not only will they properly diagnose and fix your water leak, but they will also do the right repairs without causing additional damage to the plumbing system. Call McQuillan Bros for your water leaks and plumbing issues and enjoy excellent services throughout the year.
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Author: Mansoor Ahmed , Mohsin Ali, Seyed Abdulmajid Ayatollahi, Marjan Esfahanizadeh , Farzad Kobarfard, Ameer Hasan , Khalid Mohammed Khan and Syed Moazzam Haider
Publishing Date: 2018
Volume 31 Issue 2
During the past few decades the emergence of inorganic medicinal chemistry has been developed novel therapeutic agents. Researcher’s perseverance in this branch of chemistry has led them to explore further valuable chemical spaces by synthesizing metal complexes already known pharmacological agents for their potential use. However, it is in its early stage, this methodology has demonstrated metal complexes with better bioactivities than the parent ligand molecules. In this study, transition metal complexes of pyrazinamide (PZ), isoniazid (INH), fluconazole (FCZ), metformin (dimethylbiguanide, DMBG) and losartan potassium (LS-K) were selected to evaluate for their possible anti-platelets aggregation in the light of reports on divalent and trivalent cations like calcium, copper, manganese, magnesium, and cadmium may influence the process of thrombocytic activity and aggregation. The required evaluation was carried out on human plasma through an APACT 4004 platelet aggregation analyzer. Arachidonic acid (ADP) was used to gauge any alteration in platelet shape and aggregation process. The parent drugs showed some antiplatelets aggregation, however, their metal complexes demonstrated better efficacy.
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In the first part of this post I explained how the 917 came into production and how it made Porsche synonymous with endurance racing. This post, Part II on the history of the 917, explores some of the early problems Porsche ran into prior to their win(s) at LeMan and how the fix for those problems turned the 917 into one of the most storied Porsches ever.
When the 917 was first tested in 1969 it was anything but stable. The new “long tail” styling of the car left it very skittish and unsuited for racing. “It used all the road at speed,” according to Brian Redman (winner of the 1970 Targa Florio in a Porsche 908.) At first pass, most felt the problems resulted in an overpowered engine on an under-strengthened frame. However, after repeated modifications the problems remained. Remember, at this time Porsche was used to producing cars with low drag in order to compensate for their underpowered motors. Now, with the new 4.5 litre, 12 cylindar motor, the car was anything but underpowered. It was soon determined that all the extra power was creating additional lift on the straights (the car was 19 mph faster than anything yet raced at Le Mans.) Despite these problems Porsche pushed ahead with their racing schedule.
The 917 was entered into many races in 1969 with little to show for their efforts, expense and appearance. In fact, the instability of the 917 combined with the inexperience of British prviateer John Wolfe, resulted in a deadly first lap crash in the 1969 24 Hours of Le Mans. Even though Wolfe was not a “works” or factory driver, his death was a black spot for Porsche that took a long time to get past.
Porsche’s First Win in the 917
Porsche’s first win in the 917 didn’t come until the last race of the 1969 championship season, the 1000 km Zeltweg. Two privateers, Jo Siffert and Kurt Ahrens, succeeded in the privately entered Porsche 917 of German Freiherr von Wendt. The factory, being much more focused on development, left the racing to customer teams.
It wasn’t until 1970 when Porsche officially partnered with John Wyer and the famous Gulf Team that things started looking up for the Porsche 917. Immediate improvements/changes made to the tail of the 917 added much needed downforce, greatly improving stability and Porsche’s chance to capture the checkered flag.
In the next post I’ll explore the various 917 models. Their racing history and what’s become of the 917 today.
Porsche 917 and Making History at LeMans
Porsche 917: The Best Race Car of All Time
Video History of Porsche Racing: History of the Porsche 917 Part III
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U.S. bishops vote to accept Eucharist document
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops voted overwhelmingly to accept the document “The Mystery of the Eucharist in the Life of the Church” during the afternoon session of their fall meeting Nov. 17.
The vote, which is held in a secret electronic ballot, was 222 in favor to eight against, with three abstentions.
To pass, two-thirds of the bishops had to vote in favor of the document.
This vote total was even more lopsided than the June vote to move forward with the drafting of the document. In June, the bishops voted 168 to 55 to move forward with the document.
Initially, it was speculated that the document would provide explicit directives on who and who is not eligible to receive the Eucharist. Particularly, it was feared that the bishops would use the document to rebuke Catholic politicians who are in favor of abortion rights.
President Joe Biden, the second Catholic president of the United States, has publicly supported a right to legal abortion throughout the entirety of a pregnancy. During his presidential campaign, he broke from several decades of his past beliefs and announced that he was now opposed to the Hyde Amendment.
The final draft of the document does not make explicit mention of denying the sacrament from certain high-profile Catholics, and instead focuses on the importance of teaching the Real Presence of the Eucharist and the Eucharist as a tool for evangelization.
The two sections of the document are “The Gift,” which centers on the Eucharist as a gift from Christ through his incarnation, death, and resurrection, and “Our Response,” which focuses on gratitude for the gift of the Eucharist, the role the laity play in regards to reception of the Eucharist, and the importance of the Eucharist in conversion.
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People who are hooked to smoking cigarettes can attest to how difficult it is to kick the detrimental habit. There are hundreds of solutions; some work, others are purely ballyhoo. Quitting smoking and vaping is daunting. However, the benefits are much more significant than anticipated. Many have tried medication, nicotine replacement, behavioral therapy, or take the cold turkey route. And now, many are preaching about the effectiveness of a product from Sweden that’s guaranteed to reduce the harmful effects of smoking, sniffing, and chewing tobacco. Snus, they call it.
But what exactly is this 19th century alternative to smoking? Do they work? Where can you find them? And are they legal? You are probably bombarded by these and more questions regarding this fantastic product. We have researched this subject to bring you insight into the matter.
So, What Is Snus?
Is it possible to get your fix of nicotine without lighting a tobacco cigarette? If you have traveled to a country in central Europe, you may have seen someone put what appears to be a tiny piece of paper under their lip. This may have been snus. It is found predominantly in Sweden and Norway, but it is growing in notoriety beyond continental borders.
Snus is pre-packaged moistened tobacco that is sold in tiny pouches that are usually white in color. It is available in several flavors to suit diverse tastes. Currently, there are also numerous brands from different manufacturers in the market. The product is gaining immense popularity in the global community, mainly attributed to the belief that they are less harmful to your health than cigarettes.
As mentioned earlier, snus is available in pouches. To use them, one places one of these mini bags between the upper lip and the gum. The active compounds are then absorbed via sublabial routes into the body. The quality of snus depends on the mode of production and the country of manufacture. The Swedish version is air-dried then ground, while American snus is made from grated tobacco, fermented, and left to ferment over time.
Why You Should Use Snus
Our mission would be incomplete if we failed to mention the benefits of replacing cigarette smoking with snus:
- It is a healthier alternative to smoking cigarettes which contain carcinogens and other toxins like benzene.
- They are very discrete. Other methods of consuming tobacco like smoking and chewing are challenging to keep hidden, especially in a public or formal setting.
- Snus is easily accessible.
You can buy from a physical store that stocks nicotine replacement products or from an online source. Depending on your country of residence, you may have to confirm whether you can buy snus. Different countries have varying laws. For instance, retailers are currently banned from selling within the EU, but people from other regions can purchase from online retail sellers such as Snusdirect. Ensure you confirm the legal status of snus in your country before you place any orders.
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DO POLLUTION AND AIRBORNE PARTICLES AFFECT YOUR DAILY BREATH AND THIS ONE OF YOUR FAMILY?
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Entertainment Arts, also referred to as Entertainment Design, is a relatively new field combining animation, game design, and video/film, and tv. Previous to the event of Entertainment Arts/Design packages, college students might have to take an assortment of classes in industrial design, illustration and animation to satisfy their entertainment artist aspirations. Students enrolled in Entertainment Arts/Design applications have the advantage of entry to programs and a coordinated curriculum tailor-made to their pursuits, in addition to trade contacts specific to the field. Norfolk’s thriving arts neighborhood will welcome you into their studios, galleries, and performance venues.
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Performing Statistics, in collaboration with youth leaders from RISE for Youth and across the nation and with support from the City of Richmond, is unveiling the second installment of their Freedom Constellations project on July 1 at noon. This is the biggest public art installation on a municipal constructing in the nation that makes use of augmented actuality. A Hong Kong museum commemorating China’s deadly 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protests closed Wednesday three days after opening because the ruling Communist Party tries to stamp out the final traces of public discussion of the occasion. While Jane Austen admirers savor the wit and romance of “Pride and Prejudice” and her different enduring novels, scholars ferret out details of Austen’s life and occasions, together with a family hyperlink to slavery that surfaced 50 years ago. We also present counsel and authorized services to actors, reality TV stars, style fashions, writers, directors, movie manufacturing firms, DJs and radio personalities.
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We ship our mission via exhibitions, art making and studying opportunities. The Duluth Art Institute strives to ship recent, quality programing that nurtures and energizes all aspects of the visual arts within the Twin Ports. EXHIBITION PROGRAM The Duluth Art Institute produces more than a dozen exhibitions every year that spotlight regional talent and visiting artists. We have fun craft traditions in addition to up to date voices within the visible arts, displaying mid-career, emerging Art Styles, and established artists in diverse mediums. We offer enhancement programs alongside our exhibitions to offer arts audiences deeper engagement with artists and their work. EDUCATION PROGRAM We supply more than 50 arts workshops and classes for youth and adults all yr long as nicely as outreach actions throughout the community. Our training program also maintains a ceramics studio with over 25 renters, in addition to a fiber studio and darkroom.
When in Wichita, do as Wichitans do – take pleasure in unique entertainment you won’t discover anywhere else! Wichita is home to all types of entertainment for all ages – from reside music and concert events to art museums and galleries, you’ll need to visit greater than as quickly as to see all the city has to offer. And if you’re looking to add creativity to the combination, a stroll throughThe Downtown Hollywood Mural Projectis a must with 20+ curated outdoor contemporary art murals by internationally & international recognized artists. For film lovers the newly uniqueSavor Cinematheater features impartial movies to varied places, not to point out you will discover filming crews very often inHollywood. The Tweed Museum of Art goals to inspire guests of all ages and backgrounds who will discover photographs, art objects, and educational applications that foster an understanding and an appreciation of art. The Museum Store offers handcrafted and distinctive art merchandise. | <urn:uuid:017244b3-0918-471e-8204-3c66392abd3a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://chez-habibi.com/monster-drawing-rally-fundraiser-for-the-humanities-council-of-park-city-and-the-kimball-art-middle-returns-in-individual.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.937822 | 1,197 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Mr. Ed Ubong, President of NGA and Managing Director, Shell Nigeria Gas
…West Africa has enough gas to power about 350 million people in the sub-region to boost its industrial hub.
Speaking at the Ghana Gas Forum recently, President of the Nigerian Gas Association (NGA) and Managing Director of Shell Nigeria Gas, Mr. Ed Ubong has made a call for the need to harness Africa’s natural gas for industrialisation and economic diversification.
He said the vast gas resources available on the continent, especially in West Africa must be used to power the continent’s industrialisation agenda.
The NGA President revealed that there was enough gas to power the 350 million people that live in West Africa, both from the power and industrial perspective.
He lamented that the sub region had not taken enough advantage of natural gas to power its industries as the percentage of gas used by industries was still very low.
Using the experience of Nigeria, he said the country had abundant gas reserves which ranks eighth globally.
“But when you ask how much of that gas we actually bringing to the surface, we begin to move backwards from eighth to 20th. When we ask a more pertinent question of how much of the gas we actually consume in our power and industrial sector to create jobs that will translate into economic growth, we further move backwards to top 50.
“In a day we can produce about 7.8 bcf of gas but in terms of what is actually consumed in the domestic market, it is about 1.2 bcf a day. To get to where we need to in terms of economic growth, things have to change,” he noted.
He said it was important to support industrialisation across various clusters using natural gas, citing the one district one factory initiative as one of the policies that natural gas can help make a realisation by providing a cheaper source of power to the industries.
“We need policies like the one district one factory across Africa. We need industries close to where we have rural and urban centres that are actually manufacturing goods and services and are also employing people,” he said.
He pointed out that globally, over a billion people lack access to energy and out of that number, 50 per cent were in Africa.
He said natural gas could however help the continent to close that energy deficit and bring a lot of people out of poverty, while also supporting various development initiatives across the continent.
“Energy, when properly channelled can change lives and we need to build the regional infrastructure connectivity.
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Temple is dedicated to providing academic pathways to college for Philadelphia high school students.
Temple University is proud of our strong partnerships with neighboring communities, and we are committed to increasing the number of North Philadelphia students enrolled here. Part of our dedication to this initiative is providing equitable opportunities for underserved and underrepresented students to fully participate in college-level courses and academic enrichment programs.
Temple’s Cecil B. Moore Scholars Program creates an academic pathway for Philadelphia public (district or charter) students living in our neighboring North Philadelphia ZIP codes—19121, 19122, 19123, 19125, 19130, 19132, 19133 and 19140.
The program is named after Cecil B. Moore, a renowned civil rights activist in Philadelphia and Temple alumnus.
The Cecil B. Moore Scholars Program partners with Steppingstone Scholars to provide academic support to high school seniors selected to take the dual enrollment course. It also creates success-based advising and enrichment initiatives to support BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of color) and low-income students.
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Fifty high school students will be selected for a dual enrollment program—a free Temple course that students complete during their senior year of high school. From those 50 students, 20–25 high school students will be selected to become Cecil B. Moore Scholars and attend a summer bridge program before enrolling as first-year students in the fall.
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I am trying to familiarise myself with Cirq, and I came across something I don't know how to code.
I would like to define two sets of qubits as follows: say the number of qubits in set 1 and 2 are both 3, then I would like my qubits in set 1 to be
[cirq.GridQubit(0,0), cirq.GridQubit(0,1), cirq.GridQubit(0,2)]
and my qubits in set 2 to be
[cirq.GridQubit(1,0), cirq.GridQubit(1,1), cirq.GridQubit(1,2)]. I would like to be able to generalise this for an arbitrary number of qubits. In other words, I would like to be able to refer to a qubit in set 1 as cirq.GridQubit(0,i), and to a qubit in set 2 as cirq.GridQubit(1,j), for 0≤i<number of qubits in set 1 and 0≤j<number of qubits in set 2.
I can create my first set of qubits using
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Farewell to Trevor Bell: The former FSU painter and professor died in England
The abstract artist Trevor Bell was an understated, droll and intellectual soul, but his art was large, colorful and bold. One of his contemporaries described his over-sized paintings as “light traps.”
“I rather liked that,” Bell said in 2003 when his exhibition titled “Trevor Bell: A British Painter in America” opened at the Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts.
Bell, who taught art at Florida State from 1972 to 1996 and has works in many public Tallahassee venues such as the Tucker Civic Center, died earlier this month at his home in Cornwall, England. He was 87. He is survived by his wife and fellow artist, Harriet Bell, and two sons, Gregory and Sion.
The FSU Museum of Fine Arts is holding a tribute to Bell from 2:30 to 4 p.m. on Sunday during a closing reception for the ongoing “Bell & Belman” exhibition.
“You were a great influence on many, many painters, myself included, sir,” graphic designer, painter and former Bell student James David Lōser said on Facebook.
Lōser also added via email: "He was a very giving and profound teacher. As a painter, he was capable of distilling nature’s physical and metaphysical complexity with a graceful simplicity. He developed a way of painting based on his experience of landscape and the sea in Florida and in his native England. In his art, as in his life, he was incredibly focused and uncompromising. He made an indelible mark on how I approach painting and design."
After graduating from Leeds Art College in 1952, Bell became a member of what became known as the St. Ives School. It was a group of British artists that included Patrick Heron, Terry Frost and Peter Lanyon.
In 1958, Bell's career took off with a critically lauded one-man show in London. Soon he won the Paris Biennale International Painting Prize and the Italian Government Scholarship. When Bell taught art in England during the late '60s, future Roxy Music member and album producer Brian Eno was one of his students.
In 1970, Bell was heralded "one of the most important painters working today" in a glowing review printed in Studio International. In a move that surprised the English art world, Bell packed up his brushes and left his British homeland for the teaching job at FSU.
"I don't think the English critics forgave him at the time," Tallahassee art consultant Marsha Orr said.
"When I came here, I got really quite romantic," Bell told the Tallahassee Democrat in 2003. "I wrote to someone saying all these kids running around stripped off and bronzed were like the children of the sun coming out to play. I was quite carried away."
The Florida sun and climate also began to influence his work.
"I opened up and began using intense colors that I'd never used before," Bell said. "I called the paintings heatscapes." He became fascinated with what he called the "pulsating of light."
While in Tallahassee, Bell worked out of an industrial-sized warehouse off Tharpe Street in West Tallahassee that looked more like a mechanics garage. The studio was dotted with Bell’s hand-written Post-It notes. They said things like:
"Don't look at ONE form only. Always look at what it relates to and what its role is."
"Look at interaction, not balance."
Even though Bell began fashioning his canvases beyond the traditional shapes as far back as the early '60s, he focused his attention on massive, curving canvases called "rockers" in the '80s.
"It's a bit like the stern of the fishing boats I used to see along the coast in the south of France," Bell said. "It's like seeing an old friend again."
By the early '90s, Bell's work was drawing inspiration from Cornwall's jagged coastline and rocky cliffs. It was almost as if the art was calling him home.
In 2007, the Tate St. Ives held a retrospective of Bell’s work collected from five decades.
The Guardian newspaper had this to say about Bell’s work: “Paintings expressing the shifting light and surging gales of Cornwall and the vertiginous scale of the Himalayas sat alongside quiet, light-filled canvases. The exhibition gave a vivid sense of Bell’s restless energy, indicated the sheer physical achievement of making such vast and complex objects, and also gave an insight into his constant search for a still center.”
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Millions of people use talk therapy to help them manage their mental health, but not everyone sticks with it. Wondering how long you should stay in therapy is totally normal, and the answer will be different for everyone. Some people start therapy to help deal with a particularly difficult period in their lives, and then stop once that obstacle has been dealt with. Others might stop because they think therapy is too much of a time commitment, compared with the benefits, or too costly. But whatever the reason for stopping may be, it can actually help to continue seeing your therapist, even when you feel "good" about your mental health.
Sometimes, it's helpful to have the support of a mental health professional to help us cope with whatever obstacles life throws at us, mental health related or not, or maintain the progress we made originally in therapy. "It is important to have a space to come and navigate some of these challenges when they arise as well as continue to talk about coping skills to use in many different situations," social worker Mia Rosenberg tells Bustle.
"Much of our conversations and deliberations happen in our mind," NYC-based social worker Katie Krimer tells Bustle. "We tend to overestimate how good we are at talking through our issues in a helpful way, assuming that just because we are thinking a lot, we'll work through any given stress. There are tremendous benefits to verbally communicating the machinations of our mind — especially to an unbiased party — and everyone can use the practice."
Even if you feel emotionally ready to discontinue therapy, continuing your relationship with your therapist can be helpful for therapeutic and logistical reasons alike. "Once the environment changes again, the distress returns. For example, someone enters therapy at the end of a significant relationship. Then, during therapy, the client enters a new relationship and discontinues therapy. All is well until the relationship has issues and the client's former issues return," psychologist and professor Steven Sutlanoff tells Bustle. Continuing therapy in a situation like this can help you address the root patterns that affected the distressing situation in the first place. Further, if you do take a break from therapy but decide to go back, your therapist might not be taking new clients — meaning, you'd have to find a new one, which can cause extra stress.
Women's empowerment coach Elizabeth Su advises thinking about your therapeutic practice as if it were athletic training. "Prevention is just as important for your mental health as it is your physical health," she tells Bustle. "We all know that the more you hit the weights, the stronger you will get. The same goes for your emotional well-being. Your regular trip to the therapist is like your regular trip to the gym. Is it a must? Maybe not. Will it help you build your mental health muscles? Absolutely."
Furthermore, even when you're feeling like you're emotionally well, compared to when you started your therapy, there are still opportunities to grow. It can help to take advantage of feeling well to continue developing insights about yourself that you can continue using if you start to feel down again. "It’s easiest to work on stuff when it’s less severe," licensed mental health counselor Erin Parisi tells Bustle.
However, many people do decide to leave therapy because it isn't affordable, and that's completely valid. If this is the case for you, there are other, more accessible options that can help you take charge of your mental health. Alternatively, you can discuss having less-frequent sessions, or discussing an alternative payment plan with your therapist But, you do have options when it comes to slowing down your therapy, while also keeping your mental health in check. Many therapists recommend tune-up sessions every few weeks or once a month to check in and ensure that you're leading your life to the fullest.
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John Bolton’s too-late book has produced a string of revelations that warrant headlines and outrage. President Donald Trump, in this account, encouraged Chinese President Xi Jinping to build concentration camps as part of China’s genocidal war on its Uighur population. Trump beseeched Xi to help him win reelection in 2020. He displayed brazen ignorance. (He didn’t know the United Kingdom is a nuclear power or that Finland is not part of Russia.) And he did indeed withhold military aid to pressure the Ukrainian president—for which he was impeached—to launch investigations to tar Joe Biden and promote a nutty conspiracy theory that holds that Ukraine, not Russia, hacked the 2016 presidential election. Receiving less attention than these made-for-Twitter disclosures is what Bolton says about Trump’s response to Vladimir Putin’s attack on that election. But this stuff is important, for here is yet another indication that Trump has no interest in thwarting a Kremlin assault on the current election.
According to Trump’s own top intelligence officials, Moscow is currently trying to intervene in the 2020 campaign. Both FBI Director Chris Wray and Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe have said so in congressional testimony, without providing details about the ongoing covert Russian efforts. So one obvious question is, what is Trump doing about this? The answer, per Bolton, is nothing.
In his book, Bolton does not go into great depth on this crucial matter. But Trump’s former national security adviser notes that Trump “willfully ignored or denied that Russia was meddling globally in US and many other elections.” This is the public posture Trump has taken since the 2016 election and through his years in the White House. He has downplayed or dismissed the Russian attack, even though the US intelligence community has concluded it occurred and was mounted by Vladimir Putin in part to help Trump win. (A recent Senate Intelligence Committee report cited an intelligence intercept of a communication from a Russian cyber-operative who described Election Night this way: “On November 9, 2016, a sleepless night was ahead of us. And when around 8 a.m. the most important result of our work arrived, we uncorked a tiny bottle of champagne…took one gulp each and looked into each other’s eyes…We uttered almost in unison: ‘We made America great.'”) Still, even in the privacy of the Oval Office, Trump would not discuss with his top national security aide the Russian intervention—or, worse, the prospect of a repeat performance.
“Trump believed that acknowledging Russia’s meddling in US politics, or in that of many other countries in Europe and elsewhere, would implicitly acknowledge that he had colluded with Russia in his 2016 campaign,” Bolton writes.
Trump has long yearned to remove the taint of Russian intervention—the asterisk—from his 2016 election. That is one reason that Trump, desperate to promote an alternative (and false) narrative, pushed the Ukrainians for that investigation—a blatant abuse of power that led to his impeachment. To clear this real stain, Trump has had to deny the basic reality: Putin mounted a successful campaign of information warfare against the United States.
Trump did this most famously during a joint press conference with Putin in Helsinki in July 2018. At this event, Trump appeared to back Putin’s we-didn’t-do-it disinformation and discount the findings of the US intelligence community. “I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today,” Trump said, adding that Putin “said it’s not Russia. I will say this. I don’t see any reason why it would be.”
This was a dramatic moment—a US president siding with a foreign adversary who had attacked the United States. In his book, Bolton recalls that he and John Kelly, then the White House chief of staff, “were almost frozen to our seats by Trump’s answer.” (Neither one quit over this.)
At this press conference, Trump rambled on about the conspiracy theory involving Ukraine, which held that Democratic Party computer servers had somehow been hidden in that country apparently to cover-up the real story that Ukraine or others had hacked the Democratic Party to somehow frame Russia and the Trump campaign. This bizarre, baseless Ukraine connection was an obsession of Trump. As Bolton notes, “It also became increasingly plain, not only to me but to others as well, including Fiona Hill, the NSC Senior Director for Europe and Russia, that Trump completely accepted [Rudy] Giuliani’s line that the ‘Russia collusion’ narrative…had been run through Ukraine. In other words, Trump was buying the idea that the Ukraine was actually responsible for carrying out Moscow’s efforts to hack US elections.”
That is, the president of the United States was delusional.
Prior to the Helsinki meeting, Bolton took a shot at nudging Trump to confront Putin’s aggression. He writes:
I gave Trump a paper I had asked the White House Counsel’s office to draft, laying out our objections to Russian election meddling. Trump made several changes to it, reflecting his general unease with the subject. It was precisely to deal with that unease that I asked for the paper. Trump could make the point of our intense opposition to election interference by handing Putin the paper, obviating the need for a long conversation. Ultimately, Trump decided not to use the document. He wanted me to raise election interference, which I said I would do in the scheduled working lunch, but obviously I wouldn’t be in the one-on-one with Putin he wanted so much.
Trump could not even hand Putin a piece of paper to defend the United States against Russia intervention. This was both a betrayal of the national interest and an abandonment of his obligations as commander in chief. Bolton confirms that Trump could not bring himself to challenge Putin: “Trump repeatedly objected to criticizing Russia and pressed us not to be so critical of Russia publicly.” And when the State Department did take steps, in accordance with legislation, to increase sanctions on Russia, Trump, Bolton says, wanted to rescind them.
There is much in Bolton’s book that is disturbing. This is information about the president that Bolton should have shared with the House impeachment investigators at the time of their probe. But he did not. And Republicans blocked him from testifying during the impeachment trial. Would all the Senate Republicans—except Mitt Romney—have been able to stand by Trump had Bolton testified that Trump did pressure Ukraine to initiate investigations to help his reelection, that Trump had given a green light to genocide in China, and that Trump had requested Chinese assistance for his 2020 campaign?
Overall, the book illuminates Trump’s foremost sin: He has repeatedly placed his own personal interests ahead of the national security of the United States. Bolton could not even have an honest and straightforward conversation with Trump about this. In one chilling passage, Bolton recounts that he not once spoke candidly with Trump regarding Putin: “He never offered an opinion [of Putin], at least in front of me. I never asked what Trump’s view was, perhaps afraid of what I might hear.”
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My favourite weather app is WeatherPro, from Germany. It isn’t the prettiest – apps like Weathergraph have better widgets for the iPhone and Apple Watch – but in my experience it reflects the UK’s changeable weather best of all:
If I look at the icons alone, today in Edinburgh is somewhat sunny, tomorrow is a bit rainy, Saturday is like today, and Sunday is a classic mix of sun, rain, and thunder.
The forecast has been correct for today, at least: as far as I could tell, there wasn’t a drop of rain. Maybe there was rain somewhere in Edinburgh, but it was a nice and sunny day overall.
Apple thinks differently:
According to Apple’s weather icons, every day is the same: rainy. Yes, they all have different likelihoods of rain, but it gets boiled down to “rainy”. Apparently if there is just the chance of a drop of rain, Apple thinks that day is a total washout.
Maybe that’s true in Cupertino! Maybe the risk of a single drop is enough to change your behaviour for the whole day – you’ll carry an umbrella, you’ll cancel the barbecue, you won’t hang up the washing outside (lol, I know you can’t do that in the US).
But that’s not how it feels in the UK. If a day is mostly sunny with fifteen minutes of light rain in the afternoon, that’s a sunny day. It’s not a rainy day.
BBC Weather agrees with WeatherPro:
Today is cloudy, tomorrow is rainy, Saturday is the same as today, Sunday is sunny and thundery. Not bad, as you’d expect for a weather forecast designed for Brits! It fails to reflect the fact that today was fairly sunny, but never mind.
And to hammer the point home, Google agrees with Apple:
Rainy, rainy, rainy, and rainy.
What’s the moral of the story? It’s not just that weather patterns vary around the world, it’s that perceptions of weather also vary. A weather forecast that uses icon classifications designed by Californians is useless for anyone in the UK, and likely many other countries.
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M37 gaiters – RBNr. 0/0544/0069
Eversince 1937, Soldiers in the German army received a pair of Schnürschuhe (lowboots) next to their issue pair of Knobelbecher(Jackboots). They where first only meant as a part of the Drillichanzug(a offwhite uniform for basic training made of linen HBT) but as the war progressed the Schnürschuhe saw action on the front. They where meant to be worn with Gamaschen(Gaiters) to overlap the boots with the trousers.
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Suitable for all
Chiropractic treatment is safe and can benefit people of all ages. Our oldest patients are in their 90’s! We simply adapt our treatment techniques to reflect your age, lifestyle, complaint and activity level.
More than just back pain
Most people know chiropractors for their skill in treating the spine, but we look at how the whole body moves and functions and take your overall health into consideration. This means great results with injuries in other parts of the body too.
Our team here at the chiropractic clinic are well placed to treat:
- Back pain
- Neck pain
- Muscle strains
- Arthritic pain
- Migraines and headaches
- Pain caused by sports injuries.
A large high quality research study concluded that,
“Spinal manipulation is effective in treating adults for low back pain, migraines and headache and dizziness conditions which originate from the neck. Manipulation is effective for several extremity joint conditions and thoracic (mid back) manipulation is effective in the treatment of acute and subacute neck pain.”
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This course covers topics necessary to work as a Public Information Officer (PIO), such as:
- legal issues
- the media
- scene management
- news conferences
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Understanding the distinctiveness between Customer Relationship Management Platforms can assist society make the right decision when it comes to decision time.
Although, originally designed for sales teams, the benefits of using a CRM across your whole organisation can be immeasurable. However, its become increasingly important for marketers and for customer service teams managing post-sales communications. One of the major benefits of CRM is that you can use the software to pull reports and identify which phases of your sales process work and where customers are falling off. From there, you can weed out what isn’t working and turn more leads into paying customers. Because CRM is a cross-functional activity and one that, in large compa- nies, seeks to focus on potentially millions of individual customer relationships simultaneously, it can be unwieldy to implement and impossible to get right without a purposeful and systematic framework. In the commercial business world, CRM systems are typically referred to as “Customer Relationship Management” systems. In the public sector or nonprofit/NGO realm, you may hear the term “Constituent Relationship Management” used instead to show the focus on service vs. revenue. In terms of selecting CRM software, there are integration and best practice issues which emphasize the importance of careful outsourcing. It is important to note that most CRM products initially focused on specific tasks, such as sales automation or mass e-mail promotions. Consequently, they have some core strengths but there are weaknesses in other areas. CRM software is useful in measuring customer loyalty in a less costly manner. In most cases, loyal customers become professional recommendations of the business and the services offered. Consequently, the business can promote their services to new prospects based on testimonials from loyal customers. Testimonials are often convincing more than presenting theoretical frameworks to your future prospects.
The data captured by CRM solutions helps companies target the right prospects with the right products, offer better customer service, cross-sell and up-sell more effectively, close deals, retain current customers, and maintain an accurate picture of who their customers are and what they want. It is important when selecting a CRM vendor to have a clear understanding of your CRM needs and where you require particularly strong CRM support. If no single vendor has key strengths in your key areas, you may need to select more than one vendor and integrate components of the CRM products. Customer Relationship Management platforms center around clients (it’s in the name). They won’t provide benefits if we are struggling in other areas, like engineering, sourcing, production, shipping and handling, finance, and general administration. Over 35 percent of customers share about receiving positive shopping experiences and thus become brand advocates. As a result, more than 80 percent of business executives are expected to increase investments in providing premium shopping experiences. CRM enables retailers to track customer purchasing habits and forecast upcoming industry trends. Businesses can utilize the data to attract target audience successfully and improve overall market share. In choosing CRM solutions, checking out a site which offers Best CRM Software is now a pre-requisite.
Never Drop The Ball With A CRM
You can integrate your email with CRM so that you don’t have to jump between multiple tabs to send an email. With the email management feature, you can send emails right from the CRM interface, mark the status of the lead, mention a remark, and prioritize emails. This way, you won’t miss out on connecting with any of your leads. Having more communication channels is a good thing for a business as it makes the ability to interact with customers, and serve them. With omni channel support, you can integrate text, instant messaging, social to deliver a unified brand experience so that customers can switch between multiple channels still experience consistent service. Although some organizations configure their CRM applications in an “open” manner - where each user can see all information in the application - many need to be able to compartmentalize information. Common examples include sales information, sensitive customer information such as Social Security numbers or account numbers, or even compensation or commission information. A robust security model within your CRM application will give you the flexibility to manage a wide range of different security scenarios. The level of customer service offered is the key difference between businesses that lead the charts and those that are surprised with their faulty steps. Customer service efficiency is measured by comparing turnaround time for service issues raised by customers as well as the number of service errors recorded due to misinformation. It is crucial to keep track of clients and prospects. This ensures better customer acquisition and retention, which is the primary purpose of CRM. CRM platforms enable the business to form better relationships with 3rd parties. Relationship marketing can be assisted by purchasing the right system which means making sure the right CRM Software Reviews are in place.
Because CRM is a cross-functional activity, CRM performance measurement must use a range of metrics that span the gamut of processes and channels used to deliver CRM. The more you know about your customers, the better you’ll be able to provide them with the kind of positive experience that really pays off. Everything that they do, and every interaction that they have with your organization needs to be identified, documented, and recorded. To do this, you need to move beyond the sticky-notes and disorganized filing cabinets, and start utilizing advanced organizational technology that can not only accurately quantify and categorize data for easy future reference, but also make that data available across departments. Customers who develop a relationship with you will share their opinions more often. After all, if they trust you, they will expect you to listen to them. This will motivate them to tell you about opportunities they see for improving your products or services. This customer feedback can be invaluable. And if you act on it, you prove to customers that you really do listen. That can raise their opinions of you to even greater heights. In Software as a Service (SaaS) CRMs everything is up and running in under 48 hours, but in order for a software to work the majority of the company, in key areas and departments, have to know how to use it. Teaching and training your team in it can be fairly easy though, employees can learn how to use it from demo videos online. An organization can be customer-centric when its customer facing departments work together. As you can integrate your MAP and customer support software with CRM, it promotes interdepartmental collaboration and allows organizations to serve their customers better. To increase customer satisfaction and reduce customer attrition, choose a system where the CRM System Review are incredibly high.
Increase The Odds Of Retaining Customers
A successful CRM system is a combination of people, business process, and technology that come together to help an organization achieve its CRM goals. Although the technology supporting CRM programs is only one component, it can have a significant impact on the success of the program. Many organizations have seen their CRM programs hindered or even abandoned because of expensive, inflexible, or difficult-to-use CRM applications. CRM software features vary from sophisticated enterprise-level software that automates virtually the entire sales process to no-frills email contact management plugins that help you keep track of customer communications. Efficiently dealing with all the customers and providing them what they actually need increases the customer satisfaction. This increases the chance of getting more business which ultimately enhances turnover and profit. A CRM is more than just a contact management database. Modern CRMs combine the power of multiple tools under one platform, such as sales force automation, emails, phone, chatbot, and a lot more. And the best part is, it is more cost-effective to get all these features under one roof, rather than purchasing standalone solutions. Developing a relationship with your customers is one of most effective strategies a business can adopt. Unfortunately, it’s also one that is very often put on the backburner — to the detriment of both growth and retention. A great customer relations strategy delivers tremendous ROI, helping boost customer acquisition, loyalty, and satisfaction. The identification of appropriate metrics for evaluations of CRM Software Review is an important step for the industry to take.
A risk of using multiple CRM vendors is that it can build more islands of information, rather than achieving an integrated CRM solution. In some cases, using different software for sales, marketing and customer service has resulted in each function having its own customer database and business rules. Some form of middleware is often required when a business finds that its CRM needs can only be met using several pieces of CRM software from different vendors. Several software companies offer CRM applications that integrate with existing packages. Cut-down versions of such software may be suitable for smaller businesses. This approach is generally the cheapest option as you are investing in standard software components. The downside is that the software may not always do precisely what you want and you may have to trade off functionality for convenience and price. The key to success is to be flexible without compromising too much. The processes and activities required for a successful CRM strategy are structured around two key dimensions in a CRM implementation matrix. The customer dimension captures the influence of the changing phase of a customer–firm relationship, and the management dimension comprises analytical and operational CRM. The ideal CRM system will integrate your multiple business channels and provide your users with seamless, remote access to up-to-date customer information. Look for a system that supports multiple communication devices to let users access customer data anytime, anywhere. Choose one that will meet the functional needs of your system users. CRM consists of strategies, processes, and software that manage your company’s interactions with customers and potential clients. This helps you sell more and build customer loyalty with a longlasting lifecycle. In an ideal world, a CRM system would be reviewed extensively by users and the results placed on a CRM Reviews site for all too see.
Track Customers By Transaction
All successful businesses share the same goal – to increase revenue and grow. To reach that goal, they need to treat every customer relationship as an opportunity. You can use your CRM to collect and track your sales and marketing data, both on a large scale and an individual level. That way, you can see exactly who’s spending money, what they’re buying, and how they’re interacting with your marketing campaigns. Over time, you’ll notice patterns in the data that not only help you develop more accurate goals for your business but also help you learn what your customers want and talk to them in a smarter, more relevant way. By gathering data which identifies the purchasing habits of customers, including their frequencies and preferences, the CRM software gives organizations a closer look at the wants and needs of their customers. That way, businesses can easily offer better customer service solutions. This increases sales and revenue for the business since the customers are likely to be repeat buyers when they obtain exception service and quality product. You can discover additional particulars appertaining to Customer Relationship Management Platforms at this Encyclopedia Britannica page. | <urn:uuid:cc4c5789-7de8-4043-a166-5695e6343e35> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pairup.makers.tech/en/managementplatform | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.947447 | 2,292 | 1.867188 | 2 |
College years are, by definition, a time to explore, discover, and develop new and lasting friendships. Most importantly, they’ll also gain knowledge and skills that will help them navigate through an increasingly complex world. At the same time, the science shows us that ages 18 to 25 are the peak developmental period for the onset of alcohol and other drug problems as well as mental health disorders. In fact, the adolescent brain is not fully developed until the late 20’s and the “CEO” part of the brain (the regions responsible for planning and regulation of behavior) develops a lot slower than the emotional centers of the brain. The result is that young adults in this age group tend to make decisions based on their emotions more than sound logical reasoning.
That’s where you—as family/trusted adult—come in. You can improve your child’s rational decision making, and this website can help you do that.
You might be concerned that paying too much attention to your student will hamper their ability to make their own decisions. Know that it is possible (and important) for you to provide guidance and for them to develop autonomy at the same time. You are still important in their lives, and your opinions and advice matter—even when they do not seem to acknowledge or appreciate it!
Developmentally appropriate communication requires a two-way street, where your student can feel safe expressing their feelings and thoughts, and you can provide honest feedback in a caring way. It’s critical to keep the door open to communication—to remind them that they can tell you what’s on their mind, what decisions they’ve made (big and small), and what’s going on with their friends and their classes. The goal at this age is to help them self advocate and assist them in finding resources to solve problems rather than solving the problem for them.
In developing this website, our team conducted focus groups with parents of college students. They told us that they didn’t need “more information”. The number one thing they wanted to know was how to meaningfully communicate with their student: how to start an important conversation, and what to say to increase the likelihood that they would listen and make a smart and healthy decision.
Parents told us they were scared about all the things that can go wrong related to alcohol and drug use, including overdoses, sexual assault, and poor grades. They feel like they are in the dark about what is happening in the lives of their students and what is happening on campus. In addition to concerns about excessive alcohol use, recent changes in cannabis (marijuana) laws, cannabis availability, and cannabis potency have left families confused about the facts and worried about how to respond to this rapidly changing situation.
Your student can be one resource for information about school happenings, new trends on campus related to alcohol and other drugs, and their involvement with these substances. However, other campus resounces can also be helpful, such as their school's health or counseling center, as well as parent and family affairs staff. You can also sign-up to receive our quarterly email newsletter.
This website is designed to equip you with some tools and resources that will help you engage in effective communication with your student.
You’ll find some statistics about alcohol, cannabis, and related problems. However, the main focus is how to talk with your student. We’ve organized it by topics; common situations that can include high-risk drinking or substance use, like
housing and roommates. Each page has a section on why the topic is important and a little bit of the research related to that topic, followed
by two sections called
and “Not this”.
At the Maryland Collaborative, we believe that scientific evidence should guide decision-making rather than anecdote or opinion.
Accordingly, the information that you will find in this website is informed by science. Some of the evidence might surprise you. For instance, scientific studies during the last decade have confirmed that exposure to alcohol during high school increases the chances of heavy drinking during college. There is very little evidence to back up the “forbidden fruit theory” or the popular opinion that families should supervise drinking to avoid problems later. Hosting a party where teens can “learn to drink” under the watchful eye of a well-intentioned family member might seem like a good idea, but on the contrary, the science is clear that when they get to college, such teens are at high risk for heavy drinking and alcohol-related problems.
What you said or did in the past during your student’s high school years matters, but your communication continues to matter now and going forward.
It’s never too late to learn new strategies, or try a new approach based on what you learn here. We encourage you to give us
about what you learn here and what you would like to see.
In addition to being scientists, our team also includes parents. Like you, we strive to guide our kids to make good decisions and help them avoid alcohol and other substance use problems. That is why we are so passionate about translating scientific studies into practical information that families can use—like when they need to make a tough decision or start a difficult conversation.
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Fiesta is a huge annual festival in San Antonio that started its history in 1891. In the beginning, it was supposed to honor the memory of the Battle of San Jacinto and the heroes of Alamo. This part is still important, and the commemoration of the battle still takes significant place. However, during the last hundred years Fiesta turned into a ten-day festival that is celebrated by diverse cultures of San Antonio. People from all over the United States and even all over the world come to see the celebration and take part in the festival. It happens every year at the end of April, but the commission works all year round to organize everything, coordinate the details and tasks that are essential for this enormous event. The festival is something to get ready to in advance. It includes more than a hundred of different cultural, musical, military, sport, and environment events, which are all very interesting and spectacular. Most people start thinking about their costumes for the festival several months before the event. All the outfits are creative and thought-out, showing the tastes and preferences of the owner. This paper will discuss how a dress functions as a means of both group and individual identity.
One of the most spectacular events is the Fiesta Flambeau Parade, or the parade of candle light. It usually takes place on the second Saturday of the festival. During this parade more than five hundred thousand people from all over the world stand along the way of the route of 2.6 miles. There are also millions of people that watch the parade on television. Thousands of lights and candles are lighted everywhere after the sunset; dancers, singers, and cars are all illuminated. It is an unbelievable event to participate or just to watch.
Another famous event of the Fiesta festival is the Battle of flowers. It is one of the oldest and most popular events that are celebrated during the festival. It takes place on the second Friday of Fiesta. Only women are taking part in the parade, and all of them are always volunteers. Some schools in San Antonio even do not hold classes on this day. Yellow is the color of this parade; all participants wear yellow clothes and hats. This event is a way to honor the memory of the heroes of Alamo.
I was lucky to visit the Fiesta Festival and see with my own eyes how spectacular and well organized it was. Every day was filled with hundreds of big and small events. There was always something to see and somebody to listen to. All kinds of people came to watch and participate, so one could never get bored there. I was not able to see everything, but I enjoyed every minute of each event.
One of the most interesting things to pay attention to is people’s outfit. It could be seen right away that almost everybody worked hard on the appearance. Most participants looked not only stylish, but unique. It is not a secret that outfit can tell much about a person, but it was even more obvious on the festival. I paid attention to different groups of people and noticed that most participants within one group wore the clothes that matched up. The participants created a sort of small communities that were indicated by their outfits. It is known that a costume can demonstrate dynamic features of the person, character traits, inner freedom, or even indicate mood. I would even say that clothing is a reflection of the inner world of its owner. It also affects the state of personality in communication with other people, measures conflicts in communication, and makes us attractive in the eyes of certain people. It also shows different ways of visualization of a person’s “I” to others.
I had a chance to distinguish three participants whose dresses were the most remarkable and memorable for me. Their names were Amy, Jeff and Katy. I discussed their dresses with them and had a chance to think about the way those dresses function as means of a group or individual identity. Such festival as Fiesta is a perfect place to pay attention to different outfits and possible functions of them. Most people came with their friends, so the visual connection could be seen and analyzed right on the spot.
The first guest of the festival that I chose to talk to was Amy. From the very first sight, she looked brave and independent to me. Her clothes were so bright that she could probably be seen from a very big distance. Not only color attracted my attention but also the style itself, the originality of the costume and accessorizes. She said that her favorite color was green, and thus it was the main color of her dress. However, there were also some yellow, black, pink, and brown elements, which were well balanced. All the clothes Amy created herself exclusively for Fiesta. In her everyday life, she works at the office and does not wear such colorful and bright clothes as during the celebration. At the Fiesta festival she was wearing a matching top and leggings made of netting material. It would seem usual in black, but in bright green Amy looked unique. The netting covered all of her body, leaving places only for underwear. The underwear was black and covered with furry material that matched Amy’s shoes, which were covered with the furry material as well. It made her look like a hobbit. She had an extremely short airy skirt made of netting and a small veil made of the same material. Amy’s outfit was a model of personal courage and original taste.
During our discussion, Amy told me that she always wanted to be seen by as many people as possible. She was always the shortest girl in class with regular features and nothing to lay an eye on. It was not her complex, more like a call to action, a sign that she had to do something to be seen. That is why she loved festivals like Fiesta where she could show herself with the brightest colors possible. That is why she started getting ready for the celebration several months before the beginning. This year Fiesta gave her a chance to show the costume of her own design and production. And this is probably the most important part of the festival for Amy. I also watched Amy’s company, and it seemed to me that all of her friends had the same idea about gaining public attention with the help of their costumes.
Jeff was a young man from another company. He and his friends looked luxuriously but at the same time strangely casual. It was hard to say how old Jeff was at first as he was wearing a hat with a wig of curly grey shoulder-length hair, which looked a little weird with Jeff’s jacket. It was leopard print and shiny, made of satin with some leather inserts. The sleeves were decorated with oriental ornaments, and that made Jeff look like a sultan who came out of a fairy tale and got lost in the modern world. However, this impression was somehow ruined by that hat with a wig that added personality but definitely reduced sumptuousness. Jeff’s trousers were not something that stroke an eye right away. It took me some time to notice that those trousers were all covered with small coins of different size. It was so surprising that Jeff told a story of how he collected the coins, bought them everywhere possible and then made a hole in each coin and sewn them on his old favorite pants. That can definitely be called a good preparation for the holiday.
Jeff also told me that he and his friend always make fun of money and how modern people cannot live without it. They wanted to exaggerate the luxury and make fun of it with their clothes. At first sight, it might look like they wanted to gain public attention with the help of costumes, like Amy’s company. But after spending some time with them, I realized that their outfits were created more for their own fun without caring about anybody’s opinion. What they were trying to do was just to have fun at the festival just as they are doing it in their everyday lives.
The third person that drew my attention was Katy. Unlike Amy, she did not try to attract attention with the help of clothes. And unlike Jeff, she did not want to express any idea or attach any particular importance to her costume. The main reason I decided to talk to her was that she looked so feminine that most people stopped their eyes on her for at least several seconds. She wore dark blue fitting knee-length dress with thin straps and long foxtail attached to her side. Big earrings adorned her ears, dozens of bracelets rang on her arms, and her neck was decorated with several heavy pendants. Her stilettos were a little old-fashioned, but they emphasized the beauty of her legs. Basically, that is all that can be said about Katy’s appearance. At least, that is all that can be said with words because the impression she made on me was very strong. I would even say it was unforgettable. Her simple dress and pretty common knick-knackery created an image that could not be outshined by bright colors and crazy fashions.
Interestingly, Katy told me she was tired of the attention and just wanted to feel comfortable and normal. Her festival outfit was not planned or created in advance; it was just something that happened to lie on a visible place of her room. Katy came with her company, where nobody tried to look special. However, each person looked great in their own personal way without showing off. It did not look that they previously discussed their outfits even though they somehow matched and were obviously from one company, or I would even say a small community.
Analyzing different dresses of Amy, Jeff and Katy, I realize that their outfit is an essential distinctive mark of the group of people as well as their personalities. Those dresses function as a means of both group and individual identity. It is hard to say what is primary here. Probably, Amy would not feel comfortable in Katy’s company, where nobody tries to stand out with the help of clothes. And Jeff would be bored in a company where there is no idea to present and develop through outfit. People form groups according to their personal characteristics and wishes. Thus, they can express their personality both individually and in a group that reinforces their identity. Clothing as a means of human expression is always in the foreground for any individual. However, it also has a great social importance. Clothing underlines the status of a person and tells other people about his/ her ideas. At the same time, adherence to a particular culture symbolizes the human desire to be united in groups in order to feel safe and protected. It is common in the modern world to form groups based on clothing preferences among other important traits of connection. Therefore, it can be said that the outfit functions as a means of both group and individual identity. | <urn:uuid:0dcfd89c-a95c-4efd-b6bb-6fa5890e1aaf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://essaysleader.com/essays/ethnic-cultural-identity-paper/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.98691 | 2,185 | 2.9375 | 3 |
The quote came from Ralph Lauren, the man who built a clothing empire by drawing inspiration from movies, sports, and how the rich and mighty live their lives. Everything he touches is rooted in this philosophy—from clothing, logo, and automobiles.
The Ralph Lauren Polo Player symbol, which aligns with the English aristocrats’ lifestyle, is Ralph Lauren brands’ official trademark. The classic, elegant, and powerful black and white logo features a Polo Player on a galloping horse. And below the elite emblem is the brand’s name in uppercase letters.
For nearly five decades, the celebrated Polo logo has shot the unknown brand into a globally accepted lifestyle product. It leads a clothing brand that echoes with premium quality, elegance, and power. The famed Ralph Lauren Logo, like its founder, is restless on several channels.
The prominent place to find the Ralph Lauren Outlet logo is on its line of products. Other mediums include a website, social media channels, television, sponsorship platforms, movies, billboards, etc. The iconic Polo logo is one of the visible brands worldwide, and it’s worth about $6 billion.
Ralph Lauren’s logo is among the few symbols that have kept its visual mark the same for decades. However, depending on the clothing, the brand uses different variations of its elements. For instance, the wordmark alone suits formal wear (suits and shirts), whereas the iconic polo player features well on sporting apparel. Now, let’s look at the Polo Pony, the logo’s nickname.
Cleanness is the unique color scheme of the logo. The horse emblem, which comes in black and white, has a Polo Player on a galloping horse. On his right hand, the rider holds a mallet in an attempt to strike a ball. Beneath this vivid image lies the brand’s name—Ralph Lauren, in caps.
Why does the Ralph Lauren Logo Works?
Clean logos are attractive and resonate well with customers. This is because they are easy to notice and read. The Ralph Lauren Outlet logo falls under this branding league because it has graphic elements in moderation. With these features, the logo is simple, noticeable, and memorable.
No two logos are to be the same or identical. The Ralph logo sets itself apart from the competition. It has achieved this all-important aim by using unique design elements, helping customers make it out from other brands. This logo is flying high with its rarity. Few emblems can stay for decades without updates. The Ralph logo is working because it has elements that aren’t affected by trends. The owner understood its target audience and symbolized a novel outlook from its onset. This makes the brand everlasting with pride. The Ralph logo has familiar elements that project its brand personality. The player and its horse are recognizable everywhere. With its impressive tone, the logo is easy for customers to remember. This has created a powerful image and connection in the minds of its loyal customers.
Companies desire to expose their brands to the world. However, this depends on the layout of the logo design. The Ralph Lauren logo is versatile because the company can use it in a variety of ways. Its subtle form offers it the power to fit on multiple mediums with no barrier.
The famed clothing brand, Ralph Lauren, has adhered to the branding rules. The designer focused on fewer graphic elements—a Polo player, horse, and custom typeface to design its visual assets. Together, let’s explore these elements further.
The Ralph Lauren Symbol and Shape
The iconic graphic image, the Polo Player, shows the brand’s strength, quality, and competitive spirit. It also considers American pop culture, team spirit, and wealth. The figure also aligns with one of the brand’s target audiences, sporting men and women. A horse, a symbol of freedom, embodies the spirit of courage, loyalty, and willpower. And as a sign of integrity, elegance, and nobleness, the horse represents the Ralph Lauren brand and captures the indigenous American culture’s unique history. Can you hit a target without damaging an object? Well, this is the essence of the wooden mallet in the game of Polo. It represents the precise effort and strategies the brand’s owners are taking to achieve their production, marketing, and financial goals without compromising customer satisfaction. The mallet shows the step-by-step methods the brand uses to meet its goals. The Ralph Lauren Logo Colors are communication tools. They can spark various emotions ranging from warmth, comfort, anger, and violence. Experts use them to signal action, influence mood, and purchasing decisions. Though there are many colors, it pays to select them wisely to tell your brand story. To evoke his brand’s persona, Ralph Lauren favors neutral colors—black and white. The Ralph Lauren Outlet online uses the black hue to convey an air of power, elegance, and strength. Black as a reserved color can also evoke aggression, authority, and fear. And as a dark color, people relate it to death, evil, and mystery in most cultures. Yet, it’s a color of formality and prestige.
The Ralph Lauren logo is clean with white color. As a neutral color, it serves as a powerful contrasting color to black. Together, they give the Ralph Lauren logo an attractive and modest visual charisma. The white color as a choice in the Ralph Lauren logo represents humility, safety, and loyalty. The color aligns with goodness, heaven, and light.
The Ralph Lauren official logotype has a unique personality. The Ralph Lauren font comprises a custom serif typeface that mirrors the roman font style. With thick and thin lines, the typeface conveys a feeling of stability, maturity, and formality. It also shows seriousness, corporate, and tradition.
Mr. Ralph Lauren goes by various titles—entrepreneur, fashion designer, billionaire, and philanthropist. The iconic business owner is an American born on 14th October 1939 in New York City. His parents, Frank and Freda, were Jewish immigrants from Belarus.
Ralph has three other siblings—a sister and two brothers. He attended Manhattan Talmudical Academy and later DeWitt Clinton High School, where he graduated in 1957. After high school, he spent a couple of years at Baruch College studying business.
He served briefly in the United States Army between 1962 and 1964. He left the army to work as a sales assistant for Brooks Brothers. Afterward, he worked for Beau Brummell, a tie maker. The experience gained from these companies would later help his business.
Ralph married Ricky Ann Low-Beer on 20th December 1964, and they have three children. The children are Andrew Lauren, David Lauren, and Dylan Lauren. The fashion icon loves automobiles and has a collection of over a hundred expensive cars to his credit.
In 1967, Ralph combined his sales technique, passion for sports, and fashion interest to start his business. He named the company Ralph Lauren Corporation and launched his first menswear, Polo, in 1968. Today, the brand is into diverse clothing lines for both males and females.
Noted for charity works, Ralph Lauren co-founded the Nina Hyde Center for Breast Cancer Research and the Polo Ralph Lauren 2022 Foundation to support its Corporate Social Responsibility. According to Forbes 2022 report, Ralph Lauren is worth $6.3 billion.
Many institutions have noticed and rewarded Ralph’s contribution to society. In 2010, the government of France gave him the Legion of Honor. That’s one of several awards to his name.
The now celebrated clothing billionaire didn’t start rich or born into wealth. From a poor Jewish family, Ralph Lipschitz changed his surname to Lauren to shelter himself from the continuous bullying and teasing from people.
Shortly after leaving the army, Ralph works as a clerk at Brooks Brothers before joining Beau Brummell, a brand specializing in tie making. He fell in love with tie-making; however, he took a novel approach with his designs.
Instead of designing narrow and plain ties, Ralph deviated from the tradition and chose wide and colorful neckties. This out-of-the-norm design style won the hearts of many, including the Manhattan departmental store. Within a year, Ralph Lauren sold $500,000 worth of neckties.
As a movie fan and sports fanatic, Ralph designs simple clothing that resonates with these celebrated characters. Warren Helstein took Ralph to watch his first polo match. This event changed his insight into fashion and ignited his entrepreneurial spirit.
He took inspiration from the leather, horses, ponytails, enormous hats, and the class of wealthy people he saw during the match. That unforgettable event led him to design elegant and high-class brands known as Polo Ralph Lauren.
In 1968, Ralph released the first line of Polo menswear. And he operated from a showroom in the Empire State Building. Almost a year later, Bloomingdale started selling Lauren’s brand in its department store. It was the first time the store owners had made such a deal with a designer.
The company launched the women’s shirt in 1971, and it came with the Polo player logo on the shirt’s cuff for the first time. The same year, he opened a store at Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, California. By 1972, the company had released its colorful cotton mesh Polo shirts.
These designs had the iconic logo on the chest, elevating its signature style. In 1997, Ralph Lauren made his company public, but still holds a controlling stake in the brand he started.
An American fashion empire, Ralph Lauren Corporation, designs and markets simple yet luxury clothing to worldwide customers. The company’s range of lifestyle products includes accessories, apparel, fragrance, home, and hospitality.
The company, which employs about 24,300 workers, operates from its head office in New York City, United States. This renowned clothing house boasts brands like Polo Ralph Lauren, Double RL, Chaps, Club Monaco, and Ralph Lauren Purple Label.
The signature polo brands sell in about 13,000 retail outlets worldwide. These active stores, in 2018, earned the company an amount of $6.2 billion in revenue. After deducting other expenses, the company had a net income of about $163 million.
The brand ranks as a Fortune 500 company and has had a massive impact on the United States Olympic and Paralympic teams. For having a partnership agreement with the United States Olympic Committee, the brand became the official outfitter for the Olympic team.
Today, the company that started with a single product—necktie has branched out into other design areas. You can find its name on pillows, footwear, jewelry, furniture, and fragrance.It would help if you had these traits and many more. We can’t conclude this article without talking about one of the noticeable faces in the fashion world, the Polo Player emblem. The Ralph Lauren Outlet online has led a brand from a zero-dollar to a billion-dollar empire.
You should remember that the Polo Player logo is successful because it’s clean, attractive, unique, and speaks to its intended audience. A logo is a real sales machine for any business – whether small, medium, or large.
2022 Ralph Lauren’s rise to fame and fortune is the tale of rags to riches. The unrelenting pursuit of his passion reminds us of the American Dream. He has shown that everyone can turn an original idea into a profitable business with his business success. Do you agree with this assertion?
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• There are a number of schools within the parish. Here are links to them, which you may find helpful.
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Education Reform, on the other hand, was a Napoleon-Invades-Russia near-total victory followed by collapse—new teacher evaluation, curriculum, and testing systems were adopted across almost every state, implemented in almost every district, and promptly drove almost everybody crazy—suburban and urban parents and teachers alike—while promised results failed to appear. We are now, it appears, in the “gaunt, haunted French soldiers scrambling westward in blind fear across Poland” stage of the Napoleonic story of recent education reforms. Mass charter conversion, new multi-day online tests, new quantitative test-based teacher evaluation systems—states simply can’t drop the reforms they adopted just a few years ago fast enough. More than a pendulum swing, it has become a panicked rout.
Spotted Toad, Waking From Meritocracy
Over a year ago, just after Toad’s epic article hit, he suggested I write a “single coherent summary” of the education reform era–expand on the glorious extended analogy he uses above. Yeah. And I’d keep it under a thousand words, too.
And now, the denouement: It all disappeared. Better yet, it all disappeared because the public hated it.
NCLB/Race to the Top:
Just as the Bush/Obama era began with No Child Left Behind, the 2001 version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) so it ended with the 2015 version of the same law, Every Student Succeeds. All the accountability, controls, and demands that the Republican-controlled 2001 Congress put in, the Republican-controlled 2016 Congress took out. The Department of Education became little more than a bank, so far as K-12 was concerned, leaving states to make their own decisions again while giving them block grants to succeed.
I hope readers of the entire series understands this point, but I meander sometimes.
It’s called the “Bush/Obama era” for a reason. It began with NCLB’s critical failure: the mandate that all students test above average. While No Child Left Behind was unpopular with the very schools it was intended to fix, it might have survived in a toothless form were it not for the deeply flawed assumption at the heart of the policy. NCLB was built on the assumption that good schools would not have an achievement gap. Alas. All schools have an achievement gap. Therefore, all schools, including all the excellent public schools in the suburbs, failed to meet that criteria, and thus all schools were threatened with “program improvement” status and a variety of unattractive restriction.
It was this terminal and universal state of restriction that created both the necessity for the NCLB “waivers” and the power the Obama administration had to enforce a new round of reform demands without the messiness of Congressional approval. This gave SecEd Arne Duncan tremendous power to enforce states to commit to value added testing and Common Core adoption. From 2001-2015, the federal government had profound control over state education.
And again: the public hated the results. Education reformers got almost everything they could conceivably want to convince the public of the value of choice, accountability, and curriculum reform and their nirvana was so despised that every bit of these changes were ripped out and states were given control of their own destiny.
Common Core and Value Added Metric Evaluations
Upshot: both rendered largely toothless.
Split in the Reform Movement
Much of the remaining story doesn’t make sense without understanding that the bipartisan reform movement splintered. On the Democrat side, the reform movement began as “neoliberals”, with moderates like Andrew Rotherham, but it’s really impossible to do anything as a Democrat without running into headcounts by race. As the left side of education reform moved away from ex-Clinton policy wonks and towards ex-TFAers, the movement’s whiteness became an issue. I’m not involved enough to know if the movement became progressive because the leaders became increasingly black and Hispanic or if the movement became progressive AND the leaders became increasingly black and Hispanic. Doesn’t matter, I’m just pointing out I don’t know which. But it most assuredly became really left of center.
Robert Pondiscio was, I think, the first person to point out that conservatives were being sidelined in education reform–describing in early 2016 actions that had been going on for a couple years. Making matters worse for conservative reformers (or reformers working for thinktanks funded by conservatives, at least), is that they were all never Trump or silent on the subject. Hillary Clinton was the friendliest Democrat teachers unions had seen in eight years, so they had no good options.
And then Trump won. So both sides of education reform were entirely out of power during the Trump administration, even though he appointed as SecEd reform moneybags Betsy Devos who never met a “government school” she didn’t want to raze to the ground. (Note: Devos was useless in K-12, thankfully, but in all other purviews, she did much better than I expected.) Meanwhile, the education reform movement schism grew.
The progressive side was completely radicalized. Most black reform activists had concluded, as Andre Perry wrote, that the education reform movement was too white to do any good. Many felt sincerely that the obsessive focus on test scores and failure was hurting black kids. Many now openly working for black schools and empowerment: Chris Stewart, Derrell Bradford, and most notably, Howard Fuller (“I didn’t get into this business to help white kids.”). I say that not in criticism, but it’s a huge shift from the marching orders that traditional reformers had, which was to expand suburban charters to get more white support.
Ironically, these progressive reformers have no institutional support. Teachers unions are back in the heart of the Democrats. So the progressives shat all over the conservatives but their own party is moving back hard against charters.
This split is, I think, permanent. As a result, education reform has been political crippled. The progressive reformers agree with the Dems and unions on everything except charters, so they will be taking a back seat. The conservative ed reformers, particularly those who have 20-30 years in (Hess, Petrilli) are among the few who understand what happened, and aren’t sure what to do about it. The Republican party and non-education reform conservatives are completely clueless as to what happened, but that’s because they get their talking points from The Big Book of Ed Reform Shibboleths, and there’s no money for a new edition.
TFA was beautifully positioned to be wiped out by crossfire in the reform split. By 2012,it was targeted for being too much a puppet of the charter school movement, even while it was being feted as the solution to the lazy, union-fed teacher population. Possibly suspecting her charmed existence was ending, Wendy Kopp quit TFA in 2013 and appointed two co-directors. One was a McKinsey consultant who got hired into TFA management. One was a teacher who worked up the ladder. One was a Hispanic woman. One was a white guy. One quit within two years, saying that “we spend a lot of time maintaining alignment, and we often speak in a voice that reflects our daily compromises”. One is still the director of TFA. Guess which one was more radical? (Hint: the resignation letter didn’t mention racism.)
Following Kopp’s departure, applications and cohort size cratered.
The organization recovered by emphasizing its diverse student body, but that may have further dimmed its appeal.
I suspected this back in 2014, when I wrote TFA Diversity and the Credibility Gap, about TFA’s much touted diversity push–or, as I indelicately asked, “How the hell can Teach for America have recruited 1000 African Americans?” It’s not that I don’t think a thousand or more could pass the credential tests, but elite black candidates have far better options. I go through the numbers in the articles that give rise to skepticism–but I also point out ways that TFA could scout out candidates, and I suspect they took many of these steps.
The thing is, and here’s another indelicate truth: you can focus on diversity or merit. Not both. Once TFA made diversity its brand, it seemed to become a lot less attractive to elite candidates.
Significantly, they no longer mention their application or cohort size. It’s difficult even to find their previous announcements, all 404-ed. Moreover, as Rise and Fall of TFA points out, Arizona State University is now a top source of admits.
Enrollment population is still growing, but charter school growth is becoming polarized, and previously strong blue charter states are slowing or reversing.
2016: Massachussetts voters crushed a proposition to lift the charter cap.
In 2019, California enacted a new law allowing school districts to consider financial impact when reviewing charter school applications, a major defeat for choice advocates.
In 2020, New York reached its charter limit and Cuomo hadn’t had any luck in getting the legislature to lift the cap.
In 2021, Newark charter schools, object of Mark Zuckerberg’s largesse, applied for an expansion and the state slapped them down.
For all the talk about charters being separate from those pesky union-run public schools, they are just as likely to be closed during covid19 as public schools are, which makes sense. Most charters are in Democrat-run areas, and Dem run areas are more likely to demand CDC guidance, social distancing, and more likely to have non-white parents who are worried about returning to school. Once again, reformers are let down by reality.
Reform advocates will cite New Orleans as a major success, but the scores are still dismal for African American students, and the dropout rate is hard to track but pretty scary. Besides, go right ahead and say “Hey, the trick to fixing schools is to fire all the black teachers!” and see how far you get. Bottom line, if you think that kids are actually doing better, go buy a bridge in Manhattan.
I don’t wish to overstate the case. Charters are private schools for free, and there will always be a market for them if parents are given a say. But eventually, the state is given a say, and charters turned out to be more expensive than anticipated.
New York, California, and New Jersey politics have seen a significant shift away from charters. According to Michael Petrilli, support for charters has declined in many states since 2016, but it’s more popular where white parents can use charters to get away from non-white public schools (my interpretation, obviously, not his). Which…has a limited shelf life, because most white parents like their schools, and they won’t like the diminished funding that comes along with white parents crafting their own private schools on the public dime. Probably. We’ll see. I’m not spiking the football on charters.
Like charters, mostly stalled. Vouchers are popular in the South, where white parents support them for private schools. The Supreme Court has been very friendly, ruling that vouchers could be used for private religious schools.
But courts can’t mandate vouchers, and for a fascinating look at how fast the public has switched, consider at Douglas County, Colorado.
2011: Voucher program established and instantly blocked by litigation by the ACLU, Citizens for Separation of Church and State (not unions, that I can see, but don’t quote me).
2015: Colorado Supreme Court blocked the voucher program.
2017: The Supreme Court established that religious entities couldn’t be denied public funds available to similar secular institutions in Trinity Lutheran and shortly thereafter ordered the Colorado Supreme Court to rethink its 2015 decision.
BUT! also in 2017: a head to head school board election, in which one slate CommUnity Matters, promised to undo all the reform changes of the previous six years and end the voucher program and give more support to teachers, while the other slate, Elevate Douglas County, promised to keep all the reform agenda. CommUnity Matters stomped Elevate Douglas County and the board rescinded the voucher program and all those lawsuits were for nothing.
Moral: Court decisions can’t get you past the voters.
As with charters, I’m not spiking the football. But vouchers and charters take money away from public schools, and most voters like public schools.
The money folks
Bill Gates has found his education philanthropy very disappointing. School children and teachers everywhere have let him down.
Mark Zuckerberg, humbled by the lack of results in Newark, has decided to listen to his wife, do more small bore stuff, and focus on efforts close to home.
Eli Broad suspended the Broad Prize in 2014, giving no more money to “good” urban districts. Three years later, California’s response to the leaked information about Broad’s plan to double the number of charters in Los Angeles was so hostile the organization was forced to regroup and claim they weren’t focusing on charters. No one believed them, and the anger may have led to California’s decision to give districts more power to deny charter applications (see above). A year later, Broad retired. His successor pulled up stakes from California and paid Yale to give them digs–the pandemic followed. I’m not saying it was a cause, or anything.
Betsy DeVos learned that writing checks to people who want her approval and trying to make policy by winning the approval of people who don’t need her money isn’t at all the same thing.
The 2012 Chicago teachers won their strike and won big, despite the active opposition of liberal columnists and wonks, in addition to the usual criticism by education reformers or just conservatives. Obama probably would have supported mayor Rahm Emmanuel in fighting for what were clearly the Administration’s priorities, but he was running for re-election and couldn’t alienate teachers. Yet in the face of all that Democratic establishment support, and the near-complete support of the media, polls showed that over 60% of black and Hispanics, and nearly half of whites, supported the teachers. (I was fascinated by those polls because “an extremely overweight, frowsy, no-bullshit, way the hell left of center black woman virtually coldcocked a younger, relatively good-looking hard ass Democrat mayor who’s best buds with the big O.” Just as had been the case two years earlier, when black voters kicked out Michelle Rhee’s boss so she’d have to be fired, the CTU strike showed the vast gap between the widely bipartisan establishment view of those greedy teachers and the ground view reality of the voters.
Unions lost a number of court cases, but it’s hard to argue it hurt them much. Vergara was overturned. Janus, the victory that conservative have awaited for 30 years, led to a minor loss of union membership but certainly didn’t yield the desired results. Almost immediately after the decision in 2018, a wave of red state teacher strikes proved successful. Unions have very little power in these states, and yet wild-cat unauthorized strikes were successful in winning pay increases. Why? Well, parents supported the teachers and it’s a bit difficult to fire all the teachers in an illegal strike if there aren’t any replacements waiting around.
Meanwhile, during the pandemic, conservatives have been shrieking about the corrupt union hold on public schools and how they are keeping the schools closed despite no covid19 risk. Now, this is also nonsense, but leave the details for another article. The larger point is this: it’s two years past Janus and Republicans are still blaming unions for their money and their power and their chokehold on Democrat policy. Again, nonsense. But what the hell did Janus do, if they’re still bitching?
The Tennessee Achievement School District, which took on all the state’s lowest scoring schools to be fixed and sent on their way by miracle worker Chris Barbic, has crashed and burned. (Barbic got out before anyone noticed.) Mark Zuckerberg and Corey Booker’s handpicked superintendent, Cami Anderson, was run out of town by an angry parent population. Joel Klein left his job running NYC schools after everyone learned that the great test score gains of the previous few years had been due to lowered cut scores. He then ran a Murdoch-owned education company Amplify that was a complete failure, and he’s out of education now as well. Quick: what’s the name of the next two NYC chancellors? You can’t remember, can you? (Cathie Black and, when she flamed out after a few months, Dennis Walcott.) Then diBlasio won, and while Governor Cuomo jerked him around with Success Academy, New York City schools have rolled back a lot of the reform movement.
And it’s no use blaming teachers unions money, either. Pro-charter Marshall Tuck outspent both Tonys, Torlakson and Thormond, for California superintendent and lost both times. In 2012, pro-union underdog Gloria Ritz beat Tony Bennett, literally the education reform idol, for state superintendent in Indiana, despite Bennett outspending her. Then Ritz lost to Republican Jennifer McCormack in 2016–but Jennifer, a special ed teacher, proved very union friendly, siding with the teachers time and again. Meanwhile, Bennett went to Florida to be state commissioner, and was fired in 2013.
It all really did come tumbling down.
Michelle Rhee has, last I checked, completely left education. Wendy Kopp doesn’t have nearly the visibility; her Wikipedia entry ends in 2013. Most of the school “fixers” of the reform era have moved on: Cami Anderson, Christopher Cerf, Chris Barbic, Joel Klein, John King, Tony Bennett. They’re consulting and think tanking, but not getting their hands dirty, and there’s no new generation of “miracle workers” in part because the media has moved left and is much more suspicious of reform.
Reformers move on. They’re movers and shakers. They got shit to do.
You know who’s still in the same job?
Randi Weingarten. Michael Mulgrew. Until recently, Lily Eskalen Garcia.
Go back and look at all those glowing articles on TFA and Success Academy and other reform miracles, and see how many of those earnest purveyors of excellence are still teaching.
Now do the same thing for real teachers, the teachers that the cool people talk shit about.
Remember back in 2010 when the Los Angeles Times evaluated every teacher in LA Unified for their value add, humiliating teachers. Some of those teachers wrote in and protested the entire effort. One of them was Joan Lavery, who was found “less effective than average“. A decade later, Joan’s still teaching with a National Board Certification (which I’m not that impressed by, but hey, she’s still here.) Irma Estrada of Gledhill Elementary got “most effective“. She’s still teaching, too. Rigobuerto Ruelas isn’t teaching, despite a passion that kept him on the job nearly every day for 14 years, but that’s because the LA Times reporting of his “low” achievement impact depressed him to the point of suicide. Yeah, low blow.
Teachers abide, is what I’m saying. A lot of them do, anyway. We just duck down and wait until you all move on.
And so, dear readers, I come to the end of my history. The pandemic was merely a Chinese whisper when I began, while now we have a vaccine but the schools are still closed. And everyone blames unions.
As I’ve said ad nauseum on Twitter, closures are supported by roughly half of non-white parents and about 1 in 4 white parents, meaning that in diverse school districts (translation: most large cities and almost all blue states), roughly half of parents don’t want to open schools. Democrat governors complicate matters with absurd demands that districts follow CDC guidelines, which force them to act as if there’s no vaccine and kids drop over dead the minute they are infected. Unions, being Democrat-run organizations, naturally oppose schools opening in the name of safety. That did them no good in Florida, Texas, or any other red state. They get what they want in blue states and blue cities because the people want the schools closed. It’s that simple.
But meanwhile, all you folks licking your chops at the notion that this, finally, will be the end of public school dominance: remember your history. Don’t get cocky.
Because at the end of the day, you’re trying to kill what the public means when it says public education. The public might not take kindly to your efforts.
Peace out, peeps.
The History of Education Reform:
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"The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes." - Mark Twain
Series - Part 2 of 7
Part 1: The Current Investment Landscape
Part 2: Germany's Inflation In The 1920s
Part 3: The Dollar vs. Gold - You Should Care
Part 4: U.S. Stocks, Inflation, and Relative Valuations
Part 5: Commodities In Today's World
Part 6: Investing In A "Flat World"
Part 7: Global Real Estate, Inflation, and Relative Valuations
Inflation vs. Deflation: To Be Successful You Must Decide
The purpose of the article is to explore an extreme case of inflation and to look for similarities to our current environment in the hope of making better investment decisions.
The longer you study the global economic landscape in order to build successful investment allocations, the more apparent it becomes that you must first decide whether you believe we will remain in an inflationary environment or if we are on the verge of slipping into a deflationary environment. Why is making a decision on the inflation/deflation issue so important? Because investments that perform well in an inflationary environment are on opposite ends of the spectrum from investments that will prosper in a deflationary environment. For example, in an inflationary environment, you want to own "stuff" such as commodities, real estate, and to a lesser degree stocks. In a deflationary environment, where the money supply is contracting and paper money becomes more valuable, cash and bonds will be very attractive.
If you look at global money supply growth rates, rising oil, gold, silver, healthcare, real estate, and stock prices, it is difficult to argue that we are not experiencing inflation at this time. Therefore, it is prudent to ask the following questions:
• What does an inflationary cycle look like from a historical perspective?
• What investments have protected investors during past inflations?
• What are the investments to avoid during inflation?
• What does the end of an inflationary cycle look like?
Germany's Hyperinflation of 1923
With a background in engineering, I often find it useful to look at economic extremes for educational purposes just as we explore outcomes in calculus when numbers tend to infinity. If we can better understand the extreme economic case, it may help us deal with more moderate economic cases. An extreme case of inflation occurred in Germany in 1923. One does not have to believe that we are headed for hyperinflation in the present day U.S. to see similarities to Germany in 1923. It is also clearly understood that there are significant differences in 1923 Germany and the 2006 U.S. and global economic landscape.
Similarity #1: Both governments went off the gold standard.
When World War I broke out on July 31, 1914, Germany's central bank suspended the right of currency holders to redeem paper notes for gold. After that change, there was no legal limit as to how many notes the government could print. While the U.S. government appears to have made many questionable financial decisions in recent decades, a good place to begin our parallel with Germany is in 1971. In 1971 during difficult economic times, President Nixon closed the "gold window" and took the U.S. dollar off the gold standard. From this point forward, the U.S. dollar was no longer backed by gold. It is now simply an IOU from the U.S. government.
Similarity #2: Both governments allowed the money supply to increase substantially.
It is well documented that as a result of high debt levels incurred during World War I, the German government printed large amounts of money to finance the war. This is not an uncommon occurrence when governments need money for war or in a situation where the people are either unwilling or unable to provide the funds via increased taxes or through the purchase of government bonds. By the end of World War I, the German government had allowed the amount of money in circulation to increase four-fold. The graph of M3 below shows how the U.S. Federal Reserve has allowed the money supply to balloon at eye-popping rates since the mid-1990s.
Similarity #3 - The large increase in the money supply and easy access to credit lead to unproductive speculation and investment.
In Germany, many businessmen left their legitimate occupations and began to speculate in stocks and in goods. The number of bank employees grew from 100,000 in 1913 to 375,000 in 1923. Many capital projects proved to be inefficient or unneeded. The number of middleman and tax regulations grew substantially. In the United States, we saw day trading become a new occupation and now we have seen the number of real estate flippers, agents, and mortgage brokers swell. We all are very aware of the poor allocation of capital that occurred during our recent dot-com bust. Just like Germany, U.S. corporations have been burdened with a well-intentioned Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
Similarity #4 - Both governments implied external events, not money creation and overspending, were the cause of rising prices.
We can see similarities to Germany in that the U.S. government needed funds to fight the "war on terror" post-9/11. Just as it was in Germany in the 1920s, it would have been politically unpopular to raise taxes after 9/11. It would also have been politically difficult to raise taxes or sell additional bonds to debt laden U.S. consumers. The latter stages of Germany's money printing was justified in the minds of many political leaders and citizens since the perception was that the reparations required from post-war treaties were too harsh. As Americans, we are often told that our current runaway deficits and price inflation are not the result of decades of overspending and money creation, but because of the current "global war on terror" and war in Iraq. In more recent times, we are also told that China or the oil companies are the roots of all our fiscal and currency problems.
Similarity #5 - Both governments told citizens that portions of the large deficits would be covered from external sources.
Just as President Bush promised that oil money from Iraq would pay for the war, German citizens were told that their enemies would pay off the large deficits after a Germany victory in World War I.
Similarity #6 - As the money creation lead to rising asset and consumer prices, the need to print more money seemed to feed on itself. The illusion of prosperity and low unemployment was difficult to reign in.
During the middle stages of Germany's inflation many businesses could not keep products on the shelves and unemployment remained extremely low. In the U.S., dot-com shares were oversubscribed and many condo developments have been sold-out prior to the completion of construction. Our present day America is dependent on continued loan growth to keep elevated real estate prices high and stocks on an upward path. The Federal Reserve knows that prolonged tight monetary policies (higher interest rates and a contraction of the money supply) could deflate the value of real estate and stocks. Our economy has become dependent on the wealth effect from elevated asset values.
Similarity #7 - Real wages declined even as nominal wages increased
This was true in Germany and is evident in the U.S. today. Worker's pay increases have not kept pace with the loss of purchasing power of their currency.
Similarity #8 - Both governments had enormous debts to repay
Germany had large war deficits and was faced with war reparations. The U.S. is currently faced with large budget deficits and enormous future entitlements in the form of Medicare and Social Security. History shows us that governments with large debts to pay often favor an inflationary environment to help reduce the burden of future payments. In the past large amounts of debt have been inflated away in China, Russia, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Poland, Greece, and Turkey. This is an important concept. Using the U.S. as an example, assume Social Security estimates your annual retirement benefit to be $22,000 per year when you retire 10 years from now. In an inflationary environment, the government's real debt burden decreases because the $22,000 that they will give you in ten years will be paid back with devalued dollars. On the other hand if we slip into deflation, the government's debt burden in terms of purchasing power would increase, as the $22,000 they give you in ten years will be worth more than $22,000 in today's dollars. This gives you another significant reason to believe that the Federal Reserve will use any means necessary to prevent deflation. When you look at it from the high levels of government debt and entitlements, Ben Bernanke's "printing press" speech given at the National Economists Club in November of 2002 takes on added significance:
"Like gold, U.S. dollars have value only to the extent that they are strictly limited in supply. But the U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), which allows it to rs as it wishes at essentially no cost. By increasing the number of U.S. dollars in circulation, or even by credibly threatening to do so, the U.S. government can also reduce the value of a dollar in terms of goods and services, which is equivalent to raising the prices in dollars of those goods and services. We conclude that, under a paper-money system, a determined government can always generate higher spending and hence positive inflation."
Much like our look at Germany's extreme case of inflation, I feel Bernanke's remarks above are also based on an extreme way to fight deflation. On the other hand, they do give you some insight as to how Bernanke views the Federal Reserve's role in the fight against deflation.
How did the German inflation end?
When people began to lose confidence in the value of paper money, they began to spend it immediately in an effort to avoid losing purchasing power (this is known as an increase in the velocity of money). In the end, farmers stopped selling produce because they would not accept near worthless paper money. Businesses became unable to keep the shelves stocked or were unable to sell at a profit and thus began to close down. Unemployment began to soar. Today, you need to look no further than the recent gains in gold and silver to see that people around the globe have started to lose faith in global paper money.
Who was hurt most in 1923 Germany?
Unfortunately, it was often a conservative and prudent person who did not like to take on debt or speculate in markets. Those who held cash or bonds saw their purchasing power destroyed by the vast increase in the money supply and resulting rapid rise in prices. People on pensions or fixed incomes also were hurt badly.
How about stocks and real estate?
According to The Nightmare German Inflation by Scientific Market Analysis, after the stabilization:
"Heavy new taxes and the urgent need for cash forced most real estate holders to refinance their real estate, often taking on higher levels of debt. Thus, gains were often illusory. Still, those who held real estate throughout managed to preserve capital more effectively than holders of cash or bonds. However, those who sold real estate during the inflation (often through desperate need for cash) fared poorly. Because it brought little income since real estate sold at extremely low real price levels during inflation. During an inflation of the money supply, common stocks are generally considered a desirable hedge to protect against or even to profit from the rise in prices. In practice, it is not so simple. In the U.S., stock prices have been known to fall violently just when inflation was most evident (1946, 1957, 1966, 1969). Market fluctuations--the rise of exciting new speculative stocks, waves of fear or greed--all make it much too easy to buy or to sell at the wrong time or to go into the wrong stocks. Getting down to specifics, we can say that those who bought a well-diversified list of stocks in solid, well-established companies quite early in the inflation and who held on throughout the period and also through the stabilization crisis preserved much or all of their capital. However, there were many pitfalls along the wayside for the greedy, the fearful and the over-clever. Those who did best were investors with a certain unemotional, stolid character, a basic confidence that strong, well-managed companies would come through.
Many very sharp but brief advances and declines in the market led to widespread speculation and many well-intentioned investors often wound up as traders. Naturally most of them did as badly as amateur speculators generally do. Many decided that speculation was the only sensible approach; when the entire economy and financial structure was visibly crumbling, who could wait patiently with confidence in the long-range value of anything?"
Who was able to protect their wealth?
In the end, people who held gold or moved investments into stable currencies early in the cycle. As prices began to rise rapidly, the German government eventually implemented strict foreign exchange controls. After the controls were in place, the black market was the only vehicle to move to gold or foreign currencies.
What might signal the end of somewhat sustainable inflation and a possible move toward hyperinflation?
As stated above, if the velocity of money increases at very rapid rates, it may signal the final loss of confidence in a currency. Since debt and loan growth play a big part in the creation of new money, the relationship between economic growth (GDP), loan growth, and interest rates may also be worth watching. As shown in the charts below, the switch from rising prices to falling prices in Japan came as loan growth began to slow. If economic growth slows and interest rates rise, borrowers become less willing to take on debt. In that environment, the risk-reward profile of additional debt becomes less attractive.
The focus of this series is on how to approach the markets based on what is actually happening in our inflationary world. It will does not focus on serious commentary of current economic policy or make any firm predictions about the future. It is simply an attempt to understand where we are today in a historical context and where we may (emphasis on may) be headed based on a historical context. We can use Mark Twain's wisdom to our advantage, "The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes."
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Welcome to Jiachen Zhang’s ENG-101 Website
This site is a portfolio of the work I’ve done as part of ENG101 at Emory university during Fall semester 2020.
Final Reflection Letter
Learning is a process. Like the guy who drew the Cocktail Construction Chart located in the National Archives, real learning takes place when one can break down the process of learning with explanations. As a learner, I would break this course into four parts to justify my learning process.
We begin our learning with the question “What is a game?”. Like many other students in the class, First-Year Writing was assigned by the college. I began to question the title of the game, Play Make Write Think, when I was enrolled. Obviously, almost everyone has played some form of game in their life. Whether it is playing childhood games with his or her parents, sports, video games, or board games, we never think about the meaning behind games, nor what it tells us. After learning this course, playing games really makes me think more than thinking about how to win it. Before getting to the outcome, the beginning should be focused on the part, What is Game?. We read the article, “What exactly is a game?” By Jane McGonigal, and wrote Literacy Narratives to combine our past understanding in literature—the nature of this class, and gaming—the theme of this class. In the article, we learned that there are four critical elements in games: a goal, rules, a feedback system, and voluntary participation. Just like character, plot, and settings in literature works, games have a trait to be defined with. In this part of class, we constructed out understanding of games by analyzing and synthesize the ideas of others, from Jane McGonigal and everyone in the class, as I undertook scholarly inquiry in order produce my own arguments that gaming is a form of expression and understanding its meaning is important for every player.
As we constructed an understanding of games, the topic of the course then shifts to “Analyzing games”. To analyze any game, we have to play it first. Depression Quest, Tangaroa Deep, and Gone Home expanded my stereotypical thought that games are never meaningful and are simply designed to prevent players from winning. Gathering information from different media and genres, reading articles provided analysis tools like telescoping, probing, and decision making in different games. After reading works from prestigious game analysts’ articles like Ian Bogost’s Empathy, the idea that games are putting players into someone else’s shoes is really interesting. Isn’t that what most shooting games are doing? Having to comprise different feelings after playing each game, I have mastered some basic information for me to analyze a game.
Then, “Application of game analysis” came into play in this course. First, the previous knowledge about analyzing or playing games is being asked to integrate into the player narrative where I discuss the life lesson I learned from playing sports. Then, we begin producing our podcast episodes. In my podcast group, we produced our podcast on three separate games: Temple Run, Oxenfree, and Democratic Socialism Simulator. As we worked more and more times, the routine was set, everyone began to express their ideas with respect to others, and we can constructively criticize each other in a really supportive and helpful way, and receive constructive criticism in the same manner. For instance, we had different opinions amongst our group when we were making the last episode on the Democratic Socialism Simulator. The definition of moderate was discussed within our group. One argued that a moderate president would mean that this president didn’t do exciting things, while the other argued that it means the president’s political views are in between right and left. Although each had a point, no one argued with anger. Through the collaboration skills, we finally decided to approach the “moderate” idea from two different perspectives. Podcasts are really good ways to apply our understanding of games into a text that is novel and suitable in current situations. Moreover, the reflection was done each time after a podcast, further propelled students to reflect each time after a podcast and to improve upon the next one. This process fits into the learning outcomes as writing as a process since podcast is a form of text for students to reflect each time and revise next time. For me, the game choosing strategies had been improving from Temple Run, a simple and popular game, to Oxenfree, a more complex game, to Democratic Socialism Simulator, the perfect game that fits into the global and domestic current affair.
The final stage in this learning spectrum is to create our own games. Therefore, combining our experiences in Podcasts, previous games, and founding ideas about games, we are able to create Twine games. In my group, different storylines under the pandemic were presented to the audience. Making a game isn’t easy. It is a process for each of us to summarize our understanding of telescoping and probing, the idea that games should reflect current affairs, the four fundamental factors of games, and etc. During the process, it is really interesting for a game creator to comprise the story for the life of a person. It is really interesting for students to utilize voice recording, drawings, games, and essays to submit their work. The rhetorical composition made our twine group more familiar to comprise work with a completely new media.
Overall, the learning experience starts with “What is a Game?” To “Analyzing games” to “Apply analysis of games” and finally into making a game. This process is more like an essay that Professor Morgen presents to the class on how to approach games and how players make writers think. In this process, Rhetorical Composition, Critical Thinking and Reading Resulting in Writing, Writing as Process, and Collaboration was practiced continuously through utilizing different media and constructing work in various forms. It is a process for me to shape my views about games in a completely different way. Games are not different from any media that is respected as teaching materials, like literature and movies. It can also construct a completely new world with the mechanics and message it conveys. | <urn:uuid:f01ed08f-8476-4cf9-924f-758be887bbaa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jiachenzhangeng101.wordpress.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.968599 | 1,279 | 2.765625 | 3 |
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What is disability insurance?
Disability insurance is a type of insurance protection that provides income to the insured if he or she is unable to work because of a disability due to a qualifying injury or illness.
Generally, these income benefits are paid out on a monthly basis to help pay debt obligations. The payments can be for a set number of months or years, or even until the insured reaches retirement age.
These benefits can help the insured with paying their regular living expenses including things like mortgage payments.
What does disability insurance cover?
Disability insurance is designed to replace a portion of a person’s income if they become disabled and are not able to work due to a serious illness or injury. Think income protection insurance.
There are numerous variables involved in a disability insurance plan. However, the key components consist of an income amount that will be paid out to the insured individual upon a triggering event.
Individual disability insurance policies will typically allow the policyholder to receive benefits of between 60 and 80 percent of his or her current income. Because the insured on an individual disability insurance policy usually pays the policy premiums out of pocket, benefits from these plans are generally received free from income tax.
Even if you have disability insurance through an employer-sponsored group plan, this coverage may not be enough to help you with paying all of your living expenses. Also, if you leave the employer, you will typically lose the coverage.
On the other hand, when you own an individual disability insurance policy, the plan will remain with you – as long as you continue to pay the policy’s premiums.
Therefore, you can continue to maintain the peace of mind in that you will have an income should you suffer an unexpected illness or injury and be unable to work and earn an income on your own.
Cost of disability insurance
Just like with other types of insurance coverage, the cost of a disability policy will be based on several factors. These include:
- Insured’s age
- Insurance carrier
- Amount of benefit
- Inflation protection
- Insured’s occupation
- Waiting period before benefits begin
- Own occupation versus any occupation
- Length of benefit (i.e., the number of months or years that the benefit is to be paid out)
What are the different types of disability insurance?
Disability insurance can either provide coverage for a short term disability or the long term disability for individuals. See the difference below.
With short term disability benefits, the income is typically paid out for a maximum of one year. For example, a short term plan may have a benefit period of 3 months, 6 months, or 12 months.
In some cases, short term disability coverage may only last for a set number of weeks. With this type of disability policy, the benefits would begin after the insured satisfied a short waiting period (which is also known as an elimination period).
A long term disability insurance policy may pay benefits for just a couple of years, or conversely, until the insured turns age 65 or older, and is ready to retire. Frequently, the benefit period on a long term disability insurance policy may be correlated with when the insured will be eligible for his or her full Social Security retirement benefit.
Own occupation vs Any occupation
One of the critical criteria concerning a disability income policy is whether the policy is “own occupation” or “any occupation” when it comes to triggering the payout.
If the benefits from the policy are paid based on own occupation, it means that you will receive benefits if you are unable to perform the duties of your own current occupation. Therefore, if you are a surgeon, for example, and you are no longer able to perform surgery based on a qualifying illness or injury, then you can receive benefits from the policy – even if you are able to perform the duties of other types of jobs.
A policy that pays benefits based on any occupation, however, means that the insured must be unable to perform the duties of any job to receive benefits. Therefore, using the example above, if you are not able to perform the duties of being a surgeon, but you can work at another type of occupation, then you will not receive benefits from the disability insurance policy.
Disability Benefit Coverage Definitions
When designing a disability insurance policy, several benefit options need to be considered. These include the following:
- Monthly Benefit – When applying for disability coverage, a monthly benefit will be chosen. Typically, the monthly benefit will be somewhere between 60 and 80% of the insured’s monthly earnings.
- Inflation Protection – To ensure that the monthly income benefit on a disability policy will keep pace with rising inflation in the future, an insured may opt to add inflation protection so that the benefit will go up over time.
- Waiting / Elimination Period – Disability income policies will also typically require that the insured meet a waiting, or elimination, period before the policy will start to pay out its benefits. With short term disability coverage, the waiting period may only be a few days or weeks. With a long term disability insurance plan, though, the waiting period may be as short as 30 days, or as long as two years. A common waiting period option, though, with long term disability coverage is 90 days. This means that the insured will have to pay his or her own living expenses, even after being deemed as disabled, for 90 days before the income benefits will begin.
- Benefit Duration – The benefit duration will depend on whether the disability plan is short term or long term. With a short term policy, the benefit duration will generally only last for one year, whereas with a long term disability policy, benefits may be chosen that will last for a set number of years, or until the insured reaches retirement age.
- Renewability – How a disability policy renews is another option to consider when you are purchasing this type of coverage. In this case, there are several different options concerning policy renewability. These include non-cancellable, guaranteed, or conditional. With a non-cancellable policy, no change will take place concerning the benefits or the premium that is charged. This option, then, offers the most amount of protection to the policy holder. With guaranteed renewability, the insurance company is not likely to make any changes, however, the carrier does have the right to do so. Alternatively, with the conditional renewability option, it is not only allowable, but it is likely, that the amount of premium will go up over time. This is particularly the case if the insured has a disability that worsens as time goes on.
What disability insurance won’t provide*
Even though disability insurance can provide coverage to help with paying bills due to an illness or injury, there are some things that this type of policy won’t provide, such as coverage for:
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Although travel has been restricted, millions of art-lovers still flock to Instagram every day to share their favourite memories of museums from around the world. And with many museums offering virtual tours, the desire for iconic galleries to open their doors has not slowed down.
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The most Instagrammed art museum in the world is the Louvre Museum in
Paris, France! Home to some of the most iconic paintings in the world, it has
raked in 4,029,777 hashtagged posts so far, with the monument coming out
on top thanks to its captivating architecture and art.
Often identified as one of the largest and most influential museums of
modern art in the world, the second most Instagrammed is the Museum of
Modern Art in New York City, USA, with 2,514,885 posts.
Located in London, Tate Modern has a whopping 1,151,090 hashtagged
Instagram posts – it’s the sixth most visited art museum in the word, and
the most visited in Britain.
The fourth most Instagrammed art museum is the Los Angeles County
Museum of Art (LACMA). With 862,148 hashtagged posts, their Urban Light
sculpture is the perfect place for Instagrammers to capture content.
Founded in 1764, placing fifth is State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, receiving 836,395 Instagram posts from visitors.
Following in sixth and seventh are Metropolitan Museum of Art (USA) and
National Gallery (UK), with 695,201 and 560,285 hashtagged Instagram
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Activities for children, young people and families
Events and activities
Fuelled – Get Crafty kids. Sessions designed for children with a disability – Dates: 10, 11, 24, 25 August – 10am to 1pm
Get Crafty – artist specials. Sessions designed for adults with a disability – Dates: 3, 10, 17, 24 Aug, 2-4pm
ARTivities – New icons
New Icons themed craft sessions available in the Gallery. Community mosaic and street art wall.
Free, booking required for ticket to the centre (families). Daily throughout August – 10am-4pm
Generation Project – primary school exhibition and cultural prize draw.
Free, no need to book. 21 July until 31 August.
Daily throughout August (normal site opening hours) 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, North Lincs Museum and Normanby Hall Rural Life Museum
We have some exciting new workshops taking place this summer at The Baths Hall which will get your children active as well as creative! If your child likes musical theatre, crafts, circus skills and dance then these workshops might be just for them!
Movement Tales Workshops
We are very lucky to have Laura Fuller, a Dance teacher for over 15 years, specialising in Dance Education, running some fun filled workshops this summer.
Tuesday 9 August and Tuesday 30 August (Times to be confirmed)
Sessions are £5 per child.
- Morning Sessions for Toddlers/pre-school children (45 minutes) – What Makes Me a Me? by Ben Faulks
- Afternoon Sessions for Key Stage 1 (45 minutes) – George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl
- And Key Stage 2 (1 hour) – Gangster Granny by David Walliams.
All sessions will use the text of the book as a stimulus to aid Movement and Dance. Children will have the opportunity to go on a journey through the book, whilst moving their bodies in ways that correlate to the literature. Together, we bring the book to life and create play and imagination for active learning.
Sessions will focus on the following areas:
- Communication and language (verbal and non-verbal)
- Physical development
- Personal, social and emotional development
Booking is only available through the box office on 01724 296296, or in person at the Balls Hall during opening hours – Monday to Friday 10.30am to 4pm and Saturday 12 noon to 4pm (excluding August). The box office is closed on Bank Holidays.
Dance Camp! With Lauren Budd
We have an exciting brand new offering this summer to join Lauren Budd, a local performer and owner of Studio 7 Theatre Arts, who has appeared in several of Scunthorpe’s Pantomime’s alongside Annie Fanny since 2017 – this year she will be playing the role of Cinderella! These dance camps are a fantastic opportunity to develop skills and confidence in performing arts and are a brilliant introductory activity. No dance experience is needed to join in these workshops – they are open to all abilities.
The dance camp workshops are open for anyone ages 5-10 years. Limited spaces available – £25 per child for a full day workshop
Thursday 11 August (10am – 3.30pm)
Join Lauren for a fun-filled day of dance, arts and crafts, games and more based on the popular Disney Film ‘Encanto’.
Dance and sing along to your favourite songs ‘We Don’t Talk About Bruno’ and ’Surface Pressure’, decide on your own magical superpower whilst we design our family trees and make your own flowers like Isabella. This high energy day is jam packed with activities such as animal quizzes, Encanto bingo and colouring to keep all ages entertained. This workshop is danced based, working on contemporary/lyrical and street dance styles.
Friday 12 August (10am – 3.30pm)
Join Lauren for an action packed ‘Greatest Showman’ themed day. Join in with our circus games, learn how to juggle/be a puppet master and dance along to ’This is Me’ and ‘Come Alive’. This workshop will be musical theatre based, as we put together a mini circus show to incorporate story-telling all whilst showing off our amazing talents! This workshop is Musical Theatre based, however we will work on our contemporary and street dance styles during this workshop.
Booking is only available through the box office on 01724 296296, or in person at the Balls Hall during opening hurs – Monday to Friday 10.30am to 4pm and Saturday 12 noon to 4pm (excluding August). The box office is closed on Bank Holidays.
This school summer holiday, why not drop in for breakfast at the following Community Hubs and enjoy browsing in the library while you are there?
Breakfast and Books is for children, their families and carers. All welcome; just drop in, there is no charge.
- Riddings Community Hub, (Facebook page) – Tuesdays – 9.30am to 11am
Dates: 26 July, 2 August, 9 August, 16 August, 23 August, 30 August
- Brigg Community Hub, (Facebook page) – Thursdays – 9.30am to 11am
Dates: 28 July, 4 August, 11 August, 18 August, 25 August, 1 September
- Scunthorpe Central, (Facebook page) Fridays – 9.30am to 11am
Dates: Friday 29 July, 5 August, 12 August, 19 August, 26 August, 2 September
Scunthorpe Central and Riddings Community Hub are on the ground floor (accessible slope to front door for both).
Brigg Community Hub events will take place in a second floor meeting room in the hub building . There is a passenger lift in the hub building.
Date – 25 August 2022
Time – 2 – 4.30pm
Venue – Scunthorpe Central
If you love manga ( Japanese style comics), join us for some manga themed fun at our Manga Meet-Up.
The Meet-Up will provide a chance to meet local manga fans, play some manga themed games, take part in a manga themed quiz and the opportunity to try your hand at drawing “manga style” with our comic crash course.
Drinks and Japanese themed snacks are provided.
Entry £1, please book via Eventbrite.
If any additional information is required, please email firstname.lastname@example.org
There has never been a better time to visit Normanby Hall, with the region’s first Go Ape, two new playground areas, new membership packages and a programme of events. As well as the Hall, Farming Museum, Gift Shop and Stableyard Café, enjoy historical woodland and a leisurely stroll around our Walled Garden. Whether you want a treetop adventure or a relaxing day out in a glorious setting, there is so much to enjoy.
Visit the Normanby Hall Country Park website for information about events and activities taking place over the summer.
Music Madness – a fun coding activity being held at Scunthorpe Central – 17 August, 2pm to 4pm
Make your own cardboard guitar, add some simple electronics and coding to create your own playable guitar. This activity is suitable for those aged 8 years and above.
Parents do not need to stay with their children, but are welcome to do so. If you wish to stay with your child, please only book one place for the child.
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If you’re looking for ways to keep children entertained and active this summer, North Lincolnshire Council’s NL Active has a jam-packed timetable of activities over the six-week holidays. From snorkelling and sea scooters to junior gym and racket sports, there’s something for everyone at NL Active centres.
Free swimming is back and is available at all five NL Active pools (Ancholme Leisure Centre, Axholme North Leisure Centre, Baysgarth Community Hub, Riddings Community Hub and The Pods). The free-swimming sessions can be found on the swimming pool timetables under Summer Daze. There’s also free swimming at Epworth Swimming Pool Mondays to Fridays, 12noon to 1pm.
Learn to swim at Ancholme Leisure Centre, Axholme North Leisure Centre and The Pods over the summer with NL Active’s group and one-to-one crash course swimming lessons. The swimming lessons are delivered over five days and will improve children’s water confidence, skills, and swimming strokes.
Other swimming pool activities include the popular mermaid sessions, and new snorkelling and sea scooter experiences. The mermaid sessions are taking place in all NL Active pools, the snorkelling sessions are at Ancholme Leisure Centre and The Pods, and the sea scooter sessions are at Ancholme Leisure Centre, Axholme North Leisure Centre, Riddings Community Hub and The Pods.
Racket sports are half price for juniors over the six-week holiday. If watching Wimbledon has given you a taste for tennis the half price offer also includes the outdoor courts at Axholme North Leisure Centre and Epworth Leisure Centre. All equipment is provided. If badminton is your thing, Ancholme Leisure Centre is holding weekly coached sessions on Mondays for beginners and club players.
If you fancy getting together for a kickabout with your friends, children aged 16 and under can play football on the Isle of Axholme with discounted 3G hire Monday to Friday, 8am to 4.30pm at Axholme North Leisure Centre and Epworth Leisure Centre.
NL Active has added additional junior gym sessions to the timetables over the summer holidays. New for this summer is also the junior rig workout sessions at Ancholme Leisure Centre and The Pods. These functional workouts will show you how to use the rig and other gym-based equipment to keep active and will get 11 to 16 year-olds used to working out in a gym environment.
You can find out more about all the NL Active summer holidays activities on the NL Active webpage.
For those wanting to keep active outdoors over the summer, there are a number of activities in parks and playgrounds across North Lincolnshire.
Baysgarth Park and Central Park have Park Fit, a self-led 10-station circuit course that uses QR codes to demonstrate the exercises at each station.
There’s also the new outdoor gym at Baysgarth Park. The outdoor gym features safe and inclusive equipment that includes cardio and strength activities for beginners through to exercise pros – and even better, it’s all free to use.
Entry to the museum is free and the opening times are Monday to Saturday, 10am to 4pm and Sunday 1pm to 4pm.
Check out what’s on this summer for children and young people on the What’s On page on the museum website.
Each activity has accessibility information listed on the event page. Booking is required for some events.
We are planning selfie competition to encourage customers to take a selfie in the market at the various booths, tag the market and share on social media. The prize is family ticket (4 tickets) to Vue Cinema! For a movie of your choice. You can enter the competition between 30 July and 13 August.
For further information please check St John’s and North Lincolnshire Markets Facebook page.
Other activities in the market
There will also be colouring stations around the market throughout the summer and a children’s play area.
There will be a live music, face painting, Princesses – with ‘’A Sprinkle Of Magic Parties”, art and craft with gigantic junk modelling and play areas with games.
Summer Reading Challenge
There is a dedicated area in St Johns Market on the first floor. This includes colouring, quizzes etc and an area to sit and read. Please note, this is not a supervised activity and parents need to stay with their children.
The market are also doing Junk box modelling on Saturdays during the holidays and we will have Community Hub staff on site at the market on Saturday afternoons to support the Summer Reading Challenge sign up.
Street Sport is back! For young people aged 8 to 18 years.
Each child requires an adult to complete the registration for on their first session. For further information please call 01724 297270.
Crosby One Centre,
Digby St, Scunthorpe, DN15 7LU
Everest Rd Playing Field, DN16 3EB
4.30pm – 5.30pm
6.15pm – 7.15pm
Playing Field, DN16 1JN
Village Hall Playing Field, DN20 9DY
4.30pm – 5.30pm
6.15pm – 7.15pm
Baysgarth Leisure Centre, Brigg Rd, DN18 5DT
Top Park, Marmion Dr, Winterton, DN15 9XZ
4.30pm – 5.30pm
6.15pm – 7.15pm
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Gadgeteers will take place in all of our libraries until Saturday 10 September.
Children just need to come along to the library and sign up for free, then read six books before the end of the challenge. Children who need to join the library first will need consent from a parent or carer.
During the Summer Reading Challenge, they will need to tell staff at the library about what they have read each time they visit. There are fun incentives to collect along the way and a medal and certificate at completion.
Read more abut the Summer Reading Challenge.
For a free family day out packed with wildlife and nature don’t miss Waters’ Edge Country Park and Visitor Centre. Explore 110 acres of country park and nature reserve, discover how green you are with our interactive displays or just chill out by the ponds and feed the ducks. Little ones will love our reading corner and giant games and can burn off energy in our outdoor play areas.
In the Visitor Centre you will find the gift shop which stocks a variety of locally crafted gifts including jewellery, toys and games, handbags, scarves, books, stationery and wildlife surveillance equipment.
Enjoy quality coffee and food, whilst taking in the spectacular views over the Humber Estuary at Honey Pot Café located within the centre, with outside decked seating area in the summer. The Honey Pot Café is a privately owned and managed café within the Visitor Centre.
Please note – only guide dogs are allowed in the centre.
Follow Waters’ Edge on Facebook and find out what’s on in the centre and country park.
Visit the Waters’ Edge website for details of other events.
Broughton Youth Club
Monday 6:30pm – 8:00pm (school years 5-7) *
Tuesday 6:30pm – 8:00pm (school years 8-11)
*Booking required, please email: firstname.lastname@example.org
Kirton Youth Club
Monday 6:30pm – 8:00pm (school years 5-11)
Tuesday 6:30pm – 8:00pm (school years 5-11)
- North Lincolnshire Council Events
- Positive Activities North Lincolnshire – This Facebook site is for young people aged 13-18 yrs and their parents/carers.
- Events & Activities For Kids In The Scunthorpe Area – Facebook group advertising lots of great activities.
10 minute shake up your summer
Better Health and Disney have launched the 10 Minute Shake Up campaign. The campaign uses some of kids’ favourite characters from Disney’s Encanto and Frozen, Disney and Pixar’s Lightyear and Marvel’s The Avenger, to inspire kids to be more active whilst having fun throughout the summer.
Visit the NHS Better Heath website for lots of boredom-busting activities will help them reach the recommended 60 active minutes they need every day!
Additional activities and virtual activities
North Lincolnshire Museum
Lots of arts and crafts to try – or get into gardening with North Lincolnshire Museum.
Check out what’s on this summer for children and young people on the What’s On page on the museum website.
Get creative and share your art projects with 20-21 Visual Arts Centre
Join the 20-21 Visual Arts Centre Facebook group for some great crafts.
Visit the 20-21 Visual Arts Centre website for more information about What’s On this summer.
Art and pottery courses at Waters Edge
Take a look at the art and pottery courses on offer at Waters Edge Country Park in Barton upon Humber.
Make real life masterpieces with Tate Kids
Interested in art? Tate Kids brings information and ideas on the world of art to your doorstep. You can learn about everything from modernism to surrealism through their videos.
Create your own jigsaw puzzle
Create, play and share jigsaw puzzles at Jigsaw Planet.
You will also find jigsaws for children and adults at North Lincolnshire Museum.
Develop your child’s communication skills with the BBC’s Tiny Happy People
Tiny Happy People help you develop your child’s communication skills. Explore simple activities and play ideas and find out about their amazing early development.
Building young brains with the Big Little Moments
Babies and toddlers are growing and learning every day and the little moments you share can make a big difference. From morning time to bedtime, waiting for the bus to playing together, every moment is a chance to help build a child’s brain.
Complete an online distance learning course
Kick-start your online learning and sign up for a distance learning course with North Lincolnshire Adult Education and Community Learning. From Principles of Business Administration to Understanding Nutrition and Health, there’s something for everyone.
Some courses are currently free of charge.
Learn British sign language
Learn a new skill with actor and dancer Natasha Lamb, who has been teaching children and families British Sign Language.
Learn digital skills with Learn My Way
The Learn My Way website has a series of short courses to help you get the most out of being online, including advice on using Office programs, finding a job and managing your money online. A useful resource for complete beginners or those wanting to build up their skills, knowledge and confidence.
Create your own fantasy world and games with code
Barclays Bank have created a code playground where they offer free and fun coding sessions for young people, parents and professionals.
You can create music, build and star in your very own computer games.
The North Lincs Camera Club is a relaxed friendly environment where people can get together and discuss photography.
Love photography? Some of the biggest names in the imaging industry are sharing top tips and techniques to try at home through free classes and webinars.
Make food matter – love food hate waste
To truly understand why edible food gets chucked away we’d like you to become an investigator. We want you to monitor how much food you and your family throw away at home for one week.
Visit the lovefoodhatewaste website – includes downloadable food diary, asto-nosh-ing food facts, kids recipes and much more.
Sort your sock stuff out – love your clothes
Keep your family’s odd, mismatched or holey socks out of the bin by trying some of these 101 uses for a lonely sock – or get crafty and make yourself a member of the sock posse.
Visit the loveyourclothes website.
The action pack – recycle now
Help make our world a better place and teach others about recycling.
How to get active in North Lincolnshire
Follow the NLActive facebook page to find the latest ideas, tips and advice on how to get active – including details on what’s happening in North Lincolnshire.
For the latest information on youth activities visit the Positive Activities website.
Join the world’s largest treasure hunt
Geocaching.com currently has around 561 geocaches located within 10 miles of Scunthorpe. This is a great way to get outdoors and explore.
Build your own running plan with Curly’s Athletes
Curly’s are helping people to build their own running plan with lots of advice on everything from strength and conditioning to endurance and rest.
Exercise videos by NHS fitness studios
The NHS have a wealth of fitness videos and apps that anyone can use, featuring everything from aerobic exercise, to pilates and yoga.
Work out with Sport England
Join the movement with Sport England who have put together a range of ideas that people can access to stay active.
Getting active when you find exercise difficult with Age UK
People who are building up their strength and fitness can find some great ideas at Age UK, including exercises to help you after a fall, operation or if you have limited mobility.
Take part in a Funetics activity
England Athletics have launched ‘Funetics’ – a programme that has been designed to reflect the requirements of the National Curriculum Key Stage 1 and 2. Their website has videos demonstrating FUN activities based on fundamental core movement skills: running, jumping and throwing.
Look after your mind and body with Her Spirit
A personalised coaching and community app for your mind and body – including live daily workouts, a weekly podcast, weekly community challenges, weekly live meditations, and immune boosting recipes.
Try a relaxing yoga session with Cosmic Kids Yoga
It’s important to take time to look after physical and mental wellbeing.
Reduce anxiety and take part in Yoga by visiting the Cosmic Kids Yoga YouTube channel
Dance along to the Greatest Showman with Oti Mabuse
Get your dancing shoes on with Strictly Come Dancing star Oti Mabuse as she leads online dance classes, including popular classics from Frozen and The Greatest Showman.
Helpful advice for mums to be or new mums with This Mum Moves
Learn more about the benefits of an active pregnancy and continuing activity after childbirth, as well as ideas to help you move more.
Join the North Lincolnshire Youth Council
If you are aged between 11 and 19 (up to 25 with special educational needs and disabilities) and you want to voice your opinions and have your say, you can join the Youth Council and promote your views and that of your peers.
Join a friendly community of fellow mums with the Mush app
Mums who use the Mush app can find friends with kids the same age, attend virtual meetups, get advice from parenting experts and fellow mums, and join chat groups based on everything from their due date to their love of reality TV.
20 of the best podcasts for teens from Good Housekeeping
Good Housekeeping have created a list of the top 20 podcasts for teens, that offer a whole range of topics such as ‘Part-Time Genius’, ‘Song Exploder’ and ‘Mental Music’
Watch storytime videos with Play Avenue
Messingham based Play Avenue are filming stories for little ones to enjoy, with the help of their lovely dogs.
Blast into space with local children’s author Addy Farmer
In ‘A Place Called Home’, Eddy, Freddy and Blip blast off into space, landing on extraordinary planets and meeting extraordinary creatures. But what will happen when they encounter the terrifying black hole in space? Will they ever get home again? A rhyming story of adventure and bravery that’s out of this world!
Download a bestselling e-book on BorrowBox
Escape into a good book and let your imagination fly! With the free BorrowBox service from North Lincolnshire Libraries, you’ll be spoilt for choice. There are a wide range of titles from authors including Lee Child, David Walliams, James Patterson and Hilary Mantel.
Enjoy a great selection of titles with RB Digital app
With a library card from North Lincolnshire libraries, you can download a fantastic selection of e-books, audiobooks, magazines and more for free through the RB Digital app.
Access more than 700 magazines and newspapers with the PressReader app
Read your favourite magazines for free with the PressReader app. Download the PressReader app and use the Library option to sign in.
Storytime with David Walliams
Listen to a free story read by bestselling author David Walliams.
Bring culture into your home with BBC Arts
The BBC are streaming performances of poetry, ballet, music and film as well as providing ideas for art activities at home.
Watch a production with National Theatre at Home
The National Theatre are streaming weekly recorded performances on their YouTube channel. Previous shows include Jane Eyre, One Man, Two Guvnors and Twelfth Night.
Watch a West End show
Bring the West End to your living room every Friday evening, featuring recorded performances of top musicals from Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, including the Phantom of the Opera.
Live stream concerts
The show must go on! Songkick have brought together a list of some of the best live stream performances coming up around the globe.
Enjoy a trip to the canal without opening your front door
As an alternative to visiting in person, the Canal and River Trust are building a vast library of canal-related films, images, interactive content and stories for you to enjoy from the comfort of your own home.
Set off on a cultural adventure and step inside some of the world’s best museums from the comfort of your home with a virtual tour.
Explore Normanby Hall and the Rural Life Museum
Virtual visitors can explore Normanby Hall and The Rural Life Museum – enjoy the stunning period rooms and exhibitions from the comfort of your own home.
Visit North Lincolnshire Museum
The Streetlife Museum of Transport, Hull
Climb aboard and explore 200 years of transport history and walk through a 1940’s high street.
The British Museum, London
The British Museum’s remarkable collection spans over two million years of human history and culture, and includes world-famous objects such as the Rosetta Stone, the Parthenon sculptures, and Egyptian mummies.
The Natural History Museum, London
Discover the world from your living room with 360 tours of nature walks, trails and fossil hunting as well as panoramas of the Antarctic.
The Louvre, Paris
The largest museum in the world is also home to one of its most impressive art collections, including the iconic ‘Mona Lisa’, by Leonardo da Vinci.
The Vatican Museums, Rome
Explore one of the world’s greatest art collections, assembled by popes since the 17th century. The virtual tour includes the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo.
Activity ideas for people living with dementia
The Alzheimer’s Society have put together a blog of online activity ideas for people living with dementia, including puzzles and music playlists.
The ThinkNinja app brings self-help knowledge and skills to children and young people (10-18 years old) who may be experiencing increased anxiety and stress.
Bugsy Batty: The Coronavirus
It can be hard to talk to children about the coronavirus. Author Virginia Dellow has written a story, ‘Bugsy Batty’ to help explain the changes they might be encountering.
Watch the animals playing at Messingham zoo
Messingham zoo are keeping everyone entertained with videos of their adorable animals, including monkeys and meerkats.
Spot a panda at Edinburgh zoo
Watch animals including pandas, tigers, koalas and penguins on live webcams from Edinburgh zoo
Bring the forest home with virtual reality
Get back to nature and entertain the children with Forestry England. Visit a tree nursery, explore forest machinery and learn about different habitats for wildlife with their virtual tour.
Explore the hidden worlds of the National Parks
Follow National Park rangers on their journeys around volcanoes, fjords, caverns and canyons.
Draw the bug face!
Wildlife and nature fans can find lots of activities, drawing ideas and fun facts sure to make you scream on BBC Earth Kids.
Build an online animal habitat with Switch zoo animal games
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It’s clear that unified communications is the buzzword du jour. Practically every enterprise is devising strategies for unified communications (or about to do so). As my colleague, Irwin Lazar, puts it in his blog: “The reality is that the worlds of telephony, video, IM, and collaboration are rapidly converging.”
There’s just one small catch: What, exactly, is unified communications? IP telephony vendors ( Cisco, Avaya, Nortel and so on) define it as “ VoIP with collaboration layered on top”. Traditional collaboration players (IBM, Microsoft ) define it as “collaboration with real-time communications thrown in.” And new entrants — such as Google — are defining it as a hosted application-layer service that you get from the Web.
If this is starting to sound like the proverbial three blind men and the elephant, that’s because it is. The exact definition of unified communications is in the eye of the beholder — and vendors all have limited perspectives.
I think it’s still a bit too early for a comprehensive definition of unified communications — that usually happens once a technology has transitioned from “emerging” to “emerged”. But there are a couple of things I can be confident about.
First is that voice is harder than it looks. I recently got into an interesting debate over whether voice is a desktop application. I’m not sure it is — for one thing, when I’m on the phone I’m usually away from my desktop, if that’s at all possible (I’m a pacer).
But that’s not really the point. Making real-time communications work reliably on a large scale is a slightly bigger challenge than the desktop vendors want to admit. The switching infrastructure and processes that telcos have built up over the years are truly formidable — and though VoIP changes the implementation of the solution, it doesn’t reduce the scale or scope of the problem. (Keep in mind that communications networks predate the transistor — VoIP is the fourth-generation technology in an architecture that started with human switching elements).
And although one should never bet against Microsoft, one of the few things the folks in Seattle never get quite right is networking (remember Netbios/Netbeui?). So despite the fact that Microsoft is trying hard to slow the progress of the VoIP vendors by sowing fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD), I’m reluctant to concede that Microsoft’s won the game just yet.
A second thing I’m confident about: Whatever unified communications ultimately ends up meaning, the definition has to include mobile/wireless interfaces. And that’s another reason that voice isn’t just another desktop application — the desktop model of a standard operating system running a range of add-on applications doesn’t yet dominate the wireless universe (if it ever will).
I’m also confident that while Google may ultimately change the rules of the game, its current strategy is to out-FUD the FUDsters. In other words, Google’s actions are aimed at stalling Microsoft, not meeting real enterprise needs for unified communications.
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Restorative dentistry encompasses a wide variety of dental procedures and is basically the process of repairing areas of decay, replacing outdated restorations, and restoring mouths to their ideal form and function. Some aspects of restorative dentistry are as follows:
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Films: Dogora (1964)
Location: Eldritch Location
Height/Weight: Cannot be determined.
Affiliation: Neutral, leaning on Evil
Summary: Imagine an alien menace subtler than Ghidorah. Something so alien in appearance it makes the bravest cower. In the world of Kaiju, none is perhaps stranger or beyond logic than Dogora, the interstellar jellyfish-like being that desired to suck this world dry.
History: The result of space cells mingling with satellite radiation, Dogora wasted no time trying to suck up coal and diamonds as a primary diet. Also, for some reason it supremely pissed off the stinging insects in Japan, so there. Either way, the destruction this horrible thing caused was something out of the end times.
Notable Kills: This thing's vortex-creating eating process causes tons of property damage, and one darkly hilarious scene is when a crowd of people get smushed by a boulder coming down in a straight line.
Final Fate: After being struck by missiles, Dogora breaks into multiple ones, increasing Earth's doom. But then some aircraft coat the beings in wasp venom, causing them to harden and die.
Powers/Abilities: Dogora's way of eating/destroying is creating tornadoes and gusts of wind that destroy anything they hit. It can also be broken into duplicates of itself.
Weakness: Wasp venom causes its cells to crystalize and cease to function.
Scariness Factor: 4.5-We don't do this often, but if Godzilla were to confront this thing, it would be a true fight to the finish. Dogora brings back memories of the Elder Gods, being intangible in form and capable of causing near-biblical amounts of damage from a great distance. It doesn't help that it's nigh-un-killable if you don’t know its frankly strange weakness.
Trivia: -Dogora's floating was achieved by dunking the prop in water and manipulating it like a marionette.
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November jobs report disappoints as the U.S. adds just 210,000 jobs
America’s employers slowed the pace of their hiring in November, adding 210,000 jobs, the lowest monthly gain in nearly a year.
But Friday’s report from the Labor Department also showed that the nation’s unemployment rate tumbled from 4.6% to 4.2% evidence that many more people reported that they had a job. That is a historically low jobless rate though still above the pre-pandemic level of 3.5%.
Overall, the November jobs figures point to a job market and an economic recovery that look resilient though under threat from a spike in inflation, shortages of workers and supplies and the potential impact of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.
For months, employers have been struggling with worker shortages because many people who lost jobs in the pandemic have not, for various reasons, returned to the workforce. But last month, more Americans came off the sidelines to look for jobs and were generally hired quickly.
That positive trend suggests that November was a healthier month for job growth than the modest 210,000 gain the government reported Friday in its survey of businesses. The unemployment rate is calculated from a separate survey of households. This survey found that a much larger 1.1 million more people reported that they were employed last month. The results of the two surveys typically match up over the long run but sometimes diverge sharply in a given month, as they did in November.
The survey of households found that the number of unemployed Americans sank in November to 6.9 million, not far above the pre-pandemic number of 5.7 million. And average wages, which have been rising as employers try to attract or keep workers, increased a strong 4.8% from a year ago.
The government’s survey of businesses showed a slowdown last month in hiring at restaurants, bars and hotels, which added just 23,000 jobs, down from 170,000 in October. That could reflect the effects of an uptick in COVID-19 cases last month and a reduction in outdoor dining.
Retailers cut 20,000 jobs, a sign that holiday hiring hasn’t been as strong as in previous years. But transportation and warehousing firms added 50,000 positions, which indicates that online retailers and shippers anticipate healthy online shopping.
The jobs outlook for the coming months has become hazier with the emergence of the Omicron variant. Little is definitively known about Omicron, and widespread business shutdowns are considered unlikely. Still, Omicron could discourage some Americans from traveling, shopping and eating out in the coming months and potentially slow the economy.
For now, though, Americans are spending freely, and the economy is forecast to expand at a 7% annual rate in the final three months of the year, a big rebound from the 2.1% pace in the previous quarter, when the delta variant hobbled growth.
Nearly 600,000 people joined the workforce last month, increasing the proportion of Americans who are either working or looking for work. If that much-anticipated development continues, it could point to stronger job growth ahead.
The proportion of Americans who are in the workforce rose from 61.6% to 61.8%, the first significant increase since April.
Even as the jobless rate has steadily declined this year, the proportion of Americans who are working or looking for work has barely budged. A shortage of job-seekers tends to limit hiring and force companies to pay more to attract and keep employees. Higher pay can help sustain spending and growth. But it can also feed inflation if businesses raise prices to offset their higher labor costs, which they often do.
One result is that there are now about 3.6 million fewer people with jobs than there were before the pandemic. Yet only about one-third of them are actively looking for work and are classified as unemployed. The remaining two-thirds are no longer job-hunting and so aren’t counted as unemployed. The government classifies people as unemployed only if they’re actively seeking work.
Whether or not more people start searching for jobs is a critical question for the Federal Reserve. If the proportion of people who either have a job or are looking for one doesn’t rise much, it would suggest that the Fed is nearing its goal of maximum employment.
With inflation at a three-decade high and far above the Fed’s 2% annual target, reaching its employment mandate would heighten pressure on Chair Jerome Powell to raise interest rates sooner rather than later. Doing so would make loans more expensive for many individuals and businesses.
About half of those who have dropped out of the workforce have retired. The other half includes parents, mostly mothers, who stayed home to care for children during closings of schools and day cares. For some of these women, child care remains unavailable or unaffordable. Some other people have become self-employed. And others continue to delay their job hunts for fear of contracting COVID-19.
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Repetitive impact forces in activities such as running typically have a maximum of about one to three times body weight and a major frequency component between 10 and 20 Hz. They have been proposed as a major reason for sports (especially running)-related injuries (7,13). The concept of “cushioning” was proposed in the late 1970s for footwear and sport surfaces to reduce impact loading during athletic activities. However, results of many studies on impact forces and their consequences were surprising and did not support the association between impact forces and sports-related injuries (6). Thus, a new way of thinking about the effect of repetitive impact forces during physical activities is needed.
The purposes of this report were to summarize the current knowledge of the effects of repetitive impact forces and to propose a new paradigm for the understanding of reactions of the locomotor system to repetitive impact forces, with special consideration of running.
IMPACT FORCES: SUMMARY OF RESULTS
Initial research on impact forces during athletic activities (mostly for heel-toe running) provided findings, as summarized in the next few paragraphs, that were mostly surprising to the authors.
External Impact Forces
(a) External impact force peaks were relatively insensitive to changes in the hardness of running shoe midsoles (2), (b) changes in midsole hardness affected the external loading rate (dfz/dt)max, and (c) running velocity substantially affected the vertical impact force peaks.
Internal Impact Forces (as Determined through Model Calculations with Experimental Input)
(d) Impact force peaks in the talocrural and talocalcaneal joints were relatively insensitive to changes in hardness of running shoe midsoles, and (e) the magnitude of joint contact forces in the talocrural and talocalcaneal joints was substantially (two to five times) less during the impact than during the active phase of running (1).
(f) The frequency of osteoarthritis was about equal in runners and nonrunners (8), (g) running on hard surfaces did not result in an increase of running injuries compared with running on softer surfaces (12), (h) shock-absorbing insoles were not effective in reducing the incidence of stress fractures in military recruits for which they were originally designed (4), (i) results of a prospective study (11) showed no significant difference in short-term running injuries between subjects with high-, medium-, and low-impact force peaks (Figure 1), and (j) the same prospective study showed that subjects with a high vertical loading rate (dfz/dt)max, had significantly fewer (only about 50%) running-related injuries than did subjects with a low loading rate (Figure 1).
Energy and Muscles
(k) Model calculations for systematic variations of the mechanical properties of the shoe-surface interface (10) suggested that selected soft and viscous materials required less work than hard and elastic materials for running for certain subject characteristics. Initial experimental results in our laboratory of assessment of oxygen consumption during treadmill running supported this theoretical suggestion for more than 50% of all test subjects. (l) Changes in impact force input into the foot produced substantial and subject-specific changes in myoelectric activity before and/or during ground contact. The changes were subject specific.
(m) High-impact activities such as running, gymnastics, and dancing typically increase skeletal mass, whereas low-impact activities such as swimming do not seem to provide the same positive effect (5). (n) It was found that the controlled repeated application of a force with a 1-Hz signal frequency was not able to maintain bone mass over an 8-wk period, whereas the same procedure with a 15-Hz signal frequency stimulated substantial new bone formation (9). The frequency of 15 Hz corresponds approximately to the frequency of the impact forces during heel-toe running. (o) Results for biological reactions of impact loading on cartilage were inconsistent and are still open to discussion (12).
Based on the presented results, one cannot conclude that repetitive impact forces are a major factor in the development of chronic and/or acute running-related injuries. Excessive impact forces may produce damage to the human musculoskeletal system. However, there is a window of loading in which biological tissues react positively to repetitive impact loading. Based on the current knowledge, it is speculated that repetitive impact loading for cartilage and soft tissue structures falls within the acceptable window for moderate and intensive running and that impact loading for bone may sometimes fall outside the acceptable window for intensive running with inappropriate recovery periods. However, the knowledge base on which these speculations are made is limited.
Nevertheless, different impact situations (e.g., changes in shoe midsole stiffness) do affect the human locomotor system. Every runner has experienced this. The question is not whether changes in impact forces do affect the locomotor system. The appropriate question is which parts of the human body are affected by changes in repetitive impact force input. The external and internal forces that have been the focus of many impact-related studies might not be the relevant variables.
THE MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM AND IMPACT FORCES
When landing during heel-toe running, an impact force with a major frequency content of about 10 to 20 Hz acts on the athlete’s foot. This impact force produces a shock wave that travels through the athlete’s body. This shock wave is sensed by the many sensory receptors of the lower extremities, and this information is transmitted to the central nervous system.
The athlete’s leg consists of the skeleton and groups of soft tissues that can be associated with major muscle groups (e.g., triceps surae, hamstrings, or quadriceps): the soft tissue packages. The natural frequencies of bones are rather high (200 to 900 Hz) and clearly outside the frequency range of the impact forces and the resulting shock wave. Thus, the acting impact forces are not expected to produce resonance phenomena for the skeleton. The natural frequencies of the soft tissue packages are between about 5 and 65 Hz, depending on the activation, length, and contraction velocity of the major muscles involved (14). The input frequencies of impact forces are therefore close to the natural frequencies of the soft tissue packages. Thus, resonance phenomena in the soft tissue packages might be possible.
However, experimental observations during running indicate that the soft tissue vibrations are very short and heavily damped independent of the surface shoe combination of a given running situation. Additionally, results from laboratory experiments showed that the amplitudes of soft tissue vibrations were typically below 5% of the initial amplitude after two oscillations. Thus, it is proposed that the different soft tissue packages must have had natural frequencies different than the input frequencies or their natural frequency and damping characteristics must have changed through changed muscle activation (Figure 4) to avoid resonance effects. Such changes, however, are tuning effects as they are defined for the purpose of this report.
MUSCLE ACTIVITY AND ITS PURPOSE DURING RUNNING
Muscle activity during a running stride is a complex phenomenon and has been described frequently. Muscle activity affects many aspects of locomotion, including skeletal position and velocity of the lower extremities, joint stiffness of the lower extremities, vibrations of soft tissue packages, joint loading in the lower extremities, stability during ground contact, and propulsion for the movement task at hand.
The muscle activity pattern as measured, for instance, in an electromyographic (EMG) signal is the sum of all muscle activities for the listed functions. The suggested time courses of the specific muscle activities are illustrated in Figure 2.
Muscle activities shortly before ground contact have the major goal of preparing the locomotor system for the landing and the subsequent ground contact. They are predetermined through the repetitive impact signal (amplitude, frequency, and time) experienced during previous landings. The tuning function of muscle activity suggests that shortening of the muscle-tendon unit is of minor importance in the precontact phase.
Muscle activities during ground contact have the major goal to execute the movement task at hand (e.g., heel-toe running or jumping). Muscle activity during ground contact (a) produces joint torques for movement and (b) adjusts joint stiffness during take-off. Shortening of the muscle-tendon unit is import to produce the joint torques for movement.
It is difficult to determine muscle activities responsible for specific tasks from measured muscle activity patterns (e.g., an EMG signal). However, such a procedure would be necessary to understand the actual control mechanism of locomotion and, specifically, the actual effect of repetitive impact loading on myoelectric activity and muscle tuning. Thus, protocols should be developed that allow isolation of such single muscle functions. This has not been done yet except in pilot studies. Currently, one can only speculate about the specific functions and their hierarchy during a running stride.
The authors propose that the dominant precontact muscle adjustment is made by tuning the muscles to minimize vibrations first. Specifically, muscles are tuned for soft tissue packages that are endangered with respect to resonance oscillations. Based on this initial muscle tuning, adjustments of joint stiffness and joint geometry are made with the activation of endangered soft tissue packages as overriding activity. It is proposed that there is no specific adjustment made to reduce joint loading because the soft tissue movement will reduce joint loading compared with a rigid body situation and small changes in soft tissue coupling would not make a substantial difference in joint loading. Furthermore, it is suggested that a hierarchy where joint stiffness is the dominant preactivation factor would not work because subsequent changes in muscle activity to minimize vibrations would change joint stiffness.
A NEW PARADIGM FOR IMPACT LOADING AND MUSCLE ACTIVATION
Based on these considerations, a new paradigm for understanding the reactions of the human locomotor system to repetitive impact forces is proposed.
• Impact forces are an input signal characterized by amplitude, frequency, and time.
- These signals are sensed, and the central nervous responds by tuning, if necessary, the activation of the corresponding major muscle groups.
- The tuning is done to minimize soft tissue vibrations.
- The effects are subject specific and depend on the characteristics of every single soft tissue package.
- Effects of this muscle tuning should be seen in performance, fatigue, and comfort characteristics of specific impact-subject combinations.
Evidence for Possible Muscle Adjustment
Evidence for the adjustment of myoelectric activity to vibrations at the workplace have been documented previously (3). Evidence for changes in myoelectric activity due to changes in footwear has been presented earlier by various authors.
Evidence that Mechanical Characteristics Can Be Adjusted by Myoelectric Activity
There is strong evidence that natural frequency and damping characteristics of “muscle packages” change with changing myoelectric activity (14). The mechanical characteristics were measured while the leg performed isometric and isotonic contractions. The myoelectric activity (EMG) needed to change frequency and damping characteristics was substantial and subject specific.
Evidence that Myoelectric Activity Changed When Input Signal Changed
Myoelectric activity changed in controlled pendulum experiments when the heel of the shoe was changed from a soft and viscous material to a medium-hard and elastic material. Changes occurred in the timing, frequency content, and intensity (and presumably the pattern of motor unit recruitment). These changes were substantial (up to 154%), not systematic, and subject and muscle specific (Figure 3 and Figure 4).
Initial evidence for subject- and muscle-specific changes in EMG activity during running has been found in a pilot study (Figure 5). The subjects performed heel-toe running on a treadmill at an individually set speed corresponding to a running intensity slightly above the aerobic threshold. They used two sets of shoes that were identical except for the material of the heel. One shoe had a soft viscous heel material, and the other shoe had a medium-hard elastic heel material. EMG was quantified for the preactivation phase corresponding to the last 50 ms before landing. The relative comparison of the EMG-RMS showed subject- and muscle-specific changes in muscle activation of up to 60%.
Evidence for Changes in Performance
Evidence for changes in performance when the input signal is changed has been determined in the same pilot study in our laboratory. Oxygen consumption during repeated treadmill running changed when the heel of the running shoes was changed from soft and viscous to medium-hard and elastic. The changes were subject specific. Some test subjects had higher oxygen consumption with the soft and viscous heel; others with the medium-hard and elastic heel; and a third group did not show a difference for the two shoe conditions. The maximal differences were about 2%.
The theoretical and experimental evidence for this proposed paradigm is certainly not conclusive. Further research should be used to solidify or reject the paradigm. Careful experiments should be designed to distinguish among myoelectric responses with respect to their components in intensity, frequency, and time. Furthermore, experiments should be designed to determine a hierarchy of strategies for muscle recruitment (if there is any). Possible evidence could result from (a) experiments that quantify muscle preactivation (intensity, frequency, and timing) shortly before impact for different impact loading, (b) experiments that quantify comfort, fatigue, and/or performance for different impact loading situations, (c) comparison of natural frequencies of soft tissue structures with frequency content of impact signals, and (d) theoretical prediction and experimental measurement of oxygen consumption for combinations of various impact and local natural frequencies.
Research related to the topic of impact loading was supported by NSERC (Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada), AHFMR (Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research), Adidas, and Mizuno.
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Hastings Local Plan Consultation Draft (Regulation 18)
3.1 This section of the Draft Local Plan explains our strategy for encouraging and directing development and growth in the Borough and highlights strategic interventions we want to pursue over the life of the Local Plan. These emerging policies, based on the evidence we have collated, and the reasons why we think they are justified in the context of Hastings, are explained below.
Tackling Climate Change
16. Improving energy efficiency within existing buildings is a significant challenge, but continuing to reduce energy demand through energy efficiency measures in new development and where possible adaptations to these existing developments has an important role to play in carbon reduction. Moving to more sustainable transport options such as walking and cycling, as well as generating more local renewable energy has an important role to play in achieving our carbon neutral ambition17. We know climate change is an emergency. Mitigation and adaptation measures in response are necessarily the foundation of our strategy for development in this Local Plan and are key to unlocking sustainable development that meets the needs of our current and future communities.3.2 We have set an ambitious target for the town to become carbon neutral by 2030. We already know that most significant reduction in carbon emissions will come from switching towards the use of electrical heating systems and ultra-low emission vehicles including electric vehicles
3.3 Our strategy is to concentrate higher levels of growth in the 'Focus Areas' of Hastings Central (which includes Hastings Town Centre), Bohemia, Little Ridge and Ashdown House, and West Marina and West St Leonards along with other key development sites (see Appendix 1 for these 'site allocations') which are well supported by existing or planned sustainable transport infrastructure and other services. This will help minimise carbon emissions from travel. Allowing increased development densities, in appropriate locations, can also help to deliver much needed housing and spaces for businesses to grow. This increased demand from occupants can help local shops and services survive by creating the critical mass of demand to support them and may help justify greater investment in infrastructure such as new bus routes or rail improvements within Hastings as well as beyond.
18. Until then, it can play a role in supporting our climate mitigation ambitions.3.4 Managing the pattern of development in this way will lessen encroachment on the natural environment – including protecting the soil, water, and vegetation that have an important role in carbon mitigation. We have taken the further step of identifying land for this purpose in the short term (Breadsell). This is in part of the Borough lacking the infrastructure to sustainably support housing development. We may review this position in the future as implementation of our Climate Emergency Strategy and Action Plan progresses and if infrastructure to unlock development can be secured
3.5 The pattern of development set out in this strategy also responds to the level of flood risk in different parts of the Borough, which will itself be impacted by climate change. We have sought, as far as possible, to avoid allocating sites in areas with the highest flood risk and where risk cannot be mitigated. Significant levels of new development are not expected within these locations or in areas strictly protected for their natural environmental benefits. The strategy does not however preclude renewal and additional development to intensify areas that are not identified as 'site allocations' in the Draft Local Plan – providing development in these areas meets our vision and is aligned with other policies in the Local Plan.
19. In view of this, we are exploring the potential for a Coastal Change Management Area. This will cover how to manage future and existing development now which will impact upon, or be impacted by, coastal change in the long term we ensure that the seafront is able to adapt to new economic, tourism and leisure uses over time.3.6 The seafront makes an important contribution to the town, not just for its landscape value but also to health and wellbeing. It is also a major tourist draw and an important economic asset. We know that as a result of climate change, our sea defences will become increasingly vulnerable to wave attack during the life of the plan. For the coastal strip between Rock a Nore and Glyne Gap, the long term policy is to 'hold the line' to prevent flooding and erosion of the seafront, and to protect economic, tourism and residential assets. This will continue to require significant coastal engineering interventions
20. Across the Hastings and Rother market area the manufacturing sector is locally resilient and contains some long-standing and high performing companies such as in electronics and the creative industries sector (including design, web, gaming, arts, visual arts, performing arts)21. Vacancy rates in our industrial estates are low.3.7 The Hastings economy differs to the wider South East in that there is lower representation in professional services and office-based activities and more manufacturing, construction, tourism and healthcare
22. Analysis has also indicated a backlog of need for smaller premises23. The consequence of this undersupply of industrial space is that no units are available for local companies looking to grow, and it creates missed opportunities to attract incoming companies with a high employment potential. This together with an existing ageing stock and essentially no vacancies are constraining the economic potential of Hastings.3.8 Over the last few years there has been very limited 'churn' in the industrial premises market – while that means a degree of retention of existing business in the area, it also means there are limited opportunities for new companies to locate in Hastings, despite a desire to do so. Recent analysis has indicated that there has been no significant new supply of industrial space in Hastings and requirements for larger industrial units are reportedly almost impossible to fulfil
24. New floorspace will support job creation and retention and provide start-up, grow-on and investment space for both existing and incoming employers, as well as mitigating market paralysis25. New, modern premises may also have a role in attracting cleaner, greener industry. We need to support this with new investment in workforce skills training and ensuring we have the digital infrastructure in place to support demand.3.9 A need for an additional 81,500sqm of employment floorspace to 2039 has been identified
3.10 Meeting identified needs will be achieved in part through the development of existing allocations but also through the retention and redevelopment of our existing industrial stock. Our core industrial areas, as illustrated in the key diagram (Figure 3.1), include the Queensway Corridor, comprising sites across Queensway, Castleham, Churchfields and Ridge West, which together with Ponswood and Ivyhouse are the largest footprint employment sites, in Hastings, and offer the most potential for new development and densification. This will benefit not only Hastings, but the wider economic area. Local Development Orders, which can give permission for certain types of use without the need for planning permission, may be used to facilitate intensification in these areas. Sites at Bulverhythe and York Road also have an important economic role delivering waste management infrastructure; transport; distribution and warehousing. Roebuck and Britannia industrial estates and a number of other dispersed business premises across the Borough also have an important role in terms of the space they provide for existing and potential new businesses.
3.11 The demand for office floorspace across East Sussex, in contrast to industrial space, is lower. But there is a growing demand in the local market for managed workspace/small office units for micro-businesses (fewer than 10 people). Space that can be used flexibly to accommodate small business or provide larger spaces for existing business to consolidate their offices would support business stability and, whilst the impact of Covid-19 may depress demand for office space in the short to medium term, Hastings Town Centre, with its existing role as an important sub-regional economic centre, continues to be the primary location for future office development. Smaller and more local scale office uses could perform a similar role in our smaller centres, such as St Leonards.
26. Expanded leisure and cultural provision aimed at both residents and visitors alike are likely to be an even more important part of maintaining the draw of central Hastings. Increased provision of housing would create more demand for services and support economic recovery and job creation in the town centre27.3.12 New, flexible and upgraded office space can contribute to a vibrant mix of uses as the retail function of Hastings Town Centre potentially changes
28. Whilst the objectives here to enable a more flexible approach to support town centre recovery and to help promote the delivery of more housing are supported, we will continue to monitor the supply and demand for employment floorspace. We may revise our approach to managing change to office premises in central Hastings and the established industrial areas. This might extend to adopting tools that will require full planning permission for changes of use of office floorspace to residential development currently allowed under permitted development rights (through 'Article 4 Directions').3.13 In 2020 significant changes were made to planning law. This included extensions to 'permitted development rights' which allow conversions and change of use of certain employment premises without the need for full planning permission. A new 'Commercial Business and Service' planning use class has also been introduced. This allows changes of use, without any need for planning permission, within a wide range of uses including shops, restaurants and cafes, offices, gyms and childcare provision
3.14 In common with many other parts of the country, demand for housing is high – with a nationally calculated housing need for Hastings of 430 homes a year, equating to 8,600 over the Local Plan period. We have identified sites that could sustainably deliver 4,275 over the life of the new Local Plan. The projected housing trajectory, excluding sites in Hastings Central Focus Area, is shown in Table 3.1 below. Our housing target is less than half of the amount nationally set, although we think there may also be opportunities for more homes to be delivered through mixed use development on sites in Hastings Town Centre.
Table 3.1: Housing Trajectory29
Year 1 – 5 (2019/20 – 2025/6)
Year 6 – 10 (2026/27 – 2030/31)
Year 11 – 20 (2031+)
Note: we have rounded the housing target to 4,275
3.15 This is because certain areas of the Borough are less suitable for development. In the north, the mainly built up area is close to the administrative boundary with Rother District. Elsewhere, environmental constraints include the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) which includes Hastings Country Park with its numerous ecologically important designations. More generally within the main built up area, environmental assets include 2 Historic Parks and Gardens, local nature reserves, nature conservation areas, parks, playing fields and allotments. These are valuable assets which give the Borough its character and appeal, and in general, should be protected. In addition, the developable areas of certain site allocations are also reduced by environmental factors, for example, a high number of Tree Preservation Orders. This means we must maximise densities where development is sustainable and can deliver quality design.
30.3.16 We expect all new homes to be well-designed and meet the needs of all occupiers. Part of this is ensuring homes have reasonable space standards – a need that will have been reinforced by Covid-19 lockdown as many homes became workplaces as well as schools overnight (more on this in Section 5). There is also a need for homes that meet the needs of people with additional care needs such as housing with care and housing with support
31. Whilst Hastings has a high proportion of homes in the private rented sector, with rental levels amongst the lowest in the region, rent levels have risen and there is evidence to show that housing conditions are often poorer in the private rented sector32. The projected demand for affordable housing is even higher (7,200 homes, or 360 homes per year to 2039), by far exceeding anything development sites in Hastings could accommodate.333.17 Affordability is of critical importance. In 2017 median house prices were already at 9.33 times annual income
34. Research on the benefits of mixed income levels in neighbourhoods – accommodating a range of tenures - has been well documented 35. While there has been debate on its impact, there has been a more general acceptance that a range of tenures can avoid the creation of exclusive enclaves on the one hand, or high concentrations of deprivation and the service challenges this brings on the other. We want to use new housing to help address existing imbalances in the housing stock by improving housing choices through size and tenure. This includes recognising the regeneration role housing can have in helping to encourage retention and in-migration of skilled workers.3.18 The development of a range of more affordable homes for local people that they can access on their available financial resources is essential and there remains a need to provide for a range of housing options and in particular affordable/social rent homes of three or more bedrooms
3.19 The high level of need for affordable housing justifies the Council's approach of maximising affordable housing delivery, where this can be viably supported, whilst allowing room for other important priorities such as additional costs associated with low carbon design or provision of wheelchair accessible homes. In the parts of the Borough where sales values are highest, and viability strongest, there is a greater opportunity for higher affordable housing requirements and, where appropriate, modest increases in density supporting higher levels of affordable housing. Disappointingly development viability challenges in Hastings mean that we will fall short of our ambitions for the number of affordable homes required through developer contributions alone. We will look to maximise investment opportunities and subsidise affordable housing in other ways.
3.20 It is not just about planning for a number of housing 'units' though. Homes need to be supported by good social infrastructure with easy access to shops and other services. Quality living environments should not be limited to new housing development either; there are existing neighbourhoods in Hastings which need improvements to help create better living environments and we want to support development where it enables this. The location of the main areas of new housing development (and requirements for the way these sites are developed is set out later in the Local Plan) aims to ensure that everyone has access to good quality open and play space. We recognise that the natural environment plays an important role in health and wellbeing. Our natural environment, as well as being important in ecological and historic landscape terms, is what makes Hastings an attractive place to live – and for developers – a great part of the country to invest in.
- The Council will work with its partners to achieve our Carbon neutral ambitions and deliver sustainable patterns of development that support climate change mitigation and adaptation. To support this over the life of the plan to 2039, the Council will:
- Focus largest scale development in areas with existing or potential good public transport accessibility and good access to shops and services, minimising the need to travel by car
- Support and encourage investment in major renewable energy, including wind turbines, managing the local environmental impact through sensitive design and siting of this infrastructure
- Encourage a shift from reliance on car journeys by improving the walking and cycling environment across the borough and better integrating this with public transport to make this a more attractive transport option
- Expand the network of green infrastructure recognising its essential role in carbon storage as well as its health and wellbeing benefits.
- Explore the use of land at Breadsell as a Carbon Mitigation Zone for projects that reduce carbon emissions where compatible with protection of important natural habitats.
- The Council will support measures that help mitigate and adapt to impacts of climate change at the level of individual sites, recognising the cumulative impact of development and will support:
- Adapting to and mitigating the impacts of climate change is an overarching policy objective and as such key to policies throughout the rest of this draft Local Plan.
- New development and, where possible, adaptation of existing buildings that is designed to minimise energy consumption and where feasible, incorporates low carbon energy production.
- Provision of electric vehicle infrastructure and, in locations with the highest public transport access, lower car parking provision and car clubs
- Incorporation of new green infrastructure as part of new development
- Measures that reduce or mitigate flood risk including climate related projections for changes to this.
- The overall development strategy is derived from our approach to climate change mitigation and adaptation set out in Policy OSP1 and is key to ensuring development across Hastings is sustainable.
- New industrial floorspace will be delivered through the continuing development of floorspace opportunities, stock renewal, intensification and retention in our Strategic and Local Industrial Employment Areas to close the gap between current demand and supply.
- Hastings Town Centre is the primary location for new larger scale office, further and higher education facilities, leisure, visitor accommodation, cultural and retail development, with smaller, more local scale development of this type directed to the District Centres and then to Local Centres.
- Significant development of new homes will be maximised in the 'Focus Areas' of Hastings Central, Bohemia, Little Ridge and Ashdown House, and West Marina and West St Leonards. Development in these Focus Areas should optimise densities whilst ensuring high quality design and, wherever feasible, enhancing visibility of and access to natural and historic assets.
- Development across Hastings should meet high architectural standards and the Council will support innovative design that makes a positive contribution to the quality, character, local distinctiveness and sense of place in Hastings
- Areas that have been designated for their natural environmental quality and formal designated open spaces will be protected and enhanced.
- The special historic and architectural character of Hastings will be conserved, enhanced and sustained over the long-term, for the benefit of current and future generations.
- Development will be primarily focused in areas of lowest flood risk. Development in areas of higher flood risk will only be permitted where these risks can be effectively mitigated.
- Appendix 1, our Site Allocation Schedule, identifies development sites and required uses including provision of new open space, indicative development capacities and other site specific policies reflecting the spatial strategy set out above and in Policies SP2 to SP10. New development (including estate renewal) will be supported, on other appropriate sites, where it is at a scale that complements and integrates with surrounding development and is in line with policies in the Local Plan.
- A minimum of 4,275 new homes will be delivered over the Plan period with additional homes delivered in the Hastings Central Focus Area (figure 4.1) as part of mixed-use development.
- The Council will seek affordable housing as part of new residential developments as set out in Table 3.2 below.
Size of Development
0 – 9 units
No minimum requirement
No minimum requirement
10 – 19 units
No minimum requirement
20 units or more
- Where justified by a viability appraisal, the Council will apply the 25% affordable housing target flexibly where development is for:
- Mixed use schemes, in Hastings Central Focus Area, that include cultural, leisure community facilities or employment generating uses; and
- Sites identified in Appendix 1, with capacity of less than 30 units, where there is a specific requirement for provision of onsite cultural, leisure community facilities or employment generating uses.
- Where affordable housing is a policy requirement, the Council will expect a tenure mix in line with the requirements set out in Table 3.3 below.
Affordable Rent/ Social Rent
Minimum 60% of total affordable housing
Affordable Home Ownership
10% of total affordable housing
Determined through negotiation between the local authority and developer and comprising Affordable Rent/Social Rent, shared ownership or any other affordable tenure including intermediate and low-cost homes (which could extend to First homes)
- The required dwelling mix for rented affordable homes is set out in Table 3.4 below.
1 Bedroom Homes
2 Bedroom Homes
3+ Bedroom Homes
- The Council will support the provision of specialist accommodation, including homes with care or support.
- The Council is considering the accommodation needs of Travellers. If needs are identified, locations to accommodate this will be reflected in the next draft of the plan.
- The Council will seek to work with developers on schemes of 40 or more units to identify and secure development phase jobs, training and supply (procurement) opportunities associated with new residential development in Hastings.
- The Council will protect and support the development of new industrial floorspace and stock renewal in Strategic and Local Industrial Employment Areas and encourage retention of industrial floorspace outside of these areas. The Council will support development at these locations that maintains, and where appropriate, intensifies or expands industrial floorspace. The Council will support development of:
- Industrial processes;
- Storage or distribution uses;
- Waste management uses where these are demonstrably compatible with the locality;
- Renewable energy production;
- Office uses where ancillary to industrial businesses located in Hastings;
- Training facilities aligned with supporting manufacturing/green tech skills development and where they would not prejudice the industrial nature of the area.
- Development should:
- Make maximum use of plot space through efficient design and layout arrangements where parking provision does not dominate the site and where possible consider high densities/multiple storey development;
- Create high quality business space capable of flexible use, subdivision and extension; and
- Create safe environments that encourage walking and cycling and active travel to work with ancillary office functions orientated to the street frontage.
- Outside of Strategic and Local Industrial Employment Areas, the Council will seek to retain uses defined in 1 A to F above, and will only support redevelopment for other uses where:
- It is proven no longer viable in its current use or for any alternative business use as demonstrated by evidence of an appropriate marketing campaign; or
- Continued use would cause serious harm to local amenities.
- Hastings Town Centre is the primary location for new office development and renewal, including flexible co-working space, start-up and incubator space.
- The Council may secure specific uses permitted in line with this policy by a planning condition; this will have the effect of limiting changes to other uses within the same planning use class without a planning consent and will allow the Council to better manage floorspace needed to meet demand from businesses.
- The Council will seek to work with developers and occupants to identify and secure job, training and supply (procurement) opportunities associated with new development of industrial and office floorspace in Hastings.
- The network of town, district and local centres will be retained and enhanced to create employment opportunities including those linked to the tourism sector and uses that support residential communities in Hastings and Rother. This includes:
- Maintaining and enhancing Hastings Town Centre as the primary town centre and focus for larger scale commercial, community, leisure and cultural development;
- Encouraging smaller scale development of this type in the District Centres of St Leonards, Silverhill, and Old Town;
- Supporting more local scale provision in the Local Centres of Ore Village, Bohemia and Tower, Battle Road and Bexhill Road;
- Limiting main Town Centre uses to Hastings Town Centre, District or Local Centres with the 'sequential approach' applied to new development in line with the National Planning Policy Framework36 . For retail proposals, a locally set impact assessment threshold of 300sqm (Convenience retail) and 200sqm (Comparison retail) will apply.
- Tourism and visitor related uses, including hotels and serviced accommodation, will be supported on the seafront, Hastings Town Centre, District Centres and Bohemia Focus Area and in other locations where there is good public transport access.
- Loss of hotels and serviced accommodation will only be permitted where it can be demonstrated it is no longer required and there is evidence of an appropriate marketing campaign.
- The Council will seek to work with developers and occupants to identify and secure jobs, training and supply (procurement) opportunities associated with new development of retail and leisure floorspace in Hastings.
- The Council will expand and improve access to the network of green infrastructure across the Borough, including publicly accessible open spaces and 'urban fringe' areas. Projects that protect and enhance the Boroughs expansive network of open space, capitalising on its benefits to health and wellbeing and its role in mitigating climate change, will be supported.
- The Council will protect and enhance the Borough's distinctive landscape character including:
- The distinctive landscape setting of the Borough, in particular the structure of ancient gill woodlands, open and amenity green spaces and the relationship and clear division between the unspoilt coastline of Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve, the surrounding countryside and the built-up area;
- The High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty; and
- The undeveloped coast.
- The Council will protect sites or habitats designated or identified of international, national, regional or local importance for biodiversity or geological importance, including ancient woodland.
- The Council will support development that further reveals and celebrates the built heritage of Hastings, protects the significance of heritage assets and promotes the history of our town particularly where it helps us to deliver a strong tourism offer, enhanced educational and cultural opportunities, place-making and a sense of community wellbeing and belonging in the town.
- The Council will encourage owners and developers to restore and reuse historic buildings to secure their long-term viability. The Council will protect the significance and setting of the following heritage assets:
- Listed buildings;
- Conservation areas;
- Historic parks and gardens;
- Scheduled monument sites;
- Areas of archaeological potential and known archaeological find sites; and
- Locally listed heritage assets.
- The seafront is the location of some of the town's most important historic assets and treasured and important long views of the coast. The Council will seek to protect and enhance these important seafront buildings, their setting and the extensive coastal views. The Council will support improvements to the public realm that enhance the setting of these historic buildings and coastal views.
- The Council will work with partners to restore, reuse and secure the long-term viability of historic buildings. This will include working with owners and forming partnerships with external funders, to tackle those historic buildings that have been identified as vulnerable on the national Heritage at Risk Register. Where resources allow, the Council will also focus regeneration efforts on vulnerable high status heritage assets and those historic buildings that occupy prominent locations in the town.
- The Council will support the development and improvement of flood defence infrastructure and drainage assets in Hastings. Proposals for sea defences will be supported, subject to the submission of a coastal erosion vulnerability assessment, that demonstrates the sea defence will not be to the detriment of adjacent or downshore sections of coastline.
- In line with Policy SP1, major growth and change will be directed away from areas with the highest flood risk, and in areas of lower flood risk, development will only be permitted where flood risk can be mitigated or suitable adaptations provided, taking into account all sources of flooding.
- A Coastal Change Management Area is proposed between Rock a Nore and Glyne Gap as shown in Figure 3.3. Within the Coastal Change Management Area, the Council will prevent development that may accelerate coastal change and require development, where permitted, to demonstrate mitigation strategies to manage risk associated with costal change.
- Measures that help reduce flooding across the Borough will be supported and specific measures to address surface water flooding particularly encouraged in areas identified as being at particular risk comprising:
- Hastings Town Centre
- Hastings Old Town
- Hollington Stream and
- Warrior Square.
- The Council will work with partners, including the Lead Local Flood Authority, to review levels of flood risk over the life of the Local Plan including the need for flood storage capacity.
- Over the lifetime of the Plan, the Council will work with transport providers to enable the delivery of infrastructure which supports development growth, economic connectivity and also the prioritisation of pedestrian movement.
- Enhancements that support increased rail capacity and high-speed services to London will be supported including:
- Electrification of the Marshlink service between Hastings and Ashford to support decarbonisation;
- Infrastructure improvements on the Marshlink line and at Ashford International to enable high speed rail services to run to Eastbourne via Rye, Hastings and Bexhill; and
- Hastings to Tonbridge capacity and power supply improvements.
- Station improvements that enable better integration with bus, cycle and pedestrian networks will be supported and, where appropriate, permitted.
- Bus service infrastructure and development that supports the delivery of bus services including enhanced routes linked to key growth areas, where these will lead to more sustainable transport patterns will be supported and permitted where they require permission.
- New cycle and walking infrastructure will be supported including the delivery of a network of walking and cycling improvements identified through the East Sussex Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plan being produced by East Sussex County Council.
- The Council will support, and where necessary safeguard, land if required for the following local and strategic road improvements:
- The completion of the Queensway Gateway Road and other future sites enabling road infrastructure to unlock potential development sites;
- Corridor based junction capacity improvements and network management schemes to maximise the efficiency of the existing road network; and
- Improvements to capacity and safety on the A21 including the A21 safety package, improvements between Kippings Cross and Lamberhurst, Hurst Green and Flimwell.
- Measures that minimise car parking will be supported in areas of high public transport accessibility including low or no car parking.
- Proposals for both permanent and temporary park-and-ride, park-and-stride, cycle/scooter hire, and other sustainable transport solutions catering to visitors will be supported where these do not have a detrimental impact on pedestrian movement and local environment quality.
- Existing coach parking and coach drop-off points will be protected. Proposals relating to the loss of coach parking or drop-off points should either include evidence that the provision is no longer required or plan for reprovision elsewhere taking into account the need to prioritise pedestrian movement.
- The Council will support the development of new renewable energy infrastructure, including large scale and small scale vertical access (50kw and below) wind turbines where impacts on neighbouring amenity, ecology, heritage and townscape and landscape impacts can be avoided or mitigated. This will apply in locations across the borough, including, subject to further feasibility assessments, at:
- Land south of Wilting Farm;
- Queensway; and
- Land at Breadsell.
- The Council will engage with communities to ensure impacts are addressed and specific site allocations for energy production development may be identified in the next iteration of this Local Plan.
- The Council will also monitor technological changes over the life of the Local Plan to enable further suitable sites to be identified.
- The Council may use Local Development Orders in appropriate locations to extend permitted development rights for certain Low and Zero Carbon technologies such as roof mounted solar and air source heat pumps, removing the need for a full planning application and thereby reducing development costs.
- The Council will support the development of area wide lower carbon heating solutions including heat networks centred on:
- Summerfields Leisure Centre or its replacement (see Policy FA2);
- Conquest Hospital; and
- Other locations where mixed heat load and other factors make this feasible.
- The Council will work with partners to enable the delivery of social infrastructure to support development growth over the life of the Local Plan. Demand for, and planned supply of, infrastructure will be monitored through regular updates to its Infrastructure Delivery Plan.
- Expanded, or improved, community facilities including: education, sports, health, and cultural facilities will be supported in Hastings Town Centre, District and Local Centres and other areas which offer sustainable transport connections.
- High quality redevelopment of community facilities (excluding health) will be permitted where new replacement provision meets the demand met by the existing facility, enhances the quality of the facility, and access to provision has been provided or secured through a legal agreement.
- Redevelopment, including expansion or rationalisation of health facilities, including Conquest Hospital, will be permitted where this enables the delivery of improved or expanded health care provision that better meets health and wellbeing needs.
- The Council will consider the cumulative impact of development on social infrastructure and planning obligations will be requested to mitigate the impacts on community facilities, including schools, health facilities and libraries. Where appropriate, planning obligations (Section 106 Agreements) will be used to secure financial contributions in line with Policy DP8.
- The Site Allocations Schedule in Appendix 1 identifies sites where requirements for new or enhanced play space will be required.
- The Council will support the provision of new digital infrastructure across the Borough and particularly in the Hastings Central Focus Area and Industrial Employment Areas. The Council will work with providers to ensure that equipment is sympathetically sited and designed, which may sometimes include the need to use camouflage, particularly in more sensitive locations. | <urn:uuid:e1ad1b49-8857-45c4-8370-86a1415483a3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hastings.oc2.uk/document/177/29408 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.930577 | 6,887 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Take Art: Marcus Harvey’s Myra Hindley Painting: Genius
I think, to a degree, being part of an exhibition called Sensation
damaged this painting and limited its impact. I really wish that I had got to see at the gallery — that long walk that they had designed towards that iconic image: a child killer recreated from children’s hands. A lot of the Young British Artists included in that exhibition like the Chapman Brothers, Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst, have all been accused of using gimmicks, of being a patented case of the Emperor’s new clothes. This was something of the problem that assailed this painting — what was actually quite a profound idea (the children’s hands) came across as the same kind of shock tactic and gimmick, and I don’t think it was.
The other problem, which is a problem for all art no matter what medium, is that it was not focused on for it’s artistry and what it was trying to say — rather it was attacked for what it was trying to talk about. You are not allowed to talk about something like Myra Hindley unless you are one of those serious talking head types on some BBC panel. Perhaps it was that people already had a visceral reaction to Hindley and this painting, very visceral itself, represented something of an overload. Marcus Harvey must have been pleased that something he had created had such a powerful effect on people; I think it is just a shame that the piece wasn’t recognised for the brilliance that it represented. It may be one of those pieces that is rediscovered later and undergoes a renaissance — it may not. It is still true that people react differently to female killers — that unlike the fascination which follows male killers such as Jack the Ripper, Bundy and the Zodiac, women killers are a source of repulsion. A strange place for double standards to be in effect perhaps, but there they are. Double standards plagued this piece of art — it deserves better. It is genius.
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This post was written by second-year history student Charlotte Stephenson.
As part of my studies I have been completing a placement at Special Collections and Archives. During this time, I have been learning about the cataloguing process through box-listing and scanning a variety of material relating to the university’s halls of residence and societies, and in this blog post I wanted to share the items that I found particularly interesting.
Salisbury Hall information booklet
Once part of the Carnatic Halls of Residence, situated close to Sefton Park, Salisbury Hall was built on the site of the 18th century residence of slave-trader Peter Baker. The first page of the information booklet outlines Baker’s capture of the Carnatic ship, motivated by the need to pay off his debts that he had amassed while building a poorly constructed boat. The profits that Baker gained from the Carnatic’s booty allowed him to build the original Carnatic Hall, which burned down in 1889. A second Carnatic Hall was built by Walter Holland following the fire, though this was demolished in 1964 by the university in order to use the site for student accommodation. Salisbury Hall was demolished in 2019 along with the other residences that comprised the Carnatic Halls, though sources such as this information booklet and yearly student photographs can give us an impression of student life in these halls.
This information booklet appears to date from the mid-1960s, shortly after Salisbury Hall opened its doors to students. The strict procedures and guidelines paint a very different picture to our current perception of student life with no late-morning lie-ins or excessive noise at night-time, though one can imagine that these rules may not always have been followed by students. The advice appears to have been written for the women students who inhabited Salisbury Hall, with “gentlemen visitors” banned from the students’ bedrooms from 10:30pm onwards. Not only was contact with male students and visitors limited, Salisbury Hall residents were also forbidden to eat meals in their bedrooms, they required the warden’s permission to throw parties and the students were asked to vacate their bedrooms by 10am on weekdays to allow for cleaning. Despite the stringent regulations in place, the information booklet goes on to describe a vibrant social scene in the halls with dances, socials events and meals organised for the students to enjoy, and a variety of opportunities to get involved with representing the hall.
Rathbone Hall photograph (1981-1982)
Perhaps the most humorous image I was able to catalogue during my placement was the 1981-1982 photograph of the residents of Rathbone Hall (now the site of Greenbank Student Village). On the surface, it appears much the same as the numerous other yearly student photographs, though if you look closely, one opportunistic student can be seen through a window, posing with a lampshade on their head. Their prank will now be forever immortalised in the university’s archives for future visitors to enjoy.
Chemical Society photograph (1919-1920)
During my placement, I have been able to work with photographs of students taken over a century ago. A particularly interesting example is the photograph of the Chemical Society, taken between 1919 and 1920, just a year after the conclusion of the First World War. The photograph depicts only two women students, at a time when interwar advancements to the opportunities of women were balanced against a backlash of oppression and concerns over their involvement in public life. Looking through the yearly photographs of the university’s societies and halls of residence, we are able to see the gradual increase in women’s admittance into higher education, and a greater diversity of ethnicities, nationalities, gender, and class in the student body. | <urn:uuid:ae40d888-9ff4-4c52-8247-87d41c752277> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://manuscriptsandmore.liverpool.ac.uk/?p=7815 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.971588 | 765 | 2.0625 | 2 |
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