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There are many reasons why a child may come into the care of social services:
- Unaccompanied asylum-seeking child
- Orphaned / no family
Sometimes the plan is for a young person to go back and live with their family, whereas in other situations it is more permanent.
Although we began as a religious organisation, we do not have any religious affiliations today. We work with children and young people from all religions, from all corners of the world, and support them to engage in their religion if they have one.
Find out more about our history.
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‘Rich chick’ NeNe Leakes is moving up the Hollywood ladder from the Real Housewives of Atlanta to her new sitcom, The New Normal. As the lone black character on the show, Leakes’ ascent mirrors a common occurrence in many industries: The further you advance, the less minorities you encounter along the way.
Is this not-so-new normal of being the only minority—whether it’s Hollywood or Wall Street—really, well, still normal? For some, it is: According to the EEOC, in 2010 white people made up more than 83% of management, professional and related occupations, while people of color (including African Americans, Latinos and Asians), made up 11.9% of executive/senior-level officials and managers and 20.1% of all first/mid-level officials and managers. African-American and Asian women in the those same positions accounted for 5.3% and 2.7%, respectively.
From awkward hair questions (How do you do that? Can I touch it? So you don’t wash it every day?) to uncomfortable political discussions, being the minority in the workplace can be overwhelming to say the least.
Whether you’re expected to serve as spokesperson for your entire [insert minority factor here] when a heated issue or topic is brought up, or listen to people tell you how impressed they are by your eloquence and articulate speaking, being the only one—or one of few— takes discipline, focus and lots of patience. In the face of adversity, minorities must continue to be team players, even if it means fighting the urge to go off. Here are some tips to help:
Get connected: Race/gender/sexual orientation/age are only individual aspects of who we are as a whole. Instead of focusing on how you differ from your coworkers, focus on the things you have in common. You may share the same passion for cooking or may root for the same college football team. Focus on things that unite, not divide.
Drop the mic: While you may be tempted to properly educate others about the unique aspects of your cultural or ethnic heritage, try not to make overcoming stereotypes your sole focus. Try to resist the pressure to be an expert on all things related to your race, gender or sexual orientation.
Handle with care: Despite the fact that it’s 2012, discrimination and prejudice are still major issues in the workplace. If you find yourself in an unfortunate situation, make sure to approach it calmly and professionally. Then, find the appropriate person to discuss it with, such as a manager or an HR professional.
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The children of increasingly younger ages are protagonists in the phenomenon of mobile connectivity. From two or three years old, they begin to lean out on their parents’ phones and to manage theses devices regularly, becoming familiar with their functionalities almost before being able to speak clearly, or to learn to read. This fluid handling usually makes us very funny in such small children, but we should not let them relate to these devices in an uncontrolled way. To make the use positive and the main way to prevent misuse or risk behaviors that can lead to future problems is to get involved in this technology education from the beginning. The key is as much in knowing how to orient the learning, as in not radically prohibiting it.
When to buy your kid their first mobile phone?
The children at a very younger age see mobile phone as a toy that they use to play games, to paint or color, and even watch videos of cartoons. However, as they grow, this playful use gives way to other functions. The phone becomes a device to communicate with. Therefore, the main use of the telephone is to be in contact with parents and, above all, with friends. To have a mobile phone is to belong to the group. The child sees that everyone around him has it and begins to ask for his own terminal, each time at younger ages. Thus, parents suffer emotional blackmail, coupled with some social pressure.
So, when should we buy our kids their first mobile phone? Well, there is no specific age, but you have to look at each case, at the maturity of each child, and at the specific circumstances of your lifestyle that make them need this device. And it is that at certain ages it can be relatively useful, but it is not really necessary. What we should make clear to our kids from the first moment is that the main function of the telephone is communication, and that is why it is advisable to have it.
In this sense, experts recommend that children do not have their own phone before age 12. From this age, they sharpen their need for independence and already spend more time away from us. In addition, access to a new stage in school, Secondary Education, and this is a big change for them. It is now a good time for them to begin to take on responsibilities such as those involved in having their own mobile phone.
To the parents, the device will serve us to be in continuous contact with them, to have them located, and to be able to control their exits. All this becomes possible with the use of the parental controls app such as FamilyTime parental control app that let parents view contact, call history, SMS threads, installed apps, app preferences, app usage frequency, web history and much more. In addition to supervising, parents can also take needed actions.
For example, with the app, parents can watchlist contacts, block unwanted or inappropriate apps, schedule auto screen locks and remotely lock devices, etc. There is a lot more parents can do with this app in hand. Dp you wish to give the app a try for free? You can! Get the trial version with premium features from the Google Play store and iTunes. | <urn:uuid:a5163253-6686-4fe7-b15a-bd7c9808c995> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bellenews.com/2018/02/02/science-tech/parental-control-app-first-mobile-children/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.978039 | 644 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Provided by Allen Browne, updated June 2006
This article describes an old technique of filling a list box via a callback function.
In Access 2000 and later, there is a newer technique that is more efficient and flexible.
To use the callback function:
Function DirListBox (fld As Control, ID, row, col, code) ' Purpose: To read the contents of a directory into a ListBox. ' Usage: Create a ListBox. Set its RowSourceType to "DirListBox" ' Parameters: The arguments are provided by Access itself. ' Notes: You could read a FileSpec from an underlying form. ' Error handling not shown. More than 512 files not handled. Dim StrFileName As String Static StrFiles(0 To 511) As String ' Array to hold File Names Static IntCount As Integer ' Number of Files in list Select Case code Case 0 ' Initialize DirListBox = True Case 1 ' Open: load file names into array DirListBox = Timer StrFileName = Dir$("C:\") ' Read filespec from a form here??? Do While Len(StrFileName) > 0 StrFiles(IntCount) = StrFileName StrFileName = Dir IntCount = IntCount + 1 Loop Case 3 ' Rows DirListBox = IntCount Case 4 ' Columns DirListBox = 1 Case 5 ' Column width in twips DirListBox = 1440 Case 6 ' Supply data DirListBox = StrFiles(row) End Select End Function
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At the point when you need a band or tune in to their CD, it is amazingly simple to experience passionate feelings for the drums and it is nothing unexpected that numerous individuals need to take up playing this instrument. There are a wide range of ways for an individual to build up their drum abilities and taking on the web drum exercises is an extraordinary method to begin playing or become a superior performer. The drums, similar to any instrument, are something that you can adapt however it is for all intents and purposes difficult to ace. There is continually something new to learn or get and this is the reason numerous drummers are persistently searching for drumming tips or counsel to turn out to be better on the instrument. Regardless of whether this improvement is to permit them to join a superior band or maybe simply get greater happiness from their playing, there are numerous motivations to consistently need to find out about your instrument.
Drumming is instructed in numerous schools as it has been appeared to offer advantages to any performer who plays the drums. With such a significant number of advantages from taking up this instrument, there are various motivations to figure out how to play drums and this can be found in the improvement of individuals who have played the drums. There is a colossal scope of ways that an individual can figure out how to drum and one of the most imaginative and progressively mainstream is taking on the web drum exercises. The Internet has had such a significant number of constructive perspectives throughout individuals’ life by offering them data and insights concerning an entire scope of subjects and drums are only one positive angle. Having the option to learn at your own pace or being able to return to past exercises and guarantee that drumming tips are being retained.
Just as learning, numerous individuals simply need to take up another instrument since it is cool. There is no denying that being in a band or playing an instrument is something that numerous individuals long for and could not imagine anything better than to do. This implies anybody getting another instrument will make them a lot cooler in numerous individuals’ eyes. On the off chance that you need to figure out how to play drums it might be valuable to think what style of music you wish to play and click site https://www.sciencefolks.com/2020/07/15/how-playing-the-drums-changes-the-brain/ to read more. Drums is about something other than hitting things a great deal and a jazz drummer would play distinctively contrasted with a substantial metal drummer. This implies there are a wide range of approaches to learn and perhaps as well as can be expected be taking up drum exercises. Any measure of drumming tips you can get will assist you with getting greater pleasure from your new instrument. | <urn:uuid:4d482c19-8334-428b-ae64-ceee2351af5a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mypearl-sph.com/general/having-numerous-perks-of-playing-drums.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.971861 | 548 | 2.234375 | 2 |
Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
April 2020 - Iraq Special Weapons News
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- Russia ready to sell Iraq S-400 missile systems upon Baghdad request: Ambassador Press TV 30 Apr 2020 -- Russian Ambassador to Iraq Maksim Maksimov says Moscow is prepared to provide Baghdad with advanced S-400 air defense missile systems once the Arab country makes an official request for the military hardware.
- U.S. Extends Waiver For Iranian Energy To Baghdad, But Pressure Mounts RFE/RL 27 Apr 2020 -- U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has reportedly granted a fresh extension on a waiver to let Iraq import electricity from neighboring Iran as efforts continue to form a lasting government in Baghdad, but possibly for a shorter period to press the Iraqi administration into greater action.
- Oil dispute between Iraqi government, Kurdish rulers flares again Press TV 27 Apr 2020 -- Iraq has ordered the finance ministry to stop funding to the country's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region amid an oil spat between the two sides, media reports say.
- US renews Iraq waiver to import electricity from Iran Press TV 26 Apr 2020 -- The United States has renewed a waiver for Iraq to continue importing electricity from neighboring Iran.
- Iraq serious about US troops pullout, negotiations will start next June: Spokesman Press TV 26 Apr 2020 -- The spokesman for the Commander-in-Chief of the Iraqi Armed Forces says the Baghdad government is serious about implementation of the parliament's resolution concerning the withdrawal of US forces from the country.
- Pompeo Renews US Waiver for Iraq to Import Electricity From Iran for 30 Days – Report Sputnik 26 Apr 2020 -- Following the 2018 unilateral withdrawal of the US from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and the reimposition of sanctions against Iran, Washington has been issuing special waivers that permit some countries and companies to conduct business with Tehran.
- Daesh member goes on trial in Germany for genocide of Izadis, war crimes Press TV 25 Apr 2020 -- A man believed to have been a member of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group has gone on trial in Germany for crimes against the Izadi minority group, as well as killing a five-year-old girl.
- Iraq Has To Import Gas And Electricity From Iran For Years, Says Minister Radio Farda 25 Apr 2020 -- With just two days remaining to the expiration of a thirty-day U.S. waiver to import Iranian gas and electricity, the Iraqi Minister of Electricity says it will take three to four years for the country to stop importing energy from Iran.
- Army announces upcoming 2nd BCT, 82nd Airborne Division, unit rotation US Army 23 Apr 2020 -- The Department of the Army announced today the upcoming summer 2020 rotation to Iraq of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina this summer.
- China hands medical aid to Iraqi military to contain COVID-19 PLA Daily 23 Apr 2020 -- Chinese Ambassador to Iraq Zhang Tao on Wednesday handed medical aid to Iraqi Ministry of Defense to fight COVID-19.
- Nobody Will Survive if Pandemic Spreads in Iraq's IDP Camps - Official Sputnik 23 Apr 2020 -- Iraq's internally displaced persons might have survived Daesh*, but they have zero chances of completely fighting off the COVID-19 pandemic that continues to spread throughout the war-torn country, warns an official who has been working with IDPs since 2016. Certain obstacles make matters worse, but IDPs are determined to keep the virus at bay.
- Iraq warns of Daesh attempt to exploit virus outbreak, renew terror campaign Press TV 23 Apr 2020 -- Iraq has warned that the Daesh Takfiri group could exploit a coronavirus outbreak in the country –which has been the main focus of the government and the army – and renew its campaign of terrorism.
- US main stumbling block to Iraq's possession of advanced air defense systems: Lawmaker Press TV 23 Apr 2020 -- A member of the Iraqi parliament's security and defense committee has blamed the United States for opposing Baghdad's acquisition of sophisticated air defense missile systems to protect its airspace against any possible act of aggression.
- Third batch of Chinese aid arrives in Baghdad to assist COVID-19 fight Global Times 21 Apr 2020 -- The third batch of Chinese medical aid arrived on Monday in Baghdad as part of China's assistance to boost Iraq's capability to contain the COVID-19 outbreak.
- Iraqi air force kills 14 Daesh terrorists in north-central province Press TV 21 Apr 2020 -- Iraqi fighter jets have pounded the positions of the remnants of the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group in Iraq's north-central province of Salahuddin, killing more than a dozen extremists there.
- Iraqi parliament demands Baghdad's procurement of Russia's S-400 missile system Press TV 18 Apr 2020 -- The Iraqi parliament's security and defense committee has submitted an in-depth study to the country's caretaker prime minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi, requesting the procurement of the Russian-built long-range, surface-to-air S-400 missile defense system.
- Two Rockets Land in Vicinity of Chinese Oil Company Site in Iraq – Military Centre Sputnik 18 Apr 2020 -- Two rockets have fallen in the vicinity of a site belonging to a Chinese oil company in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, Iraq's military communications centre said on Saturday.
- Coronavirus Is 'Break, Not Defeat', Iraqi Activists Say VOA 17 Apr 2020 -- We first met Ali Almikdam in late January. Along with thousands of others, he had been living in a tent in Baghdad's Tahrir Square for about four months, protesting the government.
- Turkey's deadly drone strike on Iraqi refugee camp draws angry reactions Press TV 16 Apr 2020 -- Turkey has launched a deadly drone strike on a refugee camp in Iraq's northern semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, drawing angry reactions from Iraqi politicians of different factions, who censured the attack as a violation of the Arab country's sovereignty.
- Iraqi PM-designate says resolved to end illegal foreign military presence Press TV 15 Apr 2020 -- Iraq's Prime Minister-designate Mustafa al-Kadhimi has expressed his resolve to bring an end to any illegal presence of foreign boots on the ground in the Arab country, saying Baghdad will soon hold talks with Washington in this regard.
- Iraqi parties require PM-designate to end US-led military presence: MP Press TV 14 Apr 2020 -- An Iraqi parliamentarian says the country's political parties have conditioned approving Prime Minister-designate Mustafa al-Kadhimi's cabinet on his acting on a law approved by the parliament that mandates evacuation of US-led forces.
- Political Situation in Iraq US Dept. of State 13 Apr 2020 -- "The United States looks forward to the formation of a new Iraqi Government capable of confronting the COVID-19 pandemic, ameliorating the country's current economic distress, and bringing arms under state control."
- Iran supports any prime minister winning Iraqi parliament's vote of confidence IRNA 12 Apr 2020 -- Iran's ambassador to Baghdad Iraj Masjedi said on Sunday that Iran supports any prime minister chosen in a legal process winning the vote of confidence of the Iraqi Parliament.
- US steps up intrusion as Iraq's new PM seeks to form govt. Press TV 12 Apr 2020 -- Iraq's Prime Minister-designate Mustafa al-Kadhimi has been trying to set up a new cabinet amid public calls for social welfare and the withdrawal of US occupation forces from the Arab country.
- Iraq's New PM-Designate Vows to Uphold Sovereignty as US Deploys Patriots Sputnik 12 Apr 2020 -- The nomination of Mustafa al-Kadhimi as prime minister has become Iraq's third attempt in 10 weeks to break a political deadlock that has lasted months. He is set to prove that he is better-equipped than two previous nominees, and the caretaker prime miniestr, to navigate the relationship with Tehran and Washington and tackle social unrest.
- Iraq's PM-designate Scrambles to Assemble Cabinet VOA 11 Apr 2020 -- Iraq's Prime Minister-designate Mustafa Kadhimi met with top members of the outgoing government Saturday to try to put together a new cabinet quickly, amid a rare level of support from the country's political establishment at a time of serious internal and external crises.
- US keeps forces in Iraq, puts missile systems into operation Press TV 11 Apr 2020 -- US officials say hundreds of their troops will remain in Iraq, noting that missile systems are now operating in the bases hosting the occupation forces.
- US Troops Hunker Down in Iraq, Deploy Patriots at Bases Struck by Iranian Missiles Sputnik 11 Apr 2020 -- Washington's assassination of a senior Iranian commander in Baghdad in January prompted Iraqi authorities to demand the immediate remove of US forces from the country. America has gradually reducing its troop presence in the Middle Eastern nation in recent months, but has dragged its feet on making any commitment to complete withdrawal.
- Iraq's new choice for Prime Minister suggests defeat of US pressure Press TV 11 Apr 2020 -- Iraq has designated a new Prime Minister that, contrary to his two predecessors, apparently enjoys inclusive support from the various political blocs in a development that suggests the defeat of the United States' attempts at forcing its choice on the Arab nation.
- Iraqi forces launch second phase of operation along border with Jordan, Saudi Arabia Press TV 10 Apr 2020 -- Iraqi army troops and fighters from the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) have launched the second phase of a major military operation to purge the westernmost part of Anbar province along the border with Jordan and Saudi Arabia of the remnants of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group.
- Iraq's national sovereignty is my red line: PM-designate Press TV 10 Apr 2020 -- The newly-designated prime minister has said that the success of Iraq's international relations will be based on "respect and cooperation."
- Iran's Foreign Ministry welcomes nomination of Iraq's new PM-designate Press TV 09 Apr 2020 -- The Iranian Foreign Ministry felicitates Iraq on the nomination of a new prime minister-designate, calling the move a step in the right direction.
- Iraq's Saleh tasks PM-designate Kadhimi with forming new government Press TV 09 Apr 2020 -- Iraqi President Barham Saleh has officially tasked prime minister-designate Mustafa al-Kadhimi with forming a government after the intelligence chief received the endorsement of the majority of the country's top political figures.
- Zurfi withdraws candidacy for premiership as parties endorse Kadhimi Press TV 09 Apr 2020 -- Iraq's Prime Minister-designate Adnan al-Zurfi has withdrawn his candidacy for the post as major political factions endorse intelligence chief Mustafa Al Kadhimi to form a government.
- Iraq's PMU, army launch major anti-terror operation Press TV 09 Apr 2020 -- Iraq's Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) and army troops have started a joint, full-scale anti-terrorism military operation in the Arab country's western province of Anbar.
- US forces preparing to withdraw from base west of Baghdad Press TV 07 Apr 2020 -- The US-led coalition purportedly fighting the Daesh terror group in Iraq is reportedly preparing to evacuate troops from a military base in the city of Abu Gharib, west of the capital Baghdad.
- Coronavirus Cases Rise to 1031 in Iraq SPA 06 Apr 2020 -- The total number of the confirmed Coronavirus cases in Iraq rose to 1031 after reporting 70 new cases during the past 24 hours.
- US intends to assassinate Iraqi PMU commanders: Iraqi MP Press TV 06 Apr 2020 -- A member of the Iraqi parliament's security and defense committee has warned against the ulterior objectives behind redeployment of US troops to various military sites across the Arab country, saying Washington is drawing up plans to target commanders of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), better known by the Arabic name Hashd al-Sha'abi.
- Rockets hit near foreign oil firms in Basra amid alert in Iraq Press TV 06 Apr 2020 -- Several rockets have landed near offices of foreign and Iraqi oil companies in the southern city of Basra, the military says, amid warnings of false-flag US operation aimed at creating further unrest in the country.
- Rockets Hit Near Site of Foreign Oil Firms, State-Run Companies in Iraq's Basra - Reports Sputnik 06 Apr 2020 -- In late March, the US military deployed its Patriot missile defence system to the Ayn al-Asad base in Iraq in a move to "protect against another potential Iranian attack".
- Iraq: UN health agency helps beat 'latest bottleneck' in COVID-19 battle UN News 05 Apr 2020 -- With a global shortage of supplies and equipment to fight the deadly coronavirus pandemic, the UN health agency has assisted in successfully producing urgently needed laboratory items for testing suspected COVID-19 cases in Iraq.
- PMU anti-terror forces vow to end US 'occupation' of Iraq Press TV 04 Apr 2020 -- Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), better known by their Arabic name Hashd al-Sha'abi, have blasted the US forces based in their country as "occupiers", pledging to bring the occupation of the Arab country to an end.
- NATO says plans to expand mission in Iraq Press TV 04 Apr 2020 -- NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says the military alliance has decided to expand its mission in Iraq by training personnel for the Iraqi army and security forces.
- CENTCOM confirms deploying new Patriot missiles to Iraq Press TV 04 Apr 2020 -- US Central Command (CENTCOM) has confirmed the deployment of new Patriot missile systems to Iraq amid calls for the withdrawal of American troops from the Arab country.
- Answering Ayatollah Sistani's call, Iraqis support those in need amid coronavirus outbreak Press TV 04 Apr 2020 -- Thousands of people across Iraq have begun a full-fledged campaign to support those in need in the Arab country following a call by the country's most prominent Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani to help the people, irrespective of their race or religion, amid the deadly novel coronavirus pandemic.
- Iraq Protesters Confront Security Forces as PM-designate Presents Agenda to Parliament VOA 04 Apr 2020 -- Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Adnan Zurfi presented his agenda Saturday to Parliament as government security forces clashed with protesters defying a government-imposed curfew. More than a dozen Iraqi police reportedly were wounded when protesters in Nasiriya threw gasoline bombs at police, who were firing tear gas at them.
- Iraq Suspends Reuters License Over COVID-19 Report VOA 03 Apr 2020 -- An international press watchdog says Iraqi officials have suspended Reuters news agency's license for three months after the British wire service reported that confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country exceeded official statistics.
- Latest Iranian Plotting Worrisome, Not Surprising, US Officials Say VOA 03 Apr 2020 -- Recent intelligence suggesting Iranian-backed forces in Iraq are actively plotting to hit U.S. troops may have stirred a new war of words between Washington and Tehran on social media, but it has done little to shock U.S. defense officials.
- Iraq Reports 44 New Cases of COVID-19 SPA 02 Apr 2020 -- The Iraqi Health Ministry announced today that the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in Iraq rose to 772 with 44 new cases in several Iraqi cities.
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- US forces withdraw from strategic airbase in Iraq's Anbar, to officially hand it over next week Press TV 01 Apr 2020 -- An Iraqi security source says a group of American troops, who are part of the US-led military coalition purportedly formed to fight the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group, has pulled out of a strategic airbase in Iraq's western province of Anbar and moved to another military site in the country.
- Trump Warns Iran Of 'Heavy Price' If U.S. Attacked In Iraq RFE/RL 01 Apr 2020 -- President Donald Trump has warned Iran of a "heavy price" if it or its allies in Iraq attack U.S. troops or assets in Iraq.
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It is said (apparently inaccurately) that the Inuit have many words for ‘snow.’ Why would that be? Why, because they see a lot of snow, of course.
English has very few words for ‘smile,’ even though we see a lot of them (I hope). Grin. Grimace. Beam. Smirk. Maybe even Simper. And you can drag in fellow travelers Squint and certainly Leer. But really, not a very large collection of descriptives for something a writer needs often.
Smile, look, walk, and similar words indicate classes of action but do not show specifics. Use them, and you leave the reader knowing what happened but not having a picture in mind. They’re placeholders for better description. Boring, as well.
All of this was grating on my mind yesterday. I was writing a three-person sequence in which a lot of smiling was going on, not all of it happy. Sure, I could tell the reader that Weezy’s smile masked anger, but how does that look?
I decided to take a break and walk around Lake of the Isles, my favorite in-city lake in Minneapolis. Usually, I use my walking time to work out plot and character issues, and that was the way I started my walk. A couple of blocks along the way, a late middle-aged man approached. He took me in, then gave the very briefest horizontal stretching of the lips in a straight line. Hard to tell whether it was a smile or gastronomic distress. That got me watching the people I encountered. A young woman gave me the “I am smiling because I’m cool but don’t get your hopes up” rictus (ahh, rictus … I missed that as a near-synonym). A young father gave me a possessive, prideful smile as his two, young bike-mounted sons ran me off the walking path. A mother’s joy-to-the-world smile as she glanced up from her baby. A hajib-wearing woman smiled with her eyes. A young packed-with-energy guy gave me a nod of recognition as he ran by, served up with a smirk. (I race walk. To him, I was surely old, hefty, and weird.) A woman gifted me a happy smile that took in her whole face – mouth, eyes, and forehead. It was the kind of smile that makes you want to know the person just to understand how she has successfully figured out the puzzle of life.
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This was an internet of things project with big data storage and analysis.
Monitoring of air quality has become a lot easier in the last few years with the advent of small solid state sensors that are capable of doing a similar job to equipment originally designed for laboratory work which is what is in those large stations that are occasionally seen at traffic intersections.
The objective of this project was to build small monitoring stations, about the size of a large book, that could be easily mounted on buildings the data being sent back wirelessly to servers where it can be collated, displayed and supplied to other interested parties.
Initial system configuration:-
Air Monitoring Stations
Sensors used were developed by Alphasense and mounted on their standard boards which were interfaced to a bespoke processor board doing A to D conversion and generating 5 minute blocks of data which were sent using https: to the data acquisition servers, the boxes being masters.
Data collected was Temperature Deg.C, humidity, acoustic (noise level), NO2, NO, O3, SO2 and CO in PPB and Particulates PM1, PM2.5 and PM10.
Blocks of data were sent to the acquisition server in a compressed json format over 2G or 3G network using https via the mobile network gateway. The server reply data block could do things like sync the clock to UTC, change the sampling rates of various sensors, ok the data blocks received and, eventually, request the box to upload new software from the distribution server.
Eventually we were going to move away from http, as it is quite a bulky protocol, to CoAP as it is a lot faster and more compact thus saving a lot on mobile network bills, also uses a lot less power.
Data Acquisition and Storage
Deciding on the databases was one of the big decisions at the start of the project. The sensor boxes were obviously going to produce large amounts of data and, depending on the time slice or configuration of the box, different sets of sensor data, both of these challenges made a standard SQL database not the best choice for the job. We chose MongoDB in the end since it could handle the expected amount of data with out slowing appreciably and variable contents for any particular time slice was not a problem since it was a document database.
Once a data block had been received by the server it was checked for validity ie. valid sensor box id, tokens and type, the compressed message block was converted into a more readable json format based on the configuration of the box's sensors and this saved for a month in case we needed to re-generate due to configuration mistakes.
The next step was to convert the voltage produced by each sensor to the equivalent value in say parts per billion for NO2, this involved standard equations for the type of sensor, constants from tests carried out on the sensor after production and the temperature when the sensing was done. Again the block was saved giving the most accurate data for that sensor box.
Another data set produced from the received block was one and ten minute averages. The one hour average was produced once enough unprocessed data had accumulated in the ten second collection.
A future enhancement for the calculations was to be to use machine learning to find out how the sensors changed as they aged and correct for this.
Configurations for the boxes needed to be created for new boxes and updated at times for old ones. An API was instituted to achieve this which was ip and key locked to another system which had user interfaces for this.
Visitors to the site could see a map of the UK with all the public boxes marked. Hovering over the pin showed current status, clicking moved to a data display page for that box.
Users could change the displays as follows:-
- Date and start time
- Number of hours shown
- Sample rate 10s, 1 minute, 10 minute and 1 hour
- Types of sensor data displayed
- Also outliers and raw data
The plots were created using Google graphs and showed the local time and date when the data was collected. This was an interesting challenge as Google graphs assumes the time is in UTC and does an offset to show it in the browsers local time so I had to find out what that was and do some interesting maths to trick the graphs into showing the correct time and date.
User authentication was implemented so that private sensor boxes could only be seen on the map and the data by the users that owned them, the first of those was a company putting sensors to monitor temperature, humidity, carbon monoxide and ambient sound level in council and rental flats.
Two API's were implemented on the front end system. One to allow user creation and box ownership to be defined from another system, the second was to allow the company putting sensor boxes into flats to request the data collected.
Future API was going to be a general data outlet for the public boxes and private boxes if the user has appropriate authentication using OAuth.
All the API's and some of the other end points were rate limited to prevent users from hammering them and slowing the system.
All API's had tests written for them using Codeception a php testing framework, both success and fail were tested for to ensure a solid result. Eventually tests were going to be written for the rest of the software.
Queuing was to be implemented on the data capture using Apache Kafka so that any hold up with the database would not stall the input side and further queues used for distributing the data to other clients.
Data capture servers would be put behind a load balancer to ensure no stalling of the collection.
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The primary focus of the Corporation is to promote the integration of community services into a seamless system of care for any child or adult in need of services. Funding comes from the federal, state, and county governments.
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How do u spell mopey?Asked by: Houston Grant
Score: 4.7/5 (67 votes)
Given to moping; in a depressed condition, low in spirits; lackadaisical.
What is the meaning of mopey?
languishing, listless, droopy, or glum.
What part of speech is mopey?
Mopey is an adjective. The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.
What is mope in texting?
verb (used with object), moped, mop·ing. to make dejected, listless, or apathetic. noun. a person who mopes or is given to moping. mopes, depressed spirits; blues.
What is Pocha called in English?
/ponchā/ mn. cloth countable noun. A cloth is a piece of cloth used for a particular purpose, such as cleaning.
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Is it moping or mopping?
As nouns the difference between moping and mopping
is that moping is the act of one who mopes while mopping is an application of molten asphalt to a roof etc.
Is Moby a word?
No, moby is not in the scrabble dictionary.
Is Mopery a word?
Mopery (/ˈmoʊpəri/) is a vague, informal name for minor offenses. The word is based on the verb to mope, which originally meant "to wander aimlessly"; it only later acquired the sense "to be bored and depressed".
Is lackadaisical a real word?
without interest, vigor, or determination; listless; lethargic: a lackadaisical attempt. lazy; indolent: a lackadaisical fellow.
What is the opposite of mopey?
Opposite of having or showing a tendency to be quickly irritated or provoked. patient. enduring. persevering.
Is mopey a Scrabble word?
Yes, mopey is in the scrabble dictionary.
Does mopping actually clean?
Mops are great tools for keeping floors clean. Foot traffic can lead to dirt and germs in your house. Even if you sweep or vacuum regularly, mopping is the best way to clean hard floors. ... However, a clean mop and good mopping technique will effectively remove grime and germs from the floor.
verb (used without object), mopped, mop·ping. to make a disappointed or unhappy face; grimace: an unruly child that mops and mows. a wry face; grimace.
Where do you dump mop water?
Dump mop water down your sink.
Mop water is full of germs and dirt, so the worst thing you can do is to dispose of it in a place where you're apt to drop a toothbrush. Dump it into a toilet or down your shower drain instead.
What is Wipe?
transitive verb. 1a : to rub with or as if with something soft for cleaning. b : to clean or dry by rubbing. c : to draw, pass, or move for or as if for rubbing or cleaning wiped his hand across his brow.
What is the meaning of Brooming?
broomed; brooming; brooms. Definition of broom (Entry 2 of 2) transitive verb. 1 : to sweep with or as if with a broom. 2 : to finish (something, such as a concrete surface) by means of a broom.
What is the meaning of Jadu?
Wiktionary. jadoonoun. Magic, sorcery. Etymology: From Hindustani जादू / جادو, from جادو.
Why are mops bad?
Traditional Tools. Mops, rags, and buckets are the traditional tools of anyone who cleans a commercial floor or surface, but these tools spread dirt and germs around more than they actually clean. A clean mop or rag removes soil and bacteria from a dirty surface.
What is the most hygienic mop?
Cotton string mops are full of germs.
Microfiber flat mops paired with dual compartment buckets are an effective way to clean for health and sanitation. Together, they prevent surface and mop head re-soiling. The dense microfiber blend promotes deeper penetration for cleaner surfaces.
How can I get my floor really clean?
Vacuum, dust or wipe with a lightly dampened mop – never use soap-based detergents, as they can leave a dull film on the floor, and avoid over-wetting. Don't use wax polish, either: it will make the floor too slippery. To remove marks and stains, use a dilute solution of water and vinegar.
What do you mean by smoldering?
intransitive verb. 1a : to burn sluggishly, without flame, and often with much smoke. b : to be consumed by smoldering —often used with out. 2 : to exist in a state of suppressed activity hostilities smoldered for years. 3 : to show suppressed anger, hate, or jealousy eyes smoldering with hate.
What does it mean to be dejected?
1 : low in spirits : depressed The team was dejected after the loss. 2a obsolete : downcast her eyes dejected and her hair unbound— Alexander Pope. b archaic : thrown down.
Is Bleak a synonym or antonym?
Some common synonyms of bleak are cheerless, desolate, dismal, dreary, and gloomy. While all these words mean "devoid of cheer or comfort," bleak suggests chill, dull, and barren characteristics that utterly dishearten.
Is apprehended meaning?
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Millennium New Style - Yichang Hao Changtai Tea Group, Changtai Tea Factory, Changtai Tea Shop and Yichang Hao, etc. are the names familiar to the tea lovers and tea connoisseurs nowadays. However, in the year of millennium, the market was still dominated by traditional Menghai and Xiaguan tea cakes. It seemed that only the tea cakes which were wrapped by Eight-zhong trademark logo wrapping papers were the main stream and genuine tea cakes (including those special tea cakes ordered by the CNNP). It was hard to imagine there was a new tea shop who dared try a new packaging for their new series of tea cakes, Yichang Hao. It was a revolutionary new style of wrapper on which tea lovers would find ancient Chinese style characters, Seal Characters (Chinese: Zhuan Characters, 篆體). Besides, the raw tea leaf materials were also revolutionary - using the Yiwu tea. That was the reason why it was called Yichang Hao. Yi means Yiwu. Chang means Changtai.
On the wrapper, Yiwu Seven-son Tea Cake (易武七子餅茶) was clearly printed. This gave a great impact on the Puerh tea market. People started to think about ancient tea trees seriously. This new element vitalized the boring market. At least, traditional Puerh tea lovers in Chinese community had to set aside the controversy over the dry/wet storage for a while and started to think about what Yichang Hao was.
Nobody Knew about Yichang Hao At the very beginning, Yichang Hao was unknown to people.
Cloud did not say it indiscriminately. The famous Chinese discussion forum, http://www.wwwart.com.tw/tea (which was closed on 2007-05-18), kept the record of this thread, "What is Yichang Hao?" (time: 2001/7/25 11:56:47am). Unfortunately, the website was closed eventually. You may click the Captured Photo 1 and Captured Photo 2 to view the relevant part (Chinese edition only). This is a true record of discussion at that time.
- The one who posted the thread asked, "Not long ago, some Hong Kong tea lovers recommended Yichang Hao. However, I have been purchasing Puerh tea in Taiwan for almost 2 decades. I have never seen any of such tea cake. Can anyone give me more information on the history of this tea and its selling price? Where can I buy some in Taiwan? Thanks." Captured Photo 1
- Somebody replied, "I have been appreciating tea for 5 years. I have seen, located and bought many tea cakes. What information I have is that there is still some newly imitated young Jingchang Hao (Chinese: 敬昌號). That is totally different from the genuine aged antique vintage Jingchang Hao. I have never seen any Yichang Hao. I think it has been the new gimmick of tea vendors recently...." Captured Photo 2
In 2001, the Taiwanese were very good at appreciating Puerh tea, in particular, the aged Puerh vintages. However, only few people knew about Yichang Hao. This indicated that this brand was extremely new to the market. People did not know there was a new brand produced. It was very interesting to hear that someone treated it as a new gimmick of tea vendors. However, this also proved that there was lacking of proper information in the market at that time. The responses of many tea lovers were, "I have never heard about Yichang Hao. What is it?" Certainly, it will a weird comment if you hear that from a tea lover today. Nevertheless, that comment was in fact reasonable to be made at that time because, normally speaking, only the Antique Puerh Vintages were called "Hao" such as Songpin Hao (Chinese: 宋聘號), Chenyun Hao (Chinese: 陳雲號), Jingchang Hao (Chinese: 敬昌號), etc.. Therefore, it was understandable that somebody might comment that "Yichang Hao was a gimmick".
Cloud Collecting Yichang Hao Perhaps, it was the luck of Cloud. Seven years ago, when Cloud searched for some newly made young teas for future consumption (after a long storage), Yichang Hao appeared. At that time, Yichang Hao was amazing to Cloud because it had many different shapes and grades. Yichang Hao could be tea cakes, tea bricks (Photo: Yiwu Tea Brick）or bowl teas. Different styles had many different sizes. It would be much fun to collect all these interesting teas step by step (Photo: Some Early Yichang Hao Collections. This is a "bad" habit of a collector that every single style of tea has to be collected, just like stamp collecting. Unfortunately, various kinds of Yichang Hao were sold in 2000 and some shapes had been sold out. It was not easy to collect the whole series at that time. Therefore, Cloud could only select those good and to be good for self-consumption. If Cloud has time in the near future, photos should be taken for showing you the series of Yichang Hao collected. That will become the records. The 100g Yichang Hao mini-tea cakes were noticed by Cloud under such circumstances. Cloud was attracted by its uniqueness and aging potential.
Mini-tea Cakes were Cute Traditionally, tea cakes were mainly 357g. Not like the mini liquor, Puerh tea did not have the mini-tea cake market in the past. However, Yichang Hao vitalized such market. Changtai produced these 100 mini-tea cakes for testing. From the collectors' point of views, they fitted for the purposes:-
- If Puerh tea became enthusiastic in the future, it would be a good and suitable gift because an aged 100g mini-tea cake was an intact cake (even though the presentee did not like the gift, only 100g precious aged vintage would be wasted);
- Space is limited in Hong Kong, its small size was good for storage;
- As it has small volume, the surface area to volume ratio will be larger for better aging;
- Mini stuff always gave people a cute perception.
Therefore, Cloud decided to purchase some Yichang Hao 100g mini-tea cakes for future consumption. Time went quickly. Cloud has been hoarding these mini-tea cakes for 7 to 8 years. Coincidentally, the tea also reached its 7 years of aging. 7 is a magical number of aging year.
Recently, somebody posted a thread about this tea in the Chinese discussion forum. This reminded Cloud that it was a time to check out and taste how it aged. Wow! Unbelievable. The taste was very different from what Cloud had tasted many years ago. Its "sudden" change (due to not being tasted many years) triggered Cloud to write down an Internet article to record such aging conditions for future references.
Aroma of 100g Mini-tea Cake in 2008 The aroma of Yichang Hao 100g mini-tea cake is soft and rich. Apart from that, it is also a complex and long-lasting fragrance with sweet and tempting feelings. Amazing and unforgettable! It is one of the long term self-stored tea cakes by Cloud since it was produced. The storage condition is perfect (definitely! Otherwise, why bother to store Puerh tea ourselves?). It is completely free from any unpleasant smell. The aroma has been aged into soft and gentle smell. That is gorgeous. It is very different from those astringent smell of some other young raw tea cakes.
Tea Broth Color of 100g Mini-tea Cake in 2008 Awaited tea broth is released from the boiled water. It gives light to medium red color, nearly chestnut red. This is a perfectly normal tea broth as it already had 7 to 8 years of aging. When the tea ages, the tea broth color will become deeper and deeper. This is one of the aging indicator people are waiting for.
Performance of 100g Mini-tea Cake in 2008 One can notice that the raw tea leaf materials of Yichang Hao 100g mini-tea cakes were strictly selected. From the surface of the mini-tea cake, the intact and thick tea leaves were blended with appropriate level of tea buds. This appropriate blend will enhance the overall performance of the tea sensation. In addition, this also enhances the outlook of the tea cakes. Of course, Cloud knows that the dry tea leaves have to be brewed eventually. Thus, the tea broth performance is the most important part.
There is no disappointment of Yichang Hao 100g mini-tea cake. It is wonderful. Vivid and clear tea broth gives a dynamic sensation. One can feel its sweetness under the tongue. The pleasant and soft aroma will stimulate the nose's receptors at exhalation. Tea broth is very rich and thick and full of aged Yiwu tastes and styles. It offers complete, round and rich finish in one's month after have a sip of such, excellent feeling at this moment. If one takes two more infusions, the light tea broth will show its softness. By judging its performance at this stage (i.e. no need to age for further several years), it has already equipped with great appreciation value. It is a good tea to be appreciated while hoarding.
After this trial taste, this indicates to Cloud that it is the right time to start appreciating it after 7 to 8 years of hoarding with very low consumption. As Cloud has other very aged vintages, otherwise, it would be hard for Cloud not to drink a lot of this tea starting from this year, 2008.
Further Sensation and FinishWhen Cloud exhales gently, Cloud discovers the fragrance of such is very elegant and mellow (to a certain extent). The aroma can be easily accepted and is not like some low-grade newly made tea cakes which are full of raw and green astringency (that is a low-end grass smell).
The tea broth sensation of Yichang Hao 100g is deep, long and rich. It can let you relax. The obvious Yiwu taste will touch many tea lovers' hearts as it offers a natural feeling. Even though one may appreciate it alone, there will not be any loneliness because it has a warm, complete and round elegancy. It projects the image of how those Yiwu new tea will taste in the next 7 to 8 years. It gives confidence to tea connoisseurs on those newly produced genuine Yiwu tea hoarding in their tea cellars.
Overall PerformanceAs the tea broth of Yiwu tea is quite soft and acceptable, it may cause doubts to beginners on its aging potential and ability. Certainly, the Yichang Hao 100g mini-tea cake is the pioneer of the recent young Yiwu tea. It shows the aging ability. The most important aspect is the deep and elegant sensation with its long-lasting finish. When the mouth is full of Yiwu taste, the tea connoisseur will start to understand why those antique family tea firms which produced a lot of antique Puerh vintages set up their businesses in Yiwu. When the market focuses on "Yiwu Original Mountain Wild Tea" (i.e. Green Big Tree Tea Cake), in fact, the tea leaves blending in the early Yichang Hao can also provide similar tastes. Besides, apart from 1999 Yichang Hao, the tea leaves blended in some early Yichang Hao were also good materials. At the present moment, although they may not be recognized by the market, they will showcase their strength in the future. If they are still inexpensive, it should be a part of the collections.
24 March 2008 wrote in Chinese
11 November 2008 finally translated into English
1 May 2014 added the Captured Photo 1 and Captured Photo 2
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There's something about the precision and detail of engraving that makes you search for hidden messages. Nowhere more so than in the etchings, wood engravings, prints and books of German genius Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), 122 of which are now on show at the National Library in Madrid.
You only need to head straight to his trio of master prints, Knight, Death and the Devil , Melencolia I and Saint Jerome in his Study, to be confronted with a wealth of mystery. Was Dürer aiming to produce a study of man's four temperaments, as the title of the second print and the S, for sanguine, situated to the side of the date on the first suggest? If so, why did he decide not to finish, or preserve, the fourth of the series, the choleric? What does the Roman numeral accompanying the word Melencolia mean? And above all, what sort of riddle was he posing with the magic square placed over the head of the winged woman, the rows, columns and diagonals of which always add up to 34?
The turn of the 16th century was a time full of questions without answers. Secret anabaptist societies were practicing adult baptisms behind closed doors, pigs with two heads were born, never-before-seen beasts known as rhinoceroses were arriving in Europe from the Orient and everyone was in the grip of a superstitious fear over the imminent arrival of the year 1500. And the tremors of a turbulent time were by no means unconnected with Dürer's engraving work, which provided a decent way for him to earn a living.
The exhibition begins by placing Dürer's work in its historical context, featuring a chronological journey through the different engraving schools in the Germany of the era: Nuremberg, Augsburg, Basel, Strasbourg and Saxony, where you find the work of artists such as Hans Holbein, Lucas Cranach, Hans Baldung and Albrecht Aldorfer.
Afterwards, it meanders through the life of Dürer and his wife Agnes, who had no offspring; their educational and business trips to the likes of Italy and the Netherlands; and the books that won them fame: his startling interpretation of the Apocalypse and meticulous treatise Four Books on Human Proportion, which would be published posthumously.
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Owner: Berea College
Architect: Hellmuth + Bicknese Architects and Berea College
- Students worked closely with the architects and builders to create hundreds of desks, dressers and tables for the dormitory out of wood harvested (and yarded by mule) from Berea’s newly FSC-certified forest.
- FSC-certified wood was used for all of the student-made furniture, which includes 246 Dorm Room Dressers and Desks and 12 tables for student lounges.
- Berea College had its college forest FSC certified in 2012 for the project. The Deep Green Student Residence is tracking to be LEED Platinum and may be one the highest scoring dormitories in the country. It is also in the process of achieving Living Build Challenge Petal recognition using the materials petal.
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As part of a program with Jaxa (Japanese Space Agency), Restec outsources to Geomatys the realization of a spatial data infrastructure for the vector and raster data analysis, processing and spread, in order to manage fish resources.
The solution is entirely based on Examind. Several processes are developed and exposed through the WPS interface. The data is then published through various OGC web services available in Examind, WMS, WFS and WCS.
- Expertise in Earth Observation field
- Spatial data infrastructure development
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Jackson School Scientists Work on Earthquake Hotspots in New Zealand and Japan
- Aug 26, 2021
An international team of scientists led by The University of Texas at Austin has embarked on a new initiative to create computer models that forecast the likelihood of an earthquake and its probable impact, similar to models used to predict the weather but on a longer time scale.
UT scientists will team up with researchers at universities and labs around the world to focus on three earthquake hotspots: the U.S. Pacific Northwest, New Zealand and Japan. The team also will train students, hold workshops, and recruit new computational geoscientists by drawing on overlooked talent pools and reaching out to underserved communities.
Institutions collaborating on the five-year project include UT Austin, the University of California at San Diego, Indiana University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ETH Zürich, Utrecht University, the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, the Earthquake Research Institute at the University of Tokyo, the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, and New Zealand’s GNS Science.
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Elon Musk's Starlink satellites seen during meteor shower
The reasons behind the unconventional space cargo is to experiment with the effects of zero gravity on the plants. It comes after it was revealed in October that the firm’s CEO Elon Musk apologised to his employees after smoking pot. Ultimately those behind the experiment hope to see if the plants will be genetically alter in the environment, and see if there is a way to design more resilient vegetation for areas severely effected by climate change.
Front Range Biosciences, an agricultural biotech company partnered with the University of Colorado and tech start up Space Cells to launch more than 480 plant cell cultures in an incubator made for space.
The samples will be transported aboard the SpaceX CRS-20 cargo flight that is set for March 2020.
Dr. Jonathan Vaught, Co-Founder and CEO of Front Range Biosciences, said: “This is one of the first times anyone is researching the effects of microgravity and spaceflight on hemp and coffee cell cultures.
“There is science to support the theory that plants in space experience mutations.
The delivery is set to be made in March of next year
“This is an opportunity to see whether those mutations hold up once brought back to earth and if there are new commercial applications.”
On top of hoping to examine the reaction of these plants in zero gravity the team investigating is also hoping to identify any new chemical expressions in the plants.
The company insists that the findings could have implications for their respective industries back on Earth.
The announcement of the transportation mission comes as SpaceX has announced its working on its future Starling satellites so they won’t disrupt astronomy.
President and COO Gwynne Shotwell said the problem posed to astronomy observation had been an unexpected one but pledged to solve the issue.
“We are going to get it done,” Shotwell said during a meeting with reporters at SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne.
SpaceX has already deployed 120 low orbit satellites to begin establishing its high speed internet network, and plan on launching thousands more in the near future.
Shotwell said the next batch has one satellite “where we put a coating on the bottom.”
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She noted that this is just an experiment and could not predict if it will work.
“We’re do trial and error to figure out the best way to get this done,” said Shotwell.
She insisted that the problem is being addressed: “We want to make sure we do the right thing to make sure little kids can look through their telescope” she said.
“Astronomy is one of the few things that gets little kids excited about space.”
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When talking about the affect on children viewing the satellites amongst the stars she said: “it’s cool for them to see a Starlink. But they should be looking at Saturn, at the moon. .. and not want to be interrupted.”
The coating solution being applied to one of the satellites in the third batch is just the first attempt at finding a solution for the unforeseen problem.
“No one thought of this,” Ms Shotwell said. “We didn’t think of it. The astronomy community didn’t think of it.”
The experimental coating still may affect its performance, so that is something that will be examined, Ms Shotwell admitted “It definitely changes the performance of the satellite, thermally. It’ll be some trial and error but we’ll fix it.”
The Starlink project will see a constellation of high performance satellites developed at low cost provide the basis for a new space based internet communication system.
If the project continues, as SpaceX plans, the constellation of satellites will consist of thousands of small satellites working in combination with ground receivers.
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What is dab radio? The following is a guide to dab radio, a guide to dab radio, and how to get dab radio. The purpose of this article is to explain what digital radio is, how digital radio works, and how to get digital radio. Find out more here.
Radio is not a new industry to change, it is one of the most dynamic industries on the planet. The DAB is just the latest in a long line of changes to which the industry has had to adapt, not just to survive, but also to thrive.
The purpose of this blog is to introduce the concept of DAB, what it is, and why it exists. Dab radio is merely another method of listening to the radio. It is a digital radio system, so unlike analog radios that communicate with FM/AM frequencies, DAB radios communicate with DAB frequencies instead. DAB stands for Digital Audio Broadcasting (Digital Audio Broadcasting).
What is dab radio?
Dab radio is a digital radio technology that offers a significant upgrade over traditional analog radio. Dab radio provides superior sound quality and a wider range of stations to choose from. In addition, dab radio is more efficient in terms of its use of spectrum, meaning that more stations can be packed into a given area.
DAB is an abbreviation for Digital Audio Broadcasting. It is a digital transmission standard for radio stations to transmit radio signals. It is a replacement for the older analog system that was used.
The technology was developed by the Eureka 147 consortium, which was composed of 25 European member companies. The standard was approved by the European Electronic Communications Committee (ECC) in 1994.
What is digital radio?
In the world of business, digital radio is one of the most interesting topics. The broadcasting industry has adopted it as one of its most popular trends. There have been digital radio for quite some time, but it is just now becoming widely available to a large number of consumers.
Radio is very similar to the regular radio you’re used to, but it offers a lot of benefits that regular radio doesn’t. Digital radio has the advantage of being accessible through a wide range of devices. On your smartphone, tablet, computer, or even your television, you can listen to it. There is no limit to where you can listen to digital radio.
You can also listen to more channels with digital radio than regular radio. It is possible to listen to as many channels as you want with digital radio. Those who enjoy talk shows, sports, or music will love this. Digital radio lets you listen to all your favorite stations.
What are the benefits of digital radio?
This type of radio broadcasting uses digital technology to transmit audio and data. The technology is newer and offers several advantages over traditional analog radio, including improved sound quality, more stations and features, and easier reception.
Better sound quality
Due to its higher bitrate and digital signal processing, digital radio offers better sound quality than analog radio. The result is less static and interference, and a clearer overall sound. Analog radio also offers fewer stations and fewer features.
A digital radio station, for instance, may offer multiple channels of audio programming so listeners can choose from a variety of genres and talk shows. Also, many digital radios have features such as song identification and station tagging, so you can easily find your favorite stations.
Higher signal-to-noise ratio
The higher signal-to-noise ratio of digital radio also makes it easier to receive it than analog radio. As a result, digital radios can be installed in places with weaker signal strength, such as rural areas or metal-framed buildings. Digital radio is also less likely to suffer interference from other electronic devices, such as computers and TVs.
What are the benefits of dab radio?
DAB radio enables digital audio signals to be broadcast. Compared to traditional analog radio signals, this new technology offers several advantages, including improved sound quality, a wider range of stations, and additional information about the station or song being played.
Noticeable in areas:
The sound quality of DAB radio signals is usually better than analog signals because DAB signals are less susceptible to interference. Electrical interference is especially evident in areas near power lines and cities.
One of the biggest advantages of DAB radio is the extensive selection of stations. DAB is now available in many more areas than analog. Therefore, you have a greater chance of finding a station that suits your taste, whether it’s music, talk radio, or something else.
DAB radio transmits additional information in addition to the audio signal that can be very useful. Song titles and artists can be included, and so can the station’s name. When you hear a song you like, but don’t know what it is, or if you want to find out more about the station you’re listening to, this can be useful.
How does DAB Radio work?
Use wideband spectrum
Radio broadcasts over DAB, a digital technology that uses a wideband spectrum to deliver high-quality sound. Digital radio provides superior sound quality to traditional analog radios, allowing more stations to be broadcast on the same frequency.
DAB Radio transmits multiple digital signals simultaneously using a process known as time-division multiplexing. Compared with traditional analog radio, this allows for more stations to be broadcast at the same time, and provides superior sound quality.
Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) provides superior sound quality to traditional analog radio. The perfect way to experience digital radio broadcasting is the future of radio.
What are the features of digital radio?
A digital radio broadcast uses digital technology to transmit audio signals. It is important to understand that the signal has been converted into a digital format before it is transmitted, and then it has been converted back into an analog format at the receiver. Because of this, analog radios are capable of better audio quality and more features than digital radios.
Here are some of the features that digital radio has to offer:
History of dab radio.
First introduced in the UK in 1995, DAB radio offers a more reliable and efficient service than FM radio. Since then, it has grown increasingly popular, with more and more stations offering a dab service.
Using digital signal:
An analog signal is replaced by a digital signal in DAB radio. As such, it has a lower chance of interference and can provide better sound quality. Furthermore, it uses less power than FM radio, making it more efficient.
DAB radios are available in a wide range of configurations, including portable handhelds and in-car systems. The dab radio is standard in many new cars, and there is a dab radio in over 50% of UK households.
New dab radio stations and services are being introduced all the time, pointing to a bright future for the technology. Dab is expected to replace FM radio entirely shortly.
Are DAB and digital radio the same?
Digital Audio Broadcasting stands for Digital Audio Broadcasting. It is a digital radio service that is broadcast from a network of transmitters that covers the entire UK. Through the use of digital technology, a radio broadcaster can bundle together several radio stations, a process called multiplexing.
What is the difference between a DAB radio and a normal radio?
As opposed to conventional radio signals, the DAB feed consists of a string of ones and zeroes. Thus, many stations can broadcast at the same time without interfering with each other. Depending on the transmission tower, up to 60 digital radio stations could be broadcast simultaneously.
What are the advantages of DAB radio?
Advantages of DAB Radio:
Increasing the amount of information sent over faster wavelengths results in better sound quality. A wider selection of channels is available thanks to digital platforms. Many radio stations have preset channels (similar to your TV), so you don’t have to manually search for new radio stations.
Does a DAB radio need WiFi?
For the DAB radio, do you need WiFi? Not at all. The radios on this list, including some of the newer DAB radios, can be connected to the internet to stream music from services like Spotify and BBC iPlayer.
Do DAB radios pick up all stations?
In most cases, poor tuning or reception will be the cause of your DAB radio not picking up stations. Your DAB reception can be improved in a few ways, depending on the type of system you have. Check your aerial if you have a portable DAB radio.
What is the introduction of the radio?
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(CBS4) - Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers are watching a 4-year-old gray wolf via a GPS collar. The wolf named "M2101" was spotted in north-central Colorado in late January.
Officers say it was with another wolf known as "M1084" from the Snake River pack in Wyoming.
CPW has a contracted company which helped net and tranquilizer the animal. The wolf was able to free itself from the net, and walked over the Colorado-Wyoming state line before it was "subdued."
CPW says it alerted Wyoming Game and Fish about the operation.
Officers were able to place the collar on the wolf and watched it until it woke up and walked away. They say it weighs about 110 lbs. and appears to be in good health.
The goal is to learn more about the animal's movement, range and behavior.
The gray wolf is listed as state endangered species. It is illegal to kill one other than for self defense.
Last November, Colorado voters approved a measure by a razor thin margin that requires Colorado Parks and Wildlife to come up with a plan to reintroduce and manage gray wolves.
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“Uh, uh, uh,” I hear the warning in three short grunts. I turn quickly to find out what my not-quite-two-year-old grandson is doing.
My quickness is due first to fear for his safety and secondly for the life of whatever he might be holding in those chubby little fingers. But touching what a baby should not is what babies do. It’s born into their genes. That little finger wants to touch a big no-no even though the result will be a lot of doo-doo.
His intent gaze breaks from the white vase on my coffee table to his Mommy’s stern eyes.
“No-no,” she says. “No touchy.”
For a moment his finger hovers in mid-air, half the distance to the goal line where a very desirable breakable thing sits. One that Grandma should know better than put where she did.
Then as if that offending hand had acted on its own, a decision is made. He quickly shoves it behind him and makes a 180 away from the breakable vase. Little feet blur a path to the other side of the room, where he bumps into his grandpa and swings up into his arms. The no-no is forgotten in the laughter and embrace of someone who loves him.
I guarantee however, without the big people around to keep him from picking up that vase, one touch would have led to the next step. My grandson would have held my vase between those two chubby hands. Not only would break the rules and break the vase apply, but my grandson could have gotten hurt had he dropped it.
Leviticus, read without context has some what appears to me as seriously odd passages. There is a lot of blood, more information than I prefer to know about perversions, infections and a thousand rules.
Touching was a big thing in Old Testament law and culture. One touch against God’s commands and it defiled the entire person.
Interwoven throughout the “don’t touch” admonitions are the words, “I am the Lord.”
- “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. And you shall observe all my statutes and all my rules, and do them: I am the Lord.” Lev. 19:36-37 (ESV)
- “Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God.” Lev. 20:7 (ESV)
- “I am the Lord who sanctifies you, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I am the Lord.” Lev. 22:32-33 (ESV)
The impact of those words, “I am the Lord,” interspersed between laws reminded the Israelite people of not only His right to make the rules, but of His purity, untainted by sin’s stain.
God detests the barrier of sin brought on by Adam and Eve’s first disobedience to the “No touchy.” God demonstrated His love by making a way to bridge the gulf, so a holy God and a guilty child can touch in relationship.
“I am the Lord,” reminded them of a God who cared for them and did the right thing for them, but was not compromised by any caress of evil. God’s rules, which we like little children sometimes chafe at, display God’s infinite grace.
I see myself in my grandson. I am aware of my tendency to reach a tentative finger toward some action or attitude I should never touch. He wants to spare me the intense grasp of something that would distance us. Interlaced within stuff hard to understand, God demonstrates mercy impossible to comprehend.
I get that sometimes obedience owes no explanation. We learn it because it is right.
The more I know of my New Testament Jesus the greater is my embrace of the deep mercy underlying God’s Old Testament rules. They point to Jesus. Like a child confronted with a “no touchy,” God’s words lay the foundation for wisdom to do a 180 from sin and run right into the open arms of His love. | <urn:uuid:84fc68e5-84e5-495f-9196-a1445b3455f8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sylviaschroeder.com/dont-touch/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.966578 | 911 | 1.632813 | 2 |
With all businesses, the ultimate goal is to grow the business exponentially while providing a valued product or service to the consumers. As many business owners and entrepreneurs have learned, you must make investments in the business in order for it to grow.
Investing in employees is one of the largest investments an owner can make for the growth of the business, and that is reflected by the cost.
Virtual Assistants are beneficial for a large variety of reasons, but affordability is one of the most appealing factors. When compared to a local employee, investing in a dedicated virtual assistant will save you tens of thousands of dollars a year!
Take a look at this cost comparison chart. We used the average salary of an administrative assistant for this comparison, which is on the cheaper side and doesn’t cover all the tasks a VA is able to manage! | <urn:uuid:0621c9e2-2468-4493-94bd-058662bc958c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://revaglobal.com/blog/virtual-assistant-cost-comparison/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.963072 | 169 | 1.507813 | 2 |
- BODY CLUE
Listen to body clues and make a safer you!
Do you leap for joy like a dolphin or feel butterflies in your tummy when you are worried? Our clever bodies talk to us all the time. What’s My Body Clue will help you work out all the secret messages they send and what they mean.
The interactive poster helps children to identify their physical reactions to emotions, gently introducing the concept of self-awareness and body safety to young minds. Body clues are being taught in schools to help students make safe choices. What’s My Body Clue? is a great way to gently introduce the subject area to your child and begin the dialogue around safety themes.• 40 game cards (20 pairs)• Poster• Parent Guide• Kids’ Tips• Lunch box noteMINDFUL MEStart your day with a mindful mantra!
Build alphabet knowledge and help your Explorer find their quiet place with this 26-piece jigsaw puzzle. Flip the puzzle pieces to discover mindful mantras and use the stickers to help set a mindful focus for the day.
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Hybrid - some facts about Environmental issue
The hybrid vehicle typically achieves greater fuel economy and lower emissions than conventional internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs), resulting in fewer emissions being generated. These savings are primarily achieved by three elements of a typical hybrid design:
Relying on both the engine and the electric motors for peak power needs, resulting in a smaller engine size more for average usage rather than peak power usage. A smaller engine can have less internal losses and lower weight.
Having significant battery storage capacity to store and reuse recaptured energy, especially in stop-and-go traffic typical of the city driving cycle.
Recapturing significant amounts of energy during braking that are normally wasted as heat. This regenerative braking reduces vehicle speed by converting some of its kinetic energy into electricity, depending upon the power rating of the motor/generator;
Other techniques that are not necessarily 'hybrid' features, but that are frequently found on hybrid vehicles include:
Using Atkinson cycle engines instead of Otto cycle engines for improved fuel economy.
Shutting down the engine during traffic stops or while coasting or during other idle periods.
Improving aerodynamics; (part of the reason that SUVs get such bad fuel economy is the drag on the car. A box shaped car or truck has to exert more force to move through the air causing more stress on the engine making it work harder). Improving the shape and aerodynamics of a car is a good way to help better the fuel economy and also improve vehicle handling at the same time.
Using low rolling resistance tires (tires were often made to give a quiet, smooth ride, high grip, etc., but efficiency was a lower priority). Tires cause mechanical drag, once again making the engine work harder, consuming more fuel. Hybrid cars may use special tires that are more inflated than regular tires and stiffer or by choice of carcass structure and rubber compound have lower rolling resistance while retaining acceptable grip, and so improving fuel economy whatever the power source.
Powering the a/c, power steering, and other auxiliary pumps electrically as and when needed; this reduces mechanical losses when compared with driving them continuously with traditional engine belts.
These features make a hybrid vehicle particularly efficient for city traffic where there are frequent stops, coasting and idling periods. In addition noise emissions are reduced, particularly at idling and low operating speeds, in comparison to conventional engine vehicles. For continuous high speed highway use these features are much less useful in reducing emissions.
Gift for car lovers
What to buy a gift for fans of the automotive industry? Contrary to appearances, the possibilities are really a lot. We can decide to choose the professional literature, which concerns a favorite of the recipient by the model or brand of the car. When you want to select a small gift, certainly a great idea is to choose a key ring or other gadget that the person receiving the gift from us can be attached to keys to the car. Very nice idea on the web, but also a fun gift for a fan of the automotive industry is a shirt with an appropriate inscription. Here we can choose a really different graphics and manufacture of t-shirts with fun prints more than one person can really surprise. This t-shirt is a cool gift for a friend, brother or boyfriend.
Internet offers on a variety of vehicles
On the Internet you will find plenty of offers for the sale of cars or motorcycles. Are other machines are also sold via the Internet? Although the most popular among seeking enjoy the used cars or motorcycles, not missing the willing also to agricultural machinery or construction. Despite the fact that the probability of purchase of certain machines is really small (their price is huge), it should put an ad on the Internet to find potential customer. Websites, offering mediation between the seller and the customer also offer sales of smaller machines, such as the recently popular quads. | <urn:uuid:20f3f604-f1e0-445c-a602-d7bb5529f843> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://djsnake.com.pl/keep-engine-in-your-car-in-a-good-shape/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.949509 | 815 | 4 | 4 |
Bullying: Seeking to harm, intimidate, or coerce (someone perceived as vulnerable).
Cyberbullying: The use of electronic communication to bully a person, typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature.
Defining what makes a bully seems easy enough, but it is imperative, however, to realize that these definitions only touch the surface of an extremely complex and knotted web of perception and morals. Bullying, especially of LGBTQ youth, is responsible for countless suicides and is generally detrimental to the mental health of impacted youth.
Tragedy in the Wake of Bullying
In 2014, the world was shocked to hear the disturbing news that 17-year-old Michelle Carter coaxed her boyfriend, 18-year-old Conrad Roy, to commit suicide through a series of malicious text messages. She was convicted of homicide and was originally sentenced to 2.5 years in prison in 2017. Her sentence was reduced to 15 months plus 5 years of probation. On Jan. 23, 2020, Carter was released early for good behavior.
On Sept. 23, 2019, death by suicide claimed another victim — this time not from the technology of texts, but through an unceremonious outing of Channing Smith’s sexuality — as his sexually explicit texts with another boy were released through a host of social media platforms.
The nature of outing and the fact that in the click of a button, Channing Smith’s entire school became aware of his sexuality caused him great humiliation. “I really hate how I can’t trust anyone because those I did were so fake,” Channing wrote shortly after. “Bye.” What followed was a fateful decision that would forever devastate his loved ones. “My brother committed suicide because of the actions of two kids that he trusted that turned personal screenshot messages over to social media in a deliberate attempt to assassinate his character,” his older brother, Joshua Smith, said in the days following Channing’s death by suicide.
The Smith Family was unhappy with the handling of the case by the school. Little was revealed during the investigation, but in the end, there were no charges brought against any of the involved teens.
The laws on bullying vary state-to-state, and the laws are completely dependent on the actions taken. If someone hurts another person physically, then assault statutes may apply but not necessarily. Additionally, stalking laws are in effect in all states, but that doesn’t necessarily include incessant texting or DM’ing via social media. Many states include explicit reference to electronic forms of bullying known as cyberbullying but don’t make the connection between the legal intent to harass. In every state except for Montana, schools mandate an “anti-bullying law” and have formal policies to help with the identification of what constitutes bullying behavior. Policies on when, where and how formal or informal disciplinary action is taken do exist. But there is no federal standard.
Some laws require a school’s bullying policy to contain certain element, such as defining “bullying,” where others do not include this specification. In some states, anti-bullying laws specify that schools may discipline students on their terms as long as the terms are appropriate and consistent. Federal case law allows schools to discipline students for off-campus behavior if the disruption to the learning environment is prominent.
All of that’s to say problems arise in an area of law with so little specificity and federal standards.
The human brain doesn’t fully develop until the average age of 25. From the onset of puberty, throughout teen years, and into the mid-20s, the brain is taking in information and making decisions based on maturity. Rational choices can be more difficult for adolescents.
When a brain is not fully mature, the prefrontal cortex is not as functional as it will become by age 25. Because of this biological fact, we know that impulse control is more difficult for adolescents to navigate successfully. In simple English, it is easier for adults to resist peer pressure, control spontaneous impulses and be more “level-headed” than a teenager.
When a teenager’s brain is still developing, bullying affects cortisol levels and the body’s stress response system. Trauma stemming from chronic bullying can affect the structure of the brain, according to an international study conducted at King’s College in London. These findings mirror the research of changes in a brain’s architecture in a child who has experienced neglect or abuse by adult caregivers.
An international study conducted at King’s College in London shows that long-term changes to the structure and chemistry of the brain show the dire effects bullying creates. In these studies, the stress hormone, cortisol, is the substance that chemically alters brain development. Cortisol is released as part of the body’s stress response and is regulated by the hypothalamic-pituitary area in the brain. The hypothalamic area is an almond-sized region near the base of the brain, which helps regulate vital sensory data such as sleep, temperature, hunger, thirst, emotions, and others. Higher levels of cortisol allow the body to operate at a higher performance when it is exposed to a stressful situation. Chronic stress (such as constant bullying) can have an opposite effect, which could allow the body and brain never fully to deactivate from a stressor response.
Suicide Rates and Statistics
Suicide is the second leading cause of death among young people ages 10 to 24. LGBTQ youth, however, are even more at risk than their heterosexual peers. They are almost three times more likely to contemplate suicide and almost five times more likely to have attempted suicide than heterosexual youth. Also, LGBTQ youth suicide attempts are almost five times more likely to require medical treatment. These suicide attempts by LGBTQ youth and questioning youth are four to six times more likely to result in injury, poisoning or overdose that requires treatment from a doctor or nurse, compared to their straight peers. In a national study, 40 percent of transgender adults reported having made a suicide attempt. Ninety-two percent of these individuals reported having attempted suicide before the age of 25. LGBTQ youth who come from highly rejecting families are eight times as likely to have attempted suicide as their peers who reported no or low levels of family rejection. Each episode of LGBT victimization, such as physical or verbal harassment or abuse, increases the likelihood of self-harming behavior by 2.5 times on average.
A Yale University study discovered that those who are bullied are between two and nine times more likely to consider suicide than non-victims and that 10-14-year-old girls may be at an even higher risk for suicide.
Recently, ABC News reported that 160,000 kids stay home from school daily because of a fear of bullying. Thirty percent of students in schools are either bully victims or bullies themselves.
Nowhere to Hide
Unlike in my era, in today’s social media, texting and an instant-access technology world, there is nowhere to hide for an adolescent who’s bullied at school. In my day, and I’m only 39, a kid could stay home from school, skip and go to the movies or, better yet, make friends with a teacher who lets them stay in study-hall all day. Today, without you even knowing it, your life can be displayed on a billboard for the entire school to see within nanoseconds, and bullies can you reach you through multiple apps on your phone and your computer.
This new reality of bullying is why a) the laws need to catch up with the impact of modern-day bullying and b) parents, educators and administrators need to all be vigilant to spot the signs of bullying and to not play it off as “kids will be kids.” The mental health of our younger generation is dependent on our defining this area of law and designing laws that will ensure bullies suffer real consequences for their actions.
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BOUNTIFUL, Utah – A Bountiful woman filming Sunday’s storm on her phone caught the moment lightning struck the local temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Brittany Haslam said at first she didn’t realize what the lightning hit. It wasn’t until she went back and viewed the video in slow motion that she saw it hit the LDS temple.
Temple neighbors say the spire was hit twice Sunday afternoon. The second strike hit with such force, it blew off two large pieces of the fiberglass Angel Moroni Statue that sits on top of the building.
Jay Wiseman said it’s not the first time they’ve seen lightning strike.
“I think he’s been hit three times, we’re not sure,” Wiseman said. “The guys at the temple kind of keep track. It’s never really blown anything off before, this time was a pretty good sized boom.”
Multiple lightning strikes isn’t all that surprising when you consider the gold-leafed temple topper is designed to be a lightning rod. The majority of the modern LDS temples are topped with an 800-pound Moroni statue.
According to a 2009 LDS church publication, the statues have copper rods running through to catch electricity.
An LDS church spokesperson would not comment on the extent of damage or what they plan to do about it, but neighbors in the area say there had already been some talk among those who work in the temple about whether to re-leaf the statue or replace it during upcoming renovations on the temple.
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Here we will look at faux fur pillow covers and protectors and understand what they are, how they work, and of course, the benefits they have.
What are the faux fur pillow covers and covers – Faux fur cushion covers are accessories designed to protect your pillow from bed bugs, mites, and build-up of dust and dirt. You can buy a maternity pillow for a good night's sleep during pregnancy. However, being dirty can pose a lot of health risks.
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Many modern pillowcases and protectors protect more than just your pillow. They can also provide great comfort while making sure you fall asleep and most importantly, sleep as long as you need.
The best pillowcase benefits – Protection against allergens: House dust mites and other common household allergens can have a strong influence on people with allergies. However, the cover is usually made of a material that prevents allergens from sticking to the pillow.
Insect Repellent: Bed bugs are tiny insects that like to make pillows in their homes. Bed bug infestations can have serious health consequences because bed bugs feed on blood for animals and humans.
Improve Pillow Life: Whether you have a maternity orthopedic pillow or a pillow-shaped one, these are less likely to wear out. If you're careless, your favorite pillow could become unusable sooner than you expected. You can even search online for more information about faux fur pillow covers. | <urn:uuid:c3662492-c66e-44a1-9dbb-a6a288f8db2e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://greenolivescafephilly.com/tag/best-online-home-decor-stores/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.955189 | 296 | 1.554688 | 2 |
2015 A3.0 Forum
On Monday 16 November, a lively Australia 3.0 forum took place at Data61/NICTA's HQ in Eveleigh. The topic entitled "The Lucky Country Disrupted" was a play on Donald Horne's 1964 book "The Lucky Country" suggesting that Australia's days of riding a wave may be nearly over.
The panel consisted of David Rohrsheim, GM Uber Australia and New Zealand, Jason Clare MP, Shadow Minister for Communications and Nick Abrahams, author "Digital Disruption in Australia". The panel was moderated by Sandy Plunkett, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Consultant and National Committee member of the Pearcey Foundation.
The wide ranging discussion covered political, economic, cultural and social issues.
Australia is fortunate in many ways and has some pretty good value systems. But the flip side is is complacency. For example, there's little cultural encouragement to start a new business. And even if one does, they may be judged within a "corridor of comfort". The high achievers may be branded as a tall poppy. The ones that fail may be stigmatised.
Uber was used as an example of new technologies changing the world. The Uber experienced has shown just how unprepared Australia is for disruption. Whilst regulation plays a part, some of the backlash has been from vested interests unwilling to embrace change. Many companies are unprepared for new technologies or markets, as can be seen by looking at company boards which often lack directors with significant technology understanding and experience.
Whilst Silicon Valley is held as the poster child for new businesses, other parts of the US are similar to Australia and wondering how to invigorate their innovation sector. Singapore and Israel are often held up as examples. But these are cases of governments playing a large role. The change of federal leadership has been positive as the government seems more savvy about technology and the innovation community. Though the innovation community doesn't rely on government encouragement. Nevertheless, the entrepreneurial community needs to lobby government in a much more structured and forceful way especially to better counteract the status quo.
The role of government is important to look at how technology can improve productivity and standards of living. But the challenge is which levers to pull. In the rush to embrace technology, it may be a mistake to push one type of technology. There are many aspects, taxation, investment, social obligations, intellectual property, access to data, regulatory controls, skills and other issues that need to be considered.
Overall, there was some feeling of optimism. We have many great examples of Australian technology companies that have gone global. In the new digital era, distance is no longer such a handicap and direct on-the-ground sales force not so important.
Whilst this event didn't solve any problems, it did serve to gain some perspective on where Australia is, and should be heading. It is another step on the process of policy debate and formulation. Which is subtle, complex and human centric.
- Colloquiums and Roundtables
- 2017 A3.0 Roundtable
- Digital disruption 2015 – it’s real and it’s now!
- Reshaping ICT Summit 2015
- 2013 Australia 3.0 Forum
- WCC2010 National debate on publically-funded ICT R&D in Australia - where is it headed?
- 2008 Innovation Roundatable
- 2007 National Pearcey Debate
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This post will discuss the Branch loan limit and everything you need to know about increasing it.
As you all know, Branch International is a FINTECH firm that specializes in providing instant mobile loans to customers in Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, and India through a mobile app.
Branch has offices in all four countries where they have been operating for over six years. They have seen a lot of success in these countries, and they’re only going to continue growing.
Now back to what brought you here.
What is the Branch app loan limit?
Let’s talk about it.
How much is the Branch Loan Limit?
Like traditional banks and SACCOs, the Branch loan app has loan limits. This limit is the minimum and maximum amount of money a customer can borrow.
The branch loan limit currently ranges from Ksh. 250 to Ksh. 100,000. However, the maximum or minimum amount of money you can borrow from the loan app depends on your borrowing habits, credit score, and other factors.
Continue reading to find out how you can increase your branch loan limit.
How do I know my loan limit Branch?
Your loan limit on the branch loan app is the amount of money you can borrow from the app. This limit is based on your credit score, loan repayment history, and other borrowing habits.
You can find out your loan limit branch by accessing your account on the Branch app. To do so, open the loan app and tap on “Loan Limit.” This will bring up a screen with your current loan limit and other important information about your account.
How do you qualify for a branch loan?
The branch loan app uses complex computer algorithms, among other factors, to determine your loan qualification and your loan limit. Some of the factors that the loan app use to determine your loan qualification include:
1. Your CRB Status
Branch uses your credit score to determine how risky lending you money is. A good credit score shows that you’re a low-risk borrower and are more likely to repay your loan on time. This will increase your chances of getting a higher loan limit from the app.
2. Your Monthly income
The loan app will also consider your monthly income when determining your loan limit. Your income is a good indicator of your ability to repay the loan on time. If you have a higher income, you’re more likely to get a higher loan limit from the app.
3. Your repayment history
Your repayment history will also be considered when your loan is being processed. The lender wants to know if you have an account of on-time payments or if you’ve had any late fees or defaults in the past.
If you have a good repayment history, this will show that you’re likely to repay your loan on time, too. This will be a positive factor for the lender when considering your application.
However, if you have a poor repayment history, this will count against you and mean that you’re not approved for the loan. So, it’s essential to make sure that your payments are always on time.
4. Your current location
Another factor that the Branch app considers is your current location. This is because the app wants to ensure that it’s lending money to people who are physically close to one of their branches.
This is because they want to ensure that they can provide you with customer service and support if you have any issues with your loan.
5. Mpesa transactions messages.
The app will also collect your Mpesa transaction data to determine your loan limit. They want to see if you have a history of sending or receiving money through Mpesa.
This data is used to help the app determine if you’re a low-risk borrower or not. If you have a good history of Mpesa transactions, this will be a positive factor when choosing your loan limit.
6. The type of phone that you are currently using.
I know this may sound funny, but it’s true. The app will also consider the type of phone you are currently using.
They want to make sure that you’re using a smartphone compatible with their app. If you’re using an older model phone, this may be a negative factor when determining your loan limit.
7. Lastly, but most importantly, the information you feed the app during sign-up
Yes, the information you feed the app during sign-up is also used to determine your loan limit.
So, it’s essential to make sure that you provide accurate and up-to-date information about yourself when you’re signing up for the app. This will ensure that you get a precise loan limit from the app.
To qualify for a loan from the Branch app, you need to own a good smartphone with a valid phone number, Mpesa account, a National ID, and lastly, a Facebook account social. This is hilarious! Is it?
How do I increase my branch loan limit?
To increase your branch loan limit, you need to improve your CRB credit score, pay your current loans on time, and use the loan app more oftenly. This will show the Branch that you are a responsible
The good news is that you can increase your branch loan limit by following a few simple steps.
- Make sure that you have an excellent CRB credit score.
- Paying your current loans on time will improve your Branch credit score and, in turn, increase your loan limit.
- Use the Branch app more often to show that you are responsible and can be trusted with a higher loan limit.
- Use Mpesa regularly and keep the transaction messages.
- Download and keep the branch loan app on your phone. This is to help the app to get to know you better financially.
- Apply and repay loans on the app regularly to gain their trust.
- Invest in a good smartphone.
- You can also ask the customer service representative to increase your loan limit. They may be able to help you out if you have been a good customer.
Does Branch check CRB?
The Branch app uses your CRB credit score to determine your loan limit and qualification. If you have an excellent CRB credit score, you are more likely to qualify for a loan and have a higher loan limit. However, the CBK ordered to prevent Branch checking CRB score, but this might change anytime.
You can check your CRB credit score by visiting the website of any of the three major CRB bureaus in Kenya. These include:
- Creditinfo CRB Kenya.
- Transunion Kenya CRB
- Metropol CRB
If you have a low CRB credit score, you may want to improve your credit score before applying for a loan from the Branch app.
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You finally have your own place and your own in-home washer and dryer -- and you're the only one using them! You no longer have to contend with other people's germs or frayed clothing leaving bits of threads over everything, so your dryer isn't going to clog up with lint, right?
That's not quite true. Even washing only your own clothing can produce enough lint to fill up the lint tray in your dryer. And if you think that you won't have to empty that dusty lint filter before drying your clothes, think again. Leaving even one load's worth of lint on the lint screen can create problems.
Blocking Air Flow
The immediate issue is that lint blocks air flow through the screen. That affects air flow throughout the dryer, resulting in a load of clothing that doesn't dry properly. You end up having to do a second drying cycle that is both annoying -- it takes up more of your time than you wanted to devote to laundry that day -- and it uses up more electricity or gas. Removing the lint from the screen in the tray before starting the dryer ensures that air won't be blocked as it tries to flow through the system.
Creating Fire Risks
Another problem if you let lint build up is that it is highly flammable. If a thick layer of lint remains on the screen, bits of lint can start to overflow out of the lint tray area. When exposed to high heat, the lint can catch fire. While this does not happen every time you leave lint on the screen, of course, it's a dangerous risk to take. Not cleaning the vent will also cause the vent from behind the dryer to the outside of the house clogged causing another fire hazard and the expense of having to hire a duct vent cleaning company.
Instead of assuming things will be fine, make it a habit to check the lint screen both before and after you dry your clothes. Remove all the lint you can find so that your latest load of laundry goes well. If you remove the lint and find your laundry still isn't drying well, contact us today at Professional Appliance Repair in Metairie or New Orleans. Get that dryer fixed quickly so that laundry doesn't become a chore in every sense of the word. | <urn:uuid:cf82f2b2-e18d-4b9c-942b-c5bf16bc336e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://proappliancefix.com/blog/why-you-need-to-clean-the-lint-filter-everytime | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.949894 | 482 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Music Together: Piano Ensemble Camp
Meets W/F for 3 weeks, June 8-24, 2:00-3:00 PM
- 100 US dollars$100
Coming together to make music is one of the most rewarding opportunities for musicians. Summer is a great time to make it happen for our students because schedules allow for more time to practice and play together with duet or small ensemble partners. This camp was created to offer a unique experience for piano students who usually perform and practice solo work. Students must have taken at least one year of lessons, and must be okay'd and recommended by private teacher to participate. MAKE teachers will communicate with each camper's teacher to coordinate appropriate ensemble assignments according to level and ability. Each ensemble will work toward playing their piece together. Sessions include coaching for each group. Direction will be provided throughout the course of camp so that students can meet attainable goals between each coaching session. | <urn:uuid:46a72754-a555-411f-8d34-98362ce5e9a7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.makecarrollton.com/service-page/music-together-piano-ensemble-camp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.959353 | 191 | 1.59375 | 2 |
THE ROSSACHER COLLECTION
The Rossacher Collection is devoted to the Baroque art of preparatory design and was compiled between the 1950s and the 1970s. At first, Kurt Rossacher (1918–1988, scholar in German studies, art historian and art dealer) and his wife Else (1919–1995) collected without any plan. Enjoyment was their only motive from the start. In 1970, Kurt Rossacher transferred the collection to the City and Land of Salzburg on the condition of establishing an autonomous museum for it. The opening of the Salzburg Baroque Museum in the former orangery of the Mirabell Gardens took place on 23 July 1973. In 2012, the Rossacher Collection was integrated into the Salzburg Museum; the outside branch was closed on 2 September 2012.
Designs can take the form of oil sketches and hand drawings, also sculptor’s models (“bozzetti”) in clay or wood. They act as the creative initial spark firing new works of art or commissions and are almost always small in format. To understand their essence better certain concepts can help, such as “The Birth of a Work of Art” or “Prima Idea” – the initial idea, the initial image (for an artwork). Many a design was a kind of “job application”, created to convince a possible patron. From the artistic point of view they involve swift sketches, to wit, “thrown-down” thoughts (German for “design” is “entwerfen”, to “throw away”.) This spontaneous, impulsive and simultaneously expressive element makes a very "modern" impression, even after 300 years.
The collection consists of 139 oil sketches, 164 hand drawings, 42 sculptor’s bozzetti and 9 artefacts from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Most of the objects are allotted to the Italian art scene. The collection contains works by Peter Paul Rubens, Luca Giordano, Paul Troger, Johann Michael Rottmayr, Martino Altomonte, Carlo Innocenzo Carlone and Michael Zürn the Younger. Since the collection focus is on the artistic sketch or design, only few graphic works are found in this collection. Pre-eminent exceptions are The Princely Master Builder by Paul Decker and the treatise “Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum” by Andrea Pozzo.
The Rossacher Collection was in part bequeathed, in part purchased by the City and Land of Salzburg as a life annuity. Several artworks were purchased with the museum’s own funds. 2015 saw the purchase of the last work of art.
Transparency and function
Every year and a half, the Salzburg Museum puts on thematic exhibitions with the Rossacher Collection in the North Oratory of the Salzburg Cathedral, part of the DomQuartier in Salzburg. Moreover, the museum is pleased to loan individual objects to special exhibitions.
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BEIJING (AP) — Global stock markets were mixed Wednesday after Wall Street sank despite an emergency U.S. interest cut aimed at defusing fears the virus outbreak might stunt global economic activity.
London opened lower while Germany advanced. Shanghai gained, Sydney and Hong Kong declined and Tokyo was little-changed.
Seoul’s benchmark surged 2.2% after the government announced a spending package to pay for medical supplies and aid to businesses hurt by the virus.
Markets appeared to be unimpressed by a pledge Tuesday from the Group of Seven major industrialized countries to support the global economy that included no specific measures.
On Wall Street, the benchmark S&P 500 index tumbled 2.8% despite the Federal Reserve’s surprise 0.5% rate cut. It was the index’s eighth daily decline in nine days.
China, Australia and other central banks also have cut rates to shore up economic growth in the face of anti-virus controls that are disrupting trade and manufacturing. But economists warn that while cheaper credit might encourage consumers, rate cuts cannot reopen factories that have closed due to quarantines or lack of raw materials.
“Despite the Fed cutting rates in support of the U.S. market, fear had clearly returned to reign in the markets,” Jingyi Pan of IG said in a report.
More reductions may give “limited support,” Pan wrote. “Perhaps besides vaccines, there may be little quick and easy solution to easing the shock for global markets.”
In early trading, London’s FTSE 100 lost 0.3% to 6,700.71 while Germany’s DAX added 0.2% to 12,010.94. France’s CAC 40 shed 0.2% to 5,359.75.
On Wall Street, the S&P 500 future rose 1.5% and that for the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 1.6%.On Tuesday, the Dow sank 2.9% and the Nasdaq composite fell 3%.
U.S. markets have fallen 11% since setting a record two weeks ago.
On Wednesday in Asia, the Shanghai Composite Index gained 0.6% to 3,011.67 while the Nikkei 225 in Tokyo added 0.1% to 21,100.06. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng shed 0.2% to 26,222.07.
The Kospi in Seoul rose to 2,059.33 after the government announced a $9.8 billion spending package to pay for medical supplies and aid to businesses that are struggling with disruptions to travel, auto manufacturing and other industries.
Despite the extra spending, the virus “poses a major downside risk” to Korean economic growth, Rajiv Biswas of IHS Markit said in a report.
Market benchmarks in Singapore and the Philippines declined while New Zealand, Indonesia and Malaysia rose.
In another sign of U.S. investor caution, the yield on the 10-year Treasury sank below 1% for the first time in history. It was at 0.95% early Wednesday.
A smaller yield — the difference between the market price and what investors receive if they hold the bond to maturity — indicates traders are shifting money into bonds as a safe haven out of concern about the economic outlook.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell acknowledged the ultimate solution to the virus challenge will have to come from health experts and others, not central banks.
The Fed has a long history of coming to the market’s rescue with lower rates and other stimulus, which has helped this bull market in U.S. stocks become the longest on record.
On Monday, the Dow recorded its biggest daily gain in more than a decade on rising anticipation for coordinated support from the Fed and other central banks. Even before Tuesday’s announcement, traders were convinced he Fed would cut rates by half a percentage point on March 18 at its next meeting.
The U.S. rate cut was the Fed’s first outside a regularly scheduled meeting since the 2008 global crisis. That prompted some traders to think the Fed might foresee an even bigger economic impact than markets fear.
Benchmark U.S. crude gained 8 cents to $47.26 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 43 cents on Tuesday to close at $47.18. Brent crude, used to price international oils, added 1 cent to $51.87 per barrel in London. It fell 4 cents the previous session to close at $51.86 a barrel.
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Office towers and nearby businesses in central business districts are missing out on the strong economic recovery, largely because the rise in vaccinations and easing of mask restrictions haven’t propelled most employees back to work.
Fewer than three out of 10 white-collar employees were working at the office on average in 10 major U.S. cities, including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., according to Kastle Systems. The nationwide security company monitors access-card swipes in more than 2,500 office buildings in cities across the country.
As of last week, an average of 31% of office workers had returned to the workspaces they occupied before the Covid-19 pandemic, according to Kastle.
The number of employees who are back in the office has been inching up since vaccines began rolling out in the U.S. In some cases, employees have pushed back on their employers’ requests to return. In others, companies are waiting until the fall—when vaccinations will be even more widespread and schools will be in session—to more widely reopen offices.
Office workers “are not coming back in force yet,” said
Kastle’s chairman. “Habits that have been formed over the last year and a half are going to take a while to break.”
Largely empty office buildings stand in contrast to crowded restaurants, full airline flights and bustling sports arenas. Some are now operating around full capacity.
The sluggish pace of returning office workers is delaying more robust reopenings in cities such as New York, San Francisco and Chicago by extending the struggle of small businesses in mostly empty business districts.
Several factors are making it hard for some businesses to get employees back to the office. Most workers prefer to work from home some or all of the time, according to many surveys, and some are now pushing back when their employers tell them of plans to reopen office spaces.
Some continue to have health concerns, and some don’t want to be vaccinated, as companies navigate whether to mandate vaccinations and allow for some exceptions.
A few high-profile companies like
in San Francisco and
JP Morgan Chase
& Co. in New York City have started to reopen offices to employees who have been working from home. However, fewer than 21% of workers in those two cities are back in the office, according to Kastle.
Many companies expect the pace of return to accelerate in September when many schools reopen in full, and the summer travel season comes to an end. A survey of employers by the Partnership for New York City, a business group, found that 62% projected their employees would be back in offices in September, up from 45% in March.
But for now, city office towers haven’t experienced the meaningful bump in worker return that many hoped for once the health threats from Covid-19 began to dissipate. The shops and restaurants that rely on office workers as their main customers are left wondering “where are all the office workers,” said James Mettham, executive director of New York City’s Flatiron-23rd Street business improvement district.
Before the pandemic a workforce of about 100,000 would commute into the Flatiron area daily. Today most of the office workers haven’t returned, he said.
“Everyone knows full well that unless we’re getting a much bigger chunk of those 100,000 people, it’s going to be difficult to continue,” Mr. Mettham said.
Office return has been mostly piecemeal. Salesforce.com, San Francisco’s largest private employer, began reopening its offices there last month on a voluntary basis. So far only 200 of its 10,000 workers in the city have returned.
The national return-to-work average hit a post-pandemic low of 14.6% in April of 2020, according to Kastle.
Law firm Sills Cummis & Gross, which has offices in New York and Newark, N.J., started bringing back employees this month, managing partner
said. He said the plan was complicated by finances, politics, health and human nature.
“You have to respect the psychological and emotional pieces of it,” he said.
Throughout the pandemic, a wide gap in office return rate has developed across different parts of the country.
Texas cities have led the pack partly because they are less dense, and workers are less reliant on public transportation. Those disparities have widened even more in recent weeks, as the country has reopened. In Austin, Dallas and Houston the return rate is in the high-40% range, more than double that in San Francisco and New York, according to Kastle.
Part of the difference is “Texas swagger,” said
III, chief executive of Carr Properties, which owns about 4.7 million square feet of office space. The sentiment is, “Let’s get back quick, and get back to normal,” he said.
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plans to start bringing back nonessential workers in North America this summer, though the pace is likely to vary because of vaccination rates, said
an executive vice president.
Lenovo’s sprawling Morrisville, N.C., campus is in a state that dropped its mask mandate in mid-May. Lenovo’s Canada offices may open later because the vaccination rate has been slower in that country.
Sills Cummis started opening its New Jersey office this month but will wait until July to open in New York because of differences in density and worker reliance on mass transit. “The buildings in the city are higher. The elevators tend to be more crowded. There’s more likelihood of being in close quarters,” Mr. Crane said.
Write to Peter Grant at [email protected]
Corrections & Amplifications
As of last week, an average of 31% of office workers had returned to the workspaces they occupied before the Covid-19 pandemic. An earlier version of this article and a photo caption incorrectly said the percentage was as of Monday. (Corrected on June 15)
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Caine class Troop Transport
|Caine class |
Bright Conclave vessel.
|Type: RT Liner|
|Hull Configuration||[[Cylinder Hull]]|
|Streamlining||Partially Streamlined Hull|
|Fuel tank||0 Tons|
|Architect fee||MCrRonald B. Kline, Jr.|
|Quick Ship Profile||Not applicable|
|Canon||Published, fan design|
|Reference||Ron Kline Design|
|Starships are designed with the Classic Traveller format, using High Guard Shipyard v1.13 written by Andrea Vallance.|
The ODS class are converted from long-range paramilitary transports and carry enough internal fuel for two Jump-2s and a reserve Jump-1. They can be fitted with drop tanks as needed in order to cross larger rift zones. The design includes scoops and onboard purification for wilderness refueling, should that opportunity present itself. The craft is capable of 2-G acceleration giving good performance within the gravity wells of most gas giant worlds.
The vessel is fitted with 100 low berths and has sufficient accommodations to house 100 middle passengers and 100 high passengers. It is fitted with a pair of Model/5fib Computers, a remnant of its paramilitary origins and former role as a troop transport. The thick bulkheads and hatches are utilitarian and the entire vessel lacks the style and grace of similar purpose-built liners. It carries twenty 20 dTon Marrel Veckor class Lifeboats. ODS class vessels have multiple hardpoints but are not routinely armed.
An ODS class Light Liner, a converted military transport used as part of the Orowani Deep Space Fuel Cache.
The ODS class Liner is a partially streamlined cylinder with a mean diameter of 28 meters and a length of around 130 meters. Some elements of the hull are narrower and some are wider, giving the vessel a total enclosed volume of approximately 81,000 cubic meters.
Much of the interior space is given over to the vessels large fuel tanks, which form the majority of the central and rear sections of the ship, though access ways and workstations are located among them. The cargo hold includes the cryogenic (low berth) section. Working sections of the vessel such as the laundry, the galleys and general crew quarters are located aft. Senior officers are accommodated forward, close to the bridge, while stewards have rooms close to passenger cabins. Middle passage accommodations are found in the less desirable midsection of the vessel while first class cabins are located forward. There is a primary mess hall and an exercise deck.
Basic Ship Characteristics
Following the Imperial Navy and IISS Universal Ship Profile and data, additional information is presented in the format shown here. The small craft factor indicates the number of squadrons (of ten craft) carried on the ship. Tonnage on the universal ship profile is shown in kilotons (thousands of tons) where necessary.
|1.||Tonnage / Hull||The ODS class Light Liner is constructed using a 6000 dTon hull built in a cylindrical configuration. The hull is partially streamlined, giving a reasonable atmospheric performance that is fundamentally reliant on its gravitic systems.|
|2.||Crew||Total Crew Complement: x63
|3.||Performance||The vessel mounts a DeVoss-type Jump-2 drive, a Maneuver-2 drive and a Power Plant-2, giving performance of jump-2, 2-G acceleration, and producing 120 Energy Points. The ship has an agility rating of 1 and an emergency agility of 2. The internal fuel tankage is sufficient for two consecutive Jump-2s and one additional Jump-1 and gives the power plant 6 weeks duration.
|4.||Electronics||Adjacent to the bridge is a Model/5fib Computer: no backup computer is installed.|
|6.||Armament||The ODS class is unarmed.|
|7.||Defenses||The hull is unarmored.
The vessel is not fitted with screens or other passive defensive systems.
|9.||Fuel Treatment||The vessel has internal fuel tankage of 3,180 dTons.|
|10.||Cost||The basic cost of the vessel, complete with its complement of subcraft, is MCr3,288.104.|
|11.||Construction Time||160 weeks (40 months) as standard.
|12.||Comments||Standard cargo capacity amounts to 220 dTons.|
History & Background (Dossier)
ODS class Liners are former Bright Conclave troop transports converted for use with the Orowani Deep Space Fuel Cache, a deep-space Calibration Point that was constructed to allow access to the remote Sarunt system (1939 Halcyon), the homeworld of the Treehangers. The class were originally designed to operate within the Great Void, a huge rift region lying rimward of the Distant Fringe, and as such were perfectly suited to their role.
All of the vessels used to create the ODSFC were at the end of their working lives when they were purchased. Each was prepared (primarily through making repairs and removing superfluous equipment, plus the addition of powerful communications and sensor suites) and then jumped to interstellar hex (1937 Halcyon). Since then much of their internal heavy equipment has been stripped out, while their internal drive tankage has been added to the cache's overall fuel holding capacity. None of the vessels are in good condition and entire sections are sealed off, unable to maintain internal environmental conditions.
Distant Fringe Vessels
The Distant Fringe is said to be a far spinward-rimward area inhabited by colonists and refugees originating on Terra. The region is extremely isolated, separated from the rest of Charted Space by vast, almost uncrossable rifts that were once broached by a system of calibration Points and the use of tankers. Those few academics within Charted Space who have found references to the Distant Fringe regard it as little more than a tall tale. Likewise, many of the inhabitants of the Distant Fringe believe the existence of Charted Space to be mythical.
Vessels originating within the Distant Fringe are very rarely encountered outside of the region. However, misjumps do occur and anomalies with bizarre spacetime and Jumpspace effects exist: as such, craft of this type are not entirely unknown within Charted Space.
Class Naming Practice/s & Peculiarities
A number of companies manufacture ships equivalent to the ODS class. They vary in hull shape and internal layout but all share the same basic design and all have very similar capabilities and performance characteristics.
- Each variant class is named by the company that produces it: these organizations generally draw on traditional naming protocols. It is not uncommon for a historical class name to be reused.
- Individual vessels within a class are issued specific serial numbers and transponder codes but traditionally are named by their first crew, though from a list of approved options. This is considered a serious affair and a ship with a frivolous name is considered "unlucky".
Selected Variant Types & Classes
- Type R class Liner
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The feeling in the gathering place of my 50th-year high school reunion last evening was congenial and happy, a perfect example for me of how age is related to wisdom. There were comments that spoke of what a good and caring education we received in high school, the benefit perhaps of membership in a small class of 82 students. There were some specific common memories of events and some still etched in only one or two of our minds but nothing mattered except that our shared experience was celebrated and had created a bond that was still apparent in the joy of being together. It was in the looking back, taking the long view, that the essence of “us” came to light without the necessity of a lot of words.
In some way this morning’s reading from the Hebrew Scriptures gave me the same sense. It is from the Book of Wisdom, always a clue pointing to deep meaning. The feelings it elicited from me were remembrance, gratitude and deep peace. Here is what it says:
Before the Lord the whole universe is as a grain from a balance or a drop of morning dew come down upon earth. But you have mercy on all, because you can do all things; and you overlook people’s sins that they may repent. For you love all things that are and loathe nothing that you have made; for what you hated, you would not have fashioned. And how could a thing remain, unless you willed it; or be preserved, had it not been called forth by you? But you spare all things, because they are yours, O Lord and lover of souls, for your imperishable spirit is in all things! (WIS 11: 22 – 12:1) | <urn:uuid:845d74d5-ad27-4ae2-9163-a072512723a0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thesophiacenterforspirituality.wordpress.com/2016/10/30/the-wisdom-of-age/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.982937 | 350 | 1.539063 | 2 |
This week got away from me. It was Monday one day and Friday the next. I’m not sure what happened to the middle, but it must have sped by in there somewhere. It got me to thinking about Einstein and his theory of time. He said time slows as you go faster. For example, if we were in a rocket ship going faster than the speed of light, we would not age at the same rate as those left back on earth. When we got back, they’d be much older or gone and we’d only be a few days older.
I think we all experience Einstein’s theory to some degree throughout our lifetimes. Not only does time slow when we go faster, but it speeds up when we move slower. When we are young, we move fast that time slows down as we speed around keeping up with all of it. As we age, we slow down and time speeds up.
The summers that lasted forever when we were children are the same number of days when we are older. In our younger days, we played and ran for seemingly endless days, and our school years lasted a good long while too. We were moving and active, had places to go and people to see, college to prepare for and jobs to get. We were busy but managed to get it all in.
Later in life, how often have us Boomers/grandparents commented on how the summer seems to fly by? Not only that, but the years seem to fly by too. Our lives are slower paced than before, but there’s never enough time to do it all. We wonder how we got it all done before. Time for us is speeding up.
Einstein had it right. Time is truly variable, depending on the place and situation we are in. Ben Franklin was also right: “do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.” Now go out and make it a fabulous week!
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The world’s largest oil-exporting region, the Middle East, aims to become a major exporter of clean green hydrogen energy. The biggest oil producers in the Arabian Gulf have jumped on the hydrogen bandwagon – especially its so-called green variety produced from electrolysis of water using solar or wind electricity – such as gaining momentum with governments and the world’s largest international oil companies.
Hydrogen is expected to play a leading role in reducing carbon emissions from energy intensive industries. And the Middle East does not want to miss this opportunity.
On the one hand, he wants to show the whole world that he can export clean energy – not just crude oil – as the global energy transition accelerates. On the other hand, the oil-dependent economies of some of OPEC’s largest producers are determined to diversify into green energy exports and move away from oil.
Last week, two announcements of green hydrogen projects in the Middle East made headlines: Dubai launched the region’s first industrial-scale green hydrogen project, while Oman announced its intention to build one of the largest green hydrogen plants in the world.
Dubai, one of the emirates of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which is currently OPEC’s third-largest oil producer, launched the first industrial scale solar powered green hydrogen installation in the Middle East and North Africa in collaboration with Siemens Energy, Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) and Expo 2020 Dubai.
Related: Gasoline Shortages Still Persist After Post-Colonial Pipeline Hacked
During the day, the plant uses part of the photovoltaic electricity of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum solar park to produce green hydrogen by electrolysis. At night, green hydrogen is converted into electricity to supply the city with sustainable energy, explains Siemens Energy.
The solar park is expected to generate up to 5 gigawatts (GW) of clean energy by 2030 as the world’s largest single-site solar park.
Companies in the region, international technology partners and analysts believe that Dubai and the entire Middle East have a bright future in solar power generation, given the abundance of sunshine in the region.
“Against the backdrop of low electricity costs for solar PV and wind power in the region, hydrogen has the potential to be a key fuel in the energy mix of the future and could open up opportunities for energy export for areas with access to an abundance of renewable energy. energies, ”said Siemens Energy.
UAE could become an exporter of hydrogen, said Christian Bruch, CEO of Siemens Energy, Dan Murphy of CNBC in a interview this week.
“I think it has to be, it will be, it should be, one of the future key business models in the UAE and the wider region, to also be, in the future, an energy exporter to the world. “Bruch told CNBC.
Another Middle Eastern oil producer, Oman – not a member of OPEC but part of the OPEC + alliance – also made a major announcement regarding green hydrogen this week.
Related: WATER: Oil Demand Has Already Raised To 95 Million Bpd
Oman’s state energy company OQ, Hong Kong-based green fuel developer InterContinental Energy and Kuwaiti government-backed clean energy investor and developer EnerTech have announced a plan to one of the largest facilities of green hydrogen in the world. The plant will be powered by 25 GW of renewable energy and could cost up to US $ 30 billion.
“Considering the site’s strategic location between Europe and Asia, as well as the excellent solar irradiance and wind resources facing the Arabian Sea, the development is well placed to provide a secure supply and reliable green fuels on a global scale at a very competitive price ”, InterContinental Energy mentionned.
“Alternative energies are a key driver of OQ’s long-term growth and a cornerstone of its strategy. It is also in line with the country’s ambitious Oman Vision 2040 which aims to diversify the country’s resources and maximize the resulting financial value, ”said Salim Al Huthaili, CEO of Alternative Energy at OQ.
The region’s largest oil producer and the world’s largest exporter of oil, Saudi Arabia is also eyeing green hydrogen projects and a share of the emerging clean hydrogen market.
NEOM, the future sustainable city promoted by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, sign Last year, a deal with Air Products and Saudi ACWA Power for a $ 5 billion green hydrogen ammonia project, which will export the product.
All of these plans suggest that the Middle East oil powerhouse is not immune to the energy transition and growing global demand for clean energy products.
By Tsvetana Paraskova for OilUSD
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There’s a good deal of buzz today about”cleansing systems” as a way to cleanse your entire body. Exactly what does this mean? Ultimately, cleansing means reducing the pressure load on the body’s major filters; the liver, kidneys, lymph, colon and bloodstream, and permitting it to rid itself of accumulated garbage and wastes. Just like any machine, the body requires maintenance.
These are one kind of maintenance that could have long-term advantages. Two significant benefits when you cleanse your body are fat reduction and relieving the load on your immune system. There are two primary styles of cleansing. One style focuses on a single organ of the body. The other concentrates on performing a whole body cleanse. Let’s discuss both types so that you can choose which type suits your cleansing fashion. There are two main forms of colon cleanses. One often uses clay or fiber together with a great deal of water to make bulk.
That gives the muscles of the colon longer to push and thus more wastes are transferred from the body. Including enemas, colonics, colon therapy and colon irrigation. A soothing flow of filtered, temperature-controlled water gently circulates throughout the colon, coaxing your body to eliminate stored toxins from various areas. Some other cleansing systems concentrate on a single organ of the body.
Skin brushing is a sort of cleanse on the biggest organ of the body. The skin is the largest organ of elimination. Brushing the skin eases cleansing by stimulating the lymphatic system to eliminate toxins through the skin. Additionally, it improves circulation and eliminates dead skin cells and debris that clog pores. There are also cleanses that concentrate on the liver. The liver is easily the most overworked organ of the body. Because it’s to filter wastes in addition to produce many substances for the body, cleansing can lower some of its own weight.
There are a variety of recipes on the web for a do it yourself flush The lymphatic system is supposed to be the mover so mobile wastes into the blood and then into the kidneys and colon for elimination, but it needs exercise to do its job as it doesn’t have any pump, like our circulatory system. One way to stimulate the lymph and help it do its job would be to jump on a rebounder or mini trampoline. Jumping rope or rocking back and forth in a rocker will also offer a number of the muscle movement necessary for the lymph to pumped through the body.
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There’s also a massage only for the lymph. I recommend that you search for a trained practitioner if you would like a lymphatic massage. There are numerous cleansing systems which do a whole body cleanse. The macrobiotic diet popularized by Michio Kushi uses food as a means to cleanse and balance the entire body over time. This is a really old sort of diet and I mention it here since I’ve been on this diet and have seen some remarkable results from it. It has to be supervised and followed quite strictly to get the best outcomes.
It’s a excellent way to uplift the entire body. There are numerous products on the marketplace which are reported to cleanse your body right down to the cellular level. It’s worth taking time to get the ideal product which supports the organs of detoxification and the body a whole as it goes through the process of discharging wastes stored within the cells. Depending on the product this sort of cleansing can go from days to months and may involve fasting and purges. Some goods will deplete the body as you cleanse with the hope of preventing it following the cleansing is completed, but that is very harsh on the body.
It’s much better to do a cleansing that both supports and cleanses in precisely the exact same time and is gentle on the system. I’ve done that and seen amazing results from a complete body cleanse. With this sort of cleansing system you spend a few days drinking a specially formulated cleansing mixture which helps your body release wastes since it supports your organs of elimination. You then replenish your body with highly nutritious shakes and meals. That’s followed by drinking the cleansing drink for 2 more days. It’s a brief and very effective program. Fortunately, the human body is a self-healing machine! That’s right, if you care for it, it is going to provide you an excellent life. I can not think of a better way to help your organs of elimination than to use a cleansing system to perform a whole body cleanse. When you cleanse your body, you may add years of living. | <urn:uuid:ab373eaf-1832-43ff-a9b5-64e7e0a66536> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wikibooks.co/which-cleansing-system-is-right-for-me/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.95027 | 971 | 2.21875 | 2 |
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That Dáil Éireann approves the exercise by the State of the option or discretion under Protocol No. 21 on the position of the United Kingdom and Ireland in respect of the area of freedom, security and justice annexed to the Treaty on European Union and to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, to accept the following measure:
Council Decision (EU) 2015/1523 of 14 September 2015 establishing provisional measures in the area of international protection for the benefit of Italy and of Greece,
a copy of which was laid before Dáil Éireann on 24 September, 2015.
I thank Members for making time today to discuss these motions concerning Ireland opting in to two EU Council decisions that provide for the relocation from Italy and Greece of persons in clear need of international protection. As Deputies will be aware, Ireland is not automatically bound by EU measures in the area of freedom, justice and security under the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which includes the asylum area, but may opt in to any measure where it wishes to do so. It is clearly apparent that Europe is facing an unprecedented migration crisis. This is a humanitarian crisis which has continued to escalate and to which there are no simple answers. Both Italy and Greece have experienced unprecedented flows of migrants over the past 18 months in particular, placing significant pressure on their migration and asylum systems. Since the beginning of the year, approximately 116,000 migrants have arrived in Italy in an irregular manner and more than 211,000 have arrived in Greece.
As Members are aware, to date, the Government has been working proactively with its colleagues in Europe to ensure that Ireland and the European Union respond comprehensively to this critical humanitarian crisis facing Europe. Ireland has played its part and many months ago sent some of our naval vessels, including the LE Eithne and subsequently the LE Niamh and the LE Samuel Beckett, to the Mediterranean to carry out vital rescue missions to ensure the safety of many people. These vessels have rescued people in truly horrific conditions, with examples of individuals sitting in tiny dinghies that are completely unseaworthy with petrol spilling into them and people being burnt and unable to move, of young children being on board them, of numbers on vessels far exceeding their carrying capacity and of people being kept in situations in which they could not move and had no chance of surviving when the vessels got into trouble. People have been found in truly horrific positions and I must condemn unequivocally the smugglers who are involved in this regard. Ireland has sent its naval vessels and through Irish Aid, the Government's development co-operation programme, it has been supporting efforts to assist the Syrian people. This measure will see the provision of €41 million in support by Ireland. Deputies will also have noted the decision made by the Council meeting of all the EU Prime Ministers to allocate €1 billion in aid to the refugees and, in particular, to help ameliorate the position within the refugee camps, which had deteriorated. This substantial funding was agreed after the meeting to which I refer and is important in dealing with the many different aspects of the humanitarian crisis.
The decisions being discussed today form part of a package of measures introduced by the European Commission in response to this crisis. The first decision, which was adopted by the Justice and Home Affairs Council of 14 September 2015, provides for the relocation of 40,000 people in clear need of international protection over a two-year period, that is, 24,000 from Italy and 16,000 from Greece. The distribution of these persons was agreed by consensus by member states in July and, under that proposal, Ireland agreed to accept 600 people in the first instance. Since the July meeting, the influx of refugees through the western Balkans in particular has increased dramatically. While there has been a stabilisation in the numbers of people crossing the Mediterranean, there have been huge increases of those coming via the Balkan routes and, consequently, it has become clear that significant further measures were needed. Accordingly, at a further emergency Justice and Home Affairs meeting on 22 September, a second decision which provides for the relocation of a further 120,000 people in clear need of international protection was adopted. In this decision, 66,000 of the 120,000 people will be relocated from Italy and Greece initially. As for the balance of 54,000 people, these will either be relocated from other member states coming under pressure in the future, if necessary, or, alternatively, they could be relocated from Italy and Greece. That number came about because Hungary decided in latter weeks that it did not wish to be a country from which refugees would be relocated and that redistribution of 54,000 people is to be decided. The distribution of the persons to be relocated across member states is set out in the annex to the decision. Ireland has not been included in the annex because we did not opt in to the proposal before it was adopted. It is estimated that Ireland's allocation under this decision would be in the region of 1,850 people.
Three weeks ago, the Government agreed, in response to the crisis situation, to establish an Irish refugee protection programme and to accept up to 4,000 persons overall under the EU resettlement and relocation programmes. Resettlement is when refugees who are already in the camps come to us and relocation pertains to those people who have arrived across the borders in Italy and Greece in particular. Included in the 4,000 people the Government has agreed to accept are 520 people it has agreed to resettle in Ireland from the refugee camps, 600 people to be relocated under the Council's decision of 14 September and 1,850 people who are expected to be relocated under the Council's decision of 22 September. The make-up of the balance is yet to be decided. It is important to note that persons accepted here under these programmes also have an entitlement, once their protection claims are processed, to apply for family reunification if they wish to so do, thereby further increasing the numbers accepted by Ireland. The 4,000 agreed to is in addition to those who reach our shores directly to claim protection. Again, Members will be aware that numbers of people arrive here and claim asylum. Those numbers, in line with the rest of Europe, have increased substantially from the beginning of this year, admittedly from a low base. Ireland has seen probably an increase of 50% in those claiming asylum and that is a separate tract to the subject under discussion this morning.
A task force has been established to co-ordinate and implement the logistical and operational aspects associated with this programme. I chaired the first meeting on 16 September, which was a large meeting attended by all the main Departments that will be involved in providing supports, as well as the agencies, the Red Cross, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR, and others. The Irish people also have also shown great generosity in offering support and assistance of all types including accommodation, support to families and children and clothing. There have been thousands of offers of accommodation and the Red Cross has been given the task of drawing together these offers of assistance in a cohesive manner. On Monday last, the Red Cross launched its website to enable members of the public to formally register their pledges. I suggest to Deputies that people who offer help or support should be advised to give their pledge to the Red Cross - which can assess those offers of help - because obviously one must consider the appropriateness and sustainability of all such offers and how they might be taken up, probably more in the medium to long term rather than immediately. I thank the Red Cross for taking on this role.
At its meeting, the Government also approved the establishment of a network of emergency reception and orientation centres for the initial acceptance and processing of those in need of international protection who are accepted into Ireland under the EU programmes. I note the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality heard a presentation yesterday from the two agencies involved and I understand there was much discussion of and detail provided on preparedness at that meeting. The Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner, which also was present, has put in place various initiatives to ensure it is ready to deal with the situation. In view of the profile of the relocation applicants, I expect they will have their applications for protection processed in a matter of weeks and that many will be granted status. This is a new programme by the European Commission. It is not like relocation, where refugee status has been granted previously nor does it pertain to asylum seekers arriving directly in one's country. It is about people coming to Ireland, who had arrived in another country, with the expectation that the vast majority are refugees and will be assessed as such.
We have all been shocked and upset at the scenes witnessed in southern and central Europe and the distressing scenes during rescues in the Mediterranean.
Ireland has always lived up to its international humanitarian obligations as is evidenced by our resettlement programmes which has seen almost 500 people resettled here since 2009, our sending of naval vessels to assist in search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean, unlike other countries, and the introduction of a Syrian humanitarian admission programme, SHAP, last year which involved 114 persons being granted permission to come to Ireland.
By opting-in to these decisions we will not only provide a safe haven for families and children who are forced to leave their homes due to war and conflict but also show solidarity with other EU member states whose protection systems are under enormous pressure due to the large influx of migrants. I commend the motions to the House. | <urn:uuid:a6c3bd95-3e97-4e32-988b-b0d9606338e6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.oireachtas.ie/ga/debates/debate/dail/2015-10-01/16/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.97491 | 1,917 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Import And Export Procedures In India
Businesses planning to set up a trading company, or start importing or exporting from India, must understand the stages and stakeholders involved in the process, as well as the regulatory framework and documentation required.
In India, the imports and exports are regulated by the Foreign Trade (Development and Regulation) Act, 1992, which empowers the federal government to make provisions for development and regulation of foreign trade. The current provisions relating to exports and imports in India are available under the Foreign Trade Policy, 2015-20.
Typically, the procedure for import and export activities involves ensuring licensing and compliance before the shipping of goods, arranging for transport and warehousing after the unloading of goods, and getting customs clearance as well as paying taxes before the release of goods.
Below, we outline the steps involved in importing of goods.
1. Obtain IEC
Prior to importing from India, every business must first obtain an Import Export Code (IEC) number from the regional joint DGFT. The IEC is a pan-based registration of traders with lifetime validity and is required for clearing customs, sending shipments, as well as for sending or receiving money in foreign currency.
The process to obtain the IEC registration takes about 10-15 days.
2. Ensure Legal Compliance Under Different Trade Laws
Once an IEC is allotted, businesses may import goods that are compliant with Section 11 of the Customs Act (1962), Foreign Trade (Development & Regulation) Act (1992), and the Foreign Trade Policy, 2015-20.
However, certain items – restricted, canalized, or prohibited, as declared and notified by the government – require additional permission and licenses from the DGFT and the federal government.
3. Procure Import Licenses
To determine whether a license is needed to import a particular commercial product or service, an importer must first classify the item by identifying its Indian Trading Clarification based on a Harmonized System of Coding or ITC (HS) classification.
ITC (HS) is India’s chief method of classifying items for trade and import-export operations. The ITC-HS code, issued by the DGFT, is an 8-digit alphanumeric code representing a certain class or category of goods, which allows the importer to follow regulations concerned with those goods.
An import license may be either a general license or specific license. Under a general license, goods can be imported from any country, whereas a specific or individual license authorizes import only from specific countries.
Import licenses are used in import clearance, renewable, and typically valid for 24 months for capital goods or 18 months for raw materials components, consumables, and spare parts.
4. File Bill Of Entry And Other Documents To Complete Customs Clearing Formalities
After obtaining import licenses, importers are required to furnish import declaration in the prescribed Bill of Entry along with permanent account number (PAN) based Business Identification Number (BIN), as per Section 46 of the Customs Act (1962).
A Bill of Entry gives information on the exact nature, precise quantity, and value of goods that have landed or entered inwards in the country.
If the goods are cleared through the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) system, no formal Bill of Entry is filed as it is generated in the computer system. However, the importer must file a cargo declaration after prescribing particulars required for processing of the entry for customs clearance.
If the Bill of Entry is filed without using the EDI system, the importer is required to submit supporting documents that include certificate of origin, certificate of inspection, bill of exchange, commercial invoice cum packing list, among others.
Once the goods are shipped, the customs officials examine and assess the information furnished in the bill of entry and match it with the imported items. If there are no irregularities, the officials issue a ‘pass out order’ that allows the imported goods to be replaced from the customs.
5. Determine Import Duty Rate For Clearance Of Goods
India levies basic customs duty on imported goods, as specified in the first schedule of the Customs tariff Act, 1975, along with goods-specific duties such as anti-dumping duty, safeguard duty, and social welfare surcharge.
In addition to these, the government levies an integrated goods and services tax under the new GST system. The IGST rates depend on the classification of imported goods as specified in Schedules notified under Section 5 of the IGST Act (2017).
Just as for imports, a company planning to engage in export activities is required to obtain an IEC number from the regional joint DGFT. After obtaining the IEC, the exporter needs to ensure that all the legal compliances are met under different trade laws.
Further, the exporter must check if an export license is required, and accordingly apply for the license to the DGFT.
An exporter is also required to register with the Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC), which issues the Non-Preferential Certificates of Origin certifying that the exported goods are originated in India.
Import And Export Documents
Businesses are required to submit a set of documents for carrying out export and import activities in India.
These include commercial documents – the ones exchanged between the buyer and seller, and regulatory documents that deal with various regulatory authorities such as the customs, excise, licensing authorities, as well as the export promotion bodies that help avail export import benefits.
The Foreign Trade Policy, 2015-2020 mandates the following commercial documents for carrying out importing and exporting activities:
- Bill of lading or airway bill;
- Commercial invoice cum packing list;
- Shipping bill or bill of export, or bill of entry (for imports).
Additional documents like certificate of origin and inspection certificate may be required as per the case.
The important regulatory documents include:
- GST return forms (GSTR 1 and GSTR 2);
- GSTR refund form;
- Exchange Control Declaration;
- Bank Realization Certificate; and
- Registration cum Membership Certificate (RCMC).
The RCMC helps exporters and importers avail benefit or concession under the Foreign Trade Policy 2015-20, which has been extended up to September 30, 2021 to provide a stable regime during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Launch Of The Indian Customs Compliance Information Portal
The Central Board for Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) launched the Indian Customs Compliance Information Portal (CIP) in 2021 to provide free access to information on all Customs procedures and regulatory compliance for nearly 12,000 Customs Tariff Items.
The CIP is a facilitation tool that allows interested persons to stay up-to-date with information on the legal and procedural requirements of India’s customs authorities and regulatory government agencies for carrying out imports and exports. The portal will provide complete knowledge of all import and export related requirements for all items covered under the Customs Tariff thereby improving the ease of doing cross border trade.
When using the CIP portal, one can simply enter either the Customs Tariff Heading (CTH) or the description of the goods in question to get information on step-by-step procedures, regulatory compliances requirements like license, certificates, etc., for imports as well as exports. This includes import and export through posts and courier, import of samples, reimport and reexport of goods, self-sealing facility for exporters and project imports.
Another important feature of the CIP is a pan India map showing all the Customs seaports, airports, and land customs stations etc. It also contains addresses of the regulatory agencies and their websites.
Various Measures Taken By India For Promotion Of Exports
- Extension of the Foreign Trade Policy 2015-20 to September 30, 2021.
- Schemes, such as the Advance Authorization Scheme and the Export Promotion Capital Goods (EPCG) Scheme, to enable duty free import of raw materials and capital goods for export oriented production.
- The Interest Equalization Scheme, which provides pre and post shipment Rupee export credit, and has been extended up to September 30, 2021.
- Remission of Duties and Taxes on Exported Products (RoDTEP) scheme, operationalized for exports with effect from January 1, 2021.
- Extension of the Rebate of State and Central Levies and Taxes (RoSCTL) Scheme for apparel and made-up exports till March 2024.
- Transport and Marketing Assistance (TMA) scheme for specified agriculture products, which provides assistance for the international component of freight and marketing of agricultural produce and to promote brand recognition for Indian agricultural products in specified overseas markets.
- A Common Digital Platform for Issuance of Certificates of Origin has been launched to increase Free Trade Agreement (FTA) utilization by exporters.
- Districts across India are being promoted as Exports Hubs by identifying products and services with export potential in each district (One District One Product / ODOP initiative), addressing bottlenecks for exporting these products/services and supporting such local exporters/manufacturers through institutional and strategic interventions. District specific export action plans for 478 districts have been prepared. The Department of Commerce is focusing on agriculture crops via a cluster approach for support for exports under the Agriculture Export Policy. This complements the cluster approach for the development of specific agriproducts in districts having a comparative advantage by the Ministry of Agriculture.
- Market Access Initiative Scheme is an Export Promotion Scheme that provides financial assistance to eligible agencies like Export Promotion Organizations/Trade Promotion Organizations/National Level Institutions/ Research Institutions/Universities/Laboratories, Exporters etc. The scheme is formulated on focus product-focus country approach to evolve specific market and specific product through market studies/survey.
- A working group on infrastructure upgradation has been constituted under National Committee on Trade Facilitation (NCTF) and a National Trade Facilitation Action Plan (NTFAP) has been formulated. This includes measures for improving road and rail connectivity to ports and smart gates at sea ports. The government wants to cut down export-import related red tape by 2022 and make cross-border trade easier for businesses. As per reporting on Livemint, “one key target is to reduce cargo release time to 12 hours for outbound air cargo and 24 hours for outbound sea cargo. The target is 48 hours for inbound sea cargo and 24 hours for inbound air cargo.” | <urn:uuid:d7f520a8-f583-434c-bb9a-b219e29d5714> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://corporatelivewire.com/top-story.html?id=imports | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.90897 | 2,147 | 2.28125 | 2 |
According to an "extremely credible" source, amateur biologist Karl Shuker notes that the Mongolian Death Worm may or may not exist, but if it does, it's totally freaky.
In 2002, Karl Shuker published his book "The Unexplained: An Illustrated Guide into the World's Paranormal Mysteries." Within this book, Shuker depicts a creature called the "Mongolian Death Worm." This bizarre animal seems like a fever dream that came straight out of a 1970s Sci-Fi movie (actually, this was the inspiration behind the Sarlac in Star Wars), but quite a few groups of people actually believe in this animal's existence.
Evidently, this worm can be up to three feet long, is dark red in color, and it has spikes protruding from both sides of its body. It is rumored to exist in the Gobi desert, however, there has never been an inkling of proof that it exists.
According to mythology, the Mongolian Death Worm has very sharp teeth and a powerful jaw (worms don't have jaws, just roll with this one) that can bite your foot off cleanly if you're unlucky enough to stomp on it. Additionally, the tail end of the worm is rumored to carry an electrical charge that's as strong as a stun gun. If you catch a glimpse of this worm's face, according to mythology, this worm will spray corrosive acid at you like a venomous pool noodle.
Some of the local population of the Gobi desert swears that this creature is real, but, with no scientific evidence of its existence, it is unlikely that the Death Worm will ever be discovered by a credible scientist. | <urn:uuid:3c67c9d6-38fa-48f8-86e2-7018bbf34e02> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://upbeatnews.com/what-is-the-mongolian-death-worm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.964337 | 348 | 2.609375 | 3 |
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The Pilgrimage (i.e. hajj)
Pilgrimage is one of the five pillars upon which the structure of Islam is built on. Its steps are clearly mentioned in Quran and it must fulfill certain rites in particular places and times in order to be complete.
The Pilgrimage (i.e. hajj)
The Arabic word hajj, i.e. the pilgrimage, originally means ‘to go for a definite aim’. In Islamic contexts it means ‘an act of worship through the fulfilment of certain rites in particular places during a specified period of time, in accordance with Allah’s messenger’s practice.
Importance: The pilgrimage is one of the five pillars upon which the structure of Islam is built.
‘And [due] to Allah from the people is a pilgrimage to the House - for whoever is able to find thereto a way. But whoever disbelieves – then indeed, Allah is free from need of the worlds.’
‘Perform to their completion both the pilgrimage and the 'umrah purely for Allah’s sake’
:Allah also says
‘Proclaim to all people the duty of pilgrimage. They will come to you on foot and on every kind of fast mount. They will come from every far-away quarter, so that they might experience much that shall be of benefit to them, and that they might extol the name of Allah on the days appointed [for sacrifice], over whatever heads of cattle He may have provided for them. Eat, then, of such [sacrificed cattle] and feed the unfortunate poor’
As we have already noted,the hadith that mentions the five pillars of Islam includes the pilgrimage as one of them: ‘The structure of Islam has been built on five pillars: testifying that there is no deity other than Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him), attending regularly to prayers, paying the zakat, making the pilgrimage to the House, and fasting in Ramadan.
The Muslim community is unanimous that the pilgrimage is a duty incumbent on everyone who is able to undertake the journey, physically and financially at least once in a lifetime.
Many are the hadith that speak of the importance of the pilgrimage and its great reward.
:Abu Hurayrah quotes the Prophet (peace be upon him) as saying
‘Performing the 'umrah more than once ensures the forgiveness of any sin committed in between them, and a dutiful pilgrimage earns the reward of nothing less than admittance into heaven ’
Related by al-Bukhari, hadith No. 1,773; Muslim, hadith No. 1,349
:The Prophet (peace be upon him) says
‘Whoever performs the pilgrimage, keeping it free of any lewdness and wicked conduct, returns home [after completing his pilgrimage] free of sin, just like the day he was born’
Related by al-Bukhari, hadith No. 1,521; Muslim, hadith No. 1,350
: A’ishah reports that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said
‘On no day does Allah free from hell more people than on the day of [attendance at] Arafat. Allah comes close and shows [the pilgrims] to the angels and says: What do these people want?’
Related by Muslim, hadith No. 1,348
The reference to Allah ‘coming close’ means that He bestows His grace on the pilgrims.
:Abdullah ibn Mas'ud reports that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said
‘Perform the pilgrimage and the 'umrah frequently, for they remove poverty and sins just like the furnace removes the foreign particles from iron, gold and silver. A dutiful pilgrimage earns no less a reward than heaven’
Related by al-Tirmidhi, hadith No. 810; al-Nassa’i, hadith No. 2,631
:Abu Hurayrah (peace be upon him) reports that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said
‘Those who perform the pilgrimage and the 'umrah are a delegation visiting Allah: if they pray Him, He grants their prayers and if they seek His forgiveness, He forgives them’
Related by Ahmad, hadith No. 3,669; Ibn Majah, hadith No. 2,892; al-Tabarani in Al-Mu'jam al-Awsat, hadith No. 6,311.
‘I said: “ O Messenger of Allah, we think that jihad (i.e. striving for Allah’s cause) is the best thing people can do. Should we not undertake jihad?” He said: “No, because the best type of jihad is a dutiful pilgrimage’
Related by al-Bukhari, hadith No. 1,520.
:Abu Hurayrah reported
‘Allah’s messenger was asked: “Which deed is best?” He said: “To believe in Allah and His messenger.” People said: “Which comes next?” He said: “Jihad for Allah’s cause.” People further asked: “Then which?” He said: “A dutiful pilgrimage’
Related by al-Bukhari, hadith No. 26; Muslim, hadith No. 83
Needless to say, the hadith reported by 'A’ishah applies to women. They are not required to join the Muslim army on a campaign of jihad. Their best type of jihad is a dutiful pilgrimage.
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As you drive in a state of beauty, watching a world pass through your tinted windows, Jezzine unfolds in front of you. Surrounded by mountain peaks and pine forests, Jezzine, the most picturesque town in Southern Lebanon, is famed for its glorious waterfalls that cascade down from a height of 40 meters. The town rises on the Tumat Niha hills amidst lush pine forests, sweeping vineyards, and orchards, overlooking the beautiful Bkassine forest beneath it.
The broken clouds and the serene hills around this stone castle lay soundless. The straying wind of time passed flies fast from deep within and though the shrubs desolated by time still stand, while time takes its grip, the grounds never sleep on this sullen earthly strip.
Another slow food foundation for the protection of food biodiversity is our very own keshek el foukara (poor man’s cheese). Majdel Zoun is located around ten kilometers from the ancient city of Tyre, a small village of Muslim farmers situated in a dry stony landscape. Their Keshek el fouqara in fact uses no milk, whereas keshek is commonly made with goat’s milk yoghurt.
Saida, Arabic for fishing, takes its name from the old Phoenician word sidouna, also meaning fishing. In Genesis Sidon is a son of Canaan, a grandson of Noah. One of the most important, and perhaps the oldest, Phoenician cities dating around 4000 B.C., and perhaps even earlier, in Neolithic times, it was twice destroyed in war between the 7th and 4th centuries B.C., and again during the earthquake in the 6th Century A.D. It was the base from which the Phoenician’s great Mediterranean empire grew. Of all of Lebanon’s cities this is the most mysterious, for its past has been tragically scattered and plundered.
Tyre is a fabled place where monumental ruins recall as they change character with the daylight, the grandiose architecture and the vision, which its roman conquers, acquired from the orient. It evokes in equal measure the splendors of Phoenician times and those of Rome and Byzantium.
The Ark of Taste, which is a foundation created by Slow Food International, Slow Food Italy, and the Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity, is an operational body for the protection of food biodiversity. They travel the world collecting small-scale quality productions that belong to the cultures, history and traditions of the entire planet: an extraordinary heritage of fruits, vegetables, animal breeds, cheeses, breads, sweets and cured meats. The Ark was created to point out the existence of these products, draw attention to the risk of their extinction within a few generations, and invite everyone to take action to help protect them. In some cases this might be by buying and consuming them, in some by telling their story and supporting their producers.
Qana sits in the rolling hills of the south of Lebanon, inland from the ancient port of Tyre. As you begin to head inland from Tyre towards Qana, the lush orange groves and banana plantations that hug the coastline give way to an undulating, rocky and sparsely vegetated terrain. It feels like you are taking a mystical journey into a forgotten piece of land. | <urn:uuid:1dac42c1-9172-42cc-b0bd-1e1f5e312400> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://365daysoflebanon.com/tag/south-of-lebanon/page/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.945445 | 750 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Organization Structure Analysis
1) Write a paper (1,250-1,500 words) that addresses the following:
a) Describe an effective organization’s management structure according to the content provided.
b) Compare this structure with that of your organization.
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c) Identify change management structures and procedures in place to face challenges that inevitably occur.
d) What procedures would your organization follow if, for instance, a key figure such as the CEO, CFO, etc. should announce his/her resignation? What would you do differently?
e) Identify at least three challenges presented by the 2010 Health Reform Bill and how your organization has or should address them.
2) Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
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- September 6, 2017
- by: Os Hillman
- May 17, 2022
“He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves abundance with its income” (Ecclesiastes 5:10).
A successful businessman once confided in another businessman known for his wisdom. “I’ve made a lot of money. I will soon be able to retire comfortably and do just about anything I want.”
“John,” the wise businessman replied to the man, “I’ve noticed that every time someone thinks they’ve built a tree that is so tall it almost reaches heaven, God often decides to shake the tree.”
The minute we start trusting in riches, God will, in fact, “shake the tree” to demonstrate who is the source of wealth to turn us back to trusting Him completely. He did it in my life, and He’ll do it in your life too because He loves us too much to allow us to continue down this destructive path.
Money is mentioned more than 2,000 times in the scripture. Jesus used it many times in illustrating an important lesson his disciples. He spoke often of being a good steward of the resources He entrusted to us. He wanted a return on His investment and He wanted us to stay away from making money an idol in our lives.
Jesus understood that He was here on earth only to do the will of the Father. “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; He can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does.”
As we look at our relationship to our heavenly Father and our use of money, it is clear that we, like Jesus, are here to do the will of the Father in all areas of life. This means seeking to live a life that is totally yielded to His purposes -even in the financial area.
Money, independence, and security are often the reasons many start their own businesses or change jobs. Check your motives today and see if your financial life can stand Jesus’ scrutiny. Are you operating as a steward of the financial resources He has entrusted to you? | <urn:uuid:dfbea37e-3fa8-488f-9e32-cbc718f2e78f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://todaygodisfirst.com/managing-money/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.977548 | 482 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Modern Two) until October 27
Everything connects in this major overview of the ultimate DIY artform, which brings together more than 180 works dating as far back as the sixteenth century. Back then, anatomical woodcuts with flaps to reveal bodily interiors were used as educational novelties, even as they predated the sort of paper dolls appropriated by the ultimate dressing-up-box mistress of reinvention Cindy Sherman for her short film, Doll Clothes (1975).
Sherman was one of a wave of women artists using collage in a way that opened the door for the feminist photo-montages of Linder or Penny Slinger. Along the way, an array of Dadaists, cubists, futurists and punk provocateurs mix and match words and pictures to disrupt, satirise and explode old ideas out of existence. Much of this is explicitly oppositionist, with John Hartfield’s anti-Nazi photomontages predating the likes of Peter Kennard’s Haywain with Cruise Missile (1980), while Jamie Reid’s graphics for the Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks album has its roots in Situationism.
With artists ranging from Picasso to Terry Gilliam, the umbilical links down the centuries are brought home with a narrative more straightforward than much of the work itself. One could imagine it all being housed in Peter Blake’s The Toy Shop (1962), which might be transplanted to the housing estate of Lucy Williams’ Crescent House (2015), where the peeling walls of Jacques Villegle’s Les Jazzmen (1961) might stand.
While we never quite get to the aural collages of sampling, Eduardo Paolozzi’s thirteen-minute film, History of Nothing, uses sound as well as vision to both illustrate and subvert the busy rush of a multi-tasking world. As it is, we finish with the likes of Christian Marclay, Jim Lambie and Jake and Dinos Chapman, who, in radically different ways, are still ripping it up and starting again.
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Often, if the ability is being utilized in a typical or sensible way, folks will consider it a craft as an alternative of art. Likewise, if the talent is being utilized in a business or industrial means, it might be thought of commercial artwork as an alternative of fine art.
Formalism is the analysis of works by their form or shapes in artwork history or archeology. Literature is the art of mixing spoken or written phrases and their meanings into types which have artistic and emotional appeal. Every factor and principle of a design—typography, colours, images, shapes, patterns, and so forth.—carries a visual weight.
Shape is also a significant a part of any design, each by way of specific shapes used as parts throughout the design, and the general form of the design itself. Different shapes can evoke different feelings, i.e circles are natural and fluid, while squares are extra inflexible and formal, and triangles give a sense of vitality or movement. Other rules of design are also touched upon in numerous articles on the topic. These include typography, shade, Gestalt Principles, grid and alignment, framing, and shape.
You might discover type singled out as a separate class, outlined as a three-dimensional different to form. Some also mention value, which is described as a parameter that determines the depth of shade, and sample, which refers to repetition. As you possibly can already think about, these are supposed to be the basic items deployed to represent a visual arrangement, in … Read More
However, we have been capable of construct a data of how particularly looking surfaces and supplies really feel, thanks to their palpable qualities and our experience with them. This means that translating the characteristics of a floor onto a aircraft makes us experience texture by way of imaginative and prescient, as the painters exhibit their skill in representing the feel truthfully. Texture can also be a particular high quality regarding the body of painting itself, one that displays the seen brush strokes as an integral part of the portray, like the certainly one of Wayne Thiebaud beneath. Nonetheless, the idea of a fabric’s roughness, softness or hardness can be regularly seen in other media, such as sculpture.
Post-Impressionist painters worked independently quite than as a gaggle, however every influential Post-Impressionist painter had related beliefs. They focused on subjective visions and symbolic, personal meanings quite than observations of the skin world. Claude Monet, a French artist who spearheaded the idea of expressing one’s perceptions before nature, is just about synonymous with the Impressionist movement. His notable works embrace The Water Lily Pond , Woman with a Parasol , and Impression, Sunrise , from which the title of the movement itself is derived.
Manipur Government declares schemes to learn sportspersons, artistes
It is thru art that we are able to communicate to the world our inside emotions and our creativity that only exists inside our mind. Many great civilizations and cultures are perceived to be great as a result of they had … Read More
“Liam and Miley have agreed to separate presently,” the rep said. In December, the previous couple reached a divorce settlement — only one 12 months after tying the knot. In June, Scooter Braun — by way of his holding firm, Ithaca Holdings — purchased Big Machine Label Group for a reported $300 million. Doing so gave him the rights to Swift’s master recordings that were made prior to her exit from the label in 2018.
On Aug. 9, Miley Cyrus was noticed kissing Kaitlynn Carter in Lake Como, Italy, just one week after TheHills star and Brody Jenner collectively announced their decision to “amicably separate” after five years. The bikini-clad ladies have been seen making out poolside, the place they also sunbathed and wrapped their arms around one another. “They were not attempting to hide it at all,” an eyewitness informed ET on the time. “There had been different folks sitting by the pool.” The next day, the singer and Liam Hemsworth confirmed their cut up to ET.
“It obtained insane,” she told Jimmy Fallon during a Tonight Show look. “I was dancing, and I stepped on a piece of glass and I didn’t know it.
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On Thursday, November 16, the New York Times ran a racist, anti-Polish piece by Jan Tomasz Gross.
Gross resorts to racist stereotyping in addressing Poland's resistance to the Islamization of Europe.
This is especially ironic given that Jan Tomasz Gross *appears to be* condemning racism.
But he is resorting to racism.
We all know why many people think that unvetted and unchecked immigration of Muslims into Europe should be stopped.
Terrorism, like the Bataclan.
Birth rates. European women have rights, and can delay having, or even decline to have, children.
Gender apartheid strips Muslim women of rights. In Islam, given the example of Mohammed, who married his favorite wife, Aisha, when he was over fifty and she was six, there is no age of consent. Females can be married off quite young. Men are allowed four wives and an infinite number of sex slaves. For these reasons, Muslims are statistically more likely to have many children than non-Muslims.
Western Europe's immigration policies have created seismic change and social instability. Women are less safe. Homosexuals are less safe. Jews are less safe.
Anyone who cares about social stability will question whether or not mass, unvetted and unchecked immigration is a good idea.
Jan Tomasz Gross declines to note these obvious roots for Poles' focus on Islam.
Rather, Jan Tomasz Gross plays the racism card. Poles qua Poles are guilty, disgusting, racists. It is in their blood. It is in their history. Gross misrepresents Polish history by presenting only one side – the racist side. Shame.
Poles are terminally stained by the unforgiveable sin of racism.
I have frequently defended Gross on this page, and I will defend him again. He has produced important scholarship.
In this New York Times piece, Gross is nothing but a racist.
The solution to the nationalism and scapegoating of Muslims going on in Poland and in the US today is *not* to demonize Poles – or Americans.
The solution can be found on the left.
The left has gone too far. It expresses contempt for its perceived enemies. It rides roughshod over mainstream culture.
This has happened before. A terrifying example can be found in the excesses of the Versailles Treaty.
If you push people too far, they push back. Solution? Stop pushing people too far.
Want to weaken racists, xenophobes, and chauvinists in Poland – and in the US?
Stop pushing people too far. Work for the change you want to see in a respectful way, rather than in an arrogant, high-handed, contemptuous way.
Brief clips from Gross' NYT piece below. You can read the whole thing here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/16/opinion/poland-pure-blood-march.html
"Tens of thousands of people -- many of them young men with crew cuts, but some parents with children, too -- flocked to the Polish capital to celebrate Independence Day in a march organized in part by two neo-fascist organizations. They waved white and red Polish flags, they brandished burning torches, and they wore 'white power' symbols. They carried banners declaring, 'Death to enemies of the homeland,' and screamed, 'Sieg Heil!' and 'Ku Klux Klan!'"
Gross goes on to say that "we are witnessing a resurgence of fascism in Poland."
"…Ever since the Law and Justice Party won both the presidential and parliamentary elections in 2015, Poland has been undergoing a disturbing political transformation…Two years ago, the party bet that latching onto the refugee crisis in Europe would give it purchase…"
The governing party, he says, is using the threat of Islamization as is occurring in Western Europe to radicalize Poles into violent xenophobia and dangerous, primitive nationalism.
"Poles," Gross writes, "couldn't tell a Muslim or a Buddhist from Jesus."
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Today we will discuss the problems related to Symphony i32 Flash File and its flash on this page. What are the possible problems of Symphony Smartphone, how to solve them and what equipment to use to solve the problem. So let’s get started, first let’s find out what is a flash file? And what does it do? Why it is necessary.
To Flash Symphony i32 SPD device known about the Flash Tool, Chinese Miracle CM2 and Miracle Thunder or anyone tool, SPD USB Driver and flash guideline. We are provide a easy guide for flash this mobile phone. You can follow this and flash your device successfully. Also, here completely explain all of the flash require installing and using rules. So don’t worry reading carefully this article and flash your Symphonyi32 device and other’s same category mobile device.
What is Flash file or Firmware File?
A flash file is a file that directs a micro processor to perform a task through a stream of electricity. Flash files store design templates, icons, folders, memory, etc. of a phone. One cannot imagine a mobile phone without a flash file. According to Flash File Specialist MD Rezaul Karim – which plays a special role in making a phone work according to the instructions of its user, so Flash file or firmware file.
If you have any problems?
You need to flash your Symphony i32 Firmware File
When we use a mobile phone, we do different things with it. Usually the problem of mobile phone is due to two reasons Unconsciousness in use Software or Stock ROM.
Unconsciousness in usage: There are various problems in the phone due to whimsical or unintentional use. For example:: display burst, Falling into the water, battery damaged, electricity bust at over volts. Casing rupture etc. If all these problems occur, you can go to a mobile repair shop.
Software or Flash Files: Many Problems Using the Phone Trying to switch to another program while a program is running, Visiting a website with bad cookies while using the Internet can cause software problems. For example: Hang Starting Logo, Slow Performance, White Display, monkey virus, imei unknown, pin lock, frp lock, privacy lock, phone lock etc. So if your mobile phone has a software problem, you can download the Symphony i32 Stock ROM and install it on your phone or the phone will be fine. Inshallah.
Use that tool to flash Symphony i32 Flash File
Since this post is related to Symphony i32 flash file, now we will discuss about flashing tools.
Miracle Thunder is a popular flash tool for flashing mobile phones with Spreadtrum chipset. You do not need a payment or box device/dongle to use this tool, you can flash for free with just a USB cable.
Chinese Miracle is a popular flash tool you can also use this tool to flash Winstar W605 phone. It has a few items that is CM2CSR, CM2MTK, CM2_FRP, Infinity CM2 etc. To flash with this tool you need to buy a device and license it every year which is expensive. There is no free version.
Download Symphony i32 Flash File (Stock Firmware) Without Password
Here we have attached a direct download link to download Symphony i32 flash file, through which you can easily download this Flash file to your computer. So click on the link below to download.
|Software Details||Download Link|
|File Name: Symphony_i32_HW1_V6
File Size: 598 MB
File Status: Full Free
|Click to Download|
How to Flash
You can flash your Symphony i32 Firmware File using any of the above tools. But yes, before flashing the phone, you must back up your phone, so that if there is any problem like not matching the version after flashing, the fire can be restored to its previous state. Below we are adding a short flash tutorial of SPD Flash Tool of Pac file. But our this firmware file not pac file.
- Download and extract the Symphony i32 Stock ROM zip package on your PC
- Install the SPD USB Driver on your PC
- Lunch SPD Flash tool on your PC screen
- Load the Pac Flash File/Firmware
- Click Start Button
- Connect your device to PC via USB cable
- Insert battery in mobile.
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Does everyone plagiarize?
When looking at the statistics on academic integrity, it’s very easy to believe that literally everyone is cheating in one way or another. That means that over two-thirds of students of the 71,000 surveyed admitted to having cheated on at least one assignment. …
How do students plagiarize?
Some students will deliberately plagiarize when they feel themselves backed into a corner in a high-pressure situation with a low risk of being caught. Often, this behavior is a result of poor time management and organization skills.
What should be the consequences for students who purposefully plagiarize?
Students who plagiarize or otherwise engage in academic dishonesty face serious consequences. Sanctions may include, but are not limited to, failure on an assignment, grade reduction or course failure, suspension, and possibly dismissal.
Do many students actually plagiarize?
Global Plagiarism Statistics: A study by The Center for Academic Integrity found that almost 80% of college students admit to cheating at least once. A survey by the Psychological Record shows that 36% of undergraduates have admitted to plagiarizing written material.
How do teachers find out if you plagiarize?
There are a number of ways teachers can figure out if their students are plagiarizing. You type in a portion of your student’s paper and run it through a plagiarism checker to see if those words appear elsewhere on the Internet. If they do, your student may have plagiarized.
What happens if you plagiarize in college?
Plagiarism can result in you getting suspended or expelled from your course, college/ university. Your entire paper may be rejected, and you will have to start over. Plagiarism could sometimes attract legal action against you such as penalties and fines.
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Turnitin: Improving Your Turnitin Score
- Tip #1: Use the filters to exclude your bibliography and direct quotes.
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|LAFS.910.L.1.1 (Archived Standard):|| Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
|LAFS.910.L.1.2 (Archived Standard):|| Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.|
|LAFS.910.L.2.3 (Archived Standard):|| Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening.
|LAFS.910.L.3.4 (Archived Standard):|| Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grades 9–10 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
|LAFS.910.L.3.5 (Archived Standard):|| Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
|LAFS.910.L.3.6 (Archived Standard):||Acquire and use accurately general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.|
|LAFS.910.RI.1.1 (Archived Standard):||Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.|
|LAFS.910.RI.1.2 (Archived Standard):||Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.|
|LAFS.910.RI.1.3 (Archived Standard):||Analyze how the author unfolds an analysis or series of ideas or events, including the order in which the points are made, how they are introduced and developed, and the connections that are drawn between them.|
|LAFS.910.RI.2.4 (Archived Standard):||Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language of a court opinion differs from that of a newspaper).|
|LAFS.910.RI.2.5 (Archived Standard):||Analyze in detail how an author’s ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of a text (e.g., a section or chapter).|
|LAFS.910.RI.2.6 (Archived Standard):||Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.|
|LAFS.910.RI.3.7 (Archived Standard):||Analyze various accounts of a subject told in different mediums (e.g., a person’s life story in both print and multimedia), determining which details are emphasized in each account.|
|LAFS.910.RI.3.8 (Archived Standard):||Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is valid and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; identify false statements and fallacious reasoning.|
|LAFS.910.RI.3.9 (Archived Standard):||Analyze seminal U.S. documents of historical and literary significance (e.g., Washington’s Farewell Address, the Gettysburg Address, Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms speech, King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”), including how they address related themes and concepts.|
|LAFS.910.RI.4.10 (Archived Standard):|| |
By the end of grade 9, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 9–10 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
By the end of grade 10, read and comprehend literary nonfiction at the high end of the grades 9–10 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
|LAFS.910.RL.1.1 (Archived Standard):||Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.|
|LAFS.910.RL.1.2 (Archived Standard):||Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.|
|LAFS.910.RL.1.3 (Archived Standard):||Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.|
|LAFS.910.RL.2.4 (Archived Standard):||Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone).|
|LAFS.910.RL.2.5 (Archived Standard):||Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.|
|LAFS.910.RL.2.6 (Archived Standard):||Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.|
|LAFS.910.RL.3.7 (Archived Standard):||Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (e.g., Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts” and Breughel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus).|
|LAFS.910.RL.3.9 (Archived Standard):||Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material in a specific work (e.g., how Shakespeare treats a theme or topic from Ovid or the Bible or how a later author draws on a play by Shakespeare).|
|LAFS.910.RL.4.10 (Archived Standard):|| |
By the end of grade 9, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 9–10 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
By the end of grade 10, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of the grades 9-10 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
|LAFS.910.SL.1.1 (Archived Standard):|| Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9–10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
|LAFS.910.SL.1.2 (Archived Standard):||Integrate multiple sources of information presented in diverse media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) evaluating the credibility and accuracy of each source.|
|LAFS.910.SL.1.3 (Archived Standard):||Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, identifying any fallacious reasoning or exaggerated or distorted evidence.|
|LAFS.910.SL.2.4 (Archived Standard):||Present information, findings, and supporting evidence clearly, concisely, and logically such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and task.|
|LAFS.910.SL.2.5 (Archived Standard):||Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest.|
|LAFS.910.SL.2.6 (Archived Standard):||Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.|
|LAFS.910.W.1.1 (Archived Standard):|| Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
|LAFS.910.W.1.2 (Archived Standard):|| Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
|LAFS.910.W.1.3 (Archived Standard):|| Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.
|LAFS.910.W.2.4 (Archived Standard):||Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.)|
|LAFS.910.W.2.5 (Archived Standard):||Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience.|
|LAFS.910.W.2.6 (Archived Standard):||Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology’s capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically.|
|LAFS.910.W.3.7 (Archived Standard):||Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.|
|LAFS.910.W.3.8 (Archived Standard):||Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the usefulness of each source in answering the research question; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.|
|LAFS.910.W.3.9 (Archived Standard):|| Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
|LAFS.910.W.4.10 (Archived Standard):||Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.|
|ELD.K12.ELL.LA.1:||English language learners communicate information, ideas and concepts necessary for academic success in the content area of Language Arts.|
|ELD.K12.ELL.SI.1:||English language learners communicate for social and instructional purposes within the school setting.|
|HE.912.C.1.2:|| Interpret the significance of interrelationships in mental/emotional, physical, and social health.|
|HE.912.C.2.5:|| Evaluate the effect of media on personal and family health.|
|SS.912.C.2.10:|| Monitor current public issues in Florida.
|SS.912.C.2.11:||Analyze public policy solutions or courses of action to resolve a local, state, or federal issue.|
General Course Information and Notes
VERSION DESCRIPTIONThe purpose of this course is to enable students who are native speakers of languages other than English to develop proficient listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in the English language. Emphasis will be on acquisition of integrated English communication skills in a wide range of content and activities using texts of high complexity to ensure college and career preparation and readiness.
The content should include, but not be limited to, the following:
- active reading of varied texts for what they say explicitly, as well as the logical inferences that can be drawn
- analysis of literature and informational texts from varied literary periods to examine:
- text craft and structure
- elements of literature
- arguments and claims supported by textual evidence
- power and impact of language
- influence of history, culture, and setting on language
- personal critical and aesthetic response
- writing for varied purposes
- developing and supporting argumentative claims
- crafting coherent, supported informative/expository texts
- responding to literature for personal and analytical purposes
- writing narratives to develop real or imagined events
- writing to sources using text- based evidence and reasoning
- effective listening, speaking, and viewing strategies with emphasis on the use of evidence to support or refute a claim in multimedia presentations, class discussions, and extended text discussions
- collaboration amongst peers
Instructional Practices: Teaching from well-written, grade-level instructional materials enhances students’ content area knowledge and also strengthens their ability to comprehend longer, complex reading passages on any topic for any purpose. Using the following instructional practices also helps student learning.
- Reading assignments from longer text passages, as well as shorter ones when text is extremely complex.
- Making close reading and rereading of texts central to lessons.
- Asking high-level, text-specific questions and requiring high-level, complex tasks and assignments.
- Requiring students to support answers with evidence from the text.
- Providing extensive text-based research and writing opportunities (claims and evidence).
Credit Recovery courses are credit bearing courses with specific content requirements defined by Next Generation Sunshine State Standards and/or Common Core State Standards. Students Standards. Stu enrolled in a Credit Recovery course must have previously attempted the corresponding course (and/or End-of-Course assessment) since the course requirements for the Credit Recovery course are exactly the same as the previously attempted corresponding course. For example, Geometry (1206310) and Geometry for Credit Recovery (1206315) have identical content requirements. It is important to note that Credit Recovery courses are not bound by Section 1003.436(1)(a), Florida Statutes, requiring a minimum of 135 hours of bona fide instruction (120 hours in a school/district implementing block scheduling) in a designed course of study that contains student performance standards, since the students have previously attempted successful completion of the corresponding course. Additionally, Credit Recovery courses should ONLY be used for credit recovery, grade forgiveness, or remediation for students needing to prepare for an End-of-Course assessment retake.
English Language Development ELD Standards Special Notes Section:
Teachers are required to provide listening, speaking, reading and writing instruction that allows English language learners (ELL) to communicate information, ideas and concepts for academic success in the content area of Language Arts. For the given level of English language proficiency and with visual, graphic, or interactive support, students will interact with grade level words, expressions, sentences and discourse to process or produce language necessary for academic success. The ELD standard should specify a relevant content area concept or topic of study chosen by curriculum developers and teachers which maximizes an ELL’s need for communication and social skills. To access an ELL supporting document which delineates performance definitions and descriptors, please click on the following link: https://cpalmsmediaprod.blob.core.windows.net/uploads/docs/standards/eld/la.pdf
As well as any certification requirements listed on the course description, the following qualifications may also be acceptable for the course:
Any World Language certification plus English Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) Endorsement.
|Course Number: 1002305||
Course Path: Section: Grades PreK to 12 Education Courses > Grade Group: Grades 9 to 12 and Adult Education Courses > Subject: English/Language Arts > SubSubject: English for Speakers of Other Languages >
|Abbreviated Title: ENG 1 THRU ESOL CR|
|Number of Credits: One (1) credit|
|Course Type: Elective Course||Course Level: 2|
|Course Status: Terminated|
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Arms Control and Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction: How Will They Impact U.S. Deterrence in the New World Order? [open pdf - 4MB]
In the absence of a superpower balance, Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) are rapidly proliferating. As U.S. defense resources shrink, options to address the new WMD threat are also shrinking. These dynamics are changing the role of Arms Control (AC) and U.S. deterrent strategy. This paper analyzes the relationship between proliferation of WMD, AC, and the status of U.S. deterrent forces in the new world order. It argues that motives to proliferate are to strong to be overcome by AC, but that AC can play a positive role in improving U. S. and International security. Further it argues that regardless of its efficacy that AC is unavoidable; and that U.S force structure decisions are driven by our perception of the threat, not AC agreements or actions. | <urn:uuid:d16b31ea-f35e-4d91-8ebd-5d8396d3f212> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hsdl.org/?abstract&did=439023 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.889291 | 245 | 1.796875 | 2 |
This 1997 report indicated that trembling sea-mat Victorella pavida, a ctenostome bryozoan, was present in Swanpool, a brackish lagoon, and that it was abundant in various habitats. It wasthe only known UK site. The trembling sea-mat has a preference for the submerged stems of the common reed Phragmites australis and also for concrete and stone surfaces. In other habitats it was found to be occasional, rare or absent, probably due to reduced salinity or to the presence of varying amounts of silt. This rare animal species may be threatened by changes in salinity, silting and the effects of various pollutants in the medium term.
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Several recent leaks to the media about TSA shortcomings have called into question whether TSA is effective at doing its job, and to a larger extent whether the aviation industry is actually secure. The big question is: what should be done about TSA?
The question is obviously much easier than the answer. Let’s address it point by point, and take a look at some of the solutions that have been proposed.
First, the report that TSA personnel missed 95% of the test items brought through by Department of Homeland Security red teams. Remember that red teams know every security vulnerability in the system. I would expect a very high failure rate when you compare the existing system to the red teams. There are very few terrorists (if any) that have their level of knowledge about the weaknesses and gaps in the screening system. I would not have been surprised to see a 40 or 50% failure rate when going up against the red teams, but clearly 95% is unacceptable.
What should we do here?
The real question is whether these are isolated problems that can be fixed, or whether the whole system needs to be overhauled. When your car breaks down, you don’t sell the car, you fix the problem. If it continues to break down, you continue to fix it but then you start to wonder what is causing the problem to begin with.
To know whether the problems are systemic or isolated, the report must be analyzed to determine why the failures took place. Was it a procedural issue? Was it a technology issue? Was it a training issue? I doubt this is a systemic failure of the entire system but clearly something is wrong. If it is technology that cannot detect what it is supposed to detect, then we need better technology. In the meantime, I fully support the deployment of more canine bomb detection dogs to airport security checkpoints.
Dogs are a great force multiplier, bad guys don’t like to see them at security checkpoints, they are less intrusive than body imagers, and they are very good at detecting explosives. I see the deployment of more canine teams as a way to make the bad guys think that they might be caught if they tried to bring a bomb on an airplane and if we have achieved that we have achieved one of our key objectives – prevent the bombing of a plane.
If it is a performance or a training issue, then that can hopefully be fixed through better training programs, and better managerial oversight. To a certain extent we might be seeing a frightening trend that I am seeing culturally, that may now be affecting TSA. We are 14 years from 9/11, and I am hearing many of the same statements that were made about aviation security that I heard prior to 9/11. In fact, at an industry conference the other day I heard an individual say he thought we overreacted to 9/11 because it was just one attack not a trend. I suppose if somebody just has one home invasion that’s not enough excuse to lock their doors in the future because naturally, it’s not a trend (there is no emoticon for sarcasm but there should be). I should also point out that this individual was about 8 years old when 9/11 happened and doesn’t remember what travel and air security was like before then.
The farther away we move from 9/11, the more we forget. That said, I think it’s time the aviation security system matured so that it is less intrusive and more effective. But I also think we’re getting to relaxed in this country again about aviation security, and when we did that the last time we saw the result on September 11, 2001.
The other thing to consider about the red team tests is if these had been actual terrorist penetration attempts, there is a good likelihood that the planned attacks would have been detected by law enforcement intelligence or investigation agencies, long before the bad guys made it to a screening checkpoint. We have to remember that we are a multilayered system, and that the checkpoint is just one component in a much larger system.
What I do not want to see is some of the ridiculous suggestions I have heard recently like we should turn security back over to the airlines, or ban all carry-on luggage. When the airlines had the security responsibility, that did not work so well for us, and I cite 9/11 as my example. After 9/11, even I initially argued against the formation of TSA, and argued for a higher level of accountability for the airlines, but I’ve have changed my tune. The airlines are a for-profit business which means they will look to reduce expenses wherever possible. Security is an expense. Protecting the United States is a function of government.
Extreme measures such as the banning of all carry-on luggage or severely restricting carry-on luggage creates even bigger issues. When the liquid bomb plot was discovered in 2006 in London, carry-on bags were virtually eliminated for a period of time. Passengers were forced to check laptops, cell phones and numerous other electronic devices and valuables, whereupon baggage handlers and baggage screeners thought they had just been let loose in Walmart, and were free to grab whatever they wanted – and they did! There is a reason they tell you not to put your valuables in checked baggage. And if you think the solution is to hire people who won’t steal, then I’m all ears on how you suggest we do that.
The benefit of aviation is speed. I can get anywhere by boat, car or rail, but I cannot do it as fast as I can do it by air. Checked bags slow down business travelers in terms of time and productivity, and the loss of time adds up quickly. If you don’t understand the financial impact of restricting carry-on luggage, then you haven’t been a business traveler. When you slow down business travel, which incidentally pays for the majority of the aviation system, you cause the business world to lose time and money, which affects our national economy. Attacking the US economy is one of the goals of terrorism so now we have just done their job for them.
Our goal is to provide reasonable levels of security that deter attacks, not to shut down the US air transportation system, nor make it ridiculously onerous and nonsensical, particularly when there are better ways to do things.
The next issue, aviation worker screening.
With recent reports about aviation workers smuggling guns and drugs through airports and onto aircraft, the issue of employee screening is once again upon us. It is false to say that employees are not screened. Employees are screened though a different process than passengers. In fact, “screening” is not a defined term in the regulations. The closest the regulations come to defining screening is to define the term screening function which means the inspection of individuals and property for weapons, explosives and incendiaries (Title 14 CFR Part 1540.5).
The screening function is fulfilled at the passenger checkpoints with body imagers, magnetometers and x-ray machines. For employees, the screening function can be fulfilled through the criminal history record check and security threat assessment that is conducted on airport workers in order to receive an airport access identification badge. There are a few other regulations and internal guidance that address and better clarify this “screening function” but I am simplifying for our purposes here.
The truth is that throughout aviation’s history, there have been numerous incidences of employees committing or assisting in acts of terrorism against aviation, and I agree that something must be done. I disagree however with just “simply” putting all of the employees through screening checkpoints. This does not solve the problem, it cost a lot of money, it’s not “simple,” and there are just as effective ways to achieve the same result.
So what is wrong with just putting employees through the checkpoint?
Airport security checkpoints are designed to handle a certain passenger load on an hourly and an annual basis. It is part of the algebra used to determine airport terminal designs. TSA screener staffing models are also based on these passenger projections. Putting employees through the screening checkpoints will result in longer screening lines, and cost more money in terms of terminal expansion and additional TSA personnel.
Additionally, it is not a 100% solution as screeners can also be compromised just as air marshals, baggage handlers and others in the aviation system have been compromised. Employees often have to use and carry prohibited items into security areas in order to do their jobs, and also have to frequently pass from the public to the security areas, and back many times throughout the day. If you fly, you already know how much time it takes to get through a screening checkpoint, now imagine your gate agent having to do that eight or nine times a day — yes, your flight will be delayed.
And for those that say, “well, I hear this other airport is making all their employees go through screening”, you have to look at a variety of issues. The size of the airport matters. The design of the airport matters. The political support and the financial capability of the airport matters. What also matters is the question of whether the airport is really doing 100% screening at the level passengers are being screened, or there are they doing some form of an employee inspection that does not hit the 100% mark. Typically, for security purposes, airport operators are not going to divulge some of these secrets, and for good reason. If you think some airport is doing 100% employee inspections, then good – keep thinking that.
But I do agree we need to do something, but let’s do the right things. There are three initiatives that have my full support to increase employee security. First, is to require biometrics to airport access control systems. Second, is a requirement to train all individuals who are issued airport identification badges, in how to spot suspicious activity, how to spot signs of potential workplace violence and how to spot behaviors that are pre-incident indicators of an attack. Third, I support the implementation of employee inspections.
TSA already does random inspection of airport workers in the security areas of the airport. I strongly encourage these programs to continue, and expand. But using TSA personnel takes them away from the security checkpoint, which is their core mission. Airport operators already know that some form of employee “screening” is coming their way so I encourage them to be proactive in engaging security personnel in setting up their own employee inspection programs. This will be a lot cheaper than expanding checkpoints and more cost-effective than putting their entire workforce through the passenger screening process. Plus, it will not slow down the flow of passengers through the airport.
Even if we do all of the above, there will still be people who will say that the system can still be compromised, and they are right. We don’t need to have 100% security, we just need to have an effective security system in place, and an effective system is one in which the bad guy thinks they will get caught if they attempt an attack.
The third issue: TSA employees on terrorist watch lists.
The recent report about several TSA workers being on terrorist watch lists is more complex than one might think. As a former US Coast Guard intelligence officer with the majority of my experience during the drug war days of the late 80s and early 90s, I can attest to the fact that there are many “watch” lists. In fact, just about every government law enforcement agency has its own database and its own “lists,” of individuals that are watched or are in the database for various reasons.
When the Aviation and Transportation Security Act was passed in November 2001, creating TSA and giving them broad powers over transportation security, one thing it did not do was provide them unfettered access to all of the available intelligence the US government has to offer. I’m not sure I know of any government agency that has access to everything. While we have made huge leaps in intelligence sharing since 9/11, there are still lists that not everyone has access to. That seems to be the case here.
If it is discovered that access identification was issued to TSA personnel without the proper background check being conducted, then that needs to be fixed. However, the process to receive an airport identification badge includes a check by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for past criminal history, and a check by TSA itself in a process known as the Security Threat Assessment. The STA compares the individual’s name against a variety of watch lists maintained by the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center. It may turn out that the 73 workers were simply not on the lists that TSA has access to. And if that is the case, and the individuals represented a threat, then we need to take a look at why TSA did not have access to those lists.
The new TSA administrator is going to have his hands full. Clearly, there are significant changes that need to be made at the checkpoints to improve performance while not inconveniencing the passenger, violating their rights, or slowing the system down. It is a tall order, but that’s why it takes a special individual to do it. Former TSA Administrator Pistole brought us risk-based security, so now it’s the charge of the new Administrator to bring balance to the force. I think the best way to do this is engagement with the industry – airports and airlines, an assessment of the TSA processes and technologies – fixing what’s broken, and to take a look at new ways to deter bad guys from trying to attack aviation.
And something you probably didn’t know. . .
Behind the scenes, ultimately it will be airports that are left to deal with the longtime issue of aviation worker security. Your local airport is already trying to deal with new credentialing requirements from TSA and numerous recommendations that will result in increased capital and operating costs. But don’t worry, they will pass the cost right on to you, the consumer. Because at the end of the day we are the ones that pay for all of this. So that’s really the question isn’t it? How much security do we want to pay for? I can tell you I do not mind paying for it as long as it is effective, and by effective I mean it deters the bad guys from trying to carry out an attack, it does not unduly slow down the air transportation system, and it does not make a significant negative impact to our way of life. Security is meant to get in the way, not to stop the process entirely. | <urn:uuid:75121671-44c7-45c1-9bfc-6fbdc3112ed3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://leadingedgestrategies.com/what-should-we-do-about-tsa/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.97108 | 2,995 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Home / Articles / The Eurozone Crisis as a Challenge to Democracy and Integration in Europe
This article explores how both the sovereign debt crisis and the European Union’s response illustrate fundamental characteristics of contemporary European integration. In the face of an unexpected emergency, national politicians took the lead and pressed ahead with more integration. The long-term results though depend on national acceptance of not just the bailout provisions but also enforcement of debt brakes mandated by the new EU treaty. This means democratic politics at the national level will continue to have a fundamental influence on EU affairs, while the North/South split will co-exist alongside a more marked separation between countries inside and outside the Eurozone. In this context of increased political turbulence within the EU, there is likely to be only a limited window of opportunity for successful negotiation of a free-trade deal with the United States. | <urn:uuid:77b317db-469d-4066-a456-ff443527544c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fpri.org/article/2014/01/the-eurozone-crisis-as-a-challenge-to-democracy-and-integration-in-europe/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.925015 | 173 | 2.625 | 3 |
THE heartache and loneliness of families divided by distance is nothing new in Ireland’s long history of emigration.
What has changed over many decades, however, is the ease of communication across the miles. Where once letters from America were awaited for weeks on end, now Skype and Zoom calls bring long-distant relatives together in a virtual sense at the click of a mouse.
During Covid-19 lockdown, most of us have been thankful for the technology that has allowed us to connect with loved ones abroad while we could not meet in person.
Despite the wonders of new technology though, nothing can replicate the warmth of a real-life hug and time spent in the company of family.
So if ever there was a book released at the perfect time, it’s James Kelly’s Granny’s Special Delivery, a tale of a grandmother and grand-daughter for whom their weekly video call is just not enough.
Stuck in London as her granny sits isolated and lonely at home in rural Ireland, Aisling decides to take matters into her own hands.
She has a startlingly simple solution, as long as you don’t worry too much about the practicalities…
“She wrapped herself up with brown paper and tape. Then she wrote her Granny’s address on her forehead and put a postage stamp there too. Then she posted herself back to her Granny!”
Squeezing herself into a post box is the first challenge for Aisling, but being fairly small, she seems to fit in OK, and is soon whiling away the hours until collection time by opening the letters in the box and reading other people’s mail.
The postwoman who empties the box doesn’t appear fazed by the presence of a child with a postage stamp on her head, and packs Aisling into her van, en route to the boat to Ireland.
Not content with letter-snooping, Aisling makes sure she doesn’t go hungry on her voyage, by opening up her fellow parcels until she finds something to eat.
Her odyssey continues when she is processed and delivered by An Post, whose staff also take the appearance of a human parcel in their stride. “The old man in the sorting office looked at Aisling’s forehead to read the address, gently stamped her forehead and placed her on the conveyor belt.”
While the multiple impossibilities of the scenario may temper adult appreciation of this picture book, Aisling’s direct approach to problem-solving gives Granny’s Special Delivery an endearing innocence.
Human mail as a concept has been done before, including in a fictional context by Jeff Brown in Flat Stanley, and in real life by Reg Spiers, who successfully posted himself from London to Australia in a box in 1964, so the book should perhaps include the caveat: Don’t try this at home children.
For author James Kelly, a Macrompian living in Carrigaline, it was a case of reality inspiring fiction.
He admits to “planning and procrastinating for nearly 30 years to write a children’s book” before lockdown presented the opportunity to put his daughter Aisling’s imagined adventures down on paper.
Living in London with her family, the real Aisling, then aged five, missed her granny Nora Coughlan in Macroom, longing to spend the summer holidays with her and, says James, “sad to leave her when it was time to go home”.
Though Aisling, now a nutritional therapist, did not take the drastic steps described in her father’s book, her dream of finding a way back to Ireland provided his inspiration and immortalised Granny Nora, who passed away in 2017 at the age of 96.
Illustrated by Carrigaline artist Rita Dineen, Granny’s Special Delivery is available at local bookshops, with proceeds going to the Heart Angel charity, based in Carrigaline and set up by Eoin and Irene O’Connor in memory of their daughter Beibhinn, who passed away last year.
The fictional Aisling’s free-spirited determination — and her journey of confinement — have certain echoes in a new collaboration between Swapna Haddow and Cork illustrator Sheena Dempsey.
The creators of the ‘Dave Pigeon’ series join forces again for the equally side-splittingly witty Bad Panda (Faber & Faber €8.40).
Striking a chord with all those sick of keeping up appearances, this is the story of Lin, a panda whose lot in life is to be ogled at in a zoo by humans calling her a cute “fluffy-wuffy bear”.
Lin yearns for the freedom of privacy and the right to get disgustingly dirty, enjoyed by her less attractive brother, Face-Like-A-Bag-of-Potatoes.
Crated and shipped to a zoo, Lin is determined to convince her human captors she is a rotter of a panda and should be sent straight home. However, despite her best and most hilarious efforts, it’s hard to get people to take your badness seriously when they’ve confused your head for your bottom because you’re so “sooooper-doooooper fluffy”.
Dempsey’s black, white, and red illustrations, in the not-at-all-cute colours of a panda with a ribbon in her fur, are as central to the humour as Haddow’s wit, in this comic-style book likely to entice even reluctant readers aged six-plus.
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If your classroom was to become (or currently is) a picture for a social media post, how many likes would it get? How many retweets?
In truth, to how many of you would that even matter? What if your principal or superintendent suddenly broadcasts a message saying, “Everyone, stop what you’re doing and take a picture of your learning environment right now!” Would you be eager to share or completely mortified? I can admit, at various moments throughout my career, I have been on both ends of that continuum…and everyplace in between! Read more
Think of a recent assessment design conversation you had with a colleague. What aspect of the assessment process did you discuss? Did you consider which standards to assess? Did you talk about how many questions, or tasks, were needed to determine student mastery? Or, did you examine the content that you would evaluate?
As the director of assessment at a large public high school in the Midwest, I engage in these assessment conversations often with teachers and collaborative teams. While we discuss all aspects of the assessment process, the most common question I hear from teachers is, “What should my assessments look like?” Read more | <urn:uuid:17102f44-9add-49b7-a39a-5ed9a1ce5334> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://allthingsassessment.info/tag/performance-based/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.981306 | 246 | 1.898438 | 2 |
The Kinsterna Hotel is a Byzantine-era rural mansion, which was lovingly and superbly restored with great respect to its long history. All activities that took place in the past on the premises have been revived in an effort to keep them alive. The goal was to make the mansion self-sufficient.
Today, the estate produces its own wine, extra virgin olive oil and table olives, tsipouro, bread, marmalade and other fruit preserves, soap and much more.
Breakfast under ancient olive trees
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The mansion’s long history dates back to the Byzantine era. The manor’s architectural and morphological features testify to the building’s Byzantine, Venetian and Ottoman heritage and identity. The earliest known owner was Ibrahim Bey. Probably one of the local Ottoman landlords who signed the delivery of Monemvasia in 1821.
The manor was lived in until the late 1970’s by the “Lady of Monemvasia” Lina Kapitsini. The main objective of its restoration was the maintenance of the original architecture using traditional building techniques, old and local natural materials.
A traditional Greek kind of pudding made of grape must mixed with flour and boiled until thick
Impressive river-like swimming pool with private relaxation areas
Interesting activities such as horse-back riding, cycling, hiking at the Byzantine paths, handmade soap making, wine and olive oil tasting highlight the guest’s experience.
Table in the tavern Linos
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Fewer kids enter Mass. juvenile justice system, but 'really significant' racial disparities remain
Overall, fewer minors are coming into contact with the Massachusetts juvenile justice system. But there is great disparity when you look at the data by race and ethnicity. That's according to a new report from the Massachusetts Juvenile Justice Policy and Data Board.
Melissa Threadgill, Office of the Child Advocate: As you said, we did find good news in this report, which is that we continue to see fewer youth entering and moving through our juvenile justice system. And this continues a trend well over a decade. And that is true for both white youth and Black and Latino youth. Overall, we do see numbers going down.
At the same time, we continue to see really significant disparities in our juvenile justice system, which basically means that Black and Latino youth are overrepresented in our system. And so, what we found is that even though the numbers are going down and that's a good thing, there are still a lot of opportunities for us to divert more youth from the justice system earlier in the process, and in particular to increase diversion for Black and Latino youth.
Carrie Healy, NEPM: I'm curious about the diversionary programs available. Did they get impacted by the coronavirus? Did that impact the quality of the report or the programs available?
The issues around diversion, I think, are longer standing and existed before the pandemic. Absolutely, programs across the state were impacted by the pandemic. These programs are usually in person. They often involve youth enrichment activities, and we know that when everything moved virtual, a lot of those programs were impacted. That said, what we've seen across the commonwealth is actors in the system — police officers, district attorneys and judges — all have the legal option to divert a youth, and we've seen increased willingness to use that option over time.
What we'd like to see is increased availability across the state of really high-quality diversion programs that meet the needs of these kids, so they don't come back to the system. And also, that police and [district attorneys] and judges feel really confident and sending kids to these programs, because they know they're likely to get good results.
Speaking about across the state, one point made in the report is that there's a variation in the use of case dismissals. That specifically impacts Hampden County a lot more than other regions in the state. Can you talk specifically about that data?
There are a lot of variations in the juvenile justice system, and that's because individual actors in the system have the authority to make different decisions. So law enforcement live in different communities and are responsive to the needs and desires of different communities. District attorneys are elected by the local communities, and some of them make decisions differently about which cases to prosecute, and which cases to divert. And similarly, although judges are not elected in Massachusetts, once they're appointed, they do have pretty broad leeway to make these decisions, and so we see these variations across the state.
We do say when we look at data in Hampden County that they dismiss a lower percentage of their filing compared to other counties. And at the same time, we see that these counties have lower rates of diversion prior to arraignment.
And we suspect that this might indicate that there could be increased opportunities for pre-arraignment diversion in Hampden County. At the same time, we do know that different counties have different kinds of cases that come to the court, and we do tend to see sometimes more serious cases coming to the attention of the court in Hampden County — weapons cases, for example. And so that variation can be explained, I think, both by system actors as well as the proportion of the cases to the court.
There’s an understanding and the data supports, kind of a persistent racial and ethnic disparity in the commonwealth's juvenile justice and child welfare systems. So how can the state begin to make the child-serving systems more equitable?
Part of disparities are societal, right? We know that Black and Latino kids are more likely to live in poverty. They're more likely to have experienced significant trauma in their lives, and they're more likely to live in neighborhoods with concentrated disadvantage. So that's going to have an impact on their behavior as they develop. But then you layer on different levels of access to the kinds of services we know that make a difference for kids. We know high-quality schools, access to enrichment activities, strong mental health support services can really make a difference for kids, and we know that Black and Latino kids have less access to these supports.
So our first job as a system is to make sure that kids across the commonwealth have access to the kinds of supports and systems that can prevent their entry to the justice system in the first place. But then finally, as a system, we have to acknowledge that we treat the misbehavior of Black and Latino youth differently than we treat the misbehavior of white youth on average.
So this behavior is common in adolescents. But the truth is, as a society, we are more likely to react to this common misbehavior of Black and Latino kids by arresting them and by putting them in pretrial detention than we are for white kids. And so, as a society and as a system, we have really got to get to the point where we see all of these kids as deserving of support, of empathy, of second chances. And the numbers show that we just aren't there yet. | <urn:uuid:fe2997ca-6905-4801-8f99-548579ad50f6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nepm.org/regional-news/2022-03-09/fewer-kids-enter-mass-juvenile-justice-system-but-really-significant-racial-disparities-remain | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.970464 | 1,133 | 2.28125 | 2 |
June 05, 2019
Good morning. Don't forget to join us at 8am today for Beyond 2020: Making Care Affordable.
- My colleague Bob Herman will be sitting down with Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), along with former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb, and the Association for Accessible Medicines president and CEO Chester "Chip" Davis Jr. to discuss the future of health care and drug pricing in America.
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1 big thing: Telehealth isn't a silver bullet
Virtual health care is all the rage right now, especially among investors and tech companies.
- Private equity and venture capital firms invested $10 billion into the sector in 2018, suggesting that the financial world certainly expects that the expanding sector will turn a profit.
The big picture: Digital health tools have the potential to improve care.
- But telemedicine also could become "a way for the U.S. profit-driven health care system to make big bucks by outsourcing core duties — while providing a paler version of actual medical treatment," Kaiser Health News' Elisabeth Rosenthal writes.
What they're saying: "It's an area where implications for health care spending are wide open," the American Enterprise Institute's Ben Ippolito.
- If telehealth makes health care more accessible, people may end up using more of it. But if it serves as a substitute for resource-intensive office or hospital visits, it could drive costs down.
- "What mixture of the two we get will likely depend in part on how the broader payment system evolves," Brookings' Matt Fiedler said.
The bottom line: "One should never underestimate the health care system's ability to make money," the Kaiser Family Foundation's Larry Levitt said.
- "While making care more accessible, like through telehealth, might be good for patients, it may not save money, especially if the reimbursement rates aren't set appropriately," he added.
2. Blockbuster appeared to reduce Alzheimer's risk
Enbrel, Pfizer's blockbuster anti-inflammatory drug, appeared to reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease, but the company didn't investigate further or make the connection public, WashPost reports.
- The pattern was found through analyzing insurance claims. Company researchers urged a clinical trial, which they estimated would have cost $80 million, to see if the link was real.
- But Pfizer decided that Enbrel doesn't have the potential to prevent Alzheimer's because it doesn't affect brain tissue.
Pfizer says the decision not to conduct a clinical trial was based solely on science, and it didn't publish its data because it was skeptical about the results.
- But critics say there may be financial element: Enbrel has reached the end of its patent, reducing the incentive to look for additional uses for the drug as generics enter the market.
- One former Pfizer executive told the Post that spending money on a clinical trial when the company had doubts about the results of its initial analysis didn't make much business sense.
Some scientists say that just publishing the data could have been useful to researchers.
3. CVS's big ambitions
CVS' ambitions keep growing, but skepticism about those ambitions isn’t going away, Axios' Sam Baker writes.
Driving the news: Federal Judge Richard Leon signaled Tuesday that he's still concerned about the company's $69 billion merger with Aetna.
- As he opened a three-day hearing on the merger, Leon "reiterated … that he wants to look at any potential harm that the deal might cause for the public,” per Modern Healthcare.
- The Justice Department's antitrust evaluation focused on Medicare Part D, and Aetna ultimately had to sell its Part D plans.
- Leon asked Tuesday whether his analysis should stop there, or go further to "look at how these entities … will impact the greater market," Modern Healthcare reports.
Between the lines: The Aetna deal is just one element of CVS' effort to push beyond the traditional role of a pharmacy.
What's next: CVS said Tuesday that it's expanding its HealthHub concept — stores with more space devoted to clinic services like screenings and dietary consultations.
- CVS expects to operate 1,500 HealthHubs by the end of 2021, according to NBC News. (For context, CVS has about 9,800 retail locations today.)
The bottom line: There's big money in managing chronic diseases, especially as the population ages. And CVS is by no means the only company that's also hoping it can find big savings by moving more of that work under one corporate umbrella.
4. Pharma goes all in on cancer treatments
A new EvaluatePharma report reiterates just how heavily the pharmaceutical industry is banking on oncology.
Why it matters: The report also adds more evidence that drugs are getting more costly, and these costs will increasingly be driven by medicines with little to no competition.
- Global drug sales are expected to reach $1.18 trillion in 2024, compared to $843 billion in 2019, and $239 billion of the 2024 total is expected to be spent on orphan drugs that treat small populations.
Go deeper: The drug pricing debate is stuck in the past
5. Congress blocks 3-parent IVF
Congress will leave in place a ban on genetically modified human embryos, despite a push to overturn it, Stat News reports.
Where it stands: Since 2015, Congress has effectively banned a procedure that combines genetic material from a mother, father and female donor.
- Advocates for the procedure say it helps women who carry genetic diseases have healthy, disease-free children that are biologically related to them, and there's been a push to overturn the ban.
The other side: Advocates for the ban say it prevents genetically altered "CRISPR babies."
- They won this round, as a House committee voted yesterday to keep the status quo intact.
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How does a duck eat a fish?
A duck eats a fish head first. All birds, and animals, that eat fish, eat them head first. Reptiles, such as snakes, also eat their prey, such as rats and mice, head first.
The reason that a duck eats fish head first is to avoid fish bones being stuck in its throat.
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This weekend, Proctor's Ocean Classroom crew of twenty-one students continues departs Georgia for a fourteen day passage to St. Croix. Five weeks into their once in a lifetime journey, students reflect on midnight bow watches, bioluminescence, dolphins, and living and learning alongside their best friends.
I am currently on my first midnight to 04:00 watch. It's 02:30 now and Emily let me sit on deck to do some homework. The sky is so dark yet the stars are so bright. Sometimes I forget the sky on the ocean is the same as on land. I know that sounds stupid, but it is so magnificent on the boat. It's kind of like when you turn your brightness up on an iphone. The actual info on the phone remains, but everything becomes more vivid.
Tonight I saw bioluminescence for the first time. Wow! They are absolutely incredible. I got this weird feeling in my stomach. It felt as though I was watching magic. Little neon lights shoot off the boat and disappear again. Everything is nearly pitch black except the stars in the sky and the glowing waves off of Roseway. Many people are learning about the bioluminescence for their science projects. Not me. As breathtaking as the neon plankton are I am oddly satisfied knowing nothing about them. I want them to remain magical and mysterious. This is the first time that something has caught me by surprise and extended my view of what exists. This glowing water has become my new Santa Claus. The best part is every time I get up for night watch, it's like Christmas morning.
My journal entry yesterday was super short because I had to go muster for watch but I didn't really have anything else to say anyway because not much happened. Today, though, was so crazy. So first of all I had watch from 8AM-12PM and the waves were huge today, the biggest yet for sure. The wind was so strong and the boat moved around a ton; helm was super difficult today. We saw dolphins jump out of the water right next to the boat and that was so cool. The whole day was just so crazy, the water was so blue and the waves looked photoshopped because they came so high against the boat. Bow watch was really fun ~ Avery and I sang songs. Oh and the main sail had a hole in it and so we had to take it down. That was so fun, I just kept thinking throughout the day "this is what ocean classroom is all about, these are the moments that define the program, this is why I wanted to do ocean so badly". I kept replaying these thoughts in my head and it just made me so happy ~ today was awesome. Tomorrow morning we will be arriving in Cumberland Island, Georgia!
I stood at the bow, with my right hand at the jumbo sheet pin. We were traveling upwards of 10 knots, and in 4+ foot seas. Looking over the port side down at the waves we were crashing over revealed that the water was full of bioluminescence. Each crashing wave glowed with the small plankton that create stars in the sea, it was incredible. Cruising at 10+ knots, big waves, clear night sky, bioluminescence, can it get any better. Yes. "Hand to foreward" Cavo commands our watch. It's 02:00 and we're striking the jib! I'm on the down haul, Noah is on the jib halyard, Taylor on the sheet, and Emily on the other downhaul. "Strike the jib!" Cavo called. The jib fell as the halyard and sheet were eased, and I scrambled, hauling in the downhaul as fast as possible.
Taylor '16 and Nick '17
This ship’s log is dedicated to the owners of the Peacemaker, the beautiful ship that showed hospitality and grace as our hosts in St Mary’s
Today marks day 31 of our Ocean Classroom experience. The past few days have been emotional rollercoasters for many of us. The midterm workload quickly built up, late-night study sessions began and study guides covered the tables of the main salon.
If we’ve learned anything aboard the Roseway (besides how to tie a bowline), it’s that plans can change at the drop of a hat. Although everyone was looking forward to arriving in Charleston, SC, unfavorable wind and tide patterns took it off the agenda. We spent another night anchored outside of Cumberland Island, and the Charleston Port Report group still presented their research findings (in the form of a rap song and game of Jeopardy). We then continued down the east coast to St Mary’s, GA.
We were fortunate enough to dock side by side with the Peacemaker, a Barquentine ship built in 1989 and owned by the Twelve Tribes. The owners of this beautiful vessel turned our 24 hour stay at St. Mary’s into a luxurious and fun-filled day. As soon as we docked, we were peppered with a constant stream of snacks and refreshments. We took the opportunity of a few restful hours to clear out, spray and wipe down our racks. This long-awaited project was much needed. The odor of Lysol hung in the air for many hours. The Peacemaker graciously provided 21 disgusting high-school students with warm-water showers, and we sent our crusty clothes to be washed. Our cleaning was interrupted by the arrival of Captain Tom laden with our mail for Charleston. He drove (stuck in traffic for hours) all the way from Charleston to bring our long-awaited mail. We ripped apart a record-breaking number of packages, devoured an ungodly amount of sweets, and teared up while reading the heartwarming messages sent from family and friends.
A slew of activities followed our mail session. We were granted free-time in the small town of St. Mary’s. Some of us came back with books, ice cream and other various goodies (as if the packages weren’t enough). We broke down boxes, consolidated and moved trash off the deck, and packed Roseway full of food to begin the two-week transit to St. Croix.
We are all nervous. We are all excited. We will all be very tired. But all of us are prepared, whether we know it or not. The journey ahead will test us physically, emotionally and mentally. We are treasuring each and every day that we have with each other - there are only 28 of them left.
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9 de mai de 2020
This course is so useful to know about finance in depth it gives more examples about the finance . It help to make more decision in finance market. It also motivate students to attract towards finance
19 de ago de 2020
Curso perfeito em todos os aspectos, me introduziu ao mercado financeiro e me fez querer escolher essa área para atuar. Robert Shiller merece o posto de maiores economistas que temos, pessoa incrível.
por Snigdha B•
7 de abr de 2020
This is a brilliantly crafted course with apt information and practice on how to understand the markets, analyze it and come to relatively accurate conclusions of the analysis.
por Robert G•
10 de ago de 2019
Pretty good course. Seems to drag on some very basic topics, then speed through more advanced sections. Seems to me it should be the other way around. Otherwise a good course.
por JEREMIA O E•
23 de mar de 2021
WAS AN AMAZING CLASS ON FINANCIAL MARKETING, SIR SHILLER WENT INDEPT ON SOME TOPIC THAT ARE OFTEN USED EVERYDAY IN THE STOCK MARKET WAS A BIG HELP WOULD DEFINITELY RECOMMEND .
por Samuel K C•
19 de dez de 2020
This is one of the most technical online course I have ever done. I give all the credit to Coursera for their for selfless effort to take education to the doorsteps of people.
por Davide G•
4 de jan de 2022
Well structured and wide set of subjects treated (only bias is that it is US centric and focus too much on the US cases , the world is way bigger than what happens in the US)
por Shashwat C•
6 de set de 2020
a very informative course . covers almost every sector of finance . Only problem with the a course is , its us based 30% content is us based which is difficult to understand
por Jannatun N•
21 de jun de 2020
I have enjoyed a lot the course.When COVID 19 have created a fearsome stroke around the world and I'm in locked down,this course have enlarged my knowledge and made me busy.
por Mauricio M•
31 de mai de 2020
Very interesting course to have a general overview on financial markets. It is mainly focused on USA examples, but also have some small topics from Europe or Latin America
por Kavya M•
16 de jun de 2020
Commendable effort by Professor Robert Shiller along with informative discussions. A 2nd part or a more advanced course after the competition would be really appreciated.
por Ricardo e•
27 de nov de 2020
un curso muy bueno para aprender sobre economia y de como se mueve las inversiones y las grandes empresas dependiendo de la tendencia en un momento historico determinado
por Abdul H H•
27 de abr de 2020
it was an amazing course with a-lot to offer. i genuinely was impressed with it. however it was slightly dull , so you better be prepared for what you are signing up for
por Saher R•
13 de jul de 2020
Loved the assignment, the method of teaching and the quiz. The assignment submission was a little troublesome though in submitting, but an excellent experience overall.
por Miguel V•
6 de abr de 2021
Great intro, liked the wide range of perspectives in finances that it provides, would have liked a more in depth look at the maths side but overall it's a great intro
por Juan I M•
26 de ago de 2020
me pareció muy interesante y muy valioso los conocimientos en cuanto historiad e finanzas y su funcionamiento en la actualidad. Sienta las bases para futuros estudios
por Jacopo S•
11 de abr de 2018
Very interesting course with an amazing professor who offered many useful information to people like me that want to have a first approach with the "financial world".
por Marcus V d S P•
13 de nov de 2021
Muito bom ter uma noção do mercado financeiro, contudo seria interessante abranger um pouco mais sobre as tendencias pós-pandemia e também mercados de criptomoedas.
por Yash S•
29 de nov de 2020
A Good course that takes you through the different aspects of the world of financial markets with immense clarity , with the profound intellect of Proffessor Shiller
por Shubham S•
13 de ago de 2021
The overall theoretical concept is explained well, but the thing is expected a kind of more versatile and real life examples rather than the mathematical formulae.
por Ron S•
25 de mai de 2020
Great course overall. But it would have been better if it was not cut off at random parts and if the professor spent more time explaining the mathematical concepts
por uğur t•
22 de jan de 2021
You cannot escape the financial system. Therefore, I recommend this wonderful course that even those who are not interested in finance should learn. it was great.
por James D S•
4 de ago de 2020
Well organized course covering the basic foundations of he U. S. financial system. The course provides an excellent starting pint to learn more about financiang.
por OFIWE O V•
17 de mar de 2021
With this course on this coursera platform I have been able to broaden my knowledge about finances and financial markets and how they both work in our economy...
por Devika B•
14 de ago de 2020
Professor Shiller is knowledgeable and engaging. Overall, this was a great learning experience! Thank you, Professor and Coursera for this wonderful opportunity.
por Prem P•
23 de dez de 2021
It was fantastic session to learn financial market with great professor.I would like to thank Professor for making me understand how finance of the world work.
por Meena M•
10 de abr de 2020
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Paul Mensah from Ghana
Could you tell us about yourself and your background?
I am an avid reader and a community service advocate. I believe that literacy can be a potent tool to nurture the next generation of leaders for community development and social change.
In 2018, while doing my gap year at a local community school, my paths crossed with Precious, a 9 year old student who could neither read nor write. Through an after school literacy programme I started in the school, Precious found hope when she learned to put letters together to become words and words into sentences. Today, Precious can read and write and boldly express herself about what she imagines her future to be.
My time with Precious inspired me to start LibrariesWithoutWalls to introduce a culture of reading in the school and community and encourage young people to find a voice through literacy. Over 15 volunteers help to make this happen. The project operates a school-based reading engagement programme, a mobile reading programme for kids and youth in hard-to-reach rural communities, and a creative arts programme for kids to express themselves through colours and paints. These projects shape communities by getting the youth to volunteer and participate in community engagement and also provide mentorship for at-risk girls.
What prompted you to participate in #libraryselfie2021, and how did you feel when you emerged as one of the winners?
The #libraryselfie2021 was an incredibly unique opportunity to connect with young leaders across the continent to expand literacy opportunities to the next generation of African leaders! When I received the email announcing that I was one of the winners, I was elated, and this was not just because I was going to get the prizes, but because the opportunity to participate in such a keenly contested international competition was a great honour and a huge moment for LibrariesWithoutWalls.
How has participating in #libraryselfie2021 contributed to your passion for reading and learning?
#libraryselfie2021 gave me the inspiration to read more and opened up the opportunity to connect with other leaders of change across Africa. I got a sneak peek into many libraries around Africa and saw some interesting books and library ideas. From the perspective of the reading programme I run for rural kids, participating in the competition spurred me on to continue to give more kids the opportunity to read, learn and grow with books. It also made me realise that we can transform any space into a lively, vibrant haven for learning.
As a #libraryselfie2021 winner in your country, how do you plan to continuously contribute to improving learning and reading through libraries?
I am committed to leading LibrariesWithoutWalls to use its current sustainable mobile library idea and community book corners and creative spaces to expand literacy opportunities for children and the youth through book reading, mentorship and creative engagements.
We are excited about transforming communal spaces into hubs for reading and we will continue to collaborate with schools without libraries to create reading corners in the classrooms and involve children in the arts and other programmes that give them opportunities to learn.
Goethe-Institut awarded you a 200 Euro mini-grant to implement a mini project in your community. Could you give us an insight into your project and what you hope to achieve with it?
We love to see children turn letters into words and words into sentences. LibrariesWithoutWalls will use the 200 Euro grant from the Goethe-Institut to implement a reading and arts programme to make reading an enjoyable hobby for at least 210 children in 3 communities across Ghana. We believe we can achieve this by creating warm and welcoming reading spots where children can come and be guided to read age-appropriate books. We know every child is an artist, and we intend to also engage the kids who are excited about colours to draw, paint and colour their lives!
Through this project, we want to tackle the poor reading culture among children in rural communities, expand creative and safe play opportunities for the kids and use literacy as a tool to unlock inequality and encourage community cohesion and also support the achievement of SDG 4. We are confident that 80% of participating children will make at least 2 levels of progress in reading over the period of the project. We will measure this by comparing the children’s reading levels at the start of the programme with the end. | <urn:uuid:216eaf99-3c9e-4385-a85d-90a3e299253e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.goethe.de/ins/za/en/kul/sup/lis/22675630.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.957577 | 874 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Welcome to Yeso Elementary
Welcome to Yeso Elementary! We are one of five elementary schools within the Artesia Public School District in southeastern New Mexico. We are proudly educating young Thunderbirds in the 1st through 5th grades. Here at Yeso Elementary, we do whatever it takes to provide our students with an excellent education, because our kids are worth it!
We are a team of educators who will not stand in the way of our students as they discover, learn, and improve. We have faith in the potential of your child. We want to stretch, mold, teach, and challenge our students and prepare them for their future yet still allow them to experience the joy of being a child. | <urn:uuid:216ad492-ef75-4070-a5a9-b7c308be7405> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://yeso.bulldogs.org/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.969597 | 143 | 1.539063 | 2 |
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Lady-in-waiting to and closest confidante of Tsaritsa Alexandra Feodorovna. Felix Yusupov held her responsible for introducing the Tsaritsa to Rasputin and indirectly bringing about the downfall of the House of Romanov and the Russian Empire. Arrested in 1917, she escaped to Finland where she took vows as an Orthodox nun. Postcard with portrait of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna and the Tsarevich published by the Empress’ charity to raise funds for the families of those wounded in the 1904-1905 [Russo-Japanese] War, written in English, informing Nona Kerr, lady-in-waiting to Princess Irene (sister of the Empress Alexandra), of her impending marriage in 1907. Joint: Journal intime d’Anna Vyrouboff. Riga, 1928. | <urn:uuid:82e33d7a-ef4f-4cf2-af2b-4da896501297> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hermitagefineart.com/it/lots/2019-july-russian-art/365/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.858695 | 215 | 1.859375 | 2 |
By Barb Henry – Victoria County Master GardenerEdited by Charla Borchers Leon
Updated May 7, 2017 at 6 a.m.
• Plan and plant – Design flower beds, vegetable and herb gardens. Purchase and plant new transplants, seeds and/or bedding plants. Visit Victoria Educational Gardens to get ideas.
• Fertilize – Feed lawn and plants good nitrogen-rich fertilizer or one specific for your plants. Have soil tested if in doubt.
• Control pests – Be observant; watch for worms, aphids, mold, web, bag worms, brown spot. Know your insects; follow pesticide instruction carefully.
• Mulch – To help control weed growth, insolate roots from upcoming summer heat and to preserve precious moisture in the soil.
Since spring officially arrived in mid-March, you may think these tips for spring gardening may seem a bit late. However, with the deep freeze in January and later cold snaps, many plants are only now reviving, so there is still time to plan, prepare, plant and sow.
At the time of this writing, local nurseries and plant suppliers still have bedding plants and transplants in stock. We all know that there is no season in which the avid gardener has missed planting time.
There has been sufficient time for plants to come back to life in those dead looking sticks and from roots. It’s time to prune out the dead wood and to reshape and size those that are now showing promise.
Remove suckers and unwanted spring growth from shrubs, bushes and trees. Pinch tips of herbs and smaller plants to encourage branching. Remove and discard plants that show no signs of reviving.
If you have fruit trees that are blooming and setting fruit, be sure to thin the fruit so they can produce quality crops.
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Of course, you could always throw my suggested selection process out the window and make your selection based on performance first, with the other factors as secondary considerations.
The key performance criteria for NASes are read and write throughput. Other specifications that you might focus on for selecting a naked hard drive such as access time, seek time, etc. are generally masked by the overhead of moving data across a network. Factors that do affect throughput include network connection speed, file size and file record size.
You can't do much about record size, which is controlled by your computer's OS. But if you're transferring lots of big files, make sure you get a NAS that has a gigabit Ethernet port. Previous generation NASes with gigabit Ethernet ports sometimes didn't have processing power that could take advantage of a faster network connection. But our tests show that all current-generation products can transfer files faster over a gigabit connection.
Other factors that affect NAS performance are your computer's operating system and RAM size. Today's OSes try to use RAM caching (reading and writing to system memory instead of disk storage) as much as possible to avoid performance slowdowns. The more RAM you have and the smaller the file size(s) that you're dealing with, the more likely that the OS will be able to find what it needs in speedy memory instead of having to go out to (much) slower disk.
No matter which selection method you use, you'll find our NAS Charts to be an invaluable aid in your search. And we've recently added search filters to them to help you more quickly find products with the features you want. And, of course, our in-depth product reviews are also a great source to tap. So go forth, and get the perfect NAS for you! | <urn:uuid:1793127b-f6e5-4e51-ba90-7e7c9cf84640> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://mail.smallnetbuilder.com/basics/nas-basics/30107-how-to-choose-the-right-nas-for-you?start=5 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.961279 | 368 | 1.8125 | 2 |
- 1 What fish do you catch with lures?
- 2 Do lures work for all fish?
- 3 What is the best lure for all fish?
- 4 Are lures or bait better?
- 5 Do I need a sinker with a lure?
- 6 Why can’t fish catch fake bait?
- 7 Do fish like fake bait?
- 8 Why can’t I catch fish?
- 9 What is the rarest fishing lure?
- 10 What attracts bass the most?
- 11 What lure catches the most bass?
- 12 Do worms work better than lures?
- 13 Is Cheese illegal to fish with?
- 14 Why do fish bite lures?
What fish do you catch with lures?
Although most freshwater lures are produced for the bass fishing market, artificial lures can be used to catch other species of fish, such as crappie, perch, walleye, northern pike, and muskellunge.
Do lures work for all fish?
The biggest disadvantages of lures is that they require input from an angler before they will catch a fish. Most lures won’t work if you just cast them out and wait for a bite. Some fish species just don’t respond well to lures.
What is the best lure for all fish?
The Five Best Fishing Lures of All Time
- Soft Plastic Jigs.
- Marabou Jigs.
- Topwater Plugs.
Are lures or bait better?
Bait is highly effective because fish are more attracted to the real live prey you’re delivering. Bait is often cheaper than lures in the long run. It’s free if you find your own while out and about in nature. Bait attracts fish from far and wide, so you can easily set your rod up and just wait for something to bite.
Do I need a sinker with a lure?
There are several reasons why you might need to add weight to your lure or get your hands on a fishing sinker: Weights enhance your lure’s anchoring ability. You can cast your line to greater distances with sinkers. It reinforces the sinking rate and ability of your lure and line.
Why can’t fish catch fake bait?
If it is too hot or cold, you might not catch any fish on lures. The cold is a much more negative situation for fishing. There are times and areas when cold air advances and transitions into warmer areas, which we call cold front. If you come across a cold front, you should try to fish deeper and use smaller lures.
Do fish like fake bait?
Artificial Lures: Artificial lures are amazing for catching all types of fish, both big and small. Many inshore anglers would agree that if you were only trying to catch slot fish (like redfish for instance), an artificial lure might be your best bet.
Why can’t I catch fish?
Once the water temperature gets too hot or cold fish tend to shut down. If the fish aren’t biting it may just be too cold or too hot for the fish that you are trying to catch. Or you may just need to slow your presentation and cast directly on them so that it doesn’t take a lot of energy for them to grab your lure.
What is the rarest fishing lure?
The coveted 1853 copper Giant Haskell Minnow is arguably the rarest antique lure of all time; There’s only one of them known to be in existence. In 2003, the lure was sold at Lang’s Discovery Auction in Waterville, N.Y. for $101,200.
What attracts bass the most?
Stick Bait The legendary Stick Bait is the most popular and fundamental Bass lure ever. Many argue that Green Pumpkin, Cinammon, and Chartreuse are the most productive colors and we agree. You can work these fattys on just about any soft plastic rig, but the most famous method is the Wacky Rig.
What lure catches the most bass?
1. Jig. Skirted jigs are the undisputed champ of the “year-round bait” category. They catch bass in 40 degree water and 90 degree water, in grass, rocks, wood, and open water.
Do worms work better than lures?
No, they’ll only fish with bait that they can go out and catch themselves. That’s a valid option, but it’s not always a quick one. Digging for worms is probably the simplest method, but if worms won’t work for you, then an artificial lure is going to be your best bet.
Is Cheese illegal to fish with?
There is a myth surrounding the use of cheese as bait. Cheese is not an illegal bait, and with the amount of anglers catching Murray cod on cheese each summer in Wangaratta, there would be dead fish floating everywhere if the other stories were true. I have gutted Murray cod with gold balls in their stomachs.
Why do fish bite lures?
Simply put, there are three main reason why a fish will strike a lure or bait; they are hungry (a feeding strike), they become agitated or perceive a threat (a reaction strike), or they are defending an area (a territorial strike). Let’s discuss each one of these strikes and see how we can apply them. | <urn:uuid:baa4e673-5c81-4398-8c9b-c6fd51fc4427> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://huntingfishingtech.com/fish/faq-which-fish-wich-lure.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.91904 | 1,160 | 1.9375 | 2 |
Best Travel Tips And Hacks One Must Know
Want to travel on a budget or just want to grab a good deal? Try these travel tips to save big on your next vacation.
Where To Go
Instead of hitting up all of the major attractions at your destination, check out these local resources for an educational, exciting and relaxing time for a smaller place.
- Local Park Districts – Get into the local scene of your vacation destination with events like local concerts, ice rinks and zoos.
- Cultural Events – From San Francisco’s Chinese New Year Parade to Pow Wows in New Mexico, cultural events are an easy way to see traditions you’ve never experienced before, wherever you go.
- Smaller Historical Sites – See history reveal itself at smaller historical plantations, monuments and battlefields. They offer a similar experience for a fraction of the cost of larger sites.
- Museums – There are museums around the world for every interest, so be sure to search for them on your next getaway for free or a small donation.
- National Wildlife Refuges – Beautiful views and world-class recreation for a fraction less than national parks and monuments.
How To Catch Good Hotel Deals
Travel during the off-season this way you will get good deals that will fall easily into your budget. You can also join reward programs for different hotels they can offer you great deals. Keep following your hotel on different social media platforms to keep a check on their deals and offers.
- Save The Date – Bear in mind that booking your flight for less-popular times or days of the week can usually save you money. Avoid travelling on Fridays and Sundays as these are the most expensive days.
- Flying? Pack Light – The majority of airlines charge you to check baggage. The fees many not seem like a big deal, but they can build up and eat into a tight budget. The fewer bags you pack, the less it will cost.
- Go Public – Public transportation is an inexpensive, efficient way to travel. Buying a weekly or 24-hour pass can save you big money if you’re staying for a couple of days or more.
- Ride The Bus – Bus companies offer steep discounts getting you from city to city, some even as low as a few dollars. Go on their website 30 days before your trip for the best prices.
- Renting A Car? – Price your car rental even after you make your reservation and make your reservation at a non-airport location to save. Many rental car companies will provide pick-up service to and from the airport.
Traveling to Paris for spending some quality time with family or oneself, is probably the best holiday plan you can ever make. Holidays to Paris will be the most exciting experience of your life.
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Indianapolis charter school network Tindley Accelerated Schools has received a $1.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education from a program that aims to fund “the creation and expansion of public charter schools across the nation.”
Tindley, which has six schools across Indianapolis that in the past have been lauded for academic excellence, says it learned of the grant last week. Most of the grant money will be used to "enhance the teaching resources” in elementary schools and to support literacy of students, according to the network.
“We’re definitely excited about receiving it,” said the school’s interim CEO Kelli Marshall. “We don’t plan on opening any more buildings, but we now can better support the programs we currently have.”
Marshall said she believed the network was “definitely helped” by national attention its flagship high school has received over the years. The Charles A. Tindley Accelerated School earned a designation as a national "blue ribbon school” in 2010.
Marshall said the network has experienced enrollment growth since last year, when enrollment deficits hurt the network’s cash flow. Last year, Tindley ended the year with 1,523 students. The network currently has 1,820 students.
The grant was part of $245 million that was given through the federal education department’s 2016 Charter School Program grant cycle. The program has invested more than $3 billion into schools since 1995.
Most of the money went to larger charter school networks, including KIPP, a national network with schools in Indianapolis. Several state education departments also received millions, although the state of Indiana was not among those awarded.
The program "supports the creation of high-quality public charter schools by providing start-up funds for new charter schools, strengthening accountability for charter school performance, sharing leading practices that enable school success, and ultimately, improving educational outcomes for students from high-need communities,” according to the federal education department.
But some national education groups warn the grant awards should be tracked and awarded more carefully, given what they say is a history of lacking financial accountability and performance standards in the charter sector.
A spokesman for the National Education Association, the nation’s largest teacher’s union, pointed to Tindley’s own financial oversight problems as evidence of that. The group is calling for regular audits and increased financial transparency for the charter industry.
IBJ reported last year the Tindley network was experiencing money problems due to enrollment shortfalls. The school network met 75 percent of its enrollment goal in 2015, causing a $2.8 million revenue shortfall, which meant the network had to eliminate some jobs.
IBJ also reported last year that while the organization was having money problems, former CEO Marcus Robinson used a Tindley credit card to make frequent first-class flights, stay at four- and five-star hotels—including the Ritz Carlton and the Waldorf Astoria—and pay for meals. Robinson resigned two months after IBJ reported on the group’s money troubles.
Auditors also found a material weakness and two significant deficiencies on a review of Tindley’s 2014 financials submitted to the State Board of Accounts. And the Mayor’s Office noted problems on the network’s last accountability report in the areas of financial management and board oversight.
Among the concerns in those reports were a lack of internal controls over financial reporting; the management of outsourced bookkeepers; preparation of an accurate schedule of expenditures; and late submission to the mayor’s office of employee spreadsheets, board meeting minutes and quarterly financial reports.
The mayor’s office told IBJ at the time that they were working with Tindley to fix some of those issues.
Dorie Nolt, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Education, told IBJ that the federal education department felt “encouraged” by recent actions of the Indianapolis charter chain to shore up its finances.
"During the Department’s review of Tindley’s grant application, we determined that the organization took appropriate corrective actions to address concerns about its financial management capabilities,” Nolt said in a statement to IBJ. "Those actions include: the resignation of the CEO, hiring an experienced interim CEO, adding several new members to Tindley’s governing board and hiring a new treasurer, enhancing its internal controls, increasing community outreach and involvement of school principals in efforts to increase student enrollment, and reviewing existing school discipline policies and involving parents in the development of new policies.”
Marshall told IBJ the three-year grant was “very restrictive” and “specifically mapped out as to how it can be utilized."
For instance, Nolt said there were “special conditions on Tindley’s grant related to concerns about plans to expand the organization’s single-sex educational programs.” Tindley has separate middle schools for boys and girls.
The conditions include requiring federal approval before establishing any new single-sex educational offerings during grant period, requiring Tindley to detail to the federal government how it is implementing teaching strategies within those environments, and requiring that the network cooperate with federal assistance the department “determines is necessary to ensure compliance with the Equal Protection Clause, federal civil rights statutes, regulations, or additional special conditions."
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Placard-holding protesters declared the village of Balcombe in Sussex, UK, a “frack free zone” this week. Police made at least 23 arrests as people attempted to block the delivery of drilling equipment for Cuadrilla, the company that intends to sink a 900-metre well as a prelude to fracking operations.
A giant magnet has completed a month-long trip across land and sea. The 15-metre-wide ring, originally used at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York to measure muons, arrived at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, last Friday after a circuitous 5000-kilometre journey designed to minimise damaging vibrations and prevent its slow speed causing traffic jams.
Twitter has come under pressure to get tougher on online abuse after a UK politician and a campaigner both received rape threats via the social network. More than 65,000 people signed a petition calling on Twitter to add a “report tweet” button. The site said it will suspend any accounts found to be in breach of its rules.
How to hack cars
The UK High Court has banned a cybersecurity researcher at the University of Birmingham from revealing vulnerabilities in the ignition systems of Porsche and Audi cars built by Volkswagen. With car hacking on the rise, VW argues the paper would be a gift to criminals.
Bathers at beaches in the UK have been warned to beware of a surge in jellyfish following the country’s recent hot spell. The most dangerous, the lion’s mane jellyfish, has flourished off the coasts of north Wales and north-west England, with milder-stinging compass jellyfish increasing in the south-west, the UK Marine Conservation Society reports. | <urn:uuid:7ff4767a-3372-4fb9-bf3b-e05371addde1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929284-300-60-seconds/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.932385 | 373 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Companionship can be a major need for an elderly person now that they have more time to stay at home. Mobility challenges and other age-related difficulties may confine them mostly indoors, but the need for regular connections with other people remain the same.
For a senior person who needs daily companionship, their condition is mostly mobile and independent. They don’t need medical interventions or assistance. What they need is the presence of other people who they can talk to, enjoy time with, and do things with.
As home care provider in Harwood Heights, Illinois, we recognize that companionship is more than just keeping a senior person company. Here are further benefits of an elderly companion:
- Safety at Home
Even when they’re indoors, your senior loved one can still encounter risks and hazards, which might end up injurious to their health. When someone is keeping them company, the safety of your loved one is ensured.
- Prevents Loneliness
Our aging loved ones can also get lonely especially when their grownup children have left the next or their spouse has left this world. Loneliness can lead a senior person to depression, which is more harmful to their overall well-being.
- Medication Adherence
Even if your senior loved one doesn’t need to be assisted in taking their medications, they may need some reminding about its schedule. This is what Caregivers in Illinois will do when they are keeping your loved one company for the day.
- Preparing Balanced Meals
When your loved one is in the company of another person, they can be motivated to prepare for their meals and eat with them. Care providers can take part in assisting the person in preparing these meals and ensuring that the ingredients are nutritious.
When your loved one needs this kind of companionship at home, you need to find a way to provide it. Companionship can be provided by you, another family member, or a provider of non-medical home care services who knows what they’re doing.
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- 1 How was Budapest formed?
- 2 Why is Budapest divided into Buda and Pest?
- 3 What are the two parts of Budapest called?
- 4 Is Buda the old part of Budapest?
- 5 Which is better Buda or Pest?
- 6 What is Budapest famous for?
- 7 Which city is older Buda or Pest?
- 8 Which side of Budapest is pest?
- 9 Which is the old part of Budapest?
- 10 What nationality is Budapest?
- 11 In which country is Budapest?
- 12 How old is Hungary today?
- 13 What is the language of Budapest?
- 14 Which area is the best to stay in Budapest?
- 15 Is Budapest a safe city?
How was Budapest formed?
Budapest, the capital of Hungary, was created in 1873 by the merger of three cities: Buda, Óbuda and Pest. Aquincum was the capital of the province of lower Pannonia from 106 AD until the end of the 4th century. Contra Aquincum (or Trans Aquincum) was in place of today’s Pest.
Why is Budapest divided into Buda and Pest?
After the reconquest of Buda in 1686, the region entered a new age of prosperity, with Pest – Buda becoming a global city after the unification of Buda, Óbuda, and Pest on 17 November 1873, with the name ‘ Budapest ‘ given to the new capital.
What are the two parts of Budapest called?
Budapest is a gorgeous city with two very distinct sides separated by the Danube River: Buda is on the west and Pest on the East.
Is Buda the old part of Budapest?
A Brief History of Budapest Old Town While Buda is the hilly and more historical part of the city, Pest is flat and more modern one. Buda was once the place where the Hungarian Kings resided.
Which is better Buda or Pest?
Buda – Definitely the classier and more residential side of the city, Buda is known for being a bit quieter and the place to go for a leisurely sightseeing experience. Pest – Known for being where all of the action happens – the place to be touristy, hang out and have fun.
What is Budapest famous for?
Budapest is one of the most photogenic cities in Europe. The dramatic skyline that Budapest is most famous for is peppered with 19th-century architectural wonders alongside the Danube River. Notable landmarks include the majestic riverside Parliament Building and a collection of stunning basilicas.
Which city is older Buda or Pest?
Originally two different cities divided by the beautiful Danube River (or if you want to get technical, three cities ), the west bank cities of Buda and Obuda united with the city of Pest on the east bank of the Danube in 1873, and Budapest as we know it was born.
Which side of Budapest is pest?
Across the river to the east was the ancient city of Pest, with settlements dating back to the Celtics and Romans. Pest was a strong economic center in the 11th and 13th centuries. The town was pretty much destroyed in 1241 during the Mongol invasion of Hungary, but was quickly rebuilt.
Which is the old part of Budapest?
Buda Old Town, Budapest.
What nationality is Budapest?
Endonym „ Magyar ” (for Hungarians ) is originated from the tribe name „Megyer”. According to the 1494-95 medieval census, was implemented by the Hungarian Royal Treasury, the present-territory of Budapest had Hungarian majority.
In which country is Budapest?
Administratively, Hungary is divided into 19 counties with the capital city of Budapest being independent of any county government. Hungary is among the top tourist destinations in Europe with the capital Budapest regarded as one of the most beautiful cities worldwide.
How old is Hungary today?
History: Hungary has a long tradition in history – 1100 years. She is one of the oldest countries in Europe. The first groups of Hungarian people arrived to the current location in 896. King Stephen founded the independent state of Hungary in 1000.
What is the language of Budapest?
– Hungarian: The only official language of the country, unrelated to any of the neighbouring languages. It is the first language of some 98.9% of the total population. – German: spoken by the German minority, especially in and around Mecsek Mountains, but also in other parts of the country.
Which area is the best to stay in Budapest?
The 5th district is the best overall neighborhood to stay in Budapest for tourists. Plenty of attractions, and loads of restaurants and cafés to enjoy.
Is Budapest a safe city?
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Multiple Chinese planes and ships were detected around Taiwan Strait and some of them have crossed the median line, said the defence ministry on Saturday.
"Facing deliberately heightened military threats, Taiwan will not back down. We will... continue to hold the line of defence for democracy," Tsai said at an event with Pelosi in Taipei.
Such technologies are part of a strategy to deter any possible invasion from China, with its huge army and vast superiority in numbers of warplanes, ships and other weaponry.
The routine exchange of prisoners to their respective territories by the police under a 2009 agreement have grown rarer since Ing-wen took office in Taipei, who regards Taiwan as a sovereign nation.
Beijing has ramped up pressure on Taiwan since President Tsai Ing-wen came to power in 2016, as she rejects its stance that the island is part of "one China".
Earlier in November, Taiwan opened a de facto embassy in Lithuania under the name of Taiwanese Representative Office. Lithuania also plans to open a representative office in Taiwan.
Taiwan has been self-ruled since the two sides split during a civil war in 1949, but China considers the island part of its own territory.
Self-governed Taiwan's 23 million people live under the constant threat of invasion by authoritarian China, which views the island as its territory and has vowed to one day seize it, by force if neces
Tsai Ing-wen also firmly rejected Chinese military coercion, a stance driven home by a rare demonstration of Taiwan's defence capabilities in a parade on its National Day. | <urn:uuid:e70eaf04-303c-4e8d-ba2f-fe2225f722dc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.newindianexpress.com/topic/Tsai_Ing-wen | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.971338 | 318 | 1.828125 | 2 |
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The air fryer is comparatively a new idea but it is taking over the usual ways of frying your food. With this small and compact tool, you can fry almost any food even and perfectly. It also takes the least time to prepare the food in an air fryer when compared to the other tools. Although most of the air fryer arrives with a food bucket, some of these also include the racks. So, how to use air fryer rack?
If you want to utilize the air fryer rack, then you should consider reading the next part of the article. We will let you know how to add the air fryer rack and cook food on it. Moreover, we will discuss whether you can add a rack or not if it didn’t arrive with the package. Keep reading the article to know all the important info about the air fryer rack.
So How to Use Air Fryer Rack?
As we said earlier, air fryers typically arrive with a bucket where you can add the food for frying them. However, a few of the models now also include the rack. The rack offers you certain benefits which is you can stack food in the air fryer with it. Here is how to use the air fryer rack.
- Begin with cleaning the rack.
- Put the rack in a way so that its leg is downwards.
- Now add the food to the rack.
- Now stack more racks if required like step 2.
- You can utilize an additional rack by following the same way.
If your air fryer doesn’t bring the racks, you can consider purchasing them separately. The racks are now separately available. All you need to do is to pick the right dimension of the rack based on the space inside your air fryer. It is important to consider the space as it will become useless if you cannot put the rack inside the air fryer.
Why do You Need Rack for Air Fryer?
Air fryers typically arrive with a basket that holds the food inside the appliance. The thing is you cannot add much of the food to it. Adding multiple layers of food to the basket will lead to uneven cooking. Some foods will be overcooked while the others will not be cooked properly. So, what’s the solution if you want to cook a lot of food at once in the air fryer?
Well, you can consider cooking them in smaller batches. However, this is not a feasible solution as it will require a good amount of time. The racks can be a great way to cook a lot of food at once. You can stack them inside the air fryer. This allows adequate heat supply on all the food for ensuring proper cooking.
Some of the racks even arrive with skewers, allowing you to make delicious kebabs in the appliance easily. There are even some grill-style racks that allow you to cook burgers, steaks, chicken, seafood, and much more things. These additional attachments can make take your air frying experience to the next level.
What is the Drawback of using a Rack in an Air Fryer?
Well, the air fryer racks arrive with some little inconvenience. The hot air may not reach all the foods properly due to the blockage by the outside layers. As a result, some foods may not get cooked properly while you put them in stack through a rack on the air fryer. This issue also has a solution, you can simply interchange the position of the racks at a regular time interval. This will allow the food on different racks to cook properly.
What to Cook in an Air Fryer Rack?
There are a lot of things that you can cook in the air fryer racks. Some of these include:
The chicken patties might be the best thing you can cook in the air fryer for a crispy and flavorful outcome. However, due to the smaller space inside you might require waiting a long time to complete the cooking. The air fryer rack can be your solution. You can cook a lot of them at once by utilizing the racks.
Burger and Steaks
The burgers and steaks are some other foods that can be cooked on air fryer racks easily. If you require cooking them for a party, simply utilize the racks and cook them as much as you want at once. Apart from the burger and steaks, you can also consider cooking BBQ, Kebabs, and related foods.
Do you want to fry the vegetables to bring out their best taste? You can do this simply by utilizing an air fryer rack. You can cook them in large portions by utilizing the racks easily. Some of the vegetables you can consider trying include potato, carrots, baby corn, mushrooms, sugar snap peas, and others.
The air fryer and its rack will come as handy tools to heat your leftover foods. In case you don’t know, the air fryers arrive with excellent reheating capability. You can reheat almost anything on it including burgers, chicken patties, pizza, and you name it. The racks will help you to reheat all of them at once to save a lot of your time and effort.
What not to Cook on Air Fryer Racks?
There are few things you shouldn’t even try to cook on the air fryer racks. These include battered foods, fresh greens, whole roast, cheese, and raw grains. These foods are not suitable for cooking in an air fryer even without the racks. They will not prepare properly while also leaving a lot of hard-to-clean mess in your air fryer.
An air fryer is something like your oven but a small version of it. However, you can easily increase the capacity of the air fryer device by adding the racks in it. They can increase the capacity up to 3 to 4 times. That means you can cook more food in less time while putting least effort. We hope after reading the article, you will know how to use the air fryer racks. | <urn:uuid:5b815378-fb5d-4a49-a63d-cf25ea1c49d6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://restaurantstella.com/how-to-use-air-fryer-rack/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.956704 | 1,251 | 1.53125 | 2 |
The Origin of Friday the 13th as an Unlucky Day
Being wary of Friday the 13th is much more than a quaint superstition observed by a few uneducated people in distant, unreachable towns and hamlets. In the United States alone, it is estimated that between 17 and 21 million people dread that date to the extent that it can be officially classified as a phobia.
So why is Friday the 13th considered such an “evil” day?
The origins aren’t perfectly clear, but we do know that both Friday and, separately, the number 13 have long been considered unlucky and it was around the late 19th century that the first documented instances started popping up of people putting the two together to form the unluckiest day of all.
To start with, the most popular theory as to why Friday is considered unlucky or an evil day is thought to spring from Christianity. By tradition, Friday is considered the day that Eve gave Adam the “apple” and they were kicked out of the Garden of Eden- of course, “Friday” wouldn’t have been around yet. (Note: The notion that it was an apple is a second century invention and contrary to what is stated in Genesis.)
Also by tradition, Adam and Eve were purported to have died on the then nonexistent “Friday”. The Temple of Solomon was said to have been destroyed on Friday. And Jesus was traditionally considered to have been crucified on a Friday, the day we refer to now as Good Friday. That said, there are several references in somewhat recent history of Good Friday being considered the one exception to Fridays being bad luck. Such as this reference from 1857:
Notwithstanding the prejudice against sailing on a Friday… most of the pleasure-boats… make their first voyage for the season on Good Friday.
Others theorize that Friday being unlucky predated Christianity. The name “Friday” was chosen in honor of the Norse goddess Frigg, who was the multitalented goddess of love, beauty, wisdom, war, death, and magic. Teutonic people are thought to have considered the day extremely unlucky, especially for weddings, due in part to the lovely goddess the day was named for. Later, the Christian church attempted to demonize the goddess, so that may or may not be a contributing factor as well.
Whatever the case, despite these quite old origin theories, well documented instances of the notion that Friday was popularly considered unlucky among the masses don’t seem to have popped up until around the mid-17th century. Within the next two centuries after that, the idea continued to spread and by the 19th century was nearly ubiquitous in certain cultures.
As for the unluckiness of the number 13, as with Friday, there are numerous possibilities for the origin, the most popular of which also stems from Christianity. It is considered incredibly bad luck to have 13 people sitting at a table for dinner, which supposedly is due to the fact that Judas Iscariot was by tradition the 13th person to be seated to dine at the Last Supper.
However, the Hindus also believed that it was bad luck for 13 people to gather together for any purpose at the same time.
Far away in northern Europe, the Vikings of ancient times told a very similar story. According to the old Norse myth, 12 gods were feasting at the banquet hall at Valhalla, when Loki, the god of Mischief, showed up uninvited. This, of course, brought the count of gods up to the dreaded number of 13. Loki then encouraged Hod, the blind god of winter and darkness, to murder Balder the Good with a spear of mistletoe, throwing all of Valhalla into mourning, and once again providing another example of a story in history that congregating with 13 for dinner is a bad idea.
So why all these separate religions having such a similar tradition of demonizing the number 13? There are those that theorize the number 13 may have been purposely denigrated by the founders of the patriarchal religions to eradicate the influence of the Mother Goddess. In goddess worshipping cultures, the number 13 was often revered, as it represented the number of lunar and menstrual cycles that occur annually. It is believed by those who adhere to this theory that as the 12-month solar calendar came into use over the 13-month lunar calendar, the number 13 itself became suspect.
It should be noted, though, that not all cultures in the ancient world recoiled at the number 13. The Ancient Egyptians believed life was a spiritual journey that unfolded in stages. They believed that 12 of those stages occurred in this life, but last, the 13th, was a joyous transformative ascension to an eternal afterlife. So the number 13 represented death to the Egyptians, but not death as in decay and fear, but as acknowledgement of a glorious eternal life. Of course, it’s always possible the association with death from Egyptian tradition later morphed into death in an unlucky sense later by cultures influenced by Egypt.
As with the notion of Friday being unlucky, “13” being popularly considered unlucky really seemed to gain steam around the 17th-18th centuries, and by the 19th century in the Western world was likewise extremely widespread in several different cultures.
So when did Friday and the number 13 join forces like a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup of bad luck to terrorize the masses? You’ll often read that it’s when the Knights Templar were arrested on Friday, October 13, 1307. However, that origin story is a modern notion with no basis in any documented history.
Others point to the last day of King Harold II’s reign on Friday, October 13, 1066. William of Normandy gave him the opportunity to relinquish his crown, which he refused. The next day William took it by force at the Battle of Hastings, causing Harold’s demise. Again, it is a modern idea that this is where the first “Friday the 13th is the ultimate unlucky day” notion came about.
It perhaps isn’t surprising, given that both Friday and “13” as unlucky didn’t reach their zenith in popularity until the 19th century, that it wasn’t until around the mid to late 19th century that the two were put together as the ultimate unlucky day.
One of the earliest references of this comes from a club formed by William Fowler. Fowler set out to prove that these sorts of superstitions are baseless. He thus formed a club known as “The Thirteen Club” in which club members would meet in groups of 13 to dine, with their first ever get together occurring, of course, on the unluckiest day of the week- Friday the 13th in January of 1881.
To thumb their noses even further at the fates, they had club members walk under a ladder before sitting down to a table in room 13 of the building they were in. They also made sure there was plenty of spilled salt on the table before they dined.
A slightly earlier documented reference comes from 1869, in the biography of Gioachino Rossini where the author, Henry Sutherland Edwards notes:
He [Rossini] was surrounded to the last by admiring friends; and if it be true that, like so many Italians, he regarded Fridays as an unlucky day and thirteen as an unlucky number, it is remarkable that one Friday 13th of November he died.
(Interestingly, traditionally in Italy, Friday the 13th was not considered unlucky, with 13 being often considered a lucky number there until extremely recently when Western European and American influence started to change that. For Italians, classically, 17 was the unlucky number and thus Friday the 17th became the Italian version of Friday the 13th. Nevertheless, Henry Sutherland Edwards was British so, though he was writing about an Italian composer, applied his own superstition to Gioachino Rossini.)
The notion of Friday the 13th being the unluckiest of the unlucky picked up steam from around this point and once we get into the early 20th century, there are numerous documented instances of people referencing it in this way, such as the 1907 novel by stockbroker Thomas W. Lawson called Friday the Thirteenth, which told of a stockbroker’s efforts to destroy the market on that ominous date.
So, aside from the popular “Friday the 13th” film franchise, what makes the Friday the 13th superstition stick so stubbornly in our collective consciousness? Psychologists point to the fact that if anything negative happens on that specific date, people make a permanent association between the event and the date in their minds, conveniently forgetting all those times Friday the 13th has passed uneventfully. In short, it is a classic example of confirmation bias.
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- The Dutch Centre for Insurance Statistics in 2008 attempted to prove that Friday the 13th was no different than any other day. They ended up demonstrating the opposite. From their results, they found Friday the 13th is actually a slightly safer day to drive than other days, at least using two years’ worth of data from 2006-2008 in the Netherlands. In that span, there were an average of 7,500 traffic accidents on days that were both Friday and the 13th of the month. On Fridays that didn’t line up with the 13th, there were only an average of 7,800 accidents each day. Their theory is simply that, due to the phobia, less people drive on Friday the 13th and people are more careful when they have to. They also found similar trends with reported fires and crimes, with less happening on Fridays that coincide with the 13th day of the month.
- In many nations where Spanish influence is prevalent, rather than Friday the 13th being unlucky, it is Tuesday the 13th that holds that honor.
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Architect Frederick Fisher: Building a lasting legacy in the L.A. art world
Frederick Fisher is something of an invisible man among L.A. architects: He creates buildings that are acclaimed by their users but have often gone unnoticed by the world at large. His houses, academic buildings and spaces for making and showing art are all about substance rather than show. Well-proportioned rooms, natural lighting and finely detailed materials enrich one’s experience in a subliminal way. So subtle is the architecture, so elusive in the camera’s eye, that the forty-year career of Fisher and his longtime partners, Joe Coriaty and David Ross, is less celebrated than it deserves to be.
That’s likely to change in the next few years, for the 30-person office has four major Los Angeles projects in development. A glass wing will open up the Natural History Museum to Exposition Park and its new neighbor, the swoopy silver spaceship of the Lucas Museum. Close by, on the USC campus, the firm is rehousing the interdisciplinary Iovene Young Academy. A new production facility will enlarge the scope of the Center Theater Group downtown, and a state-of-the-art glass block will extend the Santa Monica City Hall.
In person Fisher is as quiet and thoughtful as his architecture, describing himself as “a pragmatic Midwesterner, the son of a hospital architect with a stack of books on Frank Lloyd Wright.” His mother shared her love of art, taking him to drawing classes and the Cleveland Art Institute. After studying art at Oberlin, he drove to L.A. and secured his Master of Architecture degree at UCLA in 1978. Inspired by a Frank Gehry lecture on the Ron Davis studio in Malibu, he applied for a job and was told they had no work. “The next day, Gehry called back to say his marketing person had quit and he needed someone right away to fill in,” Fisher recalls. “It was a great way to learn, and I graduated to model-making and design. He had a habit of giving young people responsibility, having them work from a little sketch.”
As he was leaving Gehry’s office, he designed the Caplin house in Venice, “which was loaded with every idea I’d had in architecture school.” His debut as an independent practice was a modest house-studio for ceramicist Elsa Rady, the first of a series of collaborations with artists. In the mid-1980s he won a competition to create MoMA P.S.1 in the New York borough of Queens, converting a public school into a versatile exhibition space. While Gehry claimed he had merely cleaned up a garage to create the Temporary Contemporary in downtown L.A., Fisher took a more aggressive approach in New York, stripping and tearing out walls to create rough, edgy spaces that would give artists total freedom. Gordon Matta-Clark had fun with a chain saw, and others have burrowed into the floor. Both galleries celebrate the excitement of creativity.
Adaptive re-use is a major part of the practice. A Santa Monica telephone company building was remodeled to house the Eli Broad collection, with beams and skylights replacing a forest of columns. A street-car depot was transformed into Bergamot Station, the most successful concentration of galleries in L.A. A Spanish-revival PacBell service facility in Harvard Heights became the Jane B. Eisner Middle School. The firm also turned a vintage guest house into the Annenberg Community Beach House in Santa Monica and gave new life to Sunnylands, the Annenbergs’ estate in Rancho Mirage.
“I’m not seen as an architect who produces signature work,” Fisher admits. “Buildings should respond to their setting, so each one is different. That’s a problem when people come to our office expecting to find a design they can select—‘I’ll have one of those’—and we tell them we don’t yet know what it should look like.”
The advantage of this approach is that Fisher’s buildings don’t go out of fashion or outlive their usefulness. Private art galleries are often ephemeral, but L.A. Louver in Venice looks as fresh as when it was completed in 1994. A crisp cubist composition of stucco, steel and concrete block is carved away to provide a gated entry court and an enclosed terrace that evokes a James Turrell Sky Space. As in P.S.1, a diversity of spaces are available for the installation of artworks, and it’s a good place to catch up on the latest work of David Hockney.
When the Huntington mansion was restored a decade ago, the board realized that they could build a new gallery to house the popular artworks for almost the same cost as putting them in storage. Fisher’s team rose to the challenge of extending the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art, grafting the Erburu contemporary wing onto a neoclassical building and creating a seamless joinery within. They took inspiration from the skylit Dulwich Art Gallery near London, a pace-setting design two centuries old, which also provided a model for Richard Meier’s Getty Museum.
The new Huntington galleries open up to nature through steel-framed walls of glass, and the temporary installation of classic English paintings was a huge success. As collector Frances Brody observed, “I don’t think they should put the pictures back in the house—they look better here.” In 2016 Fisher inserted another suite of galleries to house the Fielding Collection of early-American art and artifacts. Most recently the firm has reconfigured LACMA’s Resnick Gallery to accommodate a wide diversity of exhibitions in a pinwheel plan of semi-enclosed spaces. That saves the expense and waste of putting up and tearing down drywall partitions for each show.
Watercolors provide Fisher with an escape from the rigors of architectural design as well as a sketchpad for future projects. “They force me to slow down and lose control, because once you’ve applied brush to paper, you can’t undo it. To me it’s about looking, and every form of representation distills the essence of what we see.”
The hands-on approach that has served Fisher so well feeds into the larger, more public projects he is currently designing. “One of the glories of architecture is how big it is and how many things it touches,” he observes. “We want to demystify the experience of going to the Natural History Museum, especially for first-timers. Our design is all about transparency and connectivity, breaking down barriers between the activities within and those of a park that will host the Olympics for the third time in 2028.” | <urn:uuid:fe0ea776-1765-49d3-b256-e95970d9c16d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.latimes.com/designla/la-design-la-frederick-20180327-story.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.963397 | 1,444 | 1.96875 | 2 |
King Louis the First of England!
Prince Louis of France was invited by the rebel barons to become king of England following King John’s refusal to accept the Magna Carta he had sealed at Runnymede. Over 200 castles in England were besieged, by the rebel barons or King John’s forces, in what became the First Barons’ War. This aimed to safeguard the rights, privileges and liberties of the clergy and the nobles as enshrined in the Magna Carta, but spilt out into a dynastic war for the English throne. This was only settled with the death of King John, and his succession by King Henry III. Even then, the dispute continued until the end of the century.
The Battles and Sieges
There were dozens of battles and sieges between 1214 and 1267. This was an era of castles and sieges. Many of the castles still stand. At Rochester you can still see the damage caused by John’s army when it undermined the corner of the keep using the fat of 40 pigs to create a fire fierce enough to burn the props. These are events populated by heroes, heroines and villains that could have been created by Hollywood. There are princes fighting for their kingdom, wicked sherriffs, heroines, callous mercenaries, treacherous pirates and outlaws. A summary of the main military events are here.
The Battlefields Trust is planning to create a Battlefield Trail covering the battles and sieges of the barons wars. This will be a major project and be timed to coincide with the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta as well as the 750th Anniversary of the Siege of Lewes. The Battlefields Trust is a member of Magna Carta 800. One of the most exciting developments is the inclusion of battlefields in the Magna Carta 800 Trail being developed for Vist England. This is the first time it has been possible to promote Britain’s Battlefield heritage as part of a tourism strategy.
There is a chance to hear military historian Julian Humphrys talking about the military history of Magna Carta on Tuesday 19th March 2013 between 12:30-14:00. This will be hosted by The Fusiliers Museum London in the Officer’s Mess of The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers HM Tower of London
In his talk Julian Humphrys will focus on three key episodes in the Magna Carta War: King John’s dramatic capture of Rochester in 1215, Hubert de Burgh’s stubborn defence of Dover in 1216 and William Marshall’s crushing defeat of the French at Lincoln in 1217.
For details and to book check the Jkust Giving Page here. – See more at: http://www.justgiving.com/Magna-Carta-Lecture-19th-March#sthash.kYTSq5zP.dpuf
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Ever since the COVID-19 lockdowns started, a lingering question has been the pandemic’s effect on housing prices. Early on, we saw sales decline in most cities, but that didn’t translate into lower prices. At the same time, many experts forecast that fewer sales would translate to lower prices eventually.
Analysts at Scotiabank and CIBC forecast price declines, while other analysts anticipated continued gains. Overall, there was a wide range of opinions, and no clear consensus.
Recently, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) jumped into the fray. In a report dated May 27, it forecast a 51-75% decline in housing starts, a 19-29% drop in existing home sales, and a 9-18% drop in house prices. That latter figure is the most significant. So far, slower housing sales haven’t translated into lower prices. Now, the CMCH is saying that they will.
When the nation’s largest housing organization speaks, industry participants listen. In this case, the response has been largely negative, with RE/MAX slamming the CMHC’s report as “panic inducing.” Whether you agree with that or not, the forecasts the CMHC put out are worth listening to as they shed light on the state of the housing market in 2020.
Factors at play
The two big factors that contributed to the CMHC’s bearish forecast were high unemployment and low immigration. In the COVID-19 era, millions of jobs were lost as businesses shut down to comply with lockdown orders. Simultaneously, immigration fell as Canada closed its doors to international travel.
We’d expect that both of these figures to lead to lower housing prices. Fewer jobs means fewer people who can afford to buy houses. Fewer immigrants means less population growth–another key driver of housing demand. With these two developments occurring simultaneously, you’d expect house prices to fall. This reasoning seems to have been the basis for the CMHC’s bearish forecasts.
Implications for investors
Before getting into the implications of the CMHC’s report for investors, one thing should be emphasized:
Economic forecasts aren’t infallible. Even when you’ve got a huge budget and access to piles of industry data, you can still get it wrong. But the CMHC does have many of the country’s foremost experts on housing, so its opinions should be taken seriously. With that in mind, here are some implications for investors should the CMHC’s forecasts prove correct.
First, real estate investments will perform poorly this year. Despite the fact that house price declines are expected, they haven’t materialized yet. On May 15, the CBC reported that home prices were flat despite a 56% drop in sales, suggesting that price declines are coming at some point in the future. If you think that the CMHC’s forecast is correct, now isn’t a good time to buy.
Second, REITs are probably in for some trouble– particularly REITs with residential investments like RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust (TSX:REI.UN). While RioCan doesn’t buy and sell houses, the same factors that will hit single family homes, will hit apartments.
When more people are out of work, more people default on their rent. With less immigration, there’s less demand for housing. So we’d expect REITs to suffer in this environment.
If you look at RioCan, for example, it owns a mix of commercial and residential properties. Many of its buildings have big box stores on the bottom, with residential units above. In the first quarter, RioCan saw a $2.4 million decrease in operating income from residential rentals.
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People make mistakes. Some of these are mild and relatively innocuous; others are egregious and have enormous repercussions, seemingly beyond the pale. Some are very intentional, and so perhaps the word “mistakes” creates a false impression of innocence.We and other people find ourselves at the center of our various mistakes, and they can hurt a few or a lot of people. For all of these and more, we seek forgiveness, we dispense forgiveness, or we sometimes withhold forgiveness.
Forgiveness isn’t ignoring something bad that’s been done or calling what is evil “good.” Forgiveness looks sin squarely in the face and calls it like it is, but it is the choice to not hold that sin against the person who has committed it. Forgiveness does not take away the consequences of their actions, but when you forgive someone, you’re choosing to give up the right to hold it against them.
There are several Scriptures on forgiveness, whether it’s about seeking forgiveness from God, how God forgives us, or how we ought to forgive others and the consequences for not doing so. Our daily lives are shaped by the various acts of forgiving (or not forgiving) others – from the people who cut us off in traffic, to the friend who posted a hurtful comment on social media, to the spouse who reneged on a promise, or the neighbor whose dog violated our lawn again – so it makes sense for us to pay heed to what the Bible says on the subject.
Scriptures on Forgiveness
But who can discern their own errors? Forgive my hidden faults. – Psalm 19:12
When we’ve done something wrong, we often know it ourselves and we know we ought to make amends. However, have you ever met one of those people who hardly ever admit to having done something wrong? They struggle to see how something could be their fault, and when it is, often they look to see how others could have done better and prevented the situation from arising in the first place!The Bible’s stance on this encourages humility. Not only should we acknowledge when we’ve messed up and wronged another, but we need to carry the awareness that at times our faults are hidden from us. Sometimes we are snappy, but it’s so natural that we just don’t see it.
Angry outbursts can become second nature to the point that the people around us know to avoid us. Psalm 19 is a meditative psalm that calls for self-reflection and in it, the writer asks God to forgive him not only for the things he’s aware of but also for the things that escape his radar.
Sometimes we don’t even know the things we’ve done wrong, but we should soften our hearts by asking for forgiveness even for those “hidden faults.” If someone later comes and tells you that you did something wrong that you weren’t even aware of, your posture might tend towards acknowledging your mistake instead of being defensive.
Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. – Psalm 51
David was a man after God’s own heart. But he was far from being a perfect man. He is the author of Psalm 51, a poem that feels like a prayer asking God to forgive us when we’ve done the seemingly unforgivable.
David wrote it after he had willfully slept with another man’s wife, and then he used his royal authority to have her husband killed to cover up what he had done. He did something reprehensible, and instead of owning up to it, he wanted to cover it up by doing even more damage.This doesn’t fall in the “oops” category of mistakes. It seems brazen of David to ask for forgiveness after what he’s done. His boldness to ask God for forgiveness comes from his understanding of two things: God is faithful and loving, and God can cleanse us from sin. In his prayer, David calls upon God in his great compassion to forgive him.
It’s not that David deserves to be forgiven, but that God’s love is so expansive and deep that He can forgive even David and what he did. Not only that, but God can cleanse even the most heinous of transgressions. At first, this seems like God is being permissive, but the story of the Bible that unfolds reminds us that Jesus took upon himself all the sins of the world.
Sin such as David’s was not excused or forgotten, nor did he escape the natural consequences of his sin – it’s just that Jesus paid the penalty for that sin, and David was spared and cleansed. This is the gospel, the good news that if we trust in God, our sin is forgiven and does not count against us because Jesus took it upon himself on our behalf (Romans 3:25-26, Hebrews 10:4). We can all find forgiveness from God through Jesus.
As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. – Psalm 103:12
Staying with the Psalms, we are reminded of the way that God forgives us. For us, we often make a distinction between forgiving and forgetting. By this, we sometimes mean that while we’ve let this one instance go, if it happens again, we’ll likely bring it up again and payout double the wrath. This can happen despite our best intentions. It’s hard to forget the hurt inflicted upon us.
Psalm 103:12 reminds us of the contrast between how we forgive, and how God forgives us. God casts our sin away from us and forgets it entirely. He doesn’t bring it up again later. When God forgives us, He truly wipes the slate clean and allows us to start afresh. Our challenge is accepting that the slate truly is clean, that we’re not still in the doghouse and we do not have to curry favor to get God back onside.
Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. – Matthew 6:9-15
The prayer that Jesus taught his disciples, the “Our Father”, is one of the most famous prayers in the world. It is lofty and cosmic, but it also comes down to earth and asks for daily bread, and then it asks God for forgiveness in the same way as we’ve forgiven others. This point is expressed in a statement we normally don’t include in the prayer.
Verses 14 and 15 drop this bombshell: “For if you forgive others when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins”.
In other words, as one paraphrase of these verses says, “In prayer, there is a connection between what God does and what you do. You can’t get forgiveness from God, for instance, without also forgiving others. If you refuse to do your part, you cut yourself off from God’s part.”
In more individualistic cultures, we’re more used to thinking of our relationship with God as “me and God.” But God cares about how we treat and relate to other people. If we are unforgiving toward others, have we truly understood and experienced God’s forgiveness?
How can we withhold from others what has been freely given to us? Matthew 6 challenges us to think of forgiveness as a pattern that must shape our lives – we receive it, and we also extend it toward others in the same spirit it was given to us.
The same point is made elsewhere, in Ephesians 4:32, which says, “Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.” It’s a reminder to recall how we’ve been forgiven and to do likewise with our brothers and sisters. The power to live this out surely cannot come from us. We cannot, in our own strength, forgive in this way. We need fresh outpourings of God’s Spirit to help us live these truths out.
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"Renal Reabsorption" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The reuptake of water, ELECTROLYTES, and other substances by the KIDNEY to the blood supply.
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Sharing research data, or Open Science, aims to accelerate scientific discovery, which is of particular importance in the case of new medicines and treatments. A grant proposal by an international research team, led by Dr. Chase C. Smith, MCPHS University, and submitted to the Open Science Prize, suggests development of what the authors call The SCience INtroDuction Robot, (SCINDR). The project’s proposal is available in the open access journal Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO).
Building on an open source electronic lab notebook (ELN) developed by the same team, the robot would discover and alert scientists from around the world who are working on similar molecules in real time. Finding each other and engaging in open and collaborative research could accelerate and enhance medical discoveries.
Already running and being constantly updated, the electronic lab notebook serves to store researchers’ open data in a machine-readable and openly accessible format. The next step before the scientists is to adapt the open source notebook to run SCINDR.
“The above mentioned ELN is the perfect platform for the addition of SCINDR since it is already acting as a repository of open drug discovery information that can be mined by the robot,” explained the authors.
Once a researcher has their data stored on the ELN, or on any similar open database, for that matter, SCINDR would be able to detect if similar molecules, chemical reactions, biological assays or other features of importance in health research have been entered by someone else.
If the robot identifies another scientist looking into similar features, it will suggest introducing the two to each other, so that they could start working together and combine their efforts and knowledge for the good of both science and the public.
Because of its ability to parse information and interests from around the globe, the authors liken SCINDR to online advertisements and music streaming services, which have long targeted certain content, based on a person’s writing, reading, listening habits or other search history.
“The potential for automatically connecting relevant people and/or matching people with commercial content currently dominates much of software development, yet the analogous idea of automatically connecting people who are working on similar science in real time does not exist,” said the authors. “This extraordinary fact arises in part because so few people work openly, meaning almost all the research taking place in laboratories around the world remains behind closed doors until publication (or in a minority of cases deposition to a preprint server), by which time the project may have ended and researchers have moved on or shelved a project.”
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The RUFORUM Competitive Grants System (CGS) is the main flagship of RUFORUM’s interventions in the universities – supporting the training of agricultural post-graduate students. The RUFORUM CGS has awarded over 433 grants between 2004 and 2022, all with recognized research outputs.
The RUFORUM CGS is designed to closely link universities and post-graduate students to rural communities and to promote inclusive and sustainable development. It responds to the following challenges - inadequate access to research funding, poor problem identification and inadequate research methods. Quality and relevant research is central to effective post-graduate degree training, especially in terms of educating the next generation of agricultural scientists in the region.
RUFORUM’s mission is to strengthen the capacities of universities to foster innovations responsive to the demands of small-holder farmers through the training of high quality researchers, the output of impact-oriented research, and the maintenance of collaborative working relations among researchers, farmers, national agricultural research institutions, and governments.
The CGS program is structured around a peer review process, integration of post-graduate students into the research projects, project monitoring, and support to students in research methods and writing skills. Through this process, RUFORUM provides support to Principal Investigators.
The CGS Mechanisms
The RUFORUM CGS is made up of the following different granting mechanisms:
- Graduate Research Grants (GRGs) are designed to train 2 MSc students with 4 undergraduate interns. A GRG budget varies according to the specific Call between US$60,000 to 80,000.
- Post Doctoral Fellowships (PDFs) are similar to the GRG but target one PhD student to be trained, 2 MSc students and a cohort undergraduate students supported as research assistants. A PDF budget is US$60,000.
- Community Action Research Programme (CARP) are designed to establish platforms to link with communities and other stakeholders in action research with 1 PhD and 2 MSc students being trained with 8 undergraduate research assistants. A CARP budget will normally be between US$350,000 to $450,000.
- RUFORUM Entrepreneurship Challenge Programme (RECAP) is an accelerator program that is institutionalized at an applicant member university to facilitate student’s innovation and business incubation. Through the RECAP, agricultural universities will have the opportunity to establish Agribusiness incubation Centers (AIC) as part of operationalizing the Entrepreneurship Challenge Program to foster the further development of innovative business ideas leading to products and/or services on national to regional scale. The budget is US$50,000.
- Field Attachment Programme Awards (FAPA) support post-graduate students to intern with prospective employers and work with the clients of their research on uptake, after handing in their theses. A FAPA grant is usually US$4,000 to 8,000 depending on the length and requirements of the specific Call.
- Doctoral Grants (DGs) provide a range of scholarships and grants to both MSc and PhD agricultural students. Qualifying prospective students may apply for Doctoral Regional Scholarships (DRS), Doctoral Regional Research Grants (DRRG) or Doctoral Finalization Support (DFS). Doctoral Grants vary in amounts and they depend on the donors that we work with.
Our Granting Process
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Particles measuring approximately in the range 1 to 100 nm are called as nanoparticles. They can be obtained in a variety of sizes and shapes like cylindrical, rhombic or circular by controlling conditions of synthesis process. Historically, the synthesis of nanoparticles started by employing physical and chemical methods like reduction, sol-gel, ball milling, sputter deposition, laser ablation, self assembly like micelles and reverse micelles, lithography, ultrasonic technique, immobilization of particles in some matrix like glass, zeolites or polymer micelles and electrochemical techniques. However synthesis of nanoparticles using biological systems like microorganisms and plant extracts is novel approach. It is also cheap and ecofriendly. Physicochemical methods use toxic reactants and comparatively costly. The only disadvantage of biosynthesis is that it is very time taking; it may require seven days to form nanoparticles. Bacteria and fungi have been used for the synthesis of metal nanoparticles. Using plant extract is cheaper than microorganisms as it does not require culture preparation or maintenance of aseptic conditions. Nanoparticles find immense applications in Agriculture, Environment, Medicine, Biotechnology and Industry. They have been used in biosensors, biomedical devices, drug delivery systems, electronics, optics, optoelectronics, storage devices, reprography, solar batteries, photoelectrochemical devices, semiconductor devices, catalysis and to generate supermagnetism and superchilling conditions. Metal nanoparticles (selenium, tellurium, uranium, zirconium, zinc, palladium, silver, gold, copper, iron and nickel) have been extensively synthesized and studied because of their unique physicochemical properties and large number of applications. Nanoscale biosynthesis of two noble metals silver and gold is of particular interest and importance.
Biosynthesis process and characterization: In order to biosynthesize noble metal nanoparticles of particular shape, size and properties, specific methodologies have been formulated. Biosynthesis processes of nanoparticles of gold, silver and their alloy by bacteria, actinomycetes, fungi and yeasts have been developed. Before actual synthesis, the growth conditions of producing culture are physicochemically optimized. Knowledge regarding cellular, metabolic processes and genetics of the microbe if possible should be available. This information is useful for scaling up particular biosynthetic process. Isolated pure culture is inoculated in growth medium containing silver nitrate (AgNO3) solution. After defined incubation period silver nanoparticles are formed.
Nanoparticles can be observed and studied under scanning or transmission electron microscope. Microscopic study reveals location (periplasmic or cytoplasmic or cell wall) and shape of synthesized nanoparticles. Nanoparticles can be characterized further employing sophisticated techniques of Physics such as Photoluminescence spectra, X-ray diffraction or Atomic absorption spectroscopy. To increase the rate of reaction or to control size and monodispersity of nanoparticles formed; combinatorial approach can also be used. Approach can be heat treatment or cold storage or treating with microwave radiation or a genetic manipulation. Scientists have to try such troublesome efforts until nanoparticles of desired properties are obtained. The same methods are used in synthesis of gold nanoparticles except silver nitrate is replaced by aurium chloride (AuCl4). Bacteria like Pseudomonas, Klebsiella, Bacillus, Lactobacillus; fungi Verticillium, Fusarium, Actinomycete Thermomonospora; yeasts Torulopsis, Saccharomyces, Schizosaccharomyces have been used for synthesis of gold and silver nanoparticles.
Both gold and silver nanoparticles have also been prepared using plant (leaf) extracts from clove, onion and Aloe vera. Compared to microbial culture, the reduction time required is of few minutes, so the formations of nanoparticles do not take hours or days. This biosynthesis is very advantageous for rapid synthesis of nanoparticles.
Mechanism of biosynthesis: Microbes are since long times are known to produce extracellular or intracellular organic (metachromatic or PHB) and inorganic (magnetite, silicate or calcium carbonate crystals) compounds. By considering the microbial cell as a factory, we have modulated their metabolic activities at laboratory level for synthesis of nanomaterials. The principle of formation of nanoparticles is based on the microbial remediation of toxic chemicals in environment via reduction of metal ions. Some microbes produce extracellular enzymes with redox potential act as electron shuttle for metal reduction.
Applications of gold and silver nanoparticles:
o In making transistors
o Photothermal agents
o As a catalyst to breakdown volatile organic compounds
o In therapeutics, for treatment of arthritis, Alzheimer's disease
o Efficient drug delivery systems
o For detection of cancerous tumors
o In manufacture of odor resistant fabrics
o Surgical instruments and dressings
o Optoelectronics and home appliances
o Antifungal and antibacterial agent
o Water treatment
o Power cells and batteries
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Understanding what’s the best food to feed your puppy plays an important part in helping them grow into a happy and healthy dog. Your puppy needs the right balance of vitamins and minerals to help them develop mentally and physically. Here’s our guide to making the best food choices for your new family member.
What are the most important nutrients for my puppy?
Providing your dog with a nutritious diet is important at all stages, but it’s essential during the early years of a puppy’s life. Puppies grow very quickly – their growth in the space of a year or two is comparable with how much a 15 year old human has grown.
Your puppy needs specially formulated puppy food that contains a high percentage of proteins, fats and carbohydrates compared to adult dog foods. This services their need for a nutritionally complete and balanced diet while they are growing fast and, at the same time, it lays the foundation for a long and healthy life.
Nutrient-rich puppy foods contain high levels of docosahexaenoic acid (commonly known as DHA), which is an omega-3 fatty acid. Puppies with high levels of DHA in their diet benefit from enhanced brain, muscle and vision development. In fact, the link between a DHA-rich diet and smarter, more trainable puppies has been scientifically proven.
What puppy factors should I consider?
There are a number of things to consider when deciding what to feed your puppy to give them the best start in life. When choosing the best food for your puppy, take into account the following factors and try our Food Finder Tool for some recommendations on the best food for your puppy:
- The age of your puppy – look for a food made specifically for puppies on the packaging
- The breed of your puppy – different breeds and sizes have different nutritional needs
- How active your puppy is
- If your puppy is overweight, a healthy weight or underweight
What types of puppy food are there?
After understanding your puppy’s age, breed, activity and weight, look for a food that matches their needs. Puppy food comes in a large variety of options that include:
- Dry food refers to dried kibble and is often a convenient option for pet owners. Choose a super premium dry kibble to ensure it is nutritionally complete and balanced with quality ingredients
- Wet food refers to the food available in pouches, trays or tins. These foods contain a much higher water content than dry foods and the rich aromas can be used to entice fussy eaters and increase hydration
- Fresh & frozen food often contains meats and ingredients in their raw and natural form. You can find these foods in the fridge and freezer section of your local Petbarn
- Treats can be used for training and rewarding good behaviour. Make sure you treat responsibly to avoid overfeeding and choose a treat suitable for puppies.
Tip: Do not feed your puppy leftovers from your table as this may cause an upset stomach and encourage fussy eating in your puppy.
Wet or dry puppy food?
You don’t have to choose between them as mixing wet and dry foods can give your puppy the best of both, and provide them with optimum health benefits. The mix of textures and aromas might even make a nice treat! We recommend that you mix them both in the same bowl and try to ensure that there is more dry food than wet food because this is better for your puppy’s teeth.
Remember to take into consideration the total amount of food that they are eating in a day. Wet puppy food (or raw meats) should not be in addition to the recommended daily feeding amounts on the dry puppy food bag, but should replace a portion of the dry food.
Dry Puppy Food
Wet Puppy Food
How much and how often should I feed my puppy?
Though it’s tempting to give your puppy lots of treats, limiting their food intake will serve them well in the long run. Remember that their tummies are just becoming accustomed to new things, so take care not to overwhelm them with too much food.
Our super premium puppy food range includes feeding instructions that will guide you as to how much to feed your pet on a daily basis. Your puppy’s weight will determine the right quantity of food they need to keep them healthy and strong as they grow. Also remember that they won’t cope well with being fed all in one go. It’s much better to spread their recommended daily food intake over a couple of meals. Here’s our guide for how often to feed your puppy:
|When to feed your puppy:|
|Small breed puppies from weaning up to 16 weeks||3 to 5 times daily|
|Other puppy breeds from weaning up to 16 weeks||3 to 4 times daily|
|After 16 weeks up to adult age||2 to 3 times daily|
How should I switch my puppy to a new food?
Don’t change your puppy’s food when you first welcome them to their new home. Moving house is very stressful for a puppy and can affect their digestive system. Keeping them on the diet they are accustomed to will reduce their chances of stomach upsets or diarrhoea.
Once you are ready to change your puppy to a new food, it is best to do so bit by bit over a period of fourteen days. This applies to changing to a new food brand or even a different flavour in the same brand, and is also important to remember when transitioning from puppy to adult dog food. Puppies have very sensitive stomachs and so slowly introducing the new food allows your puppy to get used to it and prevents them from experiencing stomach upsets and runny stools.
To transition your puppy to a different food, gradually introduce the new food by mixing it into their existing food using the following schedule:
If your puppy does experience any minor digestive upsets (runny stools, vomiting), the transition should be paused at that stage until this has settled.
The best food to feed your puppy
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Crouched and ready to spring forward at the sound of the shot, you stare at the hurdles in front of you with anticipation.
You’ve practiced, stretched, and warmed up, and you’re ready to take on the obstacles ahead.
The finish line lies within reach, but only after you clear the hurdles in front of you.
You can almost taste it.
You’re a hurdler. It’s what you do – strategically jump over the obstacles set before you.
At the same time, these hurdles don’t define you. They make up a critical part of the race, but what is more important is how you run the race.
In a few moments that feel like forever, you will be at the finish line, glancing back at what you have just overcome.
You’ve done this before, so you know what to expect, but every race is different. As much as you prepare, there are always changing variables.
You plan, pray, and strategize, but in the end, you run the race with a big leap of faith.
You take a deep breath and spring forward when the shot rings out.
Hurdling through Life
Maybe you’ve never jumped hurdles in a track event, but you can probably relate to the hurdler in some ways.
The truth is, we all face obstacles in every facet of life, work included. It’s easy to let these setbacks define us, but it’s also critical to learn from them.
Through the course of a few blogs, we will examine:
- How obstacles shape us.
- Our response to obstacles.
- The outcomes of facing and overcoming obstacles.
From spilled coffee or a broken hot water heater to an idea shot down, an argument with a coworker, or a project derailed, we face them every day. Some are more tragic, like a terminal illness or the loss of a loved one.
Minute or monumental, challenges remind us that this is not the way things ought to be.
Broken relationships, natural disasters, illness, poverty, and hardships painfully remind us that sin runs rampant over all of God’s earth.
Sometimes circumstances are completely out of our control – a hurricane, a market slump, a company buyout.
Other times, our obstacles are internal where we have more control. We all stumble and fall over our own sin rooted in pride, greed, self-doubt, insecurity, fear, and envy.
Just like the hurdler, there are paths we expect and choose, and there are always some elements outside of our control.
Provoking the Idols of Our Heart
When things don’t go our way, we get frustrated, embarrassed, angry, upset, and dejected.
Our insecurities come out.
Some people fight, others flee.
In our hearts, we gripe and groan as we lose control.
Challenges at work and at home provoke the idols of our heart, leaving us with an opportunity to lean on the Lord or take matters into our hands. An innate desire for control usually dissuades us from looking to the Lord.
We are told in Proverbs 3:5-6,
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
When we lose control, we doubt God. We doubt his goodness, his providence, and his power. In our unbelief, we can even doubt his love for us, that he sees our problems and cares. We forget that:
God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved (Ephesians 2:4-5).
God’s love for us is so vast that he gave up his most precious son to give us life forever. A love so sacrificial cares about it all – from spilt coffee to severe loss.
In our obstacles, we must preach truth to our denying hearts and let go of our idolatrous grip on control. God’s love envelops all our hardship, never leaving us to tackle challenges alone.
Counting on the power and providence of the Lord instead of our own strength guarantees we can run the race well. Deuteronomy 31:6 reminds us,
Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.
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Foods that start with C
Foods that start with C are delicious! Here is a wonderful selection of foods that start with C, whether you are working on a listing challenge or cooking your way through the alphabet.
Cabbage is a species of the Brassica genus, which also include cauliflower, broccoli, and kale. It is high in nutrients including Vitamin B6 and folate and has a low-calorie count. If you are on a diet, this is ideal.
Capers are the tiny flower buds of a Mediterranean shrub called Capparis. They are pricy since they’re hand-picked, but they are a versatile pantry staple that adds a distinct salty flavor to a variety of savory meals.
The seeds of caraway are used in the food, pharmaceutical industries, cosmetics and beverage. Caraway seeds are common seasonings in the spice classification, but their culinary and medical characteristics make them a must-have in any kitchen.
Cardamom is a flavor with a strong, slightly sweet flavor. It is available all over the world and could be used in both sweet and savory dishes. Cardamom seeds, oils, and extracts are regarded to have powerful therapeutic effects.
Carnitas is shred pork that is moist and tender with crispy, delicious edges. It is a Mexican favorite that’s simple to make at home. I make carnitas vegan by using green jackfruit, which has the perfect texture to resemble pulled pork.
Carrots are a root vegetable that comes in various colors, including orange, red, white, yellow, and purple, are often praised as the ultimate health food. Carrots are sweet, crisp, and nutrient-dense. They are high in antioxidants and a good source of fiber, potassium, beta carotene and vitamin K1. They’re not only delicious, but they’re also good for weight loss.
Cashews are kidney-shaped seeds that come from a tropical tree native to Brazil called the cashew tree. Vitamin K, phosphorus, thiamin, vitamin B6, zinc, and iron are all found mainly in cashews. They are also low in sugar, high in fiber, and have good amounts of protein. Cashews have a moderate flavor and are excellent for making plant-based nut milk and nut butter.
Cassava is a starchy root vegetable with a nutty flavor. It is an important source of nutrition and carbohydrates for individuals around the world, and it’s native to South America. Tapioca, a form of starch, and Garri, a food similar to tapioca, are both made from cassava roots.
Chicken and dumplings
Chicken and dumplings are the greatest comfort food. They are usually made by simply mixing biscuit dough into chicken broth.
A cinnamon roll is a delicious, baking dough with a cinnamon-sugar stuffing and a cream cheese icing or sugar coating on top. A cinnamon roll seems to be to die for anyone with a sweet taste. This sweet delight is known for its sweet flavor and creamy texture, which melts in the mouth. Sugar, flour, butter, yeast, milk, cinnamon, eggs, and salt are major ingredients in cinnamon rolls.
Christmas cake has its origins in the English tradition. The juicy Zante currants and raisins in this classic English Christmas cake have been soaking in whiskey, wine, or brandy. The tradition spread to Jamaica, where we have made it our own.
Cobbler is a dessert made by pouring a fruit mixture into a big baking dish and covering it with batter, biscuits, or dumplings before baking. Several cobbler recipes, particularly in the American South.
Coconut is a mildly sweet fruit that may be consumed directly or dried and comes from coconut palm. It is not only tasty, but it also includes protein, fiber, and manganese, making it a very nutritious food. Both coconut milk and coconut water are popular additions to smoothies when mixed with your favorite fruits. The oil is also used for cooking and baking.
Collard refers to a variety of loose-leafed cultivars of Brassica oleracea, which is the same family as broccoli and cauliflower. This delicious leafy green belongs to the Brassica oleracea Group.
The congo pea, also known as pigeon pea, is a subtropical and tropical legume with edible seeds that are widely grown. Pigeon peas are drought-resistant, hardy, and versatile. Because of its drought resistance, it is critical for food security in locations where rainfall is unpredictable and droughts are prone to occur. When other forages are scarce towards the conclusion of the dry season, pigeon pea provides excellent green feed.
A fast and easy cornmeal bread serves as a side dish in Native American households. Cornbread can be made, fried, steamed, or even baked into cakes, and is now more typically found in Southern meals.
Courgette, also called zucchini, is a cucurbit, which means it belongs to the same family as squash, melon and cucumber. They can be poached, baked, steamed, hollowed out, stewed, blanched, and stuffed, to name a few methods. As a low-carb substitute for pasta, courgette spaghetti is a famous way of preparing courgette.
Cranberries are fruit superfoods. It is quite adaptable. They can be eaten raw, used in stuffing, casseroles, and even desserts. Cranberries, which are native to North America, are abundant in antioxidants and minerals that can help prevent urinary tract infections, reduce blood pressure, and boost immunity.
If you ever had breakfast in a French restaurant, you have tried some of these delightful thin pancakes known as crepes. Because this dessert isn’t very sweet, it serves with savory and sweet ingredients.
Cucumber is a vine plant of the Cucurbitaceae gourd family that is widely grown. It is a fresh vegetable that also has several health benefits. Cucumbers are low in calories, but are still packed with vitamins and minerals. It has a crisp texture, a moderate flavor, and is excellent for rehydrating the body.
Cupcakes are a small delicacy made using common ingredients like butter, flour and sugar. Over time, more and more pastry lovers make their variants based on their preferences. Vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry cupcakes are among the most popular nowadays.
Curry is an Asian meal that includes cumin, cinnamon, pepper, turmeric, bay leaf, and cloves, among other herbs and spices. The dish has a distinct flavor and is frequently served with rice.
Conclusion on foods that start with C:
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Razorblades in Halloween Candy
Halloween is a time for kids to collect candy…lots and lots of candy. Each and every year bags of candy are collected brought home, and dumped on the dinning room table for inspection. Moms and Dads comb through chocolates, gum, apples and taffies looking for tampering, doing their duty to protect junior from razorblades in the Halloween candy- yet another Urban Legend that turns out to be true… sort of.
The Razorblades in Halloween Candy Urban LegendThe urban legend of poison, pins, razorblades and needles finding their way inside apples and candy on Halloween is a persistent one, and an old one. Rumors of deadly treats have been floating since at least the sixties, and likely before. Apples were the first target of the rumors, and concerned parents were soon scanning the peel of the fruit looking for suspicions cuts and insertion marks before allowing their brood to feed on it.
Poison was one of the first rumors that haunted trick or treaters, and while there are countless news stories every year urging parents to beware, there have been no links to Halloween poisonings, per se. There have been some disturbed individuals who have poisoned a specific child for a diabolical purpose and then tried to use the urban legend to cover their crime, but no random poisoner has been discovered. There was a case in 1982 of a mad rash of Tyelonol poisonings that resulted in a number of deaths; while this had nothing at all to do with Halloween candy, that year was a scary one for parents and children alike.
The Origin of the Razorblades in Halloween Candy Urban LegendThere are, however, documented cases of needles, pins and other foreign objects found in Halloween candy. Fortunately there are few cases where injury has resulted, and at worst only a few stitches were involved (but which was probably pretty frightening for the victim.) Many of the reported cases of razorblades found in an apple or a pin in a Tootsie Roll may actually be cases where the child themselves have inserted the object and the reported it as “found.” That is, until 2000. This year on disturbed man was found and convicted of placing foreign objects in candy and randomly distributing it with the intent to harm. Fortunately only one child was reported as being injured, and that slight.
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Interim findings of the Royal Commission into Aged Care and Safety have reported that Australian aged care services have not been meeting the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse residents.
This lack of cultural awareness is surprising given the prevalence of diverse cultures in our aged care facilities. In 2016, more than one-third of Australians aged 65 and over were born outside of Australia and one-fifth in a non-English speaking country.
In Australian aged care facilities, with residents coming from vastly different cultural backgrounds with varied life experiences., a knowledge of and respect for an individual’s cultural background is crucial to being able to provide person-centred care.
Reports from the Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia find that many people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds do not wish to go into a nursing home.
This is often due to the fact that language barriers can significantly reduce the experience of care in aged care facilities.
Older people with English as their second language report losing their ability to communicate in English as they age and experience cognitive decline, and so will often revert to their first language.
Part of the Greek Orthodox Church in Australia, St Basil’s NSW & ACT is a registered Australian charity established specifically for the provision of best quality aged care services within a culturally appropriate environment that enhances the dignity, independence and quality of life of all people in its care.
To achieve this St Basil’s NSW & ACT values multilingual and multicultural knowledge, skills and understanding and has developed expertise in providing aged care services that are culturally and linguistically appropriate.
Recognising how fundamental culture is to our lives, St Basil’s NSW & ACT have been working on an innovative project in cooperation with Modern Greek Studies Program of Macquarie University offering Greek lessons for their non-Greek speaking staff.
These Greek lessons are held once a week at the St. Basil’s Lakemba location by Dr Patricia Koromvokis, Lecturer and Head of Modern Greek Studies at Macquarie University.
The Greek lessons are provided for free to the St Basil’s NSW & ACT staff members and fully sponsored by the Canterbury Leagues Club.
The programme provides staff with the opportunity to learn specific and essential linguistic terms of Greek language and culture and aims to improve the communication between carers and residents of St Basil’s NSW & ACT and to improve the lives of the residents.
Due to its resounding success so far, St Basil’s NSW & ACT are looking to expand the project to offer free Greek lessons at its remaining five facilities in addition to Lakemba including the Randwick, Miranda, Annandale, Kogarah and Kensington locations.
Find out more about St Basil’s NSW & ACT https://www.stbasils.org.au
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Who Am I?
The ‘I am’ sayings of Jesus
by Brian Radcliffe
Suitable for Whole School (Sec)
To explore our sense of identity by considering the ‘I am’ sayings of Jesus.
Preparation and materials
- You will need a leader and three readers.
Note: in the first section of the ‘Assembly’, you may wish to use phrases appropriate to the languages spoken in school.
Leader: I’d like to begin today’s assembly with a simple question: who are you? It’s the same question that you might be asked to tackle right at the start of learning modern foreign languages.
Reader 1: Je m’appelle (name).
Reader 2: Ich heisse (name).
Reader 3: Me llamo (name).
Leader: ‘Who are you?’ is a common question that we all ask at different times as we seek to get to know each other, especially in new situations where we know little of the people present.
I wonder what Jesus would have replied. He might have said, ‘My name’s Jesus, the son of Joseph. I was born in Bethlehem, but grew up in Nazareth.’ However, in the Bible, we find out that when Jesus was asked that question, he gave various replies. He said:
Reader 1: I am the good shepherd.
Reader 2: I am the bread of life.
Reader 3: I am the resurrection.
Reader 1: I am the light of the world.
Reader 2: I am the way, the truth and the life.
Reader 3: I am the gate.
Leader: Rather than a simple name, Jesus used a series of symbols that highlighted aspects of who he was as a person and what he wanted to do. Each symbol painted a clearer picture of his identity than merely saying his name. We do something similar when we describe one another. We might say, ‘You’re a ray of sunshine,’ when someone helps to lift us out of a sad mood.
Reader 1: We may describe someone as being ‘a listening ear’ because they’re sympathetic when we want to talk through an issue that’s bothering us.
Reader 2: We call a person who can’t hide their feelings ‘an open book’.
Reader 3: When someone is really helpful, we might say, ‘You’re a star.’
Leader: Jesus used symbols in order to talk about himself. He knew who he was, where he’d come from and what his mission in life was. He had a clear sense of his identity, so he could paint pictures like this so that others could understand. It made it easier to relate to him. You knew where you were with him, which then just left the decision of whether to join him.
Do we have a clear sense of our identity? Do we know where we’re going? Do we know our role in life? Have we chosen the way in which we’d like other people to think of us and see us? If so, what might be our symbols?
Let’s consider some examples. Maybe you’re a shield if you have a role protecting others from whatever might be a threat. You might always be alert for arguments and calm things down, defusing tension.
Someone else might see themselves as being like a guide dog. This might be you if you love to give advice and make sure that others don’t get lost.
You might be a mirror, able to reflect back to people their thoughts and emotions so that they can reassess them.
Others might see themselves as a lighthouse, a flag to follow, a safety net, a warm blanket or a flash of lightning. There are many, many possibilities.
Time for reflection
Jesus was very sure of himself. He had a confidence that meant that he could be clear to others.
How do we feel about ourselves? Do we know what our strengths are? Are we proud of them? Perhaps, instead, we are tempted to wish that we were somebody else.
Actually, we’re most effective in life when we’re honest about who we truly are. We’re not inferior or superior to anyone else, we’re simply us. We’re unique and special, and there’s a role in the world that only we can play.
Back to our opening question – who are you? Spend a moment thinking of the symbol that you’d choose to represent yourself.
Thank you for the unique people we are.
Help us to identify and be proud of what makes us distinctive.
May we give a clear picture to everyone we meet so that their world might be a better place to live.
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