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Assessing The Non-Carbon Impacts Of An Emerging Bioenergy Industry
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Negative Stereotypes and misconceptions about board games
Gaming is awesome and good for mental health, but still very much misunderstood. I always try and stay away from negatives, but we have decided to challenge some of the negative stereotypes surrounding board gaming. These could be the barrier than needs to be knocked aside to welcome new folks into the hobby, where they can find many hours of fun and meet new people.
I partially agree. There are some games I find boring, but there are thousands of games ( approx. 13,000) on Board Game Geek the IMDB of board games.
It is likely this misconception stems from games which tended to have three major flaws which are not very common in games made in the last 25 years. These are :-
1) Limited choice, decisions or strategy. Roll a dice and move.
2) Player elimination. You are out of the game and have to just watch, possibly for several hours
3) Takes too long / out stays its welcome.
You can’t judge all board games on Monopoly which was made in 1936 or Risk from 1957 (one of the first games to use dice for combat)
Consider what other kinds of entertainment was around then. Risk was made 10 years before colour TV!
Pacman and Pong are not all video games. Monopoly is not all board games.
Modern board games, what I call games made in the last 30 year or so, (Catan 1995) often have lots more decisions and you are not dependent on dice. Often decisions are based on a range of actions you can pick either by placing something on a board or by playing cards or combinations of cards. Some games have cards which can be played in several different ways giving wonderful choices for example for the action or the resource value.
Very few games now have player elimination and most have a way for the game to end, whether that is a fixed number of turns or when a deck of cards is emptied. Very few good modern games out stay their welcome in length.
Modern games are very varied from 5 minutes to many hours and will often feature very rich themes. For example, you can be a Star Wars X- Wing pilot or a barbarian or a textile merchant. Often you will take turns simultaneously or are able to interact on other players’ turns, keeping you involved and engaged rather than waiting for your turn.
Another factor is gaming as a social activity. Try playing with different people, who are less competitive or better at explaining games and see how you enjoy the experience. Any experiences can be ruined by the wrong crowd.
Games may not be for you, but there are many, many games out there so open your mind and give a few a go before you judge.
Games clubs are unwelcoming
Again, this may be true in some cases but not all. Herefordshire Board Gamers and many other clubs, cafes and conventions try extremely hard to be welcoming by having good signage, friendly games teachers and greeters. A great culture, backed up by a code of conduct means many game spaces are very welcoming and will bend over backwards to make people feel welcome and included. Bad behavior is not tolerated in most places so report any issues and give the club or venue the benefit of the doubt.
Every club or group will have their own culture, some focusing on a single aspect of the hobby perhaps wargames or role play games. Do try more than one club and find one where the culture suits you as well as the games that are played.
Perhaps swap the word gamer with another group of people or venue and see how it reads…. Pubs are unwelcoming…
I personally haven’t noticed this, but if you get enough people in a small space with bad ventilation it may happen. The bigger conventions do challenge this by having refresh stations including deodorant.
I’m not saying this doesn’t happen. I’m sure it doesn’t but I believe this is an unfair stereotype and venues / hosts do actively challenge guests with hygiene issues.
Games are for kids / Games are a waste of time
There is a stigma that gaming is shameful, only for children or a waste of time. Perhaps some adults have forgotten how to have fun. Play and relaxation time is so important. You should work to live not live to work.
Do what you enjoy and don’t judge other people’s hobbies.
There are games for children, adults and everything in between. Gaming is an incredibly mentally healthy and valuable pastime. It’s great for socialisation, learning and staying sharp.
Games are too easy / Games are too hard
ThereThere are literally thousands of games; some will be too hard or too easy for you, or too wordy or too extrovert. Find a game you do like, do some research and ask in community spaces or attend a games night and they can recommend you more that are similar.
There are some great new games which take classic games like Yahtzee (King of Tokyo), Guess Who (Dinosaur Tea Party) and Dominos (Kingdomino) and make them into beautiful and engaging games. These are ideal as gateway games to learn more about what you like and build your confidence.
I’m too old / too stupid to play games
Absolutely not. There are games from beautiful and simple like Rhino Hero or Timelines or those based on classics like Dinosaur Tea Party which is basically Guess Who but up to four players. There is very likely a game out there for you. Find it, love and don’t be embarrassed by it even it’s not a game you’d expect to love.
I have found lots of adults and older children worry about making mistakes or looking foolish. They may want to get things right first time or win or have forgotten how to learn and to learn from mistakes. Games are about socialising, learning, and trying new things. Even if you don’t get all the rules first time, try again. Finding the right game and the right group to play with is key.
Board games are a great way to try, experiment or be more aggressive in your gaming strategy. If you don’t win, don’t worry about it, try again. I love learning new games and working out what makes them work, but if that isn’t for you then just play your favourite game. Perhaps aim to have a good time and try new strategies rather than winning.
Games are expensive
Modern games do on the whole cost more than mass produced games printed by the millions and with no real effort made to change or improve. Modern games tend to have smaller print runs, often have beautiful components and have a multiyear development and play testing cycle. Card games tend to be £10 to £20, medium box games £25 to £40 and there are big box games which can be over £75.
They are reusable, can take many plays and often hold their value really well. Try playing other people’s copies or borrow some from a library if you are lucky enough to have access to one. (We have 250 plus games we lend out www.herefordshireboardgamers.co.uk)
Gaming like any hobby can be addictive. Pace yourself, work out what you like and what you will actually play before buying too many and if you are new to the hobby it might be a good idea to stay away from Kickstarter and the hype on there before you learn what you like.
There are grains of truth in each of these, but a lot of the information they are based on is very outdated. Modern board gaming is not yet mainstream in the same way video gaming is. You can’t buy modern board games on every highstreet. So give them a go and I expect you will be pleasantly surprised
Board games have developed as much as video games with new mechanics, ideas, better graphics, cooperative play and even games which make use of apps to help tell the story, (narrating using amazing voice acting or taking the role of an opponent for you to defeat. If you take nothing else away, take that away.
Not all video games are Pacman. Not all board games are Monopoly.
Herefordshire Board Gamers
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Silkworms Spin Cocoons That Spell Their Own Doom
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Those precious silk garments in your closet were made by the caterpillars of a fuzzy white moth – thousands of them. Silkworms spin a cocoon with a single strand of silk up to 10 city blocks long. Humans have bred these insects into weaving machines that can no longer survive in the wild.
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Field Guide to Western Birds : A Completely New Guide to Field
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Field Guide to the Birds : A Completely New Guide to All the Birds
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At least 13 people have tested positive for the new Omicron Covid variant after landing in Amsterdam on a flight from South Africa.
Dutch health authorities have confirmed 61 passengers are in quarantine because they have coronavirus – with at least 13 cases of the new virus.
“To date, the Omicron variant has been identified in 13 of the positive tests. The investigation has not been completed. The new variant can be found in more test samples,” the Institute of Health said. National Public Service (RIVM) said in a statement.
The passengers were among 600 arriving at Schiphol Airport on two KLM flights on Friday.
It comes after mutant strains were reported to Germany.
Health chiefs said it was most likely “very high risk” Omicron was in Germany after a tourist tested positive for a mutant form of the deadly bug.
Fears are growing for the Omicron variant, which experts say is “the worst variant ever”.
“Travelers who test positive will be placed in isolation at a hotel in or near Schiphol,” the medical director said.
“Among the positive test results, we are investigating as quickly as possible whether they are the new variant of interest, currently named ‘Omicron’.”
The Dutch government banned all air travel from southern Africa early on Friday.
However, Health Minister Hugo de Jonge said passengers who had already departed for the Netherlands would be allowed to enter the country after going through inspection and quarantine.
FEEL OF SUPER STRAIN
Passengers on two KLM flights, from Cape Town and Johannesburg, said they had to wait on the tarmac for hours.
New York Times journalist Stephanie Nolen, a passenger on a flight from Johannesburg who later tested negative, reported a “huge queue” to see people test for Covid.
In Germany – which looks set to return to stalemate as Covid cases spiral – a minister in the western state of Hesse said Omicron has arrived.
“Last night, several mutations typical of Omicron were found in a traveler returning from South Africa,” Kai Klose wrote on Twitter.
The canton is home to the busy Frankfurt Airport.
EU health chiefs have warned the new mutation poses a “high to very high” risk to Europe.
The European Center for Disease Control and Prevention said there was “significant uncertainty regarding the transmissibility, vaccine efficacy, risk of reinfection and other characteristics of the Omicron variant. ”
Yesterday, video emerged of travelers being told they could not get off a plane in Amsterdam after the first European case was confirmed in Belgium.
They were eventually allowed to leave the plane after being screened and leaving their details with a contact tracer.
Several countries, including Germany, are said to be preparing for a ‘Code Black’ scenario – meaning doctors will have to choose who gets treatment and who doesn’t.
The situation could soon get worse if Omicron spreads, people fear.
This strain has been officially named a “variant of concern” by WHO.
And in the UK, a manhunt has begun for hundreds of new passengers arriving from South Africa.
Sajid Javid urged anyone arriving in the country from South Africa in recent days to get a PCR test as quickly as possible.
Boris Johnson is also preparing to roll out further additions to the six South African countries added to Britain’s red list on Friday.
In other places, A state of emergency has been declared in New York, and President Joe Biden has banned travel to eight African countries.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked his officials to consider plans to ease travel restrictions, but tighten border controls.
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The raging bushfires sweeping through Australia, partly related to unusually dry conditions stemming from climate change, are a stark reminder that the 2020s must be a decade of concerted climate action. While the stakes are exceptionally high, unfortunately the urgency is unevenly recognised by the powers that be in business and politics.
Climate scepticism remains influential despite the scientific consensus. It has even evolved to conform to changes in intellectual fashion. If we are to properly recognise – and respond to – the emergency upon us, we must first acknowledge that the arguments for inaction that could just barely fly in 2019 are crashing to earth today as the bushfires devastate Australia.
The global debate on climate change has become more realistic and nuanced. Gone are the old caricatures of bleeding-heart liberals on one end of the spectrum and staunch climate science deniers on the other end.
Activists, academics and think tanks focused on climate action have been supplemented with heads of state, regulators and CEOs of some of the largest companies in the world who know they must at least publicly acknowledge climate concerns to pacify stakeholders.
The sceptical end of the spectrum, however, is no longer the exclusive domain of unscrupulous business owners and unethical populists. There is no shortage of people with strong analytical backgrounds and mainstream reach arguing that we need to come to the sober realisation that the window of effective climate action has closed. This fatalism differs in tone from flat-out climate deniers. But the rationality of new climate sceptics makes their arguments more effective at squelching the will to fight climate change.
Meet the new sceptics
There are several strands of such line of thought. For instance, Financial Times columnist Simon Kuper recently argued that cutting emissions while feeding a growing population is all but impossible, as it would require a degree of economic adjustment worldwide that is politically unviable. While the world is becoming more fuel efficient, and many green technologies are coming to fruition, their net impact, even projected optimistically, will fall way short of a carbon neutral world in the coming decades. Contrary to what some politicians say, according to Kuper, there is no green growth on the horizon.
Another line of argument comes from novelist Jonathan Franzen. In The New Yorker, he describes the expressions of unrealistic hope among climate activists who naively expect that between growing awareness and technological breakthroughs, the world can solve the problem of climate change. It is extremely difficult to imagine a scenario where democracies worldwide accept the type of draconian conservation, taxation and limitations on activity necessary to prevent global temperatures from continuing to rise.
Perhaps the most assertive argument comes from Danish author Bjorn Lomborg. He proposes that climate mitigation is not a high-priority imperative for global welfare. According to Lomborg, climate activists have injected so much doom into the debate that we now face the prospect of policies which make the cure worse than the disease. He argues that economic prosperity will ensure resiliency to deal with climate change, whereas regulatory impediments in the name of climate mitigation end up undermining prosperity. Provocatively, he asserts that a future with fossil-fuel driven growth is a better one for developing economies.
These arguments therefore are all firmly in the “too late, too costly” camp. They declare that we are hurtling towards the point of no return on global warming, so we might as well focus on dealing with the coming difficulties instead of fooling ourselves into costly action to prevent the inevitable.
Pushing back against defeatism
We think that there is an element of defeatism in these lines of thinking that are contrary to the record of humanity’s continued progress since industrialisation. Successful policies and scientific breakthroughs have allowed for unprecedented success in reducing disease and hunger, raising global life expectancy and overall quality of life in the past century. Lomborg cites humanity’s historical resilience and resourcefulness in the face of large-scale crisis to support his thesis that everything will be OK in the end. Yet he fails to recognise that these very examples of our past triumphs over adversity could be interpreted as an exhortation to direct that same can-do spirit toward battling climate change.
Lomborg’s comparison of climate crisis with a cyclical economic recession is rendered weaker with every Australian bushfire news update. The concept that the climate’s worst effects would take years to manifest has been proven wrong – we no longer have the luxury of even a few years before acting.
Global leadership can help humanity evade the “too late, too costly” trap. Given the current volatile geopolitical situation, we could find some unexpected role models to rally around. It will be interesting to see how Australia ultimately responds to its bushfire emergency. As a relatively wealthy and self-contained nation (the Australian economy grew steadily during the worst years of the global financial crisis), it is well-positioned to emerge as a testing ground for rapid climate mitigation solutions. China, having seen the soaring cost of pollution caused by its breakneck growth, is today a world leader in green energy production and green technology. As China’s resources are geared toward climate risk rescue with Chinese characteristics, it is filling a vacuum left by the United States, which has recently begun moving to formally exit the Paris climate agreement.
As humanity progresses, goals and aspirations evolve. The early days of industrialisation were characterised by growth maximisation, but that phase ended as the long-term cost of pollution and environmental degradation became evident. Indeed, hardly any society in the world today pushes back against emission standards or attempts to reduce waste, and there is widespread acceptance of responsibilities beyond profit. The dialogue has long shifted, decisively, toward understanding the impact of our footprint.
We are pragmatic enough to find resonance with those who see societies not yet ready to rise fully to the challenges of a carbon neutral world, but that does not discourage us from thinking through all the ways we can be better participants and intermediaries on Earth. We have no doubt that corporations focusing on improving their impact and nations continuing to negotiate to find ways to deal with climate change risk are unambiguously positive. That’s much better than resigning to joining the too late, too costly camp.
This post is based on a presentation by Taimur Baig at a conference hosted by the INSEAD Emerging Markets Institute.
Taimur Baig is a Managing Director and the Chief Economist at DBS Bank Ltd.
Vinika D. Rao is Executive Director of the INSEAD Emerging Markets Institute (EMI), a leading think tank on issues related to economic development and business management in emerging economies across the globe, and Director of the Hoffmann Global Institute for Business & Society, Asia. These institutes develop relevant cutting-edge pedagogical material, research publications and data sets. You can connect with her via email at [email protected] or follow her on Twitter @VinikaDRao.
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This week we have great news to share and it is that Tekman and Additio, two companies very concerned about formative and competence assessment join forces to offer their products together with an integration that provides many benefits to teachers.
Tekman is a platform that allows educational guidance in a pedagogical way, through its different programmes. Through each of them, we seek to connect the student with the learning process, in a dynamic and personalised way, listening to the student and their needs at all times.
Why a partnership with Tekman?
As you know, Additio is an ideal platform with different functionalities both to evaluate students and to follow their learning process. Among the main features of Additio are the calculation of activity grades, the subsequent report of these grades, both group and individual, to see, in a more graphic way, the evolution of students and, above all, we can include the competency assessment, the key aspect that unites us with Tekman. This is why the union of Tekman and Additio is the perfect combination between teaching and evaluation.
Benefits for teachers
From Additio, teachers will be able to manage their work more easily, thanks to the possibility of specifying the competences in each of the activities created within the platform, including the use of evaluation rubrics, and when the teacher deals with the activity in class through Tekman tools, he/she can later apply comments, notes and annotations in Additio to be able to see the result of the activity.
In addition, you can generate competence reports and share your students’ results with their families in an automated way. A great complement to the Inspira, EMAT, Ludiletras and Superletras programmes that you will be able to start enjoying from next academic year.
Do you want to know more? We invite you to the presentation webinar!
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We estimated organic carbon (OC) burial over the past century in 40 impoundments in one of the most intensively agricultural regions of the world. The volume of sediment deposited per unit time varied as a function of lake and watershed size, but smaller impoundments had greater deposition and accumulation rates per unit area. Annual water storage losses varied from 0.1-20% and were negatively correlated with impoundment size. Estimated sediment OC content was greatest in lakes with low ratios of watershed to impoundment area. Sediment OC burial rates were higher than those assumed for fertile impoundments by previous studies and were much higher than those measured in natural lakes. OC burial ranged from a high of 17,000 g C m-2 a-1 to a low of 148 g C m-2 a-1 and was significantly greater in small impoundments than large ones. The OC buried in these lakes originates in both autochthonous and allochthonous production. These analyses suggest that OC sequestration in moderate to large impoundments may be double the rate assumed in previous analyses. Extrapolation suggests that they may bury 4 times as much carbon (C) as the world's oceans. The world's farm ponds alone may bury more OC than the oceans and 33% as much as the world's rivers deliver to the sea. | <urn:uuid:d9fea70f-aaf6-41ee-86fe-b679d1b01a78> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://experts.umn.edu/en/publications/sediment-organic-carbon-burial-in-agriculturally-eutrophic-impoun | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.969914 | 276 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Not that complicated, actually
I’ve been taking a course on Linux for the last few months and one aspect of Linux that always confused me was how permissions worked. For example, when uploading a file to my web server once and getting an error, I was told by my web host to change the file permissions to 755.
I had no clue what that meant, even though changing the permissions fixed the problem. I’ve now realized Linux permissions aren’t all that complicated, you just have to understand the system. In this article, I’ll talk about Linux permissions on a high-level and show you how to use the chmod command to change permissions for files and folders.
Linux Permissions & Levels
In Linux, there are basically three permissions that you will normally have to worry about: read, write and execute. All three of these are pretty self-explanatory. Now when these permissions are applied to a file, they are applied in levels.
There are three levels of permissions in Linux: owner, group and other. The owner is the user who owns the file/folder, the group includes other users in the file’s group and other just represents all other users who are not the owner or in the group.
Read, write and execute are represented as either symbolic characters or as octal numbers. For example, if you do a ls -l in a directory with some files, you’ll see the symbolic character representation of the permissions.
The permissions are written as follows: the first bit is either a dash or the letter d. Dash means it’s a file and d stands for directory. Note that the first bit can also be an l if the file name is a link. Next, there are three groups of three bits. The first bit in each group is for read, the second bit is for write and the third bit is for execute. The first three bits are for the owner, the second three bits are for the group and the third three bits are for other. Here’s a more visual explanation.
If you see a dash in place of a letter, it means that the owner, group or all other users do not have that permission. In the example above, the owner, group and everyone else has read write and execute permissions.
If you look at the output from the ls -l command, you’ll notice that my practice text file has the following permissions:
This means that everyone only has read/write permissions for the file. Here’s another example:
Looking at the first bit, we can see that the permissions are for a directory. The owner has read/write/execute permissions, but the group and other users only have read permission.
Octal Number Representation
So that’s how permissions are displayed in Linux using symbols. The second way to represent the same permissions is by using octal numbers. When we use the chmod command later on, you’ll see that you can change the permissions using either symbols or octal numbers.
So how does Linux represent read, write and execute using octal numbers? Basically, it just assigns a number to each permission as shown below.
The read permission is represented by 4, write by 2 and execute by 1. All you have to do is add them up to get the octal permission. For example, let’s take the example above where everyone has all permissions:
The owner has rwx, so we will add 4 + 2 + 1 to get a value of 7. We do the same thing for group and the same thing for other. The final octal value is 777. Let’s take a look at the example where we only gave read/write permissions:
The first octal number will be 4 + 2 since we are adding read and write. The second one will be the same as will the third octal number. Here we have a final octal value of 666.
So now let’s try it the other way. Say we want to know what permissions 755 represents? Well, it’s pretty easy to figure out if you break it down by individual numbers. The first number is 7, which we can only get by adding 4 + 2 + 1, meaning the owner has read/write/execute permission. Five can only be gotten by adding 4 + 1, meaning the group and other users have read and execute permissions.
Hopefully, that’s a good explanation for how to represent permissions in Linux using octal numbers. It’s pretty straight-forward overall.
Using chmod to Modify Permissions
Now that we understand how to read permissions, let’s talk about how we can change them. The easiest utility to use for this purpose is the chmod command. Here’s how it works. The best way to explain the command is to go through an example.
Let’s start with the permissions we talked about above, namely:
If we wanted to add the execute permission for owner, group and other, we could go about it in two ways. We could use the symbol method or the octal method. For the symbol method, we would do the following, as shown below:
The exact command is
chmod a+x filename
The syntax is as follows: the letter or letters representing the owner (u), group (g), other (o) or all (a) followed by a + for adding permissions or a – for taking away permissions and then the letter for the permission (r for read, w for write and x for execute).
In the above example, I added the execute permission for all users. The result as you can see in the screenshot above is an x for owner, group and other. Now let’s say I wanted to remove the write and execute permissions for only the group and other users.
As you can see here, I used to the following command to accomplish this:
chmod go-wx filename
Since I want to change the permissions for group and other, I use the letter g and the letter o. I want to remove permissions, so I use the – sign. Finally, I want to remove the write and execute permissions, so I use w and x. Here’s a handy little table for symbol usage:
So that’s all there is to using the symbol method. Now let’s talk about the octal method, which I find to be a bit easier. Octal is nice because you can add or remove permissions all in one go.
If we start with the following permissions on a file, let’s see how we can change them using the octal method:
Above, you can see I used the following command:
chmod 744 filename
This basically says the owner gets read/write/execute permission and the group and other gets read permission only. As you can see, it’s easy to add or remove permissions in one simple command. Let’s keep going and say I want to change permissions again.
Now I used the following command, again a very simple one:
chmod 640 filename
Here we have given the owner read/write permissions, the group read permission only and the other group no permissions. You use a zero to denote no permissions. Pretty simple, eh?
In conclusion, this is a very simple overview of Linux permissions and it can get a lot more complicated than this, but for beginners, it’s a good place to start. I’ll be posting more articles on more advanced permissions in the future. If you have any questions, feel free to comment. Enjoy! | <urn:uuid:228c0263-6b2a-46ca-9352-088a8e4b0757> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://helpdeskgeek.com/linux-tips/understanding-linux-permissions-chmod-usage/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.92714 | 1,637 | 3.640625 | 4 |
BIG OLD TREE
Hymn tunes shouldn’t only be for the older folks, right? Here’s a common meter tune that would work perfectly for a children’s song. The last phrase is repeated, so you can think of it as 126.96.36.199.8.6.
This is an orphan tune, waiting to be adopted by a text to call its own. If you write your own lyrics for this melody or pair it with an existing text, please let me know how you’ve used it.
music by Greg Scheer
meter: 188.8.131.52 (C.M.)
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The announcement that Saldanha Steel is to be shut down is very sad and yet another blow to our limping economy. It is, however, an interesting case and should be studied for lessons for the South African economy, and for how we can achieve greater industrialisation.
You often hear people who don’t understand economics saying, ‘You cannot have infinite growth with finite resources’. Actually, you can. Steel helps to explain why. It is by far the most important structural material, a composite of iron, carbon and other elements. Iron making, the precursor to steel making, was invented over five thousand years ago, and steel is now used in enormous quantities all around the world.
How many atoms of iron have been consumed in the last five thousand years? None. The iron atom is immortal (like all stable atoms) and can be recycled until the end of time. There are such vast quantities of iron on Earth that we will never use more than a tiny fraction of them in the remaining life of the planet. Steel allows economic growth indefinitely – and a jolly good thing too, despite the protestations of Sweden’s rich schoolgirl prophetess, Greta Thunberg. Fortunately, she herself encourages economic growth by using extremely expensive artefacts such as luxury yachts, which are now only available to the wealthy elite such as herself but might in future be available to everyone if there is sufficient growth.
Steel making comes in two processes. First, iron ore (consisting of various iron oxides) is reduced with carbon, usually in the form of coking coal, to make cast iron, which has about 4% carbon content. Then the cast iron is oxidised to reduce the carbon content to 2% or lower to form steel, which is tougher, harder and more malleable than iron. Various other elements, such as manganese, nickel and chrome, can be added to make specialist types of steel, such as stainless steel. South Africa has huge reserves of bad coal (high ash, low energy) but very little coking coal. This shortage was a problem for our steel makers. Saldanha Steel was designed in an ingenious way to overcome it.
Saldanha uses ordinary coal, iron ore and oxygen in the combined ‘Corex’ and ‘Midrex’ processes, and then an electric furnace to make high quality rolled steel sheet. As you drive past Saldanha on the R27, you can see the various towers of the plant. The tallest structure is the oxygen plant, which makes oxygen from air.
South African steelmaking began with Iscor, a state company, in 1928. It was conceived as strategic rather than commercial, to form a base for industrialisation in the country. Many countries around the world had the same notion about steelmaking and some still do. This led to much subsidisation, which, combined with technical advances, led to dropping steel prices. Iscor was privatised in 1989. In 1995, Iscor and the Industrial Development Corporation launched the Saldanha project, which began producing steel in 1998. After complicated mergers, it became owned by ArcelorMittal, an international group, in 2006. And now ArcelorMittal has announced that Saldanha Steel will be closed, with the loss of over 500 jobs. They say it is losing money because of the increased prices of coal, ore, electricity and transport, and falling prices of steel worldwide, and lack of demand.
Paradoxically, its closure might be of assistance to South African manufacturing, because it might now be able to buy cheaper imported steel. In this case, foreign subsidies on their steel might serve as subsidies on our manufactured goods. Trade wars, with tariffs and subsidies, have complicated results. When President Trump raised tariffs on European steel and aluminium, Europe responded by raising tariffs on US manufactured goods. Harley Davidson, the iconic American motorbike, hit by higher steel prices and tariffs on exports to Europe, responded by moving some of its production out of the US – to Trump’s rage.
What is the best path for South African industry now? In the past, we were very successful technically with many huge and new industrial projects. Sasol is by far the world’s biggest company for making liquid fuels from coal. Eskom made by far the world’s biggest air-cooled power stations (to compensate for our acute shortage of water). Saldanha Steel was technically successful with a new steelmaking technology. The Pebble Bed Modular Reactor was technically advanced. But technical prowess does not always lead to commercial success, and we need to study why. We still have the world’s greatest mineral treasure, including specialist metals such as platinum, chrome, vanadium and manganese, and surely we could find ways of exploiting these in high-value materials and goods. First, of course, we’ve got to throw out our crippling mining regulations.
There are many commentators who say that a successful industrial economy in South Africa under the African National Congress is simply impossible. They will nod their heads sadly over Saldanha Steel.
The views of the writer are not necessarily the views of the IRR.
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In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna says to Arjuna (Barbara Miller’s translation, pt. 2 stanzas 55-58):
When he [the yogi] gives up desires in his mind,
is content with the self within himself,
then he is said to be a man
whose insight is sure, Arjuna.
When suffering does not disturb his mind,
when his craving for pleasures has vanished,
when attraction, fear, and anger are gone,
he is called a sage whose thought is sure.
When he shows no preference
in fortune or misfortune
and neither exults nor hates,
his insight is sure.
When, like a tortoise retracting
its limbs, he withdraws his senses
completely from sensuous objects,
his insight is sure.
Here’s another way to think about this move of the Hindu meditator: there is the big and serene “Blue Sky” Self (what Hindus call the Atman) and there is the “cloud-worried” little self (the grasping and avoidant self). But what if you identify with the Atman as your “true self” and retreat into the Atman as the tortoise retreats beneath his shell? Then the passing storm clouds of Prakriti (the seen, or everything else moving about in the ever transitory world) can come and go, as clouds in the otherwise blue sky come and go, and you can retain your equanimity because that stuff going on “out there” is not you—not the thing that you identify with via desires and aversions. You identify yourself, beneath the dome of your big sky mind, with the indestructable and eternal Atman.
The below video illustrates rather nicely, I think, the tortoise-shell move of the Hindu meditator, but the shell of protection is not the tortoise-shell, but the raincoat and umbrella. If you retreat beneath the metaphorical tortoise-shell, the raincoat, the umbrella—that is, the dome of your skull, your skull dome, under which resides your true and eternal Big Self—you can have a free soul. The clouds of Maya, of Prakriti—of the ever changing appearances—will touch you not, and you’ll discover who you really are (the serene and unchanging essence and consciousness behind all things, the Atman).
And you can dance inside.
At least that’s the theory.
Here are some of the lyrics for the above song:
So it’s vain to remain and chatter
and to wait for a clearer sky.
Helter skelter, I must fly for shelter
till the clouds roll by.
This disassociative move is not just characteristic of Hindus, of course, but of Christian mystics, gnostics, Platonists, Stoics, and Buddhists. In a world of grotesque suffering and constant change, it’s a human move that has been tried in any number of guises—even in musicals.
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There is no more important question in world politics than this: Will U.S. public opinion continue to support an active and strategically focused foreign policy? During the Cold War and for 25 years after, there was rarely any doubt. While Americans argued—sometimes bitterly—over the country’s overseas priorities, there was a broad consensus in both parties that sustained engagement was necessary to protect U.S. interests.
That consensus is more fragile today. Questions about the reliability of American commitments keep the lights burning late in foreign and defense ministries around the world. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo insists, as he said in Manila last week, that a Chinese attack on Philippine forces or territory in the South China Sea would activate Article 4 of the U.S.-Philippine Mutual Defense Treaty. But will the American people honor the check that Mr. Pompeo has written on their behalf?
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The eldest of ten children, Safi is forced to survive on very little while living in an extremely traditional and conservative society. His road isn’t easy from the beginning, having moved from Pech due to war and starting over with his family in his parents’ home village. Although he encounters numerous setbacks, Safi never gives up on his search for a better life. When Safi earns a number of scholarships due to his academic excellence, his travels bring him to different locations, cultures and opportunities. After attending a boarding school in Kabul, he travels to Lebanon and the United States, where he earns a doctorate degree from an Ivy League university. Despite several bumps in the road, Safi finally finds himself in the family life and career that he always wanted. Inspired by the Pashto saying, “No matter where a person goes, he always comes back to the children of his ancestors,” a special bank account has been established so profits from the book’s sales will benefit a girls’ high school in Khas Kunar, Afghanistan. Meant to be an inspiring story of life and struggle, “One Life” offers readers an uplifting story of how perseverance and hard work don’t fail in spite of the obstacles that may stand in the way. Having lived on hope for so long, Safi hopes his memoir brings hope to others who may need it in their times of struggle. | <urn:uuid:18019008-d482-4c38-a903-b80f8821ec5d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://uscreativebooks.com/books/one-life-an-afghan-remembers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.97761 | 295 | 2.03125 | 2 |
If you're looking for more to do after beating the main game in Pokémon Sword and Shield, or if you're just fed up of seeing your friends brag about their latest Shiny Pokémon capture, you might want to get in on that Shiny catching action all for yourself.
In this guide, we'll be covering everything you need to know about Shiny Pokémon in Sword and Shield, including what they are and how to actually get the elusive suckers. Strap yourselves in!
What Are Shiny Pokémon?
Shiny Pokémon are essentially fancy, rare versions of the monsters you see throughout your adventure. They usually have a distinctively different colouring to the 'normal' variant, although sometimes the changes are very subtle.
While they don't necessarily have any extra strength for competitive battles, they are often sought after by Pokémon fans as a way to show off - after all, having something that's rare and hard to find has always been cool, ever since Pokémon cards started to be traded in the playground.
In this image below, you can see a regular Wooloo on the left, and its shiny variant on the right. Almost all Pokémon can be found in Shiny form, although there are a few exceptions. When a Shiny Pokémon is found in the wild, you'll notice that one of two sparkle animations will appear around the Pokémon at the start of the battle, and you'll also see a special shiny marker on its Summary page when you catch it.
Best Ways To Catch A Shiny Pokémon In Sword and Shield
Finding a Shiny Pokémon in the wild is largely about luck, but there are a few things you can do to improve your chances of spotting one and ensuring that you actually capture the thing when it finally appears on screen.
Keep on Battling!
The first trick is to battle as many of your chosen Pokémon as possible. Battling the same species of Pokémon (by either defeating or capturing them) will slowly start to raise your chances of finding its Shiny version. For example, if you want to find that Shiny Wooloo above, one good tactic is to keep battling wild Wooloo. The table below shows you how the odds of finding one will increase using this tactic.
|Number of battles||Effects on future encounters|
|At least 50||Shiny Pokémon have 2× the likelihood of appearing|
|At least 100||Shiny Pokémon have 3× the likelihood of appearing|
|At least 200||Shiny Pokémon have 4× the likelihood of appearing|
|At least 300||Shiny Pokémon have 5× the likelihood of appearing|
|At least 500||Shiny Pokémon have 6× the likelihood of appearing|
You can keep track of how many of each Pokémon you've battled by looking it up in your Pokédex.
Get Yourself a Shiny Charm
This one is an absolute must for anyone who is serious about tracking down lots of Shiny Pokémon. This item signifacantly improves your chances of finding a Shiny Pokémon across the board, slashing down the odds for each encounter you stumble into and even your egg-hatching odds (more on that below).
We'll go into more detail on understanding the exact chances of finding a Shiny later, but to put it in simple terms, the item will reduce the usual 1 in 4,096 chance of finding a Shiny Pokémon in the wild to just 1 in 1,365.33. You can get your hands on one by visiting the Game Freak Game Director in Circhester after completing your Pokédex - which isn't an easy task in itself.
Be Prepared For Battle
So, you've got your Shiny Charm and you've battled roughly three billion Wooloo, finally stumbling across a rare Shiny one. Time to catch it th- Oh no! You've not got any Poké Balls!
This might go without saying, but make sure you're prepared for when a Shiny Pokémon shows up. Stock up on the best Poké Balls for the 'mon you're hunting - Ultra Balls should work well in most cases - and have plenty of healing items with you just in case.
You'll also want to think about which Pokémon to use to battle the Shiny you've just found. One popular choice is Gallade, a Pokémon which can learn both Thunder Wave (which paralyses the opponent and increases your chances of capture) and False Swipe (which can reduce your opponent's HP to just 1). Some abilities may come in useful, too; Quagsire has the ability 'Damp', for example, which prevents wild Pokémon from using attacks like Explosion or Self Destruct.
The last thing you want is for your Shiny Pokémon to run away, wipe itself out with Explosion, or for you to defeat it in battle. Who knows how long it'll be until you find another one?
How To Breed Shiny Pokémon From Eggs In Sword and Shield
You can also hatch Shiny Pokémon from Eggs when breeding two Pokémon at one of the Day Care centres in the Galar region (one can be found on Route 5 and the other is in the Wild Area). Any hatched Pokémon can be Shiny - just like any wild Pokémon can - but there's a way to dramatically increase your chances.
The Masuda Method
Named after series director, Junichi Masuda, the Masuda Method is used by Shiny hunting players all around the globe. It involves placing one Pokémon caught in your own game, and one foreign language Pokémon from another player, into the Day Care at the same time. When these two Pokémon breed, the chances of finding a Shiny Pokémon from their egg are hugely increased.
Going back to our example of Wooloo, you could therefore use a Wooloo from your own game and someone else's foreign Wooloo to have a go at hatching a Shiny one. When you have two Pokémon of different languages breed, the Egg has a 1 in 682.7 chance of producing a Shiny Pokémon. If you have the Shiny Charm we mentioned above, this gets reduced even further to 1 in 512. Very nice indeed.
Before we move on from breeding, we need to give a quick mention to Ditto. Ditto is a Pokémon that can breed with almost any other Pokémon, and can therefore be a huge help in your Shiny hunting. If you can track down a foreign language Ditto, you can leave it in the Day Care and have it breed with any Pokémon you catch in your own game. It's quick and dirty, in more ways than one, but it gets the job done.
If you're interested, we have a complete guide to getting your hands on a foreign language Ditto, which also goes into a little more depth on how to know when a Pokémon is foreign to your own.
Pokémon Sword and Shield - Shiny Chance Rates
Finally, then, let's quickly go over the odds of finding a Shiny Pokémon across all circumstances, just so you know what you're getting yourself into (thanks, Serebii). The first table looks at Wild encounters, while the second looks at breeding.
|No. of Pokémon Battled||Rate Without Shiny Charm||Rate With Shiny Charm|
|<50||1 in 4096||1 in 1365.33|
|50||1 in 2048||1 in 1024|
|100||1 in 1365.333||1 in 819.2|
|200||1 in 1024||1 in 682.6667|
|300||1 in 819.2||1 in 585.1429|
|500||1 in 682.6667||1 in 512
|Breeding||Rate Without Shiny Charm||Rate With Shiny Charm|
|Using Foreign Language Pokémon||1 in 682.7||1 in 512|
As you can see, there's a surprising amount to think about if you're hoping to find a Shiny Pokémon in Sword and Shield, but hopefully this guide has steered you in the right direction.
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Clifton & Co, Photographers (Bombay)
|The information and images for this article have been provided by Sylvia Murphy, a FIBIS member, and descendant of Harry Clifton Soundy|
Harry Clifton Soundy (1863-1922)
Clifton & Co Photography Studio of Bombay, and noted publisher of postcards was established by the proprietor Harry Clifton Soundy in 1896 or 1897.
Harry was the second born but oldest surviving child of Bombay businessman Arthur Francis Soundy and his first wife Catherine Elizabeth Palmer. His parents had been born and married in London on 30 October 1859; but Harry was born in Bombay on 18 September 1863 and baptised 14 January 1864 at Colaba (Bombay) . Nothing is known of Harry’s early life, though the 1871 English census records him as a 7 year old with his mother at Ann Fisher’s boarding establishment at 1 Maida Vale, Paddington.
In the years from 1889 to 1894 he was working as a Manager of Bourne & Shepherd’s Bombay studios at 19 Esplanade Road and can be found listed as such in various commercial directories. Probably in 1895 he left Bourne’s to set up in partnership with Charles Schulz, an older man who was also an employee of Bourne and Shepherd The British Library India Office Select Materials includes photographs by Schulz & Clifton from this time period.
Early Years of Clifton & Co
However, this partnership did not last long and by 1897, Harry Clifton Soundy was trading on his own account as Clifton & Co, from a studio in Meadows Street, Bombay. The studio was the venue for daily screenings of silent films from 1897 . (This opportunity probably arose from his father, A.F. Soundy’s involvement in the showing of the French Lumiere Brothers’ Cinematography in July – September 1896, by Marius Sestier. )
The early years of the Clifton & Co business are partly documented through brief advertisements and news item references in The Times of India. Some examples are: - Bombay Volunteer Rifles Cycling Club: 3rd prize, value Rs20 presented for the “Ladies’ Half Mile Handicap”(T of I, Jan 6, 1899) - Photographs of the Presidency Cricket Match at Rs1 each (T of I 14 Aug 1899) - Indian Christmas Cards: Hunting, Yachting, Cycling, Running, Views and Native Characters from one to 8As each (T of I 30 Nov 1899) Showing signs of expansion, on 23 January 1900 he advertises to buy a new or second-hand collotype printing press.
The Postcards for which Clifton & Co are possibly best known are the subject of an advertisement in 1901: Pictorial Indian Post Cards: 24 new subjects now ready. Indian views size 10 by 8, Rs5 per dozen. Clifton & Co, Photographers. (T of I, 12 Oct 1901). The India Office Select Materials has an extensive collection of postcards from the studio, all catalogued under the name Clifton & Co, the proprietor is never identified as Soundy.
Later years and death of Harry Clifton Soundy
Harry Clifton Soundy married on 4 July 1907 at Mussoorie to Daisy Holloway. The couple only had one child, Phyllis Marjorie Soundy, born 31 August 1908. The family lived in a lovely residence at 17 Harkness Road, Malabar Hill.
Harry died of dysentery in Bombay on 31 August 1922 and was buried the following day in Sewri Cemetery. The death notice reads: CLIFTON – Soundy, Harry Clifton at St George’s Hospital on August 31st in his 59th year. Prop: Messrs Clifton & Co, Photographers. Funeral will leave St George’s Hospital at 7.am today Friday morning arriving Sewree Cemetery at 8.00am.
There is no evidence that Harry left a will.
At some time the business moved to the Albert Building in Hornby Road, and following Harry’s death, his widow, Daisy, is recorded as Proprieteress of the business up until 1933.
Harry Soundy was also a skilled watercolorist, with examples of his painting being found in private autograph books, and framed works in the possession of his descendants who live in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
See Clifton and Company for postcard images
- IOR: N/3/38, fol.11
- TNA: RG10/12 fol.51, p.1.
- Thackers Indian Directory; Times of India Directory
- Thackers Indian Directory 1895, list of Photographers in trades & professions includes: “Schultz & Cliffton, Medows Street” (sic).
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Zenta Logina (1908–1983) was a Latvian artist at work during the Soviet occupation. Her paintings, reliefs, and sculptural objects developed in a singular manner, as she broke away from the accepted framework of visual arts codified by the regime and crossed into the realm of contemporary art as we define it today.
In 1970, Johnson Donatus Aihumekeokhai Ojeikere, otherwise known as J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere (Nigerian, 1930–2014), made Fro Fro, the point of departure of this short text. Storyteller and lens-based artist Jumoke Sanwo reads this image, produced during Nigeria’s nationalist drive and considers Ojeikere’s subjects and their unapologetic defiance.
As the entrepreneurial co-founder of the Société Zin, a modernist design company, Safia Farhat (Tunisian, 1924–2004), contributed to the visual aesthetics of civic space during the formative period of Tunisian socialism and state feminism. Jessica Gerschultz introduces Farhat’s key role in sustaining a mural tradition for Tunisian modernists.
Art historian Inesa Brašiškė highlights the ideas behind the work of Lithuanian-American artist and architect Aleksandra Kasuba (1923–2019), most notably her countering of the rigid geometry of architecture through the use of soft materials and curved shapes, and her emphasis on the fundamental connection between the built environment and the formation of subject.
In this essay, cultural historian Linda Kaljundi revisits Estonian art of the late Soviet period. Looking at work from the 1970s and 1980s from an ecocritical and environmental perspective, she argues for the necessity of taking a comparative, transnational approach in order to reach beyond the Western centric understanding of environmental art histories.
C-MAP Africa fellow, Nancy Dantas, reads Mozambican modernist Bertina Lopes’s anticolonial trajectory and long-distance nationalism in ‘Tribute to Amílcar Cabral’ (1973).
This year’s C-MAP seminar series, Transversal Orientations, comprised four panels that took place on Zoom in June 2021. This essay reflects on Acts of Transfer and the Repertoire, the second panel in the seminar series featuring Tsitsi Ella Jaji, Laura Anderson Barbata and Lina Lapelyte.
If landlessness is another condition that transforms Africans into wanderers, with nothing but their labor to sell for a pittance, then the genre of landscape painting in South Africa represents a space-time of possession and dispossession. Implicit in Gladys Mgudlandlu’s landscapes is a reminder of how the ownership of land has historically epitomized South African nationhood.
Estonian artist Sirje Runge’s (born 1950) visionary 1975 thesis project conceptualizes the dynamics between the needs of the individual and the overall logic and construction of the city space in late Soviet Estonia.
Inji Efflatoun fut une peintresse et une militante marxiste et féministe égyptienne. De juin 1959 à juillet 1963, elle fut emprisonnée par le régime nassérien en raison de son appartenance au parti communiste. Au cours de ces années, elle continua à peindre. Célébrés dès les années 1960, et aujourd’hui recherchés sur le marché de l’art, les tableaux de cette période sont souvent considérés comme les plus importants de son œuvre.
Celebrated as early as the 1960s, and highly sought-after on the art market today, Egyptian painter Inji Efflatoun’s production during her four years of incarceration by the Nasserite regime is often considered the highlight of her oeuvre.
Widely distributed in recent years and now in MoMA’s collection, the two-minute video depicts Parente entering a closet and hanging up her sweater without first removing it from her body. | <urn:uuid:1b143358-93fd-498a-bdb6-e21378634d1b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://post.moma.org/theme/art-and-the-political/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.820558 | 888 | 1.867188 | 2 |
Diving in La Palma
The sea beds of La Palma make up a real paradise waiting to be discovered. Due to the eruption in 1971 of the Teneguía volcano (Fuencaliente), its main attraction is the fact of being the youngest seabed in Spain. They are mainly stunned and very deep, with numerous cracks, caves and edges, some of them are protected because of their importance and uniqueness. At the same time, there are some areas with sandy bottoms. The beauty of the underwater world in the Atlantic ocean is full of surprises. Its tropical waters are absolutely fascinating for divers, no matter whether they are a beginner or not.
Volcanic eruptions have created, both in the north and south of the island, a marine ecosystem of rare and fascinating rock arches, towers and caves. Sea cliffs, with a depth of up to 300 meters, host really incredible sites. To scuba dive along underwater strange formations of volcanic rock, enjoying the diversity and colourful of the sea fauna and flora, is undoubtedly an unique experience. The marine fauna is composed of fishes like parrot fishes, combers, muraenas, white sea breamss, soles, sarpa salpas, groupers ... Among them, the spot fin burr fish, protected by the Endangered Species Catalogue of the Canary Islands, plays an important role in controlling the so called blanquizal. In the area reached by sunlight are a lot of species of flora abundant, such as red and brown algae as well as many invertebrates which feed fishes and other benthic animals.
If the seabed of the Canary islands combines water purity and temperature with the abundance of sea life to enjoy some incredible divings, the island of La Palma adds to this the lighting of its waters, as light reaches as far as 50 metres. The visibility and water temperature of almost 20º C in winter and 25º C in summer, make possible to enjoy scuba diving throughout the year. And if we have little or no diving skills, snorkelling is another way to enjoy the sea. It's easy, funny and safe and can be done anywhere. Just a pair of diving glasses and a tube are needed to go diving. | <urn:uuid:6ac5ee5a-4ad9-4f03-84e2-64ac11850ca6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.casitascanarias.com/en/destination/La-Palma/diving | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.942161 | 466 | 2.265625 | 2 |
How San Diego Became Itself
O T T E R W O O D a sculpture commissioned by the Port of San Diego
This San Diego Urban Tree planted on the Embarcadero pays respect to the memory of early California, a region once fecund with kelp forests, otters, fish and peoples. The kayak was the vessel of the hunters who came from The North to decimate the otter population for profit. Withdrawn from the sea, now pointed toward the sun, Otterwood is an epitaph to the sea otter.
The sculpture is site-specific. A brochure was designed to interpret the concept for the public and was available in a plexiglas case on the side of the pedestal.
interpretive brochure / outside surface
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Fall 2015 workshop with Carl Rohrs
Posted on: 13 Sep 2015
Bridger Mountain Scribes hosted the fall workshop on September 19-20, 2015, in Bozeman. Carl Rohrs was the instructor, and the workshop was entitled “Ghosts of Calligraphy: Modern Moves & 20th Century Masters”. A slide show presentation was open to the public at 7 pm on Friday night.
Contemporary calligraphy is a combination of thought, touch, tools, technique — and inspiration. So, we’ll be exploring some of the specific techniques for making modern letterforms with flat pen and flat brush. At the same time there will be a whirlwind introduction to the work of my favorite 20th-century calligraphers.
We’ll concentrate on the flat pen and effects that occur as the pen loses contact with the paper, bounce, angularity, compression and new ways of dealing with terminals, but will also spend time with the flat brush and the control and texture it offers.
All these tools and techniques can be used to interpret and steal from the following gentlemen — Ray DaBoll, Walter Brudi, Rudolf Koch, Alfred Linz, Herbert Post, Helmut Salden, George Salter, Ernst Schneidler, Villu Toots, Georg Trump (and several others) and the star of this edition of the class, Oldrich Menhart — I’ve recently run across a great stash of his work, and you will love his otherworldly earthiness. Most of them were type designers, most were teachers, all were calligraphers of startling originality. These men came up with new ways of using hands centuries-old as well as their own completely original styles that have been hiding from you for 50 years and more. The workbooks are 160 pages of great lettering resources, with much of the material unavailable elsewhere. | <urn:uuid:641417e8-bec7-4642-a965-0978957b03d3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.bigskyscribes.org/fall-2015-workshop | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.950099 | 393 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Imagine being in your local museum, but the people represented on the walls don’t look like you.
In South Africa, for many of us, we don’t have to imagine it and a new exhibition that opened this week at the Durban Art Gallery adds its voice to the growing chorus of work correcting the error of representation.
Proclamation 73 explores memory, erasure and home by drawing on the family album as a source of history. In this way, the exhibition does the radical work of re-entering under-represented peoples into history.
Issued in 1951, Proclamation 73 was the law according to which Indian people were categorised as a subdivision of the coloured group. It was issued by the apartheid government under the Group Areas Act and forced removals followed.
Initiated by social researcher Zara Julius and curator Chandra Frank, the exhibition draws on photographs of weddings, beach days, ballroom dance contests and street portraits, which are exhibited alongside photographs of the aftermath of forced removals. The project aims to challenge static racial categories and to investigate how categories such as “coloured” and “Indian” were used as anti-black tools.
Desiree Henneberry (1969)
The project focuses on neighbourhoods in Durban North and Durban South that were designated for coloured and Indian people. Frank’s father is from Chatsworth and Julius’s mother’s family was initially in Cato Manor, which links them both closely to the exhibition.
Community album: One of the collected photographs is of Chatsworth homesin July 1964. Photo: Old Court House Museum
Speaking before its opening this week, Julius explains: “Both of us were really interested in our family’s experiences around forced removals. For me, personally, I was interested in Durban experiences around colouredness, because, I think, when people talk about coloured identity, it’s quite situated in Cape Town and the Western Cape. People don’t really know the narrative around Durban coloured identity. I use the term ‘coloured’ in inverted commas because it’s obviously a very contested term.”
The project was interactive and the creators put out a call for family photographs of homes, gatherings and communities from before 1994. Although people were responsive, Julius says that getting them to scan their photographs proved difficult and the curators had to change their approach.
Joyce Williams and Anthony Solomons (1975)
“Durban was difficult to activate. What I ended up doing was making house visits with my scanner and my computer.”
One of the aims of the exhibition is to challenge notions about race and space in Durban.
“The idea around this term ‘coloured’ is super-fixed in the South African population’s imagination. Imagine the experience between being from the Western Cape and being from KZN [KwaZulu-Natal] and then being from Gauteng. And that’s obviously got to do with the fact that the term ‘coloured’ was a label placed on people with varying different cultural experiences and ethnic backgrounds. What was important for me was to have a more complicated conversation around this term ‘coloured’.
Esther Moyce and her daughter Dulcie Moyce (1924)
“Not every coloured person speaks Afrikaans, for example. In Durban, the cultural proximity is way closer to Indian experiences. The other thing that was important was to think through how the term Indian moved from a national identity to a racial identity. It was only in 1951 that the term Indian became a racial identity.”
The two histories, those of coloured people and Indian people, are often read independently, but the exhibition presents them together, intertwined but different.
‘Mrs Green’ and children (date unknown)
What was the thinking behind this?
“To show, quite frankly, how absurd racial classification was and continues to be. People’s lived experiences are way murkier than we are led to believe. Some parts of one family would be classified in three different ways, you know? There are people who have some cousins classified Indian and other cousins classified coloured and then one uncle who managed to get himself classified as white,” Julius says.
The exhibition is a greater community family album, which forms a collective memoryscape, as both a physical exhibition and a digital archive. Digital copies of the photographs will be donated to the KwaMuhle Museum so that there’s more content and visibility about the issue spread throughout the city.
Apart from addressing limited personal knowledge about ancestries, projects such as Proclamation 73 address erasure in historical narratives. In particular, South African recorded history has deliberately erased us and where we come from. If we don’t do this for ourselves, it simply won’t happen. Did Julius experience a similar emotional reaction to this process?
“Totally. Going through the archives and trying to see what does exist, and then realising, ‘oh, nothing exists’. That is really shocking. And then what does exist is a collection of photographs of women, girls cleaning and sewing at an orphanage. It’s quite hectic that that becomes the narrative in Wentworth.”
I return to thinking about the violence of forced removal. The story of having your family forcibly removed is one many can relate to. It’s one I have heard over countless Sunday lunches in my own home in Cape Town, and displacement under the Group Areas Act is a narrative that resonates with millions of people all over South Africa.
When the apartheid government issued Proclamation 73, the point was not only to separate white people from the rest of the population, they also wanted to create communities distinct from those of black people. This stratified form of racialised oppression was reflected by and continues to be reflected by the anti-black sentiments expressed in coloured and Indian communities.
“It’s so tricky, because, on the one hand, we’re trying to bring our communities in and trying to say, ‘Hey, we need to be more active in taking charge of our stories and our narratives’. So we’re trying to bring communities in without alienating people, but at the same time also trying to educate and push our communities to be better.
“So, yes, the exhibition does address anti-blackness. We speak to the gaps in the archives in the exhibition. We have kind of tackled it that way,” says Julius.
The gaps in the archives is a phenomenon seen in many families. The older generation is often quick to point out their European great-great-grandparent, but have little know-ledge about their indigenous lineage.
Julius says: “As an example, a lot of homes from my grandparents’ age would have photos of their white grandfather or father from the UK [United Kingdom] somewhere, but there would be no photograph of, say, his black partner. So the archive is always limited. We have to look into the gaps of the archive.
“An example would be my great-grandfather, a white man from Ireland, who came through and had several children with several different Zulu women. There’s a photograph of him, but no photograph of my great-grandmother. The question becomes: Why is there this missing link? It raises questions of anti-blackness and erasure of blackness.”
Given the brutal effects of gentrification today, does Julius see any parallels between the forced removals of the Groups Area Act and what’s going on in places like Woodstock and Bo Kaap in Cape Town now?
“Oh, completely. I was thinking through the protest that happened like, two weeks ago, where citizens in Bo Kaap were trying to stop a crane from coming on to this site and they were met with a really insane amount of police brutality, considering it was, like, 20 aunties praying.
“And I was thinking like the Bo Kaap somehow survived forced removal, and survived apartheid. But will it survive neocolonialism and white capitalism? There’s totally a link between forced removals and gentrification.
“I don’t know if you know about the concept of ‘hauntology’, where things from the past haunt the present. That’s kind of how I see the gentrification in Cape Town.”
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Berlin-based ResearchGate, in which Bill Gates is a prominent investor, provided a platform for study results that led to highly embarrassing backpedaling from a Japanese research institute.
“The forces of unification are stronger” than those trying to fragment the internet, the former Microsoft chief said in Berlin on Wednesday.
When Tim Berners Lee started the World Wide Web, he envisioned scientists sharing their work globally. Madisch thinks that will become more and more important as global issues emerge.
The money should help Berlin-based ResearchGate beef up its sales team, as it starts trying to monetize its 2.7 million-strong community of researchers. It remains unclear, though, who stumped up the cash.
With 2m members, science startup ResearchGate isn’t just talking big when it says it wants to start a revolution: it’s actually changing the way scientists work. Co-founder Ijad Madisch explains his vision — and how he’d like to change Germany’s clone-heavy culture along the way.
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Charitable trusts often work in a region or worldwide; for a singular cause or a collective outlook. St.Jude Children’s Research Hospital is a trust and organization working to develop cures and treatments for various pediatric problems. It is one of the highly-rated non-profit trusts of the United States of America since 1962.
What’s their objective?
The hospital and medical research center are dedicated to extending their free services for treating childhood diseases like cancer, leukemia, life-threatening syndromes, and organ damages.
Unlike other medical organizations, their unique treatment approach solely depends on the funds and donations while promising a high-class treatment. Every patient they attend to counts for research, as the hospital works for a more rigid solution to cure the disease.
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St. Jude’s is a single branch, multi-specialty hospital working for the cure of life-threatening pediatric diseases. They don’t charge their patients for treatment, medicines, and hospital amenities. The charges are borne by the funds raised, periodic donations, and insurance claims if the patients have any.
Throughout their journey, the cancer survival ratio increased impressively to 80% this day from a meager 20% in the 1960s.
Notable immunologist and 1966 noble laureate, Peter Doherty, is one of the center’s Ph.D. scholars. Recently, St. Jude’s won the 2020 Webby Award for health and fitness. The September 2021’s space tourism trials of Elon Musk’s, The Inspiration 4, was also a fundraiser program donating around $50 million for the hospital’s development.
Along with children’s healthcare improvement, St. Jude also works as a great supporter of children’s academic programs, daily hospital volunteering activities, and wellness marathons and events.
Who are the major founders and contributors?
The trust was founded back in 1962 by the famous American actor, singer Danny Thomas, along with his ally, a pathologist, Lemuel Diggs. The center is located in Memphis, Tennessee, and has a grandeur of 70 years of trustful services.
The research center was named after St. Jude Thaddeus, whom Thomas followed relentlessly. The center was established as a secular organization to accept patients from any country without any racial, social, and economic discrimination.
With time, the contributors came forth to help in expanding and developing the center with the latest medicine and equipment. The American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities or ALSAC, set up by Thomas himself, is currently the major donator for the hospital, which also works for periodic fundraising programs. Catholic Cardinal Samuel Stritch, Chilli’s Bar and Restaurant, and actress Marlo Thomas’ Center for Global Education also played a major role in the development.
How can you contribute?
Though most donations and contributions are from business donations and funds, common people can also extend their help through online resources. People can pay a single time or register themselves as monthly patrons.
The official website provides an easy channel to fill up details and pay using cards. E-wallets like Amazon-Pay or PayPal are also supported for quick and remote donations. Starting from the smallest amount of $25, every man has a fair chance to contribute to this genuine cause.
Developing and constantly researching various fields of emerging diseases, St. Judes holds its position high following its mission of “Finding Cures Saving Children” to save every little soul on the planet. | <urn:uuid:4f42be54-ddf3-43cc-a862-5eea8b5b64c4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.piton.org/know-everything-about-charitable-trust-st-jude-childrens-research-hospital/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.956005 | 725 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Video Game Developer
Have you been dreaming about becoming a video game developer and you just feel the creative zinx in you is ready to explode? Then, you are probably ready to take the oath. A video game programmer in simple terms is like a software developer who is involved in the process of developing interesting and appealing video games. These games are developed for multiple entertainment gadgets like the gaming consoles that include, Sony’s PlayStation, Nintendo’s Wii, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 etc., internet or online games, mobile phones and PCs. This apparently is an exciting career and the number of youngsters taking up multimedia and animation courses keeps increasing with each passing day.
One can decide which console he wants to specialize in or which are the specific game types he would love to make. The various game types actually depend on the player involvement. It can be multiple player games or single player game. Similarly a game can be an adventurous one with first person shooting or some games are easy just for fun games for kids.
As in any profession, having the right kind of attitude is important, designing video games also require proper mindset. This is one not only a money minting profession but it is highly challenging as well. While the outlook of gamers changes with each new game, the video game developer needs to understand their psychology. It is essential if he wants players to love the games he develops. Get ready to face the tough challenges to be creative and innovative. Though the gaming industry is known for its casual approach to work, it can involve long hours of work. Game development firms are known for their tight schedules, close release dates and quick bug fixing requirements.
No Kid’s Business
Video games are no more kid’s business rather it is serious business. The games are developed for those who are extremely tech savvy and must have tried every single version of latest games that hit the market. So the developers need to stay on their toes when it comes to pleasing the highly demanding and eccentric game lovers. If one can bring in the next gen experience, then the game would be a hit and so would be the video game developer. Though developing games is a group activity but every single person has a unique and equally important role to play. It would pay well if the wannabe game designer remembers this.
To be very honest, the popularity of this industry is outlined by the complexity that needs to go into the game development. If game development is your passion then it would help to know what firms look for in young aspirants. The basic qualification in all the latest software’s used in game development is the foremost requirement. This software is include, Photoshop, CorelDraw, Flash, Shockwave, Freehand and Illustrator etc. It goes without saying that the video game developer must be an expert gamer himself to know the basic difference between good user friendly and interactive games to bad and poor design samples. Good problem solving and logical aptitude is also highly valued in this industry. The ability to respond to situations and rectify them is a must.
If you want to do well as a video game developer, you must be ready to try out different games that top the charts. One must understand the cutting edge technology and the out of the box thinking that mark the popular game developers. In case you have all these qualities in you, then there is no stopping you from becoming the next big name in the gaming industry.
Developing video games is a real challenge as the requirements have to be completely understood. Zatun Games excels in this category. Its game development expertise has led to its name being tagged in the top league. If you are interested to learn more about the process then just log on to http://www.zatungames.com. The result is bound to be good! | <urn:uuid:f796182a-c8d9-4fb5-aa82-a46c0ce08bfc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://zatungames.com/tag/video-game-programming/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.958524 | 781 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Distribution of Magnetic Field of Linear Induction Motor
In this article is investigated the distribution of magnetic field of linear induction motor. The are two models for simulation: three-phase asynchronous linear motor and single-phase linear capacitor motor. Simulations results of asynchronous LIM at different instants of time and at different widths of air gap are presented. The are given results of simulation, which show the change of magnetic flux at different instants of time of linear capacitor motor how magnetic field varies at different instants of time and at different current shits in phases. Charts of magnetic flux density below ending and middle tooth of inductor, and magnetic flux density in different cross-sections of air gap are compared. Ill. 9, bibl. 5 (in English; summaries in English, Russian and Lithuanian).
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We have our Agrifood & Water hub at Wennovation, one of the leading hubs in Nigeria. Here our missions align under one roof, to achieve sustainable development in Africa by fostering innovation among the youth population. Our focus is centered around the development of startups, strengthening of the ecosystem, and a platform for consultation.
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The project was launched in 2018 and is powered by enpact and SmartHectar Innovation. The problems within the Agrifood and Water value chain are huge and can no longer be left to governments and NGOs to solve. They need technological innovations and collaborative efforts from corporates and startups to find more effective and efficient solutions. It is time to solve these challenges together!Watch the video | <urn:uuid:a55b6ac4-0182-448e-afe2-244c985eff20> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://smarthectar.com/locations/abuja/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.93454 | 153 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Back in 1938, TV wasn’t really a thing yet. But that didn’t stop people from already dreaming about the wild future of tiny, personalized TV sets. One perfect example is this bizarre contraption from a British company, dubbed the “Television Monocle.”
TV technology was improving rapidly during the 1930s, at least in the lab, but Americans really couldn’t buy a TV set until the late 1940s. Companies often used TV tech to get attention from the press, however, and this device seems like it was precisely for that purpose. The Television Monocle had an absolutely tiny screen, measuring just 1.5 inches by 1 inch, a ridiculous idea no matter how you slice it.
The March 1939 issue of Radio-Craft magazine published the photo above, and included a description:
In England, the Gramophone Co. (Middlesex) last month announced the Television Monocle, says Radio-Press-Service. Held like an ordinary French-phone, it affords “personalized” television image and sound reception. This H.M.V.—His Master’s Voice—Television Monocle presents an image about 1.5 x 1in. (which is about all the eye can accommodate at such short range), as viewed on the second of 2 mirrors at 45-deg. angles; the cathode-ray tube is actuated by a nearby receiver. The earpiece at the end of the Monocle completes this televiwer for the “rugged individualist.”
The December 1938 issue of Popular Science published its own photo of the device, which gives you a better sense of just how small the screen was.
Silly? Yes, of course. But back in the 1930s, inventors were coming up with all kinds of silly gadgets to stand out in the crowd. Did you hear about that 1930s appliance, the mechanical refrigerator? Absolutely ridiculous if you ask me. Real Americans keep things cold the old fashioned way, sitting on a block of ice. | <urn:uuid:1e748284-ee97-4cd2-95c2-3ea0373c3e49> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gizmodo.com/this-television-monocle-from-1938-was-silly-and-wonderf-1830067727 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.956588 | 425 | 2.5625 | 3 |
The Horizons Program was created in 1999 as a partnership between Upper Canada College and the Toronto District School Board (TDSB). It provides mutually beneficial learning opportunities and experiences for all the students involved.
Mentoring, tutoring and learning through play happens in a variety of eight-week programs throughout the school year, i.e. math, learn to skate, coding, art and lacrosse.
Through an interdisciplinary curriculum model, all students in the Middle Years Programme connect with a younger student who has special needs. They learn together in co-operative, play based activities, developing respect and enhancing empathy for others' experiences.
The Horizons Summer Program supports academically talented students from priority neighbourhoods over a three-year period from Grade 7 to 9. The goal is to inspire continued positive community engagement and academic pursuits.
Summer Program graduates receive ongoing workshops to prepare for post-secondary education. Graduates meet regularly for discussions and opportunities to develop their many strengths.
Another aspect of our ongoing partnerships with schools is providing experiential engagement in such things as Horizons Hockey Night, Norval Outdoor School, the World Affairs Conference, Ontario Model United Nations, Horizons Computer Science Conference and Music Day.
Parents of UCC boys have opportunities to get involved with Horizons. Donation drives are held at the Prep twice a year, calling for winter clothes, books and sports equipment. During Association Day 2019, the UCC community participated in a Family Fun Run for Horizons. It was a delightful morning where high school students who have graduated from the Horizons Summer Program ran alongside UCC boys and parents.
Tom Lace ’06 spearheads an initiative for Old Boys to become involved as mentors for high-potential high school kids in the program. “The program had a huge impact on me,” says the investment analyst at Longview Asset Management. “There can be lots of red tape sometimes when you want to volunteer. This is a known community to Old Boys, a program with which they’ve already got some experience.” It is co-managed by alumni from UCC, the Bishop Strachan School and St. Clement's School, under the guidance of Horizons staff. | <urn:uuid:466b8bf0-d126-4330-95b4-af1aaf626a76> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ucc.on.ca/student-life/service/horizons | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.960158 | 464 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Deep learning for CFD analysis in built environment applications
Keywords:Artificial intelligence, Neural networks, Fluid Mechanics, Turbulence, Built, Environment, Digitization, Computational Fluid Dynamics
The study and control of the airflow in indoor environment is of great importance since it directly affects human daily life primarily in terms of health and comfort. Fast and accurate airflow predictions are therefore desirable when it comes to built environment applications of inverse design, system control, evaluation, and management. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) enables detailed predictions through numerical flow simulations and it has been consistently used to simulate airflow motion, heat transfer, and contaminant transport in indoor environment. However, CFD still faces many challenges mainly in terms of computational expensiveness and accuracy. With digitization, recent interest is posed on new data driven tools to either substitute CFD typically for faster predictions or aid the CFD simulation for improved accuracy. More specifically, the abilities of deep learning and artificial neural networks (ANN) as universal non-linear approximator, handling of high dimensionality fields, and computational inexpensiveness are very appealing. This work reviews current deep learning applications in built environment research, which are only limited to surrogate modeling as replacement for expensive CFD simulation. ANN enables fast and sometimes even real-time prediction, but usually at a cost of a degraded accuracy. For this reason, we also critically review what it is done and presented in fluid mechanics simulations research in general, to propose and inform about different techniques other than surrogate modeling for built environment applications and possibly improve the predictions quality as well. More precisely, ANNs can enhance the turbulence model in various way for coupled CFD simulations of higher accuracy, improve the efficiency of POD decompositions methods, leverage crucial physical properties and information with physics informed deep learning modeling, and even unlock new advanced methods for flow analysis such as super-resolution techniques. All these methods are very promising and largely yet to be explored in the built environment scene. Together with promising advancements, deep learning methods come with challenges to overcome, such as the availability of consistent large flow databases, the extrapolation task problem, and over-fitting, etc.
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Indonesia is facing challenges in training enough aircraft maintenance engineers and technicians to support rapid growth in the country’s airline fleet.
The director of Batam Polytechnic, Priyono Eko Sanyoto, says the biggest challenge is finding qualified MRO instructors.
“We are limited by the number of qualified instructors. We have recruited only four qualified instructors, and they are retirees,” says Priyono, adding that they worked in the MRO industry and then retired before he persuaded them to come back and teach.
Because of the shortage of qualified instructors, Batam Polytechnic has only 48 students studying aerospace engineering and maintenance, says Priyono.
He says Indonesia’s MRO industry wants to expand outside of Jakarta, Bandung and Surabaya and set up MRO facilities in other parts of the country, but the problem is that the qualified workforce is concentrated in Jakarta and the other two big cities.
“It is hard having training centers outside of Jakarta. Even for Batam, which is relatively developed, I still have what I call my ‘flying instructors.’ [Some of our teaching staff] stay in Batam maybe two days at a time and then they fly back to their homes in Jakarta, Surabaya or Bandung. We fly them in to teach, but it is expensive.”
Another issue is making sure the teaching staff have adequate, up-to-date skills. Batam Polytechnic will send some of the teaching staff to Europe next year to train in France or Germany, says Priyono. The school has connections with Europe’s aerospace industry, he says, without elaborating.
In the past, Indonesia has not had problems attracting young people to work in the MRO industry, because jobs are hard to come by, but Priyono says economic growth means it is now getting harder. “Young people are more interested in information technology rather than aircraft maintenance courses,” he says.
To attract more young people to the industry, “we need to make aircraft maintenance more ‘sexy,’” says Leo van Rijn, Air France Industries-KLM Engineering & Maintenance, vice president for aircraft maintenance. That means adding more technology-related content to the training programs.
“Show the students the simulation tools. The polytechnics need to invest in simulation tools, software applications and virtual-reality training tools. It is extremely important for us to have enough aircraft mechanics coming into this industry. Make it sexier,” he says. | <urn:uuid:e04513b9-08a0-4994-bacb-9bb506229f11> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aviationvoice.com/shortage-of-qualified-trainers-holding-back-indonesias-mro-industry-2-201710271034/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.956855 | 542 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Nikki Haley criticizes the government of Nicolás Maduro in Colombia
Nikki Haley, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, visited the Colombian-Venezuelan border last week and criticized the government of Nicolás Maduro for the…
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After attending the inauguration of the new Colombian president, Iván Duque, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, immediately addressed one of the most sensitive situations in the region: the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela.
Donald Trump’s government has promised to collaborate economically with Colombia to address the displacement of more than 1 million Venezuelans who have crossed the border, seeking refuge or food and essentials.
According to the Washington Post, Haley announced an additional $9 million relief package for Venezuelan refugees and immigrants in Colombia, which would be added to the $60 million that the Donald Trump government had already pledged to supply water, medical supplies and other needs.
From the Simón Bolívar Bridge, which connects both countries and where an estimated 2,500 Venezuelans cross every day, Haley attacked the government of Nicolás Maduro and made him directly responsible for the suffering of his people.
"These are his people, these are the people he should be feeding; these are the people he should be giving medicine to; these are the people he should be giving jobs and make sure that they have a good quality of life. But instead, he is protecting himself," Haley said.
The ambassador's comments follow the accusations of the Venezuelan leader against Colombia and the United States for an alleged drone attack against him on Saturday, August 4, which both countries have strongly rejected.
"He’s been full of excuses for years," Haley said of Maduro. "He did this by creating this chaos."
For Haley, the situation in Venezuela has been unsustainable for years and must be "dealt with" as soon as possible, which many have considered a necessary gesture to draw attention to the true magnitude of the situation in the Caribbean country.
"You look at this oil-rich country, which everyone used to look at as successful," Haley said of Venezuela's history. "And because of Chávez, because of Maduro, we have seen all of that get wiped out." | <urn:uuid:91c6e567-4bc9-4298-9ca0-6413c743e854> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aldianews.com/en/politics/policy/maduro-has-go | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.967098 | 463 | 2.125 | 2 |
Backdating in Insurance
You can pay lower premium by altering the policy start date and selecting the date that gives you better premium rates.
Backdating is useful for those who buy a life insurance policy to exhaust the section 80C limit on this year and start paying the premium on a monthly/quarterly basis from the next year.
Backdating comes handy when one has to buy a policy on a special day as one can anytime alter the official date to some important date during the year.
It also takes care of the maturity date to coincide with this significant date.
When your flow of income is not uniform throughout the year, if you buy the policy in this off season then you can get the policy backdated to the period of your maximum earnings.
Backdating helps you get return of investment earlier if you backdate the start date of the policy.
Points to note
As backdating directly affects the premium rate; it should be opted by people who are planning to purchase a policy at an older age. Most insurers hike the premium rates for the policyholders above 40 or 45 years. If you opt for backdating, you should move into the previous age bracket.
Backdating may work in endowment and money-back plans but for term insurance plans it is opposite. In endowment plan, the survival benefits accumulate much earlier. Whereas, with term insurance plan, the coverage tenure for the backdated period goes waste. The insurance companies lure buyer with 'zero sum game'. They increase the premium rate depending upon the age of the policyholder. The person pays for the lower rate however, ends up paying more for the backdated period instead.
So, ensure that the total savings in premiums is more than the extra premium paid for the backdated period.
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As India seeks to address the terrorism challenge in Jammu and Kashmir, jihadist forces are quietly gaining ground in far-flung states, especially West Bengal, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. The situation in Assam is also fraught with danger.
India can ignore this spreading threat at its own peril.
The ISIS, for example, has reportedly named a new ‘Bengal emir’. The Sri Lanka bombings, meanwhile, have helped highlight the growing cross-strait role of Islamist forces in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Such forces are affiliated with larger extremist networks or provide succour to radical groups elsewhere.
Terrible Sunday: Links have been found between Islamist forces in Tamil Nadu and the horrific bombings in Sri Lanka. (Source: Reuters)
The main group blamed for the Sri Lanka bombings — the National Thowheed Jamaath (NTJ) — is an ideological offspring of the rapidly growing Tamil Nadu Thowheed Jamaath (TNTJ). The Saudi-funded TNTJ, wedded to fanatical Wahhabism, is working to snuff out pluralistic strands of Islam. Such Arabisation of Islam is increasingly apparent in Muslim communities extending from Bangladesh and West Bengal to Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka’s Eastern Province.
More broadly, the collapse of the ISIS caliphate in Syria and Iraq has only intensified the terrorism challenge. Battle-hardened terrorist fighters returning home from Syria and Iraq have become a major counterterrorism concern in South and Southeast Asia, given their operational training, skills and experience to stage savage attacks.
The presence of such returnees in Sri Lanka explains how an obscure local group carried out near-simultaneous strikes on three iconic churches and three luxury hotels, with the bombers detonating military-grade high explosives through suicide vests. Similar returnees are present in a number of other Asian countries.
The Sri Lanka attacks indeed underscore the potential of such returnees to wage terror campaigns in the same way that the activities of the Afghan war veterans, like Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders, came to haunt the security of Asia, the Middle East and the West.
The jihadist threat, however, is posed not only by the returnees from Syria and Iraq. Such a threat also arises from those elements who never left their countries but see violence as a sanctified tool of religion and a path to redemption. Such local forces extolling terror are gaining clout.
The TNTJ in India, for example, helped to establish the Sri Lanka Thowheed Jamaath, from which the bomber outfit NTJ emerged as a splinter. In the current national elections in India, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and some other local political parties have openly courted the TNTJ.
Just as Bangladesh blamed Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) for instigating the 2016 brutal Dhaka café attack through a Bangladeshi outfit, Sri Lanka’s NTJ has ties with the ISI’s front organisation, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
The ISI and the LeT, through their joint Sri Lanka operations, have sought to establish cross-strait contacts with TNTJ activists in India.
NTJ leader Zahran Hashim, who reportedly died in one of the Easter Sunday suicide bombings, was inspired by fugitive Indian Islamist preacher Zakir Naik’s jihad-extolling sermons. Hashim also reportedly received funds from jihadists in south India.
Islamic extremist Zahran Hashim is believed to have been the mastermind of the Sri Lanka bombings on Easter Sunday. (Source: Facebook)
India, despite providing detailed intelligence warnings to Sri Lanka about the bombing plot, has been slow in developing a credible strategy to counter the growing jihadist influence within its own borders. For example, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government initiated action against Zakir Naik only after the Dhaka café attack prompted Bangladesh to demand action against him. The prime minister, however, is right in saying that Naik enjoyed the patronage of the predecessor Manmohan Singh-led government — which, according to Modi, once invited Naik to address police personnel on the issue of terrorism!
Today, Naik is ensconced in Malaysia, which has granted him permanent residency. Yet, India has imposed no costs on Malaysia, such as cutting palm-oil imports from there, for sheltering a leading fugitive from Indian law.
Like al-Qaeda at one time, ISIS seeks to show its continuing relevance by claiming responsibility for terror strikes that have occurred in places far from the areas where it has had presence. Rather than ISIS being directly involved in the Sri Lanka bombings, it is more likely that the ideology ISIS subscribes to — Wahhabi fanaticism — inspired those attacks.
It takes months, not weeks, to motivate, train and equip a suicide bomber. So, the speculative comment that the Sri Lanka bombings were a reprisal to the March 15 Christchurch, New Zealand massacre made little sense, especially as it came from the Sri Lankan junior defence minister.
Fortunately, the Sri Lankan prime minister later walked back that speculation.
Some portray the Sri Lanka terror attacks as 'revenge' for the killings in Christchurch, New Zealand. This is mistaken. (Source: AP)
Detaining a terrorist attacker’s family members for questioning has become a de facto international anti-terrorist practice. Sri Lanka quickly rounded up the bombers’ family members, including parents, for questioning once the suicide killers were identified. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation also detains a terrorist attacker’s family members for questioning — but not India.
For example, the Pulwama bomber’s family members not only remained free but also gave media interviews rationalising the February 14 suicide attack.
Publicity is the oxygen of terrorism.
Terrorists rely on media publicity to provoke fear and demonstrate power.
Unfortunately, in the absence of US-style media peer guidelines in India on terrorism-related coverage, Indian journalists supplied the oxygen of publicity by reporting allegations of the Pulwama bomber’s family members — including their claim that he was once roughed up by army or paramilitary soldiers. What the family members did not reveal was that the bomber had previously been detained on four separate occasions by J&K police, on suspicion of providing logistical assistance to the LeT, but that each time he was freed without the investigators getting to the bottom of his activities.
Make no mistake: Islamist terror is closely connected with the spread of Wahhabism, the obscurantist and intolerant version of Islam bankrolled by Saudi Arabia and other oil sheikhdoms. Wahhabi fanaticism is terrorism’s ideological mother, whose offspring include ISIS, al-Qaeda, Taliban, LeT and Boko Haram.
Wahhabi fanaticism is terrorism's ideological mother — its offspring include ISIS, LeT and Boko Haram. (Source: Reuters)
The jihadist threat in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, West Bengal and Assam — like in Sri Lanka — is linked with the growing spread of Wahhabism. If left unaddressed, this scourge of Islamist extremism could become a major internal security crisis in India.
India’s counterterrorism focus on Jammu and Kashmir has allowed jihadists to gain influence in other states far from J&K. India needs to wake up to this spreading threat.
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Arm and Hand, left, in wood. Similar objects have been found in the tombs fixed to the wrappings that covered the arms of the mummy. L. 9 in. Thebes.
Price, Frederick George Hilton (1897) A catalogue of the Egyptian antiquities in the possession of F. G. Hilton Price. London: Quaritch. Anonymous (1911). Catalogue of the important and extensive collection of Egyptian antiquities, the property of the late F. G. Hilton-Price, Esq. [...] : which will be sold by auction by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge [...] on Wednesday, 12th July, 1911, and two following days, and on Monday, the 17th of July, and four following days. London: Davy.
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A.G. Saño, far left, works for climate justice after living through Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. (photo by Albert Lozada)
For the umpteenth time since 2013, A.G. Saño pleads with the masses not to let the loved ones he lost in the strongest storm to ever make landfall be reduced to numbers.
It is December 2018, and Saño is bundled up in his black and yellow winter jacket, trying to rally a group of 4,000 climate activists outside COP24 in Katowice, Poland.
Saño, his brother Yeb, and other pilgrims have walked to Katowice from Vatican City as part of the Climate Pilgrimage, their 1,500-kilometer journey that was inspired by Laudato Si’ and elicited prayers from around the world.
A.G. Sano, a Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) survivor, details the devastation the storm that was likely made stronger by climate change wrought upon his father’s hometown, Tacloban, Philippines.
“Three-fifty!” he yells, as in kilometers, the distance the winds sustained speeds of 190 to 195 mph.
“Fifteen!” as in the height of the waves that crushed Tacloban.
“Fifteen thousand!” the estimated number of people dead or missing because of the storm, although an exact figure may likely never be known.
Earlier, he shared the most painful number to him: three, the number of his loved ones who died during the storm. Saño lost his friend Agit Sustento; Sustento’s wife, Geo; and their three-year-old son, Tarin.
Save for losing his own life, Saño has endured the most painful effects from the worsening climate crisis. He had to fight for his survival, collect dozens of dead bodies, some of which were still warm to the touch, and endure traumatic nightmares for weeks.
Yet he remains a fervent climate activist who is passionate about Laudato Si’ and dedicated to climate justice. He creates street art and murals to promote the cause, and he teaches art as a form of therapy to youth affected by disasters.
Saño does all of this because of his lost friends, but also for the lives that he hopes to still save, the people who could be affected by the next Typhoon Haiyan.
“Being there, witnessing what’s happening, it’s like seeing a glimpse of the future of other nations, of other communities,” Saño said.
“I knew I had a responsibility to tell the story. Having survived, I figured I’m gifted with a second life, a second chance. And I don’t want to waste this chance.”
A.G. Saño works for climate justice after living through Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. (photo by A.G. Saño)
A few hours into the worst stretch of his life, Saño stopped praying that he would survive.
He had already heard the roof of his concrete hotel rattle as if a dozen horses were trampling above him. He’d seen galvanized iron roofs fly off homes, exposing residents.
He’d watched frightened hotel residents, seeking shelter from the water leaking from the roof, scream as water shattered the first-floor glass door.
Saño stood in the third-floor hallway of his hotel, one block away from the ocean, and mentally prepared for the end.
“God, please let my body be found.”
Residents of Saño’s hotel in Tacloban take shelter from Typhoon Haiyan. (photo by A.G. Saño)
Filipinos are used to typhoons disrupting life. But while it remains difficult for scientists to link specifics about a certain typhoon to climate change, anthropocentric climate change has created conditions that can make such storms stronger.
A warmer planet means a warmer ocean, as the ocean absorbs much of the heat from greenhouse gas emissions. Warmer oceans can lead to more powerful storms, as the storms have more water vapor to collect while forming.
Melting glaciers and the loss of Greenland and Antarctica’s ice sheets, along with warm ocean water expanding, have contributed to rising sea levels around the world, which make storm surges worse.
The Philippines and its 7,641 islands in the middle of the ocean are particularly at risk to all of these changes, despite the poor country having little to do with the rising level of greenhouse gas emissions.
A woman surveys the damage after Typhoon Haiyan. (photo by A.G. Saño)
“The deterioration of the environment and of society affects the most vulnerable people on the planet: ‘Both everyday experience and scientific research show that the gravest effects of all attacks on the environment are suffered by the poorest.’” (LS 48)
Saño knew all this as he stood in the hallway. Loud, rumbling sounds – like a 747 flying above – accompanied the earthquake-like tremors. A powerful storm surge was underway.
He prayed again for his body to be found. But amidst the pitch-black chaos, he saw a person’s silhouette.
“Are you A.G.?” a woman asked.
“Yes, I am A.G. How did you know?”
She was the wife of a former security officer at Saño’s Manila apartment building, and the family was on vacation.
Saño had been out of touch with them of late, but he was the godfather of their oldest child and attended the baptism about eight years earlier, the last time he had seen her.
Talking with someone he knew, Saño no longer felt alone; he felt hopeful.
WATCH: ‘We have to speak now’: A.G. Saño opens up about surviving Typhoon Haiyan
In the days following Haiyan, before official rescue operations made it to the battered area, it was left to storm survivors to attempt to clean up the city.
Saño and a crew of six other people drove a dump truck around all day, collecting others’ loved ones, while avoiding looking at their faces, and praying they wouldn’t recognize the bodies.
Typhoon Haiyan caused nearly $6 million in damages and is estimated to have destroyed 90 percent of Tacloban. (photo by A.G. Saño)
The first two and a half days were spent cleaning up downtown Tacloban. Now they were on their way to the San Jose residential district, driving through a disaster zone.
They meandered past piles of cars and demolished homes.
Mourning families begged them to stop and help, but they continued past the dozens of dead bodies for fear they’d never make it to San Jose if they stopped.
Before reaching San Jose, however, Saño saw Ray Caminong, an acquaintance who knew Sustento.
Agit Sustento, his wife, and their child. (photo by A.G. Saño)
Sustento and his family were the reason Saño found himself in Tacloban in early November 2013. Saño was en route from Manila to Camotes Island, near Tacloban, to photograph a community conservation event a couple days later.
But he made time for a short visit to see his friend whom he had met five years ago when they were both living in Manila.
Their paths naturally crossed. Sustento was a tattoo artist, and Saño a street artist who specializes in murals. Sustento played the bass guitar and percussion; Saño, the percussion.
When Saño opened his first art gallery almost two hours south of Manila, Sustento attended and played background music for visitors. “It meant a lot to me for him to support my art gallery,” Saño said.
But they really connected through Tacloban. Sustento grew up there, as did Saño’s father.
In the Philippines, more so than other countries, each area can significantly differ. The country’s 7,000-plus islands boast about 175 different languages. “Almost every island has its own culture,” Saño said.
Growing up, Saño was interested in Tacloban but rarely had the chance to visit. His mother grew up near Manila, so he knew that side of his heritage well. “I had the feeling that it would complete me as a person to know my roots,” Saño said.
Back near San Jose, Caminong stared into Saño’s eyes and started speaking.
Saño wanted to break down, to let himself react, even. But he told himself to forget what he’d just heard. He emotionally shut down.
“I can’t break down . . . I need to survive . . . If I break down, I won’t be able to escape. I need to stay sharp.”
“OK, please take care,” Saño told Caminong. “I’ll be in city hall if you need me.”
The destruction from Typhoon Haiyan. (Photo by A.G. Saño)
Upon returning to Manila, Saño grew increasingly irritable and endured nightmares for a month.
In one of the recurring dreams he had, he’s in a first-floor hotel room near downtown Tacloban. He’s sleeping and wakes to go to the bathroom, only to open the door to overflowing water and dead bodies.
“I would be submerged,” he said.
He overcame the nightmares by talking about what he experienced. Saño shared his story with Dr. Malou Barrameda, a local doctor who encouraged him to continue discussing his story with others. The next night, he had his “best sleep.”
Some climate activists have endured far less than Saño, who collected 78 dead bodies in total. Yet those activists can feel overwhelmingly discouraged.
But despite everything, Saño remains committed to climate justice for the most vulnerable among us, including his fellow Filipinos.
Saño and other climate activists completed the above mural in Italy during the 2018 Climate Pilgrimage.
He keeps working with the Black Pencil Project, a group of photographers that travels to impacted communities and supports them after disasters. During those trips, Saño teaches art as a form of therapy to help youth process the disaster.
“It’s a big part of relief efforts now. It has to go hand in hand with other relief efforts,” he said.
Saño also inspires hope through his murals, in which he often paints the outline of them and lets others fill in the gaps, a collection that includes his memorable “climate justice” polar bear mural that he painted on the Climate Pilgrimage to Poland.
He found real hope in Laudato Si’ and feels encouraged that the document has transformed millions of Catholics around the world to make caring for creation a priority in their lives.
Listen to A.G. Saño share his story on the Global Catholic Climate Movement Podcast
“I was able to use that to talk about how we can solve the crisis,” Saño said.
“We need to look beyond the corners, the walls of our home, looking at the whole planet as something we need to look after . . . We need to care for the world as a common home.”
Speaking with similar passion for creation, in Poland, Saño concludes his speech to the 4,000 activists by encouraging them to use their voices and rally for a better tomorrow.
“We cannot accept ourselves to be called statistics, or numbers, because we’re human lives. We are people, and together, we should have one, one consolidated voice!”
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Dubai: With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic around the world every institution has been trying to shift into contactless services. Many sectors were seen opting for innovative ideas to make the post-COVID stage safer.
According to the latest reports, Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority announced that Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies have been employed in taxis to monitor and verify compliance with the preventive measures undertaken to limit the spread of the coronavirus.
Dubai’s RTA announced that the use of AI technologies, such as computer vision and machine learning algorithms, proved very effective in detecting and reporting violations of the coronavirus, COVID-19 preventive measures. Such monitoring covers physical distancing and wearing of face masks onboard taxis, whether for passengers or drivers.
“AI technologies have been employed to monitor and verify compliance with the preventive measures undertaken to limit the spread of the coronavirus. The technology can also report offenses such as the failure to observe physical distancing, and the improper wearing of face masks, thanks to video analysis feature,” said Ahmed Mahboub, Executive Director of Smart Services, Corporate Technology Support Services Sector, RTA.
“The experiment highlighted the capability of AI technology in processing video files spanning 200,000 hours a day. Thus, it reduces the need for human intervention and saves much time and effort that would have otherwise been necessary to analyze these videos,” he noted.
Explaining the functionality of onboard devices, Mahboub said, “AI devices were programmed to scan human faces and verify if the mask is worn correctly. The technology has a mathematical feature that calculates the distance between passengers and the driver as well.”
“The RTA is continuing its efforts to play a leading role in implementing the 4th Industrial Revolution technologies in line with the UAE Artificial Intelligence Strategy. The overall objective is to harness technologies to serve the community and realize the RTA’s vision of Safe and Smooth Transport for All,” Mahboub said in conclusion.
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Bored with just plain old protests and interrupting political events to force their climate change virtue signaling onto the world, environmentalists are now using the legal system to harass those who don't agree with their world view or aren't "green" enough for their liking.
That's what Mark McVeigh, a 24 year old environmental scientist from Australia has done: he is suing the $57 billion pension fund he is invested in with his retirement savings for "not adequately disclosing or assessing the impact of climate change on its investments," according to Bloomberg.
The case will determine whether or not funds are in breach of fiduciary duties by failing to make investments that mitigate climate change.
Prior to filing the suit, McVeigh had asked Retail Employees Superannuation Trust, his pension fund, how it was "ensuring his savings were future proofed against rising world temperatures". He didn't like the answer he was given, so now he is suing.
“I see climate change as a huge risk that dwarfs a lot of other things -- it’s such a big physical impact on the planet, and the economy.”
The fund says that climate change is one of the variety of factors it has to consider when investing on behalf of its 2 million members. Australia's pension pool, which stands at about $2.9 trillion, is watching the case closely to see if the outcome will make it more difficult for funds to meet their already legislated minimum return targets.
Ian Patrick, chief investment officer at Sunsuper Pty, which manages A$70 billion, said: “Looking after the best financial interests of our members requires us to be conscious of the risks, but not exclude a whole segment of the economy that’s going to be very meaningful for a period of time. Right now, the interests of our members -- the sole purpose of super -- is what wins out.” Related: U.S. Natural Gas Production Has Hit An All Time High
Other firms are also starting to act accordingly. One study by State Street Global Advisors showed that "fiduciary duty is one of the main ‘push factors’ for financial institutions to adopt environmental, social and governance principles."
Other funds in Australia have employed "responsible investment teams" to try and mix environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) factors into their portfolios. They have joined global investor initiatives like United Nations-backed Principles for Responsible Investment and have used their stakes in large companies to advocate for change.
Remember the days when you used to just choose your own investments, before the government told you what you had to invest in?
Mary Delahunty, head of impact at HESTA, said: “As soon as you remove capital, they don’t have to have a conversation with you anymore.”
Pension funds are also trying to mitigate climate risk using debt. Some funds have written loans to gas companies in the Permian Basin instead of taking equity stakes and bearing the risk of being junior on the capital structure. Related: In Pursuit Of The Perfect Fuel
Patrick continued: "Those loans deliver double-digit returns over periods of up to 10 years while the world shifts to a cleaner energy mix. It’s why we prefer debt and why we think about the tenor of that debt quite deeply. Relative to holding long-term equity in an energy asset, that addresses the risk quite substantially.”
Activism is still on the rise and banks are still shying away from investing in environmentally damaging projects, but the Australian government has moved in the other direction. Prime Minister Scott Morrison is instead "considering new laws to prevent activists like environmental lobby group Market Forces from stymieing commercial decisions and threatening economic growth."
REST recently appointed a responsible investment manager and in June and took control of a wind farm in Western Australia.
“Specific climate-related issues which we engage with our investment managers on include carbon foot printing, stranded assets, climate-related scenario analysis and exposure to lower carbon assets,” a REST spokesperson said.
Michael Gerrard, a professor of environmental, climate change and energy law at Colombia University, said: “Success in litigation breeds imitation, so if McVeigh wins, people will take a close look. People are so desperate at the failure of governments to act adequately on climate change that they’re looking for litigation targets.”
The McVeigh case makes its way to court on November 22 for a preliminary hearing.
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FOOD – and food-related expressions. Food seems to pop up in slang and popular expressions more than any other group of words. Here is some slang using food words:
Pasta: Pasta like macaroni and spaghetti and slang word for money
Pavo: Turkey and slang word for the euro-coin. A “pavo” used to be a 100 peseta coin, using it for the euro-coin is inflationas a euro is something like 166 pesetas.
Chorizo: sausage and a petty thief – or not so petty, also used for businesspeople and politicians caught with their hand in the cookie jar.
Partirse un piñon: Share a pine nut, used to say people are close, more often in business or politically than personally. Most usual construction: Esos dos están a partirse un piñon.
Berza: kale and someone or something that is tedious and not-too-intelligent, or drunken spree
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Since the introduction of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) in Bluetooth 4.0, there are now four technologies used under Bluetooth 4.0 and later revisions. Although the history of naming these technologies has led to much confusion, the generally accepted names are Bluetooth Classic and Bluetooth Low Energy. Bluetooth Classic represents the BR, EDR, and HS (AMP) technologies, while Bluetooth LE represents the LE technology.
Bluetooth Classic devices are typically used in applications requiring streaming of data, such as audio. The physical layer and protocol of BR/EDR make socket-like streaming of data easy to accomplish. Rates of these data streams may be around 2-3 Mbps. This interface is commonly used in applications like streaming audio from mobile devices to vehicles and remote speakers.Bluetooth Low Energy brings about some great features beyond low energy operation, such as one-to-many and many-to-many communications, as well as connectionless services. BLE is often used for data transmission, location services, and device network applications. These interactions operate much more like a shared database of characteristics through the use of a Generic Attribute Profile (GATT). Most mobile devices such as phones, tablets, and computers support both Bluetooth Classic and Low Energy; however, many devices use one or the other. This interface is commonly used in applications like wearables (e.g. Fitbits).
Due to the differences in the physical layer modulation and demodulation, BLE cannot talk with Bluetooth Classic and vice versa. Similarly a BLE device cannot use Bluetooth Classic network and transport protocols when talking to a dual mode Bluetooth device. This is critically important for machinery manufacturers because although Bluetooth devices can typically communicate over a local area network to tablets and phones reliably, if you are going to use Bluetooth to communicate between machines and attachments, or between machine ECUs, you’ll need to select a protocol for the network of devices you’re managing.
As you consider specifying Bluetooth, there are a few high-level things to consider:
- BLE can manage the data rates necessary to transfer typical data loads from mobile equipment busses (e.g. CAN buses running J1939)
- Bluetooth Classic can handle a lot more data
- Bluetooth Classic supports mobile devices tethering to telematic gateways or control units onboard machines and letting one device use the other’s data plan
- Bluetooth Classic is much more energy intensive than BLE, so if you have a battery-powered application BLE is the way to go
In summary, if you have a network demand for a fairly large amount of data, and you have access to vehicle power (or battery life management is not a concern), Bluetooth Classic is a good way to go. If you’re a battery-powered application or do not require transfer of significant volumes of data, BLE provides attractive networking flexibility, low power, and a low price.
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Understanding seasonal patterns of activity, or phenology, of vector species is fundamental to determining seasonality of disease risk and epidemics of vector-borne disease. Spatiotemporal variation in abiotic conditions can influence variation in phenological patterns and life history events, which can dramatically influence the ecological role and human impact of a species. For arthropod vectors of human diseases such as ticks, these phenological patterns determine human exposure risk, yet how abiotic conditions interact to determine suitable conditions for host-seeking of vector species is difficult to disentangle. Here, we use MaxEnt to model spatial patterns and differences in host-seeking phenology of the western blacklegged tick (Ixodes pacificus) in California using spatially and temporally refined adult tick occurrence data and similarly refined climate and environmental data. We empirically validate the model using phenological data from field studies conducted at sites across California's latitudinal gradient. We find adult tick host-seeking activity varies substantially throughout the year, as well as across the large latitudinal gradient in the state. Suitable conditions for host-seeking are found earlier in fall and later in the spring in northern than in southern California. These seasonal patterns are primarily associated with monthly precipitation, minimum winter temperature, and winter precipitation, with maximum monthly temperature possibly playing a more prominent role in limiting host-seeking activity earlier in the spring in southern than northern California. Synthesis and applications. Modelling the seasonal activity of the western blacklegged tick, we find both a longer window for host-feeding and more protracted risk of human exposure to this vector species in northern than southern California. We further identify key environmental factors associated with these patterns, including precipitation and temperature that are otherwise challenging to elucidate in field and laboratory studies over large spatial scales. Moreover, we illustrate how species distribution models, in combination with temporally refined species occurrence and environmental data, can be used to investigate environmental factors predictive of geographic variation in seasonality or phenology of vector species. This produces not only novel ecological insight, but key information for public health practitioners in managing vector-borne disease transmission and targeting public outreach and interventions. | <urn:uuid:174d9566-109a-42c6-8a0c-e93d5843c722> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/applied-ecology-resources/document/20203312809/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.922793 | 446 | 2.53125 | 3 |
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Internet Initiative is organising a webinar on Introducing Blockchain, on 29 November, from 20.00 GMT.
During the webinar, presentations will be delivered on where blockchain technology sits in the technical landscape; the main elements of blockchain's primary application, Bitcoin; and the blockchain lexicon (e.g. proof of work, smart contracts, public and private blockchains, use case). Participants will be able to ask questions about the application of blockchain to industries and industrial supply chains, and hear about IEEE Blockchain Special Interest Group activities.
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1 edition of All about petroleum, and the great oil districts of Crawford and Venango counties, Pa found in the catalog.
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This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Venango County, Pennsylvania.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Venango County, Pennsylvania, United locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude . RARE, 1st ED, HISTORY OF VENANGO COUNTY, PA, PETROLEUM. PROFESSIONAL REBINDED. RARE, 1st ED, HISTORY OF VENANGO COUNTY, PA, PETROLEUM. DECLARATION INTENTION VENANGO PENNSYLVANIA PA HISTORY BOOK EMMIGRANT. $ + Shipping. All about Petroleum, and the Great Oil Districts of Crawford and Venango Seller Rating: % positive.
While there are great hiking opportunities in Oil Creek State Park, there is also a great trail for bikers. The Oil Creek Bike Trail is a mile trail that runs along Oil Creek from the Drake Well Museum in the north to near the park office at Petroleum Centre. Geography. Oil City, Pennsylvania is located at the confluence of the Allegheny River and Oil Creek at According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of square miles (12 km 2), of which, square miles (12 km 2) is land and square miles ( km 2) (%) is water.. Many layers of rock and sedimentary material containing fossils can be seen County: Venango.
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All about Petroleum, and the Great Oil Districts of Crawford and Venango Counties, Pa [Millern, Alexander Von] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. All about Petroleum, and the Great Oil Districts of Crawford and Venango Counties, Pa. Buy the Paperback Book All About Petroleum, and the Great Oil Districts of Crawford and Venango Counties, Pa by Alexander von.
Millern atCanada's largest bookstore. Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders. See all 2 images Petroleum: A History of the Oil Region of Venango County Pennsylvania Hardcover – by Mrs Mills K. (Author)Author: Mrs Mills K. Shows petroleum producers' properties (with owners' names) and oil wells in the Oil Creek valley (Pa.).
Also covers the Titusville oilfield vicinity. Relief shown by hachures. Originally printed on 3 sheets (now conjoined). LC sheets imperfect: Fold-lined. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. 2 copies. Map of the oil district--Venango, Crawford & Warren counties, Pennsylvania.
Shows petroleum producers' properties (with owners' names) All about petroleum oil wells in the Oil Creek valley (Pa.). Also covers the Titusville oilfield vicinity. Relief shown by hachures.
Originally printed on 3 sheets (now conjoined). LC sheets imperfect: Fold-lined. History of Venango County, Pennsylvania: And Incidentally of Petroleum, Together with Accounts of the Early Settlement and Progress of Each Township, Borough and Village, with Personal and Biographical Sketches of the Early Settlers, Representative Men, Family Records, Etc Pennsylvania county and regional histories.
Reel Editor: J. Newton. Get a high level view of well locations, operators, oil and gas production by county and recent Crawford County, PA drilling permits. DrillingEdge is making Crawford County, PA oil and gas information affordable, simple to use and easy to understand.
As Brian Black’s fine book, Petrolia: The Landscape of Pa book First Oil Boom points out, the residents of Titusville, tired of the raucous troubles associated with boomtown life, established “community committees” to control the planning and development aspects of the town in after a national cholera epidemic.
Map. Map Oil District Of Pa Crawford Warren And Venango County. $ TITUSVILLE, FRANKLIN AND OIL CITY DIRECTORY FOR CONTAINING THE NAMES OF THE INHABITANTS OF TITUSVILLE, FRANKLIN AND OIL CITY, TOGETHER WITH A BUSINESS DIRECTORY OF THE OIL REGIONS, AND OTHER MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION.
* Note - only the Franklin Directory is included in this transcription. Compiled by J. Lant Titusville, PA. Survey of the President, Porcupine, and Redfield Petroleum Co.'s lands: containing in all 8, acres situate in President and Pinegrove townships, Venango County, Pennsylvania Hand col.
to distinguish the land tracts owned by the 3 oil companies. Also shows oil wells (1 of which is dated "Sep't 1st "), warranty tract numbers, names of landowners of adjacent tracts, and.
: crawford+county+pa. Skip to main content. Try Prime All Go Search EN Hello, Sign in Account & Lists Sign in Account & Lists Orders Try Prime Cart. Today's Deals Your Gift Cards Help. Lloyd's map of the Great Oil Region of Allegheny River, Cherry & Cherry-Tree runs, and Pithole Creek: in Cornplanter, Cherry-Tree & Allegheny townships, Venango County, Pennsylvania Other Title Great Oil Region of Allegheny River, Cherry & Cherry-Tree runs.
1) Oil Creek State Park: It consists of approximately 6, acres in northern Venango County along Oil Creek. The Oil Creek Valley is home to the site of the world’s first successful commercial oil well.
The park tells the story of the early petroleum industry by interpreting oil boomtowns, oil wells, and early Size: 5MB. The Atlas of the Oil Region of Pennsylvania by F. Beers is unusual for a classic 19th century county atlas.
Despite the name, it is an atlas of Venango County, but with some added maps of the surrounding region. Dating toit is one of the earliest cartographic representations of the northwestern oil region of the state; the site of the beginning of one of the world's great, well.
PA Oil and Gas Providing jobs, producing energy, supporting communities for over years. The world’s first commercial oil well was drilled in in Titusville, Venango County, and natural gas production in Pennsylvania dates back to Geography.
Petroleum Center is located at (, ), at an elevation of 1, feet above sea level, along the banks of Oil It is most easily found on local maps at the intersection of Petroleum Center Road and Russell Corners Road, within Oil Creek State Park, about 5 miles NNE of Oil eum Center lies near the tracks of the Oil Creek and Titusville Railroad.
Short Title: Map Of The Oil District Venango, Crawford & Warren Counties, Pennsylvania. Publisher: New York: R.C. Root, Anthony & Co. Type: Pocket Map. Object Height cm: Object Width cm: Scale 1: 27, Note: This is the earliest map of the Pennsylvania Oil District that we have seen.
It predates the maps by Beers, Colton and. (Although Titusville is in Crawford County, the first oil well was drilled outside of town, less than a mile inside of the Venango County boundary.) This single well soon exceeded the entire cumulative oil output of Europe since the s.
Within weeks oil derricks Congressional district: 15th. The Oil Region is an unofficial region in the western part of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania that encompasses the land in and around the Oil Creek valley. It is so named because it includes the first oil fields discovered in the United States (see History of the petroleum industry in the United States).The Drake Well Museum and Oil Creek State Park are located in this region, and it is.
Small's - Oil Region Paranormal. SOUTH BAY BESSIE (Lake Erie) First reported inthis legendary Great Lakes creature is supposed to be gray, snakelike in shape, and ' long. There have been many reported sightings of Bessie all along the Great Lakes system, and she even was blamed for an attack that killed three people in Visiting the Drake Well Museum in Venango County is a great way to learn about the area’s oil history.
This might sound surprising, but outside of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, the site of the Drake Well in northern Venango County might be the most historically influential site in Pennsylvania.District PSD Code District Name Tax Collection Agency Website Tax Officer Address Phone Number; 1: ADAMS TAX COLLECTION DISTRICT: York Adams Tax Bureau: : North Duke Street, PO BoxYork, PA 3: ARMSTRONG TAX COLLECTION DISTRICT: Berkheimer Tax Administrator: : 50 North . | <urn:uuid:63901707-7d15-4fd9-be64-49047c10f22c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kihatamubu.axendadeportiva.com/all-about-petroleum-and-the-great-oil-districts-of-crawford-and-venango-counties-pa-book-8764dv.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.89738 | 2,146 | 1.578125 | 2 |
As a proud plant-mom to eleven houseplants in my tiny, 500 square-foot apartment, I can attest that indoor plants are an easy way to liven up your space. There are lots of benefits to keeping houseplants. During this long, cold winter, houseplants provide a little reminder of the warmer months to come. Scroll through any home decor Instagram account, and you’ll find countless pictures that prove plants are a great way to enhance your home decor. Houseplants can also help clean the air in your home by absorbing toxins.
Our dry prairie climate can pose a challenge to keeping plants alive. It certainly isn’t the most ideal environment for thirsty tropicals and needier succulents to thrive. If you’re scared to have houseplants because you’re convinced you’ll kill them, I’m here to tell you becoming a good plant-parent is possible! Start with a low-maintenance specimen to gain some confidence, and slowly expand your collection from there. Here are my five favourite houseplants for beginners:
1. Snake Plant
Snake Plants (sometimes referred to as Mother-In-Law’s Tongue) are the ultimate houseplants for beginners. These plants are incredibly low maintenance and thrive under neglect. Unlike many other houseplants, Snake Plants require very minimal amounts of sunlight. It’s important to ensure the soil of your Snake Plant dries completely between waterings. If your home doesn’t get much sunlight, or if there is a darker area of your home you want to enhance with a plant, a Snake Plant is one of the best choices. Snake Plants are also great because they come in a huge variety of sizes; from a few inches to several feet tall. They are the perfect plant to fill any size space in your home.
2. Aloe Vera
Aloe Vera is an example of a not-so-needy succulent that thrives in Calgary’s dry climate. Aloe Vera comes hundreds of shapes, sizes, and varieties. It is also a very practical houseplant: If you have a burn or a rash, you can cut off a slice, and use the cool gel inside the plant on your wound to relieve any burning or itching pain.
Aloe Vera does well in dry climates and likes to be in direct or indirect sunlight. Overall, Aloe Vera is very resilient, but do need to be watered on a regular basis. Rot from overwatering is the easiest way to kill an Aloe Vera plant, so it is important that the soil dries completely between waterings.
Jade plant is another example of a lower-maintenance succulent. Under proper care, Jade will flourish for years. Jade prefer direct or partial sunlight. Jade aren’t as drought-tolerant as other succulent varieties, so the soil needs to remain moist, but not wet.
Jade plants make great gifts, as they are resilient and last a long time. As such, they have been nicknamed the Friendship Tree. They are also considered to be a good omen for financial prosperity and have been nicknamed the Money Tree.
4. ZZ Plant
Zamioculcas Zamiifolia, or more commonly known as ZZ plant, have beautiful shoots of shiny green leaves. They are drought resistant and overall very resilient houseplants. ZZ plants prefer low to bright indirect sunlight. The only realistic way to kill a ZZ plant is by overwatering it, so ensure the soil dries completely between waterings. One downside to ZZ plants is they are very poisonous and are not recommended for pet owners.
5. Pothos Plant
Pothos Plants are a gorgeous hanging plant with heart shaped leaves that cascade downward on long vines. If you’re short on free space, Pothos Plants are a good option because you can place them on a high shelf or hang them from the ceiling.
These thirsty plants require regular waterings but are also very hardy and very difficult to kill. Pothos Plants do well in lower light conditions but do prefer some sunlight. Pothos Plants are very communicative, as they make it very outwardly obvious when they need more water. You’ll very quickly see their leaves are looking a little droopy when they need some extra moisture. Give your Pothos a little spritz, and it will be looking hydrated within hours. | <urn:uuid:559dada9-5116-47e2-8de1-511e37b540ed> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://itsdatenight.com/5-houseplants-for-beginners/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.947799 | 926 | 2.046875 | 2 |
As the new virtual currency of the moment, Bitcoin, has great appeal. Free from the regulation of national politics, this new form of exchange has Libertarians and geeks alike very enthused. Yet, is Bitcoin viable? In just the latest of disasters befalling this new currency of the future it has become clear that, because of its lack of regulation, it has become appealing to the worst element of society.
As noted by ZDNet, Bitcoin’s allure lies in the fact that it is “anonymous, untraceable and unregulated.” While that makes it appealing to entrepreneurs and market speculators, it also has experienced widespread use by criminal types, including in ZDNet’s words, “drug traffickers, terrorists and anyone wanting to circumvent currency or tax regulations.”
Bitcoin and Silk Road
If any event is likely to take Bitcoin down in flames, it would be a story like Silk Road, an underworld marketplace run on the currency where people could buy guns or drugs or even take out a contracted hit on someone. The Internet site was shut down by the government, leaving the currency in question. If Bitcoin is the currency of the future, just what does that future look like? Perhaps Grand Theft Auto?
Currency backing makes it vulnerable
With the facilitation of such criminal activity by Bitcoin, currency regulators have been hot on its trail, and it’s uncertain if the currency can ultimately survive. In the end, what the Silk Road incident exposed was Bitcoin’s most vulnerable factor; that, as a currency, there’s nothing supporting it. Money has value because of the underlying support it receives. The dollar rests of the good faith of the United States government, its economy and its people.
Stateless, Bitcoin becomes defenseless against the tides of the open market. This may make it attractive to the speculator, but not so appealing to the average Joe. Where there is volatility, there can also be great loss and a lack of predictability. Liquidity is not guaranteed. Imagine going to the ATM and discovering your $200 was now worth $12 in the time it took you to drive there.
Then there is the matter of how Central Banks view the currency. What country is willing to back a nation-less form of money whose value cannot be assured from minute to minute? While its separation from government is what makes Bitcoin appealing to so many, just how will it work in the real world? How long will nation-states allow it to continue unregulated?
The other side of the Bitcoin
Those who champion Bitcoin, however, need only point to its continuing successful evolution. According to Forbes magazine “To date the Bitcoin aggregate network has seen more than 15 million transactions with more than 50,000 senders and receivers transacting in a given day.” Hardly mainstream as currencides go, but impressive all the same for a rogue monetary concept.
Furthermore, Bitpay (a company that allows companies to accept Bitcoin as payment for legitimate goods and services) now has some 10,000 customers, with a tenfold increase in just the past six months, according to Forbes. More and more of those merchants are registering with the US government’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network Agency to avoid situations like Silk Road’s. They have agreed to abide by anti-money-laundering processes, just as major US banks do.
While the jury on Bitcoin’s success or failure may still be out, what is clear is that the development of this virtual money is a sea change in technological thinking. It has taken the ideas of Internet commerce in the future up a notch. In the words of Forbes, it’s a “profound paradigm shift in how we think about the future of money,” virtual or otherwise. | <urn:uuid:15c40ae5-8ea1-4390-a2ba-6fc04210dc6e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://indiantiger.org/two-sides-of-the-bitcoin-can-this-virtual-money-be-the-future/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.958713 | 784 | 1.84375 | 2 |
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Being a reflective practitioner enables NPs to identify weaknesses and target professional development in order to address these weaknesses. In turn, this increases the NPs’ ability to provide the best care to patients and their families. Reflection also affords the NP time to consider communication and their efforts toward creating a culture of mutual support with colleagues, a characteristic that is essential to successful NP practice (Somerville & Keeling, 2004).Each week you will complete a Journal Entry and Time Log that prompts you to reflect on your Practicum Experiences and how they relate to your Professional Goals and Self-Assessment of Clinical Skills. This week you will begin documenting your Practicum Experiences in your Practicum Journal.
Patient:18 year old female. She presents with UTI symptoms.
Diagnosis: Acute cystitis and Treatment with Macrobid.I will upload my paper to correlate improvement with
An 18-year-old patient presented at the healthcare facility with recurrent UTI. The female patient had a two-year history of the said infection. She has had 10 negative cultures and 2 positive ones. The patient has had some relief on several occasions following antibiotic courses. Sometimes the drugs have not had the desired effect.
She presented for a continuous episode that had lasted a fortnight with incidences of urine frequency every half hour to one hour, continuous urge to urinate, voiding at least four times before sleeping and at night time she reports waking up thrice. She experiences bladder fullness, suprapubic pain, and significant dysuria. The patient did not report any episodes of incontinence. She described the infection as a flare and as had similar symptoms but of lesser intensity, daily, within the last two years.
Additionally, the patient said she has had a sexual partner for the last two years though she admits that sexual activity is an uncomfortable occurrence for her. The patient is also a heavy smoker (half a pack a day). The patient did not report any remarkable medical history or chronic condition. The physical examination revealed an anterior vaginal wall and an SP region that was tender. The urinalysis under the high power field showed 5-10 white blood cells and 1-3 red blood cells.
The patient was diagnosed with cystitis. Of paramount importance was smoking cessation and the patient was advised on the importance of smoking cessation (Kullmann, 2017). I gave the patient reading material on the health risks of smoking, where to get help and some of the immediate actions that can be taken in seeking cessation. I also educated the patient on painful bladder syndrome and its treatment. In this situation, the patient’s level of knowledge and awareness play an important role in recovery. I advised the patient to take additional measures such as stress reduction, regular exercise, modification of diet, and avoiding irritants including douches, diaphragm use and condom use by her partner (Kavuma, 2017). Also, I advised the patient to seek alternative contraceptive methods.
Additionally, I asked the patient to book an appointment with the physiotherapist for pelvic floor exercises (Kavuma, 2017). A pelvic examination and local cystoscopy showed that the bladder was normal. The patient was put on an extended course of antibiotics specifically, nitrofurantoin (Macrobid) and pyridium (phenazoyridine) for 2-3 weeks as a way of ruling out an infectious etiology because of the recurrent UTI (Daniel, Schulten, & Herndon, 2018).
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Can two wearables be better than one? Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) will be presenting some new research next week in which they demonstrate a technique aimed at extending the available screen space for smartwatch wearers by adding an additional wearable into the mix: a ring.
Their smartwatch-ring wearable combo offers what they describe as “a novel sensing approach” — leveraging the conductivity of human skin in order to track 2D finger touch co-ordinates in real-time and turn the area of the body directly around the smartwatch into an interactive, touch-tracking surface.
The idea being that wearables like smartwatches can feel cramped and fiddly to interact with, given how small their screens need to be to fit on the average human wrist.
The ring plus smartwatch approach would allow a watch wearer to, for example, run a finger down the back of their hand and then swipe right to scroll through an on-screen list and select an item. Or trace a letter on the back of their hand to shortcut to a particular app or silence an incoming call.
Offloading some of the necessary on-screen taps and swipes onto the surrounding skin also frees the screen from being blocked by fingers — potentially making for a superior smartwatch app experience, such as for games (the researchers use the example of playing Angry Birds in the above demo video).
They say their technique works through clothes, and is unaffected by different lighting conditions. In terms of accuracy results from the study apparently demonstrated “high reliability and accuracy with a mean distance error of 7.6mm”.
Gestures can also be transmitted contactlessly via the technique, with a finger hovering up to an inch above the surface of the skin, thanks to a partial transmission of an electrical signal owing to the human arm acting like an antenna, says CMU’s Chris Harrison, one of the scientists involved in the research.
The two components powering CMU’s prototype wearable are a battery-powered ring that continuously emits an 80MHz, 1.2Vpp AC signal into the finger on which it is worn; and a smartwatch wristband instrumented with a structured electrode pattern.
“When the user’s finger touches the skin, the electrical signal propagates into the arm tissue and radiates outwards… The signal takes time to propagate, which means electrodes located at different places around the wrist will observe characteristic phase shifts. By measuring these phase differences across several electrode pairs, SkinTrack can compute the location of the signal source (i.e., the finger), enabling real-time touch tracking on the skin,” they explain.
A prior project from HCII, back in 2014, also focused on trying to extend the surface area of a smartwatch — in that instance by using proximity sensors and projectors to display colored light buttons on the skin around the watch which could be interacted with without needing to touch the device itself.
The latest prototype is arguably a less cumbersome approach to trying to extend the interactive surface area for smartwatch wearers, with the researchers noting that it requires “no direct instrumentation of the touch area (i.e., a skin overlay)”. Although it does of course require the wearer to also charge, wear and not lose a ring.
And while we’ve seen a few attempts to fire up a market for supplementary smart rings in recent times, either as smart jewelry for notifications or as remote controls for other devices, it’s fair to say that mass consumer adoption has not yet taken place. Problem is chunky rings are, well, a matter of taste. And easily dislodged/misplaced.
Still, the CMU researchers reckon they are onto something by combining rings and smartwatches. “As our approach is compact, non-invasive, low-cost and low-powered, we envision the technology being integrated into future smartwatches, supporting rich touch interactions beyond the confines of the small touchscreen,” they write.
Harrison reckons commercialization of the technology could be possible within two to three years — assuming a smartwatch maker decides consumers can be convinced to buy into the benefit of a dual wearable. (They would also, presumably, need to fire up developers to code additional gesture controls to their smartwatch apps to take advantage of a more expansive ‘skinterface’.)
“We need to improve the stability and accuracy but its the first of it kind, so we are really excited by the potential,” Harrison tells TechCrunch.
He adds there are no trade-offs with this technique, in size terms, when it comes to the smartwatch wristband. “It could be made very small, such that it fits into existing smartwatch form factors,” he says.
The biggest downside of the approach remains the need to wear (and not lose) an additional wearable (the ring). So how small could this be? The current CMU prototype is clearly pretty cumbersome. But Harrison says the team believes it can shrink this in size by incorporating an accelerometer to maximize battery life.
“Our ring’s current battery is small, but still a bit awkward. We used this bigger battery to simplify our prototyping — it lasts 15 hours on a single charge when continuously transmitting. However, we are planning for some simple tricks that could dramatically extend that,” he says.
“For example, it is easy to increate a small accelerometer that can detect when the finger has touched something, and we can turn on the signal emission only then. That would easily bring battery life to several days or even a week, or allow us to use a much smaller battery.”
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No one should have to go hungry in America, yet 1 in 9 people in the U.S. struggles with food insecurity. Feeding America, the country's largest domestic hunger relief organization, works to solve this problem through a variety of programs including partnerships with favorite brands who've created special gifts folks on your holiday list are bound to love (a Kiehl's face mask? Yes, please.)
Many brands also offer initiatives that make it easy for customers to donate while they're shopping (like rounding up your total or adding a donation a checkout). “Feeding America is grateful to our generous partners for helping our network of food banks provide millions of meals to our neighbors in need, while also creating opportunities for everyone to give back this holiday season,” says Lauren Biedron, Vice President of Corporate Partnerships at Feeding America. “Their support makes a measurable impact in the fight to end hunger in communities and throughout the country.” Read on for a list of fun gifts that also give back, or visit Feeding America to donate directly.
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Because of the short barrel, the CAR-15 SMGs suffered from a loud and bright muzzle blast, and a number of muzzle devices were developed to reduce this. The SMGs were initially fitted with the standard M16 rifle's "duckbill" or three-prong flash hiders, which did not alleviate the problem. In September 1966, Colt developed a 3.5-inch (89 mm) long moderator that lessened the noise and muzzle flash, which also increased the weapon's reliability by increasing the amount of back pressure. However, the moderator created its own problems, such as heavy bore fouling and causing tracer bullets to wildly yaw. A 4.25-inch (108 mm) long moderator with six slots and an expansion chamber, which further reduced noise and flash, replaced the previous muzzle device and became standard for the SMG and the Commando series, but fouling and tracer problems persisted.
Link oraz link.problems with range, accuracy, barrel fouling, and usage of tracer bullets continued to plague the XM177 series, but Colt estimated that it would take a six-month $400,000 program to do a complete ballistic and kinematic study. There were also recommendations for a 29-month $635,000 research and development program. Both recommendations were declined by the U.S. military as American ground force involvement in the Vietnam War was gradually winding down. Production of the CAR-15 Commando ended in 1970.
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Set in 1912, Bedford Park is not just a London suburb: it is a crucible for enlightenment and modernity inhabited by people who wish to better themselves - and those who should know better. It is a singular place, architecturally sidestepping the modern whilst encouraging those with new ideas to take up residence.
Into this mix sails Cal Kidd from America. In a coffee-house he makes the acquaintance of Binks, a man whose occupation in the City is vague but he seems to know everybody. And so Cal meets real-life characters like Maud Gonne and Frank Harris, while Ford Madox Ford, W.B. Yeats and Joseph Conrad appear also. Then Binks is gruesomely murdered, and after never really having to deal with anything in his life, Cal the observer now has to act.
The spirit of the age is what makes Bedford Park so evocative, a time when everyone tries to invoke the future but often looks to the past to achieve it. Among the host of vivid characters, the greatest is London itself, a city in a constant state of flux whose centre is journalism. All the detail makes the place exotic and exciting - the marathon at the Olympics in 1908, a ride on the Flip Flap in White City, news being chalked up on dock walls for those who couldn't afford papers, a woman peeling potatoes in the Biosphere cinema in Bishopsgate. London has to comment instantly upon itself or be commented upon, always new and important. | <urn:uuid:7bd4abcd-5f4d-4c92-976c-487fae88619d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rcwlitagency.com/books/bedford-park/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.948189 | 308 | 1.695313 | 2 |
To increase diversity in R&D, the Entain Foundation has partnered with the Berlin University of Technology and the Nexus Institute for Cooperation Management and Interdisciplinary Research.
Professor Hans-Liudger Dienel, head of the department of work, technology, and participation at Berlin University of Technology’s Institute for Vocational Education and Work Education, and director of the Nexus institute, will lead a team developing a short-term executive training programme to promote Gendered Innovations.
To produce new knowledge in medical, engineering, and information and communication technology, Gendered Innovations uses sex, gender, and intersectional analysis approaches.
“The gender perspective, like the diversity perspective, is an eye-opener for new, innovative products and services,” Dienel noted. “We intend to convey this perspective in our executive programme.”
The executive programme, created by TU Berlin and the Nexus Institute, is intended at innovation managers, founders, and start-ups, as well as R&D workers in the corporate sector, higher education, and research institutions.
The training, which consists of seven modules, combines theoretical instruction with practical advice for implementation in participants’ own organisations.
Participants learn about the theoretical underpinning and how to apply it to their own organisational environment in the first four sessions. In the second portion, participants create their own project ideas and apply what they’ve learned in the classroom to real-world situations. Participants present and discuss their ideas in a pitching session at the end of the course.
It also offers motivation and background information in order for participants to advocate for Gendered Innovations in their own workplaces. In addition to the training programme, organisations will be able to present relevant ideas on an interactive map for geocoded Gendered Innovations that will be built next year.
The Entain Foundation’s ambassador, Franziska van Almsick, said: “Some products and services on the market were developed from a male perspective and can have negative consequences for women when using such products.
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Last week the European Central Bank announced it will be softening the impact of the Quantitative Easing program, reducing the bond purchases from 60 to 30 billion euros per month from January 2018. The net asset purchases are intended to continue at least until September 2018 or beyond as the continent’ s strengthening economy has not yet delivered the sustained inflation rate of 2% (it was just 1.5 percent last month) and is not going to before late 2019 at the earliest. And even by 2019, inflation is expected only to reach 1.6 per cent, well below ECB’ s target to withdraw monetary stimulus. The ECB also released further details on the reinvestments of maturing bonds alongside new QE purchases over the course of 2018.
The QE around the world
Even though governments across Europe still face the uncertainty of precisely when the program will come to an end, ECB’ s decision is somewhat on the same track as other important central banks, that are finally starting cutting off the tap. Most economies are performing best than ever in the last decade and job markets are on path to full employment. The Fed is well ahead of the other central banks, with four rate hikes and a detailed plan to end the QE. China’s policymakers are expected to turning off credit growth next year as the country’s feared debt crisis now seems unlikely. The Bank of Japan keeps on enlarging its stimulus but still the rate of money printing will slow. The Bank of England just hikes rates for the first time in a decade.
The total amount of Quantitative Easing adding up the balance sheets of the Fed, the ECB and BoJ is now around an extraordinary $14 trillion. The effects of such a flood of liquidity across the world on economic growth has been debated among experts but two conclusions are quite unanimously shared: the global financial collapse has been beaten off, even though with incredibly high costs, and assets such as stocks and bonds have been skyrocketing at record levels, still with all the risks included and with all the disagreements of whether or not financial stability is or should be an explicit consideration of monetary policymakers (what is being done to prevent financial instability in Europe here), adding to central bank’s dual mandate of low inflation and maximum employment.
That global quantitative easing has been crucial in supporting earnings growth through cheap money and helping economic expansion worldwide. Now that the FED, and lately in the future ECB (unlikely) and BoJ, is planning to unwind its massive balance sheet, investors are fretting whether it will pressure the stock market. The concerns about a liquidity doped bull market come from the fact that the QE has taken out yield from bond markets and fueled asset price appreciation, forcing investors to take increasing risk for lower expected returns. In other words, the link between QE and asset prices con be simplistically explained such as follows: Savings are always held in two places, cash and everything else (that is, the “financial assets”). The QE increases the supply of cash in the world (liquidity) and, by doing so, simultaneously decreases the supply of financial assets, by removing bonds from circulation. Those securities are replaced by the Central Bank’s cash of equivalent value so that the ratio of cash to financial assets increases. This relative abundance of cash available to purchase each unit of assets drives up the price of financial assets. This suggests that it if the flow of QE change, it influences the change in asset prices. When the cash flow is positive (easing), asset prices go up and when the cash flow is negative (tightening), asset prices go down. Even if it may seem intuitive, the relationship between balance sheets and asset prices is still a matter of disagreements. History teaches us that such transitions are frequently associated with such risk. But for the first time in history, we are about to experience a synchronized and global balance sheet reductions from the Central Banks around the world. Surveys show that most investors share the concern that a monetary policy change might lead the the next recession. How investors will react to the end of this unprecedented stimulus? The answer is yet to be known.
Even though the QE has probably led to inflation in asset prices, as said, indeed it failed at bringing back demand inflation. According to the quantity theory of money, a faster growth rate in the money supply than real economic output should have produced inflation. As a matter of fact, it doesn’t seem to have had any effect on consumer prices and that is why most Central Banks are cautious to suddenly end the easing program. There could be several structural factors explaining such failure in price level increases, including broken credit transmission channels*, corporates focusing on minimising debt rather than maximising profit in recession, lowering wages and a lower than expected NAIRU** and slow recovery in consumer sentiment. After nine years of low-inflation, there are possibilities that inflation will be stating to substantially increasing again, as job markets get tighter and liquidity reaches small and medium businesses capable of crating jobs, as soon as banks re-start lending.
Among the effects of a withdrawal of the Fed, the ECB and the BOJ from the QE programs, the most concerning one is represented by the bond market, because the end of purchases will lead to an increase in the bond yields making the financing costs for the states higher. Upon the notion that people will continue to buy government debt, governments assume what worked before will continue. The increase in public spending is also due to interest rates being near zero and central banks being buyers of their debt. This raises the question: who, if not the Central Banks, will buy government debt in a bond market of rising rates (with bonds losing value)? Central Banks will probably have to wait for much of that debt to mature in order to reduce their balance sheets. But the problem is even more concerning in a politically disrupted and economically divergent Europe.
Figure 5: Output gap for the last quarter in Europe: Germany +1.7% & Italy -5.5%. How to apply a one-size-fits-all monetary policy?
Source: Goldman Sachs investment research
ECB preparing for normalization?
ECB cautious monetary policy decisions last week were based on a realistic assessment of the health of the eurozone economy. The continent’s economy is on track for its biggest economic expansion after the crisis.
Yet Mario Draghi says that “we aren’t there yet” on inflation, which was just 1.5% last month and which the central bank predicts won’t return to its goal of just under 2% before at least late 2019.
The actual unemployment rate is getting close to its structural level but the key missing element might be wages, which are barely rising despite the relatively rapid decline in unemployment over the past four years. It could be one of the reasons why the inflation struggles to keep up.
All things considered, the slow rate of inflation and the risk of too much euro apreciation suggest that the ECB should not rush the normalization. The ECB decided not to put an end date to QE, thus keeping the program formally open-ended, with some obvious disagreements from northern creditors. Hence, if economic data unexpectedly worsen, the ECB could extend purchases again. Once the programme concludes, if ever, there will be a long period during which the ECB will reinvest the money from the bonds that expire, leaving the total size of the ECB’s balance sheet unchanged.
Let’ s say that the net purchases continue until 2019: if so, the ECB’s balance sheet will not start to shrink before 2021. Thus the interest rates will remain substantially low in Europe for a long time, that is at least until the balance sheet starts to contract. The reason behind that, is that Europe is in a particularly bad shape, that is getting better, but is still weak, coming from a decade crisis. Finally, not all its members are responding similar to the stimulus, because of their structural differences.
There is another, unspoken reason, why the ECB continues to buy assets — if it were to stop, the eurozone crisis might return. Investors would have to assess whether Italy has the capacity to sustain its public sector debt with its fiscal policy alone, which is more than 130% of GDP. The country’ s bond yields are at elevated levels compared with most other eurozone countries and the prospect of the ECB slowering its QE has put upward pressure on the Italian bond yields. 19% out of the €1.4tn of government debt bought by the ECB since March 2015 has flowed in Italian bonds.
Since 2015 in particular the deficit of Italy and Spain in the Target 2*** system has increased, while the German surplus have grown. Peter Praet, a member of the ECB board, recently explained that the ECB, through its QE, does not buy government bonds directly, but each central bank of the eurozone buys their own sovereign bonds. Since most of bond purchases by the NCBs are done with foreign parties, the QE determines the Target 2 dynamics. Given that the prospects of Italian bonds have not been attractive****, Italian commercial banks, but also families and private funds, have been reducing their possession of government bonds, after Draghi’s “whatever it takes”, finally finding foreign buyers. Operating with an undervalued currency – which, in turn, has created huge external surpluses – the QE forced German banks to finance the surplus by moving German savings abroad, both within and outside the euro area (especially the US). With the crisis of over-indebted euro area governments and banks, the ECB came to the rescue through the huge provision of liquidity, hoping to prevent their collapse. In the course of this operation the German Bundesbank came to hold almost EUR 900 billion in credits on the Eurosystem under the Target 2 (Figures 12 and 13).
A removal of ECB support would mean that Italy could be forced into a bail-out programme if its borrowing costs rose to unsustainable levels, opening for a massive debt restructuring and another financial crisis. Large permanent imbalances create risks also for German tax-payers: if a country with a large Target2 debt leaves the euro, its NCB would be unlikely to repay its debt. The Bundesbank, as the main creditor, might seek reforms of Target2, at some point. There is still the possibility that the European Banking Authority considers an European Monetary Fund that would be able to to bail out Italy if necessary, as the new German coalition will push for. The danger with unsustainable financing arrangements is that they might end up to get corrected by a shock without due care.
Depending on its disrupted politics, the Eurozone might live forever in a state of constant liquidity injections, that in the end would be monetary flows from creditors to over-indebted countries and ECB may never be able to stop them. Because if it did, through disinflationary effects of a debt restructuring, it might cause another financial crisis, which as under its legal obligation to prevent. If the eurozone is lucky, the ECB’ s QE might end in 2019 without any debt defaults and sustaining a sufficiently high core inflation level in all countries. If not, the purchases might go on indefinitely, or at least until there is creditor’s willing to do so.
The ECB last week yet confirmed that they will never leave the markets alone. Any change in the outlook and they will intervene more, remaining in permanent intervention mode. Because this is what it takes.
- *With the QE, commercial banks have found themselves with the additional money that Central Banks were using to purchase government debt but, given that the economy have been hit by recession, the interest rates have been so low and stock markets have been performing so well, commercial banks have been encouraged to use their money in speculative investments instead of traditional lending and to park their money in excess reserves for their sake of balance solidity. Indeed if the money injected in the system never makes it into the economy, it will not be inflationary.
- **Across developed market economies this year, stronger economic growth and lower unemployment have failed to accelerate wage growth. The Phillips curve, which measures the responsiveness of wages to unemployment, is flat today by historical standards, prompting many investors to question whether wage inflation has been permanently subdued by structural factors such as automation and globalisation.
- *** Target 2 is the system that regulates the trans-national payments between euro-countries and their central banks, who are the main players, along with the larger banks.
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Unless you have lived under a rock for the past few months, you have probably noticed that slime is an absolute hit with adults and kids alike. And no wonder! This gooey mush is not only tons of fun to play with, but doubles as an effective stress reliever. While you can easily buy it in numerous varieties, colors and consistencies, both in toy shops and online stores, it is a lot more entertaining to make it yourself! And to prove how fun and easy it is, we have decided to devote today’s article on making and appreciating slime. Scroll bellow, and you will find our very special fluffy slime recipe. It will help you make extra soft and bouncy goo, and can be achieved both with and without using borax. Also included are 85 amazing slime varieties, that you can easily recreate at home. And if you’re looking for more fun projects, check out our DIY section! | <urn:uuid:29cb4373-6ed1-45a4-a462-254377095ac6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://archziner.com/diy/80-ideas-fluffy-slime-recipe-special-diy-2021/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.959437 | 192 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Vanity Fair Cricketer Print George Hirst George Herbert Hirst (7 September 1871 – 10 May 1954) was a professional English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1891 and 1921, with a further appearance in 1929. He played in 24 Test matches for England between 1897 and 1909, touring Australia twice. One of the best all-rounders of his time, Hirst was a left arm medium-fast bowler and right-handed batsman. He completed the double of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets in an English cricket season 14 times, the second most of any cricketer after his contemporary and team-mate Wilfred Rhodes. One of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year for 1901, Hirst scored 36,356 runs and took 2,742 wickets in first-class cricket. In Tests, he made 790 runs and captured 59 wickets. Born in Kirkheaton, Hirst first achieved success for Yorkshire as a bowler who could bat a little.
Over his first few seasons, his batting developed at the expense of his bowling until he was regarded mainly as a specialist batsman. Around 1900, his bowling re-emerged when he discovered a method to make the ball swing in the air after he released it. He was one of the first bowlers to control the swing of the ball; batsmen found it very difficult to counter this method and Hirst’s bowling was subsequently far more successful. From 1903 he achieved 11 consecutive doubles. He set records in 1905, when he scored 341 runs in an innings against Leicestershire—still the highest total for Yorkshire as of 2015—and in 1906, when he completed an unprecedented and unrepeated double of 2,000 runs and 200 wickets. In many seasons, he battled injury which reduced his effectiveness, but his bowling remained successful until shortly before the First World War. Hirst played in all England’s home Test series between 1899 and 1909, but his record for England was less impressive than his record for Yorkshire and he may have suffered from playing in Australia where playing conditions did not suit him. Hirst returned to play for Yorkshire after the war, but became a cricket coach at Eton College in 1920, where he remained until 1938. After making occasional appearances in 1920 and 1921, he retired from regular first-class cricket. He maintained his connections with Yorkshire for the rest of his life, coached young players and established an excellent reputation for developing players of all social backgrounds. A popular player, coach and personality with cricketers and spectators, Hirst died in 1954, aged 82 (wikipedia)
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Domestic violence, dating violence, sexual violence and stalking are widespread in the United States, affecting individuals of virtually every racial, ethnic, gender, age and socioeconomic group. Studies indicate that one of the best predictors of whether a victim will separate from their abuser is the victim’s degree of economic independence. However, the violence often jeopardizes a victim’s ability to keep a job, whether because of the need for time off for court appearances or medical attention, or abusers’ active interference or sabotage, including preventing victims from going to work, harassment at work, limiting access to cash and transportation, and sabotaging child-care arrangements. Accordingly, female victims are more likely than other women to be unemployed, to suffer from health problems that can affect employability and job performance, to report lower personal income, and to rely on welfare.
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Writing with an intent to persuade the viewers is seriously difficult. It exam your capacity in composing these types of a convincing piece that can change your reader's thoughts into something you preferred to boost. When composing a persuasive piece of prepared do the job, crafting arguments properly is vital. If your proof and your interpretation are audio, then you'll have a shot at really swaying feeling in your favor. HS: Since I educate Persuasive Essay and resourceful crafting, I am all over writers all day day-to-day. They seem to be to be encouraged, which evokes me. The internet gives us so a great deal accessibility to absolutely free creating, so that phenomenon has adjusted all the things. I can Youtube Langston Hughes and hear to him study poetry. That was unattainable ahead of. First, place your thesis statement in the 1st sentence or two. Professors read a ton of papers and it gets a schedule; an nearly automated action. They want to know what it is you believe you are likely to argue for pretty early on, simply because at the time they see that, they are going to browse the relaxation of your essay hunting for aid. Believe in me, professors do not study just about every single phrase of your paper. They skim and find the components they want, the phrases that draw in their consideration and make remarks on these products. Seeing a apparent thesis assertion early tends to make reading through your essay less complicated. Very little is additional irritating to a trainer than hunting all in excess of the spot to check out and determine out what you assume you are arguing for. An irritated professor is not what you want reading through your paper. Do a thing distinct. Choose a hazard. Don't produce the essay that absolutely everyone else is creating. Envision you are the marker - after reading 30 essays, the novelty will don off. A bit of creativity, getting a somewhat different angle on even the most dull topic, may perhaps be that extra drive your essay involves. Bear in mind, even seemingly tedious Essay Topics can seem attention-grabbing if creatively approached. Write your Essay Ideas. This is most likely the most dreaded section of the higher education admission process. Allow me condition the clear: Generate the essay now alternatively than the evening right before you send in your school software. Do not place off your faculty do the job until eventually the very last moment. Your research are heading to be complicated ample with no including the extra stress of hurrying by means of it to get it completed in time. Stick to a common review plan and do your assignments as shortly as you get them in buy to lessen your strain. For instance, the ACT math segment assessments a number of matters that usually aren't coated right up until pre-calculus. Although the SAT leaves out these topics, its math challenges generally have much more complicated setups. College essay composing isn't a mystery. You need to browse your components, get superior notes through your lectures and decide an essay subject matter. Then you organize your ideas, craft a cleverly worded thesis assertion, and set about proving your assertion with supporting proof. That's it. Just be initial, consider outside the house the subject matter and normally remember to respond to the dilemma totally. | <urn:uuid:68b9755c-8f60-405f-a54a-f5c256a26d4a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.fairbeat.com/realistic-rules/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.961217 | 656 | 1.875 | 2 |
Lesson 625: Jonah CHAPTER 2
"Jonah's Prayer of Thanksgiving"
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JONAH CHAPTER 2
1 Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish’s belly, 2 and said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice. 3 For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. 4 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple. 5 The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head. 6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God. 7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple. 8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. 9 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord. 10 And the Lord spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
Lesson No. 625 Jonah:2 "Jonah's Prayer of Thanksgiving" Book of Jonah, Chapter 2 07/03/2022 1) What happened to Jonah and where was Jonah when he prayed? 2) What was Jonah praying about? He was praying from the fish belly, but what is he talking about in verses 3 through 6? 3) What happened to Jonah in verse 7 that turned his thoughts toward the Lord? Are we like that? Swim until we sink, then pray? 4) Where did Jonah send his prayers in verse 7? Do we do that when we pray? (Note- Remember where we are when we prayed and how we got there!) Shouldn’t he be praying for his life? (or perhaps he was praying for his soul?) 5) Verse 8 reads like a proverb- how does this apply to the mess that Jonah was in, and to us? 6) What is verse 9 all about? What does God say about what he prefers- sacrifice or obedience? What was Jonah thankful for? 7) Jonah was giving a prayer to the Lord and was thanking God, but what was the sacrifice he was bringing to the alter? 8) What was Jonah confident of? (Hint- verse 9) 9) So, was Jonah praying to God and asking him to be saved from the belly of the fish? Was there anything in this prayer about being 'saved' from being a snack for the great fish the Lord prepared or drowning? 10) What does this tell us about our prayer life and what is important when we pray to God? Do we spend all our time asking God for things, or do we pray as Jesus taught? (Mathew 6: 5-13) 11) What happened after Jonah prayed this prayer of thanksgiving? I guess Jonah wasn’t fish-food after all! God was not done with him yet! 12) Do we ‘run’ away or turn a ‘deaf ear’ when God calls us into his service? | <urn:uuid:f9e4294e-658a-4d21-9f57-a992fe441689> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hiswayonline.org/post/lesson-625-jonah-chapter-2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.969359 | 731 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2022 5:36 PM
Subject: Real Estate Broker Question
Dear Dr. Block,
I’m always told house prices would collapse if there were no real estate brokers and their transaction costs, but is this true?
Perhaps prices wouldn’t otherwise be lower; a seller would still want to sell for the price the buyer was still going pay for it. Perhaps the seller would just retain a greater share of that price at best? Perhaps the price would be lower but not in a productive way: a less informed market about whose selling where and what would lead to lower demand, so the house you paid ‘x’ for in the real world is now some price less than ‘x’ in this hypothetical world but you can’t find it.
What is the correct way to think about this?
From: Walter Block <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 1:51 PM
Subject: RE: Real Estate Broker Question
Here are two definitions:
What is a thick market?
A thick market has a high number of buyers and sellers, which means that there is a high volume of trade and a low level of price volatility.
What Is a Thin Market? A thin market on any financial exchange is a period of time that is characterized by a low number of buyers and sellers, whether it’s for a single stock, a whole sector, or the entire market. A thin market, also known as a narrow market, can lead to price volatility.
Brokers, stock brokers, real estate brokers, newsletters, want adverts, make markets thicker; thus less volatile. I don’t think they either raise or lower prices
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Eichler, B., Grüner, A., & Vágó, I. (2003). Untersuchungen zur Phosphataufnahme von Zwischenfrüchten bei unterschiedlicher P-Versorgung des Bodens (Investigation of P Uptake of Catch Crops under Different P Supply). Acta Agraria Debreceniensis, (11), 7–14. https://doi.org/10.34101/actaagrar/11/3451
The P uptakes of 11 different catch crops on four soils were estimated and compared with changes of double lactate soluble Phosphorus (P(DL)) in soil within a vessel trial. Additionally a model trial with quartz sand was carried out for investigations of the influence of P supply on root parameters. The differences of P uptake in dependence of the proofed variants were significant. Under a sufficient P supply Buckwheat, Maize and Oil radish had the highest P uptake on sandy soils, on loamy soil also Buckwheat and Maize but Serradella too. Under P deficiency the withdrawals of Phosphorus for Buckwheat, Maize and Oil radish were found to be the highest. In contrast to the sandy soils for the loamy soils no significant relation between the P uptake by plants and changes in the P-DL amount in soil could be found. For all variants the P uptake by plants were higher than the reduction of the P-DL amount in soil. The rate of P-DL content on the total P content in soil reduced while the two trial years only in sandy but not in loamy soils. The P uptake, the root length and the root/shoot relationship depends significantly on the cultivated crop and the added P compound. The added water soluble KH2PO4 caused a higher P uptake but a lower root/shoot-relationship than the water insoluble P compounds. | <urn:uuid:a8f19572-b9e8-4a41-bea2-9f1d63f5803b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/actaagrar/article/view/3451 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.91921 | 403 | 2.09375 | 2 |
This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2016, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.
English teacher Denée Tyler pops into classes taught by newer colleagues during her free period. After school, she coaches them on managing teen tantrums and instilling a love of literature. She plans her own lessons on nights and weekends.
"I'm willing to do it because I think it's important," said Tyler, who works at Mountain Ridge Junior High School in Highland.
If a new education policy goes into effect Friday, Tyler could end up devoting more time to her secondary role as a mentor for her colleagues.
The Academic Pathway to Teaching (APT) is a fast track to a Utah teaching license that would allow college graduates with expertise in a certain subject to teach under supervision of designated "master teachers."
The newcomers wouldn't have to enroll in teaching courses like most of their colleagues, but they would need approval from their mentors and principals to keep the job after a three-year training period.
The Utah Board of Education approved the policy in June, in part to address a statewide teacher shortfall. But, amid public criticism from individual teachers and their statewide unions, the board will review the APT at its monthly meeting Friday before allowing it to go into effect.
The pathway removes unnecessary red tape, supporters say, and makes room in schools for experts to share their passion with students. But the Utah affiliate of the American
Federation of Teachers, the Utah Education Association and scores of teachers who wrote to the board in July say it sets up schools for failure.
"To add this additional burden is going to be tough," said Heidi Matthews, president of the Utah Education Association, noting the policy does not include any funding for districts.
Cindy Phillips decided to move to public education after teaching Latin and history for 24 years at the private Waterford School in Sandy. Despite her experience, it took her three years to earn the credentials to teach in public school.
"This is the kind of bureaucratic journey that often discourages would-be teachers with depths of knowledge and experience," said Phillips, now executive director at the charter Weilenmann School of Discovery. "Why discourage that person from making a contribution in our schools?"
Phillips earned her credentials through the Alternate Route to Licensure, which requires teachers to prove subject knowledge and an understanding of how to teach, via online classes or coursework at Salt Lake Community College.
Not everyone looking to pivot to a teaching career has time or money for the program, Phillips said. "It's exclusive and time-intensive."
But APT is open to anyone with a bachelor's degree who passes a subject exam and background check not just those who, like Phillips, have spent decades working one on one with students and managing classrooms full of unruly teens.
The new path accepts only applicants who already have subject mastery but waives the teaching courses required under the existing alternate route. Teachers who choose APT could upgrade their license after three years of supervision from the master teacher mentor and approval from a school principal, so long as they meet any additional district criteria.
Tyler said she already has kept busy overseeing those who have education degrees and experience as student teachers.
"I don't know that we have the time to be mentoring the people who are at ground zero," she said. "They're throwing people in who are going to be less prepared."
And veteran educators and experts question if schools could support the new wave of instructors long enough for them to learn the trade.
The policy likely would boost the state's teacher count after going into effect, said Phillip Rogers, executive director of the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification. But Rogers said he believes the number would dip back down within a year or two, especially in low-income districts with few resources.
"I was disappointed to see there is no uniform mentoring guidance for these teachers," Rogers said.
The license likely would not be accepted in many states because it lacks formal teacher training, Rogers added.
Brent Strate, a Bonneville High School teacher and an instructor of 25 years, said he would support the policy if the board were to add an additional requirement with some sort of teaching assessment.
Strate believes there are several retired teachers with the experience and the time to return to schools as teacher coaches. But many of them view the change as an attack on the profession, he said.
"I think if the Utah board isn't careful," Strate said, "you may have a majority of experienced teachers just closing their door and being unwilling to help."
Teachers who have received nontraditional licenses make up only a sliver of Utah's educator workforce, at roughly 6 percent of the total 29,600, show data from the State Board of Education.
It's not enough to curb a larger negative trend. In the last five years, the number of teaching-program graduates who met state board-license criteria dropped by roughly 10 percent.
Meanwhile, school enrollments have swelled by the same percentage.
The Education and Policy Center at the University of Utah now is researching why early-career teachers are leaving and others avoid the profession altogether. The analysis came at the request of legislators and the state board this spring.
Rep. Marie Poulson, D-Cottonwood Heights, says Utah won't retain its teachers unless it raises their pay from a base level of about $35,000 annually and focuses more on effective teaching than high statewide test scores.
"I think we need to plug up this sieve," Poulson said, "rather than fill the hole with people who aren't ready to teach."
Others disagree. Sen. Howard Stephenson, the Draper Republican, said he was "completely in support of the rule" that grants more power to individual districts.
Leslie Castle, chairwoman of the state board's law and licensing committee, expects that some districts will decline to participate because they don't have master teachers available or because they already have recruited college graduates.
"It's based on the premise that we trust superintendents and principals to make these decisions," Castle said.
The new path is an option but not a requirement, she said.
"It's a starting place," Castle said. "We're willing to tweak it as we see how it unfolds."
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"African marigold is a common garden plant with bright orange or red flowers. Its use in decorative and ceremonial gardens dates back to ancient Aztec civilizations. Not only does african marigold add bright colors, but it is also known to repel insects, rabbits, and deer thanks to its toxic latex.
Tips from Garden Coaches
African marigold is excellent ornamental annual with great adaptability. It can be planted in courtyards, and it takes little effort to care for.
African marigold is a beautiful flower that surprisingly doesn't attract many birds. The fluffy yellow and orange petals may initially excite the curiosity of hummingbirds. However, these blooms produce little nectar. Slugs tend to eat these flowers, so thrushes that eat slugs may frequent them. Crows and blackbirds like to destroy their petals. African marigold seeds stay viable under the petals all season. Once the petals die, the seeds fall off. Therefore, crows help speed up the seed dispersal. Hanging shiny ribbons can help deter crows from destroying your plants.
I love with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
This plant was treated as a sacred being by the Aztec people and it was used to decorate temples. Sadly, it also witnessed the history of the Aztec people being slaughtered. Hence, it was called Aztec marigold in memory of the innocent Aztec people that were killed.
Mexicans use it to decorate the graves of their deceased loved ones, so it's also called the flower of the dead.
About 500 years ago, a Spanish officer went to Mexico and stumbled across a marigold flower in the countryside. He thought they were cute, so he took the seeds back to Europe for cultivation. It was very popular for its beautiful golden flowers, and it was used for the worship of the Virgin Mary.
Environmental Protection Value
It can purify air and has strong resistance to and absorption of hydrogen fluoride, sulfur dioxide and other gases.
African marigold is a herbaceous annual commonly found in gardens. It is prized for its large, attractive, orange and bronze-colored blooms in a unique pom-pom form. Its height and shape make it suitable for edging or bedding. African marigold is good for Pollinator gardens. Suggested companion plants include blue Cardinal Flowers or Purple Fountain Grass to make a strong color contrast.
spirituality, honoring the dead, health, love, grief, mourning
20 cm to 1.5 m
10 cm to 60 cm
5 cm to 10 cm
Pine-oak forest zone, garden
African marigold is super easy to take care of, with resistance to almost all pests and diseases. It is a perfect option for gardeners with brown thumbs.
Full sun to partial sun
The african marigold should be watered regularly during the summer growing season so the soil is kept moderately moist, but not soggy or wet. Overwatering will damage the floral blooms and cause them to drop off. This plant should be grown in well-draining soil and is considered to have average watering needs compared to other flowering species.
Fertilization once a month during the growing season.
Trim the diseased, withered leaves once a month.
Spring, Summer, Autumn
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The COVID pandemic created unprecedented challenges for patient access to health care. In response, the federal government relaxed the requirements for telehealth services. Now that the COVID-19 crisis has abated, the federal government is taking a closer look at the widespread use (and potential abuse) of telehealth arrangements.
In a Special Fraud Alert on July 20, 2022, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) issued new guidance concerning its oversight efforts to detect telehealth arrangements that violate federal law. In particular, the OIG intends to step up enforcement of the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute which can result in criminal and civil penalties for healthcare providers that engage in prohibited conduct.
Recently, the OIG has investigated a number of fraudulent telehealth schemes which have several common characteristics:
- The telehealth company engages a healthcare provider to order medically unnecessary equipment, medications or testing (e.g. genetic testing).
- The telehealth company solicits patients to purchase these items without regard to medical necessity.
- The provider, who does not have full access to the patient’s medical history, orders or prescribes these items based only upon limited interaction with the patient online.
- The telehealth company or an affiliate fulfills the order, and the provider is compensated for this limited involvement.
The OIG has stated that by increasing its oversight, it does not intend to discourage legitimate telehealth arrangements that comply with federal payment and coverage requirements. Rather, the OIG stated: “While the expansion of telehealth has been critical to maintaining beneficiaries’ access to care, it is important that new policies and technologies, with [the] potential to improve care and enhance access achieve these goals and are not compromised by fraud, abuse, or misuse.”
In the wake of the COVID pandemic, many healthcare providers are recruited to participate in telehealth arrangements. These arrangements can be highly lucrative and offer the provider the convenience of working remotely or from home. However, before joining a telehealth arrangement, providers should assure themselves that the arrangement is legally compliant and will not result in criminal or civil penalties, or the exclusion from federal healthcare programs. | <urn:uuid:b2c53ab6-4553-4169-a752-7c913c24b962> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.barley.com/new-federal-scrutiny-of-telehealth-abuse-following-the-covid-pandemic/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.934737 | 455 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Data-Driven Intonation Teaching
An Overview and New Perspectives
Studies on the teaching of intonation are not new. They have actually represented an area of interest since the beginning of the 20th century (Jones 1909; Palmer 1922) up to the latest works by authors following different approaches such as Wells (2006), Canepari (2008), Busà (2012). More recently, there has been growing interest in computer assisted learning (Chun 1998, 2013) and applications in commercial products (Cazade 1999). In this contribution we provide a preliminary study which considers the degree of correlation between the intonation curves of L2 English learners and English native speakers in order to explore variation and to evaluate the potential proximity between different samples. The ultimate goal is to test a set of techniques designed to optimise a computer assisted program for second language intonation learning which have been developed for prosodic variation assessment (Cauvin 2017, De Iacovo 2019). | <urn:uuid:004d0be9-3c62-4068-988f-30ffe6dfe926> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/elle/2019/2/data-driven-intonation-teaching/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.929096 | 201 | 2.109375 | 2 |
This 7-hour training helps patrol officers understand that even well-intentioned people have biases and that implicit biases can impact not only what we perceive/see but also what we do. This training also helps officers understand that fair & impartial policing leads to effective policing and provides tools to help him/her (1) recognize his/her conscious and implicit biases, and (2) implement “controlled” (unbiased) behavioral responses.
30 to 40 students with 1 instructors
Community Policing, Decision Making, Ethics, Policy, Profiling
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Mother’s Day was first celebrated in 1908 when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother at a church in West Virginia. She then campaigned Congress to recognize the second Sunday in May as a national holiday celebrating all mothers, because, a mother is “the person who has done more for you than anyone in the world.”
Although Jarvis was eventually successful in her mission, she ironically came to resent the very holiday she had created. Jarvis disliked how commercialized the holiday became. She wanted people to honor and appreciate their mothers with love and gratitude, not with pre-made cards and expensive gifts.
The takeaway from that holiday history lesson is you don’t (and shouldn’t) need to spend a fortune to show your mom how much she means to you.
Get back to the original meaning of Mother’s Day with these heartwarming DIY Mother’s Day gift ideas that won’t break the bank.
DIY Mother’s Day Gift Ideas
- Cook a special meal – It could be a picnic lunch, fancy dinner, or breakfast in bed.
- Do all the dishes for the day – What’s better than cooking her a meal? Washing all the dirty dishes for her!
- Get all the moms in your life together – Your mom, grandmas, aunts, and mother-in-law. The more moms the merrier!
- Go on an adventure – Take a scenic hike or bike ride. Surprise her by leading her to a place that’s special to her.
- Make a photobook, slideshow, video, or framed picture – Put together some family photos or videos so she can enjoy happy memories every time she looks at your gift.
- Make her a homemade card – Write what you feel in your own writing. Maybe even draw her a picture. It doesn’t matter how pretty it is! At least it isn’t generic.
- Help setup her DVR, MP3 player, computer, or cell phone – If your mom is anything like mine, she will appreciate any technology tips or help you can offer. Maybe there’s an app or program you know of that she would love.
- Vacuum/mop her entire house – She might do this when no one else will, but it doesn’t mean she enjoys it. Give her a break from cleaning!
- Clean her jewelry – All this one takes is baking soda, vinegar, water, and elbow grease.
- Wash and dry her laundry – Let’s be honest, there’s a good chance you wouldn’t even know how to do laundry without her. With Clean Laundry’s large and affordable equipment, this thoughtful gift is both easy and affordable.
Do you have any great DIY Mother’s Day gift ideas? Share them in the comments below!
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Organic Beech Wooden Toys For Babies BPA Free Montessori
This wooden toy is made of natural beech wood, which is environmentally friendly and non-toxic. No paint is needed, just sanding. Unlike silica gel, wood is not easy to vacuum, does not need to be cleaned with water, and is not easily damaged or deformed.
The toy is designed with a small finger size, which the baby can perfectly grasp and bring fun to the baby. This set of toys helps to improve the baby's hand-eye coordination and can also develop the child's thinking and imagination.
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On a stormy evening in June, Rosemary lay within the darkness of her dwelling in a abandoned village in Myanmar’s Mindat township, gripped by labour contractions as Mai Nightingale, a 25-year-old midwife, tried to stifle her cries.
“Solely the 2 of us have been left alone within the village. We closed all of the doorways and home windows of the home and stayed quietly inside,” mentioned Mai Nightingale. “When she felt ache, I put a blanket in her mouth as a result of we feared that troopers may hear her.” Like others interviewed for this text, Al Jazeera has used pseudonyms for Mai Nightingale and Rosemary for his or her security.
Rosemary’s contractions had begun the earlier evening, however with troopers approaching her village in southern Chin State, she and the opposite villagers fled into the forest. However there was no correct shelter from the unrelenting rain, so Rosemary and Mai Nightingale determined to take the chance of encountering troopers and return the following morning.
“The state of affairs didn’t favour delivering a child,” mentioned Mai Nightingale. “We noticed Burmese troopers strolling in direction of our village however we couldn’t flip again as a result of [Rosemary] was already exhausted.”
Rosemary’s husband didn’t dare accompany her for worry that, if seen, troopers would mistake him for a member of an area armed group. Since a February 1 army coup, civilian defence forces, armed largely with looking rifles and selfmade weapons, have sprung up throughout the nation to battle towards the regime, and Mindat has been a hotspot of resistance since Might.
In keeping with ways the army has used for many years to quash an armed revolt and terrorise the folks, troopers launched disproportionate assaults on Mindat together with firing artillery, rocket-propelled grenades and machineguns into residential areas whereas imposing martial regulation, inflicting the city to empty, in response to native media studies. Younger males are notably more likely to be focused.
Rosemary delivered her child shortly after the sound of troopers had pale, and Mai Nightingale minimize and tied the umbilical wire with a razor blade and a few thread which, missing different technique of sterilisation, she boiled in water. Though Rosemary and her child are wholesome and unhurt, the circumstances of the start spotlight the rising dangers which moms and newborns face amid an escalating humanitarian disaster.
Mai Nightingale and two different nurses interviewed by Al Jazeera, who’re offering maternal and new child healthcare to these displaced by armed battle, say they’re severely restricted of their means to securely ship infants, and that bodily insecurity additional imperils pregnant ladies and newborns amid the persevering with violence.
“The primary well being dangers for pregnant ladies and new child infants are their lives. They’ll die throughout labour or after as a result of they need to run every time troopers get nearer to the place they’re hiding,” mentioned a nurse in Loikaw township, Kayah State who goes by the nickname Smile. “There may be not sufficient medical gear or medication … Infants can not get vaccinations or sufficient shelter.”
Collapsing well being system
Some 230,000 folks have been newly displaced for the reason that coup, in response to United Nations estimates.
The army has not solely attacked civilians however has additionally minimize off meals and water provides to folks affected by battle, shelled displacement camps and church buildings of refuge, shot displaced folks trying to fetch rice from their villages, and burned meals and medical aid provides together with an ambulance.
In the meantime, Myanmar’s well being system has all however collapsed, leaving few choices even for these ladies ready to threat returning to their city or village to provide start or search vaccinations or therapy for his or her infants.
Ongoing medical employee strikes amid a broader Civil Disobedience Motion have left authorities hospitals threadbare, whereas some well being services have shut down altogether. The army has additionally repeatedly attacked healthcare professionals and services and occupied hospitals.
My mom positioned her hand on my cousin and prayed. By the grace of God, she efficiently gave start
Alessandra Dentice, Myanmar consultant advert interim with the UN Youngsters’s Fund (UNICEF), informed Al Jazeera that the overwhelming majority of pregnant ladies displaced for the reason that coup lack entry to emergency obstetric care, whereas routine immunisations for kids have “come to an virtually full halt”.
“With out pressing motion, we estimate that yearly 600,000 newborns will miss out on important new child care, creating critical dangers for his or her survival and long-term wellbeing throughout the nation,” she mentioned, including that about 950,000 youngsters are additionally lacking out on vital vaccination companies.
In Mindat, Mai Nightingale has thus far assisted three displaced ladies to ship. Two of them, she mentioned, needed to hold transferring in the hunt for protected shelter within the days main as much as giving start, inflicting them bodily ache and presumably inducing their labour.
Mai Nightingale is aware of that offering medical companies to pregnant ladies and newborns whereas missing services or hygienic gear is exceedingly harmful for the ladies and their infants, and that safety forces might additionally goal her, however says she feels it’s the solely possibility. “Regardless that troopers might arrest each the sufferers and me, I’ll proceed serving to individuals who want medical help,” she informed Al Jazeera. “There is no such thing as a one else who may also help them.”
Pregnant ladies in Kayah State, the place an estimated 100,000 folks have been displaced since early June, additionally face a deadly state of affairs. On June 8, the UN particular rapporteur for Myanmar warned of “mass deaths from hunger, illness and publicity” in Kayah as a consequence of army assaults and the blockage of meals, water and medication to those that fled to the forest.
Smile, a 24-year-old nurse, escaped her village in Loikaw township on June 11 together with her cousin, who was within the throes of labour contractions whereas she fled. “Artillery fell close to the rock the place we have been hiding. That day was [my cousin’s] due date however she couldn’t ship … we needed to escape to security,” mentioned Smile. “She needed to carry heavy issues whereas we have been operating.”
Recalling recommendation from her mom, additionally a nurse, Smile had grabbed a supply package with rubber gloves, forceps and scissors as she fled the village. “My mom informed me that medical staff can not cease even when the world is in chaos,” she mentioned.
She and her mom rubbed down the gear with spirits whereas her cousin’s husband constructed a bamboo and tarpaulin tent, below which they delivered her cousin’s child. “My mom positioned her hand on my cousin and prayed. By the grace of God, she efficiently gave start with out [heavy] bleeding,” mentioned Smile.
However tragedy has befallen some displaced moms.
Little time to grieve
In Loikaw township, Khu Meh delivered twins at an area clinic on April 8. One was born lifeless; Khu Meh fled dwelling with the opposite, a lady, in mid-Might. “We travelled very far and moved from place to position, generally sleeping within the bushes,” she mentioned. About three weeks later, the second twin died within the jungle whereas consuming milk at Khu Meh’s breast.
Some 40km (25 miles) north, in Shan State’s Pekon township, Mary fled her dwelling within the final week of Might, when she was greater than seven months pregnant.
“The army was firing each evening … we have been very scared to sleep at dwelling,” she mentioned.
She sheltered in a church, however after it was shelled on June 6, she fled once more, to a cornfield the place she delivered her fifth youngster, a child boy, below a bamboo and tarpaulin shelter with the assistance of an area midwife.
The following week introduced countless rain, and Mary’s child died all of the sudden. There was little time to grieve. Mary and her remaining youngsters needed to flee once more every week later as a consequence of approaching troopers.
Though Myanmar noticed a fall in maternal mortality charges and under-five mortality between 2000 and 2017, in response to UNICEF, it remained one of many riskiest locations for brand spanking new moms and infants in Southeast Asia even earlier than the coup.
Maternal mortality was 250 deaths per 100,000 stay births in 2017, whereas under-five mortality was 48 youngsters per 100,000 stay births.
Al Jazeera was unable to find knowledge on maternal and toddler mortality amongst displaced populations in Myanmar for the reason that coup.
Naw Winnie, a nurse from Demoso township, Kayah State who was herself displaced by combating, is now volunteering with an area help group within the mountainous space the place she fled.
She informed Al Jazeera that sickness amongst younger youngsters is widespread. She has handled dozens of pores and skin infections and circumstances of diarrhoea, and fears that well being issues will solely enhance due to poor hygiene brought on by elements together with the shortage of fresh water and the shortage of bogs.
The wet season began in June, making sanitation tougher and rising the chance of catching a chilly, flu, or mosquito-borne sicknesses.
Naw Winnie can also be taking care of greater than 10 pregnant ladies.
She had initially deliberate to ship them to a brief clinic close to the foothills of the mountain, however the clinic’s volunteers and sufferers have been pressured to evacuate amid heavy combating on June 16.
Now she just isn’t certain what she’s going to do.
One of many ladies, now greater than 5 months pregnant, beforehand gave start by Caesarean part, and Naw Winnie is worried the girl might haemorrhage if she delivers vaginally, but it surely is just too dangerous to carry out a Caesarean part within the jungle.
“We don’t have entry to protected and hygienic services or gear to ship infants,” she mentioned. “If I help in delivering a child with out hygienic services, it would put each moms and infants at risk.” | <urn:uuid:6e10a57d-9720-464a-8ee2-489fe3d15326> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://newsaxes.com/myanmar-ladies-give-start-in-jungle-as-army-lies-in-wait/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.961837 | 2,223 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Young Government Leaders (YGL) and GovLoop partnered today to talk about how to stay resilient during the shutdown. Miguel Aviles, Chair of the YGL Advisory Panel, and Michelle Rosa, the YGL National Leadership Team Officer, shared the impact of the shutdown on their lives as federal employees.
Posts Tagged: furlough
There’s been no shortage of negativity surrounding the government shutdown and near debt default – and for good reason. The federal family and the American people were badly hurt again for partisan political purposes. This shameful development should have never occurred in America, which prides itself on being the world’s role model for democratic governanceRead… Read more »
During the 17-day Federal government shutdown my company, Corner Alliance Inc., had to make some tough decisions. Many of our employees were not able to perform work (read: make money) including myself. I worked the first week of the shutdown on internal Corner Alliance tasks, like our website and a Virtual Participation Best Practices document.Read… Read more »
While the government shutdown is over for now, the calamitous costs to America and the world linger. The most blatant financial costs have resulted from a major “sucker punch” to the gut of the fragile U.S. economy. This occurred at an inopportune time for America. Like a boxer absorbing a knock out blow, we wereRead… Read more »
According to the so-called “conventional wisdom” in Washington, the current fiscal impasse should end any day now. This is especially true as Thursday’s deadline fast approaches for dodging a disastrous debt default. Moreover, the American people’s anger continues to grow over the government shutdown. But what is considered to be Washington wisdom these days mayRead… Read more »
Many thanks to my friends at the EPA and USCG who joined together and ran through lower Manhattan in the Federal Furlough 5K on Friday, October 4, 2013.
Attention New York area Feds! Come join us for theFederal Furlough 5K. Friday, October 4th at noon. Meet at the Alexander Hamilton Custom House in Bowling Green. No parking, take the 4/5 subway and exit at Bowling Green. Wear your red, white, and blue and lets show New York that Federal employees are regular people.Read… Read more »
New York area Feds. Come join me Friday, October 4 at 12 noon at the Alexander Custom House in Bowling Green, New York for the Federal Furlough 5K! We’ll run from the Custom House up the Hudson River. Wear your red, white, and blue gear so we can show the world we are proud publicRead… Read more »
Let’s face it folks, if anyone deserves to be furloughed these days it’s obviously the U.S. Congress. The so-called “People’s House” has become a house of shame – a “Do Nothing” Congress. Our august national legislative body has turned its back on the American people for partisan political purposes and personal political self-interest. Our brokenRead… Read more »
I keep seeing people refer to this news report or that, statements by public official X or Y, interviews with “experts,” etc. Especially as I read blog posts here on GovLoop. I recommend going straight to the source: OPM. They’ve put out a lengthy Q&A about furloughs that they keep updating. Be sure to readRead… Read more » | <urn:uuid:d826e9e6-0d72-4301-aec4-e955595340f3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.govloop.com/tag/furlough/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.935686 | 737 | 1.507813 | 2 |
The state of the economy—and Obama’s performance—isn’t looking too hot in a new report.
It may be the economy, stupid—but are the candidates talking smartly about it?
While the nation’s economic vitality—or lack thereof—has been a hot topic in the 2016 presidential campaign, the surrounding chatter might just be surface-level, according to a new Bankrate survey.
Although the outlook for the state of the economy in the next year is relatively neutral, candidates in the 2016 election have yet to give satisfactory proposals on economic matters. When asked to give a letter grade on “the quality of the debate about economic issues during the current presidential campaign,” half of the two-dozen economists delivered F’s, Bankrate reported.
“Candidates are throwing around utopic policies that are not implementable, nor do they address the current issues,” said Lindsey Piegza, chief economist at Stifel, according to Bankrate.
In addition to polling the economists’ opinions on the campaign’s economic coverage, the survey compiled national financial predictions for the upcoming year. Here are four main takeaways from the report:
1. Unemployment is expected to decline.
The unemployment rate, which has most recently been 5 percent, is expected to fall to 4.7 percent in one year, according to the survey. “As for hiring, the median forecast for monthly payroll gains is put at nearly 182,000, suggesting more moderate improvement in the job market after 74 consecutive months of job creation, as reported by the U.S. Labor Department,” according to Bankrate.
2. The chances of a recession are relatively high.
About 63 percent of the economists surveyed believe that the odds of a recession are less than 25 percent. In addition, the overall risk of a recession in the next 12-18 months is 23 percent, Bankrate reported.
3. Economic growth will be modest, if it comes at all.
Most of the economists surveyed expect annual gains of less than 3 percent. While the gross domestic product won’t be making huge expansions anytime soon, these numbers suggest sustainability, the report says.
4. The current president isn’t receiving high marks, either.
President Obama’s stewardship of the economy was also short of getting straight A’s from economists, according to the report.
“No serious steps were taken to address the underlying economic issues, and the federal debt situation has gotten much worse,” said Robert Hughes, senior research fellow with the American Institute for Economic Research.
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1958 Buffalo Bulls Commemorative Event, 2009
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Scope and Contents
Moving image of events surrounding the 2009 International Bowl and commemoration of the University of Buffalo Bulls' rejection of their spot in the 1958 Tangerine Bowl. Begins at the University at Buffalo with speeches by Director of Athletics Warde Manuel (0:00) and civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson (0:39). Includes interviews with 1958 Bulls players Charlie Tirone (4:32) and Jack Dempsey (5:06) with footage of the 1958 Bulls team chatting and boarding a bus to Toronto. Skips ahead to footage of Bulls coach Turner Gill speaking at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel (5:40), Rogers Centre Vice President of Business Affairs and Operations Silvio D'Addario's introduction to the keynote speaker (9:06), and Rev. Jesse Jackson's keynote address (11:20).
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Our group is broadly interested in understanding individual differences between people that are caused by genetic factors. Our research programme focuses on methodology in statistical and quantitative genetics and application of new methods and new kinds of genetic & genomic data to answer important scientific questions. Applications include dissection of genetic variation underlying cognition and cognitive change and quantifying and deciphering the genetic architecture of psychiatric disorders.
Complex Trait Genomics
Complex Traits are measures, diseases and disorders that are underpinned by multiple genetic and non-genetic factors. Genomic analyses of human complex traits are characterised by data sets of many (currently up to hundreds of thousands) individuals and many genomic features (can be millions) per individual. A key focus of our research is the generation of new analytical methods and tools, with applications to multi-omics data (software) to develop better analysis, prediction and diagnostic tools from genomic data, mostly implemented into GCTA.
By integration of our method development with disease-focused themes we aim for fast translation to clinically relevant applications, while also allowing other researchers to apply in the full range of disease domains. The fundamental nature of our research, driven by the nature of complex genetic traits and disorders, includes analysis of millions of genomic data points measured on tens to hundreds of thousands of people. Our research is a Big Data problem.
Funding from the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council and from the University of Queensland is provided to maintain and expand capacity in statistical genomics, to train and mentor researchers in statistical genetics applied to complex traits.
Within the University of Queensland we have established a Complex Trait Genomics Alliance linking the groups across the university who work on genetics of complex traits both in humans and other species.
Psychiatric genetics, a subfield of behavioral neurogenetics, studies the contribution of genetic factors to risk of disorders such as schizophrenia, autism and major depression. The underlying rationale is that most psychiatric disorders are highly heritable - meaning that a majority of the risk of having a diagnosis is due to genetic factors shared between relatives. The immediate goal of psychiatric genetics is to gain biological insights into the etiology of psychiatric disorders. The ultimate goal is to use that knowledge to inform the development of evidence-based treatments with improved efficacy and fewer side effects. In other words, the goal is to transform parts of psychiatry into a neuroscience-based discipline.
Our research in psychiatric genetics involves the application of novel statistical methods to high-throughput genome-wide datasets, such as that from large genome-wide association studies. A major focus is to better understand the genetic architecture of psychiatric disorders, including genetic overlap between different disorders (i.e. pleiotropy) and genetic and phenotypic heterogeneity within disorders. A related goal is to integrate methylation, RNA expression and other -omics data in order to develop more powerful genomics-based predictors that incorporate variation due to disease-relevant environmental exposures. Three key studies are in collaboration with the CRC for living with autism spectrum disorders, perinatal depression in collaboration with the international PPD ACT consortium, and major depression.
Genomics of Neurological Disease
We have key research themes in Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, the most common of the motor neuron diseases, MND) and in Parkinson’s Disease.
ALS is a devastating disease for those affected and their family members. It is an adult-onset, rapidly progressive neurodegenerative disorder that leads to paralysis and death, typically within 2 to 5 years of first symptoms. To date, the most important fundamental insights into the underlying cellular mechanisms have resulted from studies of the known causal mutations. However, >85% of cases do not harbour known ALS mutations and application of new genomics methods is acknowledged as the strategy most likely to drive progress in unlocking the remaining molecular variations that cause and contribute to the disease. This is necessary if we are to address the desperate need for better diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of ALS. Our research exploits genome-wide genetic and epigenetic profiling methods to discover genes and functional pathways that contribute to ALS pathogenesis and progression. We have established the sporadic ALS Australia system genomics consortium (SALSA) to collect consistent clinical data and biological samples across clinics in Australia to underpin future research based on biological samples, including genomics. Our research is fully integrated with the ALS research in Brisbane.
Parkinson’s disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder after Alzheimer’s disease, affecting ~1% of the Australian population aged over 60. Like many common diseases, risk of Parkinson’s can be attributed to a combination of genetic and environmental factors. A handful of genes associated with rare familial forms of parkisonism have been identified, but like ALS, the great majority of cases do not harbour mutations in those genes. Likewise, a number of environmental factors have been associated either increased (e.g. pesticides, heavy metals) or decreased (e.g. smoking, coffee) risk of the disease, but the underlying molecular pathways through which these exposures influence risk are poorly understood. A better understanding of both genetics and environmental factors is essential if we are to improve diagnosis, prognosis and treatment for this devastating condition. We have partnered with Parkinson’s Queensland (Prof. George Mellick) and clinician researchers in Sydney (Prof. Simon Lewis) and New Zealand (Prof. Martin Kennedy) to undertake whole genome genetic and epigenetic analyses of Parkinson’s disease patients and age-matched controls, and we have established collaborations internationally for large-scale meta-analyses of genetic data. Our goals are to identify novel genes and molecular pathways, and to improve understanding of epigenetic changes arising from PD-associated environmental exposures such as smoking and pesticides.
Cognitive Ageing Genomics
There are large differences between people in how they age. Some people have no apparent physical or mental decline when they get older, some develop mild forms of cognitive impairment and yet others develop dementia. CNSG is involved in a number of research projects to study cognitive ageing, from genetic studies on cognitive differences, cognitive decline and dementia to systems genomics approaches to discover biomarkers for ageing. We are a member of the Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh. This Centre is directed by Professor Ian Deary with whom we have had a long-standing and productive research collaboration, centred around the Lothian Birth Cohorts (pictured above). | <urn:uuid:a84be089-fe00-4b61-be08-8a892cc6d46b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cnsgenomics.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.936672 | 1,315 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Drug interactions can occur with drugs you may be taking for depression and these can decrease the effectiveness of your medications cause side effects, or even increase the mechanism of a specific drug. Caution is important also because drug interactions can be potentially harmful or fatal. It is important to read labels for each drug, whether that is a prescription or over-the-counter one. By arming yourself with knowledge, you can reduce the risks associated with medications and you can help to prevent any uncomfortable or harmful drug interactions and side effects.
Drug To Drug InteractionsDrug-drug interactions occur when one drug reacts with either one or several other drugs. For example, you may be taking an antidepressant medication and you may also wish to take an antihistamine to deal with allergies. Or perhaps you are taking a nicotine replacement product and are also on antidepressant therapy. Either of these two combinations can have dangerous effects although individually, they are generally safe to use. Nicotine replacement products, for instance, tend to have a stimulatory effect and if you are taking a medication for your depression that also has this effect, the result is an exacerbated excitability that can be quite unpleasant. Alternately, antihistamines can be fairly sedating so when combined with a sedating antidepressant, your concentration level can be strongly affected. Operating a car or any other machinery could be particularly dangerous if you are drowsy and your focusing is impaired. Other medications can increase or decrease the ability of drugs you may be taking for various conditions. For instance, tricyclic antidepressants such as amitriptyline can reduce the effectiveness of some blood pressure lowering medications.
Overall, the newer antidepressants called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) should not be mixed with various mood stabilising drugs such as phenelzine, as this can result in a dramatic increase in blood pressure. Antidepressants such as fluoxetine also react badly with herbal supplements such as St. John's wort as well as some of the triptans, which are commonly used to treat migraine headaches. Effects from these drugs ingested together can involve dizziness, confusion and shakes.
Drug To Food and Beverage InteractionsCertain drugs you may be taking for depression can cause adverse effects with specific beverages or foods. Alcohol is a common beverage that can increase the effects of a drug, leaving you with a slowed reaction time or extreme fatigue. Some of the anti-anxiety medications such as lorazepam and diazepam should not be taken with caffeine-containing foods and beverages, as you can be left with extreme excitability and hyperactivity.
Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MOAs) have a great many dietary restrictions. Failure to adhere to these restrictions can cause a quick and possibly fatal surge in blood pressure, particularly if alcoholic drinks or foods high in tyramine are consumed. Examples of tyramine containing foods are certain cheeses and cured meats.
Drug To Condition InteractionsDrug-condition interactions occur when you are taking a drug, or combination of drugs, to treat a medical condition, and the side effects cause additional problems with another medical condition. If you suffer from any bowel disorders such as Crohn's disease, for example, you may find that the gastrointestinal side effects of antidepressants are increased. In addition, bladder conditions such as interstitial cystitis may be more painful from the increased urinary retention that can occur as a side effect of some depression medications.
What Can I Do?It is vital that you speak with your doctor or pharmacist regarding all of your medications. If your doctor prescribes a new medication, ensure that you are clear with him or her about any other drugs you are taking as well as any dietary or herbal supplements, vitamins and minerals you are consuming. Furthermore, ask questions about food and drink interactions, especially if you normally drink alcohol, as this is a common beverage to cause unwanted side effects. You can also ask your doctor some of the following questions:
- Is this medication okay to take with other drugs?
- Are there any foods or drinks I should avoid?
- What signs will I notice if an interaction does occur?
- Is there anything else I should be aware of?
You should always read drug labels thoroughly and ask questions if you are unclear about potential interactions. A drug label will typically explain:
- What the drug will do in your body
- The medical condition it is used for
- Potential side effects
- How to ensure safe usage of the drug
- Possible drug interactions and how to avoid or reduce these
Your depression medications can treat your symptoms but they must be taken as directed for maximum benefit and minimal risk. Read all information carefully and ask questions if you have any doubts about interactions. With a bit of effort and time to ensure you are clear on how to take your medications and what to avoid, you can get the full benefit from your depression prescription. | <urn:uuid:644c3eac-304f-4328-922b-59bfb94b2b2f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.overcomedepression.co.uk/DrugInteractions.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.942231 | 996 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Zenith Placement Paper : General - other
Zenith Placement Paper : Zenith Test Pattern
Zenith Placement Pattern
There were 3 sections
1st Round Aptitude Contains 5 Sections which were quiet easy to answer.
Questions were based on C, C++, DBMS and Oracle (SQL*plus and PL/SQL).
2nd Round - Technical Interview Questions from C, C++, Datastructures, DBMS and Oracle (SQL*plus and PL/SQL) Questions on projects done earlier were asked.
3rd Round - HR Interview Go through common HR Interview Questions and be prepared.
Preference may be given to .NET or J2EE professionals Getting through Tech Interview is crucial, afterwards it will be easy to get placed in Zenith. Good Luck...
Zenith Placement Paper : Zenith Paper General - other
1.What is the meaning memory allocation and why we use it ?
2.What is the meaning of physical memory and virtual memory ?
2.What are the 3Ms of production ?
4.What does 6 Sigma represent ?
5.What is a register ?
6.llocating memory at runtime is also call as _____ ?
7.What is static and dynamic memory allocation ?
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Systematic Approach to Processing and Analysis Diagnostic Indicators of Electrocardiograms Based on Labview
Journal of the Russian Universities Radioelectronics
Introduction. Cardiovascular disease occupies an important place throughout the world, which necessitates the development of more effective modern means of diagnosis and treatment. The primary diagnosis of heart disease is based on analysis and processing of an electrocardiogram (ECG). Despite the fact that there are many methods and algorithms for ECG analysis and processing, one of the urgent problems of cardiology remains to obtain the most complete information about heart electric
... respectively, the behavior of the waves P, Q, R, S and T.Aim. Development of algorithms and software for processing and analysis of electrocardiograms (ECGs), as well as calculation of heart rate and detection of arrhythmias based on Labview.Materials and methods. The methods for removing noise using the wavelet transform method to eliminate baseline deviation ,to extract ECG signs ,to calculate heart rate and to detect arrhythmias based on Labview have been adopted as a mathematical apparatus for processing and analyzing ECGs.Results. Organizing of the ECG database, developing algorithms for converting the ECG file of the database into a useful format for Labview, processing of the ECG signal with removing noise from the original ECG signal, extracting signs for obtaining ECG diagnostic indicators, calculating heart rate and detecting arrhythmias.Conclusion. An analysis of the results demonstrates that systematic approaches to evaluating ECG signals allow to avoid one-way decisions and to integrate different methods into an integrated system of ideas of the state. The implementation of the proposed algorithms using Labview programming system ensures the removal of noise and artifacts, the extraction of the necessary ECG signs, the calculation of heart contractions and the detection of arrhythmias. | <urn:uuid:4df35d68-067c-4d19-8815-3c5b726beac9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://scholar.archive.org/work/oa6luvrktnf27oup6ihutu5jle | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.861226 | 423 | 2.359375 | 2 |
For phase #2 you’re preparing a screenplay and shot sheet. I don’t expect you to write a whole screenplay, just lay out one scene from your film, preferably one with as many of your key actors and plot points as possible (it will make the writing task easier). I’ve linked to several examples of screenplays here, here, here, and here. You might want to look at Shakespeare too, as his plays are written in a way very similar to screenplays (save the whole lack of camera shots and such). Aim for 4-6 pages for the treatment. With this done, map out a shot sheet, which is nothing more than explaining what cinematographic techniques will be used to capture the action in this scene. You’ll want to be as specific as possible in your selection of camera angles, depth of field, how you’d use pan/tilts, the type of camera (fixed, steadicam, etc) zooms, etc. You’ll find some examples of shot sheets here, here, and here. Attach this to the end of the treatment. The one added element I want with the shot sheet is to explain why you’ve chosen the specific camera actions/types that you have for each part of the scene. We’ve read about the narrative consequences of many different shots in the past few weeks, so talk about how the cinematography you’re setting up from shot to shot will help carry the reader through the content of the scene you’ve written up in the screenplay. Aim for an additional 2-3 pages for the shot sheet.
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Adding new exotic fruits to your diet can be an exciting thing too. Adding the change of diet to your dog’s meal is also fun. Making this new step can be of different reason.
For example, you probably feel like introducing new flavors to your dogs, want to provide your dog’s body with different nutrients, or have probably been thinking of low-calorie and sweet snacks to feed the dogs that will not make them gain weight.
Implementing this decision can be very challenging because you have to do thorough research to determine if the exotic fruit that is not common is safe for your dog to eat. Giving a dog dragon fruit is not common, so you need to know if your dog will enjoy eating dragon fruits.
Can Dogs Eat Dragon Fruit?
Dragon fruits have no trace of being toxic to dogs; therefore, yes! Your dogs can safely eat dragon fruits. Dragon fruits are fully packed with ingredients, sweet, and very yummy fruits, so definitely your dogs will enjoy eating dragon fruits.
Pitaya is what most people call dragon fruits. This fruit has many health benefits to humans and your dogs; hence, both you and your dog can have a great time eating this fruit together.
There is always a right and wrong way to prepare a snack. However, you need to make sure you know the right way to prepare the dragon fruit. It is common for some dogs to reject a snack that is not probably prepared, so if you don’t want your dog to reject your meal, then try your best to make it as yummy as possible.
Dragon fruit skin is usually tough to eat and takes time to digest; all you want is to enjoy eating the flesh, not focusing on the spiky, pink, and leather skin. When introducing a new diet to a dog, it is best done with a small quantity at a time because if they consume too much, it can cause a disturbance to the stomach and make the stool. It is like when a human eats a new meal; too much can upset the stomach, leading to stooling, so dogs are not exempted.
Dragon fruit has a mushy texture, and it is very soft. Some dogs may find it hard to enjoy the fruit because of the texture. But as time pass and you keep up on giving them dragon fruit, they will become used to eating it. So yes, dogs can have a dragon fruit.
Therefore there are ways to know if your dog can have dragon fruits. Below are the signs to know if your dogs can eat dragon fruit
- Body Language
The dog’s body language will give you a sign to know if your dog likes dragon fruit. This body language includes;
- Drooling Whale eye
- Licking of ears lip
- Raising, wagging, and whining of tail
- Staring alert
- Staring directly at you or the fruit
- Licking their lips and begging for more
- Puppy cry
When your dogs start showing these signs, try to notice it and don’t make them beg too much.
Health Benefits of Dragon Fruit (Human and Dogs)
- Dragon fruit helps to improve eyesight
- It helps to lower the risk of hypertension
- It helps to reduce blood sugar levels from diabetes individuals
- The antioxidant and high vitamin C in dragon fruit make it able to boost the immune system of dogs and make them healthy
- It prevents different diseases like cancer and heart disease
- It protects the coats and skin of dogs and makes them shiny and strong
Conclusion: Can Dogs Have Dragon Fruit?
Yes, dogs can eat dragon fruit and enjoy it if you prepare it adequately. It has a lot of benefits to your dog. Try not to give them the skin. If you follow the directions carefully, then you can confidently add dragon fruit to your dog’s diet. | <urn:uuid:cdc19510-6e3e-459c-9cbd-eb8468197134> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://candogshave.info/can-dogs-eat-dragon-fruit/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.949825 | 792 | 2.109375 | 2 |
In this tutorial, let’s learn the steps involved to commit changes to a git repository.
git status is an inspection command to know the state of the working directory and the stating area. This command lets us to know which files are staged and which files are not tracked by the Git.
git add command is used to add new files to the Git staging area.
We can use git commit command to commit the new files and changes to the Git repository. The first initial commit might fail with the following error. We need to specify the git client with the credentials that would be linked to the commits.
$ git commit -m "Initial commit" *** Please tell me who you are. Run git config --global user.email "firstname.lastname@example.org" git config --global user.name "Your Name" to set your account's default identity. Omit --global to set the identity only in this repository.
$ git config –global user.email “<your email address”
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Rape Aggression Defense (RAD) Program
Self-Defense Training for Women
The Rape Aggression Defense (RAD) System is a program of realistic self-defense tactics and techniques developed for women. The RAD System is a comprehensive, women-only course that begins with awareness, prevention, risk reduction, and risk avoidance, while progressing on to the basics of hands-on self-defense training.
The UTA Police Department will present the RAD program free of charge to current UTA students, faculty, and staff. The course will be taught by a certified RAD Instructor within the UTA Police Department, and will provide each student with a workbook/reference manual. This manual outlines the entire RAD Physical Defense System for reference and continuous personal growth. The program is designed to help women overcome the effects of sexual violence by teaching assertiveness, awareness, risk reduction, avoidance, and physical defense options and strategies.
Empower yourself through self-defense!
- March Class: Mar. 11 (5pm-8pm, MAC) and Mar. 12 (9am-5pm, MAC)
- April Class: Apr. 22 (5pm-8pm, MAC) and Apr. 23 (9am-5pm, MAC)
*Unless you are a prior RAD attendee, attending the weeknight classroom block is mandatory for participating in the MAC block on Saturday
For registration and class scheduling information contact:
UTA Police Department Crime Prevention Unit
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Ministry of Health Guidelines
The Ministry of Health provides guidelines to help GPs and men, along with their family and whānau with consistent, culturally appropiate information on prostate cancer testing and treatment.
Prostate Cancer and Diet
Prostate Cancer and Diet is a very helpful resource at the School of Medical Sciences, University of Auckland website. It contains Prostate Cancer and Diet fact sheets, an extensive recipe collection for the Modified Mediterranean Diet, and numerous publications on nutrition and exercise for men with prostate cancer.
Identifying and Understanding Prostate Cancer
The process of diagnosis and the terminology involved can be a little overwhelming at first. These resources will help you better understand what symptoms to look out for, how a diagnosis is made and what some of the medical terminology means.
Treating Prostate Cancer
If you have been diagnosed with prostate cancer you may be wondering what to expect when it comes to treatment. Your medical practitioner will discuss the options that are best for you and these resources can help you better understand those options.
Living with Prostate Cancer
Prostate Cancer will create a lot of change in your life. These resources are here to help you manage the new challenges you and your loved ones may face.
Conference and Forum Videos
View the recorded presentations from our National Conferences and Patient Forums.
Information Videos in Other Languages
The Prostate Cancer Foundation teamed up with the I Am He(r) Charitable Trust to produce a series of informational videos in a variety of languages. | <urn:uuid:59f14a5f-3985-49af-97a4-fd977f3f3743> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://prostate.org.nz/fact-sheets/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.917254 | 306 | 2.5 | 2 |
Tiles and special extruded pieces
Extruded ceramics recall the concepts of natural products (cotto) or technical products with excellent chemical-physical requirements (clinker). Today, the market also demands large formats for extruded products, excellent vitrification and different surface treatments to achieve a wide range of aesthetic effects. SACMI offers some typical machines of the pressed tile technology (roller-type kiln, roller-type dryer, automatic sorting lines) and some machines specifically developed to produce extruded floors of large format, thin, vitrified and variously glazed.
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Going Ivy’s Virtual Reality Campus Tours
Going Ivy now allows you to step onto different college campuses so you can experience them as if you are there.
As a high school student who is trying to figure out the colleges that might match you the best, it is important that you are able to picture yourself on the campuses in order to determine which ones appeal the most to your personality and what you are looking for in your college experience both in and out of the classroom. For many students and their families, visiting a large number of universities is impractical because of time and financial limitations. Going Ivy is proud to bring the campus world to our students through the use of cutting-edge virtual reality technology that can immerse them into a variety of different elite institutions around the country.
Going Ivy Harnesses Technology to Bring the World to Your Door
Going Ivy is a team of highly accomplished and experienced educational experts, academic counselors, former admissions officers and world-class tutors who have graduated from the top educational institutions in the world, including Harvard. We recognize the importance of finding the right college for each student but also understand that completing in-person visits just isn’t possible for everyone. Together with Kitchen Sink Studios, a creative agency that works with engineers, experts and reconstructions to recreate each campus in a realistic manner, we are able to allow you to step onto different college campuses so you can experience them as if you are there. This can help you narrow down your list of potential schools so that you can concentrate on those that you feel fit you the best.
Finding the Best Fit and Match for You Through Using VR Technology
In order to help you understand why the VR virtual campus tour technology might be important to help you choose the right college for you, it is important that you understand what the terms match and fit mean in the college applications and admissions process. A school that is the right match for you is one that you meet the eligibility requirements to attend. In other words, match refers more to your grade point average and your test scores when compared to the ranges that are posted by each college. Fit refers to the college that feels like home, where you can be yourself among classmates, the administration and the environment, or the institution at which you will mesh the best with socially, emotionally and cognitively. The University of Chicago reports that students are much likelier to graduate on time when they choose colleges that fit them the best.
The sheer number of degree-granting institutions in the U.S. illustrates how daunting narrowing down your college list can be. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, there were 4,724 degree-granting colleges and universities in the U.S. as of 2014. The staff at Going Ivy can help you to narrow down the list according to your goals and aspirations as well as what you want in a college from academic to location to philosophy and values. In order to help you choose among the schools that we identify as good matches for you, it is important for you to do further research.
Unfortunately, checking out websites, blogs and social media pages of colleges will give you only a general idea of the cultures at different institutions. This is why many experts recommend that students complete campus visits and tours to get a feel of what attending the schools might be like. However, visiting a variety of different colleges is out of reach for many students and their families. The virtual reality campus tours at Going Ivy can help you to visit the campuses of many different colleges from our centers.
How the VR Technology Works
With Going Ivy’s VR technology, you are able to walk through different buildings, look around and experience the campuses as if you are really there. Our technology is Oculus-Rift based, but it is much more advanced than the type of VR technology that is commercially available to consumers for home use. You simply have to place the VR headset on to step into the college campus worlds. Before you do, our admissions counselors will have already helped you to narrow down your list of potential colleges to ones that match you. The virtual campus tours will be selected from among that match list. We will also help you with your selection by conducting an in-depth assessment of your learning style and personality to help you to weed out schools that are unlikely to fit you and your goals.
Contact Going Ivy Today
Going Ivy is dedicated to helping you to gain admission into the perfect school for you. We will work hand-in-hand with you throughout your college admissions process, beginning with your personal assessment, a tailored plan, tutoring, test preparation and application completion. By harnessing the latest technology, including our state-of-the-art communications portal and our virtual reality campus tours, we can bring the colleges that you like the most to you. We offer free, no-obligation consultations. Call us today to learn more about our virtual reality campus tours and how we can help you to find the best college for you. | <urn:uuid:a633282d-405f-44ac-a3eb-46448b3b8d56> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://goingivy.com/phoenix/vr/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.963256 | 1,010 | 1.570313 | 2 |
The purpose of this organization is to help individuals experiencing homelessness access primary care services. Often times, these individuals lack access to basic social and health services. Our organization is partnered with the Mobile Clinic Project at UCLA, a student-run free clinic that provides homeless individuals with basic medical and social services. Oftentimes, Mobile Clinic clients with chronic illnesses need follow-up care. However, it was observed that numerous clients were not able to access adequate follow-up care due to reasons such as lack of transportation, difficulty navigating the healthcare system, and/or other social barriers. Companion Care was created to help clients overcome these barriers. Our organization sets up appointments with physicians at a community health center and provides volunteers to accompany clients to their appointments. The Companion Care volunteers are there as means of support through the process. Companions are there every step of the way, standing in solidarity to assist clients in overcoming the barriers to healthcare access that homeless individuals experience. We are continually working to improve our program to best meet the needs of the clients we serve.
Signatories: Abigail Bline, Nick Kaneshiro, and Jiaxin Jessica He
Advisor: Pamela R Cysner
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World Economic Forum: 3 actions business leaders can take to help solve our water crisis
- Today almost 25% of the world’s population face looming water crises.
- The interlinked nature of water management means solutions must involve multiple stakeholders.
- Here is a guide to partnership actions corporate leaders can take to help mitigate this crisis.
With less than 1% of the world’s freshwater readily available for human consumption and demand expected to increase by 40% by 2030, effective governance and management of freshwater supplies is one of the most fundamental public goods challenges of our time.
Yet recent headlines about devastating wildfires and water shortages facing Australia, deadly flooding in Jakarta, and Chennai joining Cape Town and other cities in the struggle to avoid ‘Day Zero’ serve as just the latest reminders of how difficult a task this is becoming.
Already, nearly 25% of the world’s population face looming water crises, and by 2025 the figure is predicted to surpass 60%. In addition to the impacts on human health and ecosystems, water risks are also increasingly material for economic growth and business. The World Bank projects that water scarcity could cost some regions up to 6% of their GDP by 2050. In 2018 alone, companies reported more than $38 billion in financial losses due to water challenges.
The need for aligned action
As the frequency, severity and complexity of water risks increase, exacerbated by climate change, more ambitious and innovative approaches will be needed.
Governments at the national, state and municipal levels must be ultimately accountable for ensuring access to a clean, affordable and reliable supply of water. Yet the interlinked nature of water management and governance problems – such as protecting natural ecosystems, ensuring security of supply for industries and cities or mitigating the impacts of natural disasters – makes it hard to ascribe responsibility to any one governmental ministry or department. Such wicked challenges demand agile, inclusive public-private partnerships, through which different sectors and actors can leverage their respective capabilities and resources in response to rapidly evolving and complex scenarios.
Civil society organizations are vital in supporting independent research, local implementation and stakeholder engagement activities. Local civic platforms are especially needed in situations where vulnerable populations or excluded groups lack sufficient voice or resources to assert their rights.
The corporate sector also has an increasingly vital leadership role to play, particularly companies that are major users, distributors or managers of water supplies. Equally, companies in enabling sectors such as information technology can leverage their skills and investments to scale digital solutions, while financial institutions can increase investments, insurance and banking solutions for improving water use in cities, companies and households.
A framework for business leadership
There are three sets of actions any large company should consider as part of its commitment to help tackle the water crisis:
Water management: Corporate water strategies should ensure compliance, manage risks and improve water efficiency, waste management and replenishment in the company’s own business operations and value chain, with the dual goals of identifying and mitigating negative impacts and improving operational performance and excellence. In a growing number of industries and locations, there is untapped potential for harnessing new technologies and business model or financing innovations to move from ‘doing no harm’ to proactively delivering profitable and scalable water solutions.
Water stewardship: Leading companies are going a step further by committing to more integrated approaches that go beyond their own operations to work with others on watershed management and valuing water. This calls for the ability to effectively map and engage with diverse stakeholders, usually including competitors. It requires complex data collection and analysis on the economic value of water, including water use trade-offs, understanding the water-food-energy nexus, political economy and demographic dynamics. And to be effective, it calls for joint investments and collective water governance and accountability mechanisms.
Water advocacy: Some corporate leaders are also becoming outspoken champions for water sustainability at local, national and global levels. They invest in research, innovation and technology beyond their own immediate operational needs. And they support efforts to increase public awareness and education on the urgency of the water crisis, alongside joint advocacy for good water governance and appropriate public policy reforms.
CEO and board leadership are essential for setting strategies and incentives to achieve impact. Such leadership requires individual corporate action and responsibility, focused on activities that the business has the most direct control over and where the water risks are most material to the company and its stakeholders. It also requires collective action and collaboration with others in business, government and civil society to address the more complex, systems-level challenges that no one company or actor can tackle alone.
Various World Economic Forum partners are already demonstrating such leadership through collaborations such as:
· The 2030 Water Resources Group, a public-private platform led by the World Bank that consists of more than 700 actors working across sectors in 14 water-scarce countries to shrink the supply-demand gap.
· The 50L Home coalition,: an emerging effort to drive responsible domestic urban water consumption in water-stressed cities through innovations in technology, infrastructure, policy and regulation – so using 50 litres a day feels like 500.
· The Dutch-led Valuing Water Initiative, which includes governments, businesses, investors and NGOs working to inspire systems leadership and behaviour change through case studies in different value chains and sectors.
These are just three of a growing number of initiatives where individual business leaders are working together, as well as with policy-makers and civic leaders, to tackle the water crisis. The UN’s CEO Water Mandate and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development are two other leadership examples. In addition, a growing number of industry-wide platforms are taking action, such as the Consumer Goods Forum and the International Council on Mining and Metals.
Many of the corporate leadership qualities discussed above are reflected in the Davos 2020 Manifesto. This highlights a new era of opportunity for companies to work alongside all stakeholders to advance policies and practices that strengthen the long-term prosperity of the company while also managing shared risks and creating shared value for others. Scaling such approaches—not just at some point in the future but immediately and urgently–will be a defining factor in our ability to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. Absent an IPCC or COP equivalent for water, it will also be necessary to find ways to galvanize this leadership transformation. For example, a G20-led CEO water security summit would offer a prime opportunity for businesses, governments and leading technology experts to accelerate solutions to avoid future ‘day zeros’. | <urn:uuid:f8730a4b-8546-425e-a13c-0b1f46af00ed> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://2030wrg.org/world-economic-forum-3-actions-business-leaders-can-take-to-help-solve-our-water-crisis/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.938785 | 1,308 | 2.265625 | 2 |
One recent class on the South Florida AGC Carpentry Apprenticeship Program
ENR, Forbes, Barron's, and many newspapers and Construction periodicals are warning of the growing shortage of skilled construction workers. Your business will be affected.
BUT, there is a way to fix it and get ahead of the shortage.
Enroll your promising employees NOW in the
South Florida AGC Carpentry Apprentice Program
Dramatically improved skills they learn in class
Increased confidence, Increased productivity, and
Increased quality of workmanship
They learn Blueprint reading, OSHA 10 Safety, CPR and first aid training, Rough & finish carpentry and introduction to material estimating.
Tuition is provided through the School Board of Broward County, contractor pays books and annual Registration Fee.
Low costs: Annual Registration is only usually $350.00 per student
For 2014 School Year Registration Fees
Three students from same company...ONLY $350 + ONE FREE
Five to Nine students same company...ONLY $225 EACH
TEN or more students from same company ...
NO FIRST YEAR REGISTRATION !
Classes In Broward County
Classes are held two nights a week in Broward (Hallandale Adult Community Center) from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm.
Please forward this to your employees at your convenience.
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Nursery Grower/Worker Kaiwhakatipu/Kaimahi Otaota
Nursery growers/workers grow young plants, flowers, trees and shrubs for sale or for use in parks and gardens.
Nursery growers/workers may do some or all of the following:
- prepare soil mixes and composts
- grow plants from seeds and cuttings
- water, feed, prune, pot and label plants
- operate and maintain irrigation systems
- organise stock and dispatch of plants
- spray plants to control weeds, pests and diseases
- sell plants in a garden centre
- drive tractors, forklifts and delivery trucks.
Nursery growers/workers need to be reasonably fit, healthy and strong.
Useful experience for nursery growers/workers includes work in:
- garden centres
- crop farming
- parks and reserves.
Nursery growers/workers need to be:
- practical and adaptable
- willing to learn and work hard.
Nursery growers/workers need to have knowledge of:
- how to grow and care for plants
- pest, weed and disease control
- plant and soil types and characteristics
- production planning.
Nursery growers/workers who are in charge of staff also need management skills.
- usually work regular business hours, and sometimes weekends
- usually work in glasshouses, plant shops and garden centres, and outdoors in fields
- work in all conditions, which may be hot and humid in glasshouses and cold and wet outdoors.
There are no specific secondary education requirements to become a nursery grower. However, biology and agricultural and horticultural science are useful.
Nursery growers/workers may progress to set up their own nursery growing business, or move into management, training or education roles.
Nursery grower/workers can specialise in:
- garden centre work
- growing seedlings for commercial purposes.
Years Of Training
There are no specific requirements to become a nursery grower/worker. However, many employers prefer to hire nursery growers/workers who have or are working towards a qualification.
To become a qualified nursery grower/worker you need to complete an apprenticeship and gain a New Zealand Certificate in Horticulture (Nursery Production) (Level 3 and Level 4).
The Primary Industry Training Organisation oversees nursery production apprenticeships.
Nursery growers/workers using chemical sprays need to have the correct certificates.
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World Wide Web, as we know, today has undergone a lot of changes. To dwell on Web 3.0, we need to understand what comprises Web 1.0 and Web 2.0. Web 1.0 is the first integration of the internet in the nineties. The visionary Sir Tim Berners-Lee led us to web 1.0. He wanted to decentralize the information so that there wouldn’t be any third-party intervention to access the information. Let’s look at the previous two versions briefly below:
Web 1.0 comprises of mostly static information. It can be termed as a worldwide explosion of information or read the only web. Many big companies have come up with read-only websites. Many E-Commerce websites can be termed as Web 1.0 version as an example today. User interaction is very minimalistic.
Web 2.0 can be termed as the web we know as of today. It is also said web of social media with many video streaming platforms. With the invention of Web 2.0, all of us got access to not only download available content but also to upload the content made by us. It has started becoming two ways, which started revolutionizing many business models. Let us look into Web 3.0 now.
Web 3.0 is termed as the internet of value, and it has special significance in today’s world. We have already entered web 3.0, and it is not somewhere in the distant future. We consider it as the most advanced of all because it uses Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Blockchain technologies to offer us the best suit of experience.
One of the daily examples of Web 3.0 usage is when we shop on Amazon or any eCommerce website. Under a product we are looking to buy, there is another section which says people ‘who bought this has bought’ these items or what items people bought after buying this product. This is possible because of AI/ML. The user experience is maximized because of the suggestions.
Web 3.0 allows the acceleration of decentralized finance. We have business models available for many purposes rather than the one in the previous versions, where only big companies were used to make use of them for businesses. User privacy is hampered in a big way with the advent of so many apps and their usage.
Big multi corporations, even though they say that their laws pertaining to data privacy are simple, which prevents them from collecting data is not true in reality. With the advent of DAPPS with blockchain as the underlying technology, no user information can be collected and stored without users’ consent. Web 3.0 is a whole new experience without privacy concerns anymore.
The key technology in shaping up Web 3.0 is termed as blockchain. Blockchain provides the decentralized infrastructure for the internet, which fundamentally changes how the web operates. Blockchain allows a highly secure environment to exchange data generated by billions of IoT devices across the world. The decentralization of data allows users to control data rather than the big corporations controlling them single-handedly.
The big companies have treated us like products by collecting the information in the form of our tastes, need to target and sell their products in return to us. We lost control of our data privacy. Web 3.0 is essentially taking back the control from the corporations to our own hands using the decentralization of data using blockchain technology | <urn:uuid:6d73e8f7-61e5-45f9-81dc-147f86199c9c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.forex.academy/what-should-you-know-about-web-3-0/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.949008 | 709 | 2.734375 | 3 |
For these sort of couples a latex, hybrid, or polymer mattress is often a nice compromise. These types of mattresses supply a significant enchancment over conventional coil mattresses, but nonetheless have more response, bounce, and less of a sinking / stuck feeling. Well, first off, its memory foam layer is tucked under certainly one of poly foam. By preserving the poly foam nearer to the sleeper, the mattress is ready to mitigate reminiscence foam’s tendency to lure and absorb physique heat. Secondly, the mattress features a tall part of individually wrapped pocketed coils.
- Spend high quality time along with your closest associates, and get weak in a way you won’t often, by letting them know the way much they mean to you.
- Thinking of it this way can snap you out of la-la land and assist you to focus on each single detail of the expertise.
- To forestall getting pregnant, get on the contraception pill, or have your affiliate placed on a condom.
If he abused her in front of witnesses, not solely did the nice apply, however his wife might divorce him after the third blow. These unlucky be naughty online ladies had little choice in whether or not or not they lay with their grasp.
How Does Love Affect Our Bodily Health?
Going forward, after we put the owner within the field and ask the owner to cry out in distress, we all know that the dogs know how to open the field. Under those situations, just about every dog opened the field. That, to me, is a compelling demonstration that dogs really do care if they will understand. At the tip of the day, an overarching, multidimensional phenomenon like love needs to be broken down into small, measurable pieces. But I suppose if one were to only do science on the small, measurable pieces and resist the try to synthesize all those observations into a picture, that would be a disservice. Scientists in the first decade of the twenty first century were primarily concerned with the thought that canines have special forms of intelligence and social cognition that were unique in the animal kingdom. Marriages aren’t expected to like in all ways always.
What’s Making Love Exactly?
Attachment techniques eventually settle, which means you’ll really feel ready to retrieve other parts of your life once more. Sex in a relationship, within the least sexy of metaphors, is like a nonbinding contract.
Play With Her Garments:
He should wants say, there was no love lost between some of my household and him; but he had not deserved of them what they’d of him. Originally U.S. To interact in sexual activity, esp. thought-about as an act of love. He sees her face; doth fall in loue, and soone from her depart. Lots of people love animals, but zoophiles want to actually love animals, if you know what we imply. Lastly, on my consultations, I even have seen that the unhappy and lonely hearts are those who have pictures of a single and lonely girl on their wall or some other image of loneliness. Moreover, don’t have something chilly in your bedroom or relationship nook, both figuratively or literally.
Love, Intercourse, Communication: The Most Effective Matches For A Cancer Man
“I see as present on a spectrum that runs from not displaying little or no care or concern about others to knowing what you want and being able to ask for it ,” she said in an interview with Bustle. The latter, as she factors out, is highly suggested; you might be aware of what you want, and you take initiative to get it in a healthy method. The former, however, is the perspective that presents an issue. Setting the right temper for romance is crucial in the bed room. Lighting can make or break this, so you might want to spend money on dimmers or incandescent bulbs. Select a palette of principally calm, soothing colors versus bold or bright ones. A few shiny accents are fine, but you need the general tone of your bed room to really feel peaceful.
Based on the wheel theory of love, love relationships begin with the institution of rapport. Maniais a method of affection characterised by volatility, insecurity, and possessiveness. This lover gets extremely upset during arguments or breakups, may have trouble sleeping when in love, and feels emotions very intensely. Sharing a bed along with your companion can have its ups and downs. Sometimes they’ll come to mattress late and wake you up, sometimes they’ll snore and disturb your sleep. | <urn:uuid:aef7a167-3665-4f37-b796-91cb0c1e4391> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lifelinelegacy.com/10-enjoyable-sexual-things-to-do-for-couples-who-need-more-pleasure-when-being-intimate/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.958168 | 948 | 1.554688 | 2 |
SMART$ Project Presentation for Year 10
The SMART$ project was recently delivered to all year 10 students with aim of educating students in terms of financial literacy. The key objectives were to educate students about:
- Kiwi saver
- Deferred payment schemes
- Credit cards
- Good and bad credit
- Compounding interest
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Ab workouts not only help you to get ready for bathing suit weather, but they are also great for runners. As a runner, you might think that stretching is the only beneficial exercise that you can perform, but you would be wrong. Ab workouts can help runners to not only improve endurance, but also increase speed. If you are a runner looking for an edge, you should read below to find out why ab workouts are so great for runners.
Strong Abs Are Key
When it comes to runners, you might think that your legs are the focal point of your body and training. However, strong abdominal muscles are really the secret key to success. Strong abs will help to keep your pelvis and spine stable as you run. If your abs are not strong enough, your body will begin to compensate for this lack of strength. This will lead to other muscles becoming strained and sore. Having strong abs will balance out everything and help to reduce pain. This is done most effectively through the use of regular ab workouts.
No More Pain
As a runner, you might think that lower back pain and sore hamstrings are just the price that you have to pay. The great thing about ab workouts, is that they limit and prevent hamstring and lower back injuries. If your abdomen is strong, you will have a core that helps to steady the rest of your body. Runners can often develop sciatica pain and patella syndrome that can have them off their feet for months, but ab workouts will limit this type of injury risk.
Better Running Form
Not only will you reduce pain and limit the stress put on your muscles, but strong abs will also allow for better running form. Yu will be able to run longer distances and not waste energy with for that is not adequate. Ab workouts will give you the figure that you want, but they also help your endurance when it comes to running and will improve your posture as a whole. You can be more efficient with your running regimen and see results quickly.
Try Some Ab Workouts Now
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If you are challenged with your workforce training in these ways, please read on…
- your workers are already pressed for time,
- your budget is shrinking, and
- your learning needs to cut through the jargon
Workplace training is a significant part of what makes an organisation successful. It forms an ongoing part of the individual’s role, not only to ensure compliance but also to maintain skills and offer continuous development.
Fulfilling compliance training requirements
In the first few weeks of starting a new role there are often tens of compliance courses that need to be completed. First impressions matter, you want the onboarding experience to be as comprehensive as possible so both parties get off to a great start.
Regulatory compliance training is necessary, but it doesn't need to be dull or overwhelming.
Quality learning content with engaging interactive activities are essential. Learners expect it. We understand some training needs will be company specific, yet a significant percentage can be taken care of through a trusted learning provider.
Online workplace training libraries align to many industries, and can alleviate the headache and expense of going down the DIY route.
You should expect no less than a compliance suite of courses covering:
- Risk management
- Information security
- Data protection
- Health and safety
So why try Kineo?
Because you want a learning library partner, committed to innovating the learning experience in a way that is personal, relevant, and effective, for you and your learners.
Kineo Courses does this by:
- utilising on-trend digital learning approaches, using interactive challenges, stories and elements of fun and surprise to drive engagement
- providing a highly impressive experience that clients enjoy and recommend
- more than compliance-based courses, with content that includes a repository of resources – the course, infographic takeaways, animated videos, guidelines and more.
- Kineo Courses focus on ensuring relevant knowledge is transferred and applied in the workplace.
Reassuring proof points
- Kineo Courses library has been extensively tried and tested, with Training Industry award recognition in 2020 and 2021 and feedback from 2 million individuals that rate 4.52/5 stars for learning experience.
- Subject matter experts provide highly relevant learning content that can be directly applied in the workplace.
- Learning content is kept up to date to meet evolving training and legislative needs.
- The flexibility to use or choose your own learning management system (LMS). All courses can be delivered via your own LMS or via Kineo Courses cloud solution, with deep analytical reporting functionality.
- Rich with features: Accessibility Kineo Courses learning library is WCAG 2.1 level AA compliant. Learners have a variety of needs and should be able to access training on their own terms. Responsive courses adapt for your chosen device. We design multiple versions of every screen for a superior learning experience. Adaptics pre-assessment technology dynamically adapts training materials for the individual. Learners can apply their existing knowledge to streamline their learning and focus only on areas where gaps have been identified, saving on down time!
- Kineo Courses is certified for both iso 9001:2015 quality and iso 27001:2013 information security management systems.
Learning and compliance are fundamental to your organisational success. We’ll support you to train, induct and develop your most important asset – your people.
Our compliance elearning courses take the best learning design, subject matter experts and real-life examples and combine them to create compliance elearning that engages, informs and even excites.
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The flexible bearing of harmonic reducer is a kind of bearing of harmonic reducer. It is a kind of bearing used outside the harmonic generator, which can realize the speed change requirement of large transmission ratio. Because of its special overall structure, it is installed in time is different from other types of bearings.
Assembly method of flexible bearing of harmonic reducer
1. Arc fill ball groove method
This method is actually that when the ball filling angle is greater than 195°, a circular arc groove that is larger than the diameter of the steel ball is opened in the distance from the inner and outer ring ribs to the bottom diameter of the groove. The steel balls are respectively filled into the channels. The arc ball-filling groove method has low installation efficiency, high production cost, and poor quality control, because if the ball-filling groove is deep, the ferrule will be scrapped; if it is shallow, the steel balls cannot be filled. Improper grooving will greatly reduce high-speed performance and limit axial play.
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As advanced packaging facilities transition their manufacturing from round wafers to square panels, the JetStep S Series Lithography System is fully capable of handling panels up to Gen 3.5 (720x650mm). The system offers high throughput through a large printable exposure and increased productivity through on-the-fly autofocus for thick photoresists.
Moving from round wafers to rectangular panels (“panel-ization”) saves corner space, delivering a roughly 10% improvement in surface utilization. The larger size of the substrate and the improved fit between the mask and substrate reduce the transfer overhead by a factor of 5. The potential reduction in throughput resulting from an increase in the number of alignment points is more than offset by the improvements in throughput. Compared to a 1X stepper on wafers, panel-based processes can reduce lithography cost per die by as much as 40%.
There are many aspects of “panel-ization” that must be addressed before these processes gain acceptance. It is worth noting that panel lithography is widely used in related industries, such as flat panel display and PV. The potential economic benefits of panel-based lithography are significant. Rudolph has made this transition possible for the industry by taking proven technology and adapting it for semiconductor advanced packaging.
- Rudolph Technologies Website
- Date this Product was Introduced to the market: 6/24/2013
- Category Product is being Nominated for: 3D Manufacturing Equipment
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Non-Hospital Surgical Facilities
Acumen Clinic operating in NHSF’s
We are all hearing about flattening the curve since the start of the coronavirus outbreak. The point of distancing ourselves from others is to save our healthcare system from being overwhelmed by patients requiring advanced care. Many people are trying to avoid hospitals and clinics for elective medical issues and using telemedicine to receive needed medical care. Even before COVID-19 became a familiar term Acumen Clinic was providing all our care in non-hospital settings, and our team has always known that staying out of hospital was appealing for some important reasons:
- Distancing from Actively Sick Patients – At Acumen Clinic we take care of elective orthopedic surgery issues such as acute rotator cuff tears, anterior cruciate ligament tears as well as knee and shoulder dislocations and instability. Our patients are healthy and injured. Hospitals take care of infections, chronic health issues and other serious illnesses. Our patients value separating their care from the care of patients with infections.
- Decreasing Hospital Anxiety – Several patients have come to Acumen Clinic specifically to avoid the hospital due to the anxiety they have about hospitals themselves. Our surgical centres in Calgary, Kelowna and Vancouver are small, intimate facilities with one-on-one care. If you have anxiety about being in a big hospital then we will do our best to give you the care experience that alleviates your fears.
- Close supervision by Your Surgeon – With our small team on the day of surgery you can be assured that I will be one room away for any questions about post-op care. I see all patients right after surgery and your post-op nurse has direct access to me to ensure your care is perfect.
Of course there are risks with having surgery in a non-hospital surgical centre or Surgicenter. Our anaesthetists are top-notch and have all the tools for safely caring for you, but if there is an issue requiring admission to hospital you will need to be transferred to a hospital. We always check on the safety of performing surgery in an NHSF before moving forward and the risk of needing a hospital transfer is extremely low. The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia has some great information on the safety regulations of these facilities.
Feel free to read this article – Hospital mull restart of paused services https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-hospitals-mull-restart-of-paused-services/
We’re happy to explain more about non-hospital surgery. Please call Acumen Clinic at 587-599-5345 to hear more about surgery at Canadian Surgery Solutions, Okanagan Health and Surgical Centre or False Creek Surgical Centre and to book an appointment with me, Dr. Jesse Slade Shantz. | <urn:uuid:c81c390d-5b8a-4148-828f-e231af07baaf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://acumensportsandshoulder.com/non-hospital-surgical-facilities/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.95099 | 601 | 1.703125 | 2 |
For the opening scene of Dead End I want to have an establishing shot of the Maas river with futuristic looking cars flying over it. This would be a shot that would be very hard to do without 3D modeling. So naturally I turned to Blender; the open source software that I’ve used before while modeling my Bee Flat design.
The GIF’s have bad compression, I’m aware. They are just for illustrative purposes.
First I had to find a way to import geodata into blender. This was a bit tricky to get working. After following this tutorial I got a decently recognizable view of the maas river.
Now it was time to try to get a more pixelated look out of the rendered images, this is after all the style of the project. After a little bit of adjustment, I got the following nodes to make it work.
Next up was finding a way to add a bunch of flying cars; luckily blender has particle systems to make this work.
After creating two differently colored vehicle models, it was a matter of following another tutorial and voila, flying cars. Sounds easy right? Took me all night to get it working (._.) But at last it was working.
Next up; A nice splash of colour. There’s a nice addon for easily creating a ‘skybox’ which is a large image surrounding my digital set. After a couple minutes of tweaking, I got this result. | <urn:uuid:9daaa77d-09e5-43fe-91df-c6950f09e00d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://celestinalbers.nl/2021/11/29/but-will-it-blend/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.965641 | 304 | 1.679688 | 2 |
As mainstream feminism is being effectively mobilized to support a capitalist, racist agenda, it is more important than ever to build a feminism that recognizes how different forms of oppression are bound together. From the grassroots history of the first wave, to human rights violations within women's prisons, demands for sex worker’s rights, and calls for a feminist politics to combat fascism, our feminist bookshelf includes all of your essential radical feminist reading.
In this exciting, innovative work, Polish feminist philosopher Ewa Majewska proposes a specifically feminist politics of antifascism.
Why do patriarchal systems survive? In this groundbreaking work of feminist theory, Nancy Folbre examines the contradictory effects of capitalist development.
In this brilliant and kaleidoscopic look at the emerging feminist international, Verónica Gago uses the women’s strike as both a concept and a collective experience. At once a gripping political analysis and a theoretically charged manifesto, Feminist International draws on the author’s rich experience with radical movements to enter into ongoing debates in feminist and Marxist theory.
A provocative, elegantly written analysis of female desire, consent, and sexuality in the age of MeToo.
One of our most vital and incisive writers on literature, feminism, and knowing one’s self.
The story of how enslaved women struggled for freedom in the West Indies.
An unprecedented collection of feminist voices from four millennia of global history.
A new manifesto for cyberfeminism.
In Feminist City, through history, personal experience and popular culture Leslie Kern exposes what is hidden in plain sight: the social inequalities built into our cities, homes, and neighborhoods. Kern offers an alternative vision of the feminist city.
Interviews include Avtar Brah, Gail Lewis and Vron Ware on Diaspora, Migration and Empire. Himani Bannerji, Gary Kinsman, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, and Silvia Federici on Colonialism, Capitalism, and Resistance. Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Avery F. Gordon and Angela Y. Davis on Abolition Feminism.
How can we learn to value difference when it is too often enlisted in the service of domination? Hark and Villa make a compelling case for the urgent necessity for a detoxification of feminism as a matter of urgency, and for an ethical mode of living-with the world.
In the era of #MeToo and mass incarceration, The Feminist and the Sex Offender makes a powerful feminist case for accountability without punishment and sexual safety and pleasure without injustice.
In this landmark collection spanning three centuries and four waves of feminist activism and writing, Burn It Down! is a testament to what is possible when women are driven to the edge. The manifesto—raging and wanting, quarreling and provoking—has always played a central role in feminism, and it’s the angry, brash feminism we need now.
Second Wave feminism emerged as a struggle for women’s liberation and took its place alongside other radical movements. But feminism’s subsequent immersion in identity politics coincided with a decline in its utopian energies and the rise of neoliberalism. Now, foreseeing a revival in the movement, Fraser argues for a reinvigorated feminist radicalism able to address the global economic crisis.
Females is Andrea Long Chu’s genre-defying investigation into sex and lies, desperate artists and reckless politics, the smothering embrace of gender and the punishing force of desire.
Drawing inspiration from a forgotten play by Valerie Solanas—the woman who wrote the SCUM Manifesto and shot Andy Warhol—Chu aims her searing wit and surgical intuition at targets ranging from performance art to psychoanalysis, incels to porn. She even has a few barbs reserved for feminists like herself. Each step of the way, she defends the indefensible claim that femaleness is less a biological state and more a fatal existential condition that afflicts the entire human race— men, women, and everyone else. Or maybe she’s just projecting.
In Revolting Prostitutes, sex workers Juno Mac and Molly Smith bring a fresh perspective to questions that have long been contentious. Speaking from a growing global sex worker rights movement, and situating their argument firmly within wider questions of migration, work, feminism, and resistance to white supremacy, they make clear that anyone committed to working towards justice and freedom should be in support of the sex worker rights movement.
Unaffordable housing, poverty wages, inadequate healthcare, border policing, climate change—these are not what you ordinarily hear feminists talking about. But aren’t they the biggest issues for the vast majority of women around the globe?
Unafraid of exploring the potentials of technology, both its tyrannical and emancipatory possibilities, the manifesto seeks to uproot forces of repression that have come to seem inevitable—from the family, to the body, to the idea of gender itself
In this collection of new and previously published writings, leading activists, feminists, scholars, and writers describe the shape of the problem, chart the forms refusal has taken, and outline possible solutions. Importantly, they also describe the longer histories of organizing against sexual violence that the #MeToo moment obscures—among working women, women of color, undocumented women, imprisoned women, poor women, among those who don’t conform to traditional gender roles—and discern from these practices a freedom that is more than notional, but embodied and uncompromising.
In Playing the Whore, journalist Melissa Gira Grant turns these pieties on their head, arguing for an overhaul in the way we think about sex work. Based on ten years of writing and reporting on the sex trade, and grounded in her experience as an organizer, advocate, and former sex worker, Playing the Whore dismantles pervasive myths about sex work, criticizes both conditions within the sex industry and its criminalization, and argues that separating sex work from the "legitimate" economy only harms those who perform sexual labor.
Rather than looking at surrogacy through a legal lens, Lewis argues that the needs and protection of surrogates should be put front and center. Their relationship to the babies they gestate must be rethought, as part of a move to recognize that reproduction is productive work.
Promise of a Dream is a moving, witty and poignant recollection of a time when young women were breaking all the rules. Sheila Rowbotham was, and remains, one of their most effective and endearing voices.
Flora Tristan was one of the first women radicals to draw clear connections between the plight of disaffected workers and powerless women. Active in the 1830s and 1840s, and regarded as something of a pariah, she is best known for her book Workers’ Union, an account of the conditions of women in Peru, London, Paris and the provinces of France.
Through interviews with the Feminist Five and other leading Chinese activists, Hong Fincher illuminates both the difficulties they face and their “joy of betraying Big Brother,” as one of the Feminist Five wrote of the defiance she felt during her detention. Tracing the rise of a new feminist consciousness now finding expression through the #MeToo movement, and describing how the Communist regime has suppressed the history of its own feminist struggles, Betraying Big Brother is a story of how the movement against patriarchy could reconfigure China and the world.
This new edition includes a foreword by Lola Okolosie and an interview with the authors, chaired by Heidi Safia Mirza, focusing on the impact of their book since publication and its continuing relevance today
Segal believes we have lost the art of “radical happiness”—the liberation that comes with transformative, collective joy. She argues that instead of obsessing about our own well-being we should seek fulfilment in the lives of others. Examining her own experience in the women’s movement, Segal looks at the relationship between love and sex, and the scope for utopian thinking as a means to a better future.
In July 2012, aged thirty, Juliet Jacques underwent sex reassignment surgery—a process she chronicled with unflinching honesty in a serialised national newspaper column. Trans tells of her life to the present moment: a story of growing up, of defining yourself, and of the rapidly changing world of gender politics.
First published in 1990, Michele Wallace’s Invisibility Blues is widely regarded as a landmark in the history of black feminism. Wallace’s considerations of the black experience in America include recollections of her early life in Harlem; a look at the continued underrepresentation of black voices in politics, media, and culture; and the legacy of such figures as Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Cade Bambara, Toni Morrison,and Alice Walker.
One of the most important tasks for contemporary feminist theory is to develop a concept of the subject able to meet the challenges facing feminist politics. Although theorists in the 1980s raised the problem of feminist subjectivity, Kathi Weeks contends that the limited nature of that discussion now blocks the further development of feminist theory.
A renowned historian introduces Mary Wollestonecraft’s seminal feminist tract.
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An international bestseller, originally published in 1970, when Shulamith Firestone was just twenty-five years old, The Dialectic of Sex was the first book of the women’s liberation movement to put forth a feminist theory of politics.
She presents feminism as the key radical ideology, the missing link between Marx and Freud, uniting their visions of the political and the personal. The Dialectic of Sex remains remarkably relevant today—a testament to Firestone’s startlingly prescient vision. The author died in 2012, but her ideas live on through this extraordinary book.
Originally published in 1978, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman caused a storm of controversy. Michele Wallace blasted the masculine biases of the black politics that emerged from the sixties. She described how women remained marginalized by the patriarchal culture of Black Power, demonstrating the ways in which a genuine female subjectivity was blocked by the traditional myths of black womanhood.
Now a global bestseller, the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchú, a Guatemalan peasant woman, reflects on the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America. Menchú vividly conveys the traditional beliefs of her community and her personal response to feminist and socialist ideas. Above all, these pages are illuminated by the enduring courage and passionate sense of justice of an extraordinary woman.
Beyond the Pale is a major contribution to anti-racist work, confronting the historical meanings of whiteness as a way of overcoming the moralism that so often infuses anti-racist movements.
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Days are gone when we used to live a very active lifestyle. We did not have technologically advanced gadgets or entertainment options and so, we used to do different types of outdoor and offline activities. Well, we are using the term ‘offline’ to let you understand that people in this 21st century are giving more importance to online activities. Yes, it is a fact that we are having a very sedentary lifestyle that is not good for our health. People need to understand that there are so many offline and outdoor activities that they can do to enjoy their life fully. You might be thinking about why we are discussing it. Well, it has an inextricable connection with the Screen-Free Week. Yes, Screen-Free Week is a kind of annual event and during this week communities, schools, families and children turn off the digital screens and turn on the real screen. Well, it means that instead of giving importance to television programs, people start reading, exploring the surroundings, enjoying nature, spending time with friends and family members, daydreaming, and many more.
It is exercise alone that supports these spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.Cicero
Know More About The Screen-Free Week
It was in 1994 when the TV-Free American championed this week. Adbusters magazine along with other organizations promoted this Screen-Free Week. Eventually, TV-Free American became the CSTA that is also known as the Center for Screen-Time Awareness. So, CSTA became an organization that basically encouraged people to that use electronic media very responsibly. This organization encourages people so that they can focus to live their life in a healthy way. People also participate in community participation.
It was in 2010 when the TV-Turnoff became Screen-Free Week. Over the course of time, technology has brought various entertainment gadgets. In other words, television was not only the digital screen; people have hand-held devices and computers. This is why CCFC changed the name and they renamed it as Screen-Free Week. Talking about the observance of this annual event, people observe it in the month of April. Yes, every year, people across the country observe the Screen-Free Week in the third week of April. If we talk about the important members, it includes White Dot in the United Kingdom and Adbusters in Canada. Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, American Medical Association and American Heart Association support this movement.
The Screen-Free Week Parenting
So, Screen-Free Week is a kind of international event. It is the time when families are encouraged to put away screens, spend time together as a family, go outdoors and many more. They only use screens if they have important works to do. When it comes to Screen-Free Week, you must know about Screen-Free parenting. Well, we are not telling you to completely turn off the screens. You might have important works and other things to do. But, parents will have to make sure that whenever kids will be around you, you will have to turn off the screens. You can observe the changes in your kids when they will not be getting access to screens during this week. It is a fact that screen use has been linked to aggression, addiction, anxiety and loss of focus. Therefore, Screen-Free Week can provide endless health benefits to people.
Activities To Do In Educational Institutions
The Screen-Free Week is not about suppressing digital media. It is designed in order to let the students understand that there is a life beyond the screens. There are certain activities that teachers can conduct during this week.
- Media Literacy: As an educator, you can tell the students that watching TV and playing video games are enjoyable activities. But, there are many more things to do. Teachers can conduct brainstorming activities in schools. They can make a routine for outdoor activities. Apart from this, they can create a big calendar.
- Creative Thinking: Well, if the students spend most of their time watching TV and playing video games, it will actually hamper their creativity. Teachers in educational institutions can organize different types of activities that will titillate the creativity of the students. Teachers will have to make sure that students put themselves into various creative activities. Moreover, teachers will have to make sure that students are enjoying their activities.
In short, Screen-Free Week is not about giving up. It is about what you are getting. When you are turning off screens, you are getting a lot of time that you can utilize to live your life in the best way. You will experience pleasure and mental serenity while doing offline activities such as playing outdoor games and spending time with families.
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Lockdown has been hard. Adjusting to normality – or the new normality – hasn’t been easy either.
Covid-19 lockdowns with furloughs and fewer options on weekends have pushed people more and more into drinking at home, raising the importance of alcohol free drinks.
Being isolated is never fun, in fact, it can be fairly miserable under conditions that were consistently found throughout the COVID lockdowns. People couldn’t go out, see friends, furloughed workers didn’t even have the option to feel productive while locked in at home. Boredom was rife throughout the national lockdowns and boredom can lead to dangerous habits like drinking. Studies have found that over a quarter of people upped their drinking through the lockdowns.
And when pubs opened, despite attempts to keep drinking capped, excitement took hold and many, even those who hadn’t been drinking while in lockdown were now in pubs and bars on an almost daily basis.
Business owners and entrepreneurs must remain focused in order to succeed and with drinking on the up-and-up it’s getting harder to stay on track – not to mention all the health risks associated with regular consumption of alcohol. With more and more options becoming available for alcohol-free drinks, they may be a great option that can help us loosen up a bit while curbing alcoholism trends that lockdowns have exacerbated.
Why go 0%?
We’ve all heard it many times over, alcohol-free drinks are boring and you can’t properly loosen up with them. Studies have shown that more people want to make the switch to alcohol-free drinking every now and then. And why not, the prospect of having a good night out with your friends, catch up, laugh, and then in the morning, there are no headaches or ill mornings sounds fantastic.
There are more and more alcohol-free drinks being made with as much care put into them as their alcoholic equivalents, whether that’s a 0.0% lager or a non-alcoholic cocktail (mocktail). These drinks also benefit from lower calories due to the removal of alcohol. With drinks like these getting better and better you can get that genuine taste without having to worry about a taxi home.
Alcohol can have serious effects on mental health, making that switch to alcohol-free drinking, even if only a couple of times a week can do wonders for your health and wellbeing. Success relies on a strong mindset and alcohol can have a huge effect on that. Alcohol-free drinks make it easy to go out with friends or colleagues, join in and have fun, but will keep you away from the negative effects of drinking later on in the night and the morning after.
What else can you do?
If there is a stigma around alcohol-free drinking in your friend group, be open about your support and reasoning for drinking non-alcoholic. You never know, many suffer in silence, and one of your friends who wants to make that switch but can’t quite alone may feel more encouraged to try drinking alcohol-free every now and then alongside you.
Talking about alcoholism, as awkward as it may seem at first, maybe exactly what’s needed to convince a friend or colleague to try out alcohol-free drinks or move towards quitting altogether. With the resources available it’s easier than ever to move away from alcoholism. It can be a long process, but the hardest step is often the first – you can help with that.
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Iraj Harirchi, Iran’s deputy health minister, has placed himself in isolation after testing positive to coronavirus.
The country’s ministry of health announced that Harirchi had contracted the disease on Tuesday.
Harirchi, who has spearheaded Iran’s efforts to contain the virus, also confirmed that he had the disease.
In a video he aired from his house, the minister said he would begin treatment immediately.
“I wanted to tell you that I got corona. I had a fever yesterday. The tests came back positive last night. I isolated myself. Just a few moments ago, I was told that the final test came,” Harirchi said in a video he posted on social media.
“I’ll start taking medicine. Generally, I feel fine. I just felt a bit tired, I had a fever, and it will drop.”
Harirchi, who said the disease is no respected of persons, assured the people that the disease would be defeated in a matter of weeks.
“Be sure with the effort of the medical staff and ministry of health headed by the [health minister] and with your support and the state and military within the coming weeks, we’ll be victorious against this virus,” he said.
“We’ll defeat corona. Be assured. I’m saying this deep from my heart. This virus is democratic, and it doesn’t distinguish between poor and rich or statesman and an ordinary citizen.
“Many might get infected, but we have enough effective medicine, take care of yourselves. Take care of the nurses and doctors who work heroically.
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An ambitious package of antitrust legislation passed the U.S. House Judiciary Committee last week, advancing the battle to rein in big tech. The six bills — including one sponsored by U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D., Pa.) — aim to weaken the market dominance of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. Supporters say the proposals, like banning tech platforms from acquiring potential rivals, will break up harmful monopolies. But in line with big tech lobbying against the package, opponents counter it will punish innovation and harm services valued by consumers. Joining what would be the biggest expansion of the federal government’s antitrust powers in generations, Scanlon’s proposal focuses on enabling users to move data like photos and contacts from one platform to another, making it easier to switch services.
To tap into this debate, The Inquirer turned to an attorney and cybersecurity expert and a tech industry advocate to debate: Should Congress pass this package?
Yes: The Big Four has too much power and other companies can fill gaps.
Technology increasingly dominates our lives, and a few massive companies monopolize tech. Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google, collectively known as the Big Four, wield disproportionate control over web content, what users can do online, and what happens to users’ personal data.
The combined market cap for these corporations, including Google’s parent company Alphabet, exceeds $8 trillion, reflecting their dominance. The tricks they employ to limit competition are as old as robber barons. They buy up competitors, use their money and influence to crowd out alternatives, and lower their prices to put others out of business. Instagram, Waze, and hundreds of others have been assimilated or, like Toys R Us and Borders, destroyed at least in part by the Big Four.
Innovation should thrive in today’s tech world, but it does not. Because the Big Four engage in predatory “copycat” behavior of startups who hit on promising new ideas — witness Microsoft introducing Teams years after Slack showed success — former Harvard Business School professor Thales Teixeira writes that some venture capitalists may be reluctant to invest in startups. Competitors don’t stand a chance — and small businesses and consumers are the other victims.
Amazon handles nearly half of all e-commerce. Sites owned or operated by Google or Facebook are estimated to manage over 70% of internet referrals. We cannot avoid them. If you’re looking for locally made hand sanitizer, you’ll have to know to search on Etsy.
When the government allows monopolies, it is complicit in their power grabs. But the complicity can also be unwitting. Antitrust laws have often lagged behind the unfair business practices that they attempt to regulate. Enforcement declined from the late-1970s until the mid-2010s due to Reagan era laissez-faire economics and few antitrust prosecutions, including challenges to mergers, were brought.
Passing the full package of legislation will help end Big Tech’s dominance. The Platform Competition and Opportunity Act, for example, can deter unlawful mergers by shifting the burden of proof to dominant platforms to show they will not harm competitors. The ACCESS Act gives the FTC new authority and enforcement tools to enact pro-competitive rules so consumers can switch platforms and take their data.
Some say these bills will harm consumers, but they miss the point. Consumers may lose some Google or Apple products but will gain far more with a truly competitive marketplace. One reason AT&T had to divest its Bell Systems was because it was impeding innovators, including MCI’s Bill McGowan who offered to deliver less expensive long-distance service. Many new and upcoming digital innovators with breakthrough or promising ideas are waiting to make it to the marketplace. Let them in.
Many new and upcoming digital innovators with promising ideas are waiting to make it to the marketplace. Let them in.
And these laws are just the first step. As professor Herbert Hovenkamp from the University of Pennsylvania Law School wrote, government antitrust cases often fall apart in the remedy stage when a complaint is brought. Antitrust laws, he says, aren’t instructive on what remedies to impose. In the case of the Big Four, some of his suggestions are: injunctions against competitively harmful conduct; selling off subsidiary business interests to undo mergers; court orders governing commercial decision processes; and mandatory interoperability so that, for example, users can move their personal data from one service to another.
Critics of these bills don’t give us — as consumers and creators — enough credit. If we prevent the Big Four from engaging in practices to ensure dominance — anticompetitive mergers, price dumping, backroom deals, and the like — then other businesses will fill the gap and give consumers what they need and want.
Heidi Boghosian is an attorney and author of “‘I Have Nothing to Hide’ and 20 Other Myths About Surveillance and Privacy.”
No: Some of the bills disregard Americans who rely on tech services.
Two of the bills currently being considered by Congress as part of a tech regulation package could ban Amazon from offering low-cost AmazonBasics products and Google from showing you a map of the top-ranked cheesesteak places nearby. They could forbid iPhones from coming with Siri, or Facebook from including Messenger as part of the Facebook app. Thank goodness Congress is focused on the big problems facing the country.
Under the guise of antitrust reform, The “American Innovation and Choice Online Act,” authored by Rep. David Cicilline, and the “Ending Platform Monopolies Act,” authored by Rep. Pramila Jayapal, substitute government mandate for consumer choice. It’s an approach that ignores the very real benefits of online services and disregards the millions of Americans who value these services.
The Jayapal bill’s prohibition on any potential “conflict of interest” would force Google to sell off products like Gmail, YouTube, and Google Maps — putting these free services at risk and eliminating a variety of helpful integrations. Cicilline’s bill, while narrower, would ban so-called “discriminatory conduct,” preventing Amazon from providing free two-day shipping on its own Prime products.
They couldn’t have picked a worse time to offer these changes. The pandemic laid bare how important low-cost or free conveniences offered by tech services are to Pennsylvanians. We were able to see distant loved ones, for free, thanks to Zoom, FaceTime, and Facebook. Amazon helped keep our pantries stocked when we had to stay socially distant. Google Search and Maps connected small businesses with overwhelmingly supportive local communities. And social media platforms helped government officials provide timely, accurate health information to the public.
These bills would force the removal of many of these providers’ helpful features, along with many more from Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.
If these bills are passed, simple conveniences such as Amazon Basics underwear, or seeing the full lyrics of a song appearing when you do a Google search, would be banned. New iPhones couldn’t include preinstalled versions of Apple’s “Find My Phone” app, forcing customers to hunt for the right app themselves in the App Store.
“It’s hard to see how any of these changes help consumers. Let alone make our lives better.”
It’s hard to see how any of these changes help consumers. Let alone make our lives better.
To be clear, there’s room for improvement in the tech sector. We should increase competition in markets by making it easier to switch between services through new data portability laws, like the proposal authored by Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon. And regulators should have the funding and resources to effectively do their jobs and enforce the laws already on the books.
But the changes offered by Reps. David Cicilline and Pramila Jayapal do nothing to address these problems or the very real issues faced by Pennsylvanians today. Instead, they take away low- or no-cost digital services relied upon by our communities.
Policymakers should be working to help us recover from the pandemic, not kneecapping the services that helped us get through it. Congress should be focused on the very real issues facing our country, not using its power to ban or break helpful tools and products.
Adam Kovacevich is CEO of the Chamber of Progress, a center-left tech industry policy coalition promoting technology’s progressive future. Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google are among its partner companies. He has worked at the intersection of tech and politics for 20 years, leading public policy at Google and Lime and serving as a Democratic Hill aide. | <urn:uuid:ee129bc9-e929-42fc-b2d2-07900919c2c1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.inquirer.com/news/congress-antitrust-big-tech-mary-gay-scanlon-20210701.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.940636 | 1,829 | 2.078125 | 2 |
The eyes are able to express what words cannot. We do not only use them to see, but also to connect with other people. Often, they dominate our emotional communication and convey multiple feelings. Their power of connecting and their ability to translate complex emotions is at the heart of our new exhibition Congo Eyes, featuring Aza Mansongi’s and Jonathan Vatunga’s artistic research. By depicting the human figure with a particular attention given to the eyes, they allow the viewer to deal with their subjects on a more personal level. Through this communication process, the artists engage in an experience with each spectator establishing an intercultural dialogue. However, if these two young Congolese artists both desire interaction with their audiences, they are seeing the world in different ways and in their own very distinctive manners.
With her art, influenced by the Popular painting movement, Aza Mansongi (°1980) explores the dynamics of human relations. « No one can evolve alone, everyone needs someone else » she often says. Following this thought, she represents human figures in groups or couples, and focuses on the complex relationships between them. Long and expressive faces, reminding African tribal masks, are the most important part of her compositions. All the characters actions can be understood through their exaggerated facial expressions.
Furthermore, Aza highlights the « contagious » nature of some feelings by overlapping faces and bodies, and creating new hybrid beings bounded in a common emotion. If the link emerging between the characters is the central one, the one made with the viewers isn’t less essential. Through a complex play of gazes, Aza reveals to us parts of open-ended stories. In this way, she gives to the spectator the possibility to give his/her own meaning to the scene. Sometimes, the connection with the viewer is also made by the direct gaze hidden in the painting, such as in Radar and Boomerang (both works being part of the exhibition).
Those piercing eyes attract our attention and create a mysterious and dreamy atmosphere reinforced by the many symbols present in the paintings. Animals such as fishes and birds or artificial lights are small symbolic elements which give a supplementary layer to the scenes. Their presence, added to the ubiquitous tribal masks, enables Aza to underline another alliance: the strong connection between past and present, tradition and innovation. Expressing each relation more as a constantly changing flux rather than a static moment, Aza’s works can be seen as a true celebration of life itself.
As for Aza Mansongi, Jonathan Vatunga (°1996) often emphasizes the importance of social interactions in his art. Witnessing the impact of globalization on cultural and personal identities, he wishes to encourage people to share their experiences, but without loosing their own personality. To address this problem, the artist plays with the visual language, mixing abstraction and realism, to create human figures being both unique and plural at the same time. The multilayer aspect of Jonathan’s paintings, obtained by an addition of paint, glue and engravings, reinforces the duality between collective and individual aspects of our existence.
In his compositions, the eyes —always represented in a realistic way — are the place where the personal feelings connect with social expectations. The resulting pressure from this interaction may contribute to the dissolution of our identity — a situation represented by means of blurring faces.
In Jonathan Vatunga works, Fashion or Manners and Facing Reality, the conflict between individual emotions and public requirement is particularly striking. To highlight this complex situation, Jonathan uses not only a transition in styles, from realism to abstraction, but also make use of an element of the composition. Indeed, the reflections in the sunglasses are mirrors not only of the outside world but also of the inner thoughts of the character. By overlapping these two realities, the artist creates a dialogue between them and therefore enables their reconciliation.
"Oro, the essence of communication, takes place in the eyes."
- Old Yoruba adage
Jonathan Vatunga (°1996), Mode ou mœurs [Fashion or manners]. 2018, Mixed media, 39,4 x 39,4 in ; 100 x 100 cm. © Jonathan Vatunga & AfricArt Gallery Hong Kong.
Jonathan Vatunga (°1996), Regard [The Look]. 2018, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 39,4 x 39,4 in ; 100 x 100 cm. © Jonathan Vatunga & AfricArt Gallery Hong Kong.
Jonathan Vatunga (°1996), Face à la Réalité [Facing Reality]. 2018, Mixed media, 39,4 x 29,5 in ; 100 x 75 cm. © Jonathan Vatunga & AfricArt Gallery Hong Kong.
Aza Mansongi (°1980), Carrefour [A Crossroad], 2012. Acrylic on canvas, 31,5 x 31,5 inch ; 80 x 80 cm. © Aza Mansongi & AfricArt Gallery Hong Kong.
Aza Mansongi (°1980), Abnégation [Self-sacrifice], 2016. Acrylic on coton canvas, 31,5 x 31,5 inch ; 80 x 80 cm. © Aza Mansongi & AfricArt Gallery Hong Kong.
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