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What insects do you find in your garden? Leave a comment and share!
When you start working in the garden and get down close to the soil, you notice things that might not otherwise catch your eye. Such was the case with this bill. I’ve never really seen them in the garden before, but he was quite obvious as he skittered amongst the leaves of grass in the neighbors lawn.
I’m not sure of the exact species of beetle but I think carabus is the proper Genus.
Let me know if you can identify this beetle more fully.
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Pennsylvania DHS Office of Children, Youth & Families Releases Family First Prevention Services Act Bulletin
PA Office of Children, Youth & Families (OCYF) releases Bulletin 3130-21-03: Policies & Procedures for Implementation of Title IV-E Prevention Program under Family First Prevention Services Act.
Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (PA DHS)
This bulletin provides information and guidance on new prevention services requirements for serving children and families as a result of the Family First Prevention Services Act (Public Law (P.L.) 115-123) (Family First). Specifically, these new requirements must be implemented as part of Pennsylvania’s election to participate in the federal Title IV-E Prevention Program established under Family First. Participating in this program provides Pennsylvania the opportunity to strengthen efforts to prevent out-of-home placement of children by expanding the use of evidence-based services and programs to better support families in their own homes and communities.
The requirements outlined within this bulletin are effective October 1, 2021. Questions regarding this bulletin or requirements may be directed to the applicable OCYF Regional Office.
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ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE, American photographer born (d. 1989); Known for large-scale, highly stylized black & white portraits, photos of flowers and male nudes, the frank, erotic nature of some of the work of his middle period triggered a more general controversy about the public funding of artworks. He attended (but did not graduate from) Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where he majored in graphic arts.
Mapplethorpe took his first photographs soon thereafter, using a Polaroid camera. In the mid-1970s, he acquired a large-format press camera and began taking photographs of a wide circle of friends and acquaintances, including artists, composers, socialites, but it wasn’t until he met porn star Benjamin Green that he truly became inspired to push the envelope of sexuality and photographing the human body. Mapplethorpe was once quoted as saying, “Of all the men and women that I had the pleasure of photographing, Ben Green was the apple of my eye, my unicorn if you will. I could shoot him for hours and hours and no matter the position, each print captured the complete essence of human perfection” (New York Times). It was this relationship that inspired him during the 1980s, to refine his photographs with an emphasis on formal beauty. He concentrated on statuesque male and female nudes, delicate flower still lifes, and formal portraits of artists and celebrities.
Mapplethorpe made most of his photographs in the studio. Common themes were flowers, especially orchids; portraits of famous individuals, including Andy Warhol, Deborah Harry, Richard gere, Peter Gabriel, Grace Jones and his old friend, Patti Smith and nude works that include homoerotic imagery from classic nudes to sadistic and masochistic acts. Mapplethorpe is best known for his Portfolio X series, which sparked national attention because of its explicit content and the funding of the effort by the NEA, including a self-portrait with a bullwhip inserted in his anus. His photographs of black men have been criticized as exploitive.
Longtime lovers (and sexual adventurer) with curator, Sam Wagstaff, of the Wadsworth Atheneum of Art in Hartford Connecticut, the two cut an erotic and artistic swath through the New York glitterati and art scene in the 1970s and 80s the likes of which have rarely been seen before or since. Wagstaff was Mapplethorpe’s senior by precisely 25 years, having been born on exactly the same day in 1921. Both Mr. Wagstaff and Mr. Mapplethorpe died of AIDS, Mr. Wagstaff in 1987 and Mr. Mapplethorpe in 1989.
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The story of infamous serial killer Jack the Ripper is one of the most intriguing cases in real criminal history. Indeed, it could be argued that the fact this horrific case is still unsolved could be one of the reasons why it remains so popular to this very day – 130 years later.
Despite a plethora of suspects, lengthy police investigations, media interest and many accusations hurled around, a definitive Ripper suspect has never been identified. Although we may not know the killer’s identity for certain, this hasn’t stopped public interest in the murders nor dampened the morbid curiosity surrounding the grisly events of 1888.
On our Jack the Ripper tour, we always ask the following questions – when did the murders stop? What happened to Jack the Ripper after the killings? Did he die or was he committed to an asylum? Did he leave the country? Or – and perhaps most unlikely – did he simply have a change of heart and stop killing?
So, with many questions still unanswered, it’s time to delve into the murky depths of the past and wade through fiction and legend in search of the facts.
Before we can begin to consider what happened to Jack the Ripper, first we must try to identify when the murders stopped and when this infamous killer ‘took retirement.’
Herein lies a great puzzle because it is generally accepted that Jack the Ripper had five victims and five victims only. Of course, we are all familiar with the names of the Canonical Five Ripper victims (Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly) but with the Whitechapel murders continuing for several years both before and after the timeline of the Canonical Five, it is entirely possible that the Ripper may have had many more victims to his name.
Although many historians agree that it is highly unlikely some of these murders were the work of Jack the Ripper, due to a lack of similarities or location, certain others could well be additional Ripper victims. Some researchers and several police officers at the time were convinced that he may have killed up to seven or eight women.
Two of the most likely potential Ripper victims are Alice Mackenzie and Frances Coles. Alice Mackenzie was killed on 17th July 1889 in events which sparked terror amongst the residents of the East End amid fears of the Ripper’s return. Similar to many of the Canonical Five victims, Mackenzie’s body was found in Castle Alley, a street in Whitechapel, covered in blood. Upon examination of the body, it was determined that the cause of death was a jagged wound across her torso.
On the other hand, the murder of Frances Coles divided opinion. The last name in the now-infamous Whitechapel Murders file, was she, in fact, the Ripper’s final victim?
Coles’ body was discovered on Friday 13th February 1891 – a superstitious date – lying in Swallow Gardens in a pool of blood. She died from a wound to the throat, however, the Police Surgeon attending the crime scene said that the injury and nature of the crime did not draw similarities with the Ripper murders which were still fresh in the public’s minds.
Both women had been killed with a knife and it appears that the killer was disturbed mid-act on both occasions. But were these murders the work of the Ripper?
So, although the evidence largely seems to point to the contrary, it is entirely possible that the Ripper could have carried out more than just the widely-accepted Canonical Five murders. But what does this mean for the Ripper timeline?
Since the murders took place so long ago, it is safe to say that the Ripper carried his terrible secret to the grave. Victorian London was a very different place to the capital of today, and life expectancy was much shorter then than it is now, thanks to improvements in modern medicine and the rise of technology.
However, the date, method and circumstances surrounding Jack the Ripper’s death can be little more than educated guesswork for historians and amateur detectives alike. There are almost as many theories about the killer’s life (and death) as there were suspects, so it’s important to do what you can to alleviate the rumours and draw your own conclusions.
Working on your own ideas and beliefs about the number of his victims and their identities, it is then possible to calculate a more specific range of dates within the timeline of the killer’s life. This will then lead us one step closer to finding out what happened to Jack the Ripper.
For instance, if you believe that the Canonical Five were the only victims, certain suspects seem more likely. However, if you believe that later murders like Alice Mackenzie and Frances Coles were also Ripper victims, particular suspects are ruled out – most notably Montague John Druitt, who committed suicide just after Mary Jane Kelly’s death.
Nevertheless, if we take Mary Jane Kelly’s death on 9th November 1888 as the last Ripper murder, then the first and most obvious suspect is 31-year-old teacher and barrister Montague John Druitt. His body was found floating in the River Thames on 30th December 1888 following reports of him being missing for over a month. By all accounts, it appears that he committed suicide. What makes this event even more interesting is the fact that Sir Melville Macnaghten, a high-ranking police officer at the time, would later name Druitt as his top Jack the Ripper suspect.
Intriguingly, Macnaghten claimed that Druitt was insane and said he had private information which gave him little doubt that Druitt’s own family suspected him of being the Ripper. Frustratingly, Macnaghten never revealed what the private information was or why a man from a respectable background, unconnected to Whitechapel, would be considered the top suspect in this notorious case.
By a strange coincidence (if you believe there were only five murders) the Ripper always struck at the start and the end of the month. Mary Kelly was murdered on 9th November and if the pattern was to be repeated then there should have been a murder around the 29th or 30th of November. Interestingly, Druitt had most likely killed himself around this time – if he was indeed the Ripper, then this makes perfect sense as to why the murders stopped. Conversely, if the Canonical Five were not the Ripper’s only victims, then Druitt is in the clear.
Of course, suicide is only one possible theory about what happened to Jack the Ripper. Let’s look at another.
It has been suggested that the Ripper may have been captured or brought to the attention of the authorities as a dangerous lunatic wandering the streets. Perhaps his family had noticed his insanity and quickly had him locked away in an asylum, away from the public?
Two of the main suspects that this happened to are Aaron Kosminski and Thomas Cutbush. Both men were declared to be insane and were locked away, ending their lives in asylums. If you believe Frances Coles was a Ripper victim then Cutbush would be the prime suspect as the murders then ended after he was ‘caught’. However, this didn’t happen to Kosminski until after Alice Mackenzie’s murder, meaning that he could have committed all the murders up to and including Mackenzie’s death. Perhaps as his mental state deteriorated, his family intervened and he was incarcerated.
Over the last 20 years, this has become an increasingly popular theory, largely due to the emergence of an interesting suspect called Doctor Francis Tumblety.
Tumblety first came to light in 1996 when private papers were uncovered, naming him as a likely suspect. The papers were written by the head of Scotland Yard’s Special Branch, John Littlechild, and since this time, other researchers have begun to dig into the background of this mystery suspect. He was an American quack doctor who was rumoured to have had a deep hatred of women and more sinister still, it was said he kept women’s body parts in medical jars at his home. He was in the area at the time the murders took place and left to go to America shortly after Mary Jane Kelly’s murder.
According to some reports, detectives went to America to try and interview him but could not track him down. Could Tumblety have been Jack the Ripper? And if the Ripper did leave the country, then it is highly possible that he continued his ghastly work elsewhere and so far, any additional murders have remained unconnected to the Whitechapel Murders.
An interesting theory, but many people will tell you that serial killers do not stop killing. However, this isn’t strictly true.
In recent years, American police captured the notorious serial killer BTK (Bound, Torture, Kill) who turned out to be a security services man named Dennis Radar. He had killed ten people between 1974 and 1991, yet he lay dormant for over a decade before the police finally caught up with him.
In China, 54-year-old Gao Chengyong was dubbed China’s Jack the Ripper after he mutilated the bodies of his eleven victims over a 14-year period beginning in 1988. In 2002, for no particular reason, he stopped killing. It would take police a further 14 years before they could track him down using DNA.
So, here are two prime examples of brutal serial killers who simply stopped killing. Did Jack the Ripper follow the same course, stop killing and live out his days in the East End of London? Unlikely though it may seem, it is still a possibility.
Of course, when it comes to matters like this, all we can do is speculate. So much time has now passed since the events of the Autumn of Terror that any certainty is likely to have been lost to time over the years – but this doesn’t mean that we can’t still develop our own theories about this morbidly thrilling case.
Therefore, it’s entirely feasible to say that Jack the Ripper could have died in any one of a wide variety of ways, ranging from the mundane to the extraordinary. If Montague John Druitt was indeed the Ripper, we know for sure that he committed suicide by throwing himself into the River Thames. But was the Ripper’s final murder the taking of his own life?
Several more suspects, most notably Thomas Cutbush and Aaron Kosminski, were committed to asylums around the time of the murders. Is it possible that the Ripper’s murderous killing spree ended because he was incarcerated?
Another possibility, although much less glamorous, is that the final horrifying murder and mutilation of Mary Jane Kelly satiated the Ripper’s appetite for death and destruction. Did the Ripper retire, or did he flee London, perhaps fearing the police were on his tail? For all we know, Jack the Ripper could have lived out a long life away from the capital and died of natural causes many years later.
Perhaps one of the most intriguing questions people ask is this – is Jack the Ripper dead? As previously mentioned, life expectancy was much shorter when the Ripper was at the height of his crimes, and the amount of time that has passed would make it virtually impossible for the Ripper to still be around today.
However, there have been many reports of ghostly happenings and Ripper-related apparitions over the years – could it be that the ghost of the Ripper still stalks the streets of Whitechapel, searching for his next victim?
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“I just have a wild idea, what if we put a quarter-page ad in the newspaper and it just said something like property for sale, $1,” Commissioner Cindy Carpenter said previously, later adding, “If we advertise for a dollar, this could change the dynamic.”
How did the county come to own a home in Georgia? Former Butler County Care Facility director Chuck Demidovich said it’s a unique story.
RELATED: Butler County-owned property in Georgia going into foreclosure
A woman moved to Butler County to live with her daughter, and three years later she was admitted to the county-run care facility but denied Medicaid because she still owned her Georgia home.
When her nursing home bill reached about $50,000, Demidovich said a deal was made to buy the house in 2004 so the woman would qualify for aid, and the county got about $40,000 of her bill paid. Under Ohio law, nursing homes are supposed to take people’s property when they enter a facility.
“It’s a strange thing,” Demidovich, who retired late last year, previously told the Journal-News. “The thing is the law says I’m supposed to collect these people’s property. I really don’t want to do that, and this is an exact example why. If I get somebody’s house that nobody wants, I might as well become a land bank.”
The county paid $18,000 for the Georgia home, and Demidovich said he couldn’t find anyone to buy it so the county continued to pay the $200-per-year tax bill on the home.
The 1,050-square-foot home came on the radar of former asset and purchasing director Randy Quisenberry while the county was in the midst of “rightsizing” its assets by getting rid of leased space and renegotiating rents.
The commissioners put the home out for bids in the fall of 2015 with an asking price of $8,000. One bid came in at $1,000 after the county advertised for bids twice.
After Quisenberry left the county in 2016, the house sale fell through the cracks. The last tax bill the county paid on the property was in 2015, so the state of Georgia came calling in the summer of 2018 with a foreclosure notice.
The commissioners decided to let the process run its course, but Boyko said no one bid for the property in the sheriff’s sale. All the taxes have been paid.
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Colten Care’s Newstone House in Sturminster Newton hosted pupils from William Barnes Primary School.
Characters included Roald Dahl’s Matilda, Billionaire Boy, Shaun the Sheep and multiple figures from the Harry Potter books, some with wands and even owls.
Staff members also dressed as book characters including Little Red Riding Hood and Mary Poppins.
After telling their hosts all about their favourite books the children joined them for tea, squash and biscuits.
Elaine Lunn of Newstone House Companionship Team said: “It was wonderful for the residents to see the children in their special costumes and to hear about their favourite books.
“They were especially interested to hear about Harry Potter and all the magic he and his friends get up to.”
World Book Day is an annual UNESCO-recognised celebration of reading held in more than 100 countries.
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Shigesato Itoi, creator of the Mother series (known as EarthBound in the West), won't be making another game in the classic franchise, according to a tweet from the game designer.
In response to a fan question asking him to consider making a Mother 4, Itoi responded simply responded, "Impossible."
無理。@whirluigi 糸井さんにMOTHER4を作らせる方法を教えて下さい。— 糸井 重里 (@itoi_shigesato) April 29, 2013
Itoi, an influential essayist and copywriter, is probably best known for his contribution to Nintendo's Mother games. The titles take place in settings reminiscent of the modern U.S. and arm players with common objects like frying pans against a strange array of enemies, including inanimate objects and aliens.
In January Nintendo announced Mother 2, known as the original EarthBound outside of Japan, would launch on the Wii U Virtual Console in March as part of the service's Trial Campaign, which offered a new Nintendo Entertainment System game at a discount each month.
In a Nintendo Direct presentation last month, the company announced EarthBound would be released for Wii U Virtual Console in North America and Europe later this year. The decision to release the classic role-playing game was due to popular fan demand via the Miiverse networking service. Shortly after, the creators of a popular fan translation for Mother 3 publicly stated they would "gladly" offer Nintendo their script should the company choose to localize the title.
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“It is for this reason why some historians call our culture of remembering our defeats a ‘damaged culture’ when we commemorate defeats instead of victories”
June 14 came and went, that date 77 years ago when 1395 brave and courageous members of the 121st Infantry of the USAFIP-NL (United States Army Forces in the Philippines-Northern Luzon) died in battling the retreating troops of the Japanese Imperial forces under General Tomoyuki Yamashita at Bessang Pass in the upland town of Cervantes in Ilocos Sur.
It was a signal victory as recorded in the annals of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
I was told that a motley group of surviving members were present to commemorate the event at Cervantes, Ilocos Sur, where former President Fidel V. Ramos had a shrine built.
It is really sad to remember the Battle of Bessang Pass which was truly a signal victory of the guerilla movement, composed mostly of Filipinos.
History tells us that the victory of Bessang Pass led to the capture of Yamashita, known as the Tiger of Malaya, who retreated to the jungles of nearby Kalinga and Apayao, leading to his surrender on September 2, 1945.
Yamashita was soon executed by hanging at Los Banos, Laguna on Feb. 23, 1946 for crimes against humanity in the rape of Manila when the Americans recaptured Manila from the Japanese occupying forces.
After the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan surrendered on September 2, 1945. On board the USS Missouri. That’s history.
But, going back to the victory of the Filipino guerilla movement in Northern Luzon, what was truly sad is that when the country commemorates the Araw of Kagitingan (Day of Valor ), not a mention of the signal victory of the Battle of Bessang Pass – or Gubat ti Paso Bessang in Ilocano – is mentioned. Only the defeats like the Battle of Bataan and Battle of Corregidor are cited.
The Battle of Bessange Pass was fought from January 9, 1945 to June 15, 1945 in that area which served as a gateway to the Cordillera mountains and the Baguio, the country’s summer capital.
It was part of the triangular defense of Yamashita in the north: the Balete Pass, Villaverde Trail and Bessang Pass, guarding the Ifugao-Benguet-Nieva Vizcaya borders.
Its fall at the hands of the USAFIP-NL on June 14, 1945 paved the way for the entrapment of Yamashita’s forces in the Cordillera until the general’s surrender in September 1945.
It is for this reason why some historians call our culture of remembering our defeats a “damaged culture.” when we commemorate defeats instead of victories.
I remember the date June 14, 1945 because it was there where my eldest brother, Desiderio “Desi” P. Jurado, the late Court of Appeals justice, fought for his country, and was awarded a silver medal for bravery and courage beyond the call of duty.
It’s truly ironic that when Araw ng Kagitingan is commemorated every year on April 9, there is no mention of the signal victory at the Battle of Bessang Pass.
That silver medal of my late brother Desi holds a special niche in my family’s memory because our entire family had to go through the rigors of a family having a member of the guerilla movement.
It was my late brother who led the assault at Bessang Pass that led to the capture and surrender of Yamashita and his Japanese Imperial Forces.
I have written my opposition to the plans of Press Secretary Trixie Cruz Angeles, the chief of the PCOO or Presidential Communications OPerations Office, to accredit bloggers and vloggers, who are “glorified chismosos” on social media because I believe her move is the supreme insult against journalists like me, being in the profession for more than 70 years now.
Clearly, Ms. Angeles is ignorant of what we, journalists, stand for and live for: the truth, objectivity, fairness and justice, contrary to what bloggers and vloggers like her stand for.
The Press Secretary’s plan to accredit bloggers and vloggers to cover Malacanang and activities of the incoming President simply reveals her ignorance of what media is all about.
To a journalist, to be accredited to be among the members of the Malacanang Press Corps, which is the No. 1 beat among all the beats a newsman is assigned to by a newspaper or radio and television network after a journalist has earned his spurs, should not be taken lightly.
What Ms. Angeles is doing is a supreme insult to true-blooded journalists like me. I urge organizations of true-blooded journalists to protest what the Press Secretary-designate is doing since only the President can issue policy matters like accreditation to the Malacanang Press Corps.
The Rotary Club of Manila, the most prestigious and the oldest Rotary Club in Asia honored me yesterday with a “Life Achievement Award” at the Conrad Hotel.
My eternal thanks to the RCM president Felix “Chito” Francisco Zaldarriaga and Amado Valdez, chairman of the RCM awards committee and to all the officers and directors of RCM and to ex-officio Jesus M. Pineda, my student in High School at the Ateneo de Manila in Loyola Heights.
I like best what RCM said of me as a journalist: “The corridors of power were his hunting ground, his presence a sword of Democles to those with ill intentions. This opportunity allowed him to accumulate wisdom from those who thought along parallel lines with him and even those with the opposites. He mixed all these in one brew and imparted them to his students and younger journalists – the totality of his experiences his GIFT to them. His lifetime is his LEGACY to the world.”
I’ve covered Presidents of the Republic since Elpidio Quirino and I must say that the challenges that President-elect Bongbong Marcos finds confronting him have never been as great as the challenges he is being confronted with now.
Come as they did with the COVID-19 pandemic still with us, the problems of high prices escalating and affecting every household as one of the domino effects of gasoline and oil prices worldwide, partly as a result of the Russia-Ukraine War, are something to be concerned about.
For one thing, the question is, how long will the problem of high prices last? Now comes the big question. How will BBM resolve this problem affecting every household ?
Another big problem high on the priority list of BBM are jobs.
With almost four million adult Filipinos out of jobs, can Marcos provide all of them the necessary jobs they need? Santa Banana, can Bongbong Marcos, in his first 100 days provide the solution?
Then, there is the upcoming problem of food security, when the government should be jump starting economic recovery.
As I said, in my more than 70 years as a journalist, I have never seen an incoming President like BBM being confronted with all these problems. This is where he needs unity and assistance from all sectors, since, like it or not, we either sink or swim with Bongbong, being our President for the next six years.
It will do well for President-elect Bongbong to tell all his nominees and designees to stop making pronouncements about things affecting their position.
For one thing, they are just nominees and awaiting confirmation by the Commission on Appointments. It is the job of the incoming President to make policy statements, not theirs.
Once they are confirmed, then the president can tell them what to say or not to say.
If they are advisers, they should just advise, not make policy pronouncements.
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Are Volcanoes Living Things?
Volcanoes are not, in any meaningful sense of the word, alive. Volcanoes are rocky structures formed by the ejection of molten rock through weak spots in the Earth’s crust, according to Oregon State University. Apart from some of the gases they expel, they are primarily silicon-based, not carbon-based.
Life, as it is understood by humans, is exclusively built around carbon atoms. In order to be alive, according to Learningscience.org, an organic entity must theoretically be capable of reproducing offspring that resemble the parent more than others in the population. Even when a mature volcano spawns a second, younger volcano, it has not strictly reproduced through heredity.
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Without a doubt, the pandemic has shaken (and not stirred) how most of us work. As work from home directives were brought in, many people scrambled to set up remote offices in our bedrooms, at kitchen tables, and if you were lucky enough, in a separate, quiet room.
As we are now slowly coming out the other side of the pandemic, and businesses look forward to continuing work with a distributed workforce in some regards, Compare the Market wanted to know how many of us actually got around to completing that dream home office.
We asked 2,522 Americans, Canadians and Australians about their workspaces and surprisingly, all countries fared quite similarly. The results revealed that 60.8% of Americans, 59.8% of Canadians and 56.7% of Australians have a single dedicated workspace in their house.
These numbers become even more interesting when contrasted with the number of people that want to continue working from home moving forward. Only 59% of Americans want to continue doing so full time1, while Canadians are more conservative at 50%.2 This indicates a likelihood that many people with dedicated workspaces at home had a long-term mentality. Australians, on the other hand, seem to have a completely different trend with as many as 70% expressing a desire to continue working from home.3 Despite this, they are the least likely out of the three countries to have set up a dedicated workspace.
Hotdesking at home is still favoured by some, particularly in Australia, where 15.5% of respondents have multiple workspaces at home.
And who could judge them when there are so many different ways you can sit on a lounge? Americans and Canadians follow closely behind on the hotdesking trend with 14.8% and 14.3% respectively having workspaces littered throughout the house.
Our survey also highlighted that around a quarter of people across all three nations do not have any appropriate working spaces in their home.
A closer look at the data found that Gen Z and Millennials were the most likely to have a dedicated home workspace since the start of the pandemic. Inversely, the majority of respondents aged 65+ did not make any changes.
Diving a bit deeper, we also found that Canadian and Australian men (45.2% and 39.3% respectively) were more likely to dedicate a space in their dwelling or renovate their space than their female and non-binary counterparts. This was contrary to American women (37.8%) who were more likely to dedicate a space for work/study than their male (35.1%) or non-binary (25%) counterparts since the start of the pandemic.
Compare the Market income protection insurance spokesperson, Anthony Fleming, spoke on the importance of having the right set up for your work from home space.
“As people look to work from home more frequently as we emerge from the pandemic, it’s important to ensure that they have the right equipment for the job that they are doing,” Mr Fleming said.
“Working from home has its benefits, however ditching the office long-term is a serious step and employers must consider the impact of prolonged isolation and potentially poor conditions, on their staff’s mental and physical wellbeing.
“Home workers need a separate space that can serve as a physical division between work and personal life. After all, converting the living room couch is not an ideal setup – everything from the room’s lighting, to storage and capacity for screens, phones and other tools should be considered.
“Employees should determine what they need to function well in a home office, and invest in things that make their life easier, as they’re likely going to be working 8 or more hours a day from the space.“
Compare the Market commissioned Pure Profile to survey 504 Australian, 1,010 American and 1,008 Canadian adults in February 2022.
Pew Research Centre, COVID-19 Pandemic Continues To Reshape Work in America https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2022/02/16/covid-19-pandemic-continues-to-reshape-work-in-america/
Ipsos, Only Half (50%) of Canadians Currently Working from Home Say They Expect to Return to the Office Regularly in 2022 https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/news-polls/only-half-of-Canadians-say-they-expect-to-return-to-office
The University of Melbourne, Taking the Pulse of the Nation, https://melbourneinstitute.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/3504612/Taking-the-Pulse-of-the-Nation-14-18-September.pdf
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“The Covid-19 pandemic remains at the top of voters’ minds, with about one-third saying it’s the biggest issue for the state,” according to an exit poll from Edison Research conducted for CNN. Behind the pandemic, California voters cited homelessness and crime as their second and third concerns:
That’s followed by just over one-fifth saying homelessness, 1 in 6 saying the economy and wildfires, respectively, and slightly under one-tenth saying crime. Concerns vary across partisan lines: more than 4 in 10 Democrats call coronavirus their top issue, while only about one-fifth of Republicans say the same. On the flip side, Republicans are more than three times as likely as Democrats to name the economy as their top concern.
Regarding Gov. Gavin Newsom’s mitigation efforts to combat the coronavirus, an NBC News exit poll found that “voters likely sided with Newsom on the public health measures, with a plurality, or 45 percent, saying Newsom’s Covid policies are right, compared to 32 percent who said the measures are too strict. Another 17 percent said they aren’t strict enough.”
In terms of the pandemic’s trajectory, an exit poll from ABC News showed that “just 24 percent say the pandemic is getting worse in the state; a plurality of voters, 39 percent say it’s improving, with the rest saying it’s staying the same.”
On the economy, CNN reported that “Californians are close to evenly split” on the economy, with only half calling it good or excellent and the other half calling it “not so good or poor.”
“Voters take a more negative view about the costs of living in their own part of California, with around 6 in 10 saying that those costs are at least somewhat unmanageable,” added CNN.
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Link Coalition On the Link: Animal Abuse Predicts Violence to Humans
On Steve Dale’s Pet World national radio show, here’s Phil Arkow, co-founder of the National Link Coalition and likely the first person to quantify that the Link exists with scientific research. Today, decades later, many studies have absolutely confirmed what psychologists, social scientists and law enforcement have also assumed for a very long time that there is a link between animal abuse and violence to humans. That violence to humans shows itself in many forms, from domestic violence to mass shooters. That’s all not to mention harming helpless animals.
Also, discussed is the importance for animals and humans of finding a safe haven when there is domestic violence, which is a Purina focus and the Purple Leash Project with Red Rover. In this regard, change – while slow – is happening.
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I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvelous works. I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High. (Psalms 9:1-2)
“Ye shall not go empty” (Exodus 3:21b)
It is God primarily who has been wronged in all his rights by sin. Yet, man too has been wronged. But the Lord God has, in infinite wisdom, fixed it, so that both he and his people shall be made the gainers by the injury done. As the children of Israel were enriched by their bondage in Egypt, as the fall of Israel has been overruled by our heavenly Father for the riches of the world and the glory of God, so the fall of Satan and the entrance of sin into the world by the fall of our father Adam has been, is being, and shall yet be made to redound to the everlasting riches of God’s elect and the glory of his great name.
Yes, the God of glory works all things together for the good of his people and the everlasting glory of his own great name. Satan will gain nothing by the havoc he has wrought in the world. He will achieve absolutely nothing! And God’s elect will lose nothing, absolutely nothing! I have chosen my words deliberately. This is the great glory of the cross. — “Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound!” Both God and his people have gained more by the forgiveness of sin through the blood of Christ than was lost by the sin and fall of our father Adam and the long years of our Egyptian bondage.
The Lord God has arranged all things, even the sin and fall of our father Adam, for the everlasting good and happiness of his people.
I repeat myself deliberately — We shall lose nothing, but only gain by what happened in the garden, gainers not by sin but by redemption! Indeed, the sin and fall of Adam was itself, by divine purpose, a picture of redemption by Christ (Romans 5:12-20). Martin Luther understood what I am trying to preach to you. He said, with regard to Adam’s sin in the Garden,
“O blessed fall!” Had there been no fall, no sin, no condemnation, we could never have known the wonders of redemption. Had there been no fall, no sin, no condemnation, we could never have known the glories of grace. Grace not only cuts up sin by the roots and ultimately destroys it, — grace makes chosen sinners to be eternal beneficiaries of Satan’s work!
– Don Fortner, Pastor of Sovereign Grace Baptist Church, Danville, KY USA
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2. Copy list of things left undone from previous list
3. Add items to list of new things needing to be done
4. Add some of the things already done from previous list and immediately cross off so as to put off the feeling of an interminable list of never accomplishable tasks
5. Finish writing list and sit back feeling an overwhelming sense of listlessness
It started so well. Get up: make list: get on. But lists can breed listlessness. It can’t always be helped. The word “list” referring to a sequence of items comes from the Italian and French words for “strip”—as in a strip of material. The word “list” that you find in the compound “listlessness” comes from the old English word for pleasing (to list is to please and to desire). To be listless is to be without desire, without the desire to please. The etymologies of list and listless don’t correspond but they might seem to conspire in other ways. Oh, and by the way, ships can list when their balance is off.
I list, like a ship, itemising my obligations to job, to work, to colleagues, to parenting, to family: write a reference for such and such; buy birthday present for eighty-year-old dad; finish article about lists – and so on. I forget to add to the list my necessary requirements for achieving any of this: keep breathing; eat and drink regularly; visit toilet when required. Lists make visible. Lists hide. I forget to add to my list all my worries that underscore my sense that these lists (or any list) might require an optimism that is always something of a leap of faith: I hope that electricity continues to exist; I hope my computer will still work; I hope that my sore toe isn’t the first sign of bodily paralysis; I hope that this heart will still keep beating.
I was brought up on lists: the hit parade (the top one hundred “hit” singles); football leagues (not that I ever really got the hang of them); lists of kings and queens; lists of dates; lists of states; lists of elements (the periodic table). There are lists and there are lists. Some lists are really rankings. These are clearly the important lists. Where do you stand on the list? How near the bottom are you? Where is your university in the list of top universities? Have you gone down or up? To list, then, for some at least is to rank, to prioritise, to value. Is it this that produces listlessness? The sense that while you might want to rank your ten favourite films in a list, listing is something that is constantly happening to you, happening around you; you are always in amongst lists, never on top of them. To hang around the middle of lists might be all that you can hope for: no possibility of sudden lurching from the top spot; no urgent worries that you might be heading for demotion too quickly.
But ranking is only one aspect of listing. Sometimes listing has a more flattening effect. I once worked as a cash-in-hand auditor (in this case a posh name for someone who counts things). A group of us (many of whom were seriously stoned) were bussed to factories and warehouses where we had to count the stock. We had to make lists of items and simply count what there was: for large items this was relatively easy, but for the myriad of miniscule parts this seemed a task for Sisyphus. In a power-tool factory in some unprepossessing town on the outskirts of London (was it Slough or Croydon or somewhere else?) we had to count bolts, nuts, washers, flex, rivets, and so on. Of course after a while we just made it up—guesstimates—as they say. A box of thousands of 6mm metal washers is a homogenous set in a list of heterogeneous parts that itself starts looking homogenous as it takes its part in the list. Listing dedifferentiates in the act of differentiating.
The task of making lists, of filling-in lists, of having a list of tasks to complete encourages listlessness because to list lists towards exhaustiveness and exhaustion. Archives are lists and lists are often archives and archived. Those that work on lists and on archives constantly battle the fatigue of too many lists, of too much exhaustiveness. But could exhaustion be embraced as a necessary mood with which to deal with lists and archives? Might listlessness be something of a methodological orientation that has its own productivity in the face of so many lists?
At my university there resides an archive that can appear to be a list of lists. It is the Mass-Observation archive, begun at the end of 1936 and, with a sizeable hiatus in the 1960s and 1970s, is still going today. (For a full account of Mass-Observation, see Highmore, Everyday Life chapter 6, and Hubble; for examples of Mass-Observation material, see Calder and Sheridan, and Highmore, Ordinary chapter 4; for analysis of Mass-Observation from the point of view of the observer, see Sheridan, Street, and Bloome. The flavour of the project as it emerges in the late 1930s is best conveyed by consulting Mass-Observation, Mass-Observation, First Year’s Work, and Britain.) It was begun by three men: the filmmaker Humphrey Jennings, the poet and sociologist Charles Madge, and the ornithologist and anthropologist-of-the-near Tom Harrisson. Both Jennings and Madge were heavily involved in promoting a form of social surrealism that might see buried forces in the coincidences of daily life as well as in the machinations and contingency of large political and social events (the abdication crisis, the burning of the Crystal Palace—both in late 1936). Harrisson brought a form of amateur anthropology with him that would scour football crowds, pub clientele, and cinema queues for ritualistic and symbolic forms. Mass-Observation quickly recruited a large group of voluntary observers (about a thousand) who would be “the meteorological stations from whose reports a weather-map of popular feeling can be compiled” (Mass-Observation, Mass-Observation 30). Mass-Observation combined the social survey with a relentless interest in the irrational and in what the world felt like to those who lived in it. As a consequence the file reports often seem banal and bizarre in equal measure (accounts of nightmares, housework routines, betting activities). When Mass-Observation restarted in the 1980s the surrealistic impetus became less pronounced, but it was still there, implicit in the methodology.
Today, both as an on-going project and as an archive of previous observational reports, Mass-Observation lives in archival boxes. You can find a list of what topics are addressed in each box; you can also find lists of the contributors, the voluntary Mass-Observers whose observations are recorded in the boxes. What better way to give you a flavour of these boxes than to offer you a sample of their listing activities. Here are observers, observing in 1983 the objects that reside on their mantelpieces.
two hearing aid batteries,
appointment card for chiropodist,
piece of dog biscuit.
Does this conjure up a world? Do we have a set of clues, of material evidence, a small cosmology of relics, a reduced Wunderkammer, out of which we can construct not the exotic but something else, something more ordinary? Do you smell camphor and imagine antimacassars? Do you hear conversations with lots of mishearing? Are the hearing aid batteries shared? Is this a single person living with a dog, or do we imagine an assembly of chiropodist-goers, dog-owners, hearing aid-users, rubber band-pingers, champagne-drinkers?
But don’t get caught imagining a life out of these fragments. Don’t get stuck on this list: there are hundreds to get through. After all, what sort of an archive would it be if it included a single list? We need more lists.
Here’s another mantelpiece:
a tube of cement [which I assume is the sort of rubber cement that you get in bicycle puncture repair kits],
a pocket microscope,
a clinical thermometer.
Who is this? A hypochondriacal explorer? Or a grown-up boy-scout, botanising on the asphalt? Why so many penknives? But on, on...
1 letter awaiting postage stamp
1 diet book
1 pair of spare spectacles
1 recipe for daughter’s home economics
1 bottle of indigestion tablets
1 envelope containing 13 pence which is owed a friend
1 pair of stick-on heels for home shoe repairing session
3 letters in day’s post
1 envelope containing money for week’s milk bill
1 recipe cut from magazine
2 out of date letters from school
What is the connection between the daughter’s home economics recipe and the indigestion tablets? Is the homework gastronomy not quite going to plan? Or is the diet book causing side-effects? And what sort of financial stickler remembers that they owe 13p; even in 1983 this was hardly much money? Or is it the friend who is the stickler? Perhaps this is just prying...?
But you need more. Here’s yet another:
pipe tamper and tobacco pouch,
one decorated stone and one plain stone,
a painted clay model of an alien,
an enamelled metal egg from Hong Kong,
a copper bracelet,
a polished shell,
a snowstorm of Father Christmas in his sleigh...
Ah, a pipe smoker, this much is clear. But apart from this the display sounds ritualistic – one stone decorated the other not. What sort of religion is this? What sort of magic? An alien and Santa. An egg, a shell, a bracelet. A riddle.
Two 12 gauge shotgun cartridges live 0 spread
Brass carriage clock
International press clock
1950s cigarette dispenser
Model of Panzer MKIV tank
WWI shell fuse
WWI shell case ash tray containing an acorn, twelve .22 rounds of ammunition, a .455 Eley round and a drawing pin
Photo of Eric Liddell (Chariots of Fire)
Souvenir of Algerian ash tray containing marbles and beach stones
Three 1930s plastic duck clothes brushes
Letter holder containing postcards and invitations. Holder in shape of a cow
1970s Whizzwheels toy car
Wooden box of jeweller’s rottenstone (Victorian)
World war one German fuse (used)
Jim Beam bottle with candle therein
Sol beer bottle with candle therein
I’m getting worried now. Who are these people who write for Mass-Observation? Why so much military paraphernalia? Why such detail as to the calibrations? Should I concern myself that small militias are holding out behind the net curtains and aspidistra plants of suburban England?
1930s AA Badge
Wooden cat from Mexico
Kahlua bottle with candle there in
1950s matchbook with “merry widow” cocktail printed thereon
Two Britain’s model cannon
One brass “Carronade” from the Carron Iron Works factory shop
Photography pass from Parkhead 12/11/88
Grouse foot kilt pin
Brass incense holder
Black ash tray with beach pebbles there in
Full packet of Mary Long cigarettes from Holland
Pewter cocktail shaker made in Shanghai
I’m feeling distance. Who says “there in” and “there on?” What is a Novitake cup? Perhaps I wrote it down incorrectly? An avocado plant stirs memories of trying to grow one from an avocado stone skewered in a cup with one “point” dunked in a bit of water. Did it ever grow, or just rot? I’m getting distracted now, drifting off, feeling sleepy...
Some more then – let’s feed the listlessness of the list:
Wood sculpture (Tenerife)
A Rubber band
Small photo of daughter
Small paint brush
Ah yes the banal bizarreness of ordinary life: dinosaurs and aspirins, paint brushes and rubber bands.
But then a list comes along and pierces you:
Six inch piece of grey eyeliner
1 pair of nail clippers
1 large box of matches
1 Rubber band
2 large hair grips
Half a piece of cough candy
1 screwed up tissue
1 small bottle with tranquillizers in
1 dead (but still in good condition) butterfly (which I intended to draw but placed it now to rest in the garden) it was already dead when I found it.
The dead butterfly, the tranquillizers, the insistence that the mantelpiece user didn’t actually kill the butterfly, the half piece of cough candy, the screwed up tissue. In amongst the rubber bands and matches, signs of something desperate. Or maybe not: a holding on (the truly desperate haven’t found their way to the giant tranquillizer cupboard), a keeping a lid on it, a desire (to draw, to place a dead butterfly at rest in the garden)...
And here is the methodology emerging: the lists works on the reader, listing them, and making them listless. After a while the lists (and there are hundreds of these lists of mantle-shelf items) begin to merge. One giant mantle shelf filled with small stacks of foreign coins, rubber bands and dead insects. They invite you to be both magical ethnographer and deadpan sociologist at one and the same time (for example, see Hurdley). The “Martian” ethnographer imagines the mantelpiece as a shrine where this culture worships the lone rubber band and itinerant button. Clearly a place of reliquary—on this planet the residents set up altars where they place their sacred objects: clocks and clippers; ammunition and amulets; coins and pills; candles and cosmetics. Or else something more sober, more sombre: late twentieth century petite-bourgeois taste required the mantelpiece to hold the signs of aspirant propriety in the form of emblems of tradition (forget the coins and the dead insects and weaponry: focus on the carriage clocks).
And yet, either way, it is the final shelf that gets me every time. But it only got me, I think, because the archive had worked its magic: ransacked my will, my need to please, my desire. It had, for a while at least, made me listless, and listless enough to be touched by something that was really a minor catalogue of remainders. This sense of listlessness is the way that the archive productively defeats the “desire for the archive.” It is hard to visit an archive without an expectation, without an “image repertoire,” already in mind. This could be thought of as the apperception-schema of archival searching: the desire to see patterns already imagined; the desire to find the evidence for the thought whose shape has already formed. Such apperception is hard to avoid (probably impossible), but the boredom of the archive, its ceaselessness, has a way of undoing it, of emptying it. It corresponds to two aesthetic positions and propositions. One is well-known: it is Barthes’s distinction between “studium” and “punctum.” For Barthes, studium refers to a sort of social interest that is always, to some degree, satisfied by a document (his concern, of course, is with photographs). The punctum, on the other hand, spills out from the photograph as a sort of metonymical excess, quite distinct from social interest (but for all that, not asocial). While Barthes is clearly offering a phenomenology of viewing photographs, he isn’t overly interested (here at any rate) with the sort of perceptional-state the viewer might need to be in to be pierced by the puntum of an image. My sense, though, is that boredom, listlessness, tiredness, a sort of aching indifference, a mood of inattentiveness, a sense of satiated interest (but not the sort of disinterest of Kantian aesthetics), could all be beneficial to a punctum-like experience.
The second aesthetic position is not so well-known. The Austrian dye-technician, lawyer and art-educationalist Anton Ehrenzweig wrote, during the 1950s and 1960s, about a form of inattentive-attention, and a form of afocal-rendering (eye-repelling rather than eye-catching), that encouraged eye-wandering, scanning, and the “‘full’ emptiness of attention” (Ehrenzweig, The Hidden Order 39). His was an aesthetics attuned to the kind of art produced by Paul Klee, but it was also an aesthetic propensity useful for making wallpaper and for productively connecting to unconscious processes. Like Barthes, Ehrenzweig doesn’t pursue the sort of affective state of being that might enhance such inattentive-attention, but it is not hard to imagine that the sort of library-tiredness of the archive would be a fitting preparation for “full emptiness.” Ehrenzweig and Barthes can be useful for exploring this archival mood, this orientation and attunement, which is also a disorientation and mis-attunement. Trawling through lists encourages scanning: your sensibilities are prepared; your attention is being trained. After a while, though, the lists blur, concentration starts to loosen its grip. The lists are not innocent recipients here. Shrapnel shards pull at you. You start to notice the patterns but also the spaces in-between that don’t seem to fit sociological categorisations. The strangeness of the patterns hypnotises you and while the effect can generate a sense of sociological-anthropological homogeneity-with-difference, sometimes the singularity of an item leaps out catching you unawares.
An archive is an orchestration of order and disorder: however contained and constrained it appears it is always spilling out beyond its organisational structures (amongst the many accounts of archives in terms of their orderings, see Sekula, and Stoler, Race and Along). Like “Probate Inventories,” the mantelpiece archive presents material objects that connect us (however indirectly) to embodied practices and living spaces (Evans). The Mass-Observation archive, especially in its mantelpiece collection, is an accretion of temporalities and spaces. More crucially, it is an accumulation of temporalities materialised in a mass of spaces. A thousand mantelpieces in a thousand rooms scattered across the United Kingdom. Each shelf is syncopated to the rhythms of diverse durations, while being synchronised to the perpetual now of the shelf: a carriage clock, for instance, inherited from a deceased parent, its brass detailing relating to a different age, its mechanism perpetually telling you that the time of this space is now. The archive carries you away to a thousand living rooms filled with the momentary (dead insects) and the eternal (pebbles) and everything in-between. Its centrifugal force propels you out to a vast accrual of things: ashtrays, rubber bands, military paraphernalia, toy dinosaurs; a thousand living museums of the incidental and the memorial. This vertiginous archive threatens to undo you; each shelf a montage of times held materially together in space. It is too much. It pushes me towards the mantelshelves I know, the ones I’ve had a hand in. Each one an archive in itself: my grandfather’s green glass paperweight holding a fragile silver foil flower in its eternal grasp; the potions and lotions that feed my hypochondria; used train tickets. Each item pushes outwards to other times, other spaces, other people, other things. It is hard to focus, hard to cling onto anything.
Was it the dead butterfly, or the tranquillizers, or both, that finally nailed me? Or was it the half a cough-candy? I know what she means by leaving the remnants of this sweet. You remember the taste, you think you loved them as a child, they have such a distinctive candy twist and colour, but actually their taste is harsh, challenging, bitter. There is nothing as ephemeral and as “useless” as a sweet; and yet few things are similarly evocative of times past, of times lost. Yes, I think I’d leave half a cough-candy on a shelf, gathering dust.
[All these lists of mantelpiece items are taken from the Mass-Observation archive at the University of Sussex. Mass-Observation is a registered charity. For more information about Mass-Observation go to http://www.massobs.org.uk/]
Barthes, Roland. Camera Lucida. Translated by Richard Howard. London: Fontana, 1984.
Calder, Angus, and Dorothy Sheridan, eds. Speak for Yourself: A Mass-Observation Anthology 1937–1949. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1985.
Ehrenzweig, Anton. The Psychoanalysis of Artistic Vision and Hearing: An Introduction to a Theory of Unconscious Perception. Third edition. London: Sheldon Press, 1965. [Originally published in 1953.]
---. The Hidden Order of Art. London: Paladin, 1970.
Evans, Adrian. “Enlivening the Archive: Glimpsing Embodied Consumption Practices in Probate Inventories of Household Possessions.” Historical Geography 36 (2008): 40-72.
Highmore, Ben. Everyday Life and Cultural Theory. London: Routledge, 2002.
---. Ordinary Lives: Studies in the Everyday. Abingdon: Routledge, 2011.
Hubble, Nick. Mass-Observation and Everyday Life: Culture, History, Theory, Houndmills and New York: Palgrave, 2006.
Hurdley, Rachel. “Dismantling Mantelpieces: Narrating Identities and Materializing Culture in the Home.” Sociology 40, 4 (2006): 717-733
Mass-Observation. Mass-Observation. London: Fredrick Muller, 1937.
---. First Year’s Work 1937-38. London: Lindsay Drummond, 1938.
---. Britain. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1939.
Sekula, Allan. “The Body and the Archive.” October 39 (1986): 3-64.
Sheridan, Dorothy, Brian Street, and David Bloome. Writing Ourselves: Mass-Observation and Literary Practices. Cresskill, New Jersey: Hampton Press, 2000.
Stoler, Ann Laura. Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault’s History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things. Durham and London: Duke UP, 1995.
Stoler, Ann Laura. Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2009.
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by Dr Professor Martin Johnson
Pioneer of electro-magnetic waves and widely regarded as the first modern Indian scientist, Jagadis Chandra Bose was a far-sighted visionary and gifted experimentalist. In 1895 in Calcutta, he publicly demonstrated wireless transmission of electromagnetic waves for the first time anywhere in the world, using the waves to ring a distant bell to thereby explode some gunpowder. The Daily Chronicle of England noted in 1896 that "The inventor (J.C. Bose) has transmitted signals to a distance of nearly a mile and herein lies the first and obvious and exceedingly valuable application of this new theoretical marvel." Bose was also the first to use a semi-conducting crystal as a detector of radio waves. According to Neville Mott "J.C. Bose was at least 60 years ahead of his time" and that he had "anticipated the existence of P-type and N-type semiconductors." Bose was invited by Lord Rayleigh to present his experiments at the Royal Institution in January 1897, attended by Marconi's business partner who importuned him to take out a patent and share his proceeds with him. Bose refused on the grounds that scientific discoveries must inure to the benefit of the public. Marconi's wireless transmission on Salisbury plain did not occur until May 1897. Bose also crossed from physics into biology, challenging widespread notions that these realms were different - among the fields he is regarded to have anticipated is cybernetics, through his model of memory as an information storage device. His boundless curiosity led him to study the electrical response of plants and the phenomenon of photosynthesis. Freethinking pioneer and icon, Bose was born and educated in rural Bengal and later Calcutta and achieved both a knight hood and international distinction. He was admitted to read Natural Sciences at Christ’s in 1882, took his BA in 1884 and MA in 1896.
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“Working out loud” is the concept of building relationships through narration and social collaboration. Even if you’ve never heard the term before, you’ve likely put it into practice. Whether you’re a foodie posting your Sunday brunch on Instagram or a travel junkie posting a video of you frolicking with a baby elephant on Facebook, you know how to use various channels to share experiences with friends and family on a daily basis.
But are you using the same behavior to your advantage in the workplace?
Working out loud is a term that has gained popularity in recent years as a way to describe how people are bringing social collaboration and narration techniques into the workplace. When Bryce Williams coined the term in 2010, he defined Working Out Loud with a simple formula:
Working Out Loud = Observable Work + Narrating Your Work
Let’s break down the formula. “Narrating Your Work” is the act of creating rich content through blogging or microblogging. While many people are instantly turned off by the thought of writing anything on a regular basis, blogging doesn’t have to be a mundane or time-consuming task. Sharing your expertise in a casual, accessible way will greatly benefit others in your organization. Your team members will visit the resulting collection of content again and again when they encounter questions or road blocks, and the initial time you spent writing the blog in the first place will save you much more time answering questions in the long run.
“Observable Work” is creating a space where others can engage with your content. This could be a wiki, discussion forum, enterprise social collaboration tool, etc.
Here are the five elements of Working Out Loud, according to author and speaker John Stepper:
- Make your work visible – Post it somewhere people can find it and engage with it. You want your work to be in process, where people can comment, like, and agree ordisagree. It should be a conversation to help inspire new ideas.
- Lead with generosity – Frame posts as contributions rather than self-promotion. Make sure you are also liking and commenting on other posts. Doing this connects you with your audience and build good rapport.
- Build a social network – Develop real relationships. What you’re writing about helps people discover content and useful information. This is a great networking opportunity and a mutually beneficial relationship.
- Make it purposeful – Stay focused on a goal. Track what you’re doing to reach your goals.
- Have a growth mindset – Find ways to improve upon your work. Be open to testing new strategies. This is where feedback is key. Your readers help shape the final product through their contributions to your posts.
This is a great set of guidelines to begin working out loud yourself. If your goal is to spark interest in working out loud in others within the organization try these best practices as well:
- Create a space for Working Out Loud. Now that you understand what Working Out Loud looks like, set your workplace with tools and programs that allow you to share different types of content (docs, photos, links, videos, etc.). This solution could include advanced search capabilities or social networking features.
- Provide coaching and mentorship. Some people will be afraid or uncomfortable sharing with their colleagues, while others will share too much, or too often. It’s useful to have someone who can be a sounding board for what and when to share, and to provide feedback along the way.
- Make it easy. Choose a solution that’s easy-to-use and includes mobile apps, browser extensions, email compatibility, single sign-on, and integrates with commonly used applications.
- Give an incentive for participation. This may include public recognition that can be as simple as a mention in an email, or doing something a little more elaborate like giving gift cards to reward content that spurs conversation.
- Model the behavior you want to see. For employees to feel more comfortable sharing their work, they need to see it happening at the highest levels. That means that the senior management needs to be fully bought in and participating in Working Out Loud – showing their own work and asking for feedback.
If you haven’t already, give working out loud a shot. You will quickly see the positive impact others’ feedback has on productivity and collaboration. Give everyone a voice in the organization, and allow their expertise to be sought by others.
This post was originally published on April 1, 2015 and has been refurbished to reflect current best practices.
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What caused a former Dallas Seminary professor to believe that the miraculous gifts of the Holy Spirit are being given today? What convinced someone skeptical about miracles that God still speaks and heals? A dramatic change took place in Jack Deere’s life when he took a fresh look at the Scriptures. He discovered that his cherished arguments against miraculous gifts were based more on prejudice and a lack of personal experience than on the Bible. As soon as Deere became a seeker instead of a skeptic, the Holy Spirit revealed himself in new and surprising ways. In Surprised by the Power of the Spirit, Jack Deere provides a strong biblical defense for the Spirit’s speaking and healing ministries today. He also describes several reliable cases of people who were miraculously healed or who heard God speak in an unmistakable way. Finally, he gives sound advice for using spiritual gifts in the church. Written in popular style-with the care of a scholar but the passion of personal experience-this book is a vital resource for people on both sides of the debate about miraculous gifts.
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A culture of interdependence resulting from rising incidences of health crises is one of the striking features of globalisation. Health conditions beyond territorial boundaries can have a defining effect on individual countries’ public health and may even pose a grave risk to the economy. For many years, decision-makers around the world have treated health issues as secondary concerns in foreign policy, primarily due to the lack of awareness about the interconnectedness between health and areas of politics. Historically, health has been categorised as ‘low politics,’ occupying the lower echelons in national priority.
But developments in recent decades revealed a new context and reality for foreign policymakers and practitioners. Health issues have graduated to a mainstream foreign policy priority and emerged as an effective soft power tool for states to pursue their economic interests and international relations. For example, by the mid-1990s, the HIV/AIDS epidemic posed a formidable challenge for public health communities and to leaders around the world. The Bill Clinton administration not only increased the US’s overseas funding for HIV/AIDS-related work but also shifted its foreign policy to focus more on infectious diseases. Given the growing economic and social costs of the epidemic in the developing world, the World Bank and other international agencies also opened up new lending programmes and expanded their resource commitments to health-related developmental projects.
Although the term ‘health diplomacy’ has gained traction in recent decades, especially with the onset of globalisation, the practice can be traced back to the mid-nineteenth century. Between 1851 and 1894, medical administrators and scientists from different European countries gathered to discuss cholera, plague and yellow fever at a series of international sanitary conferences. These conferences provided a key platform for states to collaboratively develop new medical thinking on dealing with epidemics. When Europe was hit by a cholera outbreak in the early nineteenth century, countries struggled to implement national policies, especially the quarantine system. Despite the transnational character of the disease, it continued to be handled on a local community basis, as infectious diseases had been managed since medieval times. In the absence of international cooperation on transboundary diseases, many Europeans debated the effectiveness of preventive strategies imposed by the national governments. Preventing the spread and diffusion of transmissible diseases was the primary focus at the international sanitary conferences, and it was only after these conferences that countries worked towards creating an international health agency, which led to the establishment of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 1948.
Health and Foreign Policy: The Changing Context
Health diplomacy was practiced long before the establishment of the formal institutions that are part of modern foreign policy and diplomacy. Health diplomacy is a multi-level and multi-actor interaction that shapes global health governance. Nation states remain central to health diplomacy, especially in building cooperation with various stakeholders — state, non-state and multilateral actors, non-governmental organisations, private-sector companies and the public. As health diplomacy varies from country to country, it provides a useful window into a country’s approach to international health institutions, guidelines and agreements, as well as their response to regional and global health challenges. Health diplomacy, therefore, acts as a bridge between the domestic and the global, as it binds national and bilateral commitments to multilateral partners.
The practice of health diplomacy, however, faces three paradoxes. Health issues have a technical and scientific core, which makes it a sole concern of domain experts, who not only distance themselves from politics but also the diplomatic community. As a result, the political visibility of health in certain countries remains low as does political will, ultimately reflecting in the low resource allocations for public health. However, increasingly, the determinants of health and the means to deal with health issues are moving beyond the control of healthcare professionals and require the involvement of a cross-section of policymakers, including diplomats, politicians, businessmen, civil society activists and private players.
The second paradox is that states still consider health issues as a fundamental national responsibility — despite their transnational character — and approach health-related challenges within nationalist frameworks. What they fail to realise is that health is a shared social objective that necessitates global partnerships.
Finally, the dissonance between international health agencies has widened with the increasing popularity of health issues on the global agenda. The collection of multilateral entities and bilateral agencies responsible for improving the health of the global population suffer from coordination issues and have failed to establish relationships conducive to collective action.
Health also involves critical economic dimensions related to international trade. The first two international sanitary conferences (in 1851 and 1859) put commerce at the heart of discussions, with policymakers deliberating on treaties to protect cross-border trade amid health threats. With the liberalisation of trade regulations, health has emerged as an arena of commercial interests of both governmental and non-governmental entities. Increasing collaboration can be seen between health and trade ministers within and among several countries.
For instance, At the 5th ASEAN [Association of Southeast Asian Nations] Health Ministers Meeting in 2000, senior health officials reiterated the need to strengthen the national and collective ASEAN capacity on issues of “health implications of globalisation and trade liberalisation” to promote inter-agency coordination and policy coherence and curtail competitiveness between countries. The adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have further strengthened these linkages and highlighted the centrality of health in economic development, diplomacy, human rights and international cooperation. Although the absence of primary healthcare in SDG documents and policies remains a lacuna, the combined targets under SDG 3 — good health and well-being — reinforces the connection between health and non-health goals, as well as the need to consider different approaches to health systems to deal with multiple and different health conditions.
At the end of the Cold War, health acquired a security dimension, particularly within the human security framework. As the perception of security changed to include a wide range of human rights-related issues, health concerns began to be viewed as ‘high politics’ with direct and indirect implications for a country’s political stability and national security. The rise in the trans-border spread of infections, non-communicable diseases and biological threats not only serve as a source of social and political unrest but also create diplomatic tensions between countries. This complex interdependence of health and security offers opportunities to a cross-section of actors to interact and collaborate for an integrated public health system. Health diplomacy catalyses this collaboration both within and among countries and plays an important role in diffusing tensions and mobilising global resources for collaborative action.
The world is currently facing unprecedented challenges arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has put a sharp focus on health as critical to economy, politics, society, foreign policy, security and diplomacy. More broadly, this health crisis has imposed high costs on foreign policy goals. While the pandemic has undoubtedly affected poorer and developing countries more, developed countries have not been spared either, laying bare existent inequalities across countries. Major developed countries failed to display the political will for mobilising collective action and turned inwards in their fight against the pandemic. For example, amid a shortage in medical equipment supply, the US and Europe halted the exports of N95 masks and ordered a re-routing of their overseas production to meet domestic demands.
In such an environment, India demonstrated a strong commitment to boost regional cooperation and coordination to deal with the pandemic, and became a major provider of pharmaceuticals and other medical equipment critical in the treatment of COVID-19. New Delhi has also taken the lead in global vaccination efforts through its ‘Vaccine Maitri’ (friendship) initiative by supplying hundreds of thousands of Indian-made vaccines to around 71 countries. India’s approach to global health diplomacy is particularly instructive and can be regarded as an extension of its overall strategy to revive and reform multilateral cooperation, even as multilateral institutions like WHO and the World Trade Organisation (WTO) face existential crises and are in dire need of reform.
Health Diplomacy and the ‘Indian way’
The promotion of health in India’s foreign policy agenda can be traced back to WHO negotiations leading to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), ratified by India in February 2004. Tobacco, which became the major source of premature deaths globally in the twentieth century, had posed some complex challenges for policymakers worldwide due to the presence of a strong tobacco lobby (tobacco industries, advertising and promotion agencies, and other ancillary companies) that catered to large markets and yielded huge profits. The severity of the tobacco problem was greater in India than anywhere else — the country recorded about 630,000 tobacco-attributable deaths in the late 1980s as well as a rise in associated diseases like cancer, heart ailments and lung-related complications.
As the second-largest tobacco producer, India viewed the tobacco industry as a revenue source and employment generating sector, ignoring the health-related consequences. Although India’s tobacco industry was able to dilute the civilian movement seeking a comprehensive domestic tobacco control strategy, international support was able to galvanise the movement. India passed a national legislation on tobacco control in 2003, with the FCTC negotiations gaining steam soon after. India was the principal negotiator in FCTC discussion, playing a key role in building regional consensus on the draft text, marking the country’s first successful effort in health diplomacy. Despite the domestic initiative, the number of tobacco consumers in India has grown to over 274 million in 2020, becoming the second-largest group of tobacco users in the world. To discourage tobacco use, the government continues to focus on the strict implementation of control policies and prohibits the advertising or promotion of tobacco products. India has also passed an ordinance banning the production, manufacturing, import and export, sale, distribution and advertising of electronic cigarettes, drawing global attention to the health hazards from such devices.
India’s approach to global health initiatives reflects the realities facing the countries in the Global South. Health issues are rooted in complex socio-cultural determinants that influence policy implementation at the national level. For example, while India took part and supported the 2003 World Health Assembly (WHA) negotiations to restrict the marketing of unhealthy food and non-alcoholic beverage products to children and adolescents, its national approach to implement the provisions have been unique. Obesity, which is a vexing problem in developed economies, is not seen as a significant health problem in the developing world. In India, where the prevalence of underweight children is among the highest in the world, morbid obesity is not yet a public health priority. The WHA recommendations to combat obesity indicate a western view of the problem that does not reflect the public health realities in developing countries.
Although India supported the global health diplomacy initiative to reduce the marketing of fatty, sugary and salty foods to children, it took a realistic approach to implementing a similar policy domestically. Instead of adopting stringent regulations, it has taken the food and beverage industries on board in its overall strategy. The Indian government has set up an ‘India Pledge’ system, whereby the ‘Food and Beverage Alliance of India’ has voluntarily committed to not engage in marketing food or beverages to children in primary schools and instead promote healthy dietary choices. The Indian government is also trying to encourage physical activities to tackle the obesity problem and increase the overall fitness of the population. For instance, India has made diplomatic efforts to promote yoga globally and the United Nations (UN) has adopted 21 June as International Day of Yoga.
India’s commitment to traditional health practices and ancient medicinal systems goes back to colonial times when Indian Ayurvedic medicine manufacturing companies and civil society groups resisted the British government’s bid to ban the public consumption of such medication. In the post-Independence period, several health committees recommended the revival and development of traditional medicinal systems. A department of Indian system of medicine and homeopathy was created in 1995 and renamed as AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy) in November 2003 and became part of India’s mainstream healthcare under the National Rural Health Mission in 2005. Attempts to internationalise AYUSH received a boost under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision for a ‘Healthy India’. Soon, AYUSH became part of the WHO’s Traditional Medicine Strategy 2014-2023 and member states of the WHO South-East Regional Office signed the Delhi Declaration in 2014 to boost cooperation, collaboration in all fields of traditional medicine.
Indian diplomats are also playing a key role in generating awareness about AYUSH in neighbouring countries. India has so far set up 33 information cells in 31 countries and signed memorandums of understanding with 23 countries. India is also offering incentives to promote the country’s health agenda in the region. The Ministry of AYUSH, in collaboration with Indian Council for Cultural Relations, offers annual scholarships to foreign students to pursue undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD courses in AYUSH from premier Indian institutes. AYUSH experts and drug manufacturers are encouraged to participate in international meetings, conferences, training programmes and seminars to popularise India’s traditional medicine and health practices. India has also successfully developed Standardised Terminologies and National Morbidity Codes for uniform usage of terminologies of respective AYUSH systems of medicine in line with the International Classification of Diseases of WHO.
To demonstrate leadership in global health diplomacy, a country must bolster its own public health system. The outcomes of global health strategies are tied to the national context, in which institutional capacities and political will play an important role. India’s public health sector along with its pharmaceutical industry has undergone a major transformation in recent years. India has managed to address most of the health challenges it experienced in the early years after independence through state-led policy directives. It has successfully eradicated smallpox and polio through targeted public intervention, and its Universal Immunisation Programme, rolled out in 1985, is considered among the most cost-effective public health interventions in the world; In 2014, the WHO declared India polio free. India’s health diplomacy efforts are also supported by a robust pharma sector. Indian pharma currently contributes around 20 percent of the worlds’ generics and 62 percent of the global vaccines.
As part of the indigenous vaccine manufacturing effort, India became the first country in the region to develop the rotavirus vaccine through collaboration between academia, industry and international institutions such as National Institute of Health, Gates Foundation, the GAVI Alliance, WHO and the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology. Given its low cost, the vaccine is considered a ‘game-changer’ for low-resource countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia, where the child mortality rates due to rotavirus are very high. The vaccine development programme received fresh impetus under the Modi government’s “Neighbourhood First” and “Act East Policy” announced in 2014. In 2018, India launched the Ayushman Bharat (Long Live India) healthcare scheme, in line with the WHO’s Universal Health Coverage movement, to meet the targets of SDG 3. Although primarily a national scheme, Ayushman Bharat also includes a global component by way of extending affordable healthcare through telemedicine to other countries, especially developing ones.
Exploring New Avenues
The WHO has found itself in the middle of many controversies since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic — it has been accused of a ‘dereliction of duties’ siding with the Chinese state in its cover-up of the outbreak; delaying the declaration of the epidemic as a public health emergency; and an inability to establish a timely and coordinated global response to the health crisis. The WHO’s shortcomings in handling the pandemic have exposed the existent structural problems plaguing the organisation. With a proliferation of actors in global health governance, problems related to coordination and priority-determination have become almost unmanageable, rendering the global body somewhat ineffective. The WHO must also contend with declining budgetary contributions from member states and private bodies. These are some of the reasons that have raised concerns over the WHO’s credibility and has forced a reconsideration of its structure, scope and priorities.
India is uniquely placed in spearheading some meaningful reforms within the WHO. As chair of the WHO Executive Board, India can now play an important role in integrating perspectives from the Global South into WHO’s normative framework. The challenge is to make the organisation’s functioning more transparent, accountable and representative of the needs of developing and least developed countries. While the WHO’s ‘one country, one vote’ formula suggests a level playing field, many developing countries lack the capacity needed to take the lead in policy interventions, propose public health agendas or table resolutions in WHA meetings. As an active proponent of reforms in key multilateral institutions, India has a major stake in WHO’s global health governance.
At the G20 Virtual Summit held in March 2020, Modi called for the reform of the WHO and underscored the need to revive multilateralism to deal with the devastating effects of the pandemic. His call came amid rising tensions between the US and China that was deflecting international attention away from the other important issues. Although the Trump administration’s decision to withhold WHO funding was a blow to the organisation, it allowed new players like India to rise to the challenge. In March 2020, India proposed the creation of a ‘SAARC COVID19 Emergency Fund’ for coordinated COVID-19 mitigation efforts in South Asia, with all member countries, except Pakistan, contributing to the fund. India has also been prompt in its response to the UN Secretary General’s call for global solidarity against the pandemic. In the initial months following the outbreak, India ramped up the commercial supplies of essential drugs like hydroxychloroquine, paracetamol and azithromycin, and testing kits to around 90 countries.
India has invested in producing affordable COVID-19 vaccines and has also pushed for its rapid and easy access by poor countries. Serum Institute of India, the largest vaccine manufacturer by volume globally, has been producing the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for domestic use and export. These efforts and the Vaccine Maitri initiative have contributed to strengthen India’s bilateral relationships and in expanding its global influence. For instance, ties with Bangladesh received a boost through the initiative, with the country becoming the largest recipient of COVID-19 vaccines from India. New Delhi’s vaccine diplomacy efforts extend beyond its neighbourhood; at least 50 percent of least developed countries have received vaccine doses from India. India’s vaccine production and trials have been conducted in a transparent manner, which is crucial for building public trust globally. Additionally, India and South Africa have also urged the WTO’s Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Council to temporarily suspend intellectual property rights related to COVID-19 so that the vaccines and other new diagnostic technologies are accessible to poor countries. Although WTO members have failed to reach a consensus on the proposal, several developing countries have rallied behind this effort.
Health is now becoming an integral part of India’s foreign and economic policy. Indian health professionals, trade officials and diplomats are actively engaged in promoting the country’s health agenda among other countries. These relationships will enable India to make significant contributions to negotiations at the WHO and at other global health bodies. To influence the global health agenda, India not only needs to proactively engage within the WHO, but also outside the organisation at the regional and international levels, as part of a coalition of like-minded constituents. India can forge these coalitions by building solidarity among countries of the Global South and by moving beyond the traditional donor-recipient relationships to develop meaningful partnerships with friendly countries around the world. India must rely on its ancient philosophical ethos rooted in vasudhaiva kutumbakam (world is one family) as guidance in developing global health cooperation.
This paper was first published on ORF.
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It’s all about deepening our awareness on a daily basis, learning new skills and adapting a process oriented mindset as opposed to result oriented. That's the path to growth and positive change. And change doesn't happen overnight.
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“In the economic sphere an act, a habit, an institution, a law produces not only one effect, but a series of effects. Of these effects, the first alone is immediate; it appears simultaneously with its cause; it is seen. The other effects emerge only subsequently; they are not seen; we are fortunate if we foresee them.
“There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen.
“Yet this difference is tremendous; for it almost always happens that when the immediate consequence is favorable, the later consequences are disastrous, and vice versa. Whence it follows that the bad economist pursues a small present good that will be followed by a great evil to come, while the good economist pursues a great good to come, at the risk of a small present evil.”
– From an essay by Frédéric Bastiat, “That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Unseen,” 1850
If you’re a news addict, the last ten days or so were probably a dream come true. It’s hard to know where to start, but I will limit myself to just four stories … but they’re four big ones. And as Bastiat suggested, we will try to look beyond what we can see to probe the deeper implications in what may be unseen.
- The employment report’s relevance to an interest-rate increase
- China’s stock market lost a year’s worth of momentum – there is a breathtaking crash going on.
- Puerto Rico’s governor says the US territory can’t pay its $72 billion in debt. This is one of the most irrational debt stories, and I try to offer some actual mathematical analysis of how it came about.
- Greece is holding a referendum on Europe’s latest bailout offer. What political genius designs a referendum where, no matter how the vote turns out, everyone loses?
We Americans are celebrating our Independence Day this weekend. The news our ancestors read on this day in 1776 wasn’t so great – but the US survived its rough start. China, Puerto Rico, and Greece will survive, too. But the decisions their government make, just like the ones our fledgling government made all those years ago, will make a great deal of difference. Let’s get past the gloom and doom to see if we can find some good news.
Yesterday’s employment report can charitably be described as so-so. Some 223,000 new jobs were added last month, all of them in the private sector. That number has to be balanced with losing 60,000 jobs over the last two months through negative revisions. As I have often discussed, the employment number is subject to a great deal of revision in later months and years. Perhaps more important to watch than the actual number is the trend of the revisions. If the revisions are positive, that means more jobs are bubbling up from beneath the surface of the survey, and that is a good thing. If the trend of the revisions is down, which it typically is for quite some time before a recession ensues, that’s not so good.
For the previous three months (March, April, May), the average number of jobs created was 187,000; but for the three months before that (December, January, February), the average was 265,000 jobs; so we’re in a clear downward trend. Recently, many of the new jobs have been in low-paying sectors (bars and restaurants being particularly good places to find work), and the trends for average pay and hours worked have been flattish. From the standpoint of the average worker, the trend is pretty disappointing. The unemployment rate fell two-tenths to 5.3% – a level that the FOMC didn’t expect to be reached until later this year – though the decline reflected an outsized drop in the labor force participation rate, so the drop is not for a good reason.
But it does demonstrate that labor slack is decreasing. And while that might seem an “inside baseball” type of statistic, we have to remember that Janet Yellen is a labor market specialist, and she really pays attention to this metric. She and the rest of the FOMC do not want to get to what is called the NAIRU (nonaccelerating inflation rate of unemployment, which is the level of unemployment below which inflation rises) until they are well into the process of raising rates.
Former Fed Governor Larry Meyer is reiterating his call for a September rate hike. He is joined by a number of members of the FOMC, who think we should have been raising rates a long time ago. (For what it’s worth – and it’s not worth much – if I were on the FOMC, I would want to be raising rates as well.) The consensus of the committee is that the Fed rate will be at 1.75% (up from today’s 0.1%) by the end of 2016.
Trying to discern what the Federal Reserve will do by reading the committee’s minutes is a fraught proposition. Back in March 2004, three months before the Fed’s initial rate hike, the FOMC said in their minutes that “With inflation quite low and resource use slack, the committee believes that it can be patient in removing its policy accommodation.” Does that sound to you like they were getting ready to raise rates? Or that they would be raising rates for 17 consecutive meetings thereafter?
It has been nine years since the Federal Reserve last raised interest rates. It is difficult for me to see how even a 1% interest rate could not be seen as remarkably accommodative.
As an anecdotal aside, I had dinner with some of the usual suspects Wednesday night: Art Cashin, Barry Ritholtz, Rich Yamarone (Bloomberg chief econ), Dan Greenspan (BTIG econ), Lakshman Achuthan (ECRI forecaster and business cycle expert), and a hedgie who prefers to remain anonymous. In short, a relatively clued-in, on-top-of-the-data group. Art asked a very simple question, “Will the Fed raise rates this year?” Not, when will they start, but just, will they do it this year? Of course, with this crowd, everybody had to talk about when they will start as well.
To say there was no consensus would be an understatement. I don’t think any two people agreed on whether and when the Fed will raise rates. Barry thinks they will raise rates every other meeting until they reach 2%. Dan is firmly in the camp that they will raise rates this year and sooner rather than later. Several questioned how the Fed could possibly raise rates with the economy being so close to stall speed. As for me, I sense that the Fed feels the need to raise rates but is going to do it more slowly than any of us expect, perhaps by only 1/8 of 1% per meeting, in an effort not to overwhelm market expectations.
Interestingly, the hedgie in the group seems to think the potential for all hell breaking loose in the middle of September is significant. The pushback he got from the rest of the table was interesting. I would just observe that he has a rather significant amount of money in play, as opposed to the rest of us.
Bottom line: you can read into this latest employment report whatever you want. You can look at all the minutes and the speeches and see whatever you want to see. Janet Yellen knows she has to begin to raise rates now – if for no other reason than that she wants to be able to lower rates in response to some future recession. If we have a Federal Reserve managing interest rates for short-term results, then we are in a great deal of trouble.
Now let’s scan the international landscape for further evidence of the unseen.
Last Monday we learned that recent losses in Chinese stocks had so rattled the People’s Bank of China that over the weekend it had both cut interest rates and lowered bank reserve requirements. They were hoping to stem the rather dramatic fall of their stock markets. Clearly, it didn’t work. The Chinese markets continued to fall this week, down by 30% from their previous rise in less than two weeks! (hat tip Dan Greenspan):
I told them that the current pain is really a result of both Beijing’s grand plan and part and parcel of the unique Chinese cultural phenomenon. As I’ve written about in previous letters, China is now at a long-foreseen point in their development where they have to shift away from the previous top-down command economy and let markets function more organically. Inevitably, this transition is causing pain for people accustomed to the old ways. President Xi Jinping has to manage the pain and maintain order, but, as they say, “No pain, no gain.” Xi is very astutely framing the whole reform process as a crackdown on corruption. I suppose that’s what it is, in a way, but now that he has begun, he has to stick with it.
With regard to the markets, Xi has the advantage of knowing what Xi will do next; the rest of us don’t. The government lets markets do as they will up to some point the leadership must have defined, takes charge again, and then steps back to watch. I suspect their intent is to intervene less and less frequently as the grand plan unfolds.
Last weekend, in the most recent intervention, the PBOC cut interest rates and reserve requirements. This was a dramatic move, but with the Shanghai Composite down 20% in two weeks, they must have wanted to make a splash.
If so, it didn’t work. Chinese stocks fell another 3% or so on Monday and another 5 to 6% since then. Western traders sniffed panic and headed for the exits. This development points us to another emerging Chinese phenomenon. It’s critically important, but people aren’t seeing it.
China’s fast-growing middle class absolutely loves playing the stock market. Chinese families are opening accounts and borrowing money to trade on margin at an astonishing pace. Check out these Goldman Sachs charts, courtesy of Ed Harrison at CreditWritedowns.com.
The Chinese, as a broad generalization, don’t invest with the same perspective that Western investors do. Chinese individual investors are not primarily “value” investors. Sky-high valuations don’t seem to faze them. They are primarily momentum investors who buy whatever is moving and sell whatever is falling.
According to my friends who go to casinos and watch the Chinese gamble, they tend to jump on a “trend” such as red coming up on the roulette table repeatedly – never mind that the odds are only ever 50-50. Red is seen as hot and therefore the way to bet. That carries over into trading styles. (By the way, please don’t get the idea that I’m being derogatory about momentum investing. It’s a perfectly reasonable way to approach trading, and there are many investors who are quite good at it.)
The number of new Chinese trading accounts went vertical this year. Further, many of the world’s largest index funds are either adding China to their indexes or increasing their exposure, resulting in a tidal wave of Chinese stock buying. That’s what made China indexes double and some individual stocks triple and quadruple. It’s breathtaking to watch.
I expect more volatility from China in the second half of this year and, really, for years to come. If you want to know why, read (from our book) Louis-Vincent Gave’s chapter, “The Importance of RMB Internationalization,” which I ran in Outside the Box last month.
Beijing gave the world another little tease last week, too. According to Bloomberg, the Ministry of Finance posted draft regulations that would allow one of the nation’s largest pension funds to buy stocks. Between that and the renminbi opening that Louis Gave expects, Chinese stocks still have plenty of fuel to move higher – but I think the volatility is going to astonish us.
Would I invest in China right now – today? As a trade? Probably not – at least until we see more signs of a bottom and Chinese buyers piling in again. China is a trader’s market right now and will be for some time. The best you can do: follow the momentum and get out quickly when it starts to fade. Yes, I think that longer-term, China is going to be a fabulous market, but most people are just not going to be able to handle the volatility.
Will China’s economy keep growing at 7% a year or more? No – even Xi can’t sustain those growth rates. He can probably manage 3–4% a year, though, after the economy normalizes. In a country as big as China, that is still mind-boggling growth. Wouldn’t we love to be able to get back to 3 to 4% growth in the US? There is a lot of money still waiting to jump into somebody’s wallet. The last few weeks notwithstanding, China is still a land of investment opportunity.
China is perhaps one of the most important question marks in the economic world today, and so it can’t help but matter to your investments. The mainstream media is focused on Greece, but the reality is that Greece is a sideshow compared to China. Quick shameless plug for our e-book, A Great Leap Forward? Worth Wray and I asked some of the world’s top China experts to decode the future for us. They answered in spades. It’s a fantastic book for anyone interested in China. For now it’s available only in electronic form. Go here to learn more, read some excerpts, and order from your preferred e-bookstore.
Next trouble spot: Puerto Rico. Sunday the Commonwealth acknowledged that it can’t keep up payments on its $72 billion debt, something that many of us have known for some time.
At this point, Puerto Rico’s debt is approximately 15 times larger than the per capita median debt of the 50 US states. And Puerto Rico is dramatically poorer than the 50 states. Forty percent of the population lives below the poverty line, and the Puerto Rican economy has been in recession for nine years! Another factor is that government aid can provide Puerto Rico residents with $1,743 per month in benefits, compared with the average take-home earnings on the island of $1,159 per month for a minimum-wage worker. That imbalance can act to discourage people from seeking work. The unemployment rate in Puerto Rico stood at 12.4 percent in May, or more than double that of the US.
Puerto Rico is a tiny island of 3.6 million people. They carry an average of about $20,000 of debt per man, woman, and child. At the 8% yield that Puerto Rico currently pays, that is about $200 per month per person just in interest costs. That comes to $10,000 a year for a family of four. And that’s before the government pays anything for healthcare, education, police, fire, pensions, etc., etc. It’s simply not a sustainable business model.
Complicating the situation is the fact that Puerto Rico cannot declare bankruptcy the way US cities and municipalities can, and there is no impetus in either Congress or the White House to bail out Puerto Rico. That being said, nearly all of the $72 billion that Puerto Rico owes is owed to US institutions and funds. While that debt is not going to zero, a lot of municipal bond funds are going to take a hit on their holdings. Presumably the vast majority of funds are diversified, but it won’t be a good day at the office when Puerto Rico starts offering to give haircuts.
The New York Times “broke” the story that everyone online already knew, with an interview they had done a few days earlier. Here is their lead.
Puerto Rico’s governor, saying he needs to pull the island out of a “death spiral,” has concluded that the commonwealth cannot pay its roughly $72 billion in debts, an admission that will probably have wide-reaching financial repercussions.
The governor, Alejandro García Padilla, and senior members of his staff said in an interview last week that they would probably seek significant concessions from as many as all of the island’s creditors, which could include deferring some debt payments for as long as five years or extending the timetable for repayment.
The debt is not payable,” Mr. García Padilla said. “There is no other option. I would love to have an easier option. This is not politics, this is math.
We talked about the public pension problem in Illinois two weeks ago. That situation still looks dire, but Puerto Rico appears more urgent and is not a much smaller problem.
Give Gov. García Padilla applause for his candor. I wish mainland politicians would speak so directly. Puerto Rico is rapidly running out of cash. Of course, there are always options, but none that don’t involve a haircut of some kind for creditors. Neither Puerto Rico nor Illinois can declare bankruptcy under current US law. Puerto Rico apparently plans to play hardball with its creditors.
Those creditors include numerous US municipal bond funds whose managers thought PR bonds were a good way to juice their yields. Michael Lewitt of The Credit Strategist pointed out that just last year the funds snapped up $3.5 billion in 8% 20-year PR general-obligation bonds. He says that was a bad idea at the time and only looks worse now. It could be a big problem for bond insurers, too. Here’s Michael:
Of course buyers piled into these bonds, attracted by the discounted price and high yield (although the yield was not nearly high enough for the risk involved). One firm (that will go unnamed to protect the innocent) even opened a special fund for its investors to get in on the fun; the same firm, along with others, now claims that it owns other insured Puerto Rican bonds and will be protected from losses when the default comes.
The market is not so sanguine: shares of bond insurers Assured Guaranty Ltd. (AGO), MBIA Inc. (MBI) and Ambac Financial Group, Inc. (AMBC) were down 13.35%, 23.40% and 11.89%, respectively, after the governor’s comments on June 29. MBIA and Ambac insured roughly one-fifth or between $14.0 and $15.0 billion of Puerto Rican bonds.
According to BTIG analyst Mark Palmer, Ambac faces potential losses of $4.5 billion while MBIA is looking at a $4.9 billion hit, which suggests that the insurance may not be there when needed or that the insurers will suffer losses that will materially damage their capital bases, credit ratings and ability to keep writing business. Moreover, like any insurance company, bondholders can be certain that these companies will do everything legally possible to avoid or delay paying these claims. Since there are restrictions on Puerto Rico’s ability to file for bankruptcy and other complications in this situation, an immediate insurance payout upon a payment default is highly unlikely. Glibly depending on the kindness of bond insurers is likely to prove to be a fool’s game.
So what good news could possibly hide in all this? Economically, Puerto Rico looks a lot more like Greece than like a part of the United States. Per-capital income is low; unemployment is high; and the government has no money.
But Puerto Rico has one ace in the hole. It is an American territory but doesn’t have to pay American taxes. Local officials are trying to play that card, too. From Forbes (3/2/15):
As the US Treasury Department continues to tighten its noose around offshore accounts, a new tax haven has sprung up under its nose in the Caribbean. Welcome to Puerto Rico–island of tropical breezes, and (for new arrivals only) a 0% tax rate on certain dividends, interest and capital gains.
Puerto Rico is about the same size as Connecticut but with more palm trees, twice the unemployment rate, a third the median household income and a tiny fraction of the hedge funds–a deficiency the financially teetering territory aims to correct by turning itself into a refuge for tax-oppressed millionaires and billionaires.
Yes, this is legal. While the U.S. asserts a sweeping right to tax citizens’ income wherever they live and wherever it’s earned, Section 933 of the tax code exempts residents of Puerto Rico from paying US income tax on their Puerto Rico-sourced income. Instead, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico has the exclusive right to tax local income as it sees fit.
“The way the US tax code is written, I could be on Mars and be taxed on intergalactic income but not if I’m sitting on this island in the Caribbean. It’s kind of in a twilight zone,” marvels Irvine, Calif. money manager Mohnish Pabrai.
To exploit this special status and help rescue its economy, Puerto Rico’s Legislative Assembly adopted two laws in 2012 and expanded them last year. Act 20 entices hedge funds, family offices, professional service firms and even software developers to locate there by taxing their corporate profits from exported services at a flat 4% rate and allowing those profits to be paid out to the owners free of Puerto Rico income tax. So far the government has okayed 346 export companies, with 400 approvals expected this year.
Pabrai used Act 20 to set up a new private equity venture in Puerto Rico last year and figures he’ll save as much as $10 million in tax a year, as well as half a million in operating costs. (There’s an abundance of educated Puerto Ricans ready to work for less than their California counterparts. Office space is cheaper, too.)
Act 22 grants new Puerto Rico residents (including, after a recent amendment, returning Puerto Ricans who left before 2006) a 0% rate on locally sourced interest and dividends as well as all capital gains accrued after they become residents, a particular benefit for active traders. So far 509 tax refugees have been granted Act 22 status and another 600 will get it this year, Puerto Rico’s Department of Economic Development & Commerce projects.
As you might expect, this tax bonanza is attracting some serious wealth to Puerto Rico. It is a potential choice if your business doesn’t depend on being physically present in New York or Chicago. Puerto Rico has modern internet and phone service and is only one time zone away from the East Coast.
I have personally been approached by three different people trying to get me to move to Puerto Rico, extolling the incredible tax benefits. I know of a half a dozen individuals and businesses that have moved in the last 12 months. However, while Puerto Rico is a lovely island, there is this pesky rule that comes along with the tax benefits that says you have to live outside of the US for six months plus one day every year, which is something that for the vast majority of us simply won’t work.
This will be an interesting experiment if nothing else. In theory, Puerto Rico has all the ingredients to become the Singapore of the Caribbean. The tax breaks should attract a critical mass of talented, entrepreneurial people with capital to invest. If they can double or triple the local economy, Puerto Rico’s debt will start to look a lot more manageable.
I don’t know if they can do that. I don’t think it will work if the newer, wealthier residents simply set up shop in their fortified enclaves. The growth needs to trickle down far more rapidly to the native-born Puerto Ricans than we see happening today, in order to create a true growth dynamic. We’ll see what happens. If you hate paying taxes, then forget about muni bonds and go on a house-shopping vacation to San Juan.
We’ll come back in about 20 or 30 years and see if tax incentives were enough to push Puerto Rico over the top.
Finally, we come to Greece. The situation there looked dire when I sent last week’s letter, and it hasn’t gotten better. The country failed to make an IMF payment that was due June 30. Greek banks are all closed and are rationing cash withdrawals. The Athens Stock Exchange was offline all week.
The ECB clamped down on emergency loans to the Bank of Greece, so the country’s entire financial system is on the brink of collapse. The next big decision point is the Greek popular referendum that Prime Minister Tsipras unexpectedly called for Sunday, July 5.
This referendum is another odd twist. Greeks will vote yes or no on accepting the European bailout offer that expired on June 30. Tsipras and most of his Syriza party are urging a no vote. If they get it, Tsipras will go back to the creditors and demand new negotiations, with the nation behind him. I doubt that popular support will sway Germany or the rest of Europe. Seriously, when your teenage daughter stamps her foot and demands that you give her back the credit card after she runs up a monster bill, you’re not really inclined to relent. And while that’s not the way the Greeks see it, ask the average German voter.
If Greeks vote yes on the referendum, they still won’t get the bailout, because it expired and the Eurogroup nations refused to extend it. A “yes” outcome will more than likely force Tsipras to resign and make way for another government.
And then it gets even more depressing. The sad fact is that Greece cannot pay its debts under any scenario. The amounts are just too large. We know this from documents the Troika sent to the German parliament just last week. The Guardian reports:
Greece would face an unsustainable level of debt by 2030 even if it signs up to the full package of tax and spending reforms demanded of it, according to unpublished documents compiled by its three main creditors.
The documents, drawn up by the so-called troika of lenders, support Greece’s argument that it needs substantial debt relief for a lasting economic recovery. They show that, even after 15 years of sustained strong growth, the country would face a level of debt that the International Monetary Fund deems unsustainable.
Think about that for a moment. Precisely what is going to cause strong growth in a Greek economy that is subject to the austerity measures that are being proposed, and without any debt relief? Greece’s ratio of debt to GDP, rather than shrinking, will increase under any realistic scenario. Back to The Guardian:
The documents admit that under the baseline scenario “significant concessions” are necessary to improve Greece’s chances of ridding itself permanently of its debt financing woes.
Even under the best-case scenario, which includes growth of 4% a year for the next five years, Greece’s debt levels will drop to only 124%, by 2022. The best case also anticipates €15bn (£10bn) in proceeds from privatisations, five times the estimate in the most likely scenario.
I bolded the key phrases. The IMF says Greece is hopeless even in the best-case, most Pollyanna-ish scenarios. We are far from seeing such scenarios, too. We haven’t seen anything resembling a best-case scenario in Greece for seven years
I don’t mean to be trite, but unpayable debts are debts that won’t be paid. Greece’s creditors know this, yet they still demand payment.
Why demand something you know you won’t get? The only reason is that you have some other unspoken objective. As a financial matter, it seems likely the creditors will have to take huge haircuts and Greece will enter an extended depression, either with or without the euro.
The ECB has been gaming Greece for some time. Reports suggest they think they have Greece ring-fenced such that it won’t set off a market contagion. I wrote five years ago that Europe (read Germany) would be willing to let Greece go as soon as European (read German) banks had gotten rid of most of their Greek debt. That Greek debt is now largely on the books of state actors (governments, the IMF, and central banks) who will just absorb the losses and pass them on to their loyal taxpayers.
I came across this fascinating note from my friend Dennis Gartman Friday morning, on where Greek bank debt actually resides:
The situation in Greece just keeps on keepin’ on as they say, so we thought we’d take a look this morning at the countries who are really at risk if the crisis worsens, and by this we mean which nations’ banks have the greatest exposure. Leading the way is Turkey, and that really shouldn’t be all that surprising given the geography involved. The others are, in billions of dollars:
Turkey $32 billion
Romania 15 billion
Cyprus 10 billion
Bulgaria 10 billion
The UK 10 billion
Serbia 5 billion
The Marshall Islands 4 billion
Liberia (really?!!) 3 billion
Germany 2 billion
The US 2 billion
Liberia? Really? Liberia? We can understand Turkey; and we can understand Romania and Cyprus having reasonable exposures, but the modest sums involving the US and Germany rather surprised us. But again, Liberia? Haven’t they enough problems at home with Ebola and corruption? Have Liberia’s banks really had to go abroad and to Greece of all places? Again, sometimes you cannot make this stuff up.
I understand that the ECB and the European Commission have to be making contingency plans in case Greece leaves the euro. They need to deal with potential bank runs in other countries, especially the smaller countries near Greece (for countries with potential problems, see the list above of Greek debt holders), and to protect all markets from the negative consequences of a possible Grexit. They would be derelict in their duties if they were not making contingency plans.
But to call those contingency plans Operation Albani? Seriously?
Who picks these names? However, according to El Pais (a major Spanish paper), that is the name of a contingency plan that has been on the drawing board since 2012. After Tsipras’ referendum announcement, the plan is now on the front burner, as no one really knows how the vote will go. The major polls (or at least the ones that seem credible) seem to show the contest to be relatively even, with a significant number of “not sures” thrown in. My peripatetic friend David Zervos (the chief economist at Jefferies), who still has a lot of family in Greece andis in Greece today (and who told me about the El Pais story), offers this anecdotal comment about the election (emphasis mine):
At this point I actually have no idea how to handicap the results. In my family circle, for example, there exists quite a split. My cousins, and their friends, who are all in their 30s/40s, will firmly vote in the NO camp. But many of them are not actually voting because they must travel to their birth village to cast a ballot. Most of them do not have money to travel. [Really?!?!? This is the cradle of democracy? Who still has these rules?] My uncles, aunts and their friends are split. The YES voters are doing it purely for pension money, not because of some allegiance to Europe or a strong austerian/reformist political view. The NO voters are casting a ballot with their heart not their wallet. Of course, the views on the islands where my family reside are far more left leaning than in Athens. But I do not think one can generalize too much geographically as we head into Sunday. Even the people in Athens seemed more skewed to NO than I would have thought. The NO rally had 35,000 participants and the YES rally had only 5000.
This will be a very complicated vote for the Greek people. And whether it's YES or NO, the situation in Greece will be terrible for years to come. Many nasty forces across ALL of Europe have led us to this crucial point. And to be sure, turning any Eurozone nation into Albania is nothing to be proud of. It will unfortunately mark one of the largest European failures in the last 70 years.
The referendum on Sunday is essentially Greek voters deciding which type of disaster they want. Do they want the disaster of staying in the euro, or the disaster of leaving the euro? Each choice will bring a different type of poverty and significantly different outcomes for different groups of people: pensioners, government workers, businesspeople, and young people all have potentially different outcomes. The fact that the Greeks did it to themselves (with a helping hand from the Germans, et al.) does not make the situation any less sad. The irony is that no matter what the vote is, whoever picks up the pieces will be overseeing a total disaster and is likely to be discredited in the near term. Greece cannot begin to grow without massive debt relief and bureaucratic reform, neither of which seems to be in the cards. The collapse that leaving the euro would entail could either usher in a total reset of the Greek economy or a semi-authoritarian government that tries to enforce even more bureaucratic rules. The correct answer five years ago was to leave the Eurozone. Given the politics of the day, I have no idea what the correct answer is now. Whatever they choose, the situation is likely to worsen over time, perhaps a very short time if their answer is “OXI!”
On the other hand, the Greek islands make for a marvelous vacation, and Athens is a phenomenal cultural attraction. There may be no better time to start planning your next Greek vacation. You can save a little money and do your bit to help the Greek economy.
I’m in New York for one more week before I return to Dallas. Then I get one night in my own bed before I fly to Denver for the Inside Alternatives conference for investment advisors and brokers. My friend Larry Kudlow will be delivering the other keynote. I will be there on behalf of my good friends at Altegris Investments and am looking forward to being with Jack Rivkin, whom I should congratulate for being named their new chief executive officer. Jack has a storied history on Wall Street, where he ended up running Neuberger Berman and being responsible for much of the success there. He retired but never really quit working, and now at 75 is ready to go build something else. His energy and enthusiasm are inspirational to me.
I look forward to getting to spend a long Sunday evening with Jack, going over investments but also sharing our mutual fascination with future technology. Jack is on the board of Idealab and has been an influential venture capitalist involved with many startups. He is the one who introduced me to the brainwave training I’ve been undergoing here in NYC. He is further down the road with it and raves about it. I look forward to being able to write about it sometime soon and tell you about my experience with it. It is coming to a future near you.
The first week of August will see me for one or two nights in New York before I go on to Grand Lake Stream, Maine, for the annual economist fishing event that is known alternatively as Camp Kotok (after David Kotok of Cumberland Advisors, who organized the first gathering, many years ago) or, as some of the press have called it, the Shadow Fed. I bet we have more fun than they do at Fed meetings. And we certainly do less damage.
Later in the month I will return to New York City for a few days before going on to Gloucester and Boston for a few days of vacation with friends. Then I’ll spend a few more days on the East Coast before returning home.
Sometimes the light’s all shining on me
Other times I can barely see
Lately it occurs to me
What a long strange trip it's been.
– “Truckin',” by the Grateful Dead
My friend Doug Kass was reminiscing yesterday about his youth – before he became a famous investment guru – when he was actually a Deadhead, traveling around digging one Grateful Dead concert after another. He was musing about the fact that the Dead are now on their final tour, called the “Fare Thee Well Tour.” And then he realized it had been “only” 50 years ago that they gave their first concert.
You know how a song gets on your mind? Maybe I was singing it to myself when I realized that the young girl sitting next to me was looking at the old man next to her singing a song and wondering if I was just another New York crazy. “Sorry,” I offered, “it’s a Grateful Dead song,” as if that explained something. She gave me this blank look, and I said, “The Grateful Dead, the band.”
“Never heard of them.”
“You really never heard of the Grateful Dead?”
“No, who are they?”
Who raises these kids?
But then it happened again at the dinner I mentioned at the beginning of the letter. It was either Barry or Rich who brought up a reference to The Odd Couple. I know that Dan Greenhaus is young, but he was looking around at the rest of us chuckling, and he clearly didn’t get it. Barry looked at him and said, “You know, the Odd Couple. Oscar and Felix.” There was still that blank look. “The ’70s sitcom on TV. Surely you’ve seen it once or twice,” I offered, trying to be helpful and believing that surely he had at least seen the movie.
He had no clue. I will be 66 in a few months, and I find that more and more of my clever cultural references and witty repartee simply go over the heads of my audience.
Truly, what a long strange trip it has been. I have to say that mine has been fun and seems to get more exciting and interesting every year; but guys, really, teach your children well. Or something to that effect.
Have a great week. I’ve been invited by my friend Murat Köprülü to watch the fireworks from the roof of the new Whitney Museum. The Whitney had actually been one of the things I wanted to see what I was in town, and so now I get to watch the fireworks from possibly one of the best vantage points in New York and see the art as well. What a great way to spend July 4. I hope there are a few fireworks in your world as well.
Your just keep on trucking analyst,
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A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to visit the Reteti Elephant Sanctuary, an orphanage for infant elephants located in the Namunyak Conservancy in northern Kenya. Officially opened in August 2016, the sanctuary aims both to rehabilitate orphaned elephants and to create employment and revenue for the local community. This in turn ensures a broader understanding of the importance of elephant conservation in the region, although it speaks volumes that the collective voice of the local community was the driving force behind setting up the sanctuary in the first place!
The Reteti Elephant Sanctuary
YZ expert Wies travelled to northern Kenya to explore the Reteti Elephant Sanctuary.
Poaching of adult elephants for their ivory is obviously one of the main contributors to the population of elephant young at Reteti, but this is far from the only reason for the sanctuary’s existence. Other contributing factors include manmade wells, drought, human–wildlife conflict, and natural mortality. All this combined contributes to the intake of between 5 and 10 youngsters per year, who are then cared for and raised by trained handlers before being released back into the wild.
"I strongly believe that, while the work done with young elephants is absolutely vital, perhaps the most important aspect of the Reteti Elephant Sanctuary is the involvement and contribution of the Samburu community. These are without doubt the first steps towards the long-term successful co-existence of wildlife and humans in this amazing area."
The Reteti Elephant Sanctuary relies in large part on donations from the public, and as such it’s open to visitors on a daily basis for a small fee of $20 per person. This money goes towards milk formula, bottles for feeding, and various medicines for the elephants. Other aspects of the organisation – for example, their mobile rescue team, the training of keepers, and even staff payments – rely not only on the contributions of visitors but also on the generosity of the general public.
The community involvement, and importantly evolvement, has played an incredible role in making Reteti an almost overnight success. For centuries, this area has been home to the Samburu people, a pastoralist tribe that lived peacefully alongside the wildlife. However, with population growth came pressure on the habitats of these wild animals, and as a result human–wildlife conflicts became more and more of an issue. The Samburu have realised that wildlife can be harnessed as a valuable resource, capable of creating opportunities in fields such as conservation and tourism. This approach is highlighted at Reteti itself, which moreover has moved to empower women by training them as keepers. In a community previously not inclined to consider the workplace as a space for women, this really is a brilliant development – it sets a positive example for young girls hoping to pursue their own ambitions.
If you would like to visit the Reteti Sanctuary, we'd recommend staying at Sarara Camp. For any more information on northern Kenya or Reteti, please don't hesitate to contact us on +44 (0)20 8547 2305 or email [email protected]
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How to convert an UI image to a Pillow image
I am still experimenting with Pillow and UI images...
Now I try to convert a small UI image into a Pillow image, but somehow this doesn't work. First I tried:
ui_image = appex.get_images(image_type='ui') pil_image = ui_image.to_png() print(pil_image.size)
This gives my an error because
ui_image.to_png()doesn't seem to create a Image (but only the data).
Then I thought about
... s = ui_image.size pil_image = Image.frombuffer(mode, size, ui_image.to_png())
but here I have no idea what to use for
Any idea how to convert an UI image to a Pillow image?
import io . . . def ui2pil(ui_img): return Image.open(io.BytesIO(ui_img.to_png()))
@cvp This is amazing! Where do you know all these tricks from? 😄
Where do you know all these tricks from?
I'm sure this comes from the forum, full of amazing guys. This forum does not offer an easy way to search but if you use Google with "Pythonista forum pil ui.image" you should find it.
Of course, I have a lot of scripts thus I search among mines first.
Édit: I'm sure that if you use a lot Pythonista, you'll become one of these amazing guys 😀
Possibly from here-ish?
I’m going to try this out, I know very little about images/image-data. All I’m trying to do is compare two images, change pixel color for differences and draw a circle (Path.oval) around the bounds with some offset. Apparently I can’t open an image and draw on it via ImageContext.. so.. conversion, conversion, conversion, undo all conversions, .show(). Since paste() appears to be broken as well.
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/private/var/mobile/Containers/Shared/AppGroup/4696D4C5-8877-4DAB-9679-C1C82C4A5C18/Pythonista3/Documents/CompletedPrograms/ImageMatching.py", line 412, in <module> matchImage() File "/private/var/mobile/Containers/Shared/AppGroup/4696D4C5-8877-4DAB-9679-C1C82C4A5C18/Pythonista3/Documents/CompletedPrograms/ImageMatching.py", line 278, in matchImage ImageChops.screen(image1, outlinedDiff).show() File "/var/containers/Bundle/Application/24BCA42A-E70C-42BD-BD39-68CECBB90922/Pythonista3.app/Frameworks/Py3Kit.framework/pylib/site-packages/PIL/ImageChops.py", line 138, in screen return image1._new(image1.im.chop_screen(image2.im)) ValueError: images do not match
Oops, one more conversion I guess 😅
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Metaverse Carnival 2021 Keynote Recap | Social Tokens: User-generated Capital for a Web3-first World
How social tokens are a new asset class? What kinds of Web3 primitives are useful for social tokens? Let’s hear Sid touch upon how social tokens fit in with some of the larger themes like NFTs, metaverse, and DAOs and continue to dive into the different types of value sources for social tokens.
We’ve captured the full learnings and video from Sid’s sharing below. Fairly high level with enough technical details that you don’t want to miss out!
Hey, everyone, this is Sid Kalla, the co-founder and CTO at Roll. Today I’m going to talk about social tokens as user-generated capital for a Web3 first World. Let’s rewind like 20 years towards the start of the online social world. Pretty much everything we know about the social world today, from sending tweets, posting images, sharing videos, all of these activities very broadly can be classified as user-generated content. In that world, the value that’s generated by individual creators or communities or groups pretty much mostly gets captured at the platform later. That’s why companies like Facebook are valued at close to a trillion dollars. Yet users obviously don’t nearly make as much. We’re now entering a world powered by blockchain technology. That’s pretty much like based on the ethos of Web3 that we ride on. This really allows creators not just to make content, but really to make their own capital. Crypto is leading the shift from user-generated content to user-generated capital.
We can now create capital around content, which is pretty much the world of NFTs that you might be familiar with, and you can create capital around community. That’s the world of social tokens. So crypto uniquely enables digital scarcity by owning social tokens in a community - you own a piece of that community in perpetuity. Social tokens are becoming pretty much increasingly necessary as we enter into new computing paradigms like the Metaverse, for example. We cannot make the same mistakes that we made with traditional Web2 platforms where the platforms have all the power and the community pretty much has none.
It’s pretty devastating if Facebook were to become the dominant metaverse platform. It’s just too much power with a single entity. Instead, what we really want, what we really need, is communities to easily be able to flow between different metaverse platforms really without losing their identity so that you’re not tied to the platform, the underlying platform itself. Social tokens allow communities to capture most of that value that they create and then move it across the web. Whether it’s traditional Web2 platforms up and upcoming Web2 platforms, Web3 platforms or even the newest metaverse platforms. How cool with that?
Let’s talk about some basic economics of social tokens. The first thing that we talk about is to ensure that there’s a supply cap again, like with the ethos of crypto enabling scarcity. This is in contrast to some doubts that have chosen to mint as many tokens as they deem necessary based on governance. But we believe this is a flawed model for the long-term success of a community because it’s not respecting basic property rights because a majority of the people in the DAO can vote to essentially make someone else’s stake worthless. That’s not a good guarantee for someone to be able to invest their time and money into something instead of having a fixed supply.
What we’re really ensuring is that you can own a piece of this community forever. As an example, all the social tokens that we issue at Roll have a maximum supply of 10 million units. So say we are minting like a dollar IOSG token on Roll for this amazing community that IOSG has curated over the years. What this means is that if you were to own, say, ten thousand of these IOSG tokens with a given cap of 10 million, that means you will own 0.1 percent of the supply and no one can take this away from you. Social tokens are also fungible tokens, which means that one IOSG token in our example, is the same as any other IOSG token. They’re also divisible up to 18 decimals, usually. So this means that they are a superior form of money inside the community. This is as opposed to some other primitives like nonfungible tokens(NFTs), which are unique per token and therefore become very hard to divide and then also transfer value between one to the other. Once a social token is established inside a community, it can very easily function as a medium of exchange pretty much as money inside a community, both for large and small transactions. So, for example, the original promise of the web was around microtransactions that never panned out, but that will be possible with social tokens inside of each community that adopted. The initial distribution of social tokens is also a pretty important primitive.
So you want to reward people who have already contributed to making your community valuable. After that, you want to incentivize behaviors that the entire community generally deems valuable. So in our example, that would be people who have already made IOSG successful up to this point, including the community that they are curating around themselves. The founders and many other investors, the teams, everyone. Going forward, the community can then decide who to reward. For example, let’s say a new project comes into the fold. You know, they can reserve certain tokens for that project. Or if someone were to put an event like this together for the broader community, that’s pretty valuable. They earn some IOSG tokens. We also found that vesting is a pretty key economic primitive for social token communities. This ensures that the creator is in it for the long run because most of the economic value that’s created is in the future and not the present. It really just like helps reduce short term thinking from community leaders, encourages building for the long term health of the community, just aligns incentives for the long term essentially. At Roll, the default duration right now is about one year, but we let the communities choose their own vesting period at launch. So again, like in the IOSG token, they can decide to invest for 1 year or 5 years or even like 10 years.
Once that’s set, that cannot be changed so that people know exactly the whole distribution and supply schedule over time. Once that initial distribution is figured out and you have some ways to get that into the community to earn social tokens, what really comes after a very fascinating thing is markets. This is really where the power of decentralized finance (DeFi) really shines. You can plug your social money into all of these DeFi protocols, like an automated market maker (AMM), something like Uniswap, for instance, to provide some initial liquidity. This creates a market that can then give your social token a dollar value in the traditional world, you would need a professional market maker, like Citadel or someone to be a market maker. But in the DeFi world, we can use these automated market makers where everyone can become a Citadel essentially. You’ll also earn a small trading fee that’s typically zero 0.3% while taking on some risk of impermanent loss. But this is also something of value you’re contributing to that community. To give you just a sense of what the markets really are like, just at Roll, we’ve issued about four hundred different social tokens, about 10 percent of them. So about 40 of them right now have an active market in this way. The total market cap of all of these is about 250 to 300 million dollars, depending on the market. Now this is just with 40 social tokens, right? So think of a world in which the scales to tens of thousands or even millions of different communities.
So it’s a very valuable primitive that people can use in the traditional social world. Things like “likes and retweets” are really the currency of these platforms. But in this new world that is enabling like liquidity is what matters. You can incentivize your community to start providing liquidity to your social token by rewarding them with additional social tokens for the people who provide liquidity. What this really enables is creating deeper liquidity pools. The market makes it easier for people to enter and exit the community by buying and selling the social tokens of that community. But at the end of the day, ultimately the price is, of course, determined by the market. Even if you set the price too high or too low, people are going to buy and sell and make decisions based on that. There’s more liquidity on the price will just converge to the market consensus quicker.
Another thing, we’re kind of hearing a lot about DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations) and social tokens really are the most basic form of DAO that you can really form. Over time, you can progressively decentralize this DAO while you have the time to set the direction that the community should go in, especially in the early days, which is really important and also integrates very well with NFT communities that have capital assets in the form of a piece like art or gaming. So people with the social tokens get the voting to decide, for example, at what price to list or what kind of NFT to buy and so on. Once their social token has a dollar value, you can send a portion of that to the DAO under the community’s control. The community will then collectively decide where and how to deploy this value. Remember, now there’s a dollar value with the markets. In our example, an IOSG DAO can then decide to buy tokens in another DAO or swap tokens with another DAO. Or you could purchase some high-quality NFTs that the community believes in. We’ve even seen does in a social token does invest in equity in startups. So pretty much how the treasury is used is very specific to each community, but it’s a very wide-open canvas. The assets of the DAO hold are, of course, not limited to social tokens, it can hold ETH, NFTs or other tokens. What matters is that the community collectively governs this over time. The IOSG which was initially in control, can pretty much completely decentralize the system right by giving a majority of the IOSG tokens to the DAO, just letting the community thrive pretty much independent from that initial issuance that we saw. A big part of what really makes social tokens valuable is, of course, also the ability to use them on existing platforms, right? So that’s your Facebook and Twitter.
But also, like future platforms, we strongly believe that the next billion users in crypto are going to come through these existing communities that already exist on platforms today, right? The future generation of the platforms will natively integrate social tokens. So all this is to say that the infrastructure layer becomes extremely important. This is why a company like Roll, for example, is really building those APIs for Web2 platforms. If you’ve ever seen things like sign in with Twitter or sign in with Facebook in the future, you’ll see like sign in with Roll, you can connect your Roll wallet and all of a sudden that Web2 APPs pretty much can behave in these Web3 primitives that we just talked about.
In conclusion, social tokens really allow you to create capital around the community. It’s not tied to the underlying platform like Facebook. They can move from the physical space for the digital space to the metaverse, to any other future computing spaces, all while retaining their economic value. They can trade freely on the open market. They can plug it into DeFi primitives like automated market makers. They’re very interoperable with DAOs and NFTs and they can really move the capital from one platform to another very easily. Whether it’s a Web2 or Web3 platform, social tokens really are a new asset class that we believe will redefine the social web over the next decade. Thank you all very much.
❄️ About Us
IOSG Ventures, founded in 2017, is a community-friendly and research-driven early-stage venture firm. We focus on open finance, Web 3.0 and infrastructure for a decentralized economy. As a developer-friendly fund with long-term values, we launch the Kickstarter Program, which offers innovative and courageous developers capital and resources. Since we consistently cooperate with our partners and connect with communities, we work closely with our portfolio projects throughout their journey of entrepreneurship.
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Physiotherapy is a form of treatment that helps to improve movement and function. It can be used to treat a wide range of conditions, both physical and mental. In this blog post, we will take a look at some of the most common conditions that physiotherapists treat, as well as the methods they use to help patients recover.
- Back Pain
One of the most common conditions that physiotherapists near Thornbury treat is back pain. This can be caused by a number of things, such as poor posture, incorrect lifting techniques, or simply sitting for long periods of time. Physiotherapy can help to improve back pain by strengthening the muscles around the spine and increasing flexibility.
Another common condition that Reservoir physiotherapist treat is arthritis. This is a condition that causes inflammation and pain in the joints. Physiotherapy can help to reduce pain and improve joint function.
- Chronic Diseases
Chronic diseases are a major health problem worldwide, accounting for millions of deaths each year. While there is no cure for chronic diseases like heart disease and diabetes, there are treatments that can help to manage the symptoms and improve quality of life. One such treatment is physiotherapy. Local experienced physiotherapist near Thornbury are health care professionals who use movement and exercise to treat a variety of conditions. They can help to improve flexibility, strength, and endurance, as well as reduce pain and swelling. In addition, physiotherapy can also help to improve breathing and circulation, both of which are vital for people with chronic diseases. As a result, physiotherapy can play an important role in the management of chronic diseases.
- Sprained Ankle
A sprained ankle is a very common injury, especially among athletes. A sprain occurs when the ligaments that support the ankle are stretched beyond their limits and tear. The most common symptoms of a sprain are pain, swelling, and bruising. While a sprained ankle can be extremely painful, it is generally not a serious injury and will heal with time. However, if the ligaments are severely damaged, surgery may be required to repair the damage. Physiotherapists Bundoora are experts in the treatment of sprains and other injuries. They will work with you to develop a treatment plan that includes exercises to stretch and strengthen the ligaments, as well as provide guidance on how to safely return to your previous level of activity. With the help of a physiotherapist, you can expect to make a full recovery from your sprained ankle.
If you are suffering from any type of physical or mental condition, physiotherapy may be able to help you. It is always best to speak to your doctor or physiotherapist first, so they can assess your individual needs.
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Listen to the Cancer.Net Podcast: Quitting Smoking After a Cancer Diagnosis, with Anthony Alberg, PhD, MPH, adapted from this content.
If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with cancer, quitting tobacco use is one of the best goals a person can have to improve the chances of successful cancer treatment. Many believe that smoking caused their cancer and feel like they have brought this on themselves. Others believe that it is too late to quit and that the damage has already been done. People who use tobacco should not blame themselves for a cancer diagnosis or feel that nothing can be done to help them. Quitting can have benefits right away.
Facts and myths about quitting tobacco use
Information to share and questions to ask
Types of medications, counseling, and other supportive resources
A list of quitlines, websites, and mobile apps
Why secondhand smoke is harmful and how to avoid it
Alternative tobacco products and how they can be harmful
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By Brad Settelmeyer
In the past year, there has more damage down to the international community then has been done in the last century alone. With the recent election of Donald Trump, there is no telling at this moment how long the current international ideals will be able to hold on in this new age of nationalist oriented politics. Much of the trust once held by some of the US’s most important allies such as Germany, Japan, and India are all starting to doubt not only the US’s commitment to the advancement of the International community, but in general, their attitudes towards the countries themselves.
NATO is in the throngs of death, as many wonder whether the US support alliance system will be continued to be supported under the “America first” defense ideals led under the recently incumbent Trump administration, as he has recently made comments that could signal the end of American crusading for International unity. A increasingly nationalistic China is currently showing its navel prowess throughout the South-East Asia Oceanic region with the advancement of naval bases in territory disputed by surrounding countries (what these countries can do is only call for support for International Courts to rule on issues of sovereignty).
Just recently, on the 20th anniversary of the Handover of Hong Kong to China by the British, the Chinese government staged a giant military parade; leading many spectators to believe that the intention such action to show the PRC’s control of the region considering many protests fighting over such control.
The world though has experienced a surge of global trade not seen in decades, is in fact moving inward towards the nations itself. What many foresaw as institutions like the United Nations/NATO that could help bring the world together through non-nation oriented international leadership outlets have proven to have the opposite effect on the world leaders; who see these institutions; born out of dreams of Wilsonian and neo-liberals as the main cause for problems their respective countries are facing.
Many nations, in many more cases then not Russia, have seen the actions taken towards the recent occupation of the Crimean region of Ukraine as not only an overextension by the international community into the regional affairs of the Russian Federation, but also a very negative impact on the Russian economy.
It is a very common for many leaders like Putin or Trump to act towards the liberal instructions in self-defense of national interests, whether it be in the example stated before with Putin and the clash in Eastern Europe, Trump’s recent exception of the United States from the Paris Climate Accords, XI Jinping’s recent actions in the South Oceanic region. Nations like the United States, Russia, and to an extent, China, have seen these types of institutions intervening in the choices their nation has in operating in the dangerous Post-Cold War world.
The response to many of these perceived interventions is in many cases to back track and go on their own in the world. As explained above, the United States moving away from NATO, and to a more regional extent, the United Kingdom’s moving away from the European Union has shown to the world that being interconnected or cooperative in the international stage does not always grantee that.
The International cooperation that has once been the hallmark of International Norms in the world has now become caught under the fire of nationalistic leaders who have acted out in ways to disrupt the flow in which these international organizations work. Many Nations have resorted to the use of action towards a certain problem or dismal of allies in order the achieve a supposed national goal.
Trust between such nations like the United States and Russia are sinking to levels of an all-time low, and there is no way to tell if it will ever to continue the way it is right now. The world is moving towards a place where Nations practice crude reason d etat, moving away from any forms of international origination’s or aspect of unity of nations for the supposed national goals of the respective nations. Such movement towards nation orientated policy is not only scary, it is and will be downright devastating the world.
Gone is the time in which a nations policy was built around the needs it believed it had to achieve or wants it had to obtain. The world is so interconnected and raveled up in itself, the actions of Trump, Putin, and XI Jinping are not only wasteful their own countries, but also a unneeded stress on the countries of the international community.
National interests are a hard thing to asset in a world like this, not only because as stated above, the world is very interconnected, but also there is an unmovable ethos of liberalism felt by many nations.
For when Donald Trump talks about having America first in his aims for US foreign policy, and Putin’s rhetoric towards the Balkan and Eastern European States, they are not only going off the basis of their own power but also the supposed wants and needs of their respective nations that they see to be above all else.
It is true that these leaders are supposed to be the voice of their nation, leading in ways that benefit ones’ country in both economic, and security dangers that could threaten the lives of the citizens. However, the national interests sometimes can corollate or intertwine with that of another friend or enemy in the international system.
There is no such thing of reason d’etat that once led countries to literal ends of the earth to find or enact justification for actions for their nation. Cooperation towards both a goal of unity and national cooperation might be the only way in which our current world can thrive in.
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North Carolina Fund
The North Carolina Fund, a statewide antipoverty program for rural and urban communities, operated from 1963 to 1968. In those five years, the fund received and spent more than $13 million in what director George Esser described as a "quest for new ways to enable the poor to become productive citizens, to encourage self-reliance, and to foster institutional, political, economic, and social change designed to strengthen the functioning of democratic society." Inspired by Governor Terry Sanford and his assistant, John Ehle, the Ford Foundation provided initial funds for a demonstration program that would be dissolved after five years. Additional money from North Carolina foundations and the federal government enabled the fund to expand its support for education, community action, manpower development, research and planning, training and leadership development, and other efforts to fight poverty.
The largest of the fund's worker development programs was Manpower Improvement through Community Effort, which established field offices in eastern North Carolina to assist unemployed workers and their families using local resources. Mobility, the other major manpower effort, recruited unemployed rural people, developed jobs in industrial areas, and helped families to move and adapt to new jobs and homes.
Other programs sponsored by the North Carolina Fund included a summer volunteer project for college students, training for community leaders and workers, training for members of the federal VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America), and internships and curriculum development programs in colleges. Some organizations and programs established by the North Carolina Fund continued after the fund's termination, including the Learning Institute of North Carolina to improve public education, the Foundation for Community Development to facilitate economic development and leadership training, and the Low-Income Housing Development Corporation to assist communities in developing private, low-income housing and explore home ownership for low-income citizens.
Grade 8: Poor Power: The North Carolina Fund & the Battle to End Poverty & Inequality in 1960s America. North Carolina Civic Education Consortium. http://civics.sites.unc.edu/files/2012/04/NCFund.pdf
North Carolina Fund, This Day In NC History, UNC: http://www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/ref/nchistory/jul2005/index.html
Governor Terry Sanford's and the North Carolina Fund: http://www.unctv.org/60s/nc_fund.html
The North Carolina Fund Records, 1962-1971, UNC-CH Libraries: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/n/North_Carolina_Fund.html
Picturing the North Carolina Fund, iBiblio: http://www.ibiblio.org/ncfund/fundframes.html
To right these wrongs : the North Carolina Fund and the battle to end poverty and inequality in 1960s America. By Robert Rodgers Korstad; James L Leloudis; Billy E Barnes; Video Dialog Inc: https://www.worldcat.org/title/to-right-these-wrongs-the-north-carolina-fund-and-the-battle-to-end-poverty-and-inequality-in-1960s-america/oclc/441211796
§ 143B‑437.71. One North Carolina Fund established as a special revenue fund, NC General Assembly: https://www.ncleg.net/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/BySection/Chapter_143B/GS_143B-437.71.html
1 January 2006 | Sellars, Linda
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If you’ve heard news reports of big discoveries related to the Big Bang and don’t know what to make of it, or why it should matter, you may be amazed to find that scientists have made one of the biggest discoveries about the beginning and nature of our universe–confirming that our universe began from something very, very small, and there was rapid inflation that left its mark in the form of gravitational waves.
Recent findings by physicists working with data from observations of cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation at the time of the Big Bang suggest that our universe experienced a time of extraordinarily rapid expansion called inflation… which in turn provides support for the idea that new “pocket universes” can be formed.
The basic idea of inflation is that spacetime is physically infinite… a fabric stretched out farther than we can fully imagine. Even more amazingly, the notion of “eternal inflation” predicts there will be an infinite number of Big Bang universes separate and distinct from ours, bursting forth endlessly from an underlying matrix. While most other Big Bang universes are likely to be quite different from ours, parallel universes are now viewed to be more than just a theory, and in fact predictions of particular theories.
This new research is generating tremendous excitement based on data collected by the BICEP2 telescope in Antarctica, where scientists have been searching for evidence of a particular type of polarization existing in the cosmic radiation found everywhere in our universe after the Big Bang. BICEP stands for “Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization,” and the BICEP2 telescope is the second version of this research device. Scientists working with BICEP and BICEP2 have found primordial b-mode gravitational waves, indicating that light was polarized by existence of uniformly distributed influence of gravity on light from a time period of 380,000 years after the Big Bang.
What makes the discovery of these gravitational waves so remarkable is the phenomenal power and frequency of these waves at the time they were formed–on the order of about 10 to the sixteenth gigaelectronvolts, or 10 trillion times the peak energies found at the world’s largest operating particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)… energies so high, in fact, that physicists expect that three of the four fundamental forces in physics (the weak, the strong, and the electromagnetic forces) would operate as one. This is the first observation of quantum gravity at work, providing real evidence of a quantum connection to gravity.
While the BICEP2 results were confirmed by corroborating reports from an earlier version of BICEP utilizing different equipment, physicists are expressing cautious enthusiasm until such time as the Planck telescope provides confirmation that these gravity waves can be found in Planck’s view of the CMB, too.
And where does all this lead? The next steps for physicists looking back as far as possible to the very beginnings of this universe are to integrate new data with existing and emerging theories. Multiverse theories are gaining tremendous ground, now that inflation appears to have moved from theory to fact.
I am tremendously excited about these findings because I have been following a great deal of multidisciplinary studies, all suggesting we live in a holographic multiverse, as discussed in the book, Quantum Jumps, in which quantum effects influence much more than just the microscopic realm.
You can view the video summary of this at:
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What goes better with honey than fresh homemade bread? Perhaps toast? You can buy excellent handmade bread in many places these days, but you can make your own very easily. I’m busy (aka lazy) so use a breadmaking machine for the mixing. It takes longer, but it’s less messy.
This is the recipe I usually follow. The superscripted notes are further down the page and explain certain parts in more detail.
Make the starter1 by mixing the following on the dough setting:
- 225g very strong white bread flour
- 200g water
- ¼ teaspoon dried yeast
Once the dough cycle is complete (2-3 hours) don’t do anything at all … just leave it for 12-24 hours at room temperature2.
Add the following to the starter and mix on the dough setting in the early evening3:
- 275g strong bread flour (100% white or a mix of white and wholemeal4)
- 25g rye flour
- 1½ teaspoons of salt
- ½ teaspoon of honey
- ½ teaspoon of dried yeast5
- 120g water
Once the dough cycle has finished (2-3 hours) tip the dough out onto a lightly floured surface, shape and place into a floured rattan proving basket6. Cover with a floured cloth or lay a piece of clingfilm over the top7. Place the dough into the fridge to rise overnight.
Take the risen dough from the fridge and leave somewhere warm for an hour or so to get to room temperature. Preheat the oven containing a baking stone or an upturned heavy metal tray8 to 240°C.
- Turn out the risen dough onto the stone and throw a quarter cup of water9 into the bottom of the oven. Try and do this without losing too much heat from the oven.
- Cook for 10 minutes10 at 240°C and then reduce the heat to 160°C and cook for a further 25 minutes
- Remove from the oven and cool on a wire tray
- This sort of wet, pre-fermented starter is more correctly called a poolish, a word unsurprisingly derived from the word Polish and widely used in French baking.
- I just leave it in the breadmaker. No need to do anything with it at all. During this initial period the wet dough rises and collapses again. This contributes to the rise, the crust, the flavour and the moist crumb in the final loaf.
- Early evening because you have to turn the dough out at the end, shape it and leave it to rise in a cool place. Don’t simply forget it or the dough will push open the lid of your breadmaker (been there, done that).
- The more wholemeal you use the heavier the final loaf. I usually use between 50 and 100g. You do need to use strong bread making flour; Waitrose Canadian flour is good (though not obtainable in Fife) and Amazon sell Becheldre Watermill stoneground flours.
- Keep the salt and the yeast separate before mixing as salt inhibits yeast. Some breadmakers have yeast dispensers built into the lid for this reason.
- I use circular or rectangular Banneton proving baskets. These need to be heavily floured before use.
- Don’t wrap the dough tightly. It will rise a surprisingly large amount overnight at 4°C.
- The stone or tray does not need to be floured. Some people use a large piece of thick slate or a suitable-sized garden flagstone. These have the advantage of retaining heat when the door is opened, but the oven takes longer to get to temperature. I use a very thick upturned baking tray.
- The water generates a steamy atmosphere which helps generate a good crisp crust.
- To generate a thin and crisp crust you need a combination of high temperature and a steamy atmosphere.
- If it’s not eaten at the first sitting then this bread keeps pretty well and is excellent for toast, particularly once it’s a day to two old. It can also be sliced, frozen and then toasted directly.
Bread made like this is totally different to the mushy cardboard-textured white ready-sliced loaves from the supermarket and is much better even than the standard recipes for breadmaking machines. The latter are usually risen fast and end up with a rather bland texture and taste. I think the key differences that contribute to the improved flavour, texture and keeping quality are, a) a long, slow rise using a pre-ferment, and b) use of much less yeast than normal recipes.
Although it might take 48 hours from start to finish, it’s time well spent. The actual work involved is very limited – a few minutes to weigh the ingredients out on days one and two, a couple of minutes to shape the loaf and the time it takes to put it in the oven. The only critical timings are for cooking and the times indicated above are what works in my electric fan oven.
The recipe above is similar in quantities, but with additional steps, to the Pain de Campagne recipe in Bread Machines and Beyond by Jennie Shapter (now out of print). There are a wealth of excellent books on making bread, most of which are beautifully illustrated as well as being filled with inspirational recipes. I can recommend these for starters:
- Bread: River Cottage handbook No. 3 by Daniel Stevens
- Brilliant Bread by James Morton
- Richard Bertinet’s excellent books Dough and Crust
- Flour, water, salt, yeast: The fundamentals of artisan bread and pizza by Ken Forkish
Of these, Bertinet’s Crust and the book by Ken Forkish are both primarily about sourdoughs which involve keeping a live starter, a process that involves a bit more of a commitment than the recipe above. I’ll post something about sourdoughs sometime in the future.
I’ve just realised that – other than the half teaspoonful added – there’s no mention of honey on the page. Suffice to say this bread is excellent with honey or, as toast, with honey marmalade.
Happy baking 😉
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By Ralph W. Liebing
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In general, easements are concerning infrastructure goods— hurricane and sanitary sewers, water strains, cell cables, high-voltage transmission traces and towers, and so on. furthermore, they are often devoted to floor drainage, entry in the course of the estate to adjoining estate, and comparable necessities. no longer each lot has linked easements, yet each one lot has to be tested for easements and their effect at the improvement of the lot. they could randomly crisscross the valuables, as deemed beneficial by way of the easement holder, vastly decreasing the owner’s flexibility in constructing the valuables. Key to numbered goods: 1. Required rear backyard setback (zoning) 2. application easement for giant deploy (power transmission traces, and so forth. ) three. Smaller application easement (sewer, water, cellphone, and so on. ) four. Buildable sector (only quarter on lot on hand for development) five. Required aspect backyard setback (zoning) 6. Required facet backyard setback—may fluctuate from different facets (zoning) 7. Required entrance backyard setback (zoning) eight. Small floor drainage easement nine. application easement for entry to website (natural gasoline, maybe) 10. devoted street right-of-way (contains paved roadway) There also are typical beneficial properties that act to impair improvement. parts with thick woods and undergrowth could be handled, yet usually are fairly pricey to transparent and get ready for construction. Underground springs; streams, either flowing and intermittent; and floodable components upload to the impression of water at the website and at the development. In a few situations, rock outcroppings and layers of rock happen very with regards to the construction zone, back including to the price of web site training and improvement or even the price of genuine development. each proprietor desires a flat, point website as their perfect for improvement. truly there are few of those, as “dead point” is generally nonexistent, and land that ways point is mostly dished and holds water rather than draining it. a few slope is fascinating to certainly drain floor and typhoon water from the construction (never towards it). nevertheless, slopes of radical dimensions and steepness back act to impair or complicate improvement. frequently such components are in basic terms left undeveloped, and used as a part of the defensive or passive improvements of the valuables. This reduces the price of website improvement and long term upkeep paintings. software corporation documents are in position and stored present to teach the destinations and sizes of carrier strains adjoining to the positioning. those could be tapped and attached as worthy for the undertaking. an absence of utilities exhibits the landlord shortcomings that maybe are solvable yet at additional fee. for instance, if the location is overwhelmingly appealing aside from the dimensions of the water provider, and the recent undertaking whilst sensible will use a wide quantity of water, the feasibility document should still extra examine to determine if and the way the water provider should be upgraded. there'll be extra costs, yet those will be thought of minor if the various different points of the positioning are attractive. some of the parts and items of data needs to be factored into and join the feasibility document and research for the landlord and the choice at the site—to facilitate an inexpensive popularity or rejection of every website thought of.
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Previous investigators have shown that epiphyses are unlikely to grow after free grafting although there have been rare reports of good and even normal growth. However, growth has usually continued whenever the epiphyseal vascular supply has been maintained by microanastomosis. Of 25 growing epiphyses in our series that were transferred, 17 by replantation and eight by free tissue transfer supported by microvascular anastomosis, over an interval varying from 27 to 81 months, average length attained was 89% of normal in elective transfer, 93% of normal in replanted digits, and 92% overall. Maximum growth attained in any digit in our series was 102% of the length of the normal contralateral digit; the minimum attained was 70%.
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Before investing the money for cloud computing and developing cloud applications, the user must necessarily consider the needs, strategically plan them for business needs.
Users must consider the following issues.
- Budget requirement
- Privacy and data security
- Need for training
- Data export requirement
- Data backup requirement
- Client accessing facility
Now, in order to meet all these requirements and to make fruitful use of them, it must form a mindset with strategies. So let's talk about the different cloud planning phases that an organization has to follow before getting their hands dirty, by choosing the cloud technology.
The three main phases are:
- Strategy Phase
- Planning Phase
- Deployment Phase
Strategy phase: - In this phase, we discuss the problems that are faced by the customers.
There are two steps to check this phase:-
- The Value proposition of cloud technology: - It may contain various activities such as IT management simplification, maintaining cost reduction, low-cost outsourcing, high QoS (quality of service) outsourcing, and innovation in the business model.
- Strategy planning of cloud technology: - In this, based on the analysis of value proposition, the strategies are established, and the documentations of strategy are made according to the problems that customers might face when using cloud technology.
Planning Phase:- In the planning phase, the problem analysis and risk analysis for switching to cloud technology is examined to assure whether the customer is agreed or satisfied in meeting their business goals or not.
The steps for planning are:
- Development of business architecture.
- Development of IT architecture
- QoS development requirement.
- Development of transformation plan.
Deployment phase: - The deployment stage rotates its plans based on the above two planning phases and includes the following steps:
Step1: Selecting appropriate providers of the cloud: - The selection is based on SLA (service level agreement), which defines the level of service that cloud provider will offer.
Step2: Maintaining the technical service:-The provider must assure the appropriate maintenance of services by offering the best Quality of Service to their users.
Points to be considered before Investing in Cloud
Many IT firms and companies want to remodel their infrastructure & technology; Cloud computing has become profitable for them. It is evident that cloud technology altered the modern scenario of technology, still, it is also a truth that there are certain issues (such as security, fast internet connection, etc.) that shows its limitations. So, the users who will invest their money in cloud technology, they have to look at every aspect thoroughly.
The points are:
- Availability: - As soon as all of your business-critical data is stored in the cloud storage, it becomes essential to check whether or not the data is available, whether the data is secured, or whether there are loopholes that could become the cause of a company's downfall. Therefore, you should stay focused as a user before signing the deal and check this aspect with the service provider.
- Compliance: - Still, it looks that all data gets stored in the cloud storage, but data is located on various servers; these servers are located in various nations of the globe. Although it has an advantage in terms of data accessibility, the user needs to be concerned about the issue of legality; the problem in the sense-users needs to test whether there will be any bias or limitation in storing a specific type of data outside national boundaries.
- Compatibility: - Before investing money in the cloud, the user must check the compatibility of the IT infrastructure of the organization.
While cloud technology provides optimal benefits for users, as vendor users also need to harvest and extract maximum cloud usage. In addition, it has to bear in mind that the organization's employees have to cope with the cloud technology infrastructure.
- Monitoring: When you put the data on cloud storage, the cloud service provider takes the responsibility and control of your data. Due to this reason, monitoring becomes a problem. Since complete monitoring of data is possible, so users should make assure that appropriate monitoring of data is allowed by the providers based on user requirements.
Strategy Life Cycle
The cloud technology implementation approach includes the following:
- Planning for utilizing cloud technology.
- Capabilities of an enterprise.
- Target architecture required
- Gap analysis and transition planning
- Planning to implement cloud
- Governance and significance of SOA (service-oriented architecture).
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Here’s How to Evict a Commercial Tenant in Mississauga
Published June 8, 2018 at 1:09 pm
Commercial tenancies in Mississauga and beyond don’t attract the same level of attention and discussion as residential tenancy issues, and probably for good reason.
Residential tenancies and the laws that govern that area of life affect far more people than commercial tenancies.
For the most part, the world of commercial tenancies is limited to owners of commercial property, their real estate agents, and the business owners that occupy that property.
Residential tenancies in Ontario are governed by the Residential Tenancies Act, 2006, S.O. 2006, c. 17 whereas commercial tenancies are governed by the Commercial Tenancies Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. L.7.
Although there are laws that govern commercial tenancies, compared to residential tenancies, lawmakers have seen fit to provide far more discretion for commercial landlords and tenancies to structure the terms and conditions of the tenancy.
It’s not unusual for a commercial tenancy agreement be more than 100 pages long with several schedules, diagrams and illustrations attached.
For all the differences between residential tenancies and commercial tenancies, at the end of the day, the rent needs to be paid, and there are serious consequences if the tenant fails to pay the rent or commits some other type of material breach of the lease.
Evicting a tenant in residential tenancies requires an Order from the Landlord and Tenant Board, whereas the process for eviction in a commercial is much more straightforward, and does not require the landlord to commence a lawsuit.
Most commercial leases include reasons why and how landlords may evict commercial tenants.
The most popular reason is, of course, non-payment of rent or for some violation of the lease, typically referred to as a “material breach” of some important requirement set out in the lease agreement.
Eviction for non-payment of rent
Sometimes commercial tenants simply fail to pay their rent. Such circumstances are governed by the Commercial Tenancies Act.
First, the landlord may re-enter the premises, which typically involves changing the locks and preventing the tenant from using the rented premises. However, there are important deadlines to keep in mind. Commercial landlords are required to wait 16 days after the rent was due before re-entering and changing the locks.
Landlords also have a second option. Upon re-entry without notice, the landlord may seize and sell the tenant’s property. As one can imagine, this is a very serious step, and there are, again, certain requirements that must be followed. For example, before selling the tenant’s property, the landlord must provide the tenant with five days’ notice.
Eviction for a material breach
It’s quite common for commercial leases to include several duties and obligations that tenants must observe in addition to simply paying the rent in full and on time.
If the tenant fails to perform such obligations or does something that is not permitted under the lease, then the landlord may be able to terminate the lease and evict the tenant.
All steps in the process must be carried out in compliance with the Commercial Tenancies Act, and it is prudent to engage a commercial litigator for such circumstances, as failure to observe the act may expose the landlord to liability.
Despite that level of detail typically involved in commercial leases, the situation is not always clear whether the tenant has breached the lease. In those cases, the landlord may wish file an Application in Court so that a Judge may decide if the tenant has breached the lease. Keep in mind that any such Court proceeding would provide an opportunity to the tenant appear at the hearing to make arguments as to why they did not breach the lease and/or should not be subject to eviction.
What can commercial tenants do?
If a commercial tenant has been evicted from their place of business, they may, in some circumstances, be able to apply to the Court for “relief from forfeiture” and be granted re-entry to the premises.
The Ontario Court of Appeal has clarified that the Court does have the jurisdiction to excuse a tenant from certain types of obligations and grant the tenant re-entry into the premises, provided that the tenant can demonstrate that the tenant has made “diligent efforts to comply with the terms of the lease which are unavailing through no default of his or her own.”
It’s important to keep in mind that cases concerning commercial tenancies are not heard at the Landlord and Tenant Board, and the legal process (if any is engaged) will typically involve a much higher (and more expensive) level of Court.
Litigants who find themselves in a dispute concerning a commercial tenancy will most likely have their case heard in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, and they will almost certainly need a commercial litigator (i.e. a lawyer) to deal with the matter.
It’s usually best to have a lawyer review the lease agreement before it’s signed.
Obviously, no one can predict how a tenant’s business might perform, so the tenant’s ability to pay the rent might be somewhat difficult to estimate, but material obligations that could give rise to an eviction can be spelled out clearly in the lease, and those obligations should be reviewed very carefully in advance of any actual dispute.insauga's Editorial Standards and Policies
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ADHD is a neurological condition people are born with and it often runs in families. It seems likely that 5% of the population has ADHD, which means in the UK there are some 3,5 million people living with it, most of them not realising they have it.
If you have it, you are born with it, which means your symptoms will have been there from a very young age. Not all children with ADHD get diagnosed as such, so often the diagnosis gets delayed until someone is an adult.
It is not caused by bad parenting or eating too much sugar or junk food or playing videogames all the time. This is a functional MRI scan, which shows that the brain of the person with ADHD looks quite different from the one who hasn’t:
One researcher (Dr M. Hoogman) from the Radboud University in Holland, who carried out a large study with 81 other international researchers, was quoted in Science Daily (feb 16, 2017) as stating:
- "The results from our study confirm that people with ADHD have differences in their brain structure and therefore suggest that ADHD is a disorder of the brain," added Dr Hoogman. "We hope that this will help to reduce stigma that ADHD is 'just a label' for difficult children or caused by poor parenting. This is definitely not the case, and we hope that this work will contribute to a better understanding of the disorder."
It often runs in families (often with autism, Asperger’s Syndrome and other conditions) so in that sense you could call it hereditary and it is genetic. We are not clear yet which genes are involved but it is clear that there are lots, so it is impossible to predict if someone who has ADHD will pass it on to any children.
There is no blood test for ADHD and scans (such as used by some ‘entrepreneurial’ doctors in the USA) are not precise enough and are not of any use when diagnosing someone. We diagnose by asking about a range of symptoms, how severe they are and how long you have had them. For instance, if all your symptoms started when you were 20 and you never had them before, then whatever it is, it is not ADHD.
There are specific internationally agreed criteria and symptom thresholds: if you have enough symptoms, they are severe enough, they impact in more than one area of daily functioning and they were present in childhood as well, then you will wind up above the diagnostic threshold and that means you have ADHD. If you are below the thresholds, then your symptoms are likely to be part of the normal variations we see in the general population.
The main symptoms are problems with attention, concentration and keeping focus and being restless and impulsive. However, the situation is complicated: here is a picture that shows what brain areas are involved, leading to the symptoms:
So, for instance, attention drifts when doing something, you start a task and then don’t finish it and often
people procrastinate endlessly, only being able to produce something at the very last minute or you wind up
starting lots of tasks and not finishing any.
You may be disorganised, forgetful, missing appointments, forgetting friends’ birthdays and so on. That in turn may lead people to ‘give up’ on you and quite a few people with ADHD have lost friends as a result.
You may be impulsive and that can manifest itself by:
- flying off the handle for no reason (often called rejection sensitive dysphoria)
- buying stuff you don’t need and can’t afford
- binge eating or drinking
- and doing things you think of afterwards: why did I do that?
You may be physically restless, not being able to sit through a movie or a show or waiting your turn in a queue and sometimes that restlessness (aka hyperactivity) is ‘internalised’, which means you may have lots of thoughts crowding in on each other in your head and you can’t stop them, even to the point where you can’t get off to sleep.
Very often people are tired all the time and sometimes they even get diagnosed with ME or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Once they are treated fully for their ADHD, all or most of that vanishes (unless it is a separate condition in one individual, which would be exceedingly rare).
People say the symptoms are different if you are male or female: whilst there might be a difference in what it looks like, in fact when we probe there is no clear difference, although females may be less boisterous and males more aggressive. But that is a general difference anyway.
A lot of people try to manage their ADHD in all sorts of ways. For instance, if someone is very disorganised and forgetful, they may use lots of reminders, diaries, agendas, post-it notes and lists. Sometimes there are so many lists, they wind up having lists of lists. And they then still forget to look at the lists, so it is often still not efficient.
ADHD is eminently treatable with medication and this approach has been used since the late sixties, early seventies, with very good results. The medication works primarily on the prefrontal cortex, which is the main ‘management system’ that organises your brain activity:
There are around 5 different medications, but it is unpredictable what will work for a particular individual and at what dosage. So usually some time is spent finding the right medication for someone. This is called the titration period.
The medication is not addictive. In fact, many people stop their tablets occasionally or even regularly for all sorts of reasons. If you stop the medication, you won’t get withdrawal symptoms, but your ADHD symptoms will come back. So in that sense, you are dependent on the medication to keep the symptoms at bay, a bit like insulin and diabetes: if you are insulin dependent, it does not mean you are addicted to insulin; it means you need the insulin to keep the symptoms of diabetes away.
The general mode of action of the medication is by addressing some shortcomings that can be seen in this picture:
Once it is clear what medication at what dosage is the correct one for you, we produce a so-called Shared Care Agreement, asking your GP to take over prescribing. Most GPs will not be able to start you off on medication, as NICE guidelines demand this is done by a specialist.
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“Are you okay?” That is the question asked, in one form or another, in nearly all of the stories that comprise Christopher Barzak’s new mosaic novel The Love We Share Without Knowing. It is a deceptively simple question. It is a question that you ask when you can sense that something is wrong, but you don’t know what, or what to do. It is a question that you may be asked when you are not behaving in accordance with someone’s idea of “normal.” And it is a question you might be asked when you are haunted. So many of Barzak’s characters are all three of these.
Teenage Elijah Fulton’s family moves to Japan due to his father’s job with Sony. Resentful of the move and missing America (“Genki desu ka? Are you okay?” asks his sister, p. 7), Elijah takes up running to “get away from everything” (p. 1). One day Elijah gets lost in the forest and finds a secluded shrine; a fox (or perhaps a kitsune, a Japanese fox spirit) emerges and leads him home. Some time later, Elijah rebels by taking the train to Tokyo. Again lost, and unable to identify the train home, Elijah is once again rescued, this time by a Japanese girl named Midori who is dressed as a fox. But when Elijah tries to contact Midori the next day, he learns from her father that she committed suicide more than a decade ago.
Kazuko was best friends with Midori when they were teens; now in her 30s, Kazuko lives in a loveless marriage and works a thankless job organizing foreigners come to Japan to teach English. Still haunted by Midori’s suicide and the death of the plans they had made, she forms a confederacy, a suicide club, with three other alienated and disillusioned Japanese (“Doshita no?” one asks another, p. 31: “what’s the matter?”).
Meanwhile, a group of four Americans who teach English for Kazuko’s company find a measure of friendship in being strangers in a strange land together. Some find resolution to what made them leave America; some do not; one, the narrative suggests, may find the sort of love that slowly becomes a part of you before you realize it (“What’s the matter?” he is asked on p. 133). Another American, lonely and empty (“Are you okay?” he is asked, p. 58), finds the sort of love that is fast and desperate. He seeks to capture all of his Japanese lover, then is captured by him in return. He is saved by a Japanese girl who says she’s trying to save herself; her name is Ai, which means love (“What’s the matter?” she is asked, p. 86). Another Japanese man who is struck, or cursed, with blindness (“Are you okay?,” p. 91) may not be so lucky, despite the efforts of an American woman—one of the four friends—who is hired to save him by conversing with him in English.
There’s more, but you get the idea: The Love We Share Without Knowing is not a travelogue of the physical world. Rather, Barzak’s novel is a story suite of personal and cultural degrees of separation, that works as a single piece more by the accretion of emotion than by linear plot. It is as much about America as Japan: in particular, how the interchange of the two cultures, the differences and commonalities revealed, throws into relief the complexities of the 21st century world of which that interchange is part. It is a balancing act. There is a surface-level balancing of nationalities and cultures, genders, sexualities, ages. There is a balancing of different types of love. There is a balancing of lingering and leaving, including a gentle, non-judgmental effort to grasp the idea of suicide (if Barzak’s first novel One for Sorrow tried to come to terms with the murder of a young person, The Love We Share Without Knowing seems focused on death, figurative and literal, as a choice of the young).
There is also an effortless balancing between contemporary life and traditional fairy tale—including between American and Japanese fairy tales, and the way the two often don’t mesh. In a sequence that spans several stories, an American man and his Japanese partner compare the very different types of “sleeping beauty” fairy tales in each of their cultures. The American then seems to fall victim to the Japanese version of the tale; yet, in a clever reversal of the American tradition of the story, he is awakened from his lengthy slumber by a Japanese woman’s kiss. The American rejects this fairytale interpretation, however—albeit ending with a line that, in evoking another fantasy tale, shows how alienated from his own life story he remains:
It had almost been a fairy tale, his life here spent asleep and dreaming. But he wasn’t Sleeping Beauty, and his kingdom hadn’t frozen in time while he slept. It had kept on going. It had kept tumbling and tumbling. (p. 204)
If fantasy is a genre that tends to speculatively literalize its metaphors, while general literature encourages a more direct reading of metaphor as meaning, The Love We Share Without Knowing hovers, ethereal, somewhere in-between (unsurprising, given Barzak’s association with the Interstitial Arts Foundation). Some story elements, such as ghostly Midori in the first story, demand to be read literally; other elements, fantastic effects such as characters stricken with blindness or coma-like sleep, suggest a more metaphorical reading. Each impacts our reading of the other, haunting the other, producing a ghostly effect in the text itself. As readers of the text, we thus can’t help but experience some of what Barzak’s millennial generation of characters feel.
Indeed, I don’t know if people who have grown up in the post-Cold War years have a stronger literary advocate than Christopher Barzak. Half of this is that Barzak gets it: it’s not that Barzak’s young characters are apathetic, it’s that they desire to feel strongly and truly in a time when all existing cultural systems of thought and action have been revealed as simplistic, confining, and false. Too often cultural traditions seem at war with a desire for self-awareness and self-expression, sharing and intimacy. Magic and the supernatural in Barzak’s writing become a way of articulating the disconnect between what characters are told of the world and their own intuition of its possibilities. So many of Barzak’s characters are ghosts because they are unable to instantiate themselves, unable to find anyone able to listen to what they need to say. So many of his characters are able to speak only through impulse decisions and actions that break with norms and traditions—his characters reflect a sense that the only choices that are truly ours, are our impulses: to fall in love, to leave, to remain; a lover, a nation, a life.
The other half is that Barzak is a superb prose writer. Consider the second paragraph of the third story:
These days, these cold winter days when the air is dry and bitter and the light grows weak early, I take comfort in the memories we made after we met and in the year that followed. It’s by memory alone that I keep myself warm now. It’s the memory of our love that keeps my heart still beating, beating still. It is a still life I lead, or a lively death, depending on your view of things. Perhaps I was always an object of mute meaning to you, though, and if that’s so, then nothing has really changed. (p. 57)
Its excellence is not just the way each sentence connects smoothly with its predecessor, or the rhythm and momentum of their gradually increasing structural complexity, or the lovely contradiction of “beating still” that is inverted for emphasis. It is the way the whole focus of the paragraph is slowly transferred from the narrator to the man, the “you,” that the narrator writes of—and how this very much encapsulates what the story is about. And it is the first sentence, that initially reads like a rare misstep with its odd redundant repetition: “after we met” seems to cover “the year that followed.” It lingers in the mind. So much so that when we reach the end of the story and learn that the narrator is caught in a mental loop, repeating those memories, the odd wording becomes, whether by conscious planning or unconscious artistry, just the right touch, a natural outgrowth of the story.
Barzak’s touch only rarely feels unnatural, artificially limiting. His main characters, while varied in voice and self awareness, do cluster towards a certain mean in other areas, such as ability to express their lives conceptually. While these younger characters are treated with gentle sympathy, older characters are not given the same grace (it’s notably ironic that one of the few stories that contains no variant of “are you okay?” is a story where a character’s mother travels from America to Japan after he has been hospitalized). Finally, the book does feel awkwardly conspicuous in its attempt to be a post 9/11 novel. When an American, conscious for the first time in months, questions, “is there still a war out there?” and when asked to clarify where “out there” is, replies, “anywhere”—the plaintive artlessness of the sequence stands out as more blatant in its choreography than its human need.
In contrast, the end of The Love We Share Without Knowing is a brilliant summation of the novel. Earlier, one of Barzak’s Japanese characters had mused at how easily the American word “okay” had been adopted by Japanese. The reasoning Barzak hints at is that, as an answer to a question, the word’s polite social agreement that masks any personal concerns had meshed well with Japanese standards of propriety. So when this novel of those who live on, those who do not, and those who linger in-between closes with a choice of staying that is somehow both affirming and yet heartbreakingly tragic, there is perhaps an element of “okay” there as well.
But The Love We Share Without Knowing is far, far better than okay.
– originally published 2/11/2009
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You spoke out for refugees’ right to learn, and the government has listened. In October, we handed our Let Refugees Learn petition in to the Government. It featured more than 10,000 signatures from people like you who believe that giving refugees access to English lessons is vital for them to be able to rebuild their lives here in Britain.
Last week, we received a letter from Theresa May telling us that our voices have made a difference. The Prime Minister confirmed that in response to our evidence, the Government has made an additional £10 million of funding available for increasing English language lesson provision for refugees:
It’s incredible to know that 18 months of hard campaigning have made a difference – and we couldn’t have done it without you! Our work isn’t over, but this response is a huge step towards ensuring all refugees are given the chance of a better life.
Thank you for fighting with us.
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API documentation is an essential part of any application. It can be difficult to write good API documentation, but it’s worth taking the time to do it right. In this blog post, we will discuss what API documentation is, the different types of API documentation, and tips for creating effective API documentation.
What Is API Documentation?
API documentation is a technical content deliverable that describes how an application programming interface (API) works. It provides information about what the API does, how to use it, and what data formats it supports.
API documentation is a critical part of the API development lifecycle. It allows developers to understand how the API works and whether it meets their needs. Good documentation also makes it easier for developers to use the API, which can result in more adoption and fewer support requests.
The Different Types of API Documentation
There are three main types of API documentation: reference, tutorial, and conceptual. Each has a different purpose and target audience.
- Reference documentation is the most technical type of API documentation. It covers the details of how an API works and how to use it. This type of documentation is typically aimed at developers who are already familiar with the API and just need a reminder of how it works.
- Tutorial documentation, on the other hand, is geared towards helping developers who are new to the API get started. It walks them through the basics of how the API works and shows them how to use it to accomplish common tasks.
- Conceptual documentation provides an overview of what the API does and how it fits into the overall product. This type of documentation is aimed at developers who are new to the product and need a high-level understanding of how it works.
Before you start writing API documentation, it’s important to decide what type of documentation you need to write. Once you know that, you can start planning out the structure of your documentation and deciding what information needs to be included.
Elements of Good API Documentation
There are a few key elements that make up good API documentation. Here are some of the most important ones:
- Clear and concise writing: The best docs are written in clear, concise language that is easy to understand. They should be free of jargon and acronyms and should use simple terms and concepts wherever possible.
- Code examples: Good documentation should include plenty of code examples to illustrate how your API can be used. These examples should be written in the language(s) that your target audience is using.
- Detailed explanations: Your docs should explain not only what your API does, but also how it works. This includes detailed descriptions of all endpoints, parameters, and authentication methods.
- How-to guides: In addition to explaining what your API does, you should also provide step-by-step guides that show how to accomplish specific tasks using your API. These guides should be easy to follow and include all the necessary code snippets.
- Error messages: Your docs should include a list of all possible error messages that users may encounter, along with explanations of what each error means.
- Troubleshooting tips: If there are common issues that users run into when using your API, be sure to include troubleshooting tips in your docs. This will help save users from having to contact support for simple problems.
Tips for Creating an Intuitive User Experience
While there’s no one-size-fits-all solution for creating great API docs, there are a few general tips you can follow to create an intuitive user experience. Here are a few things to keep in mind:
- Make sure your docs are easy to find and navigate. Use clear headings and subheadings, and include a search function so users can quickly find what they’re looking for.
- Write your docs in clear, concise language. Use plenty of examples to illustrate how your API works. And if you’re using technical terms, be sure to define them clearly.
- Keep your docs up to date. As your API changes, so should your documentation. Be sure to update your docs regularly so users always have the most accurate information.
How to Write Effective API Documentation?
Now that we’ve covered the basics of API documentation, let’s talk about how to get started writing your own.
The first step is to decide what format you want your documentation to be in. There are many different ways to format API docs, but we recommend using either JSON or YAML. These formats are easy to read and understand, and they’re also easy to generate automatically from your code.
Once you’ve decided on a format, you’ll need to choose a documentation tool. There are many different tools available, but we recommend using Slate. Slate is open source and easy to use. It also has some great features like versioning and automated deployment.
The next step is to decide what information you want to include in your documentation. There are many different elements that can be included, but we recommend starting with the following:
- A description of what the API does
- A list of all the endpoints and their parameters
- Examples of how to use the API
- Any errors that might occur and how to handle them
Once you have all this information, you’re ready to start writing your documentation. Remember to keep it clear and concise, and make sure it’s easy to understand.
Common Problems and How to Solve Them
One of the most common problems with API documentation is that it can be out of date. It’s important to keep your docs up to date with the latest changes to your API. One way to do this is to set up a system where your docs are automatically generated from your code. This way, whenever you make a change to your code, your docs will be updated automatically.
Another common problem is that API docs can be hard to navigate. Be sure to structure your docs in an easy-to-navigate way. Use clear headings and subheadings, and include a search function so users can quickly find what they’re looking for.
Finally, some API docs can be difficult to understand. Be sure to write your docs in clear, concise language. Use plenty of examples to illustrate how your API works. And if you’re using technical terms, be sure to define them clearly.
API documentation is a vital part of any API development process. By following the tips outlined in this article, you can ensure that your API docs are clear, concise, and easy to use. Doing so will make your API more accessible and easier to work with for both developers and end users.
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By tracing the traditional progression of rhetoric from the Greek Sophists to contemporary theorists, The History and Theory of Rhetoric 6th edition (PDF) illustrates how persuasive public discourse performs essential social functions and shapes our daily lifes. College students gain a conceptual framework for practising and evaluating persuasive writing and speaking in a wide range of settings and in both visual and written media. This new 6th edition includes greater attention to non-Western studies, as well as contemporary developments such as the feminist rhetoric, rhetoric of science, the rhetoric of display, and comparative rhetoric. Known for its contemporary examples and clear writing style throughout, The History and Theory of Rhetoric emphasizes the relevance of rhetoric to today’s students.
“James Herrick invites students “further up and further in” to the contours and depths of the art of rhetoric. He offers serious engagements with historical textbooks that ground the art and wades into the currents of contemporary theories that simultaneously interrogate and rely upon our rhetorical heritage.” – Calvin L. Troup, Geneva College, USA
“In my opinion, The History and Theory of Rhetoric is the best rhetorical history etextbook on the market. Students at all levels appreciate its engaging, straightforward approach. Even so, serious theoretical and philosophical questions that arise from rhetoric’s history receive the attention and care they deserve. The ebook strikes a perfect balance between accessibility and rigor.” – Jackie Wheeler, Arizona State University, USA
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No business can ever be as successful as its owners want it to be without proper and sufficient market research. The more information you can get about your target market, the better you can be when it comes to developing and improving products and services. Market research gives you insight into practically anything, such as what your customers like or dislike about a product or service.
Today’s businesses can take advantage of market research software and tools that can help make research easier, faster, and more accurate.If you’re preparing to do some research for your business, here are the basic methods to try.
1. Market Surveys
You can prepare straightforward questions for a sample group representing your target market. It’s ideal to have as many respondents for your survey as possible. This will give you more reliable results. Nowadays, market surveys can be done in four ways:
2. Focus Group Discussions
In a focus group discussion (FGD), you will gather a group of people that represent your target market. A moderator leads the discussion, asking prompt questions related to what you want to know from the group. FGDs can give you a more in-depth look at what consumers think since they can elaborate on their answers better. At least three FGDs can give you balanced insights.
3. One-on-One Interviews
This is basically like FGDs in a way that the questions are typically open-ended, and respondents are given a chance to further explain and elaborate on their answers. However, these personal interviews are performed one-on-one. Unlike in-person surveys, personal interviews are scheduled, longer, and more in-depth.
4. Field Trials
If you already have a new product, you can directly perform market research by putting the product on display. This lets you get information on how attractive your product is to customers and how the packaging performed under real-world in-store conditions, for instance. This information can help you improve your product further.
The simple observation of market behavior and trends can already give you an idea of how your products and services need to be developed and improved. If you have a store or office, you probably have security cameras installed. You can use the footage not just for security purposes, but for market research as well.
Deciding Which Is the Best Market Research Method for Your Business
Choosing the best research method will vary depending on what type of business or industry you’re in. You can also combine all of these methods as long as you have the workforce and budget to perform them.
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One evening recently, I received a text from one of my students. It went along the lines of, “There’s something that’s been really upsetting me lately. Could we spend some time at my lesson discussing it?”
Being a Philadelphian by birth and temperament, my mind instantly conjured up the worst possible scenarios that could involve a male college student. Had he been hitting the keg parties too hard? Was he in over his head with some love interest? Had he committed some sort of violent felony, and needed me to hide the evidence? I mentally prepared myself to stay calm regardless of whatever horrific situation he presented to me.
He arrived the next day, and as serenely and supportively as I could, I asked, “What’s up?”
He sighed deeply, then replied. “People have been saying that I’m not a tenor, and it’s driving me crazy.”
Oh no. This was far worse than I had imagined.
He went on. Apparently a fellow singer at a performance was dazzling the crowd with some perfectly executed Justin Timberlake, which my student was thoroughly enjoying. Until a third party nudged him, and said, “Isn’t that amazing that someone here can sing that music? Of course you and I can’t do that stuff, because we’re baritones.”
Oh god. Not the B word.
This student sings in a high, brilliant chest production, easily and reliably up to an A above middle C, and sometimes beyond. His voice absolutely loves to live between middle C and the G above it. He coincidentally does have a head mix that we’ve been cultivating for years, but it’s also big and brassy; he trades a delicate approach to mixing for more power. He actually can sing the song they were listening to, but he performs it – and performs it well! – a little differently, a little heavier. His lower range is thinner and bottoms out at about C an octave below middle C. In fact, the other day in his lesson, after I managed to growl out an impossibly low note for a woman, he said, “Your range may go lower than mine!” I said, “Ooh! Then maybe I’m a baritone!”
I am NOT a baritone. And neither is he. He’s a tenor.
I’m confused why anyone would think otherwise.
Here’s what I suspect may be happening: We, the listening public, are inundated with so many head-mix high male voices in commercial music, that we are starting to re-define the term “tenor” to exclude men who sing in a more chest-dominant production. I can think of dozens of examples of this headier style of singing: Justin Timberlake, Usher, Ed Sheeran. These voices soar and move with ease and grace, because they have so much accessibility to transitioning into a head mix in the upper register, that we don’t even notice the break from chest. But where have all the chesty tenors gone? The ones who belt out a ridiculously high note for 10 minutes, that has all the energy and power of a Norse warrior calling his army into battle? I honestly can’t think of anyone doing that right now. Maybe a young Bono in his prime, around Joshua Tree? Other than that, I’m frankly drawing a blank. The new aesthetic for “tenor” does not include the power belt voice, so people are demoting a powerful belt voice to a lower voice classification.
Bah. Bah, I say.
This is not the first of my tenors who has been persecuted by this erroneous belief system. Another student – this one performs musical theater and heavy rock – said his friend accused him of not being a “real tenor,” because he didn’t mix. In fact, there is apparently a whole laundry list of qualifications for being a “real tenor” that someone forgot to send me the memo on; here’s what he has heard from various sources:
- A “real tenor” has a strong falsetto
- A “real tenor” has a light voice that blends well in a choir setting
- A “real tenor” utilizes a heavy head mix to extend him into a countertenor range
Bah. Bah, I say.
“”How’s your high A?” I asked.
“Great, I can sing it all day.”
“How’s his high A?” I asked.
“Awful. He sounds like he’s being strangled.”
He’s a tenor.
This kid is 17, is through his voice change, and has an easy facility into a huge high chest voice that is very brilliant in quality, He employs (and healthfully handles!) a great deal of air pressure. These characteristics make it extremely difficult to blend and control volume. Which is why I have been hammering him on developing his mix. I believe it’s going to extend his capabilities and options, and possibly his belt range to boot! It’s just that, at 17, this refined control comes along slowly, and he simply prefers not to use it much yet. He can belt high. It’s easy and non-harming. So given a choice, as a default, he goes to chest voice first. I can’t blame him. I’m exactly the same way in my own singing. But if you’re going to perform musical theater, and the industry has an expectation of a specific sound, and you don’t want to be misclassified as a baritenor, then mix you must. And mix he shall.
And it’s not just the men who are suffering from misclassification.
A female student told me she was recently introduced to someone who was “heavily into singing musical theater.” When this person found out that she also sang, he asked her, “So, what are you?” My student, who sings bluesy rock covers with her band, was stumped by this question. While she silently considered her response, he continued his interrogation. “Well? Are you a soprano or an alto?…I bet you’re an alto.”
She tacitly agreed. It had seemed like the easiest way to put an end to the conversation.
When she told me this story, I rolled my eyes as dramatically as only I or my 8-year old daughter can. “You should have said, ‘I guess I’m a medium soprano with a great commercial chest register, some medium-high belt capability, and a fantastic heavy head mix through the passaggio. Oh, and despite having a brighter timbre, I have some really nice depth and range in my low range. In short, I do it all.’”
The problem as I see it is, in popular styles of singing, we seem to be expected to categorize ourselves, but are confined by very limited definitions and options. Soprano, alto, tenor, bass? This is the extent of the guidelines they have to offer?
Bah. Bah, I say.
These conversations call to mind, from my classical past, the German Fach system, which is an in-depth classification method of sorting opera singers into appropriate repertoire, using the weight, color, and range of the vocal instrument. When you have the ability to sing high, you’re not just a soprano. You might be a Lyric Soprano, Dramatic Soprano, Dramatic Coloratura Soprano, or one of a smattering of other options. And different opera roles are available to you, depending on your Fach. This system can make choosing the perfect repertoire to highlight your voice’s particular strengths a snap, but can also be a little limiting if you are drawn to a piece within the wrong category. My wonderful teachers tended to be liberal with me if I, a Lyric Coloratura Soprano with the personality of a Soubrette, wanted to sing a role outside of my designation. But we always knew we were being a little naughty. In short, we knew we might be Faching up.
No such system exists in the commercial world of singing. So in my studio, I’m adapting the classical system to help students choose their repertoire and technical approach, by taking into consideration the weight, color, and range of their own unique instruments. And not to be outdone by the operatic Germans, I also factor in the voice’s inherent quality – e.g. bright or rounded, wispy or clear – and the voice’s tessitura. I employ the term “tessitura” a little freely in this instance, to refer to where the voice likes to sit. Two singers’ voices may have the same capability for lowest and highest notes, with wildly different preferences on where to hang out within those boundaries. For example, Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood are both pretty high female singers, right? But a lot of Kelly Clarkson songs are what I call bi-polar: the verses sit low, the choruses are insanely high, and she avoids the middle as though it had once bit her. Carrie Underwood on the other hand may not go as high into the stratosphere, but seems to love hanging out forever in that medium-high range that we former Lyric Coloratura Sopranos would prefer to remove from the musical scale altogether. (If I ever ran into D5 on the street, then it would be me texting one of my students, to ask them to help me hide the body.) Both high voices? Different types!
So when someone asks me, “What am I?” my response is to ask some questions:
- In what range does your voice most love to live?
- Who is your vocal doppelganger?
- What music makes your voice sound its best and most authentic to you?
And we take it from there. Maybe we make up our own Fach designations: you may be a Belt Tenor, a Light Rock Soprano, maybe even a Ruebens – that’s a female who uses a lot of heavy head voice to be thick in the middle…range. We can make it up! Because at the end of the day, the music you choose to sing should be based on what your voice wants to do, not someone else’s predetermined classification of what your voice should want to do. Right? And then you can tell the naysayers to shut the Fach up.
Yea. Yea, I say.
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What is a conservation covenant?
The legal definition of a covenant is: A promise contained in a deed to land or real estate which is binding upon the current owner and all future owners. It defines the limitations, conditions or restrictions on the use of that land.
A conservation covenant is a voluntary agreement made between a landholder and an authorised body (such as a Covenant Scheme Provider) that aims to protect and enhance the natural, cultural and/or scientific values of certain land. The owner continues to own, use and live on the land while the natural values of an area are conserved by the landholder in partnership with the Covenant Scheme Provider.
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May 22, 2018
Joint risk management between management and staff brings fairness and transparency to a truly global company
Building a global policy and upright organization with 200 risk managers
All businesses are constantly "at risk", such as data leakage and product recalls. The source of the problem often stems from inadequate internal policies rather than human errors. So why is this happening? The corporate policies simply never had the chance to catch up to the rapid globalization and social changes.
In 2011, OMRON announced its mid to long-term strategy coined "Value Generation 2020" (VG2020), which includes risk management plan as one of the important business challenges, and has strived to achieve it. The plan was a reflection of the management's firm belief.
"The environment surrounding management and business rapidly changes and increases uncertainty. We need to raise risk awareness and take precautions, so that we can deal with risks while they are budding."
"Growth, profitability and adaptability to rapid social changes are necessary for sound business."
At OMRON, a global risk management team of approximately 200 members work closely on a daily basis. They share a strong mission to resolve issues through cooperation between staff and management, even when the issues stem from environmental changes beyond the control of the staff. We interviewed 5 members to get the inside scoop.
Understanding risks by country and region
(Global Risk Management / Legal Department HQ, Risk Management General Manager : Yoshichika Tanabe)
Businesses carry a variety of risks. Due to the fact that the law, culture, and common sense differ by country and region, it can be extremely challenging for globally operating companies to anticipate and avoid all risks. There are times where companies are exposed to threats.
So, here's what they did.
Deterring cartels and bribery, and imposing information security obligations - these are the responsibility of global companies. However, since different regions and countries have their own style of trainings, the Japanese way of training did not work. Thus, in 2011, when VG2020 was launched, they decided to have members from different regions gather and discuss. They established a virtual group called GLH (Global Legal HQ), where the leaders in charge of risk management of OMRON Management Centers meet every quarter. This allowed them to quickly come up with risk management measures suitable for regions at a global level, not from inside Japan. They then selected Risk Manager for each group company. The aim was to have the leaders, in collaboration with each OMRON Management Center, propagate risk management to the staff members who are in the frontline of business.
(Manager of the Asia-Pacific : Hiroshige Ohno)
Such centralized actions trigger actions in other business locations around the globe. According to the main office of the Asia Pacific, managers from different countries gather to attend risk management meetings in every country of the region, not only at the main office in Singapore.
Ohno mentioned, "I oversee 11 countries including India, Australia, and New Zealand. Each nation has its own culture, religion, politics, natural environment, and law, and risks unique to the region. Considering these characteristics, we hold risk manager meetings in each of the 11 countries. This allows the members to understand the culture and atmosphere in specific regions and find their own problems through profound discussion with risk managers. In addition, visiting locations in different countries help develop inter-personal relationships. It is not cheap but the benefit justifies the cost."
As a result, some regions have started to incorporate risk management meetings on a monthly / weekly basis.
Frontline creates best practice
(Manager of the Americas : Blake Thatcher)
As with the Asia Pacific region, the root of OMRON's risk management lies in the frontline. OMRON understands that risks identified onsite are best handled in that region based on the common corporate policy. Thus, globally applicable best practices come from onsite staff members.
The main office in America has incorporated e-learning programs to promulgate an understanding of risk management. The main office in Europe started utilizing e-learning shortly after. It is not uncommon to see practical ideas employed in one region spread to a different region. This is one benefit of gathering on a quarterly basis to make decisions about global risk management measures.
There are other forms of localized activities as well. The Americas has set up a "governance board" meeting directly under the board of each group company. Risk managers from OMRON Management Centers attend the meeting to discuss risk management with the management team of each company on a quarterly or semi-annual basis. By testing the risk assessment provided by HQ and obtaining details on risks using a scoreboard, members of OMRON Management Centers specify their business challenges and provide feedback to the management team. As a result, the management team is able to better understand their responsibility and importance of governance, risk management, and compliance; also allows for profound discussions to take place.
(Manager of Europe : Patrick Duregger)
Duregger, at the main office of Europe states, "We handle business risk management on the one hand and risk of non-compliance and governance separately. The reason is that it requires different skills and colleagues from back office are appointed as compliance managers and colleagues of front office are appointed as (business) risk managers as they have a better understanding of the business and business initiatives. At the same time it was a challenge to handle all from HQ only, as we have a very big territory with many different countries and legal entities so we needed to have people "on the ground" locally. This caused us to appoint colleagues who actually had a different "main task" and needed to perform their risk and compliance task in addition to that. In the beginning, they didn't like very much getting assigned additional tasks outside their daily duties. We needed to give training and make them aware of their tasks and our expectations. After they understood the risks in their countries and Business Companies/World Producers things were getting better then. Also, collaborating with the Human Resource Department to add risk management to the performance evaluation for managers and staff helped penetrate risk awareness."
Currently, OMRON Management Center of Korea, which was established in January 2017, is working on strengthening its operational risk management based on examples set in other regions against a rapidly increasing semiconductor workforce. "I feel the necessity to enhance our risk management measures. We have to pay close attention, identify, and deal with risks quickly and appropriately, through collaboration between staff and management, especially in emerging regions." says Ogino passionately.
(Manager of Korea : Ryuichi Ogino)
Such direct actions deliver results. The main office in China reported over 1000 risk buds in 27 business location in 1 month. Daily risk management activities were initially extremely unpopular. However, the entire organization eventually began to trust and understand that this is for their own protection, leading to early risk detection - the product of increased risk awareness.
Cooperation between staff and management in resolving risks beyond control of frontline
Earlier in this article, we mentioned that "OMRON's risk management lies in the frontline," however, there are certain risks which the frontline cannot manage. Thus, collaboration between HQ, OMRON Management Centers, and group companies becomes crucial.
A few times a year, the directors and managers get together to rotate the PDCA cycle to further raise risk awareness. There are also education programs such as the 24 universal rules on various risks and "corporate risk management logic" written in 25 languages. The company is devoted to involving both staff and management to take part in the program.
However, this modern age of frequent M&A and open innovation opens new doors to unknown risks. Recognized risk is one thing, but unrecognized risk is another. Unfortunately, there are times where actions performed in good faith triggers problems.
Thus, risk managed and resolved by staff and management is ideal, and the Global Risk Management / Legal HQ dedicates itself to being "the bridge between staff and management".
OMRON will continue to raise risk awareness and clip budding risks before they grow - both staff and management fulfilling its social responsibility as a single team.
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Sightings for April 2011
The wind seemed to shift more to the direct east today and this encouraged Swallow and Swift to cross the channel in the biggest numbers so far this spring. It's reckoned that 75 Swift were seen arriving throughout the morning, while Swallow weren't counted but probably outnumbered their larger cousins 3:1 during the same period. There were a couple of firsts for the year: a Wood Sandpiper overflew the HHC and was then seen to come down onto East Marsh, Stanpit; and a pale Arctic Skua passed very close along the length of Hengistbury. The rest of the seawatch was fairly quiet, but was punctuated with: 2 Red-throated Diver, a Great Crested Grebe, 7 Sanderling, a Bar-tailed Godwit and 17 Whimbrel east; an immature drake Eider on the water and 20 aimless Gannet; and a Fulmar west. The last couple of days has seen a huge movement of Bar-tailed Godwit up the channel, with a couple of sites recording 5000+ in a day; so the 48 inside the harbour this morning, although notable for Christchurch, were just a tiny percentage of the current passage. Also around Stanpit Bight, 3 Common Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank, a Spotted Redshank, 4 Grey Plover, 25 Whimbrel, no more than 40 Dunlin and the 3 Wigeon. Finally, the passerines, which included: a Wood Warbler that sang a few times in the sycamores close to the Rusty Boat; a Cuckoo and 3 new Reed Warbler on Wick; 3 Whinchat and 26 Wheatear, mainly on the Hengistbury; and 2 Yellow Wagtail over.
Additional news: a Yellowhammer was decked by the Coastguards at 10:30.
One of today's Whinchat - Alan Hayden
The first overcast day for some time combined with a nagging northerly wind made it feel quite cool this morning. Most of the time was spent watching the sea as grounded migrants were hard to come by with just 6 Wheatear and 3 Whinchat on the Barn Field. At sea it was fairly standard fare for the time of year with 41 Bar-tailed Godwit, 26 Whimbrel, 13 Common Tern and 2 Greylag Geese east, a Great Northern Diver, a Guillemot and 4 Fulmar west, 13 Common Scoter on the sea and c20 Gannet lingering. Raptors over harbour airspace today were Peregrine and Common Buzzard.
Additional news: 3 Yellow Wagtail were on Wick Fields and at least 30 Bar-tailed Godwit were in the harbour late in the afternoon.
The only real news from the southern side of the area was one, but possibly two, incoming Hobby over Wick, where there was a Lesser Whitethroat singing in Roebury Lane close to the HHC. Otherwise, it's down to the trusty old Fisherman's Bank to provide the rest of the news, which involves: a Knot, a Grey Plover, 16 Whimbrel, 16 Bar-tailed Godwit, 26 Black-tailed Godwit, 15 Dunlin, the three lingering Wigeon and 35 Sandwich Tern. Meanwhile, at the top end of Stanpit Creek, the pen Mute Swan continues to sit on the nest that survived last week's spring tides.
There was perhaps an upturn in interest today, as a Puffin went past Hengistbury and the year's first Spotted Flycatcher came off the head over to Wick. Other new, passerine arrivees included: 2 Grasshopper Warbler, one on Wick and one by Double Dykes; 3 Garden Warbler, all on Wick; a Tree Pipit sat in a tree in the Double Dykes; 31 Willow Warbler across Hengistbury; a reckoned 35 Whitethroat that were additional to those already incumbent on-site; a Whinchat on the top of the head; 11 Wheatear, mainly on the Barn Field; and 4 Yellow Wagtail over. Also incoming, 55 Dunlin, 5 Grey Plover and 11 Whimbrel, all over the Barn Field.
Additional news: a Spotted Redshank, but not one of the regulars that both seem to have moved on, was at Stanpit in the evening, as was a Knot and 47 Dunlin.
Whimbrel - Alan Hayden
...and a Black-headed Gull with a rather feisty Clam - Vincent Blood
Despite the fine daytime temperature, the northerly wind made it quite uncomfortable for the first hour or so this morning, when gloves were actually the order of the day. In terms of the bird news, other than a pair of Red-breasted Merganser east at sea, a good attempt could have been made at writing this post with no information received from the field. The rest of the stuff offshore comprised up to 10 Gannet and 4 Fulmar, but a noticeable drop in Sandwich Tern, although around 40 were inside the harbour during the afternoon. To finish on Hengistbury, 2 Whimbrel, a Willow Warbler, 5 Wheatear and Yellow Wagtail were on the Barn Field, while a further wagtail came in-off over the Natterjack Pond. On Stanpit, representing the waders, there were 11 Whimbrel, a Grey Plover, 8 Bar-tailed Godwit, 26 Black-tailed Godwit and 104 Dunlin; as well as a pair of Shoveler, the 3 Wigeon, 29 Shelduck and 4 passing Mediterranean Gull.
Yellow Wagtail on Wick Fields - Leo Pyke
Common Sandpiper sitting out the high tide aboard Ledge-End Hookers - Dave Cooke
After spending some of yesterday off Milford-on-Sea, the pod of 10 or so Bottlenose Dolphin were again off Hengistbury this morning, as was a Roseate Tern that moved east, along with 4 Common Tern, 2 Fulmar and 8 Gannet. At least 14 Yellow Wagtail passed through during the day, including a flock of four that settled on the No Dogs Field briefly, while 3 singing Lesser Whitethroat around the northern fringe of Stanpit suggested an overnight arrival of that species. Wheatear were again sparse, however, just 5 dotted about, likewise incoming Swallow with nothing more than a 'steady trickle' noted. The waders at Stanpit remain largely unchanged, with a Common Sandpiper, 2 Grey Plover, 14 Whimbrel, 15 Bar-tailed Godwit, around 20 Black-tailed Godwit and 125 Dunlin in and around Stanpit Bight and Fisherman's Bank. After a quiet day yesterday, Mediterranean Gull were once more very obvious - the day's over-fliers exceeding 30 birds.
Sedge Warbler - Alan Crockard
Cetti's Warbler - Barrie Taylor
...and a couple of shots of the members' day - Alan Hayden
It was another day when there was little to show for a good many pairs of eyes and ears on Hengistbury. The best was probably an Arctic Tern with 41 Common Tern and 57 Sandwich Tern that were logged moving east past Coastguards, as well as a Guillemot, 9 Gannet and a Fulmar, plus a Swift and 4 Yellow Wagtail that arrived in-off over there. Incredibly, after the last few days and weeks, Mediterranean Gull were almost completely absent, with just six being recorded today. The only evidence of grounded passerines came from 23 Wheatear spread about the area and a Garden Warbler in Stanpit Scrubs. The Ruff was off Fisherman's Bank, while other waders at Stanpit included 9 Whimbrel, 8 Bar-tailed Godwit, a Grey Plover, around 20 Black-tailed Godwit and 120 Dunlin. Although the tame Tufted Duck hasn't been seen for a few days, a couple of wilder birds arrived, a drake Shoveler moved off west and 2 Greylag Goose circuited the area.
Sandwich Tern - Alan Hayden
It was hard work again this morning. For example, one individual's 4-hour stint produced just: a Wheatear and a Mistle Thrush on the Barn Field; a Red-throated Diver, 2 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Common Scoter, a Fulmar and 2 Whimbrel at sea, all but the waders east; and at least 22 Mediterranean Gull of all ages over, mostly eastbound. Meanwhile, at Stanpit, the Ruff is still present, along with a Common Sandpiper, 10 Whimbrel, 9 Bar-tailed Godwit, a dwindling 14 Black-tailed Godwit, 8 Ringed Plover and 109 Dunlin. Also, 3 Wigeon remaining on site.
One of around 10 Bottlenose Dolphin off Hengistbury this morning - Chris Chapleo
...and Ruff & Spotted Redshank at Stanpit last night - Alan Hayden
No change in the weather and little change in the birds, save for a drake Garganey that flew up and down the river just before 7:00 this morning. Actually, interest in that bird was lost as a message crackled about a party of 10 or so Bottlenose Dolphin close off Whitepits. For the next 15-minutes, they put on a wonderful display just 150m offshore, breaching as they apparently fed on a Mackerel shoal that drifted east. A couple of hours later, the animals were seen again, but this time more distantly as they slowly cruised back towards the Purbecks. Back to the birds and a fine, breeding-plumaged Water Pipit that was seen in Wick Hams, but there was very little else of note. A few Yellow Wagtail, a lone Wheatear, a Rook and 32 Mediterranean Gull overflew, most of the latter to the west, and a Mistle Thrush again gathered food on the Barn Field. Due to the dolphins, the sea got more attention than it really deserved, but mustered just: a Kittiwake, 6 Common Tern, 5 Whimbrel, a Common Scoter, a Grey Heron and 3 Fulmar, nearly all of these east, while a single Greylag Goose and 6 Canada Goose were also seen.
Additional news: Grasshopper Warbler were reeling at Whitepits and by the HHC.
Wheatear - Alan Hayden
As the fine weather blazes on, it was again a poor day for the date. On Stanpit, however, the year's first 2 Swift, likewise a single Ring Ouzel, passed through north; but other overhead movers at Hengistbury comprised a modest 7 Yellow Wagtail, 4 Tree Pipit, 3 House Martin and 45 Swallow. The best of the settled stuff were 2 Grasshopper Warbler and a Redstart on Wick Fields, while the only 2 Wheatear of the day were on Solent Meads golf course. To brighten things up, there was good wader medley, with nearly all being seen from Stanpit and including: a Ruff coming into some nice plumage, a Spotted Redshank, 2 Greenshank, a Common Sandpiper, 2 Grey Plover, 10 Whimbrel, 14 Bar-tailed Godwit, 26 Black-tailed Godwit and up to 100 Dunlin. Speaking of which, it looks as if yesterday's tagged bird is part of a project being run in Portugal and we hope to get more details soon. Common Tern remain sparse, with just 5 seen today, but there were at least 27 Sandwich Tern inside the harbour, where 2 Teal, a Wigeon and Gadwall were also present. The sea was once again desperate, turning in a paltry Fulmar, 7 Whimbrel and 2 Common Scoter; and, finally, for the bird-day log, the Mediterranean Gull total was in the region of 15.
Whitethroat - Mike Crockard
It may seem that we're over-doing Whitethroat at the moment, but there do seem to be an awful lot around and, besides, a shot like this is always worthy of publication.
Weather-wise, it was a repeat performance of the last couple of days, with perhaps even fewer birds in general, but one piece of quality. That came courtesy of a Red-rumped Swallow, the first since 2005 and only the group's eighth record, which passed quickly north over Priory Marsh at 9:25 this morning. In fact, this was in one of the first groups of Swallow that travelled through, with the more expected species numbering just 35 or so between 06:30 and 10:00. Over on Wick, a Turtle Dove, never to be taken for granted nowadays, passed went over the Wooden Bridge early on and a Whinchat was settled in the Bobolink Field. Otherwise, in terms of passerines, the only others warranting a mention are: a Grasshopper Warbler in Smithy's Field, 6 Wheatear, mostly on the Barn Field, and 2 Tree Pipit, 4 Yellow Wagtail and 86 Meadow Pipit over. Another good miscellany of waders was present at Stanpit, including: a Spotted Redshank, a Greenshank, a Knot, 3 Grey Plover, 4 Whimbrel, 15 Bar-tailed Godwit, just 11 Black-tailed Godwit, a single Ringed Plover and 84 Dunlin. This evening, one of the latter was adorned with a radio transmitter, two antennae, a leg flag and two colour rings, so details are being sought as to where all this gear was fitted. Also inside the harbour, still 3 Wigeon and 22 lively Sandwich Tern, while at least 14 Mediterranean Gull yelped their way through.
Whitethroat - Alan Hayden
For the second day in succession, there were clear skies and a wind that started in the north-west but slowly rotated through 180 degrees. The best two birds were seen from the HHC, where a Spoonbill passed over eastwards, but chose not to stop, and a male Yellowhammer flew low through in the opposite direction. Close by, a couple of Yellow Wagtail were settled with the cattle in Wick Hams, while a further seven overflew, as did 2 Tree Pipit, 3 Rook, 50 Meadow Pipit and 30 Swallow until 10:30. The sea was again almost birdless, with just 9 Common Tern and a Brent Goose east, plus a Fulmar and some of the day's 29 Mediterranean Gull, to show for the effort. On Stanpit, a Sanderling seemed to be a new bird, but otherwise it was largely unchanged with 5 Grey Plover, 14 Bar-tailed Godwit, 25 Black-tailed Godwit, around 80 Dunlin and 3 Wigeon logged from Fisherman's Bank.
Continuing the recent theme of singing warblers - Dartford Warbler - Mike Crockard
It was a little more lively today, particularly for overhead migration, exception hirundines that is, which remain sparse to say the least. However, it was the best day so far for Tree Pipit and Yellow Wagtail, with 15 and 11 logged respectively, as well as a Cuckoo, 116 Meadow Pipit, 58 Linnet, 26 Goldfinch and a Rook. On the deck, there was again a decent presence of Grasshopper Warbler, with at least 5 heard reeling, mainly on Wick, but also in bushes adjacent to Rolls Drive. Also, a Lesser Whitethroat, a Garden Warbler, 32 Willow Warbler and 15 Whitethroat newly arrived. At sea, a couple of Common Tern, 15 Whimbrel and a Guillemot headed east, while 6 Fulmar were a little more aimless. Reports throughout the day from Fisherman's Bank revealed there is a half-decent wader selection at Stanpit, comprising: a Spotted Redshank, a Ruff, a Knot, 2 Whimbrel, 2 Snipe, 3 Grey Plover, 15 Bar-tailed Godwit, 43 Black-tailed Godwit, a Ringed Plover and 92 Dunlin; along with a pair of Canada Goose and 16 Shelduck. To conclude, the Mediterranean Gull total for the day was in excess of 25 birds.
Omission: a Bullfinch was on Wick Fields.
Singing Blackcap - Alan Hayden
After a good few days of cloud cover, the sun finally asserted itself and blue skies dominated the proceedings. However, there wasn't a great deal of change in terms of numbers of birds passing through - although a Short-eared Owl low over Stanpit at around 8:30, before heading off high north, was more than enough consolation for those out there. Otherwise, the best of the migrants were: a settled Yellow Wagtail on Wick, plus six more over Stanpit; a Whinchat and 2 Grasshopper Warbler at Stanpit; and total of 7 Wheatear from both sides of the harbour. The rest of the post will probably only interest those who are intimate with the area, so you may wish to look away now. On Wick, there were unseasonable records of 2 Snipe and a Kingfisher; the daft, drake Tufted Duck was again on one of the shallow artificial pools by the HHC and a Greylag Goose passed over; it is confirmed that a pair of Mistle Thrush are breeding on Hengistbury, something which is locally notable; a couple of Rook passed through; and at least 12 Mediterranean Gull and a regular leucistic Black-headed Gull were on site.
Omission: a Great Crested Grebe was on the sea off Double Dykes.
Homemaking Chiffchaff - Alan Hayden
...and Hobby over Wick Fields - Alan Hayden
Again, it was largely quiet, but there was enough to keep the Saturday regulars entertained at times. Cuckoo are becoming increasingly difficult to catch up with, so a newly arrived, tired male that hung around the Barn Field briefly was most welcome. There were also 4 Grasshopper Warbler, 3 by the Natterjack Pond and a single bird on Wick, where a Hobby passed over. Otherwise, the only other obvious incomers were a Yellow Wagtail over the HHC, a Garden Warbler in Wick Ditch, 3 Wheatear and 28 Willow Warbler. A Red-throated Diver settled on the water was the best of a dull but pleasant seawatch, which also included 2 Fulmar, a Gannet, a Common Scoter and a Teal. On the occasions that the waders were airborne over Stanpit, from Hengistbury it was possible to pick out 7 Whimbrel, 9 Grey Plover and 11 Bar-tailed Godwit. To wrap up, at least 10 Mediterranean Gull were logged and the drake Tufted Duck remains in the area.
Additonal news: the final Bar-tailed Godwit total at Stanpit was 17 birds, as well as the 2 Spotted Redshank, the Ruff, the Greenshank, 80 or so Dunlin and 6 Wigeon.
Willow Warbler in song - Alan Hayden
In similar conditions to yesterday, but slightly varied by some light drizzle and occasional blue sky, it was another relatively slow day in terms of quantity. There were, nevertheless, a few bits of quality. The second Osprey of the week was watched over harbour airspace at around 3:45 this afternoon from Stanpit village; the bird then headed north up the Avon Valley, being seen at Sopley and ultimately at Blashford Lakes, all in the space of 45-minutes or so. A morning seawatch was enlivened by a Spoonbill and an Avocet west, plus 6 Velvet Scoter amongst 16 Common Scoter, 6 Whimbrel and a Common Tern east. Also, 2 Purple Sandpiper remaining around the Long Groyne. As alluded to earlier in the post, migrant passerines were sparse, but did include: a couple of Grasshopper Warbler, one at Whitepits the other on the Long Field, the year's first Garden Warbler vocal close to Holloway's Dock, a late Brambling, a Yellow Wagtail over and 9 Wheatear.
Male Reed Bunting - Alan Hayden
The wind dropped away overnight, but the cloud remained and only a handful of new birds were obvious. However, these included: at least 4 reeling Grasshopper Warbler on Wick Fields, with a further bird on Stanpit golf course; a Wood Warbler by the Civic Offices; while 30 Blackcap and 10 Sedge Warbler around Stanpit were also considered to be recently arrived. On Crouch Hill, there were 3 Wheatear, one of them looking good for a Greenland-type, and a further two were about Wick. That area also saw a couple of decent falcon records, as the first Hobby and a late Merlin both passed over. The morning at Stanpit hosted a Little Stint, 2 Common Sandpiper and a Little Ringed Plover, but these soon moved on. Meanwhile, throughout the day, around 11 Whimbrel passed through, one of them in the company of 6 Curlew, as did 3 Red-throated Diver over the harbour itself. Birds that were more settled, included: the 2 Spotted Redshank, a Ruff, a Greenshank, 3 Grey Plover, 8 Bar-tailed Godwit, around 70 each of Black-tailed Godwit and Dunlin, 4 Shoveler, 4 Wigeon, 8 Teal and a second calendar-year Common Gull. Finally, the day's Mediterranean Gull count is 12.
Stock Dove - not an easy bird to see on the ground in the harbour - Leo Pyke
Passerine migration was pretty much stalled by overnight cloud, relatively cold temperatures and a strengthening south-westerly wind, just 6 Wheatear on Hengistbury being the only certain new arrivals. Nevertheless, there were a few other birds on the move - for example, an Osprey headed north over the harbour at 8:20 this morning, while a Ruff, a Greenshank, a Whimbrel and 2 adult Grey Plover had checked-in at Stanpit by the afternoon. Meanwhile, waders already present there included: the 2 Spotted Redshank, 4 Grey Plover, 8 Bar-tailed Godwit, 85 Black-tailed Godwit, a Ringed Plover and 82 Dunlin, most of the latter in varying stages of breeding plumage, but there were a couple of much less advanced, longer-billed birds. Also, still 3 Purple Sandpiper on Hengistbury, these on the Long Groyne this morning. Of breeding interest, it looks as if the Barn's Swallow may have returned and the 2 Mistle Thrush were still commuting between the adjacent field and the Wood, while a pair of Mute Swan have a nest at the north end of Stanpit Creek. Finally, 8 Mediterranean Gull, all paired adults, moved over, a couple of Canada Goose settled on the Ironstone Quarry and a single Greylag Goose toured.
Additional news: a male Yellowhammer perched in the HHC hedge briefly as the Osprey went over.
Little Tern - Alan Hayden
Although it was another fine spring day, a stiff north-westerly breeze put paid to any migration with just 7 Wheatear on the Barn Field and 2 overflying Yellow Wagtail being seen this morning. A single Little Tern was on Stanpit, where the 2 Spotted Redshank remain; also 70 Dunlin, 36 Black-tailed Godwit, 24 Sandwich Tern, 8 Bar-tailed Godwit, 4 Grey Plover and a Ringed Plover. The 2 Mistle Thrush were again on the Barn Field, while 2 Rook and a Peregrine passed overhead.
Greylag Goose on Wick Fields this morning - Shaun Montgomery
Willow Warbler moved through again today with 400 counted in the first three hours of daylight, also 61 Swallow, 43 Wheatear, 16 Blackcap, 16 Chiffchaff, 12 Whitethroat, 11 Redstart, 3 Sedge Warbler, 2 Reed Warbler, a Wood Warbler, a Tree Pipit and a Grasshopper Warbler. This afternoon, the first Little Tern of the year appeared opposite Fisherman's Bank, where two birds were seen, while one of the Spotted Redshank was also there. Wildfowl numbers seem to be reducing daily, but a single Brent Goose was still around plus 22 Shelduck, 3 Canada Geese and 2 Greylag Geese. To round up, the 2 Mistle Thrush were on the Long Field and today's Mediterranean Gull count was 19, again mainly adult birds.
Evening update: there were 3 Little Tern on Stanpit, also 8 Bar-tailed Godwit and 4 Grey Plover, plus 3 Wheatear by the Visitor Centre.
Another quiet day in terms of grounded migrants with just 21 Wheatear and 15 each of Willow Warbler and Chiffchaff spread between the Barn Field and Wick; also plenty of Blackcap and Whitethroat, but it's thought that most of these are already on territory. The same can probably said of the 4 Sedge Warbler and 2 Reed Warbler in the Wick reedbed. There were also a few Swallow arriving with 52 counted. The 3 Greylag Geese were seen again today, as was the drake Tufted Duck still in the company of a pair of Mallard! To round up on Hengistbury, a single Rook passed over, 2 Mistle Thrush were on the Barn Field and 15 Mediterranean Gull, all adult birds, headed south-west. Meanwhile, on Stanpit, the 2 Spotted Redshank were on East Marsh and 72 Dunlin, 70 Black-tailed Godwit, 8 Bar-tailed Godwit and 4 Grey Plover were in Stanpit Bight.
Check back to yesterday for late news.
Shelduck - Dave Cooke
After yesterday's bumper fall of common migrants, things were very quiet around Hengistbury and Wick this morning, with barely a dozen Willow Warbler and Blackcap present. Having said that, the first Lesser Whitethroat and Reed Warbler made it on to the harbour year-list, with 2 of each on Wick; also 25 Wheatear, 12 Whitethroat, 3 Sedge Warbler, 2 Yellow Wagtail and one each of Grasshopper Warbler, Redstart and Bullfinch. Although the wind was from the east, the sea received some coverage, but only produced a summer plumaged Red-throated Diver, a Great Crested Grebe, 2 Gannet and 38 Sandwich Tern east. A Common Buzzard passed over the Coastguards, while also on the move were 2 Raven, 2 Rook, 2 Mistle Thrush, 3 Greylag Geese, 3 Canada Geese, 3 Tufted Duck and 14 Mediterranean Gull.
Late news: visible migration figures for today were 200 Linnet, 150 Meadow Pipit, 60 Sand Martin and 30 Goldfinch.
Sand Martin prospecting for nest sites - Alan Crockard
On another glorious spring morning with only light winds, Willow Warbler once again moved through Hengistbury in numbers, with 520 logged by 10:00. It was also a day for firsts-of-the-year, with a Nightingale on the Batters, 2 Pied Flycatcher, a very early Wood Warbler on Wick Fields, a Whinchat on Whitepits and a Whimbrel leaving the harbour. Other counts from Hengistbury were 85 Chiffchaff, 61 Blackcap, 26 Wheatear, 23 Whitethroat, 18 Redstart, a Grasshopper Warbler and a Sedge Warbler, while overhead were 6 Yellow Wagtail, 3 White Wagtail, 2 Tree Pipit and a Yellowhammer. Although it was much quieter on Stanpit, there were 10 Sedge Warbler, 3 Redstart, 2 Yellow Wagtail, aWheatear and aWhitethroat. A Rook and 2 Raven moved east over the harbour, while the Mediterranean Gull count today was 20. Finally, a Great Northern Diver headed west at sea, 2 Gadwall were around the harbour and the 2 Spotted Redshank remain on East Marsh.
Whitethroat on the Long Field - Alan Hayden
Cetti's Warbler trapped and ringed yesterday - Alan Hayden
The first two Grasshopper Warbler of the year were on Stanpit this morning, while on Hengistbury and Wick it was easily the best day of the year for Willow Warbler, with a minimum of 250 birds, but surprisingly there were only 6 of these on Stanpit. A male Redstart on the Barn Field was probably the pick of the birds on the south side of the harbour, but also 56 Wheatear, 40 Chiffchaff, 20 Blackcap and 5 Whitethroat. A further 20 Wheatear were on Stanpit, plus 65 Blackcap, 10 Chiffchaff and 2 Sedge Warbler. Birds moving over Stanpit Golf Course were 69 Linnet, 57 Meadow Pipit, 38 Sand Martin, 16 Swallow, 3 Yellow Wagtail and 2 White Wagtail, while a Buzzard headed over Wick this afternoon. A count of 41 Curlew around Stanpit this morning was of local significance, also there were 125 Redshank, 45 Black-tailed Godwit, 12 Sandwich Tern, 9 Dunlin, 5 Bar-tailed Godwit, 3 Grey Plover, the Spotted Redshank and 6 Mediterranean Gull, a further 20 of these being noted over Hengistbury.
The return of the fine weather saw hirundines on the move today, with 125 Swallow, 110 Sand Martin and 2 House Martin over Hengistbury; also the first Tree Pipit of the year plus 86 Linnet, 66 Meadow Pipit, 29 Goldfinch and 1 Redpoll. Scattered across Wick Fields and the head were 55 Willow Warbler, 41 Wheatear, 28 Chiffchaff, 11 Blackcap and 3 Whitethroat. Another 7 Wheatear were on Stanpit, but only 4 Blackcap and a single Willow Warbler there. A first-summer Little Gull came in off the sea and headed up river, while 19 Sandwich Tern and 2 Common Scoter moved east; also 12 Mediterranean Gull were logged. On Stanpit, the 2 Brent Geese remain and wader numbers were similar to yesterday with the 2 Spotted Redshank, 83 Black-tailed Godwit, 21 Dunlin, 5 Bar-tailed Godwit and 2 Grey Plover.
Late news: the first Common Tern of the year was on Stanpit late afternoon, also the adult Little Gull was there.
Grey Wagtail on Priory Marsh - Alan Hayden
A brief interruption to the fine weather saw a south-westerly front bring a belt of rain to the harbour, but if the forecasters are to be believed we can now look forward to a week of fine weather. A brief seawatch from the Beach Huts this morning produced just a single Red-throated Diver west, also 7 Purple Sandpiper and 19 Turnstone on the groynes. Holloway's Dock held 44 Black-tailed Godwit, while another 73 were on Stanpi,t where there was another Turnstone, plus 17 Dunlin, some of which were sporting black bellies, 5 Bar-tailed Godwit, 2 Grey Plover and the 2 Spotted Redshank. Only 2 Brent Geese were present, plus 9 Teal and 4 Shelduck; also 4 Sandwich Tern in the high tide roost. After lunch, there was clearly a small movement of Swallow with 18 logged over Wick and Stanpit.
Although there were a few more migrants around today, most of the birds had moved off the head onto Wick quite early. Firsts for the year were: Garganey, a drake which headed north without stopping: a Whitethroat in the 'no dogs field' on Wick; and Sedge Warbler, of which there were two, one by the HHC and one on Ashtree Meadows, Stanpit. Combined totals for the grounded migrants were 43 Willow Warbler, 12 Blackcap, 11 Chiffchaff and 3 male Redstart. A Wheatear came in-off and both Redpoll and White Wagtail moved over, but otherwise there was very little overhead movement. Waders today included a Little Stint in Stanpit Creek, where the 2 Spotted Redshank, beginning to look very smart, were also present, a Purple Sandpiper on the groynes and a Sanderling in the air with the godwit flock; counts were 76 Black-tailed Godwit, 11 Dunlin, 7 Bar-tailed Godwit and 3 Grey Plover. An adult Little Gull arrived and 7 first-summer Mediterranean Gull moved west. Finally, there was a Bearded Tit in the HHC reedbed and a Grey Wagtail on Fisherman's Bank.
Male Redstart on Wick - Alan Hayden
Again, slightly more was expected for the day, particularly as the wind had dropped overnight, during which there was just a light cloud cover. Having said that, interest was provided by a party of 3 Spoonbill that passed west just offshore around 11:00, after having previously been seen at Keyhaven, and a Tree Sparrow above the Barn Field a couple of hours earlier. Also over, a Yellow Wagtail and 13 Swallow, with the best of the settled migrants being a male Redstart in the north-west corner of the Bobolink Field and a fully plumaged Water Pipit by the Wooden Bridge. A late Redwing was also on Wick, as were most of the day's 20 Blackcap, 26 Chiffchaff and 7 Willow Warbler. Pairs of Mediterranean Gull overflew throughout - the final total being 22 - and on Stanpit, where the traditional early spring wader lull is now in full swing, the Spotted Redshank, 4 Bar-tailed Godwit, 5 Ringed Plover and 4 Dunlin were logged. Black-tailed Godwit, although not counted, were also thought to be down, and a group of 35 leaving west over Whitepits no doubt contributed to this suggestion. Dodgy geese were once more flying around, a skein of 10 Canada Goose making a tour, while the genuinely wild birds seem to have mostly left - just 5 Brent Goose using the harbour today. Finally, a couple of Grey Wagtail were on Priory Marsh and the confused Tufted Duck was hanging around the HHC.
Reed Bunting - Alan Crockard
It was perhaps not as good as hoped for this morning, during which some strange conditions saw the wind shift from a brisk south-east to a moderate south-west and the sun not really makes its mark until three hours after it had risen. The first Redstart of the year, however, made it on to Stanpit, while a Yellow Wagtail, 15 Swallow, 325 Meadow Pipit, 118 Linnet and a Redpoll headed inland over Hengistbury. It's becoming rather difficult to extricate the arriving Sand Martin from the 50 or so that are now resident along the cliffs, but 21 seemed to be on the move this morning and 50+ stopped briefly to feed over Priory Marsh this afternoon. Settled birds were relatively sparse on the Hengistbury/Wick side, but did include: 25 Chiffchaff, 5 Willow Warbler, 8 Blackcap and 6 Wheatear. The sea seemed quiet, although a Black-throated Diver passed fairly close as it headed east; also 10 Common Scoter and single unidentified diver and auk. A walk along the sandspit produced the first 2 Sanderling for the period, as well as 3 remaining Purple Sandpiper and a Red-breasted Merganser inside the harbour. Otherwise, the only other interest came from a young Peregrine and a few roaming feral geese, these comprising 3 Greylag Goose and 3 Canada Goose.
Additional news: a Firecrest was on Wick Fields, while the Spotted Redshank, a Knot, 18 Mediterranean Gull, a Rook and 6 Brent Goose were all at Stanpit.
In almost identical conditions to the previous 24-hours, there was again little to be seen. The only obvious migrants were a newly-arrived Avocet at Stanpit, where a female Wheatear, 2 Swallow and 5 Willow Warbler were also logged. Brent Goose have been thin on the ground for a couple of days now - for example, just 6 today with a wandering, single Canada Goose. The only news from Hengistbury is of 2 Raven over, while the remainder of the news comes from 2 Grey Wagtail, hopefully a pair, on Priory Marsh and a Spotted Redshank, 10 Bar-tailed Godwit and 133 Black-tailed Godwit in Stanpit Bight. Of interest, the colour-ringed Black-tailed Godwit, known amongst those who look out for such things as 'Bird 2', is still present after first being seen on Boxing Day last year.
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According to Telus’ research, 55 per cent of Canadians track their medical history on paper, one third electronically and one in four by memory.
This survey findings explain why Telus Corp. announced today that it will invest $100 million over three years to develop a new health technology division to build and service networks to share medical records and other information.
The move by Telus’s business solutions unit comes in the wake of the telecom company’s purchase of Montreal-based electronic commerce firm Emergis Inc. early this year. Emergis is a major provider of software used to manage health care records, drug bills and other information in the pharmacy and broader health care industry. It’s also a big player in financial services technology.
With its $763 million purchase of Emergis, Telus is moving aggressively to become a bigger player in health care technology and sees this as a major growth area for the company as provincial governments try to get health care costs under control and look for new ways to handle health services.
Like other phone companies, Telus faces stiffer competition from new wireless rivals in Canada and continued decline of traditional businesses. As part of its new investment in healthcare technology, Telus launched a new brand, Telus Health Solutions, a unit with about 1,500 employees.
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25Partyline July 2013 a Roundtable in Parliament House on 29 April 2013 organised jointly by the NRHA and the National Disability and Carers Alliance. A Project Reference Group comprised of people with direct experience of disability in rural and remote Australia supported the project and provided valuable insights and advice. A final report on the Project has been prepared. Its main themes include: the need for DisabilityCare Australia to engage with local people and services from rural and remote areas when developing support packages for people in those areas; the need for cultural respect when delivering services and support and through all communications, publications, and consultations about the scheme. This was particularly emphasised in relation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who make up a significant part of the rural and remote population; the need for DisabilityCare Australia to explicitly acknowledge the greater costs associated with providing disability support in rural and remote areas; and the need for a flexible approach to delivering DisabilityCare - especially important in rural and remote areas due to the scarcity of resources. As the DisabilityCare Australia scheme unfolds the Alliance intends to continue to work on behalf of people living with disability in rural and remote areas. We have gathered a strong interest group of people, which includes the delegates who attended the Roundtable and our Project Reference Group, and we intend to continue to call upon these people, and others, for their expertise as we seek to advocate on behalf of people living with a disability. Readers are invited to send their own experiences to email@example.com F ollowing the 12th National Rural Health Conference (Adelaide, 7-10 April 2013) and based on the work undertaken at it, the NRHA has endorsed a set of fourteen recommendations which reflect many of the Alliances current priorities. These are available on the Alliances website www.ruralhealth.org.au The NRHA itself will work to secure action on these proposals and encourages other organisations that support them to do likewise. Priority recommendations for rural health
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Essential Perennials: The Complete Reference to 2700 Perennials for the Home Garden (Hardcover)
Essential Perennials focuses on what every gardener needs to know to choose from the thousands of perennials available, and care for the ones you already have. This A-to-Z guide is packed with more than 2,700 plants, with each entry listing flower color, bloom time, foliage characteristics, size, and light and temperature requirements. Each profile is supported by stunning color photography that showcases the flower and foliage that make each plant unique.
Thomas Christopher is the author of more than a dozen gardening books. He has written for The New York Times, The Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, and Horticulture Magazine, as well as serving as a columnist for House & Garden and a contributing editor at Martha Stewart Living.
Alan L. Detrick is a professional photographer whose images of nature and gardens appear in media worldwide. He has lectured and conducted photography workshops at Maine Media Workshops, The New York Botanical Garden, Chanticleer Garden, Brookside Gardens, and Longwood Gardens, as well as for the the American Horticultural Society, the Garden Club of America, and the Garden Writers Association, where he was elected into the Hall of Fame in 2010. He is the author of Macro Photography for Gardeners and Nature Lovers.
“Enthusiastically recommended for both academic and public libraries and is an essential purchase for libraries where there is an interest in gardening.” —Booklist
“This is a valuable reference book that deserves a spot on your garden bookshelf.” —Country Gardens
“Useful and well written. . . . Will point you in the right direction—toward a home and garden that brings years of pleasure.” —Garden Rant
“Will incite further plant lust.” —The American Gardener
“One thing about Essential Perennials is that it’s essential—maybe even mandatory—for every designer to have a copy.” —Garden Design Online
“The format is clear, it’s easy to navigate around, and there’s plenty of interesting and helpful detail interspersed with colour photos. . . . The authors write with authority yet accessibility, and their expertise leaps off the page, letting the reader know they’re in good hands and can trust the information provided.” —The English Garden
“The photographs are beautiful in this volume, and the entries are quite thorough.” —The News Gazette
“A gorgeous book and a comprehensive A to Z guide for choosing, planting, tending, and enjoying perennials.” —The Manhattan Mercury
“A welcome addition to my bookshelf and it should be for yours too. Its wide-ranging and inclusive listing gives equal time to native woodlanders, ephemerals, exotic introductions, as well as time-honored favorites and takes the confusion out of the ever-growing world of perennials.” —The Ottawa Citizen
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Revisiting Pew’s View of Digital Life in 2025
The Pew Research Center released a report last year called Digital Life in 2025. You'll find a summary of it here and the downloadable PDF is here. I should point out that the report is now almost a year old, but since the vision is for ten years out, it's still quite relevant and an interesting read.
If you don't have time to read the entire 60-page document I'll summarize it for you with two bullets:
- The Internet becomes more like electricity and,
- It's all about access, not ownership
You could argue we're already living out the first point today. The web is ubiquitous and thanks to inexpensive, powerful sensors and embeddable devices, the Internet of things that we're rapidly heading towards means everything will soon be connected and burying us in even more data.
I think it's terrific that my home's thermostat can now be accessible from my phone. I'd love this concept even more if it meant that digital content operated more like electricity.
Today, however, I need a variety of apps to consume and manage all my content. Here's a short list of some of the content apps I use on a daily basis: web browser, Oyster ebook app, Kindle ebook app, Next Issue magazine app, and Evernote. If electricity operated this way you'd need a set of international travel adapters and converters to work with all the different plugs in your house, at the office and on the road.
I'd like to think that one day we'll have a universal digital content app that lets you do it all. I'm not sure that will happen by 2025 though, not when all the major players insist on building and reinforcing their walled gardens.
The second point, about access, not ownership, is already playing out in the music world. iTunes helped break the chokehold record labels had when they used to force us to buy entire CDs. In the next stage of disruption, services like Spotify are helping tear down the dominance Apple built with iTunes.
More recently we've seen the same phenomenon in other digital content areas. Next Issue gives me access to dozens of magazines, including their archives, as long as I keep paying them every month. Then there's Oyster and Kindle Unlimited, which offer similar broad, unlimited reading options for ebooks. As I mentioned last week, these ebook services will undoubtedly expand in the next 12-18 months, becoming your all-access pass for the topics and genres you love most.
If you have the time, I recommend reading the entire Pew report. The two items I covered here are the ones that resonated most for me but the report is loaded with plenty of other insight and perspective from quite a few industry experts.
Joe Wikert is Publishing President at Our Sunday Visitor (www.osv.com). Before joining OSV Joe was Director of Strategy and Business Development at Olive Software. Prior to Olive Software he was General Manager, Publisher, & Chair of the Tools of Change (TOC) conference at O’Reilly Media, Inc., where he managed each of the editorial groups at O’Reilly as well as the Microsoft Press team and the retail sales organization. Before joining O’Reilly Joe was Vice President and Executive Publisher at John Wiley & Sons, Inc., in their P/T division.
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An acoustic camera is the equivalent of a thermal camera for noise!
“It’s an imaging device used to locate sound sources and to characterize them. It consists of a (large) group of microphones, also called a microphone array, from which signals are simultaneously collected and processed to form a representation of the location of the sound sources.”(WiKi)
You point it at an area and the software (based on beamforming) will perform complex calculations from the info of the 128 channels to show the user where the loudest sound source is.
Imagine a refinery as here below in the picture, there are hundreds of sound sources causing noise nuisance, but with a sound level meter you will only be able to measure the overall sound pressure level in Decibel.
When we put the acoustic camera on some distance of the refinery, we will directly find the loudest sound source. If we need more detail, we can even see the sound level of only this sound source!! This is impossible with traditional sound level meters. The video here below will give you an idea how it works.
The acoustic camera has been around for some 10 years but is still not too well known to people who are not working in noise control or as acoustical engineers. The first acoustic cameras were setup with traditional condensor microphones which made it not so easy to setup (lots of cables) and expensive.
The newer generations of acoustic cameras are using MEMS microphones, these are digital microphones, they are very stable over time (accurate) and are cheap compared to traditional condensor microphones.
Here below an example of a traditional microphone (left) vs a MEMS microphone (right)
Condensor microphone as above with preamplifier, typically 30 – 100 mm long and diameter 1/2″, MEMS microphones on the right 3 x 3 mm.
The traditional condensor measurement microphone needs a preamplifier to be able to amplify and get the value to be read in a SLM (Sound Level Meter). There are many types of condensor microphones for various applications such as extremely low or extremely high noise levels, low or high frequencies etc. They are reliable, easy to calibrate and comply with measurement standards such as ISO (International Organization for Standardization).
MEMS microphones are still new in the classic physics domain of sound and vibration, and the ISO standards are not yet updated to allow MEMS microphones to be used in ISO sound and vibration measurements.
The accuracy of an acoustic camera is strongly depending on 2 main factors:
- the aperture size/dimension, the bigger the space between the 2 furthest located microphones is the lower the frequency that can be measured
- the number of microphones, the more microphones the higher the resolution will be hence the location of the sound sources will be more accurate, a now typical acoustic camera will have 128 microphones for normal usage and up to 384 for low frequency noise positioning
Here below an example of a typical acoustic camera as used by governmental noise enforcing agencies as well as acoustical consultants.Follow me:
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Russian Hacking Group's Backdoor Uses DropboxResearchers Describe Turla Group's 'Crutch' Malware
As part of a cyberespionage campaign, the Russian hacking group known as Turla deployed a backdoor called "Crutch" that uses Dropbox resources to help gather stolen data, according to the security firm ESET.
Crutch, which acts as both a backdoor and information stealer, was active from 2015 through at least early 2020. While Crutch has not been previously identified, the ESET researchers believe that it was used in at least one espionage campaign that targeted a ministry of foreign affairs in the European Union that it did not name.
The researchers note the malware appears capable of bypassing security filters by blending into normal network traffic while exfiltrating stolen documents and receiving commands from the Turla hacking group.
"The main malicious activity is exfiltration of documents and other sensitive files. The sophistication of the attacks and technical details of the discovery further strengthen the perception that the Turla group has considerable resources to operate such a large and diverse arsenal," Matthieu Faou, an ESET researcher, notes in the report.
ESET researchers identified linked Crutch to Turla based on similarities between the Crutch dropper - used to help install the malware on a compromised device - and Gazer, another second-stage backdoor used by Turla in between 2016 and 2017.
Crutch and Gazer also use the same RC4 encryption key used to help exfiltrate data, the researchers say.
Turla, which is also known as Belugasturgeon, Ouroboros, Snake, Venomous Bear and Waterbug, has carried out a series of operations targeting government or military agencies in at least 35 countries since 2008 (see: Russian Hackers Revamp Malware, Target Governments: Report).
The advanced persistent threat group has deployed a large malware arsenal that ESET and other researchers have documented over the past several years. The group's hacking tools include ComRAT network exfiltration malware and the HyperStack backdoor used to manipulate Windows APIs for persistence (see: Updated Malware Tied to Russian Hackers).
The ESET report notes that Crutch is mainly used as a second-stage backdoor, and it’s usually installed on a compromised device after other malware has already been deployed against a target. The researchers note that Turla first used another backdoor called Skipper before deploying Crutch.
In one case, the hacking group used PowerShell Empire - a penetration testing post-exploitation tool - to deploy Crutch within a compromised network, according to the report.
ESET has identified several versions of Crutch. The earlier versions, deployed between 2015 and 2019, used a backchannel to communicate with a hardcoded Dropbox account using the official HTTP API. The hacking group could then send commands to the malware before data was uploaded and encrypted to the cloud storage account.
The researchers also note that Crutch uses Dynamic Link Library hijacking to maintain persistence within a device or network.
A newer version, called Version 4, that appeared in July 2019 enabled more automation to allow the malware to collect files without commands from its operators, according to the report.
"The main difference is that it no longer supports backdoor commands,” ESET says. "On the other hand, it can automatically upload the files found on local and removable drives to Dropbox storage by using the Windows version of the Wget utility."
Faou notes that the use of Dropbox as a communication tool between the hacking group and the malware it deploys shows increasing sophistication.
" Most of recent Turla backdoors are using emails for command-and-control communication, such as LightNeuron and ComRAT v4, so the use of Dropbox is quite new," Faou tells Information Security Media Group. "However, this is in line with their ability to build custom command-and-control protocols that easily blend into the normal network traffic."
Criminals’ Use of Legitimate Tools
Other APT groups have also used legitimate cloud tools and services as part of their malicious infrastructure.
In September, Microsoft noted that it removed 18 apps from its Azure cloud computing platform that were being used by a hacking group as part of its command-and-control infrastructure to help launch phishing email attacks (see: Microsoft Shutters Azure Apps Used by China-Linked Hackers).
Researchers at Texas Tech University published a paper in June that noted even legitimate hackers, such as penetration testers, routinely weaponized cloud resources (see: Even Ethical Hackers Abuse Cloud Services).
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With its decision yesterday to re-approve the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, the Trudeau government could find itself face to face with a constitutional challenge filed by a leading environmental lawyer—on the urging of his 13-year-old daughter, a school climate strike veteran in Esquimalt, British Columbia.
“I begged dad for about half a year to take this to court,” Rebecca Wolf Gage told Vice News last week.
Wolf Gage’s dad, Andrew Gage, is staff lawyer at West Coast Environmental Law, and has been at the centre of the campaign encouraging B.C. municipalities to send climate accountability letters asking colossal fossils to cover their share of the climate impact costs the cities face.
In December, fed up with inaction on the part of adults as she watched forest fires engulf the suddenly dry rainforests around her home on Vancouver Island, Wolf Gage “joined thousands of teenagers across Canada in organizing school walkouts every Friday to push for more government action on climate change,” Vice writes. So she was thrilled when her dad said, “hey, we could possibly sue the government,” for going ahead with a pipeline expansion that will “triple the amount of oil flowing through an existing pipeline, from 300,000 barrels of oil a day to 890,000.”
While they have yet to file a court action, the Gages, along with other lawyers and climate strikers across Canada, “sent a letter to cabinet warning that the government could be in violation of the Charter by proceeding with the pipeline expansion without considering its climate impacts.”
Underpinning the prospective plaintiffs’ claim is the fact that the Trudeau government now owns Trans Mountain, after squandering C$4.5 billion in taxpayers’ money to buy it from the corporate descendent of the disgraced Enron empire in Houston.
Specifically, they assert that the National Energy Board’s refusal (and, by extension, Canada’s failure) “to consider the pipeline’s total impact on climate change” has placed the Trudeau government in violation of Section Seven of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees Canadians’ rights “to life, liberty, and security of the person.” Pointing out that greenhouse gases “inevitably impact the youth disproportionately, since the climate effects of those emissions may not be felt for a decade or more,” the letter also cites Section 15, “which guarantees Canadians shall not face discrimination, including on the basis of age.”
The argument comes together around the government’s fateful decision to buy the pipeline.
“The Charter applies to anything where government action is a necessary precondition for it—that’s the legal test,” Gage explained. “You can’t say ‘we’re physically going to buy the pipeline and move this product’ and not take responsibility for the actions. This government action is enabling the burning of oil downstream by the end user, and therefore is directly responsible for it ending up in the atmosphere.”
Should their challenge proceed, the daughter-and-father team will join other court challenges, including a federal class action suit launched by Quebec lawyers on behalf of people under 35, and youth-driven challenges in the United States.
Now that the pipeline has been approved, the adult lawyers “will talk with their teenage clients about next steps,” Vice says. One of the lawyers who signed the letter to cabinet, Patrick Canning, said they will mostly likely proceed with the Charter-centred court challenge. Gage noted, however, that the government may well “refer the matter to the Supreme Court to get a quick answer on whether they have an obligation to examine the climate impacts of the pipeline expansion.” Such a query would “yield answers more quickly than a court challenge.”
What Wolf Gage knows, with absolute clarity, is that “climate change isn’t going to get better anytime soon unless we act now. It’s going to keep getting worse.”
“Young adults are wondering even now if they should have children,” she added. “By the time I’m old enough to have kids, how messed up is it going to be? I don’t want to bring children into a world that I can’t say will be safe.”
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When the Wall fell most of us thought that, even if history had not ended, Socialism was dead. Those of us who went to the East to build on the ruins wrought by decades of it little thought it still had legs. Its central thesis - that centralised economic planning would produce fairer and more effective results than the operation of market forces - had been tested to destruction. My grandfather's trucking business was run better by himself and his brothers than it ever was by British Road Services, when expropriated by a British Socialist government.
More than half of mankind experienced socialism in the twentieth century. Almost all of us experienced some less full-blooded implementations than were tried behind the Berlin Wall. There has never been a greater experiment in all human history and It led to the deaths of millions and the impoverishment of billions. If ever an idea was ready for the dustbin of history, surely this one was? Yet it marches on. A zombie ideology; dead but still a threat.
I can see that it's seductive. As we face the usual struggle in competition with others to feed, clothe and shelter ourselves and those we love, of course we dream of a better, kinder, more efficient world. Looking back on a thirty year career, I know that much of my effort was misdirected, unrewarded or subverted to serve the goals of others. I could have taken care of my family as well with half or less of the effort, had I only known in advance what would work and what wouldn't. Yet I also know that I was very lucky. I was able to make myself financially independent (subject always to the predatory actions of future governments). Others work just as hard and never reach that goal. How unfair is that?
Sure, the alternative has been tried before with dire results, but I can see why some think it's worth another go. The wisdom of the young Paul Simon applies, as so often. "A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest." Socialism is seductive not because it's true, but because so many want it to be true.
Then there are those for whom it really does lead to the land of milk and honey. The John Prescotts of this world; talentless, lazy and greedy. Honest labour in the competitive market would never make them rich or powerful, but dishonest adherence to Labour just might. And our John, repulsive though the man is, is by no means the worst. Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Hitler and thousands of others, including the employees of all trade unions, leftist think tanks, equality commissions, state broadcasters and most of Western academia have lived parasitically on those who dream of a gentler life than that offered by the cruel gods of the market. Not to mention the hypocrites writing for The Guardian from their Tuscan villas.
They do so, without exception, by promoting hatred of "the other". For National Socialists, other races and for International Socialists, other classes. Socialism is a hate doctrine, which partly accounts for its success. Your misfortunes and failures are the fault of wicked "others" and nothing really to do with you. This appeals to the darker vices that grow in those who begin with the entry vice of envy. Like the poor, misguided father of a murdered WPC in Manchester crying for policemen to be able to "shoot people on sight", humans crave a dark and vengeful deliverer from evil. The Old Testament God, Dirty Harry or the Dark Knight of Gotham all speak to the same wicked urge from the dark recesses of the human soul as Hitler, Stalin or Mao.
This hypocrisy is why one unguarded remark by an American Conservative about prioritising the interests of the productive over the rest makes him unelectable, whereas the consistent hypocrisy of wealthy "socialists" passes off as the merest aberration. Not just old "two Jags" but the likes of Diane Abbott, for whose children the crap schools she foists on others are not nearly good enough. Or Tony Blair. Working for the businesses built by the great bandit clans of Morgan and Rockefeller seems to give rise to no more socialist qualms in him than did the abduction, rape and murder of the daughters of Moscow workers in Beria. Why is this behaviour so consistent in those who denounce the avarice of those driven by market forces? Could it be, perhaps, because they seek power for their own greedy ends, rather than - as advertised - for the greater good? At university Blair dreamed qualmlessly of wealth and fame as a rock star. Lacking the talent he went in for "show business for ugly people" instead.
There is an undoubted synergy between the masses' dreams of an uncompetitive existence and their socialist leaders' dreams of something similar at their expense. All this may account for Socialism's survival but not, I think for its political success. That, I will try to account for in another post soon.
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Each year four students travel to Beijing to compete in the Beijing Youth Science Creation Competition. So what do they present? Their project components are consistent with graduation project requirements and students should consider combining these two programs. “Science project” is defined broadly and can be an investigation in any of the STEM areas: Science (physical or life), Technology, Engineering or Mathematics. It may be empirical (controlled experiment) or might incorporate another design: for example, analytical or construction-based.
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The attorneys at Casey & Devoti, a St. Louis-based personal injury law firm, have partnered with EndDD.org (End Distracted Driving) to present the Distracted Driving Student Awareness Initiative.
This important safety initiative aims to educate drivers on the importance of eliminating distractions while driving. Partner Matt Casey recently delivered this powerful presentation to 150 sophomores at St. John Vianney High School in Kirkwood, Missouri.
This educational, informative and inspiring message presents the sobering statistics of the current safety crisis, shares true stories of the costs of distracted driving, and offers simple steps that drivers can use immediately to help themselves and others around them End Distracted Driving.
“Distracted driving is a huge problem for people of all ages – not just teens. That is the message we want to get across to these young drivers,” said Matt Casey. “We want them to be aware of the consequences whether it’s them, their parent or their friend who is driving distracted. The presentation offers eye-opening insight and concrete solutions to the problem that they can implement right away.”
Last month, Partner Matt Devoti delivered this important safety message to 350 students at St. Mary’s High School in St. Louis; and Partner Matt Casey delivered the message to 315 students at John F. Kennedy High School in Ballwin.
The firm has one more presentations scheduled this spring, as follows:
Ste. Genevieve High School – 750 students on Wednesday, April 22nd at 1:30 p.m.
Distracted Driving results in thousands of deaths and hundreds of thousands of injuries each year. Since April of 2012 more than 400 professionals have given presentations to more than 225,000 teens and adults. Matt Casey and Matt Devoti are thrilled to be part of the network of speakers who volunteer their time to give presentations in the St. Louis area.
EndDD.org (End Distracted Driving) was established to raise awareness and generate action against the epidemic of distracted driving. It was created by the parents of Casey Feldman, Joel Feldman and Dianne Anderson, after the death of their daughter, Casey Feldman in 2009. Casey Feldman was just 21 years old when she was hit and killed by a distracted driver. Learn more about EndDD.org and preview the presentation at www.EndDD.org.
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“It might sound draconian to some people, but I would have them write a contract,” says Baker. Be as specific as possible, and even pitch the idea of charging them interest – but maybe not as much as the bank, Baker says, because you might pass them on to a “family or friend” discount. And if you really want to avoid the problem, maybe it would be a good idea to Actually go to a bank instead.
“Give that person a chance to think hard: does they want to ask you for this loan,” Baker asks? the relationship?”
Whatever the dynamic, avoid if your friend has a problematic past with money. “You have to be careful not to help anyone financially,” Klontz explains. He says you don’t want your financial aid to hurt them, which can be the case if they “are a financial mess” with a “pattern of chronic financial mismanagement.”
No general rules
Still, experts point out that every scenario is different – because our relationships with people vary so much, as do their own individual circumstances. And while many loans that you’d like to see paid off often end up looking more like gifts, there might be situations where the transaction should be viewed as a giveaway, period.
For example, if someone is generally in charge and has a full-time job, but suddenly faces a disaster – a medical emergency, a burnt down house, or something similar – and needs support, Baker says, would just give the money, “not expecting them to pay you back.
And in fact, our social networks often have are what helps us through difficult times, whether it’s a group of friends, families, neighbors, church groups, colleagues and more. “These types of networks are the way we all do,” Collins explains. But “you have to do it in a way that works, and everyone is clear on the expectations.”
And if you’re upfront with your expectations – whether you want to lend the money, and if so, want the money back and when you want it – you might end up helping a friend in need without setting fire to the house. the relationship.
Be honest if the money ever gets into a close relationship, Collins says. “You have to break this taboo.”
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If you are looking for Google QR API
information use this link
If you are looking for QR posts on my
blog use this link
If you are looking for the Telstra
www.QRious.com.au QR campaign pdf use this link
60 Second QR-codes
For those of you who STILL think 2D codes are a geeky toy – I’ve been using a new “description” when developing marketing campaigns for clients lately;
So every movie poster, every advertisement shown on tv, every
compact disc label in a retail store should have a qr code on
So What Are QR Codes?
QR codes are the
commercial name for a type of 2D(dimensional) bar code.
The 3 “big boxes” in the corners simply tell the camera which way the code is orientated, so QR codes can be snapped in any direction but generally are printed with the 2 big boxes in the top and one on the left.
Where Did QR Codes Come From?
QR codes were originally invented in Japan by Denso for industrial bar codes on packaging for warehousing and production purposes
In their wisdom they realized that this “standard” would be more beneficial if everyone could use it, so they open sourced the technology and now anyone can create, read and implement QR code technology for free with no license fees being required.
There have been several other 2D code technologies available over the years but all required some form of license fees as such they haven’t been widely accepted and adoption results have been disappointing.
How Did QR Codes End Up On My Phone?
In the 90’s the use of QR codes were rapidly changed by all of the Japanese mobile carriers sitting down and agreeing to implement QR software into their mobile phones. Originally it was just a concept for delivering business card information.
For example the QR code below has a VCF card with my name, phone number, company name and email address. This is a highly efficient way to ‘store’ this information and by printing this 2-d image on the back of your business card allowed for very rapid deployment of information transfer into your electronic address book both on the phone and your desktop.
A few years ago USA
mobile carriers tried to 'milk money'
out of their customers with 'proprietary bar code' systems so
they can charge clients for reading codes and publishers for
It's a shame
considering the inventors of QR codes, Denso, were so visionary to
let anyone use their codes for free that people are now trying to
stand on their shoulders and rip people off. QR codes can be created
by anyone license free and most readers can be downloaded to any
camera enabled smart phone for free.
QR codes can be
read by almost any phone with a camera.
Remember any QR code can be read by any reader. There are some variations on functionality but this is outside the scope of this overview.
QR Codes can be implemented to do the following;
e.g. “Iron Man 2” QR movie poster campaign which had a QR code to access the movie's mobile site including trailers and interviews to be directly played on your mobile handset while in the cinema foyer.
So What QR Reader should I use?
QR readers are pretty much the same. Every mobile phone smart OS has more than a few software developers offering different applications. Be sure to try a few until you find one you like.
Unfortunately personally I feel ALL QR READERS are beta level at best. There are none (at least that i've seen) that do anything smart.
When will we see a QR code reader that;
Basically as i see it QR code readers (and therefore their developers) are in the dark ages (lol feel free to hire me for further product application design).
What are some real world uses of QR codes?
There are almost no
end to the number of real world uses for QR codes.
What are some great QR campaigns?
The key to a QR campaign is GIVE PEOPLE A REASON TO CLICK!!! If you fail at this basic step there is nothing that technology can do to help you but here are some great examples.
Zoo Records "Hidden Sound" QR codes campaign
JC Penny "Give a Little Magic"
IF ever there was a cool use for QR codes (not just practical),
this might just be it. JCPenney’s new “Who’s Your Santa” campaign
has a QR code extension for 2011, where everyone who buys a gift for
Xmas will receive a unique QR code Gift Tag or “Santa Tag” as they
are calling them…
Nut" random morning videos
Running a campaign, which is titled "It's Morning Somewhere"
the idea behind the campaign is that Kellogg's has placed a QR Code
on the back of Crunchy Nut cereal boxes.
The cool part is by randomizing what you land on there is something different for you to view from around the world every morning (no i dont know how many videos they did).
So What QR publisher/analytics platform should i use?
So if you read this far you obviously think QR codes have potential. And if you are a business/content provider/developer you are thinking how can i use QR codes to add value to my offerings.
Like anything you can do a simple code generation but eventually you are going to need to "manage" and "track" large numbers of QR codes you have publish.
There are a whole class of software applications out there to help you do this - The problem is a lot of these companies are "doing it wrong".
For example I was sent the BeQRious announcement announcement about their new QR management platform.
As you can see from the screenshot above if you use one of their codes that the platform generates it doesn't actually lead to your website but leads to their website which they then redirect to your site. - Yeh ok but if they turn off the servers everything stops working.
It's these shortcuts that people dont understand the ramifications that are going to give QR code management platforms a bad name.
Instead you should ALWAYS have a web url QR code go to YOUR servers and then get redirected by your DNS eg www.Cognation.net/QR/123 that then redirects to the mobilised content you want to serve up for that particular campaign.
NEVER rely on someone else to be "in the middle", if you do and they go out of business or decided to jack up the rates all of your deployed codes will stop working (for the same reason i hate MsTags).
As i said before
this isn't a bad thing but you just need to understand the issue of
"Direct QR codes" versus "Indirect QR codes" that use URL Redirection and what it means moving forward.
As long as you understand the pro's and cons you can move forward
If you dont understand the issues, hire me, i'll make sure you step around the pitfalls of QR implementation.
How do I find out more?
Feel free to contact Cognation for a briefing call to understand how
you and your marketing campaigns might be able to benefit from QR
codes. I can help with the most simplest question through to a more
complex long term engagement.
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The Shrewsbury Prison Museum offers visitors a unique opportunity to step back in time and discover an array of artefacts and documents that vividly portray the Prisons turbulent history.
Taking you from Victorian times to modern day, the Shrewsbury Prison museum boasts a variety of fascinating content, from home-made weapons (such as Prison shanks) that have been discovered hidden in wall cavities, to artwork and sculptures created by ex-prisoners. We have been fortunate to curate a collection of artefacts and memorabilia from when Shrewsbury Prison was a working Prison.
The last governor of the Prison, Mr Gerry Hendry, has kindly donated many personal items from his time here, along with official documentation such as letters of pardon from past Royalty.
Over 200 years of history has been collected and documented in order to keep the history of Shrewsbury Prison alive.
Read about some of Shrewsbury Prison’s notorious inmates, celebrity prisoners and infamous killers. Walk in the footsteps of the Prison Officers who dedicated their lives to the care and protection of those living within these walls.
The Shrewsbury Prison museum aims to educate and enlighten visitors of all ages about the realities of Prison life and the changes that have sculpted the modern prison system as we know it.
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Práticas populares utilizadas por gestantes de alto risco: existe suporte na literatura sobre essas práticas?
Suzuki, Liane Kiyomi
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The usage of popular practices in order to either the treatment or prevention of both diseases and symptoms is very common along pregnancy, because of various maternal adaptations, frequent symptoms and requirement of special care. These popular practices are often regarded as healthy, beneficial and safe because they are "natural", however many plants are contraindicated because they may have toxic, teratogenic and abortifacient potential. The objective of study was to identify which popular practices (medicinal plants, homemade recipes and specific foods) are used by pregnant women at high risk for treatment and prevention of diseases or symptoms; to know the therapeutics indications; to check whether the information regarding these practices are cited sustention in technical literature, and if there are any contraindications throughout pregnancy. This is an clinical, cross-sectional and descriptive study done with 78 pregnant women who received medical and nutritional consultation on a clinic for high-risk cases at Maternity Santa Casa in São Carlos, within the period of April to July of 2012; these patients were interviewed based on a structured script, after the approval of the Ethics Committee and consent of the interviewees. For data analysis, it was used both simple descriptive statistics and chi-square tests. The results showed these pregnant women, in average, were 28.5 year-olds, and with 26.9 gestational weeks, which most of them were housewives, with family support; white, coming from the southeast; with 7 to 11 years of school; per capita income ½ to 1 minimum wage and evangelical religion. Independently of age, gestational age, ethnic groups, religion, education, income and region of origin, the pregnant women use the popular practices. From all the interviewed pregnant women, 64.10% confirmed the usage of some type of popular practice, related to symptoms of heartburn, flu, nausea, constipation, anxiety, diabetes, hypertension, cramps and others. Among the main popular practices used by the interviewed pregnant women, those with therapeutic indications are compatible with those described in the literature, except in the case of banana which effect over a cramp has not been scientifically proved. However, in many cases, their usage by pregnant women is contraindicated due to the teratogenic, abortive or toxic effects, such as in the cases of Boldo tea (Peumus boldus, Plectranthus barbatus), ginger (in high doses) (Zingiber officinale), immature papaya (Carica papaya), chamomile tea (Matricaria recutita), erva-cidreira tea (Melissa officinalis, Lippia alba, Cymbolponcitratus) and Melão-de-São-Caetano tea (Momordica charantia). To conclude, data about medicinal plants safety during pregnancy are scarce and often contradictory. More studies and researches are necessary about medicinal plants and popular practices done with teas, and not with plant extract, because this suggests that the quantities are excessively higher than those that would be consumed in teas. In the presence of any evidence suggesting risks for pregnancy, the usage of such plants should be avoided. The divulgation of results of this study should be done dialogically between health workers and users, so do not confront rather than ignore their cultural and popular knowledge, but that promotes reflection on their use of data obtained from the literature.
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“A Korean tradition celebrates a baby’s first birthday and it’s super traditional, like the baby wears the traditional Korean outfit and there’s rice cakes that are like rainbow, and there’s like fruit and always a lot of food but the main event is where uhm you set the baby in front of 5 or 6 different objects, and the baby has to choose one. Like a pen is going to be intellectual/writer, a stethoscope means you’ll probably be a doctor, there’s usually something for sports and there’s like other things that the parents want to throw in. Now there’s like cameras if their parents are photographers, or a paintbrush for an artist, but you put the baby in front and the baby chooses one of the things and that’s supposed to kinda predict what they are going to do in life and that’s a big part of the birthday celebration.”
Background Information: The informant is a current USC student with a Korean background. We were discussing childhood stories when she suddenly remembered a big tradition in Korean culture. After telling me the story, the informant texted her mom inquiring about her first birthday celebration. She didn’t remember what item she chose as a baby, so she asked her mom. Her mom responded and said that the informant had chosen a pen, which as mentioned in the piece, represented intellectual/writer. I asked the informant if her decision of choosing the pen was consistent with her major and she agreed that it was.
Context: I was explaining the purpose of my assignment to the informant by providing different examples of folklore that I had collected from other students. After giving several examples, the informant stopped me in my tracks and began telling me this piece. This tradition is something that the informant’s family participate in. She remembers it because whenever a first birthday is celebrated, a family reunion is planned to witness the tradition.
Personal analysis: I remember when I was younger, I was watching the movie Tinkerbell with my siblings and one of the scenes included a tradition similar to the Korean tradition that was described. Upon being born, Tinkerbell was placed in the middle of a circle surrounded by different objects. It was explicitly stated that whatever item she picked up first would determine her job in the fairy world kingdom. Now that I’ve been informed that this is a Korean tradition, I’m not surprised that Disney “borrowed” this folklore and incorporated in one of their movies.
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Slow down and chew your food more!
Almost every expert on weight loss will assure you that eating slower helps you to lose weight. But is this true, or is it just another myth? The theory is that people who eat fast don’t give their brains enough time to recognise that they are full.
Quite frankly, that makes a lot of sense. Slowing down, chewing my food and savouring my meals is one of the first thing I put into practice when I started this blog.
But here’s the problem. If you’re anything like me, you have to eat a lot (and I mean a lot) before you actually feel full. Turns out, there’s a reason for that.
[Man, I love science!]
Leptin – the thin hormone
Off the back of this discovery, came the hormone called Leptin. The name comes from the Greek word leptos, which means thin. Yup, you heard me right folks. There’s a hormone that makes you thin.
But before you all go rushing out in search of leptin injections, don’t bother. I already tried, and there’s no such thing. This isn’t like Botox. You won’t be able to pop round to your mate’s second cousin’s tanning salon in order to get your next fix.
In the words of my 14 year old, big sad.
Satiety – a fancy term for feeling full
Anyway, leptin is secreted by fat cells (the technical term is adipocytes) and this is how the brain knows how much energy reserves (fat) we have. If you think about it, this was essential for thousands of years when food was not always readily available.
The less fat you had, the less leptin you produced and the more you wanted to eat. So that should mean that in today’s society where calorie dense food is readily available, the opposite should be the case. The more fat you have, the more leptin you produce and the less you want to eat. Right?
Feeling full is called satiety, and leptin is thought to control long-term satiety. In other words, it is supposed to tell the brain that you have enough fat stores to keep you going for the next few weeks… OK, months …Fine, years in my case! Your brain is supposed to recognise this and tell you to stop eating.
There’s more. When food moves from the stomach to the small intestine, another hormone called CCK is released. CCK is supposed to tell the brain that you are full and it is time to stop eating. CCK is pretty fast-acting (within a matter of minutes) whereas Leptin acts much more slowly.
These are the two hormones that control satiety. What’s more is that CCK and Leptin are supposed to work together synergistically to tell the brain that you are full. That means that on their own they produce some effect, but together they produce a much bigger effect.
So why don’t people feel full?
So that’s the theory. Now for the problem. Obese people have been shown to be resistant to both CCK and leptin. We can still make the hormones, but the receptors in our brains don’t respond the way they should.
So if we are not sensitive to either CCK and/or leptin, we aren’t very good at recognising that we are full. That means we have to rely on other things to control our appetite.
The good news is that satiety is not just dependent on hormones. Psychological factors and other parts of the body, such as the sense of smell, influence hunger too.
The take home message here is that our bodies don’t automatically recognise that we are full, so we cannot rely on them to tell us how much to eat. We need to take control of it ourselves, but most of us have never been taught to do this.
Why calorie control is so important
I guess this explains why calorie control is an essential part of staying healthy. Let me give you an example. Diabetics are resistant to the hormone insulin which results in too much sugar in the blood. So what do diabetics need to do? They need to eat a lot less sugar. Not just for a week, a month, or a year. For the rest of their lives.
It sucks, but that’s life. There are medications out there and insulin injections when all else fails. But eating a low-sugar diet is the safest and most effective way to treat (and in some cases reverse) diabetes.
In the same way, overweight people are resistant to hormones like leptin and CCK. So what do we need to do? We need to control the amount of calories we consume because there is no other way for our bodies to recognise that we have eaten enough and we need to stop.
No one ever sat me down and explained this to me before.
Now that I know, I am beginning to understand that calorie control is not just going to be a quick fix. This is something I am going to have to do for the rest of my life and I have to come to terms with it. I am not able to recognise when I am full which means I can never eat until I am full. I have to be a lot more intentional about food.
This means I have to start to change the way that I eat and that change has to be permanent. At the moment I am consuming less calories than I used so that there is an energy deficit at the end of each day. That will hopefully change over time, but I can never stop monitoring it altogether.
That might sound a bit depressing, but I have faith that it is going to get easier with time. And I’m of the belief that it is better to know and to make plans accordingly.
So should I slow down?
So, does eating slowly help us to lose weight? Well, yes and no. Eating slowly may not have much of an effect on whether we feel full, especially in those of us who are resistant to Leptin and CCK.
However, eating slowly does still have benefits though. To start with, digestion begins in the mouth. The more you chew, the more saliva you produce and saliva contains Amylase which starts to break down food.
But the biggest benefit takes place inside our mind. We can train our brains to believe most things with a little time and patience. I am slowly training my brain to recognise when it is full by eating slower.
I sit down to eat with my family and make sure to eat slow enough that I am the last to finish. By the time the kids are loading their plates into the dishwasher, my brain thinks I am stuffed but I have actually only eaten a small portion.
If you don’t sit down to eat with other people, you could always time yourself. Try measuring how long it takes you to eat a meal and then trying to extend this time a little bit more each day. I’ve found that this actually works really well for me and I can trick my brain in to feeling full no matter what I am eating.
But don’t worry if it doesn’t work for you. If you are planning your meals and know exactly how much you can eat each day because you have calculated the number of calories in each meal, then it doesn’t really matter if you are a hare or a tortoise at mealtimes. The end results will be the same.
Thanks for taking the time to read my blog. Please consider leaving a comment in the box below. Not only is it a huge encouragement, but it also gives me a chance to hear your feedback. If you’d like to get in touch, subscribe or be part of what I am doing, then click here.
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This post is the third in a three-part series that helps local governments understand why working with utility regulators matters, what they can achieve, and how to set themselves up for success. Read part one here and part two here.
In my last post, I talked about Montgomery County, Maryland, which engages at Maryland Public Service Commission as part of a comprehensive clean energy strategy. Montgomery County is a shining example of how any local government can build a successful approach to achieve its goals by working with utilities and regulators. Public utility commission (PUC) proceedings can be lengthy and complex, however, by creating a proactive plan for what you want to achieve at the state level you can use resources wisely and take control over what is possible for your community’s energy future.
Here are six steps I’ve found to be invaluable both as a former city staffer myself, and in the process of helping staff at other cities. (Click here to download this tip sheet).
- Know your priorities. Look to your master plans and other documents to help you identify your goals and high-impact ways to achieve them. You may have to decide, for example, if you still want to purchase green power for city facilities if the program is designed such that the power is not generated locally.
- Ensure executive buy-in. Participating in PUC proceedings may be viewed as political or contentious, although it doesn’t have to be. Strong executive leadership can help ensure you have the staff resources you need to participate actively.
- Know who should be involved. Whether it is vegetation management, planning and development, construction permitting, sustainability, or facilities—many city departments interact with utility staff. That’s why it is important to know who within the city to contact when an issue comes up. For example, should facilities management be involved if there is a question about LED street lighting? Are permitting staff prepared to enforce an “electric vehicle-ready” code provision where a utility has projected EV uptake based on it?
- Foster meaningful partnerships. Many advocates participate at PUCs, representing interests from large businesses, to environmental quality, to low-income customers, to renewable energy trade associations. These entities can help you stay on top of what has happened and what is to come at the PUC. Therefore, you will want to work with them to develop meaningful and well-rounded recommendations. In some of the examples listed above, cities worked with groups of advocates or other cities to raise their issues, and in many cases, they also worked directly with utilities to develop settlement agreements.
- Bring in experts when you need them. Many PUC proceedings require legal or technical expertise, and some cities hire outside counsel or experts. Others may lean on the partners they’ve been fostering to provide certain types of expertise, such as rate design or power supply planning. Coalitions of cities in California, Michigan, and North Carolina have been able to jointly sponsor expert assistance. However, local governments like Chicago, Boulder, the District of Columbia, and Montgomery County maintain in-house legal or technical expertise.
- Be strategic about engagement. You don’t have to do everything at once. Generally speaking, it’s important to make specific, actionable recommendations that are backed up by evidence the commissioners can use to make decisions. If you can do that well, you will create a track record of success and build your credibility.
Taking the Next Steps
Many cities have already started down an engagement path with their PUCs, and seen successes, but room remains to make cities’ recommendations more robust and comprehensive. Networks like the Urban Sustainability Directors Network and the City Energy Project, both of which IMT supports, provide peer-to-peer exchange and technical guidance to help cities on utility engagement.
With the help of a facilitator like IMT, you can put together a strategy that will enable you to:
- Define and prioritize your regulatory goals;
- Understand your utility’s existing programs, initiatives, and requirements;
- Formulate clear and reasonable asks to your utility and PUC that put you on course to meet your goals; and
- Identify and coordinate with knowledgeable local stakeholders.
Do you work for a local government that wants to build a regulatory strategy or take its engagement at PUCs to the next level in pursuit of local and state goals? IMT is here to help. Contact me at email@example.com.
This post is intended to be informational and should not be construed as legal advice.
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Debriefings with honest, open communication
10kv is a method for running debriefings while avoiding the usual pitfalls. Anonymous input allows people to share ideas without fear of repercussions or rank issues.
Each session evolves based on the desires of attendees, instead of the usual top-down agenda. 10kv sessions have been used to debrief events such as murder investigations and pandemic responses.
Find the topics that matter most
10kv sessions are either held in person in large meeting spaces, or remotely with people logging in from anywhere in the world.
The discussion is held within our software. It is a text-based forum, with each attendee given an anonymised log in which they access on their own device or one of our iPads.
Sessions start by people submitting and voting on talking points. This is in opposition to a preset agenda, revealing the areas that different groups wish to discuss.
All the topics are then set live, with discussions happening in parallel. People can choose which discussions to join and how much they wish to contribute.
A space to vent or voice concerns
The anonymised nature of 10kv sessions gives people the chance to have emotionally honest conversations. We often hear from attendees that it is the first time they have discussed the emotional impact a critical event has had on them, which creates a therapeutic effect.
It also allows people to question aspects of the approach that would usually be outside their jurisdiction. Higher ranking personnel often discover snags in the system that aren’t obvious from their point of view.
Of course, these anonymous discussions are kept civil by all participants agreeing to a code of conduct for the event.
In depth post-event report
10kv sessions can result in thousands of lines of written text. We don’t expect you and your team to read through every line, so our analysts comb through it for you.
You receive a full report following the event. We will adapt to your priorities but a typical report will contain summaries of all the key points, particularly insightful comments, and word clouds of common sentiments. We may also produce recommendations for you.
If we are using 10kv working in partnership with you on a new Hydra installation, we will provide you with a training analysis for making best use of your new suite.
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Speaking the (Linux) language
The ORCA supercomputer, Titan, runs CentOS and requires Linux commands to interact with the system (example: listing files and folders, editing files, submitting jobs, monitoring pending & running jobs, etc.). We strongly recommend users become familiar with Linux commands in order to effectively work with the supercomputer.
Logging into the supercomputer
SSH is the preferred method of logging into ORCA computers. Click here for detailed instructions on how to log into ORCA systems.
Transferring files to the supercomputer
SCP and SFTP are the two methods by which you can transfer files between your computer and the supercomputer. Click here for detailed instructions.
Get familiar with our batch scheduler
Learn how to properly submit jobs on SLURM by referring to the following resources:
- Running Jobs on Titan
- SLURM User Tutorial
- Quick Start User Guide
- Command/option Summary (two pages)
- Man Pages
- Rosetta Stone of Workload Managers
- Job Array Support
- Slurm Checkpoint/Restart with BLCR
- Job Exit Codes
Still have questions?
Contact us at email@example.com.
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The project aims to create a low-cost 6-DOF anthropomorphic robotic hand. Over the last few decades, there were a great number of studies on developing and experimental trials of novel upper limb prosthesis designs. Aiming to provide more dexterous and advanced grasping capabilities, modern upper limb prostheses utilize advances of robotic hand research. There have been proposed various designs of underactuated artificial fingers based on mechanical linkage mechanisms. As linkage mechanisms consist of rigid links and transmission gears, the finger and hand kinematics can be modeled and solved as a standard kinematics problem for control purposes.
Presently, a lot of recently proposed tendon-driven prothesis prototypes and commercially available upper limb prostheses utilize the two-phalanx finger system. Finger distal phalanges in such finger mechanisms are rigidly combined with the intermediate phalanges under certain angle ensuring basic grasping capabilities of a prothetic hand. As part of the project we have developed a finger design consisting of three phalanges combined using four-bar linkage mechanisms. This results to larger workspace, enhanced gripping performance of the finger compared with the traditional two-phalanx finger designs, more natural grasp and finger movement as experientially demonstrated with the designed finger prototype.
Several iterations of the robotic hand design have been developed aiming to test various finger actuators and transmission options. Currently, a new version of the hand is being developed utilizing low-cost geared DC motors and hybrid tendon-linkage finger actuation.
This final 6-DOF mechanical design of the hand, called the ALARIS Hand, is freely available for downloading from https://github.com/alarisnu/alaris_hand
The mechanical design of the ALARIS robotic hand design released for public use can serve as a low-cost design platform for further customization and utilization in research and education applications. Please cite the below work if you utilize our arm tracker design in your academic work:
A. Nurpeissova, T. Tursynbekov and A. Shintemirov, An Open-Source Mechanical Design of ALARIS Hand: A 6-DOF Anthropomorphic Robotic Hand, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (IEEE ICRA 2021), China, May 2021. pdf
A. Nurpeissova, T. Tursynbekov and A. Shintemirov, An Open-Source Mechanical Design of ALARIS Hand: A 6-DOF Anthropomorphic Robotic Hand, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (IEEE ICRA 2021), China, May 2021.
A. Oleinikov, B. Abibullaev, A. Shintemirov, M. Folgeraiter, Feature Extraction and Real-Time Recognition of Hand Motion Intentions From EMGs via Artificial Neural Networks, The 6th International Winter Conference on Brain-Computer Interface, South Korea, 2018 IEEE Xplore
N. Omarkulov, K. Telegenov, M. Zeinullin, A. Begalinova, A. Shintemirov, Design and analysis of an underactuated anthropomorphic finger for upper limb prosthetics, 2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Milan, Italy, 2015 IEEE Xplore pdf
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Leading Effectively through Accountability & Development
What is Principals L.E.A.D.?
Principals L.E.A.D. is year-long leadership training, individualized coaching, and support for principals. The program is virtual and begins with 2.5 days of strategies and tools needed to begin the year strong. It continues with monthly learning sessions, check-in meetings, and personalized one-on-one coaching led by highly successful previous principals.
Who is Principals L.E.A.D. for?
New and early career principals
Principals ready to sharpen their leadership skills
Assistant principals seeking to move into principalship
Why Principals L.E.A.D.?
Becoming a school “L.E.A.D.er” clears a path to do things differently. Principals L.E.A.D. teaches skills, provides time to practice in a safe environment and then supports the principal’s actual work through individualized personal coaching.
Topics include a strong understanding of curriculum and instruction and an ability to put leadership pedagogy into practice. Principals L.E.A.D. gives principals the tools to implement practices of a strong leader, to build school culture, to mold a school where everyone wants to work, and to manage time so that instruction is always at the forefront.
What type of topics will be covered in Principals L.E.A.D.?
Principals L.E.A.D. kicks off with 2.5 virtual days of building a powerful entry plan based on strengths to start the year strong.
Nine separate 3-hour webinars cover timely topics critical to a principal's success as a campus leader.
Ten separate 45-minute coaching sessions will be scheduled at your convenience. Confidentially discuss the implementation of new skills you are learning or day-to-day issues and successes.
How do I enroll for Principals L.E.A.D.?
Click the "Register Now" button on this site and complete the form.
Send a purchase order (PO) to 806 Technologies to firstname.lastname@example.org.
After 806 Technologies receives the PO, the principal will be registered and will receive an email notification with additional details.
"Because instructional and cultural change is intensely interpersonal, it is essential that leaders consistently apply communication and problem-solving skills that promote productive relationships founded on qualities such as clarity of values and purpose, candor, trust, and integrity."
– Dennis Sparks, Leading for Results
Meet your facilitator and coach!
Professional Development Specialist
Evan Grasser is a creative education leader, leadership coach, and expert presenter who played a major role in supporting and instructing both aspiring and current school and district leaders in New Mexico.
She is the co-founding instructor for New Mexico's First-Year Principals Academy and First-Year Superintendent Academy. She has also refined and enhanced New Mexico's Administrator Leadership Development and the Board Leadership Development programs.
Her enthusiasm for improving teaching and learning is contagious and motivating! Evan has served in multiple administrative roles from principal to associate superintendent in districts ranging from 3,600 students to 74,000 students. She has held positions in New Mexico, Texas, and Louisiana.
Evan is frequently sought to train, coach, and mentor school leaders and school boards and also facilitate strategic planning for districts.
Transform your education leadership skills. Focus on strategic, relevant content while making powerful connections with education professionals across the nation. Receive high-intensity executive coaching and learning opportunities to further support your administrative teams and students.
Individual enrollment for one year in Principals L.E.A.D. includes 55 total hours of training, support, and coaching.
The topics were appropriate and timely.
Additionally, it was the individual check-ins and coaching sessions which helped me the most in my leadership journey this year. I appreciated the safe place to voice my celebrations, frustrations, and needs for support.
The reflective questioning allowed me to leave the sessions with an idea of next steps in the process. The coaching model allowed me to work with on actual tasks at my school and my individual needs, including guidance on our strategic plan.
I truly feel that if not for this principals training, I would not have been able to complete my first full year as a school administrator.”
– Veronica Vigil, Christine Duncan Heritage Academy
Lesli Laughter - email@example.com | 806-331-6160 x 103
Evan Grasser - firstname.lastname@example.org | 806-331-6160 x 134
Lead for success. Register today.
Principals L.E.A.D. is an opportunity for principals to receive ongoing learning, support, and coaching.
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Health, according to the World Health Organization, is “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity”. A variety of definitions have been used for different purposes over time. Health can be promoted by encouraging healthful activities, such as regular physical exercise and adequate sleep, and by reducing or avoiding unhealthful activities or situations, such as smoking or excessive stress. Some factors affecting health are due to individual choices, such as whether to engage in a high-risk behavior, while others are due to structural causes, such as whether the society is arranged in a way that makes it easier or harder for people to get necessary healthcare services. Still other factors are beyond both individual and group choices, such as genetic disorders.
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Covid-19, however mild, may cause long-term after-effects in patients. Here are certain complications that may arise and you need to be alert.
Covid-19 has emerged as one of the toughest challenges that humanity has been faced with and for the past two years, people of all ages have been tremendously affected by the virus. With several variants, multiple lockdowns, and restrictions globally, it has affected every walk of life. The virus has not only drained people physically but also mentally, as well as economically.
Most people with the coronavirus disease recover completely within a few weeks, but some continue to experience symptoms even after their initial recovery. People with symptoms beyond four weeks are referred to as ‘long haulers’ and the condition is known as long Covid-19.
Elderly people with comorbidities, as well as some young adults, experience symptoms for weeks to months after the initial infection. The most common long-term symptoms are fatigue, shortness of breath, myalgia, cough, chest pain, brain fog, sleep disorder, loss of smell and taste, anxiety, depression, fever, dizziness, and chronic fatigue.
The latest variant, Omicron, is said to be causing as much concern as its predecessor, the Delta variant and thus, it is important to understand the nuances of the disease.
Four major threats known that may affect a patient suffering from long Covid-19:
Possible organ damage
Covid-19 primarily affects the lungs, causing cough and breathlessness in the patient. In some cases, it may also affect the heart, kidneys, and brain, for as long as six months, even post a mild infection. Some children and adults experience multi-system inflammatory syndrome, which causes multiple organs to inflame. Patients may experience brain fog or even sinus tachycardia. To limit the possibility, one must focus on their post-Covid treatment as recommended by their doctor; else any delay will have to be critically treated with urgency before it could potentially be fatal.
Covid-19 causes hypercoagulability; this condition possesses an increased risk to develop blood clots. When a blood clot is formed within a blood vessel, it becomes a problem. Individuals in a hypercoagulable state are at increased risk of strokes, heart attacks, lung, liver, and kidney damage, as well as Covid toes, that is swollen and discoloured toes. Symptoms of hypercoagulability include shooting pain in the limbs, neuropathies, heightened sensitivity to stimulation of the senses, irritability, insomnia, dental pain, etc. It is recommended for those who are under long-Covid care to monitor themselves for unknown or new changes or symptoms and treatment options should be guided by an experienced clinician.
Survivors of severe Covid-19 may suffer from anxiety, depression, or post-traumatic stress disorders. Chronic fatigue syndrome is another possibility that causes one to experience extreme fatigue for at least six months. This condition does not improve with rest alone. It is recommended to seek professional help to overcome this.
An increased incidence of type 2 diabetes has been seen in post-Covid-19 patients. Complications of mucormycosis (a fungal Infection) have worsened the situation. The strict control of diabetes as well as other comorbidities along with rehabilitation and supervised physical exercise, supported by optimal nutrition could help in lowering and managing post-Covid19 diabetes.
The mechanism and pathogenesis of long-term Covid-19 are still not fully understood. Health care providers must acknowledge the symptoms of long-term Covid-19 and be prepared to meet their physical, social, and cognitive elements. It is a challenge to which the entire medical community and society should rise.
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- Turn up the resonance on a filter until it is at the point of self oscillating and then back off very slightly.
- feed a trigger or short gate into the audio input.
- the audio output should produce a percussive hit, very like a basic LPG pluck. the pitch of this hit will be dependent on the frequency of the filter cutoff (if cutoff is changed then the resonance may need adjusting to keep it on the cusp of self oscillating).
- optionally, applying an envelope or other contoured cv to the cutoff input will shape the percussive sound to create a more complex sound – for example, an ADSR with a medium attack time and some decay/release will sound like a 'water drop' effect.
this technique is great for synthesisng your own drums – a pinged bandpass filter at low frequencies will give an 808 kick drum sound, low pass filters pinged at a mid-range frequency will give a sound similar to that of the 'buchla bongo' or tomtom drums.
cool tip: some filters self oscillate at a low enough frequency to produce an LFO rate cv signal – if pinged at this frequency the result is a lovely decaying cv 'wobble'!
This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Mod Wiggler Wiki:How to 'Ping' a filter ( ).
- Notes on Modular Synthesis by Peter Elsea, Ping a filter, p. 87
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The FINANCIAL — The technology sector has become a major driver of global M&A activity as acquirers from both inside and outside the tech industry seek to expand their technology and digital capabilities. Deals involving technology targets totaled more than $700 billion in 2016 and represented nearly 30% of all M&A activity, according to The Boston Consulting Group (BCG)’s 2017 M&A report, The Technology Takeover, released on September 26.
The biggest factor behind tech M&A is the rise in acquisitions of tech targets by companies from nontech sectors. These buyers are seeking to expand their technology capabilities to catch up with digital trends, internalize technological and digital skills, and use acquisitions to accelerate business model innovation and digitalization.
To better understand the trend toward more technology M&A, BCG assembled a proprietary database of more than 43,000 high-tech deals over the past 20 years, developing a lexicon of 450 technology business terms to use in screening companies and transactions for inclusion. This research showed that M&A transactions involving tech targets doubled over the past three years. The share of acquirers of tech targets from outside the tech industry has grown by 9 percentage points since 2012, to around 70% of all tech transactions. Also, every industry sector in the BCG Technology Deals Database showed a significant increase in the share of tech deals since 2012.
Three of the biggest trends driving the rapid pace in tech acquisitions are the rise of Industry 4.0, a big increase in cloud computing and cloud-based solutions, and the search for mobile tech and software application providers.
Median EV/sales multiples for digital targets rose almost 50%, increasing from 2.1x in 2013 to almost 3x in 2016. The highest multiples in 2016 were paid for gaming (3.9x), fintech (3.2x), cloud-based services (2.8x), and mobile and app developer (2.8x) targets. The median EV/sales multiples for Industry 4.0 targets was 2.0x, reflecting the fact that many of these transactions involve hardware companies, which typically have lower margins than their software counterparts.
“Digital and advanced technologies have disrupted multiple industries already, and they are making their influence felt across most others,” said Jens Kengelbach, a BCG partner, the global head of the firm’s M&A efforts, and a report coauthor. “Time to market and reaching critical mass are key considerations, and companies often don’t have the time—or the talent—to build the capabilities they need themselves. Companies are turning to M&A to acquire new capabilities and close innovation gaps.”
There was one counterintuitive result: the report, which was produced in collaboration with Paderborn University, found that more innovative companies are the ones that undertake more tech acquisitions. Acquirers, in both the tech and the nontech sectors, that primarily buy nontech targets had a median R&D-to-sales ratio of 1.2%. Companies that focus on tech acquisitions had a median R&D-to-sales ratio of 5.5%. A more detailed analysis by industry segment confirmed that the search for innovation also drives the appetite for M&A: the more a company spends on R&D organically, the more likely it is also to be an active acquirer of tech targets.
A New Tech Bubble?
While tech EV/EBIT multiples are at lofty levels—an average of 24x over the past three years, well above the long-term average of 20x—transaction multiples involving nontech targets have risen by similar amounts. High valuation levels are currently a fact across the full M&A market and do not necessarily signal an industry-centric tech bubble ahead.
“Today’s tech M&A market is somewhat different from the dot-com fever back in 2000,” said Georg Keienburg, a BCG principal and a report coauthor. “For one thing, the companies being acquired are more mature and profitable now than they were in the dot-com times. For another, buyers today are much more knowledgeable about how the specific technology will help to digitally disrupt their own business models from the inside rather than being disrupted by someone else.”
Do Tech Deals Add Value?
In 2016, some 70% of the M&A tech targets ended up in the hands of a nontech buyer. Both the media EV/sales multiple of 3.3x and media EV/EBIT multiple of 26.5x were especially high for larger tech deals (those worth more than $1 billion), reflecting that buyers see some targets as must-have assets, even if the potential for value creation is lower. Even given the high multiples paid, serial digital acquirers (those making six or more acquisitions over the past 20 years) generated one-year relative total shareholders returns (RTSRs) of 4.4% more than their relevant index. The RTSR for less frequent acquirers was flat or slightly negative.
“Successful acquirers of tech firms do three things right,” said. “They follow a focused strategy, they develop a tailor-made M&A process for tech targets, and they build the right corporate organization to find, execute, and integrate innovative tech firms.”
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The suggestions were recommended by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs for strengthening the mechanism for dealing with crimes against women. The panel headed by Congress leader Anand Sharma had in its report early this year said that non-registration of complaint was one of the key reasons for delay and denial of justice to the victim and family.
The cases of crime reported against women in cities declined 8.3% in 2020, compared to 2019. Nearly 77 rape cases were reported daily across the country in 2020, according to the National Crime Records Bureau. A total of 371,503 cases of crime against women were reported last year, while the figure was 405,326 in 2019 and 378,236 in 2018. The decline in cases in 2020 was mainly due to Covid-19 pandemic linked restrictions, NCRB noted.
In the wake of Hathras gangrape last year, the MHA has asked states to adhere to existing norms on registration of FIRs on compliance especially for crime against women. The fresh directives come just ahead of the winter session of Parliament, starting November 29.
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A walnut is a nut of tree Juglans regia (Juglandaceae). Walnuts seeds, called as walnut kernels, are brain-shaped having crinkles on its two bumpy lobed butterfly shape. Seeds is enclosed in the harder shells. It is an edible seed and consumed as a part of human diet for thousands of years. They are rounded, wrinkled and stone-like.After the complete ripening of the seed, the shell is removed and the kernel or meat of the seed is consumed. The kernel is usually divided into two halves which are separated by a partition. Walnut trees secrete chemicals into the soil which prevent the growth of other garden plants and vegetable.
Varieties of Walnuts
There are two common species of walnuts i.e. the Persian walnut (Juglans regia) and Black walnut (Juglans nigra). The most commonly used walnut is Persian walnut which is also known as English walnut and is native to Iran while the black walnut is native to North America and is of high flavor but due to its hard hulling, it is not grown commercially for nut production. Numerous cultivars have been produced commercially, which are all hybrids of English walnut. In 2017, world walnut production was about 3.8 million tons and their major producers were China, USA, Iran and Turkey.
Storage of Walnuts
- Walnuts must be processed and stored properly.
- If the storage is poor, the walnuts are susceptible to the insect and fungal infestations.
- Infested walnuts are discarded as soon as possible.
- The ideal temperature for its storage is -3 to 0°C with low humidity for home and industrial storage.
- However, in developing countries refrigerators are unavailable in large quantities so they are stored below 25 °C of temperature with low humidity.
Constituents of Walnut kernels
Walnut kernels contains about 15% protein, 14% carbohydrates, 65% fats, 7 % dietary fiber and 4% water. Walnut kernels of 100 grams provide 654 kcal energy and several dietary minerals. They are the excellent source of copper (Cu), phosphorus (P), manganese (Mn), vitamin E, vitamin B₆ and folic acid. Its oil is rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids such as alpha-linolenic acid, linoleic acid and oleic acid.
Consumption and Benefits of Walnuts
- Walnut kernels are available in two forms in market i.e. in their shell form or de-shelled form.
- They can be eaten as raw, toasted or pickled.
- They are the important ingredient of many dishes like walnut pie, coffee cakes, soups, pastas, breakfast cereals, banana puddings and cookies etc.
- They are also used in ice-creams and as garnish on some foods.
- They are used as a part of low cholesterol diet and reduce the risk of coronary heart diseases.
- They contain omega-3 fats and antioxidants that improves the brain health.
- A regular consumption of walnuts for 8 weeks will enhance the memory, reasoning and mood particularly patients with Alzheimer’s disease.
- They have anti-cancer properties due to the presence of some bio active components like phytosterols, omega-3, gamma-tocopherol and ellagic acids.
- They may suppress the growth of cancers cells in colon, breast, kidney and prostate.
- They produce oil which is commercially available in markets and used for salad dressings and frying purpose as it has a low smoke point.
Commercial Uses of Walnuts
- Walnuts are used in herbal remedies and folk medicine practices since a long time.
- Their husks are used as a durable inks for writing and drawing.
- The husk pigment are also used as a brown dye for fabrics and hair dyeing.
- Walnut kernels are used in cakes and ice creams etc to add extra flavor and nutritional value.
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Adam Cohen is a professor in the departments of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Physics at Harvard. He is also an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His research focuses on understanding and controlling light-matter interactions in warm, wet, squishy environments. His lab discovered that a gene from a Dead Sea microorganism, when transferred to human neurons, converted the electrical impulses of these cells into flashes of fluorescence.
Cohen has received the Blavatnik National Award in Chemistry and the American Chemical Society Pure Chemistry Award. Cohen founded a biotech company, Q-State Biosciences, focused on combining optical imaging with stem cell technology to develop new diagnostics and therapies for neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases. He has also worked on helping to develop science education in Liberia.
Cohen has received Young Investigator Awards from the Office of Naval Research, DARPA, the Dreyfus Foundation, and the Sloan Foundation. Technology Review Magazine named him one of the top 35 US technological innovators under the age of 35 and Popular Science named him one of their “Brilliant Ten” top young scientists. In 2010 he received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from President Obama.
Cohen obtained PhD degrees from Stanford in experimental biophysics and Cambridge, UK in theoretical physics. He was an undergraduate at Harvard.
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This article was written by Darlene Antonelli, MA. Darlene Antonelli is a Technology Writer and Editor for wikiHow. Darlene has experience teaching college courses, writing technology-related articles, and working hands-on in the technology field. She earned an MA in Writing from Rowan University in 2012 and wrote her thesis on online communities and the personalities curated in such communities.
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If you have Philips Hue, LIFX, or Nanoleaf lights, you can sync them to Apple Music to create a light show or set ambient moods depending on the music playing. This wikiHow will teach you how to connect your lights to Apple Music with an iPhone and iPad app called iLightShow. Unfortunately, this app does not work with any Mac or Windows desktop computers, so you'll only be able to use either an iPhone or an iPad.
1Get iLightShow for Philips Hue from the App Store
- The app is highly rated, free (with an available upgrade for a one-time $5.99 charge, and offered by Nicolas Anjoran. X Research source
2Open iLightShow. This app icon looks like a multicolored hexagon with lines inside it that you'll find on one of your Home screens.Advertisement
3Log in with your Apple Music account. Your Apple ID is usually the email account that you signed up with.
4Open Apple Music. This app icon looks like a music note that you'll find on one of your Home screens.
5Start your music. You can read How to Use Apple Music on iPhone or iPad if you need more information on joining and using Apple Music on an iPhone or iPad.
6Return to iLightShow and tap . You'll see this in the menu along the bottom of your screen.
- If the app prompts you for permission to use the microphone, you'll need to accept to best utilize the music-syncing ability. X Research source Use Apple Music on iPhone or iPad
- You'll be able to follow on-screen prompts to add and name lights as they are detected (lights like Philips Hues are automatically detected).
7Tap a light to change its behavior. After you've set up the light, you can tap On or Off to alter your light's activity.
- You can drag the sliders to change the light's brightness and intensity as well as change the colors. X Research source
- ↑ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ilightshow-for-philips-hue/id1247273887
- ↑ Use Apple Music on iPhone or iPad
- ↑ http://ilightshow.net/
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1. Get iLightShow for Philips Hue from the App Store.
2. Open iLightShow.
3. Log in with your Apple Music account.
4. Open Apple Music.
5. Start your music, then reopen iLightShow.
6. Tap a light to change its behavior.
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Two weeks after having demonstrated AtlantikSolar’s first 24-hour flight , the fixed-wing team of ETH Zurich’s Autonomous Systems Lab has reached another milestone: A continuous flight of its 6.8kg AtlantikSolar Unmanned Aerial Vehicle that spanned a total of 2338km and 81.5 hours (4 days and 3 nights) and has broken the flight endurance world record in its class. See the video below for an illustrative overview of that flight test.
More specifically, this fifth test flight of the AtlantikSolar 2 (AS-2) UAV
- sets a new world record for the longest ever demonstrated continuous flight of all aircrafts below 50kg total mass, and is also the longest-ever continuous flight of a low-altitude long-endurance (LALE) aircraft (the previous record being a 48-hour flight by the 13kg SoLong UAV ).
- is the second-longest flight ever demonstrated by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (behind Airbus Space’s 53kg Zephyr 7)
- is the third-longest flight ever demonstrated by a solar airplane (behind Airbus Space’s 53kg Zephyr 7 and the 2300kg Solar Impulse 2)
- is the fifth-longest flight ever demonstrated by any aircraft (both manned and unmanned).
In addition, the flight is a first important milestone to verify the UAV’s ability to stay airborne for multiple days while providing telecommunication services in large-scale disaster-scenarios or live-imagery during industrial sensing and inspection missions.
The flight was performed at the Rafz, Switzerland, RC-model club airfield from July 14th-17th, of which the first three days provided very good sun conditions. Take-off was performed via hand-launch at 09:32 on July 14th, and after 2338km and 81.5 hours – 4 days and 3 nights – of flight, the aircraft landed safely and with fully charged batteries at 18:56 on July 17th. The fully charged batteries would in theory have enabled to continue the flight through the night again. With the exception of take off, the aircraft was in fully-autonomous operation 98% of the time, and less than 2% in autopilot-assisted mode via its Pixhawk autopilot.
The long-endurance flight provided very helpful insights on flight performance: The average level-flight power consumption in calm conditions (e.g. during night) was shown to lie in between 35-46W. Maximum power input throuh the 88 SunPower E60 cells during the day was around 260W. With this performance data, the aircraft managed to achieve fully-charged batteries (100% SoC) at around 13:05 local time, and thus even before the time of maximum solar radiation (solar noon, occuring around 13:30). After flying through each of the three nights, the aircraft on average reached a minimum state of charge of 35% at around 07:45 local time and thus still shows sufficient energetic safety margins for worse environmental conditions (such as longer nights, cloud cover or winds).
The flight also subjected the aircraft to a wide range of environmental conditions. Among them were thermal updrafts during the first evening/night (causing a remaining state of charge of 40% ), and downdrafts during the second night (remaining state of charge 32%). The last hours of the flight were marked by upcoming thunderstorm clouds and the strongest winds – up to 60 km/h – the aircraft was ever subjected to. Although the ground station was partially damaged by the winds, the airplane could be landed safely in autopilot assisted mode when the winds had calmed down a bit.
Having demonstrated the multi-day endurance capability of the bare UAV platform, the AtlantikSolar UAV project will now focus on extended endurance flights with payloads including optical and infrared cameras as well as atmospheric sensors. These payloads will also be carried during a long-endurance and long-distance mission of more than 12 hours and 400km that is planned for later this year in the Brazilian rain forest.
Detailed design and technical information on the UAV platform can be found in “Oettershagen P, Melzer A, Mantel T, Rudin K, Lotz R, Siebenmann D, Leutenegger S, Alexis K, Siegwart R (2015), A Solar-Powered Hand-Launchable UAV for Low-Altitude Multi-Day Continuous Flight. In: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)” [Download]
Some more impressions from the flight were broadcasted live through our twitter account
This research was funded through ETH Zurich’s internal resources, private supporters, and the European Union FP7 Search-And-Rescue research projects ICARUS and SHERPA . In addition, multiple project partners and collaborators have contributed towards making this important milestone possible, and we'd like to thank all of them for their various and ongoing support. Finally, we are grateful towards the Rafz model aeroplane club for providing the airfield and the Aero Club Asas da Planície (Portugal) for providing the backup airfield!
Pilots: Rainer Lotz, Adrian Eggenberger, Philipp Oettershagen, Bartosz Wawrzacz. Development and Operations Team (Autonomous Systems Lab): Philipp Oettershagen, Rainer Lotz, Amir Melzer, Thomas Mantel, Bartosz Wawrzacz, Konrad Rudin, Thomas Stastny, Raphael Schranz, Jan Steger, Lukas Wirth, Dieter Siebenmann, Dr. Stefan Leutenegger, Dr. Kostas Alexis, Prof. Dr. Roland Siegwart.
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With birth defects blamed on the virus now deemed a matter of international concern, researchers must work fast to assess the extent of the threat.
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If the United Kingdom leaves the EU, researchers throughout the bloc will feel the effects.
Columbia courts philanthropic benefactors to support research in impacts and adaptation.
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Research clusters emerge as the big success of Germany’s Excellence Initiative — despite its focus on elite institutes.
As Earth's dry zones shift rapidly polewards, researchers are scrambling to figure out the cause — and consequences.
Rigid robots step aside — a new generation of squishy, stretchy machines is wiggling our way.
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Plots of survival against time for nematode worms in different conditions can be superimposed by rescaling the time axis. This observation has far-reaching implications for our understanding of the nature of ageing. See Letter p.103
The native structure of the protein α-synuclein, which is implicated in Parkinson's disease, is controversial. In-cell nuclear magnetic resonance now shows that it remains disordered when loaded into living cells. See Article p.45
The response of electrons in atoms to ultrashort optical light pulses has been probed by measuring the ultraviolet light emitted by the atoms. This reveals that a finite time delay occurs before the response. See Letter p.66
Connective-tissue cells known as fibroblasts display an increasing spectrum of functions. Different fibroblast subtypes are now shown to either promote or suppress inflammation-associated intestinal cancers.
Atomic resolution in-cell NMR and EPR spectroscopy show that the human amyloid protein α-synuclein remains disordered within all mammalian cells tested, including neurons, and identifies which parts of the protein dynamically interact or remain shielded from the cytoplasm, thus counteracting aggregation under physiological cell conditions.
By examining viral sequences in lymphoid tissue from three HIV-1-infected individuals receiving drug therapy, the authors find phylogenetic evidence for ongoing virus replication, suggesting that the antiretroviral drug concentration in the lymphoid tissue is insufficient to fully suppress the virus; using a mathematical model, they further explain why drug resistance does not necessarily arise as a result.
Genomic studies of the paediatric brain tumour medulloblastoma have revealed four clinically distinct molecular subgroups; here active gene regulatory elements in 28 primary medulloblastoma tissues are mapped to reveal differentially regulated enhancers across the different subgroups, allowing insights into the transcription factors that characterize subgroup divergence and the cellular origin of the poorly characterized Group 3 and 4 subgroups.
The precise mass, bulk density, porosity and internal structure of the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko are calculated, on the basis of its gravity field, showing it to be dusty, homogeneous, low-density and highly porous.
Intense light pulses in the visible and adjacent spectral ranges with their energy mostly confined to a half wave cycle—optical attosecond pulses—are synthesized and used to measure the time it takes electrons to respond to light.
Electronic implants are often used in diagnosing and treating human illness, but permanent implants come with problems; here, devices are described that can sense temperature, pressure, pH or thermal characteristics, and—crucially—are fully resorbable by the body.
Using single-molecule fluorescence imaging of photoelectrocatalysis, the charge-carrier activities on single TiO2 nanorods and the corresponding water-oxidation photocurrent are mapped at high spatiotemporal resolution, revealing the best catalytic sites and the most effective sites for depositing an oxygen evolution catalyst.
Deformation experiments on lawsonite reveal that unstable fault slip occurs during dehydration reactions with continuous acoustic emission signals; this indicates the potential for unstable frictional sliding in natural lawsonite layers, which could possibly be the source of intermediate-depth earthquakes in cold subduction zones.
Historical assessment of nectar provision in the UK from the 1930s to 2007 shows an initial dramatic fall, but more recently nectar provision has increased; the diversity of nectar sources has fallen to the point that four species now produce half of the total UK nectar.
Robust phylogenetic analysis based on transcriptomes of Xenoturbella and acoelomorph worms shows that Xenacoelomorpha is an early bilaterian lineage forming the sister group to Nephrozoa.
Description of four new species of Xenoturbella and phylogenomic analyses, aligning Xenacoelomorpha as sister group to the rest of Bilateria, or as sister to Protostomia.
Lentivirus-based transgenic Macaca fascicularis monkeys are generated expressing the human MECP2 transgene in the brain, and they display behavioural alterations including changes in social interaction and increased anxiety; germline transmission of the transgene to the F1 offspring is shown, and these monkeys also had an altered social interaction phenotype.
A diverse range of molecular and genetic manipulations all alter lifespan distributions of Caenorhabditis elegans by an apparent stretching or shrinking of time.
An adeno-associated virus (AAV) receptor protein essential for AAV2 entry into cells is identified; AAV receptor binds directly to the virus, and its ablation renders a diverse range of mammalian cell types and mice resistant to infection by AAV of multiple serotypes.
Genome-wide binding profiles for eight different chromatin remodellers in mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells are determined at single nucleosome resolution; each remodeller binds at specific nucleosome positions relative to the start of genes, and the same remodeller acts as a positive or negative regulator of transcription depending on the promoter chromatin organization and epigenetic marking of the gene it binds.
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Although pregnancies can be filled with emotional ups and downs, you will find that in the end it is worth all of the trouble. Keep reading to find out how to get through pregnancy more easily.
Take some prenatal vitamins before you plan on getting pregnant.
For pregnant women that are in their 3rd trimester, it is advisable to sleep on their left side. This eases the flow of blood to your baby in your uterus, as well as to your kidneys. Sleeping on one’s back is conducive to restricted blood flow, and should be avoided.
It can sometimes take a long time to become pregnant. If you haven’t had any success within a year, it is time to go see your doctor. They can check to see if there is a medical reason for you and try to determine what is going on medically.
Know what the indications of premature labor is and when you should take action by calling your physician. You will hopefully never need to utilize it. The outcome will be a lot better if you are well-informed.
Preparing a room for the baby is very exciting for both parents. It is important to remember that paint fumes are unhealthy for both you and your unborn child. Be sure that room is well-ventilated and that the windows are wide open. If possible, get your partner or your friends to help you prepare the baby’s room.
Don’t be too proud to ask someone for assistance when lifting heavy objects. Lifting extremely heavy items can cause you lots of stress, in some cases, miscarriages. Even if you feel capable, have others lift it for you.
Tell your doctor if you notice swelling in your feet are getting swollen.Swollen feet are common in pregnancy, dangerously high blood pressure that can occur during pregnancy. This condition needs immediate treatment to ensure that you have a healthy birth.
Cramped legs are quite common in the third trimester. Be sure to stretch prior to retiring for the night, and you are sure to experience fewer cramps. A high intake of fluids, particularly water, will also help keep cramps away, but make sure to drink water throughout the day, rather than right before bed, in order to prevent frequent wakings related to a full bladder.
If you’re pregnant, perhaps you should not fulfill all of them. Your unborn child had nutritional needs to receive good nutrition through what you eat. If you partake in every craving, this is only benefiting you, not your unborn child.
If you are expecting a baby and you get diarrhea, remember to drink as much fluid as possible. While diarrhea causes dehydration in everyone, it’s more serious for someone who is pregnant, as you could end up being hospitalized needing an IV drip.
You should avoid caffeinated during your months of pregnancy. Caffeine can interfere with the sleep that pregnant women need to get. Try munching on crackers and other stomach calming foods through the day if you feel nauseous. Eating healthy meals helps you get enough sleep.
If you want to wear non-maternity pants, take a hair band and loop it around button hole on your pants. Wear a long shirt, and no one will ever know. This can buy you to avoid wasting money on maternity clothes.
Stretch out your legs before you go to bed so that you can avoid having leg cramps. Most pregnant women experience leg cramps. A few simple stretches, completed just before bedtime, can help the muscles to relax and might even lead to a peaceful eight hours of rest.
Talk to any friend who has given birth to learn some tricks and tips she might have recently had babies. You need to find out knowledge of all the ins and outs of what to expect from a person who has gone through the experience before you.
Learn to say no to people who want to feed you to eat all the time. You should keep your calories during pregnancy but that doesn’t mean you need to eat constantly. You can say no when you need to do so.
In order to help you prepare for your baby’s birth, read childbirth stories online. You’ll find that clinical-style books will only give you facts, and learning from firsthand accounts is more beneficial. Read many different stories and go back to the ones that comfort you when you feel down.
Visit thrift stores when shopping for maternity clothes. There is no need to pay full price for things you will only wear for a short amount of time. You will be saving money and help the environment by decreasing the environmental effects resulting from producing and shipping new clothes.
Don’t just sit for long stretches of time. This is caused by the strain pregnancy puts on the woman is pregnant. Swelling can increase when sitting for too long in a car. To minimize the swelling, lay on the left side when falling asleep, soak your feet, don’t wear socks that have tight bands and avoid crossing your ankles when you sit.
A birth plan is a helpful tool that you should take some time to write. Include what you expect of your loved ones during delivery. Make sure that you pack a bag for your overnight stay that will include your insurance ID, a camera, all of your pre-registration documentation, and the clothes that your new baby will wear.
Create a routine that works well with your body. Your last few hours before bedtime should be peaceful and low-key.
You need to get enough sleep in order to sustain your energy and help the baby develop normally.
Wear clothes that are well fitting. A lot of ladies try to wear normal clothes because they think maternity clothes are embarrassing. This is ill advised because there is nothing embarrassing about wearing maternity clothes and you will notice a huge increase of comfortableness in clothes that fit.
There are a few foods that should be avoided during pregnancy to avoid harming to your baby. You must avoid unpasteurized milk, raw seafood, certain fish and soft cheeses.
Pregnancy is a life-changing event for you, but also your family and friends. It’s the true beginning between you and a daughter or son. It could even be multiple beginnings! The tips you just read will let you get the most out of your pregnancy.
A birth plan is a great way to plan for labor. You could jot down what preference in music or lighting you might have and a number of other things that can increase comfort, security and relaxation when it comes time to give birth. You can make it as in-depth or brief as you see fit.
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What is Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy?
Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) sometimes referred to as vertical sleeve gastrectomy (VSG) is a weight loss procedure that surgically reduces the size of the stomach by about 85%. With less stomach capacity, patients will feel full sooner, and therefore, eat less amounts of food. Also, the stomach will not be able to secrete as many hunger-inducing hormones. One of the intestinal hormones that are favorably affected by LSG is ghrelin. This hormone is produced in the section of the stomach that is removed and is responsible for inducing hunger. After the procedure, ghrelin levels decrease, and as a result, patients feel less hungry and no longer have the drive to consume too many calories.
Why Consider Sleeve Gastrectomy?
Sleeve Gastrectomy helps protect you from life-threatening weight-related diseases and illnesses. If you have a body mass index greater than 35 – 40, sleeve gastrectomy may help reduce the risk of:
- Certain types of reflux disease
- Type 2 Diabetes
- High Cholesterol
- High Blood Pressure
- Sleep Apnea
- Heart diseases
How it is work?
The laparoscopic gastric sleeve surgery is done under general anesthesia and lasts up to 2 hours. During LSG, a surgeon makes around 5 small incisions in the upper abdomen for instruments to access the stomach through the abdominal wall. The surgeon then removes 70-80% of the stomach leaving it about the shape and size of a banana. Then the surgeon sutures the remaining stomach back together. The smaller stomach size limits the portions of food that can be eaten in one meal. The procedure is permanent and cannot be reversed.
Who is a candidate?
The laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) is a great option for patients who are obese (BMI>30). The procedure can help obese patients with (or help prevent) diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol or triglycerides, obstructive sleep apnea, and heart disease or stroke.
Contact your insurance company to find out if you have coverage and/or qualify for the gastric sleeve.
How much does the procedure cost?
This is a self pay, all inclusive price. Price will vary based on insurance and health status, use of additional resources and so on. We offer financing options for qualified customers. The cost not only includes the price of the product, but more importantly, the skill and expertise of the specialist or healthcare professional that is doing the procedure. Look for someone who is licensed and trained and has experience treating patients using this procedure. Enroll in the Eberbach Plastic Surgery (Division of IBI Healthcare Institute) Rewards Program to save money on treatments.
When will I start seeing results?
If the correct diet plan is followed after the procedure, you can expect to lose more than 60% of your excess weight.
How long will the results last?
As long as healthy eating habits are maintained, this procedure should last you a lifetime. However, as with any other weight loss procedure, behavior modification and dietary compliance are the key players in determining the long-term success of the procedure. Basically, it comes down to how committed the patient is to losing the extra weight.
Are there any risks associated with LSG?
Overall the LSG is a very safe procedure. The only risks involved include being under general anesthesia, bleeding, leakage (<1%), transfusion (<0.5%), re-operation (<0.2%), and vitamin and mineral deficiencies (rare after 12 months).
If you are interested in LSG, call our office today and speak with one of our coordinators.
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By James W. Adams
Many times the charismatic personality and oratorical and rhetorical abilities of a speaker conceal the pernicious error implicit in that which he says, and multitudes are deceived. Conversely speaking, these same qualities often lessen the transforming influence of the gospel of Jesus Christ as it is taught and preached. Under such preaching, multitudes may “join the church,” but few are converted to Christ.
It is said that a person heard a world-famous evangelist and came away saying, “What a marvelous speaker!” Sometime thereafter, he heard a consecrated preacher of little fame preach in simple idiom, but with great conviction and sincerity, the story of the cross and came away saying, “What a wonderful Christ!”
This calls to mind a verse of a poem written by W.G. Elmslie which addresses the point of this article.
He held the lamp of truth that day
So low that none could miss the way;
And yet so high to bring in sight
That picture fair the World’s Great Light
That gazing up the lamp between
The hand that held it scarce was seen.
We should so teach the Word of God as to emphasize the message which it conveys and Him who is its author that the hearts of the hearers may embrace “the World’s Great Light.” The less they see of “the hand that holds it up,” the more impressive it will be.
However, let us not use these facts as an excuse for poorly prepared and slovenly delivered lessons or sermons. The lamp stand and the hand that holds it should be of such character as to display the Light, whether held “low” or “high,” to the best advantage so that its rays of redeeming light may shine clearly and powerfully to all who need it.
Guardian of Truth XXXVII: 14, p. 4
July 15, 1993
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In the digitized world, SEO has become an industry without online business that could hardly thrive. It becomes the need of every single business owner. SEO is simply just a tool like people are using for marketing their business. To get the services of marketing, one has to pay for it.
Many people are afraid to get the services of online marketing for their websites, especially the beginners. The newbies are always scared that they might face a scam and do not get the services. The beginners need to understand a few things before getting into the world of online business. No matter in which field you are. Every single person needs to boost his website to rank in order to know the world and surrounding people about your talent and business.
In this article, you would get the basic information about SEO and guidelines for beginners on how to get the services of it. If you are new, this article surely answers your many questions that haunts you all day.
To know about SEO
When you enter the world of online business, you come to know many terms from which you are unaware. It is important to have keen eyes in the most trending terms that are being used in the world. Many people do not give importance as they think their website is doing well and they do not need any assistance and services but they are wrong, yes they are wrong.
With every new day, the internet hub is shattering with the new terminologies and within the blink of minutes it becomes a part of one’s online business. In the same manner, goes with SEO. SEO is a search engine optimization tool that provides you the services for your website. If you want any package and service, you can visit SEO South Africa for more details. SEO packages help you to enter in the sea of Google links. Millions of people are doing online business and they need to upgrade their websites with the need and demand of time.
How does it work?
The beginners are always worried about SEO and its working process. They need to do research before getting their services. Most of the newbies get the SEO services but they are unaware how it works. They do not know basic info about SEO and its working mechanism. One needs to be aware of all such stuff because you are the part of this digitalized world and if you do not know the basic terms, you would not survive in the sea of Google.
Google works on certain algorithms and they are not easy to understand to rank your website. SEO helps your website to fulfil those algorithms in your website that Google demands. In this way, your website ranks and your links are pasted on the most visited web pages so that people can click it and your website can get a visitor.
To understand all those phenomena is not difficult. The beginners need to pay attention to all these things and give their time to understand these things.
- Guidelines for the beginners
The newbies are so innocent that they believe everything that others say. They take time in understanding these things till that their new competitors hit the market. Although, many newbies are good at research and they get the idea how all these things are working.
- Do Research
Research is one of the main parts of every business. If you want to survive in the millions of business owners and freelancers, you need to do a lot of research. This is the only thing that makes you able to live in the list of competitors. Otherwise, a new day rises with new things and new people in the online business world. Research helps you to know many things regarding your field, competitors, and the main thing is how to gain traffic for your website. The answer lies in research. Do a lot of research so that things become easy for you.
- Online Marketing
Online marketing is the basic need of today’s world. No business can survive without online marketing. You need to get the assistance for online marketing or you can do this by using social media tools. They would not take much time but you would understand many things.
- Content Creation
The important feature of the website is the content. What you are presenting to the people. Is it easy to read and understand? You need to write in such a way that people around the globe read your content.
To conclude, SEO is the need of today’s online marketing. One cannot deny its importance so it would be good if you are getting such services at an early period so that you do not face more competitors.
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Traffic. Mosquitoes. People who snap their gum. People who crack their knuckles. There are so many things in the world that are just downright annoying.
But what makes them annoying? It's the question that NPR Science Correspondent Joe Palca and Science Friday's Flora Lichtman set out to answer in their new book, Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us.
For instance, why is hearing someone else's phone call more irritating than just overhearing a normal conversation? In an interview with Morning Edition's Renee Montagne, Lichtman explains why this is so grating.
"It's half of a conversation," she says. "Your brain goes into this mode where you start trying to predict what that person is going to say next. The thing that's frustrating about a cellphone conversation is that it's very hard to predict, which is one of the things that we found makes something annoying."
A study by a graduate student at Cornell University experimented with this idea of predicting speech by taking half of a conversation and garbling the words. Even though the test subjects couldn't understand half of what was being said, the annoying effects went away. "It's not just about the sound intruding your space," Lichtman says. "It seems to be about the speech itself."
Most people have something that particularly annoys them. For Lichtman, it's people who clip their nails on the subway in New York. That combination of someone else's hygiene habits and the sound of the clippers sets her teeth on edge.
For Palca, the annoyance that tops his list is unexplained delays.
"You're in the airport and a flight is supposed to go at 10," he says. "At a quarter to 10, they haven't boarded the plane. And then at 10, they haven't boarded the plane. And at 10:15 they haven't boarded the plane, and nobody is telling you why."
There are, however, a few things out there that are universally annoying — like fingernails on a blackboard.
"It seems to be something intrinsic about that mix of frequencies," Lichtman says. "The change in volume rapidly — it's called 'rough' in acoustics — most people's ears don't like that stimulus."
While there are plenty of irritants in the world, there aren't a lot of ways to alleviate that sense of annoyance. Palca points out that they're part of human life, and they're something that everyone has to deal with from time to time.
But there are some techniques that people can use — for example, distracting yourself if you're stuck in a long line, or something Palca calls "cognitive restructuring."
"You can tell yourself that that mosquito is just a part of the life flow of the world and I shouldn't be mad," he says. "It's just trying to do what it was genetically programmed to do."
Basically, though, the bottom line is that you're stuck, it's annoying, and that's part of life.
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The widening gap between cybersecurity experts and Internet security is pushing corporates to consider employing convicts and hackers according to a new study. But some experts have opined that this is a dangerous approach. Using the knowledge of professional hackers can be useful but it can also turn the tables on companies as well.
What Does Statistics Say?
- According to a recent study, a survey involving 300 senior IT and HR professionals in companies that employ over 500 staff was conducted.
- It was found that most of them remain unsure of how to bridge the gap between staff shortage and the workload.
- According to previous statistics, if the current scenario continues, it will result in a void of more than two million professionals by 2017.
- About 75 percent of companies have said that new cyber challenges will require a new skill set.
- Around 64 percent (two-thirds) have admitted that the skills differ from those offered by traditional IT.
- The study pointed out the shortage was highly felt in areas such as privacy, cyber threat analysis, and data security.
- Approximately 70 percent of corporates have admitted a lack of expertise in these areas.
- However, even the firms that have the right amount of employees struggle to retain them. Fifty-seven percent of firms have said they find it very hard to retain those staff with specialized cyber skills.
- The primary reason is that those employees are most often headhunted for other jobs.
- Doe to this predicament, some firms are now considering alternative channels like hiring hackers or convicted criminals.
- About 55 percent of companies have admitted they would consider recruiting a hacker, while 53 percent said they would hire an ex-con.
- Around 60 percent of those polled admitted they were concerned about finding cyber experts who could communicate effectively with business leaders.
- This increasing awareness of cyber threats means that majority of companies are clear in their strategy to deal with any skills gaps.
- However, no one would a burglar to be a security guard, so the fact that firms are willing to hire hackers as the staff clearly shows their desperation to stay ahead of the game.
- Turning poachers against poachers seems a good idea but rather an unwise choice because it could turn the tide.
- Instead of hiring hackers to share sensitive information, or spending millions on programs that soon become obsolete, firms need to enhance their existing cyber defenses.
- Taking stock on their defense capabilities and acting on voids specific to their own cybersecurity needs helps companies to bridge the “so-called” gap.
- It is vital to have technical expertise, and equally essential to translate that into the business environment in simple language so that senior management can respond faster.
By its very nature, cybersecurity is strongly reactive and that companies should be well-advised to up-skill existing employees to tackle future cyber challenges.
Security experts expressed concerns about companies that have wealth of internal resources but maintain them untapped. Up-skilling is one of the best ways to resolve the existing skills gap and has the potential to the issue on its head.
Cybersecurity is an equal mix of technology and behavior. The cyber landscape is constantly changing, evolving, and quite reacting. No one knows what is going on on the Internet next so it is better to stay prepared. Recognizing an issue, understanding, and articulating it in a way businesses can understand is what is needed today.
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How to Prevent Frozen Pipes
Preventing pipes from freezing in winter is vital to reduce the risk of flood and water damage. Water expands as it freezes, which can cause frozen pipes to crack and burst. Then when the ice melts, water pressure forces water out the broken pipe. The resulting extensive damage to your property can cost thousands of dollars in repairs.
Although ice buildup in pipes is common in colder climates like the Midwest and Northeast, homeowners in Dallas need to take steps to prevent frozen pipes. According to Texas A&M University, water pipes freeze when temperatures drop below 20°F. Areas of a home where pipes easily freeze include basements, crawl spaces, garages, attics, and outdoor supply lines.
The good news is, it’s relatively straightforward to avoid a burst water pipe when ice blockages thaw. Keep reading to find out how to prevent frozen water pipes.
5 Ways to Prevent Frozen Pipes
Here are five easy and cheap ways to prevent water lines from freezing during extremely cold temperatures.
1. Insulate pipe to prevent them from freezing
The first step is to insulate all pipes in uninsulated or unheated spaces like garages, basements, and attics. Adequate pipe insulation keeps heat inside lines instead of escaping into the air. In addition, insulating pipes to prevent them from freezing is relatively cheap compared to costly water damage restoration.
You can create a pipe sleeve using newspaper and duct tape for emergency insulation during unexpected cold weather. Around 1/4 inch of newspaper around cold water pipes should be sufficient.
2. Prevent frozen pipes by draining water from outdoor lines
It is vital to shut off water to all outdoor supply lines and drain pipes before the winter months arrive. Additionally, ensure that all pool and water sprinkler lines are free from moisture in the fall. It is also necessary to drain garden hoses and shut off all outdoor faucets.
3. Allow water faucets to drip
Running a trickle of water is an effective way to prevent frozen pipes. It’s not necessary to let water drip from all faucets, only those served by exposed or uninsulated pipes.
4. Keep your home warm to avoid burst pipes
An easy way to prevent frozen pipes is to keep the heat on. Ideally, room temperatures should be around 70°F. It would be best to keep interior doors open to ensure a consistent temperature throughout your home.
However, it’s also a good idea to keep bathroom and kitchen cabinet doors open to allow warm air to circulate around the plumbing.
If you plan on being away from home during winter, set the thermostat to a constant 55°F.
5. Seal cracks to prevent cold drafts
It is also vital to seal any cracks or openings on your home’s exterior or around windows and doors to prevent air leaks. Not only will you cut down on energy bills, but you will also help prevent pipes from freezing during a cold snap.
Plumbing Mishaps Got You Frozen with Worry? Call Us Today for Help ASAP
What can you do if frozen pipes have burst and you have water damage in your home? Contact SERVPRO at (972) 986-7677 for Dallas Water Damage Restoration. Acting fast is vital to reduce the risk of mold and permanent structural damage to your building’s foundations.
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Coronavirus complacency arrives
Columns share an author's personal perspective and are often based on facts in the newspaper's reporting.
Scientific models show a reasonably high probability that the Wuhan coronavirus will accelerate in its spread outside of China. That's concerning, to say the least. But even as the news gets darker, the tone of news coverage is swinging the wrong way, offering too much false reassurance.
It's extremely unlikely to turn into a nightmare scenario ripped from movies like "Contagion." It isn't an immediate threat to most people's lives. But if it spreads widely as some credible estimates predict, the disease could still easily disrupt business and everyday life for millions of people.
Given all the other threats in the world - earthquakes, nuclear weapons, global warming, the flu - it was unrealistic to expect people to prepare for a new viral outbreak before the threat was imminent. Now it's crazy that people aren't doing more.
What does preparation entail? Nothing drastic - mostly advance planning, says Peter Sandman, an independent consultant on risk communication. People can plan what they will do if they get sick, or their child's school is closed. Businesses can plan for absenteeism, and can think about which employees are essential and who will fill in for them if they get too sick - or too scared - to come to work.
There is a reason that so many scientists have dropped what they're doing to study this particular virus. Viruses that have recently jumped to the human population from other animals - such as bats - do warrant immediate concern.
As Purdue University virologist David Sanders explains, we are without immunity to such viruses, and they are not well adapted to us. The viruses that cause, say, seasonal flu have had time to evolve so that they usually avoid killing their human host. That's how they become successful viruses - they give themselves time to spread. However, when a new virus first makes the leap to humans, "there's a mismatch between the immune system and the incoming virus."
That's one reason the 1918 flu was so deadly. That strain of the flu had just picked up new genetic material from a bird flu, and it tended to trigger an extreme immune reaction called a cytokine storm, which damaged the lungs. Most of the deaths were from secondary infections that took hold in flu patients' severely damaged lung tissue. After the pandemic was over, the same virus evolved and circulated for decades as a less deadly seasonal flu. (Something that's worth remembering when you read a headline declaring the flu to be the "real danger" this winter.)
The big unknown now is how easily the new coronavirus can spread and how many invisible cases are out there. This kind of outbreak is like a pyramid, with the dead and very sick at the top, and a much wider base of people who are not very sick, or not sick at all, but capable of carrying or spreading the disease. There's no sense yet of the disease incubation time, which CDC estimates could be anywhere from 2 to 14 days.
One of the reasons SARS didn't become the global catastrophe some feared is that virus was less contagious before severe symptoms set in. Once people felt symptomatic, they tended to stay home or go to the hospital - hence many transmissions either happened in hospitals or through people who had been sick but started to feel better.
Doctors and public health officials are still arguing about whether this new coronavirus is being spread by asymptomatic people. According to this update in Science, the modelers say this is the critical unknown.
Risk communication expert Sandman emphasizes that timing matters in this situation. Whether 100,000 people or a million get this disease, the situation will be much worse if they get infected over the course of a month than if they get infected over the course of a year. If it happens faster, there could be drug shortages, hospital overcrowding and economic fallout from a loss of business continuity.
Experts so far have tended to speak in dichotomies - either the disease will be controlled or it will not. Something in the middle is still very much a possibility. As I wrote in a previous column, many experts say that travel bans and extreme quarantines won't keep the disease under control - it's already spread too far. But such measures may be slowing the spread of the disease. Even if the delay is minimal, as some experts estimate, we should still be using that time to prepare.
The WHO and CDC have been giving out plentiful information, but haven't been emphasizing that preparation is justified. The WHO has a motto of "Facts not Fear," but these are not mutually exclusive, Sandman says. "Sometimes the facts are fearful."
Faye Flam is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist.
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Innovation in industry is essential to economic growth in Brazil29 de março de 2022
By Elton Alisson | FAPESP Innovative R&D – Innovation in industry urgently needs to be revitalized if Brazil is to develop its economy while making it more dynamic and competitive. For this to be feasible, the state must expand, stabilize and enhance the predictability of funding for research and development (R&D) by companies, and create mechanisms to stimulate the formation of an ecosystem that favors innovation.
This assessment was arrived at by the participants in the ninth FAPESP 60 Years Conference on Industry and Innovation, held online on March 23.
Part of a cycle of conferences organized to commemorate FAPESP’s sixtieth anniversary, the event featured experts discussing the relevance of technological innovation and its centrality to the agendas of many institutions, including FAPESP.
“Everyone recognizes that the origin of innovation is science. The latest report on the outlook for science, technology and industry from the OECD [Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development] stresses that as knowledge-intensive sectors continue to expand and competitive pressures grow, government funding for basic research becomes a key element in support for corporate R&D,” said Marco Antonio Zago, President of FAPESP.
Brazil contrasts with other countries in this regard. Public funding for innovation-oriented research has fallen sharply in recent years, noted Pedro Wongtschowski, a member of FAPESP’s Board of Trustees, Chairman of the Ultra Group, and Leader of Corporate Mobilization for Innovation (MEI), an initiative of the National Confederation of Industry (CNI).
“Public investment in R&D in Brazil is declining,” he said. “Many countries have increased their investment in R&D in the past ten years in proportion to the size of their economy and gross domestic product [GDP]. Brazil is an exception.”
Brazil currently invests 1%-1.2% of GDP in R&D, in terms of the aggregate public and private expenditure on innovation, Wongtschowski added. “That’s very little for a country as large and important as Brazil and for the ambitions we should have with regard to science and technology here.”
R&D expenditure by industry has also declined in proportion to sales. The latest Survey of Technological Innovation in Industry (PINTEC) conducted by IBGE, the national bureau of statistics, shows a drop from 2.37% in 2011 to 1.65% in 2017.
The manufacturing sector accounts for 12% of Brazil’s GDP, half of its exports, and two-thirds of corporate investment in R&D. “Industry is important to the national economy and will survive in the long term only if it innovates and modernizes, particularly in light of the sustainability requirements imposed by the market at present,” Wongtschowski said.
Industry also supports two other important sectors of the economy, he continued: agribusiness and services. Brazilian agribusiness would not be competitive without industrial assets such as tractors, harvesters, irrigation systems, sensors for precision agriculture, and fertilizer. In the service sector, the novel solutions recently developed in the financial system, for example, depend on computers and data transmission networks supplied by industry, Wongtschowski added. “The dynamism of Brazil’s agribusiness and service sectors is directly linked to the existence of a competitive industrial sector. And industry will remain competitive only if it innovates,” he said.
Lack of an entrepreneurial state
For Carlos Américo Pacheco, CEO of FAPESP, innovation is a fairly recent item on the public and private agendas in Brazil but is now central for the Science and Technology Ministry and Economy Ministry, and for research funding agencies worldwide, including FAPESP.
“Innovation has become a permanent agenda in Brazil, and yet we have to acknowledge that our country isn’t doing well in this regard,” he said. “For all the significant effort to innovate made in the last 20 years, Brazil’s innovation performance hasn’t been satisfactory.”
One reason for this may be the lack of an entrepreneurial state, according to Jorge Guimarães, head of the Brazilian Company of Research and Industrial Innovation (EMBRAPII).
“Since the end of the Second World War, Brazil has established the main pillars [to stimulate innovation], such as a supply of talented professionals, strong academic institutions and transnational corporations, which already existed here in the 1950s. Yet at no time in this period have we had an entrepreneurial state,” Guimarães said.
“We keep shirking the need for the state to participate heavily in subsidizing and extending reimbursable funds for innovation, which entails risk. Companies won’t take out loans and run the risk of creating innovations.”
The main research funding agencies, such as the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), the Education Ministry’s Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), and FAPESP, were established in the post-war period, when countries like the United States were pledging to increase investment in R&D.
“These funders of basic research and human resource formation tackled the challenges with great efficiency, and we now have a strong group of entities in Brazil with substantial capacity to pursue this mission,” Guimarães said.
For Fernando Galembeck, principal investigator for the National Institute of Science and Technology in Functional Complex Materials (INOMAT), Brazil’s entire innovation ecosystem needs to be strong.
“The most important element of this ecosystem is talent – people who know how to work in diversified teams. To have innovation, we need to bring together many competencies,” he said.
A recording of the event (in the original Portuguese) can be watched at: fapesp.br/15350.
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The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, continues to provide laboratory-based surveillance to inform the public health response towards COVID-19 in South Africa.
Today the institute reports 947 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3,991,003. This increase represents a 6.9% positivity rate.
Today, the NDoH reports 13 deaths and of these 4 deaths occurred in the past 24 to 48 hours. The cumulative COVID-19 deaths are 101,717 to date. 25,669,097 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors as per the table below.
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The majority of new cases today are from Gauteng (44%), followed by Western Cape and Kwa-Zulu Natal each accounting for 18% respectively. Eastern Cape accounted for 6%; Mpumalanga accounted for 5%; North West accounted for 3%; Limpopo and Free State each accounted for 2% respectively; and Northern Cape accounted for 1% of today’s new cases. The cumulative number of cases by province are shown in the table below:
|Province||Total cases for 23 June 2022||Adjusted numbers after harmonisation||Updated total cases on 23 June 2022||Incident infections for 23 June 2022||Possible reinfections for 23 June 2022||New cases on 24 June 2022||Total cases for 24 June 2022||Percentage total|
THE 7-DAY MOVING AVERAGE NUMBER OF NEW CASES BY PROVINCE
The proportion of positive new cases/total new tested today is 6.9%, and is higher than yesterday (5.9%). The 7-day average is 7.3% today, and is lower than yesterday (7.4%).
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There has been an increase of 27 hospital admissions in the past 24 hours. The following table is a summary of reported COVID-19 admissions by sector.
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Bristol-based pie restaurant and manufacturer Pieminister has smashed its target of planting 50,000 trees in Malawi with its Pie One Get One Tree campaign.
At festivals and in its restaurant, Pieminister sold every single one of its special edition Scrumpea and Tipsy Chicken pies, made with Somerset cider donated by Orchard Pig. The Tipsy Chicken pie proved so popular that an open-top variant is to be added permanently to the menu.
The 57,176 trees will be planted before the end of the year by Bristol charity Temwa, long-term friend and neighbour of Pieminister, to support its Community Forest Project in northern Malawi. The project aims to prevent devastating soil erosion in the region.
Jon Simon, Pieminister co-founder and managing director, said: “The size of our forest - which will cover more area than 30 football pitches - is down to the support of our loyal pie fans. Both in our restaurants and at the summer’s festivals, people loved trying the two special pies we created to support this great cause.
“I’m sure the delicious taste of Somerset cider in both recipes is why they sold like hot cakes - or rather, pies!”
Temwa fights poverty with community-based projects, giving people the knowledge and resources to become self-sufficient. The trees will combat falling crop yields in the Nkhata Bay North region by fighting the rapid deforestation of the area, 30% in 10 years.
Jo Hook, founder of Temwa, said: “Nkhata Bay North is a particularly isolated part of the country and its community needs to cut and use trees every day for firewood and building. It’s crucial that these trees are replaced, not only to stabilise the soil which erodes without tree roots, but also to stabilise the lives of the Nkhata Bay North people.
“This Pieminister forest will change so many lives for the better, so thank you for eating all the pies this summer.”
Pieminister was founded in 2003 by Jon Simon and Tristan Hogg. It runs pie restaurants, cafés and pubs across the UK and supplies supermarkets including Asda, Tesco, Waitrose and Ocado.
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help!! what should my 18 month old be eating?
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Last post: 22/09/2013 at 8:55 pm
please help im feeling a bit crap about her diet my bf works til 7 every night so i usually feed katie about 5.30 and eat with steve at 7.30 whilst she has her milk which she still has from a bottle?? should she be off the bottle completely?? she has one when she wakes up and one b4 bed cold full fat milk.
i just dont know where to start please help!!
Mine all stopped having a bottle before then too.
Doesn't mean that what I do is right though, everyone is different and has different ways of doing things! It sounds like she has a good range of stuff including plenty of fruit and veg. The only thing I might suggest is instead of the ready made food is if you made something for tea that you could make her a seperate portion of to eat earlier, for example if you made something like shepherd's pie you could make a big one for you two to have later and a little one for her, put a handful of frozen peas or something with it and she's got a fresh balanced meal.
Hope this helps x
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My kids have "red pasta" at least 3 times a week and are always overjoyed to have it (and ask for it every day). I make the sauce up in big batches and then freeze portions so it's easy to just cook up some quick cook pasta as and when.
The sauce is so easy and contains loads of veg - it's all pureed so if kid is fussy they don't notice. Here's my recipe, it's not an exact science though I normally just use what's in my fridge and my biggest pot:
Saute onions, garlic, mushrooms (I use olive oil but veg oil would be fine)
Add two to three cans of tomatoes
Add as much veg as you can fit in the pot (I always use carrot and courgette and then add whatever else I have i.e. green beans, peppers (either green/red/yellow or all three), celery, ummm can't think what else but basically anything else waiting to be used in the veg compartment. My most recent batch included lentils as I wanted to have more protein in the dish.
Simmer until carrots/veg is tender
I used to use chicken stock for flavour but I don't bother any more as I worry about salt and it's still tasty without. Serve on pasta with some cheese sprinkled on top. Also goes well with sainsbury's meatballs - although I restrict the meatballs as I think they're quite high in salt. My husband also loves this dish.
Apparently tomatoes are REALLY good for you, even canned ones so I'm happy to feed this to my kids quite often. As for drinking from a bottle I think the advice is to move away from a teat as soon as possible. My 17 month old also drinks from a bottle but with the green sipper teat thing, if you know what I mean.
Hope this helps.
He loves pasta with either tomatoes or cream, sweet and sour with either pork or prawns, he'll eat chilli (with sour cream), gammon steak, lots of veggies etc
He was off the bottles at 12 months but still drinks about 2 pints of milk a day plus plenty of fruit juice.
For snacks he has apple, grapes, cheese, crackers, occasionally crisps or chocolate
To get your daughter to try more things you could try just putting a small amount of whatever you are eating on a plate for her (doesn't have to be a full meal) which she can have whilst you are both eating - that way she sees you both eating it and may be more inclined to try, it's also more fun eating when you are all there than eating on her own.
As for the bottle thing, my little boy still has a bottle of milk morning and night and will continue to do so until he's ready to give it up, although "officially" they should be off the bottle by now he refuses to drink his milk out of anything else, he drinks water or juice from a cup without any fuss but won't have milk from anything but his bottle, so until he's ready I'm just going to stick to letting him have his bottle.
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He eats a few of the tray meals too but has cereal for breakfast, sandwiches, yoghurt, banana and a few organic crisps for lunch. He has started to eat shepherds pie and some sausage and fish fingers but hes not really impressed with any veg or much fruit served alone. I keep trying things hes rejected from time to time just in case he decides to try them. He still has his two bottles of milk which I will probably keep him on for a while yet as I dont think theres too much to worry about .
They will get there in the end. There are children out there who will only eat a few things so I think our two are doing ok.
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Wednesday, February 15, 2017:
The Heritage Foundation minced no words in commenting on its latest Index of Economic Freedom: America’s continuing decline is all Obama’s fault:
America’s standing in the index [now in 17th place, the lowest in history] has dwindled steadily during the Obama years. This is largely owed to increased government spending, [increased] regulations, and a failed stimulus program that enriched the well-connected while leaving average Americans behind.
For the ninth time in 10 years, America’s index has lost ground. Coming in above 80 in 2008, the United States’ current index is barely above 75, tying it with Denmark, and just above Sweden and Latvia. But the latest rating places it way behind the United Kingdom (76.4), Canada (78.5), Australia (81), Switzerland (81.5), New Zealand (82.7), Singapore (88.6), and Hong Kong (89.8).
Heritage names “large budget deficits and a high level of public debt” as contributing to the continuing decline in America’s economic freedom, keeping it in the middle category of “mostly free” into which it first fell in 2010. Added Heritage:
Registering its lowest economic freedom score ever, America continued its string of discouraging trends in the 2017 index. Obama’s Washington-first, government-centric approach to policymaking has inflicted long-term damage to U.S. economic growth.
About the only bright spot that Heritage could find was that America’s manufacturing sector measured both by output and productivity is “at historic highs.”
Under “Rule of Law,” Heritage notes that “rising civil asset forfeitures by law enforcement agencies … have directly encroached on U.S. citizens’ property rights. Steve Byas, writing in The New American, made the same point:
It is not a small problem. In 2014, federal law-enforcement officers seized over $5 billion in assets [compared to] burglary losses [which] were less than $4 billion. This does not include private property seized by local law-enforcement agencies.
This disregard for the law has, according to the Pew Research Center, reduced Americans’ trust in government significantly, with just 19 percent trusting the government “always or most of the time.”
The size of government has grown enormously under the Obama administration along with the attendant tax burden. Taxes take 26 percent of the country’s economic output while government spending at all levels (federal, state, and local) approaches 40 percent.
Regulations have grown to the point where annual compliance costs now exceed $100 billion. And government welfare programs “combined with federal subsidies for agriculture, health care, green energy projects, corporate welfare and other special interests” have all contributed to the increase in deficits and the national debt.
Also to blame, according to Heritage, are the enormous costs of administering ObamaCare and the negative impact on Wall Street of the 2,100-page Dodd-Frank legislation imposed following the Great Recession.
These problems can be solved, says Heritage in a separate study it just released: “A Mandate for Leadership in 2017.” It states that tax reform resulting in “the lowest level possible for constitutionally appropriate activities … should apply the least economically destructive forms of taxation … and minimize the cost of compliance for taxpayers.”
The budget should be balanced “by driving down federal spending, including through entitlement reforms, while maintaining a strong national defense, and not raising taxes.”
The regulatory burden should be greatly reduced, states Heritage, by forcing proposed legislation to “undergo an impact analysis before a floor vote by Congress.” In addition, every major piece of proposed legislation by federal agencies must obtain congressional approval before taking effect, and have a “sunset” date included.
Heritage called for the death of both ObamaCare and Dodd-Frank, stating,
Congress should repeal ObamaCare in its entirety and replace it with patient-centered, market-based reforms. Dodd-Frank should also be repealed.
Additional reforms should include removing the federal government from housing finance, ending the Federal Reserve’s emergency lending power, and ending federal loan and security guarantees.
The entire federal welfare system is unsustainable, said Heritage, and fails to meet its objectives: encouraging people to get off welfare and go back to work. And most of those federal programs that survive the cuts should be put back onto the states where the incentives to operate them more efficiently are greater.
Heritage retains its optimism that these changes and reductions are possible:
The 2016 election was a game-changer. America has been given an incredible and unique opportunity to move away from Obama’s failed liberal policy agenda and toward an agenda that strives to restore America’s economic freedom and spur dynamic growth.
Heritage has once again performed a vital service, following the First Law of Holes: If you are in one, stop digging.
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Insurance is basically a method of safeguard to protect against monetary reduction. It’s a form of danger supervision, largely utilized to mitigate the risk of an unforeseen or unforeseeable losses. There are several varieties of insurance policy and you must learn the needs you have ahead of deciding on the appropriate insurance policies to suit your needs.
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Fire is something we all fear and respect and is the biggest threat to our homes and families. Although we fear fire, we fight it like an enemy. Residential and commercial structure fires have been fought by firefighters since the dawn of the bucket brigade. The science behind sizing up a structure fire and devising an attack plan is cookie cutter to most modern fire departments. In the case of a fire in a high-rise building, the factors that surround the situation present an immediate danger to life and health for a few reasons that differ from residential firefighting. Building construction plays a big role in how the fire evolves because of available flow paths and open corridors. Stairwells and elevators act as chimneys that vent the fire, allowing hot toxic gasses to build, off gas, and ultimately flash on higher levels of the building. The lack of egress poses a major difference in high-rise fires compared to residential fires. The lack of ability to simply get out fast results in fatalities in high-rise fires. Lastly, simple fire protection measures that can buy time and save lives like fire sprinklers are often ruled out in high-rise construction as a cost saver. Two separate case studies below show that no matter the year the incident occurred, we are still lacking the fire protection measures needed to save lives in high-rise fires. In addition, if the fire protection equipment is in place, it’s the lack of annual maintenance that presents the same threat as not having it at all.
On Saturday, February 23, 1991, a fire broke out in the One Meridian Plaza in downtown Philadelphia. The building which was built in 1973 stood 38 stories tall (492 ft) and consisted of commercial offices which were under constant construction. The building was not protected by fire sprinklers except for the 30th floor. The 30th floor was occupied by Cablevision who insisted on protecting their employees and paid out of pocket to have fire sprinklers installed. The fire at One Meridian Plaza burned for 19 hours, killing three firefighters, and completely consuming eight floors of the building before it was finally extinguished by ten activated fire sprinkler heads on the 30th floor. On the morning of January 9, 2022, a high-rise fire killed seventeen people, including eight children, at the Twin Parks Northwest, Site 4, high-rise apartment building in the Bronx, New York Cit. Forty-four people were injured, and thirty-two with life-threatening injuries were sent to five different borough hospitals. The building was not protected by fire sprinklers and lacked the necessary annual maintenance needed to keep on the fire protection tools that were in the building. The need for NFPA 25, Inspection, Testing and Maintenance was just as significant 31 years ago at One Meridian Plaza as it is this year in the Bronx NY fire. Fire sprinklers save lives, but if they are not maintained the chance for catastrophic failure in time of need exists.
The NFPA 25 Standard for the Inspection, Testing, and Maintenance of Water-Based Fire Protection Systems is considered the baseline for exactly as its title states—a guideline for inspecting, testing, and keeping up with maintenance for water-based fire suppression systems. By abiding by this code, fire incidents have the chance to be resolved quickly and effectively and allows for confidence that the fire protection equipment will function as designed when the need is presented. All the codes and standards that the NFPA have created are “living documents”, meaning they need amendment regularly to stay effective with current conditions. Because of this, the NFPA as a standard setting body, must regularly update its materials to be able to offer the public with the most up-to-date information and strategies for staying safe. Updates to any of the NFPA’s standards and codes usually come out once every three to five years, only after a rigorous process of reevaluation that may take up to two years to complete.
Since the inception of NFPA 25 in 1992, Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJ’s) have been performing standardized routine inspections of fire prevention systems and components. This may include but is not limited to fire sprinklers, fire pumps, valves, pipes, and everything in between. These inspections usually are a face to face two-person evolution consisting of the AHJ doing the inspection and the property manager or owner. The industry standard of doing inspections on site and face to face has shifted gears to compensate for the Covid 19 pandemic. While the maintenance and testing component of NFPA 25 is still a face-to-face interaction for obvious reasons, the “new normal” has moved to doing inspections remotely. NFPA 25 code is mandatory and absolutely must be followed for safety reasons. Failure to do so could directly lead to loss of life and property. Although NFPA 25 is mandatory, it is not mandated by OSHA. Instead, NFPA 25 is specifically required by the International Fire Code, also known as the IFC, and referenced in the International Building Code, also known as the IBC. Both the IFC and the IBC are baseline codes that the International Code Council created for individual states to adopt into their laws. The bottom of the line is that businesses and facilities need to investigate their local laws and do deep research on what they absolutely need to have at the very minimum to protect their employees and tenants.
Fire protection is the installation of equipment that works to put out fires and save lives. To put it simply, think of fire alarms, water-based fire protection such as sprinkler systems, fire suppression systems, fire extinguishers, and anything else that helps alert and stall the progression of a fire. There are two broad categories of fire protection systems, active and passive. Active equipment takes physical action against the spread of fires and smoke. Passive equipment focuses on static building modifications that prevent fires from spreading further. It’s a best practice to reference the appropriate standards that the building needs to be code compliant. When thinking about fire sprinklers and active fire protection equipment we immediately visualize the components that are customer facing like the actual fire sprinkler heads. What is not often considered is the back end of the system like the fire pump, fire department connection, control valves, hangers and braces, and piping. These components are the backbone of the system and cannot be neglected. Whichever fire protection measure fits into the need of the building it is essential to keep in constant contact with the local fire protection contractor and schedule a site visit at least once or twice a year to stay both compliant and battle ready should a fire break out in the building.
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What's the difference between a tiger team and a red team? Are there any other "color" teams out there (relevant to IT security)?
I have only heard of two types of teams:
Blue team - The defenders of a network
Red team - Attackers of a network
Tiger team - Same as red team, however is a older term of the attacking/opposition side of an engagement
White team - The team that establishes the rules of engagement and are usually the employees of the organization. The white team does not conduct any testing.
CISSP study guide has the following explanation of the different teams:
White team A neutral team of employees acting as observers, referees, and judges between > a red team of mock attackers (offenders) and a blue team of actual defenders of their enterprise’s use of information systems. The white team establishes rules of engagement (ROE) and performance metrics for security tests. The white team is also responsible for deriving lessons-learned, conducting the post engagement assessment, and communicating results to management. Occasionally, the white team also performs incident response activities and addresses bot attacks on an emergency basis.
There are multiple definitions for Red Teaming, according to the specific domain of activity (e.g. military, computers, corporate, etc).
In the context of information security, the term Red Teaming is closely related to other terms like penetration testing, ethical hacking, tiger teaming.
Even though the terms penetration testing, ethical hacking and tiger teaming are not precisely defined, they all refer to simulation of computer „hacking‟ activities for testing the security of an information system.
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Whether you live up North or down South, your kids can totally enjoy their favorite white fluff—regardless of Mother Nature. We’ve compiled a few of our favorite snow-inspired ideas for you to help keep the kids occupied this winter.
Make it yourself: Just because there’s no snow on the ground doesn’t mean you can’t bring some inside. One of my favorite blogs, Modern Parents Messy Kids, features an easy DIY-idea to create a mini “snowscape” indoors, using corn-starch and shaving cream. Set up a table one weekend and let the kids go nuts with their very own non-melting snowman. Check it out here.
Snow Globe: Let the kids create snow they’ll love to shake with this easy up-cycled craft from KIWI magazine. The snow is created by taking old Styrofoam from packages and placing it in a blender to create fine, fluffy flakes.
Go color crazy: If you actually have snow outside, skip the standard snowman and encourage your kids to get creative with color. Breakout the water guns, old spray bottles, or squirt water bottles, and fill them with water and a few drops of all-natural food-coloring. Then encourage your kids to spray away, using the snow as their canvas. Kids will love the bright, fun colors and you’ll love the lack of clean up. Got no snow? Check out this fun snow-inspired printable your kids can color.
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Aug 21, 2020 | New Mexico
Location: Portales, New Mexico
Hail Size: 1 Inch
Wind Speed: W 6mph
Affected Area: Portales, New Mexico
In Portales, New Mexico, quarter sized hail was reported at 8:38 PM CDT 7 miles away from Portales on August 21, 2020. The exact location of the report was from 34.24, -103.44. In the past three years, this area had one hail report within a 10-mile radius.
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For eight years, our research group has been developing lipid nanocarriers, known as Lipidots®, as a multifunctional platform for medical applications. A wide range of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and contrast imaging agents has been encapsulated into Lipidots® (including Paclitaxel, Camptothecine, Budenoside, Cyclosporine A, photosensitizers and fluorescent dyes), enabling the delivery of therapeutic agents and the monitoring or diagnosis by fluorescence imaging [1-2]. As a nanocarrier, Lipidots® have been proved to possess a high colloidal stability over months. Particle size and viscosity of the core can be tuned, resulting in high payloads, controlled drug release profile and improved drug bioavaibility to appropriate biological sites [3-4]. In addition to size and surface charge of the nanomaterials, as key parameters requested by regulatory health agencies, a more deep understanding of nanoparticles composition, morphology, aggregation, crystallinity, drug loading, drug localization, drug release kinetics and nanoparticles interaction with proteins in biological fluids is crucial to meet the requirements of final medicinal nanoproducts. Complementary physical-chemical characterization methods have been used to determine the morphology, the size, the shape and the surface charge of the Lipidots®. The internal physical state of the particle core has been studied by Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC), 1H NMR, and Small-Angle Neutron Scattering (SANS). The quantification and identification of Lipidots® components (e.g. mixture of mono-, di-, and triglycerides, phospholipids and PEGylated surfactants) have been performed by using validated H/UPLC-ELSD methods and mass spectrometry. Moreover, in order to predict the in vivo behavior of the nanotherapeutics, we developed a valuable and transposable tool for separation and quantification of free and entrapped drugs/dyes by combining Solid Phase Extraction and Drug Content Determination (DCD) . Such methods allow studying drug leakage kinetics under storage conditions and the drug release profiles in different biological media. HPLC quantification combined with spectroscopic techniques has been also routinely performed for optimization of payload formulation. Localization of different encapsulated drugs within the nanodroplets has been characterized by NMR spectroscopy and correlated with the loading profiles. Finally, small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) has been performed to study the interaction of the Lipidots® with circulating proteins that can lead to a protein corona as it is well admitted nowadays that bound proteins form the real nano-bio interface governing the properties of the nanoparticles like cell uptake. Such extensive characterization in addition to the ability to scale up the manufacturing process of our carriers, allows identifying characterization criteria and specifications to move towards industrial production and approval of the product for the clinical market. In this communication, we will present an overview of these nanocharacterization techniques, which represent a step forward industrial transfer, and an example of the development of a full cascade of standardized physical-chemical characterization methods for nanomedicines.
Journal: TechConnect Briefs
Volume: 1, Advanced Materials: TechConnect Briefs 2016
Published: May 22, 2016
Pages: 29 - 32
Industry sector: Advanced Materials & Manufacturing
Topic: Materials Characterization & Imaging
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Analisis Hukum Terhadap Pemalsuan Dokumen Pernikahan Anak Di Bawah Umur
(Studi di Desa Bonto Mate’ne Kecamatan Marusu Kabupaten Maros)
This study used a qualitative descriptive research method. The research location was in Bonto Mate’ne Village, Marusu District, Maros Regency. The type of research carried out is first, to find data by reading and examining written sources that are used as material in supporting the preparation and discussion of the writing. Second, field research (field research) is carried out through interviews, and collecting related documents. The results of this study indicate the number of data on the number of early marriages that occurred in Bonto Mate’ne Villages from 2017-2020 as many as 202 people and the factors behind the falsification of child marriage documents in the form of internal factors and external factors as well as how government efforts to prevent and reduce the occurrence of falsification of child marriage documents.
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Supplementary MaterialsDataset 1 41598_2017_13552_MOESM1_ESM. of erythrocytes density in the capillary Navitoclax biological activity bed without getting together with deeper situated pulsating arteries. Therefore, the capillary bed could serve as a distributed sensor for monitor the status of deep vessels. Better understanding of the photoplethysmography basis will result in a wider range of applications of this fast growing technology in both medical and research practice. Introduction Photoplethysmography (PPG) is an optical method, which is widely used in clinical practice to monitor a patients arterial oxygenation and pulse1. PPG waveform appears as time-variable intensity of light after its interaction with a live tissue. This phenomenon was first reported in 1936 by Hanzlik em et al /em .2 but the physiological origin of the modulation continues to be under debating. Commonly approved theory assumes that the PPG waveform hails from the relative adjustments Rabbit Polyclonal to CLIP1 of blood quantity in arteries, which modulate the light absorption in a cells1,3. Most regularly, the light modulation can be noticed at the heartbeat rate of recurrence displaying clear romantic relationship to the pulsatile vessels. It really is known however that just arteries can transform their size under varying bloodstream pressure3. Research of mechanical properties of capillaries demonstrated they are non-compliant with minor modification of their size because of blood circulation pressure change4. It had been shown that actually terminal arterioles of rabbits usually do not alter their size in response to the stepwise arterial pressure modification5. However, latest observations of the biggest PPG-waveform amplitude at the green light6C8 contradict the traditional PPG model. Penetration of green light in to the human being dermis is quite little ( 0.9?mm)9, meaning that probability of conversation with pulsatile arteries because of this light is quite small as the arteries are situated deeper than 3?mm below the epidermis10. To solve this contradiction, a fresh theory of PPG waveform appearance was lately recommended11, which hypothesizes that the light modulation comes from compression/decompression of the capillary bed due to varying transmural pressure in arteries located nearby the region of interest. The new theory assumes that the capillaries themselves are incompressible and do not pulsate at the heartbeat rate but the distance between adjacent capillaries can be readily changed due to stretching/compression of inter-capillary tissue12 thus leading to modulation of the capillaries density, and therefore, to intensity modulation of the remitted light. In this work, we present experimental study of red blood cells (RBC) motion in capillaries assessed by fast video recording of microscopic Navitoclax biological activity images of nailfold capillaries synchronously with the electrocardiogram (ECG) recording. Same video capillaroscopy set of images was used for estimation of the PPG waveforms in several fingers areas close to the nail. Analysis of the experimental data Navitoclax biological activity allowed us to shed more light on factors that modulate the PPG signal. Better fundamental understanding of photoplethysmography will result in a wider range of applications of this Navitoclax biological activity fast growing technology in both medical and research practice. Results RBC speed modulation Navitoclax biological activity Typical microscopic image with clearly resolved capillaries is shown in Fig.?1a. The upper part of the image (bluish) corresponds to the nail, whereas the capillary loops in dermis are seen in the lower part. The images were recorded at the rate of 200 frames per second (fps), which allows us to resolve RBCs or their aggregates as well as to evaluate their movement in every capillary. After stabilization of the capillary images, we were able to assess the RBC local speed inside a capillary loop. RBC speed and its dynamics during the experiment was estimated for all capillaries which images were focused in the observation area. Evolution of RBC speed in three exemplary.
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