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Making fresh, clean water available to your horse might seem like a very basic thing, but it’s not always as simple as it sounds. Water completely untouched by chemicals or minerals doesn’t exist in nature. Water is, after all, the universal solvent, with a unique ability to pick up and dissolve virtually everything it encounters. These other substances contained in drinking water aren’t necessarily bad; minerals dissolved in water impart much of its flavor, after all, and many are even beneficial (such as fluoride in city water supplies). The
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Mukhtaṣar Minhāj al Qāṣidīn
Authored by Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al Raḥmān ibn Qudāmah al Maqdisi, Mukhtaṣar Minhāj al Qāṣidīn is a summary of a summary of the monumental Iḥyāʾ ʿUlūm al Dīn by Imām al Ghazāli, one of the greatest works in spirituality and personal development. The text covers four major areas:
Acts of worship - this section focuses more on the inner dimensions of worship rather than the outward aspects. Each act of worship such as prayer, charity & dhikr etc have a role to play in reforming our inner states.
Social Dealings - this section focuses on key social interactions such as friendship, marriage, seclusion, enjoining the good & forbidding evil and more.
Destructive vices - this section focuses on the deadly sins such as pride, ostentation, envy, anger and more.
Saving virtues - this section focuses on the virtuous inner actions and states such as sincerity, taqwa, repentance, asceticism and more.
The entire text was taught over a period of three years (2019-2022) to a group of students over Zoom. The text was read in Arabic and translated into English (making it ideal for students with an interest in applied Arabic).
The classes were very interactive, with students often contributing to the topics with relevant questions and insights.
Please note, the book was taught in a non-linear fashion i.e. specific chapters were chosen to fit within term times. Nonetheless, it is not essential to follow the order of the book to benefit from it.
There are no discussion groups or assessments for this class.
ACCESS TO RECORDINGS
Please note, you will not have lifetime access to the term you register for. You will have 5 months access for the 16 two-hour classes and 3 months access for the 6-8 two-hour classes. This is to ensure that students do not procrastinate in watching the classes.
If you do not find the classes suitable, you can request a refund within the first week of registering for a term.
There are no assessments for this class.
If you have a question based on one of the classes, please email it to email@example.com and it will be answered by Sh. Alomgir Ali.
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Facebook Opens Up Your Inbox to Outsiders, for a Fee
The social network is overhauling its in-house messaging system with a new set of filters that it says will help users reach out and “Poke” each other more effectively; you can see details here. Part of the overhaul: A test that will allow some users to ping people they’re not friends with, if they’re willing to spend a dollar.
Facebook says the changes are primarily designed to let Facebook users who already know each other make sure their missives connect. But the most interesting part of the move is what the social network is calling a “a small experiment to test the usefulness of economic signals.”
Here’s how it will work: A limited number of U.S. Facebook users will now have the ability to pay Facebook a fee to send a message to other U.S. Facebook users who they don’t know. Facebook isn’t spelling out the cost publicly, but people familiar with the company’s plans say it will start at a dollar a message, and Facebook will tinker with the fee over time. The option will only be available to individual users — not marketers and brands — and Facebook will only allow users to receive a single paid message per week. But users can’t opt not to receive paid messages.
Here’s Facebook’s rationale for the move:
This test is designed to address situations where neither social nor algorithmic signals are sufficient. For example, if you want to send a message to someone you heard speak at an event but are not friends with, or if you want to message someone about a job opportunity, you can use this feature to reach their Inbox. For the receiver, this test allows them to hear from people who have an important message to send them.
Glass-half-empty translation: Facebook is selling access to your inbox — which you previously could have kept closed to anyone you don’t know — to the outside world.
Glass-half-full version: Maybe you do want to hear from those people! And the one-message-a-week cap, combined with the $1 fee, will prevent your inbox from filling up with spam.
In the wake of Facebook’s botched IPO, the company has been working very hard to show Wall Street that it has the ability to generate revenue from all sorts of streams it hadn’t previously tapped — mobile ads, for instance, as well as gifts, and maybe-but-not-quite-yet, an ad network.
But at first blush this doesn’t seem like it belongs in that category. At least not with the restrictions the company is placing on this initial test: If Coke wants to get my attention on the social network, Facebook has an ever-expanding series of ad options it wants to sell them.
Meanwhile, if anyone can figure out how to make pay-to-play work for my real-world inbox — which spam has rendered just about useless — I’m all ears.
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Fortran 90 and BeoMPI
bogdan.costescu at iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
Wed Mar 14 07:28:09 PST 2001
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Daniel Ridge wrote:
> ... I would suggest that people who would be in a
> position to require per-platform wranglings for MPI often also need to
> perform similar wranglings to accomodate differences in the C library
> or in the Fortran environment. MPI compiler wrappers hardly seem like
> the right place to accomodate these per-platform differences.
I'd like to disagree 8-)
I have here 2 clusters, one running jobs on top of LAM-MPI and the other
running jobs on top of MPICH on top of SCore. By using mpifxx, I'm able to
compile things without knowing where the include and lib files are and
even more without knowing which is the right order of linking the libs;
just try to do this by hand for LAM-MPI for example!
Another example is the 64 bit platforms where you can compile for both 32
and 64 bit by specifying a simple flag like -32 or -64. Doing linking by
hand means that _I_ have to choose the libraries and I might choose the
wrong one(s) ! Sometimes this is noticed by the linker, but not always...
> ./configure seems much more palatable than a per-library compiler
> wrappers. I've seen a number of apps that are MPI enabled and which
> supply a configure script which work just fine without using the
> compiler wrappers.
Of course, if every software package would be using ./configure,
everything would be easy. Try to convince the maintainers of big Fortran
packages like Gaussian or CHARMM to switch to ./configure 8-(
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) doubled down on her support for calls to “Defund the Police,” Thursday night despite the fact the slogan has cost many Democrats in losing their races last week.
Pat Lynch, president of the Police Benevolent Association, said law enforcement is “staring down the…
The New York City Police Benevolent Association formally endorsed President Trump re-election bid Friday evening, praising the law and order president for his “strong voice” supporting our New York’s finest and police officers across the nation.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) suggested the recent crime surge plaguing New York City is due to “record unemployment” that is causing people to be put in a position to “shoplift some bread or go hungry that night.”
The New York Police Department (NYPD) Commissioner Dermot Shea announced on Monday that the NYPD will disband its anti-crime units and will be reassign those officers into a “variety of assignments including detective bureaus, neighborhood policing, and other assignments” effective immediately.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) has joined the nationwide calls to defund the police in response to the death of George Floyd, pledging for the first time after a week and a half of mass protests and violent riots to cut the New York Police Department (NYPD) funding to reallocate the funds to unspecified number of youth and social services programs. | <urn:uuid:b03aa4ba-ba4f-41f1-a831-f1fc3b4903b4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.monasalama.com/tag/nypd/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.946915 | 317 | 1.5625 | 2 |
A short history
of the Gibson
L-0 and L-1 guitars
from 1926 to 1929
The L-series, Gibson's first regular production flat-tops, debuted in 1926 with the introduction of the L-0 and L-1. The illustrations on this page are from Gibson's 1926 catalog "P", in which these models were introduced.
The body was characterized by a round lower half shaped much like that of the later SJ-200, but considerably smaller, measuring only 13 and one-half inches across the lower bout. In 1929 this dimension changed to 14 and one-quarter inches and the shape was changed to be less rounded, more flat on the bottom. Thus, the L-0 and L-1 models that we’re concerned with here were only produced for three years.
The Gibson L-0 and L-1 were made cheap to sell cheap, constructed with light bracing, thin woods, and thin finishes. It is exactly these cost-cutting measures that gave them their exceptional responsiveness. For the price, these guitars offered a beautifully warm, remarkable tone and volume for their small body construction . They were favorites amongst finger picking and blues style guitarists.
The 1926 L-0 was an acoustic flat top with a spruce top and maple back and sides, 13.5” wide at the lower bout. It had a bound top and back with white “ivoroid” (plastic), dot inlays at the 5th, 7th and 9th frets on the “ebonized” (i.e., black-dyed white wood, generally holly) fingerboard. The neck had 19 frets, joining the body at the 12th, with a scale length that varied from 24 1/2 to 25 1/4 inches. It carried a “The Gibson” logo silk screened in white paint and had an ebony pyramid-style bridge, bone saddle, no pick guard, 3-on-a-plate tuners with white plastic buttons and an “Amber Brown” finish. It carried a list price of $35.
The 1926 L-1 also had a spruce top, but substituted mahogany for the back and sides and ebony for the fingerboard. The top was finished in amber, with the rest of the body finished in “Sheraton Brown”. It was priced at $50.
The very first examples of both models were built with ladder bracing on the top, similar to that used in the carved top guitars that preceded them. The ladder pattern was first modified slightly, then abandoned completely in favor of an X bracing pattern. Most of the surviving examples of these models are X braced, indicating that the change occurred relatively early, probably in late 1926 or early 1927. Many players prefer the tone of the X braced guitars, but the ladder braced models had a unique sound that is well suited to certain styles of music.
What are the caracteristics of an "authentic" 1926-1929 Gibson L-0 or L-1? This is an impossible question to answer, as Gibson seems to have operated almost as a custom shop during this period. Examination of the few remaining examples of these models reveals that there is tremendous variation in their construction. Tops vary from a very thin .080” (2.032mm) to .115” (2.921mm) thick. Necks vary in shape from a "V" to a fat "C" shape more like a modern classical guitar. Some necks are as wide as 1.87" (47.5mm) at the nut and 2.30" (58.5mm) at the 12th fret, while others are narrower. As noted above, scale lengths varied greatly, generally due to slipshod workmanship in the placement of the bridge. Braces sometimes extend under the kerfing, while on other examples they stop short of the sides.
Even the "official" specifications of these models varied wildly during the three years of their production. The L-0, initially produced with maple back and sides and spruce top, was later manufactured with an all mahogany body (back, sides and top). Fingerboards were made of black-dyed holly, ebony or rosewood, and later gained pearl position dots at the twelfth and fifteenth frets. Some L-0 models were produced with no binding on the back. Purfling designs around the sound hole varied somewhat. Most examples had binding on the inside edge of the sound hole, but some did not. Bridges could be ebony or rosewood, nuts bone or ebony. The actual size and position of the sound hole itself varied considerably, from the relatively small hole depicted in the original catalog illustrations to ones a full inch larger. | <urn:uuid:3ff51352-140f-4e2b-b887-ebb3b5cb8dfe> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.jameseinolf.com/gibson.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00060-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973369 | 996 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Advantages and Disadvantages of Hydronic Distribution Systems
One major advantage of hydronic heating systems is that they can be easily built into new energy-efficient homes. Efficiency can be increased by increasing the thermal mass of floor systems. Hydronic radiative systems may also be quieter than ducted heating, since there is no fan or blowing air. There may also be benefits to air quality, since heating ducts can develop mold and dust issues. Because water is an excellent conductor and relatively dense, hydronic systems require much less working fluid. This means that hydronic heating systems take up less room than ducted heating systems.
Some systems even allow differential room heating, in which residents can change the heat in any given room. This feature, of course, comes at a cost premium.
In well-designed systems, hydronic heating may be substantially more efficient than ducted heating. However, there is little data on this issue. It does seem likely that hydronic heating would be less power-intensive than other systems, as it doesn't rely extensively on fans. However, some systems may have a large pumping requirement, which reduces efficiency.
There are some disadvantages of hydronic systems. In the event of a retrofit, it may be probitively expensive to install a hydronic system. In addition, hydronic systems can typically only provide heat. This means that a separate AC system is required, increasing expense and space requirements. However, some homes may combine heating and cooling into a single hydronic system using a chiller boiler. This can be expensive, however.
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Members of the 34th Reigate (Meadvale) Scout Group are celebrating a first to be proud of.
For siblings Toby, Lawrence and Zoe Hiller‐Wood, 18, have become the first triplets in the history of the group to be named Queen’s Scouts.
They were presented with their awards – the highest honour in Scouting – by the Scouting Association last month.
Toby, Lawrence and Zoe have been actively involved with the 34th for more than a decade as Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Explorers.
Toby is now a Unit Helper with the Explorers and has spent two years as a Young Leader at the Jordan Heights campsite in Reigate.
To earn the Queen’s Scout Award, the triplets completed a 65‐mile hike around the Isle of Wight, using only footpaths throughout the journey.
The Hiller-Woods also carried out a study of tourism on the island and its impact on the area's wildlife. Among a range of other community service projects, the triplets worked with the National Trust Rangers to help restore and preserve historic Reigate Fort.
David Thompson, Group chairman of 34th Reigate (Meadvale) Scouts, said: “During their Scouting career, the Hiller‐Woods took part in nearly 120 camps, with a total of more than 200 nights away between them.”
Zoe, Lawrence and Toby are all currently studying for A‐Levels, while also working at a local supermarket.
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Several issues will inevitably arise when charging your mobile device with a wall charger. The most frustrating problem with USB cables – particularly Apple’s – is that many of them are poorly made. The cable splits open, wires get exposed, and the charger is eventually rendered unreliable or completely useless. As it turns out, Apple may be exploring a solution to this problem that could simultaneously absolve the company of its shoddy cable sins and boost its bottom line. According to Bloomberg, Apple is exploring ways to develop mobile phones and tablets that aren’t inhibited by the need for cables or close proximity to a power mat.
Late last year, Apple released a charging dock that can power the Apple Watch from a distance of a few millimeters away. Now, it appears that the tech giant has set its sights on enabling a similar function over a much longer distance. Although the Cupertino-based company has declined to comment on the matter, a source who asked to remain anonymous has informed Bloomberg that Apple is working with partners in both the United States and China to find a way to beam power to devices from “further away than the charging mats used with current smartphones.”
A few weeks ago, a company by the name of Energous made noise at CES 2016 by introducing its wireless charging system, WattApp. The tech proved capable of delivering 5.5 watts of power from 5 feet way, and 1 watt from 15 feet away. This would be an optimum wireless charging system for the iPhone, which currently receives 5 watts of power from the standard iPhone charger. Although Bloomberg‘s source failed to name specific partners in Apple’s ambitious project, Energous revealed that it has a contract with “one of the top five consumer technology companies in the world.” It’s possible that Energous could be talking about Google, Samsung, or Microsoft, but their description of the unspecified tech company strongly points to Apple.
Whether or not Apple is set on pushing wireless-charged devices to market is still up in the air. However, if the company is successful in overcoming the technical obstacles, then devices with the ability to be charged from afar may surface as early as 2017.
A new technology like this has the potential to be a game changer for Apple. While the Cupertino-based company remains one of the most valuable companies in the world, Apple is forecasting its first sales decline in 13 years. The decline is due mostly to the stalling sales of iPhones, as well as a dropoff in the sales of iPads – two devices that generate more than three quarters of Apple’s revenue. Hence, a new technology like wireless-charged phones could greatly help to rejuvenate consumer demand for the company’s marquee products.
Stay tuned for more details on Apple cutting the cord from your phones and tablets.[Bloomberg]
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Chest tube placement is used when there is an accumulation of air or fluid in the pleural space and needs to be evacuated quickly, which can be life-saving.1 This procedure is especially important for significant traumatic pneumothoraces because it is life-threatening and has the potential for complications.2 Without practice, complications can occur such as delayed placement, inadequate placement, infection, laceration of the lung, or placing the tube into a solid organ or into the abdomen.1 A study in 2009 found that of 273 patients with a chest tube, or in need of one, there were 26 complications relating to insertion and positioning of the chest tube; however, with training, these can be minimized.3
Any emergency healthcare provider must learn many different procedural skills including chest tube insertion; however, there may not be many opportunities to perform this. This is a stressful event and lack of confidence can have bad outcomes.4 Repeating a skill multiple times has been shown to improve speed, retention of the skill, and performance under pressure.5 Training programs have tried to use dogs, cats, pigs,6 and human cadavers to teach this procedure.7 However, using animal and cadaver models can produce difficulties with storage and use and may not provide the best simulation. Many task trainers that have been created, such as using mannequins covered with a biomaterial,8 to more commercialized task trainers such as TraumaMan.9 Previously described nonbiologic custom-made task trainers are complex in design and require technical molding and casting procedures.10 Beyond the initial sculpting, model creation can also require stocking polymer material to make a casting negative and final resin based shell. Such methods require extensive time and effort on the part of the healthcare simulation technology specialist to produce anatomically accurate models. Although commercial chest tube simulators have been found to be good for finding landmarks,11 they may not provide the level of realism for effective skill acquisition.10
Task trainers are important because they allow for practice and can provide similar feedback; however, these training devices can be costly, costing up to $US 3000 initially and up to US $50 per learner in disposable materials. As such, it was important to create a model that is cost-effective, easy to store, quick to setup, effective at training, durable, and not inferior to current training methods. The purposes of this article are to teach how to create a Chest tube High-feedback Educational Simulation Trainer (CHEST) and to report feedback received on this model.
This study consists of two phases. Phase 1 describes the construction of the model. Phase 2 describes feedback reporting of survey data.
Phase 1: Simulator Construction
A chest wall shell was created using PVC and wood. Using a 10 × 8-in piece of 1/2-inch thick plywood, a 1/4-in-deep notch was cut along the long side of the plywood, approximately a half inch from the edge. A similar notch was added to a 10-in-long 2 × 6 along the long edge. The 2 × 6 was affixed to the top of the plywood at a 90-degree angle using screws, so that the notches were away from the vertex but facing each other. A 3/4-in diameter PVC pipe was quartered using a band saw. Each quarter was cut to a length of 9 1/2 in with about a 15-degree angle at each end to create rib segments. Five ribs were placed into the notches on either end with 1/4 in spacing in-between each rib. The ribs were secured using wood glue. The end of each rib was flattened using pliers to place into the notches, rounded side out (Fig. 1). Fifteen task trainers were created by two study designers in two 4-hour sessions.
Once the chest frame was created, different tissue layers were needed to complete the model. Three separate foam layers were designed to fit the chest frame (Fig. 2). The three tissue layers represented muscle, adipose, and skin tissue. The muscle layer was designed from COHRlastic silicone foam rubber 500 duro 0.062-in thickness in a red color.12 The skin layer was designed from BISCO silicone foam HT-820 0.125-in thickness.13 The adipose layer was designed from polyurethane foam (Polyether 1034) at 0.5-in thickness.14 Each of these had a peel-and-stick adhesive for rapid attachment to the top of the chest frame (Fig. 3, materials).
Phase 2: Simulator Function Evaluation
Once the task trainer was created, testing sites were recruited to participate in the evaluation of the model at the national emergency medicine residency program leadership conference (CORDEM) through face-to-face discussions. Eight emergency medicine residency programs and one advanced paramedic flight training school agreed to participate without compensation. Each site was provided a task trainer and multiple tissue layers to accommodate the expected number of learners at each institution. In addition to the chest frame and tissue samples, a USB drive with two training videos, one video teaching setup and maintenance of the task trainer (see Video, Supplemental Digital Content 1, https://links.lww.com/SIH/A407, showing the setup and use of tissue layers to assemble the CHEST model for use) and a second video teaching the chest tube insertion skill were provided. In addition, a procedural checklist for recommended evaluation of procedure performance was also included. Educators at each of these sites were identified and sent surveys for both learner and proctor feedback about the training model. Participant learners included emergency medicine residents and advanced paramedic flight trainees. Proctors were emergency medicine attending physicians at each program site and a senior flight medic instructor at the paramedic flight training school instructional sessions.
The learner survey contained 14 items evaluating the realism and effectiveness for chest tube insertion training. Ten items assessed usability with responses on a five-point scale ranging from strongly disagree to strongly agree (Table 1). Four additional items assessed learner preferences about the model design. The proctor survey contained 29 items that included four open-ended questions about benefits, weaknesses, and improvements for the model. The remaining items used a Likert scale and multiple-choice responses to collect information on the effectiveness of training, comparison with other training devices, and aspects for logistics and use (Tables 2, 3). Each site was asked to return anonymous surveys once evaluation of the model was completed. Sites were allowed to keep the chest frame and any remaining tissues for continued use. This study was reviewed by an institutional review board and classified as exempt. Completion of the voluntary and anonymous survey constituted consent for participation.
After receiving the completed surveys back from each of the testing sites, raw data were consolidated into an Excel sheet. Descriptive statistics including percentages, means, and frequencies were calculated using SPSS Version 23.
Initially 10 institutions agreed to participate, only nine sites returned data for analysis. Of these sites, all nine returned learner surveys (n = 159); however, only seven sites returned proctor surveys (n = 11). This discrepancy in proctor survey numbers is due to some sites having multiple proctors participating in training. Learners attested to being able to use the skin layer 4 or more times (73%, n = 115), the fat layer 4 or more times (78%, n = 123), and the muscle layer 4 or more times (76%, n = 120). Sixty-two percent (n = 90) of the learners believed the fat layer to be the right thickness, whereas 35% (n = 55) thought that it was too thin. Table 1 provides the response percentages for various aspects of the model including questions related to realism and effectiveness.
Overall, most learners agreed or strongly agreed that the model provided a realistic cut for skin and fat layers, hemostat puncture and spread through the muscle layer, and finger sweep. The majority also agreed that the model allowed for proper training of tube placement, skin suturing, and tube securing. Eighty-three percent (n = 132) agreed that the CHEST trainer was a good method of training this technical skill.
Eleven proctor surveys came from seven institutions. Proctor responses stated that they were able to use the skin layer 4 or more times (73%, n = 8), use the fat layer 4 or more times (73%, n = 8), and use the muscle layer 4 or more times (73%, n = 8). Table 2 provides proctor responses to items related to effectiveness of the CHEST.
Table 3 provides proctor responses to items related to realism, cleanup, storability, and durability of the CHEST in comparison with other chest tube task trainers. In addition, six proctors (60%) responded that they used the provided procedural checklist during their instruction of the procedure.
The majority found that skin cutting, blunt dissection, muscle layer puncture, and tube insertion were effective. One area that was identified as weaker than the others related to the skin layer suturing and tube securing. No rib or wood failures were reported. Nine proctors responded about the time it took to change the tissue layers. Four reported that they could change the layers in less than 1 min, three reported the process took between 1 and 2 minutes, and two needed between 2 and 5 minutes to complete the tissue layer exchange. Ninety-one percent of the proctors surveyed stated that they would use this task trainer if it was at an equal or lesser cost than other chest tube task trainers.
This product was well reviewed by learners and proctors and serves as an improvement to current training models by offering a smaller and less expensive task trainer which still offers realistic demonstration of skin cutting, muscle puncture, and blunt dissection. The skin layer was found to tear easily during suture and limited training of tube securing; future studies are planned to evaluate a foam layer with increased density to improve training of this skill. The higher density BISCO HT-840 is being considered as a more durable alternative.13 As another option to mitigate this limitation and to improve upon the current design, simulation sites may choose to modify the skin layer by adding Power Mesh or a similar fabric substrate. Power Mesh can be added between the skin and muscle layers or incorporated into a custom-made outer skin layer, similar to a suture pad. This design is used in other task trainers to minimize tearing when suturing.10,15,16 Learners had a mixed response to the thickness of the adipose tissue. This tissue was half an inch thick and still much thicker than current task training models. Even so, it was still viewed to be too thin by a third of respondents. The fat layer was intentionally made thicker than current models to make rib palpation difficult and train dissection and tunneling. This technique is not currently trainable in noncadaveric models. Because layers are individually selected and attached, individual sites could select a different thickness for the fat layer to improve perceived realism for their learner and patient population. Although other models have used standalone frames, many of these use animal tissue that requires accommodation such as refrigeration, cleaning, and in some institutions biohazard disposal.17
Cost of Construction
The bulk of the expense for this task trainer is from the cost of the different tissue layers. Cost for the layers was US $15.75 for a set of three layers, and pricing was decreased with bulk purchasing that may not be available for individual centers. The tissue layers could be used by approximately 4 learners per fresh set. The cost per learner for the CHEST is found to be approximately US $3.93. Estimated cost for current training techniques from our surveys was reported at US $20 to $50 per learner. Other costs to be considered are the time for material acquisition and construction that are not frequently considered with other do-it-yourself projects. Consider that assembly would likely take several hours even for a single model to be created and there was some added efficiency with repetitive model construction. Costs of the individual layers for the muscle, fat, and skin respectively were US $6.90, $1.95, and $6.90.
Many other training devices have been developed to show effective training of chest tube insertion, with many other methods reported at being effective. This may demonstrate that there is not one superior method, but rather many beneficial methods to provide this type of training. Although a large number of learners were sampled and 11 proctor surveys were collected, only seven sites provided proctor feedback—with some sites returning surveys from multiple proctors. Although the surveys distributed were anonymous by participant, they were categorized by institution, and thus, some bias may have been introduced with concern for opinions about negative feedback.
A task trainer can be easily made using simple shop tools and materials. This task trainer was found to be easy to store, quick to set up, durable, easy to clean, and rated as effective at training the skill of chest tube insertion. It is important to have this skill ready whenever a critical patient may arrive, and this can be used to help train and keep a health care provider ready.
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• The binding of fluorescein to normal human serum proteins in a physiologic solvent at 37 °C was measured by equilibrium dialysis. Human serum contained 3.28 x 10-3M concentration fluoresceinbinding sites, with an average association constant at 37 °C of 0.54 X 104M-1. The percentage of total fluorescein bound by human serum proteins ranged from 83% to 53% when the total fluorescein concentration ranged from 6.9 X 10-5 to 6.2 X 10-3M.
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The function is tsin(t^2) on the interval [0,10]
So it'd end up being 1/10 the integral from 0 to 10 of tsin(t^2), but that's where I'm stuck. How in the world would I take the antiderivative of that function?
Are you sure you arent finding the average value of sin(t^2) on the interval [0,10] ?
Then the average value is:
then substitute u = t^2 and solve.
You should get around .0688.
If you are finding the average value of tsin(t^2), the average value is:
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Public broadcasting in Alaska took one step closer last week to completing a project that would link 30 television and radio stations across the state through a high-speed data network, allowing them to provide broader statewide news coverage.
Last week the Alaska Public Broadcasting Initiative was awarded a $365,000 grant by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The money will be used to maintain the network.
The network will enable Alaska stations to share television and radio stories, thereby broadening the scope of reporting, said David Geesin, deputy director for Alaska Public Broadcasting, Inc.
He said that once the project is complete, it will allow Juneau's local public radio station KTOO to get stories from more remote areas.
"The Fort Yukon station could get a KTOO feed," he said. He also said the new system will enable radio and television stations to receive live feeds on events such as Gov. Frank Murkowski's Conference of Alaskans, held earlier this year in Fairbanks to discuss the future of the Alaska Permanent Fund.
"For the first time, Alaska's public stations will be able to transfer audio and video files seamlessly from anywhere in the state," Geesin said in a prepared statement. "This represents a tremendous savings in staff time and travel."
Alaska has four public television and 26 public radio stations.
"Public radio in Alaska right now reaches - I think it's in excess of 90 percent of the Alaska population," Geesin said.
Bill Legere, general manager for KTOO-FM and TV, said it will establish a more unified public broadcasting system.
Legere said he expects that the network will be completely installed by the end of the year, with everything being completely functional by spring 2005.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is the largest provider of funds to public radio and television projects in the country. It funds more than 1,000 public radio and television stations.
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By Jackie A. O’Neal
Jackie Audrey O’Neal explores her cultural roots from the 16th century Basque country witch trials to her Afro-Indian roots. The book delves into identity politics and the author teaches individuals how she integrated her multi-cultural past to make the most out of life. The collection of life stories is drawn from the author’s experiences and research.
Born in the Land of the Tango: A Memoir about Identity, Family, and Healing”
By Jackie Audrey O’Neal
# Pages: 90 Pages
“Jackie O’Neal’s writing, particularly that which incorporates her background, has a special kind of music. Her images are evocative, finely tuned, and spiritual. She sparkles as writer with great skill and sensitivity.”
-Elmaz Abinader, author of Children of The Roojme
“O’Neal’s pieces have an edgy quality; they seem driven by a kind of literary nervous energy reflecting a distinctive voice in prose: witty, knowing, surprising- filled with street-wise sauciness and sophistication.”
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“..prose which is permeated with a lyrical and narrative sensibility ,which is truly unique.” – Thomas Lux, poet and author of Memory’s Handgrenade (1972), The Glassblower’s Breath (1976), Sunday (1979),Half Promised Land (1986), The Drowned River (1990),Split Horizon (1994),The Blind Swimmer: Selected Early Poems, 1970-1975 (1996),New and Selected Poems, 1975-1995 (1997)
The Street of Clocks (2001),The Cradle Place (2004),God Particles (2008)
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Novelist in Residence, California State University, Los Angeles, author of best- seller, Dead Above Ground, Understand This, and All The Trouble You Need
Suggested Interview Questions for Jackie O’Neal
- In your book Born in the Land of the Tango: A Memoir about Identity, Family, and Healing, you write about how you integrated your multi-cultural past. Can you clarify why this process was important to you?
- Can you talk a little about your ethnicity?
- In the 90’s you traveled to your country of origin, Argentina with your son. What did you learn from making the trip?
- Did anything unusual happen while you were traveling in Argentina?
- What inspired you to write the book?
- In your book, you’ve included some guided meditations. Can meditation play a role in healing past hurt?
- There are some poems in your book. How long have you been writing poetry?
- What led you to weave poetry into the narrative? Did it involve any special skill?
- What do you hope readers will learn from your book?
10. Your book features interesting anecdotes related to your family visit. Which anecdotes can you share with the audience?
11. You talk about engaging in a healing therapy called soul energy. What impact did this have on your life?
12. Why did you decide to undergo soul energy healing?
13. In the book, you talk about the influence of your parent’s bigotry. Can you explain for the audience what this was all about?
14. What’s the most important lesson you’ve learned from grown up in a multi-cultural family?
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CAMDEN, Maine — When Camden Garden Club member Dale Bruce drives around her hometown and sees a barren yard she thinks, “There should be a tree there.”
“Maybe a big sugar maple,” she said Saturday, thinking about a hypothetical spot in town. “It’s nice to drive down tree-lined streets.”
Camden, the garden club and a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant are giving homeowners low-cost trees to help line the streets. The program started about 50 years ago when Dutch elm disease obliterated many of Camden’s trees. Now each spring, the garden club and the town pair up to plant about 15 trees in the front yards of local homeowners.
“It’s not a huge impact, but if you plant 15 trees a year every year it’s a lot of trees,” Bruce said.
The trees typically cost about $320, but for Camden residents they will cost $48. Homeowners and businesses can choose from red maple, sugar maple, two varieties of crab apple, Japanese tree lilac, Callery pear and red oak. The only stipulation is that the trees be planted on the street-facing side of a residence.
“Some people have trees in front of their house that are dead or dying, and they don’t know how to get new ones,” said Camden Town Manager Pat Finnegan. “It’s a popular program and certainly part of Camden’s beauty is its trees, so it’s nice to offer people shade trees in front of their homes.”
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I just learned that my mare had a Speed Index of 52 in the one race she ran.
Is that good for barrel racing?
She is a Paint, 8 years old and been trained for barrels and poles.
It all depends on the individual. If the horse is already trained for barrels, then you oughta know whether her speed is enough or not.
I have only had her a few weeks and have no idea what her speed on barrels is.
A SI is not going to tell you much in respect to doing speed events such as Barrels or pole. A SI is a racing rating showing how fast a horse was on a given track. A SI on one track will be different then one on a different track. It also will vary from distance to distance.
Speed event have more to do with rating and turning then out and out speed. You can have the fastest horse in the world but if he can not rate his speed and turn it will make no difference.
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A friend of mine was a late bloomer in Ping-Pong sport. The last time he held the paddle was around when he was in the 7th grade and now plays Ping-Pong at his workplace. The thing is he doesn’t want to get embarrassed for silly mistakes in his game while playing with his colleagues and he’s right. No one likes to get embarrassed in front of people.
So he came to me and I shared some tips with him. I thought why not write an article which might help other beginners too. I have been a table tennis coach for long and have trained many beginners. I am going to mention the seven common mistakes I have observed in them.
If you’re a beginner like my friend, this article is for you. Keep reading and you will know.
1. You Stretch to Reach for Balls
This is the most common among all the beginners. You always try to reach the ball even if you might swing and miss but won’t move your feet. Well, if somehow you manage to hit back the ball that is farther for your backhand or the forehand, your shot might not be perfect and powerful.
The key is to move. Use your feet to get closer to the ball. And your hand will automatically be in the perfect proximity of the ball. Step-side, stop and hit the ball with the desired spin. A rule of thumb, Get closer to the ball with your feet, not by stretching out your hand.
2. You Hold the Paddle Too Tight
There are certain things that might go wrong if you hold the bat too tight. As you hold it tight, your muscles in your wrist and the forearm is going to be tightened, losing its flexibility. Furthermore, it restricts your arm movement and the speed of your hand which will ultimately result in stiff shots.
Moreover, you will get the difficulty in switching the shot angle, that is when you want to switch your shot from forehand to backhand or vice versa, it will be tough to do so. All in all, you won’t have the feel and control.
Handle the bat just right, no more no less tight. A looser grip aids in better ball spinning. It will let you change the bat angles swiftly for the various shots. You will be playing faster shots with a more relaxed body and will move quickly to hit the shots right.
3. You Stand Too Close to the Table
Standing too close to the table will drain you, literally. If you’re too close to the table, you will find it hard to return the ball shot very deep towards you. And spinning the ball also will be a tough task. Moreover, you will not have enough space to play your stroke and might give the points to your opponent.
Instead, stay a little far from it, you will have ample space and the rise after the pitch of the ball to return it back. However, you can always step closer to hit the balls pitched short on the table. But yeah, you need to step back as soon as you shoot the ball to be ready to return the next ball.
4. You Hit the Ball Too Hard
Unlike Cricket or Baseball, you are not supposed to hit the ball out of the stadium using your utmost strength. Do not hit it hard. The fact is if you hit the ball too hard, you will not be able to spin or play your shot as you want to.
Use 70%-80% of your power to hit the ball. This much force will be enough for a ball to make it to the other side, right? More importantly, as you decrease the power of your shot, your muscles can swing the paddle in a way to get the desired spin and get the techniques right.
5. You Have Floppy Control Over Bat
Floppy bat control can cause bad strokes and you might lose the grip over the game. The angle of the bat should be consistent during the shot. If the bat angle remains constant during the stroke and changes just even when the bat and the ball come in the contact, the game won’t go smooth and you will never achieve consistency.
Floppy pad handling is the reason behind the inconsistent shots. That happens when the bat flops on the contact of paddle and ball. This feels ridiculous, I know, I had been there.
If you’re facing problems of a floppy bat, try a bit more pinching the bat between your thumb and the index finger. This will give you a firm grip to avoid floppy shots.
6. You Stand With Your Right Leg Forward (for Righties)
Do not stand with your right foot forward than the left one. Noobs often do this mistake while they play such shots. Well, when you play backhand shots with the right leg forward than your left on, you can play okay. But, as soon as you need to change the shot to forehand you may get stuffed.
So here is the hack for you, put your feet equally, either square to the table or your right foot slightly back than the left one. This will help you when you got to change from backhand to forehand.
Same implies for the left-handers. The only difference is they have to consider the leg movements another way around.
7. Your Fronthand Stroke Overshoots
This tip is for you if you’re like other beginners who swing the bat and their bat reaches to the left arm shoulder crossing from your front side. Technically there wouldn’t be any flaws in the stroke but the thing is you will find difficulty in the next shot as you will have to get your hand back the long way in the initial position of the stroke.
For this mistake, here comes another thumb rule for you. Imagine a vertical line in front of your body which will cut your body in two equal halves.
When you swing your bat while performing forehand stroke, the bat should not cross that line. This will help you to be ready for the next shot, and the next, and the next, and so on.
As I have said, no one likes to get embarrassed, you shouldn’t be too. Learn, practice and work on your mistakes. There is no way out to playing better other than practice and rectifying mistakes.
You can always practice at your home. Ping pong tables and other accessories are vastly available on E-commerce platforms. However, it is a big confusion because there are a lot of products from various brands. Check out the link to my website in the bio and look what suits you the best.
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It is part of sun ray. The sun produces rays which are distinguished in their color spectrum of visible and invisible rays. One of the invisible rays is ultraviolet ray located in the violet color spectrum. The other invisible rays are the X-ray, Gamma Rays and Cosmic Rays, which have shorter wavelengths than Ultraviolet ray and, when uncontrolled, they are very dangerous for human life other creatures.
Infrared rays (infrared ray - IR) are also invisible rays located on red spectrum, close to the spectrum of visible rays. It can be said that 80% sun ray is infrared ray due to the wide wave range of this ray (0.75-1000 microns). Infrared rays are grouped into 3 zones: near infrared ray (0.75-1.5 microns), middle infrared ray (1.5-4 micron) and far infrared ray (FIR 4-1000 micron).
The latest study on Biotechnology found that Far Infrared Ray (FIR with wavelengths between 6-14 microns) plays an important role in the formation and growth of living creatures. For this reason, infrared ray is also called Bio Genetic Rays.
All living creatures on Earth are always composed of water molecules and complex proteins. Water molecule is always unstable. If the water molecule is oxygenated with a wavelength between 8-10 microns (it is the wavelength of water oscillation), a kind of instability vibration (resonance) will occur.
The resonance causes the ionization of water to be Hydrogen (H+) and Hydroxyl (OH-) ions to occur at a very high speed (10/12 seconds). This ionization is called "Water Activation". If this activation process occurs throughout the entire human body, cell metabolism and the process of removing the rest of cell metabolism become more active and effective to produce amazing cell development.
Infrared rays from the sun have wavelengths between 3.5 and 10 microns and infrared ray which has a wavelength of 6-14 microns is bio genetic ray which is very important in human life (we receive this ray every day from the sun with all the rays in the spectrum of sun ray).
Why do we need Far Infrared in life?
As we know, the sun also emits various kinds of rays. Therefore, if we get exposure to sun rays, we also get other rays that are actually dangerous, such as Cosmic Rays, X-Rays, Ultraviolet Rays, Micro Rays, Gamma Rays, radio waves and others. Some types of rays like Ultraviolet Ray can cause skin cancer and various other diseases. Therefore we need something that can replace or create something that can produce FIR.
Effectiveness of FIR Rays :
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Video of the lecture is available at http://dennett.cs-i.brandeis.edu/cs177/L7
The diary of the lecture and the .m files are attached at the end of this page.
Also, here is a link to a latex file in google docs that Brandeisians can edithttps://docs.google.com/a/brandeis.edu/document/d/15FMUNqx3j1B2UR4ZXC--ajsfiTvGng4O6c5fQZSDA_A/edit?hl=en
The pdf generated by this is attached at the end of this file.
Reading: we are covering material from Chapters 6 and 7 of the Matlab book by Amos Gilat.Learning Objectives for today:
Topics to cover:
- be able to write an octave/matlab function computing a mathematical function defined by its Taylor series using both a for loop and with vector operations alone (e.g. hw3)
- understand the time and space tradeoffs for these two ways of writing the function
- be able to explain the different sources of error in Scientific Computing
- be able to plot the relative approximation error for a function they have written (assuming they have an authoritative function to compare it to).
- write simple functions involving for, while, and if statements to compute numberic values
- Taylor series approximations of special functions
- writing exp, sin directly
- writing them without loops!
- modified exponential for any x
- Error in Numerical Computation
- machine error (e.g. Pentium FDIV bug)
- floating point numbers (IEEE754) and roundoff error
- approximation error and eps(x)
- modeling error
- measurement error
- More examples of matlab/octave functions:
- Statistics procedures written from scratch (mean, stdev)
- Matrix multiplication written from scratch
- Useful Matlab functions:
- ind=find(array) returns a list of indices where the array is non-zero
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Autonomous Optical Navigation (AON) allows for significant advances in spacecraft navigation accuracy around small bodies located far from Earth, such as asteroids and comets. AON has been used effectively in several previous spacecraft missions, including the Hayabusa and Dawn missions. However, NASAs future goals for exploration of small bodies are significantly more challenging than what has been accomplished to date. In particular, the small-body pinpoint landing accuracy needed for future spacecraft missions planned by NASA will require significantly enhanced navigation accuracy and autonomous maneuver capabilities. To help NASA attain these goals, the research team will investigate the effectiveness of modern orbit estimation techniques and optimal maneuver targeting algorithms for orbiting and landing on small bodies using AON. The research team will build upon Dr. Russells recent experience in 1) advanced estimation techniques, 2) efficient, robust feedback control algorithms for maneuver design, and 3) fast numerical methods for onboard processing. The Spacecraft Autonomous Navigation Toolset (SANT) was created at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2009 to study the landing accuracy achievable with AON using landmarks on small bodies. Analyses with SANT and other tools have shown that standard ground-based navigation can provide landing accuracies on the order of tens of meters, but a closed loop autonomous navigation and maneuvering system is needed for greater accuracy. The research team will use SANT to evaluate modern estimation techniques (i.e. filters) for AON simulations about small bodies. The research team hypothesizes that these filters can provide significant improvement for AON about small bodies using landmarks. These techniques include: The Unscented Kalman Filter. Second- and higher-order Kalman filters, which include higher-order terms of the Taylor expansion of the nonlinear system. The Particle Filter, which uses a set of differently weighted samples of the distribution, i.e. particles. The Adaptive Gaussian Mixture Filter, which represents the probability density function (PDF) as a Gaussian Mixture Model. The research team will compare the navigation performance of these estimation techniques in Monte Carlo simulations to the performance observed with standard Batch-Least-Squares (BLS) and Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) methods. These results will allow the development of a decision engine that determines the best estimation filter to use for particular mission conditions, as well as an auto-recovery feature to allow the onboard spacecraft navigation to recuperate if the OD is partially or completely lost. Advances in autonomous maneuvering algorithms are also needed to achieve future NASA goals. Thus, the research team will develop state-of-the-art optimal maneuver targeting and decision capabilities, implement those capabilities within SANT, and test those capabilities using Monte Carlo analysis. The proposed advances in AON filtering and maneuvering targeting technologies will reduce navigation error, decrease dependence on ground resources, and increase operational agility for future missions. These innovations will serve as stepping stones in NASA's quest to land robotic and manned spacecraft on small bodies with increasing accuracy. | <urn:uuid:2c6a2e15-ff36-47c6-ad53-b0b78714c508> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://techport.nasa.gov/view/11529 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.909171 | 608 | 2.71875 | 3 |
The founder of Singapore died on March 23rd, aged 91
THERE was no vainglory in the title of the first volume of Lee Kuan Yew’s memoirs: “The Singapore Story”. Few leaders have so embodied and dominated their countries: Fidel Castro, perhaps, and Kim Il Sung, in their day. But both of those signally failed to match Mr Lee’s achievement in propelling Singapore “From Third World to First” (as the second volume is called). Moreover, he managed it against far worse odds: no space, beyond a crowded little island; no natural resources; and, as an island of polyglot immigrants, not much shared history. The search for a common heritage may have been why, in the 1990s, Mr Lee’s Singapore championed “Asian values”. By then, Singapore was the most Westernised place in Asia.
Mr Lee himself, whose anglophile grandfather had added “Harry” to his Chinese name, was once called by George Brown, a British foreign secretary, “the best bloody Englishman east of Suez”. He was proud of his success in colonial society. He was a star student in pre-war Singapore, and, after an interlude during the Japanese occupation of Singapore from 1942-45, again at the London School of Economics (LSE) and Cambridge. He and his wife, Kwa Geok Choo, both got firsts in law.
When Geok Choo first appears in “The Singapore Story” it is as a student who, horror of horrors, beats young Harry in economics and English exams. Mr Lee always excelled at co-option as well as coercion. When he returned to Singapore in 1950, he was confident in the knowledge that she “could be a sole breadwinner and bring up the children”, giving him an “insurance policy” that would let him enter politics. He remained devoted to her. Before her death, when she lay bedridden and mute for two years, he maintained a spreadsheet listing the books he read to her: Lewis Carroll, Jane Austen, Shakespeare’s sonnets.
In his political life he gave few hints of such inner tenderness. Influenced by Harold Laski, whom he had encountered at the LSE, he was in the anti-colonial movement of the 1950s, and in Britain had campaigned for the Labour Party. But for him ideology always took second place to a pragmatic appreciation of how power works. In later life he would rail against the welfare state as the root of Britain’s malaise. He also boasted of his street-fighting prowess: “Nobody doubts that if you take me on, I will put on knuckle-dusters and catch you in a cul-de-sac.” He was a ruthless operator, manoeuvring himself into a position at the head of the People’s Action Party (PAP) to become Singapore’s first prime minister when self-governance arrived in 1959. He remained so for 31 years.
Just once in that time the steely mask slipped. Having led Singapore into a federation with Malaysia in 1963, Mr Lee led it out again when it was expelled in August 1965, with Malaysia’s prime minister accusing him of leading a state government “that showed no measure of loyalty to its central government”. For his part, he had become convinced that Chinese-majority Singapore would always be at a disadvantage in a Malay-dominated polity. Still, he had, he confessed, believed in and worked for the merger all his life. Announcing its dissolution, he wept. Perhaps, besides lamenting the wasted effort and dashed hopes, he foresaw that, with Singapore deprived of its natural hinterland, he would never command a political stage big enough for his talents.
In compensation, he turned Singapore into a hugely admired economic success story. As he and his government would often note, this seemed far from the likeliest outcome in the dark days of the 1960s. Among the many resources that Singapore lacked was an adequate water supply, which left it alarmingly dependent on a pipeline from peninsular Malaysia, from which it had just divorced. It was beholden to America’s goodwill and the crumbling might of the former colonial power, Britain, for its defence. The regional giant, Indonesia, had been engaged in a policy of Konfrontasi—hostility to the Malaysian federation just short of open warfare—to make the point that it was only an accident of colonial history that had left British-ruled Malaya and its offshoots separate from the Dutch-ruled East Indies, which became Indonesia.
Singapore as a nation did not exist. “How were we to create a nation out of a polyglot collection of migrants from China, India, Malaysia, Indonesia and several other parts of Asia?” asked Mr Lee in retrospect. Race riots in the 1960s in Singapore itself as well as Malaysia coloured Mr Lee’s thinking for the rest of his life. Even when Singapore appeared to outsiders a peaceful, harmonious, indeed rather boringly stable place, its government often behaved as if it were dancing on the edge of an abyss of ethnic animosity. Public housing, one of the government’s greatest successes, remains subject to a system of ethnic quotas, so that the minority Malays and Indians could not coalesce into ghettoes.
A dot on the map That sense of external weakness and internal fragility was central to Mr Lee’s policies for the young country. Abandoned by Britain in 1971 when it withdrew from “east of Suez”, Singapore has always made national defence a high priority, although direct threats to its security have eased. Relations with Malaysia have frequently been fraught, but never to the point when a military conflict seemed likely. And Indonesia ended Konfrontasi in the mid-1960s. The formation in 1967 of the Association of South-East Asian Nations, with Mr Lee as one of the founding fathers, helped draw the region together. Yet Singaporean men still perform nearly two years of national service in the armed forces. Defence spending, in a country of 5.5m, is more than in Indonesia, with nearly 250m; in 2014 it soaked up over one-fifth of the national budget.
Singapore’s vulnerability also justified, for Mr Lee, some curtailment of its people’s democratic freedoms. In the early days this involved strong-arm methods—locking up suspected communists, for example. But it evolved into something more subtle: a combination of economic success, gerrymandering, stifling press controls and the legal hounding of opposition politicians and critics, including the foreign press. Singapore has had regular, free and fair elections. Indeed, voting is compulsory, though Mr Lee said in 1994 that he was “not intellectually convinced that one-man, one-vote is the best”. He said Singapore practised it because that is what the British had bequeathed. So he designed a system where clean elections are held but it has been almost inconceivable for the PAP to lose power. The biggest reason for that has been its economic success: growth has averaged nearly 7% a year for four decades.
But Mr Lee’s party has left nothing to chance. The traditional media are toothless; opposition politicians have been hounded into bankruptcy by the fierce application of defamation laws inherited from Britain; voters have face the threat that, if they elect opposition candidates, their constituencies will suffer in the allocation of public funds; constituency boundaries have been manipulated by the government. The advantage of Mr Lee’s system, its proponents say, is that it introduced just enough electoral competition to keep the government honest, but not so much that it actually risks losing power. So it can look around corners on behalf of its people, plan for the long term and resist the temptation to pander to populist pressures.
Mr Lee was a firm believer in meritocracy. “We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think,” as he put it bluntly in 1987. His government’s ministers were the world’s best-paid, to attract talent from the private sector and curb corruption. Corruption did indeed become rare in Singapore. Like other crime, it was deterred in part by harsh punishments ranging from brutal caning for vandalism to hanging for murder or drug-smuggling. As Mr Lee also said: “Between being loved and feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I’m meaningless.” As a police state, however, Singapore was such a success that you rarely see a cop.
A cool guy In some ways, Mr Lee was a bit of a crank. Among a number of 20th-century luminaries asked by the Wall Street Journal in 1999 to pick the most influential invention of the millennium, he alone shunned the printing press, electricity, the internal combustion engine and the internet and chose the air-conditioner. He explained that, before air-con, people living in the tropics were at a disadvantage because the heat and humidity damaged the quality of their work.
Now, they “need no longer lag behind”. Cherian George, a journalist and scholar, spotted in this a metaphor for Mr Lee’s style of government, and wrote one of the best books about it: “The air-conditioned nation: Essays on the politics of comfort and control”. Mr Lee made Singapore comfortable, but was careful to keep control of the thermostat. Singaporeans, seeing their island transform itself and modernise, seemed to accept this. But in 2011 the PAP did worse than ever in a general election (just 60% of the vote and 93% of the seats!). Many thought change would have to come, and that the structure Mr Lee had built was unsuitable for the age of Facebook and the burgeoning of networks which it can no longer control. They began to chafe at the restrictions on their lives, seemingly no longer so convinced of Singapore’s fragility, and less afraid of the consequences of criticising the government.
They resented above all that many people, despite a much-vaunted compulsory savings scheme, did not have enough money for their retirement. And they blamed high levels of immigration for keeping their wages down and living costs up. This was a consequence of a unique failure among Mr Lee’s many campaigns to make Singaporeans change their ways. He succeeded in creating a nation of Mandarin speakers who are politer than they used to be and neither jaywalk nor chew gum; but he could not make them have more children. In the early 1980s, he dropped his “stop at two” policy, and started to encourage larger families among the better-educated. But, three decades later, Singaporean women have as low a fertility rate as any in the world.
The hereditary principle The “setback” of the 2011 election led Mr Lee into the final stage of retirement. In 1990 he had moved from prime minister to “senior minister”, and in 2004 to “minister mentor”. Now he left the cabinet, but remained in parliament. By then, Singapore’s prime minister for seven years had been Lee Hsien Loong, his son. The Lee family would sue anyone who hinted at nepotism. And, for Mr Lee, that talent is hereditary was an obvious fact. “Occasionally two grey horses produce a white horse, but very few. If you have two white horses, the chances are you breed white horses.”
Such ideas, applied ethnically, veer close to racism. The stream of distinguished Western visitors who trooped to see him in Singapore would steer clear of such touchy areas. They preferred to seek his views on the rise of China or America’s decline. They also admired the comfort and the economic success of Mr Lee’s Singapore, and sought his advice on how to replicate it. Meanwhile, the control and good “social order” there attracted admirers, too, including Chinese leaders, notably Deng Xiaoping, who was, like Mr Lee, a member of the Hakka Chinese minority. Thus Mr Lee, famous as both a scourge of communists at home and a critic of Western decadence and its wishy-washy idealism, revelled in the role of geopolitical thinker. What, he must have wondered, if fate had allotted him a superpower instead of a city state? | <urn:uuid:7991ab39-06da-47ae-90e7-07107e52631c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.economist.com/obituary/2015/03/22/lee-kuan-yew | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.979895 | 2,610 | 2.65625 | 3 |
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Governor: Remove canals from Thruway control
ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesay proposed removing the state’s canal system from the Thruway Authority’s control, a much-debated arrangement that began under his father in 1992.
In his State of the State message, Cuomo proposed removing the state Canal Corp. from the Thruway’s operations and placing it under the umbrella of the New York Power Authority, which oversees 16 power-generating facilities in the state.
The proposal is part of Cuomo’s broader plan for the Thruway, which includes a proposal to send $700 million in state funds to cover infrastructure costs and freeze tolls on the highway system and Tappan Zee Bridge until 2020. Cuomo also wants to spend more than $300 million a year to create a tax credit for frequent Thruway travelers and agriculture traffic.
Moving the Canal Corp. would allow the state to stop covering the costs for policing the 570-mile highway system, which had been costing the state more than $60 million annually. The state would also stop sending a $23 million subsidy each year to the authority, which was started in 2013 to ward off a commercial toll increase.
The Canal Corp. oversees the state’s 524-mile canal system, which includes the famed Erie Canal connecting Buffalo and Albany. It was shifted to the Thruway Authority’s control in 1992 under then-Gov. Mario Cuomo.
The arrangement has been a frequent source of criticism from truckers and some state lawmakers at various points over the years, particularly when the Thruway Authority has proposed toll increases.
Cuomo’s State of the State message also promised more state funds for the $4 billion Tappan Zee Bridge replacement project between Westchester and Rockland counties. It’s not clear how much of the $700 million included in Cuomo’s Thruway plan will be flagged for the bridge.
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India's 40 Richest
- India's 40 Richest. Karmali, Naazneen; Krishnakumar, C. N.; Atal, Maha; Pendleton, Devon // Forbes Asia;11/24/2008, Vol. 4 Issue 20, p51
The article presents information on the 40 richest people of India. Mukesh Ambani has been ranked as the richest man in India with asssets of $20.8 billion. Lakshmi Mittal ranked second joined Goldman Sachs & Co. as one of its board members. Anil Ambani ranked third plans to merge his Reliance...
- India has four of world's top eight billionaires. Sanders, Sol W. // East-Asia-Intel Reports;3/13/2008, p7
The article reports that there are now four Indians among the eight top billionaires listed in Forbes' roll call of the world's richest. They include non-resident Indian and steel baron Lakshmi Mittal, Reliance Industries Ltd. chairman Mukesh Ambani, followed by his younger brother, Anil Ambani,...
- Mukesh and Anil Ambani. // Chemical Business;Jan1998, Vol. 12 Issue 1, p51
Profiles Mukesh and Anil Ambani, the top executives of Reliance Industries Ltd. Reliance's projects in the Indian chemical industry under the Ambanis; Investment of the Ambani's in the industry; Accomplishments as head of the company.
- India's 40 Richest. Karmali, Naazneen; Kroll, Luisa; Raghunathan, Anuradha // Forbes Asia;11/30/2009, Vol. 5 Issue 18, p41
The article offers information on India's 40 richest men and informs that an economy which is growing at more than 6% boosted the top 40 richest man's net worth to 229 billion dollars, up from 139 billion dollars a year ago. It is mentioned that this year Mukesh Ambani is again at the number one...
- India will have highest number of billionaires in next ten years. // Siliconindia;May2008, Vol. 11 Issue 4, p10
The article focuses on the poll made by the magazine "Forbes" which reflects that in 2017, India will have the highest number of billionaires. The country was ranked fourth place in the world's population of billionaires that includes business magnates Lakshmi Mittal, Mukesh Ambani, Anil Ambani,...
- Ambanis to Split Reliance's Assets? Alperowicz, Natasha // Chemical Week;4/6/2005, Vol. 167 Issue 12, p15
Reports on the ownership dispute between Reliance chairman and managing director Mukesh D. Ambani and vice chairman and managing director Anil D. Ambani. Speculations on the possible division of the company's assets following the dispute; Reason behind the dispute.
- Like Father, Like Son. Pitta, Julie // World Trade;Apr2003, Vol. 16 Issue 4, p38
Features Reliance Industries executives Anil and Mukesh Ambani in India. Educational background; Information on their father, Dhirubhai, who was the founder of the company; List of telecommunications plans of the company. INSET: Reliance Group's Activities.
- Reliance Board Approves Plan to Split Company Assets. Young, Ian // Chemical Week;8/10/2005, Vol. 167 Issue 26, p15
Reports on the decision of the board of Reliance Industries to approve plans to divide up the company's assets between feuding brothers Mukesh and Anil Ambani. Terms of the demerger deal; Firms appointed by Reliance Industries to assist in working out the details of the demerger, according to...
- Not just gas. Bhupta, Malini // India Today;8/17/2009, p2
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A mineral of a dark brown color, generally with a fibrous, massive structure. It is a fluophosphate of iron and manganese.
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Background: Prepulse inhibition (PPI) of the startle response refers to a reduction in the response to a strong stimulus (pulse) if preceded shortly by a weak stimulus (prepulse). Disrupted PPI is thought to reflect abnormalities in the inhibitory control of information processing. Reduced PPI has been reported in mania, although it is not clear whether it represents a trait feature of bipolar disorder (BD). To address this issue, the present study examined whether disrupted PPI is present in individuals at high risk for BD.
Methods: Twenty-one remitted BD patients and 19 of their unaffected siblings were compared with 17 age- and gender-matched healthy volunteers on tests of acoustic startle reactivity and PPI of the startle response.
Results: There were no group differences in startle reactivity. Compared with healthy individuals, BD patients and their unaffected siblings showed lower PPI. In the patient group, no significant correlations were found between PPI and measures of symptom and disease severity or medication.
Conclusions: This is the first study to report reduced PPI in remitted BD patients and their unaffected first-degree relatives. This finding, although in need of replication, suggests that PPI disruption may represent a trait deficit in BD associated with genetic predisposition. | <urn:uuid:8128a7a4-80ae-4f72-92b9-2bedb2dd9799> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17481589/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.96105 | 260 | 1.898438 | 2 |
Climate-based disasters caused $46 billion in damage and killed at least 138 in the 48 contiguous U.S. states last year, with inland flooding emerging as the costliest weather event for the first time since 1997.
The number of billion-dollar occurrences was the second-highest since 1980, with one less than the 16 in 2011, according to the National Centers for Environmental Information. It was also the second warmest year behind 2012 over 122 years, and the 20th consecutive warmer-than-normal year.
The seven types of disasters noted in the yearly report -- including droughts, hurricanes and winter storms -- are closely watched by scientists and industries to gauge how changing patterns affect people’s lives. Storms and rising seas have opened discussions on whether, and how, to build on coastal areas, and who pays in the event of a disaster. Warmer temperatures can have profound effects on both energy and agriculture.
“We have not arrived in our climate of the future, but we have certainly left our climate of the past,” said Deke Arndt, chief of the National Centers’ climate monitoring branch. “Our institutions will need to use this information -- and the details within it -- to make better bottom-line decisions.”
The year was notable for its widespread warmth, with virtually all states having annual average temperatures in the top 10 percent on record, the report said. The average annual temperature was 54.9 degrees Fahrenheit (12.7 Celsius), or 2.9 degrees above the 20th century average.
Alaska had its warmest year on record with an average annual temperature of 31.9 degrees, 1.6 degrees warmer than its previous high set in 2014.
Beyond the temperature data, the 48 states had the fourth straight year of above-average precipitation. Average annual precipitation was 31.7 inches (80.5 centimeters), or 1.76 inches above the long-term average. Researchers have long said the warmer the world becomes the more moisture the atmosphere will carry.
It was the first time that more than two inland flooding events caused losses exceeding $1 billion each. Hurricane Matthew in October and flooding in Louisiana in August topped the 2016 list causing $10 billion in damage each. Matthew killed 49 people in the U.S., while 13 died in Louisiana’s floods.
In April, Houston was hit by flooding that killed eight people and cost an estimated $2.7 billion, according to the agency. At least 1,300 roads and bridges were washed out in West Virginia by flooding there in June. | <urn:uuid:d735ebf3-ba44-4759-b5e3-55a0e64d5e2a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.agweb.com/article/climate-disasters-cost-us-46-billion-as-flooding-leads-list-blmg/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00392-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961761 | 526 | 3.328125 | 3 |
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Under pressure from the United States, Israel has delayed a bill that would connect a number of West Bank settlements to Jerusalem, officials said Sunday.
The bill aims to solidify the city’s Jewish majority, but stops short of formal annexation, making the practical implications unclear. The bill says the communities would be considered “daughter municipalities” of Jerusalem.
The Palestinians claim both east Jerusalem and the West Bank, territories captured by Israel in the 1967 war, as part of their future state, a position that has wide international backing. Israel annexed east Jerusalem in a move not recognized internationally.
Israel’s Haaretz newspaper quoted Netanyahu as saying Israel needs to coordinate the bill with the U.S.
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“The Americans turned to us and inquired what the bill was about. As we have been coordinating with them until now, it is worth (to continue) talking and coordinating with them. We are working to promote and develop the settlement enterprise,” it quoted Netanyahu as saying at a government meeting Sunday.
Earlier Sunday, David Bitan, the Likud party’s parliamentary whip and a close Netanyahu ally, told Army Radio the vote was delayed because “there is American pressure claiming this is annexation.”
Peace Now, an Israeli anti-settlement watchdog group, says the bill would amount to “de facto annexation” and be a clear step toward full annexation of the West Bank.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s envoy, Jason Greenblatt, has been shuttling throughout the region in hopes of restarting peace talks, which last collapsed in 2014.
But in contrast to the Obama administration, Trump has not explicitly endorsed a Palestinian state. He also has shown some tolerance for settlement construction, urging Israel to show restraint but saying a complete halt is unnecessary.
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Wednesday, 30 June 2010
As we're a nation obsessed with the weather, any story about its extremes always hits the headlines. In contrast to the above scene, we're currently being bombarded with news of how dry the past few months have been and the north west of England in particular may need to have a hosepipe ban if there's no significant rainfall in the next few weeks.
They've had around 38% of their usual rainfall so far this year, so reservoirs in the area are already looking rather low. They must be pleased rain is forecast for tomorrow, but according to this article in The Telegraph, they're going to need lots more to make up the 4 inches of soil moisture deficit they currently have. It's rather ironic the north west is experiencing drought conditions, as it was here in the Lake District where the highest total of rainfall ever in 24 hours was recorded only last November. It shows how quickly the situation can change.
I've compared my rain gauge readings with the 30 year average available for my nearest weather station at Lyneham. The situation's not so bad here (around 80% of usual rainfall), though it still means I haven't been able to do any digging on my allotment for many weeks. The clay is solid and cracked and I'm wondering whether I'll ever be able to plant the squash, pumpkin and cabbage seedlings I'm so carefully nurturing at home. I believe the unusually strong winds we seem to be getting more regularly on fine days here is contributing to the situation being worse than my rainfall statistics would suggest.
So far I've resisted doing lots of watering both at home and on the plot as I believe in tough love with my plants thus encouraging them to grow deep strong roots so they can forage for water themselves. However, this morning I've had to start some watering at the allotment as my potted blueberries were in a most sorry state. We have hard tap water here because its mainly drawn from chalk and limestone sources, so I've had to choose between not watering and them dying, or watering them and their leaves turning a sickly yellow colour due to an iron deficiency. I've told them they're going to get a juicy seaweed feed with sequestered iron next time, to try and redress the balance of this morning's lime application a little. It's about time I put my allotment water butt by the shed so I can start collecting some nice soft rainwater for these plants...
For you stats fans out there, the Met Office has lots of extreme weather information for you and reports on various past extreme weather events in the UK.
How's the weather with you today? Have you ever experienced any extreme weather?
Do visit the ABC Wednesday Blog for more information of the eXcellent kind.
* Yes I know I've cheated a little for my letter X, but I did say at the outset this was the one letter I was struggling with for my weather ABC. I did think of Xeriscaping - as did some of you when I announced my theme for this round of ABC Wednesday - but that's more of a gardening technique in reaction to climate rather than a direct aspect of the weather itself. Besides, I wanted to talk about weather records at some point and this seemed the ideal time to do so!
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
I missed the best view of the manor as I drove past it on the way to the car park in the field next door. This is the view just after you've paid your entrance fee. I was thinking Where's the garden then? as I took this photo. The owner must have been reading my mind because he said It's to the left behind the left hand building in front of you just as I clicked the shutter.
So the rest of my afternoon was spent finding tempting little glimpses of the manor like this one. We're not quite in The Cotswolds here, but the 16th Century house and its many garden walls are built from the same mellow local limestone, so we can pretend we are.
Plus a rather nice potager of mainly triangular shaped beds, some of which was very loosely planted. Roses and a walled herb wheel made a central feature to this part of the garden. There were lots roses elsewhere too, including a wonderfully scented old rose in the orchard.
Here the formal topiary of the garden rooms closer to the house contrasts with the large meadow area which forms the edge of the garden to link the manor to its farmed hinterland.
This was a garden for relaxing and soaking up its atmosphere, plus making discoveries such as this rather covetable greenhouse which doubled up as the entrance to the tea and cake sales. I also found a new [to me] local nursery to visit as they were managing the plant sales area. But the best surprise of all was finding my SUP friend S, partaking in her favourite activity: tea in the garden. We both agreed Bolehyde Manor made a rather good escape from the constant World Cup coverage on the TV :)
Monday, 28 June 2010
Should my elderflower cordial be dark brown?
Depends what you mean by lots and it'll be more effective if used as a pesticide, which is how tobacco has been traditionally used in the garden. Beware, many of the recipes on the interweb say this is an organic pesticide: it isn't as it'll kill beneficial insects as well as the nasties. It'll also harm plants from the Solanaceae aka nightshade family, such as tomatoes, aubergines, potatoes and Solanus. Therefore I don't really recommend it, so I'm not including a link to how you can make your own.
If you have lots of weeds to clear, then using the fag-end [aka cigarette butt - Ed] to start a fire would probably be more effective, though you'll probably annoy your neighbours at the same time. This also assumes fires aren't totally banned by your local council anyway and you haven't set fire to anything you'd like to keep in the process.
* = apart from how to make Rhubarb and Ginger jam, which has been my top post for 14 months now and is currently over 50% of my search engine hits.
Friday, 25 June 2010
When I first met Patient Gardener a couple of years ago, we compared notes on our favourite magazines and agreed Gardens Illustrated (GI) was one of them. So when I had the opportunity to visit their offices in Bristol at the end of April to chat with the editor Juliet Roberts, I leapt at the chance.
Why Gardens Illustrated?
My first job was for a specialist magazine about film, and I worked at the British Film Institute in London for around 10 years on various film publications. I freelanced for a while, then I got the gardening bug and when the opportunity to work at GI arose eight years ago, it was simply my dream job.
You joined as editor?
No, that was Rosie Atkins [the magazine’s founder in 1992 and now curator at the Chelsea Physic Garden]. She was my mentor and a wonderful person to work with. Then Clare [Foster] was promoted to editor when Rosie left and I had the opportunity to stand-in for her when she went on maternity leave just 18 months after I joined GI.
Has GI always been based in Bristol?
No, it was in London at first and moved to Bristol around 5 years ago – I was appointed editor around that time so things were quite hectic!
Tell me a little more about a magazine editor’s role
We’re an extremely small team here [5 staff including Juliet], so we can’t really afford to stand on job role demarcation lines: we need to work extremely closely together to do what’s needed to get the magazine out each month. It’s also very important that we enjoy what we do and have some fun in the process.
May’s GI issue has just come out, which month are you in at the moment?
Quite a few! I have a file outlining the content [colour coded by type of page] of each edition for the next few months and a list of forthcoming features running at least a year ahead. I also proof read articles and other content [e.g. advertisements] as and when they come in, so that could be for any of the editions we’ve got planned over the next year. At the moment we’re finalising the content for the June edition on our ‘flat plan*’ and I’m also researching features and setting up photography and commissioning words for April next year.
Are you planning to commission any more guest editor issues like Dan Pearson’s last year?
It was well received by those who read it but was a considerable amount of extra work and much to my surprise didn’t sell any better than our usual style, so we’d need to think carefully before doing something like that again [a pity because I thought that edition was really interesting and different – Ed].
What’s the role of the contributing editors? [Fergus Garrett, Carol Klein, Roy Lancaster, Alys Fowler and Dan Pearson]
They’re my dream team of advisors whom I can pick up the phone to talk to at any time. They help to ensure my vision for the magazine is kept on track and they’re also on my trusted team of freelance writers and photographers from whom I commission articles.
And your vision for the magazine is?
My current mantra is Beautiful and Useful. I’d like our readers to enjoy the simple pleasure of looking at the beautiful gardens and plants in the magazine, then be inspired to go out and do something as a result of reading the features.
Any specific plans for achieving this?
The style and content of GI will still emphasise the best that’s out there in the gardening world, but there’ll also be further resources available to our readers such as where to go to get further information if needed. We’re using our website to include things we can’t find space for in the magazine itself and are running special reader events, such as the recent lectures on sustainable gardening at the London College of Garden Design. We’re also sponsoring Cottesbrooke Plant Fair [I'll be there today with Patient Gardener] and a pavilion at Hampton Court in July which will bring the pages of the magazine alive and be a sort of one-stop shop for stylish gardeners.
You’ve recently revamped the website, any further plans to take GI into the digital age?
Yes, although we really need to keep our focus on the magazine, continue to do what we do well and keep our readers happy. The publishing world is going through lots of change at the moment with exciting times ahead. We also need to understand how an income can be made from the internet before diverting our resources and energy more into that area.
Thanks Juliet for taking the time to talk to me and to give me a great insight of what it’s like to work in the world of magazines. Let’s just say it’s very different to the image conjured up in The Devil Wears Prada and they have a gardening library in the office to die for!
* literally a large piece of plywood which shows a mock up of the magazine’s next issue. Each double page spread is shown in miniature and it’s easy to see how much of the edition has been completed and which pages have been finalised. I spotted James’ piece on his visit to the Botanic Nursery, my local specialist nursery, which he blogged about last year.
Thursday, 24 June 2010
Snoozy days are with us again - see the right sidebar for 2008's version. My gardening activities are confined to early morning or the evening and in the middle of the day the patio is scorchio. Like my cats I retire for the afternoon, only unlike them I'm not content just to have a continental-like siesta. It's been lovely this week to catch up on reading and to put the computer to one side for a change :)
Wednesday, 23 June 2010
Whenever we go down to Poole to visit NAH's aunt, I always look out for a particular house in Charlton Marshall. It's the home of Dorset Weathervanes and there's nearly always a different one on display on the cottage. Last week it was this rather sunny number. If I ever replace my cockerel, I think I might just treat myself to one from there because they always make me smile.
How's the weather with you today? Here it's hot and sunny.
For more in the Way of W, do visit the ABC Wednesday blog.
Tuesday, 22 June 2010
It's tempting to leave all of them on there I know, but beware: too many fruit can stress the tree. You'll get smaller, not so tasty fruit as a result and also risk the tree not producing such a good crop the next year whilst it recovers. Worse still, it might switch into biennial bearing and give you a crop every other year instead of an annual one. If that happens, then follow this advice from the RHS to bring your trees back on track.
Monday, 21 June 2010
It's another first for our choir tonight as we're performing in the Corsham Arts Festival Fringe at 7.30 pm in the Town Hall. We'll be reviving the successful rendition of 'a traditional Welsh folk song', as seen in Stratford earlier this year and currently available above via YouTube in our Wiltshire Wailers incarnation.
Tonight we're the Pound Sound i.e. just those of us who rehearse at the Pound Arts Centre in Corsham. We're flying solo without our Bradford on Avon and Hullavington buddies. Our set tonight is a crowd pleaser* and includes (not necessarily in this order):
- Breaking up is hard to do - how on earth did this song get such a cheerful tune?
- Courage my soul
- Forever young
- Haul away Joe - a fantastic sea shanty with lyrics which make me giggle all the time
- Siyahamba - a South African marching song which is featuring in the World Cup at the moment, whenever the vuvuzelas let it get a look in
- Under the moon of love
- Why do fools fall in love - I get to do lots of shoo wappa doos and bap bapping on this one
- Now let us sing - a gospel song for our finale with the audience singing When the saints go marching in and Swing low sweet chariot at the same time
Chris' male only choir, the AK47s will also be performing and will join us for Haul away Joe, complete with pirate outfits apparently. It should be a lively evening, especially as we'll be going down the pub afterwards ;)
* = so come on down if you can - we're a bargain £3 on the door :)
Update: Here's the review of our performance in the local paper - an 'explosion of musical delight' :D
Sunday, 20 June 2010
The Clematis are in full flow (see the right hand pictures) and are the first thing which greet me when I go into the garden, particularly the obelisks in the top picture (also shown here) and C. 'Elsa Spath' in the middle. C. 'Dr. Ruppel' in the bottom picture is flowering for the first time, even though he's been in my garden for 3 years. I'm being a bit cruel to him by confining him to a pot in the shadier part of the garden. Perhaps I need to set him free elsewhere...
The roses have finally started to bloom too. Here we have R. 'Congratulations' (middle bottom picture), given to me last year by my friend C from choir and R. 'Zepharine Drouhin', a thornless rose I have in a very large pot by the pergola at the side entrance to the back garden. A good one to have there as it means no-one has a surprise when they brush past. She has a heavenly scent too, and is therefore a good welcome into the garden. However, when I bent down to sniff at this bloom when taking its picture, an adult vine weevil fell into my hand :(
The very middle picture is of assorted geraniums of the cranesbill variety. This is for the record as I'm about to start ripping out plants from this part of the garden (the single terrace bed) and who knows how these will do in the process. I think I'll do a precautionary belated 'Chelsea Chop' first...
The top left is Aquilegia 'McKenna's hybrid', the only one I have left of my original planting. The rest have died back and self seeded themselves into the usual muddy pink and purple forms. I'm wondering how much longer this one will last.
Then there's my 'river' of Allium christophii in the middle left. I used to think one could never have too many of this firework-like member of the onion family, but self-seeding over the past couple of years has shown me otherwise. I like the river effect, but there's too many of them vying for attention now and a little thinning is needed.
Finally there's loads of elderflowers just ripe for the picking to make cordial, elderflower & gooseberry fool or ice cream and all manner of other tasty delights. This is the bounty I have in my garden courtesy of the public land next door. There's sloes and hawthorn berries within reach (as well as elderberries) to follow in the autumn :)
Oops, my Blooms Day post appears to have magically transformed itself into a To Do list. There's nothing like multi-tasking is there? ;)
Garden Bloggers' Blooms Day is hosted by Carol at May Dreams Gardens.
Saturday, 19 June 2010
I have a piece of Welsh hillside named after me - planted with 1,000 trees
I have a plant named after me - a rather lovely Clematis
The garden I'd love to visit above all others is The Alhambra in Spain
As seen on Blotanical.
I've had a 10 minute chat with Prince Charles about controlling slugs
Friday, 18 June 2010
Thursday, 17 June 2010
So that's where the other 2 got to. We're missing their antics this week - the hens that is, not The Sugarbabes. We're missing Stella (the smooth coated lurcher) and Pickle (the tiny terrier who thinks she's a cat) too.
Wednesday, 16 June 2010
The last eruption I've found which did have a noticeable effect on our global weather was in 1991 when the pictured Mount Pinatubo erupted (photo courtesy of Fotosearch). It's estimated the summer that year was 0.9 degrees centigrade cooler. Other notable eruptions were Indonesia's Tambora in 1815 which resulted in the 'year without a summer' in 1816: New England experienced frosts throughout the summer months (see here for lots more information and references about weather changing volcanic eruptions). The most dramatic eruption ever was probably Toba around 70,000 years ago which is thought to have resulted in a 6-10 year volcanic winter which dramatically reduced the world's human population to around 10% of its previous level and may have had a cooling effect for as long as 1,000 years.
Monday, 14 June 2010
The view last week from the front of our cottage...
... and the view from the back. Those dots by the trees are the owners'* hens who visited and amused us every day. We stayed in a tiny hamlet called Moneystone (too small for our satnav) in the beautiful Churnet valley. A place with an interesting geology which in ages past was the scene of heavy industry: it was here that the copper wire for the Transatlantic cable was made. You wouldn't know it now, except for the relics of old lime kilns, mines, canal wharves and a heritage steam railway which were dotted around the countryside, now being reclaimed by the local flora for us to explore on our walks and bike rides.
We were based just outside the southern edge of the Peak District with the same gorgeous scenery but without the many visitors the national park attracts. I suspect the majority of them who do come to this part of Staffordshire go to Alton Towers nearby and leave it at that. Lucky us then, because the rest is blissfully quiet and definitely a place to recharge the batteries, unscramble the brain and birdwatch from bed :)
Contrast our daily view with this one from when we went to the local sports centre in Cheadle ;)
There's more posts to follow...
* they were very friendly, welcoming (lovely cakes and coffee - mmm) and had lots of ideas for exploration plus recommendations for good places to eat out.
Wednesday, 9 June 2010
For more Unusual posts have a look over at the ABC Wednesday blog.
Friday, 4 June 2010
That's it - see you when I get back. ABC Wednesday will be here as usual with something I'm hoping I won't be using on holiday!
Thursday, 3 June 2010
Victoria and Patient Gardener have already bought you their versions of our visit to Wisley, but I'd still like to show you mine. It's a whistlestop tour just like we had prior to our afternoon at Chelsea and I've tried to select different photos to those used by my companions. I was struck by this profound quote in the Root Zone area of the gigantic new glasshouse...
... but before we get there here's our first sight of the gardens. Even the water lilies are labelled...
... then we moved through the area I showed you for my Sunshine post recently, past some Acers into a wide space with a lake full of very healthy fish, a wildflower meadow illustrating biodiversity and up through the massive rockery you can just see at the top right of the photo...
Victoria showed you the view up the rockery, here's one looking down. Whilst I wouldn't dream of having a rockery in my own garden, I am rather partial to them when they're 'done' properly, like this one is...
... now past our first double border (and missing out the Alpine glasshouses) ...
... to the demonstration vegetable beds. I couldn't go in because they'd just been sprayed, but I leaned over the fence to take this shot before running to catch up with my companions...
... only to find these amusing structures nearby: kohl rabi methinks...
... more borders on the way to the glasshouse. Mainly foliage at the moment giving hints of glories to come...
... outside the glasshouse we found this mass planting of Alliums...
... and the teaching garden designed by Cleve West...
... at last here we are in the glasshouse. It's enormous and has several different zones of varying heat and humidity. Here's part of the hot, dry zone showing just how effective a planting of cacti and succulents can be...
... the glasshouse is large enough to swallow a whole waterfall for breakfast...
... and tall enough so we could climb up the ramp and look down on lush foliage...
... but let's not forget the exotic flowers...
... nor foliage which is familiar to us because we grow something similar as a houseplant. This is Begonia 'Curly Fireflush'...
... back outside again...
... and finally into the garden designed by Penelope Hobhouse before completely ignoring the tea shop and plant centre on the way out :o
Wednesday, 2 June 2010
Last Christmas I was given this thermometer so that I could start recording our daily minimum and maximum temperatures in addition to the precipitation I've been logging for just over a year now. However, I'm rather disappointed with this model as it's quite difficult to reset, so I don't really trust the readings I'm obtaining. A mercury thermometer would be better but they're no longer on sale because of their toxic contents (and an incident at a local school recently resulted in four fire engines being rushed to the school to deal with the matter - a bit over the top in my view, especially as the teachers had already calmly evacuated the pupils out of the area).
I don't really want to invest in something more complicated (and therefore expensive) at the moment because I'm unsure of how dedicated I'll be with my record keeping. I've heard that the simple dial max/min thermometers are better than what I've got currently, does anyone out there have any experience of these or other advice for me? | <urn:uuid:d33aa045-6e9b-44b4-8a70-fcc03ee4114a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://vegplotting.blogspot.com/2010_06_01_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00442-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971642 | 5,157 | 1.578125 | 2 |
We are survivors of immeasurable events,
Flung upon some reach of land
The Life-Writing of Immeasurable Events collaborative creative writing project is named after a line from a poem by the late Rebecca Elson, from her collection A Responsibility to Awe. Elson was an astronomer whose scientific research into dark matter took her to the boundary of the visible and measurable. Her poems, too, make inferences and speculate, always from meticulous observation, undeterred by how little we can know of the universe. ‘Facts are only as interesting as the possibilities they open up to the imagination,’ she wrote.
With this project I encourage people to share what they are doing, feeling, experiencing, through life-writing. I collect anecdotes, poems, journal or diary entries, essays, any form of life-writing that anyone would like to send, short or long. With the permission of the writer, I select some contributions to feature on the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing’s LIVE Writing page. | <urn:uuid:5d035201-6fc9-47b9-98ab-cf2ab8acfd0b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://katherinecollinspoet.com/immeasurable-events/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.962512 | 217 | 1.742188 | 2 |
By May 31: The Falcons plan to hire a general contractor.
By Aug. 1: The team and the GWCCA plan to settle on a site. The parties prefer a site just south of the Georgia Dome, but if they can't purchase land owned by two churches by then, they would shift to a backup spot 1/2 mile north of the Dome.
By Oct. 31: Preliminary schematic drawings are to be completed.
Construction on the stadium would probably need to begin around mid-2014 if the franchise plans for the stadium to be opened in time for the 2017 NFL season.
A sampling of differences between the new stadium deal and the Georgia Dome deal:
—- The Georgia Dome cost about $215 million to build. The new stadium is expected to cost about $1 billion.
—- Public money paid for 100 percent of the construction cost of the Dome and would pay for 20 percent of that cost ($200 million) for the new stadium, with the Falcons, the NFL and personal seat license sales paying the rest.
—- The Georgia World Congress Center Authority operates the Dome. The Falcons would operate the new stadium.
—- The Falcons would be responsible for all maintenance and operating expenses in the new stadium that exceed available hotel-motel tax funds, while the GWCCA, a state agency, is responsible for such expenses in the Dome. (In both cases, 39.3 percent of a 7-cents-per-dollar Atlanta hotel-motel tax goes to the stadium.)
—- The Falcons would retain all revenue from the new stadium, including that generated for the facility by other events, compared to a profit-sharing arrangement with the GWCCA in the Dome.
A state board on Friday approved terms for a new downtown Atlanta Falcons stadium, clearing the way for two other possible votes next week that could effectively seal a deal.
The move comes after more than two years of negotiations marked by starts, stops and sharp turns — but only days after latest version of the deal was cemented.
The unanimous approval by the board of the Georgia World Congress Center Authority leaves an upcoming vote by the Atlanta City Council as the stadium’s last major political hurdle. The City Council could consider the deal as early as Monday, when it has a regularly scheduled meeting. Approval also is needed from Invest Atlanta, the city’s economic development arm, which meets Tuesday.
Neither the City Council nor Invest Atlanta has committed to action on the stadium at those meetings, but the proposed deal seems to be suddenly on a fast track.
“I don’t think it’s moving too fast. They’ve been in negotiations for 2 1/2 years now,” said Duriya Farooqui, the city of Atlanta’s chief operating officer, who attended the GWCCA meeting. “We’ve heard the public, and we’ve heard the council’s input. We think it’s a good deal for the city, the state and the Falcons, and that has been validated today.”
City Council members have given mixed signals about a vote next week. One member, Felicia Moore, said Thursday that “if the train leaves that soon, it will leave without me.”
Others, though, said it’s been sufficiently vetted.
“Let’s get on with the business of the community,” said council member Ivory Lee Young, whose district includes the stadium area. “Let’s get on with this and move on to bigger things. Because we can certainly use a better stadium than the one we have now, and we have figured out a way to pay for it. What is our delay?”
The GWCCA vote authorized the agency’s executive director, Frank Poe, to sign five agreements related to the stadium, provided the City Council and Invest Atlanta approve.
“I feel very good about where we are,” Poe said. “It’s been a long two years’ worth of analysis and study and looking at different options and negotiations at different levels.”
Falcons owner Arthur Blank, in a statement, called Friday’s vote “an important step towards a new stadium,” which he said would be “an iconic asset” for downtown. Blank is on the board of directors of Cox Enterprises, whose media holdings include The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The documents approved by the GWCCA board cover all of the major deal points, although many more definitive contracts would have to be negotiated before construction would begin in perhaps mid-2014.
The proposed deal calls for $200 million in public money toward construction, plus interest on the 30-year bonds that would provide those funds, and possibly hundreds of millions of dollars more toward the stadium’s operation and maintenance over the years.
Bond payments and other money would come from the 39.3-percent portion of Atlanta’s 7-cents-per-dollar hotel-motel tax mandated by state law to go to the stadium. The state legislature in 2010 extended the tax specifically for a new stadium.
The Falcons, the NFL and personal seat license sales would pay the remaining $800 million or so toward construction of the estimated $1 billion facility. The Falcons would be responsible for all operating and maintenance costs not covered by hotel-motel tax proceeds, would retain all stadium revenue and would pay the GWCCA rent of $2.5 million a year, with 2 percent annual increases.
“I’m shocked by how they are fast-tracking this deal. It’s an attempt to hide the details from the public. It’s shocking how quickly this is moving,” said William Perry, executive director of watchdog group Common Cause Georgia, who attended Friday’s meeting.
He took aim at the terms of the deal that would set aside two suites in the stadium for the GWCCA’s use for most events. The deal also calls for Invest Atlanta to get free seats to some events and allows the GWCCA to buy 30 tickets each year for Super Bowl games – 50 if the event is in Atlanta.
“That’s taxpayer money that’s funding these tickets – money that should go to other things,” Perry said.
GWCCA officials say it’s a practice they’ve followed for years to try to attract more events.
“We’re in the entertainment business. That’s what we do,” Poe said. “The clients we have produce events, and that’s part of the job. We’re not going to run from it.”
Friday’s vote was actually the GWCCA board’s third on the stadium. It voted in February 2011 to enter negotiations with the Falcons and in December 2012 to approve the framework of a deal. That plan, which called for the state to issue the construction bonds, unraveled a month later when legislators balked at the idea and Gov. Nathan Deal punted the project to Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, an ardent supporter of the stadium.
The deal now calls for Invest Atlanta to issue the bonds. A number of other elements of the deal also have been reworked, including recent commitments from the Falcons to contribute $50 million toward infrastructure improvements, $15 million toward the surrounding neighborhood and $20 million toward property acquisition.
“The collaboration between the state, city and Falcons over the last eight weeks has been phenomenal,” GWCCA board chairman Tim Lowe said. “It’s been a tough road, but I think we have probably the greatest public-private partnership the state has ever seen with the city, the Falcons and the World Congress Center Authority.” | <urn:uuid:2d3e5138-9912-469c-8ad2-985e21eae107> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ajc.com/news/breaking-news/falcons-stadium-deal-gains-speed/HCpDO8TBnRVEiuoyuf3VLI/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.962112 | 1,622 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Corks usually come in plastic bags that have been treated with SO2 gas, as a preservative. Corks should be stored in a dry cool place, about 60-70 degrees F. If the bag has been opened, seal it as tightly as possible. Most manufacturers suggest that corks should be used within 6 months, but we have had no problem in storing corks for a year.
Most manufactures treat corks with a coating of paraffin to ease insertion into the bottle, and suggest that corks are not heated or washed before use. Our advice for corks that are left over from last years bottling is to let them rest for a few minutes in a bucket of SO2-treated water (100PPM) to help rehydrate the cork and kill any bacteria that may have developed. Fill the bottle so that there is about ¾ of an inch of space between the wine and the fully inserted cork. Corks will relax and expand for the next 24 hours, so keep the bottle upright for that time in a 60-70 degree F area. Cold corks will not relax and may not properly seal the bottle. If wine gets in between the cork and the bottle, leakage may occur.
Natural corks: One solid piece of natural cork, cut in the process described above. Natural corks very in price depending on the grade, and are designed to last in bottle aging of at least 10 years. The standard length of natural corks is 1 ¾ inches (44mm) long. Shorter corks are not recommended. Longer corks are available, but are chosen mostly for aesthetic appeal of the loud pop when uncorking, rather than improving the length of bottle aging.
Two-disk corks: Agglomerated cork in the middle with natural cork disks, about 1/8 inch thick, at each end. This style offers lower cost but similar performance of a natural cork. Two-disk corks are increasingly popular with home vintners due to the excellent price and performance. Designed for wine aging of up to 10 years. All Champagne corks are also made in this way.
Cork is a natural and sustainable way of sealing a wine bottle, protecting the wine from oxidation and at the same time providing for micro-oxygenation needed to effectively mature the wine. Time-tested for centuries, cork has the lowest carbon footprint compared to metal or plastic closures. Cork consists of the thick outer layer of bark on a cork tree. Although cork trees grow in many areas, most cork for commercial use comes from Portugal. Harvesting the cork means removing bark from the tree in the spring or summer, at the time the tree is in an active growth phase. In this way, the tree is not damaged, and new cork is quickly regenerated. Today, approximately 85% of wines are sealed with cork.
Cork production starts after the cork bark is cut from the tree by hand, into cark planks. The planks are stacked flat and boiled, which causes the cell structure to expand into a honeycomb structure, and makes the plank more pliable for the manufacturing process. The planks are cut into strips, lengthwise, with each strip as tall as a finished cork, about 1 ¾ inches long. Sharp, cylindrical knives are used to cut the round cork from the strip, sideways into the strip. The grain of the cork is across the cork, not along the length. The newly cut corks are washed, sterilized, and then graded. The remainder of the cork strip is ground up to make agglomerate corks, and a host of other products.
Every cork vendor has their own classification and naming system for grading corks, with as many as 9 levels. All of them basically separate the corks based on the number and size of holes, cracks, and blemishes. The visual grading scale, reproduced at the bottom of this page, is from the Cork Quality Council, and summarizes the grading process into three broad categories. The Cork Quality Council is a non-profit organization to promote and ensure quality assurance standards. Please visit their site for more information, at www.corkqc.com
There has been a lot of press about TCA, or Trichloroanisole, that can cause cork-taint in wine. TCA is produced by naturally occurring fungus, which can contaminate the cork, and is then transferred to the wine via the alcohol during aging. TCA can be significantly reduced through chemical action of heat and solvent. Most cork manufacturers process their corks before shipping with steam and ethyl alcohol to remove TCA.
All of the corks provided by the reputable vendors can be used for wine closure, but there are three basic styles that offer different price and performance characteristics. Here is a summary.
Micro-granulated corks: Made from granulated natural cork, that is glued together with a food-grade binder. Also called agglomerated corks. Much lower in cost than natural corks, these corks are typically used in wines that are intended to be consumed in 1-3 years. | <urn:uuid:11bcb94c-3762-4812-9e20-52324041caa5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.garagewinemaker.com/Resource-Cork.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.961325 | 1,101 | 2.28125 | 2 |
LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! Is property price all about location?
You may have heard it said that making money in property is all about location, location, location. You simply have to buy the worst property in the best street, then renovate it to make a fortune!
It is not quite as simple as that, or we could all be property tycoons.
So, what are the factors that that affect the value of your property?
The big one is location. But… what is meant by location can be broken down quite a bit. At the top level your postcode or suburb name means a lot, but even within suburbs there can be differences.
Unfortunately, if you already own a property, the location is something you cannot change. But if you are in the market to buy a property then location is something worth noting.
Here are a few things that can greatly affect the current value of a property and its potential for future growth:
Views: Whether they are city views, ocean views, river views, or valley views, views certainly do affect the value of a property. Possibly the easiest example of this is apartment buildings. Generally, developers don’t want to create a ‘bad side’ so they plan the angle of the building to give each apartment a view even if it is side on. There is a development in Scarborough in Perth’s Western Suburbs that is a perfect example of this. The building is built in a U shape with the bottom of the U facing the ocean and the sides having north and south ocean views. The internal part of the U is the pool. The apartments at the bottom of the U directly face the ocean, so they are more valuable than those on the sides, but at least the two sides of the building still have some ocean views.
In apartment blocks the floor also has an effect on the price. We all know the penthouse is on the top floor because it has the best views. The one main exception to this is ground floor apartments that may have courtyards that are exclusive use, and thus they may be more valuable.
Apart from apartments, homes with views are also highly sort after, and people will fight hard to keep their view. You have probably head stories about big developers wanting to put a massive building somewhere and the locals being up in arms because it will block their views.
Views can be a difficult one to quantify. You may have a great view now, but can your view be built out? For example, if you are a few streets back from the beach and there is a vacant lot between you and the ocean what are the chances of a building being built in the future that blocks your view?
Before you purchase a property with views it is wise to check the local council rules and regulations on building heights for that area. You also want to make sure you stay informed if there are any proposed changes and your views could be at risk.
Most parents want their kids to go to a good school and it is amazing how much the reputation of a school can have on the property prices surrounding it. Perth’s best example is the Rossmoyne and Willetton Senior High School districts. Those two schools are very close to each other and have both pushed property values up in their relative catchment areas as parents fight to be inside of the catchment zones.
When the principal of Rossmoyne SHS Leila Bothams was appointed as the foundation principal at the new Harrisdale Senior High School in 2017, there was a lot of interest to see if she would cause a mini property price boom in catchment area around her new school. Harrisdale being a relatively new area we are still watching this one closely, but the early signs are good for the positive price growth in the area based on the new principal.
With school intake boundaries being drawn on the map, making sure the property you purchase is on the right side of the line can make a big difference to the value.
Access to public transport:
Access to public transport is a very good driver of housing price growth. The Perth suburb of Ellenbrook is a great example here. The WA state government have been promising a rail line to Ellenbrook for many years, and announcements from various political parties have affected the desirability of the suburb.
Where we live forms part of how we identify ourselves. Different suburbs have unique vibes that some people are highly attracted to. For example in Perth, Fremantle has a laid back vibe, whereas living in the Western Suburbs is a bit of a status symbol.
Beach, river, or forest front:
As I mentioned earlier, views are very valuable, however they can unfortunately be taken away by someone building in front of you. A property that is located in the front row on the beach or on the river front will not have that problem and thus is more valuable than a house just one street back. A property that has a common border with a national park or guaranteed bush reserve is also highly desirable as the feeling of nature on your doorstep can also not be taken away. However, it is important to check with the local government and planning commission to make sure that the area is guaranteed to stay forest and not be rezoned in the future.
Comparable houses in your neighborhood:
So back to my opening line, if you buy the worst house in the best street… yep it was that house that was bringing the price of the street down, but also the flip side may be true, you may have paid more for that house than it was worth because the quality of the rest of the street may have made that property worth more.
You can pick up some great bargains in this way. For example, there are a few suburbs in Perth’s northern suburbs that have a number of 4×2 houses on 600-700sqm blocks that are about 15-20 years old, but the rest of the suburb is being infilled with new smaller 3×1 or 3×2 houses on cottage blocks. Because the block size for the suburb is now a lot smaller the average price for that suburb has most likely gone down, the price of the 4×2 may have been dragged down which could actually make the 4×2 a great buy in regards of value for money.
It sounds crazy that access to quality internet could be a factor in the price of a property, but it certainly can. With the happenings of 2020 and the Covid-19 pandemic more and more people are working from home and relying on the internet. The pandemic has caused people to assess what they value and if the internet is not fast enough for them to work from home then it can be a factor in the desirability of a property.
Busy roads and quiet ones:
Again, it sounds kind of obvious, but living on a main road is less desirable than living on a quiet street. So, even though a house may be in a great suburb, it’s value can be diminished by its location within that suburb. I recently spoke to a real estate agent that used this as a selling point. His words were, “yes it’s on a busy road but look at the price, properties in this suburb of this quality, just don’t come up at this price. The only reason this one is priced so low is the busyness of the road.”
The challenge as a buyer is that you don’t always know everything about the property you are looking to purchase. You visit one at a home open on a quiet Saturday afternoon in January and all looks great, you buy it, move in then in February you find out it is on the rat run to the back of the prestigious private school that is 1 km away and from 7:30-8:30am everyday your quiet street is full of urban assault vehicles as the kids get dropped to school.
Location can be a very a large factor in the value you of a residential home. As professional valuers it is our job to take all the factors account when we provide you with a valuation.
If you would like some professional advice on the value of your home, or of a property you are looking to purchase please contact us on 1800 828 222. | <urn:uuid:60bd2329-d1fd-450a-981a-0c7faed096f3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nationalpropertyvaluer.com.au/location-location-location-is-property-price-all-about-location/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.972298 | 1,713 | 1.890625 | 2 |
You must be aware of psychic reading and the effect they have on human world. But one thing is still in air- the modes of Psychic reading near me. Now depending upon the class or experience of a psychic even the modes of reading can be different. Like any other form of qualification this too involves levels of training and experience depending upon the branch of psychic reading. Following are some of the most sought after forms or kinds of psychic reading depending upon the medium of reading used.
- Physical Medium: – This medium of psychic connection enables spirit to get more close than any other medium. In many a cases the connection on physical medium becomes so strong that the spirit may materialize, forming an outline of their shape while at other times they become strong enough to levitate any physical object. In this kind of psychic medium readings the readings via sound and movement are clearly detected. This kind of psychic reading is generally undertaken by an aggrieved family who has lost someone very close. The persons involved sit in a circular fashion in a dim lit room while the medium contacts the spirit.
- Trance Medium: – This kind of psychic medium readings involves establishing direct connection with the spirit. This connection is so direct and straight that the spirit can occupy the body of the medium to directly communicate with its caller. This kind of psychic reading is very intense and should be undertaken by very experienced psychic since any mistake can cause a stir in this world with a spirit that has the ability to occupy human body.
- Mental Medium: – In this form of psychic reading the medium is so mentally connected to the spirits of the after world that he uses the mental ability of telepathy to seek answers or information from such spirits. Here it is the psychic medium that receives the messages first which is later communicated to the one who seeks it.
- Cold Reading: Cold reading is the practice of a set of techniques which is used by psychics, mentalists, and other con artists and performers to convince people into believing that they know a lot more about a person than they logically should, without any prior knowledge and by analyzing the body language, clothing, age, fashion, and other immediately apparent details of a person. Cold reading works on utilizing automatically available, as well as any forms of collected information into making highly probable guesses, and using them to end upon a specific, highly probable answer. | <urn:uuid:17a3c0e8-aa19-451a-a3ce-b7021583dcae> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sleepylabeef.com/types-of-psychic-reading-near-me/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.946134 | 472 | 1.875 | 2 |
India, is all set to go up for NEET from 2013-14. The Union Health Ministry has informed state governments that their existing reservation policies would not be disturbed under the proposed scheme and state wise eligibility merit lists will be prepared for the respective state authorities to admit students for admission in accordance with their admission criteria in the institutions located in the respective states.
The Medical Council of India has also revised the syllabus for NEET-UG. The ministry has also set up a co-ordination committee with all relevant stakeholders as members, which will address any issue relating to the admission process, including regional language as medium for conducting NEET.
NEET which mean as a single entrance exam will be held for MBBS and MD courses offered by all 271 Medical colleges, 138 run by Governments and 133 under private management. These colleges offer over 31,000 seats for MBBS courses and another 11,000 seats for PG Degrees.
“Once implemented, the NEET would be applicable to all medical colleges which come under the ambit of MCI, including private medical colleges”, said Ghulam Nabi Azad. “At present, about 17 entrance test are held to fill 32,000 UG seats in Medical Colleges across the Country” he added. | <urn:uuid:ecef013e-731e-4eb0-a0c9-c729119277b7> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.careerindia.com/news/2012/03/27/india-to-stand-for-common-entrance-medical-exam.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988717963.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183837-00374-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96828 | 260 | 2 | 2 |
Detoxification is one valid way of maintaining good health. From this process, the toxins in the body gotten from food, air and water, are eliminated. These toxins are excreted through bowel movement and sweating.
Bowel movements, if not done regularly, can be induced by different colon cleansing procedures. Sweating on the other hand is done by exercise and body movement. However, just like bowel movement, sweating can also be stimulated either by sauna or foot bath.
Today, the ionic detox foot bath has opened its doors to help in the health maintenance of many different types of individuals. We do not just use our feet for walking, running, skipping and the like. The invention of foot detox spa is now an inducement for sweating, which augments the process of toxin elimination.
What is ionic foot detox?
This is actually a process of soaking the feet in a foot spa in which the water has been electrically charged. This process can improve the microcirculation of the blood with the end view of re-balancing the body’s electrical system. Foot detox helps eliminate the toxins in our body by sweating them out.
Ionic detox procedure
The ionic detox foot bath resembles any other spa. The ionic detox works for the person’s health in many ways. It is a new technology for the creation of positive and negative ions to re-energize and revitalize the body system.
During the procedure of ionic detoxification, the foot bath transmits titillating currents throughout the entire body and at this time the positive ions are released. The concentration of ions thus released neutralizes the wastes and toxins and bring them to the pores of the feet from where they can be eliminated. Thirty minutes soaking can complete this helpful detox procedure.
It is a fact that detoxification is very beneficial in the holistic health of a person as wastes and poisonous toxins are eliminated from the body. This is good for both adults and children, the foot bath is offered in many health salons and spas.
Benefits from the ionic detox foot bath
• It is a sure way of eliminating toxins and wastes.
• It can help to improve some diseases such as rheumatism, edema and beri-beri.
• It can help to remove heavy metals, increases the energy and hastens recovery from disease and injury.
• It can increase the level of oxygen in the body.
• It can help to relieve pain and headache.
• It can induce a sound sleep.
• As toxins are eliminated, the body’s immune system may become stronger.
• It can increase the strength and vigor of body cells because of ion filtration.
• It can promote a healthy body metabolism.
• You can see the obvious result of the procedure in only 30 minutes of feet soaking.
The benefits that can be enjoyed through foot bath ion detox are countless. Although the procedure is simple, the over-all benefit can be great. But in doing this kind of detox, be sure of the kind of equipment that you are using; it should have all the features that will give the desired effects.
Healthier Living 4 You has been helping people detox and alkalize their bodies since 2002. They are leading experts in body cleansing using the 3 in 1 FIT Premium Ionic Detox FootBath. If you would like more details about cleansing methods and a variety of therapies then click here: Detox Foot Spa. | <urn:uuid:6e13e651-80f2-4dcf-8518-6e0e72a772a8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://healthierliving4you.com/ionic-detox-foot-bath-health-benefits/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281151.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00107-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940717 | 718 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Klimt, Old Woman, 1909
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) was an Austrian Symbolist painter, best known for his erotic depictions of the female body, and for the gilded style that marks his most famous work, The Kiss. This painting is quite different; rather than stylistically arresting, the power of the piece is predominantly emotive. For this subject Klimt chose a very limited palette so that the woman's face stands out prominently from the rest of the canvas. The sweeping brushwork gives the woman a sense of presence, reinforced by the way she fills the frame. When we look closely at the subject's face, we can see a weary perseverance portrayed. Although she is aged and worn out, her strength comes through. Klimt demonstrates great skill in eliciting a connection to this woman from the viewer, especially considering that her eyes are not even visible. The warmth, depth, and strength that she exudes can be clearly felt. | <urn:uuid:63aa0c81-03c1-4fd0-90a4-9525bc90f87e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://davidsartoftheday.blogspot.com/2014/09/gustav-klimt-old-woman.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.960649 | 202 | 2.53125 | 3 |
This 12 Volt light is exactly the same as the ERB, only has the mounting flange to attach to the Whelen Lens retaining band. Less power consumption, and less long term damage from Vibration consistently present in Rotorcraft environment . Just requires the 2 wire hook up from the aircraft's electrical system. No other power conditioning systems needed that may be part of the Whelen system.
The electronic rotating beacon "ERB" is a highly innovative product which contributes to saver airspace. Now the new LED technology allows an incredibly excellent, red light with only approx. 10% of the input power compared with conventional lights.
The casting in a high-optical plastic makes the ERB absolutely insensitive against water, vibrations and other environmental influence.
The efficiency of the output is much higher, than with conventional electric light bulbs. The self-warming of the ERB is low and can be determined as safe. To avoid overheating, the heat balance is controlled electronically. The rotating beacon for ultra light aircraft id designed to be mounted at a suitable position at the tail unit or at the top of the stabilizer.
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This is my second time to celebrate Christmas in Rome. Today, when I went to a supermarket, I came across a handicraft exhibition in front of the supermarket. I was intrigued by these Christmas trees made of cork. Look! Aren’t they so lovely?
In Rome, I found a ‘beary’ interesting shop named “Furture.” An Italian woman opened the shop under the concept of it being cruelty-free. In the shop, a variety of items which are made of cruelty-free materials instead of fur or leather are showcased. Look at this bag! What do you think it is made of?
A lot of people like football. In the world, many children enjoy playing football. When I went to Tanzania last month, I saw some children kicking a ball which looked ‘beary’ different from a ‘normal’ football. Look at the ball this boy is holding!
Look! This is a game of checkers. I found it in the waiting room of a small airport in a small town in Tanzania. Look at it more closely! Can you see what it is made of?
Did you know that the world’s oldest piano was invented in the early 18th century? Look at this piano! This was invented by Bartolomeo Cristofori in 1722. The invention of the piano must have been an epoch-making event in those days.
Look at my bag! This shiny silver color is generating a cool atmosphere. It looks ‘beary’ nice if I put it on my shoulder especially in summer. Then, what do you think this bag is made of?
Our global mom, Yasuko, has a sister who has been making quilts for many years. Every year she displays her work at an exhibition held at the Osaka City Art Museum. This year, she exhibited a 1.7-meter square quilt entitled “Mother’s Garden.” Look at the quilt closely! Amazing! ‘Beary’ minute stitches on the big square! Red flowers are ‘beary’ beautiful!
Did you read the latest post of Bobby’s Diary? I wrote about a pizza and barbecue party in my neighborhood, which was a ‘beary’ good opportunity to expand my EEN family. At the party, we all got intrigued with the tattoos of the Italian man.
EEN stands for the Economic Empowerment Network. EEN is pronounced “ee (ii)-en.” In Japanese, “ee (ii)” means “good,” and “en” has two meanings: the first is “human relationships” or a bond decided by fate; the second is “circle.” Today, let me introduce an “EEN” that has been established in the community where I (= Bobby) and the EEN founder, our global mom (= Yasuko) live.
Japan’s cherry blossoms are ‘beary’ famous, and the beautiful scenery of cherry blossoms is shown on TV worldwide. Every year, from the end of March to the beginning of April, a large number of tourists visit Japan from all over the world in order to see cherry blossoms. In Japan, however, we have many varieties of spring flowers other than cherry blossoms. Even after cherry blossom petals have fallen from the trees, we can still enjoy lovely spring flowers. Look! Now, azaleas are in full bloom! | <urn:uuid:1d5b733d-a84c-452b-8470-e47aab40e5b6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.een-letsbear.com/2019/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00479.warc.gz | en | 0.971953 | 736 | 1.617188 | 2 |
On a daily basis, tons of information is generated in every conceivable area, some trivial (but necessary), others important and critical to keep the system going. In the old days, archiving is done through physical filing of papers, but today almost everything can be electronically-filed and archived. The thing to remember though to ensure that your data can be accessed, say ten years down the road. is to store the data in quality products and using quality equipment for duplicating.
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The measurement and utilization of rotational degrees of freedom for experimental modal analysis applications is presented in this work. The experimental data is obtained with a novel noncontacting measurement approach capable of simultaneously sensing dynamic translation (y) and two dynamic rotations (Ox, Oz) of a vibrating surface. The paper briefly discusses transducer operation and its performance. The transducer is utilized for the modal analysis of two structures (a cantilever beam and a printed circuit board) providing estimates of both the translation and the rotation modal residues at each measurement test position. Several methods to combine the estimated translation and the rotation modal residues to refine the description of the mode shapes are presented and compared. The integration focuses on the use of polynomial curve fitting methods incorporating both translation (translational residues) and slope (rotational residues) at each test location to define the mode shapes. The results show that combined use of translational and rotational degrees of freedom reduces the effects of experimental measurement uncertainty and provides a significantly improved spatial description of mode shapes. | <urn:uuid:d652a7c7-a291-4c02-8b8d-fe311871e7ae> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/MODAL/ijaema_v7n4/cafeo/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00221-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.901804 | 214 | 1.5625 | 2 |
The Historical Society owns the Bridge View Inn, one of Rylstone’s gorgeous sandstone and random rubble buildings. The Bridge View Inn and related structures were built between 1865 and 1885, giving a unique character to the town of Rylstone.
The Bridge View Inn was opened for business in 1872 by Goodwin Spires HALL. HALL arrived in Rylstone in 1867 with his wife Mary Ann, brother James and James’ family, and Mary’s sister and mother, all of whom had been living in Sofala where HALL operated a pub. He clearly did well from the goldfields.
HALL first operated the Beehive Inn at 29 Mudgee Street, Rylstone, until the opening of the Bridge Hotel. In 1868 he purchased the 2 blocks of land where the Bridge Hotel was erected. Given that the population of Rylstone was less than 200 people, building the two-story Bridge Hotel was a huge expression of confidence in the future. HALL ordered dressed sandstone blocks for the front, and an interior boasting a cedar staircase, cedar doors, cedar cabinets and window casings. He commissioned a wonderful mural for the bar parlour featuring a portrait of the timber bridge over the Cudgegong River opposite the hotel at the end of Hall Street. The building had five stone fireplaces, and a kitchen wing with large fireplaces and a bread oven. He was obviously expecting good business.
But HALL may have overextended himself for he was in financial trouble by 1875. HALL put the building and business up for sale. He eventually remortgaged to the Australian Joint Stock Bank, and his brother James took over as publican from 1876 to 1880.
The building was used as a hotel until 1894, with a succession of lessees. Goodwin HALL died in 1891, his estate still owing money on the building. With the onset of a depression, mortgage payments fell into arrears and the Bank repossessed the building. The Australian Bank of Commerce (ABC) then moved in, converting the Bar room to a banking chamber, and the Snug (ladies’ lounge) behind as an office and safe room (hence the bars on the windows). The rest of the building housed the bank manager’s family or other employees. This use continued until 1957.
In 1958, the building was purchased by Christopher and Myrtle (Merle) FINK for use as a family home. However, Mr FINK, a manager at Kandos Cement, died in 1962. Merle eventually sold the building in 1967 to the trustees of Rylstone Historical Society: William Francis “Bill” STAFF (teacher, of Rylstone), Marjory Molyneaux TAYLOR (widow, of Kandos), Vincent John NEVEL (dentist, of Clandulla) and George William McDONALD (grazier, of Rylstone). The Society opened a museum in the building in 1970 but, finding a need for an income stream to maintain the building, eventually leased it to a succession of restauranteurs and artists. They later reopened the museum in the ‘Cottage’ in 1988.
After the Rylstone and District Historical Society acquired the Bridge Hotel in the 1960s, conservation and restoration work was undertaken on the building. The building is listed by the National Trust, is on the local and NSW Heritage Register, and is subject to a Permanent Conservation Order.
A mural over the fireplace came to light in the late 1990s, in what we now call the Dining Room, which had been covered by wallpaper for almost 100 years. The mural, believed to have been painted between 1872 and 1894, is a unique piece of Australiana and an important record of the history of Rylstone. The central cartouche contains a naïve depiction of the Cudgegong River bank with a fisherman and some cattle. At the centre is the distinctive timber truss bridge over the river that was once the main entry into the town and directly opposite the Bridge Hotel. The cartouche is surrounded by a decorative border of acanthus leaves, two nymphs and a horned satyr’s head. Satyrs and nymphs were associates of the Greek god of wine, so entirely appropriate decoration for a drinking establishment. The mural is believed to have been painted by Augustus Baker Pierce (1840-1919) and has been recently conserved.
Since 2006 considerable work has been undertaken to the Bridge Hotel, now known as the Bridge View Inn: reroofing, upgrading of toilets, a new front verandah, reworking of the courtyard and front paving, and upgrading of plumbing and electrical services.
The Bridge View Inn will be 150 years old in 2022 and remains in pretty good shape thanks to generous grant funding and the ongoing commitment of RDHS members.
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Utica enters wireless age with Internet in city, police offices
Posted September 19, 2012
UTICA — In terms of wireless communications, the Utica City Council unanimously voted to enter the 21st century Sept. 11.
The council voted to split $584.64 between the city’s general fund and the police budget to install secure and public wireless Internet access in its city and police offices.
“It was just time,” City Clerk Cathy McGrail said of the upgrade. “We’ve had meetings with people, and they need to access files online and can’t get on our network, and it slows everything down.
“And they’ve had attorneys in the Police Department that couldn’t reach files. It’s mainly for meetings.”
The city was able to make the change with minimal cost, because the Downtown Development Authority authorized $200 to offset the total $784.64 price tag for SYO Computer Engineering Services, of Shelby Township, to connect the police and city offices.
“We’ll have a bake sale to cover that,” McGrail quipped of the $292.32 cost to the city.
The wireless upgrade will allow the public to access the Internet on their mobile phones and tablets while either conducting business or waiting at city hall, and McGrail said that Utica’s offices should have access within a month.
Free wireless Internet is available at the Shelby Township Public Library, where Director David Conklin said patrons take full advantage of the opportunities.
“From a library standpoint, having access to information is one of our basic services,” Conklin said. “And a great way to do that is providing (wireless Internet) and access to more information that what we have in our walls.”
Conklin said that his library has 100 unique IP addresses available throughout a week. An Internet Protocol address is a number assigned to each device on a computer network.
“When we recently upgraded our router, it gave us 100 IP addresses a week, and I can tell you we’re getting more than 100 users a week,” Conklin said.
“And it’s not something that is unique to Shelby Township. Other libraries have had that problem, because demand is so high.”
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The Undervault is a sprawling labyrinth of underground passages and caverns that exists beneath the Basin of Life. It is host to an entire subterranean ecosystem that has flourished unseen for millennia, where the kephera - children of the Elder Goddess Keph - contained the vast Soulless Goddess Illith, the Leviathan. Unimaginably, Illith, the Leviathan, splintered herself into the illithoid race, who have broken free of their prison and are locked into a life-and-death struggle with the kephera. The Undervault is a strange continent separate from the Basin of Life, and is widely regarded as extraordinarily dangerous for even well-prepared adventurers. | <urn:uuid:2bfd920c-3b0b-46f3-94a1-ff15f65737d7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://oldsite.ironrealms.com/game/helpview/lusternia/the-undervault | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00175-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.889917 | 162 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Lafcadio Hearn changed the way the west viewed Japan when he lived there between 1890 and 1904. Over that period he wrote several books and articles in English, most famously his 1894 publication ‘Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan‘ which is still in print. Less well known is an editorial he also published in 1894 (for the Kobe Chronicle) titled ‘Earthquakes and national character‘. Hearn, like me, had an interest in the relationship between people and nature. And like me, he pondered the connection between the frequent natural ‘disasters’ in Japan and the character and culture of people who live in such a changing and unpredictable environment. Earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, fires, snowstorms and typhoons are all expressions of the elements at their most forceful and energetic. For me they ‘set the scene’ for my exploration of elemental Japan.
During my visit to Japan in May/June 2017 I wanted to get a better sense of what it was like living in such a volatile and uncertain environment. Where I live in Tasmania we get strong winds at times, and bushfires and floods are of concern. We have no earthquakes, active volcanoes or typhoons to keep us on our toes however. In contrast Japan has hundreds of earthquakes a year, several typhoons each season, and more than 10% of the worlds active volcanoes that are a threat to humans. One of those volcanoes is Sakurajima that looms over Kagoshima in southern Kyushu. I spent a week in an apartment looking over and visiting the volcano. It had a strong presence both physically and psychologically. I will write more about that in another post. For the moment the focus is my impressions so far about earthquakes and their impacts.
Hearn described the environment in Japan as harsh, violent and calamitous. When he wrote his editorial in September 1894 the most recent damaging earthquake had occurred three years earlier in Gifu. It is still the largest recorded inland earthquake in Japan’s history with over 7,000 people killed and 17,000 people injured. There have been many major earthquakes since, with the Great Kanto earthquake and conflagration in 1923 causing massive damage and loss of life in Tokyo and surrounding regions. Wikipedia lists an estimated 142,800 casualties. The responses to this landmark event was many and varied, as captured in the book ‘Imaging Disaster‘ by Gennifer Weisenfild. In 1960, the government declared September 1, the anniversary of the 1923 quake, as an annual “Disaster Prevention Day”.
The magnitude of the Great Kanto Earthquake has been estimated between 7.9 – 8.2 (Source: Wikipedia). In comparison the Great East Japan Earthquake, that occurred off the coast of Japan on March 11, 2011, was of magnitude 9.0-9.1. The combined force of the earthquake and resultant tsunami caused catastrophic damage to life and property, including to the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. The failure of the power plant infrastructure to contain the impacts of the tsunami added another dimension to disaster management in Japan. The consequent release of radiation has had widespread ramifications.
My friend Takao Ono, a Tokyoite, is involved in a volunteer group who regularly travels to the Tohoku region to help communities recover after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. This is a long term commitment. Some of the posts he shares on Facebook are from a group called ‘Never forget Tohoku’. Social media has made a big difference to how people respond and react to phenomenon such as earthquakes, before, during and after the event.
In May 2018 I visited the 3/11 Community Memorial Centre in Sendai. The photo below shows the entrance to the main exhibition space on the second floor. To the right of the door is a hand-drawn map of the coastal area impacted by the tsunami on March 11th, 2011. Local people impacted by the event write their feelings on post-it notes and stick them on the relevant area on the map. Opportunities were provided for visitors to write their thoughts and impressions as well, on long strips of white paper displayed elsewhere. For me the Centre reinforced the power of the earthquake and resultant tsunami and embodied the resilience and humanity of the people who lived through the event and the magnitude of the rescue and relief efforts during and afterwards. All of the communities along the coast affected by these twin events are working on ways to rebuild and reinvigorate their towns.
Earthquakes will continue to be a feature of the Japanese environment, sitting as it does on the Pacific Ring of Fire. The most recent example that caused serious damage occurred in April 2016 in Kumamoto, a city in the southern island of Kyushu. Hearn lived in Kumamoto for three years between 1891 and 1894. It was a display at his former city residence that drew my attention to his essay on earthquakes, highlighted in the material on show. Also highlighted was a story by Hearn titled ‘A Living God‘ that popularised the word ‘tsunami’ in the west. This essay appears in ‘Gleanings in Buddha-Fields‘, a book by Hearn published in 1897 on the philosophy and teachings of Japanese Buddhism.
In his editorial ‘Earthquakes and national character‘ Hearn gives us one perspective on how the elements shape the character of the Japanese. I have touched on others in this post. They all provide food for thought. Hearn wrote about many other aspects of Japanese culture in the late 19th century and early 20th century. You can learn more by reading his books and articles. John Dougill has also written a series of posts on Hearn in his blog Green Shinto (see for example John’s first post on Hearn). I would recommend reading these posts and visiting the Hearn Museum and residence (in Matsue and Kumamoto respectively) if you find yourself in these Japanese cities. His writings on the nature of Japan, and observations on the many guises of the elements, are important ones.
Prints such as these illustrate both the frequent nature of large earthquakes in Japan and the use of visual media in response to them – a pattern that continues to this day as described earlier. In this instance a few of the woodblock prints offered the comfort of religion or proclaimed a magic of their own, saying that they would act as a talisman against earthquakes. The book notes that while much of the folklore associated with earthquakes is stark and chilling, the legends in Japan are rich with invention and even humour. Source: Walker (1982)
Published on Disaster Prevention Day the article shown above recommended three simple things to prepare for the next major earthquake that will strike in Japan: 1. Know that earthquakes are a fact of life in Japan; 2. Understand Japan’s Strict Earthquake-Resistant Building Standards and the 1981 Shin-Taishin Building Code, and; 3. Make practical preparations for the next earthquake. To assist with preparations the Tokyo Metropolitan Government published a guide in 2015 to disaster preparedness in Tokyo. It’s a reminder to live each day to the fullest. Japan has many policies in place to minimise the physical impacts of earthquakes and protect citizens and visitors. I have a friend who always carries a small ‘disaster pack’ with his essentials in it when he travels in Japan. It’s definitely worth considering. Remember – earthquakes are a fact of life there. Living with that knowledge on a daily basis is sure to have some impact on a persons character. | <urn:uuid:2993fcad-a377-429d-98f5-e807a11d7f15> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://elementaljapan.com/2017/08/19/earthquakes-and-national-character/?like_comment=93&_wpnonce=eed4a40477 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.967464 | 1,562 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Woodcraft Adds New SawStop Portable Jobsite Saw to Product LineComments (0)
Woodcraft has added the new SawStop Jobsite Saw to its product line so that customers will have SawStop’s patented safety technology available in a portable table saw.
“It is the first jobsite saw with flesh detecting safety technology,” Woodcraft national power tool sales manager Andrew Bondi said, “So it brings an added level of safety to a work site away from a shop setting, such as for home repair and maintenance, and it is also good for the ‘space challenged’ woodworker with a small shop or garage work area.”
The first SawStop table saw was sold in 2004, equipped with the groundbreaking safety technology invented by founder Dr. Steve Gass in 1999. A small electrical signal in the saw blade changes when it contacts human skin, and the change activates an aluminum brake that stops the blade in five milliseconds, forcing it under the table and shutting the power off. The technology has earned awards and recognition, including listing in Time Magazine Best New Inventions 2006.
Over the past decade, SawStop has built several stationary table saws used by hobbyists, contractors, cabinetmakers, educators, and DIYers. “Although the cutting-edge safety technology is the most well-known SawStop feature,” Bondi said, “The Tualatin, Oregon- based company’s saws are also known for unmatched quality, precision and meticulous engineering.”
In designing the first transportable version of its table saw, Bondi said, “SawStop conducted substantial beta testing with professionals in the field for more than a year. The result is an innovative saw with several time-saving features. The Jobsite Saw requires just one turn to raise the blade, as opposed as many as 25 turns required by other saws. Also, the QuickTilt feature allows the user to easily tilt the blade to the desired angle in one-degree increments and then to fine-tune it using the infinitely adjustable Micro Adjust.”
Click this link to read more about the SawStop Jobsite Saw, and view the video below for more information. To learn more about SawStop, visit www.sawstop.com.
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After this efficient formation, most of the gas is not in favorable conditions for star formation. Indeed, larger potential wells have not formed yet, and the density threshold is not reached. It is therefore likely that the gas will slowly accumulate in bigger potentials to form galaxies, as sketched in fig. 3. In the inner parts of these early galaxies, star formation can then begin. Then galaxy interactions will stirr and heat the gas through shocks and gravitational perturbations.
Figure 3. Schematic view of the evolution of the baryonic dark matter, under the form of cold H2 gas: formation of clumpuscules at a redshift around 100, which are progressively involved in the formation of larger structures and proto-galaxies. A typical early galaxy is shown at z = 6, with the cold gas settling into a flaring disk, and the star formation beginning in the center, where the surface density is above threshold. Later on, when groups and clusters virialise, the gas is stripped and heated to contribute to the hot X-ray gas.
Besides, interactions accelerate the angular momentum transfer: part of the HI gas is dragged outwards in tails. Most of the gas is driven inwards, giving rise to huge nuclear starbursts (and may be AGN). Galaxy evolution is highly accelerated. The cold gas that was settled around each galaxy is heated and virialised in the new common potential and might be visible through X-rays. | <urn:uuid:54e3c6a8-9af0-48da-b7f5-3405e2c2470f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Combes2/Combes4.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280791.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00362-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931053 | 298 | 3.53125 | 4 |
Managed file transfer (MFT) is a service or software that is utilized for managing secure data transfer from a computer to another computer via a network such as the internet. Managed file transfer software market is marketed to software enterprises as a substitute to the ad-hoc file transfer solutions including HTTP, FTP, and others.
This is because MFT presents a greater level of control and security as compared to FTP. In a business environment, activities of file transfer take place during the majority of the day. A number of times, these transfers are accompanied with high-volume file transfers with extremely large files along with systems and users spread across a wide geographic area. Hence, the MFT services availed by enterprises are very fast for sharing even huge volumes of data across all key open platforms. The file transfer platform servers utilized for MFT comprise a wide range of authentication and security options and no file may enter or leave without the approval of the server for carrying out the transmission. The file transfer platform servers can also automate the whole process of receiving and sending files.
Technology Advancement to Propel MFT Service Market
The increasing demand for a digital supply chain has resulted in enhanced security due to increase in data volume. This is the reason why big enterprises have adopted MFT solutions and services. This factor will boost the growth prospects of the MFT service market in the coming years. Additionally, the rise of advanced technology has also fuelled the MFT service market. On the other hand, the absence of awareness amongst end users particularly, in emerging regions such as Latin America and APEJ, may impede the growth of the managed file transfer service market in the coming years.
Auditability and End-to-End- Security of MFT Service to Boost MFT Service Market
MFT is used across a number of verticals such as the retail sector, the government sector, the manufacturing sector, the energy utility sector, banking, media and the entertainment sector, the telecommunication sector, and the financial service and insurance (BFSI) sector. MFT comprises a number of features such as non-repudiation, reporting, auditability, automation of file transfer-related activities and processes, global visibility, performance metrics/monitoring, and end-to-end security. MFT applications can be availed on both software-as-a-service (SaaS) and on-premises licensed software packages. A number of these applications are made for enterprise use and others are made to be sold to individual consumers.
North America Emerges as the Biggest MFT Service Market
On the basis of geography, the MFT service market is segmented into Latin America, North America, Western Europe, Japan, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa (MEA), and Asia Pacific Excluding Japan (APEJ). Amongst these regions, North America is currently dominating the market for MFT services and is trailed by Western Europe. On the other hand, APEJ is predicted to bring in big opportunities for major players operating in the MFT service market in the forthcoming future.
Saison Information System Co. Ltd., IBM Corp., Axway Inc., CA Technology Inc., Accellion Inc., Oracle Corp., and Software AG, among others, are the prime players dominant in the market.
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MEPs from Sweden, Denmark and Finland have teamed up in the latest blow to EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and her allies in the eurozone, namely Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel, to call on their governments to stop further integration in the bloc.
Sweden Democrats MEP Charlie Weimers, Danish People’s Party MEP Peter Kofod and Laura Huhtasaari, True Finns MEP, are urging people to fight against the creation of a so-called United States of Europe.
In an open letter to their respective governments and citizens published in the Swedish daily Dagens Industri, the trio claimed their governments “know that the citizens of their countries do not want to increase EU power further”.
Lambasting EU chiefs’ plan to push for more integration through the Conference on the Future of Europe, the three MEPs said Stefan Löfven, Mette Fredriksen and Sanna Marin know that the exercise, sold by Brussels as an opportunity to listen to European citizens’ demands, will merely serve as a trampoline for a federalist agenda.
They wrote: “There is a historical parallel to this ‘Conference on the Future of Europe’.
“Twenty years ago, the Convention on the Future of the European Union was launched, which would make the EU ‘more democratic, more transparent and more efficient’.
“Former President Giscard d’Estaing chaired the convention and, without consulting the representatives of the European countries, presented a draft constitution for Europe that buried all traces of intergovernmentalism in the EU treaties.
“This was rejected in referendums, but returned in a form described as the Treaty of Lisbon.
“This too was rejected in a referendum in Ireland but after political promises were made the Irish voted again and the transfer of power was a fact.”
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ACA compliance remains one of the most talked about and confusing processes for HR professionals, as well as people outside of the HR field. From passing the law under President Obama, to trying to repeal the law under President Trump, many people have been left confused as to the current status of the ACA. In short, the ACA remained in full force for 2018, especially as it relates to US employers, and for now, remains in effect for 2019 and beyond.
Healthcare and medical coverage is a benefit for employees, providing them with the level of care they need, and giving them affordable options when seeking medical care. With the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enacted in 2010, companies employing more than 50 Full Time Employees (FTE) are required to provide some form of medical insurance for employees.
Over the years, there have been shifts in the ACA, making it critical for businesses to be aware of the current laws so that compliance can be met, in order to protect employee and company alike.
The IRS increased several penalties for the year 2018.
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- The Employer Shared Responsibility Payment (ESRP) for Failure to Offer Coverage that Meets Affordability and Minimum Value (MV), increased from $3,390 per employee in 2017 to $3,480 per employee in 2018.
- The Failure to File Penalty applies to employers who did not file correct information returns for 2018. That penalty increased from $260 per return in 2017 to $270 per return in 2018.
- The Failure to Furnish Penalty applies to employers who fail to provide correct 1095-Cpayee statements to employees. The penalty increased from $260 per return in 2017 to $270 per return in 2018.
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Due to increasing popular demand, many homeowners are looking to plant periwinkle plants in their garden. We have put together a number of periwinkle tips and instructions from throughout the web that should prove helpful. We will start first with Drugs.com.
What Is Periwinkle?
The plant reportedly first came from the West Indies. However, periwinkle was first discovered in Madagascar. Depending on the climate in which it grows, periwinkle is a perennial herb with flowers that can bloom throughout the year.
Periwinkle is grown for its unique colors. These colors range from white to green-yellow and lavender. Periwinkle can also be referred to its scientific terms: Lochnera rosea, Vinca rosea, and Ammocallis rosea.
A related plant, Vinca minor (common periwinkle, Myrtle) can be used for ground cover purposes.
What Are Its Uses?
There are several uses for periwinkle. It seems like they vary widely and that there’s no shortage of them. Let’s take a look…
The plant first came to Europe in the mid-1700s. It was first grown as a decorative piece. 250 years later it now grows on practically every corner of the world. Plantations are on practically in every continent, especially in warmer climates.
Periwinkle has notably been used in tropical folk medicine, specifically for ocular inflammation and diabetes. Other uses include treatment for hemorrhages, insect stings, and even cancers.
Drugs.com note that the specific cancers include leukemia, Hodgkin disease, malignant lymphomas, neuroblastoma, Wilms tumor, Kaposi sarcoma, and mycosis fungoides. Perwinkle alkaloids help improve cerebral blood flow and treat high blood pressure.
An extensive body of literature exists on the clinical uses of the various purified alkaloids of Catharanthus.
What Is the Recommended Dosage?
Drugs.com notes there hasn’t been any evidence to support a specific dose for periwinkle:
There is no recent clinical evidence to support specific doses of periwinkle herb. The pure alkaloids vincristine and vinblastine are used in cancer therapy at single weekly IV doses of 0.05 to 0.15 mg/kg and 0.1 to 0.2 mg/kg respectively.
How Safe Is Periwinkle?
There have been no contraindications yet identified.
With regards to safety and efficacy in pregnancy and lactation, information is also lacking. Therefore, women who are pregnant and nursing should not use periwinkle.
Gardening Know How
Here are some more periwinkle tips from Gardening Know How.
How to Grow Periwinkle Plants
Periwinkle, a broadleaf evergreen plant, is very easy to grow. The plant is drought resistant and needs little other care if properly sited in the landscape.
After planting, caring for periwinkle may include the removal of tall weeds in the vicinity. Growing periwinkle in the future will probably block the growth of weeds going forward. A real positive of having this plant around indeed!
For the best results, grow periwinkle in a partially shaded area in acidic soil. But as Gardening Know How points out, the plant “can thrive in a variety of sunlight and soil conditions.
Growing periwinkle in partial shade creates more vigorous growth. In many instances, extreme vigor may not be desirable unless the periwinkle plant needs to cover a large area. One small plant can spread to 8 feet across.”
How to Grow Periwinkle Plants (Continued)
As previously mentioned, growing periwinkle as a ground cover is very common. This is because it seldom ever reaches higher than 4 inches.
Periwinkle’s best use is for controlling erosion, as Gardening Know How notes. It is very important to not plant near other species of plant in your garden. This is because it may overtake and choke out valuable plants.
Another use for periwinkle is for a climber on non-living support. It is also very helpful for obstructing views when it is used like this.
It is vital that before you plant periwinkle to ensure that this is what you want in that specific area. The reason for that is because once you plant it, it is very hard to remove.
Periwinkle is not very high on the exotic invasive list. It can, however, escape its original cultivation in your garden. That said, it is seldom ever found going into the wild.
One last thought in this section: you should not confuse periwinkle ground cover with annual periwinkle. Annual periwinkle, otherwise known as Catharanthus roseus, is a different plant from periwinkle.
The San Francisco Chronicle
Tips on planting your periwinkles from The San Francisco Chronicle:
First of all, plant periwinkle in a bed with full or partial shade and moderately fertile, well-draining soil. Avoid planting in full sun since periwinkle plants develop yellow leaves if grown under hot, bright conditions.
Since the conditions are most ideal at that time, prepare the bed in spring. Weed thoroughly and remove any stones or other debris. Break up the soil to a depth of 6 inches using a rotary tiller. Work a 1-inch-thick layer of mildly acidic compost into the bed to improve the soil’s moisture retention and nutrient content.
Plant the periwinkle plants on a cloudy, cool day. Dig planting holes with the same depth and diameter as the original nursery containers. Space the holes 4 to 5 feet apart for a traditional ground cover planting, or 6 to 8 inches apart for faster coverage.
Remove the periwinkle plants from their containers. Gently squeeze the root ball to loosen the soil. Nestle the root ball into the prepared hole and firm the soil. Make sure the base of the plant is level with the surrounding soil.
In conclusion, spread a 1- to 2-inch-thick layer of mulch between the plants to deter weeds, and help keep the soil moist and cool. Leave a 1-inch space between the mulch and the base of the periwinkle plants to allow any excess moisture in the soil to evaporate.
Water the periwinkle plants to a depth of 2 inches immediately after planting them. Run the water onto the soil at ground level rather than watering from overhead since moisture on the foliage creates ideal conditions for a fungal infection called vinca stem blight (Phomopsis livella).
The Garden Helper
Here is some more insight about periwinkles from The Garden Helper, starting with the types of periwinkle species.
Vinca major, that is, the Big or Greater Periwinkle is prevalent in the United States Department of Agriculture, or USDA zones 7-10.
Big Periwinkles are about to grow to about 1-1½ ft. tall. It spreads by long trailing stems that root along the ground as their growth progresses. These types of periwinkles produce purplish-blue two-inch flowers from spring through fall.
The Garden Helper notes that “The foliage of V. major ‘Variegata’ features creamy white blotches and margins. One major ‘Maculata’ has leaves with yellowish centers.”
The other primary species is called Vinca minor. Other names for it are Dwarf Periwinkle or Myrtle. They are especially found in USDA zones 4-9. Vinca minor is a nearly perfect miniature copy of V.major, as The Garden Helper notes.
The publication also points out that “Myrtle is a spreading sub-shrub that grows 4-6 inches tall and can form a dense mat up to 10 ft. wide.” They continue:
They produce lavender-blue, ¾”-1″ flowers from mid-spring until early summer. One minor ‘Alba’ has 1¼” white flowers and lightly variegated foliage.
Both Vinca major and Vinca minor are adapt well to growing in hanging baskets or other planters.
Growing Requirements for Periwinkle Vinca Plants
Big Periwinkles can be grown in full sunlight. You should compliment this with copious amounts of water, especially if your primary concern is having a lot of flowers. It is better, however, as a ground cover in partial shade.
Dwarf Periwinkle should only be grown in partial or full shade with sunshine in the morning hours. Perennial Vincas grow very well in under almost any soil conditions. This is as long as you drain it properly.
For the ideal results, you should mix compost or any other organic material into your soil when you go to plant them. Periwinkles are somewhat drought resistant once you establish them. That said, they grow and bloom best with routine watering.
Vincas should be fed every two months while they are actively growing, using a good all-purpose fertilizer applied according to label directions. Shear Periwinkle plants back hard in the spring to promote fresh, new growth and to control spread.
Finally, here is some information on how to grow periwinkle plants from Saga.
Where to Plant
Periwinkles, according to Saga, are “bombproof plants that tolerate shade or light-shade in a variety of soils including acid and alkaline.”
They also make good plants for containers. This is especially true for the Vinca minor species. Vincas will always travel towards better light, though. Periwinkles are good when you plant them under trees.
When They Flower
Periwinkles usually bloom in March. This is due to the emergence of the Spring Equinox.
When to Cut Back
In winter the foliage can become shabby. Consequently, both Vinca major and Vinca minor become hardy enough to be sheared. This encourages both species for fresh spring growth in the spring months.
However, it is vital that you don’t shear off Do not shear off Vinca difformis. This is because it is a little too tender as its origin is in the Western Mediterranean.
It is prudent to keep a watchful eye for undesirable runners. Pull any that are in the wrong place up from the ground.
Vincas are paired very well with spring bulbs, particularly tulips.
As Saga points out, the lesser periwinkles (V. minor) go well with robust forms of miniature and shorter narcissi such as ‘Jetfire’, ‘Tête à Tête’, ‘W.P.Milner’ and ‘Jumblie’. The publication continues:
You can use vincas with hardy wintergreen ferns (especially dryopteris, polystichum and polypodium) and with pulmonarias and oriental hellebores for winter interest and spring colour.
They can also be grown with robust colchicums like ‘The Giant’ as the evergreen leaves cover up the dying foliage. In autumn, the flowers pop up through the leaves.
As Saga notes, the Lesser Periwinkle, Vinca minor, “offers the greatest choice of colours and flower type.”
Periwinkles have various heights. The taller types come under the list of Vinca major (reaching about 18in/45 cm). Shorter periwinkles (reaching about 4in/10cm) come under the V. minor column.
Another earlier-flowering species called V. difformis needs more shelter in order to grow successfully.
Saga points out the main differences between the shorter and longer forms of periwinkles:
The shorter forms send out far more runners and effectively cover whole areas in a netting of stems. Taller periwinkles tend to send out a few long runners, about two feet in length, and these dip to the soil and root. Sometimes just where you don’t want them.
Plant them in areas where spreading and travelling are desirable and don’t be fooled into thinking that the shorter vincas are less invasive. It’s quite the opposite. Consequently, vincas are invasive and they’ve become a real problem in North America and New Zealand.
Margery Fish, the famous cottage gardener from East Lambrook Manor, writing in Ground Cover Plants, lists them under Rampers. However I grow some along my stone walls in sunless positions where little else thrives.
Did You Know…? (In Conclusion)
To finish this post off, here are some fun facts you will find most noteworthy from Saga:
The English name periwinkle and the botanical name Vinca are both derived from the Latin vincio (to bind) describing the long and trailing stems that spread over the ground.
Periwinkles have tannins which are astringent. They also have indole alkaloids including ‘vincamine,’ used widely in the pharmaceutical industry. There are also saponins, which are detergent-like molecules, as well as flavonoids.
Common names for periwinkle include the following:” “parwynke, joy of the ground, ground ivy, cockles, cockle shells, pennywinkle, blue buttons, sorcerer’s violet and blue smock.”
Here are couple final facts from Saga:
‘Sorcerer’s Violet’ was used for making charms and love potions. Culpeper, the 17th century herbalist, says that if the leaves were eaten by a couple they would stay in love forever. Consequently, it was used to exorcise evil spirits.
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Human Resource Systems (HRS) in Rehabilitation: A Catalyst for Performance and Change. Institute on Rehabilitation Issues (18th, Memphis, Tennessee, October 1991).
Corthell, David W., Ed.
The purpose of this book is to aid vocational rehabilitation professionals in maximizing human resource capacities. It is intended to help build a delivery system based on needed skills and attitudes among its work force, through integration of various human resource components. The book proposes that in order for rehabilitation agencies to succeed, all managers must function as leaders, and leaders must adopt the Human Resources Systems (HRS) approach. This approach presents the viewpoint that responsible, dynamic change in a rehabilitation agency values individual and organizational growth. The book provides strategies and guidance on how to effectively address opportunities, needs, and challenges in rehabilitation agencies. The outcome of all this will relate agency/staff responsiveness to the needs of persons with disabilities, to the quality of services, and to the efficiency and effectiveness of the human service delivery system. Four major challenges to the rehabilitation system are discussed: cultural diversity, new rehabilitation professionals, new knowledge and skills, and changing societal values and attitudes. Following an introductory chapter, other chapters discuss: implications for human resources of the changing work force and the changing work place; philosophy, purpose, components, and opportunities of human resource systems; human resource planning; human resource management; human resource development based on a philosophy of individual growth; leading through organizational change; and specific recommendations to key constituencies within the state-federal rehabilitation program. The book concludes with a case study and a glossary. References accompany some chapters. (JDD)
Descriptors: Adults, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Cultural Differences, Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Human Resources, Individual Development, Labor Force Development, Leadership, Organizational Development, Program Development, Social Attitudes, Social Values, Staff Development, Vocational Education, Vocational Rehabilitation
University of Wisconsin-Stout, Research and Training Ctr., Stout Vocational Rehabilitation Inst., Menomonie, WI 54751-0790 ($18.25).
Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom; Collected Works - Proceedings
Education Level: N/A
Sponsor: National Inst. on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (ED/OSERS), Washington, DC.
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“I don’t have answers; but I do have questions designed to make you think,” said the workshop leader, a young man with kind eyes and hair beyond his control.
“Oh great,” I thought, “I signed up for a workshop on humor in the classroom to get ideas on how to make learning fun; instead I’m going to spend forty-five minutes thinking lofty thoughts. Good grief.”
The instructor then asked a series of questions that, indeed, required thought. Worse, after each query, he stood silently for what seemed like an eternity looking at his participants as though we were thinking. So we did.
“Think about a time when unkind words, parading as humor, hurt you or someone you know,” he said. “How did you feel?”
In response, I remembered one of my fourth-grade students and her family entering my classroom during a back-to-school open house. I smiled at the shy but bright youngster, “Hi, Marlene, would you like to introduce me to your family?”
“Marlene?” her teenaged brother said, “We call her Toad. Just look at her. She looks like Grandpa.” As Marlene’s parents chuckled fondly, I saw the light in a little girl’s eyes go out. And it didn’t come back for some time.
I ignored the comment and said, “It’s a pleasure to work with Marlene; she’s an excellent, hardworking student.” I remember feeling inadequate in the moment, and the intervening years hadn’t changed my opinion.
I was relieved when the workshop instructor interrupted my self-critique with his next question: “When you feel uneasy or put down by words others find funny, how do you react?”
This time, my memory returned me to a faculty lounge in a new school in a new state where a colleague bombarded me with Mormon jokes after he heard my background. Daily, he greeted me with a new joke: “Hey, Janet, what do you call a good-looking woman in Salt Lake City? A tourist. What’s the difference between a Mormon woman and an elephant? About ten pounds. What is a Mormon woman’s favorite wine? When-ner we gun-na ha-va ‘nother baaaa-by?”
My colleagues laughed uneasily. I felt harassed, uncomfortable and defensive. Soon, I began to avoid the lounge.
Fortunately, my unhappy memories were ended by another question from the workshop instructor: “In the past, how have you responded to offensive or hurtful comments, stories or jokes presented as humor? Do you wish you’d responded differently? If so, how?”
“Obviously,” I thought, “I haven’t responded. I either pretend to ignore hurtful humor or avoid it. Then I feel ineffective. I wish this man would just tell us what to do.”
Once again, he didn’t enlighten us. Instead, he divided us into small groups and said, “We’ll never reach consensus on the best way to recognize and react to negative humor, but we can raise our consciousness by discussing our experiences with it.”
The intense discussion in my group included a response strategy suggested by a matronly lady with a kind smile: When someone used negative humor, she would wait until the laughter died and then pretend she didn’t understand the joke: “I don’t get it. What’s funny about that?” She told us that, usually, when someone attempts to explain negative humor, the joke’s put-down, hurtful nature is revealed.
After our group discussions, the workshop leader shared a quote:
“My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.”
He then dismissed us.
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It Pays to Know Your Score
Consumer understanding of credit scores has improved over the past year, according to an annual survey commissioned by the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) and Washington Mutual Bank (WaMu). But that's not saying much.
Credit scores are important. Very important. That's how lenders decide if you're too risky to lend money to. According to this survey, the results of which were released Thursday, fewer than one-third of Americans know that credit scores indicate risk of not repaying a loan.
"Lack of consumer knowledge about credit scores not only increases the costs of their credit and insurance, but also reduces the availability of these and other services," said Stephen Brobeck, executive director of the CFA.
Washington Mutual estimates that credit cardholders could reduce finance charges by $105 annually if they raised their score by 30 points. If all consumers raised their scores by 30 points, total annual consumer savings would be $28 billion, according to the financial institution's estimates.
How do you increase your credit score? CFA and WaMu offered some tips. Pay your bills on time. Don't max out your cards. Don't open too many new accounts too quickly. Regularly check your credit reports to make sure they are free of errors. Oh, and one more thing you can try: Pay off your debt rather than moving it around from card to card.
The two institutions also provided a few facts that all consumers should know about credit scores. Here they are:
--Scores reflect your past credit history, not your personal characteristics. That means your age, gender or income don't matter.
--Low scores could not only cost you thousands of dollars a year in additional finance charges, but can also deny you access to credit, insurance, telephone service, a rental unit, or even a job. Yes, some employers check credit scores.
--If your score is below 600, you will probably get a higher "subprime" loan rates. If your score is above 700, you will likely get relatively low "prime" rates. And if you've got a score above 760, you'll probably get the lowest rates out there.
So make sure you figure out what your score is. You could make your life much easier if you do.
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In the ever changing and evolving world of digital marketing there are a lot of acronyms to keep track of. You’ve likely heard of and know a little about SEO, which stands for Search Engine Optimization. But, what do you know about SEM? What is SEM? SEM stands for Search Engine Marketing. This means paying to use search engine results as a part of your digital marketing strategy.
Search Engine Marketing
Search Engine Marketing refers specifically to paying for ads to show up in search results. While effective SEO (Search Engine Optimization) can and should be utilized as part of your digital marketing strategy – this focuses on your brand showing up organically. To fast-track this a bit, businesses may also using SEM for online marketing. Have you noticed that the first several results of a search will be specific companies with “ad” next to them? This is done through SEM.
It is still important to spend time and resources on SEO – but organic growth takes a while. Effective SEO should be part of your long term strategy and is continuously being reviewed and updated. An SEM strategy, on the other hand, can be implemented a bit more quickly. Ads at the top of the search paid are generally what is called PPC (pay per click) and this means you only pay when someone clicks on your ad.
Making an SEM Plan
Before you jump in and start spending money to try to get your link to appear at the top, make sure you have a plan in place and know your target audience. As with any digital marketing, Search Engine Marketing must be done strategically in order to achieve desired results. Some basics of planning your SEM include the following:
Know your why.
Define the result you are trying to achieve with SEM. This could be building a newsletter email list, or maybe it is taking your audience straight to a new product page? Whatever it is you have to consider the best words and calls to action to ensure that people are directed to what they expect. This will increase your conversion rates. Disappointed or misled visitors will quickly leave your page, but if they find what they were searching for, they will stay and get to know your business.
Determine your key search words.
You want to have a mix between short and long tail keywords. Just like determining the best search terms for your SEO strategy, your SEM plan requires research in order to achieve results and get ROI.
Write effective ad copy.
Having clear goals and the right key search terms may get your ad seen but be sure you don’t stop there. You need to be intentional about the words used in the ad to pull in your target audience and encourage them to click. Use compelling copy that is clear and effective in all your digital marketing.
Decide on the platform.
Similar to when you’re deciding whether to set up Facebook ads versus Pinterest ads or another social media platform, you need to decide where you want to advertise when planning your SEM. While Google is the most popular search engine and will have the highest volume of traffic, others such as Bing will have less competition and generally be less expensive. You will need to determine your budget and decide which search engine makes the most sense to your business for your SEM
Know where you’re sending people who click. Having a plan for the ad is important for SEM, but you also need a plan for once they click. This ties back in to knowing your “why” in your SEM plan. A landing page is a good idea because it can give people who click through a clear and easy way to take the next step.
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A Nonprofit Dedicated to Building the Political Power of Hispanic People
Salsa the Vote got its start in the 1990s along with other famous organizations such as Rock the Vote when a group of friends in the music industry decided to use their platforms to empower their communities politically. John “Gungie” Rivera, the founder of Salsa the Vote, started his organization to specifically reach the Latino community in the Greater New York City area. During this time, Salsa the Vote was an enormous success and was able to register 50,000 people. Years went by and Rivera went on to create a foundation in the name of his late son, Cristian, who passed due to an incredibly rare disease, DIPG. After years of hard work growing the foundation and starting different facets of his company, Rivera was able to witness the lives of the first four survivors of DIPG. Looking at the political climate recently, though, Rivera decided it was time to restart Salsa the Vote to invigorate and activate the Latino community. Salsa the Vote’s mission is to increase access to democracy by acting as a resource to register and vote in elections to everyone, but specifically the Latino community.
Our founder, John “Gungie” Rivera, says that the Latino community is the most affected community by changes in politics, yet they are the ones who do not vote as regularly. Issues surrounding immigration, education, and healthcare consistently rank as some of the biggest priorities for the community, but voter turnout is typically quite low. Data from the 2016 election show that the Latino voter turnout rate did not exceed that of the 2012 rate, which was not an extraordinary year for voter turnout. But there is an upward trend overall; in 2018, 11.7 million Latinos voted, an astounding increase from the 6.8 million in 2014. Projections show that in the 2020 election the “largest nonwhite ethnic voting bloc” will be the Latino community. Additionally, over the last few years, there has been a surge of Latino candidates for governmental positions from local boards through congressional seats. With this momentum, there is hope for real change and national support for the Latino community, but this is only possible if everyone votes. This is why we are committed to registering and encouraging everyone, but especially Latino members to exercise their right to vote. | <urn:uuid:c1d7be61-a35f-4bfd-8b49-c5ada41a3f3c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://salsathevote.org/about-us/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00471.warc.gz | en | 0.975994 | 478 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Born May 15, 1567, Claudio Monteverdi most likely had no idea how far his idea of putting words to music and staging would go to the rich, extravagant productions seen in opera today.
Maybe his marriage to a court singer in 1599, Claudia de Cattaneis, encouraged him to tackle a Greek myth of finding love only to give in to temptation and lose it for eternity.
Monteverdi’s musical life began as a student of Ingenner, maestro di cappella (Master of the Choir and/or Orchestra) at the Cremona Cathedral. He produced motets and madrigals before going to Mantua and serving the Duke of Mantua as a string player. Following the death of the maestro di cappella, Signor Pallavicino, Monteverdi achieved a certain amount of fame for supporting a modern approach to harmony and text setting.
In 1607, L’Orfeo was produced–and what an interesting evening for the audience. This was an entirely new idea; text, music, stage, settings, and costumes combined for a performance. Monteverdi instructed his players to “play the work as simply and correctly as possible, and not with many florid passages or runs.” In other words, no show-offs, please.
L’Orfeo was written for five acts, each act dealing with a single component of the story, and each act ending with a chorus. The famous lament sung by Orfeo, “Tu se’ morta!” (“You are dead!”) is available from the NLS Music Section at BRM 34677.
The practice of the day dictated that all scene changes took place in front of the court without benefit of a curtain rising or falling, allowing the instrumental line to indicate what action was taking place and with improvisation allowed, it could make for some very interesting scene shifts.
Monteverdi wrote more operas, opening the door for this synthesis of the arts that continues to excite listeners and theater patrons today. I recently had the pleasure of attending a performance of L’Orfeo in person with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir, accompanied by the English Baroque Soloists. I anticipated a superb level of playing and singing from the group, but surprised myself at how quickly I became involved in the story while I was following the libretto and hearing this lovely music. His last opera, L’Incoronazione di Poppea is enjoying a revival today at many of the major opera houses. He achieved a pivotal mark in his career with the appointment of maestro di cappella at St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice. No doubt performances of his sacred and some secular works were to his satisfaction in this beautiful cathedral.
For our braille music patrons, you can borrow from the NLS Music section or download from BARD more Monteverdi, along with a standard of the singer’s repertoire, 24 Italian Songs and Arias at BRM 22077. Biographies of the composer are available at DBM 01619, World’s Greatest Composer series, and a lesson on “L’asciatemi morire!” including diction, translation and piano accompaniment for practice are available for soprano at DBM 01904 and tenor at DBM 01903.
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Common Questions about Bulk Buying:
What if you don’t need that much? Only purchase items with a long shelf life or go in with another family, purchase together, and divide it among yourselves.
What if I don’t have a membership to a warehouse club? Many employers offer discount memberships and some warehouse clubs even offer free days where non members can shop. Beyond that, you could always ask someone with a membership to get it for you – and maybe bake them something yummy as a thank you!
I currently have memberships at both Costco and Sam’s Club. I’ve found that both offer some things unique to their store. For example, I love being able to buy chicken in the special “freezer packaging” that Costco has. A big flat of chicken breasts are sealed in individual packages with two per package – which saves me having to divide up the chicken like that to freeze once I get home – for the same price as Sam’s chicken, which still comes on a styrofoam base all squished together.
At Sam’s, I can buy dried beans in bulk, something I’ve yet to even find for sale at Costco. Each has their advantages – The savings on meat and produce alone pays for my membership, but for most families a membership to just one will suffice.
This week’s example of saving money by buying in bulk is sugar.
Did you know that sugar keeps indefinitely? All you need is an airtight container. That makes this an ideal item to buy in bulk if significant savings can be found – and I’m here to show you that they can.
Now, let’s see how much we save:
In case you haven’t noticed, sugar no longer comes in 5 pounds bags. The new norm is 4 pounds, with a higher price tag even though the amount is less. Welcome to economics
Now I usually buy generic sugar but the price difference isn’t that significant so in the interest of comparing apples to apples, we’re gonna use name brand sugar for this price comparison.
This is a 4 pound bag of Domino Sugar on sale for $3.79, but the regular price is $3.89 so we’re gonna use that.
25 pounds of Domino sugar at the
grocery store would cost us $24.31
Now let’s look at what Sam’s Club has to offer…
A 25 pound bag of Domino Sugar at Sam’s Club is a whopping $11.53
That is a savings of
$12.78 – OVER Half off!
Here is what Costco has…
The same amount of sugar but a different brand, Dixie Crystals, in a less glamorous packaging, is $9.99
A Savings of $14.32!
Sure, this may seem like a lot of sugar but it keeps indefinitely! You may not go through 25 pounds in a month, but I’m sure you can go through 25 pounds in several months…or a year…or five years. Either way you look at it, this is a substantial savings.
But Christy, how do I store 25 pounds of sugar?
Oh I’m so glad you asked that!
There are several ways to store it. This big yellow lidded bucket you see is one method. I buy these in three packs at Sam’s Club and they’re airtight and hold about 10 pounds of sugar each.
You can also store it in gallon sized zipper seal bags.
BUT my favorite way to store bulk food items that I won’t use right up is in clean 2 liter bottles, like cokes come in. These are food grade containers, airtight, bug proof, and cheap to get. The pour spout on the top makes it easy to use them to refill sugar canisters and jars as well.
Take empty two liters, rinse them well with warm water. Then add a teaspoon of bleach and fill halfway. Put the lid on and shake well to sanitize the bottle, then rinse well once more. Allow to sit, unopened, for several days to dry. I like to keep several empty bottles on hand for things like this. When I’m ready to fill one, I just grab a small funnel and in minutes I have sugar, beans, or whatever I need safely stored away until I need it.
If you drink cokes, this is an incentive to purchase 2 liters over cans, and that saves a lot of money as well! If you don’t drink cokes, it’s usually easy to find someone who does.
Pictured above are 3 liter bottles that I use for dried beans and such. Rice and sugar store really well in two liters but some of the larger beans are just easier to get through a 3 liter opening. By the way: The only place I’ve found 3 liter bottles is at the Dollar Tree, in case anyone decides to hunt them down.
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PRINCETON, N.J., Nov. 29 (UPI) -- Six-of-10 U.S. adults are satisfied with how much they pay for health insurance, but those on Medicare and Medicaid are more satisfied, a survey says.
Gallup's annual Health and Healthcare poll, conducted Nov. 15-18, found Medicaid and Medicare recipients' satisfaction with what they pay for health insurance rose to a new high the last two years, at 76 percent, while those who have private insurance were less satisfied at 57 percent.
As a result, there is now a 19-percentage-point gap in the two groups' satisfaction -- contrasted with minimal gaps from 2004 to 2010 and essentially no gap from 2001 to 2003, Gallup said.
Sixty-four percent of U.S. adults with private insurance said their health premiums costs are shared with their employer, up from 54 percent in 2001.
The 22 percent who said they personally paid the entire cost for their health insurance plan did not increase appreciably, while the 10 percent who said their employer paid the entire cost of their health insurance was down by more than half from 2001, the survey said.
Currently, 71 percent said their health insurance costs rose in the past year, including 29 percent who said their costs increased a lot, while 22 percent said their cost share has not changed and 5 percent reported a decrease.
The overall Gallup poll involving 1,015 U.S. adults has a margin of error of 4 percentage points. However, the sample of 420 adults with Medicare or Medicaid health insurance has a margin of error of 6 percentage points, the sample of 499 adults with private health insurance has a margin of error of 6 percentage points and the sample of 431 adults with private health insurance who pay all or part of their health premiums has a margin of error of 6 percentage points. | <urn:uuid:e4407698-c5da-42ab-ac8f-fc50e4e1dd2d> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2012/11/29/Most-happy-with-health-insurance-cost/UPI-78941354245599/?rel=23151355338613 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719908.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00158-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975138 | 377 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Analyst in Health Care Financing
States are able to use revenues from health care provider taxes to help finance the state share of Medicaid expenditures. Federal statute and regulations define a provider tax as a health carerelated fee, assessment, or other mandatory payment for which at least 85% of the burden of the tax revenue falls on health care providers. In order for states to be able to draw down federal Medicaid matching funds, the provider tax must be both broad-based (i.e., imposed on all providers within a specified class of providers) and uniform (i.e., the same tax for all providers within a specified class of providers). Also, states are not allowed to hold the providers harmless for the cost of the provider tax (i.e., they cannot guarantee that providers receive their money back).
A vast majority of states use at least one provider tax to help finance Medicaid. Many of these states use the provider tax revenue to increase Medicaid payment rates for the class of providers, such as hospitals, responsible for paying the provider tax. This financing strategy allows states to fund increases to Medicaid payment rates without the use of state funds because the increased Medicaid payment rates are funded with provider tax revenue and federal Medicaid matching funds. States also use provider tax revenues to fund other Medicaid or non-Medicaid purposes.
States first began using health care provider taxes to help finance the state’s share of Medicaid expenditures in the mid-1980s. Some states were particularly aggressive in their use of provider taxes. As a result, in the early 1990s, the federal government imposed statutory and regulatory limitations on states’ use of health care provider tax revenue to finance Medicaid.
While federal requirements allow states to impose provider taxes on 19 classes of health care providers, the classes of providers that are most often taxed include nursing facilities, hospitals, intermediate care facilities for individuals with mental retardation or developmental disabilities (ICF-MR/DD), and managed care organizations. During the most recent recession, a number of states took action to generate additional provider tax revenue, and these actions mainly involved hospital and nursing facility taxes.
Even with the statutory and regulatory limitations, provider taxes continue to cause tension between the federal government and the states. As a result, some deficit reduction proposals include a recommendation to limit states’ ability to use provider taxes to finance the state share of Medicaid expenditures. This limitation would decrease federal Medicaid payments to states.
This report provides background regarding states’ use of provider taxes in the 1980s and describes the relevant federal statutes and regulations, which were mostly established in the early 1990s. The report explains how states use provider taxes to help finance Medicaid and provides information regarding the extent to which states currently use such taxes. The report ends with a discussion of the provider tax provisions in various deficit reduction proposals.
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The good news on NJ gas prices? Unfortunately, there isn't any in the weeks ahead
The bad news is that gasoline in New Jersey is up 21 cents per gallon from a month ago and 85 cents from a year ago, to an average of $3.61 per gallon. The good news?
There's apparently none on the horizon, said Robert Sinclair, the AAA Northeast senior manager of public affairs.
Russia's provocations in Ukraine — and the beginning of U.S. sanctions Tuesday — have steadily driven up the price of oil, while normal seasonal production costs are increasing prices at the refineries. That comes on top of months of increases as supplies failed to keep up with pent-up demand among pandemic-weary motorists.
"Yeah, we can expect gas prices to rise 10 to 15 cents per gallon in upcoming weeks," Sinclair said.
On Tuesday, the price per barrel of Brent crude, the standard for international oils, rose about $4.50, or nearly 5%, to hit about $98. At this time last year, the price was $62 per barrel.
The last time gas prices were so high was in 2012, when severe storms and tensions in the Middle East pushed the average price per gallon to $3.62.
Gas prices going up
President Joe Biden said Tuesday that it is critical for his administration to work to ease any rise in gas prices in the U.S. due to Western sanctions on Russia.
Even if he is successful, prices in the coming weeks are expected to rise, as they do every year in spring. That's because refineries make the switch from a winter mix to a summer mix between mid-March and mid-April. Winter temperatures affect the ability of emissions to evaporate and require different additives. The summer mix is more expensive and comes at a time of increasing demand.
By mid-April, New Jersey stations should have switched over to the summer mix.
"After that, someone is selling you snake oil if they are prognosticating about gas prices about Memorial Day or July 4," said AAA's Sinclair.
What will it cost you?
The Federal Highway Administration estimates that the typical American drives about 14,000 miles per year and consumes around 560 gallons of gas.
While the average New Jerseyan drives a bit less, the current 85-cent difference means an average driver will pay an extra $500 or so.
Among its neighbors — New York, Connecticut and Pennsylvania — New Jersey has the lowest-cost gas on average, but still hovers above the national average ($3.53) by as much as 8 cents.
Adding to inflation
To guys like West Milford's Randy Longstaff, who operates Longstaff Paving, rising fuel costs mean a double hit for his company.
Heavy equipment gets more expensive to operate, and a major component in asphalt is oil.
"I am just starting to feel it," Longstaff said.
By the time the March-April bump hits, it will be his busy season. He's likely to be paying more for material and gasoline, compared with last year.
"It is a hard thing to pass on to consumers," Longstaff said. "It makes everything more competitive."
Higher oil and gas prices fuel the inflation that has dogged the economy since 2021. They jack up the cost to ship goods, to commute and to provide services.
It even affects service stations, said Sal Risalvato, executive director of the New Jersey Gasoline-Convenience-Automotive Association
He said the pain drivers and other petroleum consumers feel is the same that station owners feel, except that for gas station owners it comes earlier.
A typical tanker that comes to a service station holds around 9,000 gallons. "If gas goes up 10 cents a gallon, that's $900 more out of their pocket," Risalvato said. But stations are reluctant to pass along the higher costs to customers.
Service stations make about 10 cents a gallon on gas. More of their profits come from the repair shop or, increasingly, convenience store sales.
"They will make more from a $2.50 cent a cup of coffee than a 10-gallon fill up," Risalvato said.
That is why it is crucial to keep competitive with pricing. Even a penny-per-gallon difference can result in a noticeable drop in sales for a service station/convenience store.
"It is psychological," he said.
Ways to save on gas
The best way to save, according to Consumer Reports magazine, is to slow down.
The consumer advocacy publication measured gas mileage in a Nissan Altima and a Toyota RAV4 traveling at 55, 65 and 75 mph.
It determined that dropping to 55 mph from 65 mph increased fuel economy by 6 mpg in the Altima and 8 mpg in the RAV4.
Driving at 75 instead of 65 meant a loss of almost 7 mpg in the Altima and 6 mpg in the RAV4.
"Another way to look at it: Speeding up from 55 to 75 mph is like moving from a compact car to a large SUV," the Consumer Reports website reported. Frequent bursts of acceleration and braking reduced an older Toyota Camry’s mileage by 2 to 3 mpg.
Tire pressure is not as much of a factor. Consumer Reports found that a midsized sedan lost 1.3 mpg on the highway when the tires were underinflated by 10 psi. That's a large drop in pressure for a modest drop in fuel efficiency.
However the consumer group noted that under-inflated tires compromise a car's handling and braking, wear faster and run much hotter, which can lead to tire failure.
"For safety's sake, check tire pressure at least once a month," it said.
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Four countries, Botswana, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana and Zimbabwe, were chosen as cases to study the impact of national health policies on national health status in sub-Saharan Africa.
Through a conceptual framework that covers health problem identification, policy formulation and implementation procedures, the study examined national translations of Primary Health Care (PHC) and Health for All by the Year 2000 (HFA/2000) strategies.
A series of government measures, taken between 1980-1986 for health policy development and implementation in these countries, were treated as policy determinants of national health outcomes for the period ending 1990.
The impact of these determinants on national health status was then analyzed through a comparative description and documentation of observable patterns and trends in infant mortality rates (IMR), under-5 mortality rates (U5MR) and life expectancy.
Policy guidelines from PHC and HFA/2000) were used in conjunction with the respective per capita Gross National Products to categorize the four cases.
Based on these guidelines, Botswana was ranked high, both in terms of policy development and the level of economic development, while Zimbabwe ranked high in terms of policy development but relatively low in economic terms.
Cote d'lvoire ranked high on economic development but low with regard to its policy framework.
Ghana was at the other end of the spectrum, ranking low both in terms of its policy development and its economic performance. (...)
Mots-clés Pascal : Afrique subsaharienne, Afrique, Botswana, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Homme, Santé, Système santé, Politique sanitaire, Evaluation, Soin santé primaire, Développement économique, Etude comparative
Mots-clés Pascal anglais : Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Botswana, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Human, Health, Health system, Health policy, Evaluation, Primary health care, Economic development, Comparative study
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Scholar to speak about 'Great Comic Book Scare'
Mariah Adin will speak about her book, "The Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang and the Great Comic Book Scare of the 1950s" on Nov. 18 at Kaplan Hall at SUNY Orange in Newburgh.
Adin is coordinator of the SUNY Orange Pathways in Technology Program. She is also a Fulbright scholar, writer, and activist who earned her PhD in American History from the University at Albany.
She will use her book as a jumping-off point for a talk on the legal system and the development of juvenile delinquency, with references to questions of social justice.
In the 1950s, a nation obsessed with juvenile delinquency believed the mass media, and comic books in particular, were to blame.
So, when four middle-class teens began thrill-killing in the summer of 1954, modeling themselves and their crimes after salacious comics, the case was used by anti-comics crusaders to bring the industry to its knees.
Weaving together the history of juvenile delinquency, psychiatry, and comic books, Adin will explore the Great Comic Book Scare as the first mass-media hysteria, and its implications for the choices we make in the fight against juvenile delinquency today.
“The topic is relevant to English and history," she says. "But because of its focus on the legal system and the development of juvenile justice, I would say it is highly relevant to criminal justice, as well.”
The free event is open to the public. Kaplan Hall is located at the corner of Grand and First Streets in Newburgh. Free, secure parking is available in the Kaplan Hall parking garage via the 81 First Street entrance.
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Although we have temporarily returned to fully online learning, the show must go on. One of the more “colourful” experiments in chemistry is the one where students try to identify everyday household items as either acidic or basic, and not having access to a lab wasn’t going to stop the grade ten science class from the experience. Having “commandeered” some basic pieces of equipment (test tubes, litmus paper, and a funnel) the identifying acids and bases lab was relocated to my kitchen. Students were given a list of everyday household items (vinegar, pepsi, lemon juice, liquid soap, baking soda, orange juice, mouth wash, and milk) and had to hypothesize whether they were acids or bases.
Each substance was reacted with a bit of red cabbage juice, which contains a natural pH indicator that changes colors depending on the acidity of the solution (very acidic solutions turn the indicator a red color, and basic solutions a greenish-yellow color). This gave students a quick, surface level indication of whether the substance was an acid or a base. To be a bit more accurate, however, we also tested the pH of each substance using a piece of litmus paper. This lab nicely sets up our next experiment where we will look at the applications of acid base reactions. | <urn:uuid:4cef354d-9790-4d08-add1-d0e37558dd05> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ymcaacademy.org/2021/01/11/identification-of-acids-and-bases/?shared=email&msg=fail | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.951587 | 269 | 3.6875 | 4 |
Stand-up comedy is an art form that not many people will ever perfect. For every Louis C.K., there's a thousand Last Comic Standing rejects. That's why it's all the more impressive that a robot can not only do stand-up comedy, but actually be kind of good at it.
NewScientist reports that there's a new stand-up comic on the scene named Robothespian. He was created by Engineered Arts, and it's his job to make the "weak-skinned pathetic perishable humans" laugh. Is he successful at it? Humor is entirely subjective, but one of the the world's first robot comics was able to get at least a little laugh out of me.
Besides trying to make people laugh, Robothespian is also being used to study how humans react at live events, like stand-up comedy shows. Researchers found that audience members are empathetic towards human performers because they fear that the performer will fail. If Robothespian fails to make the audience laugh, nobody will feel sorry for it. After all, it's hard to empathize with non-living things, even if it's emulating a human.
The jokes are still entirely scripted, but that may change once AI improves. For now, Robothespian can only go through a routine. That could all change though if AI becomes advanced enough to enable robots to think and speak for themselves. We may even see robots appearing in shows like Whose Line Is It Anyway?
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Today's topic is Never Give Up On Your Dreams
Audio Contributed by Our Friends at MotivationHub
In today's audio, we have an amazing message encouraging you to never give up on your dreams.
Let’s embrace the reality that you’ll get knocked down and beat-up. It takes endurance and grit. The path to your dreams is like running a marathon. The race takes only a few hours, but it takes months to prepare and train.
Here are six tips to be more resilient and never give up on your dreams.
1. Adversity is not failure.
Every successful person has a story of adversity. You’re not the only one who faces hardship. Don’t confuse adversity with failure. Look for ways to grow and learn through hardship. Be prepared to fight when adversity strikes!
2. Grow your resilience
Now that you’re prepared to face adversity, you can start to grow resilience. In other words, resilience is the ability to bounce back stronger when knocked down and faced with adversity, and it’s a trait that anyone can develop.
Here are three ways to build resilience.
1. Take care of your mental and physical health.
2. Focus on your strengths.
3. Keep an optimistic attitude.
3. Have a reasonable timeline
I’ve found that people overestimate what they can achieve in a year and underestimate what they can achieve in 3-5 years. Dream big but make sure to take it one day at a time. Set clear daily goals that you know will get you closer to your long-term goals.
4. Some days will suck.
Don’t expect to be fired up and super productive every day. When you have a bad day don’t let this throw you off course. Everyone gets off track at times but the successful person doesn’t get lost. They find their way back on track.
5. Find people who are light in the dark.
When I have doubts or feel stuck, it’s important to be around supportive people who won’t let me give up. Sometimes I need a reminder that I have great potential and that I’ve made progress. Use the YHAC community for support, create a mastermind group, or get a personal coach.
6. Don’t let problems keep you stuck.
When people are stuck, it’s often because they don’t want to face a problem. You can’t simply wish your problems away and pretend they don’t exist. Take accountability and full ownership of problems and face them head on! Give yourself time to achieve your big desires. Surround yourself with supportive people and realize that problems won’t last forever.
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Is henna or hair color better? Compared to henna, it is also relatively quick and convenient and far less messy. The disadvantages of using a chemical hair dye far outweigh the advantages. Research has shown that dyes cause allergic reactions, hair loss, lupus, asthma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma and even dementia.
Why you shouldn’t use henna in your hair? Black henna has a very toxic chemical in it called PPD (paraphenylenediamine), a chemical that is also present in most hair dyes that you buy or get in the salon. It is known to make the hair dyes more permanent and result in darker hair colour. When mixed into henna, it turns the natural red into a black stain.
How much developer do you use with Paul Mitchell color? Always mix Paul Mitchell the color levels 1-10 and the Ultra Toners with Cream or Clear Developer in equal parts (1:1 ratio). 2. If using Color Shots, add Color Shots after the color is mixed with Developer.
How do you mix Paul Mitchell color and developer? Standard Mixing: Mix Paul Mitchell® the color levels 1-10 and Ultra Toners with Cream or Clear Developer in equal parts (1:1 ratio). If using Color Shots, add Color Shots after the color is mixed with Developer.
Is henna better than hair dye? – Dr. Chitrika. G. B
Is henna or hair color better? – Similar Questions
What color of hair dye goes with dark brown eyes?
Go for intense dark colors like dark brown and jet black. This will really make your brown eyes pop. If you want to try vibrant colors then go for pastel shades in blue, red, pink, purple, and green. Colors with red, burgundy, and maroon hints can really bring out your brown eyes.
Can you color your hair after perm?
Well, perming and hair coloring are two different methods, and they should never be done together. Preferably, you should wait for a minimum of seven days for up to two weeks to color your hair after perming. I would suggest waiting for about 15 days to color your hair after perming.
What color hair does shimmer and shine have?
Characters. Shimmer (voiced by Eva Bella) – An optimistic genie with blue eyes and pink hair. She is enthusiastic and encouraging.
Is baby powder safe for color treated hair?
And washing your hair in the shower less means you can maintain a dyed hair color or just overall keep your scalp from drying out. They recommend spreading baby powder evenly across your hands by putting some in one palm and then rubbing your hands together to disperse it.
How to remove temporary hair color at home?
Plain white vinegar, when used as a mixture of equal parts vinegar and warm water, will help to remove hair dye. Pour this mixture over all of the dyed hair, saturating it completely. Pop a shower cap over it and leave for 15 to 20 minutes, then shampoo it and rinse out. Repeat if needed, it won’t hurt your hair.
Is golden color tone good idea for grey hair?
Say for example you’re naturally a brunette, go with a golden blonde shade. It will only deposit the blonde color on the gray hairs, turning them into golden highlights. Your natural brown hair will just pick up some extra shine!
How many times should you bleach your hair to make it grey?
Before you even think about applying a grey hair dye, you must lighten your hair to a pale blonde colour. If you have dark hair this will mean one or two bleaching sessions to reach the required level 9 blonde. Natural blondes will be able to lighten up more easily. The photo below shows a good base colour for grey.
Does developer make your hair lighter or darker?
10 Volume Developer (10V / 3% peroxide) developer will deposit color and make the hair darker that is was. It works by just barely opening the cuticle enough to deposit pigment.
Does shimmer or shine have blue hair?
Shine (voiced by Isabella Cramp in US, Elie Simons and Mia Hope in UK) is a courageous genie with purple eyes, pink jewels, and blue hair. She is an animal lover and is often hungry. Her pet is a Bengal tiger cub named Nahal.
Can meds change hair color?
Studies have shown that certain drug treatments and medications can alter the color, appearance, texture, and thickness of your hair. Some of the side effects of these drugs include making your hair curlier, induce hair loss, or change your brown to red.
Can you color hair with conditioner?
Pour a little bit of your dye into your conditioner to start with. Only mix conditioner with semi-permanent shades. Permanent hair dye that needs a developer won’t mix well with conditioner, and it can make the dye bond unevenly to your hair. You can use conditioner to make your fantasy color lighter, or even pastel.
What does saturated hair dye mean?
When applying your color, you want to make sure hair is saturated—that means you shouldn’t be able to see your hair or roots.
Does methotrexate affect hair?
Methotrexate: The most commonly prescribed disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD) for rheumatoid arthritis, methotrexate is responsible for hair loss in about 1% to 3% of people. The hair loss happens because methotrexate is doing what it’s supposed to do – stop cells from growing.
What hair Colour goes with GREY?
Sticking to black, white, and navy is always a great idea. Those neutral colors will help your gray hair pop, no matter what shade it is.
What ethnicity are Shimmer and Shine?
“Shimmer and Shine is inspired by the Middle East, because obviously I am Middle Eastern, and as a creator, you always put a lot of yourself in what you do,” said the Iranian-American Charmatz.
What colour is number 6 hair dye?
1 is black, 5 is light brown, 6 is dark blonde, 7 is blonde and 10 is the lightest blonde.
How long does henna stay in hair?
Henna Hair coloring is generally a continuous hair treatment that lasts for 3 to 5 months. In the first 4-6 weeks the color becomes vibrant and it is gradually diminishing.
Do Sim kids grow up?
Children will age up after a few days as well. Just like babies and toddlers, they will have a blue birthday cake icon above their heads when they’re ready to grow up. Tap the birthday cake icon to age your child into an adult. There is no teen life stage in The Sims Mobile.
Can you use baby powder on colored hair?
While baby powder isn’t ideal for darker hair colors, Mercedes Parrilli, an international artist for George the salon Chicago, has simple recipes specially formulated for your particular hair color.
What color should you avoid with gray hair?
“Stick to black, navy, pure white—never ivory—and all the jewel tones like sapphire, royal blue, ruby, fuchsia, magenta, purple and violet,” says image consultant Sandy Dumont, who has wardrobe-advised individuals and corporations for over 30 years. You’ll also want to stay away from certain shades.
How do you get Kool-Aid out of your hair fast?
You can also try using dish soap (read this article) or anti-dandruff shampoo to remove kool-aid dye immediately. If you decide to use anti-dandruff shampoo, you can mix dandruff shampoo with a little baking soda and immediately rinse your hair gently with the mixture. | <urn:uuid:62d75a78-1430-4282-b8d2-a66693cfc2b8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jacanswers.com/is-henna-or-hair-color-better/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.913599 | 1,641 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Last summer, in an unseasonal event, more than 100 miles of Florida’s coast around Tampa Bay became an oxygen-depleted dead zone littered with fish along the nearby shoreline. In the Northwest, Dungeness crabs were washing onto Oregon’s beaches, unable to escape from water that has, in dramatic episodes, become seasonally depleted of oxygen over the past two decades.
Much of the conversation around our climate crisis highlights the emission of greenhouse gases and their effect on warming, precipitation, sea-level rise and ocean acidification. We hear little about the effect of climate change on oxygen levels, particularly in oceans and lakes. But water without adequate oxygen cannot support life, and for the three billion people who depend on coastal fisheries for income, declining ocean oxygen levels are catastrophic.
As ocean and atmospheric scientists focused on climate, we believe that oceanic oxygen levels are the next big casualty of global warming. To stop the situation from worsening, we need to expand our attention to include the perilous state of oceanic oxygen levels—the life-support system of our planet. We need to accelerate ocean-based climate solutions that boost oxygen, including nature-based solutions such as those discussed at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) held in Glasgow.
As the amount of carbon dioxide increases in the atmosphere, not only does it warm air by trapping radiation, it warms water. The interplay between oceans and the atmosphere is complex, but to put it simply, oceans have taken up about 90 percent of the excess heat created by climate change during the Anthropocene. Bodies of water can also absorb CO2 and oxygen but only up to a limit: warmer water holds less oxygen. This decrease in oxygen content, coupled with a large-scale die-off of oxygen-generating phytoplankton resulting not just from climate change but from plastic pollution and industrial runoff, compromises ecosystems, asphyxiating marine life and leading to further die-offs. Large swaths of the oceans have lost 10 to 40 percent of their oxygen, and that loss is expected to accelerate with climate change.
The dramatic loss of oxygen from our bodies of water is compounding climate-related feedback mechanisms described by scientists in many fields, hundreds of whom signed the 2018 Kiel Declaration on Ocean Deoxygenation. This declaration has culminated in the new Global Ocean Oxygen Decade, a project under the U.N. Ocean Decade (2021–2030). Yet despite years of research into climate change and its effect on temperature, we know comparatively little about its effect on oxygen levels and what falling oxygen levels, in turn, may do to the wider earth system.
As the financial world invests in climate change solutions, possibly including future geoengineering efforts such as iron fertilization, we run the risk of exacerbating oxygen loss. We need to evaluate potential unintended consequences of climate solutions for the full life-support system.
Beyond enhanced monitoring of oxygen and the establishment of an oxygen-accounting system, such an agenda encompasses fully valuing the ecosystem co-benefits of carbon sequestration by our ocean’s seaweed, seagrasses, mangroves and other wetlands. These so-called blue carbon nature-based solutions are also remarkable at oxygenating our planet through photosynthesis. At COP26 we saw a lot of primarily terrestrial initiatives and commitments, such as for forestry management, that are excellent steps forward. We hope the 2021 climate conference and this year’s COP27 meeting help oceanic nature-based solutions to come into their own, propelled by the U.N. Ocean Decade.
Putting oxygen into the climate story motivates us to do the work to understand the deep systemic changes happening in our complex atmospheric and oceanic systems. Even as we celebrated the return of humpback whales in recent years to an increasingly clean New York Harbor and Hudson River, dead fish clogged the Hudson in the summer as warmer waters carried less oxygen. Ecosystem changes connected to physical and chemical systems-level data may point the way to new approaches to climate solutions—ones that encompass an enhanced understanding of the life-support system of our planet and complement our understanding of drawdown to reduce emissions of CO2. Roughly 40 percent of the world’s people depend on the ocean for their livelihoods. If we do not save marine life from oxygen starvation, we starve ourselves.” | <urn:uuid:12d1805f-38ed-4360-96d1-06d86ff694c8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/marine-oxygen-levels-are-the-next-great-casualty-of-climate-change/?bblinkid=256264617&bbemailid=36170866&bbejrid=-2108793911 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.938294 | 899 | 3.953125 | 4 |
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words he said, but as he looked up at our balcony he saw me-smiled--and I remember thinking that he had a good-natured countenance. The maid nodded to him ; he stood still, and at the same instant she seized upon me, exclaiming, “ Time for you to come off to bed, Master Harrington."
I resisted, and, clinging to the rails, began kicking and roaring:
“ If you don't come quietly this minute, Master Farrington,” said she, “I'll call to Simon the Jew there,” pointing to him, “and he shall come up and carry you away in his great bag.":
The old man's eyes were upon me; and to my fancy the look of his eyes and his whole face had changed in an instant. I was struck with terror-my hands let go their grasp—and I suffered myself to be carried off as quietly as my maid could desire. She hurried and huddled me into bed, bade me go to sleep, and ran down stairs. To sleep I could not go, but full of fear and curiosity I lay, pondering on the thoughts of Simon the Jew and his bag, who had come to carry me away in the height of my joys. His face, with the light of the torch upon it, appeared and vanished, and fitted before my eyes. The next morning, when daylight and courage returned, I asked my maid whether Simon the Jew was a good or bad man? Observing the impression that had been made upon my mind, and foreseeing that the expedient, which she had thus found successful, might be advantageously repeated, she answered with oracular duplicity, “ Simon the Jew is a good man for naughty boys.” The threat of “Simon the Jew” was for some time afterward used upon every occasion to reduce me to passive obedience; and when by frequent repetition this threat had lost somewhat of its power, she proceeded to tell me in a mysterious tone, stories of Jews who had been known to steal poor children for the purpose of killing, crucifying, and sacrificing them at their secret feasts and midnight abominations. The less I understood, the more I believed.
Above all others, there was one story-horrible ! most horrible !_which she used to tell at midnight, about a Jew who lived in Paris in a dark alley, and who professed to sell pork pies; but it was found out at last that the pies were not pork—they were made of the flesh of little children. His wife used to stand at the door of her den to watch for little children, and, as they were passing, would tempt them in with cakes and sweetmeats. There was a trap-door in the cellar, and the children were dragged down; and-Oh! how my blood ran cold when we came to the terrible trap-door. Were there, I asked, such things in London now?
Oh, yes! In dark narrow lanes there were Jews now living, and watching always for such little children as me: I should take care they did not catch me, whenever I was walking in the streets; and Fowler (that was my maid's name)
added, " There was no knowing what they might do with me."
In our enlightened days, and in the present improved state of education, it may appear incredible that any nursery-maid could be so-wicked as to relate, or any child of six years old so foolish as to credit, such tales ; but I am speaking of what happened many years ago : nursery-maids and children, I believe, are very different now from what they were then ; and in further proof of the progress of human knowledge and reason, we may recollect that many of these very stories of the Jews, which we now hold too preposterous for the infant and the nursery-maid to credit, were some centuries ago universally believed by the English nation, and had furnished more than one of our kings with pretexts for extortion and massacres.
But to proceed with my story. The impression made on my imagination by these horrible tales was greater than my nursery-maid intended. Charmed by the effect she had produced, she was next afraid that I should bring her into disgrace with my mother, and she extorted from me a solemn promise that I would never tell anybody the secret she had communicated. From that moment I became her slave, and her victim. I shudder when I look back to all I suffered during the eighteen months I was under her tyranny. Every night, the moment she and the candle left the room, I lay in an indescribable agony of terror; my head under the bedclothes, my knees drawn up in a cold perspiration. I saw faces around me grinning, glaring, receding, advancing, all turning at last into the same face of the Jew with the long beard and the terrible eyes; and that bag, in which I fancied were mangled limbs of children-it opened to receive me, or fell upon my bed, and lay heavy on my breast, so that I could neither stir nor scream;
in short, it was one continued nightmare; there was no refreshing sleep for me till the hour when the candle returned, and my tyrant-my protectress as I thought her--came to bed. In due course she suffered in her turn; for I could not long endure this state, and, instead of submitting passively or lying speechless with terror, the moment she left the room at night I began to roar and scream till I brought my mother and half the house up to my bedside. “What could be the matter with the child ? Faithful to my promise, I never betrayed the secrets of my prison-house. Nothing could be learned from me but that “I was frightened," that “ I could not go to sleep;" and this, indeed, my trembling condition, and convulsed countenance, sufficiently proved. My mother, who was passionately fond of me, became alarmed for my health, and ordered that Fowler should stay in the room with me every night till I should be quite fast asleep.
So Fowler sat beside my bed every night, singing, caressing, cajoling, hushing, conjuring me to sleep: and when in about an hour's time she flattered herself that, her conjurations had succeeded; when my relaxing muscles gave her hope that she might withdraw her arm unperceived ; and when slowly and dexterously she had accomplished this, and, watching my eyelashes, and cautiously shading the candle with her hand, she had happily gained the door; some slipping of the lock, some creaking of the hinge, some parting sound startled me, and bounce I was upright in my bed, my eyes wide open, and my voice ready for a roar: so she was compelled instantly to return, to replace the candle full in my view, to sit down close beside the bed, and, with her arm once more thrown over me, she was forced again to repeat that the Jew's bag could not come there, and, cursing me in her heart, she recommenced her deceitful songs. She was seldom released in less than two hours. In vain she now tried by day to chase away the terrors of the night: to undo her own work was beyond her power. In vain she confessed that her threats were only to frighten me into being a good boy. In vain she told me that I was too old now to believe such nonsense. In vain she told me that Simon was only an old clothesman, that his cry was only “Old clothes! Old clothes !" which she mimicked to take off its terror; its terror was in that power of association which was beyond her
skill to dissolve. In vain she explained to me that his bag held only my old shoes and her yellow petticoat. In vain she now offered to let me see with my own eyes. My imagination was by this time proof against ocular demonstration. One morning, early, she took me down stairs into the housekeeper's room, where Simon and his bag were admitted; she emptied the bag in my presence, she laughed at my foolish fears, and I pretended to laugh, but my laugh was hysterical. No power could draw me within arm's length of the bag of the Jew. He smiled and smoothed his features, and stroked his white beard, and, stooping low, stretched out his inoffensive hand to me; my maid placed sugared almonds on the palm of that hand, and bade me approach and eat. No! I stood fixed, and if the Jew approached, I ran back and hid my head in Fowler's lap. If she attempted to pull or push me forwards screamed, and at length I sent forth a scream that wakened my mother-her bell rang, and she was told that it was only Master Harrington, who was afraid of poor Simon the old-clothes-man. Summoned to the side of my mother's bed, I appeared nearly in hysterics—but still faithful to my promise, I did not betray my maid ;-nothing could be learned from me but that I could not bear the sight of old Simon the Jew. My mother blamed Fowler for taking me down to see such a sort of a person. The equivocating maid replied that Master Harrington could not or would not be easy without she did; and that indeed now it was impossible to know how to make him easy by day or by night; that she lost her natural rest with him; and that for her part she could not pretend.to stand it much longer, unless she got her natural rest. Heaven knows my natural rest was gone! But, besides, she could not even get her cup of tea in an evening, or stir out for a mouthful of fresh air, now she was every night to sing Master Harrington to sleep.
It was but poetical justice that she who had begun by terrifying me, in order to get me to bed, and out of her way, should end by being forced to suffer some restraint to cure me of my terrors; but Fowler did not understand or relish poetical justice, or any kind of justice: besides, she had heard that Lady de Brantefield was in want of a nursery-maid for the little Lady Anne Mowbray, who was some years younger than Master Harrington, and Fowler humbly represented to my mother that she thought Master Harrington was really growing too stout and too much of a man; and she confessed quite above and beyond her management and comprehension; for she never pretended to any thing but the care of young children that had not arrived at the years of discretion; this she understood to be the case with the little Lady Anne Mowbray; therefore a recommendation to Lady de Brantefield would be very desirable, and, she hoped, but justice to her. The very desirable recommendation was given by my mother to Lady de Brantefield, who was her particular friend; nor was my mother in the least to blame on this occasion, for she truly thought she was doing nothing but justice; had it been otherwise, those who know how these things are usually managed would, I trust, never think of blaming my mother for a sort of thing which they would do, and doubtless have done themselves without scruple, for a favourite maid, who is always a faithful creature.
So Fowler departed, happy, but I remained unhappy -not with her departed my fears. After she was gone I made a sort of compromise with my conscience, and without absolutely breaking my promise, I made a half confession to my mother that I had some how or other horrid notions about Jews; and that it was the terror I had conceived for Simon the Jew which prevented me from sleeping all night. My mother felt for me, and considered my case as no laughing matter.
My mother was a woman of weak health, delicate nerves, and a kind of morbid sensibility, which I osten heard her deplore as a misfortune, but which I observed everybody about her admire as a grace. She lamented that her dear Harrington, her only son, should so much resemble her in this exquisite sensibility of the nervous system. But her physician, and he was a man who certainly knew better than she did, she confessed, for he was a man who really knew every thing, assured her that this was indisputably “the genuine temperament of genius."
I soon grew vain of my fears. My antipathy, my natural, positively natural antipathy to the sight or bare idea of a Jew, was talked of by ladies and by gentlemen; it was exhibited to all my mother's acquaintance, learned and unlearned; it was a medical, it was a metaphysical wonder, it was an idiosyncrasy, corporeal, or mental, or both; it was-in short, more nonsense was talked about | <urn:uuid:a2da949e-7179-49a3-a2be-b59d078f4ba8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://books.google.co.nz/books?pg=PA10&vq=%22not+die%3F+%E2%80%94+and+if+you+wrong+us,+shall+we+not+revenge+%3F+If+we+are+like+you+in+the%22&dq=related:UOM39015066464473&lr=&id=KrQvAAAAMAAJ&as_brr=0&output=html_text | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.988256 | 2,667 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Dec. 10 -- WEDNESDAY, Dec. 9 (HealthDay News) -- In a finding that has implications for how the AIDS virus is treated in Africa, new research suggests that antiretroviral drugs can be given without routine monitoring by lab tests.
But tests of immune-system function might still be a good idea to monitor the progression of the disease and guide the second year of treatment, the study authors report.
Patients with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, often receive drug treatment in Africa without routine laboratory monitoring. In the study, published online Tuesday in advance of publication in a future print issue of The Lancet, researchers tried to determine if that's a bad idea.
They studied 3,316 HIV-positive adults who were assigned to monitoring in both the doctor's office and the laboratory or only in the doctor's office. The patients were studied in Uganda and Zimbabwe.
"The results clearly show that first-line [antiretroviral therapy, or ART] can be delivered safely without routine biochemistry and hematology monitoring for toxic effects, but that routine CD4-cell count monitoring has a small but significant benefit in terms of disease progression and mortality, probably owing to slightly earlier switching to second-line ART," the researchers wrote.
Avert has more about AIDS in Africa.
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Are You Wasting or Saving Money With a Warehouse Club Membership?
Warehouse clubs or wholesale clubs are large stores such as Costco or BJ's that charge a yearly membership that allows customers to purchase items at prices that are slightly above wholesale. The memberships cost anywhere from $50 to $100 a year and the idea is that you can save more than the membership cost by shopping at these stores. My husband and I recently decided to cancel our membership after realizing that we were not really saving money at all. Here are our reasons why we parted ways with the warehouse club. (See also: 5 Frugal Rules You Must Follow When Shopping at Costco)
1. Warehouse prices are not necessarily the best.
We used to buy things like toiletries and various meats at the warehouse, but pretty soon we realized that we could get cheaper prices at local grocery stores or stores such as Target if we just looked for weekly specials. When you pay a membership fee you expect that the prices are low, but that does not mean that you always get the lowest price. Many people just assume that the wholesale club has the lowest price and ignore other stores, and that could mean missed savings.
2. Quantities are too large.
Buying too much of something is a problem for small families like ours. These warehouses force you to buy a large quantity of everything, and sometimes things go to waste when they are not consumed in time. Another problem with large quantities is that it takes a lot of room to store them. We live in a 1000 square feet apartment and large piles of paper towels had to be stored in the living room, and that was a bit ridiculous. We also do not have a large freezer so a lot of frozen foods just will not fit.
3. The fee is not always recouped.
In the past few years we visited the warehouse club less than 10 times, and we are pretty sure we did not save enough to cover the membership fee. This is because it is just much easier to buy foods at grocery stores that are close by.
4. Shopping at a warehouse is stressful.
A big reason why we do not like visiting the warehouse store is because it is so crowded every single time. My husband also hates driving in the parking lots of these stores because people are always streaming out with huge carts of stuff. When you get inside the lines are always long. It is much easier for us to just walk to the grocery store on the next block to get something small like toothpaste even if we are paying 50 cents more. I do not know if it is like this in other parts of the country, but here in San Mateo the warehouse clubs are seriously mad houses.
Warehouse clubs make a lot of sense for families with a lot of storage space and the ability to consume large quantities of food without waste, but for us it just was not working out. Interestingly enough most of these warehouses make a large part of their profits through the membership fees, and not through their merchandise. So it would seem that many members may be underutilizing their memberships. If you have one of these memberships, look back on how much you used it in a year and how much you actually saved to determine whether or not it is worthwhile.
What do you think? Are you saving money through a wholesale club or are you throwing money away on a membership?
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EF! Fined $1million in Idaho
dbraun at u.washington.edu
Thu Nov 21 16:56:38 EST 1996
On 16 Nov 1996, Mike Asher wrote:
> David Whitt <davwhitt at med.unc.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > >Anthropomorphism carried to extremity. Sorry, but I will never attend
> > >"funeral" of a tree. They're plants....sometimes lovely, sometimes
> > >hideous, sometimes useful, sometimes not. But they're just plants. I
> > >won't play a dirge for dead grass in my yard either. I'll just plant
> > >more. Just like we do trees.
> > While they may be "just" plants, they support all life on this planet,
> > including mankind. It is in our best interest to not destroy them.
> Who proposed destroying every plant on the planet? When trees are cut
> down, new ones are planted. The newer trees actually grow faster, and
> perform far better at CO2 uptake and oxygen creation than old-growth
Propaganda. The issue is storage of carbon in old-growth (and primary
forests), which can be several times greater on an area basis. I have
made this point before.
> > >> ...Ask yourself one question: "Why?" Why are environmentalists
> > >> environmentalists? Is there money to gain by our position?
> > >
> > >Ask yourself one question: "Why are serial murderers murderers? Is
> > >money to be made from it?"
> > Are you saying that environmentalists are on par with murderers or is
> > simply a red herring?
> I'll explain the logic behind this, using small words. An opionion was set
> forth that, because environmentalists (sorry for the long one there) are
> not motivated by money, that they must be right and good and true. I
> disproved the statement by showing a contradictory member, i.e., serial
> murderers. I made no claims as to how many environmentalists were in fact
> serial murderers, mind you.
Pure bs, Mike.
> > What is good for the planet is good for humans too. This is ONE planet,
> > not two (one for nature and one for man).
> Yes, but what is best for a roach, or a spotted owl, or a white pine tree,
> is not neccesarily whats best for humans. And, in many cases,
> environmentalists are actually harming the planet they claim to protect.
More pure bs. Please support these assertions.
> > ... you simply have been
> > brainwashed by all of those Dow and Dupont commercials (to name a few)
> > telling you they're so good and that they really care about us and the
> > environment.
> I can't recall ever seeing a Dow commercial. Perhaps you can tell me how
> one goes?
> Mike Asher
> masher at tusc.net
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Your next step in the project management process is to create a work breakdown structure for the trade show. The WBS should include all the tasks and their dependencies, schedule, cost, activity assignments and resource needs. The result should be a project task list with activity, scheduling description, cost and resource allocation created using MS Project or the WBS template. The information in the WBS will later be incorporated into the project management plan for the trade show event.
Let's look first at what the WBS is and how to go about forming one:
Company owners and project managers use the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) to make complex projects more manageable. The WBS is designed to help break down a project into manageable chunks that can be effectively estimated and supervised.
Some widely used reasons for creating a WBS include:
- Assists with accurate project organization
- Helps with assigning responsibilities
- Shows the control points and project milestones
- Allows for more accurate estimation of cost, risk and time
- Helps explain the project scope to stakeholders
Constructing a Work Breakdown Structure:
To start out, the project manager and subject matter experts determine the main deliverables for the project. Once this is completed, they start decomposing the deliverables they have identified, breaking them down to successively smaller chunks of work.
"How small?" you may ask. That varies with project type and management style, but some sort of predetermined "rule" should govern the size and scope of the smallest chunks of work. There could be a two weeks rule, where nothing is broken down any smaller than it would take two weeks to complete. You can also use the 8/80 rule, where no chunk would take less than 8 hours or longer than 80 hours to complete. Determining the chunk size "rules" can take a little practice, but in the end these rules make the WBS easier to use.
Regarding the format for WBS design, some people create tables or lists for their work breakdown structures, but most use graphics to display the project components as a hierarchical tree structure or diagram. In the article Five Phases of Project Management, author Deanna Reynolds describes one of many methods for developing a standard WBS.
What is a Work Breakdown Structure Diagram?
A WBS diagram expresses the project scope in simple graphic terms. The diagram starts with a single box or other graphic at the top to represent the entire project. The project is then divided into main, or disparate, components, with related activities (or elements) listed under them. Generally, the upper components are the deliverables and the lower level elements are the activities that create the deliverables.
Information technology projects translate well into WBS diagrams, whether the project is hardware or software based. That is, the project could involve designing and building desktop computers or creating an animated computer game. Both of these examples have tasks that can be completed independently of other project tasks. When tasks in a project don't need to be completed in a linear fashion, separating the project into individual hierarchical components that can be allotted to different people usually gets the job done quicker.
One common view is a Gantt chart. In a recent article, Joe Taylor, Jr. discusses the Top Ten Benefits of a Gantt Chart.
Simple WBS Examples:
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December 3, 2013
A dinosaur skeleton that was found in a quarry near Wyoming has sold in the U.K. for £400,000 (equal to about $544,120), according to a report from Free Radio.
The 19-foot-tall skeleton once belonged to a diplodocus, which BBC Earth’s “Walking with Dinosaurs” describes as “a massive plant-eating dinosaur… with an impressively long whip-like tail and neck.”
The sons of palaeontologist Raimond Albersdoerfer found the remains mostly intact in 2009 in a quarry near Wyoming in the U.S. The family recently auctioned the skeleton in Billinghurst, West Sussex, England.
It took experts nearly nine weeks to dig up the remains. The skeleton was then sent to a laboratory in the Netherlands, then to the U.K. for assembly and auction.
Natural history author Errol Fuller told Free Radio the skeleton is a “very rare item” because the bones are difficult to find and difficult to remove from the rock without breaking them.
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Eden in Erie County, New York — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
First Baptist Church
First church to be formally
organized in Eden Oct. 2, 1816.
Member met here after 1840.
Existing church dedicated
this site Jan. 28, 1896.
Erected 1997 by Town of Eden.
Location. 42° 39.14′ N, 78° 53.701′ W. Marker is in Eden, New York, in Erie County. Marker is on East Church Street (County Route 135) 0.1 miles east of South Main Street (U.S. 62), on the left when traveling east. Click for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 2809 East Church Street, Eden NY 14057, United States of America.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 5 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Hill's Corners (about 500 feet away, measured in a direct line); Col. Asa Warren (approx. 0.2 miles away); AH-1 "Whiskey Cobra" Heliocopter (approx. 0.7 miles away); Dedicated to the Honor and Sacrifice (approx. 1.2 miles away); Quaker Cemetery (approx. 1.3 miles away); Samuel Tubbs (approx. 2.2 miles away); Clarksburg (approx. 4 miles away); In God We Trust (approx. 4.2 miles away). Click for a list of all markers in Eden.
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The government has banned the importation of second-hand buses and trucks into the country, in a move that could be disruptive for dealers in used vehicles but is a boon for the local auto assembly industry.
The Kenya Bureau of Standards (Kebs) said it would not allow the importation of buses and trucks into the country beginning July 1 this year.
“Kebs wishes to inform all stakeholders and the general public that effective July 1, 2022, all used passenger minibuses, midibuses, large buses, single articulated and bi-articulated business and double-decker buses shall not be allowed for importation into the country,” said Kebs in a statement on Friday, adding that the move comes after the implementation of new standards aimed at increasing safety on Kenyan roads.
Kebs added that “all used rigid trucks with Gross Value Mass (GVM) equal to or greater than 3.5 tonnes and up to and including 30 tonnes shall not be allowed for importation into the country.”
Kebs, however, gave second-hand tractor heads and prime movers not older than three years a grace period of up to June 30 next year, after which they too will be banned and only new units can be imported into the country.
The standards body, however, said it would allow continued importation of small vans – or microbuses with a length of up to seven metres as well as other non-commercial vehicles including saloon and SUV cars, provided they are not older than eight years.
The second-hand imports will, however, be required to be of higher standards, especially in terms of emissions, with Kebs requiring them to have met the Euro IV/4 standards on emission in an attempt to fight pollution and improve air quality.
“All imported new diesel-powered and petrol power vehicles shall be type-approved to meet the requirements of Euro IV/4 before importation into the country,” said Kebs.
The EuroIV/4 emissions standards, introduced in 2005, are stringent requirements on auto makers requiring that they produce vehicles whose engines have lower emissions.
Europe has progressively implemented additional standards that are even more strict and is gearing to implement EuroVII/7.
The ban on importation of commercial vehicles could be a boost for the local vehicle assembly industry, which the government has in recent years made attempts to grow.
In the budget for the 2022/23 financial year, the National Treasury has given incentives to local assemblers that include exempting parts used on assembly of vehicles from paying Value Added Tax (VAT) as well as exempt from excise duty locally-made passenger motor vehicles.
“Assembly of motor vehicles and manufacture of motor vehicle parts locally has gained traction. In order to encourage more investment, especially in the manufacture of passenger motor vehicles locally, I propose to exempt from VAT inputs and raw materials used in the manufacture of passenger motor vehicles. Additionally, I propose to exempt locally manufactured passenger motor vehicles from VAT,” said Ukur Yatani in his budget statement last month.
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Appalachian Voices and our partners have filed a motion to intervene in a case between the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet and Frasure Creek Mining to ensure clean water laws are being enforced in Kentucky.
The Kentucky cabinet was unaware of these false submissions and responded by filing an administrative complaint against Frasure Creek covering all of the false data we found, a common tactic for state agencies to prevent citizen involvement in this type of case. Now, we are filing a motion to become parties to the cabinet’s enforcement action.
To anyone following our lawsuits against Frasure Creek, these recent developments will sound familiar. This isn’t the first time we’ve caught the company turning in false water monitoring reports. Frasure Creek was one of three Kentucky coal companies we filed legal actions against in 2010 and 2011 for submitting falsified pollution reports that were concealing water quality violations.
In all of those cases the cabinet stepped in with slap-on-the-wrist settlements, compelling us to intervene in cases where we had brought the violations to light. The only difference in this case is that Frasure Creek and the cabinet have yet to reach a settlement, so we haven’t seen how lax the enforcement will be this time around.
Both of the cabinet’s previous settlements with Frasure Creek were thrown out by Franklin Circuit Court Judge Phillip Shepherd last December. In a scathing opinion, Shepherd stated that when “one company so systematically subverts the requirements of law, it not only jeopardizes environmental protection on the affected permits, it creates a regulatory climate in which the Cabinet sends the message that cheating pays.”
Judge Shepherd’s rulings are being appealed by the cabinet (think about that, the state agency, not Frasure Creek, is asking for an appeal). But we are hoping that this time around the cabinet will take us seriously, and won’t reach a weak settlement or resort to legal run-arounds to prevent citizen involvement. After all aren’t our state agencies supposed to be accountable to the people, not to the corporations they are supposed to regulate?
Appalachian Voices is joined in these efforts by Kentuckians For The Commonwealth, Kentucky Riverkeeper, the Sierra Club and the Waterkeeper Alliance. The citizens’ groups are represented by Mary Cromer of Appalachian Citizens Law Center, attorney Lauren Waterworth, and the Pace Law School Environmental Litigation Clinic. | <urn:uuid:59cf412a-a7d8-40e5-ae3f-3dcaf377bd45> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://appvoices.org/2015/02/23/deja-vu-in-kentucky/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.94956 | 490 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Some shoes are destined to be modern classics—Fitflops, Keens and Miz Mooz shoes all come to mind—and then there are shoes that are bonafide classics, like Florsheim shoes. A staple in every well-dressed man’s wardrobe since 1892, Florsheim shoes are an indubitable tradition, surviving and thriving to outlast footwear trends that come and go. What makes Florsheim shoes such a tradition? The clues are in the Florsheim story...
From Chicago to the World
Florsheim shoes began with a man who had a plan for distributing hand-crafted shoes throughout the world. Milton Florsheim began producing his iconic shoes in a small Chicago factory in 1892, creating the first pairs of Florsheim shoes along with his father, Sigmund. These very first Florsheim shoes embodied the qualities the brand would become famous for: comfort, style and high-quality workmanship. Florsheim soon opened his first retail store in Chicago, but with an eye to nationwide, then worldwide distribution. It wasn’t long before magazines like The Saturday Evening Post and The Cosmopolitan took notice of this groundbreaking shoe company, and soon Florsheim saw his plan for larger scale distribution take shape. By 1898, even the US government was interested: Florsheim boots were standard issue for soldiers during the Spanish-American War. In the early years, Florsheim specialised in men’s shoes.
A Mark of Success
An astute businessman ahead of his time, Milton Florsheim added the name ‘Florsheim’ to the pull-strap and the insides of his shoes years before this became industry standard, so that consumers knew they were purchasing the genuine article. Before long, owning a pair of Florsheim shoes was considered a sign that a man had ‘made it’. By 1931, when the company began making Florsheim shoes for ladies, women could flaunt their Florsheim shoes as a sign of their success, too. The connotation was clear: when you could afford the best, you bought Florsheims, guaranteed to be constructed from high-quality leather, and always comfortable and attractive. By 1966, consumers were buying a pair of Florsheim shoes every four seconds. Florsheim shoes became popular all over the world, including here in Australia, and the company continued to be known for comfortable, high quality formal shoes while branching out into trendier and more casual styles, too.
Enduring Quality and Style
Few shoe companies have lasted as long as Florsheim has, and even fewer can boast that they’ve created shoe styles that have become iconic. The Riva slip-on dress shoe for men, for instance, first introduced in 1979, is still one of the company’s most popular styles, and the Florida boat shoe is a bonafide classic.
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Part IV: Property Ownership, Titling and Beneficiaries
Most people have the misunderstanding that it's their will that dictates how property is distributed at their death. In fact, their will doesn't even come into play until after all possible property is distributed by ownership designation and beneficiary arrangements. For example, someone who thoughtlessly left her ex-husband as beneficiary on her 401k plan – regardless of what her will said – would see (from the great beyond, of course) ALL of her 401k plan go to that good-for-nothing ex-husband who owed her seven years of child support. The federal government greatly simplified the rules for beneficiary designations a few years ago, but they are still a critical part of estate planning.
Titling How property is titled will determine: whether it is part of the probate estate; whether it is subject to creditors; whether the terms of the will would apply at death; and whether it receives a step-up in basis at death. Titling must be done very carefully so as to accomplish the desired objectives in the estate plan. One advantage of community property, for example, is that both halves receive a step-up in basis at the death of the first spouse. With joint tenancy and tenancy by the entirety, only half the property gets a step-up, regardless of each spouse's contribution.
Fee simple property is wholly owned by an individual, and at death becomes part of the probate estate.
Joint Tenancy with Rights of Survivorship (JTWROS) offers convenience at death, in that by "operation of law" it passes directly to the survivor(s). However, it is inflexible, may expose assets to creditors, and removes the chance to use trusts that may enable more flexible distribution and reduce taxes. Property is divided equally regardless of the owners' original contributions, and will pass automatically (and outside of probate) to the joint tenants at the death of any of them.
Tenancy-in-common offers flexibility in ownership but all of it passes through probate, with the deceased's share becoming part of his estate and distributed according to his will (or applicable intestacy laws). There is no right of survivorship. This would be used for any co-owners whose shares are unequal, non-spouses, and most commercial property.
Tenancy-in-the-entirety is very much like JTWROS, but is available only to married couples (and sometimes domestic partners), and is not available at all in community property states. It can provide protection to one spouse when the other has problems with creditors or even bankruptcy – but the entire property will be exposed if the non-debtor spouse dies first. Unlike JTWROS, it cannot be severed without the agreement of both parties.
Transfer-on-death (TOD) designations will automatically transfer property (except real property) on death. These were once known as Totten trusts, Payable-on-death (POD), or In-trust-for (ITF) accounts, and are common in banks. They may now be used for non-qualified investment accounts as well, where there would normally be no ability to name a beneficary. Assets held in a TOD account are subject to creditors claims, and will pass outside of probate.
Community property There are eight community property states (Arizona, California, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and Washington), and two others (Wisconsin and Alaska) that enable some community property designations; in these states, each spouse is entitled to a one-half interest in any property acquired by either spouse during the marriage – unless it was owned prior to the marriage, inherited or gifted, in which case it's considered "separate property."
These rules affect estate taxation, life insurance proceeds, and many other issues – and they're important to know even if you live in one of the other forty "common law" states: people are very mobile these days, and community property retains its character unless expressly changed. Many states (through the Uniform Disposition of Community Property Rights at Death Act) recognize community property that's been used to purchase real property as retaining its character at death as well.
The fact that there are essentially two different legal systems pertaining to marital property can raise many issues that financial planners must discuss with clients.
Lastly, a living trust is another way to avoid probate, and can be especially useful when real property is owned in multiple states to avoid the need for separate probate proceedings in each state. It also offers the advantage of privacy, since otherwise assets may be subject to the public process of probate. However, in some cases the living trust is a tool that is oversold by attorneys, who successfully but needlessly worry clients about the expense and difficulty of probate. In effect it can be like pre-paying probate costs, since the client may be charged thousands to establish it.
In any case, if a living trust is used the attorney and financial planner need to make sure that all assets that need to be are properly retitled to the trust; otherwise, it is a uselessly empty device at death.
There are other tax and gift implications to much of the above, but this should give you some idea of the importance and complexity of titling in an estate plan, and the need to use both an attorney and a Certified Financial Planner™ professional in putting it together.
Estate Planning Continued: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part IV
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Its no secret that Macs are the weapon of choice for most graphics designers out there. The availability of powerful tools, hardware and software allow both amateur and professional graphic designers to create amazing and complex 3D Models and animations without any troubles. There are plenty of 3D modelling tools out there that let you create models, effects and animations on your Mac. In this article we have featured some of the best available 3D modelling tools for Mac.
Autodesk Maya is one of the most popular and widely used 3D modelling and animation software out there, and there are good reason for its popularity among artists. This well designed tool is capable of handling all sorts of projects that includes those managed by a single artist or the one that is being worked on by a large team. When it comes to designing 2D or 3D games, Oscar winning projects such as animated files or TV Shows or just creating a 3D model or scene, Maya is the tool to go. There’s a wide variety of effects that you can take advantage of in Maya including but certainly not limited to Fluid effects, Classic cloth, Fur, MatchMover, nHair, nCloth and more. Learn more about Maya here.
Unlike most 3D modelling tools out there that cost hundreds of dollars, Blender for Mac comes at a very affordable price of absolutely free. The free price tag of this tool does not mean it compromises on features as you get professional features with Blender for modelling, animation, VFX, Rendering, Simulation, Scripting, Video editing, Game creation and more. A great thing about this tool is that it is highly customizable, allowing you to change different aspects of its UI according to your personal liking. You can download Blender tool for free.
The Wings 3D tool for Mac is a powerful and easy to use advanced subdivision modeller that offers a variety of modelling tools that will help you create professional quality 3D models. It has a customizable interface, offers support for materials and lights, comes with AutoUV mapping capability and more. Do note that it is a modelling tool and cannot be used for animation like Maya or Blender. Download Wings 3D from here.
With Houdini you get a wide range of features features that match that of other professional tools such as Maya. This tool is widely used by visual effects industry professionals and can be used for creating 3D models and effects. Thanks to its node-based procedural approach the user gets full control over it workings. You can learn more about Houdini’s features and pricing here.
Great thing about 3D modelling is that you don’t have to create each and every thing from scratch, which can also be hard when you are just starting off. There are many marketplaces out there that help you by providing you with ready-made 3D models that you can use with almost all the tools out there. One such place is FlatPyramid, which is a crowd sourced marketplace giving you access to thousands of 3D model files. It features 3D models suitable for variety of industries including film, tv and media, architecture and design, Augmented Reality and more. You can search for your desired 3D models on things like City 3D Models, Electronics, Cars, Furniture and more. | <urn:uuid:239b0918-8564-4a1e-a7a4-3813ce8da754> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ioshacker.com/macos/use-these-apps-to-design-3d-models-on-your-mac | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.952362 | 692 | 1.578125 | 2 |
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It's Girl Scout Cookie time! Noshing on these fund-raising treats seems like an American pastime, but it can be challenging to keep a snack session of these seasonal sweets in check. If you can enjoy your cookies in a reasonable manner, then good for you! But if you're looking for a way to scratch that sugary itch without killing your healthy eating agenda, here are some healthier alternatives.
Two-cookie serving: 120 calories, five grams of fat, seven grams of sugar
Quick Fix: The Larabar Peanut Butter Cookie is a perfect substitute since it's so filling — I usually only eat half of a bar at a time. One bar contains 220 calories, seven grams of protein, and four grams of fiber. Made out of dried dates, one bar equals one half serving of fruit. There are 18 grams of sugar in this bar, but the sugar content is not added; it naturally occurs in the dates. The other two ingredients in this bar are peanuts and salt.
DIY Fix: Make your own tasty peanut butter treat! Blend a little peanut butter, apple sauce, and raisins for a sweet, satisfying, and nutritious homemade spread. Two tablespoons of this peanut butter raisin spread offers almost five grams of protein and two grams of fiber.
Don't see your fave cookie? Keep on reading!
Lemon Chalet Cremes (Lemonades)
Two-cookie serving: 160 calories, six grams of fat, 12 grams of sugar
Quick Fix: Try a ThinkThin Lemon Cream Pie Protein Bar. It may have 200 calories, but it offers 15 grams of protein, too. With only seven grams of fat, this bar has no added sugar, but relies on sugar alcohol to create its sweetness.
DIY Fix: When you bake for yourself, you can control the ingredients. Try these slimmed-down lemon squares that are lower in sugar and fat than traditional lemon bars and better for you than a handful of cookies.
Samoas (Carmel deLites)
Two-cookie serving: 150 calories, eight grams of fat, and 11 grams of sugar
Quick Fix: Try a Chocolate Dipped Coconut Luna Bar instead. I was shocked how much the flavor of this bar reminded me of the cookie. The bar has 190 calories, nine grams of protein, and 11 grams of sugar. It's fortified with essential vitamins and minerals, too.
DIY Fix: Make your own coconut, almond, and granola bars. They're the perfect combo of crunchy and chewy. These bars are also chock-full of healthy fats!
Tagalongs (Peanut Butter Patties)
Two-cookie serving: 150 calories, 10 grams of fat, eight grams of sugar, and two grams of protein.
Quick Fix: Reach for a Peanut Butter Dark Chocolate KIND Bar. The chewy, nutty bar provides seven grams of protein and thee of fiber. This bar does have 200 calories, though, along with 10 grams of sugar, but you'll be eating a mix of real nuts: peanuts, almonds, walnuts, and cashews.
DIY Fix: A peanut butter smoothie made with chocolate soy milk makes for a nutritious protein-filled snack. Here's a simple PB, chocolate, and fruit smoothie.
Four-cookie serving: 160 calories, 10 grams of sugar, eight grams of fat, only one gram of protein
Quick Fix: Try a Mint Chocolate Chip Luna Protein bar to satisfy your craving. This bar may contain 20 more calories than those four cookies, but one of these bars will actually keep you feeling full. It has 12 grams of protein, six grams of fat, plus 15 percent of your daily requirement for calcium and hard-to-get vitamin D. Snacker be warned, this bar does have a fair bit of sugar — 13 grams.
DIY Fix: Make a diary-free, low-sugar mint chocolate shake. Our recipe features sugar-free ice cream made with coconut milk, and it clocks in at only 136 calories per serving.
How do you deal with your Girl Scout Cookie cravings? Do you cave in or do you have self-control? Tell us in the comments section below.
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March 19, 2003: Housing Starts Decline In February
On the other hand, residential building permits — an indicator of future building activity —moved up slightly to a solid rate of 1.79 million units.
"Builders are being careful to avoid any significant overhang in their inventories of unsold homes, and are wisely ratcheting down the pace of new construction to a rate that's more sustainable under the current conditions of economic and geopolitical uncertainty," said Kent Conine, president of the NAHB.
David Seiders, NAHB’s chief economist, noted that the fundamentals of the housing market remain basically solid. "Given the strong permit numbers we are seeing, the tight inventory situation, healthy house-price performance, and especially the favorable interest-rate picture, home builders are in good position to pick up the pace of housing production as today's economic and political uncertainties head toward resolution. Assuming the best scenarios of a decisive and relatively quick end to the dispute in Iraq and an anticipated fiscal stimulus package, we're still looking at a year-end housing production figure very close to last year's exceptional 1.7 million units."
The slowdown in February occurred in the single-family sector, where starts decreased 13.7 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.3 million units. "Keeping things in perspective, this is just shy of the stellar 1.36 million unit rate of single-family housing production gauged for all of 2002," Conine stated. Meanwhile, the pace of multifamily housing production appeared unaffected by the latest news, posting a 2 percent gain in February to a rate of 327,000 units.
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Deepen your understanding and practice of yoga, 6 week course $120 Would you like to expand your yoga knowledge and deepen your practice?
Do you enjoy your yoga practice, but want to deepen your understanding of yoga’s ethical principles, enrich your life, and gain greater self-awareness? Do you find yourself asking the following questions:
• How do I maintain your inner balance and develop spiritually while engaging with the world on a daily basis?
• What is my life’s purpose?
• What will bring me lasting happiness?
This six-week yoga philosophy course is for you. “I was surprised to find how these yogic principles can be so easily adapted to modern society.” Beverly Sines “The yoga philosophy course I believe is designed to help us stay on our path to being the ‘people that we want to be’. It gives me space with like-minded people to explore ways that I hope to be in the world.” Jane D’Arcy Topic areas include:
• Ancient wisdom for modern times: the origins of yoga
• The four paths of yoga: bhakti, raja, gyana and karma yoga
• Self realisation and the eight limbs of raja yoga
• Leading a spiritual life: following yoga’s yamas and niyamas (ethical principles) in daily life
• Success and inner harmony: the importance of self-discipline and reflection
• The classic yoga texts, including Patanjali’s yoga sutras and the Bhagavad Gita What to expect each week
The course runs for six weeks. Each week we focus on a different yogic principle, discussing practical tools and techniques that will help you find fulfilment in your daily life, as you continue your soul’s quest for knowledge.
At the end of each session, you will be given a quote to help you focus on the principle throughout the week, as well as a set reading, and questions to consider. At the beginning of the next week’s session, you will have an opportunity to share what you have learned during the week, and hear any insights others have had.
So you are not just reading and listening, but actively engaging with yoga philosophy: a powerful and transformative learning experience. You will also receive sustenance in the form of tea and biscuits! Why yoga philosophy?
Yoga is more than a physical practice. To truly practice yoga in your daily life, an understanding of yoga philosophy and its ancient principles is essential. Meaning ‘to join’ or ‘to unite’, yoga can help you gain a better understanding of yourself, overcome your problems, and develop the capacity to cope with everyday demands and worries. Integrating the principles of yoga philosophy into your daily life can help you make better decisions, find inner peace and help guide you on your path to self-realisation.
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Overpopulation is real. We have come on like a swarm of locusts. Now at over seven billion and counting, renowned visionary conservationist and global thinker Dave Foreman helps us understand that only by stabilizing and reducing human population can we stop wrecking our home – Earth.
Read Man Swarm, and you will know the truths about overpopulation and population growth. In Man Swarm, Dave Foreman:
- Lays out the overpopulation crisis in the United States and worldwide
- Shows how overpopulation is the main driver of the extinction of wildlife, wildlands and the creation of pollution, including destructive greenhouse gases
- Smartly challenges those who don't believe that the overpopulation crisis is real
- Gives tangible ways we can all be part of the solution
The first edition, Man Swarm and the Killing of Wildlife, reached the conservationist community; in this new and updated edition, Man Swarm: How Overpopulation is Killing the Wild World, Dave Foreman and editor Laura Carroll expand the readership to the masses, from those in their reproductive years to educators, governors, Congresspersons, and even world leaders.
Overpopulation is solvable. Are you a lover of the Earth's natural world? Man Swarm shows why you need to be very concerned about overpopulation, gives you tangible ways to be part of the solution, and will inspire you to take action. If we can solve overpopulation – and we can – it will be a great victory for all of humanity and the Earth!
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The following workouts are intended for the race-specific portion of your training. Complete a dynamic warm-up routine and run for at least 10 to 15 minutes before you start a faster workout to help you warm up properly. After you finish the repetitions, run for another 10 to 15 minutes to cool down.
Tempo Runs1 of 8
Tempo pace is often described as "comfortably hard;" it's the pace that you could hold for about an hour. For many runners, tempo pace is actually very similar to their 10K pace. So it makes sense to include tempo running early in your training plan before you get to faster, more specific workouts.
When you're just starting to do tempo runs, start with repetitions like 3 x 1 mile at tempo pace with two minutes of easy jogging in between each mile. If you're already comfortable with tempos or need more of a challenge, increase the distance, and run the tempo as a continuous run for 4 to 6 miles.
Mile Repeats2 of 8
The mile helps runners build speed and stamina for any distance; it's an adaptable distance that can be run at various paces on different courses to achieve a variety of goals.
To increase your speed, start with 3 x 1-mile repeats at 5K pace with 3 to 4 minutes recovery jogging between intervals. Complete this workout every two to three weeks, gradually increasing the number of repeats as you progress in your training cycle until you're at 4 to 5 repeats.
To learn how to run at your goal race pace, try this: Run 3 x 1-mile repeats at your goal 10K pace with 4 to 5 minutes of easy jogging between each interval. Complete this workout every 2 to 3 weeks, gradually increasing the number of repeats as you progress in your training cycle until you're at 5 to 6 repeats.
10K Intervals3 of 8
Start with repetitions of 800 to 1,000 meters (it's best to run these workouts on a track where you can precisely control your pace) and a total volume of 3 to 5 miles. One example is 8 x 800m at goal 10K pace. You can take a recovery interval of 400 meters of slow, easy jogging to rest in between each repetition.
Over four to six weeks, gradually increase the distance of your repetitions and the total volume of the workout so it looks closer to a 10K race. Here's a sample progression:
- Week 1: 6 x 800m (3 miles total)
- Week 2: 6 x 1,000m (3.75 miles total)
- Week 3: 6 x 1,200m (4.5 miles total)
- Week 4: 5 x mile (5 miles total)
- Week 5: 5 x mile (5 miles total)
- Week 6: 6 x mile (6 miles total)
Fast-Finish Runs4 of 8
The goal of fast-finish runs is to finish the final miles of the run fast: For 10K, run the last 1 to 2 miles of your longest run of the week at goal 10K race pace or, ideally, faster. Used most frequently during half marathon and marathon training, this workout is great for the 10K distance as well because it teaches you how to push on tired legs. If negative splits are a part of your race strategy, this workout will get you used to picking up the pace at the end of the run so that, on race day, this feels second nature.
Sprinkle these efforts into your training plan every two or three weeks.
The Do-or-Die 10K Workout5 of 8
If you can make it through this grit-your-teeth effort while sticking to your 10K race pace, you can toe the start line confident that you're fit enough to race at your goal pace for 6.2 miles. Run 3 x 2 miles at 10K race pace with a 3- to 4-minute recovery jog between each interval. Complete this workout two weeks prior to your goal 10K.
Race-Week Workout for Beginning and Intermediate Runners6 of 8
- 1- to 2-mile warm-up
- 4 x 1 mile at 10K pace with 60 seconds rest
- 2 x 1000 meters at 10K pace with 45 seconds rest
- 1- to 2-mile cooldown
Race-Week Workout for Advanced Runners7 of 8
- 2- to 3-mile warm-up
- 2 x 1 mile at 3K to 5K pace with 5 minutes rest
- 2 x 400 meters at mile pace with 3 minutes rest
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“I’ll never be able to repay TD for the lifeline they threw us.”
The uncertainty of a global pandemic like COVID-19 is something that has shaken millions of people to their very core – both physically and emotionally.
The unanswered questions about the virus, the hours stuck inside letting your mind roam and ponder the future and the tragic losses so many of us have had to deal with during this time all contribute to stress and potential mental anguish.
For anyone struggling with their mental health before or during COVID-19, this is the time when they need friends, family and professional services the most.
This couldn’t ring truer for the 11,000 patients and 455 staff at the Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester.
The New Hampshire nonprofit relies on a steady stream of patients in order to continue to operate and serve those in the community, said Bill Rider, President & CEO. In fact, he says it costs in excess of $100,000 a day to keep helping the thousands that need their assistance.
When COVID-19 spread throughout the country in March, followed by mandated lockdowns and stay-at-home orders, Bill was tasked with seemingly insurmountable odds.
“It’s been tough. We have staff who’ve lost family members to the virus, people who have been sick and we’ve lost patients to the virus as well,” he said. “I thought I was going to be the CEO that would have to be here during the demise of this health center.”
“We would never have been able to be there for the people who need us now,” – Bill Rider, President & CEO, Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester.
TD Bank Regional Vice President Jeffrey Seifert had other ideas.
“Jeff’s more than a banker, he’s your friend. He continuously keeps in touch and you wouldn’t know he worked for a bank that has 85,000 employees worldwide,” Bill said. “He makes you feel like you’re his nextdoor neighbor.”
Jeff, who’s been handling the mental health center’s account for years, called Bill in March and let him know about the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), administered by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
Bill says that in less than a week, the organization had a completed a PPP application and that Jeff communicated with them on what to do every step of the way.
“On a Saturday, he called and let us know we had been approved,” Bill said. “We all breathed a sigh of relief. The loan helped us pay the staff, reorganize finances to make employees whole and get caught up on a previous loan.”
Now, the mental health center performs about 65% of its visits via telehealth, with 35% still face-to-face with added safety precautions for patients and staff.
The staff also works tirelessly to help the homeless community in the area, as they have been impacted dramatically during this time.
Bill says shelters are crowded and at capacity because of social distancing guidelines, thus people who normally have a safe place to stay have been displaced.
In fact, Bill says the Mental Health Center had more first-time patients in April and May this year than last year – a clear sign that people need a strong support system during this unprecedented time.
“If we had been forced to lay off staff, we would never have been able to be there for the people who need us now,” Bill said. ” It always feels good when you know you can do things to make it better.”
But Bill says it was the care from Jeff and TD Bank that made all the difference.
“Getting that initial call from Jeff about the PPP program, that meant the world. TD turned this all around for us in a very short period of time. I’ll never be able to repay Jeff and TD for the lifeline they threw us,” Bill added.
Jeff credits Bill’s humility.
“Bill is very humble about what he does every day, leading an outstanding organization that is on the front line of addressing the challenges so many in our community face, with even greater need in the wake of this pandemic,” Jeff said. “I try to share his passion for supporting those in need but will never be able to match up.”
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The Hesperides in Greek mythology were the nymphs of the sunset. Different sources name different parents for the Hesperides; they may have been daughters of the Titans Atlas and Hesperis; Erebus and Nyx; Nyx alone; Phorcys and Ceto; or of Hesperus.
It was usually thought that there were three Hesperides, although some sources name four or seven. They were responsible of taking care of a garden in the western end of the world, near the Atlas mountains in Africa. The so called Garden of the Hesperides belonged to the goddess Hera, in which there was a grove of apple trees that bore golden apples. The golden apples were believed to give immortality to anyone who consumed them. Not trusting the Hesperides to guard the apple trees on their own, Hera also placed a hundred headed dragon named Ladon that never slept.
A golden apple that was taken from the Garden of the Hesperides was what eventually caused the Trojan War; Eris, goddess of strife, managed to steal an apple from the garden, inscribed the words "To the fairest" and threw it amidst the goddesses that attended at a wedding she was not invited to. The apple was then given by Paris, prince of Troy, to Aphrodite, who promised to give him Helen as his wife, thus triggering the events of the Trojan War.
The Hesperides and their Garden were also one of the tasks that were given during the Labours of Heracles. Eurystheus, not counting the slaying of the Lernaean Hydra nor the cleaning of the Augean stables, gave two extra tasks to Heracles. One of them was to steal the apples from the Garden of Hesperides. Heracles successfully managed to get the apples from the garden and bring them back to Eurystheus. | <urn:uuid:2785c606-911e-40e0-9abb-bc1222e25591> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.greekmythology.com/Other_Gods/Minor_Gods/Hesperides/hesperides.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00517-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983927 | 384 | 3.546875 | 4 |
Antwan Wilson is one of only 26 African-American school district or charter superintendents in California, out of nearly 1,000 districts. As the leader of Oakland Unified, he heads up a large, diverse district and faces many of the same challenges that superintendents of other large, diverse districts must tackle around the country.
One way he gets support is through Chiefs for Change, a nonprofit committed to providing a professional network for leaders like Wilson. Chiefs for Change allows members to share their experiences and expertise, while also grooming the next generation of diverse superintendents.
“The superintendents serving our students should be as diverse demographically and in terms of experiences and thought as the students for whom we are responsible for providing a meaningful education,” said Wilson. He is the only California educator among nearly two dozen leaders from around the country who are learning from each other and working to attract new leaders of color through a “Future Chiefs” mentoring program.
“This will broaden our strategies, it’ll diversify our practices, and it’ll be a better reflection of the potential of educators across the educational landscape,” he said.
Kunjan Narechania, chief operating officer for the Louisiana Department of Education, is one of the up-and-coming school leaders identified as potential “future chiefs.” Wilson invited Narechania to job-shadow him on Oct. 6. The day included meeting with parents and staff and participating in an EdSource Symposium discussion about social-emotional learning.
“The shadowing opportunity gave me a chance to get a clearer understanding of what superintendents do and how their work is structured,” said Narechania, who is considering becoming a superintendent in the future.
Chiefs for Change was formed in 2010 as a group pushing for school reforms, under the umbrella of the Foundation for Excellence in Education. It reorganized as an independent nonprofit in 2015 with the goal of building a pipeline for future chiefs. It receives financial support from 11 nonprofits, many of which promote education reform.
The coalition provides informal support to superintendents helping them to withstand the pressures of a job that is widely recognized as one of the toughest in education, with high burnout and turnover rates.
“Turnover among state and district chiefs is incredibly high,” said Chiefs for Change CEO Mike Magee in an email. “District leaders average less than five years on the job, with urban superintendents averaging less than three years. If we are going to ask chiefs to be transformational leaders and expect them to sustain their tenures beyond the national average -– and if we are to expect their best policies and practices to spread beyond the boundaries of their own systems -– then these leaders need the robust support of each other and of Chiefs for Change.”
Since the 2014-15 school year began, more than 30 state-level superintendents have changed, he added.
“The superintendents serving our students should be as diverse demographically and in terms of experiences and thought as the students for whom we are responsible for providing a meaningful education” – Antwan Wilson, Superintendent of Oakland Unified
Wilson, who became superintendent of Oakland Unified in April, 2015 after serving as the assistant superintendent for post-secondary readiness in Denver Public Schools for six years, agreed that superintendent turnover is “a difficult issue for most urban districts.”
Wilson said he approaches his work with a sense of urgency.
“My consistent focus has been on appreciating the opportunity I have to work on behalf of Oakland’s students and parents alongside talented educators within our city for as long as I have the opportunity,” he said. “I understand and recognize that I’m not guaranteed anything in this work and thus it’s important for me to lead in a way aligned to my values and with the urgency needed to make a positive impact on the lives of the children in our system.”
Narechania and the other “future chiefs” participating in the mentoring program worked in state or district school administration positions currently or previously. New chiefs are recommended by staff and approved by the current membership. The group also invites nominations of future chiefs on its website.
Magee said the program was established to identify “some of the most promising future leaders” and give them “real-world experiences that will make them savvy, strong leaders from the start.”
Narechania, who oversees school turnaround efforts in her state and manages the internal operations of the Recovery School District in New Orleans, said she enjoyed the opportunity to watch Wilson in action.
“Antwan was very clear about setting a vision for the district and I think he was very inclusive – reaching out to everybody to make decisions,” she said.
Magee said Wilson’s accomplishments as head of the Oakland district have helped to solidify his reputation as a courageous leader who works hard to prepare every student for college and careers.
“In almost two years at the helm of OUSD -– a complex, high-need district -– Superintendent Wilson has been busy focused on excellence and equity for all students,” Magee said.
He praised Wilson’s efforts to “alleviate the disproportionate suspension of black students and triple the number of low-income OUSD graduates who complete post-secondary education.”
Narechania said she was pleased to be part of the first group of eight future leaders that included six “people of color.”
“We in public schools are serving very diverse groups of students and I think it’s important for our leadership to reflect that diversity,” said Narechania, who is Indian-American.
The Chiefs for Change -– located throughout the country -– meet in person and speak with each other several times a year to discuss education issues such as the federal Every Student Succeeds Act, known as ESSA.
Wilson said he joined Chiefs for Change to further his own “continuous growth and learning.” He said he appreciates knowing that he has peers he can call on for help.
“Being in a space with other leaders of local school systems and state systems provides me an opportunity to learn from the work of others nationally,” Wilson said. “It also provides an opportunity for others to learn from our work nationally.”
Wilson also received superintendent training through the Broad Academy, which offers two-year fellowships to urban school leaders interested in improving education, especially for low-income students and those of color as part of the nonprofit Broad Center for the Management of School Systems.
“Broad and Chiefs both provide access to a peer group interested in making significant progress for children being served in public education systems,” Wilson said.
Narechania said she hasn’t yet decided whether she will pursue a superintendent career. But the mentoring she is receiving from the Chiefs for Change is helping her to better understand what she would be getting herself into, if she does.
“I think running a district or state education department is very hard,” she said. “I think there is a lot of learning that would happen on the job. It’s helpful to see different people in that role and how they approach the work. It helps me to envision how I would approach these same problems.” | <urn:uuid:4666fdf3-8ab2-4ee1-abe5-4a58afe9bdea> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://edsource.org/2016/chiefs-for-change-seeks-to-diversify-education-leadership/570776 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00100-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97289 | 1,540 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Cobalt-free perovskite cathode with excellent oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) properties below 800 °C is a key material toward wide implementation of intermediate-temperature solid oxide fuel cells. This work reports the phase structure, microstructure and performance of such cathode based on the composite phases of triclinic Ba0.9Bi0.1FeO3-δ, cubic BaFeO3 and orthorhombic BaFe2O4 prepared by sol–gel route. The resultant barium ferrites composite cathode exhibits uniform particles, pores and elements distribution. In particular, favorable ORR properties of this cathode is demonstrated by very low interfacial resistance of only 0.036 and 0.072 Ω cm2 at 750 and 700 °C and maximum power density of 1295 and 840 mW cm−2 at 750 and 700 °C.
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Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact firstname.lastname@example.org. | <urn:uuid:2109db10-4043-4532-809b-b1d8cb18b90c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://dro.deakin.edu.au/view/DU:30044378 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00251-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.872426 | 244 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Triangle towns recycle holiday waste
Posted December 25, 2009 9:48 p.m. EST
Updated December 26, 2009 4:40 p.m. EST
Raleigh, N.C. — From wrapping paper, bows and boxes to the Christmas tree, Raleigh residents will accumulate an estimated 750 tons of extra trash this week.
Most holiday garbage is safe for curbside recycling. The city will recycle most wrapping paper, but not foil, tissue paper, or ribbon.
Cardboard boxes can also be recycled. Put them out for curbside pickup or save them for a second use. | <urn:uuid:f42bb2b8-ec2b-4bc5-a0cd-b6b409edcb3c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wral.com/triangle-towns-recycle-holiday-waste/6690383/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.907354 | 124 | 1.632813 | 2 |
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