text stringlengths 181 608k | id stringlengths 47 47 | dump stringclasses 3
values | url stringlengths 13 2.97k | file_path stringlengths 125 140 | language stringclasses 1
value | language_score float64 0.65 1 | token_count int64 50 138k | score float64 1.5 5 | int_score int64 2 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
POC or PILOT approach to you PPM implementation?
This article briefly explains the key ingredients and differences between a POC (Proof of Concept) and a Pilot approach when selecting an implementation approach for a project and portfolio management solution.
In general, either a POC or a Pilot is recommended as a way forward to ensure things are as they should be, before a potential larger project could impact all users within an organization. In other words, reducing the risks for project failure later. Often organizations don’t understand the core difference between the two approaches, even though the requirements towards the vendor is very much depending on the chosen approach.
To fully understand the differences between a POC or a Pilot, one should start by looking at the defined success criteria for each approach:
Success for a Proof of Concept
The POC must answer all the questions set out by the success criteria in the form of pass or fail. Even if an organization decides to not move ahead with the project, the POC might still be very successful as it has analyzed key risks before a vital decision is taken. A POC is not successful if the defined questions or risks have not been answered in full. A POC is like mitigating the risks with the highest impact for your potential PPM implementation.
Success for a pilot approach
The pilot is successful, when all required functionality has been deployed, used and validated in full by a low number of users (typically 5% of total expected users). In other words, the pilot is successful when the entire system can be moved into production, and the pilot is obviously unsuccessful if it can’t be moved to production.
Comparing the two approaches could be shown as below. In this case, when implementing a PPM system such as Microsoft Project Online.
Running a POC
When going for a POC approach it is likely due to concerns the organization have regarding specific areas of importance or doubt e.g. can our work process really be implemented? is performance good enough? will it integrate to our ERP system? etc.
These questions are key ingredients for the defined “success criteria” that should be known for all participants of the POC project. When questions are agreed upon, they must be written in a way that allows for other to later validate the result. The most used approach to this, would be to use a “test case” approach with two categories of validation “technical” and “business/process”.
In the POC the PPM system should (only) be configured so it can validate all required use cases (questions and concerns). This should be done in a MVP (minimum viable product) manner, as we only do a POC to validate our questions and concerns, not the things we expect or know is already working.
Running a Pilot
When choosing to go for a Pilot approach, it’s because the organization has already selected the preferred system such as Project Online. In this case, all functional requirements, and the organizational processes (workflows), must be configured, and used in real life scenario but only for a few users (pilots). Managing this kind of Pilot project can be done in multiple ways depending on the project model chosen such as Prince2, PMI or even an agile (Scrum) approach. Keep in mind, the scope should come from a requirements specification, meaning change request management must take place, making it hard for a 100% agile approach.
Best practices and steps used in a PPM system Pilot:
- Understand the reporting requirements from a portfolio manager perspective
- Which technology, mobile devices, data refresh rate, notifications etc
- Which project types are in scope for the pilot
- Large or small projects, Departmental types, etc
- What governance should be applied
- Project Lifecycle Model, Phases, Stages and Gates
- Stage activities
- Which activities must be performed and when e.g. risk analysis, cost/benefit etc
- Specific fields needed
- Looking at the portfolio reporting requirements gives an understanding of which data and custom fields must at least be available for data input
- Configuration of the requirements identified in step 1-5
- Validated by the pilot users
- User training
- And definition of who does what and when
- Timeframe for pilot users using the system
- Typically, 2-4 months with weekly feedback loops
- Pilot approval and potentially migrated into production and made available for all users
- Typically, this also involves more training
- Plan for next phase and iteration
- Often seen is a stronger focus on project planning and tracking activities but it could be something else such as integration to LOBs etc
POC and Pilot hybrid
In some cases, it would make perfect sense to first run a POC followed by a Pilot. An example could be that an organization need to sure that a special integration will work in real-life before considering running a pilot that requires user involvement. The POC would then be a simple matter of answering one question/requirement, and if positive, then move ahead with the planning of a Pilot to further test the general requirements and organizational processes. | <urn:uuid:ae27fa2f-5aca-424c-b624-804933b27107> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ppmblog.org/2017/08/11/ppm-poc-vs-pilot/?shared=email&msg=fail | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.932891 | 1,062 | 1.757813 | 2 |
the doctrine that all objects exist only when perceived by some mind
- Feats of mental power that are not explainable by science, such as telepathy and mind reading.
- Philosophy a. The doctrine that some mental phenomena cannot be explained by physical laws.b. See conceptualism. | <urn:uuid:7b8b10d9-3e0a-49db-a6b3-9a6e47bb51be> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.yourdictionary.com/mentalism | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280791.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00359-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.778642 | 59 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Proofreading, Editing, Critique
Getting help with your book from a professional editor is always recommended but often just too expensive. We have partnered with a professional editor with 30 years of experience to provide quality writing services at affordable prices.Visit our Writing Services Page
Hundreds of Helpful Articles
We have created hundreds of articles on topics all authors face in today’s literary landscape. Get help and advice on Writing, Marketing, Publishing, Social Networking, and more. Each article has a Comments section so you can read advice from other authors and leave your own.
How To Craft The Perfect Tweet To Market Your Book – Part 2
Now we’ve sorted out the ideal length for your tweets, we’ll move on to the next part of the formula.
If you want new followers to see your tweets, use hashtags. For example, using #cookie in your tweet will mean that anyone searching for tweets about cookies will find your tweet. As an author, unless #cookie is relevant to your book, you might to think about using things like #selfpublished, #novel, etc.
Hashtags have a habit of trending on Twitter, which means that many people are discussing the same subjects all at the same times. When you add these tags to a tweet, you have a much higher chance of potential new followers seeing them and of engaging with them.
Do not be tempted to use loads of hashtags; you might think it will draw loads more followers but it is more likely to have the opposite effect. It gives the impression that you are desperate and your message is likely to be ignored. Two is the best number to use in any single tweet.
Every single word you use in your tweets will count so, if you want your followers to do something, you need a call to action in your tweet. Words such as “Look” and “Click” have been shown to increase the chances of interaction with a link and if you can add a little urgency, it will help even more. One of the best phrases to use is “Right Now” because it encourages followers to do what you want. Don’t hesitate to use “Please” either; good manners don’t cost a thing.
Obviously, if you use too many, your tweet won't be so effective but even including just one action word can help to increase the chances of your links being clicked or your tweet shared considerably. One or two is enough though; too many and people will just slide right past your tweet.
Don’t Forget to Include Your Message
While you are busy adding your hashtags and your action words, don’t forget that your tweet is meant to be sharing a message. You want your followers to interact, to respond to your tweet in some way, by sharing it, clicking a link or any other call to action you may have included and you want it to be readable.
The one thing you need to keep in mind though is this – there isn’t any magic formula. If you think that something else will help, then break the rules by all means and don’t be afraid to experiment. As time goes by, you will find your own magic formula, something that works for you and engages your followers while pulling in new ones.
And, once you have your perfect tweet, you need to ensure that it gets seen so use a free tool like Social for Publishers or any other tweet scheduler you like.
These tips are just a few that will help you get on the right track. A quick search on the internet will show you many more and, of course, you can never discount learning by trial and error.
Written by Readers’ Favorite Reviewer Anne-Marie Reynolds | <urn:uuid:710dd871-bbe8-4f98-a235-e460c9d94f8e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://readersfavorite.com/articles/how-to-craft-the-perfect-tweet-to-market-your-book-part-2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00073.warc.gz | en | 0.931725 | 780 | 1.648438 | 2 |
||The examples and perspective in this article may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. (January 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)|
A reconnaissance satellite (commonly, although unofficially, referred to as a spy satellite) is an Earth observation satellite or communications satellite deployed for military or intelligence applications.
The first generation type (i.e., Corona and Zenit) took photographs, then ejected canisters of photographic film which would descend to earth. Corona capsules were retrieved in mid-air as they floated down on parachutes. Later, spacecraft had digital imaging systems and downloaded the images via encrypted radio links.
In the United States, most information available is on programs that existed up to 1972, as this information has been declassified due to its age. Some information about programs prior to that time is still classified, and a small amount of information is available on subsequent missions.
On 16 March 1955, the United States Air Force officially ordered the development of an advanced reconnaissance satellite to provide continuous surveillance of 'preselected areas of the earth' in order 'to determine the status of a potential enemy’s war-making capability'.
There are several major types of reconnaissance satellite.
- Missile Early warning
- Provides warning of an attack by detecting ballistic missile launches. Earliest known are Missile Defense Alarm System.
- Nuclear explosion detection
- Identifies and characterizes nuclear explosions in space. Vela (satellite) is the earliest known.
- Photo surveillance
- Provides imaging of earth from space. Images can be a survey or close-look telephoto. Corona (satellite) is the earliest known. Spectral imaging is commonplace.
- Signals intelligence, intercepts stray radio waves. Samos-F is the earliest known.
- Radar imaging
- Most space-based radars use synthetic aperture radar. Can be used at night or through cloud cover. Earliest known are US-A series.
Examples of reconnaissance satellite missions:
- High resolution photography (IMINT)
- Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT)
- Communications eavesdropping (SIGINT)
- Covert communications
- Monitoring of nuclear test ban compliance (see National Technical Means)
- Detection of missile launches
On 28 August 2013, it was thought that "a $1-billion high-powered spy satellite capable of snapping pictures detailed enough to distinguish the make and model of an automobile hundreds of miles below" was launched from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base using a Delta IV Heavy launcher, America's highest-payload space launch vehicle.
...photo-reconnaissance satellites, for example, are enormously important in stabilizing world affairs and thereby make a significant contribution to the security of all nations.
During the 1950s, a Soviet hoax had led to American fears of a bomber gap. In 1968, after gaining satellite photography, the United States' intelligence agencies were able to state with certainty that "No new ICBM complexes have been established in the USSR during the past year." President Lyndon B. Johnson told a gathering in 1967:
I wouldn't want to be quoted on this ... We've spent $35 or $40 billion on the space program. And if nothing else had come out of it except the knowledge that we gained from space photography, it would be worth ten times what the whole program has cost. Because tonight we know how many missiles the enemy has and, it turned out, our guesses were way off. We were doing things we didn't need to do. We were building things we didn't need to build. We were harboring fears we didn't need to harbor.
- The OMAC Project
- Enemy of the State (film)
- Body of Lies (film)
- Ice Station Zebra
- Karlsson-on-the-Roof is Sneaking Around Again
- Defense Support Program (U.S.)
- European Union Satellite Centre
- List of intelligence gathering disciplines
- List of Kosmos satellites
- National Reconnaissance Office (U.S.)
- "Corona History". National Reconnaissance Office. Retrieved 15 February 2014. External link in
- "Corona Program". JPL Mission and Spacecraft Library. Retrieved 16 February 2014. External link in
- Wright, Michael; Herron, Caroline Rand (8 December 1985). "Two Years for Morison". New York Times. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
- Erickson, Mark. Into the Unknown Together - The DOD, NASA, and Early Spaceflight (PDF). ISBN 1-58566-140-6.
- reconnaissance satellite, Infoplease, retrieved 2014-02-17
- Hennigan, W.J. (27 August 2013). "Monster rocket to blast off from Pacific coast, rattle Southland". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
- Melissa Goldin (2014-02-17). "Fragments of Soviet-Era Satellite Burn Up in Earth's Atmosphere". Mashable. Retrieved 2014-02-17.
- "The State of the Union Annual Message to the Congress". 1980 State of the Union Address. The American Presidency Project. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
- "Commercial Satellite Imagery Companies Partner with the U.S. Geological Survey in Support of the International Charter "Space and Major Disasters"". USGS Newsroon. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 4 April 2014.
- Heppenheimer, T. A. (1998). The Space Shuttle Decision. NASA. pp. 191, 198.
- Kupperberg, Paul (2003). Spy satellites. Rosen Publishing Group. Retrieved 15 February 2012. ISBN 0-8239-3854-9
- Richelson, Jeffrey (1990). America's Secret Eyes in Space: the U.S. Keyhole Spy Satellite Program. Harper & Row. Retrieved 15 February 2012. ISBN 0-88730-285-8
- Norris, Pat (2008). "Spies in the Sky: Surveillance Satellites in War and Peace". Berlin; New York: Springer; Chichester, UK: In association with Praxis Publishing. Retrieved 15 February 2012.
- Israel Launches New Spy Satellite
- FAS Intelligence Resource Program - Imagery Intelligence (IMINT)
- GlobalSecurity.org: Imagery Intelligence
- Iran to Launch first spy satellite
- Egyptsat1 (MisrSat 1)
- Spaceports Around the World: Iraq's Al-Anbar Space Research Center
- Military Intelligence Satellites (NASA, remote sensing tutorial) | <urn:uuid:f5fc6148-395b-428b-8c04-53146b8018ed> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spy_satellite | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988722951.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183842-00210-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.873901 | 1,352 | 3.484375 | 3 |
Imperial Russia >
Soviet Orders and Medals >
Soviet Badges >
Soviet Militaria >
Soviet Reenacting >
Soviet Paper, Propaganda, Art >
Communist Countries >
German Militaria >
Reference Books >All Categories Login Register View Cart Search Terms How to Order Sell To Us About Us Join Our Mailing List
Badge in Commemoration of the 30th Anniversary of the Zhdanov Military Political Academy (VMPU), circa 1960s-70s.
The badge is made in brass and enamels; The badge measures approx. 27 mm tall, 39 mm wide.
Very attractive badge in excellent condition. The mint marked screw plate is probably not original to the badge but fits nicely. | <urn:uuid:0cf75d5b-0231-4820-a972-71ef22c12492> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.collectrussia.com/DISPITEMWINDOW.HTM?ITEM=21433 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.82742 | 155 | 1.5 | 2 |
Originally published April 22, 2022 by News 12 Westchester.
Oyster Bay High School is teaming up with Adelphi University to provide college courses to their students.
One of the courses is its health and physical education program.
It is similar to the high school's weight training program, but gives them hands on and real world experience when it comes the content they learn.
Students are getting a sense of the type of career they could be in for from ankle taping for injury to personalized fitness programs.
"This class essentially created to serve the desires, wants and needs of the students, but also possibly introduce them to tracks that could turn into a career path," says Charlie Rizzuto, health and physical education teacher at Oyster Bay High School.
The superintendent of the school says it's a way to connect to students and empower them to see things they could possibly do in the future. | <urn:uuid:681b2792-2e6e-40c2-b1c6-ed0e0f269fef> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ihtusa.com/oyster-bay-hs-partners-with-adelphi-university-for-real-world-health-and-pe-program/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.98048 | 186 | 2 | 2 |
The impoverished and wartorn country of Sudan is considering trying to create a nuclear program to generate electrical power, its president told the state-owned Kuwait Television in an interview aired Monday. President Omar al-Bashir said his government believes that its energy resources will not cover an expected increase in needs for electrical power in the next 25 years in the Arab-African country.
"During that period, nuclear energy comes in to fill the deficit in electrical power generation," al-Bashir said in the interview conducted Sunday. He spoke from the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, where his nation is hosting the Arab League summit that starts Tuesday. He did not explain how the country might be able to afford such a program.
Sudan has significant oil reserves a flashpoint of a 21-year civil war that officially ended last year but is not a major oil producer at the moment. It could, however, attract more foreign investment if it were able to end other conflicts that still wrack the country, including violence in Darfur.
The president said his country had contacts with "the agency" in regard to such a nuclear program. He did not specify which agency, but presumably meant the International Agency for Atomic Energy, the United Nations nuclear watch dog based in Vienna, Austria.
Some have feared the Mideast which Sudan borders could suffer a regional arms race and see other countries come forward with nuclear ambitions because of Iran's controversial nuclear program. The top U.N. envoy in Sudan, Jan Pronk, warned earlier this week that much of Sudan is in trouble, with violence in Darfur worsening, a Ugandan rebel group terrorizing the south, and new turmoil possible in the east.
A year ago, the U.N. Security Council voted to send 10,700 U.N. peacekeepers to monitor a January 2005 peace agreement between Sudan's mostly Muslim north and the Christian and animist south. Some 2 million people died in that 21-year conflict. Over 7,000 peacekeepers are now deployed. A separate 7,000-strong force from the African Union has been trying to prevent the three-year conflict in Darfur from escalating.
An estimated 180,000 people have died, mainly of hunger and disease, and some 2 million have been displaced since rebels from Darfur's ethnic African population revolted, accusing the Arab-dominated government in Khartoum of discrimination and decades of neglect, reports the AP.
The Russian military have already achieved significant success in the demilitarization of the Armed Forces of Ukraine | <urn:uuid:580ee844-8fa4-4825-9f0e-7b203b18aa10> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://english.pravda.ru/news/world/77883-sudan/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.964175 | 525 | 2.03125 | 2 |
ArchiMate has three element types that specifically deal with transport. There is Communication Network which represents physical networking infrastructure for transport of data, there is Distribution Network that has the same function for physical transport, so physical network structure for transport of goods, and there is Path, a more abstract element the represents transport at a higher level. In one way or another, these have been part of ArchiMate from the start. They also have been ignored by almost anybody from the start, for a variety of reasons. In this article we look at these elements, and look also at an alternative way of modelling networking in ArchiMate 3.1, without these concepts at all. Networks? We don’t need networks!
Note, this article is not for ArchiMate absolute beginners. I am discussing ArchiMate here and assuming you are already understand it and are interested in arcane ArchiMate discussions. I am discussing a ‘problem area’ in ArchiMate and as such it is not really helpful for standard modelling work. However, after having made this warning, go ahead and read it, it might still add to your understanding. But to make sure you understand that this is not representative of how ‘hard’ ArchiMate can be, I use the dangerous bend image here at the left (kudos for who knows the origin of this image).
History of ArchiMate’s Networking Elements
The people that created ArchiMate around 2002–2004 were by academics and professionals from a few large Dutch administrative organisations, such as the national tax service, insurance companies and pension funds. The focus of the professionals was the administrative organisation and the applications that manage insurance-like data. It is not that strange that ArchiMate’s main example model was ‘ArchiSurance’ a model describing an Insurance company. Nor the professionals nor the students apparently found infrastructure particularly relevant, not were they really informed about it, so ArchiMate got saddled with a view on networking that is, let me be kind: somewhat lacking. It is not possible to use this for solution designs where the actual networking architecture is important. I’m also unaware that any tool actually implements it in full (e.g. the ‘relation-forms’ of the Network/Path elements). This did not change over the years. The definitions changed a bit, but the structure stayed as it had been since around 2004. The most substantial change was when ArchiMate 3 in 2016, which changed the infrastructure layer to a ‘technology and physical’ layer.
Before ArchiMate 3, the available concepts were:
- Network — an element representing physical network infrastructure, such as a LAN or WAN network
- Communication Path — a more abstract element representing communication between physical Nodes, such as message transfer between servers. A Communication Path could be Realised by one or more Networks.
In ArchiMate 3, the physical world was added to ArchiMate and the lower layer elements for transport became:
- Communication Network — an element representing physical network infrastructure, such as a LAN or WAN network (the old Network element, however it is connected (we will see how below) to Devices (digital gear) instead of Nodes.)
- Distribution Network — like Communication Network, but for physical transport, such as a system of rails and trains
- Path — a more abstract element to represent that can be Realised by one or more network elements and that models the exchange of data or physical stuff.
In addition, the Communication Network can Aggregate Nodes, which is meant to model the structure the Network is created from. The Nodes Aggregated in a Network element represent for instance switches, routers, firewalls (for Communication Network) or trains, trucks, and the like (for Distribution Network). We will illustrate this article with example from the digital world. A Communication Network Aggregates the parts it is made up of (Devices such as routers, switches) and it is Associated with Devices that are connected to it. An example — in the Mastering ArchiMate colour scheme — is shown here:
Shown is a simple Communication Network made up of a switch and a router and two servers are connected to it. We’ll get to the Path element below.
Some problems with the Networking Elements
That the authors of ArchiMate up to today have little interest for infrastructure shows up to today. This part of ArchiMate is even sloppy, here and there. It is also something that I have never seen used outside of the few examples in the standard itself or something of the same level of simplicity. It still shows a certain disdain for the world of infrastructure, or at least some form of ignorance (as in: ignoring what is really going on there). This can even be ironic if ignoring infrastructure comes from enterprise architects promoting cloud-visions and such, as cloud computing is in fact infrastructure and it is those infrastructure innovations driving businesses. Not understanding that — with the exception of SAAS — cloud is just another type of data center for your infrastructure (you still need to manage almost all of it yourself) is somewhat myopic. Most enterprise architects I encounter are blissfully unaware of what happens in infrastructure, and especially tend to ignore the huge complexity that is part and parcel of the infrastructure world. But I digress. As usual.
Anyway, let’s have a look at some of these problems first. Take a look at this diagram, which is a fragment of Example 30 from the ArchiMate 3.1 standard:
The first thing we notice in this example is that the relations between both Communication Network elements and are Associations, not Aggregations as they are supposed to be. In ArchiMate 2, it was only possible to Associate and there was no way to model the elements that actually make up the network unambiguously. Another things we could notice is that using a switch to connect the Data Center Network to the Wide Area Network is silly. Again: no real attention was paid to this in the standard, apparently.
The second thing we notice is that the Data Replication (Path) is Realised, but it is not connected to anything. According to the standard, it can be Associated with and it can Aggregate any Technology layer active structure element (so mainly any Node or subtype of Node). But the text does not explain what either means nor is an example given so we can figure it out. If we start guessing, then it would be the equivalent of what happens with the Network element, in which case Association means ‘connected to it in order to make use of it’ and Aggregation means ‘made up of it’. The Association (use) part is easy enough to use in modelling, but the Aggregation part is confusing. What am I going to Aggregate in a Path? I already have the Networking elements that Realise it and in natural language make it up. So, what is a Path made up of? I can imagine that the software on two servers make up a ‘data replication’, so is the Path made up of those software elements? Did nobody try to actually produce at least a single decent example during this ArchiMate development? Nah, probably not. Infrastructure is irrelevant, remember?
The third thing we notice is that if a Server uses a Network, we would like to use an Interface or service. As anyone acquainted with networking technology knows, these switches, routers, firewalls, and so forth, are just specialised computers often with specialised hardware, but sometimes not even that. And this shows in that we model the switch above as an ArchiMate Device. In fact, it is not that different from a server, so why not a Node (as it used to be)? And why not have that Device’s Interface and/or Service be used by the Devices/nodes that make use of it? In fact, do we need Network elements at all? Can we do without? Yes, we can!
There is a simple way
A network is just another part of your digital landscape that is made up of (specialised) computers with some special interfaces. So, what if we would ignore Network and Path elements and try to model networking using the other standard elements? How would we do it? Well, what about this?
The blue Serving relations show that the servers are attached to the switch (of course, in real networks, that switch would be a Node element called “ACI fabric” or something like that). You could also model the orange ones to show they are connected to the LAN. And incidentally, in ArchiMate 3.1, the orange Servings are reliable derivations of the blue ones. Of course you can now also do much more interesting things such as model the full function and service or interface elements. E.g. the interface o the switch may be ethernet or fiber. And it is easy to have these devices realise all kinds of interesting networking concepts as Nodes, such as security zones, VLANs, you name it. Note: all the Servings are in fact derivations, fully modeled could be done too with named Functions, Services, and Interfaces.
Who needs Communication Network? The network is a computer (with a nod to John Gage — who meant it quite differently) after all.
Now, it is time to get really creative and so I am upping the warning level. Because the next diagrams are showing setups that are not 100% valid ArchiMate. Having said that, what about that Path element type? Well, as it turns out, we don’t really need that one either in our example. Let me first show you what I would like to be able to do instead of using Path but aren’t. What I would like to do with Flows is not only be able to Associate something with it, but I would like to have a Flow use a Service (or derived a Function or an active element such as Node as shown here):
Of course, as long as I cannot use Serving, I might use Association to show the Flow makes use of it until The Powers that Be have decided to change ArchiMate. (Though I really hope not, new versions of the book are a lot of work). This is allowed in the standard (thanks for correcting me JB):
This seems to be valid. And another possibility (for those that would like to mimic the Path being an abstraction from a Network) is:
None of the two proposals (Serving or Realisation) are perfect fits in ArchiMate’s current setup, but either could be selected to play the more generic role of “makes possible”. My preferences is Serving and it then becomes a shorthand for Serving both ends of the Flow (which is what actually is the case), besides, I would prefer if Realisation would be a pure ‘identity abstraction’, i.e. both ends of a Realisation are the same thing, just more or less abstract.
And in an attempt at ultimate ArchiMate geekery, have a look at the last one:
Impromptu quiz question: what is going on here (compared to the earlier one that used the Serving relation)? Is that valid? Is it a smart move?
The answer is: I am using Section 15.2 of the standard and have defined a few of my own subtypes of Node, specifically to model a Switch, a Router, and a LAN. Pretty neat, but there are drawbacks. For one, which tools support this properly? For another, such extensions aren’t really supported by the ArchiMate Exchange Format (as far as I know), so even if your tool supports it, you’re painting yourself in a tool-corner. Having said that, if you except these, the actual choice in the example, where the subtype of Node is called ‘Network’ and it uses the Communication Path icon. That could be very confusing, but on the other hand, as nobody used these official network elements anyway, the damage will be limited.
So, who needs Communication Network or Path? Not I.
PS. In 2014, using ArchiMate 2, I wrote my first article about Modelling Networking in ArchiMate and there I used the ‘relation-form’ of the Networking element. It never satisfied me, if only I could not really model that way in my tool (the diagrams were faked by using Associations that were given a different appearance). Neither does the above fully (e.g. Flow is unidirectional (hint, hint…) and there should be some way to model a ‘bus’ (that would then be an element-form of the Flow relation’ you can Associate with). Whatever the change, a solution where we do not need Network and Path elements seems already perfectly doable, with the added bonus that Networking becomes a first class citizen in ArchiMate. In a fully networked world, that is probably a good idea. | <urn:uuid:13e779e3-ae4d-43e7-ad45-3eee155638d1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ea.rna.nl/2020/10/26/modelling-networking-in-archimate-3-1/?replytocom=29411 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.955589 | 2,732 | 2.203125 | 2 |
by Phil Shiner and Andrew Williams (eds). Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2008. 358pp. Hardback. £30.00/ $63.00. ISBN: 9781841136691.
Reviewed by Maxwell O. Chibundu, University of Maryland School of Law. Email: mchibundu [at] law.umaryland.edu.
A frequently rehearsed story tells of an encounter between the venerated Chinese Prime Minister, Zhou En-Lai and a worldly Westerner. When reportedly asked for his thoughts on the French Revolution, the Eastern sage answered “it’s too early to say.” That observation needs to be taken to heart by International Lawyers for whom the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq, and the measures taken to suppress the resulting insurgencies and strife currently appear as momentous “game changing” events. If, looking back a century from now these events are seen to have successfully migrated from the hyperbole of journalistic front-page stories into that realm inhabited by the likes of the French Revolution, it is likely to be, not because of the uniqueness of the violent overthrow of a “Third World” potentate and his depleted third rate army by the skilled military, political and economic might of two of the most technologically advanced and coordinated post-industrial states of our time, not because of the duplicitous and/or manufactured reasons for going to war, not because of the use of falsified or manipulated “intelligence,” not because of the hyperactive media propaganda and hysteria about the existential threat to humanity supposedly presented by an unchecked recalcitrant “rogue” regime erroneously said to be sneakily and illegally in possession of weapons of mass destruction, not because of the depth of destruction, human sufferings and misery visited on an already blighted country, and especially not because of the apparently infinite capacity and hubris of imperial states to persuade themselves and their citizens of their innate altruism and ability to bring peace, happiness, justice and “civilization” to other societies; prior historical examples of all of these are too numerous in the West’s encounters with the rest for the Second U.S.-Iraq War and its aftermath to be anything but another illustration of axiomatic realities. If this Second “Gulf War” is to afford a more or less unique didactic legacy, it is as likely to be found in the ways that international law discourse shaped or has been shaped by that war. THE IRAQ WAR AND INTERNATIONAL LAW, edited by Phil Shiner and Andrew Williams, constitutes the engagements of twelve international lawyers in such a discourse.
The thirteen essays collected in the volume (Williams has two contributions) cover a broad range of issues including rehash of some of the debates over the legality under International Law of the grounds officially advanced for the attack on Iraq; the impact of the war on the jurisdiction of English courts and the European Court of Human Rights to engage in the substantive review of the field activities of British military [*526] personnel; the legal obligations of the United Kingdom under various international agreements that are implicated in her conduct of the war; treatment of possible claims of violations of International Human Rights and Humanitarian laws; the intersections of both sets of laws and the application of extraterritorial concepts in their spheres; emerging trends in the extra-treaty regulation of the proliferation of so-called “weapons of mass destruction” (what Daniel H. Joyner in his contribution terms “counter-proliferation”). The central themes of the contributions, however, indisputably revolve around the legal obligations of the United Kingdom under International Law for her participation in the waging of the war against Iraq and the subsequent occupation of that country.
The investigations, Andrew Williams says in his introductory chapter, are best organized under three themes: international legal constraints on countries going to war – so-called “jus ad bellum,” the regulation of the manner in which war is fought (jus in bello), and the obligations that occupiers have in the temporary administration of conquered territory (p.9). The relevant legal material are ably presented and competently discussed. A teacher of International Law who is looking for a compact volume of essays that intelligently critiques the Tony Blair Government’s participation in the war can do a lot worse.
That there is complete consensus among the contributors as to the illegality of the war is neither surprising nor a poignant criticism of the collection, even if a token representation of British officialdom would have been welcomed. (We are told that an adviser to the Blair Government had agreed to pen a contribution for the collection but failed to do so) (p.14, n.16). The writers all are lawyers, and in many cases regular practitioners steeped in the art of advocacy: purporting to present the opposition’s claim before demolishing it. The legal doctrines on the use of force – especially with regard to jus ad bellum, and almost equally so in the case of jus in bello – are now so reasonably familiar that it is no stretch to call them boringly conventional. The writers thus present no genuinely controversial arguments, when relying on many of the disclosures unearthed since March, 2003, they demonstrate that the attack and invasion of Iraq could not be justified under any of the standard legal arguments for the lawful use of force by one state – or group of states – against another. Although extensively discussed and presented in Chapters 2, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 9, Sir Nigel Rodley’s contribution in Chapter 12 succinctly and with creditable dispassion confidently shows why, under International Law, as it now exists, no genuinely tenable legal argument can be advanced by the United Kingdom or United States for their use of force against the territorial integrity of Iraq or to suppress the political independence of that country. The typical arguments of “self defense” (even when extended to encompass “preventive” (or, as it is more commonly termed “preemptive”) war, when properly understood), Security Council authorization and even “humanitarian intervention” (assuming the last to be a valid gloss on the exceptions to the prohibition of the use of force), were simply unavailable. [*527]
The pedagogical core of the collection exists not in the now pedestrian arguments about the proper interpretation of Security Council Resolution 1441, nor the scope of the self-defense exception to the provisions of Article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter, but in the claims about U.K. legal liabilities for her conduct of the war and her participation in the occupation of Iraq. Because U.K. policies and actions charitably can be viewed as sidekicks of those of the U.S., the material here is potentially useful not only for the exploration of the scope and reach of international rules on the waging of war and the administration of conquered territories, but more significantly for investigating the status under International Law of shared responsibility in these areas. Within domestic or national legal orders, questions of “joint or several liability” for conspiracies, complicity, common actions, common purposes, joint enterprises, as well as vicarious, secondary and/or derivative liability in similar circumstances pose some of the thorniest issues in fashioning and assigning culpability for wrongful conduct where two or more actors are involved. At core, culpability tends to be premised on the existence of some notion of fault, and while intentional behavior may provide the clearest illustration of fault, deterrence policies often aim for a broader sweep. One might say, the idea is to put on an actor a duty not only to scrutinize her own behavior, but to provide her with an incentive for scrutinizing the conduct of a co-participant in the venture. If this is an area that has been extensively explored in national laws, its investigation in the international legal order is very much embryonic. This doubtless is in part because of the relative newness of the coming of age of International Law (at least as a practitioner engagement), but it is also surely a result of the nature of International Law as primarily “consent based.” In the case of the Iraq War and occupation, the ordinary complexities are compounded by the ambiguous roles played by the Security Council – first in refusing to adopt a “war authorizing” subsequent Resolution to 1441, and then in accepting a “successful” invasion as a fait accompli, and seemingly seeking to impose terms and conditions for the occupation and administration of Iraq, notably in Resolutions 1483 and 1511.
Considerations of co-participant liability by the United Kingdom for policies and actions crafted primarily in Washington are especially interesting because of the lack of symmetry between British and American commitments to and undertakings in International Law. In particular, the British like the vast majority of their European neighbors, and unlike the United States, have signed onto most of the newly fanged institutions and policies that have given a genuine bite to the barks of International Law. British officials, contend some of the writers, face the real possibility of being hurled before the International Criminal Court, and their policies challenged and invalidated by the European Court of Human Rights under the European Convention on Human Rights. (See contributions by William Schabas, Christine Chinkin, Rabinder Singh, Keir Starmer and Bill Bowring.) Similarly, the U.K.’s accession to several other treaties to which the U.S. is not a party may create additional legal hazards for her (Stefan Talmon, p.203). An exceptional (one [*528] might say uniquely interesting) discussion relates to possible liability by British officials for the conduct and policies of the Coalition provisional Authority. This was an administrative body set up to run defeated Iraq. But as the United States and the rest of the world learned, the toppling of the statue of Saddam Hussein, far from being indicative of a “mission accomplished,” launched Iraq into internecine conflict that progressively got worse until at least January, 2008. Meanwhile, the CPA, under the leadership of the American viceroy, Paul L. Bremer, was charged with running Iraq’s affairs until the nominal “return of sovereignty” to Iraqis in June 2004. United Kingdom officials, and indeed the nationals of over 29 other countries were employed by the CPA, a body that seemed sui generis in International Law. Thus, an interesting issue in International Law is the extent to which its activities and those of its employees can be attributed to the likes of the United Kingdom (or even the United Nations) that provided support but had little say in the making of the policies of the CPA.
These and other “secondary liability” issues provide interesting insights into the international legal order that can and should be profitably exploited in the pedagogical setting of the class room. The extent to which the contributors have done so adequately in this volume is more debatable. The stance that one takes in no small measure depends on the extent to which one shares the view that International Law, as the vast majority of the contributors to the volume seem to view it, is primarily about its capacity to obtain correct behavior through the imposition of sanctions on wrongdoers.
This brings us to my first substantial problem with the volume. With one exception (of which more will be said shortly), the contributors appear to view the utility (if not conception) of International Law almost exclusively through the lens of judicially decreed enforcement of prescribed texts. And so we have the rather incongruous but far from unusual depiction of International Law as formal texts to be enforced by judges, and whose meaning is normatively self-evident to the contributors. Because this objective is ends-driven, the writers often overlook perfectly sensible debates about the proper distribution – at least in any functioning liberal democratic society – between rule by judicial oligarchies and the prerogatives of an executive branch that is accountable to an electorate. Moreover, this perspective seems to consciously ignore or significantly discount the potential for systemic harm to judicial institutions themselves, and to their intended primary beneficiaries, those who have suffered injury from the breach of reasonably narrowly defined legal rights. Two examples illustrate the point.
Phil Shiner and Rabinder Singh perhaps rightly praise the apparent emergence in English jurisprudence of a less categorical stance against judicial review in the foreign affairs arena, and a less deferential judicial attitude to executive branch assertions of legality, but the force of their arguments would have been significantly improved by indications of their awareness of some of the complexities the judicialization of these so-called “political questions” may raise. There is, for example, in the United States a rich literature born out of experience, and while my sentiments and [*529] those of other readers may well concur with theirs, I would feel a lot more comfortable recommending these contributions if they had taken on and debunked such rather obvious shortcomings as the manipulations, not only of the definition and scope of the concept of “political question,” but even more radically, that of the concept of “standing” (or, as they say in international law, of “admissibility.” While the trade-offs may not be susceptible to easy quantification, one cannot ignore the possibility that conceptually enlarging judicial intervention may erode the frequency and nature of the grant of relief, and the respect accorded such relief.
Similarly, in his contribution, Bill Bowring labors hard to sustain an argument as to why the United Kingdom might be called under the European Convention on Human Rights to account for its activities in Iraq by the European Court of Human Rights. Either discounting or overlooking outright salient prior rulings of the Court on the reach of the Convention to activities in Iraq (one of which, SADDAM HUSSEIN v. U.K. AND OTHERS, would seem to have telegraphed the views of the Court) (Chinkin, p.173; Talmon, pp.215-216), Bowring chose to anchor his analysis on the solicitude the Court has shown for human rights claims under the Convention against the Russian and Turkish Governments. But rather than using this opportunity as a gateway for investigating or pondering why the Court seemingly has treated the latter set of claims differently from those asserted against European member states of NATO for their alleged violations of the Convention in the Balkans (BANKOVIC v. BELGIUM), or against individual European states for their alleged negligence in carrying out policing functions in the Balkans (e.g. BEHRAMI v. FRANCE, SARAMATI v. NORWAY), Bowring strains to make the quite incredulous argument that the Court’s Russian and Turkish cases, rather than those of the Balkans are applicable to the United Kingdom. The quite implausible explanation offered is that the former cases involve “wars of colonialism or imperialism.” Yet, there is not a single citation to the Court’s opinions that indicate that the members of the Court view “colonialism” or “imperialism” (unlike extraterritoriality or the implied judicial review of Security Council policy decisions) as legal criteria to be taken into account in its jurisprudence, let alone whether the Court would consider U.K. participation in the Iraq War as falling into the “colonial” or “imperial” category. The more plausible explanation for the arguments advanced in the essay is that having written a paean to the Court’s activism in seeking to make Russia account for her policies in Chechnya, Bowring simply saw the unpopularity of the United Kingdom’s participation in the Iraq war as a vehicle for lauding and encouraging the Court’s decisions on Russia. But that activism has not been an unqualified success. Among other consequences, Russia has effectively paralyzed the work of the Court by refusing to ratify fairly minor procedural changes that all agree would enhance the efficiency with which the Court carries out its work. Perhaps the Court’s activism is worth whatever roadblocks to justice it has generated for the ordinary petitioners seeking relief – Russian and non-Russian alike – but at least it behooves writers to consider such trade-offs, [*530] rather than as here blithely ignoring their existence.
The approach to the treatment of International Law as “hard law” by insistence on adjudication is not infrequently paralleled by a competing tendency to undermine the strength of the claim by situating it within a setting which, while flattering to the normative preferences of the writer, does so by ignoring the realities of politics and power in the international order. Thus, despite copious citations to formal legal documents, the commentators in the main present their claims and arguments in hypothetical (if not illusory) terms. William Schabas’ suggestion that British officials might be prosecutable under the Rome Treaty for the crime of aggression, while facially less plausible than most of the other supposedly legal claims advanced here, is in fact representative of the tenor of the arguments. Many of the contributors simply conflate the prescriptions of international law with their preferred normative international legal order. Remarkably absent from these engagements is any serious effort to confront realistically the trade-offs between formal legal rules and socio-economic and political realities that decision-makers juggle. This is not to say that the writers are unaware of these trade-offs, but they studiously avoid having to confront them, and in the process, they impoverish the ample raw material that is otherwise at their disposal. International Law, in this volume, is treated entirely as an autonomous and self-contained activity. The concern of the writers is to demonstrate how international actors, especially British officials, have fallen short of legal prescriptions, and to explain how they can be or should be chastised for their shortcomings. For those who find the core failing of International Law to be the problem of “impunity,” this kind of argumentation is doubtless morally satisfying. For those who are concerned about the interplay between International Law and other societal forces such as military power, economic resources, media culture and technocratic expertise, just to name a few, the practice of International Law, if it is to be taken seriously, must transcend the ritual rehearsal of normative preferences and prescriptive rules.
Andrew Williams, in his introduction, suggests the existence of at least five approaches to or outlooks on International Law. These he identifies as follows: First, those who place “reliance on international law as though it were a fully formed rule system.” Second, those who “look to reconcile international law with new world circumstances” by “reconcil[ing] it with practice while retaining the basic tenets of the law.” Third, “those who look to a fundamental reformation of international law, making their starting assumption that international law, or some of its significant components, is critically flawed and requires reform.” Fourth, those engaged in “tactical resistance” to International Law “by using international law and its institutions as well as domestic processes of law, advocacy networks and civil society activism in all its multiple forms.” Finally, “we might consider the development of a project of rebellion. This encompasses those determined to rebel against international law and its institutions by framing action both inside and outside its parameters, establishing alternative methods for resolving [*531] conflict and achieving justice” (pp.4-6). This is a rich and inviting menu for a book on International Law, and if the collection came anywhere close to delivering these offerings, even if ultimately unsuccessful, this would be a terrific book indeed. Unfortunately, with one exception, the constellation of essays falls at most within the first two approaches. It is true that Phil Shiner, in his contribution, does invoke litigation by “peace” activist groups (such as the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) to press his arguments about changing attitudes towards justiciability in English courts (presumably vindicating Williams’ fourth approach), but the arguments are so steeped in the formal application of conventional international legal doctrines that they overwhelm the claimed innovative methodology of “tactical resistance” by “civil society.”
The one contribution that seriously attempts to take the reader outside Williams’ realm of those who view International Law “as though it were a fully formed rule system” is placed at the back-end of the collection. This placement, whether intended or otherwise, symbolically serves to underscore the marginalization in contemporary International Law of the views espoused by the contributor, Jayan Nayar. For its distinctiveness, Nayar’s views are worth a few inches in this review.
Nayar contends that “indeterminacy prevails” in contemporary International Law, and in support of the claim identifies three distinctive schools of thought. There are the lawyers who will argue over the legality of the Iraq war by scrutinizing “the texts of relevant international treaties and varyingly determine whether such and such an act falls within the ambit of the permissions, prohibitions, discretions and obligations therein enshrined” (p.329). (This is clearly the dominant, indeed excepting Nayar, exclusive school represented in this volume). Among such lawyers, whom Nayar calls “UN Charterists,” some will find “hope” in the debate over the legality of the Iraq War because the debate suggests the relevance of international norms in constraining behavior, while others will despair because of the failure of those norms to restrain seemingly illegal behavior. The differences between these two groups is in fact not about the existence of rules, but the extent to which those rules determinately can be pressed into the service of particular ends such as “power” or “justice” (pp.333-334).
An alternative entry into International Law discourse is provided by the so-called “Third World Approach to International Law” (“TWAIL”). According to Nayar, “TWAIL-ian perspectives are grounded on a general critique of the past and continuing, colonial/imperial foundations of international law” (p.335). Proponents of TWAIL are said to have three objectives: First, “to understand, deconstruct, and unpack the issues of international law as a medium for the creation and perpetuation of a racialized hierarchy of international norms and institutions;” , to construct and present an alternative normative legal edifice for international governance; and third, to eradicate the conditions of underdevelopment in the Third World “through scholarship, policy, and politics.” While sympathetic to TWAIL’s deconstructive and critical projects, Nayar trenchantly (and I think [*532] correctly) points out that TWAIL has fallen significantly short of realizing its constructive and programmatic projects as outlined in its second and third objectives. Nayar is in fact doubtful that these objectives can ever be realized in no small measure because proponents of TWAIL, despite their desire to create a transformational international legal order, are bound up both by training and placement within that legal order. Their critiques may be on the mark, and their rhetoric vigorous, but their proposals amount to little more than changing the arrangement of the seats on the deck, and here, they will find that other competitors possess more resources with which to order the seating arrangements.
Nayar then offers up as a third alternative “Cosmopolitan Subaltern legality.” This is “law from below” supposedly rooted in “a people’s movement orientation to international law which seeks to reflect and articulate voices of the dispossessed and marginalised, out of ‘absence’ into ‘emergence’ as it were” (p.342). It is law that requires that “suffering” be taken seriously. And it is offered as a response to “imperial” and “hegemonic” International Law. The claims of this “law” are said to be grounded in such postulates as: “[w]e exist within a global system, not an international system. Any decolonisation imagination must therefore delink from the state/international duality that presupposes much political framing;” “what is traditionally regarded as international law now falls increasingly within an encapsulating global law regime where, contrary to the international legal precept of state sovereignty as the primary determinant of law, it is the global law precept of devolved management which defines the statist division of the world into legal zones of control. Any decolonisation imagination must therefore delink from the national law/international law duality that presupposes much legal framing;” and “[t]he global law system is constructed and put into effect by global legal actors,” notably “the new coordinated networks of regulation policed by national regulatory authorities,” and “the transnational regimes of global social domains exemplified by the new lex mercatoria” (pp.343-344). What this means, argues Nayar, is that International Law as a state-based regime must be rejected, apparently because the state cannot be decolonized or separated from its subservient function as the transmitter and enforcer of hegemonic interests. Legality becomes (or perhaps emerges) from the internecine struggles of “the people” against the state, and their rejection of the claimed “civilizing” mission of law (pp.345-346). The role of international lawyers, says Nayar, is to recognize and affirm the legitimacy of that struggle (p.347).
I think there is much with which to quarrel in this portrait, not the least of which is the vagueness of the affirmative program prescribed. But that is not the purpose of this review. That purpose is to point out the differences between Nayar’s arguments and those advanced elsewhere in the collection.
What then to do with this volume? Much has been written about the Iraq War, and international lawyers, as much as any other recognizable group (with the possible exception of fighting soldiers and self-exculpating politicians) have done their fair share in the wanton [*533] destruction of forests to make self-serving claims. Yet, the collection does gather in a single volume competently written essays that explore from the vantage point of British liberal legal internationalists (or, in Nayar’s phrasing “UN Charterists”) the miscues and potential liabilities of their Government in going to war in Iraq. While, as might be expected, the quality of the essays is uneven, and while none is spectacular, many – especially those that seek to address co-participant liability in International Law – provide rich material for class room discussions. I wish the writers did a bit more, such as attempting to infuse discussions of international rules with unavoidably intertwined issues in international politics or international sociology. If the bulk of this collection is representative of the claimed “middle road” between “American Voluntary” and “European Absolutist” approaches to International Law that is supposedly offered by the English, the alternative can benefit from more seasoning.
BANKOVIC v. BELGIUM AND OTHERS (App No 52207/99) 11 BHRC 435 (Judgment of 12/12/2001).
BEHRAMI v. FRANCE (App No 71412/01) (Judgment of 05/31/2007).
HUSSEIN (Saddam) v. UK AND OTHERS (App No 23276/04) 42 EHRR 16 (2006).
SARAMATI v. FRANCE, GERMANY AND NORWAY (App No 78166/01) (Judgment of 05/31/2007).
© Copyright 2009 by the author, Maxwell O. Chibundu. | <urn:uuid:8d74b060-9d0e-4953-8692-4779b5b0528b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.lpbr.net/2009/07/iraq-war-and-international-law.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00477-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947308 | 5,767 | 1.757813 | 2 |
February 14, 2019
Patients always ask questions about macular degeneration , a leading cause of blindness in Americans older than 55.
The color of your eyes gives you some indicator of your risk. The base tissue of the iris is blue in color. If your genetics call for an abundance of melanin pigment in your skin and hair, you will also develop this in your iris, which can cover up the blue. There will also be more pigment in your retina, to help protect your macula. Light colored eyes typically have less protective pigment, are more sensitive to sunlight, and more prone to macular degeneration. If both parents have light colored eyes, so will the kids. Your eye color gives some indication of where your ancestors came from.
In summary, blue-eyed or light hazel-eyed individuals sunburn more easily, and are at higher risk for macular degeneration when you are older. In a perfect world, we would have everyone wear sunscreen, not smoke, eat lots of vegetables and fruits, and wear good quality polarized sunglasses or Transitions. It is true that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!
-Dr. Chris Scholz | <urn:uuid:be57ffa8-e68a-426a-bad8-001cf479fcbb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://visioncenterpc.com/why-the-color-of-your-eyes-matter/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.935679 | 243 | 3.328125 | 3 |
Narrative Response to Poetry
The poem “A Psalm of Life”, written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, is said to have been published in 1838. Longfellow is one of the famous Fireside Poets. “A Psalm of Life” is an encouraging poem which advises the reader not to allow their lives to waste away. He attempts to establish the thought in his audience that life’s duration is considerably short.
Longfellow displays that he possesses a very deep and insightful outlook on life. Analyzing the poem further, the reader will discover that embodies a much deeper meanings in his figurative language than as it appears. One of the most prevalent figures of speech he uses personification, and he does not fail to fuse it with something insightful. For example, he personifies time as a person in the fourth stanza when he writes “Art is long, and Time is fleeting” (Longfellow 13). He describes time as “fleeting” to make readers come to the realization that life is not permanent and is instead extremely temporary.
Personification is not only method of insight, he also uses metaphors. The most powerful simile he used was when he compares life to a battlefield, saying: In the world’s broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife! (Longfellow 17-20) The “bivouac of Life” symbolizes the struggle for life, and he is telling his readers to be a “hero in the strife”, meaning one should excel and rise above in the struggle. The clear purpose of his figurative language is to keep consistent with the supportive tone of the poem. In “A Psalm of Life”, the tone and theme are closely conjoined with each other. The theme of the poem is not positive nor negative, but simply honest. He does not sugarcoat things when telling that “life is real! Life is earnest! / And the grave is not its goal” (Longfellow 5).
Longfellow simply does this to appear as if he is a close friend or family member of the reader giving them encouraging and frank advice. The overall theme of the poem is reiterated constantly throughout the poem but most clearly expressed in the sixth stanza. In that stanza, he tells his audience to “Act, — act in the living Present/ Heart within, and God o’erhead!” (Longfellow 23-24) To summarize it, he is saying do not worry about the past or the future, just live in the present and everything will fall in its place. Longfellow creates a very consistent message through his tone and theme together. After analyzing and researching this poem, one can gain some extremely insightful views on life.
Longfellow was consistent through the entire poem, and there was not even the slightest change of tone. Reading his poem was extremely uplifting even thought his tone was neither positive nor negative. One thing I have learned from reading this poem was that I must better myself and be more patient and not rush things in life. Overall, “A Psalm of Life” was very encouraging and makes the reader feel like they are talking to someone close rather than a poet they have never met. | <urn:uuid:6b1bd485-fe37-4d50-9a16-08a791060c93> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://acasestudy.com/narrative-response-to-poetry/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.978176 | 699 | 3.546875 | 4 |
Does it snow in Rome? This is a question that many people ask, as they wonder if the Eternal City is blanketed in a layer of crisp white snow each winter. The answer, however, is a bit complicated. While it does occasionally snow in Rome, it is not a common occurrence.
In general, Rome experiences much milder winters than other parts of the world, with average temperatures remaining above freezing throughout the season. As a result, snow is not a common sight in Rome. However, that doesn’t mean that you’ll never see flakes falling from the sky. If you’re lucky enough to be in Rome when it snows, you’ll be treated to a truly magical experience.
Read Also: Does It Snow In Turkey
Winter In Rome:
It can be a magical time. The city comes alive with lights and decorations, and the holiday spirit is everywhere. For visitors, it’s a great time to explore the city’s many world-famous sights. The Colosseum and the Roman Forum are particularly stunning when they’re illuminated at night.
Winter is also a great time for shopping, as Rome’s many boutiques and markets are full of festive gifts and decorations. And of course, no visit to Rome would be complete without indulging in some of the city’s world-famous cuisine. From hearty stews to rich desserts, there’s something for everyone to enjoy. So whether you’re looking for history, culture, or simply good food, Winter in Rome is the perfect time to visit.
Read Also: Does It Snow In Phoenix
Snowfall In Rome:
The last snowfall in Rome happened in 2012 after 30 years. It was a surreal and once-in-a-lifetime experience for many of the city’s residents. The snow started falling early in the morning and continued throughout the day. By the afternoon, the snow had turned to slush and ice, making travel treacherous. Nonetheless, many people ventured out to enjoy the rare spectacle.
They built snowmen, sledded down hills, and threw snowballs at one another. For a few brief hours, Rome felt like a winter wonderland. But alas, all good things must come to an end. The snow stopped falling late in the evening, and by morning it had all melted away. Though it was fleeting, the snowfall was a reminder that even in a city as old as Rome, sometimes something new can happen.
Read Also: Does It Snow In Antarctica
Climate Change In Rome:
There are a number of reasons why Rome has seen less snow in recent years. One reason is climate change. As the average temperature has risen, snow has become less likely to fall. In addition, much of the snow that does fall melts quickly due to the warmer temperatures.
Another factor is the city’s urban heat island effect. The vast majority of Rome is covered in pavement and concrete, which absorbs heat during the day and radiates it back at night. This makes the city several degrees warmer than surrounding rural areas, making it less likely to see snowfall.
Finally, changes in wind patterns have also contributed to the decline in snowfall. In the past, cold air from the north would push warm air from the south upwards, creating conditions ripe for snowfall. However, these patterns have shifted in recent years, meaning that Rome is now more likely to experience milder weather.
Read Also: Does It Snow In Raleigh Nc?
Amazing Things To Do During Winters In Rome:
The winter season in Rome can be cold and dreary, but there are still plenty of fun activities to enjoy!
- Throw A Coin In The Fontana Di Trevi:
Many people believe that if you throw a coin into the Fontana, you will be granted a wish. The Fontana di Trevi, or “Trevi Fountain,” is one of the most famous fountains in the world. It is located in Rome, Italy, and was built in the 18th century.
It is made of travertine stone, and its design is inspired by classical Roman architecture. The fountain has become a symbol of Rome, and it is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the city. Every day, hundreds of people throw coins into the fountain.
Legend has it that if you throw a coin into the fountain, your will visit Rome again. Many people believe that this legend originated from an old Italian folktale.
Read Also: Does It Snow In The UK?
- Explore The Coliseum:
It is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Rome. It is a large amphitheater that was built during the height of the Roman Empire. Today, it is one of the most well-preserved Roman ruins in the world.
The Explore is primarily known for its role in hosting gladiatorial games and other public spectacles. It was also used for a variety of other purposes, such as public executions and animal hunts. It is thought to have been capable of seating up to 80,000 spectators.
- Visit Piazza Navona:
Piazza Navona is one of Rome’s most iconic squares and a must-see for any first-time visitor. The square is home to three stunning fountains, as well as a number of cafes and restaurants.
It’s also a great place to people-watch, as locals and tourists alike flock to the square to enjoy the atmosphere. Visit in the early morning to see the fountains at their best, or in the evening when the square is lit up with fairy lights. However you choose to visit, Piazza Navona is sure to take your breath away.
- Climb The Spanish Steps:
It is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Rome. Built-in the early 18th century, the Spanish Steps were designed by architects Francesco de Sanctis and Alessandro Specchi. The monumental staircase consists of 138 steps and leads up to the church of Trinita Dei Monti.
Read Also: Does it Snow in February in New York
Visitors can enjoy stunning views of Rome from the top of the steps. While climbing the steps is not required, it is a popular activity for tourists and locals alike. Those who choose to make the climb will be rewarded with an incredible sense of accomplishment. Just be sure to take your time and enjoy the journey!
- See the Sistine Chapel:
The Sistine Chapel is one of the most famous works of art in the world. Located within the Vatican Museums, it features intricate frescoes by Michelangelo on its ceiling and walls. Even if you’re not a huge art fan, it’s an amazing sight to behold.
- Ice Skating In Rome:
Ice skating is a popular pastime in Rome, especially during the winter months. There are several Ice skating rinks located throughout the city, and many locals enjoy spending time skating with friends and family.
Ice skating is a great way to stay active and enjoy the outdoors, and it can be a fun way to explore the city. Rome offers a variety of ice skating experiences, from leisurely skating around one of the city’s many parks to more adrenaline-pumping activities like Ice hockey. No matter what your skating level, there is an opportunity to enjoy Ice skating in Rome.
- Celebrations & Festivals In Rome In Winter:
Celebrations and festivals are a big part of what makes winter in Rome so special. From mid-December to early January, the city comes alive with a festive atmosphere. One of the most popular celebrations is the Feast of the Seven Fishes, which is a traditional Italian Christmas Eve dinner.
Other popular festivities include the New Year’s Eve celebration at the Colosseum and the Epiphany celebration in January. The Epiphany celebration is particularly special, as it marks the end of the holiday season and features a traditional parade with floats and costumed characters. No matter what you’re looking for, you’re sure to find something to enjoy during winter in Rome.
Although Rome is experiencing an unusual snowless winter, that has not stopped Romans from enjoying all the city has to offer. From museum visits to outdoor ice skating, there are plenty of activities to keep people busy and entertained this season. So if you’re looking for a warm-weather getaway that’s still full of culture and charm, look no further than Rome! | <urn:uuid:09483177-0563-41f5-b9e1-c0dc103b7730> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://destinationscanner.com/does-it-snow-in-rome/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.965243 | 1,770 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Here’s a shocker: The majority of people who contact Congress do not believe lawmakers are interested in what they have to say. Nevertheless, driven by online advocacy campaigns, people are writing to their lawmakers in record numbers.
In fact, according to a new report (PDF) by the CMF (Congressional Management Foundation), almost half of voting age Americans (44 percent) contacted a U.S. senator or representative in the past five years. Among the Internet users who sent a message to Congress, 84 percent were asked to by a third party such as an advocacy group.
Just four years ago, a similar survey showed only 18 percent of voting age Americans had contacted their lawmakers.
“We found the Internet has contributed to millions more people learning about, and joining in, policy debates that used to be conducted by those operating inside the Beltway,” said Beverly Bell, executive director of the nonprofit CMF. “These people are politically aware and politically active, and communicating with them should be a priority for every member of Congress.”
But it’s not. Why? It’s really hard for any lawmaker’s staff to deal with, say, the million e-mails that arrived this morning. All say the same thing; all demand the same vote for or against an issue. Even the CMF admits, “The constituent expectation for on-demand, online information can place a strain on many congressional offices already struggling with resource limitations and communications strategies designed for old media.”
When lawmakers do respond, constituents are unhappy with the results, according to the CMF report. The most common reasons given for dissatisfaction were that the response did not address their concerns (64 percent) and that it was too politically biased (51 percent).
So, in summary, the same technology that empowers millions to mass e-mail form letters to lawmakers also drives members of Congress to mass e-mail boilerplate responses to constituents in return. This is what we call a push.
Little wonder, then, that Congress’ approval rating is somewhere south of the Mendoza Line. | <urn:uuid:e7c4e6e0-b8e2-46d6-b1c1-4c5d87e3d9f3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.eweek.com/news/e-mailing-congress-for-no-reason/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.965131 | 435 | 1.945313 | 2 |
The standard flooded battery is the most common type of auto battery.
It provides power to reliably start your vehicle and provide power for standard vehicle electrical accessory loads.
A standard flooded battery is designed to supply power to the starter and ignition system to start the engine.
- 1 Are all car batteries 12 volt?
- 2 What is the best type of car battery?
- 3 What type of battery is a lead acid battery?
- 4 How much does a car battery cost?
- 5 How do you deep charge a car battery?
- 6 How many amps are in a 12 volt car battery?
- 7 Are car batteries 12v or 24v?
- 8 What AMP is a car battery?
- 9 What brand of car battery lasts the longest?
- 10 How many years do car batteries last?
- 11 What can drain a car battery when the car is off?
Are all car batteries 12 volt?
The standard automotive battery in today’s vehicles is a 12-volt battery. Each battery has six cells, each with 2.1 volts at full charge. A car battery is considered fully charged at 12.6 volts or higher.
What is the best type of car battery?
The Best Car Battery:
- Optima Batteries RedTop 34/78.
- ACDelco Advantage AGM Automotive BCI Group 51 Battery.
- Odyssey PC680 Battery.
- Mighty Max ML35-12 Battery.
- Optima Batteries D35 Dual Purpose Battery.
- ACDelco 47AGM Professional AGM Automotive Battery.
- Soundquest Power Battery AGM Design.
What type of battery is a lead acid battery?
Flooded Lead Acid batteries are the most commonly found lead acid battery type and are widely used in the automotive industry. They provide the most cost effective solution, as the least cost per amp hour, of any lead acid battery type. The modern wet cell comes in two styles; serviceable and maintenance free.
How much does a car battery cost?
According to CostHelper, a typical car battery costs between $50 and $120, while premium batteries cost $90 to $200. Service providers on Angie’s List that we spoke with say the average battery cost runs in the $75 to $120 range. Several factors affect the cost, such as battery type. There are about 40 types available.
How do you deep charge a car battery?
Tech Tips 3: How do I recover a deeply-discharged battery? –
How many amps are in a 12 volt car battery?
How many amps does a 12-volt car battery have? A typical car battery with 12 volts rating has a capacity of 48 Ah. It means that when fully charged, the battery can deliver one amp for 48 hours, two amps for 24 hours and so on.
Are car batteries 12v or 24v?
Most cars as 12V ans most but not all trucks are 12V unless you have an older vehicle or a military or special purpose vehicle. Two batteries does NOT mean you have a 24V vehicle, it might me that you do but it depends on what that second battery is used for an how it is wired.
What AMP is a car battery?
An average car battery has a capacity of around 48 amp hours which means that, fully charged, it delivers 1 amp for 48 hours, 2 amps for 24 hours, 8 amps for 6 hours and so on.
What brand of car battery lasts the longest?
Best Rated Car Batteries for Long Lasting Performance 2019
- Optima 8020-164 35 RedTop.
- Exide Edge AGM Sealed Battery.
- Odyssey PC680.
- ACDelco 94RAGM Professional.
How many years do car batteries last?
Under these conditions, you can probably expect your car battery life to be about six years. On average, a car battery lasts between two and five years. If you live in the northern United States, your car battery lifespan will be longer, because you’re in a cold climate.
What can drain a car battery when the car is off?
The most common causes of parasitic drain are under hood lights, trunk lights, headlights or glove box lights that do not turn off when the door is closed. Relay switches that are stuck in the “on” position can also cause a battery to drain. Alternators with bad diodes can cause battery drain.
Photo in the article by “Openphoto.net” | <urn:uuid:bf8e16b4-cfb2-4268-add3-efc7b0126143> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://stretchmaster.co.nz/council-of-experts/what-kind-of-battery-is-a-car-battery/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.928168 | 960 | 2.015625 | 2 |
I have been in this industry for almost 20 years. March 2, 2012 will be my 20th year, to be exact. I have never been in the mainframe era, dabbled a bit in the mini computers era during my university days and managed to ride the wave of client-server, Internet explosion in the beginning WWW days, the dot-com crash, and now Cloud Computing.
In that 20 years, I have seen the networking wars (in which TCP/IP and Cisco prevailed), the OS wars and the Balkanization of Unix (Windows NT came out the winner), the CPU wars (SPARC, PowerPC, in which x86 came out tops) and now data and storage. Yet, the last piece of the IT industry has yet to begun or has it?
In the storage wars, it was pretty much the competition between NAS and SAN and religious groups of storage in the early 2000s but now that I have been in the storage networking industry for a while, every storage vendor are beginning to look pretty much the same for me, albeit some slight differentiating factors once in a while.
In the wars that I described, there is a vendor for the product(s) that are peddled but what about memory? We never question what brand of memory we put in our servers and storage, do we? In the enterprise world, it has got to be ECC, DDR2/3 memory DIMMs and that’s about it. Why????
Even in server virtualization, the RAM and the physical or virtual memory are exactly just that – memory! Sure VMware differentiates them with a cool name called vRAM, but the logical and virtual memory is pretty much confined to what’s inside the physical server.
In clustering, architectures such as SMP and NUMA, do use shared memory. Oracle RAC shares its hosts memory for the purpose of Oracle database scalability and performance. Such aggregated memory architectures in one way or another, serves the purpose of the specific applications’ functionality rather than having the memory shared in a pool for all general applications.
What if some innovative company came along, and decided to do just that? Pool all the physical memory of all servers into a single, cohesive and integrated memory pool and every application of each of the server can use the “extended” memory in an instance, without some sort of clustering software or parallel database. One company has done it using RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) and their concept is shown below:
I am a big fan of RDMA ever since NetApp came out with DAFS some years ago, and I only know a little bit about RDMA because I didn’t spend a lot of time on it. But I know RDMA’s key strength in networking and when this little company called RNA Networks news came up using RDMA to create a Memory Cloud, it piqued my interest.
RNA innovated with their Memory Virtualization Acceleration (MVX) and this is layered on top of 10Gigabit Ethernet or Infiniband networks with RDMA. Within the MVX, there are 2 components of interest – RNAcache and RNAmessenger. This memory virtualization technology allows hundreds of server nodes to lend their memory into the Memory Cloud, thus creating a very large and very scalable memory pool.
RNA Networks then plunks a messaging engine, an API layer, and a pointer updating algorithm on top of the global shred memory infrastructure, with the net effect that all nodes in the cluster see the global shared memory as their own main memory. The RNA code keeps the memory coherent across the server, giving all the benefits of an SMP or NUMA server without actually lashing the CPUs on each machine together tightly so they can run one copy of the operating system.
The performance gains, as claimed by RNA Networks, was enormous. In a test published, running MVX had a significant performance gain over SSDs, as shown in the results below:
This test was done in 2009/2010, so there were no comparisons with present day server-side PCIe Flash cards such as FusionIO. But even without these newer technologies, the performance gains were quite impressive.
In a previous version of 2.5, the MVX technology introduced 3 key features:
- Memory Cache
- Memory Motion
- Memory Store
The Memory Cache, as the name implied, turned the memory pool into a cache for NAS and file systems that are linked to the server. At the time, the NAS protocol supported was only NFS. The cache stored frequently accessed data sets used by the servers. Each server could have simultaneous access to the data set in the pool and MVX would be handling the contention issues.
The Memory Motion feature gives OSes and physical servers (including hypervisors) access to shared pools of memory that acts as a giant swap device during page out/swap out scenarios.
Lastly, the Memory Store was the most interesting for me. It turned the memory pool into a collection of virtual block device and was similar to the concept of RAMdisks. These RAMdisks extended very fast disks to the server nodes and the OSes, and one server node can mount multiple instances of these virtual RAMdisks. Similarly multiple server nodes can mount a single virtual RAMdisk for shared disk reasons.
The RNA Networks MVX scales hundreds of server nodes and supported architectures such as 32/64 bit x86, PowerPC, SPARC and Itanium. At the time, the MVX was available for Unix and Linux only.
The technology that RNA Networks was doing was a perfect example of how RDMA can be implemented. Before this, memory was just memory but this technology takes the last bastion of IT – the memory – out into the open. As the Cloud Computing matures, memory is going to THE component that defines the next leap forward, which is to make the Cloud work like one giant computer. Extending the memory and incorporating memory both on-premise, on the host side as well as memory in the cloud, into a fast, low latency memory pool would complete the holy grail of Cloud Computing as one giant computer.
RNA Networks was quietly acquired by Dell in July 2011 for an undisclosed sum and got absorbed into Dell Fluid Architecture’s grand scheme of things. One blog, Juku, captured an event from Dell Field Tech Day back in 2011, and it posted:
The leitmotiv here is "Fluid Data". This tagline, that originally was used by Compellent (the term was coined by one of the earlier Italian Compellent customer), has been adopted for all the storage lineup, bringing the fluid concept to the whole Dell storage ecosystem, by integrating all the acquired tech in a single common platform: Ocarina will be the dedupe engine, Exanet will be the scale-out NAS engine, RNA networks will provide an interesting cache coherency technology to the mix while both Equallogic and Compellent have a different targeted automatic tiering solution for traditional block storage.
Dell is definitely quietly building something and this could go on for some years. But for the author to quote – “Ocarina will be the dedupe engine, Exanet will be the scale-out NAS engine; RNA Networks will provide cache coherency technology … ” mean that Dell is determined to out-innovate some of the storage players out there.
How does it all play in Dell’s Fluid Architecture? Here’s a peek:
It will be interesting how to see how RNA Networks technology gels the Dell storage technologies together but one thing’s for sure. Memory will be the last bastion that will cement Cloud Computing into an IT foundation of the next generation. | <urn:uuid:e5e1aaec-6b35-4597-9698-edc64831cfb1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://storagegaga.com/tag/memory-cloud/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.947067 | 1,609 | 2.015625 | 2 |
PUTRAJAYA: The Health Ministry has uncovered five new Covid-19 clusters, bringing the number of active clusters nationwide to 428.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the Jalan Kampung Hilir cluster and Nanga Bulo cluster in Sarawak and the Banggol Chicha cluster in Kelantan are categorised as community outbreaks.
He added that the Jalan Sanyan cluster in Sarawak and Jalan Taiping cluster in Kuala Lumpur are classified as workplace clusters.
Dr Noor Hisham said the Jalan Sanyan outbreak is linked to workers at a supermarket in Sibu.
“The index case tested positive for Covid-19 on March 4 and a total of 19 individuals had to undergo screening. As of March 16, all 19 who were screened tested positive, ” said Dr Noor Hisham.
The Jalan Taiping cluster is linked to workers at a public administration centre in Kuala Lumpur.
“The index case of this cluster displayed symptoms before testing positive for Covid-19 on March 10. So far, 137 individuals have been tested and eight positive cases have been found under this cluster, ” he said. | <urn:uuid:057b7198-0a69-40c0-97c7-57564ef066e2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://covid19.uthm.edu.my/2021/03/16/covid-19-five-new-clusters-identified-bringing-total-number-nationwide-to-428/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.918979 | 307 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Canadian regulators have completed the third and final pre-licensing review for Candu Energy's Enhanced Candu 6 (EC6) reactor design, clearing the way for the reactor to be licensed in Canada. Earlier phase reviews for Westinghouse's AP1000 and Atmea's Atmea1 have also been completed.
|EC6 is envisaged as a twin-unit power plant (Image: Candu Energy)
In an executive summary of the EC6 third review, national regulator the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) confirmed that there are no fundamental barriers to the licensing of the EC6 design in Canada.
The CNSC's three-stage pre-licensing review is an optional process provided at the request of vendors to verify that a power plant design would be acceptable with respect to Canadian nuclear regulatory requirements and expectations. Although it is not a required part of the licensing process for a new nuclear power plant, the regulator itself notes that the results, particularly of the second phase review, would be taken into account for any construction licence application and would be likely to result in increased efficiencies of technical reviews.
The EC6 is a 700 MWe Generation III reactor based on the Candu 6 reactor, with safety enhancements to meet the latest Canadian and international standards. Candu Energy chief nuclear engineer Frank Yee said the completion of the review process for the EC6 marked the "next chapter" for nuclear power in Canada, and described the design as "the future of nuclear power generation".
Candu Energy senior vice-president Ala Alizadeh said that the successful Canadian design review would open up international opportunities. "The CNSC review can serve as the reference for international regulators to accelerate licensing in their countries," he noted.
Candu Energy says it is currently pursuing opportunities to build the EC6 in Argentina, Romania and China. In 2012, Candu Energy proposed the deployment of the EC6 in the UK, as part of a possible course of action for managing the country's plutonium stocks as mixed oxide (MOX) fuel, although the design has not yet been submitted for the UK's own regulatory reactor design approval process. The reactor is also under consideration alongside the AP1000 as a possible choice for new units at Darlington in Ontario.
The EC6 now joins Candu Energy's ACR1000, which completed the CNSC's pre-licensing design review process in January 2011. As well as the third phase review for the EC6, the Canadian regulator has also announced the completion of the second phase review for Westinghouse's AP1000 and the first phase review for Atmea's Atmea1. Babcock & Wilcox's mPower small modular reactor is also undergoing the pre-licensing review process, with the first phase due to be completed late this year.
Researched and written
by World Nuclear News | <urn:uuid:aefc429d-13cd-4390-b996-619d97adcd50> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS-Enhanced_Candu_secures_regulatory_approval-2706137.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00162-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949319 | 581 | 1.765625 | 2 |
It is all but impossible to be a cloud CEO giving a keynote speech and not frame your discussion around the impact of Covid-19. As your event is virtual, caused by the pandemic, and powered by cloud, thoughts naturally turn to what will remain from the ‘new normal’ – and what needs to change.
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, put forward his five-step plan for the next generation of innovation in the cloud. AI, edge and even blockchain featured heavily – along with a smattering of some of his old hits. “We will need to foundationally transform how cloud can drive the next level of broad economic growth that everyone can participate in,” said Nadella.
This fits in with a theory of cloud driving the next wave of emerging technologies. Pat Gelsinger, recently appointed CEO of Intel, has a theory around technology being a virtuous circle. Cloud can enable 5G; 5G creates more data; more data makes AI better; AI enables more edge use cases; and more edge needs more cloud. Looking at it as the cloud powering all use cases, as Nadella does here, is equally valid.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning fit into this nicely. “In the AI we create, using all this enormous power of the cloud, we will look for increasing levels of predictive and analytical power, common sense reasoning, alignment with human preferences and, perhaps most importantly, augmenting human capability,” said Nadella.
This was part of a wider theme around ‘sovereign data and ambient intelligence’, one of the five steps. “The volume, variety and velocity of data will go through explosive growth in the cloud and, in particular, at the edge,” said Nadella. “In this world, data will be more private, more sovereign.
“We will develop new methods of federated machine learning to drive the next generation of personalised and yet privacy preserving services,” he added.
Ethical principles need to govern the design, development, and deployment of AI, Nadella added. This comment can be asssessed not just in terms of the goings on at Google right now – as sister publication AI News has comprehensively reported – but also environmental concerns. Microsoft and Google have certainly been interested parties on this front.
Don’t be mistaken however: Nadella’s theory also takes into account how emerging technologies work better in concert. His first attribute was around ubiquitous and decentralised computing, for which cloud and edge will evolve to meet its demands.
“We are going through a radical change in computing architecture, from the materials to semiconductors to the systems, from the cloud to its edge,” said Nadella. “The result of all this will be continued exponential growth in compute capacity. However, we are at peak centralisation right now. As physical and digital worlds converge, we will require more sovereignty and decentralised control.”
One technology which Microsoft appears to be banking on as a cloud-powered option is mixed reality. Perhaps the most eye-catching announcement at Ignite was its Mesh mixed reality collaboration platform. It allows people in different physical locations to join collaborative and shared holographic experiences across various devices. Alex Kipman, technical fellow at Microsoft, appeared on the Ignite virtual stage as a holoportation.
The promise of edge is one which continues to tantalise. With this in mind, one announcement which Microsoft made at Ignite this week was the launch of Azure Percept in public preview. Its goal is to give customers a single, end-to-end system to make the most of edge opportunities.
This can include “elevators that respond to voice commands, cameras that notify store managers when to restock shelves, and video streams that keep tabs on everything from cash register lines to parking space availability,” in the words of a Microsoft blog.
Note that the examples above, while not exclusive, can all apply in the context of retail. Microsoft launched industry clouds for finance, manufacturing and non-profit last month, but alongside that, announced a public preview roadmap for Microsoft Cloud for Retail.
This is a clear strategic target for Azure. Regular readers of this publication will recall Walmart and Albertsons among other retailers moving to Microsoft. With AWS as part of Amazon, the latter all but admitted it didn’t want to spent money with a competitor.
Nadella spoke of ‘trust by design’ as another building block of innovation. “Fundamentally, a technology provider should succeed only when it helps the world around it succeed,” he said. “No one wants to build technology that rapidly scales but breaks the world around us, and no customer wants to be dependent on a provider that sells them technology on one end and competes with them on the other.”
A veiled reference to AWS and the retail sector? You be the judge. The theme of empowering customers to become technology companies in their own right, a well-worn one under Nadella, also made its mark.
“Every organisation will need to harness these attributes to build their own digital tech intensity so they can create proprietary technology required to generate durable competitive advantage,” he added. “These cloud advances are what will enable every organisation, in every sector, to create that broad economic surplus in every community, in every country.”
You can catch up with the highlights from Microsoft Ignite here.
Interested in hearing industry leaders discuss subjects like this and sharing their experiences and use-cases? Attend the Cyber Security & Cloud Expo World Series with upcoming events in Silicon Valley, London and Amsterdam to learn more. | <urn:uuid:bba4f6d9-4276-4fcd-84c9-df2c83e3e74b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cloudcluster.com.au/2021/03/04/satya-nadellas-microsoft-ignite-keynote-speech-analysed-cloud-driving-digital-transformation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.949986 | 1,184 | 1.921875 | 2 |
— Visit DECTRIS Ltd. at RSNA 2015, North Hall B booth 6556 —
Chicago (USA), November 30, 2015 — DECTRIS Ltd. has announced its Hybrid Photon Counting (HPC) technology based on the newest IBEX ASIC platform for X-ray medical imaging equipment. Hybrid Photon Counting technology is enabling original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to transform X-ray medical imaging, from computerized tomography (CT) to digital breast mammography (DBT).
DECTRIS’ pioneering HPC detection technology, powered by the new IBEX ASIC platform, outperforms current technical standards — and delivers the best possible image quality based on single X-ray detection, highest sensitivity and lowest dose. Hybrid Photon Counting technology provides:
- Lowest possible dose — achieving the best signal-to-noise ratio via a noise-free detection with a high dynamic range and no dark current
- Radiation-hardness for ultimate long-term stability — via a specific design
- Very high frame rates — via dedicated ASIC and electronics
- Native spectral information for color X-ray imaging — via energy discrimination
- Almost perfect spatial resolution — via direct detection
Previously, X-ray detection in medical imaging has mainly relied on the indirect methods utilized by traditional integrating detectors lacking energy discrimination. Not only does the new IBEX ASIC sense every single photon in an X-ray, but it also provides the flexibility of two readout modes: A high resolution mode to detect subtle details and a spectral one to add color information to grey-scale radiology.
For OEMs, pairing Hybrid Photon Counting with advanced new X-ray medical imaging instruments and analysis algorithms, the additional spectral information will open up a new dimension in specificity.
DECTRIS is the world’s acknowledged leader in HPC detection, having produced more than 8,000 HPC detector modules to date — far more than any other source — for a variety of applications in science and industry.
As the leader, DECTRIS empowers medical imaging OEMs to shift the radiology into the era of native spectral X-ray imaging. The HPC proposition of geometrical accuracy, image quality, sensitivity at highest spectral fidelity will pave the way to precision medicine in a cost effective and safe way. Improved diagnostics (detection, characterization) based on existing contrast agents and new targeted biomarkers, will ultimately enable the logging of therapy responses.
For more information, visit DECTRIS Ltd. at RSNA 2015 in North Hall booth 6556. Or visit the DECTRIS website at http://medical.dectris.com or call +41.56.500.2180
As the technology leader in X-ray detection, DECTRIS aims to continuously improve measurement quality to enable new findings and innovative results in science, industry, and medicine. DECTRIS X-ray detectors make optimum use of the company’s pioneering Hybrid Photon Counting (HPC) technology. It has transformed basic research at synchrotron light sources, as well as in laboratory and industrial X-ray applications worldwide. For more information, visit http://medical.dectris.com or call +41.56.500.2180. | <urn:uuid:f864d233-da1a-4419-ad91-3442b3af3160> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.tizinc.com/newsblog/index.php/category/technology/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00440-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.869944 | 667 | 1.671875 | 2 |
A conversation between Ron Rosenbaum and Lee Siegel, contributors to New Threats to Freedom, and Michael Goodwin, the New York Post
Is the Cyber Mob a Threat to Freedom?
Today's challenges to individual and public liberty are "much less visible and obvious than they were in the 20th century and may even appear in the guise of social and political progress," writes Adam Bellow in his introduction to New Threats to Freedom, an essay collection that he has edited for the Templeton Press. Indeed, Bellow suggests, the danger often lies precisely in our "failure or reluctance to notice them."
According to Ron Rosenbaum and Lee Siegel, in their provocative contributions to the volume, the extraordinary advances made possible by the Internet have come at a sometimes worrisome cost. Rosenbaum focuses on how online anonymity has become a mask encouraging political discourse that is increasingly distorted by vitriol, abuse, and thuggishness. Siegel argues that the Internet has undermined long-established standards of excellence, promoting participation and popularity over talent and originality. Both writers warn against the growing influence of what Siegel calls "interactive mobs."
Ron Rosenbaum is a culture columnist for Slate and the author of seven books, including The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars; Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origin of His Evil; and The Secret Parts of Fortune, a collection of his essays and reporting, which have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, the New Yorker, the New York Observer, and other publications.
Lee Siegel is culture columnist for the New York Observer and has written about culture and politics for numerous publications, including Harper's, the Atlantic Monthly, and the New Yorker. He was the television critic for the New Republic, where he was also a senior editor, and is the author of, most recently, Against the Machine: How the Web Is Reshaping Commerce and Culture and Why It Matters.
Michael Goodwin is the chief political columnist for the New York Post, writing on national, international, and New York issues. Before joining the Post in 2009, he was the political columnist for the New York Daily News. Goodwin also served as the Daily News’ executive editor and editorial page editor. In 1999, he led the editorial board to its first Pulitzer Prize in 58 years for a series of editorials revealing corruption at the famed Apollo Theatre. | <urn:uuid:472f5729-2156-4133-8aa8-874655969999> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.templeton.org/signature-programs/templeton-book-forum/conversations/authors-ron-rosenbaum-and-lee-siegel-in-conversation-with-michael-goodwin | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00457-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949366 | 481 | 1.828125 | 2 |
- Account Executive (Sales)
- Account Manager (Advertising)
- Banking Analyst
- Chartered Accountant
- Chemical Engineer
- Civil Engineer
- Communications Officer
- Content Writer
- Electrical Engineer
- Estate Agent
- Events Marketing Executive
- Graphic Designer
- Hardware Engineer
- Human Resources Advisor
- Insurance Broker
- Insurance Underwriter
- IT Consultant
- Logistics Manager
- Management Consultant
- Marketing Executive
- Mechanical Engineer
- Media Planner
- Office Manager
- Public Relations Executive
- Quantity Surveyor
- Recruitment Consultant
- Retail Manager
- SEO Executive
- Software Engineer
- Systems Analyst
- Tax Advisor
Mechanical Engineers harness a range of scientific, engineering and mathematical disciplines to develop products, designs and processes.
Mechanical Engineers apply their broad understanding of a range of scientific, mathematical and engineering subjects and apply them to the development of processes, products and designs of all shapes, sizes and applications. Mechanical Engineering is broad field, requiring the Engineers themselves to have a wealth of knowledge and competencies in different fields.
Graduate Mechanical Engineers can work on anything from engines and machinery to construction products and even medical designs. The breadth of the work undertaken in a Mechanical Engineering career can be fascinating and an exciting project for prospective graduates to envisage. They can also be involved in the application and development of new materials and new technologies.
One thing to remember for graduates considering a career in Mechanical Engineering is that their degree is very important. While the variations of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering degrees can be quite broad and specialist, graduates will need to have a relevant degree to pursue a career in this area. This is because of the excessive demands placed on the variety of knowledge and understanding that Mechanical Engineers need to apply on a daily basis.
Mechanical Engineer Salaries
The average starting salary for a graduate Mechanical Engineer is £24,765. This is a fantastic starting salary for graduates to earn and will only grow as graduates specialise or progress up the ranks at an organisation. The comparison also shows that graduate Mechanical Engineers earn similar salaries to other Engineering disciplines
In a field like Mechanical Engineering, graduates can also gain Chartered Status which will only increase their earning power and add to career progression. This is something that can be offered as part of a Graduate Scheme or early employment.
The Daily Duties of a Mechanical Engineer
Mechanical Engineers tend to operate on a project-by-project basis, this means there daily duties can vary day to day and month to month, depending on their responsibilities on the project and the status of the project. This can be exciting for graduates looking for a career that is constantly developing and always changing. Here are few of the daily duties graduates can expect to do as a Mechanical Engineer:
- Conducting research - Before embarking on any project or design, Mechanical Engineers need to put days, weeks and sometimes months' worth of research into the project. This is ensuring they are have a full understanding of how a certain development will work or how it will be installed, any environmental factors will be taken into account. This is also to ensure they fully understand the science, engineering and mathematical practices that might apply too.
- Developing designs - This is the main focus of a Mechanical Engineer's time and day. They are focused on applying a range of scientific, mathematical and engineering concepts to products and designs. This could include anything from thermodynamics to machinery and everything in between. Graduates will be required to draw on their wealth of knowledge to succeed in developing designs.
- Project Management - Mechanical Engineers can be required to manage projects that they are leading on. This will involve a range of delegation, organisation, communication and team working skills. Project management may also involve Mechanical Engineers working 'in the field', whether this is building sites, docks or anywhere their skills are in demand.
- Reviewing performance - Mechanical Engineers are required to develop and produce these designs, products or processes, but they can also be required to review the effectiveness of certain products or processes. This might be to improve output, efficiency, old technology or other areas of improvement that might be necessary.
- Testing - Some of the work that Mechanical Engineers undertake can be highly dangerous and so it is vitally important that they test and make sure products are safe for the public. This is also to make sure that they work too and the client or organisation is getting the specified process or product.
Graduate Careers in Mechanical Engineering can be extremely exciting and varied for the graduates who have the necessary skills and understanding to make careers in this field. The rewards are also there for graduates who can not only earn fantastic salaries, but get the opportunity to work on some cutting edge projects.
Mechanical Engineer Related Jobs
Competitive plus benefitsNationwideSep-2017
£27,500 to £28,500 plus benefitsNationwideVarious
£28,000 plus benefitsNationwideSep-2017 | <urn:uuid:bc375770-2c32-4235-9bf0-7ec168886dff> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.graduate-jobs.com/gco/job-descriptions/mechanical-engineer | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00136-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941141 | 1,006 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Young Rabbit would like to know why the sky is blue. In fact Rabbit wants to know everything. His old friend, Donkey, who knows lots of things, promises to teach him. But maybe Rabbit can teach wise Donkey a thing or two as well?
- Limba : Engleza
- Data Publicarii : 03 Aug 2006
- Format : Paperback
- Numar pagini : 32
- ISBN : 9781842705896 | <urn:uuid:0e85d5ed-4687-41ea-826f-003da9e8b77b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.okian.ro/why-is-the-sky-blue-9781842705896.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00454-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.877056 | 92 | 1.851563 | 2 |
The Quirky Pivot Power Junior is a US-plug standard power strip that is designed for plugging in large, unwieldy brick adapters. It also looks rather neat, as it conforms to other object’s contours.
Beyond that, it’s a bendable power strip. There’s not a significant difference between this and any other power strip on the market, other than this can save you some space and can look nice when laid out around a lamp base (such as in the picture on the right).
At it’s most extreme bend, the Pivot Power Junior can almost make a perfect U shape, which is required if you’ve got huge biscuit block adapters to plug in next to each other. The plugs are spaced farther apart than a standard power strip, which makes things pretty easy to plug in. However, if you’ve got massive biscuit block adapters like I do, then you have to get creative with anything you do.
One of the things I found I didn’t like about the design of the Pivot Power Junior was the plugs: while they rotate slightly with the segment they’re attached to, they will not rotate in-socket. This leads to interesting shaping requirements when you’re dealing with a bunch of quirky adapters, such as my massive Labtec adapter, my Airave plug, my router’s adapter, and the USB-2 hub power brick. These four adapters took up an eight-socket power strip by themselves, with one of the blocks laying over the power switch. While the Pivot Power Junior managed to handle that, it still required some arching to make it work.
Additionally, the four-socket Pivot Power Junior is a good inch longer than my $4.99 generic six-outlet power strip, so you would think there would be no requirements to bend – at least in my case there was, though.
The Pivot Power Junior is a fine little power strip, but it does not pivot quite enough to make it amazing (such as being able to bend completely in a circle). With the increased size and decreased plugs over a standard outlet strip, it really doesn’t save space.
It is, however, the strip to have if you want to wrap around the couture of a lamp base or other rounded base. If you don’t have a rounded or oddly shaped place you need a power strip, this probably isn’t for you.
The Quirky Pivot Power Junior is available for $19.99 from Amazon. | <urn:uuid:96c725ab-2ab2-4944-8b5b-5ee155cc26bf> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.pocketables.com/2013/08/quirky-pivot-power-junior-review.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721355.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00013-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949153 | 534 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Charlie Chaplin – The Mirror Maze
A Message From Corona Extra
Again, you don’t get the corona virus by drinking our beer!
Corona virus symptoms include fever, runny nose and coughing.
Symptoms of drinking Corona include gagging, craving Taco Bell, and waking up next to someone you wish you wouldn’t have.
This has bee a public service announcement from Corona beer.
Social Distancing Pickup Lines
• If COVID-19 doesn’t take you out, can I?
• Is that hand sanitizer in your pocket or are you just happy to be within 6ft of me?
• Since all the public libraries are closed, I’m checking you out instead.
• You can’t spell virus Without U and I.
• Baby do you need toilet paper/ Because I can be your prince Charmin.
• I saw you from the bar. Stay there.
• Without you, my life is as empty as a supermarket shelf.
• Hey babe can I ship you a drink?
• Baby it’s COVID-19 outside.
That’s Just Brutal…Funny, But Brutal
There were these 12 year old boys hanging around. As I got my food and left they were all checking me out like little prepubescent lemurs
Then one of them said “Can I get your number?”
And I turned around and said “Why, you need a babysitter?”
Fun Stuff To Do List
1. Make vanilla pudding. Put in mayo jar. Eat in public
2. Hire two private investigators. Get them to follow each other.
3. Wear shirt that says “Life”. Hand out lemons on street corner.
4. Get Into a crowded elevator and say “I bet you’re all wondering why I gathered you here today.”
5. Major in philosophy. Ask people WHY they would like fries with that.
6. Run into a store, ask what year it is. When someone answers, yell “It worked!” and run out cheering
7. Become a doctor. Change last name to Acula.
8. Change your name to Simon. Speak in the third person.
9. Buy a parrot. Teach the parrot to say “Help! I’ve been turned into a parrot!”
10. Follow joggers around in your car blasting “Eye Of the Tiger” for encouragement.
One time when I was 6 my mom caught me trying to eat pure sugar out of the container so she stopped and said ‘Would you like to have something even sweeter?”
And of course, little naive 6 year old me said yes, yes I would
So she said “smell it first and then decide” and handed me a bottle of straight vanilla extract and of course it smelled like the sweetest thing ever!
So I said YES give it to me and she let me take a huge swig, and this is why I have trust issues.
Things you can say in response to literally anything, when you have nothing else to say:
• As the prophecy foretold.
• But at what cost?
• So let it be written; so let it be done.
• So…it has come to this.
• That’s just what he/she/they would’ve said.
• Is this why fate brought us together?
• And thus, I die.
• …just like in my dream…
• Be that as it may, still may it be as it may be.
• There is no escape from destiny.
• Wise words by wise men write wise deeds in wise pen.
• In this economy?
• …and then the wolves came.
Damn That Guys Got Guts
This boy at Target asked if I would hold his hand because his ex-girlfriend just walked in with a new guy, so naturally I felt bad and held his hand while strolling around Target for a bit.
Then it donned on me, with no other couple in sight, that was the best damn pick up line ever pulled.
Things To Say When Someone Asks Why You Don’t Want Kids
• I promised my firstborn to a witch and realty don’t want to make good on the deal
• Well you can have them FOR me if it it’s that big a deal to you
• I don’t think I could get a good price for them on the black market
• Fight me Helen
• I cant be a better parent than Angelina Jolie so why even bother
• I literally JUST sat down
• Recite “The Highway Man” from Over the Garden Wall
• Kids? What are those? I don’t understand. What are these you…OH GRAVY WHAT IS THAT’?
• oohhh no, I’ve seen Disney movies, I know what happens to mothers
• Centipedes? In my vagina?
• *Angrily*, YOU SEE’? This is just like that episode of SpongeBob! *insert the plot of any episode of SpongeBob in excruciating detail*
• I heard they’re…you know…itchy. Like, as soon as you have a kid. Just totally itchy…Everything.
• I’m an Aries
• Well, we already got an even number so…*shrug*
• I must first capture the Avatar to regain my honor
• I’m allergic
• That’s just what the communists want!
• I’ve been dead for seven years
• Santa didn’t bring me one last Christmas, so I guess it’s not meant to be
• I’m afraid they’ll have bad taste in memes
• It would be unfair to my cat
• I’m chaotic neutral
• Do a long farting noise lasting at least 45 seconds.
• “l don’t want to nave children, I want to stay single, and let my hair flow in the wind as I ride through the glen firing arrows into the sunset.”
How To Know When Your Girlfriend Is Out Of Your League
So my boyfriend is in town and we ordered pizza from Domino’s. He goes to pay for it and I overhear the delivery girl go, “So can I get your number?”
I walk up to investigate because he’s all awkward and stuttering and shit. I ask, “Is everything okay?”
She turns to me, eyes me up and down and goes, “Shit, girl. Can I have your number?!”
My boyfriend is currently sulking and I have yet to stop laughing.
More Sarcastic Remarks
• You have all the charm of a cobra in a bad mood.
• In another age you’d have been burned at the stake.
• Normally I pretend to like you but today I really can’t be bothered.
• Violence may not solve anything but it might make me feel better.
• Bad planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.
• Sure I’ll help you out buddy. The same way you came in.
• Don’t take yourself too seriously, no one else does.
• If I promise to miss you, will you go away?
• You sound better with your mouth closed.
• I’m sorry. What language are you speaking? It sounds like bullshit.
• You have every right to express an opinion sir and I have every right to ignore it.
• Do I think you’re stupid? Well, I was wondering how you manage to tie your shoelaces.
• You do realize that a line of work consistent with your weaknesses is not an ideal career choice?
• I know I asked for a rare steak but a good vet could have this one back on its feet again and grazing in the pasture.
• I’ve met stingy people before but you wouldn’t give anyone the snot from your nose.
• When they ask me to complete the customer satisfaction survey I’ll be sure to mention that you’re a complete asshole.
• I’ve met plenty of stupid people in my time but you’re taking stupidity to an entirely new level not seen before.
• Which part of ‘I’m not interested’ is too difficult for you to understand?
• I could insult you but it would be cruel to pick on someone so lacking in intellect that they cannot defend themselves.
• If that dress you’re wearing is part of a get-noticed strategy mam it’s working I can assure you.
• When I look at you I can see that the lights are on but no one’s home.
• I didn’t realize someone could be annoying at first sight …… until now!
• If I wrote down every intelligent thought you’d ever had it wouldn’t amount to a single tweet
• I didn’t say I hated you but I’d certainly unplug your life support if my phone needed charging.
• You’re a low paid gatekeeper in a cheap suit and a polyester tie getting off on your little bit of power. Enjoy the moment buddy. You know you’re nothing and so does everyone else. | <urn:uuid:2cf77083-2219-4ec0-aed0-f8f28e555c8d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fridayfunstuff.com/friday-fun-stuff-10-2-20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00074.warc.gz | en | 0.932454 | 2,032 | 1.554688 | 2 |
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – November 8, 2013 – (RealEstateRama) — At a conference of the thirteen states making up the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) Thursday underscored the value of Federal investments in Appalachia to build infrastructure and strengthen communities’ ability to attract new businesses and create jobs.
“The Jobs Accelerator program, an alliance between three job producing federal agencies – the Economic Development Administration, Appalachian Regional Commission and USDA Rural Development – is working in unison to strengthen our local economy and apply the technical assistance public private partnerships need to succeed. These kinds of improvements create jobs and attract investments to ensure a solid foundation for economic development, so that we can expand existing businesses, attract new job opportunities and keep future generations of West Virginians working here, building careers and raising their families,” said Rahall.
Rahall, the top Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, which has jurisdiction over the Economic Development Administration (EDA) and Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), has worked in Congress to exempt economic development programs from ongoing budget cuts in Washington and been successful in securing resources for building clean drinking water infrastructure and modern wastewater management systems in West Virginia’s southern counties.
At Rahall’s urging, ARC, EDA, and Rural Development helped to fund an alliance between Marshall and Concord Universities, the Robert C. Byrd Institute for Technology, TechConnect, and the Natural Capital Investment Fund to develop entrepreneurship and business opportunities in rural tourism and manufacturing through Jobs Accelerator Grants to West Virginia.
Rahall also spoke of the leadership and service of U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) as vital in advancing the State’s opportunities for economic development from a regional to global scale.
“For fifty years, from Discover the Real West Virginia Foundation to broadband deployment, our Senator used his talents and tenacity to help connect West Virginia to the world,” said Rahall. “Toyota, like the proverbial iceberg, is just the tip, albeit a grand tip, of the companies Jay has had a strong and sturdy hand in landing in West Virginia. It is incumbent upon us to build on the Senator’s good work. There are no better examples of how we can continue that construction than the EDA, ARC, and USDA Rural Development partnership. Together we are laying a solid foundation for job creation throughout Appalachia.” | <urn:uuid:340936a4-ac68-441c-86d3-eb0569ee1196> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://westvirginia.realestaterama.com/rahall-lauds-entrepreneurship-as-keystone-to-region%E2%80%99s-economic-growth-ID0140.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00479.warc.gz | en | 0.914156 | 510 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Fri 16 Sep
Material Cultures, London
Material Cultures is a not-for-profit organisation which brings together design, research and action towards a post carbon built environment. We work at the intersection of architectural design, engineering, systems thinking, digital technologies and material science. We seek to share our experience of establishing ourselves as an experimental studio which operates across practice and academia. We will do this through expanding on our work across newbuild developments, research into the viability of bioregional manufacturing and expanding on how we build experimental, collaborative design and build structures, with a particular focus on our ongoing research project – Constructive Land.
The British landscape is subject to a multitude of pressures, many of which, such as farming and forestry, are considered to be in direct conflict with one another. Failed economic initiatives and agricultural policies have fuelled environmental degradation, growing levels of social inequity, and competing views of the land and its use. The future of a decarbonised built environment now depends on previously disconnected industries and seemingly conflicting agendas working together to facilitate systemic change.
Developing the strategies and technology to enable the supply and production of biobased construction materials requires the reimagining of land use at scale. Our research project Constructive Land speculates on a future land use model that is no longer confined to a risk averse market determined by the fossil fuel economy. It speculates on a mosaic alternative to landscape management in which arable land is woven alongside short rotation forestry, coppice, and shelterbelts of broadleaved species. With this vision in mind, we will re-evaluate and challenge the standardization-driven forms of construction timber through the production of prototypical and experimental structures built in the summer of 2022; drawing from the materials of our woodlands today and speculating on the materials which could be cultivated from our landscapes in the decades to come.
By questioning the nature of a ‘productive’ woodland, we are investigating the different benefits and outcomes of woodland management, from climate resilience to increased biodiversity and carbon sequestration. Productive woodlands have the potential to source innovative new low-embodied carbon materials which could transform the built environment, whilst also building regional supply chains across the country. The recalibration of our landscapes away from extractive practices towards a new model of regenerative land management that fosters regenerative resources, provides an exciting opportunity for construction innovation and offers to reconcile the tensions between land use, land economy and the need for new housing.
Drawing on this ongoing research conducted as the recipients of the SOM European Research Prize 2021 alongside MArch students at the University of the Arts London this work will also explore the regulatory, industrial and cultural limitations of change within the built environment, forestry and farming today, and looks to connect these disparate industries through dialogue. The act of building itself serves as a teaching tool: the structures will be developed and designed collaboratively with our 30 MArch students over a 7 week period this summer. Our research will demonstrate the opportunities that are emerging from a more ecological approach to the production of materials we use in the built environment, and speculate on the profound impact of these on our future practices.
Summer Islam is a founding director of Material Cultures, a not-for-profit organization which brings together design, research and action towards a post-carbon built environment. Summer co-runs “Construction in Detail” on the MArch course in the Spatial Studies department at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. Her work is focused on the holistic integration of systems thinking, construction technologies, and design. She has also taught at the Bartlett, University College London, the London Metropolitan University, the Architectural Association, and the University of Cambridge. She was previously an Associate at award-winning design practice 6a architects, and co-founded design practice Studio Abroad with George Massoud in 2014. | <urn:uuid:44ce8547-b37d-44c2-919e-55fb9742573f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://constructive-disobedience.com/en/constructive-land/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.938137 | 798 | 1.71875 | 2 |
CROSS-CULTURAL AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY-BASED PROCESSES IN EMOTIONAL DESIGN. A DESIGN RESEARCH LEARNING EXPERIENCE
This essay presents the research results in the field of Emotional Design, carried on during the educational experience provided by a first level postgraduate Master and students coming from 10 different nationalities. The experience proposes an original model of the capability of communicating meanings through the design of perceptual elements.
We started from the design process model (Maiocchi and Pillan, 2009) which besides obvious technical (including economic) constraints includes:
• Signals: any kind of information, by any kind of channel (shapes, colours, sounds, etc.);
• Meanings / emotions: the results of the processing of the gathered information (e.g. suggestions of maternal feelings, exotic environments, etc.);
• Simple perception: processes activating the more ancient parts of our brain, where primary emotions arise (seeking, sex, fear, social interaction, etc.);
• Complex perception: processes activating the neo-cortex (logical and cognitive functions), interacting with the lower levels, then providing emotions;
• Cultural constraints: inherited cultural aspects that allow or prevent the acceptability of some values.
In next step, a simple action field is chosen: the design of a common door handle. We performed next 7 steps with participants:
• Step 1. A sample of 10 existing door handles is examined from the point of view of an intuitive interpretation. We used door handles from famous Italian producers: Sottsass. Fuksass, Aulenti, Cini Boeri, Gregotti, Rossi, Mongiardino, Arad, Krier and Kono, and structure them by asigning them age, profession, gender, etc.
• Step 2. 10 Participants provided sketches of new door handles which will be in detail presented in paper.
• Step 3. A scientific definition of the concept of “emotion” is provided based on Affective Neuroscience and 7 Primary-Process Emotions (Panksepp, 2012). We used this model as it is able to depict specific physiological mechanisms (seen in neurotransmitters and key areas of the brain). These sub-cortical Triune brain areas are: SEEKING, PLAY, CARE, FEAR, GRIEF, RAGE and LUST. These mechanisms are invented by evolution to increase the survival probability of the species; according to it, animals feel emotions as we humans do; Panksepp considers an emotion as the activation of a specific part of the brain through a specific neurotransmitter class, and thus there are only seven emotions. The various parts of the brain are interconnected and are able to influence each other.
• Step 4. Kansei Engineering analysis by collecting/grouping adjectives per each door handle with the aim to connect door handles and previous 7 emotional systems. We reveal which emotion has which shape.
• Step 5. 9 perceptual structures based on Neuroscience (Ramachandran, Hirstein 1999) have been proposed, as responsible of emotion arousal, with a further improvement of the sketches provided by the participants. We used them as they are verified through the fMRI, able to increase the production of some neurotransmitter (mainly dopamine) and to rise the corresponding emotions.
• Step 6. The concept of metaphor has been explored, together with some formal representation tool;
• Step 7. Two different metaphorical contexts have been examined, and used for further improvements of the sketches.
This essay presents in details the various steps carried on, with iterative results, described in terms of the rationales of the design choices. Critical comments complete the essay. | <urn:uuid:06fada90-d0c6-4aee-a767-d6ccd170ac13> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://library.iated.org/view/MAIOCCHI2014CRO?not_allowed=true | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.906919 | 770 | 2.46875 | 2 |
Like the Tea Party adherents who are always going to equate walkability and sustainable transportation with a global UN conspiracy, some New York City electeds are always going to call road pricing “regressive” no matter how much the evidence suggests otherwise.
But Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. really ought to know better. Diaz has a piece in the Daily News attacking the Move New York plan, which would inject some reason into New York’s tolling system by raising rates in the congested heart of the city and lowering rates on less-trafficked crossings farther from the core, yielding significant funds for transit in the process. Not only would Diaz’s counter-proposal do nothing to solve the chronic traffic congestion that makes trips miserable for bus riders — to raise as much revenue as the Move NY plan, his proposal would also end up costing Bronx residents a lot more than toll reform.
Unlike the dyed-in-the-wool road pricing opponents New York got to know so well in 2007 — the Richard Brodskys and Lew Fidlers — Diaz doesn’t represent the region’s car-oriented edges. More than 60 percent of Bronx households don’t own cars, according to the 2000 Census [PDF]. The allegation of a “regressive tax” collapses when you consider that the average car-free household in the Bronx earns less than half as much as the average car-owning household.
Even in terms of the cost to drivers, though, the Diaz approach doesn’t add up. Diaz says it’s a certainty that the Move NY toll discounts on outer borough bridges won’t last. So that’s how he can dismiss the 40 percent or larger drop in rates on all four of the Bronx’s tolled bridges. But the Move NY plan needs enabling legislation from the state to move forward, so the new toll ratios would be enshrined in law.
Taking a page from Fidler, Diaz does float a counterproposal — a weight-based vehicle registration fee — that’s supposed to signal that he really does care about transit, but is destined to go nowhere.
To raise the same amount of money as the Move NY plan, about $1.45 billion per year, the registration fee assessed in the five boroughs would have to be raised by $785 per vehicle, reports Move NY analyst Charles Komanoff. Because car ownership is higher in the Bronx than in Manhattan, the Diaz proposal would actually cost his constituents much more than Move NY.
In the Bronx, the average cost per household would work out to $390, according to Komanoff, but just $187 per household in much wealthier Manhattan.
This is a significantly worse deal for the Bronx than the Move NY plan, which calls for Manhattan residents to shoulder a much greater share of the costs. Probably not what Diaz wants out of a transit funding plan. | <urn:uuid:e24f8adb-3728-431c-ac71-cd9c5d109c6e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://nyc.streetsblog.org/2014/04/08/instead-of-reforming-nyc-tolls-ruben-diaz-jr-proposes-soaking-the-bronx/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279915.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00277-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957784 | 604 | 1.570313 | 2 |
5 Kansas Adoption Laws You Need to Know
From Birth Parent Rights to Home Study Requirements
Digging into the intricacies of laws can be stressful, but you don’t have to feel that way. Whether you’re a hopeful adoptive family or a prospective birth mother, having a better grasp of adoption law in Kansas can be incredibly helpful.
Because American Adoptions of Kansas has over 30 years of experience helping birth mothers and adoptive families alike, we understand how adoption laws work in the state. Although understanding every minute detail of adoption laws is the job of your attorney or adoption professional, we are here to provide you with the basics.
This article is not meant to be taken as legal advice, but this overview of 5 important Kansas adoption laws should familiarize you with the essentials. If you have specific questions about Kansas adoption laws and your unique situation, you can call 1-800-ADOPTION at any time to speak with a specialist.
1.Adoption Requirements in Kansas
When it comes to the requirements to adopt in Kansas, it’s worth noting that they can vary depending on the type of adoption and the adoption professional you work with. For instance, a domestic infant adoption with American Adoptions of Kansas comes with a different set of requirements than adopting from the foster system.
These requirements are also different from the requirements for women who want to place their baby for adoption. If you are considering adoption for your baby, you should know that adoption is always an option. The requirements below are not for you, but they can give you a sense of what type of families might want to adopt your baby.
Mostly, however, requirements for adopting in Kansas will be similar, with some slight variation among different types of adoption and adoption professionals. Below are a handful of relevant subjects for adoption requirements.
Marriage Requirements for Adoption
There are no adoption in Kansas laws that prohibit unmarried adults from adopting. But, some adoption agencies require prospective parents to have been married for a particular amount of time. If you’re curious about marital requirements for American Adoptions of Kansas, then contact us for more information.
Age Requirements for Adoption
As of January 2020, there is no specified age requirement for Kansas adoption laws, but they must be a legal adult. It should be mentioned that some adoption agencies have requirements regarding age ranges between the prospective adoptive parents and the child. American Adoptions of Kansas requests that adoptive parents be between 22 and 50 years old, but we will make an exception if the situation calls for it.
LGBTQ+ Couples and Adoption
LGBTQ+ couples have been legally allowed to adopt children since the 2015 federal ruling that legalized same-sex marriage. Unfortunately, there’s legislation in Kansas that allows some organizations to deny service to LGBTQ+ couples. American Adoptions of Kansas is proud to work with LGBTQ+ families. But, whether you’re a prospective birth mother with an interested LGBTQ+ couple, or if you’re a prospective LGBTQ+ parent yourself, make sure the agency you want to work with won’t deny you services.
2.Advertising and Facilitator Laws in Kansas
“Advertising” is a term in the adoption lexicon, and it means finding adoption opportunities for prospective birth mothers and hopeful adoptive parents. According to adoption Kansas laws, only child-placing agencies that are properly licensed can advertise to birth mothers who want to place a child in Kansas. Advertising may be accomplished through various methods. For example, American Adoptions of Kansas creates video and print profiles of families that are shown to birth mothers across the U.S.
An unlicensed agency performing advertising work is known as an adoption facilitator, and they are illegal in Kansas. This is because they typically engage in predatory practices. This is why it’s necessary to work with your adoption attorney to make sure you’re not unintentionally breaking any Kansas adoption laws, either as a birth mother or as a hopeful parent.
Why does this matter? Because adoption is a life-changing process, and you deserve to be confident that your adoption is done in the most ethical way possible. With American Adoptions of Kansas, you can rest easy knowing we do adoption the right way.
3.Birth Parent Rights in Kansas
Whether you’re a prospective birth parent considering placing your baby for adoption, or if you’re a hopeful adoptive parent, it can be helpful to understand the birth mother’s undeniable parental adoption rights. As upheld by Kansas adoption codes, birth parents have the right to:
- Change their mind at any point in the process
- Receive free unplanned pregnancy counseling
- Create their own adoption plan
- Choose their post-placement relationship
- Choose when to give their adoption consent
- Legal representation when signing documents
- Voluntary termination of parental rights
These aren’t all the rights that prospective birth mothers have, but these are some of the most significant ones. If you’re a prospective birth mother and have more questions surrounding your adoption rights, then you can speak to one of our adoption professionals for free by calling 1-800-ADOPTION.
4.The Consent Process in Kansas
Because each state can create its own adoption laws, there are certain regulations to adopt a child in Kansas. One of these regulations is the consent process. As mandated by Kansas adoption laws, a married person can’t adopt without their spouse’s consent. Additionally, any prospective adoptee who is 14 or older must give their consent to the adoption. Like most states, Kansas has adoption courts that oversee the process.
It’s also worth mentioning that prospective birth parents must give their consent for the adoption. But, if parental rights have been terminated, if the child has been abandoned or if the prospective birth parent has been convicted of a serious crime against the child, then the court may not require consent.
5.Kansas Home Study Requirements
One of the most misunderstood parts of the adoption process is the home study. If you are a prospective birth mother, then it’s worth noting that a home study is not part of your adoption journey. But, it may be valuable to understand what prospective parents must complete to be eligible to become an adoptive parent. The adoption home study in Kansas, as required by adoption law in Kansas, encompasses:
- Documentation: Important documents such as driver’s licenses, insurance records and marriage certificates will be submitted for review.
- Interview: A social worker will visit the prospective parents’ home to discuss motivations for adoption, parenting techniques and more.
- Home Tour: Following the interview, hopeful families will show their social worker around their home. The social worker will ensure that all safety and child-proofing measures are in place.
- Post-Placement Visits: After the child has been placed in the adoptive family’s home, the social worker will occasionally return to conduct post-placement visits to make sure the family is adjusting well and offer any helpful advice.
There are also some clearances and training courses that prospective parents must undergo as part of Kansas adoption codes, such as criminal background checks as well as sex offender clearances for all adults living in the home. Parenting classes or adoption parenting courses are also required, as is a CPR and/or First Aid certification course.
Although these Kansas adoption laws can seem overwhelming, American Adoptions of Kansas will ensure that your adoption is being handled ethically and legally, whether you’re a birth parent or a hopeful adoptive parent. If you want to learn more about adoption in Kansas laws, get more free information now.
Information available through these links is the sole property of the companies and organizations listed therein. America Adoptions, Inc. provides this information as a courtesy and is in no way responsible for its content or accuracy. | <urn:uuid:68a0e16b-7948-4547-ba9e-8fe030009599> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.americanadoptionsofkansas.com/adoption/kansas_adoption_laws | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.931001 | 1,613 | 1.890625 | 2 |
Compare book prices
at 110 online bookstores
worldwide for the lowest price for new & used textbooks and
discount books! 1 click to get great deals on cheap books, cheap
textbooks & discount college textbooks on sale.
The Children's Authors series gives young readers an intimate look at the lives of their favorite writers. Each engaging biography traces an author's childhood, education, and career. Readers will learn what inspired the authors to write and how they came up with story ideas. Clearly-written text and amusing anecdotes provide readers with easy access to the lives of these beloved authors.
Recent Book Searches:
ISBN-10/ISBN-13: 0295982500 / 978-0295982502 / Vagabond Life: The Caucasus Journals of George Kennan / George Kennan 0295982594 / 978-0295982595 / The Sea Knows No Boundaries: A Century of Marine Science Under Ices / Helen M. Rozwadowski 0295982993 / 978-0295982991 / Judgment Without Trial: Japanese American Imprisonment During World War II (The Scott and Laurie Oki Series on Asian American Studies) / Tetsuden Kashima 0295983019 / 978-0295983011 / The Prints of Isoda Koryusai: Floating World Culture and Its Consumers in Eighteenth-Century Japan / Allen Hockley 0295983116 / 978-0295983110 / Along the Juniata: Thomas Cole and the Dissemination of American Landscape Imagery / Nancy Siegel 0295983337 / 978-0295983332 / The Landscape of Stalinism: The Art and Ideology of Soviet Space (Studies in Modernity and National Identity) / 0295983914 / 978-0295983912 / Shiraz in the Age of Hafez: The Glory of a Medieval Persian City (Publications on the Near East) / John W. Limbert 0295982667 / 978-0295982663 / The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library / 0295982691 / 978-0295982694 / What Is a Man?: Changing Images of Masculinity in Late Antique Art / Natalie Boymel Kampen, Elizabeth Mae Marlowe, Rebecca Marie Molholt 0295982748 / 978-0295982748 / Sounds of the Inner Eye: John Cage, Mark Tobey and Morris Graves / John Cage, Mark Tobey, Morris Graves 0295982837 / 978-0295982830 / William Ingham: Configuration of Forces / Matthew Kangas, William Ingham 0295982845 / 978-0295982847 / The Sensuous and the Sacred: Chola Bronzes from South India / Vidya Dehejia, Richard H. Davis, R. Nagaswamy, Karen Pechilis Prentiss 0295982861 / 978-0295982861 / Inside the Floating World: Japanese Prints from the Lenoir C. Wright Collection / Allen Hockley 0295983175 / 978-0295983172 / Spruce Root Basketry of the Haida and Tlingit / Sharon Busby 0295983396 / 978-0295983394 / Calling In The Soul: Gender And The Cycle Of Life In A Hmong Village / Patricia V. Symonds 0295983531 / 978-0295983530 / Yun Gee: Poetry, Writings, Art, Memories (Jacob Lawrence Series on American Artists) / 0295983566 / 978-0295983561 / Beyond Lewis & Clark: The Army Explores the West / James P. Ronda 0295983582 / 978-0295983585 / Historical Atlas of the Arctic / Derek Hayes 0295982446 / 978-0295982441 / Taisho Chic: Japanese Modernity, Nostalgia, and Deco / Kendall H. Brown, Sharon A. Minichiello 0295982462 / 978-0295982465 / Seven Journeys: The Sketchbooks of Emily Carr / Doris Shadbolt 0295982527 / 978-0295982526 / Parallel Destinies: Canadian-American Relations West of the Rockies (Emil and Kathleen Sick Lecture-Book Series in Western History and Biography) / 0295982608 / 978-0295982601 / Beaten Down: A History of Interpersonal Violence in the West / David Peterson Del Mar, David Peterson Del Mar 0295982659 / 978-0295982656 / My Father's Legacy: The Story of Doctor Nils August Johanson, Founder of Swedish Medical Center / Katharine Johanson Nordstrom, Margaret Marshall 0295982926 / 978-0295982922 / Candles in the Dark: A New Spirit for a Plural World / Barbara Sundberg Baudot 0295982934 / 978-0295982939 / Natural Grace: The Charm, Wonder, and Lessons of Pacific Northwest Animals and Plants / William Dietrich 0295983221 / 978-0295983226 / Northwest Mythologies: The Interactions of Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan, and Guy Anderson / Sheryl Conkelton, Laura Landau 0295983353 / 978-0295983356 / Alejandro Malaspina: Portrait of a Visionary / John Kendrick 0295983477 / 978-0295983479 / Place of Learning, Place of Dreams: A History of the Seattle Public Library (Mclellan Book) / John Douglas Marshall 0295983760 / 978-0295983769 / Bill Reid and Beyond: Expanding on Modern Native Art / 0295983809 / 978-0295983806 / Altered Lives, Enduring Community: Japanese Americans Remember Their World War II Incarceration (Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies) / Stephen S. Fugita, Marilyn Fernandez
More About Using This Site and Buying Books Online:
Be Sure to Compare Book Prices Before Buy
This site was created for shoppers to compare book prices and find cheap books
and cheap college textbooks. A lot of discount books and discount text books
are put on sale by many discounted book retailers and discount bookstores everyday.
You just need to search and find them. Our site provides many book links to
some major bookstores for book details and book coupons. But be sure not just
jump into any bookstore site to buy. Always click "Compare Price" button to
compare prices first. You would be happy that how much you could save by doing
book price comparison.
Buy Books from Foreign Country
Our goal is to find the cheapest books and college textbooks for you, both
new and used books, from a large number of bookstores worldwide. Currently our
book search engines fetch book prices from US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand,
Netherlands, Ireland, Germany, France, and Japan. More bookstores from other
countries will be added soon. Before buying from a foreign book store or book
shop, be sure to check the shipping options. It's not unusual that shipping
could take 2 -3 weeks and cost could be multiple of a domestic shipping charge.
Buy Used Books and Used Textbooks
Buying used books and used textbooks is becoming more and more popular among
college students for saving. Different second hand books could have different
conditions. Be sure check used book condition from the seller's description.
Also many book marketplaces put books for sale from small bookstores and individual
sellers. Make sure to check store review for seller's reputation when available.
If you are in a hurry to get a book or textbook for your class, you would better
choose buying new books for prompt shipping.
Please See Help Page for Questions
regarding ISBN / ISBN-10 / ISBN10, ISBN-13 / ISBN13, EAN / EAN-13, and Amazon | <urn:uuid:ff539f11-6396-4d48-a6ff-b1dd69cb37d5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.alldiscountbooks.net/_9781577651109_i_.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00061-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.736533 | 1,667 | 1.898438 | 2 |
Nigeria’s total figure of coronavirus infections surpassed 56,000 on Friday as 188 new cases were confirmed in 18 states and the federal capital territory (FCT)
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirmed the new cases in its update for September 11, 2020.
Lagos topped the list of states with 47 new infections, followed by Enugu with 25, and Plateau with 21, while Bayelsa, Oyo and Osun recorded the least cases with one positive sample each.
A total of 188 patients were also confirmed to have recovered from COVID-19 on Friday, increasing the number of discharged patients to 43,998.
Within the past two weeks, the recovery rate has declined with less than 3,000 patients discharged, compared to the two weeks preceding August 29, during which close to 5,000 recoveries were recorded.
However, Nigeria’s daily fatality toll recorded its lowest figure in September, with one death confirmed on Friday, making it a total of 1,076 people who have now died of COVID-19 complications in the country.
Before September 11, 2020, the last time the daily death toll dropped significantly was on August 31 when no death was recorded.
Out of over 435,000 samples tested, a total of 56,017 confirmed cases have been recorded across the country. | <urn:uuid:df5fa06d-d643-430b-a0c2-3ec055132f07> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.younewsng.com/2020/09/12/34541/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.976123 | 280 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Today, the Queen stepped out in an all-purple ensemble to attend a Thanksgiving service that also marked 60 years of the Duke of Edinburgh Award. Her particular shade of purple (shall we call it Cadbury?) packed a punch when set against Westminster Abbey's grey stonework, but also stood next to the Dean of Westminster in his contrasting golden cloak. But, of course, she knew it would. The Queen has 63 years of experience in using colour to stand out.
Indeed, when she marked the start of her 90th birthday celebrations earlier this year, the Queen kicked things off in top-to-toe fuchsia. Created by Angela Kelly, who has been the Queen's personal dresser since 1994, the outfit would have been painstakingly planned. Likewise, opinion dividing the neon green dress coat and matching hat which she wore for the Trooping of the Colour- an outfit which prompted a 134% uplift in sales of neon items.
In a book released four years ago Kelly revealed that she sketches at least four different designs for a particular piece of fabric and that a fan is used to test how material will move in the breeze before the final creation is decided upon.
She also talked of the significance attached to colour in the Queen's wardrobe - both to ensure Her Majesty stands out in a crowd and to pay a subtle tribute to the event. Think for example of the dazzling green outfit that Her Majesty wore to touch down in Dublin on her landmark visit to Ireland in 2011 - or the white outfit The Queen wore on the Thames River Pageant that was designed to contrast against the boat's red seats.
“I have to be seen to be believed,” the Queen has said. And a colourful wardrobe plays a key role in fulfilling this mantra. From zingy violet and hot pink to lime and sunshine yellow, there is no colour that clashes with Her Majesty – the only one she avoids is beige, which does not allow her to stand out in a crowd.
In 2012 British Vogue magazine published a graphic tracking the bold spectrum of colour the Queen wore across the course of a year. The results were illuminating: 29 per cent blue, 10 per cent pink, 13 per cent floral. For schools, the Queen turns to jolly, bright colours and embellishment like ribbons designed to appeal to children. Yellow is her happy colour; black the one she only wears when expressing condolence.
So what does today's purple outfit prove? That as Queen Elizabeth II rounds off her 90th birthday year she's doing what she has in more than 63 years of dressing for the public eye - not putting a patent-court-shod foot wrong. | <urn:uuid:34ccc005-5293-4c8d-92ae-f6521ea8e151> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/people/i-have-to-be-seen-to-be-believed-the-hidden-significance-of-the/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00267-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9541 | 543 | 1.515625 | 2 |
NORA Manufacturing Sector Strategic Goals
927ZGFN - Survey of Chemical Exposure in the Biodiesel IndustryStart Date: 10/1/2008
End Date: 9/30/2009
Principal Investigator (PI)Name: Brandon Law
Funded By: NIOSH
Primary Goal Addressed5.0
Secondary Goal Addressed
Attributed to Manufacturing
Occupational health hazards will be assessed in the emerging industry of biodiesel production. Potential health hazards in terms of exposure to methanol, sodium hydroxide and soy allergens have been identified via literature searches. Surface and air sampling for methanol, sodium hydroxide and soy allergen in several biodiesel production facilities are being proposed. Sources of personnel exposure in the biodiesel production process will be identified and quantified. Results and recommendations from this assessment will be reported to each biodiesel production facility studied, and we will disseminate the overall findings through trade and/or peer-reviewed publications.
There are presently 171 commercial biodiesel plants in the US with a total annual production capacity of 2.24 billion gallons. Demand for biodiesel has risen from 25 million gallons in 2004 to an estimated 450 million gallons in 2007. In addition to the larger commercial producers there are multiple small back-yard producers and universities that have small scale biodiesel reactors. The hazards of methanol and sodium hydroxide are well recognized, but there are no reported studies of the occupational exposure levels found in this industry. The production process is fairly simple. Feed stock, methanol and sodium hydroxide are added to a reactor where the oils are extracted and methyoxylated to form biodiesel. Methanol is trapped in a condenser and reused.
We propose to;
1. Contact the National Biodiesel Board and other stakeholders to partner and help enroll appropriate biodiesel production facilities in the exposure assessment study. Following identification of sites willing to participate an initial walk-through will be conducted of each facility and plant-specific environmental sampling strategies developed.
2. Return to each facility and sample for methanol, sodium hydroxide, soy protein and endotoxin in air and surfaces/settled dusts.
3. This project will be limited to environmental assessment. Potential for a follow-up study that includes survey of the workers health, anti-soy antibody levels in the workers' sera, and measures of pre and post shift methanol/formaldehyde levels in the workers' breath and urines may be considered if potential hazardous exposures are documented.
4. Results and recommendations from each assessment will be reported to each respective biodiesel production facility. We hope to disseminate overall findings through trade and professional publications.
The ultimate goal of occupational safety and health should be the identification of hazards while an industry is developing. Occupational health hazards will be assessed by surface and air sampling for methanol, sodium hydroxide, and soy allergens in several biodiesel production facilities. Engineering control of any hazards identified could be implemented early before hazards result in health problems and worker injury.
The objectives of this project are:
• Study the biodiesel production process to determine where problems may exist.
• Use environmental monitoring to identify sources of exposure.
• Use developed methods to study possible allergen exposures from feedstock.
• Disseminate findings
The outputs and impact of this project will be assessed by:
• Presentations at national meetings.
• Peer reviewed publications
• Report of the overall finding in trade publications
Biodiesel production plants are increasing exponentially in the United States. Potential occupational health hazards include exposure to methanol, lye and allergenic components from feedstock such as soy. Exposure levels to these agents in this relatively young industry have not been measured. Assessment of the occupational environment during the infancy stage of the biodiesel industry has the potential to provide crucial information for plant owners/operators that will aid in the prevention of exposure of plant workers to hazardous agents within the industry.
Results will potentially address:
Manufacturing (100%) Strategic Goal 5 (09PPMNFSG5): Reduce the number of respiratory conditions and diseases due to exposures in the manufacturing sector.
Immune/Derm Cross Sector (50%) Strategic Goal 1 (09PPIMUSG1): Intermediate Goal 1.1 (09PPIMUIG1.1) and Activity/output goals (09PPIMUAOG1.1.1) detection of occupational allergens, and (09PPIMUAOG1.1.2) expansion of database.
Respiratory Disease Cross Sector (50%) Strategic Goal 1 (09PPRDRSG1):
Prevent and reduce work-related airways diseases, Intermediate Goal (09PPRDRIG1.1) particularly Activity/Output Goals (09PPRDRAOG1.1.3) improved tools for detection of allergens, and (09PPRDRAOG1.1.4) identify emerging causes of WRA.
Exposure Assessment Strategic goal 2 (09PPEXASG2): Intermediate Goal 2.11 (09PPEXASG2.11) address critical exposure assessment needs in emerging areas such as nanotechnology for application of new approaches to both new and traditional industrial processes, and for emerging initiatives to substitute alternative (e.g., ostensibly more safe) chemical processes in areas where hazards have been identified.
- Page last reviewed: July 22, 2015
- Page last updated: July 6, 2015
- Content source:
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Office of the Director | <urn:uuid:17816da5-37d3-4073-860b-db76f9481003> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/programs/manuf/noragoals/projects/927ZGFN.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00464-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900325 | 1,153 | 2.0625 | 2 |
For decades, proponents of marijuana reform have argued that cannabis is less dangerous than alcohol or cigarettes, has legitimate medical uses, and should be decriminalized on the grounds that prohibition doesn’t work.
In 1996, these arguments helped convince California voters to approve Proposition 215, which allows the use of marijuana for medical purposes. And in March, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder signaled a major change in federal drug policy when he said that the Justice Department does not plan to prosecute medical marijuana dispensaries that operate legally under California law.
But the federal government still classifies marijuana as a Schedule 1 controlled substance that has no medical value and a high abuse potential. As a result, cultivation, distribution, and sales of pot primarily occur on the black market, a shadowy mix of small-timers and powerful cartels.
Data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) suggests that U.S. growers produced 22 million pounds of marijuana in 2006, worth $35.8 billion, and that California accounted for almost 39 percent of U.S. pot production.
Now, with California’s economy in the crapper, the state budget a mess, and federal judges ordering substantial reductions in California’s prison population, reform advocates are making an intriguing argument: if state or local governments legalize and tax even a fraction of marijuana sales in California, the state could see billions of dollars in new annual revenue and reduced enforcement costs.
Assembly Member Tom Ammiano recalls some laughter in February when he introduced Assembly Bill 390, state legislation to regulate marijuana much like alcohol. "But the budget fiasco has made some people who were dismissive take a harder look," Ammiano said.
A recent California Board of Equalization analysis of Ammiano’s bill estimates that if the state charged $50 per ounce, California would generate $1.4 billion in marijuana taxes annually.
Voters in Oakland also advanced the marijuana policy discussion last month when they approved a special tax on the city’s medical cannabis dispensaries. And in August, a three-judge federal court ruled that California must develop a plan to reduce its prison population by 44,000 over two years.
The public also seems to support making a change. In April, a Field Poll confirmed that for the first time a majority (56 percent) of California voters support legalizing pot.
Depite these advances, Ammiano says he wants to be strategic with his bill, gradually building support. "That’s why we made it a two-year bill," Ammiano said. His bill is scheduled for its first hearing at the Public Safety Committee, which Ammiano now chairs, by year’s end.
But some Bay Area activists aren’t waiting on Ammiano. Last month, Richard Lee, who operates four medical marijuana dispensaries in Oakland, filed initiative paperwork with the state and hopes to gather enough signatures to qualify a Tax Cannabis initiative in 2010.
Ammiano’s bill and Lee’s initiative allow recreational use of marijuana, penalize driving under the influence, and charge a $50 fee per ounce. But they differ around regulation and how to deal with the overarching problem of federal law. Ammiano’s legislation assumes a statewide system that mirrors the federal Department of Alcohol Beverage Control. Lee’s initiative leaves regulation to each county, similar to the patchwork approach to alcohol in other states.
Lee believes his initiative gives people more options. "We can’t order people to break federal law that would be thrown out," Lee said. "Forty jurisdictions already permit medical marijuana cooperatives in California. So we already have that system, and we’ll follow that reality."
Sup. Ross Mirkarimi, who authored San Francisco’s medical cannabis dispensary regulations, believes it’s important to lay the groundwork at the local level. He points to the relative lack of growth in new municipalities that allow medical dispensaries since voters approved Prop. 215, calling it evidence of pot-related NIMBYism.
"Everyone says they support it, but they don’t want it in their own backyards," said Mirkarimi, who wants San Francisco to become the first U.S. city to add marijuana to the list of medicines it dispenses. "But the city Attorney’s Office is shy about pushing this envelope."
Mirkarimi wants to follow Oakland’s example and add a gross receipts tax to medical marijuana dispensaries in San Francisco.
But the legalization push has its fervent critics. At a recent Commonwealth Club debate on the economics of marijuana, El Cerrito Police Chief Scott Kirkland, who led the charge to ban medical dispensaries in his city, tried to discredit arguments that legalization will save money.
"I’m very disappointed with the state," Kirkland said, claiming that the BOE’s analysis drew almost exclusively on the work of Jon Gettman, a former director of National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.
"We have to have statistics we can rely on," said Kirkland, who then cited the same BOE report it estimates that pot prices will drop 50 percent and consumption will increase 40 percent to support his contention that legalization will lead to increased substance abuse.
Kirkland also challenged the notion that Mexican drug cartels will leave once the pot business is legitimized and regulated. "They understand that the money involved is astronomical," he said. "It’s wishful thinking that if you legalize marijuana, all of a sudden the cartels go away."
He also disputed claims that legalization would help empty state prisons. "It’s very common for advocates to associate legalization with reducing the costs of incarceration, but it’s a fallacy," Kirkland said. "It’s very rarely that a person goes to prison for their original offense."
Kirkland topped off his attack by citing the state’s June 19 decision to add marijuana smoke to its Proposition 65 list of substances known to contain carcinogens.
But BOE spokesperson Anita Gore refuted claims that their analysis relied entirely on reform advocates’ research. "Being as this is an underground activity, the resources are limited," Gore said. "But our researchers and economists used econometric models that are generally accepted and looked at all the available resources, which included academic and law enforcement studies."
Gettmann told the Guardian he uses data from NSDUH, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, the Office of National Drug Control, and the Bureau of International Narcotics sources the prohibitionists also draw on. He admits that it’s hard to quantify a black market.
"But it’s easy for anyone to understand basic regulatory economic theory," Getmann said. "Marijuana use produces costs for society, but is largely untaxed. So users and sellers reap benefits, while taxpayers bear the costs."
He believes many advantages of legalization are qualitative. "It’s a better regulatory system for financial and fiscal reasons and for restricting access on the part of teenagers," Gettman said.
Stephen Gutwillig, state director of the Drug Policy Alliance, points to research by the Center for Juvenile and Criminal Justice in San Francisco, which found that arrest rates for everything in California have declined since 1990 with the exception of low-level marijuana crimes. CJCJ’s research shows that rates for this group increased 127 percent since 1990, and 25 percent in the last two years.
"It’s a system run amok," Gutwillig said. He notes that of the 74,000 people arrested for marijuana-related offenses, 20,000 are youth. "The marijuana problem is increasingly becoming a mechanism for social control of young black and brown men in California."
"We feel that money is definitely a fine consideration," he continued. "But even if reguutf8g marijuana didn’t produce a dime, these punitive, wasteful laws must end."
Gutwillig’s group has estimated that legalization would save California’s state and local governments $259.7 million annually in court and incarceration costs alone, a figure DPA researcher Betty Lo Dolce said is very conservative.
"I don’t know if folks have a secondary offenses, so I don’t know if marijuana was legalized, if they wouldn’t be in state prison," Lo Dolce said. "Or conversely, if they may not have been arrested for drug-related crimes, but then those charges got dropped and they ended up inside because of secondary drug-related offense."
Bruce Mirken, communications director for the Marijuana Policy Project, believes that advocates of California’s Campaign Against Marijuana Planting (CAMP) should have to justify that the program does some good.
"The idea that enforcing prohibition and seizing 5.5 million plants last year would be less costly than legalizing is crazy," he said.
But what about the public health costs?
UCLA pulmonologist Dr. Donald Tashkin said that the state added marijuana smoke to its Prop. 65 list, based on finding carcinogens in that smoke. "But you cannot translate chemistry into chemical risk because you have to take into account potential opposing effects," Tashkin said.
His research has found no association between heavy marijuana use and increased risk of lung cancer and pulmonary disease. Conversely, he and Dr. Donald Abrams, a cancer researcher at UCSF, have found that THC, marijuana’s main psychoactive ingredient, has an anti-tumor effect.
"The bottom line is that you cannot use pulmonary risk as a justification for not legalizing it," Tashkin said.
Dr. Igor Grant, director of medical cannabis research at UC San Diego, said the question around marijuana smoke is quantity. "It’s not like cigarettes," he said. "Most people don’t smoke 20 joints a day for 20 years. But even if it was declared safe for patients, you wouldn’t want parents filling the room with smoke."
James Gray, an Orange County judge and a member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, believes marijuana is here to stay. "Instead of moralizing and punishing people for failing on moral chastity grounds, let’s manage its use," Gray said. "If people are using it, they should be able to know what’s in it."
The most harmful thing about marijuana, Gray contends, is jail. "The remedy is far more dangerous than the disease itself," he said. "There are thousands of people in prison because they did nothing but smoke pot, and a dirty drug test was a violation of their parole…. But I understand that some people in law enforcement stand to lose a great deal, and that the Mexican cartels are going to invest a lot of money in Madison Avenue advertising."
Lee, too, acknowledges the opposition, but remains hopeful. "People are coming out of the closet," he said. "That’s what caused the gay rights movement to take off. It’s starting to happen around marijuana use." | <urn:uuid:c5f47dcb-871a-4cfc-81ba-8f0a1c67132f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sfbgarchive.48hills.org/sfbgarchive/2009/08/19/chronic-debate/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.957124 | 2,292 | 1.9375 | 2 |
E-mail : firstname.lastname@example.org
Dr. Kenawy is dedicated to providing quality Rheumatologic Care to his patients.
Rheumatology is a specialty practice of internal medicine focused upon the non-surgical evaluation and treatment of rheumatic diseases. In general, rheumatologic diseases are characterized by abnormalities of the immune system. A common manifestation of these diseases is arthritis.
Rheumatologists have special interests in unexplained rash, fever, arthritis, anemia, weakness, weight loss, fatigue, joint or muscle pain, autoimmune disease, and anorexia. Some diseases are rare and often more challenging to diagnose by primary care providers. Rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, antiphospholipid antibody syndrome, Adult Still's disease, dermatomyositis, polymyositis, polymyalgia rheumatica, Sjogren's syndrome, vasculitis, scleroderma, mixed connective tissue disease, sarcoidosis, Lyme diease, osteoarthritis, back pain, gout, pseudogout, relapsing polychondritis, Henoch- Schonlein purpura, reactive arthritis, fibromyalgia, Raynaud's disease, iritis, osteoporosis, and reflex sympathetic dystrophy are some of the major diseases which are managed by rheumatologists.
We also treat soft tissue rheumatic syndromes such as tendonitis, trigger finger, and bursitis. Some diseases may require joint aspirations or therapeutic joint, tendon, bursal, or muscle injections in addition to medical treatments.
Our patients are men and women over age 15, who come from all walks of life. While the majority of our patients live in Northwest Florida, patients travel from other parts of Florida and surrounding areas such as Alabama and Georgia to be treated by Dr. Kenawy.
Ultrasound diagnosis of arthritis and ultrasound guidance of joint injection therapy is state of the art rheumatologic care. Not only are we able to detect early forms of arthritis using this technique, but this helps us enhance the accuracy of procedures while reducing unneeded discomfort.
The availability of more highly specialized medications known as biological agents has altered the course of many chronic inflammatory diseases. As a direct result, the quality of life for many of these patients has improved and many are able to live more meaningful lives. The most advanced treatments for arthritis and osteoporosis often require intravenous infusion treatments. Our infusion therapy department is staffed by registered nurses and our physicians are accessible for questions, concerns and additional assistance. | <urn:uuid:00d6b9d9-5278-4226-9681-e3b1dfa3b96f> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://drkenawy.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720845.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00086-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911488 | 559 | 1.90625 | 2 |
The Cape Cod Canal has been helping vessels shorten their travel routes since its opening in 1914. It predated the Panama Canal by a few weeks which was later named one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World in 1994 by the American Society of Civil Engineers. It has seen countless vessels pass through its roughly seven-mile length and is now a deeply rooted piece of the history of the peninsula.
However, did you know that the Cape Cod Canal was in fact not the first canal to have been created on the Cape?
That distinction belongs to a waterway located approximately twenty-six miles to the east in the towns of Eastham and Orleans. ‘Jeremiah’s Gutter’ was the name of this waterway. ‘Gutter’ is another word for a channel or waterway. The name ‘Jeremiah’ comes from Jeremiah Smith who came from a founding Eastham family of the late 17th century. The ‘gutter’s’ creation would come from a storm steeped in history for another reason.
On April 26, 1717 a strong nor’easter battered Cape Cod. It was in this storm that the famed pirate ship Whydah sank with all of its treasure aboard. This storm also carved a channel of varying depths running roughly from Town Cove in Orleans west to what is today Boat Meadow Beach in Eastham. The channel would only be used by British vessels trying to recover the sunken Whydah treasure in 1717. Afterwards it began to close up due to nature and a bit by the locals. The marshlands surrounding the channel, which stretched across the Cape from bayside in Eastham to oceanside in Orleans, would often flood causing the channel to be resurrected in a shallow form over the next several decades.
In 1804 it was decided to widen and deepen the passageway out along the previously created channel which ran over a mile and a half, nearly congruent with the Eastham/Orleans town line. The canal would be named Jeremiah’s Gutter to honor Smith as it was much of his property that the waterway ran across.
Despite Jeremiah’s Gutter being newly widened and deepened it was barely used for nearly a decade. This changed during the War of 1812. It was during the second war with the British that the canal would be used as a passageway by American ships carrying salt to avoid England’s blockade of Provincetown. This would be the Gutter’s largest claim to fame.
Due to the large system of sandy tidal flats along Cape Cod Bay stretching from Brewster to Eastham the bayside entrance to the canal would often become choked with silt making that entrance way unreliable at low tide. It would again be sparsely used by traveling vessels and would not be maintained. Jeremiah’s Gutter fell into disrepair again and would cease to be used as a passageway for boats, although as late as 1844 large enough storms and tides would push water through making the canal whole again for a brief time.
Though it had begun fading into history the canal would have one more brush with fame when author Henry David Thoreau would mention Jeremiah’s Gutter in his iconic 1865 book Cape Cod. After that the eyes of the Cape would begin searching for a different location to create a more dependable canal. The idea of a new canal became more pressing during the late 1880’s when shipwrecks along Cape Cod’s coast occurred once every two weeks.
The location was chosen due to the proximity of two rivers flowing through a valley in Bourne, Sagamore, and Sandwich. The Manomet River would enter through Buzzards Bay at the western end, while the Scusset River entered through Cape Cod Bay at the eastern end. Once wealthy financier August Belmont II became involved in 1904 the Cape Cod Canal project became a reality. It would take a decade of work until it eventually opened in 1914. For the vast majority of people who cross this manmade waterway it is the only canal that has ever existed on Cape Cod.
It has been nearly two centuries since Jeremiah’s Gutter was last truly in use. In the time since it was discontinued it has reverted to its natural state. The opening at Boat Meadow Beach still remains and looks as though it could still be traveled at high tide. However the creek becomes more and more narrow heading toward Town Cove to the point where it virtually has vanished due to the construction of the Orleans Rotary. The Gutter is memorialized through a marker just off of the rotary with Jeremiah Smith’s home residing only a few hundred yards away on Old State Highway.
By Christopher Setterlund | <urn:uuid:a3cc0283-dc47-43b0-a5c2-6ec39513075a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.capecod.com/lifestyle/the-original-cape-cod-canal/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00274-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982571 | 981 | 3.5 | 4 |
DBE Certifications in West Virginia
Explore DBE Certification programs available in West Virginia
Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) certifications are awarded to businesses throughout West Virginia that are at least 51% owned and operated by a disadvantaged individual. By getting certified, businesses receive increased opportunities and access to government and public contracts and subcontracts. To ensure nondiscrimination, disadvantaged businesses, which include small, minority, and woman-owned businesses, are given the chance to strengthen and grow through statewide, regional, and local programs.
Statewide Certification Programs
West Virginia Unified Certification Program (WVUCP)
To qualify for DBE certification, the business owner should apply through the West Virginia Unified Certification Program (WVUCP) program. The WVUCP operates as a “one-stop shop” for businesses looking to receive a Diverse Business Enterprise (DBE) certification. With this certification, businesses can compete for state and federal Department of Transportation (DOT) contracts and projects. Benefits include greater visibility for large contracts, access to consulting and training resources offered by the WVUCP, and certification recognition by many Business Enterprise programs through the state. To qualify, businesses must be for-profit, at least 51% owned by a qualifying U.S. citizen, and meet financial requirements.
The biggest provider of DBE projects is the West Virginia Department of Transportation (WVDOT) and it requires certification through the UCP. The Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program was established to ensure that businesses owned and operated by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals are given the opportunity to participate in contracts financed by the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT).
Small, Woman-, and Minority-Owned Businesses (SWAM) Certification Program
The Small, Woman-owned, and Minority Business Certification Program is a state program that is at least 51% owned and operated by women in effort to increase the participation of SWAMs in state-funded projects. Being a part of the SWAM Certification Program gives vendors the opportunity to bid with out-of-state governments that also participate in the certification.
Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB) Federal Contracting Program
The WOSB Federal Contracting Program creates many opportunities for participating businesses to be involved in federal contracts. To be eligible, your business must be a small business owned and controlled by a woman who is a U.S. citizen.
For more information on eligibility or how to apply, visit the Women-Owned Small Business Federal Contracting Program located on the U.S. Small Business Administration website.
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has four third-party certifiers for woman-owned businesses to use:
- Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC)
- National Women Business Owners Corporation (NWBOC)
- U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce (USWCC)
- The El Paso Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (EPHCC)
Women’s Business Enterprise Council Ohio River Valley (WBEC ORV)
As an affiliate of the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), the Women’s Business Enterprise Council Ohio River Valley (WBEC ORV) certifies woman-owned businesses in Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia. The WBENC Certification is the most prominent woman-owned business certification in the United States. WBEC-ORV offers access to numerous resources and creates opportunities for all certified members. Women can form connections and seek out corporations interested in doing business. To obtain a WBENC Certification, you must undergo a very detailed process. Businesses that are at least 51% owned and operated by a woman who is a U.S. citizen may qualify.
National Women Business Owners Corporation (NWBOC)
Along with certifying woman-owned businesses, the NWBOC has expanded to certifying veteran-owned businesses as well. The NWBOC awards certifications for the Minority Business Enterprise (MBE), Woman-Owned Small Businesses (WOSM), and Economically Disadvantaged Woman-Owned Small Business (EDWOSB). Being certified opens the door to many more opportunities for businesses.
To learn more about the program, certification, or eligibility, visit http://nwboc.org/index.html.
Click here to access the NWBOC certification applications.
U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce (USWCC)
The USWCC offers Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB), Economically Disadvantaged Woman-Owned Small Business (EDWOSB), National Women’s Business Enterprise (NWBE), and International Women’s Business Enterprise (IWBE) certifications, as well as many resources to set women up for success.
To learn more about the USWCC certifications, visit https://staging2.uswcc.org/certification/.
The El Paso Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (EPHCC)
The EPHCC offers Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE) certifications to businesses that are either minority or woman-owned.
Visit the EPHCC website for more information.
Local and Regional Programs
Kanawha Valley Regional Transportation Authority (KVRTA)
KVRTA’s Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program ensures that all DBEs have equal opportunities to participate in contracts, following regulations of USDOT 49 CFR Part 26. WVDOT certifies businesses as DBE through the WVUCP.
Tri-State Minority Supplier Development Council (TSMSDC)
Businesses in West Virginia that are at least 51% owned and operated by one or more ethnic minorities can get a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) certification from this regional branch of the national organization called the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC). By certifying through this program, businesses can utilize exclusive resources and events, increase exposure to business opportunities, and access government and public contracts. The TSMSDC offers minority business certifications for companies across the state by applying online.
For more information on requirements for becoming MBE certified, visit https://tsmsdc.com/mbe-certification/mbe-certification-application/. | <urn:uuid:40a6552f-268a-43ea-87a1-964e762a657f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://supplier.coupa.com/certifications/dbe-certifications-in-west-virginia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.932258 | 1,305 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Community: What is it? | Genesis 2:24
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
Connection in marriage is the bond that ties a couple together for life. Today’s passage describes the essential ingredients for that connection.
Leave: In marriage, total allegiance must be to each other. Many marriages (or second or third) struggle because someone didn’t leave mommy and daddy.
United: This word is used to describe permanence, an unwavering commitment. If divorce is an option, it may well become a reality.
One flesh: The one flesh relationship describes…
- Spiritual Oneness: Growing together in love for Christ. “Unequally yoked” doesn’t cut it.
- Physical Oneness: An exclusive, intimate commitment. No other options!
- Emotional Oneness: Commitment to exclusive feelings. No emotional affairs.
- Oneness of Mission: Going the same direction at the same time for the same reasons…not two independent strangers sharing the same address.
God’s instruction on marriage is clear. The failure to follow it takes a couple on one rocky and unbiblical ride.
Father, help us to know, understand, and apply your instruction on marriage. The world desperately needs to see what it looks like when a husband and wife are sold out to you and each other. In Jesus name. Amen. | <urn:uuid:76600ed3-0ad6-4685-b39b-4e5fc5d48241> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.christianity.com/devotionals/forward-with-ron-moore/the-journey-september-2-2014.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00164-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932607 | 306 | 2.109375 | 2 |
The standard state is an arbitrary condition set for a material for the purpose of creating a standardized reference point. This allows researchers and others who want to communicate information about the substances they work with to know that people reading that information will understand the point of reference used for measuring change, activity, and other characteristics. Some organizations have set guidelines to establish the standard state for various elements and expect their members to abide by them.
Classically, the standard state of a material is its natural condition when it is at one atmosphere of pressure or a concentration of 1 mole per liter. While this is not dependent on temperature, some researchers may note 77° F (25° C) as a standard temperature in this state for reference, as it may be important when discussing chemical activity. With this as a benchmark, a researcher can more easily describe what happens when pressure and other environmental characteristics change.
Researchers may make assumptions about the standard state of elements; they are presumed to be pure, for example, unless the documentation states otherwise. Such assumptions are also standardized to ensure that researchers work with the same basic information. If confusion is likely, a researcher can specify what is meant by the standard state in a given experiment or discussion. Despite the “standard” in the name, standard states can actually fluctuate and researchers may adjust them to meet their needs.
Tables on the properties of various materials use the standard state as a reference when describing their activities at higher and lower temperatures, pressures, and other conditions. This is the zero line that a researcher can use to measure degrees of change. For the purpose of introductory science courses, teachers and textbooks often define standard states simplistically to provide students with the basic information they need without overwhelming them. As students progress in chemistry, they may encounter more advanced discussions of standard states.
The superscript symbol ° may be used to indicate that a material is in its standard state. In experimental documentation, it is important to provide information about the state that materials were in at the time of an experiment. This will make it easier to test and repeat the results. Essentially, the standard state is the “normal” for the material under discussion. If the material was in a different state, this would be need to be noted to contextualize the results. | <urn:uuid:33df0e27-613b-419c-83cd-8b8e9752f219> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.allthescience.org/in-chemistry-what-is-the-standard-state.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.930682 | 460 | 4.25 | 4 |
President Zuma concluded his state visit to France, which served to advance relations between the two countries, on a high note.
President Zuma held talks with his French counterpart, President François Hollande.
Agreements were signed during the visit to deepen cooperation between the two countries in the fields of energy, agriculture, higher education and training, as well as arts and culture. Both countries welcomed the implementation of the 2015 Alstom Gibela-Prasa contract for the supply of rolling stock, which will create more than 30 000 industrial jobs and stimulate localisation in the field of rail transport.
The two countries also signed the renewed Partnership Framework Document on development cooperation for the period 2016-2019, which makes provision for collaboration in the promotion of national priorities.
President Zuma also met French CEOs and addressed the South Africa-France Business Forum.
In the meeting, President Zuma urged the private sector to explore investment opportunities in South Africa.
Two-way trade currently stands at R33 billion in favour of France. There are about 350 French companies doing business in the country, while only 30 South African businesses are operating in France.
The President also officiated the centenary commemoration of the Battle of Delville Wood in Somme, France, an event that ended 100 years of the marginalisation of black soldiers who died in the First World War. Government has built a memorial in France that recognises all soldiers regardless of race.
The battle at Delville Wood occurred when the South African Brigade was deployed to Somme, an area along the French-Belgium border, in 1916.
The Battle of Delville Wood went down in the history of the First World War as an example of supreme sacrifice and heroism and remained the most costly action the South African Brigade fought on the Western Front.
President Zuma said the centenary commemoration was of special significance to all South Africans.
During the visit President Zuma also received the digitised Rivonia Trial dictabelts from President Hollande.
The deteriorating audio recordings of the 1963-1964 court case were restored by France’s National Audiovisual Institute (INA). | <urn:uuid:18b0476e-231d-4c7f-a5fd-24896aea58bb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.vukuzenzele.gov.za/sa-and-france-boost-relations | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00671.warc.gz | en | 0.95963 | 436 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Bestselling author Jean M. Auel's epic six-book Earth's Children series transports readers back in time 30,000 years into the world of the earliest humans and their struggle for both survival and civilization.
The first book, Clan of the Cave Bear, became a literary sensation when it was published in 1980, earning fans because of Jean's meticulous research as well as her engaging storytelling.
Jean Auel will visit the Skyline Country Club in Tucson, Arizona on March 1st to appear at the 16th Annual Brandeis Book & Author Luncheon, and that gave me a chance to ask her about the inspiration behind her work....
Jean M. Auel will be one of a quartet of authors at the Tucson Chapter / Brandeis National Commitee's 16th Annual Book & Author Luncheon on March 1st. Also appearing are David Liss, Peter Likins, and Gayle Lynds.
All net proceeds from this event will benefit Sustaining the Mind, a Brandeis National Committee fund supporting neuroscience research such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and Lou Gehrig's disease, as well as endowed scholarships for science students at Brandeis University.
For further information, contact Sheila Rothenberg at 520-232-9559, or email@example.com.
The Tucson Chapter of the Brandeis National Committee is an underwriter of Arizona Public Media. | <urn:uuid:3dc5992f-60c4-4f20-a9ae-de2cc85f8052> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://radio.azpm.org/s/8079-author-jean-m-auel/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281746.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00280-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931334 | 294 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Scientists have concluded that tropical forests demonstrate high resilience, even after they are cut down, due to agriculture or pasture use, if they are left alone for 20 years. According to the study published in December 2021.
“Tropical forests are converted at alarming rates to other land uses yet they also have the potential to regrow naturally on abandoned agricultural fields and pastures. Widespread land abandonment because of fertility loss, migration, or alternative livelihood options has led to a rapid increase in the extent of regrowing forests. Currently, regrowth covers as much as 28% (2.4 million km2) of the neotropics alone. Regrowing secondary forests form a large and important component of human-modified tropical landscapes and have the potential to play a key role in biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation, and landscape restoration. | <urn:uuid:2dc5404a-2bdf-4b29-ac59-86453a0370e8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://law-in-action.com/2021/12/15/re-growing-our-lost-tropical-forests/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.963621 | 167 | 3.984375 | 4 |
Microjobs – What Are They?
Microjobs are defined as a job that requires little time and effort to complete. In today’s economy with the price of gas, food and other necessities constantly increasing every last dollar that we can make becomes more important than ever.
Considering the unemployment rate and availability of jobs, have you ever thought why not MAKE the jobs for yourself rather than go out endlessly trying to find one? Microjobs affords you the chance to be creative with you mind and get paid to complete all kinds of tasks. These jobs can be done in person for family members, people that you know or even online. The online market is a huge opportunity for microjobs that you can specialize any niche and make money online in 2013.
Anyone is capable of fulfilling microjobs and making money. You may think it is difficult to find people willing to pay for these jobs to be done, however this is not the case. There are thousands if not millions of people/companies who are ready and willing to pay for tasks to be completed, which is how you can take advantage. Let’s take a look at some microjobs to give you an idea of the tasks you could be doing for money.
3 Examples Of Microjobs
1. Cleaning – You can clean just about anything, so offering this service to people is an easy way to make some extra money. You can offer car detailing and cleaning jobs, clean a room for somebody you know or for a business. Pull all of your sources together and target anyone/anyone possible to clean. The more people or companies you interact with, the more opportunities will become available to you.
2. Snow removal and/or lawn care – If you live up north where it snows every winter, this is a great opportunity to help people who want their snow removed. If you’re in the sunshine state, or towards the south then you can offer lawn cutting and care.
3. Microjobs To Make Money Online In 2013 – This section will focus on microjobs that are available to you via the Internet and online. There are such a variety of ways to complete tasks for people online. One website that I have personally used over the last year is Fiverr.com. | <urn:uuid:234b903e-2f7d-4247-b8b3-248f2e6f58d1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://waystomakemoneyworkingonline.com/3-easy-microjobs-for-money-in-2013/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283008.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00090-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95084 | 459 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Social care and wellbeing
Advice and support for children, young people, families, their networks and others who support them.
Living independently at home and in your community, and getting the right care and support when you need it.
Information and guidance for practitioners and professionals.
Could you provide a home for a child in need?
Specialist advice and support for people with disabilities.
A carer is someone of any age who provides unpaid support to family or friends who could not manage without this help. | <urn:uuid:366840ab-37e2-425f-ac06-237415d9adc2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.swansea.gov.uk/socialcare?lang=en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.967856 | 104 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Across the nation, there is a lot of motion towards expressing gratitude to our nation’s veterans and showing appreciation for their sacrifice. New traditions are being formed, activities and conferences are being held, and ceremonies are taking place in honor of our veterans. Below are a couple of examples.
In Burbank, California, a long-standing fourth of July tradition had a companion this year. A new tradition, dedicating to benefiting local veterans, was begun this last fourth of July. In Burbank, there has been a traditional celebration with fireworks and picnics at the Starlight Bowl. Many of the local residents drive to the top level of a parking garage of a nearby mall to view the fireworks. The managers of the mall decided to make the gathering an official event, and raise funds for a local organization that provides counseling programs for veterans – an appropriate goal when celebrating the nations birth. The local organization is called the Family Service Agency of Burbank’s Coming Home Project.
To make the gathering official, an optional $5 donation was requested, which gave the donor a voucher to taste-test the foods from the many establishments that had set up booths on top of the parking structure. Many of the restaurants also donated much of their profits from the night to the Family Service Agency. A myriad of celebrities patronized the event, some taking part in the festivities and others playing a larger role, including “Grace Under Fire”s Sam Horrigan.
Across the country, in Hamilton, Ohio, a slightly different event is being held to benefit homeless veterans in the area – a mud volleyball tournament. Originally put together by the owner of a local deli, by the time the event happened on Saturday July 13th, much of the town had gotten together to contribute in some way to the event. All of the proceeds of the event go to the local VA medical center, which will then be distributed to homeless veterans in the area.
Plenty of other forms of entertainment accompanied the mud volleyball tournament, including hay rides, an old-fashioned BBQ, and children’s games. All of the entertainment was family friendly and many families came and enjoyed the festivities. The tournament in Hamilton, Ohio is a classic example of what many groups around the country are doing all the time to benefit their veterans.
In yet another part of the country, citizens in Olathe, Kansas prepare for the second annual Spencer Duncan 5k. The Spencer Duncan 5k was established in memory of Spencer C. Duncan, one of 30 servicemen who were killed when their Chinook helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan, and all of the proceeds from the 5k go to the Spencer C. Duncan Make it Count Project, which is a foundation that provides assistance to local veterans. The Duncan family is passionate about the 5k and the Make it Count project, which they administer in honor of their fallen brother and son. Events and foundations like the Spencer Duncan 5k and project are to be found all throughout the country, and yearly provide great assistance to veterans in their areas.
Moving on now to Texas, we see an example of another event happening on a local level to benefit veterans. This past Saturday, veterans in San Antonio had the opportunity to attend a benefits fair to help them understand the variety of benefits available to them, with an emphasis on real estate, home ownership, and nursing homes. There were VA officials at the fair to answer questions and address concerns about open claims and process pertinent case information for veterans waiting for claims.
The benefits fair in San Antonio is an annual event, which they hold for the sole purpose of making it easier for veterans to learn about the benefits available to them. Instead of the veteran having to travel to and deal with numerous agencies and organizations to find out all of the benefits they have access to, they can come to the benefits fair in San Antonio and learn all about all the benefits in their area.
The large amount of local events, charities, benefits, and educational fairs that are going on throughout our country indicate an increasingly positive outlook on our veterans and a willingness to help those who have served us faithfully. As we continue to look for ways to assist our veterans and help make their adjustment to civilian life not only possible but pleasant, we can expect more young people to make the commitment to serve their country. | <urn:uuid:09f5c73b-537c-4ca1-84b6-5dde28653450> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.lowvarates.com/va-loan-blog/locals-find-ways-to-appreciate-their-veterans/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283008.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00088-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9671 | 875 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Travel along the Tumbling Waters Trail to experience all that Delaware Water Gap has to offer in one location.
Starting at the Pocono Environmental Education Center, follow signage to the orange-blazed Tumbling Waters Trail, located directly across Emery Rd. from the main parking area. Begin the trail hiking on a boardwalk along the edge of two small ponds through shrubbery-laden wetlands. Continue on, passing mixed hardwood forests, remnants of past farming activity, pine plantations, and a hemlock ravine. About halfway through the trail, you have the option to take the Tumbling Waters Spur
down steep switchbacks to a viewpoint overlooking Tumbling Waters.
When you've finished, ascend the switchbacks and continue along the trail, passing fantastic views of the Delaware Water Gap near the ridge-top.
Along the trail from the ridge-top, keep your eyes peeled for small stone walls, indicative of this area's rich farming history.
After descending the ridge, the trail follows mixed hardwood forests to its end at a T-junction with a paved road. Follow the road west to the Pocono Environmental Education Center Parking Area.
For more information on the natural history of the Tumbling Waters area, see Pocono Environmental Education Center's Tumbling Waters natural history pamphlet. | <urn:uuid:14dcbcc5-0a84-4d61-a1fa-ed13a5e0ff97> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://new.hikingproject.com/trail/7013969/tumbling-waters-trail | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.912431 | 264 | 1.96875 | 2 |
Getaway Financial Financial Loans
A vacation loan is simply a unsecured loan that’s made use of to pay for getaway costs, like seats to xmas gift ideas. Conventional getaway loans tend to be unsecured, indicating no collateral is required by them. LendingTree’s on line loan market enables you to go shopping for competitive prices and terms for financial financial loans as much as $50,000 or maybe more.
Getaway financial loans are merely signature loans
Holiday loans tend to be signature loans utilized to cover any expenses that are holiday-related. These loans can connect the space in the middle of your present record as well as your banking account. These are generally granted by banking institutions like financial institutions, credit unions and lenders that are online and include fixed monthly premiums over a group duration, usually 12 to 60 months.
Getaway loan APRs tend to be fixed, indicating that you secure your rate of interest whenever you sign up for the mortgage. That is beneficial over charge cards and private credit lines, which may have adjustable interest levels which could fluctuate unexpectedly.
Getaway financial loans are usually unsecured, meaning they don’t require collateral. Due to this, banking institutions count greatly on aspects such as your credit history, earnings and debt-to-income proportion to figure out qualifications.
Beware predatory loan providers all over festive season
A vacation loan is certainly not a cash advance. Pay day loan loan providers victimize customers who require quick getaway cash without any credit check, then capture all of them within an cycle that is expensive of with brief payment terms and very large APRs. While shopping for vacation finance choices online, verify that loan providers are providing financial financial loans at affordable prices and therefore charges tend to be reasonable for the financial predicament.
Should you receive a vacation loan?
As the breaks are really a time that is joyous of, additionally they may cause a great deal of monetary stress. In reality, 61percent of Us citizens dread the holiday season because of investing, a 2019 LendingTree review discovered. From unique dishes, to gift suggestions for family to holiday vacation, you can find constantly extra costs around christmas that may ruin even the most useful spending plans.
Before you rush to just just just take a holiday loan out, look at the benefits and drawbacks:
Price of any occasion loan
The drawback that is biggest to taking right out a getaway loan could be the price of borrowing from the bank. While good-credit borrowers may secure more positive terms and reduced APRs than with bank cards, it is nonetheless perhaps perhaps not suggested to get financial obligation for online payday WI unneeded expenditures and assets that won’t appreciate in price.
Getaway loan APRs typically range between about 10per cent to 25per cent, but poor-credit borrowers may get loan provides with greater APRs. Think about the complete cost of borrowing before searching for getaway loan assistance:
Exploring Online Pay Day Loans With Instant Approval
People who are in search of usage of cash immediately probably do not have the full time to stay around and watch for that loan choice from the loan provider if they’re dealing with a situation that is serious life. Many people require use of disaster funds whenever some thing arises inside their life which they simply don’t possess the amount of money to pay for readily available, and also this is where financial financial loans can actually be useful.
Sadly, the process that is traditional of to have that loan through regional loan providers or during your lender can frequently just take too much time when it comes to endorsement to endure, plus some of the organizations will simply utilize individuals with great credit, anyway. If you’re one of many an incredible number of people that don’t possess the most effective credit history, you see your alternatives much more reduced.
This won’t need to be the full instance today, nonetheless. Thanks to online pay day loans with immediate approval, it really is simple that is dead just about anyone to sign onto a loan provider’s site and make an application for immediate financial loans with no credit check right once they require it. | <urn:uuid:5e2b442a-9aea-413a-b7c1-1543cb6ba522> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://shoppyar.com/a-vacation-loan-is-merely-a-loan-that-is/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.964689 | 853 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Don’t forget to say Thank You
By Vladislav Luchianov
Figure skating is a great sport which gives us many wonderful emotions. We are happy when our favorites skate their best programs. We always look forward to their new appearance on the ice. But not all fans know that their support of the favorites can be very useful not only on the stands.
Figure skaters train every day for many hours and the time of their performance continues just a few minutes. In many respects they perform for us. I think that they deserve support of the fans not only during the moments of performances. Ask yourself the following question: “How often do you thank your favorites?” I don’t mean applause on stands during the competitions. I mean the word “thank you” told directly or written in electronic form. I think that it is an important thing.
It even more actual when your figure skaters have not easy times. Very often happens that we admire someone on peak of the glory and practically forget about him or her when something goes not so good. I think that it is wrong. Moreover, I know that this support, during various times, is important.
Practically all athletes have any contact information: website, Facebook, Twitter or something else. I’m sure that writing words of support or gratitude won’t take away from you a lot of time, and your favorite will receive positive emotions which perhaps he/she needs now. It is not true when some fans think that nobody reads such messages. No, they read them!
Just imagine that each skater will have such support constantly. I’m sure that in that case an athlete will receive an additional inspiration for the trainings and performances.
It is very important that these words of gratitude were sincere, instead of just formal. Sincerity always is felt, without dependence from a kind of its display.
So let’s love, appreciate and respect those who bring in our life so much beautiful things. | <urn:uuid:7b687fb8-7c16-4194-93c9-5c7fad49124c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://fskating.com/2011/03/dont-forget-to-say-thank-you.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00172-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97192 | 414 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Special Message to Congress on the Foreign Policy Crisis—War Message (June 1, 1812) James Madison Transcript To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States:I communicate to Congress certain documents, being a continuation of those heretofore laid before them on the subject of our affairs with Great Britain.Without going back beyond the renewal in 1803 of the war in which Great Britain is engaged, and omitting unrepaired wrongs of inferior magnitude, the conduct of her government presents a series of acts hostile to the United States as an independent and neutral nation.British cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the American flag on the great highway of nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it, not in the exercise of a belligerent right founded on the law of nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels in a situation where no laws can operate but the law of nations and the laws of the country to which the vessels belong, and a self-redress is assumed which, if British subjects were wrongfully detained and alone concerned, is that substitution of force for a resort to the responsible sovereign which falls within the definition of war. Could the seizure of British subjects in such cases be regarded as within the exercise of a belligerent right, the acknowledged laws of war, which forbid an article of captured property to be adjudged without a regular investigation before a competent tribunal, would imperiously demand the fairest trial where the sacred rights of persons were at issue. In place of such a trial these rights are subjected to the will of every petty commander.The practice, hence, is so far from affecting British subjects alone that, under the pretext of searching for these, thousands of American citizens, under the safeguard of public law and of their national flag, have been torn from their country and from everything dear to them; have been dragged on board ships of war of a foreign nation and exposed, under the severities of their discipline, to be exiled to the most distant and deadly climes, to risk their lives in the battles of their oppressors, and to be the melancholy instruments of taking away those of their own brethren.Against this crying enormity, which Great Britain would be so prompt to avenge if committed against herself, the United States have in vain exhausted remonstrances and expostulations, and that no proof might be wanting of their conciliatory dispositions, and no pretext left for a continuance of the practice, the British government was formally assured of the readiness of the United States to enter into arrangements such as could not be rejected if the recovery of British subjects were the real and the sole object. The communication passed without effect.British cruisers have been in the practice also of violating the rights and the peace of our coasts. They hover over and harass our entering and departing commerce. To the most insulting pretensions they have added the most lawless proceedings in our very harbors, and have wantonly spilt American blood within the sanctuary of our territorial jurisdiction. The principles and rules enforced by that nation, when a neutral nation, against armed vessels of belligerents hovering near her coasts and disturbing her commerce are well known. When called on, nevertheless, by the United States to punish the greater offenses committed by her own vessels, her government has bestowed on their commanders additional marks of honor and confidence.Under pretended blockades, without the presence of an adequate force and sometimes without the practicability of applying one, our commerce has been plundered in every sea, the great staples of our country have been cut off from their legitimate markets, and a destructive blow aimed at our agricultural and maritime interests. In aggravation of these predatory measures they have been considered as in force from the dates of their notification, a retrospective effect being thus added, as has been done in other important cases, to the unlawfulness of the course pursued. And to render the outrage the more signal these mock blockades have been reiterated and enforced in the face of official communications from the British government declaring as the true definition of a legal blockade "that particular ports must be actually invested and previous warning given to vessels bound to them not to enter."Not content with these occasional expedients for laying waste our neutral trade, the cabinet of Britain resorted at length to the sweeping system of blockades, under the name of orders in council, which has been molded and managed as might best suit its political views, its commercial jealousies, or the avidity of British cruisers.To our remonstrances against the complicated and transcendent injustice of this innovation the first reply was that the orders were reluctantly adopted by Great Britain as a necessary retaliation on decrees of her enemy proclaiming a general blockade of the British Isles at a time when the naval force of that enemy dared not issue from his own ports. She was reminded without effect that her own prior blockades, unsupported by an adequate naval force actually applied and continued, were a bar to this plea; that executed edicts against millions of our property could not be retaliation on edicts confessedly impossible to be executed; that retaliation, to be just, should fall on the party setting the guilty example, not on an innocent party which was not even chargeable with an acquiescence in it.When deprived of this flimsy veil for a prohibition of our trade with her enemy by the repeal of his prohibition of our trade with Great Britain, her cabinet, instead of a corresponding repeal or a practical discontinuance of its orders, formally avowed a determination to persist in them against the United States until the markets of her enemy should be laid open to British products, thus asserting an obligation on a neutral power to require one belligerent to encourage by its internal regulations the trade of another belligerent, contradicting her own practice toward all nations, in peace as well as in war, and betraying the insincerity of those professions which inculcated a belief that, having resorted to her orders with regret, she was anxious to find an occasion for putting an end to them.Abandoning still more all respect for the neutral rights of the United States and for its own consistency, the British government now demands as prerequisites to a repeal of its orders as they relate to the United States that a formality should be observed in the repeal of the French decrees nowise necessary to their termination nor exemplified by British usage, and that the French repeal, besides including that portion of the decrees which operates within a territorial jurisdiction, as well as that which operates on the high seas, against the commerce of the United States should not be a single and special repeal in relation to the United States, but should be extended to whatever other neutral nations unconnected with them may be affected by those decrees. And as an additional insult, they are called on for a formal disavowal of conditions and pretensions advanced by the French government for which the United States are so far from having made themselves responsible that, in official explanations which have been published to the world, and in a correspondence of the American minister at London with the British minister for foreign affairs such a responsibility was explicitly and emphatically disclaimed.It has become, indeed, sufficiently certain that the commerce of the United States is to be sacrificed, not as interfering with the belligerent rights of Great Britain; not as supplying the wants of her enemies, which she herself supplies; but as interfering with the monopoly which she covets for her own commerce and navigation. She carries on a war against the lawful commerce of a friend that she may the better carry on a commerce with an enemy ? a commerce polluted by the forgeries and perjuries which are for the most part the only passports by which it can succeed.Anxious to make every experiment short of the last resort of injured nations, the United States have withheld from Great Britain, under successive modifications, the benefits of a free intercourse with their market, the loss of which could not but outweigh the profits accruing from her restrictions of our commerce with other nations. And to entitle these experiments to the more favorable consideration they were so framed as to enable her to place her adversary under the exclusive operation of them. To these appeals her government has been equally inflexible, as if willing to make sacrifices of every sort rather than yield to the claims of justice or renounce the errors of a false pride. Nay, so far were the attempts carried to overcome the attachment of the British cabinet to its unjust edicts that it received every encouragement within the competency of the executive branch of our government to expect that a repeal of them would be followed by a war between the United States and France, unless the French edicts should also be repealed. Even this communication, although silencing forever the plea of a disposition in the United States to acquiesce in those edicts originally the sole plea for them, received no attention.If no other proof existed of a predetermination of the British government against a repeal of its orders, it might be found in the correspondence of the minister plenipotentiary of the United States at London and the British secretary for foreign affairs in 1810, on the question whether the blockade of May, 1806, was considered as in force or as not in force. It had been ascertained that the French government, which urged this blockade as the ground of its Berlin decree, was willing in the event of its removal, to repeal that decree, which, being followed by alternate repeals of the other offensive edicts, might abolish the whole system on both sides. This inviting opportunity for accomplishing an object so important to the United States, and professed so often to be the desire of both the belligerents, was made known to the British government. As that government admits that an actual application of an adequate force is necessary to the existence of a legal blockade, and it was notorious that if such a force had ever been applied its long discontinuance had annulled the blockade in question, there could be no sufficient objection on the part of Great Britain to a formal revocation of it, and no imaginable objection to a declaration of the fact that the blockade did not exist. The declaration would have been consistent with her avowed principles of blockade, and would have enabled the United States to demand from France the pledged repeal of her decrees, either with success, in which case the way would have been opened for a general repeal of the belligerent edicts, or without success, in which case the United States would have been justified in turning their measures exclusively against France. The British government would, however, neither rescind the blockade nor declare its nonexistence, nor permit its non-existence to be inferred and affirmed by the American plenipotentiary. On the contrary, by representing the blockade to be comprehended in the orders in council, the United States were compelled so to regard it in their subsequent proceedings.There was a period when a favorable change in the policy of the British cabinet was justly considered as established. The minister plenipotentiary of His Britannic Majesty here proposed an adjustment of the differences more immediately endangering the harmony of the two countries. The proposition was accepted with the promptitude and cordiality corresponding with the invariable professions of this government. A foundation appeared to be laid for a sincere and lasting reconciliation. The prospect, however, quickly vanished. The whole proceeding was disavowed by the British government without any explanations which could at that time repress the belief that the disavowal proceeded from a spirit of hostility to the commercial rights and prosperity of the United States; and it has since come into proof that at the very moment when the public minister was holding the language of friendship and inspiring confidence in the sincerity of the negotiation with which he was charged a secret agent of his government was employed in intrigues having for their object a subversion of our government and a dismemberment of our happy union.In reviewing the conduct of Great Britain toward the United States our attention is necessarily drawn to the warfare just renewed by the savages on one of our extensive frontiers ? a warfare which is known to spare neither age nor sex and to be distinguished by features peculiarly shocking to humanity. It is difficult to account for the activity and combinations which have for some time been developing themselves among tribes in constant intercourse with British traders and garrisons without connecting their hostility with that influence and without recollecting the authenticated examples of such interpositions heretofore furnished by the officers and agents of that government.Such is the spectacle of injuries and indignities which have been heaped on our country, and such the crisis which its unexampled forbearance and conciliatory efforts have not been able to avert. It might at least have been expected that an enlightened nation, if less urged by moral obligations or invited by friendly dispositions on the part of the United States, would have found its true interest alone a sufficient motive to respect their rights and their tranquillity on the high seas; that an enlarged policy would have favored that free and general circulation of commerce in which the British nation is at all times interested, and which in times of war is the best alleviation of its calamities to herself as well as to other belligerents; and more especially that the British cabinet would not, for the sake of a precarious and surreptitious intercourse with hostile markets, have persevered in a course of measures which necessarily put at hazard the invaluable market of a great and growing country, disposed to cultivate the mutual advantages of an active commerce.Other counsels have prevailed. Our moderation and conciliation have had no other effect than to encourage perseverance and to enlarge pretensions. We behold our seafaring citizens still the daily victims of lawless violence, committed on the great common and highway of nations, even within sight of the country which owes them protection. We behold our vessels, freighted with the products of our soil and industry, or returning with the honest proceeds of them, wrested from their lawful destinations, confiscated by prize courts no longer the organs of public law but the instruments of arbitrary edicts, and their unfortunate crews dispersed and lost, or forced or inveigled in British ports into British fleets, whilst arguments are employed in support of these aggressions which have no foundation but in a principle equally supporting a claim to regulate our external commerce in all cases whatsoever.We behold, in fine, on the side of Great Britain, a state of war against the United States, and on the side of the United States a state of peace toward Great Britain.Whether the United States shall continue passive under these progressive usurpations and these accumulating wrongs, or, opposing force to force in defense of their national rights, shall commit a just cause into the hands of the Almighty Disposer of Events, avoiding all connections which might entangle it in the contest or views of other powers, and preserving a constant readiness to concur in an honorable re-establishment of peace and friendship, is a solemn question which the Constitution wisely confides to the legislative department of the government. In recommending it to their early deliberations I am happy in the assurance that the decision will be worthy the enlightened and patriotic councils of a virtuous, a free, and a powerful nation.Having presented this view of the relations of the United States with Great Britain and of the solemn alternative grow mg out of them, I proceed to remark that the communica tions last made to Congress on the subject of our relations with France will have shewn that since the revocation of her decrees, as they violated the neutral rights of the United States, her government has authorized illegal captures by its privateers and public ships, and that other outrages have been practised on our vessels and our citizens It will have been seen also that no indemnity had been provided or satisfacto rily pledged for the extensive spoliations committed under the violent and retrospective orders of the French government against the property of our citizens seized within the jurisdic tion of France I abstain at this time from recommending to the consideration of Congress definitive measures with re spect to that nation, in the expectation that the result of un closed discussions between our minister plenipotentiary at Paris and the French government will speedily enable Congress to decide with greater advantage on the course due to the rights, the interests, and the honor of our country. | <urn:uuid:c83db057-4361-4954-8278-fa17c17e0e7c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://millercenter.org/president/speeches/speech-3614 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00267-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971141 | 3,310 | 2.25 | 2 |
For North Carolina’s surf school charities, July is Helen Keller Foundation Month.
“We want to leave the world a better place,” said Keller Johnson-Thompson, announcing a three-year program supporting North Carolina surf camps for visually- and hearing-impaired children.
Johnson-Thompson is the great-grandniece of Helen Keller, who was born both deaf and blind, but left an inspirational legacy of achievement against insurmountable odds through her foundation’s advocacy mission. Johnson-Thomas serves as vice president of the foundation based in Tuscumbia, Ala.
“As water opened doors for Helen Keller, surf camps tap inner-joy and self-confidence, removing barriers for the future,” said Jack Viorel, president of North Carolina’s Indo Jax Surf Charities, one of the foundation’s beneficiaries.
Johnson-Thompson agreed. “We know surf camp will open doors and opportunities for these kids,” she said.
Wrightsville Beach and surrounding communities have a long history of reaching out to special needs kids and adults. Organizers of Indo Jax and Ocean Cure charity camps also participate in Surfers Healing for children with autism; Wounded Warriors surf camps; juvenile diabetes and cystic fibrosis camps.
Volunteers are needed for the following Indo Jax Surf Charities:
July 28-31 – Hearing Impaired Surf Camp
Aug. 11-14 – Boys and Girls Home of Waccamaw
Aug. 18 – Surfers Healing
Aug. 19-21 – Autism Surf Camp
Sept. 13 -Wounded Warriors Camp
Contact: Jack Viorel, phone 910-274-3565, email
Ocean Cure Charity Camps:
Aug. 4-7 – Wounded Warrior Project Surf Camp
Aug. 16 – Visually Impaired Camp
Aug. 18 – 21 – Autism Camp
Sept. 16 and Oct. 1 – Little Pink Houses of Hope
Contact: Kevin Murphy,
Ocean Cure Charity Camps, phone 910-431-0594
— Marimar McNaughton | <urn:uuid:95517b51-bd3c-4ba6-b362-e3b5bbd4dab1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://luminanews.com/2014/07/surf-charities-benefit-from-keller-foundation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00199-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.887424 | 438 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Creative Learning Center in Singapore - Here give the training of kids about the programming. It would a nice decision to enroll your child for a codding classes from Singapore. More Info : http://www.sgcodecampus.com/
Teach Programming to Your Children in Psychological Manner in Kids Learning Centers in Singapore
Singapore is one of the destinations for the people with corporate interests. This is why a number of courses are available there to provide the perfect career in the corporate sector. It is a known fact that programming of the prominent areas in the corporate world. Today is the era of information technologies. The programming is required to make the applications for computers as-well-as mobile phones. Therefore, the programming courses have wide significances these days in Singapore.
Kids Learning Center Singapore
The concept of kids learning center Singapore is also getting widely popular these days. The programming is taught to the kids from the early childhood, which makes their base strong. Many of the kids, who have learnt the programming from these institutions, have successfully completed the advanced degree courses at college level, such as B. Tech. and MCA. The learning centers teach according to the psychology of the kids. Some of the aspects about the programming learning of kids can be read as following.
Starting The Course With Scratch
The programming comprises of the work of logic. So, if the logical aptitude of the kids is strengthened, they can easily work on the computer programmes. Therefore, the programming education is given to them via scratch. The scratch building is the first step of programming. After completing this process, the laptops are assigned to them to teach them programming in a proper way.
Courses for Different Age Groups
The courses are available for different
age groups. Today, a number of
Institutions have started the courses
for the age group 5 to 7. The major
age groups for which these courses
are available are 8 to 11 and 12 to
16. The education is given to the
Kids according to the mindset
of their age.
You can get the info about these
courses with ease from the online
mediums. You can visit the website
of a creative learning center
Singapore and can check the
information about the courses
provided by the institutions
There are different levels available
in the courses for the age group
8 to 11 and 12 to 16. In the small
age group of 5 to 7, there is only
one level, which is known as
Level 0. Step by step growth is
given in different levels of
The registration can also be done online these days. It has made the process easier than before without any doubt. You can make the registration online and can visit the institute & enroll your kids.
Many of these institutions provide the other courses to the kids. The robotic learning is also very popular among the masses. There are a verity of robotic learning courses, offered by some of the institutions in Singapore.
SG Code Campus Pte Ltd.
1 Marine Parade Central #03-04 Singapore 449408 | <urn:uuid:97785d48-88b3-458d-9ea2-2b9fdde0252a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.slideserve.com/sgcodecampus/creative-learning-center-singapore-sg-code-campus | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00061-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928408 | 631 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Also known as:
Pancreatic cancer is a disease in which malignant (cancer) cells form in the tissues of the pancreas.
The pancreas is a gland about 6 inches long that is shaped like a thin pear lying on its side. The wider end of the pancreas is called the head, the middle section is called the body, and the narrow end is called the tail. The pancreas lies behind the stomach and in front of the spine.
Patients and families benefit from some of the finest, most comprehensive cancer services in the world, including the best in diagnostic imaging, state-of-the-art treatments, nationally-renowned research, and compassionate counseling and support. Our doctors, surgeons, nurses, researchers, patient advocates and other caregivers work together to treat cancer aggressively and to ensure that no person has to face the challenge of a cancer diagnosis alone.
Find more information on the Providence Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Cancer Program page | <urn:uuid:c4fc6a31-a139-43c0-99fb-d1a68b3b2a6f> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://oregon.providence.org/health-library/p/pancreatic-cancer/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988722459.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183842-00343-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938185 | 203 | 3 | 3 |
SUNY Cortland completed repair to underground high voltage electrical wires beside the entranceway to Clark Hall ahead of schedule, at 2:15 p.m. on Saturday, March 2.
The work was finished safely, and Clark Hall has been restored to normal power, leaving only an area of disturbed bricks that has been cordoned off until campus masons can reset it later this week.
An electrical short — like a giant spark — had occurred there on Monday, Feb. 25, in an underground concrete vault containing the power grid to that area of the campus. As a result, the electricity service was lost temporarily to several buildings on campus.
The cause of the outage was later determined to be a fault that developed in one of the underground conductors, which ultimately shorted. The damaged splice — connection point — that resulted was limited to one electrical line at the underground manhole in front of Clark Hall.
The original electrical outage had affected a major dining facility, Neubig Hall, several mid-campus lecture halls and six student residences, creating the need for many temporary arrangements that day involving evening class cancellations in Cornish and Van Hoesen halls and the Education Building, the direction of students to alternative dining sites, and overnight accommodations for Clark Hall residents with friends or at motels. The SUNY Cortland Child Care Center was closed after 3:30 p.m. on Feb. 25 and reopened the following day.
Because the line needed to be repaired with the power to Clark Hall turned off, the facility was put on an auxiliary generator the next day until the work could be completed this past weekend.
At 10 a.m. on Saturday, power was again temporarily shut down to 10 buildings on campus including six residence halls during the successful repair work, which lasted a little more than four hours.
The College’s Facilities Planning, Design and Construction Office officials learned that the original failure was due to the old age of the high-voltage wires carrying current into the electrical vault or manhole. Insulation covering the electrical wires failed and the escaped electricity caused the arc within the confines of the concrete structure.
The manhole works on a large scale somewhat like the electrical junction box in the walls of a home, explained Jeff Lallas, director of facilities planning, design and construction. The systems are configured to limit a short to inside the protective structure, and that’s what happened in this case.
The new design will be configured for greater reliability and ease of maintenance.
The College is midway through a five-year project to replace all major electrical wiring outside the buildings on the main campus with the new and more effective equipment. | <urn:uuid:20e0dd17-1d73-49cb-b48f-d6499442dccb> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www2.cortland.edu/news/detail.dot?id=b12c23ca-7588-459f-a770-1889ce40e766 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280587.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00565-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961782 | 544 | 1.726563 | 2 |
TUCSON, AZ -- The University of Arizona unveiled a 55,000-square-foot expansion to its student rec center last week that is expected to achieve LEED Gold certification.
LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is a green building certification from the U.S. Green Building Council with goals to improve energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction and indoor environmental quality.
The new building incorporates green features, such as natural daylighting, recycled rubber flooring, and low VOC paint and carpeting. In addition, 75 percent of construction waste was diverted during the facility’s construction.
The expansion includes a 30,000-square-foot weight room, rock climbing features, 104 new pieces of cardiovascular equipment with TVs and a multipurpose gym.
The facility's official grand opening celebration, which organizers call The Big Green Event, is slated for Feb. 22. In addition, a Rec Fest is scheduled for Feb. 23 that will include music, food, games, prize giveaways, free massages, acupuncture, cancer screenings and more. | <urn:uuid:8036edce-4335-4fe4-926f-be02450880a3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://clubindustry.com/print/universities/arizona-opens-green-rec-center-expansion | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00375-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930811 | 222 | 1.523438 | 2 |
- Special Sections
- Public Notices
History was made Wednesday evening at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., as Sarah Palin became the first Republican woman ever nominated vice president. It was the first time in 24 years, since Democrat Geraldine Ferraro was nominated in 1984, that any woman has even been on a national ticket.
Millions of people in front of televisions around the world joined some 45,000 delegates, alternates, volunteers, media and guests in St. Paul’s Xcel Energy Center to witness the historic moment.
“I accept the call to help our nominee for president to serve and defend America,” Palin said in her acceptance speech.
The excited crowd heard Palin, the governor of Alaska, speak of feeling privileged to have lived most of her life in a small town.
“I was just your average hockey mom, and signed up for the PTA because I wanted to make my kids’ public education better,” she said. “When I ran for city council, I didn’t need focus groups and voter profiles because I knew those voters, and knew their families, too. Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown.”
Palin said she is not a member of the permanent political establishment and spoke of learning quickly that if a candidate is not a member in good standing with the Washington elite, then some in the media consider that candidate unqualified for that reason alone.
“But here’s a little news flash for all those reporters and commentators,” she said. “I’m not going to Washington to seek their good opinion – I’m going to Washington to serve the people of this country.”
New Mexico Republicans Sen. Pete Domenici and Rep. Heather Wilson addressed the gender issue during a conference call from the convention Wednesday afternoon.
This is Domenici’s 10th and final presidential convention. “Certainly going back to at least the first five of them, there would have been no consideration to a woman,” he said. “But four or five conventions ago it wasn’t too far fetched that a woman would have been involved.”
The issues raised regarding Palin’s private life are irrelevant, Domenici said. “She will dispel and dispose of most of them tonight,” he said. “I think her family life has very little to do with this and the fact that she’s a mother having anything to do with this is absurd.”
Wilson told two news correspondents they were out of line when they asked her if Palin, a mother of five, including a 2-month-old son, could be a vice president and a mother, too.
“Nobody asked John F. Kennedy if he could be president and also a father,” Wilson said. “We all remember the photos of him and his young children ... It’s time to end the double standard in American politics.”
Most vice presidents don’t help elect presidents, Domenici said. Given one or two appearances in New Mexico by Palin, he said, and she may very well be stronger than McCain.
“She understands the energy issues and the oil and gas issues that we face here,” Domenici said. “She can’t hurt and she just might help (the campaign).”
On energy policies that a McCain-Palin administration will implement if elected Palin said, “Our opponents say, again and again, that drilling will not solve all of America’s energy problems – as if we all didn’t know that already. But the fact that drilling won’t solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all. Starting in January ... we’re going to lay more pipelines...build more nuclear plants...create jobs with clean coal...and move forward on solar, wind, geothermal, and other alternative sources.”
New Mexico alternate delegate Veronica Rodriguez of Los Alamos was seated on the floor of the convention arena during Palin’s historic speech and said she has never been in an atmosphere quite like it.
“It was interesting because the speakers were building up the excitement all night long and bringing things up to just under the boiling point before Gov. Palin came out,” Rodriguez said during a telephone interview this morning. “She gave a phenomenal speech. You see her and she’s so down to earth, plain spoken, and direct; she really connected with the people last night.”
Three former presidential candidates spoke before Palin. They expanded on the convention’s overall theme, “Country First,” and the theme for Wednesday’s events, which was “reform” as they discussed John McCain’s love of America, vision for the future, and long record of service and sacrifice.
“John McCain doesn’t want the kind of change that allows the government to reach deeper into your paycheck and pick your doctor, your child’s school, or even the kind of car you drive or how much you inflate the tires,” said former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney discussed what he called McCain’s ability to repair Washington’s partisan environment and restrain the unchecked growth of the federal government.
We need change all right - change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington,” he said. “We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington - throw out the big government liberals and elect John McCain.”
In making the case for Palin, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said she represents a new generation. “She’s already one of the most successful governors in America, and the most popular,” he said. “She’s led a city and a state. She’s reduced taxes and government spending. And she’s actually done something about moving America toward energy independence - taking on the oil companies while encouraging more energy exploration here at home.”
Now the delegates are mainly focusing on this evening and McCain’s speech and his expected acceptance of his party’s nomination for president, Rodriguez said.
The excitement generated since McCain tapped Palin as his running mate last Friday has resulted in an outpouring of support in terms of record-breaking campaign donations and massive crowds packing rallies in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Missouri.
Palin is scheduled to visit Albuquerque with McCain Saturday evening.
The Associated Press contributed to this story. | <urn:uuid:3dd9f711-e130-4915-8c1f-c4ab5f57bef1> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.lamonitor.com/content/sarah-palin-makes-history-2008-gop-convention?mini=calendar-date%2F2013-07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721405.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00313-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969135 | 1,383 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Halloween Fun & Safety
Halloween is a holiday full of fun, trick or treating, costumes, parties and more. Although Halloween is full of fun, it is important to be prepared and protected from the dangers that often come with the holiday festivities.
- Check to make sure that all costumes, wigs, accessories, etc. are fire resistant.
- Make sure shoes fit well and costumes are not too long that your child could trip.
- Avoid wearing masks that can make it hard to see.
- Any makeup or face paint used should be non-toxic and removed before children go to bed.
WHILE TRICK OR TREATING
- A parent or adult should always trick or treat alongside young children.
- Use flashlights, reflective tape or glow sticks if children are out after dark.
- If your older children are walking alone with friends, establish a safe neighborhood route and a time they should be home by.
- Advise your children to never go inside a car or house for a treat.
- For children with allergies: talk to them about the candies they can eat and closely examine their candy before eating.
- Keep carving tools away from children. Allow them to draw on the pumpkin, and have an adult do the carving.
- Consider using a fake candle, flashlight or glow stick in your pumpkin, instead of a fire candle.
- Candlelit pumpkins should be place on a sturdy surface away from flammable objects such as curtains. Always keep the fire attended.
HEALTHY & SAFE HALLOWEEN CHECKLIST
- Flash light (with fresh batteries)
- Reflective tape for costumes
- Carry a cell phone
- Clear walkways
- Turn on porch and house lights
- Avoid use of candles
- Contain pets in your house
Sources: National Safety Council. American Academy of Pediatrics. The Health Tip of the Week is for educational purposes only. For additional information, consult your physician. Please feel free to copy and distribute this health resource. | <urn:uuid:83b1d83c-0330-485d-9f45-ce2529e10f43> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.adventisthealthcare.com/living-well/halloween-fun--safety/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00479.warc.gz | en | 0.916439 | 434 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Monoid Font is a monospaced typeface that specifically creates improves developers’ productivity and reduces fatigue, it is an amazingly clear font.
With the character’s width, clear distinction, and excellent reading flow, this typeface is the best choice for programming and development purposes.
Its characters are designed in Semi-condensed and distinguishable just to provide a professional look. This font was designed and shared by Andreas Larsen.
Additionally, this beautiful font has a small ascent and descent sequence with top operators and punctuation marks. That’s why it has everything the design needs from the font family.
|Font Name:||Monoid Font Family|
|Style:||Sans Serif, Monospaced, Coding|
|Font Designer:||Andreas Larsen|
|License:||Free For Commercial Use|
Character Map Image
Take a look at the image below in which we shared the style of this typeface.
Try it out for web designing, web development, app development, game graphics, web content, official documents, unique emblems, book covers, book paragraphs, the printing of cards, brand logos, product design, etc.
As a sweet pack, it comes in four styles including Regular, Italic, Bold, and Retina. The Regular and Retina weight has 671 glyphs. While the Bold and Italic weight has 660 glyphs.
The amazing part about this font is that it is 100% free for personal as well as commercial use. So, if you download it then just click on a single button below and get it free.
Besides, you can bookmark your website on your computer to keep visiting, as we regularly share the best quality typefaces. For example! | <urn:uuid:c984d90c-cfff-47e5-b20b-2a53c5531195> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fontsmonster.com/monoid-font/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.898799 | 398 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Most of us will have considered making a Will, yet even the most sensible of us often think a Will is something to be dealt with ‘later’. However, did you know that if you don’t have a Will to ensure your wishes are carried out, a Law from 1925 decides who inherits your possessions after you die? It’s hard to imagine that a decree that is almost a century old reflects how you would like your family or friends to be treated
With a Will we can ensure that:
- Somebody you trust is appointed to manage your Estate
- Any young children you have are looked after by guardians you know and trust
- Your family and loved ones can receive as much of your Estate as possible
- You have total peace of mind knowing your final wishes are in order, and your loved ones are looked after
Making a Will really is one of the most thoughtful things you can do for those you care about. | <urn:uuid:65888918-622f-4c42-b081-0bab9eb438fe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.celticwt.co.uk/wills/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.983187 | 198 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Before you pick up a shovel to get rid of the snow, a local doctor has some advice.
Moose Jaw's Dr. Fauzi Ramadan says there is danger in shoveling snow, especially for senior citizens or those with underlying medical conditions. He says to exercise caution when heading out with shovel in hand.
"If you find yourself short of breath, or getting chest tightness, just stop," advised Ramadan. "You can (spread out the shoveling) over an hour, rather than doing it over 15 minutes. Unless it's very cold - then don't do it at all."
What is "very" cold, according to Ramadan?
"More than minus ten, usually you shouldn't be doing too much in that temperature outside. Especially if you have a heart condition or a lung condition," he suggested.
However, Ramadan reminds us that anyone of any age should still engage in physical activity - we just need to know where the line between doing it and overdoing it rests.
"We need everybody to continue doing physical activity, but you have to be careful and don't do things that can be harmful," says Ramadan. "Anything, if you take it to extremes, can be harmful." | <urn:uuid:66e3ef2b-467b-4031-ae53-f2d6908ffb7e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://discovermoosejaw.com/local/51388-doctor-warns-against-overdoing-it-when-shoveling | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280899.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00577-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968877 | 248 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Whats in Your Toolkit
This post is old, and may no longer reflect my current way of doing things or my current opinions. It may eventually be deleted or removed. Try this instead: Switching to Nixos. —
Every programmer, or general knowledge worker, has a toolkit. Often times, this toolkit is customized for the user, such that any other user may not be able to use it.
These toolkits often contain many things:
- a text editor
- an operating system
- a selection of programming languages
- a selection of scripts
- a set of custom functions
So, here is what is in my toolkit:
Yes, I admit it, I use EMACS. Sue me. I happen to like it for the very fact that it is so extensible. Aside from that, I like the utter simplicity and correctness of the interface.
OK, so I read my email in Emacs too, I also blog from it, and just about live in it. But the thing about GNUS is intertwingularity. Essentially, this means that GNUS works with my address book, personal notebook, todo list and just about everything else.
OK, I've posted about Org-mode before, but I must mention it again. Org-mode allows me to keep notes, link between them, other files, emails, contacts, Git revisions, elisp functions and more. Again, intertwingularity, and the fact that I can use org-mode for Literate Programming, which makes my code much, much easier to read down the line.
OK, I use Fedora, I've had issues with other distros in the past, and for my use, I've always found Fedora to be the best for a personal machine or laptop. Now for servers, I use CentOS, but that's beyond the scope of this post.
Yes, Python, one of the most popular/common programming languages according to TIOBE. Aside from that, it's readable, and more universally well known than perl.
Yes, I use Common Lisp, and when given the chance, I will try to implement something using it. However, my skills are not that great, though I want them to be better.
Perl is a beautiful language, though often very hard to read later. I used to use perl for everything, however, I've found that I can best use it for automation and small tasks.
The Awesome Window Manager
OK, I've used WindowMaker, FVWM, FVWM2, GNOME, KDE and even XMonad(I don't like the Haskell based config file), and every other one of them was nice — in ways. I liked the look of WindowMaker and its ease of configuration, and the same goes for GNOME and KDE. FVWM and FVWM2 were nice looking, but config was almost worse than Sendmail. XMonad had the tiling features that I like about Awesome, but it uses Haskell, a language with funky syntax. Awesome has the best parts of all of these, and the fact that Awesome uses an actual programming language(Lua) to configure it is just the icing on the cake.
OK, I like ZSH, I've used Bash, Fish, CSH, and even the Korn Shell, however, for interactive use, ZSH is the best. Especially the completion, it's almost as good as Emacs. | <urn:uuid:b2af20d7-a152-493c-92e4-87d8a0f5922e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://samflint.com/posts/2014/02/22/whats-in-your-toolkit/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.954279 | 746 | 1.875 | 2 |
Canada rail safety jobs vacant as budget cuts bite
By Mike De Souza
OTTAWA Dec 8 (Reuters) - Budget cuts have left safety-related engineering positions vacant in the Canadian agency responsible for overseeing shipments of dangerous goods, government records show, fueling worries about trains moving oil across the country.
Rail safety is in focus with the boom in oil shipments and a spate of derailments across North America, and the vacancies create a safety risk, industry experts and Canada's public engineers' union say.
The chair of the Transportation Safety Board, Kathy Fox, says there is risk of a spill as long as the government fails to address its oversight weaknesses and improve tank car standards.
"We don't believe that the current standard is sufficiently robust to prevent liquid spilling in the event of a derailment or rail accident, so what we want to see are tougher standards for tank cars carrying flammable liquids," Fox told Reuters.
A recent analysis by the Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration estimated that a failure to upgrade existing regulations would lead to the equivalent of 10 major accidents, costing more than US$18 billion in damages, including fatalities, over the next 20 years.
Retired and current employees from Transport Canada told Reuters that engineers in the department's dangerous goods division would be responsible for developing new standards.
Fox said her board had not determined whether staffing levels were a factor, but said until new standards are in place, "during this period, we continue to be at risk with large transport of flammable liquids by rail."
Last year, 47 people were killed in the Quebec town of Lac-Mégantic after a train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded. Continued... | <urn:uuid:c809ed07-d53b-490e-9293-ee94a0c07024> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://ca.reuters.com/article/companyNews/idCAL2N0TI1OD20141208 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00015-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966195 | 347 | 1.789063 | 2 |
There are plenty of resolutions that make for admirable New Year’s goals: spending more time with family, resolving to cook wholesome meals, or learning a new language, to name a few.
But how about investing?
Investing can mean different things for us all. Some may dream of buying a home, a new car, or putting our money in stocks or mutual funds for the future.
If you are trying to reach a financial goal in 2021, understanding what investing is and the many options available is a great place to start. Taking the first step can often be overwhelming—but no need to fear, we are here to help!
What Is Investing?
From a definition standpoint, investing is the process of allocating money with the expectation of financial gain, commonly known as a return. The goal of an investment is to own an asset (i.e., something that holds value like stock or property) that can increase in price over time. The idea is to have your money work for you so that it can bring you closer to achieving your financial goals.
One of the most critical factors in deciding which investments are right for you is your potential financial return. This return often comes from interest payments or a price increase, and it’s calculated as a percentage of the initial investment. Take a simple stock, for example. You buy the stock at $100 and it goes to $120. Congrats! You’ve just collected a 20% return.
When familiarizing yourself with returns, it’s important to keep in mind that returns on investment are not guaranteed. Typically, the chance for greater returns also comes with a greater risk of losing some (or all) of your money.
If you know how to choose your investments wisely, you can lower your overall risk of loss (and ideally, maintain your financial security).
Generally speaking, there are two ways to invest: short-term and long-term.
Short-term investing is generally riskier. Because of the high risks associated with it, short-term investing is often less suitable for beginners. Even financial professionals who track the market daily have trouble predicting short-term market movements.
Long-term investment strategies, on the other hand, are good for both beginners and seasoned investors. You may have heard the term “buy and hold” strategy, which allows investors to purchase, then ride out the shorter-term shock waves like news events and pandemics.
Why Investing Works
Financial returns are particularly powerful because of a principle called compounding. Compounding means that the money you invest earns a return, and that return also earns money, which accumulates over time. Returns can come from interest payments, dividends, or increasing prices, all of which help your investment portfolio grow.
Higher returns on your investments not only exploit the power of compounding but also protect your money from inflation. Often viewed as the constant enemy of your hard-earned cash, inflation refers to the rising costs of goods. It can vary, but as of recently, money has been losing value by about 1.2-1.4% per year, on average.
To put that percentage in perspective, money that loses 1.2% each year loses about 22% over 20 years. Imagine you have $100 now. In 20 years, that same amount of cash will be worth the equivalent of $78. Essentially, if your uninvested money is just sitting in your bank account, this is what inflation is doing to it.
According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, the national average interest rate for savings accounts is around 0.06%. This means that the rate of devaluation of your money is often greater than the interest rates on savings accounts offered by banks.
So, what do you do?
Long-term investing can combat inflation and help build wealth for your retirement. Investments can expand or shrink in the short-term, but the long-term tendency of the stock market is upwards.
In fact, over the last 100 years, the average stock market return rate is about 10% annually—beating both inflation and your savings account gains.
Common Types of Investments
We know, finance is full of different terminology and it can often feel overwhelming. A good way to start feeling comfortable is to familiarize yourself with a few types of popular investments.
Stocks or shares become available during an initial public offering (IPO), where they are listed on a stock exchange. During this process, corporations sell shares to raise funds and a company goes from being owned by founders and early investors to being available for public ownership.
Think of every stock as a tiny piece of the corporation. The two main ways to profit from these stocks are by selling shares for a profit or receiving dividends, which are payments made to shareholders at the company’s discretion.
Anyone can buy stocks. However, because of their volatility, they are typically considered a relatively aggressive investment. If you’re interested in stocks, buying a portfolio of stocks can often be less risky than buying stock in one single company (that’s because if one company plummets, you’ll have the others to hopefully balance it out). You can purchase stocks through a FINRA registered brokerage platform and start to build up that diversified portfolio.
Bonds are considered relatively safer investments and are commonly issued by corporations or governments. When you purchase a bond, you’re lending money to the issuer in return for interest payments. Terms of the bond include the interest rate paid to the bondholder, and the time by which the loan must be paid back (otherwise known as the maturity date). Bondholders can trade their bonds in the secondary market with other investors.
Bonds are typically classified into three categories:
- short-term (one to three years)
- medium-term (10 years or more)
- long-term (typically 30 years)
As an example, the current interest rate of a 30-year U.S. treasury bond is 2.05%. You can buy bonds directly from the government or a brokerage. Corporate bonds tend to have higher yields (interest rates), but they also come with more risk. The main scenario where you would lose your entire investment is if the issuer can’t pay back its debt.
Stock market and bond market indices are portfolios of assets that represent a broader category. For example, the S&P 500 Index is a U.S. index created by Standard & Poor’s with 500 stocks meant to represent the 500 largest publicly traded companies. Indices allow you to build a diversified portfolio without needing significant research. You can trade indices using exchange-traded funds (ETFs) or mutual funds.
ETFs are exchange-traded funds that track index funds. They are well suited for beginner investors because of their abundant liquidity, low expense ratios, diversification, and a range of investment options across assets. You often find ETFs in managed portfolios (a pool of different investments) with different investments across industries and assets.
A mutual fund is a diversified investment fund that manages money for investors. Mutual funds can be both active and passive. Active funds have more flexibility to choose investments that the fund manager thinks will perform well. Passive funds tend to track a selected index. Mutual funds are not directly available on an exchange, but you can buy them through brokerage platforms.
Real estate investing involves purchasing an asset (or assets) such as a house, apartment building, or land. You may need more capital in the form of a down payment to buy property, but securing a mortgage loan can help with the purchase. Real estate returns are a good way to go as they tend to be relatively stable in the long run.
When it comes to real estate, there are multiple ways to invest. Investors may trade physical property by buying a house priced below the market, renovating it, and then selling at a higher price. This is an active investment that requires market knowledge and experience. Investors may also buy and then rent out a property as another way to profit off of real estate.
You can also invest through real estate funds or Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). These allow you to start investing in real estate on a stock market exchange, with far less capital than you would need to buy a single property. If you’re thinking about going this route, know that the return rates and levels of risk of different funds and trusts can vary.
A commodity is a raw material that can be traded with other similar goods. Anything from gold, silver, oil, natural gas, grains, or even livestock are considered commodities. Commodities are often used in the production of other goods or services.
When these commodities are traded, they must meet specified standards to be exchanged in the market. Within your portfolio, commodities tend to help with diversification and can help fight inflation. During inflationary times as the demand for basic goods increases, commodities tend to do well. Also, if central banks print money, investors tend to see gold as a store of value.
How to Get Started
Before you start, look at your monthly budget and determine if and how much extra you have available to invest. Then, it’s a good idea to build up an emergency fund. Ideally, this will cover three to six months’ worth of expenses and should be set aside for unexpected events.
Once your emergency fund is set, determine your investment goals. For example, if your goal is to save for retirement, you can maximize your contributions to retirement accounts like a 401(k) or IRA. Shorter-term investments can be made in brokerage accounts that are easier to access when needed. Knowing your goal will give you a good idea of what type of investments you need and what your risk tolerance is.
After you plan your investment strategy, the next step is to open up an investment account. You can usually open a brokerage account online and transfer funds from a bank account.
Once you're ready to invest, the best advice is to “never put all your eggs in one basket.” You may be passionate about a company and want to invest in it for the long run. However, predicting the future is impossible, and taking a risk on only one single company may leave you with lasting regrets.
If you’re considering investing, it’s better to start sooner rather than later because you’ll benefit from time and compound interest.
As we like to say at Teachers, investing now will help set you up for a better tomorrow.
Personal Financial Management Guidance
The unique thing about investing is that there are endless opportunities to learn and grow. Investors can always use financial planning support. If you’re interested in investing and need some help getting started, we offer resources that put you on the right track.
Our Teachers Trust & Financial Services team provides personalized consultations to analyze your current financial situation and your future goals followed by specialized recommendations.
We also offer educational workshops to help with things like investment planning, retirement, annuities, mutual funds, and life insurance. Our managed account service puts a professional investment manager at your service so you can learn how to thrive.
No matter who you are or what your goals are, we’re certain there’s an investment path to help you get where you want to be. We’ll do all that homework; you just reap the rewards. | <urn:uuid:fdcbb2ed-5f3c-4f43-a85c-da24a7fb3f95> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.teachersfcu.org/blog/financial-education/new-years-resolutions-investing-101 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.956574 | 2,377 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Updated antivirus software needs to be put in in your computer and it’s a fundamental requirement to maintain its optimum function. Nevertheless, maintaining your system free from virus is nearly unimaginable. Over time your computer will eventually get infected. And these malicious packages will take its toll on the computer’s system and scale back its speed. It will probably corrupt the whole system and cause loss of essential information.
Now that you’ve got a computer, hopefully you are doing extra with it than playing solitaire and hanging out on social websites all day. In case your going to be on your computer for hours a day, why not use it to make some cash. Doing what? Listed here are 3 ideas you’ll be able to consider. I wont tell you every part, your should look into it more for yourself and decide if you wish to do it.
Let’s check out the right way to backup registry.
New update on this three.37 model additionally includes the Auto-Add Saved Data. This feature allows you to routinely retailer new and recently up to date saved knowledge for PS3 format software program in online storage recurrently. To access this characteristic, you might want to have a PlayStation Network account and develop into the member of the PlayStation Plus.
Just think about you might be in the course of your venture and your computer locks up without any apparent reason. How would you’re feeling? Absolutely, this is essentially the most irritating feeling and betraying expertise. Plus, if you have not saved your work, you might be most probably to lose all the dear info and efforts that you have just put in. In such a case, when you do not know methods to fix the computer lock then reboot is the one resolution. The bottom line is you could fix it by yourself with the fundamental data of computer.
Plan your tasks appropriately and so they’ll keep wholesome.
You may velocity up your PC by utilizing a registry cleaner program to scan by way of your system and do away with any problems that it might have inside. These software packages can repair any of the issues inside the registry database of your system, and consequently speed it up exponentially. If you want to make your computer run faster, using a registry tool is really useful to a minimum of start the process, as a good version of those instruments have the ability to clean out the errors that can be leading your LAPTOP to run a lot slower & with lots of problems.
On the whole, glass is way less durable than wood, and merely dropping something might result in a crack. Clearly this might be the beginning of the end. Another adverse about glass is the issue of cleansing it. Obviously it is vitally easy to get a smudge on it, and therefore you will always should be cleansing certainly one of these desks.
We now know what’s a computer virus and so, will probably be fascinating to understand how do viruses unfold. For a virus to spread it should first be triggered, for example, by the user visiting a doubtlessly dangerous web site, opening a doc infected by a virus, booting with a diskette contaminated by a “boot sector virus,” or by double clicking on an infected executable file. | <urn:uuid:6f06f7cb-d92d-434a-b5c9-777918912c8c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://noktaguvenlikmersin.com/the-untold-story-on-computer-that-you-need-to-read-or-be-left-out.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.944711 | 666 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Does sticking one’s penis in another’s rectum sound normal and healthy? How about sticking that same penis is someone’s mouth after the first event – normal and healthy? Could that spread disease? What about drinking urine and ingesting semen – is that a good idea? Does licking another person’s rectum sound good to you? Does that kind of “orientation” tend to elevate or deteriorate a person’s self-esteem? Is it a good idea to stick one’s fist or inanimate objects, the size of a fist or greater, into someone’s rectum, an intelligent and good thing to do? When the inanimate object has to be surgically removed, who should pay for that? Oh yes, the taxpayer should always pay for the pleasures of others regardless of their foolishness.
All of the above activities go on within the homosexual community. Do you want 6 year olds learning this kind of stuff? Do you want teachers practicing this stuff on 6 year olds, or teaching them to practice it on others? Should there be any kind of a standard of morality, and if so, what should it be; upon what should it be based, and who should establish that? Should parents be forced to turn their 6 year olds over to these people, and then pay out of their property and sales taxes to fund this activity? Is there such a thing as right and wrong, good and evil, truth and falsehood? Sitting on the picket fence deciding this could be painful and very costly. Laws promoting this are all over America, and in Colorado, you, as a teacher, cannot teach any morality in regard to this activity.
Many Links Below – Become Informed!
Feel Free To Pass On Any Posts
Pensamiento Peligroso writes the truth as he sees it, and if it upsets you, then it makes you think!
www.touchstoneconnect.com Subscribe for free – no ads!
THERE ARE 21 LINKS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE ON THE RIGHT SIDE – OTHER REPUTABLE SITES FOR YOUR EDIFICATION INCLUDING G. Edward Griffin, John Stossel, Walter Williams to name a few. | <urn:uuid:8d536e31-aafe-495c-8755-2b43b6666d00> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://touchstoneconnect.com/2019/03/25/does-the-government-have-the-right-do-the-people-have-to-let-them-pervert-our-children-starting-in-kindergarten/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.930474 | 465 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Tips on Producing a Newsletter
An electronic newsletter can be a great way to communicate with your Interest Group, promote your activities, and keep members up to date with developments in your area of interest. Newsletters can be emailed to your Interest Group members and linked to from your group's pages on the website.
Here are some things to think about when starting a newsletter:
- Starting small is just fine. Don’t be too ambitious at the beginning. It’s OK to give your newsletter time to grow.
- Be inclusive and invite contributions from a wide range of people.
- Solicit information about promising new practices and alternative resources.
- Contests or surveys can help garner participation.
- Call for submissions at least four weeks in advance of putting out the newsletter.
- Remember to call for submissions on CALIX as well as your Interest Group listserv – this will generate more submissions and provide publicity for your newsletter.
- Ask people if they have upcoming events to promote in the newsletter.
- Don’t forget the value of a well-placed photo. Photos and images will add to the appeal of your newsletter, and a photo (with caption) is easy for people to submit.
- Having two people working on the newsletter can be a big help, but the two editors need to communicate well. | <urn:uuid:49c3f90b-eddb-45b4-ac25-f9b5377ed84f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.cla-net.org/page/358/Interest-Group-Leader-Resources-Newsletters.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00302-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.909035 | 274 | 1.828125 | 2 |
The virtues of asbestos have been known for centuries, at least since it was used for wicks of lamps kept lit by Vestal Virginis. Its insulation properties, strength, durability and heat resistance led to widespread use during the first part of this century. About 30 million tons of the fiber had been used in this country by the 1970s.
It was not until the 1960s that the serious dangers of asbestos became fully realized. More recently the possibility of death or disability from exposure to the fibers has created alarm. Facts about those dangers are hard to come by.
For instance the press recently reported that 7 million people have been killed by it. The Harvard Medical Letter estimated that by the end of the century 500,000 will have died of it. The Wall Street Journal said recently that asbestos has killed 100,000 in the United States.
Small wonder there is confusion and deep concern amongst parents devoted to their children, disturbed about the magnitude of danger to their youngsters going to school. Generally they have had too little sound information.
In our litigious society it seems safer to say nothing or to be ambiguous about some matter.
According to a 1985 EPA report, "Prevalent levels of airborne asbestos inside buildings with asbestos containing material maybe 10 to 100 times higher than outdoor levels. However, these indoor levels are typically 10,000 to 100,000 lower than levels in asbestos industry workplaces where asbestos-related diseases have been well documented.
The EPA further stated that "Most people with asbestos related diseases were exposed to high levels of asbestos while working in asbestos industries prior to 1972." And, "Data on asbestos workers indicate that the risks of asbestos disease decrease in direct proportion to a decrease in total asbestos dose." (This latter has to do with the concentration of fibers in the air times the duration of exposure.)
Some features of the asbestos danger seem worthwhile noting:
Asbestosis is the result of scarring of the lungs by very small inhaled asbestos fibers. This may (or may not) result in increasing shortness of breath, lowered resistance to infection and death.
There is an increased incidence of lung cancer in people with asbestosis. Smoking not only increases the vulnerability to developing asbestosis but also has a multiplying, not additive effect on the incidence of cancer.
Mesothelioma, a cancer of the pleura lining of the lung, is rare. In the 1970s about 500 cases a year were reported in the United States. Not all of these were attributed to asbestos.
The presence of asbestos in a building, some used to add strength, for instance, to floor tile, does not mean that the health of building occupants is endangered. If asbestos-containing material remains in good condition and is unlikely to be disturbed, exposure will be negligible.
Perhaps before long government and medical authorities will provide concerned parents and others with an easily understood appraisal of the safety and the dangers of minute quantities of asbestos relative to other common dangers of living.
In the meantime the deliberate removal of offending material in accordance with rules and regulations is appropriate.
Armistead Williams is a Williamsburg physician. | <urn:uuid:203e247a-1666-4262-bbad-a2f8693c5a5d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://articles.dailypress.com/1989-09-23/news/8909230160_1_asbestos-fibers-exposure | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00309-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965664 | 632 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Recently I caught up with Di Kloe, Founder of Headland on the topic of International Women’s Day, and what it means to her and Headland
This year international women’s day is on March 8, and it’s all about highlighting women that are leading the charge on climate change, adaption, migration, response to build a more sustainable future.
“This year we’ve been impacted by COVID, flooding, not so long ago bush fires, it’s all environmental causes and we need a clear course of action on how we are going to get to a low-carbon future. I’ve seen some of our manufacturing clients set up solar panels on their factories to run production, they’ve also incorporated rain tanks, and looking to incorporate electric vehicles in the near future to transport their products.
“The environment is central to everything. It’s been pleasing to see our OEMs and our clients are becoming increasingly being more aware and taking to steps to encourage a more sustainable environment”, says Di.
One of our suppliers, TRUMPF is leading the charge in terms of having achieved carbon neutral production world-wide in 2020.
Headed by CEO Nicola Leibinger-Kammuller, TRUMPF have a climate change program and have recently announced a plan to plant 30,000 trees by 2027 to offset unavoidable emissions. TRUMPF also produce their own renewal energy to run production, from photovoltaic systems and green energy sources. Read more about what TRUMPF and their Climate Change program.
Prince Carl-Eugen Oettingen-Wallerstein and TRUMPF CEO Nicola Leibinger-Kammüller jointly launch the forestry project.
“A lot of the environmental responsibility has been put back on industry, however, recent government initiatives such as the implementation of offset promises, reducing stamp duty on electric vehicles, and the awarding of carbon credits for transformative projects are promising. However, when are we going to have a government clearly defined action plan as to how they are going create a low-carbon future to secure industries and manufacturing for the future? Greenhouse gas emissions are up 24% since 2005, a lot of changes need to be implemented to achieve net zero by 2050”, comments Di.
Headland and Gender Equality
“In terms of Headland and gender equality, we’ve raised our family to believe they can do whatever they wish independent of their gender, thankfully our children both work in the various businesses and head up businesses in their own right. It’s never been about gender for our business, more about the role itself and who is best to do it well” says Di.
Shane Infanti, CEO of AMTIL comments, Brigitte Stavar, from Sheet Metal Australia is currently the president of AMTIL, “I’m all for female presidents, it’s important that we have a eight board members and only two females, which is probably reflective of the industry, while it’s important that we have adequate gender representation on the board, it’s more about the skillset rather than their gender, ” comments Shane.
Stay tuned for part two on prominent women in manufacturing and their climate change strategies. We look forward to sharing. | <urn:uuid:cda6b5e1-e4d6-4a61-9bf8-79607b66b5f3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.headland.nz/international-womens-day-focus-on-gender-equality-for-a-sustainable-tomorrow-part-one/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.955336 | 695 | 1.9375 | 2 |
The holidays are a beautiful blend of yuletide charm and spiritual reflection for the people of the Southwest. Here, we explore some of these interesting Christmas traditions.
After the conversion of the pueblo people to Catholicism during the 16th century, a merging of cultures took place. Christmas Mass and spiritual Native American traditions were often tied together in holiday festivities, such as the Deer Dance and Los Matachines, a dance brought to New Mexico by the Moors to teach Christianity to the Pueblo people.
There are regional differences in the terms used to describe the holiday lights with which residents of Northern New Mexico line the roads and the outside of their homes. In Albuquerque, these paper bag lanterns are referred to as “luminarias,” and in Sante Fe they are called “farolitos.” Historically speaking, the luminarias and farolitos date back to the 1800s, when small bonfires helped lead churchgoers to Christmas Mass. The lights were often placed outside on the final night of Las Posadas to represent the journey of Mary and Joseph, who went door to door searching for shelter prior to Jesus’ birth. The tradition of the lighting displays continues today.
Tamales made from masa (dough made from corn) are one of several traditional holiday favorites of the people of the Southwest. Tamales are normally served either steamed or boiled in a corn husk, which is thrown away prior to tamale consumption. The spicy dish can also be stuffed with meat, chilies and cheese. For holiday dessert, many people enjoy eating Mexican wedding cookies; these are tiny pecan shortbread cakes which are addictively delicious.
It’s never too early to start thinking about Christmas shopping for your loved ones! At Kachina House this month, we are featuring ornaments and Nativity scenes made by well-known Native American artists. View our selection of hand-crafted pieces today. | <urn:uuid:e2b2581e-f9b1-41d4-89ab-83428d6fa215> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.kachinahouse.com/christmas-traditions-celebrated-by-the-tribes-of-the-southwest/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.961692 | 414 | 2.921875 | 3 |
With Instructables you can share what you make with the world, and tap into an ever-growing community of creative experts.
This three dimensional companion cube makes a great knickknack for your desk, and an even better gift. What gamer wouldn't want to receive a companion cube as a ...
You will need: perler beads (white, pink, dark grey), a hot glue gun (with glue sticks), perler pegboards (a circle and a square one), an iron, and ironing/wax ...
Make the white corner pieces by placing the beads on the pegboard. There are 3 different pieces per corner - these 3 pieces will snap together and make ...
Fuse the beads by placing a sheet of wax paper over them. Gently iron them at medium heat for a few seconds. Flip the fused beads over once ...
There are 2 pieces in one set. You will need 12 edge sets. Use the picture for reference. Fuse when finished.
You will need 6 circles total. Fuse them when finished. Use picture for reference.
You will need 2. Fuse when finished. Use picture for reference. (The outline is just for emphasis on the detailed "teeth" portions.)
You will need 2. Fuse when finished. Use picture for reference.
You will need 6 total. Fuse when finished. Use picture for reference.
You will now have a 3D cube. *Be gentle, don't break the "teeth" pieces while snapping them together.*
Make sure the hearts are centered on the white circles. Hot glue them together.
Glue the corner pieces to the 3D cube.
One per edge. Align them with the pink lines on the square faces.
One circle per side. Voila!
Join 2 million + to receive instant DIY inspiration in your inbox.
© 2016 Autodesk, Inc. | <urn:uuid:fc99283a-053b-41a4-9ac8-21b055eebd37> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-a-Companion-Cube/step13/Glue-on-the-Corners/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00186-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910519 | 392 | 1.929688 | 2 |
A recent judgment by the Inner House, Murdoch v Murdoch CSIH 002, has turned two broadly accepted principles regarding craves on their head.
The parties had been married for a short period and had a young son. The principal item of matrimonial property was the matrimonial home, which was held in the husband’s sole name. The wife raised an action for divorce at Hamilton Sheriff Court in which she sought transfer of the home to her. The husband had obtained rented council accommodation. The husband wished to retain the matrimonial home in his name until the property was sold. The sheriff ordered transfer of the home to the wife, who still lived there with the child. The wife was ordered to make a compensating payment of £20,600, even though there was no crave for this, in order to achieve fair sharing of the matrimonial property.
High risk strategy
The husband appealed, arguing that the order was incompetent where there was no crave for a capital sum. He refused to add such a crave when invited to amend by the sheriff principal, as he wanted the property to be sold. In a somewhat disastrous, but perhaps not unexpected turn of events for the husband, Temporary Sheriff Principal McKay struck out the order for payment to the husband as incompetent, but left the property transfer order standing, resulting in an unequal division of the matrimonial property. The husband’s refusal to crave payment was regarded as a special circumstance justifying this.
The sheriff principal’s decision followed a decision of Sheriff Principal Nicholson QC in Muir v Muir 1994 SCLR 178, where it was held that it was not competent to make an order for financial provision in respect of which there is no crave. The sheriff principal saw the matter as one of fair notice, and was also influenced by the then Sheriff Court Rules governing the making by the defender of an application for financial provision. Since that decision, this principle has been generally accepted by practitioners.
The husband appealed to the Inner House. Counsel for both parties took the view, no doubt following the reasoning of Muir, that for the sheriff to make order for a capital sum in the absence of a crave was incompetent.
Through the barrier
At an early stage in submissions, following exchanges with the bench, counsel for the wife took the step of tendering a minute of amendment craving transfer and, unusually, a balancing payment in favour of the husband. It has been generally thought that it was incompetent to crave an order on behalf of another party. However, the Inner House took the view that it is competent where such an order is ancillary to the principal order sought and is expedient to give effect to the principles set out in s 9. This was “consistent with common sense”, and it was “the plain objective of the 1985 Act to give the widest possible powers to courts to enable them to effect a fair division of the matrimonial property”.
It is no doubt significant that the Inner House considered that the sheriff’s approach at first instance did not give rise to any procedural unfairness, particularly in regard to fair notice. It was noted that a transfer of title in exchange for a capital payment was commonly found in practice, and that in this case the pursuer wife sought to have the obligation to make a counterbalancing payment imposed on herself.
The court therefore allowed the appeal in part and recalled the sheriff principal’s interlocutor, reinstating the decision at first instance. Given that it did so on the basis of the pursuer’s minute of amendment, it did not need to decide whether an order for payment of a capital sum was competent without a crave. However, the court indicated that it was “inclined to the view” that such an order would be competent.
It is clear that the courts do not take kindly to being forced into a particular decision through artificial procedural barriers, particularly where these are insisted on by one or other of the parties. Murdoch illustrates that courts will endeavour to find a solution that is fair and consistent with the ethos of the 1985 Act. However, encouraging as that is, the principles of fair notice set out in Muir still apply. Clients should still be advised to give careful consideration to the various disposals that the court may consider, and their default craves if they are to avoid fettering the court potentially to their disadvantage.
In this issue
- Credit hire: a tug of war?
- As others see them
- Taking care of the dead
- Act like a trustee, think like a fund manager
- Beating the stress bug
- Reading for pleasure
- John McNeil, CBE, WS: an appreciation
- Opinion column: Open Justice
- Council profile
- Book reviews
- President's column
- On the move
- Between a rock and a hard place
- Tough times are still ahead
- Care: a new direction
- Officer class
- Open questions
- Fuller benches
- The limits of hearsay
- If you don't ask, you don't get?
- Fees: not so simple?
- Easing the debt block
- Registering our concerns
- Room at the top
- The best of times, the worst of times
- Law reform roundup
- Work and Cancer: employers’ toolkit
- From the Brussels office
- Post with caution
- Ask Ash
- The learning curve
- Hear us, we say
- Business checklist | <urn:uuid:7cc0ffa3-3ef4-471d-98d5-82006894eab0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lawscot.org.uk/members/journal/issues/vol-57-issue-02/if-you-dont-ask-you-dont-get/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00471.warc.gz | en | 0.974696 | 1,132 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Generic Name: levomilnacipran (Oral route)
Antidepressants can increase the risk of suicidal thinking and behavior in children, adolescents, and young adults; however, this risk was not observed in patients older than 24 years and risk was reduced in patients 65 years or older. Closely monitor patients of all ages for clinical worsening and for emergence of suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Not approved for use in pediatric patients .
Commonly used brand name(s)
In the U.S.
- Fetzima Titration Pack
Available Dosage Forms:
- Capsule, Extended Release
Therapeutic Class: Antidepressant
Pharmacologic Class: Serotonin/Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitor
Uses For Fetzima
Levomilnacipran is used to treat depression. It belongs to a group of medicines known as serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs). These medicines are thought to work by increasing the activity of chemicals called serotonin and norepinephrine in the brain.
This medicine is available only with your doctor's prescription.
Before Using Fetzima
In deciding to use a medicine, the risks of taking the medicine must be weighed against the good it will do. This is a decision you and your doctor will make. For this medicine, the following should be considered:
Tell your doctor if you have ever had any unusual or allergic reaction to this medicine or any other medicines. Also tell your health care professional if you have any other types of allergies, such as to foods, dyes, preservatives, or animals. For non-prescription products, read the label or package ingredients carefully.
Levomilnacipran is not approved for use in children. Safety and efficacy have not been established.
Appropriate studies performed to date have not demonstrated geriatric-specific problems that would limit the usefulness of levomilnacipran in the elderly. However, elderly patients are more likely to have age-related kidney problems, which may require an adjustment in the dose for patients receiving levomilnacipran.
|All Trimesters||C||Animal studies have shown an adverse effect and there are no adequate studies in pregnant women OR no animal studies have been conducted and there are no adequate studies in pregnant women.|
There are no adequate studies in women for determining infant risk when using this medication during breastfeeding. Weigh the potential benefits against the potential risks before taking this medication while breastfeeding.
Interactions with Medicines
Although certain medicines should not be used together at all, in other cases two different medicines may be used together even if an interaction might occur. In these cases, your doctor may want to change the dose, or other precautions may be necessary. When you are taking this medicine, it is especially important that your healthcare professional know if you are taking any of the medicines listed below. The following interactions have been selected on the basis of their potential significance and are not necessarily all-inclusive.
Using this medicine with any of the following medicines is not recommended. Your doctor may decide not to treat you with this medication or change some of the other medicines you take.
- Methylene Blue
Using this medicine with any of the following medicines is usually not recommended, but may be required in some cases. If both medicines are prescribed together, your doctor may change the dose or how often you use one or both of the medicines.
- Amtolmetin Guacil
- Choline Salicylate
- Dabigatran Etexilate
- Drotrecogin Alfa
- Eslicarbazepine Acetate
- Flufenamic Acid
- Ibuprofen Lysine
- Mefenamic Acid
- Niflumic Acid
- Propionic Acid
- Protein C
- Salicylic Acid
- Sodium Salicylate
- St John's Wort
- Tiaprofenic Acid
- Tolfenamic Acid
- Valproic Acid
Interactions with Food/Tobacco/Alcohol
Certain medicines should not be used at or around the time of eating food or eating certain types of food since interactions may occur. Using alcohol or tobacco with certain medicines may also cause interactions to occur. The following interactions have been selected on the basis of their potential significance and are not necessarily all-inclusive.
Using this medicine with any of the following is usually not recommended, but may be unavoidable in some cases. If used together, your doctor may change the dose or how often you use this medicine, or give you special instructions about the use of food, alcohol, or tobacco.
- Grapefruit Juice
Other Medical Problems
The presence of other medical problems may affect the use of this medicine. Make sure you tell your doctor if you have any other medical problems, especially:
- Bipolar disorder (type of depression), or risk of or
- Bleeding problems or
- Heart disease or
- Hypertension (high blood pressure) or
- Hyponatremia (low sodium in the blood) or
- Mania, history of or
- Narrow-angle glaucoma or
- Seizures, history of or
- Tachycardia (fast heart rate) or
- Trouble urinating or
- Urinary bladder blockage—Use with caution. May make these conditions worse.
- Kidney disease—Use with caution. The effects may be increased because of slower removal of the medicine from the body.
Proper Use of levomilnacipran
This section provides information on the proper use of a number of products that contain levomilnacipran. It may not be specific to Fetzima. Please read with care.
Take this medicine only as directed by your doctor to benefit your condition as much as possible. Do not take more of it, do not take it more often, and do not take it for a longer time than your doctor ordered.
This medicine should come with a Medication Guide. Read and follow the instructions carefully. Ask your doctor if you have any questions.
Take this medicine with or without food, and at the same time every day.
Swallow the extended-release capsule whole. Do not open, crush, or chew it.
Do not take the extended-release capsule with alcohol. This may cause the contents of the capsule to be released too soon.
The dose of this medicine will be different for different patients. Follow your doctor's orders or the directions on the label. The following information includes only the average doses of this medicine. If your dose is different, do not change it unless your doctor tells you to do so.
The amount of medicine that you take depends on the strength of the medicine. Also, the number of doses you take each day, the time allowed between doses, and the length of time you take the medicine depend on the medical problem for which you are using the medicine.
- For oral dosage form (extended-release capsules):
- For depression:
- Adults—At first, 20 milligrams (mg) once a day. After 2 days, the dose will be increased to 40 mg once a day. Your doctor may adjust your dose as needed. However, the dose is usually not more than 120 mg per day.
- Children—Use is not recommended.
- For depression:
If you miss a dose of this medicine, take it as soon as possible. However, if it is almost time for your next dose, skip the missed dose and go back to your regular dosing schedule. Do not double doses.
Store the medicine in a closed container at room temperature, away from heat, moisture, and direct light. Keep from freezing.
Keep out of the reach of children.
Do not keep outdated medicine or medicine no longer needed.
Ask your healthcare professional how you should dispose of any medicine you do not use.
Precautions While Using Fetzima
It is very important that your doctor check your progress at regular visits to make sure this medicine is working properly.
Do not take levomilnacipran with a monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitor (eg, isocarboxazid [Marplan®], phenelzine [Nardil®], selegiline [Eldepryl®], tranylcypromine [Parnate®]). Do not start taking levomilnacipran during the 2 weeks after you stop a MAO inhibitor. Wait 1 week after stopping levomilnacipran before you start taking a MAO inhibitor. If you take them together or do not wait the proper amount of time, you may develop confusion, agitation, restlessness, stomach or intestinal symptoms, a sudden high body temperature, an extremely high blood pressure, or severe convulsions.
Levomilnacipran may cause some teenagers and young adults to be agitated, irritable, or display other abnormal behaviors. It may also cause some people to have suicidal thoughts and tendencies or to become more depressed. Some people may have trouble sleeping, get upset easily, have a big increase in energy, or start to act reckless. If you or your caregiver notice any of these unwanted effects, tell your doctor right away. Let the doctor know if you or anyone in your family has bipolar disorder (manic-depressive) or has tried to commit suicide.
Levomilnacipran may cause a serious condition called serotonin syndrome if taken together with some medicines. Do not use levomilnacipran with buspirone (Buspar®), fentanyl (Abstral®, Duragesic®), linezolid (Zyvox®), lithium (Eskalith®, Lithobid®), methylene blue injection, tryptophan, St. John's wort, or some pain or migraine medicines (eg, rizatriptan, sumatriptan, tramadol, Frova®, Imitrex®, Maxalt®, Relpax®, Ultram®, Zomig®). Check with your doctor first before taking any other medicines with levomilnacipran.
This medicine may increase your risk for bleeding problems. Make sure your doctor knows if you are also taking other medicines that thin the blood, such as aspirin, nonsteroidal antiinflammatory agents, also called NSAIDs (eg, diclofenac, ibuprofen, naproxen, Advil®, Aleve®, Celebrex®, Voltaren®), or warfarin (Coumadin®, Jantoven®).
Do not stop taking this medicine without checking first with your doctor. Your doctor may want you to gradually reduce the amount you are taking before stopping it completely to decrease the chance of withdrawal effects. Some examples of withdrawal effects include agitation, breathing problems, chest pain, confusion, diarrhea, dizziness or lightheadedness, fast heartbeat, headaches, increased sweating, muscle pain, nausea, restlessness, runny nose, trouble sleeping, trembling or shaking, unusual tiredness or weakness, vision changes, or vomiting.
This medicine may cause hyponatremia (low sodium in the blood). This is more common in elderly patients, those who are taking diuretic medicines, or those who have less fluid in the body due to severe diarrhea or vomiting. Check with your doctor right away if you have confusion, a headache, memory problems, trouble concentrating, weakness, or feel unsteady when standing.
This medicine may cause some people to become dizzy, drowsy, or less alert than they are normally. Make sure you know how you react to this medicine before you drive, use machines, or do anything else that could be dangerous if you are not alert.
Do not take other medicines unless they have been discussed with your doctor. This includes prescription or nonprescription (over-the-counter [OTC]) medicines and herbal or vitamin supplements.
Fetzima Side Effects
Along with its needed effects, a medicine may cause some unwanted effects. Although not all of these side effects may occur, if they do occur they may need medical attention.
Check with your doctor immediately if any of the following side effects occur:More common
- Difficult urination
- fast, pounding, or irregular heartbeat or pulse
- arm, back, or jaw pain
- blurred vision
- burning, crawling, itching, numbness, prickling, "pins and needles", or tingling feelings
- chest pain or discomfort
- chest tightness or heaviness
- cloudy urine
- decrease in the frequency of urination
- difficulty in passing urine (dribbling)
- difficulty with speaking
- dizziness, faintness, or lightheadedness when getting up suddenly from a lying or sitting position
- dry mouth
- loss of balance control
- muscle trembling, jerking, or stiffness
- painful urination
- pounding in the ears
- rapid or irregular heartbeat
- shortness of breath
- shuffling walk
- slow heartbeat
- stiffness of the limbs
- trouble sleeping
- twisting movements of the body
- uncontrolled movements, especially of the face, neck, and back
- unusual tiredness or weakness
Some side effects may occur that usually do not need medical attention. These side effects may go away during treatment as your body adjusts to the medicine. Also, your health care professional may be able to tell you about ways to prevent or reduce some of these side effects. Check with your health care professional if any of the following side effects continue or are bothersome or if you have any questions about them:More common
- Difficulty having a bowel movement (stool)
- increased sweating
- loss in sexual ability, desire, drive, or performance
- Abdominal or stomach pain
- bloated or full feeling
- decreased appetite
- dry eyes
- dry skin
- feeling of warmth
- headache, severe and throbbing
- hives or welts, itching, or rash
- passing gas
- red eye
- red face, neck, arms, and occasionally, upper chest
- sudden sweating
Other side effects not listed may also occur in some patients. If you notice any other effects, check with your healthcare professional.
Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to the FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
See also: Side effects (in more detail)
The information contained in the Truven Health Micromedex products as delivered by Drugs.com is intended as an educational aid only. It is not intended as medical advice for individual conditions or treatment. It is not a substitute for a medical exam, nor does it replace the need for services provided by medical professionals. Talk to your doctor, nurse or pharmacist before taking any prescription or over the counter drugs (including any herbal medicines or supplements) or following any treatment or regimen. Only your doctor, nurse, or pharmacist can provide you with advice on what is safe and effective for you.
The use of the Truven Health products is at your sole risk. These products are provided "AS IS" and "as available" for use, without warranties of any kind, either express or implied. Truven Health and Drugs.com make no representation or warranty as to the accuracy, reliability, timeliness, usefulness or completeness of any of the information contained in the products. Additionally, TRUVEN HEALTH MAKES NO REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTIES AS TO THE OPINIONS OR OTHER SERVICE OR DATA YOU MAY ACCESS, DOWNLOAD OR USE AS A RESULT OF USE OF THE THOMSON REUTERS HEALTHCARE PRODUCTS. ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR USE ARE HEREBY EXCLUDED. Truven Health does not assume any responsibility or risk for your use of the Truven Health products.
Copyright 2016 Truven Health Analytics, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | <urn:uuid:f9cb6819-2e02-4427-9038-943216862733> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.drugs.com/cons/fetzima.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719677.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00560-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.862248 | 3,328 | 1.9375 | 2 |
Total amount: € 0,00
Indexed/Abstracted in: CAB, EMBASE, PubMed/MEDLINE, Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch), Scopus
Impact Factor 0,532
Online ISSN 1827-1715
Eboriadou M. 1, Chryssanthopoulou D. 2, Stamoulis P. 3, Damianidou L. 1, Haidopoulou K. 4
1 Second Pediatric Department, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, AHEPA Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece;
2 Pediatric Department, School of Medicine, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece;
3 Pediatric Department, “G. Genimatas” General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece;
4 Fourth Pediatric Department, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Papageorgiou Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
AIM: The purpose of this study was to determine whether local anti-inflammatory therapy with inhaled beclomethasone dipropionate is effective in the outpatient management of acute viral croup.
METHODS: Children six months to five years of age, presenting to the Emergency Department (ED) with a croup score of at least 2 participated in the study. All children were assigned in a randomised double-blind fashion to receive either nebulized L-epinephrine (LE), a single intramuscular injection of dexamethasone (D) 0.6 mg/kg, or inhaled beclomethasone dipropionate (BD) 200 mg, via aerochamber. Croup score (CS), heart rate (HR), blood pressure, respiratory rate (RR) and oxygen saturation were recorded at study entry and at 15, 30, 60, 90 and 120 minutes after treatment.
RESULTS: Sixty-four patients were enrolled into the study. Significant improvement of the croup score was noticed at the end of observation time in all groups. The LE group showed significant improvements of CS, HR and RR in comparison to the other two groups. Inhaled BD was as effective as intramuscular D in the treatment of mild to moderate croup in the ED.
CONCLUSION: The use of inhaled beclomethasone in the outpatient management of croup was associated with a significant reduction in the severity of illness within 24 h after treatment. | <urn:uuid:987aa288-2070-4326-8df4-2f2a3fd290f2> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.minervamedica.it/en/journals/minerva-pediatrica/article.php?cod=R15Y2010N01A0023 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721558.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00046-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.904126 | 518 | 1.789063 | 2 |
News & Politics
You'll need to sign in to follow to this podcast.
New to Podcast Chart? Sign up.
The Economist was founded in 1843 "to throw white light on the subjects within its range".
For more from The Economist visit http://shop.economist.com/collections/audio
April 28th, 2016
Episode 665 of 912 episodes
We discuss the political and scientific impact of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster on its 30th anniversary, and a new way to protect cells from many different kinds of virus
You'll need to sign in to write a comment.
Welcome to the daily audio workout for your head.
You'll need to sign in to add this to your collection.
Podcast Chart © 2017 Project Fantastic Ltd | <urn:uuid:9ee851cc-c2ac-4a56-be71-038029bf023c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.podcastchart.com/podcasts/the-economist-all-audio/episodes/babbage-the-legacy-of-chernobyl | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00013-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923097 | 158 | 1.585938 | 2 |
From: House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Democrats
Posted: Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Today, on the fiftieth anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's historic speech at Rice University about America's challenge to land a man on the moon, the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee's Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics held a hearing to examine the ongoing development of the Space Launch System (SLS) and the Orion Crew Capsule and to discuss how these human exploration technologies can also be used for future scientific missions. Testifying before the Subcommittee were Mr. Daniel Dumbacher, Deputy Associate Administrator for Exploration Systems Development at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); Mr. Cleon Lacefield, Vice President and Orion Program Manager for Lockheed Martin Corporation; Mr. Jim Chilton, Exploration Vice President for The Boeing Company; and Dr. Matt Mountain, the Director of the Space Telescope Science Institute.
Three successive NASA Authorization Acts have directed NASA to undertake a program of human exploration beyond low Earth orbit. The most recent of those Authorization Acts, the NASA Authorization Act of 2010, directed NASA to develop a heavy-lift launch vehicle known as the Space Launch System (SLS) and a multipurpose crew vehicle (MPCV) to be used to enable crewed missions to destinations beyond low Earth orbit as well as provide a backup capability for cargo and crew transportation to the International Space Station (ISS). In May 2011 NASA announced that the Orion crew capsule that was being developed for the Constellation program would be the MPCV, and in September 2011, NASA issued a final decision on the configuration of the SLS. Congress has called for a systematic, step-by-step program of human exploration of the solar system involving missions to the Moon, the Lagrangian points, asteroids, the moons of Mars, and ultimately Mars. NASA's current development plan includes an uncrewed test flight of the Orion crew capsule in 2014, the first integrated SLS and Orion uncrewed test flight in 2017, and a crewed test flight by 2021.
Rep. Hansen Clarke (D-MI) said in his opening statement, "As Members of Congress we need to do our part in helping to keep the SLS and Orion programs on track. While we need to ensure that the program is making wise decisions and prudent use of the funds provided to it, we also need to ensure that NASA is given the resources and stability that will allow SLS and Orion to succeed." During questions and answers, he emphasized the importance of programs such as Orion and SLS to getting our young people engaged in cutting edge technologies, characterizing them as investments that advance the goals of STEM and strengthen workforce skills.
Mr. Lacefield said "It remains critically important that Congress maintain FY2013 funding at the current level to ensure timely and successful implementation of the Orion crew module in 2014, as well as outyear budgets to support a robust crew safety-risk mitigation demonstration test leading to the first crewed mission." Mr. Chilton discussed the challenges of continuing development of SLS with flat funding discussing how flat funding prohibits simultaneous development of different elements of SLS. Mr. Dumbacher said, "Currently the major challenges to the programs are not primarily technical. Rather the challenges are in maintaining program stability while acquiring the Orion and SLS systems so that the next elements of the Exploration enterprise can be developed."
In her statement for the record, Ranking Member Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) said, "It is clear that NASA and its contractor team have made significant progress under very challenging conditions. They are turning designs and concepts into hardware and software and are moving forward towards flight tests in spite of funding that has been significantly less than authorized. However, they can't do it alone. We--Congress and the White House--can set them up for failure if we disrupt their funding and programmatic plans in the name of short-term cost savings or if we allow the funding that Congress provides for these programs to be reallocated or otherwise restricted within NASA during the upcoming Continuing Resolution. We will need to guard against both dangers in the coming months."
The Subcommittee also discussed how SLS could be used to enable the expansion of scientific missions like constructing large space telescopes and planetary probes and sending sophisticated robotic laboratories to the outer reaches of the solar system, as well as the importance of the SLS and Orion programs in engaging the nation's students in challenging and inspiring programs.
Ms. Johnson said, "I am fully aware that we are facing lots of constraints and I fully acknowledge that we have some real concerns about how we're going to be able to fund. But I'm also aware that until we out innovate, and, we only can innovate through research, our economy is really not going to get much better. So I'm hoping that you will keep the pressure on us to stay on track. Because when you just reflect; we are aware that where we are today basically came from this type of research. And where we're going to be tomorrow, it will come from this research. It will either be done here in partnership, or it will be done somewhere else. If it's not done by the United States, or not a major part, we'll be watching it as spectators. So I will just simply say, to keep the pressure up, keep young people intrigued, so we can continue to educate the manpower we need. We simply cannot afford to do without this research."
// end // | <urn:uuid:ceba5812-0f19-46ea-9262-07dd4579d8b4> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=38529 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719677.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00560-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949988 | 1,116 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Visual Basic Tutorial
If you've not already installed Visual Basic, now's a really good time to do so. Otherwise this tutorial will be about as useful as a very large hole in a rather small head. Don't worry - it's pretty straight forward.
How to start your own groovy program!
To setup Visual Basic:
- Insert the Visual Basic setup CD-ROM
- Click Start
- Click Run
- Type in "x:\setup.exe", where 'x' is the letter of your CD drive
- Follow the on-screen wizard until complete
Let's run Visual Basic now. The process of opening VB varies from version to version, but in general...
To open Visual Basic:
- Click Start
- Select Programs
- Highlight the Microsoft Visual Basic or Microsoft Visual Studio folder
- Click the Microsoft Visual Basic icon
After a few seconds of frantic whirring, you should be presented with a screen similar to the following:
If you don't have all the fancy icons I have, don't worry. It's not my fault you've been a real cheapskate and bought some cut-down, fell-off-the-back-of-a-lorry version. Ahem.
All those pretty little pictures depict the different types of programs you can create with Visual Basic. But right now, we're not bothered with all the frills - we just want to get our hands dirty with a little code!
- Highlight "Standard EXE" and click Open
A mini-screen with a title of "Form1" should appear. This is the starting block for your application - the screen users will see when they finally run your program.
At the moment, your screen should look something like this...
Page 3 of 6 | <urn:uuid:a5f26944-211c-4ab6-92ae-8c9f95f34b17> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.developer.com/net/vb/article.php/10926_1538761_3/Visual-Basic-Tutorial.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282935.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00240-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911647 | 370 | 2.765625 | 3 |
While not all acid rain is caused by pollution, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides are the pollutants that cause the most acid rain.
Click here to cancel reply.
Sorry,At this time user registration is disabled. We will open registration soon!
Don't have an account? Click Here to Signup
© Copyright GreenAnswers.com LLC | <urn:uuid:f17f93e4-16d0-4f3d-85cf-ee10f24c2c68> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://greenanswers.com/question/what-pollutions-contribute-acid-rain-mos/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718423.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00271-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.886063 | 71 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Along with all the inspiring suggestions for changing software, politics, education, disabilities, and our general appreciation for life, I was particularly proud to see the high percentage of women honored for doing fantastic things and presenting them forcefully. I wished there was an even larger audience to witness the event. Ethnic diversity was not so well represented, but that can be a goal to strive for.
This blog kicks off the conference with the following sections:
- Maybe software services could harm free software after all
- Is participation going down?
- Design by Damian Conway
Six months ago I wrote that Software as a Service doesn't threaten free software, trying to calm the alarms spreading through free and open source communities. The Open Source convention is a living demonstration of the convivial relationship between SaaS and free software. A large number of attendees are creating services, but they overwhelmingly use free software to build them and often contribute improvements back to free software.
What worries free software advocates is that their software can be enhanced without sharing the source, if the software is hidden behind a web interface. I claimed that this is not really a threat to the free software movement because modern languages and development tools make it so easy to replicate a service. In fact, we have so many people creating so many services that nobody has time to try all the ones that interest him.
But this week I thought of a totally different impact SaaS could have, with detrimental effects on the free software movement.
The use of SaaS spreads along with mobile devices. We don't want to drag the weight and bulk of a general-purpose computer around with us, like the laptop I'm using at the conference to write this blog. We want our digital functions on convenient mobile devices, and SaaS offers more potential for that convenience by giving us functions such as email and calendars that we used to do on general-purpose systems.
In fact, mobile devices are turning into general-purpose systems--but only because SaaS provides the features we're used to.
But desktop and laptop systems enable one use not available on cell phones and netbooks. Larger-scale systems provide the memory, compute power, screen real estate, and input devices that let us write, compile, and run software. Free software developers want larger and more powerful systems than the ones that the world is moving to.
If fewer people use desktop and laptop systems, they become premium items with correspondingly higher costs. This may discourage some potential code contributors, particularly young people, from becoming programmers.
Of course, I don't know who else will prefer desktop and laptop systems or where the market will go. But SaaS provides a solution to the problem, if indeed it becomes a problem: services can offer their source code on sandbox systems with interfaces to let developers play with the code and test changes. A cell phone may be an inappropriate input device, but a netbook might suffice. Contributing to free software will be like using Google App Engine. And free software can join SaaS as a first-class citizen.
A European free software advocate recently told me that the number of developers in free software seemed to be on the decline. Other people I've talked to about this subject said they see no evidence of this. But I could imagine a few reasons that people might find other distractions and spend less time coding:
- There are other cool things to do online: multimedia, blogging, participation in social networks, and now even input into government actions (see my recent series on open government). Whereas programming used to be a unique way to share creativity with people around the world, digital media and networks now grant wide influence to many other pastimes.
- Programmers are tempted by Software as a Service, which offers an even faster and more convenient way than free software does to expose functions to the public. I bet a lot of the people developing SaaS sites here at OSCon would be developing free software packages for download a decade ago (although many still do that in addition to SaaS).
- Most big, popular projects have come under the patronage of corporations, who provide the bulk of the programmers out of their paid staff. (Of course, many projects also take the opposite path, originating in a corporation and winning over a large volunteer community later; Eclipse and Firefox are examples.)
If some professional researcher released data showing a decline in the number of free software programmers, these are reasons I would offer. But I think voluntarism in free software is still vibrant. It seems like releases are coming faster than ever. And every week some project developed by an inspired individual hits the newswire.
I went to Damian's talk "7 Principles of Better API Design" because I figured his principles would extend beyond the Perl that he has so stupendously mastered to other languages and contexts as well. No, actually--I went to Damian's talk because his talk are always fun, but additionally I hoped his principles would extend beyond Perl to other languages.
In some ways they do and in other ways, I think, they don't.
Some of his recommendations resonated with fairly standard practices (for instance, intercepting function names or arguments and using introspection to add functionality). Some may be just a fun way of restating principles other people have established (for instance, "Do one thing really well" and "Evolve by subtraction" mirror the ruthless modularization used in modern designs).
However, "Evolve by subtraction" also includes the surprising advice to wait at least one release before providing defaults. Damian told us to require programmers to supply all parameters, watch what most of them pass after the API has been in the field for a while, and then make the most popular values the defaults. (This includes adding convenience functions.)
We begin to see here a hint of Damian's galvanizing philosophy. Most of us idealize API design as something that grows organically from the seed of a brilliant idea--the design as a consistent, coherent, and elegant expression of the designer's view. There's coherence and elegance in Damian's creations too, but they start from the outside (how people use the API) and move inward.
The ideal API to Damian embodies a "do what I mean" naturalness. The only way to give your programmers "do what I mean" is to find out what they mean. There are several ways to do this:
- Ask them. This is the strategy exemplified by deferring the choice of defaults.
- Look at what they've done elsewhere. For instance, make a logging interface look like a garden-variety print statement so programmers can send messages to logfiles using the same interface they're accustomed to using for printing strings to the terminal.
- Look at the way people's minds naturally work. For instance, provide a regular expression interface that lets people specify "int" instead of "/[+-]?\d+/".
- Get rid of everything you can. Whatever can be gleaned from the environment and routinized should be encapsulated in under-the-table implementations. It doesn't matter how ugly and convoluted the implementation is, so long as the usage on the surface is easy.
Very appealing, all of this, But there's a point where Damian's philosophy betrays a Perlish way of doing things. This includes:
- Prioritizing simplicity and usability over consistency with other parts of the system (although, as the logging example shows, Damian sometimes finds clever ways to increase consistency). There's a frolicsome sense of bending the language to immediate need. This same impulse lies behind domain-specific languages, which are popular at the moment, but domain-specific languages seek out a new consistency that hides the underlying system rather than sitting side by side with it.
- Growing without limit. Damian's maxim is that every API fills a deficiency in the language. It would be best if the language did it for you, and did it right, but when the language doesn't you should add extensions to offer what you want. This attitude is endemic to Perl.
Still, Damian's axiom of letting the programmer do what comes naturally and augmenting that behavior in convenient ways strikes me as much more appealing than frameworks that just set defaults and require you to use their conventions, especially when the conventions arbitrarily determine that one version of a name is lowercase, and another is init-capped, and another is pluralized, and names from related modules have to be combined in a certain order, and so forth. I do believe that Damian's seven principles should be at least taken under consideration by everybody who designs an interface. | <urn:uuid:28913300-3a35-494a-9274-211f6b71fd0d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/07/maybe-software-services-could.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00180-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948509 | 1,766 | 1.875 | 2 |
scroll to top
Stuck on your essay?
Get ideas from this essay and see how your work stacks up
Word Count: 560
The issue of capital punishment is alive and very controversial in the United States and all over the world The reason for this is that crime is very prevalent in society and our society is having difficulty determining the most effective deterrents and punishments for heinous crimes Although the crime problem in the US is inevitable killing is not an appropriate punishment it is not the answer for anything As the saying goesWhy do we kill people to show that killing people is wrong This statement shows the clear hypocrisy involved in capital punishment Of course vicious killers should be convicted and sentenced to harsh punishments but death should not be an option I feel that the government is taking the easy way out when it pushes for capital punishment There are other ways to punish and rehabilitate the convicted Barbaric is a sound adjective to describe capital punishment We are a civilized society and therefore should have the utmost respect for human life Killing regardless of the reason is barbaric In David Brucks essay The Death Penalty he clearly shows the barbarism involved with the death penalty He says Perhaps we want retribution on the flesh and bone of a handful of convicted murderers so badly that we are willing to close our eyes to all the demoralization and danger that come with it This lottery of death both comes from and encourages an attitude toward human life that is not reverent but reckless329 This intellectual has a clear view of the wrongfullness of the death penalty Alongside the essential fact that killing is wrong there are also other important reasons why capital punishment should not be made legal Among these are the error rate and the discrimination factor Concerning the error rate there have been many cases where innocent people have been executed Often evidence is found after the person has already been executed This type of situation is a tragedy and
@Kibin is a lifesaver for my essay right now!!
- Sandra Slivka, student @ UC Berkeley
Wow, this is the best essay help I've ever received!
- Camvu Pham, student @ U of M
If I'd known about @Kibin in college, I would have gotten much more sleep
- Jen Soust, alumni @ UCLA | <urn:uuid:9497fcc7-ae14-437c-bb07-36fdc9ed964b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.kibin.com/essay-examples/the-issue-of-capital-punishment-in-the-united-states-l9Y7I2mm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00432-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957338 | 447 | 2.234375 | 2 |
This homemade oak plank wood table project is a gorgeous furniture piece that functions as artwork as much as purpose.
Make sure you like The Homestead Survival on Facebook, Shop on AMAZON with Us and explore our PINTEREST BOARDS for innovative ways you can become self-sufficient on a budget.
There are a lot of DIY projects for making your own furniture but using reclaimed wood can lead to creating a real heirloom piece.
Wood can be considered reclaimed even if you pick it up from an old barn on the property but if you’re looking for something with historical significance, there are lumber companies selling wood from dismantled buildings even in cities.
Reclaimed wood can also lend itself to unique items. It’s unlikely you’ll find a grain or color match in the typical retailer’s line of lumber. It’s also been through some weathering so won’t expand or bend as easily as fresh untreated wood.
Working with it is not much different than working with mass produced lumber but you will need to sand it a lot. It might contain old nails and metal chips so sanding, re-sanding and then examining it again will create the smoothest surface for staining.
If you have the proper size, a dining table can be produced that won’t need a tablecloth cover and has the potential to last for more than one generation.
Using table length beams will require a planer and shop tools. Once cut into boards and attached to metal feet, you can create an heirloom trestle table. The feet on this project are metal and wood from the same reclaimed planks but sit under the table instead of at the corners.
Click here to read about how to make homemade oak plank wood table project:
[amazon-related-products keywords=”Trestle Table”][amazon-related-products keywords=”oak table”] | <urn:uuid:97a9cf48-2bf9-4105-b1b8-508381a69a83> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thehomesteadsurvival.com/homemade-oak-plank-wood-table-project/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.929559 | 398 | 1.804688 | 2 |
In a bit of good news today, the American Cancer Society reports that as of Wednesday, its 100th birthday, two out of three people who are diagnosed with cancer today will survive for at least five years, and cancer rates in the U.S. are down 20 percent overall since the 1990s.
ACS was founded in 1913 by a group of 15 doctors and businessmen in New York City, under the name “American Society for the Control of Cancer.” Life expectancy in the U.S. then was under 50, and at the time the biggest killer diseases were the flu, pneumonia and tuberculosis. "Cancer is a disease of aging, so as people live longer there will be more cancer," Dr. Michael Kastan, executive director of Duke University's Cancer Institute, told AP.
"In 1970, it was projected that cancer incidence and mortality would continue to rise beyond the year 2000," Vincent T. DeVita, Jr., M.D., national volunteer president of the American Cancer Society, said in a statement on the group’s website. "Today, not only have mortality rates declined since the early 1990s, but we're averting more than 400 cancer deaths every day."
AP reported that in 2011 the ACS had revenues of $925 million. The Society is also known for pushing women to get Pap tests and mammograms, which they say has contributed to a 70 percent decline in uterine and cervical cancer. According to the Center for Disease Control, approximately 12.7 million people worldwide get cancer every year. | <urn:uuid:708f802b-cee1-42c8-9c98-fc0bb677094d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ibtimes.com/american-cancer-society-turns-100-cancer-incidents-us-trending-downward-1275589 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00463-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980577 | 315 | 2.90625 | 3 |
When we were young plastics was not really an issue. Most of the things including toothpaste tubes were made out of metal so plastic was not a big issue as it is now. Some of you might remember those tins of kimbo which we used to use as we played cha mama and we cooked grass in them. Sometimes managing to get some charcoal or sticks for firewood so that we could cook a “meal” for girls who grew up in the 80’s in Nairobi this was probably part of their reality. Or those tins which we used to poke holes into and put hot charcoal or put on the jiko so that we could hot comb our hair. Hands up if you did that. Paper bags in the supermarkets were made of paper and even bread was wrapped in paper, not plastic. Well some of you might remember those days but some of you were born in the age of plastics in Kenya.
In the 1990s plastics became popular with the rise of capitalism and with it, a problem was born. Plastic pollution. Plastics are a problem everywhere, they block our drainages, they are eaten by animals and sometimes kill them, they pollute our lakes, rivers and streets. The worst thing about plastics is that most of them are not biodegradable so if not disposed of properly they can become a hazard to the environment. Unfortunately, we may think that when they are taken to the dumps they are disposed of properly but that’s not true. While some of the items like plastic bottles are usually taken for recycling or reused most of the other waste like torn plastic bags are either burnt (which is also harmful to the environment) or just left there.
If we can do our part, however little it is, we could help make Kenya and the planet. We can still reuse plastics or other items around the house and I will give you a few tips on how to do that.
1. Carrier bags- you can use this as trash bags. Just line your bin with one and when it is full you can remove it, tie a knot and keep it ready for the trash man.
2. The big biscuit plastic jars can be used to store rice, maize meal etc. You can also store some and take them upcountry where there are many uses for them.
3. Clean plastic jars for things like peanut butter and use them to store odds and ends. You can also use them to store food items like spices or detergent.
4. Buy refill packs for things like Royce, cocoa and coffee and pour them into the plastic containers you had previously bought the product in.
5. Bread paper bags can be used to store things like cooked beans and maize in the fridge.
6. Do your plastic buckets have holes or cracks? Turn it into a litter bin. Or cut it into a smaller bucket and grow plants and flowers to beautify your home or compound.
7. If you have old clothes that are too torn to be thrown away you can turn some into rags for using around the house. You may also have some clothes made out of good quality material but which for some reason cannot be worn why not make cushion covers or table mats.
8. When we were kids eggs came in paper carton trays. Nowadays it is plastic trays. Once you are done with your trays don’t throw them away. I have an auntie who has layers. We keep the cartons for her and give them to her when we see her. As she also gives us eggs it makes it easy to store the eggs when we get them. Look for somebody to give the trays too or reuse them.
9. Scrap paper can be used by your children to make notes or sketches. They can also be turned into paper mache for your children to make things with. You can also do the same with newspapers. There are some pretty cool things to be made with paper mache as can be seen on the show art attack.
10. Recycle some of your waste like potato skins; carrot peels etc. by placing them in your plants to help them grow. You will never have to use fertilizer.
11. Cut off the bottoms of water bottles and plant seedlings in them.
12. You can also use plastic water bottles as an irrigation system. Drill a small hole in the middle of the cap of a plastic water bottle. Put water in the bottle, screw it tightly shut and place it strategically next to a plant where it can drip water into the plant.
14. You can use leftover foil to pack items that need to be kept waterproof. You can also place foil behind plans in the shade to reflect light on them.
15. Reuse plastic bags for shopping until they can’t be used anymore. If you can get the recycled bags that are sold in the supermarket use that for your shopping instead of getting new plastic bags every time you shop.
16. Wash yoghurt cups and use them as cups for drinking water. | <urn:uuid:65c33c74-504d-4f9a-b4d0-4f6f9d37b154> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://potentash.com/2015/07/27/16-fun-ways-to-recycle-things-in-the-house/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.977132 | 1,033 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Click to donate today!
Charles Buck Theological Dictionary
A state or disposition of the mind, wherein we put a value upon, or become pleased with, some person or thing. Moralists are divided on the principle of approbation, or the motive which determines us to approve or disapprove. The Epicureans will have it to be only self-interest: according to them, that which determines any agent to approve his own action, is its apparent tendency to his private happiness; and even the approbation of another's action flows from no other cause but an opinion of its tendency to the happiness of the approver, either immediately or remotely. Others resolve approbation into a moral sense, or a principle of benevolence, by which we are determined to approve every kind affection either in ourselves or others, and all publicly useful actions which we imagine to flow from such affections, without any view therein to our own private happiness. But may we not, add, that a true Christian's approbation arises from his perception of the will of God?
These files are public domain.
Text Courtesy of BibleSupport.com. Used by Permission.
Buck, Charles. Entry for 'Approbation'. Charles Buck Theological Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/cbd/a/approbation.html. 1802.
the Week of Proper 15 / Ordinary 20 | <urn:uuid:4593c445-e056-4b4c-88e4-a0e0e9a72744> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/cbd/a/approbation.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.9349 | 320 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Child vaccines are one of the most important medical developments of the last century. Yet some well educated parents don’t want their kids to take them, or want to spread them out. They fear the discredited concept that vaccines could cause autism.We've had measles and pertussis outbreaks in New Trier--scary stuff.
Would you drink unpasteurized milk? Unfiltered water? Are you going to believe huckster conspiracy theorists?
Get the vaccine.
Previous posts: Celebrity Medicine and Autism, Earnest Idiocy | <urn:uuid:25f4dd00-488f-41ad-9dd4-237bdddc2177> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://backyardconservative.blogspot.com/2010/10/old-childhood-killers-are-coming-back.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280718.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00402-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951322 | 111 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Madrid/Berlin - European leaders sound unusually divided
before a high-stakes summit, with Germany's Angela Merkel saying total debt
liability would not be shared in her lifetime and giving little support to
Italian and Spanish pleas for immediate crisis action.
Rome and Madrid have seen their borrowing costs spiral to a
level which for Spain at least would not be sustainable as it battles to
recapitalise banks ravaged by a burst property bubble and cut a towering
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Wednesday he
would ask other European Union leaders to allow the bloc's bailout funds or the
European Central Bank (ECB) to stabilise financial markets.
parliament before a meeting of European heads in Brussels on Thursday and
Friday, Rajoy warned that Spain would not be able to finance itself
indefinitely with 10-year bond yields near 7%.
"The most urgent issue is the one of financing. We can’t
keep funding ourselves for a long time at the prices we’re currently funding
ourselves,” he told parliament.
Even when there are profound disagreements, EU leaders have
been burned by the markets enough times to generally make sure they sound
united before major gatherings.
But divisions have been exposed by the ousting of Nicolas
Sarkozy by socialist Francois Hollande as French president and the fact that
Rome and Madrid have muscled into the traditional Franco-German axis.
The leaders held an unusually discordant news conference in
Rome on Friday.
Hollande said there must be more solidarity in Europe before
countries hand over more sovereignty over their national budgets, while Merkel
said she would not accept extra liabilities without overarching budget control.
The pair will have a working dinner in Paris on Thursday
evening, an opportunity to repair the damage.
An initial attempt to smooth over
differences came at a meeting of the four countries' finance ministers late on
Tuesday after which nothing was said.
In Rome, Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti said he would
not simply rubber stamp conclusions at the EU summit and said he was ready to
go on negotiating into Sunday evening if necessary to agree on measures to calm
With Hollande's support, Monti is pushing for the eurozone’s
rescue funds to be used to help limit the spreads over German Bunds on bonds
issued by countries that respect EU budget rules.
Rajoy would settle for that
or the ECB doing the same job by reviving its bond-buying
The proposal has run into stiff opposition from Germany, the
largest economy in the EU and the bloc’s effective paymaster, and
has been rejected by Jens Weidmann, the powerful head of the German central
bank, the Bundesbank.
Stock markets perked up last week on the hope that the 20th
EU summit since the bloc’s debt crisis exploded into the open in Greece would
come up with dramatic measures. Investors have since thought better of that
European shares edged up on Wednesday and the euro was flat,
with many investors out of the markets before the Brussels meeting.
“People are waiting for the inevitable - which is that
policymakers will probably fail to do what is necessary,” said Neil Mellor,
currency analyst at Bank of New York Mellon.
Merkel stomped on the idea of mutualising debt - favoured by
France, Italy and Spain - at a meeting of lawmakers from her Free Democratic
coalition partners in Berlin on Tuesday, according to people who attended the
“I don’t see total debt liability as long as I live,” she
was quoted as saying, a day after branding the idea of euro bonds “economically
wrong and counterproductive”.
The words may have been carefully chosen and do not at face
value rule out mutualising some portion of eurozone members’ debts as the end
point of a drive towards fiscal union.
Merkel finds herself in a dwindling minority but holds the
eurozone’s purse strings and therefore nearly all the cards.
German opposition SPD leader Sigmar Gabriel told the
Financial Times that urgent measures were needed to lower eurozone sovereign
borrowing costs, otherwise the currency bloc could “simply explode”.
Italy and Spain argue that they are stretching every sinew
to cut their debt mountains and need some support from their currency area
peers to keep the markets at bay.
Monti won the first two of four confidence votes on Tuesday
called to accelerate the passage of his labour reform that has been criticised
by both by labour unions and the business establishment.
The final two votes,
and definitive approval, are due on Wednesday.
Spain - which has been offered loans of up to €100bn to
recapitalise its banks but is determined not to ask for a sovereign
bailout - is considering raising consumer, energy and property taxes.
Spanish Economy Minister Luis de Guindos said he had talked
with the finance ministers of Germany, France and Italy already on Wednesday
with further discussions planned.
Eurozone finance ministers will also hold a conference call
on the bailout of Spanish banks and this week’s request for aid from Cyprus, EU
The request made Cyprus the fifth of the eurozone’s 17 states
to seek aid from EU rescue funds after Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain.
Underlining the parlous state of Spanish finances, figures
showed the central government’s deficit had already reached 3.41% of annual
gross domestic product through just the first five months of the year, close to
its target for the whole year of 3.5%.
Spain’s central bank said on Wednesday it expected recession
to deepen in the second quarter of the year.
The Brussels summit is expected to agree on a growth package
pushed by France worth around €130bn in infrastructure project bonds,
reallocated regional aid funds and European Investment Bank loans.
Leaders will also discuss proposals for a banking union, but
while they are likely to agree to give the ECB power to supervise big
cross-border banks, Merkel is resisting any joint deposit guarantee or common
bank resolution fund. | <urn:uuid:91a73046-232a-4815-9c6c-eb628f014e2b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.fin24.com/Economy/Europes-leaders-at-odds-before-summit-20120627 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00452-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951433 | 1,296 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Are High Home Prices Going to Accelerate the Chances of the Next Recession?
For at least the last three years, people have been predicting a Canadian housing crash and ensuing recession. Yet the economy continues chugging along and home prices are still going up.
However, “house prices can’t climb faster than incomes forever,” as was duly noted by CIBC chief economist Avery Shenfeld.
Whether plummeting house prices will be the trigger for the next recession or not, it is likely to be more severe, and take longer to recover from, due to today’s lofty real estate values.
“Today’s high house prices do pose a material risk that, when it comes, the next recession would be longer and deeper than otherwise,” Shenfeld wrote in a recent note entitled Would We Fear or Cheer a House Price Correction, co-authored by economists Andrew Grantham and Nick Exarhos.
One of the key reasons, the authors argue, is that the Bank of Canada’s ability to raise rates to contain growth and inflation is limited primarily by today’s larger average mortgage principals needed to pay for expensive housing.
“A two per cent rise in mortgage rates would be fairly gentle by past tightening cycles, but would raise monthly payments by roughly 25 per cent on a conventional five-year mortgage,” Shenfeld wrote, adding that insured mortgages have a little more of a cushion built in to help keep borrowers solvent.
“It’s going to take a lot less hiking to keep a lid on growth and inflation in the next few years, leaving a lot less room for conventional rate cuts when a recession eventually hits,” he said, adding that negative rates and QE (quantitative easing) “haven’t proven to be as effective as substitutes.”
The authors also touched on several potential triggers for a home price correction that could lead to a recession:
BOC Rate Hikes
“It’s a near truism that a steep enough climb in interest rates would send prices south,” the report read. “The Bank of Canada is only going to be raising interest rates because the economy is doing well. So if house prices were falling in that environment, as might be the case, it would be circular to say that the economy would be in ruins.”
Poor mortgage origination standards was a key trigger for the U.S. housing crisis, but seems to be an unlikely cause for a Canadian housing crisis. One of the biggest clues is mortgage arrears rates. Prior to the U.S. financial crisis, 90-date mortgage delinquency rates soared to 8 per cent. In Canada, the arrears rate has been flat at around 0.28% for the last few years.
The report found that major house price retreats with no interest rate or recession trigger have no major precedent, neither in Canada nor abroad. It referenced a 15% year-over-year price decline in Vancouver in 2012, but noted it was short-lived and that GDP growth was little affected.
So what’s the solution? How can this scenario be avoided?
The authors said measures to stimulate increased construction today, to increase inventory and dampen price and rent inflation, could help soften the impacts of the next recession.
“Not waiting too long to begin nudging rates higher would also be an ingredient in the right policy mix,” they wrote. | <urn:uuid:92d41f74-47cf-4c60-8504-1f4dd44c8dd7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.canadianmortgagetrends.com/2017/05/high-home-prices-next-recession/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.967561 | 730 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Accelerated English Speaking Courses
Providing English Courses for all ages.
Rhythm & Remedy English
Our unconventional teaching methods utilize fun, creative hands on activities thus allowing students to retain the english language a lot quicker & more easily.
Rhythm and Remedy Accelerated English Classes teach the English Language in an unconventional way, utilizing music, art and interactive activities allowing students to learn the English Language more easily in a fun environment, increasing student retention.
Email us for more details: email@example.com | <urn:uuid:187ef37b-1b7e-4066-b146-5742053f4a41> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rhythmandremedy.com/education | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.841421 | 123 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Our family and cosmetic dental office provides multiple tooth replacement options. Losing teeth can have cosmetic and functional repercussions. Furthermore, the whole situation can be simply embarrassing. Addressing tooth loss in an expedient manner is important if you want to avoid issues like other teeth drifting out of place, or jawbone density issues. Your Lafayette dentist, Dr. Michael Young, would like to highlight a particular tooth replacement method: dental bridges.
The Design of Dental Bridges
Dental bridges were designed to mimic structural bridges. The dental apparatus relies on two end points that hold up the foundation of your bridgework. Between the two abutment teeth will be the same number of porcelain crowns as the number of teeth that are missing. Dental crowns are designed to look and act just like natural teeth. The bridge and crowns can be bonded together for a reliable and snug fit. Though the bridge will be fixed in place, it will sit slightly above the gumline so there is no irritation.
Aside from replacing tooth function, dental bridges have the ability to greatly improve a smile that is missing teeth. When you first lose a tooth or teeth, you’re very likely to want to hide your smile or cover your mouth rather than show your happiness. Dental bridges are intended to blend in flawlessly with surrounding teeth. The porcelain crowns can be dyed to match your natural teeth in a seamless way. You can even brush your bridge in the same way that you brush your other teeth. The only extra care required is that you should floss underneath your dental bridge so that plaque, tartar, and food debris don’t collect there.
Dental Bridges from Lafayette Dentist
Dr. Michael Young, our Lafayette dentist, encourages you to see if dental bridges are right for your situation. You can visit our Lafayette dental office to find out more information about your tooth replacement options. Schedule your appointment by calling 337-237-6453 or filling out our online appointment request. | <urn:uuid:445cd683-a6d2-4586-8e84-88fc84660c03> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://23smiles.com/general-dentistry/lafayette-dentist-talks-about-dental-bridges/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00066.warc.gz | en | 0.912281 | 410 | 1.570313 | 2 |
You’re probably wondering what in the world is happening in B2 with the maps. What’s up with the color-coded labels? Hopefully, the color-coded labels are starting to make sense; they designate 4 Special Collection map sizes and folders:
- Orange is Size A = 6 folders fit in a drawer (if needed)
- Green is Size B = 4 folders fit in a drawer (if needed)
- Pink is Size C = 2 folders fit in a drawer
- Blue is size D = 1 large folder fits in a drawer
Before Size Notation
Before the color-coded labels appeared, you may have encountered these “find the SC map” scenarios:
- You’ve looked up a map in the UW catalog but were unable to retrieve from its location in Special Collections. Where is it?
- You know we have a certain map — you’ve seen it — but, it’s not in the catalog. Where is it?
- You’ve located the LC number of the map and it’s in the top drawer in one of the B2 map cabinets. You grab the stepping stool and attempt to pull the folder out, but it’s the 3rd folder in the drawer and the ones on top of it are heavy because they’re overstuffed. You slowly wiggle the folder while pulling it a little toward you. You place the folder on your shoulder or on your head, wiggling and pulling while trying to balance the folder. And then it happens – the Mylar map sleeves are so slippery the maps slide out of the folder and onto the floor. After all of the awkward wiggling and pulling and maneuvering, your shoulder hurts and you’ve got a paper cut on your lip because the folder snapped back at your face when the maps flew out of control. You’re standing on the stool with a large empty map folder. All the maps, big and small are splayed all over the floor.
Resolving Retrieving Issues
After considering what may be a more efficient retrieval process for SC maps, Nicole had me measure the B2 map cabinet drawers. My first task was to calculate how many maps would fit in a drawer if the maps were reorganized by size and placed in appropriately fitted folders.
Ergonomically it made sense if the smaller maps were organized in the top drawers, the mid-size maps at waist height and the larger maps in the bottom drawers, there would less chance of injury to whoever is retrieving a map and less injury (damage) to the map itself by preventing it from landing on the floor.
An added value to reorganizing the maps by size was evident by the gradual appearance of empty drawers. There is now available drawer space that can accommodate uncataloged maps once they are recorded and additional room for maps that may be added to the collection in the future.
When you search for a map in the catalog and note the map’s location, make sure you note, next to the LC call number, the “Shelved as: Size” indicator. This will guide you to the correct B2 cabinet drawer for retrieving the map.
Reorganizing the cataloged maps by size does not resolve finding a map because it has been misfiled, but hopefully once everyone becomes comfortable with this process, a misfiled map may be easier to track down.
To be continued with Uncataloged Maps . . .
Submitted by Edna | <urn:uuid:549578ab-82fb-4bf1-ab9e-f7ed3d0448d3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://pnwblog.wordpress.com/author/ednabw/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00244-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944017 | 730 | 2.03125 | 2 |
MELISSA BLOCK, HOST:
If you love Saint Patrick's Day but you hate green, Nike has the shoe for you, or so it thought.
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:
The athletic apparel behemoth is releasing a new version of its SB Dunk Low, a popular casual shoe. It is black and tan-colored. And since we're getting close to Saint Paddy's Day, the shoe has a nickname that is apparently beer-inspired - the Black and Tan.
BLOCK: And that's where Nike gets into trouble. Here in the U.S. or in Britain, you might order a Black and Tan at a pub and get a mixture of an Irish stout, such as Guinness, and a lager, like Harp. But that's not the original meaning of Black and Tan.
SIEGEL: I talked today with Brian Boyd of The Irish Times newspaper, and he explained.
BRIAN BOYD: It has certain historical associations. The Black and Tans were a ruthless auxiliary force of the British army before we became independent in the 1920s. They were responsible for wide-scale massacres, butchering of people. You would not - we don't even - for example, in the U.S. you may go into a bar and ask for a drink called a Black and Tan.
SIEGEL: And that would be - I'm not saying this from great personal familiarity - that would be a half of a black beer, like a Guinness, and a half of a pale ale with it. But you wouldn't call it that in Ireland?
BOYD: No, we'd use different terms. And in fact, we wouldn't really dilute our Guinness over here. It's not really the done thing to do.
BLOCK: Now, Nike has released a statement saying: We apologize, no offense was intended. At the same time, Nike says the sneaker has been, quote, unofficially named by some as the Black and Tan.
SIEGEL: That said, if you look inside the shoe - as we have done with online photos - you see an image of a pint of beer with two colors, black and tan.
BLOCK: Brian Boyd of The Irish Times has reported on some outrage over the shoe. But really, he says, it's not about a shoe. It's about a holiday.
BOYD: It's how the Americans view Saint Patrick's Day and view Irish culture and history. And it's the very fact that some people are saying that these are beer-themed sneakers, that the only way to celebrate a national holiday of a country with a very rich culture and a very rich history and literature, et cetera, is to pour massive amounts of alcohol down your body.
It's how the American treat St. Patrick's Day. So we're using this story to say, look, it's the silly Americans, stupid Americans, look what they're doing again. They've got it all wrong.
SIEGEL: Which is, by the way, a default mode for journalism across the pond.
BLOCK: But still, it seems Nike did not have its smartest moment with the Black and Tan shoe. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright National Public Radio. | <urn:uuid:6db19840-dcae-4052-9587-1a0f0c10c04d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://publicradiotulsa.org/post/nike-kicks-controversy-black-and-tan-shoes | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00165-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969534 | 679 | 1.851563 | 2 |
As coral reefs are put under increasing stress from rising sea temperatures, some believe that a potential refuge could be the ‘deep blue sea’. However, scientists have now discovered that to thrive under those conditions, corals must possess a fluorescing ability which allows them to seemingly produce their own sunlight.
It is well known that many shallow reef corals fluoresce in sunlight for protection against harmful UV radiation. As symbiotic organisms, most corals need microscopic algae to survive. This algae, also known as zooxanthellae, consumes the waste products from the coral whilst providing the coral with most of its nutrients through photosynthesis. Too much UV radiation can damage the algae, starving the corals from nutrients. Fluorescence produces certain proteins which protect their algae friends from the sun.
Researchers from the University of Southampton were therefore surprised to see that deep-sea corals fluoresce for the opposite reason to shallow reef corals. Using deep-sea coral samples, the team found that when they fluoresce the colour red, they have a better survival rate. Red light promotes photosynthesis as the algae can absorb it more effectively, explaining why they convert deep-water blue light into this red light. This red fluorescence is then dispersed in the coral and reflected by the calcium skeleton, making it look like they are creating their own sunlight. They essentially amplify the little sunlight they have access to, by using this ability to fluoresce.
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, this study sheds important light on coral biology. There are many coral reefs around the world that are seriously endangered due to rising temperatures as a result of climate change. It has been thought that the ‘deep blue sea’ could be a sanctuary for these struggling species. However, unless they can adapt their fluorescing ability to dark waters, it seems this might not be a viable option. It gives further incentive to find other innovative ways of protecting their shallow water homes.
Sarah Barfield Marks is studying for an MSc in Science Communication
Banner image: coral colony, Sanakaaa | <urn:uuid:44d06fe2-3ee0-445e-aba3-9e28cdbe4540> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://isciencemag.co.uk/news/deep-sea-corals-found-to-produce-their-own-sunlight/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.955618 | 425 | 3.96875 | 4 |
This OT Book records the events attending the ‘Exodus’ (i.e. the release of the Israelites under Moses from their Egyptian bondage) and the giving of the Law on Mount Sinai. Its authorship has traditionally been ascribed to Moses. Modern scholars assign the Book to a later time than that of Moses, some holding it to be a composite work, its strata probably having been written between the 9th and 5th cents. bc. The date of the Exodus is also debated, but most scholars favour the 13th cent. bc. The deliverance has throughout Jewish history been regarded as the outstanding instance of God's favour to His chosen people; Christian writers have used the imagery of the Passover with reference to the sacrifice of Christ on Calvary and of the Eucharist. In modern times the Exodus has become a symbol of liberation for many groups, from Black Christians in the USA to Liberation theologians in Latin America.
Subjects: Biblical Studies. | <urn:uuid:90cac464-3c13-4b35-94f3-6c5710d38a9a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095804691 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00015-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957144 | 200 | 4.15625 | 4 |
1/2 or Full Day
Virtual 2 hrs
Onsite, Virtual, Conference
Australia Wide F2F + International Virtual Delivery
Building on our Strengths
Communication Professional Development Training for Teams
This is a crucial workshop for all teams who work in a fast-paced environment and hybrid teams, with a mix of face to face and remote workers.
Positive and authentic communication across a team is a foundation of building trust. Whilst we all aspire to open and honest communication so often it can be a challenge to achieve for a whole host of reasons.
Powerful Communication includes both appreciating positive output and performance from a team member and giving regular feedback across a team – with positive intent.
It seems this vital skill for all team members is often one of the biggest challenges.
Have you ever thought-
“I should say something but there never seems to be the right time”
Or have you encountered the situation when a team member may consistently fix another team members error but not mention it because they don’t want to upset them.
“If I wait long enough, it will sort itself out.”
or Have you noticed someone is doing really well in an area- but you fail to tell them you’re observations, or pass the positive things on to your manager? In reality – we need to give 6 x more positive feedback to our teammates as constructive feedback. Did you know 67% of teammates say they get to little positive feedback? Leaders are often expected to be the ones who solely give both positive and critical feedback in a team – yet the best teams have a consistent stream of performance base feedback across a team…and the most powerful practise is to ensure there is positive intent.
If you are keen to shift the communication dynamics in your team – embedding positive communication into your culture will be a game-changing shift that you won’t look back from.
Performance-based communication can and should be given up down and laterally within a work environment. Giving positive and constructive performance-based feedback effectively is a skill. And like all skills, it takes practice to build your confidence and improve.
- Insights into current research into the 3 core areas of positive communication
- Awareness of our own experience in receiving positive and constructive feedback and the impact it had on our performance
- Use communication skills to improve relationships by recognising the signs that it is time to talk about a situation
- Identify emotional and behavioural barriers and ways to overcome reluctance to receiving and giving feedback
- Golden rules for the first 30 seconds
- Use techniques to constructively initiate a feedback discussion with a team member, peer or your manager
- Prepare and deliver feedback with positive intent and in a way that builds confidence in what you are saying
- Use techniques to prepare for receiving feedback, judge its validity and make decisions on what to do with the feedback
- Identify practical strategies to assist when responses to feedback are unexpected
- Practise strength-based feedback which acknowledges the personal qualities that a team member brings to their role and contributes to a team for the collective benefit of team dynamics.
* Option to include a free Communication Profiling evaluation great to see the varied styles of communication
* Option to include style under stress cards for personal self-insight and the predominant style across a team
EVERY TEAM and EVERY ORGANISATION …Suitable for executive teams, leaders, work teams, public sector and brilliant for all of staff development days. Interactive and energetic in-person delivery supports positive culture and connection. We also deliver this virtually – with you all in a room or in different locations.
We happily tailor if there is specific challenges or changes within the business.
Why invest in a team workshop? What does welcome to the team mean in your organisation?
We often hear that new team members ‘hit the ground running; this is primarily due to the fast-paced nature of our organisations. One client mentioned, there is just less ‘chum factor’ – this is often presented to us as a lack of connection in teams or across departments. We still often hear the term ‘silos’. With technological advances, we communicate digitally and have less direct face to face opportunities to really connect. This session works brilliantly with one team, or you can have many in the room, and we will mix them all and have time with their own team.
Jane Wundersitz: Australia & International Virtual delivery. Keynote Plenary Speaker, Conference, Executive and Leadership, Public Sector, Employee and Team development | Australia Wide | Adelaide | Canberra | Sydney | Perth | Alice Springs | Brisbane |Darwin | Hobart | Regional | Mt Gambier |
Belinda Sudano: Conference, Executive and Leadership, Public Sector, Employee and Team Development | Melbourne
Kasey Lloyd: Conference, Executive and Leadership, Public Sector, Employee and Team Development. | Brisbane | Gold Coast | Cairns
Claudia Chambers: Executive and Leadership, Public Sector, Employee and Team Development. | Sydney | Byron Bay | Canberra
Lorraine Donahue: Executive and Leadership, Public Sector, Employee and Team Development.| Perth
Optional – Resilience Driven PR6 assessment ( POA – group discounts )
Pre and Post evaluation available for collective assessment: Recommended for Resilient People package.
In-person – Inhouse, Conference or Retreat – we bring everything required for the workshop. AV supplied by the client.
Virtual Training Delivered by Zoom, Microsoft Teams or Web-Ex. Conference or
Worthwhile Investment for every team … and we will endeavour to get to you wherever you are in Australia.
In-Person Energising Keynote and Interactive Conference Workshop
- Australia Keynote Plenary Speaker POA
- Interactive Conference Workshop 90 min > full-day POA From $2700 +GST> $7000 +GST cards/ table whiteboards etc. to support engagement for 26 tables groups up to 260 participants
- International Keynote POA (post-Covid-19)
*POA Varied speakers available – travel additional
In-Person Workshop: Australia Wide
- Half-Day In- house workshop POA from $2000 – $5000 +GST
- Full-Day POA from $3500 – $7000 +GST
- Small business/ NFP/ Network Group / Volunteer Group / COVID Impacted discount may apply
Virtual: 6 > 1000+ participants
- Virtual Keynote or Conference POA
- 90 min from $1200 +GST
- Half/ Full day from $1600 +GST
Value Package Options: Discount applies for bookings of 3 or more workshops virtual/ live or a combination. Online delivery option, please inquire.
- Wellbeing Boost Package
- The Pink Flamingo: Culture Transformation Package
- Power Leaders Package
- Power Team Package
- Resilient People with Applied Neuroscience Package
- Driving Positive Change Package
- SSO Package
This is What Our Clients Thought
“Loved this - so energising and engaging. It really brought teams together.”All of Staff Day Full Day 80 + ParticipantsAFL Sports Ready
“'You’re an awesome facilitator that can lift a room – not many people have that skill '”Nathan Wilson - Australian & NZ Leadership ConferenceNathan
“"Jane's content is dynamic, and her clever delivery and expert ability to read her audience to draw learning outcomes set her apart as a presenter, facilitator and speaker.Shelley Poten : Regional General ManagerFlight Centre Group : Delivered Virtually
I would recommend Jane's talents to any leader or organisation looking to achieve positive group outcomes."”
“'Inspirational- fantastic energy and real relevant learning. Feeling ready for anything.'”LincolnBoc Conference Melbourne | <urn:uuid:9ca4e2b4-0ca5-4136-8aaf-a471d795257b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wundertraining.com.au/powerful-communication-five-star-team/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.905401 | 1,646 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Vágur is a town on Suðuroy.
Vágur is situated in the southern part of the island Suðuroy, between the villages Porkeri and Lopra. It is situated on the east coast, but the west coast is not far away, only around 1 km from where the town ends. You can travel to Vágur by car or by bus (line 700), but first you must travel to Suðuroy either with the ferry Smyril (2-3 times daily) or by the helicopter (2-3 times a week). There is a new road tunnel between Øravík and Hov, it has made travelling in Suðuroy much easier and faster. Now it takes only around 15 minutes from Tvøroyri to Vágur and the road has two lanes all the way. The old road between Øravík and Hov is worth to take, if one comes by car and has enough of time.
The best way to get around in Vágur is by feet or by car. One can walk around in the town and visit museums or shops or just have a look at local life. The main road is called Vágsvegur. The first road you come to when arriving to Vágur is Marknoyrarvegur, the road then splits into two, the left one is the main road Vágsvegur and the road to the right is Toftavegur. Vágsvegur continues all the way to the end of the fjord, where it splits into two, one road goes straight ahead to the west coast and the road changes its name at some point to Eiðisvegur, and the other road follows the curve of the fjord and continues the the southern villages Lopra and Sumba, the name of the road along the southern side of the fjord is Líðarvegur. If you wish to visit a breathtaking viewpoint just south of Vágur in a place called Eggjarvegur, than you should look out for a narrow side road to Líðarvegur, which is called Eggjarvegur. It is just a few hundred metres after the Magn petrol station, turn right. The road has a few curves and it is narrow, but there is not much traffic and the view towards Beinisvørð is fantastic up there. The road stops only around 20 metres from the edge, which goes vetically down to the North Atlantic Ocean.
The nature around Vágur is beautiful and breathtaking. One of the places, which are werth visiting is Vágseiði on the west coast, only around 1 km west of the village. Just follow the main road and drive or walk strait ahead in stead of following the bay. The road goes all the way to Vágseiði, a rocky place where the sea often is rough. There is an old harbor there, which only occasionally is used now, but in the old days it was very important for the fishing boats. They were rowing out from this harbor, when the wind came from the east, north-east or south-east. There used to be many boat houses, but they were blown away in the hurricanes in the eighties and the nineties.
The Tourist Information in Vágur is on Vágsvegur 30 in the same building as the Town Hall of Vágur. Phone: +298 733090, e-mail: email@example.com, website: www.visitsuduroy.fo. | <urn:uuid:ba6f4921-4ae0-4ccd-8db2-7f6807698213> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=V%C3%A1gur&oldid=1317747 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719784.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00427-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965479 | 747 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Date of this Version
Conceptual, technological, and material advancement has a deep influence on all sectors of life including libraries. Libraries are coping with these developments accordingly, however, the pace of development is not the same around the globe. This study aims to explore the adoption status of green library practices in the university libraries of Pakistan. The peer-reviewed literature including IFLA’s checklist was encompassed to model twelve aspects/practices of green library initiative. The feedback from the selected, senior university librarians of Pakistan on the proposed model of green library practices was collected through interviews. The librarians apprise the green library model as an effective combination of related aspects and technologies. The findings reveal that each participating library has adopted some of the green library practices. However, a lot of more work is to be done to fully understand and adopt the green library initiative. | <urn:uuid:687c57af-4e4d-4cdb-b0ec-e91ef34348d7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac/6944/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00671.warc.gz | en | 0.945413 | 185 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Architectural woodwork firms which have experienced the Quality Certification Program (QCP) licensing process have some institutional knowledge of the cost and effort required to accomplish that goal. QCP currently offers 35 separate licenses, each corresponding to the fabrication, finishing, or installation of a particular product category covered by the Architectural Woodwork Standards. An applicant company must determine which combination of these licenses most accurately correlates to the products and services it provides which could be subject to certification. This is an important consideration, since a registered QCP project is not eligible for certification unless the woodwork subcontractor holds the licenses necessary to cover all the items subject to QCP’s conformance assessment (as determined by project specifications).
Obviously, situations can and do arise in which a license not included in a company’s initial list becomes necessary to meet the requirements of an awarded project. QCP has provided a means by which a company already licensed may easily add licenses at any time. It has come to our attention that some QCP participant companies are unaware that the process of adding licenses is far simpler than the initial licensing effort. QCP’s written policies detail exactly what is involved in qualifying for additional licenses:
“3.2.3. Licensing of any additional sections of work following a licensee’s initial licensure shall be accomplished by means of a work sample inspection and evaluation performed by a QCP Representative.
18.104.22.168. Samples provided by the licensee for this purpose may be:
22.214.171.124.1. Factory manufactured or
126.96.36.199.2. “in-place” work performed for a project fabricated and/or installed not more than two years prior to the date of inspection.
188.8.131.52. Samples provided for this purpose must conform to the current Standard and must reasonably conform to the Minimum Sample Criteria available on the QCP website.
3.2.4. Upon completion of a sample inspection, the QCP Representative shall issue a written licensing report, with a separate assessment and recommendation for each sample shown.
3.2.5. New sections licensed shall be added to the list of the licensee’s sections which appears on the QCP website.
3.2.6. All costs of additional section licenses shall be borne by licensee to include, but not be limited to, administrative fees, travel, meals, lodging and per diem. This requirement applies to fabrication, finishing, and installation.” (Complete QCP Policies are available at https://awiqcp.org/files/policies.)
So, inspection of a conforming work sample corresponding to the additional license(s) is required, as well as reimbursement of out-of-pocket costs incurred by QCP to conduct that inspection. And with the advent of QCP’s Virtual Inspection program, those costs could be quite minimal. (Read the article, “Case Study: QCP Project Inspection Using Remote Technology.”) Much of what is required for initial licensing (application fee, business references, passing written tests, etc.) has been deleted from the process of qualifying for additional licenses. | <urn:uuid:3ae3aab6-0b7f-4f93-a1d9-5952483e46f8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://awiqcp.org/news-and-blog/qcp-licenses/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.945578 | 658 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Facebook. All your friends are there, it’s so much fun, and it costs US employers $28,000,000,000 in productivity-loss per year.
I recently ran into a competitive situation with my business, ConnectSolutions, where an organization was comparing our service costs against a competitor. However, the organization was not considering the fact that our solution increased productivity through ease-of-use and associated time-savings. After I developed a model that showed the potential productivity boost (it was millions of dollars based on the size of the organization and average cost-per-employee/per year), they understood the true costs of both services.
That productivity boost got me thinking about what else we all spend our time on during the course of a workday that might impact productivity. A quick search will tell you that Americans are spending, on average, 14 of their 74 minutes of online time on Facebook. Mobile time spent might be more significant, but I don’t have ready access to those distribution stats.
Using that astonishing statistic, let’s make a few assumptions as inputs into our model. First, I’ll assume that people are spending only 50% of their total Facebook usage during a given day during work hours. After all, we are hard working Americans…right?
- Time Spent On Facebook During Workday: 7 minutes
Next up, how many of us are sitting in front of computers with internet access each workday? As a proxy, I’ll use the “knowledge worker” profile with an estimate of 30% of us American workers fall into.
- Total Number of Internet-Connected Workers: 48,000,000 (30% of roughly 160M workers)
Ok, now let’s put these together to show how much time collectively we are spending on Facebook:
- 48,000,000 worker * 7 minutes per day = 336,000,000 minutes per workday
Yikes, that’s a big number. But how can we translate that into cost-per-employee? Based on an average salary guestimate of $50,000 and 2000 work hours per year, we can assume a per-minute cost-per-employee of around $0.40/minute. If we take that cost-per-minute and apply it to time employees are spending on Facebook, we get a big number…
- Daily Productivity Cost due to Facebook Browsing: $140,000,000
If we apply that to annual cost, we end up with a really scary number:
- Annual US Employer Cost due to Facebook Browsing: $28,000,000,000
Before thousands of IT organizations across the US race to block the facebook.com domain on their firewalls, it’s worth noting this is just a fun exercise and people’s actual usage patterns will vary widely. We can also assume that there are some knowledge workers who aren’t using Facebook, or at least at work…
Edit: thanks to a reader for pointing out my exuberant use of an extra zero in my initial post…corrected…and still a very large number 😉 | <urn:uuid:25859d8d-bf70-45ed-96ef-3807602c5b4e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.thefitzpatricks.net/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.940027 | 662 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Architecture Form Space and Order
|Author:||Francis D. Ching|
This is a superb visual reference to the principles of architecture, now including an interactive CD-ROM! For more than thirty years, the beautifully illustrated "Architecture: Form, Space, and Order" has been the classic introduction to the basic vocabulary of architectural design. The updated Third Edition features expanded sections on circulation, light, views, and site context, along with new considerations of environmental factors, building codes, and contemporary examples of form, space, and order. This classic visual reference helps both students and practicing architects understand the basic vocabulary of architectural design by examining how form and space are ordered in the built environment.Using his trademark meticulous drawing, Professor Ching shows the relationship between fundamental elements of architecture through the ages and across cultural boundaries. By looking at these seminal ideas, "Architecture: Form, Space, and Order" encourages the reader to look critically at the built environment and promotes a more evocative understanding of architecture.
Preface. Introduction. 1 Primary Elements. 2 Form. 3 Form & Space. 4 Organization. 5 Circulation. 6 Proportion & Scale. 7 Principles. Conclusion. A Selected Biblio. Glossary. Index. | <urn:uuid:88ba2402-e059-4100-a31b-f31c52c7fb1f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.metropolisbookshop.com.au/p/drawing-modelmaking-architecture-form-space-and-order?barcode=9780471752165 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00319-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900335 | 255 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Holy Fire Descends in JerusalemSociety | April 23, 2011, Saturday // 16:10| views
Thousands witnessed the miracle in Jerusalem. Photo by EPA
The miracle of the Holy Fire happened once again before the eyes of tens of thousands of Christian pilgrims who gathered in Jerusalem Saturday.
The Holy Fire that is lit every year at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem on the day preceding Orthodox Easter is believed by Orthodox Christians to be a miracle. It is considered by many to be the longest-attested annual miracle in the Christian world. Patriarch Theophilus of Jerusalem and helpers distributed particles of the Flame to thousands of people in the congregation around.
In 2011, Easter is celebrated the same day for all Christians so the number of devoted is especially big.
A Bulgarian Orthodox Church delegation will board the government's "Falcon" aircraft and head to Jerusalem to collect the Holy Fire, which will be used in the "Alexander Nevski" cathedral in Sofia for the Saturday midnight service.
We need your support so Novinite.com can keep delivering news and information about Bulgaria! Thank you! | <urn:uuid:f33ceaa5-0a1a-4730-b023-d219a718cca4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://m.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=127589 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.892367 | 228 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Fortunatus Hueber
A Franciscan historian and theologian, born at Neustadt on the Danube; died 12 Feb., 1706, at Munich. He entered the Bavarian province of the Franciscan Reformati on 5 November, 1654. On account of his excellent character and great learning he was appointed to different offices in the order. He was general lector in theology; cathedral preacher in Freising from 1670 to 1676; then in 1677 Provincial of Bavaria. In 1679 he was definitor-general and chronologist of the order in Germany, and in 1698 was proclaimed scriptor ordinis. He was also confessor to the ancient and renowned convent of the Poor Clares at Munich, called St. Jacob on the Anger. As commissary of the general of the order in 1675 and 1701 he visited the Bohemian province, and in 1695 the province of St. Salvator in Hungary. He was highly esteemed by the nobility and by royalty, especially by the dukes of Bavaria. The Elector of Cologne appointed Hueber as his theologian. He left after him over twenty works, amongst them some of great importance. The best known and most valuable is "Menologium Franciscanum" (Munich, 1698), lives of the beatified and saints of the Franciscan order, arranged according to months and days. He also published a smaller work in German on the same subject, under the title "Stammenbuch . . . und jährliches Gedächtniss aller Heiligen . . . aus denen dreyen Ordens-Ständen . . . S. Francisci" (Munich, 1693). His "Dreyfache Chronickh von dem dreyfachen Orden . . . S. Francisci, so weith er sich in Ober- und Nider-Deutschland erstrecket" (Munich, 1686) is very important for the history of the Franciscans in Germany. Amongst his other important works are: "Libellus Thesium de mirabilibus operibus Domini" (Munich, 1665); "Homo primus et secundus in mundum prolatus" (Munich, 1670); "Leben des hl. Petrus von Alcantara" (Munich, 1670); "Seraphische Schule des hl. P. von Alc." (Munich, 1670); "Ornithologia per discursus praedicabiles exhibita" (Munich, 1678), in fol. Written in the same style, but not printed, were his spiritual discourses, "Zoologia moralis", and "Ichthyologia moralis", each in two vols.; "Candor lucis aeternæ seu Vita S. Antonii de Padua" (Munich, 1670); "Sanctuarium Prælatorum . . . pro visitationibus" (Munich, 1684). "Quodlibetum Angelico-Historicum" (Augsburg, 1697), published in Latin and German, is a contribution dealing with the history of the cult of the angels.
GREIDERER, Germania Franciscana, II (Innsbruck, 1789), 421 sqq.; MINGES, Geschichte der Franziskaner in Bayern (Munich, 1896), 146 sqq. | <urn:uuid:6b6e827a-c4af-47d3-9567-c9ac258b7b4c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Fortunatus_Hueber | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00058-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.876401 | 753 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Red Sox Recognized for Greening Fenway Park
BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 25, 2008 (ENS) – Historic Fenway Park – home of the World Champion Boston Red Sox – is getting greener. The work to address environmental issues at the 96 year old baseball stadium has earned an “Environmental Merit Award” for excellence from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA.
The award, presented by the EPA to both the Natural Resources Defense Council, NRDC, and to the Boston Red Sox, is for a new program that is already showing results in putting environmental considerations at the forefront of logistical decisions about how the organization presents events at the ballpark.
The NRDC has teamed up with Major League Baseball, and is piloting a program with the Red Sox, to help address the environmental issues associated with bringing tens of thousands of fans together at dozens of stadiums nearly every day for six months at a stretch.
NRDC has developed a “Greening Advisor” for major league sports teams to use and apply across the country.
Tapping in to the expertise and advice of NRDC, the Red Sox have started a five-year effort to make Fenway Park one of the greenest destinations in baseball, culminating in 2012, when baseball celebrates the 100th anniversary of the ballpark. “We are not only committed to preserving the history, beauty, and integrity of Fenway Park, but we are also determined to enhance the park’s environmental attributes so it can serve our team, our fans, and our community in the 21st century as well as it did in the 20th century,” said Larry Lucchino, President and CEO of the Red Sox. “We look forward to beginning this process with the help of some key partners.”
The Red Sox organization is setting strong but attainable goals, such as to recycle the majority of plastic drink containers used in the park, and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent.
The Red Sox have enlisted local university students to make up Green Teams who will be present at every game at Fenway to roam the stands and to enable fans’ to get rid of their used plastic cups and bottles by recycling on the go.
Members of the Red Sox World Series Championship team will record announcements to be played over Fenway Park’s public address and video screens, encouraging fans to care for the environment by recycling at the ball park and at home.
“As America’s largest recycler, Waste Management is proud to join the Boston Red Sox in launching this “Going Green” recycling program,” said Lee Solheid, Waste Management’s area vice president for New England. “This eco-partnership with the Red Sox reflects the commitment of both of our organizations to environmental stewardship and a greener future for our children, families, and fans.”
While many teams are going green when building new stadiums, the Red Sox organization has made the more difficult commitment: to transform a 96 year old historic ballpark into a modern, green, environmentally-friendly place.
Plans include installing solar panels to help heat water and installing energy-efficient LED lighting displays in the park, which use just one-tenth the power of equivalent, traditional lighting displays.
ARAMARK, the concessionaire at Fenway Park, will be cooking up more environmentally-friendly food products, including locally-grown organic produce, at all the ballpark’s concession services. Fans will find sustainable food and agriculture, Earth-friendly procurement, energy conservation and waste management at Fenway’s food service concessions.
“Fenway Park is one of America’s most beloved buildings,” said Allen Hershkowitz, senior scientist at the NRDC and coordinator of the organization’s greening initiatives.
“The tangible and important ecological steps that the Red Sox and their team sponsors are advancing will have a lasting impact,” he said. “By committing to the greening of this historic building, the Red Sox organization is showing leadership that reaches far beyond the game of baseball.”
Hershkowitz said, “The Red Sox are demonstrating that every organization can make a difference by joining in our collective efforts to combat global warming, biodiversity loss, and other ecological ills.”
“As a professional sports franchise, we have the opportunity to reach millions,” said Lucchino. “As so many are doing in Red Sox Nation and around the world, we will continue to increase our efforts to protect the environment in a cost-competitive way.” | <urn:uuid:b8d29dd5-e299-47fc-9869-72adb75d046c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.sundance.tv/blog/2008/04/red-sox-recognized-for-greening-fenway-park | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00554-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950082 | 953 | 2.125 | 2 |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.