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Apart from Apple’s iPhones and AirPods, an Apple company’s milestone achievement is Apple smartwatches. To use Apple Watch, you will need an iPhone, as it shows only compatibility with iOS compatible smartphones.
Is Apple Watch Compatibility With Your iPhone?
Apple has launched a diverse range of best smartwatches, equipped with different levels of functionality and setups. Before choosing any of them, make sure your iPhone will support the selected Apple smartwatch? If you buy knowing this thing before, no need to worry, we can assist you in it. Don’t open the box; go through the following details about which apple watch is compatible with which iPhone version that ultimately clear all of your confusion.
- Apple Watches the First Generation: This shows support from iPhone 5 and above that has iOS 8.2 or above.
- Next is Apple Watch Series 1 and Series 2: They work efficiently from iPhone version 5 and above with 10 or above running iOS.
- Apple Watch Series 3: This smartwatch comes in two versions: a cellular plane (LTE) and a second without a cellular plan ( no LTE). Therefore, you should have an iPhone 6s and above with running iOS 13 and above for any of them. But their old version may work with iPhone 6.
- Apple Watch Series 4: They also have two models, and the smartwatch with cellular plane show compatibility with iPhone 6 and above, while its non-cellular version can support iPhone 5, but both of the models have similar running iOS 12 or above.
- Apple Watch Series 5: The latest version of an Apple smartwatch that requires iPhone 6s and above along with iOS 13 or later.
Once your doubt about the Apple Watch and iPhone’s compatibility clears out, then bring your eye on the Bluetooth settings, Wi-Fi, or cellular network turn them on.
Steps To Pair Apple Watch With iPhone in 2022:
If you face failure in pairing up the Apple smartwatch with your iPhone, definitely making something wrong. No, need to worry; we came to make you successful in this task.
By following the below simple steps, you can easily pair your Apple Watch with the iPhone:
Switch On Apple Watch:
Take an Apple Watch, put it on your wrist comfortably, then turn on the smartwatch; you are new and don’t know how to turn it on? Press and hold the button resides at the watch’s right until the Apple logo appears on the black background that will appear on the screen for a few minutes. And then select your language.
Hold iPhone on Closer Proximity of Apple Watch:
After turn on the Apple Watch with fo the message ” Use your iPhone to set up this Apple Watch,” that will appear on the iPhone, and then tap on Continue. If you don’t find any message like above, open up the Watch app on the iPhone, tap on All Watches, and then go for Pair New Watch. Keep your iPhone near to the Apple Watch until you finish these steps.
Hold iPhone above the Animation Appear on Apple Watch:
Place the watch face in the middle of the viewfinder that comes on the iPhone, and wait for the message “Your Apple Watch Paired.” But if you cant use the cam or can’t see the pairing of animation, then touch the Watch manually and follow the directions that appear on the watch screen.
Setup as a New or Restore Your Backup:
If it’s your First Apple Watch, then tap on “Set up as a new Watch,” while on the other hand, you have to tap on “Restore” your Apple Watch from the backup. Moreover, if you have the previous backup, you can choose to load it onto your Apple Watch. After reading Terms and Conditions, select Agree again to proceed further.
Sign In to Apple ID:
If the system asked to enter Apple ID and password in Apple Watch app, and then specific features that need cellular phone numbers wouldn’t support cellular models of Apple Watch until you signing to “iCloud.” After that, you will be asked to switch on “Activation Lock,” When this lock appears on your screen, it means that the Apple Watch is already linked to Apple ID. All you need to do is add an email and password for Apple ID to initiate setup.
After this, Apple Watch will display the settings on the iPhone. It will show Find MY, Location, Wifi Calling, and Diagnostics for the iPhone; if you turn on all these, it will automatically be turned on for Apple Watch. You can also choose additional settings like Route Tracking, text size, Siri, etc.
You can set your choice password containing 4 to 8 digits to add up more security levels. And another security option that only requires your wrist is its “Wrist Detection.”
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You are on vacation with your two twin sons. Wyatt (in the black shirt) and Aiden (in the red shirt) are both 11 years old. Both boys were warned that they would be spanked if they misbehaved. During your trip to your destination they have been "okay" - just sometimes whining or complaining or fighting (not physically) with each other. When you finally get to the hotel you get the boys an adjoining room to your own so that you can have a small break and they can have fun.
Then at three in the morning you hear a loud noise outside your door. You open the door and look out and see Wyatt and Aiden pushing each other quickly up and down the hall on a luggage cart. They are laughing loudly and making a lot of noise which is waking up other people on the floor.
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Books and Reports
Mayangna Knowledge of the Interdependence of People and Nature: Fish and Turtles
[Conocimientos del Pueblo Mayangna sobre la Convivencia del Hombre y la Naturaleza: Peces y Tortugas]
By Paule M Gros and Nacilio Miguel Frithz, 2010 [available in Spanish and Mayangna]
The Central American tropical rainforest along the border between Nicaragua and Honduras has been the home of the indigenous Mayangna and Miskito for centuries. Their knowledge about the local flora and fauna is extensive and in-depth. This 450 page book – divided into two volumes - captures in meticulous detail the breadth and depth of indigenous knowledge about the aquatic world including a wide range of information about the 30 fishes and six turtles that frequent Mayangna waterways.
Learning and Knowing in Indigenous Societies Today
Edited by P. Bates, M. Chiba, S. Kube & D. Nakashima, UNESCO: Paris, 128 pp., 2009.
The loss of their specialised knowledge of nature is a grave concern for many indigenous communities throughout the world. Education, as it is understood in a Western context, occupies a pivotal role in this process, highlighted by many as both a major cause of the decline of indigenous knowledge, and also as a potential remedy for its demise. Commendable efforts are being made to better align educational curricula with indigenous realities and to incorporate local knowledge and language content into school curricula, but the interrelationship and balance between these two different ways of learning remain delicate. These issues, and attempts to address them, are explored within this UNESCO publication... | <urn:uuid:7141fe27-f176-4ef7-8a7e-cc397174d109> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.unesco.org/new/es/natural-sciences/priority-areas/links/knowledge-transmission/publications/books-and-reports/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00129-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.909038 | 348 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Plumber, poet or NBA star? Have you ever thought that it depends on the baby name? The connection between names and profession is suggested by serious researchers. We may help you choose a suitable name for your wonderful little baby.
Experts suggest that there is a relation between the name and the profession. There are certain names that appear more often in some professions than others.
Take Elvis for example.
Although there aren’t that many people named Elvis, a high percentage of them are musicians. Of course, if you name your baby boy Elvis it’s possible that when he will grow up he will believe he is a talented musician, even if nobody else shares the same opinion with him.
If you name your baby girl Beyoncé or Lady Gaga, you are definitely looking for trouble. Look at the bright side of it: Even if she doesn’t become a pop star, nobody will ever forget her name!
It is important that you do not start by making your baby’s decision for them. But what you should definitely do is give them what they need so that when the time comes and they will have to make some serious deciding they won’t feel helpless and weak.
Statistics are all over the internet and connections between names and professions are suggested by several articles written by serious researchers. What you need the most is take care of the basics. Choose a name -or two- that, based on your instinct, research and culture will be well suited for your wonderful little baby.
Their’s will be the choice of profession and of course whether they’ll keep your choice of a name, shortened it, change it or cherish it.
Let’s get real, in a world of nepotism, it’s the surname that really counts for a future career and not the name you will choose.
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This doc gives a framework for presidency motion to set the right circumstances to make non-public and third sector knowledge extra usable, accessible and obtainable throughout the UK’s economic system whereas defending folks’s knowledge rights and personal enterprises’ mental property, consistent with Mission 1 of the Nationwide Information Technique.
The framework is split into two major elements:
Principles for intervention: A set of ideas that authorities will use to information interventions looking for to unlock knowledge throughout the economic system, to make sure we make use of the best strategy to ship public profit.
Priority areas for action: Constructing on the above, we’ve recognized particular areas for motion that, together, can deal with a number of the key obstacles to knowledge sharing for public profit.
These priorities will form our ongoing work on this space, led and coordinated by the Division for Digital, Tradition, Media and Sport (DCMS), working throughout authorities and with key organisations to help supply.
We proceed to collate data to refine and goal these approaches, that are primarily based on our present understanding of the info panorama. Particular interventions will subsequently evolve as our proof base will increase.
Information is the good alternative of our time, providing the potential of a extra knowledgeable and higher related future. Information must be on the coronary heart of our efforts to deal with key challenges and obtain authorities priorities, together with: assembly our web zero targets, levelling up communities throughout the UK and constructing again higher from the pandemic. Creating the proper knowledge ecosystem has the potential to remodel virtually each a part of our society and economic system — from boosting commerce and productiveness, to fuelling enterprise and job creation, securing scientific breakthroughs, and creating a greater and fairer society for all.
The realisation of the worth of information to our society relies upon not solely on the info itself, but in addition upon the methods we deploy for its governance. The Nationwide Information Technique (NDS) units out 5 precedence areas of motion, together with Mission One: Unlocking the worth of information throughout the economic system. As a part of this mission, we dedicated to creating a thought-about and evidence-based coverage framework to find out what authorities interventions are wanted to set the right circumstances to make knowledge usable, accessible and obtainable throughout the economic system whereas defending folks’s knowledge rights and personal enterprises’ mental property. This coverage framework units out how the federal government will strategy this in relation to knowledge held within the non-public and third sectors. It aligns with our wider objectives and encompasses the work we’re already endeavor throughout authorities to help the info economic system.
How we intervene will likely be crucial to remaining globally aggressive, influencing rising world norms, and preserving our prosperity; preserving the UK’s place at the vanguard of science and know-how, as set out within the Built-in Evaluate. The US, EU and China – amongst others – are investing important sums to capitalise on these alternatives and present management in setting the worldwide norms in knowledge sharing. It’s probably that continued funding and motion will likely be required to safe the UK’s place on this world order and realise our ambitions of being a scientific superpower and a number one digital nation.
This context stays dynamic: we’re persevering with to develop our proof base with a view to keep a sturdy and knowledgeable framework. This doc outlines our proposed strategy, together with our coverage priorities, primarily based on the present state of play.
There may be growing proof suggesting that the complete worth of information just isn’t being realised by companies and different organisations as a result of important data just isn’t attending to the place it must be. Information that’s wealthy in potential stays locked throughout the non-public and third sectors, resulting in missed alternatives for progress and innovation.
Analysis reveals that making that knowledge extra obtainable may assist companies enhance market attain, help benchmarking and insights, drive open innovation, drive provide chain optimisation, embrace regulated knowledge sharing, deal with sector challenges and construct belief.[footnote 1] These sharing knowledge may make effectivity financial savings, develop new or enhance present merchandise, create new or higher companies, remedy present or future enterprise issues, or acquire additional understanding in regards to the knowledge they maintain themselves.[footnote 2] Then again, companies or organisations getting access to knowledge, which they or their opponents would in any other case not have, may generate new insights, develop new or enhance present services or products, and set up themselves available in the market.
The necessity to intervene and encourage these outcomes was validated by responses we acquired by means of the session on the Nationwide Information Technique, which confirmed that respondents tended to imagine that higher knowledge availability would profit all sectors; that there have been challenges to knowledge sharing between sectors; and that they welcomed a government-led framework for intervention to enhance knowledge availability.
Particularly, respondents highlighted the necessity for the federal government to enhance coordination, incentivise data-driven innovation and deal with perceived dangers to knowledge sharing. This coverage framework goals to do that, steered by the next query set out within the NDS:
How can the federal government set the right circumstances to make knowledge usable, accessible and obtainable throughout the economic system, whereas nonetheless defending folks’s knowledge rights and personal enterprises’ mental property?
Setting these circumstances for unlocking knowledge held within the non-public and third sectors will assist us ship the alternatives that the NDS has recognized for knowledge to positively remodel the UK, particularly:
Boosting productiveness: Companies that use knowledge successfully are sometimes extra environment friendly, extra productive and extra worthwhile. We need to improve competitiveness and productiveness throughout the whole UK economic system by championing data-driven processes and data-enabled enterprise fashions, and by making knowledge extra obtainable throughout the whole economic system.
Supporting new companies and jobs: Information is more and more a driver of latest, progressive companies and jobs. We goal to encourage this enterprise and job creation by eradicating obstacles to knowledge use and lowering pointless regulatory compliance burdens on the common enterprise.
Rising the velocity, effectivity and scope of scientific analysis: Information is on the coronary heart of a lot scientific analysis and lots of ground-breaking developments. We need to enhance the velocity and effectivity of scientific analysis by driving the standardisation of information in order that it’s simpler to make use of and reuse, and by making it simpler for universities, labs, scientific trials and different analysis models to responsibly share their knowledge.
Making a fairer society for all: Information can empower folks and society, delivering advantages past the economic system. To make sure that knowledge is used to its full potential and the advantages of information transformation are felt equally by everybody throughout society we should make sure that knowledge is used responsibly and in a means that folks belief.
In March 2021, we revealed analysis into the issues related to knowledge availability, in addition to the levers authorities may use to extend non-public and third sector entry to the info held throughout the economic system. Produced by Frontier Economics and with steering from knowledgeable advisor Professor Diane Coyle, Rising entry to knowledge throughout the economic system recognized the next obstacles to knowledge sharing within the non-public and third sectors for which there’s rationale for presidency intervention:
- An absence of incentives to share knowledge. Information suppliers will not be sufficiently incentivised to share or present entry to their knowledge, for instance as a result of sharing requires them to incur prices they aren’t capable of recoup from organisations or people that profit from elevated knowledge availability.
- Regulatory and authorized dangers. Perceived or precise dangers of breaching knowledge safety legislation, mental property rights or regulatory necessities could also be deterring organisations from utilizing or accessing knowledge.
- A lack of know-how. Information suppliers might lack enough data of the potential makes use of of their knowledge, whereas knowledge customers might lack enough data of what knowledge might be made obtainable and the way.
- Excessive prices related to knowledge entry/sharing. Prices could also be prohibitive due to a scarcity of frequent foundations, infrastructure and applied sciences which can be wanted for knowledge sharing to be price efficient.
- Business, reputational and moral dangers. Perceived or precise threat of dropping aggressive benefit, struggling reputational harm from knowledge makes use of that breach others’ belief, or enabling ethically questionable makes use of of information might deter knowledge entry and sharing.
The obtainable proof, in addition to insights from our personal analysis, stakeholder engagement and session responses, recommend a scarcity of belief from knowledge topics can also be a significant barrier to knowledge being obtainable within the ways in which we wish it to be.
|Barrier||The place it’s occurring|
|Lack of incentives||• Our research discovered that knowledge suppliers could also be unwilling to make knowledge obtainable as a result of uncertainty about advantages (relative to prices) and since the perceived/precise prices to an organization sharing knowledge are larger than the advantages/prices capable of be recouped by firms utilizing the info.
• The Division for Enterprise, Vitality & Industrial Technique (BEIS) Sensible Information Affect Evaluation discovered that, whereas the non-public sector in precept may develop efficient requirements to share knowledge with third events, these had didn’t materialise in some key markets. That is considered as a result of concentrated (particularly upfront) prices and dispersed advantages. That’s, though clients and progressive organisations may gain advantage from knowledge sharing, the implementation prices fall on incumbents which have little to profit from sharing. (BEIS – Affect Evaluation 2020).
|Regulatory/authorized dangers||• Frontier’s analysis suggests this downside might come up because of precise authorized and regulatory obstacles; a scarcity of certainty on the authorized and regulatory framework; or inadequate data of the dangers concerned (‘data failure’).
• A survey by Open Data Institute (ODI) and YouGov revealed that 39% of companies cite authorized dangers/knowledge safety as an element which is stopping them from sharing extra knowledge.
• This can be of specific concern to smaller organisations that can’t afford authorized charges or lack data on the right way to adhere to those necessities.
|Lack of expertise||• Frontier discovered organisations sharing/accessing knowledge have no idea the place to search out potential knowledge customers and vice versa — particularly when there is no such thing as a pre-existing relationship, corresponding to throughout industries.
• Organisations sharing/accessing knowledge might not know whether or not the info they’re accumulating or contemplating shopping for would really meet their wants (for instance, because of the restricted data to be gained from ‘take a look at’ variations of datasets, or lack of time/assets to evaluate such variations). They might additionally not know the right way to assess or guarantee the standard and interoperability of the info shared or acquired. Moreover, organisations might not know sufficient about the advantages of information as a result of lack of expertise and data or, for instance, if an economic system’s knowledge tradition is underdeveloped.
• Organisations may additionally overestimate or underestimate the dangers of information sharing — maybe as a result of poor understanding of the character of the dangers or behavioural obstacles.
• Firms may additionally be misperceiving the trustworthiness of information sharing, worrying about fraud or knowledge theft.
|Excessive prices related to knowledge entry/ sharing||• Our analysis suggests actual or perceived prices, relative to the perceived advantages from knowledge sharing, are a barrier. That is deterring smaller/youthful companies particularly from investing in stable knowledge foundations (which might allow interoperability, for example, permitting for the sharing and consumption of data generated by different techniques) in addition to governance preparations that allow knowledge entry and sharing.
• Uncertainty about advantages is deterring organisations from investing sufficiently in knowledge foundations that would enhance effectivity, decrease prices and have spillover advantages for different corporations.
• Excessive prices are additionally impeding entry to applied sciences/infrastructure that help knowledge sharing.
• Many corporations haven’t made the extent of funding wanted to take part in knowledge sharing initiatives, and a lack of know-how makes excessive prices much more of a barrier as a result of it makes it tougher to formulate a enterprise case for funding (and for that enterprise case to be understood internally too).
• Different cost-related components embrace a scarcity of financing and bigger organisations not being incentivised sufficient commercially to speak in confidence to others the applied sciences and infrastructures by which they’ve invested.
|Business, reputational and moral dangers||• Analysis suggests non-public firms might retain knowledge as a result of they’re nervous about dropping a possible supply of aggressive benefit each regionally and internationally. This might happen each time knowledge is within the fingers of a small variety of potential suppliers which can be ready to retain the info for their very own benefit (‘market energy’). One instance of this was mirrored in surveys and interviews conducted by the Committee for European Construction Equipment, which discovered that some firms, particularly medium-sized corporations, believed their market share might be eroded by tech firms if knowledge was not adequately protected.
• Organisations might understand excessive dangers in knowledge sharing corresponding to from safety breaches or a scarcity of belief within the normal course of.
• Simply over 1 / 4 of corporations surveyed by ODI and YouGov regard different dangers corresponding to reputational harm as a deterrent. Companies could also be nervous that sharing and accessing knowledge may result in a lack of belief from shoppers or ethically questionable makes use of of information. For instance, social media platforms have regularly come underneath fireplace over any perceived sharing of consumer knowledge, with repercussions from the Cambridge Analytica scandal nonetheless felt to at the present time.
• Organisations should additionally contemplate issues in regards to the potential sharing of mental property and industrial data in addition to dangers to their very own safety and the safety of their belongings and companies when knowledge is extra open.
|Lack of belief from knowledge topics||• There’s a lack of public belief about how their private knowledge is used, be it by the general public or non-public sector. The ODI found the majority of British adults surveyed in 2019 do not trust most public and private organisations to use their data ethically.
• A 2020 Centre for Information Ethics and Innovation (CDEI) report recognized an atmosphere of ‘tenuous belief’, citing survey proof suggesting a big proportion of the inhabitants (between 40-60% of individuals) imagine that the federal government’s use of information just isn’t serving their pursuits.
This coverage framework units out our total strategy to addressing the obstacles recognized in present analysis with a view to enhance knowledge availability for the general public profit in a safe and accountable means. It focuses predominantly on cross-cutting and non-sector particular, or ‘horizontal’, interventions which we imagine is the proper strategy to start progressing the info economic system within the course we envision. We are going to proceed to work throughout authorities to coordinate present and future sector-specific interventions consistent with this framework, and conduct additional evaluation to deepen our understanding of essentially the most important alternatives.
From horizontal to particular: Constructing the proof base
In the end will probably be vital to grasp how and the place these interventions might be focused to attain most influence. In parallel to creating these interventions, we’re creating our proof base to determine and substantiate these insurance policies. Desk X summarises the primary proof gaps, adopted by a plan for a way we are going to construct our proof base to plug these and get a clearer sense of how and the place to direct motion. We have now set out key messages on the present state of the proof within the desk beneath. We’re conducting extra evaluation to substantiate this proof, together with utilizing the outcomes of the UK Enterprise Information Survey survey.
As our work progresses will probably be vital to grasp how and the place these interventions might be focused to attain most influence. We see two key proof questions:
How do the obstacles to knowledge sharing manifest in numerous sectors / varieties of enterprise?
The ODI and YouGov Survey (2020) gives our greatest supply of proof, though it has a comparatively small pattern dimension and was solely run as soon as. Its major findings embrace:
- Firm dimension is correlated with the frequency of information sharing, with bigger firms sharing extra usually.
- There’s a distinction by sector within the proportion of firms that say they share knowledge, starting from 14% to 48% of firms.
- There look like some variations within the causes for not sharing extra of the info a enterprise holds between companies from completely different sectors, however additional evaluation is required earlier than concrete findings might be drawn out.
Additional analysis is required on why firms do and don’t share or publish their knowledge and, crucially, how this differs between sectors, enterprise varieties, and many others.
The place are the best areas of alternative? The place may larger use/sharing of information unlock essentially the most profit?
There are a selection of sources which might present perception on particular alternatives for larger use and sharing of information. For instance:
- The UK Enterprise Information Survey 2020 is a complete and periodical survey about how corporations deal with, defend and share knowledge by financial sector. These surveys assist us perceive the drivers in addition to the perceived advantages, prices, and obstacles to utilising knowledge. By filtering these developments by trade and agency kind we will higher goal our interventions throughout completely different sectors of the economic system.
- The Centre for Information Ethics and Innovation brings collectively data from a various vary of stakeholders to offer analysis on a variety of points pertaining to knowledge use and belief that may inform our strategy, corresponding to their in-depth have a look at the function of Privacy Enhancing Technologies, and their work exploring present and future alternatives for knowledge intermediaries in enabling knowledge sharing.
We have to perform a extra systematic evaluation of the place these alternatives lie and the magnitude of potential advantages.
We are going to develop and curate proof to proceed filling these gaps within the following methods:
Sector-specific trials/pilots/initiatives: We are going to help a variety of sector-specific knowledge sharing initiatives with the non-public and third sectors and draw insights from their implementation, for instance:
• DCMS’s On-line Security Information Initiative, which goals to extend knowledge availability to help the event of know-how geared toward combatting on-line harms corresponding to little one grooming.
• Improvement of the Workplace for Nationwide Statistics (ONS)’s Integrated Data Service, the place customers of open authorities knowledge can discover and obtain knowledge in a means that’s pleasant for each people and computer systems.
Bespoke analysis: We are going to proceed to hold out and fee analysis that may assist us determine and slender down the place to focus interventions, together with analysis analyzing the prices related to knowledge sharing. This may construct on our not too long ago revealed analysis on Rising entry to knowledge throughout the economic system and Information foundations and AI adoption within the UK non-public and third sectors by EY.
Common monitoring: We are going to commonly monitor developments, developments and perceptions associated to knowledge use within the non-public and third sectors, together with through the UK Enterprise Information Survey.
Case research: We’re contemplating a collection of sector-specific case research to assist us determine the place finest to use our interventions. Our first case examine explored the media sector and goals to grasp how conventional media platforms, corresponding to print, broadcast and radio, are utilizing knowledge within the digital age. This will likely be revealed shortly.
Engagement with home stakeholders: We are going to proceed to interact with varied stakeholders together with trade, civil society and academia by means of varied channels together with boards, workshops and roundtables. This may construct on the Nationwide Information Technique (NDS) session and a collection of DCMS-led roundtable discussions on knowledge intermediaries with thought leaders, traders and innovators earlier this 12 months. Present and deliberate engagement contains:
• Information: A New Path session
• The NDS Discussion board
Worldwide engagement: We are going to have interaction and collaborate with worldwide companions to share insights and proof on sectors to prioritise and the way finest to take action. The UK hosted a collection of workshops in October 2021 for G7 nations to determine precedence sectors for knowledge sharing, which will likely be adopted by an expert-led discussion board in November to share data and finest practices on these components that may help or hinder knowledge sharing and innovation.
We are going to have interaction in-house and exterior specialists to critically consider our proof base and determine precedence areas for intervention on an ongoing foundation, permitting us to focus on our actions most successfully. This course of will embrace bringing collectively key specialists who can advise on our proof base underneath the banner of the NDS Discussion board, and drawing on the experience of the Centre for Information Ethics and Innovation’s Chair and Board.
How we are going to intervene
We begin from a presumption in favour of sharing knowledge for public profit the place this outweighs the prices or dangers. In observe, doing it will require a thought-about analysis of the advantages and dangers for varied events posed by sharing knowledge units in numerous contexts. These are illustrated in broad phrases within the above diagram.
The present proof has proven us that some knowledge (the highest left of the diagram) could be dangerous to share and have restricted or no profit to society or the economic system — for instance, the private particulars of individuals in delicate professions. On this case, there is no such thing as a profit to intervening to make this knowledge extra accessible.
Conversely, in some circumstances, knowledge sharing could have important advantages and its related dangers will likely be low — for instance, making reside transit knowledge obtainable through a safe sharing mechanism. In lots of circumstances, these advantages can be captured by the info holder when sharing their knowledge and the market will be capable of ship the specified end result with none want for presidency intervention.
Nevertheless, whereas we acknowledge gaps in our proof base, the vast majority of knowledge sharing and use is more likely to fall someplace in between. Information that would carry advantages to 1 get together might pose dangers to a different. Equally, knowledge holders will not be incentivised to share knowledge at an optimum degree, or in any respect, even when that knowledge generates important societal advantages as a result of they can not seize any advantages for themselves. For instance, a small organisation with entry to area of interest consumer knowledge from a susceptible group might need to maintain excessive upfront prices that it can’t recoup by sharing that knowledge with an organization creating companies to assist that group.
Likewise, the potential advantages of utilizing a selected dataset in numerous methods must be thought-about alongside the potential prices or threat of hurt brought on by the best way that knowledge is shared. As an illustration, medical knowledge may contribute to life-saving analysis however may violate the privateness of information topics except it was appropriately protected, and inappropriate sharing may trigger reputational harm to the organisation sharing that knowledge. Equally, data on the occupancy and format of a metropolis centre could also be helpful for city planning however may present risk intelligence for hostile actors if it contained particulars about delicate websites.
A part of the best way that authorities can intervene to ship our goal of information sharing for public profit is to ban or discourage dangerous knowledge use and sharing — both by stopping it outright or by guaranteeing it will probably solely happen underneath sure circumstances, the place the dangers have been diminished to a suitable degree.
A sturdy regime is already in place: there are classes of information sharing that aren’t permitted topic to a consent framework and/or can solely be accomplished in sure methods to handle these dangers, which the federal government continues to maintain underneath assessment. Levers to handle this embrace the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)’s data sharing code of practice, the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure’s Security-Minded approach to Open and Shared Data, the Official Secrets Act, the Information Management Framework which is presently underneath improvement, and different related laws and steering. The Central Digital and Information Workplace’s Information Ethics Framework, which is designed to information public sector use of information, may additionally inform how organisations within the non-public and third sector use knowledge.
This framework won’t search to duplicate these, and different steering, however any new interventions will likely be delivered inside their parameters and we are going to help improvements and interventions that de-risk knowledge use accordingly.
The main focus of this framework is subsequently to focus on authorities intervention in direction of guaranteeing that the general public advantages of information sharing are totally mirrored in decision-making by knowledge holders; recognising that organisations might not all the time be incentivised to take action.
To do that, our strategy for this framework is split as follows:
We all know that not all knowledge is equal and completely different interventions will likely be wanted in numerous areas relying on the context. We have now subsequently recognized a set of ideas that authorities will use to information interventions looking for to unlock knowledge throughout the economic system, to make sure we make use of the best strategy to ship public profit.
Constructing on the above, we’ve recognized particular areas of motion that may deal with a number of the key obstacles to knowledge sharing for public profit. We elaborate extra on this in our priorities.
Ideas for intervention
Frontier proposed six potential levers for presidency motion, described as “one thing that authorities may manipulate, at the least in precept”, and would have an effect on a number of of the ‘entry to knowledge’ points set out in the evidence section. We contemplate every of those beneath and construct on Frontier’s rationale to set out standards/ideas for a way we might search to deploy them in conditions the place unlocking or de-risking knowledge would ship important optimistic externalities — the place the advantages of opening up that knowledge to the economic system and society will probably accrue properly past the advantages loved within the close to time period by the organisation holding that knowledge.
|Lever||We are going to contemplate making use of when…|
|Enhance data and understanding of information sharing (e.g. by leveraging authorities’s convening energy).||• There’s a normal lack of know-how within the sector/space about the advantages of information use and knowledge sharing (for instance, there’s an underlying non-public profit to knowledge sharing that’s not presently understood).
• Societal advantages of information sharing are properly aligned with non-public financial advantages.
• Dangers of information sharing are overestimated or underestimated.
• There may be precise/perceived lack of belief in knowledge sharing amongst organisations and knowledge topics.
• There’s a low knowledge expertise base throughout the sector.
• Collaboration inside/between sectors is presently low (for instance, organisations sharing/accessing knowledge have no idea the place to search out customers/suppliers, or organisations sharing/accessing knowledge have no idea whether or not the info they’re accumulating/contemplating shopping for is match for goal).
• There’s a must carry folks/organisations as much as a primary degree of understanding about knowledge sharing earlier than different interventions might be deployed.
|Cut back prices of information sharing by means of higher knowledge foundations (e.g. by supporting extra environment friendly knowledge sharing options, creating requirements, encouraging or mandating adoption of requirements, and knowledge stewarding initiatives).||• There’s a lack of collaboration, resulting in duplication of efforts to enhance knowledge foundations and better prices which can be detrimental to the availability of information entry.
• Excessive fastened prices forestall participation in knowledge foundations and governance preparations. That is notably related for smaller/youthful companies.
• Business benefit could also be eroded by means of sharing foundational assets. That is notably the case amongst bigger organisations that aren’t incentivised to share know-how and infrastructure they’ve invested in.
• There may be uncertainty round the advantages of investing in knowledge foundations.
• The advantages from utilizing the info require complementary investments to be made.
• Trusted relationships between knowledge customers and suppliers exist already or might be developed/nurtured.
|Help (new) methods of addressing the dangers of information sharing (for instance, by supporting innovation in safe knowledge sharing options).||• Addressing these dangers would mitigate perceived or precise industrial, reputational and/or moral dangers that had been stopping priceless knowledge from being unlocked (eg. by safeguarding aggressive benefit of firms, guaranteeing moral and authorized sharing and processing of information to keep away from reputational harm)
• Addressing these dangers would cut back a monopoly and enhance competitors and selection available in the market.
• Addressing these dangers may safeguard nationwide safety (i.e. data on the occupancy and format of a metropolis centre could also be helpful for city planning however may present risk intelligence for hostile actors if it contained particulars about delicate websites).
• Addressing these dangers would enhance public belief and confidence in how knowledge is used.
• Addressing these dangers may cut back prices within the long-term.
|Enhance or display incentives for knowledge sharing (e.g. by means of testbeds and trials).||• There are excessive upfront prices that organisations can’t recoup. That is notably difficult for smaller/youthful companies and for varieties of knowledge which can be expensive to gather and keep.
• The advantages of information sharing don’t accrue to the info holder, and so they don’t have any technique of capturing a portion of these advantages for themselves.
• There are precise/perceived industrial/reputational dangers that the organisation might face by sharing knowledge.
• There may be uncertainty round the advantages of information sharing amongst knowledge suppliers (for instance, as a result of data asymmetries or regulatory uncertainty).
• There’s a want to scale back monopolies/enhance competitors and selection available in the market.
• There may be scepticism about whether or not knowledge that’s shared will likely be reused and subsequently present the claimed advantages.
|Cut back (perceived) regulatory burden related to knowledge sharing.||• There’s a lack of readability in regards to the regulatory dangers related to knowledge sharing.
• There’s a concern that complying with laws will contain excessive prices. That is of specific concern to smaller organisations.
• There are perceived regulatory burdens that may be mitigated by means of improvements corresponding to knowledge intermediaries or privacy-enhancing applied sciences, which will help take the guesswork out of compliance by guaranteeing knowledge is shared in accordance with legal guidelines and laws.
• There are respectable grounds (i.e. important public profit to be gained) and cheap scope/capability to replace, affect or create laws that make knowledge sharing simpler.
|Mandate knowledge sharing within the public curiosity, by figuring out datasets of nationwide significance or public curiosity.||• There’s a clear and rapid want to regulate market dynamics within the curiosity of the general public good.
• The present distribution/possession of information is inflicting social hurt/is stopping important public good.
• Different interventions haven’t addressed, or are unlikely to deal with, the problem.
• Taking motion will (on steadiness) promote, relatively than prohibit, future knowledge innovation on this space.
Precedence areas for motion
Having thought-about our desired outcomes alongside the recognized obstacles, we’ve decided plenty of precedence interventions which can be wanted to ship our overarching goals.
These precedence areas of motion are divided into 4 buckets:
With a view to foster a accountable, environment friendly and efficient knowledge ecosystem, we have to guarantee the right circumstances are being set from the underside up. This may guarantee a stable base from which we will foster a trust-driven, thriving knowledge economic system by which knowledge is findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable whereas defending the rights of information topics.
We need to encourage innovation and infrastructure improvement that may propel our knowledge atmosphere ahead in a safe and accountable method to stimulate and facilitate actions that can in the end profit society and the economic system.
Even after an information ecosystem is established, there could also be a necessity for presidency intervention the place market forces are failing to ship. We need to discover choices that may facilitate and stimulate the event of wholesome and accountable data-driven markets.
The federal government recognises there’s data and experience past our personal borders on unlocking the worth of information. With a view to develop our home knowledge economic system, we must always forge and foster relationships with worldwide companions, studying from their very own successes and challenges on this enviornment.
These priorities will form how we search to ship Mission 1 of the Nationwide Information Technique throughout authorities. Executing them will likely be led and coordinated by the Division for Digital, Tradition, Media & Sport (DCMS), working throughout authorities and with key organisations to help supply.
Desk Y: Our priorities and the way they correspond to the levers
Set up foundations
1. Promote the event and use of excellent knowledge requirements in order that knowledge is held, processed and shared in accordance with the FAIR ideas.
We need to overcome the undervaluation and underneath exploitation of information by guaranteeing it’s held in accordance with the FAIR ideas in order that knowledge is findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable.
The requirements panorama is advanced and fast-evolving. Requirements can help system interoperability and knowledge alternate. Higher data sharing on present requirements, notably in rising markets, and the event and adoption of excellent knowledge requirements will allow elevated interoperability and innovation. Authorities intervention could also be wanted on knowledge requirements to help the supply of the priorities set out on this framework.
We are going to work to make this occur by:
- mapping varieties of knowledge requirements and figuring out any gaps
- evaluating the easiest way for presidency to help the implementation of excellent knowledge requirements in precedence sectors or functions, together with scoping the feasibility of and choices for an information requirements hub. This challenge will goal to align with the work to pilot an AI Requirements Hub, introduced within the UK’s Nationwide AI Technique.
Among the methods we’re already supporting this precedence embrace:
- Analysis we commissioned on knowledge foundations setting out factors of view from organisations throughout the UK economic system on the perceived worth of information in decision-making, the adoption and use of information foundations and synthetic intelligence (AI), obstacles to the adoption of information foundations and the important thing concerns for presidency to deal with these challenges.
- The Centre for Information Ethics and Innovation (CDEI)’s work creating an AI Assurance Ecosystem Roadmap. This may make clear terminology round AI assurance (e.g. audit, certification), doc the present state of play, make clear the connection between completely different sorts of requirements, and determine steps to foster a robust AI assurance ecosystem within the UK.
- The Open Data Institute (ODI)’s programme of work on Data Assurance will discover and develop instruments and steering to assist organisations to evaluate, construct and display the trustworthiness of information and knowledge practices.
- Supporting the event of the Information Management Framework (IMF), which includes the technical and non-technical frameworks to allow advanced, multi-party, safe knowledge sharing. This will likely be important for the event of a nationwide functionality in digital twinning and wider cyber-physical infrastructure, and will help the event of open requirements for wider knowledge structure.
2. Encourage the event and uptake of Privateness Enhancing Applied sciences (PETs).
We wish PETs to turn out to be extra accessible and broadly used, propelled by innovation and an increase in demand.
PETs provide novel options to make use of knowledge while sustaining the confidentiality of private or different kinds of delicate traits in that knowledge. Nevertheless, organisations investing in new knowledge sharing options usually choose much less subtle applied sciences that imply a bigger quantity of information goes unused, leading to huge untapped potential. A few of that is because of the usability of the applied sciences themselves. Moreover, the potential of those applied sciences, the contexts by which they can be utilized, and their limitations and dangers aren’t broadly understood. PETs have specific potential to help knowledge sharing and use in data-intensive sectors corresponding to AI, and their significance is flagged within the AI Council roadmap and the Nationwide AI Technique.
We are going to do that by:
- contemplating choices for creating a group of expert PETs customers
- encouraging the event of vibrant and aggressive markets of PETs innovators
- collaborating internationally to discover how PETs can allow knowledge sharing, together with throughout borders, and discover best-practice in real-world settings
Among the methods we’re already supporting the event of PETs embrace:
- sponsoring the Royal Society, which is conducting world-leading analysis and outreach on the perfect methods to place PETs into observe
- working with the ICO, which is updating its guidance on anonymisation and pseudonymisation, constructing on the prevailing knowledge sharing code of observe, to discover the function that privateness enhancing applied sciences may play in enabling secure and lawful knowledge sharing
- collaborating with the CDEI, which has revealed a PETs adoption information, underpinned by a repository of use circumstances, with a view to enhance innovation and requirements in safety and privateness in knowledge sharing initiatives throughout the general public sector
3. Help the event of a thriving middleman ecosystem that permits accountable knowledge sharing.
We need to create an atmosphere that reduces obstacles for a wide range of knowledge intermediaries to function in knowledge markets and engender confidence in using their companies. A knowledge middleman is an organisation which permits knowledge sharing by working between these sharing and utilizing knowledge, often to assist handle threat or price.
In sure circumstances, commissioning an unbiased knowledge middleman to carry out knowledge stewardship actions may allow accountable and lawful knowledge sharing that might not be potential with out the presence of a completely unbiased third get together, as set out within the CDEI’s paper on the advantages of intermediaries. Regardless of their clear potential and established profit in some sectors, the event of many varieties of intermediaries – corresponding to these offering confidential knowledge sharing options – stays nascent. Information intermediaries face plenty of challenges as a result of there’s not but a longtime market framework for his or her operation. The event of such a market framework may assist to create confidence within the guidelines of engagement and supply mechanisms for managing threat.
We’re working to deal with this by contemplating the roles of:
- competitors in middleman markets in addition to the potential cures to help their entry and enlargement
- horizontal governance buildings for middleman markets
- strategic funding in market signalling, de-risking and evidence-building
A few of our previous and ongoing work on this space contains:
Case examine: OpenSafely – offering secure entry to affected person information
As an open-source safe analytics platform operating throughout the complete pseudonymised main care information of 55 million sufferers (greater than 95% of the UK inhabitants), it permits reside evaluation of affected person information by trusted analysts primarily based wherever on the earth with out offering entry to those probably disclosive pseudonymised information. That is accomplished by supporting distant computation instantly inside safe knowledge centres and cloud environments that’s executed with code developed utilizing dummy datasets. The true-time evaluation enabled by the platform has been important to the response to COVID-19, by means of the early identification of threat components.
4. Help the event of infrastructure that promotes the provision of information for analysis and improvement functions.
We need to help the event of infrastructure that makes knowledge for analysis and improvement extra obtainable in a accountable means.
Analysis and improvement is significant to stimulating our economic system and delivering advantages to our society, as we noticed throughout COVID-19. Nevertheless, good high quality knowledge generally is a scarce, although much-needed, useful resource for researchers. The explanations for this embrace the excessive prices of accessing datasets and organisations being reluctant to launch knowledge as a result of precise or perceived dangers, amongst different obstacles. We’re contemplating the enterprise case for creating a bespoke answer to deal with the obstacles to knowledge sharing for analysis functions, which may additionally act as a testbed for different interventions to allow knowledge sharing.
Methods we’re doing this embrace:
- exploring how the event of this infrastructure may represent a proof of idea use case for plenty of our different priorities (together with requirements, intermediaries, privateness enhancing applied sciences and incentives) and display what works
- contemplating how this infrastructure needs to be designed and funded to allow researchers to entry and add knowledge from a number of sources
We’re working with plenty of departments throughout authorities to make sure key initiatives are complimentary, coordinated and interoperable from the outset, together with:
Encourage the market
5. Use incentives to maximise worth for cash knowledge sharing in help of public good.
We need to discover incentives to encourage the accountable sharing of information that may result in advantages for society and the economic system with out compromising the rights of information topics and knowledge homeowners.
Making knowledge accessible might be costly, with prices accruing throughout completely different levels of the info lifecycle. As an illustration, it takes assets to make sure datasets are in the proper format to be shared in addition to when establishing knowledge sharing infrastructure. Responses to the NDS session, in addition to our analysis, recommend incentives might assist deal with the reluctance many organisations need to share knowledge; both by offsetting a few of these prices or by serving to organisations overcome any precise or perceived industrial or reputational dangers.
To do that, we’re:
- constructing our proof base on how incentives may work in observe
- contemplating the varieties of knowledge use that almost all requires incentivisation
Other than DCMS’s exploration of incentives, associated work on this space contains:
- As introduced on the October Funds, R&D tax reliefs will likely be reformed to help cutting-edge analysis strategies by increasing qualifying expenditure to incorporate knowledge and cloud prices. This contains modernising the reliefs to raised incentivise R&D strategies which depend on huge portions of information which can be analysed and processed through the cloud.
Case examine: How vouchers spurred innovation in Finland
Between November 2016 and October 2017, the Metropolis of Tampere distributed ‘digital innovation vouchers’ value as much as €5,000 to 205 firms to encourage innovation, internationalisation and progress companies. In a survey of beneficiary firms, half mentioned utilizing the vouchers had resulted in them beginning export operations or increasing into a brand new market space with 27.5 new jobs created and 17% attaining a substantial enhance in turnover. General influence evaluation supported the concept that vouchers may “nudge” firms in direction of implementing/beginning exercise (for instance new R&D tasks) that won’t have occurred with out them.
6. Help efficient and well-functioning markets by addressing knowledge practices that distort competitors and shopper outcomes – together with by widening entry to knowledge, the place acceptable
We need to help wholesome competitors and innovation in digital and different markets.
Restrictions in knowledge mobility can amplify the benefits of economies of scale and scope afforded to digital platforms. Interventions to enhance knowledge entry and to scale back anti-competitive practices can benefit progressive opponents and result in a extra dynamic market and a greater deal for shoppers.
We’re doing this by:
- guaranteeing that the longer term Digital Markets Unit (DMU) is ready to help efficient and well-functioning markets, together with by addressing knowledge practices by Strategic Market Standing-designated corporations that distort competitors and shopper outcomes. Interventions may embrace opening up or widening entry to particular datasets, the place there’s proof it will drive up competitors
- constructing on the successes of the Open Banking initiative by delivering the complete potential of Sensible Information options
Ongoing work on this space contains:
- the federal government consultations on a brand new pro-competition regime for digital markets (July-October 2021) and on wider reforms to competitors and shopper coverage (July-October 2021), that are presently being analysed
- BEIS’s work to help and speed up the event and use of Sensible Information schemes, which entails the safe and consented sharing of buyer knowledge with authorised third-party suppliers. These suppliers then use this knowledge to offer progressive companies for the shopper, corresponding to computerized switching and account administration. The CDEI can also be working with BEIS on a challenge to determine the moral and belief questions related to Sensible Information, and the ODI is working with BEIS to determine innovation fashions for Sensible Information.
Lead, co-operate and collaborate
7. Be taught from worldwide companions and promote worldwide cooperation to help the UK’s knowledge agenda on the world stage.
We need to set course, present worldwide management, be taught from the work and expertise of our worldwide companions and construct worldwide cooperation to form approaches to knowledge in help of the ambitions of Mission 1.
Contemplating, and delivering towards, worldwide objectives is important for the realisation of the UK’s overarching home knowledge ambitions to foster a worldwide aggressive benefit. The federal government recognises that the info ecosystem is quickly evolving, with experience and improvements being explored past the UK that we will draw from. Adoption of particular approaches to knowledge in a single economic system could have the best influence if there’s consistency in approaches and help from a enough variety of worldwide actors within the world knowledge ecosystem. There may be presently restricted worldwide settlement on approaches to knowledge sharing. If the UK doesn’t pursue a proactive agenda, as a substitute taking a passive function, the eventual consensus on approaches to world knowledge sharing might be unnecessarily burdensome, onerous to function, and expensive for companies working within the UK.
We have now already been doing this by taking actions together with:
- delivering actions to help data sharing on knowledge innovation and regulatory cooperation as a part of the UK Presidency of the G7 on Data Free Flow with Trust
- constructing a strategic partnership with Japan to advertise nearer cooperation on knowledge
- working to ship on the Division for Worldwide Commerce (DIT)-led G7 Digital Commerce Ideas, together with on knowledge free circulate with belief
- chairing of the World Privateness Meeting by the UK Info Commissioner, who has promoted the event of initiatives that help innovation corresponding to sandboxes
- influencing the Organisation for Financial Co-operation and Improvement (OECD) delicate legislation devices (for instance Enhancing Entry to and Sharing of Information) that can form world norms on this area
We are going to goal to go additional by:
- looking for worldwide companions to drive Mission 1 goals, by means of progressive knowledge sharing tasks, creating of frequent requirements, and regulatory sandboxes
- contemplating the function of information innovation provisions in commerce and different worldwide agreements by means of cross-departmental collaboration between DCMS and DIT
- main dialogues in multilateral boards, together with negotiations on the World Commerce Group and work with the OECD, in addition to by constructing on the info free circulate with belief programme and the Digital Commerce Ideas from in the course of the UK’s G7 Presidency
How we are going to consider success
The impacts of our precedence work streams will likely be assessed utilizing the Nationwide Information Technique’s Monitoring and Analysis Framework. The framework is designed to trace the supply and assess the effectiveness of presidency interventions and to allow us to plan additional interventions sooner or later.
Analysis on monitoring and evaluating knowledge use and knowledge sharing remains to be at a comparatively early stage and there are quite a few items of labor being carried out to construct an proof base. The Information Availability measures we’re presently contemplating within the name for proof are:
- the proportion of companies that suppose knowledge has turn out to be extra obtainable from the UK Enterprise Information Survey
- the proportion of companies utilizing digital knowledge from the UK Enterprise Information Survey
- the UK’s Information Availability Rating within the OECD’s open knowledge index
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Learn how to make batik and produce your own batik artwork in one day. Batik is a beautiful ancient art where colour and wax is applied to create beautiful and vibrant designs. Try batik painting, dipping, tie dying and waxing in a one day workshop. Select a design or a project to work from and complete a masterpiece from start to finish. Why not add some of your own unique flourishes to the piece and stitch in a detail? Suitable for beginners and those with experience of batik.
This teaching center does not affiliate with state education facilities and provides courses without examinations for enthusiasts.
The school is located close to Kinsale town, about 15 minutes walk from the harbor. Accommodation is available in the town at various levels of quality and price, and there are several bed and breakfasts mid-way between the town and the pottery.
This school provides arts and crafts courses for adults and children, specializing in pottery, jewellery-making, glass fusing and stained glass, and mosaic-making. We run weekly morning and evening classes, weekend breaks, summer schools and tailor-made workshops for corporate groups and private parties. There are three teaching rooms, each of which can accommodate up to 20 people, so a group of 50 can be booked.
We can accommodate up to 20 people in one class and up to 50 in a group, or as few as two or three at a time. All our courses suit beginners, enthusiasts and professionals, using a wide range of facilities and techniques. The pottery includes electric and raku kilns, stoneware and earthenware clays, and we teach throwing, hand-building and all varieties of glazing.
The school is situated just 20 minutes from Cork Airport, close to the center of the beautiful historic harbor of Kinsale, famed for its restaurants and shops. The pottery is in the converted stables of the home farm for Ballinacurra House, and the gallery is in the eaves of its coach house, which dates back to 1795.
Since 2001, we have provided classes and courses to suit all levels of skill and experience ranging from the complete beginner through to exhibitor standard and the school has become the largest and most established center of its kind in Ireland. We stock a wide selection of clays and glazes, our pottery courses cover the full range of ceramics and sculpting techniques.
Kinsale is internationally renowned for its cuisine, its cosmopolitan style and the beauty of its harbor. There are many excellent pubs and restaurants in the town, as well as a wide range of art and craft shops. What better place to learn a craft, or take a break.
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- The day includes a 90 minute lunchbreak, allowing students to visit one of Kinsale's many wonderful eateries.
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The crying, feeding and sleeping patterns of 270 infants 0-12 months old were studied using a 24-hour schedule included in a questionnaire given to mothers visiting four well-baby clinics in Finland in 1987-88. Of these infants 78 were under 3, 84 were 3-5, 65 were 6-8 and 43 were over 9 months old. The results showed that the infants less than 3 months old slept on average 15.2 hours per day, whereas those over 9 months slept 13.4 hours. The sleeping periods were longer at night. Continuous night-time sleep for at least 6 hours was noted in 35% of the infants under 3 months old and the proportion increased to 72% by the age of 9-12 months. The youngest infants were fed on average 6-7 times per day at 2- to 3-hour intervals in the daytime and at 4- to 6-hour intervals at night. The number of feedings decreased slightly with age. The average total crying time decreased from 1.6 hours per day for the youngest group to 1.1 hours for the 9-12 months old. At the time of the study, 23 mothers felt the need for help because of excessive crying or night waking. The help needed ranged from information about colic and child care, help with housework or the baby and encouragement. Of the mothers who needed help, a significantly higher proportion had a first-born baby compared with those not in need of help. There were also significant differences in the mothers' perception of the cry and feelings towards it. | <urn:uuid:ad12e480-737d-437e-9630-2e61d4f6010d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2335018/?dopt=Abstract | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.980493 | 313 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Circumcision of the Heart, the True Mark of a Child of God—Romans 2:28-29
“A man is not a Jew if he is only one outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical. No, a man is a Jew if he is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a man’s praise is not from men, but from God” (Romans 2:28-29).
This passage of scripture is powerful. In a world where we judge others on the basis of their skin, the country we live in, or even the church we belong to—we find so many things to divide us. But this is an invitation to unity in Christ. In a startling revelation, as Paul announces that it is the condition of one’s heart that makes him or her a true child of God.
Abraham had a righteousness that could not come from following the commandments in the Law because Abraham had been declared righteous over 400 years before the Law was given.
To the Jewish people, who had prided themselves in being circumcised, a physical sign showing they were a part of God’s chosen people, this is quite the statement. Paul reveals that circumcision is merely an outward sign of an inward reality. This reality is a circumcision of the heart by the Spirit of God himself.
Circumcision began with Abraham, but this token was evidence of the righteousness he had obtained through faith (Gen. 15:6; Rom. 4:11). This righteousness could not come from following the commandments in the Law because Abraham had been declared righteous over 400 years before the Law was given (Gal. 3:17). His righteousness came from faith because he believed God’s promise to Him. So his circumcision was a reminder of that promise and of Abraham’s resolve to believe God. It was a symbol of their covenant.
What makes this profound is that Paul is clarifying that being a Jew is not because someone was born into that nationality or religion. Being of God’s chosen people comes through circumcision of the heart, which is spiritual rather than natural. This spiritual transformation comes by being united with Christ and born again (Col. 2:11).
He goes on to explain in Galatians, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise” (Gal. 3:28-29). In other words, the Church is now God’s chosen people on earth. Both Jews and Gentiles who have put their faith in Jesus, who have experience a circumcision of the heart, are part of the kingdom of God. The inward reality of this faith is the true mark of a child of God!
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Caius Gracchus, at first, either because he feared his enemies, or because he wished to bring odium upon them, withdrew from the forum and lived quietly by himself, like one who was humbled for the present and for the future intended to live the same inactive life, so that some were actually led to denounce him for disliking and repudiating his brother's political measures.
And he was also quite a stripling, for he was nine years younger than his brother, and Tiberius was not yet thirty when he died. But as time went on he gradually showed a disposition that was averse to idleness, effeminacy, wine-bibbing, and money-making; and by preparing his oratory to waft him as on swift pinions to public life, he made it clear that he was not going to remain quiet;
and in defending Vettius, a friend of his who was under prosecution, he had the people about him inspired and frantic with sympathetic delight, and made the other orators appear to be no better than children. Once more, therefore, the nobles began to be alarmed, and there was much talk among them about not permitting Caius to be made tribune.
By accident, however, it happened that the lot fell on him to go to Sardinia as quaestor for Orestes the consul.1
This gave pleasure to his enemies, and did not annoy Caius. For he was fond of war, and quite as well trained for military service as for pleading in the courts. Moreover, he still shrank from public life and the rostra, but was unable to resist the calls to this career which came from the people and his friends. He was therefore altogether satisfied with this opportunity of leaving the city.
And yet a strong opinion prevails that he was a demagogue pure and simple, and far more eager than Tiberius to win the favour of the multitude. But this is not the truth; nay, it would appear that he was led by a certain necessity rather than by his own choice to engage in public matters.
And Cicero the orator also relates2
that Caius declined all office and had chosen to live a quiet life, but that his brother appeared to him in a dream and addressed him, saying:
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Job sharing is a working system where more than one person shares the workload of a full-time position. This work arrangement is beneficial for employees who want to work part-time or have someone they can share the responsibilities of their workload with. These working arrangements are great options for employees with increased responsibilities that require their attention at home. However, in this article, you will find out what job sharing is all about with examples, teaching, and programs. We’ll also discuss helpful tips that will help you successfully implement a job-sharing arrangement at work.
Understanding how a job share arrangement works and the benefits of job sharing can help you prepare to share your work responsibilities in a way that helps you, your partner, and your employer succeed.
What Is Job Sharing?
Job sharing is a flexible work practice in which two or more people work part-time schedules to complete the work one person would do as a full-time job.
This arrangement makes it possible for both businesses and their employees to divide the work and schedule requirements of a full-time position between two or more employees. These employees are also known as job share partners.
Job-sharing can be an idle plan for workers who are looking to reduce their hours to give attention to their home, or someone who is simply looking for a lighter workload. Moreover, flexible work arrangements can help employers retain experienced workers who are looking for a greater work-life balance. Job sharing can also decrease benefits costs for employers, depending on their benefits policies.
In a sharing setup, two employees work part-time to fill one position. Hours can vary: They may work together for a part of the week or never see each other. They will need to determine whether to each be responsible for the position at different times or if each one will be responsible for different tasks. They’ll also need to figure out how to share a workspace, computer, and other equipment so they don’t waste time looking for files.
Job Sharing in Teaching
Placing equal attention on your full-time teaching job with family obligations or raising children could be very difficult to manage. So, taking a teaching job sharing can reduce your work hours as a teacher. As a result, it will give you more time to pay attention to other things leading to less stress and a better work-life balance.
Unlike the more common co-teaching model. Teachers who share a job split the responsibilities of one teaching job between two or more people, which means each person works only part-time. Teaching Job sharing can be seen in the United Kingdom—especially in elementary schools. On the other hand, you will only find a few in the United States. However, as sectors seek creative options to tackle the teacher shortage, job sharing may become increasingly popular.
Job Sharing Examples
To create an effective schedule for each job share partner, consider the needs of the position and the company. A company that doesn’t require someone to be physically present or doesn’t require the role’s responsibilities during specific times can offer its employees more flexibility in choosing the shifts they want to work. Here is an explanatory job sharing example:
Tessy being married for two years just had her first set of twins. Which she decided she wouldn’t be leaving full time to the care of a nanny. She began to consider job sharing because she no longer wanted to work on a full-time basis. But still wanted to be able to preserve her career skills and status within her profession. With her supervisor, Tessy determined that a job-sharing arrangement would be valuable in helping her create a sense of balance in her home. She now works half a day from Monday to Friday. While her partner takes over the rest of the day.
Here are the structures you can choose from when determining which hours each partner in an arrangement will work:
#1. Working the Same Shift:
In a same-shift job share arrangement, both partners work the same days and hours of the week. This arrangement works best for employers who can split the responsibilities of a position between two employees, do not need coverage for the position at different times and do not require more hours than each partner is working. For example, each partner may work Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.
#2. Splitting Days:
In a split-day job share arrangement, each partner works on the same days but during different hours. This arrangement works best for employers who need coverage for the position for a full eight hours or more or for employees who prefer to work opposite schedules. For example, one job share partner may work Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. with the other partner working Monday through Friday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
#3. Splitting the Weeks:
In a split-week job share arrangement, each partner works the same hours but on different days of the week. This arrangement works best for employees who want to work only a few days per week but can work a full-time shift on those days. For example, one job share partner may work Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. while the other partner works Tuesday and Thursday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
#5. Combination structure:
Some job share arrangements combine various work hour structures to create a blended schedule for each job share partner. For example, one job share partner may work Monday and Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. with the other partner working Tuesday and Thursday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and both partners working Friday from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. This example combines the split week structure with the same shift structure on Friday.
Job sharing program
Work-Sharing is an adaptation program designed to help employers and employees avoid losing their jobs. When there is a temporary reduction in the normal level of business activity that is beyond the control of the employer. This job-sharing program measure provides income support to employees eligible for Employment Insurance benefits who work a temporarily reduced work week while their employer recovers.
Employees on a Work-Sharing agreement try to agree to a reduced schedule of work and to share the available work over a specified period of time.
#1. Different skills and experiences are being utilized in a single position. Particularly when they complement each other.
#2. sharing partners can fill in for one another during scheduled and unscheduled absences.
#3. A problem can be solved easily by having two heads work on the task and can simply cover-up for the workload.
#4. Continuity of position skills and knowledge in case of one employee leaving.
#4. Employees can keep their careers on track while having more time for family and other activities.
#5. No additional expenses for a department.
#1. It may be difficult finding a personally and professionally suitable partner.
#2. Finding a suitable partner that will replace the one that has left might be challenging.
#3. Changing the arrangement could cause a lot of problems.
#4. Extra supervision effort will be added to monitor two instead of one employee.
There are many reasons to pick a job-sharing arrangement – it may be to care for a dependant, work another job, or further one’s education. People typically seek out a job share because they want to reduce their stress levels. Whatever the case may be, it is up to you (and your partner) to make it work. Joan Williams, a law professor at the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law and the founding director of the Center for WorkLife Law, believes that any job can be shared if done properly and deliberately.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are some reason job sharing would be used in the workplace?
Job sharing helps to alleviate delays created by vacations and other absences, as sharers frequently cover for one another. Employee retention: Job sharing prevents staff who want to work fewer hours, such as working parents, from being compelled to leave your organization in order to take time off.
How do you effectively share your job?
- Divide the roles as efficiently as possible
- Make the most of the flexibility you have
- Reduce the occurrence of common issues.
- Make sure you have a contract in place.
- Make sure you have a plan in place if one of your job-share partners decides to leave.
How common is job sharing?
In the private sector, job sharing is a very uncommon practice; according to a SHRM research, only 8% of firms with formal flexible work arrangements have a formal job-sharing program. The federal government, on the other hand, actively promotes job sharing and other forms of flexible labor.
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Amazon Web Services will expand its operations to more than 30 major cities around the world and announces that among the countries, in which it will inaugurate “the 30 new Local Zones“, is Greece, according to a post by the company on Twitter.
The post also highlights that “Local Zones strategically located in large metropolitan areas, allow end-users to run high-demand programs without delay.”
“We will be launching more than 30 new Local AWS Zones in major cities around the world. These new Local AWS zones will be available from 2022 in more than 21 countries, including Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, India, Kenya, Netherlands, Norway, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal and South Africa, and will be connected to 16 Local Zones throughout the US, helping you serve end users around the world with an even shorter time lag.”
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THE REGISTER -
April 14, 1904
The Mountain Trail.
A History of the
Over a mountain pass one day,
An exiled band made toilsome way;
Fleeing adown the mountain side;
To the far-famed flow of Fundys tide.
But the footprints vanished and left no
Save a cross of wood and a bitter tale,
And the path thy trod was closed once more,
And solitude reigned upon the shore.
Years passed, and again a pioneer land
Of hardy woodmen sought the land;
And the trail was cleared by the sturdy men,
For the traffic of man and beast again.
And a nestling village slowly grew,
Where the patient oxen toiling drew
The fruits of the vale, and the soils good cheer,
Oer the mountain pass to the bay-shore pier.
And the great ships came for the valleys
And wealth was spread thus far afield;
And the trail became a great highway,
Wedding the Valley to the Bay.
Years passed, and the traffic had
When up through the valley steel rails were thrown;
And the iron horse with the oxen strove,
And bid for the traffic on which they throve.
And the broad smooth trail grew rough
As the victory lay with the iron steed;
And the lines of teams no more were seen
On the downward swing to the village green.
As the diver dies when the air-tubes
So the village dies with the fading trail,
And its strength like the waters ebbed away,
And left it to certain and sure decay.
No spot so bright, no spot so fair,
But alas! When the soul hath vanished there,
No yearning cry of fond love can save
The soulless clay from the silent grave.
And over the waning trail today,
Scarce cares the traveller to pick his way;
For the rocky road leads to a shore,
Where solitude * reigns again once more.
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Rabies is caused by a virus that belongs to the Rhabdoviridae family. The virus infects just mammals, and is usually spread from an infected animal to an uninfected animal or human when they are bitten. In the US, due to immunization against rabies for domestic animals, the virus is normally found just in wild animals.
The virus, on entering the body, makes it way to the nervous system after an incubation period. From here, the virus moves to the brain. It when the brain is affected by the virus that a human or an animal starts showing symptoms of the disease. From the brain, the virus then moves to the salivary glands of the animal. So, when the animal bites another animal or a human, they, in turn, get infected. As long as the salivary gland and the tissues are not dry, the virus will live in the animal.
When it comes to the rabies virus, it cannot live outside the body of the vector host. The moment the virus is put out of the salivary glands of the animal, the virus will die within seconds. However, in cases where the animal has succumbed to the rabies virus, the virus can continue to live in the animal for nearly 48 hours after death. That is why it is prudent not to touch dead animals that you find, and these include raccoons, groundhogs, opossums, bats and skunks.
Therefore, it can be said that the rabies virus cannot survive the body for more than a few seconds.
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BCS Integrating Off-the-shelf Software Solutions — A 3 day course
Increasingly, organisations are seeking COTS (Commercial Off-the-Shelf) solutions to their IT system needs since these can offer more features, faster implementation, greater resilience and industry best practices. However, for these benefits to be realised it is important that the right solution be selected and integrated with pre-existing solutions and the business processes that they support.
Integrating Off-the-Shelf Software Solutions provides a usable and auditable process for software package selection using weighted matrices with appropriate modelling techniques from the Unified Modeling Language (UML).
Integration of a chosen solution with existing solutions and underlying business processes is critical to the success of a COTS solution. The course looks at integration from a variety of perspectives: integration with business strategy, IT strategy, the procurement process, the business process and the IT architectural requirements (component, application and data integration) are five of the integration themes. The role of ETL (Extract Transform and Load) tools is also considered as is the final deployment of the solution and hand-over to a service management (business as usual) function.
The successful deployment of a COTS solution involves a broad range of stakeholders and the course identifies the roles and responsibilities required in order to make this approach successful.
A very comprehensive course manual is provided. The course may be tailored to reflect the circumstances and requirements of a specific customer.
- Advantages and disadvantages of the software package/COTS approach
- Strategic issues: relationship of the COTS approach to business strategy, IT strategy & business processes
- Risks of the COTS approach
- Legal issues & requirements
- Applicable standards (IEEE)
Roles and responsibilities in successful COTS selection and integration
- Project roles
- Architect roles
- Service Delivery and management roles
Selecting a suitable COTS solution
- A framework for COTS solution selection
- Solution requirements and matrices
- The Invitation To Tender (ITT) / Request For Proposal (RFP)
- Evaluating a software package
- Maintenance and support agreements
- Licensing agreements & supply contracts
- Managing the long-term relationship with the supplier
The role of requirements and modelling in successful off-the-shelf solution selection and integration
- The requirements catalogue
- Identification of relevant business functions and significant events
- Identification of system functions and their triggers (use cases & use case diagrams)
- Mapping of system functions to business functions and events
- Data (class) models in package evaluation
- Non-functional requirements (performance, usability/user-interface, interfaces with other systems, security & audit, legal issues, archiving, backup and recovery)
- Technical requirements and conformance
- Product design requirements
- Implementation requirements
- Infrastructure requirements
- Supplier citizenship requirements
- Integration protocol issues
Component and system integration issues
- Tailoring and amending the package solution
- Data integration issues
- Component integration strategies
- Modelling component interfaces
- Component integration and system integration testing
- The role of ETL (Exact Transform Load) in COTS solution integration
Deployment and service management issues
- Business change considerations (changeover strategies, training, documentation, deployment plans)
- Technical considerations (data conversion/take-on, software release management, configuring the solution & software configuration management)
- Service management issues (the service transition plan, upgrade arrangements and management, site acceptance testing)
This course prepares participants to sit a one-hour, open book, BCS Professional Certification (ISEB) examination leading to the certificate in Integrating Off-the-Shelf Software Solutions. This certificate is a specialist module for the Diploma in Solution Development.
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Common causes of heart failure include coronary artery disease including a previous myocardial infarction (heart attack), high blood pressure, atrial fibrillation, valvular heart disease, excess alcohol use, infection, and cardiomyopathy of an unknown cause.
These cause heart failure by changing either the structure or the functioning of the heart. The severity of disease is graded by the severity of symptoms with exercise.
Heart failure is not the same as myocardial infarction (in which part of the heart muscle dies) or cardiac arrest (in which blood flow stops altogether). Other diseases that may have symptoms similar to heart failure include obesity, kidney failure, liver problems, anemia, and thyroid disease. Heart failure is diagnosed based on the history of the symptoms and a physical examination, with confirmation by echocardiography.
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Things airship related and the back story on operating the Airship Ventures Zeppelin “Eureka” in the USA.
Next month I will be at the Zeppelin museum on the shores of Lake Constance. I am looking forward to learning about the history of the Zeppelin NT. It is great that Hugo Eckener's dream is still alive in 2010!
Is the envelope pressurized at this point? I always assumed that the envelop would droop around the triangular shape of the frame if the helium was removed.
Yes, it is pressurized, just with air rather than helium. This is why we have the ship in a "cradle" (I like to think of it more as a buttress system) to support the load normally taken by the helium.
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Our Services Include:
GENERAL EYE EXAMINATION
Everyone needs regular eye exams to detect and prevent vision problems. Singapore has seen one of the highest prevalence of myopia in the world; and especially troubling are the myopia cases that we see that involve young children.
Regular eye exams are also critical for detecting:
We advise that children need to have their vision checked at 6 months and come for regular vision checkups at least every two years. Adults should see an optometrist at least once every two years, with more frequent exams if you have a health condition such as high blood pressure or diabetes.
People working with visually exhaustive activities – such as looking into the computer screen for a long length of time, or out in the hot sun – should consult us about ways to protect and maintain your healthy vision.
OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY
Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is an established medical imagery method that uses light waves to take cross-section pictures of your retina – the sensitive tissue lining the back of your eyes.
It is safe and non-invasive. The measurements are used for early detection and diagnosis of retinal diseases and conditions, including age-related macular degeneration and eye disease caused by diabetes.
Corneal Topography is a non-invasive medical imaging technique to map the surface curve of the cornea – the front surface of the eyes, allowing the optometrist to see a detailed description of the shape and power of the cornea.
As the cornea is responsible for most of the eye’s refractive power, its topography is a highly important aid for the optometrist to determine the corneal health and vision quality. The process takes seconds and is completely painless.
It will aid the optometrist in:
Computerized Tonometry is a non-invasive method of measuring eye pressure and ensures the pressure within the eyeball is within the normal range.
Abnormal readings will indicate the need for further diagnostic testing to rule out glaucoma. Glaucoma is significant because, if left untreated, it can eventually lead to vision loss.
VISUAL FIELD ANALYSIS
Visual Field Analysis is an eye examination that can detect abnormal loss of peripheral and central vision, or the loss of sensitivity in any area on the back of the eye.
Dysfunction in peripheral or central vision can be caused by a wide range of medical conditions, and will require further testing to determine the reason for vision problems or treatment if needed.
Subjective Refraction is used to determine, by the use of a combination of lenses, your best corrected visual acuity (BCVA).
It is a clinical examination used by our optometrists to correct refractive error, either using eyeglasses or contact lenses. The results are crucial to determine your correct prescription, and ensure that you will receive the best vision possible.
SLIT LAMP EXAM
The slit lamp exam uses an instrument that provides a magnified, three-dimensional (3-D) view of the different parts of the eye. During the exam, the front parts of the eye, including the cornea, the lens, the colored part (iris), and the front section of the gel-like fluid (vitreous gel) that fills the large space in the middle of the eye may be examined clearly.
A slit lamp exam may be performed:
Ophthalmoscopy (funduscopy or fundoscopy) is a simple and non- invasive test that allows a health professional to see inside the fundus of the eye and other structures using an ophtalmoscope.
It is part of a routine eye examination and helps to determine the health of your retina and vitereous humor.
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Friday, October 24, 2014
Featured Free and Discounted Apps: Save $100 on 25 apps, 16 completely free!
Some great apps to be found in today's list, with 25 apps in all and 18 FREE. With a total savings of $100, it's a list to read and share! Get classic stories like Play Book: Three Little Pigs, a quirky mole in Bop Collects Clouds, the complete collection of Biff books for teacing reading and much more!
Most of these apps will only be discounted until 10pm CDT on October 25, so download now so you don't miss out!
Play Book: Three Little Pigs
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Children don't want to hear any stories from unknown storyteller. Let's make your child more fun with this awesome app. Just hide the suggest narrative script and record on your own way. Then your baby can hear your storytelling every night even when you away from home.
Little Legends: Telescope Fun
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Let your child discover the Animal Kingdom like a true adventurer with a telescope.The telescope view is not only fun and engaging but it also helps with hand-eye-coordination and encourages your child to memorize the locations of their favorite animals.
Physics Quiz 2014
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“Physics Quiz” is a very addictive cognitive quiz game! Playing this game you have a unique opportunity not only to refresh your physical knowledge but also to know a lot of new interesting facts, formulas and physical laws! Complete several tasks with questions and try to guess right answers.
Witches' Brew - Halloween potion making fun!
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Witches’ Brew offers action-packed potion making fun for your kids and the whole family! Help the witch to collect the correct ingredients for her spells. But make sure you avoid touching the mushroom and the voodoo doll while you master all the potions.
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Screen resolution helps clarity of images and text. Higher resolution gives sharper images and text, and appear smaller so more items can fit on screen. You can change screen resolution using below steps:
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- to strike the strings, keys, etc., of (a musical instrument) so as to cause it to sound.
- to play or perform (an air, notes, etc.) on a musical instrument.
- the act of approaching someone for money as a gift or a loan.
- the obtaining of money in this manner.
- the money obtained.
- a person considered from the standpoint of the relative ease with which he or she will lend money: I can always hit him for ten—he's an easy touch.
- an official mark put upon precious metal after testing to indicate its purity.
- a die, stamp, or the like for impressing such a mark.
- an identifying mark impressed on pewter by its maker.
- to represent or characterize precisely.
- to cause to ignite or explode.
- to give rise to; initiate: This incident will touch off another crisis.
- to mention a subject briefly or casually; treat of in passing: In his lecture he touched on the major aspects of the controversy.
- to come close to; approach.
- to relate or pertain to.
- to make minor changes or improvements in the appearance of.
- to modify or improve (a painting, photograph, etc.) by adding small strokes or making slight changes.
- to rouse by or as if by striking: This should touch up your memory.
Idioms about touch
Origin of touch
OTHER WORDS FROM touch
How to use touch in a sentence
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Through the whole past evening touchable, squeezeable—even kissable!Under the Greenwood Tree|Thomas Hardy
British Dictionary definitions for touch
- an official stamp on metal indicating standard purity
- the die stamp used to apply this markNow usually called: hallmark
- the act of asking for money as a loan or gift, often by devious means
- the money received in this way
- a person asked for money in this wayhe was an easy touch
- to finger (the keys or strings of an instrument)
- to play (a tune, piece of music, etc) in this way
Derived forms of touchtouchable, adjectivetouchableness, nountoucher, nountouchless, adjective
Word Origin for touch
Medical definitions for touch
Other words from touchtouch•a•ble adj.
Other Idioms and Phrases with touch
In addition to the idioms beginning with touch
- touch and go
- touch base with
- touch bottom
- touch down
- touched by, be
- touched in the head
- touch off
- touch on
- touch up
- common touch
- finishing touch
- hit (touch) bottom
- in touch
- lose one's touch
- lose touch
- not touch with a ten-foot pole
- out of touch
- put the arm (touch) on
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September 12, 1994
Hundreds of working people, joined by youth and others, have organized picket lines in dozens of cities demanding the U.S. government get out of Guantánamo, end its criminal economic and information embargo against Cuba, and stop its lies about the Cuban revolution. More protest actions like these are needed. More efforts are necessary to organize educational meetings and distribute the books and newspapers that tell the truth about Cuba and the achievements of its socialist revolution.
Washington is not wavering from acting on its almost 35-year-long strategic goal to weaken, divide, and ultimately overthrow the government and communist leadership in Cuba.
[Fidel] Castro speaks the truth, with historic insight, when he insists that “socialism or death” has become the first, and only, line of defense of the Cuban revolution.
September 12, 1969
Turbulence within the United Mine Workers continues to give the incumbent president, W.A. Boyle, a bit more trouble. By August 20 a strike which had begun at the Humphrey No. 7 mine of Consolidated Coal Co. a week before over the firing of five local UMW officials, had spread to 28 mines, involving 7,000 men. Among the struck mines were captive mines belonging to U.S. Steel Corp. and Jones & Laughlin Steel.
UMW top officials immediately rushed into the strike area around Fairmont, W. Va., in an attempt to force the miners back to work. U.S. Steel has instituted a damage suit against the union for $123,000 a day. UMW heads maintain the strike is unauthorized.
All of which puts Boyle in a bind. One of the charges being used against him by his opposition candidate, Joseph Yablonski, is that Boyle “is overly protective of coal company interests.”
September 9, 1944
The Allied conquerors, who are seeking to replace the Nazi tyrants with their own imperialist rule in France, reveal increasing alarm over the revolutionary ferment among the French working masses. Anglo-American authorities are maintaining a rigorous political censorship over news from France, in an endeavor to conceal the true state of mass unrest. The Allies regard the independent action of the French masses, who were set into motion by the insurrections against the Nazis and their French capitalist collaborators, as a grave threat not merely to their military-political control over France but to the whole capitalist structure.
This mood of unrest is being aggravated as the demands of the masses for bread, jobs, peace and real freedom come into collision with the counter-revolutionary plans of the Allied rulers and their French agents. | <urn:uuid:3d554edb-0a5a-4cad-bb2a-68dd304828c2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://themilitant.com/2019/08/31/25-50-and-75-years-ago-72/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.965228 | 539 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Maximize the power of your Mac
Get the most out of your Mac, whether you've got an iMac, MacBook, and Mac mini. How to Do Everything: Mac, Second Edition shows you how to configure and customize your Mac and put all of the built-in tools to work right away, such as iTunes, Mail, Safari, and iLife. Learn all about the cutting-edge new Mac OS X Snow Leopard features, including 64-bit support, Grand Central Dispatch, QuickTime X, and enhanced performance. Hardware, peripherals, networking, and maintenance are also covered in this easy-to-follow guide.
Manage files, folders, and applications with the improved Finder Get online and explore with Safari
Entertain yourself with QuickTime, iPhoto, iTunes, and iMovie
Tweak the System Preferences
Set up a wired or wireless network
Use iWork for word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations
Stay in touch and on schedule with Mail, Address Book, iCal, and iChat
Dual-boot between Mac OS X and Windows
Add external devices via USB and FireWire
Troubleshoot, maintain, and back up your Mac
Dwight Spivey is the author of several Mac guides, including the first edition of this book. He is a software and support engineer for Konica Minolta, where he specializes in Mac operating systems, applications, and hardware. Dwight teaches classes on Mac usage, writes training and support materials for Konica Minolta, and is a Mac OS X beta tester for Apple.
- Publication Date:
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Explanation: The ideal environmental conditions for a reaction, such as temperature, pressure, catalysts, and solvent. Catalysts are substances that speed up the pace (velocity) of a chemical reaction without being consumed or becoming part of the end product. Catalysts have no effect on equilibrium situations.
Chlorine reacts with FeSO4
In a full sentence, you can also say Cl2 (chlorine) reacts with FeSO4 () and produce Fe2(SO4)3 () and FeCl3 (iron chloride)
We no further information about this chemical reactions.
chlorineCl2 + C3H8 → HCl + C3H7Cl Cl2 + 2Na → 2NaCl 2Cl2 + 2Ba(OH)2 → BaCl2 + 2H2O + Ba(ClO)2 View all equations with Cl2 as reactant
8H2SO4 + 2KMnO4 + 10FeSO4 → 5Fe2(SO4)3 + 8H2O + 2MnSO4 + 1K2SO4 2Al + 3FeSO4 → Al2(SO4)3 + 3Fe 4HNO3 + 3FeSO4 → Fe2(SO4)3 + 2H2O + NO + Fe(NO3)3 View all equations with FeSO4 as reactant
Fe + CuSO4 → Cu + FeSO4 4H2SO4 + Fe3O4 → Fe2(SO4)3 + 4H2O + FeSO4 FeCl2 + Ag2SO4 → 2AgCl + FeSO4 View all equations with FeSO4 as product | <urn:uuid:46015c34-e65e-4f15-a60a-94fe6da3e4da> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://chemicalequationbalance.com/equation/Cl2+FeSO4=Fe2(SO4)3+FeCl3-266 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00471.warc.gz | en | 0.721329 | 526 | 3.40625 | 3 |
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Freedman Fellow Dr. Mark Pedretti to Discuss "Cartography as Memory in Hiroshima Literature"
On Wednesday, April 16, Kelvin Smith Library will host a presentation by 2013 Freedman Fellow, Dr. Mark Pedretti. Dr. Pedretti will discuss the challenges and solutions related to his research, and how they were addressed by the Freedman Fellows Program and its corresponding support.
Since the atomic bombing on August 6, 1945, the name “Hiroshima” has come to signify less the name of a city than an unthinkable event or an incalculable fear of nuclear war. While an official culture of commemoration has grown up around the site of the actual bombing, Dr. Pedretti examines literary artifacts that paint a very different image of the city, and suggests a different form of historical memory. Drawing primarily upon Ibuse Masuji’s 1965 novel Black Rain (Kuroe Ame), along with photographic archives of Hiroshima both before and after the bombing, Pedretti uses the novel’s obsessive attention to place names as a way of virtually reconstructing the city, and of suggesting the relative importance of surrounding towns and villages in witnessing the effects of the bombing. The goal of this project has been to use geospatial information coordinating technology to precisely describe the locations of Ibuse’s novel, and to visualize a place that, for many Americans, remains a distant abstraction.
Ann Holstein (GIS Specialist, Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship) will present with Dr. Pedretti to discuss how geospatial technologies were used in his research to show frequencies of place names as a hotspot density map. Holstein will explain the basics of GIS so that other scholars may consider its many uses for projects that may include a spatial data component.
- When: Wednesday, April 16, 3:00 p.m.
- Where: Kelvin Smith Library, Dampeer Room (2nd floor)
This presentation is free and open to the public. Pizza will be served.
For more information, visit http://library.case.edu/ksl/freedmancenter/specialprograms/fellows/.
The Freedman Fellows Program is a partnership between the College of Arts and Sciences and Kelvin Smith Library. This program aims to identify and support scholarly research of faculty at Case Western Reserve University. Awards are granted to faculty to sustain projects that are currently active, hold scholarly or instructional value, integrate the use of digital tools and have clear project outcomes in support of digital scholarship.
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Equal pay for negro soldiers... Anna Elizabeth Dickinson...
Item # 589449
February 12, 1864
THE LIBERATOR, Boston, Massachusetts, February 12, 1864 Page four has content concerning Anna Elizabeth Dickinson and her speech before Congress on January 16, 1864 being the first speech made on the floor of Congress by a woman. Three separate but related articles are present: one officially recognizes her donation of the proceeds of her lecture to the National Freedman's Relief Society of the District of Columbia; another gives details of several resolutions to recognize her for her efforts; and the third gives details concerning her lecture give a few days earlier at the Cooper Institute where she repeated the speech given before Congress. See images for details.
Also included within this issue is the printing of the resolution made by Francis George Shaw, the father of Colonel Robert Shaw, regarding pay for negro soldiers, stating in part, "...all descendants of the African race in our country, enlisted in the army and navy, shall be placed in all respects... on the same footing with other soldiers and sailors in the service of the United States."
Great to have this content in an anti-slavery newspaper. Complete in four pages, two archivally mended tears; overall, in very nice condition. | <urn:uuid:d72ef4ed-b61d-4f58-9574-395dde5e6cbf> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.rarenewspapers.com/view/589449?list_url=%2Flist%3Fq%255Bsearch_method%255D%3DComma%2BList%26q%255Btext%255D%3Dabolition%252Canti%2Bslavery%252Canti-slavery | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00347-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938663 | 265 | 2.75 | 3 |
CIO50 2020 #21: Mark John Denvir, Auckland Council
IoT sensors to help fight the Kauri Dieback, ‘digital twins’ of council-owned farms, bots’ to process hundreds of thousands of invoices a year.
These technology-enabled initiatives address different key concerns of the Auckland Council.
Mark John Denvir, ICT director at Auckland Council, however, notes that these innovations have a common link - their foundations were from an initiative started more than two years ago in another area of concern by the council.
This was the project Safeswim, which provides live information on water quality and swimming conditions at favourite beaches and pools around Auckland.
“We have built a low cost, open source and open data IoT platform for this,” says Denvir.
The project, he says, aimed to explore emerging technology, while developing internal capabilities and processes, and informing standards, policies, strategies and procurement approaches for the council’s ICT function.
The IoT data platform was created to capture real time data about the environment and assets, helping Auckland Council understand the value of real time data and insights as it works towards becoming a ‘smarter city’.
“The data captured has enabled Auckland Council to become better informed and driven a response by our councillors to a call for change, to improve our aging infrastructure and water quality,” says Denvir.
The platform then enabled the framework to roll out projects to help address critical issues affecting Auckland such as the Kauri Sensor project.
The latter utilises sensor technology to help fight against Kauri Dieback and manage Farms for the Future.
It utilises specialist technologies with sensors installed on farms, from monitoring soil quality to cow growth.
The platform led to the creation of a “digital twin” for the 40 Council-owned farms, and these are used to measure the effects of different farming practices in granular detail.
“An extensive map of the water quality, grass and paddock standards enables our farms to develop sustainable farming practices with high quality, low cost food yields,” says Denvir.
“The datasets will provide transparent food provenance and enable our communities to access land to grow food and enhance wellbeing.”
“This technology will move from traditional farming practices to new, allowing us to maximise land use and link existing technologies in ways we haven’t done before.”
Denvir says the council has also tapped robotics, with Robotic Process Automation (RPA) streamlining their services to customers and Auckland.
The software ‘bots’ automate the entry of data in large quantities.
Automation eliminates human error and processes data in record time, as the bots ‘act as the user’ and save the organisation 4000 hours per annum, whilst increasing customer engagement, says Denvir.
This initiative has increased customer and employee satisfaction, reduced cost of services to the business, accelerated the time to resolve issues, and improved data entry for an accurate, robust database.
He says RPA has improved productivity across Auckland Council, saving $600,000 within the first five months of launch.
“It has also enabled our ICT team to start rolling out Agile as a way of working, to better deliver our services to the business and our customers.”
He explains that the Auckland Council processes over 160,000 invoices every year with an average of 13,500 invoices per month.
Automating the process saves the council approximately $139,350 a year. Savings in automating submissions is approximately $150,000 a year.
Integrating the CRM and job management system with 'bots’ enables the Regulatory Support Dispatch staff to assign jobs to animal management at an accelerated rate. This saves up to $155,000 a year or up to 6,200 man hours.
Denvir says building and resource consents are required to be processed within 20 days. This is an insurmountable challenge against the growing volume of submissions, as well as up to 160,000 site inspections per year for building consents.
To automate the inspection and approval system, the ICT team built an application in Neptune that would work onsite and offline to help inspectors meet with industry demand, and increase the number of inspections.
Auckland Council partnered with uDrew to automate the building consent process. This dramatically reduced time and cost associated with submitting a building consent to Auckland Council, says Denvir.
The consenting process is easily available to Aucklanders to submit and gain automatic approval for simple structures such as car ports, swimming pools, decks and retaining walls.
Short-term savings are estimated to be around $2 million to $5 million per annum, while long-term savings are forecasted to reach $50 million to $70 million.
“These innovations are in response to identifying, understanding and responding to problems from our community. This is part of our ongoing commitment to improve and make Auckland a better place to live for our people,” says Denvir.
“These innovations have provided Auckland Council with solutions to the city and our customers that are making an impact for positive change,” says Denvir.
“Streamlining the consenting process will lead to compliance with industry demand, enabling more houses and development to roll out and address the housing crisis,” he adds.
“Building a comprehensive data set of real-time data on our environmental issues, our farming practices, and our cities needs is contributing towards a shift to a smarter, innovative and liveable city for the future, now.”
“In my role, as the director of ICT Auckland Council, it is essential that the leadership team are informed and guided to understand the disruptive changes that technology has on our business and our city,” says Denvir.
“I lead from the front, to set up the vision and get people excited, then empower them to then step in front and drive the vision into reality,” he states.
He ensures that his leadership team members are involved with discussions within the council on how technology can drive the council’s evolution and also enhance business opportunities for the city and communities.
This can be seen with the ICT teams upskilling in agile last year.
“Several early adopters within the department utilise agile to drive projects faster, with better results due to the customer centric, iterative approach that the Agile methodology enables our teams to implement,” says Denvir.
“This empowers our people to feel a stronger sense of ownership, drive and customer insights leading to empathy and an incremental shift within the business itself, towards understanding that our ICT department is a customer-centric, strategic partner for the business, as well as a robust services provider to the organisation and Auckland.”
He points to the importance of providing the framework for a healthy, positive workplace and culture.
Diversity is essential to this. “We have a number of cultures here at ICT and I believe that this enables a rich and diverse team environment.
“The multiple layers of different perspectives, cultures and beliefs adds to the tapestry of building a dynamic and engaged workplace.”
The ICT department also runs a graduate programme, where participants work in different areas of ICT. That is a unique aspect of our programme, says Denvir. The graduates then expand their skills in their preferred area.
“I strongly encourage upskilling and training, encouraging our people to increase their skill sets to ensure they are stimulated and engaged,” is a key message to his team.
The council partnered with Fr@nk! to roll out agile training to the ICT teams. “This will help assist with changing our business mindset and methodology, escalate our project delivery and ensure we have a faster service delivery to the business with a customer centric mindset.”
“This is a developing shift,” says Denvir, who expects early impacts to the business will result in inquiries across the organisation for training in agile. He says the training will now be delivered by agile trainers from the ICT team.
Denvir reveals his most significant experience in business transformation involved not technology, but people.
In a previous role, he was asked to exit a key staff member who was viewed by the other business units as “toxic”.
This particular person, however, held significant IP on the company’s systems. Thus, the organisation was also concerned about the impact of the loss of this IP. At the same time, the wider ICT team’s staff engagement score was in the single digits, “deemed to be destructive”.
“While trying to understand the risk to the organisation of exiting this staff member I discovered that the real issue was a disconnect between the IT team and the business about the problems they jointly faced,” says Denvir. “This led to a deeply frustrated IT team that felt undervalued.”
He discovered that the individual who was deemed “toxic” was a committed employee but needed help to manage the team’s frustrations with the business units who did not understand ICT’s concerns and issues.
Denvir initiated various coaching sessions for the IT team so they can better articulate their concerns while also listening to the concerns of the other business units. “We were able to change the relationship the business had with both the IT team and the individual.”
“The key lesson I learnt from this was the importance of being present when dealing with people,” he says.
One also has to be open and attentive to hear what others are saying, he says. “This is a difficult skill when you already have your own views to start.”
He reveals this individual went on to become a valued member of the company, and drove significant improvements within the team, which lifted its engagement scores to the 80s. | <urn:uuid:25296a07-3648-45d0-a1bb-8b90bf73989c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www2.cio.co.nz/article/671778/cio50-2020-21-mark-john-denvir-auckland-council/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.955411 | 2,084 | 1.859375 | 2 |
King Arthur Carrousel Horses > Red Devil
King Arthur Carrousel - Red Devil: Red Devil features a rampant red lion on a yellow blanket. The horse is dressed in bright yellow and orange, trimmed with black. This horse is also one of the few ornately decorated horses placed in an inside row. There is a cluster of roses carved into the saddle's horn and a buckle and strap add a bit of depth to the saddle's side.
Red Devil could be named for the Manchester United Football Club, which has a Red Devil (similar in to the rampant lion) on its team crest. The teams colors are Red & Gold, and the city of Manchester has a lion on its official seal.
Scotland's Royal coat of arms features a rampant (standing) red lion on a yellow field. The red lion on Red Devil's yellow blanket could be meant to honor Scotland or its Royal Family. However, there isn't any mention of the red devil in Scottish history or folklore. | <urn:uuid:7243eabb-b3c6-4ba9-9c1e-901a677173d9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://findingmickey.squarespace.com/king-arthurs-carrousel-horses/red-devil/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00450-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937731 | 200 | 2.53125 | 3 |
The Gemmologist's Pocket Compendium (Paperback)
This scarce text constitutes a comprehensive handbook for practising gemmologists, timeless in its informative value and the perfect compendium for anyone interested in the subject. Gemmology is the science of natural and artificial gems and gemstones, and this book deals primarily with the methodology and techniques used in the classification thereof. Chapters contained within this fascinating text include: Colour, Colour Filter, Composite Stones, Diamond Size Gauge, Dispersion, Forms used in Fashioning, Hardness, Manufactured Gems, Specific Gravity, and many more. This text is prefaced with a detailed forward by L. J. Spencer, who was President of the Mineralogical Society, editor of "Mineralogical Magazine", Keeper of Minerals in the British Museum of Natural History, and honorary Life Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America. The Gemmologist's Pocket Compendium was originally published in 1937 and is proudly republished here with a new prefatory introduction of the topic. | <urn:uuid:3aa4a10c-1004-45af-9d72-e5c55d84cf27> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thebookshop.ubookstore.com/book/9781446527924 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.922633 | 205 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Drums along the Mohawk: 1st Canadian Regiment, Officer
1st Canadian Regiment, Officer, Continental Army – This regiment was raised by Congress and consisted of American and Canadian colonist. It had a distinguished record during the war. Metal figure painted in matte finish. Single figure set.
2 in stock | <urn:uuid:42c277c0-a58a-406c-b285-e99eb25d36db> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.gijoecanada.com/product/drums-along-the-mohawk-1st-canadian-regiment-officer-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.975489 | 80 | 1.515625 | 2 |
BAY VILLAGE, Ohio — Police are investigating an alleged case of bullying involving a teenager with autism who wanted to take the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, but wound up the victim of a horrible prank.
The mother of the Bay High School student told affiliates WJW that her youngest son was videotaped while a group of juveniles dumped feces, urine, spit and cigarette butts onto his head.
“I want these kids held accountable for what they did to him and they targeted somebody who just didn’t really understand what was going on,” she said.
The boy’s mother and father said they want the video released to help make other parents aware of bullying, hoping other parents will have a conversation with their kids on how to treat people. They do wish to remain anonymous.
In the video, the boy with autism stands in a driveway which is not his home. He wears only his underwear, while a bucket of fluid is poured from the garage roof. The bucket allegedly contained a mix of bodily fluids instead of ice water, according to the mom.
Diane said her son was embarrassed and did not want anyone to know, and that they found the video on his cellphone. The teenagers put it on Instagram, she said.
The police department was made aware of the alleged incident, and have seen the video. According to Det. Kevin Krolkosky, criminal charges could be filed.
“It’s disturbing to watch, you can obviously tell that somebody has been taking advantage of there,” said the detective.
Det. Krolkosky said it’s not a prank; it’s possibly a crime committed on the boy with autism by a group of juveniles who could face delinquency charges. The school is helping the police investigation. | <urn:uuid:111bd31d-58e2-44dc-92cb-ee42d8bc45ac> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://wtvr.com/2014/09/03/bucket-of-bodily-fluids-dumped-on-teen-with-autism-during-ice-bucket-challenge/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00254-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984638 | 370 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Nothing beats the excitement of hard boiling some eggs and letting the designers create their master pieces! Make sure that you cover your eggs in water and hard boil for approx 15 minutes! Of course Wiki has more complex directions but this seems to work for us!
Warning with little designers; it does involve some smooshed eggs, some eggs cracking, lots of colors and a big fun mess. You can use the ever famous PAAS color kits or make your own going green colors with household items such as food dye, or beet juice.
Then we put on the song “Here comes Peter Cotton Tail” (warning you will be singing this all week long) and designed to our hearts content. Our designers know that the Easter bunny will come if we make the prettiest non-cracked eggs, we act good, we don’t hit our sister designers and we go to bed on time!
Whew! Working with our Easter designers was tough!!! What are you doing for Easter?
Events might be a little soggy but see Kitsap Easter happenings for the weekend. Enjoy!
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Designs of the Times -What Inspires You?
Design is everywhere. It can be in the food we eat, the art we buy or the Jewelry we wear. The Designs of the Times Blog is about the people, places and things that help us a enjoy the abundance of creativity all around us. Join us as we showcase the rich designs of our surroundings that make up this great area we call home- Kitsap County! We hope to bring inspiration, joy and creativity to all who read our Blog. | <urn:uuid:2edba9c4-a5dd-4d46-b91d-86d22b3d42d2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://pugetsoundblogs.com/designsofthetimes/tag/easter/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00060-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947253 | 362 | 1.5 | 2 |
Through Portraiture as Documentary
Chris Dale is a Canada artist who livens in Toronto. His works mostly with acrylic paint on hardboard and paper. Applying paint with a palette knife and brush. Has no post secondary training in art. Lots of exposures in school, some evening course and one elective in university. His degree in philosophy, anthropology, making him familiar with the concepts and theories.
Most of his public exposure has been online magazines and a public showing that has been quarantine since March
The subject of his work comes from images that he has taken or found online. The selection process is simply a feeling that more can be seen or shown. A fuller exploration occurs through the process of painting the image, and it’s later description. The goal of his art is to push emotions and understand of images for him and the viewer. Through portraiture as documentary. | <urn:uuid:28cafda6-ba2d-40a9-b23a-04af3c09055c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://artchrisdale.com/about/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.979167 | 180 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Update on wireless: Wi-Fi meshing to double by 2010; no-wire sensing expands
Scottsdale, AZ —Wi-Fi meshing, which allows wireless access nodes to achieve a longer range by using each other as repeaters, is becoming increasingly common in several markets, says In-Stat. More than 50,000 Wi-Fi mesh AP (access point) unit shipments are expected in 2006, with almost 100,000 unit shipments expected in 2010, the high-tech market research firm says. Incompatibility among systems, however, is a potential hurdle for the growth of the technology. (For more about industrial Wi-Fi products, search that word at www.controleng.com.)
"There is no industry standard for mesh networking yet, so interoperability between mesh vendors continues to be problematic; customers must purchase their Wi-Fi mesh networking gear from one vendor," says Gemma Tedesco, In-Stat analyst. "However, Wi-Fi clients are standardized and prolific, providing a ready-and-waiting installed base for Wi-Fi mesh networks."
Recent research by In-Stat found:
Although Tropos has the largest mindshare in municipal mesh networking, Nortel, Strix, BelAir, and SkyPilot made aggressive pushes into the market in 2006.
Cisco is perceived as a wildcard in this market. It just launched Wi-Fi mesh APs in late 2005 and is using its strong IT channels into businesses and government networks.
Throughout 2006, most Wi-Fi mesh vendors tied their growth to municipal network build-outs.
The research, “Wi-Fi Goes Long: The Wi-Fi Mesh Equipment Market,” covers the market for Wi-Fi mesh technology. It includes an overview of the technology and profiles of major vendors. It also contains forecasts for AP unit shipments and revenue through 2010. Analysis of the technology's drivers and barriers is included.
In separate research news, Frost & Sullivan expects continuing expansion of wireless sensing. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan’s World Wireless Sensors and Transmitters Markets reveals that revenues in this market totaled $160 million in 2005 and can reach $1,850 million in 2012. Although the wireless method of transmitting data has been in practice for many years in areas such as supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), the research firm says, its potential application is now beginning to extend to other industrial, commercial, and consumer sectors.
In keeping with this trend, wireless sensors are rapidly gaining a stronghold in various industrial sectors such as building automation and automation, and are also finding increased use in sectors such as residential controls and medical devices, Frost & Sullivan says. Despite this, the adoption of this technology has been relatively slow. Educating and convincing end-users about the various advantages of wireless sensors will be critical in increasing adoption levels.
“The largest opportunity for wireless sensor networks is as sensing devices in remote or inaccessible areas such as nuclear plants, oil and gas fields, and high temperature furnaces. Overall, the key growth areas for the technology lie in energy for metering, building automation, home automation, energy control, and industrial control (industrial automation),” said Frost & Sullivan.
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by Ray Rivera and Russ Beuttner
A few years ago, when New York City was pressuring advertising agencies to hire more black executives, City Councilman Larry B. Seabrook, chairman of the Council’s Civil Rights Committee, approached one of the largest companies with a plan to address the issue.
The company, the Omnicom Group, ultimately endorsed Mr. Seabrook’s plan to create a high-powered diversity committee and agreed to spend $2.25 million on initiatives. It also decided to retain a consultant from Atlanta whom Mr. Seabrook had proposed to help run the committee.
The City Council speaker, Christine C. Quinn, praised the plan. H. Carl McCall, a former state comptroller, agreed to serve on the committee. And Omnicom saw the plan as an effective response to concerns that just 2 percent of the higher-ranking jobs at New York advertising firms were held by blacks.
But Ms. Quinn, Mr. McCall and the company say they were never told that the candidate recommended by Mr. Seabrook in early 2007 was his sister.
Omnicom officials said they did not learn of the sibling relationship until they discovered it on their own, shortly before they settled on Mr. Seabrook’s sister, Priscilla A. Jenkins, for the job of coordinating the committee’s work.
Ms. Jenkins was a former college administrator who ran a consulting business out of her home. Company officials said they were not concerned that Mr. Seabrook never mentioned the relationship to them. And the officials would not say what the company pays Ms. Jenkins.
The company decided to retain Ms. Jenkins as the committee’s executive director because of her “extremely impressive résumé,” said Weldon H. Latham, the company’s outside legal counsel on diversity.
“Her experience in management, administration, education, diversity and corporate and community liaison made her an attractive candidate,” added Mr. Latham, who said he could not release her résumé. He said that apart from recommending Ms. Jenkins, Mr. Seabrook played no role in the decision to retain her.
City regulations prohibit elected officials from using their positions to obtain financial gain or personal advantage for themselves or close family members. ...
Ms. Jenkins’s duties include administrative, communication and coordination tasks, and she plays a role in setting the committee’s agenda, the company said. In addition to hourly consulting fees commensurate with industry standards, Ms. Jenkins is compensated for her expenses, including travel costs from Atlanta, Mr. Latham said. The committee and its subcommittees have met numerous times and “have been instrumental in helping shape and enhance Omnicom and its agencies’ diversity efforts,” he said.
When Mr. Seabrook came up with his plan to address diversity, the city’s Commission on Human Rights, a mayoral agency, was just finishing a two-year investigation of hiring practices in the advertising industry.
The commission had investigated 16 of the city’s largest agencies and was threatening to hold potentially embarrassing hearings if the companies did not sign pacts agreeing to set hiring goals and to report on their progress annually. Patricia L. Gatling, the agency’s commissioner, said she had not been aware that Mr. Seabrook was working with Omnicom on a separate plan.
Most of the companies signed agreements with the commission. But four agencies affiliated with Omnicom objected to numeric hiring goals and instead pursued the proposal by Mr. Seabrook, who was also planning hearings.
As a result of its discussions with Mr. Seabrook, the firm agreed to provide $1.25 million to the eight-member committee over five years to finance programs on diversity and to devote an additional $1 million to establish a marketing and communications curriculum at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn. Omnicom’s plan with Mr. Seabrook did not satisfy the Human Rights Commission, however, and two weeks later, the company signed the pact with the commission.
In the most recent numbers released by the city, the advertising industry reported that it was largely meeting the hiring targets that it had agreed to with the commission. In 2008, for example, 30 percent of those hired into upper-echelon positions were minorities, according to the industry numbers.
Before assuming her role with Omnicom, Ms. Jenkins, 55, directed the Center for Academic Excellence and Leadership at Morris Brown College in Atlanta. She worked at the small historically black college for 15 years, until 2003. Many staff members left the college after it lost its accreditation in 2002. The program she had managed was designed to offer remedial assistance and to help students find internships, and she oversaw a staff of two to four people, according to Milford W. Greene, a former professor and a former assistant dean at Morris Brown. ...
According to city records, Ms. Jenkins has also done consulting work for at least three Bronx-based nonprofit groups financed by Mr. Seabrook through City Council discretionary funds.
The groups, the Mercy Foundation, the Northeast Bronx Redevelopment Corporation and the African-American Legal and Civic Hall of Fame, were run at the time by Gloria Jones-Grant, a close associate of Mr. Seabrook’s. The groups are among those that investigators are scrutinizing as part of an investigation that began last year into how the Council spends its discretionary funds.
Since Mr. Seabrook joined the Council in 2002, the groups have secured more than $1 million in city contracts, mostly through Mr. Seabrook.
The Mercy Foundation, which paid Ms. Jenkins $7,500 in 2007 to help with what city records describe as an immigration seminar, has received nearly $200,000 in grants from the Council. It is unclear how much Ms. Jenkins has been paid by the groups in total because the city would not release additional documents, citing the continuing investigation.
In the mid-1990s, when Mr. Seabrook was a state legislator, federal investigators looked into his role in financing the Northeast Bronx Redevelopment Corporation and how the money was spent. The investigation did not produce any criminal charges, but a state audit later criticized how the group had spent $260,000 it had received, saying that it should return $46,000 because it had not adequately documented the expenses.
In approaching Omnicom, Mr. Seabrook envisioned an industrywide committee, with a full-time executive director, that would work with the Council and use a combination of public and private money, Mr. Latham said. Later, Mr. Seabrook gave the company a list of recommendations for committee members and one name for executive director, Ms. Jenkins’s, Mr. Latham said.
As discussions continued, he said, Omnicom realized that it would be the only source of financing and that this would be, essentially, its committee. Omnicom made the executive director position part time, Mr. Latham said, and discovered that Ms. Jenkins was Mr. Seabrook’s sister. He said the company never brought it up with Mr. Seabrook.Mr. McCall, the Omnicom committee’s chairman, said of Ms. Jenkins: “The fact is she had a job and she did the job. I don’t know how she got the job.”
The best answer I can come up with is that Civil Service laws are supposed to prevent favoritism in government hiring. Still, private interests, like the U of C hospitals, really aren't supposed to bribe elected officials by hiring their loved ones to make work jobs and then giving the loved ones huge raises when the elected official gets elected to a higher office. (The existence of the Diversity Racket makes all this easier because it's obviously unimportant whether they accomplish anything. The less they accomplish in, say, getting no-bid contracts for minority firms, the better for the general public). Maybe it's not illegal, but isn't it a little unseemly? Especially since Mr. Obama carefully positioned Mrs. Obama as this home-and-children-first Earth Mother during the campaign, so how in the world can she be said to have "earned" $317k in the year after his election to the Senate? | <urn:uuid:9f7e0d5b-de56-4498-bc74-43e461cf785e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://isteve.blogspot.com/2009/04/diversity-in-action.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00025-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977218 | 1,758 | 1.59375 | 2 |
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VAN DER MERWE, Dirk. 1 John: 'Effects' in biblical texts that constitute 'lived experiences' in the contemplative reading of those texts. In Skriflig (Online) [online]. 2015, vol.49, n.2, pp.1-9. ISSN 2305-0853. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/IDS.V49I2.1930.
It is evident according to 1 John 2:28-3:10 that the eschatological events predicted in this text have implications for how people should live prior to these events. This essay explores this eschatological pericope by analysing a number of the linguistic effects used in the text in order to determine how the assumed spiritualities embedded in this pericope are generated to influence the readers. These linguistic effects form part of the rhetoric used by the author to awaken certain spiritualities (lived experiences) in readers in order to motivate them to act according to the recommendations given in the text. Four effects identified and examined in this essay that constitute 'lived experiences' in the contemplative reading of texts are (1) the dynamic interaction between text and reader, (2) the composition of images, (3) the dialectic of pretension and retention and (4) entanglement in a text. | <urn:uuid:d1c6f1eb-498f-4c92-a319-a84b257b35da> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S2305-08532015000200016&lng=pt&nrm=iso&tlng=en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00232-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.848599 | 307 | 2.0625 | 2 |
“In the Scheme of Things”
Every single day, I look at this photo. Often I pause to look several times a day.
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It’s not just the magnificence of gazing both up at and from within a sight shared since the beginning of time, but also the soothing life perspective that it brings. As close as we can figure, the Milky Way is 13.6 billion (B) years old. The entire universe is about 13.7 billion, give or take 800 million. Size? This huge disk is about 100,000 – 120,000 light years from tip to tip, 1,000 light years thick and, at its thickest diameter, stretches 12,000 light years. Our planet Earth is ONLY 4.6 billion years old. A human on this planet has a maximum lifespan of about 120 years. All of this does not say that we are insignificant or that certain life events are not tragic. It does, however, help to illustrate that, in the scheme of things, we often assign galactic portions to occurrences that are merely grains of sand. Next time an irritant is on the verge of imploding and sucking you into a Black Hole, look at this photo and put the event into perspective. | <urn:uuid:1099df44-a30f-4623-ad44-5e68d64e8c5b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://samuelsongallery.com/product/scheme-of-things/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.95071 | 313 | 2.53125 | 3 |
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U.S. defense officials are telling Russia to tone down its tough talk on Ukraine, warning Moscow could inflame an already tense and fragile situation.
“We are extremely concerned,” Pentagon Deputy Press Secretary Gordon Trowbridge said Friday, emphasizing that Russia should do more to prevent further escalation.
“Russia is continuing this pattern of provocative rhetoric which has obviously created an impression in a lot of minds that there is something significant going on there,” he added.
Trowbridge also said the U.S. has not seen any evidence to support Russian claims that Ukraine has been trying to carry out terror attacks, citing what he called Moscow’s record of “frequently levying false accusations at Ukraine."
Earlier Friday in Moscow, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Russia could break off diplomatic ties with Ukraine in light of the recent security concerns.
"If there is no other way to change the situation, the president [Vladimir Putin] could take this step," state media quoted Medvedev as saying.
Diplomatic relations between Moscow and Kyiv remained intact after Russia annexed Crimea, former Ukrainian territory whose residents voted to secede, in 2014, or when Russia subsequently gave extensive material support to separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine who have declared themselves independent from Kyiv.
Russia has deployed an advanced air-defense missile system in Crimea, the military said in a statement Friday. The French news agency reports the anti-aircraft S-400 system is capable of tracking up to 300 targets and shooting down nearly three dozen simultaneously.
U.S. defense officials said they are monitoring the situation.
"We don't necessarily see any evidence of troop movements that are so large that we're concerned about those on their own," Trowbridge said.
Ukrainian troops were placed on high alert this week as tensions with Russia increased, both along the Crimean border and in eastern Ukraine.
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Proverbs 16:3 (NAS) - Commit your works to the LORD and your plans will be established.
Ephesians 1:8-10 (MSG) – [God] thought of everything, provided for everything we could possibly need, letting us in on the plans he took such delight in making. He set it all out before us in Christ, a long-range plan in which everything would be brought together and summed up in him, everything in deepest heaven, everything on planet earth.
Jeremiah 10:23 (NLT) - "I know, Lord, that a person’s life is not his own. No one is able to plan his own course."
Isaiah 5:19 - (Woe) ...to those who say, "Let God hurry, let him hasten his work so we may see it. Let it approach, let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come, so we may know it."
Philippians 3:13-14 (NAS) - Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Jeremiah 29:11 (NAS) - 'For I know the plans that I have for you,' declares the LORD, 'plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.
Matthew 6:33 (NAS) - "But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you."
Proverbs 21:5 - The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty.
Proverbs 15:22 - Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.
Proverbs 16:1 - To man belong the plans of the heart, but from the LORD comes the reply of the tongue...In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.
Proverbs 19:21 - Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the LORD's purpose that prevails.
Isaiah 55:6 - Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near.
Proverbs 20:18 - Make plans by seeking advice; if you wage war, obtain guidance.
Galatians 6:4-5 (MSG) – Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don’t be impressed with yourself. Don’t compare yourself with others. Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life. | <urn:uuid:0af9ae24-30d0-44ef-96d3-b35eb5ac6d34> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://jimedhardaway.com/plans-scriptures.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.960737 | 573 | 2.015625 | 2 |
[libhid-discuss] help needed to read data
clepple at ghz.cc
Sun Aug 26 04:25:28 UTC 2007
On Aug 25, 2007, at 10:38 PM, Thomas Pellegrini wrote:
> "Specifically, in OS X, there is no way to claim exclusive control
> over the
> device if the kernel HID module has already claimed it. (You can
> write a
> custom stub driver with higher precedence than the kernel driver.)"
A "stub driver" isn't a driver in the traditional computer sense of
the word - it's just a placeholder that tells the kernel not to let
the generic HID kext bind to your device. If memory serves, it's just
a bundle (directory) with a .plist that specifies the vendor and
product IDs of the device.
I think there was a device called the "9button" or something - check
the Apple USB archives via Google, and you should see some more info
The other option is to work directly with Apple's HID API.
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1 edition of Restructuring state found in the catalog.
Includes bibliographical references (p. -133) and index.
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This gradual restructuring of the state is all the more puzzling if we consider that Belgium, Spain, and the UK feature different social-structural foundations: in the number and size of stateless nations, in their relative economic wealth, in the markers of regional national identities, in the strength of support for independence and in the Cited by: 3.
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The modern welfare state is under threat from a variety of fronts. Changing demographic patterns, declining public trust, interest group demands and growing international competition for capital and labour are presenting modern states with intense pressures.
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Throughout the book, I suggest that women’s responses to global neoliberal restructuring and their relationships with the state are best understood as paradoxical; they participate in strategic negotiations with the state to achieve specific forms of material and interpretive power (the power to name and define policy agendas as much as the.
The Australian system of government is now over a century old. The country has changed out of all recognition; does the structure of government need change also. Restructuring Australia provides accessible accounts of current debate on three key issues: regionalism, republicanism and reform of the nation-state.
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State Street said it would book $ million to $ million in restructuring costs throughmostly stemming from staff reductions associated with its previously-announced cost-cutting program. The Book of Jargon® – Restructuring & Special Situations is one in a series of practice area and industry-specific glossaries published by Latham & Watkins.
The definitions provide an introduction to each term and may raise complex legal issues on which specific legal advice is required. Corporate restructuring is the process of reorganizing the ownership and legal operational structures of a company in order to make it more profitable, so that it is better organized than at present.
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Saudi Institute Seeks To Build A Bridge To The West
When Fahad A. Alhomoudi was studying for his doctorate in Islamic studies at Canada's McGill University in 2000, he discovered something that bothered him.
"There is, in almost every American and European university, a center for Middle Eastern or Islamic or Arab studies," the Saudi professor recalled in a recent interview in his office in the Saudi capital, Riyadh. "But there was not a single center with a focus on the West in the Middle East."
That's when Alhomoudi, who teaches at Riyadh's ultraconservative Al Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University, first thought about establishing such a center.
More than a decade later, his vision was realized with the opening a year ago of the Western Studies Institute. It is the first nongovernmental organization in Saudi Arabia dedicated to promoting understanding between the West, particularly the United States, and the Middle East, especially Saudi Arabia.
This may seem like a pretty mundane mission. But here in Saudi Arabia, the institute is unusual for several reasons. It is notoriously difficult for anyone — a Saudi or a foreigner — to get government permission to set up an NGO of any kind. Also, the institute is a U.S.-registered nonprofit organization.
And not least, Riyadh is a bastion of Saudi Arabia's superconservative version of Islam, known as Wahhabism, which for centuries has advocated that Muslims should not interact too much with foreigners or people of different religions lest their own Islamic faith become enfeebled.
But times are changing, even in this oil-rich, insular kingdom.
Opening Up To The World
Al-Qaida's violent campaign of bombings in Saudi cities in 2003, inspired by native son Osama bin Laden, convinced many Saudis that they had to open both the doors of their universities and the minds of their people to the rest of the world. Today, there is growing awareness among intellectuals and government officials that in today's global village, increased cooperation and understanding is vital, particularly when it comes to Muslims and the West.
"We are trying to spread awareness of the importance of understanding [each other] ... and strengthen the friendship that got interrupted" by events that "created hatred," said Alhomoudi, who serves as the institute's president. Those events included the 2001 attacks on the U.S. and the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, he added.
The institute's mission, he said, "is to bridge Saudi Arabia and the Arab world with the United States and Western world in areas of mutual interest."
For now, it is focusing its work in the areas of law, religion and business "because this is where people usually have conflicts," Alhomoudi said. Projects so far have included translating a score of legal texts from French into Arabic, and organizing exchange programs for university professors.
The institute also runs the Saudi component of the Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study Program, which takes high school kids to the U.S. for a year of study.
Ties To Temple University
Though Alhomoudi first envisioned such a center in 2000, it was not until 2008, when he was a Fulbright scholar and a visiting professor at Temple University in Philadelphia, that things began taking shape. He spoke about his idea for a center to Temple faculty members, and some responded with enthusiasm, helping him get the institute off the ground.
Two years later, it received its 501(c)(3) registration as a nonprofit educational institution with a six-member board of trustees. Its Riyadh offices opened in January 2011. Alhomoudi said the institute is privately funded.
The organization continues to work with Temple University, particularly in the area of interfaith dialogue. But it also has partnered with George Washington University's College of Professional Studies to establish the American and Saudi Arabian Dialogue (ASAD) Education Center, which will be a platform for bilateral collaboration in such areas as law, security, economics and business.
The institute is also developing an academic exchange program with Ohio State University, Alhomoudi said.
A Link To Conservative Saudi University
In Saudi Arabia, the institute's first formal partnership was with Al Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University, regarded by many as the citadel of the ultraconservative Wahhabi theology.
That partnership, which is aimed at developing training and exchange programs, was not the university's first step out of its isolation. In 2010, it hosted a visit by Leonard Swidler, a professor of Roman Catholic thought at Temple University and a well-known leader of interreligious dialogue. It was the first time that a Christian scholar had been invited to exchange views with Al Imam's faculty.
Alhomoudi said some of his conservative friends, suspicious of American motives, have tried to convince him to stop his bridge-building efforts. But he thinks they just don't understand what he is trying to do.
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Any photos not otherwise credited are from the personal collection of Frank Passic, Albion Historian.
Morning Star, October 20, 2002, pg. 9
If you’re a “snow bird” and spend the winter months down south, be sure and pick up a copy of my new book “Albion in the 20th Century” before you leave and take it with you to show people there. You can purchase them at the Albion Chamber of Commerce. These will make great Christmas gifts to just about anyone who used to live in Albion. If you missed my recent Riverside Cemetery tour, you can pick up the tour booklets at the Chamber also.
The current ongoing relentless push to “merge” the E. Erie and S. Hannah Streets railroad crossings reminds us of the historical significance the railroad once had for our community. The railroad crossing on E. Erie St. is just about as old as Albion College itself. On June 25, 1844, the strap-iron railroad tracks reached Albion from Jackson, and on Independence Day a week later, the first steam locomotive rolled into town past “Seminary Hill” as it was then called. Today this is the location of the E. Erie St. railroad crossing and the land north of it. The first locomotive that arrived on July 4, 1844 was called the “Rocky Mountain,” and was powered by wood and a few barrels of water. Another locomotive on the first line was nicknamed “Storm.”
Albion was then in direct contact with the rest of the world “out east” from whence its inhabitants had come. Passenger service was instituted on December 11, 1844. The first passenger train was nicknamed the Antelope, consisting of an engine, and four cars. The road was completed to Marshall and Battle Creek the following year. A person could travel by rail from Detroit to Marshall in a period of 7½ hours for a fare of about $3.00. It took half an hour to ride the train from Albion to Marshall, which included a stop in Marengo at the station there. The railroad had been built by the State of Michigan, which soon got out of the railroad business in 1846 by selling its holdings for $2 million to the newly formed Michigan Central Railroad.
The railroad was a major asset to our community, and helped in the faster shipment of goods, materials, and people to and from our town. It was an asset to have your house or business located along the route. At one time Albion College was considering placing a stone sign in the side of the hill north of Erie St. that spelled out “Albion College” so it could be easily read by passengers as their train approached E. Erie St. Today of course, the proposal is to fill the area with more automobile parking spaces.
While rumor has it today that the proposed high-speed rail cars will travel in excess of 75 miles-per-hour, the freight trains that once traveled through town and passed over the E. Erie St. crossing before the Civil War reached a maximum speed of 12 MPH. It took a train three days to travel from Detroit to Chicago. We wouldn’t be surprised if when the new high-speed system is instituted, that Albion loses its local passenger service from our historic railroad depot, and our citizens would have to drive to Battle Creek or Jackson to receive train service.
From our Historical Notebook this week we present a classic early 20th century photograph of a steam engine stopped at our local depot, with passengers disembarking on the brick sidewalk that once existed between N. Eaton and N. Clinton Sts. until the mid-1970s.
Steam Engine Stopped at our Local Depot
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Larry Ellison, Mark Hurd and Oracle's Role in Saving US Tennis, with College Tennis a Prime Beneficiary
During the NCAAs last month, the Intercollegiate Tennis Association announced a partnership with Oracle Corporation, a Fortune 500 computer technology company. Along with the ITA's rankings and the annual awards luncheon at the US Open now being sponsored by the company, there's a new fall tournament, starting this year at the Malibu Racquet Club.
The small private club, purchased in 2007 by Oracle's chairman Larry Ellison, an enthusiastic player who owns the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, will host the tournament September 18-20. The men's and women's draws, with 16 players in singles and eight teams in doubles, will be filled based on preseason rankings, with spots for returning Indoor champions if still eligible, although they would probably be highly ranked anyway. The tentative selection process and schedule for the tournament:
Ellison is well known for his involvement with tennis at the highest level, but Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd is also a staunch supporter of the collegiate version of the sport, with the Baylor University Tennis Center named after him. Hurd, who attended Baylor on a tennis scholarship, graduating in 1979, was instrumental in the Collegiate Challenge men's team event that has been held the past two years in Indian Wells.
Both Ellison and Hurd have been the subject of recent articles on Bloomburg.com. The article on Hurd is titled "Oracle's Mark Hurd Wants to Revitalize American Tennis by Starting With Schools," and focuses on his belief that US college tennis can serve as the sport's minor league farm system. The final paragraph implies that the Malibu tournament is just one of two tournaments Oracle will be sponsoring in the future, although the second is most likely the Collegiate Challenge.
Next year, Oracle will back a pair of college tournaments and plans to create a series of pro American tournaments with spots reserved for promising college players. Hurd and Ellison have formed deep ties with the game’s elite, including Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, in the quest to inject fresh life into the American game and produce some superstars. “We are looking at all sorts of things,” says Hurd. “We are doing everything we can to help the sport.” | <urn:uuid:88813af0-e19a-4310-8751-ef29f9a71dc0> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://tenniskalamazoo.blogspot.com/2015/06/larry-ellison-mark-hurd-and-oracles.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721027.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00550-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965859 | 482 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Audrey Jeffries grew up in Pass Christian, a town on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi where her family was relegated to the north side of the railroad tracks. It was where most blacks in Pass Christian lived in the late 1950s.
She attended all-black, segregated schools. Jim Crow was in full bloom and for African-Americans, daily activities were limited by skin color. But like millions of other Southern-born blacks, Mrs. Jeffries eventually decided to leave.
After Hurricane Camille obliterated her family s home in August, 1969, Audrey and her husband, Fred, headed north. After a brief stay in Chicago, they opted for Toledo, where each worked for - and retired from - the Toledo Public Schools.
The couple was part of the Great Migration, the half-century exodus of 5 million blacks from the South who fled failing crops and legalized racism to seek jobs and a better life in the North.
But here is where Mrs. Jeffries story takes a somewhat surprising - yet increasingly common - turn.
After nearly three decades in Toledo, the couple considered a retirement home. They thought about the Carolinas. Then they had a better idea.
“After a while, we were saying, if we re going back to the South, we ought to go back to our hometown,” Audrey said. That meant back to Mississippi and Pass Christian, where they now live a life they could not have dreamed of in 1969: They have a nice home near the beach.
And it is on the south side of the tracks.
Three decades after segregation was struck down and long after sharecropping vanished, more African-Americans are moving to the South than are leaving it. This “reverse migration,” which started in the early 1970s, sped to its highest rate from 1995-2000, according to the U.S. Census.
The shift marks a stark reversal. Between 1965 and 1970, 287,440 blacks left the South. But in 1973, demographers estimate the tide was reversed. Over the next 30 years, more and more blacks - retirees and college graduates alike - have been drawn back by the sun and the attraction of the familiar.
Cities such as Atlanta have become magnets for blacks, whose middle class is rising, creating a network that is attracting even more.
“Part of what s happening is the South is recovering its old kind of cultural mix,” said William Frey, a demographer at the University of Michigan and the Brookings Institution in Washington. “It s turning back to its traditional black-white landscape.”
After years of building wealth, many African-Americans are deciding they want a bigger home, a swimming pool, and better streets. They want to get away from crime-ridden areas consumed by drugs, said Charles Christian, a professor of social and population geography at the University of Maryland.
A move to the South, he said, gives them a chance to write their own future.
“They want out,” he said, “and they re willing to pay to get out.”
Blacks are returning to the land that gave rise to the race-blurring music of Elvis Presley and the civil rights movement of Martin Luther King, Jr. But it is also where Arkansas fought school integration in the 1950s and where police tried to crush Dr. King s protesters with dogs and water cannon in the 1960s.
Dr. Frey said he expects the reverse migration to persist as blacks continue to put opportunity over history. “They understand the good part as well as the bad.”
In the early part of the 20th century, with segregation legalized by the U.S. Supreme Court, the future of many Southern blacks looked bleak. The boll weevil was destroying their crops, making farming an impossible task. They were barred from many economic avenues.
At the same time, northern factories were begging for workers to fill their burgeoning assembly lines. Blacks moved north - and sent letters back encouraging more to follow. The world wars created more jobs and millions of Southern blacks made the choice to leave.
What they found may have been better, but it was not perfect. Racism in the North was not written into law. But it was there - in housing, in employment, and in the schools.
In Toledo, blacks found that they could be paid less than whites doing the same work. At some of the city s biggest employers, blacks found it difficult to get work.
In the 1960s, it took the federal courts to force the city to hire African-Americans in proportional numbers for the police and fire departments. As late as 1978, Toledo Public Schools avoided court-ordered busing in part by agreeing to transfer black teachers to outlying, mostly white, schools.
Charles Anderson benefited from the local struggles, joining the Toledo fire department in 1974 after the federal courts ordered the city to hire more blacks.
Over time, he reared five daughters and a son, living in the Old West End, just off I-75. By the time he retired in 1997, he had served as an acting lieutenant and worked as an arson investigator.
But now, he relaxes more; the struggles are for someone else. “I did the fight,” Mr. Anderson said. “My time is over.”
These days, he still lives near I-75. But his home is now in Florida, near Fort Myers. His retirement was brief; he now works as a manager for a national floor-covering company. Soon he will retire again.
Mr. Anderson was drawn to the South by the weather. He knew circumstances had changed since he visited his relatives in Alabama as a 9-year-old in 1954. On that trip, he discovered segregated drinking fountains and had to watch The Glenn Miller Story from the balcony of the local theater.
Today, he said he still runs into the occasional bigot. But it is the exception, not the rule. He and his wife, Katherine, have no intentions of leaving.
“I see changes where opportunities are better than in the 1950s,” he said.
Fred and Audrey Jeffries walk along the bear near their home in Pass Christian, Miss.
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The U.S. Census will likely never track Twyla Wheaton s migration. After retiring from Toledo Public Schools in 2001, she was visiting Atlanta in 2002 for her sorority s national convention.
As she strolled through the convention area, she came upon a job fair for the Atlanta Public Schools. They were hiring librarians and asked Ms. Wheaton if she was interested. She was, and they hired her on the spot. Having never left Ohio for long, she decided it was time “for a little adventure.”
But she has a big problem: She s homesick. Her mother is in an Ohio nursing home and her friends are here. Atlanta is a big town where commuting is an irritating and time-consuming chore.
“Down here you can be driving for days,” she said.
Now in her second year as an Atlanta resident, Ms. Wheaton, who grew up in Spencer Township, knows there won t be a third. “Toledo s going to be getting me back real soon,” she said. “I miss Toledo.”
The Rev. Floyd Rose misses Toledo - sometimes. But the former chairman of the local NAACP left the city in 1995 for Valdosta, Ga., where he was born. He founded a church there and quickly became a leader in the black community, forming the People s Tribunal. The organization is considering a boycott of the local tourism bureau because of its hiring practices.
A veteran of the struggles for equality, Mr. Rose knows there are problems everywhere - in Toledo, in Valdosta, everywhere.
“Economically, black folks are doing better in the South than they are doing in the North,” he said. But “when it comes to drugs and police brutality, nothing has changed.”
Mr. Rose has visited Toledo since moving to Valdosta, but people here should expect only short visits. “It s too cold up there,” he said. “I love it down here.”
Yvonne Brown grew up in West Toledo and graduated from Rogers High School in 1970. A native of Mississippi, her father, Bennie Rayford, wanted Yvonne to attend a historically black college in the South.
She chose Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss., and as a teenager made the trip down to attend band camp. In the weeks before she got there in 1970, there had been student riots protesting racism. It was just days after the Kent State University shootings. At Jackson State, police fired on students, killing one and wounding 15. A local high school student also was killed.
When Ms. Brown arrived on campus, she could still see the bloodstains.
“I think I cried every day,” she said.
After attending school there briefly, she returned to Toledo, where she married and raised a family. “I never thought living in Mississippi would be part of my future,” she said.
But things change.
Ms. Brown s husband, who had also attended Jackson State, wanted to get his undergraduate degree before heading to divinity school. So they left Toledo and moved to Mississippi in 1991. They later moved to Dallas, where Robert attended the Dallas Theological Seminary.
After he finished in 1995, they faced a choice: Where do they go?
They chose Tchula, Miss., her parents hometown. Robert founded a church and became its pastor. Within five years, Yvonne Brown was elected mayor of the small, predominantly black city of 2,300 in the Delta.
“I think my perspective changed. In the 70s it was about me and what I wanted,” she said.
Now, with roots firmly established in the church and city, she has no intentions of leaving. In fact, she wants to be a leader in another way: Come to Tchula. Come start a business. Join us, she says.
Almost weekly, she said, she meets someone who, like her, has made the trip back to the South. They are always welcome, she said.
“They re coming back to their homeland.”
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WinCo is a midwestern chain of worker-owned stores that consistently underprice WalMart, while still paying a living wage to their staff and decent prices to their suppliers. Their secret appears to be a smaller selection of goods, sourced directly from factories -- but surely the fact that they're not extracting billions in profits for a family of rapacious plutocrats also helps keep prices low.
Burt Flickinger III, a reputable grocery store analyst, called them "Walmart's worst nightmare."
Originally posted by benrl
Costco and Winco, just two examples of successful companies that treat their employees well. So we know it can be done, just corporations choose to save money by screwing their own workers.
I shop winco very often, it and costco are two staples of my household.
Funny thing when I moved from So Ca to Oregon, I was surprised that the local Win-co was an exact copy of the one I had at home so much so I just went through my normal routine and everything was exactly where it would of been in So Ca, gotta love branding.edit on 13-8-2013 by benrl because: (no reason given)
Some of those employee owners have plump pensions. Especially those who got in on the ground floor. People who work at WinCo long enough will qualify for a pension that gives them a slice of WinCo's fortune. The company pours an amount equal to 20 percent of an employee's total yearly pay into a pension plan.
Former CEO Bill Long joined the company in its early years... The chain as we know it today started in 1985. That's when Long and other employees negotiated a buyout, making it an employee-owned company.
Other possible legislative changes — labels having to say whether foods contain genetically modified products, for example — would add "an awful lot of costs" to WinCo's business, he says.
Originally posted by chiefsmom
reply to post by Wrabbit2000
I wonder how up to date your map is? Winco website showed one in MI, so maybe they are still growing?
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
I think it's great if you can get to one. I wouldn't mind Costco or Winco at all for an option. Unfortunately, I don't live on the West Coast for Winco and Costco just doesn't compare on any level for scale yet... I was a little shocked to see the comparisons, actually.
Maps of Winco-Foods, Walmart, Costco, and Sam's Club. A final Summary Map has a location count in the side margin, although icons don't saturate the map the same way on that display.
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Rajesh S. Patel, Ashwini Tamhankar and Tim Edwards, Spectra-Physics, a Division of Newport Corp.
The green movement, energy conservation
efforts and global warming headlines have made the world aware of the need for more
energy-efficient lighting alternatives. The range of applications for high-brightness
LEDs continues to expand. Laser scribing of wafers used to make LEDs is helping
lead the way to great advancements in the area of optoelectronic devices used in
LCD backlighting for cell phones, televisions and touch-screen displays. Most exciting
is the advent of white LEDs for illumination.
Currently, about 12 billion electric lights on the planet use
incandescent bulbs, or about 40,000 trillion lumen hours per year. This takes a
lot of fuel – the equivalent of nearly a billion tons of coal annually. Lighting
using white LEDs offers the promise of greatly reduced energy consumption through
greatly improved efficiency.
It is quite an undertaking to replace every lightbulb on the planet.
The rapidly growing demand for LED lighting has pushed manufacturers to constantly
improve the production process for brighter, more efficient and less expensive devices.
Laser scribing has rapidly become the industry standard for producing wafers for
Scribing LED wafers using lasers improves yield by creating much
narrower scribe lines than traditional mechanical scribing. Laser scribing is a
noncontact process that allows better scribing of hard or brittle materials while
reducing micro-cracking and damage to the wafer substrate. This allows the LED devices
to be much more closely spaced, improving both yield and throughput, and it increases
the long-term reliability of the LED devices. The wider process tolerance of lasers
and the elimination of blade wear and breakage translate to a more robust manufacturing
process at a lower cost.
Because typically there might be more than 20,000 discrete LED
devices on a single 2-in. wafer, cut width critically affects yield. Reducing microcracking
during the die separation process has also been shown to improve the long-term reliability
of the LEDs. Yield is improved with laser scribing by reducing wafer breakage. The
speed of the laser scribe-and-break process is also much faster than traditional
LED devices, such as InGaN blue, green and white LEDs, are fabricated
on single crystal sapphire (Al2O3) substrates that have excellent thermal conductivity
but are quite hard. Because there are usually several thousand LED devices on a
single wafer, the street widths available between dies are very narrow, typically
20 to 50 µm. Traditional mechanical and diamond saws are often too wide, with kerf
widths up to 250 µm, and they can produce undesirable effects such as chipping,
microcracking and delamination, negatively affecting yield and throughput.
Laser scribing LED wafers is a challenge since the material is
relatively transparent through the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
GaN is transparent below 365 nm, and sapphire is semitransparent above 177 nm. Thus
frequency-tripled (355 nm) and frequency-quadrupled (266 nm) diode-pumped solid-state
(DPSS) Q-switched lasers are the best choice for LED scribing.
When scribing LED substrates, the desirable UV Q-switched DPSS
lasers have short pulses and high repetition rates and can be optimized at fluences
that reduce microcracking and damage to the wafer substrate. Short-pulse-width and
high-peak-power lasers result in cleaner scribing, less displaced material and less
thermal damage to the substrate.
These lasers can create very narrow scribe lines that allow the
wafers to then be broken into individual devices. The laser is tightly focused on
the wafer substrate, ablating material to create a narrow scribe line between the
active devices. Typically, a scribe depth of one-third to one-half the substrate
thickness is required to obtain a clean break. The need for both narrow and deep
scribe lines at a high speed can be met using short pulse widths, high beam quality,
high peak powers and high repetition rates such as those found in DPSS lasers.
For 266-nm laser-based processes, typically the front side of
the sapphire wafer is irradiated. In contrast, back-side scribing is the preferred
technique while using a 355-nm laser to scribe sapphire wafers <150 µm thick.
Scribing from the back side of the device has been shown to have the advantage of
reducing impact on LED performance. Among the research conducted for sapphire scribing
application with a 355-nm wavelength, limited information is available in the literature
about the effect of laser parameters on the laser scribing process. Here we characterize
the effect of 355-nm Q-switched DPSS laser parameters such as fluence, pulse width
and repetition rate on the laser scribing process by measuring sapphire wafer cutting
depth and scribe kerf width.
The samples used in this study were blank single-crystal sapphire
wafers measuring 2 in. in diameter and approximately 400 µm thick, with diffused
and polished sides. All of the laser processing was performed at room temperature
on the diffused back side of the wafer with no assist gas. The lasers used were
the Spectra-Physics Tristar 355-3 with >3 W at 50 kHz and the Pulseo 355-10 with
>10 W at 90 kHz. Both had <23-ns pulse durations and good beam quality.
Figure 1. A top-view microscopy image reveals scribes on a sapphire wafer.
To determine the location of the “processing focal plane,”
test scribes were generated at various focal positions. These scribes were processed
using slow scan speeds to obtain more than 80 percent spatial pulse overlap. Figure
1 shows a top view of some example scribes. After the material was cleaved, an optical
microscope was used to measure the cut depths. Figure 2 is a cross-sectional edge
view demonstrating scribe depths at various focal positions. The “processing
focal plane” corresponding to the deepest scribe was selected for conducting
the studies. With the theoretical spot size of 2.5 µm, groove widths achieved at
the “processing focal plane” during all of the experiments were 5 to
Figure 2. This cross-sectional edge view shows scribe depths corresponding to various focal planes.
For the sapphire wafers, an optical fluence between 30 and 400
J/cm2 was determined to be a good process window. If the applied laser fluence was
below the ablation threshold, no material was removed. At high fluence levels, however,
excess energy was wasted in heating the material. This material heating can cause
unwanted debris, cracking, melting and stress in the surrounding material, or what
is commonly referred to as “HAZ” (heat-affected zone).
Material removal thresholds are dependent also upon pulse duration.
Shorter-pulse-width lasers tend to have lower thresholds for material removal than
longer-pulse-width lasers. Figure 3 shows scribe depth at various fluence values
corresponding to 18- and 42-ns pulse widths. The data plot indicates that a clear
processing advantage exists with shorter pulse duration (18 ns) over longer pulse
duration (42 ns). Extrapolation of these logarithmic curves toward lower fluence
values clearly demonstrates that the material removal threshold with 18-ns pulse
duration is lower than that with 42-ns pulse duration. In addition, in the low fluence
regime close to 500 J/cm2, an 18-ns pulse duration results in deeper scribes compared
with those for 42-ns pulse duration. The data in Figure 3 indicates that with a
short-pulse-width laser, deeper scribes are achieved at low fluence levels, whereas
with a longer-pulse-width laser, more energy is needed to achieve the same depth.
Figure 3. A graph of scribe depth versus fluence charts the advantage of short pulse widths.
The benefit of operating lasers at high repetition rates to increase
throughput in laser processing is also well-known and is shown in Figure 4, where
scribe depth increases with increasing repetition rate. At the higher repetition
rates, the time between pulses is shorter and, thus, the thermal energy is deposited
in the material at a rate faster than energy is dispersed from the focal volume
by thermal diffusion. This facilitates increased heat accumulation at the focal
volume, resulting in localized heating and melting of the material, which leads
to increased material removal. Hence, for sapphire scribing, it is beneficial to
operate the laser at a low energy per pulse and at high repetition rates to take
full advantage of available laser energy for material removal.
Figure 4. A plot of scribe depth versus repetition rate demonstrates the advantage of a high repetition rate.
With the significant efficiency gain offered by LEDs over traditional
incandescent lighting, along with the movement toward energy conservation, the demand
for LEDs has exploded. And DPSS 355-nm Q-switched lasers provide an effective tool
for robust high-yield scribe-and-break wafer singulation processing for high-throughput
LED manufacturing. The DPSS UV lasers offer the shorter pulse width, higher repetition
rate and higher power needed to produce narrower and cleaner scribe lines at higher
Meet the authors
All three authors work for Spectra-Physics, a division of Newport
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The Online Safety Bill is a bid to lay down rules in law about how platforms should deal with harmful content.
It had been in its final stages and was to be discussed in Parliament next week, but it will now be put on pause until MPs return from summer break.
A government source confirmed to the BBC that timetable pressures meant the bill is being rescheduled.
The bill is at report stage, which means MPs can discuss amendments. It was expected to clear the Commons later this month before proceeding to the House of Lords.
The bill's aims are to:
* prevent the spread of illegal content and activity such as images of child abuse, terrorist material and hate crimes, including racist abuse
* protect children from harmful material
* protect adults from legal - but harmful - content
The legislation largely puts the onus on the tech giants, like Meta - previously Facebook- and Google, to figure out how it would meet those aims. It also empowers Ofcom as a regulator to police whether they do a good enough job.
Firms that fail to comply with the new rules could face fines of up to £18m, or 10% of their annual global turnover, whichever is highest.
The bill also requires pornography websites to use age verification technology to stop children from accessing the material on their sites, and there will be a duty for the largest social media platforms and search engines to prevent fraudulent advertising.
A government source suggested Parliamentary time had been reduced because of the demand from the Labour Party for a formal vote of no confidence in the government and the prime minister.
Labour, which wants the PM to leave office immediately, had put forward a motion to hold a vote of no confidence in the prime minister. Its attempt failed, although Boris Johnson has decided to give MPs a vote of no confidence in the government.
The government source said: "Parliamentary time got cut because of Labour's pointless motion.
"It was either the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill or the second day of the Online Safety Bill report stage that got dropped to allow Labour to have time to play politics.
"The Online Safety Bill lost out."
Ruth Smeeth, CEO of campaign group Index on Censorship and former Labour MP, welcomed the bill's passage through Parliament being paused.
She said: "This is a fundamentally broken bill - the next prime minister needs a total rethink.
"It would give tech executives like Nick Clegg and Mark Zuckerberg massive amounts of control over what we all can say online, would make the UK the first democracy in the world to break encrypted messaging apps, and it would make people who have experienced abuse online less safe by forcing platforms to delete vital evidence."
The bill has been criticised by some, including Conservative ex-minister David Davis who this week described it as "extraordinarily controversial" and called for it to be delayed.
A new prime minister is expected to be announced on 5 September.
The first draft paper of this bill was introduced by former PM Theresa May back in 2019.
The last three years have seen seemingly endless revisions and amendments and the OSB continues to generate huge debate. Some say that in itself is an indication of how flawed it is.
The government says it is designed to make the internet a safer place, and to shield people, especially children, from harmful content. Punishments for tech firms who do not remove this material quickly enough or do enough to actively prevent it from appearing in the first place, include huge firms and even prison sentences for individual executives.
In its current form the bill gives enormous powers to the regulator Ofcom, which has in response been busy recruiting an army of specialists - although critics argue that parts of the rules are hard to enforce or require tech tools that don't yet exist.
For example, currently the most popular messaging platform, WhatsApp, uses end-to-end encryption - this means only the device which sends a message and the device which receives it can read it.
The tech firms themselves have no oversight of them and there is no backdoor for law enforcement. They can only be fully scanned for harmful content if there is a chink in this armour - which would also open the door for bad actors to exploit.
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When you load very large files in the RichTextBox control, you may receive a System.OutOfMemoryException error message when you access the text through the RTF property of the control. An example use of the RTF property is demonstrated in the following source code:
Dim sTemp As StringsTemp = RichTextBox1.Rtf
A supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft, but it is only intended to correct the problem that is described in this article. Only apply it to systems that are experiencing this specific problem. This hotfix may receive additional testing. Therefore, if you are not severely affected by this problem, we recommend that you wait for the next service pack that contains this hotfix.
To resolve this problem immediately, contact Microsoft Product Support Services to obtain the hotfix. For a complete list of Microsoft Product Support Services telephone numbers and information about support costs, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
Note In special cases, charges that are ordinarily incurred for support calls may be canceled if a Microsoft Support Professional determines that a specific update will resolve your problem. The usual support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for the specific update in question.
The English version of this hotfix has the file attributes (or later) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in coordinated universal time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel.
Date Time Version Size File name--------------------------------------------------------------14-Aug-2003 02:23 1.1.4322.934 77,824 Corperfmonext.dll14-Aug-2003 02:20 1.1.4322.934 311,296 Mscorjit.dll14-Aug-2003 02:12 1.1.4322.934 2,093,056 Mscorlib.dll14-Aug-2003 02:21 1.1.4322.934 2,498,560 Mscorsvr.dll14-Aug-2003 02:22 1.1.4322.934 2,486,272 Mscorwks.dll
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.
The problem is not limited to the RichTextBox control. The problem may also occur with certain large memory allocations. For example, the following code also results in an "Out of memory" exception error message:
byte arr = new byte;
To work around this problem, add a single byte to this allocation.
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In some ways, this is a follow-up or companion piece to my post last week when teachers have mobile devices in the classroom, on our findings and efforts to ensure digital access for all of our teachers.
While this has proven to be very powerful for teachers, our next step is around finding access for all students. In a previous post, I shared some thoughts around BYOD and Equity (an issue I think is crucial when looking at getting devices into students’ hands).
In West Vancouver, student access is growing; in some elementary schools students have regular access mainly from devices they bring from home. In other schools it is less consistent with pockets of classrooms having students on devices. One key piece of learning we have realized over the last three years is if students don’t have purposeful reasons to use their device in class they will often stop bringing it.
So, before one announces that “everyone will bring a laptop on Monday” there are ways to work toward changing and improving that experience. The challenges around the recent iPad rollout in Los Angeles schools are a good reminder of the complexity of these kinds of initiatives.
So, what we did rather than focusing on embracing devices and changing practice for the entire year, was to focus on trying it with support for a two- to three-week period. We tried this last spring and have plans to do it again this fall.
Here is a brief overview of the project:
There is increasing support that access to digital resources and tools combined with inquiry teaching and learning practices improves student engagement, learning relevancy and academic success. A challenge in today’s classroom is the inconsistent access to digital tools: some students have access some of the time, some have no access and only a few students have access all of the time. Building on the opportunities from the recent Modernization initiative, the Digital Access Action Research project is aimed at understanding the impact of “ubiquitous” or pervasive student access on learning and teaching.
The Digital Access Action Research project is looking for interested Grades 4 to 9 classrooms willing to try “ubiquitous access” for a two- to three-week period. This would include:
- Sending home a district letter to all parents asking them to provide a digital device for their students during that period. The device can be an iPad or a laptop. For those who do not have a spare device at home, the district will provide a device the student can use during the project.
- Attending a morning session (TTOC included for teachers) prior to the start of the project to plan for the action research and to determine how best to utilize the opportunity that every student will have digital access whenever and wherever they need it.
- Ensuring the students use the device when appropriate during the school day and to have the device taken home at the end of the day
- Completing a follow-up summary around lessons learned and challenges from the project. This will provide a better understanding of the opportunities available through digital access as well as what challenges we continue to face.
There are many details to consider with this project, including:
- When the students should and shouldn’t use the devices
- How to shape the learning activities to benefit most from the digital access and minimize distractions
- How to secure the devices when not being used
- How to problem solve technical problems and challenges
If we want to move towards digital access for students, it is not a proclamation of change — even if students bring devices, very little in the classroom may change. That is why our thinking around this is although some classes and schools are full speed ahead, in other situations we need to scaffold this change and start with projects like this action research.
So, here is what we found:
Director of Instruction, Gary Kern, has also blogged more about these findings here. There is not a ‘one size fits all’ model around our work. In fact, this particular project has shown that sometimes, before we make big changes, we have to take some smaller steps. Before we say all students need to bring devices for the year, let’s try it for three or four weeks; before we say that teachers need to change their practice to embrace the digital landscape, let’s support them through doing it for a unit. And, we were also reminded the power of digital access is its interplay with inquiry and innovative pedagogy.
Many of the classes that were part of this trial in the spring have moved to having students bring devices all the time this fall — it is a bit of a continuum. It is great to say that “all our students have devices” but if nothing else has changed what really is the point? It will be interesting to see our next group of action researchers take up the challenge this fall. | <urn:uuid:411e4915-7048-417f-9e02-7d3d0d7bd705> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://cultureofyes.ca/2013/10/23/byod-how-to-walk-before-you-run/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00530-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96484 | 990 | 2.8125 | 3 |
I have a friend that launched a business last February. He took on a day job to come up with extra money to pay his employees while trying to boost his cash flow. Unfortunately, he found out that his employer was denying him overtime pay for several months, which amounted to $2,000 in lost revenue.
His experience is sadly not unique. Many entrepreneurs struggle to pay their bills during the first year or two. The problem is that their employers don’t always pay them what they truly deserve.
If you have to take a regular job to pay your bills while running a business, then you need to make sure that you are fairly compensated. Don’t write off the loss with the expectation that you will make up for it on the back end when your business is successful. You deserve to be paid what you are worth!
Understand Your Rights When You Are Working a Side Job
Every employee deserves to be paid for their work. And, per the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), employers have to compensate non-exempt workers for any overtime worked. Overtime refers to any work hours that exceed 40 hours per week. There are many companies who fail to pay for overtime work, while some employers miscalculate the payment resulting in underpaid employees.
How is overtime pay calculated?
For every hour an employee works, the employer has to pay at least the state minimum wage ($9.30) and a minimum 1.5x rate for any overtime hours. If your employee hasn’t paid you for your overtime work, they may be violating state or federal law. However, employment laws are quite complicated and there are exemptions to overtime pay.
Get legal help:
Many feel hesitant to talk to their employer regarding overtime pay and if they do, very few get an accurate answer. You can handle this legally without worrying about termination or unfair treatment in the workplace. The first step is to talk with a lawyer about whether you can file a legal claim for unpaid overtime.
If you are looking for attorneys dealing with overtime litigation cases in New Jersey or New York, get in touch with The Sattiraju Law Firm. Their employment litigation attorneys have years of experience working in this area of practice. They will guide you to the best course of action. Schedule an appointment with them and get your case reviewed.
Penalty for unpaid wages:
If an employer fails to pay for overtime work, he/she is at risk of paying additional penalties. In addition to the unpaid wages, an extra penalty may be assessed by the court. Employees may be able to claim for liquidated damages, which can be used to cover financial loses like late charges and bounced checks.
Frequently asked questions:
Can my employer force me to work overtime?
Yes. Employers can force employees to work overtime and there is no legal limit on how many hours an employee is eligible to work. There is only a threshold limit beyond which overtime pay must be provided.
Industries with frequent wage violations:
- Hospital employees
- Medical support staff
- Police Officers
- Union Employees
- Exotic dancers
- Construction workers
- Restaurant workers
- Warehouse workers
Are salaried workers not entitled to overtime payment?
There are exceptions. It depends on how much you make a week and the type of work you do. Overtime payment doesn’t apply to certain white-collar professionals. Hourly, non-exempt employees can claim for overtime.
Can I claim overtime payment if I stay back for cleaning up the store after my shift ends?
Infrequent and insignificant amount of work wouldn’t count as overtime work. If you are spending about 20 minutes every night after work to clean up, it qualifies for work. Regularly recurring work is usually considered for compensation.
Does an employer have the right to fire an employee who has sued for unpaid wages?
An employee cannot resort to any form of retaliation for suing against him/her. A few examples of retaliation are: blacklisting the employee, refusing employment for those who have previously filed a claim for unpaid wages, reducing job responsibilities, refusing raises etc.
Always Know Your Rights on Overtime Pay
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When Pam Syfert began her career as a city research analyst in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1972, she was quickly convinced by managers that performance measurement was the key to a city’s success. In the early 1970s, this was remarkable: Many other cities regarded performance measurement as some kind of time-wasting bean-counting exercise.
Some 27 years later, Syfert is city manager of Charlotte, the nation’s 25th-largest city and one of the fastest-growing communities. You might expect Syfert would be inclined to let Charlotte rest on its laurels as a famously well-managed place.
Not Syfert, an energetic 57-year-old with a gift for plain speaking. Although she remains committed to performance measurement, she has become more aware of and concerned about its shortcomings. “Over the years, city staff measured everything from workload, response time and cost per unit to efficiency and effectiveness,” Syfert says. “One unintended result was information overload. There were lengthy reports with data generated that few people read.”
That’s why Syfert is moving the city toward a form of performance measurement known as the “balanced scorecard,” which, Syfert is convinced, will give managers better tools. Charlotte is the first major municipality in the country to try it out.
The key, Syfert explains, is to highlight just four critical indicators of success: customer service; financial accountability; internal work efficiencies; and employee learning and growth. Each indicator is then broken down into various goals. For example, success at customer service citywide is defined, in part, as increasing citizens’ perception of public safety and making convenient transportation available. Balanced scorecards can be used at every level of city government.
Agency leaders seem excited by the effort, Syfert says. “Building a scorecard helps managers link today’s actions with the achievement of today’s priorities. It encourages accountability. And, today, we define accountability by results.”
It’s certainly hard to argue with Syfert’s track record when it comes to results. Charlotte is a national leader in neighborhood revitalization, promoting public-private partnerships, keeping service costs down, and cutting the size of government bureaucracy. The number of non-public-safety, general fund employees there has decreased from 2,150 to 1,313 since 1991. Charlotte’s managed competition program, in which city units and private-sector concerns compete for city contracts, is saving the city about $9 million a year.
One Syfert innovation particularly visible to Charlotte’s citizens is the city’s Customer Service Center, a single phone number that citizens can call if they have any questions about city or county government. It got its start a decade ago, when Hurricane Hugo hit North Carolina. Syfert, then assistant city manager, set up a Hugo Hotline, and it proved so popular that Syfert moved to expand it to all city services.
Over her 27 years in Charlotte’s government, Syfert has held a series of jobs, including stints as budget director and deputy city manager; she was named to the job she now holds in 1996. In a day when so many government managers are hired guns, moving from city to city in search of more money and responsibility, Syfert is a refreshing throwback. “Charlotte is my home, my community. My family is there,” she says. “We’re part of the community, we pay taxes, go to church there, sent our kids to school there.”
In fact, after 31 years living there, Syfert sometimes sounds more like a professional resident than a professional manager. And that’s been a very good thing for Charlotte.
— Katherine Barrett and Richard Greene
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The next several days of the daily Lectionary features a brief sojourn in one of the Bible’s longest books, Sirach. I don’t know why Sirach isn’t mined more often for Lectionary usage. True, it doesn’t always make the transition from the ancient Middle-East to the modern world. But it is part of the Jewish heritage we all share as Christians. Wise advice is available for those who listen. The following passage appears in the Rite of Penance, number 113, but not in the next two weeks of Lectionary offerings:.
The vengeful will suffer the Lord’s vengeance;
for he remembers their sins in detail.
Forgive your neighbor’s injustice;
then when you pray, your own sins will be forgiven.
Does anyone nourish anger against another
and expect healing from the Lord?
Can one refuse mercy to a sinner like oneself,
yet seek pardon for one’s own sins?
If a mere mortal cherishes wrath,
who will forgive (their) sins?
Remember your last days and set enmity aside;
remember death and decay, and cease from sin!
Remember the commandments and do not be angry with your neighbor;
remember the covenant of the Most High, and overlook faults.
This passage above is from the USCCB site, which is different in some details from the 2001 Lectionary which is part of the 2010 edition of the Rite of Penance. (Hint: the Rite of Penance includes “man” a few times. But it also alters that litany of remembrance in verses 6-7.)
At any rate, note the three parts to this reading. Part 1 (28:1-2) presents the suggestion that God may well turn life upside-down on us. So we act toward others as we hope the final judgment will go for us. The motivation? It’s sort of a reverse beatitude, isn’t it? “Cursed are the vengeful, for they will have vengeance shown them.”
Part 2 (28:3-5) offers three poetic couplets. Reject anger, and we may receive healing. Embrace mercy, and we will receive pardon. If we cherish wrath, we cannot expect forgiveness.
In part 3 (28:6-7) I think the rabbinical urge to “remember” is important. For the believer, the encounter with one’s sin and one’s personal urges to enact revenge is well known. Or it should be. We know to what Christ calls us: forgiveness. We know it, and yet we don’t always live it. So it’s not a matter of learning anything new. We just have to dredge the principle from our Christian memory. We have to remember it. Then live it as if we know it.
When we are broken, we reassemble the building blocks of virtue, holiness, and our past experiences of God. These experiences may be intellectual or personal or liturgical or some combination of the ways in which God breaks through to human beings. In remembering, we re-member: we put limbs on good intentions. We use our legs, arms, and hands to put into action what we, as penitents, might harbor in our hearts. Ben Sira offers the Christian a brief, but powerful reading for reflection when we come before God as a penitent. Reflecting on it, let us remember our finer calling. And then do it. | <urn:uuid:5dbe50b3-efff-469f-bae7-952d122fb012> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://catholicsensibility.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/reconciliation-lectionary-sirach-281-7/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.925902 | 746 | 2.703125 | 3 |
World Trade Organization:
U.S. Companies' Views on China's Implementation of Its Commitments
GAO-04-508: Published: Mar 24, 2004. Publicly Released: Mar 24, 2004.
As the second largest source of foreign direct investment in China, U.S. companies continue their keen interest in China's implementation of its World Trade Organization (WTO) commitments. China's 2001 WTO commitments include specific pledges to increase market access, liberalize foreign investment, continue fundamental market reforms, and improve the rule of law. In 2002, GAO reported on selected U.S. companies' views, finding that many commitment areas, particularly those related to rule of law, were important to U.S. companies. GAO also found that company representatives expected China's reforms would have a positive impact on their business operations but expected some difficulties during implementation. In 2003, GAO continued to analyze companies' views about (1) the extent to which China has implemented its WTO commitments and (2) the impact of China's implementation of its WTO commitments on U.S. companies' business operations. GAO collected the views of representatives from 82 U.S. companies with a presence in China. GAO focused on companies in the agriculture, banking, machinery, and pharmaceutical industries. Results reflect a response rate of 60 percent of the study population. These responses may not reflect the views of all U.S. companies with activities in China.
U.S. company representatives who completed GAO's 2003 questionnaire thought that China had implemented most of the 26 listed WTO commitment areas on average only to some or little extent. When respondents assessed five areas found to be of greatest importance to their companies overall--(1) standards, certifications, registration, and testing requirements; (2) customs procedures and inspection practices; (3) intellectual property rights; (4) tariffs, fees, and charges; and (5) consistent application of laws, regulations, and practices--responses were mixed, but they reported that China had taken at least some steps to implement these commitment areas. Our analysis showed that the importance placed on specific areas differed among the agriculture, banking, machinery, and pharmaceutical industries. For example, agricultural respondents identified tariffs as important while banking respondents identified scope of business restrictions for services as important. Few respondents were able to assess all of China's commitment areas for reasons that varied depending on each company's experience and operations in China. More than two thirds of respondents reported that China's implementation of its WTO commitments had a positive impact on their companies' ability to do business in China. However, some respondents indicated that China's reform efforts had created difficulties for their company operations in China. Overall, company representatives reported that company activities, such as volume of production in China and company revenue stream, have increased since China joined the WTO. However, respondents noted that changes in business activities cannot be directly attributed to China's WTO accession. | <urn:uuid:eac0c164-bc9f-4026-89b1-a77c064d9b9d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://gao.gov/products/GAO-04-508 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00074-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964326 | 594 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Members of the Mothers' Union in west Guadalcanal came together to celebrate and remember the founder of the Anglican Mothers Union around the world.
The founder of the Mothers' Union was Mary Sumner.
The celebration was held over the weekend at Maravovo village with more than 1000 people attending the event including members of communities.
The program was highlighted with a colourful parade with over 400 Mothers Union members in the region.
Diocese secretary and coordinator of West Guadalcanal Fr Francis Lauvata said the celebration was to commemorate the founder of the Mothers' Union within in the Anglican Church of Melanesian.
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* Capital charge targeted at non-insurance activities - IAIS
* "Systemically important" insurers face closer scrutiny -
LONDON, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Insurers involved in risky
activities outside their core business, such as derivatives
trading, should hold extra capital to limit the danger they
might destabilise the financial system if they go bust, global
regulators said on Wednesday.
The capital charge is one of a set of proposals drawn up by
the International Association of Insurance Supervisors aimed at
curbing the knock-on effects of "systemically important"
Insurers whose failure would pose a threat to the wider
economy should also be subject to closer scrutiny by regulators,
and should put in place detailed plans for winding themselves
down in the event they fail, the IAIS said.
The proposals form part of an effort by the G20 group of
countries to draw up rules aimed at preventing repeat of the
2008 crisis, when close links between financial institutions
triggered a wave of failures, prompting costly government
Insurers argue they should escape an across-the-board
capital hike of the kind that has been imposed on banks, arguing
they are less risky because they do not lend and their customers
cannot withdraw cash overnight.
The proposed extra capital charge would likely be targeted
at companies involved in risky non-insurance activities, but
some with close interconnections to financial markets could also
be affected, Peter Braumuller, chair of the IAIS executive
committee, told reporters.
Regulators' focus on insurers' non-traditional activities
stems from heavy losses absorbed by Swiss Re and AIG
through credit default swaps which forced both to raise
emergency funding during the 2008 crisis.
Austria's financial market regulator on Wednesday banned
insurers from issuing credit default swaps, securities which
protect lenders from non-payment, in an effort to prevent them
running risks that could harm customers.
The Financial Stability Board, the G20's regulatory task
force, is expected to publish a list of systemically important
insurers next year which could include major global players such
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In the past two decades, a greater number of companies have found it profitable to integrate into the global economy. There are numerous reasons for this development: improved transportation technology, liberalized trade policies, international institutions to promote trade, etc. Surprisingly, it is not only large corporations taking advantage of these new opportunities, as small businesses are selling products abroad at a high rate. In fact, small businesses sell approximately 30% of the value of United States exports. Currently, less than 5% of the world’s population lives within the borders of the United States. It is no surprise that U.S. businesses of the 21st century are not content with relying heavily on domestic sales. If you are still not convinced that you should become a globally competitive business, consider these ten reasons to do so:
1. If you don’t, someone else will – All of the advantages of global competitiveness are equally true of both your company and your competitors. Keep in mind that companies that export grow faster on average than non-exporters. Also, non-exporters tend to go out of business more quickly.
2. Avoid extinction – The preferences and lifestyles of U.S. consumers today are drastically different from 10 or 20 years ago. This has led to numerous products becoming obsolete in the U.S. market. For companies not engaged in the global economy, shifting domestic consumer tastes can mean extinction; however, a globally active business has the benefit of diverse global preferences.
3. The weather is always right – If you have a seasonal product or service, the case for doing international business is especially strong. When it is winter in the Northern Hemisphere, it is summer in the Southern Hemisphere (and vice-versa). If exporting, this would allow you to sell winter products in Australia when it is 80 degrees in the U.S.
4. Foreign governments are picking up the bill– Governments will always be willing to spend money on, or encourage their citizens to spend money on, just about anything, but it may not always be your government. This should not stop you from taking advantage of a good opportunity for a subsidy or tax incentive.
5. Drive down costs – Increasing your global presence allows your company to take advantage of economies of scale. As sales increase, the per-unit cost of your product decreases. As an additional bonus, any excess capacity can be utilized with export sales.
6. Become “recession-proof” – While the recent recession essentially affected the entire globe, most recessions are less widespread. Generally, when the U.S. economy is declining, Asian and European economies are experiencing growth. A global company can thrive on its export sales during tough times, while a less globally competitive company could struggle to survive the domestic slowdown.
7. Learn from others – Companies in other countries sometimes use technologies and methods that businesses in your country have never seen before. Entering the global economy puts you in a position to learn this knowledge to improve your products.
8. It is easy – As countries realized that international trade brings tremendous benefits, free trade agreements and low barriers to trade became the norm. This occurrence has made entry into foreign markets even easier.
9. Increase your buying power – If you own a small business, you likely have little bargaining power when buying inputs for products. Selling abroad will increase your sales, making you a larger purchaser of these inputs. This may provide you that desired bargaining power.
10. Exporting is fun – Interacting with various people and different cultures across the globe may be the biggest upside to selling internationally. If you are too busy to travel for leisure, international business opportunities could be the perfect excuse t o visit new places.
Convinced yet? If not, these are only ten of the vast number of reasons why a company should become globally competitive. However, not every company is prepared or suited for this. Nevertheless, merely investigating whether or not international business makes sense for your company does no harm. Remember: small businesses are well-suited for the global economy, as over 66% of U.S. exporters employ fewer than 20 people. | <urn:uuid:5ea087fb-3443-4ba4-8f4a-a99c83e74251> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://businessbeyondborders.wordpress.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00189-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943008 | 843 | 1.90625 | 2 |
How to enable boot messages, kernel messages and other logs of various services to be printed on screen during boot up?
You'd need to remove the kernel boot parameters quiet and splash from the linux line in GRUB:
- Start your system and wait for the GRUB menu to show (if you don't see a GRUB menu, press and hold the left Shift key right after starting the system).
- Now highlight the kernel you want to use, and press the e key. You should be able to see and edit the commands associated with the highlighted kernel.
- Go down to the line starting with
linuxand remove the parameters
- Now press Ctrl + x to boot.
To make this change permanent:
From a terminal (or after pressing Alt + F2) run:
gksudo gedit /etc/default/grub
and enter your password.
Find the line starting with
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULTand remove the parameters
Save the file and close the editor.
Finally, start a terminal and run:
to update GRUB's configuration file.
In more recent releases, including 12.04 and 12.10 it is also necessary to either delete, or change the
GFXMODE line to
text, as well as removing
splash. (See the other answers.)
When making the changes permanent find the commented line:
and remove the beginning
#, so it is no longer a comment, and also set its value to
With the latter change the menu will be white on black in a larger text font, and therefore hold fewer entries, but the messages should be visible once an item is selected for booting. | <urn:uuid:04447dec-4bdb-4d9e-8684-8add326c9f8a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://askubuntu.com/questions/25022/how-to-enable-boot-messages-to-be-printed-on-screen-during-boot-up | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.799491 | 392 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Dream relationship became a nightmare
Date: November 26 2012
FOR the first few years of her relationship, Siobhan Kent did not have an inkling that things would later turn so bad. That one day she could turn up to work with her arms marked with bruises and her spirit battered.
Her partner was someone she thought she would spend her life with. ''He was the love of my life, I thought we were going to get married eventually,'' she says. ''It was fine for the first few years or so, I was working in media and PR [public relations] and he had a good career going also, we were living by the beach and doing other ventures on the side.''
Siobhan, who was living in Sydney when she met him, gave up her career to pursue a shared dream together. They uprooted their lives to start a business in Queensland and threw themselves into the new endeavour.
''We were seen as the couple who had it all, we had everything anyone could ever want together.''
But in time, as the business started to turn sour, so did their relationship. ''He was trying to exert his control in other areas, over me.''
And from then the abuse started, both physical and emotional. ''Mentally, I didn't feel like I could live. I felt trapped. He told me 100 times a day that I was pathetic, ugly, worthless and that I was an insult to be around,'' she says. ''You start to believe that.''
There was also physical violence. The attacks on her were so bad that Siobhan was hospitalised many times from her injuries.
It was a position that she never expected to find herself in, as an educated woman with a good career. But her story is not unusual.
Australian Bureau of Statistics figures from 2005 suggest that partner violence happens to women from all types of backgrounds. About one in six women had experienced domestic violence from either a previous or current partner. That's about 1.3 million women.
Academics say that changing the attitudes of men is important in tackling violence against women and that abuse should not be seen as a private matter. Rather, abusers need to be told calmly that it is not all right.
University of Wollongong senior lecturer Michael Flood, a researcher on men's violence, says events such as White Ribbon Day on Sunday are important as they involve thousands of men in the community taking a stand against violence. ''We'll fail to stop men's violence against women unless we can engage a large number of men in taking everyday action,'' he says.
Siobhan - now championing the White Ribbon anti-violence message at her work and in her private life - says if one of her ex-partner's friends had pulled him aside about his behaviour ''that would have made the world of difference to me.
''I was isolated; just one offer of assistance from someone would have helped,'' she says. ''His best mate was working for us and he knew it had been happening, he had seen things.''
Even when Siobhan left her partner, the harassment, if anything, got worse. With her money tied up in the business, she felt she had nowhere to go but to keep working. ''I had to keep turning up to work with bruises all over my arms,'' she says.
Then, in early 2010 she took the big decision and abandoned her life in Queensland. ''I got in my car and drove, I didn't stop driving for eight hours.'' In the rear-view mirror she kept looking for the distinctive car that they owned through the business, but it never appeared. ''I was terrified.''
She arrived back with her parents, and started to rebuild. Although her former partner tried to call for months and had beaten down the door at her old house, she was free. Now, working in public relations for a government department, she feels ''really, really lucky'' to have resumed her career where she had left off.
But some pain from the abuse may never end. ''I'm never going to be fully healed. I haven't had a proper relationship since then, but I don't know if that's the reason why. But I do know that now, nearly three years on, I'm the strongest and happiest I've ever been.'' | <urn:uuid:4f248652-3e45-4a15-9975-4cf60b6dcc2e> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.theage.com.au/national/dream-relationship-became-a-nightmare-20121125-2a1ke.html?deviceType=text | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721008.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00117-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.992749 | 882 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Careers in the finance field such as the investment banking firm are undoubtedly an exciting and rewarding job. Though the field is said to be stressful and nerve-wracking, it is still one of the most lucrative jobs across the globe.
Since the job demands professionals with the confluence of the mental and emotional aspects , organizations often seek professionals with a specific skill set. Becoming a banking professional is not easy, it encompasses multiple skillsets.
You will find multiple job roles in investment firms. As a fresher, you might start as an associate or an analyst, but with time and experience, you might be given a senior position. While the job roles can be exciting, it also requires professionals to possess tangible skills. Let us have a look at the relevant skills needed in investment firms. The common ones include:
- Negotiation and communication skills
- Business valuation
- Relationship skills
- Extensive financial market knowledge
- Sales development
- Business development
Skills can vary from one organization to another. However, potential employers can be quite skeptical about the candidates they hire. Therefore, knowing every skill in the investment banking firm should be an art.
Some of the other skills you might want to be a master of are as follows.
Entrepreneurial skill is considered a must-have in the investment firm. Else, how do you expect to be both creative and innovative at the same time? Topmost bankers possess the ability to approach any type of problem with rigor and courage.
Perhaps, you need to be highly intellectual in the job. You wouldn’t want to end up somebody questioning your skills, do you? Hereby, in-depth knowledge like mathematics, finance, economics, and analytics, etc.
But becoming an investment banker needs more than just these core competencies. They require intellectual curiosity, not just to perform their job but to understand the crux of the responsibility they’ve been given to handle. An investment banker’s job is also to fix and solve complex problems and create new and innovative solutions. Such skills can be derived from subjects like physics, engineering, science, mathematics, finance, and accounting, etc.
- Relationship building
Relationship building is one of the most crucial skills an investment banking professional needs to possess. As such that dealing with business stakeholders and professionals outside the firm is mandatory. Building social and professional relationships should be their core forte. Dealing with different types of people can be challenging most of the time. You need to have high energy and relationship-building skills such as understanding the client’s needs and the attitude in which they speak and behave largely impacts a relationship.
Most people are often aware of the fact that the salaries drawn by investment bankers are super high. But nobody tells you about the long hours or the hard work and diligence they put in doing their jobs. Well, self-discipline comes with rewards as well. So, if you know you’re doing the job right you will always be rewarded. At the entry-level, analysts or associates work under high-pressure environments, this is where discipline plays a huge role. They need to perform even in intense situations. You need to be able to demonstrate self-discipline. Such traits can be innate, but at times it needs to be learned in multiple ways.
Landing a job and the future of investment banking in firm is no joke. It does need certain specific skillsets, much of which can be possessed through learning and education. In addition to this, it takes grit and hard work to work at investment firms. | <urn:uuid:03f3630f-b8be-4749-a219-d7f10ed462b8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://think-how.com/grab-skills-for-a-successful-career-in-the-investment-banking-industry/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00679.warc.gz | en | 0.960874 | 749 | 1.976563 | 2 |
Book clubs are all the rage for adults, and they can be fun for younger readers too. Many libraries host book clubs and librarians are often asked about how you can join or start a book club.
The most common way to run a book club or discussion group is to have the participants all read the same book. Here are some other approaches you might like to try (all are suitable for children and adults):
• Bring any book you’ve read over the last month and share it with the group, it doesn’t matter if no one else has read it because this is an excellent way to find out about new books and authors.
• Choose an author who has written more than one book, and have everyone read one of their choice, then discuss them.
• Invite everyone to read a book that fits a particular genre (e.g. spy fiction, graphic novels or historical fiction). You could change genres for each meeting or perhaps use a single genre to explore over a longer period (e.g. The Mystery Book Club).
• Focus your discussion on a different non-fiction topic each month. This can be a good way to encourage boys to get involved. (i.e. bring your favourite dinosaur book to share).
Parents, teachers, librarians and other enthusiasts of children’s books can have fun with a picture book club, too. It’s a great opportunity to talk about books that you have enjoyed sharing with your children, as well as new stories and authors you’ve discovered.
You could even start an informal family book club. Involve your whole family in talking about what they’re reading. Make books a regular topic of conversation at the dinner table. Discussing books doesn’t have to be a formal activity, so give it a go and see what happens.
Sarah Steed is our Consultant Librarian and reviewer. A former Children's and Young Adult Librarian, she has more than 18 years' experience working in public libraries. Sarah comes from a family of readers and has shelves full to bursting with books. | <urn:uuid:40576437-8902-4b88-b697-7264877517a0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.kids-bookreview.com/2015/04/librarians-shelf-book-clubs.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00482-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959945 | 433 | 2.625 | 3 |
The increasing presence and impact of young p
Join the ‘Fast For The Climate’ movement
When Typhoon Haiyan devastated the Philippines in November of 2013, that country’s climate commissioner Yeb Saño was meeting with world leaders at the UN climate talks in Warsaw. His own family was caught up in the disaster that killed thousands and destroyed homes and livelihoods across the country.
In a moving speech he broke down in tears and declared he would began fasting in solidarity for all of those who lost their homes and access to food and water in the wake of this disaster.
It was a symbolic gesture that brought attention to the climate change crisis. He wanted the countries at the Warsaw conference to deliver actions that would “stop the madness” of the climate crisis.
Hundreds of others chose to fast with him in solidarity. Soon thousands of people from all over the globe began to Fast For The Climate in solidarity with victims of extreme weather events such as Typhoon Haiyan, and to show strong public will for urgent and decisive action on climate change.
Fast For The Climate has now grown into a global movement representing faith, government, youth, and environment leaders and everyday people who all want urgent action on climate change by governments this year.
Now you can join this growing movement by adding your voice and pledging to fast on the first of each month to demonstrate your support of those who have already been struck hardest by the effects of climate change.
This ongoing fast seeks to send a message to governments that people from all walks of life, from all corners of the globe, expect climate action.
Already, millions of people have lost their homes and livelihoods as a result of climate change.
Scientists have confirmed the link to severe storms such as Typhoon Haiyan to rising sea level temperatures caused by climate change. Yet government action remains profoundly inadequate towards addressing this crisis and providing a safe and just future for people and the planet.
The time to solve the crisis is now: Countries need to cut carbon pollution and secure a long-term renewable energy supply towards this safer future, particularly focusing on energy access and resilience for people living in poverty.
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The Bitcoin Exhibition was opened in the Money Museum of Zurich in Switzerland. The exhibit, created by the Sunflower Foundation and the local bitcoin community, will help people to better understand the concept of digital currency and see how it works.
The exhibit presents a short guide to the world of bitcoin, encompassing data on the cryptocurrency production and usage.
At first, the exhibit tells the nature of bitcoin, avoiding any technical details. It explains the difference between bitcoin and fiat currencies.
The visitors will also learn where it is possible to buy the digital currency. In Zurich, the Café Schoffel in the Niederdorf neighborhood is known for trading bitcoin at the established ATMs.
Moreover, the exhibit explains how to buy the virtual currency and create the bitcoin wallet. It equips the attenders with the list of main websites for creating the wallet.
People will also understand how and where to spend the digital currency. Notably, there are around seventy companies in Switzerland that accept payments in bitcoin and the Money Museum is one of them. It is the only museum in the world that integrated the digital currency.
The explanation of how to use bitcoin while travelling is also provided. It offers data on the bitcoin price and how it changed through the development of digital currency. Due to the growing number of new users, its price will rise in the future.
The visitors will be able to interact with bitcoin ATMs, hand powered proof-of-work bitcoin miner and display screens that are showcased in the museum. Besides, a manual coin press, a screw press, a drop hammer and a rolling mill are also displayed.
The exhibit also features 12 picture tours, providing basic bitcoin information.
The Bitcoin Exhibition will enable the attenders to gain or expand knowledge of the digital currency. It is the first bitcoin related exhibit ever.
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Jean RobertsParticipantMay 1, 2021 at 7:06 pmPost count: 29
A combined effort from 20 of us led to 71 species being seen in the Heysham and Middleton area today.
Sandwich Tern 6 – mainly blogging
Arctic Tern – 23 low over the water then rising high in the sky to go overland
Guillemot – 1 whirring in quickly seen only by PJM
Gannet -1 distantly, seen only by PJM
Common Scoter – 10 seen distantly only by PJM
Whimbrel – at least one
Whooper Swan – 6 late ones heading north.
Eider – not counted but plentiful around the skear
Red-breasted Merganser – 3 pairs
Great-crested Grebe – 2 pairs
Rock Pipit on the cliffs
A surprise Grasshopper Warbler moved through, heard but not seen
Whitethroats galore on Middleton NR
Lesser Whitethroats not quite as galore on MNR
Reed Warbler – 2 at MNR
Sedge Warbler – several at MNR
Cetti’s Warbler – heard by a few
Willow Warblers,Chiffchaff and Blackcaps singing.
Just Garden Warbler missing from the Middleton warbler-fest.
A vivid red male Bullfinch was a joy to behold even if its song was a bit pathetic!
SKY highlights aka “vis”:
Pink-footed Goose – 35
Tree Pipit – at least 2 heard by those with exceptional hearing
Lesser Redpoll – at least 5
Siskin – at least 2
Swallow – 53 (if we count the 40 seen by PJM from the North Wall)
House Martin – at least 2
Sand Martin – at least 1
Meadow Pipit – 2
Others may have different highlights.
Let’s see if tomorrow’s watchers manage to do better……You know the target to beat!Dan HaywoodParticipantMay 1, 2021 at 7:27 pmPost count: 420
A good summing up Jean! I think we can do better tomorrow. Went to delete my posting but don’t know how!
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Coal hard facts: A Charlotte company teams up to clean up Duke Energy’s plants
By Sam Boykin At its genesis in 1987, the Shaw Group was a fabricator of pipe, a basic-industry company whose connection to the electric-power industry was simple: Flip a switch, and the machinery starts. Today, the Shaw Power Group, based in Charlotte, a division of the Shaw Group, is part of a consortium putting the finishing touches on a six-year, $1.8 billion project of making Duke Energy’s power plants compliant with a strict state environmental law. The Shaw Group first expanded into the energy industry in 2000, when it acquired a Boston engineering firm and launched Shaw Power Group. The company recognized the growing opportunities in the energy field, including in Charlotte, headquarters city of Duke Energy. The power company was facing stiff new regulations: The North Carolina General Assembly in 2002 passed the Clean Smokestacks Act (CSA). The law required coal-fired power plants to cut by 73 percent their sulfur dioxide emissions—a main source of acid rain—by 2013. | <urn:uuid:ddabfe3c-a7b8-48af-95fb-753e5864a16d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://mecktimes.com/news/2010/04/05/coal-hard-facts-a-charlotte-company-teams-up-to-clean-up-duke-energy%E2%80%99s-plants/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00271-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930078 | 355 | 1.828125 | 2 |
The Social Network may not have painted the most flattering of pictures of him, but there's no denying that Mark Zuckerberg is a pivotal figure of modern times.
Undoubtedly a genius of sorts, he launched Facebook from his dormitory room at Harvard University when he was 20 and led the website through its growth from humble beginnings to the hugely influential behemoth that it is today. He remains chairman and CEO - and it's easy to forget that he is still only 30.
He's not quite on the same level as Albert Einstein (yet), but Anna Vital has created this excellent infographic for Funders and Founders, in a similar style to her previous effort for the Swiss scientist.
Read below and see the chain of events that led 'Zuck' to where he is today.
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Ecobank Ghana has dismissed rumours that it is in talks with indigenous banks to either merge or takeover their institution, as many are struggling to meet the Bank of Ghana’s new minimum capital requirement of GH¢400 million by the end of the year.
Opposed to popular view that local banks will not be able to raise the required funding to stay in business, the Pan-African bank is optimistic indigenous financial institutions can come up with the amount, hence the ruling out of M&A in its short- to medium-term planning.
“Looking at the local banking landscape and sponsors across the industry, we believe that local players will meet the minimum capital required by the Bank of Ghana (BoG). Mergers and acquisitions are therefore not being considered at the moment,†Daniel Sackey, Managing Director of Ecobank said while speaking to the media after the bank’s Annual General Meeting.
Mr. Sackey indicated that the bank is committed to growing the business organically in the medium- to long-term with the ultimate aim of ensuring financial inclusion throughout the continent.
The increase in the current minimum capital of GH₵120,000 by 233 percent to GH¢400 million, seeks to strengthen the banking sector, reduce the number of bankers, and build a resilient industry that is capable of supporting the country’s ambitious growth agenda.
Though most banks have submitted their recapitalisation plans to the central bank, the local banks with 100 percent local ownership – recently petitioned the Jubilee House to intervene and extend the deadline.
Bank of Ghana allowed the purchase and assumption of Capital and UT Banks, two local banks, by GCB Bank in August 2017.
Six months later, uniBank – another local bank – was placed under the administration of KPMG after Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Ernest Addison disclosed that uniBank has been declared insolvent.
The central bank had indicated that uniBank’s capital has not been close to the 400 million cedis minimum requirement expected of commercial banks by December 2018.
The central bank has recently appointed an advisor to guide Sovereign Bank, another local bank, onto a healthy footing due to governance and capitalisation challenges.
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Best dog chews are essential for your pet. It permits them to discover the world around them, train their jaws, and even clear their tooth. Most of all, it engages them mentally and alleviates boredom.
Most individuals know that the dog fonds chewing. Naturally, chewing is a pure habit for all dogs. This article is all about why and how to pick the best dog chews.
Why Best Dog Chews
Nonetheless, when the dog lacks the right objects to chews, it will probably result in harmful chewing and different habits issues.
Offering a load of dog chews toys is one technique to permit your canine to meet its pure want to gnaw on issues.
Supplying your dog with tasty, edible chews is one other technique to fulfill your canines have to chew whereas providing a tasty deal with.
With so many sorts of chews in the marketplace, it may be arduous to resolve that are the most secure and healthiest chews in your canine. Whereas no dog chews are without danger, some are more healthy than others.
At all times supervise your dog whereas feeding chews to make sure they don’t ingest massive items, which might trigger gastrointestinal obstruction, or injure themselves since some chews can result in the damaged teeth or oral accidents.
Dog Chews to Avoid
Whereas no dog chews are 100 % protected, some are particularly harmful.
Indigestible chews like arduous plastic or nylon chew: As a rule, any chew that’s indigestible has an excessive likelihood of inflicting a gastrointestinal blockage or indigestion on the very least.
Onerous plastic or nylon dog chews are sometimes too arduous and may injury teeth. As well as, they develop tough edges when chewed that may trigger harm. These toys aren’t digestible and trigger GI obstruction or injury if eaten.
Chews which can be too arduous
For those who suppose the chew is simply too arduous in your canine to chew off a piece and swallow it, then it’s in all probability too arduous in your canine to chew on.
Very arduous chews may cause tooth fractures or oral accidents. As a rule of thumb, any chew that might harm in the event you banged it in your knee is simply too arduous in your canine.
Animal hooves, antlers, and bones
Onerous animal elements and significantly cooked bones pose probably the most important danger to your canine’s tooth and GI tract as a result of they’re very arduous and indigestible.
In case your canine would not break a tooth first, he may handle to snap off a chunk and ingest it. Some animal horns (like buffalo or goat horns) soften and fray a short time dog is chewing them.
These will be much less harmful to the tooth and could also be extra simply tolerated by the GI tract. Nonetheless, they need to be used with excessive warnings.
This can be a considerably controversial chew. Although many canines will do fantastic with rawhide, it is necessary to know that giant item of rawhide aren’t simply digested and may trigger GI blockage or irritation.
Moreover, rawhide is commonly handled with probably dangerous chemical substances. There are a couple of exceptions, although.
Some sorts of rawhide are specifically designed by vets with security and digestibility in thoughts. Ask your vet for extra details about protected rawhide chews that may assist maintain tooth clearness.
Digestible dog Chews
There are lots of chews in the marketplace at present that may be thought-about safer for canine as a result of they’re digestible and never too arduous for teeth.
It is very important do not to forget that even massive chunks from digestible chews can nonetheless trigger GI upset or blockage.
At all times supervise your canine after giving it chews. If the canine appears to be swallowing massive chunks, take the chew away.
Moreover, if the dog develops vomiting, diarrhea, or different indicators of sickness, see your vet instantly.
Clearly, the optimistic factor about digestible chews is their elevated security. Nonetheless, the downside is that they do not final very lengthy and are usually dearer than bones and hooves.
To economize, attempt balancing between chew toys and edible chews. Aggressive chewers would possibly do effectively with one thing like a food-filled Kong Extremely, bully sticks, beef tracheas, or flavored dental chews.
Bully sticks: These are probably the most widespread dog chews at present. Product of beef pizzle (sure, meaning penis), they’re dense, flavorful, and are available in numerous sizes.
Bully sticks are among the many most lasting of the safer chews, and canine love the style and texture. For aggressive chewers, braided bully sticks are inclined to last more.
The unfavorable factor about bully sticks is that they could be a bit expensive and so they stink fairly badly.
As well as, some specialists fear their security from contamination with microorganisms. Hunt down bully sticks from respected sources. And, attempt low odor bully sticks to save lots of your nostrils.
Generally known as “windies” or “moo tubes,” beef tracheas are primarily made up of cartilage and include glucosamine and chondroitin, which profit the joints.
Beef tracheas final virtually so long as bully sticks, but it surely actually is determined by the canine.
They will also be extra expensive than bully sticks although they don’t are inclined to stink fairly as badly.
Different animal elements
These could also be good or dangerous relying on the supply. When doubtful, ask your vet concerning the security of a chew.
As a common rule, safer animal half chews embody aortas, tendon, gullet, and tripe.
Ears are extra controversial as they’re nearer to rawhide so far as digestibility goes (plus, pig ears particularly are inclined to include numerous fats).
Some animal horns will soften when chewed and fray into small items that are digestible, however, these must be used with warning.
Flavored dental chews
Greenies or N-Bones are fabricated from digestible elements like wheat gluten, corn starch, and meat or poultry meal.
Thoughtfully edible, these elements aren’t ultimate for canine on a strict grain-free weight loss program resulting from allergic reactions or proprietor choice.
These chews additionally are inclined to go very quick, particularly round aggressive chewers.
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How to pick the best dog chews?
Do not forget that there isn’t anyone chew that’s proper for each canine. For obese canine or these with delicate stomachs, it might be greatest to stay with non-edible chew toys.
For wholesome however selective canine, you would possibly have to attempt a couple of various kinds of chews earlier than you uncover what works greatest in your canine.
The overall wholesome and non-discerning canine will in all probability take pleasure in a bit of little bit of the whole lot.
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The identity of a former Las Vegas showgirl is at the center of an Elvis Presley-related mystery.
The Chicago Tribune on Tuesday published an article about the iconic "Million Dollar Quartet" photograph of the jam session in 1956. Gathered around a piano at the Sun Studios in Memphis, Tenn., were legendary singers Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Elvis, Johnny Cash and a young woman.
Over the years, the woman was cropped out of the photo. Historians believe her name is Marilyn Evans, then a 19-year-old former showgirl at the New Frontier Hotel and Casino. Elvis had made his Las Vegas debut, which was considered a flop, at the hotel in April 1956, a little more than four months before his groundbreaking appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show.
The mystery has flared up again because the play, "Million Dollar Quartet," recently opened in the Apollo Theatre in Chicago.
It is based on the quartet's jam session captured for posterity when Sun Studios founder Sam Phillips flipped on his recorder.
One of the play's co-writers, Colin Escott, told the Tribune the mystery woman is "one of the few Elvis girlfriends to completely vanish into the ozone."
The woman may have dated Elvis only for a few weeks, according to Peter Guralnick, who authored a two-volume Elvis biography. She never appeared in any article, fanzine or made-for-TV movie, added Guralnick.
A female voice can be heard suggesting a song title to the singers. Her photograph can be seen here: www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ chi-102908-elvis-mystery-story,0,2687347.story.
Her name is "Dyanne" in the play, for legal reasons. A fictitious name prevents the producers from being sued if the woman is alive.
"The name just doesn't ring a bell," Betty Bunch, a former dancer at the Sahara, told the Tribune.
If you can cast any light on the mystery, call or e-mail me.
CRAZY FOR LEE LIBERACE
Jay Mohr is no closet Liberace fan. He's an out-and-out unabashed fan of the fur-draped, bejeweled Las Vegas icon whose rhinestone-covered piano went to the Smithsonian museum.
Mohr recently told talk-show host Jay Leno that he went on a shopping spree at the Liberace Museum over a year ago.
His purchases included 14 Liberace mugs, a calendar, a Liberace snow globe, a backpack and the cookbook "Joy of Liberace -- Retro Recipes from America's Kitschiest Kitchen!"
When Mohr returned recently to perform at the Orleans, R. Darin Hollingsworth, president of the Liberace Foundation for the Performing & Creative Arts, was invited backstage to make a presentation to Mohr and his wife, Nikki Cox, formerly of NBC's "Las Vegas."
Hollingsworth's gifts included "Liberace: Your Personal Fashion Consultant" by Michael & Karan Feder, a Liberace "Hot Pants" beach towel and a gift certificate for the museum's Liberace sneakers that features piano keys.
"They squealed when they saw all of it," Hollingsworth said.
THE SCENE AND HEARD
Former Lt. Gov. Lonnie Hammargren hosts his 13th annual Nevada Day open house from 1-5 p.m. Sunday. He's highlighting his Howard Hughes and Bugsy Siegel exhibits. Admission is a $5 donation to the Living Grace Home. ...
Venetian headliner Wayne Brady has a CD signing for his debut album from 1-3 p.m. Saturday at ZIA Records, 4503 W. Sahara Ave. He'll sing two songs from the album, titled "A Long Time Coming."
Hugh Hefner's ex, Holly Madison, trying life in the fast lane on Tuesday when she tested her racing skills at Pole Position Raceway. She was with Maxim magazine model/former Playboy Club Bunny Jessica Burciaga and a photographer. Madison is in town to co-host Tuesday's Trick-em and Treat-em Halloween bash at the Palms with Bridget Marquardt, her sidekick on "Girls Next Door." Burciaga is scheduled to be Playboy's Miss February.
THE PUNCH LINE
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There are various bacteria that only attack the internal organs of your body and they are also known to be the most harmful ones. With bacterial infections, there is always a scope of spreading to other parts of the body or even damaging a particular part to a dangerous level. Internal organs that are most susceptible to bacterial infections include, stomach, kidney, lungs and skin. There are innumerable causes of bacterial infections and therefore you have to extra careful if you are extra sensitive to such things.
Causes of Bacterial Infections
Contaminated water or food – Consuming contaminated water is one of the most common causes of bacterial infections. It is certainly the easiest way for bacteria to reach your body and deteriorate your health. One should only consume filtered or boiled water to stay away from bacterial infections.
Staying close to an infected person – When you come in close contact with an already infected person, you are almost inviting bacteria to invade your body as well. It is advisable to stay away from infected people to avoid being infected yourself.
Using contaminated items – Using or reusing contaminated items may get you infected. For example, one should refrain himself from using a soap, towel or even a handkerchief used by an infected person. Everything touched by an infected person has the potential of spreading bacteria from one person to another.
Consume Generic Levaquin to curb the effect of Bacterial Infections
Obviously, Levaquin is an antibacterial medicine that specifically targets the infections affecting the internal organs of the body. This drug is mostly prescribed for bacterial infections in lungs, kidney, prostate or even skin but many doctors also recommend it for dealing with chronic bronchitis and pneumonia. The drug is also a potential weapon against a mass bio-terrorism attack. The drug by no means is free from side effects and therefore it is not supposed to be sold loose or without proper prescription.
Generic Levaquin comes in both tablet and liquid forms and multiple dosage strengths. The form and strength of the drug is to be recommended by the doctor and patients are advised to consume the drug exactly how it is prescribed. One can buy the drug from any nearby store or if you wish you can also order it online from any reputed internet pharmacy.
Bacterial infections can be easily eradicated with the regular use of antibacterial drug like generic Levaquin. Many doctors prefer recommending generic Levaquin to their patients since it has been quite effective all around the world.
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Tips for clipping dog nails
Nail trimming is an important part of a dog's basic grooming needs, and for many dog owners, trimming their dog's nails is always annoying, and many dogs don't like trimming. Dog nails grow just like human nails. Some dogs wear their nails naturally when they walk on pavement, gravel, or concrete.
Nail trimmer: This is a manicure trimmer with an inner blade and a hole. When the handle is squeezed, the blade lifts up to trim the nails, kind of like an upside-down guillotine. Many new dog owners find this type of trimmer very easy to use.
Most importantly: know how to hold the trimmer the right way so it can work properly. The owner should put his hands under the dog's feet, the screws on the trimmer should be facing the dog, and then align the nails in the correct position in the hole for cutting. Pincer manicurists have replaceable blades when they become dull, and shears are best for small to medium sized nails.
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For a first movie by a director who would later be hailed as a cinema genius and visionary, it has achieved a near-legendary status. Yet very few people have actually seen Stanley Kubrick's feature film debut, Fear and Desire (1953), because the young director, after heavily promoting it at the time of its release, later revisited the effort and found it "an embarrassing apprentice work" and withdrew it from circulation where it remained unseen for decades.
Kubrick almost succeeded in preventing any public viewings of his fledgling effort during his own lifetime (1928-1999) but in 1991, a print of Fear and Desire was screened at the Telluride Film Festival and then in 1994, it was shown on a double bill with Kubrick's Killer's Kiss (1955) at New York City's Film Forum. The director was highly displeased with these developments and even pressured his longtime distributor Warner Bros. to issue a press release in his words, stating that Fear and Desire was "written by a failed poet, crewed by a few friends, and a completely inept oddity, boring and pretentious." Could the film be as bad as Kubrick claimed? Obviously not, according to some of those fortunate enough to have seen it, and now viewers of TCM will get an opportunity to judge for themselves when the network airs Fear and Desire, courtesy of The George Eastman House Film Archive.
Kubrick, a former photographer for Look magazine, had been wanting to become a film director ever since he left the high profile magazine and had already dabbled in moviemaking, having poured his own savings into the documentary Day of the Fight (1951), based on his own pictorial essay in Look entitled "Prizefighter." He sold it to RKO and was commissioned by the studio to direct a second documentary, Flying Padre (1951), and later created a thirty minute promotional film, The Seafarers (1953), for the Seafarers' International Union.
Kubrick had already been laying the groundwork for his feature film debut as early as January of 1951 when he approached Richard de Rochemont, brother of Louis de Rochemont of the famous "March of Time" newsreel series, to produce it. Although de Rochemont passed on the offer, he was sufficiently impressed enough with the young Kubrick's determination that he later recommended him as an assistant to actor/director Norman Lloyd, who was assigned to direct a five-part series on Abraham Lincoln (written by James Agree) for the Omnibus TV series. In the interim, however, Kubrick managed to make his feature film after obtaining the financing from his uncle Martin Perveler, the wealthy owner of a drug store chain and other businesses in Los Angeles. Perveler's initial offer was a contract that agreed to Kubrick's request in exchange for a set percentage of the profits from every film Kubrick would make henceforth. The young director rejected that offer but was rewarded in the end with a one-picture deal with his relative, who received an associate producer credit.
The screenplay for Kubrick's debut film was entitled "The Trap," and later changed to "Shape of Fear" during the production process. Kubrick had coaxed his friend, the poet Howard Sackler, to pen the script and the storyline was inspired by the Korean War which had erupted in June of 1950. Heavily influenced by the work of Eugene O'Neill with allusions to William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Sackler's screenplay focuses on four soldiers who are trapped behind enemy lines in an unspecified war.
Kubrick's original plan was to shoot the movie in upper state New York using a rented 35mm Mitchell camera, a minimal cast and crew and add the dialogue and sound later in postproduction. As New York was teeming with plenty of talented, ambitious actors, the director had his pick of the lot, casting unknowns Kenneth Harp and Steve Coit as two of the soldiers and Paul Mazursky, who was spotted in an off-Broadway production of Leonid Andreyev's He Who Gets Slapped, won the part of the young private who has a mental breakdown. Virginia Leith, a photographer's model, was cast in a small role as a woman who is taken hostage, and Frank Silvera, a well-known Method actor who worked with the Actor's Studio and Harlem's American Negro Theatre, played Mac, the platoon sergeant.
Because of the unpredictable weather in upper state New York, Kubrick decided to shoot Fear and Desire (the official release title) in California instead after scouting and securing ideal locations in the San Gabriel Mountains. Mazursky, who was still a student at Brooklyn College, had to get permission from his dean to go on the four week shoot. In his autobiography, Show Me the Magic, Mazursky recounts the entire experience in delightful detail, noting that Kubrick, at one point, had to leave the production to secure additional financing from his uncle amid much shouting and persuasion. The base of operations for everyone was a deserted Boy Scout camp and completely isolated from any nearby towns or decent restaurants.
"Conditions were never easy," Mazursky recalled. "The crew consisted of four Mexicans who moved the equipment and did a little building; Steve Hahn, a friend of Stanleys who recorded the dialogue (no sync sound); Bob Dierkes, a former coworker with Kubrick at Look magazine who handled follow-focus on the Mitchell camera; Skippy Adelman, the still photographer; and Toba Kubrick [Stanley's wife at the time], who served as the script supervisor. There was no dolly track, just a baby carriage to move the camera. Stanley did all of the shooting. No matter what the problem, Kubrick always seemed to have an answer. To me there was never a question that Stanley was already master of his universe."
Despite the severe limitations, Kubrick was able to complete Fear and Desire within his allotted thirty day schedule though there were a few mishaps. "Too strapped for cash to rent a fog machine for Mac's drift down the misty river," wrote biographer John Baxter, Kubrick "discovered that Hollywood's devices burned a soluble oil called Nujol, and improvised one by loading an insecticide sprayer with mineral oil and water. The resulting miasma choked everyone, though the effect was impressively atmospheric."
Returning to New York City after the shooting, Kubrick plunged himself into the post-production process which ended up costing him much more than he had originally budgeted. With a film score composed by Gerald Fried and performed by 23 musicians plus the editing and dubbing expenses, the Fear and Desire costs soared to $53,000. During this process, Kubrick had to take on additional work, hence his involvement on the Abraham Lincoln TV series, to finance the film's completion with some additional funding from Richard de Rochemont.
Kubrick eventually was able to preview the completed film to select opinion influencers in the film world. Among these were James Agee, experimental filmmaker Curtis Harrington, and Mark van Doren, the former film critic for The Nation, who proclaimed Fear and Desire, "brilliant and unforgettable," and even wrote, "nothing like it has ever been seen in a film before, and it alone guaranteeds that the future of Stanley Kubrick is worth watching for those who want to discover high talent at the moment it appears." The latter was an acquaintance of Kubrick (the young director had attended his film classes at Columbia) so perhaps he was being overly generous. However, there were reports that some audience members laughed at Paul Mazursky's overwrought performance and that Sight and Sound editor Gavin Lambert remarked after a screening, "I think it's incredibly awful...and I think he's incredibly talented."
When Fear and Desire had its official New York premiere though, most of the major media reviewers from Time, Newsweek, The New Yorker and others were positive with Variety calling the film, "a literate, unhackneyed war drama, outstanding for its fresh camera treatment and poetic dialogue." Despite the critical acclaim, Fear and Desire generated little interest at the boxoffice beyond the small art house circuit and quickly faded from public view as Kubrick moved on to his next project, Killer's Kiss. According to some sources, Kubrick was said to have personally destroyed the negative to Fear and Desire in 1953 to insure that no further prints would be made. That didn't prevent a few prints, however, from finding their way into various film archives. Kubrick's final words on the entire Fear and Desire experience were simply, "Pain is a good teacher," though viewers seeing his film for the first time will most likely be more forgiving and see an audacious and visually sophisticated debut feature which is much more accomplished than the first efforts of most directors.
Producer: Stanley Kubrick, Martin Perveler
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Screenplay: Howard Sackler
Cinematography: Stanley Kubrick
Editing: Stanley Kubrick
Art Direction: Herbert Lebowitz
Music: Gerald Fried
Cast: Frank Silvera (Sgt. Mac), Paul Mazursky (Pvt. Sidney), Kenneth Harp (Lt. Corby), Stephen Coit (Pvt. Fletcher), Virginia Leigh (young girl).
by Jeff Stafford
Stanley Kubrick: A Biography by John Baxter (Carroll & Graf Publishing)Stanley Kubrick: A Biography by Vincent LoBrutto (Donald I. Fine books)
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What always struck me as interesting was that the girl in the photo appeared to be Latina (no surprise, isn't it Latinos that have so many babies?). When I would discuss the billboard with my students, I used to tell them that I believed "white" girls who got pregnant were more likely to get abortions, so no one really knew how many teenage white girls got pregnant (my guess it that there are lots and lots).
Latina and African American girls have more babies while unmarried because abortion is not as prevalent in communities of color.
But you can rest assured that kids of all ethnic groups and races have sex - and many young girls get pregnant - regardless of their background.
Considering this, what would you say about a 17 year old Mexican immigrant who gets pregnant and isn't married? Or a 17 year old African American girl who lives in a poor section of the inner city? Would they get as much sympathy as Bristol Palin?
What if Bristol Were Black?
September 2, 2008
by Cenk Uygur
Christian-right leaders and conservative stalwarts have praised the decision of Bristol Palin, the daughter of Governor Sarah Palin, to carry her child to term. She is 17 and conceived this child out of wedlock. Now imagine she wasn't the daughter of a prominent Republican politician but an average person. Now imagine she was black.
What do you think conservatives would have to say about her? "Typical, urban youth with no sense of responsibility raised with loose morals who plans to depend on the state to take care of her child." You know it. It's not within dispute. That's exactly what they would say.
Barack Obama has told everyone to lay off this because it is a personal, family matter. Yes, but it also has public policy ramifications. Governor Palin is for abstinence only education. Well, that obviously didn't work.
Has she learned her lesson? Will she now amend her policy position on this matter given her personal record of failure in implementing this ridiculous stance?
Notice I am not blaming Bristol. Quite the opposite. People like me are the ones that defend the Bristols of the world. It is conservatives like James Dobson, Rush Limbaugh and yes, Governor Palin who usually attack people who find themselves in Bristol's situation. They demand a dogmatic adherence to moral strictures and chastise and belittle women who have children out of wedlock. Especially if they are women of color.
Which brings us back to Obama. Do you think the Republicans would lay off of Obama if his 17 year-old daughter had gotten pregnant out of wedlock? You know the answer to that question. Everyone does.
"This is what the permissive liberal attitude gets you. If you allow your children to think everything is acceptable, they have no boundaries. They wind up getting themselves in trouble like this. It's a predictable result of the liberal lifestyle."
And that's before the subtle and not so subtle racial implications are brought into this. There is a constant double-standard of how black and white people and politicians are covered in this country. When a young black girl gets pregnant, she's looking to get money from welfare. When a young white woman gets pregnant, she made an unfortunate mistake and her family is being supportive in trying to help the make the best of it.
Cindy McCain was addicted to drugs and stole from her own charity to feed her addiction. Now what do you think the Republicans would have done if Michelle Obama had done that? How do you think the press would have covered it? You think they would have called it a simple mistake and moved on?
When presented with these examples, no matter who you are, you know in your heart that this double standard exists. All of this is not said to condemn Bristol Palin or Cindy McCain. This is to get you to think twice about your own assumptions about the next time you hear a story of a young African-American woman who got pregnant in the inner city or a minority who got addicted to drugs and committed a crime to feed that addiction.
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To obtain quality experimental data, one must have access to quality test specimens. Toward that end, we’ll discuss the merits of two types of fabrication aids that are commonly used to produce neat resin specimens (that is, unreinforced polymer-matrix specimens): resin casting molds and routing jigs.
Casting molds are commonly used to prepare neat thermoset resin specimens for testing. Mold construction differs for flat and irregularly shaped specimens, and there is more than one option for each type.
For flat specimens, a common option is a multiple-cavity mold, such as those shown in Fig. 1, that is, a flat plate with the desired contours of the finished specimens machined into one surface. Aluminum is typically used to make the mold because of its high thermal conductivity and the relative ease with which it can be machined. Specimen thickness is governed by the depth of the machined contours, or, if it is a deep-cavity mold, by the extent of filling. Because the mold is open-faced, air bubbles that are trapped during mixing or generated by volatiles that evolve during vacuum degassing of the fluid resin have a short path to the free surface and, thus, are readily removed. Self-leveling of the fluid results in reasonably uniform specimen thicknesses. The result is a specimen ready for testing.
Another strategy is to cast a large, flat plate of the neat resin in an open mold and then machine individual specimens from it (machining is discussed later). It is particularly important in this case to have an effective release agent on the mold surfaces so that the cast resin plate does not stick, even locally, and thus result in cracking of the plate during cooldown from the resin cure temperature. Also, the machining operation adds significant additional cost to specimen preparation.
A third strategy — an alternative to open molding — is to cast a large, flat plate between two vertical surfaces that are spaced a fixed distance apart and sealed around three sides, leaving only the top edge open. It is convenient to use two sheets of glass as the basis for this mold because the cast material can be continually observed, if desired. Casting the specimen between two surfaces theoretically ensures constant plate thickness and smooth, flat surfaces. However, trapped volatiles (retained because of the long migration path some bubbles must travel to reach the mold’s open top edge) could cause voids, and nonuniform rates of resin shrinkage during cure could cause the plate to pull away from the mold surface in local regions, creating surface irregularities and stress concentrations in the casting. Also, adhesion to the two surfaces of the mold during cooldown from the casting temperature, even if slight, can cause the resin plate to crack (because the cured neat resin is not very strong).
For other than flat specimens — for example, dog-boned specimens of circular cross section — thick bars or plates can be cast in an open mold and subsequently machined to the desired circular cross-sectional shape. However, an alternative is to cast a cylinder of silicon rubber around a pattern of the desired specimen configuration (or use an existing specimen itself as the pattern) and then slice open the silicon rubber mold longitudinally to remove the pattern. Neat resin specimens then can be cast in this rubber mold and easily popped out when the mold is flexed open longitudinally after resin cure. Resin adhesion to the compliant mold surface during cure is not much of a concern, but air bubble entrapment can be a problem because the migration path to the open top of the mold can be lengthy. It is important to have the resin thoroughly degassed prior to pouring it into the mold.
When flat specimens are machined from a flat plate, often a router is used, not only for thermoset and thermoplastic neat resin specimens but fiber-reinforced composite specimens as well. A strip of the specimen material wider than the finished specimen is clamped in a jig that is contoured to the desired shape. The router’s cutting tool (the router bit) follows this contour as the jig is manually moved back and forth while in contact with it, shaping the specimen.
Several types of routing jigs are used. In one type, shown in Fig. 2, the specimen is contoured in two steps: The tee pins are first removed and a sufficiently wide strip of specimen material is pushed against the back of the jig. Then a clamping plate is pressed against the strip by tightening the screws. After the exposed edge of the strip is routed to the desired contour, the clamping plate is released and the specimen is removed. The tee pins are then reinserted, and the just-routed edge of the strip is indexed against them. The clamping plate is again tightened down, and the opposite edge is routed to complete the contour machining.
A simpler routing jig, shown on the left in Fig. 3, shapes specimen contours in a single step. Here, the strip of specimen material is clamped between two contoured plates, which permits both edges to be routed before the completed specimen is removed. This simple jig is thus faster to use than those in Fig. 2. However, one limitation is that the clamping screws are located beyond the ends of the specimen. Thus, for very long specimens it is more difficult to clamp the strip uniformly along its length. If the specimen has a relatively narrow gauge width and/or is relatively thin, it may slip and/or deflect due to the pressure of the router bit against it. As a result, the machined shape could be inaccurate. Fortunately, this isn’t a problem for most specimen configurations.
The routing jig at the right in Fig. 3 is used to machine specimen ends, when required. This type of jig is used primarily for preparing end-loaded compression specimens for which the specimen end surfaces must be very flat and parallel to each other. The specimen, after contour routing using one of the jigs previously mentioned, is then inserted in the end-routing jig, indexed against the back, and held in place by tightening the clamping plate using the two outside screws. The spring-loaded center screw passes through the top of the jig and is threaded into the clamping plate (the compressed spring around its shaft pushes against the screw head to raise the clamping plate up out of the way when the clamping screws are loosened).
Routing jigs are frequently exposed to water-based coolants during the routing operations, so stainless steel is commonly used to fabricate them to prevent rust and corrosion. Also, they don’t come in one-size-fits-all configurations. Because there are many different router machine configurations, each having a different diameter and location for the router bit and follower, routing jigs must be designed for the particular router machine to be used. | <urn:uuid:dac4cabe-00e4-418c-ab79-df76514444de> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.compositesworld.com/articles/neat-resin-specimen-fabrication-aids | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285315.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00576-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94346 | 1,422 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Alleged causes of the Great Patriotic Fatherland War of Liberation
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The Great Patriotic Fatherland War of Liberation had lots of causes.
...fine. Here are some of them, since you have to know now, this very second:
edit Hitler was impotent
Adolf Hitler was actually impotent. He got impotent while serving in the German Army during the First World War by a sniper shot to his groin. Once he got into power, he searched desperately for a cure. He found it..Viagra! However, the inventors refused to sell it to him in America. So... he decided to launch an attack on the civilized world to gain control of it. As the war started, he manged to get his' hands on some viagra. The inventors quickly realised what he was up to and told the American Government. This gave rise to the popular army song "Hitler has only one ball".
Grigoriiyiy(?)ii Rasputin was, at the dawn of the 20th century, both the host of medieval Russia's favorite game show, The Pole (which involved a group of quasi-recognizable B-list celebrities and climatologists stranded on a deserted isthmus, all of them trying to guess who among them was from Poland), and the lover of Tsarina Alexandra the Slightly Do-able. These two advantages made him the de reallyo ruler of Russia, much to the annoyance of both the newly emerging android middle class, and the aristocracy. To counter the intrigues of the nobles, Rasputin granted Russia's Surfers their freedom on his game show; however, this plan backfired when jubilant Surfers descended on the ports of Murmansk and Arkhangelsk and died by the thousands of hypothermia in the Great Freezing Off of Balls of 1912. Rasputin, realizing that the game was up, attempted to flee the country disguised as a woman, but due to an acute attack of mushrooms acting began to menstruate and was stopped by two male soldiers who just didn't understand what real pain was. He was arrested and tried non absentia, that is, while he was in the courtroom, for treason, conspiracy, and crimes against the law. Rasputin gave a passionate defense of his actions, declaring, "If inciting servile insurrection and attempting to abolish the very monarchy to which this court owes its considerable prosperity is a crime, then let me be guilty." A feeble attempt to break up the ensuing awkward silence with a slow clap failed miserably, and Rasputin was given nine death sentences, to be carried out immediately and consecutively. He was then shot, stabbed, poisoned, beaten with a club, melted with acid, stabbed again, crushed by a falling manatee, forced to memorize every page of Wikipedia, and hit with an atom bomb. Amazingly, he managed to survive all nine executions, and was pardoned and released, only to be run over on his way home by a speeding Segway and paralyzed from the neck up. On his deathbed in 1993, Rasputin summoned up what remained of his once formidable powers of prophecy and hindsaw that a terrible conflict would engulf the Russian people fifty years earlier. Historians still debate whether this was even prophecy at all, or just a lucky guess.
edit Despot Chic
During the 1930s it was all the rage, all anyone could talk about: Despot Chic was taking the world by storm. Often literally. In the Divided States, five-time Olympic pentathlete and godless Communist FDR Roosevelt defeated his presidential opponent, world-famous paedophile and Capricorn Hoobert Heever, in a foot race across the White House lawn and thus, in accordance with the provisions of the 77th Amendment, was immediately sworn in as President of the DSA. Heever was really bummed by this and fell victim to the Great Depression. During Roosevelt's first press conference, while doing one-handed push-ups, he announced the establishment of the Same Old Deal as Before, a massive government program that aimed at keeping things the same as they always were, that would cost over half a quadrillion dollars and the lives of every man, woman, and child in the state of Idaho. Americans shrugged their shoulders, rolled over and went back to sleep.
Meanwhile, the DSA's grogginess had its effect felt in Europe. When President Roosevelt decided that from now on the Divided States Army would have to "work Wednesdays for free," entire divisions walked off the job, and America's occupation of conquered Europe came to a messy end. The forces of a new vision began to mobilize: like, totalitarianismally movements sprang up across the continent, in Belgium, Bismoslavia, Narnia...and Germany.
Germany, the Land of the Two Rivers and the veritable "Birthplace of Democracy," was tottering under their post-war leadership. In a weird fit of nostalgia for days past, the Germans had elected a World War One Zeppelin as their Chancellor. The Zeppelin was quick to appoint old college buddies to every ministerial post and soon the national economy was in chaos. As confidence in the inexplicably anthropomorphic airship dwindled, a new faction came on the scene: the Socialist Nationalist German Workers' Nation of Social Nationality Working Party, or Nazis. The SNDWNSNWP was ruled absolutely by Adolf "Addie Two-times" Hitler, a former World War I soldier and Roller Disco phenom turned politician. After arranging for the brakelines of Kaiser Wilhelm's Honda Civic to be cut, sending both him and his mustache pinwheeling to a fiery death, Hitler, a shrewd strategist, saw that there was now a mustache vacuum in German politics and seized his chance. He ran for Chancellor in the 1776 elections against the Zeppelin and, despite a few sore losers accusing the Nazis of electoral fraud, won an astonishing seven hundred and twenty three percent of the vote and was promoted directly to Crown Prince, skipping Chancelloring entirely. The German Democratic Nazi Republic was born.
Italy, too, soon fell victim to Despot Chic. At the 1915 Extreme Olympics held in Latveria, international shark tossing sensation Benito "Benny the Stoat" Mussolini announced he would be a candidate in last month's elections for Dictator. When one cad was indecent enough to point out that last month's elections were...well...um, see, when we say "last month"...do you see where I'm going with this?, Mussolini initiated a bloodbath and declared that a return to traditional American values was necessary. Together with his friend Todd from sophomore trig, he proclaimed the New Roman Imperial Empire would march on Rome and reign for one thousand days, minimum.
In Russia, meanwhile, a new kind of despotism was taking hold: the glorious Despotism of the Proletariat, an end to old crimes against the masses and the start of some brand new ones. Tsar Mikhael Bolotinov, as it was spelled in Old High Cyrillic, was more hated than ever, and his newest album didn't even break into the Billboard Top 100. Revolutionary slogans like The Revolution Will NOT Be Telegraphed, This Is Not Your Father's Police State, and I Am Jack's Smirking Class Consciousness began to be scrawled in graffiti across Russia, even on the walls of the Tsar's ancestral fortress, the Gremlin, which you can tell used to be a Pizza Hut from the weird roof. In what was really a desperate cry for help, the Tsar attempted to take his own life, but failed. Meaning, of course, that he failed at attempting, and actually died. Yes, you are right. I suppose there were lots of better ways to write that sentence, and all I can say is I'm sorry. You deserve better. Anywho, with the old Tsar dead, revolutionary leader Vlady "Kingfish" Lenin announced his Every Man a Tsar program, which involved crowning every single Russian citizen as a tsar. The mass coronation totally fucking bankrupted the nation about forty-five minutes in, and in a sweeping plebescite the people voted for an indefinite period of mob rule. In a sort of a "too little, too late," kind of a deal, Lenin attempted to calm the people with bread and hookers, even inviting popular teen idol Francisco de Goya and his new emo garage band Saturn Devours His Children, which the kids seem to love, to play at his coronation; but the people had had enough of lying politicians and turned to the man Time Magazine called "the gentlest and most trustworthy man in all the Russias," Joseph "NMI" Stalin. Stalin calmly ordered his guards to arrest Lenin, Goya and his stupid band, and everyone in Red Square, and drown them in molten lava. The world was horrified, calling it the most awful fucking thing they'd ever heard of. "Oh, that was nothing," said Stalin, who went on to found Scientology and have every dog in the Northern Hemisphere kicked at least once. Russia was no more; in its place arose the United Union of Amalgamated Soviet Tsars and Tsarinas, all rights reserved, patent pending and void where prohibited. (Sorry, Tennessee!)
Soon enough Hitler and Mussolini happened to meet in an online dating chatroom and an alliance was forged: the Pact of Aluminum. There were tentative talks to invite Prime Director Winston Churchill to join as well, but his insistence on saying "aluminium" enraged the two ordinarily jovial despots and there was no choice but to wage war unceasingly for a generation. But that would come later. There was another obstacle first: the Russians.
edit 1940 Russo-German Best Friends Forever Treaty
At one point the talks almost broke down at one point when, in a heated shouting match, the Russian and German delegations each began screaming that the other side was way, way too lenient with the Jews.
(more to precede and follow)
edit Energon crisis
In late 1940, time travellers from a parallel continuum arrived in Burkina Faso and quickly established control over the global energon cube supply. Their front group, the Organization in charge of Producing Energon Cubes, soon raised the price of energon to 718 trillion adjusted Deutschmarks ($22.13 American) per cubit. Predictably, this sent the newly recovered German economy soaring even higher, and the resultant lack of unemployment led directly to the Lower North Middleton Pie Riots which somehow devastated Denver. Their plan fulfilled, OPEC soon disbanded, altered the timeline to prevent themselves from ever having been born, and rejoined the Source.
Prince Hitler, in his heart a man of peace, reluctantly agreed with his advisors that it was all the fault of the Jews, and probably some homosexuals helped out too. Accordingly, Hitler wiped his ass with the 1940 Russo-German Treaty in a live pay-per-view Kristallnacht special, and since Stalin had lost his own copy of the treaty, because he's totally irresponsible, and would lose his head were it not attached, I mean seriously, he needs to get his shit together or I'll get it together for him, Europe was plunged into war again for the first time in over three hundred thousand years.
However, because of Daylight Saving Time, the actual killing part of the war did not begin for several months. This eerie period of warless war became known as the Scheisskrieg, or Shit War. Fucking nothing happened for, like, ever. It was ridiculous.
(more about Hitler later, but first, the whores!)
While Prince Hitler took advantage of the respite to finally teach his soldiers how to load their plasma rifles, Chairman Stalin squandered his time with rigged trials and mass shootings, going so far as to pick random villages by throwing darts at a map, and then ordering the execution of any villagers living there with the names "Ivan," "Boris," or "Juanita." This cycle of madness reached a crescendo with the "Generals, Who Needs 'Em" Trials of 1939, a series of purges of the United Union officer corps which allegedly started when someone stole (or Stalin lost, I mean I'm just saying, you know how he is) Stalin's favorite mustache trimmer. In the first week of trials alone, over 90,000 generals, colonels, and Alien Queens were fed to rabid Space Otters, in the name of defending the Revolution from fascists and Ayn Rand. The trial of Marshal of the United Union Krypto the Super-Dog was a national sensation, generating over 13 million rubles in ticket sales alone, not to mention T-shirts and other ancillaries. Stalin's prosecutors alleged that Krypto, perhaps the finest military mind the United Union had ever produced, was not from the planet Krypton at all, as he had claimed on his enlistment papers, but rather was born on a small planet somewhere in the Skrull Empire and wasn't even from the DC Universe! Krypto barked his innocence desperately, crushed a rawhide chewtoy into a diamond through extreme pressure to prove his Kryptonianity, and tried to find someone who would come foreword and vouch for his DC-ness. The only witnesses he managed to dredge up, though, were the Earth-2 Aquaman, who was so worthless as a character witness that he couldn't even agree "100 percent for sure" that Earth-2 even had an Aquaman, and former Bush Attorney Major-General Johnny "Snapper" Ashcroft. Ashcroft arrogantly warned the court, "To those who scare peace-loving extraterrestrial canines with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid Kanye West." Kanye West, crushingly, retorted that "George Bush doesn't care about Krypton," and the verdict for Krypto came back: not guilty on all counts. In the Russian legal system, of course, this meant an automatic death sentence, as it was the highest treason to make the State look stupid. Marshal Krypto, mustering as much dignity as he could, surrendered his cape and collar, calmly swallowed a pellet of enriched Kryptonite-235 which the executioner had hidden inside a piece of bread, and died howling and flailing around and setting houses on fire with his heat vision, choking on his own blood and bile, a patriot to the end. The end result of the Trials were the near-complete destruction of the United Union military command, a fact not lost on Crown Prince Hitler. He knew it was now or in a little while, and chose to strike the iron while he was hot.
The sad irony is that the Trials weren't even all that important to Stalin, but a side effect of his true goal. He'd allegedly ordered the mass killings to "improve morale," but in actuality because he feared the birth of the so-called Golden Child, whom Rasputin would one day prophesy would overthrow him, Stalin I mean, not Rasputin, and begin the Sixty Month Plan that would abolish communism and see Coldplay worshipped as living gods. Stalin, a strict constitutional constructionist, could not bear to see this happen and began to obsessively seek out "a male-child not of woman born, with eyes of newt and webbed feet," as according to the prophesy this creature of legend sometimes hung out with the Golden Child's brother Darnell. Safely hidden behind the walls of the Gremlin, obsessively building sofa cushion fortresses for his Transformers, he was unable to hear the freight train of history bearing down on him like a...well. Like a freight train, I guess. Anyway, then the war happened.
That's it. End of the page. Now, for the last fucking time, get your ass out there and mow that lawn.
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On July 14, 2022, Mountainside Medical Center partnered up with Montclair EMS to simulate a “code stroke,” or the process for patients coming to the hospital experiencing a stroke. Simulations are tools used to replicate real life scenarios in order to educate, evaluate, and improve workflow.
A simulation manikin, also known as “the patient,” was utilized. The high-tech manikin, with voice capabilities, allows for EMS and hospital staff to treat the situation as they would in real-life by taking a patient assessment, including blood pressure and blood draws.
In this scenario, a 74-year-old male exhibiting signs of stroke was brought to the Mountainside Emergency Department by EMS. The patient’s symptoms included weakness of his right arm and leg, a facial droop on the right side, and slurred speech. A doctor and nurse assessed the patient and asked EMS personnel when symptoms started. Onset of symptoms is important to know because treatment is dependent on the length of time the patient has been experiencing symptoms. The sooner a person having a stroke seeks medical attention the better the treatment options and greater the likelihood of improved health status.
EMS reported that the patient’s signs and symptoms began one hour prior to arriving to the emergency department. They were immediately brought to the Radiology Department and a CT scan of the brain was performed. These tests help to determine if the patient has a brain bleed or a blood clot. The patient’s results showed that they had a clot. A clot busting agent, known as tPA, was immediately ordered. This medication can only be given up to 4.5 hours after symptoms start. The patient was also ordered to have a minimally invasive procedure known as a mechanical thrombectomy. This procedure helps remove a blood clot from the brain vessel via a catheter. The simulation ended once the patient was brought to the door of the interventional catheterization lab. Following the simulation, a debrief session was held where team members discussed positives and best practices, as well as areas of improvement to better care for stroke patients.
Mountainside Medical Center strives to provide the best stroke care for our patients and will continue to do these simulations to help us improve patient outcomes.
Thank you to our partners at Montclair EMS for collaborating with us and for providing the simulation manikin.
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THE INCIDENCE OF TRADE WARS: EVIDENCE FROM THE US SOLAR INDUSTRY
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Trade wars between countries in the renewable energy sector have proliferated in recent years, potentially hindering the growth of the industry. This dissertation investigates the welfare effect of anti-dumping policies initiated by the US government against Chinese manufacturers. It focuses on the US solar industry, which has grown more than thirtyfold over the past ten years. Chapter 1 describes the policy background leading to the trade war, together with institutional details of the industry. Furthermore, it proposes a two-country theoretical model to formalize how anti-dumping policies affect the market in equilibrium. Chapter 2 estimates a structural econometric model with a differentiated demand system and marginal cost for solar manufacturing that incorporates the vertical structure between upstream solar manufacturers and downstream solar installers. The estimation results suggest large markups among solar manufacturers and installers. Chapter 3 conducts policy simulations and shows the impact of trade war on the US solar market. In particular, it considers different changes in anti-dumping duty and subsidy rates, and evaluates the welfare effect among different market participants. The results show the anti-dumping policy has decreased producer surplus and consumer surplus by around $874 million (in 2015 US dollars) and has increased the greenhouse gas emissions by 5.98 million tons for the period 2010 - 2015. The installation capacity of US solar market would have increased by 36.4% if there had been no anti-dumping policies. Compared with the large decrease in profits for Chinese solar manufacturers, US manufacturers benefit only slightly from the US anti-dumping policy. Chapter 4 further investigates the welfare effects of trade policies on the population of consumers, by using a random coefficient discrete choice model which captures the heterogeneity in consumer tastes for differentiated products. It then explores the welfare change among different groups of consumers. The results show that consumers who are relatively less sensitive to solar panel price (i.e., consumers who reside in areas with higher median income, a lower percentage of households with children and a higher proportion of democratic supporters) would benefit the most if there had been no anti-dumping duties. Chapter 5 concludes and discusses the issue of trade protectionism occurred in other industries. | <urn:uuid:ad8223c2-c13c-4d3a-ae6d-a68cda43752c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/21201 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.928961 | 490 | 1.679688 | 2 |
During the 1950s, mentally disordered people who were harmful to society and
themselves could be treated with medications and were able to return safely to their
communities. During the 1980s, the cost of health care increased more than any other
cost in our national economy. As a result, strategic planning has been made to reduce
costs. "The political decision made to deinstitutionalize chronic mental patients started
with the appearance of phenothiazine medications. Dramatically reducing the instability
influenced by psychosis, these medications were of great significance to many
individuals with serious mental disorders. At both the state and federal levels,
legislators looked at the high cost of long-term psychiatric hospitalization. Social
scientists guaranteed them that community-based care would be in the best interests of
all concerned: the mentally ill and the general, tax-paying public (Barry 13)." It was
believed that a social breakdown syndrome would develop in chronically mentally ill
persons who were institutionalized.
The characteristics of this syndrome were
submission to authority, withdrawal, lack of initiative, and excessive dependence on the
While deinstitutionalization was kindhearted in its primary logic, the actual
execution of the concept has been greatly undermined by the lack of good community
alternatives. At this time a large amount of the individuals using community mental
health treatment services are the homeless. Nearly half of the homeless are chronically
mental ill. These individuals are often separated from their families and all alone on the
dangerous street. These homeless schizophrenics stay away from social structures
such as community health treatment centers. Since they start a new life of
independence they often stop taking their medications, become psychotic and out of
place, and begin to live on the street. Since the schizophrenics are deinstitutionalized
they are thrown into a whole new world of independence. Since their brain functions
different than the usual human being they can't cope with the problems of life. The
schizophrenics drive themselves crazy wanting to kill themselves and others in order to
escape from this perplexing world.
Schizophrenia is the most common psychoses in the United States affecting
around one percent of the United States population. It is characterized by a deep
withdrawal from interpersonal relationships and a retreat into a world of fantasy. This
plunge into fantasy results in a loss of contact from reality that can vary from mild to
severe. Psychosis has more than one acceptable definition. The psychoses are
different from other groups of psychiatric disorders in their degree of severity,
withdrawal, alteration in affect, impairment of intellect, and regression.
The severity of psychoses is considered major disorders and involves confusion
in all portions of a person's life. Psychosis is seen in a wide range of organic disorders
and schizophrenia. These disorders are severe, intense, and disruptive. A person with
a psychotic disorder suffers greatly, as do those in his or her immediate environment.
Individuals suffering from withdrawal are said to be autistic. That is, the person
withdraws from reality into a private world of his or her own. The psychotic individual is
more withdrawn than a person with a neurotic disorder or any other mental disorder.
The affect, mood, or emotional tone in a person with a psychotic disorder is immensely
different from that of normal affect. In the mood disorders, one observes the
exaggeration of sadness and cheerfulness in the form of depression and mania. In the
schizophrenic disorders, affect may be exaggerated, flat, or inappropriate.
In psychotic disorders, the intellect is involved in the actual psychotic process,
resulting in derangement of language, thought, and judgment. Schizophrenia is called
a formal thought disorder. Thinking and understanding of reality are usually severely
impaired. The most severe and prolonged regressions are seen in the psychoses,
regression. There is a falling back to earlier behavioral levels. In schizophrenia this
may include returning to primitive forms of behavior, such as curling up into a fetal
position, eating with one's hands, and so forth. The symptoms of schizophrenia usually
occur during adolescence or early adulthood, except for paranoid schizophrenia, which
usually has a later onset. The process of schizophrenia is often slow, with the
exception of catatonia, which may have an abrupt onset. As an adolescent, a person
who later develops schizophrenia is often antisocial with others, lonely, and depressed.
Plans for the future may appear to others as vague or unrealistic.
It is possible that there may be a pre-schizophrenic phase a year or two before
the disorder is diagnosed. This phase may include neurotic symptoms such as acute or
chronic anxiety, phobias, obsessions, and compulsions or may reveal dissociative
features. As anxiety mounts, indications of a thought disorder may appear. An
adolescent may complain of difficulty with concentration and with the ability to complete
school work or job-related work. Over time there is severe deterioration of work along
with the deterioration of the ability to cope with the environment. Complains such as
mind wandering and needing to devote more time to maintaining one's thoughts are
heard. Finally, the ability to keep out unwanted intrusions into one's thoughts becomes
impossible. As a result, the person finds that his or her mind becomes so confused and
thoughts so distracted, that the ability to have ordinary conversations with others is lost.
The person may initially feel that something strange or wrong is going on.
He or she misinterprets things going on in the environment and may give mystical or
symbolic meanings to ordinary events. The schizophrenic may think that certain colors
hold special powers or a thunderstorm is a message from God. The person often
mistakes other people's actions or words as signs of hostility or evidence of harmful
intent. As the disease progresses, the person suffers from strong feelings of rejection,
lack of self-respect, loneliness, and feelings of worthlessness. Emotional and physical
withdrawal increase feelings of isolation, as does an inability to trust or associate with
others. The withdrawal may become severe, and withdrawal from reality may be
noticeable from hallucinations, delusions, and odd mannerisms. Some schizophrenics
think their thoughts are being controlled by others or that their thoughts are being
broadcast to the world. Others think that people are out to harm them or are spreading
rumors about them. Voices are usually heard in the form of commands or belittling
statements about his or her character. These voices may seem to appear from outside
the room, from electrical appliances, or from other sources.
There are many different factors that lead to schizophrenia. The main way to
acquire schizophrenia is through heredity. A person has a 46% chance of getting
schizophrenia if his or her mother and father have it. One identical twin has a 46%
chance of getting schizophrenia if the other twin acquires it (Coon 546). There are also
some environmental factors that lead to schizophrenia. One is if the mother gets the flu
during the second trimester of pregnancy causing brain damage to the unborn child.
Another factor is complications at birth that could affect the child mentally. Another
factor causing schizophrenia is stress because the mind is overworked and eventually
can't function properly. An important factor concerning schizophrenia is how a child is
raised. If the child has abusive parents, he or she will have serious mental problems in
Early in this disease, there may be obsession with religion, matters of the
supernatural or abstract causes of creation. Speech may be characterized by unclear
symbolisms. Later, words and phrases may become puzzling, and these can only be
understood as part of the person's private fantasy world. People who have been ill with
schizophrenia for a long time often have speech patterns that are disoriented and
aimless and deficient of meaning to the casual observer. Sexual activity is frequently
altered in mental disorders. Homosexual concerns may be associated with all
psychoses but are most prominent with paranoia. Doubts concerning sexual identity,
exaggerated sexual needs, altered sexual performance and fears of intimacy are
prominent in schizophrenia. The process of regression in schizophrenia is
accompanied by increased self-fixation, isolation, and masturbatory behavior.
The schizophrenic person finds himself or herself in a painful dilemma. He or
she retreats from personal intimacy or closeness because of the intense fear that
closeness will be followed by ensuing rejection or harm. This retreat from intimacy
leaves the person lonely and isolated. This dilemma often becomes the nurse's
dilemma. The nurse wishes to form a productive emotional bond but at the same time
seeks to lessen the client's anxiety. For the schizophrenic person, moves toward
emotional closeness will eventually increase anxiety.
The dopamine theory of schizophrenia is based on the action of the narcoleptic
drugs, better known as antipsychotic drugs. Narcoleptics are the drugs of choice for
treating the symptoms of schizophrenia. The narcoleptics are believed to block the
dopamine receptors in the brain, limiting the activity of dopamine and reducing the
symptoms of schizophrenia. Amphetamines, just the opposite, enhance dopamine
transmission. Amphetamines produce an excess of dopamine in the brain and can
provoke the symptoms of schizophrenia in a schizophrenic client. In large doses,
amphetamines can simulate symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia in a
nonschizophrenic person. Some symptoms of schizophrenia are due basically to
hyperdopaminergic activity. Other symptoms, such as apathy and poverty of thought,
are related to neuronal loss.
Drugs reduce most of the disturbing, disorganizing, and destructive aspects of
the schizophrenic person's behavior. Drugs, however, do not improve or affect the
fundamental stupor, unresponsiveness, lack of ambition, and symbolic defects. Group
therapy is especially useful for clients who have had one or more psychotic breaks. It
has been shown that groups can benefit the client in the development of interpersonal
skills, resolution of family problems, and the effective use of community supports.
Groups allow opportunities for socialization in safe settings, the expression of tensions,
and sharing problems. The most useful types of groups for schizophrenics are groups
that help the client develop abilities to deal with such issues as day-to-day problems,
sharing consistent experiences, learning to listen, asking questions, and keeping topics
in focus. Groups available on an outpatient basis over a long period of time allow for
individual growth in these areas. It would help greatly if better rehabilitation programs
were offered after hospital treatment. One such approach is the use of half-way
houses, which can ease a patient's return to the community. The half-way houses offer
patients supervision and support, without being as restrictive as hospitals. They also
keep people near their families. Most important, half-way houses can reduce a
person's chances of being readmitted to a hospital.
Although the therapy and drugs help the schizophrenics deal with their problems
tremendously there is not enough to go around because states are closing their mental
institutes for financial reasons. Even though the cost of mental institutes is high, the
schizophrenics are better off being kept in them because they could cause a huge
uproar on the streets. Without the mental institutes the schizophrenics will get worse
because they are unable to live independently. Many schizophrenics might even be
harmful to society because their brain is out of control. The paranoid schizophrenics
could go on a rampage and try to kill everyone in sight because they think that
everyone is out to hurt them. This could be the future of our world if we don't take time
to treat these schizophrenics who desperately need it no matter what the cost.
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In order to understand fistulectomy surgery first of all you try to understand what is anal abscess and fistula in ano.
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A vast coastal region in the eastern state of Queensland, Australia, the Sunshine Coast is one of the fastest-growing holiday and business destinations in the country. With stunning locations, pristine beaches, and moderate all-year temperatures for adventure lovers, this is one place where lifestyle choices are endless, and new developments and opportunities are welcome and encouraged.
Overperforming most other regional economies in its rate of growth, the Sunshine Coast is strengthened by 3.2 million annual visitors a year. It has also immensely diversified and evolved in other areas, such as healthcare, education, and business services, at an unprecedented pace.
This article will provide an overview of the Sunshine Coast startup ecosystem, explore insights from our recent StartupBlink Ecosystem Global Report, and provide an analysis of notable players and startups in the region.
Click here for Sunshine Coast rankings in the StartupBlink Global map.
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Overview of the Sunshine Coast Startup Ecosystem
The Sunshine Coast, a place true to its name, has retained its natural beauty and attracts millions of international visitors each year. Undoubtedly popular with beach and nature lovers, the Sunshine Coast is a place where the finer things in life are easily accessible, whether that is cruising past the stunning coastline, swimming in picture-perfect bays, or enjoying a picnic and the endless sun.
Bernard Salt, columnist with The Australian and Herald Sun newspapers, has observed of the Sunshine Coast: a region of “boundless opportunity for new businesses and the community.” Additionally, he states it is best-suited location in all of Queensland to start a new venture in the next 10 years.
Moreover, government schemes, grants, and newly introduced regulations on the local and federal government front have been steadily increasing. This is a positive sign for startup developers looking to base themselves in the area.
As a lifestyle and business hub, the Sunshine Coast ecosystem attracts a wide range of entrepreneurial people. The presence of newly relocated business developers, immigrants with global connections, and region-independent entrepreneurs with vibrant lifestyles, make the Sunshine Coast startup ecosystem an opportunity powerhouse. This high early-stage entrepreneurial activity is reflected in the number of events and networking opportunities in the region. It’s managed to bring together key players within a geographically vast area.
The infrastructure developments are another positive sign that will contribute to employment opportunities in the area and boost the local economy. In addition to the CBD (Central Business District), the beating heart and hub of activity across a wide range of industries, the Sunshine Coast has also invested in hospitals, universities, public transport. This includes the new Sunshine Coast Airport Expansion Project, completed in mid-2020, which will lead to an influx of international visitors and benefit export and trading prospects.
By 2041, the population growth is expected to more than double. Initiatives like the Sunshine Coast Mass Transit Project are already underway with ways to support the Maroochydore and other major business and tourism centers. Sustainable transport and prevention of green spaces occupation are some of the key aims of the project, as well as supporting local residents and creating employment opportunities within.
Insights From Data on the Sunshine Coast
The Sunshine Coast debuted in our annual Global Rankings Report this year and shot straight to place 259, as one of Australia’s fastest-growing and dynamic ecosystems. Compared to a negative momentum seen in some of the country’s biggest hubs, the Sunshine Coast claimed a spot in the Top 10 of Australia’s cities, in 8th place nationally. It is one of the highest new entries showing powerful momentum.
Overall, Australia is the leading startup ecosystem player in the Asia-Pacific region, ranking at 7th globally. The high exit ratio of successful Australian startups is an indication that global growth and scaling are easier achieved in places like Singapore or London, but returning entrepreneurs have a vast amount of knowledge and experience that can be used to mentor the new generation of startup founders. The Sunshine Coast is one of the locations where investors and mentors should aim to base themselves, in order to tap into the entrepreneurial talent pool and development opportunities.
Education and research – One of the most competitive verticals for the Sunshine Coast startup ecosystem, with nationally awarded universities, a growing international education market, extensive vocational education and training facilities, and a high performing school system. Ranked 3rd nationally after Sydney and Melbourne, this is one area where the Sunshine Coast has achieved tremendous growth, which is reflected from its position in global rank 116th from 1000 cities.
Energy and environment – Heavily committed to sustainable energy and environmentally-friendly solutions, with projects such as the Sunshine Coast Energy Transition Plan well underway, the regional council is an advocate of cleantech and carbon neutrality and aims to become the most sustainable region in all of the country. The Sunshine Coast Airport was the first to be awarded carbon neutral status in 2017. It is ranked 3rd nationally behind Sydney and Melbourne in rank 69, claiming a spot in the Top 100 startup ecosystems worldwide.
Food and agribusiness – Another highly overperforming vertical for the Sunshine Coast that has leapt to 55th global rank and third nationally as one of the most dynamic locations for food and agribusiness investments.
Notable Startups on the Sunshine Coast
Youi – is one of the most successful startups that is headquartered on the Sunshine Coast. A highly awarded national car and home insurer, and 2020 winner of the Mozo’s People’s Choice Awards for Excellent Customer Service and Outstanding Customer Satisfaction.
PointDuty – offers a range of specialised applications and software tools for data-driven industries.
Terragen Biotech – an agricultural biotech company that manufactures a range of biological products to offer sustainable solutions to farmers.
Alkira Software – builts powerful voice apps for platforms employing next-generation AI and conversation management platforms.
Important Players on the Sunshine Coast Startup Ecosystem
There are a wide variety of important players in the ecosystem as well as more than 10 coworking spaces and half a dozen accelerator and incubator programs. Here are some of them:
Innovation Centre Sunshine Coast – a major hub for entrepreneurial activity in the area that provides mentoring and support to mature and emerging startups and a collaborative environment where they can scale. Incubator and accelerator programs and a range of other high-end services available to members and stakeholders.
Sunshine Coast Council – Committed to projects that are fueling the culture of growth and innovation on the Sunshine Coast, especially recent infrastructure projects and specialist services that encourage new investments across the region.
Sunshine Coast Regional Innovation Program (SCRIPT) – is the largest statewide collaboration of partners working to develop a Regional Innovation Hub and connect players to facilitate business growth.
Startup Precinct – offers modern coworking facilities and a dedicated space for entrepreneurs. Want to combine work and a holiday, just think about it as a coworking holiday!
Spark Bureau – an affordable office and coworking space for solopreneurs, small businesses and digital nomads.
Business Mentoring Program – a non-for-profit program established with the SunshineCoast Chamber Alliance to support the development of small businesses on the Sunshine Coast and allow them to succeed.
Events – Sunshine Coast Startup Ecosystem
There is also a high number of dynamic networking and startup events available in the local community, that enable early-stage founders to find the support they seek. A community of like-minded and committed individuals is a key aspect of any startup ecosystem development process, especially in a place like the Sunshine Coast, where local businesses are complemented by an international pool of investors, founders and talent.
Startup Weekend Sunshine Coast – a fast-paced weekend-long event with a good mix of technical and non-technical background attendees, pitching their ideas, mapping customer needs and services and developing working prototypes to present at the end of the weekend.
Generation Innovation – empowers young entrepreneurs to pursue innovative ideas and offers the tools and guidance needed to succeed. Open to Sunshine Coast residents between the ages of 15-25.
Special thanks to our ecosystem partners, Sunshine Coast Council, for their invaluable insights into the Sunshine Coast startup ecosystem.
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Information systems help an organization in developing an effective complementary network of both software and hardware. This integration of different elements aids a company in processing, creating, filtering, collecting, and distributing the data. The analysis is being done of the current IT environment in an organization by considering the case study on ASDA, a British supermarket retailer. The sample presents information about the current use of information technology and information system in the retail giant and provides suggestions regarding its improvement. It also explores the information needs of various functional areas of ASDA and how it is using advanced information and communication technologies to improve its services.
Introduction to Information Systems in Organization
In the 21st-century business environment, cut-throat competition is present in the market. In such kind of situation, it is essential for enterprises to focus on their resources and IT systems so as to meet the expectations of their customers effectively. It has been found that business firms are relying much more on IT systems and the reason came in front was to convey, manage and control different day-to-day operations, interact with clients, investors, suppliers, and to gain competitive advantages in the market. It is also analyzed that, IT systems are specifically being taken into consideration by firms to perform inter-organizational supply chains and to run business in the e-commerce industry as well.
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Away with this, organizations are also considering IT systems in managing the HR departments, manage financial accounts, and even grabbing the attention of consumers through promoting products and services on online campaigns. On the other hand, it is also found that many organizations have built themselves considering IT systems in order to perform all the operations. In order to better understand the roles of the information systems and the current IT environment, Asda, which is the UK based retail giant, has been taken. The present information investigates the current use of IT and IS within the retail enterprise and their functionalities in different business areas. Furthermore, the report provides recommendations in regard to improving their use of IT and IS.
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1.1 Information needs of the different functional areas of an organization
As every single organization is looking forward to improving the existing services, Asda also came up with the plan to gain competitive advantages. In order to improve its services to the industry and community, the IT department of Asda is emphasizing the effective use of advanced information and communication technologies. The marketing department of Asda is deploying software from Manhattan Associates for the purpose of executing e-commerce operations and promoting its products across the country.
Besides that, in order to manage its financial records and enhance transparency and security in transactions, the finance department of the enterprise has taken initiatives to install the SAP Business Objects system which is hosted on a DB2 database and AIX Unix application servers. Earlier, the enterprise was struggling to manage records of inventory, under the retail method of inventory accounting (Doyle, 2010). However, after deploying this new system, the enterprise was able to perform a variety of functions such as better management of financial information, reduce the complexities around compliance, and improve automation processes at the workplace. Despite that, for managing internet orders from the Asda direct website, a UK-based retail giant was deployed the software in several distribution centers across the country. This helped Asda to start performing all the business-related activities on computer systems.
The main motto of the organization behind implementing information systems and adopting new technologies is to sell a variety of products and services to its customers in a more convenient manner (Saran, 2010). Other reasons behind implementing an IT system is that Asda could effectively take into consideration real-time data, reduce the risk of errors, enhances productivity, and also builds a secure location as well. Considering this, the company will automatically become liable to provide market research opportunities.
This could be understood with a good example of gathered data through using an integrated IT system, where information will help Asda to take right decisions to grab the attention of customers and this will automatically impact positively on the performance level of the company in the international market. However, along with the use of different technologies, it is essential for the US base firms to effectively use the information to make appropriate decisions (Fayoumi, 2014). Management of the firm will require information about inputs, outputs, and processing activities at different levels including strategic, tactical, operational. For example, at a strategic level, information regarding stakeholders, funds,s, and the human requirements to carry out different functions are needed (Whiteley, 2010).
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At this stage, management information systems (MIS) and customer relationship management (CRM) used by Asda can be beneficial for managers and top-level executives. Achieving growth, profitability, improving customer service, current and future trends related information are required at a strategic level to implement a strategic planning process and attaining the long-term business plan of the enterprise. At the tactical level, the management of Asda is required to manage the responsibility and functionality of lower-level departments so as to implement a strategic plan within a stipulated time.
In order to carry out the routine tasks and operational activities of the different departments such as creating a monthly budget, scheduling employees each week, and developing promotional advertisement, etc. information will be needed by a retail giant (Becker and Vering, 2013). If Asda takes into consideration of Enterprise resource planning (ERP) then it may be possible that this company may effectively perform all the business activities on IT systems. This may cost the company but it will be delivering high advantages to the firm for a longer period of time. On the other hand, without establishing an integrated IT system it is maybe possible that Asda might not reach its desired goal i.e.
To become a leader in the international retail market. Therefore, it is a must for the company to build an effective decision-making process so Asda can manage all the operations in a much effective and efficient manner. Through this, it is maybe possible that Asda would effectively start grabbing a different range of business opportunities as an integrated IT system would enhance the customer base and improve sales as well. After analyzing different technologies used by Asda, it can be said that technological advancement, changing needs of customers, and demand for quality of products at cheaper rates are the major factors that affect organizational structures and culture (Shahidehpour and et.al., 2015). In addition, the positive attitude of employees toward new emerging technology adoption lead firm in the competitive retail market and better performance as compared to other retail giants such as Tesco, Sainsbury, and Morrison, etc.
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2.1 Exploring different types of information systems
Representation of facts, concepts, or instructions in a structured manner can be described as data. Information is also considered as data that provides meaning to data. Information can be collected from primary and secondary sources such as books, journals, online published articles, and annual reports of an enterprise. However, for the management of information, it is necessary for the management of the enterprise to follow basic principles of security, accuracy, and relevancy (Kamel, Lakhder, and Ammar, 2012).
By collecting information from valid sources and maintaining confidentiality, organizations can enhance the accuracy and usefulness of data. The positive outcomes of information systems and new technologies used by retailers can be seen in the forms of orders, bookings, managing personnel records of customers and employees, goods tracking, and improved customer service.
In the modern era, different organizations are emphasizing using a variety of information systems including business information, decision support, and management information systems. In addition, some enterprises like Tesco and Wal-mart concentrating on the proper use of executive information systems, office information systems, and expert systems to perform day-to-day business functions in a more flexible way. Transaction processing systems are used by new start-ups to collect, store, retrieve, and modify data of customers as well as employees.
Management information system (MIS) is employed by Tesco and other retailers like Asda in the UK in order to maintain historical operational performance data and execute strategic, tactical, and operational planning and operations related decision in a proper manner (Lee, 2008). For example, the marketing department of Asda has used the MIS system to illustrates product sales volume by territory and determine the potential effect on shipping schedules. On the basis of comparison between TPS and MIS, it can be said that TPS is employed especially for performing day-to-day routine transactions that are required to be conducted in the business (Emmanouil et.al., 2009). On the other hand, MIS is used for evaluating an organization's performance by comparing current outputs with previous outputs. For example, the sales department of the firm has used this system to identify past and present decisions so that basis future decisions can be taken in a proper manner.
On the other side, a decision-support system (DSS) is employed by a retail giant to evaluate the possible impact of a decision before it is implemented such as product revenue by quarter sales report and measures the progress toward meeting a specific goal. From the below figure, it is clear that the management of Asda has used executive information system at the strategic level, management information system at the tactical level, and transaction processing systems at the operation level to perform day to day business activities in a systematic manner (Chuan and et.al., 2014). However, the DSS system employed by enterprise is unable to deal with internal and external data sources and offer a customizable module.
Apart from this, the manufacturing unit of UK base enterprise has used DSS to graphical represent the number of products manufactured on a particular line. An executive support system (ESS) is employed by retailers to identify long-term trends in support of strategic planning and understand market trends and buyer preferences to meet the expectations of customers in a significant manner. Furthermore, the IT department of Asda is taken the initiative to deploy the expert system and neural network to analyze data and produce recommendations (Conde and et.al., 2014). However, for implementing this system, an enterprise will require a huge amount of investment in human capital and appointing expertise people to execute tasks in a significant manner.
2.2 Investigating the current trends in using information systems applications to solve business problems
In recent years, technological advancement and the changing demand of techno-savvy customers have brought new emergent paradigms to the retail sector. Besides that, Cloud computing, the internet of things (IoT), and big data have emerged as the latest trends in terms of gaining greater attention and meeting their requirements in a significant manner (Galliers and Leidner, 2014). Many enterprises are concentrating on the use of Cloud-Computing with a distributed information system to better management of IT resources, applications, platforms, and storage medium to simplify the organization processes and increasing customer flexibility.
For connecting everything to the internet, IoTs is used because it concentrates on supporting machine-to-machine communication and new insight to serve particular purposes in changing arena. In the context of getting maximum benefits of the available big data in finance, security, marketing, product development, and manufacturing areas, Big Data Analytics techniques are used by retailers in the UK. In addition, Business-IT alignment and business process modeling techniques employed by enterprises for both technical and methodological development (Gómez, Serna, and Badenes, 2009).
Apart from this, Customer relationship management, Business Intelligence, Human Resource Management, and Objected-oriented information emerge as recent advances in the information systems. Furthermore, Cloud-Computing, Google Analytics, M-commerce, Big Data, and Web 2.0 techniques are the future trends that focus on new functionalities or areas and incorporate new functionalities of the present information systems (Mithas and Sambamurthy, 2011). In solving business problems such as managing large amounts of records of customers and future predictions, new information systems and technology adopted by the management of Asda would be helpful for it.
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2.3 Evaluating the suitability of information systems for different functional areas
After analysis of present information systems employed by retailers and future trends, it is clear that distributed information systems using Cloud-Computing will be beneficial for enterprises. Scalability, reducing infrastructure and licensing cost, and easy deployment compared with the old IT paradigms and information system will be attained after implementing this information system at the workplace (Van, Turoff, and Hiltz, 2014). Earlier, Asda was used MIS and DSS to perform its daily business operations and the needs of customers. However, monetary cost, overemphasize decision making, unanticipated effects, and information-overloaded related constraints are associated with the implementation of these kinds of IS at the workplace. In order to overcome such kinds of issues, management of UK based retail giant integrates supply chain technology with the company’s core systems to attain long term business objectives in a proficient manner (Saran, 2010).
The advanced management information system will be beneficial for UK base retail enterprises in terms of taking strategic and semi-structured decisions at the stipulated time and simplifies the lengthy business processes effectively. In addition, by using this kind of IS, report managers would be able to prepare schedule reports, exception reports, Ad-hoc reports, and routine business decisions in a proper way (Bloom, 2014). On the other side, DSS can be used by the finance department to prepare budget analysis and predict future sales of the company from a long-term perspective. For example, ESS can be used by the logistic department to execute the order fulfillment process in a systematic manner.
By using this order process, the enterprise will be able to perform a variety of functions such as check credit, approve credit, generate an invoice, assemble and ship products within the stipulated time. Besides that, MIS systems used by management integrate sales, accounting, and manufacturing and production departments together to boost the delivery of products to its customers effectively.
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3.1 Use an information system to generate valid, accurate, and useful information
After comparing the benefits and limitations of different types of information systems, it is found that advanced MIS will be beneficial for enterprise in terms of performing a variety of functions such as manage, order, organize and manipulate the gigabytes and masses of information in a secured way. Relevant information in a timely and cost-effective manner is required for managing information as a resource and ensures the protection of competitive intelligence (Xu, 2011). In addition, by considering the Data Protection Act, 1984 and Information management systems effectively, enterprises would be able to enhance the accuracy and usefulness of information. However, quality of outputs governed by the quality of inputs, constant monitoring, and lack of flexibility to update related constraints are also associated with the use of information systems in performing retail operations in a systematic manner (Fayoumi, 2014). Despite that, for increasing the accuracy and reliability of the information, proper management of information and adequate selection of sources are required (Mithas and Sambamurthy, 2011). In order to enhance the accuracy and validity of data, it is necessary for enterprises to collect records or information from authentic sources that may be sales reports, marketing analyses, and government statistics.
3.2 Evaluating alternative methods of solving the problem
In addition, by effective use of this information with new emerging technologies such as cloud computing and Big Data, enterprises would be able to solve the business problems faced by companies in managing their resources and taking appropriate decisions at right time. In addition, Asda installed SAP ERP system to replace Walmart's legacy system to reduce the complexities around compliance and improved reporting capability to the group head office. However, time, cost, and requirement of expert human capital-related constraints are also associated with the implementation of this new technique (Conde and et.al., 2014). In order to reduce such kinds of issues, it is necessary for UK based retailers to use Cloud Computing and Big Data emerging technologies and incorporates them with information systems used within the enterprise. In this regard, Asda can also be used the RedEye system to collect data on individual customers and categorize them by store. On the other side, bespoke store-level analysis can be beneficial for Asda in terms of easily identifying any under-performing stores and get information on the availability of deliveries within the stipulated time (RedEye, n.d.).
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From the report, it is clear that information systems used by retailers play an important role in terms of getting a business opportunity and increased customer base. On the basis of critical comparison between different information systems, it can be recommended that the MIS system and DSS with Cloud-Computing would be beneficial for enterprises to solve current problems faced by enterprises in their day to day business operations. By collecting information from authentic sources, the management of Asda would be able to take strategic, tactical, and operation level decisions in a significant manner.
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The Use of Split Exponential and Split Weibull Analyse Survival Data With Long Term Survivors
Rahmatina, Desi (2005) The Use of Split Exponential and Split Weibull Analyse Survival Data With Long Term Survivors. Masters thesis, Universiti Putra Malaysia.
The split population model is a flexible way of extending the standard survival analytical methods to failure time data in which susceptibles and long-term survivors coexist. Susceptibles would develop the event with certainty if complete follow-up were possible, but the long-term survivors would never experience the event. A study was conducted to allow the effects of covariates on the probability that an individual is immune, and the immune probability vary from individual to individual. In effect, we are associating with each individual a distinct probability of being immune, which depends on the covariate information specific to that individual. And then fitted a few models using the maximum likelihood estimation to determine whether the covariates are significant or not. Several popular distributions on the survival data analysis as endorsed by graphical techniques were used. We applied the split exponential and the split Weibull models together with deviance test, a parametric test for the presence of immunes, and a test for outlier, to test for sufficient follow-up in the samples where there may or may not be immunes presences. We presented the probability of eventual immune for the ith individual as the logit model and logistic model. We will work with two data sets, firstly a Clinical Trial in the Treatment of Carcinoma of the Oropharynx and secondly Stanford Heart Transplant data. The results from the data analyses for a Clinical Trial in the Treatment of Carcinoma of the Oropharynx data show that the simple exponential model produces a fit not significantly worse than the simple Weibull model and the simple split Weibull model no better than the simple split exponential model, also shown that no evidence of immune population and all covariates are not significant. The results from the data analyses for Stanford Heart Transplant data show that the simple Weibull model is significantly better than the simple exponential model, and the simple split Weibull model is better than the simple split exponential model. We have calculated the maximum log-likelihood function value for both the logit exponential and logistic exponential models. They are exactly similar for both the Clinical Trial in the Treatment of Carcinoma of the Oropharynx and Stanford Heart Transplant data. So, we suggest that both the logit exponential and logistic exponential models are equally superior.
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Regular Soda or Diet Soda: Which is Worse For Your Health?
The Pros of Regular Soda
If you’re trying to avoid artificial sugar substitutes, you won’t find them in there. Yes, I know that some people consider HFCS a chemical akin to the artificial sweeteners found in diet sodas; if you’re among them and crave a soda, you could consider a variety sweetened with cane sugar.
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There is no dearth of puzzles on the internet. Some of them are quite simple while others take much longer to solve; yet again there are a few puzzles where the answer is right in front of you, and all you need is to open your eyes.
The latest math puzzle making rounds on the internet has been shared by a Facebook user named Antley Lamont Staten. The problem has been shared more than 382 thousand times.
While some people don’t even take a second to answer this puzzle, others may stare at it for five to ten minutes before they figure it out.
If you have been puzzling over the numbers all along, you need to shift your gaze to the left and find the “MITSAKE”.
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Although you may be excited to plant your garden, sometimes it's best to wait. While cool-weather crops like peas and broccoli tolerate lower temperatures, tomatoes require warm temperatures to develop properly and set fruit. Cooler temperatures can cause irreparable damage to many garden plants, especially tomatoes.
Tomatoes love warm weather. As a result, temperatures do not need to get anywhere near the freezing to permanently damage growing plants. Weather cold enough to damage tomato plants is defined two different ways. Daytime temperatures consistently below 70 degrees F is the first definition. Night temperatures that fall below 60 degrees F is the second. Either scenario will damage tomato plants over time.
Tomato plants exposed to cold temperatures sustain damage several ways. One indication is flowers falling off of the plant, known as blossom drop. Cold weather also compromises root system development, leading to absorption problems as the plant grows. Inadequate root systems lead to phosphorus deficiencies. Tomato plants need phosphorus to develop blossoms and set fruit. Cold weather, combined with wet weather, creates an environment where fungal diseases like gray mold can quickly develop.
If your tomato plants have been exposed to cold temperatures, check them for damage. Check your plants to see if they are producing flowers that stay on the plant. Root damage is evidenced by stunted growth, or you may find that your plants are dying. Plants suffering from phosphorus deficiencies will have leaves with purple veins. For plants that are severely deficient, the entire plant will have a purplish hue. Gray mold prefers to attack parts of the plant that are already distressed or damaged. It will appear on both leaves and fruit, looking like a gray or tan felt-like covering on the affected area.
Most plants that sustain cold weather damage are unlikely to recover. Plants infected with gray mold can't be treated and must be destroyed to protect uninfected plants. Don't compost debris from gray mold-infected plants; the composting process won't destroy mold spores and future plantings will be exposed. Plants with compromised root systems will be smaller and more susceptible to disease. For plants showing symptoms of phosphorus deficiency, side dress them with fertilizer.
The best way to deal with cold weather damage to your tomato plants is to prevent it as much as possible. Check with your local county extension office for its recommendations. It will know the best time to plant in your area. Mulching tomato plants with dark plastic warms the soil and helps it retain heat. The website TomatoGardeningGuru.com suggests planting tomatoes close to dark, semi-solid fences so that they will reflect heat and keep plants warmer. Untreatable plants should be destroyed immediately. Plants with treatable symptoms should be addressed quickly to avoid losing the plant or spreading disease.
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Return of the U.S. Labor Market - 9/8/16
One of the best indications that the U.S. labor market has roughly returned to normal seven years after the recession’s end is that more workers who lose a job are able to find a new one. Between January twenty thirteen and December twenty fifteen, about seven point four million people lost their jobs, including more than three million who were laid off from positions that they had held for at least three years.
Among those long-tenured workers who were laid off over this period, approximately two in three had found replacement employment by January twenty sixteen. About one in six were still unemployment and about one in five had left the workforce altogether. That’s much better than during the recession years of two thousand and seven, two thousand and eight, and two thousand and nine.
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For a conscious management of landscapes and habitats in the Swiss Alpine Region -the National Research Programme 48 (PNR 48)
The contribution outlines the goals, the organisational structures and the key issues of the NRP 48 (National Research Programme). In addition, it gives an overview of the subjects covered by the 35 on-going research projects. On this basis, the stakeholders dealing with subjects relating to Landscapes and Habitats are invited to take into account the knowledge gained from the NRP 48 within their field of activity. Furthermore, the author invites the reader to a dialogue with the research teams and the programme leaders.
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A polo pony is a term used to refer to the horses used in the sport of polo. The name may be deceiving, but a polo pony is not actually a pony at all. By definition, a pony is any equine under 14.2 hands (4.73 feet or 1.44 meters) in height. The average height for a polo pony is 15.1 hands (5.03 feet or 1.53 meters); it is not unusual, however, to see some above 16 hands (5.33 feet or 1.62 meters) tall. Polo ponies are bred for their speed, agility, courage, and athletic abilities.
Most polo ponies are mixed breed horses. Polo ponies are often crosses between thoroughbreds and horses native to the region of the polo team. In the United States, thoroughbreds are often crossed with Quarter Horses, producing fast moving and agile horses that can maneuver around the field efficiently. Criollo horses native to Argentina have become a popular choice to cross with thoroughbreds in recent years while other areas of the world utilize a vast variety of other breeds.
Regardless of the lineage of the ponies, there are aspects of their appearance that typically look the same. In polo, the ponies’ manes are hogged, or cut very short. The tail dock, the part of the tail with the bone, is often trimmed close or shaved, and the length of the tail is typically braided and taped up. The reason for this method of grooming is that long flowing manes and tails are likely to get tangled with the swinging mallets, presenting a safety risk for rider and horse alike. In prior years, the tail sometimes was cut at the base of the dock, but as horses naturally use their tails to swat flies, cutting the length prevented them from defending against bites. The current method of grooming allows the horses use of their tail when not playing the game.
In addition to grooming, polo ponies typically undergo extensive training to ensure they are fit for the game. An even temperament is an essential trait, as excitable horses can be difficult to control. The average polo pony is five to six years of age at the onset of his career, and without injury, they can remain competitive well into their teens. Polo ponies are typically ridden with one hand on the reins and are taught to respond to their rider’s leg and weight cues for quick maneuvering in the game.
The game of polo consists of two teams, each with four riders and their mounts. Each team attempts to score by passing a wooden or plastic ball through the goal posts at either end of the field. Long mallets are used to drive the balls across the 300-yard (274-meter) lawn. The targeted side of the field changes after each goal to compensate for elemental conditions that may impact the game. The average game of polo has four to six chukkas, or periods, and each chukka lasts seven minutes. Because of the heavy impact this high-speed match has on a polo pony, each rider is assigned more than one mount. Swapping out horses every three to four minutes allows the horses to remain fresh and at the top of their game. | <urn:uuid:b36b4013-d331-4dea-9200-2e881422a203> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-polo-pony.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281151.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00110-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960292 | 672 | 2.921875 | 3 |
According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, which examines how other peoples’ weight and food choices influence how much we eat, we are more likely to eat more in the presence of a thin person who eats a lot.
I’m not really sure how broadly (sorry) applicable these findings are, but they at least add to a growing body (double sorry) of evidence that indicates how our eating behaviours are shaped by social cues.
The press release, as usual, oversimplifies the concepts underlying the research. However it also points in an intriguing direction: how to interpret the fundamentally social nature of eating. Disordered eating is most often done in private, by oneself; it is deemed a shameful act and thus engaged in alone.
Judging by cross-cultural evidence, eating socially is important for regulating our intake and contributes to our wellbeing. Cultures that prioritize shared meals appear less likely to have food-related health problems. Families that eat meals together demonstrate fewer problems such as teenage substance abuse and alienation, as well as a better nutrient intake. In other words, eating with other people is usually good for us.
Thus, I’m not sure “avoid skinny hungry people” is the advice we need to take from these findings. Rather, it points to the possibility that we as humans are predisposed to view eating as a social as well as a physiological activity. It also suggests that we need to consider our eating occasions carefully, opting for shared, joyful meals rather than furtive munching. | <urn:uuid:9f8db5d8-3225-46cd-bb6d-adb31ebb143b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://stumptuous.com/beware-the-skinnymunch-my-son-the-jaws-that-bite-the-claws-that-crunch | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00437-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979429 | 316 | 2.71875 | 3 |
TODAY, Wednesday, August 13, is the Red Cross’ official 100th birthday; it is exactly 100 years after Lady Helen Munro Ferguson began the Australian Branch of the British Red Cross Society after the outbreak of World War One.
Since then Red Cross has grown to provide a diverse range of programs in emergency services, social services, community development and overseas aid programs, plus deliver first aid training and provide a world-class blood service.
Coincidentally, the Narooma branch of the Red Cross on Monday hosted the Country Zone 8 conference at Club Narooma.
Among the 44 volunteers and workers attending was Narooma’s Rachel Niemoeller who works in the Narooma Red Cross Hub office.
“We run community engagement programs,” she said.
“We run a Red Cross community alarms service, a community visitor’s scheme, and Tele-Cross/Tele-Chat services. They are telephone services for people who live alone; to check they are okay.”
Regional manager Judy Harper explained that the Tele-Cross service provided an important sense of security, as participants know that help is never far away.
“People can have alarms in their house,” she said.
“If they have a fall or need assistance in the night, they have an alarm on them and can press the button.
“It’s a back-to-base system, so we then respond. We average three activations a month through the Tele-Cross service – where people haven’t answered.”
The Red Cross is calling on everyday Australians to join, share, grow the power of humanity and continue the story of the Red Cross for the next 100 years.
South Coast Zone representative Pam Hamory said volunteer numbers were dwindling, because of the maturing community.
“But we’re getting revitalised as people are getting to retirement age, moving to the area and are able to give their time,” she said.
She explained that they find a niche for people, regardless of their expertise.
Volunteer activities have recently included cake stalls, a barbecue at Bunnings in Batemans Bay, and a coin table at Bega on Tuesdays, which all raised essential funds for the local branch.
For more information on how to join your local branch contact representative Pam Hamory on email@example.com or to learn more about the services offered on the South Coast, visit the Red Cross Hub in Narooma (Shop 4 in the mid-town arcade Narooma, near traffic lights and opposite the Commonwealth Bank) or contact Tom Noonan on firstname.lastname@example.org
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Burnt Churches and Backstabbing
'Metal Storm' wracks the Alamo
Ah, Norway. Land of beautiful, vast fishing villages, cod liver oil, and black metal. In fact, it may be what Norway is best known for, albeit in its satanic, black-mass-attending, animal-sacrificing, church-burning form. The history of Norwegian metal is as twisted and dark as the country's landscape. As part of the Alamo's Music Mondays, Metal Storm: the Scandinavian Metal Wars takes a look at the scene 10 years after murder, arson, and suicide forced a burgeoning lifeblood back underground.
The film centers around footage from a Norwegian documentary called Satan Rides the Media, which traces the tumultuous history of black metal through the early Nineties, when a string of church burnings turned the nation's eyes toward a small group of sinister metalheads. More specifically, the film spotlights Varg Vikernes of the one-man band Burzum, and his involvement in the burning of the historic Fantoft stave church in Bergen. After a journalist interviewed Vikernes (who later changed his name to Count Grishnackh) and he confessed, the media went buck-wild with the satanist slant, and they portrayed the metal scene as black-clad, evil-obsessed devil worshippers with no remorse and a penchant for hoarding animal heads. Vikernes adored the media attention, and even used photos of the churches he burnt (three in all) on the cover of a Burzum album. (This would become briefly popular, as the band Mayhem used a photo of bandmate "Death" on the cover of an album, shortly after he blew his brain out with a shotgun.) Vikernes, however, had a more traditional reason for burning the churches. "The church [in Norway] has behaved so disgracefully," says a clean-cut Varg from prison. He reasons that he was just trying to save Norway from Christianity and return it to its pagan (not satanic) roots.
But in-fighting and shit-talking within the metal scene soon turned to backstabbing, literally. When Mayhem singer Euronymous was found stabbed to death in his Oslo apartment in 1993, it didn't take long before Vikernes confessed, and the scene all but disappeared for the remainder of the Nineties. Still, the spirit of metal still burns in the hills and forests of Norway.
In conjunction with the Monday, May 9, 9:45pm Alamo Drafthouse Downtown screening of Metal Storm, photographer and former Texan Peter Beste presents his collection of black metal portraits at the Space (next to I Luv Video on Airport) on Saturday, May 7. See 'Norwegian Black Metal Photographs,' for more. | <urn:uuid:c5d8ba9f-7276-49cb-b612-5389280ff304> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.austinchronicle.com/screens/2005-05-06/269761/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720468.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00488-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959551 | 577 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Published on Jan 26, 2016
The objective: This experiment shows Bernoulli#s Principle is too simple an explaination and doesn't consider Newton#s Laws of Motion or the Coanda Effect, nor does it give enough credit to the angle of attack of the wing
I built a wind tunnel. A balsa wood wing with an upper camber 15% longer than the lower camber was made. I attached the wing to the side supports with rear pegs and adjustable front pegs. I drilled 8 holes at 0° through 21°.
During the 3 trials I pulled the wing to a level position for each angle-of-attack. Average lifting force was recorded for each.
Wind speed & wing shape were kept the same.
Calculations of lift were made for a Cessna 150 flying: at a normal airspeed; with an upper wing camber long enough; and airspeed great enough to produce the lifting force to keep the Cessna 150 flying..
The results showed that the greatest angle-of-attack (21°) produced the greatest amount of lift, at 2.4 Newtons and the smallest angle-of-attack (0°) produced the least, at .1 Newtons.
The amount of lift increased proportionally with the angle-of-attack. The calculations showed that Bernoulli's Principle was only 3% responsible for the force needed to keep the Cessna 150 flying at a normal airspeed.
Increasing the upper camber 50% longer than the lower camber or increasing the airspeed to 727 ft/sec (350 mph) would produce enough lift.
Lift is not possible unless a force acts on the air and that air reacts by lifting the airplane (Newton#s 1st and 3rd Laws). The action on the air bending it downward is a result of the viscosity of the air and its attachment to the upper wing surface.
This is called the Coanda Effect. From my calculation of the Cessna 150, Bernoulli#s Principle was responsible for less than 3% of the total lift needed to keep the airplane in flight. In my calculated results, I have outlined which changes in wing shape and air speed would create enough lift to keep the Cessna 150 in the air.
Neither increasing the upper camber by 50% or flying at over 727 ft/sec (350 mph) would be possible. I think the remaining lift must be a result of the angle of attack. In my study of angle of attack I found that lift increases proportionally as angle of attack increases.
Pilots know that if the weight of their airplane increases, they will need to fly faster or fly at a greater angle of attack, and redirect more air downward to counteract the force of gravity.
This project was to show that the primary cause of aerodynamic lift is the redirection of air over the upper camber (Coanda Effect), as a result of a wing's angle of attack and is not the traditionally accepted Bernoulli's Principle.
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Complete Tests for Over 1000 Microdeletion Syndromes and Single-Gene Abnormalities
Microdeletion syndromes and single-gene disorders are mostly matters of probability and are not correlated with the age of the pregnant mother. Indeed, many abnormal babies in Taiwan have been born to young parents. Conventional chromosome analysis and DNA microarray analysis of amniotic fluid are only able to detect chromosomal and micro-segment abnormalities and cannot quickly test large numbers of single-gene disorders.
Clinical symptoms of microdeletion syndrome and single-gene disorders include:
■Developmental delays, small for gestational age or fetal growth retardation, intrauterine growth restrictions.
■Abnormal brain development, mental retardation, speech disorders, epilepsy
■Learning disabilities, emotional disorders
■Neuromuscular dysplasia, abnormal muscle tone
■Other congenital dysplasias
■Skeletal dysplasias, abnormal facial features and limbs
For more syndromes details, please check HERE
Recommended by the International Society
In the Committee Opinion published in December 2013, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) clearly indicated that chromosomal deletion syndromes are not related to the mother’s age. They recommended gene array testing for expecting mothers of all ages, not only those over the age of 35.
Yi-jun (pseudonym), age 30, discovered fetal abnormalities during a level 2 ultrasound at 22 weeks of pregnancy, including a naval protrusion (acromphalus) and an accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid within the brain (hydrocephalus). After receiving a detailed explanation from her doctor, she decided to terminate the pregnancy and undergo a SOFIVA array test to understand what had caused these abnormalities. A 10.59-Mb microdeletion was found on Chromosome 7 of the fetus, and a comparison with the parents’ genes revealed that the mutation was spontaneous, not hereditary. Fortunately, Yi-jun’s next pregnancy tested normal, and she gave birth to a healthy, full-term baby.
Yu-fang (peudononym) took an amniotic fluid chromosome test and an SNP array during her pregnancy, and all test results were normal. However, after birth, her baby looked different from normal babies, and chromosomal or genetic abnormalities were suspected to be the cause. Her doctor therefore suggested a SOFIVA array v 3.0 test. The results revealed that her baby had a c.1138 spontaneous mutation in the FGFR3 gene, and her baby was later confirmed to have dwarfism.
1. Listen to the doctor’s complete explanation and fill out consent form
2. Doctor takes suitable sample
3. Sample is sent to SOFIVA's labs for testing
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Here’s my “rule of thumb”: People can qualify for a loan which is between 4 and 5 times their gross income. I’ve been doing loans for almost 20 years and I use this simple formula throughout the day. It’s really easy. No silly 40% income-to-debt ratios. No PITI calculations!
Here’s an example:
Let’s assume you have 2 people earning $45,000/year each ($90,000 total). The maximum mortgage would be 4.5 X $90,000 = $405,000! There, that’s it. Wasn’t that easy?
At this stage, you simply put the amount of money that you’ve saved (yes, you need to save money!) on top of this loan amount and you’ll have the approximate purchase price. So, let’s assume you have $45,000 for the downpayment, here are the numbers:
4.5 X $90,000 = $405,000 + $45,000 = New home price of $450,000.
Now, there are a many variables which will make the above formula NOT work. High credit card debt, numerous educational loans and car loans are examples of how someone’s debt load can really affect your ability to buy a new home. Also, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have strict rules regarding income so my “rule of thumb” is overly simplistic but it will give you a general idea.
You can use my formula in reverse if you ask: “How much income do I need to buy that $600,000 house?”
Assume a 10% downpayment of $60,000. Here are the numbers:
$600,000 - $60,000 = $540,000 (new mortgage amount)/4.5 (my rule of thumb) = $120,000 income per year. So, you need about $120,000 of annual income to buy a $600,000 house with 10% down.
If you have a lot of monthly debt payments, you’ll need to use the lower end of my “rule of thumb”. The qualifying usually falls between 4 and 5 but use the lower range if you have a lot of debt.
There you go…. You now have the “secret” formula for figuring what you can afford in a new house. As I said above, there are many different elements to qualifying so this only a “ball park” estimate. It’s best to sit down with a mortgage professional so they can run some numbers specific to your situation.
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