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A scheme which uses sport to tackle unemployment among young people in the Tees Valley has been boosted by a grant of more than £173,000.
Sport Works is one of three projects across the North East to receive a share of £746,506 from the Big Lottery Fund's Reaching Communities programme.
The scheme aims to improve job prospects for young people with disabilities and those who are not in employment, education or training.
The award will be used to provide training for disadvantaged young people.
Among the other organisations to receive funding is Derwentside MIND.
The money will be used to improve the support available to people with mental health problems in and around Stanley.
The North East Prison After Care Society (NEPACS) has also received a grant of £300,000 to help improve contact services for children and families of prisoners. | <urn:uuid:af3347d6-ee97-4298-9697-4014f5be4f1a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/update/2013-02-19/sport-scheme-helps-young-people-find-work/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00128-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961866 | 177 | 1.664063 | 2 |
I'm in the process of preparing a class on the history of American Atheism, which, as far as I can tell, is more or less uncharted territory. Existing studies and curricula seem to either be philosophical examinations of atheism (e.g.), or much too narrow for my interests (e.g.), or really more hagiographical canonization efforts than I am comfortable with (e.g.). Not to mention the very common whig histories of atheism.
Given the new(ish?) direction of the class I'm designing, it seems some readers might be interested in the shape of the class as it develops. Also, as there's no standard text outlining major figures or movements in American Atheism, I would appreciate readers' help in identifying critical people and/or texts to teach.
Below, I've listed those I have in mind who are important in this history and who I think can be taught fairly well to first and second year students with an interest in religious history and American cultural studies. I've construed "atheist" fairly broadly, to include some agnostics and skeptics (especially if they expand the possibility of disbelief); as well as some who's opposition to specific faith traditions is clear while their own position is more ambiguous; those of the political right as well as the more well-represented left; some who are hostile towards religion and some who attempt to make use of religious rhetoric. I've also tried to work in a fair representation of non-whites, women, and, as far as possible, some from backgrounds other than Protestant.
Are there any significant figures or movements I'm missing?
Anyone who would likely teach particularly well that I haven't thought of?
From Cotton Mather’s denunciations to Daniel Dennett’s proposal atheists rebrand themselves as “brights,” atheists have been a much-discussed but little understood feature of the religious landscape of America. This class will take a historical approach to the subject, analytically examining the many varieties of atheism in America. Students will learn about atheisms, plural, in the past and present, and will study their cultural contexts, as well as arguments for and against the existence of God, and vying conceptions of meaning and morality. Students will also be introduced to the methodological issues in the study of the history of religion, gaining a working understanding of the approaches entailed by cultural history.
1. Thomas Paine
2. Joel Barlow
3. Joseph Weydemeyer
4. Robert Ingersoll
5. Charles Chilton Moore and the Blue Grass Blade
6. Emma Goldman
7. Eugene V. Debs
8. Emanuel and Marcet Haldeman-Julius
9. Richard Wright
10. James Baldwin
11. Ayn Rand
12. Madeline Murray O'Hare
13. Kurt Vonnegut
14. Thomas Altizer
15. Sam Harris
16. David Silverman
17. YouTub videos: "Why I am an Atheist"/"How I became an Atheist."
18. "Preachers who are not believers"
19. Chris Stedman
Additions suggested via twitter:
Additions suggested via Facebook:
Other additions suggested:
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How Using Fibre Can Increase Health
A recent study published in the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine found that nearly 20% of Americans require more fiber. There are many advantages to eating more fiber and a lower risk of developing diabetes and heart disease. According to study author Ronette Lategan-Potgieter, a dietitian and assistant professor of nutrition at Stetson University, consuming more fibre is vital for overall health.
One of the many benefits fiber can provide is the ability to lower cholesterol. It does this by stopping bile acids from getting into the arteries. Additionally, it improves bowel function, and provides bulk to the food we consume. In addition, it lowers the risk of heart disease and stroke. A recent Harvard study found that those who consume 25 grams or more of fiber daily are less likely to suffer from both conditions. Eat more vegetables, which are rich in fibre, along with whole beans and grains.
Fibre is found in many foods. There are two kinds of fiber which are soluble and non-soluble. Soluble fiber forms a gel in the intestine , which slows the absorption of fats and cholesterol. It is also a source of food for gut bacteria that are friendly, which produce substances that are beneficial for heart health. Consuming more fiber can improve your overall health. While insoluble fibre might seem unappetizing to some, research suggests that it can reduce cholesterol.
Lower blood sugar
Increase the amount of soluble fiber you consume to lower blood sugar levels. These fibres can be found in a variety of fruits, vegetables , and legumes. Because they do not break down during the digestion process, their presence in the diet can help the body process food more slowly. These fibres can slow down the absorption of glucose and lower blood sugar levels. Patients with diabetes can lower blood sugar levels by eating more insoluble fibre.
Unlike other carbohydrates in that fiber doesn’t trigger an increase in blood sugar. This prevents your body from absorbing excess fat and cholesterol. This results in lower triglycerides and cholesterol levels. Fiber can also improve the health of your gut and reduce your risk of developing colon cancer. These advantages make fiber a crucial component of a healthy diet. It can also improve your overall health by lowering blood sugar levels.
Fibre is a type of carbohydrate that can be found in plant foods, and is difficult for the body to digest. Fibre is not readily digested by the body which can result in side effects like digestive discomfort and flatulence. It also prevents the rapid rise in blood insulin levels, which is linked with obesity and an increased risk of developing diabetes. By increasing fibre intake you will reduce the chance of developing type 2 heart disease, diabetes, and overall mortality.
There are other benefits to fibre that include weight loss and improved health. Consuming a diet high in fibre can reduce the risk of breast cancer among women. It aids in weight loss and digestion. However high-fibre breakfast items may not be accompanied by enough fluid which can lead to constipation. In addition eating a high-fibre breakfast food could not stop constipation which is common in adults. Many adults don’t eat enough fiber, despite the numerous benefits. Research has shown that low-fibre diets can cause stroke, heart disease, and some kinds of cancer.
Fiber is an essential component of a healthy diet, but how much should you eat? The National Academy of Medicine defines fiber as dietary carbohydrates, lignans, and soluble and insoluble cellulose and hemicellulose all of which have an impact on health. Some types of fiber are fermentable and soluble which is beneficial for your digestive system, while others aren’t digestible. Soluble fiber is found in cereal grains while insoluble fiber is found in many vegetables and fruits Cell walls.
Researchers believe that a change in the microbiome could be responsible for an increase in gastrointestinal bloating, especially when high-protein diets are associated with the issue. In a study of individuals who were on high-fiber diets substitution of high-fiber proteins with high-fiber carbohydrates reduced the frequency of black bloating. While further studies are needed to identify the exact mechanism, the substitution could be a good strategy for reducing the bloating.
In the event of consumption, fibre can lower gas levels and improve health. It is best to introduce it slowly to allow the gut microflora time to adjust. In three studies the bodies of participants slowly adjusted to beans, and gas levels returned to normal levels after about three to four weeks. Beans should be left to soak for at least an hour prior to being cooked to decrease gas production. Also, avoid high-fiber food items such as soda and coffee since these food items are known to have a high sugar content.
A high-fibre diet delayed gas transit and decreased the number of boluses that were passed through the rectum. While some people may experience gaseous symptoms following eating a high-fibre diet the cause is usually due to fermenting gases by colonic bacteria. The recommended intake of fibre is between 20 and 35 g per day. Fibre intake can provide many other benefits, as well.
Reduces calorie intake
One of the latest results on diets suggests that eating more fibre can help with weight loss. In the study, participants were divided into four groups based on their diet composition. One group was comprised of people who had a high intake of fiber and an average BMI. The two other groups comprised of people with low fiber intake. All in all, those who met the Adequate Intake (AI) of fiber lost less calories than those who did not.
High-fiber foods are nutrient-rich, more filling, and take longer to eat. This results in a lower calories per portion. Furthermore, they may prolong the life of a person. High-fiber cereals like cereals have been shown to lower your risk of developing all types of cancers as well as cardiovascular disease. While eating more fiber could reduce your calories intake It can also help you enjoy nutritiousand delicious food items and decrease the risk of developing diabetes, heart disease or obesity. | <urn:uuid:6e58c517-6971-4942-9bfc-f8bab5ae7d26> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thinktwicepakistan.com/are-black-beans-high-in-fibre/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.955055 | 1,278 | 3.1875 | 3 |
What are the job responsibilities of an Actuarial Science Teacher ? What does an individual in this position get paid in Georgia?
Here is the position summary for Actuarial Science Teacher as found in BLR’s Salary Finder:
Teach courses pertaining to mathematical concepts, statistics, and actuarial science and to the application of original and standardized mathematical techniques in solving specific problems and situations. Include both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of both teaching and research.
In Georgia, the midpoint of salaries reported for the position (50th percentile) is $58,025. The 75th percentile (the rate below which 75% of salary data falls) is $79,232. The 25th percentile (the rate below which 25% of the data falls) is $43,622.
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How much should you pay an Actuarial Science Teacher ?
Compensation.BLR.com, a leading provider of compensation data, scores this job as exempt (not entitled to overtime). According to Compensation.BLR.com's rate ranges, grade 35 has a minimum of $52,687. The midpoint is $70,249, and the maximum is $87,820.
How much should an employer be paying an Actuarial Science Teacher in Georgia? It depends on many factors, but the most important are the experience and skills of the employee or applicant. Answer these questions: How much experience does he or she have? How highly skilled is he or she? Then, use the table below. Interpolate as necessary.
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Are narcissists *always* cruel?
Why can they be both nice AND mean at times?
They don’t treat everyone poorly – maybe I’m the problem?
Let’s break this down.
Most narcissists are very charming, act like social chameleons and can blend in seamlessly into any environment.
This is because the narcissist’s main objective (like any abuser) is power and control.
If everyone could see right through their fake facade, they wouldn’t be able to manipulate, ostracize, & control their target.
Narcissists observe how “nice people” behave and imitate those behaviors, which confuses any normal, healthy person into believing that “this” is the REAL them-so by the time they start gaslighting, minimizing, and devaluing you, you’re already sucked in.
You’re trying to match their current behaviors with your *first* impression of them. You don’t realize that the first “person” you met, wasn’t real.
That was a facade, meant to reel you in so that by the time you figure it out, you’re shoulder-deep in sinking sand that you never knew you were standing in.
This is made even more confusing by the fact that narcissists often have many people around them fooled into believing that they’re a great person and that YOU are lucky to be with THEM.
Of course, YOU are the narcissist’s target-which means sometimes you’re the ONLY one who is seeing their two-faced facade.
This is why TRUSTING yourself and your own reality is so important.
On the flip side, if someone tries to warn you about a particular person, but you think to yourself, “Well, they’ve never treated *me* badly” or “They’ve always been really nice from what I can tell”.
Stop and consider:
Have you ever given the person they’re warning you about a *reason* to have a problem with you?
Are you close enough to them to *know* whether they’re lying?
Have you ever seen them in a conflict?
Narcissists are masters at hiding in plain sight. Don’t overlook the warning signs when either YOU or OTHERS see them.
The narcissist’s mask will come off eventually – and you don’t want to be their target when it does.
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Work samples and references, certificates and curriculum vitae – the application portfolio can be quite thick in the U.S. Unless you are applying by e-mail – then minimalism is the order of the day. This also applies to the cover letter.
Applications are sent by e-mail in the USA just as often as in Germany. Then the documents include only a cover letter and a resume. A complete written application ("complete dossier") also includes an application form from the company in question, references and a few work samples. In addition, there are other documents that prove your qualifications or certain achievements – for example, also certificates or commendations. It is also important to include a table ("transcript") listing the courses and grades of your studies.
The "transcript" Is a table that contains all the courses and grades of your studies. To do this, you must first convert the number of hours per week so that it corresponds to the American credit system. Two hours per week at a German university are three to four credit hours. Then you have to bring your grades in line with the American grading system. Finally, the respective department of your university has to accept the completed "transcript" still certify.
Conversion table for the US grading system
In the USA, flexibility, persistence and perseverance are part of the application process. When looking for a job, you should be as proactive as possible: Call the companies or go there in person. This way you make first contacts, get to know contact persons and receive valuable information. Present your ambitious, creative and innovative side, because passive applicants will be lost in the land of unlimited opportunities. Soft skills and key qualifications such as flexibility, ambition or communication skills are in the foreground – and that’s exactly what you demonstrate with an active job search.
The application portfolio ("complete dossier")
It looks very different in the USA than we know it: A high-quality, possibly marbled or subtly colored DIN A3 sheet is folded in half. This is how you create a DIN A4 folder with four pages: The first page serves as a cover sheet and is available for your own address. Pages two, three, and four are for the resume. The fourth page can also be used for references or simply left blank. In addition you have to write the cover letter. The design of such a portfolio is only worthwhile for a resume that is at least two pages long. An extensive portfolio is only useful in the USA if it is also required. Otherwise, a cover letter and a resume are sufficient.
The cover letter
You should keep this mail as short as possible and be sure to address it to the correct contact person, i.e., the one named in the advertisement. In the cover letter, you convince the company of your added value, i.e. your experience and ambitions.
To the formal structure: In the first place is your complete address with telephone number and e-mail. You can place these either on the top left or on the top right. After the date, which you can also set either right- or left-aligned, follows the name of the specific addressee of your application and the postal address of the company. Underneath now comes the salutation.
A subject line is usually used in Anglo-American countries as well. However, it is not a must. As in German, refers to the advertised position or to a telephone conversation. In contrast to German business letters, the subject is placed after the salutation and highlighted in bold or underlined. At the beginning of this line it says "RE:" ("with reference to"). This is followed by your freely formulated and written application text. If you have already obtained the necessary documents for a work permit, you should briefly mention this in the cover letter – it underlines your interest in working in the USA.
The curriculum vitae
In the U.S., it is customary to have your own "resume"-Header to be created. The heading "Curriculum Vitae", which is common in Great Britain not applicable. At the top, as in the cover letter, the name of the applicant with the complete contact address. This is usually placed in the middle, but you can also place it flush left or flush right. The resume should not be longer than one page, the content should be limited to the essentials. Build your resume either by subject area or reverse chronologically. The current activity stands then at the beginning of the listing. Do not indicate in the resume when you can start the job. The employer assumes that you can start at short notice, otherwise you would not have applied at all. The resume is not signed in the USA.
In the job descriptions you use active phrases to emphasize that you contribute as an employee. Figures showing that you have increased sales, for example, are also advantageous for your application in the USA. Furthermore, value is placed on social commitment, internships or sporting successes. You round off your application with references.
Taboos in resume and cover letter
Some information that is completely normal in Germany should not appear in an application for the U.S. in any case. The reason for this is the strict US laws against discrimination – and the fear of lawsuits from rejected applicants.
So be sure to omit a photo and information about in your application materials:
- Marital status and children
The interview process in the USA is similar to that in other countries: Most of the time, companies conduct structured interviews with applicants. Depending on the size of the company and the position in question, there may also be intelligence tests or assessment centers. Punctuality is very important in the USA. In interviews, Americans like to get to the point quickly after a short small talk, and the atmosphere is comparatively relaxed. | <urn:uuid:e5d19c95-a3b0-40fd-b8bb-844d8ff71a0f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://milo-tvor.ru/2022/01/apply-in-the-usa.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.946756 | 1,204 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Why tackle today what can be put off until Tuesday? In a new survey, 57 percent of executives said Tuesday is the most productive day of the week for employees. Monday was the second most popular answer, although it appears to be losing favor: Only 12 percent of respondents ranked Monday as most productive, compared to 26 percent in a 2002 survey.
The national poll included responses from 150 senior executives -- including those from human resources, finance, and marketing departments -- with the nation's 1,000 largest companies. It was conducted by an independent research firm and developed by Accountemps, the world's first and largest specialized staffing service for temporary accounting, finance, and bookkeeping professionals.
Executives were asked, "In your opinion, on which day of the week are employees generally most productive?" Their responses:
The results mirror previous surveys conducted in 2002, 1998, and 1987.
"In addition to serving as a 'catch-up' day after the weekend, Monday is when many regularly scheduled meetings occur, which can decrease the time available to complete tasks," said Max Messmer, chairman of Accountemps and author of Managing Your Career For Dummies (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.). "Many view Tuesday as an opportunity to focus their efforts and establish momentum for the rest of the week."
Accountemps offers the following advice for maintaining a high level of productivity throughout the entire week:
Make a plan. Spend 10 to 15 minutes at the beginning of each day mapping out your desired accomplishments. Prioritize the tasks that are most important to the business.
Sharpen your focus. People are more productive when working for an extended period in the same mental mode, as opposed to changing gears frequently. Try to cluster tasks that require similar effort or resources in the same time frame.
Limit distractions. It can be tempting to review e-mail each time a message arrives. However, unless your job requires an immediate response, it's often best to check your inbox periodically throughout the day.
Don't delay. Even peak performers occasionally put off working on unpleasant or overwhelming assignments. One effective way to overcome procrastination is to break a project into smaller, more manageable tasks.
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Market SquareWashington, DC
- Project Use Mixed-Use: Retail, Residential & Office
- Project Size 686,000 sf and 220 Residential Units
- Year Completed 1989
- Project Use
- Mixed-Use: Retail, Residential & Office
- Project Size
- 686,000 sf and 220 Residential Units
- Project Location
- 801 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20004
- Year Completed
- Project Cost
- $250 million
Market Square occupies the north side of Pennsylvania Avenue between 7th and 9th Streets, NW, directly opposite the Archives Building. The development is comprised of two mixed-use buildings flanking the Eighth Street pedestrian plaza and partially surrounding the Navy Memorial and fountains. Immediately north of the site is the busy F Street retail district, and to the east is the Seventh Street Arts Corridor.
The project consists of over 500,000 square feet of office space, 70,000 square feet of retail space, and 225 residential units. Close coordination with WMATA of structural design and construction techniques was required due to the immediate proximity of the Archives Metro station.
Market Square resolves the complex structural and mechanical requirements of housing, office, retail, and parking stacked above each other to achieve the PADC goal of housing on Pennsylvania Avenue. The twin monumental structures float on mat foundations above Tiber Creek, and were constructed with no differential movement immediately adjacent to the Metro Archives Station. | <urn:uuid:6654948d-f12c-4a71-b8a9-5364f1920191> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://westdev.com/project/market-square/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00480-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926155 | 294 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Formerly Acronis True Image
With carjacking, a crook jumps in and takes control of your car. With cryptojacking, online criminals use malware to secretly use the computing resources of your system to mine cryptocurrency – which requires tremendous processing power to calculate exceptionally complex digital equations, called hashes. While the malware does not steal your data, it robs you of considerable system resources, slowing your computer’s performance and significantly increasing your energy use. Sometimes cryptocurrency mining malware is injected into your system, piggybacking on apps or running in the background hoping to go unnoticed. Other times the malware attacks via your web browser when you go to an infected website and runs as long as you are connected to that site.
Since cryptomining demands a lot of processing power, your CPU will be asked to work overtime. If you want to test a PC for mining malware, open your system’s resource monitor (Task Manager for Windows, Activity Monitor for Macs) to see if the CPU use is unusually high. If you’ve closed all the apps on your system and the CPU is still in overdrive, or if CPU use spikes when you visit a specific website, then you may have a cryptominer at work.
Since there are two types cryptominers – browser-based and injection-based – you need to take steps to prevent both types of attacks. For browser-based attacks, the first thing is to determine if your preferred web browser already has an extension available to stop bitcoin mining. Malware detection solutions are available from most popular browsers (e.g. Chrome’s No Coin), and there are plenty of open source extensions available as well.
In the case of injection-based attacks that load the malware onto your system, you’ll need a bitcoin miner scanner. Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office (formerly Acronis True Image) includes an AI-based cryptomining blocker as part of the integrated Acronis Active Protection technology. So not only do you get the backup and anti-ransomware solution you need to protect your data, your system has a built-in defense against cryptominers. | <urn:uuid:fa9e9afc-3e4e-4201-a829-067a7165f1f6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.acronis.com/en-gb/products/true-image/features/cryptomining-blocker/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.914911 | 443 | 2.21875 | 2 |
I broke my back in October 2012 and lived with chronic pain for five years. This is a reality for many people who undergo surgery or suffer from spinal conditions and nerve pain is particularly severe. If you are a chronic pain patient, you have pain 24 hours a day, seven days a week, every minute of your life. The most common outcome of living with pain is depression. Pain can be debilitating and you spend a lot of time in denial and asking why me. After many years coping successfully with chronic nerve pain I want to share advice for others experiencing similar trauma. | <urn:uuid:a66be1db-c767-4ccc-b93b-833b116f016e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bossyflossie.com/tag/cure/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.971175 | 114 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Australia’s universities face the prospect of a prolonged Chinese student drought as reports sweep through the multi-billion dollar industry that Chinese agencies are being encouraged by local authorities not to send students to Australia.
The universities first began receiving these reports at the beginning of this week, at which point the advice not to recommend or advertise Australian universities appeared to be circulating only to agents in smaller regional cities. By Thursday, university sources confirmed some reports had expanded to include Beijing and Shanghai, China’s two largest cities.
Group of Eight chief executive Vicki Thomson said her member universities – which include the University of Sydney and the University of Melbourne – had heard the reports but their veracity remained unclear as there had been no official notification from Chinese authorities.
“There is definitely something afoot. Either agents are being told not to direct students here or they are being told not to mention Australia as an option for study. But we’ve had no official notification from anybody,” Ms Thomson said.
“It is not a positive development and it is one we are certainly very concerned about”.
The pattern of unconfirmed reports mirrors other trade strikes on key Australian industries throughout 2020. Coal importers were given verbal instructions to stop importing Australian coal in December, leaving millions of tonnes of coal stranded off the coast of China. Wine importers were also discouraged from purchasing Australian wine before labelling issues and dumping claims were levelled against Australian producers. In January, China’s Ministry of Education warned some Australian universities have “insufficiently invested” in joint courses for overseas students.
Chinese students are a critical revenue source for Australian universities, with their high fees used to cross-subsidise research. In 2019, Australian universities collectively banked $10 billion in foreign student fees, with China the largest source country, comprising 37 per cent of enrolments.
Chinese Education outlets and state media have published three warnings in February, urging students to “think twice when considering studying in Australia”, citing the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, “frequent racial discrimination” and “questionable education quality”.
The China-Australia Chamber of Commerce will on Saturday release new figures that show more than 60 per cent of the Australia-China education community believe attitudes in China towards Australian education have deteriorated. Schooling experienced the largest decrease in confidence at 62 per cent, with universities a close second at 57 per cent.
Ms Wang, an education consultant at Xinjiang Huanhua International Education, who asked only to be referred to by her last name, said students can apply for Australian universities.
“But none of our students consulted about studying in Australia since the end of 2019. Most of them chose to study in the UK.”
Another regional centre, Kunming, was also cited as an area of concern for university recruitment programs.
A consultant at Kunming Wiseway education agency said applications were being processed and students were applying “but we have informed them about the real situation there”.
Federal Education Minister Alan Tudge said he had received no official confirmation of the reports, which he described as “anecdotal”.
“I’ve not had official reports of this but I’ve heard indirectly that it is occurring in some locations. We don’t want to jump at shadows,” Mr Tudge said.
“Australia offers outstanding education options for Chinese students, most of whom have stuck with Australian universities through the pandemic.”
Griffith University’s Vice President (Global) Sarah Todd said she’d spoken with Australian-based representatives of Chinese recruitment agencies who confirmed their provincial offices were aware of the so-called directive, but said it had not been communicated to them through official channels.
“Agents I’ve spoken to have heard this rumour but nobody provided any evidence of having being approached by anybody. It’s very speculative at the moment. There’s no evidence that any of their Beijing or Shanghai offices have been notified,” Professor Todd said.
The vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne, Duncan Maskell, told The Australian Financial Review on Thursday that staff in China had raised concerns about the situation.
“As with many things like this in China, you struggle to understand whether, at one end of the spectrum, it is a directive or just some pressure on agents not to recommend Australia as a destination,” he said.
Universities were among the first institutions targeted by Chinese authorities at the start of the coronavirus pandemic after Australia shut down travel from China in February 2020, leaving Chinese students stuck at home. But bilateral relations between Canberra and Beijing continued to plummet in the following months over the coronavirus inquiry, blocked business deals and allegations of human rights abuse, fuelling fears that Australia’s number one student market could shun local universities well beyond the coronavirus crisis.
The economic impact of China turning off the tap to Australia-bound students would be considerable. Chinese students comprise the largest cohort of students across Australia’s broader $40 billion international student education export industry, which encompasses schools, private English language colleges, and vocational education institutes.
In Victoria, international student education is the state’s number one export. In NSW it is worth $14 billion a year and is the second-largest export after coal. NSW Treasury is also aware of the reports from Chinese recruitment agencies.
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Case Study : Bumper crops from hedgerows
Upper Hollowfields is a mixed farm with arable crops and cattle/sheep grazing the grassland areas. The hedgerow pattern contributes to the historic character of the site. Hedge management is considered carefully in each field, where possible complimenting other environmental work on the farm, for example higher, thicker hedges provide sheltered semi-shaded spots on 6m wildflower arable margins to benefit plants and wildlife suited to these conditions.
Author(s): Terry, J
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Smoking, obesity, lack of physical activity, excess sodium in the diet and excessive alcohol consumption all cause high blood pressure, notes WebMD. Aging, genetics, stress, thyroid and adrenal disorders, sleep apnea and chronic kidney disease are additional causes. People with a family history of high blood pressure are also more prone to develop the condition.Continue Reading
As many as 95 percent of high blood pressure cases have no apparent cause, notes WebMD. When this happens, the high blood pressure is known as essential hypertension. Risk factors for essential hypertension include being an African American, particularly African American woman age 65 and older, or being male.
People who are more likely to develop high blood pressure include inactive, obese people over age 35. Pregnant women are also susceptible to high blood pressure, as are people who eat fatty foods or take birth control medication, notes WebMD.
High blood pressure in some people is treated with lifestyle changes, including restricting sodium, exercising, stopping smoking and losing weight, notes the American Heart Association. Medications may also be prescribed for treating high blood pressure. If left untreated, high blood pressure increases the risk for heart disease and heart failure, heart attack, peripheral artery disease, kidney disease and stroke.Learn more about Cardiac Health | <urn:uuid:f3fa9a4b-25e4-4b5c-9b7c-2f5a97cdd86d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.reference.com/health/causes-high-blood-pressure-5fd89e1be2d6e17e | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00063-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935126 | 257 | 3.484375 | 3 |
My overall star map theory appears offers a simple method to decode the ancient star maps. Compare the common coincidental similarities. Seen
above the NASA emblem here, the moving star constellation illustration
shows how the ancients seem to interpret Orion's 'belt' as a cosmic signpost.
All one needs to do is follow the three stars in a row to find what appears
to be the place of origin of flesh and blood 'gods'. It could also be
a place of origin of our own human lineage as I have suggested.
However in my recent research on the Renaissance and the Christ/Judas
story seen on this site, I have presented what could be traces of similar
star pattern mention being made of the value of the three stars of Orion
showing the way to something important in the sky. They however do not
include the all important reference to the Pleiades although a special
star is mentioned. Notwithstanding this, I believe these references
to the Orion stars are simply a shortened method to defining the same
ancient theme to locate the sacred place of those that came from above.
Now here is an interesting thought. We are about to space travel to Mars
and it is going to be a massive historical event. Is it not interesting
that the emblem they have created in advance of the Mars mission depicts
an identical pattern that I have recently portrayed.
Correct us if we are reading into things: But it closely resembles the
three stars of Orion's 'belt' as the three in a row 'cosmic sign post'
showing the way to a symbolic 'blue' planet?
Mars has just been discovered to have been a blue planet (see bottom of
Mars page). This idea can't just be a coincidence especially when we go
back a little in time and see the earlier Apollo patch that provides another
clue. The patch below might celebrate the era following the first Mars
Viking probes. It has the cosmic sign post of Orion showing the way again,
I have to ask... is the sacred Orion's Belt alignment linking
Earth with Mars?
NASA know more about the star map theory than it cares to mention? Has something
conclusive been found on Mars that has inspired a very high risking human
journey to it. There have been a lot of internet rumours that NASA is headed
by Freemasons. (Try Google word search: Freemason NASA, and decide for yourself).
We mention this because there is also 'coincidently' an interesting seven
star Freemason 'star map' that the University of Bradford in the UK has
revealed. I have already officially commented that
I will not speak disrespectfully about this society. But one cannot help questioning the uncanny coincidences
that are transpiring here. Is this recognition of the real multi-billion
motivation behind the Mars mission?
The latest promo posters for the ISS mission 45
is rife with symbolism
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An overview of the genus Glyphium and its phylogenetic placement in Patellariales
Eric W.A. Boehm 42 Longacre Drive, Livingston, New Jersey 07039
Division of Mycology, Museum of Natural History, 25 rue Mu¨nster, L-2160 Luxembourg
Geir H. Mathiassen
Department of Natural Sciences, Tromsø University
Museum, the Arctic University of Norway, NO–9037
Alain Gardiennet 14 rue Roulette, 21260 Veronnes, France
Conrad L. Schoch1
National Center for Biotechnology (NCBI), National
Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda, Maryland 20892
Abstract: Glyphium encompasses species with erect, carbonaceous ligulate to dolabrate ascomata that are strongly laterally compressed and dehisce along a longitudinal slit. The five currently recognized members of the genus are separated primarily by whether the ascospores disassociate into part-spores within the ascus. Glyphium has traditionally been placed in Mytilinidiaceae (Mytilinidiales, Pleosporomycetidae, Dothideomycetes). The present study, based on freshly collected material of G. elatum and
G. grisonense, was initiated to determine the phylogenetic placement of Glyphium. Phylogenies inferred from the analysis of sequences of six gene regions (nuLSU, nuSSU, mtSSU, TEF1, RPB1, RPB2) derived from six accessions indicate that Glyphium belongs to
Patellariales (Pleosporomycetidae, Dothideomycetes). Our phylogenies also support the phylogenetic relationship of Patellaria and Hysteropatella within this order. The nomenclatural history of Glyphium is summarized and a key to species is provided.
Key words: Bayesian, maximum likelihood, multigene phylogeny, Patellariaceae
Species of Glyphium Nitschke ex F. Lehm. possess distinctive hatchet-shaped carbonaceous ascomata that dehisce along a longitudinal slit (FIGS. 1–5).
Although the ascomata are superficial, their bases are occasionally embedded in the substrate and might be associated with black interwoven hyphal strands that anchor the ascomata to a dense subicular matrix (FIG. 4). The hamathecium consists of trabeculate pseudoparaphyses borne in a gel-matrix that are thin to lacking at maturity (Zogg 1962, Barr 1990). The ascospores are filiform, multiseptate, occupy the greater length of the ascus in which they are often spirally arranged and become light brown at maturity (FIGS. 6, 7). In some species the ascospores disarticulate into part-spores before maturity while still within the ascus (FIG. 6), while in others the ascospores remain intact even after release (FIG. 7). Glyphium are lignicolous or corticolous and have been recovered from a wide range of hosts, including Alnus, Fagus,
Fraxinus, Malus, Populus, Pyrus, Rhamnus, Rhus,
Ulmus and Salix; one species is described from
Tillandsia (Zogg 1962).
Glyphium currently encompasses five species separated primarily by whether the ascospores disassociate into part-spores (FIG. 6, 7). Species with ascospores that remain entire include G. elatum (Grev.: Fr.) H.
Zogg (FIG. 1), the type of the genus and G. tillandsiae (E.K. Cash) H. Zogg (FIG. 5) (Cash 1943). Three species with ascospores that disassociate into partspores include G. corrugatum (Ellis) Goree (FIG. 3), a species found in the western United States and
Canada (Sutton 1970, Goree 1974), and two morphologically similar European species, G. grisonense Math. (FIG. 2) and G. schizosporum (Maire) H. Zogg (FIG. 4) (Zogg 1962, Sutton 1970). Anamorphs belonging to the form genus Peyronelia have been described for these latter three species (Lohman 1933a, Sutton 1970, Goree 1974) but are unknown for Glyphium possessing intact ascospores.
The first sequence data for Glyphium was provided by Lindemuth et al. (2001) and Lumbsch et al. (2005). They sequenced CBS 268.34, the only available culture of G. elatum derived from the rhizoidal strands and subiculum subtending the ascoma of this species. These workers employed sequences from the nuclear small (nuSSU) and large (nuLSU) ribosomal subunits, as well as the mitochondrial small (mtSSU) and large (mtLSU) ribosomal subunits. This demonstrated that Glyphium was not a member of the
Mytilinidiaceae but closely associated with Chaetothyriales, in the Eurotiomycetes. The unexpected placement of Glyphium in Chaetothyriales was reSubmitted 24 Jul 2014; accepted for publication 15 Jan 2015. 1 Corresponding author. E-mail: email@example.com
Mycologia, 107(3), 2015, pp. 607–618. DOI: 10.3852/14-191 # 2015 by The Mycological Society of America, Lawrence, KS 66044-8897 607
FIGS. 1–8. Ascomatal variation within the genus Glyphium. 1. Glyphium elatum (EB 0329/BPI 892669), Salix caprea,
Luxembourg. 2. Glyphium schizosporum (BPI 652567), Salix appendiculata, Switzerland. 3. Glyphium corrugatum (BPI 1107474), decorticated deciduous wood, Oregon, USA. 4. Glyphium grisonense (TROM 4395), Salix caprea ssp. sphacelata, Norway. (photo credit: Jostein Kjærandsen, UiT). 5. Glyphium tillandsiae (labeled as Lophium tillandsiae, BPI 1108420), Tillandsia fasciculata,
Florida, USA. 6. Intact ascus containing eight disarticulating ascospores of G. schizosporum (BPI 652567). 7. Intact ascus containing eight filiform ascospores of G. elatum (EB 0342/BPI 892670). 8. Filiform ascospore sending out multiple germ tubes on water agar, recovered from fresh material of G. elatum (EB 0342/BPI 892670). Bars: 1–5 5 0.5 mm, 6–8 5 50 mm. 608 MYCOLOGIA stated in a number of studies based on CBS 268.34.
However, subsequent work by Gueidan et al. (2008),
Tsuneda et al. (2011) and Re´blova´ et al. (2013) positioned this CBS culture within Knufia in Chaetothyriales, resulting in the relabeling of the sequence accessions at GenBank corresponding to CBS 268.34 as ‘‘Knufia sp. CBS 268.34’’.
Based on morphological work, scientists (e.g. Barr 1990) placed Glyphium in what is now Mytilinidiales in Dothideomycetes. The aim of the current study was to determine the phylogenetic placement of this genus based on sequences obtained from fresh, recently collected material of G. elatum and G. grisonense from Luxembourg, France and Norway. | <urn:uuid:c3890729-90ad-4ffb-95ca-bbeccc4bdfe0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://thirdworld.nl/an-overview-of-the-genus-glyphium-and-its-phylogenetic-placement-in-patellariales | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00126-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.81318 | 1,711 | 1.804688 | 2 |
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For eras, art has been a catalyst for storytelling, a space for ideas to gain momentum, and a medium, which continues to set the stage; Indigenous American artist, Gregg Deal, is authentically incorporating art and activism to provoke thought and challenge people to think outside the lines.
By Shayler Richmond
According to reports, over 5 million Indigenous peoples live in the United States, making up 2 percent of the U.S. population. The terms Indigenous and Native are used to identify aboriginal American people; the use of the term "Indian" to identify Indigenous peoples is incorrect and offensive, as offensive as claiming Columbus discovered America. All American soil was once Indigenous land, which we are now stewards over, so inclusion and representation of Indigenous peoples are imperative. | <urn:uuid:38465ff4-7be1-4c10-a34a-a945accc8d75> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.richmagdigital.com/native-artist-gregg-deal-uses-art-to-fight-for-humanity/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.9536 | 152 | 3.375 | 3 |
Australia had a big win last week with the ratification of a free trade agreement (FTA) with China according to Alan O’Brien of Bord Bia’s Shanghai Office.
He said the deal which was 10 years in the making represents a big win for Australian dairy and meat sectors, with tariffs being phased out over the next 10 years (4 years for dairy in line with the New Zealand FTA).
China is Australia’s largest trading partner, with 20% of Australian imports coming from China, and 36% of exports going to China.
O’Brien says under this deal China will benefit from easing of restrictions on foreign direct investments, with core benefits in mining, energies and agriculture.
He says the Chinese market is currently worth €6.37bn to Australia’s agrifood sector, however, the country’s share of China’s import market has more than halved over the last 10 years, dropping from 6% to 3% of the overall import market, with countries including New Zealand, France, Indonesia and Brazil increasing share across key sectors, primarily meat and dairy.
Australia is a strong player in China’s dairy market but, as highlighted by Rabobank (2014), the country has been marginalised as a major exporter due to a decrease in Australia’s overall dairy production according to O’Brien.
He said this FTA will increase Australia’s competitive position in China, especially with regard to New Zealand, its core competitor in powders and commodity products.
O’Brien said tariffs on Australian dairy products are expected to be brought in line with New Zealand; all being phased out by 2019. He highlighted that the deal will also impact Europe’s competitive position across key commodities, including infant formula.
In terms of beef O’Brien said unlike the FTA for dairy products, the meat sector, including beef and pork, will see tariffs phased out slowly over a 10 year period.
Last year Australia dominated China’s beef import market, accounting for 51% of China’s total imports of 282,890 MT (New Zealand accounting for 12.4%). According to O’Brien this deal will strengthen the country’s already strong position (general beef tariff currently 25% versus New Zealand 5.6% -all phased out by 2025). | <urn:uuid:0021f54a-8322-46ca-bb4b-0e48ed85afb2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/china-free-trade-agreement-big-win-australia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.943213 | 485 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Pharisees Test Jesus
The Pharisees and Sadducees came up, and testing Jesus, they asked Him to show them a sign from heaven.
But He replied to them, When it is evening, you say, It will be
fair weather, for the sky is red.
And in the morning, There will be
a storm today, for the sky is red and threatening. Do you know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but cannot discern
the signs of the times?
An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and a sign will not be given it, except the sign of Jonah. And He left them and went away.
5And the disciples came to the other side of the sea, but they had forgotten to bring any bread.
6And Jesus said to them, Watch out and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
7They began to discuss this among themselves, saying, He said that because we did not bring any bread.
8But Jesus, aware of this, said, You men of little faith, why do you discuss among yourselves that you have no bread?
9Do you not yet understand or remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets full you picked up?
10Or the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many large baskets full you picked up?
11How is it that you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
12Then they understood that He did not say to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Peters Confession of Christ
13Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, He was asking His disciples, Who do people say that the Son of Man is?
14And they said, Some say John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; but still others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.
15He said to them, But who do you say that I am?
16Simon Peter answered, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.
17And Jesus said to him, Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.
18I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it.
19I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.
20Then He warned the disciples that they should tell no one that He was the Christ.
Jesus Foretells His Death
21From that time Jesus began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised up on the third day.
22Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him, saying, God forbid it, Lord! This shall never happen to You.
23But He turned and said to Peter, Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me; for you are not setting your mind on Gods interests, but mans.
Discipleship Is Costly
24Then Jesus said to His disciples, If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.
25For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.
26For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
27For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and WILL THEN REPAY EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS.
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Dubbed Dudley Duplex, this two-headed California king snake had been found by a local property owner and donated to the Zoo’s collection. According to the snake’s size—about one foot in length—Dudley was estimated to have hatched earlier that year. Two-headed snakes were (and are) rare, but not unheard of. The best available information at the time indicated such serpents only lived for about a year in zoos, but less in the wild—with two heads, there are significant challenges in which direction to travel, which head decides to hunt for food, and which head will swallow the prey.
At the Zoo, however, keepers could make sure conflict was minimal and feeding was effective. Dudley Duplex went on to celebrate many birthdays at the Reptile House, setting a longevity record of 6.5 years and bringing the Zoo a great deal of media attention. He even appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson along with Joan Embery. Of course, as an article in ZOONOOZ reported at the time, “All the publicity…failed to turn either head.” | <urn:uuid:aa172305-2f42-4de4-a8d9-d0eb5ed670a3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://sandiegozoo100.org/100-animals/dudley-duplex | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282935.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00245-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978225 | 236 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Barhebraeus' Scholia on the Old Testament. Part I: Genesis - II Samuel
Martin Sprengling and William Creighton Graham, editors
Gregory Abu'l-Faraj (1226-1286) or "Bar-Hebraeus" (as he is generally called on account of his Jewish parentage) is the most outstanding figure in Syriac literature. An example of the last branch of study is his Ausar Raze, "Storehous of Mysteries," which is a series of doctrinal and philological comments on the whole of the Old and New Testaments. The importance of the Ausar Raze for the study of the biblical text has never been overlooked, and many portions of it have been published since 1858; but the present volume is the first serious attempt at a full-scale production with a promise by the editors of its completion. The text, in photofacsimile, is Florence: Medicean Lib. 230 (dated 1278), and 19 other MSS are collated. A very literal translation is given vis-a-vis the text, and there are brief notes, confined in the main to pointing out the relevant literature. [From a review by S. H. Stephan in the Journal of the Palestine Oriental Society 12 (1932) 183 ]
- Oriental Institute Publications 13
- Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1931
- Pp. xvi + 393; 142 text illustrations
- 9.00 x 11.75 in.
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The coming 8th and 9th of July the Pope will be coming to Valencia to close the Fifth World Meeting of Families. The fact that he holds a double title – Head of State of the Vatican and Head of the Catholic Church – ensures that citizens will not be indifferent to the visit, regardless of whether they are Catholics or they profess no religion, especially because the official policy of the Catholic Church impinges upon the rights and duties of all citizens.
However, the enthusiasm and unconditional support that the different municipal and governmental administrations are giving to the visit (City Hall, County Council, Generalitat and the Spanish State) go well beyond what is tolerable in an aconfessional state. It is not acceptable for public institutions to devote huge amounts of infrastructures and human and economic resources to a series of public events that are merely the proposal of one organization, the Catholic Church, which does not represent us all and which does not form a part of the common interest that should guide the practice of good governance. Especially since it is a Meeting that imposes a model of the family based on exclusion.
The groups, collectives and organizations that have signed this document, plural and heterogeneous in their political positions, ideological make-up, confessional and non-confessional, DECLARE:
1/ Lay state and lay society
We do not live in a society with a single culture or a single religion. This is an unquestionable trait of our society’s historical reality, but it is also an opportunity to enrich our views and to live in solidarity with “the other”. We all have the right to celebrate what we are: atheists, agnostics, religious people, believers … and bring our beliefs into harmony with those of other members of our society by means of dialogue and concrete practices – the defence of human, social and ecological rights and the pursuit of a fairer society. For this harmonious fellowship to be possible and positive for all, there is one condition that must necessarily be fulfilled: the existence of a lay state that guarantees the exercise of rights inherent to all its collectives.
We therefore demand that certain sectors of the Catholic Church recognise the need to firstly, admit to, and then put a stop to, their confessional arrogance and to accept that the future will necessarily imply a lay state and a lay society founded on the basis of respect and equality, without any privileges for a particular religion. Along the same lines, the Government must act in consequence with the principles laid down by an aconfessional state enshrined in the Constitution, legislate in accordance with the criteria of laicism and promote respect for diversity.
2/ Victims of neoliberalism
The neoliberal system is undergoing a continuous dynamic involving both development and expansion, leaving in its wake poverty and exclusion for men and women, peoples and regions. We claim, as of right, the ethical, moral option in favour of the underprivileged and denounce the legitimising support that different religious confessions give to neoliberalism. To give but one example, the way that, year after year, the Catholic authorities act in connivance with representatives of political and military power, as in the Corpus Christi procession in Valencia, is an expressive image of this perversion.
We therefore urge society as a whole and especially all the churches and religious traditions to work together to defend a clean, livable and sustainable planet; to promote relationships between men and women and peoples based on solidarity, cooperation and mutual respect; to become involved in working for a culture of peace, based on active non-violence and dialogue as efficient conflict-solving tools; in an active way to opt for the demilitarisation of states and nations as the only possible guarantee in the short or long-term, of a peace which is fair and long-lasting. All of us, including churches and religions, can prove our worth before future generations insofar as we bequeath them a culture of peace and life.
3/ Agreements between the Church and the State
The agreements signed by the Church and the Spanish state, on January 3, 1979, represent the origin of many of the overprivileged situations of the Catholic Church and its conflict with the Spanish state. These agreements generate an inequality between the Catholic Church and the other religious confessions and limit the freedom of the two signatories: moreover some aspects of these agreements could easily be classified as inconstitutional. We therefore defend their denunciation and abolition.
4/ The Vatican State
The fact that this tiny, anachronic, artificial and theocratic state, whose head is the Pope, exists, and is internationally recognised, is a privilege and attribute of power that damages the representativeness of the international organization of nations. We would also like to point out that the Vatican has not signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We therefore advocate the suppression and non-recognition of this State.
5/ Educational System and Religion
We defend a public, lay, democratic, Valencian, educational system of quality. Such a system is incompatible with the imposition of the teaching of religion defended by the hierarchy of the Catholic Church, it is incompatible with the Catholic Church’s influence over the configuration and management of the educational system according to discriminatory criteria on the basis of sex, social background …, it is incompatible with the Church’s monopoly regarding the transmission of life and cultural values or with any other monopoly.
The challenge of social cohesion afforded to us by young people and multiculturality make it necessary for the State to create and guarantee the conditions for equal opportunities so that all citizens may exercise freedom in the future.
6/ Culture and the Valencian language
The tendency to censure freedom of thought, of artistic and scientific expression, in a word, of culture, is a sadly characteristic trait that has endured throughout the centuries of history of the Catholic Church. It is not strange to meet with prohibitions and coercion of public administration instigated by the religious hierarchy against theatrical performances, music festivals, exhibitions … We demand the complete independence of society and public institutions in the face of ecclesiastic stratagems to favour censorship.
On the other hand, since the time of the ill-fated archbishop Mayoral, nearly 300 years ago, the Church has practiced a linguistic cleaning of Valencian. Writers like Ramon Llull, Ausiàs March, Joanot Martorell, Sor Isabel de Villena, Francesc Eiximenis, among many others, testify to the literary contribution that we have bequeathed to humanity. Similarly, the Church, and especially its leaders, has routinely united with the powerful who have eliminated the cultural traits of our people and have expelled from their social practices our language. We emphatically denounce, as an outrage against inculturalization and human rights, the compulsory imposition of the Spanish language that the Church of the Valencian country has suffered as well as the decisive role that the Church has played in the imposition of specifically Spanish values on our society and as a result, we demand a redress of this violation of a human right.
7/ Ostentation and misery
A society’s ethical maturity is revealed in the way it treats those on the lowest rungs of the social ladder and by the priority of objectives in the distribution of public money.
In a democratic society, it is up to the citizens to assess public events and it is they that have the final say. In the first place, before the forthcoming visit of the Pope, we demand moderation in the use of public money, simplicity and sobriety and financial transparency: where do the financial resources come from, who is contributing money, how much and what is it being invested in, etc. We should never forget that just a few hundred metres away from where a platform costing 130 million pesetas is being put up, immigrants eke out a miserable existence under a bridge because the local authorities in Valencia do not have a hostel for them.
8/ Family diversity
. Over the last decades we have witnessed a profound transformation of family structures in our society. There are traditional families, extended or nuclear, single-parent, reconstructed, homoparent families, families with and without children, unmarried families. Women’s liberation, the recognition of rights for gays, lesbians, transsexuals and bisexuals and their legal expression in the form of same gender marriage, civil unions, divorce, filiation … all form a part of this evolution that comes up against the intolerant opposition from the most reactionary sectors of our society, who oppose any change that implies a loss of the symbolic and real power that they hold over society in this field.
Gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transsexuals and, also unmarried mothers, divorced persons … are collectives that have been stigmatised, even condemned to death and burnt throughout history. The Catholic Church too has its hands dirty with blood and ignominy. Contrary to what we could expect, at a moment when the Spanish Government is making the right to divorce more flexible and extending the right to civil marriage, far from seeking to amend its historical misdeeds, the Catholic hierarchy insists with its vehement and stubborn opposition and takes to the streets to demonstrate its rejection of love between same gender persons, a rejection which it did not demonstrate in the protests against the Iraq war or in so many other social protests.
We wish to remind the Pope and the catholic hierarchy that the right to legislate concerning families, marriage or divorce belongs to the Government and not to the Church. The Church only has authority over the sacraments and not over the civil law on marriage. To forget this fact is to return to National-Catholicism, of such wretched memory, and the responsibility of the Catholic Church with the role it played in the fascist military coup of 1936 and later during Franco’s regime, which has a great deal to answer for, as it actively collaborated with genocide and has never made an act of contrition or recognised its offences.
Churches, some more than others, are institutions that are profoundly marked by patriarchy and male chauvinism. Throughout history, they have generated a misogynous theology that has considered women as prime instigators of all evils, especially those related to sex. This could scarcely have been otherwise if we recall that the generation of theological texts and the governance of churches has been in the hands of celibate theologians and clergymen. Despite all this, thanks to their tenacious and constant struggle, women have been able to secure situations of equality in civilian society. Against this emancipatory tendency, the Catholic hierarchy has adopted a rhetorical stand that loads with praise the excellencies of womankind, but, in practice, precludes their freedom of choice and even justifies the abuse of women. We therefore denounce this spurious and misogynous rhetoric and demand complete equality for women. We must stamp out any discourse or practice that discriminates against women.
10/ Reproductive rights and sexual health
The use of contraceptives in our sexual life is something that has most contributed to making sexual relationships more human and to endow them with responsibility in reproductive decisions. Fully responsible motherhood and fatherhood are possible thanks to contraceptives, assisted reproduction and in vitro fertilization. We are therefore opposed to the Church’s doctrine that condemns them and request that, insofar as it is influencing the policies of states and the personal decisions of individuals, the Church review, using interdisciplinary criteria, its traditional stand on all aspects related to sex.
Reproductive rights are internationally recognised as an integral part of human rights and stipulate that both men and women should have control of their sexuality and, in particular, their contraceptive methods, and be able to decide if they wish to have children, and when and how. They also imply recognition of diverse sexual options to be able to live a joyful, free and safe sexuality. We therefore demand that these rights be guaranteed in the name of the autonomy of women.
11/ Contraceptives, AIDS and social stigma
Contraceptives are the most appropriate means to maintain safer sexual relations and are the means that the World Health Organization (WHO) advocates to check the AIDS pandemic. We hold that the hierarchy of the Church is an accomplice to this pandemic with its incredible condemnation of this means of preventing sexual disease, one that is necessary to enable people to maintain responsible and healthy sexual relationships.
It is absolutely essential to do away with the punitive messages sent out from the pulpit which have intentionally portrayed AIDS as a divine punishment. We understand that the HIV-AIDS stigma is directly related to the availability of antirretroviral medicines, and thus we need to speak out in order to guarantee the appropriate treatment to all those people who live with HIV, with the aim of helping to minimise the suffering caused by the AIDS stigma.
In this day and age, we humans have access to a great amount of scientific knowledge which has explained many of the questions that have been asked related to the processes that originated life. Constant progress in genetic and biotechnological research has afforded us therapeutical opportunities to cure and prevent many illnesses that hitherto have been incurable. To improve life, to make life healthier and more human, is one of a scientist’s most noble tasks: Although the fact that something can be done does not mean that it should be done – because ethics is inseparable from scientific research – we fail to understand the Church’s decision to oppose and condemn, on principle, scientific research and the possibility of putting science at the service of human beings.
On the threshold of an epoch full of hope in the field of life, we desperately need a common and intercultural search for a bioethics that promotes and proves the worth of human responsibility. Truth is not to be had and held: it is to be sought as it is the sum of many truths. And new certainties always come along. When one truth excludes all others, it ceases to be truth because doubt forms an essential part of truth.
In the last analysis, the basic difference between the social model defended by the Vatican and those proposed by the entities that support this Declaration is that we respect ideological diversity and its expression in the laws and norms of living together that always seek to promote freedom and responsibility so that it is people who can take decisions. The official discourse of the Catholic Church, and of many religions, attempts to impose its idiosyncratic ideology on all citizens, through the laws and norms of living together, independently of whether we actually share their moral viewpoint. We wish to denounce the excluding and exclusive nature that characterises religious discourse.
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Eight Yoga Poses For Better Sleep
Submitted by JoyLife Therapeutics on May 25, 2012
If you have trouble sleeping at night and especially if your insomnia is stress related, yoga can help you achieve your goal in no time at all. There are specific bedtime yoga poses that can help you relax and release any pent up tension.
Following are eight of the most relaxing yoga poses for better sleep. Hold each of them for a minute and you have a speedy eight-minute bedtime ritual that prepares your body and mind for a relaxing night ahead:
- Thunderbolt Pose (Vajrasana) - This pose is excellent for acidity or indigestion. If stomach problems are keeping you up at night, Vajrasana can help reduce the symptoms.
- Downward Facing Dog Pose (Adho Mukha Svanasana) – This pose involves an inversion and it helps calm the body as well as stretch the muscles in the shoulders, calves, and hamstrings.
- Child’s Pose (Balasana)– The Child’s Pose is a classic yoga pose to stretch the hips, thighs, and ankles. Any residual back pain or muscle fatigue felt at the end of the day also lessens with this pose.
- Goddess Pose (Supta Baddha Konasana) – This pose opens up the groin area and reduces stress stored in the leg muscles
- or Legs up the Wall Pose (Viparita Karani) - The benefits of this pose include improved blood circulation and reduced pain in the lower back and hamstrings.
- Crocodile Pose (Makarasana)– This relaxing asana calms the nerves and massages the heart. As your pulse rate slows down, sleep soon sets in.
- Seated Forward Bend (Paschimottanasana) – Best for easing tension in the spine and hamstrings.
- Corpse Pose (Savasana) – Most yoga classes end with this pose. It’s the perfect way to relax every muscle in your body and become aware of the rhythms of your breath before you fall off to sleep. Deep breathing also prevents your mind from wandering and stops the unceasing chatter in your head.
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Public health policy highlights needs and gaps in public health. Understanding policy development is a critical skill for epidemiologists. Policy is developed through a rigorous and dynamic process involving a balance between epidemiological data, strength of evidence, values, costs, ethics, and politics. Government agencies, organizations, politicians and policy makers, funding agencies, and public health professionals are all involved in the process.
Implementing public health policy is often formal and structured. Epidemiological data help stakeholders understand health issues and priorities. As policy is developed, stakeholders are involved in carrying out the process and allocating resources.
For this Discussion, review the week’s Learning Resources and consider how epidemiological data might influence the development of public health policies. Using the Walden Library or the Internet find an example of how epidemiological data has been used to develop a public health policy. Consider how the different stakeholders involved in the design and implementation of the example you selected used epidemiological data.
With these thoughts in mind:
Post an explanation of an initiative in which epidemiological data had been used to develop a policy. Describe the stakeholders that were involved in designing and implementing this policy. Then give three examples of how the epidemiological data was used in the design and implementation of the policy. Support your post using scholarly resources.
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While there is no shortage of benefits of migrating to Microsoft 365, from cutting physical hardware and storage costs to reducing administrative duties and increasing collaboration, we will now take a deeper dive in exploring the specific benefits of hosted email services. In addition to the business class email services of Outlook, with synced contacts and calendars across phone and web applications and easy Active Directory integration, you also have the convenient options of document sharing directly within email messages, the increased security of various email encryption options, redundancy and low cost storage.
The Convenience of Modern Attachments
Rather than sifting through file explorer to find the latest document you need to attach to your outgoing email message, Outlook’s Modern Attachments feature allows you to attach recent files directly from your email message window. If however, you do need to do a bit of searching, in addition to browsing the files on your machine, you can easily browse web locations from which to add your attachment. The beauty of attaching a file from your One Drive account to your email, is that a cloud icon will appear next to your attachment, which indicates that because it’s stored online there are a number of additional options available to both the email sender and recipient. By default, email recipients will have permission to edit the cloud based documents, but the sender can simply change these permissions to only allow them to view. Additionally, if the sender would like the recipient to be able to make changes, but not to the version stored in One Drive, the sender has the option to simply attach a copy of the document.
Email Encryption and Security
Office 365 offers three types of email encryption to administrators to secure email. These include:
- Office Message Encryption (OME)
- Built on Azure Rights Management, you can send encrypted email to people both in and outside of your organization, to any email address. Administrators can define rules for encryption conditions.
- Secure/Multipurpose Mail Extensions (S/MIME)
- This is a certificate-based method of encryption that allows you to encrypt and digitally sign email. Only the intended recipient will be able to open the encrypted message and the digital signature allows email recipients to verify the authenticity of the sender.
- Information Rights Management (IRM)
- This method of encryption allows administrators to restrict the usage of emails, protecting sensitive information from being printed, forwarded or copied.
In addition to these email encryption methods, Office 365 already encrypts server connections with Transport Layer Security by default. In this case, even if a transmission was intercepted by a malicious party, they wouldn’t be able to decipher it.
Not only can Outlook help you protect your email communication, but with Microsoft Exchange Online Protection automatically enables spam filtering and virus protection on inbound and outbound emails, with multi-layered filters and scanning engines. Users can also manage their own Spam settings and retrieve blocked emails.
Losing an on premise email servers can be disastrous and can be a huge set back, financially. Downtime means lost productivity but with Microsoft’s guarantee of 99.9% uptime, you don’t need to worry too much. Office 365 is hosted in globally distributed data centers with redundant network architecture, and provides continuous backup and recovery services, so your email data is always accessible.
Low Cost Storage
Users have either a 50 GB or unlimited mailbox size depending on the Office 365 mail package that’s purchased.
On top of the above benefits, with Office 365 built in tools, migrating from on premise email services to Office 365 is seamless. To explore migration options that will reduce operational and IT costs, minimize future costs and increase agility, contact Align’s professional services experts to learn more about adapting and managing your infrastructure. | <urn:uuid:9a507064-a4a9-4a0d-8f47-53346a1bf32d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.align.com/blog/the-benefits-of-office-365-migration | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.912794 | 771 | 1.632813 | 2 |
I often hesitate to link Metal directly to Romanticism, primarily because most of the British Romantics I know (early Coleridge and Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, even Keats) were "liberals", whose opinions on many things I fiercely disagree with. However, in terms of the perspectives on art, primarily poetic and prosaic literature, I would class even myself as "a Romantic". I can certainly see links between Metal and Gothic/Dark Romantic literature, mostly in the use of horror, terror, fear etc. as primary sources of inspiration, or even subject matter.
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“Now we believe that something can actually happen. Before, the decisions were made far away from here and our opinions did not matter,” says Stella Mwangangi who lives in the Makueni county in Kenya. After a long wait, a new health centre, funded by the county, is being built in the village. “I would have liked to give birth at a health centre but it was too far away at the time. Now the services will be closer to us.”
The Constitution of Kenya, adopted in 2010, transferred powers from the central government to the 47 counties. The devolution of power aims to improve both citizens’ opportunities for participation and public services and to increase the transparency of administration. The pace of implementing the reform has varied from one part of the country to another. Concrete development results can be seen particularly in remote areas which the central government ignored for decades. Improving the knowledge of county employees, fighting corruption and improving the financial and administrative systems still require a lot of work. Finland supports the further development of regional administration, the improvement of accountability and the promotion of citizen participation in collaboration with the World Bank, the German agency for international cooperation (GIZ) and the Kenyan URAIA Trust.
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Satellite Study Finds Major Shifts in Global Freshwater
Satellite Study Finds Major Shifts in Global Freshwater
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – A new global, satellite-based study of Earth’s freshwater distribution found that wet areas are getting wetter and dry areas drier. The data suggest that this pattern is due to a variety of human and natural factors, including people’s use and management of water, human-caused climate change, and natural climate cycles.
A NASA-led research team that included Hiroko Beaudoing, a faculty specialist in the University of Maryland’s Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), used 14 years of observations from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite program to track global trends in freshwater in 34 regions around the world.
The study, recently published in the journal Nature, also incorporated satellite precipitation data from the ESSIC-led Global Precipitation Climatology Project; Landsat imagery from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey; irrigation maps; and published reports of human activities related to agriculture, mining and reservoir operations. Using data taken from 2002 to 2016, the study suggests that changes in two-thirds of the 34 regions, from California to China may be linked to climate change or human water use, such as large scale pumping of groundwater for farming.
Freshwater is present in lakes, rivers, soil, snow, groundwater and glacial ice. Its loss in the ice sheets at the poles—attributed to climate change—has implications for sea level rise. On land, it is one of Earth's most essential resources. While some regions' water supplies are relatively stable, others normally experience increases or decreases. But the current study revealed a new and distressing pattern.
"What we are witnessing is major hydrologic change," said co-author James Famiglietti of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "We see, for the first time, a very distinctive pattern of the wet land areas of the world getting wetter—those are the high latitudes and the tropics—and the dry areas in between getting dryer. Embedded within the dry areas we see multiple hotspots resulting from groundwater depletion."
Famiglietti noted that while water loss in some regions is clearly driven by warming climate, such as the melting ice sheets and alpine glaciers, it will take more time before other patterns can be unequivocally attributed to climate change.
"The pattern of wet-getting-wetter, dry-getting-drier is predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change models for the end of the 21st century, but we’ll need a much longer dataset to be able to definitively say that climate change is responsible for the emergence of a similar pattern in the GRACE data," Famiglietti said. "However, the current trajectory is certainly cause for concern."
The twin GRACE satellites launched in 2002 measured changes in Earth's gravity field caused by movements of large volumes of water or other forms of mass on the planet below. Using this method, variations in terrestrial water storage were tracked until the GRACE mission ended in October 2017. However, the GRACE satellite observations alone couldn’t tell the research team what was causing the apparent trends.
"We examined information on precipitation, agriculture and groundwater pumping to find a possible explanation for the trends estimated from GRACE," said Beaudoing, who has joint appointments at UMD and NASA Goddard.
The team found that across numerous regions one of the big causes of groundwater depletion was agriculture, which can be complicated by natural cycles. California, which in 2017 produced more than half of the total vegetable production in the U.S., was a prime example. Decreases in freshwater caused by the state’s severe drought from 2007 to 2015 were compounded by groundwater withdrawals to support the farms in the state’s Central Valley and elsewhere. A majority of California's freshwater comes in the form of rainfall and snow that collects in the Sierra Nevadas and then is managed through a series of reservoirs as it melts. When natural cycles led to dry years with diminished snowpack and surface waters, farmers and other Californians relied more heavily on groundwater.
Natural cycles of rainy and dry years also can cause large decreases and increases in regional amounts of freshwater. For example, in Africa the western Zambezi basin and Okavango Delta, is a vital watering hole for wildlife in northern Botswana. And during the 14-year study period water storage in this region increased at an average rate of 29 gigatons (126 million Olympic swimming pools) per year from 2002 to 2016. This wet period during the GRACE mission followed a dry period of at least two decades. Lead author of the paper Matt Rodell, who is chief of the Hydrological Sciences Laboratory at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, said he believes this is a case of natural variability that occurs over decades in this region of Africa.
"This is the first time we’ve assessed how freshwater availability is changing, everywhere on Earth, using satellite observations," said Rodell. "A key goal was to distinguish shifts in terrestrial water storage caused by natural variability—wet periods and dry periods associated with El Niño and La Niña, for example—from trends related to climate change or human impacts, like pumping groundwater out of an aquifer faster than it is replenished."
The twin GRACE satellites, launched in 2002 as a joint mission with the German Aerospace Center (DLR), precisely measured the distance between the two satellites to detect changes in Earth's gravity field caused by movements of mass on the planet below. Using this method, GRACE tracked variations in terrestrial water storage on monthly to yearly timescales until its science mission ended in October 2017. A successor mission, called GRACE Follow-On is undergoing final preparations for launch.
Thumbnail: Artist's rendering shows the twin spacecraft of the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiement Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission, a partnership between NASA and the German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ. Image credit: NASA JPL/Caltech.
Photo: World map depicts one image in a time series of data collected by NASA's GRACE mission from 2002 to 2016, showing where freshwater storage was higher (blue) or lower (red) than the average for the 14-year study period.
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Associate Professor (Food Safety)
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Research and teaching
- Ecosystem Health
- Immunology and Infectious Disease
- Production Animal Health
- Public Health
Research / Scholarly Activities
My research is aimed at advancing food safety from farm to folk by precisely understand human health risk potentially posed by foodborne pathogens of animal origin (Theme 1) as well as to develop innovative strategies to minimize food safety risk (Theme 2).
To achieve Theme 1, the research activities are centered on defining mechanisms that promote persistence and transmission of zoonotic pathogens in the entire food production system using cutting-edge technologies (e.g. single cell RNA-seq and live-cell imaging microscopy). Our current focuses are 1) towards an understanding of the molecular and cellular basis for biofilm formation of zoonotic pathogens in gastrointestinal and respiratory tract of animal and food processing environment; 2) study physiological growth parameters, population dynamics and alternations of virulence traits of microbial pathogens under real food production environments; 3) Investigate footprint and persistence of antimicrobial resistance genes in livestock production system using metagenomics approaches.
To achieve Theme 2, the #1 research effort focuses on explore effective and environmental friendly measures (e.g. bacteriophage-derived biocontrol, nanotechnology) to intervene antimicrobial resistance transfer and for prevention and control of zoonotic pathogens. We will initially focus our efforts on improved strategies for biocontrol of pathogenic E. coli, Salmonella and Campylobacter spp., the top three most burdensome bacterial foodborne pathogens in terms of costs of foodborne illness and deaths in Canada. To develop better bacteriophage biocontrol products, we are interested in deep understanding interaction and dynamics between phage and their bacterial host at both population and single-cell resolution. We are also interested in gaining knowledge of phage-phage interaction as well as how phageome interact with microbiome and their role in regulation of microbiome structure and metabolism and host immunity in animal and human health. The #2 research direction centers on developing robust, rapid and sensitive innovative technologies for real-time detection of foodborne pathogens and diagnosis of infectious disease. Our current dedication is development of isothermal nucleic acid amplification based platform for diagnosis of animal infectious disease (e.g. BRD).
Trainees will receiving comprehensive training on Molecular and Cellular Microbiology, Virology, Genomics, Transcriptomics, Proteomics, Biochemistry
Dr. Niu is an Assistant Professor of Food Safety, who joined the Department of Ecosystem and Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Calgary in September 2017. Before joining the Faculty, she worked in Alberta Agriculture and Forestry (AF) as a Research Scientist, researching on virulence and persistence of foodborne pathogens in animal food production system as well as detection and prevention of multi-drug resistant bacterial pathogens that cause bovine respiratory disease in feedlot cattle. Dr. Niu gained doctoral degree and received training of bacteriology, virology, biochemistry and biotechnology in Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and AF where she conducted a joint PhD program and postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Tim McAllister and Dr. Kim Stanford. Her area of expertise include food safety, bacteriophage genomics and biology, phage therapy, detection and biocontrol of zoonotic pathogens. She also holds Adjutant Professor at the University of Alberta.
1. Peng K., Jin L., Niu Y.D., Huang Q., McAllister T.A., Yang H.E., Denise H., Xu Z., Acharya S., Wang Sh. and Wang Y. 2018. Condensed tannins affect bacterial and fungal microbiomes and mycotoxin production during ensiling and upon aerobic exposure. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 84: e02274-17.
2. Holman D.B., Klima C.L., Ralston B.J., Niu Y.D., Stanford Kim, Alexander T.W. and McAllister T.A. 2017. Metagenomic sequencing of bronchoalveolar lavage samples from feedlot cattle mortalities associated with bovine respiratory disease. Genome Announc. 5: e01045-17.
3. Wang J., Stanford K., McAllister T.A., Johnson R.P., Chen J., Hou H., Zhang G. and Niu Y.D. 2016. Biofilm formation, virulence gene profiles and antimicrobial resistance of nine serogroups of non-O157 Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli. Foodborne Pathogen and Disease, 13. (As corresponding author)
4. Niu Y.D., Cook S., Wang J., Klima C.L., Hsu Y-H., Kropinski A.M. and McAllister T.A. 2015. Comparative analysis of multiple inducible bacteriophages from Mannheimia haemolytica. BMC Microbiology.15:175. (As co-corresponding author).
5. Wang J., Niu Y.D., Chen J., McAllister T.A. and Stanford K. 2015. Complete genome sequence of Escherichia coli O145:NM bacteriophage vB_EcoM_AYO145A, a new member of O1-like phages. Genome Announcement 3:e00539-15. (As corresponding author).
6. Wang J., Niu Y.D., Chen J., Ateba C.N., Johnson R.P. and McAllister T.A. 2015. Feces of feedlot cattle contain a diversity of bacteriophages that lyse non-O157 Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli. Canadian Journal of Microbiology, 10.1139/cjm-2015-0163. (As corresponding author).
7. Liu H., Meng R., Wang J., Niu Y.D., Li J., Stanford K. and McAllister T. 2015. Inactivation of Escherichia coli O157 bacteriophages by using a mixture of ferrous sulfate and tea extract. Journal of Food Protection. 78, 2108-2307 (As corresponding author).
8. Cao Zh., Zhang J., Niu Y.D., Jin L., Cui N., Cao F., Ma Y., Li Zh., Li X. and Xu Y. 2015. Isolation and characterization of a “phiKMV-like” bacteriophage and its therapeutic effect on mink hemorrhagic pneumonia. PloS One, 10:e0116571.
9. Liu H., Niu Y.D., Meng R., Wang J., Li J., Johnson R.P., Stanford K and McAllister T. 2015. Control of Escherichia coli O157 on beef at 37, 22 and 4°C by T5-, T1-, T4- and O1-like bacteriophages. Food Microbiology. 51, 69−73.
10. Niu Y.D., McAllister T.A., Nash J.H.E., Kropinski A.M. and Stanford K. 2014. Four Escherichia coli O157:H7 phages: A new bacteriophage genus and taxonomic classification of T1-like phages. PLoS ONE. 9: e100426. (As co-corresponding author).
11. Hallewell J., Niu Y.D., Munns K., McAllister T.A., Johnson R.P., Ackermann H.W., Thomas J.E. and Stanford K. 2014. Differing populations of endemic bacteriophages in cattle shedding high and low numbers of Escherichia coli O157:H7 bacteria in feces. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 80:3819–3825.
12. Liu H., Niu Y.D., Li, J., Stanford K., and McAllister T.A. Rapid and accurate detection of bacteriophage activity against Escherichia coli O157:H7 by propidium monoazide Real-Time PCR. BioMed Research International. 2014, article # 319351.
13. Hsu Y-H., Cook S., Alexander T., Klima C., Niu, Y.D., Selinger B.L. and McAllister T. 2013. Investigation of Mannheimia haemolytica bacteriophages relative to host diversity. Journal of Applied Microbiology. 114:1592–1603.
14. Niu Y.D, Stanford K., Kropinski A.M., Ackermann H-W, Johnson R.P., She Y-M., Ahmed R., Villegas A. and McAlister T.A. 2012. Genomic, proteomic and physiological characterization of a T5-like bacteriophage for control of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7. PLoS ONE. 7: e34585. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0034585. (As co-corresponding author).
15. Niu Y.D, Stanford K., Ackermann H-W and McAlister T.A. 2012. Characterization of 4 T1-like lytic bacteriophages that lyse Shiga-toxin Escherichia coli O157:H7. Canadian Journal of Microbiology. 58:923–927.
16. Xue H.Y., Niu Y.D., Gao G.Z., Lin Q.Y., Jin L.J., and Xu Y.P. 2011. Aucubin modulated Bcl-2 family proteins expression and inhibits caspases cascade in H2O2-induced PC12 cells. Molecular Biology Reports. 38: 3561–3567.
17. Stanford K., McAllister T.A., Niu Y.D., Stephens T.P., Mazzocco A., Waddell T.E., Johnson R.P. 2010. Oral delivery systems for encapsulated bacteriophages targeted at Escherichia coli O157:H7 in feedlot cattle. Journal of Food Protection. 73: 1304–1312.
18. Niu Y.D., McAllister T.A., Xu Y., Johnson R.P., Stephens T. P., and Stanford K. 2009. Prevalence and impact of bacteriophages on the presence of E. coli O157:H7 in feedlot cattle and their environment. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 75:1271–1278.
19. Niu Y.D., Johnson R.P., Xu Y., McAllister T.A., Sharma R., Louie M. and Stanford K. 2009. Host range and lytic capability of four bacteriophages against bovine and clinical human isolates of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7. Journal of Applied Microbiology. 107: 646–656.
20. Niu Y.D., Xu Y.P., McAllister T.A., Rozema E., Stephens T.P., Bach S.J., Johnson R.P. and Stanford K. 2008. Comparison of fecal vs. rectoanal mucosal swab sampling for detecting Escherichia coli O157:H7 in experimentally inoculated cattle used in assessing bacteriophage as a mitigation strategy. Journal of Food Protection. 71: 691–698. | <urn:uuid:1518c8c1-4cf7-4b6a-b8cb-25643a873671> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vet.ucalgary.ca/contact-us/dongyan-niu | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.790361 | 2,535 | 1.640625 | 2 |
We don't often put the words sabbatical and Antarctica together, but we are incredibly glad that Airbnb has done so.
There are a number of places on the planet that people can travel to in order to do good. Some parts of Africa to help build wells or distribute medicine. South America to aid in conserving the Amazon rainforest. One part of the world we didn't think that just anyone could pay a visit to is Antarctica. However, a campaign currently being run by Airbnb is offering exactly that.
Well, not exactly that. Later this year, Airbnb and Ocean Conservancy is heading up a trip to the Antarctic. While anyone can apply to be a part of this all-expenses-paid trip, chances are you'll need to be someone pretty special to make the cut considering the number of applicants who will be offering their services.
This is no ordinary trip to the South Pole though, if there is such a thing. The month-long expedition might be enjoyable and a once in a lifetime experience, but it will be for business, not pleasure. The purpose of the trip will be to investigate the presence of microplastics in what is the most isolated continent on our planet. Considering the presence of microplastics even in the deepest parts of our oceans, it's logical to think the problem extends as far as the Antarctic too.
Despite successful applicants needing to keep November 18, 2019, through December 16, 2019, free, only one of those four weeks will actually be spent in Antarctica. The first two weeks will be spent in Chile training to deal with the harsh environment that you will have to endure during week three. After your week-long trip to the South Pole, you'll return to Chile to breakdown your findings and figure out how to present them in an impactful way.
Successful applicants obviously won't be going alone. Environmental scientist Kirstie Jones-Williams will be the expedition leader. Her PhD is based on "the impact of microplastics on polar marine zooplankton in Antarctica," hence this project. If this sounds like your dream come true, you can apply at Airbnb up until October 8, 2019. Previous relative experience is not necessarily needed, but if you happen to have some, it will definitely help. | <urn:uuid:489ce912-cd4d-4e78-8b2c-22ff3599bbd5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thetravel.com/airbnb-volunteers-travel-sabbatical-antarctica/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00066.warc.gz | en | 0.968209 | 460 | 2.015625 | 2 |
More than 445 hours of historically significant radio programming preserved
Sandy Rodriguez sat, stunned at what she was hearing.
The Special Collections Metadata Librarian felt transported. The year was 1944. The D-Day Normandy Invasion was just beginning, and journalist George Hicks was reporting from the deck of the U.S.S. Ancon.
Hicks gave his now famous report in a deep, steady voice. In a way, the background noise told the bigger story. Sirens went off, planes whizzed by, people shouted and artillery boomed.
“It’s really captivating. It transports you. Reading what someone is saying is one thing, but hearing what they’re saying takes it to another level,” Rodriguez said.
Often, Rodriguez plays that audio clip for people who want to know about the completion of an 18-month “Humanities Collections and References Resources” grant, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Although it’s just one clip from the Arthur B. Church KMBC Radio Collection, its historical and emotional impact speaks volumes. And now, thanks to the grant, the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Marr Sound Archives has cataloged the collection’s nearly 3,000 sound recordings and digitally preserved more than 445 hours of radio programming.
Rodriguez, student assistants and audio engineer Andrew Hansbrough were responsible for the work. Thanks to their efforts, one of the archive’s most popular collections is available for use by researchers, students and the visiting public.
Arthur Church, Jr. donated the Arthur B. Church KMBC Radio Collection to UMKC in 1996. The collection chronicles radio pioneer Arthur B. Church’s involvement with the Kansas City, Mo.-based KMBC radio station. The station played news and entertainment, and the collection is a reflection of that eclectic mix.
Among the highlights are Western swing group turned Hollywood film musical sensation, The Texas Rangers; live performances of the Kansas City Philharmonic; and more than 20 hours of The Brush Creek Follies, a popular barn dance show. Historically significant news items, including CBS’ The World Today featuring John Charles Daly, Edward R. Murrow and William L. Shirer; speeches by Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Pope Pius XI, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, General Douglas MacArthur, and Admiral Chester W. Nimitz are also included.
The digital preservation process was a long, but important one. During the war effort, radio stations stopped using metal-based lacquer discs to record their programs for airplay. They switched to a glass-based format, as metals were diverted to production of war material. The glass-based discs did not hold up as well as their metal counterparts.
“The lacquer discs were not intended to be saved and replayed forever, so there is a big push nationally to preserve these types of recordings. This is a very big timely issue right now. This material is at risk, and that’s why we were so glad to preserve it,” Rodriguez said.
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from The Century Dictionary.
- An erroneous form of
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Having a bill shaped like the colter of a plow, or like a knife, as the heron, stork, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology Having a
billshaped like the colterof a plough, or like a knife, as in the heron, stork, etc.
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1) describe International Human Resource Management in detail.
2) What do you mean by ethical relativity? Describe in detail.
3) Why the study of cultural differences is significant?
4) What do you mean by Human Resource Planning.
5) What is polycentric staffing policy?
6) prepare down four significant factors affecting multinational compensation systems.
7) What is the significance of language training?
8) describe performance appraisal in detail.
9) What do you mean by re-entry shock?
10) prepare down different training approaches.
11) What do you mean by expatriate re-entry?
12) What are the factors behind failure of expatriates?
13) What are the requirements of expatriates?
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This is a short post about a very complicated and difficult repair. The function of the device is simple, it is an oil thermometer, of an old Deutz Locomotive, based on a resistance thermometer. Nowadays, virtually all resistance thermometers use platinum elements, but at the time, nickel was preferred for some applications, because nickel has a higher temperature coefficient of its resistance, giving about 62 ohms increase, per 100 ohms at 0°C, vs. only about 38.5 ohms, for platinum.
Moreover, the device used is a 50 ohms Ni resistance thermometer (Ni50), which is even less common than 100 ohms (Ni100). To add to the difficulty, also the thermometer itself is faulty, the pointer missing, the front glass damaged. All a bit rusty.
That’s the formula to calculate the resistance at any temperature – this is what we need to get.
Now, we have several approaches to fix this.
(1) Put in an electronic meter, to show the temperature – don’t want to do it, because it doesn’t fit to the locomotive’s age, and probably will fail soon with all the noise, oil, moisture, and vibration.
(2) Use a modern Pt100 element with some extra resistance to get the readings approximately right – this could work, but the electro-mechanical resistance thermometer indicator uses a pretty large test current, about 20~30 mA, much more than the rating of current thin film Pt100 elements, and wire-wound Pt100 are very expensive, especially, the larger sizes.
(3) Buying a Ni50 element, or two Ni100 elements. I tried, good luck, maybe for EUR 1000 you can get a couple made by some specialized company, custom order.
Well, all these options can’t really work, so I decided to wind my own Ni50 elements. Fortunately, I had some Ni wire, 0.065 mm diameter, of a reputable supplier around in my workshop from another project (has been there for about 20 years!), so let’s give it a try.
Some calculation quickly shows that a single layer or wire will be enough. Such wire will easily work with the measurement current.
Winding of course needs to be done with a machine, at about 0.2 mm pitch, you can’t do this by hand.
The elements were then measured to get the resistance corresponding to the workshop temperature, about 56 ohms, and fixed the wire in-place on the machine, with some super glue. Afterwards, the wire was further covered with high-quality epoxy, and fitted into a thin-walled aluminum cylinder, for added protection, and thermal equilibration.
The old sensor housing had still some stuff in it (the old Ni wire, and some stinky resin), and almost impossible to re-use the old mounting case for the sensor. Fortunately, we have a CNC lathe around, so quickly machined a new case as well.
A layer of Capton tape wound around the protected element, just in case of some leakage current developing over time.
The element was then put in the mounting case with some silicon-base thermal compound.
Finally, the sensor completed, connected to the old, steel wire braided cable.
For test, a litte fixture was made, which can be heated up with a 4 ohms, “100 watt” resistor. Well, it easily gets up to 150 degrees C.
As you can see, all working pretty well!
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As a parent, we tend to create special experiences for our children but don’t really think about how those experiences would work out if it was an adult-only trip. This past week, I had the pleasure of attending the #MonkeyKingdom and #AvengersEvent. While our trip was a whirlwind, one of the most fun experiences was our time at the LA Zoo.
When was the last time you ventured to the zoo all on your own? Well, imagine 25 bloggers learning about endangered species, cute babies of all kinds, and singing monkeys. It was amazing! We’d started the day by viewing Disnenature’s Monkey Kingdom, which featured Maya, a blonde-haired macaque with jungle smarts and full of a Mother’s love.
After enjoying the absolutely adorable film, we were surprised with #MonkeyKingdom gift bags and our very own Maya monkeys! You haven’t lived until you’ve watched grown folks hugging stuffed monkeys throughout LA Zoo.
We learned so much during our excursion. Did you know that LA Zoo used to be a golf course? This 133-acre city-owned zoo is home to over 1100 animals, and hosts over 1.5 million visitors per year. While I enjoyed seeing baby hippos, napping tigers, and bathing bears, it was all about the monkeys for me.
From animated chimpanzees, to Colobus monkeys with the fluffiest tails, and singing siamangs, I had a ball learning about each and every species. The siamangs were the star of the trip, with their calls or “singing.” Siamang calls are very important when it comes to their community. Each member is taught the call of their tribe, and it almost sounds like a concert segment once they get started. It was glorious to watch!
I can’t wait to take my little ones back to our local zoo, and to see Monkey Kingdom this weekend!
When you see MONKEY KINGDOM opening week (April 17-23), Disneynature will make a donation in your honor to Conservation International to help protect monkeys and other endangered species in their natural habitats. Learn more at http://nature.disney.com/ | <urn:uuid:6ff3de76-3ecc-4280-b66d-8809cbb978dc> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://4hatsandfrugal.com/2015/04/ageless-fun-at-the-lazoo-monkeykingdom-avengersevent.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00425-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963098 | 461 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Background: Little is known about the extent to which smokers attending stop-smoking clinics experience conflicting motivations about their quit attempt, whether such conflict can be understood in terms of a single dimension and if this ‘conflict about quitting’ differs from motivation to stop smoking and is associated with a smoker's choice of method to stop smoking (stopping gradually or abruptly). Method: Sociodemographic, smoking and quit attempt characteristics as well as measures relating to conflict about stopping smoking were recorded in a cross-sectional survey of 198 smokers attending five quit smoking clinics in Malaysia. Results: Five measures (having seriously thought about quitting before, being happy about becoming a non-smoker, being strongly motivated to stop, intending to stop smoking completely and believing in stopping for good this time) were loaded onto a single factor that could be labelled ‘conflict about quitting’. The resultant scale had moderate internal reliability (Cronbach's α= .625). Most smokers exhibited conflicting motivations about stopping smoking, with over half (52.0%, 95% CI 45.1–59.1) scoring 2 or higher on the 5-point conflict scale. ‘Conflict about quitting’ was significantly associated with the decision to stop smoking gradually rather than abruptly controlling for other variables (OR 1.36, 95% CI 1.05–1.76) and was more strongly associated with the choice of smoking cessation method than motivation to stop smoking. Conclusions: ‘Conflict about quitting’ can be conceptualised as a single dimension and is prevalent among smokers voluntarily attending stop-smoking clinics. The finding that smokers who display greater conflict about quitting are more likely to choose gradual cessation may explain contradictory findings in the literature regarding the effectiveness of different methods of smoking cessation.
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Chris Mattson, professor of mechanical engineering, delivered Tuesday's devotional address. He taught that in order to withstand the storms of life, we must trust in the Lord and intentionally build our lives around Him.
Mattson began by recounting the story of the Book of Mormon group called the Jaredites, who were commanded by the Lord to construct boats and cross the sea into the promised land. On their journey, they had to learn to trust in the Lord through the many ups and downs that came their way.
Using this story as an analogy for our lives, Mattson shared that we too are each on a journey in which we experience trials and tribulation. He explained that our boat represents the vehicle which will take us through life, and what we choose to build will determine the way we experience the inevitable storms.
“The boat represents … our individual character, attitude, resiliency, our priorities, talents and habits — all of which undergo development while we live our lives.”
Designing our “boat” or our life intentionally is vital, Mattson taught. We must deliberately decide what kind of person we want to be and the destination we want to reach. Mattson suggested six ways we can become better boat builders.
1. Let the Lord lead you
Referencing another story in the Book of Mormon, Mattson pointed out that as Nephi constructed his own boat to take him to the promised land, he built it according to the Lord's instructions and “not after the manner of men.”
Mattson recognized that this would have been a difficult task, as many of us would rather have stuck to proven worldly techniques. Yet, building our boats requires the faith to acknowledge that the Lord knows best and to follow his counsel.
2. Use tools to amplify your strength
Listing off a number of tools the Lord has provided us with, such as the scriptures, living prophets, temple work and others, Mattson claimed that we must couple our faith with these things.
“We need to be proactive in the construction of our boats, we need to be faithful in following the Lord, and we need to use the tools we’ve been given to amplify our natural abilities and help us contribute in deeper, more meaningful ways than we could without them.”
3. Seek appropriate balance
Acknowledging that building our metaphorical boats can often become exhausting, Mattson urged us to take a break from personal development if we begin to feel worn out. He warned that sometimes it is easy to fixate on one area of our growth, such as our education, and completely abandon another part, such as physical health.
“Are you keeping enough in reserve to keep going on the other parts of your boat?” he said. “To keep the boat upright, you don’t need perfect balance — but neglect one entire category, and your chances of capsizing are greater.”
4. Ask good questions
While we are to be obedient to the Lord and His instructions, that does not mean we are supposed to follow the Lord blindly, Mattson said. The Lord wants us to come to Him in earnest prayer with our questions and concerns, and He promises He will answer us.
“Sometimes God gives us an answer to our question and that answer makes sense to us. And sometimes it doesn’t. Often though, in hindsight, His answers do make sense.”
5. Search for solutions in the scriptures
Mattson stated that sometimes, the Lord may not give us a direct answer but rather would have us seek for one by searching the scriptures and likening them unto ourselves. He suggested that even the brother of Jared may have studied the account of Noah as he sought a way to put light in his boat.
6. Commend yourself to the Lord
The Jaredites were incapable of steering themselves, but they trusted the Lord to guide them to their destination. Mattson recounted that while the Jaredites did go through many trying and fearful times, they eventually were led to the promised land.
Mattson testified that as we commend ourselves in the Lord's hands and continually strengthen the structure of our boats, the Lord will also steer us to safety, as He steered the Jaredites.
“Through it all, their boats held up, both physically and metaphorically. Throughout their journey they trusted the Lord and … ‘they did not cease to praise the Lord.’” | <urn:uuid:19e3766b-a448-446b-9780-f1fcf9afd426> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news.byu.edu/faith/devotional-six-ways-to-be-a-better-boat | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.975168 | 931 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Life of civil rights leader Bayard Rustin highlighted in exhibit at LSSU
SAULT STE. MARIE, MI - Lake Superior State University’s Kenneth Shouldice Library Art Gallery is host to a traveling exhibit in February that celebrates Black History Month by focusing on the life of a visionary strategist and activist who has been called “the unknown hero” of the civil rights movement.
Life of Bayard Rustin, on loan from Chester County Historical Society in Pennsylvania, highlights the life of the American civil rights leader and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient most noted for coordinating the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
The exhibit contains a timeline, photos and panels on Rustin’s childhood, education, pacifism, and legacy.
It also includes notebooks chronicling the controversy surrounding the naming of a high school in his honor and is accompanied by MP3 players and playlists that include excerpts from Rustin’s musical recordings.
The public is welcome at an open house for the traveling exhibit at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, February 12, at the gallery.
At 7 p.m., the 2003 film Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin, will be shown in room 203 of the Shouldice Library.
There is no admission fee.
Rustin (1912-1987) was raised by his Quaker grandparents in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
The exhibit highlights how his Quaker roots influenced his commitment to social justice and pacifism.
Though many only know Rustin as the leader of the March on Washington, he served as an adviser to Martin Luther King, Jr. and he is believed to have been instrumental in aiding King in developing his policies on non-violence.
Brother Outsider chronicles these events.
Since its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, and its national broadcasts on the PBS series P.O.V. and on Logo/MTV, Brother Outsider has introduced millions of viewers around the world to the life and work of Rustin.
He was a disciple of Gandhi, a mentor to Martin Luther King Jr., and the architect of the 1963 March on Washington.
He dared to live as an openly gay man during the fiercely homophobic 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.
The arrangements for the display were made by LSSU's Diversity Committee and Student Life office.
The exhibit is open during regular library hours, seven days a week, through the month of February.
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Gomorrah is one of Bayonetta's Summons before becoming her enemy
The Book of Infernal Demons
A monstrous creature hailing from the demonic wood, Johnson Forest. Taking the form of a dragon, it is incredibly fierce, identifying all that moves as game and devouring it's prey. Territorial, it is most likely to be found alone.
Gomorrah is summoned as the Climax Attack of Beloved, appearing behind the giant angel and snapping it up in its massive jaws. The demon proceeds to repeatedly bite down on the unfortunate warrior, before completely obliterating it with a final powerful chomp.
It is later summoned against Father Balder, attempting its usual attack on the Lumen Sage. Unfortunately, Balder is able to counter Gomorrah's assault by jamming its jaws with a sphere of energy. He proceeds to exit the orb and smash Gomorrah's mouth shut on it, finishing off the wounded demon by breaking its neck.
However, the demon survived as he is shown being summoned by Bayonetta in Bayonetta 2 to finish off a new enemy in a similar fashion to the first game. However, the portal fails to close and Gomorrah seizes the chance to escape and attack Bayonetta. Jeanne pushes her out of the way but in the process gets her soul knocked out of her body. She is then subsequently dragged down into Inferno as Bayonetta fights against her former demonic ally. As the long battle comes to a conclusion, Bayonetta summons a new demon and uses it to smash Gomorrah into the ground. Both demons vanish and Gomorrah's fate is unknown. | <urn:uuid:8a09897c-6243-4ce8-82ce-c5bcbbc33c4e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://villains.wikia.com/wiki/Gomorrah | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00494-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965547 | 343 | 1.984375 | 2 |
Production: Career and Education Opportunities in Round Rock, Texas
Production: Most individuals involved in Production create and distribute goods for consumer use. They are often responsible for moving a product from initial creation or manufacture, through distribution channels, to the actual consumer.
Round Rock is located in Williamson County, Texas. It has a population of over 104,446, which has grown by 70.8% in the past ten years. The cost of living index in Round Rock, 83, is well below the national average. New single-family homes in Round Rock are priced at $145,400 on average, which is well below the state average. In 2008, three hundred twenty-four new homes were constructed in Round Rock, down from seven hundred ninety-six the previous year.
The three big industries for women in Round Rock are educational services, computer and electronic products, and health care. For men, it is computer and electronic products, construction, and public administration. The average travel time to work is about 26 minutes. More than 32.9% of Round Rock residents have a bachelor's degree, which is higher than the state average. The percentage of residents with a graduate degree, 9.1%, is higher than the state average.
The unemployment rate in Round Rock is 6.2%, which is less than Texas's average of 8.1%.
The percentage of Round Rock residents that are affiliated with a religious congregation, 40.0%, is less than both the national and state average. Primera Iglesia Bautista of Round Rock Church, Round Rock Chapel Church and Round Rock Church of Christ are all churches located in Round Rock. The most common religious groups are the Catholic Church, the Southern Baptist Convention and the United Methodist Church.
Round Rock is home to the Inn at Brushy Creek and the Captain Nelson Merrell House as well as Roundrock West Park and Mesa Village Park. Visitors to Round Rock can choose from Best Western Executive Inn and Austin Marriott North for temporary stays in the area.
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CAREERS WITHIN: Production
Fabricators and Assemblers form and assemble the products that are built on a factory floor. Working with electronics, metals and plastics, their work turns parts into products.
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Within the production environment Computer Controllers provide the specialized expertise needed to fabricate products and control the factory floor. With skills in both computers and product, they keep precise control over operations as they proceed.
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New Jersey governor Chris Christie is often touted as a different breed of Republican, more moderate than those who’ve come to dominate the party. But he’s nonetheless staunchly opposed to marriage equality, as he demonstrated in a radio broadcast Wednesday.
On his Ask the Governor radio show, he denounced the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision striking down a key section of the Defense of Marriage Act. “I don’t think the ruling was appropriate,” Christie said, adding that “changing an institution that’s over 2,000 years old” is something that should go before voters.
Justice Anthony Kennedy’s majority opinion in the case “was, in many respects, incredibly insulting to those people, 340-some members of Congress who voted for the Defense of Marriage Act, and Bill Clinton,” who signed the bill into law as president in 1996, Christie continued. Clinton this year repudiated DOMA, and he released a statement yesterday praising the Supreme Court decision.
Christie, who is up for reelection this year and has been mentioned as a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2016, last year vetoed a marriage equality bill and said the issue should be subject to a voter referendum. He has repeatedly said he opposes marriage rights for same-sex couples, but if New Jersey voters approved such rights, he would follow the law.
Meanwhile, the lesbian daughter of state senator Barbara Buono, the Democrat running against Christie for governor, blasted Christie’s stance on marriage equality via an email to supporters and a YouTube video.
“As a gay American, I have a stake in what our governor says about marriage equality,” Tessa Bitterman, a 22-year-old who is entering law school, wrote in the email, reports The Star-Ledger, a New Jersey newspaper. “And I have been deeply shocked by Chris Christie. As governor, he has been a giant roadblock to New Jersey achieving equality for all. By failing to support marriage equality, Christie is blatantly delegitimizing an entire group of people.” In the video, she said her mother, as governor, will “stop the bigoted policies that have been at the cornerstone of Chris Christie’s social agenda.”
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How to Protect your Business from Phishing AttacksCyber attacks are a constant threat facing organisations and individuals. And a phishing attack is one of cybercriminals’ favourite ways of getting access to confidential information. Phishing accounts for almost 90% of data breaches and, according to IBM, it’s costing organisations roughly $4.65 million. In this article, we’re going to cover what phishing is, what […] ...
4 Web Browser Trends and Predictions for 2022We do a lot on the internet. And a lot of it through web browsers. We read emails, share files and connect with our co-workers through web applications. But how safe are web browsers? And how are web browsers future trends protecting our businesses, personal information and the future generation? Before we delve into the […] ...
Ransomware Attacks in 2022 - Protect YourselfIt’s 2022, and the onslaught of ransomware attacks on Australian organisations is more prevalent than ever. Ransomware threats and costs are on the rise, and the cybercriminal organisations that use ransomware are causing real and long-lasting damage to governments, small businesses, enterprises and individuals alike. Ransomware is a type of malware or malicious software that […] ...
6 Reasons To Choose Microsoft 365 for Your BusinessWhether you’re a small business or a large enterprise, choosing the right software and applications – the right office suite – will have a big impact on your business’ performance and your employees’ productivity. But each business is unique, and the tools each requires will be different from one to the next. Does your business […] ...
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Is Important - ...Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is now required more than ever, as an efficient way to protect your business from cybercriminals. But what is it? How does it work? And why is it so important? When you want to sign in to your online accounts you can’t do so without a process called “authentication.” You need to […] ...
Backup vs Disaster Recovery: What's The Difference?Data loss and security breaches are nowadays regular events. It’s not a matter of ‘what if’ a disaster will take place, only a matter of ‘when.’ It’s an understatement that data is extremely important for any organisation. Among your files and records, you have stored customer information, which is extremely valuable and extremely hard – […] ...
Why Your Business Needs Cyber ResilienceToday, more and more devices are interconnected, remote work is on the rise and the risk of data breaches is higher than ever. According to ASCS, during the COVID-19 pandemic Australia has seen a 15 percent increase in ransomware attacks. When businesses don’t consider themselves at risk of a cyberattack, that’s when they are the […] ...
Why Small Businesses Should Use Managed Service ...Since the beginning of commercial computing, businesses have faced a distinct set of technical challenges. And in today’s complex cyber landscape, the risks, challenges and solutions require increasingly more specialised expertise – that is often difficult to find and expensive to hire. With a lack of in-house IT personnel to support their teams, small businesses […] ...
Should You Upgrade to OS Windows 11?Windows 11 was released in Australia on October 5, 2021 and, according to its CEO, Satya Nadella, it marks one of the most “significant updates in a decade.” Indeed, Microsoft’s last major change came in 2015, with the launch of Windows 10. The new OS sets a new benchmark for performance and security and offers […] ...
Microsoft Teams Voice and Video Calling: All You ...There’s no denying that remote work is here to stay, as more and more enterprises in various industries have been forced to modernise their communication systems because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Companies have adopted different types of software for their employees to remain productive, from messaging apps to document sharing tools and voice calls. As […] ... | <urn:uuid:b4cd0eb9-3822-4f16-87de-a9eecde111d8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mspblueshift.com.au/backup-and-business-continity/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.924989 | 1,316 | 1.617188 | 2 |
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David Sanchez 2014-2015
David Sanchez, Ingram Scholar and Resident Adviser, has been named a 2014 Michael B. Keegan Traveling Fellow. The goal of the fellowship is to develop future leaders through world travel and experiential learning. Graduating seniors awarded the fellowship have the opportunity to pursue an idea or an issue they are passionate about in the context of daily life in communities around the world.
Sanchez, a Political Science major from Racine, Wisconsin, discovered an interest in conflict resolution in courses studied during a semester abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark, and study trips to Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as Germany. He will use his fellowship year to travel to 18 communities on six continents for a project, “The Peace-Conflict Continuum: Investigating the Origins of Conflict and Identifying Best Practices for Promoting Harmony,” that will take him to countries as diverse as Rwanda, Mauritius, Israel, Singapore, New Zealand and Guatemala to examine why some countries embrace multiculturalism while others see it as a source of conflict. He seeks to understand what factors are influential in inciting conflict, where the tipping point is and what mechanisms could be implemented to defuse ethnic and religious tensions. He is especially interested in the role of governments in adopting preventive measures to reduce clashes and foster harmony between groups.
“I am grateful to Michael B. Keegan and the selection committee for this unparalleled opportunity to learn firsthand about the value of cultural diversity on the one hand, and understand the disintegration of culturally diverse communities on the other. Through visits with local leaders, academic institutions, NGOs and community members, I will seek to understand how social and political environments shape individual and collective action by comparing the experiences of these 15 communities and identifying preventive measures that can be implemented now to foster tolerant communities and minimize the potential for conflict in the future,” Sanchez said.
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War on Terror Strips U.S. of Moral High Ground
ANDREA SEABROOK, host:
The streets of Myanmar cities were eerily quiet today after the military brutally crack down on pro-democracy demonstrations over the last few days. The government of the country, also called Burma, has cut off much communication with the outside world, but reports from the region say protestors are losing hope and resorting to a plea for help from other countries.
President Bush urged the world to help when he addressed the U.N. General Assembly this week. He criticized not only Myanmar but also places like Zimbabwe and Iran. The targets of his speech then shot back saying that the U.S. has become no better than those it criticizes. And some observers agree, saying that actions taken in the name of the war on terrorism have cost Washington its moral high ground.
NPR's Michele Kelemen has the story.
MICHELE KELEMEN: The president's goal was to rally world leaders to bring the United Nations back to its core values and uphold the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. He singled out a lot of places where he'd like to see change saying civilized nations should stand up for people living under dictatorships.
President GEORGE W. BUSH: In Belarus, North Korea, Syrian, Iran, brutal regimes deny their people the fundamental rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration. Americans are outraged by the situation in Burma.
KELEMEN: Many in the room could agree with his concerns about Myanmar, or for that matter, Zimbabwe. But when Zimbabwe's president, Robert Mugabe, took the podium, he had an easy response to Mr. Bush's speech.
President ROBERT MUGABE (Zimbabwe): He has much to attune for and very little to lecture us on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. His hands, gripped with innocent blood of many nationalities, and today with the blood of the Iraqis.
KELEMEN: Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad picked up similar themes saying, quote, "human rights are being extensively violated by certain powers, especially by those who pretend to be their exclusive advocates."
And Cuba's foreign minister, Felipe Perez Roque, who walked out on Mr. Bush's speech, told world leaders that the U.S. president came into office through fraud and deceit and has no credibility to judge anyone. He spoke through an interpreter.
Foreign Minister FELIPE PEREZ ROQUE (Cuba): (Through translator) He authorized torture at the Guantanamo Naval Base and at Abu Ghraib. And he's an accessory to the kidnapping and disappearance of people as well as to the secret plights in the clandestine prisons. He talked about the fight against terrorism but we know that he is lying.
KELEMEN: He accused President Bush of offering safe haven to terrorists - Cuban exiles who he said were behind Andy Castro's attacks in the past. The halls of the U.N. have often been a place for the anti-American rhetoric.
Lorne Craner, who was assistant secretary of state for democracy and human rights during President Bush's first term, says most people still see the U.S. as a champion of democracy though authoritarian leaders are always quick to point out America's imperfections.
Mr. LORNE CRANER (Former Secretary of State for Democracy and Human Rights): If you'd listen to speeches by dictators in the 1990s, they said the same thing. They said the same thing the 1980s. They said the same thing in the 1970s. You can always find something wrong with America. America is not perfect. We've never claimed that democracy makes perfect leaders.
But Lawrence Wilkerson, who was chief of staff for former Secretary of State Colin Powell, says the actions of the Bush administration have given authoritarian leaders far more ammunition. And he says this year speeches at the U.N. General Assembly reaffirmed his belief that America is losing its standing in the world.
Colonel LAWRENCE WILKERSON (Retired, U.S. Army; Professor, Government, College of William & Mary): I do think it's a reflection of what's happening to America's image and ultimately America's power.
KELEMEN: Now, a professor at the College of William & Mary, Wilkerson says, he's found even U.S. allies nervous about this.
Col. WILKERSON: As one Canadian former prime minister said to me not too long ago, you know, it's not that we're anti-American, it's not that we hate you Americans - we couldn't exist without you Americans. What we really are fearful of is a headless giant in the world.
KELEMEN: Wilkerson says many are waiting to see how, or if, future U.S. presidents can restore America's place. He's not so sure if the candidates have good ideas about how to do this.
Michele Kelemen, NPR News, Washington.
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Adaptation Fund advances work on resource mobilisation
AT THE conclusion of its 28th meeting in Bonn recently, the Adaptation Fund Board had advanced work on a resource mobilisation strategy to raise between US$80 million and US$100 million resources per year during coming years.
This is even as it approved two new concrete climate change adaptation projects in India and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, and endorsed eight project concepts in several other countries, as well as two project pre-concepts.
“We received an unprecedented number of proposals, and approved two adaptation projects that will benefit vulnerable populations in India and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, in addition to endorsing another 10 project concepts and preconcepts,” said Adaptation Fund Board chair Naresh Sharma.
“It speaks to the growing pipeline of the fund, and its concrete activities to support the most vulnerable communities in developing countries build resilience to climate change,” added Adaptation Fund Board secretariat manager, Marcia Levaggi.
Altogether, 28 project submissions were reviewed, which speaks to the high demand for the fund and climate adaptation in developing countries.
Meanwhile, the fund also
approved an Ad Hoc Complaint Handling Mechanism for project stakeholders.
“The board additionally decided to proceed with plans and requests for proposals to undertake Phase 2 of the overall independent evaluation of the Adaptation Fund,” noted a release from the fund.
“Phase 1 results showed the fund to be effective, relevant and efficient and an innovative learning institution, while Phase 2 will focus on programmes and projects. Given the high demand for the fund’s Pilot Programme for Regional Projects, the board also decided to continue financing regional projects and programmes beyond the Pilot Programme.”
GREEN CLIMATE FUND
The board decided, too, to increase its linkages with the Green Climate Fund (GCF) by attending an annual dialogue and continuing to discuss ways to enhance complementarity and cohesion between the two funds.
“It also decided to fast-track reaccreditation of its implementing entities that are also accredited with GCF,” the release said.
Patricia Espinosa, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, also addressed the board and praised the Adaptation Fund’s work as making “significant contributions to implementing concrete adaptation activities to reduce vulnerability” in developing countries and building knowledge, experience and capacity.
She said direct access is a “very important innovation that the Adaptation Fund has pioneered” and encouraged parties and other organisations to continue to support the fund. With the Paris Agreement coming into force and the enormity of adaptation needs, she said adaptation finance is incredibly important and that it is a unique opportunity for all stakeholders to scale up climate actions.
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If the people would lead, the leaders will follow. Its an old cliché, that seems hard to swallow. One person makes a difference, most people think not, but I believe one person can accomplish a lot. This shit is getting played, but its not fucking dead. Lets cut through all the bullshit, Its time to use our heads. The youth of today arent turning shit around, Just beating a tired drum right into the ground. Words without actions will quickly be ignored. If youre only in it for the fun, then theres the fucking door. Pick out a cause, do what you know is right, and if your backs against the wall, be prepared to fight. Take a stand for the things you think you need. Lead by example, the other will take heed. If you do what is right, your goals you might reach. It all starts out by standing up for what you believe. Its a movement about justice, dont matter how you dance, a movement about peace, get your head out of your ass.
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Those were the days. Before the global financial crisis morphed into the euro debt crisis, investors saw all euro-zone government bonds more as more or less the same. Yields on German, Spanish and even Greek bonds traded within a narrow range. (Yields move in the opposite direction to prices.)
We all know what happened next. Financial firms collapsed, roping governments into costly rescue efforts. Jittery investors dumped risky assets, pushing up rates for a wide range of borrowers, including the shakier sovereigns. A chart of euro government yields around this time shows a violent separation of the “periphery” from the “core.”
After a series of international bailouts for the biggest basket cases, it seemed like the euro zone was as likely to break apart as stay together. That is, until European Central Bank president Mario Draghi said he would do “whatever it takes” to save the euro in mid-2012. Borrowing costs for the hardest-hit countries duly drifted lower, although spreads remained wider than pre-crisis levels.
And then, at the turn of this year, investors went on a euro-zone bond-buying spree. Spain set a record yesterday for the most orders ever submitted for a European government debt sale, with some €40 billion ($54.2 billion) in orders chasing a €10 billion, 10-year issue. The last time the 10-year yield was this low, in 2006, Spain’s unemployment rate was 8.5% (it is now 26.7%) and it ran a budget surplus of 2.4% of GDP (it is a deficit of around 7% today).
The star performer, though, is Ireland. Only a month after exiting its bailout, the country has had no trouble issuing new debt. In fact, Ireland’s five-year borrowing cost recently dipped below its American and British equivalents, to the lowest level recorded in the republic’s 92-year history. And this is a country where the debt-to-GDP ratio is a heady 125%, and nearly a fifth of all mortgages are behind on payments.
What gives? In some sense, Ireland is being “disproportionately rewarded” for its recent strides, according to Brian Lucey, a professor at the business school of Trinity College Dublin. Indeed, compared with fellow bailout recipients like Greece, Ireland has been a model student. And if Draghi is serious about his “whatever it takes” pledge, in theory there is no longer a risk of default on euro zone government bonds, wherever they come from. “One could legitimately ask why there is any distinction,” Lucey says.
Taking a longer view of bond-market trends, yields are clearly converging again—Ireland is leading a pack of countries downwards while Germany and other “core” countries’ yields creep up to meet them.
Will the remaining gaps eventually all but disappear, like before the financial crisis? The investors aggressively bidding down the yields of Irish, Spanish and other once-radioactive bonds seem to think so. Some may find it puzzling that countries so recently in intensive care, like Ireland and Spain, are now seeing borrowing costs tumble to historic lows. But others are asking what took so long, and why yields haven’t fallen even further. | <urn:uuid:b88d569b-726b-4dbb-82e9-5e602ccbb731> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://qz.com/169914/according-to-government-bond-markets-the-euro-crisis-is-pretty-much-over/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00424-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95936 | 694 | 2.296875 | 2 |
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INPUT SELECTOR A SPEAKER B BASS TREBLE BALANCE MUTING LOUDNESS
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1 POWER switch (KAF-3010R)
Usually leave this switch to the on position. When the unit is not to be used for a long period of time, set the switch to the OFF position for safety.
9 SOURCE DIRECT indicator
Usually leave this switch to the on (standby) position.
0 SOURCE DIRECT key
To listen to a source with high quality sound.
2 ON/STANDBY key (KAF-3010R)
This key effective when the POWER key is set to the on (standby) position, and pressing this key turns power ON and off (standby).
! PHONES jack
Used for headphone listening.
@ SPEAKERS A/B switches
Press to select the A and/or B speaker systems.
3 Standby indicator (KAF-3010R) 4 POWER switch (KAF-1010) 5 BASS knob
To adjust low frequencies.
# BALANCE knob
$ INPUT SELECTOR knob % MUTING key/indicator
Mute the sound temporarily.
Adjust the volume balance between left and right. Turn to select the input sources.
6 TREBLE knob
To adjust high frequencies.
7 INPUT indicator
An indicator lights for the source selected with the INPUT SELECTOR knob.
^ LOUDNESS key/indicator
Use to emphasize deep bass sounds.
& Remote sensor(KAF-3010 ONLY)
8 VOLUME CONTROL knob
Adjust the volume.
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When charge-backs are executed by honest customers with legitimate issues involving your products, you can usually repossess the items or have them willingly returned. However, many charge-backs are the result of identity theft and credit card fraud and are considerably problematic. Other consumer scams include paying for goods or services by check and then ordering a stop payment. Unfortunately, most small-business owners experience each of these problems at some point in their careers. The good news is, you can take certain precautions to reduce such occurrences.
Definition of Chargeback
The term "charge-back" describes the procedure of reversing a payment made with a credit or debit card. A customer who has made a payment to you for goods or services can contact his credit card company at any time to request that the charge be reversed. In such cases, the payment is canceled or deducted from your next payment cycle. Charge-backs cause a great deal of profit loss and accounting difficulties for small-business owners. For example, suppose you are a retailer of residential washing machines. If you purchase washer and dryer sets at $500, and sell them for $1,000, you make a profit of $500 per set. However, if even one charge-back occurs during a billing-and-payment cycle, you lose the $500 profit, and the $500 spent on the washer and dryer set.
You can protect your business from charge-backs by following a few simple credit card-fraud procedures. Educate yourself about common credit card scam characteristics to prevent processing bogus transactions. For Internet and telephone transactions, always request the three-digit card verification value located on the back of the card to ensure that the customer is in direct possession of the card. Impose strict purchasing policies, including only shipping items to the address associated with the credit card. If your customer is present, ask for identification that matches the name on the credit card.
Definition of a Stopped Payment
The phrase "stopped payment" refers to the act of contacting your financial institution and requesting that a particular check is canceled before the payment is made. The primary difference between a stopped payment and a bounced check is that a bounced check is returned for insufficient funds, and stopped payment is requested by the account holder regardless of his account balance. Stopped payments are often used in consumer-fraud scams because unlike instances of bounced checks, the initiator of a stopped payment is not criminally prosecutable by law. If you have accepted a check for goods or services and a stop payment is ordered by the account holder, there is generally not much you can do to recover the funds.
The only foolproof protection against stopped payments is not accepting checks. If you must accept checks, there are certain steps to take to prevent stopped payments from occurring. However, no methods are 100-percent secure. Before accepting a check, ask for legal identification and proof of address that matches all information printed on the check. Call the financial institution from which the check was issued to verify that sufficient funds are available to cover it. Do not deposit the check into your own bank if you can avoid it. Instead, immediately cash the check at the issuing facility. The best policy is simply to withhold goods or services until the check has cleared to avoid potential profit loss.
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Have you ever wished to start an FM radio station in the USA? If yes, then it’s time to know that your wish could be a reality.
Don’t worry at all, this article is all about furthering your dream whether it’s a talk show, popular music, subject-specific, or news. So, let’s get started.
There are two types of traditional radio stations. The low power radio station (LPFM, for non-profit organizations) and full power radio station (For commercial use).
Where to start to set up an FM Radio Station in the USA
First of all, you have to apply for a frequency. You will file an application for a radio frequency to Federal Communication Commission (FCC) to begin your station. It may take a long time to get the frequency because, during the application filing window period, many competing applications are filed for new stations.
Filing the application does not guarantee that you will get the frequency. Therefore, it is recommended that you buy all the equipment and accessories needed when you get the permit from FCC. You can check the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) for further details.
Then you will apply for a license because unlicensed operations are prohibited. According to FCC, it’s illegal to operate even over very low power, without having a license. In case of illegal operation of an unlicensed station, heavy fines and/or criminal prosecution will be enforced, you can check recent enforcement actions in detail.
There is only one unlicensed operation that is permitted on the AM and FM broadcast bands and that is covered under Part 15 of the FCC’s rules, and this is limited to a radius of approximately 200 feet. For more details about licensing rules and regulations, you can check the Commission’s July 24, 1991 Public Notice, which is still working.
Now you have to prepare a source of funding. Always keep in mind the expenses you must have to pay for the studio space and power among these.
Once you have done all these steps, you are ready to proceed with the next process of setting up your radio station.
Choose the power of your radio station
Now you have options to choose the power of the station. If you want to start a non-profit organization you can go with a low power station and apply for an LPFM license.
Or if you want to start a commercial radio station then you have to choose a high-power station category. It typically uses tens of thousands of watts of power, so keep this thing in mind while making your budget plans. Check the FCC website to choose the right license for your purpose.
Equipment to establish an FM radio station in the USA
Now, get ready to buy some necessary equipment for your radio station including the transmitter equipment and an antenna. You may think to rent a space on an existing tower for your antenna.
To design your studio, you will need soundproofing gear, speakers, microphones, headphones, and more. In the next step, you will recruit some skillful staff and make sure that you have enough staff to fill out all the slots in a whole day.
Marketing and advertising
Marketing/Advertisement is almost a necessity for a radio station and there should be some online and offline marketing strategies to thrive. So, prepare a marketing strategy and plan for your advertisement. You can use offline as well online sources.
These days advertising online via the internet is the best source to reach the target audience. You can use social media pages, groups, ads, and promote your radio station on search engines. One important thing to remember here is that you should always use geotargeted advertising so that your ads reach specifically to the areas where your listener base is. In geotargeted advertising, you show your ads only to serve the relevant demographic without wasting your money.
After all the required setup, now it’s time to spend some extra time with your new staff to keep them on one page. Practice your broadcasters several weeks before it goes on air.
Hopefully, you have understood the radio station setup procedure, but it’s not over yet. There is another interesting and more feasible way of setting up a radio station without spending a lot of money on the setup process and that is the online radio station.
The easiest way to set up a radio station
Setting up a radio station has never been so easy. With just a computer and a stable internet connection, you can start your own online radio station, with no paperwork.
No need to build a studio, rent a tower for your antenna, buy an FCC license, etc. With internet radio, all these are swept away. Your recurring expenses are only a hosting plan for audio streaming and website (Free trial for 7 Days), Internet Service, and Royalties (For commercial Music, if needed). You can put advertisements over your radio platform to start your earnings. I can say this would be an earning without burning! 😄
Setting up an online radio station has many potential benefits as compared to traditional radio stations. There are more options, minimum requirements, fewer advertisements, and broad availability in an online radio station.
Online radio provides relaxed listening and broadcasting experience. Moreover, these days web and mobile platforms are necessary to interact with the audience. So, if you are curious about creating your online radio station, BRLOGIC possesses you covered. It is a quick and easy process with BRLOGIC.
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|Plot||The planet Grautschonia|
|Air date||August 28, 2005|
| || ||Rumpel are making alot of noise and Finchen asks him why he has to make so much noise. Rumpel replies that it's because he is a Grouch, he also says that he wished he lived on a different planet a planet were he could make all the noise he wanted and that planet would be called Grautschonia. Finchen says that she would love to see such a planet|
Finchen calls on Rumpel and Karl Heinz as the rocket are ready for take off.
| ||Finchen, Rumpel and Karl Heinz are getting closer to Grautschonia, they just passed the milky way.|
| ||Finchen are not surprised of how the planet looks like after they landed on Grautschonia. Shortly after a alien stops them, it turns out to be a space Grouch called Rufus and it's his planet. Rumpel introduces himself as being a earth Grouch from Sesamstrasse. Rufus thinks Finchen are a funny looking Grouch, so Finchen has to explain that she's a snail. Rufus and Rumple quickly agree that theres nothing better than loud noises.|
| || ||Rfus and Rumpel sings a song about being a Grouch and making noises. After the song Rufus and Rumpel starts to make various noises. Finchen begins to miss her leaf pile and asks Rumpel if he wants to go back home. Rumpels thinks about it and realizes that if he stays there won't be any people to complain about the noise he makes, and then whats the point of making all the noise, so he decides to travel back with Finchen.|
Back on Sesamstrasse Rumpel continues to throw things out of his barrel to make noise and Finchen once again asks him noty to make that much noise and leaves. Rumpel are happy loud noises need to be heard by other people in order to be fun.
- Mats and Miranda shows how to use a telescope
- Ernie wakes up and tells Bert it's time to get up, but notices that Bert isn't in his bed. He slowly ponders what happened to his best friend, coming to the conclusion that maybe some Martians took him away in their spaceship. As it turns out, Bert just got up early to fix some oatmeal. Ernie is relieved... until a real spaceship lands and the Martians enter the room. (EKA: Folge 2019)
- "My Outer Space Friend"
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An insulation-displacement contact (IDC), also known as insulation-piercing contact (IPC), is an electrical connector designed to be connected to the conductor(s) of an insulated cable by a connection process which forces a selectively sharpened blade or blades through the insulation, bypassing the need to strip the conductors of insulation before connecting. When properly made, the connector blade cold-welds to the conductor, making a theoretically reliable gas-tight connection.
Modern IDC technology developed after and was influenced by research on wire-wrap and crimp connector technology originally pioneered by Western Electric, Bell Telephone Labs, and others. Although originally designed to connect only solid (single-stranded) conductors, IDC technology was eventually extended to multiple-stranded wire as well.
Initially, IDCs were seen only in extra-low voltage applications, such as telecommunications, networking and signal connections between parts of an electronic or computer system. However, they are now also used in some domestic and industrial low voltage (power) applications, as can be seen in the illustration. The benefits claimed for their use in these applications include up to 50 percent faster installation, due to the reduction in the stripping, twisting and screwing down processes.
Ribbon cable is designed to be used with multi-contact IDC connectors in such a way that many IDC connections can be made at once, saving time in applications where many connections are needed. These connectors are not designed to be reusable, but can often be re-used if care is taken when removing the cable.
Pin 1 is typically indicated on the body of the connector by a red or raised "V" mark. The corresponding wire in a ribbon cable is usually indicated by red coloration, a raised molded ridge, or markings printed onto the cable insulation. On the connector pin 2 is opposite pin 1, pin 3 is next to pin 1 along the length of the connector, and so on. On the cable, the wire connected to pin 2 is next to the wire connected to pin 1 (the red coded wire), and so on.
Telephone and network plugs
In some types of telephone and network plug, including the BS 6312 and the registered jack (RJ) family, generally separate wires in a sheath are used. In these applications, the outer sheath is stripped then the wires are inserted into the connector and a special termination tool is used to force the conductors into the contacts. Traditionally these connectors have been used with flat cable which makes it easy to ensure the right conductors go into the right slots. However modular connectors used with Category 5 twisted pair cable require careful arranging of the conductors by hand before inserting them into the connector.
Punch-down blocks are intended to connect individual conductors punched down into each position in the block with a special punch-down tool. Punch-down terminations are also generally seen in telephone and network connectors, in patch panels and distribution frames, and in telephone equipment such as PBXs.
Pins are commonly numbered from pin 1 with odd numbers along one side and the even numbers along the other side. Connectors are categorized by pin spacing in mm (pitch), number of pins, and number of rows. Connectors commonly used in computers include:
- 3.5 inch IDE desktop computer hard disk drives – 2.54 mm pitch, 40 pins, 2×20 (2 rows of 20 pins)
- 2.5 inch IDE notebook computer hard disk drives – 2.00 mm pitch, 44 pins, 2×22 (2 rows of 22 pins)
- SCSI 8-bit – 2.54 mm pitch, 50 pins, 2×25 (2 rows of 25 pins)
- SCSI 16-bit – 1.27 mm pitch, 68 pins, 2×34 (2 rows of 34 pins)
- Floppy disk – 2.54 mm pitch, 34 pins, 2×17 (2 rows of 17 pins)
- Serial DE-9 on motherboards – 2.54 mm pitch, 10 pins, 2×5 (2 rows of 5 pins) – sometimes called everex
- Parallel DB-25 – 2.54 mm pitch, 26 pins, 2×13 (2 rows of 13 pins)
- In some instances USB through version 2 on motherboards – 2.54 mm pitch, 10 pins, 2×5 (2 rows of 5 pins)
For all of the above connectors, the computer manufacturer typically attaches a female IDC connector onto one end of a ribbon cable, and later slides that connector onto a matching male box header or pin header on the computer motherboard.
- Vampire tap
- Wire wrap
- Electrical connector
- DC connector
- Krone LSA-PLUS
- Berg connector
- JST connector
- Molex connector
- Pin header
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- Sprovieri, John (February 1, 2001). "Making Contact". Assembly Magazine. Retrieved 2011-03-27.
- national-tech.com – Floppy Diskdrive pinout and wiring @ pinouts.ru, 2010-07-25
- national-tech.com – IDC 26 / DB25, Motherboard Parallel Port Connector cable
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Battle of Baton Rouge 1779
BATON ROUGE- Before the famous Battle of New Orleans there was the Battle of Baton Rouge in 1779. Some people call it one of the lost chapters of Baton Rouge history, but it was important because it expelled the British from Louisiana and the Mississippi River.
During September the Capitol Park Museum is putting on an event to celebrate the battle's 236th anniversary. This morning Daniel Wilcox from the Audubon State Historic Site stopped by 2une In to tell us more about it.
The Battle of Baton Rouge took place during the American Revolutionary War on September 21st, 1779. Spanish Governor General Bernardo de Galvez lead an army of 1,427 soldiers to capture the British Fort in Baton Rouge.
The army of combatants was made up of French and Spanish settlers, Indians and African-Americans. They took the fort in an early morning bombardment which made way for the free passage of supplies on the Mississippi River.
The Battle of Baton Rouge commemorative program will be held at the Audubon State Historic Site in St. Francisville on September 19th and 20th. You can get more information by calling 225-635-3739. | <urn:uuid:82e9e5ea-977d-4b02-9acc-21704ade27b4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.wbrz.com/videos/battle-of-baton-rouge-1779 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00447-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954586 | 243 | 3.734375 | 4 |
Production in the interwar years mirror the waxing and waning of the world economy, with the impact of the Wall Street Crash of 1929 plainly visible. Just as in the UK, just when things were starting to pick up in the late 1930s, an annoying was came along to mess everything up.
The continued increase in output in the first couple of years of the German occupation came at a price: a big reduction in strength. By the end, it wasn't intoxicating at all. Unlike in the UK, where at least average strength never dropped below 3% ABV.
At the start of WW II, a huge percentage of Dutch beer came from just a couple of breweries. Out of total production in 1939 of 1,508,000 hl, Heineken (Rotterdam) brewed 232,226 hl and Amstel 279,801 hl. Assuming Heineken's Amsterdam brewery produced something similar to their Rotterdam plant, along with Amstel they must have been responsible for half of all Dutch beer.
|Dutch beer production 1925 - 1970|
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An unprecedented use of high-throughput sequencing for routine monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 viruses in patient samples has created a dataset of over 6 million SARS-CoV-2 genomes. To monitor genomes, deposited in the GISAID database, and to track the continuous sequence evolution of molecular assay oligonucleotide target sequences. A simple pipeline tool for non-experts was developed to mine this database for nucleotide changes in oligonucleotides and tested with the long oligonucleotides of a Recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA) assay targeting the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRP) gene of the SARS-CoV-2. Results indicate the emergence of a single nucleotide change in the reverse oligonucleotide from 0.03 to 26.23% (January to May 2021) in Alpha variant genomes, which however reduced to 17.64% by September after which the Alpha variant was completely displaced by the Delta variant. For all other variants, no relevant nucleotide changes were observed. The oligonucleotide screening pipeline allows efficient screening of nucleotide changes in oligonucleotides of all sizes in minutes.
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Weidmann, M., Graf, E., Lichterfeld, D., Abd El Wahed, A. & Bekaert, M. 2022, 'Efficient Screening of Long Oligonucleotides Against Hundred Thousands of SARS-CoV-2 Genome Sequences', Frontiers in Virology, 2, article no: 835707. https://doi.org/10.3389/fviro.2022.835707 | <urn:uuid:fe21d40a-7af2-4505-accc-608fa9206867> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://publichealthscotland.scot/repository/efficient-screening-of-long-oligonucleotides-against-hundred-thousands-of-sars-cov-2-genome-sequences/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.868384 | 453 | 2.5 | 2 |
Dialogue among pre- and post-genetic revolution civilisations
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The genetic revolution will have a profound impact on human society and therefore on the public policy environment. This article aims to describe the public policy paradigms and paradigm shifts that will determine the framework for dialogue – public policy discourse – on an abstract conceptual level. The genetic revolution will place the determination of children’s genetic endowment squarely within the domain of human control, and hence the responsibility for a new child’s genetic endowment will shift from nature to man. In order for this paradigm shift to take place in public policy, it must be realised that ‘naturalness’ has no ethical significance. A further major obstacle in the way of this paradigm shift is the mystification paradox: as the genetic revolution is increasing our scientific understanding of the fundamental mechanisms of life, so these mechanisms are being demystified; but simultaneously a variety of factors, for instance the fact that this new science seems to penetrate the very essence of life, as well as the existence of a new esoteric genetic terminology that is inaccessible to the general public mystify genetics. Education provides the essential platform for dialogue among the pre- and post-genetic revolution civilisations. | <urn:uuid:c03eadab-ff27-427e-b4d8-a8c6af40d221> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/6939 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281746.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00287-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.874237 | 253 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Risers are the vertical elements that support the leading edge of the upper tread and are set on the lower tread.
Treads are the horizontal elements we step onto. The rear of the step fits under the upper riser and the leading edge is rounded and hangs over the lower riser and is completed with a nosing.
Newel post is the end piece of the vertical element at the end of the handrail.
Balusters or spindles are the bars supporting the handrail.
Reinforcing Blocks and Wedges are fitted under the stairs to keep the risers and treads in place.
To remedy to creaks in the stairs, which are generally caused by humidity and wear, one can usually mend the wooden elements that have moved from under the staircase. Make sure that there are no loose wedges between the end of the treads and risers, if so you may glue them or screw them back into place.
If there is no access to the bottom of the stair you will have to repair the stair from above. You may screw back the leading edge of the tread if it has come away from the riser.
If you need to change balusters you may do so by taking the bottom spacer away from the baluster behind the one you intend to remove, change it then re-insert it. | <urn:uuid:c9e4571d-9815-4605-b650-c0f705c57ccc> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ezilon.com/articles/articles/16887/1/How-to-Recognize-the-Various-Staircase-Components-in-Homes | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00387-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942469 | 273 | 2.828125 | 3 |
This section starts our treatment of Q-DAGs with a concrete example. We will consider a particular belief network, define a set of queries of interest, and then show a Q-DAG that can be used to answer such queries. We will not discuss how the Q-DAG is generated; only how it can be used. This will allow a concrete introduction to Q-DAGs and will help us ground some of the formal definitions to follow.
The belief network we will consider is the one in Figure 4(a). The class of queries we are interested in is , that is, the probability that variable takes some value given some known (or unknown) value of . Figure 4(b) depicts a Q-DAG for answering such queries, which is essentially a parameterized arithmetic expression where the values of parameters depend on the evidence obtained. This Q-DAG will actually answer queries of the form , but we can use normalization to compute .
First, a number of observations about the Q-DAG in Figure 4(b):
According to the semantics of Q-DAGs, the value of node is 1 if variable is observed to be or is unknown, and 0 otherwise. Once the values of ESNs are determined, we evaluate the remaining nodes of a Q-DAG using numeric multiplication and addition. The numbers that get assigned to query nodes as a result of this evaluation are the answers to queries represented by these nodes.
For example, suppose that the evidence we have is . Then ESN
is evaluated to 1 and ESN is evaluated to 0.
The Q-DAG in Figure 4(b) is then evaluated as given in
Figure [*](a), thus leading to
from which we conclude that . We can then compute the conditional probabilities and using:
If the evidence we have is , however,
then evaluates to 0 and
evaluates to 1. The Q-DAG in Figure 4(b) will then be
evaluated as given in Figure [*](b), thus leading to
Figure: Evaluating the Q-DAG in Figure 4 with respect to two pieces of evidence: (a) and (b) .
We will use the following notation for denoting variables and their values. Variables are denoted using uppercase letters, such as , and variable values are denoted by lowercase letters, such as . Sets of variables are denoted by boldface uppercase letters, such as , and their instantiations are denoted by boldface lowercase letters, such as . We use to denote the set of variables about which we have evidence. Therefore, we use to denote an instantiation of these variables that represents evidence. Finally, the family of a variable is the set containing the variable and its parents in a directed acyclic graph.
Following is the formal definition of a Q-DAG.
Evidence variables correspond to network variables about which we expect to collect evidence on-line. For example, in Figure [*], C is the evidence variable. Each one of these variables has a set of possible values that are captured by the function . For example, in Figure [*], the evidence variable C has values and . The special value is used when the value of a variable is not known. For example, we may have a sensor variable with values ``low,'' ``medium,'' and ``high,'' but then lose the sensor value during on-line reasoning. In this case, we set the sensor value to .[+] Query nodes are those representing answers to user queries. For example, in Figure [*], B is the query variable, and leads to query nodes and .
An important notion is that of evidence:
When a variable is mapped into , then evidence tells us that is instantiated to value . When is mapped into , then evidence does not tell us anything about the value of .
We can now state formally how to evaluate a Q-DAG given some evidence. But first we need some more notation:
The following definition tells us how to evaluate a Q-DAG by evaluating each of its nodes. It is a recursive definition according to which the value assigned to a node is a function of the values assigned to its parents. The first two cases are boundary conditions, assigning values to root nodes. The last two cases are the recursive ones.
One is typically not interested in the values of all nodes in a Q-DAG since most of these nodes represent intermediate results that are of no interest to the user. It is the query nodes of a Q-DAG that represent answers to user queries and it is the values of these nodes that one seeks when constructing a Q-DAG. The values of these queries are captured by the notion of a Q-DAG output.
This output is what one seeks from a Q-DAG. Each element in this output represents a probabilistic query and its answer.
Let us consider a few evaluations of the Q-DAG shown in Figure 4,
which are shown in Figure [*]. Given evidence ,
and assuming that and stand for the
Q-DAG nodes labeled and ,
respectively, we have
meaning that and . If instead the evidence were , a set of analogous computations can be done.
It is also possible that evidence tells us nothing about the value of variable
, that is, . In this case, we would have
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Being cash poor presents a major problem for purchasing a home, as many mortgages only cover a fixed percentage of the home's purchase price and require a cash down payment to make up the difference. Fortunately, there are ways for cash poor individuals to purchase a home using their current assets.
Increase Liquidity by Borrowing from a 401(k) Plan
Cash poor individuals can increase their liquidity to purchase a home by borrowing funds from a 401(k) plan. While all of the funds borrowed must be returned to the 401(k), the funds can provide the cash needed to make a down payment or cover other home-purchase related expenses.
VA Home Loans
Cash poor veterans can greatly reduce the amount of cash needed to purchase a home by taking out a VA home loan. No down payment home loans are one of the benefits afforded to military veterans by the government. In addition to not requiring a down payment, VA home loans also include limits on the amount that can be charged for closing costs.
Rural Development Mortgage
The Department of Agriculture offers a home loan product that can help cash poor individuals in many more rural and suburban parts of the country. The loans have no payment requirement and require that applicants have an income that is lower than 115 percent of the area's median income. Additionally, applicants must currently be without adequate housing but have the means to pay for a mortgage including taxes and insurance.
IRAs Can Provide Much Needed Liquidity
Instead of focusing on mortgages that require little or no down payment, other cash poor individuals may want to take advantage of an often overlooked asset. Individuals can take up to $10,000 out an IRA to fund a home purchase provided that it is a first home purchase and the funds are used within 120 days of being withdrawn. Couples are eligible to take out up to $20,000 with the same restrictions. Cash poor individuals can use the IRA funds to cover down payments and other home purchase related expenses.
- Department of Veterans Affairs: Purchase & Cash-Out Refinance Home Loans
- US Department of Agriculture: Guaranteed Housing Loans
- Bankrate.com: IRS Rules for early IRA withdrawals
- Bank Rate: 10 Ways to Come up with a Down Payment
- Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323717004578157331091972730.html
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In an Australian first, surgeons at Fremantle Hospital and The University of Western Australia believe a new method of repairing perforated ear drums could be a major advance in ear health.
Professor Gunesh Rajan, Head of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery in UWA's School of Surgery, and a consultant at Fremantle Hospital, said tympanic membrane perforation, or hole in the ear drum, affected around 100,000 Australians and more than 80 million people worldwide.
"This common health problem condemns most of these people to a life of struggle and poverty by robbing them of their hearing," Professor Rajan said.
"They include Australia's Indigenous population, which has one of the world's highest incidences of chronic ear disease and ear drum perforations."
Professor Rajan, who heads a research team of Australian ear, nose and throat specialists, said the new regenerative method had been pioneered by Professor Shin-Ichi Kanemaru in Osaka, Japan.
"The current conventional treatment is a time-consuming, complicated operation that requires a general anaesthetic and this is frequently beyond the reach of developing countries as well as Australia's indigenous children in remote communities," he said.
"Professor Kanemaru's ingenious method involves a five-minute procedure that stimulates the body to close the perforation itself, using naturally occurring bio-engineered growth factor substances which are applied to the rim of the perforation.
"The remarkable healing qualities of the human body grow back the tissue and close the hole completely, restoring the ability to hear."
The new technique reduces the operation time from 35 minutes to five minutes and, for adults, can be done in an outpatient clinic. Professor Rajan said a trial involving adults and children was now under way at Fremantle Hospital to replicate the Japanese trial while another trial was also due to start soon at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children.
A team of dedicated UWA specialists - Professor Rajan, Professor Harvey Coates, Professor Francis Lannigan and Dr Stephen Rodrigues - have started a trial at Fremantle Hospital and 11 procedures have been performed. The procedures use a gel foam sponge with a fibroblast growth factor and fibrin glue to prepare and stimulate the site of the ear perforation.
"The treatment is similar to other wound healing applications, such as for burns or diabetic foot ulcers," Professor Rajan said. "It's a very simple and cost-effective medical procedure that has a success rate higher than 90 per cent. The simplicity of the procedure will make a big difference, especially in children.
"Where children are concerned, a strong hearing means a strong start in life. With these trials, we can introduce this new technique and spread the word medically so that every child and adults can benefit, regardless of where they live."
In a paper, "Regenerative Treatment of Tympanic Membrane Perforation", published last year in the journal Otology and Neurotology, Professor Kanemaru and his team reported complete closure of 52 of 53 chronic tympanic perforation cases where the smart ear method was used.
Professor Gunesh Rajan (UWA School of Surgery) (+61 8) 9431 2144 / (+61 4) 05 988 887
Kym Coolhaas (Public Relations Manager, Fremantle (+61 8) 9431 2056 / (+61 4) 38 920 460
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[HPC]^3 Workshop 2012, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Kaust, Saudi Arabia (Workshop lecture) Feb 04 - Feb 08, 2012
When solving elliptic problems using a finite volume scheme on a patch-based grid hierarchy of adaptively refined meshes, the question of how to preserve numerical conservation naturally arises. One way that researchers have used to maintain conservation at coarse/fine boundaries is to introduce a conservative "fix-up" at these boundaries between coarse and fine refinement patches. For explicit time stepping schemes, these fix-ups can be applied once, after the time step. But for implicit schemes, the quantity needed to ensure conservation comes out of a coupled solution process, and cannot be computed explicitly. But for at least two decades, researchers actively in involved in AMR development have done the "fix-up", even for elliptic equations, as a sort of post-processing step, or have taken at most one step of what can be viewed as an iterative scheme. This approach has always worked extremely well, but there has never been any formal justification as to why it works. In this talk, I will present this conservation issue and explain why a one-step approach works as well as it does. The scheme I will discuss is a second order, finite-volume discretization of constant coefficient elliptic problem on uniform Cartesian meshes. I will also mention briefly other methods which rely on a full iterative procedure for accuracy and conservation. | <urn:uuid:e039ceff-ddd1-4091-ade9-eca84f2495b2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://donnacalhoun.github.io/talks/kaust-2012.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.936616 | 301 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Inside the Joint
Each hip is a ball-and-socket joint. The ball is the top of your thighbone (femoral head). The socket (acetabulum) is in your pelvic bone. Smooth, slippery tissue called cartilage lets the ball and socket glide against each other when you move. A thin lining (synovium) tops the cartilage and makes a bit of synovial fluid, which further eases rubbing. Tendons, ligaments, and muscles complete the joint.
It's the "wear and tear" type of arthritis that many people get in middle age. Cartilage on the ball end of the thighbone and in the hip socket slowly breaks down and causes grinding between bones. You'll have stiffness, and you might feel pain in your crotch and at the front of your thigh that radiates to your knee and behind. It's often worse after a hard workout or when you don’t move for a while.
With RA, your immune system attacks parts of your body, which can include the synovium. This normally thin lining starts to thicken and swell and to make chemicals that damage or destroy the cartilage that covers the bone. Doctors don't know why this happens. When one hip is affected, the other often gets it too. The joint may hurt and swell, and you might notice heat and red skin around it.
Too much sitting and too little exercise, among other things, might irritate and inflame the sciatic nerve, the largest in the human body. It runs from the bottom of your spine through your hips and down the back of your leg, which is where you'll feel the pain when it's pinched. It will radiate from the hip and might be mild, sharp, tingly, numb, or even like an electric shock.
It's a break in the top part of your thighbone. If you're young and healthy, it takes a lot of power, like a serious car wreck, to do it. But if you're over 65, especially if you're a woman, or you have brittle bones (osteoporosis), even a minor fall can cause it. Your groin and the top, outer part of your thigh will likely hurt, especially when you try to flex the joint. In a complete break, one leg may look shorter than the other.
It happens when the ball on top your thighbone is knocked out of its pelvic socket. It usually takes a lot of force, as when you fall from a ladder or crash a car. All that power often causes other injuries like tissue tears, bone fractures, and could even damage nerves, cartilage, and blood vessels. Get to a hospital. It's very painful, and you won’t be able to move your leg much, if at all, until your doctor starts to treat it.
Here, the socket of your hip isn't deep enough for the ball to fit firmly inside. The looseness can vary from just a little jiggly, to fairly easy to push out (dislocate), to complete dislocation. Babies may be born with it, or they may get it in their first year. Female, firstborn, and breech birth (feet-first) babies get it more often. You could also cause it if you wrap (swaddle) your baby's legs too tightly.
It's when fluid-filled sacs, or "bursae," that ease friction between muscle, tendons, and bones get irritated and swollen. It can happen on the outside bony part of your hip (trochanteric bursitis), where it causes sharp, intense pain that dulls and spreads out over time. Less often, it happens on the inside (hip bursitis), where it causes pain in the groin. Either may worsen when you walk, squat, or climb stairs.
You can damage the cartilage at the bony edge of your hip socket that helps keep the joint together. You could injure it suddenly in a twisting fall or an accident, or you might simply wear it away with the same motion over time. You might feel clicking sensations and have pain in your groin or hip. You're more likely to get it if you play ice hockey, soccer, football, or golf.
It's when you overstretch or tear any of the muscles and tendons that help your hip joint move. (It's a "sprain" when it happens to a ligament.) It could affect lots of muscles like your hip flexors, glutes, abductors, adductors, quadriceps, and hamstrings. The area might swell, weaken, and hurt, especially when you use it. Rest, ice, and over-the-counter pain relievers are often enough to get you healthy again.
RICE: Rest, Ice, Compress, Elevate
It's a good first step for any hip pain. Rest, but don't stop all movements (that could make things worse), just the ones that hurt. Ice for 20 minutes at a time, and use a cloth so you won't damage your skin. Compress the painful area with an elastic bandage, but not too much. Loosen it up if you see skin turning blue. Elevate the injured part on a pillow or stool to stop blood from pooling there.
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDs, are often used to lessen pain and inflammation for arthritis and other painful hip problems. Most are pills, but creams and gels are also available. Your doctor can help you treat more serious pain and underlying conditions with corticosteroids, pain relievers, and drugs to treat autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.
When to Go to the Doctor
If home care doesn't curb your pain, make an appointment with your doctor. Ask someone to drive you to the emergency room if an injury caused your hip pain and your hip doesn't look normal, or you can't move your leg or put weight on it. You should also go to the ER if you have intense pain, sudden swelling, or any sign of infection like fever, chills, and red skin.
Your doctor will want to know about your symptoms and health history. Be sure you mention any falls or injuries you've had, and any other joints that bother you. Your doctor will also examine your hip and might check to see how well it moves (range of motion). You may also get blood tests or imaging, like an X-ray or MRI.
Some of the same things that help treat hip pain can make it less likely for you to get it in the first place. For example, if you're overweight, losing even a few pounds may ease stress on the joint. Exercise (ask your doctor about the right amount) can also help. Take it easy. Start with a warmup and stretch, stop when something hurts, wear the right shoes, and seek soft surfaces like hiking trails, not hard ones like asphalt and concrete.
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always have an exit plan. Before investing, establish “Guardrail Rules.” Guardrails don’t stop you from crashing; they stop you from going over the cliff. That is the concept of Guardrail Rules. It doesn’t mean you will never suffer a loss, be it on paper or in the wallet, but it does mean that you will not suffer a catastrophic loss. Complacency caught me napping when I first started investing. I bought a stock and never looked at it again. I had several thousand shares of the stock and the company suffered a devastating fire at it main plant and the company went bankrupt. I lost tens of thousands of dollars. Had I established a stop-loss guardrail rule, I would have been able to salvage some of my capital. I was blindsided and got caught in the “it will come back” trap.
Asa part of my series about “Investing During The Pandemic”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Ken Rupert.
Ken Rupert is an author, an educator, a strategist, and someone who lives by the principles and strategies he teaches in his Financial Self-Defense Training course. He provides strategic financial coaching for individuals through his Financial Self-Defense training sessions and offers Financial Self-Defense seminars for small and medium size businesses. He is the author of the Financial Black Belt Academy’s Financial Self-Defense Training Guide, a 2nd Degree Financial Black Belt and the owner and founder of the Financial Black Belt Academy.
Thank you for doing this with us! Before we dig in, our readers would like to learn a bit more about you. Can you tell us the “backstory” about what brought you to the finance industry?
In2001, my wife and I welcomed our first (and only) child into the world. The birth of a child is always a life changing event, but my wife and I went from being new parents to being caregivers for a child with special needs. Our son was born with a rare genetic disorder known as Soto’s Syndrome, complicated by a birth trauma that resulted in Cerebral Palsy. It didn’t take long before we realized that he would need some level of intervention for the rest of his life. As the reality of our situation set in, I realized that I would no longer be saving for our retirement, I would be saving for my son’s care forty years after our deaths. How do you plan for an economy that is not yet known for needs that are yet to be determined? This reality drove me to learn everything I could about investing and personal money management. As a martial artist, I have worked my way through the ranks to 1st Degree Black Belt. As a self-made millionaire, I understand the financial principles, strategies, and goals that turn an income into wealth. These two worlds seemed to fit together perfectly and my Financial Self-Defense process was born. Today, I teach others the financial principles, strategies, and goals of the Financial Black Belt. My goal is to increase the financial acumen of others using the “belt system” of HapKiDo to help them achieve financial stability.
Can you share with our readers the most interesting or amusing story that occurred to you in your career so far? Can you share the lesson or take away you took out of that story?
The most interesting thing that has transpired since beginning this journey of being a personal financial wellness coach happened on April 18, 2019. I went back to my alma mater, Hood College in Frederick, and participated in a pitch competition. Up until that moment, I wasn’t sure if the entrepreneurial idea of Financial Self-Defense would be viable. As the night went on, I was blown away by the level of competition. As my wife, son and I sat in the participant’s seats, I was unsure of the outcome, but my wife was confident I would win. That night, my Financial Self-Defense business model was awarded First Place. That experience literally launched the Financial Black Belt Academy and my personal financial wellness program known as Financial Self-Defense. Earlier that same day, I received word that my Financial Self-Defense Training Guide was published on Amazon. So, April 18th has become a special day for me and my program.
Are you working on any exciting new projects now? How do you think that will help people?
I am working on developing an app that will put the power of the Financial Self-Defense program in the hands of everyone. We are in the early stages and are working out all of the details, but it’s a pretty exciting process. The idea of the program is that as a person becomes proficient in the belt level financial principle, strategy, and goal, he or she is promoted to the next belt level. So, someone who has achieved the level of Financial Orange Belt, which is having an Emergency Fund of 3 to 6 months of expenses, will have to pay off all of his or her consumer or unsecure debt in order to be promoted to Financial Green Belt. The app will track a person’s progress and promote him or her when all belt level curriculum has been met.
None of us are able to achieve success without some help along the way. Is there a particular person who you are grateful towards who helped get you to where you are? Can you share a story about that?
So, my greatest helper has to be my wife. One should never underestimate the power of having a spouse that supports you in a dream, even when that dream is not his or hers. I have the privilege of being married to my editor. I love to write. I have written everything from self-help books, to books about God, to poetry, and of course financial strategies. I have 13 published books (2 are out of print) and I would not have one book published if it were not for her ability to edit. Mind you, she doesn’t necessarily enjoy reading my manuscripts, but she supports my writing by editing every manuscript. I can honestly say that she has read every book I have ever written. It is pretty special when someone is committed to your success as much as you are. When she first agreed to edit my books, I would get upset when she suggested I change the way I phrased a thought or a concept. However, after a while I began to see how she was trying to make the book more “readable”. I knew what I was writing, but she wanted the reader to understand it. That helped me to think things through and see my material from the perspective of the reader. I have sold a number of books over the years and I have a great deal of gratitude for the time and energy she has committed to editing my work. On top of this, she is a great mother and caregiver to our disabled son. Her support allows me to spend hours teaching others the principles of Financial Self-Defense, whether I have to travel to a face to face meeting or I have hours of on-line coaching sessions. For her, I am truly grateful.
Let’s shift a bit to what is happening today in the broader world. Many people have become anxious from the dramatic jolts of the news cycle. The fears related to the coronavirus pandemic have understandably heightened a sense of uncertainty and loneliness. From your experience, what are a few ideas that we can use to effectively offer support to our families and loved ones who are feeling anxious? Can you explain?
One of the tools that many businesses have turned to, and I have started to employ in my own coaching practice is online meetings. I used to only coach face to face because I like the personal interaction. But with the current circumstances, I have moved to holding all coaching sessions on Zoom. From a personal perspective, get your family to sign up for Zoom and schedule some time to meet via computer. It’s a great way to stay in touch when you cannot be there face to face. My parents are both in their 80s so I check in on them every couple of days via phone or text message just to make sure they are doing alright. They are not able to use the technology as well as I can so I have not tried to hold a Zoom meeting with them, but I think the key is to check in with them often. From a business perspective, being able to conduct on-line meetings is critical at this juncture. As I indicated before, I prefer face to face meetings. However, being able to hold on-line meetings allow me to see my clients, share my analytic tools, and actually see how they are doing. Sometimes being able to see someone’s face can reveal that person’s level of anxiety. Presenting a calm, knowledgeable, and reassuring tone can help reduce the level of fear and anxiety about the current situation and what is to come in the days ahead.
Ok. Thanks for all that. Let’s now jump to the main core of our interview. As you know the stock market and the economy in general have become extremely volatile and uncertain. Many people “dollar cost average” and put aside a monthly sum into a long term savings plan for retirement, college, or a home purchase. If a loved one or a client came to you and said, “I have been saving and investing $500 every month in an S&P 500 index fund. Over the next few months until the dust settles, should I be doing something else with my money?”, what would you say to them?
I would start by asking questions. I am not one to just give advice or direction without first understanding where the person is with goals, risk tolerance, and his or her collective financial health. If the person has only been investing in the S&P 500 index fund, I would encourage him or her to consider diversifying some of his or her assets in a different direction. I would resist selling off any of the existing investment since there is no reason to make a paper loss a realized loss. However, going forward I would work with the person to develop a new strategy and redirect future contributions towards a sector and industry that has become attractive at the new market lows. If the person has a higher than average risk tolerance, I would introduce the person to alternative investments designed to take advantage of a market rebound. I would also teach how to increase cash flow by introducing options trading. However, if the person has a lower risk tolerance, I would help the individual identify good companies at discount prices. All of this is done through the eyes of my proprietary analytics process. Of course, the first thing I would want to see is the overall financial wellness of the person. As I said, I would start with questions to get a more comprehensive picture of the person’s financial health. The key to a person’s financial success is the measure of his or her financial strategies and goals. If you set the right goals in the current environment and develop and employ the correct strategies for navigating the current environment, you will come out on the other end in much better shape.
Eventually the economy will recover and rebound. Certain sectors, like travel and hospitality might be hurting for a while. But other sectors, like technology and healthcare, might do very well. If someone wanted to prepare today to take advantage of the future recovery, what would you suggest they do?
I use a proprietary analytics process for identifying sectors, industries, and individual stocks that have a higher propensity to excel in a recovery. The key to any recovery is understanding the specific driver of the market correction, bear market, or recession. It is obvious that hospitality and entertainment stocks are going to be the last to recover, but even in the worst types of market conditions, there are performers. I would also say airlines will also be hit hard and find recovery very difficult. The differentiator between traditional financial planning and the Financial Self-Defense process is the former does the investing for the client, the later teaches the individual how to analyze and identify market opportunities in any market condition. I also would advise that anyone seeking to begin or continuing to invest during a vicious bear market to establish investing rules that limit risk. During times of uncertainty, Consumer Staples and Utilities are usually solid performers since everyone needs food and personal care products, running water, and power. Tech, telecommunications, and bio-tech are good recovery industries since 5G is on the doorstep and the current search for a treatment and vaccine are paramount.
Are there sectors that provide exciting and lucrative investment opportunities today, specifically because of the volatility and uncertainty?
This is where you need to think outside the box. I have analyzed everything associated with food distribution and retailers. As an example, I like the Consumer Staples — Food & Staples Retailing sector/industry. I look for stocks that will have increased EPS, revenues, and strong forward guidance due to the current circumstances. With people panic buying, these stocks stand to have improved same store sales. I also like the Information Technology — Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment. 5G stocks and the semiconductors required to make 5G work will be a good recovery play. I also believe that Health Care — Pharmaceuticals will be big. However, a word of caution here. Trying to pick the winner in the Health Care — Pharmaceuticals sector/industry will prove to be difficult. Therefore, I would stick with the bigger, more established companies and leave the speculation to the risk takers. I would also keep in mind that Health Care — Pharmaceuticals might fade as soon as the volatility decreases and a treatment/vaccine is identified and the threat is reduced. Now, more so than the specific investment you choose to buy is how you choose to buy it. This is where developing a strategy is important. In Bear Market conditions I tend to lean more towards using an options strategy when seeking to purchase shares of a company. I can’t go into all of the detail here, but using options to eventually purchases shares of stock reduces initial risk, secures winning positions at the strike price, & delays a sure purchase for up to 4 weeks. Once you have performed the technical analysis and identified your target stock, use options to enter the position.
Are there alternative investments that you think more people should look more deeply at?
Yes, however, rather than alternative investments taking on the form of stocks, I look towards derivatives; that is investments that derive their value from other investments. These can be as simple as trading option contracts or as complicated as trading leveraged ETFs. Times of high volatility create times of high opportunity. Volatility is a friend to those who are well versed in option and leveraged ETF trading and is a foe to those who live by the buy and hold mentality. The great thing about volatility is that an investor can use both Calls and Puts to profit. Timing is key so trading options or using leveraged ETFs is not for the faint of heart. And one does not want to cut his or her teeth on options and leveraged ETFs in the middle of a highly volatile time. These things are better learned in bull markets. However, once a person is proficient in options trading and how leveraged investing works, he or she can do quite well in the heart of a bear market.
If a person in their thirties and forties came to you today and said that they have $10,000 that they want to put away today for a long term investment what would you advise them to do with it?
First, I would ask if that person had an emergency fund. If he or she did not have an emergency fund, I would tell him or her to get a money market account and put it there. If he or she had an emergency fund, I would ask that person if he or she has any outstanding debt. The financial condition of a person dictates his or her ability to invest. Investing takes personal discipline, willful commitment, extreme patience, unwavering tenacity, intestinal fortitude, and unrelenting endurance. If a person has problems in the most basic personal financial behaviors, he or she should not be investing. Investing begins with having extra financial resources that are not required at the immediate moment. If obligations, necessities, and commitments require all of a person’s income and then some, the person should use the money to reduce those expenses first. Assuming that the person has his or her personal finances in order and does not have an immediate need of the money, I would recommend that the person put the money in a Roth IRA. Of course there are IRS limits for a person in his or her thirties or forties, but I would start there. Then I would suggest he or she put the rest of the money in a brokerage account. In the Roth IRA, I would help the person identify a good dividend paying stock that is undervalued by teaching him or her how to identify these types of opportunities. In the brokerage account I might suggest finding a strong preferred stock that can be used to generate additional cash to invest. Again, it all depends on the person’s goals, risk tolerance, and his or her collective financial health.
Ok, thank you! Here is a more general finance question. You are a “finance insider”. If you had to advise your adult child about 5 non intuitive essentials for smart investing what would you say? Can you please give a story or an example for each?
First, do your analytics. All the information an investor needs is available today on the web, but knowing where to get the information and understanding what the information means are two different things. Even if a person works with a traditional financial advisor, the person should still know market dynamics and how to analyze the numbers. This is a critical point. Most people wouldn’t hand over the keys to their $30,000 vehicle to a neighbor down the street, but they will hand over tens of thousands of dollars to an unknown fund manager and hope that person makes the right decisions. And in a bear market, all bets are off. Fund managers are notorious for bragging about gains in a bull market, but are quick to say “No one can predict the market” in the throes of a bear market. So, yes, know where to find the numbers, but also understand what the number are saying.
Second, don’t invest in anything you don’t understand. Blind investing has destroyed many portfolios. I have a process for analyzing a person’s 401k that helps that person understand what options are available and how to decide which investments can best meet his or her goals. I teach individuals how to deconstruct the mutual funds within the 401k to identify redundancy and dilution. And the worst investments in a 401k are the targeted date funds. These are nothing more than mutual funds of mutual funds that take advantage of the average employee. However, if after understanding what these products are and how they are invested the investor still wants to invest in these types of products, he or she will at least be making an informed decision.
Third, always have an exit plan. Before investing, establish “Guardrail Rules.” Guardrails don’t stop you from crashing; they stop you from going over the cliff. That is the concept of Guardrail Rules. It doesn’t mean you will never suffer a loss, be it on paper or in the wallet, but it does mean that you will not suffer a catastrophic loss. Complacency caught me napping when I first started investing. I bought a stock and never looked at it again. I had several thousand shares of the stock and the company suffered a devastating fire at it main plant and the company went bankrupt. I lost tens of thousands of dollars. Had I established a stop-loss guardrail rule, I would have been able to salvage some of my capital. I was blindsided and got caught in the “it will come back” trap.
Fourth, neutralize financial threats and seize financial opportunities. These two are directly related. The premise of my Financial Self-Defense program focuses on applying this principle from my martial arts training. In martial arts, the principle is to recognize the threat and neutralize it. Then, seize the opportunity created by stopping the attack. It is a defense / offense concept. My book Financial Black Belt Academy’s Financial Self-Defense Training Guide discusses how this principle is realized. When a person acts in a threatening manner, you must recognize if the threat is directed or could be directed at you. If it is, you must prepare to neutralize it by attacking the attacker when the threat escalates to a physical altercation. Once you neutralize the attack, you strike back to end the attack. How this applies to investing is easy. In December I wrote about a NASDAQ bubble (see article on LinkedIn). I anticipated a bubble popping after the first of the year. In December I moved most of my assets to cash. I saw the threat, recognized it was focused on me, and I neutralized it. Now, I am positioned to capitalize on one of the worst bear markets in recent history and that is what I have been doing.
Finally, be financially creative. There are no limits to how a person can create wealth. I have taken advantage of so many opportunities to create wealth it is hard to give just one example. One of my favorites has to do with my time spent in the practice of numismatics. I used to buy Silver Eagles from the United States Mint. My driver was to have a complete set of uncirculated and proof strike Silver Eagles. In 1995, the United States Mint celebrated the Silver Eagle program by introducing a special five-piece 10th Anniversary Eagle proof set. The 10th Anniversary set was comprised of four Gold Eagles and a special one-ounce proof Silver Eagle bearing the [W] mint mark. The 1995-W would be the first Silver Eagle to bear the W mint mark and would have the lowest mintage for any Silver Eagle ever produced by the U.S. Mint. Knowing that this issue would be limited to 25,000 sets, I paid the $1,000 for the set just to get the special 1995-W Silver Eagle. I sold the gold coins almost immediately for $900 and kept the Silver Eagle at the cost of $100. In 2003 I sold the 1995-W Silver Eagle for $4,000. A coin that cost me $100 was sold for $4,000 in just 8 years. That is financially creative.
Can you please give us your favorite “Life Lesson Quote”? Can you share how that was relevant to you in your life?
This is an interesting question on which to end our conversation. And I guess if it is not too self-promoting, I would like to use a quote from my book Poetry and Proverbs: Thoughts of a Creative Intellectual. “The level of personal output must be met or exceeded by a greater level of input for equilibrium to be maintained, for every investor knows that when an investment loses 50% of its value, it requires a 100% gain to break even.” As a parent of a special needs child, who is now 19 years old, I know what it means to have an empty physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual tank. My best days are those days when people pour more into those tanks than my circumstances take out. It also reminds me that there are those around me who need their tanks filled and I can be the one to do that. Life is akin to cash flow. A positive cash flow means more comes in than goes out. In this, life can be a positive experience when a person has more love, more empathy, and more hope flowing into him or her than he or she has being taken out. And as the statement says, when a person losses 50% of his or her positive inflow, he or she will need a 100% gain in order to break even. Life is an exhausting experience for some. Sometimes, things don’t work out the way you would want them to. I know, life as a caregiver to a special needs child is isolating, exhausting, and worrisome. Moments that fill the heart and replenish the soul are few and far between. So if you have what someone else needs, and you have the ability to give it away, do so; without hesitation, without reservation, and without requiring repayment.
You are a person of enormous influence. If you could inspire a movement that would bring the most amount of good to the greatest amount of people, what would that be? You never know what your idea can trigger. 🙂
The movement I would most like to inspire is a personal financial wellness renaissance through the use of my Financial Self-Defense program. I would like for people to pursue their individual Financial Black Belts. Anyone standing outside a martial arts training studio doesn’t think, “I know how to throw a punch and kick my legs. I think I will go inside and challenge the 7th Degree Black Belt to a fight.” That person doesn’t think that because, even though he or she might be able to throw a punch and kick his or her leg, he or she instinctively knows that the master is more effective and efficient at neutralizing a threat and seizing an opportunity. Yet people believe that because they can earn an income and pay their bills (even if it’s not on time), they can manage personal finances effectively and efficiently. The problem is, many lack the financial acumen necessary to become prodigious accumulators of wealth. Average people can become extraordinary wealthy if they just knew how to take advantage of the financial opportunities that exist. I would love to inspire the Financial Black Belt designation as a standard for financial planners. The 1st Degree Financial Black Belt is a Net-Worth Millionaire. The 2nd Degree Financial Black Belt is a Financial Assets Millionaire. And so on and so on up to the level of 9th Degree Financial Black Belt. By requiring a financial planner to be a Financial Black Belt, he or she would have to live the process from Financial White Belt to the Black Belt levels. The cool thing about martial arts is that those who train can achieve the rank of Black Belt. I earned my 1st Degree Black Belt in HapKiDo at the age of 55. I will be 57 when I test for my 2nd Degree. Shout out to Global Martial Arts Academy in Hampstead MD and Master Joe Borucki who is my HapKiDo mentor. My point is this. Anyone can BECOME a Financial Black Belt if he or she is willing to TRAIN, just as I was able to become a 1st Degree Black Belt at 55 after 4 years of training. I believe with my whole heart that if you give a man a fish, he eats for a day. If you teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime. The fish I offer is Financial Literacy. I don’t want to manage other people’s money. I want to teach them how to manage their own money. My passion is to have hundreds of thousands of Financial Martial Artists neutralizing financial threats and seizing financial opportunities.
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FCW's DotGov Thursday column looks at why agencies need to mine their Web sites for data and the tools available for doing so
My hometown was built on the wealth of what was taken out. In the early days, the town, the bank and the stores owed their existence to coal. With the benefit of ever-improving machinery, miners dug great quantities of the coal beneath the hills of West Virginia. It was a tough, dangerous, dirty job, but the miners were among the best-paid workers. The lesson to learn is that only by the hard work of extracting the coal, was it possible to fuel the steel mills in Pittsburgh and to keep the trains going that delivered the manufactured goods.
Data and information are the new energy sources. In the world of Web sites, it is important to locate and use data to make informed decisions about design, marketing, long-term strategies and information technology purchases. Fortunately, without even getting your fingernails dirty, you can dig for a treasure trove of information from the comfort of your ergonomically correct chair.
One way to dig for data about a Web site is to use data mining, which is the process of finding patterns. Patterns are hidden in extremely large tables. Depending on your needs, finding the patterns could involve artificial intelligence or statistical analysis software.
To a lesser extent, data mining also makes use of Web site analysis tools. Such tools are limited to providing some facts about the visitors the site and some data about their activities. However, full-scale data mining will provide insight about trends of the visitors to your site.
New to data mining? It can be a daunting task. For a start, you may want to answer such questions as:
* What browsers do users have? What versions do they use?
* How many unique visitors did our site have this month? How long did they stay?
* Who is referring to us? What search words did they use to find the Web site?
* What are the top 10 downloaded documents? What are the least requested files?
* Were there any problems encountered out of the ordinary? Do we have a lot of 404 errors?
Simple tools may be best when just starting out. Before jumping into data mining, try analyzing the Web site data in the log files. This assumes that you have graduated beyond using a hit counter, and that your site employs some sort of Web analysis tool, such as WebTrends Corp. software.
Using Web site analysis tools can help with marketing and design strategies as well as help advise your Web design team. The team needs to know if links are dead ends and be able to answer the above questions. By knowing if users are encountering an overabundance of problems (via miscellaneous error messages), the Web team will be able to distinguish between activity because of miscoded links and activity that possibly is a sign of hacking. The informed designer also will know if users' paths through a site are more convoluted than need be.
Knowledge can arise from the careful study of your log files' data. The information can then be used to map a data mining strategic plan for more sophisticated activities.
Look to all the individuals (in a small organization) or to departmental representatives (in larger agencies) to comment on the strategic plan and to ensure that it meshes with the overall mission as well as other existing business or marketing plans. Doing so will ensure that all stakeholders are accounted for in the plan and that the most can be achieved with the limited resources. It can help you decide if log analysis suits your needs or if you need to invest in data mining software.
The more customer-driven your site (that is, if it performs e-commerce or delivers e-services), the more likely you will want to do a comprehensive analysis of your Web server logs and then transition into studying customer transactions and trends.
Tang, a member of the Federal Web Business Council, is an associate in the Information Technology Group at Caliber Associates, Fairfax, Va.
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Five Must Have Features in Human Resource Software
Technology has created countless advances that help today's businesses thrive. One of the best technological additions to your company is human resource software. There are many different reasons to add human resource software to your company including higher productivity, fewer errors, and easier access to data. But choosing human resource software can be difficult since so many different products are on the market today. With so many choices, you may have a hard time narrowing them down to the one that works best for you. Here are five features that any human resource software must have, regardless of your company.
- Database – This feature will be included in any good human resource software, and is the basic backbone on which the entire system is built. The human resource software database includes a full list of all your employees and relevant data to them including any information that would normally be in an employee file. With human resource software this data can be added to, revised, or otherwise manipulated when needed. This feature makes human resource software an easier way to manage all employee data.
- Payroll – Human resource software without payroll features is like a human body without a skeleton. One of the key benefits that human resource software provides is the ability to streamline the payroll process, and payroll features are a must when buying human resource software. The exact features will vary, and you can now purchase human resource software that allows you to track time, attendance, and more all in addition to basic payroll functions. Regardless of your company, your human resource software isn't complete without payroll features.
- Self Service – A single HR worker could spend as much as forty percent of their time dealing with employee benefits in larger companies, and adding self service options to your human resource software is the best way to avoid this issue. Human resource software that includes self service will allow employees to manage aspects of their own benefits package without bothering HR, and can save time and money while improving morale. They're a great feature to look for in human resource software.
- Benefits Administration – Whether your human resource software has self service, you'll still want it to include benefits administration for your HR staff. This makes managing all aspects of employee benefits easy, including eligibility and account information. Few human resource software options lack benefits administration features, but it's always worth looking for when shopping for human resource software options.
- Performance Management – Many businesses are looking for human resource software that allows them to track employee performance through a simple scoring system. Good human resource software can handle this as well as tracking training efforts, retention programs, and much more.
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In the northern Italian city of Como, the Teatro Cressoni is currently being demolished in order to build noble condominiums on the same site.
An important archaeological discovery was made. In a soapstone container of unusual shapes and in some ways similar to an urn, a treasure was kept which came to light on Wednesday 7 September during the excavations near the theatre’s former stage.
The approximately three hundred gold coins would probably have been used to finance military action to pay the soldiers. This is at least one of the most widely accepted hypotheses at present.
A well-preserved inscription found not far from the coins is also of some value.
A surprising discovery is the quality of the coins found, which, thanks to the purity of the gold used by the Romans, seem to have been minted, even if the true value of the discovery is not numismatic but, above all, historical. In fact, Roman gold coins are very rare, the precious material was melted in successive epochs to transform into other coins of different mintages or jewels.
“We do not yet know in detail the historical and cultural significance of the find“,
said Alberto Bonisoli, Minister of Cultural Heritage.
Certainly, the container with the coins was opened for the last time in the late imperial period, when Rome was already in decline and the emperor and his court had retreated to Ravenna. Ravenna was easier to defend when the army was besieged by the barbarian tribes, often led by former Roman generals. However, some coins can go back centuries, but this question can only be answered in the coming months when archaeologists have emptied the urn and catalogued it piece by piece.
The opening of the Teatro Cressoni (originally simply called Teatro Nuovo) took place on 30 December 1870 with the performance of the drama Il Proscritto, but the official inauguration took place on the evening of 4 March 1871 with Il Trovatore. From then on, about ninety opera performances were performed. The most important performances in the history of the Teatro Cressoni were certainly the Lucia of Lammermoor and the Barber of Seville in 1901, who saw Luisa Tetrazzini as the main actress, while the last opera performed by Maria Passeri in 1907 was a Carmen.
The theatre was built on the initiative of Hannibal Cressoni, patriot, poet and journalist and designed by Pietro Luzzani. The vault of the room was painted by Vincenzo De Bernardi, while the interior was by Luigi Borgomainerio. Giovanni Pessina, costume designer and set designer of the Scala, painted the scenes and the characteristic sail that represented the old port of Como with several figures of that time.
In addition to the best operetta companies, numerous ensembles such as the Compagnia Milanese by Edoardo Ferravilla (almost every year), the Compagnia Goldoniana by Giacinto Gallina, the Compagnia Comica Italiana Dina Galli, the ensembles by Giacinta Pezzana, Italia Vitaliani, Ermete Zacconi and Ernesto Rossi have performed at the Teatro Cressoni.
The Cressoni also hosted the first screening of the Reale Cinematografo Lumière on 12 May 1897.
In 1910, the theatre was closed, renovated and reopened to the public in 1913. It kept the name Cressoni until 1932, when it was renamed Odeon. Some thirty years later it was further rebuilt and turned into the Central Cinema until it was finally closed in 1997.
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When I was a boy there was only one hard-top road in the whole of Australia's remote Northern Territory: the Stuart Highway, known locally as "the Track." The Track runs a thousand miles from Darwin on the northcoast of the continent to Alice Springs in the center, then another thousand miles down to Adelaide on the southern coast.
An old Aboriginal man once drew a rough map of the Territory for me in the sand with a stick. "Here is the whitefeller's road," he said, and scratched a north-south straight line—the Track. "And here is the sun's road," he added, scratching an east-west intersection. "And here," he said, jabbing the intersection repeatedly, "is the middle of the world. Alice Springs."
The Alice region should be the beginning of any journey to explore the art of the desert peoples—and this is where my partner Lisa and I start ours. We have been collecting Aboriginal paintings for years, but mainly from commercial galleries in Australia, and our curiosity to know more about its origins has led us here.
It was just 150 miles west of the Alice, in the community of Papunya, that an art teacher named Geoffrey Bardon first introduced some senior men to acrylics—and the modern Aboriginal art movement was born. This was in 1971, and many of the early "Bardon painting men"—such as the famed Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri—have since passed on. But a new generation of Papunya artists still use the ocher colors—the reds, whites, and yellows—and traditional symbology.
At the Papunya Tula Artists gallery in Alice, we see their latest work. These artists speak Pintupi, the language of the Gibson Desert. Many of them grew up in harsh conditions, hunting lizards and gathering seeds; some didn't know white people existed until well into their adult lives. The toughness of that world is reflected in their spare, abstract paintings. Simple symbolic representations are plentiful: a stick shape for a man, a horseshoe for a woman, concentric circles for water holes. I'm struck by the vivid orange palette used by Tjunkiya Napaltjarri, and the broad, uncluttered compositions of Ningura Napurrula. These paintings are much more polished, in a Western sense, than the pioneering dot paintings that came out of Papunya in the seventies, which can often appear careless in their technique.
The Australian poet Les Murray describes the great flourishing of Aboriginal art in recent years as "Australia's jazz." It's an apt comparison—like jazz, Aboriginal art takes new forms in different regions and communities, and blends traditional stories, beliefs, and iconographies with Western materials and "instruments." It has become Australia's best-known cultural export of late—along with Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett. Works by art stars Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, and Rover Thomas have fetched hundreds of thousands of dollars at international auctions. These days, serious collectors of Aboriginal art are just as likely to be from New York City or Holland as from Australia. Tim Klingender, director of Aboriginal art at Sotheby's Australia, says some of his top buyers are based in the United States.
Australia has three main regions for Aboriginal art: tropical Arnhem Land and the Tiwi islands, specializing in rock art and bark paintings, respectively; the Kimberley in the tropical northwest; and the art of the desert peoples, with the Alice as their focus. The art of these last two areas, traditionally painted on bodies or drawn in sand, is now largely done on canvas with acrylics.
Within these broad regions there are different communities and language groups, each with their own styles and forms of art—but many are based on the Dreamings, the creation stories of Aboriginal Australia. The Dreamings tell of the adventures of the mythic totemic ancestors— kangaroos, birds, lizards, men and women, even yams—who made the land and its people and food. The Dreamings can also provide a "song-map" of the location of water holes, ocher pits, food sources, and sacred sites.
The artist Evelyn Pultara is painting such a Dreaming when Lisa and I arrive in the Aboriginal community of Wilora, 200 miles north of Alice Springs. Evelyn sits cross-legged on the bare concrete veranda of her modest house, brushing away flies and dabbing blotches of blossom-pink pigment onto a large black canvas. A shy woman in her sixties, she says little, concentrating on her work. Her older, white-bearded husband, Clem, a former drover and stockman (cowboy), sits on a chair watching, offering advice, and entertaining us with stories of the thousand-mile-long cattle drives of his youth. Dogs walk over the canvas from time to time, "signing" it with a possessive squirt of urine. Forgeries of indigenous art are not unknown, and the conservator Gloria Morales in Yuendumu has suggested that a urine stain is one way to identify the genuine article. While Evelyn dabs, a chicken also walks straight through the fresh paint and across the canvas, leaving a spoor of vivid pink bird tracks. We are a long way from the galleries of Sydney and Milan, where Evelyn has recently had solo shows.
Bird and animal tracks are frequently used symbols in Aboriginal art, but this painting is a Bush Yam Dreaming, not a Chicken Dreaming, and Pultara soon paints over the tracks. The influence of Evelyn's relatives—she is a niece of the late legendary painter Emily Kame Kngwarreye, and a cousin of the well-known Lindsay Bird Mpetyane and of the Petyarre sisters—can be seen in the flowing, impressionist shapes that slowly emerge from the flecks of soft pinks and whites and yellows. Ownership of a particular Dreaming is shared by a kinship group, or "skin" group—many of these women have painted Bush Yam Dreamings. Pultara's is a painting of desert abundance, of plentiful food after rain.
As Lisa and I drive back to Alice Springs late in the day, we see this abundance. Wildflowers are everywhere, their soft purples and yellows reminiscent of the paintings by Pultara and other artists of the Utopia homelands. Ubiquitous red-termite mounds tower above the grasses and flowers like soldiers in a baked terra-cotta army. We also see wildlife—kangaroos, big monitor lizards, smaller dragon lizards, majestic wedgetail eagles, parrots, and Australia's favorite pet bird, the beautiful green and yellow budgerigar, or budgie.Snakes crawl away from the side of the road from time to time, and there is a multitude of crows.
The following day, we drive 200 miles west along the "sun's road"—to the Haasts Bluff, or Ikuntji, community. This is hilly country, with gorges carved through the red and orange mountains of the West MacDonnell Ranges. The road is unpaved, and our Land Cruiser must pick its way across dry, rocky creek beds, through sand drifts, over stony ridges. We see Haasts Bluff itself—a stunning granite escarpment at the eastern end of the Papunya Range—from many miles away.
Ikuntji Art Centre is a cooperative of female artists. Best known is the aging Narputta Nangala, who sits on the floor of the art center painting a giant blue canvas, its stylized and undulating horizontal lines seeming to echo the hills of the surrounding country and the granite cliff of the Bluff itself. We also meet her eldest daughter, Molly Napaltjarri, who paints more figurative, naïve work, and Eunice Napanangka Jack, who is working on an exquisitely detailed Hairstring Dreaming.
We eat with the community—an excellent meal of lamb and vegetable stew cooked by Molly's husband, Steve. When Lisa is asked who her husband is, and points to my thin, six-foot frame, the old women nudge her and laugh. "Long one, that one," Narputta says. The famous local artist Long Tom Tjapanangka is now living in Alice. In his absence, I like the idea of temporarily appropriating the name for myself—Long Peter Goldsworthy.
Even if you've come here only to buy art, it's invaluable to see this country at ground level—to taste, smell, and even swim in it. We make our base at the spartan Glen Helen Resort, which sits at the entrance to a gorge in a high red sandstone escarpment. In the morning we step out of our cabins and watch the rock wallabies hopping from ledge to ledge like marsupial mountain goats. An hour later, and 30 miles away, we pause for a dip in the Ellery Creek Bighole, where the bone-cold waters of the lagoon run from the shadowed side of the gorge out into sunlight on the other: a heavenly oasis. I could spend the day floating among the water birds and dragonflies.
The community of Hermannsburg (Ntaria) is another oasis in the desert. This is the country of the late Albert Namatjira, whose watercolors of the MacDonnell Ranges and Hermannsburg Mission from the forties and fifties are still justly famous in Australia. New York-born potter Naomi Sharp and her daughter Simha coordinate the Hermannsburg Potters project. For 14 years Sharp has helped in the evolution of a distinctive style: rounded clay pots made and painted by the artists, then capped with lids, usually topped with a painted animal sculpture. Clara Ngal Inkamala, one of the best of the younger potters and Namatjira's great-niece, shows us photographs of the old Lutheran mission and of her ancestors. She tells us about a time when a half-dozen Hermannsburg potters traveled to Spain for an exhibition of their work and were accosted by a group of gypsies in Seville who couldn't place the strange, foreign faces of these Aboriginal women. Eventually they decided they must be "Italian gypsies." Inkamala was amused when the Spanish gypsies attempted to beg from this group of Australian Aboriginals—the most underprivileged group in their own country.
Ten years ago, I spent a week camping in the Tanami Desert with three old Warlpiri men, and after helping one with some medical problems was informally adopted in the Warlpiri fashion, and given the skin name of Japaljarri—one of the eight male clans. Yuendumu is the capital city of the Warlpiri homelands, 200 miles northwest of Alice Springs. There is a feeling of great energy about the temporary art house in Yuendumu. The house provides painting materials and floor space for up to 100 artists, and will soon be replaced by a new art center. Two Chilean women,Cecilia Alfonso and Gloria Morales, are overseeing this ambitious project. They also run the local painters' cooperative, Warlukurlangu Aboriginal Artists Association, which had a turnover of more than $1 million last year. Morales, a former conservator at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, introduces us to the work and the artists—and their numerous camp dogs.
The new era of art began at Yuendumu in 1984, when a group of senior men painted their Dreamings on 42 school doors. Thirty of these doors are now in the South Australian Museum in Adelaide, but one of the men—PaddyJapaljarri Stewart, my classificatorybrother, or grandfather—has just produced another 24 door-sized canvases, to be auctioned later this year. Spread out by Morales on the concrete floor around us, the paintings are stunning. To find this light and color, this diversity of palettes and Dreamings—Budgerigar, Possum, Two Kangaroos, Wedgetail Eagle, Small Yam and Big Yam, Milky Way—all in one artist's work is remarkable. Standing amid Stewart's luminous "doors" in the tin shed that is the temporary art house, I feel as if I were surrounded by the stained-glass windows of a great cathedral.
Stewart works till sundown on another, smaller canvas. He's struggling to keep the dogs away, but the bird tracks that crisscross this canvas have been made by the artist, not by a stray chicken. This is another Budgerigar Dreaming, and he sings softly as he works, reminding himself of the places and travels of the Budgerigar Ancestor.
Lying in our sleeping bags under the stars that night, Lisa and I cannot get Stewart's images out of our heads. The Milky Way with all its Dreaming stories stretches above us, the embers of the campfire still glow—but the memory of Stewart's paintings glows brighter.
Geoffrey Bardon, the white art teacher who catalyzed all this in Papunya, wrote in 1989 of how western desert art's glory "surged forth in the immense, almost desperate, creativity of a people seeking only to be themselves." Having crossed the continent, we feel astonished by that glory, but also profoundly humbled by its immensity and generosity. As with the blues and jazz of America, the art we have just seen is also in some sense a voice of the dispossessed—a voice that now gives back to the world far, far more than it ever received.
Australian Aboriginal Art & Culture Tour
Sydney native Suzun Bennet opened the Australian Aboriginal Fine Art Gallery of New York in 2001. Now she leads an annual trip to all the major art centers in the Central Desert and northern Australia, allowing clients to meet artists and visit some of the world's oldest rock-art sites.
917/459-8874; www.aboriginalvisions.com; July 31-August 14; $4,000 per person, including hotels and most meals but not airfare.
Didgeri Air Art Tours
Pilot and former art student Helen Read has been organizing insider excursions to the Kimberley region, Central Desert, and Arnhem Land (where her next tour is headed) for 13 years.
61-8/8948-5055; www.didgeri.com.au; May 9-13; from $4,242 per person, including airfare within Australia, hotels, and meals.
Buying art through community-owned cooperatives, which charge a commission of 40 percent or so, ensures that you are getting the genuine article and that your money is going to the right people. Contact them before you visit: you'll need to make an appointment, and they can help you apply for a permit with the local Land Council—a requirement for entering indigenous territories. (The permit is usually free and can take a few weeks to process.)
Papunya Tula Artists
Ikuntji Art Centre
Warlukurlangu Aboriginal Artists Association
Warlayirti Culture Center (450 miles northwest of Alice Springs)
The senior artists in this remote community—Eubena Nampitjin and Tjumpo Tjapanangka—have international reputations. 61-8/9168-8960; www.balgoart.org.au.
Numerous other communities offer links through the Desart site at www.desart.com.au.
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Aboriginal art—including paintings by Emily Kame Kngwarreye—is a strength. Art Gallery Rd., The Domain, Sydney; 61-2/9225-1744; www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au.
Ian Potter Centre
This new building, part of the National Gallery of Victoria, has a suite of galleries devoted to indigenous art, with an emphasis on work from Torres Strait islanders. Federation Square, Melbourne; 61-3/8620-2222; www.ngv.vic.gov.au.
Red Sand Art Gallery
Ti Tree (150 miles north of Alice Springs); 61-8/8956-9738; www.redsandart.com.au.
South Australian Museum
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Ficus Bengali (Fícus benghalénsis) is a tree from the mulberry family. This plant grows in Bangladesh, as well as in India and Sri Lanka. It can occupy an area of several hectares, and the diameter of the crown of a ficus can exceed five hundred meters.
Description of Bengal Ficus
The ficus bengal plant is characterized by a special life form, which is called "banyan". The beginning of the banyan formation stage is due to the formation of powerful, horizontally located branches of the aerial root system. These roots are numerous, do not have hairs. Their growth is very slow. A significant part of the root system dries out after a certain period of time and does not reach the ground.
A small part of aerial roots still touches the soil and gets the opportunity to root. Then the aboveground part passes the stage of intense thickening and turning into trunks. The fruits formed on the plant serve as food for birds and mammals, which become the main assistants in the distribution of seeds and further propagation of the plant.
Like a significant part of the varieties of ficus from the mulberry family, Bengal ficus can be classified as the most unpretentious plant in indoor floriculture.
Ficus bengal is characterized by high growth intensity. With standard care, the plant can add in growth from fifty centimeters to one meter annually. To restrain growth, it is necessary to cultivate ficus in a tight container or perform pruning of roots at the stage of transplantation.
Ficus Bengali: care features
Bengal ficus is not very demanding on lighting parameters. The plant feels good in the conditions of spacious and fairly bright rooms. Allowed cultivation using artificial lighting. The uniform and proper development of the crown of this ficus requires regular rotation of the flower pot with the plant around its axis. This procedure allows all sides of the ficus to get an equal amount of light.
The plant requires compliance with moderate temperature indicators, which can range from 18 to 26 degrees above zero. Ficus Bengali is recommended to be protected from drafts and lowering the temperature of less than 17 degrees of heat.
The plant is quite voluminous and has some requirements for humidity in the room. Regularly remove dust with a wet sponge from the foliage of the plant. In addition, central heating batteries, as well as other heating devices in the room, which make the air too dry, can have a negative effect on ficus.
Watering and feeding
Watering should be regular and plentiful all year round, due to the lack of a winter dormant phase in the plant. Fertilizer under Ficus Bengali should be used with great care. It is advisable to feed twice a month with half doses of ready-made complex fertilizers for universal use.
A young plant of this type of ficus requires annual transplantation into a larger flower pot with a standard soil mixture for all types of ficus. Adult plants are quite problematic to transplant. It is recommended that the topsoil be replaced with fresh soil as necessary.
It is advisable to prune Bengal ficus in the warm season. As a rule, experienced flower growers perform sanitary and shaping pruning in the spring. All weak and dried shoots should be removed. This kind of ficus responds well to forming pruning, due to the implementation of which the plant acquires a more magnificent and compact crown.
You may also be interested in an article in which we talk about the problems encountered when growing ficuses.
Diseases and Pests
Pests infect Bengal ficus quite rarely. One can observe the appearance of such parasites on the plant that are characteristic of most ficuses, such as thrips, scale insects, and spider mites. Small-sized plants should be freed from pests by a stream of warm water from a shower head. Large plants with a massive crown require treatment with special insecticides.
Improper care, accompanied by violations of microclimatic conditions and the regime of watering and top dressing, can cause wilting, shredding or falling of leaves, as well as slowing the growth or stretching of the stem of the plant. These problems are addressed by reviewing sensitive care activities.
Ficus: indoor plant
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French Ultramarine – French Ultramarine is a rich transparent blue and was created by French chemist Guimet in 1828 as a synthetic but chemically identical alternative to the expensive pigment derived from Lapis Lazuli.
What is the difference between ultramarine and French ultramarine?
Ultramarine Blue and French Ultramarine both contain pigment PB29, but Ultramarine has a smaller pigment particle size and is slightly greener and cooler than French Ultramarine, which has a larger pigment particle size and is slightly redder and warmer.
Is French ultramarine warm or cool?
Ultramarine pigment was produced in Germany and France (hence French Ultramarine) from the 1830s as a cheaper alternative to natural ultramarine. Ultramarine is a warm blue as it is more biased towards purple on the colour wheel than green.
What is French ultramarine blue made of?
Ultramarine is a blue made from natural lapis lazuli, or its synthetic equivalent which is sometimes called “French Ultramarine”. Variants of the pigment “ultramarine red”, “ultramarine green”, “ultramarine violet” are known, and are based on similar chemistry and crystal structure.
What color is similar to ultramarine blue?
Ultramarine Blue >>> Cobalt Blue. Burnt Sienna >>> Light Red, Burnt Umber.
Why is ultramarine so expensive?
Because of the scarcity and method of the process made ultramarine the most expensive pigment available. The cost of ultramarine is known to be more expensive than gold. Like saffron, there was a value culturally and in manufacturing the pigment. By some painters who pay for the pigment called it blue gold.
What was the most expensive color?
Google “the most expensive pigment” and you’ll find that Lapis Lazuli is believed to be the most expensive pigment ever created. It was pricier than its weight in gold. Blue was always the most expensive pigment for painters, first of all, for supernatural beauty, perfection, and glory.
Is Navy a cool or warm color?
Navy Blue By Seasonal Color Palette Winter and Summer have the most versions of navy, because it is a cool color and these are the cooler seasons.
Is Ultra blue The Same as ultramarine?
French ultramarine (RG note) They are one and the same thing. Ultra blue is also sold as French blue, Gmelin’s blue, Royal blue and New blue.
What are cool blues?
Cool blues are those with a green bias. There are many of them – Phthalo Blue, Prussian Blue, Cerulean blue, Manganese Blue, Winsor Blue and so on. Cerulean is useful as an opaque blue and is a common addition in watercolour palettes especially for painting the sky.
Why is blue expensive?
Blue only appeared when the Egyptians started mining and unearthed lapis lazuli, a semi-precious stone first found in Afghanistan about 6,000 years ago. Lapis was scarce and thus greatly prized, and was used to adorn the tombs of pharaohs and the eyes of Cleopatra.
Is red the most expensive color?
Automakers often offer several different colors free, though special pigments and hues can command a premium, with red often being the most expensive.
Why was blue paint so expensive?
It Used The Be The Most Expensive Color on the Planet. Its color was derived from lapis lazuli, a rare, semiprecious gemstone mined almost exclusively in Afghanistan since the 6th century, and imported to Europe through Venice. Oct 15, 2015.
What’s the difference between Phthalo blue and ultramarine blue?
If we mapped each color on the color wheel, we’d see that ultramarine tilts toward the violet side of the wheel, while phthalo shifts toward the green side. If you were to replace ultramarine with phthalo for most of your blue mixes, your painting would take on a strange, acidic blue-green pall.
What’s the difference between ultramarine blue and cobalt blue?
– Ultramarine is typically warmer; Cobalt tends to be cooler. Cool colors like to recede in a painting, so Cobalt may work better for shadows and background blues, while Ultramarine prefers attention. – Ultramarine tends to be more intense than Cobalt, while Cobalt is known for being delicate.
What is a substitute for Phthalo blue?
It would be churlish to say no; if you don’t have phthalo blue, you may substitute ultramarine. Ultramarine is the best alternative because that color is also a transparent pigment with a good tinting strength.
What is the most expensive color to paint a car?
Red is the most expensive colour, worth an extra $338; grey is the cheapest, worth $389 less than the convertible average. For trucks, black is the most valuable colour, worth an extra $221; blue is the cheapest, averaging $237 less than a typical pickup.
What is ultramarine green?
from 105.00. Pigment mix: An intense deep greenishshade blue color from made from a complex blend of pigments including ultramarine blue. Works particularly well with burnt reds and purples such as ‘Umber’ and ‘Ultramarine Violet’.
Is cobalt blue still used?
Cobalt blue is lighter and less intense than the (iron-cyanide based) pigment Prussian blue. It is extremely stable and historically, has been used as a coloring agent in ceramics (especially Chinese porcelain), jewelry, and paint.Cobalt blue. Identifiers show SMILES Properties Chemical formula Al 2 CoO 4 Molar mass 176.892 g·mol − 1.
What is the rarest color on earth?
Did you know? These are the rarest colours in the world Lapis Lazuli. Lapus Lazuli is a blue mineral so rare that in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance it was actually more valuable than gold. Quercitron. Cochineal. Dragon’s Blood. Mummy Brown. Brazilwood. Cadmium Yellow.
What is the most beautiful color?
YInMn blue is so bright and perfect that it almost doesn’t look real. It’s the non-toxic version of the world’s most popular favorite color: blue. Some people are calling this hue the best color in the world.
Which is the rarest color in the world?
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“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” -Maya Angelou, R.I.P.
Recently, I was contacted by time-lapse photographer Thomas O’Brien, alerting me to a new video he’s put together from footage he’s compiled over the past nine years from the most reliably, consistently eventful meteor showers here on Earth: the Geminids, the Perseids, and the Leonids. If — like me — you didn’t get to enjoy a single Camelopardalid last week (or even if you did), this just might leave you with an unparalleled feeling of awe.
But just what went into making this video? Amazingly, this is Thomas’s very first timelapse video, something he was able to put together from a selection of an archive of over 500,000 still frames. You can read more about its technical composition here, but I’d like to highlight for you the science of what goes into what you’re seeing.
The streaks you’re seeing come in two different flavors: the slow ones that appear in multiple different frames, that zip across the entire sky and that seem to originate from all over, and the fast ones that appear to exist in just one of the frames apiece, appearing to point away from a single, solitary point.
That’s because you’re seeing light from two different types of sources, one of which never existed before the mid-20th century!
The ones that leave streaks across the entire sky — appearing to originate and terminate out-of-frame (or beyond the Earth’s horizon) — aren’t meteors at all, but rather man-made satellites! From low-Earth orbit, these spacecraft zip around our planet at typical speeds of 28,000 kilometers-per-hour (17,000 mph), crossing a terrestrial observer’s entire field of view in a matter of just a couple of minutes.
But the very fast-moving streaks are an entirely different phenomenon.
Dusty debris ejected from a comet that passed too close to the Sun continues to orbit in the path that the comet still takes, colliding with Earth once per year as our planet plows through the point where it crosses our world’s orbit. These streaks appear to originate from a radiant, or central point on the sky, are typically short in both duration and length, and are the hallmarks of meteor showers.
Each one of these meteors — or shooting stars, as they’re sometimes colloquially known — are typically no bigger than a grain of sand, and burn up in the atmosphere on timescales ranging from a maximum of a few seconds all the way down to milliseconds.
But there’s much more in the video than simply that!
There are some seriously amazing star trails shown off here. A long-exposure image like this can bring out literally thousands of stars, and by stacking minutes or even hours worth of images atop one another, you can create these beautiful, long trails.
What’s particularly nice about this is that these are true-color star trails, where the color you see is determined solely from the actual temperatures of the stars themselves, with the coolest ones appearing red, then onto hotter ones progressively as we go to orange, yellow, white, and finally bluish. Note the difference between a real image, like the one above, and a fake, falsely colorized (and falsely highlighted) one like Justin Ng’s, below.
Another thing that the video really brings out is just how amazingly bright the Moon is, something that most people, in my experience, really fail to appreciate.
To put it in perspective, the Sun is a whopping 400,000 times brighter than the full Moon, but the full Moon is 40 million times brighter than the majority of naked-eye stars that are visible to human vision!
You might look at this image and think immediately of a sunset or sunrise, but this is what you actually see by taking a long-ish (maybe 15-45 second) exposure of the Moon rising! Just as the Earth’s atmosphere reddens the Sun as it rises by preferentially scattering blue light away (leaving more of the reddish light), the Moon does the exact same thing! By gathering light for around a thousand times as long as your eyeball can, you can even witness the effect that the Moon has on the atmosphere: it’s very similar to the Sun! Even the bodies of water on the Earth below reflect the moonlight just as they would sunlight.
The telltale sign, though, that this is the Moon and not the Sun, is that that stars remain present in the sky, only marginally washed out by the Moon, and preferentially moreso in the vicinity of the Moon itself.
You’ll also notice that the vast majority of satellite trails — like these shown at about 1:11 of the video — move in roughly the same direction across the sky. Why would that be?
Because low-Earth-orbit satellites — the vast majority of which have been sent up in the past two decades — generally follow a very specific plan as far as what orbit they’re sent up in. From a given location on Earth, the vast majority of satellites that you’re likely to see are following the same flight plan!
And the North Star — the bright object visible with barely any star trail at all — is not quite located at the North Celestial Pole! The small but noticeable star trail it leaves behind is because it’s located (at present) at a declination of 89° 15', not at a perfect 90°. This means that, over a 24-hour period, it makes a circular trail 1½° in diameter, or three times the size of the full Moon! This isn’t significant for most general purposes, but for extremely precise ones, this can make a huge difference, and it’s noticeable in Thomas’s video.
The plane of the Milky Way (above) — our galaxy’s disk — as well as star clusters (easily identifiable, below), are not only visible to the naked eye under dark-sky, moonless conditions nearly every night, they’re capable of being seen under sub-optimal conditions with the power of long-exposure photography, which simply let more light in!
But the darkness of the sky, how black it appears (versus blue or even cyan), that’s something that cannot be mimicked with long-exposure photography. Photons are photons, and if you’re letting the deep-sky ones into your camera, you’re letting the ones polluting the atmosphere in, too. And a city — even a small one — will show up with not only an unmistakeable glow over its location, but is likely to brighten (and hence, affect the seeing) over the entire sky.
But regardless of how much of the science you did or didn’t know, I hope that watching a dark, night sky shine over a terrestrial landscape, changing as the planet rotates beneath our feet and subject to the lighting effects of satellites, the Moon, and meteors originating from comet dust, makes you feel the same sense of joy, wonder and connectedness that I did.
Thanks to Thomas for creating such a spectacular video, and thanks to all of you for watching it, and learning a little bit about the science behind what you’re seeing!
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If you want a better world, elect better leaders.
Peak Money: "The world is running out of money. If money is credit, and credit relies on confidence, there is not enough confidence in the financial system to supply the world with the money it needs. ... credit and money have been withdrawn from the system in such staggering amounts that international trade can no longer grow. The world’s central banks are playing a rear guard action by acting as lender of last resort to banks that no longer trust each other and have stopped lending in the interbank market. As liquidity flows out from the system, the rottenness that has corrupted the foundations of global finance is now exposed for all to see." And so on.
Rin-Tin-Tenner: Tax evasion and the movement of ill-gotten gains out of the country has become such a severe problem that the Italian financial police are deploying dogs trained to sniff out euro notes.
Triage: Investors (?) holding Greek sovereign debt are seeing their "voluntary haircut" go from a 50% crew-cut to an 80% Mohawk. Some at the ECB want to abandon the effort to “involve the private sector” and make the Greeks pay far more, while “restoring trust” in the rest of the euro zone thus reducing their financing costs. Except, of course for Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy.
Data Dump: Unemployment initial claims were reported at 372,000, down 15,000, and the 4-week average stands at 373,250 – the lowest it has been since June 2008. Light vehicle sales, at 13.56 million SAAR, were up 8.9% y/y and were the strongest since June 2008. Gift horses, do not look too closely.
Sampler: Where once Americans dreamed of owning a home, now they dream of affording an apartment.
Sticks and Stones: Despite our expectations and the forecasts of experts, there are not going to be any dramatic changes, just continued, unrelenting decay all around. Oil prices are never going to come down, house prices are not going to go up, and US wages will continue to erode, year after year. True, the system is broken, but it has tremendous inertia.
Motivation: In the legislation to convert REO/foreclosed houses to rental units, expect investors to get access to federal money at below-market rates, banks (and the GSEs) to receive above-market prices for houses they cannot sell, and the taxpayers of 2045 to foot the bill.
Clarification: The non-partisan Tax Policy Center says that Romney's tax plan would increase taxes on low-income families by 60% while cutting taxes for the middle-class 2% and reducing taxes on the rich by 15%. Any questions?
As Easy As 1 – 2 – 3: First the financial/economic crisis discredited America's free-market brand of capitalism. Then the European version collapsed. Now the Chinese approach (socialized state capitalism) is wobbling badly. How then shall we next try to organize the economy? Is there any absolutely sure way of generating wealth and prosperity? No.
Beautification Project: The US defines its foreign policy and foreign military adventures as being “pro-democracy”, while even the most casual observation reveals that “democracy” to the US power elite denotes a country whose leadership will serve America's interests, while dictatorships are countries that do not take orders from Washington. Democracy in terms of the various countries internal politics is of no concern to America, Inc.
Ipso Facto: Three New Hampshire GOPers want the state to adopt a requirement that all legislation must trace its origin directly from the Magna Carta. Beats insisting on implementing the Ten Commandments.
Reminder: “Remember when teachers, public employees, Planned Parenthood, NPR and PBS crashed the stock market, wiped out half of our 401Ks, took trillions in taxpayer funded bailouts, spilled oil in the Gulf of Mexico, gave themselves billions in bonuses, and paid no taxes? Yeah, me neither...” | <urn:uuid:12b5f808-9cb0-4e94-abb7-00797267c0cb> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://ckm3.blogspot.com/2012/01/sar-12006.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00396-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951501 | 846 | 1.632813 | 2 |
With more and more families today needing money in order to pay for their needs, the importance of pawn stores as a way to secure loans has significantly increased. Thousands upon thousands of people are now seeking the help of pawn stores everywhere in order to acquire short term or small dollar loans.
With many pawn stores becoming more prominent especially after the success of the History Channel series Pawn Stars, it has now become more important for you to know what exactly happens in a pawn shop and what you should expect when you go to one. We at majorpawn.com believe that as a person who wants to go to a pawn shop in order to get financial assistance, you should first know what exactly you are dealing with. You should have an idea as to what a pawn shop does and how loaning with them works.
We have compiled this list of frequently asked questions about the inner workings of a pawn shop. We hope that you can keep the answers in mind when you visit one in your area:
• What does it do?
The main idea of a pawn shop is to offer an option for people to get loans in exchange with something that has value. Basically, a pawn store would loan you money around the same amount of the value of the object that you are trying to pawn. Although there are a growing number of pawn stores in the country that have a retail element included in them, the main focus of almost all pawnbrokers has always been lending money in exchange for valuables.
• How does it work?
Every single pawn store in the country is regulated by many federal and state laws. They are licensed to accept items of value in exchange for an amount that they will loan to the one pawning the items. The value of the item and the consequent loan amount is determined by the pawn broker’s staff. The shop will keep the item until the money is repaid complete with the fees and interest.
• How much money can a person get?
The amount of money that you can get from loaning an item to a pawn store would depend on the worth of the item itself. When loaning, however, do not expect that you will get the full retail price’s worth out of the item you are pawning. The pawn store is simply loaning you the money, rather than purchasing it from you. Therefore, they consider storage costs, security costs, as well as the potential demand for the item. They also consider the resale value of the item, in case you are unable to pay your loan back. On a national level, the average amount that you can get is approximately $150, although again this can vary depending on the item.
• What interest rates should I expect?
The interest rate will vary depending on which state you are in, but these are typically less than the overdraft fees you encounter in banks or the credit card late fees and utility reconnect fees. For instance, if you loaned $80 at 20% and you have been given thirty days to pay, expect that the interest would be around $16.
• What do I need in order for me to request for a loan?
It is very easy to get a pawn loan. There is no need for you to sign anything or to have a credit check before you go to a pawn store to request for your loan. All you need to bring when you go to the pawn store would be the item that you are going to pawn and the rest of your transaction would depend on the worth that the pawn store decides to give the valuable item you have brought.
• What happens if I am not able to repay?
If you are unable to pay your loan, the most obvious thing that would happen is that the item you have given to the pawn shop will be considered as sold to that pawn shop. Loans given by pawn shops are guaranteed by the actual items that can be sold or can serve as collaterals. Non-payment of the loan or the pawn amount would forfeit your ownership of the pawned item, as if you already sold it to the shop. However, failing to pay your loan will in no way affect your credit scores.
Pawn stores have always provided quick options for people who have encountered emergencies. They have become important parts of society because of the helping hand that they have to offer, something that is not usually given by banks or any other lending company. If you are in need of immediate money for an emergency, we suggest going to a pawn store near you and get the best deal out of your valuables.
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The 1990s culture wars were fought over many social issues that many on the right thought were being redefined from their traditional normals by progressive activists and the liberal media for the next generation. Three of the key points of contention were abortion, gay rights, and recreational drug use. The results from last Tuesday's election indicates that the right is losing the war on these three issues.
Conservatives were fearful that the minds of America's youth (that is, those born in 1980 and after) would be infiltrated by secular, liberal ideology. At the fundamental level of political allegiance, they were right: the great majority of those born in 1980 or after are strongly Democratic-leaning.
The president's anchor among age groups in both 2008 and 2012 was young voters. He won 66% of the votes of 18-24 and 25-29 year-olds in 2008. That percentage shrunk, as he lost support nationwide, to 60% among 25-29 year-olds in 2012 – though this was still more than among any other age group. Importantly, for the long-term Democratic coalition, there was no sign in the exit polls that the Democratic appeal for young voters was abating among those who turned 18 over the past four years: those 18-24 year-old were just as likely to support the president as the 25-29 year-olds.
And those who turned 30 over the past four years have maintained their Democratic allegiance from 2008. The conventional wisdom is that people become more conservative as they age. This isn't borne out in the research, and 2012 is no exception. The only age group whose vote increased for Obama from 2008 to 2012 was 30-39 year-olds, as those who had formerly been 25-29 years old moved into 30-39 year-old age cohort.
On the issue of abortion, there was no indication that voters had become more anti-legalization over the past eight years. In 2004 exit polls, only 55% of voters felt abortion should be always or mostly legal. This year, 59% held a pro-abortion rights points of view. The introduction of new voters into the electorate has not changed the pro-choice majority that has existed since at least 1975 in the US. Sixty-five percent of young voters in 2012 believed abortion should be legal all or most of the time, which is actually higher than the 58% of those over the age of 30. The exits also fit fairly well with the pre-election polls that have shown the always/mostly legal position on abortion holding steady over the past 20 years.
This uptick in liberal positions is even clearer with regard to gay rights, perhaps the defining issue of the culture wars. It was less than 20 years ago when the policy of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" in the military was thought of as a compromise. It was only four years ago when the voters of the progressive state of California amended their state constitution to ban same-sex marriage. Through last Monday, voters in no state had turned down the opportunity to ban same-sex marriage. (Note: Arizona voters did not pass a very restrictive ban in 2006; they did pass a less restrictive same-sex marriage ban in 2008.)
That all changed on election day 2012 when four states chose the more gay-friendly position on same-sex marriage ballot measures. Maine, Maryland, and Washington all approved measures allowing same-sex marriages in their state. Minnesota rejected an amendment aimed at banning same-sex marriage from the state's constitution.
The only reason the pro-gay rights position won in three of the four states is because of voters aged 18-29 years old. That age group supported same-sex marriage in Maine with 68% of their votes, Maryland with 70%, and Washington with 65%. Sixty-seven percent of youth voters rejected the same-sex marriage ban in Minnesota. The anti-same-sex marriage side actually had more support with those 30-plus year-olds and older in Maryland, Minnesota, and Washington. As those born after 1980 become more plentiful in the electorate, we will likely see more victories for same-sex marriage forces.
The issue of marijuana legalization is not quite as polarizing as same-sex marriage, but is still at the forefront for the culture war. Support for weed legalization comes from both liberals and libertarians like Ron Paul and Gary Johnson. Pro-marijuana defenders have made up a fairly steady proportion of the electorate the past few years, after a large uptick since 1990.
Colorado and Washington became the first two states to legalize recreational use of pot last Tuesday by 10 and 11 points respectively. The victory in Colorado was especially noteworthy as it was only six years ago that Coloradans turned down a similar effort by 18 points. Youth voters were for legalization in Colorado by more than 40 points and in Washington by 15 points.
Unlike same-sex marriage, marijuana approval was not as age-divisive and would have passed in both states even if all young voters had stayed home. While youth voters were more likely to be pro-weed in Colorado than any other age group, they were not any more likely to be so in Washington. A recreational pot amendment also failed in the fairly Democratic state of Oregon, though youth support was in the high 50s for it. All of this suggests that while pro-marijuana forces have gained strength, it's not in as strong a position for future years as same-sex marriage now is.
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The following R functions are used for inference of trait associations with haplotypes and other covariates in generalized linear models. The functions are developed primarily for data collected in cohort or cross-sectional studies. They can accommodate uncertain haplotype phase and handle missing genotypes at some SNPs.
|Author||K. Burkett <email@example.com>, B. McNeney <firstname.lastname@example.org>, J. Graham <email@example.com>, with code for case-control data contributed by Zhijian Chen <firstname.lastname@example.org>|
|Date of publication||2015-05-11 00:22:30|
|Maintainer||K. Burkett <email@example.com>|
anova_hapassoc: Return likelihood ratio test of haplotype effect
hapassoc: EM algorithm to fit maximum likelihood estimates of trait...
hypoDat: Simulated data for a hypothetical binary trait
hypoDatGeno: Simulated data for a hypothetical genetic SNPs
logLik_hapassoc: Return log-likelihood
PreHap: Pre-process the data before fitting it with hapassoc
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- Each two-page spread is a single graphic unit.
- Each index point is developed theoretically across two pages and the following pages provide examples.
- The theoretical concepts are introduced in a playful and very attractive way using superheroes, weapons, allies, weaknesses and super-villains. The typical mistakes one makes during presentations are represented by anthropomorphic super-villains.
- Each theoretical concept links to additional content: books, presentations, articles, blogs, conference videos, interviews, detailed examples, tutorials, software tools, etc.
This is a visual guide with simple, ordered steps that anyone can follow to create a 10 out of 10 presentation.
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The IDEAS Productivity project, in partnership with the DOE Computing Facilities of the ALCF, OLCF, and NERSC and the DOE Exascale Computing Project (ECP) is resuming the webinar series on Best Practices for HPC Software Developers, which we began in 2016.
As part of this series, we will offer one-hour webinars on topics in scientific software development and high-performance computing, approximately once a month. Participation is free and open to the public, but registration will be required for each event.
The next webinar in the series took place on December 6, 2017 and was titled “Better Scientific Software”.
Better Scientific Software (BSSw) is an organization dedicated to improving developer productivity and software sustainability for computational science and engineering (CSE). This presentation introduced a new website (https://bssw.io)—a community exchange for scientific software improvement. We’re creating a clearinghouse to gather, discuss, and disseminate experiences, techniques, tools, and other resources to improve software productivity and sustainability for CSE. Site users can find information on scientific software topics and can propose to curate or create new content based on their own experiences. The backend enables collaborative content development using standard GitHub tools and processes. We need your contributions to build the BSSw site into a vibrant resource, with content and editorial processes provided by volunteers throughout the international CSE community. You may view the video and slides from this webinar below. | <urn:uuid:215b0ab3-2144-4763-a9c4-c32a45ff86c0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.exascaleproject.org/event/bssw/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.902131 | 307 | 2.046875 | 2 |
I'm trying out encoding video with ffmpeg using
x264 on a NAS machine with a 2.4 GHz processor. This yields a terminal output that has a high number in the
frame= 236 fps=0.2 q=29.0 size= 1038kB time=00:00:08.82 bitrate= 963.4kbits/
When I encode using
x265 on my standard computer, I get something that looks like this:
frame=67350 fps=0.7 q=-0.0 size= 416991kB time=00:37:28.41 bitrate=1519.3kbits/
It is my understanding that
q= stands for quality, and should probably be as close to
0 as possible, while a low number close to
q=31 indicates poor quality and that ffmpeg has difficulties reaching an acceptable bitrate.
Is this something specific to
x264 or is it that my settings for the NAS machine are too demanding? The video sources are 1080p at 30 fps.
ffmpeg -i "$i" -c:v libx264 -preset veryslow -crf 23 -af "volume=25dB, highpass=f=200, equalizer=f=50:width_type=h:width=100:g=-15" -c:a aac -strict experimental -b:a 192k
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The Gravity of R&D FDIs
The negative effect of distance is justified by the existence of transport costs which hamper the international exchange of final and intermediate goods, and by higher uncertainty about local markets. We submit that distance plays a remarkably different role in the case of R&D FDIs since they mainly involve the international transfer, absorption and use of knowledge. Using data on bilateral investment projects in R&D, manufacturing and other business activities between 58 countries, we find that geographic distance does not hinder R&D FDIs as much as in the case of production and other investment activities. Furthermore, once we control for institutional and psychic distance, in particular language and religious differences, the negative effect of geographic distance vanishes.
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Amid the headlines and hearings about a British tabloid hacking cellphones, you may be curious about how that was done. You may also be curious about phone security for kids – I’ll get to that in a moment. My ConnectSafely co-director Larry Magid explained in the Huffington Post how easily those hacks can happen. He writes of default PIN numbers (used sometimes by criminal hackers when people don’t bother to change the factory default on their phones for their own security) and caller ID spoofing services that hackers like the News of the World reporters can subscribe to so it appears they’re calling into voicemail from a targeted user’s phone. Larry also mentions malware that may be embedded in legitimate-seeming apps users install on their phones and that allow criminal hackers to steal data from them. Finally, there’s social engineering, which is more about human trickery than sophisticated technology. In this case, it’s a phone company’s customer service employee who might get “socially engineered” – tricked into believing the caller is you asking to recover a PIN or password. My own carrier asks me what my PIN is first, which is a security measure you’ll want to make sure your carrier uses. Larry suggests that you not use your phone to record any messages you wouldn’t want to be heard by a snoopy stranger.
The kid kind of ‘ID spoofing’
As for kid cellphone users, the most important security measure is for them to be very careful about letting other people, including friends, use their phones. Here’s what we need to tell our kids: Mobile phones are very personal devices. When someone texts or sends photos from your phone, the person at the receiving end naturally thinks they’re from you. So you can easily be impersonated by someone using your phone. Most of the time that’s no big deal because most kids wouldn’t be cruel to their peers, but there are situations, including pranks, when things can go bad. A New York Times piece I link to here tells the story of a boy who lost his phone. Another kid picked it up and sent harassing, sexually explicit text messages to a girl. The boy who lost the phone was blamed and it took the three kids’ school a long time to figure out who actually sent the messages and let the phone’s owner off the hook. In another situation an educator friend tells, a girl left her phone on a school library table and friends started going through it. They found a nude photo of her that she had stored on her phone for some reason, which was hugely embarrassing all by itself, but in some cases the situation could be even worse – if the kids had sent it to everybody on her contact list, making it look as if she was sending it, in which case criminal charges could be involved in some jurisdictions. Fortunately, their principal ended the problem quickly and kindly. This is not to scare kids; it’s to help them be mindful about these powerful little devices and how much they represent their owners. It’s a good idea for them to password-protect or at least lock their phones if they ever leave them around away from home, and find an app that protects phone data and, with GPS technology, finds the phone if it gets lost or stolen. Examples: Lookout Mobile Security for Android phones, MobileMe for iPhones, or BlackBerry Protect. [See also ConnectSafely’s Cellphone Safety Tips and Tips for Strong, Secure Passwords.] | <urn:uuid:17bc2e71-4088-4465-911c-3343d92fd7a0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.netfamilynews.org/how-cellphones-get-hacked | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.962004 | 734 | 2.765625 | 3 |
The best care
The dolphins at Dolphin Academy are Coastal Bottlenose Dolphins. This specific dolphin species naturally resides and thrives in shallow coastal waters. The cleanliness of the water they swim in, the quality of the food they are provided, the social bonds they form with each other, and the quality care provided by humans all coincide to maintain every dolphin’s health and wellbeing.
A natural habitat
Strong offshore winds and currents drive pure seawater from the deep open ocean into the dolphins’ habitat. The fish we feed the dolphins is sourced and imported from the most productive and pristine waters in the world, delivering restaurant-quality food. The large habitat provides space and opportunity for the dolphins to interact with each other to their hearts’ content, which enables them to adopt the natural patterns of the social dynamics found in nature.
Each dolphin is assigned his or her own personal trainer with whom they develop a unique rapport and an emotional bond. Every morning, trainers examine the dolphins to make sure each is in good physical condition. Our in-house veterinarian often accompanies the trainers on morning rounds. The dolphins cooperate by volunteering full body exams, fitness tests, and even blood samples and cultures.
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There are 3 mini-games in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: Mobilized.
This mini-game came from the mission "Closing In" In this mini-game, the player must put the chips back into the socket. The pins have to line up or the "Failure" message will appear. The player then will have synced the satellites. Hold down the satellites until the dot on the matching path is at the arrow. Next, put the cameras on the red square before they leave the screen.
This mini-game is the one from the last level in the game. First, scan the nuke. Then slide the four locks. Now cut the wires of the active circuit. Open the circuit by unscrewing the screws. Tap each chip three times.
The only thing to do on this mini-game is to put in 1-2-3 then 4-5-6, and so on. The code changes each time the player plays again. The lights do not correspond to the places of the numbers. Grey means the number is wrong, yellow means that a number is correct, but in the wrong position, and green means that a number is in its correct position. The player can keep trying until he gets the correct code.
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Past Papers’ Solutions | Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) | AS & A level | Mathematics 9709 | Pure Mathematics 2 (P2-9709/02) | Year 2010 | May-Jun | (P2-9709/22) | Q#5
The equation of a curve y=x3e-x.
i. Show that the curve has a stationary point where x = 3.
ii. Find the equation of the tangent to the curve at the point where x = 1.
We are required to show that the curve has a stationary point where x=3.
We are given equation of the curve as;
A stationary point on the curve is the point where gradient of the curve is equal to zero;
Hence, gradient of the curve at point where x=3 must be ZERO.
We can find expression for gradient of the curve and equate it with ZERO to find the x-coordinate of the point.
Gradient (slope) of the curve is the derivative of equation of the curve. Hence gradient of curve with respect to is:
If and are functions of , and if , then;
If , then;
Let and ;
Rule for differentiation of is:
Rule for differentiation natural exponential function , or ;
Since at stationary point the gradient of the curve must be equal to ZERO.
Hence, x-coordinate of the stationary point is 3.
We are given that curve with equation and we are required to find the equation of the tangent to the curve at point where .
To find the equation of the line either we need coordinates of the two points on the line (Two-Point form of Equation of Line) or coordinates of one point on the line and slope of the line (Point-Slope form of Equation of Line).
We have coordinates of point on the tangent (and curve) as (1,y).
Therefore, first we need to find the y-coordinate of the curve.
Corresponding value of y coordinate can be found by substituting value of x in equation of the curve.
Hence coordinates of the point on the curve where we are required to find equation
of the tangent are (1,)
Next, we need slope of the tangent to write its equation.
The slope of a curve at a particular point is equal to the slope of the tangent to the curve at the same point;
Therefore, if we find gradient (slope) of the curve at point (1,) where tangent intersects the curve, then we can find slope of the tangent.
Hence, we need gradient of the curve at point (1,).
Gradient (slope) of the curve at the particular point is the derivative of equation of the curve at that particular point.
Gradient (slope) of the curve at a particular point can be found by substituting x- coordinates of that point in the expression for gradient of the curve;
We have found in (i) that;
We are looking for gradient of the curve at point (1,).
Therefore slope of the curve at point (1,) is;
Hence, slope of the tangent to the curve at this point is;
Now we can write equation of the tangent as follows.
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Welcome to Episode 15 of “A Course in Miracles for Social Justice Activists.” I’m your host, Mike Rivage-Seul. Today we’ll examine together Part 1, Lesson 7 of The Course’s Workbook for Students. It’s found on pages 11 and 12 of the text. Its central idea reads: “I see only the past.”
For our purposes here, I’d express today’s main idea like this: “I see only the past as portrayed by my keepers as shadows on the wall of our cultural cave.”
However we express it though, today’s lesson is setting us up to leave the past aside and consider everything anew, as if for the first time.
In fact, the text goes on to explain that this idea (I see only the past) is the basis of all the Workbook lessons we’ve practiced so far. In the text’s words, seeing only the past:
“Is the reason why nothing that you see means anything. It is the reason why you give everything you see all the meaning that it has for you. It is the reason why you do not understand anything you see It is the reason why your thoughts do not mean anything. It is the reason why you are never upset for the reasons you think. It is the reason why you are upset because you see something that is not there.”
As we have seen, The Course considers the past as “unreal.” Its events unfolded in yesterday’s present. But that present is gone forever. It is now “unreal.” However, the fact remains that what we’ve learned through past experience determines what we see in the present. In mundane terms, it’s only because of the past that we know what cups, pencils, shoes, hands, and faces are for. It’s almost impossible to view such items as if we didn’t know their purposes.
In political terms, what we see in our world is also largely governed by what we learned as children — in this instance, about our country’s history. As we saw earlier, the shadows on our cave’s wall have established controlling ideas in our minds that determine what we see. Controlling ideas have taught us for instance, that America is the greatest in the world, that it’s a democracy, that its Founders were nearly saintly men, that the policeman is our friend, and that all of us are equal under the law. All those ideas prevent us from looking at our country with new eyes – from seeing it as it “really” is today.
(And, as we’ll see, if we understand what we’ve learned in the past against the eternal and lasting Ground of Being that alone is real (in the sense of eternal and lasting) we’ll reconceive our learnings from the past in a brightly critical light.)
Politically speaking and because this podcast is about the way A Course in Miracles can move us from unreal perceptions, it’s not too early to point out that the only way we can escape our cave’s interiorized misperceptions is to leave empire’s cave altogether. It is to follow the example of the prophet Jesus by somehow “incarnating” in the imperialized world he inhabited. There, we’ll inevitably encounter stark criticisms of white supremacy, imperialism, capitalism, and patriarchy.
Of course, you can make that happen by travel that intentionally goes beyond tourism and whose specific purpose is political education. For example, ventures like that brought me to Brazil, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Cuba, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Israel, Jordan, India, and (during my five years of graduate study in Rome) to Poland and most of the countries in western Europe. Moreover, stepping outside our cultural cave as a kind of political archeologist is best accomplished by learning the relevant languages.
But no one can learn all the world’s languages. And few can travel extensively in the less developed world as I’m suggesting.
However, we can through reading and documentary films encounter new unaccustomed visions that move us beyond seeing “only the past” as portrayed within our cultural cave. To that end, I’d suggest the following list:
- James W. Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me
- Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States
- Oliver Stone’s and Peter Kuznick’s The Untold History of the United States (accompanied by video documentaries for each chapter)
- Eduardo Galeano’s The Open Veins of Latin America
- Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
- Vijay Prashad’s The Poorer Nations: a possible history of the global south
- Haitian director, Raul Peck’s documentary “Exterminate All the Brutes”
Suggestions like those terrify the controllers within our cave who carry statues before the fire that burns behind our backs. They’re afraid students like us will actually understand our manipulation at our keepers’ hands. For that reason, they hate what they vilify as “critical race theory,” but what is only seeing the past “again for the first time” from the viewpoint of those victimized by white supremacy, imperialism, capitalism, and patriarchy.
Understanding the past that way can change understandings of the world. And changed understanding (from one based on fear to understanding based on love) represents what A Course in Miracles’ means by the term “miracle.”
Please give Lesson 7 and the thoughts I’ve just shared prayerful consideration throughout this day. Several times for a minute or so, say to yourself whenever your eyes fall upon familiar objects, “I see only the past in this _____ (pencil, shoe, hand, body, face). While watching the news describing and analyzing the day’s events, say “I see only the past in this issue.”
Again, the point of all this is to deconstruct our familiar ways of seeing the world.
Until next time, then, this is Mike Rivage-Seul thanking you for listening. Please join me tomorrow for Lesson 8 of “A Course in Miracles for Social Justice Warriors.” In the meantime, God’s blessings on you all.
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If you missed the big news yesterday, Google is acquiring the home gadget enhancer, Nest Labs. Hailed as one of the most promising and innovative companies, Nest takes an Apple-like business model. Just like Apple did with the smartphone, Nest looks at existing technology and then improves on it. And, also like Apple, Nest is an innovator of old technologies, not an inventor. In Nest's case, the company targets home gadgets that severely need an upgrade. One of the more familiar of those gadgets is the home thermostat. Nest's smart thermostat learns all about your home heating and cooling habits, and over time, becomes automatic, though I've heard from some who tried it in the North West US, that the thermostat junks if you don't have air conditioning installed in your home. Few in the NW do. So, it's not perfect, but truly is innovative. In addition to learning your personal heating and cooling habits and schedules, the thermostat can be accessed from a smartphone, allowing you to control your home's environment remotely.
After the announcement that Google was acquiring Nest, the social world lit up. This was a huge announcement. The social wires were soaked with all sorts of emotions. Some supplied jokes. Things like:
"Someone asked what temperature I keep my thermostat set at. I had to Google it."
"Now, all those unknown Google+ users can adjust their home environment automatically."
Others issued states of astonishment, but, interestingly, a majority were fits of anger. More people than I could count were already determined to rip their existing Nest devices from their walls over the next weekend and go look for something else.
Why? Isn't it obvious?
Google has taken over many lives through schedules, travels, emails, and other things, and figured out a way to monetize all of it. There's very little Google doesn't know about each of us. No data is safe from Google (as long as you subscribe to any of their services). There's no question that the acquisition of Nest is only a way to steal more data away from the public, learn our energy habits, and then sell it back to us. Remember, the original Total Recall movie from 1990 (the one with Arnold Schwarzenegger)? Those living on Mars were being controlled by a madman, Vilos Cohaagen. Cohaagen provided oxygen to the Mars inhabitants and would regularly cut off supply to punish crimes against him. Yeah. That's Google.
So, now that Google is trying to "Nest" in your home, are there alternatives? Are there products available not bent on ultimately learning your bathroom habits?
Personally, I've not experienced the smart home phenomena so far, but after talking with some colleagues and sifting through research, there are at least two very real alternatives to the Google/Nest thermostat. The first one I note is much cheaper and actually works better in more situations.
Honeywell Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat
The first is from Honeywell, is around $200 and can be controlled remotely using iOS, Android, or a computer. But, for $200, the Honeywell Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat offers so much more than the Google Nest. It offers programming options that can be configured to work with the utility company's peak rate pricing, provide a reminder when it's time to change the furnace filter, and even display local weather and a 5-day forecast.
You can read more about it on Amazon.com: Honeywell Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat
A German company, digitalStrom, provides a similar devices, but goes leaps and bounds further. Obviously more expensive, digitalStrom installs into your home fuse box and allows you to control every aspect of every appliance attached to electricity in your home. Adjust window blinds, set the coffee pot schedule, automate room lighting, and build cost analysis reports. And, the more interesting aspect of the digitalStrom solution is that its runs on Windows Azure.
A solution like digitalStrom is not something you can install over a weekend, though. The company requires an onsite engineer to develop a transformation plan and then more engineers to install the tailored solution. To me, this seems more of a solution to install when building a new home, not to retrofit a current living space. A solution like the one from digitalStrom is the future, just not right now for most.
More information about digitalStrom can be found on their web site: http://www.digitalstrom.com/en
There are others, but these are just a couple options to get you thinking. In fact, after digging into the non-Google offerings, I'm more interested now than ever to find a solution for my home. And, there's no reason why some of the current offerings couldn't work in a datacenter.
So, where's Microsoft in all of this? Other than digitalStrom running on Windows Azure, Microsoft has been very quiet on the smart home front. Mary Jo Foley reports that the HomeOS that Microsoft Research has been working on since 2010 isn't a home automation technology at all, but rather, a way to simplify connections for electronic gadgets in homes. She also suggest that, it's possible, that Microsoft's way forward for the smart home may be centered completely around the Xbox One through the acquisition of id8 Group R2 Studios last year. But, with Google now bullying their way into the home space, I except Microsoft to move forward with something.
In truth, Google is a very innovative company, and the acquisition of Nest shows they are very determined to win the future. But, more than anything, Google is great at pushing competition. And, truly, that's good for all of us. If Google didn't exist, we'd all be further behind in technological advancement than we already are. | <urn:uuid:06063048-61ab-45eb-81ed-9f943e4a38a2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://windowsitpro.com/print/cloud/alternatives-google-nest-and-why-you-want-them | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00432-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959513 | 1,204 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Final negotiations are underway right now in Dublin, Ireland on a treaty to ban cluster bombs. Arms manufacturers are pushing governments to riddle the treaty with loopholes and delays -- and the final text will be decided in the next 72 hours.
Cluster munitions don't just kill during war. They scatter small, shiny, unexploded "bomblets" on the ground that hold their deadly charge for years. When children pick them up, they are often maimed or killed. Most governments agree that these weapons should be outlawed, but back-room pressure is rising to undercut a strong ban. We're hearing the South African delegation is one of the problems -- so we need to send an avalanche of messages from South African Avaaz members to Thabo Mbeki.
If enough of us act before the treaty is signed on Friday, we can drown out the weapons merchants and convince governments around the world, South Africa among them, to ban cluster bombs once and for all. Click below to send a message, and then send this email on to friends and family:
The treaty to ban cluster munitions is the result of an inspiring, years-long campaign by citizens from around the world -- with victims and survivors of cluster bombs leading the way. One spokesman for the effort, Branislav Kapetanovic, lost his hands, legs, and some of his hearing and eyesight in a cluster-bomb explosion in his native Serbia. He is now in Dublin, pushing for the treaty -- but he took a moment to sent this message to the Avaaz community (you can see a video on the the Avaaz site):Cluster bombs are one of the most dangerous weapons of today. The majority of their victims are civilians, affecting millions worldwide. They have absolutely no place in a conflict situation.Advocates like Kapetanovic have faced down enormous odds to reach this point, the brink of victory. Now, as citizens around the world, we can do our part, and raise a massive cry as the negotiators spar over the final text of the treaty. Watch the video, check out a map of countries that produce or use cluster bombs and send a message to your leaders, all from this link:
This week governments have gathered together in Dublin to outlaw this dangerous weapon. This is a historic meeting of the international community. Some governments are trying to undermine and weaken the treaty with loopholes and exceptions. They are trying to position the arms trade over the importance of lives of people like me.
Rich governments don't always listen to victims, but they will listen to you -- their citizens. Please send a strong message to your government now that calls for a treaty with no exception, no loopholes, and no delays.
In 1997, the people-powered International Campaign to Ban Land Mines won a victory for humanity, earning a Nobel Peace Prize by ending the barbaric practice of laying mines in conflict zones. It would not have been possible without the efforts of thousands of ordinary people. This week, we can take the next step towards a more just, more peaceful world -- a world safer for children, and for generations to come.
really what we are?
27 May 2008
Killing kids -- around South Africa and around the world
Is this us? Is this really what the "New South Africa" has become -- mobs killing kids the the townships, and our government conniving at killing kids around the world? | <urn:uuid:8835e67c-52c1-47e4-9925-9f530a184192> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://methodius.blogspot.com/2008/05/killing-kids-around-south-africa-and.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00068-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950988 | 693 | 1.875 | 2 |
Road safety benefits of vehicle roadworthiness inspections in New Zealand and Victoria
Monash University Accident Research Centre - Report #314
Authors: Keall, M., Stephan, K., Watson, L. & Newstead, S.
Full report in .pdf format [438Kb]
Although previous research has identified some safety benefits accruing from periodic vehicle inspection programmes, such benefits may not be sufficient to justify the costs of such schemes. This study conducted analysis of merged crash and licensing data from two jurisdictions, Victoria and New Zealand, where periodic vehicle inspections are conducted to certify roadworthiness at the point of sale of a vehicle (Victoria and New Zealand) or at 12-montly or 6-monthly intervals (just in New Zealand).
New Zealand crash data, licensing data and inspection data from the warrant of fitness (WoF) scheme were merged together to evaluate the safety benefits in terms of reduced crash risk and the reductions in safety-related vehicle faults associated with the increase from annual to biannual inspections that occur six years after the car’s manufacture date. These were estimated to be respectively 8% (with 95% confidence interval 15% to 0.4%) and 13.5% (with 95% CI 12.8%-14.2%). The proportion of vehicle faults prevented is likely to be at least maintained over the vehicle age range 7-20 years, suggesting that the resultant safety benefits should also be maintained. The confidence interval for the drop in crash rate was wide, showing considerable statistical uncertainty about the precise size of the drop although indicating the likely drop is less than 15%. Despite these safety benefits, the costs to the motorist of the 6-monthly inspections over and above the annual inspections were estimated to be considerable, valued at $250 million annually, excuding the overall costs of administering the scheme. This means that the 6-monthly inspections are very unlikely to be cost-effective. The WoF scheme as a whole cannot be robustly evaluated using the analysis approach used here, but the safety benefits would need to be substantial – yielding at least a 12% reduction in injury crashes – for it to be cost-effective.
The Victorian analysis of potential periodic roadwothiness certification safety benefits was not entirely conclusive. It suggested the maximum annual crash savings associated with moving to annual vehicle roadworthiness inspections for vehicles over 5 years old to be around 4%, which is likely to be much less than required to make an annual periodic scheme cost effective. | <urn:uuid:91fd0862-16fd-4763-8dd0-b979515d882b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.monash.edu/muarc/archive/our-publications/reports/muarc314 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.953229 | 510 | 1.9375 | 2 |
National Geographic talks about the past, present and possible future of American preparedness in Disaster ‘prepping’ was once an American pastime. Today, it’s mainstream again.
here’s a reason “preppers,” people who plan for the worst-case scenario, like to talk about the zombie apocalypse. The idea of an army of walking dead swarming the country pervades their thoughts because, says Roman Zrazhevskiy, “If you prepare as if a zombie apocalypse is going to happen, you have all the bases covered.” That means: an escape route, medical supplies, a few weeks’ worth of food.
Zrazhevskiy has been thinking about this for decades. He was born in Russia a few months after the nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl. At the dinner table, his family often talked about the disaster and what went wrong. Then, after they relocated to New York, Zrazhevskiy stood on the waterfront outside his Brooklyn high school on September 11, 2001, and watched the World Trade Center towers collapse. Even then, he had a small go-bag prepared with disaster supplies.
Now, he’s the guy who has a kit and a checklist for every occasion, including taking his toddler to the beach. Zrazhevskiy lives in Texas and runs survival outfitters Ready to Go Survival and Mira Safety. In 2019, with protests in Hong Kong, wildfires in Australia, and the threat of war with Iran, business boomed. But when the CDC announced the U.S.’s first confirmed coronavirus case last January, business reached “a whole new level,” says Zrazhevskiy. His companies spent the next couple of months scrambling to fill backorders. The flood of new customers had so many questions that he hired seven full-time staffers just to answer emails. “It’s kind of a customer service nightmare,” he says. “People are really flipping out.”
In a public imagination fueled by reality TV, preppers are lonely survivalists, members of fanatical religious groups, or even wealthy Silicon Valley moguls who buy luxury underground bunkers and keep a getaway helicopter fueled. But in reality preppers range from New Yorkers with extra boxes of canned goods squeezed in their studio apartments to wilderness experts with fully stocked bunkers.
Eight months into the coronavirus pandemic, something has shifted in our collective psyche as we remember empty aisles and medical supply shortages. Firearm sales are up, bread baking and canning are trendy, and toilet paper stockpiles are common. Are we all preppers now?
A forgotten American tradition
The coronavirus pandemic is the epitome of what preppers call a “s*** hits the fan” event. As the country braced for lockdowns and began seeing shortages of crucial supplies last March, people found themselves woefully unprepared. But there was a time in American history when many more civilians were ready for disaster.
In 1979, when Alex Bitterman was in second grade, Sister Mary Jane gathered her students in the gym of their Catholic school. In front of her sat a three-foot-tall gray barrel and she asked the students to guess what was inside. A clown, they thought. Or snakes? The nun opened it and pulled out a wool blanket, a plastic water container, and a large tin of saltines. These items would save them, she said, if the Soviet Union dropped a nuclear bomb on the town of Cheektowaga, New York.
For decades, a barrel like this was no surprise to American schoolchildren. A stockpile sat in the back of Bitterman’s school gym, and a yellow binder in the administration office held a set of hyper-local contingency plans for various disasters. So when COVID-19 reached the U.S., Bitterman, now an architecture professor at Alfred State College in upstate New York who studies how extreme events shape communities, remembered that barrel. Forty-one years later, he realized the country has lost its collective preparedness. “Why are we sitting in our houses waiting for someone to come save us?” he says. “No one’s coming.”
But there was a time when the nation felt that someone would come. The Great Depression birthed the New Deal, which gave Americans a safety net—Social Security, federal housing, and federal unemployment insurance—and instilled the belief that the government would step in when they needed a hand. Helping them prepare for a disaster or attack was part of the deal.
In 1941, after Americans watched British civilians take shelter in the London Tube during German bombardment in World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt formed the Office of Civilian Defense with the aim of helping Americans prepare for a military attack on a local level. A variety of government-mandated civil defense agencies operated from World War II through the Cold War and provided communities with guidelines and resources to keep emergency response local.
This effort manifested in the barrel and binder Bitterman remembers from childhood, as well as things like a national emergency alert system. Starting in the 1950s, designated civil defense radio channels would broadcast information in case of a Soviet attack. For decades, every radio and TV station was required to test the system weekly. The civil defense bible—the 162-page, government-issued “Blue Book”—laid out strategy and instructions for an emergency that often kept the responsibility hyperlocal. A family unit, the authors stressed, was the “basis for organized self-protection.” Soon, the need to be prepared seeped into all aspects of life, from architecture (basement bomb shelters) to education (the infamous classroom “duck and cover” drills).
Two decades later, the Cuban Missile Crisis delivered another wake-up call. A nuclear arsenal aimed at the U.S. from 90 miles off the coast, Bitterman says, eroded the idea that the country was safe from outside threat. The agency’s name would change over the years, but civil defense adapted to the evolving threats of the 20th century. It was, says Bitterman, “the one time in our shared American history when we had a unified, coordinated effort to prepare for disasters of all different kinds.”
As the Cold War thawed, the threat of natural disasters took its place: hurricanes on the east coast, tornados in the Midwest, earthquakes in California. Such problems were too large for local communities to manage on their own. Massive environmental contamination required federal clean-up, and disasters like the 1979 Three Mile Island reactor meltdown in Pennsylvania spooked the public….(continues) | <urn:uuid:f8f88a24-da12-4763-8b60-407370456373> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lowervalleyassembly.us/tag/prepper/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.960614 | 1,402 | 1.976563 | 2 |
Do you need to learn how much is 47.16 kg equal to lbs and how to convert 47.16 kg to lbs? Here it is. In this article you will find everything about kilogram to pound conversion - theoretical and practical too. It is also needed/We also want to emphasize that whole this article is devoted to only one number of kilograms - that is one kilogram. So if you need to learn more about 47.16 kg to pound conversion - keep reading.
Before we get to the practice - that is 47.16 kg how much lbs conversion - we will tell you some theoretical information about these two units - kilograms and pounds. So we are starting.
We will begin with the kilogram. The kilogram is a unit of mass. It is a base unit in a metric system, in formal International System of Units (in abbreviated form SI).
Sometimes the kilogram can be written as kilogramme. The symbol of this unit is kg.
Firstly the kilogram was defined in 1795. The kilogram was described as the mass of one liter of water. First definition was simply but difficult to use.
Later, in 1889 the kilogram was defined by the International Prototype of the Kilogram (in abbreviated form IPK). The International Prototype of the Kilogram was prepared of 90% platinum and 10 % iridium. The IPK was used until 2019, when it was switched by another definition.
The new definition of the kilogram is based on physical constants, especially Planck constant. Here is the official definition: “The kilogram, symbol kg, is the SI unit of mass. It is defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the Planck constant h to be 6.62607015×10−34 when expressed in the unit J⋅s, which is equal to kg⋅m2⋅s−1, where the metre and the second are defined in terms of c and ΔνCs.”
One kilogram is equal 0.001 tonne. It is also divided into 100 decagrams and 1000 grams.
You learned a little about kilogram, so now we can go to the pound. The pound is also a unit of mass. It is needed to underline that there are more than one kind of pound. What does it mean? For example, there are also pound-force. In this article we want to concentrate only on pound-mass.
The pound is in use in the Imperial and United States customary systems of measurements. Naturally, this unit is in use also in other systems. The symbol of this unit is lb or “.
The international avoirdupois pound has no descriptive definition. It is exactly 0.45359237 kilograms. One avoirdupois pound can be divided to 16 avoirdupois ounces or 7000 grains.
The avoirdupois pound was enforced in the Weights and Measures Act 1963. The definition of this unit was written in first section of this act: “The yard or the metre shall be the unit of measurement of length and the pound or the kilogram shall be the unit of measurement of mass by reference to which any measurement involving a measurement of length or mass shall be made in the United Kingdom; and- (a) the yard shall be 0.9144 metre exactly; (b) the pound shall be 0.45359237 kilogram exactly.”
The most theoretical section is already behind us. In next section we will tell you how much is 47.16 kg to lbs. Now you know that 47.16 kg = x lbs. So it is time to get the answer. Just see:
47.16 kilogram = 103.9700027592 pounds.
This is a correct result of how much 47.16 kg to pound. You may also round it off. After rounding off your result is exactly: 47.16 kg = 103.752 lbs.
You know 47.16 kg is how many lbs, so have a look how many kg 47.16 lbs: 47.16 pound = 0.45359237 kilograms.
Of course, in this case you can also round off this result. After it your outcome is as following: 47.16 lb = 0.45 kgs.
We also want to show you 47.16 kg to how many pounds and 47.16 pound how many kg outcomes in charts. Look:
We will start with a chart for how much is 47.16 kg equal to pound.
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Now you learned how many 47.16 kg to lbs and how many kilograms 47.16 pound, so we can go to the 47.16 kg to lbs formula.
To convert 47.16 kg to us lbs a formula is needed. We are going to show you a formula in two different versions. Let’s start with the first one:
Amount of kilograms * 2.20462262 = the 103.9700027592 outcome in pounds
The first formula will give you the most correct result. In some situations even the smallest difference could be considerable. So if you need an accurate outcome - this version of a formula will be the best for you/option to know how many pounds are equivalent to 47.16 kilogram.
So move on to the another formula, which also enables calculations to know how much 47.16 kilogram in pounds.
The another formula is as following, let’s see:
Number of kilograms * 2.2 = the result in pounds
As you can see, the second formula is simpler. It can be better solution if you need to make a conversion of 47.16 kilogram to pounds in quick way, for instance, during shopping. Just remember that your outcome will be not so exact.
Now we want to learn you how to use these two formulas in practice. But before we will make a conversion of 47.16 kg to lbs we want to show you another way to know 47.16 kg to how many lbs totally effortless.
Another way to learn what is 47.16 kilogram equal to in pounds is to use 47.16 kg lbs calculator. What is a kg to lb converter?
Calculator is an application. Converter is based on longer version of a formula which we showed you in the previous part of this article. Due to 47.16 kg pound calculator you can easily convert 47.16 kg to lbs. You only have to enter amount of kilograms which you want to calculate and click ‘calculate’ button. The result will be shown in a flash.
So try to convert 47.16 kg into lbs with use of 47.16 kg vs pound converter. We entered 47.16 as an amount of kilograms. This is the outcome: 47.16 kilogram = 103.9700027592 pounds.
As you can see, our 47.16 kg vs lbs converter is user friendly.
Now let’s move on to our chief topic - how to convert 47.16 kilograms to pounds on your own.
We will begin 47.16 kilogram equals to how many pounds calculation with the first version of a formula to get the most exact result. A quick reminder of a formula:
Amount of kilograms * 2.20462262 = 103.9700027592 the result in pounds
So what need you do to learn how many pounds equal to 47.16 kilogram? Just multiply amount of kilograms, in this case 47.16, by 2.20462262. It gives 103.9700027592. So 47.16 kilogram is equal 103.9700027592.
You can also round off this result, for example, to two decimal places. It is exactly 2.20. So 47.16 kilogram = 103.7520 pounds.
It is time for an example from everyday life. Let’s convert 47.16 kg gold in pounds. So 47.16 kg equal to how many lbs? And again - multiply 47.16 by 2.20462262. It is 103.9700027592. So equivalent of 47.16 kilograms to pounds, if it comes to gold, is exactly 103.9700027592.
In this case it is also possible to round off the result. It is the result after rounding off, in this case to one decimal place - 47.16 kilogram 103.752 pounds.
Now let’s move on to examples calculated using short formula.
Before we show you an example - a quick reminder of shorter formula:
Number of kilograms * 2.2 = 103.752 the result in pounds
So 47.16 kg equal to how much lbs? As in the previous example you need to multiply number of kilogram, this time 47.16, by 2.2. Let’s see: 47.16 * 2.2 = 103.752. So 47.16 kilogram is exactly 2.2 pounds.
Let’s make another conversion with use of this version of a formula. Now convert something from everyday life, for instance, 47.16 kg to lbs weight of strawberries.
So convert - 47.16 kilogram of strawberries * 2.2 = 103.752 pounds of strawberries. So 47.16 kg to pound mass is exactly 103.752.
If you learned how much is 47.16 kilogram weight in pounds and can convert it with use of two different versions of a formula, let’s move on. Now we are going to show you these results in charts.
We know that results presented in tables are so much clearer for most of you. It is totally understandable, so we gathered all these outcomes in tables for your convenience. Thanks to this you can easily compare 47.16 kg equivalent to lbs results.
Begin with a 47.16 kg equals lbs table for the first version of a formula:
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And now let’s see 47.16 kg equal pound chart for the second formula:
As you can see, after rounding off, when it comes to how much 47.16 kilogram equals pounds, the results are not different. The bigger number the more considerable difference. Keep it in mind when you want to make bigger amount than 47.16 kilograms pounds conversion.
Now you learned how to calculate 47.16 kilograms how much pounds but we are going to show you something more. Are you interested what it is? What about 47.16 kilogram to pounds and ounces calculation?
We will show you how you can calculate it step by step. Let’s start. How much is 47.16 kg in lbs and oz?
First thing you need to do is multiply number of kilograms, this time 47.16, by 2.20462262. So 47.16 * 2.20462262 = 103.9700027592. One kilogram is exactly 2.20462262 pounds.
The integer part is number of pounds. So in this example there are 2 pounds.
To convert how much 47.16 kilogram is equal to pounds and ounces you have to multiply fraction part by 16. So multiply 20462262 by 16. It is equal 327396192 ounces.
So your result is 2 pounds and 327396192 ounces. You can also round off ounces, for example, to two places. Then your result will be equal 2 pounds and 33 ounces.
As you can see, calculation 47.16 kilogram in pounds and ounces easy.
The last calculation which we will show you is conversion of 47.16 foot pounds to kilograms meters. Both foot pounds and kilograms meters are units of work.
To convert it you need another formula. Before we show you it, look:
Now look at a formula:
Amount.RandomElement()) of foot pounds * 0.13825495 = the result in kilograms meters
So to convert 47.16 foot pounds to kilograms meters you have to multiply 47.16 by 0.13825495. It is equal 0.13825495. So 47.16 foot pounds is equal 0.13825495 kilogram meters.
You can also round off this result, for instance, to two decimal places. Then 47.16 foot pounds will be equal 0.14 kilogram meters.
We hope that this calculation was as easy as 47.16 kilogram into pounds calculations.
This article is a huge compendium about kilogram, pound and 47.16 kg to lbs in calculation. Due to this calculation you know 47.16 kilogram is equivalent to how many pounds.
We showed you not only how to make a conversion 47.16 kilogram to metric pounds but also two other calculations - to know how many 47.16 kg in pounds and ounces and how many 47.16 foot pounds to kilograms meters.
We showed you also other way to do 47.16 kilogram how many pounds conversions, this is with use of 47.16 kg en pound converter. This is the best solution for those of you who do not like calculating on your own at all or need to make @baseAmountStr kg how lbs calculations in quicker way.
We hope that now all of you are able to do 47.16 kilogram equal to how many pounds conversion - on your own or using our 47.16 kgs to pounds calculator.
It is time to make your move! Calculate 47.16 kilogram mass to pounds in the best way for you.
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We want to sum up this topic, that is how much is 47.16 kg in pounds , we prepared one more section. Here you can see the most important information about how much is 47.16 kg equal to lbs and how to convert 47.16 kg to lbs . It is down below.
How does the kilogram to pound conversion look? It is a mathematical operation based on multiplying 2 numbers. Let’s see 47.16 kg to pound conversion formula . Have a look:
The number of kilograms * 2.20462262 = the result in pounds
Now you can see the result of the conversion of 47.16 kilogram to pounds. The exact answer is 103.9700027592 lb.
It is also possible to calculate how much 47.16 kilogram is equal to pounds with second, shortened version of the equation. Check it down below.
The number of kilograms * 2.2 = the result in pounds
So now, 47.16 kg equal to how much lbs ? The result is 103.9700027592 pounds.
How to convert 47.16 kg to lbs in an easier way? You can also use the 47.16 kg to lbs converter , which will do whole mathematical operation for you and you will get an accurate result .
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Current Research Interests
Most of my research since 2002 has focused on the conservation and behavioral ecology of Vietnamese primates. Vietnam is home to an interesting diversity of colobines including three Pygathrix (doucs) species, one Rhinopithecus (snub-nosed monkey) and seven Trachypithecus (langurs) species and I am working with Vietnamese colleagues and my graduate students on a number of these taxa. For example, Le Khac Quyet and I have been working in northern most Vietnam studying Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys since 2004. Quyet confirmed the presence of Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys at Khau Ca in Ha Giang Province in 2002 and immediately initiated work to conserve this species at this location. In 2005 Barth Wright joined our research team and was instrumental in the establishment of phenology transects and the analysis of mechanical properties of some of the preferred foods of the Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys. In 2008 Thach Mai Hoang collected data for his M.A. thesis including some observations on daily ranging behavior. Additional collaborators include Nguyen Thi Lan Anh (feeding ecology), Nguyen Anh Duc (botanist interested in forest structure), and Vu Anh Tai (botanist interested in phenology), Amy Harrison-Levine (ethnoprimatology), and Andie Ang (genetic variation).
Since 2006 I have established a strong research partnership with the Southern Institute of Ecology (SIE) in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly the Center for Biodiversity and Development of the Institute of Tropical Biology) where I serve on the advisory committee. We are collaborating on a number of projects including research on the behavioral ecology of black-shanked doucs and Annamese silvered langurs at Ta Kou Nature Reserve in southeastern Vietnam. Working closely with Dr. Hoang Minh Duc and Mr. Tran Van Bang we have collected data on positional behavior, feeding ecology, and habitat use.
More recently the SIE team has focused attention on the Indochinese silvered langurs in Kien Giang Province of southwestern Vietnam. In the summer of 2010 we were able to confirm the presence of more than 160 individuals of this species here; a surprising number in that it had been thought that the regional population was between 60 and 80 individuals. In 2015 we finished surveying for Indochinese silvered langurs throughout this region of Vietnam and estimate that between 350 and 410 individuals are present in six locations.
I have also worked with the SIE team to provide capacity building on primate conservation in a number of protected areas in southern Vietnam including Ta Kou Nature Reserve, Bidoup Nui Ba National Park, and An Toan Nature Reserve and we plan on continuing this work focusing on both colobines and gibbons.
These projects in Ha Giang, Ta Kou, and Kien Giang will continue for the foreseeable future and could serve for a series of MA thesis or PhD dissertation projects for Vietnamese and CU students.
In addition to these projects a number of my graduate students have completed dissertation research in Vietnam during the past decade and their titles accurately capture the range of topics that I am interested in pursuing:
Dr. Larry Ulibarri (2013) “The Socioecology of red-shanked doucs (Pygathrix nemaeus) in Son Tra Nature Reserve, Vietnam”
Dr. Jonathan O’Brien (2014) “The Ecology and Conservation of the Black-Shanked Douc (Pygathrix nigripes) in Cat Tien National Park, Vietnam”
Dr. Le Khac Quyet (2014) “Positional behavior and support use of the Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus avunculus) in Khau Ca Forest, Ha Giang Province, Vietnam”
Dr. Amy Harrison-Levine (2016) “Forest resource overlap in humans and Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys of Ha Giang Province, Vietnam: theoretical and conservation implications”
Dr. Andie Ang (defended – degree will be granted in 2017) “Genetic variability, diet metabarcoding, and conservation of colobine primates in Vietnam”
These projects have afforded me the opportunity to work closely with my graduate students in a variety of areas in Vietnam and each has contributed to the conservation of endangered or critically endangered primates. Of equal importance, I have had the good fortune to work with Vietnamese scientists who until recently have been denied access to the international scientific community. Many of these scholars have been generous in helping facilitate my students research projects and I anticipate that we will continue to collaborate on a range of projects that focus on primate conservation.
I will close this research statement by quoting from Conroy (1997:461): "I sometimes imagine the sound of a shot ringing out, and turn in time to see the last elephant, black rhino, or mountain gorilla slowly sink to its knees in the red African dust. In time that will come to pass and on that day an unbearable loneliness will descend over humankind." I hope that it is not inevitable that this time will come to pass, and in fact, I believe that each of us who have had the wonderful good fortune to be able to conduct research within primate evolutionary biology owe a great deal to the remaining free ranging primate populations. Fulfilling this debt includes the responsibility of being actively engaged in research and education that is directly related to conservation. If we make the effort to share with students, colleagues, administrators and to our communities why conservation is important and if we take the time to link our research with conservation issues, and finally, if some of us participate in the frontline of conservation on the ground working not only to protect the endangered species but also with native scholars and with the people who live nearby, we may be able to protect and successful conserve these creatures.
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Seagate has been producing hard drives for data storage in computer systems for a long time now. It has made both 5400 rpm and 7200 rpm HDDs for much of that time. The benefit of the 5400 rpm drive was lower power consumption while the 7200 rpm HDD had faster performance. Seagate has now changed its HDD line for desktops significantly.
Seagate has axed all 5400 rpm HDDs and is now going with nothing but 7200 rpm desktop offerings. Seagate points to reduced power consumption in the 7200 rpm drive market allowing it to leave the 5400 rpm units behind. I wonder if the flooding and HDD shortage we are facing had something to do with this too. The 7200 rpm HDD is the more popular choice so loosing the 7200 would free up more space for the popular choice.
New read/write tech that allows more data to be stored on a single platter is where the power savings comes from. The 5400 rpm drives will apparently still be offered in the mobile category. The new Seagate OptiCache tech also helps to improve performance in Seagate HDDs with a 45% boost in performance compared to older tech. | <urn:uuid:8a31a3a3-36a9-4759-9657-d6a2e1ffd918> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.slashgear.com/seagate-shuts-the-door-on-5400-rpm-desktop-drives-goes-7200-rpm-only-01192280/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00464-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965219 | 239 | 1.609375 | 2 |
League of Worlds Notes …
This is the 3rd meeting of this group of folks interested in using virtual worlds, role plays, simulations and education. Role of metaphors in virtual worlds was one active conversation at the last colloquim.
New faces … group and work has expanded. Will try to produce an artifact of the work here – to contribute to the conversation that is happening all around us.
Rod Riegel using EverQuest II
Create an online portal with a backstory. Nice video intro.
Create a Guild … The Change Guild
Automated Functions: members, events, bank & chat.
Do something different and better than you can do in a face to face educational setting.
Create Quests: active, immersive and automated.
Quests: Attain level 20 in EQ2
Econ, geography, sociology, psychology, education, history, math, philosophy, linguistics, physics, politics
Nic Lee at Stanford lists appropriate material to this.
Create your own world
Econ 201 at UNCG
Build a mod
Revolution created by Education Arcade
Use a Social Environment
e.g., Second Life
Currently about 40 MMORPGS
50% pre tweens
Creating Persona’s in SL
Can be a group … an avatar
Life as an avatar
AETZone – 3D Virtual World developed by ASU
AET uses Active Worlds virtual world (http://www.activeworlds.com/)
Uses audio chat with Talking Communities
Took some pictures of various slides.
No sense of place by Joshua N.—a book
Place 1st, 2nd and 3rd places …
Promotion of kinesthetic learning …
Cognitive scaffolding: presense, space, affordance …
Greg Jones from Univ. of North Texas
AERA TACTL SIG – games and sim learning
Developing and writing about outcomes – what is this cool stuff and how does it work.
Adoption is the issue that is facing us in educational research.
Computer gaming inventory – how does their gaming understanding and experience help with their learning and test scores.
Narrative and Story in Learning from the Institute of Creative Technologies
What is narrative?
Recounting of a sequence of events
What is a story?
it is a mental construct with narrative psychology
Jerome Bruner’s construction of reality
Coherent narrative doesn’t always emerge
From simulation to game
Correlation between narrative and pedagogy
Emergent narrative constructivist learning
Guided narrative – guided teaching (pedagogy)
Benefits of supporting narrative thought
Engagement and motivation
Situated learning through dramatic role-playing
Memory and well-structured narrative
Durative belief change
Transfer of tacit knowledge
Computer tells a story
User is interactive participant
User actions incorporated into narrative and can change the direction and/or outcome of the story
Emergence vs. Guidance
Common approach: Branching – a lot of work
Interactive Narrative for Training
Hypothesis: Expertise through narrative-mediated experience
Goal: A system that uses story to control a trainee’s experiences in a training simulation
IN-TALE (Interactive Narrative – Tacit adaptive leader Experience)
Narrative-based training simulation
Characters Saleh, Hassan
Automated Story Director
-the bridge between simulation and story
-directs character agents
-monitors progress of trainee through story
-dynamically adapts story to keep trainee progressing towards relevant situations
Maintains user participation
Strong correlation between narrative and pedagogy.
Dynamics of online role-play simulations: games learning and society
Second Life Library
ASU Library’s presentation on Virtual Library Interface Design
Virtual Usable: A Test of the Library
-Audio chat rooms?
Creating a 3D Environment for Case Study Analysis: Part II
That was Then …
Sense of Presence
Serendipitous dialogue and Learning
Brought students in LIS and School Admin together …
Web 2.0 tools to provide collaborative tools within the Info Commons
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Edible Community Garden Project
Napier Family Centre has already started working with the Te Whakaritorito Trust on a community fruit and vegetable garden among the easily accessible grounds of Napier Family Centre’s offices on the corner of Morris Spence Avenue and Wycliffe Street, Onekawa.
The concept means residents of the area who do not own enough land for a garden or who may lack the knowledge or other resources can contribute to, or benefit from this shared resource.
Fresh fruit and vegetables is an inaccessible luxury for many due to a variety of factors and community gardens have been shown to have beneficial impacts on the neighbourhoods where they have been built.
In addition to providing healthy fresh fruits and vegetables the project could engage residents, build skills, revitalise a community and even improve social well-being through strengthening social connections.
With just a few trees so far, it will be some time before we are able to provide a large crop for the community. However it is wonderful to have begun something that will soon provide nutrition to families and future generations.
What we need:
Plants (fruit trees and vegetables), gardening volunteers to help maintain the grounds, gardening supplies.
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Starting her life at a dairy farm in Canada, Sweety was kept inside a gloomy industrial building where she was denied access to the outside world. Once she was old enough she was entered into production and, like most dairy cows, she was forced to endure a relentless cycle of insemination, pregnancy and birth.
Despite giving birth to many calves, every one was torn away from her moments after being born. Her sons were sold for veal and her daughters were destined to the same fate as her.
Cows are usually considered ‘spent’ after just four years after which they are sent to slaughter, but Sweety was used for 8 long years before a foot infection left her lame and she was considered of little, if any, value to the farm that owned her. Sweety’s last two pregnancies had also seen the birth of twins which is unfavorable to the dairy industry as twins are usually smaller and weaker, and female calves when born twin to a bull are usually sterile.
Sweety was bound for the slaughterhouse, which is an incredibly terrifying experience for any animal, but even more so for one who is blind as their heightened senses make the piercing cries of their herd mates, the abrupt clanking of machinery and the stench of blood too overwhelming to bear.
Thankfully Rose from Refuge RR heard of Sweety’s plight and made a bid to save her life. Although Rose couldn’t offer Sweety a forever home, her big heart had managed to secure her rescue and not long after Sweety was on her way to Farm Sanctuary, where she was destined to form a beautiful friendship with a cow not so different from herself — Tricia.
Tricia, just like Sweety, is a blind dairy cow that was already living her dreams at Farm Sanctuary’s New York shelter. Tricia’s owner found her too difficult to handle, so she too was headed to the slaughterhouse when she had a lucky escape.
After losing her best friend Linda, a cow who suffered from a debilitating hip injury, to cancer only a year ago, the chance to help Tricia find new companionship was not one that Farm Sanctuary wanted to miss. Susie Coston, Farm Sanctuary’s shelter director said, “Companionship is profoundly important to cattle, so it was exciting to think that by giving Sweety a new life, we might also give Tricia another chance to enjoy her own.”
After travelling 350 miles across the border of Canada to America, Sweety finally arrived at Farm Sanctuary and it didn’t take long before she was relishing in a feast of fresh hay and deep cozy bedding, a luxury she had never experienced, having lived on a concrete floor her entire life.
Eager to unite the two blind cows, staff watched as Sweety and Tricia came face to face. They instantly connected and began to gently nuzzle each other before sharing a meal and later snuggling down together to enjoy an evening of relaxing comfort. With her new friend Tricia to help her see through the darkness, Sweety has already began venturing outside to explore all the wonders that the great outdoors has to offer.
Watch Sweety and Tricia meet for the first time in this beautiful video below:
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A fairly large weaver with a long thin pointed bill. The male has a pale eye, and during the breeding season a brownish wash to the ear. Non-breeding males and females are dull, with olive-green upperparts and paler underparts. Found locally in areas with a mix of trees, bushes, and abundant grassy ground cover. Nests adjacent water. Gives a typical weaver chattering and rasping song, and a “chek” call. Breeding males are distinctive, and other plumages can be identified with caution by a combination of their size, long and thin bill, and the pale eyes of the males. | <urn:uuid:03747a0f-6923-4424-8528-de1aa8163d48> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ebird.org/species/bocwea1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.946092 | 139 | 2.5 | 2 |
What Causes Low Birth Weight?
A baby is considered to have low birth weight if he’s less than 5 pounds, 8 ounces. Being that small at birth increases a baby’s chance of having serious health problems or disabilities. Factors that can make you more likely to have a baby with low birth weight include health problems, like infection, cervical incompetence or issues with the uterus or placenta, and lifestyle choices, like smoking and drinking during pregnancy. A premature baby is more likely to have low birth weight, and one of the biggest risk factors for preterm birth is carrying multiples.
Please note: The Bump and the materials and information it contains are not intended to, and do not constitute, medical or other health advice or diagnosis and should not be used as such. You should always consult with a qualified physician or health professional about your specific circumstances. | <urn:uuid:c4a7f60b-4f7a-4597-bbff-c07bedff64b9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thebump.com/a/what-causes-low-birth-weight | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00675.warc.gz | en | 0.956842 | 177 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Burma's military junta ordered all public and private Internet cafés to stop using VoIP. According to the Irrawaddy:
“The increasing use of the VoIP overseas calls via the Internet services such as Skype, G [Google] Talk, Pfingo, VZO, etc. given by PACs [Public Access Centers] and cyber cafés have caused official overseas calls through the [junta's] communication services to decline, affecting state revenue,” says the official instruction issued on March 2 by Tint Lwin, the managing director of the Myanmar Posts and Telecommunication (MPT), which was sent to the chairman of Myanmar Info-Tech Corporation Ltd.
“Currently, this service has not been officially permitted [by the MPT] to be used, it is illegal under existing telecommunication laws and legal action is likely if the PAC and cyber cafés continue to give the service,” he said.
So because Skype, Google Talk, and others have affected your "state revenue", the solution is to ban them. Reminds me of how lucky I am to live in a free country. Now if you thought that was bad, according to the article, "The junta sells SIM cards for a GSM mobile phone for a whopping 1,500,000 kyat (around $1,685), but this price has in reality doubled on the black market due to the extreme limitations imposed on mobile phone ownership.". $1,685? That's more than the price of an iPhone, Android, Nokia, and a Blackberry combined - all with SIMs included!
With Burma/Myanmar being such a poor country in addition to being repressive, this will not be a popular move with its citizens. If Burma wants to move into the 21st century and grow their economy, they should embrace technology, like India has. India's economy is booming and the Internet has played a huge role in that. Many countries outsource their call centers (for better or for worse) to India and use VoIP trunks to hand off the calls seamlessly an inexpensively. | <urn:uuid:eacaeb82-c337-43b4-b219-6166de2534d6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/voip/burma-myanmar-bans-voip.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00430-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954096 | 431 | 1.835938 | 2 |
What Is Framework The executives?
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For Framework The executives chairmen utilize various apparatuses for task like equipment the board, application the board, operating system sending, fixing and checking, occasion computerization, work booking, yield the board, reinforcement and recuperation, execution the executives, change the arrangement the board, security and danger the executives, administration work area and work process the executives, organization and capacity the executives, and diagnostics, investigating, and issue the executives.
Various financial specialists utilize various techniques for Framework and Organization The board as indicated by their methodology. Recall that viable Framework The executives instruments consistently help to make upper hand by liberating Business visionaries to zero in on arranged framework drives. The better administration lessens the expense by dealing with issues at time. | <urn:uuid:74f23bde-8eb1-45ae-b830-707702e6112c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://businessnewz.co.uk/what-is-framework-the-executives/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.942087 | 667 | 1.976563 | 2 |
You might have heard you’ll be able to make instant fund transfers to other banks soon. The New Payment Platform (NPP) system expected to go live after Australia Day.
It’s welcome news for people sick of three-day waiting periods and pesky BSB and account numbers. But how will the new system work and is it risky?
Here’s what you need to know about the new system.
Why does it take so long to transfer between banks?
Currently when you make an online payment to an account not with your own bank. It can take about three days to get there. That’s because banks only transfer money at certain times of the day and only during business hours.
This new system will allow customers of financial institutions connected to the platform. They can make or receive payments to each other in less than a minute, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
So how will it work?
At the moment you can transfer money between two accounts with the same bank. You can see your accounts update almost instantly.Under the new system, that same process will take place even if you’re transferring money between two bank account.(However, there almost always be exceptions for a small number of payments held for reasons such as fraud investigation).
That’s because the NPP acts like a secure network between participating financial institutions. Enabling messages to be sent in real time which allows funds to be transferred between accounts immediately. The NPP technology will also support “overlay” services. This will allow banks to create their own payment services to entice customers.
Why is it changing?
The Reserve Bank has long called for the delay in funds transfers between financial institutions to be fixed.
Customers themselves have also increasingly pushed for faster payments options. Forcing banks to either adopt the new system or risk losing customers to other competitors.
So, for the banks it was a matter of self-preservation.
“My view is that the best way to compete is by making sure that your customers have what they need. They’re not looking for other providers to provide services.” ANZ’s Philip Chronican told the ABC when it was first announced back in 2014.
The big four banks are all participants in the NPP. As well as the Reserve Bank of Australia and eight other Australian financial institutions, including HSBC, ING Direct, Macquarie and Citigroup.
More are expected to sign up once it goes live.
“A large number of additional financial institutions will also connect to the infrastructure. This will be through one of the initial participants,” NPP said on its website.
How many Australian bank accounts will be signed up?
NPP says it expects about four out of five Australian accounts will be connected to the platform. It goes live in late January next year.
“That number [is expected to] increase quickly beyond that in 2018,” Mr Lovney said.
So, will everyone be able to use it straight away?
The rollout to the wider public and business community will take place over two weeks to “ensure a stable launch”.
Is this risky?
Most experts agree criminals will see it as an “opportunity,”. The launch of a similar system in Britain in 2008 resulting in a 132 per cent increase in recorded fraud. According to professional services firm KPMG.
NPP has itself acknowledged fraud protection will need to be extended for customers making real-time payments. Banks are already doing this for customers using credit cards to purchase things.
“We’re likely to see more biometric log-in and device fingerprinting and enhanced payment verifications steps. Particularly for first time payments. As well as the use of Artificial Intelligence to monitor and detect unusual changes in payments behaviour,” he said. Adding that these will only develop further as technology advances.
Mr Lovney said all financial institutions that connect to the NPP are required to have the capability to detect. They must respond to fraudulent activity in a real-time environment. Meeting strict interbank technical and operational requirements.
If they do not have these security requirements in place. They cannot connect to and use the Platform.
And what about my BSB?
The $1 billion payment system will also offer consumers a simpler way to pay through an “addressing service called PayID”.
It allows customers to use a unique identifier, something they can easily remember. Such as your mobile phone number, email address or an ABN — to securely link to their bank account.
When you want somebody to transfer funds into your account. You can give them your PayID instead of your BSB and Account number.
“The first place consumers will be able to use a PayID is through the first service to be offered via the platform. This is called Osko, by BPAY,” Mr Lovney said.
What if I don’t want Pay ID?
You don’t have to sign up to PayID if you don’t want it.
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Sunn Hemp, a tropical legume, is used in many tropical countries as the number one soil builder and cover crop for reclaiming poor land.There are millions of acres of this crop grown in other countries. Brazil calls it their number one soil builder. Sunn hemp is originally from India and has been grown since the dawn of agriculture. It has been grown as a green manure, livestock feed for forage, hay, and for non-wood fiber.
In 1931 USDA proclaimed sunn hemp excellent for building the soil. Since that time the use of sunn hemp in the US was almost unheard of. It has only been in the past few years that knowledge and benefits of this plant have taken root in the U.S.
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Sunn hemp is a tropical legume whose claim to fame is that, 60 days from planting, it is typically over six feet tall, adds 120 pounds of Nitrogen to the soil, 10 pounds of residual Phosphorus and 80 pounds of residual Potash transfers from the subsoil to the topsoil, supplies four tons of organic matter, is a great soil builder, as well as increasing drought tolerance and yield and cash value of the next crop. During its first 60 days, sunn hemp mines 38 lbs. of Calcium, 20 lbs. of Sulfur, and 40 lbs. of Magnesium to the surface soil. It also brings up trace nutrients that are necessary for plant growth.
Sunn hemp has an outstanding mychorizae that all other plants can utilize and benefit from. This is what brings unbelievable health, in part, to plants such as cotton or strawberries, and all other plants seeded after it.
All livestock and wildlife thrive on sunn hemp. The leaves of sunn hemp are 30 percent protein. We have not found yet anything that eats vegetation that does not thrive on sunn hemp.
Sunn hemp is not an invasive weed. In fact, it smothers out 99.9 % of all weeds and is allelopathic to Palmer Amaranth. The sunn hemp will not flower and go to seed until the days start getting shorter (mid September in Alabama). There is not enough time for those seeds to mature in our area after flowering.
Sunn hemp is resistant to root-knot and Reniform nematodes. Root-knot and reniform nematodes are a major pest in South Alabama agriculture, and root-knot nematodes are a pest in almost every home garden in South Alabama. Gardeners could plant their spring crop and then in June, July, or August plant the sunn hemp.
Sunn hemp prefers well-drained, sandy soils. Ideal pH is between 5 and 8.2, with an ideal soil temperature of 65°F (however, it will grow at temperatures as low as 48°F. The seed is best planted during Spring, at a depth between 1/4" and 2 inches. It does not need any Nitrogen, however it will respond well to Phosphorus and Potash according to a soil test. No inoculant is needed in the South, however Northern planters can use peanut rhizobium inoculant. Growth will be very slow for the first 30 days, and then will grow rapidly to six feet in height. Temperatures of 28°F or below will terminate the plant. It is an annual and will need to be planted the following year.
Here’s what you can expect when you plant Petcher Seeds’ Sunn Hemp.
15,000 seed / LB.
Sunn Hemp can be planted during April and plant through August.
15 to 30 LBs. / acre
Sunn Hemp fills an incredible number of roles on the farm. It can be used for cattle, sheep and goat grazing, as well as food plot for attracting deer. It can be used for weed control and for reclaiming poor land. It can also be used for your backyard garden. You can read more about these and other uses for Sunn Hemp at our Sunn Hemp 101 section. | <urn:uuid:40dbfad6-c474-44ab-9777-a633badb3a57> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://petcherseeds.com/collections/featured-products/products/sunn-hemp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.95065 | 894 | 2.375 | 2 |
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