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> Challenge Update: Project 100!
It's time to pivot. So this turned into more of a "100 Projects" challenge instead of a "100 Days of Code" challenge. The reason is that early on, I struggled really hard with releasing code/projects that were "incomplete". I oftentimes felt embarrassed with progress that didn't meet my expectations. These constant feelings of disappointment took away a lot of the joy I got from simply learning. I spent the majority of these early days extremely stressed out trying to keep up with the daily schedule while constantly feeling frustrated that my work output was not meeting my expectations. After a while of mentally wrestling with myself, I decided that it was time to pivot.
Determining my "Why?" One of the biggest things I've learned about myself through this challenge was that in order for me to build long-term habits, I have to be motivated and willing to continue practicing said habits on a consistent basis. Determining my "why" was very important in figuring out why incorporating #100DaysofCode was so difficult into my daily life. Different people have different motivators, but for me, I've learned that my primary motivation came from the genuine excitement and pride for the projects I was building and putting out into the world. This must come from a strong internal desire to do good work, not from a looming self- or publicly- imposed expectation. The reason #100DaysOfCode wasn't working out for me was that I wasn't happy with releasing incomplete work that I wasn't proud of only because I felt forced to by some unnecessary deadline. Thus, I decided to pivot this challenge into a "100 Projects" blog (as opposed to deleting #100DaysofCode altogether), so that I can continue creating fun projects on my own time. Personally, being able to look back at past projects and see the improvement in my skills throughout the years has been extremely cool and super motivating!
Taking a step back. Turns out that I still have a lot to learn regarding my personal work habits. It is important to know when to pivot when things aren't working out, and that is okay! Everyone goes through their own journey in figuring out what works and doesn't work for them (whether it be in life priorities, interpersonal relationships, living habits, work-life balance, hobbies, etc). I still love exploring new topics and learning new skills, and this challenge turned out to be the exact catalyst I needed to start the habit of pursuing many of the projects I wanted to do. This challenge will most likely continue to evolve over time. My interests span a wide variety of different topics and are constantly changing, so feel free to continue following my updates!
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Unlimited: Politics and Piety
Mar 31, 2021 844
Now the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread were only two days away, and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were scheming to arrest Jesus secretly and kill him.“But not during the festival,” they said, “or the people may riot” (Mark 13:1–2, NIV).
The high point of the Jewish calendar was the Passover. It was, for the Jews, one of the holiest times of the year.
However, while Jesus encouraged and prepared his disciples for the things that are to happen, the religious leaders were engaged in a very different kind of activity.
This passage presents us with a very strange contradiction. On the one hand, it is almost the holiest time of the Jewish year, in which the festival of the Passover is observed, which represents salvation and life. On the other hand, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, who are responsible for being the spiritual leaders of the people in this observance, plotted to kill the Son of God.
What this passage is highlighting is the evil and self-delusional nature of religious hypocrisy. In the end, the plans of the chief priests and the teachers of the law came to nothing. They ended up arresting Jesus on the eve of the Passover, and murdering him during the Passover itself. And in the end, Jesus returned from the grave anyway.
These religious leaders who thought that they were so carefully manipulating everything eventually lost it all in the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70.
There is a vital lesson here for us. The chief priests and the teachers of the law ended up in this situation of gross hypocrisy because they were intent in protecting their own interests first.
If we claim to be followers of Jesus, then we have to put Jesus first in every aspect of our lives, otherwise we will slide, even unknowingly, into hypocrisy, and even into murdering the Son of God.
– Eliezer Gonzalez
Eli’s Reflection: Examine your own life carefully. Where might there be hypocrisy in your life and heart? Who can help you work this out and walk closely to Jesus? | <urn:uuid:127f1b94-4b03-460a-afb9-1e1f03555371> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://goodnewsunlimited.com/unlimited-politics-and-piety/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.968451 | 458 | 1.851563 | 2 |
The Dogon People
Timbuktu is located in Mali, a country in Africa. The Dogon people are located mainly in the areas called Bandiagara and Douentza. This area is mainly composed of plains, cliffs, and plateau. There is not a good understanding of the origin of the Dogon's civilization. Most of their histories are formed by oral traditions. Dogon people are mostly indigenous people. There are believed to be of Egyptian descent. They settled in Mali, West Africa bringing with them astronomy legends. They believed in mythology. It is suggested that Dogon people got their astronomical knowledge from aliens. The Dogons are also known for their religious traditions, mask dances, and wooden sculptures. The majority of the Dogon's religion is based on the Nummo which is an alien who visited the Dogon people. The Nummos were like fish because they could live on land and in water. Theirs a significant minority of Dogons who practice Islam and another small minority who practices Christianity. Each Dogon tribe is headed by one male elder. Most men typically have one wife. The wife only joined their husband's home after the birth of their first child. Divorce is a very rare event. The families are large. The families can sometimes have more than 100 people in it and its called guinna. The Dogons survive on cultivating pearl millet, sorghum, rice, onions, tobacco, peanuts, and other vegetables.
Dogon art primary includes sculptures. The art revolves around religious values. The sculptures are not made to be seen but for the symbolic meanings. Their kept hidden from the public eye. The importance of secrecy is due to the symbolic meaning behind the pieces and process in which they are made. Dogon's sculptures consists of figures with raised arms, bearded figures, horseman, woman doing different things, musicians, etc.
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When you think of self-care what comes to mind?
Most of us would say a massage, manicures, and pedicures, a long bath, maybe exercise.
These are ways to perform self-care, but it is so much more than that.
International Self-Care Day
International Self-Care Day (ISCD) was established in 2011 to increase awareness surrounding self-care and empowering the population with the knowledge to become active participants in their health and wellness. In 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO) announced self-care month running from June 24th to July 24th, with the last day of the celebration being an international day of recognition.
Why July 24th?
July 24th or 7/24 is meant to symbolize the importance of self-care seven days per week and 24 hours per day. It is a reminder, no matter how busy we are, self-care should be prioritized and modeled to future generations.
Self-Care and Self-Love Go Hand in Hand
As a parent, spouse, sibling, child, and friend it can be easy to see the beauty and positivity in others. We can look at a photo of them without judgment. We can applaud their successes and help them find the lessons in their “failures.”
What happens when it is us?
Most of us are quick to point out our flaws, shortcomings, and mistakes. We put ourselves down and expect more, expect better. We are our own worst critics and anything short of perfection is not good enough (or maybe that’s just me).
Although it is good to learn, grow and improve from our experiences, it is even more important to appreciate our effort along the way. It is important to speak to ourselves the same way we speak to our children and friends.
You would never tell your friend she looks fat in a photograph. You would never tell your child they are not smart enough or good enough.
You would come to them with love and encouragement. You would tell them they tried their best. You would tell your friend how beautiful she was.
This is how you should talk to yourself. You are the most important person in your life and you should start acting like it. Learning to love with yourself through the ups and downs, triumphs and mistakes is the ultimate act of self-care.
How to Practice Self-Care
Practicing self-care should be a priority every day. It should be written into your schedule the same as a doctor’s appointment or meeting at work. It should be a non-negotiable, no matter how full your life is.
Daily self-care does not need to be an extravagant outing. It does not need to cost money. And it does not need to take much time.
Spending 10 minutes focusing on yourself every day can be enough!
- Wake up before your children to enjoy a cup of coffee in the quiet of your home.
- Make a list of questions before you go to see any of your medical providers (doctor, dentist, chiropractor).
- Meditate while waiting in the pick-up line at school.
- Prepare healthy snacks or plan healthy dinners ahead of time.
- Stretch and breathe for five minutes after your child goes down for a nap before resting yourself.
- Do your own research regarding medical diagnoses and treatments.
- Put your baby in a carrier and toddler in the stroller with a snack and take a walk around the neighborhood.
- Learn to say no! (This is one I REALLY need to work on).
We have all heard the saying, “You cannot pour from an empty cup.” Or that you should always put your oxygen mask on first before helping others on an airplane. Although you have heard these statements before it is time you start acting on them and prioritizing self-care.
If I were a betting woman, I would say you want your children to make themselves a priority as they grow into adolescence and adulthood. You want them to feel good physically and mentally so they can continue to be the best versions of themselves. You are no different.
Make yourself a priority always. Without guilt. Without shame. Without excuses.
Your children, spouse, family, and friends will thank you for it!
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Yuasa is a world leading valve regulated lead acid batteries with manufacturing worldwide including in the UK in South Wales. The Yuasa UPS batteries are one of the most commonly used lead acid batteries for standby power applications and include the NP, SWL and EN ranges. Yuasa batteries are available for new UPS installations and for upgrades and replacements.
UPS Lead Acid Maintenance Free Batteries
The batteries used within most uninterruptible power supplies as a standby power source are valve regulated lead acid (VRLA) maintenance free batteries. The actual working life of a UPS battery depends on its design life, number of charge/discharge cycles it is subjected to and the ambient temperature and conditions of the UPS installation. This type of battery is also found in generate starter motor circuits.
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|ENL||15 year||10-12 years|
|SWL||10 year||7-8 years|
UPS Battery Testing and Replacement and Recycling
Server Room Environments provides battery testing as an on-site service. Our UPS maintenance engineers are certified to work in both AC and DC power environments and use an advanced battery tester using conductive and impedance testing to assess the health of a battery block and the overall battery string. Battery readings are stored for continual analysis in a Cloud server environment.
When batteries require replacement, our projects team can arrange for their removal and environmentally friendly disposal. Over 90% of a lead acid battery material can be reclaimed for reuse including plastic cases, lead plates and the electrolytic gel or liquid used.
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AFAR: Halong Bay Cruise & Thien Cung Cave
Bay of the Descending Dragon is the English translation for Halong Bay. This remarkable natural wonder and UNESCO World Heritage Site became famous in the West when it was featured in the French film Indochine. Halong Bay is dotted with an estimated 1,969 islands spread over 900 square miles. Some islands are covered in dense vegetation; others are bare and rocky. Sail gracefully past these imposing formations on a converted fishing junk. See tiny islands dotted with rock arches, sheer cliffs, innumerable white sand beaches and peaceful coves. You will stop at Thien Cung Cave and wander through the cavern to marvel at its stalagmite and stalactite formations (suitable only for the agile).
Drinks and western-style restroom facilities are available on board. There are about 120 steep steps to reach the Thien Cung Cave, which is an optional visit. | <urn:uuid:4345371e-6921-4a09-ab70-bb4df09895f0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.hollandamerica.com/cruise-destinations/ExcursionDetails.action?excursionCode=7383&portCode=HA1&destCode=&requestSource=ports | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00522-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.90622 | 190 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Many South American cultures enjoy traditional healthy foods and culinary treats. If you were to visit Peru, you may be surprised to find that lucuma flavored ice cream is more popular than vanilla or chocolate. Lucuma is a South American fruit that is gaining popularity as a healthy, whole fruit sweetener. It has a similar taste to a mango and has a beautiful golden yellow color. It adds a healthy sweetness to smoothies, raw chocolate and cakes.
The Incan Fruit
The lucuma tree was first seen and reported by Europeans in Ecuador in 1531. The lucuma tree is an evergreen that has been cultivated since ancient times and was once hailed the “Gold of the Incas.” As a native fruit to Peru, Chile and Ecuador, it has been spiritually revered because of its taste and healing power. It has been found depicted on ceramics at burial sites of the indigenous people of Peru by archaeologists. Today it is still a prominent feature in celebrations and life.
Because the lucuma fruit is so precious to South American countries, it is actually not allowed to be exported as a whole fruit. Instead, the powder is being exported and used to create delicious recipes.
A Healthy Sweetener
Lucuma is an excellent source of carbohydrates, fiber, vitamins, and minerals including plentiful concentrations of beta-carotene, which makes it a powerful immune system booster. It is rich in iron, B2 and B1. It`s also high in niacin, which makes it a cholesterol and triglyceride balancer.
The fruit has a slightly breast like appearance and has been associated with fertility and nourishment by the cultures who have enjoyed it. It is a great sweetener for women who are breastfeeding.
Naturally Sweet and Delicious
Lucuma has a uniquely sweet, fragrant and subtly maple-like taste that will bring your desserts to life without making your blood sugar levels skyrocket. This naturally occurring sweetener actually gives your body healing goodness, unlike many sweeteners which offer empty calories and nothing of any value. Its low sugar content makes it a healthy alternative to sugar for people who have diabetes and other illnesses, as well as those growing numbers of people who want to enjoy delicious delights while maintaining vibrant health.
Lucuma Ice Cream
As mentioned above, lucuma ice cream has been popular in South America for years. Now it is becoming increasingly popular among people who enjoy a raw food, sugar free diet. Here is a simple recipe for this healthy and delicious dessert.
1 1/2 cups really raw cashews, soaked
1/2 cup coconut cream, coconut meat, or raw coconut butter
1/2 cup organic lucuma powder
1/4 to 1/2 cup raw agave nectar
1 whole vanilla bean
1 1/2 Tbs psyllium hulls
1/2 cup best water available
1/4 cup maca powder
Celtic Sea salt to taste (or use any highly mineralized salt)
Put all the ingredients in a blender or food processor and blend until it is a thick, creamy consistency. Put in a freeze proof container and freeze until it is ice cream. An ice cream maker is not required, but can be used.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Calling the Declaration of Independence more than words on an aging parchment, President Barack Obama marked the Fourth of July on Sunday by urging Americans to live the principles that founded the nation as well as celebrate them.
"This is the day when we celebrate the very essence of America and the spirit that has defined us as a people and as a nation for more than two centuries," Obama told guests at a South Lawn barbecue honoring service members and their families.
"We celebrate the principles that are timeless, tenets first declared by men of property and wealth but which gave rise to what Lincoln called a new birth of freedom in America — civil rights and voting rights, workers' rights and women's rights, and the rights of every American," he said. "And on this day that is uniquely American we are reminded that our Declaration, our example, made us a beacon to the world."
Obama noted that people across the country were firing up their barbecues and enjoying the company of family and friends.
"Now, of course I'll admit that the backyard's a little bigger here, but it's the same spirit," Obama said to laughter. "Michelle and I couldn't imagine a better way to celebrate America's birthday than with America's extraordinary men and women in uniform and their families."
With first lady Michelle Obama at his side, Obama spoke from a White House balcony overlooking the South Lawn. The estimated 1,200 guests included active-duty members of the military and their families, wounded troops, people with family members overseas, and families of troops who have died.
"Today we also celebrate all of you, the men and women of our armed forces, who defend this country we love," he told the enthusiastic group.
Sections of the crowd screamed and cheered in turn as Obama individually thanked each service branch, naming an exemplary member of each who stood on the balcony with the president and first lady.
Obama, who wore a blue short-sleeve shirt, and his wife spent about 15 minutes shaking hands and exchanging greetings with eager members of the crowd, who pressed in to shake hands and take photos. Many of the children on hand had red, white and blue face paint and sparkly American flags decorating their skin.
Guests ate traditional July Fourth fare — hot dogs, hamburgers and grilled chicken with potato salad and corn on the cob. Plenty of red, white and blue decorated the South Lawn, from colorful tablecloths to paper lanterns hanging from trees.
Singer Brandi Carlile, rock band The Killers, comedian Cedric the Entertainer and the U.S. Marine Band performed for the gathering.
Live feed from the White House: www.whitehouse.gov/live
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This data set contains two-color miRNA microarray expression data obtained from mouse embryonic tissue during gestational days (GD) 12, 13, and 14, which represents the critical period of palate development in the mouse.
The data are in the format of an
which in this case is a list with the following 9 elements:
matrix of dimension 6336 x 9 which contains the red channel foreground measurements
matrix of dimension 6336 x 9 which contains the green channel foreground measurements
matrix of dimension 6336 x 9 which contains the red channel background measurements
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source of the images, here "imagene"
numeric vector giving the field dimensions of the array (Metarows, Metacols, Rows and Cols)
matrix of dimension 6336 x 9 which contains the quality weights associated with each spot on the arrays
list containing information on the process
used to print the spots on the arrays (number of grid rows /
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data.frame containing information on
each probe. Has the following columns:
field position for the probe
meta row position for the probe
meta column position for the probe
row position for the probe
column position for the probe
unique gene identifier provided by Miltenyi Biotec
unique probe identifier constructed by concatentating the "Gene ID" with "Meta Row", "Meta Column", "Row", and "Column" information
name of the microRNA
base name of the microRNA
type of probe, "MMU miRNAs", "Other miRNAs", "Control", "Empty", and "Other"
RNA samples were isolated from mouse embryonic orofacial tissues (GD-12 - GD-14) and fluorescently labeled with Hy5 (red). Control samples (miRXplore Universal Reference) were labeled with Hy3 (green). The two sets of samples were hybridized to miRXplore Microarrays (Miltenyi Biotec) sing the a-Hyb Hybridization Station (Miltenyi Biotec). Probes for a total of 1336 mature miRNAs (from human, mouse, rat and virus), including positive control and calibration probes, were spotted in quadruplicate on each microarray. Each array included probes for 588 murine miRNAs.
P. Mukhopadhyay, G. Brock, V. Pihur, C. Webb, M.M. Pisano, and R.M. Greene. Developmental microRNA expression profiling of murine embryonic orofacial tissue. Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol, 88(7):511-34, 2010. | <urn:uuid:ffb61386-79aa-4f04-8c80-e695e9366041> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://rdrr.io/bioc/MmPalateMiRNA/man/PalateData.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00255-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.836817 | 579 | 1.671875 | 2 |
The high pressure regulator is typically at the tank and a low pressure regulator is at the house. The two regulators are used to control the pressure to a furnace etc. They operate on vapor not liquid and are not used for filling tractors.
A liquid draw off pulls liquid from the bottom of the tank and does not use a regulator. My tank has an extra fitting on the top of the tank - but not under the dome with the level gage and fill valve. The liquid draw off is installed in this fitting and consists of a valve and hose. You will need the correct adaptors on the hose to mate with your tractor.
You will probably need to shop around to find a dealer willing to do this type of service. When I had mine installed I found they were pretty cautious. I think it helps if one appears knowledgeable on just what is needed and how they will use it. Don't take the last sentence the wrong way - it is not intented as an insult. But rather place yourself in the propane dealers shoes - they don't want to be the dealer that sells something to a person who makes the news the next day.
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In 1910, the Joplin News-Herald ran a story about the advantages of working as a “Hello Girl.” The News-Herald remarked that while it might not be fun to “sit up to a switchboard and come in contact with the varying dispositions of several hundred people each day” there were “some things about the work of the central girl at the Home Telephone company’s office in this city that probably come to no other working girls in town.”
Despite hearing about “heartless corporations” the News-Herald assured readers that this was not the case with the Home Telephone Company located in a building on Joplin Street. Since 1906, girls were treated to an on-site “culinary department and lunch rooms.” The News-Herald reporter, unable to curb their enthusiasm, gushed, “A lunch room and a kitchen in the telephone plant!” On “pleasant days” a light lunch was served, but when the weather turned bad, regular dinners were served that were, “equal to those of the best restaurants in town.” Girls were guaranteed a free lunch twice a day.
When the operators were at work on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and other holidays, the company served large dinners in the company dining room so that the girls could at least have a hot dinner during the holiday. Empty stomachs and “improper food”, the company believed, could affect an employee’s disposition. Lunches and holiday meals meant, “congenial employment, pleasant surroundings, and the saving of considerable money in the course of a year.”
Even more astonishing, at least at this time in history, was the fact that the company also had “baths, individual lockers, and a rest room, or sitting room” that was overseen by a “regularly employed matron.” Should a girl seem exhausted or ill, she would be sent to the rest room or home. Mrs. R.L.Whitsel, the company’s matron, was hailed as, “experienced and efficient.”
If the weather was nasty, the company paid for closed carriages to pick up girls at their homes to bring them to the office. Once their shift was over, a carriage would transport the girl safely back to her home. The company’s management realized that “healthy, happy, and well cared for girls are more likely to be cheerful and pleasant to their patrons and more prompt in service than girls who are overworked and neglected.” Wet clothes were considered “hard on the disposition and health of the girls and the telephone company prefers to have its employees happy and cheerful, even if that means occasional bills for carriages.”
Given the number and types of jobs available in Joplin at the time, it appeared that if a young woman could secure a job as a Hello Girl, she found herself with a relatively comfortable means of income. It also represented a time period when society felt that young women deserved an extra amount of protection from the theoretical evils of the business world, where vicious characters lurked to take advantage of young, innocent women. Never the less, this legacy of care from the Victorian world seemed to offer some of the women of Joplin a safe and inviting place to work.
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Suffragists fought to protect children.
“We have in Colorado, the most advanced laws of any state in the Union for the care and protection of the home and the children. These laws, in my opinion, would not exist at this time without the powerful influence of woman suffrage.”
Quote from Judge Lindsey of the Denver Juvenile Court in 1904. Colorado granted women the right to vote in 1893!
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We share our lives and homes with our pets. Is it not ok to share our food with our furry legged friends? We pet parents spoil our pooches by sharing our snacks and food with our pets. Most of the fruits that humans consume are perfectly safe for your pets except for a few exceptions. Let us know more about fruits for dogs that are safe and can be given to them without any hesitation.
Why Do We Need To Feed Fruits For Dogs?
Fruits are loaded with vitamins and minerals. They also serve as healthy snacks and treat for your pets. Fruits are very good for us and for dogs.
The Most Common Fruits For Dogs That Can Be Fed:
Apple makes a wonderful snack for older pets too as they are low in fat and protein. Just make sure to remove the apple seeds as they contain traces of cyanide and are extremely harmful.
Watermelons are an excellent source of lycopene which provides antioxidants. Summer is perfect to treat your pets with watermelon. It refreshes, hydrates them and loads them with Vitamin A, B6, and Thiamin.
Bananas are rich in potassium and are loved by dogs. You could also make frozen popsicles with banana and peanut butter as a perfect summer snack for your pooches.
The next famous tropical fruit loved by everyone are mangoes. Your dogs will love this yummy fruit for their sweet taste. However, feed all the flesh of the fruit and avoid the mango pit.
Oranges are a source of vitamin C and are recommended for dogs. Vets tell us to remove the skin and seeds from the oranges as they are very hards on your pet's digestive system. The inner fruit is perfect for your dogs.
The above fruits are most commonly available fruits for dogs that can be fed without worries. There are certain fruits like grapes, avocados, grapefruit, lemon, and plums that are highly dangerous to your pet's health. Even small amounts can cause ill effects on your pet's well being.
Furthermore, It is always good to talk to your Vet before you adding anything new to your pet's diet. It is also recommended to start feeding with less quantity to see how your pets react to it. | <urn:uuid:431fe8ed-d6e0-417d-9249-c96e8af599d5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.poochles.in/blogs/poochles-india-pet-blog/fruits-for-dogs-what-common-fruits-can-dogs-eat?_pos=1&_sid=93dde719f&_ss=r | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.95796 | 490 | 2.703125 | 3 |
The festival at St. Maximilian Kolbe Roman Catholic Church is a celebration of all things Polish, as well as a fundraiser for the church, helping it maintain its facilities and carry out its humanitarian mission.
One of the most popular ethnic festivals in Pacific Beach, the Polish festival attracts as many as 5,000 people from all around San Diego, as well as international visitors during its three-day stint.
“It’s a celebration of our culture,” said Bogdan Maziarz, a Polish Festival Committee church member.
Maziarz said the festival, which charges $3 for admission, is an open invitation to San Diegans to become better acquainted with Polish Americans.
“It’s there for Americans to come and see what Poland is all about,” Maziarz said, adding traditional Polish cuisine like pierogis (dumplings stuffed with sauerkraut or potato and cheese), golabki (meat-stuffed cabbage rolls), bigos (hunter’s stew), potato pancakes and famous grilled kielbasa (Polish sausage) are worth the turnout. The festival menu is rounded out with Polish pastries and soft drinks, coffee and tea.
To go along with the repast is a beer garden for ages 21 and up, which will feature well-known Polish beers like Zywiec, Okocim and Warka.
And don’t forget the entertainment, said Maziarz.
“On stage we will have groups presenting traditional dance in costumes from different regions of Poland,” he said. “They are very colorful.”
Entertainment will include Polish folk-dance groups Polonez from San Diego and Krakusky from Los Angeles, as well as a polka band and a DJ who will entertain festival guests until close.
St. Maximilian’s festival “is meant for the whole family to come and enjoy,” said Maziarz.
Father Jerzy Frydrych of Saint Maximilian Maria Kolbe said the church’s primary mission is to “serve the needs of Polish people.”
Part of that is having Mass said in Polish.
“People prefer their national language during clergy,” Frydrych said, adding there is a Saturday service in English.
Noting St. Maximilian was built in 1995 to serve the Polish community, Frydrych said funds raised from the annual festival “go to renovate the church.” He said improvements have included stained-glass windows and a new church sanctuary.
During World War II, the churh’s namesake, Saint Maximilian Maria Kolbe, provided shelter to refugees from greater Poland, including 2,000 Jews whom he hid from Nazi persecution in his friary, according to a Polish website dedicated to him. Kolbe was arrested by the German Gestapo and imprisoned.
In July 1941, a man from Kolbe’s barracks vanished, prompting the deputy camp commander to pick 10 men from the same barracks to be starved to death in order to deter further escape attempts. One of the selected men was a young husband and father, and Kolbe volunteered to take his place.
During the time in the cell, Kolbe led the men in songs and prayer. After three weeks of dehydration and starvation, only he and three others were still alive. Finally, he was murdered with an injection of carbolic acid.
Father Kolbe was beatified as a confessor by Pope Paul VI in 1971 and was canonized by Pope John Paul II on Oct. 10, 1982. Upon canonization, the Pope declared St. Maximilian Kolbe not a confessor, but a martyr.
For those who want to learn more about St. Maximilian church and also join in prayer, daily Mass and tours of the church will be offered. Veneration of the relics of Blessed John Paul II, St. Sister Faustina, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, St. Padre Pio and other saints will also be offered.
All proceeds from the fundraiser will go toward the parish, the main goal being the continued renovation of St. Maximilian Kolbe Roman Catholic Church.
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Dust covered boxes in the attic daunted my search for a box of dishes to send to a granddaughter. If the dust wasn't enough, the hand scrawled labels on the boxes greatly impeded my search – “Pictures, 1943,” “1932 Olympics,” “winter clothes, 1965.” “Ice Skates.” But the box labeled “Toys” had me on my knees for a tumble of memories.
Fingering the old, crackled leather, I remembered my younger sister, as she often wore her “chowboy” boots, vest and chaps. Silver colored “six shooters” hung from her tiny frame.
Rusted trucks and tractors morphed into rows of toy trucks (usually red) and tractors, graders, earth movers (usually yellow) that entertained by the hour my younger brothers. And coonskin caps atop their unruly mops while they hunkered over the chess board.
From my children, a gaggle of dolls some now hairless, armless, their blue eyes vacant with loss, danced across my mind in their former splendor; a battered “Stoney Burke” hat tossed over boxes of paints, brushes, and tattered art work mind ; model cars and airplanes tucked in amongst books on the moon, space travel and posters of Apollo missions reflected the scientific bent of the youngest
Grandchildren's treasures, now a jumble of Ninja turtles, chemistry sets, boxes of beads, soccer balls, baseballs, basketballs; trucks, cars and model airplanes vie for space; homemade “flat dolls” and their flat paper-doll-like wardrobes; a doll houses, hand-crafted, complete with miniature dolls and furniture; old, dried out bottles of finger paints cradled in a red wooden easel, still festooned with torn sheets of newsprint.
But no favorite toys come to my mind as favorites from my childhood. For sure, I had the line up of dolls and their accouterments and also a set of “six shooters.” As a family, we had games, Scrabble, Monopoly, Checkers, and Chess, but those – rather a bore to me.
What I remembered of my childhood reached into that world of my mind. My old roan horse nuzzling me across the fence, sometimes she carried this princess to far off lands, sometimes into battle, or helped save the village from some unseen enemy. She was indeed a magical roan.
Then, the old war surplus raft plied the canal in front of our house. Slunk low under the willow branches to escape marauding “Injuns”; or my foot on the bow, leaning forward in search of new lands; or laying on the cool rubber bottom watching cloud figures overhead.
“My” tree along side the canal provided a special retreat, a harbor from hurt, a castle above the ground and listened to my child's heart and soul but cast no judgment.
Perhaps most special of all, the car that my father built for me. A washing machine motor turned belts and pulleys as I traversed the ranch compound. A race car sometimes. Transporting me to far away places on a sunny day. The absolute embodiment of a father's love.
A tree, a horse, a rubber raft or a washing machine motor encased in a metal body – not what one would usually consider a favorite toy, but these are the memories of my childhood at play. The toys of my mind. | <urn:uuid:5276d051-cf4d-466d-ba5c-61d327007c2a> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://rootsnleaves.blogspot.com/2011/02/52-weeks-of-genealogy-week-7-toys-of-my.html?showComment=1298708440191 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720238.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00190-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938509 | 745 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Kirov Ballet - 'The Fountain of Bachchisarai'
by Catherine Pawlick
July 7, 2006 -- Mariinsky State Theatre, St. Petersburg
The eastern tale of unrequited love, female slavery, and Tatar barbarism highlighted in Alexander Pushkin’s poem, the “Fountain of Bachchisarai,” is unique material that finds relevance even in modern times. The ballet by the same name, set to music by Boris Asafiev and with choreography by Rostislav Zakharov, is the first Soviet ballet based on a Pushkin poem, but one of many productions in the USSR of the 1930’s based on great writers of the epoch, such as Balzac and Shakespeare (theatrical productions based on works by Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Flaubert were also common in those years).
While presented as a ballet on the Mariinsky stage, the program notes define the “Fountain of Bachchisarai” as a choreographic drama, which, along with works such as Vainonen’s “The Flames of Paris”, or Zakharov’s “Wasted Illusions” defined the boundaries of a new genre at the height of the Soviet empire. Namely, a genre based on a lyrical-heroic theme, with a strong personality conflict in the middle of the libretto and priority given to female dancing. “Fountain of Bachchisarai” retains all of these elements while calling forth simultaneously the theme of the unattainable, and the inevitability of Fate. Placed as it is within the context of Soviet history, it also underlines the strong place of women in Soviet society, given the focus on the harem, the prominence of female dancing interludes (although arguably most ballets fall into this category) and in particular the strong personality of the second heroine, Zarema.
“Fountain” is at core a tragedy, for the barbarian’s attempts to conquer a peaceful people and take what is not rightfully his result in the loss of both the new acquisitions and the old ones. He is left without the one thing he wanted most: the love of the fair captive, Maria. He also can no longer return to his wife, Zarema, who has been killed by his own men and without any protests on his own part, as punishment for murdering Maria.
(For synopsis of the libretto, please refer to a prior review:
In this performance, Maxim Chashegorov achieved new heights in both dramatic delivery and technical aptitude as Vatslav, Maria’s fiance. Unfortunately his dancing (both solo and with Maria) is relegated only to the first act, but nonetheless it was a treat to watch. Chashegorov’s grand allegro has gained in precision, and now also boasts a light, soaring quality. He has the ability to take off with little apparent effort, float in the air and land soundlessly. He has also acquired the endearing Russian habit of bravura expressions which only emphasize his talents.
His Maria, danced by Veronika Ivanova, hailed back to the Kirov of yesteryear. While not versed in the 200 degree extensions that are de rigeur now throughout the company, Ivanova had a pleasantly restrained arabesque that was never higher or lower than 90 degrees. Her strict Vaganova style port de bras was accurate without being overdone or messy, and compensated for a slightly stiff back. It should be noted here that the couple’s choreography is strictly classical and hints at parts of the classical version of “Cinderella”. There are several significant overhead lifts and plenty of sweeping sequences in their garden love pas de deux.
Ivanova presented a refined Maria, polite in demeanour and cool in expression that aptly fit the role of Princess, and any shortcomings were easily overlooked for her refreshingly traditional representation of the character.
As Zarema, the wife of Kahn Girei, Tatiana Tkachenko’s enraged, jealous persona was a frightening departure from her more usual pleasant characters, but represented the facets of strength within her own personality. As Zarema she offered a genuine sense of angst and frustration at the unfortunate turn of events. Her dance of desperation in front of the Kahn was an essay in emotional expression through movement: every arm gesture depicted her resolution for revenge, and strong footwork supported her character’s unchallenged personality.
The ballet’s third act has an expansive sequence in which the Tatar male corps de ballet dances together, where costumes and choreography combine to reveal the raw barbarism of a predatory tribe intent on conquest at any price. The Kirov corps here seemed to enjoy themselves immensely and did a fine job transmitting the idea of the power of the group.
The intriguing score was conducted by Boris Gruzin.
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Kagame rules out third term
Kigali - Rwandan President Paul Kagame, fresh from his re-election in August, says he has no intention of altering the country's constitution so he can seek a third term in office.
"I have no need for a new mandate. What I need and what you need is to continue on the path of development," he said in a speech on Saturday to former senior officials in his government.
"Those who seek a third term, seek a fourth and then a fifth term," added Kagame in his address, two months after a crushing election victory.
Although he is embarking on a second term in office, Kagame has effectively controlled Rwanda since his rebel force ended the country's 1994 genocide. He took part in the first post-genocide government as vice president and defence minister.
Having been elected president by parliament in 2000, he won presidential elections in 2003, before cruising to a second term in August.
Kagame said it would be a mark of failure if he did not find a suitable replacement before the end of his mandate expires in seven years' time. Under Rwanda's constitution, a president can only serve two full terms.
"That (failing to find a successor) would be my failure and not yours. And it would not be a reason to seek a third mandate," he said. | <urn:uuid:69c775e9-50e7-4f75-9cf8-3a8e41fea3da> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Kagame-rules-out-third-term-20101017 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00227-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986261 | 278 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Hiring the Right Person – Why It’s Important
It is incredibly important to hire the right people for the right job. It doesn’t matter whether this is done through an external job advertisement or through internal promotion.
You have to have a really good people strategy in place, which includes a recruitment, selection and retention program. Doing that properly is all about making sure that you understand the finer points of recruitment, hiring and promotion processes.
The first thing to make sure is that you have job description and person specification that is completely fit for purpose. Every position in your company should have a concise job description.
“Your job descriptions should reflect careful thought as to the roles the individual will fill, the skill sets they’ll need, the personality attributes that are important to completing their tasks, and any relevant experience that would differentiate one applicant from another.” Recruiting and Hiring Top-Quality Employees
It is strange how this most basic of things is often overlooked massively by organizations and businesses.
Don’t Rush Things Through
If a position becomes available unexpectedly, it is often easier to get an advertisement out quickly, and to get an interview panel ready within just a few weeks. However, rushing things in this manner is a terrible idea. Perhaps you already had a job description ready, but you still need to review whether or not it is current. You also have to make sure you have the right people on your interview panel and that the advertisement has gone out in all the right places. Rush this, and it is likely that you will hire the wrong person. As a result, you will struggle to retain that person and turn him or her into a real asset to your company, perhaps by helping that person climb through the ranks as well.
Get The Compensation Package Correct
Although all companies are still looking for ways to save money, one thing to not save on are employee wages. Too many companies have made the mistake of thinking that people will readily work for a pittance because it is better than nothing. However, these people are not the ones that are truly invested in your company and they will not help you grow. A wage has to be appropriate and fair.
“Yes, staff cost money and yes it takes time for a new hire to ramp up and generate the value add you hired them for, but at the end of the day you get what you pay for.” Recruiting Do’s and Don’ts
Don’t Think You Don’t Need References
References are very important. However, it seems as if too many companies don’t rely on them sufficiently. This is particularly true for those companies that use a recruitment agency in order to find their next member of staff. They don’t follow up on the references or, if the recruitment agency says they are already on file, they don’t actually check up on these. A reference is important in order to find out how someone actually is within a workplace, which will tell you a lot about how that person will be within your organization.
Additional Tips and Resources
The art of recruiting and hiring is constantly evolving due to the many social media options. These outlets will also continue to morph and merge at an accelerated pace in the months and years to come. Engaging in social media for the sake of future recruiting will soon become a normal practice for both recruiting firms and companies. So for those that ignore these developments they do so at their own peril…so start today creating a social presence for your business with recruiting in mind. As an example go to: The Future of Recruiting: Impact of the Social Web, there are many other instructional sources available.
In addition, take a look at our page: Improve The Effectiveness of Your Recruiting, Interviewing, Hiring, & Promotion Processes for information how The DiSC Profile can offer you more data to improve those processes.
There are many other tips within the world of recruitment, hiring and promotion. If you get it right, you will see a great improvement in your business overall. Not just that, when a position does become available, it is far more likely that you will have someone inside the company that can take that position. Remember that the opportunity to grow within an organization is a very attractive prospect for people, which will solve a lot of your retention issues as well, as people want to stick around and work their way up. | <urn:uuid:f294fb8f-b900-437f-8f58-2db4d8d8d87d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.intesiresources.com/disc-profile-blog/the-disc-profile-and-other-recruiting-tips/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.970717 | 912 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Is the U.S. Dollar on the road to becoming worthless?
*Barron's, by Thomas G. Donlan, December 22, 2008
“The inflationary effects of the zero-interest-rate ‘cure’ will be worse than the pain the Federal Reserve aims to prevent.
REMEMBER THE LIMBO? A CROSS BETWEEN A DANCE and gymnastics, it had participants bending over backward to maneuver under a horizontal stick. Only their feet could touch the floor. Anyone touching the stick or falling backward onto the floor is out of the game.
As Chubby Checker asked in his 1962 hit single ‘Limbo Rock’: ‘How low can you go?’
New lows have recently been recorded in interest rates, house prices, oil prices, other commodity prices and much more — not least the value of the U.S. dollar.
The financial authorities of the United States are pretty good at this game. They can bend their knees and twist their torsos to get under the bar. They stand up and challenge for the next round: ‘How low can you go?’ Many of us aren’t so skilled. We can’t go much lower. Soon we’ll touch the bar, or fall flat on our keisters.
The U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve, those codependent arbiters of prices and quantities of money, will be hard to beat. They can go as low as they choose. They can even go below zero.
As Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke warned us — or assured us — back in 1999 when he was still an academic and New York Fed adviser: ‘The monetary authorities can issue as much money as they like.’ His point was to demonstrate that sufficiently dissolute monetary authorities can raise prices and increase aggregate demand.
The question being posed is whether rising prices stimulate demand. It’s true that there is, or there can be, ‘money illusion,’ the Keynesian term for the notion that rising nominal prices and rising nominal wages make everybody happy and productive, at least for a time. But that time may be short. In the longer run, making money worth less is a step on the road to making money worthless.
The U.S., of course, is several steps down that road. Gold is not a good touchstone for short-term changes in the value of money, but over a long term it offers a good first approximation. Dollars that bought one-thirty-fifth of an ounce of gold from 1933 to 1973, last week bought one-eight-hundred-and-twenty-seventh of an ounce.
Taking another step down the road to worthless money last week, the Fed said: ‘Over the next few quarters, the Federal Reserve will purchase large quantities of agency debt and mortgage-backed securities to provide support to the mortgage and housing markets, and it stands ready to expand its purchases of agency debt and mortgage-backed securities as conditions warrant.’
Is this a new clause in the U.S. Constitution? ‘The Fed can buy anything, as conditions warrant.’
Economist Ed Yardeni provided ample analysis the other day: ‘After one bubble bursts, the only way to get out of the resulting recession, and to avoid a depression, is to create another bubble by lowering the cost and increasing the availability of credit, particularly for housing.’
The deflationary impulse avoided in 2002 is more powerful in 2008. We are on the road to paying the price for two recessions at the same time. Or worse, we are on the road to avoiding most of the effects of a second recession.”
*This information is solely a highlight of the opinion of a third-party publication and is incomplete. Please subscribe to this publication for the full and timely opinion of the author and call a Monex Account Representative for any additional up-to-date information. This is not an offer to buy or sell precious metals. Investors should obtain advice based on their own individual circumstances and understand the risk before making any investment decision. | <urn:uuid:883bd6f1-c6a6-451c-9fab-7f6e3e6d7aea> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.monex.com/value-ataglance/is-the-u-s-dollar-on-the-road-to-becoming-worthless/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00444-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949508 | 856 | 1.804688 | 2 |
China is considering the development of an economy outside of the Earth’s perimeter and is planning to establish an Earth-Moon economic zone by 2050. Science and Technology Daily, the official newspaper of the Ministry of Science and Technology, quoted Bao Weimin, director of the Science and Technology Commission of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), who said that China plans to build an Earth-Moon space economic zone by the middle of this century. Experts predict that China’s annual output in the zone may reach US$10 trillion. Bao said that the development of the space economic zone will not only bring about huge economic benefits, but it will change the current socio-economic model. CASC is the main state-owned contractor for the Chinese space program.
Bao added that China should develop a reliable and low-cost space transportation system between the Earth and the Moon. According to its plan, China will accomplish the basic technology development by 2030 and the manufacture of key transportation technologies by 2040. By the middle of this century, China may successfully establish a space economic zone.
Beijing plans to launch a Mars exploration mission in 2020 and a Mars landing in 2021. Science and Technology Daily quoted Zhang Yulin, former chief of the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO), who said that the plan for the future development of China’s manned space flight is neither a simple moon landing nor a manned Mars exploration. Rather, it is to preempt an opportunity to steadily develop and utilize the Earth-Moon space via continuous technological breakthroughs and accumulation. In recent years, China has made rapid strides in the space industry, including a large number of lunar exploration research projects. China’s annual investment in space projects is as high as US$8 billion, second only to the United States.
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Has this ever happened to you? You hear the big, shiny Loraas truck go by collecting all the carts in your neighbourhood. You go out to the street to collect your cart and bring it back onto your property and realize, “My cart wasn’t emptied!” Ugh! We understand this can be super frustrating. Like many other services available to the public, there are several rules that need to be followed for appropriate business exchanges.
Don’t want to get left behind again? Loraas is here to help. We’ve compiled a list of the most common mistakes on why your cart may not have been collected. Have you ever:
- Placed your cart too close to obstructions?
The most common reason for a cart not being picked up is because it was not placed far enough from obstructions. In order to ensure we don’t damage other’s property, our collection trucks need at least 4 feet (1.2 meters) of space between the blue, black, or green carts or other objects like cars.
The Solution: If your cart is placed between two vehicles, simply roll it out further away from the curb so the mechanical arm can reach without damaging surrounding objects. Another solution is to place your cart on the opposite side of the street where there is more room. If these two solutions do not work, you may have to talk to your neighbours to ensure the carts are placed with enough accessible space to be collected and/or vehicles are parked a short distance away.
- Unsure of what direction to face the cart?
Similar to the previous case, we require that you face the wheels of your cart towards the curb. This is important for the mechanical arm that empties your waste into a Loraas truck. If the cart is facing the wrong way, the trucks cannot grab onto the carts to collect. What about snow if there are snow banks blocking you from placing your cart at the curb? Simply place your cart as close to the curb as possible.
- Filled your cart so full you could not close the lid?
The most common mistake is having carts with far too much contents leaving the lids wide open or partially open. We love to hear that you’re enjoying using your carts, however, our drivers have been advised not to pick-up these carts as they have a high risk for litter contamination.
The Solution: For recyclables, the easiest thing to resolve this issue is to flatten or break down large cardboard and plastics #1 to #7 to 2ft x 2ft (60cm x 60cm). Another option is to take excess recycling to one of the many drop-off depots including Loraas’ public drop-off located at 1902 1st Avenue North; open 24/7 to the public.
For overflowing garbage, you may have to re-evaluate if that “garbage” can be recycled or diverted from the landfill instead of being thrown away. Visit www.swrc.ca to see different recycling or diversion programs in your community.
- Accidentally mixed up your pickup day?
Sometimes pickup schedules or frequency change throughout the year. It could be possible you placed your cart out on the wrong day or put the wrong cart out for collection.
The Solution: Double check your pickup schedule. For rural Loraas customers, visit our website and print off your community’s Collection Calendar or call our Client Service number at (306) 242-2300. If you’re a City of Saskatoon resident, you can download the electronic collection calendar at www.saskatoon.ca/recycle or get text reminders using their handy waste app. Lastly, create simple reminder prompts. Place a coloured dot on your calendar to represent specific collection days.
- Do you live at the end of a cul-de-sac?
If yes, there are different rules for your curbside pickup. All carts are to be placed 16 feet (4.8 meters) from the furthest endpoint of the cul-de-sac so vehicles, including our trucks, have enough room to continue driving. Carts are to be placed in a straight line all facing the same direction and placed at least 4 feet (1.2 meters) apart.
The Solution: Get neighbourly! By that, we mean simply talking to your neighbours to confirm everyone understands and participates so you don’t get missed.
- Slept in past 7:00 AM and placed your cart out at a different time in the morning?
Residential curbside pickup commences at 7:00 A.M. sharp. Please have your cart at the curb by this time regardless of if your driver typically comes at different times throughout the day. Pickup times may vary depending on different drivers or how many drivers are available that day. Reminder to pull your cart back onto your property by 7:00 PM.
The Solution: If early mornings are problematic, place your cart at the curb late evening to avoid being missed. Going on a holiday? Ask your friendly neighbour to give you assistance, take your waste to the landfill, or take organics to a drop-off depot before you jet off.
- Where items left in your cart after pickup?
We love all of our avid recyclers and promote using the cart as much as possible. However, during certain times of the year, you may have excess recyclables (or other waste). Packing too many items in your cart may make it difficult to empty it completely. Or if items are still wet from rinsing, they could freeze to the sides of the cart during cold weather.
The Solution: Instead of using your foot to pack as much into the carts as possible, we welcome you to use the many free recycling depots across the City. Also, allow your recyclables to fully dry before placing them into the cart.
- Placed an item in your blue or green carts, but were not 100% sure it belonged?
Lots of residents are what we like to call “Wish-cyclers”. Not all recyclables or items with the recycling symbol are accepted in our curbside program. The same goes with items labeled organic, biodegradable, and compostable. If too many non-acceptable items, especially hazardous or items with warning labels are identified in your cart, our drivers are advised not to pick them up to protect workers in the waste and recycling industry.
The Solution: Give us a call. Drivers have likely advised our customer care team why your cart was not collected. Our knowledgable team will able to assist you or give you further education. Still unsure? Visit the ‘What can be recycled?’ section of the website to understand how to use the programs correctly, download and print off help guidelines, or watch our simple videos. Or use one of the recycling search engines online, like SWRC or the Waste Wizard to, “…know before your throw!”
Loraas’ disposal and waste diversion programs are incredibly efficient processes, but only if used correctly. We are continually looking towards creating a cleaner and better future for the next generations and diverting unnecessary or recyclable waste from our landfills. For the most up to date information, make sure to follow our social media @LoraasYXE for messaging about storms, missed areas, cart tips, and more. Thank you for your continued participation and with this new information, you’ll never be left behind again! | <urn:uuid:681e7776-4f8e-45f1-97f9-c987c80a337b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.loraas.ca/dont-get-left-behind-why-wasnt-my-cart-collected/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00679.warc.gz | en | 0.937046 | 1,554 | 1.875 | 2 |
Scenario: Line A has a demand of 500 parts for the week, but only 450 parts are produced. The pace at the end of the week is -50. Customer demand hasn't changed, so Line A must build 50 extra parts the next week. Fortunately, there are a few ways to carry the demand forward.
Option One: Carry Over
Carry over the previous week's deficit forward into the current week. This is done by enabling the "Carry over the previous week Pace metric" setting in the Production Module Settings screen. When enabled, the previous week's past due pace (Actual - Demand) will be included in the demand of the current week. When the above setting is enabled, the Demand, Pace, and Pitch Pace metrics will be modified on the Operator Portal, Pitch Board, Production Status by Line dashboard, and the Production Status by Area dashboard.
The "Carry over the previous week Pace metric" setting affects all lines for a site.
Note: If you're calculating PEFF and other metrics that use demand in the equation from the operator portal, pitch boards and week summary page, you must remember that these do not account for the previous week's past due added.
In the example above, the week's demand shows 2589, however, the pace carried over was 400.
To look at PEFF you must subtract the 400 from 2589 then do the PEFF calculation to get the 91% PEFF as shown in the example above.
Option Two: Pace Start Date
A single Line's pace can be "reset" by a specific date. This is done by setting a date in the "Pace Start Date" setting each individual line. It can also be set from the Production Pitch Schedule page under "More > Line Pace Date."
When the Pace Start Date is set, the Demand metric will include all past due parts up until the Pace Start Date, and the Pace, and Pitch Pace metrics will be calculated using the new Demand value. This takes effect on the Operator Portal, Pitch Board, Production Status by Line dashboard, and the Production Status by Area dashboard.
When the pace start date is set, the production setting "Carry over the previous week Pace metric" setting is ignored for the Line. It is possible to have a mix where some lines are using the Line's Pace Start Date and other lines are using the Production "Carry over the previous week Pace metric" setting.
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Have you ever planted a seed? You probably have—but what did it take for it to sprout and grow? It didn’t just happen; it took sun and fertile soil and the right amount of water.
This is similar to the way faith grows in our hearts, for faith is somewhat like a seed. When we hear the Gospel, the Bible says God by His Spirit sows a seed in our hearts—the “seed” of faith. Jesus put it this way: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field” (Matthew 13:24).
But how does that seed of faith grow? It grows only as we encourage it and provide the right environment for it. It grows only as we water and fertilize it. How do we do that? By letting God’s Word—the message of the Gospel—fill our lives. The Bible puts it this way: “Faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of God” (Romans 10:17).
Begin your journey of faith today by turning to Christ and asking Him to come into your life. Then nurture your faith by making the Bible part of your life every day. In addition, turn often to God in prayer; the Bible says, “Pray continually” (1 Thessalonians 5:17). Most of all, seek out a church where Christ is honored and you can be strengthened through your fellowship with other believers. | <urn:uuid:3a59e978-8b3f-48c6-8376-1a9a02318256> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://billygraham.org/answer/is-faith-something-that-some-people-have-and-others-dontjust-like-some-people-have-blond-hair-and-others-dont/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988717783.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183837-00075-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959988 | 313 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Continuing Education Courses
For EMS & Nursing
UMass Memorial EMS invests daily in the training and education of emergency medical service and nursing providers in our region. Indeed, part of our mission is to provide this type of ongoing training to all first responders and public safety providers.
Emergency Cardiac Care
UMass Memorial EMS is an affiliate training center (ATC) of the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) Office of Continuing Education, offering the following American Heart Association (AHA) Emergency Cardiac Care (ECC) programs to EMS, fire, law enforcement, and hospital providers.
A Full Spectrum of Continuing Education Courses
UMass Memorial EMS offers a full spectrum of continuing education courses developed and approved by the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT). Our instructors are not only credentialed to teach these courses, but they are also field providers at UMass Memorial’s Worcester EMS, one of the busiest EMS services in New England. | <urn:uuid:1676f8c1-1f6a-4b96-95e7-98c79c2c201c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.umassmemorialems.com/index.php/itemlist/category/23-features | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.921108 | 205 | 1.710938 | 2 |
This article is about a character that was portrayed in a stage play.
Bonnie the Moth was a character in the stage play Norman Swarm Has Been Transformed. She was a moth and helped Norman Swarm find the cure for his bug-size. She also made jokes about the other bug and bug-like characters in the play.
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Bronislaw Geremek Visiting Fellow
(September 2009 – June 2010)
Vienna’s Impact on Polish Modern Antisemitism, 1883-1938
My project is an attempt to reconstruct, describe and define “East European Modern Antisemitism” in order to understand the role and social functions of the various types of anti-Semitism in the different political cultures of the region in the beginning of the 20th century. More than any other country, Austria served as a role-model for these local political cultures, with its aggressive anti-Judaism, racial historiosophy, political Catholicism and nationalist antisemitism. Vienna was at the forefront of these “new trends” in mass politics and it was a laboratory for Eastern and Central Europe anti-Semitism. The Austrian case study is part of a more general project on “Modern Polish Antisemitism in the European Context (1883-1939)”. | <urn:uuid:178b27f2-e0e5-4517-a4c2-b2cdcd7de09f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.iwm.at/the-institute/former-visiting-fellows/grzegorz-krzywiec/ | 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 | 0.924306 | 200 | 2.140625 | 2 |
In 2019, a team of researchers in Las Vegas set out to show that drivers can be less likely to stop their cars for someone crossing the street in front of them depending on the pedestrian's skin color or gender. They ran a simple test — they sent a white woman, a white man, a Black woman, and a Black man to cross residential streets in suburban Las Vegas, where the speed limit was 35 mph. Then they took note of which cars hit the brakes and which ones sped on by.
As it turned out, the race and sex differences were vanishingly small. But something else surprised the researchers even more: Most drivers didn't stop at all. Of the 461 cars they counted, just 129 drivers gave way. That means nearly three-quarters of all drivers kept going, no matter who crossed their paths.
The researchers didn't know why. They couldn't go back and interview the drivers. The streets and crosswalks they had selected were standard. But there was one thing they could check: the cost of the car. It was a leap, but one the team agreed was worth checking out. Could the fanciness of the car have anything to do with driver behavior? So the researchers went back to the video of the experiment, identified the cars, and cross-referenced them against Kelley Blue Book values.
The results, published in the Journal of Transport and Health, were startling. The more expensive the car, the less likely the driver was to yield the right of way. The cost of the car, in fact, was the only statistically significant predictor of driver dickishness. For every $1,000 increase in price, a car was 3% less likely to stop. When it comes to driving, as in so many other aspects of life, it appears that entitlement trumps responsibility. "It makes logical sense," says Courtney Coughenour, a public-health researcher at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas who led the study.
You've felt it too, right? The roads are wild these days. Deaths of people hit by cars went up 40% from 2009 to 2016, and they jumped 17% during the first year of the pandemic, even though overall miles driven went down. Road-rage gunfire — people literally shooting at each other from cars — are up as well. Some of that is probably COVID brain and the cognitive whiplash of the highways emptying out in 2020 and then filling back up.
But the Las Vegas results hint at another reason the roads have gone Mad Maximal. Something about the car, or about the person driving it, also matters. Anecdotally and statistically, evidence is mounting that driving itself turns people into bad drivers — and that maybe pricier, fancier, bigger cars make them even worse.
If you're driving a Hummer, everything looks like a nail
Most of the research on driver psychology focuses on traits like attention and situational awareness. Get distracted by something — usually a phone — and your monkey brain can't keep up. There's more: Men are more likely than women to be jerks on the road, but older men are less jerky than younger ones. If you have passengers in the car, you drive less aggressively, but you're also likely to be more aggressive if you're in a rush and there's traffic.
But some research has looked at the idea that differences in car type or characteristics might play a role. A 1968 paper in the Journal of Social Psychology reported that people were less likely to honk at a "high status" car, a black 1966 Chrysler Crown Imperial, than they were at a rusty 1954 Ford station wagon. Drivers of cars with less engine noise in the cabin — typically a signifier of a plush ride — tend to drive faster. A 2002 study found that people driving more powerful cars tended to speed, and drivers of cars with more safety features like antilock brakes did risky things like tailgating and pulling into traffic more quickly. And in 2012, psychologists found that drivers of more "upper class" cars like a Mercedes were more likely to cut off other cars at a four-way stop and less likely to yield to people in a crosswalk.
Almost all those results predate the biggest game changer in American driving: the arrival of megatrucks. In 1975, SUVs basically didn't exist; by 2020, more than half of all passenger vehicles on US roads were either trucks or SUVs. And over the years, their size has increased preposterously. In the 21st century, carmakers all but stopped selling cars weighing under 3,000 pounds — and started selling vehicles twice as heavy. And despite the working-class image of the pickup truck, those bigger rides come with higher status. As of 2020, the median annual household income in the US was $67,521. For SUV owners it's $97,082, and for truck owners it's $108,334.
Making cars bigger made them deadlier. The weight and power of SUVs and megatrucks mean they hit harder. Smaller cars hit a pedestrian in the legs, and big trucks tend to hit them in the head. But in a crash, people riding inside a megatruck have a higher survival rate. "There's some evidence that driving a very large vehicle makes you and your passengers safer. That's an inducement to buy one," says Justin Tyndall, an economist at the University of Hawaii who studies driver behavior. "The issue is, in the aggregate, it probably makes us all less safe." From 2000 to 2019, Tyndall estimates, places with more megatrucks saw more pedestrian deaths — an additional 1,100 deaths nationwide.
The Las Vegas researchers didn't look at the size of the vehicles they documented. Still, evidence suggests the dramatic spike in deaths isn't just about physics — it's also about how people drive them. "Maybe more aggressive people are more likely to buy a more aggressive vehicle and drive it that way," Tyndall says.
Or maybe our more-dangerous cars are driving us to drive them more dangerously. In a paper that came out in January in the Journal of Consumer Policy, researchers put 49 undergraduates in a sophisticated driving simulator and had them "drive" a route, varying whether they were in a big SUV or a tiny hatchback. The drivers of the bigger car, they found, took more risks — driving faster, braking later, and so on. "They are in a bigger car," says Bart Claus, a marketing researcher at IÉSEG School of Management in France who was one of the paper's authors. "They perceive more safety. This changes their behavior." The less risk to the driver, the more risk we feel willing to take.
A potent cocktail of entitlement and fear
Cars have always been about status. In the early 20th century, they were the playthings of upper-class twits embarking on their own versions of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride around town and country, scaring horses and crushing people. This conflict led to the first real traffic laws. But there was only one problem. "These policies had to be enforced," says Cameron Roberts, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin who studies sustainability and transportation. "And enforcement involved using the police against rich people, which had never happened before."
So wealthy car owners banded together to challenge the new laws — even inventing the concept of "jaywalking" to confine people to crosswalks. With the arrival of mass-produced cars in the 1930s, even people in the middle class could afford this new symbol of upper-class entitlement. Cities and road builders "created that system of privilege for roads and car owners," Roberts says. "And you could buy into that privilege by owning a car."Plenty of literature shows that people who think they are high-status frequently misbehave. "They are more self-centered and more self-involved and take decisions more driven by their own interests and less by the interests of others," Claus says. "All these things come together in an SUV to create a person who is less nice than the person would be if they were not driving an SUV."
Carmakers have long sold their products as emblems of freedom. But now, as our vehicles get up-armored on the outside and plusher on the inside, some researchers argue that cars have come to represent safety — shifting "from individualism and freedom to dynamic seclusion in a securitized state," as one paper puts it. It isn't hard to imagine how turning cars into "personal security pods" has created a potent cocktail of entitlement and fear. When we drive, we see the world through a windshield-shaped proscenium. If you're driving a big, expensive vehicle, anything outside your high-status bubble — fortified with flat-screen monitors and heated steering wheels, high above the road — is either a threat to your security or beneath your concern. Either way, in this video-game version of driving, other people and other vehicles might as well be non-player characters. They're not worth stopping for.
I don't know whether there's an answer to all this. The government thinks of "safety" as what happens to people inside the vehicle, and the insurance industry bases its premiums primarily on the track record of individual drivers and how much it costs to repair a given car model. When I told a representative for the Insurance Information Institute, an industry organization, about the research suggesting that people drive less safely in bigger cars, she scoffed. "I don't believe that," she told me. "A lot of moms drive SUVs, and they're driving their kids around cautiously." So. OK!
You could regulate the size and aggressive design of new SUVs and trucks. You could try to nudge drivers to settle the hell down (though some research suggests intrusive reminders only serve to distract drivers further). You could make crosswalks safer, promote bike riding, build denser and multiuse neighborhoods that don't require cars to get around, and provide better public transit. A happy neighborhood street that's too narrow for a Hummer helps with all sorts of issues, including climate, equity, and safety.
But the people who want to drive everywhere and have free parking — i.e., most Americans — tend to oppose that stuff. And self-driving cars won't help. After all, even a robot that obeys every traffic law and all three Asimovian ones is still going to be powered by a machine-learning algorithm created by a graduate of the Musk-Zuckerberg Program in Engineering Ethics. It's not a stretch to imagine that fancy self-driving cars will still be bigger and heavier than cheaper models. Perhaps they'll even be programmed to prioritize the safety of their occupants over anything or anyone they might hit.
The truth is, we've built a world in which more or less everyone needs a car to get around. Whether the guy in an F-150 who wants to dominate the road, or the mom in an SUV who wants to keep her kids safe in a collision, we have literally engineered a transportation system that favors aggression and self-interest over mutual goodwill and responsibility. The only way to fix the fact that cars make us unsafe is to reduce the number of cars. As long as we keep building bigger and deadlier ones, drivers will keep driving them in bigger and deadlier ways.
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Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1967
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The Philosophy of Adult Education of the Anglican Church of Canada.
Peel, Donald Naylor
The adult education philosophy of the Anglican Church of Canada was critically analyzed in terms of basic principles and presuppositions, cultural factors in Christian education, concepts of maturity and of authority, characteristics of adult learners, teaching and leadership, group learning, and patterns of educational practice. Comparisons of Anglican positions were made with those in other philosophies of education. These were among the major findings and conclusions: (1) Anglican philosophy is essentialist-perennialist (based on constant fundamentals) but has many progressivist-reconstructionist (change-oriented, experimental, and secular) features; (2) the approach is reality-centered, incorporating learner needs and Church requirements; (3) although leadership is ascribed to the learning group, the leader is depicted as dominating the planning and evaluation of educational experiences; (4) the most serious lacks are a systematic statement of educational philosophy, a clear and flexible plan for church adult education, and an effective concept of authority. (author/ly)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adults, Cultural Influences, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy, Group Instruction, Individual Characteristics, Leadership Styles, Leadership Training, Program Development, Protestants, Religious Education
University Microfilms, 300 Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106 (Order No. 68-2342, MF $7.15, Xerography $24.45).
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Authoring Institution: Indiana Univ., Bloomington.
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The way that A Mercy goes about how characters perceive things, often in ways that lack the “whole picture” is very interesting, and further illuminated by the narrative arc. Psychology suggests people seldom know the entire story, and their perceptions are inherently influenced by their worldview and the beliefs that they already hold. This is partially why people are susceptible to believing misinformation, especially information that aligns with the schemas and beliefs they already hold (Lewandowsky et. al,2010). In applying this idea of human psychology to the novel, that’s why a character’s character matters and really alters the framing of the world they’re in. The way that Morrison has each main character narrate, or control, part of their story I think really emphasizes this and shows how other’s perceptions can even begin to influence our own.
I first began to think about this when I read Lina’s passage. My initial reaction to Lina was to like her, I saw her as strong willed, intelligent and caring (albeit somewhat harsh at times). While I still think most of these things of her character, it did not suffice to formulate my opinion only based on her telling. Lina, having taken Florens under her wing, was extremely opinionated in her decisions, especially when it came to the blacksmith because she did not trust him. She imposed this naivety to Florens that I probably would not have seen as much had Lina’s passage not been included. Having immediately taken to Florens, feeding, bathing and caring for her in a way that appeared to me as maternal, I think effected the way that Lina saw Florens and her ability to make safe decisions for herself. This struggle of perception, not having the full picture and imposing traits that she believed to be there in the people in her life is further expanded upon with Lina’s perception of Sorrow. Upon her first meeting of Sorrow, Lina immediately forms an opinion and sticks to her guns, so to speak. Not only failing to completely see Sorrow for the woman she is and everything she had been through but imposing those beliefs on the people around her as well. Sorrow’s narrative at the end of the book, where the reader learns about her past and what’s causing her to be so “mongrelized” as her first owners describe her, really shed light on how Lina’s narrative painted the wrong picture of her completely. Not having the “resources”, or the full picture, kept Lina from truly being able to understand Sorrow, not that she wanted to anyway, however. This opinion that Lina formed also causes Sorrow to be relatively expelled, in terms of relationships with other people on the farm, particularly Patrician and Florens.
While the inability to perceive the whole picture is prevalent in all the character’s stories, I think it’s particularly interesting in Florens. Florens makes me think of trust in that it seems she has an abundance of it. Trust in Lina to take care of her, trust in the blacksmith to love her, and trust in the note her mistress wrote to grant her safe passage on her journey to the black smith. This prompt had originally made me think of an Arthur meme, where DW is looking at a sign and says “That sign can’t stop me because I can’t read”- which made me think of Florens. Not that Florens cannot actually read, but that she, like so many others, struggles to read peoples motivations and intentions, whether it be from not noticing enough, trusting too much or not being given the whole picture to be able to formulate fuller perceptions. For example, with the blacksmith, she sees their act of lovemaking and this physical relationship as grounds to believe that blacksmith truly cares for her, even despite Lina’s warnings. While she trusts Lina, she trusts her feelings wrong and consequently is heartbroken when the blacksmith rejects her, expelling her of some of the trust she had previously been full of. Also, in the first introduction to Florens, when her mother is seemingly begging Jacob Vaark to take Florens in his retelling of it, she only knows that her mother gave her away, making her believe that there was no love there. However, as we learn at the very end of the novel, her mother’s decision to give her up was her way of saving her daughter. So, while she was expelled from and by her mother, her lack of access to the truth expelled the belief that her mother loved her.
I think that this is an interesting concept to apply to your own life as well. What may I be missing, or expelling myself from in not knowing everything I possibly could in a situation? I don’t believe there’s a need to get hung up on the nitty gritty details, for fear of doubting all the decisions I make, but I think it helps me to realize that my perceptions are not perfect and I am lucky enough to have ready access to education and information that can help to make my worldview a step closer to complete. The prompt is also reminiscent of the housing crash of 2008, in that many financial agents failed to notice just how drastic the effects of these subprime mortgage loans would be, leading to the expulsion of countless people. | <urn:uuid:f755992c-7ba8-4072-9ab5-788a33f78f99> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://morrison.sunygeneseoenglish.org/author/ish1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.982572 | 1,115 | 2.21875 | 2 |
In the two centuries since the Golden Age of British railways, from the opening of the Stockton and Darlington line in 1825, Stephenson’s Rocket and the railway boom of the 1840s, Britain has tumbled from the position of being the envy of the world, to lagging sadly behind. The busiest sections of our old Victorian railways are now struggling to cope as the railways become increasingly popular. As anyone who travels regularly by train as I do will know, the West Coast Main Line, East Coast and Midland Main Lines are already creaking at the seams during peak times, and this is only going to get worse over the next twenty years. Yet elsewhere, from Japan’s network of Bullet trains, Germany’s 11 ICE lines, and China’s system which currently boasts the world’s longest high-speed railway line and plans to invest £248bn to complete a 10,000-mile network by 2020, the world has gone high speed.
That’s why it’s so important that the Government is pressing ahead with High Speed 2. This commits us and future governments to transforming our national rail network and providing a national infrastructure that delivers for every part of the country.
I don’t think enough has been made of High Speed 2’s importance to the north. It will be the first major railway to be built north of London in 120 years. This isn’t a railway that will just shuttle business travellers between Birmingham and London, and it’s not about getting to Birmingham twenty five minutes faster. It’s an essential part of our strategy to rebalance the economy. It will halve the journey times between some of our great northern cities: between Birmingham and Leeds, for example, transforming the north into a single economic area. Together with the substantial investment we’ve already announced into the Northern Hub, High Speed 2 will free up capacity on existing lines which will make local journeys for many quicker and more frequent. It will bring in jobs and prosperity for future generations: around world, high speed rail has a glittering record of supporting economic redevelopment. For example, Lyon in France is now at the heart of 5.3 million square feet of office space and 20,000 jobs. And it will connect the north to mainland Europe via High Speed One and the Eurotunnel.
And it’s not just rail links that will benefit. All of our transport links between the North and South are in desperate need of improvement. By shifting an estimated 9 million journeys from road to rail and 4.5 million from air to rail, HS2 will help to ease road congestion, reduce some of the pressure on our airports and cut carbon emissions in the process.
Today’s announcement, on top of the significant package of investment we have already committed to – the biggest investment in rail since the Victorian era – signals an end to the patch-and-mend approach of previous governments, and an end to too many trains squeezed onto too little railway. We should be shouting it from the rooftops: the Liberal Democrats were the first party to commit to high speed rail, and we’re delivering on it now we’re in Government.
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Sri Krishna Janmashtami or in simple words Gokulashtmi is a once a year festival that unites people across the country to come and indulge in colors & love. The actual celebration of Janmashtami takes place during the mid-night because Kanha was born on a stormy, dark night to end the rule of an evil king. Kanha was the 8thand complete Avatar of Lord Vishnu.
Sri Krishna had an undeniable role in Mahabharata. Also, he promulgated the theory of good karma and Bhakti in Bhagwat Geeta. In the contemporary era, theories have recognition of the supreme guide for human life.
Read ahead to know more about the birth of Kanha, history, and background of Janmashtami and celebration across the globe.
According to Indian mythology, Kanha has the designation of one of the most eminent entities. Every year, people celebrate Janmashtami with grand zeal and devotion. In accordance with the Hindu calendar, this festival falls on the Krishna Paksha Ashtami. It is the 8th day in the month of Bhadon of the dark fortnight. The festival of Janmashtami comes in the month of July or August.
Sri Krishna was born in Mathura around 5,200 years ago. Devotees believe him to be the strongest form of human manifestation of the Lord Vishnu. In ancient days, the sole purpose behind the dawn of Sri Krishna was to free the Earth from the grasp of demons and immorality.
The Puranic text describes Sri Krishna as to the son of Devaki and Vasudeva. He was born in the custody of his maternal uncle Kansa who was the emperor of Vrishni(capital of Mathura). Kansa was a brutal king and in a prediction, it was stated that the child of his own sister Devaki would kill him and free the earth from his clutch.
Lord Kanha was born in the jail of Kansa. On the night of Sri Krishna’s birth, his father takes him to Gokul. There he exchanges baby Kanha with Adi Parashakti the daughter of Nanda and Yashoda from Gokul who was friends with Vasudeva.
Lord Krishna grew up in Gokul under the roof of Nanda and Yashoda. His childhood blossomed away from the violence of his uncle. His childhood was a paradise of cows and ecstasy. Lord Krishna has uncountable names among which Kanha is the most popular and loved. The next morning after Kanha’s birth, the folk of Gokul had their eyes open to see such a glorious baby boy. In no time little Krishna became a source of radiance and joy for the people.
Sri Krishna and his mischievous nature are the most vital of Hindu folklore. As time continues, baby Krishna turns out to be the naughtiest and the most loving child of entire Gokul. His stories of stealing Makhan (butter), stealing gopi’s clothes while they bath in the river and how every time mother Yashoda shields him are popular among everyone.
When Lord Krishna was an infant Kansa sends his evil demon Putana. After slaughtering many children across her way to Gokul she gets to know about miraculous boy Krishna. She tries to poison little Krishna by feeding him poisonous milk. However, the infant god sucked the life out of her and killed her.
The incident of Kaliya Naga living in the Yamuna River is a case when people from Gokul notice a glimpse of the divinity of Sri Krishna. When little Krishna was playing with his friends their ball fell in the river where a hundred and ten-headed serpent lived with his family.
Krishna dives in the water to retrieve the ball and tells Kaliya to stop poisoning the river. When the serpent refuses out of hatred, Lord Krishna assumes the weight of the entire universe and dances on his head.
Therefore, the naga realizes that he is not overpowered by an ordinary boy from the village. Further, he begs for his apology and promises to never return.
Lord Krishna was born to free the people of Mathura from the evilness of King Kansa. When Krishna grew up to be compatible with fighting King Kansa, he finally killed him and freed people from his evilness.
Janmashtami is a festival that people celebrate across the globe in many different ways. On this day, all over India people chant devotional songs and dance. The grand pooja is held and arti is bestowed to Lord Krishna with candles and lamps.
This festival has a special significance in Mathura and Vrindavan because Lord Krishna spent most of the childhood in these two cities. On the night of Janmashtami, people decorate homes and temples with lights & lamps to welcome little Krishna.
There are many unique customs for celebrating Janmashtami.
Sri Krishna Janmashtami has a huge place in the hearts of the people of Bangladesh. The country celebrates this festival since the year 1902. A national holiday is observed in Bangladesh for Janmashtami because it is a special festival for the people living there.
In Fiji, the festival is known as Krishna Ashtami. People don’t have a holiday, though. People collect in the temples and celebrate the festival by singing devotional songs. They also distribute offering (prasad) after the devotion.
These were some details about the magnificent journey of life Lord Krishna. He is the symbol of splendor and a person may find the glory of Kanha is in everything of this universe. After all, the beauty lies within the eyes of a person.
30th August 2020, Monday
Shri Krishna Janmashtami 2021 Muhurat-
Nishita Puja Time:23:59:27 to 24:44:18
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Janmashtami Parana Time: After 05:57:47 on 31st, August
These were some major information about the festival of Janmashtami. You may also like to read about- Mythological Tales behind Rakshabandhan.
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Invitation to The Tale of Genji: The Foundational Elements of Japanese Culture
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The Tale of Genji ( Genji Monogatari ) is a long-form narrative composed in Japan at the beginning of the eleventh century. It depicts relationships both harmonious and discordant among a wide cast of the men and women of the Heian court. These revolve around the many love affairs of the main character, the Shining Genji (Hikaru Genji).
The Tale of Genji is said to be the world’s first novel and a work of extended prose fiction. But the tale is not notable simply because it is old or long. It must be emphasized that this tale is the centerpiece of a long and vital literary practice with outsized cultural impact, inaugurated by a noblewoman and lady-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu and her female contemporaries at imperial court more than one thousand years ago.
Their active engagement in such literary productions represents a ground-breaking shift in human history. At the same time, we must not overlook the contribution The Tale of Genji made to the creation of culture in the eras that followed it. From Genji-themed pictures ( Genji-e ) and Genji-inspired noh dramas ( Genji nō ) to contemporary manga, films, and plays, examples of what we might call “Genji Culture” have continued to appear.
This course will give an overview of the story of The Tale of Genji with ample visual references to explain the daily court life, manners and customs, and aesthetic sensibilities, as well as the city (Kyoto), society, and systems that Japanese aristocrats developed a thousand years ago. As a result, students will gain a precise and sophisticated understanding of the world of the tale.
Furthermore, with The Tale of Genji and its reception history as a pivotal point, the course structure will enable participants to approach the foundations of Japanese culture and its spirituality that have been passed down from the ancient time.
*This program is supported by Global Japanese Studies Model Unit, Waseda University Top Global University Project. For more information, please visit here.
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- Language: English
- Video Transcript: English
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- Introduction to the narrative of The Tale of Genji , and its unique language, including the poetry found throughout
- Lifestyles, manners and customs, and aesthetic sensibilities of the Heian period (794-1185) nobility (with ample visual references)
- The Heian period city, spaces, society, and institutions
- The reception of The Tale of Genji and the development of “Genji Culture”
Section 1: Introducing the World of The Tale of Genji
1.1 Section 1 Overview
1.2 The Story of The Tale of Genji
1.3 The People We See in The Tale of Genji Scrolls
1.4 Section 1 Assignment
Section 2: People and their Lifestyles in The Tale of Genji
2.1 Section 2 Overview
2.2 The Life Cycles and Rites of Passage for the Nobility
2.3 The Heian Capital, the Inner Palace, and Annual Observances
2.4 Attire and Living Spaces
2.5 Section 2 Assignment
Section 3: The Emperor, Institutions, and Society in The Tale of Genji
3.1 Section 3 Overview
3.2 The Emperors and The Tale of Genji
3.3 The Age of Regency Rule
3.4 Governing Over Center and Periphery
3.5 Section 3 Assignment
Section 4: Japanese Culture as Seen in The Tale of Genji
4.1 Section 4 Overview
4.2 The Influence of The Tale of Genji as Seen in Waka Poetry
4.3 Japanese Culture Springing Up from The Tale of Genji
4.4 The Lasting Legacy of The Tale of Genji
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As a tourist, one of the easiest way to getting around a city is through a ride-hailing app.
In 2018, visitor numbers to Dubai grew by 0.8 per cent to reach 15.92 million compared to 15.79 million in 2017, according to Dubai’s Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (Dubai Tourism). The figures for international overnight visitors in 2018 marked a new high, as the city ramped up efforts to increase its overall appeal and accessibility.
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The International Monetary Fund has called on the Nigerian Government to make additional structural adjustments and ensure tighter monetary policy in order to address macroeconomic imbalances in the country.
The Director, African Department, IMF, Mr. Abebe Selassie, made the call on Friday during a press conference at the ongoing 2016 annual meetings of the World Bank/IMF in Washington DC, United States of America.
Speaking on the measures needed to reduce economic imbalance in Nigeria, Selassie said, “Yes, there was that adjustment in exchange rate, but despite that, the BDC rate was getting much weaker.
What is necessary to facilitate the reduction in imbalance in simple terms is significant fiscal adjustment. I think that is very important, especially on the revenue side; taking measures to curtail the fiscal deficit will be very important.
“This has to be accompanied by tighter monetary conditions more than we are seeing. I think some of the continued weakness of the naira is coming from monetary conditions that are not as tight as they should be.”
He added, “This has to be accompanied by structural reforms; fiscal structural issues to try and improve public finance over the medium term, but also a lot of the structural reforms that are needed to force a stronger supply response in the country.
“One good thing for Nigeria is that the level of debt is not very high. So, there is room to have a more gradual adjustment. But the issue here is to have in place a credible framework that allows private sector and other financiers to step in so as to give the government the time to smoother the adjustment.”
Meanwhile, Nigerian officials on Friday begun high-level discussions with officials of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank as well as Chinese officials on how to attract much needed foreign investments into the country.
The Nigerian delegation to the meetings, which held in Washington DC, United States of America as part of the ongoing annual meetings of the World Bank/International Monetary Fund, was led by the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, and the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Godwin Emefiele.
Emefiele, who addressed journalists on what Nigeria had gained from the meetings, said, “Basically, there is a lot of networking meetings going on, and I can assure you that meetings are going on with some of our partners, China particularly. We are going into a meeting with the Chinese delegation.
“I know that some meetings will be held with the managing director of the IMF as well the World Bank Group; we are going to achieve some of the objectives.”
On Nigeria’s attempt to add the Chinese yuan to the foreign currency reserves, the CBN governor said, “I believe that in the course of time, we will achieve it.
Nigeria happens to be one of the foremost countries in the world that adopted the Renminbi as a reserve currency. We will work together with China to ensure that we also get our fair share of the benefit from this arrangement.”
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Paul Stopforth is known in South Africa for work that comments on the harshness and injustices of life under apartheid. His art – comprising sculpture, drawing, painting, and printmaking – is not, however, narrowly political but instead occupies a space ‘between the material and the spiritual, imaging finitude and mortality’.
Under intense pressure because of his political affiliations, Stopforth left South Africa in the 1980s. He had helped to stage a ground breaking and provocative exhibition at the Market Theatre Gallery (where he was Director from 1977 to 1984) and later ran into trouble with the apartheid government over his powerful series of works based on the forensic photographs of Steve Biko’s badly battered body.
Stopforth settled in the US, but over the years he has maintained ties with the country of his birth, returning for short periods to do work that engages intensely with the physical and psychological landscapes of home. In 2004, during a residency on Robben Island he created a series of poignant paintings reflecting on the intense memories contained in such objects as old blanket pins, bowls, and bars of soap used by the prisoners incarcerated on the Island before 1994. The series stands as a watershed in his oeuvre, connecting past to present not only in its subject matter but in Stopforth’s own trajectory as an artist.
Stopforth has exhibited his work since 1971 in galleries and museums in South Africa, the United States and Europe. He has served as curator and juror for a number of institutions and competitions, and in 2004 he delivered the Ruth First Memorial Lecture at Brandeis University.
This is fifteenth title in the TAXI Art Books series. It includes essays by Leora Maltz-Leca, Kate McCrickard, Judith Mason, and Anne Sassoon.
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A time-out in Russo-Belarusian negotiations
Alexander Lukashenka held a meeting with the government to outline strategic approaches in talks with Russia, which to a large extent remained unchanged: retaining full sovereignty amid attempts to obtain maximum benefits and compensation for the deteriorated cooperation on oil and gas.
On January 10th, President Lukashenka held a government meeting to outline approaches in negotiations with Russia on the terms of cooperation and discuss the revision of the Union project. Having this in mind, in late 2018 a joint working group with Russia was created and its composition was finally determined in early 2019.
Belarus (and, according to Lukashenka, Russia) does not consider the current integration process as unifying. According to the Union State Treaty, supranational bodies are created based on the parity of the parties, meaning that Belarus and Russia should be equally represented. In his previous attempts to revise the treaty, Putin attempted to change this principle as inconsistent with Russia’s interests. That said, the working group will conduct an audit of the Union Treaty in order to identify areas where progress is feasible.
Regardless of the results of the working group, Belarus intends to seek compensation for the deteriorated cooperation on oil and gas, believing that it is unrelated to the depth of integration (as the Kremlin believes). Lukashenka instructed the government to find an alternative to the Russian oil – this time, supplies should be organized through the Baltic ports, rather than the Black Sea ports as before. Having said that, in the past, even insignificant oil supplies from Venezuela Azerbaijan made Russia more compliant and cooperative.
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Senator John McCain presents himself as a what-you-see is what-you-get presidential candidate: clean, pragmatic, following his convictions even when not politically expedient. He considers himself to be someone who would make an excellent foreign policy president.
But this image sits in contrast with the International Republican Institute (IRI), for which McCain has served as board chairman since 1993. Under the cover of spreading democracy and a free market economic system, the IRI installs U.S.-friendly governments and undermines those that are not by supporting coups and ousters.
Formed in 1983, the IRI is one of several umbrella organizations under the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), created by the Reagan administration in 1983. The NED was formed at a time when CIA covert action was coming under increasing scrutiny, prompting its critics to see it as a surrogate for covert action.
The Nation in 2002, for example, argued that the “NED was designed to run a parallel foreign policy for the United States, backing and assisting entities that Washington might not be able to officially endorse.” The IRI is funded by U.S. tax dollars to the tune of $75 million a year.
According to its website, the IRI at first “focused on planting the seeds of democracy in Latin America [but] since the end of the Cold War, has broadened its reach to support democracy and freedom around the globe [and] has conducted programs in more than 100 countries and is currently active in 70 countries.”
The IRI engages in what it calls “consolidating democracy.” That is, it facilitates the coming together of splintered opposition parties, civil society organizations such as churches, human rights organizations, worker unions, women’s organizations and student unions– hence consolidation. This becomes a formidable force that is then either able to vote the incumbent out of office or when that fails, overwhelm the incumbent into submission through mass action.
Outside issues of international law and sovereignty, this may sound well and good. For example the so-called color revolutions in former Soviet Union republics toppled bad guys and replaced them with stalwarts of the free-market economy and Western-styled democracy. Hence in Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko, the IRI-backed candidate, defeated Viktor Yanukovych, who was representing old decrepit Soviet style authoritarianism.
But IRI activities in countries like Haiti and Venezuela are more controversial. In Haiti, even those opposed to Jean-Bertrand Aristide would agree that he was democratically elected. Yet the IRI consolidated democracy against him leading to his violent ouster. Mother Jones reported that “several of the people who had attended IRI trainings were influential in the toppling of Aristide.” Today, Haiti is more poor, divided and violent, and less democratic than it was at the time of Aristide’s ouster.
In 2002 the then-IRI president George Folsom is reported to have applauded the failed Venezuelan coup against President Hugo Chavez. “Last night, led by every sector of civil society, the Venezuelan people rose up to defend democracy in their country,” he said in a statement the IRI released.
Not expecting the coup to fail, he went on to proudly claim that the role of the IRI had been to “serve as a bridge between the nation’s political parties and all civil society groups.”
No matter what one may think of Chavez, coups are not avenues to democracy. Chavez was the democratically elected president of Venezuela meaning that the IRI was working against the popular vote of the Venezuelan people in order to serve U.S. interests.
It’s not surprising that Egypt views the IRI with so much suspicion that in 2006 it asked the IRI to suspend its efforts at democracy building until it received official permission.
Egypt isn’t an emblem of democracy, but as it turns out, neither is the IRI. As the board chairman of this outfit, McCain would have some trust issues in international gatherings right from Day One if he were to win the U.S. presidential election.
The questions that McCain needs to answer are obvious: As board chairman has he been fully aware of the more covert IRI activities? As president, would he endorse a coup if he felt the end result would be a democratic government friendly to the United States? Is the IRI fully accountable and transparent to the American people? As President, would he continue to fund the IRI without an investigation into its mandate?
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How can we develop and maintain the enthusiasm Pope Francis sees as very necessary tot he missionary impulse? In typical Ignatian fashion, we are invited to encounter Jesus. In this Jesus, we find friendship and love not only with him, but for others as well. It is what we were born to do. It is how we were made.
265. Jesus’ whole life, his way of dealing with the poor, his actions, his integrity, his simple daily acts of generosity, and finally his complete self-giving, is precious and reveals the mystery of his divine life. Whenever we encounter this anew, we become convinced that it is exactly what others need, even though they may not recognize it: “What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you” (Acts 17:23). Sometimes we lose our enthusiasm for mission because we forget that the Gospel responds to our deepest needs, since we were created for what the Gospel offers us: friendship with Jesus and love of our brothers and sisters.
What qualities are asked of us? Two things: that we be adequate (not perfect) in our presentation of Jesus, and that we present the message with some attractiveness. Pope Francis says “beauty.”
If we succeed in expressing adequately and with beauty the essential content of the Gospel, surely this message will speak to the deepest yearnings of people’s hearts: “The missionary is convinced that, through the working of the Spirit, there already exists in individuals and peoples an expectation, even if an unconscious one, of knowing the truth about God, about (people), and about how we are to be set free from sin and death. The missionary’s enthusiasm in proclaiming Christ comes from the conviction that he is responding to that expectation”.[Redemptoris Missio 45]
St John Paul’s words lead us to this bit of encouragement, one of the most important passages in this whole document:
Enthusiasm for evangelization is based on this conviction. We have a treasure of life and love which cannot deceive, and a message which cannot mislead or disappoint. It penetrates to the depths of our hearts, sustaining and ennobling us. It is a truth which is never out of date because it reaches that part of us which nothing else can reach. Our infinite sadness can only be cured by an infinite love.
And we can ask: has this been our experience of the Christian faith? There is no shame if it has not. We can apply ourselves to the task of acquainting ourselves anew with Jesus at any time. We can renew our friendship, and feel the sustenance fill us.
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Namtar literally means 'complete liberation', since the texts tell the stories of yogis or Indo-Tibetan Mahasiddha who attained complete enlightenment. Namtars do not focus on a literal chronology of events, but rather function as a kind of learning example that hits the high points of the sprititual life of a yogi.
In her book, Women of Wisdom, Tsultrim Allione collected translations of the namtar of six Tibetan Buddhist yogini: Namgsa Obum, Machig Lapdron, Jomo Memo, Machig Ongjo, Drenchen Rema and A-Yu Khadro. According to Allione:
The sacred biography is called 'rNam.thar' in Tibetan, which literally means 'complete liberation.' The 'rNam.thar' are specially geared to provide records for those on a spiritual quest, in much the same way that someone about to climb a high mountain would seek out the chronicles of those who had made the climb before. The sacred biographer is primarily concerned with providing information which will be helpful and inspirational for someone following in the footsteps of the spiritual adept or 'saint.' Establishing a mythical ideal and the communication of the sacred teachings takes precedence over providing a narrative portrait or "likeness" of the subject as a personality. The personality is stressed only in so far as it relates to the spiritual process of the individual.
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Low-temperature synthesis of CuO-interlaced nanodiscs for lithium ion battery electrodes
© Seo et al; licensee Springer. 2011
Received: 15 February 2011
Accepted: 26 May 2011
Published: 26 May 2011
In this study, we report the high-yield synthesis of 2-dimensional cupric oxide (CuO) nanodiscs through dehydrogenation of 1-dimensional Cu(OH)2 nanowires at 60°C. Most of the nanodiscs had a diameter of approximately 500 nm and a thickness of approximately 50 nm. After further prolonged reaction times, secondary irregular nanodiscs gradually grew vertically into regular nanodiscs. These CuO nanostructures were characterized using X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, and Brunauer-Emmett-Teller measurements. The possible growth mechanism of the interlaced disc CuO nanostructures is systematically discussed. The electrochemical performances of the CuO nanodisc electrodes were evaluated in detail using cyclic voltammetry and galvanostatic cycling. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the incorporation of multiwalled carbon nanotubes enables the enhanced reversible capacities and capacity retention of CuO nanodisc electrodes on cycling by offering more efficient electron transport paths.
Inexpensive, environmentally innocuous, and easily producible cupric oxide (CuO) is an important p-type semiconductor with a bandgap of 1.2 eV that is widely studied in applications, including catalysts, gas sensors, photoconductive/photochemical cells, and other electronic devices [1–5]. Additionally, a great effort has recently been applied to the nanostructuring of CuO as it can deliver much higher reversible capacities than commercial graphite-based electrodes through the conversion reaction with Li (CuO + 2e- + 2Li+ ↔ Cu0 + Li2O). Thus, various CuO nanostructures (nanoparticles, nanowires, nanorods, nanotubes) have been shown to be good candidates as electrodes for lithium ion batteries [6–8]. Zhang et al. reported the size dependency of the electrochemical properties in zero-dimensional CuO nanoparticles synthesized by thermal decomposition of CuC2O4 precursor at 400°C . One-dimensional (1-D) CuO nanorod and nanowire CuO electrodes have also been produced via hydrothermal and wet chemical methods for enhanced reversible capacity [10, 11]. Recently, two-dimensional (2-D) CuO nanoribbons and other three-dimensional hierarchical nanostructures such as dendrites and spheres, assembled with nanoneedles, have been reported as high-performance anodes for Li ion batteries [12–14].
Herein, we demonstrate a low-temperature and large-scale conversion of initially prepared 1-D Cu(OH)2 nanowires into 2-D CuO nanodiscs and further vertically interlaced nanodisc structures. The detailed morphological evolution during the growth of the nanostructured CuO was examined by controlling the reaction conditions, such as synthesis time and temperature. The electrochemical reaction of Li with the obtained CuO nanodiscs was investigated by cyclic voltammetry (CV) and galvanostatic cycling. Furthermore, the enhanced reversible capacities and capacity retention in the CuO nanodisc composite electrodes, by the incorporation of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs), are reported by offering better efficient electron transport paths.
Cu(OH)2 nanowire precursors were prepared by a simple chemical solution route at room temperature . First, 30 mL of 0.15 M NH4OH (28-30% as ammonia, NH3, Dae-Jung Chemical, Shiheung, South Korea) was added to 100 mL of 0.04 M copper (II) sulfate pentahydrate (CuSO4·5H2O, 99.5%, JUNSEI Chemical, Tokyo, Japan), followed by drop-wise addition of 6.0 mL of 1.2 M NaOH (98%, Dae-Jung Chemical, Shiheung, South Korea) under magnetic stirring. The Cu(OH)2 precipitate appeared in the blue solution. The as-prepared solution containing the Cu(OH)2 precursor was stored at room temperature for 1 h and heat-treated at 60°C for 3 h in a convection oven to produce CuO nanostructures. The black powders were centrifuged and washed with deionized water and ethanol several times and were dried overnight at 70°C in a vacuum oven.
For preparation of the multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWCNT)/CuO composites, a calculated amount (60 mg) of synthetic multiwalled carbon nanotubes (CNT Co., Ltd., Incheon, South Korea) was first dispersed and sonicated for 3 h in 100 mL deionized water in the presence of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB, 99%, 0.2 mg, Sigma-Aldrich, Saint Louis, MO, USA) . After complete dispersion of the MWCNTs, the same steps as those for the CuO nanopowders were followed.
The crystal structures and morphologies of each powder were investigated using X-ray powder diffraction (XRD; model D/MAX-2500V/PC, Rigaku, Tokyo, Japan), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM; model JSM-6330F, JEOL, Tokyo, Japan), and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM; model JEM-3000F, JEOL, Tokyo, Japan). Additionally, the specific surface areas were examined using the Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET; Belsorp-mini, BEL Japan Inc., Osaka, Japan) method with a nitrogen adsorption/desorption process.
The electrochemical performance of each powder was evaluated by assembling Swagelok-type half cells, using a Li metal foil as the negative electrode. Positive electrodes were cast on Cu foil by mixing prepared powders (1.0-2.0 mg) with Super P carbon black (MMM Carbon, Brussels, Belgium) and the Kynar 2801 binder (PVdF-HFP) at a mass ratio of 70:15:15 in 1-methyl-2-pyrrolidinone (NMP; Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis. MO, USA). A separator film of Celgard 2400 and liquid electrolyte (ethylene carbonate and dimethyl carbonate (1:1 by volume) with 1.0 M LiPF6, Techno Semichem Co., Ltd., Seongnam, South Korea) was also used. The assembled cells were galvanostatically cycled between 3.0 and 0.01 V using an automatic battery cycler (WBCS 3000, WonaTech, Seoul, South Korea). All cyclic voltammetry measurements were carried out at a scanning rate of 0.1 mV s-1.
Results and discussions
Figure 1b shows the low magnification FESEM image of CuO powders. It can be clearly observed that uniform 2-D disc-like morphologies with an average diameter of 500-700 nm and a thickness of 30-50 nm were obtained on a large scale. More interestingly, more than one standing disc was inserted into the central part of the lying discs, indicating CuO-interlaced nanodisc structures. This characteristic nanostructure was also confirmed by local contrast differences in a representative transmission electron microscopy (TEM) image of an individual disc (Figure 1c). The inset in Figure 1c depicts a typical CuO-interlaced nanodisc based on the FESEM and TEM observations. Figure 1d shows the magnified HRTEM image of the surface region in the nanodisc. The measured lattice spacings obtained from the HRTEM image were 2.76 and 2.30 Å, in accordance with the (110) and (200) planes of the monoclinic CuO structure, respectively.
After achieving a temperature of 60°C, most morphology changed suddenly to a disc shape by the acceleration of the oriented attachment (Figure 2e) because this 2-D compact nanostructure would be energetically favorable by reducing the interfacial energy of the 1-D nanowires [18, 21]. In addition, Cu(OH)2 almost completely transformed into CuO. However, a small amount of the Cu(OH)2 phase remained, supported by the presence of nanowires reminiscent of the Cu(OH)2 precurso.r With a reaction time extended to 3 h, complete conversion to CuO was observed using XRD (Figure 1a).
Another feature in this CuO nanostructure was the interlaced nanodisc morphologies, namely the vertically interconnected structure with standing nanodiscs in the center part of the lying nanodiscs (Figure 2f). The morphological evolution of each intermediate phase is schematically illustrated in Figure 2g. As a detailed transformation process from Cu(OH)2 to CuO suggested by Cudennec et al. , the possible formation mechanism of the interlaced disc nanostructures can be suggested via a different dissolution and recrystallization pathway, which can be supported by the coexistence of CuO nanodiscs and Cu(OH)2 nanowires (Figure 2e) . As the reaction time was prolonged, a Cu(OH)2 with a different dissolution rate, resulting in a different nucleation rate and secondary nucleation, may occur at high-energy sites on the surface of the primary nanodiscs . Finally, one or more secondary standing nanodiscs gradually evolved into the larger lying flat nanodiscs, finally forming interlaced disc nanostructures, as reported in similar CuO nanostructures, by hydrothermal conversion from Cu(OH)2 at 100-130°C [23, 24]. Therefore, the formation mechanism of the CuO-interlaced nanostructures during the phase conversion from Cu(OH)2 can be given via combined effects of the oriented attachment and subsequent dissolution-precipitation processes.
Figure 4c,d shows typical FESEM images of the CuO/MWCNT composite. MWCNTs were spatially dispersed in the composites without any appreciable agglomeration. In addition, the morphology of CuO in the composites was found to be mostly primary nanodiscs, not the interlaced disc nanostructures. It is believed that incorporation of MWCNT mitigated secondary nucleation and growth on the surface of the primary nanodiscs.
In summary, the successful low-temperature synthesis of phase-pure 2-D CuO-interlaced nanodiscs was demonstrated using simple dehydrogenation of 1-D Cu(OH)2 nanowires at 60°C in solution. The details of the growth aspects of the CuO-interlaced nanodiscs were suggested by the combined effects of the oriented attachment and subsequent dissolution-precipitation processes based on systematic temperature- and time-dependent morphology evolutions. These CuO nanostructures had a large surface area, approximately 60 m2 g-1, and the effects of their enhanced active sites by nanostructuring on the electrochemical performance of CuO could be further realized by the incorporation of MWCNTs.
This research was supported by Future-based Technology Development Program (Nano Fields) and the Priority Research Centers Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2010-0019116 and 2010-0029617).
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Generally, what happens in the third stage of labor is the delivery of the placenta.
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In AMTSL, it’s common for the doctor to administer Pitocin during or soon after the delivery of the baby’s anterior shoulder.
Brandt Andrews Maneuver
To prevent postpartum hemorrhage, the doctor or midwife will most likely use the Brandt Andrews Maneuver. This is a method of extracting the placenta after the baby is born.
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The case of titrating sodium carbonate and hydrochloric acid is a weak base - strong acid titration.
In such cases, the solution is really expected to be acidic at the equivalence point -- the first equivalence point, in particular. In this particular case, we are expecting 2 equivalence points because we can add two successive protons to the base. There are two equivalence points because sodium carbonate is polyprotic (diprotic):
`CO_3^(2-) + H^+ harr HCO_3^-`
`HCO_3^(-) + H^+ harr H_2CO_3`
The first equivalence point is for the first reaction, while the second equivalence point is for the second reaction.
The pH at the equivalence point (second) is acidic because at the equivalence point, the solution contains a salt of the weak base. Note that there is an equilibrium also, the dissociation of `H_2CO_3` . The result is an acidic solution. [The pH at the first equivalence point is around 8.31, while it is 3.69 at the second equivalence point -- where the solution contains more acidic species as seen in the second reaction.)
Multiple equivalence points are always seen for polyprotic acids/bases, and the pH depends on the nature (strong/weak) of the acids/bases.
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Temporal range: Miocene – Pliocene
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Thylacosmilus is a extinct genus of carnivorous sparassodont. found as fossils in deposits dated from about 10 million to 3 million years ago (late Miocene to late Pliocene epoch) in Argentina, South America.
Thylacosmilus was sabre-toothed and was about as large as a modern jaguar. To a remarkable degree, Thylacosmilus paralleled the evolution of felid sabre-toothed cats like Smilodon. Its canine teeth were long and powerfully developed; they were used for stabbing prey. Its killing method was to hold its prey, and make deep bites into the soft tissue driven by powerful neck muscles. The canine teeth were protected by a well-developed flange, or projecting edge, in the chin region of the lower jaw. The canines continued to grow during adult life, which they do not in marsupials or placental mammals.
Thylacosmilus died out during the late Pliocene, whereas saber-toothed cats did not get to South America until the middle Pleistocene epoch. As a result, the last appearance of Thylacosmilus is separated from the first appearance of Smilodon by over one and a half million years.
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Chicago has distributed more than 100,000 tech devices to students, and it has set up hot spots for homeless students and those in temporarily living situations. But neither the city nor the school district have announced a broader plan to expand Wi-Fi services. According to an April report, an estimated one in five Chicago students lacked broadband access.
“I cannot say that remote learning in the summer is going to all of the sudden miraculously be new and improved in comparison to what is happening today,” Chief Education Officer LaTanya McDade said. “But we have an obligation to try and open up opportunities for students in the summer.”
McDade said the district would survey students at registration about their internet connectivity and device access, and then would double down on solving those problems. That might be easier for summer with a smaller group of students, which board members estimated numbered 13,000 students, than during the school year.
With remote learning likely to continue into the fall, schools chief Janice Jackson said the district has put together a remote learning task force and is considering staggered school days for students’ return to campuses, along with other options.
Board President Miguel Del Valle said it wasn’t enough to give students devices, but that the district must ensure internet connectivity.
Comcast offers a low-cost internet program with 60 days of free internet, but some advocates, including Del Valle, have said that the deal doesn’t last long enough to meet the demands of months of learning.
In an interview with Chalkbeat, Del Valle raised concerns that undocumented families are reluctant to sign up for the program, which relies on use of public assistance programs such as food stamps to determine eligibility. He said federal practices that make it harder for immigrants who use such programs to obtain citizenship would discourage them from coming forth.
The Chicago Teachers Union, in a press release published after the board meeting, said that the district must address families’ economic hardship.
“Our first goal must be to take care of students and their families — their material, emotional, psychological and educational needs — and plan for a future that will likely include at least intermittent remote learning,” the union’s statement said.
Along with remote learning, the school district will offer food pickup and delivery during the summer. School officials said the district will provide teachers with professional development in the summer and fall.
Since the coronavirus shut down school buildings in March, the district has spent $44 million to address pandemic needs, including devices, increased pay for frontline staff, and reimbursements for cancelled spring-break school-related travel for students, Chief Operating Officer Arne Rivera said Wednesday.
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Take time to get the simple calculations right. Adding 196 to 4 gives 200, which added to 625 gives 825.
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China is becoming ever more deeply integrated with global political economy. This book addresses critical issues in this process. The author examines the paradox of the global market economy that is presided over by 70 million members of the Chinese Communist Party, and analyses Chinas policy of 'innovation in an open environment', attempting to nurture a group of globally competitive, large-scale companies. In addition, the book analyses the challenges that Chinas political economy faces in the twenty-first century, identifying the way in which China is attempting to resolve these contradictions by building on its rich historical experience to regulate market forces. It further examines the wider context of global capitalism within which Chinese development is taking place. Capitalism is the key propulsive force in technical progress. The recent period has seen an unprecedented liberation of this force. However, this force is a two-edged sword. The unprecedented advances have come hand-in-hand with unprecedented challenges that threaten the very survival of the human species. Finally, it studies the relationship between the United States and China. Through cooperative behaviour, the US and China can help lead the world towards a sustainable future for mankind, with a global market economy regulated in the common interest of all human beings. In the absence of such a mechanism, the prospects for humanity are bleak.
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And some mobile money account holders report avoiding their phone altogether. From some people, no call comes without a request for money. “Nowhere to hide,” the authors heard, and “it is a curse more than a blessing.” This is a familiar problem to any parent with a child in college; every society has some level of ritual and social expectation around cash. But actual experience with mobile money in Kenya, where the service is most widespread, leaves hopeful development economists with a problem. There can be no mobile economy until cash loses some of its ritual social meaning. This happens with economic opportunity—the economic opportunity that mobile money is supposed to help provide. | <urn:uuid:e930ba91-9f3c-4353-9d1d-811b5bde5125> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/05/the-economics-of-mobile-money-in-kenya.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.954024 | 137 | 1.898438 | 2 |
Adobe has used the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco to demo a prototype Google Android tablet that runs Flash flawlessly.
The Zedomax blog has managed to snap pictures and videos of the unbranded, iPad-like tablet at the Adobe booth at the expo, where the site reports there were no Apple products to be seen.
The tablet at the Adobe booth was running Google's Android mobile operating system, the platform for which Adobe previously said it would concentrate on developing. The tablet ran Adobe Flash and Air app "flawlessly", the report said, and videos show YouTube videos playing natively in the built-in browser.
The video of this unknown tablet from Zedomax also shows it running a beta of Wired magazine's app, built with Adobe Air. The report quotes an Adobe employee at the booth as saying there will be a slew of Android tablets at the end of this year, to compete with the iPad, which already has sold more than one million devices.
This mysterious Android tablet not only demonstrates that Flash can run smoothly on a tablet device, but it also conflicts with Apple CEO Steve Jobs' recent statements that Flash technology is not suitable for tablet computers at all.
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When the occupiers in Zuccotti Park began setting up tents, it was an inherently practical move. After cold, uncomfortable nights on tarps and huddled into sleeping bags (a situation imposed by a no-tent policy in the park, which was eventually not enforced), tents were a welcome way to make an occupied space more of a home, and closer to familiar conceptions of an established community.
But we need to understand tents as more than just tents.
The image above is from UC Davis, where (at the time of this writing) students had established an occupation inside one of the university’s buildings. The establishment of an encampment indoors is a significant one, for two reasons. First, on which I will touch only briefly here (but in more detail in the future), is that the move from “public” space into space more directly and concretely claimed/controlled/maintained by the university brings the physical fact of the encampment into a more directly adversarial relationship with the body against which the UC Occupy contingent is primarily protesting in this case (the UC system itself). It is not only important that space is being occupied, but what space is being occupied, and how.
Which leads me to my second point, and the one on which I want to focus here: Occupy encampments are not only physical centers and anchorpoints for the larger Occupy movement, but are also both implicitly and explicitly physical embodiments of a particular set of ideological claims.
What is particularly telling about the image from UC Davis is that the occupation is already inside. Comfort and protection from the elements is supposedly no longer an issue, and the practical reasons to have tents have largely disappeared. One could make an argument for tents still being useful for the privacy of occupiers and the protection of their own patches of physical space, but the point is still a significant one. There is something about the tents themselves that is symbolically powerful. The tents represent claims, demands, and arguments that have the capacity to be both specific and flexible enough to accommodate a diversity of positions.
Tents are useful in this way even when physical space is unavailable. When occupiers at UC Berkeley were prevented from setting up their tents, they “pitched” them in the air using balloons:
The image of flying tents is spectacular in every important sense: it is an image that is crafted to be remarkable, to be seen. The image of the tent and its physical presence have become part of the larger set of symbols, phrases, chants, and other discursive elements that Occupy has been so extremely good at producing. This can even be traced back to Occupy’s earliest symbolic roots. One of Adbuster’s Occupy Wall Street images contained the explicit instruction: “Bring tent.”
The tents themselves matter, and they are not just tents; they are both their physicality and they are far more than that, both a claim on power and a spectacle to be viewed (in an environment of ambient documentation) by the powerful and powerless alike. They become a kind of totem, as well as a meme. Protesters in OccupyLA linked arms and stood against police to protect the last remaining tent in their encampment:
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Get the Better of Bad Behavior
Solutions for the worst offenders—speeding, drifting, bit resistance and high-headedness.
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When a horse has behavior problems, it’s easy to turn to quick fixes. Instead, discovering the root causes of the unwanted behaviors is the most effective path to solutions that are more beneficial in the long run.
Riding circles at the jog, and eventually the lope, can help you maintain control of your horse's speed by keeping his hindquarters engaged and his shoulders mobile
The Speedy Horse
Excessive speed can be downright dangerous. Going to a stronger bit is a familiar quick fix for slowing a horse’s pace, but it doesn’t get to the bottom of what’s causing the issue. Look first for signs of anxiety. The horse’s flight response is triggered by nervousness, uncertainty and fear, so he seeks relief by running away. This is why when you’re teaching a horse to accelerate on cue, it’s important to ask for only a few speedier steps at a time in the beginning so that he understands he can go fast while remaining calm.
Your goal is to remain in control of your horse’s speed by keeping his hindquarters engaged and his shoulders mobile. Work on circles and steering your horse through sharp changes of direction. Outfit him in a snaffle or a soft curb bit with short, hinged shanks, and ride with two hands on the reins.
Begin by guiding your horse onto a medium-sized circle at a jog. Shorten your inside rein using enough steady pressure to put a bend in your horse’s neck and flex his head to the inside of the circle. When he’s doing this correctly, you will have a clear view of his eye. At the same time, maintain a light feel with your outside rein to provide even support to both sides of his body. Apply inside calf pressure an inch behind the cinch to push your horse’s ribcage out and create a bend in his body that reflects the arc of the circle. With his body in this posture, it will be more difficult for him to brace against the bit. This curved frame also engages his hind end by bringing his back legs forward under his belly, making it easier to maintain a consistent and easy-to-control speed. Wait until your horse is comfortable at the jog before trying this exercise at the lope.
Next, add tight changes of direction. As you’re walking or jogging down a straight line, use a leading rein to direct your horse into a sharp half- or three-quarter turn anytime you feel him accelerate. Lift the rein until you feel a connection with your horse’s mouth, and then smoothly push it away from your body and into the direction of the turn. Help your horse by shifting your weight back in the saddle and urging him forward with both legs. When his hind end is working properly to propel him through the turn, you will feel him get lighter on the reins and step through the turn more effortlessly.
The Slow Poke
The exercises above will also work to speed up the sluggish horse, unless he is unresponsive to your leg. If that’s the case, then use the ask-tell-demand cueing sequence to increase his sensitivity. First try asking him by using steady calf pressure and encouraging him forward with verbal cues like kissing or clucking. If that’s not working, tell him by bouncing your leg firmly against his side, bending your knee and slapping him with the instep of your foot, or rhythmically nudging his ribcage with your heel. If neither of those work, demand with an authoritative, but never harsh, slap of the reins behind your leg or across his hip. This should only be used as a last resort. By consistently employing these three steps, your horse will learn to respond to the more subtle "ask” cue and need "tell” and "demand” less frequently.
Imagine you’re pushing a wheelbarrow. You steer it in the direction you want to go by lowering one of the handles—the lean causes the turn. Likewise, when a horse drops his inside shoulder, he’s leaning in order to turn. This can also cause the tendency to drift off the rail. Combating your horse’s tendency to drift is a matter of gaining control of his front end and removing the lean.
Start by riding your horse on a medium-sized square at the jog. As you approach a corner, take enough feel of your outside rein to tip your horse’s head away from the turn. Hold your inside rein away from his neck to create an open space into which his shoulders can move. Then take your inside leg off his side while you slide your outside leg forward to the cinch and cue him to step shoulders-first around the corner. Once your horse learns to move his shoulders away from your leg pressure, use those same cues, but with the inside rein and leg, to prevent or correct him from drifting off the rail.
Head in the Clouds
If high-headedness is your horse’s problem, culprits to consider include an ill-fitting saddle, dental issues, an unsuitable bit and rider error.
Proper saddle fit and a good pad will allow healthy muscle function and encourage your horse to flex his spine. If your saddle isn’t sitting like it should, it won’t distribute your weight evenly. This can create painful areas of pressure on your horse’s muscles, spine or withers. Even a tolerant or well-trained horse will lift his head to find relief.
A saddle should fit without pinching your horse in any way; it should clear his withers and not come into contact with his spine. Signs of pressure points, which indicate decreased circulation, are dry or rubbed patches in his coat that you’ll see when you remove your tack after a ride. Situate the leading edge of the saddle tree behind the curve of your horse’s shoulder blades to keep his back comfortable.
Back pain isn’t the only reason your horse may not want to maintain proper head carriage. Have him seen by a vet or an equine dentist to check for sharp points and hooks on his teeth.
An unsuitable bit can also prevent your horse from relaxing and lowering his head, or you could be unwittingly rough with your hands. That’s why it’s important to assess how you communicate with your horse. Be aware of any tension in your body, hands or arms that could flow from you to him. Breathe deeply and steadily. Rest the reins softly in your hands and keep your arms relaxed at your sides. Ride with your hands in front of the saddle and your elbows slightly ahead of your hips to lessen the chance of making your horse feel confined. When you make contact with his mouth, do it smoothly so he isn’t startled. Establish light pressure and then wait for a count of two to give your horse time to respond, increasing gradually if necessary.
If your horse retains his high-headed behavior once you’ve eliminated these causes, he’ll need to be taught that rein pressure is a cue to lower his head and relax his topline instead of stiffen up. At a standstill with both hands on the reins, choke up on one rein until you have a firm feel of your horse’s mouth. Then wait for him to bend his neck, but don’t release the pressure until he lowers his head as well. Be patient, and put slack in the reins as soon as he responds. Reinforce this new habit at the walk on a circle, bending your horse to the inside of the arc. Then do the same at the jog. Put slack in the reins to reward your horse whenever his head goes down.
Mind the Gap
Perhaps your horse’s tendency is to open his mouth against the bit. A noseband will keep his mouth closed, but only by addressing the symptom. The underlying issue is often discomfort. Start by choosing a bit with a curved mouthpiece that follows the shape of your horse’s lower jaw. It shouldn’t pinch or have any rough edges. If it’s a curb bit, make sure it doesn’t trap your horse’s lips between the shanks and the curb strap when the bit is engaged. Check it by gently pulling on the reins while standing next to your horse in order to draw back on the shanks.
Effective communication can also prevent your horse from rooting against the reins. However, if it’s a behavior your horse has already picked up, correct it by bracing one or both reins against the saddle horn or swell while tightening your core muscles. This will keep your horse from pulling you off balance or taking the reins out of your hands. Don’t release the pressure until he stops pulling. Avoid a tug of war, which you can’t win. Letting him pull against himself (the rein set against the saddle) will remove his incentive to continue the behavior.
Whether you have years of experience or are completely new to horses, you alone influence your horse’s behavior under saddle. Horses need consistency, confidence and clear communication to do well. Every ride is important. If there are improvements you’d like to make in your horse’s behavior and performance, work on them every time you’re in the saddle so they become second nature to both of you. Leave your expectations at the door and get the best ride your horse can give you on that day.
DALE RUDIN is a CHA-certified riding instructor and clinician with a mindful and balanced approach to horsemanship and riding.
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There Was a Man
A man walked the roads looking for
The lonely and the lost,
He came to Earth to save them and
He would at any cost.
He searched through all the villages
Each city and each town,
As He walked He noticed that all
Their faces wore a frown.
He hoped to see them happy and
With smiles from ear to ear,
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And filled their hearts with cheer.
Who is this Man that came to Earth
To save a soul like me?
And walked the streets to find all those
Who longed to be set free.
He is the King of Kings Who gave
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Yet today there still remain some
Who say they've never heard.
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Actors don’t retire, they just stop getting cast. But while acting may seem an unusually insecure and unpredictable profession, if health and luck hold out then it can extend well beyond your 60s. The opportunities are tantalising, whether it’s Glenda Jackson playing King Lear at the Old Vic last year, Caryl Churchill continuing to write testing plays with older characters, or the upcoming production Lost Without Words, an improvised show for actors in their 70s and 80s created by the National Theatre and Improbable. I met up with three actors who are all still embracing challenging work in their 80s and asked them what kind of career they thought they might have at the start, and how they have survived it.
Siân Phillips, unusually, burst into stardom and is a star still. Timothy West needed age to catch up with his natural air of authority, while Janet Henfrey has from the beginning been a character actor. Each speaks most lovingly of the theatre, though television gave them additional lustre. Phillips, rebuilding her career in the wake of divorce, found acclaim as the poisonous Livia in I, Claudius. West earned respect as historical figures such as Edward VII and Winston Churchill. Henfrey embodied Dennis Potter’s fears as the humiliating schoolteacher in The Singing Detective.
Phillips describes her precocious entry into performing. “My mother taught me to recite,” she says, “and I started performing when I was about four. I worked all through my childhood at the BBC.” Even so, she says, “nobody wanted me to go into the profession. They thought I was completed unsuited temperamentally. What did they know about it, up a mountain in Wales? But everyone thought I was not tough enough to take the reversals.” The playwright Saunders Lewis, who wrote especially for her, urged her to go to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (Rada). “He wrote to me, ‘you have to learn to live on the knife edge of insecurity.’ But everything turned out to be very easy. There were no reversals. I didn’t have to learn to deal with unemployment.”
Henfrey and West (whose father, Lockwood West, was also a notable actor) both defied parental disapproval to act. Henfrey was tutored by Iris Murdoch at Oxford and initially hoped to work for the UN. On an exchange year in America, she shook hands with the young JFK. But when she joined Rada, she felt: “I’d come home.” There, she learned to bypass her academic instincts – her tutor Nell Carter, a star of the Edwardian stage, implored her: “Janet, don’t be so logical!”
Like most actors of their generation, Henfrey and West began in regional repertory theatre. Henfrey “wrote letters to every rep in the country”, and ended up “playing old ladies” in Pitlochry. This lost world provided an invaluable training for West, who didn’t go to drama school. Fortnightly rep – two weeks to rehearse, two to perform – offered over 20 productions each year, requiring “a variety of style, text, manners, accents”. He even survived weekly rep: “We didn’t do it very well, but we did it.” At Salisbury in 1957, a bold director introduced two weeks of rehearsals: “Some of the older actors muttered, ‘what are we going to do with the second week?’”
Henfrey’s first job was as an assistant stage manager for a play starring Phillips. She quietly forged her own path, securing work and negotiating wages – “I didn’t have an agent for my first 10 years in the business. I felt very pleased with myself when I got [producer] Michael Codron up by five pounds.” What shape did they imagine their careers might take? “In those days you didn’t see much further than the end of your nose,” West says. “If you were in rep in Lincoln, you might look to get to Liverpool. If you were in Liverpool you’d look to Bristol – because producers came to Bristol, so you might slip into the hallowed West End. Nobody gives a toss about the West End now, but in those days you were lucky if you made the leap. No shame if you didn’t – there were people doing rep all their lives, sometimes in the same place.”
From the beginning, both Henfrey and West played characters far older than themselves. “The first part I played of my own age was the stage manager in [the original production of] The Dresser,” Henfrey says, while West feels his casting was “a cheap option” for penny-pinching reps. “I don’t know what it is – Michael Billington always says I’ve got ‘bottom’, which I think he means as a compliment. It’s a solidity and weight but means I’ve never played parts like Hamlet or Romeo.” Nor did his hero, Ralph Richardson, who “excelled in playing really dull people. There was no concession to their dullness, but, gosh, it was riveting to watch. I’ve never wanted to do ‘great acting’, I leave that to others. I try to play truthful acting.”
Phillips, meanwhile, sailed straight into leading roles: St Joan, for example. Her cheekbones are still a marvel, but “my looks were never my fortune”, she says. “I was an unfashionable looking girl, tall and dark and my hair was all wrong. Pretty girls of my period had fair hair and curls and were shorter than me. Then I had a bad car accident which smashed my face in, but I can’t remember worrying about it for one second – I just thought I’d do different parts.”
What derailed her, she says simply, was that “I got married”. Her husband, Peter O’Toole, was himself a bright star, but reluctant to share the limelight. “It was in many ways a disaster, professionally, because everything that I’d built up was destroyed very quickly. I lost all my contacts, I had to break contracts. I felt very isolated. Having had everything at my feet, I had to do quiet, low-key things which didn’t attract attention to myself – which is harder than you think! Once or twice something became a big success, which was disastrous.”
That period, she admits, “did clip my wings. I was in my early 30s, which are the big years for an actress, but realised that I wasn’t going to be able to do the things I should be doing. But I thought the worst thing would be to get bitter and miserable, so I thought: I won’t do that, I just won’t.” Even so, she says calmly, “for years and years I led a very solitary life. I didn’t let it sour me, but in the end I realised it had to stop. That was hard.” She left O’Toole (they divorced in 1979), and flung herself back into work. “I had to make a lot of money quickly, because I was penniless. I had to buy a house, furniture, clothes, and I had to do it fast.”
West would later have his own hair-raising encounter with O’Toole when, as director of the Old Vic, he cast the loose-cannon star as a calamitous Macbeth. A more frequent and less lurid frustration was typecasting. “Sometimes I felt: come on, they ought to be giving me something more interesting. There was one director who would only cast me as a middle-aged gay man – lovely parts, but he wouldn’t touch me for anything else. I like challenges.” He admits to short periods of “despair about ever getting another part. I think I inherited that from my father, who constantly said, ‘There’s been a conspiracy to keep me out of work. I’ve been boycotted.’”
Except for a fortunate few, acting doesn’t make your fortune. As a single parent, Henfrey says “it was very hard until I had a home of my own. I didn’t have a base, so when I didn’t have a job there was a whole identity crisis.” Before that, she was renting a basement room in west London – affordable only because it was supposedly uninhabitable. Without a home, she says gravely, “I don’t know how you don’t go insane.” Of the three actors, she is the only one to admit to thinking hard about leaving the profession, as long as she could find “something real and useful”. She is politically active, explored speech therapy and enjoyed teaching voice – she was on the brink of accepting a leading management role when cast in a TV adaptation of Alice in Wonderland. Even after the success of The Singing Detective, she tells me, she didn’t work for a year – and was repeatedly cast as teachers. So how do you stay sane in the face of uncertainty? “I always advise young actors to have a second string that they’re not committed to,” she replies. “If you’re not obsessed with this profession, you’ll never survive.”
If acting offers a hazardous career, it values experience. All three interviewees have recently enjoyed some of their most challenging roles. Henfrey navigated the fiendish text of Caryl Churchill’s Blue Heart (“challenging, stimulating and perplexing”), while West, remarkably, played his fourth King Lear, during the EU referendum: apt for a tragedy, he says, about “tearing up the map, old people making a disastrous decision and letting the younger people sort it out”.
If Phillips felt that she missed a swath of her career, she has made up for it in recent years with, she calculates, 11 theatre productions in succession, embracing physical theatre with Frantic Assembly, an unusual geriatric take on Romeo and Juliet (in Bristol) and, most recently, the four-hour epic Les Blancs at the National Theatre, directed by South African Yaël Farber. “I thought I’d met every kind of director known to man,” she muses, “but I hadn’t met anyone like Yaël. She’s so demanding and difficult. To this day I can’t work out what she does, but she’s a brilliant director.”
Both Phillips and West have since been followed by their children into a profession that depends on waiting for the call. I ask all three actors if there has ever been a point when they have felt captains of their destiny – and all three brush the question aside before I finish speaking. “No, never,” West says. “I don’t think any actor would ever say that – you’re always looking for the next thing, nothing is permanent.” He reflects for a moment, then adds, “I think we prefer it not to be permanent.”
In this nerve-shredding trajectory, what is the satisfaction of acting? “I can’t imagine ever being bored with a part,” Phillips maintains. “When you think of the impossibility of becoming another person for every second that you’re on stage, it’s very unlikely that you’re going to do it – but it’s fun to try.” | <urn:uuid:ce96162d-e25b-41b7-a46b-5e3089578864> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/jan/02/actors-careers-sian-phillips-timothy-west-janet-henfrey | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00336-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982929 | 2,532 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Ask any highly accomplished person and they will tell you that Henry Ford’s iconic quote, “Whether you think you can or you can’t – you’re right”, sums up the secret to professional and personal fulfillment. People who tend to be more influential than others share a powerfully positive and motivating perspective that is critical to success. Grounded in the proven science of cognitive-behavioral psychology, this new Priority Learning series teaches the art of thinking in ways that reduce problems and attract opportunities. You’ll discover the enormous impact your own beliefs have on everything you do and experience, and then refine those beliefs to get better results.
As a result of participating, you will:
• Recognize ingrained beliefs that may be preventing you from reaching your goals.
• Cultivate your beliefs to create better outcomes at work and in your life.
• Learn ten central beliefs that the most successful people practice.
• Become better able to solve problems and make smart decisions by thinking more flexibly.
• Shift your overall perspective to be more resilient and effective in the face of tough challenges.
Applies Towards the Following Certificates
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Once you discover the rotary cutter, you'll wonder how you ever lived without it. Seriously, this thing is like the sliced bread of sewing. I suppose, if push came to shove, you could use it to slice bread, but that's not my point. My point is that it is a wonderful tool, and can make the chore of cutting faster and more exact. When first confronted with its use, you may find it a bit inimidating. But following a few simple pointers will help you use this tool safely and easily.
There's a range of different models of rotary cutters on the market today. Each is essentially the same – they contain a round, razor-sharp blade that works much like a pizza cutter. You roll it over the surface of your fabric, and it cuts.
Once you begin browsing for rotary cutters, you'll realize they come in a lot of styles and sizes. The most common sizes of blades are 18mm, 28mm, 45mm, and 60mm. The larger the blade size, the more fabric you can cut, and the faster you can cut it. If you know you'll be cutting yards and yards of fabric, you'll probably want to reach for a 60mm rotary cutter. An 18mm rotary cutter is used mainly for making small cuts, or for cutting curves.
If you want to have one rotary cutter that will be sufficient for nearly all projects, your best bet is the 45mm. This is large enough to do a lot of cutting, but still manageable when you're trying to do more intricate work. Remember, each rotary cutter is created for a specific blade size. So when you are looking to purchase extra blades, be sure to get those that correspond to the size of your cutter.
Mats and Rulers
Mats and Rulers? Hey, wait a minute, I thought we were talking about cutters. Indeed we are. To really use your rotary cutter, you will need to invest in two other supplies at the same time. The first is a self-healing mat. These are made a of special substance that "heals" when you cut on it, so you don't create a gash through the mat each time you cut your fabric. They are available in a wide variety of sizes. For your primary mat, get one as large as your cutting surface and storage area will allow. You can't roll cutting mats like a poster, so keep in mind they need to be stored flat. If I were ever to put mine away (it just lives in my dining room) I would probably store it under the bed. The most common size is 36" x 24". If you can accommodate a larger mat, go for it. But really, 24" is the smallest you can go and still comfortably and accurately cut your fabric.
You'll also need a non-slip ruler to cut against. Don't try to use a regular yardstick when cutting fabric with a rotary cutter. Non-slip rulers contain a special feature that resists slipping, so you can safely cut your fabric. Sometimes this is a gripping lip that hangs over your mat, sometimes it's a gritty texture that holds the ruler in place, and sometimes the backing of the actual ruler allows it to stay in place when pressure is applied. These rulers are also especially helpful for accuracy in your cutting; they contain lines that indicate 30˚, 45˚ and 60˚, and have markings every 1/8". You'll want your primary ruler to be 6½" x 24" or 8½" x 24". It's also nice to have an additional square and/or smaller non-slip ruler.
Using the Cutter Correctly
All rotary cutters contain some sort of safety lock so the blade will not be exposed. It is essential to ALWAYS put the blade in the safe position when you are not using the rotary cutter. Get in the habit of locking it even when you are just putting it down to adjust your fabric. You want this step to become second nature to protect yourself or anyone in your sewing room from a potentially nasty cut. Every time I put mine down, my thumb automatically locks it – it's hard-wired into my fabric cutting regimen!
You hold a rotary cutter in much the same way you would a pizza cutter. Try to keep your hand, wrist and arm in a straight line. You may choose to put your index finger on the top of the cutter, in the way you might hold a pencil, or to use your whole fist to grip. This is a personal preference. When you are using the cutter, you want to push down firmly and consistently, but not with excessive force. The blade is incredibly sharp and will cut with a minimal amount of pressure. Some projects ask you to cut hundreds of pieces of fabric, so you don't want to set yourself up for fatigue early on.
There are a number of styles that are designed to work for both right-handed or left-handed folks.
The other technique key to safe rotary cutter success is to always cut away from you. Never cut toward your body. You will be putting a good amount of muscle behind your cut, and you never know when the blade might slip. If that happens, you want to be sure the blade is headed for the wall and not your stomach!
As you make your cut, the blade of the rotary cutter should rest against the edge of your ruler. This will allow for accurate cuts, and will keep your cutter from wavering off target and cutting where you don't want it to. Within a few passes, you'll get a feel for how much force you need to place on the side of cutter so it will stay in line with the ruler.
Want More Information?
For the next steps in cutting fabric with your rotary cutter, check out our tutorial, Quilting Basics: Tools, Cutting, and Piecing.
Rotary cutters are easily available online and at your local fabric store. If you'd like the read more about options and styles, the major manufacturers are:
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Movies are a great way to pass the time and offer numerous people an entertaining experience while spending time with others.
Some enjoy going to the movies for the whole experience, while others prefer to stay in the comforts of home and bring the movie atmosphere to themselves. These home theatres require different devices and equipment to make a proper setup. Learn about what they need so that you’ll have the best time watching your favorite movies.
A wide tv with good video or a projector
The visuals are essential to a movie, so a TV or projector is needed to make a home theater. The TV you decide to use should have a proper size that allows people to watch from different angles and distances. Look for flat screens with excellent picture capabilities, such as HD and 4K, so that you’ll have the best view.
Projectors are a classic way to show a movie and work with any broad, flat surface. The projector method will require more cords and cables to connect devices, but you’ll still feel nostalgic when watching your favorite films.
Soundbar or speakers
With an excellent picture, you’ll need quality sound to go with it. Numerous speakers offer great sound in different aspects. Some have a higher base, while others are better for surround sound setups. Depending on your preference, you may want to choose a sound system that makes you feel immersed with its surrounding speakers or one with clear quality and more space to place things using a soundbar.
Although there are still DVD players and VCRs in specific shops worldwide, you’ll most likely choose the simple streaming option. Many shows and movies are available for online streaming, and multiple devices allow you to connect to the internet and stream them. A streaming device will link to a projector or TV via a USB or HDMI port, so you’ll have options for how you want to view it.
Quality cables and power strips
Your cables will determine whether your home theater and its devices have a good connection. No one likes a disruption in their TV shows or movies, so make sure you have quality, undamaged cables. Have HDMI or spare power cords available if a cable gets damaged. But if you follow proper cable management protocol, you and your cords won’t be at risk.
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Plant Health Problems
Ornamental species of yucca are relatively disease-free under most
Yucca plant bug, Halticotoma valida.
This is a small blue-black true bug with a reddish head. Adults and nymphs
damage foliage by sucking plant sap. Symptoms of feeding are yellow, stippled
new foliage. Among the compounds registered for control of this pest in
Connecticut are insecticidal soap, ultrafine horticultural oil or malathion.
When needed, apply foliar sprays to contact the insects. Alternatively,
imidacloprid can be applied as a systemic to be taken up by the roots. Consult
the label for dosage rates and safety precautions.
Mealybug, Planococcus citri.
Only certain yuccas are susceptible to mealybugs. When needed, they can be
controlled with the use of insecticidal soap, ultrafine horticultural oil or
malathion, which are among the compounds registered for control of this pest in
Connecticut. Spray needs to contact insects in order to be effective.
Alternatively, imidacloprid can be applied as a systemic to be taken up by the
roots. Consult the labels for dosage rates and safety precautions.
Oystershell Scale, Lepidosaphes ulmi.
This and other scales occasionally attack yucca. Control is rarely needed.
Stalk borer, Papaipema nebris.
This borer infests an occasional stalk of many kinds of herbaceous plants,
including yucca. The larva tunnels up and down inside the flower stalk and the
top portion usually wilts and later dies. There is one generation each year.
The moths emerge in September and October and lay eggs on the stalks of their
food plants, in which stage the insect passes the winter. The eggs hatch in May
or early June. The young larva begins to feed on the leaves of the nearest food
plant, and later tunnels in the stem. The mature larva is nearly 1 ½"
long, grayish brown with one white stripe on top and two white stripes on each
side. On the front half of the body the lateral stripes are interrupted, and
the lower brown stripe extends forward onto the side of the head.
Burning all the old stalks, if allowed, and destroying weeds at the edges of
the garden helps control this insect. When needed, methoxychlor, which is among
the compounds registered for use against this pest in Connecticut, applied as a
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Find more Linich relatives and grow your tree by exploring billions of historical records. Taken every decade since 1790, the U.S. Federal Census can tell you a lot about your family. For example, from 1930 to 1940 there were 17 more people named Linich in the United States — and some of them are likely related to you.
What if you had a window into the history of your family? With historical records, you do. From home life to career, records help bring your relatives' experiences into focus. There were 32 people named Linich in the 1930 U.S. Census. In 1940, there were 53% more people named Linich in the United States. What was life like for them?
In 1940, 49 people named Linich were living in the United States. In a snapshot:
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Playing the game
I suppose that everyone knows how to play backgammon, but let me explain real quick in case some of you don’t.
You start the game with a standard setup of 15 chips placed in a specific way on the board. The goal is to move all your chips to the bottom right side (as you look at it) of the game table. You can achieve this by rolling the dice and moving a chip for as many points as the dice number shows. For example if you roll a three and five, you will be able to move a chip three or five or eight points to the forward direction as shown in the below picture. Note you can’t move a chip backwards.
If you roll the same number with the two dices like two fours for example you can play the numbers twice. This means that in this case you would play four times four using your movement points for up to four different chips.
If a chip is standing alone in a point it can be hit. This means that if another chip of the enemy lands there the lone chip will leave the table and stand on the middle waiting to comeback in from the initial position spacing (example positions here from 19 to 24) using the dice again. You can’t land a chip when a position is occupied by two or more enemy chips.
The game ends when you have collected all your chips from the board. To do that you will first have to gather them all in your bottom right side (positions 1 to 6) and then take them using the dice again. If you roll a six and three for example you will remove from the board the chips that stand to the positions 3 and 6.
In GNU Backgammon you can play using many different options. Let’s just begin by taking a look at the defaults.
This is the initial screen. You can start a new game from the corresponding button on the top left, or edit a position placing the chips the way you want for analysis purposes. After you start a game you can roll the dice by clicking your mouse on the center of your side of the table. You then move the chips either by clicking them, or by draging them. When you grab a chip, a highlighted position will appear showing you the possible landing positions according to the dice roll.
You can resign, end game, accept or reject a doubling proposal, or offer your own at any time of the game by simply pressing the buttons on the middle. You can also choose to play against a human opponent, use manual dice or play in tutor mode that will help you understand the game better and improve your playing strength.
Making it look nicer
I know that you don’t like what you see so far so lets make the board look nicer and more realistic.
First simple thing to do is turn on the 3D view from the “View” menu and you’ll get this:
Then we can enable some more performance reducing stuff like shadows and smooth animations. There is also a big collection of different woods and backgammon sets waiting for you to discover.
After you are done with enabling things you can go fullscreen from the “View” menu again, and get a realistic, animating and shadowed backgammon board like this one:
A lot better don’t you think?
The GNU Backgammon engine can play in 8 pre-set different levels or tuned by the user to the desirable playing strength. Depending on its parameters and its luck in recent games, it rates from around 1900 to 2000 on FIBS, the First Internet Backgammon Server — at its strongest, it ranks in the top 5 of over 6000 rated players there) and is gradually improving.
GNU Backgammon is a fantastic analysis tool for those of you who need it. It can evaluate any position, perform a race analysis, calculate rollouts, show the distribution of rolls and a ton of more things…
You can also change the luck or skills settings of the analysis to get different decision or evaluation results from the engine.
The luck factor
True randomizing is a fundamental problem for every machine out there. GNU Backgammon tries to offer many options that include a big randomizing depth, while also offering some options that can manipulate or override completely the factor of luck.
These are the available random number generators:
- Blum, blum and shub
- Mersenne Twister (default)
- Read from file
You can set the application to override all this and roll specific things like the best or the worst roll, or even the 7th best or the second worst. Why would someone do that? For special analyzing purposes I suppose.
Being a serious backgammon tool, GNU Backgammon offers many options to play with. For example you can change the cubing rule and use Crawford or Jacoby. You can play clockwise or even use a Nackgammon starting position!
Whether you are a backgammon professional, or just a casual player GNU Backgammon is definitely worth your attention. It is a fantastic analysis tool, and a nice game to spend some time on.
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Near Earth Objects is a playful take on the Hermetic idea of the microcosm reflecting the macrocosm, or that in going for a walk I can encounter similar heavenly bodies to those found beyond Earths orbit. Objects of similar shape, form and composition. It is the idea that in my everyday life I regularly encounter inert objects whose mineral compositions form the building blocks of life.
I chose to produce these prints as cyanotypes to introduce an imprecise system, creating interesting moments of chance and surprise. In allowing these surprises the prints themselves begin to offer up the subject to unique individual interpretation. The cyanotype chemical process is triggered by sunlight, connecting us with our nearest star and hinting again at the themes of this project. The prints also connect with the history of astronomy, as the cyanotype process was discovered by the astronomer John Herschel.
These prints are a preliminary lens based investigation into a new set of ideas and new working practices beyond the digital and critical media work I make. These prints were originally made for a new edition of a small self published zine I have been producing to chart my shift towards analog investigations into alternative photographic and print processes.
Near Earth Objects Exhibited as a solo show at GAS Contemporary Gallery: 2 to 8 June 2019
Works from this series have also exhibited at:
Lumen Collective exhibition ‘COSMOS’ at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Gallery, Oxford: 6 July – 7 September 2019 and The South Street Gallery 31 August – 11 October 2019.
CHAPTER 1 at Art Number 23, Athens: 17 November – 16 January 2019
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Restaurant flooring and ceilings are a class of their own. They must abide by rigid guidelines set forth by the USDA and be able to withstand heavy foot traffic, spilled food and drinks, scraping chairs, and all the hustle and bustle of a busy restaurant. Different areas in a restaurant have different needs and will require different flooring and ceilings, with food safety being the top priority in the food prep areas.
USDA ceilings in Lafayette, LA are available at Architectural Acoustics and can be used in a variety of high humidity settings, as well as food prep areas in restaurants. They are washable and impact and scratch resistant, which allows them to be thoroughly cleaned on a regular basis to keep your restaurant kitchen as clean as possible. With splashes, spills, and grease in restaurant kitchens, being able to wash the ceiling and walls of your kitchen is important
Quarry tile flooring is great for food prep areas as it can be easily cleaned in case of spills, which in restaurants are frequent. At the end of the evening, they can be hosed off to make sure all the spills and drops are washed down the drain.
In the dining room, a floor that is extremely durable is a must. Foot traffic from customers, servers, chair scrapings, and dropped food and spills; the floor must be able to withstand it all. Some restaurants choose a durable carpet, as it is anti-slip and also more comfortable to walk on for servers and guests. Other floors to consider are the wood-look vinyl or laminate floors if you want the warmth and character of wood flooring but need the durability of vinyl and laminate. | <urn:uuid:52f426c5-4749-47ba-aa82-45e056f47dea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://archacoustics.net/restaurant-flooring-and-ceilings | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.968105 | 338 | 1.65625 | 2 |
T E C H N O L O G Y
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|Metal on oak, dry||
|Leather on metal, dry||
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A Cf greater than 1.0 means it takes more force to move a rubber block on glass than the force pressing the block onto the surface. This gives us a clue that with rubber there is more going on than simple friction.
Rubber generates friction in three major ways: adhesion, deformation, and wear. Fig. 3.2 describes these three components making up the total friction force experienced by a rubber slider moving across the surface of a road in the direction of speed V.
Adhesion is a property of rubber that causes it to stick to other materials, as we see with adhesive tape. Adhesion is generally thought to be the result of momentary molecular bonding between the two surfaces. If bond strength is the same at all the bond sites the force that resists sliding is proportional to the total of all the minute areas of contact. If the two surfaces were perfectly smooth the true area of contact would be the same as the observed area of contact, but this is not the case. Real surfaces are actually very rough on the molecular scale and contact is limited to the highest protuberances on each of the two surfaces. The true area of contact depends on the surface profiles, properties of the materials, and the contact pressure.
As you can see in Fig. 3.3, larger loads on the rubber presses the road irregularities into the rubber, increasing the contact area. More area in contact means more adhesion between the surfaces and higher friction forces. This situation satisfies the general requirements of the friction equation, Ff = Cf x Fv.
Rubber in contact with a smooth surface (glass is often used
in testing) generates friction forces mainly by adhesion. When
rubber is in contact with a rough surface, another mechanism,
deformation, comes into play.
Movement of a rubber slider on a rough surface results in the deformation of the rubber by high points on the surface called irregularities or asperities. A load on the rubber slider causes the asperities to penetrate the rubber and the rubber drapes over the asperities. The energy needed to move the asperities in the rubber comes from the differential pressure across the asperities as shown in Fig. 3.4, where a rubber slider moves on an irregular surface at speed V.
A wet surface prevents contact between the rubber and the surface, blocking the formation of adhesive forces. Friction forces due to deformation, also called mechanical keying, provide most of the friction force between a tire and a wet surface.
In addition to adhesive friction and deformation friction, rubber produces traction forces by means of tearing and wear. As deformation forces and sliding speeds go up, local stress can exceed the tensile strength of the rubber, especially at an increase in local stress near the point of a sharp irregularity. High local stress can deform the internal structure of the rubber past the point of elastic recovery. When polymer bonds and crosslinks are stressed to failure the material can't recover completely, and this can cause tearing. Tearing absorbs energy, resulting in additional friction forces in the contact surface.
Wear is the ultimate result of tearing. When local stresses increase in strength past initial tearing or remain at high strength for a period of time, that tearing can result in separation of material. The tire debris, bits of rolled-up rubber, you see on a racetrack is the result of rubber being torn and abraded from the tire. When these pieces separate from the tire, especially a race tire, they can be hot enough to stick together, so clumps of rubber as large as a baseball can be found on a racetrack or stuck to a racecar. In a later chapter we'll look closer at worn tires and what they can tell us.
Now we can write a more general equation for rubber friction:
Ftotal = Fad(hesive) + Fdef(formation) + Fwear
The naming of these components is strictly arbitrary. There are probably other friction components if you look in more detail, but we'll refer to them by these names in this discussion. Let's look in more detail at Fdef, deformation friction.
Adhesive friction is the major contributor in tire traction, but it requires intimate contact between the two surfaces. Adhesive friction forces decrease drastically when the road surface is lubricated by dust, water, or ice. That's when deformation friction becomes more important.
Here's where another interesting property of rubber, viscoelasticity, comes into play. Rubber is elastic and conforms to surface irregularities. But rubber is also viscoelastic; it doesn't rebound fully after deformation. Press your thumbnail into a street tire and the rubber rebounds. Press it into a racing tire and the mark stays there, recovering only slowly. This is a simple but crude test of hysteresis, or energy loss, in rubber. Low-hysteresis rubber rebounds quickly; high-hysteresis rubber lags in rebound after deformation.
Consider Fig. 3.5 where there is some sliding between the rubber and an irregular surface. If the rubber recovers slowly from the passing irregularity as in the high-hysteresis rubber, it can't push on the downstream surfaces of the irregularities as hard as it pushes on the upstream surfaces. This pressure difference between the upstream and downstream faces of the irregularity results in friction forces even when the surfaces are lubricated.
An interesting analogy to rubber sliding past peaks in a road surface is a ship moving in water. We know a ship moving in water requires an engine and propeller to provide the necessary force to overcome fluid drag. The ship bumps into the still water at the bow and there is a little more pressure there than on the stern. It's this pressure difference acting over the wetted cross-sectional area of the ship's hull that is a part of the total drag the engines have to overcome. There is also viscous drag caused by the hull surface moving through the water.
Continuing with that same analogy, a ship traveling in "high-hysteresis water" would experience increased drag because the rubber would close in more slowly at the stern, creating a larger bow-to-stern pressure difference. In high-hysteresis rubber that's deformation friction. Fig. 3.5 depicts the concept of increasing pressure differences across asperities caused by high-hysteresis rubber.
A common test of hysteresis during rubber processing is called the rebound test. A rubber sample is formed into a flat, rectangular shape and attached to a wall. A steel ball on a string is anchored on the wall above the rubber sample. The ball is raised until the string is horizontal and taut. When released, the ball accelerates on the end of the string until it strikes the mounted sample. How far the ball rebounds is a measure of hysteresis. Short rebound is high hysteresis. If you're making a golf ball, you want the rubber to bounce the ball as far back as possible. If you're making tread rubber for race tires, you'd like the ball to splat against the wall with very little rebound.
It turns out that both the adhesive and deformation components
of rubber friction are highly viscoelastic, meaning the amount
of friction force they generate is sensitive to the size of the
aggregate in the road surface, the speed of penetration of the
aggregate into the rubber, and the sliding speed of the rubber
across that aggregate.
We know water is only slightly viscous, less so than motor oil or honey and certainly less than rubber. If you stick a finger into water you can hardly feel any resistance, only wetness. But if you slap the surface of a swimming pool you can hurt your hand. The water is viscous enough that it can't get out of the way if your hand is moving fast enough.
Here are two lightly edited excerpts from the book that illustrate how the viscoelasticity of rubber affects racers:
After the 1996 season the racetrack at Laguna Seca near Monterey,
Calif., was repaved. Testing by CART teams the next spring revealed
much higher levels of grip and lap times dropped by seconds over
previous events. But when the teams returned for their race at
Laguna the following September, they found much lower grip levels
and had to drastically change the setups they had so carefully
developed six months earlier. During that race weekend I remember
a couple of people attributing the problem to pavement wear,
but didn't understand the phenomenon until I began to write these
Fresh pavement has sharp rocks sticking up through the asphalt matrix, and that's what the CART teams experienced at Laguna Seca immediately after the repaving. The high levels of grip made them all feel like heroes. But during the next six months the Russell Driving School cars and racecars competing in the many SCCA and vintage events polished off the sharp corners of the aggregate.
Wearing of the aggregate both lowers and rounds the peaks on the individual stones. It turns out that the shape and texture of road irregularities makes a difference.
We've probably all seen experienced drivers steer their cars off the normal line when cornering on wet pavement. The usual explanation is the normal line is slower in the wet because of oil and old rubber.
If there actually is more grip offline it's because the surface features are higher and more pointy than the more worn features on the normal line, providing higher deformation friction. This phenomenon is exaggerated by high-hysteresis compounds in racing rain tires. When dry the "line" is the fast way around that turn because it's shorter and has the biggest radius.
I've talked to several race drivers about this phenomenon
and a couple of them pointed out that offline in the wet worked
on dedicated racetracks and not on street courses. The reason
for that is there is no "line" on a street course;
the aggregate is worn everywhere by daily street traffic. But
on a dedicated road course, 99% of the cars on the course are
working the racing line and wearing the aggregate in the process.
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I found some poison ivy mixed in with our ivy ground cover. How can I get rid of the poison ivy without killing the regular ivy?
Your letter is just one of dozens I received just this week about poison ivy. The basic defense against this plant is identification.
It’s important to note that there are two native vines, one poisonous and one not, that are commonly confused. These vines are Virginia creeper and poison ivy. Virginia creeper has five leaves where poison ivy has three. They are easily confused because the leaves are very similar. But one way to remember which one is the bad guy is by memorizing the old adage, “leaves of three, let it be.”
You have to wonder how poison ivy or poison oak can find its way into our gardens. Typically birds and wind distribute the plant’s seeds. Dormant roots may also be brought in along with a new plant added to your garden.
If you find you have made contact with one of these leaves the best thing to do is wash any affected skin area with a four to one solution of cool water and vinegar and remove the clothing you were wearing and wash it separately from any others.
For those seriously allergic to poison ivy, wear latex gloves, long sleeves and long pants when pulling weeds.
One of the toughest problems in the garden is eliminating specific weeds, like poison ivy, without destroying the plants you’ve worked so hard to grow. Because I’m so allergic to it I can’t just pull it out and even if I did some of the root might remain underground and come back. Several years ago I noticed a lot of poison ivy entwined among my iris and fountain grass. I had to get really tough with it – even though I try not to use herbicides occasionally they can be useful in combating difficult, specific problems.
I knew if I tried to spray just the poison ivy with a conventional sprayer and herbicide I would inevitably get it on all the surrounding plants and kill them. That’s when I remembered seeing some products that allow you to be “target specific” with each application. One brand is a foam herbicide made by Roundup called “Sure Shot”. You can see exactly where it goes and since it’s a systemic, the plant will ingest the poison from the leaf all the way to the root.
This seems to be a much safer and more responsible use of herbicides. The application seems most effective when the plant is in full hot sun. Once the plant dies I still use caution and wear gloves to remove the woody stems. You see, even stems can cause an allergic reaction. Once removed, I suggest sealing the dead plant in a plastic bag and placing it in the garbage. | <urn:uuid:b7427bb2-a3fe-4b8c-9af8-82bfadceba0f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://pallensmith.com/2014/06/24/poison-ivy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00218-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963769 | 587 | 2.1875 | 2 |
In this issue, Advertising and Society Review concentrates on the phenomenon of polysemy. The term "polysemy," which admittedly smacks of postmodernist intellectualism at this point, is actually simple to define: it refers to the capability of a particular text to have multiple meanings. However, in interpretive practice, illuminating polysemy can be very complex because the multiple meanings can be located in different ways and among different viewers.
The issue begins with a reprint of an article about one of advertising's classic texts, the "1984" commercial that introduced Apple's Macintosh in that year. I have selected this article as an opening because the example, along with the accompanying update, illustrates three key dimensions along which polysemy is often evident in the advertising discourse. By opening with this example, I hope to frame the original articles that follow in a way that helps the reader who is unfamiliar with the phenomenon of polysemy.
Certain genres or formal types are actually typified by polysemy. For instance, both satire and parody depend on manifesting enough similarity to another text to be recognizable, but different enough to communicate a divergent, often humorous or political message. Irony is emphatically polysemic: the conflict between the apparent meaning and the "real" or intended meaning in an ironic statement or picture is the basis for its effect. Allusion is another form that is basically polysemic: a reference to an outside event, story, character, or image is brought into the current text to create a new meaning through combination with the old. Similarly, we may argue that metaphor is fundamentally an exercise in polysemy, since the union of two otherwise dissimilar elements into a new meaning implies the operation of multiple prior meanings. Indeed, critics have argued that the ability to recognize a metaphor—or any fictive form—as a statement that should not be read literally, is the essence of artistic communication. Such critical arguments depend on a polysemic understanding of the basis for literature.
Trope, the rhetorical term for metaphor, is often said to function most effectively when it resonates richly across many interpretations. The "1984" Apple commercial is a trope, one that borrows from another text—George Orwell's 1984—in a way that creates a two-level narrative in which Macintosh becomes the hero against IBM's evil empire. The commercial is not working unless the viewer mentally "creates" the trope: recognizes the allusion to 1984 and substitutes IBM for the "Big Brother" on the screen and Macintosh for the hammer-throwing heroine. So the first element of polysemy here is the formal one, an allusive trope.
In order to create the trope, however, the viewer must have some knowledge of 1984 or, at least, other futuristic dystopias, and must be cognizant enough of the current computer industry to know that Macintosh is pitted against IBM in an apparent struggle to survive. It is axiomatic in reader response theory (as argued in the article) that viewers/readers, not authors or critics, create texts, thus the potential for polysemy always exists among different viewers. Since one viewer may not be familiar with 1984 or another may not agree that IBM is an evil corporation, those viewers may not create the trope—or may simply reject its argument. This incipient polysemy, which can occur across any diverse audience, is, then, the second dimension.
The intended reading for this commercial, however, depended on understanding cultural material and concerns that were very current at the opening of the year, 1984, and therefore, were historically specific. In another twenty years, readers would be unlikely to identify IBM as Big Brother, for instance, because they would see Microsoft as the opposing force to Apple. The commentary that appears with the reprint looks at the way the "1984" commercial sometimes fails today, when read by contemporary viewers, especially in a global environment, because they are too far removed from the original historical moment. This historical specificity, then, is the third dimension.
The articles that follow focus on polysemy in different ways. The first, "Man's last stand! Polysemy and Dialogue in Advertising Reception" by Gry Høngsmark Knudsen, traces the online dialog about a Superbowl ad that asserted a politically sensitive stance in the gender wars. We can see polysemy in the difference between the way men read the ad versus women (and especially feminists). However, we can also see polysemy in the claim that the ad was not intended to be read "seriously" (or "literally"), but was meant as a joke (thus presenting an irony). Such a stance, frequently made by advertisers to escape a critical response to an offensive ad, gets the advertiser "off the hook" by disclaiming intentionality for one meaning and claiming another.
The second article, "Hard-sell and Soft-sell Advertising Appeals with a 'Polysemic' Difference: A Purposeful Advertising Polysemy Perspective," is an experimental investigation of the operation of polysemy as a strategy comparable to "hard sell" or "soft sell." Such a perspective on polysemy implies that multiple meanings are "contained in" the ad—that is, are a matter of the formal features—rather than "created by" the reader. At the same time, the article investigates the response of an African-American audience, which presumes that this audience would have a different reading from other audiences, suggesting the potential for polysemy across all three tested types.
The third article, "Moving Beyond Vodka, Vacations, and Viaticals: How The Advocate's 1992 Redesign Contributed to the Solidification of a New LGBTQ Market Segment" illustrates how different groups have often radically various readings of a particular text or genre, as well as how those readings change with time and circumstance. Importantly, this article shows how readings, as well as the actions that result from those readings, track against interest. So, for this reason, in the beginning of the narrative, large corporate advertisers had a different view of sexually explicit homoerotic messages (which led them to avoid advertising alongside such texts) than did many gay readers (which led them to buy the magazine, place ads, and so on). Yet even within the gay community, attitudes varied, explicitly and implicitly. Some wanted to see the ads eliminated in favor of an emphasis on clothing, home décor, and the like, for instance. Yet others felt the sexually explicit messages were an important expression of gay identity and even pride. A consistent emphasis on erotic imagery featuring a white Caucasian male raised the issue of readings by lesbians, as well as by gay males who were not Caucasian. As the HIV-Aids scare progressed, attitudes even within the gay community shifted. And, as the Internet significantly diminished the appeal of personal ads in print, the entire discourse changed in value. Here we have a full-blown picture of the potential for polysemy and the way it works as a rhetorical force.
Linda M. Scott
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Direct-attached storage might be deemed the most simple of data storage systems. Corporations with expanding data storage requires had limited expansion opportunities with early DAS. It should not come as a surprise that numerous individuals get them confused, their physical look is dominated by a big array of disks. With three RAID 10’s (eight physical disk every) we would probably run into some overall performance problems if we had, say… three distinct servers connected to our SAN, each and every with extremely intensive applications running. In addition, DAS devices can be housed inside a Pc or server (as is the case with internal really hard drives) or outdoors the Computer or server (as is the case with external challenging drives and storage appliances).
Typically although, when referring to NAS devices, it is normally understood to mean a specialized personal computer with several disk array(s). This is because storage was neighborhood to a precise server when these requirements were defined and server vendors implemented variations that had been not compatible. A correct DAS enclosure like the Dell MD1220 would appear to be within” the identical computer system. It is totally possible to setup a personal computer like our Super desktop with a DAS (straight attached storage) array and then share that partition over the network. In other words, RAID 5 can sustain one particular disk loss, whereas RAID six can sustain two disk losses (simultaneously).
Contemporary DAS systems involve integrated disk array controllers with advanced functionalities. A network attached storage device is a computer system that provides Shares to other computer systems and customers over a network. Which in turn implies SAN and NAS are normally a bit far more costly in total startup costs. Second, technology from NAS and SAN systems is getting used to make external DAS units with … Read More | <urn:uuid:f1070fec-ccad-49af-aa67-b3875897ce61> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://remotehop.com/tag/vision | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.951888 | 360 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Week 2 Practice Worksheet
Provide a response to the following prompts.
- The Wilcox & Keselman (2003) article from this week’s electronic readings discusses two problems with measures of central tendency: skewness of the data and outliers. Discuss each of these issues and how they affect measures of central tendency.
- How do the sample mean and the population mean differ? What is the symbol for each type of mean?
- An expert reviews a sample of 10 scientific articles (n = 10) and records the following numbers of error in each article: 0, 4, 2, 8, 2, 3, 1, 0, 5, and 7.
- Compute the mean, median, mode, sum of squares (SS), the variance, and the standard deviation for this sample using the definitional and computational formulas. You may use Microsoft® Excel® data anlysis to compute these statistics and copy your output into this worksheet.
Explain, to a person who has never had a course in statistics what you have done.
- A researcher records the levels of attraction for various fashion models among college students. He finds that mean levels of attraction are much higher than the median and the mode for these data.
- What is the shape of the distribution for the data in this study?
- What measure of central tendency is most appropriate for describing these data? Why?
- On a standard measure of hearing ability, the mean is 300, and the standard deviation is 20. Provide the Z scores for persons whose raw scores are 340, 310, and 260. Provide the raw scores for persons whose Z scores on this test are 2.4, 1.5, and -4.5.
- Using the unit normal table, find the proportion under the standard normal curve that lies in the tail for each of the follow useing table starting on page 673 (Hint: Remember to change all percents to decimals):
- Z = 1.00
- Z = -1.05
- Z = 0
- Z = 2.80
- Z = 1.96
- Suppose the scores of architects on a particular creativity test are normally distributed. Using a normal curve table (pp. 673-676 of the text), what percentage of architects have Z scores
- above .10?
- below .10?
- above .20?
- below .20?
- above 1.10?
- below 1.10?
- A statistics instructor wants to measure the effectiveness of his teaching skills in a class of 102 students (N = 102). He selects students by waiting at the door to the classroom prior to his lecture and pulling aside every third student to give him or her a questionnaire.
- Is this sample design an example of random sampling? Explain.
Assuming that all students attend his class that day, how many students will the instructor select to complete his questionnaire?
- Suppose you were going to conduct a survey of visitors to your campus. You want the survey to be as representative as possible.
- How would you select the people to survey?
- Why would that be your best method?
- In a school band, 9 kids play string instruments, 10 kids play woodwind instruments, 7 kids play brass instruments, and 4 kids play percussion instruments.
- What is the probability that you randomly select a kid who plays a string or percussion instrument?
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An amendment is required for any modifications to a full protocol from what was previously approved during the period for which approval was given. Changes in research procedures, the informed consent process, and/or the consent/assent document cannot be initiated by the investigator without IRB review and approval, except where necessary to eliminate apparent immediate hazards to the subject. Should protocol changes be made without prior IRB approval, submit a memorandum immediately to the IRB addressing the nature of the change, why it was necessary, and the outcome.
An amendment is required to an exempt protocol for modifications that might affect risk to subjects or the exemption category, such as changes in procedures, data collection instruments, data plans, and investigators. Amendments are not required for modifications that will not affect risk to subjects or the exemption category, such as adding a class, increasing subject numbers, extending the time period.
Information relating to protocol modifications should be relayed to subjects when such information might relate to the subject’s willingness to continue to take part in the research. How this information will be relayed to the subject (e.g., through a re-consent process using a modified consent form, or a letter sent to the subject) should be included in a modification request, and IRB approval obtained prior to implementation. Approval of the submitted amendment is on the advice of the IRB chairperson or a designated representative unless the nature of the proposed changes warrants review by the full IRB. The IRB may determine the modification relates to subjects’ willingness to continue to participate in the research, and request that the PI relay pertinent information to subjects. The investigator is notified in writing of the IRB’s decision.
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The truth is, the positive thinking + creativity is the powerful combination to push the human world forward.
Creativity has emerged as one of the top-picked 21st-century skills (critical thinking, creative thinking, learning agility, leadership capability, etc.). Is creativity nature or nurtured, can creativity be taught, how can today’s education system produce more creative souls, are modern educators the human engineers or talent artists?
Creativity is like a muscle, you must exercise it daily or it atrophies. We have to admit, some people are just more creative than others. One of the things is essential for education in creativity to really thrive is that people understand that creativity is a way of being, it must be practiced, it's very personal, it requires internal motivation and self-awareness. Unless these factors are present, 'creativity' will only be known to mankind as a fad or superficial set of steps in. A creative person seems to be childish, naive and inquisitive. Picasso said, "It took me a few years to learn how to paint like Braque, a lifetime to paint like a child." A person must find ways to stimulate creativity. breakdown the convention thinking, be original and be yourself; try putting two totally different things together to make something new, if you're writing, beautify your science, or rationalize your art; if you are painting? Make the sky yellow and the trees blue. "Think Different." Mostly think positive, think fun, think beyond your reach. Knowledge is limited, but imagination encircles the world.
Creativity can be nurtured by encouraging and rewarding "creative thinking," in which people learn to solve all kind of problems, generate ideas, implement life changes. Then focus on how creativity is viewed, citing two views -one being innate and the other a result of teaching. Creativity isn't necessarily a paint-by-numbers process, more as ‘connect-the-dots” adventure. It usually, perhaps more often than not, involves some level of discomfort and interdisciplinary transcendence. encouraging and rewarding "creative thinking. The problem is that we can't order and classify creativity in the typical worldview. Where do you put transformative abstraction on an analytical scale? And how do you measure extreme creativity when it may look like eccentric and dysfunctional behavior, precisely because it is off the deep end of a spectrum of social conventional thinking. But the truth is, the positive thinking + creativity is the powerful combination to push the human world forward.
The educators need to be creative enough to encourage creativity: It is educators who must first be creative enough to recognize divergent thinking and oddball answers from students as sometimes indicating a different slant or insight. We know now from brain research that young brains create a huge amount of connections, that if they are not stimulated, will dissolve over time. For instance, it is much easier for children to learn foreign languages than it is for adults. The brain structures present in an infant's brain that facilitates language learning decrease as the child ages. It is still possible, but much more difficult and more expensive to teach an old brain new tricks. Same as many other skills, if we wait until young people reach the adult to teach critical thinking and creativity, the education system is out of date in a certain way. Learning to question and to devise one's own answers is as important as learning math and language. We should let creativity run wild, with a clearly defined end goal. Kids should be allowed to use their creative brains and get them exposed to everyday problems to help them come up with solutions. Both hemispheres of our brain are equally important.The whole brain thinking needs to be encouraged and practiced from an earlier age.
Creativity education is also about education in the area of creativity. Creativity is the end in this case. The core to the mission of the creative education is “developing the next generation of innovators and thinkers. There are some techniques/strategies to implement in education such as PBL (problem-based learning) Collaborative/Cooperative learning and Project Oriented Learning, all of them foster creativity, but we have to remember that creativity is not something you can learn as a topic, is something you acquire and use, not just for learning, but for life itself, and, of course, to be creative you have to rely on freedom (of thinking, failing, trying, experimenting, saying, learning, doing, etc).
Collectively, as human society, inclusiveness is the soil to fertilize creativity, and educators are just like those skillful craftsmen or dedicated gardeners, to discover the innovative way to educate, to nurture creativity and keep it grow and mature. | <urn:uuid:1aa9e61c-0bb3-40d7-9c84-a74e08942b2d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://futureofcio.blogspot.com/2015/03/can-creativity-be-taught.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00125-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959345 | 966 | 2.8125 | 3 |
The physical beauty of the Galapagos Islands, their world-class wildlife, and the quality of the best yachts that cruise the archipelago, combine to make a well planned trip to the Galapagos a truly memorable experience that ranks near the top of many travellers' lifetime lists.
Beautiful and remote, the Galapagos was visited so little in history and settled so recently that its animals have not developed a fear of man. Walking on the islands will bring you right up close to courting or nesting sea birds, sun bathing iguanas, relaxing sea lions or perhaps even a rare giant tortoise ambling to its lunch. More often than not it will be you, not the wildlife, that decides how close you approach.
Snorkelling is wonderful, with the thrill of swimming with penguins, turtles and curious young sea lions - who seem to like nothing better than to show off their underwater acrobatics around you.
97% of the area of the Galapagos is a national park. Controls on access are strict. The only practicable way to see the islands is by boat visiting the sites approved by the park authorities. They control the number of boats and the standards they have to meet.
There are a few small settlements on the islands outside the national park where it is possible to stay onshore, but where you can go and what you will see is very limited. Day excursions by boat tend to be on small vessels and can be bouncy even in the light seas that are typical of most areas around the islands. | <urn:uuid:f4c18d14-fac2-44c0-9571-d0fa907cd4eb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.geodyssey.co.uk/galapagos/galapagos-cruises.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00066.warc.gz | en | 0.963458 | 324 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Salam. There are many nice words in the Malay Language. Examples of nice words are sorry maaf. I come late. Next is comelmu ..which means so nice of you. These words can attract us to live together in three big races in Malaysia. But after those nice words, man can use many bad words like bodoh (stupid ) and gilo ( mad). Bad words can break our hearts. Examples after making so nice lunch ..here comes a daddy who works as a policeman. Of course all people knows police take care of the towns around us. But being tired did not give you the right to say bad things to your wife. Examples bodoh punya pompuan. Masak pun tak pandai. The literal translation is ..stupid you minah .. you can't even cooked a simple food.
Of course..the lady is very angry. Not only they fought using bad words..between husband and wife ..but sometimes batu lesung/ rocket from the kitchen can hit at some one's face. If that happen, the biggest chance is someone will break somebody's nose or face. Next, more problem will come. Such as divorce and killing. See? There is a malay proverb which says terlajak perahu can go a u-turn but terlajak kata buruk padahnya. so i call myself and my dear readers ..please be considerate with our partners, friends and .. those who love you. Wallahu aklam bis sawab. | <urn:uuid:c38d68d1-f61b-49d0-b3e1-df9e1b8086f4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://nenez9595.blogspot.com/2014/04/bm-word-for-stupid-is.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00374-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93361 | 312 | 2.28125 | 2 |
More than 75% of all records are compromised because of the loss or theft of a privileged credential. Experts have been exploring Active Directory infrastructure to identify key threats and establish best practices for keeping data safe. Attend this month’s webinar to learn more.
How to quickly and accurately populate Word documents with Excel data, charts and images (including Automated Bookmark generation)
David Miller (dlmille)
In this article you’ll learn how to use ExcelToWord! to copy data,charts, shapes …
Freeze panes is an option within all variants of Excel to enable parts of a sheet to remain stationary when the cursor is in another part of the sheet. This is a very useful feature which is overlooked or under used.
Many functions in Excel can make decisions. The most simple of these is the IF function: it returns a value depending on whether a condition you describe is true or false. Once you get the hang of using the IF function, you will find it easier to us… | <urn:uuid:f9809738-47a7-47c9-abcc-5e3cc06f5fb7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28977106/Vba-and-formula-to-change-date.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00294-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.874019 | 209 | 1.617188 | 2 |
From the first, the decision to build the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Washington’s National Mall was controversial. The Mall is dedicated to enshrining the American experience, with its memorials to Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln. Yet at the time it had no memorials dedicated to the black or native American experience. Martin Luther King didn’t join the pantheon until 2001. The National Museum of the American Indian, opened only in 2004, was the first national museum in America dedicated exclusively to Native Americans.
There is no such thing as too many reminders of how six million Jews were systematically slaughtered by the Nazis and their willing confederates. But the fact of the matter is that the Holocaust didn’t happen in the U.S., the U.S. had no more direct involvement with the Nazi death camps than any other Allied country, and few Americans were direct victims. This was obviously not true of America’s own crimes against Native Americans and African Americans, the first constituting genocide, the second protracted crimes against humanity.
So it’s understandable why some felt it a curious priority to erect in the Mall a Holocaust memorial before one to blacks and aboriginals.
Nevertheless, the Museum immediately became the preeminent American institution of its kind, opened by President Bill Clinton himself. Each of Clinton’s predecessors had previously paid obligatory fealty to the god of “Never Again!”, a pledge each in turn soon violated — Jimmy Carter in Cambodia, Ronald Reagan in Guatemala and Iraq, George H. W. Bush in Bosnia. Naturally, nothing would do but that Clinton had to one-up them all.
Dramatically describing America’s response to the Holocaust as nothing less than “complicity” in what happened, he vowed that “We must not permit that to happen again.” That was on April 22,1993.
History does play its little tricks. Precisely one year to the day later, the Clinton administration led the UN Security Council in literally decimating General Romeo Dallaire’s UN Force in Rwanda, slashing it by 90 per cent and leaving an almost helpless rump force. This happened to be exactly two weeks into the genocide in Rwanda, when, as Bill Clinton was fully aware, tens of thousands of Rwanda Tutsi were being systematically slaughtered each and every day in one of the purest genocides on record.
As it happens, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, for which the Holocaust is of course the overwhelming concern, also has a secondary mandate related to genocide prevention and other genocide-like crises that humankind cannot seem to avoid. Appropriately enough, Rwanda has always received a certain attention, although some insist that recent crisis in Sudan have not.
Not least among Museum priorities has been combating the despicable phenomenon of Holocaust denial. Imagine the shock, then, when last January 9 an essay appeared on the Museum’s website that played directly into the hands of those malevolent forces that deny the genocide in Rwanda ever happened. Intended to launch the Museum’s recognition of the 20th anniversary of that genocide, it was written by one Michael Dobbs, someone not known to those of us who have studied Rwanda. Here is Dobbs’ central proposition: “Whether the genocide was planned, and was thus foreseeable, has been hotly debated by scholars, politicians and lawyers.” And he adduced some other information that he claimed added to this debate.
Here’s the significance: If it were unplanned, that meant the killings were spontaneous. If so, perhaps there was no intent to exterminate all Tutsi. If so, according to the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, there was no genocide at all.
This was not only deeply inflammatory, it was utterly untrue. There has never been a debate among experts as to whether the genocide was planned. All agree it was. There is no more legitimate debate here than there is on whether the Holocaust was planned. Just as with the Holocaust, experts disagree on details, but never on the central truth. Only supporters of the Hutu genocidaires and a small gang of cranks question the essential nature of the genocide in Rwanda. A few of us have worked hard to expose their notorious lies.
Sadly, a version of Dobbs’ essay then appeared as an opinion piece in the New York Times. Soon eleven of us with deep backgrounds in Rwanda, from four countries, sent a letter of rebuttal to the Times, which appeared on January 21, and another letter in confidence to the head of the Museum. As well, several members of our group contacted senior Museum officials. We demanded the obvious: that Dobbs’ piece be immediately removed from the Museum website.
Slowly these officials seemed to grasp why we were so angry and agitated. As they should know, nothing thrills deniers more than legitimate sources echoing their distortions. Yet the Dobbs post was not swiftly removed. Further contacts ensued. Still, inexplicably, it remained. It was a very poor show.
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New book: The Harwell Dekatron Computer
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New TNMOC book tells the story of the world's oldest working digital computer
The National Museum of Computing has published a book tracing the fascinating and varied history of the Harwell Dekatron / WITCH, the world's oldest working digital computer, which was restored and rebooted at the Museum in 2012.
The Harwell Dekatron Computer, by Kevin Murrell who rediscovered the Dekatron computer, and Delwyn Holroyd, who led the restoration team that brought the machine back to life, tells the story of the machine that has led a charmed life and defied the recyclers across seven decades to find a practical use again in 2013. It draws on the memories of many of those involved with the machine across the years from the original designers through users across the years to today's conservation team.
Designed in 1949 and first operational in 1951, the Harwell Dekatron was one of perhaps a dozen computers in the world at that time. As big as the wall of a living room, it clattered and flashed as it performed the work of human "computors" using hand calculators at Harwell from 1951-57.
Instead of being consigned to the recyclers when it became obsolete, it was offered in a competition to the educational establishment proposing the best use for it. Wolverhampton Institute of Technology recognised its potential in education, won the machine and renamed it the WITCH (the Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computation from Harwell). It operated there until 1973 when it was retired for a second time to a Birmingham museum and subsequently dismantled and left largely forgotten in safe storage.
Rediscovered by chance by TNMOC trustee Kevin Murrell in 2008, it was brought to TNMOC where it was restored and brought back to life much to the amazement of the world's media in November 2012.
Today, apart from being a star attraction at TNMOC, it is again used in education to show the beginnings of our information age and to enable students to see the dramatic inner workings of the world's oldest working digital computer.
The Harwell Dekatron Computer book, with 40 pages and more than 50 period and modern images, is available onsite at The National Museum of Computing shop for £6 and through Amazon.co.uk.
Notes To Editors
About The National Museum of Computing
The National Museum of Computing, located at Bletchley Park, is an independent charity housing the largest collection of functional historic computers in Europe, including a rebuilt Colossus, the world’s first electronic semi-programmable computer. The Museum enables visitors to follow the development of computing from the ultra-secret pioneering efforts of the 1940s through the mainframes of the 1960s and 1970s, the rise of personal computing in the 1980s and beyond.
New working exhibits are regularly unveiled and the public can already view a rebuilt and fully operational Colossus, the restoration of the Harwell Dekatron / WITCH computer, an ICL 2966, one of the workhorse mainframes computers of the 1980s, many of the earliest desktops of the 1980s and 1990s, plus the NPL Technology of the Internet Gallery.
Funders of the Museum include Bletchley Park Capital Partners, CreateOnline, Ceravision, InsightSoftware.com, Google UK, PGP Corporation, IBM, NPL, HP Labs, BCS, the Drapers' Foundation, Black Marble, and the School of Computer Science at the University of Hertfordshire.
The Museum is currently open to the public on Thursdays and Saturdays from 1pm, and on Bank Holidays in spring and summer. Guided tours are also available at 2.30pm on Tuesdays, 2pm Sundays and some other days. Groups may visit at other times by arrangement and special organisation Away-Days can be booked.
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May 22, 2013
Travis Wood and the Winds of Wrigley
One of the first axioms I learned when I wandered into the world of sports betting was to heed Wrigley Field’s winds. Wrigley’s proximity to Lake Michigan gave it a reputation for dramatically affecting fly balls, which would inflate or deflate the game over/under on runs. If the wind was blowing out, fly balls were expected to sail out as home runs, and the total would be unusually high. A low total typically meant that winds were blowing toward home plate, suppressing fly balls.
Vegas already knew this, which unfortunately added an additional dimension to handicapping Cubs home games. Amazingly though, this advice was extremely exploitable in fantasy baseball. An “@ChC” note next to my pitcher meant a trip to Baseball Weather Analyzer or Daily Baseball Data (two sweet resources) to examine Wrigley Field’s conditions that day. Flyball pitchers sat on blow-out days and started on blow-in days.
Chris Constancio of The Hardball Times investigated the effect of winds on HR/FB rates six years ago, and he observed statistically significant results in Chicago parks. I replicated his method on data from 2007 to the present and found that the Wrigley wind effect is stronger than ever. Over 508 games, here’s how pitchers performed in HR/FB rate, ERA, and slugging percentage allowed, split by Retrosheet’s wind field:>
Harry Pavlidis, one of BP’s many Cubs experts, notes that wind direction and speed can change within a game at Wrigley Field.
Unfolding “Other” into its respective “In” and “Out” bins yields an intuitive symmetry, indicative of Wrigley’s varying wind spells:
The distribution of wind events is not perfectly uniform from season to season, but even when divided into yearly buckets (so that talent is better controlled for), the outcomes are very apparent.
A considerable portion of the performance of pitchers in Wrigley was affected by the day’s wind condition. I retrieved the splits for starters with at least 45 innings pitched each in the “In” and “Out” states at Wrigley, since 1998:
No one was immune—not even The Professor. The effect is quite evident for starters with flyball tendencies like Wood, Lieber, and Lilly. Ultimately, the opposing wind extremes end up balancing each other out; taking the sum of all Wrigley Field numbers, the given rates are a sliver off league averages. However, the extremes might cause Wrigley pitchers to have more variation in their starts than a non-Wrigley pitcher.
The biggest beneficiary of the wind effect this season is Travis Wood. His 2.24 ERA ranks seventh in the NL, and every one of his nine starts has been deemed “quality.” Unsurprisingly, none of his six home starts featured a game with wind blowing in from the ivy:
The “wind schedule” has skewed favorably for Wood in these early months. Combined with some BABIP luck, he’s evaded the regression that is looming—so far. We know he can’t sustain a .193 BABIP forever. But if he continues to serendipitously find the wind behind him, there’s a chance that his HR/FB rate will keep floating around his current 6.5 percent mark, enabling him to outperform his peripherals. For his career pitching at Wrigley, Wood’s numbers reveal a massive dichotomy:
Travis Wood is a flyball pitcher like Kerry Wood before him, and the wind effect on his numbers is amplified. Hitters won’t continue slugging .818 against him with southwest winds, but if the trend is real, the .508 opponent slugging mark served by Wrigley pitchers under those circumstances in the past seven years can be expected.
Obviously, the Cubs can’t control Mother Nature, nor schedule its starters around her. Pitchers at Wrigley Field will always be, to a degree, at the mercy of its winds. The fiercest months—April and May—are nearly over, but the summer games will still see the occasional gusty afternoon. It’s a convincing reason to observe the weather, whether you’re debating a start/sit decision for a fantasy starter, or you’re the Cubs manager, pondering your offensive strategy. | <urn:uuid:f2b42af5-60f1-46e3-bf21-0ddb393419b4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?type=2&articleid=20658 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00251-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961453 | 951 | 1.75 | 2 |
By anita, on August 2, 2013
‘Obama’s, Race to the Top Agenda’ – States Under Republican Leadership Fall For the Carrot: Children Sold-Out for a Profit
The Next Generation Schools.
It’s easier to understand an agenda with a picture. A picture is worth a thousand words. The following graph was used in a power point presentation about how the Innovation Lab Network will change and redesign how American schools will function in the future. This is a ‘Race to the Top’ education model. The graph was taken from a power point presentation from the Stupski Foundation, the OECD, the international Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development, with a grant from the Chief State School Officers, CCSSO, about the Next Generation Schools, called the Innovation Lab Network.
These are the original states that are included in this pilot research project from Obama’s ‘Race to the Top’ -Maine, West Virginia, Wisconsin, New York, Kentucky, and Ohio. Race to the Top was funded from the Recovery Act with $400 billion dollars. Since that time waivers have been given to states that need flexibility in using their ESEA funding in the “No Child Left Behind” legislation to move toward this model since the current Congress has not passed a budget. More states are involved at this time. The most profound concept in this graph shows how the next generation school will eliminate representative government. Notice that the new system bypasses the community, governance, and finance. Draw your attention to the blue lines that are most important to this agenda. They are: your child, called human capital, assessment which is testing, technology, and any time and any place. Testing and technology become the most important part of this agenda to create the human capital of the future for the international global workforce.
How will abolishing representative government work? In order for this graph to become a reality, there are three barriers that must be removed. Community; families, parents, and churches must have no options or legal authority, only a choice of which school to send their children; Governance; your locally elected school board or other elected local or state officials that could become a hindrance will be eliminated or reduced to minor functions: parents will not have any voting power over a for- profit charter school; Finance; the neighborhood school no longer depends on your local tax base to fund schools under equality or leveling the field. The mantra that will be quoted is, under fairness and equity there should not be rich school districts or poor school districts, only schools. Your tax money will be pooled regionally or toward a county base to be distributed equally for each child. Federal funds will now fund individual students. Your elected school boards will no longer have the tax base from which to run their school. Your local neighborhood school will eventually be pushed out through academic bankruptcy and/or taken over by charter schools.
This is the new model for school choice. Federal monies, ESEA Title I, is being changed in new laws being proposed that will follow the individual child & IDEA will change the definitions of who can receive funds to include any child not meeting Common Core Standards (CCS) in an IEP, individual education plan similar to the special education plans for handicapped children. This will mean ANY & EVERY child can receive choice money to go to the school of their choice. The entry point solutions are the end results or the child meeting government Common Core Standards & what must be done to achieve these goals. This is a design down program, start with what the government wants & work backwards….what a child will know, do & be like, or beliefs, values & actions….Blooms taxonomy, the whole child theory.
This graph from the Next Generation Schools, Race to the Top agenda, spells out how to mold the child toward those objectives. It shows how representative government, as well as parents, will be erased from any authority in educating their children or how the schools of the future will function through a computerized monopoly of selected profit making corporations, otherwise known as corporate fascism.
This is the model for for-profit Charter Schools that use public tax payer funds with no elected school boards or taxpayer accountability and this is the model for the takeover of all education in America including private schools. Private schools are included because, when these stipends are given to each child under Choice from Title I which is being proposed in the new ESEA legislation in the federal budget supported by Republican Congressmen and Senators, Republican governors and unknowingly by many conservative groups, any child accepting that federal stipend to go to a charter, private, Catholic, Christian, home school, or other school, will be mandated under accountability, to take federal testing to meet the federal standards. Many tests are being aligned to the Common Core Standards using federal objectives from NAEP test item banks already validated to meet government goals. Inevitably this will control all education in the United States if you take the money. The CCSSO has had model legislation waiting in the wings for years. Perhaps we can ask why Governor Jeb Bush is in Maine pushing his Charter school agenda with his Foundation for Excellence in Education that is widespread in Florida? Legislation in Michigan, under Republican leadership, House Bill 6004 and Senate Bill 1358 would expand a separate and statewide school district (the EAA) overseen by a governor-appointed chancellor and functioning outside the authority of the State Board of Education or state school superintendent. These schools are exempt from the same laws and quality measures of community-governed public schools. The EAA can seize unused school buildings (built and financed by local taxpayers) and force sale or lease to charter, non-public or EAA schools. This is proof that there is some truth to an agenda of eliminating representative government.
Look at the corporations that are flooding into these states to get contracts and compare them to who has access to the personal data explained below. Research to create these individual models for individual children with individual needs to meet Common Core Standards has attracted big business. Big money is being made and businesses are lining up at the door to get their share. But at what price? PARCC, The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, a testing organization just applied for 501(c)(3) non-profit status which allows easy access to individual data under FERPA, Family Education Rights and Privacy Act. Smarter Balanced is another through Educational Testing Service,ETS. American College Testing, ACT, Pearson Foundation, Gates Foundation, & Wireless Generation already are feeding at the federal data trough. Republican governors have been hoodwinked into an agenda that is racing toward ending representative government & school as we know it.
Historical documentation from, ‘The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America’
by Charlotte Iserbyt, mentor & friend.
For information about testing attitudes & values, see “Getting Inside the EQA Inventory,” Pennsylvania Department of Education.
Stupski workshop presentation: Stupski PowerPoint Presentation
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Parts of Kincardine and Mearns could be opened up to fracking after they have been included in latest round of onshore licensing.
The UK Government Department for Energy and Climate change, launched this past week the 14th onshore licensing round, making parts south of Stonehaven, Laurencekirk and Inverbervie available for initial exploration.
Ministers opened the bidding process on Monday July 28, for companies seeking licences to explore for onshore oil and gas, to help discover how the gas under our feet can help power our homes.
The launch of this latest licensing round is the first in six years and follows the publication of research from the British Geological Survey.
Business and Energy Minister Matthew Hancock said: “Unlocking shale gas in Britain has the potential to provide us with greater energy security, jobs and growth. We must act carefully, minimising risks, to explore how much of our large resource can be recovered to give the UK a new home-grown source of energy. As one of the cleanest fossil fuels, shale gas can be a key part of the UK’s answer to climate change and a bridge to a much greener future.”
The local Green Party is voicing its concerns about the possibility of fracking taking place in the southen part of the Aberdeenshire Council area.
Rachel Shanks, spokesperson for Stonehaven Greens, said: “There will be understandable concern about the potential local environmental impact of fracking activity.
“More generally, we must urgently reduce the emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels or risk dangerous levels of climate change. We already know of more fossil fuel reserves than can be safely used. So it makes no sense to be seeking additional sources of fossil fuels.
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Philosophy of technology Information
Philosophical discussion of questions relating to technology (or its Greek ancestor techne) dates back to the very dawn of Western philosophy. The phrase "philosophy of technology" was first used in the late 19th century by German-born philosopher and geographer Ernst Kapp, who published a book titled Elements of a Philosophy of Technology (German title: Grundlinien einer Philosophie der Technik).
The western term 'technology' comes from the Greek term techne (τέχνη) (art, or craft knowledge) and philosophical views on technology can be traced to the very roots of Western philosophy. A common theme in the Greek view of techne is that it arises as an imitation of nature (for example, weaving developed out of watching spiders). Greek philosophers such as Heraclitus and Democritus endorsed this view. In his Physics, Aristotle agreed that this imitation was often the case, but also argued that techne can go beyond nature and complete "what nature cannot bring to a finish." Aristotle also argued that nature (physis) and techne are ontologically distinct because natural things have an inner principle of generation and motion, as well as an inner teleological final cause. While techne is shaped by an outside cause and an outside telos (goal or end) which shapes it. Natural things strive for some end and reproduce themselves, while techne does not. In Plato's Timaeus, the world is depicted as being the work of a divine craftsman ( Demiurge) who created the world in accordance with eternal forms as an artisan makes things using blueprints. Moreover, Plato argues in the Laws, that what a craftsman does is imitate this divine craftsman.
During the period of the Roman empire and late antiquity authors produced practical works such as Vitruvius' De Architectura (1st century BC) and Agricola's De Re Metallica (1556). Medieval Scholastic philosophy generally upheld the traditional view of technology as imitation of nature. During the Renaissance, Francis Bacon became one of the first modern authors to reflect on the impact of technology on society. In his utopian work New Atlantis (1627), Bacon put forth an optimistic worldview in which a fictional institution ( Salomon's House) uses natural philosophy and technology to extend man's power over nature - for the betterment of society, through works which improve living conditions. The goal of this fictional foundation is "...the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible".[ citation needed]
The native German philosopher and geographer Ernst Kapp, who was based in Texas, published the fundamental book "Grundlinien einer Philosophie der Technik" in 1877. Kapp was deeply inspired by the philosophy of Hegel and regarded technique as a projection of human organs. In the European context, Kapp is referred to as the founder of the philosophy of technology.
Another, more materialistic position on technology which became very influential in the 20th-century philosophy of technology was centered on the ideas of Benjamin Franklin and Karl Marx.[ citation needed]
Five early prominent 20th-century philosophers to directly address the effects of modern technology on humanity were John Dewey, Martin Heidegger, Herbert Marcuse, Günther Anders and Hannah Arendt. They all saw technology as central to modern life, although Heidegger, Anders, Arendt and Marcuse were more ambivalent and critical than Dewey. The problem for Heidegger was the hidden nature of technology's essence, Gestell or Enframing which posed for humans what he called its greatest danger and thus its greatest possibility. Heidegger's major work on technology is found in The Question Concerning Technology.
Contemporary philosophers with an interest in technology include Jean Baudrillard, Albert Borgmann, Andrew Feenberg, Langdon Winner, Donna Haraway, Avital Ronell, Brian Holmes, Don Ihde, Bruno Latour, Paul Levinson, Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla, Carl Mitcham, Leo Marx, Gilbert Simondon, Lewis Mumford, Jacques Ellul, Bernard Stiegler, Paul Virilio, Günter Ropohl, Nicole C. Karafyllis, Richard Sennett, Álvaro Vieira Pinto, George Grant and Yuk Hui.
While a number of important individual works were published in the second half of the twentieth century, Paul Durbin has identified two books published at the turn of the century as marking the development of the philosophy of technology as an academic subdiscipline with canonical texts. Those were Technology and the Good Life (2000), edited by Eric Higgs, Andrew Light, and David Strong and American Philosophy of Technology (2001) by Hans Achterhuis. Several collected volumes with topics in philosophy of technology have come out over the past decade and the journals Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology (the journal of the Society for Philosophy and Technology, published by the Philosophy Documentation Center) and Philosophy & Technology ( Springer) publish exclusively works in philosophy of technology. Philosophers of technology reflect broadly and work in the area and include interest on diverse topics of geoengineering, internet data and privacy, our understandings of internet cats, technological function and epistemology of technology, computer ethics, biotechnology and its implications, transcendence in space, and technological ethics more broadly.[ citation needed]
Bernard Stiegler argued in his Technics and Time, as well as in his other works, that the question of technology has been repressed (in the sense of Freud) by the history of philosophy. Instead, Stiegler showed how the question of technology constitutes the fundamental question of philosophy. Stiegler shows, for example in Plato's Memo, that technology is that which makes anamnesis, namely the access to truth, possible. Stiegler's deconstruction of the history of philosophy through technology as the supplement opens a different path to understand the place of technology in philosophy than the established field of philosophy of technology. In the same vein, philosophers - such as Alexander Galloway, Eugene Thacker, and McKenzie Wark in their book Excommunication - argue that advances in and the pervasiveness of digital technologies transform the philosophy of technology into a new 'first philosophy'. Citing examples such as the analysis of writing and speech in Plato's dialogue The Phaedrus, Galloway et al. suggest that instead of considering technology as a secondary to ontology, technology be understood as prior to the very possibility of philosophy: "Does everything that exists, exist to me presented and represented, to be mediated and remediated, to be communicated and translated? There are mediative situations in which heresy, exile, or banishment carry the day, not repetition, communion, or integration. There are certain kinds of messages that state 'there will be no more messages'. Hence for every communication there is a correlative excommunication."
There has been additional reflection focusing on the philosophy of engineering, as a sub-field within philosophy of technology. Ibo van de Poel and David E. Goldberg edited a volume, Philosophy and Engineering: An Emerging Agenda (2010) contains a number of research articles focused on design, epistemology, ontology and ethics in engineering.
Technology and neutrality
Technological determinism is the idea that "features of technology [determine] its use and the role of a progressive society was to adapt to [and benefit from] technological change." The alternative perspective would be social determinism which looks upon society being at fault for the "development and deployment" of technologies. Lelia Green used recent gun massacres such as the Port Arthur Massacre and the Dunblane Massacre to selectively show technological determinism and social determinism. According to Green, a technology can be thought of as a neutral entity only when the sociocultural context and issues circulating the specific technology are removed. It will be then visible to us that there lies a relationship of social groups and power provided through the possession of technologies. A compatibilist position between these two positions is the interactional stance on technology proposed by Batya Friedman that states that social forces and technology co-construct and co-vary with one another.
- Critique of technology
- Ethics of technology
- Great Stirrup Controversy
- History of technology
- Industrial sociology
- List of philosophers of technology
- Philosophy of artificial intelligence
- Philosophy of computer science
- Philosophy of engineering
- Technological evolution
- Theories of technology
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The city is located in the southeast of Wiltshire, near the edge of Salisbury Plain. Its cathedral was formerly located to the north at Old Sarum; following its relocation, a settlement grew up around it, drawing residents from Old Sarum and Wilton. The new town received its city charter in 1227 under the name , which continued to be its official name until 2009, when the Salisbury City Council was established. It sits at the confluence of five rivers: the Nadder, Ebble, Wylye, and Bourne are tributary to the Hampshire Avon, which flows to the south coast and into the sea at Christchurch in Dorset. Salisbury railway station serves the city and is a regional interchange, marking the crossing point between the West of England Main Line and the Wessex Main Line.
Stonehenge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is about northwest of Salisbury and greatly aids the local economy. The city itself, Old Sarum, the present cathedral and the ruins of the former one also attract visitors.
The hilltop at Old Sarum lies near the Neolithic sites of Stonehenge and Avebury and shows some signs of early settlement. It commanded a salient between the River Bourne and the Hampshire Avon near a crossroads of several early trade routes. During the Iron Age, a hillfort (oppidum) was constructed around it sometime between 600 and 300 . The Romans may have occupied the site or left it in the hands of an allied tribe. Amid the Saxon invasions, Old Sarum fell to King Cynric of Wessex in 552. Preferring settlements in bottomland like nearby Wilton, the Saxons largely ignored Old Sarum until the Viking invasions led to restore its fortifications. Along with Wilton, however, it was abandoned by its residents to be sacked and burned by the Dano-Norwegian king Sweyn Forkbeard in 1003. It subsequently became the site of Wilton's mint. Following the Norman invasion, a motte-and-bailey castle was constructed by 1070. The castle was held directly by the Norman kings; its castellan was generally also the sheriff of Wiltshire.
In 1075, the Council of London established Herman as the first bishop of Salisbury, uniting his former sees of Sherborne and Ramsbury into a single diocese which covered the counties of Dorset, Wiltshire, and Berkshire. (He had earlier planned to move his seat to Malmesbury but was blocked by its monks and Earl Godwin.) Hermann and his successor Saint Osmund began the construction of the first Salisbury cathedral but neither lived to see its completion in 1092. Osmund was a cousin of William the Conqueror and Lord Chancellor of England; he was responsible for the codification of the Sarum Rite, the compilation of the Domesday Book (which was probably presented to William at Old Sarum), and—after centuries of advocacy from Salisbury's bishops—was finally canonized by Pope in 1457. The cathedral was consecrated on 5 April 1092 but suffered extensive damage in a storm, traditionally said to have occurred only five days later. Bishop Roger was a close ally of who served as his viceroy during the king's absence to Normandy and directed the royal administration and exchequer along with his extended family. He refurbished and expanded Old Sarum's cathedral in the 1110s and began work on a royal palace during the 1130s, prior to his arrest by Henry's successor Stephen. After this arrest, the castle at Old Sarum was allowed to fall into disrepair but the sheriff and castellan continued to administer the area under the king's authority.
Bishop Hubert Walter was instrumental in the negotiations with Saladin during the Third Crusade, but he spent little time in his diocese prior to his elevation to archbishop of Canterbury. The brothers Herbert and Richard Poore succeeded him and began planning the relocation of the cathedral into the Salisbury Plain almost immediately. Their plans were approved by but repeatedly delayed: Herbert was first forced into exile in Normandy in the 1190s by the hostility of his archbishop Walter and then again to Scotland in the 1210s owing to royal hostility following the papal interdiction against . The secular authorities were particularly incensed, according to tradition, owing to some of the clerics debauching the castellan's female relations. In the end, the clerics were refused permission to reënter the city walls following their rogations and processions. This caused Peter of Blois to describe the church as "a captive within the walls of the citadel like the ark of God in the profane house of Baal". He advocated
His successor and brother Richard Poore who finally removed the cathedral to a new town on his estate at Veretes Sarisberias ("Old Salisburies") in 1220. The site was at "Myrifield" ("Merryfield"), a meadow near the confluence of the River Nadder and the Hampshire Avon. It was first known as "New Sarum" or . The town was laid out on a grid.
Work on the new cathedral building—the present Salisbury Cathedral—began in 1221. The site was supposedly established by shooting an arrow from Old Sarum, although this is certainly a legend: the distance is over . (The legend is sometimes emended to claim that the arrow struck a white deer, which continued to run and died on the spot where the cathedral now rests.) The structure was built upon wooden faggots on a gravel bed with unusually shallow foundations of and the main body was completed in only 38 years. (The tall spire, the tallest in the UK, was built later.) With royal approval, many of the stones for the new cathedral were taken from the old one; others came from Chilmark. They were probably transported by ox-cart owing to the obstruction to boats on the River Nadder caused by its many weirs and watermills. The cathedral is considered a masterpiece of Early English architecture. The spire's large clock was installed in 1386, the oldest surviving mechanical clock in Britain. The Cathedral also contains the best-preserved of the four surviving copies of the Magna Carta.
New Sarum was made a city by a charter from in 1227 and, by the 14th century, was the largest settlement in Wiltshire. The city wall surrounds the Close and was built in the 14th century, again with stones removed from the former cathedral at Old Sarum. The wall now has five gates: the High Street Gate, Gate, the Queen's Gate, and Gate were the original ones while a fifth was constructed in the 19th century to allow access to Bishop Wordsworth's School in the Cathedral Close. During his time in the city, the composer Handel stayed in a room above St Ann's gate. The original site of the city at Old Sarum, meanwhile, fell into disuse. It continued as a rotten borough: at the time of its abolishment during the reforms of 1832, its MP represented three households.
In May 1289, there was uncertainty about the future of Margaret, Maid of Norway, and her father sent ambassadors to Edward I. Edward met Robert the Bruce and others at Salisbury in October 1289, which resulted in the Treaty of Salisbury, under which Margaret would be sent to Scotland before 1 November 1290 and any agreement on her future marriage would be delayed until she was in Scotland.
In 1450, a number of riots broke out in Salisbury at roughly the same time Jack Cade led a famous rebellion through London. The riots occurred for related reasons, although the declining fortunes of Salisbury's cloth trade may have also been influential. The violence peaked with the murder of the bishop William Ayscough, who been involved with the government. In 1483, a large-scale rebellion against Richard III broke out, led by his own 'kingmaker', Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham. After the revolt collapsed, Buckingham was executed at Salisbury, near the Bull's Head Inn. In 1664, an act for making the River Avon navigable from Christchurch to the city of New Sarum was passed and the work completed, only for the project to be ruined shortly thereafter by a major flood. Soon after, during the Great Plague of London, Charles II held court in Salisbury's cathedral close.
Salisbury was the site chosen to assemble James II's forces to resist the Glorious Revolution. He arrived to lead his approximately men on 19 November 1688. His troops were not keen to fight Mary or her husband William, and the loyalty of many of James's commanders was in doubt. The first blood was shed at Wincanton, in Somerset. In Salisbury, James heard that some of his officers had deserted, such as Edward Hyde, and he broke out in a nosebleed which he took as an omen that he should retreat. His commander in chief, the Earl of Feversham, advised retreat on 23 November, and the next day John Churchill deserted to William. On 26 November, James's own daughter, Princess Anne, did the same, and James returned to London the same day, never again to be at the head of a serious military force in England.
At the time of the 1948 Summer Olympics, held in London, a relay of runners carried the Olympic Flame from Wembley Stadium, where the Games were based, to the sailing centre at Torbay via Slough, Basingstoke, Salisbury, and Exeter.
The 1972 Local Government Act eliminated the administration of the City of New Sarum under its former charters, but its successor—Wiltshire County's Salisbury District—continued to be accorded its former city status. The name was finally formally emended from "New Sarum" to "Salisbury" during the 2009 changes occasioned by the 1992 Local Government Act, which established the Salisbury City Council. | <urn:uuid:8c5ac654-cdf5-4bb6-ae9b-cda6b75cf316> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Place:Salisbury%2C_Wiltshire%2C_England | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00062-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982737 | 2,059 | 3.15625 | 3 |
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Now that you’ve had a week to process the meaning of “private flood insurance” and how that definition affects your institution, welcome to part II of our analysis of the new private flood insurance rule. In this article, we will discuss optional acceptance of private policies as well as those issued by mutual aid societies, and then wrap up by looking at some practical aspects of the new rule.
While every lender must accept a policy that meets the definition of “private flood insurance,” a lender has the option to accept a private policy that falls short of that definition. Even so, the policy must meet all of the following requirements:
- The policy must be issued by an insurance company that is licensed, admitted or otherwise approved in the state where the property to be insured is located, including surplus lines insurers that are recognized or not disapproved by the applicable insurance regulator.
- The policy must provide coverage in an amount required by the flood insurance purchase requirements.
- The policy must cover both the mortgagor and the mortgagee as loss payees, unless it is a policy provided and paid for by a condominium association, homeowners association or other applicable group.
- The lender must document that the policy provides sufficient protection for the loan, consistent with general safety and soundness principles.
Factors to consider when determining whether the policy sufficiently protects the loan:
- Does the insurer provide adequate cancellation notice to the mortgagor and mortgagee to ensure timely force-placement, if necessary?
- Are the loss payment terms and aggregate limits adequate to protect the lender’s interest in the collateral?.
- Does the policy comply with state insurance laws?
- Does the provider have the financial strength, solvency and ability to satisfy claims?
Additionally, lenders have the option to accept policies issued by mutual aid societies that do not meet the definition of “private flood insurance.” A mutual aid society is an organization:
- Whose members share a common religious, charitable, educational or fraternal bond
- That covers the losses caused by damage to members’ properties pursuant to an agreement, including damage caused by flooding, in accordance with this common bond
- That has demonstrated a history of fulfilling the terms of the agreement to cover the losses to members’ property caused by flooding
Assuming a mutual aid society that meets the definition above provides the policy, a lender may optionally accept the policy if it meets all of the following criteria:
- The institution’s primary supervisory agency has determined that such plan qualifies as flood insurance for purposes of the Federal flood insurance statutes.
- The policy meets the amount of coverage for losses specified in the flood insurance purchase requirement.
- The policy covers both the mortgagor and the mortgagee as loss payees.
- The regulated lending institution has documented that the policy provides sufficient protection for the loan.
The flood escrow requirement only applies if the borrower is paying for the private flood policy. If the mutual aid society pays for the policy, then the flood escrow requirement does not apply.
So, how does this new rule really affect individual lenders in a practical setting? The reality is that most existing private flood policies will not meet the definition of “private flood insurance,” leaving lenders with the option of accepting policies under the less stringent discretionary provisions. Interestingly, several agencies have already indicated that they rarely expect to make determinations that policies provided by “mutual aid societies” qualify as flood insurance. So, the opportunity to allow this type of policy will likely be somewhat limited.
Lenders already accepting private flood policies are currently doing so under guidance that is very similar to the provisions found in the final rule, so the compliance burden on these lenders is expected to be minimal.
The real burden will come for those lenders that are not currently accepting private flood policies. These lenders will need to update policies, develop procedures and implement training to bring staff up to speed on the discretionary acceptance criteria.
Lastly, all lenders will need to be certain they have the tools in place to recognize those policies that meet the definition of “private flood insurance” in the event they encounter a policy that does not contain the compliance aid. If your ears just perked up, and you are not sure what “compliance aid” means, please see part I of this article from last week’s newsletter. In the end, the rule is straightforward and less restrictive than originally proposed. Keep in mind, the Temenos Advisory Team is always here to support you as we move towards the July 1 effective date. | <urn:uuid:95854a8f-1e89-4612-8eb5-8f1520659341> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.temenos.com/news/2019/03/27/part-ii-keeping-your-head-above-the-water/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00479.warc.gz | en | 0.945099 | 939 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Planetary scientists answer Mars mystery
NASA's Curiosity rover piqued interest after discovering tridymite at Gale Crater in 2016
A team of researchers from Rice University, NASA's Johnson Space Center, and the California Institute of Technology have a new scenario that explains the mineral's presence.
Tridymite is a high-temperature, low-presure form of quartz that is extrememely rare on Earth.
Gale Crater was chosen as a landing site due the suspicion that it once held water, with the rover finding evidence the crater was actually a lake one billion years ago.
The team reevaluated data from every reported tridymite find on Earth, reviewed volcanic materials from Mars models, and reexamined sedimentary evidence from the crater lake.
The scenario that matched all the evidence was that Martian magma partially cooled in a sub-volcano chamber, undergoing fractional crystallisation until extra silicon was available.
The reesearchers say that a massive eruption spewed the extra silicon in the form of tridymite into the crater lake and surrounding rivers. Water helped break down the ash and sort the minerals.
This scenario also explains other geochemical evidence found in the sample from Curiosity, including opaline silicates and reduced aluminium oxide concentrations. | <urn:uuid:7f167558-7bf7-4263-8262-d4014422669a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.iom3.org/resource/planetary-scientists-answer-mars-mystery.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.93519 | 264 | 4.09375 | 4 |
Many people have gotten better without the use of medicine and many successful people have said that if you put your mind to it, you can do many great things. Why would someone be unwell, if they felt they were alright? People can use their minds to do all sorts of things, why not heal?
For trials, it's a resounding, unqualified yes. Without placebos, how can we know that a medication is truly effective?
For actual treatment, only sometimes. The American culture has a lot of hypochondriacs, with commercials for medicines all over TV and people who panic and suddenly the reason why they fidget at night must be restless leg syndrome! If someone doesn't have a disease that actually needs treatment, handing out a placebo is much easier than trying to convince them that they're fine (ought to be last resort, though, and preferably for habitual complainers).
Also, sometimes adding a placebo to real treatment can help efficacy. The brain is powerful, and if we can make it work for us, why not do so?
I think that as long as they are used effectively and at a time when someone's health would not be put in immediate peril or otherwise compromised in some way, then yes, placebo treatments should indeed be used in medicine. They can actually be quite effective at times for people.
I think in this day and age, too many people are self diagnosing themselves. Even worse, people see all these ads for prescription drugs, and they automatically think that they need them. I think it could be beneficial or have interesting results if placebos are given out. As long as the patient doesn't have a live or death situation and needs real drugs, I think it couldn't hurt.
Placebos are about 22% effective at treating disease X (give or take) with conventional medicine anywhere between 30-90% effective at treating disease X. So off the bat the real medicine is more effective, and ironically people are just as if not more likely to get serious side effects from the placebo then the real medicine when they believe it to be strong medicine (Not aspirin). An additional problem presents itself and its called the Anebo effect. It's the exact opposite of the placebo effect, if a patient believes the treatment is less effective or not real, they are less likely to heal then if they got a placebo and believed it was real (Singulair Clinical Trials) and the difference is significant, about the same as the placebo effect. | <urn:uuid:55e9a580-d50f-4ceb-a4e2-60163ef6f958> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.debate.org/opinions/should-placebo-treatments-be-used-in-medicine | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00345-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971956 | 505 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Applies to Kaspersky Administration Kit 8.0
Network Agent provides communication between the Administration Server and Kaspersky Lab antivirus software installed on a network node (workstation or server). Thus, it is necessary to install the component Network Agent on all PCs which will be controlled via Kaspersky Administration Kit.
When you install the component Administration Server, a special version of Network Agent will be installed along with it. It can only be removed together with the Administration Server.
Network Agent distribution package makes part of the Kaspersky Administration Kit complex and is uniform for almost all Kaspersky Lab applications for Windows which allow remote control. During installation of Administration Server, an Network Agent installation package will be created in the console tree node Repositories > Installation Packages. The physical location of its installation files is the folder C:\Program Files\Kaspersky Lab\Kaspersky Administration Kit\Share\Packages\NetAgent 8.0.*.
It is possible to install Network Agent either manually or remotely via an application deployment task or Active Directory group policies. You can also create a self-extracting archive containing Network Agent installation files and make this .exe file available on a shared resource.
During Network Agent installation it is necessary to specify parameters of an Administration Server it will connect to. In order to provide these parameters, a configuration file containing Administration Server parameters is included into the installation package when you prepare Network Agent distribution package for remote installation. Due to it, if you are using non-standard means to install Network Agent, a folder with a ready Network Agent installation package should be used.
If later you decide to restructure your logical network, you will be able to “redirect” the Agent to another Server. Run a Change Kaspersky Administration Server task to do it.
Once the Network Agent has been installed, its settings are configured via Network Agent policy. To avoid loss of connection between Network Agent and Administration Server, do not change Administration Server settings in the Network Agent policy!
Due to some software-specific features, you should use special Network Agent builds to remotely control the following Kaspersky Lab applications:
- Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.6 for ISA Server 2000 Enterprise Edition is controlled via Network Agent version 5.0.0474.
- Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.7 for Novell Netware is controlled via the Network Agent version provided and installed along with it.
- Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.7 for Linux Workstations and File Servers - the Network Agent distribution package is located in the same folder as the Kaspersky Anti-Virus distribution package.
- Kaspersky Mobile Security 7.0 Enterprise Edition - is controlled via the Network Agent version provided and installed along with Kaspersky Mobile Security 7.0 Enterprise Edition.
- Kaspersky Endpoint Security 8 for Smartphone - is controlled via the Network Agent version provided and installed along with the Kaspersky Endpoint Security 8 for Smartphone.
- Kaspersky Endpoint Security 8 for Mac - is controlled via the Network Agent version provided and installed along with the Kaspersky Endpoint Security 8 for Mac.
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If you’ve been making the conversion from shooting stills to shooting DSLR video you probably have an array of lenses from the stills days.
If you are solely doing video, there may be a lot of sense to convert your stills lenses to cine lenses. Caleb Pike has a great tutorial on converting your DSLR lenses to easily accommodate a video workflow.
Caleb starts with a set of 3 Olympus OM lenses: 35-70 F4, 75-150 F4 and 50mm F1.8 at total of about $200 and lists a few major differences between the way DSLR lenses are built and the way cine lenses are built, he also explains how to adjust the lens for cine use.
- Lens mount conversion – With the lenses being Olympus OM lenses, a set of $15 OM to Canon adapters are used to make them Canon fitted, of course, if you are running a different system, you need different adapters.
- De-clicking the Aperture ring – This is a big one, and it allows having the lens tuned to just the right amount of light and just the right amount of bokeh. IT is not trivial at all, so watch Caleb’s channel for a video on de-clicking which he will release soon.
- Adding standardized lens gears – Adding 0.8 pitch cinema lens gears allows you to use follow focus while you shooting.
- Matching the front-end filter size – Cinema lenses and adapters have 3 standard filter thread sizes: 80mm, 95mm and 114mm. The “mess” us photographers have with various lenses thread sizes makes it hard to use standard matte boxes and other accessories, Caleb recommends adding 80mm cine rings converters to all the lenses so they become a cine-standard.
The cost of the three lenses plus the conversion is about $431. That’s not bad for a set of lenses.
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Strong hold over fundamentals and in-depth knowledge of the specified subject are the keys to crack the GATE exam. The GATE exam is really one of the challenging exams of India. : Candidates needs to prepare for the exam right from the beginning and in a systematic manner
Tips to make preparation for GATE Exams
1) At the first step, you should gain knowledge about the fundamentals of your technical subject. Once your base is ready than test yourself on different parameters.
2) Notice where you stand in competition. Mock test will give you a percentile providing you a clear picture of the competition in the industry and your preparations.
3) You need to clear every doubt on every single topic on the technical subject of your field. Practice hard on numerical portion of subject as they can give you full marks.
4) Collect the complete syllabus of the GATE exam as per your technical field.
5) Begin your studies with the portion of the syllabus that you have already studied in your earlier classes as it can boost your confidence level.
6) In the GATE examination 25 marks are for the mathematics portion. This portion of the syllabus can help you to make good marks as math is simple as compared to technical part of the syllabus.
7) Give equal attention to aptitude part as well as it carries 15 marks. This portion of the syllabus is also easy to score.
8) There is negative marking in GATE exams, therefore answer only those questions that you are sure of.
Top coaching institutions such as IES Academy can provide you full support and guide you well to make your career in GATE. Experienced and professional coaching, well-structured study material and mock test sessions will provide complete help for you to prepare for GATE exam.
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August 19-21, 2019
Pinnacle Harbourfront Hotel
The Learning First Peoples Summer Institute is designed to support educators to bring quality, authentic First Peoples teaching and learning into BC classrooms.
The three sessions, which may be selected individually, will introduce resources that focus on themes, issues and topics of importance to First Peoples learning and informed by the First Peoples Principles of Learning. Each session will include print resources, activities and opportunities for professional dialogue and networking.
Registration opens soon!
Aug. 19, 2019 BC First Nation Land, Title and Governance Teacher Resource Guide (Elem/Sec)
The BC First Nation Land, Title and Governance Teacher Resource Guide for elementary and secondary grades is a new resource that will help educators introduce students to BC First Nations’ diverse systems of governance before contact, historical and present day impacts of colonization on First Peoples governance, contemporary First Peoples government systems, First Nation land and title issues, including the modern day BC treaty process and its alternatives. At this workshop, participants will receive a copy of the teacher resource guide, collaboratively explore its units/lessons, discuss implementation of lessons/activities, and network with other educators. Registration $30.
Aug. 20, 2019 Integrating First Peoples Principles of Learning, Knowledge and Perspectives in Classrooms (Elem/Sec)
The First Peoples Principles of Learning are making an impact on our education systems, but we have only begun to understand how they can be used as a framework to build a stronger education systems for all learners. This workshop is designed to help educators effectively integrate First Peoples knowledge/perspectives and the First Peoples Principles of Learning into classrooms and schools. Participants will examine how we can create an equitable education system that supports the success and well-being of First Nations learners as a part of reconciliation through education, and will receive a selection of teacher resources from the First Nations Education Steering Committee and the First Nations Schools Association. Registration $30.
Aug. 21, 2019 Secondary Science First Peoples Teacher Resource Guide
The FNESC/FNSA Secondary Science First Peoples Teacher Resource Guide helps educators respectfully integrate BC First Peoples science knowledge and perspectives into secondary science courses. The guide includes thematic units focussing Indigenous Science Perspectives, Transformation and Evolution, Relationships to Fresh-Water, Shaping the Land, Place-Based Ethnobotany Inquiry, Salmon and Interconnectedness, Connecting Climate Change and Food Security, Forests and First Peoples, and Hunting and Trapping. All participants will receive a copy of the teacher resource guide, collaboratively explore its units, discuss implementation of the lessons/activities, and participate in collegial discussions with other educators. Registration $30.
Planning your Trip
Eligibility to Attend
- First Nations school, public school and independent school educators are eligible to attend.
- Max. 60 people per session.
- Registration Deadline: August 2, 2019 or when capacity is reached
- $30 per session
- Credit card: Credit card is accepted online during registration or phone in credit card payment to CivicInfo at 250-383-4898.
- Cheques: Payable to First Nations Education Steering Committee c/o CivicInfo Mail to: CivicInfo BC, #203 – 4475 Viewmont Avenue, Victoria BC, V8Z 6L8.
- Participant name must be included with the cheque.
- Registration fees must be received by August 2, 2019 or your registration will be cancelled.
- Session 9:00 am to 3:30 pm
- Breakfast (8:30am) and lunch provided.
Venue and Accommodation
- Pinnacle Harbourfront, 1133 W. Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC
- Book by July 18, 2019 quoting FNESC Learning First Peoples Summer Institute for the negotiated rate of $259+tx.
- Reservations: 1-844-337-3118 or http://tiny.cc/jexm5y
- Travel/hotel reimbursement is available only to teachers from BC First Nations schools, maximum 3 per school, per session.
- Travel claims must be mailed to FNESC post-marked within 30 days of the event to be eligible for reimbursement. Include original receipts for hotel, ferry, airplane, taxi, bus and parking.
- A travel claim form will be provided at the event and a sample is available to review (subject to change). A summary of FNESC policies is on the reverse side
- When you register online, you will receive an automatic email confirming your registration.
- You will only be reimbursed for “most economical” mode of travel.
- Only individuals eligible for travel reimbursement and living more than 1 hour or 90 km from the event location can apply for required nights of hotel reimbursed. The maximum reimbursed is the negotiated rate.
- Please do not claim breakfasts or lunches on the meeting day because they are provided.
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Ms. Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chairperson, SBI, has rightly identified her six top priorities. There is no need to deviate from them, because India Inc. is pressing to cut lending rates. There is also no need to reduce interest rates on home loans, introducing such methods as teaser rates. Indian Public Sector Banks, having financed Home Loans at prices far higher than the intrinsic value of the underlying structures, now face a similar situation which American Banks and Investment Houses faced in 2008, when Sub-Prime Mortgage Loans became a problem in that country. As pointed out by Mr. Raghuram Rajan, RBI Governor, there is a need to cut the prices of Houses. According to news reports though in some cities like Mumbai and Delhi, Realtors have reduced prices, they have also reduced the size of the houses, and even the minimum fixtures. All the housesites in our Cities have gone into the hands of speculators, and builders are forced to purchase sites at very high prices and build flats thereon. Besides, there is the element of payment of bribes, for various purposes right from the conception stage to actual delivery to buyers. Consequently, home prices have gone beyond the paying capacities of even higher income group employees, not to speak of lower middle class, which has stopped thinking about owing a lifetime home. Till such a time, the Central and State Governments take truly effective steps to control house site prices and flat prices, it will be better if Banks exercise restraints in financing Home Loans.
Mrs. Nazma Heptullah is reported to have said as under. श्रीमति नज्मा हॆप्तुल्ला, मीडिया रिपोर्टों के अनुसार, यह कह दी। మీడియా రిపోర్టులననుసరించి, మైనారిటీ వ్యవహారాల కేంద్ర మంత్రిణి శ్రీమతి నజ్మా హెప్తుల్లా గారు ఇలా అన్నారు:-
People of all faiths are totally safe under Narendra Modi Administration.
श्री नरेंद्र मोदी के परिपालन में सभी धर्मों के जनता, संपूर्ण रीती में भद्र स्थित है।
శ్రీ నరేంద్ర మోడీ గారి పరిపాలనలో, అన్ని మతాల వారూ, సంపూర్ణ మైన భద్రతతో ఉన్నారు.
Let us allow it to go. At least, Ms. Nazma Heptulla, and her Minister-post are safe. हम इस बात को छोड देंगे। कम से कम, श्रीमति हॆप्तुल्लाजी, और उसकी मंत्री पद, भद्र है न। పోనిద్దాము. కనీసం హెప్తుల్లా గారైనా, భద్రంగా ఉన్నారు కదా. ఆమె పదవైనా భద్రంగా ఉన్నది కదా.
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Film Distributors are the unsung heroes of cinema. Without them, the film industry would grind to a halt. Drawing on the archives of the Film Distributors' Association (FDA), as well as on interviews with leading British distributors of today, Delivering Dreams tells the, largely unacknowledged, story of how films were, and are, brought to British cinema-goers. It profiles some of the most flamboyant and controversial figures involved in UK distribution over the last 100 years, ranging from the founders of huge companies to visionaries who have launched small art house labels. Geoffrey MacNab also explores how the sector has reacted to a rapidly changing market and technological environment, from the transition to sound in the late 1920s to the spectre of TV in the 1950s and the move to digital in the 2000s. Ranging from the films of Charlie Chaplin to The King's Speech, and published to coincide with the centenary of the FDA's creation in December 1915, this book highlights the crucial role that distributors have played in maintaining the solid foundations of the British film industry.
Read an extract of Delivering Dreams
Table of Contents
Unsung heroes: Foreword by David Puttnam
Introduction 1. The Tramp 2. Blackmail 3. The Private Life of Henry VIII 4. The Third Man 5. Trouble in Store 6. Dr No 7. Star Wars 8. Chariots of Fire 9. Trainspotting 10. Billy Elliot 11. The King's Speech | <urn:uuid:ab534a90-a2d5-47fb-be6c-ac7edca3ffc9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/delivering-dreams-9781784534899/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.912421 | 306 | 2.078125 | 2 |
A job calls for generally routine order filling and servicing. Should the sales manager hire the best, highest qualified candidate available? (Notice that this is "trick" wording.)
For a position in sales, would you hire students right out of college or would you hire seasoned professionals?
What is a polygraph test? Honesty test? Aptitude test? Knowledge test? How do each of these work? How is each supposed to work? What are some legal issues associated with these? What are some problems and advantages to these?
Do you think that a test should be used in the salesperson selection process?
RESPONSIBILITY FOR STAFFING:
You could be interviewed by a recruiter from the corporate home office (centralized) or could be interviewed by a local district sales manager (decentralized). In some cases, initial screening will be centralized, but final selection will be made by the local sales manager.
There are advantages and disadvantages of each of these to the organization. As the job candidate, however, keep in mind that a district sales manager has different objectives than a professional corporate recruiter who might never have worked in sales.
THINGS A SALES ORGANIZATION DOES BEFORE RECRUITING:
study of the job by observing and surveying what people actually do in the job
formal description of:
individual traits and characteristics required to perform the job well
SOURCES OF SALESPEOPLE
FEDERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR
NONDISCRIMINATORY PERSONNEL POLICIES
Are male and female brains different? If a married couple is lost, who, in any culture, will likely be the one that doesn't want to ask for directions?
Do customers prefer relationships with people who have had similar life experiences?
Are younger people more flexible, or do older people have more wisdom? With whom do customers better relate?
Could people with attention deficit/ hyperactivity disorder have characteristics which give them advantages in many sales positions?
BACKGROUND AND CREDIT CHECKS
A substantial proportion of job applicants lie about salaries, job responsibilities, and educational background: DON'T GET CAUGHT.
What is the relationship between test scores and performance? How should you answer a question such as, "have you ever wanted to write a college text book?" Aptitude tests are used to create a profile of the applicant which can be matched to the more successful salespeople in an organization. A profile of the top salespeople in one organization can be different from the top salespeople in another organization. That is, you can take the same aptitude test for two different organizations and receive a high score for one and a low score for the other.
Don't try to "fake" the answers to an aptitude test because you really do not know what might be the "right" answer. Importantly, you want to work for a company for which you generate an aptitude profile which matches well with the more successful people in the organization - this is a suggestion that you, too, have a high probability of success in that particular environment.
Are test results always valid - does a test measure what it is supposed to be measuring? Polygraph tests (lie detector machines) are not used so much anymore because they are subjective in interpretation. Unfortunately, some rather absurd consulting activities have come to serve as substitutes. If asked if we have ever stolen anything from an employer, many of us would emphatically answer "no." When a test with this answer is sent to the consultant who is evaluating you from afar, you could be labeled as someone who does not tell the truth. The reasoning is that everyone has taken home at least a pencil at some time in their lives, so, according to the consultant, anyone who claims never to have stolen anything must necessarily be a liar. For most of us, such a test would lack validity.
Absurd tests come and go. One sales management textbook from 1912 teaches the use of phrenology and physiognomy, bogus "sciences" of the late 1800s. Phrenologists claimed that they could predict thiefs, liars, and good salespeople by feeling the bumps on people's heads. Physiognomists claimed that they could predict such personal characteristics by looking at facial features, such as the shape of one's chin or forehead. A person with eyes that are close together, for example, would be labeled as having tendencies to be a thief.
Would you really want to work for an organization that selected you, in part, on the basis of an analysis of your handwriting?
Field salespeople often must endure a great amount of stress and frustration, must do extensive travel, and must haul heavy equipment.
For what sorts of sales positions is physical condition a bone fide occupational requirement? For what sorts of positions is it not?
Note that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) now prohibits a pre-employment medical exam, but this can be a condition of employment once an offer has been made.
Does this mean that you should use cute, attention-grabbing tactics such as bright colored paper? Does listing the courses that you took in college gain someone's attention? Does a statement of objective indicating that you want "a rewarding position that allows me to achieve personal growth" gain the reader's attention? What are the reader's needs and wants, and how does your resume and cover letter show them in eight seconds that you have what they need and want?
How do you apply the seven-step selling process
to a job interview? How can you do a trial close? Should you
ask for referrals? What are some methods of follow-up: should you
make inquiries on the phone, should you send a thank-you letter?
You have something for sale, and so you should
treat this just like any sales call in which you want to sell something.
HOWEVER, you are selling a scarce resource: you can work for only one person
and you want to find the best customer possible. Be sure that YOU
ask questions during an interview as well. What questions should you
ask to avoid accepting the wrong job?
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augmented reality-enhanced spin on things with their so-called Touch Vision Interface. While the "how" behind it is no doubt complicated (and being kept largely under wraps at the moment), the end result is fairly simple: you just point your smartphone at a screen (or two) and start manipulating it from the point of view provided by the phone's camera. Of course, it's all still in the early stages right now, but group sees a wide range of applications for the system -- even including large outdoor billboards. Check it out in action in the video after the break. | <urn:uuid:04845919-02dd-4b39-a384-641e15ef6eb3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.augustinefou.com/2011/09/drag2share-touch-vision-interface.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00031-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941321 | 181 | 1.632813 | 2 |
How to Get Out of Jury Duty in Oklahoma?
Jury duty is considered a privilege and a civic responsibility. The United States Constitution guarantees the right to trial by jury, and when you serve on a jury, you are providing this to your fellow citizens. However, there are times when serving on jury duty may be difficult, cause undue hardships or is physically impossible. In most cases, the courts have set up provisions for these circumstances, which allow individuals to request exemptions or postponement of service. If you need to understand Oklahoma jury duty exemptions and how to request one, DoNotPay can help you navigate the process.
Oklahoma Jury Duty Eligibility
Each state sets its own requirements for eligibility and criteria that will disqualify a citizen from serving. Oklahoma law provides an outline for who can and cannot serve.
Who can Serve in Oklahoma?
Oklahoma law states that you can serve if:
- You are a United States citizen.
- You reside in Oklahoma.
- You are a qualified elector of the state.
- You are physically and mentally competent to serve
Who is not Eligible to Serve in Oklahoma?
Some people may be ineligible to serve based on occupation, or felony convictions. Those not qualified to serve include:
- State or federal jailers or law enforcement officers having custody of prisoners are only eligible for civil trials.
- Sheriffs or deputy sheriffs
- Judges of the Court of Civil Appeals
- Judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals or the District Court
- Justices of the Supreme Court
- Legislators, during sessions, or involved in state business
- Licensed attorneys who are engaged in the practice of law
- Individuals who have been:
- convicted of any felony
- imprisoned in any state or federal penitentiary for a felony
Note: Individuals who have been fully restored to his or her civil rights are eligible to serve as a juror.
Reasons for Oklahoma Jury Duty Exemptions
If you are qualified to serve, you are legally obligated to serve, unless you receive an excuse or postponement based on hardship.
Depending on the courts, you may be able to receive a temporary excuse if you have temporary hardships, such as:
- prior vacation plans
- urgent doctor's appointments
- business trips
You may also be able to request a permanent excuse if you meet certain conditions:
|Age||You are over 70 years of age|
|Disability||You are disabled with a permanent or chronic condition (valid medical statement required)|
|Recent Duty||You have recently served as a grand or petit juror|
|Other Civic Duty||You serve as a volunteer firefighter, rescue squad or ambulance for federal, state or local government agencies.|
|Student||You are a student with a regular schedule of classes.|
|Child Care Needs||You have legal custody of a child/children under the age of 10 and it is essential that they remain in the home for childcare|
Should You Request an Exemption?
Unfortunately, many people automatically panic when they are summoned and will look for any excuse to get out of jury duty. At DoNotPay, we want to alleviate any concerns or questions you have regarding jury duty.
- Why is jury duty important?
- How do I prepare for jury duty?
- How does jury duty work?
- How long does jury duty last?
- Will I get paid for jury duty?
If your questions are answered and you still believe jury duty will cause undue hardship, you can try to request an exemption on your own, or let DoNotPay quickly help you request an exemption.
Requesting an Oklahoma Jury Duty Exemption On Your Own
The method by which you request an exemption will vary by court.
- Read your summons very carefully.
- Carefully follow all directions on your summons to request an exemption or postponement.
- Some courts will require you to appear before the judge.
- Some courts will request a written letter with supporting documents if necessary.
- Some courts will allow you to request online when you submit your juror information.
- If your date is very close, call the courthouse/jury clerk to discuss your hardship.
- Prepare yourself for jury duty while you wait to hear if you are exempted.
Let DoNotPay File For Oklahoma Jury Duty Exemptions on Your Behalf
DoNotPay recognizes that jury duty can cause difficulties and hardship, and we want to make the entire process less stressful for you.
If you want to file a jury duty excuse request but don't know where to start, DoNotPay has you covered in 3 easy steps:
- Search Jury Duty Excuse on DoNotPay, and enter your jury duty summons information, including the assigned date, court name, juror number, and more.
- Select your reason for excusal, and provide a few more details regarding your situation and upload evidence to prove your point.
- Enter the fax number of mailing address for the court room as displayed on your jury summons letter.
Why Use DoNotPay?
DoNotPay makes the entire process of filing Oklahoma jury duty exemptions easier for you. Our services are fast, easy, and successful. You only need to give us the required information, and then we will file the request and make the best case on your behalf.
In addition to filing jury duty exemption or postponement requests, we can help you solve a variety of other problems, including, but not limited to:
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Disregard for established lockout/tagout procedures is not only risky, but it can also be fatal, as was evidenced by the death of an electrician at a California newspaper recycling factory. The factory had been undergoing renovations, with replacement and repair of the steel beams in the walls, floors, and ceilings of the mill building's third floor. The victim, a 43-year-old male, was electrocuted while repairing a lighting circuit damaged by the contractor performing the renovations. The day prior to the accident, the decedent and several of his coworkers had re-routed the electrical circuits still in use so that the contractor could perform his work. The electrical circuits were located at the ceiling level of the second floor. On the day of the incident, the contractor was working around a steel beam at floor level on the third floor when he inadvertently cut a conduit with an energized line used for lighting on the second floor. The lead electrician for the company assigned the victim the task of repairing this line, instructing him to "kill the circuit" at the junction box and repair the damaged wiring. The lead electrician was working in the same area but did not have visual contact with the victim. After completing his work, the lead electrician went to the storeroom for parts. Upon his return (approximately 20 min. later), he decided to check on the victim, whom he found unconscious and nonresponsive on a scaffold platform. He immediately radioed for help while other employees performed CPR on the victim. Once on the scene, paramedics and the fire department, found the electrician without a heartbeat, and intubated him. Then, they transported him to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. After the victim was removed from the accident scene, the employer and local police performed a preliminary investigation. They found the victim's pliers that were used for stripping electrical wire still attached to a wire from the damaged circuit at ceiling level. Closer inspection showed burn marks on the pliers and a pipe, indicating contact was made at these points. The physical evidence suggested the victim had ascended the contractor's scaffold and then climbed onto a piece of machinery to gain access to the damaged lighting circuit. While the victim was working on the energized circuit, his pliers made contact with the pipe, completing the circuit and electrocuting him. It is not known how long he remained in contact with the energized system. It appears that when the electrical breakers finally tripped, cutting off the electrical current to the circuit, the victim fell from the machinery and landed on the scaffolding planks below, where he was discovered by his supervisor. An inspection of the junction box where the circuit breakers were housed determined that the circuit had not been manually turned off or locked out and tagged prior to the commencement of work. The circuit had been tripped when the victim made contact with the energized line. The victim's circuit tester, which was intended to be used to verify that a circuit has been de-energized before work begins, was found in his locker after the incident. The cause of death, according to the death certificate, was electrocution. Although the employer in this case had a lockout/tagout program, it was not being used when the victim was working on the energized lighting circuit that was damaged by the contractor. Had the victim followed the company's policy and procedures, this incident might have been prevented. To avoid similar tragedies, NIOSH recommends the following: Ensure workers follow established lockout/tagout procedures for control of hazardous energy when working on electrical circuits. | <urn:uuid:06619e64-cb2e-46cb-9297-89de31fe6ebd> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/nioshtic-2/20042432.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00557-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981187 | 730 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Cisco Global Scholarship Program
Take advantage of the scholarship program to earn your CCNA Cyber Ops certification.
Today's organizations are challenged with rapidly detecting cybersecurity breaches and effectively responding to security incidents. Teams of people in Security Operations Centers (SOC’s) keep a vigilant eye on security systems, protecting their organizations by detecting and responding to cybersecurity threats.
The CCNA Cyber Ops certification prepares candidates to begin a career working with associate-level cybersecurity analysts within security operations centers.
Exams & Recommended Training
|Required Exam(s)||Recommended Training|
|210-250 SECFND||Understanding Cisco Cybersecurity Fundamentals (SECFND)|
|210-255 SECOPS||Implementing Cisco Cybersecurity Operations (SECOPS)|
|NOTE: The training courses for the CCNA Cyber Ops Certification will be made available in March of 2017. Date is subject to change without notice.|
The following resources are suggested study materials:
Learning Partner Content
- Partners: Log In for Sales Connect curricula.
The best way to prepare for this certification is to take the following Cisco-approved training:
Understanding Cisco Cybersecurity Fundamentals (SECFND)
This 5-day course is designed to teach candidates basic security principles, concepts, provide fundamental knowledge and core skills needed to begin preparing for a job in cybersecurity. This course will help to prepare students to pass the Understanding Cisco Cybersecurity Fundamentals Exam.
» The SECFND training course will be available in March 2017. Date is subject to change without notice.
Implementing Cisco Cybersecurity Operations (SECOPS)
This 5-day course is designed to teach candidates the principles and concepts of Security Operations, and provide the student with the fundamental knowledge and core skills needed to begin working in a Security Operations Center (SOC). This course will help to prepare students to pass the Implementing Cisco Cybersecurity Operations Exam.
» The SECOPS training course will be available in March 2017. Date is subject to change without notice.
To earn this Cisco certification, you must pass the following exam(s):
This exam is the first of the two required exams to achieve the CCNA Cyber Ops certification and is aligned with the job role of an associate-level Security Operations Center (SOC) Security Analyst. The SECFND exam tests candidates understanding of cybersecurity’s basic principles, foundational knowledge, and core skills needed to grasp the more advanced associate-level materials in the second required exam, "Implementing Cisco Cybersecurity Operations (SECOPS)".
- Learn more about the 210-250 SECFND exam
- Register for the exam
- Read current exam policies and requirements
Available for testing: December 2016
The availability date is subject to change without notice.
This exam is the second of the two required exams in achieving the associate-level CCNA Cyber Ops certification and is aligned with the job role of an associate-level Security Operations Center (SOC) Security Analyst. The SECFND exam tests a candidate's knowledge and skills needed to successfully handle the tasks, duties, and responsibilities of an associate-level Security Analyst working in a Security Operations Center (SOC).
CCNA Cyber Ops certifications are valid for three years. To recertify, pass ONE of the following before the certification expiration date:
- Pass any current Associate-level exam except for the ICND1 exam or
- Pass any current 642-XXX Professional-level or any 300-XXX Professional-level exam, or
- Pass any current 642-XXX Cisco Specialist exam (excluding Sales Specialist exams or MeetingPlace Specialist exams, Implementing Cisco TelePresence Installations (ITI) exams, Cisco Leading Virtual Classroom Instruction exams, or any 650 online exams), or
- Pass any current CCIE Written Exam, or
- Pass the current CCDE Written Exam OR current CCDE Practical Exam, or
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THE Social Welfare Ministry has recorded an increase in the number of abandoned children, which the ministry believes has resulted in the increased number of children at St Christopher's Home.
In an interview, the home sister-in-charge Sister Kalolaine Tuineau admitted that the number of children in their care had increased from 25 in May to 35 in June — the maximum being 50 for both girls and boys.
"The increase in the number of children going to St Christopher's Home is based on the increase in the number of children being abandoned by their parents and also the police have referred some of this to us," Minister for Social Welfare Dr Jiko Luveni said.
"St Christopher's Home is able to accommodate these children at whatever time and this is why we continue to use them and this is also why we are in a very good relationship with them until now because they are really accommodating.
"The ministry provides them with monthly allowances that are allocated based on the number of children they cater for and we have only just increased this allowance in the last six months or so."
Sister Tuineau said while the home was dedicated to looking after these children, their only concern was the rise in expenses of basic needs such as food items and the right to children having access to basic education.
"We can cater for these children because we work with the ministry in looking after them.
"We may not be expecting some more but it all depends on the need because caring for children is not like any hurricane or natural disaster happens that we need to take them but it depends on what the children come across and the cases that are reported to Social Welfare.
"This is when they are taken into care but the hope is that the children are safe in their own homes with their own families and we do not want to encourage parents in doing such things," she said.
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“It's unbelievable. We're seeing eight to 10 bats break every game. Guys are coming back saying they hit the ball on the sweet spot and it still broke.” This quote caught Cold Steel's President, Lynn C. Thompson's attention. It's from an article in the Los Angeles Times describing how frequently baseball bats break and nearly injure the players in major league games. The article chronicled the debate currently raging among players over which bat is better, those made of ash, which is lighter and slightly flexible, or those made of maple which is heavier and stiffer. As he read, Lynn began to suspect there might be a market for a baseball bat that just couldn't be broken. What kid, let alone an adult, wouldn't want an unbreakable bat? Now Cold Steel is proud to offer you our first forays into the manufacturing of athletic equipment, the Brooklyn Smasher and the Brooklyn Crusher.
Because they're precision injection molded out of heavy-grade polypropylene, these bats just can't be broken. There's no need to worry about shards of wood flying in your face. No matter how hard you swing them, they just won't break. And they're durable too, they won't rot, crack, splinter, or even fade. You needn't worry about dirt or the weather affecting them either since they're impervious to the elements and clean up with soap and water. Try that with a wood bat and you might damage it.
They're versatile too. They can be used as game bats, practice bats, warm-up bats, loaner bats, inclement weather bats, school or league bats or kid's bats. They can also serve as a cross over trainers to develop strength, agility and eye hand coordination for those studying Western Saber Fencing, Kendo, Kenjitsu, Filipino Stick and Sword Fighting and Chinese martial arts.
Best of all, they make good economic sense. They're comparable in price to good wooden bats, and since they're unbreakable they will last far longer than any wooden bat on the market.
Weight 19.8oz 0.56kg
Overall 20" 50.8cm | <urn:uuid:9d90e89b-18d9-4ef3-8ac1-dbf77bfd6310> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.tacticalstore.se/se/art/cold-steel-brooklyn-shorty.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281746.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00289-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959711 | 443 | 1.828125 | 2 |
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