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This is part of a series of abstracts, commentaries, and reviews on philosophical articles and books.
The Conspiracy against the Human Race is renowned horror writer Thomas Ligotti's first work of nonfiction. Through impressively wide-ranging discussions of and reflections on literary and philosophical works of a pessimistic bent, he shows that the greatest horrors are not the products of our imagination. The worst and most plentiful horrors are instead to be found in reality. Mr. Ligotti's calm, but often bloodcurdling turns of phrase, evoke the dreadfulness of the human condition. Those who cannot bear the truth will pretend this is another work of fiction, but in doing so they perpetuate the conspiracy of the book's title.
- Consciousness is the parent of all horror.
- Pessimism is not a popular philosophy.
- People naturally resist the idea that life is not okay.
- Our sense of self, or our sense of "being someone," is illusory.
- There is not really any such thing as free will.
- The burden of proof rests on those who claim that life is good.
- In the absence of any such proof, the default position is that reproduction inflicts harm on the one who is born.
- Only human extinction can end human suffering.
New or uncommon terminology
- There are 10 types of people, those who are familiar with worn-out binary jokes and those who are not. There are also two types of people: optimists, who believe that human life is good and should be perpetuated, and that being alive is basically all right (as Ligotti spells it); and pessimists, who believe that happiness cannot make up for suffering and that, far from being "basically all right," life is something that should not be.
- The Uncanny is not an objective quality but a subjective experience of perceiving something that has two opposing qualities and therefore should not be. It begets a feeling of wrongness.
Introduction: Of Pessimism and Paradox
The public dislikes uncompromising pessimism. We are resistant to the idea that the state of living, at least by default if not in all cases, is not positive.
Supernatural horror is commonly about encountering a paradox in the flesh, something that is but ought not to be–the living dead vampire, the self-mobilized puppet. We are willing to believe almost anything about ourselves–that we are apes or angels–but not that we are puppets.
- "Everything is engaged in a disordered fantasia of carnage. Everything tears away at everything else...forever."
- "Once you begin to feel you are making a go of it on your own–that you are making moves and thinking thoughts which seem to have originated within you–it is not possible for you to believe you are anything but your own master."
The Nightmare of Being
There is no formula by which we can conclusively convert hedons to dolors, or the other way around. Were this possible, either the optimists or the pessimists would finally prevail. The question of whether it is fundamentally all right to be alive is therefore one that is impossible to resolve, but this book is an attempt to make an argument.
The fact that we are always and continuously searching for meaning is a sign that something is not right. Because there is no meaning inherent to the universe, this is a hunger that cannot be authentically satisfied. We maintain our sanity by suppressing our awareness of death, and finding meaning in things is a kind of self-hypnosis. To distract ourselves, we look for metaphysical sureties or securities like God and patriotism. These are things that are larger than ourselves, in which we can lose and delude ourselves, believing anything but that the world is "MALIGNANTLY USELESS," as Ligotti proclaims in all-caps.
We must cease reproducing; every birth inflicts horror on the one thus born. Conversely, a person who has not been born cannot suffer, either directly or through an absence of happiness. Because the living always experience some amount of harm, forcing a person to exist, even if only a tiny bit of suffering will result, is a crime because harm is being inflicted on the person without consent.
We always think that we are living in a world whose future will not be begrudged by our children. For all his philosophical pessimism, though, Ligotti can still be an optimist in the sense of having hope: he speaks wistfully of how "the last of us" might also be "the best of us," realize the horror in begetting life, and either all at once or slowly over time, cease to reproduce. Ligotti hints that there may be an active component to their behavior as well in the form of ecocide, or the destruction of all life, even nonhuman life. In varying places Ligotti's motivation is an act either of revenge (for it is nature that inflicted consciousness on us) or of compassion (for another species like us might someday evolve and suffer if we do not make that impossible).
- Peter Wessel Zapffe: "No future triumph or metamorphosis can justify the pitiful blighting of a human being against his will. It is upon a pavement of battered destinies that the survivors storm ahead toward new bland sensations and mass deaths."
- Philipp Mainländer: "Life is hell, and the sweet still night of absolute death is the annihilation of hell."
- "For those who have given thought to this matter, the only rights we may exercise are these: to seek the survival of our individual bodies, to create more bodies like our own, and to perish from corruption or mortal trauma. This is presuming that one has been brought to term and has made it to the age of being reproductively ready, neither being a natural birthright. Stringently considered, then, our only natural birthright is a right to die. No other right has ever been allocated to anyone except as a fabrication, whether in modern times or days past."
Who Goes There?
Ligotti points out other fabrications beside the self: family, nation, ethnicity, religion. Perhaps these have to erode before the self can, with gods already half-evaporated and nations and ethnicity apparently on the brink. On the other hand, neurological revelations may have disrupted this and made a shortcut by which the self will be destroyed ahead of schedule.
Much of the chapter is concerned with the philosopher Thomas Metzinger. According to Metzinger, we are not really people as we think we are but the product of a self-modeling mechanism that simulates people. To put it another way, the sensation of having a self comes when the brain, already equipped to make mental models of how other brains are thinking, turns inward and makes a model of itself. Our sense of self is rooted, not in the real thing, but in the mirror's reflection.
Metzinger refers to the illusion of the self (and our consequent fear of death) as "the tragedy of the ego," which "dissolves because nobody is ever born and [therefore] nobody ever dies." In other words, his comfort to the death-fearing is that there is no "you" there to die in the first place.
Determinism is the doctrine that we can choose anything except what our choices will be. Nobody feels determined, though we might reason that we are. Metzinger wonders if one can really believe in determinism without going insane: If you were to really know that you are a puppet and then act accordingly, the result would look like lunacy from the outside.
To truly feel that one's life has meaning, particular emotional substance is required. Depression destroys this, removing the color–or the special effects, say. The lesson of depression is that nothing is inherently compelling. It all depends on internal, subjective meaning.
- Bringing up Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Ligotti speaks fondly, even enviously, of the way in which the body snatchers kill people, destroying their personalities without harming their bodies.
- Richard Double: "Meticulous precision can enable us to remain happy and engaged at the expense of averting our eyes from the disturbing big picture."
- Thomas Metzinger: "Evolution is not something to be glorified. One way–out of countless others–to look at biological evolution on our planet is as a process that has created an expanding ocean of suffering and confusion where there previously was none. As not only the simple number of individual conscious subjects, but also the dimensionality of their phenomenal state-spaces is continuously increasing, this ocean is also deepening. For me, this is also a strong argument against creating artificial consciousness: We shouldn't add to this terrible mess before we have truly understood what is going on."
Freaks of Salvation
Ligotti discusses various philosophies in this chapter: Nietzsche is a pessimist who takes a wrong turn at the last fork in the road. Buddhism is pessimistic, laying great emphasis on how living and suffering are inseparable conditions.
As first described in The Nightmare of Being, to the pessimist any activity that does not concern itself with understanding and addressing suffering is a form of recreation. Therefore, Ligotti emphasizes again in this chapter, (almost) all human activity is a means of killing time.
The story of U. G. Krishnamurti, as given in this chapter, is most interesting: a man who claimed to have experienced enlightenment and ego death, not on purpose but by calamitous accident. Similar stories are told in this chapter: John Wren-Lewis, who likewise experienced enlightenment after a brush with death and suggested that near-death experiences, or the process of dying, may shut off important parts of selfhood that usually but do not always return after recovery. Tem Horowitz, who was temporarily enlightened but lost it. Suzanne Segal, who experienced ego death and apparently went a little nuts after, as she spoke of something called the vastness, which "created these human circuitries in order to have an experience of itself out of itself that it couldn't have without them."
- In the notes to this chapter, Ligotti gives an interesting quote by U. G. Krishnamurti: "I still maintain that it is not love, compassion, humanism, or brotherly sentiments that will save mankind. No, not at all. It is the sheer terror of extinction that can save us, if anything can."
Sick to Death
Too many books appear pessimistic as first and then chicken out, "slipping out the back door." Most people just can't write bleakly enough (and mistake partial bleakness for a full dose or more). Bleakness must be final in order to be true.
Ligotti discusses Terror Management Theory, which argues that the primary impetus for human activity is thanatophobia, or a need to distract ourselves from the reality of death. We likewise look for ways to convince ourselves of permanence–if not of one's personal will, then of one's legacy.
- Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler, Sweeney Todd: "For what's the sound of the world out there? It's man devouring man, my dear."
- "Also worthy of mention is a clique among the suicidal for whom the meaning of their act is a darker thing. Frustrated as perpetrators of an all-inclusive extermination, they would kill themselves only because killing it all is closed off to them. They hate having been delivered into a world only to be told, by and by, 'This way to the abattoir, Ladies and Gentlemen.' They despite the conspiracy of Lies for Life almost as much as they despise themselves for being a party to it. If they could unmake the world by pushing a button, they would do so without a second thought."
- Tolstoy: "The dullness of these people's imagination enables them to forget the things that gave the Buddha no peace–the inevitability of sickness, old age, and death, which today or tomorrow will destroy all these pleasures." It brings to mind Effective Altruism, insofar as EA rejects this forgetfulness.
The Cult of Grinning Martyrs
There's some stuff here about psychological egoism and pleasure, and Ligotti discusses his entirely novel discovery that pleasure is temporary.
Children are always made either on mistaken grounds (the belief that a nonexistent being would be better off living) or for our personal satisfaction: "Among the least praiseworthy incentives to reproduce are parents pipe dreams of posterity–that egoistic compulsion to send emissaries into the future who will certify that their makers once lived and still live on, if only in photographs and home movies. Vying for an even less praiseworthy incentive to reproduce is the sometimes irresistible prospect of taking pride in one's children as consumer goods, trinkets, or tie-clips, personal accessories that may be shown off around town. By primary among the pressures to propagate is this: To become formally integrated into a society [or accepted as an adult], one must offer it a blood sacrifice."
The burden of proof rests on natalism, because the opposite position is really the default, seeing as it merely states that there should be no action and no life. We simply assume that there is a reason for us to keep on going, that something important will be lost by our extinction, but this is patently untrue.
Ligotti compares reproduction to defecation, each the culmination of a particular pressure–as is all activity. In his terms, we are all just making bowel movements of various kinds, and generally striving to make them in the socially accepted manner.
- "Undeniably, one of the great disadvantages of consciousness–that is, consciousness considered as the parent of all horrors–is that it exacerbates necessary sufferings and creates unnecessary ones, such as the fear of death."
- "One must take into account the shocking fact that we live on a world that spins. After considering this truth, nothing should come as a surprise."
Autopsy on a Puppet: An Anatomy of the Supernatural
This chapter is principally a discussion of the supernatural horror genre, which Ligotti claims is a way to discuss the ideas of pessimism without putting our hands too close to the fire. In the process, Ligotti gives some good writing advice.
Horror fiction depends on atmosphere. More important than what is witnessed by the reader is what is felt. It may be about about horror in the world (e.g. good vs. evil) or horror of the world. The success of Good in the former serves to assure the reader that being alive is all right after all. You do not learn about an author's mindset from the story's theme, but from how the theme is resolved.
Death–or more accurately the awareness of death–is the parent of supernatural horror.
Ligotti really does have it in for life and for living: in his view, the only bummer about some of the stories that he describes is that the protagonists don't kick it. At the end Ligotti advocates one last time for the "death of tragedy," via human extinction.
- "As the horror story matured and branched out, so did the qualities of its atmosphere, most of all among the great names of this literary genre. For these writers, the atmosphere of their works is as unique as a signature or a fingerprint."
I appreciate that Ligotti admits that writing this book is ultimately an attempt to make non-suicide less intolerable. I likewise appreciate that he acknowledges that this is not an irrefutable argument that he is making. You have to buy into at least some form of utilitarianism for most of the book to work. Even if one is a negative utilitarian, however, I don't think that his conclusion (extinction is the answer) is a slam dunk. He appears to disregard the possibility that suffering could be engineered away altogether, which may be a difficult feat to accomplish but is no less so than his dream that everyone will join the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement.
Ligotti is subdued in his anger, but it exists and sometimes rises up, as in his all-caps declaration that the world is MALIGNANTLY USELESS.
Anti-natalism brings up an interesting attack against consent-based ethics (e.g. voluntaryism), at least when it is rooted in utilitarianism. I'm not sure that I've seen many proponents of consent-based ethics also advocate for anti-natalism. That isn't to say that we can toss "informed consent" in the dustbin of history, mind you, just that, unless you want to bite the anti-natalist bullet, you'll have to justify it on some other ground that can allow exceptions rather than make it into the foundation of your ethical system. People cannot consent to anything until they exist, so according to a strict view of consent-based ethics, reproduction is an act of violence against the person is born.
His description of Buddhism (see under "Freaks of Salvation") does seem to conflict with Ligotti's position that religions are just another way to distract from the truth. This is not a fatal flaw, but it seems worth mentioning. Suzanne's references to "the vastness" likewise seem to conflict, as she is described as having experienced ego death but at the same time appears to have developed a religious tendency.
I also feel like Ligotti thinks that nobody is genuinely trying to figure things out and make a sensible order out of them. Also, he states that "no scientist knows why or how sexual reproduction came to be, because it is a cumbersome and inefficient means of procreation, or it used to be." This is just...very extremely wrong.
The contrast between Ligotti (and Zapffe, Mainländer, et al.) and Richard Dawkins is incredibly interesting. Per Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion, and the Appetite for Wonder:
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?
Ligotti's position is that everyone is taking part in the titular "conspiracy against the human race," which is to convince us that life is worth living and that producing more lives is not an awful crime, but I imagine that, if asked, he would consider Dawkins to be a conspirator among conspirators.
On the difference between human and animal suffering
It seems that, in his thinking, suffering requires a self to comprehend the pain that is being experienced. He does make a distinction between pain and suffering. I'm not sure that a sense of self or an ability to form complex thoughts necessarily leads to greater suffering. Brian Tomasik has written many essays from a negative utilitarian position, and has enough of an overlap with Ligotti that one of them is even about his concern that the animal-rights movement encourages wilderness preservation. Even so, Tomasik might contest Ligotti's position.
I experience pain. I think that the most intense pain I've experienced in the last year was when I accidentally poured hydrogen peroxide in my eye. It was bad. It was bad on a level that didn't have much to do with conscious processing, because I wasn't doing much conscious processing.
There wasn't a reflecting self observing that I was a person with continuity of experiences and therefore my pain was bad. It wasn't unpleasant because I had the expectation that I would continue to be in pain, or unpleasant because I had a complicated self-concept which was conscious to be experiencing suffering. In fact, by the time I had enough of a handle on the pain to think 'this pain will continue until I get the contact lens out of my eye' and 'I shouldn't scream I will scare my roommate', the pain was significantly less bad, because I could crowd it out with other considerations.
I think if you put hydrogen peroxide in a dog's eye or a pig's eye or an elephant's eye, they would have the exact same internal experience I did.
'What does it feel like to be a dog' is a complicated question. 'What does it feel like to be a dog whose ribs are kicked in' is almost certainly answered 'exactly what it feels like to be a human whose ribs are kicked in, at least for the first few horrible seconds before conscious processing can reassert itself.
It is these last few lines that I think that are the most important. Conscious processing, far from increasing the pain, may actually help to suppress it by allowing the suffering to "crowd it out with other considerations." The dog whose ribs are kicked in may or may not be able to do the same, but there is definitely some floor limit to intelligence beneath which this cannot be done.
I don't mean to submit the above as a slam dunk argument against Ligotti, because there are several reasons that it could be wrong (e.g. there might some forms of suffering which are more intense than raw, physical agony, or consciousness might work radically different than how we suspect and maybe dogs are all philosophical zombies). It's worth mentioning, however.
Ligotti also states that nonhuman animals are unaware of death. This is again something that could be contested, but...how much of Ligotti's argument is affected if the above criticisms are true? If we grant that beings with simpler minds actually suffer more, all else being equal, and if we say for the sake of argument that even bacteria are aware of death, does Ligotti's argument fall apart?
I'm not so sure. He might have to argue more for a "compassionate extermination of all living things," rather than relegate it to a couple of off-hand remarks, but his argument still works pretty well even if it's turned into "The ability to perceive pain as any kind of observer at all is really bad and inevitably leads to some amount of harm, whereas nobody is harmed by not being brought into existence. "
Ligotti appears to believe that, because determinism is correct, the transhuman project to create a new humanity is somehow undoable or paradoxical. Ligotti just doesn't seem to understand transhumanism.
Ligotti even claims that transhumanism has failed to confront the idea that extinction is preferable to human enhancement, which I'm not so sure about. Maybe it's true that a card-carrying transhumanism would not accept this idea, but that's a far cry from saying that transhumanism has failed to confront the idea, which is rather like saying that science has failed to confront the idea of luminiferous aether. People who argue that humanity ought to go extinct may not be transhumanists, by definition, but some of them are transhumanist-adjacent, so to speak, and debate transhumanists as a matter of course. Also, within transhumanism there are concepts as Abolitionism and Fun Theory, which again suggests that the philosophy has not simply ignored Ligotti's ideas as he claims. The latter, for example, explicitly discusses whether and how we might be able to enjoy ourselves after living for an arbitrarily long period of time.
I do like the term "New Genesis," though.
On complaining to your friends
To go by what he says in "The Cult of Grinning Martyrs," Ligotti lives in a world where complaining about your miseries will cause you to lose your friends, which makes me wonder about his social network and how much of this book he would have written if he just had better friends, to say nothing of some sort of operation to cure his anhedonia.
Ligotti is just pissed off about other people. Just read the following passage, meant to explain the mindset and reaction of normal people, or "insiders," who reject what Ligotti is trying to say in this book:
The universe was created by the Creator, damn it. We live in a country we love and that loves us back. We have families and friends and jobs that make it all worthwhile. We are somebodies, not a bunch of nobodies without names or numbers or retirement plans. None of this is going to be overhauled by a thought criminal who contends that the world is not doubleplusgood and never will be.
Our lives may not be unflawed–that would deny us a better future to work toward–but if this charade is good enough for us, then it should be good enough for you. So if you cannot get your mind right, try walking away. You will find no place to go to and no one who will have you. You will find only the same old trap the world over. Lighten up or leave us alone.
You will never get us to give up our hopes. You will never get us to wake up from our dreams. We are not contradictory beings whose continuance only worsens our plight as mutants who embody the contorted logic of a paradox.
This is just the middle portion of a rant that continues for at least a couple of pages in a long wall of text (the paragraph breaks were added by me).
To be alive is to inhabit a nightmare without hope of awakening to a natural world, to have our bodies embedded neck-deep in a quagmire of dread, to live as shut-ins in a house of horrors from which nobody gets out alive, and so on.
Thomas Ligotti is one of the foremost authors of supernatural horror literature. In this genre, he has been classed with Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft. His works include Songs of a Dead Dreamer, Grimscribe, My Work Is Not Yet Done, and Teatro Grottesco. Ligotti lives in Florida.
Philosophers & works mentioned
Philosophers given significant attention include:
- Philip Mainländer, who wished to awaken in us a "will-to-die." He thought that it was granted to us by a creator who had, in turn, committed suicide, the only way for an ageless deity to cease existing. God's death created the universe but it cannot be full until all living things are dead and still and cold.
- Thomas Metzinger, a German philosopher whose work focuses on the ramifications of discoveries in neuroscience. As described elsewhere, his most well-known argument is that our sense of self is sort of an accidental byproduct of other functions of the brain.
- Karl Popper, whose greatest contribution to philosophy was the concept of falsifiability, the idea that we could distinguish science from non-science on the basis of whether the claims being made could be falsified. In The Open Society and Its Commentary, he also made some comments on negative utilitarianism: "It adds to clarity in the field of ethics, if we formulate our demands negatively, i.e. if we demand the elimination of suffering rather than the promotion of happiness."
- Arthur Schopenhauer, a German philosopher whose work was most notably inspired by Kant and various Indian religions, and was a major force within the field of philosophical pessimism. He would have become a Buddhist monk, but his ship sank on the way to India.
- Peter Wessel Zapffe, a Norwegian philosopher whose work "The Last Messiah" reinterpreted Nietzschean concepts in a more purely pessimistic light, arguing that humanity was "a biological paradox, an abomination, an absurdity, an exaggeration of disastrous nature." He also promoted and popularized the concept of biosophy, "a discipline that would broaden the compass of philosophy to include the interests of other living things beside human beings."
Other articles & books on this subject
- Being No One, by Thomas Metzinger
- Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence, by David Benatar
- Cosmic Pessimism, by Eugene Thacker.
- "The Last Messiah," by Peter Wessel Zapffe
- "The Shadow of a Puppet Dance: Metzinger, Ligotti, and the Illusion of Selfhood," by James Trafford
- On the Tragic, by Peter Wessel Zapffe
Also check out...
- SaltPhil entry: In the Dust of This Planet, by Eugene Thacker
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Amidst uncertainty of NAFTA, foreign investment keeps flowing into Mexico’s auto industry
Amidst the uncertainty due to the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the imposition of tariffs by the U.S. government, foreign investment keeps flowing into the automotive industry in Mexico, especially from Japan, the United States and Germany, revealed Oscar Albin, president of the National Automobile Industry (INA).
“They are our great auto parts manufacturing technologists, but in particular Japanese investment is growing with the installation of the Toyota plant in Guanajuato,” said the official at the Automechanika 2018 event in Mexico City.
According to figures from Albin, it is estimated that by 2018, foreign automotive investment will amount between US$3 and US$4 billion, a figure lower than that reported in 2017 and 2016, of approximately US$6 billion. The executive estimates that somewhere between US$1.4 and US$1.6 billion have been attracted in the first half of the year.
“NAFTA keeps us expectant and there is a great uncertainty, but I believe it will finally close down,” he said. “However, we have not reduced production for the domestic and export markets, new investments and new plants keep coming, that keeps us in the mood, in the United States it is decreasing, but last year there were many model changes, sedans plants that were adapted for SUVs and pickups, which caused the traditional volume of NAFTA of 17 million cars to fall to 16.5 million,” said Albin. | <urn:uuid:a73fae70-7006-433e-9c84-24817275f0bd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mexico-now.com/amidst-uncertainty-of-nafta-foreign-investment-keeps-flowing-into-mexico-s-auto-industry/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.965545 | 337 | 1.53125 | 2 |
The shells of diatoms are so heavy that when they die in the oceans they typically sink to watery graves on the seafloor, taking carbon out of the surface waters and locking it into sediments below.
This week in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences scientists report the discovery of whole subsets of genes and proteins that govern how one species of diatom builds its shell. For oceanographers, the work might one day help them understand how thousands of different kinds of diatoms – and their ability to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere – might be affected by something like global climate change.
Material scientists involved in the work are interested in the possibilities of manipulating the genes responsible for silica production as a way of fabricating more efficient computer chips.
Diatoms, most of which are far too tiny to see without magnification, are incredibly important in the global carbon cycle, says Thomas Mock, a University of Washington postdoctoral researcher in oceanography and lead author of the paper. During photosynthesis, diatoms turn carbon dioxide into organic carbon and, in the process, generate oxygen. They are responsible for 40 percent of the organic carbon produced in the world’s oceans each year.
The new work took advantage of the genomic map of the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana published in 2004 by a team led by UW oceanography professor Virginia Armbrust, who is corresponding author of this week’s PNAS paper. Thalassiosira pseudonana is encased in a hatbox-shaped shell comprised of a rigid cell wall, made mainly of silica and delicately marked with pores in patterns distinctive enough for scientists to tell it from other diatoms.
Armed with the genomic map, the researchers changed environmental conditions in laboratory cultures of Thalassiosira pseudonana, for example limiting the amount of silicon and changing the temperatures. Then researchers used what’s called “whole genome expression profiling” to determine which parts of the genome were triggered to compensate.
Think of a plant on a windowsill that starts getting a lot more sunlight, Mock says. The new set of conditions will cause genes in the plant to turn on and off to help the plant acclimate to the increased light as best it can.
Scientists since the late 1990s have found only a handful of genes that influence diatom shell formation. The work with Thalassiosira pseudonana identified large, previously unknown subsets. A set of 75 genes, for example, was triggered to compensate when silicon was limited.
The researchers were surprised to find another subset of 84 genes triggered when either silicon or iron were limited, suggesting that these two pathways were somehow linked. Under low-iron conditions, the diatoms grew more slowly and genes involved in the production of the silica shell were triggered. Individual diatoms also tended to clump together under those conditions, making them even heavier and more likely to sink.
The response of thin and thick cell walls depending on the amount of iron available had been observed at sea but “no one had a clue about the molecular basis,” Mock says.
Considering that 30 percent of the world’s oceans are iron-poor, some scientists have suggested fertilizing such areas with iron so diatoms become more numerous and absorb more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, thus putting the brakes on global warming. If, however, adding iron causes diatoms to change the thickness of their shells then perhaps they won’t be as likely to sink and instead would remain in the upper ocean where the carbon they contain might be released back to the atmosphere as they decay or are eaten.
“Iron increases primary production by diatoms but our study adds another concern about the efficiency of iron fertilization,” Mock says.
Along with helping scientists understand implications for climate change and absorption of carbon dioxide, diatoms can manipulate silica in ways that engineers can only dream about.
University of Wisconsin professor Michael Sussman, the co-corresponding author on the paper, says the new findings will help his group start manipulating the genes responsible for silica production and potentially harness them to produce lines on computer chips. This could vastly increase chip speed because diatoms are capable of producing lines much smaller than current technology allows, he says.
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If you are new to the country or young, you may struggle to get accepted for credit as you don’t have any credit history.Read on to find out how you can improve your chances of being given a credit card or loan.
Credit is basically borrowing money. A company extends you a line of credit that you can spend, then you have to meet the repayment terms. There are numerous types of credit – credit cards, loans, mortgages, hire purchase agreements and overdrafts, for example.
Other credit agreements might include mobile phone contracts and gym memberships, where you are allowed access to goods or services in return for regular monthly payments.
Lenders base their decision about whether to lend to you on several factors:
Getting credit is a bit of a financial beauty contest – you need to make your credit rating attractive to lenders. For full details on how to do this read our guide to improving your credit rating. If you don’t have a credit report yet – as you’ve never taken out credit – here’s how to start building one:
If you owe money and don’t pay it back, your creditors may eventually take you to court. If an order is granted against you, it’s called a county court judgment, or CCJ. This outlines exactly how much you have to repay and is rubber stamped by the court. If you don’t pay up, your creditor may send bailiffs to your home or take money directly from your wages or bank account.
Getting a CCJ damages your credit rating because it immediately flags up to lenders that you have debt problems.
If you’re looking for your first credit card, start by tapping your details into our personalised credit comparison tool. It only takes a minute and then we’ll present you with a list of the credit cards you are most likely to be accepted for. If nothing comes up due to your lack of credit history you still have a couple of options. The bank where you hold your current account is more likely than other lenders to give you a credit card because you already have a relationship with it and it knows your financial history.
If your bank won’t give you a credit card, consider applying for a credit-building credit card. This type of card will have a high APR and low credit limit but if you use it correctly – by paying off the balance in full each month – it can help improve your credit score. Once lenders have seen that you can handle credit responsibly they will be more willing to lend you money at better rates.
If you have a current account, ask your bank for an overdraft. This will allow you access to a small amount of credit, which providing you use it responsibly – don’t go beyond your limit – will help improve your credit rating. Just keep an eye on the interest rate, some banks offer interest-free overdrafts but others charge eye-watering interest rates.
It’s not a good idea to make multiple credit applications in a short space of time. Most applications will leave a footprint on your credit record and footprints can be seen by other lenders checking your report. Too many suggest you are desperate for cash which makes lenders less keen to lend you money.
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Shot in part with Google Glass, Project 2×1 is a short documentary film and grassroots initiative exploring the distinct cultures of the Hasidic and West Indian communities living side by side in the 2 mile x 1 mile area of Crown Heights.
Though these communities have coexisted in the neighborhood for nearly 70 years, they rarely interact. Today, nearly 23 years after the 1991 CrownHeights race riots, some residual tensions persist along with strains of anti-Semitic and racist sentiment, and popular news media continue to cast Crown Heights as a neighborhood of division and violence, particularly as the pressures of gentrification sweep through the community.
Yet we found another reality about Crown Heights – that the distance and tensions dividing these communities often seem as much a matter of habit and complacency as historic grudge.
Project 2×1 challenges that complacency by opening up a window to the unique differences and often surprising similarities within these isolated worlds – exploring themes of spirituality, memory, family, immigration, and celebration. With help from Google Glass, numerous Crown Heights residents take us where we normally could not go—capturing a Hasidic wedding, a West Indian Day Parade float, even bedtime story-telling, all from their own points of view. We were inspired by the stories of a Vincentian pastor who, despite deep personal losses, gives his all to uplift his congregation. We watch as a Jamaican father strives to impart the memory of his homeland to his Brooklyn-born sons, as a Jewish wig shop owner empowers married women through the ritual of hair covering, and as a Rastafarian business owner fights social norms to defend her sacred practices. These stories illuminate the fact that communities like Crown Heights are dynamic mosaics of individuals, each with a unique story.
Locally, Project 2×1 harnesses the power of storytelling to drive cultural awareness and inspire inter-community dialogue in the Crown Heights, Brooklyn neighborhood. Universally, the project aims to encourage more people to get to know their neighbors.
Impact and vision
Founded as a conversation-building movement, Project 2×1 measures its successful impact as reflected through our coverage in national and local media, and more tangibly, through the dialogue fostered at our interactive screenings. At the film premiere of Project 2X1, we united a cross-section of nearly 300 diverse community members in an unprecedented demonstration of neighborhood unity and cultural celebration.
We aim to continue to support our mission and deepen our impact by:
Hosting more screenings
Building more community partnerships that inspire ongoing grassroots activity
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Prosopagnosia (Face Blindness) is a cognitive disorder that leads to a person finding it difficult to recognize familiar faces, and something’s the person’s face. It originated from the Greek word prosopon meaning face and agnosia, which comes from the medical terminology for lack of recognition.
People diagnosed with Prosopagnosia are called prosopagnosics. Prosopagnosics struggle to identify or recognize their partners and spouses, family members, themselves through the mirror, and close acquaintances.
According to a recent survey, about 2 percent of the general public may suffer from some level of Prosopagnosia.
How to Diagnose Prosopagnosia?
People with symptoms of Prosopagnosia or people who struggle to recognize the faces of people close to them are often referred to a neurologist.
The neurologist will evaluate your ability to recognize faces, ascertain the age and sex of the person and detect emotional signals. Here are the common know ways of diagnosing Prosopagnosia.
- The Cambridge Face Perception Test, and
- The Benton Facial Recognition Test,
- The Warrington Recognition Memory for Faces,
- The Cambridge Face Memory Test.
Types of Prosopagnosia.
There are two types of Prosopagnosia namely acquired and Congenital Prosopagnosia.
Acquired Prosopagnosia is when a person develops Prosopagnosia as a result of brain damage following a head injury, stroke, traumatic brain injury or neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease can lead to Prosopagnosia.
People with Acquired Prosopagnosia may not be able to regain their ability to identify or recognized faces although Acquired Prosopagnosia is uncommon.
Congenital or Developmental Prosopagnosia
Congenital Prosopagnosia is when a person develops Prosopagnosia from birth. That is he or she is born without the ability to identify and recognize faces. Children born with Developmental Prosopagnosia get to know their ability not to recognize faces when they grow older.
Some studies suggest that Congenital or Developmental Prosopagnosia can be inherited as the condition may run through the family.
Children with Autism may also suffer from congenital prosopagnosia.
Causes of congenital prosopagnosia
According to recent research. Prosopagnosia is caused by developmental problems or damage to the part of the brain called the fusiform gyrus.
The fusiform gyrus is the part of the brain that coordinates the neural systems that memory and control facial perception.
Doctors at Stanford conducted research in 2012 by implanting electrodes in the brains of Prosopagnosia patients and uncovered that two nerve clusters are integral in recognizing faces. Scientists are still not come to a common conclusion as to whether prosopagnosia is a general disorder of recognizing faces or a faces-specific disorder.
From types of prosopagnosia, prosopagnosia can be caused by head injury, stroke, traumatic brain injury, or neurodegenerative diseases. And can be a genetic condition as some people are born with prosopagnosia.
Symptoms of prosopagnosia
- Inability to recognize familiar faces
- Having trouble identifying the faces of friends and family.
- Inability to distinguish between the faces of friends and family members.
- Being unable to distinguish between unfamiliar faces
- Having difficulties in distinguishing between faces and other stimuli.
- Inability to recognize one’s own face in a mirror or pictures.
- Struggling or having difficulties recognizing and perceiving facial features.
- Unable to identify additional characteristics linked to facial traits, such as age, gender, or race.
- Inability or struggle in recognizing and perceiving facial expressions.
Treatment of prosopagnosia
Currently, there is no formal treatment for prosopagnosia. However, Scientists and researchers are conducting research and investigating what are the remote causes of prosopagnosia. Other workaround programs and strategies are being developed to help Prosopagnosics gain their ability to recognize or identify family members, friends, and partners’ faces.
Compensatory strategies such as using the person’s hair, height, clothing, he or she walks and the person’s voice can help people with prosopagnosia regain their recognition ability. It may work for both Acquired and Congenital Prosopagnosia. People with Prosopagnosia can get more information from the Center for Face Processing disorder on coping strategies for prosopagnosia.
Frequently Asked Questions about Prosopagnosia FAQs
Can prosopagnosia be cured?
There is no cure for prosopagnosia. But Compensatory strategies can adopt to help persons with Prosopagnosia improve or gain their facial recognition.
Prosopagnosics are often shy and withdraw from social situations. This can lead to depression, Medications and Therapy can help solve the depression associated with Prosopagnosia.
How does prosopagnosia relate to sensation and perception?
Prosopagnosia is a disorder in the ability to recognize faces. And it is mostly acquired through a brain lesion like trauma, stroke, and brain damage or occurs as a developmental variant, especially in children with autism.
Perception researchers find prosopagnosia people interesting because their face and object recognition ability and deficits can disclose much about how intact visual systems process faces and objects.
What prosopagnosia look like
Certain prosopagnosics are unable to recognize specific facial expressions, identify a person’s age or gender, or follow their gaze. Some people could even struggle to recognize their own faces in pictures or in the mirror. A person’s ability to recognize items, such as locations or vehicles, may be impacted by prosopagnosia.
Where does prosopagnosia occur in the brain?
The right fusiform gyrus is part of the brain where prosopagnosia occurs. The right fusiform gyrus coordinates the neural systems that regulate facial perception and memory. Stroke, traumatic brain damage, or specific neurodegenerative illnesses can all cause prosopagnosia.
Who are the popular people or public figures with prosopagnosia?
- Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830–1903)
- Margaret Kerry (born 1929) is an American actress and the reference model for Tinker Bell
- Oliver Sacks (1933–2015) was a British neurologist
- Jane Goodall (born 1934) is an English ethologist primatologist, anthropologist, and Zoologist
- Karl Kruszelnicki (born 1948) is an Australian science communicator
- Chuck Close (1940–2021) is an American painter
- Duncan Bannatyne (born 1949) is a Scottish entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist
- Steve Wozniak (born 1950) is an American computer engineer and co-founder of Apple Inc.
- John Hickenlooper (born 1952) is a former Governor of Colorado and US Senator
- Jim Woodring (born 1952), American cartoonist
- Stephen Fry (born 1957) is an English broadcaster, actor, comedian, writer, and film producer.
- Mary Ann Sieghart (born 1961) is an English journalist and radio presenter
- Dave Chalk (born 1963) is a Canadian entrepreneur
- Markos Moulitsas (born 1971) is an American blogger and former member of the military
- Paul Foot (born 1973) is an English comedian
- Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden (born 1977)
- Sara Benincasa (born 1980) is an American comedian and author
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The first years of our lives are a formative period that can lay the foundation for our growth into adulthood, emotionally, physically, and intellectually. A degree in Early Childhood Education prepares you with the skills necessary to help cultivate healthy growth in children, shaping their lives and the communities that they live in for the better. For practitioners of these incredibly important tasks, it should come as no surprise that there are dozens of highly sought after and rewarding career opportunities. Much like with the potential of these young minds, the sky is truly the limit with a degree in Early Childhood Education, with diverse career opportunities ranging from education to social work.
1. Preschool Teacher
Early childhood brings on several major developmental changes in children. In these early stages, the challenges that children face are quite distinct from the challenges faced by children in kindergarten and beyond. Preschool teachers need to understand how children develop in order to plan activities in a creative environment to help cultivate a secure, safe, and nurturing environment.
An entry level position usually entails starting as an assistant teacher, or teacher’s aide, while working under the close supervision of an experienced mentor. Preschool teachers can find positions in a number of organizations, including child care centers, public and private schools, and industry care centers. Because there’s a great deal of diversity between these types of positions, what’s expected of a preschool teacher varies widely.
Of course, that also means there’s an equal degree of variance for advancement opportunities and compensation. The median salary for preschool teachers is $27,000, with the highest earners making closer to $48,000. Educational requirements vary state to state, ranging from a high school diploma and a certification to a four year degree. Most notably, employment outlook for preschool teachers projected to increase by as much as 17% over the next decade, which is much faster growth than most other occupations, making this one of the most accessible career options for someone with an education in Early Childhood Development.
2. Childcare Center Director
Those who direct childcare centers are responsible for the day-to-day operations of a daycare, preschool, or other childcare center. These experienced educators personally train and supervise the staff responsible for the care of children, set objectives and standards for their organization, and work to maintain strong relationships with parents. They also deal with many of the day to day administrative tasks of running a care center, like record keeping, career counseling, and evaluation of staff.
More importantly, childcare center directors take an active role in working with teachers to improve curriculum standards, prepare budgets, develop programs to help children succeed, and monitor the progress teachers and students alike. In essence, childcare center directors are responsible for every aspect of the center’s program, from daily education to the long term objectives of the organization.
Child care administrators have a median salary of $44,000, with the top 10% of earners making as much as $85,000 a year. Educational requirements vary from state to state, with most requiring a bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education, while others need a local certification in Child Development. Childcare center directors are outnumbered by their teaching counterparts, but occupy tens of thousands of positions across the nation.
3. Home-Based Service Provider
For many children, the home is a more natural environment for care and learning. Many parents are also more comfortable with their young children taking on the challenge of early education inside the home environment. Working either one-on-one or with several children at a time, home-based service providers combine the comfort of their own home, or a parent’s home, with the value of an early education.
Occasionally referred to as nannies, home-base service providers are responsible for providing a safe and educational environment for children, to plan activities appropriate for their developmental level, ensure appropriate nutrition, and to communicate with parents about the progress and growth of their children. This job is ideal for self-starting entrepreneurs who are capable of managing a small business, including taking on the responsibility of marketing their services to parents. Compared to other educational positions, home-based service providers generally face very few regulations, depending on the number of hours they care for children, and the number of children they care for.
Earning potential for this job is usually limited due to the personal nature of the position. Home-based service providers generally use this job as an opportunity to supplement their income, or to create a personal social experience for their own children. An associate’s degree in early childhood development and a child development associate credential are recommended, but not mandatory. The average salary for a home-based service provider ranges from $14,000 to $35,000, depending largely on the number of children cared for.
4. Family Support Specialist
Some families need assistance with child care placement; others need support services to pay for their children’s care. Families enduring problems with their health, an emotional crisis, a divorce, or other issues where the care of their children is jeopardy often require assistance from a support specialist. Family support specialists provide information for families by referring them to community services. This also means assessing eligibility of those services and helping families finding the right housing, transportation, and employment necessary to support their children.
Success as a family specialist requires a solid understanding of child development, child care regulations, and knowledge of local resources that are available for parents. This includes both private and public resources. These services may be provided in home or through an agency. A family service coordinator may also work at a head start program. Family support specialists may visit with families to help assess what services are needed. This also means it’s important to understand not only the individual needs of various families, but how to respect the cultural differences of diverse groups of people. Effective communication skills are necessary to help ensure that all necessary services will be provided.
A four year degree in Early Childhood Education or social work is recommended for family support specialists. The average salary for a family support specialist is $54,000, but that number can vary greatly depending on the company, location, and experience of the individual.
An Early Childhood Education degree prepares you with several unique skillsets. For example, you learn the ability to promote the development of children, to cultivate age-appropriate environments for learning, and to collaborate with parents and families to fulfill the multifaceted and diverse needs of children. You also cultivate teamwork and leadership skills, communication skills, and a strong understanding of child development. These skills make you an exceptionally suitable for a position as an educational consultant.
Consultants provide organizations, both public and private, to help develop programs, regulations, and policies that are suitable to promote the child care. Consultants often travel to a host organization to determine their needs, provide the resources necessary to solve their unique problems, and guide them towards making responsible and well informed decisions about child care.
Consultants also work with those who want to provide child care on-site. Depending on the type of consultant work, you may need additional knowledge about markets, employee benefits, and human resources. A bachelor’s degree or graduate degree in Early Childhood Education is necessary for consultant work, with an annual salary ranging from $48,000 to $80,000, depending on experience.
We’ve discovered a great deal about childhood development over the past few decades, but there’s still much that isn’t clearly understood. Researchers in childhood development carry out studies, evaluate services, and appraise educational practices related to the development of young children. Researchers collect data, conduct detailed analysis, and prepare grants to seek funding for more research opportunities.
Depending on your experience, you may also work directly with clients, design research methodologies, publish in scientific literature, and present your findings to the world. Researchers can work at universities, for government agencies, or for independent for-profit and non-profit organizations. The recommended level of education for a research position is a Ph.D. in Early Childhood Education. While the salary range for these positions varies widely depending on your employer, the mean salary for research in early childhood development and education is $75,000, with higher earners making closer to $90,000 annually.
7. Sales Representative
Understanding the unique capabilities of developing children makes you uniquely qualified for helping parents select appropriate educational material for their children. Sales representatives create, market, and sell merchandise used by the educators and caregivers of young children. This includes children’s literature, toys, nutritional products, art supplies, and virtually any other product aimed at developing children. Promoting products at developmental conferences, online, and in sores, sales representatives can work for both for-profit private enterprises and non-profit organizations.
A Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education is recommended for these positions. Knowledge in sales, marketing, and business are also useful for helping to connect developmental information with practical marketing skills. The annual salary for a sales representative ranges from $42,000 to $60,000 depending on experience.
8. Elementary School Teacher
Similar to preschool teachers, an elementary school teacher is responsible for cultivating a creative environment for children to learn and grow. Elementary school teachers are responsible for children in the K-5 age range, which means they’re responsible for a more advanced curriculum that includes science, mathematics, and literature. They also grade papers, manage student behavior, and help to develop projects designed to enhance student curriculum. Most elementary school teachers work a standard ten month school year, with a two month summer break. Some teachers continue to work year-round with summer programs to help struggling children succeed.
Becoming an elementary school teacher requires Bachelor’s degree, and teaching at a public school also requires a state-issued certification. The median wage for elementary school teachers is $53,000, with the top 10% of earners making $83,000 or more. Projected occupational growth for elementary school teachers is 12% over the next decade, which the US Department of Labor considers faster than average growth. | <urn:uuid:c45c8af6-e061-4e03-8355-2d890a944b9b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.earlychildhoodeducationzone.com/early-education-degree-careers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00519-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955554 | 2,053 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Critical Illness Insurance
The New Risk of the 21st Century
“The Protection You Need – When You Need it Most”
This is a quote from world renowned heart surgeon Dr. Marius Barnard who helped develop critical illness insurance. Dr. Barnard witnessed the emotional strains that many of his patients faced after surviving serious illnesses. Financial stress often worked against recovery or, in many cases, left patients struggling to pay bills as they resumed their lives.
Critical Illness Insurance creates a personal financial health line of credit which entitles you to a lump sum tax-free cash payment – upon diagnosis and survival of a critical illness. The beauty of this line of credit is that you never have to pay it back.
Most companies have 20-24 covered conditions, and is usually payable 30 days following the diagnosis of a covered condition and most connect you with the services provided by ‘Best Doctors’. Best Doctors is one of the world’s pre-eminent independent authorities of healthcare, who can put you in touch with physicians, hospitals and provides treatment assistance services, when you need it most.
Canadians need critical illness insurance. It’s a fact. A serious, life altering illness strikes one in three Canadians in their lifetime. Consider these statistics:
- 1 in 2 men and 1 in 3 women are predicted to develop heart disease in their lifetime.
- It is estimated there are over 70,000 heart attacks each year.
- Over 80% of heart attack patients admitted to hospital survive. In recent years the rate of death among patients has dropped from 16% to 8%.
- 1 in 2.3 men and 1 in 2.6 women living in Canada will develop cancer during their lifetime.
- An estimated 149,000 new cases of cancer and 69,500 deaths will occur in Canada in 2017.
- On average 2,865 Canadians will be diagnosed every week – 1,337 will die every week
- 1 in 8.8 women will develop breast cancer in their lifetime
- 1 in 8.3 men will develop prostate cancer in their lifetime
- 38% of women and 44% of men will develop cancer during their lifetime
- Each year about 16,000 Canadians die from stroke
- Each year, more women than men die from stoke (In fact more women die of heart disease than all the cancers combined)
- For every 10,000 Canadian children under the age of 19, there are 6.7 strokes.
- After age 55, the risk of stroke doubles every 10 years
- A stroke survivor has a 20% chance of having another stroke within 2 years
- Effects; of every 100 people – 15 die – 10 recover completely – 25 recover with a minor impairment or disability – 40 are left with a moderate or severe impairment – 10 are so severely disabled they require long term care.
So the scary part is that out of the 85 that live – 75 need some form of care – which has a direct ripple effect on loved ones who have to take care of them.
- Every day 3 people in Canada are diagnosed with MS
- MS is the most common neurological disease among young Canadians
- 238,000 Canadians over 65 have Alzheimer’s – 750,000 by 2031
Source: National Cancer Institute of Canada, Canadian Cancer statistics 2002, Statistics Canada, 1999, Heart and Stroke Foundation, 2001, Alzheimer’s society 2002
The risks are very real and so is the probability of survival. For most insurance companies, 80-85% of the claims that they pay out are for the top 3 critical illnesses; cancer 62-64%, heart attack; 17 -20%, and strokes; 6-10%. Did you know that, on average, people are in their 40’s when they receive the critical illness benefit? But it can happen even younger…see below (real claims)
Do you know any relatives, friends, or business associates who suffer or have suffered a critical illness?
If so, ask yourself the following questions:
- Could they cover all their medical expenses?
- Would they have benefited from a lump sum tax-free payment after they were diagnosed?
- Were they able to maintain their lifestyle if they or their spouse couldn’t return to work full time?
- Did they have timely access to the world’s “best” medical knowledge and treatments?
The cost of survival can be far more than the cost of the treatment. You don’t survive without paying a price.
How long would it take you to save $50,000? How long would it take you to exhaust $50,000 if you suffered a critical illness?
Earnings potential to age 65:
Survival comes at a cost… Where will the money come from?
- Withdraw from your retirement plan – your RRSP’s?
- Borrow funds? (will the bank lend you money if you are not working and disabled?)
- Government Health care plans?
- Disability Insurance?
How will the cash be used?
- pay down debts: mortgage, car loans or credit cards
- medical treatment not covered by provincial health plans
- medical treatment outside of Canada
- travel and living expenses
- cover lost income
- take extended leave from work to fully recover
- medical equipment or devices
- child or home care
- therapy (speech, physiotherapy etc.)
Or, have a heart attack and lose your mortgage?
Did you know that half of all mortgage foreclosures are as a result of disability and that 90 per cent of disabilities are from illness and not accident?
*46% of mortgage foreclosures are due to an inability to make mortgage payments due to a critical illness – 3% of all foreclosures are a result of death in the household.
Critical Illness is also available to children between the ages 2-19. It provides the financial assistance when your family needs it the most. You are able to take time off work so you can be with your child, hire a caregiver for your child, and cover the cost of transportation and accommodations to travel for treatments. Since Vancouver is the nearest major city to facilitate most treatments, it’s a big issue for us here on the island.
On a personal note I know 3 people who recently suffered a critical illness – one was diagnosed with Breast Cancer (needing a double mastectomy), the other had evasive melanoma, and the other had a heart attack – needing angioplasty – in these cases – they had coverage – and were paid a tax-free sum of money because they survived. They did not have to worry about money – just recovery.
I also have a friend that suffered severe 3rd degree burns to 20% of his body and I know another gentleman in his 40’s who had a heart attack, 2 little kids and a stay home mom, who had to go back to work and he had to go back to work sooner that he probably should have because they did not want to lose their house. Both did not even know that this protection was available.
Getting Basic Critical Illness Insurance is easy:
- Applying for coverage is easy: no medical questionnaire required.
You choose the level of coverage: there are three levels of coverage from which to choose – $25,000, $50,000 and $75,000
- You choose how to spend it: the lump sum benefit is paid directly to you, to spend any way you please. Pay medical expenses, retrofit your home, alleviate debt, travel… use the money however you wish!
- Comprehensive coverage: covers five of the most common critical illnesses and conditions – cancer, heart attack, stroke, coronary artery bypass surgery and aortic surgery.
- Health Service Navigator included at NO EXTRA COST: With Health Service Navigator, you and your eligible family members can quickly and easily get answers to your questions and access to support services. One simple call to a dedicated toll-free line and you will be connected to Health Service Navigator where you can receive information, medical coordination services and resources on how to navigate the Canadian health care system. And, if you want a second opinion from a world-class hospital, Health Service Navigator will help you get it. | <urn:uuid:137ebcfe-851f-4a56-805c-2687989bdbf3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://molchanfinancial.com/insurance-and-investments/critical-illness-insurance/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.960645 | 1,734 | 1.875 | 2 |
The City of Brockville is undertaking a water meter replacement program. The intent of the program is to update Brockville’s water meters and meter reading technologies. The new system will improve the efficiency of the meter reading process through the installation of new radio frequency meters. When the installation process is complete, customers will be relieved of the responsibility of reading their own meter or the need for the Water Meter Reading staff to enter homes/businesses to read the meter. Depending on the age of the meter and / or consumption on the meter, some meters will be retrofit or replaced with a new meter.
In order to complete the Meter Replacement Program as efficiently as possible, areas of the City will be targeted. When an area is substantially complete, the program will move on to the next area, and so on, until the entire City has been converted.
Water meters are an important component of Brockville's Municipal Drinking Water System. Every residential, industrial, commercial, and institutional customer is equipped with a water meter to track consumption. This ensures that each individual customer is being billed for only the water they consume. There are 8,500 water meters within the city, of which, 8,300 are residential water meters. The Water Division is responsible for replacing, installing, and testing water meters throughout the city. | <urn:uuid:d450fb15-cc39-43db-b5e5-f21ca6f9a248> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.brockville.com/water-meter-replacement | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00315-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935552 | 264 | 2.390625 | 2 |
This is an abridged version, ruined specially for the web. To read the full original article in all its glory or lack thereof, see the print magazine.
When Edward Drinker Cope died in Philadelphia in 1897, he was one of the most famous men of ichthyology, herpetology, and vertebrate paleontology. One would think that with such acclaim he would have his head on straight. Demonstrably, such was not the case.
Cope and Marsh
Cope was a fiery antagonist when it came to publishing. He is the Cope of the infamous "Cope-Marsh War" that pitted him against arch-scientific-rival Othniel Marsh of Yale University, about which numerous articles and at least two books have been written.
Going for the Old
Cope spent summers in the freshly exposed wilds of the American West, spending hugely (mostly from government funds) to hunt for and haul equally huge volumes of bones back to Philadelphia.
He had used to get fossils for free from marl pit workers in New Jersey, when the source dried up without apparent cause. Marsh, made wealthy by an indulgent uncle, George Peabody, who bought him the Yale Peabody Museum, had been introduced by Cope to the pit bosses in New Jersey. And now Othniel had begun to pay them for the very fossils they used to give away to Cope. Edward had inherited a considerable amount of money from the Philadelphia mercantile business of grandfather and father Cope. But he managed to lose quite of bit of that in bad mining deals out West, and he didn't hold nicely to the idea of having to pay for earthly treasures. So he took the show on the road.
Cope connected up with one of the predecessors of the U.S. Geological Survey. With his field crew he ravaged the West for bigger and newer extinct animals to discover and describe. Unfortunately, Marsh also hit the dusty trail. Sometimes the two camps resorted to spies and skullduggery -- even firepower -- to take over prime fossil-collecting areas and to way-lay crated shipments intended for the other. From here on it was a bitter rivalry in field and print, lasting all their lives.
In the world of scientific names of biological organisms, whoever first validly publishes a new description "wins." Good science or bad, the date of publication is the arbitrating factor. So, what's a paleontologist to do if he knows he has found a previously undescribed fossil, but he's way out on the frontier? Call home!
The Birth and Torment of Electronic Publishing
The telegraph was one of the new contraptions of the civilized 19th century. All Cope had to do was to saunter 10 or 20 miles to the telegraph office, scurry off a few messages in his awful handwriting, and have them sent to the Academy or to the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, who dutifully published the descriptions in the next monthly installment of their respective scientific publications -- the 19th-century version of instant gratification.
Head of Steam
As if sneaky priority and misappropriated names weren't already enough to inflame an archrivalry like theirs, Marsh one day not so privately pointed out to Cope that the Philadelphian had placed the head of an extinct reptile on the wrong end.
Cope had named Elasmosaurus based on bones sent to him from Kansas. At first he gave two different names to the bones, thinking them to be from different creatures, then discovered they were but one. Drawing a reconstruction of the skeleton, he showed a giant ocean-swimming reptile with a short neck and a very long tail. So pleased was Cope that he distributed offprints of the article before the whole issue of the journal was published. Except (as Marsh was quick to point out) that he had failed to notice a key anatomical indication of "front" and "back" in the reptile vertebrae. In fact the long, flexible tail was a long, flexible neck.
Mortified, Cope attempted to recall and destroy all the copies he had sent out. (He missed a few, so we know about the mistake today.) He redrew the skeleton and rewrote parts of the description, which already had been typeset and laid in galleys at the print shop; but he grammatically connected the pieces badly, and it shows. He tried to cover the whole thing up by redistributing new offprints with the same date of publication as the first (of course with no mention of Marsh's assistance).
Sadly, perhaps, the "good old days" of scientific rivalry, pitting vanity against wealth without the impediment of peer review, are gone. In any case, name-calling precludes a level head in the tactical war of words.
The Bone Sharp -- The Life of Edward Drinker Cope, Jane Pierce Davidson, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadephia, 1997.
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Asian-American Congresswoman Grace Meng has sent a letter to the Association for Asian American Studies protesting its recent endorsement of the ‘Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions” (BDS) campaign against the State of Israel.
Meng, who represents New York’s 6th District and is also a member of the Middle East and North Africa subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, expressed her concern with the “counterproductive” nature of the BDS movement, citing, among other policies, its demand for the Arab “right of return.”
“It is very well known that neither Israel nor a ‘two-state solution’ could exist with a ‘right of return,’” she wrote.
The AAAS voted to pass the BDS resolution in late April at its annual conference in Seattle. The vote passed unanimously, though only about ten percent of its members took part in it.
Meng told The Algemeiner in an email that she couldn’t sit by idly as the AAAS tried to harm Israel.
“This is an unprecedented action for an academic organization, let alone for an Asian American group, so I chose to voice opposition to it,” she said.
She added she has “always been sympathetic to Zionism,” and that a trip to Israel in 2010 “deepened my understanding of the Jewish state. It also provided context to what I already knew about the unique historical persecution of the Jewish people and the great achievements of the Jewish State.”
In her letter to the AAAS, Meng criticized the organization for the tone of its campaign, calling it “inflammatory.”
“The characterization of Israeli actions as ‘racist’ is inaccurate, inflammatory, and inconsistent with the views of the vast majority of Americans and Asian-Americans. It does not serve the cause of peace; rather, it serves to galvanize those who oppose peace.”
She further added that adoption of the resolution could only harm relations between the Asian and Jewish communities in the U.S, and that “the interests of Americans and Asian-Americans are best served here by dialogue and engagement, not boycotts and divestment.”
She told The Algemeiner: “It is important that Asian Americans – particularly the youth – appreciate the value and justness of Israel, America’s only true, democratic ally in the Middle East.”
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Is frozen dessert harmful?
The frozen dessert label says traces of trans fats and saturated fat of 5.8. So both harmful dietary fats are found in frozen desserts. … According to the Harvard Medical School Heath Guide, trans fats are worse than saturated fats, and there is no safe level of trans fats.
What is frozen dessert made of?
An ice-cream is made from milk fats while a frozen dessert is made from vegetable oil fats. Vanaspati is a hydrogenated vegetable oil used in cooking, a cheaper substitute for ghee or butter. But it's not used in frozen desserts, say manufacturers.
Is Amul ice cream or frozen dessert?
An ice-cream is made from milk fats while a frozen dessert is made from vegetable oil fats. Vanaspati is a hydrogenated vegetable oil used in cooking, a cheaper substitute for ghee or butter.
Is Baskin Robbins ice cream or frozen dessert?
U can check the cartons for yourself, You don't (usually) find the word ice cream in most other products… In most other products, u can find like “frozen/creamy delights/desserts”. Because most of the so called icecreams are made up of Vegetable oil/vegetable fats.
Is Kwality Walls Frozen Dessert?
Kwality Walls is frozen dessert, which looks and tastes like ice cream but is made with vegetable fat and not milk fat. Hence, under Indian laws, it does not qualify as ice cream.
Which ice cream is best in India?
In its most basic form, ice cream is a mixture of cream and/or milk, sugar and sometimes eggs that is frozen while being churned to create a frozen product. In commercial ice-cream making, stabilizers, such as plant gums, are usually added and the mixture is pasteurized and homogenized.
Is kulfi healthier than ice cream?
Popular in India, kulfi is a healthier version of ice cream, forgoing eggs and preservatives in favor of simply milk, sugar and natural flavors. They also skip out on the surprising additive of air, making Kaurina's Kulfi richer and creamier than typical dairy desserts, while prolonging its frozen goodness.
What is Amul ice cream made of?
Made from Fresh Milk (Real Milk, Real Ice cream): No added vegetable oil, hence no Frozen Dessert. No Differentiation in Quality Standards of Consumer & Catering/ Institutional Packs: Stringent Standards than Specified by PFA & BIS for more fat and less overrun (less air) to give creamier feeling.
Is Arun ice cream vegetarian?
colours, stabilizers, emulsifiers, additives, enzymes in cheese, are of 100% vegetarian origin. The emulsifier E-471 is used in ice-cream for stabilization and emulsification of fat with other milk components.
Who is the owner of Vadilal ice cream?
Mr. Rajesh R. Gandhi, Managing Director, Vadilal Industries Ltd., is the son of the founder Chairman, Mr. Ramchandra R. Gandhi. Over the last couple of decades, he has worked with his father to make Vadilal a name to reckon with in the Indian ice cream and processed foods sector.
Is Mother Dairy ice cream or frozen dessert?
Ice-cream makers such as Amul and Mother Dairy that use only dairy fat say frozen dessert makers have been misleading consumers by passing them on as ice cream. … He says dairy fat costs 300/kg, while vegetable fat is 50-60 a kilo. "Frozen desserts play with huge margins and cheat consumers."
Does Kwality Walls ice cream contain egg?
No, Kwality Wall's products do not have Vanaspati in them. Q. Is there a difference between Frozen Desserts and Ice Cream? Both ice cream and frozen dessert contain milk/milk solids. To make an Ice cream/Frozen dessert, in addition to milk protein, fat is also needed.
Is ice cream a frozen food?
Ice cream is a type of sweetened frozen dessert that is usually flavoured, contains ice and is eaten in the frozen state. Ice cream generally contains dairy ingredients but can also be dairy free made with vegetable fat. Frozen yoghurt can also be classed as ice cream.
Which company owns the brand Kwality Walls ice cream?
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1 Danish School of Education - Research Programme on Diagnostics of Contemporary Education, Danish School of Education, Arts, Aarhus University2 Danish School of Education - Pædagogisk Sociologi, Emdrup, Danish School of Education, Arts, Aarhus University3 Danish School of Education - Pædagogisk Sociologi, Emdrup, Danish School of Education, Arts, Aarhus University
The societal norms of ageing and old age are changing in society today, due to demographic changes that favour a pedagogicalization of society, focusing on the management of human resources throughout the entire lifespan. The discourse on active ageing mot only reveals ‘better’ ways of ageing but it also raises questions as to what constitutes a ‘good’ and ‘active’ life in all societies. The conflicting aspect of the discursive battlefield on active ageing constitutes a fight for authority: Who has the ‘right’ to define the meaning of being ‘active’ and how can ‘activity’ be identified? ‘Active’ is to be understood according to the interpretations available in different knowledge perspectives in order to discipline the future knowledge production of ageing and control the processes of subjectification in later life as the disciplining of ‘Population Ageing’: Becoming a subject to active ageing. Dominant discourses on ‘active ageing’ are challenged by the focus of museums and archives on using heritage and participatory arts as an arena to performAGE in later life by craving creativity as a notion of age and opportunity.
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An exhaustive study, the first of its kind, designed to measure the safety and efficacy of treating preschoolers who suffer attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder// (ADHD) with methylphenidate (Ritalin), has revealed that reduced doses of this medication is beneficial and doesn’t cause harm. The study also revealed that it is important to closely observe preschoolers as they are more sensitive than older children to the side effects of medication.
The 70-week, six-site study was funded by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and was described in several articles in the November 2006 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
"The Preschool ADHD Treatment Study, or PATS, provides us with the best information to date about treating very young children diagnosed with ADHD," said NIMH Director Thomas R. Insel, MD. "The results show that preschoolers may benefit from low doses of medication when it is closely monitored, but the positive effects are less evident and side-effects are somewhat greater than previous reports in older children."
Methylphenidate is the most commonly prescribed medication to treat children diagnosed with ADHD. But its use for children younger than 6 years has not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. And until PATS, very few studies--and no large-scale ones--have been conducted to collect reliable, consistent data to help guide practitioners treating preschoolers with ADHD.
The 303 preschoolers enrolled in the study ranged in age from 3 to 5 years. The children and their parents participated in a pre-trial, 10-week behavioral therapy and training course. Only those children with the most extreme ADHD symptoms who did not improve after the behavioral therapy course and whose parents agreed to have them treated with medication were included in the medication study. In the first part of the medication study,
the children took a range of doses from a very low amount of 3.75 mg daily of methylphenidate, administered in three equal doses, up to 22.5 mg/day. By comparison, doses for school-aged children usually range from 15 to 50 mg total daily.
The study then compared the effectiveness of methylphenidate to placebo. It found that the children taking methylphenidate had a more marked reduction of their ADHD symptoms compared to children taking a placebo, and that different children responded best to different doses.
"The best dose to reduce ADHD symptoms varied substantially among the children, but the average across the whole group was as low as 14 mg per day," said lead author Laurence Greenhill, M.D., of Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute. "Preschoolers with ADHD may need only a low dose of methylphenidate initially, but they may need to take a higher dose later on to maintain the drug's effectiveness."
To ensure the safety of the very young children involved, the study was governed by a strict set of ethical standards and additional review boards. The children's health was monitored carefully and repeatedly throughout the study's duration. Their parents were repeatedly consulted for consent prior to every step of the program. The researchers also reviewed the teacher ratings of the children who attended preschool at various stages in the study.
Similar to 1999 results found in NIMH's Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with ADHD (MTA study), and other studies on school-aged children, the medication did appear to slow the preschoolers' growth rates. Throughout the duration of the study, the children grew about half an inch less in height and weighed about 3 pounds less than expected, based on average growth rates established prior to the study.
Currently, no data exist that track long-term growth rate changes among preschoolers with ADHD who are medicated with methylphenidate. However, a
five-year-long follow-up study is underway to track the children's physical, cognitive, and behavioral development, as well as health care services the family is using to care for the child. Those data will be available in two to three years.
Finally, 89 percent of the children tolerated the drug well, but 11 percent--about 1 in 10 children--had to drop out of the study as a result of intolerable side effects. For example, while some children lost weight, weight loss of 10 percent or more of the child's baseline weight was considered a severe enough side effect for the investigators to discontinue the medication. Other side effects included insomnia, loss of appetite, mood disturbances such as feeling nervous or worried, and skin-picking behaviors. Despite concerns that stimulants may increase blood pressure or pulse, any changes seen in the children's blood pressure or pulse were minimal.
"The study shows that preschoolers with severe ADHD symptoms can benefit from the medication, but doctors should weigh that benefit against the potential for these very young children to be more sensitive than older children to the medication's side effects, and monitor use closely," concluded Dr. Greenhill
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One of the things I love about this challenge has been learning the different ways to work with gelling agents.
Through some research and books, I discovered this interesting way to create clouds and bubbles within the jelly.
Relatively simple, you need to just make a variety of different coloured jelly, scrape them and combine them together with one jelly mixture.
For this particular first time effort, I had a three flavour combination - raspberry, white peach, and white wine.
The clear bits and the softer peach tones are slightly overpowered by the red raspberry colour but nevertheless, it is still rather pretty especially when it is sitting on my new handmade Bitossi bowl (I love the varying lavender shades of it).
Maybe one can go wild and add more colours but I can imagine it will look rather rojak after some time.
Raspberry White Peach and Wine Jelly (Makes three moulds)
100ml white wine
4 tablespoons gelatine powder
4 tablespoons Raspberry Jelly powder (I used the Aeroplane brand)
200ml hot water
100ml white peach juice
Get ready three individual bowls. Make the white wine jelly by combining 1 tablespoon of softened gelatine powder and a little hot water to melt. Sieve and pour into a bowl. Freeze for 15 minutes. For the raspberry jelly, melt jelly powder with 100ml hot water. Combine 1 tablespoon of softened gelatine powder. Sieve and pour into a bowl. Freeze for 15 minutes to set. Soften 1 tablespoon gelatine powder. Add 1 tablespoon hot water to melt. Add to white peach juice and whisk to combine. Sieve and pour into a bowl. Freeze for 15 minutes. Remove set jelly from freezer. Scrape each jelly with a fork. Mix together all three flavours. Make remaining jelly with 100ml water and 1 tablespoon softened gelatine powder. Put a little of the scraped jelly in the mould. Pour clear jelly mixture to bind. Add more scraped jelly and jelly mixture until it reaches the top of mould. Repeat for second mould. Chill for at least 5 hours. Unmould and serve immediately.
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PV220™ Pulse Voltammetry
The PV220 Pulse Voltammetry Software is an electroanalytical tool for performing a multitude of pulsed techniques involved in electrochemistry research. Pulsed techniques offer increased sensitivity for studying low concentration, fast timescale electroactive species. PV220 can be used with solid electrodes, rotating electrodes, and mercury electrodes.
The PV220™ Pulse Voltammetry Software package is the electroanalytical tool to perform qualitative and mechanistic analysis of electrochemical species. PV220 adds Differential Pulse Voltammetry, Square Wave Voltammetry and other recognized pulse voltammetry techniques to the Gamry software product family. Pulse techniques lower the concentration limits of measurement for detection of electroactive species by minimizing the contribution of capacitive charging current. Stripping analysis is incorporated for each technique to further enhance the detection limit. PV220 works with solid electrodes, rotating electrodes, and mercury electrodes.
- Advanced Pstat Setup
- Advanced users who want control over filtering, stability and speed of the system always have it at the script level. In PV220 these controls are available through the experimental setup window making them easier to implement. For Reference Family users this also allows easy switching of the auxiliary channel between various read points (BNC, thermocouple, Control Amp).
- Electrode Setup
- Users of mercury drop electrodes (DME, SMDE, HMDE), rotating electrodes and/or Stir-Purge units can set up those various devices through this menu.
- Positive Feedback IR Compensation
- Higher acquisition rate experiments cannot operate with current interrupt mode IR compensation. Positive Feedback allows collection of IR compensated data in these experiments. The uncompensated resistance value must be known and constant during an experiment for this to operate properly.
- Gamry PCI4/Series G, Reference, or Interface Family Instrument
- Microsoft® Windows™ XP SP3/Vista/7/8 (32-bit or 64-bit)
Square Wave Voltammetry
The applied signal for SWV is a square wave with 50% duty cycle superimposed on a staircase ramp. Measurements are taken right at the end of each potential change. The difference between the current values is plotted versus the staircase potential.
Differential Pulse Voltammetry
The applied signal for DPV is pulse that is superimposed onto the staircase ramp. The start of the pulse is synchronized to the step start of the staircase, and the pulse size and duration are adjustable. Measurements are taken right at the end of each potential change. The difference between the two currents is plotted versus the cell’s staircase potential.
Normal Pulse Voltammetry
In a NPV experiment, a series of ever-increasing voltage pulses is applied to the working electrode. The pulse duration and sample period are adjustable, and current measurements are made prior to the pulse and just before the end of the pulse.
Reverse Normal Pulse Voltammetry
The applied signal for a RNPV experiment is an inverted NPV waveform superimposed on a staircase ramp. Measurements are made prior to the start of the pulse, and just before returning to the initial potential.
Sampled D.C. Voltammetry
The applied signal is a staircase voltage sweep with adjustable step size and sampling period. A current measurement is taken prior to the next step in the staircase ramp.
Each of the above techniques has a Stripping Voltammetry variant that accompanies it. Stripping Voltammetry includes a series of pre-steps that can be used to clean the electrode and to accumulate or concentrate the analyte on the electrode. The process increases the overall measured current, leading to the increased sensitivity of stripping voltammetric techniques.
Generic Pulse Voltammetry
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“How do computer programmers learn their art? Is there a step-by-step process that guarantees you’ll get good? All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works. The box might be a computer or it might be a market or it might be a customer or it might be your boss. It’s a puzzle, one that can be solved in only one way – by poking.” – Seth Godin, in Poke the Box.
The only way things will improve at any church or charity, or business is when it improves. Improvement is neither a TedTalk outline, an idea, a hope, or a wish. Improvement is your focus that is tied to your mission statement. Your ability to carry out a self-assessment is the next step.
In an article written by Jim Collins, he writes about the myth of Technology-Driven change:
“The breakthrough that you’re looking for can be achieved by using technology to leapfrog the competition.”
No one likes change, except for babies with diapers. Instead of fearing or resisting change, great leaders innovate and adapt. When there is no growth, great leaders look at areas needing improvement. They offer new services. Pursue new opportunities.
In the 1990s, the Emerging Church movement started to change the notion that the church had to be in a building. It was a departure from the past. A few church leaders struggled to embrace this idea.
We saw this before the 2020 pandemic. Three thousand churches were using the Church Online platform. Craig Groeschel and Life Church offer churchonlineplatform.com as a free tool to help manage an online ministry without technology barriers. By August 2020, 27,000 churches started using this platform to broadcast services online. Influential leaders realize that 2020 was fertile soil for new opportunities.
Leaders are strong amid obstacles.
- Noah built the ark without being a naval architect.
- David did not undergo marine training to fight with Goliath.
- Nehemiah did not have an engineering degree to build the Jerusalem wall.
Leaders adapt beyond their natural ability. We embrace a leadership mindset that wants to improve and lead better.
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According to various sources, the terror attack in Norway in 2011 was carried out by NATO.
After the terror attack the former Prime Minister of Norway (2005-2013), mr. Jens Stoltenberg, became Secretary General of NATO (highest function).
It is suspicious that the former prime minister of Norway became the head of NATO.
NATO was present in a secret spy operation in Oslo since 18 months before the terror attack in 2011.
18 months before the terror attack, NATO started to recruit retired Norwegian police officers (including Oslo’s former anti-terror head) for SIMAS Surveillance Detection Units (SDU), “operating outside of” Norwegian government control. Norwegian Justice Minister Knut Storberget later said he was not informed of the presence of the NATO spy unit in Oslo.
The office of mr. Jens Stoltenberg in Oslo was specifically targeted and blew up.
(2011) Deadly blast rocks prime minister’s office in Oslo
Shortly before the terror attack, Norway had decided to withdraw from the NATO bombing coalition to bomb Libya in 2011, which the Netherlands had already done shortly before.
Norway’s independent pro-Arab foreign policy and the rejection of the NATO bombing coalition against Libya, along with that of the Netherlands, could have led to several countries being dragged into an anti-war policy.
(2021) The secret Norwegian peace talks that nearly prevented Libya’s 2011 civil war
The confidential Norwegian-brokered peace talks were the closest the world to come to a peaceful end to Libya’s 2011 civil war.
Source: The Independent (PDF backup)
After the terror attack in Oslo in 2011, Norway actively participated in the Libya war and dropped the most bombs of all countries (WikiPedia), over 600 bombs in total, with which many civilians in Libya were killed.
Several critical questions about the terror attack in 2011 remain unanswered.
- eye witnesses testified that there were multiple shooters. They also clearly describe the person that they had seen.
- just 48 hours before the bombing in Oslo, police units were engaged in terrorist bombing exercises near what would later be ‘ground zero.’. Special elite police unit concluded training for near identical scenario just minutes before the bomb attack.
Mr. Jens Stoltenberg’s official response after the terror attack:
“No one will bomb us to silence. No one will shoot us to silence. No one will ever scare us away from being Norway. You will not destroy us. You will not destroy our democracy or our ideals for a better world.” – Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg
During the Cold War, NATO carried out terrorist attacks in European cities under the name Operation Gladio, for which left-wing groups were falsely blamed. The attacks were intended to create an atmosphere of fear.
I have had several paranormal visions related to the former Prime Minister of Norway (2005-2013) mr. Jens Stoltenberg.
After the terror attack in Norway, I had a bad sense about mr. Jens Stoltenberg (a kind of hatred towards me / the critical blog ), which I accepted and respected as a disagreement regarding psychiatry, but that still seemed suspicious and strange. I thought I might not understand the culture of Norway, but it was a strangely inhumane and an unyielding hostility.
I never suspected anything in a serious sense about mr. Jens Stoltenberg (a mere awkward result after an evaluation of a sense was all, and later a few times a repeated sense that he was ‘topical’ again out of the blue, causing me to label him but still seeking the origin with psychiatry), until I learned around March 2021 that mr. Jens Stoltenberg became the head of NATO.
In 2015 there were NATO people that stayed in the same hotel as me. The hotel had 6 rooms and I and the 2 NATO people were the only guests.
The hotel is owned by a relative. There is an indication that something was off. For example, I paranormally overheard my sister one night as she drove in a car onto the property, saying in a response to her boyfriend “they just want to kill him“. A day later an absurd event happened in the relational sphere and I was moved out of the hotel.
My sister’s boyfriend threw me out of the hotel and screamed in the hotel hallway “You’re leaving!“. The reason: I had declined to continue talks with a particular CEO for one of my projects. He wanted to invest, but I had my reasons for rejecting that offer, which I communicated clearly and decently. The technology was not yet ready and it would be better to first build a good prototype and then talk to bigger investors, a simple and wise choice from my perspective, and certainly not a reason to get angry.
When I had packed my belongings and said goodbye to my sister, she remained calm and emotionless staring at her laptop. I asked her “you have nothing to say?” and then I departed. My sister was cold-blooded while she is normally quite emotional. She didn’t seem to have a bad feeling about my leaving, even though it was an absurd situation.
My sister’s boyfriend studied at an elite management school in America and stayed at home with politicians in Washington. He made an extra special connection with each guest in the hotel and is connected with many top people.
Prime Minister of Norway ‘topical again’
Looking back, I several times had the sense that somehow Jens Stoltenberg was ‘topical’ again. For me it was a kind of ‘potential hindrance’ which I put in the box ‘someone with a more serious urge to defend psychiatry‘. At one time, I saw a team of evil barbarian agents, in conjunction with Jens Stoltenberg, watching how to attack me in the city of Utrecht while I was bicycling there.
When deducing the intention behind that sense, I could only think of the idea that the intention was to defend psychiatry. It resulted in a note with the question “why such malice if it were about psychiatry?“.
In retrospect, Jens Stoltenberg was already the director of NATO at the time of the paranormal sense.
Murder of a childhood friend
On July 28, 2015 there was a major international NATO event (called by Turkey) and I sensed (I saw the intention of some top people flocking) that some people at that event ‘wanted to do something against me‘. 8 days later, one of my childhood friends drove off the road with his motorcycle.
I had a very strong paranormal vision in which a vision of my childhood friend came towards me with a great force. At that time, I walked from the kitchen to the office garden with a coffee. I initially thought that the ‘influence’ came from bad people and immediately tried to suppress it. It was such a strong force, I actually put my arm up high and bucked down in a sort of move to protect myself from it, as part of the response to ‘suppress’ it. It was not until later that it became clear that the vision was of a childhood friend, and from what I had seen I knew that something had been done to him.
In retro-perspective I had seen much more by which I knew for certain that something had been done to him. For example, I saw my friend earlier that day. I saw him standing in front of a football stadium, as if he were being watched. I saw him from a third party perspective. Then he started driving and later I received the strong paranormal vision. I also thought to have noticed the face expression of someone that attacked him (a derogatory perspective towards my friend).
I found the obituary via Google some time later, and read what had happened to him.
Motive for murder
- On July 15, 2015, I actively sought awareness for the pilots of Air India 113 and the lying by India’s ministry, regarding the shooting down of MH17. (see this email as proof)
- On July 28, 2015, a major NATO event was called by Turkey. I sensed at the time that some people at that event “wanted to do something against me.”
- On August 5, 2015, one of my childhood friends drove off the road.
Because of the paranormal vision, I initially did a quick search and found a page on the website of NATO (nato.int) with a poster advertising an event in the city Arnhem on the day that my friend drove off the road in Arnhem: 5 august 2015. The time of the post is 11:14 and the number ’14’ returns in the terrorist attack in Christchurch, New Zealand, that is linked to the Utrecht attack by the president of Turkey.
MH17 airplane attack
On July 17, 2014, the day of the MH17 airplane attack, I was at work when I suddenly had a paranormal vision of two people talking on the phone. One was by definition unknown and would remain so, the other was ‘not yet visible’. I had no idea at the time what I had to do with it. Then one of the callers withdrew in frustration and powerlessness, then glanced in my direction with the expression “you did it, you rascal” (mocking) as he withdrew. It was the same expression of Russian president Putin that I had seen several times before. Some time later I heard Dutch people shout “What can we do? What can we do?” and later that day I learned about the MH17 airplane attack.
I have helped to critically examine the MH17 airplane attack. Shortly after the attack (a few days later), during a first search in Google, the first result was an article in a major newspaper in India about the fact that the pilots of the Indian flight Air India 113, shortly before the shooting down of MH17, heard over the radio that MH17 was given a deviated flight path by Ukraine air traffic control, a direct line to the location where the plane was shot down, which was suspicious according to investigators in India. In addition, major (official) newspapers in India claimed that the Indian government had been caught lying and attempting to cover up the truth.
Air India 113 has never been mentioned in the media (0 mentions). I then decided to focus on drawing attention on behalf of the Indian pilots and journalists who were so courageous to stand for truth.
Spanish air traffic controller confirms Air India 113’s report
(2021) The MH 17 False Flag
MH17 had been rerouted over a combat region by air traffic controllers in Kiev, according to a Spanish air traffic controller named “Carlos.” Soon afterward, a media smear campaign against this individual began, claiming Russia paid him to lie. Part of his story was that two Su25 aircraft operated by the Kiev regime had trailed the Malaysian airlines Boeing.
Source: Veterans Today (PDF backup)
NATO denies access to satellite images
Ukraine was a war front and NATO had placed several new satellites. It recently emerged that NATO has continued to deny to provide the Netherlands with satellite images for the MH17 investigation (the Netherlands never had access). There are testimonies that claim that MH17 was shot down by a fighter jet.
In 2019 there was a terrorist attack in Utrecht on the 24 October Square (founding date of the United Nations).
On the day before the attack, I had a very strong vision of the Dutch king and a group of approximately 50 men in a dark atmosphere, which appeared to be NATO.
The king stood in front of the group, had a red band on the top of his cap and when the group of men said something to him, he agreed, looked in my direction and the red band on his cap began to glow intensely. I couldn’t see the men. I only heard the sound of low men’s voices as a sort of muttering and it had a direct effect on the king turning back and looking in my direction by way of agreement.
Since the king agreed in the vision I decided to stay away from it.
After the attack on my home in 2019, I shared the paranormal vision on the day before the terrorist attack in Utrecht on a Belgian forum for the purpose of providing transparency about an event that may have been related to the absurd attack on my home, since I only had that vision as a lead for a possible explanation. It was the first time that I shared information with regard a paranormal vision.
I discovered that the president of Turkey shared a video of the terrorist attack in Christchurch, New Zealand shortly before the attack in Utrecht.
According to various sources, the terrorist attack in Christchurch, New Zealand was a staged event. The perpetrator is said to have entered New Zealand from Turkey.
The perpetrator of the mass shooting in Utrecht was Turkish. A local businessman told the BBC that the perpetrator had previously fought in the Russian republic of Chechnya. He went on to say that the perpetrator was arrested and later released because of his connections to the Islamic State (ISIS).
According to a source, Islamic jihadists are sent to Chechnya by NATO to fight for financial interests.
Origin of a ‘personal attack’ motive by the head of NATO
I never suspected anything in a serious sense about Jens Stoltenberg (a mere awkward result after an evaluation of a sense was all, and later a few times a repeated sense that he was ‘topical’ again out of the blue, causing me to label him but still seeking the origin with psychiatry), until I learned around March 2021 that Jens Stoltenberg became head of NATO.
I have not been involved in activism or investigation of NATO or Jens Stoltenberg.
As can be seen in the email that I sent on July 15, 2015, my participation with regard the investigation of the MH17 airplane attack had been decent.
I recently asked the following questions to a Green Party politician in America who is now director of an organization.
With regard the truth about the 9/11 attack. Would it be possible to share your motive to be involved?
I became a political activist in the wake of watching the film JFK and doing research on the CIA. I was outraged and felt I should do something to challenge a policy which tortures, kills, and terrorizes people.
Would it be possible to describe the favorable outcome of your work?
Just raising consciousness and awareness. At this point, hopefully more people will not buy all the propaganda deluging us on Covid19. If you were at our website, you will see that we did include a talk and film on Covid19 in our last big annual event.
Our mission statement is- to seek and disseminate truths about the terrible crimes committed on September 11, 2001, exposing gaps and deceptions in the official story. Our goal is to inspire more eyewitness revelations, truthful media coverage, and a movement that will bring the responsible criminals to justice and eliminate governmental and corporate policies that enable criminal elements to commit such acts.”
In the case that the Government has performed the attack, what would (or should) it imply?
I think it implies that our government IS a terrorist organization. While, we are mere citizens; we should not condone or support its more murderous activities. Although, I think the guns are now being pointed at us.
Most people would like to put their head in the sand and are obediently going along with the manufactured reality blasted at them constantly by the media.
It sounds like you have crossed some line to be a target in the Great Game…
I replied with the following, displaying my perspective.
With regard the declaration of the Government as a ‘terrorist organization’. While I understand that it is a natural aim or goal, from the perspective of results it may be best to have a clear vision of how it should be.
The idea that the Government is a terrorist organization may not lead to favorable results.
A saying in Russia is “a fish rots from the top down“.
Such a wisdom translated to the general nature of people makes it logical that people are inclined to denounce information that promote the idea that the Government is a terrorist organization. People (in general) logically are ought (or feel inclined) to do what matters for maintaining a peaceful mind, which is essential for stability and progress.
Is ‘truth’ more important than what matters for prosperous existence of individual humans and people? Without the (terrorist) Government, what ‘truth’ would there be left to be important for them?
To remove the potential for contention, the higher purpose of people will need to be served.
I understand that from the perspective of investigative journalism, one simply intends to fulfill his/her job as good as possible and unmasking truth is in a sense the highest purpose, while one humbly withholds from telling people how they should live or think.
To achieve results with regard to ‘prevention of terrorism‘, it may be important to discover the root of the fact that the Government performed terrorism.
I recently read the following:
There is an old saying in Washington that the cover-up is worse than the crime.
Conventional wisdom in Washington has it that the cover-up is always worse than the crime.
This appears to be evidence that a certain morality within the Government is likely to be possible. One then simply needs to find the root of the problem, which may provide insights for experts of how it can be ensured that the Government follows a righteous path.
Questions that interest me and explain my position:
- Is “truth” more important than a peaceful state of mind?
- If not, what does that mean with regard to (the potential for) morality in politics?
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United Nations: This Week in Development - 15 April 2013
This Week in Development: 15 April 2013
UN Arms Trade Treaty draft includes
provisions to help curb violence in LDCs
During his comments at the final consultations for the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) this week, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said "there are common standards for the global trade in armchairs but not the global trade in arms.
His statement highlighted that unregulated arms and munitions trades lead to continued and unprecedented violence, particularly in the least developed countries. Read more...
After Chad outbreak,
reasons for yellow fever activity remain elusive
In late February, the government of Chad launched a mass emergency vaccination campaign in response to an outbreak of yellow fever. For the first time in decades, multiple cases had been confirmed in the country. "It's not the first case, but it's the first cluster," says Olivier Ronveaux, the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Yellow Fever Officer for Africa. Read more...
setbacks, push to end polio remains strong
In September 2012, the end of polio seemed close at hand. Incidence had fallen more than 99 percent since 1988, saving 8 million people from paralysis, thanks to an international partnership known as the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI). A polio-free world was almost in sight; only three countries-Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan-remained endemic. Read more...
57th CSW calls to end
child marriage in the developing world
According to a report from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) by the year 2020, 142 million girls will be married before age 18. This translates to 14.2 million girls married each year - 39,000 girls married each day. The governments of Bangladesh, Canada, and Malawi sponsored a special session of the 57th Commission on the Status of Women at United Nations headquarters in New York City on Thursday to address child marriage. "We all have a role to play in reducing child marriage and ensuring that girls remain girls and not wives and mothers," said moderator Carole Presern, executive director of The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health. Read more...
The water crisis: a
At a United Nations conference on water and women held Thursday, February 21 in New York City, Margaret Batty, Policy and Campaigns Director at WaterAid, declared water a "basic human need" and "fundamental human right." Lakshmi Puri, Deputy Executive Director at UN Women, r asserted that the time women spend collecting water "excludes" them from fulfilling their rights and keeps them from becoming tomorrow's leaders. Read more...
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Privatization of banks in Slovakia and its impact on bank market
|Author:||Mgr. Branislav Soták|
|Year:||2008 - summer|
|Leaders:|| doc. Ing. Karel Půlpán CSc.
|Work type:|| Finance, Financial Markets and Banking
|Awards and prizes:|
|Abstract:||This diploma thesis deals with the transition and privatization of banks in Slovak Republic. In the beginning, it describes the theoretical background of financial transition. It then copes with the emergence of two-tiered banking and privatization and its implications for the uprise of a Slovak specific corporate governance model, in which banks played a crucial role. The third part investigates problems of the development of the banking sector until late 90s, mostly the vast non-performing loan portfolio. These problems eventually led to a banking crises, that was necessary to be solved via costly restructuring and privatization of banks with the entry of strategic foreign investors, the fourth part describes the process. The last part is dedicated to an empirical analysis of the impact of various ownership forms on the cost efficiency of banks in the sample of Czech and Slovak banks in the period 1996-2005. To estimate the efficiency we use the stochastic frontier approach with the translog specification of the cost function. The results support the hypothesis that privatized banks are more cost efficient than state-owned banks.
Keywords: transition, privatization, banks, cost efficiency, ownership
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The short answer is don't worry too much if your dog eats a flea or a tick. Your pet’s stomach is strong enough to handle an accidental insect ingestion, and so are you! While watching your dog pick up a dead bug with the tip of his tongue might not be the most pleasant sight, as long as it’s not a regular occurrence there is no cause for concern.
One Flea, Two Flea, Three Flea, Four
However, if your pet has developed an affinity for munching on bugs, I wouldn’t be as cavalier about their crunchy diet. Speak with your veterinarian or a pet specialist if you notice flea and tick ingestion becoming a common problem. When fleas are consumed on a regular basis, the probability of your dog developing tapeworm greatly increases.
As fleas often feed on pet feces, they are known to carry tapeworm eggs in their system, which can be transmitted to a cat or dog upon digestion. In most cases, a dog’s stomach acid should be strong enough to kill off the egg before it hatches. Same goes for ticks.
If a tapeworm does happen to develop, there are several safe and efficient treatments including fast acting antibiotics. To prevent tapeworms, be diligent about preventative flea and tick control year round. If your cat or dog is on a regularly scheduled treatment plan, the possibility of dead fleas, eggs or larva being accidentally eaten greatly decreases. On the same token, stay diligent about your pet’s hygiene as well as the cleanliness of your home to ensure a happy and healthy life for your pet.
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Flea and Tick Questions, Answered
Why is My Flea and Tick Medication Not Working?
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Everyone having freedom to view and interact with a room their own way is part of what makes Switchboard unique. If you're trying to highlight something specific, however, you need a way to get the room's attention. That's where Presenting and Following come in!
Clicking the play button in the center of the bottom toolbar brings everyone's view to match yours:
They'll get a notice that you are presenting and can continue to interact with whatever is in your view of the room. When you click stop, everyone will be able to zoom and move around the room independently again:
Individual room participants can also use the Esc key to stop following your view while you are presenting.
In a meeting with multiple presenters on the agenda, this allows the next presenter to get their screen ready while the previous presenter is wrapping up.
Multiplayer browsers are when you log into a web app that other people in the room are also logged into (like Jira or Notion) within the same browser. When you enter present mode, everyone will see your view of this browser as well. Once you stop presenting, they will see their version of the browser again.
Loose track of what someone is referring to in the room? The Follow feature allows you to see the room from another user's view.
To find the Follow button, you can click on a person's video:
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Predicting the Mineral and Chemical Composition of Dust Aerosols: Evaluation and Implications
Abstract:Soil dust aerosols in Earth system models are typically assumed to have globally uniform properties. However, important climate processes related to dust depend on the aerosol mineral and chemical composition, which varies regionally. Such processes include aerosol radiative forcing, transport of bioavailable iron that catalyzes marine photosynthesis, heterogeneous chemistry, ice nucleation, and cloud condensation.
We have implemented a new version of the soil dust aerosol scheme in the NASA GISS Earth System ModelE that takes into account the mineral composition of the dust particles. Dust aerosols are represented as an external mixture of minerals such as illite, kaolinite, smectite, carbonates, quartz, feldspar and gypsum, as well as iron oxides and accretions of iron oxides with each of the these minerals.
We present a new publically available compilation of measurements of mineral fractions derived from ca. 50 references from the literature. This compilation is used to evaluate our new model of mineral and elemental composition within ModelE. We discuss the challenges of comparing simulated mineral fractions to measurements, which often come from field campaigns and ship cruises of limited duration. Despite uncertainties of the measurements, we show the importance of estimating the undisturbed size distribution of the parent soil prior to wet sieving, along with the modification of this size distribution during emission.
In particular, our new model reproduces measurements showing greater amount of aerosols at silt sizes (whose diameters exceed 2 μm) including significant amounts of clay mineral aerosols (like illite) at silt sizes. Our model also reduces the systematic overestimation of quartz, while allowing iron to be transported farther from its source as impurities than in its pure, crystalline form. | <urn:uuid:5420de24-26f3-4f86-a266-384fd011d7d2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm14/webprogram/Paper28607.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00670.warc.gz | en | 0.912341 | 386 | 2.90625 | 3 |
BBC Weather: 'Big contrast' across European continent
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BBC Weather’s Nick Miller forecast temperatures of 21C in the UK this weekend while France and Spain will also see hot conditions. But an area of low pressure in eastern Europe is dominating the charts and has sent temperatures below average for the time of year. Mr Miller said: “Big weather contrat across Europe at the moment.
Further to the west it’s dry with high pressure but towards eastern areas low pressure is stuck.
“Around that we are seeing these bands of wet weather.
“How Saturday is looking, temperatures are going to be easing a touch.
“It really is in this area of low pressure we’re finding temperatures below average for this time of year.
“But that not be too much of a bad thing compared to all the heat some of us have been subjected to.
“On Sunday, heavy rain is pushing into Romania and southern parts of Poland, Ukraine and on towards western parts of Russia.
“In Turkey it’s looking dry, Greece is looking fine as well.”
He added: “London is staying dry with that area of high pressure in control through Paris as well all the way into next week.”
UK weather: Met Office forecasts sun and showers
Partygoers heading to festivals and holidaymakers looking to take advantage of the bank holiday weekend can expect widespread fine conditions in a spell of late summer sun, forecasters have said.
Most of the UK is set to be dry and bright for the duration of the three-day weekend after weeks of wetter than usual weather for August, according to the Met Office.
It said the high pressure is likely to dominate through the end of the month and into the start of September, suggesting this weekend’s settled spell could continue into next week.
Met Office spokesman Grahame Madge said: “It will be a largely fine and settled weekend; there’s very little – if any – rain in the forecast.”
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He said the best conditions can be expected in Northern Ireland and western Scotland on Saturday, but there is likely to be fine, dry and settled weather in most other areas too.
As the weekend progresses, the warmest temperatures are expected to be in southern England, with highs of 22C (71.6F) or 23C (73.4F) and the potential for an isolated 24C (75.2F) or 25C (77F).
Revellers at the Reading and Leeds Festivals can enjoy bright conditions over the weekend, with highs potentially reaching 21C (69.8F) in Reading on Sunday and 17C (62.6F) in Leeds.
However, those camping in Leeds should pack warm layers, with temperatures set to drop to 10C-11C (50F-51.8F) overnight.
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Grate carrot using a grater with small holes and keep aside. Pour oil in a fry pan, add mustard seeds, when they splutter add Bengal gram, chopped onions, crushed garlic and curry leaves and fry until onions have turned golden brown. Then add asafoetida and mix well. Now add grated carrot and salt. Fry well.
Add 2 tsp of water if required.
Take care to see that the carrot doesn't get charred.
Add chopped coriander leaves.
When you feel that the raw smell of the carrot has disappeared and the carrot is done, remove from fire.
Serve hot with parotas or chapattis or Dosas. People with sweet tooth can add a piece of jaggery or a tsp of sugar. Happy cooking
Bawarchi of the Week
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Not Everything in Nature Is as It Appears: Canadian Geese Are Good Examples
Wildlife photographer and naturalist Stan Tekiela teaches us that not everything in nature is as it appears. We see the natural world through the lens of a human, so it is important to understand that our lens colors the way in which we see the world. Once this is understood, we can see it from a different perspective and try to see and think about the world from a different point of view.
This was painfully obvious to me the other day when I was photographing a pair of Canada Geese that had about 35 goslings with them. When I first spotted the family, I thought how cool it was to see and that it would make a fun picture.
A few minutes later, a gentleman, who also spotted the gobs of geese, came over and made a comment about how in all his years he had never seen one family with so many babies. He postulated about how this family of geese is most likely a record for one mother. And then he went on to make several other rather nasty and negative remarks about geese and large families in general.
When he was done berating the geese and their oversize family, I nicely pointed out to him that there is no possible way for this one goose mother to successfully lay this many eggs. The amount of calcium needed to produce this number of eggs would be physically impossible. In addition, there is no way the mother would be able to successfully incubate 30-plus eggs at the same time. Inevitably, the eggs at the bottom of the pile wouldn’t get incubated and thus wouldn’t hatch.
After explaining the biological reasons why this mother didn’t produce and hatch all these goslings, I spent a few more minutes explaining to him that it’s very common for adult geese to temporarily adopt or babysit goslings from other adults. I’ve seen this time and time again. Sometimes I think the young goslings just want to be with their friends for a while and therefore temporarily hang out with another family, making it appear like a super-large family of geese.
After this, I suggested that perhaps geese aren’t the terrible creatures he assumed them to be a few minutes before and, in fact, that they are actually excellent parents that care greatly for not only their own goslings but for the goslings of other parents. To me, this behavior shows a superior level of compassion and caring.
It was at this point that I told him I was a wildlife biologist, studying wildlife for 40 years and witnessing this kind of behavior before. No matter how much I tried to explain it to this gentleman, however, he couldn’t/wouldn’t see it another way. His mind was set on his opinion, and no amount of explanation would change his mind. Because he had never seen it or heard of it meant that it couldn’t be true. He shook his head and continued with his diatribe of unflattering expletives concerning the overpopulated status of the Canada Goose in this country. Obviously, this guy wasn’t capable of seeing it any other way.
There are many other examples of things we see in nature and incorrectly judge, based on our human experience and lack of biological understanding. We tend to vilify many species that we just don’t understand. For example, bats flying into people’s hair is a mistruth that still persists. This myth usually comes from bats being trapped inside a house. They often perch high up in a corner of a room; when a big scary person approaches them, they drop off the wall in order to gain enough air-speed to start flying. We interpret this as the bat swooping at us and trying to get into our hair when it is just trying to get enough speed to fly and get away.
I could go on and on with more examples, but I think you understand my point. We people are quick to judge and then criticize. We can learn a few things from Mother Nature, simply by understanding it better.
If you enjoyed Stan’s post about Canada geese, you may enjoy one of his amazing nature books: Wild Birds, Backyard Birds: Welcomed Guests at our Gardens and Feeders, and his latest book Bald Eagles: The Ultimate Raptors.
You can follow Stan on Facebook and Twitter, or contact him via his web page. Stan’s nationally syndicated NatureSmart Column appears in more than 25 cities spanning 5 states (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, and Pennsylvania) and is circulated to more than 750,000 readers.
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So far, 2013 has been the Year of the Hack, as the past few weeks have proven positively lousy with big-name security breaches.
Social networks, news outlets, and now…jeeps and fast food? That’s right, recent events have seen two prominent businesses get their Twitter accounts hacked, and worse. Not only did identity pirates shanghai the feeds (and therefore the reputations) of Burger King and Jeep, they used this illegal access to send embarrassing and scandalous messages to their followers.
Last Monday, @BurgerKing began tweeting that it had been sold to McDonalds, changing its image to a golden arches logo and posting ridiculous, wildly provocative comments about rappers and mad cow disease. The same thing happened to Jeep the next day, when its account claimed it had been sold to Cadillac and that its CEO had been fired for doing drugs.
The incidents had huge and bizarre repercussions. Many users tweeted quips about how hackers “had it their way” with the fast food giant. Actually, if the plan was to send people away from the burger chain, it backfired: Burger King now has 30,000 new followers and tons of media attention. In fact, soon after MTV and BET actually pretended to have been hacked, apparently just for the publicity.
Burger King’s well-managed response is a fantastic example of a corporate character trait I call repetitional jujitsu – using negative digital events to your competitive advantage. If you think that BK’s response was accidental, or casual, think again.
Despite the silver lining for the company, this is an alarming series of events. It may seem funny now, but will you be laughing when strangers start using your digital reputation for a prank?
In response to this, Twitter is determined to make its system more secure by implementing use of the email authentication system DMARC, which will hopefully limit hackers from using false emails to gain private information. While this will help, only time will tell how much difference it actually makes.
It may seem trifling, but your digital reputation is vital to how you’re perceived in the offline world. Proper social media risk management is the key to combating such attacks, and its best to take it to heart before someone makes you the next big online joke.
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1 US dollar is worth approximately 0. 6 GBP (British Pounds) as of the moment of writing. 1 GBP (£1) would therefore be worth approximately $1. 63 in dollars. In the current economic climate, the exchange rate is unpredictable and continues to vary. Various online sources and newspapers will publish up-to-date exchange rates. | <urn:uuid:d0037afb-a6e8-4226-9054-2a0f237c6c55> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://snippets.com/how-much-is-a-pound-worth-in-dollars.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721405.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00312-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955485 | 72 | 1.992188 | 2 |
My time-traveling adventure at the Library of Congress’ current newspapers and periodicals reading room felt like reruns of old newscasts. It brought back memories of stories dating back to the 1960s – the man on the moon (1969), the hijackings of passenger planes bound for Cuba (1970s) and the Clintons’ failed attempt to pass legislation on health care (1993-1994); newsmakers – famous, infamous and everything in between (two-time presidential candidate Ross Perot, John Wayne Bobbitt and British pop star Adam Ant); and brands that no longer exist (Woolworth stores, the Montreal Expos baseball team, Trans World Airlines and Napster).
I also found many American political news stories that reminded me of French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr’s aphorism, “the more things change, the more they stay the same”, and made the flash of my life before my eyes seemed to be on a loop.
THE DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN OF OHIO
There were stories from the mid-1970s about Watergate, which comes across as an immobile traffic violation compared to what we witnessed under the Trump administration. There were stories about political corruption, one called “Quirky Ohio Congressman on Trial for Corruption.” If the image of a politician wearing a polyester suit and wearing a captain kangaroo has come to mind, you’re right: it’s former Rep. James A. Traficant. According to this 2002 AP article, he was “accused of accepting gifts and favors from voters in exchange for lobbying Washington.” Two decades later, it looks rather quaint.
HILLARY CLINTON IN PERSON AND IN EFFIGY
One of the biggest political stories of 1993-94 was President Bill and Hillary Clinton’s push for health care reform, an effort that ultimately failed. Remember the multi-million dollar “Harry and Louise” ad campaign funded by a Medicare lobby group? OK, but did you know that in 2002, the charming couple resurfaced in a television commercial, advocating human cloning?
A 1994 story, “Hillary Doll Burned at Stake,” informed readers of a rally in Kentucky where someone “poured gasoline over (Hillary Clinton’s) effigy, which hung like a scarecrow in a dress”. “A country band played,” the story continues, as the effigy was set on fire. This was probably the first execution or conviction of Hillary Clinton in effigy. She was burned in Pakistan (2011) and India (2014); dressed in stripped prison garb in Pennsylvania (2015); inside a witch’s costume in Iowa (2015); in prison gear while flying on a broomstick in Maine (2015); and hanging from a crane in southern Oregon (2016), wearing a fuchsia-colored bra, next to a sign that reads “Vote Trump.”
KAL FLIGHT 007
I also found headlines that seem to spring from last week’s newspapers. A column by Nicholas von Hoffman (1976) lamenting the “death of logic” was inspired by statements made by Democratic Representative Larry McDonald of Georgia against the National Labor Relations Board, which he denounced as a Marxist entity and pro-Russian. Elevated to president of the John Birch Society in 1983, McDonald had a well-deserved reputation as a champion of anti-Communist, anti-abortion, anti-busing and anti-gun control causes.
The anti-Soviet congressman’s life ended as a hybrid between a Tom Clancy novel and “Airport” (the movie): bad weather delayed his August 28, 1983, Atlanta-New York flight; because of this, he missed his connecting flight to Seoul, North Korea; rather than take the next Pan Am flight, he opted for cheaper Korean Airlines tickets, which were due to fly two days later; during a layover in Anchorage, Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina (who was attending the same meeting) invited McDonald to join him on another flight, but McDonald declined. A few hours later, Soviet fighters fired on the plane he was piloting, killing him and all the crew and passengers.
DONALD’S EGO AND MARLA’S SHOES
A few editorials/stories about future politician Donald Trump caught my eye. A 1989 editorial by Calvin Trillin bore the headline: “Donald Trump, the Man with the Skyscraper Ego.” It chronicled the future president’s efforts to inflate his wealth in order to appear on Forbes’ richest people lists. Trillin gave his take on a New York Observer poll that found Trump had 94% recognition in New York. The reaction of the future president was a classic Trump: “Hey, I’m very flattered… But I’m just wondering who the others are.”
Then there was an article from 1994 titled “Chuck Jones Sentenced to 4 Years”. “Who is Chuck Jones and how was he related to Trump?” you are entitled to ask. Jones admitted to having a “sex” with the shoes and boots of Trump’s second (then current) wife, Marla Trump. Yes, you read that right, his shoes, which he stole with matching pieces of lingerie. During his sentencing, Jones said outside the courtroom that “the jury was wrong and we plan to appeal.”
Stories of celebrities, crimes and celebrities who commit crimes in next week’s column.
Luis Martinez-Fernandez is the author of “Revolutionary Cuba: A History” and “The Key to the New World: A History of the Beginning of Cuban Colonization”. Readers can attach it to [email protected] To learn more about Luis Martinez-Fernandez and read articles by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www. creators.com.
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TCEA-Recommended iPad Apps. iPad for Autism by Andrew Proto on Prezi. Chesapeake father creates app to navigate autism. Joe Hill watched his son press a finger against the screen of an iPhone, pull back an animated slingshot, and fire a bird through the virtual air. He was amazed at how quickly Deacon, 3 at the time, mastered the game Angry Birds.
A year earlier, Deacon had been diagnosed with autism, a developmental disorder that impairs the ability to socialize and communicate. Danny's Wish - It's All About Giving. Apps for Autism: An Essential Guide to Over 200 Effective Apps for Improving Communication, Behavior, Social Skills, and More! (9781935274490): Lois Jean Brady. Apps for Autism. 2010 Year of the iPad - Focus on Autism. The Conversation: iPad Gives Voice to the Autistic.
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In Britain, it will mean a much tougher task for Chancellor Gordon Brown in raising funds to shore up the NHS and public services.
The IMF's World Economic Outlook, which measures the global economic pulse, forecasts growth for this year and next of 2.4%, the weakest since 1993, and sharply lower than estimates of 2.6% for this year and 3.5% for next which appeared in an earlier report, compiled too early to take account of the impact of the World Trade Centre atrocity. Economists view growth of 2.5% as a global recession.
'A particularly disturbing feature of the current slowdown is its synchronicity across nearly all regions, the most marked for at least two decades,' says the report. The IMF has, until now, resisted any suggestions that the world economy might be heading for a slump.
But it now concedes that three great regions, the US, Europe and Japan, are in recession. 'The prospects for global recovery have been set back significantly and projections for growth have been marked down substantially since October,' said the Washington-based Fund.
Britain is one of the few countries to so far escape the economic meltdown but this may not last, the IMF warns. In a blunt assessment of Brown's Treasury stewardship, it warns that recession in Britain is threatening to spread from the industrial and export sector to the rest of the nation.
It is cutting its forecast for British growth next year to 1.8%, against 2.4% in its last report, and substantially below the Chancellor's pre-Budget report forecast of 2 to 2.25%, which has been criticised in the City for its optimism.
The US economy faces a stunning reversal in its economic fortunes, the report suggests, with a growth prediction of just 1% this year and 0.8% next year. Its previous forecasts had been 1.3% this year and 2.2% next. Japan, too, is in deep trouble and can expect two successive years of recession for the first time since World War II.
Despite confidence that euroland could isolate itself from global events, the IMF has slashed its forecast for the region's growth next year by a full 1% to just 1.2%. Germany, the biggest economy in Europe, is projected to grow by just 0.5% this year and 0.7% next year. Wim Duisenberg, president of the European Central Bank, was insisting on Tuesday that euroland would escape the worst and there was no need to cut interest rates for the 'foreseeable future'.
Optimism expressed by President Bush and his Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill that the American economy will recover rapidly in 2001 could be misplaced, the IMF believes.
It warns 'the US may pick up more slowly than currently expected' and that the effect of the terrorist attacks 'may prove more prolonged'.
It also warns that stock markets have become overvalued and that share prices could tumble again. 'An abrupt adjustment remains possible, particularly if global growth outlook were to prove worse than expected,' it says. Some insurance companies could find themselves in trouble because of complex trading on the futures markets.
In the UK, it means there could be room for the Bank of England to lower interest rates from the current 4% - the lowest in nearly 40 years.
The report warns that the outlook remains 'highly uncertain' and that there is a 'significant possibility' of an even worse outcome than it suggests. 'The tragic events of 11 September exacerbated an already very difficult situation in the global economy,' it says. 'As a result, prospects for global recovery have been set back significantly.'
The IMF warns that a vicious circle of falling business and consumer confidence, rising unemployment and a slowdown in house price rises will hit consumer confidence. But it believes the world economy will eventually bounce back because of interest rate cuts and faster progress in the war on terrorism in Afghanistan.
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The Working After Cancer Study (WACS): a population-based study of middle-aged workers diagnosed with colorectal cancer and their return to work experiences
© Gordon et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2011
Received: 20 July 2011
Accepted: 29 July 2011
Published: 29 July 2011
The number of middle-aged working individuals being diagnosed with cancer is increasing and so too will disruptions to their employment. The aim of the Working After Cancer Study is to examine the changes to work participation in the 12 months following a diagnosis of primary colorectal cancer. The study will identify barriers to work resumption, describe limitations on workforce participation, and evaluate the influence of these factors on health-related quality of life.
An observational population-based study has been designed involving 260 adults newly-diagnosed with colorectal cancer between January 2010 and September 2011 and who were in paid employment at the time they were diagnosed. These cancer cases will be compared to a nationally representative comparison group of 520 adults with no history of cancer from the general population. Eligible cases will have a histologically confirmed diagnosis of colorectal cancer and will be identified through the Queensland Cancer Registry. Data on the comparison group will be drawn from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. Data collection for the cancer group will occur at 6 and 12 months after diagnosis, with work questions also asked about the time of diagnosis, while retrospective data on the comparison group will be come from HILDA Waves 2009 and 2010. Using validated instruments administered via telephone and postal surveys, data will be collected on socio-demographic factors, work status and circumstances, and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) for both groups while the cases will have additional data collected on cancer treatment and symptoms, work productivity and cancer-related HRQoL. Primary outcomes include change in work participation at 12 months, time to work re-entry, work limitations and change in HRQoL status.
This study will address the reasons for work cessation after cancer, the mechanisms people use to remain working and existing workplace support structures and the implications for individuals, families and workplaces. It may also provide key information for governments on productivity losses.
Australian and New Zealand Clinical Trial Registry No. ACTRN12611000530921
Although cancer is often seen as a disease afflicting older people, each year in Australia over 40,000 cancers, or 43% of all cancers, are diagnosed in middle-aged people of working ages (45-64 years) and the number of survivors living with cancer is increasing . Consequently, research attention has turned to assessing health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and survivorship issues after a diagnosis of cancer.
One survivorship issue that is not well quantified is work participation and workplace issues after a diagnosis of cancer. Work can define a person's self-worth, identity and social purpose, and it contributes to financial security. A cancer experience that causes major disruption in the work role can become a source of high distress in addition to expensive medical bills, and can adversely affect HRQoL [3, 4]. Inability to work may deprive an individual of stimulation, social contacts and independence, while staying in or returning to work after cancer treatment may be important for patients in maintaining a sense of normalcy and control [3, 4]. Cancer treatments are improving and current treatments can involve prolonged periods of adjuvant therapy thus previous reports on the extent of disruption to work roles, earnings and other role activities may be outdated. Lengthy treatments, ongoing medical care or the experience of a recurrence may lead to reduced career options and loss of employment. Calls have therefore been made for oncology health workers to better recognise and screen patients for work-related distress .
Studies have shown between 30-93% of workers with cancer will return to work [5, 6], with most people returning to work within 12 months of taking leave [5, 6]. Survivors of head and neck cancer and breast cancer have shown more difficulty returning to work than survivors of other cancer types [5–7]. Although many people appear to resume their employment with minimal interference [8, 9], there may also be difficult work re-entry, forced retirement, workplace discrimination and refusal of insurances . Factors that have been linked with delayed return to, or stopping work include: older age [6, 11, 12]; physically-demanding work [5, 6, 9, 12]; being female [5, 6, 11, 12]; presence of comorbidities ; being married [6, 11]; fatigue ; lower education [6, 14]; chemotherapy ; blue collar occupations ; and upper-body limitations . Amongst those who return to work, work disabilities are more common for those with a physically demanding job, advanced cancer stage and those experiencing treatment side-effects . However, many of these studies are US-based and subject to a system of employment-based health insurance and the added pressure on individuals to keep working to retain access to health care services.
Current research concentrates on breast cancer survivors so the relevance for other cancer populations is unclear. A population-based cohort study of Australian colorectal cancer survivors assessed a subset of working adults for changes in work participation . Twelve months after diagnosis, 33% of men (n = 621) and 40% of women (n = 354) were not working. Radiation therapy among men (OR = 1.90, 95%CI: 1.14- 3.17) and chemotherapy among women (OR = 1.87, 95%CI: 0.98-3.57) were associated with a higher prevalence of work cessation . The risk of ceasing work among women was smaller if they had private health insurance (OR = 0.54, 95%CI: 0.31-0.92). Quality of life scores for persons who stopped working were significantly lower than for persons who continued working, after adjusting for additional explanatory factors . However, this study was limited because there was no non-cancer comparison group and therefore was unable to determine the proportion of cases who would have ceased work irrespective of cancer.
This paper presents the protocol of a population-based observational study to examine the work experiences in adults with colorectal cancer. We aim to describe changes in work participation at two points in time within a 12-month period, identify the key predictors influencing work participation and time to work re-entry, quantify the extent of physical and cognitive limitations at work and the role of work on HRQoL. The results of the study will provide valuable information for individuals facing cancer, health professionals, supportive care services and government about the reasons for work cessation, the mechanisms people use to remain working and existing workplace support structures.
A longitudinal population-based study has been designed to enrol middle-aged (45-64 years) men and women newly-diagnosed with colorectal cancer who were working at the time they were diagnosed. These participants will be matched by gender and 5-year age group to a nationally representative sample of men and women from the general population. Participants in both groups will be followed over 12-months and have data collected on socio-demographic factors, work-related factors, and HRQoL while the cancer sample will have additional data collected on cancer treatment and symptoms, work productivity and cancer-related HRQoL.
Aims and hypotheses
The key aims of the study are to:
1. Describe transitions in employment participation following a primary diagnosis of colorectal cancer within a 12-month period compared to individuals without cancer;
2. Identify the key factors influencing work participation during or after cancer treatment compared to individuals without cancer;
3. Identify the key factors influencing time to work re-entry after cancer treatment among individuals taking work leave for their cancer treatment;
4. Investigate the influence of changes in employment participation over a 12-month period on HRQoL at time 2 among individuals with cancer compared to those without cancer; and
5. Quantify the extent of physical and cognitive limitations at work (work disability) in individuals following a primary diagnosis of colorectal cancer.
We hypothesise that:
1. The proportion of middle-aged working adults with a primary diagnosis of colorectal cancer who substantially alter their work hours (i.e. by ≥20%) or stop working by 12 months after diagnosis will be more than 15% higher than among middle-aged working adults in the general community;
2. The key barriers to work participation or timely work re-entry after cancer will include regional or metastatic cancer at diagnosis, age, fatigue at six months, adjuvant therapy, living with an employed partner, limited work autonomy and low income; and,
3. Study participants who substantially reduce their work hours or leave the work force against their choice, will have clinically lower HRQoL scores at 12 months compared to those who remain employed at 12 months.
Eligible cases will be Queensland residents, aged 45-64 years, with a histologically confirmed diagnosis (notified to the Queensland Cancer Registry (QCR)) of primary colorectal cancer between January 2010 and September 2011, and in paid employment at the time of their cancer diagnosis. The QCR has universal coverage of persons diagnosed with cancer residing in Queensland. Study exclusions include: cognitive impairment; not speaking English; having no telephone; and previous or concurrent cancers (except non-melanoma skin cancer). A general population comparison group will be randomly selected from a secondary data source, the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey dataset, using retrospective data in Waves 9 and 10 (2009 and 2010 data). HILDA is an Australian household panel survey which began in 2001 and collects information about economic and subjective well-being (including HRQoL), labour market and family dynamics. Households and individuals are followed up annually through interviews and self-administered questionnaires. Each new survey wave of HILDA, is developed and pilot-tested over a 9-month period using a sample of urban and rural households prior to data collection.
Ethics approval for the study was obtained from the Human Ethics Research Committees of Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Griffith University and the Queensland Health Research Ethics and Governance Unit.
Based on cancer incidence and labour figures it is anticipated that at least 522 working persons with colorectal cancer will be eligible annually. Sample size calculations were based on the number required to detect a 15% difference in work participation between workers with and without cancer assuming a 5% significance level and 80% power. Based on our past experience of recruiting colorectal cancer patients through the QCR and allowing for 85% doctors consent, 70% participant consent, 90% baseline interview completions and 75% retention at 12 months post-diagnosis, we will require initial contact with 258 patients with colorectal cancer to retain 125 patients at 12 months. The wave-on-wave attrition rates among continuing HILDA respondents have been consistently low, approximately 5% each year . Data for 2,590 employed persons enrolled in HILDA aged 45-64 years Australia-wide will be available. HILDA data will be randomly matched 2:1 to patients with colorectal cancer, by gender and 5-year age category. Thus the total sample size to be selected for the study will be approximately 780.
As mandated by QCR protocols, patients' names and the names of their doctors will be accessed via the QCR and initial letters sent to each patient's doctor requesting permission for the patient to be approached, followed by reminder letters and telephone calls if necessary. All patients for whom doctor's consent is obtained will be mailed a study invitation letter, an information sheet and consent form. Three weeks after the initial patient letter, non-responders will be telephoned to gauge their interest in the study and screened for their eligibility.
Data collection sources
Questionnaire item domains at each time point by cancer cases and general-population comparison group
2. Cancer treatments
3. Symptoms (MSASb)
4. Work questionsa
5. Work limitations (WLQ)
6. Quality of life (SF-36)b
7. Health behaviours & conditionsb
8. Cancer-specific quality of life (FACT-C)
9. Financial strainb
Question groups 1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 from HILDA Wave 9, 2009 data
Repeat question groups 2-8
Question groups 1, 4, 6, 7, 8 from HILDA Wave 10, 2010 data
1) Pathology reports held within the QCR (cancer group)
Clinical data will be collected including tumour site, histopathological tumour type, degree of differentiation/grade, degree of metastasis and stage of disease (e.g, TNM or Dukes staging).
2) Telephone interviews (cancer group)
Participants with cancer will take part in structured telephone interviews at 6 and 12 months after diagnosis. At the 6-month data collection time point we will also ask participants to recall work-related information at the time they were diagnosed with cancer (baseline). Telephone interviews will be undertaken in order to maximise response rates, reach a wide geographical region and minimise participant burden, the latter being important in a working population that may require out-of-hours contact. Interviews will be conducted by trained and experienced interviewers. To minimise respondent burden, interviews will be kept to approximately 30 minutes each. A flexible interview schedule will be adopted and tailored to suit the schedules of working participants.
3) Self-administered mailed questionnaire (cancer group)
To supplement the data collected from the telephone interview, and to address items of a more sensitive nature (e.g., financial strain, health behaviours), additional postal surveys will be sent to participants with cancer immediately after the telephone interview. The surveys will take approximately 20 minutes to complete.
4) General-population (comparison group) survey data
Secondary data from HILDA survey waves 9 and 10 (2009 and 2010 data) will be used to assess the comparison group. These data are collected by face-to-face interviews.
Specific questionnaire items and measures
Generic baseline socio-demographic informationfor the cancer and comparison groups will include items on age, gender, education level, country of birth, culture, marital status, household income, health and other insurances, postcode of residence, number and age of children.
Participants' work situations, generic HRQoL, health behaviours and conditionswill be collected at both time-points (Table 1) with identical items for the cancer and comparison groups. Work situation items include a compilation of validated tools from Australian government surveys (eg Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Labour Force Survey, ABS 1999 Survey of Living Standards) and ask about: employment status, usual and preferred weekly hours, reasons for working part time, occupation, occupation change, industry, trade union membership, paid sick leave, paid holiday leave, expected resignation or dismissal, supervisory responsibilities, employer type, workplace size, job satisfaction, if the respondent has a disability, type of disability, disability commenced in the last year, impact of disability on work probability, financial strain (e.g., access to emergency funds, bills paid late), intended age of retirement and intentions of stopping work during next three years. Generic HRQoL will be evaluated using the widely-used and validated Medical Outcomes Survey Short Form (SF-36). Physical activity estimates will be obtained via the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (short-form) . Other standard health behaviours and conditions (smoking, alcohol consumption, height, weight and chronic illnesses) will also be asked.
Cancer treatments, symptoms, cancer-specific HRQoL and work limitation itemswill be collected at both time-points for participants in the cancer group (Table 1). The Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale (MSAS) will be used as our measure of prevalence and severity of common cancer treatment and disease symptoms . This instrument has proven validity and reliability among a sample comprising persons with prostate, breast, colon and ovarian cancers . Cancer-specific HRQoL will be assessed using the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy general questionnaire (FACT-G) plus the colorectal cancer module; (FACT-C). The FACT-G (Version 4) is a 36-item questionnaire with four subscales: physical; social; emotional; and functional well-being. The FACT-C has demonstrated validity and reliability, is brief and sensitive to changes in functional status . In addition, Queensland general-population norms are available to use for comparisons . The 25-item Work Limitations Questionnaire (WLQ) will be used to assess potential difficulties experienced at work . The WLQ covers four dimensions; time management, physical demands of work, mental-interpersonal demands (cognitive job tasks, on-the-job social interactions) and output demands (diminished work quantity and quality). The WLQ has strong psychometric properties and has tested in patients with various chronic diseases .
All analyses will include gender as a factor and will test for interactions of gender with other factors in the model. Gender differences are important, as not only do men and women have different work participation rates, work hours and occupation types in the general population , they respond and adjust differently to illnesses, have different health behaviours and other risk factors for cancer . Where no effect modification is observed, pooled results will be presented. Socio-demographic characteristics will be compared at baseline to identify any statistically significant differences between the cancer and comparison groups. Descriptive analyses will be conducted to chart employment transitions over the year since diagnosis among the cancer group and over 2009-2010 year period among the comparison group. Although the first time point for the cancer group is six months after diagnosis, participants are asked to recall work circumstances (occupation type, hours worked, industry etc) at the time of diagnosis (retrospectively) and at time 1 (six months after diagnosis). Separate multivariable logistic regression modelling will identify explanatory variables that are significantly associated with work participation in the cancer and comparison groups. For these models, adjusted odds ratios with 95% confidence intervals and p-values will be computed. Cox proportional hazards models will assess time to work resumption in the participants with cancer and significant correlates of timely work re-entry. Mixed-effects modelling for the cancer group will be used to examine change in HRQoL scores (time 1 - time 2) by participants who reduce or leave in that time versus those who do not. We will also compare HRQoL scores between the cancer and comparison groups at time 2. Data on work limitations measured in the cancer group will be scored across the four domains and mixed-effects modelling undertaken to assess changes in scores between time 1 and time 2. Reasons for study withdrawal in the cancer sample will be closely monitored. Descriptive analyses of baseline variables for the 'completers' and 'non-completers' will identify any possible bias and the source and, if necessary, subsequent analyses will be weighted accordingly. In the comparison group, only responders at both HILDA Waves 9 and 10 will be included.
We expect the relationship between work participation and HRQoL to be complex and therefore, to complement the analyses above, statistical modelling will be undertaken to allow for health status to be an endogenous component of work participation. We will address this using the estimation of two-stage simultaneous probit least squares . Unlike previous analyses examining the relationship between health status and work participation [25, 26] in patients with chronic illness, we will have comprehensive clinical data to describe disease status in addition to self-reported health status. STATA SE (Version 11.0) will be used for all analyses. Written reports of the study findings will adhere to the STROBE (Strengthening the Reporting of Observational studies in Epidemiology) statement for quality purposes.
Despite the considerable number of Australians of working ages being diagnosed with cancer each year, surprisingly little is known about the impact of cancer on the workforce. With an ageing population, the Australian Government has recently implemented policies to encourage people to remain working longer and has increased access to personal superannuation funds and social security benefits (e.g. pension bonus schemes). The challenges presented to 'baby boomers' (those born during 1946-1961) differ from those facing previous generations because, as they approach normal retirement age, they may face caring responsibilities for both elderly parents and young grandchildren . Female baby boomers may be disadvantaged financially due to working in occupations that were traditionally low-paid and female-dominated (i.e., nursing, secretarial, retail, teaching) and before equal pay legislation (pre-1960s) and compulsory superannuation laws. They may also have taken longer periods off work to raise families, compared to subsequent generations, and so collectively may have little retirement savings and financial security . Middle-aged men with cancer may be at the height of their careers, and their sense of self may be strongly attached to their work roles. Therefore, cancer may negatively affect a person's employment and financial situation and fuel the anxiety and distress created from facing a life-threatening illness.
Our research will extend the current literature and improve our understanding in this field. The translation of current knowledge into supportive care practice is limited because of the use of retrospective or cross-sectional designs and/or, patient groups from a single clinical setting, a dominance of breast cancer among the patient samples and, importantly, the inability to isolate the effects of ageing, retirement choice and labour force changes due to the lack of a non-cancer control group. Our study will overcome these limitations by recruiting a population-based sample and using validated instruments, including a non-cancer comparison group and utilising both a prospective and retrospective design. We have chosen colorectal cancer because this cancer type is the most common to both men and women, and we will have a homogenous disease group from which to compare men and women.
The study will address an important issue in cancer survivorship in greater detail than previously reported and, in doing so, will provide further insights into living with cancer and the potential implications for individuals, families and workplaces. It will also advance methods in economic evaluations of health care where a better understanding of productivity losses is gaining importance. Further, this project will identify specific issues and barriers faced by cancer survivors who want to remain employed, and provide practical information to supportive cancer care providers able to directly translate this information into developing resources for newly diagnosed cancer patients.
We sincerely thank the participants in the study for giving their valuable time to complete the surveys and interviews in support of this research. This study is funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant #DP1095723. L Gordon, B Lynch and V Beesley are funded by National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Public Health Early Career Fellowships, #496714, #586727 and #496717, respectively. P Webb is funded by an NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship.
This study will use unit record data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. The HILDA Project was initiated and is funded by the Australian Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA) and is managed by the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research (Melbourne Institute). The views reported in this paper, however, are those of the authors and should not be attributed to either FaHCSIA or the Melbourne Institute.
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The Influence of the British Isles divided, expanded or radically altered otherwise.
Similar to Invaded States of America, Divided States of America and Expanded States of America, this trope applies a similar mechanism to the British Isles. Although this happened in Real Life too in the past, this is mostly Alternate History, but with Great Britain as the main area of interest in the story. Examples:
- Doomsday had Scotland sealed off from the world in a great plague. It is reflected in their coat of Arms, omitting the St. Andrew's Cross.
- Britain during the War Of The Roses.
- The British Empire, just about the furthest known historical expansion of British power.
- Nineteen Eighty-Four, where Britain is basically Airstrip One.
- Thursday Next series depicts Wales as having separated from England as a socialist republic.
- V for Vendetta, the comics make Britain into the logical and somewhat extreme conclusion of the policies of Margaret Thatcher.
- There is a Doctor Who storybook in which Cornwall is a separate country.
- Britain under King Arthur frequently commands quite the influence, extending beyond the usual Isles.
- An example would be The Once and Future King, where early on in the second book England expands its influence first to all surrounding isles, then to pretty much the entirety of Europe after the defeat of Emperor Lucius and all the kings he brought with him for support.
- Both the Alliterative Morte Arthur and the Stanzaic Morte Arthur have Arthur fighting Emperor Lucius, ruling Rome, but have Arthur stopping halfway through his conquest to quell an uprising by Mordred back in England.
- Code Geass had the upper class flee Napoleonic influences and so they fled to the Americas, where they expanded until the established empire covered most of the Western Hemisphere.
- The british Isles under Norman rule had several levels of expansion into France.
- Britain in either Saxon times, Norman times, or even during the partial occupation by Denmark. The sphere of its influence was dubbed the Danelaw, where Danish law applies.
- Before the formation of Great Britain or the United Kingdom altogether, Wales, Ireland and Scotland were separate countries.
- under the Roman Empire, several upstart emperors used Britain as a staging ground for conquering the rest of the empire.
- I Am Skantarios, or rather its direct sequel, Legacy Of Skantarios has England and Scotland reduced swiftly to a smattering of territories in Ireland, eventually regaining a foothold on British soil after years, granted to them by the Byzantine Empire.
- Real Life actually shows some examples as well. William The Conqueror had his powerbase in Normandy, but conquered England as well, where it was in some views considered as a bonus to the lands he already held on the Continent.
- Another case was Emperor Carausius using Britain as a staging point to establish his own counterpart to the Roman Empire.
- Cnut The Great likewise ruled England, as well as Denmark, Norway and parts of Sweden and yet more posessions.
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Legend has it that when Lord Ayyappa set out to seek solitude, he settled upon Sabarimala. Its sylvan surroundings and undulating terrain had made it an ideal retreat for the bachelor god. The pristine monsoon forests had wrapped like an ornament around his hermitage at the top of the hill. The Lord believed to have called the area with tranquil atmosphere as his poonkavanam (sacred forest).
A shrine inside the forest and a deity who chose the calm ambience of hills and valleys has few parallels in the country and outside. But now, it seems, all of the glories of Sabarimala were a thing of the past. When mythology meets present-day reality, Sabarimala is no more a chosen abode of the hermit God. During January-February each year, more than 50 million devotees, as claimed by the temple authorities, are thronging this forest temple for annual pilgrimage, putting the fragile ecology of the region under severe stress. Now, the holy hill is a synonym of increasing inflow of pilgrims, inadequate infrastructure, a devastated environment and a hapless wildlife.
While the entire hill and the adjacent river Pampa, the third largest river in Kerala, are stinking due to sewage pollution and accumulation of garbage, the situation is not much different in the administrative and spiritual circles of the hill shrine. First, it was a controversy involving Kannada film actress Jayamala and a group of orthodox Hindus, who questioned her claim of touching the idol of the bachelor god defying the barricades meant for preventing sexually active women from entering the hill shrine. Then one of the highly revered traditional priests of the temple was robbed of a large amount of money and gold ornaments during his visit to the house of a woman engaged in flesh trade by a mafia gang. And now, it is the turn of aged father of a senior priest to allege that his son is under influence of a powerful Ezhava community leader with shadowy nature and the leader's followers are using his son to pocket the temple money. In the meantime, the Left Front Government has disbanded the existing administrative body of the temple citing corruption at high level and is preparing to enact a legislation to keep the corrupt community leaders out of the administrative body forever.
On monetary grounds, the temple is the third largest in the country, standing very close to Tirupathi and Guruvayur. The cash-strapped Kerala Government, despite its leftist moorings, is depending very much on the income from the temple to meet salary needs of its employees. In order to increase the revenue, the successive governments and the so-called proponents of development are vociferous of implementing multi-crore construction plans in |Sabarimala clearing forests and building a concrete jungle in its place. But nobody in the spiritual and administrative levels of the temple as well as the government establishment are apprehensive of the increasing level of pollution and the extreme level of deforestation. Their focus is entangled only in the growing number of controversies and the commissions to be available after the beginning of the construction work.
Located about 467 metres above sea level, the Sabarimala temple is surrounded by 18 hills and situated inside Periyar Tiger Reserve, one of the few safe havens for tigers in the country. According to bird watcher B.Sethumadhavan, as many as 2000 species of flowering plants, endemic and medicinal, have been identified among the region's flora. `` About 63 species of mammals, some of them endangered like tigers, elephants and lion tailed macaque live here. So far, 223 species of birds and 45 species of reptiles including King Cobra have been identified in this area,' he said. The ever- expanding number of pilgrims and mindless construction works are posing severe threat to their very survival. Devotees of a Lord, who believed to have loved the flora and fauna and their safekeeping, are now on a rampage in the name of development forcing the wildlife to move out of their traditional habitat.
As per legends, the vehicle of Lord Ayyappa is tiger. But, astonishingly, neither the tiger nor the surrounding evergreen forests do not come in the list of priorities before the |Travancore Devaswam Board, which administers the shrine. ``There was an increase of 35 per cent in revenue while comparing with last year during the November-December period. In the number of visitors, the increase is of 19 per cent. These figures show the need for immediate developmental works in Sabarimala. But there are agencies like Forest Department which cry for tigers and forests,' alleges G.Raman Nair, outgoing president of the board.
However, environmentalists and forest officials are countering the allegation. ``The development works so far at Pampa have made it impossible a soul-filling holy dip in river Pampa. At least, two scientific studies conducted by Government's own agencies had found that landslips and tremors would take place at the holy hillock any time largely because of the extensive concrete flooring at the temple premises. The devaswam is only interested in money making. It has no concern for the impending dangers for both nature and devotees,' pointed out Sumesh Mangalassery, a member of the environmental group Kabani.
According to Sumesh, a panel of Kerala Legislature on environment led by RSP leader A V Thamarakshan had submitted 32 proposals to the Devaswam Board to protect Sabarimala around five years back. But none of them were acceptable to the board. Even the suggestions of Kerala State Pollution Control Board to minimise the pollution of river Pampa were paid scant regard by the board. A visit by Tehelka to Sabarimala found that river Pampa continues to remain the main victim of the callous attitude of the authorities. It gets choked in the temple area as solid waste including human excreta; plastic bags, empty water bottles and coconut husks block the free flow of water. About 35 million people took a holy dip in the river between November and January, which is the major source of drinking water for three districts.
According to a study by the pollution control board, the total coliform count recorded at the river portion close to Sabarimala is about 1,14,000 per 100 millilitres (ML) during the peak of pilgrimage. Just before the pilgrimage season, it is merely 380 per 100 ml- well below the permissible limits of 500 per 100 ml. According to local people, the overflow of human faeces from sceptic tanks around the temple stands the major reason of the pollution of the river. ``More than 3,000 temporary toilets are functioning close to the temple in addition to about 600 permanent toilets. The capacity of the sewerage treatment plant is very limited,' pointed out K.Anirudhan of Sabarimala Samrakshana Samithy.
Most of the experts, who had conducted studies on the pollution and environmental problems prevailing in Sabarimala, point to the need of regulating the ever- increasing number of pilgrims. ``Sabarimala is bursting at the seams with millions of devotees now. Thirty or forty years ago, only around 50,000 pilgrims visited the temple. Today, the number is fifty million and is rising at the rate of 20 per cent every year. The ever-swelling flow resulted in a major mishap on January 14, 1999, when 100 pilgrims died in a stampede at the site. Indications are that Sabarimala is a disaster waiting to be happen,' warns noted Kerala based environmentalist P K Uthaman. According to him, almost two thousand tonnes of human waste are deposited in crude earth pits and outside in Sabarimala every year. These wastes are finding their way into not only the river Pampa but also to river Periyar by underground as well as over ground rivulets, posing a threat great health hazard for the pilgrims as well as those living downstream.
In addition, the lack of post pilgrimage cleaning drives often result in unabated flow of hazardous waste into the rivers. The temple area has already been converted into a concrete jungle where guesthouses and other structures are constructed haphazardly all around. They are meant for temple officials, priests, VVIPs and police personnel. According to M.Gopal, a pilgrim from Bangalore who visited Sabarimala this year, human excreta and plastic waste were found strewn just outside the Sannidhanam (the main building of the temple). As per data available from forest department, over 2.5 lakh empty plastic bottles of packaged water were collected from inside the tiger reserve. The number of tetra packs collected would come around 4.5 lakh. The temple complex of the hermit, who believed in renunciation of earthly attractions, is now filled with commercial shops selling products ranging from gold ornaments to dress materials. All these shops were constructed by clearing forests.
``The total time available for darsan as of now is a total of 1431 hours, i.e. 515160 seconds. If a darsan goes on one at a time basis and a devotee gets a second, the total strength of the pilgrims can only be 5,15, 160 per year. If ten people could somehow cluster together per second for darsan, the maximum number would be 51,51,600,' points out a document prepared by |School of Social Sciences at Mahatma Gandhi University on behalf of Kerla Forest Department. The document also questions the claims of the board that over 50 million people visit the temple annually. But anyway, the number of pilgrims' visting Sabarimala is many times more than its capacity.
``The authorities must find out some mechanism to regulate the alarming increase in the number of pilgrims. Sabarimala is not only an environmental but also a social disaster,' opined Dr.Rajan Gurukkal of School of Social Sciences. Now a day, the uncontrolled flow of pilgrims from various entry points is resulting in people swarming all around the protected sanctuary leading to man 'animal conflicts. Recently, an elephant trampled upon one pilgrim. Then it was found that the pilgrims were sleeping in the corridor used by the elephants for going to the river to drink water at the night. A large number of such corridors were already disrupted due to the construction works undertaken in the recent past.
According to Sedumadhavan, the authorities are even paying scant attention on the safety of pilgrims. As many as 12,000 litres of diesel are being stored just above the sannidhanam without any storage licence or safety parameters. They are also keeping a large number of crackers near the sanctum sanctoram without any safety concern. The only solution on the part of Trvancore Devaswom Board for all problems plaguing Sabarimala is denudation of nearby forests and setting up new amenities. According to Rajan Gurukkal, such an attempt would be disastrous as all the existing problems of Sabarimala can be viwed as the after effect of deforestation.
The devaswam board has already ruined about 55.09 ha of forestland in the name of sabarimala development. In the opinion of environmentalists, they demand more forests to cut and smuggle out precious trees and construction of further concrete strctures with ulterior motives. Maintaining the sanctity of the shrine and the precious eco-system never appeared a priority before them. So far, the devaswam board was constituted once in five years by nomination of people with no administrative acumen at the behest of successive governments.
Rajan Gurukkal and his team at School of Social Sciences have prepared a long-term action plan for saving Sabarimala from the sequence of disasters in the offing. But the lobbies of corrupt and communal elements are not allowing the devaswam to look into them. Even the small step of Left Government in disbanding the existing devaswam committee is being interpreted as an attempt by atheists to interfere in Hindu religious matters. The move by left government to appoint experts in place of politicians at the board also facing opposition from Sangh Parivar organisations, who claim as custodians of Hindu places of worship.
The board and its corrupt administrators were not able to get their hand on the forest so far due to stringent central acts and Supreme Court rulings. But even the outgoing members are repeating their old slogan of `no development in Sabarimala would be possible without deforestation.' Unless the authorities change their attitude from a revenue-centred approach to a pilgrim centred aprach, there is not much hope. But they still repeat that development (read deforestation) could not be stopped for the sake of a few birds and animals. ``The board had neither faith in environmental protection nor in religious sanctity,' opines Rajan Gurukkal.
Decongestion of base town Pampa by increasing facilities at a relatively distant town of Nilakkal, demolition of unauthorised concrete structures at Sannidhanam and Pampa, cleaning of the river, better waste disposal facilities and provisions of basic facilities for pilgrims without affecting ecology are the urgent needs of Sabarimala. The tigers and elephants must be protected.
If there is no mechanism to check the number of pilgrims, that would increase to two to three crores within years. Moderate elements among the Hindu community are favouring a statutory body for Sabarimala in line with Tirumala-Thirupathy Devasthanam and Amarnath temple. Such a body consisting of experts from different fields can change the course of priorities of the forest temple. | <urn:uuid:4b8b6ee9-1940-4836-97a7-eeddb67582eb> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=4178 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279169.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00218-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95948 | 2,820 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Introduction to Inbound Marketing Strategy
Most people think of marketing as a cost-intensive effort involving booking ad space in newspapers, magazines, television, radio and also ensuring physical presence through hoardings, leaflets, and flyers.
The birth of the digital age and rapid penetration of the internet has now enabled marketers to get customers to come searching for their products and services at perhaps a much lesser cost. Welcome to the world of inbound marketing, where your content will drive traffic to your website, social media pages on Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, Pinterest, and other media. Or it could be your guest postings on other websites and mobile sites.
Inbound marketing strategies have been deployed by many during the past decade but only getting more noticed now. Among the reasons cited could be recessionary trends worldwide, the increased competition, squeezing in margins in the industry that is perhaps causing companies to economize on brand marketing activities.
Effective and Popular Media
Here are the effective and popular media through which inbound marketing strategy is being done
With the growth in internet penetration worldwide, the best strategy to reach out to potential customers is to have a website. Many companies who advertise in print media, electronic media, and hoardings now emphasize their website addresses to let customers log in to the concerned websites to get more information.
Care has to be taken regarding content, pictures, videos, and other information that is put on a company website. Apart from product descriptions, images, and videos, the details of promoters, location of manufacturing facilities, distribution network, new products launched, forum to submit feedback and complaints regarding products, a toll-free number to connect to customer service, online chat facility, online product ordering facility among other features would attract new visitors to the site.
The visitors could be people who have heard about the company from somewhere and wanted to know more; it could be from people who have searched in Google for a particular product or service and have landed on your page.
For such visitors, the relevance of the information provided, their importance for the customer, the brand image of the product, the credibility of the information, design, and layout of the HTML pages, page loading times all will have an impact on how the consumer perceives the company and the brand. A simple, elementary design with smooth navigation between sections would go a long way in visitors coming back to the site for information, thereby leading to sales inquiry and conversion.
With the growth of social media, websites stand to be promoted better if they have been linked to social media pages that are updated regularly.
People have been blogging for a long time, mostly to write about personal thoughts or about specialized topics to share with the public. Some people have made reasonably good income through blogging by arrangement with Google for Adsense. However, now corporate attention is more focused on using blogging as a business promotion tool. Inbound marketing strategy blog sections are now regularly updated on company websites, and they could be written by in-house content writers, subject experts, and analysts, which adds value to the site. Sometimes, a company’s expert may also write on blogs run by independent people or groups for business purposes and have a large following. This also adds credibility to the company in its inbound marketing strategy efforts. It could be about new technology, new research findings, or it could be about the relevance of some new product launched.
For a company that wants to start blogging without any investment, WordPress and Tumblr offer a user-friendly platform to begin posting articles, photos, and comments and share them on social media to gain more mileage.
The use of info-graphics in blogs would go a long way in making inbound marketing strategy content attractive, especially if it is related to marketing, technical or scientific topics.
3. Social Media
Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn Until a few years ago, social media was only a marketing strategy used to complement traditional marketing efforts by companies. However, analysts have now predicted that social media is now emerging as a medium on its own, just as the website is. It can be gauged from the search engine leader Google having an arrangement with Facebook and Twitter. It is fairly easy for an individual, an organization, or a corporate entity to start a social media page. However, better results are got when paid services of such inbound marketing technique platforms are utilized for enlarging the reach and exposure to the potential buyers.
There also how much effort, time, energy, and money has to be devoted to various options have to be worked out based on the company’s area of operation, products, and services. FaceBook would be ideal where there are more images and pictorial content to be published. For the media, news, scientific and technical products, Twitter and LinkedIn may be more appealing. Fashion, entertainment, beauty, food, and consumer products could focus more on FaceBook.
It is always good to have a landing page for visitors to reach for more information through FB, Twitter either to register or buy a product or service. In the absence of a proper landing page, visitors could get confused and leave the social media pages without liking, sharing or refuse to become a follower, as in Twitter.
Social media is also useful for creating event posts, sharing important events appointments within the company, product launches, getting customer feedback, and so on. The more the likes and sharing activity on your social media page, the better will be the brand awareness created and consequently to sales conversions.
Organizational marketing can be best done through LinkedIn, which is a professional networking forum. New appointments, new product launches, opinions on strategies and trends in the market can all be discussed through Linkedin Posts and also through the LinkedIn Pulse.
YouTube has emerged as a popular medium for sharing videos by the fashion industry, music, film industry, motivational speakers, corporate training firms, market research, market news, analysis and advisories, nutrition, health, fitness, sports, art, dance, news media and variety of other professions. YouTube videos typically of three minutes to five-minute duration are searched for or shared according to how interesting, or relevant the topic is for a large audience. There has been no limit to the kind of videos that have been uploaded to YouTube and also shared through social media.
Steps in Inbound Marketing Strategy
Below are the steps in the inbound marketing strategy:
The first step in the inbound marketing strategy is to attract potential customers to your company. For that, all the media outlined above- Websites, Social media, blogs, YouTube have to be optimized with relevant content. The quality of the content, their relevance to your target audience, the authenticity of information, design, and appearance aesthetics add to the appeal of the content to attract the audience.
It is not sufficient to attract the audience to our website or social media page; they must stay longer on the page and also be able to interact with the company. It should contain forms to fill, a call-to-action such as a download an app, or a white paper, attend a seminar, a landing page to capture the information, email details to get back to the visitor. Enabling inbound marketing automation on site would make it easier to do the follow-up on inbound email marketing, or if they are followers on Twitter and FaceBook, appropriate follow- up action can be done through those platforms too.
Closing the sale
The first two inbound marketing strategy steps of attracting and conversion will have to culminate in the closing of the sale. Various inbound marketing techniques and tools are at the disposal of marketers for this purpose. A Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool helps keep track of all the contacts, companies, and deals in the pipelines, which enable easier connection with the right prospects. A robust Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) at the backend would provide the support needed for CRM to work. A series of focused emails may be required to close the sale.
Creating buyer personas
As in business-to-business (B2B) marketing, creating buyer personas or fictional profiles of potential customers is important to prepare content and other information that is relevant to them. Apart from buyer personals, a little bit of research on keywords, low impact, high impact keywords (long-tail keywords) will help in getting more clicks, conversions, and sales.
This is a strategy to push specific Pay Per Click ads to customers according to their browsing history. A person who visits a cosmetics company page will start seeing Facebook ads from companies that sell cosmetics, beauty services, and hairdo services. It is an effective strategy as it reminds customers to continue the journey they started without sounding to be an aggressive sales pitch, according to Peter Cartier, an inbound marketing strategy specialist.
Why will Inbound Marketing Strategy become more popular in 2016?
Following are some reasons why it will become more popular in 2016:
Digital marketing has found Adblockers to be a hindrance to their promotional efforts on websites and social media. Advertising being an outbound promotional effort is also costlier. Adblockers have become popular because people dislike ads popping up on a site when they are eagerly looking for some useful information or book some service or product online. Despite the creativity, technology such as animation and 3D that goes into an online ad, viewers may simply shut it off with Adblockers, thus denying its reach to a vast audience. Therefore, it makes sense to pursue passive outbound marketing, which attracts the audience on its own merit rather than trying to catch their attention by intruding into the viewing experience.
There is a very compelling reason for corporates to focus on inbound marketing strategy. It is its cost-effectiveness compared to outbound marketing. Earlier studies have shown that an inbound marketing strategy is about 60% cheaper than the traditional marketing strategy. In popular websites, Pay per Click (CPC) rates are very high and there is no guarantee of conversion to sales. Moreover, display ads on websites and social media have lesser click-through rates compared to text ads.
It establishes better credibility among existing and prospective consumers as the focus doesn’t appear to be directly to gain business. Here the company is showing its expertise, products, technology, human resources strength, and research capabilities to a large audience. A pure-play outbound strategy will be seen as an all-out effort to persuade and sell the product hence not sufficient to create credibility among the public.
Inbound strategy in marketing has been around for a decade and many have gained better return on investment (ROI) compared to traditional marketing. This is partly due to the recessionary trends that were unleashed by the US financial crisis of 2008 and thereafter its repercussions spread across Europe, Asia, and Africa.
It should not be considered a one-off operation and needs sustained effort to get better results. So the fact that some people have liked and turned customers don’t mean it would happen forever. Therefore, the companies need to engage them, delight them and make them promoters of the products through word-of-mouth or shares through the digital medium. To achieve these surveys, smart calls to action, smart text, and social monitoring have to be done on a regular basis.
Customers can be given survey questionnaires to find out their feedback and what new products they are looking for. There should be smart calls-to-action- register, vote, or signup for an event, product or service. The existing inbound marketing technique platforms- website, blog, social media should continue to have compelling inbound marketing strategy content tailored to the interests and requirements of the audience. This should help them find a solution to the problem they are facing, achieve their goals by the introduction of new products and ideas.
The inbound marketing strategy content need not be with the intention to sell or market, sometimes it can just be to inform and make consumers aware of their rights, or in the case of the health and nutrition industry, it could be an about how to overcome the trauma of a disease, how to keep healthy, how to choose the right nutrition mix for age and so on. If it is the paint industry, it could be some tips on how to keep the exterior and interior walls fungus-free, moisture free and termite-proof or related issues. A company that has the problems of the consumer paramount than selling its product will establish better credibility and brand value. It will enable them to outpace the competition in the long run.
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Aging Americans are becoming just one more problem for America’s prisons, which already have enough to deal with. Old and very old Americans are the fastest-growing segment of the country’s prisoner population. Prison is difficult for any person; it is especially hard on seniors. The problem of aging prisoners is the subject of this report by Jamie Fellner and of a report by her organization.
Fellner points out that prisons have a hard time dealing with elderly prisoners because they are not equipped to do so. Prisons were never designed and are not operated to meet the needs of elderly people. Elderly prisoners also have expensive medical needs that prisons find it hard to meet and expensive to pay for.
Another problem is the cost of caring for elderly people, in prison or outside. Elderly people have increasing medical needs, including dealing with chronic diseases. People outside of prisons often reach the point of needing assisted living or nursing home care, either because of dementia or physical disabilities. Fellner recalls a prisoner who needed assistance from the prison staff to tell his right shoe from his left one. She also mentions seeing a game of bingo in prison where the staff had to put the markers on the bingo cards because the inmates couldn’t handle it.
One big reason for the presence of so many old people in prison is lengthy sentences imposed at the state and federal levels, often for drug-related offenses. States especially have enacted harsh mandatory minimum sentences and prior offender laws, including “three strikes” laws that impose life sentences. Sentences like these, including consecutive sentences, serve to assure that more and more people will grow old and die behind bars.
Fellner points out that the U.S. has about 1.5 million prisoners, 200,000 of them in federal prisons. Federal clemency programs are helpful, but the majority of the prison population won’t be helped by federal efforts. Fellner suggests that it is time for states to examine their sentencing plans, including mandatory minimums that eliminate any judicial discretion, and ask whether the lengths of sentences being imposed under their laws are serving any useful purpose or whether these things are left-over political window dressing from times when politicians were trying to look tough on law and order issues.
Fellner also says that all correctional systems need to look at the back end of sentences imposed under their laws and inquire into any possible benefit of keeping old people locked up. It might be sensible to release older prisoners with physical or mental problems to some environment or facility other than a prison. People who no longer post a public risk need not be locked up in prisons. It’s important to weigh not only the needs of prisoners and the concerns of victims, but also the burden placed on taxpayers to warehouse older people who carry high incarceration costs.
Another issue, Fellner notes, is the availability of medical care to old people released from prison. On the other hand, “it’s not a good argument to say [that we’ll] keep them in prison because life on the outside is tough.” There is no Medicare or Medicaid support in prison as there would be for someone in the community. Prisons should be reserved for people who “have offended us deeply” and pose such a risk that they need to be locked up. And old people are less likely to commit violent crimes than young people.
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Politics, war, and boundaries are only part of the equation when it comes to American history. The beautiful land we live on is just as much a part of our story as anything we’ve built on it over the years. That said, a detour into regional natural history should be a part of any history buff’s personal studies.
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History Press is home to one of the most comprehensive catalogs of regional interest history books in the entire country, up to and including a growing selection of volumes on natural history. Get to know your own favorite cities, towns, and locations in stunningly intimate detail. Discover new places, events, people, and historic concepts. Get started today with History Press! | <urn:uuid:47bcff02-7466-4d6e-bda0-324b2d7cdb24> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/series/natural-history-books | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00348-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93126 | 370 | 2.46875 | 2 |
Archbishop Burke Has Courage
On November 11, 2007, two more women were “ordained” priestesses by the so-called Roman Catholic Womenpriests movement. Rose Marie Dunn Hudson, 67, a certified lay pastoral minister in the St. Louis Archdiocese, and Elsie Hainz McGrath, 69, a retired editor at the (Catholic) Ligouri publishing house and previously a campus minister at St. Louis University — both converts from Protestantism — were “ordained” by “Bishop” Patricia Fresen, a former Dominican nun. The “ordinations” took place at a Jewish synagogue, the Central Reform Congregation in St. Louis. Senior Rabbi Susan Talve offered to host the ceremony (“one of our core values is hospitality and providing a shelter of peace for those who are looking for a safe place…which come right from the Torah”), and her synagogue board unanimously approved her decision. Elsie and Rose became the 21st and 22nd American women to be “ordained” priestesses by Roman Catholic Womenpriests.
Gerry Rauch, Vice President of the Women’s Ordination Conference, told the Riverfront Times (Nov. 8, 2007), “My hope for the new priests…is that they’ll be a light for people who…have divorced and remarried, or those who are gay and lesbian and transgendered.” Rabbi Susan told the National Catholic Reporter (Nov. 9, 2007), “I have received dozens of letters, scores of emails and many phones calls from Catholics — women religious especially” in support of her hosting the ceremony. Ronald Modras, a professor of theological studies at the Jesuit-run St. Louis University, told the Reporter, “It’s a remarkable demonstration of sisterhood. You have women of two faiths, Catholic and Jewish, standing together against patriarchal exclusion.”
Throw in another one: Elsie and Rose planned to establish their “faith community” beginning on December 1, 2007, by holding Saturday evening “liturgies” at the First Unitarian Church in St. Louis, across the street from Susan’s synagogue. Talk about syncretism!
In our New Oxford Note “A New Catholic Community” (Oct. 2006), we told the story of Victoria Rue, who was “ordained” by “Bishop” Patricia in Canada in 2005. According to the Roman Catholic Womenpriests’s website, Rue “lives with her beloved Kathryn.” She had been offering her “Masses” in an interfaith chapel at San Jose State University. The Bishop of San Jose, Patrick McGrath, we reported, “has no plans to reprimand or excommunicate or in any other way acknowledge Victoria Rue.”
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on substance use has been complex and varied, if not entirely unexpected. Despite restrictions in access to both licit and illicit drugs, there is evidence of both increased use, and increased harm, associated with the use of certain drugs. Some experts fear an uptick in alcohol consumption among individuals seeking to cope with stress related to isolation, unemployment and general uncertainty, with recent surveys showing increases in both drinking and relapse among individuals diagnosed with alcohol use disorder. The pandemic may also demonstrate the long-term limitations of supply reduction strategies toward the amelioration of illicit drug use (as well as adjacent health and social problems); multiple states, including Pennsylvania, reported surges in opioid overdose in the months following government “lockdowns.” As noted within a previous post, the (re)emerging overdose crisis may follow from drug market disruptions that cause individuals to drastically reduce their opioid consumption, only to resume use at their pre-pandemic levels. For similar reasons, persons in recovery – suddenly cut-off from in-person counseling groups, support networks, or medication-assisted treatment – are particularly exposed to overdose in the wake of relapse, due to reduced tolerance. Indeed, such lessons have already been gleaned in the wake of other “natural” disasters such as Hurricane Maria.
How do protective factors influence substance use in college?
Even as the pandemic has revealed and exacerbated the vulnerability of certain populations to drug-related harms, other groups of substance users may be shielded by new protective factors that accompany dramatic changes in social context. College is a well-known risk environment for problematic alcohol use patterns, including underage drinking, binge drinking, and heavy drinking; yet preliminary data collected by researchers at the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center indicates that first-year undergraduates on Penn State’s main campus are drinking less, and less frequently, than their peers in previous cohorts. While returning students, enjoying access to established friend networks, may continue to consume alcohol at higher levels (albeit within smaller groups), new students lacking social capital may see fewer opportunities to imbibe, as the university’s COVID-19 mitigation policies limit recreational activities. They may also face less pressure, and perceive fewer reasons, to overconsume alcohol on the occasions they do drink, with tailgating and other largescale social gatherings indefinitely on hold. A summer 2020 survey of 145 fraternities and sororities found that merely 8.7% of respondents thought it “somewhat or very likely” they would “host parties as usual” this fall.
Why are student-athletes particularly at risk for (certain) substance use?
Shifts in college drinking subcultures may particularly impact student-athletes; ample research suggests that college students who participate in sports exhibit higher levels of alcohol consumption (including binge consumption) than their non-athlete peers. While apparently counterintuitive, such findings may reflect the competitive instincts of individuals drawn to athletics, the unique stresses faced by student-athletes, or group-level normative influences that encourage more frequent drinking. Given the suspension of nearly all fall sports at Penn State this semester, it might be expected that student-athletes especially are drinking less, deprived of not only occasions to socialize, celebrate, and commiserate, but crucial information on their teammates’ alcohol use patterns. It is less clear how changes in the collegiate campus and sports environment might shape the use of other recreational substances, including substances whose use is non-normative or less social. As a member of a research team that is poised to study patterns of opioid use and misuse among Penn State student-athletes, the impact of the pandemic on this subset of drug consumption is of particular interest.
How are student-athletes uniquely at risk for opioid misuse and how may COVID-19 influence that trajectory?
Both anecdotal evidence and scholarly research suggests that student-athletes may be uniquely at risk for opioid, and specifically prescription opioid, misuse, perhaps as a consequence of heightened exposure due to injury. While there is no comprehensive data source reporting injuries among college student-athletes, a 2018 study by the NCAA found that 11% of surveyed student-athletes had used narcotic pain medication with a prescription in the past year, while 3% had consumed drugs that were not prescribed to them. Other research focusing on prescription opioid misuse among a broader swath of college sports participants has yielded much higher estimates of non-medical prescription opioid use (NUPO) among certain sub-populations. Compared with 8% of all college students surveyed, 11.5% of male athletes - and 17.9% of injured male athletes - reported NUPO in the past year. In addition to illuminating one possible pathway into prescription opioid misuse by student-athletes (injury and the medication of associated pain), this study demonstrates the unique risks faced by male athletes, who were nearly twice as likely as their injured female counterparts to engage in NUPO. Both findings might inform predictions around opioid misuse by college athletes in the context of COVID-19.
What about the ongoing postponement of sports and other recreational activities?
With many, if not most, school and recreational sports leagues cancelled since March 2020, it is logical to assume that injury rates among established college athletes have declined, forestalling the injury-to-opioid trajectory for some. This string of events may have especially cut the risk for first-year college students who saw their final high school seasons precipitously shut down; the NCAA has shown that student-athletes are nearly twice as likely to begin prescription opioid use in high school, rather than college. Among athletes suffering chronic or repetitive injuries, another route of exposure to prescription opioids - for acute post-surgery pain - may have fallen off with the postponement of elective surgeries within hospital systems across the country, as COVID-19 infections surged in not only early spring, but mid-summer; conversely, such delays may have forced injured athletes into a sustained reliance upon prescription opioids to manage untreated and progressive pain. (Overall, it remains to be seen how such health system-level disruptions may have impacted the overall availability of prescription opioids, opportunities for their diversion, and the initiation of misuse across the U.S. population.) An inability or unwillingness to attend in-person physical therapy sessions during the pandemic may additionally encourage overuse.
“Reopening” – of schools, sports, gyms, and social institutions at large – may pose its own hazards for the health and substance use of student-athletes. Extended periods of reduced or restricted training are known to heighten athletes’ risks of catastrophic injury, particularly within contact sports; in fact, some orthopedists have already observed a spike in traumatic injuries alongside the limited resumption of fall sports. Doubly conditioned by the “sport ethic” that demands a willingness to push past bodily limits, and norms of masculinity that encourage physical risk taking, males athletes might be expected to suffer injuries, and self-medicate with opioids, at even higher-than-usual levels. New injury may not be a necessary condition for the resumption of prescription opioid use; after spit tobacco, narcotic pain medication is the second most common drug cited by NCAA athletes that is used “specifically to prepare for practice.”
Alongside lower activity levels, the prolonged off-season may also have seen more recreational substance use among student-athletes facing few formal and informal controls. While alcohol, spit tobacco and e-cigarettes enjoy continuous popularity among college athletes, the use of illicit drugs (such as marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy, and even heroin) peaks outside the period of competition. The unique temporality of student-athletes’ drug use may reflect seasonal fluctuations in their social bond to sports. Facing an excess of time, and a temporary detachment from team norms that sanction certain substance use, athletes may enjoy more occasions to experiment, and perceive fewer associated risks, whether physical or social. Here, the use performance enhancing drugs during the pandemic may provide an instructive parallel. Though no official data has been released, the extended lapse in athlete surveillance following from travel bans and social distancing mandates has triggered much concern around a possible surge in doping among elite athletes. As the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) pared down out-of-competition testing to “mission critical” levels in the spring of 2020, CEO Travis Tygart speculated that some athletes [were] “going to try to exploit every opportunity they can.”
What are some possible avenues for prevention and harm reduction for the student-athlete population?
As the nation at large continues to face uncertainty regarding the pandemic’s trajectory and a full return to “normal life,” it is difficult to prognosticate the volume and types of different substance use among college athletes across sports and competition levels; indeed, the weight of this uncertainty and accompanying anxiety may represent yet another risk factor for substance use among young adults whose future – athletic, academic, and professional – hangs in the balance.
Still, existing knowledge suggests possible avenues of prevention and harm reduction during the shutdown, and the early stages of sports resumption. Athletic directors and team coaches whose campuses remain on a sports hiatus may still attempt to maintain connections with their student-athletes, remind them of their long-term goals as athletes, and foster a sense of shared commitments and mutual care. Norms-based interventions, which have proven effective in lowering levels of alcohol consumption among college students at large, may be particularly successful at establishing social standards around substance use among student-athletes specifically, particularly when paired with communications that serve to reinforce team identity . These interventions may also be enacted remotely, mobilizing high-influence student-athletes (such as team captains) to convey both health-oriented information and social disapproval for excessive alcohol and other substance misuse. As the spring sports season approaches, trainers and coaches may also seek to proactively avert prescription opioid misuse by being attentive toward the heightened risk of injury after a period of dormancy.
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The Occupied Territories
1. Direct Legislation by the Knesset for the Territories, August 2019
2. Annexing the Jordan Valley, February 2020
3. The Decision of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, February 2021
4. Land Registry Regulation in the Occupied Territories, February 2021
Since the occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in 1967, Israel has denied millions of Palestinian residents their fundamental human rights, preventing them from taking part in decisions affecting their fate. The Occupation permeates every aspect of Palestinians’ daily lives, violating almost every basic right: the right to life and bodily integrity, freedom of movement, employment, family life, housing, health, education, and human dignity. Palestinians living within the Occupied Territories increasingly see their rights sacrificed in favor of Jewish Israelis for the expansion of settlement-building projects.
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- Worldwide distribution. Reported from Australia and Fiji. Prey includes aphids, hoppers, mirids, mealybugs, thrips, whiteflies, small caterpillars, and spider mites. Prey is stabbed, enzymes injects, contents sucked out.
- Eggs laid singly, or in clusters on leaves or stems near prey.
- Biocontrol: nymphs and adults predators, surviving on nectar and pollen (and seeds) when prey scarce.
- Adults, 5-6 mm long, broad heads, bulging eyes, piercing-sucking mouth parts, forewings create triangular pattern when closed.
- Management: studies in USA used crimson clover or vetch cover crops interplanted with cash crops - bugs migrate to cash crop as cover crop dies; plant sunflower to support bugs with seed when populations low; most importantly, do not use broad-spectrum insecticides, instead preserve Geocoris populations by: (i) microbial pesticides: spinosad or Bt; (ii) botanical pesticides: neem; or (iii) pheromones (if available).
Pacific Pests, Pathogens, Weeds & Pesticides
Big-eyed bug (370)
Geocoris species. There are at least 140 species.
AUTHOR Grahame Jackson & Mani Mua
1Information from Swaine G (1971) Agricultural Zoology in Fiji. Her Majesty's Stationery Office. London; and Mead FW (2017) Geocoris spp. Featured Creatures, Entomology & Nematology. UF/IFAS, University of Florida. (http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/beneficial/bigeyed_bugs.htm); and Geocoris spp. Biological control. Cornell University, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. (https://biocontrol.entomology.cornell.edu/predators/Geocoris.php); and from Hooks CR et al. Big-eyed bug: A MVP of generalist natural enemies. Department of Entomology, University of Maryland. (https://extension.umd.edu/sites/extension.umd.edu/files/_docs/programs/mdvegetables/Geocoris.pdf). Photo 2 Jack Dykinga, ARS image gallery, USDA.
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The International Monetary Fund has just included the Chinese Yuan in its SDR basket of currencies paving the way for it to become a currency of choice starting October 2016. This Yuan SDR inclusion will further shutdown the dominance of the dollar as the preferred currency for global exchange.
Western media dismissed this development as a non-event, of course, even if the IMF has given the currency more weight over that of the yen and pound, i.e. 10.92% weight, and even though major BRICS countries are already trading their products and services through bilateral currency swap arrangements.
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Chinese yuan to become global reserve currency
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is expected to give the yuan a vote of confidence on Monday and include the Chinese currency in its Special Drawing Rights (SDR) that unites the US dollar, euro, British pound and the Japanese yen.
Adding the yuan as a reserve currency will allow central banks to buy more of the Chinese currency, and boost investment in the Chinese stock market. According to Standard Chartered bank, within five years market players will invest at least $1 trillion in Chinese assets.
The historic decision will come after years of negotiations between Beijing and the IMF. The main obstacle was China’s monetary policy of keeping the yuan artificially low to boost domestic exports.
The list of currencies in the basket hasn’t been updated by the IMF since 2000, when the euro superseded the franc and deutschmark.
The main opponents of including the yuan as reserve currency have been Japan and the US. According to Eswar Prasad, a professor at Cornell University and former head of the IMF’s China Division, the two countries are unlikely to thwart the deal this time. “I think it will be very difficult for the IMF, especially given all that China has done this year, to deny China the prize it really wants,” he told Reuters in October.
Beijing devalued the yuan in August in a shock move to respond to slowing growth. That decision was praised by IMF Chief Christine Lagarde, who said the Chinese currency became more market-oriented. However, the yuan is still tightly controlled by the People’s Bank of China, the country’s central bank.
Although the decision is expected on Monday, the yuan will not officially become a reserve currency until September 2016.
Russia adds yuan as currency reserve
The Central Bank of Russia has included the Chinese yuan in its reserve currency basket, TASS reports. The move is expected to boost the yuan’s presence in the Russian financial market.
As of December 31, 2014, the latest data available, the US dollar was still dominating Russia’s forex basket at 44 percent. The second most-used foreign currency was the euro with 42 percent. The British pound made up 9.5 percent.
According to Vesti.Finance, the Central Bank made the decision in November, but hasn’t bought the yuan yet.
The Chinese currency started trading on the Moscow Exchange in 2010. Since then, the volume of trades has grown significantly. This August Russian traders bought a record 18 billion yuan (about $2.8 billion), which is four times more than in August 2014.
Russian investors began looking east, after the US-led group of Western counties imposed sanctions against Russia over Ukraine. Sanctions have deprived Russia access to Western capital markets. In particular, they affected state-owned banks like Sberbank, VTB, Vnesheconombank, Gazprombank and Rosselkhozbank (Russian Agriculture Bank).The lenders were cut off from long-term (over 30 days) international financing.
This news comes before the International Monetary Fund’s announcement on Monday whether to include the yuan in its Special Drawing Rights (SDR). The US and Japan, who have been the main obstacle to the yuan being included in the reserve currencies basket, are unlikely to thwart the deal, Eswar Prasad, a professor at Cornell University and former head of the IMF’s China Division told Reuters in October.
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Our natural environment and the health of God’s creation has always been on the agenda at FCCSR. A few years ago, our “green” interest took the form of a church-wide effort to reduce our carbon footprint (and thus our contribution to global climate change.) This included a number of energy efficiency retrofits at the church and membership in California Interfaith Power and Light.
In 2012, we conducted a re-assessment of our sustainability efforts and decided to focus more on public outreach. Our goal is to help educate people on the environment-faith connection in ways that are positive, practical and inspiring. No lectures and no guilt trips. We Promise!
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The fracking boom filled many bank accounts, and cities in close proximity to the biggest drilling operations got a lot of tax revenue. Oil has been a cash cow for public universities in Texas, as well — especially the University of Texas at Austin. But a recent investigation by the Texas Tribune shows that UT-Austin students haven’t really benefitted from the petroleum windfall.
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The Indonesian government has been working tirelessly to prevent the spread of COVID-19 within the country.
Aside from speeding up the vaccination campaign and multi-level community restrictions, they have also created – PeduliLindungi, a smartphone app.
The app works as a e-HAC or Electronic Health Card. This will provide your important health documents and prevents physical contact whilst traveling.
For those traveling to Indonesia, before you arrive, download the PeduliLindungi application to make your trip easier.
How to register on PeduliLindungi App
STEP 1: On your phone’s app store, download the application – PeduliLindungi.
STEP 2: When you have opened the app, click I AGREE. This means you agree to their T&C’s.
STEP 3: Click REGISTER, and type in your EMAIL ADDRESS. You will get a 6-digit code sent to your email, confirming your registration.
STEP 4: Click NEXT to set up the app, then click the e-Hac tab.
STEP 5: Click create e-Hac.
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- For domestic travel choose Domestic e-Hac
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Gaius Laelius in Wikipedia
Gaius Laelius, general and statesman, was a friend of Scipio Africanus, whom he accompanied on his Iberian campaign (210 BC - 206 BC;
the Roman Hispania, comprising modern Spain and Portugal). His command of the Roman fleet in the attack on New Carthage and command of
the Roman-Numidian cavalry at Zama contributed to Scipio's victories.
According to some Roman historians, including Polybius (Book 10), Laelius was a friend of Scipio from childhood; however, his family
background is obscure. Livy suggested that he was not from a rich family, since he wanted command of the campaign against Antiochus
the Great in 190 BC to repair his family fortunes.
Polybius suggests that Laelius was a companion of Scipio from their earliest days in the army together, since Laelius was apparently a
witness of Scipio's rescue of his father in a skirmish that was probably the Battle of Ticinus in late 218 BC.
Laelius certainly accompanied Scipio on various expeditions from 210 BC to 201 BC but received no official position from the Senate
until about 202 BC when he was finally made quaestor. This lack of recognition may have been due to his relatively low social status
and/or family's lack of wealth and political influence.
Military career: Laelius in Hispania (210 BC-206 BC) -
In the Iberian campaign lasting from 210 BC to about 206 BC, Laelius was a loyal second-in-command; the only man to whom Scipio
confided his plans to take Iberia. He commanded the fleet of thirty ships in the assault on Cartagena (New Carthage) in 209 BC.
Laelius was in charge of some important hostages after the capture of New Carthage, and he was dispatched, along with those hostages,
by Scipio to Rome in a quinquereme with the news of this important victory. The Senate gave Laelius further orders for Scipio, which
Laelius conveyed back to Scipio while the troops were still in their winter quarters at Tarraco. The time was therefore around early
According to Polybius, Laelius then commanded the left wing of the army, attacking Hasdrubal's right wing, at the Battle of Baecula
(Bailen) in 208 BC, where Scipio inflicted a costly defeat on Hasdrubal who then retreated to northern Iberia and Italy. The next few
years were spent fighting off Mago and the Carthaginian fleet, with the Carthaginians finally withdrawing in 206 BC.
The Romans were also troubled by rebellions among the soldiers and insurrections among the local tribes from about 207 BC when Scipio
fell ill. Laelius's role during these insurrections is not clear as to whether he attempted to put down the rebellions and
insurrections, or was absent. Livy refers to two other Roman commanders Silanus and Lucius Cornelius Scipio (younger brother of
Scipio) defeating insurgents in Hispania. Nor is Laelius's role clear in the decisive Battle of Ilipa (206 BC) is not clear.
Laelius in Africa (204-202 BC) -
In Scipio's consulship year (205 BC), Laelius went with him to his designated province Sicily, whence he conducted an expedition or
raid to Africa while Scipio was readying his troops and supplies for a full-scale invasion. The purpose of this expedition was to
detach two Carthaginian allies - the Berber (or Massaesylian) prince Syphax and the Numidian prince Massinissa - from their
commitments, both believed to be on the verge of revolt against their Carthaginian overlords. Both princes were apparently won over,
but Syphax broke his alliance with Scipio, and joined the Carthaginians when he was offered a marriage alliance with a famous
Carthaginian beauty. Subsequently, Syphax drove his bride's former fiance, Massinissa, who remained loyal to Scipio, out of his own
In about 204 BC, Scipio was ready to invade Africa. After several skirmishes, in which Scipio and Laelius set fire to the Carthaginian
camp the Romans nevertheless failed to detach Syphax from his marital and political alliance with the Carthaginians; nor, was a
complete victory possible over the Carthaginian army, with Scipio fearing for his fleet.
Finally, in 203 BC, Laelius defeated the Massaesylian prince Syphax, Laelius captured the city of Cirta at this time, and took Syphax
alive. He then conducted to Rome the captured prince and his son Vermina and some other leading men.
At Zama (202), Laelius rendered considerable service in command of the cavalry, which was again placed originally on the left wing
with Massinissa on the right wing; without the cavalry to intervene at a crucial time and falling upon the Carthaginians from the
rear, Scipio may well have been defeated. Laelius was finally made quaestor only after the decisive victory in 202 BC, which was
his first public office.
Political career -
In 197 he was plebeian aedile and in 196 BC praetor of Sicily, both times apparently with the aid of his former commander and old
friend. Scipio's influence however did not serve to win Laelius the consulship in 192 BC. Finally, in 190, he was elected consul
along with Scipio's younger brother Scipio Asiaticus but failed to win the campaign against Antiochus III the Great which would have
enrichened him. One version has Laelius himself nobly offering the Senate the choice instead of the traditional drawing of lots to
decide the allocation of provinces. When his friend Scipio Africanus announced that, if his brother Lucius was chosen to lead the
campaign against Antiochus, he would accompany his brother as a legate, the decision was inevitable - Lucius would be preferred.
Laelius's decision, if this version is correct, was a triumph of friendship, but not for his personal finances.
He was given Gaul as his province, and was employed in organizing the recently conquered territory in Cisalpine Gaul. Placentia and
Cremona were repopulated.
Further history -
Laelius's wife is not known, but circa 188 BC, he fathered a legitimate son who would become consul in 140 BC - Gaius Laelius Sapiens.
Like other superannuated Roman generals, Laelius later served on embassies to King Perseus of Macedon (174-173 BC) and to Transalpine
Gaul (170 BC).
It was also in 160 BC, when the aged Laelius (probably then in his mid-seventies) met the author Polybius in Rome during his last
years, and gave him much first-hand information about Scipio Africanus. Polybius was a client of Scipio's brother-in-law Aemilius
Paullus (who died suddenly in the same year 160 BC), and became a friend to both his sons, notably Scipio Aemilianus (Africanus's
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Books by and about 2020 presidential candidates|
| Crippled America,|
by Donald J. Trump (2015)
by Cory Booker (2016)
| The Truths We Hold,|
by Kamala Harris (2019)
| Smart on Crime,|
by Kamala Harris (2010)
| Guide to Political Revolution,|
by Bernie Sanders (2017)
| Where We Go From Here,|
by Bernie Sanders (2018)
| Promise Me, Dad ,|
by Joe Biden (2017)
|Conscience of a Conservative,|
by Jeff Flake (2017)
| Two Paths,|
by Gov. John Kasich (2017)
|Every Other Monday,|
by Rep. John Kasich (2010)
|Courage is Contagious,|
by John Kasich (1998)
| Shortest Way Home,|
by Pete Buttigieg (2019)
| The Book of Joe ,|
by Jeff Wilser (2019; biography of Joe Biden)
by Michelle Obama (2018)
| Our Revolution,|
by Bernie Sanders (2016)
| This Fight Is Our Fight,|
by Elizabeth Warren (2017)
| Higher Loyalty,|
by James Comey (2018)
| The Making of Donald Trump,|
by David Cay Johnston (2017)
Books by and about the 2016 presidential election|
| What Happened ,|
by Hillary Clinton (2017)
| Higher Loyalty ,|
by James Comey (2018)
| Trump vs. Hillary On The Issues ,|
by Jesse Gordon (2016)
| Hard Choices,|
by Hillary Clinton (2014)
| Becoming ,|
by Michelle Obama (2018)
| Outsider in the White House,|
by Bernie Sanders (2015)
(click a book cover for a review or other books by or about the presidency from Amazon.com)
The FairTax Book:
Saying Goodbye to the Income Tax and the IRS, by Neal Boortz and Rep. John Linder
(Click for Amazon book review)
BOOK REVIEW by OnTheIssues.org:
The FairTax is the preferred tax simplification plan for hard-core conservatives, and for many in the Tea Party movement. Few people actually realize what exactly the FairTax is; this book introduced the concept and explains the bill which is introduced in each Congress. One of the authors, John Linder, is a member of Congress, and is the leading proponent of the FairTax.
Those not in-the-know will write "Fair Tax" and assume that it means a fair tax system (or a fairer tax system). It is properly written as one word with an interior capital letter, "FairTax", as on this book's cover.
Those not in-the-know also describe the FairTax as a 23% sales tax, the US equivalent of the VAT common in Europe. The authors go to great lengths (p. 153) to explain the differences between the VAT and the FairTax. However, most Americans don't really care -- they support the FairTax because it is simple , not because it differs from a VAT. There are many other detailed distinctions explained herein.
Under the newly-elected Tea-Party-oriented Republican majority, the House of Representatives will certainly debate a FairTax bill, and likely pass one (it is mush less likely to pass in the Senate). Hence this book, although a few years old, has suddenly become relevant.
-- Jesse Gordon, editor-in-chief, OnTheIssues.org, December 2010
| OnTheIssues.org excerpts: (click on issues for details)
Budget & Economy|
John Linder: Economic freedom is a component of political freedom.
John Linder: Our tax code has chased $10 trillion to offshore deposits.
Milton Friedman: Economic freedom is a component of political freedom.
John Linder: Businesses don't pay taxes; they merely collect & pass on.
John Linder: Offshore financial centers, OFC's, avoid all US tax.
John Linder: Most IRS actions are against small businesses for FICA.
John Linder: Punishing corporate tax structure moves HQ's abroad.
John Linder: Lobbyists manipulate and game the system.
George W. Bush: Allow investing in government-certified stocks & bonds.
John Linder: Social Security is on the verge of financial collapse.
John Linder: Payroll tax increase is a lousy way to reform the system.
Jimmy Carter: 1970s: Tried to extend withholding to interest and dividends.
John Linder: Tax withholding camouflages the actual tax burden.
John Linder: More complicated tax code means higher compliance costs.
John Linder: FairTax repeals AMT; estate tax; gift tax; & capital gains.
John Linder: Politicians should not decide who "needs" tax cuts.
John Linder: FairTax is absolutely not a VAT.
John Linder: AMT was introduced as a "spite" tax in 1969.
John Linder: Income taxes are seized; consumption taxes are voluntary.
Milton Friedman: VAT is most efficient way to raise government revenue.
Ronald Reagan: 1982: Extended withholding to interest and dividends.
John Linder: FairTax Card: register with feds for monthly prebate.
John Linder: Tax Internet sales the same as store sales.
Welfare & Poverty|
John Linder: Over 25% of cost of EITC is fraud.
John Linder: Americans don't give to charity for tax deductions.
The above quotations are from The FairTax Book:
Saying Goodbye to the Income Tax and the IRS, by Neal Boortz and Rep. John Linder.
2010 Election Analysis:
- Against All Odds, by Scott Brown
- The Obamians, by James Mann
- Power to the People, by Gov. Tommy Thompson
- 2010: Take Back America, by Dick Morris
- 100 Innovative Ideas for Florida's Future, by Marco Rubio
- Courage and Consequence, by Karl Rove
- American Conspiracies, by Gov. Jesse Ventura
- Game Change, by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
- The FairTax Book, by Neal Boortz and Rep. John Linder
- The Test of our Times, by Gov. Tom Ridge
- Saving Freedom, by Sen. Jim DeMint
- Giving, by Pres. Bill Clinton
- Going Rogue, by Gov. Sarah Palin
- Slouching Towards Gomorrah, by Robert Bork
- Abortion and the Conscience of a Nation, by Pres. Ronald Reagan
- Third World America, by Arianna Huffington
- Hopes and Prospects, by Noam Chomsky
- Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet, by James Mann (March 2004)
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Department of Forestry says all of its fire districts, which encompass a total of about 16 million acres, are officially in wildfire season.
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A Department of Forestry spokesperson says the official start of fire season means people can expect restrictions such as campfire bans where fire danger is high.
The latest fire season outlook from the National Interagency Fire Center shows the highest fire risk in Central and Southern Oregon as well as Southeast Oregon for July.
The following are tips from the Department of Forestry to help prevent wildfires.
- Make sure your campfire is cool to the touch before going to sleep or leaving your site. Don’t forget to Drown, Stir, Repeat.
- Go back and check on your debris burn site to make sure nothing reignites due to the heat.
- Don’t park your car over dried grass and make sure it is regularly maintained in order to reduce the risk of sparks.
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In the April issue of VeloNews, we present the new VN Bike Lab — where comparative data from two labs and long-term ride testing meets expert analysis. The complete bicycle testing is an extension of our award-winning wheel testing in the magazine. (You can read that piece for free here at Coverleaf. It’s in the September 2010 issue, with a certain Tejay Van Garderen and the words “Cycling’s Future” on the cover. Judging by Van Garderen’s second-place result at Algarve, the future is now.)
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"If you want to
enemies, try to
change something." ~ Woodrow Wilson
Making Big Changes is something we all have to do sometimes.
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our lives. We hear the "call" and we know our lives can never be the
same again. Such times are often challenging as we weigh up what to
whether to launch our new business idea or not.
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like a mythological journey, where we hear the call, and then descend into
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and finally make our home-coming.
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radical innovation /
is like starting a football game
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The following points are things to
consider to help
make the decision
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What is the worst that could happen? Be realistic, and as
specific as you can, about what you might lose if it all goes
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On whom will my making this change impact? Work colleagues,
family or children, employees, others?
What do I need to have in place to feel OK about this change?
Reserves, safety nets, support systems, etc.
What do I need to do before making the change? Loose ends to
tie up, things to have ready, people to speak to – to inform, or
Who can help
me, and how? Professional support – this is obviously a good
time, but also look for support from your life's
partners, family, friends, business colleagues, etc.
What will it cost me not to do it? Most
people will think about the costs and risks of making a change. It
is important to also consider what the costs of not doing something
might be. If you don't make the change, will you be able to let it
go easily, and get on with your life, or will you keep looking back,
saying if only!
How will I make this work? Look at the situation from the
place of having decided to do it – if you are going to do it, how will you make this work for you?
This is a totally different conversation from asking yourself if you can
do it, which can lead to lots of negative responses and a "no."
Asking yourself how you can do it will create an opening for expanded
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How long will→
the journey take? What are the various
stages of the journey, and how long will you allow for each stage – obviously you will need to
be flexible about this, but some
outline will be helpful. In your mind, walk yourself through the
decision and how it will unfold.
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feeling afraid during the course of your journey. Who can support you in
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22 If you see your fellow Israelite’s ox or sheep straying, do not ignore it but be sure to take it back to its owner. 2 If they do not live near you or if you do not know who owns it, take it home with you and keep it until they come looking for it. Then give it back. 3 Do the same if you find their donkey or cloak or anything else they have lost. Do not ignore it.
4 If you see your fellow Israelite’s donkey or ox fallen on the road, do not ignore it. Help the owner get it to its feet.
5 A woman must not wear men’s clothing, nor a man wear women’s clothing, for the Lord your God detests anyone who does this.
6 If you come across a bird’s nest beside the road, either in a tree or on the ground, and the mother is sitting on the young or on the eggs, do not take the mother with the young. 7 You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may go well with you and you may have a long life.
8 When you build a new house, make a parapet around your roof so that you may not bring the guilt of bloodshed on your house if someone falls from the roof.
9 Do not plant two kinds of seed in your vineyard; if you do, not only the crops you plant but also the fruit of the vineyard will be defiled.[a]
10 Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.
11 Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.
12 Make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear.
13 If a man takes a wife and, after sleeping with her, dislikes her 14 and slanders her and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity,” 15 then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring to the town elders at the gate proof that she was a virgin. 16 Her father will say to the elders, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he dislikes her. 17 Now he has slandered her and said, ‘I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.’ But here is the proof of my daughter’s virginity.” Then her parents shall display the cloth before the elders of the town, 18 and the elders shall take the man and punish him. 19 They shall fine him a hundred shekels[b] of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, because this man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. She shall continue to be his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.
20 If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found, 21 she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done an outrageous thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from among you.
22 If a man is found sleeping with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.
23 If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her, 24 you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death—the young woman because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man’s wife. You must purge the evil from among you.
25 But if out in the country a man happens to meet a young woman pledged to be married and rapes her, only the man who has done this shall die. 26 Do nothing to the woman; she has committed no sin deserving death. This case is like that of someone who attacks and murders a neighbor, 27 for the man found the young woman out in the country, and though the betrothed woman screamed, there was no one to rescue her.
28 If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, 29 he shall pay her father fifty shekels[c] of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.
30 A man is not to marry his father’s wife; he must not dishonor his father’s bed.[d]
23 [e]No one who has been emasculated by crushing or cutting may enter the assembly of the Lord.
2 No one born of a forbidden marriage[f] nor any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord, not even in the tenth generation.
3 No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord, not even in the tenth generation. 4 For they did not come to meet you with bread and water on your way when you came out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram Naharaim[g] to pronounce a curse on you. 5 However, the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam but turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loves you. 6 Do not seek a treaty of friendship with them as long as you live.
7 Do not despise an Edomite, for the Edomites are related to you. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you resided as foreigners in their country. 8 The third generation of children born to them may enter the assembly of the Lord.
9 When you are encamped against your enemies, keep away from everything impure. 10 If one of your men is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he is to go outside the camp and stay there. 11 But as evening approaches he is to wash himself, and at sunset he may return to the camp.
12 Designate a place outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourself. 13 As part of your equipment have something to dig with, and when you relieve yourself, dig a hole and cover up your excrement. 14 For the Lord your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, so that he will not see among you anything indecent and turn away from you.
15 If a slave has taken refuge with you, do not hand them over to their master. 16 Let them live among you wherever they like and in whatever town they choose. Do not oppress them.
17 No Israelite man or woman is to become a shrine prostitute. 18 You must not bring the earnings of a female prostitute or of a male prostitute[h] into the house of the Lord your God to pay any vow, because the Lord your God detests them both.
19 Do not charge a fellow Israelite interest, whether on money or food or anything else that may earn interest. 20 You may charge a foreigner interest, but not a fellow Israelite, so that the Lord your God may bless you in everything you put your hand to in the land you are entering to possess.
21 If you make a vow to the Lord your God, do not be slow to pay it, for the Lord your God will certainly demand it of you and you will be guilty of sin. 22 But if you refrain from making a vow, you will not be guilty. 23 Whatever your lips utter you must be sure to do, because you made your vow freely to the Lord your God with your own mouth.
24 If you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat all the grapes you want, but do not put any in your basket. 25 If you enter your neighbor’s grainfield, you may pick kernels with your hands, but you must not put a sickle to their standing grain.
24 If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, 2 and if after she leaves his house she becomes the wife of another man, 3 and her second husband dislikes her and writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, or if he dies, 4 then her first husband, who divorced her, is not allowed to marry her again after she has been defiled. That would be detestable in the eyes of the Lord. Do not bring sin upon the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.
5 If a man has recently married, he must not be sent to war or have any other duty laid on him. For one year he is to be free to stay at home and bring happiness to the wife he has married.
6 Do not take a pair of millstones—not even the upper one—as security for a debt, because that would be taking a person’s livelihood as security.
7 If someone is caught kidnapping a fellow Israelite and treating or selling them as a slave, the kidnapper must die. You must purge the evil from among you.
8 In cases of defiling skin diseases,[i] be very careful to do exactly as the Levitical priests instruct you. You must follow carefully what I have commanded them. 9 Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam along the way after you came out of Egypt.
10 When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, do not go into their house to get what is offered to you as a pledge. 11 Stay outside and let the neighbor to whom you are making the loan bring the pledge out to you. 12 If the neighbor is poor, do not go to sleep with their pledge in your possession. 13 Return their cloak by sunset so that your neighbor may sleep in it. Then they will thank you, and it will be regarded as a righteous act in the sight of the Lord your God.
14 Do not take advantage of a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether that worker is a fellow Israelite or a foreigner residing in one of your towns. 15 Pay them their wages each day before sunset, because they are poor and are counting on it. Otherwise they may cry to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
16 Parents are not to be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.
17 Do not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, or take the cloak of the widow as a pledge. 18 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you from there. That is why I command you to do this.
19 When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. 20 When you beat the olives from your trees, do not go over the branches a second time. Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow. 21 When you harvest the grapes in your vineyard, do not go over the vines again. Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow. 22 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt. That is why I command you to do this.
14 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. 2 “But not during the festival,” they said, “or the people may riot.”
3 While he was in Bethany, reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head.
4 Some of those present were saying indignantly to one another, “Why this waste of perfume? 5 It could have been sold for more than a year’s wages[a] and the money given to the poor.” And they rebuked her harshly.
6 “Leave her alone,” said Jesus. “Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. 7 The poor you will always have with you,[b] and you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me. 8 She did what she could. She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial. 9 Truly I tell you, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her.”
10 Then Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the chief priests to betray Jesus to them. 11 They were delighted to hear this and promised to give him money. So he watched for an opportunity to hand him over.
12 On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, when it was customary to sacrifice the Passover lamb, Jesus’ disciples asked him, “Where do you want us to go and make preparations for you to eat the Passover?”
13 So he sent two of his disciples, telling them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him. 14 Say to the owner of the house he enters, ‘The Teacher asks: Where is my guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’ 15 He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there.”
16 The disciples left, went into the city and found things just as Jesus had told them. So they prepared the Passover.
17 When evening came, Jesus arrived with the Twelve. 18 While they were reclining at the table eating, he said, “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me—one who is eating with me.”
19 They were saddened, and one by one they said to him, “Surely you don’t mean me?”
20 “It is one of the Twelve,” he replied, “one who dips bread into the bowl with me. 21 The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him. But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born.”
22 While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take it; this is my body.”
23 Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank from it.
24 “This is my blood of the[c] covenant, which is poured out for many,” he said to them. 25 “Truly I tell you, I will not drink again from the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”
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Improving your performance at work can help you get in line for more responsibility, a promotion or even a raise. When you take the initiative to improve work performance, you have taken the first step in moving your career ahead. The next step is to put your initiative into action.
Define Your Job
According to the University of Missouri, as an employee you know your job better than the manager. Spend time redefining the procedures in your job to make it more efficient. Discuss your procedural ideas with your manager, and then make the appropriate changes. Redefining your tasks so that you can streamline your job duties will help to increase your productivity.
Learn Time Management
As an employee you have many tasks to do in a given day. One of the ways you can improve your performance is to manage your time better so you can get more done. Prioritize tasks and attend to those things that have an immediate deadline. If something can wait while more pressing projects get done, then put that project to the side. It is possible to take on multiple tasks and improve your performance. It is a matter of learning how to properly manage your time.
Set goals for yourself that you can use to help improve productivity. For example, if you find yourself constantly behind in your work then set the goal of getting organized and caught up in the next three months. Set deadlines for your goals, and make sure you stay on pace to reach your objectives. Ask your manager for advice on how to set goals, and work with her to make sure you stay focused on your goals.
Seek advice from others within the company besides your manager. Co-workers, other managers and executives can be sources of information that you will find valuable. Getting information from a different perspective, even from someone not in your department, will help you to approach work problems from a variety of constructive angles.
To improve your performance and move ahead in the company, you need to know more than you do now. Get involved in company training classes on topics that interest you. If you are a salesperson, start attending sales seminars outside of the office to expand your knowledge base. Consider taking college classes pertinent to your job, and ask the company if it offers a tuition assistance program to help you pay for schooling.
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In honour of breast cancer awareness month, this series will highlight stories of strong and courageous women who have won their battle with this life-changing illness. Paula Alfred from St. Lucia shares her very personal and unique story with us, revealing how she is coping post-cancer and offers words of advice to the public and those who may be suffering from this illness right now.
When were you diagnosed and at what age?
I was diagnosed in October 2011 at the age of 46.
What stage were you diagnosed with?
How was the cancer initially detected? (i.e. through a breast self-exam (BSE), a clinical breast-exam (CBE) or an annual mammogram)
Through a breast self-exam, after I felt pain in the breast.
How did you feel when you first received the news?
I was kind of expecting the results but still felt a bit sad.
Is there a history of breast cancer in your family?
No, I have no history of breast cancer in my family.
Did you have a support network? If not, how did you overcome that or find one?
I did have a support network in the form of family and friends and the American Cancer Society.
Tell me about your treatment process.
I had six rounds of chemo (TCH) which included a full year of Herceptin. The side effects were hair loss and the loss of taste.
Were there any programmes or services offered to you that would help with the treatment process?
Yes, meeting with survivors on a monthly basis.
What message would you like to provide women in the community?
Get to know your bodies and any unusual lumps and pain need to be checked out. Please do BSE’s and mammograms.
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I had an interesting conversation with Luca Scagliarini of Expert System, a company that doesn't make expert systems per se. They are a semantic technology firm with an interesting set of products, for their customers and a few that face the public.
Their biggest public foray is with the beta of AskWiki, a project that uses the Wikipedia as a source of knowledge and their semantic engine in the background to let people ask natural-language questions of the Wikipedia to find answers to things like, How tall is Pikes Peak (14115 ft). Interestingly, it has difficulty with "who is the president of the United States," giving me an answer that describes the role, but not the person. I think this isn't the best demonstration of their technology, as what I saw in our discussion was much better. (Several people commented about AskWiki last week: Gary O. Grimm and Glyn Moody)
The core of their ability to do semantic analysis is a deep knowledge of the semantics of a given language. Any semantic analysis technology needs to be able to take text and pull out the meaning. And the way you can get meaning is by understanding the language, which means understanding how sentences are constructed AND what the words mean within that structure. To understand the words, the system needs to understand how each word can be used (definitions and concepts) and map against the sentence structures.
The underlying network here contains ~1.5 million connections. In the semantic analysis, the tool maps a specific text onto the semantic network. The result is the specific instantiation of the semantic network for the text, whether that is one sentence or a book. Once you have that mapping, you can do all sorts of interesting things. You can answer basic questions, a la AskWiki. You can look at the semantic concepts associated with the text.
This big hairy beast is called Cogito, which has several variations, depending on the specific application: semantic search, categorization (content interpretation, automatic tagging), text mining, trend analysis, and even some customer-relationship-management applications.
Luca grabbed a current story and ran it through the analyzer (50 KB text / second), and the tool gave us the top concepts in the article - concepts that weren't necessarily keywords in the article itself. It extracted proper nouns and relevant information about those proper nouns (were they people, organizations, places, etc). And it did some nice disambiguation of those proper nouns: "Jack Vinson" is the same as "Vinson," and he is referred to as "doctor," so he must have an advanced degree.
Use the tool for market intelligence / trend analysis across web-based content (i.e. blogs). Look at the general impression of articles about a certain brand - what is that impression over the last time period, how has it changed. What are the trends compared to other brands? What are the trends in the market, generally? This particular tool has been developed for a customer, but will become a product in its own right next year.
Text mining for intelligence purposes. Look for trends of terms / people / organizations being mentioned in a corpus of text (the example looked at newspapers). With the analysis done, you can pull back lots of interesting data. What has Condoleezza Rice "done" in the last month (as reported in the NY Times)? When she "talked," to whom did she talk? About what? And then you can always go back to the source article where she talked to the prime minister of Freedonia. | <urn:uuid:70d16fd9-8b0d-4e6b-a843-8bb9f2db821c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.jackvinson.com/blog/2007/11/13/semantic-intelligence-from-expertsystem | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284405.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00034-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961144 | 729 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Username Ideas: Creative and Cool Usernames
Need a Good Username?
It's important to choose a good username for websites. It's the first thing people will notice, so choose wisely to leave a good impression. Unfortunately, coming up with a cool username can be hard—it can seem like all the good ones are taken, especially on big social media sites like Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram, where there are literally millions of users.
This article will provide you with ideas for username, including funny username ideas, and at the end you'll hopefully have a username for any site under the sun. Have fun!
Tips: How to Slightly Alter or Change Your Desired Username
If you've already got an awesome username idea, but it's taken, try altering it. For example:
So as to not forget the username, meaningful numbers are best, such as your year of birth, post code or favourite number. Just don't forget that if you use your year of birth, most people will recognize it as a year, guess it's your birth year and thus know your age.
Add underscores, dots and dashes
Change the spelling
Note: Make sure to change the spelling of the word only slightly, so that its original meaning is still clear. You can also use this to be ironic, by spelling a word like "intelligent" wrong.
Ideas on how to misspell your username:
Instead of the letter "O", use a "0" (a zero)
Instead of a "C," use a "K."
If there is an "R" in your username add additional ones. For example: Marrrrlin. Sounds pirate-y, eh?
Add "decorative" letters
Add a word to the start or the end of your username
Words to add at the start:
Words to add at the end:
Cute Username Ideas and Sweet Username Ideas
If you're after cute names for your username, there many words that can be used, including in combination with your first name. However, keep in mind that you'll likely outgrow this username.
Use these words below either by themselves with your own name, or combine a few of the words. For example:
See below for other cute or sweet-themed words to use in your username.
Phobias as Usernames
You can choose a phobia because you like its meaning or just like the way it sounds. View a huge list of phobias for more ideas. If it strikes your fancy, you could even make up a phobia name instead of using a scientific name. For example:
Movie and TV Show-Themed Username Ideas
yabba dabba doo!
Your Name (Or Anything Else) Backwards as a Username
Why not see what your name looks like backwards? Chances are, it looks really cool and you never even knew. You can use that as a username to have a personal username where the connection to you isn't immediately obvious. Unless your name is Eve.
You can also try this for words you like, or hobbies- do you like yoga? I bet the username Agoy is still available. The username "South Park" may not be available, but what about kraphtuos? Even stamp collecting almost sounds cool when it becomes Gnitcellocpmats.
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The Scrum Master is not part of the Development Team. Your assessment is correct - the term "Scrum Team" refers to the Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Development Team. The Development Team includes all of the people who are doing the work to transform Product Backlog Items into a potentially releasable Increment at least at the end of a Sprint.
If the Scrum Master is doing work toward the potentially releasable Increment, then the Scrum Master is also on the Development Team. The person with the role of Scrum Master also has a role of Development Team member.
It sounds like part of the confusion is between the Product Backlog and the Sprint Backlog.
The Product Backlog is a list of "all features, functions, requirements, enhancements, and fixes that constitute the changes to be made to the product in future releases" (from the Scrum Guide). Each of these individual items on the list are Product Backlog Items. The Product Owner is responsible for the Product Backlog.
Product Backlog Items are refined by the Scrum Team. The Product Owner and Development Team collaborate on the process of refinement. The Development Team makes sure that each Product Backlog Item has enough information to implement and any details or questions are addressed. The Development Team also provides an estimate to aid the Product Owner in ordering the Product Backlog and understanding when work may be completed.
In Sprint Planning, one of the outputs is the Sprint Backlog. The Sprint Backlog starts as a set of Product Backlog Items that were planned for the Sprint. However, there may be discrete elements of work that the Development Team identifies in planning. These items are also added, by the Development Team, to the Sprint Backlog. Throughout the Sprint, the Development Team is responsible for maintaining the Sprint Backlog.
These Sprint Backlog Items (my term - not something found in the Scrum Guide) aren't estimated. They are simply things to support transparency. By breaking down the work into more fine grained elements, the Development Team gives the Product Owner and themselves more visibility into the work being done in the Sprint. The idea of putting these work items into the Sprint Backlog is to ensure that the team knows what work is required, help people to focus on work that needs to be done, and to identify if there are threats to achieving the Sprint Goal.
The Development Team should be the one creating Sprint Backlog Items, at least at a conceptual level. However, that doesn't necessarily mean that the Development Team will create the Sprint Backlog Items in a ticket tracking tool. Perhaps the Scrum Master will do that. Just like how the Product Owner can delegate some work, the Development Team can also. Perhaps it makes sense that, if a ticket tracking tool is used, the Scrum Master may be asked to enter the work there. One of the responsibilities of the Scrum Master is to facilitate Scrum events, and ensuring that work is appropriately entered into the ticket tracking tool facilitates the refinement of Product Backlog Items as well as Sprint Planning and perhaps Sprint Review and Retrospective as well.
A question for you: As Scrum Master, are you facilitating the team by removing the concern of entering work into a tracking tool? Or are you entering work with the intent of instructing the team on how to turn Product Backlog Items into a potentially releasable Increment? One is consistent with the principles of Scrum. The other is not. | <urn:uuid:db34ec62-6ff3-46be-a676-928fae99beec> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/24157/can-the-scrum-master-groom-the-sprint-backlog | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00670.warc.gz | en | 0.940268 | 704 | 2.09375 | 2 |
COVID-19 in Frankfurt und Słubice. What can we do?
Kindergartens and schools, universities and concerts – everything pauses. We are right in the middle of it.
Nobody really knows how things will go on, but we probably have to prepare for a long time in which we will have to change our lives completely.
So, what are we supposed to do?
- Wash our hands (2xHappy Birthday or 2x the Lord's Prayer), keep our distance, sneeze into the crook of our arms.
- Maybe hang a note in the hallway and offer people who should not leave the house to do some shopping for them.
- Use the time to call your grandparents and parents more often, and friends to whom you haven't called for ages.
- Think of the nurses and doctors, fire fighters and the people who are challenged during this time, the sick who are now afraid, all of us, that we will get through this time well.
- Every prayer helps.
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This post is one in a series introducing one of the deepest ideas in modern computer science, expander graphs. Expanders are one of those powerful ideas that crop up in many apparently unrelated contexts, and that have a phenomenally wide range of uses. The goal of the posts is to explain what an expander is, and to learn just enough about them that we can start to understand some of their amazing uses.If you haven't been there to read them, do check them out. He starts off with basic definitions, gives some examples, relates expansion to adjacency matrices and the eigenvalue gap, and gives as an application the use of random walks on expanders to decrease randomness.
Friday, June 10, 2005
Michael Nielsen has been writing a series of posts on expanders.
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Numerous studies have shown that a diverse work environment leads to increased creativity and innovation. What’s more, organisations that are in the top quartile for gender, racial or ethnic diversity are more likely to see their financial returns reach above their national industry average.
This means that addressing the lack of diversity, or running a company in a way that promotes diversity, could hugely contribute to an increase in revenue. One of the ways believed to enhance workforce diversity is the implementation of blind hiring practices.
What is blind hiring?
In simple terms, blind hiring is a recruitment process aimed at preventing a hiring manager from accessing certain type of information about the candidates, such as: name, age, gender, race, educational background or work experience. As the main purpose is to remove unconscious bias, any type of information about a candidate may be hidden from the hiring manager. For example, information such as candidates’ interests and hobbies could be excluded as this may lead to preferential treatment. Blind hiring usually means that the hiring manager might not see or speak to a candidate before offering them a position.
Examples of companies such as Google, Deloitte or HSBC show that implementing such hiring methods leads to enhanced diversity.
How to implement blind hiring?
The first step to implementing blind hiring tactics, as advised by organisations that went through the process, is to decide which data types should be hidden. In an ideal scenario, an organisation should aim to hide any data that is not necessary to evaluate whether a candidate has the skills and/or capabilities to perform the job. Defining how far the blind recruitment process can be taken is crucial as it will determine the shape of all of the processes and the type of technologies used in recruitment.
Secondly, processes around applications and CV management should be established. To make sure anyone viewing the applications can’t see the defined set of data, it’s crucial to decide on how candidates’ data will be processed and passed on to the right team member(s).
Once the above elements are completed, the remaining steps of the recruitment process can be agreed. These should be designed in a way that will allow the hiring manager to evaluate candidates based on specified criteria. Tools such as psychometric and ability tests can be used or candidates may be asked to share samples of their work. This part of the blind hiring process should be thought through in detail as it’s the main source of information about the candidates.
Establishing processes and handling data may be time consuming for HR teams, especially those responsible for sourcing and hiring talent in high volumes. There is however, a good selection of software designed specifically for eliminating conscious and unconscious bias.
Below are examples of technologies that make blind interviewing, testing and even creating more inclusive job advertisement simple and quick:
Textio - web based app that acts as a spell check for unconscious bias.
GapJumpers - this product blocks implicit hiring bias through blind auditions.
Ideal - software that excludes demographic data during.
BLENDOOR - another technology that’s designed to hide data that's not relevant and highlight data that is.
Pymetrics - tool that uses neuroscience games and bias-free AI to match people with job.
HireVue - video platform that combines video interviews with predictive, validated I-O science and AI.
The Downsides of Blind Hiring
As any recruitment method, blind recruitment also has its disadvantages. The main concern around this method lies in hiring for cultural fit, which wouldn’t be possible in the blind hiring process. Evaluating cultural fit is especially challenging as candidates’ personalities are prevented from being fully visible.
Another downside of implementing this type of hiring could be that some of the talented candidates may drop out or even fail to begin the process due to testing that would be more intense and specific than in other scenarios.
What’s more, as some industry experts mention, blind hiring doesn’t eliminate conscious or unconscious bias but it postpons it. While certain criteria are excluded from being factors affecting early stages of recruitment, the candidates will eventually meet the hiring manager which is when the bias might still come into play.
Regardless of all the pros and cons, the data speaks for itself - companies who initiate blind recruitment practices, eventually build more diverse workforce. Diverse workforce resembles customers database more accurately and allows for more varied ideas to be born based on experiences and knowledge coming from different backgrounds. Putting all these ingredients together translates into higher revenue.
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As the United States begins to emerge from a recession, and job creation steps into the forefront of the national discussion, state and federal legislators are focusing on industries with long-term growth potential. The electronics recycling market is growing, and the right federal e-waste legislation can stimulate âgreen collarâ job creation. Therefore, current e-waste laws need to be analyzed for best practices, and a grading system must be put into place.
In recent years, states have begun to implement e-waste legislation and, as a result, have seen an increase in the amount of electronics collected for recycling, which has directly impacted green collar job creation. Of the 21 states that have implemented e-waste legislation, five have had laws in place for at least two years, providing significant data for analysis. Two e-waste models predominate.
The first and most widely used approach, the extended producer responsibility (EPR) model used in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington, places end-of-life (EOL) recycling responsibility on manufacturers, meaning they have to collect and dispose of their electronics products. The EPR model is serviced by two companies: the Electronic Manufacturers Recycling Management Company (MRM), consisting of 17 television and consumer electronic brands, and Waste Management (WM), partnered with two television manufacturers. Both MRM and WM limit the number of recyclers allowed to participate in their programs and focus efforts within densely populated metropolitan areas.
The second legislative model, the advanced recovery fee (ARF), is used only in California and places the majority of the responsibility for electronics EOL recycling on consumers, who are required to pay a fee upon purchase. The funds raised from this fee are then allocated to a state agency that reimburses approved recyclers and collection programs.
By comparing the statistics available and the methodology of both systems, it is evident that California's ARF model is capable of creating the most jobs due to the inherent nature of it being a free enterprise system.
According to each of the states' labor departments, Maine has a total of 153 registered recyclers, Maryland has 343, Minnesota has 153 and Washington has 212, while California has 694 registered recyclers. Furthermore, the Institute for Local Self-Reliance produced information regarding job creation based on 10,000 tons recycled yearly. When applied to the collected tons from the five states, this data indicates that California's ARF system has created 3,198 jobs as opposed to the EPR model that generated only 118 jobs in Maine, 346 in Maryland, 478 in Minnesota, and 556 in Washington.
Aside from the lower rate of job creation, there is an underlying issue with the EPR model that inhibits its success. MRM and WM are primarily responsible for e-waste management in the states with the EPR model. These groups work with a limited number of vendors, making it difficult for smaller recyclers and processors to get involved.
Local economies would benefit immensely from balancing the EPR model to allow smaller organizations that collect, recycle and process e-waste for commercial and residential markets to participate in e-waste initiatives alongside MRM and WM. Currently, MRM and WM programs focus on metropolitan areas as manufacturers are required to either meet return share quotas or market share quotas. As seen in California's ARF system, smaller recyclers can control both metropolitan and rural areas with more efficiency.
A 2008 report published by the National Center for Electronics Recycling showed that Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington served a combined total of 7.1 million households, collecting approximately 101.3 million pounds of e-waste whereas California alone served more than 12 million households and collected 360.1 million pounds.
Aside from the ability for smaller recyclers to collect more e-waste from more households, they are also more likely to keep green collar jobs local, thus stimulating the individual states' economies. Larger organizations, however, frequently outsource jobs to other areas, making it very difficult to directly impact local economic growth.
While the EPR model is headed in a positive direction in terms of responsible e-waste recycling, the approach lacks the muscle required to garner the statistical job creation performance of the ARF model. By limiting the business case for residential e-waste management to two primary organizations, the EPR model limits environmental benefits, competition and green collar job creation, and inhibits the potential economic gains from a promising new business sector.
Introducing a grading system that would thoroughly evaluate the candidates for e-waste recycling projects into future state and federal legislation would promote a free enterprise system within the EPR model and the electronics recycling industry as a whole. It would limit participation to companies that are financially viable, can handle the capacity, and that have e-waste processes in place. Furthermore, this grading system would ensure only companies with a proven track record for job creation in new sectors, such as e-waste and asset recovery, would be eligible.
Any grading system that is introduced should also evaluate an organization's history of environmental and wildlife preservation as well as its community involvement and partnerships with non-profit organizations and educational programs. By increasing standards, such legislation would ensure that e-waste processors and recyclers act in both an ethical and environmentally responsible manner.
It is vital for e-waste recyclers and processors to take a stand in order to ensure any future state or federal legislation put into place addresses all of these factors, from economic growth to job creation to free enterprise, and the most important factor: ethical and responsible e-waste recycling practices.
- Read the "E-Waste Wishlist" sidebar to learn what the U.S. government could learn from states tht have already passed e-waste legislation.
Linda McFarland is CEO of Paragon Green, an information technology asset recovery and e-waste recycling firm, and president and CEO of Classic Computer Recovery Inc., which are both based in Garden City, Mich. She also serves as executive vice president of business development for joint venture partner 5R Processors Ltd. (5R), based in Ladysmith, Wis.
When developing federal legislation, the U.S. government would benefit from asking some key questions of the states that have already passed e-waste legislation:
How many jobs did the legislation produce in both the government and private sectors?
How many more registered recyclers can be identified as a result of the e-waste legislation?
How many of the existing recyclers show growth from the e-waste legislation in both sales volume and jobs?
How many pounds (or tons) were kept out of landfills after the e-waste legislation was enacted? (i.e., what was the benefit to the environment?)
How much energy was conserved or saved as a result of the collections in the residential markets in these states?
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Have you ever noticed that many pages in the wiki have at least one category listed at the bottom of the page? In many cases, two or more categories are listed on a page. Why do we need categories? They work similarly to an index, grouping articles with similar subjects, localities, or topics. Categories (along with other features such as cross-references, lists, and infoboxes) help users find information, even if they don’t know that the information exists or what it’s called. Every article should have at least one category.
Members of the wiki support team have been spending hundreds of hours categorizing pages that weren’t categorized when they were created. It’s a simple matter to add a category as an article is created or edited. That procedure would save the support team many hours of work. The category is added at the bottom of the page. In Wikitext, an example would be:
[[Category:Indians of North America]]
There are pages in the wiki that will give detailed instructions and information about categories. See https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Help:Categorization and https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/FamilySearch_Wiki:Categorization.
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1.The fence net is braided with high-strength galvanized steel wire, with high strength and high tensile force. It can withstand the violent impact of cattle, horses, sheep and other livestock, and is safe and reliable.
2.The surface of the steel wire and the wave ring are galvanized, and other parts adopt anti-rust and anti-corrosion measures, which can adapt to the harsh working environment, and the life span can reach 20 years.
3.The warp adopts wave rolling technology to enhance the elasticity and buffer function, and can adapt to the deformation of thermal expansion and contraction, so that the mesh fence always maintains a tensioned state.
4.Simple structure, convenient maintenance, short construction period, small size and light weight, easy to transport and install, ventilation and light transmission do not affect the landform.
1. Prairie net is a kind of fence used to protect the ecological environment, protect the natural environment, prevent landslides, and prevent pasture degradation. It is a fence commonly used in animal husbandry, especially in rainy mountainous areas. A layer of sunscreen nylon woven cloth is sewn outside the net to block the flow of sediment.
2. It can be used for grassland construction in pastoral areas, and can also be used to build grasslands and implement designated grazing and grazing by fences, which is convenient for the planned use of grassland resources and improves grassland utilization and grazing efficiency.
3. It is suitable for professional households in agriculture and animal husbandry to establish family breeding farms, establish border defense, farmland fences, forest nurseries, closures for forest cultivation, enclosures in tourist areas and hunting areas, isolation and maintenance of construction sites, etc. The product specifications can be adjusted at will.
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I read somewhere that the roots of SR can be traced back to Einstein's childhood. I wish I could remember where I read it, but I can't. (for some reason I am leaning towards "The Universe in a Nutshell") It said that when he was a boy (11 years old, I believe) he went to the beach with his mother. If he would run along at the same speed as the waves, he noticed that they appeared to stand still. This observation is what he attributes to his eventual discovery of Relativity. Does anyone know if there is any truth to this? Any more details, maybe? *crosses fingers* A source, perhaps? | <urn:uuid:65d33043-7833-4dc9-bd94-ba6ae53176a6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/einstein-as-a-boy.12537/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281746.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00288-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988503 | 137 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Friday, June 17, 2011
Today I picked up my very first farm share! Joel and I are splitting a small share from Parker Farm this season, and I'm hoping to blog regularly about the produce we receive, what we do with it, and where we go wrong (for example, what we end up wasting...hopefully not much!) Keep an eye out for posts titled "The Weekly Vegetable" - these will all be CSA-related.
So, Week 1 (6/16/11-6/22/11). Here's what we got, along with a little background info on each vegetable:
Beets have been cultivated since the second millenium BC, somewhere in the Mediterranean region, although this was a leafy variety (similar to kale) rather than the purple root vegetable we most often think of when we hear "beet." The purple-red beetroot can be eaten raw or cooked, and the leaves are also edible, tasting similar to spinach when boiled or steamed. Studies have suggested a variety of positive health effects from eating beets: protection against liver disease, lowered blood pressure, and increased athletic performance are just a few.
Broccoli has somehow become the stereotypical hated vegetable by kids everywhere (along with Brussels sprouts). This member of the cabbage family gained popularity in the United States around the 1920s. It's nutrient-rich, especially in Vitamin C, and studies suggest anticancer effects, particularly against breast cancer. Broccoli is also a great source of the retinal carotenoid lutein, which helps fight age-related macular degeneration and other vision problems. (For more information about lutein and vision, please read this article that I wrote after attending a carotenoid conference.)
Cilantro is part of the herb coriander; generally the seeds are called "coriander" and the leaves are called "cilantro" or "Chinese parsley." Cilantro seems to evoke a love-or-hate reaction, with those who hate it reporting a soapy taste, while others detect citrus notes. Research suggests a genetic link between one's affinity or aversion to cilantro. The herb is often found in South Asian and Mexican foods.
Kohlrabi is a member of the cabbage family, a hardy grower with a taste like a broccoli stem, but milder. Common in the Kashmir, this vegetable is a result of artificial selection for spherical shape. The word has the same German roots as the German word for a rutabaga; both contain roots referring to cabbage and turnip. (The latter refers to the shape rather than the derivation.) Kohlrabi can be cooked or eaten raw.
Red leaf lettuce is a mild lettuce with the added nutritional bonus of beta-carotene, a pigment causing the purplish mottling of the leaves. While data is inconsistent, some research suggests a cognitive protective effect from beta-carotene; read my article from a carotenoid conference for more information. Red leaf lettuce should be eaten within a few days of purchase (and stored in the fridge) - it tends to go bad fairly quickly.
Red russian kale is a sweet and tender variety of kale, less wrinkly and less curly than other varieties. Don't bother with the stems; they're tough and will remain tough through cooking. Just rip the leaves right off. The name comes from the purple-red stems and veins, seen only subtly in the above photo. The leaves also develop a deeper purple color in cold weather.
Romaine (also called "cos" due to its supposed origin on the Aegean island of Cos) is a sturdy lettuce bursting with nutrients, particularly Vitamins A, K, and C, along with folate. It's the main component of a Caesar salad, and it's also found in Middle Eastern cooking. Available year-round, romaine is crunchy and complex, great for salads.
Swiss chard is a leafy vegetable derived from the sea beet. When young, chard can be eaten raw; when mature, cooking it yields good results. It tastes like spinach, but with a more refined flavor. The stems are very edible and often very attractive, particularly in the rainbow variety - think technicolor celery. Bonus: it has tons of nutrients, particularly Vitamins A, C, E, and K, plus iron and manganese.
Throughout the week, I'll be posting about what I've made with these vegetables.
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How does this medication work? What will it do for me?
Paclitaxel belongs to the group of cancer-fighting medications known as antineoplastics. Paclitaxel works by slowing or stopping the growth of cancer cells in your body. Paclitaxel is used alone or in combination with other cancer medications to treat cancers of the ovary, breast, or lung. It may also be used to treat another form of cancer called Kaposi's sarcoma.
Nab-paclitaxel is a slightly different form of the same medication. It is used alone or in combination with other cancer medications to treat breast cancer that has spread (metastasized), or in combination with other medications to treat cancer of the pancreas that has metastasized.
This medication may be available under multiple brand names and/or in several different forms. Any specific brand name of this medication may not be available in all of the forms or approved for all of the conditions discussed here. As well, some forms of this medication may not be used for all of the conditions discussed here.
Your doctor may have suggested this medication for conditions other than those listed in these drug information articles. If you have not discussed this with your doctor or are not sure why you are taking this medication, speak to your doctor.
What form(s) does this medication come in?
Abraxane for Injectable Suspension (paclitaxel powder for injectable suspension) (nanoparticle, albumin-bound [nab] paclitaxel) is supplied as a white-to-yellow, sterile, lyophilized cake for reconstitution with 20 mL of 0.9% Sodium Chloride Injection, USP prior to intravenous infusion. Each single use vial contains 100 mg of paclitaxel and approximately 900 mg of human albumin. Each mL of reconstituted suspension contains 5 mg paclitaxel. Abraxane does not contain solvents.
How should I use this medication?
The recommended dose and dosing schedule of paclitaxel varies according to the specific type of cancer being treated, the response to treatment, and other medications or treatments being used. The dose given is also based on body size. Paclitaxel is usually injected into a vein (intravenously) by a qualified health care professional through a specially prepared site on your skin. It is often given as an infusion over 30 to 40 minutes.
Many things can affect the dose of medication that a person needs, such as body weight, other medical conditions, and other medications. Very careful handling of this medication is required. It is always given under the supervision of a doctor in a hospital or similar setting with access to sterile equipment for preparation.
It is important this medication be given exactly as recommended by your doctor. If you miss an appointment to receive paclitaxel, contact your doctor as soon as possible to reschedule your appointment.
Store this medication at room temperature, protect it from light and moisture, and keep it out of the reach of children.
Do not dispose of medications in wastewater (e.g. down the sink or in the toilet) or in household garbage. Ask your pharmacist how to dispose of medications that are no longer needed or have expired.
Who should NOT take this medication?
Do not use paclitaxel if you:
- are allergic to paclitaxel, polyethoxylated castor oil, or any ingredients of the medication
- have a very low level of neutrophils (a type of white blood cell) in the blood
What side effects are possible with this medication?
Many medications can cause side effects. A side effect is an unwanted response to a medication when it is taken in normal doses. Side effects can be mild or severe, temporary or permanent.
The side effects listed below are not experienced by everyone who takes this medication. If you are concerned about side effects, discuss the risks and benefits of this medication with your doctor.
The following side effects have been reported by at least 1% of people taking this medication. Many of these side effects can be managed, and some may go away on their own over time.
Contact your doctor if you experience these side effects and they are severe or bothersome. Your pharmacist may be able to advise you on managing side effects.
- abdominal pain
- changes in skin appearance
- diarrhea or loose, runny stools
- discolouration of the nail beds
- dizziness when rising from a sitting or lying position
- numbness, burning, or tingling in the hands or feet
- pain in joints or muscles
- sores in the mouth and on the lips
- temporary loss of hair, eyebrows, eyelashes, and pubic hair about 2 to 3 weeks after treatment
- upset stomach (or nausea)
Although most of the side effects listed below don't happen very often, they could lead to serious problems if you do not seek medical attention.
Check with your doctor as soon as possible if any of the following side effects occur:
- blurred vision or other visual changes
- cough or hoarseness with fever or chills
- fever or chills
- fast or irregular heartbeat, or lightheadedness occurring during your treatment
- pain or redness at the site of the injection
- severe weakness or tiredness
- signs of clotting problems (e.g., unusual nosebleeds, bruising, blood in urine, coughing blood, bleeding gums, cuts that don’t stop bleeding)
- signs of infection (symptoms may include fever or chills, severe diarrhea, shortness of breath, prolonged dizziness, headache, stiff neck, weight loss, or listlessness)
- signs of liver problems (e.g., nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, loss of appetite, weight loss, yellowing of the skin or whites of the eyes, dark urine, pale stools)
- shortness of breath or wheezing
- skin rash or itching or hives
- symptoms of a urinary tract infection (e.g. pain when urinating, urinating more often than usual, low back or flank pain)
Stop taking the medication and seek immediate medical attention if any of the following occur:
- chest pain
- signs of a serious allergic reaction (e.g., abdominal cramps, difficulty breathing, nausea and vomiting, or swelling of the face and throat)
- signs of bleeding in the stomach (e.g., bloody, black, or tarry stools, spitting up of blood, vomiting blood or material that looks like coffee grounds)
- signs of a heart attack (e.g., chest pain or pressure, pain extending through shoulder and arm, nausea and vomiting, sweating)
- signs of a severe skin reaction such as blistering, peeling, a rash covering a large area of the body, a rash that spreads quickly, or a rash combined with fever or discomfort
Some people may experience side effects other than those listed. Check with your doctor if you notice any symptom that worries you while you are taking this medication.
Are there any other precautions or warnings for this medication?
Before you begin using a medication, be sure to inform your doctor of any medical conditions or allergies you may have, any medications you are taking, whether you are pregnant or breast-feeding, and any other significant facts about your health. These factors may affect how you should use this medication.
Allergic reactions: This medication may cause an allergic reaction (flushing of the face, severe back pain, chest tightness, shortness of breath) within the first few minutes of receiving paclitaxel. You will be asked to take some medication prior to treatment with paclitaxel to reduce your chances of experiencing a reaction.
Arrhythmia: People with heart rhythm problems may experience a worsening of these problems due to this medication. If you have a heart problem, discuss with your doctor how this medication may affect your medical condition, how your medical condition may affect the dosing and effectiveness of this medication, and whether any special monitoring is needed.
Blood clotting: This medication can reduce the number of platelet cells in the blood. Platelets help the blood to clot, and a shortage could make you bleed more easily. Tell your doctor of any signs that your blood is not clotting as quickly as usual. Such symptoms may include black and tarry stools, blood in the urine, easy bruising, or cuts that do not stop bleeding.
Drowsiness/reduced alertness: This medication may cause fatigue and weakness which may affect the mental or physical abilities needed to drive or operate machinery. Avoid driving, operating machinery, or performing other hazardous tasks until you have determined how this medication affects you.
Eye problems: Paclitaxel may cause a rare eye problem called cystoid macular edema, which reults in blurred vision due to swelling of the retina. If you notice blurred vision or any other vision changes, notify your doctor immediately.
Infection: As well as killing cancer cells, this medication can reduce the number of cells that fight infection in the body (white blood cells). Avoid contact with people who have a contagious infection and tell your doctor immediately if you begin to notice signs of an infection, such as fever or chills.
Liver function: Liver disease or reduced liver function may cause increased side effects with this medication. If you have liver problems, discuss with your doctor how this medication may affect your medical condition, how your medical condition may affect the dosing and effectiveness of this medication, and whether any special monitoring is needed. Your doctor will test your liver function regularly with blood tests while you are taking this medication.
If you experience symptoms of liver problems such as fatigue, feeling unwell, loss of appetite, nausea, yellowing of the skin or whites of the eyes, dark urine, pale stools, abdominal pain or swelling, and itchy skin, contact your doctor immediately.
Nerve pain: Paclitaxel may cause a mild burning, tingling, or numbing sensation of the fingers and toes. This side effect is rarely severe and usually goes away once you finish treatment.
Pregnancy: There are no adequate studies of use of this medication by pregnant women, however paclitaxel may cause severe harm to a developing baby if it is used by the mother during pregnancy. This medication should not be used during pregnancy. If you become pregnant while taking this medication, contact your doctor immediately.
Breast-feeding: It is not known if paclitaxel passes into breast milk. If you are a breast-feeding mother and are taking this medication, it may affect your baby. Talk to your doctor about whether you should continue breast-feeding.
Children: The safety and effectiveness of using this medication have not been established for children.
Seniors: People over the age of 65 may be at increased risk of side effects from this medication.
What other drugs could interact with this medication?
There may be an interaction between paclitaxel and any of the following:
- other cancer medications (e.g., cisplatin, doxorubicin, teniposide, etoposide, vincristine)
- abiraterone acetate
- amphotericin B
- "azole" antifungals (e.g., itraconazole, ketoconazole, voriconazole)
- barbiturates (e.g., phenobarbital, secobarbital)
- BCG vaccine
- calcium channel blockers (e.g., amlodipine, diltiazem, nifedipine, verapamil)
- corticosteroids (e.g., budesonide, dexamethasone, hydrocortisone, fluticasone, prednisone)
- grapefruit juice
- HIV non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs; e.g., delaviridine, efavirenz, etravirine, nevirapine)
- HIV protease inhibitors (e.g., atazanavir, indinavir, ritonavir, saquinavir)
- macrolide antibiotics (e.g., clarithromycin, erythromycin)
- retinoic acid
- St. John's wort
- thiazolidinediones (e.g., pioglitazone, rosiglitazone)
If you are taking any of these medications, speak with your doctor or pharmacist. Depending on your specific circumstances, your doctor may want you to:
- stop taking one of the medications,
- change one of the medications to another,
- change how you are taking one or both of the medications, or
- leave everything as is.
An interaction between two medications does not always mean that you must stop taking one of them. Speak to your doctor about how any drug interactions are being managed or should be managed.
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Celebrating the Career of Dr. Nancy E. Gwinn, Retiring Director of Smithsonian Libraries
This month, the Smithsonian celebrates the career of Dr. Nancy E. Gwinn, retiring Director of Smithsonian Libraries. Gwinn’s Smithsonian career began in 1984 when she joined the Libraries, becoming director in 1997. During her tenure, she has made significant contributions to the Smithsonian, the global library community, and the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL).
As the director of the Smithsonian Libraries, home to BHL’s headquarters, Gwinn has played a vital role in the founding and development of BHL. She was instrumental in securing dedicated funding for the program at Smithsonian Libraries and founding and expanding the BHL Secretariat. Through her service as the Chair (2012-2017) and Immediate Past-Chair (2017-2019) of the BHL Executive Committee, Gwinn provided key leadership for BHL’s strategic direction and the growth and stewardship of the consortium’s partnerships.
Martin R. Kalfatovic, the current BHL Program Director, noted: “In her service to BHL, Nancy provided invaluable direct guidance on many aspects of BHL, particularly in the development of the BHL governance model. My predecessor, Tom Garnett, and I both benefited from Nancy’s ability to see the big picture and keep BHL moving forward. As BHL continues to grow and expand, Nancy’s legacy will remain a motivating force.”
In addition to her significant contributions to BHL, Gwinn’s leadership brought the Smithsonian Libraries to a new level of activity and recognition. During her career:
- The Libraries became the Smithsonian’s principal resource for digital access to its collections, including the creation of new tools for scholars and students.
- The preservation program grew beyond the Book Conservation Laboratory to incorporate environmental monitoring and preservation microfilming.
- The Libraries established its first Advisory Board and inaugurated an energetic advancement program, raising nearly $20,000,000 to support new programs and operations.
- The Libraries successfully promoted new awareness and use of its unique special collections, world’s fairs and historical trade catalogs.
- In 1991, the Libraries acquired an exhibition gallery in the National Museum of American History and initiated an exhibition, publication, and outreach program to bring its treasures to a broad audience.
- The Libraries launched fellowship and intern programs to bring researchers and budding librarians to work with staff and collections.
Please join us in thanking Dr. Gwinn for her dedication and impact on librarianship, the Smithsonian, and BHL. Her passion and leadership will continue to inspire the many who were fortunate to know and work with her. We at BHL send Dr. Gwinn our heartfelt gratitude and best wishes in retirement. | <urn:uuid:4edc1c6c-0d5e-4157-a604-21668a9cca3f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2019/12/celebrating-nancy-e-gwinn.html?replytocom=5461 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.938771 | 580 | 1.710938 | 2 |
The Heinkel He-111's sleek line mask the plane's capability and versality as a medium bomber. This aircraft, sometimes called the "Flying Spade", was classified as a passenger/mail plane to circumvent limits imposed on German rearmament by the Treaty of Versailles. The Heinkel He-111, a rugged and dependable bomber,saw combat in support of Franco's Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War and later during World War II.
Produced in large numbers, the He-111 operated extensively around the world for more than two decades. Heinkel designed the aircraft in the early 1030s and production of the He-111 began in November 1936. Almost from its introduction, the He-111 was engaged in combat. Early model He-111s served in Spain with the infamous "Condor Legion". From September 1939 to May 1944, He-111s remained in continuous action in the skies of Europe.
During the course of the war, He-111s fought over Poland, Norway, France, UK, the Balkans, Iraq, the Soviet Union, North Africa, the North Sea, as well as the Arctic and Mediterranean Ocean. Derna was famous as fighting took place there following the capture of Tobruk, 2 brigades of the 6th Australian Division under Major General Iven Mackay pursued the Italians westwards and encountered an Italian rear guard at Derna. The arrival of the German forces and more specifically the Luftwaffe though swung the push back towards the Axis forces and it was not only the might of the Stuka and Me-109 that helped achieve this, but also the transportation and bombing capability of the Heinkel He-111. (Source: AA33708 The Aviation Archive Limited Edition Certificate)
Today's model represents an He-111H-3 variant (although Corgi's box & booklet state it's an H-6 variant) serial: S7+HA of Geschwaderstab StG 3, based in Derna airfield, Libya, September 1941. The H-3 was normally fitted with 5 machine-guns (two in the fuselage windows, two in the gondola and one in the ventral turret) and 1 cannon (in the nose position). The letter 'H' painted in blue, signifies this aircraft belongs to a Headquarter battalion and the white ring around the fuselage and white tipped wings served as quick identifying markers in the Mediterranean arena between 1941-43.
The top surface sand colour makes this model stand out in the collection, and it's one of my favourite Corgi Heinkels. Quality product, easy to assemble and display, no trouble with it at all, except it needs a little extra attention when handling, so as not to hit the various plastic guns coming out of the fuselage. One thing I would fix, are the engine exhaust ejector stubs which lack detail; but apart from this, it's by far, one of the best twin-engine models in the diecast market.
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Bill Gates says Surface and other Windows 8 tablets can co-exist
Bill Gates, co-founder and chairman of Microsoft, appeared on the "Charlie Rose" show this week, according to PCMAG.com. Although the hour-long interview focused mainly on the charitable work done by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Gates did discuss some tech-related matters.
Bill Gates seems to think that eventually tablets will replace normal PCs but at present, there's enough space in the market for tablets built by Microsoft as well as its OEM partners to co-exist in harmony. Gates also discussed his company's decision to come up with its own branded tablets.
Microsoft's announcement to release its own tablets, the Surface and Surface Pro got everyone wondering about the reaction by Microsoft's OEM partners towards the decision. There are even rumors about HP, which is one of Microsoft's partners, abandoning its plans for a Windows RT-based tablet that already had Qualcomm chips lined up for it.
Gates assured Rose that there is enough room for both a Microsoft branded tablet and tablets by third party manufacturers to have their own individual space in the market. Gates said:
"I actually believe you can have the best of both worlds. You can have a rich ecosystem of manufacturers and you can have a few signature devices that show off, wow, what's the difference between a tablet and a PC?
You can get everything you like about a tablet, everything you like about a PC, all in one device. That should change the way people look at things."
Gates also explained to Rose about Microsoft's next Windows 8 OS, about its tablet-friendly interface that is compatible with both the x86 processors and the ARM-based chips used in mobile devices, capable of offering the best of both.
Last Month, Microsoft has announced that the Surface RT (ARM-based) tablet will be officially launched along with Windows 8 late in October this year and three months form then, the Surface Pro will be launched. Whether the Microsoft branded tablets will give any room to other Windows 8 tablets, will have to wait till then. | <urn:uuid:cb4557c1-c515-4254-b7b3-10aeece0ddfe> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.notebookcheck.net/Bill-Gates-says-Surface-and-other-Windows-8-tablets-can-co-exist.77426.0.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285315.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00571-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970908 | 425 | 1.570313 | 2 |
late 13c., coster, perhaps from Anglo-French or Old French coste "rib" (from Latin costa "a rib;" see coast (n.)). A kind of large apple with prominent "ribs," i.e. one having a shape more like a green pepper than a plain, round apple. Also applied derisively to "the head." Common 14c.-17c. but limited to fruit-growers afterward. | <urn:uuid:4daa2b8e-b785-4535-9fbd-d2f469c51459> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.dictionary.com/browse/costard?qsrc=2446 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279368.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00326-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961714 | 91 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Annoyingly, my whole approach to birding has shifted somewhat since we started this series. Now I think of the most cryptic way to represent a bird in a photograph while still leaving enough evidence to ID it, rather than looking for the best picture. Well, not all the time, but it does cross my mind. As mentioned before in these posts, it’s not always that the bird is hard to ID but that the view of it can be fleeting or obscured. Or it usually isn’t seen here, which can totally throw your reasoning process.
Today’s bird is one of the latter (big clue). We were sitting at a Koppie in the north of the property hoping to catch a glimpse of the Ingrid Dam female and her cubs, when Camp Manager Ben Delport suddenly shouted, “THERE, THERE!!”. Our heads whipped round, adrenalin immediately flooding our systems as we expected to see a pride of leopard cubs tearing across the rocks, but all we saw was a rather indistinct bird chasing another, smaller, indistinct bird…
OK it was actually pretty exciting. Not brand-new-leopard-cub-exciting but still great when it comes to birds.
The chaser missed the dove that it was after and landed in a marula nearby, allowing us a good view to be able to ID it.
As a Christmas gift to everyone, I enlarged the photo slightly to make it easier to identify. The bird was skittish and wouldn’t let us get close enough for a good photo, but luckily we had a 600mm lens with us.
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Burrow Beasts are subterranean creatures that are utilized by the Furon Empire as a type of unconventional weaponry. They are implanted on worlds, including the planet Earth, and are then called to battle when a Furon fires a specialized lure. This will summon the monstrosity, which will then chase and devour potential prey items that move too close to the lure. It is considered a super weapon by Shama Llama but is not effective against structures or vehicles, indicating that attacking such objects likely would break their teeth or injure them in some other fashion, I.E, sharp objects like rebars, glass, etc., would rip apart it's insides.
The lures can be moved psychokinetically by Furons and other telekinetic species, which would indicate that the weapon is likely less useful on worlds that are inhabited by telekinetics. These lures can also be transmogrified in order to wield huge amounts of ammo for other Furon weaponry. | <urn:uuid:871aa62c-a5ba-4b31-9cd5-d8b2743efb54> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://aliens.wikia.com/wiki/Burrow_Beast | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00048-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939807 | 208 | 1.5 | 2 |
How to stay safe and have fun with your gunge!
It’s Red Nose Day and if you want to have a go at something super silly, why not try making your own gunge?
Our pal TV’s Kirsty Gallacher has passed on a great recipe that she’s been using!
It’s well easy to do and only needs a few ingredients that you can find around the house!
Just make sure you check with a grown-up first as it can get… well, pretty messy!
In fact, it’s probably best to have a bottle of limited edition Red Nose Day Persil on hand to help clean all the messy clothes afterwards!
Kirsty Gallacher’s Top Gunge Tips
- Make sure you find a sturdy bucket to put your gunge into. You don’t want it to spill everywhere before you’re ready to use it
- Be sure to use warm water and not hot water, that way you can get stuck in sooner
- Once the mixture is prepared let it cool for 20-30 minutes before you get messy
- Why not put the gunge in the fridge for a few minutes for that extra cold surprise
- Double your recipe for double the fun! After all, the more gunge you make, the more gunge you can use on friends, family, teachers, neighbours… You can get everyone on your street gunging for Red Nose Day. Try to keep the kids at a safe distance to allow gunge to cool! Find a suitable area for gunging. Persil recommends either in the bath tub or in the garden (if you’re feeling brave!)
- Ask your friends and family to sponsor you to get gunged. You could have fun and make the gunging a group event where you all sponsor one another to get involved. It’s easy to sponsor a friend or family, simply text [insert number] to make a donation directly to Comic Relief
- Remember to have a camera nearby. Your friends and family members are sure to pull funny faces when the gunge is poured over them, so take a picture to remember the event at a later date
- Get involved. Red Nose Day is encouraging the nation to share their funny face pictures, and what better way to do it than with gunge?! Upload your funny face picture to social media and use #RNDFunnyFace to join the conversation
- Remember to have a bottle of limited edition Red Nose Day Persil bottle on hand to help clean all the messy clothes afterwards. Gunging is really fun, and Persil takes the stress out of the mess.
- Once you have prepared the gunge once, feel free to do it again using different colours. Go for a bright pink or orange for your child’s favourite colour.
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I'm planning to set out extra swarm traps this year. If a colony anywhere is strong enough to swarm it might be possible to pass on the genetic material that is fighting ccd. What if we keep the swarm queens just to see how well the colony does through winter?
What if we are killing off our bees by "helping" them too much? Shouldn't the strong survive? | <urn:uuid:df1e40c1-1502-42c4-ba6e-dd6e58bdb86d> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://forum.beemaster.com/index.php?topic=8636.msg55242 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720972.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00252-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957813 | 80 | 1.835938 | 2 |
How Manchester Museum uses blogs to encourage participation
The ways in which Manchester Museum shares information and engages with its visitors has changed considerably in recent years. Since its first blog was published in 2007, the number of Manchester Museum blogs has grown. In this case study, Steve Devine, new media officer at Manchester Museum, discusses how blogging allows the museum to broadcast information but more importantly allows its visitors to participate and get involved. Blogs enable small but passionate niche audiences to engage globally.
- Provide a means for our visitors to experience the behind-the-scenes work of which they would otherwise be unaware.
- Communicates our activities and events while keeping our collection at the heart of the discussion.
- Engages with subject specialist networks and provide means for direct contact with curators.
- Defines and facilitates space(s) for communication and community.
This varies across our blogs but in general there is a focus on the niche or subject specialist audience -approached in such a way as to interest and involve, rather than intimidate or exclude our existing audiences.
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This article was published 22/6/2014 (945 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Has incumbency become the ultimate political trump card?
It's hard not to consider that question in the wake of Ontario Liberal Leader Kathleen Wynne's remarkable majority victory June 12.
Wynne went into the spring election with a minority government wracked by controversy and dogged by deficits and a woeful economy. Sensing her vulnerability, the NDP threatened a vote of non-confidence that triggered an election. It seemed likely this was the end of 11 years of Liberal rule in Ontario.
However, when the votes were counted, Wynne had won a big majority. It was a result that makes you wonder what an incumbent has to do to be voted out of office.
These are curious times where unpopular governments led by unpopular leaders somehow snatch victory from what looked like almost certain defeat.
Consider Alberta premier Alison Redford, who in the 2012 election, won a stunning majority after appearing on the verge of defeat. (She has since been ousted by her own party.)
A not-dissimilar result occurred in 2013, when B.C. Premier Christy Clark won a convincing majority after finding herself trailing the opposition NDP badly going into the May 14 election.
What lessons can be learned from these elections by, say, someone like Manitoba Progressive Conservative Leader Brian Pallister, who is currently dominating the ruling NDP government in mid-term opinion polls?
First and foremost, waiting for voters to vote against an incumbent, rather than for another party, is a losing proposition. The B.C. and Alberta elections are proof an incumbent's unpopularity is not enough to ensure victory.
Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak tried to command the campaign with a bold promise to fire 100,000 civil servants and create one million new jobs. The first was an open declaration of war against civil servants, while the second was a symphony of failed math discredited by economists and accountants of all political stripes.
Robert Ermel, director of operations for the Manitoba Institute of Policy Research, said opposition leaders looking to take down incumbents must find policies and pledges that "grow the universe" by connecting with the largest possible audience. Notwithstanding his decision to enrage civil servants, Hudak shrunk his universe by making bad math, and not Wynne's record, the central campaign issue, Ermel said.
"The message by the end of the campaign was pretty clear," Ermel said. "If you can't do the math, you don't deserve to form government."
Ermel noted, however, incumbents can and do make the same mistakes.
Quebec premier Pauline Marois had every reason to believe her Parti Québécois government would be re-elected this past April. The PQ was running neck and neck with the Liberals until some of her star candidates, most notably media magnate Pierre Karl Peladeau, started talking about independence.
Marois knew independence was unpopular with a majority of Quebeckers. Ermel said by allowing sovereignty to become an issue, Marois not only shrunk her universe, she imploded it. The Liberals won a majority.
For Pallister, these elections represent a number of cautionary tales.
It would not be wise for Pallister to expect the NDP to fall prey to a Marois-like implosion in the next election. The NDP is good at elections, and despite its poor poll standings right now, there is every reason to believe Premier Greg Selinger and company will not die from a self-inflicted campaign wound.
This is most definitely a vote Pallister needs to go out and win, rather than waiting for Selinger to lose. To date, however, Pallister hasn't shown he knows how to grow his universe enough to make that happen.
For example, in the last week of the spring legislative session, Pallister announced Northern Lights, a bid to capture more votes and seats in northern Manitoba, a NDP stronghold. It's a good strategy for Pallister; the Tories must find a way of becoming more competitive in regions dominated by the more efficient and broadly based NDP.
Unfortunately, rather than expanding his universe by connecting with northerners, Pallister may have achieved the exact opposite by announcing his northern strategy from the comfort of his Winnipeg office. Anyone who understands the fierce northern vanity that exists in this province would know that is a losing strategy.
For Pallister, the teachable moment is pretty clear: If you are wooing a new constituency to expand your universe, remember to show up in person for that important first date.
Incumbency is a potent trump card, and opposition parties must find ways of expanding their universes if they hope to overcome its power.
However, as pretenders whose names we no longer remember can attest, that is a lot easier said than done. | <urn:uuid:fef07068-a56e-4554-916a-42eb95693810> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/pallister-must-expand-his-universe-264192861.html?viewAllComments=y | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282935.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00240-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971635 | 1,000 | 1.804688 | 2 |
This textbook provides an introduction to the types of spectroscopy commonly used to determine the structure of organic molecules. Strategies for interpreting spectra are emphasized and the reader is encouraged to develop a systematic approach to elucidating molecular structure from the types of spectroscopic data routinely obtained in the laboratory. The first chapter discusses the type of information which spectroscopic methods can provide and the way in which this information can be used to determine organic structures. Infrared spectroscopy, mass spectroscopy and nuclear magnetic resonance are dealt with in detail in subsequent chapters. Much information has been summarized in graphical form or has been tabulated for ease of use.
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Q. Do you think that with this Budget, the Government has done enough to reduce the deficit and return the budget to surplus in the next few years?
|Total||Vote Labor||Vote Liberal/ National|
|Has done enough||31%||59%||12%|
|Hasn’t done enough||39%||16%||69%|
31% think that the Government has done enough to reduce the deficit and 39% think they have not done enough. Responses mostly followed party preferences – 59% of Labor voters think they have done enough and 69% of Coalition voters think they have not done enough. Greens voters split 40% enough/31% not enough.
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- Performance of Scott Morrison
- Performance of Anthony Albanese
- Preferred Prime Minister
- Views towards re-electing the federal Coalition government
- Party trust to handle issues
- Importance of Australia’s international reputation
- Scott Morrison’s impact on Australia’s international reputation
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Summerlander wrote:...Do you know the definition of a tulpa according to Tibetan Buddhism, Snaggle? Look it up and then try not to mince your words or distort semantics. B-)
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Sprul-pa has several meanings both in Tibetan and Tibetan Buddhism; but we're talking about a mentally created and emanated in the waking world of a person, object or place. Sprul-pa in this sense are recognized to be only visualized vivid dream content in Tibetan Buddhism. When using a foreign word in another language a certain amount of "semantic distortions" occur, because any translation of a very foreign word is going to be a distortion of it's full meaning.
And saying that Tulpas "exist" in Hinduism and Buddhism, or that some form of yoga strengthens the visualisation of hallucinations for that matter, does not equate with Tulpas objectively existing!
I object most to something that may only be a semantic difference between us. You said that tulpa are only imaginary. Dreams lucid and otherwise are not just imaginary.
They can be detected and it's claimed that the images can be recorded too (have not examined this technology much so don't know if they really can be). Dreams are real things, not just imaginary things, Sprul-pa are as real as any dream. They also have practical uses not contected to religion in anyway, e.g. Tesla worked on his inventions by visualizing them while awake. They're not really hallucinations either though related to them in about the same way a lucid dream with dream control is related to a normal dream or lucid dream without control.
Snaggle: The difference is that I don't believe the hags I experience in SP are real. Anyone who believes that their waking hallucinations have an objective existence is deluded.
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Solving Stonehenge in the simplest way possible… Graphically.
THE "REAL" STONEHENGE
Breaking free of the horizon 40-degrees from north at Stonehenge;
this is the maximum area of sky that the moon scans, and does so
for several months every 18.61 years.
But look what happens when we place the sun-arc on top of the
moon-arc: The moon commands a 10-degree portion of Wiltshire sky
that the sun never gets to visit! - Not ever!
Stonehenge started its life as a circular bank and ditch. Bank here
is shown green, and the ditch is shown chalk white. A wide north-
eastern entrance admits the 10-degree portion of moon-arc right
up to the time of her major standstill. Known since 1740, the first
Stonehenge was dedicated to the moon. Let’s say that again...
The First Stonehenge Was Dedicated To The Moon.
Fifty-six pits, set in a circle around the inside of the bank, are thought
to have once held Welsh bluestones. Those stones later became
earmarked for a different purpose and were eventually removed and
replaced by dedicatory cremations. - So said Hawley and Newall, the
guys who excavated 32 of them. Society of Antiquaries, London 1926.
For now, though, let’s introduce just two – pit 56 and pit 28, (shown
as small black dots). The bluestones placed standing upright in these
two pits helped retain the solstice sun clockwise and clear of the moon-
Shown on the left is the original henge-work as found by
partial excavation. This shows Stonehenge as it originally
was; and how it remained for the first 500 years of its life
That should have been it, Stonehenge completed, but evidently it was not; for if the simple intention was
to bring the sun and moon together, Stonehenge was doomed to fail as a type of folly. So, after 500 static
years when little of importance took place, some massive sarsen stones were collected from the
Marlborough Down's near Avebury, to be set up in the very centre of the earthwork.
<<< Stonehenge 2450 BC and a change of heart. - The
structure erected in the centre of the earthen bank and ditch.
It's convenient at this point to imagine the sarsen circle as
if it stood alone, to demonstrate that solstice sunlight would
pass right through and out the back!
The Grand Trilithon (T3) was offset by >>>
half-a-megalithic-yard (16.33 inches), so
Stone 55 could prevent sunlight from
leaving. Sunlight was therefore forced to
bounce around Stonehenge’s flattened
and polished interior faces like a modern-
But in order to believe this to be proven
fact, we will need to gather extra proofs of
what others were doing elsewhere at the
time, and even many years before.
Meanwhile, please remember this:
The Stonehenge winter solstice theory is
an archaeological red herring! At 1m thick,
and 2.5 metres high, Stone 67, seen in
front of T3, when standing, easily blocked
<<< Avebury’s Cove: Forget Avebury's massive ditch
and many stones, the following is how Avebury began
its life: AND how we know for certain that around
3600BC the Cove was used to gather up sun and
moonlight. People seen in this photograph are
identifying the 'Backstone' by standing alongside it,
but the surface that faces the summer solstice and
major standstill of the moon, is on the other side. We
also know that the Cove once stood in the middle of a
geometric stone egg, and that egg pointed to the
Vernal Equinox and the northern end of Cherhill Hill.
Avebury's Cove: Summer Solstice 2007. >>>
This picture proves the sun to fall 5-degrees short of the
Cove, and the moon to go 5-degrees past.
The moon's most northernmost position is marked by
the druid who conveniently demonstrates where she will
appear every 18.61- years, given a clear sky.
<<< With ideas carried down from early work
conducted on Windmill Hill - this is a scaled
schematic of the original, very first Avebury...
The Cove was placed in the middle of one of
Professor Thom's Type 2 eggs. Megalithic Sites in
Britain, 1967 by A. Thom. AND; with barley seed
buried around the base of the cove-stones; Avebury:
Gillings and Pollard 2005, it was hoped the Cove
would act like the tungsten filament of an electric
light-bulb, and energise the whole thing.
The vernal equinox is the one time when the sun
follows the moon as she goes to ground - and
vice-versa - which in Avebury's case was aimed at
the northern end of Cherhill Hill - see photo later.
The principle of operation behind equinoctial
alignments was emulated by the Stonehenger's
when they built the 3-kilometre-long Great Cursus, in
front of what, some 500 years later, would become
The picture on the right places Stonehenge's stone
circle in the middle of the earthwork where it belongs.
There is much that can be said about this image, but to
do so would be to miss the big picture: because it was
around 2500BC when Stonehenge was joined to a
wooden egg in the middle of a massive henge, some
500 metres diameter, and known as Durrington Walls,
by two avenues and a river.
COPYRIGHT © T W FLOWERS 2013
We owe the background image seen on the extreme
right, to John Wood, who surveyed Stonehenge in 1740
with great accuracy, and graciously passed his
measurements down to us.
John's feet and inch measurements were converted into
Professor Thom's Megalithic yards before entering them
into CAD at the rate of 1 My equalling 32.664 inches.
This figure represents the maximum amount of sky that the sun
gets to scan at Stonehenge. The sun breaks free of the horizon
50-degrees from north on the 21st June and manages to cover a
maximum 260-degree of sky from sunrise to sunset. Everyone who
visits Stonehenge to watch the sunrise at summer solstice looks
out along this 50-degree angle from north.
If you have enjoyed this work, please consider
helping improve it.
Thank you if you do. Tom
The Stonehenger’s believed that our two most important luminaries -
our very own sun and moon - could be brought together to copulate.
The following - not by any means complete - proves it.
Mike Pitts, current editor of British Archaeology Magazine,
in an article, wrote...
If there is a full moon on the 21 June, the moon again will be
full on 21 June 19 years later, but at a different position on
the horizon. If the full moon starts over the Heelstone, for
example, it will slowly slip away each 19 year interval. On
the other hand, if you count 19, 18 and 19 years (a total of
56), it will stay completely on the stone throughout many
cycles. It would seem that the Stonehenger’s had knowledge
of both: there are 19 stones in the bluestone horseshoe and
there are 56 holes in the Aubrey circle. Pitts M.
To continue, you will need to press the Durrington
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Le Corbusier chair and sofa are still recreated to this day and used by many professional interior designers to bring their modern and elegant designs to life. Le Corbusier furniture was designed many years ago by a talented architect who had strong opinions on the aesthetics and uses of the furniture. The team of architects created a timeless design that is still used in many furniture showrooms. There are also many modern furniture designers who have used this design as inspiration for their projects. There are many furniture designed by today’s best furniture designers similar to design.
Le Corbusier’s design was developed by Charles-Edouard Jeannert-Gris. He later chose to be known as Le Corbusier and became famous for his architecture, design, writings and paintings. The artist is known primarily for the development of design known as modern architecture or “international style”. In 1928, Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris began to turn his interest in furniture and furniture design architecture.
Le Corbusier chairs and sofas were developed after the artist invited an architect named Charlotte Perrinand to join his project. The two talented designers started on a line of furniture that had to mix metal media and cushioning to give a modern yet elegant design. In 1925, Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris wrote a book outlining his expectations of furniture style and functionality. He used his teachings from this book to design the furniture line that is still popular today. The great designer has thought of furniture as a work of art that is also useful for man and can be comfortable.
Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris designed a chair with chromed tubular structures. Two of these designs were used in his famous architectural designs. These designs have been modified to become the world-famous Le Corbusier furniture designs that are known today.
Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris also expanded his plans to include a sofa and other “home appliances” as he called it. Nowadays, there are many furniture designers who are influenced by this classic design. Later designers use this design as a of inspiration for their home furniture projects. There are furniture manufacturers who have purchased the rights to the classic designs and are legally able to reproduce the exact designs of the talented architect.
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Print email chains in Outlook in chronological order
Emails usually have all the preceding messages in the chain appended to them. When you reply to an email the original message is added to the end of your reply. This happens every time the conversation goes back and forth. Quite quickly a chain builds up with the original message right at the end of the current message and multiple replies in between. When you print such an email chain the messages read in reverse order, which makes it hard to follow the narrative of the conversation.
To reorder the chain so it can be read in date order the appended messages must be reversed using cut and paste. This is a fiddly, time-consuming and mistake-prone task.
PrintForTrial is an add-in for Microsoft Outlook that can do this for you.
- Email messages which are appended to an email are identified, separated and placed in date order.
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What is Private Cloud, and is it Right for You?
In the era of cloud computing, just about everyone has heard of the terms “private cloud” and “public cloud”. Chances are, you are using one or both of them in your everyday life—but how much do you really know about them? If you had the chance, could you build a private cloud for yourself or your organization? GIGABYTE Technology, an industry leader in server solutions used by global cloud service providers, is pleased to present our latest Tech Guide. We will examine the difference between private and public clouds, introduce the private cloud’s advantages and limitations, and then introduce GIGABYTE products that may help you build and operate a private cloud of your own.
Storage Systems are Extremely Important for Business Continuity
In an era of increasing technological advancement, an important issue for enterprises and the key to maintaining business continuity is how to prevent important data from being accidentally lost due to human error, deliberately deleted or even stolen.
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Methods to Generate Black Money:
Methods of Generating Black Money: The simplest method of generating black money is to avoid declaring or disclosing one's income or the activities that led to it. This is the most likely course of action in all cases involving criminal, unlawful, and improper activity. It is also possible to avoid declaring or reporting activities and the income earned as a result of these failures. This strategy can be used in circumstances of failure to comply with regulatory responsibilities or tax evasion on income generated through authorised operations. However, complete avoidance or non-compliance may put such incomes at risk of being discovered by authorities, with the resulting consequences being detrimental to the generator. The development of this type of black money, therefore, frequently involves a more complex method that involves the manipulation of financial records and accounting information. Tax evasion is the intentional misreporting or non-reporting of financial transactions in the books of account of a business.
In the following sections, we will discuss the various types of financial statement manipulations that result in tax evasion and the formation of black money:
Transactions that do not appear in the book
Books of Accounts that are kept in parallel
Accounting records are being manipulated.
Manipulation of sales / receipts is prohibited.
Production is under-reported by a large margin.
Expenses are being manipulated.
The use of international transactions to manipulate the market through the use of associate enterprises
Capital Manipulation is the act of manipulating money.
Manipulation of the stock of the closing company
Capital Expenses are being manipulated.
A number of them can be explained as follows:
Transactions that do not take place in a book:
This method is one of the simplest methods available, which is why it is so often utilised in practise. These businesses include modest grocery stores, unskilled or semi-skilled service providers, and other similar enterprises. Transactions that may result in receipts or income being subject to taxation are not recorded in the books of account by the taxpayer in this situation. The taxpayer either does not keep books of account or keeps two sets of books of account, or he or she merely reports partial receipts. Manipulation of Books of Account: Under the Companies Act, the Banking Regulation Act, and the Income Tax Act, books of accounts are needed to be maintained. It becomes increasingly difficult for tax payers to conduct out-of-book transactions or to keep parallel books of account as a result of this. Such individuals use the assistance of bookkeepers in order to avoid paying taxes.
Mocking the Balance of Payments: Mocking the balance of payments is possible by washing untraceable funds or by putting them into the books of accounts. Shares purchased at a premium, fictitious gifts and capital gains, the purchase of phoney losses, and other methods of manipulation are all possible. | <urn:uuid:8a0ef599-4d64-4e7e-b1ef-dae74d0b716e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dranupamkumarmishra.com/2022/07/methods-to-generate-black-money.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.947775 | 573 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Freight train derails, causing fiery blast in Columbus
COLUMBUS: Exploding freight cars full of ethanol made for a dramatic early morning scene Wednesday in Ohio’s capital, but officials said the train derailment that led to a hurried evacuation of an urban neighborhood could have been much worse.
The National Transportation Safety Board dispatched a 10-?person team to investigate the derailment on the Norfolk Southern Corp. track, which led to spectacular explosions and the burning of three tank cars, each carrying 30,000 gallons of ethanol. Nobody aboard the train was injured.
Officials said they don’t know what caused the accident, which occurred about 2 a.m. in an industrial area near Interstate 71, north of downtown. The explosions were felt for blocks and sent flames shooting into the air.
Two people were injured while walking on the tracks to investigate when a second explosion occurred. Officials said they went to the hospital with minor injuries.
Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman, who visited a Red Cross shelter set up for evacuees, said the accident could have been worse if it had occurred in an area where more people lived.
“A mile up or a mile south,’’ he said. ‘‘North or south, east or west. It could have been tragic in other ways as well.”
Assistant Chief David Whiting of the Columbus Fire Division said it was also fortunate the accident occurred in the middle of the night.
“The time it occurred, where it occurred, were very good things for us,” Whiting said. “Because we didn’t have a whole lot of people around, businesses were closed, we were able to take care of getting our firefighters back and evacuating a small number of people.”
About 100 residents within a mile of the derailment were evacuated by firefighters, who decided to let the fire burn itself out, according to Whiting. Officials said the burning ethanol posed no environmental or health concerns. Residents were back in their homes by midafternoon.
Nicholas Goodrich, a 35-year-old grocery store employee from Columbus, said he and two other people got as close as 100 feet from the explosion.
“The heat was so excruciating that I had to ball up and cover my body, he said.”
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4 Reasons Why You May Need a Way-Finder. Frequently, potential customers ask ‘what’s the advantage of an interactive Way Finder over a regular, static digital directory or pathfinder?
The answer is simple: A touch or gesture-driven Interactive Way Finder is:
(1) More engaging,
(2) Attracts people’s attention,
(3) Is easier to update and
(4) Can be used for other purposes.
Way-Finders are interactive displays designed to assist customers or visitors with finding directions to their destinations as quickly and easily as possible. In addition, Way-Finders can be used for promotions, advertising, coupons delivery, emergency instructions and much more.
Lusens Way-Finders do all that, but so much more.
Through a most intuitive User Interface, customers can search for stores or facilities and get information about them, be informed of what is the best route to take with an animated path showing the way, and in some cases provide additional optional services.
Typically used in Shopping Malls, Hospitals, Universities, City Centres and Airports, Lusens Way-Finders provide customers and visitors with an immersive experience that’s memorable and positive – and one which they’ll share with family, friends and other potential visitors.
Lusens Way-Finders can display mapping and routes using a variety of methods including the traditional 2D map, a 3D walk-through, turn by turn directions, and more, highlighted by your facilities branding and enhanced with the ability to feature special alerts and emergency evacuation routes.
Turn an ordinary map into an interactive, engaging experience.
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Clinton is in Lenawee County, and in the Southeast Region (part of the Ann Arbor, Michigan metropolitan area). This community is located next to Moravian Dr. off of Metro Pkwy, and east of Mount Clemens.
Clinton was named after DeWitt Clinton, originator of the Erie Canal in New York State, which many pioneers coming to Michigan used to get here.
Today, Clintons economic power is supported by a variety of business, including auto glass manufacturing, tourism and lumber. Points of interest include the turn-of-the-century architecture downtown, featuring the Clinton Inn, and a few old railroad cars and engines from the Michigan Central Railroad, which can be found on the towns southwest side. | <urn:uuid:0081b284-6e94-4304-a7a4-29e01fa98928> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ohwy.com/mi/c/clinton.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.967181 | 148 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Cause Of PA-28 Crash Which Claimed Four Lives Still
A medical examiner has told the Associated Press that the
82-year-old pilot of a Piper PA-28 (similar aircraft shown in
file photo) that went down for unknown reasons last year in
Arkansas had no medical conditions which could explain the
accident. The flight, which killed CFI Olin Branstetter, his wife
and co-pilot Paula, Oklahoma State University women's basketball
coach Kurt Budke and Assistant Coach Miranda Serna, may prompt a
reevaluation of the use of small GA aircraft on recruiting
The NTSB preliminary report states that on November 17, 2011,
about 1610 CST, the Piper PA-28-180 hit the ground near Perryville,
Arkansas during Part 91 operations. The flight originated from
Stillwater Regional Airport (SWO), Stillwater, Oklahoma, about 1415
and was destined for North Little Rock Municipal Airport (ORK),
North Little Rock, Arkansas.
Radar data showed the airplane level at 7,000 feet mean sea
level on a southeasterly heading. At 1610:49, the airplane entered
a right turn and began descending, disappearing from radar. There
were no reported ATC communications with the pilot.
Witnesses reported the plane was flying at a low altitude and
making turns. They then observed the airplane enter a steep
nose-low attitude prior to descending toward the terrain.
The AP obtained Branstetter's autopsy report, which it say
indicated the pilot's death was immediate, and that all four
occupants of the plane died as a result of crash injuries, but that
the condition of the remains precluded further analysis. There were
no drugs found in a toxicology report.
The Oklahoman reports the university plans to review its travel
policy. Currently, it states that student-athletes may not travel
in single-engine airplanes while representing the university, but
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Blue Origin is one of those rocket companies that’s been fairly secretive in its activities. But it’s very difficult, unless you’re Russia or China, to secretly shoot a rocket 307,000 feet (58 miles) into the sky. But launch is just what Blue Origin did last week, on 29 April. The company not only tested the rocket, […]Read More Amazoom? Blue Origin launches a rocket
The Orion capsule was successfully tested last week. For those who don’t know, the Orion is NASA’s future crew capable capsule, which will hopefully be used to explore to the moon and beyond. The capsule was tested on December 5, 2014, lofted into space for a very short time and then reentered the Earth’s atmosphere […]Read More Another False Step for Mankind?
This post is the completion of a short analysis I started yesterday about why NASA’s and the DoD’s launch operations will not be affected by SpaceX’s choice to build and use a launch operations center in Brownsville, Texas. It was prompted because of a post The Space Review put up on their site Monday, which suggested […]Read More SpaceX’s Own Spaceport Will Not Affect NASA or DoD Operations, Part 2
Yesterday, I expanded on a Space Review post of the possible reasons Space Exploration Technologies Corp (SpaceX) is moving launch operations to Texas. The company believes it will conduct about 12 launches a year from its own space launch complexes near Brownsville, Texas. Such a launch rate is more than triple SpaceX’s 2013 launch rate of 3 […]Read More SpaceX’s Own Spaceport Will Not Affect NASA or DoD Operations, Part 1
This most definitely is opinion. There must be some doubt about the effectiveness of Alabama Senator Richard Shelby’s legislative poison pill against new space launch providers like SpaceX and Orbital. Another attack has been launched, this time against SpaceX’s credibility of how it builds and operates its rockets. The attack comes from three Representatives (we’ll […]Read More Croney and the Bandit (Or Why Space Needs Full Privatization) | <urn:uuid:a094b682-73a5-45f8-a676-0519453bdc31> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://themadspaceball.com/tag/ula/page/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.918509 | 442 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Other Languages - vertica Database - Asked By Thota Rajasekhar on 27-Dec-11 04:32 AM
I need a help on vertica Database.
1) Is there any facility to declare and assign variables.
2) What is the equivalent keyword in vertica for (exec) in sql server.
3) Can we write a stored procedures in vertica?
4)Can you please suggest steps to write External Procedures in vertica.
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